Matter of Facts: Things Everyone Should Know

[00:00:03] Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MWFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram.

[00:00:14] You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Rabbley and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic and here's your show. Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast.

[00:00:24] Andrew's not around. I had to get Gillian to pinch hit for him. Which kind of works out better for me because I get a much prettier co-host to look at while we have a conversation. You say that every time. Andrew's Andrew's a pretty boy. Andrew's not

[00:00:38] pretty and I don't think he's going to be upset about me saying he's not pretty. No, in fact, I think it's funny to say when we were on the camping trip we've told some people this

[00:00:49] and Andrew, I've told Andrew this, from behind the two of you look very similar. You both were hats. You have the same build. You both have beards although yours is longer,

[00:01:02] but from the back I can't really tell and there were a couple of times on the camping trip where I either reached to grab your hand or touch your butt or I turned around in the cave

[00:01:19] and thought it was you and it was Andrew and so there was a couple of times where I was like, oh, that's not my husband. I can grab his butt although I'm sure Andrew would have liked if

[00:01:28] I grabbed his butt. It would have made things a little awkward. Well it made it awkward for me because I was so convinced like just looking at the two of you walking next to each other I was

[00:01:39] like damn, I didn't realize how much alike you look from behind especially when you both have on your hats. So there was a couple of times actually there was a few times where I was

[00:01:50] like, oh that's not my husband's hand. Oh I probably shouldn't turn around and try to get into his arms. So probably because of that and because it's just fun to mess with you about it,

[00:02:04] he texted me like, I don't know, a couple of days after we got back and was like, hey dude where'd you get those plaid shirts you were wearing? No. Oh great. I sent him a link to them. He's going to mess with me at Prepper Camp.

[00:02:19] I see it coming. Well you know, I don't know. I'll have to be very diligent before I reach out to touch his butt. What if you just touched the beard first because that really does separate

[00:02:35] the two of us? Well I'm just going to have to tell you both just turn around. I mean you don't walk the same but I'm not as observant as I probably should be so especially when you're

[00:02:47] in a cave that was just a little weird. I was like oh you are not my husband. Anyway. Anyway. So this is a topic I've had kicking around for quite a while honestly and like Andrew and I,

[00:03:02] I don't know we always find our stuff to talk about but I thought this might be a good one because you know having been with me for 19 years and been married to me for quite a while,

[00:03:11] like one of the things that frustrates me to death is you, I'm sure you've heard me say like that should be common knowledge or that should be common sense. Like there's no reason I should

[00:03:22] have to tell somebody that. Everybody knows that and people continue to frustrate and surprise me with the things they don't know. So I thought this would be a topic you know like what things

[00:03:33] out there, I mean I guess you could couch this in the world of preparedness but so many of these things to me at least they feel like adult. You know like as an adult there are things you

[00:03:43] should know how to do and a lot of those things I find are things that typically today get referred to as prepping but to me it's like no if you're just a functional adult you should have been

[00:03:53] doing these things a long time ago and maybe in the course of talking about some of these items you could help me figure out like why people stop learning these things. Okay so what is

[00:04:03] your first item? Well like the honestly the first thing on my list is probably one of the most basic things to me it's like you and I have made a concerted effort to have enough food stacked up that

[00:04:15] if suddenly the grocery stores disappeared off the face of the earth we're going to be the last people probably within 20 miles to go hungry. You know what I'm saying like we always make a

[00:04:24] point of having extra food, we may not always have everything we need and that's something honestly I could probably get better about is keeping a better track of what specific items we

[00:04:35] have but it's not as if we're going to go hungry. Well first I think it's not fair to say that we're going to be the only people within 20 miles. I think there are a lot more people

[00:04:45] in this lifestyle around us than we know especially in South Louisiana. I hope so. I hope so too but I think you're dealing in absolutes again and I don't think that's fair. I do that I just think back to like Hurricane Ida the number of people that

[00:05:04] like the number of people we know. I don't think you can count New Orleans. Well no I was talking about the people who live around us that were like oh yeah I've got

[00:05:13] like two bottles of water and a couple bags of chips to get through Hurricane Ida or then the couple that we had to run a gallon of water to because they had no water at all

[00:05:22] when the water pressure dropped. Well I mean so after the Great Depression and then once America really started to get back up on its feet people forgot or they died out and

[00:05:35] they that we've really never had food shortages and we've never had to stand in line for a piece of bread and a bowl of soup and so what that's saying of hard times make strong men and easy

[00:05:51] times makes weak men well we've been living in a time an easy time for a very long time I would say at least in since World War II we've been living in an easy time and so people they don't know

[00:06:04] what it's like to not be able to go to the grocery store not be able to afford you know food or just the daily things that they need to help their family stay healthy and raise a family.

[00:06:17] I think right now in our economy I think a lot of people are feeling it a little bit they're feeling not being able to afford groceries or diapers or wipes or certainly not going on vacations

[00:06:35] you know they're feeling some of the strains of being in this recession but it will never well for them it will probably never get back to the Great Depression days and I mean it I'm not I'm

[00:06:49] not I'm not suggesting that it won't because I think that's always an outcome that can happen but in this day and time it's just it's not something that they will ever really experience

[00:07:04] you know they'll feel the pressure of it and I think some people and families that are lower income feel it especially if they don't have government assistance they feel it and or using are using government assistance correctly they will feel those pressures and it

[00:07:23] will be hard for them but I think that's why people don't feel like they need to have buckets of food and water storage and all of the you know backups to the buckets and backups to the backups and

[00:07:42] because one they don't believe it'll ever happen to them and two they just don't know what that's like and and they they don't have the common sense to well and they also trust the government is here to help and that the government would never let that happen again

[00:07:58] you know and so they don't see the necessity for that so it really is just a story of like times a plenty it's the grasshopper in the end it's absolutely times a plenty and even though it

[00:08:10] gets hard and there's pressure it's you know we go and we go and waves in this country it gets really hard at some you know for four years and then it lightens up for four years or it

[00:08:20] gets hard for eight years and then it lightens up for four years or eight years you know it all depends on who's in office and what and I understand that the president doesn't have

[00:08:30] you know it's probably I don't know I'm not really good at statistics or or math but I would say 20% the the the president has anything to do with true economics in this country you know it's who

[00:08:44] you're voting into congress and um you know all that stuff but I mean since you opened up that can of worms I will say that like with the economics and the finance background I have

[00:08:59] I believe that a majority of the the ebb and flow of the economy is really driven by speculators in stocks and futures markets but those same speculators are driven by current legal policy you know what I'm saying so like if the president comes out tomorrow and says

[00:09:18] I'm canceling the keystone pipeline that in and of itself does not affect the cost of oil but it does make speculators freak out and they drive up the cost of a barrel of oil so it's it's one of those

[00:09:31] things I've argued with people that say the president doesn't control the cost of gas and I'm like control no influence absolutely well yes of course influence and I guess that's really what I was

[00:09:40] trying to get at but same thing with the cost of a box of ammo like if or a gallon of milk yeah if the if the current if the current political leanings make it seem as though

[00:09:56] there might be incoming gun you know gun regulations then you can you best believe that the cost of guns and ammo are going to go through the ceiling and that's not because the president said make

[00:10:06] guns more expensive it's because the market reacts to the proceed the perceived leaning you know but not here nor there I was gonna start this episode off by saying that the presidential debate is going on right now and I cannot think of anything I would care

[00:10:22] right now I don't know if it's right now or not I I know it's this afternoon this evening I am not upset about not watching it I could not explain to you I couldn't explain to you in clean

[00:10:31] language how little I care about I only want to watch it for the entertainment aspect I really do I think it would be really entertaining to watch these two men one who is a vegetable and sadly so

[00:10:46] and then the other who I don't know how do you even describe Trump I use to call him a blowhard whatever that means I think it it if if Biden is not doped up or

[00:11:00] sped up if he's not given speed or whatever he's been given to to do these types of shows or if you even go into the tenfold hat of he has a doppelganger or somebody you know a body double

[00:11:17] that goes out and does these kinds of things going up against Trump who is well spoken and fast on his feet and has great comebacks and you know I'm not I'm not necessarily a supporter of

[00:11:31] either either men I do have my opinions on which one I would rather see in the White House but I do think that I'm either I'm either going to tune in and watch the the comedy hour or I'm

[00:11:47] going to just catch the reruns to me watching the presidential debate feels like watching a fist fight at an old folks home like and that's not that far off it's not far off considering

[00:11:59] who is running this country and not only is he a joke to the rest of the world joke to his own party well he I absolutely he's a joke to his own party um and I you know talking about common

[00:12:14] sense the blinders are on for so many people that still support this man I he he really should be be in a home somebody comes and gives him his food and medicine every day he should not be running a

[00:12:26] country we are a joke I mean America has been a joke to the rest of the world for quite a few decades now but um at least under Trump I can see we we could get back to some

[00:12:41] powerful ways you know I think we could probably reclaim some of the the the power that America had at one point but right now America is such a joke well I I would

[00:12:56] I would argue that our president is probably already in an old folks home and being given his ice cream medication on the basis and I don't believe he's running the country no no no no

[00:13:06] I don't believe he might be standing in front of the microphone yeah he's definitely the face but he is not no absolutely not and I don't believe that I'm sorry you got me down this

[00:13:16] this isn't the uniparty episode we could have talked about that where I just ran away about how you know the Republicans and the Democrats two sides of the same coin and that whole thing

[00:13:24] absolutely but okay so food water basic necessities yeah and and you know talking to me through the way you have it makes sense that like the Great Depression the dust bowl like that really

[00:13:39] probably was about the last time that people on a large scale faced hunger in this country like I'll be the first to acknowledge that there are still to this day people who are dealing with

[00:13:49] food security security issues even in this own country oh gotcha and the one thing you said in the course of that conversation talking about the people that are feeling it I think probably the one group that the one group that are feeling it that most people

[00:14:07] probably haven't thought about they're the people who haven't missed a meal yet but like we we know because I read a lot of the stuff and I've talked to you about the number of mortgage refinances that have been happening at double the interest rates the number of

[00:14:23] 401ks that have been looted the number of savings accounts that have been drained there's a substantial portion of the upper middle class in this country that is unable or unwilling one or the other

[00:14:37] to adjust their lifestyle for the current economic realities and they are they are burning sticks of their house to stay warm in the winter like they are they're they're taking out their equity they're cashing out their retirement they're doing everything possible to keep the vacations going and

[00:14:54] the disney land going and you know eating out five times a week they're doing everything possible to keep that going until the music stops and you and I you know like we work we're

[00:15:07] you're more plugged into it than I am but you're very plugged into like the local a lot of the local groups and everything and by the way for anybody that has a wife that loves to

[00:15:16] facebook snoop people encourage that that is the greatest source of local intelligence I've ever seen in my life it really is I mean I'm in two mom groups on facebook and you get all the

[00:15:29] tea I do I get all the tea I read all the posts I'm sure I don't read every post but you know from which husband is cheating on which wife to who stole $30,000 from one of the private school

[00:15:43] pta's and which you know and his and her her police officer husband who is also in the financial he's a financial investigator for the parish by the way that's going to go over well yeah and so

[00:15:58] yeah I get all the tea but it it also I also get a lot of the I see a lot of the sad stories of you know right now there's there's an effort on one of the mom groups to help this single mother

[00:16:13] four children I don't know what happened to the father of the children but she's working can't make ends meet kids are starving and so they've put together this whole resource to go drop off food clothes necessities necessities that this woman needs and so that's a good thing

[00:16:33] that comes out of these groups if you can filter out the ones that are real and the ones that are not just scamming people out of money because they don't want to get off the couch to go find a job

[00:16:43] or you know but well wait before you keep going um what I start when I start to bring things to you is when I start to see multiple posts in a week of things like that yeah this person

[00:16:58] wants to know about consolidating their debt this person wants to know about getting a third job as a teacher this person wants to know about you know legal fees that if they were to do this what

[00:17:10] what would happen and so when I start to see a lot of these women posting getting trying to get um information from you know opinions from other people in the community of have you been through

[00:17:22] this what is the best option who can I reach out to things like that that's when I start to worry and start to think you know it's we live in the the the wealthiest parish in the state

[00:17:35] why are these women having such a tough time is it because they didn't plan is it because they truly are in a situation where they don't make enough money um maybe they are on welfare or

[00:17:50] whatever or did they did they buy the $65,000 SUV and the $350,000 home and um they they already have $25,000 in credit card debt and they really just can't make it you know work because

[00:18:08] they've already gone out to eat three times this week or whatever you know those are those are the people I don't really have sympathy for because I live within my means even if that does mean I

[00:18:17] have $150 in my checking account for the last week before I get paid again I don't make a lot of money as a private school enrichment teacher but I also live within my means

[00:18:31] as best as I can but it's it's times like that when I start to see all these things start popping up on these these sites that I follow where I'm like mm something's not right here or

[00:18:41] something's going on hey hun what are you hearing on your side and is this something that we really need to buckle down for or you know maybe we should look at our preps again and maybe we

[00:18:52] should add six more buckets of this you know what do you what what's coming from your side that we could potentially feel yeah because I feel like it a lot of times I'm looking more at

[00:19:05] big picture national trends and you're more looking at what's happening in this neighborhood or in this this town or in this parish and when those two things correlate together all of a sudden

[00:19:16] it's like oh this is this isn't just 20 percent of the population this is our neighbors this is people that live close to us like this has come home now but the thing I was going and you

[00:19:28] you went towards it but I remember at one point and this is gonna lead in the next thing that I really wish people would do and you you said it outright when you said live within

[00:19:38] your means which I call living on a budget which budgets a four letter word to a lot of people but boy does it still a four letter word to me but you know it makes life a lot it makes life a

[00:19:49] lot simpler but anyway like I remember you talked to me about it was a one it was a woman who was on one of the groups husband made I don't matter how much it was it was six figures

[00:20:00] like it was easily double what I make yeah easy like and and I'll just remember being in shock going I'm going to read this to you remember what the number was I don't I remember this was

[00:20:12] months ago I I remember like evil the evil fill the little devil fill on my shoulder like spit on that guy's grave like you make that much money and you can't make it work

[00:20:24] they were losing their home yeah they were losing their home they they were they were behind on the mortgage mechs out on credit cards savings drain like it was and she I wanted it was

[00:20:34] financial apocalypse yeah the two of them made three times more than what we make I remember it being I know it's well over 200 thousand dollars if you add both of them together or maybe was 180

[00:20:50] I remember them I remember thinking these people make double triple what we make but they're going into foreclosure on their home they're losing their car and you know I know that

[00:21:02] she even put that they had credit card debt and I was like I am I just can't and so every comment was you don't you're you're living way outside of your means lady like it was like knock on

[00:21:15] knocking on their head going hello is anybody home like what what are you thinking and then no one really has sympathy for because no one in that in that group makes that much I'm

[00:21:29] gonna say a no one most I think most people in this town make six figures I know well I don't know the number anymore but anyway a lot of people make a lot of money here if anybody's curious

[00:21:44] just google like the meeting household income for man to build Louisiana let me know what you see yeah I can I can promise you it is probably at least 50% more than what we make because you're

[00:21:55] like you said your private school enrichment teacher I work in the public sector and neither one of us makes I make decent money yeah I mean you make good money I could make I could make

[00:22:05] more money quite frankly if I went to the private sector but like you and I've had that conversation before and it's always like yeah I can make more money and I could also put a

[00:22:14] match to my my work life balance and never be home with my wife and daughter like that was the life I lived in the private sector before I you know got laid off from that and came to work

[00:22:23] where I am now but I live to have a suitcase six months out of the year like I know people that do it it's just not what I want like I want I want more time with my wife and daughter

[00:22:33] than what my skill set in the private sector would afford me yeah it's what I mean at the end of the day it's like which would you rather more the money or your husband

[00:22:44] there's only one right answer for that babe the money of course but the earth that the thing you brought up was living within your means I call that budgeting like it it never ceased to amaze me

[00:22:58] and I'll be the first to admit because my dad does listen to his podcast and he's probably listening to this I was not the best student of his wisdom about budgeting when I was young

[00:23:09] you know like 18 19 20 but who who is but then by the time you and I got together and like really about the time that we were living on our own we were married we had our apartment together I had

[00:23:21] a year left in college by that point in my life in my mid 20s I was I would like to think fairly financially savvy like I I was I was like I wateringly frugal at that point in my life

[00:23:35] like I had to be well yeah I mean I really didn't make any money at that point I mean the only luxury I have was that my Mazda Miata you know I had a second vehicle that like I raced around and

[00:23:45] did hit some road rallies and stuff with but even that looked like it had been salvaged from a junkyard it was two different colors and I mean I had used parts on it I mean it was one of

[00:23:54] those things where it was like I went to work I went to school I paid the bursar's office and I paid the rent and that was it Phil did not spend money on stuff that didn't need money

[00:24:04] spent on it we went out to eat we went out once a week we went on a date and the only reason we did that regularly is because we only had one day off a week together like six days I wouldn't

[00:24:16] see you awake by the time by the time you would get home from work I was already in bed and by the time when I'd wake up you'd still be asleep and like we we passenger like ships in the night

[00:24:27] for the first year of our marriage but all that being said budgeting to me has always been the key to making your money work like you know it sounds really simple to say live within your means

[00:24:43] but when you sit down and you write down on paper every dollar that's coming in and you assign every one of those dollars something to do like you and all your buddies are

[00:24:53] going to go pay the rent you and all your buddies are going to be put aside for this bill you and all your buddies are put aside for groceries you make every single dollar go to something

[00:25:02] and then you make money go to savings because you have to and I feel like that's that's that that one line item is the one that a lot of people fall really short on and it gets them in

[00:25:11] trouble is they don't ever save money for the tire that blows up for the engine that goes out for the car that has to be replaced for the the $500 you got to squirt out because your kid

[00:25:23] breaks the arm you know like things happen and I've known people who when things happen they got to whoop out a credit card go into debt to cover it because they don't have six seven eight

[00:25:35] thousand dollars just sitting in savings count on standby I don't we do that we do but I don't well but your emergencies are my emergencies and it's also bears pointing out for the audience like you and I still to this day maintain separate accounts separate accounts somewhat separated

[00:25:56] finances I don't know like I wouldn't say some let me we do not have any joint accounts our checking account and savings accounts are not joined what I mean by separated finances is like it's not as

[00:26:09] if if you have a bill that can't be paid I just tell you get over yourself go sell yourself on the corner like we we've subdivided financial responsibilities because we both work and we

[00:26:23] keep separate accounts but if you if you ever get a pinch or I get into pinch the other ones right there to jump in you know I'm saying yeah so that's what I meant by like we haven't we have

[00:26:35] somewhat separated finances because your bills are my bills my bills are your bills but the primary responsibility for each bill goes to one or the other of us but we have always since our since since my college days since we've been living together we've always talked about

[00:26:56] having a budget living within that budget spending money that like if you want to spend money on something all I ever told you was because back back when you were when we first started this whole exercise I remember I know you're trying desperately not to make that chair

[00:27:12] squeak and it just squeaks it's a thing I just did it but I remember like your frustration and I think of the reason a lot of people resist the idea of budgeting your frustration was it felt like

[00:27:26] poverty to say well I can't spend money on that and then my reaction was but I'm not saying you can't spend money I'm just saying you got to write it down on the budget like if you

[00:27:35] want if you want to spend $20 a week or whatever it costs I don't know to go get your nails done you just put $20 in the $20 times four in the monthly budget and there's your nail money

[00:27:46] but now we know that money is going to get spent on doing your nails which means it can't go to this or this or this it's a very simple exercise and to me what I see is I see a lot of

[00:27:57] people who like three days before payday they're flat broke and they don't have money for milk or bread or I see people who are like 25 grand in credit card debt can't pay their house

[00:28:08] note you know it's I see people who very obviously did not go through this exercise years ago by the way of putting things into a budget and putting themselves into a good financial situation where

[00:28:22] they had some leeway in their budget you know I'm saying and now that the economy has gotten a little rough and things gotten a little tighter now they're host because they were already

[00:28:32] living on a knife edge making the minimum payments and the minute the cost of your car insurance or the minute your groceries or the minute any little thing goes up now you're in the negative

[00:28:41] yeah and I feel like that's where we're at I feel like that's where we're at and I tell everybody I'm like you know the time to live within your means isn't today it's six months ago or a year

[00:28:51] ago that's when you should have been doing all this because if you don't like the way we've run our budget the way like down to things like the house we purchased the cars we purchased

[00:29:01] the fact that we don't have credit cards that's all been done to live very comfortably within our means to where if the bills go up a little bit the bills go up a little bit we just eat out a

[00:29:13] little less often or if one of us loses our job yeah it hurts but it's not an immediate oh god we're going to lose our house emergency we just react to it yeah but I feel like a lot

[00:29:24] of these people they're one emergency away from losing everything because they've lived so close to the red line for so long absolutely I mean I think you're right I think again they've never they they always have a credit card to fall back on or they always have

[00:29:42] you know something to fall back on to where they don't feel the pressure until you know she's writing in a mom group saying I don't know what to do you know you know what I'm saying like they they just I don't know yeah I agree with you

[00:30:01] you've violated wife code yeah and it's recorded it's gonna be on the internet I know it's okay okay um do I reach for the low hanging fruit and say people have forgotten about their own duty

[00:30:19] to maintain their self-preservation which is a roundabout way of saying there's a lot of people that don't know how to defend themselves don't have to defend their parents so I was looking at

[00:30:31] I was looking at a list of things that we no longer teach to children that we should okay I guess this was just populated um maybe through AI or whatever but self-defense was

[00:30:42] actually on that list of how to how to defend yourself so um I yeah that thing again a lot of people live in a bubble it will never happen to me it's the same story that parents tell not my

[00:30:59] Johnny my Johnny would never do that a lot of people live in this own reality that they've created for themselves or for their family or whatever like they're untouchable that that those

[00:31:12] sorts of things will never happen to them and I am guilty of that you know I know of the the things that are out there that the harm that can come my way in fact I mean I'm going to New

[00:31:26] Orleans tomorrow and I'm scared to death and I've been anxious about it for the last two days and you know I but you know what I've done is I've mapped out my my way down there I know exactly

[00:31:40] where I'm going I know exactly which street I'm going into I know which neighborhood that I'm gonna go around I'm not gonna go straight through it and stupid me but also on the other you know

[00:31:53] the other hand good me I've looked at the crime rate map in that area to see what crimes have been committed within the last two weeks in that area within the last month in

[00:32:02] that area and I probably shouldn't have done that I also have reminded myself that it is just a car so if my car gets stolen it is just a car so I know you're shaking your head at me but

[00:32:17] it is one of those times especially with my anxiety that I wish you could just drop me off for this appointment and then I'll call you in the hour before I'm done with

[00:32:27] this appointment and then you just can come get me but I can't live like that I will have to do things on my own I have to go into scary places New Orleans is a very scary place for me I do not

[00:32:38] want to be in New Orleans it's gonna make me start to cry that's how anxious I am about this I am not anxious about sitting in a chair to get a tattoo for five hours I am anxious about driving

[00:32:49] to New Orleans to get my tattoo I am not scared of the needles and the pain that I will have I am scared about driving into New Orleans especially by myself this is one of those moments

[00:33:00] I really wish I'd be able to convince you to get your concealed carry permit I understand that and I know but you're my concealed carry permit can't you just drop me off at my appointment and then

[00:33:13] you go home and then I'll call you when we're an hour from being done and you can come get me right oh I know it doesn't work like that and I have to do this but I've taken I think every

[00:33:26] precaution that I can take like I said I have looked at my route I have looked at escape you know I've looked at which which roads are one way which roads once I you know I'm on this

[00:33:39] one-way street can I turn right or left when I get there because New Orleans I he the guy who who designed New Orleans was obviously obviously intoxicated on something that maybe was more than just alcohol but yes was maybe even completely out of his mind

[00:34:00] but I feel like I've done everything I can do I wish oh wait go ahead what are the two rules of vehicle security well you lock your door that's number one and then your

[00:34:16] your vehicle is a very very big weapon okay three rules of vehicle oh um you don't roll your window down you did it the other day when you parked I did it the other day when you parked

[00:34:30] it's at Piper's school behind somebody oh I gave myself on our room to get out yeah yeah um you so this whole tattoo saga my appointment has been canceled once before I've now waited

[00:34:45] nine weeks to get this tattoo um the first time I was supposed to go down there I was super anxious again and once again I had already mapped out everything and you told me something in

[00:35:00] bed that night and you said well you said you know remember that your vehicle is a weapon keep your doors locked and um don't roll down your windows for anyone which I know all that stuff

[00:35:11] but then you said if you cannot see the bottom of your tires you're too close the bottom of their tires in front of you you're too close to the vehicle and you will not be able to make an

[00:35:21] escape and boy did that stick with me because all week I have been practicing when I'm out I don't know if you've noticed but I have been practicing making sure that I can see the

[00:35:33] bottom of their tires in front of me to make sure that I can get out of a situation because I am um obviously not the best driver I've tried to kill myself twice in a car not intentionally

[00:35:49] um I do I come up too close to the back of a car when I'm at a red light and I obviously do not leave myself enough room to get out if I need to but I am making a very very concerted

[00:36:02] effort to make sure I can see the bottom of their tires so you can thank the department defense for that little tidbit yeah you told me that so well but for the audience Andrew and I

[00:36:12] we actually have one of our patrons who uh I believe our call correctly he was an 88 Mike a truck driver in our rag he needs to come on the show does he want to drive me to New Orleans I don't think so

[00:36:25] no to come on the show and talk about like you know how to maintain security in your vehicle and defensive driving and offensive driving things I would love that before two o'clock tomorrow one

[00:36:38] o'clock tomorrow it's going to be most of the same things I've already told you here is you just don't listen to me I do listen to you obviously I do listen to you I know I'm just very nervous

[00:36:48] about that you I think if you keep your head on the head on straight you'll be fine I'm sure I feel like um I have to mad max it when I go down in there like where's my cod piece

[00:37:01] is that what it's called yes cod piece Eddie Eddie's heart just skipped a beat when you said do I have to send a picture to the group now I'm joking no I'm not no he's just he's just

[00:37:16] he's gonna have to live with the mental image of his mom in a spike cod piece now no I do feel like you do have to be mad max down there it is kind of

[00:37:27] you know freaking craze it is kind of run by the the the what am I trying to say it's the prison is run by the inmates the inmates run by the asylum the asylum is run by the

[00:37:39] asylum is run by the inmates yes prison asylum it is an asylum um so I have to go I have to go down there unannounced and incognito I don't want them to see me but I drive a really pretty car which I'm

[00:37:55] sure is going to look really pretty to someone that wants it just don't leave anything that would attract somebody's attention and make them want to smash a window yeah I know but um

[00:38:07] um so self-defense I feel like it's a big one and I don't personally understand that personality because like I don't know like I have very clear memories of like somebody knocking on my parents

[00:38:20] door when I was a kid by the way back in Texas beating on the door in the middle of the night you know just idiot teenagers knocking on people's doors and running off being idiots

[00:38:30] and my dad marched up to that front door with a nine millimeter handgun like who the hell is beating on my door at one o'clock in the morning like I I remember I remember those lessons from my

[00:38:41] dad about firearms are only in this house to protect the family these are not things that we collect we don't play with these things these are tools for ending people's lives so that if somebody

[00:38:52] tries to hurt your family you end them and I've never been able to figure out the personality that says I have slightly more grace to give to the people who say it could never happen to me

[00:39:05] I think they're idiots but I can at least give them grace and say okay that's the nurse who ain't ignorant and stupid you you don't believe it'll happen and it probably won't so like statistically

[00:39:15] we live in one of the safest times of our lifetimes like the crime rate now compared to like the 80s is nothing so I'm willing to give most people the the buy and say you're probably not going

[00:39:28] to be involved in a violent situation in your lifetime but the ones that I really can't figure out are the ones that acknowledge there is violence in the world but they say I'm not willing

[00:39:39] to use violence to protect myself or protect my family like I saw a real go on Instagram the other day and I'm sure you probably saw it I was pulling my the little bit of hair I have left out

[00:39:50] but it was a bunch of mothers who were asked would you kill to protect your child yeah I've seen it over half of them said no they wouldn't they wouldn't use violence they wouldn't kill somebody

[00:40:01] that was trying to hurt their child and I just like I tilted my head like how does that work like you would rather sit there and watch your family be harmed than have to get your hands bloody

[00:40:14] and then I don't even have to ask you what you think would happen if somebody tried to hurt you were you or our daughter I would stick my fingers in their eye sockets like I mean you

[00:40:23] I would disassemble it I told my sister on the back porch today in regards to my mother screaming at our child the other day yeah I saw red we had to get out of that house I was going to

[00:40:34] knock her head off yeah and it will never happen again I guess I like said I don't understand the personality that says I'm not willing to use violence to protect my family or protect myself

[00:40:46] even like you know admittedly I have a very idealist way of looking at fatherhood husbandhood but I look at it as my life stopped being mine the day we got married I have a responsibility to

[00:40:59] stick around for you and you and our daughter I am a nice person very I am too sweet for your own damn good I am too sweet for my own damn good however I come from a long line of schizophrenic

[00:41:16] crazy ass women and if you push me far enough you will see the inherited crazy that is in my line oh this is going to be such a good one to keep it keep forever I've got you

[00:41:32] you admitted I was right and now you're admitting that you come from a family of crazy people I've just gotten really good at hidden and blocked away until I don't look at me like that

[00:41:44] I have kept the crazy hidden but I'm just you know this is just a warning to I I will kill a bitch I will I will do what it takes to keep my family safe had that

[00:41:59] had I been on whatever documentary or questionnaire whatever that was when they were asking those women if they would kill for their children I I probably would have shut the whole thing down by answering oh without question in a heartbeat without a doubt and I will sleep peacefully

[00:42:22] I'm telling you I I am from a long line of crazy women I just do a really good job of not letting it out most of the time hmm most of the time you haven't seen crazy

[00:42:38] keep it up buddy we'll see the inherited crazy oh but she only thinks she's seen all of my crazy I keep some head locked up way I keep saying to myself oh it obviously skipped me

[00:42:51] it skipped me but then we start talking about this and I'm like oh no there it is there you are there is my looking for you there is my happy little nutcase

[00:43:05] I knew you were in there so what else we've talked about you know I feel like food and water and self-protection and even budgeting are pretty low hanging fruit I think those are all

[00:43:19] duh you know but so go ahead well but to my point these all sound like adulting 101 things right yeah and yet there's people out there say well no that that that's prepping and I don't know

[00:43:32] what prepping has to do with keeping your family alive and fed and housed and clothed but you know we'll get into that to wrap up the show but I guess that was that was what I wanted

[00:43:44] like reminder by that I started down this topic because to me there's this huge Venn diagram that where prepping and air quotes and adulting 101 overlap and most people their Venn diagrams really really shallow like they don't they don't they see prepping is this weird thing

[00:44:04] the weird people do and I see it as if you're an adult you should be doing these things but yeah I mean but again we live in a time where what did you call it time of plenty

[00:44:17] yeah a time of planning okay so here's some of the things on this list of and again I googled things kids should know but are no longer taught here the look on your face already tells you

[00:44:29] I'm gonna be very upset yeah well get ready um hang on I for some reason okay the number one thing are you ready for this cooking no cooking people eat out who the hell doesn't know how to cook people don't know how to cook

[00:44:54] okay they don't they don't know how to listen to their ancestors when they cook like I do they know how to use freaking YouTube you can YouTube how to cook rice well anyway cooking is

[00:45:08] number one I think that is one thing that we do not teach our kids nowadays because fast food restaurants you know it's such a how many people do we know that do not cook at home

[00:45:22] because all they do is eat out how many kids at school eat out for dinner they probably skip lunch or get a pop tart in the morning and then mom or dad brings them fast food for lunch or packs them

[00:45:35] fast food for lunch or you know and then again they go out for dinner because they've got seven things on their to-do list to do after school and then it's too late to cook a good meal at home

[00:45:46] and so they just stop at McDonald's or they run into that restaurant for an hour and a half and then they don't have to do the dishes they can go home take it or bath and go to bed so cooking

[00:45:56] is number one and with with going out all the time comes all the extra sugar and the seed oils and the carbs I mean let's not even get into that cooking is that was the number one

[00:46:08] thing the second one I don't really agree with although I think eventually it will be used as a secret language it's cursive so I don't see how that's that would fit into prepping

[00:46:25] unless eventually maybe fifty hundred years from now you're trying to you know write a message to someone and these people don't know how to read cursive or write it the third thing which I think is

[00:46:39] super important first aid basic first aid now about it now going down that road I do need to get a little more serious about trying to get a little miss in that room to embrace like first aid

[00:46:58] although I don't know but like when it comes to her you know my my whole philosophy on preparedness it's always like meet a person where they are you know I'm saying like it does me no good to sit here

[00:47:10] and force you to learn how to use a turning kit if you just desperately don't want to be in the room it does me more good to kind of like seduce you with the knowledge they don't realize you're

[00:47:20] learning which is a lot of times when she gets a a bobo or whatever I'm talking her through what I'm looking at I'm talking her through what I'm looking for yeah I'm trying to I'm trying

[00:47:31] to explain to her like this is what I'm looking for so I know how bad you're hurt and that this is what I'm going to do to fix it and this is why I'm doing those things and I'm just hoping that I'm

[00:47:41] penetrating that beautiful thick little skull so that maybe so that maybe one day when she gets older she'll be like I know how to use band aids I know when to leave something exposed

[00:47:53] air and when not to I know when to do those things because dad taught me so to kind of run down this list a little bit more the next one was time management skills which I think they

[00:48:04] absolutely as a teacher I can attest kids do not know time management did um what there's a um I don't believe it's a recognized mental illness or oh I know what you're talking about time

[00:48:21] displacer or something like that it's people that say people that say that as a result of being neurodivergent which we've got to get at it come on raise the value some time to talk about

[00:48:32] that as a subject like neurodivergence but they try to insinuate that because they're neurodivergent that they have no ability to manage time they can't recognize time they need a job that doesn't mind if they're two hours late because like they just zoned out and didn't know what

[00:48:48] time it was and that drives me freaking bonkers like as a person who is prone to that by my own admission like you know I've got a calendar full of frigging alarms and I've got to-do list with

[00:49:03] alarms on them and I tell Piper all the time that's not there because like yes I'm very OCD but I am hyper organized because I forget things so my phone's always in my pocket and it's

[00:49:16] ringing constantly saying did you remember to do this did you remember to this did you edit the podcast today I have a reminder in my phone says do the podcast today yeah but anyway um critical thinking skills home maintenance um interpersonal communication learning from failure mechanics

[00:49:40] uh budgeting is on here thank god conflict resolution skills credit and how to manage credit budgeting yeah um again creative not creative effective communication skills home economics absolutely home economics oh sir home economics is not taught anymore it's supposed to be taught in

[00:50:06] the home sir listen listen listen listen it is not taught in the home not much is taught in the home but everything you're describing right now makes me so freaking aggravated because like I learned

[00:50:21] all this stuff from my parents like my dad taught me how to work on stuff around the house and how to work in how to work on cars and mechanics work and very very basic electronics like I was

[00:50:33] never an electronic scuba but dad's like your dad and you but my mom too my dad well taught me how to cook so parents like ours that did teach us those things are unicorns in today's world parents don't

[00:50:48] I'm and I'm not saying every parent I I'm not I'm a majority of parents do not teach their children these things they don't teach them coping skills they don't teach them how to

[00:51:01] negotiate they don't teach them how to negotiate with the salesman when they go to buy their first house or their both their first car I brought you I I didn't even bring my dad I didn't have my dad

[00:51:12] to do that and so you came with me to buy my first car and you came with me to buy the house you know and and to buy your second car well and to buy my second car I mean so yeah these

[00:51:24] skills are not being taught at home and they're not being taught in school anymore because those aren't getting the test scores we're not testing children on home ec we're not testing kids on how

[00:51:37] they can negotiate with each other or how they can communicate effectively or do they have good conflict resolution skills and budgeting skills when we're not teaching them those things because those aren't testable and that doesn't bring in money from the state so no school is not

[00:51:54] reaching it parents are either too busy or don't care to teach it to their children or or they weren't taught it themselves so they don't know what to teach them I've blown his mind no well

[00:52:11] so a couple of things first of all there were there were two more that I didn't say oh um relationship skills how to be in a relationship they're not I saw a lot of do that um sir you

[00:52:24] do a lot better than most people and we're teaching our daughter how to be in a relationship by making sure that our relationship with each other is kosher and we're we focus on ourselves and we

[00:52:37] focus on our marriage and we focus on each other and we we're not selfish and so we're not sitting her down going now piper this is how you do this in a relationship and this is how

[00:52:47] you do that in a relationship we're giving her the example to live by the example to we're giving her all of these things just by showing her our relationship and so in it statistically and scientifically and whatever ickly that you want cally-cally cally that you want to say

[00:53:14] it sticks with the child I grew up saying to myself by looking at my parents going this is not the relationship I want with my husband I will not be that wife I do not want that in a husband

[00:53:28] I you know okay I do want this part of their marriage but I do not want this and so when you're raised in an atmosphere that is like the one that I grew up in you're very quick to

[00:53:42] to point out to yourselves and make lists to yourself of knowing this isn't right people who love each other aren't supposed to treat each other like this people who love each each other don't do these

[00:53:55] sorts of things people who love their children don't do these sorts of things to their children you know and so those were all things on my list with you know if you want to think of it like

[00:54:07] an a point with the roman numerals under it you know marriage loving your spouse and then you had all these bullet points underneath it sorry I'm going off on a tangent um I saw those things

[00:54:21] and as I grew up and started to to get into more serious relationships and once I found you and realized that we were going to be more than just a boyfriend and a girlfriend or you know whatever

[00:54:35] that list stayed populated in my head and I was checking them off does he do this does he do that okay if I do this how's he gonna react to that is he abusive is he emotionally abusive is he

[00:54:48] physically abusive what are we gonna do if this happens and how will he react to that and so trust me when I tell you you checked off the list that I had that was built by my parents

[00:55:01] so where was looks good in the uniform oh that was the very first one okay I knew it was on there see she she talks a lot about lists now but I'm pretty sure that the um the tan skin and the

[00:55:17] muscles what won her over I mean 21 year old gillian was very smitten 21 year old gillian really like that picture hanging on your friend's refrigerator and then I didn't know that I mean

[00:55:32] hell six months into our relationship I tried to get you to leave me I didn't want to break up with you but I wanted you to break up with me because did you realize how stubborn I was

[00:55:42] well I think I was really scared that you were checking off all the boxes I really think that that's what it was you were really starting to fit this this thing that I had created and you

[00:55:54] checked all the boxes on my list of things I wanted and didn't want in a boyfriend or a fiance and a husband and yeah I freaking got scared I was like oh god this could really get serious

[00:56:05] and here we are 19 years later you never left me see the funny part of it is that I like and I know I know you and I've talked about it maybe not exactly this language but like to

[00:56:15] me you were never auditioning to be my girlfriend you were auditioning to be the mother of my children whether you realize that well I didn't realize that at the time and I didn't realize

[00:56:23] that I was also putting you through that audition as well but anyway so anyway our children look at the relationships that are around them and the relationships at their end whether that's parent child sibling to sibling whatever they're they look at those things and

[00:56:41] any rational human being will say I like this I don't like this I'm comfortable with this I'm uncomfortable with this and hopefully hopefully if they're strong enough they will learn how to

[00:56:56] take the things that they do want and learn how to deal with the things that they don't necessarily want but it's not posing a threat to them because there are things about you that

[00:57:07] I just drives me nuts but do I do I want to get rid of you because of those things absolutely not name one thing no I'm perfect you're perfect in every way perfect in every way oh god

[00:57:21] what what I'm curious now no and the audience is right here they're probably curious I just motion at the microphone when I said the audience yeah I know so anyway relationships and relationship skills and yeah I why do you think the divorce rate is as high as

[00:57:38] it is I think that's social engineering personally but well true I mean again easy times you don't like who you're married to get a divorce you don't like what your husband does get a divorce

[00:57:50] you don't like what your wife does get a divorce there is no well put in the work to make it better there is it's it's lazy and I think a lot of the things that we talked about boils down to

[00:58:02] people are just lazy they're lazy they don't want to put in the effort to put food away to take care of their parent their parent their children or their families they don't want to put in the

[00:58:16] effort to cook a meal at night or go grocery shopping to cook they don't want to put in the effort to to build a budget and then the effort to live by the budget they don't want to have to do

[00:58:26] that they're lazy things have been handed to them their whole life maybe they haven't had to work for anything maybe they haven't had to have something go on in their life where all hell broke loose

[00:58:37] and you've hit rock bottom and you've had to claw yourself back up to the top you know that was actually so this is gillian rant that was actually something I was going

[00:58:45] to point out though like the one group people that I see that take a lot more of this to heart honestly are I would say like lower middle class less than even the poor people who do struggle every day

[00:58:58] who do have to pinch pennies they do well I mean you know there's a group of people out there that they live five set like five dollars away from bankruptcy every day and it's been my

[00:59:11] observation that a lot of those people like they know how to get by they know how to freaking cut corners they know how to make a dollar stretch because they have no choice I mean I don't think

[00:59:22] she would mind me talking about this but look at Jordan she had boxes that had to be checked off and one of those boxes was I will not live like I grew up where we did not have food to eat

[00:59:36] and so she prepped and she takes care of her children because she knows that she has food in there she has a garden she has this she has that she decided going through her really tough upbringing

[00:59:50] that she was not going to live like that and she wasn't going to provide a family for her family like that her children like that so I guess I just find that kind of disheartening that like

[01:00:01] most of the people I would suspect a good portion of our audience and a lot of people you and I know that are in this lifestyle they were brought to this lifestyle I don't find so much

[01:00:11] anymore by people who like they grew up like this it's some kind of an emergency or some kind of a bad time that brought them to this you know I'm saying like for our friend it was she grew up

[01:00:21] in abject poverty that that was her apocalypse moment that brought her to this for me it was it was it was a combat tour and then Hurricane Katrina you know watching a city eat itself

[01:00:33] and I don't know I feel like you've had a couple since we've been together I mean Hurricane Ida was probably the most recent oh this is why we do all this kind of moments but I don't know I don't

[01:00:46] disagree with it I think laziness does spawn a lot of these these shortcomings these these basic life skills I feel like most people should know but for some reason they don't

[01:00:57] and I do feel like it's caused by a time of relative peace and prosperity a time of plenty I do feel like it's probably one us a lot of probably create a lot of laziness in its wake

[01:01:09] I mean the old adage of the four seasons is playing out now that good times make weak men weak men make hard times hard times make strong men strong men make good times we're at the

[01:01:23] weak men make bat make hard times point yeah and I feel like we're really starting as like within the preparedness community I'm finding more and more through talking to people like people that are in our mindset like they they feel the pinch they look around they can see

[01:01:40] the money again that doesn't go as far inflation through the ceiling but they're still making it because these are people who've always said like I'm gonna live with them I means I'm

[01:01:50] gonna have money and savings I'm gonna prep for tomorrow they've always been like that and so when the economy gets a little out of whack or the grocery bill goes up they're like okay well I just

[01:02:00] readjust things you know like this is the reason we do these things is that when when it's hard times we're ready for them and we just roll with the punches I think that's our generation I had

[01:02:11] I think there's a there's a sort of thing going on in social media right now it's mostly I think a joke and maybe it's kind of an internal self deprecating maybe well it's not self

[01:02:24] self deprecating but we're kind of laughing at ourselves that we're doing this but as millennials in older generation millennials or younger gen x yeah gen x gen xers yeah but we're millennials

[01:02:37] and the joke is that you know we're we're all in our 40s now or the older ones are in our 40s now and we've we're we're skipping the midlife crisis and going straight to

[01:02:49] grinding our garden you know like we're we're not partying until you know one o'clock two o'clock in the at night anymore but we are getting up at seven o'clock to check on our tomatoes

[01:03:00] you know what I'm saying like that hits a little too close to home seeing how we're growing potatoes and chives in the backyard I know so it and and we're so proud of them they're

[01:03:09] like our children and I think that's that I'm hopeful that our generation will kind of turn course for this country we'll kind of go back to those old ways of knowing that no you can't

[01:03:22] trust the government I think we've been given plenty of examples in our lifetime that you cannot trust the government weekly oh well yeah but I think I think for the most part we paid attention

[01:03:33] which um and we a lot of people probably won't admit this but we all have ten full hats you know and I think we I would like to hope that our generation has woken up to the BS of this

[01:03:47] country I would like to think that maybe I'm just in a small sect on Instagram of you know watching these other millennials tend to their gardens in mu-mu's and grounding and

[01:04:01] spiritualism and you know you are a big old hippie aren't you I'm not a hippie actually I'm a witch but at least you shave so you know but I mean but that's what we're seeing we're seeing I think

[01:04:16] that's what I anyway I would like to think that that's what we're seeing is that our generation is kind of turning the tide of we're not going to raise our children like this anymore and

[01:04:26] we're not going to keep them in public school anymore because we do realize that it is such a mind trip mind control entity of you know branch of the government so we're pulling our children out

[01:04:41] in groves to put them in private and homeschool groups well but the other thing go ahead go ahead the other thing I'm seeing and I hope this isn't just us and a small group

[01:04:52] people because like we see this a lot with the group we just went camping with a few weeks ago we're teaching our child the things we think will put her in a good position in it as an adult we're

[01:05:03] teaching her how to cook we're teaching her the basics of how to run a stitch we're teaching her the basics yeah and that's what these people are doing like these people who have these

[01:05:12] Instagram accounts and I couldn't even tell you it's more than a handful it's more than a dozen it's it's more than that it's that's what these people are doing they are they are teaching them things that are no longer taught

[01:05:29] at school homec running a stitch that's how I learned to sew was in homec class in high school I learned in the army well and they might still be teaching that in the army but

[01:05:40] they're not teaching it in homec class because homec is not there anymore they're not teaching it in automotive class anymore or what is that shop they don't have shop class anymore

[01:05:50] industrial tech yeah they just don't have those things and I could put on my tinfoil hat for a second and say that that's on purpose why would we want to give our children why would we want

[01:06:02] to teach them those things that could eventually make them smart or take care of themselves and not have to rely on the government but see this is what I was going to say earlier and

[01:06:13] then we got I got distracted I actually am pretty emotionally at peace with school not teaching any of those things like I don't I don't care if the school teaches my kid first aid I'm going to teach

[01:06:25] her first aid yeah I don't care you are but again and so like I am an enormous personal accountability person I understand that some people's parents suck but in order to guard

[01:06:43] my own mental health I had to decide a long time ago I cannot be responsible for every other parent f-ups I can't I have to be responsible for my kid and if another parent doesn't do right by their

[01:06:58] kids I can't allow that into my I can't allow that to take my my peace and happiness because it does frustrate me well it's one more thing that we have to teach our child is how to

[01:07:11] deal with people eventually that weren't taught these things so where the right hook comes in place yeah right but in all but in all honesty like you know I I will happily take it upon myself to

[01:07:26] teach my child all those things she and I have had very constructive conversations that God I hope she takes to heart one day about like her natural rights not even constitutional rights her natural

[01:07:38] rights as a human being like no one has the right to do this to you because you're a you're a person and you have a right to have control over your own body you have a right to speak freely without you

[01:07:50] know facing violence or harm from it you have a right to these things and if anybody tries to take you these things from you you fight them tooth and nail period so like those are things

[01:08:01] that I've tried to talk to her because I want her to grow up with a sense of you know like I am in control of myself I have I have these rights that cannot be taken from me

[01:08:13] I never want my child to grow up in a world where someone else can take away her agency because of perceived authority you know I'm saying like look there have been times she and

[01:08:25] I've talked and I've maybe gone a little over the edge but I've told her flat out I'm like you know these are the things I believe as like a libertarian or an anarcho-libertarian like

[01:08:38] you know just because somebody wears a uniform doesn't mean they have the right to to harm you without cause doesn't mean they have the right to do these things to you like you have a right

[01:08:47] to yourself you have a right to protect yourself but I just feel like we live in a world where so many parents are too too self-centered and too lazy and probably to just caught up in their own nonsense

[01:09:06] to recognize that they have that duty to teach their children these things and like you point out earlier they probably weren't taught by their parents so now it's become a generational knowledge gap this is where we start breaking generational

[01:09:20] curses well I feel like building new generational strong suits I hope you want to call it I hope so and I mean I hope the audience got something out of this conversation like this is

[01:09:32] this has been something that frustrates me fairly regularly when I just look because like and you live with me God bless your soul but like you've watched me go through this where somebody does something and I'm like how do people not know how to do that like you've

[01:09:47] done that at least 10 times today on the show what how do people you looked at me like I was crazy like how did people not know how to do that cooking budgeting okay but like so the whole

[01:10:03] budgeting thing I understand how most people suck at that because I understand that like my my background in economics and finance kind of gives me a leg up in that arena but when people when you talk about how people don't know how to cook

[01:10:19] I mean we have cell phones now it's they're hooked up to the internet there is more knowledge sitting in your pocket than all of the libraries of the world had a thousand years ago

[01:10:30] so when when you tell me people don't know how to cook like you can't go on youtube and google or google how to boil rice just because I can't even compute that like how does that work

[01:10:40] because just because someone can read instructions and try to do it doesn't mean that they can do it I can't bake that's wait time out you can't you can't bake because because you have difficulty following precise instructions

[01:11:00] okay okay yes that's true that's why I cook savory food because I can listen to my ancestors tell me when to stop putting in the so so there they're but but here's the thing yeah

[01:11:13] but the thing of it is you know how to cook baking okay comparing baking to cooking is like comparing algebra to geometry it's all math but it's different you know what I'm saying or not not out yeah algebra and geometry or algebra and trigonometry like

[01:11:32] it's all math but it's very different but quite frankly I mean you can bake you I'm just a lot better at than you are but then again you out you savory cook 10 times better than I do because I want I want

[01:11:45] a recipe with precise instructions and none of your recipes include those yeah it's always funny to me when you're you're like hey babe you're gonna have to write this recipe down so I can make

[01:11:54] it for you one day and it's like I don't I know I don't know what I put in here look the look she gave me when I was measuring out salt to put in something you would have thought I I drug her grandmother

[01:12:08] up out of her grave and slapped her in front of her I mean it was like what are you doing and I was like measuring the salt why because in baking you have to make it I know but I'm a baker so I

[01:12:29] mean I guess we'll start wrapping this up like I your list annoys me it's not my list of the list Google's list well Google's list annoys me terribly because like everything almost everything on that list is just an internet search away like the stuff isn't

[01:12:52] difficult again lazy okay so we may best just rename this people are lazy and the apocalypse is going to suck a lot worse for some of us and others sounds like an appropriate name yeah I

[01:13:06] think I'll need to shorten it but yeah I'll figure out a name while I'm editing but do you have anything else say the audience before we kick this one out the door

[01:13:18] no I've had two gillian rants gillian rants that could be a new hashtag gilly rants gilly rants gilly that sounds like a problem you need an antibiotic for a gilly rant gill well gilly

[01:13:31] rants and fill rants they kind of go hand in hand now apparently I only have them when I'm on your podcast so have you ever had a gilly rant on raising values I think I have once and it was

[01:13:42] towards you because I couldn't I didn't like what you said about something I don't remember now but was I right when I said it depends on who you're asking if you were asking me which one of your

[01:13:55] two personalities would I ask long line of schizophrenia remember boys the hot crazy matrix all women started a four no I don't have anything else to say um I'm good all right well thank you

[01:14:18] for filling for Andrew we can call him a lazy slacker and bully him in coming on next week but he's not lazy he's got a lot going on in his life up there in Michigan well he was having a whole

[01:14:29] lot of fun camping and fishing this past week which sent us videos of his um what did Kyle call it his sweet tea waterfall I'm jealous I was too it was a beautiful waterfall I hope he's having fun

[01:14:41] camping I'm sure he is but matter of fact podcast going out the door see you're buying in a week bye everybody bye