ICFA: Reality Check: Workplace Preparedness and Uncommon EDC Items

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[00:01:50] If you are listening to us and you're on the internet tonight and you're like, you know what, normally I'm not on the internet. I'm driving down the road and I don't have a way to... Hey, EK finally made it in. I guess chat's starting to clean up.

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[00:02:56] So I see some people getting in the chat room. Hopefully everybody can hear me in there. Somebody in the chat room can say, yes, we can hear you. I will continue on.

[00:03:03] Otherwise, I'm just going to sit here and babble for a few minutes because hopefully yes sirs. I'm guessing, I'm guessing Pappy's saying yes sirs. I hear you. There we go. All right. So we know where audio is getting out.

[00:03:15] All right. So I'm going to give a little aside here just because the last few shows that I've done kind of interesting the way that the material that I've chosen and then what's happening in the news. So I'm going to let you all in on a little secret.

[00:03:29] The show tonight is not about the shootings. It's not about, you know, the stuff that's in the news, but it actually does tie in. But that's not what I'm doing the show on and that's not the reason why I'm doing the show.

[00:03:43] When I do get to prepare a show, it takes me about two weeks to do it. So I have a lot of stuff that are, hey, Pappy's called in. Good for you there.

[00:03:53] Pappy, see, it does work. You can call in and listen to us on the phone number. What I do is I get ideas and I think, you know, I want to talk about that or, hey, you know, that'd be a really good topic.

[00:04:04] And it takes me about two weeks to develop a show. So what happens is about a week before the show airs, I start typing out a description that's going to go online.

[00:04:13] And then I start typing out about my show, you know, I start typing out my show notes that I'm actually going to read from. And so when you hear the show that I'm doing, it's not because, hey, you know, it's in the news. I'm going to cover that.

[00:04:26] What's actually happening apparently is I'm doing the show and then it's in the news. I mean, literally like I did the show on survivor guilt and literally within 24 hours they had the Amtrak derailment that happened, you know, literally like 40 miles south of my house.

[00:04:42] And, you know, there were passengers injured. Some others were just fine. And I watched one of the brothers of the engineer that died tell his story and dang if you couldn't see some of the triggers that I discussed on survivor guilt.

[00:04:56] So two weeks ago. Yeah, two weeks ago now I started planning for the workplace preparedness because if you were with us last Friday,

[00:05:04] Blond Talk was having a little bit of problems and that didn't shut that show didn't go so what I'm talking about tonight was actually supposed to be talked about last Friday but now it's been two weeks.

[00:05:13] So I started planning for workplace preparedness and it was based on an unrelated event. But then we have the shootings in Florida. So here's what I propose.

[00:05:23] I think my next show is I'm going to do on what preps you need to buy after you win the lottery because that way everybody listening to my me tonight will be winning the lottery. Can you do a show and be winning the lottery in my gray.

[00:05:36] I really hope you didn't just type that in.

[00:05:39] I hope you just type that in because of what I just said, because if not then that is going to be super freaky that I just mentioned about buying preps to win the lottery and here you are topping in the chat room about winning the lottery.

[00:05:51] Because if that's the case, that is scary freaky. But hopefully you heard me say lottery and that's why you typed it in but anyway, I will end my little aside now and get on with the show.

[00:06:02] Just so you all know it takes me like two weeks to put a show together. So when I talk about something it's not because I've been watching the news is because I was thinking about it and then the news apparently has been watching me.

[00:06:12] So anyway, eke cast of that effect. So we all prepare to take care of our families and I hope that we all carry supplies and a medical kit in our vehicles. You know, we all have our bug out bags. We all have our EDC bags.

[00:06:27] We all have the stuff that we should have in our vehicles and whatnot. And I know a lot of us out there carry an EDC bag, EDC meaning everyday carry. It is your purse. It is your backpack.

[00:06:38] It is whatever you were carrying on you at all times and it doesn't have to be a bag. It can be your pockets. So a lot of people's EDC inventory will be just a pistol and a knife and maybe a flashlight and a cell phone and some cash.

[00:06:56] Some people carry a backpack. Some people have a purse or whatever, but what we're going to be asking is what do you actually carry in your EDC? So I'm going to be referencing a bag, but it could be your pockets as well.

[00:07:08] So excluding firearms and the means of protecting yourself. So we're not asking what kind of pistols or what kind of firepower you carry. We all understand that we should be carrying something.

[00:07:19] If you choose to do that if not then hey pepper spray or stun batons or whatever you want to carry that's fine. But what do you all carry in your EDC? And I'm asking this to the people in the chat room that can be interactive.

[00:07:33] So this is your question tonight. I want your suggestions. I want you to start typing it in stuff. So to those in the chat room excluding firearms, what items do you carry in your EDC? Now I'm not talking about a bug out bag.

[00:07:48] I'm talking about your get home bag, your everyday carry bag, things that you go to work. You know that kind of thing. And when I say we're also thinking grid up, so we're not thinking grid down. This is your normal Monday to Friday 8 to 5 type of stuff.

[00:08:04] So you get up, you put this stuff on your backpack or whatever and you go to work and you're driving a truck or whatever and you're coming home. This is not SHTF. Everyday normal grid stuff. What do you carry in your EDC bag?

[00:08:20] So I'm seeing a lot of things coming in. Yep, that's pretty good. Lighter bandana, multi-tools, cell phone, lighter, fire starter. Yep, a compass. That's not a good one. Munchies, yep, snacks and stuff. Pocket dump. How you go do a pocket dump? So keys, flashlight, thumb drives.

[00:08:38] That's a good one. Cliff bar, another good one. Well, Pappy I know because you exercise so much. There's actually a verse in the Bible that says only the wicked run without being chased. So that's why I don't run. Alrighty, how many of you carry Benadryl?

[00:09:00] So think about it. If a coworker has a peanut allergy and they're having a reaction, this is going to be SHTF for them. So do you carry Benadryl? What if the coffee pot and we're going to be talking like an office setting?

[00:09:15] What if the coffee pot shatters and someone's arm gets cut really, really deep? That's going to be an SHTF situation for them. So again while we're waiting on the chat to build a little bit, let me give you some ideas. So first we said Benadryl.

[00:09:32] How about a pulse oximeter? Literally how many people of y'all carry a pulse oximeter? So here's a real-world example that I have a couple of weeks ago. Had a man pass out for no reason and he suffers a concussion.

[00:09:44] He's knocked out and you're not sure if he's breathing or if he has a pulse. Do any of y'all carry a signal mirror or a mirror that you can stick under his nose to see if he's breathing? If not, do you carry a little $30 pulse oximeter from Walgreens?

[00:10:00] You slap it on the finger and instantly you can tell the pulse and you can tell the o2sats. You can know if he's breathing, you can know if he has a pulse and you can tell what state he might be in due to the numbers.

[00:10:12] So those are the kind of things we're going to be thinking about tonight. So who all carries an IFAC? IFAC being individual first aid kit. I'm sure everybody carries a first aid kit. What about a SWAT-T or soft-T tourniquet?

[00:10:27] Do you know what those are? Do you know how to use them? Do you know what's the difference between a SWAT-T and a soft-T tourniquet? When you built your IFAC, did you build it just to suit your needs? Did you think about your coworkers or maybe your family?

[00:10:44] You built the first aid kit, you got it. That's great. But did you think about only treating yourself or maybe one other person? Or are you thinking about treating several people, maybe three or four people?

[00:10:56] In your IFACs, do you have enough role-gauze and enough 2x2s or enough 4x4s to handle a wound that is really, really bleeding? Okay, Jay Fergie, you're going to start jumping ahead here again. Jay Fergie is on top of it tonight, baby.

[00:11:15] I swear she's hacked into my computer and reading my script. So do you have enough calls? Do you have enough 2x2s or 4x4s to handle a major wound? Again, going back to that coffee pot thing.

[00:11:27] You know, band-aids that we all have in our first aid kits are fine for scuts and scrapes. But again, in an office setting, somebody drops a coffee pot even though it's tempered glass. If you drop it on the corner of something, that glass is going to shatter.

[00:11:40] And you know, the hot coffee and sharp glass, do you have enough stuff to deal with that? What if someone does pass out or faints or whatever or slips and they cut their head and there's a very large gash in their head?

[00:11:55] Do you have enough supplies in your IFAC to treat them or are you only worried about yourself? Do you carry non-latex gloves because some people have latex allergies? You know, do you carry burn spray?

[00:12:09] So again, hot coffee or someone just microwaves and they're about to put 400 degree food in their mouth and it dribbles all over their chin or whatever reason. Somebody burns themself. Do you carry burn spray in your EDC bag?

[00:12:24] You know, the hot coffee, the tea, the toaster oven, lookin' all calls minor burns. So do you carry some kind of medical spray to deal with that? You may never need these, but you know, if your coworker does, they're going to be very, very appreciative of it.

[00:12:39] So I said Benadryl. That can also be any kind of anti-allergy medicine because there's going to be a lot of people out there that've got peanut allergies, chocolate allergies, milk allergies and perfume allergies. Now think about this perfume allergy.

[00:12:53] So you're getting on to an elevator with an older woman and she's wearing a gallon of Chanel number five. That's going to trigger somebody's allergy if they're not careful and they're going to go into anaphylaxis. Do you know how to recognize the symptoms of that?

[00:13:06] And do you know how to treat someone that's gone into anaphylactic shock? You know, again, do you carry the Benadryl? And it's not the Benadryl tablets, it's Benadryl fast melt, Benadryl liquid or something that can be administered if a person can't swallow or if they can't breathe.

[00:13:22] You know, you've got to think about that. And then getting to Jay Fergie's. Do you carry an N95 mask or an emesis bag? Do you carry some kind of N95 mask in case there's a fire or there's a problem with the air?

[00:13:35] You know, what if somebody hits the building like physically runs into the building and like the ceiling tiles fall? If you have ever messed with a drop ceiling, you know how much the dust and the debris fall out of those things.

[00:13:46] You know, if you bump the, bump a ceiling tile, you know there's like a waterfall of dirt falling out of there. So any kind of earthquake, tornado, you know, Dukes of Hazard driver hits the wall causes a lot of shaking.

[00:13:59] You know, that's kind of thing you're going to be thinking about. I mean, heck, even in my building, I'm working at really old building. If you drop a case of printer paper, you're going to cause ceiling tiles to fall.

[00:14:10] We had a supply guy come up and he had like five cases of printer paper on a dolly. And he went to go put down the dolly and the thing fell.

[00:14:18] The stack toppled over and with the two or three things of paper, two or three rings of paper hitting the floor or the cases of paper hitting the floor. That was enough that it should basically my entire floor and like four ceiling tiles fell.

[00:14:31] Of course there's dust and everything else and don't even get me started on this. Best to start of it. So do you carry an N95 respirator mask because if something bad happens, the sealant is going to come down? Are you going to be able to breathe all that?

[00:14:46] So I'm going to go ahead and take a break here real quick. I'm going to read back through the chat and check some of these. I can see some really, really good stuff and I want to make sure we include all of it.

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[00:16:08] I have to put some of that Lumetea in my bag if it's for aches and pains and whatnot lately. Reading back through the chat room, for those of you listening on my podcast that don't have the chat, here are some of the ideas we have.

[00:16:40] Of course a folding knife, a knife sharpener. I actually do carry one of those. I have a little small, wet stone that I carry with me. Benadryl, an EpiPen, MedKit, TraumaKit. Several people have tourniquets. An IBD and meds including aspirin that always melts.

[00:16:58] So melt aspirin, melt Tylenol, that kind of good stuff. Several people said SWAT-T's got a lot of their stuff from doom and bloom. And by the way, doom and bloom, they have some really great products. So I'm a sponsor. They're not a sponsor of me.

[00:17:12] I got no skin in the game, but I've met them both, both Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy. Those are some awesome people. I have a lot of their stuff. I have some of their dental kits. I have their tourniquets that they have, the softy tourniquets.

[00:17:26] Really, really good stuff for them. Let's see, Jay Fergie says, have a first aid kit with suture and N95 mask. Yeah, of course she's got a suture kit. That woman carries a mash hospital with her everywhere she goes. Woon closure stuff, snacks and jerky.

[00:17:43] Am I gray post the Dark Angel dark kit? He posted a link to darkangelmedical.com. He says the kit goes with me everywhere. I'm going to have to check that out. Somebody else says N95 mask. Yes, mask, gloves and a mask every day on the duty belt.

[00:17:59] Yeah, you know, for the paramedics and EMTs. That's one of the things they carry everywhere is gloves and masks and whatnot. It would not hurt you to carry a pair or two pair of non-latex gloves, nitrite or whatever around with you. And it's not just somebody's bleeding.

[00:18:17] Your dog messes on the carpet and just goes absolutely everywhere and you've got to clean that up. It's really nice to have a pair of gloves to clean up dog. So it doesn't have to be SHTF and it doesn't have to be blood and guts.

[00:18:30] It can be cleaning puke out of something. Let's see, EDC purse? Gun in the purse? Yep. Jerky, jerky, jerky. Books, cash, change, yeah extra cash, extra pair of undies. Now Jay Fergie has got it right. That's something I carry with me is a change of clothing.

[00:18:55] I think I cover that little later on. A pair of change of clothes, blood clot powder, playing cards. Now that's a good one I hadn't thought of but when the cell phones go down and the EMP hits we're going to have to play solitaire some way

[00:19:12] and sometimes we're going to have to do it manually. Sawyer mini filter, flashlights, change of clothes in the car. Yep, very, very good. Speaking of changing clothes and puke and everything else, I'll get back on to the emesis bag.

[00:19:30] So an emesis bag is a barf bag to non-medical folks. And there are times when I have gotten sick and I did not think I could make it to the restroom and as in my gray says in the chat room TMI,

[00:19:41] but you know hey what, reality can slap you in the face and so that's why it's called reality check for a reason. In my building everybody loves Wednesdays because the company caters for lunch. And whenever I work the company usually caters in food for lunch.

[00:19:57] What if when the food they brought in was actually tainted and it got people got food poisoning and they start yacking all over the place, you know? I don't want my TPS report ruined so I carry an emesis bag

[00:20:09] because sometimes you might not make it to the bathroom in quick and enough time. Elks in the chat room says a cooking kit. Yep, little small little kid or cooking kit. Jay Fergie says, you know, pads and tampons because they're good for gunshot wounds.

[00:20:24] So you know even guys, you know, you think and that's weird but hey man, maxi pads are small, they're lightweight, they're folded up and they absorb a lot of material and it doesn't have to be blood. It can be, you know, any liquid it'll absorb.

[00:20:39] All right. How about glow sticks? How many people in here carry ecstasy with them and you need to pop a roll and get your, your, your mixed paper rub out and you do with your glow sticks and your pat maybe I'm sharing too much with you people.

[00:20:54] How many of y'all carry glow sticks? Well here's the reason why some people do. Yep, good as secondary flares. Well here's a here's a wake up call and EMP is going to fry an LED flashlight. So if you've got an LED flashlight and even some lithium ion batteries,

[00:21:11] those are going to be gone after an EMP or CME event. Believe it or not, a lot of lithium ion batteries require control circuitry to limit currents and stuff so this is built into the battery. So the little small cell phone batteries maybe not so much

[00:21:28] but sometimes double A's and especially anything that's running like a power tool those lithium ion batteries have got circuitry built into them to keep them safe and in an EMP or a CME those are going to be gone

[00:21:42] so if you've got a device that's not in a fair day cage that uses lithium ion chances are it's going to be gone and an LED flashlight certainly qualifies as an electronic device so if you've got all your flashlights as LED great

[00:21:55] but just as FYI if an EMP hits they're gone so what I do is I carry a couple of green and white callum light sticks and that way if my flashlight doesn't work or something as a problem I actually have a source of light.

[00:22:08] I also carry them so that in the event that there is a problem with my building I can drop them in my stairwell. So as I'm running down the stairwell or running up the stairwell I can pop a few of those and throw them in the stairwell.

[00:22:21] The reason why is this, in an emergency people are going to be panicking people are going to be going crazy and a light source in the stairwell especially a dark stairwell or hallway could be a lifesaver we hope that the emergency lighting is going to work

[00:22:36] but we don't know because they're on all the time and those batteries only get changed once a year and nobody ever really really tested by going downstairs and just cutting the power to the building and seeing what happens.

[00:22:48] Let's see, in the chat room I'm seeing no glow sticks for the TSA. TSA does not approve of the glow sticks so if you're flying can't have glow sticks but otherwise it might be an idea. Another person in the chat says Zofran

[00:23:02] and a small number of pain pills. Alright, Jay Fergan, EF-EK, what does Zofran do? I know that's a pill, I know something but I have no idea what it is because I'm not a doctor so y'all please do nausea. Okay, anti-nausea medication

[00:23:17] now that is a good one that I had not thought of so kudos to y'all for that one. Anti-nausea medicine, that's a really good one especially when you're having the, sitting in the meeting with Carl and he giving his sales figures. Alright, what about a change of clothes?

[00:23:34] And I don't mean jeans and the hiking boots so yes you can have your change of clothes in the car that you know you're wearing your business attire something goes crazy, you go out to your car you change clothes, you put on your hiking boots

[00:23:45] you put on your jeans and then you still go tromp through the woods making a direct line to your mug out location or whatever. No, I'm talking about your dress clothes I'm talking about your business attire do you carry a spare pair of underwears khakis, polos, skirts, dresses

[00:24:02] you know do you carry button down shirts something that if you're in the, if you're in an office setting and you're in business attire and something goes wrong do you have a change of clothes? So how often do we spill a cup of coffee on us

[00:24:14] or do you drop greasy food? You know we go to um you make it all through the morning your meeting is at one o'clock that afternoon and you go to lunch and you go to eat something and you drop it off your fork

[00:24:26] and it hits the plate and it splatters all the grease and juice that was in your plate all over your shirt and now you got to go to the meeting with that and you know shout wipes are really good but all the kids are eating them

[00:24:40] so you know shout wipes might not be available for very long so carry an extra shit an extra set of clothes it might be beneficial to think about that I carry underwear I carry a polo a pair of khakis and socks in my EDC bag

[00:24:58] again if something goes wrong I carry the spare polo and a pair of dress pants in my bag and I have them in food saver bags so what I did is I put my pants and underwear in a shirt everything in a food saver bag

[00:25:10] and then vacuum sealed it and it sucked it down, it reduced the space it makes them very flat and in the event of a massive coffee spill or a massive unexpected revenge of Montezuma I don't have to go home I don't have to walk a shame

[00:25:26] down to my car I just grab my bag, walk to the bathroom and change alright to the chat room somebody says so zoe friends good for nausea small bottle of mixed meds and modium, yep a modium AD gas X is another good one let's see

[00:25:44] make sure all of your meds are properly labeled if they're prescription yes so if you're carrying some kind of prescription medicine or some kind of regulated medicine please for the love of god make sure that it's in its original bottle

[00:25:58] make sure your name is on it and make sure you have a prescription for it because if you dump all those pills in a zip lock bag like I used to do you're going to get someone like EK after you because I used to have

[00:26:08] Tylenol and aspirin and a modium AD and ibuprofen and all kinds of good stuff in a zip lock bag and it's like I know what it is, I know what I want to take and it was casually pointed out to me by EK that yes

[00:26:22] but if you ever get pulled over they're not going to know what that is and you're probably going to have some explaining to do and I was like, ah yeah that's a good idea so keep your meds in the bottle you know even if it's a small

[00:26:36] bottle just keep your meds in the bottle make sure the bottle is labeled if it's prescription please make sure your name is on it oh it says in the state that Fergie is in it is a misdemeanor for each loose pill

[00:26:48] and a felony for each one that's under control so like this would be a narcotic type thing that nub in the chat says spare uniform yep that's another good one if you work where you're having to change clothes or you've got a company assigned uniform

[00:27:04] it's always good to have a spare uniform somewhere extra shoes that's a good one tarp small blanket the reflective mylar blankets yep that's a good one to keep in a EDC bag so for those of you that are in the chat room

[00:27:18] here's a question to you why would you carry a mylar blanket in your EDC bag you're just going back and forth to work it's no big deal why might what's the situation that you could think of where you might need a mylar blanket yep yep I got it

[00:27:34] so Jay Fergie posted holds the heat that nub post shock and that is absolutely right so again going back into our dude not unconscious coffee pot shatters everywhere you know blood loss and whatnot like that people are going to go into shock and when people go

[00:27:54] into shock their body temperature is going to plummet they're going to have all kind of problems so those little reflective blankets you know that's not just your mug out tent there's all the can those can save lives for people that are

[00:28:06] that are going into shock and also as that nub says rain catchment and you can signal planes so other items we can think of let's see here chewing gum chewing gum is good to calm the nerves and it's also an adhesive so little back story I was

[00:28:24] 13 going camping with the Boy Scouts and we had our water pitcher and our water we had a five gallon water jug and the water jug sprung a leak and would not hold water and just so happens I was chewing a piece of gum and so I

[00:28:36] had chewed it chewed it chewed all the sugar out of it we turned the water jug over I cleaned it I took my gum I slapped the gum on the bottom of the water jug we filled it back up and it lasted us the entire weekend and never

[00:28:46] leaked and then after it was over and we got back to the scout hook I took my gum back off of the water jug and threw it in the trash and started chewing again no I'm just kidding I didn't do that

[00:28:56] yeah I really did EK didn't know about that germx hand sanitizer well PAP says some type of hat yeah hats are a really good one to have an empty water bottle that's another good one chapstick or lip balm you know that's not really needed maybe during the summer

[00:29:12] but during the winter you know when the winds are blowing chapstick or some kind of lip balm can be really really good we've all been all over we've already mentioned the common meds like Tylenol, ibuprofen Pepto-bismol is another good one Gasex

[00:29:28] you know some kind of tums or rollades snail snail mix trail mix or snacks crackers PAPI was mentioning that earlier beef jerky some kind of some kind of calorie mix a soul handkerchief or bandana earlier if you've got a shmog or a kafia anything like that

[00:29:52] how about sugar tablets so you think about it if you've got a co-worker and they've got a problem where their sugar bottom's out having a sugar tablet or sugar packet you know can be really really good thing no I said I started to say

[00:30:10] snacks like trail mix or crackers but I got it mixed up no I did not say anything bad cheese safety pins is another one someone mentioned in the chat room yep I carry safety pins with me and no I don't have

[00:30:24] the little safety pin thing that I put on my shirt that you know anyway if you know what I'm talking about you know what I'm talking about if you don't then sorry anyway all right chat room keep it coming so next part

[00:30:40] we've got a few items to add to our EDC and we're going to keep reading off some of those but having the items is only going to be half of the equation you need to educate yourself on the use of them and the emergency procedures so are you

[00:30:54] trained in first aid are you trained in CPR are you trained in some kind of medical knowledge do you know how to use an AED machine if the company has one if there's ones around you know one thing you can do is run through the list

[00:31:10] of possible scenarios that might happen at your workplace and you know figure out how to do it and that can be in an office building or can you even be on the traveling on the road so for those of you that are truckers out there listening to us

[00:31:22] I appreciate what you do you keep this country moving and that's your workspace that's your office in the semi so this is what we're talking about there too so again going back to the faint thing what do you do if someone faints

[00:31:36] do you know how to deal with someone feigning do you know how to deal with someone that is unconscious if they've hit their head or if they've got a severe concussion or something do you know how to deal with all that

[00:31:48] do you know how to test for pupil dilation where you take oh it's the air conditioner I didn't know what that was it was raining here but it's the air conditioner sorry squirrel do you know how to test for pupil dilation with a flashlight

[00:32:05] so you know the medical people out there yeah but some of us that don't have any medical experience you know learn how to use if someone faints learn how to use the flashlight to check pupil dilation and if someone is having a seizure

[00:32:17] or the diabetic blackout or they're choking do you know how to deal with someone that's choking do you know how to deal with all that again do you know how to use an AED so OSHA believe it or not OSHA actually had

[00:32:29] a really good quote in one of their manuals that I was digging through and it says quote it takes more than just willing hands to save lives untrained individuals may endanger themselves and those they are trying to rescue and that is actually a really good

[00:32:45] thing is that you know if you're trying to help somebody and you don't have training you could do more damage now you know you can educate yourself on the good Samaritan law and figure out you know how much that covers you but

[00:32:59] learn how to do stuff so that if you're not just you know you've got your stuff learn how to use it that way you're not endangering yourself for anybody else when you're trying to rescue somebody let's see Jay Fergie says emergency numbers

[00:33:13] attached to your shirt spare eye glasses yes spare sunglasses contacts if you've got them so contacts contact wash spare sunglasses and prescription eyeglasses toothbrush floss and toothpaste yep I carry those in my EDC I carry those because I have to go to meetings pretty often

[00:33:31] and you know after I've had a really big nice fat juicy cheeseburger with loads and loads of white onions I need to brush my teeth Emma Gray says a ham radio and two antennas depending on where I travel yep I carry a little ht with me Papi says

[00:33:49] I wear a road ID bracelet for others to easily find my emergency contacts yeah if you've got any kind of medical issue then you probably already carry the medical ID type bracelet but dog tags for those of you that have dog tags

[00:34:03] or maybe still have your dog tags you know wearing those or have a pair of have a pair of made that you can wear you know dog tags would be a really good thing a good jacket regardless of the weather yeah actually I carry a coat

[00:34:19] with me well you would call it a coat but it's a jacket and I carry it even during the summer because I never know when I'm going to need it and it's not just for the cold it can be if I'm going into a freezer

[00:34:31] or a cold area where there's like a cold storage but also it makes a really nice pillar just to kind of roll it up lay on the grass can't hurt to learn sliding scale now Jay Ferg you may have to

[00:34:44] Jay Ferg your EK may need to elaborate on that sliding scale learn the sliding scale you need to know it for a co-worker if anything ever happens that nub says most AEDs will tell you what to do step by step yes they do but it also benefits to

[00:35:02] to know how to use an AED PAP in the chat room says roadid.com roadid.com oh okay so the sliding skills for the diabetics yeah I think AK has mentioned that once or twice about something but anyway yeah learn how to deal with diabetics

[00:35:20] people around you will be diabetic and you won't even know it and if they get too much sugar not enough sugar they're going to have a bad day and do you know how to deal with that so this is all really really great advice

[00:35:30] I appreciate y'all jumping in on this so um I'm sure everybody listening has a firearm pretty much everybody has an AR-15 and I'm pretty sure everybody would agree that because you have the tool does not mean that you know how to use it effectively

[00:35:47] or to its full potential and these are going to be the same things for your EDC items so again learn how to use your stuff just because you have the iFAC does not guarantee that you can save lives PAP says emergency

[00:35:59] whistle now that's a good one I do not have in my bag is an emergency whistle alright we're going to shift gears here real quick and do some PR HR crap so this is going to be more towards those that work in an office particularly multi-story buildings

[00:36:19] I live I work in a third story a three-story building and it's really old and it's you know kind of rickety and would be really really bad in a fire so do you know the evacuation routes of your company so for your business either one story a multi-story

[00:36:37] do you know your evacuation routes have you ever taken the time to actually read your company's evacuation plans do you know what your company's emergency preparedness plans are you know have you ever read your company's business continuity plan

[00:36:55] so Pappy in the chat room says yes he has he developed it and some of you probably have you probably written the bcps and written your dr dr kind of stuff and your meantime to recovery and all that kind of good stuff if you haven't

[00:37:09] you know it's a lot of corporate mumbo jumbo but you know it can benefit you to read the company's plans so do you know where the safe places are in your company have you scope that out you know do you know where to shelter for if there's

[00:37:23] an earthquake or if there's a tornado or if there's an active shooter you know you get a disgruntled employee do you know which walls in your building our support walls do you know which ones are dry wall you know if you go back to some of my

[00:37:37] previous shows I talk about taking the backer board and building part of your house with backer board so that you have cover not just concealment but actual cover something you know that has a ballistic kind of coefficient to it so let's see chat room says

[00:37:55] that nub says speaking of good Samaritan laws I got a liability umbrella for the insurance company that covers me in case I do something stupid dude that is an awesome idea talk to your insurance agent the people that are doing your insurance either house or car

[00:38:11] and say you know hey look I have a tendency to try to help people and save lives is there some kind of umbrella that I can purchase that that saves me that nub says it's very cheap like ten bucks a month so that is stupid

[00:38:29] worth it I will actually check that out that is a heck of an idea that nub us as preppers and just by our very nature we're going to be trying to help people to an extent I mean you know we're going to let the sheep go to

[00:38:43] slaughter but if we can save some of them we will but that is that's a hell of an idea someone says in my graces get a trauma med class yep take trauma med class take you an EMT class or you know if nothing else go to

[00:38:59] your local college and sign up for some some paramedics classes that nub says that insurance policy also covers if someone breaks in your house and cuts themselves and whatnot ek says please get training first to know what you're doing in all major certifications and what not

[00:39:17] so those are really really good ideas so I mentioned active shooter a minute ago do you know how to deal with an active shooter and when I say do you know how to deal with active shooter I'm not talking about returning fire no we're not talking about returning

[00:39:33] fire not all of us are allowed to carry firearms in our company some of us mois are limited to knives and tactical pins and you know it's not just you you know do you know how to avoid or handle panic people

[00:39:47] so this is when I was eluded this a minute ago the sheep to slaughter kind of thing do you know how to handle a large group of people do you know how to avoid panicked people so if something goes wonky in your business people are going to run

[00:40:03] do you know where to go to avoid them you know I don't know if y'all know this but a larger group of people especially a large group of scared persons is very dangerous in that they are not going to make a logical decision you know

[00:40:17] something goes wrong herd mentality is going to take over herd mentality is very very bad I see let's check the chat room here real quick tell you what let's take a break real quick let me read through some of the stuff on the chat

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[00:42:07] glad you did yes you will that is good sound advice medical kits so in the chat room we're saying baseball bats golf clubs braided rubber hose one of the guys carries all that stuff in his office you know you can have whips and chains

[00:42:23] and you know certain leather products too if you've got an office or a play pin depending on you know who's in the office and what you're doing what you're you know hey me that may be your office you know I'm not going to knock that

[00:42:35] there may be some of the people listening in the chat that your office is a dungeon and you have a dungeon master and that's your your thing you know you need to make sure your clientele is actively protected if someone if someone forgets to say the safe word

[00:42:49] and things go south you know you need to be prepared for that you think it's funny but you know you really really stop to think about it that could happen so anyway we'll get back to shooting people so what I was talking about a minute ago

[00:43:05] is with herd mentality takes over you need to know how to deal with people that are scared and running you need to know how need to know how to react I appreciate that okay I'm gonna take that as a compliment you need to know how to be

[00:43:21] prepared to guide people to safety or avoid them and get yourself out of danger so again reading the books you can figure out where your choke points are in your office so I encourage you to go back and watch some videos of recent mass shootings and recent

[00:43:39] disasters so there's Columbine there's the Aurora theater shooting in Colorado there's the Kenya Mall there's you know what's in the news lately right now with Florida and all that kind of good stuff but seriously go back and go on YouTube or go on Vimeo and start

[00:43:55] looking if you can at unedited amateur footage of mass shootings or mass casualty or where something went wrong and people started running look for the patterns look the way look how people behave watch how people run watch how people cover start learning how the herd mentality works

[00:44:15] so that when something does happen you may have an advantage if there's an encase in a gunman let's say you know active shooter or disgruntled employee and everybody screaming and running do you know where to go in your office do you know

[00:44:33] if your desk or office has enough sectional density to stop a bullet you know one thing to think about is a ballistic clip border ballistic backpack and again I wrote this show two weeks ago so I swear I did not write this show based

[00:44:45] on the news I think the news did this I think the news is based on my show um but a ballistic clipboard or ballistic backpack that's something that I carry I actually have a little insert that I put in my EDC bag I actually

[00:45:01] have a backpack like a student's backpack it's not camo it's black um and it's designed to stop a bullet that won't stop a rifle round maybe or it might stop 556 I don't know if it'll stop 762 but it'll certainly stop handgun ammo so

[00:45:17] you know if you have a backpack chances are there's the laptop packet you know try one of these little inserts now granted they're probably off the wall right now because of what's happening in Florida the price of those is going way up but give it a little bit

[00:45:31] and I'm sure those prices will come down and if you just if you Google like hard wire um or bullet blocker or something like that you'll probably get it I think they can be get they can be gotten for around a hundred bucks so

[00:45:43] yeah I actually do have one am I gray hold on one second let me get my copying and my past in here I think that'll work so that's the one that I actually have is is from that um from that company so speaking of the

[00:46:01] the backpack thing I would hope that your EDC is like a typical college backpack so for those of you that do carry a backpack or you do carry you know a bag of some sort I really hope you're practicing your gray man techniques and you're not using

[00:46:15] a digital camo backpack with the molly straps and a gadston flag patch you know if you work for a black rifle company that great and kudos to you but if you're like me and you work in an office with a bunch of starbucks drinking snowflakes and suits

[00:46:31] um your EDC needs to blend in so a messenger bag a european shoulder bag you know whatever make make it so that your backpack or your rucksack or whatever you're carrying your EDC stuff in is blends in so the gray man kind of thing

[00:46:49] and then make sure it's got some kind of ballistic protection and stuff that's a good idea j. frege says her husband carries his blood type on his bag yeah again going back to the dog tags man you know carry tags or carry some kind of

[00:47:01] identification that has your blood on it so um next thing to think about our continuing on with your like companies policies and emergencies and preparedness and stuff read your company's preparedness plans not just figure out where in the company um you can hide

[00:47:19] or where the exit points are but figure out how your company wants to deal with something so fly in dutchman i appreciate you getting in there fly in dutchman i'm sorry it took you a long to get in but um appreciate you joining us tonight so

[00:47:35] reading through your corporate preparedness plan a lot of that stuff is going to be like corporate mumbo jumbo but you never know what the executives plan for the employees are you know you might be kind of surprised that if you get the uh the

[00:47:45] corporate exit the you know the emergency plan it says the corporates plan is to number one grab all the treasury bonds from the state number two board the helicopter and number three let everybody else finnard for themselves you never know but you should be knowledgeable

[00:47:59] of how the executives and the managers are going to deal with the issue and reason why is at the very least you can be out in front of the fray and jay fray says we're expendable yeah don't i know it um here's an example

[00:48:13] if your company evacuates the floor and again thinking multi-store building if your company evacuates the building floor by floor and you hear that the first floor is evacuating you can go ahead and get hit the stairwell and be down three

[00:48:27] or four flights of stairs for the next group leaves um you may not know that unless you're reading you know the company manuals says we are going to evacuate floor by floor this could but you had a harm's way a little bit faster and again it's just

[00:48:41] an idea to think about um another thing to know about is the corporate policies or another reason why you need to know the corporate policies is HR so going back to the insurance policy comment earlier this is a real thing after you're

[00:48:57] done saving people you're going to have to deal with the store and you're going to be told how you should not have intervened that saving the fellow co-worker should have been left to the professional like the police and the EMS I actually have this problem in my

[00:49:11] current company we have people they're called safety officers and they're trained in first aid CPR they're trained to use the AED but they're also trained not to treat anybody they're trained to keep them still and wait for EMS so they put on a reflective vest

[00:49:29] bright green reflective vest they go to the victim and they just keep them calm and still until EMS gets there so there is no head to toe there's no alert in oriented times three if the victim is bleeding and there is a risk of bodily fluids

[00:49:45] safety officers literally they have to do this they have to go and put on a full blood-borne pathogen protection kit you know this is in the form of a plastic apron gloves and a face shield and to top it off the gloves are actually latex gloves so

[00:50:01] I mentioned that one time to the safety officers like hey dude you need to have latex free gloves because I might have a latex allergy I don't but I just said that and you know it's like latex free or nitrite or something I was

[00:50:13] basically told I don't need to worry about that that was none of my concern it will be a concern when you touch someone with latex gloves and they have an allergic reaction and then they end up suing you for touching them so again carry a Benadryl

[00:50:29] some of the other scenarios that might affect your work or tornadoes, earthquakes a burst water pipe flooding you know again do you know where the safe areas in your building are and they may not be the stairwell my building is kind of a wooden building and the stairwell

[00:50:43] might be the idea but it's probably not the best idea because it's all wood as I was saying earlier you know know your office know your office structure good lord I'm getting tongue tied tonight know where your lord bearing walls are know where your drywall

[00:51:01] is you know that kind of good thing alright last getting down to the end here another bad idea is train derailments that are carrying hazard chemicals you know there's been a lot of train derailments in the news lately and a lot of

[00:51:13] times these tanker cars are going to get damaged if there is a chemical emergency near you or in your building do you know how to deal with that do you know how to evacuate you know where to evacuate do you know how

[00:51:25] to stay upwind of the gas if there was a problem you know all these kind of things play play in so last thing play what if you know think of the worst thing yeah heck yeah flying Dutchman says do you have a metal fire escape

[00:51:41] do you have a fire escape and my grace always carry your keys because and my gray has got a great one because if you're in an office building and you're down on the third floor and all your stuff's up on the eighth floor and fire alarm goes off

[00:51:55] you're not going to be able to go back up to eight to get your stuff you're going to have to leave the building so yeah always carry your keys always carry some very very bottle things so that if you can't go back to your bag

[00:52:07] like you come into work you throw your bag underneath your desk and it stays there all during the day and the idea is if something goes crazy you grab your bag and get out well what if you're at lunch and can't go back and get your bag so

[00:52:17] there you go um so say in a minute go think of think of the worst that could happen so in your office building or where you work whether that be a truck or whatever uh think of what can go wrong and think of what can go wrong in

[00:52:33] adjacent buildings so it may not be your company what about a company near yours so what about if the company next door to you has an active shooter you know they have a spouse that goes nut so and brings in a um a fully automatic ak

[00:52:47] 47 with you know armor piercing tracer rounds or whatever and they start going nuts on an exterior wall and the bullets are going through that company's wall and coming into your company's wall you know those bullets may not stop at the walls another

[00:53:01] idea is again if you work a few miles down from a chem chemical plant what if that chemical plant has a spill the fumes coming off of that may not stop at the gate you need to broaden your thinking and think

[00:53:13] those you know think about those items in your edc or at least where you can get to them quickly so all right back to the chat so husband keeps blood type on his bag starting traveling traveling internationally had to swap out from the expedition bag yep

[00:53:31] um buy a plate from a baby girl school backpack yep uh we were talking about that earlier about putting a ballistic shield in the backpack now um carrier keys huh in my gray says that then one of the uh the navy yard shootings

[00:53:53] that people had to evacuate and they couldn't back get back into their office for a month um what if you work close to Memphis well do what that and of that give the get the backup bottle of scotch and grab the barbecue and have fun

[00:54:10] yeah i know getting to get into the end of it anybody else have anything to offer in the chat room we're gonna get here real quick here in just a second any other things we want to mention anybody in the chat room said hey i've got

[00:54:24] a eureka thing we've had someone look like they are scoping out the vehicle yeah okay that's a good one uh don't keep your stuff in your vehicle where people can see it don't make yourself you know a target so even though you've got your edc bag

[00:54:40] and you got your stuff in your vehicle maybe you need to cover it up so all the really really good things alrighty well as i always say if anybody has any questions or wants to correct me on something shoot me an email or hit me up on face

[00:54:52] i always welcome constructive criticism now tomorrow night wow man dave is jones in them for a cheap prep you need to join us tomorrow night dave is going to be prepping on a tight budget you know there's preps that almost anybody can do in a grid down

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[00:55:22] at 8 p.m. eastern 1 a.m. zulu that is dave and he's going to be jones in them up for the cheap preps so everybody loves cheap cheap prep i love harbor freight i love i love cheap stuff as someone says happy birthday jay furgy so furgy is

[00:55:38] apparently having a birthday uh-oh happy birthday jay furgy now it's tomorrow okay well happy birthday tomorrow good for you alright everybody well that's all i have tonight thanks everyone have a great evening have a great weekend don't forget us to join us again tomorrow night y'all

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