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[00:00:31] Chapter 39
[00:00:34] You found her in a hole?
[00:00:35] Dolores asked, looking over the young white-haired girl while classical music played in the background.
[00:00:42] She won't talk.
[00:00:43] Or maybe she can't, Monroe explained,
[00:00:45] standing behind her. The Major doesn't know what to do with her. Doesn't make
[00:00:50] sense to hand her over to the refugee system. How do you know her parents are
[00:00:55] gone if she won't talk? Dolores wondered, grabbing a cloth napkin, dipping it in
[00:00:59] water, and gently wiping the girl's face. Just because she can't talk doesn't
[00:01:04] mean she can't respond, Monroe countered.
[00:01:07] What's your name, honey? Dolores asked the girl pointedly.
[00:01:10] The young girl's pale blue eyes looked up and she whispered,
[00:01:14] Alexis. Pleased with the response, Dolores declared.
[00:01:18] See, she can talk to him. Isn't that right, Alexis?
[00:01:22] Smiling slightly at Dolores's encouragement, Alexis answered meekly.
[00:01:27] Yes, ma'am.
[00:01:28] Do you want to get cleaned up?
[00:01:30] Dolores asked, softly brushing her greasy white hair behind the girl's ear.
[00:01:34] Yes, the girl replied.
[00:01:36] Tim, you make sure Virgis and his fighters keep taking that iodine.
[00:01:41] None of you should have been that far south for that long.
[00:01:44] You know the radiation down there is worse, Dolores scolded. Yes, ma'am, we know. Who would have thought
[00:01:50] it would rain that much, Monroe defended? Shaking her head and disgust at their stupidity,
[00:01:56] Dolores replied. You're lucky you found shelter. Looking finally at Alexis, Dolores added,
[00:02:02] and this beautiful little girl. Come on, Alexis.
[00:02:05] Dolores left into her private back rooms, and Monroe returned to the table in Dolores'
[00:02:10] downstairs sitting room.
[00:02:12] Where's the girl, Chappy wondered?
[00:02:15] Dolores took her to get cleaned up, Monroe answered.
[00:02:17] Let's go upstairs then, Chappy declared, rising from his chair.
[00:02:21] The men climbed the wooden stairs and sealed up the secret door at the top. The music thumped loudly, and Chappy could feel his stomach growling as
[00:02:29] he smelt the food cooking in the kitchen. Sitting down at one of the tables, they waited
[00:02:34] for a woman to come and take their order. Chappy looked at Monroe curiously.
[00:02:38] Something's been on my mind.
[00:02:40] What's that? Monroe wondered.
[00:02:42] I thought they shut that nuclear plant down in Southern California long ago. How was
[00:02:47] the radiation so bad, Chappy wondered? They were storing the used nuclear rods there still.
[00:02:54] The cooling system must have failed, and the radiation was released, Monroe explained.
[00:02:58] Make sense, he said, thinking about Monroe's answer. I guess.
[00:03:03] A woman in a tight, dark purple dress
[00:03:05] approached. Her brown, wavy hair flowed over her shoulders where the spaghetti
[00:03:10] straps held the dress in place. You boys want a drink? Yes, ma'am, and a couple
[00:03:15] burgers as well, please, Monroe answered. As the waitress walked away, Chappy
[00:03:19] watched Cole walk by. Don't look now, but it looks like Miss Cassidy is in town. At least,
[00:03:25] Virgus might be in a better mood, Monroe suggested. Or not,
[00:03:29] Chappy declared, watching Virgus scowl as Cassidy approached him.
[00:03:33] To what do I owe the pleasure of a visit from Miss Cassidy Baker, he wondered. He loved seeing her,
[00:03:40] but it was so complicated that Cole thought it was best to avoid her.
[00:03:45] I'm not allowed to swing by and visit my favorite baby face, she asked. Her brown eyes sparked
[00:03:51] mischievously. He looked at her skeptically.
[00:03:54] You know you're always welcome, but it's been a while.
[00:03:58] It has. Can we go somewhere to talk? After everything I've heard about your new base,
[00:04:04] I'm eager to see it," she told him.
[00:04:06] Come on, Cole stated, rising from his chair
[00:04:09] and heading out the door.
[00:04:11] Exiting to Loris' place,
[00:04:13] they headed into the mercenary base.
[00:04:15] Sir, Jess upgraded him as he opened the gate.
[00:04:18] Good evening, Private, Cole said officially,
[00:04:21] quickly ushering Cassidy in.
[00:04:24] She looked around, admiring his operational
[00:04:27] readiness and infrastructure. You've been busy. People want their lives back. All you need is to
[00:04:34] provide some stability. And the rest falls into line, Cole declared proudly. Cassidy chuckled
[00:04:40] softly at him, following him into the command building and up the stairs to his office.
[00:04:45] Very nice office, Major, Cassidy declared, looking around.
[00:04:51] His office was simple, with a desk and a small bar with liquors.
[00:04:56] There was a small seating area, and through another door was his bedroom.
[00:05:00] Thanks, it's coming along, Cole declared, heading over to pour them drinks.
[00:05:05] Glad things are going good for you, Cassidy stated as she approached, taking the glass
[00:05:10] from him.
[00:05:11] How's your dad, Cole inquired, heading to the chair in the sitting area.
[00:05:15] He's good, working too hard, Cassidy declared sitting next to him.
[00:05:20] Cole looked at her crossly.
[00:05:22] How is he really? Cassidy took a long drink. He's
[00:05:27] been having a hard time with his high blood pressure. Is that why he didn't
[00:05:31] come himself? Cassidy smiled. No, he didn't want anyone to see him with you.
[00:05:37] Cole smiled coyly at her. Is that the only reason he wondered flirtatiously? No, she replied, pausing.
[00:05:45] I wanted to come.
[00:05:47] I feel like I owe you a thank you.
[00:05:49] You took the position.
[00:05:51] You've been relaying valuable information and we,
[00:05:54] she paused again.
[00:05:56] I really appreciate it.
[00:05:59] When the day comes that our country stabilizes,
[00:06:02] we have to be able to reclaim freedom for all,
[00:06:04] he told her coldly."
[00:06:07] Cassidy laughed at him.
[00:06:08] The adoption program may end that dream.
[00:06:11] How will people return to freedom after they become second-class citizens?
[00:06:15] We've done it before, Cole insisted.
[00:06:17] Anyway, the adoption program didn't make them second-class.
[00:06:21] The FEMA camps did that.
[00:06:23] Now it will be made official, permanent. Cassidy
[00:06:27] countered passionately. There has to be an order, Cassidy. We can recover, then restore. Cole exclaimed
[00:06:34] calmly. We'll agree to disagree about that. We can never return to what we were. The question is,
[00:06:43] where will we go? Cassidy asked, looking
[00:06:45] curiously at him for answers. That is the million dollar question. But I know one thing
[00:06:52] for sure. Desperate people don't care who they hurt to feed their families. That problem
[00:06:57] has to be our primary focus, co-responded dryly. Cassidy looked at him intently, standing up
[00:07:03] to pour another drink. When did you drink the Kool-Aid? She asked as
[00:07:08] she watched the caramel color liquid fill the glass. When
[00:07:12] people I tried to help robbed us during the middle of the night,
[00:07:15] turning a whole community in a refugee's coles snapped, putting
[00:07:18] his empty glass on the table. Cassidy came over and filled his
[00:07:23] glass while she countered. The feds did that, Virgis.
[00:07:27] When they decided Arizona was non-essential and shifted the resources that should have
[00:07:32] gone there elsewhere. My dad was there, in the courtroom, trying to fight. They knew
[00:07:38] the wave was coming and they did nothing. No one even told you. They were doing national triage, Cole answered
[00:07:45] flatly. That's bullshit, Cassidy snapped. They've shifted all the resources towards
[00:07:51] the capital in Kansas. They're going to make sure they survive. We'll be able to change
[00:07:57] it again, Cassidy. For now, we have to do what we have to do to maintain order, Cole
[00:08:02] assured her. Cassidy shook her head at him, knowing he would come up with a cold response to whatever she
[00:08:08] had to say.
[00:08:09] She looked at him and said bluntly, I need more fighters, Virgis.
[00:08:14] Cole's eyes narrowed before he rolled them at her.
[00:08:17] I knew you were here after something.
[00:08:20] Thank you indeed.
[00:08:22] She reached over, grabbing his hand.
[00:08:24] Oh, stop. You know I'm sincere. I just need fighters as well.
[00:08:30] And how do you suppose we facilitate that without anyone knowing or getting hurt, he
[00:08:35] wondered?
[00:08:36] I was hoping that's where your expertise would be applicable, she told him coyly. He looked
[00:08:41] at her and smiled. My expertise, huh?
[00:08:45] You know you're lucky you're so darn cute.
[00:08:48] I think you had me wrapped around your finger from the moment you said,
[00:08:52] My name is Ms. Cassidy Baker.
[00:08:55] Her cheeks blushed a bright red as she countered.
[00:08:58] Don't change the subject, Cole.
[00:09:00] And don't get me wrong.
[00:09:02] I like you.
[00:09:03] And we've had some good times. But the years have been hard,
[00:09:06] and this is going to be a long fight. I just don't feel the timing is right to be sharing those
[00:09:12] kinds of feelings. I get it. I don't want to change what we have any more than you do. You keep
[00:09:18] being cute, fighting your fight, and I'll see what I can do about getting you some extra hands,
[00:09:23] he told her,
[00:09:25] standing up and gently brushing her hair behind her ear.
[00:09:28] Thanks for understanding, Virgis. You're the best, she praised him, pulling him to his
[00:09:33] feet and kissing him on the cheek. He laughed, putting an arm around her and hugging her
[00:09:38] into himself.
[00:09:39] Why do I feel like such a sucker then? She kissed him passionately. You're just lonely.
[00:09:46] Come on, we can fix that.
[00:09:48] Then you'll be gone and I'll be lonely again, Cole countered.
[00:09:52] That's a problem for tomorrow, she told him,
[00:09:55] leading him into his room.
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[00:11:18] 15 episode 39. Hey, chin. What's up? Hey, Chin's up, y'all. So, um, oh, and, and joining us today, we have Ellen with us.
[00:11:30] Hi, Ellen. How you doing? Hey, good day, y'all. So I wanted to do a little, uh, public service
[00:11:37] announcement this morning because a friend of mine, I was telling you guys made me realize, like,
[00:11:43] A friend of mine, I was telling you guys, made me realize like, how many shows I have put together,
[00:11:46] and how long you guys have been out there listening.
[00:11:49] And I just really, really appreciate the opportunity
[00:11:54] to bring really great information to you each week
[00:11:58] and spend time and do the podcast.
[00:12:01] So thank you listeners for being here because I really appreciate
[00:12:05] you guys. Both of my guests today, my co-hosts and my guests are both because
[00:12:13] of my podcast as well. So I guess that's just like living testimony right there.
[00:12:21] So thank you guys, appreciate it. Come with me.. Yeah come with me on my journey. So great.
[00:12:29] Yeah, first time Ellen is coming out. She's like, Hey, I'd love to meet you. There's there's
[00:12:37] a hotel. Where's the closest hotel? I'm like, hotel dude, I live way far away from a hotel
[00:12:43] man. So I had extra room.
[00:12:46] Come on.
[00:12:46] Oh, no, you were sleeping in the loft even, right?
[00:12:49] I just had the loft.
[00:12:50] Yeah, it was in the house, yeah.
[00:12:54] Yeah, the cabin.
[00:12:55] I was like, oh, I got a bed, man.
[00:12:58] So I would have been happy with a couch.
[00:13:02] Yeah, so very cool. It
[00:13:05] just was a nice little reminder for me of how special the
[00:13:08] journey's been. So I want to thank everyone. Alright, um,
[00:13:12] audio drama. The episode 13 is live sounding great. James, I
[00:13:21] just I really loved his performance this year. I'm
[00:13:23] gonna give out my little Emmys at the end of the year maybe and
[00:13:27] Cuz this is just good stuff
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[00:14:09] it's a really nice player. It plays in the background and you can just keep it going whenever you're cleaning or working or doing whatever you do.
[00:14:18] Next on the list, gardening season, I've been kicking my butt.
[00:14:25] My friend Kerry's like, did you get your garden in yet?
[00:14:28] You know, it's coming early here in Texas this year.
[00:14:31] Like, oh man.
[00:14:32] So this week it's on a Southerners get on that Northerners.
[00:14:37] I would like to thank you guys still have a little bit longer to go, but it's
[00:14:42] been pretty warm up there this year.
[00:14:44] So my dad said like Michigan was
[00:14:45] in the seventies this week. So crazy times. And then prepper camp 2024. I heard there's
[00:14:57] still spots available in tent city right now. I don't know about the rest of the campground,
[00:15:04] but I think there's still spots available in tent city.
[00:15:08] I heard somebody just the other day, so they got one.
[00:15:10] So get your tickets.
[00:15:12] Don't forget a place to stay.
[00:15:15] And you guys will be here for prepper camp.
[00:15:18] Wow, we'll be there.
[00:15:19] I got on flight.
[00:15:21] I got on flight.
[00:15:22] Right?
[00:15:23] It's going to be fun.
[00:15:26] Bombing in the van.
[00:15:30] Both of my cars are going.
[00:15:33] Just don't make that good coxing. I made last time that was that was wild.
[00:15:35] Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:15:37] Yeah, we went in a little overboard last year.
[00:15:40] So it was like, we're pumped.
[00:15:41] Those breaks. Oh, you need to bring out some of the some of the good Australian rum.
[00:15:47] Yes, that's a wise on the cards.
[00:15:49] Yes.
[00:15:51] As long as we don't drink at all before we get there.
[00:15:58] Alrighty, so this week we heard Virgis chapter 39.
[00:16:03] Last week he found Alexis in the radiation zone,
[00:16:06] had a really cool show with Dave Jones.
[00:16:08] So if you missed that one, head on back, check that out.
[00:16:12] Dave, always just a wealth of knowledge.
[00:16:14] Plus we had the little bonus where he gave us
[00:16:17] some wonderful information on how to identify
[00:16:20] a fake police officer, which is really cool as well.
[00:16:23] So yeah, last week's episode, definitely worth going back and checking out if you missed it
[00:16:29] But this week Virgis's team they go back to Reno
[00:16:33] Cassidy shows up little little fun time for Virgis always an argument always a mixed bag of tricks with that girl I'd say
[00:16:42] And so today I wanted to talk about
[00:16:50] how long realistically society would stay civil
[00:16:59] once the food supply starts severely de-windling. I would argue that it is right now like with the rate of inflation and everything. Everybody's more strapped if you're not, wow, you're living in a cool bubble.
[00:17:05] Wish it was one I was living in.
[00:17:09] Oh yeah, the little carts, you know,
[00:17:11] little tiny cart, the grocery store, 130 bucks.
[00:17:17] Like six items, you know.
[00:17:20] How's it looking over there in Australia, Ellen?
[00:17:23] A lot of box of cookies, like at the deli, you know, like the pre-done cookies.
[00:17:28] And there were 10 instead of 12 in the box.
[00:17:32] Those clear plastic box.
[00:17:35] Yup.
[00:17:36] There's 10 instead of 12.
[00:17:37] We went to barbecue the other night.
[00:17:39] It was $19 a plate.
[00:17:41] Oh, I know.
[00:17:42] Wow.
[00:17:43] Yeah. So how's it looking here? Yeah. $18 a plate. Oh, wow. Yeah
[00:17:48] So how's it looking here? Yeah
[00:17:52] We were
[00:18:00] Just I've been really focused on it the last of seen I've been off work last six weeks and because we've been a bit
[00:18:03] strapped to cash for a bit and
[00:18:04] Yeah, it's like I just noticed things jumping like a dollar.
[00:18:09] Right.
[00:18:09] In the week.
[00:18:10] Yeah.
[00:18:10] Just a whole dollar.
[00:18:12] A packet of a big packet of chips, the chips, uh, um, like potato chips that I
[00:18:21] like, that's gone up to like eight dollars a bag where they were like $4 like last
[00:18:26] year. That's what we've been noticing. The thing that really at the moment is that there's
[00:18:37] a CO2 shortage in Australia. So all the drinks have not been available like soda water.
[00:18:48] It still heaps of Coke and Pepsi, but all the cheaper ones have not been available.
[00:18:54] And I drink a lot of soda water.
[00:18:57] I haven't been able to get any.
[00:18:59] Crazy.
[00:19:00] Yeah.
[00:19:01] So there's a CO2 shortage, which is affecting the carbonated drinks.
[00:19:05] I thought Australia was making plenty of CO2.
[00:19:08] Ha ha ha.
[00:19:09] Yeah, it's just capturing it.
[00:19:12] Crazy.
[00:19:13] Yeah, and what else?
[00:19:15] I haven't heard of that shortage yet.
[00:19:18] That's pretty unique.
[00:19:20] And not just people food, animal food as well. So
[00:19:27] My German chef Dasher he's he's food's gone up $5 a bag. Yeah, that's one thing we noticed as well Brock came home
[00:19:35] He's like the bag of dog foods up to like 60 bucks a bag
[00:19:39] And we're not buying like we don't I mean I there was a time when I bought them the really good food
[00:19:45] That was expensive, but I haven't been able to afford that for a while
[00:19:49] You know so I'm not buying them like the bottom of the barrel stuff
[00:19:53] But still that was crazy used to be just 40 bucks or you know, $38 somewhere in there
[00:19:59] Yeah, and and with that
[00:20:03] Is the cat food, cat food's gone up.
[00:20:06] Just the cat litter, that's gone up $5 a bag.
[00:20:13] Yeah, just random things that I've just noticed.
[00:20:15] It's like, hang on a minute.
[00:20:19] Yeah, like now I'm spending half of my money
[00:20:21] on just buying them food and litter.
[00:20:24] Yeah. Crazy.
[00:20:25] Yep.
[00:20:28] Yeah, just like that.
[00:20:29] And there's been holes in the shelves, not as bad as it was in COVID.
[00:20:34] But there's just been holes in certain things.
[00:20:37] The pasta is starting to dwindle a little bit.
[00:20:43] What else?
[00:20:44] What else have I noticed? I think that any kind of fluctuations gonna
[00:20:48] hit way harder when you have only you know a handful of companies that have now taken
[00:20:55] over everything and so if their company so to speak falls short you're gonna see that
[00:21:02] instantly as opposed to when we had a lot of competition in the game then somebody else could step up and fill that gap
[00:21:10] When there was a problem
[00:21:13] So they've done a fair bit of a bit of background
[00:21:18] Searching and stuff like that because we've got two major supermarket change in Australia will worse and Coles
[00:21:26] two major supermarket change in Australia will worse and colds. Then you've got Audi and the small independent ones stuff like that. Audi is sort of taking a little bit of competition away, but
[00:21:30] the drivers for everything is will worse and colds. And they have just both those companies had
[00:21:40] billion dollar profits last year in the financial year, but our food is going up.
[00:21:45] And we're like, even the government now is starting to say, hang on a minute.
[00:21:49] We need more competition in Australia because they are just taking, yeah, just creeping.
[00:21:57] Yeah. Absolutely. So we majority shop from Audi now, which is not supporting Australian business
[00:22:05] because they're German owned,
[00:22:06] but they're like at same amount of,
[00:22:11] my trolley size from, or car to call them over there,
[00:22:15] from Audi will be double the price at Woolworth.
[00:22:19] Yeah.
[00:22:20] That's what we shop at for the grocery store.
[00:22:23] We go to Audii's now.
[00:22:25] It really, much better pricing than the normal grocery stores
[00:22:31] here in town.
[00:22:32] Interesting.
[00:22:34] Because it's like a half hour drive for me
[00:22:36] to get to the Aldi's here.
[00:22:39] What it used to be for us, well, everything's
[00:22:42] a half an hour now.
[00:22:42] But in the Charleston, it was you know a drive
[00:22:47] it was like 40 minutes to get to LD so we never really shopped there yeah but it's it's just as
[00:22:52] close as any other grocery store and it's good pricing. Interesting and I don't really fluctuate
[00:22:59] too much is what I've seen with the prices so it's's not like a dollar jump. It could be like a
[00:23:05] 20 cent jump with good products. Yeah. Yeah, we've, we've, I'm lucky enough, I've got an
[00:23:15] Audi within five minute drive.
[00:23:17] So that really leaves me like going, okay, so that we've already got, we've already seen the situation.
[00:23:25] It's probably not going to improve itself anytime soon.
[00:23:29] So how long, when do things start cracking, right?
[00:23:33] Is what I'm always kind of curious about.
[00:23:36] So I found this cool article,
[00:23:38] five steps to famine by the World Food Program.
[00:23:41] So you know that's gonna be good.
[00:23:44] And it was interesting though.
[00:23:46] So like step one was food security. Everybody's got, you know, access to
[00:23:51] sufficient safe and nutritious food meets their dietary needs. They really base this off of 2100
[00:23:59] calories per day. Like can the majority of people eat over 2100 calories per day.
[00:24:05] So less than 5% are malnourished and people have stable income.
[00:24:12] So that, you know, is a good, good portion of the first world's right.
[00:24:21] One 2100 calories per day.
[00:24:24] You can rack that up in like two
[00:24:26] handfuls of crap, you know, chips or something, you know what
[00:24:29] I mean? Right? Right.
[00:24:31] It's good calories or is it this?
[00:24:33] This is safe, you know, sufficient, nutritious, you've
[00:24:36] got all access to all the food groups, right? So you're able
[00:24:41] to get nutritious food. Think about how much of like this inner cities though are like those food dead zones
[00:24:49] So I'd be really interested to see you know
[00:24:55] Less than five percent of people are malnourished in the in these countries
[00:25:02] So and people have stable income
[00:25:09] these countries. So and people have stable income. So I would I don't know. I I'm I'd be interested to see numbers of what it actually looks like. Because I would think that would
[00:25:15] actually gather up a good portion of countries.
[00:25:24] Yeah, definitely more and more. Yeah.
[00:25:25] I mean, like, countries falling short on that.
[00:25:29] Yeah.
[00:25:30] Yeah.
[00:25:31] Right.
[00:25:32] You're saying it here.
[00:25:33] Right.
[00:25:34] That's what I'm saying.
[00:25:35] Like, you go down to, you know, downtown San Francisco, inner city Chicago.
[00:25:44] I would throw Detroit in there they've been doing a good job of trying to bring back like local foods and stuff like that to provide that nutrition level. So that's interesting. Okay, so number two, food insecurity. So this is phase two. Trouble meeting needs have to make significant changes to meet non-food needs.
[00:26:07] So this is like flooding hit, you know,
[00:26:09] natural disaster type event,
[00:26:11] or we have social unrest, you know,
[00:26:15] warring nations, that kind of thing.
[00:26:17] Unsustainable incomes,
[00:26:19] five to 10% of those people are male nourished,
[00:26:23] only 2100 calories a day.
[00:26:26] So they're just barely meeting these needs, but most people, you know, 90% of them are
[00:26:32] able to meet those needs every day.
[00:26:38] It's interesting to, like you said, the 2100 calories can just be gathered up so easily. So that's
[00:26:45] a pretty low, low mark, I would say, but that's what they're going off of. Okay. And then
[00:26:51] you have three acute food insecurity. So most people can only meet their needs by selling
[00:26:57] essential possessions. Others using up essential resources to support a very limited diet.
[00:27:05] So this is like food has gotten so expensive, you know, we can't afford to pay to buy it without starting to sell some of our possessions, that kind of thing.
[00:27:16] Limited food choices, extreme lengths to get required calories, 10 to 15 people, 15% are malnourished. So this is,
[00:27:28] they experienced some serious income interruptions. So I definitely wouldn't put the US in that
[00:27:36] category at this time. I would say most everybody could, could get at least access to something.
[00:27:45] Right.
[00:27:53] We have an experience like massive flooding, but there's definitely areas that are like this.
[00:27:56] In Africa and whatnot.
[00:28:01] And so then we go on to the humanitarian emergency.
[00:28:05] People facing extreme food shortages, hunger related deaths increased rapidly, irreversible loss of income, 15 to 30 percent malnourished access to three
[00:28:12] or fewer food groups. So this is where you know you're starting to limit out. I
[00:28:16] only have access to rice and this other thing and that's what we live off of. Taking in less than 2100 calories a day.
[00:28:27] And then famine is number five.
[00:28:30] Complete lack of access to food and basic needs.
[00:28:32] Two in 10,000 people die of starvation or disease.
[00:28:36] 30% plus are malnourished.
[00:28:38] Total income loss.
[00:28:40] Only have access to one or two food groups, extreme calorie shortages,
[00:28:45] 20% of families face extreme shortages.
[00:28:49] So at what level there do people get really, really pissed off,
[00:28:54] you know, before they're going to die of not being able to eat enough?
[00:28:59] So there are stories from Roman times about emperors that would purposefully detain the food supply to make people more malleable, right?
[00:29:11] But that can be the ultimate blow up in your face as well.
[00:29:19] So what are your thoughts? What level do you think? I think just with the current situation,
[00:29:29] people are angry, but they're not to the point that they're angry, that they'll,
[00:29:33] I mean, yeah, it's, it's like,
[00:29:38] it seems like it's getting closer and closer to the edge.
[00:29:43] Gonna blow over it, blow up and start really
[00:29:48] protesting stuff like that.
[00:29:50] There is more reliance on food banks
[00:29:54] and stuff like that right now.
[00:29:56] Yeah, huge call for it.
[00:29:59] Huge call for it, just in here as well.
[00:30:02] People haven't been able to afford to fill out
[00:30:05] their cars with gas and not be able to get to work
[00:30:09] and all this stuff.
[00:30:12] So I think it's like number three at the acute level
[00:30:16] when it's like, you know,
[00:30:18] you can only meet your food needs
[00:30:21] by sacrificing other essential resources to do that.
[00:30:27] Yeah.
[00:30:29] Giving up people are giving up their pets.
[00:30:32] Right.
[00:30:33] That stuff.
[00:30:34] Yeah.
[00:30:35] Like it's, it's, I'd say, you know, second level, third level.
[00:30:41] Yeah.
[00:30:42] Cause once you get to five, I think you're you're it's like too late pretty much,
[00:30:47] you're like almost, it's almost like it's too far gone once you get to the famine level. So yeah,
[00:30:54] I mean, that's we're talking great depression stuff like that. Okay. So what do people do when food runs out besides get really, really angry?
[00:31:08] You called it right off the bat chin.
[00:31:10] Number one is eat lower quality food.
[00:31:13] So you buy the cheap stuff, like you're going to feed your dogs the cheap food instead of
[00:31:19] the expensive food because that's all you can afford to feed them, you know?
[00:31:23] Ford.
[00:31:24] Yeah. Yeah. So when you start making those kind of
[00:31:27] decisions, you know that things are legit. It's interesting to
[00:31:34] study history on food as well, because a lot of the competition
[00:31:40] to make national brands and then worldwide brands also drove the prices of food way down
[00:31:48] because there was so much competition for a time. And so while that was all happening,
[00:31:54] people got used to a much smaller percentage of their income actually going to food because
[00:32:00] of the time that we were experiencing. So you have to wonder if that's coming into play
[00:32:05] at all either. But how much of that is being artificially manipulated because you only have
[00:32:11] the few companies left doing it. So they can artificially manipulate it to be whatever they
[00:32:17] want it to be, rather than you have all that competition in the market. And then the private
[00:32:24] public partnerships, you know,
[00:32:26] that the government start to have with these companies, then it really limits out competition.
[00:32:31] So it's an interesting space of history to be in, like most of our lives these days.
[00:32:38] I mean, I like to think of it this way, When it gets too expensive to make your own bread
[00:32:46] and it's cheaper to buy a mass-produced one,
[00:32:51] that's the good point now.
[00:32:54] Yes.
[00:32:54] You know, you used your flour
[00:32:58] and all that sort of stuff to buy all that.
[00:33:00] You can just go get a dollar loaf of bread off the shelf,
[00:33:02] which has got heaps of sugar on it,
[00:33:04] all that sort of stuff, mass-produced stuff. Well, that's uh, we have a pizza company
[00:33:08] I'm not gonna call them out, but we have a pizza company here in the US and they're like, oh, you can get two pizzas
[00:33:14] two things of twisty breadsticks and a thing of coke all
[00:33:20] For 20 bucks, right?
[00:33:22] And it's like that is just it's a one
[00:33:25] topping pizza, right? So you've got bread, bread, bread,
[00:33:29] bread and cheese and meat, and then bread and cheese and
[00:33:33] something else, right? So basically, it's just a box of
[00:33:37] bread for dinner. Yeah. I'm like, who's living off that?
[00:33:45] Take your family out, what, you know, a family of three or four and see what that runs you.
[00:33:51] Oh yeah.
[00:33:52] And you go to a sit down.
[00:33:54] Well, that's what I said, even for barbecue the other night.
[00:33:56] I mean, when we first moved here, it was $12 a plate.
[00:33:59] Now, four years later, you know, it's $20 a plate.
[00:34:06] Just because their costs have increased
[00:34:08] so significantly, everything, you know,
[00:34:10] everything that they use.
[00:34:12] Was it good though?
[00:34:14] Oh, it was a freaking bomb, dude.
[00:34:15] It melted your mouth is so good.
[00:34:18] Yeah, just fewer and farther, you know.
[00:34:23] My style then. Oh, but brisket love, didn't I take it? I thought we took you up there to brisket love.
[00:34:30] Oh man. Okay. Well, next trip. All right. So then you nailed the next one. Number two, turn a neighbor's
[00:34:37] friends family, turn the community. Um, just, you know, but if the community's struggling, they can't help.
[00:34:45] So right now we're able to still do that.
[00:34:49] That's also like the number one preparedness person fear, right?
[00:34:53] Is when things start running out, then they're like, Oh, well, you still got some.
[00:34:57] Why don't you share?
[00:34:58] Well, you had the opportunity to get ready as well.
[00:35:03] You know? Yeah.
[00:35:05] So, but that is actually, yeah, like second step
[00:35:09] of what people do, turn to their neighbor's friends family.
[00:35:11] Can you, you know, can you help me?
[00:35:13] Of course, of course, you know.
[00:35:16] Number three, we talked about this one too,
[00:35:18] with the hunting, foraging for wild foods.
[00:35:21] But this is unreliable source
[00:35:24] and it's often energy intensive, right? So you could
[00:35:27] go walk all day and you don't get anything. And so that was just wasted calories.
[00:35:33] That's location. I mean, you're not going to go hunting in Central Park. So
[00:35:38] Fair enough for like pigeons? I mean here I can snag a deer whenever I want but when I was in Charleston like I couldn't really shoot something out the townhouse window.
[00:35:53] Right. Yeah and like people go you know you can forage your greens too but yeah.
[00:36:00] Yeah I've got a pond just down down at the back of my house.
[00:36:06] I've already counted how many ducks are there.
[00:36:09] Right?
[00:36:10] Yeah.
[00:36:11] And then, yeah, we've got a, because you can't, well you can, but it's really restricted,
[00:36:20] you can't shoot native animals here, like kangaroos and stuff like that but if it came like that
[00:36:27] I'm like looking around my neighborhood gone. Yep there's I know where that big mob of kangaroos are.
[00:36:35] Some nice looking stairs down the road and all that sort of stuff it's like yep I've
[00:36:40] worked it out. The kangaroos are just slowly diminish one by one.
[00:36:46] The ducks have gone in the first week.
[00:36:48] Well, and that's that, like the hunting statistic
[00:36:51] is interesting.
[00:36:51] Oh, this might have been in the green room
[00:36:53] where we're talking about that.
[00:36:55] That more people are hunting now
[00:36:57] and than ever before to help supplement.
[00:37:00] So even just as, you know, as like we say,
[00:37:03] we turn up the water right the slow boil.
[00:37:06] So you start depleting all those natural resources before like the major event even hits.
[00:37:14] That's going to leave you more screwed for later on, right?
[00:37:19] Yeah.
[00:37:20] Okay.
[00:37:21] So number four on the list kind of goes along with this harvest immature crops.
[00:37:26] So people will actually pull their food earlier instead of letting it go to like full fruition.
[00:37:34] And so it lowers the overall amount that they're harvesting out of their crops and it reduces
[00:37:39] the nutritional value of their crops because they didn't let it go all the way to fruition.
[00:37:44] So I thought that was pretty interesting.
[00:37:47] And then the dimensions of being able to resew and get the seeds and resew that to be able
[00:37:52] to have a continuous crop.
[00:37:54] Right.
[00:37:55] Right.
[00:37:56] That could be livestock too.
[00:37:57] I mean you might harvest livestock before it's slowly grown so you're not getting as
[00:38:02] much meat.
[00:38:04] Right. And that could have been like a, that one could have produced a couple times before you slaughtered it, you know
[00:38:09] So that could also hurt with future
[00:38:13] Yeah future animals
[00:38:15] So yeah, I didn't really think about that one
[00:38:17] But you totally would if you were hungry and you knew your potatoes were just about there
[00:38:22] You were gonna pull them so you can eat, you know
[00:38:24] knew your potatoes were just about there, you were gonna pull them so you can eat, you know?
[00:38:30] Okay, and then eating seeds, so people start eating their seeds,
[00:38:36] which I talk about a lot. You can eat sprouts, their great protein and all that,
[00:38:45] but you don't get the full harvest from that. Plus, you don't have seed stack to plant for next year. Yeah.
[00:38:50] Gotta have lots of seeds, more seeds, more seeds needed. They've gotten expensive too.
[00:38:53] I can-
[00:38:54] Yeah, I just, because we're going into winter now,
[00:38:58] I'll get everything to start at winter
[00:38:59] and then he prepares me for the spring.
[00:39:03] Yeah, just like restock my seed supply because I have like two years back.
[00:39:06] So it's always rotating, right? Yeah.
[00:39:09] It's getting more and more expensive.
[00:39:12] eBay for me, it just, people just randomly selling seeds on eBay.
[00:39:18] People got their own little businesses and they collect their seeds and it's like,
[00:39:22] oh, good point.
[00:39:24] My stuff is from, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Garden girl says start saving
[00:39:28] seeds from what you can. Yeah, I've been doing a lot of those
[00:39:30] experiments. I'm like, Oh, okay, let's let this one go. So we
[00:39:34] can seed it out. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, eating whatever is
[00:39:41] available, even if it isn't food. So in one country they have mud cookies and
[00:39:48] this is literally dirt mixed with salt, fat and water and
[00:39:54] they eat these mud cookies like when they don't have enough food. They eat mud cookies.
[00:40:01] Which is crazy. And then one lady was talking about, you know, when they're
[00:40:07] when they don't have any food around and whatnot, they're eating old hides and skins, which
[00:40:12] you know, I've, I've heard of that because like Donner, the Donner party and learning
[00:40:17] those stories and things where they were boiling leather to eat that, you know, so it makes
[00:40:22] sense. I put that in my book as well.
[00:40:25] So yeah, how'd you like some mud cookies?
[00:40:28] Mm hmm. Sounds delicious.
[00:40:32] Doesn't it?
[00:40:34] Yeah, I'm very gritty.
[00:40:37] Yeah. So, um, okay, limiting portion sizes at mealtime. Honestly, we've already started doing that
[00:40:47] Yeah, I have to do that anyway. I have to lose weight. So I'm already doing it fair enough
[00:40:52] But like because you can't or there's less right when you buy something there's less of it now
[00:41:00] 100% yeah
[00:41:02] Everything's packages
[00:41:07] Yeah 100% yeah yeah everything's like packages right yeah yeah
[00:41:15] the stakes steak sizes for example um they're like virtually half so when you're talking about livestock they the the steak and even the chicken the chicken is smaller than what it used to be
[00:41:22] just chicken pieces like chicken wings uh billets all that sort of stuff it's all smaller than what it used to be. Just chicken pieces like chicken wings, fillets, all that sort of stuff.
[00:41:26] It's all smaller than what it used to be.
[00:41:29] Interesting.
[00:41:30] Like less in the package?
[00:41:32] Or physically smaller?
[00:41:35] Just physically smaller.
[00:41:36] So they're pumping out more chickens.
[00:41:41] Yeah.
[00:41:42] And they've got to grow them as long so they don't have to feed them as long. The early harvest. Yeah. And they cost a lot more on this long. So they don't have to feed them as long.
[00:41:45] Mm-hmm.
[00:41:46] Yeah.
[00:41:46] The early harvest.
[00:41:48] Yeah.
[00:41:48] So the chicken breast size is literally
[00:41:51] halved in the last.
[00:41:54] You could still find chicken pieces that are quite,
[00:41:57] you know, large stuff.
[00:41:59] But the majority of the stuff that you get in supermarkets,
[00:42:02] it's smaller than it used to be.
[00:42:04] Honestly, like, I quit eating a lot of store-bought chicken. Majority of the stuff that you get in supermarkets. It's it's smaller than it used to be
[00:42:07] Honestly, like I quit eating a lot of
[00:42:11] store-bought chicken a while ago because like
[00:42:14] There was this like really
[00:42:15] rubbery-ness That I started noticing in chicken, right?
[00:42:18] And like if you don't soak it or whatever first And I think that it's because they're not leaving
[00:42:25] them to hang long enough before they're frozen. I think it's rigamortice, honestly, because I did
[00:42:31] that. I killed the chicken, ate it straight away. And it was rubbery as all get go. And that's because
[00:42:38] we didn't allow time for it to relax and let the rigamortice go away.
[00:42:43] Yeah, you have to let him sit in the kitchen, in the fridge for a couple of days.
[00:42:48] Yeah, couple of days. Right. So I don't know, like the only thing, that's the only way I've been able to naturally produce what I'm experiencing a lot of times when I buy chicken,
[00:42:59] or I make sure I buy a whole chicken, something with the bone on, because the breasts just seem like they were just so rubbery.
[00:43:07] It was just disgusting.
[00:43:09] I don't know what was going on with it.
[00:43:10] So we quit eating a lot of chicken because of that
[00:43:13] and switched over to just eating a lot more pork,
[00:43:15] honestly.
[00:43:16] We do pork stir fries and stuff.
[00:43:19] So yeah.
[00:43:21] Pork has remained pretty stable here in Australia.
[00:43:24] So we've been eating a fair bit of pork as well
[00:43:29] The chicken even chicken wings used to be the cheapest apart from the
[00:43:35] Giblets and all that says that the chicken wings used to be the cheapest part of the chicken
[00:43:39] But you could get it for five dollars. It's not even though three dollars a kilo
[00:43:43] Now that eight dollars a kilo for chicken wings.
[00:43:47] Everybody loves those chicken wings. Yeah.
[00:43:50] Chicken wings. And then for chicken breast it's like $16 a kilo, $17 a kilo for chicken breast.
[00:43:59] And yeah as you said it's cheaper to just get the whole chicken. Yeah.
[00:44:05] Yeah that's what I've been doing.
[00:44:06] I mean, and then I can feed parts of my dogs and all that stuff.
[00:44:11] So, OK.
[00:44:12] Number eight on the list, skipping meals all together.
[00:44:15] So going day without food all together.
[00:44:19] Women are actually more likely to do this.
[00:44:22] They'll skip full days.
[00:44:24] This can really lead to health issues.
[00:44:26] It can have serious consequences in children
[00:44:29] leading to malnutrition and stunting,
[00:44:31] and then also vitamin deficiencies and stuff like that.
[00:44:34] So that's bad when people start skipping meals altogether.
[00:44:39] Number nine, oh, go ahead.
[00:44:42] Sorry, just with that, I've had differing research in that.
[00:44:49] Well, if you're doing plan fasting, that's different than I don't have enough food to
[00:44:55] actually eat today, right?
[00:44:57] Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:58] Yeah.
[00:44:59] In principle, if you're doing plan fasting, you're much more nutritious meals when you're
[00:45:04] eating.
[00:45:05] Right. Yeah.
[00:45:06] If you're the mom that's skipping a meal because she's trying to make sure the whole
[00:45:10] family had had enough to eat, then I mean, they're probably not having good nutrition to start.
[00:45:17] Yeah, exactly.
[00:45:21] All right.
[00:45:21] Cause I'm doing, I'm skipping breakfast.
[00:45:23] So.
[00:45:27] All right. Um, I intrepid commander just joined us in the chat room.
[00:45:31] I don't know what that strange accent was.
[00:45:33] Is that Ellen?
[00:45:35] Selling livestock.
[00:45:39] So Chin, you were talking about this one.
[00:45:41] So if people just start selling their livestock so they can get immediate benefit to buy other
[00:45:46] different foods and whatnot, then-
[00:45:48] And it costs, because it costs so much for a feed.
[00:45:52] If, I mean, if you, if whatever you're raising can't forge for its own meal, and you have
[00:45:59] to go buy feed, the feed is ridiculous.
[00:46:03] Well, that's one reason why I love raising my
[00:46:06] own chickens because you can do meal farms, you can do lentil growing
[00:46:12] and things like that and actually use a pretty small space to be able to keep
[00:46:16] them fed. So that's gonna be my focus of expansion here on this property, right? Because, you know, just space wise, it works. But yeah, sell too
[00:46:29] many of them. You don't have long term food. You don't have long term income. Traveling,
[00:46:35] breaking up the family or moving away. So migrant labor situations, you know, can't, you got to go
[00:46:41] find work where you can. So you can feed the family. They're traveling long distances for to forage or some countries that's an excuse
[00:46:51] for marrying off their young daughters so they have less mouths to feed.
[00:46:57] That was one of the things. Oh, this I guess I should note this is all coming from concern USA.org. So, but I thought
[00:47:09] it had some great tips in here and then migrate the whole family. So we have lots of refugees
[00:47:16] on the move right now. And a lot of them are food reasons. If you knew like, Oh my gosh,
[00:47:22] if I could just go live over there, we're gonna be well fed.
[00:47:25] We're gonna be able to raise our family and happiness and whatnot. Or I'm gonna stay here where we're gonna starve.
[00:47:31] Well, gee, you know,
[00:47:34] by all means you pick up and go. So,
[00:47:40] okay, and then my last little bit was on like, okay, so when does it reach a tipping point that we have war because people are hungry, right?
[00:47:51] So ironically enough, war drives hunger and hunger drives war.
[00:47:56] So it's a vicious circle, right?
[00:47:58] You go to war and that can create severe supply shortages like we're having right now because of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
[00:48:07] I won't give any opinions on how I feel about it,
[00:48:09] but the simple fact is that we are having
[00:48:13] food supply disruptions because of that conflict,
[00:48:16] which is gonna cause people in other areas to go hungry
[00:48:19] because their supply chains have now been cut.
[00:48:22] They estimate that more people died of hunger during
[00:48:25] World War II than in the actual battles because of the conflict and people not being able to get
[00:48:31] resources that they had previously. Um, so go ahead. Yeah, I mean England brought in the Russian
[00:48:41] the war ration thing during World War II II people were people living off a little russian
[00:48:51] and victory gardens and all that sort of stuff resulted from that. Correct. Yeah, which is
[00:48:57] ironic now that they're like oh it's not green to grow your own food. What?
[00:49:12] it's not green to grow your own food. What? Okay. Um, many contributors to war, but hunger is all often the one that breaks that straw that people are like, not we're done. We're
[00:49:18] going to war. We want to eat, you know, whether that gets a job done or not. I don't know, but when people are hungry, your brain just isn't working correctly.
[00:49:28] Food riots result from, you know, remove the food,
[00:49:33] you got food riots, and then poor governance
[00:49:36] often leads to food shortages,
[00:49:39] which causes people to question their faith
[00:49:43] and their leadership, and can often cause rebellion
[00:49:48] against leadership.
[00:49:51] So it was interesting, you know, without reflecting on our current world that like back in the
[00:49:57] day the Caesars were like, yeah, we're going to cause food shortages to get control over
[00:50:01] people, which often backfired on them pretty severely. So interesting that humans would be
[00:50:09] so, so eager to repeat the past.
[00:50:15] Because they don't learn from it.
[00:50:16] Right? Yeah, it's just not a good way to go. People hungry and
[00:50:21] dying is not usually a good thing. So
[00:50:23] So people hungry and dying is not usually a good thing. So.
[00:50:25] And if people, they don't have the,
[00:50:29] and now I'm just trying to learn, you know,
[00:50:31] preserving and all that sort of stuff,
[00:50:33] all that knowledge is gone because if this whole generation
[00:50:38] has relied on just going to the supermarket
[00:50:40] to get their stuff out, like having to learn how to can
[00:50:44] and stuff all that again.
[00:50:46] I'm learning from scratch.
[00:50:47] Well, and we had the conversation too about the bread, right?
[00:50:50] When you can, when you can buy the bread cheaper than you can make the bread, then that doesn't
[00:50:53] make sense.
[00:50:54] Well, it's the same way.
[00:50:55] Like, uh, for example, peas, right?
[00:50:59] It takes so much work and everything to make that can of peas that you go and buy at the store for well now
[00:51:06] It's like I don't know a buck 25 35, but it used to be like 99 cents, you know
[00:51:13] Yeah, so it just didn't make any sense to do it yourself when you could go and just buy it so much cheaper
[00:51:21] Except for the fact of you know, what's in that food and it's more nutritionally sound
[00:51:27] Most people wouldn't even know how to shell a pee so
[00:51:32] It takes so many I just like huge bag of peas right and I was so excited and that
[00:51:40] Equaled one pint of peas
[00:51:43] that equaled one pint of peas.
[00:51:47] Oh, it was the worst.
[00:51:48] Talking about a kick in the guts. I'm like, okay, I'm never going to yell at my kids for eating the peas in the
[00:51:52] garden again.
[00:51:53] We only grow those for eating while we're gardening now.
[00:51:59] Just brice and amount to grice.
[00:52:01] Yep.
[00:52:02] Yeah, exactly.
[00:52:04] That's the best part.
[00:52:01] Just graze and amount to graze. Yep, yeah, exactly.
[00:52:04] That's the best part.
[00:52:07] Alrighty, any last thoughts before we jump
[00:52:09] into the changing earth news?
[00:52:14] Nah, it's not like where it's headed,
[00:52:17] but we shall see.
[00:52:19] It's just more reason to understand we need to be prepared.
[00:52:24] Like they're talking about putting vaccinations and food.
[00:52:26] That's a whole nother conversation, but that they can actually do it.
[00:52:30] So it's just another reason to think about having yourself prepared, your community prepared,
[00:52:36] knowing how to grow, you know, a basic crop that can feed you and then some other goodies
[00:52:41] that you like to graze on when you're outside.
[00:52:43] No.
[00:52:44] And just more of a reason to get into it
[00:52:47] and stay with it because if you don't practice now,
[00:52:50] you certainly don't wanna be learning
[00:52:52] when your life depends on that.
[00:52:54] You know, a little bit that you can actually produce
[00:52:56] for yourself, so.
[00:53:00] Stay on it, folks, stay on it.
[00:53:03] I need my own encouragement.
[00:53:05] Gotta get my garden in.
[00:53:08] Alright, here we go. It's a Change in Earth News.
[00:53:11] Music Are you changing earth news? So we had a huge plasma eruption off of our sun this morning.
[00:53:30] Not that it's going to hit the earth, but it was beautiful to see.
[00:53:33] It was really cool.
[00:53:34] And if it was aimed at earth, it would be big problems for us.
[00:53:38] But the Lord has protected us again.
[00:53:42] It was on the incoming limb.
[00:53:44] So if you get to go, go check out suspicious
[00:53:47] observers, you get to see it there. And it's really cool. It just lit up the coronal graph.
[00:53:52] So if you have if you've never seen it, go check it out. It's fun to watch. Okay, on
[00:53:58] the fourth of March, March already this year seems like it's flying by. I'm just going to say we're going to be at
[00:54:07] Prepper Camp before you know it. March 4th, we had 443 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.
[00:54:14] Biggest of which was a 5.4 in the Indian Ocean in Indonesia. There was a 6.7 south of Australia.
[00:54:25] They downgraded that to a 5.4.
[00:54:29] It was out in the ocean by the Macri Islands,
[00:54:32] or no, 5.8.
[00:54:34] Did you hear about that?
[00:54:36] No, I didn't hear about that.
[00:54:38] Yeah, it lit up, cause it's over by the knot too
[00:54:41] and all that stuff.
[00:54:42] Oh my, yeah, so that one happened just south of you.
[00:54:46] Um, Lacumbra volcano in Ecuador had a volcanic eruption on the fourth.
[00:54:52] There was some really bad flooding in Pakistan, triggering landslides.
[00:54:57] 30 people unfortunately lost their lives in that storm.
[00:55:01] It also kicked up a very rare tornado.
[00:55:04] It hit Jeholem. It did some massive
[00:55:08] damage over there and there was record setting winds that took out power in Las Vegas. On
[00:55:15] the 5th of March, there was 458 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger. Biggest of which was that 5.8 in the Macquarie Islands,
[00:55:25] just South Australia.
[00:55:27] In Utah, thousands of tumbleweeds invaded this little town
[00:55:32] and people couldn't even open up their door
[00:55:34] because there was so many tumbleweeds that had blown in.
[00:55:38] So that's always fun to see.
[00:55:39] Those things are a mess to deal with.
[00:55:42] On March 6th, there was 436 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger,
[00:55:47] biggest of which was a 5.1 in the REC by Indonesia. There was a 5.4 earthquake in China. Atlanta,
[00:55:56] Georgia had massive flooding causing road closures. Northwestern Brazil is still still dealing with a lot of flooding over there.
[00:56:07] Approximately 100,000 people have been affected by that flooding. 12,000 people have been
[00:56:12] displaced by it. Bolivia is also being affected by that same flooding series that's going
[00:56:19] on there. And on Talia or Turkey, they were hit by a tornado.
[00:56:25] Basically everything just disappeared in two minutes.
[00:56:29] It was a severe storm and really scary to watch.
[00:56:34] On March 7th of 2024, there was 431 earthquakes
[00:56:38] that were 2.0 or bigger,
[00:56:40] biggest of which was a 5.7 in the North Pacific Ocean
[00:56:43] near Costa Rica. And then on the 8th
[00:56:46] There was 382 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was a 6.0 in the Philippines
[00:56:52] So if you guys are watching the pattern, we didn't have a very big solar week last week
[00:56:58] It was still pretty chill this week
[00:57:00] Minus the event that happened today. So we're not seeing the uptake of earthquake activity. Oman was struck by a
[00:57:08] series of flash floods. The EU put February 2024 as their
[00:57:15] hottest year in rec or hottest February on record was 2024. So
[00:57:22] you know that the climate ad for the kids were all up over that one.
[00:57:27] March 9th of 2024, there was 397 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.5
[00:57:35] in the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. There was a 3.5 earthquake in Northern California and then that 3.6 in Sydney, Australia.
[00:57:45] And you said it was up north, northwestern?
[00:57:50] West, in the mountain.
[00:57:51] In the mountain.
[00:57:52] Yeah, so yeah, the Blue Mountains sort of,
[00:57:55] and Sydney is sort of like,
[00:58:00] it's called the Great Divining Range.
[00:58:02] It divides the East and Sea border
[00:58:04] from the basically central areas of Queensland.
[00:58:10] So not as unusual to have events up there?
[00:58:16] Well, it is unusual,
[00:58:17] because we very rarely get earthquakes,
[00:58:20] so it wasn't actually in Sydney.
[00:58:23] Got you, okay.
[00:58:25] Charleston, South Carolina, they had a flooding event over there.
[00:58:31] That was because of their high tides, lots of rain coming down. So they saw
[00:58:37] some vehicles, homes and businesses flooded. Brantley County, Georgia,
[00:58:42] dozens of homes destroyed by a possible tornado event just yesterday.
[00:58:46] It usually takes them a couple of days to confirm that it was a touchdown of a tornado,
[00:58:51] but they got a lot of damaged homes over there.
[00:58:54] March 10th, that's today of 2024.
[00:58:59] There's 382 earthquakes at our 2.0 or bigger so far,
[00:59:03] biggest of which so far is a 5.2 in
[00:59:06] the Solomon Sea by Papua New Guinea.
[00:59:09] There was a pretty good flooding event in New Jersey that was causing road closures.
[00:59:14] And then Indonesia, man, you know, I was telling Brock today, if you want to live someplace
[00:59:19] where like you, you experience a wide variety of natural disasters
[00:59:25] on a weekly basis.
[00:59:26] I think Indonesia definitely takes the cake.
[00:59:30] Western Sumatra had another flooding event, landslides.
[00:59:34] It killed 19 people at least.
[00:59:36] There was still seven missing.
[00:59:37] I've seen those numbers pushed up now as far as like 30.
[00:59:41] So prayers to everybody over there
[00:59:43] that's be in the middle of that event.
[00:59:47] There was also a major flooding event in Dubai today.
[00:59:52] As far as volcanoes, there are 27 volcanoes
[00:59:55] actively erupting on our planet right now
[00:59:57] that's up one from last week.
[00:59:59] There's 19 showing minor activity that's holding steady
[01:00:02] and our unrest number has gone down by one. I think it just pushed up into the erupting level. As far as US
[01:00:10] wildfires we have 15 new fires 17 current fires for a total of 1,436,000
[01:00:19] acres on fire 20 of those fires are contained. Texas is still topping the list at number one with three fires
[01:00:27] burning two new fires, 1,237 acres on fire with three of those fires contained. We did get a good rain
[01:00:36] event over here in Northwestern Texas. So hopefully they got some of that up in the panhandle. Oklahoma is number two on the list. They're in the same fire
[01:00:45] event that Texas is. They have one new fires, or I'm sorry, one fire, seven new for a total
[01:00:54] of 119,000 acres. Six of those fires are contained. So they're doing a good job of getting containment
[01:01:02] under wraps. And then Nebraska still coming in third
[01:01:05] place only one fire burning total of 69,810 acres and that fire is not contained at this
[01:01:12] time. Alrighty guys, well thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for listening to the
[01:01:19] show. Remember to go over to my YouTube channel, give a like and subscribe, I'd really appreciate it.
[01:01:27] But I appreciate you guys coming on every week,
[01:01:31] coming to listen.
[01:01:32] I'm tickled silly, I just kinda had a revelation today
[01:01:35] of like, wow, it's been a long time.
[01:01:39] So, a lot of episodes.
[01:01:44] My sons can go back and like see my whole life if they wanted to.
[01:01:49] Yeah.
[01:01:50] It's crazy.
[01:01:52] Well, it just kind of hit me today.
[01:01:56] All righty.
[01:01:57] Well, thank you for coming.
[01:01:59] Ellen, always a pleasure.
[01:02:01] Can't wait to have you back here in the States because I have so many new toys for you to play with when
[01:02:06] you get here.
[01:02:07] Oh, I can't wait.
[01:02:10] Right.
[01:02:13] It's so good.
[01:02:14] I'm going to enjoy my time.
[01:02:15] Yes.
[01:02:16] Yeah.
[01:02:17] Because goodness knows, it's too precious.
[01:02:21] And thanks, Chan, for coming on the show.
[01:02:23] You the man. Hanging. All thanks, Chan for coming on the show. You demand hanging. All right, guys, until
[01:02:29] next week, remember, dream.
[01:02:32] Survive thrive.
[01:02:35] Oh, okay, we got to do it again. I'll clip it for for the record. All right, until next
[01:02:41] time, remember dream.
[01:02:44] Survive.
[01:02:49] Alright, until next time remember, dream, survive, thrive, the live listeners get a treat. Bye guys.
[01:02:50] Have a great week.