GenXTalkin - On Being Prepared
GenXTalkin – GenXers just talkin on being prepared. The goal is to encourage individuals to be better prepared, which will help communities to be better prepared. We talk Bug Out Bags, Go Bags, Every Day Carry, not to mention medical and psychological preparedness. So many interesting areas to discover. Please join us.
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5 tips to curate your online social media feed
did you know that 80% of the content in social media today is made by less than 10 percent of users?
But also, did you know that only 10% of users actually interact with content?
Which means, if you think about the actual content that’s “blowing up”, it may not truly be what the populace believes…
With that said, what are some ways we can curate our own social media to make it more us...
Do you ever wonder what the flight attendant thinks of all those passengers as they’re boarding?
Are you one of the 30-40 percent of the population with some form of aerophobia, or fear of flying?
Do you believe that if a plane goes down, everybody onboard dies?
Well then this is the show for you!!
Today we’re digging deep into airplane safety with the intention of conveying and dispelling often misunderstood myths. As well, we’re als...
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, they have become even more common.
One example of a collective illusion is...
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Hey there Genxers, Matt Marshall here, checkin in…
For todays show I wanted to share with you some thoughts I had after a great conversation with my oldest, Josh. He works as an audio produc...
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Today we’ll be talking through a great little adventure I had a couple of years back while hiking in colorado.
So what are some applications we can take from this Storytime?
First on a positive note, always keep in mind how important it can be to practice what you preach. How else will we learn if and how the contents of our bug out bags work if we never use them? Taking...
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Hey there GenXers. Matt Marshall here checkin in again. It’s been a while, and I’m returning from a long hiatus this summer with a fresh approach to prepping. I’ve traveled seemingly non-stop since May. Ive collected new ideas from the world of hiking and travel and overall preparedness.
GenXTalkin on Being Prepared was built with the plan in mind to help those unfami...
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Well good day to you Genxers. Welcome to the Genxtalkin showshow! I’m Matt Marshall, your host, here to remind us all to keep striving to respond well and recover faster. And Here’s my co-host, Wilksie himself, Mr Ed Wasson! Ed welcome!!
Ed, on today’s episode, I’d really lik...
GXT-STORY-EP04 Desert Caverns
Our story today deals with good college buddies Tommy, John, Jason and their girlfriends Jenny, Casi, and Kiersa. These fine American youth just got through their junior year at Shamon U in NEW YORK CITY! They have the opportunity – time, space, and money-wise – and they’ve chosen to travel to the famous Desert Caverns of northern New Mexico (A FICTIONAL NATIONAL MONUMENT intended to seem a lot lik...
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In today's episode, Ed shares about his recent trip to Egypt. They visited Cairo, Hurghada, and Luxor, and several spots in between. There's definitely a new style of travel these days. Especially when travelling to certain areas, safety and security become a much ...
For today’s show, I thought we’d spend some time digging into the details around Active Shooters. I recently attended a webinar presented by a team of people including multiple subject matter experts from private organizations as well as FBI and former FBI members. This was a very well put together set of presentations. It flowed in a very clear pattern of Preparation, Action and Recovery, or P.A.R.
It hit me while I was in the ...
In this week’s episode, Matt takes a stab at answering 5 common preparedness questions. We’d love to hear your responses to these as well. Feel free to comment below!
- Why did you get into preparedness?
- What movies/shows or books influenced your preparedness planning most?
- Shelter in Place or Bug Out?
- If faced with an active shooter-type situation, would it be better to run and hide, or attack the s...
Out of Gas Book – by Randy Dyess
Define the Consumer Price Index
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consumer%20price%20index
Current Consumer Price Index
https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm
Historical Consumer Price Index
https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/consumerpriceindexhistorical_us_table.htm
In the most r...
GXT-09 - Five Concepts on Situational aware in area
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Five Concepts to stay Situationally Aware so We can be Better Prepared
- Multiple weather sources including a local independent meteorologist
- Local Area provider such as (https://justinweather.com/)
- NOAA (https://www.noaa.gov/weather)
- The...
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In this week’s episode, I have the highest privilege of interviewing my dad, Brooks Marshall. This is the second episode of the total of 2. What we did is we sat down with a couple of Mics and just talked… For hours. With so much great info we decided to put it into two episodes. The first was released mid-January.
Now, If you ever get the ...
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In this latest episode of GXT Storytime, we discuss Ed’s recent trip to NYC, so they could witness yet another NT Giant loss to the Cowboys (…sorry @nishygirl420). But we also talk about the state of things in NYC, why people stay versus why they leave. We talk a bit about Ed’s virtually non-existent battle with Covid. And we conclude the show wit...
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In today's episode, we had the opportunity to interview one very crafty man! What do being a Navy Engineer, Electrician, Magician, Communications Expert, Homesteader, Farmer, and AstroArchelogist all have in common?? This guy... Brooks Marshall.
Ed (aka Wilksie) is away on other duties, so Matt gets the chance to interview the one an...
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In this episode, Matt (overall preparedness enthusiast) and Ed Wasson (Former LEO and Military, and research analyst) interview Mr Jim Boothe, Homesteader, Gentleman Farmer, and Board Member of the United States Patriots Corps in South Carolina. Today we talk Homesteading, raising chickens, that film on a fresh incredible, edible egg, and the United Sta...
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Well thank you GenXers for joining us on one last show before the end of the year. This is a special show with two fantastic folks in my life. The goal was to make it an exciting episode that shows having a prepared mindset doesn’t necessarily mean we have to be all serious. But that we can also make it fun.
In all honesty, we experienced quite ...
GXT Presents Storytime:Florida Hurricane
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Don’t Shun Being Prepared… Embrace it!
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Muthaprepper
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RoguePreparedness
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Learning Tactical
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In each show we try to share insights into ways to respond well and recover faster. Ed’s on a special mission today, so couldn’t join in… So, In today’s episodes we have a very special guest… my Mom, Dorie Marshall…
Living through some would say significant times of struggle, Dorie Marshall has risen above all of ...
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