Facts Behind the Fiction: Friends in Odd Places

[00:00:06] Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson.

[00:00:14] Blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive and thrive.

[00:00:23] And now here's your host Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson.

[00:00:28] Back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number 475, episode 3.

[00:00:40] Hey Chen, what's up?

[00:00:44] 475 point, take 3.

[00:00:47] Take 3. I'm like Chen, you're having technical issues.

[00:00:52] Yeah.

[00:00:54] I'm blaming the drones. I'm telling you, they stole our sound.

[00:00:59] I don't know what happened honestly. It was on my end everybody, I'll take the blame for that one.

[00:01:04] That's why we're late today.

[00:01:07] It could be our last live show though. So, if you're listening live, there you go.

[00:01:13] There you go.

[00:01:14] Enjoy.

[00:01:15] Enjoy.

[00:01:15] We're late, but we're here. We're doing our thing.

[00:01:20] We were here early.

[00:01:22] Yeah, we were here on time. It's just, we're dealing with some technical issues.

[00:01:29] So, yeah, it could be our last live show. I've been trying to figure out what's going on.

[00:01:37] I know that Spreaker has some stuff going on. That's where we live cast right now.

[00:01:43] Mm-hmm.

[00:01:44] And it's going to be discontinued. I know that Intrepid Commander has found some alternate resources, but I don't know if that's going to be as easy for the team to use.

[00:01:55] Mm-hmm.

[00:01:56] So, I'm just not sure if I want to. I have so much going on. And financially, you know, to set up another whole program and everything, I'm just not sure that's a move I want to make.

[00:02:14] I would love feedback from you listeners if you really have it in your heart that you're like, hey, we want to hear you live. We want to be able to give feedback. We want to be able to do those things. Then please hit me up. Let me know it's worth it. Otherwise, I think we will just go back to our prerecorded format if I don't have an option because there's just too many pieces in motion right now.

[00:02:37] And trying to put another factor into all that would just be too much for me to handle. I've got to have some family time and whatnot. So, yeah.

[00:02:51] I think Skype was like the scorned girlfriend and it was like throwing curveballs at us today.

[00:02:58] I know. I know. It really, like I say, put that old wrench in the program.

[00:03:06] So, so let's get into changing earth show.

[00:03:14] Next Sunday is going to be the Christmas show. Now, what that looks like.

[00:03:19] I don't have any idea, honestly, right now.

[00:03:22] Like I was trying to like I was explaining a little bit in the beginning.

[00:03:26] I just don't know what's happening with the whole platform and everything.

[00:03:30] So hopefully we'll be able to do it just like we're doing now.

[00:03:33] We'll be able to go live one more time, but I can't remember the specific date that Spreaker Studio is going to end.

[00:03:41] And I think it's around the 22nd, which is exactly when we're doing the Christmas show.

[00:03:49] So whether that's I'll figure it out.

[00:03:52] I will call Mr. James until he answers the phone and get some answers so we can figure out what's going to happen with that.

[00:04:02] Because I want to do something special for Christmas.

[00:04:05] I want to have some giveaways, something like that.

[00:04:08] I looked into going live on Twitter.

[00:04:11] It's just not easy to do.

[00:04:13] So I don't know.

[00:04:16] But that is what is happening next Sunday.

[00:04:20] Tentatively, we're having that Christmas show.

[00:04:22] I don't know what it looks like, but we'll see what goes on.

[00:04:25] Even if it's just Yuri singing us the night before Christmas, we're going to do something.

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[00:05:32] All right.

[00:05:34] So episode three of season three of the Changing Earth audio drama, The Trinity.

[00:05:43] You thought of some great topics for us for tonight.

[00:05:48] It's a sneaker episode.

[00:05:51] It is.

[00:05:52] It is.

[00:05:55] One of the cool things about this episode is they find the USS Missouri.

[00:06:01] Well, they found it last week.

[00:06:04] They boarded.

[00:06:05] Yeah, they boarded last week.

[00:06:06] Right.

[00:06:08] This is from that show that used to be on History Channel, Life After People.

[00:06:13] They did a whole episode on if there was disaster.

[00:06:18] And then the USS Missouri broke its moorings.

[00:06:21] And then it floated just out in the ocean that the birds would find it.

[00:06:25] And eventually it would be like this floating tropical island.

[00:06:27] I was like, oh, yeah.

[00:06:29] That's cool.

[00:06:30] Feels like Paris Paradise.

[00:06:32] Yeah.

[00:06:32] We're using that.

[00:06:34] Food.

[00:06:35] Nobody was on it because it was just a historical ship, you know.

[00:06:40] So it wasn't manned.

[00:06:41] That kind of thing.

[00:06:43] So I thought that would be a fun twist on the story.

[00:06:50] Foraging, though.

[00:06:52] Urban foraging.

[00:06:54] It's an important avenue to think about.

[00:06:56] And I love your caveats that you had there.

[00:07:02] I went down so many rabbit holes with this because, you know, I listened to the show just to get my head in the game.

[00:07:09] And then, of course, all this drone stuff's going on.

[00:07:11] And then I did a search for urban foraging.

[00:07:16] Uh-huh.

[00:07:17] And that video popped up that I shared about, like, escape and evasion in an urban area with, like, a military presence chasing you.

[00:07:28] So that video was epic.

[00:07:31] I was like, well, let's just tie this all together.

[00:07:34] Yeah.

[00:07:34] So, yeah.

[00:07:36] The survival instructor that I trained under, Doug, he, basically, that's a class we went through.

[00:07:43] And so I was actually taking notes on that video.

[00:07:46] I'm like, is this what you want to do?

[00:07:48] Is this the only thing?

[00:07:50] Yeah.

[00:07:51] So that's cool.

[00:07:52] And then right after that, I saw another one with, like, forest escape and evasion.

[00:07:59] And so it was, like, both ends.

[00:08:01] Oh, got you.

[00:08:03] Okay.

[00:08:03] You only said the forest one.

[00:08:04] Both types.

[00:08:05] Yeah.

[00:08:06] The forest one is what everybody thinks about, right?

[00:08:09] But the urban one is probably, I mean, you could be at work if something happens and you got to figure out how to slink around the city to get out to get to the suburbs or to get to the rural area where you live.

[00:08:24] Right.

[00:08:25] We actually did some of that in our survival training as well.

[00:08:33] So even as far as, like, tracking somebody in an urban environment, you don't want to necessarily be on their heels the whole time.

[00:08:41] So they set up, like, teams of two in different quadrants.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:46] And then we had to, like, track somebody's movement as they moved around town with just our quadrant, right?

[00:08:54] And what?

[00:08:55] It would be harder to track them in urban.

[00:08:59] Yes.

[00:08:59] It's not like in the woods where there's more physical traces that you could try to key in on.

[00:09:06] Right.

[00:09:06] It's much more visual, right?

[00:09:09] It is.

[00:09:09] It is.

[00:09:10] Because you can't follow footprints.

[00:09:12] I mean, it's harder.

[00:09:15] Much harder.

[00:09:17] You can't just, like, see them.

[00:09:18] You can't, like, the slug trails, things like that, any kind of clipped branches, that kind of thing.

[00:09:25] I mean, in an urban environment, that's not going to happen.

[00:09:28] Yeah.

[00:09:30] And then having, like, the optional change of clothes was really, really essential for an urban environment.

[00:09:39] Like, the guy that shot the executive, the healthcare executive.

[00:09:45] Yep.

[00:09:45] He had a backpack, ran into the park, changed, and then biked out.

[00:09:50] Yeah.

[00:09:51] And it's really effective.

[00:09:53] Even if you have a jacket or something that you can flip so that.

[00:09:56] Put it inside out.

[00:09:57] Yep.

[00:09:58] So now it's different.

[00:10:00] Or, like, those pants that you have, you know, that are the hiking pants that you can unzip them.

[00:10:05] Now you're in shorts.

[00:10:06] Oh, I thought you meant the stripper pants where you just rip them.

[00:10:09] Yeah, yeah.

[00:10:10] Just blast those things off.

[00:10:11] Just roll in with it.

[00:10:14] But actually, like, that was not a bad idea.

[00:10:17] Really?

[00:10:17] To just be able to swoop on her knee.

[00:10:20] Yeah.

[00:10:20] Yep.

[00:10:21] Yep.

[00:10:22] The one chick that we were tracking, she went into the store alone.

[00:10:29] And then she came out in a group of people.

[00:10:33] Right.

[00:10:34] Because you're looking for the pattern, right?

[00:10:37] Right.

[00:10:37] And when the pattern changes, you got to re-key yourself to follow that new pattern.

[00:10:42] Exactly.

[00:10:43] Yeah.

[00:10:44] She had changed her clothes and then walked out with a group.

[00:10:48] Yep.

[00:10:48] And we were like, wait a minute.

[00:10:50] What?

[00:10:50] Wait.

[00:10:51] You know, she should be out by now.

[00:10:53] That kind of thing.

[00:10:54] And then, yeah.

[00:10:55] Trying to figure that out.

[00:10:58] So there's lots of cool little tricks that if you're not in that scenario, you don't really think about.

[00:11:04] Uh-huh.

[00:11:06] Lockpicking is a good one that you had down there because there's many areas they couldn't get through because the door is locked.

[00:11:14] Right.

[00:11:16] So a couple – some of these things were, like, escape evasion.

[00:11:19] And some were just, like, you might want to get water.

[00:11:24] And, like, they might have a little locked door over the outside faucet, like the landscaping faucet.

[00:11:32] Right.

[00:11:32] So you might have to pick the door to get to the faucet to be able to get some water out.

[00:11:38] Yeah.

[00:11:38] Because, like, you're not – I mean, you're not really going to drink out of puddles and streams of water in an urban environment.

[00:11:44] Right.

[00:11:45] Because all the runoffs and oils and just chemicals.

[00:11:50] It's gross.

[00:11:52] Gross.

[00:11:52] But, you know, anywhere you could get water from, you know, from pipes, you know, from plumbing.

[00:11:58] And if they have, like, a hot water heater or some kind of a maintenance room, that's definitely going to be behind a locked door, even if it's accessible from the outside of the building.

[00:12:08] Right.

[00:12:09] Yeah.

[00:12:10] And, like, if you want – I mean, if you need to get through a park or a parking lot or a cemetery or something, the doorway that you come to might be a locked gate or a locked door.

[00:12:26] So you don't have to walk all the way around to the public entrance.

[00:12:29] You might sneak through that way, you know?

[00:12:31] Right.

[00:12:31] Yeah.

[00:12:32] It's good stuff.

[00:12:35] It's an area I haven't gone to yet just because, you know, never really felt the need.

[00:12:40] But I know from traveling the urban environments that a lot of times it's not accessible.

[00:12:47] Another thing is just having, like, a wrench on you.

[00:12:50] Because even if it is accessible, they probably take the actual knob that turns it on.

[00:12:56] They take that off when they leave.

[00:12:59] So if you have a wrench that you can actually turn that with, that gives you at least access to something that you wouldn't have access to.

[00:13:06] You're more leveraged instead of just trying to turn a knob with your fingers.

[00:13:10] Right.

[00:13:11] Right.

[00:13:12] Learning the hobo signs is important because if it is a stream or something that's coming through town, a lot of times, like you say, they're contaminated.

[00:13:21] And so I've heard with talking with a lot of homeless people, you know, oh, hey, you know, Mary Sue or whatever.

[00:13:27] She died from drinking that water.

[00:13:29] So that's not something we drink.

[00:13:30] And they'll put those signs up.

[00:13:32] So learning the hobo signs is important because they'll try and warn each other, like, hey, don't drink this water.

[00:13:39] Right.

[00:13:40] Mm-hmm.

[00:13:42] The vending machine.

[00:13:44] So Erica has, like, the nine-year-old Snickers bar.

[00:13:48] This bar, right?

[00:13:49] But, I mean, in, like, a national catastrophe, I mean, I'm not saying go break into a vending machine.

[00:13:56] But even if it's – you could still use money if it's still –

[00:13:59] Right.

[00:14:01] That far down the line.

[00:14:03] You could still buy some, you know, meal replacement bars and stuff before you get out of the city just so that, you know, if you know you've got to hike 20 miles through, you know, suburbia and rural areas,

[00:14:18] because it'd be easier to have, you know, 10 cereal bars with you to snack along the way so you don't have to forage, like, the way you like to forage through the woods.

[00:14:28] Yeah.

[00:14:29] You know?

[00:14:30] Because your thing – this isn't going to be a vacation trip.

[00:14:34] This is going to be a goal-oriented, you know, driven mission to get from where you are back to where your people are, right?

[00:14:43] Right.

[00:14:44] You know, your family or – yeah.

[00:14:45] You know, things just went seriously wrong in our area.

[00:14:48] I know somebody who I might be able to – you know, will you ever get there?

[00:14:53] I don't know, but it's going to be about the journey because it'll be a difficult trip.

[00:14:58] And do these little mind experiences because everybody thinks, like, well, I got a bug out bag in my car.

[00:15:03] I'm good to go.

[00:15:04] What if your car just got flooded, you know, washed down the stream?

[00:15:09] And you can't – you know, you washed it.

[00:15:12] I mean, I'm just talking from experience here in, you know, Western North Carolina.

[00:15:15] Exactly.

[00:15:16] Yeah.

[00:15:16] Like, what if you had all your food?

[00:15:18] There wasn't any dirt for the property that the people owned left.

[00:15:22] So –

[00:15:23] Yeah.

[00:15:23] You know, they said, well, you know, we live in Asheville and we're going to head to the mountains if anything bad happens in Asheville.

[00:15:29] And, well, the mountains – you know, that dirt is not there anymore.

[00:15:33] Right.

[00:15:34] So what's your – what are you going to do?

[00:15:37] So, you know, you might have to think – even if you plan for years on how you're going to do it, you might have to think outside the box.

[00:15:44] So it's good to walk through these experiments once in a while.

[00:15:49] Well, even wild foraging too, like in a flood situation like you guys just had in North Carolina, you know, you don't know if that's been contaminated someplace that flood water just came through and now you're reliant upon what's there in nature to feed you.

[00:16:06] You know, I don't know that that's – I mean, obviously you're going to do what you got to do.

[00:16:10] But also we've introduced a lot of things that you shouldn't be eating, you know, to this planet and now it just washed over all of your salad basically.

[00:16:21] You know, probably not the best idea.

[00:16:24] But if you're in urban or suburban area and you know you still have to go through rural area and you have the opportunity to snag food on the run, like wrap the food that you could actually put in your backpack or put in your pockets.

[00:16:40] So take advantage of it.

[00:16:42] If you have the opportunity for water, clean drinking water, take advantage of it because you don't know when the next opportunity is going to be.

[00:16:50] Right.

[00:16:51] Absolutely.

[00:16:51] And the clean drinking water is way more important than food.

[00:16:55] It's going to be heavier, but it's so much more important than food.

[00:16:58] You can only go three days without water.

[00:17:00] You can go three weeks without food.

[00:17:02] Drink a couple bottles before you keep – drink it right away.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:08] At least you're getting some fluid in you.

[00:17:11] Yeah, and then carry as much as you possibly can.

[00:17:14] Yeah.

[00:17:15] You know, I would say it's almost more important than ammunition because that ain't going to keep you alive when you're dehydrated.

[00:17:21] Ammo is not going to do anything for you, you know.

[00:17:26] So we're actually working on, you know, being able to have a full loadout system.

[00:17:31] So then once you have a system like that, it takes a lot of weight off of what you actually need in your backpack.

[00:17:40] Right.

[00:17:40] So now you have room for things like gallons of water, which are going to be heavy and hard to carry.

[00:17:47] So think about that.

[00:17:49] How much can you put on your person versus what do you need in that actual bag?

[00:17:54] Because that's what I found is pretty cool.

[00:17:56] And James Yeager's book for defense contracting, his loadouts are great in that book.

[00:18:09] I mean, you want like a loadout system that they would use to walk through the desert and stay alive and be combat ready?

[00:18:19] But that book is all about that.

[00:18:22] It's not very expensive.

[00:18:23] So I do highly recommend that one.

[00:18:27] It's a good, good resource.

[00:18:29] Well, yeah, vending machines.

[00:18:31] Think about like areas where, oh, wow, there's a vending machine there.

[00:18:35] I wouldn't expect a vending machine to be there.

[00:18:38] And you see them a lot, like kiosks and stuff.

[00:18:42] Uh-huh.

[00:18:43] A lot more than even like gas stations and rest areas and all these places that have vending machines now.

[00:18:54] They don't have like stores and stuff anymore.

[00:18:57] Right.

[00:18:57] So think outside the box.

[00:18:59] It's like office buildings, a lot of them will have them like off the main lobby and stuff.

[00:19:04] So libraries have them.

[00:19:06] Yeah.

[00:19:07] All these places that aren't food places could have, you know, hotel lobbies and stuff.

[00:19:15] And I guarantee like.

[00:19:16] You know, they can have that little.

[00:19:17] The hotels usually have the little business center off to the side of it.

[00:19:21] Yep.

[00:19:21] You know, the room with the little plugins and printers and stuff.

[00:19:25] Yeah.

[00:19:26] Yeah.

[00:19:26] Yeah.

[00:19:26] That they have like snacks available there for you.

[00:19:28] Yeah.

[00:19:29] Yep.

[00:19:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:30] And I guarantee you the only people who are thinking about that kind of thing is those people who have studied it and those people that work there.

[00:19:38] Yep.

[00:19:38] Because they know that the vending machine's there, you know.

[00:19:41] So I think it's a really good emergency source to have like in your back pocket.

[00:19:47] Like.

[00:19:48] Mm-hmm.

[00:19:48] Oh, usually a library has it.

[00:19:50] And you can probably pick up good stuff while you're there, right?

[00:19:53] So.

[00:19:54] Yep.

[00:19:55] Yeah.

[00:19:55] It's really good.

[00:19:56] It was funny.

[00:19:57] I was driving down the road one day.

[00:19:59] And you know those signs on the side of the road that's, you know, whatever.

[00:20:05] Construction ahead, you know.

[00:20:06] But they usually have a big solar panel.

[00:20:08] Right.

[00:20:08] So you know there's.

[00:20:09] I was always thinking, you know, if you ever need to recharge.

[00:20:12] Yeah.

[00:20:13] I bet there's batteries and stuff in there.

[00:20:15] It's true.

[00:20:16] So.

[00:20:16] Yeah.

[00:20:17] You gotta like think outside of the box.

[00:20:19] Yep.

[00:20:19] Mainly because.

[00:20:21] Okay.

[00:20:21] We're gonna go to the grocery store to get food.

[00:20:24] Well, how many other people are going to the grocery store to get food?

[00:20:26] Going to the grocery store.

[00:20:27] Right.

[00:20:28] Oh, I know where the distribution center is.

[00:20:30] Well, guess what?

[00:20:31] Mm-hmm.

[00:20:32] So does everybody else.

[00:20:33] So does everybody else.

[00:20:33] Uh-huh.

[00:20:35] So, you know, if you can find the hole in the wall where you can get hooked up versus the

[00:20:40] main distribution area.

[00:20:44] Who's gonna go to the ice skating rink?

[00:20:46] Right?

[00:20:47] Right.

[00:20:48] The holiday ice skating rink that probably has refreshments on it.

[00:20:52] The employees.

[00:20:53] High-tailed over there.

[00:20:54] Nobody.

[00:20:54] Everybody's headed to the drugstore.

[00:20:56] Yeah.

[00:20:57] Not to the ice skating.

[00:20:58] And depending, you know.

[00:20:59] Yeah.

[00:20:59] And as time ticks, of course, people start thinking about it.

[00:21:02] But, you know, if it's an emergency situation and you're in need of food, I'd rather go there

[00:21:08] than have to face a crowd.

[00:21:10] Yep.

[00:21:11] You know, go to the ballpark or the sporting center where, you know, they'll probably have

[00:21:15] concessions there.

[00:21:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:21:17] Even like, yeah, like the park, the batting cages, that kind of thing.

[00:21:22] Yeah.

[00:21:22] They usually have water.

[00:21:24] You know, they might be caged up better because they're outside.

[00:21:27] Yeah, but that's why it would be good to have a lockpick or some kind of persuasion device.

[00:21:33] Yeah.

[00:21:34] Yeah.

[00:21:34] I got a persuasion device, all right.

[00:21:40] Sarah's hands are persuasion.

[00:21:42] That's right.

[00:21:43] I got two guns.

[00:21:44] I carry them all the time.

[00:21:48] But so, yeah, like you said, with water.

[00:21:52] Oh, talk about hands.

[00:21:53] Talk about hands.

[00:21:54] You're going to want to, like, if you can pack gloves.

[00:21:56] Yes.

[00:21:57] You're probably going to want them.

[00:21:58] There's so many uses for gloves.

[00:22:00] Yes.

[00:22:00] And just to keep yourself from getting cut.

[00:22:02] Like if they're broken glass or cut metal, you know, jagged metal or picking up something

[00:22:08] hot, you know.

[00:22:09] And like the good ones that have like double reinforced leather.

[00:22:13] Don't skip.

[00:22:14] Yeah.

[00:22:15] Yeah.

[00:22:15] Leather's good.

[00:22:16] Leather's your friend.

[00:22:17] Some of these synthetic materials will just melt to you.

[00:22:21] Yeah.

[00:22:21] Like Erica with the cellophane wrap in the.

[00:22:26] Right.

[00:22:27] In the duct tape.

[00:22:28] Yeah.

[00:22:28] Melted to our skin, right?

[00:22:30] Yes.

[00:22:31] It happens.

[00:22:32] It really does.

[00:22:34] I don't want that.

[00:22:34] No.

[00:22:35] So leather is best.

[00:22:36] My leather work gloves.

[00:22:38] I've had the, like the mechanics and stuff.

[00:22:41] But I prefer those leather work gloves.

[00:22:43] And I just buy them.

[00:22:44] Whenever I find them on sale, I buy them.

[00:22:46] Yeah.

[00:22:47] Because they're the best out here on the homesteads.

[00:22:50] Also not a bad idea to buy one of those gloves, at least just one of them that like you can

[00:22:54] reach in and touch hot stuff.

[00:22:57] Yeah.

[00:22:57] And have that in your bag.

[00:23:00] Because that saves a lot of trouble if you, you know.

[00:23:04] There's things like, oh, my tin, the handle fell off of it.

[00:23:09] You know.

[00:23:10] Now you might get an unnecessary burn just because of, you know, poor equipment.

[00:23:17] Which you're going to have at that time.

[00:23:19] And it'll either slow you down because you're not as proficient because your hands aren't functioning.

[00:23:24] Or it'll really slow you down because you get sick, right?

[00:23:27] Right.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:28] You get an infection.

[00:23:29] Now you're done.

[00:23:30] Now you're slowing everybody down.

[00:23:32] Yeah.

[00:23:32] So.

[00:23:33] The urban movement, too.

[00:23:34] Like, keep in mind that you're only going to be as stealthy and be able to move as quick

[00:23:40] as your weakest link.

[00:23:42] Mm-hmm.

[00:23:42] So you kind of need to have, like, everybody on board for that one.

[00:23:47] The other thing was, like, fitness level.

[00:23:50] I mean, guys.

[00:23:50] Mm-hmm.

[00:23:51] The more fit you can get now, everything is going to be easier.

[00:23:56] I mean, it's just important.

[00:23:58] Whether it's destruction coming or not, fitness has got to be part of your preparedness plan.

[00:24:04] If you're just out there buying stuff and you're not fit, forget it.

[00:24:09] Put all that stuff in a backpack on your back and see how far you can carry it.

[00:24:12] Yeah.

[00:24:13] Exactly.

[00:24:14] And then try and do it every day.

[00:24:16] You know, day after day after day.

[00:24:18] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:18] Um, then try and, you know, go do a jujitsu class or something and then walk with that thing

[00:24:25] on your back.

[00:24:26] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:26] I mean, there's so many things.

[00:24:29] We are just so cushy, right?

[00:24:32] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:33] That even supply chain disruption, food disruption where we have to start, you know, just really

[00:24:39] farming it ourself, people getting upset over that, any kind of action as far as that goes,

[00:24:46] you know, you're going to need to be physically fit for it.

[00:24:49] Plus, the more physically fit you are, you can handle those seasons of not having food or,

[00:24:55] you know, your body having to sustain a little bit more better because your body's prepared

[00:25:01] for it.

[00:25:02] So, a little fat's a good thing.

[00:25:04] I'm not saying, like, you have to be a skinny pole because then you'll have fat to live off

[00:25:08] of.

[00:25:09] Right.

[00:25:10] But, you've got to be fit.

[00:25:12] You've got to be able to walk.

[00:25:13] You've got to be able to haul stuff.

[00:25:16] Endurance, right?

[00:25:16] Mm-hmm.

[00:25:17] Yeah.

[00:25:18] You need to have that end of time.

[00:25:19] You do.

[00:25:20] And, it's not about, like, how much you can bench press or how much weight you can lift.

[00:25:23] That makes no difference at all.

[00:25:26] You've got to be able to go the whole nine yards.

[00:25:30] And, that's what it's all about as far as fitness level goes.

[00:25:34] So, I'd rather see somebody training, circuit training over and over again, push that high

[00:25:39] cardio for, you know, at least an hour a day and then go from there.

[00:25:45] Because, if you can't...

[00:25:47] Yeah.

[00:25:48] You know, hiking, rowing, biking, that kind of stuff for the endurance.

[00:25:50] And, once hiking's easy, then start throwing weight on your back.

[00:25:54] Not too much because you don't want to hurt, you don't want to stress your knees and your

[00:25:57] back prematurely.

[00:26:01] But, if you're young, go for it.

[00:26:03] You know?

[00:26:04] Do everything you can.

[00:26:06] But, as you get older, you don't want to put any undue stress in your training.

[00:26:10] That's what I've found, right?

[00:26:12] So, when does your training become a detriment to your body for your long-term sustainability?

[00:26:17] So, you have to keep your training within bounds so that you're taking care of your body while

[00:26:21] training so that you can still be able to use it if necessary.

[00:26:26] So, fine line there.

[00:26:29] Trust me.

[00:26:30] Now that I'm getting older, I'm like, mm-hmm.

[00:26:32] Okay.

[00:26:33] Get it.

[00:26:33] I get it.

[00:26:34] Yeah.

[00:26:36] So, that's all very important.

[00:26:40] What else we got?

[00:26:41] So, TJ, in the story, he's getting super frustrated with his trackers.

[00:26:48] Which, they pulled the slipperoo on him.

[00:26:50] You know, they went underground.

[00:26:52] Then they went out on a boat, which shouldn't be possible.

[00:26:57] And so, that kind of hampered them a little bit, to say the least.

[00:27:04] Okay.

[00:27:05] Okay.

[00:27:08] And then, so, it's just as far as, then he finds out that the militia invasion is coming

[00:27:17] along, infiltrating his southern territory.

[00:27:22] So, they're ultimately about Gray Man.

[00:27:25] This militia that's thinking of infiltrating TJ's base, wow.

[00:27:34] They better be Gray Manning it up.

[00:27:37] Yeah.

[00:27:39] I mean, you would have to think the Blackshirts have it pretty clamped down in TJ's area.

[00:27:46] So, for them to be able to exist, yeah.

[00:27:49] And not be seen.

[00:27:53] The food is what got them.

[00:27:55] That people are still eating, doing fine, even though we're trying to penalize them for

[00:28:00] coming up with low production numbers.

[00:28:02] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:03] That's why I would say, if we're in a situation, if you're the type of prepper who's like,

[00:28:10] hey, I've got all my stuff, I'm all set, I'm going to be able to feed my family for days.

[00:28:15] Well, if they have a food line going, you better be in it.

[00:28:21] Mm-hmm.

[00:28:21] Or else they're going to know that you have supplies that you're not sharing with the community and maybe government appropriated.

[00:28:30] Right.

[00:28:31] So, you better be in those lines and you better have baggy clothes.

[00:28:35] Like, especially ladies and stuff, like, you better have baggy clothes that make it look like,

[00:28:42] either they can't see, you know, how your health, how healthy you are underneath those clothes,

[00:28:49] or normally you wore tight jeans and now your tight jeans look like they're getting very loose on you.

[00:28:57] Yeah.

[00:28:57] Because that's a dead giveaway.

[00:28:59] Dead giveaway.

[00:29:02] If everybody else is losing 10, 15 pounds and you're not losing anything,

[00:29:07] that's, you might as well put out a neon flag.

[00:29:10] So, am I losing your chin?

[00:29:17] You still hear me?

[00:29:18] Yeah, no, it's coming in and out.

[00:29:20] I hear you right now.

[00:29:21] Okay.

[00:29:23] Yeah, we're just loving it tonight.

[00:29:25] It's going very well.

[00:29:27] Yeah.

[00:29:27] Yeah.

[00:29:28] It's going very good.

[00:29:32] We kind of touched on the situational awareness.

[00:29:37] One of the things that, because I study the tracking and evasion so much,

[00:29:45] I love that kind of stuff.

[00:29:46] I was actually pretty proud of how well my characters did in my book after watching that video.

[00:29:53] Right?

[00:29:53] But crossing roadways and whatnot, yeah, really dangerous.

[00:30:01] Try to pick corners, not straightaways.

[00:30:05] And that was...

[00:30:06] Which made a lot of sense, right?

[00:30:07] Yeah.

[00:30:08] And especially urban, applying that to an urban setting.

[00:30:11] Mm-hmm.

[00:30:13] I mean...

[00:30:14] Because if they, if they, if you're, if the person chasing you can see for a long distance,

[00:30:21] then the chances of you getting caught are greater, right?

[00:30:25] But if you could pick your spot to, to cross an open area to where it's like a structure,

[00:30:32] like blind corners and stuff, then it limits the amount of time that you're exposed to

[00:30:38] somebody else seeing you.

[00:30:39] I loved that.

[00:30:41] Mm-hmm.

[00:30:41] That made complete sense.

[00:30:43] Because we've like stacked up before, you know, you put the tallest person in front and

[00:30:48] everybody walks behind them and say...

[00:30:50] Wait a minute.

[00:30:50] Yeah.

[00:30:51] Yep.

[00:30:52] The bullet magnet, huh?

[00:30:53] I see how you are.

[00:30:54] No, in this case, the tallest person goes in front because everybody else can be hidden

[00:30:59] behind them.

[00:31:00] Yeah.

[00:31:01] Right?

[00:31:02] I like that kind of stuff.

[00:31:03] Uh-huh.

[00:31:04] Whereas if you put...

[00:31:05] I know a short person came up with that idea.

[00:31:07] Well, when you stack up to go into a building, the short one goes in front so everybody can

[00:31:13] shoot over the top of them.

[00:31:14] Because it makes more sense.

[00:31:15] It does.

[00:31:16] But I was like, wait a minute.

[00:31:18] That doesn't sound like a good idea.

[00:31:22] How did I get stuck in front?

[00:31:23] What did I get stuck in front?

[00:31:23] I could shoot over the top of you.

[00:31:26] Yeah.

[00:31:27] No, it does make sense.

[00:31:29] Um...

[00:31:29] But I wasn't overly thrilled because typically I am the smallest one in the group.

[00:31:35] But when you're trying to like conceal how many are in your group, if you do, if you put

[00:31:40] the tall person in front, everybody can walk behind the tall person.

[00:31:43] Now it just looks like one person.

[00:31:47] And that was pretty cool.

[00:31:48] We've done that in our survival training before with road crossing specifically.

[00:31:53] So that it looks like, okay, this is just one person crossing the road.

[00:31:58] I don't know how it would look if like you were going...

[00:32:00] You know, you have to side shuffle or something.

[00:32:03] Yeah.

[00:32:03] It's all about the angles.

[00:32:05] Right?

[00:32:06] Yeah.

[00:32:07] You got to get that angle just right.

[00:32:09] You do.

[00:32:09] You got to get that angle just right.

[00:32:11] But it is an idea, you know.

[00:32:13] So...

[00:32:13] Yeah.

[00:32:14] Um...

[00:32:14] The other thing that I really picked up was the V shapes.

[00:32:18] So that's going to apply in an urban setting as well.

[00:32:22] The head, like of course, faces are so obvious.

[00:32:25] Um...

[00:32:26] The head usually want to mound it off.

[00:32:28] That's why the bucket boonie hats are so popular.

[00:32:30] A net off the boonie hat because it mounds out your head.

[00:32:35] So it's not a head shape.

[00:32:36] But I never really thought about the upside down Vs.

[00:32:40] And that was really, really, um...

[00:32:43] Um...

[00:32:44] Okay.

[00:32:44] Yep.

[00:32:45] So you don't want to have like them seeing your armpit area between your legs.

[00:32:51] You know, that all shows as unnatural.

[00:32:54] Oh, yeah.

[00:32:55] Mm-hmm.

[00:32:56] That's why you can pick somebody out.

[00:33:00] Um...

[00:33:00] In an urban area, don't be in your camos.

[00:33:06] I mean...

[00:33:08] You're just a giant target.

[00:33:10] Don't be in your camos.

[00:33:12] Don't be looking like you're an off-duty police officer or off-duty military.

[00:33:18] Nope.

[00:33:18] I'm telling you, when I'm out...

[00:33:21] 25-11s.

[00:33:22] When I'm out shopping and whatnot, I can tell you.

[00:33:25] I'm like, that dude's a cop.

[00:33:26] Off-duty.

[00:33:27] Yep.

[00:33:28] That guy was a former military.

[00:33:30] Because they're like posted up watching their wife shop or whatever.

[00:33:34] I'm like, guys, can you get more...

[00:33:36] You know?

[00:33:38] Um...

[00:33:38] So, it's just something...

[00:33:40] I don't know.

[00:33:41] I see it now because I hang out with a lot of people who are former military and police officers and stuff.

[00:33:47] And just knowing like their body language.

[00:33:50] But...

[00:33:50] That was going to be the hardest for them to overcome though.

[00:33:53] Yeah.

[00:33:53] Because it's training.

[00:33:55] So second nature.

[00:33:56] Right.

[00:33:57] That's why I say like you got to sit down or something like relax.

[00:34:04] Because it is obvious.

[00:34:07] Wearing...

[00:34:08] I wear a lot of them.

[00:34:09] I love the pants that are the...

[00:34:11] You know, they're like cop pants.

[00:34:14] I can't remember the brand of them specifically right now.

[00:34:17] But the cargo pockets, you know, all your hooks and everything.

[00:34:21] They're really, really efficient.

[00:34:23] Don't be wearing that when you're in an urban setting.

[00:34:26] Don't be wearing your back...

[00:34:29] Your pack...

[00:34:30] Your belt that has all of your mole bags and stuff on it.

[00:34:33] I mean, it might be the best way to carry that stuff.

[00:34:36] But not in an urban environment unless you have something covering it so people can't see.

[00:34:41] And then you'll just look fat or something.

[00:34:43] I don't know.

[00:34:44] But you don't really matter.

[00:34:45] But I guess that could be obvious too, right?

[00:34:49] That's the time to throw it all in your backpack and wait till you're out of that urban setting.

[00:34:56] Because there's all kinds of predators.

[00:35:01] And there's urban predators.

[00:35:03] And if they see you looking like you're ready to go.

[00:35:06] And they know their environment just like, you know, the rural hunter knows his environment, right?

[00:35:14] He knows the forest and he knows the sounds and the smells.

[00:35:17] And it's the same thing with the guys that work the streets, right?

[00:35:22] Absolutely.

[00:35:23] Yeah.

[00:35:23] They know exactly what they're hunting for and exactly what...

[00:35:27] Yeah.

[00:35:28] So don't be thinking like, oh, well, I just have to make it through, you know, this far of the city till I'm in a rural environment.

[00:35:35] And then we're going out, you know, to go here or there, whatever.

[00:35:42] Don't be looking like that when you're going through the urban part.

[00:35:46] Look like you don't have anything they want.

[00:35:48] Maybe a garbage bag, you know?

[00:35:51] Like put everything in a garbage bag.

[00:35:53] You could have a backpack, a little backpack with a garbage bag.

[00:35:57] And maybe they would think, oh, that's just bedding or something in there, you know?

[00:36:02] So, but also urban traversing groups.

[00:36:08] So from what my research tells me, you know, you don't really want to travel in packs of all males because you look very threatening.

[00:36:17] You don't want to travel in packs of all females for obvious reasons.

[00:36:21] So really doing like the guy-girl blend is the best group that you can walk safely through an area, at least here in the United States.

[00:36:31] Because, you know, some people won't mess with the guys because they have girls with them or whatever.

[00:36:35] They won't mess with the girls because they have guys with them, that kind of thing.

[00:36:39] So if you can do like a mixed group, that's the best.

[00:36:43] 13 is ideal team to, you know, have 13 people walking together.

[00:36:50] The bigger, you know, strength in numbers.

[00:36:59] Stuff I haven't even been over to our chat room.

[00:37:02] Yeah.

[00:37:03] I was there a couple times.

[00:37:05] I'm all thrown off today.

[00:37:10] Oh, right?

[00:37:11] Yeah.

[00:37:13] So if you guys have more questions about it, please let me know.

[00:37:15] I can always include it in the show notes or, of course, I answer emails and that pretty quickly.

[00:37:21] So if you have any more questions there, I'll link over some of our past articles because we've done a lot of urban evasion with some different professionals.

[00:37:30] Lots of gray man stuff on the show.

[00:37:34] Size is tough.

[00:37:35] So, um, 10, you're a tall guy.

[00:37:39] I'm a small woman.

[00:37:40] And it's harder for us to be like the gray man.

[00:37:44] Um, cause people are like, I don't know.

[00:37:46] It was that tall guy.

[00:37:47] I don't know.

[00:37:48] It was that small chick.

[00:37:49] Right.

[00:37:50] So, um, sometimes.

[00:37:52] But try to blend in with the whole attire and everything.

[00:37:56] Yeah.

[00:37:57] So you're not like, don't wear a red shirt and a red ball cap because it just screams attention.

[00:38:04] Right?

[00:38:04] Right.

[00:38:04] So, um, try to blend in with whatever the attire is for where you're going through, try to blend in with that and try to pick as blunt muted color scheme as possible too.

[00:38:22] Not, you know, sharp, vivid pattern.

[00:38:26] A shirt that says, Hey, jump me.

[00:38:31] I have good stuff.

[00:38:33] Yeah.

[00:38:34] And survival knowledge.

[00:38:36] Right?

[00:38:38] Absolutely.

[00:38:41] Uh, let's see.

[00:38:42] And then Virgis.

[00:38:43] So just to finish out the episode, um, he is trying to work around this blackmail scheme because he's been with Cassidy.

[00:38:52] So they're trying to use that against him.

[00:38:53] Um, and he's doing more of the wilderness evasion right now.

[00:38:59] Um, cause they, the assassins are trying to just put him out so they don't have to deal with him anymore.

[00:39:06] So that's definitely more of your woodland evasion.

[00:39:10] Um, not hesitating when you know your life's on the line.

[00:39:14] That's not a moment to hesitate with any decisions that you're making.

[00:39:17] You just got to go, go, go, go, go.

[00:39:19] So, and, uh, that's one of the things that he opened it up with on the evasion video was, you know, get the F out of Dodge as fast as you can at that point.

[00:39:28] Mm-hmm.

[00:39:29] And I love that.

[00:39:31] Cause again, we're in, uh, whatever your fitness level is, that's going to allow you how far, how fast you can move and get the heck out of there before people come looking for you.

[00:39:40] So it gives you the head start on them.

[00:39:44] And then we talked last week a lot about, um, um, going over fences, uh, using water to the advantage.

[00:39:55] Good.

[00:39:59] You had something to add?

[00:40:01] No, I said, yeah, go.

[00:40:02] Yeah.

[00:40:03] Going over fences and water.

[00:40:04] Yep.

[00:40:04] Yep.

[00:40:05] Yeah.

[00:40:05] It helps.

[00:40:06] Um, agreeing with you.

[00:40:08] Yeah.

[00:40:09] I know.

[00:40:10] I told you I'm all thrown off tonight because of Skype last live show.

[00:40:15] And we had, you know, we'll just go out with some technical difficulties.

[00:40:21] Oh, we were fighting with that for 30, 40 minutes.

[00:40:23] Just trying to get on the air.

[00:40:24] We were, I don't know, man.

[00:40:26] I still don't have an explanation for it, but it worked.

[00:40:30] So, Hey, away we go.

[00:40:31] You, when, when you, when you don't have any more answers, the illogical becomes logical and solves.

[00:40:37] The problem.

[00:40:39] So that's what we got.

[00:40:41] Sarah was laughing at me because I couldn't hear her, but she could hear all the cussing I was doing.

[00:40:46] Yeah.

[00:40:47] And made for a very colorful recording.

[00:40:51] I did delete that one, you know, so I got to protect my co-host there.

[00:40:59] Yeah.

[00:41:00] All righty.

[00:41:01] So yeah, that about covers episode three as pretty cool, um, episode.

[00:41:07] Like I say, cause of the USS Missouri, pretty neat.

[00:41:11] Um, it is sad because of Daniel.

[00:41:13] Um, he's really sick.

[00:41:15] He's not recovering quite the way everybody else did.

[00:41:19] So that's kind of the mystery that's unfolding there.

[00:41:23] And, um, you know, TJ not getting in his own ways.

[00:41:29] He's all in frustration land.

[00:41:30] That's always good to see.

[00:41:31] So, you know, I've been studying, um, long time about human trafficking.

[00:41:41] And I just, every day that I think about it, I'm just blown away by the amount of slavery that exists inside the United States borders.

[00:41:57] I just pray to the Lord that one day that doesn't exist.

[00:42:01] Um, and that we can understand that people are people and don't deserve to be treated that way.

[00:42:08] So if TJ's evilness illustrates that point enough that we can get awareness raised up and really fight this fight against the slavery.

[00:42:18] Cause I guarantee however horrible people think that TJ is, he is absolutely completely tame to what really exists in our world.

[00:42:28] And so if he makes you uncomfortable, that's good.

[00:42:32] And you should be a lot more uncomfortable about what's actually going on in the United States of America and around the world.

[00:42:39] We're not like immune to this problem.

[00:42:41] It's not like, Oh, America is so good.

[00:42:44] Oh, there's no way that exists now.

[00:42:46] It does.

[00:42:47] And it's really, really sick.

[00:42:50] There are some things that you, once you go down the rabbit hole, you'll never be able to unsee.

[00:42:57] And, uh, you'll never be able to really forgive these people for doing it because it's really horrific stuff.

[00:43:05] Um, so you guys know it, if you talk about it, if you share it, and, uh, if you, we have to just keep it on the table and keep the conversation open.

[00:43:15] So that's the only way we can fight it.

[00:43:17] If nobody wants to talk about it and nobody wants to acknowledge it, then it's allowed to grow and exist because we pretend it's not there.

[00:43:25] So I'm late sanitizing.

[00:43:28] Right.

[00:43:30] Yeah.

[00:43:31] I had a real eye opener this week that blasted my brain into oblivion.

[00:43:36] And, uh, guys, it's a big problem.

[00:43:40] So stay on it, stay on the mission.

[00:43:44] And TJ's doing his job because he's bringing forth the message.

[00:43:50] It's true.

[00:43:51] Cause people don't say, I get that feedback, you know, wow, TJ is pretty.

[00:43:54] And I'm like, yeah, well, he's not compared to what really exists.

[00:43:59] So already on that note, why don't we get into some changing earth news?

[00:44:05] It's not all bad for the change in earth news.

[00:44:08] So that's a good thing.

[00:44:12] We got, we got blue skies ahead of us.

[00:44:15] As long as we all focus and try to try to bring forth good in this world.

[00:44:22] All right, here we go.

[00:44:23] Change of earth news.

[00:44:29] Dream.

[00:44:30] Survive.

[00:44:31] Thrive.

[00:44:32] Survive.

[00:44:33] This is changing earth news.

[00:44:41] So it's a minor activity with a filament release this morning.

[00:44:46] Shouldn't be too bad.

[00:44:48] It was on the departing limb, but whenever that happens, we do get some energy from it.

[00:44:53] So we will be on the lookout kind of monitoring that situation, but it wasn't a direct hit.

[00:44:59] Those filaments can be huge.

[00:45:01] Ah, that release off the sun.

[00:45:03] God, I mean, if we were in the wrong place at the wrong time, that would really do the earth over.

[00:45:09] So we had lots of Arctic air diving south and not just in North America.

[00:45:17] It also impacted Europe as well.

[00:45:20] So these crazy little weather patterns that are coming around.

[00:45:24] If you look at the jet streams, they're just in a frenzy right now.

[00:45:29] I don't know what.

[00:45:29] Well, I do know what's going on, but it's going to be interesting as it continues to go.

[00:45:35] Okay.

[00:45:36] So typically when we talk about earthquake numbers, above 400 is like a big day, right?

[00:45:45] Mm-hmm.

[00:45:46] On Monday the 9th, 2024, we had 629 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[00:45:56] Yeah.

[00:45:57] Mm-hmm.

[00:45:58] Yeah.

[00:46:00] It has been a crazy seismic couple of weeks, actually.

[00:46:05] It really ramped up with the earthquake we had in California the week before that.

[00:46:12] There was a 6.4 that hit Alaska's Aleutian Trench.

[00:46:18] So it impacted the Aleutian Islands out there.

[00:46:21] No tsunami warnings or risks from the event.

[00:46:24] Still a big old earthquake.

[00:46:26] There was a 5.6 that hit Conchagua, El Salvador.

[00:46:33] Sorry, I probably slaughtered the heck out of that.

[00:46:36] Conchagua.

[00:46:37] Yeah.

[00:46:39] So big earthquake day.

[00:46:43] Mandeville, Louisiana was hit with flash floodings due to heavy rain there.

[00:46:49] Java in Indonesia, they had flash flooding event.

[00:46:54] It did a lot of devastation.

[00:46:56] Landslides, floods, just not a good day on Java.

[00:47:01] Powerful snowstorm hit Spain.

[00:47:06] Banasque was buried in snow.

[00:47:08] I'm sure I slaughtered that name as well because it's supposed to be Spanish as well.

[00:47:13] But they were just buried in snow.

[00:47:16] Big storm.

[00:47:17] And that's what I'm saying.

[00:47:18] These Arctic blasts have just been dipping really far south more so than they normally do.

[00:47:24] We already had a frost morning here in Texas, which is crazy.

[00:47:29] Yeah.

[00:47:29] Usually.

[00:47:30] Yeah.

[00:47:31] We've had in the 20s, so it's been cold.

[00:47:35] Usually that doesn't happen until like February, January, you know, at least.

[00:47:42] So 12, 10, 24, 501 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[00:47:49] Biggest was a 5.8 in the Alaska Aleutian Islands again.

[00:47:53] There was a 5.5 earthquake that hit Nevada.

[00:47:57] Big one.

[00:47:57] They felt it all the way to Sacramento and California.

[00:48:01] And I do sell insurance in Nevada.

[00:48:05] And right now we're on a moratorium for any earthquake policies there.

[00:48:10] They put that in effect.

[00:48:12] It'll go out for like a month.

[00:48:14] And if no other earthquake activity happens, then they'll pull that.

[00:48:18] But if not, that stays in effect.

[00:48:20] So big deal there.

[00:48:22] That was a big quake.

[00:48:24] Sweden was hit by massive snowstorms.

[00:48:26] So that's just the storm system moving across Europe.

[00:48:29] And Shangong, China was impacted by a massive snowstorm as well.

[00:48:34] On Wednesday, December 11th, 2024, 431 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[00:48:42] Still up there in the numbers.

[00:48:43] 5.4 in the Solomon Islands was our biggest.

[00:48:47] And we watched the earthquake activity travel from the West Coast around the North American

[00:48:52] Craton and into the New Madrid seismic zone where we had several small earthquakes that impacted

[00:49:00] like western Tennessee right at the corner there where all those states come together.

[00:49:07] So that's like what?

[00:49:08] Eastern Alabama, that kind of stuff.

[00:49:11] So lots of earthquakes going around the New Madrid zone.

[00:49:17] As I've been saying for weeks now, I'm just really, really high alert on what this is doing right now

[00:49:24] because the whole ring of fire is being so impacted.

[00:49:29] It just doesn't make sense that we're not feeling the same type of activity.

[00:49:36] On that note, the Kenilowin volcano in the Philippines erupted.

[00:49:41] Thousands were evacuated.

[00:49:43] The local town was just covered in ash.

[00:49:45] So that's a volcano hasn't erupted for a little while.

[00:49:48] Big volcano threw out some ash.

[00:49:51] Luckily, the eruption wasn't a long duration event, but it still had a big impact for the

[00:49:57] little bit of time that it was active.

[00:50:00] December 12th, 2024, 474 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[00:50:06] Biggest of which was a 5.5 in the South Pacific Ocean.

[00:50:10] Malibu in California.

[00:50:12] The wildfire activity picked up again earlier in the week.

[00:50:17] They were just getting it under control on Thursday, trying to get that into a containment state.

[00:50:24] But in the meantime, it threatened the college campus, threatened the Malibu mansions.

[00:50:30] You know, there's some big homes down there.

[00:50:33] So all of that activity was happening.

[00:50:35] On December 13th of 2024, there was 436 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.4 in Currico, Chile.

[00:50:49] There was earthquake swarms that shook Mammoth Mountain for over 12 hours.

[00:50:55] So Mammoth Mountain is on the California and Nevada border.

[00:51:00] It is a great big mountain.

[00:51:03] The Long Valley caldera that I talk about a lot is a super volcano that sits right below Mammoth Mountain.

[00:51:10] And so there is a lot of big seismic risks right there.

[00:51:14] So to see that shaking for over 12 hours with earthquake swarms is a pretty big deal.

[00:51:21] Definitely keeping eyes on this week.

[00:51:24] And probably for, you know, I don't know.

[00:51:28] I just have this feeling that it's coming to that area pretty quickly.

[00:51:33] Wisconsin to Rhode Island was pummeled by a winter storm.

[00:51:37] We got another, what do they call them, a bomb cyclone.

[00:51:42] And it just tore through the Midwest again.

[00:51:46] And then the real cyclones, like on Cheeto, hit northern Madagascar.

[00:51:51] So this is a Cheeto.

[00:51:53] I just got that right now.

[00:51:55] This is a great big, big, basically a hurricane.

[00:52:00] They just call them cyclones because they spin in the opposite direction of a hurricane.

[00:52:04] And raced across the Indian Ocean, hit northern Madagascar.

[00:52:11] And then coming into today, actually, it is impacting Africa.

[00:52:20] It's hitting Mozambique and Mayotte today.

[00:52:27] 14 people are confirmed dead already from that landfall happening.

[00:52:31] So that is, it's a big storm.

[00:52:33] And last year we watched one of those storms just bounce in between Africa and Madagascar

[00:52:39] as it went down.

[00:52:40] So hopefully Cheeto doesn't do that.

[00:52:43] But it's definitely eyes on that storm because it's still happening as we speak.

[00:52:50] December 14th, 2024, 372 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[00:52:55] Finally below the 400 mark again, biggest of which was a 5.3 in the Maluka Sea by Indonesia.

[00:53:03] The Bay Area storm in Cal or the Bay Area in California had a big storm.

[00:53:09] Stranded motorists in Livermore, California.

[00:53:12] But they had their first tornado warning go up in San Francisco ever.

[00:53:17] Ever.

[00:53:19] Okay.

[00:53:19] First time in history.

[00:53:21] Recorded history.

[00:53:22] It's never happened before.

[00:53:23] They did not have a tornado touchdown.

[00:53:25] However, they did have a tornado touchdown in Santa Cruz County in Scotts Valley.

[00:53:32] So absolutely insane.

[00:53:36] Tornadoes coming off the ocean on the Pacific side.

[00:53:41] Are they sharknadoes?

[00:53:43] I mean, no.

[00:53:45] But like there's mountains and it.

[00:53:48] Wow.

[00:53:49] Last year we saw tornadoes on top of mountains.

[00:53:51] Hey, let's have a hurricane in the middle of the mountains.

[00:53:54] Right?

[00:53:55] Yeah.

[00:53:56] I mean, just what you think can and can't happen.

[00:53:59] That doesn't exist on the changing earth.

[00:54:03] That's it.

[00:54:04] The whole game board is just being redrawn right now.

[00:54:09] Can't be corked.

[00:54:09] It is.

[00:54:10] It really is.

[00:54:12] Like, oh, that never happens here.

[00:54:14] Well, it's happening now.

[00:54:19] Today, December 15th, I finished this up at about 2 o'clock this afternoon.

[00:54:25] So it's been quite a while.

[00:54:27] We could go over and check the earthquake, Matt.

[00:54:30] But we were at 375 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger already at 2 o'clock.

[00:54:37] And the biggest of which was a 5.9 in the South Pacific Ocean near Tonga.

[00:54:43] Whenever I see Tonga on there, I get concerned because usually Tonga, it's way down south by New Zealand and all everything down there.

[00:54:52] And whenever we get a big heartbeat there, a big earthquake that happens there, it goes up around the ring of fire.

[00:55:00] And so that's eventually what hits the West Coast, California.

[00:55:04] That's eventually what funnels into the New Madrid.

[00:55:08] It also goes out the other direction.

[00:55:10] So it's like this energy that really stems forth.

[00:55:14] And it seems to hit there first.

[00:55:16] So that's why whenever I see that big of a quake at Tonga, kind of the spider senses go up.

[00:55:24] And I was like, all right, well, now in the next couple of weeks, we're going to watch that energy blast around the globe.

[00:55:30] So we talked about the cyclone making landfall.

[00:55:35] British Columbia also got hit by a powerful windstorm.

[00:55:40] There was big winds coming in off the Pacific, even on Friday.

[00:55:44] At least one person has been confirmed dead today from that storm.

[00:55:50] So prayers to everybody involved in these incidents.

[00:55:55] It's just, you know, the change in Earth and it's going to be a wild ride.

[00:56:02] Yeah.

[00:56:03] All right.

[00:56:04] So let's talk volcano numbers.

[00:56:07] So our erupting, we went up again to 38 volcanoes erupting, which is just crazy sauce.

[00:56:17] That's the technical term, by the way.

[00:56:21] I'm trying to look back.

[00:56:22] I think we were up to 39 at one point, weren't we?

[00:56:26] Because we might be up the highest.

[00:56:29] I mean, 38 is a lot.

[00:56:30] 37.

[00:56:31] I'm looking back.

[00:56:33] We were at like 36.

[00:56:35] It's just amazing to see it over 38.

[00:56:39] I thought we were up to 39 at one point, though.

[00:56:43] I'd have to check my old notebook.

[00:56:46] I haven't been keeping my as good a track with my spreadsheet as I should have.

[00:56:51] But, you know, I have so much time in the day.

[00:56:56] So 38 is definitely up one from last week.

[00:56:59] It is definitely it's crazy.

[00:57:01] Like, I know you guys probably think I'm just the biggest weirdo.

[00:57:04] But we just don't see numbers like this on planet Earth.

[00:57:09] And I can't believe that nobody is talking about how many volcanoes are actually erupting on our planet right now.

[00:57:16] And then they're like, well, we don't understand why we're having so much more rain and cloud cover.

[00:57:20] Well, this is what's happening.

[00:57:23] We're also up one on volcanoes showing minor activity.

[00:57:27] We're down one on unrest.

[00:57:29] But overall, we added another one to the list.

[00:57:32] We're at 97 volcanoes showing activity on our planet right now, which is good.

[00:57:38] If we cross that hundred number now, I'm going to dance a jig or something because, I mean, I don't know.

[00:57:44] Maybe not a jig.

[00:57:45] Yeah, stop.

[00:57:47] Right?

[00:57:48] Oh, my goodness.

[00:57:49] We need to find you a new hobby, sir.

[00:57:53] I just can't believe it.

[00:57:55] Like, OK, so way back when I used to watch one other gentleman's channel and he used to talk a lot about how many volcanoes were erupting.

[00:58:02] And he was like, there's 28 volcanoes erupting.

[00:58:06] And I'm like, well, is that a big deal?

[00:58:09] He's like, yeah, it's a big deal.

[00:58:11] You know, that's so unusual compared to what's normally happening.

[00:58:15] And I was like, OK, I got to I got to start tracking this myself and figure out what's normal here.

[00:58:22] And we stuck at those 20s for years.

[00:58:25] It's only been this year that we've seen him climb up into the 30s, now to 38.

[00:58:30] I mean, if we go to 40, I mean, I don't know.

[00:58:33] That would just.

[00:58:35] So it's just just breathtaking.

[00:58:38] I don't know.

[00:58:39] The other thing that's really weird is that everywhere around the Ring of Fire is erupting, but not North America.

[00:58:51] You know, just we got all kinds of volcanoes on our western coast as well, but none of those are erupting.

[00:58:58] California is doing something right.

[00:58:59] I mean, yeah, I guess, because like Central America, Guatemala, Ecuador, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

[00:59:06] They're all erupting.

[00:59:08] Now Philippines, Russia, everybody down.

[00:59:11] The only other place that I saw that like was kind of similar is it's erupting all around the Indian Ocean as well, but not in southern India.

[00:59:22] So that's like another area where it's like all of this activity is happening, but not there.

[00:59:28] So I wonder what I'm just curious.

[00:59:30] What's up with that?

[00:59:31] If you're a geologist and you have any thoughts, I would love to hear your theories.

[00:59:35] That'd be great.

[00:59:36] Point me in the direction of a channel I need to watch.

[00:59:38] I would love it.

[00:59:42] Wildfire preparedness level.

[00:59:43] Now, remember last week we were at zero.

[00:59:45] That was pretty impressive.

[00:59:47] I was like zero.

[00:59:48] We never see zero.

[00:59:49] Well, we're not at zero anymore.

[00:59:53] We have five new large wildfires, a total of 5,664 acres on fire.

[00:59:59] Three of those fires are contained.

[01:00:01] Number one is California.

[01:00:04] That is the brand new fire that lit up by Malibu.

[01:00:07] They had those severe winds and the Santa Ana's was pushing those fires.

[01:00:11] The Santa Ana winds.

[01:00:13] So they have one new fire, 4,037 acres.

[01:00:17] This is not contained, although they are making some really good progress on it.

[01:00:21] Number two on the list is Virginia, which like you guys are getting snow and stuff.

[01:00:27] Yeah.

[01:00:28] Virginia.

[01:00:29] One new fire, 1,627 acres on fire.

[01:00:34] That fire is not contained at this time.

[01:00:36] And then number three on the list, and you're going to laugh, is North Carolina.

[01:00:42] Three new fires, zero acres.

[01:00:46] How is that even possible?

[01:00:48] All the fires are contained.

[01:00:49] So maybe that's why.

[01:00:50] It is.

[01:00:51] It's so cold.

[01:00:52] Everybody's got their chimneys.

[01:00:55] Their fireplaces are covered.

[01:00:56] That's true.

[01:00:58] A little bit of activity.

[01:00:59] Maybe it was like somebody who's like still living in a tent and they're like, oh, it's

[01:01:03] a wildfire.

[01:01:04] No, it's not.

[01:01:08] That's crazy.

[01:01:09] Right?

[01:01:11] So I don't know, but.

[01:01:13] It must have been reported, but put out right away.

[01:01:16] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:17] You know what I mean?

[01:01:18] That's what I'm thinking.

[01:01:19] Yeah.

[01:01:20] Because usually on the site that I look at, they only report like the big fires.

[01:01:25] They're not worried about reporting the little ones.

[01:01:29] And they'll combine them into like bigger, bigger fires.

[01:01:32] So.

[01:01:33] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:34] Here, I'll put my link up in the chat box for whoever wants to check that out in the future.

[01:01:44] Yeah, I thought you put the Korean thumb link up.

[01:01:47] I'll put that up.

[01:01:48] And I also put up the volcano areas since, you know, I don't know.

[01:01:52] I don't know what the future holds here.

[01:01:55] I'm kind of on a wire.

[01:01:57] So let's go ahead and give you guys info to make informed decisions.

[01:02:03] Is the future so bright you got to wear shades?

[01:02:08] There you go.

[01:02:16] Oh, you got to wear the future so bright.

[01:02:18] You got to wear.

[01:02:18] That's right.

[01:02:19] The digital shades, though.

[01:02:21] That's right.

[01:02:22] Only the digital ones.

[01:02:26] Alrighty.

[01:02:26] Well, we made it, Chin.

[01:02:29] Chin.

[01:02:31] We're dragging it across the line.

[01:02:33] We did.

[01:02:35] We're going to persevere through tonight.

[01:02:37] That's right.

[01:02:38] If there's one thing that Sarah has, it is perseverance.

[01:02:45] God bless me with it.

[01:02:47] And yeah, I don't give up.

[01:02:49] A poem, a notepad, and a lot of perseverance.

[01:02:53] So true.

[01:02:54] So true.

[01:02:55] All righty, guys.

[01:02:59] Well, hopefully we'll see you next week.

[01:03:02] I'll try to keep posted on the live chat what's going on.

[01:03:06] If you follow me on Twitter, it's at Sarah Hathaway19.

[01:03:11] I can post over there as well what's going on.

[01:03:14] Oh, I guess on X.

[01:03:15] If you follow me on X, it's at Sarah Hathaway19.

[01:03:19] You can go to my website, changingearthseries.com, and get linked over to any of my social media sites.

[01:03:28] And always you can reach out to me there if you just fill out the contact form.

[01:03:32] There's a lot of different methods to get a hold of me there.

[01:03:35] So you can always send me a message anytime as well.

[01:03:38] I'm really responsive.

[01:03:39] Also, you can reach out to Chin on there.

[01:03:41] So if you have questions about the MeshTastic or communications or that kind of stuff.

[01:03:48] And it might have to be one of our biggest forms of communication with you in the future.

[01:03:53] So please take advantage.

[01:03:55] I've been rocking the comms lately.

[01:03:58] Right?

[01:03:58] Yeah.

[01:04:00] Yeah.

[01:04:00] So if you guys are into that and you have questions, you're like, hey, Chin, we're here for you.

[01:04:06] We're absolutely willing to help.

[01:04:07] And we do answer emails, things like that.

[01:04:12] So please don't hesitate to reach out.

[01:04:15] I was just talking to JB about.

[01:04:18] Coms, helping her get set up.

[01:04:20] Oh, were you?

[01:04:21] Nice.

[01:04:21] Literally, yeah.

[01:04:23] Well, that's who I'm like.

[01:04:24] I've got to get a hold of JB so she can get me squared away and we can figure out a game plan for walking forward.

[01:04:31] But I tried to figure it out today and I just got more confused.

[01:04:38] I'm like, I don't even know.

[01:04:40] So, and I don't really have very much time to invest in figuring it out is my problem.

[01:04:49] So, yeah.

[01:04:51] Anyhow, that's neither here nor there.

[01:04:53] It's been awesome doing the live shows.

[01:04:56] So if this is our last ones, thanks for hanging with us, chilling with us while we do live stuff.

[01:05:01] The show won't go away.

[01:05:03] It'll just probably be a prerecord.

[01:05:04] But, yeah.

[01:05:06] We'll still be having good times and still be bringing you the changing earth.

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