THIS WEEK IN PREPPING 08/15/24 - Advantages of physical media

[00:00:07] [SPEAKER_02]: This is the Colonel Rad alert. Simple defense information will be broadcast at 640 West of the Rockies, you're on the air.

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[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Coming at you from the frozen tundra that is East Central Alberta, Canada streaming live on YouTube.

[00:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the workshop where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness and share success.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I am Toolman Tim. Today is August the 15th, 2024. This is episode 464 of Workshop Radio.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: We are slowly coming up to a massive milestone. As we cut back to once a week, we're going to be about 36 more weeks until we hit number 500.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little closer as winter comes on but it's good to see everybody.

[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And hey man, we got some folks in here I haven't seen in a little while.

[00:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: We got Digger, Great to See ya, Jeff and family, Jeff, Sandy and the girls Stark, Spaggs unfiltered and Mr. Strongrich resources himself.

[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Carrie Brown, good to see you brother. So if anybody's wondering, you might have noticed I've shortened up the intro ever so slightly instead of streaming live on 842 different platforms.

[00:01:35] [SPEAKER_00]: A few things this really came out of a couple of things happening at once but first off Facebook has made it very, very, very difficult to do third party streaming from some third party app.

[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I made it work once and then it stopped working and then I got it to work again and then it stopped working again.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So it wasn't worth the hassle or the headache for the, you know, I did get some views on Facebook. Absolutely.

[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: However, Twitter went to go live on Twitter the other day and it is now a paid feature if you want to stream live on Twitter from a third party platform you have to be in the premium tier.

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I might have got 10 views a week over on Twitter. So anyhow, it's been a long time coming.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been sharing with you guys quite a bit about how I'm focusing very, very acutely on YouTube, how it has been my platform that has both brought the growth and brought the financial gain.

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And so a lot of the other stuff has been slid off to the wayside and you know what?

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not worth the extra time at the moment to throw it out to those other platforms.

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So we are here on YouTube. Actually, we are on my YouTube channel and we're also on my super secret backup YouTube channel.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So there we are. All right, let's take a look at the comments this evening because I see somebody with a smart ass something or no says Spags unfiltered says everyone make sure to hit that like button.

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Help Tim train his Canadian geese for the upcoming avian winter Olympics. Absolutely.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They one of my favorite events definitely is when they try to push frozen bottles of maple syrup uphill that it takes years of training with those geese to get them to do it.

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You should see it geese are not made to go uphill. Definitely not especially not with frozen bottles of maple syrup up against their beaks.

[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So be careful Debbie Nugent. Hello from Houston, Texas. Good to see you.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great to have you in here. So let's open up this evening with a rule to live by and if you guys have been following me the last, I don't know, 1216 weeks something like that I have been working my way through.

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I have at the moment 34 rules I live by or let me back up 34 rules that if I live my life by them, I do better.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So that just means that I share these as a reminder to myself as much as I do to you folks.

[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And so what I've been doing is each week I put one through 34 into a randomizer hit the button and this week Google told me to go with rule number six.

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Rule number six, almost all meetings can be replaced by a single sheet of plain white paper.

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: In some meetings can be replaced by a double sided sheet of white paper.

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know it's pretty rare there's only a couple of these rules to live by that I remember where I was at the moment that I realized this is something important to me.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one was in my college days, once a month we would have a campus wide assembly that was so useless.

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you want to know why I've gone bald it's because I pulled my hair out from those meetings every time I would sit down I would think everything you're telling us could have been sent out in a memo and now back up a little because really it wouldn't even need to be sent out in a memo now

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_00]: could just be sent out in an email. And of course, you know my smart ass I asked them one time why don't we just do this in a in a meat or, you know put it out on a piece of paper.

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the student dean said because you wouldn't read it and I said, so you mean I wouldn't pay attention to it like I don't pay attention at these live events and anyway, yeah I shouldn't have done that.

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's what this rule really truly is is a reminder that a person's time is important and to not waste it on stupid superfluous little meetings that don't mean anything.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're going to have a meeting just make sure it's worth the people's while don't go longer than you need to.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You know there used to be at least one person in every staff meeting that would ask 17 asinine questions that would waste everyone's valuable time so don't do it.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But again, you know this was we did have a staff meeting at the daycare recently where everybody came together.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And we did our damnedest to make sure we respected people's time so anyhow see how I break my own rule sometimes but truth be told, rule number six almost all meetings can be replaced by a single sheet of white paper.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have to be white just happens to come over printer that way.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So you know as it says he can't read, well that's okay because thank goodness we now have apps that will read to us.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So there is that still better than meeting in person I promise you that Ryan Pippin good to see a happy Friday Eve humans.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Happy Friday Eve to you as well sir.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: All right so from here folks let's slide into.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I guess the segment that started it all.

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: The time has come for stranger than fiction.

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Stranger than fiction folks this is where we take a look at the weird the wacky no not really all kinds of different news stories sometimes serious sometimes prep related and the last one that I have to share with you today is kind of funny.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of where some of these segments really started from back when it's been about a year and a half ago when.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh guys I need to back up a little bit because the entire audience is just being a bunch of smartasses tonight so we need to address it because it's very important not really but.

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Bobby or Mr Spaggs unfiltered says he's looking forward to the YouTube Braille option I'm more personally waiting for Cento Matic 100 where you can watch videos and smell chicken wings and things like that but it hasn't happened yet.

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course L to survive says thanks for coming to the meeting that is alive, I mean is not a live stream also the same as a meeting that is very true but then you don't get to look at this, you know, beautiful mug in front of you know just anyway so better than dumb ass is yeah, that is true.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Dumb ass is better than smart ass so there you go.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so this week I got four quick stories that we're going to cover none of them are super long or super in depth but things that may be important to us one that might be rather entertaining.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Good to see you Rachel Brown where all those likes half year slack and I agree great to see you so first story I came across this week that I thought was important enough to share was from the business insider.com.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one is nearly all Chinese banks are now refusing to process payments from Russia report says, yeah, wherever you stand on the entire Russia Ukraine situation.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: This one is interesting, because at the beginning of the Russian Ukraine conflict.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: There was quite a bit of talk, of course, of the sanctions being put on Russia and how they wouldn't be able to transfer money using that the inner bank transfer system whatever it happens to be called.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And Russia's like fine we'll just go and start our own system with China and a few others they had two different systems they were looking at.

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it looks like it seems to be falling apart a little bit on them so I don't know where this goes.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that anytime you piss Russia off by increasing sanctions and by tightening things down.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I really feel like you kind of are poking the bear, you know the old Russian grizzly bear because never a good thing especially not Putin I mean look at him.

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You guys, you guys have a read the story about when he became came into power I don't know if you remember this or not but it was on December 31 1999.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: He figured it was important enough that it needed to be announced as the world was turning from one millennium to another so the dude you know he might be a little bit full of himself he might be slightly off his rocker but when the Chinese start cutting you off things might go a little bit hey wire I don't know.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But here it is the impact of the West sanctions just seem to be getting a little bit worse for Russia.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Now 98% of Chinese banks, even small regional ones I don't know why I want to read this in a Russian accent I really shouldn't and I won't I promise but are refusing to accept direct Chinese payment transfers such issues appear to have intensified over the past three weeks as smaller Chinese financial companies that were processing them in the past aren't anymore.

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Last month was around 80% says doors between Russia and Chinese banks are closing since the invasion of Iraq, Russia and its trade partners have skirted sanctions by using smaller banks and other payment modes.

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Or this one here non US dollar currencies to circumvent the West ban on some Russian banks from the widely used swift messaging system.

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But the doors have been closing for these work around since December when the US approved secondary sanctions targeting institutions that were helping Russia.

[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So again, it's like a giant whack-a-mole system.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The US says you're not going to transfer money using the swift system Russia says just you wait.

[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they make friends with China back and forth.

[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_00]: However, China seems to be realizing that they can't put up with it either.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And so now things are getting just a little bit hairy a little bit sneaky over there says Russia is rushing.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Russia is rushing to set up alternative payment mechanisms.

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Celio good to see I really appreciate it those comments on the new video the other day says how do you from one CA to another CA, California to Canadian.

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We're all about the same except you get nicer weather far as anyway.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I won't go into the California politics a whole hell of a lot.

[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Reuters reported on Thursday that Russia and China were even planning to revive the age old practice.

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even catch this part when I was prepping guys this is pretty funny here it is.

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Russia and China were even planning to revive the age old practice of barter trade to get around West during sanctions really isn't currency just another form of barter because barter again is, you know, one type of exchange to another.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So I give I give you labor or I have something to offer.

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just another form of exchange of currency but while Russia's exports help finance its war effort.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: This is interesting.

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Its imports are vastly more important for sustaining the economic political and military dimensions of its war effort.

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's one of those situations where everything looked like it was going Russia's way I would say until about three weeks ago two weeks ago when all of a sudden the Ukraine is like surprise we're now in Russian territory.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know where I see this go guys I'm not.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: This is not a story to share for you know to tear everybody down and depress us all and make us sad and you know say that the sky is falling chicken little chicken little whatever no it's just one of these stories to be aware of I don't believe in poking the Russian bear.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think the more they poke them, the more he's going to come out and say surprise.

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow interesting story one to share it with you guys.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's pop back over here to the comments.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Spags I did not hear this is there is some evidence of a coup that has taken place in China.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: This could be a result of massive policy changing.

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a Chinese trend of wanting to distance from Ping's anti West stance.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I would like to throw it out there that 20 years ago.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be maybe you know 10 to 20 years ago it would be fairly popular to be anti West in China.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But as we have seen that the the one child per family policy has basically decimated China's future.

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean they are going to be you know we thought we were in a bad situation with the baby boomers they're going to be like baby boomers on steroids.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a bad scenario and a ton of their, I guess financial heft comes from the United States and North America in general you know I mean.

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_00]: We ship a ton of shit over there to have them turn around and send it back to us and resell it and I think that it goes a long way for China and the West to be somewhat at least strange bedfellows I don't know.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Going to be interesting.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't heard this whole part about the coup and it would make sense if they were cracking down on it.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you can only do so much again.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're China you don't really want to poke the American bear either do you.

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know because then he'll come out wearing a bandana and possibly a mullet.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know and definitely driving a generally I would think so but here we are forest fires about the same in the CAs from piping Pippin sorry Pippin there it is forced yeah we've been dealing with wildfire smoke for the last couple of days up here that has been as thick as I've ever seen it.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: It looked like East Coast fog driving home last night except it's much worse on the lungs on the head on just miserable.

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't seen anything quite that bad and then all of a sudden early afternoon it just kind of lifts away so I guess the direction the wind must have changed or something.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: There it is Pippin says totally driving a Transam T top you are right.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to guess they're pulling in and they're either playing white snake or if we go back a little further might be playing skinnered I'm not sure but and I got nothing against skinnered I play him all the time every time we're eight or nine minutes from home my favorite song to finish the road trip on his free bird so there you go.

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright next story for this week folks what do we got this one's quick I actually the reason I put this in here was for my East Coast Canadian friends.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But latest Ernesto track show shift away from Nova Scotia.

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: When I first grabbed this story it was showing a track of the latest hurricane tracking almost directly overland in Nova Scotia landing as a category three.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And it looked really bad now it's recently shifted to the east of Nova Scotia so it looks like it's going to save a lot of land.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's something for my East Coast friends to and family to be aware of.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It was enough of a story for me that I messaged dad today and I'm like hey it's giving you the heads up Ernesto looks like he could be a bit so bits of trouble so you might want to make sure you get a little extra fuel on hand for your generator and so he went out and got a couple of extra five gallon

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: jugs of gas.

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_00]: He's not the greatest at keeping fuel on hand I try but I figured this would be a good enough excuse to tell me hey you know just in case.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And here it is so the latest forecast from Hurricane Ernesto shows Nova Scotia could avoid a direct impact from the storm Ernesto was set to track near or over the Bermuda this weekend as the storm center moves northward there on Sunday into Monday so

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: here's the track if you guys want to see it and it shows at the moment it's kind of tilting northeastward away from Nova Scotia but if you see right there where it says 150 kilometers an hour I know that's an odd terminology for you folks but it wouldn't take much for it to swing back and go right over there.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Now at the moment they're saying when it comes close to bringing the hurricane to Nova Scotia at one point it was given category three now it's down to category one.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been now I've been away from there almost 11 years, but I believe it was September.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: In September 2003 or four, we had Hurricane one came through and it was a category two did quite a bit of damage.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Normally hurricanes on the East Coast.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Once they get to Nova Scotia have blown their bluster their bluster and it was gone.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: However, we got that nasty one lost a lot of trees some homes that sort of thing.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Later on in February of the next year we had a hurricane strength storm in the winter it was a blizzard they decided to name it white one at the time I thought it was hilarious nowadays I'm thinking you know some people might have a problem with that but I don't mind here we are.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so just wanted to share that with you like I said the latest track shows it moving off land but it's one of those things that if you are trying to keep your head in the game.

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good to be aware of.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, Byron Robert says sweet home Alabama blasting yep nothing wrong with that.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Pippin says haven't listened to poison in a while.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Ed Ceeleo says you need to start free bird 20 minutes from home if you want to hear most of it.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Very true.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel says it can be hard raising your parents right.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I know I do my best and Pippin says shake my Florida dude eight ball Ernesto will not touch land heading back out to see yep.

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you never know right I mean there's been some really nasty ones snort some of the eight ball oh geez here we are that's great so slide right along this is an interesting one.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I ran into this story.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it was on some YouTube video a couple of weeks ago every so often when I have nothing better to do now I will sit down I really enjoy like Florida man videos and not really Florida man but most of them come from the Midwest and their police body cam videos and you will see some absolute winners on there.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you it's always a lot of fun but I did recently find out and I don't know if you guys have heard this but here it is this comes from Reddit but there's stories all on the Internet if you want to check it out.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: It says target operates to criminal forensic labs and has worked with the Secret Service ATF in the FBI.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: This reminded me quite a bit of my interest in the waffle house and if you guys haven't heard for the few out there that may not have waffle house has one of if not the top weather reporting kind of center in the US better than FEMA better than the US government for the most part.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of cool.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So it turns out that target has some of the best forensic labs in the entire United States and it really comes down to fingerprints video enhancement.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But what ended up happening was of course as most public publicly funded things do when police or alphabet agencies end up running short on funding or don't have the time or the resources to do something.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They started approaching target and they're like hey target can you help us out.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And it turned out that they were willing and so interesting story that target themselves have some of the top forensic crime labs in the United States.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_00]: This one here this is from a while back but it says I'm currently an employee at Target working an asset protection which is targets way of saying loss prevention.

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely true that we have two forensic labs the bulk of which they do is fingerprint and digital forensics enhancing video footage extracting data from hard drives targets investigation pyramid is pretty intense focus primarily on organized retail crime which doesn't surprise me.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You could be amazed at how many people steal and how much they get away with.

[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_00]: They do have the best loss prevention system in the industry by far.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm regularly contacted by police to provide evidence to support their investigations and they frequently comment on how amazing our camera systems are.

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's also amazing how easy it is to steal from target despite all of this.

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It turns out that in the end it's far cheaper to lose a few million than to spend hundreds of millions in lawsuits.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And then down here I thought this one was kind of cool.

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I work at a federal public defender's office and I've seen firsthand the work that you guys do speaking of target of course without going into details I have a client now who is facing federal credit card fraud charges and will probably go to prison because of the very effective case target built against him.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Seriously you guys are doing comparable and in many cases better work than what I've seen from FBI ATF etc.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So no matter where you stand it's kind of interesting to see a private company I guess kind of ish something from the private industry developing systems that are better than publicly funded industries.

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah I mean I don't love the fact that any of these alphabet agencies are in bed together but how cool is it that target has one of the best forensics labs in the US.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I kind of like that.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Byron Robert says if Waffle House closes for whether it's going to be bad and Rachel says Florida man stories are the best laughs.

[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yes they always are.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright and speaking of laughs here we are.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: This comes from KCBD school employee gets nine years in prison for stealing.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for this folks?

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: 1.5 million dollars worth of chicken wings from the district.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's just let that sit there for a minute.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: A million and a half worth of chicken wings this lady stole.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why there's really no resolution to this case but how the hell do you wake up one morning and think I'm going to steal a million and a half dollars worth of chicken wings from a school board of all things.

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a short story I'm going to read you the whole bit.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It comes from KCBD.com Harvey Illinois.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Illinois huh a former employee.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised that she's a former employee of a school district in Illinois has pleaded guilty to stealing 1.5 million dollars worth of chicken wings.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: According to report from WGN Vera Lydell was arrested in January 2023 and pled guilty Friday.

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: She was sentenced to nine years in prison.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Lydell 68 was the food service director for Harvey school district 152 near Chicago.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: For more than a decade, the crimes took place during the COVID pandemic.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm when students were not allowed to be physically present at school.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: All kinds of shady shit come out of Illinois during COVID didn't it.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Court records show that Lydell ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings from the school district's food provider and picked up the order in a district cargo van.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The food was never brought to the school or given to the students.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: District funds were used to pay for the chicken wings no shit according to prosecutors.

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: A report from WLS that the orders were placed over a 19 month period from July 2020 to February 2022.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The scheme was discovered by the district business manager in January 2023 during a routine audit.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They found they were $300,000 over their annual food budget, despite only being halfway through the school year.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Huh, considering nobody was in the classrooms at the time, the business manager also found it highly suspicious that chicken wings were ordered in the first place since they're never served to students because they contain bones prosecutors.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Prosecutor said it's unclear what Lydell did with the $1.5 million worth of chicken wings.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know anybody have any suggestions as to what she did with $1.5 million worth of chicken wings.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I laughed a bit at this story like I just couldn't resist.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to share this it was a rather tasty morsel of a story.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy, Tim shut up.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But I just, I don't know.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean this this this story here really encapsulates what stranger than fiction has always been for me just funny oddball off the wall stories.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It'll be interesting to find out but my guess is like a lot of things during COVID there was a lot of money being spent very little oversight and folks were like hey I know what I can do.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I can buy three pallets of N95 masks and then I can turn around and resell them and I'm guessing she was probably reselling them to restaurants or to a friend or something else.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Byron Robert says I hope she ordered buffalo sauce and ranch.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do too.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And Strongridge resources said big old neighborhood barbecue.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing I mean so 11,000 cases of wings.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: What's the case of wings going away?

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_00]: 10 pounds 20 pounds.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you if you say 20 pounds of wings 11,000 so you're looking at man that would be 2200 and 20,000 pounds of wings something like that is my math correct on that 11,000 times 22 times 10.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep 220,000 pounds of wings.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of wings guys.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah you know for restaurants going to sell them at $5 a pound.

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah there's your $1.5 million so I don't know.

[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess they probably priced them like they price cocaine you know you buy it by the pallet and then you sell it by the baggie and you make more money that way right so anyhow there we are quick announcement for you folks for anybody who is in the Tennessee area during the week leading up to self reliance festival we're going to be doing a couple of delinquents gully work days which is really an excuse for us to all get around and shoot the shit.

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Learn some skills and fellowship and socialize.

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do two work days Wednesday and Thursday October 2nd and 3rd, then we're going to do a barbecue on Friday October the 4th.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: There's free camping sites wherever you want to stay.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: If you drive a four wheel drive vehicle you can drive right back to the camp.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: If you drive a two wheel, you know two wheel drive yeah whatever anyway if you can still come back if you want or you can park out at Jamie's place and we can shuttle you in but it's not very far it's about a mile maybe a little less back the road.

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But we'd love to love to have you for sure.

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got a bunch of projects we're kicking around we got cabin build we're looking at digging and building a dam water collection systems food forest guild install mushroom log in the oculation that's way over my head.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah something interesting if you're up for it so hang in there will give you more details but that is like what is that geez six weeks away.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a lot to do between now and then here we are.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Next comes the prepper files and this is on this date.

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I got a story here for you well short anyhow but let's let's share it with you so on this date in 1914 Panama Canal opened to traffic.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: It took quite a few years of building designing one of the largest projects in human history other than when aliens built the pyramids of course but other than that we're pretty close.

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah so here we are in 1906 engineers decided on construction of a lock canal and the next three years were spent developing construction facilities and eradicating tropical diseases.

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I forgot about that part in 1909 construction began in one of the largest construction projects of all time us engineers move nearly 240 million cubic yards of earth and spent close to 400 million and constructing the 40 mile long canal.

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Or 51 miles if the deep and seabed on both ends of the canal is taken to account.

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And on August 15 1914 the Panama Canal was open to traffic.

[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So interesting definitely something that has I would say encouraged or built upon the modern.

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess economy we have yeah it's crazy.

[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I think about how much stuff goes through there on the run of a regular day and that the fact that it's been open for business for 110 years.

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't seem like it doesn't even seem like we could humanly do something like that although you look back at some of the older things all kidding aside things that the Egyptians and what not did anyway so there you go this week in the prepper files.

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: The canal opened on 1914.

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: All right what do we got next for you folks here we go.

[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: He's dead they're all dead everyone you and I are in a dead world and I'm glad it's dead.

[00:29:51] [SPEAKER_00]: She punky talk of a world coming up next is workshop wasteland.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_00]: All right workshop wasteland this is where we take a look at all things dystopian post apocalyptic fiction music movies books video games it doesn't really matter.

[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Now was a slow week in the news so I thought I would go back and give you a review of one of the few movies I watched during my three ish week vacation.

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_00]: However I did catch a story real quick before I went live this evening.

[00:30:20] [SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever read the Stephen King book The Long Walk it's one of my favorites.

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It was I do believe it was one of his Richard Bachman pseudonym books and I believe it was released in the Bachman book collection the four of them.

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow they are working on a hard version of it it's never been turned into a film before.

[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty excited about it is definitely kind of dystopian it's similar to Hunger Games except instead of like traveling around in the woods and doing all those kind of things they're just walking you just walk and you have to keep a certain pace and if you drop three times in an hour they shoot

[00:31:00] [SPEAKER_00]: in the head and the winner supposedly gets a big prize or something but kind of a cool thing if you've never read the book it's a great read but they're filming it now just started filming.

[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow so this week I wanted to share with you guys a deeper look at the movie Arcadian and this was starring Nick Cage I watched this on the plane ride between Alberta and Nova Scotia and it wasn't bad so it features you'll see a picture here but it features a father and his twin teenage sons

[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_00]: they're fight for survival in a remote firm house at the end of the world.

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So they it's very similar well we'll talk about this a bit but they live mostly by themselves kind of at the end of a laneway kind of on a farm and horrible creatures come out at night you don't really find out originally and of course I won't spoil anything I'm just going to fill you in on the details and my thoughts of it.

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Horrible creatures come out at night it's kind of a mix between a quiet place and it comes at night imagine that.

[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_00]: The one son he likes to travel around he goes to visit the neighbors to help them with land you know projects and that sort of thing now I don't know.

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's slide back a little bit but I'm sure it helps that they have a teenage daughter roughly his age that he wants to go and see as well.

[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the other son is really like hey I want to help dad I want to do chores let's stay here stop being an idiot that kind of stuff.

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course at one point they decide to get an old side by side up and running they have an accident they stay out after dark chaos ensues as you can imagine the dad goes out looking for him and I don't want to ruin too much after that.

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The film uses I guess I want to go back and talk about signs if you've never seen the signs film but if you go back further than that Alfred Hitchcock.

[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He always talked about the monster you didn't see was more with scarier than the monster you did and Arcadian definitely takes a page of that out of their book because they definitely spend a lot of time leading up to it they don't spend a lot of time showing the CGI monsters which I really appreciate because I think it's more effective that way.

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But you do get to see them toward the end of the film.

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Now one of my biggest pet peeves in this movie was the shaky camera work I'm guessing most of it was filmed on like handy camp you know like shoulder mount rigs or something but man I don't know if it was going for just a realistic view, but it shook so much it almost made me nauseous.

[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I've you look at the there's quite a bit of a difference between the critics and the audience score critics give it 77 which is certified fresh and audience give it a 56.

[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I would be somewhere in the middle of that probably a 60 or something.

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, Pippin says I feel like M Night Shyamalan dude meets Blair Witch.

[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah there's some truth to that for sure.

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I can go with that.

[00:33:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and strong rich resources says shaky cam needs to quit yeah there in this day and age, there is no reason for shaky cam like that like I get it you know.

[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if you want to once in a while, you know, be up close to an explosion and do a shaky cam it's fine.

[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_00]: There's just no need of it like you can.

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You can even artificially add a little bit of shake to it if you want to but there's it was guys I'm telling you like, I don't know it was a bit on the nauseating side and that really kind of hurt the film.

[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, L2 survived says kind of sounds like the village that was a stupid movie it.

[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a bit different the village I didn't care for the village at all signs is one of my all time favorite.

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_00]: You know kind of apocalyptic or movies definitely I think the best film that Shyamalan did this is a this is a bit different but anyway.

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So one of the two twins is play he plays.

[00:34:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember the actor's name, but he played Bill in it part one and two, and he also played the son of Melissa McCarthy in a movie that I absolutely loved it was called St Vincent.

[00:34:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was a real underrated film had Bill Murray in it playing kind of an old curmudgeon.

[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I know a big, big stretch there for him.

[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out one time.

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Now what caused the apocalypse in this movie?

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I it's environmental.

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't really say what exactly but it's an environmental collapse which seems to be very common in films right now.

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The creatures they don't tell you why they're there how they got there anything like that.

[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate it.

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It isn't needed for this film.

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: This is really a story of a father and two sons trying to survive on the edge of the world after the collapse.

[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The title of the film Arcadian.

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It was interesting I watched the whole movie and I'm like, I don't know what Arcadian is.

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it refers to.

[00:35:44] [SPEAKER_00]: There was no instance where all of a sudden the filmmakers like and now they're moving on to the Arcadian Peninsula or something like that just didn't exist.

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: There was no reason for it.

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So I googled it and it turns out that the term and you got some of you may know this the term Arcadian refers to a person who lives a simple and quiet life.

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Or in other words, a person who just wants to be left alone.

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And that sums up what this movie is a father and a son who want to be left alone another son who probably doesn't who wants to go out and sell his wild oats but it.

[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It is a film of a father and a son who just want to be left alone.

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want to have to deal with any of it.

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They're very, you know, prepared, I guess, you know, they can fight.

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They know what they're doing.

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They have food.

[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not in a rough situation by any means.

[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They just want to be left alone.

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: The film itself had a budget of $7 million, which is weird considering it only made 800,000 in the box office.

[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So I wouldn't look for a sequel anytime soon.

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm guessing most of that $7 million went to Nicholas Cage, you know, his whatever his paycheck happened to be.

[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I was rated R for violence.

[00:36:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's some violence in it.

[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it could have been just as effective as a PG 13 film, but I enjoyed it.

[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It was okay.

[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It was certainly worth watching, but there are way better films out there.

[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to see three films that I would say watch before this.

[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_00]: 10 Cloverfield Lane, which I love that has some similarities in a sense because you've got, you know, creatures from a distance.

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't really know what they are.

[00:37:24] [SPEAKER_00]: It comes at night would probably be the closest similar film except that if you've ever seen it comes at night.

[00:37:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like it was a bit of a disappointment without giving away the movie.

[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And then one of my sleeper hit favorites from 10 almost 10 years ago is Into the Forest and it had Ellen Page and I forget the other girl in it.

[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a really good movie where two girls live in the woods in the forest.

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Their dads passed away.

[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They live in a house that's falling down around them.

[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not super prepared, but they do their best.

[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Really good film another apocalyptic film told from a female point of view.

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I've actually watched two or three of those recently.

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, is there Katie in a bad film?

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Would it pass the time?

[00:38:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it kind of typical apocalyptic fare?

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I would say all of the above.

[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's other ones out there that if you haven't seen they're worth watching, but you know, if you're on a plane and it's available.

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Hell yeah.

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Give it a go.

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Pippen says no more lens flare.

[00:38:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I agree.

[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a Transformers, right?

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I think gunfighter says the creatures are so weird looking in that movie.

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure which movie might be talking about Cloverfield or it might be talking about Arcadian.

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And if it's in Arcadian, I didn't really talk about the creatures.

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_00]: They definitely have a look like the quiet place, but the noise they make is like, I don't know how to explain it.

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you guys remember?

[00:38:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course you do.

[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, especially before our time, but the little you would wind them up and they look like a set of dentures and they would walk across the floor.

[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And they go clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what these creatures look like.

[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a little bit off-putting and I mean it in a nice way.

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you get a chance to watch it, it's definitely, you know, probably not worth spending $20 to rent it.

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Just wait for it to come out on streaming and watch it from there.

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:39:23] [SPEAKER_00]: What's next, folks?

[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_03]: You stay on the back roads and you keep your gun handy.

[00:39:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Our country is still full of thieving, murdering patrons.

[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Get ready for I Reddit on the Internet.

[00:39:38] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, guys, this is where we take a look at the front page of the Internet where I read it on the Internet.

[00:39:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is really in this.

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_00]: It's where we take a look at our preppers and that is the biggest form on Reddit for the preparedness minded folks.

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I take it.

[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I take a look.

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I sort by new and I sort by top of this week and I found two interesting ones both fairly short.

[00:40:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So let's dive into them.

[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_00]: First one here is from Skyroom proposal says I'm disappointed with my response to danger.

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Prepping for Tuesday, they said, I was swimming with my family and someone remarked that my hair was funny and they wanted to take a picture.

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_00]: They said it was standing up.

[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I automatically tried to smooth it down and they laughed.

[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_00]: That didn't help at all.

[00:40:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I just got out of the lake and my hair was wet.

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I was confused.

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked to my sister.

[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw her hair was standing up.

[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's exactly what you would expect when lightning's about to strike.

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I was very disappointed in my response.

[00:40:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I told my family to get out of the water and to follow me.

[00:40:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I told them the air was charged and that we will be hit by lightning if we don't move.

[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They were oddly reluctant.

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It took a bit, but they followed.

[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad about that reaction.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I was calm.

[00:40:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't start on my young nephew, but all I could remember about how to deal with this situation is not being the tallest thing in the area.

[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So I led them to a tree.

[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Not a good idea.

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Please read up on how to avoid being struck by lightning.

[00:40:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel bad that my reaction could have been harm, could have harmed them even more.

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It could have forced them into the car, but they were reluctant to even move from the beach.

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_00]: There was a huge clop of thunder.

[00:41:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The charge was gone.

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I felt sick.

[00:41:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even consider the other families in the water.

[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I should have screamed they needed to leave the water, but just focused on my family.

[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_00]: No one was hurt, but they could have been.

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_00]: My sister joked about the fact that it didn't warn people and it haunts me.

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm going to say first off that I think they did really, really well.

[00:41:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They got themselves out of the water.

[00:41:28] [SPEAKER_00]: They got their family out of the water, despite the fact that the family didn't really want to go along with it.

[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes that's all you can do.

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think if he just stood there hollering, most folks would have just been like, yeah, I'm not listening to you.

[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, did he panic and forget some things in the middle of it?

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure.

[00:41:46] [SPEAKER_00]: The reason I shared this is because I remember 10 years ago when we first moved out here,

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_00]: we got caught in a freak hail thunderstorm middle of the day, hot day.

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And I wanted to get out of the way of the hail and so I was like, well, where do I go?

[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I look around.

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know the area.

[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_00]: We're in a small town and I saw a big green elevator.

[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And so like, well, let's go park under that, which is basically a lifted silo.

[00:42:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And so here I am literally sitting underneath of a lightning rod and we're there for about five minutes.

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a really dumb place to park Tim.

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So I look around really quick and I see a self-serve car wash and I go over,

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I pull in there, wait for the rain in the hail to pass.

[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But for a moment, yeah, did something pretty stupid, right?

[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.

[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But it happens.

[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But right here, self divide.

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_00]: This is where a fellow member of the R preppers tried to make them feel a little better.

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_00]: But order of priority, protect yourself, protect your family, protect your community.

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_00]: If your family wasn't cooperating, you weren't yet free to worry about other people at the beach.

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I like that.

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_00]: At any rate, nobody was harmed.

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And now you have a test scenario to learn from frame it as a success.

[00:42:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Now what are the chances that this person's ever going to have to deal with that kind of situation again?

[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably slim to none.

[00:42:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But just, you know, don't beat yourself up over something again.

[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody was hurt.

[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Take it as a learning lesson and move on simple as that.

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:43:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Next story, this one comes from our preppers again.

[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And these are both response articles.

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_00]: This one said, how do you respond to hearing gunshots?

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Now get this in your mind as we're listening.

[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Think how do you respond when you hear gunshots?

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I know when I was in Tennessee just chilling at the property one day,

[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_00]: three or four different people from up and down the the laneway,

[00:43:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess in different places were letting off gunshots all kind of at the same time.

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And I assumed it was something they just did.

[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't, you know, it wasn't off putting or anything like that.

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But how do you react?

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So here we are.

[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I was hanging out at the friend's apartment.

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_00]: We were all mostly sitting on the floor.

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_00]: We heard gunshots.

[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It sounded very close like it could have been in my backyard.

[00:43:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody kept it casual, but I was surprised by the differences in reactions amongst the group.

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_00]: My immediate reaction was to lie down against the coach.

[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was between me and the window, the wall in the direction of the gunshots.

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_00]: A girl there from Brazil started putting on her shoes.

[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_00]: She later explained that it was so she could run if needed since the driveway was gravel.

[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Our two Pakistani friends just stayed where they were.

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_00]: They were surprised me and the Brazilian reacted at all.

[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_00]: We all grew up in cities where hearing gunshots were normal,

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_00]: but a normal response was different between us.

[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a few weeks,

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_00]: but I'm still thinking about how cultural responses to emergencies can be so different.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I like that.

[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I just thought this was kind of an interesting story.

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So thanks for all the interesting replies.

[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_00]: For more context, we live in a very safe small town in the rural area in the U.S.

[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You never hear shooting in town.

[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I talked about this more with one of my Pakistani friends who grew up in Hyderabad

[00:44:49] [SPEAKER_00]: who said she didn't react because from her perspective it's a super safe area.

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyhow, interesting.

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This dude where he grew up in a city got nervous,

[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_00]: put himself between cover and concealment.

[00:45:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Now again, a coach, Chesterfield, a sofa is not going to protect you a whole lot,

[00:45:13] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's still better.

[00:45:15] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're putting levels of protection between you.

[00:45:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So at this point you've got a drywall, probably an exterior wall.

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So you got siding, some sort of sheathing insulation,

[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_00]: which will do almost nothing and then drywall and then a coach between you.

[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's something I really liked the idea of the Brazilian lady who put her shoes on.

[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_00]: She's like, yep, I'm used to it.

[00:45:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, she probably grew up in the land of where if you guys have ever seen Brazilian

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_00]: off-duty cop videos, yeah, they crack me up, man.

[00:45:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Rachel Brown says when you live out in the boonies, it happens all the time.

[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely it does.

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And again, there's your difference.

[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Hearing a bunch of gunshots in the country, not probably going to make you nervous.

[00:45:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Hearing a bunch of gunshots in the middle of the city,

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_00]: possibly going to make you nervous.

[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And L2Survives says, I live out of the city.

[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_00]: When I hear gunshots, I wonder if I just made a new friend.

[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Did we just become best friends?

[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, I think we did.

[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Anybody know that quote?

[00:46:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, you're right.

[00:46:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly another way to find like-minded folks, right?

[00:46:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Just follow your ears instead of your nose.

[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_00]: A few knees, 9451 says, I agree with all your friends' responses.

[00:46:21] [SPEAKER_00]: For me, if I'm at my house and hear gunshots, it's only an issue.

[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_00]: If my dog alerts, then I know it's too close.

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll live with that.

[00:46:28] [SPEAKER_00]: This one here, having spent most of my adult life in a dense city,

[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I come to realize that most gunshots are not, in fact, gunshots.

[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They are fireworks, especially in the June to August area.

[00:46:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So if I hear one, I'm listening for the pattern.

[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_00]: A single one and no follow-up, I'm not going to worry about it.

[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_00]: A slow series of them, fireworks.

[00:46:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm listening for quick bursts of a shootout along with squealing tires or screaming.

[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been around one shooting that I know of,

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and it was anything but quiet.

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was screaming or shouting.

[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of it depends on how much noise can carry where you are.

[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_00]: My house is on a bit of a hill, so we can hear fireworks from quite a ways away.

[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The sound right outside, but if I actually go back for them,

[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_00]: they're usually out on the beach a good distance away.

[00:47:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one here, South African here, it's become a common occurrence.

[00:47:12] [SPEAKER_00]: A few gunshots every few nights.

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We do see cops patrolling every night and private security are at enforce.

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We stop relying on police though.

[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_00]: If it concerns anyone, they'll just post a button on the WhatsApp group

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_00]: with the private security guys and they'll check it out.

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyhow, in the city, again, I like that thought that I...

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Some people downplayed the idea of gunshots in these articles

[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and this is kind of where I differ with our preppers perspective sometimes

[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_00]: because despite their name of prepper being taken from being prepared,

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_00]: quite often they downplay most things almost to their detriment, I think.

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't disagree with if you hear a noise, listen for a repetitive noise,

[00:47:57] [SPEAKER_00]: listen for blood curdling screams, listening for ambulance tires screeching.

[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what you're looking for because if it's fireworks,

[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_00]: you might hear somebody hooting and hollering and carrying on

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and then it takes a minute or two to light another one and it goes off.

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_00]: So just pay attention.

[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Keep your eyes, you know, your eyes and your ears in the game folks.

[00:48:13] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, what do we got next for you? Here we go.

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Dropping the dime on precious metals.

[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, this is one there hasn't been a ton in the precious metals industry lately.

[00:48:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess it's because it's summer, people are on vacation, it's warm.

[00:48:34] [SPEAKER_00]: However, there was a vault for precious metals storage built in Idaho the other day

[00:48:41] [SPEAKER_00]: that now eclipses Fort Knox.

[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It is the largest precious metals repository in the United States,

[00:48:47] [SPEAKER_00]: privately owned by a private metals company.

[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_00]: This comes from Idaho Six News.

[00:48:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Money Metals opens Idaho based gold depository larger than Fort Knox.

[00:49:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Right here we go down.

[00:49:04] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a pretty short article, but after three years of planning and construction,

[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Money Metals has opened its state of the art 37,000 square foot vaulting

[00:49:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and fulfillment facility in Eagle, Idaho.

[00:49:15] [SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of cool guys nestle in the base of the Boise foothills.

[00:49:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Money Metals high security gold and silver storage compound cost 28 million to construct

[00:49:24] [SPEAKER_00]: has the capacity to hold upwards of 100 billion in gold and silver

[00:49:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and can be further expanded to 60,000 square feet.

[00:49:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to slide back to gunfighter here because I wanted to talk about this.

[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not hard to suppress Fort Knox.

[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_00]: All you need is one pallet of gold.

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_00]: They spent all our money already ain't that the truth?

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, totally.

[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I think of Fort Knox, I think I learned about Fort Knox from Looney Tunes.

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, they always used to talk about it on there and I was like,

[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_00]: what the heck is that just kind of interesting that a private gold holding facility

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_00]: was built and it is the largest in North America.

[00:50:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so let's check this out.

[00:50:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And the cool thing is it's a fairly new company built on a three acre lot adjacent to city

[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and county police and emergency services.

[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_00]: It offers an extremely secure location for individuals, businesses, families, governments.

[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess they're also going to be a storage facility, not just a shipping facility.

[00:50:22] [SPEAKER_00]: In bed in the facility are advanced security measures around the clock monitoring,

[00:50:27] [SPEAKER_00]: secure access controls, a security team composed of armed former law enforcement

[00:50:31] [SPEAKER_00]: military personnel and third party audits and insurance to ensure the highest

[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_00]: standards out of that.

[00:50:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And right here, since it's founding in 2010, money medals has expanded dramatically.

[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Establishing itself is one of the leading precious metal dealers in North America.

[00:50:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really know them.

[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if any of you guys dealt with money metals at all because I haven't.

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But it looks like see if I can find the number here somewhere.

[00:50:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But they're looking at doing I think it's around 40,000 gold and silver transactions a month.

[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_00]: There it is money matter.

[00:51:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Money medals currently delivers as many as 40,000 gold and silver orders each month

[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_00]: and has already served nearly three quarters of a million customers in North America.

[00:51:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of cool.

[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even know this was something that happened.

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_00]: They have an A plus rating on the business, better business bureau.

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess they want to offer offsite storage, not my cup of tea.

[00:51:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, if you're into it and you want to store your gold and silver or whatever offsite all the power to you.

[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But for me now I'm going to do it locally.

[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean very locally if you know what I mean.

[00:51:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, kind of cool, kind of neat that it's a night of course on beautiful freedom loving country anyhow state country, whatever you want to call it.

[00:51:43] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, what do we got next?

[00:51:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Next is the Faraday cage.

[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't have a cool stinger clip for this segment yet.

[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But it is where we take a quick look at technology something interesting.

[00:51:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You guys ever seen that movie pulse?

[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It was actually a remake of a Japanese film like all horror movies in the early 20s 2000s was it starred Kristen Bell and it was a virus that could or maybe I guess maybe viruses in the right word maybe more like, I don't know, satanic creatures, spirits.

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that could pass through cell phone signals.

[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, at the end of the movie in order for them to escape and it's 20 years old and it's not a very good movie so I'm going to spoil the hell out of it.

[00:52:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They have to go to a cell free or a radio quiet zone in order to survive.

[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I've always been rather interested in these radio quiet zones.

[00:52:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if you guys have seen them but the two big ones have, you know, high tech.

[00:52:41] [SPEAKER_00]: What do we got?

[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me show you.

[00:52:43] [SPEAKER_00]: We've got some satellite dishes, some radio observatory astronomical that kind of stuff.

[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So here it is radio quiet zones feature prominently on Starlink's official availability map.

[00:52:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you can see this, I know it's a little bit small there but there's two large black areas where Starlink currently cannot handle.

[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot bring in any service or signal because again, if you live there, if you want to look go down the rabbit hole and look at what's required of people who live in those areas because again sensitive radio equipment.

[00:53:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So this week Starlink is coming to radio quiet zones in the US.

[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Leave it to Elon Musk to figure it out.

[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_00]: SpaceX has found a way to bring Starlink satellite internet access to radio quiet zones in West Virginia and North New Mexico without disturbing the observatories.

[00:53:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of cool.

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I wanted to know how they did it.

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is.

[00:53:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Radio quiet zones feature prominently on Starlink's official availability map as a pair of dark blue areas without access.

[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_00]: SpaceX wants to avoid radio interference with local observatories.

[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And right here the main concern has been Starlink beaming radio signals toward the eye of the radio astronomy observatories, which could both interfere and even damage the equipment to prevent this.

[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_00]: SpaceX developed a system to quickly steer the satellite beams away from the radio telescopes.

[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So basically the gist of the story is shared information between Starlink and the observatories.

[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And as these satellites pass into phase of the dishes, they're going to kind of move or rotate the beam so that they don't interfere.

[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It'd be interesting to see how well it works and holds up, but either way kind of a cool story.

[00:54:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I like the fact that I just picture Elon in his office.

[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like, Nope, can't do it.

[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't want those two black dots on the map.

[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We need to cover 100% in North America.

[00:54:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's like, who do I know?

[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he calls somebody up at the radio observatory and he's like, Yep, we're going to pipe in internet signals.

[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, you can't do it.

[00:54:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell me you can't.

[00:54:45] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to figure it out.

[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And so he did.

[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so there you go.

[00:54:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of cool.

[00:54:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys.

[00:54:49] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:54:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Next is this week in the workshop.

[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where we take a look at, I guess the shit I got done this week.

[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And for anybody who ever asks, why do you do that?

[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Tim?

[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, two reasons.

[00:55:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Accountability and hopefully inspiration as well.

[00:55:04] [SPEAKER_00]: This was a very, the last seven days centered around one big project for us.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll fill you in on it, but it was a hell of a lot of fun really blown away with the finished product.

[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But we spent the entire week upgrading the playground area at the busy B south in Lloyd Minster.

[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_00]: So when we bought the place, the inside of the building was in good shape.

[00:55:28] [SPEAKER_00]: We had a good staff there, but the lady who owned the place really did not do anything with the outdoor.

[00:55:35] [SPEAKER_00]: She let it really go downhill.

[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It was just in horrible shape.

[00:55:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So basically what you got a picture is the play area and then it was the play area was up by about 22 inches from the paved area.

[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So you had what was supposed to be grass and then you had pavement below that no stairs, no railing.

[00:55:52] [SPEAKER_00]: The entire 40 some foot run was a sloped mud hill.

[00:55:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It was deadly and dangerous.

[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The staff had to fight with mud 24 seven.

[00:56:03] [SPEAKER_00]: If it was dry, it was dust and if it was wet, it was mud.

[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It was awful.

[00:56:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And we needed the time to tear it apart and fix it.

[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So we shut down our daycares for a week this summer to give our staff vacation.

[00:56:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And during that week we spent four days myself and my son in law and one day with my son as well.

[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We rented some really cool equipment.

[00:56:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We rented what is known as a Toro Dingo, which is like a tiny version of a skid steer.

[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Did a ton of dirt work.

[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we built a retaining wall.

[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_00]: We put in stairs.

[00:56:35] [SPEAKER_00]: We laid sod.

[00:56:37] [SPEAKER_00]: We brought I guess only about five yards of soil.

[00:56:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Ton of lumber.

[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We drilled.

[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We dug.

[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_00]: We used expanding foam for the wall supports just had a hell of a time spent way too much time in the sun.

[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But when it was done, guys so proud of it.

[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The parents are stoked.

[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The staff love it.

[00:56:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It's way safer for the kids and it was something that every time licensing would come through for the daycare they would put it on there.

[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_00]: This needs to be dealt with.

[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And we knew what needed to be.

[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_00]: We just needed a week of uninterrupted access to the playground area.

[00:57:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So really proud that we got that done.

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And got to learn a new skill of or at least I guess it'd be a new skill and also got to teach my son in law the same skill of how to use the dingo.

[00:57:21] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of fun guys.

[00:57:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was a project where I was able to bring together a ton of disparate skills that I've learned over the years.

[00:57:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we'd originally talked to a local company, a couple of guys really who were just up and coming.

[00:57:38] [SPEAKER_00]: We hired them to pressure wash everything out back.

[00:57:40] [SPEAKER_00]: They did a good job with that.

[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we said, Hey, this is what we want.

[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_00]: We want to build a retaining wall.

[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_00]: We want to put in stairs and he came back with I'm not going to do that.

[00:57:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to slope the entire area.

[00:57:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So we were going to end up with was bad instead of having just a single slope.

[00:57:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He then wanted to turn the entire play area into a sloped bull, which would have been even more deadly, even more dangerous, slippery, just horrible.

[00:58:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And he wouldn't take no for an answer.

[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So I said, Okay, guess what?

[00:58:12] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to do the project.

[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So it ended up me and Kurt working on it for those four days.

[00:58:17] [SPEAKER_00]: We saved busy bees around $7000.

[00:58:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So I was pretty damn proud of that.

[00:58:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We decided to go with live saw it instead of Astro turf that probably saved us $4000.

[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we saved at least man after you figure in my time in Kurt's time, we still save three to $4000.

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And wages in labor.

[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, it's done.

[00:58:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I will I have some before and afters.

[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll post them to Instagram tomorrow.

[00:58:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, we also rented a healthy jackhammer.

[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So get this guys some days.

[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't have any luck if it weren't for bad luck.

[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And we decided we had five holes that we needed the jackhammer through the asphalt and then, you know, wrote her down with the auger to get the holes built.

[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So I just picked randomly.

[00:59:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, All right, let's start in the middle right here.

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Hole number three.

[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I start jackhammering.

[00:59:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And all of a sudden, I feel my bit getting kind of grabbed a whole lot or sucked in the more I jackhammer the harder it gets pinned in there and I'm like, What is going on?

[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never dealt with this before.

[00:59:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So I discover that there used to be a rotating wall there at one time or another.

[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And there were some old four by sixes in the ground.

[00:59:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And we managed to hit in all the holes.

[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We only hit one and the one we hit was the very first hole that I drilled into.

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And we then needed to spend a half an hour extracting the jackhammer bit from that you would not think that an old rotten four by six could hold on to a jackhammer bit like this, but it sure did.

[00:59:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It was awful and it was a hot day and we're at the tail end of our workday.

[00:59:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We were just beat.

[00:59:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So when it was done, I was so happy to be done with it, but it was a hell of a job guys.

[01:00:02] [SPEAKER_00]: What else?

[01:00:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We got overheated on Sunday.

[01:00:04] [SPEAKER_00]: It was awful.

[01:00:05] [SPEAKER_00]: We had and then yesterday I was up at Lloyd working in the daycare again.

[01:00:10] [SPEAKER_00]: We had a horrible wildfire smoke.

[01:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I was telling you guys about that makes it really difficult to work and enjoy.

[01:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But the worst part was I wanted to hang new baby gate.

[01:00:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I go out to the group out to my truck and I'd forgotten my tool bag left it in provost an hour and a half away.

[01:00:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So I was hooked.

[01:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to come up with something else.

[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So I decided I was going to hang the new ring cameras that we bought.

[01:00:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you guys have never used or installed ring cameras before they are definitely interesting very, very slick to set up.

[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know they're one of the Amazon or yeah, I think they are Amazon anyway.

[01:00:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed them.

[01:00:49] [SPEAKER_00]: They are very slick interface.

[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Their battery they run on to Energizer lithium double A batteries and they supposedly get you two years of runtime on them.

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.

[01:01:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't really know, but we'll find out.

[01:01:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Dan says I'd have called it bits dead letter rest dump the dirt right here boys.

[01:01:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So that reminds me I wanted to mention.

[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know the dude's name, but the guy that delivered the sod probably saved us two to three hours worth of work.

[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_00]: He came in with a truck and a little mini forklift that unloaded it.

[01:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: He was willing to come in all the way in through the narrow opening of the backyard and then go up the ramp the dirt ramp that was sketchy as shit and put all of the sawed up where we needed to work with it.

[01:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It was such a back saving thing.

[01:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank him for that.

[01:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So and Dan says ring with a solar panel was a game changer.

[01:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe it.

[01:01:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I've got some Wi Fi solar solar powered cameras that I love right now.

[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And of course, whenever I install a new system, the first thing I do is go online and look for cool accessories and they have got some solar and some battery extenders for the ring systems.

[01:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to dig into them because they're really good.

[01:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: We're putting them in the daycare in the shared public or the shared common areas, not the classrooms themselves.

[01:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: We need to have them.

[01:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And so yeah, I've been impressed with the quality the ease of installation so far this week as far as videos go.

[01:02:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I threw out a video on do I need a remote start generator?

[01:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I was actually, I started out planning on doing a review of the new dual fuel inverter generator from Harbor Freight.

[01:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I realized that I put so much work into whether you needed or didn't need a remote starter that that be turned into its own video.

[01:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So couple of weeks down the road look for the new the new review of the dual fuel generator and then coming tomorrow is my latest and greatest favorite piece of DeWalt gear.

[01:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a storage box that's also a dual charger.

[01:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been out on the market for a couple of years, but I just bought it.

[01:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like called the DeWalt storage box charger.

[01:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It holds 14 DeWalt batteries has two chargers built in.

[01:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been super nice for all the work I do when I go up to the daycares and need to bring a bunch of batteries with me.

[01:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And finally, two EMP shields finally showed up this week.

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Been a while I had planned on ordering them sooner and I hadn't got around to it, but they're going to be going on the bubblegum pink and the army green Rams that we now have.

[01:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, keep an eye out down the road for yet another EMP shield video on that.

[01:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: What do we got next?

[01:03:37] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, the community mail bag.

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.

[01:03:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the apocalypse in of days.

[01:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: The judgment day, the end of the world, my friend.

[01:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's dig into the community mail bag.

[01:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Guys, the community mail bag or community mail bag.

[01:03:57] [SPEAKER_00]: This is where we reach in and find the things that were sent to me this week.

[01:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And what I wanted to share with you is a couple of the polls I run on the community tab on the YouTube channel.

[01:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And we are very quickly approaching 20,000 subscribers over there too, which is kind of cool.

[01:04:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Or over here I should say.

[01:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: But the one poll, the big one here.

[01:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: What is your go to bunker entertainment?

[01:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: 106 votes 22% said board games.

[01:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought that would have been higher except that sometimes that leads to physical altercations and we don't need that 38% said books and 28% said movies.

[01:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So there you go.

[01:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the other one I asked was have you ever had to evacuate your home?

[01:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: 92 votes on that one.

[01:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And this was, I mean, this was probably one of my favorite polls that I've done in a long time.

[01:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And the main reason was is that I got to hear some really, I guess legitimate stories from folks who have had to evacuate over the years.

[01:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't necessarily.

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I was just looking for a yes or no answer, but a ton of people shared some stuff.

[01:05:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So this first one comes from Hans Zarkoff PhD said hurricane Florence put six feet of water in my backyard flooding my storage shed workshop back porch missed coming in my house by the height of one brick watching river flood forecast for Debbie right now already have a storage unit and have started moving equipment to get ahead of it.

[01:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the little, the little things guys that are so scary.

[01:05:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure if this is the same Dan or not it could be Dan Dan Dan DeColo.

[01:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I hope I pronounced that right said I've never had to evacuate but this does make me a little nervous.

[01:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Previously, I had thought that I would be able to go to my aging parents house if I had to bug out or vice versa.

[01:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But several years ago I happened to buy a house that is eight houses down the road from my aging parents.

[01:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Since I am only an only child this makes sense to be close to help them but at the same time anything that affects me affects them.

[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Power outages and the like need to rethink the plan.

[01:05:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, that's the odd thing isn't it you know you because again you totally made the right choice living near your aging parents I would would not be grudging that anything but then all of a sudden you're like shit where do I bug out to where do they bug out to if things happen right.

[01:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah we're we have a few plans we've worked on here I mean obviously if we ever have to leave way way way too far away than we're going to Tennessee or vice versa.

[01:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But we're working on something else a little closer locally and I'll share with you guys that as we get into the next little project we're doing.

[01:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Next comes from cat bab said as a child I had to evacuate during what they called the sixth the flood of 64.

[01:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Yozik said a few times here Hurricane Opal and Biloxi.

[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I think is that Missouri MS or Mississippi all you guys are going to hate me because I'm bad with my US geography widespread power outage once another hurricane in Biloxi.

[01:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Forget which one had a tornado touchdown in the parade field while doing training in the military had to evacuate lots of fun stuff.

[01:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one comes from dirt poor homestead never had to but I did bug in for a three day power outage in the snow storm actually stayed home for two or three days multiple times due to snow.

[01:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So not to jinx it or anything but if you guys have noticed you know I don't I do a ton of generator videos and it kind of sucks because well no sorry back up here Tim we don't have we have almost no power outages here on the prairies it's unbelievable how rare it happens.

[01:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't get a ton of real world experience with my generators but growing up on the east coast where blizzards and nasty storms are the norm.

[01:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Quite often we would be storms day for two three four days at a time with no power using wood heat and enjoying ourselves.

[01:07:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Becky misses that quite often she talks about how she used to love when we'd be storms day for a blizzard and we would just stay home and enjoy life it was definitely a different time.

[01:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: User great ZX something or other carbon dioxide alarm from cooking of all things and then Carl Payne says it was a gas leak.

[01:08:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah crazy.

[01:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So if any of you guys have ever had to evacuate for something let me know I definitely enjoyed hearing those stories from folks it was.

[01:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel bad that it happened but if someone else can learn from your experience all the power to you.

[01:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And then one final segment for this evening guys and it is my food for thought segment and that has become kind of the I don't know I not always the topic to end on but it's just my area where I can interject something I've been thinking about something I've been keeping.

[01:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Notes on on my phone but it's not big enough to warrant an entire episode or an entire YouTube video.

[01:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But this one's on physical media and if you like I asked you guys earlier this week what is your go to bunker media and it's a bit of a joke but at the same time it's also not because you guys remember back to the start of the craziness that was coven that turned out to be not quite what we thought it was.

[01:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Well for a couple of months we spent every waking minute at home and we played board games and we played card games and we had a hell of a time with the family really enjoyed it.

[01:09:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And I've turned into a bit of a physical media junkie over the last five six years right over this shoulder right here is my vinyl record player and I've got about two crates worth of records now.

[01:09:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoy them actually have Post Malone's new country album pre-ordered that should become soon for some of the people can just kind of roll your eyes if you want but that's OK.

[01:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway I enjoyed music I really do but our first love as a family has always been film and we've decided over the last while when we were down in Tennessee we went to some of the thrift stores and we bought dollar DVDs and some blue rays and we just bought a stack of them and we put them on a shelf at the cabin which is great.

[01:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But for us we wanted to have a fairly robust blue ray collection here at the house and how did this start.

[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Well it all started back about six months ago me and the girls had kind of you know Becky was out of town we would pick a day where we would be like all right I'm going to show you guys a movie.

[01:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And so we started with American Pie I know I showed them the Jackass films I showed them Dazed and Confused which is probably one of our joint favorite films now.

[01:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And so one day I said all right well let's watch 28 days later.

[01:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Well I typed it into just watch and it said sorry it's not available.

[01:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought oh well I guess we can't stream it I'll have to rent it somewhere.

[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So I looked and you couldn't rent it on YouTube you couldn't rent it on Amazon Apple nothing it wasn't available.

[01:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like well what the hell can I buy it as a digital download nope not available anywhere.

[01:10:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So that made me think how many more movies are like this and I didn't go down that rabbit hole whole lot but the fact that we live in this kind of instant on want to stream something but can't.

[01:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of you know it reminded me that things that we take for granted can be pulled away instantly and also on top of it.

[01:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to be able to be more prepared and I'd love to have I was picturing a whole remember those binders full of DVDs and stuff so I'd like to have a good collection of movies that we could watch during a Perlarm Power of the

[01:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: percentage or a grid down scenario simple as that now could you fill a hard drive or USB thumb drive sure you could but for me I wanted something physical and tangible.

[01:11:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was where I went on eBay looking for 28 days later in Blu-ray I was hoping well it was basically only available in DVD and it was almost $100 for a desk and I thought holy shit so over the next few months as we would yard sale in the spring in

[01:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: the summer I started looking and eventually snapped up two copies on DVD now the thing about 28 days later as it was filmed in some of the early digital digital video cameras so the quality is never going to be high definition.

[01:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like the old Star Trek the next generation that was filmed on video you're never going to get an upscaled without it being completely refilmed anyway I digress so that's where this whole thing started and a couple of weeks ago we set down and we watch 28 days later

[01:12:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and it was a lot of fun.

[01:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It was an experience it was so different than this is going to sound weird but if you guys remember the days when you go to for me it was long branch rental that was the local family owned rental place but it didn't matter what it was whether it was blockbuster or family video whatever it was for you.

[01:12:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So we sit down you physically put the disk in the machine.

[01:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: My girls did not know that you could watch a physical disc with an internet connection it blew them out of the water they had no idea.

[01:12:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The sound is better the video is better you're not contingent on some licensing rights with another company.

[01:12:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were blown away by the special features on the DVD I had forgotten about the special features.

[01:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't realized what we had lost by sliding into the streaming era and there was so much that we lost and without waxing eloquently all night.

[01:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: We had lost the tangible end of it we lost the social end of going to the store and renting a video.

[01:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And really what we end up doing most of the time now is we sit down like all right let's find something on Netflix and we stroll through seven different streaming sites and we don't find anything and then we go to bed we just play on our phones but you know when you physically put a movie in you sit down everybody for the most part puts your phone down you sit there it becomes a discussion point it was an event we had a hell of a time so that's where we're heading towards

[01:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: we're going to watch birds next Hitchcock and then we'll probably watch psycho we got a bunch of them and then the other day I asked Charlotte I said you want to watch back to the future and she said I'd love to so on to Amazon I went and I bought the trilogy for 30 bucks so

[01:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: all that to say that prepping you know you've heard it said many many times that prepping should make your life better whether the shit hits the fan or it doesn't.

[01:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's the way I look at this physical media thing you know for me my vinyl is just something I enjoy down here in my office.

[01:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Would it be great if I needed it sometimes sure it would be movie same thing I like something physical and tangible that we can sit down and enjoy as a family.

[01:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But it also doubles as a really good prep as well so that helps me sleep at night I don't know I guess it does but yeah so.

[01:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: If you guys want to share if you're listening to this after the fact you want to share some thoughts on physical media or physical things in general like books whatever it happens to be I'd love to hear about it so those are my thoughts that is my food for thought on physical

[01:14:47] [SPEAKER_00]: media are need for it maybe looking through some you know rose colored nostalgic glasses but either way I feel like it's something that we need to at least consider and physical media is dirt cheap and again it allows you to be one arms length away from the control that some of these streaming sites have now so there you go.

[01:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: All right anyway folks that's it for me this evening it was great having you in here I think we top though to 20 live viewers tonight and we're only on YouTube now.

[01:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It is this is where we are this is where we're going to be I have staked my claim to YouTube.

[01:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: This is my moneymaker you're going to see more and more review videos coming through so support the channel guys I appreciate you I just love that you came here I love that you watch this.

[01:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah I'm heading to the city this weekend with the kids and the girls love hanging out with you here on Thursday nights if you need anything you know where to find me come and join the telegram group which is in the link below and as always folks stay happy stay healthy and have a great week.

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