PTR Ep 511 Winter Preps

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome, Welcome to another episode of Prepper Talk Radio Radio
for the Ready Minded, the podcast for the Prepared, with
your host Scott Shane and Paris. We were here tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We are back.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We are live and a living color as they say,
or as they used to say back in the day. Anyways,
we're we're super excited to bring to you a fresh,
cool episode. I can't talk a little bit about winter
preps today, things that you can do to be ready
and prepared as winter comes on and is headed towards
us like coming. It's coming fast, so we need to

(00:38):
get ready for it. Why don't you just remind everybody
about our good friends over at Patriot Packs and Warmers.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
These guys were.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
All American made, American owned.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
We know the owners.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We had them on the show. Actually we did a couple.
We did an episode with him shoot probably last year,
even towards towards the beginning of this year anyway, so
I think it was in the January era. Anyways, we
did a great anything with him. He's created these handwarmers
that are that are competitors with the more popular ones

(01:12):
that most of you know and see probably all around
Walmart and other places. But go to Patriot US. It's
US Patriot Packs dot com forward slash prepper Talk, Is
that right, Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Correct, that's their webs slash prepper Talk Forward.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Slash prepper Talk. And you can get a deal on
these handwarmers. These are gonna be the handwarmers you're going
to have coming into winter to keep you keep your
hands warm. You can stick them in your socks, you
can stick them in your shoes, you can stick them
in your gloves, you can stick them anywhere you want, really,
and they got a bunch of other options to coming.
So go check them out there, support the show and
support our good friends over at Patriot Packs without that. Guys,

(01:54):
how you guys doing. How you feeling taking a little
break here?

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Always good? Yeah, Yeah, I'm alive.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
You're you're alive and kicking.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I'm alive. There's a lot to do. It's it's crazy
because it's you know, we're in the holiday season. We
just had Halloween, We're on our way to Thanksgiving. Christmas
is going to be right around the corner, then New
Year's and then like wow, we're in twenty twenty six.
Where the crap to twenty twenty five? Go and dude,
everything is speeding up.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I was telling my wife today, I said, I can't
believe we're almost halfway through November, and it's crazy. Especially.
I mean I every time every year, this time of
the year is really busy for me because of open enrollment.
I do health insurance for Medicare eligible individuals and this
is open rollment for them, and it's just a really
busy time. That's why last week we kind of had

(02:47):
to do a take a break. Scott, you weren't feel well.
Hopefully you're feeling better tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was in an airplane, so we got Shane was
the only one that was able to be available, and
were like, you know what, let's just take a break
and let's see where we come back to next week.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, we got We got hit with the cold, sickness,
disgustingness when we went on our family vacation and I
lasted quite a while and then all of a sudden
it hit me and I'm like, I almost made it right. Yeah,
I should have had more vitamin D. Should I got
a whole list, but yeah, all the winter prep stuff,

(03:27):
that's that's the one thing I think most of us
I failed on. I didn't I didn't start taking enough
supplements to kind of be ready and uh, that was
that was not ready minded of me. So yeah, thankfully
doing better now.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Got a load up on the vitamin C, I guess right.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Like vitamin D as well. One of the things that
not a lot of people realize is how important vitamin
D is to the did.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
The whole thing.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So, by the way, speaking of vitamin D, if you
go to Prippertalk Radio dot com, forward slash good Life,
you can check out a great vitamin D supplement that's there,
and that's got you know when you don't have when
you're wearing a lot of clothes, the sun doesn't hit
your skin, and because the sun doesn't hit your skin,
you usually have a low vitamin D in your in

(04:24):
your system and that's a huge cause of a lot
of ailments. So something very important to have in your
system as well is vitamin D well.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
D three with K two, vitamin C zinc. Zinc is
what kept me from getting it for as long as
I did, and then I forgot to take my zinc
for a few days, and I think that's kind of
part of the problem. Vitamin B, iron, vitamin E. Also
take probiotics, fish oil and magnesium like especially during the
winter because we're not getting as much of those as

(04:57):
we do during the summer months. But that's my first
that's my health check, so definitely check out the link
on our website. So yeah, that so I just put
in another order.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Actually, we're right. We tend to stay indoors at least
here in Utah. You know, it gets pretty cold here
and and it's always nice to you know, to be
comfortable and warm, but you'll get out, get uncomfortable. There's
no reason you can't go hiking. Just dress appropriate for it, right,
get out and then exercise. It's always obviously a little
different than other seasons, but just going to be prepared

(05:30):
for it. And that's what we're talking about, getting prepared
for winter and for the cold, so we don't don't
get get sick, right, I mean, that's that's part about
it is getting us. I get in the sun, watch
the sunrise, watch the sunset, instead of being inside on
your couch and being comfortable. Right, that's all that is
an enemy, right, Being comfort is an enemy.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
And funny how many people take winter off from.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Doing things right, exercise, eating, you right, use the holidays, right.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It's cold outside, I'll just go inside and relax, and
then everyone's got to shed all the winter weight for
the summer bod. Right, you don't need to live that way.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, exactly, exactly, And that's that's on my list to
talk about today. Is you know, is part of winter
preps at least here in Utah. I guess is the holidays, right, Thanksgiving,
New Year's Christmas? You know we tend to. Of course,
I'm speaking for myself. My own mindset is it's the
holidays to sit back, relax. You don't have to you know,

(06:33):
you don't have to take a break from from working
out because you know they're snowing them out, all different
kinds of excuses. Right, But that's how Yeah, absolutely, because.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
You're like, well, I got I got to eat for Thanksgiving,
I got to eat for Christmas. Well, the funny thing
is is that thanks well, of course your diet starts
getting ruined as soon as Halloween hits, because you've got
all that candy that you go through. Well, I mean,
you know you don't have to, you can, you can
put it in the oval file once you realize that
Thanksgiving is one meal and it should be good because

(07:04):
it should be you know, mashed potatoes and turkey, and
that's all healthy stuff, so it should be you know,
keep going. The only thing is that if you have
too much pumpkin pie or.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Leftovers, we all lose our freaking mind and we eat
two plates that are serving plate size instead of regular
plate size.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
And I think it's okay, you know, on Thanksgiving on
certain days, but if you let it drag out and
say and just do that over and over again because
I got, like I say, I got leftovers. I hate
to see him go to waste. That's that's my mindset, right,
I'd rather eat them then throw them away. But but
I'm working on changing my mindset to say, you know what,

(07:48):
rather than overeat, I'm just gonna you know, and nobody
else is eating them, I'll just throw them away, right,
So it is about mindset, It's about attitude and such
can it?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
My man? Our good friend Sarah Thrash peelis and petals yep,
but did a livestream today about canning and how she's
tracked her numbers for the year and she saved over
twelve thousand dollars by buying everything in season when it's
cheapest and canning it, and she took she bought like

(08:20):
she gave one of the examples. She bought two pounds
of beans, pressure cooked it, canned it, and now she
has I think twenty or thirty like twelve cent bottles
basically full, Like it's twelve cents for that versus you
go to the store, it's like a dollar eighty for
the can of beans. And it's just like, oh my gosh, right,

(08:43):
save money. Cans. Preserve your food. Take the bones from
the turkey, take the vegetables, turn it into a good broth.
Can that sucker like rotate that, rashing it out. Don't
need it all that week. The other problem is Christmas
meals what do you do between Christmas and New Year's

(09:04):
that's that period of time. Do you guys know Michael McIntyre,
he's a UK comedian, dude. It's so funny because he
talks about that week between Christmas and New Year's and
it's like nobody knows what time it is, what day
it is, what's going on. It's like this weird voodoo
I don't know what's going on with you week? And

(09:24):
he's like, is it Monday? Is it too? I don't know,
does the post come, the post doesn't come, does it come?
Are they open or are they closed? Like what's happening today?
Is the trash bend coming or like all these different things.
He's like, are the stores open? Are they closed?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
It's this boxing day?

Speaker 2 (09:36):
What are we doing? Right? And he's like he just
end ups lying on the couch eating tons of food,
getting fatter, more out of shape, right, causing more problems,
and yeah, we've got to we've got to curb the craziness.
Like if you look at the screen, you guys can
see I should not be the one talking about this
because these two guys, these two gentlemen, are fit compared

(09:57):
to me. I'm fat. I'm working on it, but I'm
not there yet. But it's like self control is huge, huge,
hugely important right now this time of year, Like oh
my gosh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah. Obviously with the you know, it gets darker because
day well because of the season, but also daylight savings
time gets gets darker in the evening, so we tend
to stay home and you know, over eat, oversleep, you know,
it's nice for someoneus to stay in bed a little
a little too long, you know. And then also, uh,

(10:35):
with the holidays, we'd like I like to give, you know,
tend to overspend instead of you know, it's a justification
rather than saving. And and and of course all of
my gifts are typically preparedness based, right. And I don't
care what the wife says, you know, that's what I'm doing, right,
That's that's you for my kids. They might think it's
a lame gift in the moment, but it'll pay off

(10:59):
event right. So, but yeah, some of the comments here,
you know, yeah, getting out in the cold triggers, you know,
belt out the bodies. It's you know, the cold plunges
are super super popular right now, and I hear they're
actually overrated, right. You don't have to actually cold plunge,
just turning your shower to cold before you get out

(11:20):
you get eighty ninety percent of the benefits. But yeah,
being out in the fresh air, getting out of the house.
And I'm just reading some of these comments here, Yeah,
we tend to snack more when we're stuck in the house.
Absolutely find that true, especially late at night when you
know we shouldn't be eating after what's six o'clock or so,

(11:43):
tending on what time you go to bed. But yeah,
a lot of things that if I bring to my
mind and I remember them, then I won't be find
myself standing in the kitchen, you know, find you know,
being feeling snacky.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Right, yeah, all right, let's talk what do we do
right now? Because towards the end of the show, I
have this really excited feeling that Shane's going to drop
a curveball on winter topics, which oh, yeah, of course,
of course, but let's talk Okay, let's talk practical. What
are we needing to do to prep for winter right now?

(12:22):
Like bags, cars, house to like, let's go through the
list real quick, give everybody the goods they came for,
and then we'll go awry or I.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Think I think one thing I'm thinking about right now
is that my sprinkler system, because we have snow, and
we're coming to that time when we can get even
before snow even really sticks, we get really cold evenings
and you don't want to have ice in your irrigation
pipes and you don't want to have water in there

(12:54):
that's expanding. So I need to shut off my water,
my irrigation water. Anyways, and you know, last last time
we had peles and pedals on, she said that you
should go through your house and look at any exposed
pipes that you might have that have any even the
smallest little place can burst. And that's what bursts in

(13:14):
her house and cost I think it was thirty or
forty thousand dollars in damage to her house. And so
I just say, you know, go through, you know, make
sure your your house is winterized. One thing is I'm
thinking of is all the pipes in my irrigation, all
the pipes maybe in my house. Just make sure that
all those things are taking care of a winterized. So

(13:35):
that was my one first of several things that I
could bring to bring to the show today, but that
was my first one. I wanted to kind of say.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, absolutely, and well, once temperatures get down, you know,
near near freezing, you get typically the lows at night,
you can typically just shut you know, shut that off
and your grass is going to be fine. So yeah,
no worries if it gets a little dry. The cold
temperatures are putting it into a into a type of
I guess hibernation, that's not the right word, but but yeah,

(14:08):
obviously when temperatures start to change, I start to, you know,
look at my vehicles and change what I have in them, right,
rotate the summer stuff out, put the winter stuff in,
and and make sure I have you know, the tire
chains are in there. Got my traction boards, shovel I've
got you know, cold weather gear. Change my my water

(14:32):
or put fresh water in my my water tank. It's
going to freeze, but I got a five gallon tank
in there, so it less likely to freeze than just
individual bottles. But yeah, it will end up freezing solid
with our cold taps here. So that's kind of the
first place to know that I start.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Well, isn't that isn't there a I don't know how
to necessarily flush out the windshield wiper fluid, but that's
something that if it gets too cold in certain areas,
I think you need to have windhoell wiper flood that's
more freeze resistant, and they do have make that, so
that's definitely something to do for your car. And then
especially if you live in an area where there is snow,

(15:10):
make sure you have a set of chains that you
have in your car. Carry because I don't carry change
during the summer months in the fall, but in the
winter months, I definitely have chains in my trunk and
I have a set of chains for both cars. So
I would highly recommend you know, those types of winterizations
as well.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Yeah, absolutely can be really dangerous if you get stuck
in your car in the snow when it's really cold
and you run up out of gas or you can't
keep your vehicle running. Having a secondary heating source for
your car as well, it's for your house mic and
we'll get to that as well. But plenty of stories
back East when blizzard comes in a nor'easter and people

(15:51):
get stuck on the freeway in the snow. I mean,
this happened in the past couple of years, and it
can be life threatening. And so if you just have
that mindset wherever you go, especially if you're on the
long you know, longest drive or there's some kind of
risk of getting getting stuck, to be able to be
prepared to stay in your car and be stuck there

(16:12):
for extended period of time.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
So that means having food, having some extra water bottles
that aren't there. One thing I do is I keep
a couple of wool blankets in my trunk and in
the back of my car, so you know, I don't know,
I don't know. If you have the resources to have
a too, a heater, buddy buddy heater in every car.
But definitely have wool blankets because those those can keep

(16:37):
you warm and nice and toasty, especially if you have
a couple of these handy dandy hand warmers to go
along with it.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
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I like this because it's a battery pack. Right, we're
always carrying extra tons of digital crap. It's a battery
pack that if you push this little button here, it

(17:08):
turns into a heater hand heater so you can heat
up those Ooh, that's good. It's already starting to warm up,
heat up those extremities. But yeah, this is this is cool.
It's a little Survival frog. It's called the Quick Heat
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(17:28):
But in your car, definitely get the wool blankets. I
like what Field Tax says here. Whereas the four Extreme
Cold Mummy Bags military grade I've got those in my house.
I don't know why I haven't thought about throwing a
couple of those in the car, But yeah, that's brilliant, right,

(17:50):
I'm gonna do that. But also I like he's got
extra safety lights, Pemmican water or Pemmican not Pemmican water,
handwarmer packs of course. But yeah, the more simple stuffs,
the safer you're gonna be, right, because if something goes
sideways and you don't have it, you're gonna wish you did.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Interesting. So what else did I see here? Oh? Of
course Mike comments on good tires. Yeah, if you don't
have good tires, you know, obviously chains are important for
me for where I go. Uh, you're going over a
mountain pass, you kind of really need to have some
some tires, some chains in there. But to have good

(18:36):
all terrain you know, there's all weather tires and there's
all terrain tires. If you have a have a V car, yeah,
you're gonna watch all weather tires. If you have an
SUV or you know, a truck something, you can actually
get all terrain tires. Some are oriented better for snow,
better snow performance. Some are you know, more for mud

(18:57):
or or road or such. But uh, with some do
a little bit of research, you can actually get a
really good, all trained tire that still does extremely well
in the snow. And that's you know. I like the
BFG for that particular reason. And I haven't ever had
to use chains, honestly, but I still have a set
with me. Tires, you know, to me, are extremely important.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
What's funny is I spent I don't know, nine hundred
almost one thousand dollars on my launched on one car
actually my hont A Pilot like two years ago because
we had when I when we first moved to Utah.
Of course, you know, we're coming from California, brand new
to snow. Nobody tells you that. Well, you know, you
kind of prepare a little bit because people tell you,

(19:42):
oh yeah, it has with snows here, you know, right
around December, January, February, March for sure. And so you
know it's not been very bad. You know, it's kind
of been a good couple of last couple three or four
years been okay. My first winter here was like the
record breaking year, and then the next winter was a
break record breaking year.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Again.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm just like baptism of fire. So that was kind
of crazy for me to get really inundated with the
snow life hashtag snow life, right, and so I had
to learn, and so I that next year, I was like, Okay,
I'm gonna really get some good tires on my car,
and I put a bunch. I spent a bunch of
money on tires in my car. And then it didn't

(20:25):
It didn't even snow that bad. I didn't even need
it that year. So I was like, all right, well,
I'm grateful that I had the money first and I
was ready, but I kind of sad that I didn't
actually have like it didn't snow like it was anyway.
So now it's been a couple of years, so my
tread is worn down a little bit, and there's supposed
to be. Isn't this winter supposed to be some predicted

(20:45):
huge winter again, like some big winter because we've had
a couple of down years.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Yeah, I think it's supposed to be a nind just
a little bit heavier in winter.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah, all right, well we'll see. Maybe I'll get to
use my tires that I spent all that money.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Yeah, it's funny, Yes, Rebecca, Yes, Rebecca, you got it right.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
We've got to do new tires. But I've I've got
I've got those plastic strip I don't know if you
guys have played with those plastic strips snow tires or
snow straps.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
So it's like for self recovery buttons.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
But their zip tie basically zip tie around the tire.
I bought those to test them out. I haven't had
a place where I could test them out yet, so
they're just sitting there. But it's like the same thing
as Paris, Like you bought the tires hoping for a
massive snow so you'd be like, how good are these tires? Yeah,
I bought these. I'm like, oh, we'll have these in case.
I'm hoping I can test them out. See I they're

(21:43):
any good before something crazy happens. But I'm I better
just go get some chains, because there's been twice I
had chains on my prior vehicle, my Forerunner. There were
twice that I had to use chains when I was
up in Park City.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Just say, you live on a hill too.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I live on a hill, but I've never had a
problem with the snow and ice.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Like like Mike could come at a few things here,
you know, having recovery gear in your rig. And absolutely
I'm prepared for recovery, mainly for myself, but I rarely
get stuck, so I find myself pulling out others. So
having as in recovery gears, a toast strap. There are
your typical toast strap. You'll get it at wal Mart

(22:24):
or or your automotive parts store. It's just a strap.
It's I mean, I've used those for years and years.
I've gone through two or three of them. But there
are specific straps for recovery which are much better, much
higher rated. But you know, I wouldn't worry, and they're
very expensive. They're a lot more expensive than just a
typical strap. But but having some shackles, soft shackles, tree straps,

(22:51):
and really just just having a strap where you can yank.
You know, you don't want to chain. That's really old school.
That's that's you don't want that for pulling someone out.
Plus it's extremely heavy and en dangerous. But having some
type of strap for because you need some kinetic energy
to be able to pull out in the snow, you
gotta have some movement. A static pole doesn't work very well.

(23:13):
But having having that that you know, I've pulled out
people all the time over the winter, and I enjoyed
doing that. It's it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I was watching there's a YouTube channel of this guy
who's he pulls people out of precarious situations, whether they
four wheel in and they went over the cliff and
he gets goes and rescues the car, whether it's in
a river. But one of the one I watched recently
was where some somebody drove a suburban up into like
a road that was kind of closed off, a little

(23:44):
back road, and they got totally got stuck, and the
belt even in the engine they snapped, and so they're
like their car was stuck, the belt was jacked, and
so these guys went up there and they had to
do just that. They couldn't just they didn't. They had to.
They they actually drove back really fast and pulled it,

(24:07):
like yanked it and then let it go back and
like let that rocking motion kind of start to happen
and then push people out. So it was really interesting
to watch that whole scenario as they got the suburban
out of this big old snow bank. It was kind
of crazy to think about, like, man, the kind of
materials that they used and the straps and the gear
that they had. I that's that's a whole other level

(24:28):
because that's their job. But it was kind of it
was really cool to watch.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
I had to assist a rescue of a truck, well
I can't call it a truck, a Nissan Armada towing
a trailer. They got stuck in the snow. This is
like four or five years ago, back when Idaho like
had this weird snow freeze, thaw and then snow again,
and it actually wiped wiped out some portions of the

(24:54):
roads and I had to help pull that truck that
I keep saying truck, that vehicle out. That was when
I had my diesel. I miss that truck so much
because it had the power to do those types of
things a huge trailer, a huge heavy car out, a

(25:15):
big snow bank. Right, So you need to know big tires,
big meaty tires. You need to know what your vehicle
can do, but also what your limitations are as well.
And that's why I want to bring that up is
because like the person that they were trying to have
rescue before me had a little Ford Ranger and it
was like, could not do anything, couldn't budget them at all. Right,

(25:37):
you need to know what your vehicle can and can't do,
what your payload capacity is, what your towing capacity is like,
and also know how to drive it well. Because I
had to rescue the four Uner or the the Ford
Ranger two because they launched themselves into the other side
of the street into the snow bank because they weren't assisting, right,
they actually put a toa strap on their ball on

(26:01):
their toe. Don't never ever do that. Yeah, always take
the hitch out, put put the rope inside, and then
the pin through the little loop on your rope.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah, if you want to learn about Tony and recovery,
I really like the Matt's off Road and Recovery Channel
local here. They're down in Hurricane southern Utah, and you know,
they teach you all about that kind of stuff and
and that's a good that's a really good source. And
there's other great channels for recovery out there too and
help you.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I think Dad met that guy.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
I've met him. Yeah, Yeah, they're good dudes. We've got
one here in the valley too, it's called uh Bent
off Road Recovery and they have a channel as well.
And uh, yeah, they're American Fork so they're close by.
Pretty cool. Yeah. So yeah, vehicle preps, Uh, I drive.

(26:52):
I drive a lot, So it makes a lot of
sense for me to you know, to be prepared wherever
I go for myself and to help authors. But you know,
we talked about, you know, Mike was getting into you know,
having a secondary heating system for your home and that's yeah,
that that is very very obviously, really important we talk about.

(27:15):
You know, part of only thing I want to talk
about is, you know Biden's cold, cold, dark winter. Right.
I don't know that we've seen that yet, right, He's
talked about that. He actually spoke about it recently in
uh he spoke to the press a couple of weeks ago.
Uh and he mentioned that there was dark days ahead.
That was his his actual quote, dark days ahead. So

(27:37):
you know that brought to mind his his uh, you
know dark winter, which you know, there's always a lot
of talk about potential power outages, you know, internet outages,
which are you know, all gonnareak havoc, especially in the winter.
If it's a summer, obviously it's a lot easier to
deal with. But when it's cold and you don't have

(27:59):
power and we can heat the house, You're gonna have
alternate ways of not just necessarily heating the entire house,
but keeping the pipes from freezing, uh, staying somewhat comfortable,
least in in one room. Oh what happened there? You go?
And so uh, you know, we could talk about some
of those methods of of of how to do that.

(28:20):
We've talked about that another podcast as well.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
But it's funny because like, what does that really mean?
When when we talk about Biden's called called dark winter? Like,
what does that really mean?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah? Exactly? Nobody really knows, right.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
And that was like, what is Biden? What are we
listening to Biden again? For? Like what he was he
like in some white house.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Somewhere. He just made a statement to the press. I
guess he's having some cancer treatments or something like that.
He spoke to the press and he's you know, he
mentioned that there's dark days ahead, and which made me
think about his cold dark winters statement he made for
a couple of years in a row. And I don't
think you've actually seen that in particular, but I think

(29:14):
we will at some point.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Interesting, Well, what's interesting is there's like there's talk right
now that they're going to mess with a potential one
percent interest rate, forced one percent interest rate. I don't
know how real this is, but it's to heat up
the markets. That would do a bull rush on on

(29:38):
stock markets, that would just go nuts. Housing market changes
would go nuts, right. But the reality is is that's
not likely to happen. And so what we have going
on right now is we're going to see the continual inflation,
destroying pricing, destroying our spending. It's freezing all of our
assets really because you can't afford to sell your house,

(29:59):
you can't afford to tell anything and replace it because
the new prices for replacement items are getting so crazy
that like it's it's kind of like a winter on
your finances, right. It's that's I think what I'm more
concerned about that and power outages than anything else, because

(30:19):
sustained power outages people can't survive, especially during the winter.
You're you're not gonna have running water, You're not gonna
be able to there's gonna be issues with galore if
we have sustained power outages. I'm not as worried about
that here in Utah right now because we supposedly have
good energy. Where I live, it's mostly coal energy. Still,

(30:42):
we've got some hydro, we've got some actually a lot
of natural gas, and we've got some solar, but they're
moving more to solar. And that's my big concern. And
it's out of state. When you're when you're playing the
game with spot body energy production, it's going to get

(31:03):
bad for everybody. I mean, that's one of the big
problems in like Texas, right, Texas has too many houses
on the grid, not enough energy production for the grid,
and they're always running out of energy right now.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
And too many data centers.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, and more data centers come right, and what are
we doing in Utah. We're about to add a giant
data center, data center down and where and uh delta delta.
So it's just it's just gonna get nuts.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
And not not just a big one, the biggest one
in the world.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yeah, yeah at the moment. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And that's
a big been in a big deal. There are data
centers in California that are completed then sitting there and
the power company cannot provide power. And you know, California
in particular has had power issues for a long time
because of their policies and so forth.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yes, okay, Shane Shirt pause for this, all right, David
used a rock, I use a glock. Thank you Jared
Henry for pointing that out.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Well, everybody could pointed that out too, so but but yeah,
I saw this and I immediately bought it as soon
as I thought I ordered it. But so, yeah, power
is a big issue moving forward, not just you know,
not just California, but really everywhere, especially with these data
centers trying to suck up more and more power. And

(32:29):
that's a whole other topic of AI, and we've talked
about that briefly on other shows, is that the AI
is above even man, it's it's above, will be careful.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
On top of that, add the out of the electric
cars exactly on the especially in California where they have
the rules now where you can't you can't. They're trying
to get everybody on an electric cars in the next
five to ten years. It's ridiculous, and it's like, you don't.
You're going to create a demand that there's no supply
for and so now what are you going to do?

(33:00):
And that's that's the challenge of it. But you know,
coming back to the immediate preparations that we can do
in our in our to prepare for winter.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
First of all, you know, there's some things you can
do around the house. We talked about the yard and
the pipes and other things like that. But to make
sure you have somebody come out and check your furnace.
You know, you don't want to have that have gotten
you know, piled up. You know who knows, but some
little creature got in there and piled up a nest
and that furnace kicks on and starts a fire. You know.

(33:30):
So I mean that's not that's kind of a rare situation,
but you definitely want to have somebody come out make
sure all the ducting is good. I mean, it's especially
good for just making sure your house is I actually
have a home warranty and I called them the other
day and said, hey, do you guys Do you guys
do like checkups on heaters and air conditionings and like yeah,

(33:52):
And I'm like, oh, that's kind of cool. So sometimes
your home warranty can take care of that for you.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Okay, we got a good question in here from Rebecca.
What are like if you are expecting a semi long
power outage. What are some items you'd make sure you
have on hand? Well, first, like, look at what your
current needs are and then put a plan together based
on that. Like I'll give you the scenario for us,
what our plan is and what we have ready to go.

(34:22):
I'm a big I'm a big propane guy. I love propane.
It stores really well. So I have some small propane
tanks and I have some large propane tanks. I have
multi multiplicity of buddy heaters that are indoor outdoor use,
and so that is one of my primary heat source solutions.

(34:44):
Knowing where my water shut on shut off is right,
you don't. Depending on how cold the interior your home
is going to get, determines if you turn the water
all the way off or not right, And if you
can heat up enough space to keep the water running,
because running water doesn't freeze, but it's to be volume
enough to keep it going. You can keep water running
like in a bathroom, have it trickling out all the time,

(35:07):
as long as you've got enough warmth to keep the
temperatures from dropping too cold. Right, But again number one
first and foremost heat source. Number two right, practice and
see how long that heat source will actually serve that area.

(35:27):
Plan on condensing everybody into a smaller space. Also, then
what is your heat your heating solution for prepping food?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Right?

Speaker 2 (35:36):
If powers out, everybody that's using gas applant or gas
appliance is going to win, right if it doesn't require
electricity to start the stove, right, But if it requires
electricity to start the stove, you're out of luck. And
there are some stoves that don't need that. There are
some stoves that do need that now, which I think

(35:57):
is insane. The older the stove, the better. Also, potbelly
stoves I I want in my next song. I want
to have one of those, But I have I have
just a standard fireplace, right. I don't have enough wood
to last me more than a month. So that's that's
a problem. But that's why I have so much pro pain.

(36:21):
Backup batteries great, solar panels great. If you have electronic
medical devices you need that, or a actual generator. The
more tools you have at your disposal, the better you're
off you're going to be. What else would you, guys,
add to those?

Speaker 3 (36:38):
I you know, I think the most cost effective for
most people is to have a backup generator, just a
gas generator just require some maintenance. Right, you're going to
store some gas, but for short term, which is what
most of our emergency emergencies or power outages have been
been short term. Our power grid is really quite reliable. However,

(37:00):
I'm told is very dated. You know, it's it's obviously
it's vulnerable to you know, being hacked. So I think
we're going to see something. But you know, and some
of the comments here in the chat of course, having
you know, battery bank and you can you can have
whole house, and that can get very expensive. Field tech
somehow got an amazing deal on a five thousand what

(37:20):
slow generator. I don't like, how do you do that
for that? But usually they're really quite expensive, especially I
you're gonna run your entire house, that's much more easily
done with a gas JR nerator. But there's only certain
things you need to power in an outage, like your furnace.
You really don't even need lights. You can use flash lights. Right,

(37:41):
you're a refrigerator, right, you don't want your food to
spoil your freezer which can be pretty high drain. You
know appliances A I have a twenty six hundred one
hour battery bank. It'll run my fridge for less than
twenty four hours, but not my fridge and my freezer.
A generator, yeah, I'll get it eight hours on a

(38:03):
tank or so at full load. So I think you've
got to have some redundancy, multiple different types of systems,
you know, And spoiling food is not the worst thing.
The worst thing would be freezing pipes. You know, I'm
bursting pipes in your house. Wasted food. Yeah, it's painful,
but ultimately not terribly important recover from exactly. But you know,

(38:30):
another thought I had when you mentioned, you know, everybody
consolidate to one room, set up a tent in your
house in your living room. Howere everyone's sleep in the
tent with a heater in there. It's canna be much warmer.
But then again, you've got to keep your house above
freezing so the pipes don't freeze. No way to turn
your your water valve off, how to drain at least
similar water out of your pipes, And that's going to

(38:51):
help minimize the damage. Right, if it breaks, it breaks,
but it's not going to flood your house if you
if you turn it off with in the house. If
it doesn't freeze, you know, between the shut off valve
and the exterior right and to where you have no control, right.
So so yeah, look at those pipes, like Scott mentioned earlier,

(39:14):
make sure they're well insulated there and keep those areas
open to inside heat right where you Like, we have
some cabinets where it's not very well heated in the
house where the pipes can tend to freeze into their
really cold nights. Will open those up, make sure that
air circulating and let that water run, you know. Yeah,

(39:35):
higher water bill is going to be a lot better
than the damage from frozen pipes as well, So letting
water run will help keep it from freezing as well.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
One of my things that I would love to do
next big plans and for future home, but like I
would love to have a solar heater home where you
actually have a solar just glass glass in south facing greenhouse. Yeah,
but whether it's used as a greenhouse or not, but

(40:05):
it's used to heat the home, right, you'd want to
have really good You can use brick, but it's better
to use like adobe block because then it'll hold the
heat and disperse the heat longer for a longer duration.
But there's techniques like that. They do use them in earthships,
which is phenomenal if you ever want to get a
completely prep ready home, those earthships are amazing. There's a big,

(40:31):
huge community in New Mexico. That's that's all it is.
The other option is those rocket mass stoves rocket mass heaters.
Those are phenomenal. I don't know if anyone's looked into
those similar technology, but you're basically using a rocket stove
to create to turn into a mass heater that you
can then use to heat a small home or smaller space.

(40:54):
But it's really really efficient. Uses like ten percent of
the wood that you would use for an actual stove,
so it's a lot less wood. It recycles the smoke
it gets you at the end of the day, it
burns more smoke, more content out of the smoke, has
less fumes exhaust out of the pipe, but it keeps
the heat inside, which is phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I was just gonna add that I got once I
finally got my generators after years of being budding counseled
by there. Yeah, the two and I got you know
that you can get a nice dual fuel generator over
at Costco for seven eight hundred bucks. It's not I mean,
that's that's a chunk of change for sure, but it's

(41:37):
a lot less expensive than the solar petit power banks.
I got one of those. I think I purchased the
Anchor powerhouse and with the panels and everything, I think
it was three or four grand. Anyways, that's that's a
lot more than a than you know, seven eight hundred
bucks at Costco. So I would just say get something,
Start with something, even if it's just a single fuel,

(42:00):
or try to get a dual fuel if you can,
because that's going to be a little bit bit more
advantageous because if you run out of gas, you'll have
propane each you can use and still get some heat
and some stuff going there. So the other thing just
remember about, you know, winter preps, is that you know
you're you know, when you're working with small tools and
things of that nature, they can get cold and your

(42:22):
fingers can get cold. So you want to have some
good gloves that are going to keep your keep your
fingers going good. So that just make sure you have
layers as well, stay stay layered up so that you're
not using as much.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Of the heat.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
And I like the idea of having a tent and
then just using body heat to keep things going in
the right direction to keep warm. Is you know, everybody
get in one room versus having you know, if you
have a big house, don't have everybody spread out. It's
just keep everybody in the same room.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Yeah. Another thing I'm prepared for is I've got a
pigtail already prepared that I can wire into my furnace
where my furnace switch switches off. Most furnesces in Utah
will have an actually light switch type switch to turn
the furnace off. I can take that apart, wire in
a plug and plug that into my battery bank so
I can power the furnace. It needs electricity to run

(43:12):
the fan, the igniter, and so forth. And most likely
I'm still going to have natural gas flowing, so I
can get my furnace up and running pretty quickly. And
uh and it no, a fan ignited don't require a
whole lot of electricity. It's going to run. My battery
bank is going to run that for a couple of
days very easily to keep the keep the house warm.

(43:33):
And again that's you know, my biggest concern, uh is
is of course heat in the winter.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Well that yeah, heat, heat and cooking. That's really the
big two, right, heat and cooking, and you I can
cook out fuel solutions or similar fuel solutions for the cooking.
The other part is making sure you have access to
the emergency services lines. Right, So you got to keep
your phones, charge your devices ready to go. But that's

(44:01):
you can let all the other phones go and just
have one running, right. You can simplify. If it's a
long sustained just in your area, then it might be
a time to like, okay, let's relocate temporarily to one
of our backup locations right with friends or family in
another city, another county. If it's multiple counties wide and

(44:24):
it's going to be long, long term, then you might
look at relocating out of state. Right. This goes back
to planning. We have a resource at preproatoc ratio dot
com on our resources page where you can actually download
planning guides. I want you to think about like backups
on backups, on backups, do you have the fuels you
need to keep warm? You have blankets? Do you have
a tent? Do you have all these tools set up? Right?

(44:46):
Backups on backups on backups, It goes to our book
the ready radius, like have what you need on hand
and around you. That can get you to another place
that has more on hand and around you. Right, that
then gets you to a bigger, better place. Right absolutely,
absolutely absolutely look at what you have, run the scenarios
in your head and say, okay, where do I have

(45:08):
gaps and fix those gaps. Prioritize it based on temperatures.
Do you have elderly do you have children in your group, like,
prioritize them because they're going to be more susceptible to
the weather, the temperatures and the other problems that you're
going to run into.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
Especially if you have medical devices that you need to
have power for. Those are going to be critical breathing machines,
SEATPAP machines. Just make sure you have power backups for
all of those things, especially even if you have to
have a separate power bank for those things. It's worth
it to have those and then try to do your
best to get those charged and keep them charged as

(45:48):
much as possible. Especially if you have like seatpap machines,
you can you can kind of use those throughout the
night and then during the day set up the solar panels
and charge anything that you need.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Funny, I have the Opus battery bank and I have
a seapap, and I wanted to see how long and run.
If I ran it with a humidifier, I'd get almost
a full night's sleep before it would die. Absorb the
whole battery. But what's funny is you can actually turn
off like you can turn off the humidity on your seapaps.

(46:21):
If you turn off the humidity, I could go three
and a half nights on that battery without recharging it.
So practice with your stuff, test different ways to do things.
See if there's a power save mode, like play around
with your medical devices and see what other alternatives you
have so that you can serve the battery or the
power in those cases.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, and this is a great point as well. Surge
protector for you to medical devices depends on the quality
of battery bank you have, if it's a pure sign
wave type and verter because your electronics, Kate can get damaged. Yeah,
that's a great point as well. And then you know
field Tech keeps posting here that you know, go to
the marketplace, go to your Craigslist. Uh, there are people

(47:08):
who will give you insane deals on battery banks apparently
a great place to you know, I've I've had a
couple for over ten years that are still working, and
I'm actually, I'm actually pretty surprised. Surprised. But it's more
about the charge discharge cycles than life lifespan on lithium batteries.
So they should still work even even though they're you know,

(47:30):
ten years old. So yes, so that's uh, you should
be able to get some good values that way.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
One of our Facebook commenters just let us know multiple
sturdy wives with hairy legs as an option. You know,
whatever works, right, dogs earlier, right, use body heat, huddle up,
Rebecca said, you should dog right, huddle up, guys. Like,
what's interesting is is how many thousands of years did

(47:58):
we live without power?

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Right, and we were just fine. We in today's society,
we've forgotten how to live that way. We've gotten lazy
because we've been so blessed.

Speaker 3 (48:11):
But also the way we live it's a more fragile
lifestyle as well. Right, Obviously we're we're cramped together in
communities and and we don't have wood stoves in our home.
I have a gas fireplace, and that that will probably
work in an outage if you know, if not, I
can hook it up power and get the ignitor going,
get the fan going. But yeah, I mean I grew

(48:33):
up with fireplaces in my parents' homes. We could easily
start a fire and make a huge difference. But we're
definitely handicapped in the way you know we've been, the
way we live. Definitely harder to be to live without
without power. So but yeah, another coming up here was
careful with CO two. So we're gonna say something.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
I was just gonna say, we take for granted the
all modern conveniences that we don't really think and so
that I think it almost gives us a little bit
of a disadvantaged even to think of scenarios because we
don't even know what scenarios are possible in a lot
of cases because we've just never seen or heard of them.
But you know, a couple of years ago when we
were when those big snowstorms came through, people got stuck

(49:25):
in their car for hours on the highway. People were
even found unalived in their cars because they didn't have food,
they didn't have heat, they didn't have water, and they
just it's not good. I remember even there was a
bunch of people that were going through can't remember what
it was. All over the country there was different huge snowstorms,

(49:47):
but even through like Utah in California, there's that Donner
Pass and that was huge the snow. People would get
stuck in that and snows buried them, and so you
got to have ways to get out, even if you
have have a shovel in your car to kind of
dig yourself out of anything that might happen. So, you know,
don't I don't think that you could go too well.

(50:09):
Obviously there's things you can do too much. But at
the same time, I'd rather be over prepared than under
and so that's something with a car, you can go heavy.
We've talked about that several times, especially if you're in
a car that has you.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Know, you should.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
The heavier the stuff you have in the car, the
more it grips to the ground, and so you might
have better traction even in a snow or ice situation
as well. So that's something to think about too. But
definitely have your cars geared up, like after your house
is ready and you're prepared there, just make sure you
have all that you need in a vehicle so that

(50:44):
you don't get stuck and if you do get stuck,
you haven't whatever it takes to kind of survive. You know,
I am watching these watching these rescue videos people towing
people out of places. You got to have some of
those phone numbers on hand before you get into those situations.

(51:05):
So I would suggest, you know, make sure you have
a power bank with you in your car, like a
little small one of those power banks, so you could
charge your phone at least once or twice. Make sure
that you get to you know, have a good set
of phone numbers, emergency contact phone numbers that are in
your phone. If not, then definitely have them on you know,
a piece in your folder. But I would definitely make

(51:28):
sure that you have food, water, blankets, and good snow tires.
Make sure you have the right you know, add to
freeze the right WinCE you'll wipe your fluid in there.
And make sure, you know, in snow areas, you got
to have one of those devices where you can actually
chip the ice off your windshield because you know how

(51:49):
long that and that's not necessarily the survival thing, because
you could just turn the heater on if you have time,
but it's definitely a good idea to have as much
as many tools as possible to free or so you
can have better vision as you're driving as well. So
just some of my thoughts.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Yeah, absolutely, I've got I guess a few more things
before we sign off here positively comment there. First of all,
what I love about winter is the camp camp fire
therapy sessions. Right, there is really something to be said
about sitting around the fire and staring at the fire

(52:29):
and getting that you know, we have a lack of sunlight,
but the frequency of a fire can be you know,
very therapeutic, very healing. I think it's very calming and
I love sitting around the fire in winter. And then
my other comment was going to be for we are

(52:49):
currently also in crypto winter. If anybody really knows what
that is, it's just a season that it's a cycle
that cryptocurren. He's when they go down. And this I think,
especially Bitcoin in this particular case, and from all the
commentary I've heard, is that we are currently in a
crypto winter. And I think that the thing to apply

(53:11):
with with that is that it's not just a physical winter, right,
it's it's it's the economy and and I think we
all see that, right, I think we all and I
don't mean to speak for everybody. I think we've been
in a recession for you know a number of years now,
and it's going to really start showing its head ugly ahead.

(53:32):
And it's starting to show because of the government shutdown,
even though I mean dollars are still being spent like
crazy and the US isn't going to debt despite in
spite of the shutdown. And so I think I'd like
to use this as a reminder of, you know, how
bad it can get. You know, that's me. I'm I'm

(53:54):
a I'm a doomsday prepper, you can call me that.
So I'd like to, you know, think in word case scenarios,
think about what could be the worst case and what
do I do to prepare myself. And part of that is,
you know, having enough cash on hand, having you know,
buy money out of the bank and put it in

(54:15):
other resources instead of in the bank. And so I
think that's just something to stay aware of, is that
there are cycles and there are ways to insulate yourself
from from those cycles.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah, I agree that we need to be warrey of
the economics that are happening, because there's a lot of
things that are not looking very good on that home front.
So just be watchful and be aware. If you've got
a ton of money in the stock market and no
money in cash or gold or silver, I would I
would recommend a rebalancing. If you've got a bunch of
money in cash and you've got a bunch of money

(54:54):
in gold and silver, and you have a bunch of
money in the stock market, that's fine. You know you'll
probably be okay. But I wouldn't. I would just say,
be ready for economics to change the world cycles. There's
a there's another guy that I follow that quite frank.
He talks about how the dollar is positioned and it's

(55:15):
been so strong for so long that to fail would
be it would be catastrophic. And I'm like, yeah, that's
exactly the point. He thinks that it's never going to
fail because it's so strong, because it's so necessary, because
everybody's so counting on it. And I'm like, that's a
point of view for somebody who doesn't understand that the
world elite is trying to just destroy the place, and

(55:37):
that's a that's an EVENTU, that's everything is going to
be okay, everything's going to turn out or right. People
are are good. The world leaders are good. We all
want the better, the greater good. That's an outlook there.
And for those of you who've been hanging around and
for a period of time watching what's going on in
the world, you realize that there's some things changing and
there's some shifting going on right now, especially with our

(55:58):
current administration, even some shifts and shifting going on. And
this we'll see how long this government stays shut down.
But it's that's not that's not helpful, it's not helping
the situation. Let's put it that way. And I don't
mind about getting a two thousand dollars check, but I
don't even know if that's gonna come for one and two.
And if it does come, like just pay down the
dag of debt. We're thirty eight trillion. Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Like that King is not gonna make a dent. I'd
rather take the cash myself.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Well, and every country in the world is in debt trillions.
I think it's like three hundred and eighteen trillion dollars.
You're the largest in debt at thirty eight right, But
here's the thing, who are we in debt too?

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Yeah, that's a big that's a question.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
We're in debt to the global banking cabal. M four
people set that up. Read read the creature from Jackal
Island and understand this that is and that that is
what props the entire stock market. That is what props
an international trade. It is funded by war. It is

(57:04):
funded by by the manipulating markets. Like it's it's when
that beast finally gets slain. It's not just going to
affect the US. Right when the US, when the dollar
gets disposed of, it's a global catastrophe. Like, it's not

(57:28):
just an American catastrophe, It's a global catastrophe. One of
the funny things is I think about you know who
the largest holder of dollars of one hundred dollars bills
in the world is China. It's outside of the United
States euro dollar. Yeah, the people who own who the
people who actually carry the most physical one hundred dollar bills. Uh,

(57:52):
it's the cartels, It's Europe, and it's China. Those are
the big three. Interesting, they all have a huge stake
in what's going on here in the United States. So
when Red Dawn pops off because of the economy, I
think I'll look at this moment, say yes, Scott was right,

(58:12):
and right very often, but that one feels eerily.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
We might we might have a little bit better, We
might want to make friends with the mafia and the
cartels because they might have the most resources at this point.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
I don't think they'll survive in northern Utah very well.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Yeah, a good point.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
All right, final thoughts, friends.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Well, just just remember that seasons, if you have a
if you live in an area where the seasons change,
make sure that you're changing as well or making your
accounting for those changes in the seasons and preparing and
being ready for it. And winter is no joke. And
we don't want to be caught. And there's actually scriptures
that say that those who you know in the end times.

(58:55):
I think I'm reading actually was just reading Matthew the
other day, and Matthew twenty four talks about I think
that's where it was said to something along the lines
of you don't want to you don't want to have
to flee in the winter because it's not the time,
it's not a good there's just too many other elements
that are coming after you. And so anybody who's familiar

(59:15):
with the Pioneer Heritage of Utah knows that there was
a huge group that left way too late in the
season and they got stuck in the winter and they
had some really really serious things they had to they
had to come up again. So you don't want, we
don't want to mess around with the winter. We want
to be ready for it as much as possible and
be able to survive through it.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
My cool, and I think it's my last thoughts, is
it is? You know, I'm always looking to the past
to prepare for the future, right, that's my motto. And
our ancestors they started preparing for winter as soon as
winter was over, right, as soon as spring came in.
They they got their gardens going and they were getting
ready for the next winter. And I think that should

(59:53):
be our right, So that's the mindset I try to have.
And so this is shouldn't be anything new, you know,
to any of us, but it is, I mean, because again,
we live in a very easy existence, right, We're very

(01:00:13):
we're very pampered, and that's gonna be, you know, I
think ultimately, our downfall. So if we start to prepare,
if we prepare it every moment, then that's gonna be
our best chance. For and I hate to say it
for survival because this at some point will be a
game of survival. And uh, if you have the eyes

(01:00:35):
to see it, then I think you know we're gonna
be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Yeah, big time. We We live in the most fragile
time in the history of the world. In my opinion,
I don't I don't think we've ever had a situation
where people have been weaker mentally, emotionally, and physically than
they are now, and systems that we rely on have
been more outside of our personal control than ever before.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, And so now.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Is the most critical time in your life to be
prepared to get on top of things and be thinking
just like well, just like Shane said, planning for next
winter now, right, be doing everything you can now to
be ready for the next four seasons. Because the reality

(01:01:29):
is is if the water stops, it's typically three months
before it's back, right like and I'm talking like seasonal
you can last the season. Depending on where you live
in Utah, it's it's a three month deal. Like the
water stops, there's a big drought, like, you could be
out of water for three months. So always always be
planning on having that water that food, but then a
way to take care of your necessities medical, then your

(01:01:53):
heat and warmth and like prioritize medical first, but do
what you can. Get prepped, stay press, and stay ready minded.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Awesome, Well, thanks guys for listening. You've been listening to
great Prepper Talk radio Radio for the Ready Minded, the
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Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Take care, guys, se you guys tonight.

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