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The Emergency Playbook From Chris Begley A Bunker Free Guide To Disaster Preparation · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: I guess you could say it's a page out of
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  Speaker 1: the old radio days, and can I really do that?
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  Speaker 1: Since I've been in radio since the age of fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: stretching all the way back to the disco era. The
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  Speaker 1: one thing that's missing from today's music scene, it's history,
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  Speaker 1: which was the reason why we created the new podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Music's Lost History. I'm going to totally set you up
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  Speaker 1: on what song we're talking about, but the question is
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  Speaker 1: can you guess it before I share it? Music's Lost
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  Speaker 1: History only on Arrow dot net, rre dot net. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: your exploration. Oh my god, Chris, you give us a
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  Speaker 1: book of reality here. I think it might have been
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  Speaker 1: designed to scare the bejbi's out of us, but it
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  Speaker 1: also gives us the opportunity to have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: confidence as well as certainty.
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  Speaker 2: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, and what you do? I mean? You open
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  Speaker 1: up my heart so many different ways, because you know,
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  Speaker 1: we always think of, oh, you know, tragedy. We're thinking hurricanes,
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  Speaker 1: we're thinking bad wind storms, or we're thinking bombs bursting above.
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  Speaker 1: But you go so so differently in the way of
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  Speaker 1: all things that could knock us off balance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we tried to in this book, you know, think
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  Speaker 2: of the realistic scenarios that that you could potentially expect.
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  Speaker 2: And now you know, not everyone's gonna be in an
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  Speaker 2: area where you're gonna you know, have earthquakes for instance,
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  Speaker 2: But but yeah, this is there are a number of
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  Speaker 2: scenarios we talk about well.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I think that it haunts
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  Speaker 1: me the most. And I swear to God that I've
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  Speaker 1: read it so many times because I want to be prepared.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about the wildfires, I mean we've seen
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  Speaker 1: it in California, Hawaii and now spoke in Washington. I
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  Speaker 1: live in a forest, Chris, and I fear every day
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  Speaker 1: that somebody's carelessness is going to cause something that's going
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  Speaker 1: to take all this away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know that's of course where the preparation
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  Speaker 2: comes in. And part of it is how can you
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  Speaker 2: prepare where you are to resist that by making you know,
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  Speaker 2: your yard, in your house perhaps more resistant to fire,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But also there's there's going to be more
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  Speaker 2: long term things and community based things. How do we
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  Speaker 2: because you're exactly right, it's it's it's this you know,
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  Speaker 2: unknown person that that could prompt this this disaster, and
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  Speaker 2: so part of uh dealing with that is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: through education or the types of action that would are
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  Speaker 2: going to be beyond us as individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you kind of a personal, up to
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  Speaker 1: date question, because people from the nineteen eighties are not
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  Speaker 1: going to understand this. But I think sometimes that you know,
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  Speaker 1: the these personal battles that we're facing, they're kind of
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  Speaker 1: self created, aren't they. Aren't we in a position to
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  Speaker 1: where it's like, oh my god, I'm the one that
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  Speaker 1: started this mess. I'm in a situation where I need help.
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  Speaker 1: What am I going to do? I'm reaching for your book,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Wealth.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, one of the You're certainly right when
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  Speaker 2: we look at something like climate change or some political
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  Speaker 2: or economic issues, Yes, they're things that we brought on ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that to me, it's not the blame
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  Speaker 2: game isn't really that interesting. It's what can we do now?
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  Speaker 2: You know, great, had we started dealing with something like
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  Speaker 2: climate change, you know, fifty years ago, when we when
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  Speaker 2: we had really good documentation already that this stuff was happening,
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  Speaker 2: but we didn't do it. So there's you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: really not a lot of use in dwelling on that.
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  Speaker 2: But what do we do now that things have changed,
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  Speaker 2: and so that's what we we we were focusing on here,
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  Speaker 2: what is it that we can realistically expect and what
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  Speaker 2: given the realities of where we live, our budgets, our families,
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  Speaker 2: our own abilities, how can we get as ready as
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  Speaker 2: we can.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was such a major tool for us when
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  Speaker 1: we were recently doing some camping in North Carolina, and
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  Speaker 1: that is is that the heating index was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and thirty and everything went wrong in the RV. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I had to turn to your book because I was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with heat that I'm not used to and all
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we're breaking down. I needed to
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  Speaker 1: know how to survive in that moment of now, and
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  Speaker 1: your book really does offer that kind of visual.
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, thank you, and I'm really glad that was
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  Speaker 2: able to help you in these situations. We talk about preparing,
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  Speaker 2: We talked about before the event, during the event, and
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  Speaker 2: after the event, and part of our idea was that
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  Speaker 2: this was a book you could read before. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: the preparation is something you do before, but to get
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  Speaker 2: a sense of how we approach it, some of the
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  Speaker 2: philosophy behind what we're talking about. It's also a book
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  Speaker 2: that you could grab in the moment to look, what
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  Speaker 2: do I need to do now?
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  Speaker 1: Please do not move. We're coming right back with Chris Begley,
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  Speaker 1: A Bunker Free Guide to Disaster Preparation. We are back
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  Speaker 1: with Chris Begley. We all have weaknesses. We try to
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  Speaker 1: be the tough guy no matter where we go in
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  Speaker 1: our everyday streets of America or around the world. But
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  Speaker 1: we have to have that assurance that there is an
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  Speaker 1: answer if we kind of trip, stumble, fall, trip, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go in a different direction and you give us that
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  Speaker 1: it's like you you held back on nothing. You really
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  Speaker 1: are very honest and transparent here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we tried to be. And one of the you know, uh,
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  Speaker 2: one of our the points here is to to not
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  Speaker 2: be sort of fear mongering. And that doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: we don't they we don't face realities, but what it
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it's just the opposite. We do face the reality,
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  Speaker 2: and as good or bad as it is, that's much
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  Speaker 2: better than you know, sort of the sensationalization of some
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff which which we see. You know, our
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  Speaker 2: idea for this was what are you realistically gonna encounter
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  Speaker 2: and what do you need to get through? That, and
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  Speaker 2: so you know, one of our suggestions, for instance, get
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  Speaker 2: all the documentation that you're gonna need to recover from something,
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  Speaker 2: the titles to your property, the insurance papers, birth certificates,
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  Speaker 2: marriage certificates, things like that that you know that's not
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  Speaker 2: a sort of the you know, sexy survival tools that
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  Speaker 2: are advertised, but that in the moment, that's really what
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  Speaker 2: you wish you had prepared for.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you give us some real brave honesty here, because
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  Speaker 1: I would have said, you know, in fact, I live
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  Speaker 1: with people inside this forest where they sit there and
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  Speaker 1: they go, well, I got my gun, I got my
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  Speaker 1: gun to protect me, I got this, I got that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going And then I find this inside your book,
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  Speaker 1: weapons matter less, and I thought, thank god, Chris, you
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  Speaker 1: step forward with that, because you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, think about any disaster that you've you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've been through or been in proximity to a flood
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  Speaker 2: or a tornado. You know, is anybody out there thinking,
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  Speaker 2: thank god, I had plenty of AMMO. You know, that's
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  Speaker 2: just not what happens. We have this fantasy in a
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  Speaker 2: way that after things go bad, that one of our
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  Speaker 2: principal responsibilities or things that we're gonna have to think about,
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  Speaker 2: is protecting our stash of you know, can food from
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  Speaker 2: the neighbors. That's not that, That's just not it. What
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  Speaker 2: you need is the neighbors. What you need is your community.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't care how much you have stashed,
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  Speaker 2: it's never going to be sufficient. We have to rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: We all depend on these larger systems and you can't
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  Speaker 2: really divorce yourself from that and imagine that you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be okay. So, you know, that's the community focus
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  Speaker 2: that we talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you got to come back to this show anytime
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  Speaker 1: in the future because what you discuss inside this is
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  Speaker 1: every day, every day, and I just cannot you know,
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  Speaker 1: promote that enough. That people need to be prepared every day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're hoping that this is something that makes it
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  Speaker 2: more accessible, that makes it more possible for people to
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  Speaker 2: take those first steps, because it can be daunting and overwhelming. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you enjoy your day today, and thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for your outreach because you are educating an uneducated public.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much for your part in that too.