Meshtastic: The Ultimate off Grid Communication

[00:00:09] Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson.

[00:00:16] Blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive.

[00:00:25] And now here's your host Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson.

[00:00:30] Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast.

[00:00:38] This is episode number 468, season 16, episode 3.

[00:00:45] For those of you that are in the live chat, you know that Chen's back. Hey Chen, what's up?

[00:00:51] Hey, I'm revising my arc plans.

[00:00:55] I was looking up Noah's notes because who would have thought that it was going to flood in western North Carolina?

[00:01:03] All right.

[00:01:05] I'm leaving the coastal town of Charleston or the mountain of North Carolina and I'm good to go.

[00:01:13] Guess what?

[00:01:14] I'm finally on the show.

[00:01:15] Finally.

[00:01:16] That's it.

[00:01:17] Yeah.

[00:01:18] Remember those tsunami blow up houses we were looking at?

[00:01:26] Probably not the worst idea right about now.

[00:01:30] You know, like hung up on all the trees that I just haven't, you know, it's like, well, just don't walk under that and we're good for now.

[00:01:36] Fair.

[00:01:37] It's crazy.

[00:01:38] It was, I mean, and I'm blessed because I'm lucky.

[00:01:42] There's, there's some, there's some definitely towns way off the map up here.

[00:01:47] Right.

[00:01:47] It's crazy.

[00:01:48] Yeah.

[00:01:49] I was so happy to hear that everybody from our community did okay for the most part, you know, that's just a blessing right there.

[00:01:58] And, you know, Orchard Lake, my gosh, two trees down on the whole property.

[00:02:04] Insane.

[00:02:04] They were like, I went back about a week after camp because I left, I left my camper there.

[00:02:11] Yeah.

[00:02:12] We had a tow vehicle there to help bring supplies for prepper camp, like set up stuff and a whole, you know, so I had two trailers, a pickup truck.

[00:02:20] We just left behind and it popped in the SUV and drove home.

[00:02:25] So that thought crossed our mind for a second as well, leaving the trailer and we're like, no, we just can't do it.

[00:02:31] I love Orchard Lake Lake.

[00:02:33] They are the best.

[00:02:35] Yeah.

[00:02:35] They super, they work with me on, you know, although I think they're, they're swindling me out of doing a class on Mesh Tastic up there.

[00:02:44] So.

[00:02:45] Ah, there you go.

[00:02:46] Yep.

[00:02:47] We got to do a little payback.

[00:02:49] They got paid a piper, right?

[00:02:50] But they were.

[00:02:52] So finally, two weeks after I finally got the roads clear enough on my end by my house to actually go back and get retrieve everything.

[00:03:00] So it was crazy.

[00:03:02] Hey, I, I, I, I've never seen a devastation like that.

[00:03:07] And like I said, we were lucky because some people were just like, they don't even have land to build on because the land got washed away.

[00:03:14] Right.

[00:03:14] It's crazy.

[00:03:17] Yeah.

[00:03:17] Yeah.

[00:03:18] That's what, uh, that's the incredible thing, you know, so much like the map is different.

[00:03:26] So.

[00:03:26] It's, you know, it's North Carolina, I guess parts of Georgia, Tennessee.

[00:03:31] I mean, it's just, it's not just like one river that did it.

[00:03:35] It's like huge spots of the whole, this whole region.

[00:03:38] Right.

[00:03:40] Yeah.

[00:03:41] Yeah.

[00:03:41] Yeah.

[00:03:41] The river's completely changed.

[00:03:43] Um, the, and then just the amount of landslides and stuff.

[00:03:46] And when we were driving out seeing, you know, people, half their house is gone and they're

[00:03:51] just standing there, you know, like a deer in the headlights.

[00:03:53] And I mean, what are you going to do?

[00:03:56] We only had half a tank of gas.

[00:03:58] We had to get out of there, you know?

[00:03:59] Yeah.

[00:04:00] So yeah, that was, um, that was a little, uh, extreme.

[00:04:05] I definitely, you know, our thought process was it's going to break in Georgia and never

[00:04:10] comes up in the mountains.

[00:04:11] Yeah.

[00:04:12] Exactly.

[00:04:14] And ironically enough, I get, I get this strange notification when I'm watching YouTube

[00:04:20] today that, uh, a new documentary coming out on how, um, the Appalachians are going to be

[00:04:28] the new power center of the United States, the energy revival for the United States.

[00:04:34] Because I literally, literally went two weeks without power at my house because of, well,

[00:04:41] I just find a little ironic.

[00:04:42] It gets wiped off the face of the earth.

[00:04:44] And then, you know, they're talking about already a documentary about the towns left

[00:04:50] behind, how we're going to like re, you know, reinvigorate them.

[00:04:55] I mean, it's going to change the landscape changed for sure.

[00:05:00] Yeah.

[00:05:01] Yeah.

[00:05:01] Crazy stuff.

[00:05:02] Crazy.

[00:05:04] Yeah.

[00:05:05] No fun, man.

[00:05:06] Thing is how people banded together to solve problems.

[00:05:10] And if you were waiting on the government, you might as well just give it up.

[00:05:15] Right.

[00:05:15] Isn't that what we always say on the podcast?

[00:05:17] There aren't good people in some of these rescue agencies and stuff, but the more, the

[00:05:23] most, uh, support that I saw were just common folk and like church groups and, you know, private

[00:05:31] like veterans and stuff that knew their skill sets, you know, when they were enlisted that

[00:05:38] just pulled together.

[00:05:39] And I was watching a video on, um, uh, a group of guys that, uh, uh, green beret guys

[00:05:48] that were, um, got access to a private airport, like some guy that owned his little airport,

[00:05:53] like one hanger and one strip and, you know, just a little airport up here in the mountains.

[00:05:59] And so they banded together and they were running a hundred flights a day out of that

[00:06:03] little air to support, you know, and then they branched out from there to support.

[00:06:08] And they're not going to support the local community.

[00:06:10] It's amazing what people could do when they, when they use their talents and their skills.

[00:06:15] Yes.

[00:06:16] And like I say, we've done so many shows on, you know, when disaster strikes, people

[00:06:22] are not even worried about you on your house, but they're worried about is they've got to

[00:06:26] get power back on, even if they were doing their job correctly.

[00:06:31] They're worried about big infrastructure items.

[00:06:37] Continuity, government and infrastructure stuff.

[00:06:41] Not, um, you know, I I'm cold.

[00:06:44] Yeah.

[00:06:44] You're stuck in the mountains and you don't have nothing.

[00:06:47] We're not really even worried about that yet.

[00:06:49] Yeah.

[00:06:50] So, you know, it's a prime example of, uh, you got to tighten up your bootstraps, not

[00:06:57] any kind of better people to be put to that test.

[00:07:00] I mean, I, I pray for everybody over there, but I know those people and they're good hearted

[00:07:06] people.

[00:07:07] And, um, you know, like if this would have happened in California or something, you know, it would,

[00:07:13] it would have been rather amusing.

[00:07:16] The other takeaway is you could plan to your heart's content and you can have, you know,

[00:07:25] two is one and three is better.

[00:07:26] That whole mentality.

[00:07:28] Yeah.

[00:07:29] But when that wall water came and washed away like storage buildings, like, you know,

[00:07:33] if you had stuff stored away at storage buildings or those rent rental places, all this

[00:07:37] stuff washed away.

[00:07:39] Gone.

[00:07:40] Yeah.

[00:07:41] Yeah.

[00:07:41] Yeah.

[00:07:42] So, uh, you gotta have some good skills and you gotta have a good head on your shoulders

[00:07:47] to, to be able to deal with situations when they come your way, because you might not

[00:07:51] have, you might have a hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment still up, but then if it

[00:07:58] ain't there after the, uh, after the event, you still have to have a good head on your shoulders

[00:08:02] to figure it out.

[00:08:04] That's so true.

[00:08:05] Always skills and, uh, your, your mindset over stuff.

[00:08:11] Right.

[00:08:12] I mean, I know people that had a rental building full of stuff and that got eight foot of water.

[00:08:21] Yeah.

[00:08:22] Yeah.

[00:08:22] What are you going to do then?

[00:08:24] It was a ceiling and, uh, they took out those plastic totes and the totes were full

[00:08:29] of water because it had gone up so high.

[00:08:31] Yeah.

[00:08:32] You know.

[00:08:32] They were just submerged.

[00:08:33] Right.

[00:08:34] Wow.

[00:08:35] That's, that's really.

[00:08:36] Yeah.

[00:08:37] It was like the water was like 20 feet above the road.

[00:08:40] Right.

[00:08:41] Yeah.

[00:08:42] I heard the story about a third, a third floor apartment.

[00:08:45] Yeah.

[00:08:46] It blew my mind to driving.

[00:08:48] And the, the creek bed is another 10 foot below us probably.

[00:08:53] And you look at a mud line across like a solid mud line across the trees.

[00:08:57] Not like, not like a little, Oh, that might be where the water line was.

[00:09:01] It was like tan up to a point.

[00:09:04] And then it was green beyond that point.

[00:09:06] Right.

[00:09:07] So you knew where the mud line was and the high water mark had been 20 feet above the

[00:09:12] foot, the, the road line.

[00:09:13] That is just in full.

[00:09:15] I think it was flipped over.

[00:09:17] Yeah.

[00:09:18] Yeah.

[00:09:19] We've seen piles of them coming out of there.

[00:09:21] And I was just like, Oh my gosh, I was just praying for you guys.

[00:09:25] And I'll open that your guys's houses, you know, and everything.

[00:09:30] We're, we're about to really, I'm on a mountain, you know, but hilltop mountain top.

[00:09:36] But some of that, the landslides just took them right down too.

[00:09:40] Well, that was one good thing.

[00:09:42] Building our house.

[00:09:43] We had a lot of problems with, um, there's like, uh, grand stuff underneath the, not too

[00:09:49] far underneath the dirt.

[00:09:50] Right.

[00:09:51] So I would have never been able to put a basement in.

[00:09:53] Yeah.

[00:09:54] Yeah.

[00:09:55] Yeah.

[00:09:55] There was a lot of stuff.

[00:09:56] So the wash away now I could have had a problem, get to the, to the house, but the house itself

[00:10:01] is built on a rock.

[00:10:03] Good.

[00:10:03] Not right.

[00:10:04] And that's how the, the saying goes.

[00:10:07] Yeah.

[00:10:08] Yeah.

[00:10:08] Build it on the rock.

[00:10:09] Yeah.

[00:10:10] Yep.

[00:10:12] Yeah.

[00:10:12] Our house in Cali was that way.

[00:10:14] So, well, that's a good thing.

[00:10:15] Cause I saw a lot of dirt moving that really, really freaked me out.

[00:10:20] So, uh, that's just never a good thing.

[00:10:24] Well, we're happy to have you back.

[00:10:26] Happy that our prayers were answered.

[00:10:28] You guys are okay.

[00:10:29] And yeah.

[00:10:30] Although some good shows.

[00:10:32] That was a great show with Doug.

[00:10:35] Yeah.

[00:10:35] And, uh, holy smokes.

[00:10:37] He brought it.

[00:10:38] Yeah.

[00:10:38] Yeah, he did.

[00:10:39] Like we laid it out.

[00:10:41] I told him like, I don't know what November's bringing.

[00:10:43] So I don't care how long the show is.

[00:10:46] We are going through the show and we are going to just lay it out for everybody.

[00:10:51] Um, I was working, but, uh, it was great show.

[00:10:55] Right.

[00:10:56] He's actually getting ready to, I know it just went to the editor today.

[00:11:01] He's putting out a new book.

[00:11:04] Um, that's going to be amazing.

[00:11:07] Um, hold on.

[00:11:08] I'll get the name for you.

[00:11:10] It's going to be the program.

[00:11:13] Yeah.

[00:11:13] And so you can just imagine, um, it's going to be really, really good.

[00:11:17] I've seen a lot of sneak peeks already and, uh, I'm pretty excited.

[00:11:22] It's probably one I'm going to actually pick up and read.

[00:11:24] So, um, yeah.

[00:11:28] So we got big, big projects going on everywhere.

[00:11:31] Um, I'm, I'm working on some stuff that I'm not going to divulge yet, but I just finished

[00:11:37] putting together the audio for episode 12 of season four.

[00:11:42] So that means the next block is ready to roll.

[00:11:46] Um, we're going to do a family feud game and the bin show on November 3rd.

[00:11:53] So you'll have that night off too.

[00:11:55] Um, we're going to do team TJ versus, uh, team Burgess.

[00:12:00] So.

[00:12:00] Before election night.

[00:12:02] Yeah.

[00:12:03] Yeah.

[00:12:03] Right.

[00:12:04] Hey, you know, you gotta have fun.

[00:12:07] Dude, I'm supposed to bring, everybody needs to bring six to 10 people to the polls.

[00:12:12] So do what you need to do.

[00:12:13] Get out there, harass people.

[00:12:14] Yes.

[00:12:15] But.

[00:12:16] Amen.

[00:12:17] Remind them that you did get out there and vote, vote early as early as your state allows

[00:12:22] you to get out there and vote.

[00:12:24] Yeah.

[00:12:24] You, uh, don't have a right to, to complain.

[00:12:27] I was going to use the B word, but you don't have a right to do that.

[00:12:31] If you don't get out and vote.

[00:12:33] Like if you're not voting, then don't even open your mouth.

[00:12:36] Yeah.

[00:12:36] As soon as your, your early voting is for your state, get out there and do it.

[00:12:41] Let's just do it.

[00:12:42] Get it done with.

[00:12:43] Yep.

[00:12:44] There was lines.

[00:12:45] I went.

[00:12:46] I mean, Friday was the second day for North Carolina.

[00:12:48] I went on Friday and couldn't pull it off on Thursday, but, um, there was lines on Thursday

[00:12:54] cause I, uh, a friend of mine worked the polls.

[00:12:57] And then when I was there, there was lines to the door.

[00:13:01] I think ours opens on the 21st.

[00:13:05] Yeah.

[00:13:05] So yeah, I'm definitely gonna, gonna be doing my part, you know, cause like I say, if you

[00:13:12] don't vote, you can't complain.

[00:13:13] You can't have a show about it.

[00:13:14] You can't talk about it because you're not making your voice heard and we have to do the

[00:13:18] best we can to show, show, uh, to turn up.

[00:13:22] So yeah, you gotta do it.

[00:13:24] Yeah.

[00:13:24] Don't wait.

[00:13:25] I mean, what happens if there's an event on the, the fifth and weather or car problems

[00:13:33] or sickness or whatever, and you can't get there.

[00:13:35] Let's not put it off.

[00:13:36] Just get it done.

[00:13:37] Yep.

[00:13:37] It's gonna be longer lines anyway.

[00:13:39] So just as soon as you can.

[00:13:41] The door Friday, a Thursday and Friday.

[00:13:45] Yeah.

[00:13:46] First two days.

[00:13:48] Yep.

[00:13:49] Yeah.

[00:13:49] I think, like I say, I think ours is the 21st.

[00:13:52] I just had a, one of our representatives actually came to the door of the house.

[00:13:57] Oh yeah.

[00:13:58] Knocked on the door.

[00:13:59] Hey, how you doing?

[00:14:00] I'm so-and-so and I'm running for this.

[00:14:02] And it was like, wow, that's really cool.

[00:14:06] You know, that you actually take time to show that, you know, you care.

[00:14:11] So, um, pretty neat stuff.

[00:14:15] I've been, uh, I'm not gonna lie.

[00:14:18] I've been a little, um, so I'm like 110 person either.

[00:14:21] I'm going 110 or I'm not going at all.

[00:14:23] And I've been a little lethargic today.

[00:14:25] I have to admit, cause it's like, you know what?

[00:14:28] I'm gonna lay around and enjoy a day because, um, you know, I walk with the hand of the Lord,

[00:14:35] but I have no idea what's going to happen after November.

[00:14:39] And so I'm enjoying every single day.

[00:14:43] You know, it could be crazy.

[00:14:45] Yeah.

[00:14:46] No matter who wins.

[00:14:47] I'm a little worried.

[00:14:49] Yeah.

[00:14:49] So, um, like I say, yeah, Jesus said, um, you know, don't be afraid in different words.

[00:14:56] 365 times.

[00:14:58] Fear not.

[00:14:59] Fear not.

[00:15:00] 365 times in the Bible.

[00:15:02] That's one for every day.

[00:15:03] So we know, you know, he's got our back.

[00:15:07] Mm-hmm.

[00:15:08] But, um, you know, I don't know what that's gonna bring.

[00:15:13] I just don't know.

[00:15:14] So we'll have to just.

[00:15:16] It's gonna be easy.

[00:15:17] We're gonna, we're just gonna play it as we go.

[00:15:20] And she'll be sharing it with our PBN community while we're at it.

[00:15:23] So, well, that brings us into the topic of the day.

[00:15:28] We're talking cops.

[00:15:30] One of the very biggest problems in North Carolina was communications.

[00:15:37] I mean.

[00:15:38] That was crazy, right?

[00:15:39] It was.

[00:15:40] Everybody went down.

[00:15:41] Cell phones, internet, boom.

[00:15:42] Down.

[00:15:45] Yeah.

[00:15:46] Uh, thank God for JB again.

[00:15:51] Um, you know, cause my mind.

[00:15:55] My mom was freaking out.

[00:15:57] And I didn't really realize why because we were so safe at Orchard Lake, you know?

[00:16:04] And, uh, so, but she was at home watching the news and going, oh my gosh, you know, um,

[00:16:12] my family's there and without JB, I wouldn't have been able to communicate with her.

[00:16:18] And, uh, you know, that's really stressful, um, for everybody involved.

[00:16:23] So important.

[00:16:23] So, yes, even Sarah, the anti tech, anti wanting to learn this stuff is very interested in learning

[00:16:32] some different communication methods now because that was, that was a big reality check right

[00:16:37] there.

[00:16:40] Oh yeah.

[00:16:41] I'm, I'm, I'm never let a good disaster go to waste.

[00:16:45] Right.

[00:16:45] Right.

[00:16:46] So I've been using this like crazy to broaden my networks and, um, both in the industry and

[00:16:54] in the community.

[00:16:56] And I would talk into people all over the place.

[00:17:00] Um, because there's no reason to think this won't something like this won't happen again,

[00:17:07] even if it's not a flood, it could be something else.

[00:17:10] Right.

[00:17:11] So, so take us through, um, I've got my mesh tastic, even in my hand, as we speak, like we're

[00:17:18] doing the show on it.

[00:17:19] I, I, you know, wow.

[00:17:20] That was our speaker's gift.

[00:17:22] And, um, uh, so I'm just kind of staring at it going, Oh boy.

[00:17:27] Now I got a chin's going to make me learn this too.

[00:17:29] Now.

[00:17:31] So, so let's, uh, you take it over, man.

[00:17:34] It's, it's your show tonight.

[00:17:35] So let's walk through it a little bit and, uh, get to this.

[00:17:40] It, it's, it's basically a little radio.

[00:17:46] So you have this little device.

[00:17:47] It's, it's a radio.

[00:17:49] It's got an antenna that Bluetooth pairs with your phone or your tablet.

[00:17:55] But the only thing that your phone or your tablet is used for is to be the monitor and

[00:18:01] keyboard.

[00:18:02] Um, right.

[00:18:04] So I wouldn't need a little solar charger for that to make sure that, well, the mesh tastic

[00:18:10] needs power too.

[00:18:11] Yeah.

[00:18:11] The mesh test, the little radio is, yeah, it runs off of electricity.

[00:18:15] So, uh, it has a little battery in it.

[00:18:17] So either you have backup power or backup batteries or, you know, grade power, whatever, however

[00:18:25] you get power, you have to power the radio.

[00:18:27] I have to power your phone somehow.

[00:18:30] Right.

[00:18:31] Right.

[00:18:32] But once you get over that, I mean, and it, it, it only, it pulls like less than four

[00:18:39] amps.

[00:18:40] I mean, it's just a tiny little draw.

[00:18:42] The batteries aren't that they're not that, uh, like a, who is it?

[00:18:46] A three, uh, 3000 millivolt, um, battery was last to me about a week.

[00:18:55] So, okay.

[00:18:56] That's good.

[00:18:57] It's really, there does.

[00:18:59] So they're Laura, um, um, for long range and they're designed to work on low power.

[00:19:08] They, they, they sip the power.

[00:19:10] They only, they send, um, small data packets out through the radio.

[00:19:19] Um, and it's made to be used.

[00:19:22] Uh, the guy that originally designed the, the system, um, the software, which is open source

[00:19:29] software was a hang glider out, um, in the West.

[00:19:33] And he was having problems with not having cell phone service.

[00:19:36] So he wanted a way to communicate with his friends while they're out doing their hang

[00:19:41] gliding stuff.

[00:19:42] Um, so they took, they took the Laura infrastructure, the, the hardware that the little radio chips

[00:19:53] and stuff that make up Laura and they developed software called mesh tastic, mesh tastic, right?

[00:20:04] Because the mesh of mesh tastic is mesh networking.

[00:20:08] So what they did is they took this, this little radio that sips energy and can get data out long range.

[00:20:19] And they paired it with an app that will send data text basically.

[00:20:27] Like if you ever use signal, yes, the app signal it, the app for mesh tastic looks just like signal.

[00:20:36] You can do a direct messaging right to one person, or you can do, you could set up a group like PBN, the host.

[00:20:45] We have a private group, right?

[00:20:46] So we were always talking in the, in the, in the back channels.

[00:20:51] That's when we call it the back channels, right?

[00:20:52] Right.

[00:20:53] It's usually us talking on signal in our little group, right?

[00:20:56] About upcoming events or show topics or whatever we're talking about.

[00:21:00] Right.

[00:21:01] Um, so it works just like that.

[00:21:03] You can send text messages back and forth.

[00:21:06] So if I have the mesh tastic app going, does my mesh tastic have to actually be turned on as well?

[00:21:17] Only if you want somebody else to receive the message.

[00:21:20] Yeah.

[00:21:20] If you just want to talk to yourself.

[00:21:21] Then fine.

[00:21:23] Now, can I like message you from here on it?

[00:21:30] Well, yes, but.

[00:21:34] So, um, what, what the preparedness community likes to do is stay off grid, right?

[00:21:41] Right.

[00:21:42] So off grid, their line of sight radios, just like walkie talkies, line of sight radios.

[00:21:49] And I've personally got one to five miles standard communication from one mesh tastic node to the other mesh tastic node.

[00:22:00] They call radios nodes and mesh tastic.

[00:22:02] Okay.

[00:22:03] So, but the way that mesh tastic was developed is the mesh part of mesh tastic means that the software takes each radio and makes it a little mini repeater too.

[00:22:18] So my mesh tastic will send out and receive messages that I send or that my friends send back to me.

[00:22:28] And it will also ask us as a repeater for somebody else close enough to ping my mesh tastic radio node.

[00:22:39] So let's just say you were, you were, um, we're say we lived in the same town.

[00:22:46] You were 15 miles away and my radio couldn't get to you, but my radio could be ping off of two people in between us and get to you.

[00:22:57] So you would get it because it, it, they call it hops.

[00:23:01] It hops one to the next, to the next, to the next.

[00:23:04] The more that we get these out there, the better the network is.

[00:23:07] Oh my goodness.

[00:23:08] Yes.

[00:23:09] So the, the more a prepper is going to hear, well, it pings us to somebody else.

[00:23:15] So they're going to get the message.

[00:23:16] No, it's two 56 K encrypted.

[00:23:19] So that's, that's like what corporate uses to encrypt messages and emails and stuff.

[00:23:25] So it's pretty well secure from going from one place to the X to next.

[00:23:30] What's going to happen is the man in the middle isn't even if the message wasn't intended for that person, they're not even going to know that they pinged it out through them to the next guy.

[00:23:44] It's just doing a community service by being there and sending it out.

[00:23:49] So what I've done is I've, I've, I've gotten involved with the neighborhood watch.

[00:23:56] So now I got my neighbors with Mish-tastic.

[00:23:59] And then I've gone into town and we've talked to some, like the mayor who's pretty cool.

[00:24:04] He's on board.

[00:24:06] He's, you know, he doesn't have purple hair.

[00:24:08] And who's, you know, constitutional sheriff.

[00:24:12] He's cool.

[00:24:13] And we've got a cert team.

[00:24:15] We stood up.

[00:24:16] So I've got people in town now, right?

[00:24:21] That have these.

[00:24:23] Gotcha.

[00:24:23] So I'm building out my mesh network by getting other people involved.

[00:24:29] I've, I've given, I've literally given some to the sheriff.

[00:24:33] I've given some, purchased myself, given some to an ambulance crew because they were having problems until they got some donor Starlink system.

[00:24:44] Yeah.

[00:24:45] Their systems went down all this high tech $2,000 walkie talkie radios that they carry on their belts and stuff.

[00:24:52] Not worth anything.

[00:24:54] Yeah.

[00:24:54] It weren't worth anything.

[00:24:56] And I, I warned a sheriff about that.

[00:24:59] I wonder why that is.

[00:25:00] Do they use like internet or something?

[00:25:03] Yeah.

[00:25:03] Some of it, some of it pings through the internet.

[00:25:05] Yeah.

[00:25:07] So like, um, like your cell phone, right?

[00:25:09] Your cell phone, if you and I are in the same room together, my cell phone is not really talking to your cell phone.

[00:25:18] My cell phone is going way out to the tower on top of the hill and back down to you.

[00:25:25] Mm hmm.

[00:25:26] And that's what's happened with them.

[00:25:28] They're, they, they were getting hit with all these wifi repeaters and stuff, and they were not able to connect to each other.

[00:25:39] So like a cell phone, it's not real.

[00:25:42] It's, it's a radio, but it's not like a radio, like a walkie talkie where it can talk to anybody.

[00:25:50] It's gotta go through the cells network, cellular network through the towers and back out to the next guy.

[00:25:58] And that's where I.

[00:26:00] Uh, isn't there like a piece of that with ham too now that like it has to have, well, it would have to have power as well.

[00:26:08] Well, all radios need power, right?

[00:26:10] So you have to have some, you know, you put a generator on a bicycle and pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal, pedal.

[00:26:15] Yeah.

[00:26:16] Yeah.

[00:26:16] Whatever it takes, but, um, solar power, backup batteries, all that kind of stuff.

[00:26:21] But, um, well, you and I were talking, you were asking if I could actually talk to you.

[00:26:27] Yeah.

[00:26:28] And, you know, I'm in North Carolina, you're in Texas.

[00:26:31] Mesh Tastic can, you can hook one of your radio nups nodes up to the internet.

[00:26:36] And if we were to do that, I could Bluetooth from my phone to my node.

[00:26:41] My node would go through the internet and it would find your node in Texas and dump out to your phone.

[00:26:49] Got it.

[00:26:50] Okay.

[00:26:51] Still encrypted.

[00:26:52] Without cell service.

[00:26:53] Still encrypted, yeah.

[00:26:54] But it would require the internet.

[00:26:56] So if my internet went down, we would lose connection.

[00:27:00] So during sunny days, it's a great way to communicate.

[00:27:05] Right.

[00:27:05] But you can depend on it for a rainy day.

[00:27:08] Right.

[00:27:09] Yeah.

[00:27:09] Almost.

[00:27:10] Yeah.

[00:27:11] So I'm saying don't you explore it, you know, and you know, if you have, you know, if you

[00:27:15] have friends and family out of town, you guys can set these up.

[00:27:18] I know, um, here in North Carolina, what they're, um, they're doing it across the whole state

[00:27:26] now.

[00:27:26] So I can look on my map, you know how we showed you the app has mapped so you can see locations

[00:27:33] if you want to turn location on.

[00:27:35] Um, the whole state is speckled with them now because they're, they're lit up on the internet.

[00:27:41] Right.

[00:27:42] So the guys are hooking up their nodes to the internet, which is cool.

[00:27:49] And it's useful if I, you know, like I, I could go through those nodes and, and bounce back out.

[00:27:57] So like if I was in town or on a road trip next town over, I could still communicate with my wife.

[00:28:03] But if we had an issue with the internet, uh, again, I'd be, uh, you'd be relying upon them hopping off of each other instead of the internet.

[00:28:15] Yeah.

[00:28:16] So until we get, uh, enough people, it's still kind of infancy for America.

[00:28:22] Now Europe really has a large, uh, buy in on this.

[00:28:26] Actually they got, they had it so well, it was too much of a good thing.

[00:28:31] And they were having to figure out how to deal with too much traffic.

[00:28:36] Um, so cause people, you could set how many jumps you, how many hops your message will go.

[00:28:43] So I can set my, like if I'm in town and I know all my people are in town, I could just set it to three hops.

[00:28:49] Right. That's kind of the, the standard.

[00:28:53] And that's good.

[00:28:54] But it can go up to seven or eight hops.

[00:28:57] And if everybody said the separate hops that just bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, you know, it's just like, it's like a popcorn, you know, like the old popcorn.

[00:29:05] It's like a popcorn machines.

[00:29:05] It's just popped corn flying all over the place.

[00:29:09] It is too much congestion in the area.

[00:29:12] Um, so you want to do the lowest number of hops and still be successful to be considerate to the community at large.

[00:29:20] So you're not, uh, too much congestion of the airway, you know, the traffic on the mesh network.

[00:29:27] Yeah.

[00:29:28] So, I mean, that's a little geeky, but, um, that's kind of some behind the scenes, but it's, it's very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.

[00:29:35] Very.

[00:29:35] So you'll have the, and it's, it's most of these units are probably smaller than a deck of cards, right?

[00:29:44] Like the one that you have, it's, it's tiny.

[00:29:48] I got small hands and it fits in the palm of my hand easily.

[00:29:52] Size like a Zippo lighter.

[00:29:54] Yeah.

[00:29:54] Like a Zippo.

[00:29:55] Mm-hmm.

[00:29:56] Lighters.

[00:29:57] Right.

[00:29:57] Yeah.

[00:29:57] So it's probably about that size, maybe a pinch bigger, but that's about the size.

[00:30:01] Like the one that you have is.

[00:30:03] And I mean, there's different companies that make them.

[00:30:07] Some make them in a bigger case because they have bigger batteries.

[00:30:10] Some make them in smaller cases, you know, small batteries.

[00:30:13] So it's all kind of how, you know, if you're just running it every day or plugging it in every day, that's one thing.

[00:30:22] If you're going on a week hike up the Appalachian trail, then you want something with a bigger battery, right?

[00:30:27] Fair.

[00:30:27] Yeah.

[00:30:28] Into the, you know, like mine that ran seven, eight days on the battery that was inside the case.

[00:30:34] I mean, that's the kind of thing that you're going to want for like going out hiking or a weekend camping trip or something.

[00:30:40] So you don't have to worry about recharging it for the trip.

[00:30:42] Mm-hmm.

[00:30:44] Ryan had that really cool solar charger that was just for devices.

[00:30:47] I've been thinking about getting one of those.

[00:30:50] Yeah.

[00:30:50] Yeah.

[00:30:53] Very interesting.

[00:30:54] Yeah.

[00:30:54] So it's cool because it's encrypted.

[00:30:58] It's free.

[00:31:00] The software is free.

[00:31:02] You don't need a license.

[00:31:03] FCC lets you do it without a license.

[00:31:08] And you can turn on the locators, right?

[00:31:10] To know like where your team's at, right?

[00:31:16] Yeah.

[00:31:16] So let's just say that y'all are going on vacation to New Orleans, okay?

[00:31:23] Right?

[00:31:23] Yeah.

[00:31:24] So it's a crazy town.

[00:31:25] People can get lost or stuff could happen or somebody could get drunk and fall in a gutter or something, whatever.

[00:31:31] Too many beads around your neck because you, you know, whatever.

[00:31:34] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:31:37] And you could turn them.

[00:31:39] So I typically run with it off just because y'all don't need to know where I am 24-7.

[00:31:44] Right.

[00:31:44] But you could turn it on.

[00:31:46] You could turn the location on and then you'll know what everybody is, which is super helpful.

[00:31:54] You can all say, well, we're going to meet back at this pub for lunch, right?

[00:31:59] Right.

[00:31:59] And at this time.

[00:32:01] And if somebody doesn't show up, well, you could check, ping them a message.

[00:32:05] If they don't ping back, you can, you know, figure out where they are.

[00:32:10] So it's super helpful.

[00:32:12] It's great for being out hiking.

[00:32:15] Yeah.

[00:32:16] If you lost one of your groups, one of your members.

[00:32:20] Yeah.

[00:32:20] And I was thinking like tactically in a grid down situation, how cool is it to be able to know exactly where people are, like exactly where your team's at.

[00:32:31] Yeah.

[00:32:32] And you can send messages back and forth.

[00:32:35] Cool add-ons, ATAK, which is really been used by the military for like a mapping and data sharing software that they use for communications.

[00:32:52] It does like mapping and sharing of data, file pictures, files, and texting.

[00:33:02] Gotcha.

[00:33:03] But there's a civilian version of it.

[00:33:06] And it's been recently adapted to run with Mesh-tastic.

[00:33:10] So you can get this super cool, you can put like waypoints on it.

[00:33:15] And you ever use like one of those Garmin navigators where you can put, you can drop waypoints and they're different symbols.

[00:33:21] Or like, here's where I saw the buck last week.

[00:33:25] Or this is where a good hunting spot is.

[00:33:28] Or this is where a good water spot.

[00:33:29] This is where I saw a blood trail or that kind.

[00:33:32] So you can set up different symbols and drop symbols and share them on a map, on a shared map.

[00:33:39] I think with some units you can share pictures.

[00:33:43] Mesh-tastic isn't that big of a packet that I think, I don't think you can share pictures.

[00:33:49] But you can share the maps with the symbols.

[00:33:50] So that's cool.

[00:33:51] And you do texting through the app.

[00:33:56] And so there's a map on the actual app of the Mesh-tastic?

[00:34:00] The app itself is basically built around a mapping service.

[00:34:05] Interesting.

[00:34:05] Mesh-tastic because like in the military, they would use it to, for tactical reasons,

[00:34:12] the troops check their assets and to track the assets of the enemy.

[00:34:19] So you would put it, you'd have your symbols for the good guys and the bad guys.

[00:34:23] And you could track movement and everything else.

[00:34:25] And you could, the bigger version, you could send pictures, like they could take a picture and send it.

[00:34:32] Right.

[00:34:33] Yeah.

[00:34:34] Well, we, you know, work with maps and, you know, quite a few grids so that we know what the grid is and nobody else does.

[00:34:42] And so that'd be interesting to see if I could integrate it into that system.

[00:34:47] Mesh-tastic.

[00:34:47] You would set up your group and only the people that you would invite to the group or share with the group would see what's on that information.

[00:34:56] Mesh-tastic.

[00:34:56] Oh, that is a really cool idea.

[00:34:58] And that's all encrypted.

[00:35:00] Mesh-tastic.

[00:35:01] So, so do a search for ATAK.

[00:35:02] A-T-A-K.

[00:35:04] A-T-A-K.

[00:35:06] A-T-A-K.

[00:35:06] Yeah.

[00:35:07] And it's an add-on.

[00:35:08] Yep.

[00:35:08] Okay.

[00:35:09] It's an add-on.

[00:35:09] And recently, this summer, I think they put it as an add-on through, officially through Mesh-tastic.

[00:35:16] Oh.

[00:35:16] So you didn't have to do any fancy magical potions to get it to work with it.

[00:35:22] It's part of the...

[00:35:24] Yeah.

[00:35:24] Just spring and smooth in.

[00:35:26] When I first got Mesh-tastic like a year ago, I heard about it and I tried to get loaded and it was like,

[00:35:30] all kinds of side loading stuff and I never got it running.

[00:35:35] But now they have it where it's part...

[00:35:37] I mean, I've been busy with other stuff, but I need to get back at it because it's, it's a down...

[00:35:42] It's an add-on through Mesh-tastic now.

[00:35:45] That's super cool.

[00:35:47] Yeah.

[00:35:48] Yeah.

[00:35:49] Yeah.

[00:35:49] So that's going to be the next step.

[00:35:51] But it's just like anything else.

[00:35:53] So any other radio, you can upgrade your pieces, parts.

[00:35:59] You can upgrade your antennas.

[00:36:01] You can do external antennas for outside the house.

[00:36:05] So if you want to build your own repeater, you can have a system in the house, but have

[00:36:09] the antenna outside kind of like you would do with ham radio.

[00:36:11] Okay.

[00:36:12] You could do a little weather resistant case with a little solar panel attached and the

[00:36:23] Mesh-tastic radio inside and then put that anywhere and everywhere, right?

[00:36:29] Buildings up a tree.

[00:36:31] I saw your slide on a kite.

[00:36:35] Yeah.

[00:36:36] No, a drone.

[00:36:37] Like, so if you, if you need it for, um, uh, say like, if you're doing like, uh, uh,

[00:36:47] community, uh, bad things have happened and you want to do community comms, you could

[00:36:53] say, you know, at nine o'clock in the morning, nine o'clock at night, we're going to have

[00:36:57] a, uh, a check-in.

[00:37:00] So somebody could go out to a field of house, pop a drone up in the air.

[00:37:05] It'll give huge coverage for the area.

[00:37:08] Cause the higher it's line of sight.

[00:37:10] So the higher, the better, uh, and the less obstacles in a way, that's why the higher,

[00:37:15] the better.

[00:37:16] Um, so you pop a drone up there or kite up there or a weather balloon up there tethered,

[00:37:22] you know, on a string, um, get some high test fishing line and just reel it out, then

[00:37:28] reel it back in.

[00:37:29] Or if you, if you get nervous that you think somebody spies, just cut the line and let it

[00:37:33] go, you know, whatever it's gone.

[00:37:35] Yeah.

[00:37:36] Um, yeah.

[00:37:36] So you don't want to bring it back in.

[00:37:38] Give your location.

[00:37:39] So, so one thing that I have problem with drones is, uh, you got to launch them and they

[00:37:43] got to land.

[00:37:45] Yeah.

[00:37:46] And somebody is going to be there to get them.

[00:37:48] Um, so even when they are like, they, they have drones that like go on their own missions,

[00:37:53] basically it'll leave its own housing, go out and come back, but it comes back to its

[00:37:58] housing, which you have to supply power to.

[00:38:01] So yeah, there's going to be something built by it.

[00:38:04] Yeah.

[00:38:05] But anyway, so you could use a drone and they make little, like, uh, you can make little

[00:38:10] harnesses to mount the radio, the mesh text radios on drones and they're light.

[00:38:15] And like yours is pretty light, right?

[00:38:17] Super light.

[00:38:18] They're light enough that you pop it up there.

[00:38:20] A little, uh, personal story I experienced was I had a, so MeshTastic, you can set up private

[00:38:29] channels and there's also the default channel, which is an open public channel.

[00:38:34] It's not encrypted, right?

[00:38:35] It's kind of like channel 19 on CB radios.

[00:38:38] Uh huh.

[00:38:38] So I saw a ping on the open public channel and I looked it up.

[00:38:44] It was a guy flying overhead in an airplane and he'd left his, his, I think his call sign

[00:38:50] was his tail number.

[00:38:52] Right?

[00:38:53] So I looked that up on the flight app.

[00:38:56] He was 158 miles away when we made contact.

[00:39:00] Crazy.

[00:39:02] Right?

[00:39:03] So that he would, he was up in the air and I was on top of a mountain where, you know,

[00:39:09] where I live.

[00:39:09] So it would, you know, line of sight was perfect and 158 miles away.

[00:39:15] That's personal.

[00:39:16] I know that that happened.

[00:39:18] So, but that's the best case scenario.

[00:39:21] So what, what you want to do is you want to get a whole bunch of like church steeples,

[00:39:26] water towers, radio towers, like the volunteer fire station that has the radio tower in their

[00:39:32] back lot, you know, all those is the top of, um, business buildings.

[00:39:37] If all those places you want to get, um, meshtastic notes, put up those solar notes, put them

[00:39:44] up there.

[00:39:45] You really don't have to serve some, but maybe once, twice a year.

[00:39:48] And, um, those will be the airplane flying overhead, quote unquote, to give you really

[00:39:55] better range.

[00:39:56] Mm-hmm.

[00:39:57] And give everyone a place to link to everybody.

[00:39:59] Everybody you could make contact with it, talk into dropping.

[00:40:03] I mean, the radios right now are running 60 to a hundred dollars, depending on which one

[00:40:07] you buy.

[00:40:08] Right.

[00:40:09] So, or you can buy the, the guts that just the chip, they have a little kit like DOI kits.

[00:40:17] And those are 25, 30 bucks a pop.

[00:40:21] And then just put it in your own case or 3d printer case or redneck gear up a case.

[00:40:28] Redneck engineer up it, some duct tape.

[00:40:29] Whatever.

[00:40:30] I mean, I've seen these like plastic, uh, not like Altoey tins cause those are made of metal,

[00:40:37] but plastic versions that like gum come in it and stuff like that.

[00:40:41] Like food products would come in.

[00:40:43] They just make little cases out of stuff and, uh, put it in their pocket.

[00:40:49] That's pretty cool.

[00:40:51] Yeah.

[00:40:53] I know.

[00:40:54] Um, so like the solar powered bills, you can buy them pre-made up.

[00:40:58] They're like 150, 200 bucks.

[00:41:00] Right.

[00:41:00] Which isn't too bad if you think about what you're getting.

[00:41:03] Um, I saw a YouTube video where they bought a solar garden light from Harbor breeze.

[00:41:15] So solar, solar light, and then they cut the light off and put, so it came with a battery,

[00:41:23] came with a solar, um, controller, a solar panel in that housing that was weather resistant.

[00:41:30] They put the mesh tastic chip in there, use the battery that it came with.

[00:41:36] And the, you know, solar power.

[00:41:38] Yeah.

[00:41:38] Put an antenna on it and use it for 20 bucks.

[00:41:42] Plus the 25, 30 bucks for the chip.

[00:41:46] They had a, a solar DIY solar repeater, which I went and bought and I'm doing myself.

[00:41:54] So, so that's a really cool idea.

[00:41:56] Yeah.

[00:41:56] Cause it's just self charge.

[00:41:58] And I did the soldering already.

[00:42:01] I just have to attach the external cause I bought a larger external, um, antenna.

[00:42:08] Yeah.

[00:42:08] And I just have to attach that waterproof it and put it, I'll just bring it up into a tree.

[00:42:14] Yeah.

[00:42:15] You can get some like huge antennas too.

[00:42:18] Yeah.

[00:42:20] So the one that I have for my house is like a two foot antenna.

[00:42:23] The one that I'm putting on that solar system is probably a six inch antenna.

[00:42:28] Okay.

[00:42:28] Um, that's some, uh, bag mount antennas for mesh tastic.

[00:42:33] They just mount on your car, like a CB antenna would mount on your car.

[00:42:35] Right.

[00:42:36] So the benefit of that is when you're inside the car, the car acts a little bit like a Faraday cage.

[00:42:41] It interrupts some of the signaling.

[00:42:43] But if you put the antenna outside your car on and you put the bag mount on the roof, the roof acts as a ground.

[00:42:51] Yep.

[00:42:52] The performance, the antenna and the, you don't have to waterproof it or nothing.

[00:42:57] Cause the, the radio is inside.

[00:42:58] You just take your radio, unplug the antenna, put the, just like I've been telling everybody to do with their walkie talkies.

[00:43:05] Take your walkie talkie, take the walkie talkie antenna off, get the bag mount antenna, put with the adapter, put that on your walkie talkie.

[00:43:13] And now you have one in your car.

[00:43:15] Yep.

[00:43:16] Easy.

[00:43:16] Easy.

[00:43:16] Like road trips, you'll get much reception.

[00:43:19] If you guys get separated a little bit, um, you'll be able to talk to each other, which you might not be able to do.

[00:43:25] Um, if you get five, 10 miles away, your walkie talkies might not work.

[00:43:30] Yeah.

[00:43:30] They don't.

[00:43:31] That's why we didn't even bring them this year.

[00:43:34] Yeah.

[00:43:34] But boy, we wish we had now.

[00:43:36] So I, um, I, when I was riding over to camp, I had my RV and then my buddy had my pickup truck with the utility trailer.

[00:43:47] And I had walkie talkies.

[00:43:51] Well, my, my car had, had a regular GMRS radio rate, like mobile radio.

[00:43:56] And then in my pickup truck, I had a walkie talkie with the antenna on the roof.

[00:44:01] And we talked the whole time.

[00:44:03] Yeah.

[00:44:04] Yeah.

[00:44:04] Cause of that roof mount.

[00:44:06] Yeah.

[00:44:06] Yeah.

[00:44:07] Yeah.

[00:44:08] Yeah.

[00:44:08] For sure.

[00:44:09] Yep.

[00:44:09] So I need to do the same thing with mesh tastic.

[00:44:11] You put one on the outside.

[00:44:12] And then if you're like at a parking lot, the one on your car is acting like a little mini repeater.

[00:44:20] So the ones that you're walking around.

[00:44:22] Uh huh.

[00:44:23] Yep.

[00:44:24] That makes sense.

[00:44:24] You can put your car with the bigger antenna to get out a little further.

[00:44:28] Yeah.

[00:44:28] And you can probably charge that off of, you know, like your, your car, you can plug it

[00:44:34] right in.

[00:44:35] Yeah.

[00:44:35] Cause so like yours, the last day, maybe two days on a battery charge.

[00:44:40] Um, so if you just plug it in every night, you're fine.

[00:44:44] Um, you could also put a little solar node on like on the dashboard of your car.

[00:44:49] Um, I know that windshields impede some of that solar charging function, but I would think

[00:44:55] you're fine.

[00:44:56] Yeah.

[00:44:56] Yeah.

[00:44:57] It depends on the state.

[00:44:58] Like California would just toast it.

[00:45:01] It gets too hot.

[00:45:02] Yeah.

[00:45:03] Yeah.

[00:45:03] Yeah.

[00:45:04] So depends on the state that you're in.

[00:45:06] Um, yeah.

[00:45:08] But still you can plug it into the, they, they have USB ports and new cars, you know,

[00:45:14] those cars do, or they have a little cigarette lighter or whatever.

[00:45:18] Plug it in the cigarette lighter.

[00:45:19] Yup.

[00:45:20] Um, in my day there were a cigarette lighter.

[00:45:23] Yeah.

[00:45:23] Fair.

[00:45:23] It will adapt to plug the USB port into.

[00:45:27] So.

[00:45:28] Right.

[00:45:28] Yeah.

[00:45:28] And that's easy peasy.

[00:45:30] No, that's a good idea as well.

[00:45:32] So.

[00:45:32] The cost of battery is very, very, very reasonable.

[00:45:36] It's deeper than radios.

[00:45:39] Um, like, and to do it like a repeater system, like a ham repeater, you're going to spend

[00:45:45] a couple thousand dollars easy to do a repeater.

[00:45:47] Right.

[00:45:47] And you have to get a license.

[00:45:49] GMRS, you can do your own repeater without, uh, special permission from FCC, but you're

[00:45:56] going to spend at least $500 probably on, um, set, you know, getting a couple radios or buying

[00:46:04] a pre done lunchbox.

[00:46:06] Um, you know, you're probably $500 to get one of those up and running.

[00:46:11] Um, but the, you know, the mess.

[00:46:13] And that sounds like it's actually cheaper to do if you just had a guy.

[00:46:16] If you have $500 to spend on a whole, you know, you're, you're getting whatever, 75 notes,

[00:46:25] you know, something like that.

[00:46:26] Right.

[00:46:26] Yeah.

[00:46:27] So, um, well that, and they're starting to get rid of a lot of like in California when

[00:46:32] I was leaving, um, years ago, they were starting to get rid of the ham radio repeaters

[00:46:36] then.

[00:46:38] That's insane.

[00:46:39] Yeah.

[00:46:40] Which I thought was just crazy.

[00:46:41] I was telling my, um, the sheriff and the cert team and everything it's, it's layered communications.

[00:46:50] It's not just one thing.

[00:46:52] It's not just, okay.

[00:46:53] Everybody should roll with a cell phone.

[00:46:55] Everybody should roll with GMRS.

[00:46:58] We should have a handful of ham guys in the club or in the group and roll with Mesh Tastic.

[00:47:06] They're all, they all have their strengths and weaknesses.

[00:47:08] Yep.

[00:47:09] And they all build upon each other.

[00:47:12] You can't just depend on one thing.

[00:47:16] Oh, no.

[00:47:17] I love GMRS and I use that almost on a daily basis, but I can't depend on it because it

[00:47:23] might not get out far enough.

[00:47:24] Yeah.

[00:47:25] So ham would be better for distance, but you know, it's kind of a nerdy thing.

[00:47:32] There's a little more, um, science involved in it.

[00:47:36] So, yeah.

[00:47:38] Yeah.

[00:47:39] I still gotta, you know.

[00:47:40] Mesh Tastic is like super simple.

[00:47:44] There's, there's tons of YouTube videos out on it.

[00:47:46] I know, uh, you've got the class right on your website now.

[00:47:51] Yeah.

[00:47:51] I shared the link to the, um, to the, to the, uh, files.

[00:47:56] I did a little video for it on the, um, website and then they can download the PDF there too.

[00:48:02] Um, it's under the learning link and it literally says Mesh Tastic on it.

[00:48:08] Um, that's what I, I presented that class.

[00:48:11] I'm not saying it's the end all be all, but it's a good, like one-on-one entry level to start

[00:48:17] understanding before you buy a bunch of stuff, what it is, kind of how it works.

[00:48:22] YouTube, everything I've learned has been off of YouTube.

[00:48:24] I don't have anybody locally that was showing me the ropes.

[00:48:27] Right.

[00:48:28] I was the one in my community that did all the research and reading, you know, documents

[00:48:34] and watching videos and buying some of the equipment and making it work.

[00:48:39] So heck if I can do it, y'all can do it.

[00:48:41] Oh yeah.

[00:48:42] Yeah.

[00:48:42] Yeah.

[00:48:42] Okay.

[00:48:43] The trick will be if I can do it, then y'all can do it.

[00:48:48] And then the other thing you saw, I just shared with you today, like a suggested shopping

[00:48:53] list.

[00:48:54] Right.

[00:48:54] I kind of whittled it down to a couple items here, a couple items here, a couple items

[00:48:59] here, you know, pick, pick one out of these three nodes, depending on what your needs are.

[00:49:05] Do you like a little one to fit your pocket?

[00:49:08] Do you like a little more robust one in case you drop the case?

[00:49:11] Do you like one that has a longer, better, you know, so it's not a long list.

[00:49:15] I whittled it down to like a short list.

[00:49:18] Here's some stuff that I own that I know that works.

[00:49:20] Yeah.

[00:49:21] Cause Ro was actually curious about that.

[00:49:24] Like, where do I buy them?

[00:49:26] Excuse me.

[00:49:26] I got a frog in my face.

[00:49:27] It's the one that I use.

[00:49:29] I sent that shop, you know, suggested shopping list out to my cert group.

[00:49:35] Now I pulled some of the location data out of it and I just sent you one today that you're

[00:49:40] welcome to share with.

[00:49:43] Yeah.

[00:49:44] Yeah.

[00:49:44] So.

[00:49:45] Yeah.

[00:49:45] That's what that question is like, I get it.

[00:49:47] I understand how they work.

[00:49:48] Where do I buy them from?

[00:49:49] So that's cool that you did that.

[00:49:51] I show you the model and I provided the link on where to get it.

[00:49:55] And all three.

[00:49:57] So the companies would be the music M U Z I M U Z works, right?

[00:50:04] M U Z I works.

[00:50:06] Okay.

[00:50:08] And they're the ones that like you got at Prepper camp.

[00:50:11] Yeah.

[00:50:12] Um, and then all the box, a L T a V O X.

[00:50:18] Um, and then that's, that's a little more robust one with a bigger battery.

[00:50:22] That's the one that I now carry with me on a daily basis.

[00:50:25] And then, uh, Rockland are okay.

[00:50:29] L A N D.

[00:50:32] And they are like the radio shack of, um, this mess-tastic world where you can buy all

[00:50:39] pieces and parts.

[00:50:41] Oh, love that.

[00:50:42] Great.

[00:50:43] You can upgrade your stuff.

[00:50:45] It's really kind of like Legos or like AR for like adults where you could piece and

[00:50:53] par, you can buy something and then you can improve upon it.

[00:50:57] So if you, I mean, Rockland also sells like the whole unit too.

[00:51:02] So you don't have to break out the soldering iron.

[00:51:04] A lot of them, there's, um, a wiz block W I S B L O C K.

[00:51:14] Wiz block.

[00:51:15] Um, which is basically snap together components that they literally snap together.

[00:51:21] So you don't have to solder them together.

[00:51:24] So it's pretty cool because you can buy the basic starter kit.

[00:51:28] You snap the antenna, snap the battery.

[00:51:30] You set, you snap them, the mesh tonic, the mish-tastic little, um, uh, processor onto the

[00:51:39] motherboard basically is what you're doing.

[00:51:41] Yeah.

[00:51:41] And you can, you can snap sensors so you can do weather like bar, bar, bar, pressure, um,

[00:51:48] temperature.

[00:51:49] You can, you can snap sensors to do, uh, soil moisture.

[00:51:54] You can snap sensors to do, uh, liquid levels.

[00:51:59] Like, so, um, it would have been nice at the dam, right?

[00:52:03] You could tell how hot.

[00:52:04] Yeah.

[00:52:06] I think that it would ping that out just on a regular, nobody had to be there.

[00:52:10] And if it was solar powered, so you can, you can do, uh, motion sensors, all kinds of

[00:52:17] cool sensors.

[00:52:18] That's pretty neat.

[00:52:19] Yeah.

[00:52:19] Cause you could set up a good defense for yourself that way.

[00:52:23] Yeah.

[00:52:24] Light sensors, um, UV, UV, like motion sensors off of UV off of, uh, there's a whole bunch

[00:52:34] of different.

[00:52:34] One of my buddies is going to geek out on this so hard.

[00:52:38] Like, yeah.

[00:52:39] Like the guy that just wants to buy the crap, go, go see, um, Matt over at, uh, all the

[00:52:49] box or cause he just sells.

[00:52:51] I shared all that in the chat for everybody and I'll put it in my blog for everybody who's

[00:52:56] listening.

[00:52:57] Sign in over at, uh, that Muzi works.

[00:53:03] Yeah.

[00:53:04] And, uh, that's great.

[00:53:29] Yeah.

[00:53:30] Yeah.

[00:53:30] Yeah.

[00:53:30] And so I had start.

[00:53:33] So I want to say all three of those companies are excellent companies to, you know, to work

[00:53:38] with because they, they care about their customers.

[00:53:41] Um, they're not just, uh, I know like Simon, that Muzi works was like reaching.

[00:53:46] How did it go?

[00:53:47] How did the cert meeting go?

[00:53:48] How did the, and the same thing with, um, with Matt box.

[00:53:53] He's like, how was the meeting?

[00:53:55] Did that, you know, what, you know, what do we, is there any like input you want to

[00:53:58] give me to, we can, you know, improve or, you know, they're really open to suggest.

[00:54:03] So all three of those companies, I can say nothing but good about it's not like ordering

[00:54:09] off some of the stuff you get off of Amazon, but yeah, they don't care.

[00:54:13] They really don't care.

[00:54:14] They don't care about you.

[00:54:16] No, they just, you know, they're just putting it, shipping it off.

[00:54:21] These guys are awesome.

[00:54:23] I mean, they really helped a community in need and I want to get them as much business.

[00:54:28] I'm not getting any kickbacks.

[00:54:30] I don't get any.

[00:54:30] I mean, they took care of me when I asked them because of an emergency.

[00:54:35] So you're going to take care of them now.

[00:54:36] Yeah.

[00:54:37] But that's just a testament to who they are and what their ethics are.

[00:54:41] Mm-hmm.

[00:54:42] So garden girl, uh, said, uh, mess-tastic would be good for us and the in-laws, um, 30

[00:54:49] minutes away from each other.

[00:54:51] Um, okay.

[00:54:52] So.

[00:54:53] A little far?

[00:54:54] Uh, minutes is kind of, uh, depends on how flat.

[00:55:00] It's Texas and it's, it's by Dallas.

[00:55:04] So it's a little bit flatter than it is in my neck of the woods.

[00:55:07] I don't think 30, 30 minute drive is going to cut it.

[00:55:11] There there's going to have to be strategically placed nodes in between.

[00:55:15] Repeaters along the way.

[00:55:16] Or they can.

[00:55:17] Or they can.

[00:55:17] Or they can.

[00:55:18] Or they can.

[00:55:18] Like, rigging them on like traffic lights and stuff.

[00:55:21] Yeah.

[00:55:22] But, so look up, look up, uh, Austin mesh.

[00:55:26] Cause Austin, Texas has set up a mesh for the city of Austin.

[00:55:34] Oh, gotcha.

[00:55:34] Okay.

[00:55:35] Guy just took it upon himself because he wanted a way to communicate with people and not have

[00:55:41] to text through the cellular backbone and people.

[00:55:47] Well, we get hit with some big storms here.

[00:55:49] I'm not surprised.

[00:55:50] I mean, stuff goes down in Texas.

[00:55:54] Yeah.

[00:55:54] So the, basically the city of Austin's pretty well covered.

[00:55:58] And the more that Austin's a little south of where Dallas is, but still.

[00:56:03] Yeah.

[00:56:04] Well, I'll just show you that as a study and what could be done.

[00:56:08] Yeah.

[00:56:08] And the more communities that get involved.

[00:56:11] So what I would start with is your property, your homestead, your family, and then step it

[00:56:17] out to the neighborhood watch.

[00:56:22] And they'd step it out to try to get countywide other neighborhoods.

[00:56:26] So I was at the, um, cert meeting and the guy said, I want to have you to do a talk to

[00:56:34] my neighborhood watch.

[00:56:35] So I'll be doing that.

[00:56:37] Gotcha.

[00:56:38] So just, just start increasing the circles around you.

[00:56:44] And then you're in.

[00:56:45] You're in.

[00:56:46] See, I figured like Rick had us all on locators with these.

[00:56:50] If they want to do, it's called MQTT, I think is the connection that you have to make

[00:56:55] through the internet.

[00:56:56] So they could use the internet and do this across the internet and it would be secure.

[00:57:02] It'd be able to use a signal.

[00:57:03] Right.

[00:57:04] Um, and then as you get closer to each other, then you wouldn't have to bounce internet anymore.

[00:57:09] So like when they're, when they're all together, then they could use it.

[00:57:15] And then when they're far apart, they would bounce through the internet.

[00:57:20] Mm-hmm.

[00:57:21] So like on family outings, they could use it when they're together at home, they could

[00:57:25] use it.

[00:57:26] And then if they run it through the internet, they could use it from.

[00:57:30] And it could be either or right.

[00:57:31] Like once it's hooked to the internet, no one rely upon the internet.

[00:57:35] You can have it on both.

[00:57:37] Right.

[00:57:37] It could one node to be cooked to the internet.

[00:57:40] One node.

[00:57:41] So your, your family chat group would, would connect locally and through the internet.

[00:57:47] It just depends on the recipient where they are, how they're going to receive it.

[00:57:53] That's pretty darn cool.

[00:57:54] Yeah.

[00:57:55] It doesn't have to be, Oh, I got to do the internet channel.

[00:57:57] Oh, flip over to the local channel.

[00:57:59] No, you don't, you would just have it all.

[00:58:01] Okay.

[00:58:02] The other comment that's pretty cool here on the chat is, uh, MeshTastic is gold and

[00:58:08] not a huge investment in Portugal.

[00:58:09] We created a full self-sufficient network to connect to our group from south to north.

[00:58:17] Yeah.

[00:58:18] That's what I'm saying.

[00:58:19] Right.

[00:58:19] So they get hammered by storms as well.

[00:58:22] Yeah.

[00:58:22] Buy enough nodes for your family to use on your little, on your watch.

[00:58:29] Yeah.

[00:58:29] And then buy some for the neighbors or entice the neighbors to get involved and do a community

[00:58:35] watch because you could say, what if we have a power?

[00:58:38] What if we have a, what if we have the next storm, the next storm, I mean, where we are.

[00:58:41] Yeah.

[00:58:42] Anything.

[00:58:44] Mm-hmm.

[00:58:45] You know that, that all circuits are busy or no dial tone.

[00:58:50] Yeah.

[00:58:51] Yeah.

[00:58:51] And these still work.

[00:58:53] Yeah.

[00:58:54] Fair.

[00:58:56] I love that.

[00:58:56] Yup.

[00:58:58] And we'll be able to know where we are.

[00:59:00] Like if, if you say, I'm going to go do the rounds through the neighborhood to make sure

[00:59:04] everybody's okay and you don't come back in two hours where you could say, oh, you're

[00:59:08] at this house or, oh, why is she in the middle of the woods?

[00:59:11] Yeah.

[00:59:12] You know, did she have to take a pee break or did something happen?

[00:59:15] I don't like to have like my son's phone on locate.

[00:59:19] Um, I just think it's, you know, come on.

[00:59:23] I grew up in the last rogue generation, you know, but there's times when it's like, okay,

[00:59:29] well you're going to your friend's house.

[00:59:30] It's down the road.

[00:59:31] You know, that's a time when it's like, okay, well, I'd really like to know when you got

[00:59:36] there and when you're coming back and stuff.

[00:59:38] If your phone's on locate, who knows?

[00:59:41] Yeah.

[00:59:42] Who knows where you are?

[00:59:44] Yes.

[00:59:45] Amen.

[00:59:45] You know, who knows?

[00:59:47] Exactly.

[00:59:47] And who's intercepting that?

[00:59:49] Now, I'm not saying that they can't crack the nut and figure out MeshTastic, but it's

[00:59:56] it's pretty well done.

[00:59:58] Yeah.

[00:59:58] It's going to be way more difficult.

[01:00:00] And so you choose who you want to share your, your position with.

[01:00:07] So.

[01:00:07] Love that.

[01:00:08] Yeah.

[01:00:09] More private than just turning it on and having some creeper in a white fan with, you know,

[01:00:15] all right.

[01:00:16] Candy canes.

[01:00:16] So exactly.

[01:00:17] So everybody's got homework.

[01:00:18] We got to start getting these into the hands of our families.

[01:00:22] We got Christmas coming up.

[01:00:23] That's been a J.B.

[01:00:25] It was like, everybody's getting one for Christmas.

[01:00:27] Yeah.

[01:00:28] I think it's cool.

[01:00:29] Right?

[01:00:29] Like, yeah, it's like, oh, this cool tech.

[01:00:32] It's like, oh, I can super spy stuff.

[01:00:34] Yeah.

[01:00:35] You know, I can talk to my friends.

[01:00:37] Yeah.

[01:00:37] You could talk with your friends.

[01:00:38] You can have a friend group.

[01:00:39] You can have a family group.

[01:00:41] You can.

[01:00:42] Yeah.

[01:00:42] And honestly, I don't see the point of not hooking it up to the internet while we're in,

[01:00:46] you know, good days, blue skies mode.

[01:00:49] We just know that if you're, you can't depend on it to talk to your family, just like you can't

[01:00:56] depend on your cell phone to talk to if you're running across the internet.

[01:00:59] If the internet goes down, you don't have sky.

[01:01:02] No.

[01:01:02] What if you do have like, what if you had the Skylink or whatever the good one is?

[01:01:09] Yeah, probably.

[01:01:11] Right?

[01:01:12] Yeah.

[01:01:12] Like, could it get your signal out to them if they didn't have internet?

[01:01:20] Yeah.

[01:01:21] Interesting.

[01:01:22] So if they both ran Starlink, I would think that they could hop from, yeah, both the family.

[01:01:30] Both ends have it.

[01:01:32] Yeah.

[01:01:32] Then we could hop it still.

[01:01:34] Yes.

[01:01:34] Then they could use Starlink too.

[01:01:35] But they could have the Starlink in the house and be outside sending texts.

[01:01:40] You know, if you guys are outside having to work outside or something, you could still

[01:01:44] be connecting to the one in the house using the Starlink to get to the next town over where

[01:01:50] your family is.

[01:01:50] So, you know, you wouldn't have to be sitting there by the tablet or the keyboard watching

[01:01:55] for the next message to come through.

[01:01:57] Yeah.

[01:01:57] It could be work.

[01:01:59] I like it.

[01:02:01] Yeah.

[01:02:01] All right.

[01:02:01] We got homework to do.

[01:02:03] Got homework.

[01:02:04] I mean, it's not perfect.

[01:02:05] There's pros and cons with everything, but it's a good addition to your comp package.

[01:02:11] That pace plan everybody's talking about after the storm.

[01:02:13] Pace.

[01:02:14] Yep.

[01:02:15] So.

[01:02:16] Okay.

[01:02:17] All right.

[01:02:17] Let's, I want to do some change in earth news this week because we haven't done it

[01:02:21] in a couple weeks.

[01:02:23] And crazy, still crazy stuff going on guys.

[01:02:26] This is, it's always the race of the people versus the planet is what I always talk about.

[01:02:32] And, um, even though we didn't have like super amount of activities, still the earth is kind

[01:02:37] of being like, you guys think you got stuff going on?

[01:02:41] Well, just hold my beer for a second.

[01:02:44] So, um, I really want to do the change in earth news tonight.

[01:02:48] And then we have a meeting tonight as well.

[01:02:51] So, uh, after the show.

[01:02:52] So we got to kind of stay on the time table here.

[01:02:57] So let's go ahead and do some change in earth news.

[01:02:59] Chin.

[01:03:00] Thank you so much for bringing that to the group.

[01:03:03] Cause like right now I'm just trying to give people tools that they can use because

[01:03:07] of course.

[01:03:09] Yeah.

[01:03:09] Yeah.

[01:03:10] Project.

[01:03:11] You guys might want to think about it sooner than Christmas actually.

[01:03:16] Cause November, I'm just saying.

[01:03:19] Yeah.

[01:03:21] Or have it all ready to rock.

[01:03:23] Yeah.

[01:03:24] Yeah.

[01:03:24] Yeah.

[01:03:25] The app.

[01:03:25] You have to have the app downloaded on your phones.

[01:03:28] Yeah.

[01:03:29] So, or old phones.

[01:03:30] It doesn't have to be the one that you carry.

[01:03:32] You can have some old ones.

[01:03:33] Yeah.

[01:03:34] Put away old tablets or buy some cheap tablets.

[01:03:38] Yeah.

[01:03:38] So have them put away.

[01:03:40] Be done.

[01:03:41] Yeah.

[01:03:42] Okay.

[01:03:43] Here we go.

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[01:04:09] Changing earth news.

[01:04:13] Um, obviously the cleanup in North Carolina continues endlessly.

[01:04:18] It's going to continue.

[01:04:20] It's going to be years.

[01:04:21] Right.

[01:04:23] So, um, still doing that.

[01:04:26] Milton hit Florida.

[01:04:28] Um, I could talk to you all day about strange things that happen with Milton as well.

[01:04:34] Um, you guys can hit me up, um, off my website.

[01:04:38] You can reach me.

[01:04:39] You can reach me in chats and whatnot.

[01:04:41] Um, if you want to hear some of the interesting theories that went around Milton, but there

[01:04:47] was quite a few tornadoes associated with those as well, that they're starting to get a

[01:04:51] lot of the data out on, um, tornado tornadoes.

[01:04:55] They always have to like pull data.

[01:04:57] And then you find out later that like, oh, it was an EF three that hit this area because

[01:05:02] they're pulling data off of them.

[01:05:03] Um, so rarely is it like the 20 foot wide tornado that went for, or the two mile wide,

[01:05:10] uh, tornado that went for 20 miles, you know, that's just a extraneous circumstance.

[01:05:15] So, um, they're starting to get more and more data out on that.

[01:05:19] We had a massive X class flare come off of our son.

[01:05:23] It was an X nine.

[01:05:24] And honestly, that one was really short duration.

[01:05:28] That's the one that I thought was gonna like bring it much more that do you remember me

[01:05:36] talking about that on the back channel?

[01:05:38] Like I was like this one guys eyes on this one.

[01:05:42] And it didn't, um, really affect us.

[01:05:45] And then we had this like smaller X class, but it was a long duration flare.

[01:05:50] And that's the one that sent Aurora all the way down to Cuba.

[01:05:52] Like people were seeing auroras in Cuba.

[01:05:57] So it's a major sign of the earth shielding being very too much too weak guys.

[01:06:08] This should not happen.

[01:06:09] Um, so we're definitely seeing some of the changes on our planet associated with this.

[01:06:15] So I would say that, um, just from what I've observed watching this stuff happen, obviously

[01:06:22] I'm not trained, um, at all.

[01:06:24] I'm just an observer.

[01:06:26] Um, the, the long duration events seem to be more impactful even than size.

[01:06:35] So it's really about how long that burst lasts.

[01:06:39] It's gonna depend on how it hits the planet.

[01:06:42] Okay, let's jump into it.

[01:06:43] So October 13th, 2024, there was 410 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[01:06:49] Biggest of which was a 5.5 southeast of Easter Island.

[01:06:53] Mount Adams in Washington state continuing to shake.

[01:06:58] And guys, if you are on the West coast, um, I am going to put a warning out about the

[01:07:04] volcanic activity.

[01:07:05] Um, I am concerned.

[01:07:07] I, um, know that they're on watch in Alaska right now.

[01:07:13] That they are showing, um, minor unrest on a lot of those.

[01:07:18] And the ring of fire is absolutely lighting up.

[01:07:22] Um, Kamchaka and Russia, they're erupting.

[01:07:26] I mean, Indonesia is going like crazy.

[01:07:28] Um, middle America, really the United States of America is the only place on the ring of

[01:07:34] fire.

[01:07:35] That's not erupting volcanically right now.

[01:07:37] Uh, so I'm, I am gonna like say you guys need to keep an eye on those volcanoes.

[01:07:43] And then once one goes, it can get the other ones going.

[01:07:46] They're thinking now that a lot of the magma is just huge chambers.

[01:07:50] They're actually all tied together, which seems very, very plausible to me with the earth changes

[01:07:57] that we've been experiencing and the effect that these, the solar is having on our planet.

[01:08:02] Um, that's bound to disrupt our internal workings of our metals and stuff like that.

[01:08:08] Um, so Mount Adams has been showing a lot of activity and, uh, definitely if I was on the

[01:08:14] west coast would keep my eye on those volcanoes.

[01:08:17] The Sahara desert is turning green guys.

[01:08:22] This should show you our poles are changing.

[01:08:26] The earth is changing.

[01:08:27] It's the changing earth news, right?

[01:08:29] It is happening right before our eyes.

[01:08:32] They literally received two.

[01:08:35] Um, they received a year's worth of rain in two days.

[01:08:40] So the desert is flooding.

[01:08:43] Um, and it's turning green like satellite wise, it's turning green again.

[01:08:47] Um, we know it was in the past in her earth history.

[01:08:50] It's amazing time to be alive.

[01:08:53] Um, there's so much that we don't know that we're going to experience.

[01:08:57] So, um, it's going to be a wild ride.

[01:08:59] Hold on tight.

[01:09:00] The solar also affects people's brains.

[01:09:03] So, uh, usually there's times of societal unrest during big, uh, um, solar activities.

[01:09:10] So there you go.

[01:09:12] October 14th, 2024, there was 330 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was

[01:09:17] a 5.2 in the South Pacific ocean near New Zealand.

[01:09:21] Singapore had a heavy rain event flooding there in Sri Lanka.

[01:09:26] They also had major flooding event in their capital of Colombo.

[01:09:30] Um, the roads were just flooding over there.

[01:09:33] Um, severe drought in Zambia causing electrical blackouts because there's no hydroelectric power.

[01:09:40] That's how, how low their water levels are right now.

[01:09:44] So we're definitely, I've been talking about this for months, seeing the extremes of the

[01:09:48] low pressures with the high pressures.

[01:09:50] You're either getting slammed with rain or you're not getting any, um, we haven't been

[01:09:54] getting very much down here in Texas at all.

[01:09:57] Um, on the 15th of October, there was 357 earthquakes or 2.0 or bigger.

[01:10:03] Biggest of which was a 5.3 in the Solomon sea near Papa New Guinea.

[01:10:07] Um, eight earthquakes in South Carolina over the weekend.

[01:10:12] So you've got to wonder how much the water affects, um, the earth.

[01:10:16] And that's pretty much what it's doing.

[01:10:19] South Carolina tends to move around a little bit more.

[01:10:21] I'm not really sure why, but, uh, they had eight earthquakes over the weekend.

[01:10:27] October 16th, 2024, there was 409 earthquakes or 2.0 or bigger.

[01:10:32] Biggest of which was a 6.1 earthquake in Turkey by Malatya.

[01:10:38] I'm sure I slaughtered that.

[01:10:40] I'm sorry for anyone over in Turkey.

[01:10:42] Um, luckily that was a little bit more of a rural area than the last major earthquake

[01:10:48] that happened in Turkey.

[01:10:49] Praise the Lord.

[01:10:50] So, um, not as much damage, not as much loss of life from that event.

[01:10:54] Still a big earthquake to happen there.

[01:10:56] Numbers coming in is that there's at least still 92 people missing in North Carolina.

[01:11:02] area after hurricane Helene.

[01:11:04] So, um, the search goes on there.

[01:11:09] Uh, in your neck of the woods chin.

[01:11:11] I'm so glad you guys are okay.

[01:11:13] It's crazy.

[01:11:15] Um, in Ellen's neck of the wood, Victoria, Australia, they had a major hail storm, six

[01:11:21] centimeters in size hail coming down.

[01:11:24] So we got to keep our eyes on the hail situation as well as we come into wintertime.

[01:11:29] They're supposed to be in there like springtime going into the wintertime.

[01:11:32] And then we're going to be in there like summer.

[01:11:33] So there's something very strange going on with that as well.

[01:11:38] They had major freezes.

[01:11:40] Um, it's been a very slow kickoff to their summer.

[01:11:43] We'll put it that way.

[01:11:44] And, uh, kind of a slow integration into our winter, but we're still in October.

[01:11:49] It's fall, you know, but they're supposed to be going into spring summertime.

[01:11:54] So it's been a very, very slow process there.

[01:11:58] October 17th, 2024, there was 400 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger biggest of which was

[01:12:04] in the South Pacific ocean near New Zealand in Bangalore, Bangalore, India.

[01:12:10] They had major flooding event.

[01:12:12] They've been getting hit, um, after hit over there as well.

[01:12:16] Sicily, Italy.

[01:12:17] I found this very interesting.

[01:12:19] The locals were without running water due to a massive drought.

[01:12:23] Keep that one in mind as we move on.

[01:12:26] October 18th, 2024, there was 321 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[01:12:31] Biggest of which was a 5.4 in the South or in the North Pacific ocean near Tokyo, Japan.

[01:12:37] France had major flooding event.

[01:12:40] Um, literally cars just bobbing down the road in the flood waters, much like we've seen.

[01:12:46] And the second dream of volcano in Japan, a woke up, it started erupting.

[01:12:53] Pakistan has had a major food crisis as droughts choking the farmlands out there.

[01:13:00] And then October 19th, 2024, 305 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[01:13:06] Biggest of which was a 5.3 and Makasar straight in Indonesia.

[01:13:12] There was five earthquakes off the Oregon coast.

[01:13:15] Just too much noise over there by those volcanoes for me to be real happy about it.

[01:13:20] Florida, the flooding from Milton still isn't subsiding.

[01:13:24] So normally the flood waters would be retreating, but that hasn't happened yet.

[01:13:28] Vancouver, Canada, they had flash flooding causing road closures.

[01:13:33] Arizona finally got some storms in.

[01:13:36] They had rain and hail and snow on their first storm.

[01:13:39] So you go from being hotter than heck and dry to just boom.

[01:13:42] There it is.

[01:13:43] Today, October 20th, there was 337 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[01:13:48] Biggest of which was a 5.4 in the South Pacific ocean near Fiji.

[01:13:53] Roswell, New Mexico, they had thunderstorms and flash flooding.

[01:13:57] They really needed the rain.

[01:13:59] Off the North Shore of BC, they had torrential rain flooding incident.

[01:14:04] And then Sicily, Italy.

[01:14:06] I told you to keep that one in mind because they were just in drought.

[01:14:10] Extreme flooding sweeps across the nation.

[01:14:13] So they literally went from famine to feast with the water situation.

[01:14:18] But you know, once it's that dry for that long, once you get that much rain, it just runs off.

[01:14:22] It can't absorb into the soil fast enough when it comes in that quickly.

[01:14:28] Hurricane Ashley is set to hit the UK today.

[01:14:31] It's packing 80 miles and 80 mile an hour winds with it.

[01:14:35] So we're going to see the news on that as we go into tomorrow.

[01:14:41] Tropical storm Nadine had its eyes set on Belize.

[01:14:45] We have one more down in the Gulf that's kind of forming.

[01:14:48] They think that one's going to turn out into the Pacific.

[01:14:52] Um, Kenya, Kalifi County, there was intervention to supply water to them.

[01:14:58] They're, they're having drought scenarios over there.

[01:15:02] West coast volcanic activity.

[01:15:04] So Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens, all making noise.

[01:15:09] And now they're measuring major magma intrusions in the three sisters volcanoes in Oregon.

[01:15:16] So that's why I am kind of, you know, yellow alerting up on, I wouldn't even put me possibly going into that orange level, right?

[01:15:27] We're at like yellow orange where I would be very concerned.

[01:15:31] I would have my eyes on it if I was living over there still.

[01:15:35] Um, medicine Lake in North Carol, Northern California is actually a giant shield volcano.

[01:15:41] They've had their eyes on that situation as well.

[01:15:44] And then also down below Mammoth is the long Valley called there, uh, another super volcano.

[01:15:50] That's a lot less well known than Yellowstone, a lot more likely that it would have a bigger eruption than Yellowstone.

[01:15:57] So I definitely am keeping my eyes on all of that.

[01:16:01] And the reason I'm keeping my eyes on all of that is because we currently have 35 volcanoes erupting on our planet.

[01:16:08] Used to be crazy to see like 28, 29.

[01:16:11] We've been pushing up those numbers for, you know, months now.

[01:16:16] Uh, we were at 36, three weeks ago.

[01:16:19] So yes, we have come down one on the eruption level, but we added two more to the minor activity level.

[01:16:27] So literally 35 erupting, 35 showing minor activity.

[01:16:34] That is a lot of volcanic activity, um, happening.

[01:16:37] I've never seen numbers like this and I've been watching it for years.

[01:16:40] Um, 24 volcanoes showing unrest.

[01:16:43] So currently we have 94 volcanoes on our planet showing some kind of activity.

[01:16:50] And, um, you know, you want to talk about car pollution or what people could do just one, the Long Valley Caldera alone, or, um, Campi Flegre over in Italy.

[01:17:02] That's showing mega activity and other super volcano.

[01:17:05] Just one of those volcanoes could put us in the dark for 40 years.

[01:17:08] I mean, what, what humans can do is nothing compared to what those volcanoes can do in a second.

[01:17:15] So, uh, it is, I am a little concerned about that.

[01:17:19] That's why I was like, the earth is like, yeah, yeah.

[01:17:21] Okay.

[01:17:21] You guys got some stuff going on.

[01:17:23] Well, you know, you really need to pay attention to the natural world that you live in.

[01:17:29] Um, wildfires in the United States.

[01:17:31] We are still at a preparedness level four.

[01:17:34] We have three new large fires in the United States.

[01:17:38] Twenty seven total, a total of 1,162,000 acres on fire.

[01:17:43] One of those fires is contained.

[01:17:45] Idaho was the number one state on fire, which is also in, uh, in magma zone.

[01:17:52] So, um, nine fires, 473,000 acres, zero contained.

[01:17:59] Number two is Oregon.

[01:18:01] Again, we've been talking about magma on the move there.

[01:18:04] Seven fires, 244,000 acres, zero contained.

[01:18:08] Number three is Wyoming.

[01:18:10] Two fires, 185,000 acres.

[01:18:13] None of those are contained.

[01:18:14] Number four on the list is California.

[01:18:16] California.

[01:18:17] They do have one new fire.

[01:18:18] They have four fires total, 55,422 acres.

[01:18:23] So they're actually doing pretty good.

[01:18:26] But yeah, there we go.

[01:18:27] So make sure you get your mesh test at comms up guys, because I just don't know what things

[01:18:33] look like, uh, right about now.

[01:18:35] And that's why I'm really encouraging you to enjoy, um, every day.

[01:18:41] We're so blessed to have each day and not enough time is spent thanking Jesus and the

[01:18:50] Lord for the many happy days that we do get to have.

[01:18:54] And, uh, we're going to need to really hold onto them.

[01:18:57] Um, you know, when we saw what happened where you're at, Jen, you know, it was an instant

[01:19:02] reminder of like, wow.

[01:19:06] Okay.

[01:19:07] I mean, we deal with some hurricanes out here in Texas, Louisiana, right?

[01:19:13] I, I've never seen come out of the mountains and just seen mountains just sheared off,

[01:19:20] like just dirt gone, um, piles of cars and tires on the side of the road.

[01:19:28] And I went back the, the turnoff right there.

[01:19:33] When like you turned by the sign for the camping ground, there was a mudslide right there.

[01:19:37] Yes.

[01:19:38] Yeah.

[01:19:39] Right there.

[01:19:40] Yeah.

[01:19:41] We were so blessed to be like, nothing happened to orchard lake.

[01:19:46] Cause literally the waterfalls were just rushing out of those hills.

[01:19:50] That's a good one.

[01:19:52] Right.

[01:19:53] So, I mean, if we didn't, we've got to learn as we go.

[01:19:57] And I don't think, uh, enough of us spend time, um, being grateful for all the good things

[01:20:02] that we have in the world and, uh, realizing how precious they are and how important it is to

[01:20:08] defend them.

[01:20:10] So.

[01:20:10] Yep.

[01:20:11] There we go.

[01:20:13] Alrighty.

[01:20:13] Well, we need to get the heck out of here.

[01:20:15] We will be back next week, another great show.

[01:20:18] And then the week after that, we'll be family feuding it out.

[01:20:21] We're going to have a binge day.

[01:20:22] We're going to have fun.

[01:20:23] It'll be election day.

[01:20:25] Um, it'll be all kinds of good, good times.

[01:20:27] And then after that week, we're going to start playing the audio drama again.

[01:20:31] And, Oh buddy, hold on to your seats guys.

[01:20:35] Chin knows what's coming.

[01:20:39] So hold on.

[01:20:40] It's going to be a wild ride.

[01:20:41] Oh, um, I have books on sale because I bought too many books for prepper camp.

[01:20:47] And obviously we didn't sell too many books in a hurricane.

[01:20:50] So I have books, the whole book sale.

[01:20:53] I've never sold it.

[01:20:54] So cheap, a hundred bucks for all 10 novels.

[01:20:58] You want a good Christmas present, something like that.

[01:21:01] Head on over to changing earth.

[01:21:02] This is the last print of the original cover.

[01:21:06] So after this, they are gone never to be seen again.

[01:21:10] Um, and like I say, I got them all on sale.

[01:21:12] So if you're interested, head on over there, pick them up.

[01:21:15] I send them out signed.

[01:21:16] You can do a little special message if you want for your loved one.

[01:21:19] But, um, I appreciate you guys helping me out.

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