Current Events and Your Community, Virgis 49

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[00:00:41] Chapter 49 Everyone was on the move in the morning, but Cole stuck around long enough to watch the last truck leave. Chepy's face was red and he scowled as he approached. Gosh darn those guys are dicks! What the hell are the

[00:00:58] feds feeding them? Whatever it is, it sure does keep them high strung. You ready to head out Major? Monroe asked. I am, but I'm not going with you, Cole teased them. Come again sir? Monroe wondered, confused. I want you two to head back to

[00:01:15] Make sure everything is in order and our trucks are ready to go, Cole directed. Where are you headed sir? Chepy wondered, concerned for the man's safety. I'm going to the homesteads in Colorado. Johnny's coming with me and Nicholton is meeting us there,

[00:01:30] Cole informed them. That's a big risk don't you think sir? Monroe commented. Maybe, but we can't talk on the airwaves. If this woman is the lone survivor, I have to know. We could use her legend to inspire others. You know what happens if

[00:01:47] chaos reigns sir, people die Chepy warned. I know, we're taking a page from William Baker's book. We're going to fight them in the courtroom and with public opinion so we can maintain order and transition back to a free

[00:02:02] system peacefully, Cole replied. Sounds like a pipe dream to me Chepy chuckled. Call it what you want but we have to try. I'll meet you back in Reno but have us ready to roll, Cole said flatly. Yes sir the men replied.

[00:02:16] Come on Johnny, Cole commanded. The men parted ways climbing in the driver's seat of his truck, Cole started the engine. Johnny was quiet as they rolled out unsure where Cole was headed. The sun sank low in the sky as Cole

[00:02:31] navigated the Rocky Mountain roads. The cracked roads forced them to move slowly. I thought you said we weren't doing anything together and now here we are. How come you brought me Johnny wondered? So I can keep an eye on you.

[00:02:46] I remember what happened last time you and Chepy were alone without supervision, Cole teased. Johnny blushed insisting you don't have to worry about that. Cole laughed a little. I'm just kidding. We need to talk

[00:03:00] with someone. Who Cassidy? No he's a merc. You saw him while cleaning cars the first weekend you were in Reno. His name is Gunnery Sergeant Ben Nicholton. Good guy Johnny wondered? Very. I want you to meet him

[00:03:15] officially. Okay, he answered slowly thinking for a moment. Why are we meeting him at the homesteads? It's a quiet place. You'll like it, Cole told them as they approached the gate. Here we are. It looks like a hippie

[00:03:31] commune, Johnny commented watching the people hang clothes on the lines. How do you think people are surviving without government handouts, Cole wondered? I didn't know people were, Johnny commented. The gate guard approached recognizing Cole he told them Major Vergester I wasn't

[00:03:50] expecting you here today. That's because I wasn't here today, Cole replied simply. The guard nodded. Understood, sir. The gate squealed and Cole pushed the accelerator. Johnny kept his face glued to the window. He watched people working together to accomplish their chores. They smiled

[00:04:09] politely and stopped to talk with one another. Look around Johnny. Life goes on. People survive. They grow their own food, make their own medicines and take care of one another, Cole explained. A large group of children laughed as they ran by. Cole slowed the truck cautiously. The

[00:04:28] children waved. They look so happy, Johnny marveled. That's because they are. The world is quieting down. There's another way to live. But some people will lose their power. People with power over others don't often give it up, Cole advised, intimidated by the overwhelming odds in

[00:04:46] front of them. He pulled the truck into a parking spot. Stepping from the vehicle, a mercenary soldier approached him. Major Verges, sir, right this way. Johnny, you're with me, Cole snapped, quickly following the soldier. Yes, sir, Johnny agreed. They went to an old masonry

[00:05:05] building. It smelled like a gym, but they didn't go toward the training area. The soldier led them down a hallway line with offices. In here, sir, the soldier instructed, opening an office door. Major Verges, sir. How good to see you, Nicholton said, approaching for a

[00:05:21] handshake. Gunnery Sergeant Nicholton. It's good to see you as well. Let me officially introduce you to Private Johnny McClintock, Cole said, returning the greeting. Looks like Major Verges got your head back on straight, Nicholton commented. Yes, sir, I made an error in judgment and

[00:05:38] deserved every bit of what I got, Johnny admitted. I can respect that. None of us are perfect. It's nice to officially meet you, Private. Nicholton shook his hand respectfully. What did you find out, Cole wondered curiously? The woman, Erica, she's on

[00:05:54] the rescue squad, Nicholton confirmed. Did Alex pass along their schedule? They're training to perform a salvage mission in Hopetown, Colorado, Nicholton informed him, handing him profile documents on Erica Moore and her family, along with a confirmation of the schedule. That

[00:06:11] doesn't leave me much time to get to Reno and back, Cole pondered looking at the timeline. It is what it is. I couldn't tell you on the radio, Nicholton explained. I know. Get this, Bennett is training her

[00:06:23] squad. Really, Cole wondered? Yeah. Burns and Tweed agreed that if he could re-educate her in the box, he could train her to do this job. Then he would know her story. He may know her story, but the

[00:06:37] mission is go. We need a merc team to stand with the rescue squads and the federal skeleton crew. Do you want it or not? This is your chance to meet her and judge for yourself. Her story will not be

[00:06:49] enough to convince the people. She's going to have to be more. Cole thought for a moment before confirming, You're right, Ben. I have to meet her. Sign up my team. Consider it done. Get your people in order. I have to go or Merkley will question where I've

[00:07:06] been. Thanks, Ben. I appreciate it, Cole declared, shaking the man's hand again. I'm with you, Major, Nicholton declared. Till the end, brother. Come on, Johnny. The men left out the door and headed for home. Pushing the door open, Cole stopped,

[00:07:21] hearing the sound of a familiar voice. Major Virgis, a moment of your time if you please, sir, Cassidy requested. Taking his hand from the door, Cole spun around. Miss Cassidy Baker. I wasn't expecting to see you here. Johnny smiled at their

[00:07:38] banner as Cassidy moved in closer. That's funny, because I wasn't expecting to see you here either. Cassidy replied, I have an office. She motioned him towards the first door on the left. Johnny wait out here, Cole told them. Cassidy

[00:07:54] closed the door behind them as they entered. What are you working on major? Why all the secrecy? We're going with your dad's plan. We're going to fight them with the council and public opinion. To do that, we need a face for the

[00:08:08] movement. Who's face? I may have found the perfect person, but I got to know for myself. We're going on a salvage mission to Hope Town. What? My dad's base of operations is there. Are you serious? He must have known the town had been

[00:08:26] scheduled for evacuation. How much defense will be there? Cassidy looked at him furiously. You're worried about the lives of your men? What about my father? You have to warn him. He has a weak, Cole told her flatly. You're a

[00:08:41] face of the resistance, a person on the salvage team working with the feds. You sure that's the best choice, Cassidy snapped. She's a refugee, Cole admitted. She, Cassidy accused. Don't be jealous, Cole teased with a sly smile. Cassidy laughed heartily at him. You wish I

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[00:10:26] Hello and welcome back to the changing earth podcast. This is episode number 451 season 15 episode 49. Hey, chin, what's up? Hey, chins up taking on the role of the crash test, Dunny dummy tonight. Yeah, we got you up front. And we have butch with us from

[00:11:08] hope for survival. Always a pleasure to have you on the show, but how you doing tonight? I'm doing awesome. Thanks for having me back. Good to be with you and Mr. Chen again. Yeah, always. Yeah. And thank you for all the work with the pod. Well,

[00:11:22] the other podcast as well. The audio drama as well. So I'll be sending you out lines. Yeah, appreciate it. Couldn't do it without everybody's help on that. So do all the work. Yeah, I know what you guys got to give me lines and

[00:11:36] you're one that's like always right. I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm a senior one. That's like always right got them done right there. So super appreciate it. You're welcome. So been a couple weeks since we did a live show, I was

[00:11:54] down in Galveston doing some deep sea fishing, which is kind of out of character for me. And enjoying the ocean, which is something I've really loved to do. Not really. But it was nice. It was really nice. Houston's

[00:12:14] actually just a hop, skip and a jump from a house. So that was surprising. And the day we did go out like out on the ocean. It was a lot like just being out Lake Michigan. So it was good times. We caught a ton

[00:12:28] of fish. We were after red snappers. Those things fight like demons in the water. And then you get it up and it's like, you know, five foot long or whatever you got to throw it back. So crazy weather while I was gone. Like we just got

[00:12:44] hit by storm after storm after storm here at our house. Part of my roof was damaged in the crazy storms that came through Texas. So even the host is not immune to this weather anomalies. We had a bunch more presidential embarrassments. I guess

[00:13:02] we got Russia on the move and more farmers getting managed. So we'll kind of bust into some of that tonight. Chapter we caught up on Verges. We're going to hear his story again next week. And they went into Hope Town, did the big scene there and

[00:13:21] Cassidy's dad was killed while they were in there. So it really just brings up this topic of community readiness and not allowing your dependence on the government to dictate how your community is going to respond to the next disaster. So that's why Butch is here and

[00:13:40] that's why we're doing the show tonight. So Butch, what what's on your mind? What's some of your top concerns? I was reading a little bit over it. I think the farmers are on your mind as well. Yeah. Do you notice that? I didn't notice that.

[00:13:58] Yeah, I kind of find kind of weekly or every couple of weeks and hot topics internal to the 48 states and you know, the the state law in Oregon that came out several months ago that restricting the private gardens. And then I caught on to a story

[00:14:24] it's going on of all places, Idaho. Idaho, right? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go have an impact on the potatoes. Yeah. And this is this is more of a past a past law that's documented that's impacting who who is the priority of getting the

[00:14:48] water first and the farmers, the private farmers are secondary and and this is going to impact thousands and thousands of acres. If if if you're old enough to remember in 30 years ago in California when they went through the whole battle with the smelt fish.

[00:15:12] This this reminds me of that a little bit. Break that down a little bit for for the listeners that don't know what's that about? Yeah, actually, I was in the military at the time and I was I may have been living in Montana. I can't remember. But anyway,

[00:15:35] this the story kind of caught my attention. It's an indigenous fish called smelt fish and it's really a small fish. But the state passed laws directing the waterways with the fish and it took the water away from probably hundreds of thousands of acres.

[00:16:00] Farmland and they all shut down and they turned into dust bowls and they got the power. The government won this and the private citizen lost and it was a bad thing, but it was a huge lesson learned. Now did in the end, you know, if it

[00:16:19] actually helped the smelt fish like recover, were their efforts validated? And then I heard more stories about how bad it impacted the private citizen that honestly not to be cold hearted for the little fishy. Right? Yeah. Where does the fish fall into?

[00:16:44] Like the chain of, you know, the food chain that we're like, what did the fish really do for the world? Yeah, it made. It made a certain group of people really, really happy because we're going to be used to, although, although fertilizing your garden with fish

[00:17:06] remains is actually really good. Whatever. Fair enough. On this topic. And then another, another story I came across the on the farmer thing was up in Michigan. Oh really? Of all places. But, you know, several years ago, um, state by state, but they started reprocessing human waste.

[00:17:34] Uh huh. And they came out. I believe it was the FDA came out years back and said it was safe for farmers to use as fertilizer on their fields for cattle. OK, is that like Mad Cow or Mad Cow came from? Um, no, that came from Washington, DC.

[00:18:01] Can't you tell? Well, what happened was, uh, this, this guy in Michigan was a cattle farmer and had built up a reputation and was doing quite well and expanded his property and he was setting up his business for his children in the future.

[00:18:25] And, uh, the state came out and wanted to do soil samples and they tested and tested and tested and they came back and said, uh, I'm sorry, but we're closing your farm down because your soil is way above the limits by millions as to what's acceptable.

[00:18:46] And it's like, but you guys created this stuff. You said it's safe. And they're basically bankrupting this guy. Crazy, because he's been using something that was a sanction product on his fields and they're like, oh, you're basically dumping human waste all over.

[00:19:03] So now we're going to bankrupt you. And I've heard other instances recently about was it forever chemicals or so? PFAS where it was chemicals that they were allowed to use for, uh, um, fertilizers and stuff. Like here's the story in Maine where they're shutting down

[00:19:23] farms because they were allowed to use it. And now when they got their soil tested, it was too high in these chemicals and their the chemicals are basically in the soil and they don't know how to get it out, to filter it out. Well, isn't that convenient? Yeah.

[00:19:36] The land's like being like condemned now. You know, so, so I mean, you all hear and see this stuff, but it's like, it's like, you can't even, you can't even, you can't even do sanity checks on this stuff. Right? I mean, it's, it's so off the

[00:20:01] charts, like, um, you know, here we are, we've had so many food processing locations destroyed by fire, you know? Yeah. They've seriously, they've wiped out chickens and pigs and go, they're going after cows and, uh, and they're doing all this crazy stuff.

[00:20:20] Then you got a guy who, uh, who made billions of dollars, uh, off of computers and software. And, and he's not even a doctor, but yet he's going around the world and our own country talking to him about vaccines and viruses. It's like, yeah, the same, same gentleman

[00:20:41] who used to make viruses for his computer system so he could solve them. Interesting pattern. It's, uh, you can't even, you can't even sanely explain the stuff. You know? So it's like, I wonder like in the United States, um, I have, because of our, our amount of territory,

[00:21:07] you know, they're able to kind of pick it apart more because if it's not affecting like your area, if this was all happening in like a smaller country, like Germany or something, then the farmers would be more likely to connect on the issues, but because it's spread out

[00:21:21] to Maine and Michigan and Oregon and Idaho, you know, and other states are involved, but because they're not all together in an area, you know, that's smaller than what the United States is. It makes it seem like, Oh, that's so distant and far away.

[00:21:37] That's not going to really affect me until you go to buy, you know, potatoes, french fries, which can be really, really life sustaining item for your family when you don't have money and now they're going to skyrocket the price of potatoes. Well, you know, we're bringing we're bringing

[00:21:54] millions and more people into our country. At the same time, we are potentially introducing more disease. Bringing that from the outside in unvaccinated and so on and so forth. And God only knows what they're creating in the and where it's allowed to be created.

[00:22:23] And go over the last five to six, seven years and look at the key areas of our country that the regions were food producers or major locations for cattle. You know, you look at the fires in California, you look at the fires in Texas, you look at the

[00:22:46] droughts in Texas, you look at the massive amounts of rain, tornadoes, durations across their Midwestern states. I mean, as of two weeks ago, they had not even planted a wheat crop in the Midwest U.S. yet. Yeah, it's too too wet. And all of these are huge impacts

[00:23:09] on sustainability for as a nation. And Brazil, same, you know, Brazil is another huge worldwide producer. They got totally flooded in the south, been having nothing but drought up north. You've got, you know, Ukraine down that whole area down as far as like being able to

[00:23:27] distribute food out of those regions to places that rely upon the bread boxes of the world that aren't going to get their shipments this year. You know, and you look at the global market and you look you look 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and you look now

[00:23:47] and you look at who used to be the major players at the global table on global food purchases. And now you're seeing you're seeing the superpowers that are in there now trying to compete and consolidate down. Yeah, it's been happening. They they wiped out the pork

[00:24:09] industry with that type of activity as far as like big corporations coming in, buying up everything and then pricing out the independent farmer. And now you don't have the variability of product or any of that. So, you know, looking at these things years ago and

[00:24:28] continuing to look at them from that period to current more and more and more is what it's what drove me looking at everything. It's what drove me to start really researching what hope for survival talks about the five mile radius. And and and it's a

[00:24:52] five mile radius in theory. You know, you may have 500 yards. You may have a mile the whole the whole premises is that if Sarah lives a half mile from me and we can think mutually then I have a half mile radius and then and then

[00:25:16] Chen lives a mile from you and a mile and a half for me. Then now I have a mile and a half. You see what I'm saying? We're building security in depth. Yeah. But but trying to expand the community circles so that like, you know, your

[00:25:33] community is good at doing this. We're good at doing that. And then we have some potential trade opportunity if things were to degrade to the point where we didn't have our current supply chain. Yeah. And you know, you set up your memorandum agreement, memorandum understanding.

[00:25:50] And the thing is you can do this concept in an apartment building. You can do it in a suburbia neighborhood. But but you can't do it sitting on a sofa eating Twinkies. Right? Yeah. This this this is hard work. I mean, you know, you can't just.

[00:26:12] You just can't pick out your 20 buddies who live around you, who who you hang out down to gun club with because that might be their only skill. Yeah. Right. You need so many other skills, but. Needing them and finding them and identifying. Is work and it takes time.

[00:26:36] You know, and in our community group, we just recently finished. You know, information is gold. And who do you have in your neighborhood who offers these skills, but also who in your neighborhood or your community is going to require any kind of special attention?

[00:27:01] So so we put together a kind of a questionnaire of like, do you require a special diet? Do you require special medications? Do you have to take medications that if you don't have them, it could be life changing or death. And anyway, we these are things that.

[00:27:21] Word actions can be another. Yeah, absolutely. Psychological psychiatric meds. Yeah, you know, all this stuff. If if you were going to be and this this could be during a hurricane, it can be towards any natural disaster. If you were going to be your neighborhood

[00:27:42] or your community's first responders. You got to you got to know what you're responding to and what you're likely to find. Yeah, does that make sense? Absolutely. It's like I remember when I worked in retail that the fire department come drive around every whatever.

[00:28:01] So I don't know the time period, but and they would come in and they just wanted to see the inside of our store. You know, if they had to respond, what they're going to be dealing with? And you know, they couldn't just Google map it.

[00:28:14] They actually want to walk through our store. That's my yeah, actually, actually in my in my day job. And actually that is one of the things I have eight buildings and communicating with the first responders, the fire and the police and showing them your most current floor plans,

[00:28:36] because when they come into your building hot for an incident. The last thing you need is that that there was construction in your house or in this business where there's now a wall, but yet in the plans they had, it was a clear 40 foot

[00:28:54] shot through to their their objective. And now there's a wall there, right? Because oftentimes, oftentimes these plans are in a rare area and. They're coming in with with goggles on that they're going to smoke or maybe a fire or whatever, and there's a earpiece in

[00:29:15] and someone in the rear is talking them through. These smoked areas to get to the objective and and and in many ways. In many ways when you're building, it all goes back. I think we talked about this maybe when I was with you all before. Building your team,

[00:29:39] building your community is only part of it. You have to work together as a group. To understand what is risk management. OK, what is the risk in your objectives? Growing food, having animals, protecting the area where your communities at the weather. Have you studied the weather?

[00:30:06] Are you tornado prone? Are you snow? It goes. In your risk assessment and identifying. These threats right and we have we in HFS we have built checklist. And you go through these checklists. What is the most likely threat to us and what is the least likely?

[00:30:28] And how are we going to mitigate it right? But how do you meet like random people for building out your community? Because that that's something that a lot of people struggle with. Maybe they don't want to talk about like, you know, what what their thought pattern is.

[00:30:45] It's definitely opening up the doors more these days, honestly, since the virus because everybody's, you know, hey, that happened. This could happen. So I think people are a lot more open minded to it, but like, you know, that's like the icebreaker. Yeah, I typically tell them

[00:31:06] that I know Sarah and Chen. Oh yeah, yeah. You got to check out the show, you know. My objective may be there are two streets down. There is a lady who lives there named Sarah, who I don't see eye to eye with, but we're very like minded in

[00:31:33] how we see the world. Right. Yeah. And we have another guy in our community named Chen. I know that Chen's friends with Sarah, so it may not be me who needs to go and talk to Sarah. It's Chen who I need to talk to

[00:31:50] to get him to go work on Sarah. Got you. This all comes through. In our community, we spend lots of time together. Even me traveling and all that. We spend lots of time together bonding. Understanding our people than our community, knowing our people,

[00:32:16] knowing when someone is maybe a spouse is sick or someone's out of town or. I will say that I found having having the disasters actually pulls communities together more like I met my neighbor who I haven't met since I moved here, you know.

[00:32:38] And because, you know, his something happened to his roof, something happened to our roof, you know. So now we have something in common and so we can talk and kind of feel that ground out. Right. Oh, yeah. You can have bookouts. You can have community gardens.

[00:32:56] Those are very common things. One of the ways, too, is to meet a new neighbor and don't even mention it to them and maybe invite them to church with you. Mm hmm. And kind of work it through. I personally like to just hang around and listen.

[00:33:13] I like to listen to I like to listen to people talk and hear what they tell me. And then I say, how can I? How can I achieve the needs of our community? Adding this person. So how am I going to how am I going to win them?

[00:33:35] So on the Hope for Survival website, if you come over there and sign up, then you just like it just adds a network. Now we can like start hunting people in that community to get part of it as well.

[00:33:48] Is that does it kind of facilitate that type of thing if folks were to go over there? The website itself is mainly a newsletter and my email address is on there and folks can email me and say, hey, I'm in Jonesboro, wherever.

[00:34:11] And I'll look them up on a map and then because because because individuals names and locations are I do everything I can to protect that information. Right. Yeah. To protect you. Yeah. And so on the website or on YouTube, you can I normally give an email address that,

[00:34:42] hey, you can go to the website. You can email me. But where people have really grown over five years is four years ago, we started a Hope for Survival Signal Group. OK. And it's kind of like an HFS Facebook, if you will. Yeah. 24 hours a day. Yeah.

[00:35:06] We have a preparedness room. We have a faith prayer room. We have a com group that discuss like ham radio, GMRS stuff. And then we have another group that's doctors and nurses. OK. So so if I like have a if I have a question on a medication

[00:35:30] or something like that, I'll shoot it to one of them and say, hey, can you get with your group? And let me know. And Sarah, the big thing is none of us can remember all this stuff. We got about 40 years to go to get to my age.

[00:35:49] But I forget what I forget, you know, right? So you utilize, utilize, utilize your skills and your people. And, you know, I'm blessed with how I live or where I live at and how things ended up. But there, you know, there's folks out in rural areas

[00:36:13] that they don't have 20 houses. Surrounding them, yeah. So you've got to be flexible to. There's there's there's advantages to living in the rural area. There are many of them. And that is, you know what? I take care of my place and you take care of your place.

[00:36:36] But when you hear three bursts of that air horn. I got your back. Right. OK, one more question for you. Oh, I hope this isn't my listenership because they've been with me for a while. So everybody should should have a running start,

[00:36:53] at least on stuff that's going on. But it's getting pretty darn legit. So with the awakening of a lot of the other people into our into the idea of just preparing to protect yourself instead of laying upon the government to do that for you. Somebody's ground zero.

[00:37:14] You just met them today and they're ground zero. What are you going to tell them to do today to be ready for tomorrow? Like where what kind of first steps should they just think about doing immediately before tomorrow? Well, for me personally,

[00:37:35] I go for the for you, Sarah. You're new to this and to chin. Right. I would tell you, number one, the best that you can. You need to get out of debt. And then I would suggest to you, you address your spiritual, physical and psychological self.

[00:38:00] You're no good to anyone else if you're no good to yourself. And in order to be a sound leader that other people are going to follow, it's not always what you say. It's what you do. So to be a good example and you'll you'll you'll pick people up

[00:38:17] by just them seeing you do good deeds to help yourself and help others. And then from that, your your resources will be determined how much you can spend. It'll be determined by where you are, what's available, how much you can store, how much you can transport.

[00:38:39] Are you alone? Do you have help? And then the food, food, water, food, water, you know, of course, shelter and security and medicinal. I think medicinal is going to play a huge role over time. Understanding not just pharmaceutical stuff,

[00:39:03] but understanding medicinal plants, essential oils, things you if you can, that can you grow these things? We need to be there anyway, because yeah, yeah. Yeah. The the Western pharmaceutical that everybody's duped on is not all that it's made up to be.

[00:39:21] So do yourself a favor and research it now. I mean, ask yourself. You can you can hug trees and kiss camels and be as far left as you want. You know what? That's on you. Just don't bring it in my house.

[00:39:40] But let me ask you this question, if you're in that position, how does a government that represents 300 plus million people? And come out and claim that our biggest threat is China. How is it that we buy 90 percent of our pain or antibiotics and meds from the same country?

[00:40:08] Right. Right. It just it blows my mind. It doesn't pass the test for me. It's kind of like how did the subs get off the coast of Cuba without, you know, someone saying in Ding Dong, we got company. But right. And and telling someone, you know,

[00:40:29] here's the deal, there's people surrounding you that will help that you got to do the work. Right. Yeah, because that's one of the biggest things are like, well, you're getting ready. And it's like, yeah, well, yeah.

[00:40:40] But that doesn't, you know, doesn't feed a multiple mouse for a long time. If you don't do the work and put in the effort and bring your skills to the table, then, you know, it's for all in vain. Yeah. And fine.

[00:40:55] And and also, I would tell anyone this and then I'll tell you what. God has blessed me far more than I deserve. But I am surrounded here in my community. I am surrounded by so many absolutely incredibly awesome brothers and sisters.

[00:41:18] It's whether I'm home or I'm on the road, I can reach out to them, you know, I don't worry about if I'm gone, I don't they're there for my wife. But right. Same. The work they're doing behind the scenes, helping prepare community.

[00:41:39] And it's it's it's it's a self insurance policy, it's self reliability. Yeah. I mean, ask yourself. Since the last time we had a major S.H.T.F., how many hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, droughts? How many natural disasters have we had? That required some portion of your preparedness package

[00:42:10] to sustain your life. And that's all this is. That's so true. And that's why I try to break it down like real simple, you know, even to the simplistic level for people to understand

[00:42:27] is like you have a spare tire in your car, you have insurance on your house. You know what? If most people need dual income these days, what if one of you, you know, wasn't available or even if you're somebody's running a homestead and somebody's

[00:42:41] working still full time, what if one of you, you know, something were to happen? Wouldn't you rather know that you have food in your pantry and the lights are going to stay on? Or would you rather be in that position where now you're going to cash

[00:42:54] call or whatever and you're bankrupting yourself? You know, you can weather the storm. It just takes a little bit of foresight. I mean, it does. I mean, a disaster to you may be different than a disaster to me. You you lost part of a roof. Right. Right.

[00:43:13] And somewhere else, the disaster may be a one income family. He or she just lost their job. Yeah. Or they were diagnosed with a bad illness that's going to take a long term care. Right. Yeah. I mean, I mean, there's just so many things.

[00:43:34] And all this is is saying stop being dependent upon a system no matter what that system is. Be dependent on yourself to to help yourself, your family and your community. And then once you feel comfortable, then you can start doing that

[00:43:55] with your community and, you know, then you're there to help each other, which we're really missing right now in our culture is the ability to, you know, really just understand like, hey, they might need something from you. You might have to, you know, sacrifice something of yourself.

[00:44:12] And that's what it's all about, about making yourself a better person and helping other spirits along the way. You know, not to not to not to sound cold hearted or anything, but it's like, you know, I have people tell me

[00:44:31] I don't need to do any of this because the Lord's going to take care of me. And, you know, I just point blank. Tell him it's like, you know, no offense, ma'am or sir. But when Jesus shows up in an Uber bringing you a pizza, please call me.

[00:44:49] Right. Oh, isn't that the truth? Isn't that the truth? Yeah. Think about it that way as well. Mm hmm. A second part of this, that. Others may or, you know, just like you, you just you just met a new person,

[00:45:07] right? And they're excited about doing this and then they're asking you. Question is in your kind of bit. And that's awesome because that's where it counts, but also in the preparedness arena, you know, yourself and with Chen and James and all the others.

[00:45:33] We're trying to help people, trying to get them to understand why and they need to do these things. But there is a. There's kind of an unspoken beltway amongst our voices that we can reach out to one another and say, hey, what's your thoughts on this?

[00:45:54] Or hey, are you encountering? Yeah. Or hey, I got this problem. Questions all the time. Yeah. It's one of the coolest things like on the garden, on our garden channel, because like, oh, I've seen that before. Oh no, I haven't seen that before.

[00:46:08] You know, so and you're always up against it with your plants. You know. So yeah, people take a picture of the leaf or something and saying, everybody's seen this. How do we how do we fix this? What is it? My. And

[00:46:26] I may have I may have a 75 year old lady who sends me an email and the first time in her life, she has one pot growing a tomato plant. Right with four or five tomatoes. And she's thrilled. And the whole thing is, is

[00:46:47] had she not come to one of us, she probably would have never planted that plant. But more important than that plant is giving her confidence and purpose that she can contribute to herself. Yeah. And hope now contribute to her neighbor. Yeah. Have value, have your individual value.

[00:47:10] You are important. Yeah. And that's so so much of this is is there are people I know you all you come across them, but there are people out there who who have their shut up in a home and they basically have lost hope. Yeah.

[00:47:35] Right. And they may not be able to go dig a hole or do some of the physical stuff. But you know what? They may be an awesome cook. They may be able to put together healthy diet plans. They may be able to sew.

[00:47:51] They may be able to do any of these tasks that to us. Seems less important. But you got to have it. What are so essential for the community? Yeah, everything yourself. I mean, like working on my homestead. I can't do everything myself, you know,

[00:48:11] you have to work as a community, even even though it's my property. We all work together. Yeah. What if you get hurt? Yeah. Yeah. But there's just time in the day to do to do farming, to do like, I'm, you know, structural work and road maintenance and

[00:48:30] and then what if you had to defend yourself at the same time? Doing all that at once, you just can't do it. If you had kids taking care of the children. I mean, you just can't do it all.

[00:48:41] One, you know, even a husband or wife can't do it all. Yeah. Really? Even a family of four. We had, you know, family for 40 acres. There was still you needed the community now and then. Yeah. What if what if you're a quarter mile from your home

[00:48:57] and doing work or running a piece of equipment and a threat comes to your home and your wife and your children are in the house? How how are they going to how are they going to be able to notify you immediately? You need to get home.

[00:49:14] They're not going to be able to pick a phone up and call you, most likely. So so this goes into that community building, setting up a communication plan as part of your security plan as to one air burst equals this, two air burst equals that,

[00:49:30] three air burst equals, you know, do you have a text group set up amongst your family or your farm neighbors? Right. Hey, my security camera had someone on the porch at 3 a.m. Here's what they look like. Does it do any of you recognize this actually happened?

[00:49:49] So some of our folks up communication in North Alabama. Yeah, you can't outrun it. You know, you cannot outrun communicate if you can see at night and you can communicate, you're ahead of the rest. Well, but thank you so much for coming back on the show.

[00:50:09] We're going to have to jump into the changing Earth news. You know, stick around or you you're out of here. Yeah, I'll hang. All right. I'll hang. All right. Appreciate it. It's good. Good to be with both of you all again. Yeah. Yeah, it's been.

[00:50:23] We've got to get you out to proper camp. I mean, you got to just retire and get your butt over there so we can actually shake hands. Shake hands. All right. All right. Hold on. All right.

[00:50:36] I'm going to go play my play my change in Earth news and we'll jump into it. Dream survive thrive. This is changing Earth news. All righty. Change in Earth news. So as I mentioned in the intro past two weeks were a little interesting in Texas for sure.

[00:51:08] And across most United States, we had some crazy weather patterns coming across that just seemed to hammer and hammer and hammer. And it appears that Tornado Alley is moving east as well. So everybody heads up there. Been something like 20 tornadoes in Pennsylvania this year. Very odd stuff afoot.

[00:51:29] Solar activity has actually been fairly stable this past week. And you can obviously see the correlation there whenever our solar activity kind of stabilizes out. So do our weather patterns. And when it gets crazy, so do our weather patterns as well. So keep eyes on.

[00:51:47] There's a couple interesting things going on. There's a big sunspot on there right now that we do have eyes on. But this morning, NASA decided that the whole system was just down. So the website was down. Everything was down.

[00:52:01] So we'll be watching it again in the morning to make sure they're back up and running and everything's looking good up there. So I was, you know, through my research, I'm researching, researching, and suddenly they've decided to put out a new warning that the Cascadia Fault

[00:52:19] is about due for a nine plus earthquake up there with tidal waves and whatnot. I see this information coming up fairly often. And it's good when we see the little, you know, earthquake swarms that are releasing energy up there.

[00:52:36] But again, there needs to be a heightened level of preparedness in that Washington area in Oregon, because that would be a big wave coming towards you guys. So, you know, you got to be ready to get out of your house in seconds to get ahead of that storm.

[00:52:53] All right, let's jump into the daily. So on June 9th of 2024, there was 394 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 6.2 in the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. The 5.7 earthquake hit China's Xinjiang region. Trevor's tremors were felt all the way into Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan.

[00:53:17] There was a 4.5 earthquake in northern California, as well as a 3.4 earthquake in southern California. There was a large solar filament that erupted on that day. It was not earthbound. We did get hit with some of the energy coming across our connection with the sun, but not earthbound event.

[00:53:39] Eastern Arizona, they had the bear fire that was growing pretty big on the 9th. And then on the 10th, there was 390 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.2 in the Coral Sea near Venatu, mountain Etna erupted in Italy. We still have eyes on Campi Flegre.

[00:53:59] Just has to stay eyes on because the more they've been researching it, they've been finding bigger and bigger calderas in the area. So it could really make a big mess over there in the Mediterranean.

[00:54:10] Lava broke through the barriers towards the town that begins with an R in Iceland. I can never say it correctly, so I'm just going to go with the town that begins with an R. They have this huge lava barrier up and lava broke through it that day.

[00:54:26] It's still encroaching that direction. Stromboli erupted in Mexico on that day, so lots of volcanic activity. We're going to get to that in a minute. And then on June 11th, there was 366 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.4 in the Sulu Sea.

[00:54:46] There was 400 plus tremors in the Cascadia region that day. So just as I mentioned, when we see a lot of that tremor activity, it can be a precursor of bigger activity to come. But sometimes it can be the little release

[00:55:00] that needs to happen to keep the area stable. So we'll just keep praying for everyone up there. And I'm hoping that God continues to bless them. In West Central Brazil, in the Penetal Wetlands, they're having major forest fires up there. It surged 980 percent.

[00:55:17] This is one of the world's largest wetland areas, and they've been experiencing extreme drought. And I wanted to call attention to this one because it's another example of how just extreme the weather patterns are getting. We're having, you know, extreme drought right next to extreme flooding

[00:55:34] where you can literally drive from one area to the other and experience both of those events in one day. It's very trippy. So big difference in between the low pressure systems and the high pressure systems. On June 12th, there was 362 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger,

[00:55:51] biggest of which was a 6.0 in the Philippine Sea near Indonesia. There was an earthquake swarms near Mount St. Helens and around most of the Pacific Northwest again. So, again, we've got eyes on that area. Everybody up there, please be prepared. After massive upheavals in Iceland's

[00:56:10] 100 foot volcano, it cracked open. This could be a massive eruption going on up there. So Iceland is not done with its activity by any means at this point. A severe hail event hit Switzerland. They had five inch hail coming down there.

[00:56:26] And then there was a big fire out in Colorado near Leadville in the Twin Lakes area. This was caused by a campfire that was left unattended. So guys, be aware of your surroundings. Take care of that fire before you walk away.

[00:56:40] June 13th, there was 357 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.1 in the South Pacific Ocean. In Brandon, Manitoba, they have multiple tornado touchdowns and there was a tornado touchdown in Bushnell, Illinois. Ontario and Quebec were hit with large hail and damaging winds as well

[00:56:59] in that storm system as it came through. And the rains began to fall in Florida, causing historic flooding in the southern end of Florida, which is pretty intense because again, it's we're highlighting these differences between the low pressure and the high pressure systems.

[00:57:19] Northern Florida has just had a recent outbreak of wildfires breaking out. So, you know, right on top of each other, we're having these two different major events going on, both Bay County and Panama City had those wildfires today

[00:57:38] as they were declaring a disaster zone for the flooding down south. So it's like, hey, could you send some of that water north? June 14th, there was 376 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.9 in the South Pacific region.

[00:57:54] There was severe storm that smashed southern Spain, causing massive flooding there. There was six homes destroyed outside of Phoenix in a wildfire event. Northern or in Nevada, Sparks, Nevada had a wildfire event up there and Rajouri, India also had a big wildfire over there.

[00:58:14] On the today, the six. Nope. Yesterday, 615, there was 379 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. The biggest of which was a 5.7 in the Maluca Sea near Indonesia. There was two point five point nine earthquakes on the mid Atlantic Ridge.

[00:58:32] So core of the planet's getting active with all the solar energy we've been experiencing magnetic shielding going down. There was a deep earthquake swarm under the big island in Hawaii, biggest of which in there was a four point one earthquake.

[00:58:47] There was heavy rain and swollen rivers up in Minnesota. And Mount Semeru had two eruptions in Indonesia and Hesperia, Southern California. Right outside of L.A., there was a rapid growing wildfire that was prompting evacuations are trying to get that under control today. So today, June 16th, 2024, 383 earthquakes

[00:59:11] or 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.0 in South Pacific Ocean. The earthquake numbers have really been riding there around the three eighties, three nineties, so I don't see any unusual activity there. They are tracking the first potential hurricane forming out in the Gulf right now.

[00:59:29] So we're going to keep eyes on that this week. And as far as volcanoes, we got a lot of volcanoes erupting right now. Thirty three volcanoes erupting. That might be the most that I've ever seen before in the time of recording

[00:59:46] that are actively erupting on our planet right now. We have two showing minor activity at 20. Or I'm sorry, we have twenty seven showing minor activity and 24 showing unrest. So our numbers from three weeks ago we are up to on the eruption.

[01:00:03] We're up to on the minor activity and we're down to on the unrest. So they've actually added two more volcanoes to that list since we last reported on them. As far as wildfires in the United States of America, we're at a preparation level of two.

[01:00:18] There is seventy four thousand four hundred and thirteen acres actively burning. This is coming from 19 large fires. There's six new of them and two of those are contained. Number one on the list is Alaska with five wildfires burning

[01:00:32] for a total of thirty five thousand three hundred and eighty acres. That's coming from three new fires, and none of those are contained at this time. Number two on the list is New Mexico. They have twenty nine thousand four hundred and fifty nine acres

[01:00:46] actively burning from three fires. There's no new fires, and these are not contained. And then in Arizona, they have five thousand thirty eight acres on fire. This is coming from five major fires. There's one new fire and none of these are contained.

[01:01:01] And then just to throw it in there, Washington is a number four on the last one thousand seven hundred and fifty six acres. This is coming from one large fire. There are no new and that fire has been contained. So good job, guys.

[01:01:15] What to stay on it as far as the wildfires in Canada go. We're seeing less this year. It's not they're not there, but last year was horrendous. So that's good news on that that front as well. So there you guys go. Change in Earth news. What going on?

[01:01:31] Not as much as when I was gone, I was like, of course, the world goes crazy when I'm on vacation. But hopefully you guys are staying on top of the events. Well, I wasn't here with you. All righty, guys. Well, that that wraps it up.

[01:01:48] Thanks so much for coming on, but shows awesome of you. Short notice and I appreciate your time because I wanted to have you know, community is really important. I see it as like a major hole in most people's plans.

[01:02:03] You know, I've got a fairly good grip on my region, but I'm only been here for four years, so I'm going to include myself on that list of, you know, I could do more in my community area. Yeah, it makes it difficult because you're kind of

[01:02:21] through some size, you're a transplant. Right. For sure. For sure. Yeah. Fortunately, in our community, 95 percent of us are all transplants. Right. So, you know. Yeah, I meet a lot of like minded individuals down here that also fled from behind the Iron Curtain.

[01:02:41] So there are a good deal of like minded people that have all fled their states to seek a free Texas. And now we're all Texans. So. Well, after hearing your your forecast the last 10 minutes, I'm going to I'm leaving town tomorrow.

[01:03:01] I'm going to tell the guys, hey, you all need to get all your shovels and dig a great big hole because we're going to need it. Right. Fortunately. Yeah, fortunately, we follow this stuff, too. Thanks to you, Mr. The the sun is important to follow right now

[01:03:22] because we're going to see some interesting things in the next 20 years on this planet. Yes, for sure. How can we grow food? How are we going to be able to grow food in 10 years in soil that's too hot to accept seeds or on a planet?

[01:03:42] Because if like the North Atlantic current shuts down, then we're going back into ice age type environment. So, you know, you'd be looking at more greenhouses and things like that. Yeah, we've been encouraging folks to actually for the last few months, we've been suggesting they start

[01:04:01] depending on their situation, start researching on how they can start growing food inside. Yeah. And the biggest one of the biggest problems that I'm seeing out of it would be like light bulbs. You know, because you're going to have to have the light if we went,

[01:04:18] can't be flag, gray, went and erupted super volcano style that could cover the earth for four years. And then we're really looking at how do we create an artificial sun to be able to, you know, grow food? Right.

[01:04:33] Well, I have I can tell you, I don't know about long term, but I can tell you I have visited some high dollar bunkers that they can grow food. Right. Yeah. So that's the option there as well.

[01:04:51] The other thing that really concerns me is a lot of people have canning as part of their long term survival plan. And can you name a place in the United States that makes jars these days? Yeah. Right.

[01:05:08] So if we aren't making canning jars and we're not making canning lids and we can't get a hold of aluminum, can't nobody can really. I mean, I couldn't. I don't know how to put it in an aluminum can, you know.

[01:05:21] So I see that as another like major problem, potential issue. Well, there's some out there who follow the the global weather sensation, if you will, who are suggesting that we humans that we we learn a whole new diet.

[01:05:43] We need to learn to eat things that we never thought we would eat. Like algae and yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good. I think we just need to believe in our planet a little bit more and learn to work a little bit more

[01:05:58] in unity with it instead of trying to demand more from it. I was reading an article about chickens, right? Like 50 years ago, average chicken was like two pounds. And nowadays, average chicken is like eight to nine pounds, right? And so we feed it all this stuff.

[01:06:19] It's a great idea because we're going to feed more people right, so we feed it the special feed and everything so that that chicken can now feed more people and be a fatter bird. The problem is when you ingest that. Well, what happens?

[01:06:33] You're fattening yourself up off of that protein because of what that protein was fed in its lifestyle. I mean, you are what you eat. So I think there's a little bit more harmonious way of us, you know, going back to smaller farms, communities, working within our

[01:06:49] regions. Yeah, now we have 10 year old, 10 year old females that are fully developed and first graders with sideburns and beards. So right. You know, it's I honestly believe. I honestly believe that over the years that this is this has had an impact.

[01:07:09] I mean, the children you go out to a mall and the kids are huge. Yeah, they're massive. Like, I'm not a big person. Yeah, you're a seventh grader. Yeah. I mean, I weighed like 70 pounds and they used to stick me in a trash can when I was

[01:07:25] in the seventh grade. I was so little, I had to turn it over to get out. That's the truth. But it's happening. You know. All right. Well, let's wrap up. Chin put up the website and the chat. I'm going to put it up on the screen.

[01:07:40] I'm going to put it up on the screen. Let's wrap up chin put up the website in the chat room for all you guys in the chat. You can go over and check out hope for survival.

[01:07:50] But butch, why don't you go ahead and tell everybody where to find you? And we'll wrap it up and call it a Sunday. Yeah. Hope for survival dot com hope for survival dot com. It's hope for survival on YouTube as well.

[01:08:05] Or you can email me at preparedness 101 at Protonmel dot com. And keep supporting Sarah and Chin. They're doing great stuff. I'm honored to get to spend time with you always. And God bless you. God bless you and keep you safe. Same. And keep fighting the fight.

[01:08:28] All right, guys. Have a blessed evening. If you want to find out. Oh, check out the new episode of the audio drama just launched this week. You can check it out on the YouTube channel or just go over to my website.

[01:08:41] Change in Earth series and all the links are over there for you guys. So check that out. Hit up my YouTube channel like and subscribe. And until next week, remember dream. Survive thrive.