TACTICAL TUESDAY: Workplace Preparedness and EDC on Reality Check

You've just joined the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. The views and opinions expressed are strictly those of the host or their guests. Visit us in the interactive chat room at prepper broadcasting dot com. Oh, good evening everyone. I hope everybody's having a great evening this Friday. See am I Gray is in the chat room. Good evening to you, m I Gree, I hope everything's going good. My name is Michael Klein. For those of you tuning in that have never heard us before, this is reality Check. Hey. If you're listening to us on blog, talk radio or some kind of other streaming service, we invite you to switch over to prepperbroadcasting dot com and join our chat room. Now. For those of you listening tonight that are listening live, you may or may not be having a problem with the chat. So if you're trying to log in and the chat's going, can't dustplay or whatever, just keep hitting F five or refresh or you know, close and reload it. 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If you are listening to us and you're on the internet tonight and you're like, you know what, normally I'm not on the internet. I'm driving down the road and I don't have a way to Uh. Hey, ek finally made it end, So I guess the chat's starting to clean up. But if you don't have a way to listen to us on the internet, or you can't connect in and whatnot. You can actually call and listen to us on the phone. So if you call the number three four seven two zero two zero two two eight, you can actually listen to the show. You get dropped in. You can hear me talking. If you want to ask a question or have a topic you want to talk about, press the number one. When you press one, you get dropped into the queue and you can actually talk to me live on the air, or you can ask your topic live on the air and we can chat back and forth, you know, on the air. So that's always a good thing. That number again, three four seven two zero two zero two two eight, if you can't connect to us online. So I see some people getting in the chat room. Hopefully everybody can hear me in there. Somebody in the chat room can say, yes, we can hear you. I will continue on. Otherwise I'm just gonna sit here in babble for a few minutes because hopefully, yes, sirs, I'm guessing I'm guessing Pappy saying yes, sirs, I hear you. There we go all right, so we know we're audio is getting down all right. So I'm gonna give a little aside here, just because the last few shows that I've done kind of interesting the way that the material that I've chosen, and then what's happening in the news. So I'm gonna let you all in on a little secret. The show tonight is not about the shootings. It's not about you know, the stuff that's in the news. But it actually does tie in. But that's not what I'm doing the show on, and that's not the reason why I'm doing the show. When I do good to prepare's show, it takes me about two weeks to do it. So I have a lot of stuff that are hey, Pappy's called in good good for you there, Pappy, see it does work. You can call in and listen to us on the phone number. What I do is I get ideas and I think, you know, I want to talk about that, or hey, you know, that'd be a really good topic. And it takes me about two weeks to develop a show. So what happens is about a week before the show airs, I start typing out a description that's going to go online, and then I start typing out about my show. You know, I start typing out my show notes that I'm actually going to read from and so when you hear the show that I'm doing, it's not because hey, you know it's in the news. I'm gonna co that. What's actually happening, apparently is I'm doing the show and then it's in the news. I mean literally, like I did the show on Survivor Guilt, and literally within twenty four hours they had the Amtrak derailment that happened, you know, literally like forty miles south of my house, and you know, there were passengers injured, some others were just fined. And I watched one of the brothers of the engineer that died tell his story, and dang if you couldn't see some of the triggers that I discussed on Survivor Guilt. So two weeks ago, uh yeah, two weeks ago. Now I started planning for the work press preparedness because if you were with his last Friday, blood Talk was having a little bit of problems and that didn't shut that show didn't go. So what I'm talking about tonight was actually supposed to be talked about last Friday. But now it's been two weeks. So I started planning for work press preparedness and it was based on an unrelated event. But then we have the shootings in Florida. So here's what I propose. I think my next show is I'm going to do on what reps you need to buy after you win the lottery, because that way everybody listening to me tonight will be winning the lottery. Can you do a show on me winning the lottery? Am I Gray? I really hope you didn't just type that in. Well, I hope you just type that in because of what I just said, because if not, then that is going to be super freaky that I just mentioned about buying preps to win the lottery and who you are topping in the chat room about winning the lottery? Because if that's the case, that is scary freaky. But hopefully you heard me say lottery and that's why you typed it in. But anyway, I will end my little aside now and get on with the show. But just see all know it takes me like two weeks to put a show together. So when I talk about something, it's not because I've been watching the news. It's because I was thinking about it and then the news apparently has been watching me. So anyway, ek Cast to that effect. So we all prepare to take care of our families, and I hope that we all carry supplies and a medical kit in our vehicles. You know, we all have our bug out bags, we all have our e DC bags, we all have the stuff that we should have in our in our vehicles and whatnot. And I know a lot of us out there carry an EDC bag EDC meaning every day carry. It is your purse, it is your backpack, it is whatever you were carrying on you at all times. And it doesn't have to be a bag. It can be your pockets. So a lot of people's EDC state EDC inventory will be, you know, just a pistol and a knife and maybe a flashlight, a cell phone and some cash. Some people carry a backpack, someple have a purse or whatever. But what we're going to be asking is what do you actually carry in your EDC. So I'm going to be referencing a bag, but it could be your pockets as well. So excluding firearms and a means of protecting yourself, So we're not asking what kind of pistols or what kind of firepower you carry. We all understand that we should be carrying something if you choose to do that. If not, then hey, pepper spray or stun batons or whatever you want to carry, that's fine. But what do you all carry in your EDC? And I'm asking this to the people in the chat room that can be interactive. So this is your question tonight. I want your suggestions. I want you to start typing it in stuff. So, to those in the chat room, excluding firearms, what items do you carry in your EDC? Now I'm not talking about a bug out bag. I'm talking about your get home bag, your everyday carry bag, things that you go to work, you know, that kind of thing. And when I say, we're also thinking grid up, so we're not thinking grid down. This is your normal Monday to Friday, eight to five type of stuff. So you get up, you put this stuff on your backpack or whatever, and you go to work and you're driving a truck or whatever and you're coming home. This is not SHTF, every day normal grid stuff. What do you carry in your EDC bag? So I'm seeing a lot of things coming in. Yep, that's pretty good. Lighter, bandana, multitools, phone, lighter, fire starter, yep, a compass that's not a good one, munchies, yep, snacks and stuff. Pocket dump. Here you go do a pocket dump. So keys, flashlight, thumb drives. That's a good one. Cliff Bar another good one. Well, Pappy, I know because you exercise so much. There's actually a verse in the Bible that says only the wicked run without being chased. So that's why I don't run. Alrighty, how many of you carry ben a drill? So think about it. If a coworker has a peanut allergy and they're having a reaction, this is gonna be SHTF for them. So do you carry Ben a drill? What if the coffee pot and we're gonna be talking like an office setting, what if the coffee pot shatters and someone's arm gets cut really really deep, that's gonna be an SHTFC situation for them. So again, while we're on the chat to build a little bit, let me give you some ideas. So as first we said benadrill, how about a pultzalc scimeter? Literally, how many people of y'all carry a pox? So here's a real world example. But I have a couple of weeks ago had a man pass out for no reason and he suffers a concussion. He's knocked out and you're not sure if he's breathing or if he has a pulse. Do any of y'all carry a signal mirror or a mirror that you can stick under his nose to see if he's breathing? If not, do you carry a little thirty dollars pult sox from Walgreens. You slap it on a finger and instantly you can tell the pulse and you can tell the two SATs. You can know if he's breathing, you can know if he has a pulse, and you can tell what state he might be in due to the numbers. So you know, those are the kind of things we're going to be thinking about tonight. So who all carries an IFAC I fact being individual first aid kit? I'm sure everybody carries a first aid kit. What about a swat tea or soft tea tourniquet? Do you know what those are? Do you know how to use them? Do you know what's the difference between a swat tea and a soft tea tourniquet? When you built your I fact, did you build it just to suit your needs? Did you think about your coworkers and maybe your family. You know you you built the first aid kit. You got it. That's great, But did you think about only treating yourself or maybe one other person? Or are you thinking about treating several people? You know, maybe three or four people and you're in your I facts. Do you have enough roll gauze and enough two by twos or enough four by fours to handle a wound that is really really bleeding? Okay, j Freggie, you're gonna start jumping ahead here again. Jay Freggie is on top of it tonight. Baby, I swear she's hacked into my computer and reading my script. So do you do you have enough gaus? Do you have enough two by twos or four by fours to handle a major wound? Again, going back to that coffee pop thing. You know, band aids that we all have in our first aid kits are fine for scuts and scrapes, but again, in an office setting, somebody drops a coffee pot, even though it's tempered glass. If you drop it on the corner or something, that glass is gonna shatter, and you know, the hot coffee and sharp glass. Do you have enough stuff to deal with that? What if someone does pass out or faints or whatever, or slips and they cut their head and there's a very large gash in their head. Do you have enough supplies in your ifact to treat them or you only worried about yourself? Do you carry non latex gloves because some people have latex allergies? You know? Do you carry burn spray? So again, hot coffee or someone just microwaves and they're about to put four hundred degree food in their mouth and it dribbles all over their chin or whatever or whatever reason, somebody burns themselves. Do you carry burn spray in your EDC bag? You know, the hot coffee, the tea, the toast or can all cause minor burns. So do you carry some kind of medical spray to deal with that? You may never need these, but you know if your coworker does, they're gonna be very very appreciative of it. So, I said Ben, A drill that can also be any kind of anti allergy medicine, because there's gonna be a lot of people out there that've got peanut allergies, chocolate allergies, milk allergies, and perfume allergies. Now think about this perfume allergy. So you're getting on to an elevator with an older woman and she's wearing a gallon of Chanelle number five. That's going to trigger somebody's allergy if they're not careful and they're going to go into anaphylaxis. Do you know how to recognize the symptoms of that? And do you know how to treat someone that's gone into anaphylactic shock? You know, again, do you carry the ben a drill and it's not the bena drill tablets, it's benadryl fast melt tnadrill liquid or something that can be administered if a person can't swallow or if they can't breathe. You know, you got to think about that. And then getting to Jay Fergie, do you carry an N ninety five mask or an emesis bag? Do you carry some kind of N ninety five mask in case there's a fire or there's a problem with the air? You know what if somebody hits the building, like physically runs into the building and like the ceiling tiles fall. If you have ever messed with the dropped ceiling, you know how much the dust and the debris fall out of those things. You know, if you bumped the bump a ceiling tile. You know, there's like a waterfall of dirt falling out of there. So any kind of earthquake, tornado, you know, dukes of hazard driver hits the wall, causes a lot of shaking. You know, that's the kind of thing you're gonna be thinking about. I mean, heck, even in my building, I'm work in a really old building. If you drop a case of printer paper, you're going to cause ceiling tiles to fall. We had a supply guy come up and he had a like five cases of printer paper on a dolly and he went to go put down the dolly and the thing fell. The stack toppled over and with the two or three things of paper, two or three rings of paper hitting the floor or the cases of in the floor, that was enough that it shook basically my entire floor, and like four ceiling tiles fell, and of course there's dust and everything else. And don't even get me started on this best to start of it. So do you carry in ninety five respirator mask? Because if something bad and happens the ceiling's gonna come down, are you gonna be able to breathe all that? So I'm gonna go ahead and take a break here real quick. I'm gonna read back through the chat and check some of these. I can see some reud or really good stuff, and I wanna make sure we include all of it. So g man, take us to break real quick while I cruise the chat. I have to put some of that lumitee in my bag if it's for aches and pains and whatnot lately. So reading back through the chat room, So for those of you listening on the podcast that don't have the chat, here's some of the ideas we have. Of course, a folding knife, a knife sharpener. I actually do carry one of those. I have a little small wet stone that I carry with me. H benadrill, an EpiPen med kit, trauma kit. Several people have turn tourniquets, an IBD meds, including aspirin that always melt, so melt aspirin, you know, melt town and all that kind of good stuff. Uh. Several people said swat Teas got a lot of their stuff from Doom and Bloom. And by the way, Doom and Bloom they have some really great products. So I'm sponsor, they're not a sponsor of me. I got no skin in the game. But I've met them both, both doctor Bones and Nurse Amy. Those are some awesome people. I have a lot of their stuff. I have some of their dental kits. I have their their tourniquets that they have, the softy tourniquets, really really good stuff for them. Let's see. Jay Fergy says, have a first aid kit with suture and N ninety five mask. Yeah, of course she's got a suture kit. That woman carries a mash hospital with her everywhere she goes. Uh wound closure stuff, uh snacks, jerky am I Gray post the Dark Angel Dark kit and he post a link to Dark Angel Medical dot com. He says, the kit goes with me everywhere. I'm gonna have to check that out. Somebody else says in ninety five five masks, yes, mask, gloves and a mask every day on the duty belt. Yeah, you know for the paramedics, nemts, and you know that's one of the things they carry everywhere, is gloves and masks and whatnot. It would not hurt you to carry a pair or two pair of non latex gloves, you know, nitrite or whatever around with you, you know, And it's not just somebody's bleeding. You know, your dog messes on the carpet and just goes absolutely everywhere, and you've got to clean that up. It's really nice to have a pair of gloves to clean up dogs. So it doesn't have to be SHTF, and it doesn't have to be blood and guts. It can be you know, cleaning puke out of something. Let's see edc purse, gun in the purse, yep. Do to do jerky jerky, jerky books, cash change, yeah, extra cash, extra pair of undies. Now, Jay Fergie's got it right. That's something I carry with me is a change of clothing. I think I cover that. Yeah, I cover that little later on, but yeah, a pair of change of clothes, blood clot powder, playing cards. Now that's a good one. I hadn't thought of. But you know, when the cell phones go down and the EMP hits, you know we're gonna have to play solitaire someway and sometimes we're gonna have to do it manually. Saw your mini filter flashlights. Change of clothes in the car yep, very very good. So speaking of changing clothes and puke and everything else, I'll get back onto the Emesis bag. So an Emesis bag is a bark bagged to the non medical folks. And there are times when I have gotten sick and I did not think I could make it to the restroom. And as in my grace says in the chat room, t M I, but you know, hey, what reality can slap you in the face. And so that's why it's called reality check for a reason. In my building, everybody loves Wednesdays because the company caters for lunch. So where I work, the company usually caters in food for lunch. What if when the food they brought in was actually tainted and it got people got food poisoning and they start yaking all over the place. You know, I don't want my TPS reports ruined, So I carry an Emesis bag because sometimes you might not make it to the bathroom and quick in enough time. Elks in the chat room says a cooking kit, yep, a little small little kit or cooking kit. Jay Fergie says, you know, pads and tampons because they're good for gunshot wounds. So you know, even guys, you know, you're thinking that's that's weird, but hey, man, MAXI pads are small, they're lightweight, they they're folded up and they absorb a lot of material. And it does have to be blood, it can be you know, any liquid it'll absorb all right. How about glow sticks? How many people in here carry ecstasy with them? And you pop a roll and get your yourn, your mixed vapor rubout, you do your glow sticks and your pat Maybe I'm sharing too much with you people. How many of y'all carry glow sticks? Well, here's the reason why some people do. YEP good as secondary flares. Well, here's a wake up call, and EMP is going to fry an LED flashlight. So if you've got an LED flashlight and even some lithium ion batteries, those are going to be gone after an EMP or a CMME event. Believe it or not, a lot of lithium ion batteries require control circuitry to limit currents and stuff, and this is built into the battery. So the little small cell phone batteries maybe not so much, but sometimes double a's and especially anything that's run in like a power tool, those lithium ion batteries have got circuitry built into them to keep them safe and in an EMP or CEME, those are going to be gone. So if you've got a device that's not in a fair day cage that uses lithium ion, chances are it's going to be gone. And an LED flashlight certainly qualifies as an electronic device. So if you've got all your flashlights as l great, but just as fy if and EMP hits, they're gone. So what I do is I carry a couple of green and white callum light sticks, and that way, if my flashlight doesn't work or something as a problem, I actually have a source of light. I also carry them so that in the event that there is a problem with my building, I can drop them in my stairwell, so as I'm running down the stairwell or running up the stairwell, I can pop a few of those and throw them in the stairwell. Reason why is this In an emergency, people are going to be panicking, people are going to be going crazy, and a light source in the stairwell, especially a dark stairwell or hallway, you know, it could be a lifesaver. We hope that the emergency lighting is going to work, but we don't know because they're on all the time, and those those batteries only get changed for once a year, and nobody ever really really tested by going downstairs and just cutting the power to the building and seeing what happens. Let's see in the chat room, I'm seeing no glow sticks for the TSA. TSA does not approve of the glow sticks. So if you're flying, can't have glow sticks. But otherwise it might be an idea. Another person in the chat says, zofran and a small number of pain pills. All right, Jay, friggin e f e K, what does zofran do? I know that's a pill. I knows something, but I have no idea what it is because I'm not a doctor. So y'all please a nause you okay, Anti knowledge and medication, that is a good one that I had not thought of. So kudos to y'all for that one. Anti naledge in medicine. That's a really good one, especially when you're having in the sitting in the meeting with Carl and giving his sales figures. All right, what about a change of clothes and I don't mean jeans in the hiking boots, So yes, you can have your change of clothes in the car that you know you're wearing your business attire. Something goes crazy you go out to your car, you change clothes, you put on your hiking boots, you put on your your jeans, and then you still go trump through the woods making a direct line to your bug out location or whatever. No, I'm talking about your dress clothes. I'm talking about your business attire. Do you carry a spare pair of underwears, khakis, polos, skirts, dresses? You know? Do you carry a button down shirts? Something that if you're in the if you're in an office setting and you're in business attire and something goes wrong, do you have a change of clothes? So? How often do we spill a cup of coffee on us? Or we drop greasy food? You know, we go to you make it all through the morning. Your meeting is at one o'clock that afternoon, and you go to lunch and you go to eat something and you drop it off your fork and it hits the plate and it splatters all the grease and juice that was in your plate all over your shirt. And now you've got to go to the meeting with that. And you know, shot wipes are really good, but all the kids are eating them, so you know, shot wipes might not be available for very long. So carry an extra shit, an extra you know, set of clothes. It might be beneficial to think about that. You know, I carry underwear. I carry a polo, and I care a pair of khakis and socks in my EDC bag. Again, if something goes wrong, I carry the spare polo and a pair of dress pants in my bag, and I have them in food Saver bags. So what I did is I put my pants and underwear and a shirt, everything in a food Saver bag and then vacuum sealed it and it sucked it down. It reduced the space. It makes them very flat. And in the event of a massive coffee spill or a massive unexpected revenge of Montezuma, I don't have to embarrass myself. I don't have to go home. I don't have to walk, you know, do a walk of shame down to my car. I just grabbed my bag, walk to the bathroom and change. So all right to the chat room. Somebody says, so zo friends good for nausea. Uh, small bottle of mixed meds and modium yep amodium ad gas X is another good one. Let's see. Make sure all of your meds are properly labeled. If they're prescription. Yes, So if you're carrying some kind of prescription medicine or some kind of regulated medicine, please, for the love of God, make sure that it's in its original bottle, make sure your name is on it, and make sure you have a prescription for it, because if you dump all those pills in a ziplock bag like I used to do, you're going to get someone like Ek after you. Because I used to have talanol and aspirin and amodium ad and iduprofund and all kinds of good stuff in a ziplock bag and it's like, I know what it is, I know what I want to take. And then it was casually pointed out to me by Ek that yes, but if you ever get pulled over, they're not going to know what that is and you're probably gonna have some explaining to do. And I was like, ah, yeah, that's a good idea. So keep your meds in the bottle, you know, even if it's a small bottle, Just keep your meds in the bottle. Make sure the bottle is labeled. If it's prescription, please make sure your name is on it. Oh, it says in the state that Jay Fergie is in. It is a misdemeanor for each loose pill and a felony for each one that's under a control. So like guess that'd be a narcotic type thing. That nub in the chat says, spare uniform. Yep. That's another good one if you if you work where you're having to change clothes, or you've got a company assigned uniform, it's always good to have a spare uniform somewhere. Extra shoes, that's a good one. Tarp's small blanket, the reflective my lar blanket, Yep, that's a good one to keep in a d C bag. So for those of you that are in the chat room, here's a question to you. Why would you carry a milar blanket in your ed C bag. You're just going back and forth to work, it's no big deal. Why might what's the what's the situation that you could think of where you might need a my lard blanket? Yep, yep, they got it. So Jay, Fergie post it holds the heat. That nub post shock, and that's is absolutely right. So again going back into our dude knocked unconscious coffee pot shatters everywhere, you know, blood loss, and what and not like that people are going to go into shock. And when people go into shop, their body temperature is gonna plummet and they're gonna have all kind of problems. So those little reflective blankets, you know, that's not just your bugout tent, there's all that those can save lives for people that are that are going into shock. And also as that nub says rain catchment and you can signal planes, so other items we can think of. Let's see here chewing gum. Chewing gum is good to calm the nerves and it's also an adhesive. So little backstory. I was thirteen going camping with the Boy Scouts and we had our water picture and our water We had a five gallon of water jug. And the water jug sprung a leak and would not hold water. And just so happens, I was chewing a piece of gum and so I had chew chewed it, chewed it, chewed all the sugar out of it. We turned the water jug over, I cleaned it, I took my gum, I slapped the gum on the bottom of the water jug. We filled it back up and it lasted us the entire weekend and never leaked. And then after it was over and we got back to the scout hook, I took my gum back off of the water jug and threw it in the trash and started chew. And again I'm just kidding. I didn't do that. Yeah, I really did. He k didn't know about that. Germ X hand sanitizer. Well, pap says some type of hat. Yeah, hat's a really good one. To have an empty water bottle. That's another good one. Chapstick or lip bomb, you know that's not really needed maybe during the summer, but during the winter, uh, you know, when the winds are blowing, chapstick or some kind of lip bomb can be really really good. We've all already a little bit bad guy. We've already mentioned the common meds like talanol, ibuprofen. Pepto bismol is another good one. Gas X. You know, some kind of tombs or rolades, uh, snail snail mix, trail mix or snacks crackers. Pa Papy was mentioned that earlier. You know, beef jerkey, some kind of some kind of calorie mix. I saw handkerchief or bandana earlier. You know, if you've got a schmog or a cafia anything like that. How about sugar tablets, So you think about it. If you've got a coworker and they've got a problem where they're sugar bottoms out, having a sugar tablet or sugar packet, you know, can be really really good thing. No I said, I said, I started to say snacks like trail mix or crackers, but I got it mixed up. No, I did not say anything bad geezh. Safety pins is another one someone mentioned in the chat room. Yep, I carry safety pins with me, and no, I don't have the little safety pin thing that I put on my shirt that you know. Anyway, if you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then sorry. So anyway, all right, chat room, keep it coming. So next part. So we've got a few items to add to our EEDC and we're gonna keep reading off some of those. But having the items is only going to be half of the equation. You need to educate yourself on the use of them and the emergency procedures. So are you trained in first aid? Are you trained in CPR? Do you have some kind of medical knowledge? Do you know how to use an ad machine if the company has one, if there's ones around, you know, one thing you can do is run through the list of possible scenarios that might happen at your workplace and you know, figure out how to do it. And that can be in an office building or can you even be on the traveling on the road. So for those of you that are truckers out there listening to us, I appreciate what you do. You keep this country moving and that's your workspace, that's your office in the semi So this is what we're talking about there too. So again going back to the faint thing, what do you do if someone faints? Do you know how to deal with someone fainting? Do you know how to deal with someone that is unconscious if they've hit their head or if they've got a severe concussion or something. Do you know how to deal with all that? You know? Do you know how to test for pupil dilation? Where you take Oh, that's the air conditioner. I didn't know what that was. It sounded like it was raining here, but it's the air conditioner. Sorry squirrel. Do you know how to test for pupil dilation with a flashlight? So you know, the medical people out there, Yeah, but some of us that don't have any medical experience, you know, learn how to use if someone faints, learn how to use the flashlight to check pupil dilation. You know, if someone's having a seizure or the diabetic blackout, or they're choking. Do you know how to deal with someone that's choking? Do you how to deal with all that? Again? Do you know how to use an ad so? Osha, believe it or not. Osha actually had a really good quote in one of their manuals that I was digging through, and it says, quote, it takes more than just willing hands to save lives. Untrained individuals may endanger themselves and those they are trying to rescue. And that is actually a really good thing. Is that, you know, if you're trying to help somebody and you don't have training, you could do more damage. Now, you might want to educate yourself on the Good Samaritan Law and figure out, you know how that how much that covers you. But you know, learn how to do stuff so that if you're not just you know, you've got your stuff, learn how to use it. That way you're not endangering yourself for anybody else when you're trying to rescue somebody. Let's see Jay Fergie says, emergency number is attached to your shirt. Spare eyeglasses, Yes, spare sunglasses, contacts if you've got them, so contacts, contact wash, spare sunglasses, and prescription eyeglasses. Toothbrush loss and toothpaste. Yep, I carry those in my EDC. I carry those because I have to go to meetings pretty often, and you know, after I've had a really big, nice, fat, juicy cheeseburger with with loads and loads of white onions, I need to brush my teeth. Am I grace says I AM radio and two intennas depending on where I travel. Yep, I carry a little HT with me. Uh Pappy says I wear a road id bracelet for others to easily find my emergency contact. Yeah, if you've got any kind of medical issue, then you probably already carry the medical ID type bracelet. But dog tags for those of you that have dog tags or maybe still have your dog tags you know were in those or make have a pair of may have a little bit have a pair made that you can wear. You know, dog tags would be a really good thing, A good jacket regardless of the weather. Yeah. Actually I carry a coat with me. Well's you would call it a coat, but it's a jacket, and I carry it even then the summer because I never know when I'm going to need it. And it's not just for the cold. It can be if I'm going into a freezer or a cold area where there's like a cold storage. But also it makes a really nice pillow just to kind of roll it up and lay on the grass. So can't hurt to learn sliding scale. Now, Jay Fergue may have to Jay fergure e k may need to elaborate on that sliding scale. Learn the sliding scale. You need to know it for coworker if anything ever happens that Nub says, most ads will tell you what to do step by step. Yes they do, but it also it also benefits to to know how to use the ad PAP in the chat room, says road I D dot Com r o A D I D dot Com. Uh oh okay, So the sliding scales for the diabetics, yeah, I do. I think Aka has mentioned that once or twice about something. But anyway, yeah, learn how to deal with diabetics people around you will be diabetic and you won't even know it. And if they get too much sugar or not enough sugar, they're going to have a bad day. And do you know how to deal with that? So this is all really really great advice. I appreciate y'all jumping in on this. So I'm sure everybody listening has a firearm. Pretty much everybody has an AR fifteen, and I'm pretty sure everybody would agree that just because you have the tool does not mean that you know how to use it effectively or to its full potential. And these are going to be the same things for your EDC items, So again, learn how to use stuff. Just because you have the I fact does not guarantee that you can save lives. Perhaps says emergency whistle. Now that's a good one. I do not have into my bag as an emergency whistle. All right, we're gonna shift gears here real quick and do some pr HR crap. So this is going to be more towards those that work in an office, particularly multi story buildings. I work in a third story a three story building, and it's really old, and it's you know, kind of rickety and would be really really bad in a fire. So do you know the evacuation routes of your company? So, for your business either one story a multi story, do you know your evacuation routes? Have you ever taken the time to actually read your company's evacuation plans? Do you know what your company's emergency preparedness plans are? You know? Have you ever read your company's business comp Annuity Plan? So Patty in the chat room says, yes, he has, he developed it, and some of you probably have. Some of you've probably written the BCPs and written your dr kind of stuff and your mean time to recovery and all that kind of good stuff. But if you haven't, you know, it's a lot of corporate mumbo jumbo, but you know it can benefit you to read the company's plans. So do you know where the safe places are in your company? Have you scoped that out? You know? Do you know where to shelter for if there's an earthquake or if there's a tornado, or if there's an active shooter. You know, you get a disgruntled employee. Do you know which walls in your building are support walls? Do you know which ones are drywall? You know, if you go back to some of my previous shows, I talk about taking the backer board and building part of your house with backerboard so that you have cover, not just concealment, but actual cover. Something you know that has a ballistics kind of coefficient to it. So let's see chat Room says that Nub says, speaking of good Samaritan laws, I got a liability umbrella for the insurance company that covers me in case I do something stupid. Dude, that is an awesome idea. Talk to your insurance agent, proof the people that are doing your insurance, either house or or car, and say, you know, hey, look I have a tendency to try to help people and save lives. Is there some kind of umbrella that I can purchase that that saves me? That Nub says, it's very cheap, like ten bucks a month, So that is stupid worth it. I will actually check that out. That is a heck of an idea that NUB us as preppers, and just by our very nature, we're gonna be We're gonna be trying to help people to an extent. I mean, you know, we're gonna let the sheep go to slaughter, but you know, if we can save some of them. We will. But that is a that's a hell of an idea. Uh, someone says in my grace says, get a trauma med class. Yep, take take trauma med class. Take you an an EMT class, or you know, if nothing else, go to go to your local college and sign up for some some paramedics classes. That NUB says that insurance policy also covers if someone breaks into your house and cuts themselves and whatnot. Ek says, please get training first to know what you're doing in all major certification situations and whatnot. So those are really really good ideas. So I mentioned active shooter a minute ago, So do you know how to deal with an active shooter? And when I say do you know how to deal with active shooter? I'm not talking about returning fire? No, we're not talking about returning power. Not all of us are allowed to carry firearms in our company. Some of us, WAH are limited to knives and tactical pens. And you know it's not just you. You know, do you know how to avoid or handle panic people? So this is when I was eluded this minute ago, the sheep disc kind of thing. Do you know how to handle a large group of people. Do you know how to avoid panicked people? So, if something goes wonky in your business, people are gonna run. Do you know where to go to avoid them? You know, I don't know if y'all know this, but a larger group of people, especially a larger group of scared persons, is very dangerous in that they are not going to make a logical decision. You know, something goes wrong, herd mentality is going to take over. Herd mentality is very, very bad. Let's see, let's check the chat room here real quick. Tell you what, Let's take a break real quick. Let me read through some of the stuff on the chat make sure I'm not missing anything, and we will be right back. Gu Man, how about it? Yes you will. That is good sound advice, medical kits. So in the chat room, we're saying baseball bats, golf clubs, braided rubber hose. One of the guys carries all that stuff in his office. You know, you can have whips and chains and you know, certain leather products too. If you've got an office or a playpen, depending on you know, who's in the office and what you're doing, what you're you know, hey me, that may be your office. You know, I'm not gonna knock that. There may be some of the people listening to the chat that your office is a dungeon and you have a dungeon master and that's your your thing. You know, you need to make sure your clientele is actively protected if someone if someone forgets to say the safe word and things go south, you know you need to be here prepared for that. You think it's funny, but you know you've really really stop to think about it, that uh, that could happen. So anyway, we'll get back to shooting people. So what I was talking about a minute ago is with herd mentality takes over, you need to know how to deal with people that are scared and running. You need to know how you need to know how to react. I appreciate that, Eka, I'm gonna take that as a compliment. You need to know how to be prepared to guide people to safety or avoid them and get yourself out of danger. So again, reading the books, you can figure out where your chop points are in your office. So I encourage you to go back and watch some videos of recent mass shootings in recent disasters. So there's Columbine, there's the Aurora theater shooting in Colorado, there's the Kenya Mall, there's you know what's in the news lately right now with Florida and all that kind of good stuff. But seriously, go back and go on YouTube or go on vimeo and start looking if you can at unedited amateur footage of mass shootings or mass casualty or or something went wrong and people started running. Look for the patterns, look the way, Look how people behave, Watch how people run, Watch how people cover. Start learning how the herd mentality works, so that when something does happen, you may have an advantage. You know, if there's an in case in the gunman, let's say, you know, active shooter or disgruntling employee, and everybody's screaming and running, do you know where to go in your office? Do you know if your desk or office has enough sectional density to stop a bullet? You know? One thing to think about is a ballistic clipboard or ballistic backpack. And again, I wrote this show two weeks ago, so I swear I did not write this show based on the news. I think the news did this. I think the news is based on my show. But a ballistic clipboard or ballistic backpack. That's something that I carry. I actually have a little insert that I put in my EEDC bag. I actually have a backpack like a student's backpack. It's not camo, it's black, and it's designed to stop a bullet. That won't stop a rifle around maybe or they might stop five five six. I don't know if it'll stop seving six two, but it will certainly stop handgun AMMO. So you know, if you have a backpack, chances are there's the laptop packet. You know. Try I want to get one of these little inserts. Now, granted they're probably off the wall right now because of what's happening in Florida. The price of those is gone way up. But give it a little bit and I'm sure there's prices to come down. And if you just if you google like hardwire or a bullet blocker or something like that, you'll probably get it. I think they can beget They can be gotten for around one hundred bucks. So yeah, I actually do have one. Am I agree, Hold on one second, let me get my copying and my paste in here. I think that'll work. So that's the one that I actually have. Is from that from that company. So speaking of the backpack thing, I would hope that your EDC is like a typical college backpack. So for those of you that do carry a backpack or you do carry, you know, a bag of some sort, I really hope you're practicing your gray Man techniques and you're not using a digital Camo backpack with the Molly straps and the Gadsden flag patch. You know, if you work for a black rifle company, that rate and kudos you. But if you're like me and you work in an office with a bunch of Starbucks drinking snowflakes and suits, your EDC needs to blend in. So a messenger bag, you know, European shoulder bag, you know whatever. Make it so that your backpack or your rucksack or whatever you're carrying your EDC stuff in is blends in, so the gray Man kind of thing, and then make sure it's got some kind of ballistic protection and stuff. That's a good idea. Jay Fergie says her husband carries his blood type on his bag. Yeah, again going back to the dog tags, man, you know carried tags or carry some kind of identification that has your blood upon it. So next thing to think about are continuing on with your like company's policies and emergencies and preparedness and stuff. Read your company's preparedness plans, you know, not just figure out where in the company you can hide or where the exit points are, but figure out how your company wants to deal with something. So flying Dutchman, I appreciate you getting in their flying Dutchman. I'm sorry it took you along to get in, but appreciate you joining us tonight. So reading through your corporate preparedness plan, a lot of that stuff is going to be like corporate mumbo jumbo. But you never know what the executive's plan for the employees are. You know, you might be kind of surprised that if you get the corporate exeit the you know, the emergency plan, it's says the corporate's plan is to number one, grab all the treasury bonds from the stafe, number two board the helicopter, and number three let everybody else spending for themselves. You never know, but you should be knowledgeable of how the executives and the managers are going to deal with the issue. And the reason why is at the very least you can be out in front of the fray and Jeffer says, we're expendable. Yeah, don't I know it. Here's an example if your company evacuates the floor, and again thinking multi store building, if your company evacuates the building floor by floor and you hear that the first floor is evacuating, you can go ahead and get hit the stairwell and be down three or four flights of stairs before the next group leaves. You may not know that unless you're reading, you know, the company manuals that says we are going to evacuate floor by floor. This could put you out of harm's way a little bit faster. And again it's just an idea to think about. Another thing to know about is the corporate policies or another reason why you need to know of the corporate policies is HR so, going back to the insurance policy comment earlier, this is a real thing. After you're done saving people, you're going to have to deal with r and you're going to be told how you should not have intervened, That saving the fellow coworker should have been left to the professional like the police and the EMS. I actually have this problem in my current company. We have people they're called safety officers, and they're trained in first aid CPR. They're trained to use the AED, but they're also trained not to treat anybody. They're trained to keep them still and wait for EMS. So they put on a reflective vest, a bright green reflective vest. They go to the victim and they just keep them calm and still until em S gets there, so there is no head to toe, there's no alerting oriented times three. If the victim is bleeding and there is a risk of bodily fluids, the safety offers is literally they have to do this. They have to go and put on a full blood borne passagen protection kit. You know. This is in the form of a plastic apron gloves and a face shield. And to top it off, the gloves are actually latex and gloves. So I mentioned that one time to the safety officers, like, hey, dude, you need to have latex free gloves because I might have a latex sallergy. I don't, but I just said that, and you know, it's like latex free or nitrite or something, and I was basically told I don't need to worry about that. That was none of my concern. Will be a concern when you touch someone with latex gloves and they have an allergic reaction and then they end up suing you for touching them. So again, Carrie Benadryl. Some of the other scenarios that might affect your work or tornadoes, earthquakes, a burst water pipe, flooding. You know again, do you know where the safe areas in your building are? And they may not be the stairwell. My building is kind of a wooden building, and the stairwell might be the idea, but it's probably not the best idea because it's all wood. So, as I was saying earlier, you know, know you are a know your office, know your office is structure? Good lord, I'm getting tongue tied tonight. Know where your lord, load bearing walls are, know where your drywall is? You know that kind of good thing? All right? Last, getting down to the end here. Another bad idea is train derailments that are carrying hazard chemicals. You know, there's been a lot of trained derailments in the news lately, and a lot of times these tanker cars are going to get damaged. If there is a chemical emergency near you or in your building, do you know how to deal with that? Do you know how to evacuate? Do you know where to evacuate? Do you know how to stay upwind of the gas if there was a problem. You know, all these kind of things play in it's a last thing play what if you know, think of the worst thing? Yeah, heck yeah. Flying Dutchman says, do you have a metal fire escape? You know? Do you have a fire escape? And my grace says, always carry your keys because and em I Gray has got a great one, because if you're in an office building, then you're down on the third floor and all your stuff's up on the eighth floor and fire alarm goes off, you're not going to be able to go back up to eight to get your stuff. You're going to have to leave the building. So yeah, you know, always carry your keys. Always carry you know, some very very bottle things so that if you can't go back to your bag, like you come into work, you throw your bag underneath your desk and it stays there all during the day. And the idea is if something goes crazy, you grab your bag and get out. Well, what if you're at lunch and can't go back and get your bag, So there you go. So saying a minute ago, think of think of the worst that could happen. So in your office building or where you work, whether that be a truck or whatever, think of what can go wrong, and think of what can go wrong in adjacent buildings. So it may not be your company. What about a company near yours? So what about if the company next door to you has an active shooter. You know, they have a spouse that goes nuts so and brings in a fully automatic AK forty seven with you know, armor piercing tracer rounds or whatever, and they start going nuts on an exterior wall. The bullets are going through that company's wall and coming into your company's wall. You know, those bullets may not stop at the walls. Another idea is, again, if you work a few miles down from a chemical plant, what if that chemical plant has a spill, The fumes coming off of that may not stop at the gate. You need to broaden your thinking and think those you know, think about those items in your eedc or at least where you can get to them quickly. So all right, back to the chat. So husband keeps blood type on his bag starting driving traveling internationally, had to swap out from expedition bag yep. Buy a plate from a baby girls school backpack yep. Uh. We were talking about that earlier, about putting a ballistic shield in the backpack. Now battle fire escape, carry your keys huh. And my grace says that then one of the Navy Yard shootings that people had to evacuate and they couldn't get back into their office for a month. What if you work close to Memphis, Well do what that is, give the get the backup bottle of scotch, grab the barbecue and have fun. Yeah, I know, getting getting to the end of it. Anybody else have anything to offer in the chat room, We're gonna get here real quick here in just a second. Any of the things we want to mention. Anybody in the chat room said, hey, I've got a Eureka thing. We've had someone look like they are scoping out the vehicles. Yeah, okay, that's a good one. Don't keep your stuff in your vehicle where people can see it. Don't make yourself, you know, a target. So even though you've got your EDC bag and you got your stuff in your vehicle, maybe you need to cover it up. So all the really really good things all righty? Well, as I always say if anybody has any questions or wants to correct me on something, shoot me an email or hit me up on Facebook. I always welcome constructive criticism. Now, tomorrow night, Wow, man, Dave is jonesing them for a cheap prep. You need to join us. Tomorrow night, Dave is going to be prepping on a tight budget. You know, there's preps that almost anybody can do in a grid down situation that can save your life. And what he's going to be talking about tomorrow night is dollar Store, Harbor Freight, Walmart, Family Dollar. You are not going to be able to look at those things the same way. His show is one hour earlier, So his show is at eight pm Eastern, one am Zoo. That is Dave, and he's gonna be jonesing them up for the cheap preps. So everybody loves cheap, cheap preps. I love Harbor fright, I love cheap stuff. As someone says, happy birthday, Jay Fergie, so Fergie is apparently having a birthday. Uh oh, happy birthday, Jay Fergi. Oh it's tomorrow. Okay, well, happy birthday tomorrow. Good for you, all right, everybody. Well that's all I have tonight. Thanks, everyone, have a great evening, have a great weekend. Don't forget us to join us again tomorrow night. Y'all are awesome. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, and archive programs and more at prepper broadcasting dot com. Thanks for listening. When does that? 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