October 2, 2024 • 23 mins
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What would you do if disaster struck your community? This episode provides essential guidance on preparing for the worst, using the harrowing aftermath of Hurricane Helene as a pivotal case study. With over 120 lives lost, widespread flooding, and millions left in the dark, the urgency for personal preparedness has never been clearer. We'll walk you through the necessity of having 30 days' worth of supplies and staying informed. Resources like World Central Kitchen and the Red Cross are highlighted for those who wish to help, and True Prepper is recommended for those needing reliable prepping advice. By sharing personal anecdotes and discussing common barriers, we aim to inspire proactive steps towards readiness.
Facing fears head-on is crucial, whether it's the threat of cancer or the fear of a nuclear event. This segment stresses the importance of involving your family in preparedness plans, much like the intense moments seen in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. We cover everything from practical tips on selecting medical supplies to calls for community engagement. Plus, join us for upcoming events at the range, like our sight-in event for hunters and our monthly Concealed Carry Class, underscoring the importance of responsible firearm ownership. Through heartfelt stories and practical advice, we strive to build a community that values vigilance and preparedness.
Resources for this week:
https://www.finder.com/personal-loans/doomsday-prepper-statistics
https://trueprepper.com/prepping-statistics/
https://www.happypreppers.com/37-food-storage.html
https://trueprepper.com/kits/survival-kits/
Water straws
World Central Kitchen:
https://donate.wck.org/give/622465/#!/donation/checkout
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With the death count still rising from Hurricane
Helene.
The National Hurricane Centeris still tracking three systems.
One could again threaten theFlorida South Coast area.
So let's get inside.
We've got a lot to unpack thisweek.
(00:24):
Hello everybody, I'm BillBateman, part of the team here
at Refuse to be a Victimpersonal protection training and
this is Survival Beyond the BugOut Bag 2.0.
We're looking at ways to getyou involved in prepping for
disasters.
I don't have to do a thing thisweek other than point to the
(00:46):
east side of the United States.
Helene came through.
Hurricane Helene came throughand caused havoc.
100-year flood levels over 120dead at this writing.
That number sadly continues togo up and it shows the
importance of not only stayingalert, staying aware, following
(01:11):
the information of theauthorities, evacuate, how to
shelter, where shelters are butthe importance of being ready
yourself.
Over two million people thelast I read are without power.
Water lines are down, powerlines are drowned, grocery
stores are just totallydevastated.
(01:33):
So there are a lot of places upon the internet, reputable
places, you can donate to help.
World Central Kitchen is anexcellent resource.
I personally support, of course, our good friends at the Red
Cross.
There are a number of reputableshelters and methods available
(01:54):
for you to donate and to helpout back there.
And what I'd like to talk abouttoday is what I've been talking
about the last couple of weeks,and that's the fact that a lot
of us are getting prepared.
I see a growing list of peoplelistening each week and thank
you for that.
I see a number of people whohave actually told me hey, you
(02:17):
know, I told somebody about yourpodcast.
That's what we need to do.
I'm going to include some links.
You'll find a number of linkson the front end where you log
in, and the first two are goingto be statistics on prepping.
Now, one of the statistics Itake umbrage with because they
call it doomsday prepperstatistics.
(02:38):
And no, we're not looking forMad Max scenarios.
We're talking about things thathave just happened this last
week, looking at hurricanes andfloods and earthquakes and
things like that.
Those statistics I kind of lookat over the top of my glasses.
But then there's another site,true Prepper, which I'm
(02:58):
recommending to my listeners andI always have.
They've got good information onhow many of us are prepping.
Now let's consider that,regardless of the ages and there
seems to be young people andold people seem to be getting
the message.
You folks in the middle I'm alittle worried about and you're
the ones I'm talking to.
(03:19):
So there's statistics by ageand by geographical region.
Oregonians do an amazingly goodjob.
We are able to and, by the way,the new standard you used to be
able and this is back when Istarted eight years ago you used
to be prepped up.
You used to be consideredprepared if you had three days
(03:42):
to a week of supplies to getthrough until somebody could
help you out.
Nowadays, 30 days, 30 dayssupplies that's food, water,
fuel, lighting, medical suppliesAll those things you personally
need and everybody is differentto survive and everybody is
(04:04):
different to survive.
And I wanted to spend a littletime this week not taking
anybody to the woodshed butasking why are not more people
preparing?
Because if you look at thesestatistics, either set you look
at, as I mentioned, the pastcouple weeks 70% of folks are
(04:31):
not prepping, they're notgetting ready for what just
happened in Florida and Georgiaand North Carolina.
And my thoughts and prayers andI hate that phrase because it's
so weak, but I do wish the verybest and send out thoughts and
prayers to all of you folksfighting it out back there.
I wonder what's stopping us?
And part of it is you don'tthink of it.
It's now made mainstream media.
I saw a woman's magazine.
(04:52):
I was in the doctor's officewaiting and I just happened to
open the magazine and they saidyou should be prepping.
So, along with the lipstick andeyelash thing, there is a deal
on ladies.
You should be prepping and thequestion, I guess, is what's
stopping you?
And I'm looking at some of thethings that stopped me, some of
the things that were animpediment to me.
(05:12):
When I started a number ofyears ago, I had stronger
motivation.
I was part of the Northridgeearthquake a number of years ago
.
Talk about getting motivated.
That'll do it.
And I looked at the key thingsand so I'm going to put these
out and I'm going to ask you,our regulars, our folks that
(05:33):
have been with me for a while.
You have homework this week andthat is to go out and tell five
people about getting preparedand refer them to the podcast,
refer them to some websitesprepared and refer them to the
podcast.
Refer them to some websites.
Bring it up at church, bring itup at the bingo game, when
(05:53):
you're talking to somebody inline waiting to get the chicken
wings refilled at the buffet.
Yeah, it would be a shame ifthey didn't have any more
chicken wings ever.
Yeah, the big thing that stoppedme initially was cost.
I purchased a bag at Costco foraround $300.
It was supposed to be anemergency survival bag and I've
told this story many times.
(06:14):
And I'm not mad at Costco aboutit, I'm mad at the manufacturer
, because the first aidcomponent was primarily those
little tiny fingertip Band-Aidsand they didn't stick.
There was not any gauze, therewas not any quick clot, there
was not a tourniquet in the bagand it was packed in so tight it
(06:34):
was like a parachute.
You took out one thing and thewhole thing spilled out on the
floor.
I didn't know what was in thereand to find out I'd have to
totally demolish the bag inthere, and to find out I'd have
to totally demolish the bag.
The mindset If you're a newperson and you're thinking it
won't happen here, that's amistake.
The people in North Carolinaare saying that they haven't had
(06:58):
that kind of a flooding in, Ithink, over 100 years.
Well, it does happen and it canhappen, and with the weather
changes we're seeing, it's goingto happen almost every place.
Don't subscribe to the.
It Won't Happen here, and theworst thing is someone will help
me.
Well, yes, we are basicallygood people and someone will try
(07:22):
and reach out and help you ifthey can, if they're able, if
they have enough to share.
You are your own first responderand I'm going to get this
tattooed on my forehead inreverse, so every time I look in
the rearview mirror I see it.
You are your own firstresponder.
It's not a case of they won'tdo it own first responder.
(07:47):
It's not a case of they won'tdo it.
It's a case of there are now somany issues, so many problems,
and in something like a majorhurricane or major disaster,
there's just too darn manypeople.
It's too big of a task for thesystem to handle.
So you are responsible.
It is your responsibility tobecome self-sufficient.
(08:07):
It is too big a task that Ithink.
For me, the cost was the firstthing, looking at how much this
stuff was and then looking athow much I had to learn.
And then the good thinghappened.
I realized I had some of thoseskills already, so I didn't have
to learn it from nothing.
I had to refresh, I had to getnew information, and that's the
(08:31):
thing I'm talking about here onthis program Eight years ago
when I began.
A lot of things have changedand I'm going to give a simple
example on that.
In a few minutes we're going tobe talking about a little
something your everyday carry,things to carry with you all the
time, just in case.
So we'll talk about that.
But start planning now andprioritize the things you're
(08:54):
going to need to do.
That addresses the cost issue.
That addresses the task bybreaking it down to easy to
manage segments.
It's like eating a pizza.
I can eat a whole pizza.
I shouldn't, but I can.
But I have to eat it a bite ata time.
I'm not going to stuff thewhole thing in my mouth.
It ain't going to work at all.
Don't expect others to help youBe self-sufficient.
(09:19):
We talk about being Americansthe pioneer spirit, the pioneers
going across the plains.
They had to do it all.
The wheel broke, they had tofix it.
Somebody got hurt.
They had to do it all.
The wheel broke, they had tofix it.
Somebody got hurt, they had totry and help them.
Same thing here.
If you're in an area that's cutoff by flooding, no power, no
(09:39):
water, no food, no medicalassistance can get in.
It's not that they don't wantto, it's just that they can't.
Can't get a helicopter upbecause of the storm.
You're it, and I have never,ever, ever, wanted to have to
look at a family member and goI'm sorry, I can't do a thing
for you.
That would be killing, thatwould be crushing.
(10:01):
So to me it is a big task toget your stuff together, and
that's the old journey of athousand miles starts with a
single step.
Eight years ago I started takingthis very seriously.
I had done it previously.
After the Northridge experienceand some bad experiences with
purchases, I decided I'd take itover for myself, and that's
(10:25):
what I recommend for you.
Don't take a handful of money,because money is so scarce these
days.
Don't take a handful of moneyand throw it at a problem.
You can get stuff on theinternet.
You can get bags, you can getbug out survival kits.
There's all kinds of differentthings.
Look at them.
Look at them carefully anddetermine are these going to
(10:49):
help me?
I saw one that came full of allkinds of advanced medical
equipment.
If you can't use advancedmedical equipment, either get
the training to use it beforeyou buy it, or don't buy that.
Get things that are going to beof value to you, because this
idea of this is going to happen.
(11:10):
Five years down, the road isover.
This could happen next week.
Those hurricanes I thinkthey're calling it Hurricane
Kirk out there in the Gulf thatcould hit in a week, a week and
a half's time.
So if you're in an area, ifyou're in any area, you should
be thinking both short-term andlong-term.
(11:31):
What are you going to need andwe talked about those things
last week Water, food, airfiltration, heat, light and your
medical needs.
Those are just basic things.
Get a yellow pad, start writingthis down.
Let me give you an example.
I promised I'd talk about howthings have changed in a number
(11:51):
of years.
Water, water continues, and Idon't know what people are doing
.
What's motivating this?
Why somebody hasn't taken abath to somebody?
Because water continues to bepolluted with forever chemicals.
Now, forever is an interestingword because it means forever.
(12:11):
It means once you put thatstuff in the water, you can't
get it out, and there is nowevidence of microplastics in the
water.
All those shopping bags from 10years ago have finally ground
down to their smallest microcomponents and they're showing
up in the fish and they'reshowing up in the water and you
(12:32):
can't filter it out because it'smicro size and it's getting
into the human body.
This is serious stuff.
We have to look at planning nowfor what's going to happen down
the road and we have to look atplanning for what's going to
happen next week.
So I mentioned water.
The water is continuing to bemore and more polluted.
(12:56):
The area I live in I talkedabout this last week.
You cannot drink out of thecreek.
The water is not usable.
It has both farm waste and farmchemicals in it, and that's
different now.
It has higher concentration.
Some of the crops that arebeing grown both legally and
illegally are seeing the watersystems messed up and that takes
(13:23):
away the idea that you're goingto run out in the out in the
woods and drink out of amountain stream.
Ain't going to happen, folks.
You can't do it anymore.
I would say it's not totalchaos yet and one of the things
they have been and I put thelink up on the front it's a
water.
It says water straws and whenyou go to that page there are a
(13:44):
number of them.
I have selected the Life Straw.
They are, in my opinion, a verygood product.
I have a whole sectionpreviously on water filtration
and I have to update that thewater straws eight years ago
were a good idea.
You may get a little sick, butyou aren't going to hurt
(14:04):
yourself.
Water straws eight years agowere a good idea.
You may get a little sick, butyou aren't going to hurt
yourself.
Water straws are of emergencypreparation.
Only you have to be able tofilter it first through a
t-shirt, some dirt and somepebbles to get some of the stuff
out of it.
Perhaps try and boil it if youhave to and you have the ability
Perhaps try and boil it if youhave to and you have the ability
(14:25):
and then sip the water throughthese straws which have
membranes and treatment in it toreduce the chemicals and the
toxins.
Now, not all water treatmentsystems will reduce all things
in the water.
They may get the biologicals,they may get rid of the Galardia
which is going to give youMontezuma's revenge, but they
(14:46):
won't help with the farmchemicals.
There are several things youneed to know now that you didn't
before, and we're going to gothere next week looking at the
revision of what you need forgood water, but just to have an
emergency kit and that's whatstarted this discussion a water
straw to get you home, alongwith a couple of other items,
(15:11):
can be very, very helpful andthat will fit in your pocket.
So if you have not begunprepping, if you haven't gotten
involved in this yet, put alittle kit together that you can
have in your pocket, that youcan put in the glove box, or
that central console in your car, maybe a little something in
the trunk.
Start looking at those thingsand my regulars, those of you
(15:36):
who are listening, I hope youwill share your ideas and that
is everybody's homework for nextweek.
My address, my email address,is on the front of the program.
I'm going to ask you what'sstopping you If you're a new
person, if you've just joinedthe program, what's stopping you
from becoming a prepper?
(15:58):
We've got seven years ofprograms you can research.
That's good, but these are morethings like the cost, cost, the
fear.
Uh, it won't happen to meadmitting it, saying its name
and I did that on nuclear war.
I would say its name.
I've had to do that to severaldiseases.
Look at the, look at what'sscaring you and name it, and
(16:19):
then you can fight it becauseyou know what you're fighting.
This neb, it's something outthere.
Nope, what is it?
I'm afraid of cancer.
Okay, now we know what we'refighting.
Also, get the family involved.
I've seen many, many times whenone family member is gung-ho
and the rest of the family arelooking at him like they looked
(16:39):
at Richard Dreyfuss in CloseEncounters when he was building
a big mountain out of mashedpotatoes.
It was like, are you crazy?
It's a big task.
You have to start small.
It's like the pizza Take yourfirst bite, start planning and
you will change your plans asyou go.
(16:59):
Give me your ideas, regulars,what do you carry for everyday?
Carry survival.
We can share that with our newpeople, new folks.
What's scaring you?
What's stopping you?
Maybe I haven't mentioned it.
Let's look at the things thatyou put trust in, products you
have had good experiences with,and I'm not afraid to list
(17:21):
products that have had badreviews.
There have been severaltourniquets that have come on
the market that are like oh,only $8 for a tourniquet.
Oh, let's stock up on these.
No, never, never, never gocheap on medical supplies.
These tourniquets, I have seenthem.
They actually turn intosomething like a rubber band
(17:43):
with pressure put on them andthey just constrict the vessels
and do more damage than they dogood.
So start getting learned up,start planning and start sharing
your information.
Please, if you're a new person,reach out and let me know, and
especially for my regulars folkswho have been listening a long
(18:05):
time, reach out and let me know,and especially for my regulars
folks who have been listening along time what have you done,
what have you learned over thepast couple of months, a couple
of years, a couple of processes?
I've learned some things.
I've bought stuff I wish Ihadn't done and I've talked
about that and I'll talk aboutit again.
So let's look about that.
Let's consider sharing someinformation.
(18:28):
I will read your letters on theprogram, without your name and
address, of course, unless yougive me permission, in case you
glossed over that.
I will be reading these letterson the air, unless you ask me
not to, and I'll just share thegeneral information.
New people, I want to hear yourquestions.
We've been doing this a longtime.
We've got a good team here.
Look at the weather report,look out your window.
(18:51):
High heat is going to go awayand we're already seeing here in
Oregon the temperature go fromoh my gosh, it's hot to oh my
wow, we've got to get the heateron tonight.
It's cold.
Things are going to be changing.
New seasons are coming, newchallenges are ahead.
You can either hide under thesofa or you can just name your
(19:11):
fear and be ready to face it Out.
There at the range things aremoving along very, very well.
We had last weekend the sightend event.
For those of you who are goingto be hunting.
We had 300, 400, 500, and 600yard range open and folks out
there to help you out.
That was Sunday and Tuesday andI hope you all had an
(19:33):
opportunity to take care of that.
A big round of applause toeverybody out there for the
extra time and effort it takesto set up a program like that
and it's a good way to introduceyou to long-range shooting.
That range, as I mentioned lasttime, is where some
international records have beenset, so it's the real deal and
(19:55):
I'm really pleased to see thatit's getting more and more.
Use.
The Concealed Carry Classabsolutely second Saturday of
every month.
You can register online forthat and I recommend you do
Occasionally.
We get really filled up, soit's a good idea.
You can even register down theroad if you want to maybe give
(20:16):
away a Christmas giftcertificate.
Those are always available andthey don't expire, you can't
trade them and you can't cashthem out, so you can't re-gift
them.
But gift certificates are goodOnce you get your concealed
carry concealed carry mastery.
What do you do now?
And I've actually had peopleask me okay, I got my permit,
(20:38):
now what?
And that's a very validquestion.
There are rights andresponsibilities that you need
to make sure you are clear ofhow to carry responsibly, how to
protect your firearm Somebody'sgoing to grab it, try and steal
it from you.
How to lock it up, how to keepit safe.
We go all the way back to firstshooting experience learning to
(21:01):
clean a gun, learning to handlea gun, learning the safety
rules and we are going to addictyou to safety.
We take it very seriously.
My favorite story is mygrandfather, when I was like
eight, was going to take me outshooting.
I think I was seven who cares?
It was in the 50s and Grandpawas out there and he started the
(21:24):
.
You know, always treat a gun asit's loaded.
Always treat, never point a gunat anything you don't want to
shoot.
And I kind of rolled my eyesand I got a Dinozo slap.
You know, if you ever watchedNCIS, gibbs is always smacking
Dinozo on the back of the head.
He said hey, billy, you'regoing to remember this for the
(21:45):
rest of your life or you'regoing to make a terrible mistake
and regret it.
And you know what?
Today, when I go shooting, Ithink of those four safety rules
every time.
And that's over 70 years ago.
So, yes, grandpa, thank you.
(22:05):
And if, for a new shooter, wecan do nothing more than help
you be safe and secure andprevent injuring someone else or
yourself by accident, thenwe're making a very, very good
first step.
So we've got everything fromnon-ballistic self-defense all
the way up to tactical andadvanced shooting for the
(22:30):
advanced shooters.
So we are at 6800 Kershaw.
We're out there in the WhiteCity area.
Phone number's on the website.
Please give us a visit.
And it is a little difficult toget there now that Foothill
Boulevard is under construction.
You've got to come in off 140.
But you can get there and we'vegot free parking and lots of
(22:53):
entertainment.
So see you at the range, seeyou next week, please.
I'm very serious when I ask youto send in what works for you,
your tips, your suggestions,your ideas, how you got started,
what things you had to overcome.
So let's talk about that nextweek.
Until then, be safe and forwardto seeing you soon.
(23:15):
The preceding program was apresentation of Retired Guy
Productions.
With the death count still rising from Hurricane
Helene.
The National Hurricane Centeris still tracking three systems.
One could again threaten theFlorida South Coast area.
So let's get inside.
We've got a lot to unpack thisweek.
(00:24):
Hello everybody, I'm BillBateman, part of the team here
at Refuse to be a Victimpersonal protection training and
this is Survival Beyond the BugOut Bag 2.0.
We're looking at ways to getyou involved in prepping for
disasters.
I don't have to do a thing thisweek other than point to the
(00:46):
east side of the United States.
Helene came through.
Hurricane Helene came throughand caused havoc.
100-year flood levels over 120dead at this writing.
That number sadly continues togo up and it shows the
importance of not only stayingalert, staying aware, following
(01:11):
the information of theauthorities, evacuate, how to
shelter, where shelters are butthe importance of being ready
yourself.
Over two million people thelast I read are without power.
Water lines are down, powerlines are drowned, grocery
stores are just totallydevastated.
(01:33):
So there are a lot of places upon the internet, reputable
places, you can donate to help.
World Central Kitchen is anexcellent resource.
I personally support, of course, our good friends at the Red
Cross.
There are a number of reputableshelters and methods available
(01:54):
for you to donate and to helpout back there.
And what I'd like to talk abouttoday is what I've been talking
about the last couple of weeks,and that's the fact that a lot
of us are getting prepared.
I see a growing list of peoplelistening each week and thank
you for that.
I see a number of people whohave actually told me hey, you
(02:17):
know, I told somebody about yourpodcast.
That's what we need to do.
I'm going to include some links.
You'll find a number of linkson the front end where you log
in, and the first two are goingto be statistics on prepping.
Now, one of the statistics Itake umbrage with because they
call it doomsday prepperstatistics.
(02:38):
And no, we're not looking forMad Max scenarios.
We're talking about things thathave just happened this last
week, looking at hurricanes andfloods and earthquakes and
things like that.
Those statistics I kind of lookat over the top of my glasses.
But then there's another site,true Prepper, which I'm
(02:58):
recommending to my listeners andI always have.
They've got good information onhow many of us are prepping.
Now let's consider that,regardless of the ages and there
seems to be young people andold people seem to be getting
the message.
You folks in the middle I'm alittle worried about and you're
the ones I'm talking to.
(03:19):
So there's statistics by ageand by geographical region.
Oregonians do an amazingly goodjob.
We are able to and, by the way,the new standard you used to be
able and this is back when Istarted eight years ago you used
to be prepped up.
You used to be consideredprepared if you had three days
(03:42):
to a week of supplies to getthrough until somebody could
help you out.
Nowadays, 30 days, 30 dayssupplies that's food, water,
fuel, lighting, medical suppliesAll those things you personally
need and everybody is differentto survive and everybody is
(04:04):
different to survive.
And I wanted to spend a littletime this week not taking
anybody to the woodshed butasking why are not more people
preparing?
Because if you look at thesestatistics, either set you look
at, as I mentioned, the pastcouple weeks 70% of folks are
(04:31):
not prepping, they're notgetting ready for what just
happened in Florida and Georgiaand North Carolina.
And my thoughts and prayers andI hate that phrase because it's
so weak, but I do wish the verybest and send out thoughts and
prayers to all of you folksfighting it out back there.
I wonder what's stopping us?
And part of it is you don'tthink of it.
It's now made mainstream media.
I saw a woman's magazine.
(04:52):
I was in the doctor's officewaiting and I just happened to
open the magazine and they saidyou should be prepping.
So, along with the lipstick andeyelash thing, there is a deal
on ladies.
You should be prepping and thequestion, I guess, is what's
stopping you?
And I'm looking at some of thethings that stopped me, some of
the things that were animpediment to me.
(05:12):
When I started a number ofyears ago, I had stronger
motivation.
I was part of the Northridgeearthquake a number of years ago
.
Talk about getting motivated.
That'll do it.
And I looked at the key thingsand so I'm going to put these
out and I'm going to ask you,our regulars, our folks that
(05:33):
have been with me for a while.
You have homework this week andthat is to go out and tell five
people about getting preparedand refer them to the podcast,
refer them to some websitesprepared and refer them to the
podcast.
Refer them to some websites.
Bring it up at church, bring itup at the bingo game, when
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you're talking to somebody inline waiting to get the chicken
wings refilled at the buffet.
Yeah, it would be a shame ifthey didn't have any more
chicken wings ever.
Yeah, the big thing that stoppedme initially was cost.
I purchased a bag at Costco foraround $300.
It was supposed to be anemergency survival bag and I've
told this story many times.
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And I'm not mad at Costco aboutit, I'm mad at the manufacturer
, because the first aidcomponent was primarily those
little tiny fingertip Band-Aidsand they didn't stick.
There was not any gauze, therewas not any quick clot, there
was not a tourniquet in the bagand it was packed in so tight it
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was like a parachute.
You took out one thing and thewhole thing spilled out on the
floor.
I didn't know what was in thereand to find out I'd have to
totally demolish the bag inthere, and to find out I'd have
to totally demolish the bag.
The mindset If you're a newperson and you're thinking it
won't happen here, that's amistake.
The people in North Carolinaare saying that they haven't had
(06:58):
that kind of a flooding in, Ithink, over 100 years.
Well, it does happen and it canhappen, and with the weather
changes we're seeing, it's goingto happen almost every place.
Don't subscribe to the.
It Won't Happen here, and theworst thing is someone will help
me.
Well, yes, we are basicallygood people and someone will try
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and reach out and help you ifthey can, if they're able, if
they have enough to share.
You are your own first responderand I'm going to get this
tattooed on my forehead inreverse, so every time I look in
the rearview mirror I see it.
You are your own firstresponder.
It's not a case of they won'tdo it own first responder.
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It's not a case of they won'tdo it.
It's a case of there are now somany issues, so many problems,
and in something like a majorhurricane or major disaster,
there's just too darn manypeople.
It's too big of a task for thesystem to handle.
So you are responsible.
It is your responsibility tobecome self-sufficient.
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It is too big a task that Ithink.
For me, the cost was the firstthing, looking at how much this
stuff was and then looking athow much I had to learn.
And then the good thinghappened.
I realized I had some of thoseskills already, so I didn't have
to learn it from nothing.
I had to refresh, I had to getnew information, and that's the
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thing I'm talking about here onthis program Eight years ago
when I began.
A lot of things have changedand I'm going to give a simple
example on that.
In a few minutes we're going tobe talking about a little
something your everyday carry,things to carry with you all the
time, just in case.
So we'll talk about that.
But start planning now andprioritize the things you're
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going to need to do.
That addresses the cost issue.
That addresses the task bybreaking it down to easy to
manage segments.
It's like eating a pizza.
I can eat a whole pizza.
I shouldn't, but I can.
But I have to eat it a bite ata time.
I'm not going to stuff thewhole thing in my mouth.
It ain't going to work at all.
Don't expect others to help youBe self-sufficient.
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We talk about being Americansthe pioneer spirit, the pioneers
going across the plains.
They had to do it all.
The wheel broke, they had tofix it.
Somebody got hurt.
They had to do it all.
The wheel broke, they had tofix it.
Somebody got hurt, they had totry and help them.
Same thing here.
If you're in an area that's cutoff by flooding, no power, no
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water, no food, no medicalassistance can get in.
It's not that they don't wantto, it's just that they can't.
Can't get a helicopter upbecause of the storm.
You're it, and I have never,ever, ever, wanted to have to
look at a family member and goI'm sorry, I can't do a thing
for you.
That would be killing, thatwould be crushing.
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So to me it is a big task toget your stuff together, and
that's the old journey of athousand miles starts with a
single step.
Eight years ago I started takingthis very seriously.
I had done it previously.
After the Northridge experienceand some bad experiences with
purchases, I decided I'd take itover for myself, and that's
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what I recommend for you.
Don't take a handful of money,because money is so scarce these
days.
Don't take a handful of moneyand throw it at a problem.
You can get stuff on theinternet.
You can get bags, you can getbug out survival kits.
There's all kinds of differentthings.
Look at them.
Look at them carefully anddetermine are these going to
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help me?
I saw one that came full of allkinds of advanced medical
equipment.
If you can't use advancedmedical equipment, either get
the training to use it beforeyou buy it, or don't buy that.
Get things that are going to beof value to you, because this
idea of this is going to happen.
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Five years down, the road isover.
This could happen next week.
Those hurricanes I thinkthey're calling it Hurricane
Kirk out there in the Gulf thatcould hit in a week, a week and
a half's time.
So if you're in an area, ifyou're in any area, you should
be thinking both short-term andlong-term.
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What are you going to need andwe talked about those things
last week Water, food, airfiltration, heat, light and your
medical needs.
Those are just basic things.
Get a yellow pad, start writingthis down.
Let me give you an example.
I promised I'd talk about howthings have changed in a number
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of years.
Water, water continues, and Idon't know what people are doing
.
What's motivating this?
Why somebody hasn't taken abath to somebody?
Because water continues to bepolluted with forever chemicals.
Now, forever is an interestingword because it means forever.
(12:11):
It means once you put thatstuff in the water, you can't
get it out, and there is nowevidence of microplastics in the
water.
All those shopping bags from 10years ago have finally ground
down to their smallest microcomponents and they're showing
up in the fish and they'reshowing up in the water and you
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can't filter it out because it'smicro size and it's getting
into the human body.
This is serious stuff.
We have to look at planning nowfor what's going to happen down
the road and we have to look atplanning for what's going to
happen next week.
So I mentioned water.
The water is continuing to bemore and more polluted.
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The area I live in I talkedabout this last week.
You cannot drink out of thecreek.
The water is not usable.
It has both farm waste and farmchemicals in it, and that's
different now.
It has higher concentration.
Some of the crops that arebeing grown both legally and
illegally are seeing the watersystems messed up and that takes
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away the idea that you're goingto run out in the out in the
woods and drink out of amountain stream.
Ain't going to happen, folks.
You can't do it anymore.
I would say it's not totalchaos yet and one of the things
they have been and I put thelink up on the front it's a
water.
It says water straws and whenyou go to that page there are a
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number of them.
I have selected the Life Straw.
They are, in my opinion, a verygood product.
I have a whole sectionpreviously on water filtration
and I have to update that thewater straws eight years ago
were a good idea.
You may get a little sick, butyou aren't going to hurt
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yourself.
Water straws eight years agowere a good idea.
You may get a little sick, butyou aren't going to hurt
yourself.
Water straws are of emergencypreparation.
Only you have to be able tofilter it first through a
t-shirt, some dirt and somepebbles to get some of the stuff
out of it.
Perhaps try and boil it if youhave to and you have the ability
Perhaps try and boil it if youhave to and you have the ability
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and then sip the water throughthese straws which have
membranes and treatment in it toreduce the chemicals and the
toxins.
Now, not all water treatmentsystems will reduce all things
in the water.
They may get the biologicals,they may get rid of the Galardia
which is going to give youMontezuma's revenge, but they
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won't help with the farmchemicals.
There are several things youneed to know now that you didn't
before, and we're going to gothere next week looking at the
revision of what you need forgood water, but just to have an
emergency kit and that's whatstarted this discussion a water
straw to get you home, alongwith a couple of other items,
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can be very, very helpful andthat will fit in your pocket.
So if you have not begunprepping, if you haven't gotten
involved in this yet, put alittle kit together that you can
have in your pocket, that youcan put in the glove box, or
that central console in your car, maybe a little something in
the trunk.
Start looking at those thingsand my regulars, those of you
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who are listening, I hope youwill share your ideas and that
is everybody's homework for nextweek.
My address, my email address,is on the front of the program.
I'm going to ask you what'sstopping you If you're a new
person, if you've just joinedthe program, what's stopping you
from becoming a prepper?
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We've got seven years ofprograms you can research.
That's good, but these are morethings like the cost, cost, the
fear.
Uh, it won't happen to meadmitting it, saying its name
and I did that on nuclear war.
I would say its name.
I've had to do that to severaldiseases.
Look at the, look at what'sscaring you and name it, and
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then you can fight it becauseyou know what you're fighting.
This neb, it's something outthere.
Nope, what is it?
I'm afraid of cancer.
Okay, now we know what we'refighting.
Also, get the family involved.
I've seen many, many times whenone family member is gung-ho
and the rest of the family arelooking at him like they looked
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at Richard Dreyfuss in CloseEncounters when he was building
a big mountain out of mashedpotatoes.
It was like, are you crazy?
It's a big task.
You have to start small.
It's like the pizza Take yourfirst bite, start planning and
you will change your plans asyou go.
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Give me your ideas, regulars,what do you carry for everyday?
Carry survival.
We can share that with our newpeople, new folks.
What's scaring you?
What's stopping you?
Maybe I haven't mentioned it.
Let's look at the things thatyou put trust in, products you
have had good experiences with,and I'm not afraid to list
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products that have had badreviews.
There have been severaltourniquets that have come on
the market that are like oh,only $8 for a tourniquet.
Oh, let's stock up on these.
No, never, never, never gocheap on medical supplies.
These tourniquets, I have seenthem.
They actually turn intosomething like a rubber band
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with pressure put on them andthey just constrict the vessels
and do more damage than they dogood.
So start getting learned up,start planning and start sharing
your information.
Please, if you're a new person,reach out and let me know, and
especially for my regulars folkswho have been listening a long
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time, reach out and let me know,and especially for my regulars
folks who have been listening along time what have you done,
what have you learned over thepast couple of months, a couple
of years, a couple of processes?
I've learned some things.
I've bought stuff I wish Ihadn't done and I've talked
about that and I'll talk aboutit again.
So let's look about that.
Let's consider sharing someinformation.
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I will read your letters on theprogram, without your name and
address, of course, unless yougive me permission, in case you
glossed over that.
I will be reading these letterson the air, unless you ask me
not to, and I'll just share thegeneral information.
New people, I want to hear yourquestions.
We've been doing this a longtime.
We've got a good team here.
Look at the weather report,look out your window.
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High heat is going to go awayand we're already seeing here in
Oregon the temperature go fromoh my gosh, it's hot to oh my
wow, we've got to get the heateron tonight.
It's cold.
Things are going to be changing.
New seasons are coming, newchallenges are ahead.
You can either hide under thesofa or you can just name your
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fear and be ready to face it Out.
There at the range things aremoving along very, very well.
We had last weekend the sightend event.
For those of you who are goingto be hunting.
We had 300, 400, 500, and 600yard range open and folks out
there to help you out.
That was Sunday and Tuesday andI hope you all had an
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opportunity to take care of that.
A big round of applause toeverybody out there for the
extra time and effort it takesto set up a program like that
and it's a good way to introduceyou to long-range shooting.
That range, as I mentioned lasttime, is where some
international records have beenset, so it's the real deal and
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I'm really pleased to see thatit's getting more and more.
Use.
The Concealed Carry Classabsolutely second Saturday of
every month.
You can register online forthat and I recommend you do
Occasionally.
We get really filled up, soit's a good idea.
You can even register down theroad if you want to maybe give
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away a Christmas giftcertificate.
Those are always available andthey don't expire, you can't
trade them and you can't cashthem out, so you can't re-gift
them.
But gift certificates are goodOnce you get your concealed
carry concealed carry mastery.
What do you do now?
And I've actually had peopleask me okay, I got my permit,
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now what?
And that's a very validquestion.
There are rights andresponsibilities that you need
to make sure you are clear ofhow to carry responsibly, how to
protect your firearm Somebody'sgoing to grab it, try and steal
it from you.
How to lock it up, how to keepit safe.
We go all the way back to firstshooting experience learning to
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clean a gun, learning to handlea gun, learning the safety
rules and we are going to addictyou to safety.
We take it very seriously.
My favorite story is mygrandfather, when I was like
eight, was going to take me outshooting.
I think I was seven who cares?
It was in the 50s and Grandpawas out there and he started the
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.
You know, always treat a gun asit's loaded.
Always treat, never point a gunat anything you don't want to
shoot.
And I kind of rolled my eyesand I got a Dinozo slap.
You know, if you ever watchedNCIS, gibbs is always smacking
Dinozo on the back of the head.
He said hey, billy, you'regoing to remember this for the
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rest of your life or you'regoing to make a terrible mistake
and regret it.
And you know what?
Today, when I go shooting, Ithink of those four safety rules
every time.
And that's over 70 years ago.
So, yes, grandpa, thank you.
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And if, for a new shooter, wecan do nothing more than help
you be safe and secure andprevent injuring someone else or
yourself by accident, thenwe're making a very, very good
first step.
So we've got everything fromnon-ballistic self-defense all
the way up to tactical andadvanced shooting for the
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advanced shooters.
So we are at 6800 Kershaw.
We're out there in the WhiteCity area.
Phone number's on the website.
Please give us a visit.
And it is a little difficult toget there now that Foothill
Boulevard is under construction.
You've got to come in off 140.
But you can get there and we'vegot free parking and lots of
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entertainment.
So see you at the range, seeyou next week, please.
I'm very serious when I ask youto send in what works for you,
your tips, your suggestions,your ideas, how you got started,
what things you had to overcome.
So let's talk about that nextweek.
Until then, be safe and forwardto seeing you soon.
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