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Urban Lady Prepper Episode · Eye Opener Society

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Hey everyone welcome to the eye opener
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society i want to welcome everybody and thank
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everybody for joining us on this really
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a historic episode because really this is the first episode as the eye opener
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society where hannah is not joining us um i know i've been cryptic on facebook
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for those of you following me on facebook i've been kind of cryptic i was giving
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Giving little kind of messages and hints and all that,
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you know, behind the scenes, we are real people going through real life,
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going through real situations.
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And logistically, it gets difficult when, you know, Hannah has a two-year-old
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and they went away kind of short notice on a vacation.
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And so they left, even though I had this show lined up and it happens.
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But this is good. I have Brittany with me. Brittany, thank you for joining and
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being a host for tonight.
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Hi, everyone. everyone thank you gary for
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having me back yeah for sure i
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i appreciate you joining and uh like i said just standing
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in here i just want to be 100 clear that hannah is not gone forever this is
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one show we may lose her again at the end of the month because she's actually
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leaving the country to go on vacation i'm the only one who doesn't go on vacation
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sitting in front of this microphone is my vacation but i want to jump into this
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episode because this one is really good.
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Um i'm hosted on podbean that's where eye opener
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society is hosted and over the
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weekend or something like that they always have like this promote yourself sunday
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and so other podcasters could drop their links
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and all that and i like that because i like to you know
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try and find another podcast to listen to and i
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got so many of them and i ran across
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two and this one's been fantastic for
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me because it's different and i couldn't
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you know really i can't
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get over the fact that it's so important and but as i'm going to give it the
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eye-opener treatment too as well because there's so much that's involved in
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this and i'm talking about prepping and i don't care if you're prepping for
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a small little you know power outage for a couple of days or the apocalypse if you're not
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starting at some point and getting things in order.
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And I'm not just talking about storage of food and water.
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There is so much more to it. And it's actually becomes almost a lifestyle that
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you have to do in order to be prepared.
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Today, we have Lynn Jordan. She has the podcast Urban Lady. I'm sorry.
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Lynn Jordan, why don't you jump
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on and introduce and you're going to do a much better better job to it.
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Tell the audience everything about urban lady prepping and what's going on with
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that and where we can find you and all.
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Oh, hello. Thank you very much for having me on the show. And thank you, Brittany.
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And I'm sorry, I didn't get a chance to hang with Hannah, but that'll come.
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But I love Brittany. Brittany has some great questions.
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But yes, my name is Lynn Jordan, and my podcast is Urban Lady Prepper.
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And it focuses on single moms and
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single females who live in urban
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areas and how to get them involved
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in prepping so we're
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dealing with you know maybe limited space limited
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budget so I just want to kind of coach them into
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getting involved and just being more prepared like you said from a small
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event from a cup from a storm that may take out power to maybe someone she loses
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her job or you know something cataclysmic happens a disaster happens so it's
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not just a budget thing or a space thing it's also a mindset thing which is
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why I think if this is a a good intersection with what you guys do at Eye Opener.
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But you can find me on Podbean. That's where we found each other.
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I'm also on Facebook, on the Bird app, because it'll always be Twitter.
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And let's see, I'm also on Instagram, and it's all under Urban Lady Prepper.
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It's pretty consistent with that.
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And I do have a website, urbanladyprepper.com.
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That is where my blog is. pretty much everything I do is based off of the blog.
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They're pretty, they're concise. They're very easy to read, I believe.
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And I do cite the sources that I use to get the information.
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And I use that as a springboard for the podcast where I expand on those different
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things and give some examples of how I experienced it or how someone else may
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have experienced something that brings up a prepping issue.
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So that's pretty much what I'm about, just trying to get the word out.
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You know, the weather is getting more extreme and we're having all these different,
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you know, social events, weather events.
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Again, you know, the economy with the job thing is switching out and AI,
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all these different things are happening. And I think that especially as women, we earn less.
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We have maybe a job that could be replaced by something else that we just need
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to have in our minds that if something should happen, can we at least be able
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to subsist for a certain period of time?
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And especially if we have kids, if we have pets, there's a lot.
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There's a lot. So if there's any way that I can help the ladies out there kind
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of get into that mindset and be more prepared, I think that that's great.
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But that being said, I think that the information I provide is for everyone.
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I think everyone can benefit, especially if you live in a city.
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There's nothing that...
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There are some things that are particular to the ladies, but it could just apply to anybody.
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I mean, everybody needs to store water. Everyone needs to be prepared,
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you know, to have some extra food around, you know, an extra power source,
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maybe be a little more aware of the weather.
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So it can apply to everyone. Everyone is welcome.
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I know there's a lot of gatekeeping in prepping and a lot of extremism in prepping and all of that.
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So, you know, I'm a very centered, very practical person. So I just keep things
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very nonpolitical, very neutral to make it easy for everyone.
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Anyone that's listening that wants to get more information on prepping will
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not feel excluded or not feel that I'm not speaking to them.
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That and that's important um when i
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when i spoke to you um off the
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air here i said i was always interested in
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prepping i always uh tried reading a lot
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of books about it and all but when i heard your show
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i just didn't realize because i was just looking at prepping as
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a whole and i just didn't realize
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and when you sit and think about it single females single
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males people with disabilities people with pets
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people with children it's going to
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be different for each person and
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how to do this so let me start by asking you uh lynn what actually started you
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in prepping and when did you actually start prepping uh well i grew up in for
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the most part in an apartment building in the city up in queens where i'm from
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please we're both from new york so So, yeah,
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but I grew up in an apartment building and it started with having water because
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our management had this great thing.
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They were great with their maintenance work. They would always take care of stuff.
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But the bad news is if they had to turn the water off, sometimes you knew about
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it in advance and sometimes you didn't.
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So you'd get up one morning to wash your hands, take a shower and you turn it
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off and nothing happens.
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Or you turn it on and you're like, you, what's that?
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I'm not touching that. that so we had a mean
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cola habit back in the day i mean we would polish off two liters sodas like
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it was nothing back then so we got in the habit of cleaning them out and putting
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water in it so anytime that we just weren't caught without water on top of the
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fridge we'd have it under the sink well that dead space was and if for some
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reason the water was out or if there was some weird
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advisory going on or if they're like you know cleaning the pipes sometimes they'll
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run water through the pipes like you don't touch it for a couple hours we could
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just grab a bottle of water boil it or you know just have it to use so that
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was so that was kind of prepping without really realizing if you're doing it
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and then um after i had gotten married.
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He was from the army. So he was the guy that always had, um,
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he had always had the extra key. He always had a pen.
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He always had, um, you know, he always had a thing you need and he was the MacGyver guy.
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So from him, I kind of got the, okay, what do you mean you don't have an extra key?
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Like, well, I don't. So he kind of got me in the habit of making sure I had those things.
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You know, he always had the knife. He was the guy that had the little knife
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in his little pocket, at, you know, he was that guy.
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So I kind of, I got used to having those things on me because I just got really
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tired of going someplace and it's like, I'm locked out of this,
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or I don't have a pen, or I don't have a piece of paper, or why didn't I,
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you know, why did I do something a certain way?
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Why can't I address this right now? Why don't I have this tool?
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So I got more into doing that because of him. So it was just a very gradual thing.
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I didn't just wake up one day and go, wow, I'm just going to do this prepping thing.
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By the time I saw doomsday preppers and started hearing about prepping,
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I realized I was kind of doing it.
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You know, my grandmother was from the depression era. My first husband's parents
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were from the depression era and they always had food because they knew what
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it was like to not have food.
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So they always had extra food.
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And I kind of got in the habit too. I'm like, oh, well, I really don't feel
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like going to the store, let me just reach in here and grab a can of tuna.
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And again, you know, when I started getting more into prepping,
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it's like, well, I kind of am.
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And then it went from there when he started hearing all these different scenarios.
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And the big thing was finding out just how scarce fresh water really is.
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People don't realize it, but we do have a water issue.
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And we've gotten so accustomed to just turning on a faucet and having something
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come out. And that's it's a thing.
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We're draining our aquifers so fast. And when you first hear it.
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And again, this is way before conspiracy and social media was kind of a thing.
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Um so i started looking into it
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like wow okay this this is kind of a problem and with
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the weather and with you know everything getting hotter and and
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i can't be i have to make sure that i have water or
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access to water that could be cleaned because it's
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it really it's a finite resource so unless you're gathering rainwater
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or you're sitting on a well and that
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so that really that started drawing me in more just
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paying more attention to things like the water and what's
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going on with our food supply um and then
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once and you're like wait a minute those are the two most important things you know we have
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food you know water food and shelter and it kind of it just kind of grew from
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there okay um now britney i i'm glad you are here because it's so great that
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you're a single female and you're living in a kind of urban area i'm assuming
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because i haven't been so this would.
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Apply to you i mean i know
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you're probably not prepping i'm sure right now you don't have
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at least a week's worth of water or something on hand and
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that's fine because most people we go through life not even realizing that there's
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a potential that we could be without this you know without supplies food shelter
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clothing at any point so how does this hit you right now Like sitting there
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as a single female, not prepping.
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I mean, is it something that you give any thought to?
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Oh, I haven't, I haven't given so much thought to this. It's actually really interesting.
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I think it's made me realize how much I actually take for granted every day.
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And I always say, as long as my son and I have food, water, and a roof over our head, we're good.
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But just things like, as I was listening to your podcast, Lynn,
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I'm realizing I lost power probably about six months ago.
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And it was out for about 14 hours.
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I had no flashlights. lights, I had nothing to even be able to support myself during the day.
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I had to go out to my car to charge my phone. So that prompted me to at least
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get the flashlights first, extra batteries.
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I have bottles of water. I do have at least two gallons of water that are the fresh water.
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Um but it also little
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power banks things to help so because if
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my phone goes out i have no communication with anybody outside of my apartment
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complex and we're in a very like urban area so it's definitely made me start
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to think and one of the things that you said it's not just.
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Prepping for a zombie apocalypse or a natural disaster.
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Yes, those are things that I have to keep in mind. But what if I lose my job? What if I lose power?
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What if our water's out for a couple of days?
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How can I support myself? But
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not only myself, I have a little human that I'm raising and I have a dog.
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So those were things that it's just immediately got me thinking and just made
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me realize how how much I've actually taken for granted most of my adult life.
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I'm never thinking about this. Yeah. And it's, it speaks to,
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you know, we're great. You know, it's great that we're in a country where we
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don't have to think twice about where we're getting our food from.
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If we can't reach into the refrigerator, if we can't reach into the pantry and
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I say this to get what we want, not that we need it, but we can't reach in and get what we want.
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We have choices. And if we don't like those choices, we can walk down to the store.
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You know, we can go to the corner bodega. We can go to a BJ's.
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We can go to a Wally World, you know, and go to a place where there are aisles and aisles of food.
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So we've gotten very accustomed to just being able to walk in and get what we
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want and not think about having but so much around because everything is convenient.
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And, you know, the convenience, I think, has made us not just physically lazy
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because everything's in the drive-thru now.
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Now, you know, that's one thing, you know, everything's a drive-thru.
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You don't even have to get out of your car to get it.
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You can sit at home. I mean, even now, and I'm guilty of it too.
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It's like, I don't want to go to the store. Just look up Amazon and have them bring it to me.
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And this is where we're at and we're blessed to have that kind of lifestyle, but.
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Everything, everyone becomes equal. I don't care where you are in the world.
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Everybody becomes equal when you don't have power.
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Because what separates us for a lot, a lot of places in the world is that we
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have such abundant energy.
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I mean, our grid is, is, is a hot mess, but we have power when we want it.
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So unless for some reason we don't have it i
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mean we're able to do just about everything but
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like you say once the power goes out and you have a tv
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you can't turn on you have a phone that was that
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your battery is dying you're no different from someone who doesn't who's never
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had either so unless you take out the convenience factor and say okay if this
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if for some reason the power went out or like just even in this country and
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all you need is one tornado and you're out of stuff or
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a hurricane and you're out of power and you're out of food and you can't get to anything so,
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it's not about being super paranoid but just saying you know what if i
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can go to the store right now could i go in
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my refrigerator in my pantry right now and feed myself or feed my kids or because
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i have two dogs i don't have kids but i have two dogs um you know can i take
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care of them and not have to leave my house for a week you know what if it's
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too dangerous because of the weather or because there's debris or because people
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are losing their mind in the street and i don't feel safe going out of my house?
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Am I in a position to stay put and be able to feed myself and feed my kids and my creatures?
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So that leads me into a question, and you may have covered this in one of your
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podcasts, and I'm sorry I didn't get to listen to all of them.
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But for me, I know right now I don't have a week's worth of food in my pantry
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that would support myself, my child, and my dog would be good,
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but for at least my child and I.
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I know one thing, always when snowstorms come and it kind of shuts things down,
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I tend to get very anxious and very overwhelmed.
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I guess I kind of answer my own question, but do you have any advice for people
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who do have that anxiety or tend to get overwhelmed when they're trying to start
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this process and how to aid it?
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Like, is there something that you recommend we start first with and then just add on?
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Well, the most important thing definitely is water. You know,
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if you have extra stored water, you can survive longer with water than without food.
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Usually when I'm one of those people, once you put me on the spot with figures,
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I'm lucky if I remember my name.
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But I think you can go for a week or like seven days or 10 days without.
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That sounds extreme. But you can go longer without food than water.
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So that's your most important thing. If you have a couple of cases of water
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just sitting somewhere, that's better than nothing.
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This way, if you have water to drink, and that's the other thing people don't think about.
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If you don't have water, if your water's turned off for some reason,
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or like where I'm at, I'm in Georgia.
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We had a couple of water main breaks, and either you had to boil your water
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or you didn't have any water.
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So it's not just, okay, you need this to drink. People kind of overlook the
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fact that you need to wash your hands. You need to use the bathroom.
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You need to cook your food. Some of your food needs water.
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It's great if you have noodles and pasta sitting there to fix,
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but if you have no water to cook it in.
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So that's the most important thing. If you just grab a couple of cases just
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to have it, I think that's a great place to start.
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And just go for the cheap stuff that you don't hate. And that's just the best way.
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You can walk into a store and get a bag of pasta for 45 cents.
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You walk in there with 20 bucks and you can get a few cans of beans,
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get cheap pasta, get yourself some rice.
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Again, you know, it's not going to be gourmet. It might not be the thing that
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you would want to eat every day, but it beats being hungry.
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So, you know, start with the index and you can get so many things for under three dollars.
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You can walk into a Walmart or walk into even the more expensive stores where
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they have their bogos or they have their, you know, three for ones or all of
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that and say, you know what? but let me just grab a couple of cans of this or a couple of cans of that.
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And I think that's the best place to start. This way you're not busting your budget.
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Just take that extra $10 and just buy those couple of staples,
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and you could just stick them in your pantry and have them.
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And I think that would make you, between the water and having that kind of food,
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and you said you already have flashlights, you have a power bank,
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that's the best place to start.
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You had also mentioned, as far as resources.
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One of your more recent episodes, you're saying like the dollar stores can be
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your best friend when it comes to prepping because they do sell all those cheap
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flashlights and things of that sort that come in handy.
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And it's a great resource even for food.
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Now, while on our show, we always talk about the poisons in food,
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but all that salt that's in those foods, it will last a lot longer on the shelf
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if you're buying it and storing it away.
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So don't shy away from it just because, hey, this is not nutritious.
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It'll be the most nutritious thing you'll have at some point if you really are into prepping,
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and that's the only resource you have so it's
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not a bad idea to stock up on things like
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that yeah and and as
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but as much as people talk about or nutritionists
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speak poorly about things like ramen noodles oh yeah absolutely
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horrible i mean you can't eat that every day uh the so and i'm a salt person
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and the sodium will kill you you can't just eat all of that but if you don't
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have any they last forever pretty much as long as you keep things stored um
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and it's food you know the the thing is when you're if you're anxious about a situation,
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if you're going through like a mini disaster or mini shortage or a situation
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where the power is going to be out for a while, you're not really worried about
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your palate as much as you're worried about eating.
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So in that case, you want something that has some sort, it might not have the
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most nutritious value, but you're looking for the calories. You're looking for that caloric density.
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You're looking for something that'll take the crease out of your stomach. So it's hard.
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It's just like when your back is hurting and you can't think about anything
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else it's worse when you're hungry so yeah you know having a couple of those
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is not the worst thing in the world that they might not be something that you
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would eat regularly but if it's something that you can throw into a bug-out bag.
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Yeah, it's, it's good to have that. And dollar stores are great for like for
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little flashlights and little toolkits and little first aid jammies little for dog things.
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I mean, I got a couple of leashes for a buck. I throw it in their bug out bag.
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And you can you can do a lot. So it's just a matter of just taking a minute
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to browse and say, you know what, we get my kid likes this, you know,
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my kid likes to play card games, or here's some hard candy, or,
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you know, here's some, here's some rope, here's some tarp, here's some cheap towels.
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Um, so yeah, so I think dollar stores are great for that kind of stuff.
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And it's not stuff that it's not the highest quality stuff, but this isn't stuff
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you're beating on every day.
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These are things that you might just need in a pinch, but at least you have it.
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So yes, I will champion them for that reason.
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I mean, there are reasons to hate dollar stores, but for something like this, I think they're great.
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Well, I, just to put this out there, I didn't grow up around the dollar store.
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So when I did run, that was of course the same when my power went out.
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So I went to the dollar store and I was actually amazed by how much they had
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there that just around the house would be useful.
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So I got so many different flashlights, one for every room, just so I know that
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if it ever goes out, I know exactly where it is and I can grab it and then get
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to wherever I need safely. So yeah.
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Yeah. I'd, my, my thing is I think if you have the ones and usually they come
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with the, with a little hoop, with a little hoop or a hoop, the little hook,
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a little cord or whatever.
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I have one on every hinge. Every room has a flashlight.
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So in the dark, other than it's more of an advanced thing, but if you're in
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your house, you should know how to be able to navigate your house in the dark.
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So that's one thing, but I know that if my lights go out and I have,
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I know where everything is. I don't have to look.
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I even where my dog's leashes are. I know which dog is which leash.
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I don't even have to look because I keep things in the same place,
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you know, the same place every time.
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And I just know where things are. And if I'm ever in complete darkness,
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I can find things because I keep, I know where they are. I know that I'm going
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to have a flashlight on this hinge.
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I know their leashes are over there. I know where my power banks are.
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I don't have to see them to go get them. Um, so yeah, I, I think that that's,
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that would be one tip I would give people.
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If you've got those little flashlights instead of trying to,
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cause everyone has that kitchen junk drawer that you open, it's a horror show.
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It's like a whole, it's like a whole closet in a drawer.
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Um, yeah, I just get them out of there because when you forget about them and
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then they turn into like this battery Uzi thing.
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Um, but just keep them, keep them on the hinge. I think that that's one piece
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of advice I can give you with those.
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I'm going to go down a few roads now with
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you just to be fun and just to be the eye-opener
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society if anybody listens to this show knows me
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and my conspiracies but i when i
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started reading about prepping and again i'm like you you put me on the spot
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i my brain retains only certain things but the important things like authors
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names and all i i don't recall them because i was reading a book on prepping
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and i i really wish i had the author's name if i find it i'll put it in the show synopsis,
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but i just want you to think about this for a second and let me know your opinion on it um.
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In the most extreme case all right of
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an apocalyptic event whether
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it be war or even a major
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storm because we've had major storms i mean if we look at louisiana you know
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with the dams breaking and um just even in uh was it katrina in new york and
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the flooding and everything yeah yeah so he's there for that yeah now these
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things can happen but if you're prepping and you have
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everything stored right and you know where it
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is you have it in your house you have a week's worth of water you
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have all this food the one thing i was taught by
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reading this in the worst case scenario you
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can't take all that stuff with you and there's going
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to be times you're going to have to get mobile
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now i could go into a lot more where they were saying you have
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to be mobile because staying in one place is bad and if
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we're looking at an urban area all right i'm going to i'm gonna put this
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all together for you this is just my mind working
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and i that's why i wanted you in here because i'm sure you'll
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have you know an opinion or something on it in an
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urban area because we all know rural if if we really do get something very apocalyptic
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rural you probably have a little bit more chance for survival there's more places
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to go less people um you have more area to store stuff. You could stay put for a while.
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Urban, these big cities, major cities like New York and all, right?
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The first place the government's going to send people to get you is going to
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be in an urban area. They're going to pull you out or they're going to want you to leave.
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You're not going to be able to stand behind.
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And so you're going to lose all that stuff that you accumulated as far as your
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survival stuff, your waters and all that.
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You may be sent to certain camps, FEMA camps and all that.
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Can we still prep and survive something like that?
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Yeah. And actually, I think it was a blog from like a couple of weeks ago.
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It was the whole question of, you know, to bug in or bug out.
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And while you always have those lone wolf types that are always like,
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you must constantly, you must move, you must be ready to move immediately.
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And that and there's something to that and you should be ready to go but at
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first it's just like when you learn cpr you learn first aid the most important
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thing you can do is assess the situation well awareness is the first thing the
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second thing is to be able to assess the situation so,
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if for example for like a hurricane you know it's coming you know you we usually
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get plenty of notice that a hurricane's coming.
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You don't know how strong it's going to be. You don't know how long it's going
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to last. It might end up being nothing. It might be the worst thing ever.
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But the bottom line is, is you have the knowledge. If you've been aware enough
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to listen to the news and you know that it's coming, your best defense is saying,
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okay, well, I have four days to make some choices. So what am I going to do?
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If I am put out or for like a tornado or a situation where maybe there's a fire
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and your building's fine, but they want you to leave because they're not sure
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if it's going to be structurally sound or if there's going to be an issue and they evacuate you.
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If you have any sort of heads up, then that's when you have to make your choices.
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You might only have an hour or two. Like if it's a fire or if there's a tornado,
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you might have to make some choices quickly.
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But, you know, again, if you have your bug out bag ready, if it's a situation
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where you have a couple of days and you can say, okay, well,
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I might not be able to take all of it, but I've got, you know,
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my buckets of, you know, my rice and my beans and I've got some water.
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Order, you have a couple of days to make those arrangements,
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whether it's putting it in your car and taking it to a friend's house that's
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out of that area or to a relative where maybe they can hold it for you.
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It's about kind of thinking, it's just, you always have to be just a little bit ahead.
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And I think that that's key. But awareness is the big thing.
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A lot of people get caught off guard and they shouldn't be.
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An example was when I was first moving to Georgia, I had to go back and forth
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to New York for a couple of times.
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And my first trip back, in fact, people wanted me to stay in Georgia because
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every time I showed up, I bought a horrible storm with me. One was a Nor'easter.
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The second time was Irene. And so I came up for Hurricane Irene.
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And the friend of mine was house sitting.
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This is after my first husband had passed. And I'm still working with everyone
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about what to do with this house.
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And I had a friend that was house sitting. And I'm booking up there because
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I'm like, oh my goodness, what's going on?
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I got to board up the house i gotta make sure everything's okay and he was like
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what storm and i'm like what do you mean what's you where have you been he knew
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nothing about it and when i told him i said it's a hurricane you know we don't
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get that much but when we do they they tend to they tend to suck,
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he was like he was just so meh about the whole thing like he did not care,
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So I pretty much had to take care of that by myself, but it just blew my mind.
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And I'm like, and this was a person that was constantly on his phone.
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That was constantly on social media.
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How do you, I just couldn't put that. It just blew my mind that he was that
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unaware and it was blissfully unaware.
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And that's dangerous. With all the information, all of the media that's out
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here, regardless of what you listen to, if it's going to be a disaster,
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there's going to be some sort of big weather event.
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Everybody's talking about it. so whether you've been through one or you've been
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through none or you've been through a hundred it was never a big deal you have
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to make choices and if you're responsible for children or animals,
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even you don't care you have to think about okay well what if it is the worst
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case how am i going to explain to my kid or you know comfort my animals if um
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i just didn't do the bare minimum,
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so the it can at least if someone says yeah a storm is coming pay attention because you may
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have to get up and get out so is your bug out bag ready can
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you make arrangements for the things that you've stored already you know
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can you throw it in the car and go you have a couple of
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days grace i mean sometimes you're just not going to have the warning you know
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wait but when you do you know be grateful that you have that notice and that
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you can make the arrangements because especially if you have pets you might
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not be able to take them with you you know some shelters will allow you to bring
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your animals some won't me i'll sleep in my car.
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You know you know they go where i go so you
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know if they can't go in then i'm not going to go in but you know
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it's those are the kind of things that you kind of have to have in your back your
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mind if i have to leave now what am i going to do with my critters you know
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what am i going to do with my stuff you know how much of this can i bring
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with me so if you
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have the notice then have a plan because you
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don't want to invest that time and money and then you
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you put yourself in a a position because you either
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didn't pay attention or you didn't take it seriously enough and now
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you can't you don't have the opportunity to save your
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stuff and i would say in regards
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to all that the best preparation is mental preparation
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you could have all the stuff all
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lined up everything you possibly need but if you
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don't have that mental preparation then you're just
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not going to survive and i think that's where our
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shows kind of intersect because i am a big i have
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a couple of entries um you know i forgot
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what the title is have my own stuff um prioritize prioritize
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to survive um and um
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more on the mindset tip because it is about mindset uh you don't have to turn
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into this obsessive doomsday prepper you know nihilist you know the bomb's gonna
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hit and yeah and god bless those guys because they have great you know they
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have great tips you know you You learn a lot from these folks,
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even if you might not agree on whatever scenario they're talking about or think
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that that's a little far out.
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But you just have to have in your mind, and it is something that I talk about,
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is first that it can't happen to you.
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There's too many people who walk around to like, I can't believe this happened to me. Why not?
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You know you're no better than the next guy so is it okay if it happened to
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somebody else i mean i think folks just have to get out of this this bad thing
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will never happen to me and yes it can,
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so and even regarding weather i mean
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as east coasters what's the worst thing that ever happened to us it got really cold
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yeah maybe every 10 years we'd get a hurricane and we had
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hurricane glory and remember what a big deal that was
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we never had a hurricane we're like oh my god tape
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the windows knows who has got who's got masking tape it
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was a whole thing because we weren't used to having hurricanes now
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we have them all the time not all the time but we have them more than we ever have we've
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had we have earthquakes now so all of these people that said oh well that's
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not something that happens to us because we live here you can't really say that
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anymore well so you have to have in your mind okay well it can it can happen
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here it can happen to me so that's the first thing,
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Then you have to think about, okay, well, based on my area, my area is more prone to what?
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Is it more prone to hurricanes? Is it more prone to flooding?
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Is it more prone to tornadoes?
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And going back to what you were asking earlier, Brittany, that's,
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you know, another angle to take when you first start prepping.
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What is my area as far as a natural disaster?
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What am I more prone to? Are you more prone to wildfires? fires.
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So you have to look at your area and say, okay, well, anything could happen
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at this point because right now it's a wild card for everyone.
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But if you're more prone to those hurricanes or those tornadoes,
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but you're in Kansas, you know, you're going to have to deal with a tornado
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before you'll deal with a hurricane.
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So you want to gear your prep towards that.
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I think it's, it's actually really important just to call out for the people
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who say that'll never happen to me or I'll never ever be in that situation.
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Four years ago in 2020, we were all kind of in the similar situation.
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I'll be honest. I was the first one.
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When it all started, I kind of shut myself out from it because I was like, that'll never happen.
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It's not going to come here. We're not going to have anything.
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And then I just remember standing in the parking garage at my job,
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getting a call from my son's school saying that it's going to be closed for two weeks.
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And I'm like, okay, now what do I do?
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And while everything kind of stopped for everybody else, I think looking back
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on it now, I definitely wasn't prepared for that.
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With the food, you know,
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Look at the shortage of toilet paper, how scarce that was. Like,
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I know that's something simple, but.
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No, it's not. It's definitely not as simple as people think.
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And I actually brought that up. One of the things, the entries that I had was,
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you know, is it stockpiling or is it hoarding?
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And that's exactly the example that I used.
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You know, stockpiling, I think, is what most preppers are trying to do.
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You want to make sure you're not stockpiling if you get extra something to make sure that you have.
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You are hoarding if you already have plenty of toilet paper,
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but you're going to make a run on BJ's and you're going to clean off the shelves.
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You have no place to put it, but you're making sure that nobody else gets in it.
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Or there were so many people who were caught off guard. And because there were
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so many shortages, you know, you couldn't get this, you couldn't get that.
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You can only get two or one or two of something.
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A lot of people really freaked out. So when the hysteria started about toilet
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paper, everybody's booking to the store.
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Oh, yeah. So it was a lot of that. I mean, I definitely did learn from that.
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I at least keep six rolls at all times. But to me, it's also similar to my gas tank.
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I never let that go under a quarter tank ever.
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Because, you know, for me, I guess I'm prepping it away every time I drive.
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I never know if we're going to have a snowstorm, if I'm going to get stuck somewhere,
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or if I'm going to have to sit in traffic for two, three hours idling when we've
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had some crazy hot weather,
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you can't just sit there in the heat.
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But I also keep a blanket, extra clothes, shoes.
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I don't have food in my car, but I keep all those extra items in my car in case
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something were to happen.
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So in a way, it, you know, listening to you, it's been an eye-opener,
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eye-opener society, but it's been an eye-opener because I'm like.
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There are all these things that I should be preparing for.
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And there are some that I do do, but especially as a single mom,
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something happens. My son depends on me and I can't change that.
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And so, and I live in an apartment complex.
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So being able to have like my own garden or things, but, you know,
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you shared tips like the Irish soap, like how to keep animals away and stuff.
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So next summer, one of the things I'm thinking about is growing a little garden
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on my deck area and being able to keep that stuff away.
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But that way I can be prepared if something were to happen.
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Kudos to you for putting stuff in your car. Yeah.
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That's a big deal. And I actually even said to the word, like you said,
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never let your car get below a quarter of a tank.
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You never know if you're going to get detoured. And it could be anything.
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Thing. It could be an emergency situation.
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It could be a live shooter situation. It could be a water main break.
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So aside from also address no more than one way to get to your house,
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never get below a quarter of a tank because if you're detoured,
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you don't know how long that detour is going to be, what happens if you get lost.
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And now you're stuck someplace you're unfamiliar with, with no gas.
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So if you don't feel safe, you can't even leave.
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So you might be able to call AAA or call a friend, but you've got to sit there and wait.
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So yeah, so you're definitely ahead of it. If there's a lot of people will run
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it till it's down on fumes and, or my favorite.
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Oh, I just run out of gas all the time.
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Girl no no because you'll
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go somewhere in the middle of the night and end up someplace that you don't want
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to be and you're by yourself and you don't have gas and lynn
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you spoke about this one of your recent and i really like this and it ties in
39:11
with prepping but it's you know not exactly prepping but for single females
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you were talking about situational awareness and i thought it was the most important
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thing and i wish everybody would listen to that um it applies to to, I mean,
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not just single females, anybody's vulnerable to violence,
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you know, and if you are keeping just a quarter of a tank, and like you said,
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that can jeopardize your safety at some point.
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So it's that sort of situational awareness that we all need to start thinking
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about reading rooms, reading crowds,
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that person walking down the street coming towards you, friend,
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foe, we We need to trust our gut instincts and more so like I'm talking,
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you know, from a man's point of view, you know, even though I have to be that way too,
39:59
but it's a lot different for single females because they think they're the most vulnerable.
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Sometimes they're not, you know, as some ladies are packing heat and good for
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them. I think that's fantastic.
40:12
You know, I'm a big believer in that, but it doesn't work if you're not aware
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of your surroundings or just being, or having that situational awareness.
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And Lynn, I do, I applaud you for bringing that up and talking about that because
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beyond the prepping and all.
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That situational awareness, because when everything does collapse and you are
40:34
prepared, you still need that situational awareness to get through and to actually
40:40
use your skills and prepping that you've picked up on.
40:43
Because if you're not aware of what's going on, that gunstock can help you.
40:46
There's no weapon that will help you if you don't see the threat coming.
40:50
I mean, no matter the situation, you can get surprised at any time with anything
40:54
and not see it coming. I mean, unless you're Bruce Lee or, you know,
40:57
Liam Neeson, and that's not even a real person.
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They're just, as regular people, you know, who are just learning self-defense
41:05
and I don't care how well trained.
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And you think about how poor the shooting average is among cops.
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And these are people who are trained.
41:12
You know, when they get in a stressful situation, they were like,
41:15
what, 13% or something like that, 33%. It's not great. And these are people who are trained.
41:21
So, you know, here you are just a regular person in the street and yes,
41:25
you have a gun and yes, you know how to use it, but you have not trained most of us.
41:29
I mean, you do have training for civilians and that's great.
41:33
But you know, as regular folks, if you, that's your first line of defense is
41:39
your being aware of your surroundings, that gun's not going to help you,
41:42
that knife's not, that pepper spray is not going to help you.
41:45
If you're not, if your head's not on a swivel, If you're not paying attention
41:49
to the people who are there, because you're still going to get surprised and
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then you don't have time to get to that thing that you're depending on for protection.
41:56
And that's key. And for women in particular, we've been taught that women have very strong intuition.
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There's a reason why the phrase women's intuition is a thing.
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It's because we have that.
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I don't know if it's because we bear children and we have to be more aware about them.
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I don't know. You know, I mean, that's someone with more education on it can
42:19
explain, but it's something that we have.
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But as we get older and as we grow up, that's really kind of beat down on us
42:27
that, you know, I don't like that person or I don't feel comfortable or I don't feel safe.
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Oh, you're just being hysterical. Oh, you're overreacting.
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Oh, you're being overly sensitive. And when we get trained out of listening
42:40
to our gut and yet, like you said, you are the most vulnerable.
42:42
It's not insulting. I mean, there's a reason a woman is attacked in this country every nine seconds.
42:47
We were assaulted every nine seconds, not nine minutes, nine seconds.
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So we are a very vulnerable community and we're taught to.
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We're overreacting if something tells us that that inner bell is going off,
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we're taught to ignore it and then we're taught to be nice.
43:05
Ted Bundy made his legend off of women.
43:09
Not just telling, not just saying, no. You know, the same reason that you wouldn't
43:14
walk up to that, you know, the guy with the van offering free candy.
43:17
You know, as women, we're not, yeah, that guy who says he has a broken leg with
43:21
that weird, no, I don't care. Yeah, he's cute, but no. Girl, no.
43:26
Clang, clang, clang, clang, inner bell. Although a lot of his victims went to
43:31
him because that alarm bell was just turned off.
43:36
It's like, no, he can't possibly back. Oh, I don't want to be mean.
43:39
He's like, he's going to kill you. Be mean.
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Say no. Walk away. And I think that that's just something that we have to get back in tune with.
43:51
We have to be able to walk into a room or to an establishment and say,
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okay, well, I know how to get out of here.
43:56
You know other than the way I came in um I
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don't like the crowd so I'm just gonna go uh
44:03
we also have a tendency to overstay well it yeah I
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mean it was great when we came in and now it's not so great but I don't
44:10
feel like leaving leave just go if something's telling you get out go you know
44:16
you don't owe strangers anything you don't owe you really don't owe anybody
44:20
anything you know you have to take care of yourself you have to keep yourself
44:24
safe and especially if you're traveling with children or you have animals in your care,
44:28
you have to take care of yourself.
44:30
And if something is telling you that something's off or something doesn't feel right, then heed that.
44:36
And someone's just, if they're going to be offended, let them be offended.
44:39
But a lot of times, either people
44:41
get it or they were a person who was justifying why you feel that way.
44:47
And I think that's something specific to women that we have to reattune,
44:52
if that's a word, that we have to get back in touch with and appreciate it because
44:57
that's our, that's our first,
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you know, that's a built-in safety mechanism that we've been taught to kind
45:02
of ignore or push or subdue.
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Suppress. Suppress. Thank you.
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Now, I think it's, that's a great point because I just went somewhere last weekend
45:15
with somebody and I had never been there before, but the first thing I do is
45:19
I always look for exits, it.
45:21
Look to see, look at landmarks, try to piece everything together just to take a mental picture.
45:27
Because unfortunately I've been in two situations where there is thought to
45:32
be an active shooter and that's just not fun. And so I.
45:37
And they made the comment to me, they're like, have you been here before? And I said, no.
45:42
And they're like, well, you, you know where you're going. And I'm like,
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no, it's not that I know where I'm going.
45:47
It's just that I always try to stay aware of my surroundings and know where
45:52
the closest exit is or know how to get out.
45:55
And when I get out, then I need to know which direction to go.
45:58
Go so to me that's you know i i
46:01
did let my guard down when i was married because you you
46:05
know is the protector but now i
46:08
have that guard up and i i really don't want to let that down again because
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it's so important in today's age because you never know what's going to happen
46:16
wherever you go and and i think that's natural and i think as women and again
46:21
i you know i was married um you get Yeah,
46:25
and especially if you're the type of guy, like I said, my first husband was an Army guy.
46:30
My second guy was a biker-type guy, 6'3", with the big, beautiful smile.
46:35
But oof, when he wasn't smiling, it's like, is that guy a killer? Is he going to hurt me?
46:39
He had a tough face, but hard gold.
46:43
And it was easy to kind of be more relaxed because I'm like,
46:46
anything pops off, he's totally got it. I don't have to sweat a thing.
46:50
But especially these days, I think that you can have that sense of security
46:56
and let him have that because, and I think men enjoy that and enjoy being the protector.
47:02
And I know that brings up issues for single dating when we're so all over the
47:05
thing, which of course I touched upon too, but you know, it's good to let them
47:09
feel that, you know, you want to have that kind of dynamic where you're giving
47:12
that other person what they need.
47:13
And that makes a man feel good when he He feels that he can protect his family,
47:17
but there's so much going on now.
47:20
I think it's more important for couples, regardless of what the situation is,
47:27
that they have each other's back.
47:30
It's great to have that strong guy that's going to take care of everything,
47:33
but I think everyone's head should be on a swivel because he's not going to
47:39
be able to see everything.
47:41
It's important for you to also be aware too.
47:44
Always just keep your guard up because there's so much coming at us in different
47:48
angles and in different ways.
47:50
The more eyes you have on everything and the more aware you are of everything, it just helps the team.
47:55
I always look at relationships as a partnership as opposed to a power dynamic.
48:00
And I think having a partnership is more important than ever because,
48:04
well, if you're in a couple, chances are both of you are working.
48:07
You're both trying to make the ends meet. You're both trying to find a way to
48:11
take care of the kids and the different responsibilities. possibilities.
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So yeah, so even if you're in some sort of couple situation,
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it's just, I think it's more important to be a partnership so that if you're
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prepping or if you're just trying to at least ensure that, you know,
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as you're moving into the future, that you have some sort of security in all
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levels that you need to work as a team.
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As a single person, I mean, you're doing it all.
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So yeah, so it's definitely good to say, you know what, it's just me and I need
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to definitely be more attuned to what's going on and pay attention and pay attention
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to the people that are around me and where I'm going.
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And the fact that you are paying attention to the areas you're going into and
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knowing how to get out and GPS, I mean, especially for women's a godsend,
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it is nothing better than saying, you know what? I have no idea where the hell I am.
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Where's my GPS? Get me out of here. Yeah.
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Because I wrote in there, when I grew up in, you want to get lost? Brooklyn. Brooklyn.
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If you don't know where you're going, get lost in Brooklyn because there's no numbers.
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Queens is crazy. You know, 112th Road, 112th Street, 112th Avenue.
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Yeah, you get used to that. But Brooklyn, everything was a name.
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So unless you were from the area, you really, you had no idea which way to go.
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It's like, okay, well, you know, in Queens or anyplace else,
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it's like, all right, the numbers are going down. So I know eventually I'm going
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to end up over here. Then you go to Brooklyn. It's like, man, I don't even know.
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And this is pre-GPS and I've gotten lost.
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And I've been fortunate that I haven't had anything. I've had a couple of scary
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situations, but I think that folks in general, I mean, bad things can happen
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to anybody when you get lost and you end up someplace you shouldn't be.
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But don't be scared of that GPS, you know, explore those different routes in
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and out of an area, different ways to get to and from your house.
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We can do that more, you know, in a safer manner now because of GPS.
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So I exploit that because I need to know how to get out of here.
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If there's a water main break, it is a detour, any sort of active shooting.
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You know, there's some places where there's only one way in or out.
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I mean, there's definitely some places like that, But if you're fortunate enough
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to where there's different ways to get where you need to go,
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try them because you may have to use them and you rather say,
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okay, I've been this way before they go, oh man, I don't even know where I'm at.
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I don't know how to get to where I'm going. I don't know how to turn to get towards my house.
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Those are the things that make you anxious. So a little bit of preparation will
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definitely relieve the anxiety of traveling and not always knowing where you're going.
50:48
Very good lynn i
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want to thank you so much honestly this has
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been a great great conversation i hope people take this to heart because again
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we are all vulnerable every single one of us anything can happen at any time
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you need to be prepared so again everybody if you remember Remember, Urban Lady Prepper,
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you could use urbanladyprepper.com,
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search for her on Facebook. I'm going to have all the links in the synopsis.
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Definitely follow lynn hear her podcast and also
51:23
check out her blogs too if you're into reading um
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you do some great story writing you really do i
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gotta say absolutely so definitely check it out because outside of the prepping
51:33
she does um regular uh blogs too stories and they're fantastic and i want to
51:39
thank you again for coming on the show britney i want to thank you for sitting
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in and i also want to thank hannah hannah i miss you i love you i know you're
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not here with me but this This is a historical moment.
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I haven't had you next to me for this show. But Brittany, you stood up and you
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came in. And I appreciate that so very much.
51:57
Yes. And thank you. Thank you for having me. And thank you, Brittany,
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for your great questions.
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And thank you for both of you for listening. And thank you for bringing me on
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the show and hopefully turning some other people on to what's going on.
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So I definitely appreciate being on. It's been great.
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Absolutely. So definitely check out Urban Lady Prepper. Again,
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So I want to thank everybody for tuning in. I want to thank our guests,
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Lynn Jordan. I want to thank Brittany.
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Thank you so very much. Um, this was such a great episode.
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I really felt it. I've been waiting for it and I really appreciate everybody
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tuning in and we'll see you again.
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We got some more great things lined up, so we'll see you real soon.