PTR Ep 499 Prep Like An Animal - Our Plea To Prepare

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Are you ready for the next episode?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Let's do it?

Speaker 3 (00:57):
I am.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
This is our We've we've working title on this one
is our last ditch effort to warn you, I guess
you could say, or our final appeal in why you
need to be prepping now, because really, honestly it's getting
too late.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, first of all, I feel a little undressed. Undressed, Uh,
we're underdressed. Underdressed. There we go. I feel underdressed. I'm
like undressed. No, that doesn't quite work, that doesn't sound right.
I'll wear my shirt collar shirt next time their pairs Pirs.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is like, guys, I'm an executive. Now, for those of
you watching, you can see how dressed up he is.
I'm wearing one of our shirts from from the merch store.
It's the Ready Minded Apparel shirt that actually says machine
gun wash cold.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Machine gun wash cold.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah. It's instead of machine wash cold, it's machine gun
wash cold.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
It's a little tongue in cheek tea party t shirt
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You can go get one at preppertalkradio dot com. So
you're underdressed, I'm appropriately dressed. Paris is overdressed, and let's
dress down the topic for tonight. Final warning. We're also

(02:33):
going to mix it in a little bit of fun
with some prep like an animal. I've been concepting this
out for a few weeks and I've been really excited
to talk about that as well. So without further ado,
please please please share this message with everyone that you
know who's not prepping, because they need to do this
because it is almost too late.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, I think the first thing I ever want to
say is the old say saying a man convinced against
his will is of the same opinion still right.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
And I have been.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Very unsuccessful at least I feel in my own eyes,
my own mind, of being able to convince others to
step up the pace, to really get serious about prepping,
about being prepared. And so I put a fair amount
of thought into this over the years, and what does
it really take? And of course I've come to the

(03:37):
kind of going to the end already spoiling the book.
I've come to the conclusion that there's really not a
whole lot I can do, or let me say, not
a whole lot I can say that is going to
convince someone. They have to convince themselves. And that's really
what I mean by that, right, I am not good
at convincing people. They have to convince themselves.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I think that it's our job to present the scenario,
to make them aware of possibilities, and then let them
just decide. And then at the end of the day.
Here's the thing that I think about, is, you know,
especially being in financial sales, life insurance sales, I mean
this you know, when I when I walk into someone's house,
They'll one of my trainers who would say, look, when

(04:23):
you walk into someone's house, if you do your best
to explain to them why they need to have life insurance,
why they need to manage their money better, why they
need to you know, get their their financials on track.
And they say, no, that's on them, not you. Like,
you did your part. You did what you were supposed
to do. You you knew you went into that house
with the right attitude, you maintained the right attitude, and

(04:45):
you walk out of that house the right attitude, then
you've done your part. And I think that's true with
this with prepping, is that when we share with you
the steps to being prepared properly for whatever. I mean,
I talk to people all the time about prepping and
they're like, oh, you have this podcast. I said, yeah,
it's like, what do you guys talk about, like zombies
and stuff. I'm like, no, it's it's everything from job loss. Yeah,

(05:06):
we do a little zombie fun and stuff tongue in cheek,
but it's from job loss to the end times and
everything in between. And so we want to the reality
is that you're more than likely going to need to
have financial uh preparedness with your with a job loss
or food or water, you are you gonna need to

(05:26):
have a grab and go bag more often than not.
Your your house isn't gonna burn down or you're not
gonna be flooded out, but there's that's happening.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
More and more.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
And are you going to need to have guns to
defend yourself from an onslaught of marauders? Probably not as
often as you're gonna lose your job. Probably not as
loss as often as you're gonna need to, you know,
have a natural disaster. Like there's things that you need
to be aware of, and it's it's just sometimes it
can be frustrating, like it's our responsibility to let them know.
But once the scriptures say, once you've been warned, warn

(05:56):
your neighbor, Jesus told Pete Paul. He says, once you've
been strength, once you've been converted, strengthen your brethren. If
they don't do it, I did my part. I led
you to the water, you stepped you to drink, and
so I can feel better about myself knowing that I've
done my part to share and to explain it as
best I can and maybe learn maybe I need to
learn a little bit better way to explain things, And

(06:18):
that might be true. I don't doubt that my maybe
my presentation isn't off, but I think that as long
as I'm doing my part to learn and really develop that,
then I can walk away, wash my hands and say,
you know, when the zombies come and attack you and
they leave me alone because I prepared, I'm okay.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
You're all mute there, Scott.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
The fact is we've all been so conditioned by the
propaganda machine, by the government, by the media, by our
educational systems. We've been so conditioned that it's not as
bad as we think. Oh it's not that bad. Oh
it's not that big a deal. Oh, it's never gonna happen.

(07:02):
This is normal, This is normal.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's that meme of the dog sitting at the table
with the fires all around him and he's just like,
it's okay, everything's okay, right, it's fine. It's just this
is fine. Guys. We are literally watching the dumpster fire
rage out of control while sitting in the middle of it,
and the world around us is like, it's fine, it's

(07:26):
it's just a little hotter than usual. It's fine, it's
the government will come to save us. It's fine, it'll
go back to normal. And the government's one that's lighting
the fire and tossing us into the dumpster. Like they're
trading our rights and liberties for money. Right, they're gained
their personal profits. That's just how it's been for as

(07:47):
long as it's existed. Pretty much as soon as the
United States became a country, evil men sought to overthrow it. Right,
every country in the world deals with those same issues
all the time. Right, we're all we're all getting for
lack of a better term, we're all getting screwed over
all the time. And so we're so used to it, right,

(08:08):
And then also the government and the media is all gaslighting.
It's no, oh no, no, you're not being nothing's happening
to you. You're fine. And so it's like there's so
many people who just don't want to listen, partially, I
believe because they're scared to know the truth.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah. Absolutely. And another thing I find on a regular
basis is that when I'm talking to family, friends, whomever,
that a lot of them will acknowledge that what's going
on is not normal. Other than that they'll glaze over
and turn off, right, they turn the brain off. And

(08:48):
so that's when I know when to backpedal or just
to stop talking. But those people who who can be
and I hate to use this word, can be saved, right,
those who can wake up to prep really already know
that inside they realize what's going on. They may not
consciously realize it may be subconscious and when they hear

(09:11):
someone verbalize it and they might agree with it and say, yeah,
I know what you mean, but I don't know what
to do or I don't know where to go next.
Those are the people who I'd like to you know,
spark a little interest in you know, say a little
something's going to catch their interest, and then you know
then to have a conversation and try and direct as

(09:34):
best I can and not frighten. Right, I'm pretty good
at that. I can be pretty good at trying to
scare somebody into compliance, right, well, you know, and I
think that's maybe all too common among preppers, but it
doesn't work usually.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Well, it's the thing that gets their attention, it's the
only thing that gets them people to listen, it's right,
But then also it becomes white noise. After a while,
if we if that's all we do, that's yeah. Right.
So my plea is this, like you've got friends, you've
got family who are on the edge and they just
need that swift kick in the butt to get going

(10:12):
a little bit more to actually make this work. And
it is, it is a tough conversation to have. Like
I've got I've got family. We we ran Prepper Con together,
and I've got in laws that were part of that
group who still don't prep. Like they partially prep, but
they they don't fully go after it. And they're like, oh, no, no, no,

(10:35):
We're gonna go to Disneyland instead. And I'm like, you
still don't. You don't you don't have a water filter.
Oh well, we've got we've got this thing. And I'm like,
that's that's not a volume filter. That's not a solution.
But you have a band aid. You need a whole system.
And they're like, oh, we got a band aid. Everything
they have as band aids. And then there's other parts

(10:55):
of that same group that they're just like me, and
they're like, what else can I say at this point?
Because no one can save them, they have to assist
themselves out of the hole. Like, it's the idea of
someone falls into a hole, how do they get out
If they can't climb out, they need someone to drop

(11:17):
a rope in, or a ladder or something else. They
need to self assist the rescue because we can't just
pull them out. We've got too many other things we've
got to do too. But we can drop a rope.
They've got to show the initiative to climb out, and
what we're facing right now, or people are not willing
to even climb out, a lot of them would rather
just be buried.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yeah, and I've I've heard Joel scows And say World
Affairs brief. You've probably probably heard of him, heard him
say that really the only way you can wake people
up is to shock them awake. And that's not his
exact words. I forget the exact quote, but you know
it's his his take that, especially people who aren't away,

(12:00):
you've got to say something kind of wild and crazy.
That's true, right, that they is totally unexpected for these
individuals to wake them up. And I think there's definitely
something to be said there, but I think it's got
to be very customized, very specific to individuals in order
for that to work.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
I think sometimes people get overwhelmed really easily with it,
and that's when the huge human nature that when we're
overwhelmed with something, we shut down. And that's true with
me in certain areas of my life. And so I
kind of want to give grace to people who are
overwhelmed with where do I start? What do I do?

Speaker 3 (12:36):
How do I do it? Like?

Speaker 1 (12:37):
What do I get? Like?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Is it if it's too late, like you said at
the beginning of the podcast, then it's and then I'm screwed,
And you know what, why even start? So the best
time to prep was twenty years ago, but the next
best time is today, Like, let's go, let's get started.
And so in the essence of we don't have any
more time, that means that you start today, whether that's

(12:59):
actually today or it's the day you're listening to this podcast,
whatever it is, start today, don't delay and get started
on something.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Just do something.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Go back and listen to all our episodes on how
to start, how to prep with one hundred bucks, how
to prep with a thousand, how to prep with tend
that like we have all these, We've done our job
to make sure that we can do give you the
education and hopefully you're sharing that with others. And so
that's really at the end of the day, when you're overwhelmed,
you're gonna I think I love being a chakana guy.

(13:30):
Like it's it's kind of fun to shape say shocking
things and have people be like what like they wake
them up out of their slumber. But at the same time,
I've also realized that sometimes when you throw water on
somebody and to wake them up, they get mad at you.
And so there's some people you can throw water on
and it's okay, and there's some people you need to
be like, hey, hey, your alarm just went off. It's

(13:50):
time to get up.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Sometimes there are people that you got to be sensitive
more sensitive with and so just just be discerning, you know,
more than anything. And I think that's true with me
and I I mean, how many times did you guys
tell me to get a power bank of some kind
before I finally bought a generator and I needed the money,
Like it takes money to get prepared in some of
these things, you know, and so like a power bank

(14:12):
is a pretty big investment and you need to have
money for that. So that's all part of it.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, and you know, and I totally forgot what was
gonna say, You're gonna have to cut this out and
I'm sure I'll come back back right around to it.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, I was gonna say this, like Paris, you you
didn't have one, right, Yeah, it took a while to
get to where you had one, but you were prioritizing
things like water and food and the things you absolutely need.
Like what if we learned from North Carolina, right, we
learned that their food storage they thought they had enough.
It wasn't even close.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Right, if you've got money, extend your water and your
food stuff first, right, Then go to your AMMO, then
go to your backup powers. We survived as people for
thousands of years without power. Will it be complete shock
and change into to everything?

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Absolutely, Go get a lot of really good boots and shoes,
like leather, leather quality, high end boots and shoes. Don't
go into debt for all this, but sell the stuff
that's useless to you, Sell the stuff that you're just storing,
and replace it with something that you can actually use.

(15:24):
And also make sure you're rotating it. I just had
a conversation yesterday and I was just like what And
it was in a prepping group and the guy said,
he goes, I don't know, most of my stuff's expired.
I don't know, like all his cann foods. He's like,
most of my stuffs expired. And I'm like, most of
your stuff's expired. And he's like yeah, And I'm like,

(15:45):
aren't you rotating it? And he goes, why would ever
rotate it? Right? The whole point of this is you're
using it. You're reducing your cost every year because you're
using food stores. You're rotating it before it ever even
thinks of going bad last forever, especially canned foods. But
will it will last far beyond the best by date.

(16:06):
But get more, for the love of all things, get more,
because in the moment that you need it and you
wish you had it, that's the moment that will convict
you to your fault. This is your fault if you
don't prep for it, if you've been warned and you
haven't done anything, that moment where you absolutely need it

(16:29):
and you don't have it, it is your fault.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Well, I think a lot of people need to see
it to believe it, right. And I don't know that
I've really under completely understood that because I don't see
most everything going on in the world right, I see
people seeing things and relating their experiences and telling stories
and news and so forth. So I have to have
some trustance of faith that way. But also that goes

(16:56):
along with my beliefs and what i've you know, basical
the way I've been raised and grown up. But one
thing that seems to I guess, to help is to
talk about examples, right, not just being exampled myself and
say hey, this is this is what I'm doing, and

(17:18):
not saying what I'm what I'm doing, but show them
what I'm doing, people notice what I do, but also
helping them to connect the dots right, to put the
pieces together, to be able to see the bigger picture
of what's going on in the world. Step back. Instead
of having a picture something right in front of your face,
you got to step back to see the larger picture.

(17:40):
And unless you're practiced to that and kind of know
what you're looking for, it's hard. I think it's hard
to do, be able to see that larger picture. And
again it can be scary and people don't even want
to look. I know several people that way. They said
they're too positive, they don't even want to look for
the negative in the world. But helping people to connect

(18:04):
the dodgs, to put that puzzle together and see really
what's going on and use some common sense and learn
to think for themselves. I mean, all those there's a
lot of pieces there. It's a lot of moving parts
you got to put together to help someone to kind
of realize and say, hey, no, this this doesn't look
like a great situation. I should probably do something about this.

(18:27):
What to do? Okay? Maybe I should then ask some
questions at that point.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Like one of my biggest concerns right now is water shortages.
Like we where I live. I live in the second
driest county or second driest city in Utah. We have
the longest sustained rought here only behind Logan, Utah, and
we're seeing less and less fresh water availability. It's actually

(18:57):
predicted that we're going to see a forty percent decline
in fresh water our availability in the United States over
the next five years.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Did they say why.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
They're blaming it on climate change? Of course right, and
population growth, But our population tables don't show growth of
that nature. What we do show is a massive influx
of data centers and AI using water resources. What happened
to in Idaho, Southern Idaho the last two three years,

(19:31):
we've watched farmers lose a lot of their or all
of their watering rights to make way for data centers
and for mining. What's happening in North Carolina as we
as we're still watching the destruction from the hurricane. Now
they're prepping a lot of that area for strip mining
for cobalt. That's a lot of water that's going to
use that be using that process. We have a new

(19:51):
data center coming in what was it, nefi Utah, Delta Delta,
Delta Utah that's going to hijack tons of fresh water
that would normally go to the state to agriculture or
to California Nevada who also fees off our water sources.
So we're seeing our government officials cut off our water

(20:13):
supply in favor for these big business data centers. And
it's going to get worse and worse and worse. And
as we bring more automation back to the US, more factories,
more warehouses, we think jobs, the reality is that they're
going to be automated warehouses. Guess what those need a
lot of water for the computers and the cooling systems

(20:34):
to keep everything from overheating.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Wow. And a lot of that water is also going
out to the Great Salt Lake in order to go
out to the West Desert for them for private companies
to mine for lithium out there as well. So, yes,
farmers' rights, water rights are all being taken away minimized
in order for big business and profits.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
They're using the right of eminent domain to steal water.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Because that's the way Utah's water water rights work here,
and unfortunately we have very little to say about it.
So I guess in talking about that is just again
opening your eyes. Oh wow, this is this is a
real issue. This is a concern. How am I going
to grow a garden? How am I going to And

(21:22):
I think most people won't even think about this because
they get the water right of their pipes right, they
turn the faucet into water, and so they don't question, Oh,
it'll always it's always flowed. I mean throughout my entire lifetime,
I don't ever remember any kind of disruption to our water.
Regardless of where I lived, It's always worked. And you
know where we live, we have gravity fed systems because

(21:44):
we have mountains and hills and so forth, and so
it always works, it's always reliable. I've never had any issue.
So why looking forward would we ever have an issue
with water? Well, there's an example right there, and now
what are you going to do about it to help
secure your water your families water sufficiency necessities? Right?

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, I just find that interesting that they're going to
sacrifice food for data.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Why though, because they believe they can get food cheaper
from elsewhere in the world, so they can make it.
And there you go and manufacture food. We're being forced
crickets in our diet. Already. Synthetic meats are already in
pretty much everywhere, right, lab grown stuff. I know in

(22:35):
the UK there's there's already lab grown meats that are
human meats, cancer's meats that they've turned into lab like
now they package it and sell it to the public.
Like there's crazy stuff all over the world. Right, but yikes,
they're going to move everything into labs controlled technology systems
to provide food, soilent, green anyone. People.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, go watch movies and you'll get a lot of hints,
a lot of clues of where where society is going
where there.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Was interesting is I was watching a video the other
day and they were like, they were talking about some
kind of it's it's a word on a label, it's
in the ingredients in something, and it is a fancy word.
I can't remember what it is anymore, but it meant
like bug shit, you know, like yeah, bugs.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So they changed the change the language of what the
ingredients are. Yeah, they crazy, like the careful well is
part of the bugs that's not digestible, but well, yeah,
they changed that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Have you guys heard of the movie Snow Piercer.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
I've heard of it, haven't seen it.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I haven't watched it.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay, So Soilent Green. What's the whole premise of Soilent Green.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
It's it's people.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
It's people, So snow Pierce for the movie. I watched
that a little while ago, and I understand that is
the same concept. They're feeding everybody. So it's this train
that's beating around the world, and it's the last known
survivors of the of the human race because this winter
it's now like full winter all over the whole planet
because of climate destruction. And what's interesting is is each

(24:15):
class of people have a different section of the train
and the guy who invented the train in the very
beginning in the very front. Everybody else by category and class,
gets fur them further to the back, and the people
in the very very back are being fed these little
rubberized blocks of food. Turns out those are people. But
also if they can, if they can't get enough food,

(24:36):
they used to cut off an armor leg to feed
everybody else. Like that's how programming this is trying to
get to us to start thinking in those types of terms, right,
to accept those types of terms. We're getting very close
to an economic collapse that's going to baffle the world.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh it's it's cricket powder. At least it's not human
human meat or you know, yeah, so it show us
the worst case and then give us a little bit better,
like it's just crickets. Yeah, it's a it's a it's
a an evil process if you ask me what they're
up to. But but again you can't lead I can't

(25:20):
lead off with that, you know, going to my my
cousin say, hey, you know what they're feeding us crickets
in that meal, Like what are you talking about? It's
it's it's also about knowledge and knowledge of the past,
of our of our true history, understanding really what what
that history is, which is hard to learn. It's hard
to know really what that is. It's all been hidden

(25:41):
from us. And then really just accepting that there are
bad people, there are evil people in the world with
evil agendas. I think most of us have have a
positive attitude. Say, you know, why would anybody ever want
to do that? Why would this ever happen? What? Why?
Why why? I don't know that I ever haven't have

(26:02):
an answer for that that would be adequate.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
It's because we're biased into a different style of thought, right,
Like George Soros has been trained since his childhood to
not value human life but to value his money and
his agenda over everything else. Right, and now you see
his son's going to be ten times as a monster
he is, or his son or grandson, I can't remember where,
but like it just it gets worse. Right, But we

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have to take action now, like this episode is about.
You need to take action now. You need to start
prepping like an animal, like your life depends on it.
Like when when when an anelope is being chased by
a cheetah or an impaula. Let's use a napolea. I
guess I don't know if they have analyt over there,
but it's got it's running for its life. The cheetah

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is chasing for its next meal, but the impala is
running for its life. Right, we need to prep life
like our life depends on it. We need to think
of it more in terms of animalistic survival than anything else.
We need to get back to our nature right of
taking care of ourselves, building up, fortifying, and doing the

(27:12):
right thing for ourselves because we've got to protect ourselves
and our families. Yeah, and so I've thought of some
animals I've been I've been I've been wanting to think
of like I've been doing all this work. Do you
know what animals actually prep Well, not all animals do.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I think it depends on where they live, right. If
they're if they have a winter climate, they're preparing all
year long for for the winter, whether it's fattening up
or storing nuts right in like the squirrels.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
So squirrels, chipmunks, woodpeckers didn't know this. Hamsters, they all
hoard and fatten up for times of of of lean. Also,
honey pot ants, fire ants, honey bees, and harvester termites
are examples of bugs prep not just what's interesting about

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honey bees. They're not just prepping for the winter. They
want to have an overabundance year round. Yeah right, because
they they live off of pollen and nectar. But then
they the nectar the honey we all love and enjoy, right,
that is not just their food supply, but that is
their survival supply to get through hard times. It's their excrement, right,

(28:26):
Well it's not. It's actually vomit.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Well it's a different time, different place, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
So honey is bee vomit is that you're telling me.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yeah, And they when they when the bees come back
to the hive, they come in and they go, hey, bob, yeah,
well you know what up? Oh thanks, and they puke
it into the other person's mouth. They process it a
little bit more, and they go to the next bee
and puke it into their mouth all the way in.
So it's like remember the olden days when there's a
fire and people will be like handing by gets to

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the next person. It's that way, but in your mouth.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Oh geez, that's kind of gross.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
It's delicious, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Honey is delicious? I'm surprised that that's the process.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
We as people, we do some weird stuff like, oh,
what is that sounds it smells delicious, tastes delicious. Where
is it from? Oh it's vomit. Cool, We're okay with that, right,
Oh what what is hanging from that cow over there?
Let's squeeze and see what comes out of it and
see how see if it And I guess.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Technically we shouldn't call it vomit because that's not actually
what it is. It that's the way it's produced, right,
But it's not actually something disgusting, right, It's so if
we call it excrement, okay, maybe they do it it's
secrete or excrete it, but yeah, it's obviously not nasty,
so we probably shouldn't use the word vomit or well otherwise.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
And honey has some pretty antibacterial No, it's amazing in
it like it's it's amazing. But so as I'm thinking, okay,
we got to think more long term, fix short term
problems and also think long term, like pack animals, we've
got to operate in better tighter communities. You know what.
Some of the best hunting pack animals are.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Wolves.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
They're not the best.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Try again, Oh, cadgers particular.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
You both spoke at the same time. So like cats like, Nope,
cats they're they're solo and duo hunters. Paris, What did
you say.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
I was just throwing an animal out there. I said badgers.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Badgers they're solo hunters. They're they're pretty amazing. They're honey
badgers specifically are on my list. For another item, African
wild dogs are considered the number one pack hunter in
the world, followed by wolves.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I mean kind of like a hyaena, but an actual just.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
They're smaller than wolves. But yeah, hyenas are in that continent.
Number three, Lions are actually worse hunters than both all
of those. Orcas are the best pack hunter in the water.
They're also the biggest protagonist of everybody. They're like, we're
just we just want to screw with everybody. Hey, look
there's a dude over there. Let's knock his boat over.

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This is great.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Right, you're talking to community, right, you're talking community.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Community. We have to be tight, but we have to
be structured. Right, we all talk about community all the time.
Oh yeah, I got a friend or got a neighbor.
We're gonna do you practice anything together.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
If not, you're not a pack, you're not a community,
You're not where you need to be.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's why I wanted to bring that up. But in
my final thoughts, like I really want to say, you've
got a tough enough we all have to, right. What
are some of the toughest animals? You guys can think of.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Bears, rhinoceros.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
You'd think those are the toughest animals. The toughest animals
are based on the extremes that they have to endure.
Neither of those have to endure the most extreme. Did
you know the mountain goats extreme the coldest of colds
and the lowest oxygen rate. They're one of the toughest animals,

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most robust, also the most nimble for their their habitats.
Arctic fox because it's on a starvation diet half the
year and it lives near all the other frozen stuff
that's up on the list. Camels is the most heat
resistant animal in the world and the most drought tolerant.
Did you guys know that the giraffe can go three

(32:29):
weeks without water? What? I did not know this? But
the most the toughest animal pound for pound for personal
protection is the honey badger. They actually have a saggy
skin system so that you can pierce, like they can
be bit and flung around and there are no nerves

(32:53):
connected to the skin, so they can be ripped apart
like but it's it's it doesn't really cut very easily,
but like it doesn't puncture well. But like I watched
a video of this pack of wolves attack a honey
badger and they're like flinging it around and like each
taking swipes at it and they couldn't do anything. And
then the badger would roll over and be like wow wow,

(33:14):
and the wolves are beating and they're just like this
isn't worth it, and the badger just like okay, you've
done and wanders off like on the badger don't care.
Right well, we need to get tougher. I am like
nowhere near where I need to be, But in preparation
for this episode, it was like eye opening that we
need to like we need a tough en up, we
need a stockpile, and we need to get tighter with

(33:36):
our community than ever before because those are our biggest
threats right now.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yep, because by the time it by the time we
if we start now. By the time it actually we
actually need it in a couple of years, we're going
to be so tight and trained that it's going to
be it won't be a big it won't It won't
be as big of a hit to or Psyche in
our future.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Yeah, true, because I mean you've got to.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Think about the seal teams, or just think about high
levels teams like that. They train for years before they
go on a mission, and uh then they still train
and they train for months before they go on the
next mission. And so that's the idea is prepare ahead
of time and don't procrastinate anymore. And that's a great

(34:21):
message for me, dude, Like, thanks for the reminder too.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yeah, And I think it's my kind of parting words.
I would just say, if you're if there's really someone
you really love, you are really concerned about who you know,
they're capable of preparing, but they're just not my I
guess final suggestion is just really try to connect on
get on common ground, and be sincere with them rather

(34:48):
than trying to scare them or or convince them otherwise,
you know, use use love and persuasion and and and
then I think if you're truly concerned about them. They
will see that and then hopefully that will spark something
within them to where they can really start to do

(35:10):
what they need to do, because you know, we see it.
It's it's it's obvious for the three of us to
see and those of you who are watching listening, it
should be pretty obvious where things are going. But for
a lot of good people it really isn't.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yeah, and I to piggyback off of that, Shane, like
that is perfect, Like we need to have those tough
conversations from a position of concern. Yeah, love not judgment, right,
Like to the family member, to the friend, to that
close associate. Right, I am really worried about you because

(35:46):
x y Z. I know I don't have enough for me,
let alone, to be able to help you in those times.
I need you to understand how painful that is. I
don't have anything for you when things go sideways, but
I would love to help you get better prepared. You
don't have much time. Express your concern, open up your heart,

(36:10):
and then let them know. Look, if you don't prepare
and things go sideways, I won't be there for you.
I can't be I can't be there for you. I
have to be there for my family and and let
them understand the reality of that like and then let
it let it alone like they've been warned fully and
thoroughly at that point, and it's no longer your fault.

(36:31):
It's no longer on you. You did your job. Your
job isn't to prepare for your neighbor. Your job is
to warn your neighbor.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
That's our whole purpose with this podcast has been for
the last four hundred and ninety nine episodes, is to
be a warning voice because there we're on borrowed time.
It is coming short where the check has to be
paid and you're not going to be able to dine
and dash on this one.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
That's a good point yep. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3 (37:56):
See you next week.