Correcting the Funk: Get Back on Track

Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number four and eighty nine. We're in season eighteen. Somewhere in there. I have no idea what episode number within the season we're at, Hey, Chen, what's up? Hey, Chin's up? I figure I'll figure I get the episode number figured out again once we start doing the Las Vegas Years. Las Vegas is out. You guys could go check it out. Read the book. Everybody was wondering, you know, what happened to the Las Vegas Years. So that's finally done years later, and we are going to podcast that book. It's got some great, great material in there. We're just trying to make that work. Maybe when I get caught up with the audio drama. I have a. Tentative date for season five's audio drama release. It will be in April, so I think that's when I'll be what's that. No, fooler. Yeah, well, okay, it could. It's gonna be in April. I just can't say if it's the beginning or the end because we're gonna have prepper camping there, right, and that usually puts me off a week August August, Oh yeah, we're not gonna have prepper camping there. I just got so confused with the change of the date. What your. I got, Yeah, twenty twenty six. We got Big Prepper Camp News though. Okay, so April for the audio drama that they is gonna stick for for sure, and then I don't have u I mean, it's a lot of work, but uh, I believe I. Can get it all done by then. If you're one of the performers who haven't got your lines in yet, then please do so as fast as possible. That would be great. No, I already have it halfway bill, it's really just catching up the video with it. But Big Prepper Camp News. We moved to a new location. Oh so excited. No more, no more switchbacks through the mountains. No more switchbacks through the mountains, which which I'm gonna miss a little bit. I really liked Orchard Lake. Uh yeah, I love the campground. Yeah, but we're. Gonna have like hotel rooms and like I don't have Yeah, cabins. There's a ton of campsite. Yeah, campsites vs RVs five. There's gonna be a tent city. There's like seven restaurants at this place. Ah and a bar what yeah the places. I mean not that I'm even a drinker, but you know, it's always nice to have some place to go hang out with that. It's it's actually an equestrian center like International Questions. Right, they have competitions there. Right, We're gonna be like we've gone, We've gone there to watch and practice. It's pretty cool, that is me. What's the name of the center. It's like, try try it. I think it's trying International Equestrian Center. Everybody just calls a. Try look it up, guys, if you didn't go to Prepper camp before, because like the camping situation, where do I stay? Were to drive in blah blah blah blah blah. Everybody should be able to stay on site. Now, yes, those worries are over and we can expand bigger. And so there's this big like horse you know question Like they have horse competitions and rodeos and all this stuff. But they have so much property mm hmm. Where we're having prepper camp this year, we have our own private lake off to the side. So it's not like people coming to the question the poorse stuff wouldn't even be getting in our way. You know, yes, yes, same. Like if you forget something. There's a store right there. There's there's restaurants, there's a bar, you know, like a saloon. There's a whole. Throwing I saw at the bar, all kinds of yeah. So but where we're going to be, it's it's off to the side totally, you know, separated, so we can have we'd still do our own little I like that Pepper camp. Yeah, it's really cool. And we have a lake again. Right, So I went. I went over there with Rick and the first time he took me over there, we're going around like the people, you know, like management showing us around or right on golf carts and stuff. Yeah, And I said, we're going down by the lake and I looked up there was a bald eagle flying over the way. Oh man, see. It's mad to be And then we looked off at the distance ahead of mate. So there's two bald Eagles. Oh so cool. Yeah, I'm I'm stoked. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be wild, and it's gonna be yeah. Amen. Yeah, it's gonna be just way easier. Tie everybody get there, you know, well for me it is because. Oh it's super easy. Yeah, it's it's super Off of twenty six. You take an exit off of that and you can you go a couple of miles maybe, and you can see the Question Center exit off. There's this big globe statue right there at the exit. It's cool. I love it. I'm so excited. We don't you know, we got a hotel room already. We booked a hotel. Yeah, because we're like, we're we're doing that because Brock always has to drive. His truck's too big for me to drive. I'm too little, you know, and so he's got to drive like the whole way. So we're bringing the van and be chilling. Yeah, it's gonna be really. I mean, there was there was something about the Orchardly campground, but this is a whole nother level. This is new experience, new experience, and we can grow. We can grow again, which is never a bad thing. Because we had people that wanted in that we couldn't let in because you can get that many people down there, you know. And the dates changed too, because the September date was giving a lot of people problems. We're in August now. Yes, sixteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, something like that. Here here here, yeah, August fourteenth, fifteen to sixteen. Yeah, yeah, and that works for us because you know, Curse is starting high school this year. Yeah. Yeah, people weren't starting school yet. Yeah. Yeah. I actually went out to lunch with mister Skissmiss five times August, right, I got to see Brad away from Prepper Camp, and ironically enough, ironically enough, we went like to a flea market, so we're like wandering around like we're almost at prepper Camp. I'm like, this is weird because we met at prepper Camp and now we're like wander around flea market. So they were excited about the change of dates as well. He's gonna have the whole family out there, so he'll be out there playing music and it'll be just the good times that we always had and hopefully we'll get more people that can stick around for Saturday night. We always have a spectacular Saturday eight event. And you know, people that aren't staying on site, a lot of them wouldn't stick around for it. Now, with so many people stay on site, I think we'll get a much bigger turnout for that. It's so much fun, you know. And that's when Brad plays and whatnot, so five times in August. If you haven't heard of them, you got to check it out. Yes, good stuff already, So today I'm getting it. I've been thinking about a lot about discipline because as a kid, you're like, oh my gosh, that's the worst word you'd want to hear. And they kind of told us that as parents, and and wow, look what happened to society, you know. And for me. Personally, I've never been like a discipline freak or anything like that, probably to the contrary, but getting into martial arts and whatnot really set me on this path of, you know, having to focus and see your goals attack them. Obviously, I'm a pretty goal oriented person and I stick to what I say. We've been podcasting for ten years now, and yeah, so you know, and it's not because I make a ton of money podcasting. It's because I love helping everbody out and those stories I get that change people's lives are worth every bit of energy and effort that I put into this show. So I can't thank everybody enough for listening. And I've got people that have been here all ten years, so you've come with me on a long journey. And I thought it was, you know, one of those days that I really need to give back. And I didn't want to name. The show like, oh, examining discipline and you know everybody be like nope, right, but I see an overall depression. And you actually sent out that video that was from the perspective of teachers and yeah, and just you know what they're seeing when they ask young adults like where do you want to be? What are you going to do? Oh? I don't know. I just want to make money. I'm gonna win the lotto to do it, Like you have to have some kind of structure to get there, to. Say, I'm gonna be a dentist or doctor, right, veterinarian or something. Play on the team. I'm gonna work hard for Live the Highway. Yeah. Now I want to, you know, watch videos all my life and scroll through shorts because that's the only attention span I have. So I've always had people are like, well, your show is so long, and it's like, well, if you don't want to be here for the show, then you know, come back and watch it again once you have time or whatever. But I'm not going to break it into like chunks, because I just don't think that you get what you could be getting out of the show in chunks. So I've done it a couple of times. Dabbled with like breaking the changing Earth news off, but you know, let's let's be in it for the long haul. Let's have a little self discipline. So I've been thinking about a lot about this, I've been praying on it a lot, and it was time to you know, bring the message of one of the things that we're really really lacking in society is our ability to self discipline ourselves and this lack of self control where we're just after like the quick fix, the quick happy, the quick everything. It just shows how. Many studies have shown how it's developing these really bad mental health symptoms that you don't have the focus time span, and there's a lot of depression that's coming off of this. So it's like it's time, it's time to face look in the mirror. Remember We did the episode on like choose your heart that eventually, right, eventually you have to choose your heart, like you're either going to be overweight or something like that or you're gonna choose to monitor it. You know you're gonna choose your heart. So hold on one second. I'm gonna break for a minute. I'm gonna unfocused myself and Squirrel because yeah, I know no self discipline. I told you I struggle myself. I'm not perfect, but man, do I try Firewolf Forge. So, yeah, it looks like it's coming on to prepper Camp. Checking out prices. I don't know what the price ticket prices are at right now. Firewell, then they just go up. They may have. After Black Fridays the cheapest. Yeah, so you got to get them right now, Like, if you're coming, get them now, you're gonna get them the cheapest. If it ends up, you can't calm like people usually sell them hand so it's not like it's a problem. But yeah, and then uh yeah, check out what it costs to stay there. I mean it's pretty reasonable from what I've seen as far as uh, if. You're they will have or they have RV spaces, So I mean. You can choose your range of. Yeah, everybody used to have to run all over the mountain side and you know, the county just to find an airbnb or something. Right now, at least there's hotel and cabins and. Tons of space there. And like I say, you can choose your economic level basically. Or whatever you like to do, right, Yeah, And what do you like to do? You want to, you know, have the full experience, bring your ten in, you want to have the RV experience. They've got great sites for that. But then they do have two hotels and cabins as well, so if you're bringing in a whole bunch of family, you guys can all just grab a cabin. And stay cabin right. That's cool? Yeah, yeah, really cool. So Okay, so I just wanted to address those comments over there. Keep them coming, guys, I love the comments. Good to see a firewolf. So this is one thing that I've been seeing people are like, well, I don't know why I'm so slugged out. I don't know why I am just so depressed all the time. I mean, this is a mental choice. You really do make a choice to be depressed. And I know that hurts to hear, and I know there's lots of psychologists that want to tell us that it's were a victim and it's the problem on our environment and this, that and the other. You make the decision what your day is going to look like. How however, you see that manifesting in your head, whatever you're praying in the morning, you're going to see that manifest through your day. So when you have discipline and focus, it helps you also control your mindset to be like, no, I'm not going to be depressed today. And the more you train this muscle, the easer it becomes to use. I used to be a person that was completely stuck in emotion and what that was doing to me until I found, you know, the Lord Jesus who gave me the clarity to be able to step out of my motions. Take that breath before you respond, Take that moment, talk to him first before you respond. And that is a discipline in and of itself to have the discipline to stop yourself and take that moment to talk to Jesus about what do we do next? You know, I always say like, what would Jesus do? And the other thing is, you know, you're the sum of the five people you spend your the most time with, one of those, better be God, I mean. And that's just the discipline to be there and make your brain into something else. I saw a really cool study on people that read the Bible and read it more than four times a week, your depression rates go down exponentially. So it's worth spending a little time with the with the Lord. But the other thing is when you have these types of dreams and stuff and you think your dreams are just going to instantly like appear. You hear about overnight successes and things like. That, and you know what, there's I love that. I love that firewealth very very good. Yep, raid the wit, flip the tables, you got it? You know, stay focused. When you see you have these dreams and you think people get overnight success, that's absolutely a lie. There's nobody that has overnight success. I don't care. Right, even the person that won the lotto probably bought a lot of lotto tickets to get there. You know, they like a. Lot of like famous quote unquote, people worked a lot before they even got into the spotlight to get to be able to stand up in the spotlight. Right, And the biggest way I can explain it to kids nowadays is like when you're playing a video game, your character doesn't just level up all on its own. You have to go out and grind and you know, work and beat all their characters to get better with your fighting skills. That's exactly what reality is. If they would step out of the video games a little bit and apply that same discipline to learning. Opening a book, where do I need to go? If I want to do this dream? What do I need to study to get there? Yeah, it only took twenty years become an overnight success. That's the story of it. You know you're going to be in it for a long time. You're going to be grinded, and if you don't have the discipline and the perseverance to be able to do that, you have a problem. So the fear of failure is a big deal in our society right now because we always gave out participation awards. So there's a lot of really competitive people out there that are afraid to fail, and so they're afraid to even start doing their dream. But they don't understand at the same time as they're not going after their dream, they're living in the state where you'd really like to, but you don't because you're letting that fear overwhelm you. So that that, to me, is another issue that I'm seeing big time in our younger generations, is just not being able to face that fear and be like, yeah, I'm gonna fail that the what's the line? The master has failed more times than you've even tried. Right, it's again the overnight success thing is just not going to happen without discipline. So and I have there's so many psychologists who have every kind of reason why we should make an excuse for why this is happening. Psychology today is great, it's full of them. But the truth is, like, you have the you have the ability to change this only you, only you. And then, in my personal opinion, drifting from God has really dimmed our focus. Yeah, when I was young in Catholic school, man, I hated it, like I hated it. I was like, this is ridiculous. You know, all these rules, all this stuff, you know, and I didn't realize that it was about the relationship with my Lord that was trumping everything and that's the piece I was missing. And once you put that together, you realize that your discipline is because of your love. Relationship is a two way street, and it's not a binding discipline. It's you know, your dad saying, hey, don't put your hand on the stove. You're gonna get burned, right, And were like, I don't want to listen to dad. I'm gonna put my hand on the stove. Well you ain't real smart, then, are you? Uh went running for the ice right exactly. So I think that society just portraying this as a really negative connotation that discipline. Oh, nobody likes discipline. It's just horrible. You know, we shouldn't have any of that. Why, like that's what we need. Oh, garden girls up in the chat as well. Welcome garden girl long time. No see, I don't have my Element up for everybody that's live. I'm sorry. I just got a new computer and a new phone for Christmas. I needed a tech update and so I'm still working on it. I don't see anybody in Element, especially now that we're using this stream yard. Yeah, yeah, and YouTube. We can live chat also over on x we're live chatting there as well. So yeah, open up. Your book, read your book, do it huh religiously right? Do it more? Than once a week. Do it more than once, then go you on a more than just going to church or one Bible study. We read the Bible every night and I also listen in the morning because I needed a restructure. I need her to restructure and it's been amazing. Parents role in the mess. Okay, guys, this is where we have to like acknowledge the fact that us always wanting our children. To feel good isn't reality. You can't always save them. You can't always save them from the bump on the knee, You can't always save them from the lessons that they need to learn sometimes. Obviously there is a difference between you know, allowing your child to do unsafe things and stuff like that. Okay, I'm talking about you know when Sally is sad that there's times when you just need to tell them that they're really great people. God made you just the way you were b But guess what, we're not always going to be happy, and we have to learn to deal with those emotions so we can be adults who understand how to handle failure, how to persevere through difficult times, how to rely on that discipline, keep moving and keep going forward. All of these things are really really important, and tough love is love, Okay, Like you need to sometimes give tough love, and it's not easy. That's why it's called tough love because it hurts you as well to do that, but absolutely necessary at the same time, very much. So again, open up. Your book Discipline verse abuse though, right, okay, So this is why everybody was like, oh, discipline bad because people are beating their children. Well, of course, we don't want to beat our children. Okay, there's a big difference. I don't care what religion you are, what faith you are, what you believe, where your background is. But our children are our most precious items, and anybody who's beating them as a way to give them that message is ridiculously stupid. Okay. There's there's a lot of other things that can happen. A spank is one thing, a beating is another. And you know, you should know the difference. If you're leaving bruises on your child, you are doing it wrong. Man. My mother had the three count. Very rarely got to the actual spank because that three count scared me. Enough, right, exactly, Nah, I know what's coming at. The end of them, you know, And as your young ones become adults. There's times you've got to let them falter a little bit, and it's hard and you want to You can talk to them and try and guide them, but you can't always save them. You can't always not let them. Use it as a teaching moment. Yeah, if they made if they hit the freedom to make a decision and it made the wrong choice, and then you discuss it with them after they fit you know, right, Yeah, it went out. Friday night instead of studying for the SATs on. Side, right, So why where we gonna make that decision again? But if you would have sat there and just harped on them, harped on them, harped on them. You need to make better decisions, they're gonna be like whatever I'm out. You know, it's the same way, asycle. Yeah, exactly, exactly, yep. Let it fail. Yeah, the final countdown. That's why I was smiling. The teachers were sitting in that video. The teachers were saying, the kids weren't being weren't learning to fail like at a young age. So then when they got to the to the work the working world, they didn't know how to to deal with conflict and failure and and you know, the boss, you. Know how to navigate those social spaces. I mean, they're already hindered enough with all this machinery and stuff talking through cameras and all this, you know whatnot social media. Gosh, keep your kids off. Of it, you know, till till they're eighteen or whatever, if they want to do that. But they've already got enough threats really coming at them from society. That social media always has people portray them the best sells. Yes, you know what I mean, Yeah, they're not you're not seeing the real person. You're seeing the made up person, you know. But then the average you know, teen is going on there and being like, oh, well, look at how great their life is. My life's not that great. Well, you're not seeing a real picture, you know. Yeah, the filters are overused. Right, Like if you take a picture of your food, you're not going to take a picture of the nasty meal you screwed. Up on the one time. Look at this, you know, this looks like crap. You're only taking the best one to put up there. And then'sthy's like, oh wow, you always make the best stuff. Well is that reality? M hm? So that is one that I would definitely know. We were talking about again because I got the new phone. I could give Christian my old, you know, smartphone, so we're talking about it again. It's like, no, him having a. Flip phone has been so good that, you know, when he's eighteen, if he wants to do that, cool. But there's so many electronics, there's so many opportunities for them to be doing stuff without having to have that in his hand. I hope it's something that they kind of grow out of, because I'm concerned about all communications being controlled by Google. Remember that Google movie The Creepy Line? Oh what what? What? Yeah? It was on Netflix. It's called the Creepy Line. It was back in the day. It was before twenty twenty. I mean, it was how Google's going to the Golden creepy Line. We had it for like a year or two and then. It's probably on YouTube now. But yeah, you should look at it because that was like before they were going to cross the creepy line. We're not going to cross the creepy line. Well they you know, watch that movie. Now they crossed the creepy line. And yeah, and they want to like control all of the conversations, like every conversation that you have is now Google filtered, which is. Happening on our phones stuff like that. Yeah, so okay, so lack of discipline is amplifying. Global global dangers. The reason why I say that is because everybody's doing their job half ass. Pardon my French, but it's the truth. You know, you you gotta have pride in what you're doing. You have pride in what you're doing, then you feel good about doing a job well done. It creates positive endorphins. It gives you great feelings, you know. So this this idea that like, oh, I have to work, so I'm gonna go in and work, and I'm gonna do it halfway. I'm sorry. But if like my motto is, if you're gonna do something, you do it one hundred percent or don't do it at all, right, Like I'm. All either all in or I'm not doing it at all right. So even kung fu, the word kung fu, it's not just a martial arts. It is excellence, excellence in what you do. So if you you dust a banister for your life, well you dust that banister the best you can. You know, you pick up garbage, you like, they have videos of the guys dancing down the street picking up garbage. You know, you kung fu it in life, not just like walk through it. And once you like, yeah, I don't like. I mean, I'm not I don't want to be sitting at my desk working, okay, but I need to pay bills and whatnot. I picked a job that you know, I help people prepare. That's a good thing. So when I know like that's coming up, then you put on your big girl pants, you put a smile on your face, and you rocket the best you can every time, and it helps you be a better person, be a happier person, helps all those people around you and the people that you interact with every day have a better experience, and you do a more quality job. So that's why I say, like, this is actually. Scary because a lot of our marketing systems are out of control and we're relying more and more upon just algorithms and things like that. And then it's like, oh, well, this is our stamp that we have to do. This is the stamp that it has to be. So yeah, that's one of the did I lose you guys at all? Was that like, No, Okay, my internet, I told you my internet has been weird, and when thinking about switching it over again, kung fu And once you do, the internet's company is screwing with us. You know, you call to get customer service. We didn't even get a call back. Oh my goodness. Today I tried to call Amazon custom It was horrible. Right to get to talk to a person at Amazon was like, yeah, took me forever to figure that out. If you can, like just put the phone number on the website. No, no, no, we'd rather chat with you in video or or whatever with chat. Yeah. I know my old phone company was that way too. I don't want to call them out on air, but yeah, it was like a four hour call every time, you know. So I'm just saying, if we had a little bit more kung fu in our life, we cared a little bit more, we use a little bit more self disciplined to just make make our minds pull into the places where it needed to be. I think we'd be a lot better off, a lot better off. So social divides hindering responses. This is a big one that I found as a global threat that's coming because we always say, like divided, we fall right and look at what's happening to our world? So fragmented societies. Lack coordinated prep for climate or health crisises, eroding trust and amplifying vulnerability. I mean, how true is that if we can't work together on the simplest things, then how are we going to coordinate to take care of disasters and whatnot. We've got to like come together here as Americans. Eventually we're going to have to let go of the hatred and as a world, because that's the only way that the people of the world have a voice enough to say uh uh, like, we're not letting you take control anymore. We're not living by these rules anymore. Of what these corporations have played out with intermixing with the global governments. So this all tied. Together, it's all a big web of mess that we're creating. And I think that self discipline would be a big start to fixing it. So as far as training, right, when we have situations like COVID and whatnot, we know we're understaffed, we know we're vulnerable, we knew all of these things. We learned the whole well has some real well during that pandemic, even if it was fake, it was a great test, you know, to see like how would we do and honestly, we would do horrible if the death rate. Was that high. But like nothing's been done about it. Yea, even even after the flood up here, and that was kind of like, I still feel like there's not been enough response, enough proactive. They created division right off the bat with it too, with how the president handled it, you know, with Biden and everything, and it was the presidential switch. Social media the division two that was crap being tossed around that just got people fired up. Yeah, and you with discipline, with self discipline, then when you're on the computer and you're in a social media site, right, have the self deficient the self discipline to conduct yourself like you would conduct yourself if that person was sitting right in front of you. You know, we're too mean and we're too nasty, and that just takes self discipline, self control to be able to be like, hey, maybe I won't be an a hole, you know, maybe I'll use a little compassion, but you have to like think that you have to mentally prepare yourself for that. That's not you can see none of these things just magically happen. You can just magically lose weight. You can't just magically become a fighter. You can't just magically learn self discipline. It takes work on your part. So a focus on God. This readiness right, it helps you be spiritually prepared for any type of future. Once you're spiritually prepared, you're getting rid of the fear in your heart. Three hundred and sixty five times in the Bible it says, do not be afraid. You're ready to take on these challenges in a focused way. That doesn't mean no fun, that doesn't mean you know, no doing what you want to do. It's exactly what you want to do. Because you're you're in line, You're in sinc you know. So it's just a matter of putting yourself in sync, developing that relationship. One of those people you hang out with the most better be got so tough love in prepping. Just as parents are guiding their kids through these failures, society needs firm standards as well. Okay, so, and I'm not talking about laws and regulations. I'm talking about stuff that we as can communities demand so that we are prepared to face these things that we know are coming up. But nobody wants to put time or money into that. They'd rather send our tax money, you know. I mean, you take your pick right now. You know who didn't get tax aid from the American taxpayers, you and me Americans. Yeah right, we still got our stuff falling down. We still got the Fort Peck Dam sitting up there that's just waiting to bust. Look at all this weather we've had. Fort Peck Dam sits up on the Missouri River at the top of the Mississippi, which is an earthen levee dam, which needed to be fixed really badly, like at least fifty years ago, and nothing's been done. Nobody talks about it, and now we have just disaster after disaster, huge floods up there. As soon as I heard that, I was like, oh my goodness, if that damn were to go for you know, the bread basket of the US is gutted. But we're not focused on things that We're focused on who's allowed in the girl's bathrooms or on a girl's team. I don't know what kind of self respecting man would, you know, but anyway, that's neither here now there. Yeah, yeah, I'll take some aid too there firewell for sure, you know. So Yeah, Okay, I don't want to get off track. I'm staying focused, I'm being self disciplined. I'm gonna stay nice because this is a positive message tonight. The strength that you build through self discipline will really really pay off. I'm not kidding guys. It's a matter of choose your heart. Okay. So this leads me right into my. Main message, which of course is using your discipline to be self defense ready. You have to keep your body ready. I don't care how busy your schedule is. It does not matter to me, not because of personal right. My husband respect to him. I've been in martial arts for a long time, so is he. It's something we've always done together. He's worked forty hour weeks out in the sunshine, plumbing whole yards and everything, and then still come home and we go to class and he trains. So I don't care really what kind of job you have or how busy your schedule is. There's just no reason for you not to be able to do some kind of training. It is just the. Most important thing in your prepping. After spiritual readiness, is physical readiness mind body. Yes, having a gun whatever, great, But if you don't know how to keep a hold of that weapon. If you're in a physical altercation, or you don't know how to make bullets for that gun, you know, eventually it's just not going to cut it. Or you're in an area where you're not allowed to carry. Or you can't fire it because you don't because it's way too much behind you, you know. But you've got to have the discipline to know when to pull the trigger and when not to as well, because there's times you can't. So when you. Start doing this, you start with a lifestyle that includes physical fitness, it includes learning self defense. Everything in your life is going to change, including your depression levels, your outlook on life, and your fear, the fear level that you operate under. So doing self defense training, it's going to boost your confidence. It's going to reduce your stress when you know that you can defend yourself. Now you're walking around with your head up, you're look at people in the eyes, you're understanding that I can take care of myself and guess what, bad guys can sense that, and then you're probably not going to be the victim because there's somebody who's easier to attack. You get all these positive endorphins there's so many nights, Oh my gosh, I can't even tell you so many nights that I'm just like, I don't want to go. I am tired. I am you know, my brain has just been baked to the max by work and everything else, and I just don't want to go. And I forced myself out the door. Just get it done, Just go. You know, after class, you're just a whole different person. It's you know, you're smiling, like there's so many great things, positive endorphins that happen there, being able to have brotherhood and sisterhood with your fellow classmates. So you're just releasing all of those endorphins, getting rid of the anxiety. And I've been in classes with a lot of people who were abused in their. Lifetime, and it is. You're gonna face that, and it empowers you to know that it will not be you or if it is, like pity the fool, because you're gonna have way better tools to be able to handle it. So it really helps with that as well, if you have like past trauma and whatnot, discipline for emotional control. This is what it was all about for me. I didn't know it when I signed up. I just wanted to fight, you know. I was like, let's go. But there's many challenges that come along. I've left many classes crying too, you know. And you learn how to control your emotions. You learn how to spar with somebody so you're not gonna kill them. Even when you. Get really passed off. You can't hit them hard. You're like, that's a no, They're gonna hit you back hard. It becomes bad situation. Right. One of the biggest challenges I had at my black belt testing with a Chief Master Dan Lovas, for like what was it, my third degree, I had to spar the best female in our school. We did this brawling, so you can't really move, you have to kind of just stay still. That takes i'm footwork, so it takes a big piece away from me. So I have to spar the best girl at our school taller than me. Everybody is, but she's taller than me, bigger than me, everything, right, And then I have to spar the kiddo that I love the most minus my own children, mister Cayden, who's like seven years old. Right. So you go from like just ramping at one hundred and fifty percent to sparring at like thirty percent, like twenty maybe, right, and then I had to spar the best boy in the class after that, taller me, bigger me, seventeen year old. By then you notice really good. So to have the emotional ability to go from you know, you're just ramping it that high, to bring it down to ramp back up, and that's challenge. That was one of the biggest challenges I ever faced and would never had those experiences without training martial arts. It lowers victimization risk. So you're gonna build awareness. You're going to learn how to carry your weapons safely, how to remove weapons from other people's hands, how to protect yourself, how to stop threats, how to de escalate threats without having to use weapons. So this type of thing really brings down the assault rates because, like I mentioned before, the these stalkers, these people looking for the victims. If they don't have great victims, they're not gonna they're not gonna take. The moment or you know, pity the fool that does. Right, because they don't want to fight, right for the most part. For the most part, yeah, they're not to fight. I just want to acquire what they want to acquire. And then it's all over, depending on whatever happens. Yeah, they just want a deer in the headlight, So we want to not be that deer in the headlight, and the only way to get there is through discipline. Training provides direction, just like the Bible does. So this frees you from the fear. It aligns you mine body together and being. Knowing that you have the. Confidence to defend yourself gives you that freedom, and you understand it's not like, oh, I have the confidence that offend myself. So now I have no fear of walking through downtown Detroit by myself at. Three in the morning. No, okay, I am not stupid. Right. It's like strength the numbers, wisdom, Yes, exactly exactly. But it does help you have that confidence. Again, so in martial arts and whatnot, in this type of training, you can hold kids to standards without any kind of abuse or anything like that. There should not be any kind of abuse in a martial arts school either, okay, but you can set goals for them to reach. They have to learn to practice to be able to reach that goal. It's very similar to music or other sports. If they're into it, you know they want to be a pitcher. They have to work for this, right So, just as a parent and your kid's not doing well, they're struggling and whatnot, you can't just be like, oh yeah, you can give up. There should be some attempt at like, oh, come on, okay, this is gonna be tough. You're gonna get through this. This is what you're gonna do for at least a little bit. You know, set it out. Maybe they really. Don't like it, which you don't want to force them to do things, but you know, you set out a six month goal. Let's put this work in and see what it looks. Like in six months, and if that's not the course for us, then we can always change course. You know. So my kids, though, under eighteen, they're gonna be training martial arts because I don't want to have little victims on my hand. I don't want to have out of control young men. Men are warriors, Men are meant to be warriors. They have to learn what to do with those emotions, and that is another great resource for dealing with those things. So there you go, guys, that is my how to unmantal screw yourself because understanding that life's gonna be tough. You're gonna have trials, You're gonna have tribulations, and you're just gonna have to have the self disciplined stick toitiveness to make it through those moments when it really does get challenging. Those bullet points. Right. Yeah, I've been stirring on it for a while. I've got a couple of issues I've been stirring on that. I'm like, you know, it's not just that we've lost hope. Why have we lost hope? You can't just say, like, as Americans, we've lost hope? Why why have we lost hope? And I believe it's because people are like, yeah, well that'd be really cool, But I don't want to be the one to do it. I mean, I got to get off my sofa, I gotta put down the remote, I gotta put down my gaming controller, you know, And it's not easy. I'll tell you. I live a pretty structured life now. I've got a lot of projects that I work on and a lot of dreams I want to come true. But I know that hard work and discipline are the only way to get there. And at the end of the day, the people that I've met, including my co host, the journeys that I've been on, the struggles that I've been through, the trials that I've had, have been worth every single moment of it. So I can't say, you know, oh it's all been for Nott or whatever, because every bit of it has been one beneficial to my family, my self and the people I love. So do it, darn it, Get out there, get disciplined, a little different, get. Off my lawn. Webersam. All right, let's jump into some changing Earth news. It's been a month since we didn't change the Earth news. I wish I could tell you that the volcano uptake is uh not as bad as it was and everything looks beautiful, but. That's not the case. All right, here we. Go dream Survive Thrive. Is changing Earth. News, Changing Earth news. I love that one. I do. Thank you and Treppid commander. So we have had Solar activity has been not so bad in January, the New year has looked pretty good. December eighth, we did have some activity. This is going all the way back a month there was a two two point eight X class flare caused radio blackouts in the Pacific, some minor satellite disruptions. I think we were talking about that during last show. Actually that it was like in when. We were still watching and we were watching California pretty hard, which is really something. It's gotta be just releasing or it's like the big dog has loaded up. So I hope it's just like. The little shakes are releasing energy because the ring of fire has been insane. December eighth, there was also a seven point six earthquake in Japan. I believe that was just happening as we were on air last last month. There was six significant structural damage, but luckily nobody lost their life there. They're really really ready for it there. The tsunami alerts did go up, but we didn't see tsunamis from that, And then they had a six point four on the same day, and they had a six point zero on the same day, all on the same areas. Like I say, they were shallow, but we didn't see the tsunamis from it, which was interesting. You'd figure, well Ben over at suspicious observers, like he's like, if it's an eight, I'm worried about tsunamis. So we're just going to take his word for it. Everything that I've seen pretty much in agreeance. We had that big seven point zero and we didn't get tsunamis from it. There was also flooding in the Pacific Northwest in the United States on December eighth to eighteenth. Yeah, that's when the atmospheric River came in. One plus death, lots of rescues, lots. Of damage, mud slides, one hundred thousand plus evacuated. And that was a long duration event. It was cold too. We finally warmed up a little bit at Christmas time here in Texas, but beginning of December was cold as well. December thirteenth we had a cyclone event in Queensland, Australia. Heavy post cyclone rain from that, lots of flooding coming in. Ellen's on the other side of the country, now, hey. Ellen, So she's she's out on the eastern side. Never eat slimy worms. She's out on the western side. Now. They've been having a lot of wet though. Of course they're in there. They're coming into we're coming into spring, so they're gonna come into fall pretty soon there, so they're doing the summertime. I know, I've seen all some wildfires on the list, and that's on Ellen's side. December fourteenth, to fifteenth, we had solar activity from the sun see I mean impact. It was a G two storm that was a weird one that just kind of popped up a little bit of auroras in the upper latitude. I saw the super cool aurora that they caught over the Netherlands that looked just like an angel, like flapping its wings like that. It was just like it was crazy. It was no AI. So you always got to look, now. Right, AI is AI? Are they? But no AI. It was beautiful, really really pretty stuff. But we shouldn't be seeing pink aurora. That is a problem. December seventeenth to nineteenth, we had flood in New Hampshire and the northeastern part of the United States. Four to eight inches of rain came down there. About five hundred plus people were displaced, about fifty million in infrastructure damage. It was in the atmospheric river event. We've been hearing a lot about that in the Northwest as well. California actually went under cat losses during December because of that atmospheric river just creating so many problems there, high winds and whatnot. December eighteenth, twenty twenty five, there was a six point two earthquake in Gansu Providence in China. One hundred and fifty one people dead, nine hundred and eighty two injured, thousands of homes destroyed. This was a thrust fault event. And there's I'm always trying to highlight the need for seismic readiness because let's face what I wrote my books about, you. Know, and uh, the big one is coming. December eighteenth, twenty twenty five. Volcanic eruption. We've had a lot of volcanic eruptions, but these I only put the biggies on the list. This was a fissure eruption in Iceland. Lava flows, no direct casualties, Grindavic. They evacuated part of that town and that volcano has been pressing on get Grindovic for years now years. It's a fisher eruption. It's from in between the two slides, you know, in between the two plates, instead of like coming from a cone, right, it. Comes out of the Yeah, the fisser eruption. Okay, extreme cold wave hit northeastern Asia December eighteenth to the twenty first. Tempts negative forty celsius. Good night, Oh. My goodness, forget it. We were just saying how cold we are in Texas, like four that's. A little more on the two dog night. Yeah, oh my goodness. Now twenty plus hypothermia deaths, energy shortages. You know. That's like when Texas got cold, we had no infrastructure for it. Record breaking cold, man, that is just insane. December twenty third, we had on going volcanic eruption in Kilauea. Kilauea has been super active. It was active even when we did last month's podcast. There was some cool fountains coming out of there. Typically that one is not one that's very threatening because it erupts so often. It was doing the fountaining again, up to fourteen hundred foot fountains. Oh Man, lava covered fifty to seventy five percent of the crater floor, so they were monitoring gases a little bit bigger than normal. Summer twenty third to twenty six flooding in southern California, That's what I was telling you about. We went into cat losses during that event. It's interesting because flooding insurance is one that you really have to buy from the federal government or like a company like Lloyd's London. So when these types of catash fees come in. It's really bad because a lot of people don't have coverage for them. So due to the atmospheric river four to eleven inches of rain, three plus deaths, mud slides, splash floodings, evacuations, power outages. None of that ground movement's covered in California either unless you have earthquake insurance from the state. So that's always fun. Right at Christmas time hitting all those burns cars. Do you know? This could be just bs so you should fact check this one. But I believe that at this point they've only issued like three permits for people to rebuild. You should check it, but it's not very many. It hasn't been like all right, we're a game on right Yeah, now, I still think they're trying to take that land anyway. I don't want to squirrel. I've gotta stay disciplined. December twenty third kilaway or eruption, Like I said, it's. Been going for days. I would like to see what a long valley called Darra, like what the heat levels are on some of those volcanoes in California right now. December twenty firth to January sixth, wildfire in Grampans National Park Victoria, Australia, yet extremely hot fire. They had a lot of wind going on, so they had a lot of Hector's burned and some home losses, not reporting specific numbers, so you have to think that's pretty manageable. That is in an area of the country that does burn a lot. So it was sparked by lightning and that's just kind of their seasonal summer fires there, like Canada or California has been doing lately. December twenty eighth to thirty first, a blizzard bomb cyclone been hitting the Upper Midwest Great Lakes. My dad was actually down here on vacation and went back up just in time. It yeah, just in time for the storm to hit. It was nasty stuff, fifty to eighty plus mile an hour winds, twelve to twenty four inches of snow. He went and got his new snowball snowblower. He didn't get any snow at his house, but there were thousands of people without power, major travel disruptions, flight cancelations, and then the roads we don't even need to talk about those, and blizzard conditions across Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin. So that's some interesting weather going on up there. I don't want to make any comments about those states right now. I'm just gonna glance over that one. December twenty eighth, twenty twenty five, we had a severe wind tornado event central Illinois. Rare December outbreak, not something you ever heard about in the past, but now we've had one on a mountaintop and now we're getting them in December. Multiple tornadoes touchdown. Very unusual for it to be this late in the season. December twenty eighth, we had solar activity an M four point two flair. It was not earth facing, so we only had minor radio effects. December twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. Hey, do you ever notice some of those effects on your radios? Not that I've noticed, but. That'd be interesting. I hear so I don't do a lot of long range stuff. Oh true, right, but I hear. People say, well, the bands are open, the bands are closed, and that's all because the atmosphere okay, yeah, where they can and can't talk. I just made me curious personally. I haven't had any equipment damaged or there might be a little bit like sometimes you're like, wow, I can hear it better, but nothing drastic. Well, yeah, we'll have to see that. Well, we'll have to like Mark days, I'll watch my specious observers and then message you and be like, Okay, watch your radios today. December twenty eighth, we had an earthquake at the Coral Islands, a manituting five point eight minor damage. No casualty is reported, but it was a shallow death depth. It was a shallow death part of the Pacific Ring. Like I say, the Pacific Ring has been going crazy. If you go look at oh it's the Volcano Activity website, you can see it's just going nuts. And it's been that way for months now. December twenty eighth to January first, we had flooding in the mid Atlantic US. We're talking Maryland and Virginia and the broader northeast. Repeated heavy rains coming in, rivers, coming up twenty plus million dollars in damages. I'm gonna guess that they went cat losses over there. It's got to be like twenty five million, but I would assume they probably did as well. Third major floodwave of December, so the ground is going to be very saturated there. December thirtieth, another earthquake in Abba abba Pura, Indonesia A four point eight. There was minor evacuations. They've been having their country that's used to having this type of activity as well, and this one was offshore, no tsunamis. So December thirty first, we had solar activity, a sun spot let off a M seven point one to an M seven point two flair radio blackouts over the Atlantic. A CME was lot launched, but it did not have major effects on our planet because it was down in the M class and it was just a quick I can't remember, oh, short duration CME. December thirty first to January first, we had a couple more little tiny CME has come in. I was looking at it this morning though it looks pretty kind of chilled out. There's just one more spot they're looking for. There is a corona hole that's coming in. So yeah, we just had this little pitter powder minor activity going on. The G two's of the big. January first wildfire and Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia. So over seventy thousand hectors burning over there, and like I say, this is part of their normal summer stuff. I haven't seen that. It's like a large amount of homes or anything like that. Another earthquake happening in Japan on the first seven point five. Three hundred and eight people died in that one, and there's swarm activity that are going on. Madagascar cyclone on the first, strong winds fifteen dead, flooding effective five thousand winds up to fifty miles an hour. The flooding continued in southern California. Multiple highways are now flooded. So that's just auto's being lost, property damage, things like that coming in. Record rainfall in spots. We just keep breaking records. Just smash, smash, smash, turn around, don't drown. Doesn't that sound just like Jaeger talking to me through the PC. Yeah, man, don't go with the flow water, don't. Drive through what but what. If I really really need to how are we going to do that? We're not. Yeah, that was like try to do a half hour interview with that. January second to fourth, more flooding in San Francisco, record king tides. That's because we got a little bit of that solar activity with the high rains and everything highest tied since nineteen nineties two to two point five foot above normal, So they know what to do in these flooding situations. I mean, they're all built on fill, a lot of it, so I can't. I always get like half my head turns gray every time I go there, I swear, and I really hope. I don't have to go back there. Ever. January second to fourth solar activity potential G one G two. The spot that they're talking about that's causing this threat has really really kind of fizzled out. There was another earthquake in Guerrero, Mexico six point five. That one was pretty good, little shaker, and then there was on the fourth there was an earthquake of five point seven and Prince Island. That one was a weird one because they're, yeah there, it's down by the Caribbean and there's not usually a whole lot of earthquakes out there. So interesting to see how the earthquake movements happening and how it's kind of skirting California. December sixth to eighteenth, Alaska in Canada had over seven hundred mapped landscape, landslides and avalanches, So they're just having a lot of activity from earthquakes that happened over there, which is always always good times. I looked at the volcano numbers bear with me one sec and I was. I was crazy. It's just crazy if it keeps it, if we have fifty, I don't know. I don't know. I never saw it above twenty nine for like many years, you know, many years of watching volcano numbers. I never saw it go above twenty nine. And if we hit fifty, I don't know. I have to do something. I'll do like a giveaway or something. If I don't think we wear a hard hut. Yeah, I just don't. I don't think. Well, we'll get there, you know. Maybe I'll buy you a ticket to prepper camp maybe something like that. So we'll work at it. We'll see. Don't don't know. They were I think fifty five dollars right now. Okay, yeah, fifty five dollars right now. But it goes up. I forget yep firewoolls. Maybe it was talking for two people. You missed the cheapest, but you're still really cheap. Yeah, I mean, guys, for the amount. It's for three days. Yeah, for three days, fifty five dollars a person. And for the. Fifty five dollars a day, that's fifty five dollars includes three days worth of events. Three days when we do eight tenths now. Yeah, there's like sixty five classes a day, Yeah, something like that. Yeah, there's no way you're going to see everything. So much. Fantastic material that you have to get there. I'm doing martial arts seminars and stuff. I mean I pay like one hundred dollars, three hundred dollars for one day of training, you know, and here prepper Camp fifty five dollars three days. And it's the event is so much more than just the classes. I mean, the the people. Just getting to meet all these people and being able to talk and get to know people, and people that you knew through the internets you get to meet in person and face. You know. It's just and I think that's going to be opticked even more with everybody being able to stay on site. I think that we're going to see that just a lot, you know, more because you'll be able to, hey, you know, walking around the complex and stuff. And all the all the quote unquote teachers speakers are there, so like they're eating lunch or eating lunch with them. I mean, it's not like this, you know, and. They want to be there's a backstage, are. Right, Yeah, nobody's like. Everybody's mixing together and it's just a great experience, great environment. It is. I really hope to see you guys there. So yeah, check that out. Okay, Volcano numbers, we got a strict squirrel. Forty five volcanoes actively erupting. We're getting close, were right. That's why I say if we hit fifty, we're going to mark that down. If we hit that is just crazy. Forty four showing minor activity, so they're basically you know, they're not spewing lava, but they are smoking primed up. Twenty three showing unrest. That puts a total of one hundred and twelve on the board, which is also remember how I went crazy when we went. Over one hundred. I mean it's not it's not calming down. So that's it's crazy. That is really really nuts because I looked at those for years before. This uptake happened. When do you think we really saw the up I mean it's over the last year that I really saw that uptake starting to happen. I can look back at some of my notebooks because you. Know I have them all, but uh yeah, over this last year, it's been crazy. Okay, as far as earthquakes, we had two thousand or I'm sorry, twenty thousand. This is two point zero and above twenty thousand, three hundred and sixty three earthquakes. That is a tiny uptick from November we had nineteen thousand, four hundred and sixty nine, and it was down from October by like three thousand, So I mean that's still been setting pretty the same. Maybe I should start looking at like the. Severity of earthquakes, like is our severe upticks upticking instead of just looking. At the overall numbers of it. Yeah, see, like our six point h's increasing. We had an eight. They down they took it down, but you know, they downgrade it. Like they do like they always do. But yeah, that'd be interesting to see. I'll try to remember to do that for next month. I'll throw a throw a note in my phone to try and keep track of. Those those big numbers. That's also the website that I use as like the earthquake uh oh here Volcano Discovery, it's the same. You just go to their monthly, yearly earthquake reports, and so if you want to check that out for yourself, that's always good stuff to keep an eye on and that's how I keep an eye on my volcano numbers and that as well. The USGS just I mean, you can definitely use it as well, but sometimes it's the quality is not the same. It's all about that kung fu, right. So just that banister the best it could. Be dusted, right exactly. I mean, I could you imagine this world if everybody did the best they could with every task they did. I think we'd just be a lot happier, you know, because then everybody would know we're in it together. We're all trying really hard, and we're all here to help each other out and make it a better place instead of like just being really really angry with everything and spreading around a lot of negative feelings about about stuff. You know, it's just easier. It's hard. It's a challenge to be happy all the time. It's not something that you just like. Well, it's not natural. Yeah, and you're not going to be happy all the time. But when you do get in line and you do start to discipline yourself into really handling some of these emotions, giving them to God, taking a break from your own your own destruction. Basically, you know, a lot of times people are just wrapped in their own anxiety, and you kind of ask yourself, like, in eighty years, is that really gonna matter? You know? But I guarantee you that having the self discipline to work out and be physically fit in eighty years, that's gonna matter. I mean it's gonna cause your body. You know, well, thank you. For it, as long as you don't go crazy and bruises everywhere like I do. You know. Alrighty, guys, that is it for January. Today is January the fourth, And unless you guys have any more questions in the chat, things like that that I didn't cover, that you would like to talk about Prepper Camp. Like I say, coming up new dates, make sure you mark your calendar. I had to mark my calendar new dates August. So that's a lot better for anybody with kiddos. Prepper Camp audio drama. The videos keep coming, guys, the videos. If you haven't checked out the videos, please do. It's there. They've been a really lot of fun to put together. And I'm doing it like an artistic style because obviously it's videos to highlight. An audio drama. It's supposed to be about the audio drama, you know, not the video but. They are of fun and I'd love to hear your feedback how you think they're coming along. But episode or season five will release in April. We're gonna start doing the book, probably Las Vegas years will have to wait till April to I have more time on my hands to be able to bring it weekly. I want to bring the book to you guys weekly and not just do a monthly. I don't think we'll get the It's just a long time to read a book to one chapter a month, you know, So I think we'll have to wait till April, and I'll be really really on point by then. So that's coming up. And then other than that, if you're in the Texas area, we have a seminar coming up on the tenth for de escalation at our martial arts school. So if you are in the Texas area and you're interested in coming out to my town, go ahead and reach out to me. We more than happy to have you out. That one costs fifty dollars for four hours, so there's a morning four hour block and an afternoon four hour block, and then we just take donations for our martial arts school. Beyond that, if you want to pay more and more than welcome. Of course, the books, merchandise, all that stuff is available over on the website. I am out of sweatshirts right now. They've been going like hotcakes, so those are out of stock right now. But the books you can get signed books, everything like that over there. Is there anything I'm missing? Sounds like you've been nailing it. I think that's it. Yeah. Well, as always, I hope you guys got the same value out of the show that I get from hosting the show. It's always a blast to I'll be able to bring the content to everyone and spend time with my best demiss to chan. So thank you, chin. You bet all right. Until next time, Remember, Dream, Survive, Thrive. Thank you for listening to the Changing Earth podcast. 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