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[Music]
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surprise surprise everyone surprise
we're here early usually we're right now
we're like a half hour early it just you
never need people on their toes book out
your afternoons and your evenings and
your days for prep talk live because you
just never know when we're gonna be here
um welcome in everybody it's uh episode
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56 we may call this like part one
because I don't know that we're gonna
get through everything that we want to
talk about today so we're gonna call it
episode 56 ish uh 56a yeah 56 a yeah
it's gonna be something like that
um like we we've said previously where
you know tup is being called into the
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office now
um and so we're still trying to figure
out like what our schedule looks like so
we've each been doing kind of our own
little chicken streams
um tonight's stream is also going to be
a little bit of a check-in we were gonna
we had a topic we're gonna shelve that
we're gonna do a different topic tonight
we're just gonna do like checking stuff
and we'll do the the topic that kind of
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how do you turn your prepping brain off
we'll do that yeah that's going to be a
good one I figured it would be at least
at least
at least I have a whiteboard so if I
need to present something I can just go
like this exactly yeah we're seeing
Tufts mobile studio uh he's fully remote
so uh but yeah but anyway I'm Casey with
Cascadia dispatch joining me as always
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is tough the urban prep or tup what is
up what's going on we talked a little
bit in the Green Room you got some
interesting stories
yeah I don't know if I want to go dark
so quick but uh is he has some concrete
it's been kind of crazy times at our at
our place uh where how do you start well
we don't have time to like to get the
linger in the darkness and everything
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else so we gotta go dark fast so we can
pull it up at the end I'll go dark fast
yeah I'll go dark fast that's what we
gotta do
yeah it's been nuts we've been having
kind of uh
having to go through some security
safety protocols at the house so uh
we're having neighbor issues uh
neighbors well neighbor issues we have
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uh without going in too much detail we
have a neighbor that's having kind of a
mental crisis and uh is
not wanting to live and oh wow that's
going dark and just that
and it's been going on for about a week
now uh where basically the mom is scared
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for her safety physical safety there's
lots of threats being made uh She's Come
to Us for help and for like uh you know
help and that's made this person mad uh
this is a young young male uh and he now
he's like they physically made threats
you know threats to my uh Wife and Kids
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uh by name uh like you know that he's
gonna kill people and stuff so it's been
it's been pretty crazy we have the cops
have been over to the neighborhood
multiple times over the last week at all
all hours of the night uh this person
wanted to basically he wanted the police
to uh to kind of you know
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the suicide by cop ideas yes yes yeah so
it came out with a you know with a knife
and stuff we weren't sure of what uh uh
weapons were available but it's been
pretty it's been pretty it's pretty
scary like I've never been through an
experience like that especially with my
family and stuff so I had to uh this
past Sunday and I had to evacuate like
uh cops all over the place they had the
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big rifles with the bean bag uh bullets
and stuff and uh
and when there's threats made countdowns
listed like at this time I'm going to be
doing this I'm coming after tops wife
first he can say Cup's wife but yeah I
don't think he probably follows the
channel but uh he you're about to lose a
subscriber top it's gonna be sad yeah it
might uh so anyway so he as he's I'm I
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had my my kids go to and my wife and
then the mom go down you know into the
house when I see him approaching and uh
I have the I'm outside because I'm on a
security detail so yeah I had to get
some of that I had some protocols for
that yeah but I I told I had to tell
them but hey get out of the house right
away go through the back door cut across
the backyard into the neighbors and go
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down the street I want you far away from
the house because uh it was really crazy
and like you know the cops are all
surrounded the place and they're like
he's got a knife here he comes with all
this is going down I'm like oh oh man
this is gonna get bad and uh and right
at that when that happened like uh I'm
getting my my family out to safety on
the ways away where they they're not
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even there but uh the cops just left it
was uh they got the cars when he came
and they because they have to there's
like lost now I guess in Washington
where you have to de-escalate on those
kind of things unless you're immediately
getting attacked kind of thing so they
just found the cars and they just took
off and so that he's there like and I'm
by myself
so they so they came there because he's
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threatening and everything and he comes
out with a weapon yes and they don't
wanna they don't wanna blast the guy
type thing so Matt I think we've already
got we got banned already by the box but
sorry yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they
did they don't want to do that but
they're also there are certain things
that they I I kind of felt like they
they locked me up hanging dry out there
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yeah oh it's just me and this dude
and the mentally unstable weapon
wielding person
yeah
my own self protection but still they
you know they split and I wasn't
expecting that at all I was expecting
yeah
I was expecting
all that but I guess they can't do that
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now and so then at that moment then
there is a he eventually goes back and
right at that time that we have elderly
neighbors and the elderly neighbors are
hey what's going on I'm like get back in
the house get back in your house there's
like a 95 year old lady I had to walk I
had to you know I'm you know kind of
have my barrier and I have to get this
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lady back to her house she's 95 so
what's going on and she didn't I don't
think she really got it then another
lady was going right across where this
was all happening I was like no no
you've been calling her by name and so I
had to I'm having to protect the whole
neighborhood and there's been this other
lady across the street oh hi how's it
going
there's three of them and it was so like
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I'm trying to focus on like the bad guy
and then there's all these good you know
good good people and they had no idea
what was going on then I'm worried about
my family it was just really really
crazy so uh nothing ended up happening
then uh
we but I evacuated everyone out of the
house and sent them to the in-laws and
they've been sleeping at the in-laws for
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multiple days I've been on guard duty of
the house because this person was
threatening to like you know burn down
our house and stuff with gas and stuff
uh
so it's been kind of crazy yeah it's the
nuts and like and there's been multiple
instances like this and they're not
nothing's being done about it I feel I
mean it's really scary that uh like
until the person takes it to the next
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level there's not a lot they do and it's
so I told the neighbors I'm like Hey
we're on our own over here some of them
are uh subscribers yeah or claws or
seeks secret Peppers yeah exactly
so yeah uh I'm like Hey we're uh we're
on our own here so like so we've been
it's been
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a lot of coordination a lot of I've been
I've been sleeping on like I don't know
if you've seen the movie The
Professional uh
yeah I've been sitting on the I haven't
been sleeping on a bed I've been in the
chair like the professional ready to go
for uh in the living room with the
lights off and everything I can't I've
repositioned cameras all over the place
there's cameras all in yeah no one's
getting in this yeah certain areas kind
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of like kind of like the movie Predator
like I have all these things because
I've made videos on it on like motion
alarms and uh camera stuff and all these
things and it's all into place right now
I imagine like you've got all your
things there's there's trip wires the
Drone is just circling the neighborhood
just yeah I almost got the Drone out
because I almost got it out for that
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because I have it programmed for certain
things but I I was silenced with the key
at that point so uh yeah it was it's
been nothing but I've been we've been
doing my brother-in-law came and he's
been staying over for the for the past
week because we're [ __ ] we're uh
alternating you know kind of on guard
duties uh holy it's long story short
it's been it's been a kind of crazy week
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for me uh I'm looking forward to
sleeping in a bed eventually but that is
so even though like it sounds like this
person has made very direct
threats uh oh yeah
that are that are recorded probably in
some way either way yeah we have text
messages yeah I mean I can read them I
don't want to get no no but like I want
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to get this channel banned yeah no but
I'm I'm surprised that even with those
that there is nothing then that the
police would do because that seems like
an active threat and an active to you
guys if you know not alone just to the
to the the woman the mother or whatever
but like to you guys
yeah that they would need to do
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something about that
you would think uh yeah they uh it's
it's crazy we have all these threads and
we filed reports and done all everything
that we can but at certain point there's
not a we have to kind of wait and see
type thing so it's been pretty here I
always wake up at two to four just so
you're getting threatened and cry yeah
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uh
yeah yeah it's definitely uh crazy and
it's scary like because my main focus is
for are for my family for the wife and
kids I've never had a moment where I
thought their lives were in danger but
that was it and that was on Sunday yeah
the main thing went down uh the costs
have come in multiple times because
they're uh
since then uh but nothing like that
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quite like that moment and I was really
proud of my son uh he uh had his EDC and
when I had them evacuate we have all
this deer fencing up like these uh mesh
fencing for the deers the deer becoming
in the yard and they needed to go like
they needed but they were blocked in
because of the deer fencing he had his
EDC knife and he was able to quickly cut
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the deer defensing and got everyone my
my daughter wife and the mom and him and
they got they went through this fencing
when if they didn't have a knife they
would have had trouble getting through
he did that and he had his uh he had his
yeah it was just I was glad that he did
that and he was uh he was protecting his
sister and Mom and stuff
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yeah it's really kind of like the mental
health thing is really scary and it's
like
like they know about this this has been
going on for multiple days and there's
uh
it's getting a little frustrating that
nothing's happening like it's just kind
of a wait and see mode so yeah that's oh
my goodness that is yeah that is scary
yeah so when they were they I I could
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see that guy I'm at I'm at the side of
the house and I'm uh you know I'm
protecting myself but like watching him
I'm looking work I'm like where the heck
of the cops at they're gone and then I'm
looking I can see my wife and kids going
through the downstairs basement Through
the Windows and on the telling them come
here I have my nice I sliced through one
of the ear fences to get through and
then they had to go through the other
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part and so I'm keeping guard on this
other on the guy and then my son he I
was real proud of him again real proud
he got to the other one with his own and
then that's where all the neighbor the
older Elder elderly uh ladies were
coming out and I had to evacuate them
but man the adrenaline's flowing the uh
you know your instincts and being calmed
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through that was really important so
uh yeah I haven't talked to anyone about
it so you're the first person I'd like
to talk to you we got the scoop on Prop
talk lime holy cow
um we need to change the title and the
thumbnail like we need to
oh my God yeah it's a yeah it's uh it
made me like kind of think you know um
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you know we can make all these preps and
these plannings and stuff but when it's
go time like you never know when it's
gonna something like that's gonna like
we it was just like all of a sudden like
oh this is happening like right now and
like it and you have to have your EDC
ready to go if my son didn't have it or
if I didn't have it we would have
probably been in a in a pickle so that's
that's why I went on all my eec stuff
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and I'm glad that I made that switch As
far as if it's not on me when I'm in the
bathroom it's not my EDC So and I've
been telling that to my son and so I'm
glad that he's he's starting to carry
more see now he wants to carry even more
stuff and uh eventually I'll have to
make him a PDF or something for kids
yeah
exactly yeah every
image shifts while you're switching you
know while you're switching guard Duty
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or whatever just yeah you know make a
quick little PDF for them yeah uh yeah
so it's yeah I'm glad that I was
prepared for you know but a lot of
people were prepared and a lot of them
they're just not in that mindset of
thinking of bad things could happen I
think Preppers we're just naturally
we're expecting bad things to happen and
we don't know when it's gonna happen but
we think it is
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foreign
like the externals is the part that
makes it very uh scary because if you're
worried about other people and not just
yourself but so yeah no that is yeah I
had I had an incident
not even close to that I mean well we've
had a couple of weird moments with
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people come to the door in the middle of
the night and and things like that
um but there was a moment when we were
in Seattle a little while ago where
somebody broke it into the car and in
retrospect I realized that the person
who was coming to check on us
um thought that maybe we were the ones
breaking into the car and and he was
prepared to take us out if need be
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um yeah and I realized at that moment
that there was nothing I could do to
protect my family and that was another
like the earthquake article turned me
into like a prepper person and that
moment turned me into somebody who
considered a considered defense in a
different way
um yeah and the idea that there is
someone
like hunting your family or like oh my
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God like that's a whole nother yeah
level of
of everything
yeah it's that yeah it was and we're
just having a normal day and it just
boom and then that's happening and so
that was really it's really not
something I could some of the
I don't even want to read it I don't
want to get I could read it offline to
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you but yeah yeah I mean there's we have
like the whole threads of stuff on the
the weapon so
yeah it's uh they're like 20 more
minutes before and then you know cups
life as first and at this point holy cow
and still like there's all this like
evidence and like nothing's happening
it's we're just kind of waiting and so
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uh you know I have all my uh
secure security type stuff I have my the
three night flashlights are coming out
because for like uh sort of things that
I've had a perimeter I made a perimeter
video like home perimeter you know thing
that's coming into play uh
but yeah it's the externals that it
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makes it makes it really stressful so
but fortunately my brother-in-law's been
really uh
really helpful like he's like he's come
out like last night he was over and uh I
got to find Lisa if I could sleep a
little bit on like not on my normal bed
but a little bit more than what I have
been so uh
yeah yeah crazy yeah that is okay that
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is the you said you had a little bit of
a scary story
I know our Channel let's talk about the
broken in car or something like that or
whatever yeah I know this is a whole
nother level man
yeah it's next level uh you know I'm
it's not like I'm some you know some
military veteran like that you know in
those kind of situations but even though
even if you were like when you add like
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the other you know your family and uh
other neighbors and stuff like trying to
be the good guy but also being alert and
yeah it's a I don't know uh for I think
I think I handled the stress pretty well
like my my wife's not as good at that
kind of stuff she kind of gets uh you
know short circuits during those kind of
moments and I was really proud again
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he didn't he was alert he was a
he was going he's doing the right things
so that was that was really cool my
daughter had no idea what was going on
she thought we were playing a game or
something so exactly which I mean that's
that's good for her
think that because yeah
yeah I'll probably I mean it made me
rethink out some you know it's not like
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when this was going on and when when the
bad like hey grab your bug out bags like
that wasn't that never came in like get
out like right away but yeah exactly
like run yeah yeah
and she didn't have shoes because she
you know again she wasn't expecting it
so she's having an escape without shoes
on and that so there's some little
little tweaks we might have to make on
certain like
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like if not maybe not a bug out bag but
another grab-and-go type thing another
problem that we that I had that we had
is the cell phone the communications
during that because at the time our my
cell phone was like on 15 charge and uh
and I wanted to track my because we have
different we have Life 360 on some of
the devices so I wanted to track where
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they were at so I knew but I was losing
battery so then I'm having to be
selective on that so I think I don't
know if I should have some kind of mini
grab and go that's like on at the door
so it's like a basic power and I don't I
don't know it made me think about some
stuff it probably could have been
strategize but yeah I feel like we're
gonna have really cool yeah there's
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gonna be like we're gonna have follow-up
episodes of like yeah you know forget
the prosthetic leg in the desert idea
it's like okay what what do we all need
to have at the door what do we need to
have at the back door what do we need to
have in a shed in the backyard what do
we need to have at a neighbor's house
like
yeah it made me rethink all that kind of
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stuff like because again like get my
evacuation kit or get my bug out bag or
I'm like I need my water filter like
that we want to like get the safety and
get uh protection type stuff and then I
need to be able to communicate and
there's uh I even the it was there's a
scary part where my wife and the lady
they I told them to leave and they left
and they left their phones too and so
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but then I didn't have a way of
contacting uh
so I might have to put like an Apple Air
tag or something in some kind of Kit
like a something has to be small huh but
yeah uh
it's getting the Mind churning on what
to do for those kind of things because
you never again you never know when
something bad's gonna happen the other
earthquake or the other emergencies that
could happen but yeah you never know
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what's up some your neighbor if you're
having a bad day could be having a bad
you know uh
yeah uh prepare for the unexpected for
sure so anyway that's been that's been
my week
how are you doing laughs
a little bit I'm going to go into a
wedding in a little bit yeah
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um wow okay yeah
um
so we had like we had two of our friends
had their cars broken into in the last
week in different scenarios so I was
like oh we'll have like a car break-in
conversation or whatever and one of them
actually was in the middle of the night
and they got the the guy was getting the
garage door opener and actually opened
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their garage door and went into their
house because they didn't lock the door
between the garage and their laundry
room and the husband happened to be
awake and thought it was the Neighbors
coming in and can and like met the guy
he was opening the laundry room door as
the bad guy was opening the garage door
and basically like met in the laundry
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room and then the guy ran off and
and so I've been talking to him over the
last couple days about like security
systems and cameras and all that sort of
stuff
um
but yeah you're you win you win okay you
win I'll provide an update next week
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hopefully everything goes
everything's just kind of in this quiet
wait and see type thing it's making
everyone kind of like antsy so we don't
know what's going to happen but
uh yeah
all right well well uh with sen and uh
all the best something mentioned at the
beginning of the show like well this is
this is random uh that was like right
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when we turned on yeah exactly we're on
early on a Friday so yeah we're on early
on a Friday with breaking news
like yeah
the different but you know what hey
here's the deal I'm gonna put my I'm
putting my wedding suit on really quick
oh that's good okay yeah I wore my I
wore my formal sweatshirt today yeah
(21:43):
yeah yeah black and white yes so it it
makes sense we're all on brand
um well I hope that the rest of your
weekend is I think the next time we get
I'd like to do like I like I kind of
like the remote thing I don't know if
the connection's been okay yeah but uh
it'd be fun to be like out in this not
in an office in the city somewhere like
I could be out in downtown Seattle uh
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yeah it might be kind of fun but we'll
figure it we'll figure that out so all
right yeah we'll figure we'll figure
something out uh most importantly I hope
that that you and your family are okay
and safe and and whatever this guy's
issue is you get to figure it out in a
hurry uh yeah or the police get it
figured out in a hurry but somebody
figures it out in a hurry yeah we'll
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we'll have a checkpoint next week yeah
exactly we'll check it in if you're
watching the rerun now uh you know stay
tuned yeah exactly I'm gonna I'm gonna
change the title of this one because
it feels dark yeah
[Laughter]
return anyway
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try to be careful with wording and stuff
so yes well you have a wonderful time at
the wedding uh hopefully that is an
enjoyable time with the family and
everything
um I'll check in on you here and you
know just see how things are going we'll
go from there
um next time if we're doing the show and
you're wearing camo in your basement or
something we'll know things you might
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you should see my uh Night Watch outfit
it's not the top friendly hat and it's
not the you know no button-up shirts
it's a
feel like you and I it's like the alter
ego it's like okay like like we're
laughing and funny and everything but
like there's other stuff that we like if
need be like that's the whole thing so
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yeah yeah I would imagine that you've
got a whole setup yeah yeah
um I actually I would love to know no no
PDFs no PDFs yeah text me later this
weekend or whatever touch me with what
your watch outfit looks like because I
also just want to make sure I have the
same stuff you have yeah yeah uh
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and uh I'll talk to you later
all right thanks everybody for joining
us bye
foreign
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[Music]
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surprise surprise everyone surprise
we're here early usually we're right now
we're like a half hour early it just you
never need people on their toes book out
your afternoons and your evenings and
your days for prep talk live because you
just never know when we're gonna be here
um welcome in everybody it's uh episode
(01:09):
56 we may call this like part one
because I don't know that we're gonna
get through everything that we want to
talk about today so we're gonna call it
episode 56 ish uh 56a yeah 56 a yeah
it's gonna be something like that
um like we we've said previously where
you know tup is being called into the
(01:29):
office now
um and so we're still trying to figure
out like what our schedule looks like so
we've each been doing kind of our own
little chicken streams
um tonight's stream is also going to be
a little bit of a check-in we were gonna
we had a topic we're gonna shelve that
we're gonna do a different topic tonight
we're just gonna do like checking stuff
and we'll do the the topic that kind of
(01:51):
how do you turn your prepping brain off
we'll do that yeah that's going to be a
good one I figured it would be at least
at least
at least I have a whiteboard so if I
need to present something I can just go
like this exactly yeah we're seeing
Tufts mobile studio uh he's fully remote
so uh but yeah but anyway I'm Casey with
Cascadia dispatch joining me as always
(02:11):
is tough the urban prep or tup what is
up what's going on we talked a little
bit in the Green Room you got some
interesting stories
yeah I don't know if I want to go dark
so quick but uh is he has some concrete
it's been kind of crazy times at our at
our place uh where how do you start well
we don't have time to like to get the
linger in the darkness and everything
(02:32):
else so we gotta go dark fast so we can
pull it up at the end I'll go dark fast
yeah I'll go dark fast that's what we
gotta do
yeah it's been nuts we've been having
kind of uh
having to go through some security
safety protocols at the house so uh
we're having neighbor issues uh
neighbors well neighbor issues we have
(02:52):
uh without going in too much detail we
have a neighbor that's having kind of a
mental crisis and uh is
not wanting to live and oh wow that's
going dark and just that
and it's been going on for about a week
now uh where basically the mom is scared
(03:15):
for her safety physical safety there's
lots of threats being made uh She's Come
to Us for help and for like uh you know
help and that's made this person mad uh
this is a young young male uh and he now
he's like they physically made threats
you know threats to my uh Wife and Kids
(03:36):
uh by name uh like you know that he's
gonna kill people and stuff so it's been
it's been pretty crazy we have the cops
have been over to the neighborhood
multiple times over the last week at all
all hours of the night uh this person
wanted to basically he wanted the police
to uh to kind of you know
(03:56):
the suicide by cop ideas yes yes yeah so
it came out with a you know with a knife
and stuff we weren't sure of what uh uh
weapons were available but it's been
pretty it's been pretty it's pretty
scary like I've never been through an
experience like that especially with my
family and stuff so I had to uh this
past Sunday and I had to evacuate like
uh cops all over the place they had the
(04:18):
big rifles with the bean bag uh bullets
and stuff and uh
and when there's threats made countdowns
listed like at this time I'm going to be
doing this I'm coming after tops wife
first he can say Cup's wife but yeah I
don't think he probably follows the
channel but uh he you're about to lose a
subscriber top it's gonna be sad yeah it
might uh so anyway so he as he's I'm I
(04:42):
had my my kids go to and my wife and
then the mom go down you know into the
house when I see him approaching and uh
I have the I'm outside because I'm on a
security detail so yeah I had to get
some of that I had some protocols for
that yeah but I I told I had to tell
them but hey get out of the house right
away go through the back door cut across
the backyard into the neighbors and go
(05:02):
down the street I want you far away from
the house because uh it was really crazy
and like you know the cops are all
surrounded the place and they're like
he's got a knife here he comes with all
this is going down I'm like oh oh man
this is gonna get bad and uh and right
at that when that happened like uh I'm
getting my my family out to safety on
the ways away where they they're not
(05:23):
even there but uh the cops just left it
was uh they got the cars when he came
and they because they have to there's
like lost now I guess in Washington
where you have to de-escalate on those
kind of things unless you're immediately
getting attacked kind of thing so they
just found the cars and they just took
off and so that he's there like and I'm
by myself
so they so they came there because he's
(05:45):
threatening and everything and he comes
out with a weapon yes and they don't
wanna they don't wanna blast the guy
type thing so Matt I think we've already
got we got banned already by the box but
sorry yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they
did they don't want to do that but
they're also there are certain things
that they I I kind of felt like they
they locked me up hanging dry out there
(06:07):
yeah oh it's just me and this dude
and the mentally unstable weapon
wielding person
yeah
my own self protection but still they
you know they split and I wasn't
expecting that at all I was expecting
yeah
I was expecting
all that but I guess they can't do that
(06:28):
now and so then at that moment then
there is a he eventually goes back and
right at that time that we have elderly
neighbors and the elderly neighbors are
hey what's going on I'm like get back in
the house get back in your house there's
like a 95 year old lady I had to walk I
had to you know I'm you know kind of
have my barrier and I have to get this
(06:48):
lady back to her house she's 95 so
what's going on and she didn't I don't
think she really got it then another
lady was going right across where this
was all happening I was like no no
you've been calling her by name and so I
had to I'm having to protect the whole
neighborhood and there's been this other
lady across the street oh hi how's it
going
there's three of them and it was so like
(07:09):
I'm trying to focus on like the bad guy
and then there's all these good you know
good good people and they had no idea
what was going on then I'm worried about
my family it was just really really
crazy so uh nothing ended up happening
then uh
we but I evacuated everyone out of the
house and sent them to the in-laws and
they've been sleeping at the in-laws for
(07:29):
multiple days I've been on guard duty of
the house because this person was
threatening to like you know burn down
our house and stuff with gas and stuff
uh
so it's been kind of crazy yeah it's the
nuts and like and there's been multiple
instances like this and they're not
nothing's being done about it I feel I
mean it's really scary that uh like
until the person takes it to the next
(07:51):
level there's not a lot they do and it's
so I told the neighbors I'm like Hey
we're on our own over here some of them
are uh subscribers yeah or claws or
seeks secret Peppers yeah exactly
so yeah uh I'm like Hey we're uh we're
on our own here so like so we've been
it's been
(08:11):
a lot of coordination a lot of I've been
I've been sleeping on like I don't know
if you've seen the movie The
Professional uh
yeah I've been sitting on the I haven't
been sleeping on a bed I've been in the
chair like the professional ready to go
for uh in the living room with the
lights off and everything I can't I've
repositioned cameras all over the place
there's cameras all in yeah no one's
getting in this yeah certain areas kind
(08:33):
of like kind of like the movie Predator
like I have all these things because
I've made videos on it on like motion
alarms and uh camera stuff and all these
things and it's all into place right now
I imagine like you've got all your
things there's there's trip wires the
Drone is just circling the neighborhood
just yeah I almost got the Drone out
because I almost got it out for that
(08:54):
because I have it programmed for certain
things but I I was silenced with the key
at that point so uh yeah it was it's
been nothing but I've been we've been
doing my brother-in-law came and he's
been staying over for the for the past
week because we're [ __ ] we're uh
alternating you know kind of on guard
duties uh holy it's long story short
it's been it's been a kind of crazy week
(09:16):
for me uh I'm looking forward to
sleeping in a bed eventually but that is
so even though like it sounds like this
person has made very direct
threats uh oh yeah
that are that are recorded probably in
some way either way yeah we have text
messages yeah I mean I can read them I
don't want to get no no but like I want
(09:38):
to get this channel banned yeah no but
I'm I'm surprised that even with those
that there is nothing then that the
police would do because that seems like
an active threat and an active to you
guys if you know not alone just to the
to the the woman the mother or whatever
but like to you guys
yeah that they would need to do
(10:00):
something about that
you would think uh yeah they uh it's
it's crazy we have all these threads and
we filed reports and done all everything
that we can but at certain point there's
not a we have to kind of wait and see
type thing so it's been pretty here I
always wake up at two to four just so
you're getting threatened and cry yeah
(10:21):
uh
yeah yeah it's definitely uh crazy and
it's scary like because my main focus is
for are for my family for the wife and
kids I've never had a moment where I
thought their lives were in danger but
that was it and that was on Sunday yeah
the main thing went down uh the costs
have come in multiple times because
they're uh
since then uh but nothing like that
(10:43):
quite like that moment and I was really
proud of my son uh he uh had his EDC and
when I had them evacuate we have all
this deer fencing up like these uh mesh
fencing for the deers the deer becoming
in the yard and they needed to go like
they needed but they were blocked in
because of the deer fencing he had his
EDC knife and he was able to quickly cut
(11:06):
the deer defensing and got everyone my
my daughter wife and the mom and him and
they got they went through this fencing
when if they didn't have a knife they
would have had trouble getting through
he did that and he had his uh he had his
yeah it was just I was glad that he did
that and he was uh he was protecting his
sister and Mom and stuff
(11:28):
yeah it's really kind of like the mental
health thing is really scary and it's
like
like they know about this this has been
going on for multiple days and there's
uh
it's getting a little frustrating that
nothing's happening like it's just kind
of a wait and see mode so yeah that's oh
my goodness that is yeah that is scary
yeah so when they were they I I could
(11:51):
see that guy I'm at I'm at the side of
the house and I'm uh you know I'm
protecting myself but like watching him
I'm looking work I'm like where the heck
of the cops at they're gone and then I'm
looking I can see my wife and kids going
through the downstairs basement Through
the Windows and on the telling them come
here I have my nice I sliced through one
of the ear fences to get through and
then they had to go through the other
(12:11):
part and so I'm keeping guard on this
other on the guy and then my son he I
was real proud of him again real proud
he got to the other one with his own and
then that's where all the neighbor the
older Elder elderly uh ladies were
coming out and I had to evacuate them
but man the adrenaline's flowing the uh
you know your instincts and being calmed
(12:32):
through that was really important so
uh yeah I haven't talked to anyone about
it so you're the first person I'd like
to talk to you we got the scoop on Prop
talk lime holy cow
um we need to change the title and the
thumbnail like we need to
oh my God yeah it's a yeah it's uh it
made me like kind of think you know um
(12:53):
you know we can make all these preps and
these plannings and stuff but when it's
go time like you never know when it's
gonna something like that's gonna like
we it was just like all of a sudden like
oh this is happening like right now and
like it and you have to have your EDC
ready to go if my son didn't have it or
if I didn't have it we would have
probably been in a in a pickle so that's
that's why I went on all my eec stuff
(13:13):
and I'm glad that I made that switch As
far as if it's not on me when I'm in the
bathroom it's not my EDC So and I've
been telling that to my son and so I'm
glad that he's he's starting to carry
more see now he wants to carry even more
stuff and uh eventually I'll have to
make him a PDF or something for kids
yeah
exactly yeah every
image shifts while you're switching you
know while you're switching guard Duty
(13:35):
or whatever just yeah you know make a
quick little PDF for them yeah uh yeah
so it's yeah I'm glad that I was
prepared for you know but a lot of
people were prepared and a lot of them
they're just not in that mindset of
thinking of bad things could happen I
think Preppers we're just naturally
we're expecting bad things to happen and
we don't know when it's gonna happen but
we think it is
(13:56):
foreign
like the externals is the part that
makes it very uh scary because if you're
worried about other people and not just
yourself but so yeah no that is yeah I
had I had an incident
not even close to that I mean well we've
had a couple of weird moments with
(14:16):
people come to the door in the middle of
the night and and things like that
um but there was a moment when we were
in Seattle a little while ago where
somebody broke it into the car and in
retrospect I realized that the person
who was coming to check on us
um thought that maybe we were the ones
breaking into the car and and he was
prepared to take us out if need be
(14:40):
um yeah and I realized at that moment
that there was nothing I could do to
protect my family and that was another
like the earthquake article turned me
into like a prepper person and that
moment turned me into somebody who
considered a considered defense in a
different way
um yeah and the idea that there is
someone
like hunting your family or like oh my
(15:03):
God like that's a whole nother yeah
level of
of everything
yeah it's that yeah it was and we're
just having a normal day and it just
boom and then that's happening and so
that was really it's really not
something I could some of the
I don't even want to read it I don't
want to get I could read it offline to
(15:24):
you but yeah yeah I mean there's we have
like the whole threads of stuff on the
the weapon so
yeah it's uh they're like 20 more
minutes before and then you know cups
life as first and at this point holy cow
and still like there's all this like
evidence and like nothing's happening
it's we're just kind of waiting and so
(15:44):
uh you know I have all my uh
secure security type stuff I have my the
three night flashlights are coming out
because for like uh sort of things that
I've had a perimeter I made a perimeter
video like home perimeter you know thing
that's coming into play uh
but yeah it's the externals that it
(16:04):
makes it makes it really stressful so
but fortunately my brother-in-law's been
really uh
really helpful like he's like he's come
out like last night he was over and uh I
got to find Lisa if I could sleep a
little bit on like not on my normal bed
but a little bit more than what I have
been so uh
yeah yeah crazy yeah that is okay that
(16:25):
is the you said you had a little bit of
a scary story
I know our Channel let's talk about the
broken in car or something like that or
whatever yeah I know this is a whole
nother level man
yeah it's next level uh you know I'm
it's not like I'm some you know some
military veteran like that you know in
those kind of situations but even though
even if you were like when you add like
(16:48):
the other you know your family and uh
other neighbors and stuff like trying to
be the good guy but also being alert and
yeah it's a I don't know uh for I think
I think I handled the stress pretty well
like my my wife's not as good at that
kind of stuff she kind of gets uh you
know short circuits during those kind of
moments and I was really proud again
(17:08):
he didn't he was alert he was a
he was going he's doing the right things
so that was that was really cool my
daughter had no idea what was going on
she thought we were playing a game or
something so exactly which I mean that's
that's good for her
think that because yeah
yeah I'll probably I mean it made me
rethink out some you know it's not like
(17:29):
when this was going on and when when the
bad like hey grab your bug out bags like
that wasn't that never came in like get
out like right away but yeah exactly
like run yeah yeah
and she didn't have shoes because she
you know again she wasn't expecting it
so she's having an escape without shoes
on and that so there's some little
little tweaks we might have to make on
certain like
(17:50):
like if not maybe not a bug out bag but
another grab-and-go type thing another
problem that we that I had that we had
is the cell phone the communications
during that because at the time our my
cell phone was like on 15 charge and uh
and I wanted to track my because we have
different we have Life 360 on some of
the devices so I wanted to track where
(18:10):
they were at so I knew but I was losing
battery so then I'm having to be
selective on that so I think I don't
know if I should have some kind of mini
grab and go that's like on at the door
so it's like a basic power and I don't I
don't know it made me think about some
stuff it probably could have been
strategize but yeah I feel like we're
gonna have really cool yeah there's
(18:31):
gonna be like we're gonna have follow-up
episodes of like yeah you know forget
the prosthetic leg in the desert idea
it's like okay what what do we all need
to have at the door what do we need to
have at the back door what do we need to
have in a shed in the backyard what do
we need to have at a neighbor's house
like
yeah it made me rethink all that kind of
(18:52):
stuff like because again like get my
evacuation kit or get my bug out bag or
I'm like I need my water filter like
that we want to like get the safety and
get uh protection type stuff and then I
need to be able to communicate and
there's uh I even the it was there's a
scary part where my wife and the lady
they I told them to leave and they left
and they left their phones too and so
(19:12):
but then I didn't have a way of
contacting uh
so I might have to put like an Apple Air
tag or something in some kind of Kit
like a something has to be small huh but
yeah uh
it's getting the Mind churning on what
to do for those kind of things because
you never again you never know when
something bad's gonna happen the other
earthquake or the other emergencies that
could happen but yeah you never know
(19:35):
what's up some your neighbor if you're
having a bad day could be having a bad
you know uh
yeah uh prepare for the unexpected for
sure so anyway that's been that's been
my week
how are you doing laughs
a little bit I'm going to go into a
wedding in a little bit yeah
(19:56):
um wow okay yeah
um
so we had like we had two of our friends
had their cars broken into in the last
week in different scenarios so I was
like oh we'll have like a car break-in
conversation or whatever and one of them
actually was in the middle of the night
and they got the the guy was getting the
garage door opener and actually opened
(20:17):
their garage door and went into their
house because they didn't lock the door
between the garage and their laundry
room and the husband happened to be
awake and thought it was the Neighbors
coming in and can and like met the guy
he was opening the laundry room door as
the bad guy was opening the garage door
and basically like met in the laundry
(20:38):
room and then the guy ran off and
and so I've been talking to him over the
last couple days about like security
systems and cameras and all that sort of
stuff
um
but yeah you're you win you win okay you
win I'll provide an update next week
(20:59):
hopefully everything goes
everything's just kind of in this quiet
wait and see type thing it's making
everyone kind of like antsy so we don't
know what's going to happen but
uh yeah
all right well well uh with sen and uh
all the best something mentioned at the
beginning of the show like well this is
this is random uh that was like right
(21:23):
when we turned on yeah exactly we're on
early on a Friday so yeah we're on early
on a Friday with breaking news
like yeah
the different but you know what hey
here's the deal I'm gonna put my I'm
putting my wedding suit on really quick
oh that's good okay yeah I wore my I
wore my formal sweatshirt today yeah
(21:43):
yeah yeah black and white yes so it it
makes sense we're all on brand
um well I hope that the rest of your
weekend is I think the next time we get
I'd like to do like I like I kind of
like the remote thing I don't know if
the connection's been okay yeah but uh
it'd be fun to be like out in this not
in an office in the city somewhere like
I could be out in downtown Seattle uh
(22:04):
yeah it might be kind of fun but we'll
figure it we'll figure that out so all
right yeah we'll figure we'll figure
something out uh most importantly I hope
that that you and your family are okay
and safe and and whatever this guy's
issue is you get to figure it out in a
hurry uh yeah or the police get it
figured out in a hurry but somebody
figures it out in a hurry yeah we'll
(22:25):
we'll have a checkpoint next week yeah
exactly we'll check it in if you're
watching the rerun now uh you know stay
tuned yeah exactly I'm gonna I'm gonna
change the title of this one because
it feels dark yeah
[Laughter]
return anyway
(22:50):
try to be careful with wording and stuff
so yes well you have a wonderful time at
the wedding uh hopefully that is an
enjoyable time with the family and
everything
um I'll check in on you here and you
know just see how things are going we'll
go from there
um next time if we're doing the show and
you're wearing camo in your basement or
something we'll know things you might
(23:11):
you should see my uh Night Watch outfit
it's not the top friendly hat and it's
not the you know no button-up shirts
it's a
feel like you and I it's like the alter
ego it's like okay like like we're
laughing and funny and everything but
like there's other stuff that we like if
need be like that's the whole thing so
(23:31):
yeah yeah I would imagine that you've
got a whole setup yeah yeah
um I actually I would love to know no no
PDFs no PDFs yeah text me later this
weekend or whatever touch me with what
your watch outfit looks like because I
also just want to make sure I have the
same stuff you have yeah yeah uh
(24:06):
and uh I'll talk to you later
all right thanks everybody for joining
us bye
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