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If You Know What Hits The Fan, Do You Have A Plan? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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All right, it's our number three. Thanks so much for keeping us company
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and allowing us to keep you company wherever. However we appreciate it. We
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do not take for granted you sharing your time with us this morning show with
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Preston Scott. It is our number three. Grant Allen running the radio program
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in Studio one A. I'm here in Studio one B and I'm joined by
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he's one half of the Talent Group. He's one talent on the Bird Ladies
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and gentlemen, Jad Johnson with us from the Talent Training Group, Talent Outdoors,
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Talent Range, Talent Talent, Talent Talent. How are you. I'm
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doing well, all right. So I send you guys a text and I
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said, I think this would be a timely topic. You agreed, Oh
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yeah, why just it goes along with a lot of what we've been saying
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for a long time and being prepared. You and Charlie touch on this fairly
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routinely on the program. Yeah, and we're not necessarily what I would call
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ten full hat wearing preppers with a with an underground bunker and the you know,
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a conex box buried in the backyard. But we've thought about it.
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You know, it's some of the things that we pay the most attention to,
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is uh, civil unrest, being able to take care of your family,
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right whatever that, whatever that means to you. Uh, that's that's
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what drives us. We want people to be able to take care of themselves,
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take care of their families, and not depend on I think I think
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being a cop for twenty six years, I realized when you need the government's
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help, the we're a long way away. And there's been so many times
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when you know, if you could have just hit the Star Trek transport button
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and gotten there right then you might could have made a difference. But you
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know, the government cleans things up after the fact. It's a reactive force
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always, Yeah, law enforcement fire ems is always a reactive force, and
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where they are hindered by the reality of the time. You know, prepping
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got kind of the tenfoil cap kind of thing back a few years ago when
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the movement really got started, although it's much older than that. Oh yeah,
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but when I say preparing four and then fill in the blank, you
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immediately believe there are two categories that we ought to be thinking about. Yeah,
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you have to think about short term and short short term preparations are always
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going to be there, even if it turns into a long term event.
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Prepping for a long term self reliance is a whole different, whole different set
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of circumstances and a whole different set of categories of things that you would need
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to have set aside and acquire and all that stuff. Short term is you
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know, the long term is probably going to start out short term. You
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know, we're just we're going to have to start out with that short term.
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How do I survive the next thirty days, and that's what I mean
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by short term? How do I survive the next thirty days with no electricity,
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no running water? How do I get home in the midst of civil
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unrest? How do I communicate with my family? How do I get my
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tribe my tribe together? How do I get my people together where we can
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depend on each other. Let's start with communication, because as we were talking
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off, that's where it does all begin, And it starts with sitting down
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with your family and communicating and having a plan to communicate. What are options
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for people? So the first the first necessity for that is the plan.
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If things go bad and the world goes dark, you better have had a
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discussion with your family about where to go. Where are we going to meet
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if things go dark, if the lights turn off and the phones turn off,
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and the computers turn off, and the radios turn off, because all
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of those things are going to turn off without electricity and satellites, and we're
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so fragile as a society or our infrastructure that causes or that allows us to
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have all these things, whether we want to admit it or not, is
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extremely fragile. If you had a scenario where you didn't have cell phone use
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for whatever reason, malware, whatever, and that becomes an issue of Okay,
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maybe there's satellite communication available, you said, but there's still a vulnerability
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because that runs through the computer base. Yeah, all the satellites, to
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my knowledge, all the satellites, all of the radio that's not you know,
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the radio that you and I are talking on right now. If you
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took the network down, we may go away. That signal may stop.
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Not guaranteed, the radio signals are still going to be capable of happening.
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But because we're on a backup generator, so we're going to have power,
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right but a lot of the other stuff. Cell phones are not going to
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work without the Internet. Satellites are not going to work with it, well,
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landlines work any idea? See I thought about that, and I don't
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have the answer either. No, No, probably not. I would guess
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they're probably digital as opposed to being the old analog direct lines anymore. They're
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probably running them through through digital means. There are different options for communicating.
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We're talking about preparing for what if scenario's out there, but we're going to
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take the pro to communications gone and so that plan. Let's talk about that
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plan some morn that meeting place. Well, you have to look at where.
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First of all, you have to look at who you're going to.
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Who's in the plan, who's in the plan, who's part of the plan.
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How broad do we do we get that that? I just call it
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the tribe for lack of a better for lack of a better description, who
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is our tribe? How big of how big is our circle? Because ultimately
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we're gonna need other people. You know, we're gonna need a group too.
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If you're talking about survival in a doomsday scenario, an individual or a
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small family, you don't have a chance. You just don't. It's you
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have. You're gonna have to depend on other people that you trust and that
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know that you know have your best interest and their best interests or their your
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mutual interest into each other where where you're willing to networking with like minded people.
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Correct, that's that's that's a good way to say it. Thank you,
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But you get the concept, so you know, it's just one of
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those things where let's look at a central location that's that's safe and secure,
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and it's probably going to be somebody's residence, you know. Make it to
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grandma's house, make it the grandpa's house, make it to our house,
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meet at the school. That kind of thing with your kids, you know,
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don't don't leave the school if it's safe there. If it's not safe
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there, you know, or if you don't feel it safe there, make
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it somewhere else. Would you set it up in such a way that if
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you can't make it there, then we will gather there and we will come
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to you and find you. Sure, I mean, that's any plan is
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better than no plan. Okay. That then it's sort of I'm reverse engineering
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this in my head because I know that you and Charlie have discussed the what
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ifs if an EMP drops and that has the possibility of rendering vehicles unable to
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run because the starters get fried the selenoids inside. But there are means to
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protect our ability to at least move around for a while. Yeah, there
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are devices out there. We actually carry them in the store. You can
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find them at other places. There are devices out there you can connect to
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your car that will give you a great deal of protection from an EMP electromagnetic
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pults. You can also set up things to protect your house from an EMP
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or your generator. You know. Basically, anything that operates that has an
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electrical current or a battery attached to it can be affected by an electromagnetic pults.
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And electromagnetic pulses can come from anything from our sun that gives us warmth
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and light can cause them solar flares. That's kind of what they blame the
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AT and T outage on with solar flares. And then they said there was
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processes and they were expanding their network and blah blah blah. Right, but
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there have been there have been solar flare EMPs in our history in the last
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two hundred years that were so powerful or powerful enough to actually shock telegraph operators
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that were using the telegraph systems. Back in the eighteen hundreds there was an
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event that caused a great deal of communication outages back during the telegraph days.
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So I guess what we're driving at here, folks, is you have a
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plan and then you better secure a way to protect your ability to travel somewhat.
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That gets back to then providing fuel for your transportation. That's another story.
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And then there's of course food and water. We're going to talk about
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that next sixteen past the hour twenty one minutes after the hour. JD.
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Johnson of the Talent Training Group talent range dot com is a good place for
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you to start get some training for something else that I'm sure we'll talk about
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next next few segments as we relate to the idea of prepping, preparing for
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and then you can just fill in the blank from there. I mean,
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obviously, you you get playing, you you find your family, you you
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create a way to bring the people together, and then it's all about survival
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in its most basic form, and that's water and food. Water first,
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absolutely the uh. There's a lot of stuff out there now that water purifiers,
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water filters, desalimators, all of these things where we can convert non
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potable water into potable water. The question becomes, where do you find water
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if you don't have a backyard pool? Lakes, rivers, streams, Yeah,
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a lot of places we live around here. Dig a deep enough hole
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in the yard and it'll show up. I don't mean to make fun of
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this, but the fact of the matter is some of these lakes have real
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big alligators in them. I mean, these are considerations that you have to
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have if you're going to go wandering next to Lake Jackson or Lake you know,
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Mikasuki or whatever, hunting down water. Something to think about is like
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you said earlier, this is this is why preppers get the tenfold hat.
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Yeah, the moniker if you will. That's why the people looking at them,
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guys are crazy. If you think about this stuff a lot, yeah,
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it'll kind of make you crazy because every time you're you're running through a
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scenario, you got to think about the rabbit hole. The rabbit hole that,
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yeah, exactly. You know, the water purification JD has changed dramatically
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in the last decade and a half. You know from life straws the ability
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literally to put a straw down into a source and know that you can safely
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consume that water too systems that allow you to convert your pool from right,
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whatever's in there, it's a drinkable, potable water. Right And and believe
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it or not, you can buy your own well drilling kits that are not
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real expensive, that are fairly simple with a hand pump on them. And
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most of the folks listening in this area right here, your water table is
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going to be, you know, not that far down. And now it's
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not the best water in the world, but if you're running that through a
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filter or through through some type of a purification system, it's you know,
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it's not gonna kill you. When you get to the food side of things,
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I get the impression that's where you need to really be thinking a little
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outside the box and you better be networking. Absolutely. You know, our
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grandparents or my grandparents that raise me the canned you know, they grew up
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during the Depression, They lived through the Depression, through the Great Depression when
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there was no money and there was no no anything. And having the knowledge,
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skills, and ability and the equipment to can your own food, to
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preserve food is really lost in our world today for the most part. So
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we rely on freezers, freezers and refrigerators and it's not difficult to can vegetables
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and preserve meat. It's not difficult. You buy a book, don't google
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it, you know, and that's the thing, Well, I'll just google
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how to. No, Google ain't going to be there. You know.
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We're talking about hard bound books with the instructions, and you can find those
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things are out there. They still print them, folks, you know,
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and you can have you a library of how to the military has produced hundreds
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and hundreds and hundreds of handbooks, manuals for survival techniques, survival tactics and
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stuff and that that our military teaches in the in the survival training classes,
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and that stuff's public. It's it's available, just just get it pre twenty
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two thousand and eight. But uh yeah, I mean it's it's out there
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and it's available, so you know, it's those kind of things that everybody
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a lot of people don't think about that, you know. You know,
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obviously, I'm a proponent of being able to defend yourself because ultimately, if
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it gets bad and you have people that aren't capable of taking care of themselves
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first, their first plan is to take away from you that have done all
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this preparation. You can do all the preparation in the world that you want
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to do, and if you can't defend what you have, you know somebody's
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going to take it away from you. I want to go there in the
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next segment or two. I want to talk about that side of this,
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expanding on the personal defense part of it all. I'm curious, though,
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back to food real quickly, how much of someone's reserves should be those kind
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that come in tubs that are the freeze dried that or you know, twenty
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five year shelf life stuff. You know. I know people that say sixty
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days. I know people that say thirty days. I know, you know,
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everybody's got their own opinion and there. We haven't tried this, so
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it's all theory at this point. I know personally we have about thirty days
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worth could be stretched out a little further. If I get to keep my
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freezers running with a generator or solar or whatever, if I can keep stuff
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frozen, then that's going to expand my time out to months instead of days.
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And that's sort of the way you need to be thinking. If something
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really does happen, you have to immediately assess what kind of time span are
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we looking at? What type of event are we talking about? Yeah,
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and that those scenarios are just they're endless, endless, endless scenarios. You
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know, it boils down to what do you feel comfortable with in your scenario?
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Do you hear what he's going to say? Next? The Morning Show
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with Preston Scott on News Radio one hundred point seven. Doubufla. All right,
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just making sure that those of you listening to the program in the Tallasse
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area are aware there is a bad accident. We've gotten a couple listeners point
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this out. I ten between Thomasville and Monroe eastbound. All right, eastbound,
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So if you're heading westbound, tunnel vision, tunnel vision, don't look,
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don't don't ah, don't look, Just keep on moving. And if
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you're driving, if you're driving eastbound, avoid the area. Just just avoid
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it. That's all we can tell you, all right. Jade Johnson with
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us from the Talent Training Group. We're talking about preparing. I don't want
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to say prepping because too many people have given it a bad name, negative
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connotation. Yes, yes, yes, you brought up firearms. Let's talk
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about firearms for well personal defense. So yeah, I mean it's one of
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the things we have to consider in times of civil unrest or if there's a
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martial law or some scenario, scenarios where you can't go to the store and
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acquire food, you can't buy anything, you can't go out and source things
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like we do normally every day. I mean we make two or three trips
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a week to the grocery store. There's a lot of scenarios in existence where
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that's not gonna happen. So the first one of the things we have to
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be concerned about is you're hungry, the hungry neighbor down the street that you
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can either choose to to help or you can choose to say, no,
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my family's coming first, and I don't have anything for you, and you
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don't ever know how that person's going to react to that thing. So having
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a firearm and ammunition and it is going to be a thing. I mean,
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if there's there's no let's just say, doomsday scenario that I can think
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of where firearms are not going to be a primary source of survival and probably
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a source of trade commodity, a commodity to be traded to people that don't
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have firearms. So firearms and ammunition is gonna be currency. Know the currency,
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the money you have in your pocket right now gonna be worthless. Does
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that include Raine ammo any kind of ammo? Okay? The reason I say
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that is because I think for a lot of people it probably makes more sense
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versus buying a bunch of nine millimeter self defense rounds. To buy as much
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of the range AMO that that you can get and and just know that that's
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what you got. Full metal jacket, cheaper, cheaper, full metal jacket.
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Raine ammo will still is still a viable It's not close to being the
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best thing we can have for self defense, but it's better than a sharp
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stick, you know, into so yeah, better, as my granddaddy says,
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better than a pocket knife. So let's let's transition from handguns to long
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guns. What's the pecking order that you think is most important. Handguns are
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for self defense me to you, okay, you know, me being able
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to defend myself at close range from somebody. Shotguns and rifles are for distance.
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That's handguns are not greatly effective at distance. Shotguns, you know,
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are going to give you fifty yards of distance. Rifles may give you five
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hundred yards of distance capabilities, and they're all important. You know, shotguns
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are probably better for procured procuring food. You've got distance, you've got power
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enough to to take down an animal. Well, you got different shotgun shills
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that you know, everything is on the menu in one of these scenarios.
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I want to talk about that because I'm a little uncertain as to what that
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means in terms of a shotgun. I know that it's the gun of choice
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for poultry for foul yep, But I want to talk more about that.
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We got one more segment and then in two weeks we got Charlie coming in
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with his take on all this. Am I going to be rolling my eyes?
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I don't know. Charlie's thinks very long term. Yes he does,
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and he's detailed a lot of stuff in. He's put a whole lot of
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stuff in place to go long term. That's why I wanted to get both
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of you to weigh in on this. Different perspectives with some commonalities in that
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Venn diagram. This by far is not an exhaustive discussion on this topic,
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because, as we've said earlier, the rabbit holes are many and long that
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you can go down on this subject of preparing for But we've come to where
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we talk frequently, and that's firearms. Shotguns are the most versatile and would
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be the starting point for a long gun to secure if you don't have one.
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Absolutely, absolutely twelve or twenty. I'd say a twelve gauge because it's
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the most prolific gauge caliber. If you will. It's not a caliber,
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but you get what I'm saying. There's more twelve gauge shotguns and more twelve
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gage ammunition than all the other ones put together. I never would have considered
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a shotgun except for like ridiculous, I'm being charged by filling the blank and
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I got nothing else in my hands. You say that it is not just
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for foul. No, so with the versatility of a shotgun is unmatched by
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anything. So you can go from number eight bird shot, the shills,
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the shot gun shells that you would use to shoot clays with or shoot sporting
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claves. Number eight. It's the size of the shot. There is a
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It would take me another show to explain to you how they came up with
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those numbers. Just know that those numbers. The smallest shot that I'm familiar
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with is number twelve, and it's tiny, like grain of salt, kind
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of small or maybe a little bit bigger up to you know, that's number
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twelve, number eight seven and a halfs and eight six's or what people use
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to shoot squirrels. Doves left of a squirrel if you hit them with a
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shotgun. Absolutely, okay, I'm just ask you may only be putting five
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or six little teeny tiny little pellets in him. You might not. You
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can shoot a squirrel with a shotgun as long as it's not close and you're
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shooting, you know, up up in a tree. You might not even
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know that he's been shot. You may not even see that he's been shot.
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Now, deer, deer, man, I've killed a ton of deer
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with buckshot and slugs hogs too. But let's talk about that. Ideally,
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if you were to be hunting for deer in an emergency situation, and you
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know, we'll let other people figure out the what fish and wildlife has to
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say about that in an emergency situation, they're not going to be around.
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That's I'll let other people figure all that out. But the bottom line is,
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what do you want to be hunting a deer or a hog with?
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If you have a shotgun Buckshot, which they come in different sizes as well.
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But the standard buck shot is called double alt zero zero size zero zero.
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It's a thirty two thirty one point five caliber pellet, so it's about
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the size of a thirty thirty or thirty out six in diameter. It's a
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round ball, and there's nine of them in a standard a standard two and
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three quarter inch twelve gage buck shots. You've got nine of those thirty caliber
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pellets leaving the barrel at the same time, okay. Or a rifled slug,
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which is one usually a one ounce one ounce to it's an eighth single
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projectile type of thing that goes through a car door. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. They're devastating it at and out to you get good with the slug.
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Your your shotgun is capable of killing the deer hog one hundred plus yards.
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Okay, it's just you have to understand the trajectory and what's going on
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with it. But they actually your rifle is smooth or a shotgun is smooth
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bore, okay, So it has no rifling in it. It has no
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way of imparting spin on a projectile. So the rifle slugs the spin is
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put on there by grooves cut into the slug. Itself, so you do
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get some accuracy. You have to have that spin to have accuracy, otherwise
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your range is very limited. Parting question as it relates to rifles. Would
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you suggest an actual hunting rifle or for the ease of conversion and use,
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getting one of those nine millimeter car beans. Uh, Probably a hunting rifle.
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Okay, nine millimeter car beans only going to be effective probably fifty sixty
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yards because of the weakness, the lack of the projectile, the projectile of
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the cartridge itself, and of the rifles. I would go with a five
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five six AR or two twenty three whatever you want to call it. The
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AR fifteen round Okay. It's the most prolific, very capable of killing a
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deer. It's not necessarily ethical in my mind to use on a regular basis
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for deer hunting. It requires some degree of marksmanship to be effective immediately.
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But an emergency, an emergency, it'll do just fine. Thanks for the
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time today. It was. It was an interesting visit. Appreciate it as
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always. Thank you. JD. Johnson with US Talent Range Talentrange dot Com
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