March 7, 2025 • 49 mins
In this wild episode of The MOA Broadcast, host Sam Wilson takes you on a rollercoaster ride through some of the most bizarre and intense survival stories from across the country. Broadcasting from 4,200 feet in the Oregon hills, Sam covers everything from Florida’s never-ending supply of outrageous news to crucial survival strategies that could one day save your life.
This week’s episode includes:
🔹 A Florida man’s outlandish threats to assassinate a president and launch missiles at New York—through 911 calls.
🔹 A heated online gaming feud that turned into a real-life home invasion with a hammer-wielding attacker.
🔹 Hapless hikers and motorists getting stranded in the Oregon wilderness—and what you should do to avoid their fate.
🔹 Essential survival tips, including the must-have items for your emergency vehicle kit.
🔹 A deep dive into the controversy surrounding Ivermectin—how it went from being called a “wonder drug” to a heated political debate.
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All right, coming to you from
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4200 feet in the hills of Oregon.
It is the voice of Chaitown, the reddest beard
in the high desert.
Your host of the MOA broadcast, Sam Wilson.
How we doing out there folks?
We've got a great show planned today.
Let's get right into it.
We've got a couple of interesting tidbits
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we'll get to here.
We've got presidential assassination threats,
Florida man, homicidal video games,
same thing in this particular case,
a little bit of overlap.
Let's just say Florida is the gift that keeps on giving.
Big news on Ivermectin, excuse me, Ivermectin.
We'll get to that in a little bit,
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but if you've followed along, especially during COVID
and other things, Ivermectin has been a frequent topic
of conversation.
So that'll be some interesting news we got there.
And then we have some more hapless hikers and motorists
along with good survival situations
on how you can make it out alive.
So let's go ahead and get right into it.
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Our first story we go to Florida also.
So we've got two Florida man stories today.
A Florida man allegedly threatened to assassinate
President Donald Trump and launch missiles
to destroy New York in a series of 911 calls.
Now it doesn't say if he means New York State,
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New York City or some other part of New York,
just that he planned to destroy New York with missiles.
Apparently he was making these threats to 911 itself.
Justin Blackston, 34 of Loxahatchee made multiple 911 calls
to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office on February 26,
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citing an arrest report from the Sheriff's Office.
I need a ride to the airport to be taken to the White House
to assassinate the president.
He allegedly said in one of the calls,
I'm about to launch the missiles to destroy New York.
He allegedly said in another call,
I'm a Confederate soldier.
Oh man.
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Oh, there we go.
I'm a Confederate soldier and I'm looking to get revenge.
My missiles are attracted to Donald Trump's tower.
Wow.
In other calls, he allegedly told dispatchers
to tell the FBI that I'm a mass murderer
and he wanted Trump to go over to his house
because tomorrow's his last day on planet Earth.
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Deputies responded to his home.
He was not there, but they arrested him the following day.
He was charged with making a threat to a throw place,
project or discharge a destructive device
and falsely reporting a bomb or explosion
and making false 911 calls.
According to a former Secret Service agent, Jason Russell,
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a 10 year veteran, he told the 9-1-1 recording
sounded like the idle rant of somebody
who's mentally deranged.
The man has an extensive history
of mental health related encounters with local police.
His bond was set at $35,000
and a hearing in mental health court was set for April.
But yeah, April 16.
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Wow, what a way to kick off your day.
Multiple threats to assassinate the president,
launch missiles, destroy New York.
I'm not really sure where the Confederate soldier part
comes from though and he's looking to get revenge.
I mean, he's down south, I guess in Florida.
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So I don't know about that one where that all came together.
Either way, he is in custody, I believe
and we will hear more from him on April 16.
Now we move over a little bit to Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Again, also in Florida.
An online altercation led to real life
attempted murder charges.
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After deputies say a New Jersey man flew to Florida,
snuck into the home of a person he met online
and attacked him with a hammer in the middle of the night.
This is a weird one, National County Sheriff Bill Leeper
said during a press conference.
The sheriff states that the man Edward Kang 20
hopped on a plane from Newark, New Jersey.
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I don't blame him for wanting to leave Jersey.
If you ever live in the Northeast,
most people try and avoid New Jersey at all costs.
I'll just say that and we'll leave it there.
Maybe we'll get into that on a topic of a future show.
But he got on a plane from Newark to Jacksonville, Florida
late Friday night upon landing, according to the sheriff,
he got a new bird checked into a hotel around 2 a.m.
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Then it, I don't know if it happened right then
or the next day, I can't imagine any hardware stores
being open at 2 a.m.
But it just says he then went to an area hardware store
and purchased a hammer and a flashlight and a flashlight.
Around 2 a.m. on Sunday armed with his new hammer,
the man entered the home of a gamer he met online.
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So apparently these two were gaming.
I don't know much about video games.
Excuse me, so I can't speak intelligently to that.
But apparently they were on some type of,
the sheriff speaks to it later on.
He said that they were playing some type of game
where you could fight and kill your opponent online.
And I guess clearly there was some kind of back and forth
with personal information
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because it seems he knew exactly where to go
to find this person.
But anyway, the man comes back at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
He walks right through an unlocked door.
So the guy's front door isn't even locked
or some door to his home.
His house is unlocked.
The guy just walks right in at 2 a.m.
What's the guy doing?
The victim is playing video games.
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You can't make this up.
So the aggressor came in.
The victim was playing video games.
He had taken a break to go to the bathroom.
However, once he opened the door,
he noticed the suspect standing with a hammer raised
in the air in an anticipated strike position
wearing all black gloves and a mask.
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So he's standing there like Michael Myers
while this guy is going to the bathroom.
Now imagine this, you're just in there playing video games
at 2 a.m. in your home.
You come out of the bathroom
and there's a guy standing there with a mask on
dressed all in black wearing gloves.
It doesn't say what kind of mask.
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I'm just going to, in my mind,
I'm going with the Michael Myers creep style mask.
That just makes perfect sense to me.
And he's wielding a hammer held overhead
ready to do you some bodily harm.
What a wild way to end your video game break.
He probably had some hot pockets or pizza roll
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or something right there too.
And I guess those are going to get cold now
because these guys are going to the hospital.
He broke into the victim's home
to we believe kill the victim, the sheriff said.
The suspect and the victim then began to struggle
and the victim wrestled the suspect to the ground.
While the two were fighting,
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the victim's stepfather heard screams.
When he entered the room and saw what was happening,
he and his stepson disarmed the aggressor
and held him until deputies arrived.
Both men were taken to an area hospital
for medical treatment.
And then the aggressor was taken into custody.
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When asked why he did what he did,
why he flew down here to or flew down there
to Florida from New Jersey and broken into this man's home
and attacked and assaulted him apparently,
allegedly with a hammer, his reply was,
he is a bad person online.
The sheriff simply replied, I would say, Mr. Kang,
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it's going to be a long time before you play video games again.
Man, what in the world are they doing down there in Florida?
I guess, okay, technically,
I guess you can't blame all of this on Florida.
The quote unquote, the bad guy of the story is from Jersey,
which I mean, I wouldn't want to go there,
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no matter, I'd much rather be in Florida than New Jersey,
all things considered on every, every which way.
But although there was some really good Italian food
in New Jersey, I got to give them that.
Had a lot of good pizza, a few good steaks.
In New Jersey, and some good hot dogs actually.
That being said, I could do without it,
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especially costs of going over there and traveling.
But man, what a wild, wild story.
Okay, we go next to Lynn County, Oregon.
This is about two hours south of Portland,
give or take for those of you non-Oregonians.
Three lost or stranded drivers were rescued
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from Snowy Forest Roads in Lynn County Wednesday morning,
according to the OSP, that's Oregon State Police.
Shortly after 9 a.m., officers saw a car
sitting on the shoulder of Highway 20 near Milepost 68.
They determined the driver, a 30-year-old woman,
had left her vehicle for unknown reasons
and walked up a nearby Forest Service Road.
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I don't, yeah, there's not enough information really
to figure out exactly what happened to get her here,
but this lady, seemingly, again,
we don't have a lot of facts in the story,
but she made some seemingly very poor decisions.
She left her vehicle to go up a Service Road.
I don't know if she was familiar with the area
and thought she knew a way out.
A lot of times, these Service Roads, they go nowhere.
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They lead you into a place where a lumber is cut
or a number of other things are done,
but they oftentimes will take you deeper into wilderness
and they don't take you anywhere.
Now, maybe this one didn't.
There's a lot of Service Roads around here
that they go nowhere,
and they get very rough very quickly.
A lot of them are not maintained very well at all.
So she left, she abandoned her vehicle.
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I guess it did not run anymore.
It doesn't really say in the story that I could see.
She walked up a nearby Service Road.
The Lynn County Search and Rescue and an OSP team
with a tracking dog helped search for the woman
and found her lost and in distress about a mile from her car.
So this is really the meat and potatoes,
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the heart of what we do here at the MOA,
the Make It Out Alive broadcast.
We look at situations like this.
What could we do differently?
Sometimes these stories are humorous.
This lady makes that okay.
So a chuckle is okay.
Unfortunately, sometimes they don't end so well,
but what we like to do is look at what went wrong
and what can we learn from this?
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What are practical solutions you can implement today
to not have this happening?
Now, this one, some of this seems pretty common sense.
If your vehicle goes down, typically,
it's, you're frequently recommended to stay with the vehicle.
It's a lot easier to locate a vehicle than it is a person.
And this is proven out in this case.
They found her vehicle right there on the side of the highway.
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They needed a search and rescue team,
an SAR team and dogs or a dog to find her
on a forestry Service Road.
So again, I don't know what her motivation was.
Maybe she had a medical episode too.
We don't know.
It says OSP Trooper stayed with her, built a fire
and gave her food and emergency blankets
while a search and rescue team brought a snow cat
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to carry her back to the highway.
A snow cat is one of those vehicles.
I mean, they're great for going, you know,
basically all terrain.
They're on tracks frequently to get her back to the highway.
She was then taken to an area hospital
for a medical evaluation.
Now, get a little of this.
While this is happening,
the Lynn County Sheriff's Office received and responded
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to two separate calls from drivers stranded on forest roads
in the snow.
Sheriff Michelle Duncan asked people to remember
to have a plan and bring emergency supplies
whenever driving in snow or winter conditions.
Always let a friend or things we've talked about.
Let someone know we are gonna be a good idea
to keep your car winter ready.
And that's we're going to get to here momentarily
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is what you should have in your vehicle kit.
And again, this lady may have been having a medical emergency
that prevented her from thinking clearly or whatever.
We don't know why she left her vehicle
and why they were looking for if she had cell service.
None of those things are answered by this particular article.
So the crux of the matter here is
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had she been in good health and okay,
she may have, if she had the item she needed,
she probably could have just stayed with her vehicle
until help came.
Now, maybe if it was cold enough
and she didn't think she could stay in her car,
I don't know, like I said, a bit of an interesting story.
This can happen to anybody though.
True life story, when I was a kid, I remember,
I had to be about, I remember the jacket that I had on
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and I had that jacket when I was about 12 to 14 years old.
So one night, I worked nights with my dad,
occasionally from a very young age,
and we were on our way home
and it was the middle of winter.
And this is in Missouri, rural Missouri.
Now, if you've never been to the Midwest,
the Midwest is kind of an interesting climate situation.
We get very, very hot summers
and very, very cold and snowy, icy winters.
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In the Midwest, we frequently get ice storms,
which can be very, very damaging and destructive.
Isis is far worse than snow usually.
It's basically impossible to drive safely on in most cases
and it brings down a lot of power lines, all kind of stuff.
So fortunately, no snow or ice that night,
but it was very cold.
I remember thinking, as we were driving out that night
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at around 10 or 11,
excuse me, that I should probably bring either a larger coat
or scarf and gloves and such,
but I didn't because the reason being,
we were driving a brand new car.
My dad had just got this car
and so you think, hey, nothing can happen.
It's a brand new vehicle, nothing's gonna go wrong.
Plus, I was 12 or 13 years old.
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So on our way back, I remember it was checking my watch,
I had a Timex Ironman on
and it was around, it was like 230 something or so
in the morning and all of a sudden, boom,
we had a blowout on this deserted state highway,
very remote, relatively speaking, and we're on the side
of the road and it's like, great.
So we get out, like, let's pull over to a safe spot.
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We're gonna walk back there and get the spare tire
and change this thing.
Open the trunk and there's no spare tire.
Now, I don't know why there was no spare tire
in a brand new vehicle, but that was failure number one
right there.
We should have checked that.
My dad, if you wanna blame him, I don't.
Everybody makes mistakes, he was a real good dude.
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You wanna check and make sure your spare tire is there,
make sure it's aired up.
I needed my spare tire a couple of months ago
and it was flat.
Fortunately, I have an inflator in the vehicle,
so no big deal.
But there were no other tools, no other, yeah,
I think we had a flashlight, but that was it.
So what did we do?
We had to hoof it.
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Now, we were at this point about 13, 14 miles from home
and it was bitter cold.
So walking all the way home was not an option.
This is before cell phones, man.
So nobody had like a cell phone to,
and even if we had had one, I don't think they were out yet,
but even if we had had one or not commonly anyway,
there would have been no reception there.
So we did something that would be almost unthinkable
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in today's world.
We walked up to the nearest home we could find
at like 2.33 in the morning and knocked on the door
and they opened it and they let us in their house.
And my dad called home and mom came and got us
and we came back the next day
and got the vehicle taken care of.
But we had a failures on multiple levels there.
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The tire wasn't there.
We weren't prepared with a toolkit
and a number of other things.
So it can happen to anybody.
You can better believe though, the next day,
my dad got that vehicle fully outfitted
for just such emergencies.
So fortunately, no casualties in that story.
And that brings us to our vehicle emergency kit.
What should you have in a vehicle emergency kit?
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I didn't do an exhaustive write up
because it's going to depend on your area,
where you live, the weather, climate,
how far away you are from your next town and whatever.
I'm gonna go through most of what I,
I didn't put my whole kit out and go all the way through,
but I did look at it and go by memory
and pull a few of the components out.
Here's what we got in my vehicle emergency kit.
I live at 4,200 feet in the hills of Oregon.
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We have pretty long, cold and sometimes harsh winters.
So that's gonna be probably the exposure
will be the biggest danger here.
So I kind of focused on that.
I have multiple blankets.
I've also got a spare pair of gloves
and like a beanie, a sock cap type thing.
Obviously a couple of bottles of water.
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You wanna make sure if you have water bottles,
these are not filled to capacity
because if you live in a cold climate
and they freeze, they will burst.
And when you need them, they will be dripped out
all over the back seat of your car
on the floorboards or whatever else.
So just keep that in mind.
Just throwing a brand new sealed water bottle in there
may not be the best choice.
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Some snacks, nothing crazier extensive with food
in my particular case.
I don't really think I'm gonna be spending multiple days,
hopefully in the vehicle unless something really goes wrong.
If there was an emergency that was specific,
then I would probably try and plan ahead.
So things like granola bars or power bars,
that kind of stuff, nothing really complicated.
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It's basically gonna be to munch on hopefully
while you're safe and waiting for rescue of some sort.
Flashlight, any guy in America, most guys in America
probably got two or three flashlights stuffed in their car
in multiple places.
Flares, this is particularly important
if you're in a very dark area
or if you're like on a blind curve to let people know
to slow down as they come around
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if your vehicle is stuck and stranded in the road or whatever.
Fire starting kit, self-explanatory,
tire repair plugs.
If you use these or if you have these,
make sure you know how to use them.
It's very easy to plug your own tire.
In fact, I've done it on the side of the road multiple times.
I've done it on the side of a highway.
I've done it in gas station parking lots.
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I've done it in my driveway.
It's very easy to do.
Just make sure that you then also have an inflator
to be able to air your tire up afterwards.
So you can easily do this on the side of the road though,
not that big of a deal.
Let's see, a jack spare tire,
the appropriate lug wrench that you're gonna need.
And I always throw a two by four or two,
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you know, one to two foot length in there
or maybe a small piece of plywood or something
because sometimes you may be on ground
that is very soggy or wet and damp.
And if you do that and you jack the vehicle up,
it may just sink into the ground.
So a piece of wood, you have to make sure you do it safely,
but a piece of wood can oftentimes prevent that.
I've been broken down on like gravel roads
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or on roads that don't have a shoulder
and you have to pull into the grass.
And if I hadn't had a piece of wood to put underneath the jack,
I would have never got the vehicle raised
because you started jacking it up
and the jack just goes right into the ground.
Let's see, a basic tool kit.
I've had to change serpentine belts, alternators,
and batteries and a number of other things
right on the side of the road.
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If you have a decent, a basic tool kit,
usually a good socket set and a few screwdrivers
and a pair of pliers or two, you can get through a lot
if you have a little bit of practice and knowledge
beforehand on how to use those items.
A signaling device, we're gonna get into that momentarily.
A battery jump box and let's see.
Now, if you are in a rural area
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or wherever your area of operations is,
if it is legal and safe for you to do so,
it's not a bad idea to have a firearm
under certain situations
or circumstances.
I'll give you two stories.
The first is tragic, but okay, let's just get right into it.
A buddy of mine once was driving down a country road
and he struck a dog, okay?
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Now, he gets out of the car,
he's obviously very much upset
and he goes back, the dog is not in good shape, okay?
So he's like, I gotta put this thing down.
This is like 25, maybe 30 years ago.
This is a while back, 20, 25 years ago.
So he's in the middle of nowhere
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and so he goes and he doesn't have a firearm in the vehicle.
So he goes and...
The story is horrible.
I'm sorry, but this is a true story, it's horrible.
He goes and gets a tire iron and he thinks,
okay, if I can just knock the dog out first,
then I can finish the job.
So he starts hitting this dog in the head
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with the tire iron and he cannot knock it out.
Boom, nothing, boom.
He's smacking this dog with the tire iron,
the dog won't go out.
So after several strikes, he's sitting there thinking,
oh my God, he's ready to cry.
He feels horrible, the dog is obviously feeling even worse.
He's bleeding and moaning and yelping and whimpering.
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And all of a sudden, another vehicle comes pulling up.
Guess who?
It's the dog's owners.
So they pull up and this guy is beating on their dog
with a tire iron and they of course,
some very colorful language and explanations follow.
Long story short, they take the dog into the vet
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to be euthanized.
He leaves at that point, he gets a letter,
I don't know how he finds it, they call him or whatever,
a couple of weeks later, the dog survived.
I swear to goodness, that's a true story.
So in that case, we're glad he didn't have a firearm,
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but I've got a story of mountain lion.
We're not gonna be able to get to it
in this half of the show.
You never know, I've had other friends
that have hit and struck animals
and they had to dispatch them
because they're in a very remote area.
The animal is suffering.
So anyway, we're not gonna recommend anything.
You need to find out what's legal for you in your area,
but that's something to think about.
We're gonna get into this a little deeper
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in the second half of the show
and we're also going to get into the Ivermectin story.
So stay tuned, we got more coming up in the second half.
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Now, that being said, we left off the first half.
We were talking about a vehicle emergency kit.
We didn't get to knife, you need to have a knife
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in there as well.
Like I said, most guys, knives are like flashlights.
Most guys in America are gonna have two or three knives
stashed around pocket knives, emergency knives,
whatever in their truck, in a toolbox, whatever else.
So that usually isn't a big problem.
You may want a small hatchet or a saw or machete
or whatever depending on where you're at,
but usually a cutting implement of some sort.
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The idea, again, with all of the underlying theme
with all that we do here, the idea is to hopefully
prevent yourself from being found
in one of these emergency situations in the first place.
Sometimes it cannot be avoided.
It's happened to me on a number of occasions,
things that were completely beyond my control
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and you gotta be prepared.
And if you're not, then you pay the price.
Like when my dad and I had to walk home
in the middle of the night or walk to a farmhouse,
thank goodness that the homeowner was not trigger happy.
I mean, some people literally come out shooting first
and they ask questions later.
So anyway, where we left off though was,
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the other item I didn't really get to was signaling device.
Now you may ask yourself,
why is a signaling device or why could a signaling device
be important?
We're gonna do a quick news story here
from an Arizona case.
Now this is a little bit different than a roadside
emergency, this guy was a hiker.
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But we're gonna read through this,
take a couple of minutes because it's very applicable
and this shows what the potential penalty
or cost can be for not being prepared.
Arizona hiker who appealed his conviction
for starting wildfires after getting lost on a trail
has been ordered to pay nearly $300,000
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in restitution to the US Forest Service.
Well, let's get into it.
District Judge Michael T. Liberty,
sorry if I'm pronouncing that incorrectly,
delivered his verdict earlier this week
in the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
saying that Philip Powers had acted unreasonably
when he set the fires.
So let's get into what happened here.
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Hiker Powers was day hiking and hot weather
in the Coconino National Forest in May of 2018
when he became lost and started a small fire
to try to attract rescuers, not unreasonable on its own.
Fire restrictions were in effect in the area at the time.
So there's a bit of a fine line.
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According to reporting by the Arizona Daily Independent,
the following day, Powers started two more fires
when he ran out of water and had to drink his own urine.
Now, I don't know why people continue to do this.
I don't know that there may be some benefit.
I've done a lot of research on this.
Most of the research I've come across has been
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you're not really doing yourself any good.
Each time you consume or drink water,
the wastes are excreted out.
Okay, so once it cycles through the body and becomes urine,
now it's packed with or at least contains
a certain concentration of waste materials.
When you drink it again, it gets cycled out again
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and those concentrations of waste materials
and potentially hazardous chemicals become higher.
So you're really not doing yourself any favors.
I suppose there may be some benefit to a medically.
Most of what I've read has been pretty much against it.
That's another story though.
We don't give out medical advice here,
just our observations.
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Now, that being said, thinking he had failed
to attract the attention of a helicopter
after setting the third fire,
Powers continued hiking and left behind
a still smoldering blaze,
which ultimately engulfed 230 acres
before it was brought under control.
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More than 100 firefighters, five helicopters,
one air attack, four crews,
and one fire engine were involved
in the firefighting effort.
That's a big deal.
Firefighters are very serious,
fire wildfires are very serious.
This wasn't technically a wildfire, it's a forest fire,
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or however they classify it.
Technically that might be arson, I'm not sure.
Either way, whatever it is,
not sure on the terminology there.
We get wildfires every year just about here in Oregon.
And I mean, it is no joke, man,
and we saw what happened in LA and California recently.
We've got, I think they, what was it, North Carolina?
I read it, it was a couple of days ago,
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we had to go, they're serious.
These things can spread rapidly,
especially in the middle of summer
when you got dry ground, dry timber,
it can get serious.
Okay, in 2023, Powers had been found guilty
on seven misdemeanor counts
and faced up to three and a half years in jail.
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The Tempe resident appealed his conviction
based on the necessity defense,
claiming he believed he was going to die.
He was denied because Liberty said the harm he faced
at the time of lighting the fires
was not sufficiently imminent,
and the defendant did not appear immediately dire
to his rescuers when they found him.
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Powers also failed to use a nearby fire pit
nor make any effort to contain the fires,
such as clearing dead brush,
which was ruled objectively unreasonable.
This is why a signaling device is so important.
Now, you may not need to use your signaling device,
but really the point of the story
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is to show the contrast.
A poor decision, which is what the courts basically said,
he didn't make a good decision
and he didn't prepare himself for it,
and it cost 230 acres according to the story this fire ran.
This guy was held accountable for that.
He had the idea to start a fire to signal, okay?
But in execution, he didn't,
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apparently he didn't think this all the way through
because it spread to 230 acres.
Now, the problem is for ramifications for him.
Well, let's just read the last paragraph.
Finally, though Powers had brought food,
three liters of water, a machete, knife, and lighter,
he was not carrying a paper map or compass for navigation,
and the judges say he was reckless and negligent
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in preparing for the hike,
ordering him to pay $293,413.71 in restitution costs.
So a couple of takeaways,
I mean, number one,
fortunately the guy made it out alive, right?
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That's the important thing in one face of it.
He made it out alive.
The sad thing is it cost 230 acres and nearly $300,000
to square this away.
I don't know if he's still appealing this,
or if he has any options at this point.
But I'll bet he wishes he had had a different
method of signaling,
or he had let someone know where he was going to be.
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And the article does even mention PLBs,
personal locator beacons.
There are a number of these.
Some of them are anywhere from a couple hundred bucks
up and down in price.
And some you have to have a subscription service for
and so forth,
but that's peanuts compared to $300,000.
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I would imagine if he had the option to go back,
he would much rather spend the $250,
or they probably have them cheaper,
haven't looked at them in a while,
but much better than 300,000.
And the headache,
how much time it takes to go through years of court like this?
And now he's got,
I believe he had criminal charges.
We found guilty on seven misdemeanor counts
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and faced up to three and a half years in jail.
I don't,
it doesn't say exactly what the disposition was
of the charges and the jail time,
but either way, it's a mess.
So the other takeaway,
the point of this is the courts looked at his preparation,
they looked at his gear,
they looked at his planning,
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and they found because he did not,
he didn't have a paper map or a compass for navigation,
and maybe who knows whatever else,
they found him reckless and negligent
in preparing for the hike,
not just the fire,
the way he prepared.
They said, basically they were,
they were kind of saying,
you could have done more to prevent this
by having a paper map or compass or a PLB
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or notifying someone of where you were going to be.
So we're going to hold you liable,
that contributed to the decision, I would imagine,
to hold them liable.
So the takeaway for us is,
make sure you're not that person,
don't do that.
Learn from this, like we learned,
I learned from my story of,
you know, I have a spare tire in the car,
learn from this, make sure you're prepared ahead of time.
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Now, we head to Arkansas,
Little Rock to be exact.
In Arkansas, Bill,
that would allow Ivermectin,
an anti-parasitic drug to be sold over the counter
has passed in the Senate with a 31 to four vote on March 6.
Now, before we get into this,
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I just want to do a quick reminder
as you know folks, here at the MOA broadcast,
we do not get politically involved.
We do simply what most of the mainstream news
and media used to do, which is give you the facts.
Then you make your own decision
and your own determinations based on that information.
We're not going to tell you how to feel,
how to think, where it's going to share the info.
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Some things do get politically involved,
but we remain apolitical in our reporting.
Back to the story, Ivermectin tablets
are typically used to treat conditions
caused by parasitic worms.
Topicals can be used to treat head lice
and skin conditions like rosacea,
according to the US Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.
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Drug is also used on animals,
porons, injectables, pace, yada, yada, yada.
Here is the part we want to talk about interest
in human use of Ivermectin grew
when people begin taking it to prevent or treat COVID-19,
despite the FDA and other health agencies
warning against it.
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The FDA has never authorized
or approved Ivermectin for that purpose.
The Arkansas measure would allow the human use
and over-the-counter sale of Ivermectin
without a prescription or consultation
from a healthcare professional.
The bill will now head to the House for consideration.
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Ah, excuse me.
Why is this important?
Well, again, we don't give medical advice.
We're not gonna tell you what to do one way or another,
but if you were around for the pandemic,
you could not help but hear about all the conflicting stories
about Ivermectin, what it should and should not be used for,
what it's approved and not approved for by the FDA
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and other governing bodies.
But you couldn't help,
but if you watch the mainstream media,
or it's now being called often the legacy media,
you couldn't help get a certain impression
about Ivermectin and the people who used it.
Now, what I wanna do is this is an article
that I had read years ago.
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And when this whole thing exploded,
I remember thinking to myself, okay, Ivermectin,
what is it, I've read about this before, what is going on?
Just like with N95 masks and dust masks and so forth,
all this research that I had done
and read years and years before,
I started thinking to myself,
I've read about this before,
is that what it said at the time?
I wanna take you to a research paper from 2011.
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And then I'm gonna read you something more currently,
and I want you to see the contrast between the way
Ivermectin is portrayed and spoken about pre-COVID
and then during and post-COVID, okay?
I'm just gonna read it, you make your own decision.
We go to the article, Ivermectin,
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Wonder Drug from Japan, The Human Use Perspective.
Excuse me.
Discovered in the late 1970s,
the pioneering drug Ivermectin,
a dihydroderivative of Ivermectin,
originating solely from a single microorganism isolated
at the Kitasato Institute Tokyo, Japan,
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from Japanese soil, has had an immeasurably beneficial impact
in improving the lives and welfare
of billions of people throughout the world.
Originally introduced as a veterinary drug,
it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites
in commercial livestock and companion animals.
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It was quickly discovered to be ideal
in combating two of the world's most devastating
and disfiguring diseases,
which have plagued the world poor
throughout the tropics for centuries.
It is now being used free of charge as the sole tool
in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally.
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It has also been used to successfully overcome
several other human diseases,
and new uses for it are continually being found.
This paper looks in depth
at the events surrounding Ivermectin's passage
from being a huge success in animal health
into its widespread use in humans,
a development which has led many to describe it
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as a wonder drug.
There are a few drugs that can seriously lay claim
to the title of wonder drug, penicillin and aspirin,
being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact
on the health and wellbeing of mankind.
But Ivermectin can also be considered alongside
those worthy contenders based on its versatility,
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safety and the beneficial impact that it has had,
and continues to have worldwide,
especially on hundreds of millions
of the world's poorest people.
Okay, that was a bit long,
glad you stuck with me there,
but that was a glowing review
about the wonderful benefits of Ivermectin
according to this research paper, okay?
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Now, before we get to the next part,
I'm not going to say use Ivermectin to treat COVID-19,
I'm not going to give you any kind of medical advice
to do or not do.
The point of this is,
we want to look and compare and contrast
the way things are portrayed in the media.
That was a research paper.
Now we're going to look at the mainstream media,
and after I finish that, I'm gonna tell you why
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and what the point of this is.
Although I'm pretty sure most of you
that have been watching the whole world wake up
to how the media handles itself, in many cases,
already know where this is going.
So we go to a popular, I'm not gonna use the magazine,
if you really want to know which one it was,
you can email us at infoatgearconvoy.com,
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I'll tell you, but I don't want to drag anybody
through the mudder or try and make somebody look bad.
We're gonna cherry pick a few lines out of this article,
but it's just for the emphasis
of how different these two articles are.
Here is the headline of the article.
Do I have the source on here?
Yeah, we'll get to that later.
Okay, the title.
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What is Ivermectin?
How a livestock dewormer became a rumored COVID-19 aid
with bad side effects?
Now remember how the previous article just talked
about how safe and effective for hundreds of millions
of people Ivermectin was?
Here we have how a livestock dewormer became a rumored
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COVID-19 aid with bad side effects.
September 3, 2021.
There have been lots of cases of liver problems
and liver failure, severe GI upset,
and even things like seizure and coma.
Says the doctor, you know things are bad
when the US Food and Drug Administration
posts a drug warning on social media that reads,
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you are not a horse, you are not a cow.
That's what the agency did in August
to discourage consumption of Ivermectin,
an anti-parasitic medication most often used
as a livestock dewormer that's become a sought after,
yet unproven drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.
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So what do we learn there?
Again, we're not gonna get political,
we're not gonna get medical advice,
we're not gonna give personal advice
other than to use your brain.
One paper, several years, almost a decade almost,
pre-COVID talks about what a wonderful
and safe and effective drug this is.
Now obviously it did not advocate
for using it for COVID-19.
We're not doing that, we're not getting on that end of it.
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But then for whatever reason,
when people started to use it for that purpose,
and I'll tell you this, I did a lot of reading
in preparation for this,
they were to make sure I had gone through this again.
There were a lot of studies that kind of went either way.
So who knows?
That's again, that's the topic for a different episode
or a different series altogether.
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We're not gonna do that today,
but the point is the media sitting there going this way,
what do I learn from this?
What do I think of myself?
It shows to me the importance of getting your news
and information from more than one source.
The thing with legacy media, as I now call it, for years,
for decades, if not longer,
has had almost a stranglehold on information.
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Okay?
And if people wanted to get information,
if they wanted to get news,
they tuned into their Nightly News broadcasts
or they read their local or national newspaper,
and that's where they got their news from.
And when we come to find out,
a lot of these news organizations
are controlled by a handful of companies,
organizations, people, whatever, at the top.
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There have been numerous studies I've seen recently
where they show side-by-side comparisons,
and I'm sure many of you have seen these as well
on social media, which is where we're going next,
that so many of these news organizations,
you put them side-by-side, the script or the video,
they're saying almost word-for-word the exact same thing.
You go to any of these channels,
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there are a number of channels, there are stations,
or papers, or online,
and you're getting the exact same message.
You know, if everybody's saying the same thing,
something's wrong, and that goes back to, again,
part of the problem being,
they're not just giving us raw data, which is what I want,
and what you should probably want too.
I don't want someone else's opinions.
They may have different beliefs than me.
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They may have different goals, different circumstance.
I want information.
Media, to a degree,
there have been good journalists in the past,
make no mistake, but now,
especially when things are getting political,
it is so, they're almost homogenous in what they're saying.
So the point to me is, that's why I like X.
You may have heard Twitter,
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it goes X is the new name for it, but fantastic.
Now, everything is wild and out in the open there.
There's not much, there's no censorship for the most part,
except for very, very certain cases.
So you have to make sure you're prepared for that,
but you see so much news that is not covered
by your legacy or mainstream media,
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and other social media sources.
So all I would say is expand your horizons a little bit.
Don't just get your news from one place,
because a lot of times, the news, quote unquote,
is being editorialized.
You're getting someone's opinion
with a few facts or suggestions stuffed in there.
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You wanna make sure you do your research,
whether it's Ivermectin, or whatever,
medical, personal, whatever your choices are,
make sure you do your research.
That's the important thing,
and then you make an informed decision for yourself.
As someone once said so poetically,
if you do it someone else's way,
you take your life in your own hands.
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All right, that is going to bring us
to our final story of the day.
Where do we have here?
Oh boy, here we go.
We go back to Australia.
The kangaroos have been added again.
If you recall, we've had for the last two,
two or three episodes, I don't know now.
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There have been these violent kangaroo attacks.
Hang on, let me get a sip here.
Okay, Wilson's doing too much talking.
These kangaroos are no joke, man.
So if you have, I'm sure everyone alive,
or that's listening to this,
seeing a kangaroo, these things are powerfully built.
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In many cases, they're up to,
well, let's get into the story,
and we'll go along with it.
A man has been seriously injured
after being attacked by a hulking kangaroo in Queensland.
The man in his 50s was involved.
The man was involved in an altercation
with a two meter tall kangaroo
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at a home on Little Jim Road in Willows,
Queensland's, I don't know where all this is,
Queensland, Australia, okay, Willows.
So for those of you who don't do the metric system,
a meter is 3.3 feet, last I remember.
So two meters would be roughly six and a half,
almost seven feet, depending on,
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whether the kangaroo is sticking his head up
or not stretching his neck out, whatever.
Either way, this is a big animal.
And in several articles I've read,
they can get to up to and over 200 pounds.
They've got very dynamically,
powerfully strong legs, obviously,
for jumping and such, but they have a absolutely ripped
upper body as well, and they frequently have a bad attitude.
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They like to get in there and punch it out.
I mean, these are like,
they're like the bar fighters of the animal world.
They see you and they don't like the cut of your jib.
They don't like your face, they don't like your attitude.
They're gonna come in there and start throwing hands
or paws or whatever they call their hand things
on kangaroos, I don't know.
What happened next?
The poor man who was unnamed, I believe,
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sustained hip injuries and serious lacerations
to his arms and chest during the altercation,
according to the ambulance service.
He came out of his house,
walked around to get into his vehicle
to drive and go shopping.
There was a buck and doe, a male and female kangaroo.
And the doe took off,
but according to Underhill,
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I don't even know who Underhill is.
He doesn't seem to be named elsewhere in this article.
So I'm guessing he is law enforcement
or some official of some sort.
The buck bloody attacked him
and really attacked him in a big way, Underhill said.
Underhill estimated kangaroo to be about two meters tall
and noted kangaroos had lived in the area for years
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without issue.
Well, that is no longer the case.
Mr. Underhill, no disrespect intended.
This kangaroo had a bad attitude
and took it out on this poor man from Willows
who had hip injuries and serious lacerations.
So if you recall from last week,
one of the fighting tactics that these kangaroos like to do
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is to get you in a headlock and then kick you in the face
with their powerful feet and legs
and their toe claws just slice and dice you.
I did some research.
I can't, I haven't, I got around to putting in images
into the video version of this yet.
Some poor guy a couple of years ago, he got,
I didn't think he would survive.
I saw the medical images of this kangaroo attack.
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His insides were coming out.
This guy got, I mean, he got hurt bad.
That kangaroo took him down to Chinatown.
So despite that authorities did issue a public warning
about two large male kangaroos and Willows
as they may pose a danger,
these roos have been around here for years
and we've never had a problem,
but unfortunately these two big bucks
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have taken on their heads to attack people, Underhill said.
Just remember if you find yourself in Australia,
according to last week's episode,
we now know that pepper spray is effective on kangaroos.
So just a thought, make sure you have yours ready.
Okay, that's gonna do it for us folks.
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We are done today.
Remember, don't wait until you have an emergency
to prepare for it.
It may be too late if you wait.
If you don't make it out alive, you don't make it out at all.
Stay safe out there folks.
Veero ponto cor陡
All right, coming to you from
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4200 feet in the hills of Oregon.
It is the voice of Chaitown, the reddest beard
in the high desert.
Your host of the MOA broadcast, Sam Wilson.
How we doing out there folks?
We've got a great show planned today.
Let's get right into it.
We've got a couple of interesting tidbits
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we'll get to here.
We've got presidential assassination threats,
Florida man, homicidal video games,
same thing in this particular case,
a little bit of overlap.
Let's just say Florida is the gift that keeps on giving.
Big news on Ivermectin, excuse me, Ivermectin.
We'll get to that in a little bit,
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but if you've followed along, especially during COVID
and other things, Ivermectin has been a frequent topic
of conversation.
So that'll be some interesting news we got there.
And then we have some more hapless hikers and motorists
along with good survival situations
on how you can make it out alive.
So let's go ahead and get right into it.
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Our first story we go to Florida also.
So we've got two Florida man stories today.
A Florida man allegedly threatened to assassinate
President Donald Trump and launch missiles
to destroy New York in a series of 911 calls.
Now it doesn't say if he means New York State,
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New York City or some other part of New York,
just that he planned to destroy New York with missiles.
Apparently he was making these threats to 911 itself.
Justin Blackston, 34 of Loxahatchee made multiple 911 calls
to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office on February 26,
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citing an arrest report from the Sheriff's Office.
I need a ride to the airport to be taken to the White House
to assassinate the president.
He allegedly said in one of the calls,
I'm about to launch the missiles to destroy New York.
He allegedly said in another call,
I'm a Confederate soldier.
Oh man.
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Oh, there we go.
I'm a Confederate soldier and I'm looking to get revenge.
My missiles are attracted to Donald Trump's tower.
Wow.
In other calls, he allegedly told dispatchers
to tell the FBI that I'm a mass murderer
and he wanted Trump to go over to his house
because tomorrow's his last day on planet Earth.
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Deputies responded to his home.
He was not there, but they arrested him the following day.
He was charged with making a threat to a throw place,
project or discharge a destructive device
and falsely reporting a bomb or explosion
and making false 911 calls.
According to a former Secret Service agent, Jason Russell,
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a 10 year veteran, he told the 9-1-1 recording
sounded like the idle rant of somebody
who's mentally deranged.
The man has an extensive history
of mental health related encounters with local police.
His bond was set at $35,000
and a hearing in mental health court was set for April.
But yeah, April 16.
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Wow, what a way to kick off your day.
Multiple threats to assassinate the president,
launch missiles, destroy New York.
I'm not really sure where the Confederate soldier part
comes from though and he's looking to get revenge.
I mean, he's down south, I guess in Florida.
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So I don't know about that one where that all came together.
Either way, he is in custody, I believe
and we will hear more from him on April 16.
Now we move over a little bit to Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Again, also in Florida.
An online altercation led to real life
attempted murder charges.
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After deputies say a New Jersey man flew to Florida,
snuck into the home of a person he met online
and attacked him with a hammer in the middle of the night.
This is a weird one, National County Sheriff Bill Leeper
said during a press conference.
The sheriff states that the man Edward Kang 20
hopped on a plane from Newark, New Jersey.
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I don't blame him for wanting to leave Jersey.
If you ever live in the Northeast,
most people try and avoid New Jersey at all costs.
I'll just say that and we'll leave it there.
Maybe we'll get into that on a topic of a future show.
But he got on a plane from Newark to Jacksonville, Florida
late Friday night upon landing, according to the sheriff,
he got a new bird checked into a hotel around 2 a.m.
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Then it, I don't know if it happened right then
or the next day, I can't imagine any hardware stores
being open at 2 a.m.
But it just says he then went to an area hardware store
and purchased a hammer and a flashlight and a flashlight.
Around 2 a.m. on Sunday armed with his new hammer,
the man entered the home of a gamer he met online.
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So apparently these two were gaming.
I don't know much about video games.
Excuse me, so I can't speak intelligently to that.
But apparently they were on some type of,
the sheriff speaks to it later on.
He said that they were playing some type of game
where you could fight and kill your opponent online.
And I guess clearly there was some kind of back and forth
with personal information
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because it seems he knew exactly where to go
to find this person.
But anyway, the man comes back at 2 a.m. on Sunday.
He walks right through an unlocked door.
So the guy's front door isn't even locked
or some door to his home.
His house is unlocked.
The guy just walks right in at 2 a.m.
What's the guy doing?
The victim is playing video games.
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You can't make this up.
So the aggressor came in.
The victim was playing video games.
He had taken a break to go to the bathroom.
However, once he opened the door,
he noticed the suspect standing with a hammer raised
in the air in an anticipated strike position
wearing all black gloves and a mask.
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So he's standing there like Michael Myers
while this guy is going to the bathroom.
Now imagine this, you're just in there playing video games
at 2 a.m. in your home.
You come out of the bathroom
and there's a guy standing there with a mask on
dressed all in black wearing gloves.
It doesn't say what kind of mask.
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I'm just going to, in my mind,
I'm going with the Michael Myers creep style mask.
That just makes perfect sense to me.
And he's wielding a hammer held overhead
ready to do you some bodily harm.
What a wild way to end your video game break.
He probably had some hot pockets or pizza roll
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or something right there too.
And I guess those are going to get cold now
because these guys are going to the hospital.
He broke into the victim's home
to we believe kill the victim, the sheriff said.
The suspect and the victim then began to struggle
and the victim wrestled the suspect to the ground.
While the two were fighting,
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the victim's stepfather heard screams.
When he entered the room and saw what was happening,
he and his stepson disarmed the aggressor
and held him until deputies arrived.
Both men were taken to an area hospital
for medical treatment.
And then the aggressor was taken into custody.
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When asked why he did what he did,
why he flew down here to or flew down there
to Florida from New Jersey and broken into this man's home
and attacked and assaulted him apparently,
allegedly with a hammer, his reply was,
he is a bad person online.
The sheriff simply replied, I would say, Mr. Kang,
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it's going to be a long time before you play video games again.
Man, what in the world are they doing down there in Florida?
I guess, okay, technically,
I guess you can't blame all of this on Florida.
The quote unquote, the bad guy of the story is from Jersey,
which I mean, I wouldn't want to go there,
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no matter, I'd much rather be in Florida than New Jersey,
all things considered on every, every which way.
But although there was some really good Italian food
in New Jersey, I got to give them that.
Had a lot of good pizza, a few good steaks.
In New Jersey, and some good hot dogs actually.
That being said, I could do without it,
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especially costs of going over there and traveling.
But man, what a wild, wild story.
Okay, we go next to Lynn County, Oregon.
This is about two hours south of Portland,
give or take for those of you non-Oregonians.
Three lost or stranded drivers were rescued
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from Snowy Forest Roads in Lynn County Wednesday morning,
according to the OSP, that's Oregon State Police.
Shortly after 9 a.m., officers saw a car
sitting on the shoulder of Highway 20 near Milepost 68.
They determined the driver, a 30-year-old woman,
had left her vehicle for unknown reasons
and walked up a nearby Forest Service Road.
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I don't, yeah, there's not enough information really
to figure out exactly what happened to get her here,
but this lady, seemingly, again,
we don't have a lot of facts in the story,
but she made some seemingly very poor decisions.
She left her vehicle to go up a Service Road.
I don't know if she was familiar with the area
and thought she knew a way out.
A lot of times, these Service Roads, they go nowhere.
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They lead you into a place where a lumber is cut
or a number of other things are done,
but they oftentimes will take you deeper into wilderness
and they don't take you anywhere.
Now, maybe this one didn't.
There's a lot of Service Roads around here
that they go nowhere,
and they get very rough very quickly.
A lot of them are not maintained very well at all.
So she left, she abandoned her vehicle.
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I guess it did not run anymore.
It doesn't really say in the story that I could see.
She walked up a nearby Service Road.
The Lynn County Search and Rescue and an OSP team
with a tracking dog helped search for the woman
and found her lost and in distress about a mile from her car.
So this is really the meat and potatoes,
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the heart of what we do here at the MOA,
the Make It Out Alive broadcast.
We look at situations like this.
What could we do differently?
Sometimes these stories are humorous.
This lady makes that okay.
So a chuckle is okay.
Unfortunately, sometimes they don't end so well,
but what we like to do is look at what went wrong
and what can we learn from this?
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What are practical solutions you can implement today
to not have this happening?
Now, this one, some of this seems pretty common sense.
If your vehicle goes down, typically,
it's, you're frequently recommended to stay with the vehicle.
It's a lot easier to locate a vehicle than it is a person.
And this is proven out in this case.
They found her vehicle right there on the side of the highway.
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They needed a search and rescue team,
an SAR team and dogs or a dog to find her
on a forestry Service Road.
So again, I don't know what her motivation was.
Maybe she had a medical episode too.
We don't know.
It says OSP Trooper stayed with her, built a fire
and gave her food and emergency blankets
while a search and rescue team brought a snow cat
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to carry her back to the highway.
A snow cat is one of those vehicles.
I mean, they're great for going, you know,
basically all terrain.
They're on tracks frequently to get her back to the highway.
She was then taken to an area hospital
for a medical evaluation.
Now, get a little of this.
While this is happening,
the Lynn County Sheriff's Office received and responded
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to two separate calls from drivers stranded on forest roads
in the snow.
Sheriff Michelle Duncan asked people to remember
to have a plan and bring emergency supplies
whenever driving in snow or winter conditions.
Always let a friend or things we've talked about.
Let someone know we are gonna be a good idea
to keep your car winter ready.
And that's we're going to get to here momentarily
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is what you should have in your vehicle kit.
And again, this lady may have been having a medical emergency
that prevented her from thinking clearly or whatever.
We don't know why she left her vehicle
and why they were looking for if she had cell service.
None of those things are answered by this particular article.
So the crux of the matter here is
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had she been in good health and okay,
she may have, if she had the item she needed,
she probably could have just stayed with her vehicle
until help came.
Now, maybe if it was cold enough
and she didn't think she could stay in her car,
I don't know, like I said, a bit of an interesting story.
This can happen to anybody though.
True life story, when I was a kid, I remember,
I had to be about, I remember the jacket that I had on
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and I had that jacket when I was about 12 to 14 years old.
So one night, I worked nights with my dad,
occasionally from a very young age,
and we were on our way home
and it was the middle of winter.
And this is in Missouri, rural Missouri.
Now, if you've never been to the Midwest,
the Midwest is kind of an interesting climate situation.
We get very, very hot summers
and very, very cold and snowy, icy winters.
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In the Midwest, we frequently get ice storms,
which can be very, very damaging and destructive.
Isis is far worse than snow usually.
It's basically impossible to drive safely on in most cases
and it brings down a lot of power lines, all kind of stuff.
So fortunately, no snow or ice that night,
but it was very cold.
I remember thinking, as we were driving out that night
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at around 10 or 11,
excuse me, that I should probably bring either a larger coat
or scarf and gloves and such,
but I didn't because the reason being,
we were driving a brand new car.
My dad had just got this car
and so you think, hey, nothing can happen.
It's a brand new vehicle, nothing's gonna go wrong.
Plus, I was 12 or 13 years old.
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So on our way back, I remember it was checking my watch,
I had a Timex Ironman on
and it was around, it was like 230 something or so
in the morning and all of a sudden, boom,
we had a blowout on this deserted state highway,
very remote, relatively speaking, and we're on the side
of the road and it's like, great.
So we get out, like, let's pull over to a safe spot.
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We're gonna walk back there and get the spare tire
and change this thing.
Open the trunk and there's no spare tire.
Now, I don't know why there was no spare tire
in a brand new vehicle, but that was failure number one
right there.
We should have checked that.
My dad, if you wanna blame him, I don't.
Everybody makes mistakes, he was a real good dude.
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You wanna check and make sure your spare tire is there,
make sure it's aired up.
I needed my spare tire a couple of months ago
and it was flat.
Fortunately, I have an inflator in the vehicle,
so no big deal.
But there were no other tools, no other, yeah,
I think we had a flashlight, but that was it.
So what did we do?
We had to hoof it.
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Now, we were at this point about 13, 14 miles from home
and it was bitter cold.
So walking all the way home was not an option.
This is before cell phones, man.
So nobody had like a cell phone to,
and even if we had had one, I don't think they were out yet,
but even if we had had one or not commonly anyway,
there would have been no reception there.
So we did something that would be almost unthinkable
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in today's world.
We walked up to the nearest home we could find
at like 2.33 in the morning and knocked on the door
and they opened it and they let us in their house.
And my dad called home and mom came and got us
and we came back the next day
and got the vehicle taken care of.
But we had a failures on multiple levels there.
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The tire wasn't there.
We weren't prepared with a toolkit
and a number of other things.
So it can happen to anybody.
You can better believe though, the next day,
my dad got that vehicle fully outfitted
for just such emergencies.
So fortunately, no casualties in that story.
And that brings us to our vehicle emergency kit.
What should you have in a vehicle emergency kit?
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I didn't do an exhaustive write up
because it's going to depend on your area,
where you live, the weather, climate,
how far away you are from your next town and whatever.
I'm gonna go through most of what I,
I didn't put my whole kit out and go all the way through,
but I did look at it and go by memory
and pull a few of the components out.
Here's what we got in my vehicle emergency kit.
I live at 4,200 feet in the hills of Oregon.
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We have pretty long, cold and sometimes harsh winters.
So that's gonna be probably the exposure
will be the biggest danger here.
So I kind of focused on that.
I have multiple blankets.
I've also got a spare pair of gloves
and like a beanie, a sock cap type thing.
Obviously a couple of bottles of water.
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You wanna make sure if you have water bottles,
these are not filled to capacity
because if you live in a cold climate
and they freeze, they will burst.
And when you need them, they will be dripped out
all over the back seat of your car
on the floorboards or whatever else.
So just keep that in mind.
Just throwing a brand new sealed water bottle in there
may not be the best choice.
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Some snacks, nothing crazier extensive with food
in my particular case.
I don't really think I'm gonna be spending multiple days,
hopefully in the vehicle unless something really goes wrong.
If there was an emergency that was specific,
then I would probably try and plan ahead.
So things like granola bars or power bars,
that kind of stuff, nothing really complicated.
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It's basically gonna be to munch on hopefully
while you're safe and waiting for rescue of some sort.
Flashlight, any guy in America, most guys in America
probably got two or three flashlights stuffed in their car
in multiple places.
Flares, this is particularly important
if you're in a very dark area
or if you're like on a blind curve to let people know
to slow down as they come around
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if your vehicle is stuck and stranded in the road or whatever.
Fire starting kit, self-explanatory,
tire repair plugs.
If you use these or if you have these,
make sure you know how to use them.
It's very easy to plug your own tire.
In fact, I've done it on the side of the road multiple times.
I've done it on the side of a highway.
I've done it in gas station parking lots.
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I've done it in my driveway.
It's very easy to do.
Just make sure that you then also have an inflator
to be able to air your tire up afterwards.
So you can easily do this on the side of the road though,
not that big of a deal.
Let's see, a jack spare tire,
the appropriate lug wrench that you're gonna need.
And I always throw a two by four or two,
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you know, one to two foot length in there
or maybe a small piece of plywood or something
because sometimes you may be on ground
that is very soggy or wet and damp.
And if you do that and you jack the vehicle up,
it may just sink into the ground.
So a piece of wood, you have to make sure you do it safely,
but a piece of wood can oftentimes prevent that.
I've been broken down on like gravel roads
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or on roads that don't have a shoulder
and you have to pull into the grass.
And if I hadn't had a piece of wood to put underneath the jack,
I would have never got the vehicle raised
because you started jacking it up
and the jack just goes right into the ground.
Let's see, a basic tool kit.
I've had to change serpentine belts, alternators,
and batteries and a number of other things
right on the side of the road.
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If you have a decent, a basic tool kit,
usually a good socket set and a few screwdrivers
and a pair of pliers or two, you can get through a lot
if you have a little bit of practice and knowledge
beforehand on how to use those items.
A signaling device, we're gonna get into that momentarily.
A battery jump box and let's see.
Now, if you are in a rural area
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or wherever your area of operations is,
if it is legal and safe for you to do so,
it's not a bad idea to have a firearm
under certain situations
or circumstances.
I'll give you two stories.
The first is tragic, but okay, let's just get right into it.
A buddy of mine once was driving down a country road
and he struck a dog, okay?
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Now, he gets out of the car,
he's obviously very much upset
and he goes back, the dog is not in good shape, okay?
So he's like, I gotta put this thing down.
This is like 25, maybe 30 years ago.
This is a while back, 20, 25 years ago.
So he's in the middle of nowhere
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and so he goes and he doesn't have a firearm in the vehicle.
So he goes and...
The story is horrible.
I'm sorry, but this is a true story, it's horrible.
He goes and gets a tire iron and he thinks,
okay, if I can just knock the dog out first,
then I can finish the job.
So he starts hitting this dog in the head
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with the tire iron and he cannot knock it out.
Boom, nothing, boom.
He's smacking this dog with the tire iron,
the dog won't go out.
So after several strikes, he's sitting there thinking,
oh my God, he's ready to cry.
He feels horrible, the dog is obviously feeling even worse.
He's bleeding and moaning and yelping and whimpering.
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And all of a sudden, another vehicle comes pulling up.
Guess who?
It's the dog's owners.
So they pull up and this guy is beating on their dog
with a tire iron and they of course,
some very colorful language and explanations follow.
Long story short, they take the dog into the vet
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to be euthanized.
He leaves at that point, he gets a letter,
I don't know how he finds it, they call him or whatever,
a couple of weeks later, the dog survived.
I swear to goodness, that's a true story.
So in that case, we're glad he didn't have a firearm,
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but I've got a story of mountain lion.
We're not gonna be able to get to it
in this half of the show.
You never know, I've had other friends
that have hit and struck animals
and they had to dispatch them
because they're in a very remote area.
The animal is suffering.
So anyway, we're not gonna recommend anything.
You need to find out what's legal for you in your area,
but that's something to think about.
We're gonna get into this a little deeper
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in the second half of the show
and we're also going to get into the Ivermectin story.
So stay tuned, we got more coming up in the second half.
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Now, that being said, we left off the first half.
We were talking about a vehicle emergency kit.
We didn't get to knife, you need to have a knife
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in there as well.
Like I said, most guys, knives are like flashlights.
Most guys in America are gonna have two or three knives
stashed around pocket knives, emergency knives,
whatever in their truck, in a toolbox, whatever else.
So that usually isn't a big problem.
You may want a small hatchet or a saw or machete
or whatever depending on where you're at,
but usually a cutting implement of some sort.
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The idea, again, with all of the underlying theme
with all that we do here, the idea is to hopefully
prevent yourself from being found
in one of these emergency situations in the first place.
Sometimes it cannot be avoided.
It's happened to me on a number of occasions,
things that were completely beyond my control
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and you gotta be prepared.
And if you're not, then you pay the price.
Like when my dad and I had to walk home
in the middle of the night or walk to a farmhouse,
thank goodness that the homeowner was not trigger happy.
I mean, some people literally come out shooting first
and they ask questions later.
So anyway, where we left off though was,
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the other item I didn't really get to was signaling device.
Now you may ask yourself,
why is a signaling device or why could a signaling device
be important?
We're gonna do a quick news story here
from an Arizona case.
Now this is a little bit different than a roadside
emergency, this guy was a hiker.
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But we're gonna read through this,
take a couple of minutes because it's very applicable
and this shows what the potential penalty
or cost can be for not being prepared.
Arizona hiker who appealed his conviction
for starting wildfires after getting lost on a trail
has been ordered to pay nearly $300,000
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in restitution to the US Forest Service.
Well, let's get into it.
District Judge Michael T. Liberty,
sorry if I'm pronouncing that incorrectly,
delivered his verdict earlier this week
in the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
saying that Philip Powers had acted unreasonably
when he set the fires.
So let's get into what happened here.
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Hiker Powers was day hiking and hot weather
in the Coconino National Forest in May of 2018
when he became lost and started a small fire
to try to attract rescuers, not unreasonable on its own.
Fire restrictions were in effect in the area at the time.
So there's a bit of a fine line.
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According to reporting by the Arizona Daily Independent,
the following day, Powers started two more fires
when he ran out of water and had to drink his own urine.
Now, I don't know why people continue to do this.
I don't know that there may be some benefit.
I've done a lot of research on this.
Most of the research I've come across has been
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you're not really doing yourself any good.
Each time you consume or drink water,
the wastes are excreted out.
Okay, so once it cycles through the body and becomes urine,
now it's packed with or at least contains
a certain concentration of waste materials.
When you drink it again, it gets cycled out again
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and those concentrations of waste materials
and potentially hazardous chemicals become higher.
So you're really not doing yourself any favors.
I suppose there may be some benefit to a medically.
Most of what I've read has been pretty much against it.
That's another story though.
We don't give out medical advice here,
just our observations.
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Now, that being said, thinking he had failed
to attract the attention of a helicopter
after setting the third fire,
Powers continued hiking and left behind
a still smoldering blaze,
which ultimately engulfed 230 acres
before it was brought under control.
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More than 100 firefighters, five helicopters,
one air attack, four crews,
and one fire engine were involved
in the firefighting effort.
That's a big deal.
Firefighters are very serious,
fire wildfires are very serious.
This wasn't technically a wildfire, it's a forest fire,
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or however they classify it.
Technically that might be arson, I'm not sure.
Either way, whatever it is,
not sure on the terminology there.
We get wildfires every year just about here in Oregon.
And I mean, it is no joke, man,
and we saw what happened in LA and California recently.
We've got, I think they, what was it, North Carolina?
I read it, it was a couple of days ago,
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we had to go, they're serious.
These things can spread rapidly,
especially in the middle of summer
when you got dry ground, dry timber,
it can get serious.
Okay, in 2023, Powers had been found guilty
on seven misdemeanor counts
and faced up to three and a half years in jail.
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The Tempe resident appealed his conviction
based on the necessity defense,
claiming he believed he was going to die.
He was denied because Liberty said the harm he faced
at the time of lighting the fires
was not sufficiently imminent,
and the defendant did not appear immediately dire
to his rescuers when they found him.
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Powers also failed to use a nearby fire pit
nor make any effort to contain the fires,
such as clearing dead brush,
which was ruled objectively unreasonable.
This is why a signaling device is so important.
Now, you may not need to use your signaling device,
but really the point of the story
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is to show the contrast.
A poor decision, which is what the courts basically said,
he didn't make a good decision
and he didn't prepare himself for it,
and it cost 230 acres according to the story this fire ran.
This guy was held accountable for that.
He had the idea to start a fire to signal, okay?
But in execution, he didn't,
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apparently he didn't think this all the way through
because it spread to 230 acres.
Now, the problem is for ramifications for him.
Well, let's just read the last paragraph.
Finally, though Powers had brought food,
three liters of water, a machete, knife, and lighter,
he was not carrying a paper map or compass for navigation,
and the judges say he was reckless and negligent
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in preparing for the hike,
ordering him to pay $293,413.71 in restitution costs.
So a couple of takeaways,
I mean, number one,
fortunately the guy made it out alive, right?
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That's the important thing in one face of it.
He made it out alive.
The sad thing is it cost 230 acres and nearly $300,000
to square this away.
I don't know if he's still appealing this,
or if he has any options at this point.
But I'll bet he wishes he had had a different
method of signaling,
or he had let someone know where he was going to be.
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And the article does even mention PLBs,
personal locator beacons.
There are a number of these.
Some of them are anywhere from a couple hundred bucks
up and down in price.
And some you have to have a subscription service for
and so forth,
but that's peanuts compared to $300,000.
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I would imagine if he had the option to go back,
he would much rather spend the $250,
or they probably have them cheaper,
haven't looked at them in a while,
but much better than 300,000.
And the headache,
how much time it takes to go through years of court like this?
And now he's got,
I believe he had criminal charges.
We found guilty on seven misdemeanor counts
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and faced up to three and a half years in jail.
I don't,
it doesn't say exactly what the disposition was
of the charges and the jail time,
but either way, it's a mess.
So the other takeaway,
the point of this is the courts looked at his preparation,
they looked at his gear,
they looked at his planning,
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and they found because he did not,
he didn't have a paper map or a compass for navigation,
and maybe who knows whatever else,
they found him reckless and negligent
in preparing for the hike,
not just the fire,
the way he prepared.
They said, basically they were,
they were kind of saying,
you could have done more to prevent this
by having a paper map or compass or a PLB
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or notifying someone of where you were going to be.
So we're going to hold you liable,
that contributed to the decision, I would imagine,
to hold them liable.
So the takeaway for us is,
make sure you're not that person,
don't do that.
Learn from this, like we learned,
I learned from my story of,
you know, I have a spare tire in the car,
learn from this, make sure you're prepared ahead of time.
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Now, we head to Arkansas,
Little Rock to be exact.
In Arkansas, Bill,
that would allow Ivermectin,
an anti-parasitic drug to be sold over the counter
has passed in the Senate with a 31 to four vote on March 6.
Now, before we get into this,
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I just want to do a quick reminder
as you know folks, here at the MOA broadcast,
we do not get politically involved.
We do simply what most of the mainstream news
and media used to do, which is give you the facts.
Then you make your own decision
and your own determinations based on that information.
We're not going to tell you how to feel,
how to think, where it's going to share the info.
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Some things do get politically involved,
but we remain apolitical in our reporting.
Back to the story, Ivermectin tablets
are typically used to treat conditions
caused by parasitic worms.
Topicals can be used to treat head lice
and skin conditions like rosacea,
according to the US Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.
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Drug is also used on animals,
porons, injectables, pace, yada, yada, yada.
Here is the part we want to talk about interest
in human use of Ivermectin grew
when people begin taking it to prevent or treat COVID-19,
despite the FDA and other health agencies
warning against it.
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The FDA has never authorized
or approved Ivermectin for that purpose.
The Arkansas measure would allow the human use
and over-the-counter sale of Ivermectin
without a prescription or consultation
from a healthcare professional.
The bill will now head to the House for consideration.
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Ah, excuse me.
Why is this important?
Well, again, we don't give medical advice.
We're not gonna tell you what to do one way or another,
but if you were around for the pandemic,
you could not help but hear about all the conflicting stories
about Ivermectin, what it should and should not be used for,
what it's approved and not approved for by the FDA
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and other governing bodies.
But you couldn't help,
but if you watch the mainstream media,
or it's now being called often the legacy media,
you couldn't help get a certain impression
about Ivermectin and the people who used it.
Now, what I wanna do is this is an article
that I had read years ago.
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And when this whole thing exploded,
I remember thinking to myself, okay, Ivermectin,
what is it, I've read about this before, what is going on?
Just like with N95 masks and dust masks and so forth,
all this research that I had done
and read years and years before,
I started thinking to myself,
I've read about this before,
is that what it said at the time?
I wanna take you to a research paper from 2011.
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And then I'm gonna read you something more currently,
and I want you to see the contrast between the way
Ivermectin is portrayed and spoken about pre-COVID
and then during and post-COVID, okay?
I'm just gonna read it, you make your own decision.
We go to the article, Ivermectin,
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Wonder Drug from Japan, The Human Use Perspective.
Excuse me.
Discovered in the late 1970s,
the pioneering drug Ivermectin,
a dihydroderivative of Ivermectin,
originating solely from a single microorganism isolated
at the Kitasato Institute Tokyo, Japan,
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from Japanese soil, has had an immeasurably beneficial impact
in improving the lives and welfare
of billions of people throughout the world.
Originally introduced as a veterinary drug,
it kills a wide range of internal and external parasites
in commercial livestock and companion animals.
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It was quickly discovered to be ideal
in combating two of the world's most devastating
and disfiguring diseases,
which have plagued the world poor
throughout the tropics for centuries.
It is now being used free of charge as the sole tool
in campaigns to eliminate both diseases globally.
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It has also been used to successfully overcome
several other human diseases,
and new uses for it are continually being found.
This paper looks in depth
at the events surrounding Ivermectin's passage
from being a huge success in animal health
into its widespread use in humans,
a development which has led many to describe it
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as a wonder drug.
There are a few drugs that can seriously lay claim
to the title of wonder drug, penicillin and aspirin,
being two that have perhaps had greatest beneficial impact
on the health and wellbeing of mankind.
But Ivermectin can also be considered alongside
those worthy contenders based on its versatility,
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safety and the beneficial impact that it has had,
and continues to have worldwide,
especially on hundreds of millions
of the world's poorest people.
Okay, that was a bit long,
glad you stuck with me there,
but that was a glowing review
about the wonderful benefits of Ivermectin
according to this research paper, okay?
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Now, before we get to the next part,
I'm not going to say use Ivermectin to treat COVID-19,
I'm not going to give you any kind of medical advice
to do or not do.
The point of this is,
we want to look and compare and contrast
the way things are portrayed in the media.
That was a research paper.
Now we're going to look at the mainstream media,
and after I finish that, I'm gonna tell you why
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and what the point of this is.
Although I'm pretty sure most of you
that have been watching the whole world wake up
to how the media handles itself, in many cases,
already know where this is going.
So we go to a popular, I'm not gonna use the magazine,
if you really want to know which one it was,
you can email us at infoatgearconvoy.com,
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I'll tell you, but I don't want to drag anybody
through the mudder or try and make somebody look bad.
We're gonna cherry pick a few lines out of this article,
but it's just for the emphasis
of how different these two articles are.
Here is the headline of the article.
Do I have the source on here?
Yeah, we'll get to that later.
Okay, the title.
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What is Ivermectin?
How a livestock dewormer became a rumored COVID-19 aid
with bad side effects?
Now remember how the previous article just talked
about how safe and effective for hundreds of millions
of people Ivermectin was?
Here we have how a livestock dewormer became a rumored
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COVID-19 aid with bad side effects.
September 3, 2021.
There have been lots of cases of liver problems
and liver failure, severe GI upset,
and even things like seizure and coma.
Says the doctor, you know things are bad
when the US Food and Drug Administration
posts a drug warning on social media that reads,
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you are not a horse, you are not a cow.
That's what the agency did in August
to discourage consumption of Ivermectin,
an anti-parasitic medication most often used
as a livestock dewormer that's become a sought after,
yet unproven drug to treat or prevent COVID-19.
(41:33):
So what do we learn there?
Again, we're not gonna get political,
we're not gonna get medical advice,
we're not gonna give personal advice
other than to use your brain.
One paper, several years, almost a decade almost,
pre-COVID talks about what a wonderful
and safe and effective drug this is.
Now obviously it did not advocate
for using it for COVID-19.
We're not doing that, we're not getting on that end of it.
(41:56):
But then for whatever reason,
when people started to use it for that purpose,
and I'll tell you this, I did a lot of reading
in preparation for this,
they were to make sure I had gone through this again.
There were a lot of studies that kind of went either way.
So who knows?
That's again, that's the topic for a different episode
or a different series altogether.
(42:19):
We're not gonna do that today,
but the point is the media sitting there going this way,
what do I learn from this?
What do I think of myself?
It shows to me the importance of getting your news
and information from more than one source.
The thing with legacy media, as I now call it, for years,
for decades, if not longer,
has had almost a stranglehold on information.
(42:41):
Okay?
And if people wanted to get information,
if they wanted to get news,
they tuned into their Nightly News broadcasts
or they read their local or national newspaper,
and that's where they got their news from.
And when we come to find out,
a lot of these news organizations
are controlled by a handful of companies,
organizations, people, whatever, at the top.
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There have been numerous studies I've seen recently
where they show side-by-side comparisons,
and I'm sure many of you have seen these as well
on social media, which is where we're going next,
that so many of these news organizations,
you put them side-by-side, the script or the video,
they're saying almost word-for-word the exact same thing.
You go to any of these channels,
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there are a number of channels, there are stations,
or papers, or online,
and you're getting the exact same message.
You know, if everybody's saying the same thing,
something's wrong, and that goes back to, again,
part of the problem being,
they're not just giving us raw data, which is what I want,
and what you should probably want too.
I don't want someone else's opinions.
They may have different beliefs than me.
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They may have different goals, different circumstance.
I want information.
Media, to a degree,
there have been good journalists in the past,
make no mistake, but now,
especially when things are getting political,
it is so, they're almost homogenous in what they're saying.
So the point to me is, that's why I like X.
You may have heard Twitter,
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it goes X is the new name for it, but fantastic.
Now, everything is wild and out in the open there.
There's not much, there's no censorship for the most part,
except for very, very certain cases.
So you have to make sure you're prepared for that,
but you see so much news that is not covered
by your legacy or mainstream media,
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and other social media sources.
So all I would say is expand your horizons a little bit.
Don't just get your news from one place,
because a lot of times, the news, quote unquote,
is being editorialized.
You're getting someone's opinion
with a few facts or suggestions stuffed in there.
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You wanna make sure you do your research,
whether it's Ivermectin, or whatever,
medical, personal, whatever your choices are,
make sure you do your research.
That's the important thing,
and then you make an informed decision for yourself.
As someone once said so poetically,
if you do it someone else's way,
you take your life in your own hands.
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All right, that is going to bring us
to our final story of the day.
Where do we have here?
Oh boy, here we go.
We go back to Australia.
The kangaroos have been added again.
If you recall, we've had for the last two,
two or three episodes, I don't know now.
(45:30):
There have been these violent kangaroo attacks.
Hang on, let me get a sip here.
Okay, Wilson's doing too much talking.
These kangaroos are no joke, man.
So if you have, I'm sure everyone alive,
or that's listening to this,
seeing a kangaroo, these things are powerfully built.
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In many cases, they're up to,
well, let's get into the story,
and we'll go along with it.
A man has been seriously injured
after being attacked by a hulking kangaroo in Queensland.
The man in his 50s was involved.
The man was involved in an altercation
with a two meter tall kangaroo
(46:13):
at a home on Little Jim Road in Willows,
Queensland's, I don't know where all this is,
Queensland, Australia, okay, Willows.
So for those of you who don't do the metric system,
a meter is 3.3 feet, last I remember.
So two meters would be roughly six and a half,
almost seven feet, depending on,
(46:34):
whether the kangaroo is sticking his head up
or not stretching his neck out, whatever.
Either way, this is a big animal.
And in several articles I've read,
they can get to up to and over 200 pounds.
They've got very dynamically,
powerfully strong legs, obviously,
for jumping and such, but they have a absolutely ripped
upper body as well, and they frequently have a bad attitude.
(46:58):
They like to get in there and punch it out.
I mean, these are like,
they're like the bar fighters of the animal world.
They see you and they don't like the cut of your jib.
They don't like your face, they don't like your attitude.
They're gonna come in there and start throwing hands
or paws or whatever they call their hand things
on kangaroos, I don't know.
What happened next?
The poor man who was unnamed, I believe,
(47:21):
sustained hip injuries and serious lacerations
to his arms and chest during the altercation,
according to the ambulance service.
He came out of his house,
walked around to get into his vehicle
to drive and go shopping.
There was a buck and doe, a male and female kangaroo.
And the doe took off,
but according to Underhill,
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I don't even know who Underhill is.
He doesn't seem to be named elsewhere in this article.
So I'm guessing he is law enforcement
or some official of some sort.
The buck bloody attacked him
and really attacked him in a big way, Underhill said.
Underhill estimated kangaroo to be about two meters tall
and noted kangaroos had lived in the area for years
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without issue.
Well, that is no longer the case.
Mr. Underhill, no disrespect intended.
This kangaroo had a bad attitude
and took it out on this poor man from Willows
who had hip injuries and serious lacerations.
So if you recall from last week,
one of the fighting tactics that these kangaroos like to do
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is to get you in a headlock and then kick you in the face
with their powerful feet and legs
and their toe claws just slice and dice you.
I did some research.
I can't, I haven't, I got around to putting in images
into the video version of this yet.
Some poor guy a couple of years ago, he got,
I didn't think he would survive.
I saw the medical images of this kangaroo attack.
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His insides were coming out.
This guy got, I mean, he got hurt bad.
That kangaroo took him down to Chinatown.
So despite that authorities did issue a public warning
about two large male kangaroos and Willows
as they may pose a danger,
these roos have been around here for years
and we've never had a problem,
but unfortunately these two big bucks
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have taken on their heads to attack people, Underhill said.
Just remember if you find yourself in Australia,
according to last week's episode,
we now know that pepper spray is effective on kangaroos.
So just a thought, make sure you have yours ready.
Okay, that's gonna do it for us folks.
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We are done today.
Remember, don't wait until you have an emergency
to prepare for it.
It may be too late if you wait.
If you don't make it out alive, you don't make it out at all.
Stay safe out there folks.
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