Women Wednesday - Security & Defense with Jfurg and Sam Biggers on A Family Affair

Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. It's so great to have you on another family affair show, and tonight we will be talking defense and security. So we have one of my favorite guests is Sam b and she is actually is part of Backdoor Survival. Sam, thank you for so much for joining me tonight. I know this is something that has been on so many people's minds and something we are seeing a lot more of. Thank you so much. If you want to say hi, and for those who don't know who you are, just give a little bit about yourself. Him. Well, Sam, i'd write at back Door Survival. I live in western North Carolina then as as well as it's been prepping for my entire life, and it's just going to talk a little bit tonight about defense. It's on a lot of people's minds with what's going on. There's a lot of uncertainty right now. So there's one of the big things that you got to consider at the moment is you know, the legality is defending yourself right now. Laws theyre in place and enforced. It varies a lot by state. For example, like in North Carolina, I can stand my ground. There's castle doctrine laws. You can defend your house if someone comes on my property drives me as a gun fell off on my side. Places like California, if even if someone comes through your door and you can't really retaliate with that getting you're legally obligated to back down. It can just you have to check. It's good to know your loss so you know what you're getting into before you make the decisions. Absolutely, because like here, the law here is very different from the law in Tennessee or Arkansas. So in Mississippi we have what we call an old gunslinger law, which is we have a right if we feel threatened to protect ourselves, our family, or even our own property, even if we're out in the middle of town. Now, people aren't going around and just shooting each other, but it's the whole purpose of being able to defend and protect yourself and what's yours. Uh yeah, yeah. I mean a lot of people their first defense they go to is firearms. But even with firearms, I mean that's you don't want to use as ms. You have to you need to really think about like threat detections. Really what you need to be thinking about if you have firearms, alerting yourself to what alerts can you set up to see threats before they actually get to you, And there's a lot of ways to do that. It's part of it depends on your own situation. Do you live on a property, do you live in an apartment so we can talk about some of those messages. Or Yeah, absolutely, I'm all for it. You know, for me, i live a little more out in the country, but I'm still close enough to a freeway. I have to be aware of the traffic flow and what's going past my house. Yeah. Yeah, you know a lot of people use cameras. They're really affordable. Now. I know some people don't like the nest cameras or they're kind of expensive, but you can get a camera for forty five bucks on Amazon. They'll let you yell at people even that approach your house. They'll send an alert to your cell phone and you can like yell at them remotely if you want to, or call the police or things like that. You have to, you know, it takes a little practice. You have to have an app on your cell phone that kind of thing. Other things you can do would be like driveway alarms. Those are tricky because some of them don't work as well on long distances. You have to like really watch which ones you get, and if you're like on a mountain like I am, there's a line of sight with the wireless ones matters. It just depends. You have to be careful what you get depending on your topography and how. Because there's some if the if the cloud covers the sky, it will trigger the alarm. I've had one do that before, and I've had one where the wind set it off. I didn't understand how the wind blew when it was an eye r. Yeah. Yeah. There's also like noise alarms like motion detectors that they'll just like start yelling and when they're tripped. You can get those on Amazon too. You can set up basic things to like Selko. Actually, when I took his course online, this is the old triggered head. There's the Keychaine alarms that women use like when they're jogging and stuff, and if you pull the string, it'll set off one hundred and forty decibel alarm. You can set those up with like fishing line or whatever you've got. You want something that's not real visible of course, and it'll just make a huge amount of noise. That you could set those up at your door even if you have an apartment or something. The seconds count. But those are completely legal no matter how you slice it, because it's just a noise alarm and they're really cheap if you get like six of for twenty bucks. Yeah, I may have to look at that. That's actually kind of smart because if it's in the middle of the night, what's gonna wake you up is a loud noise and it's gonna scare whoever's trying to walk up on you. So a big reason sorry, I'm gonna cut you off, A big reason no talking about the subject is you know, a lot of people are in a situation where they're having to bug in and stay in. A lot of people are all of a sudden hitting the stores and are wiping amount of ammunition and guns and magazines for ars. I saw someone today on Facebook posts that they were looking for five, five, six and three oh eight and a few other rounds, and it's it's if you have to ask, then you've missed out. Because but you've got to look at the fact that some of these states are allowing petty crimes or small crimes to be ignored. Petty theft. I mean, they're already having that issue in San Francisco, So you've got to look at means of being able to protect yourself or be aware of what's going on around you. Yeah, there's like there's a lot you can do to reinforce your door, Like I have an article I did on that you can One of the simple things you can do is you can take the screws out of like your door hardware and replace them with longer screws, because they're the ones that a lot of hardware comes with are really short, and you can just go and spend two or three dollars on screws, and even if you rent, your landlord's probably not going to notice if you like take the screws out and put better ones in. And that right there a chain lock. Those people say, all those chainlocks, they look kind of, you know, wimpy, right. I was seeing the MythBusters where they're trying to bash towards it, and one of the last things that failed was the chain lock. Oh yeah. It was actually really surprising because I remember having those in my dorm room in college and I was like, oh, that's just kind of for show, you know, to make people feel better, but none of they're pretty effective. You can also get there's just all kinds of door blockers and door bars that are available on Amazon, and your windows are a main point of entry. Windows film you can buy that on that's another thing you can just get online. And the thicker the better. But people put it on their windows sometimes to for hurricanes and stuff, because instead of your glass shattering and sending a bunch of shards everywhere, it will just it will hold and it'll kind of fall out in one piece rather than like just shattering into shards, and it buys you some time, like someone can't just like bust through the glasses fast. Wow, that's awesome. See, I didn't even think about window film. It's a different things is now. You'll pay more the thicker you get, but the thicker, the more protection. And it's a good thing to have even if you you know, if you live in a hurricane zone. Too, So I wonder how it would hold up to our tornadoes. I'm tornado. Yeah, windows are just a it's a big point of concern for a lot of people. So right, no, I understand, Well, what would you say for someone who maybe has a hard time with their their locks. A lot of these windows now where you can unlock them, lift them up, and then they open outward. I know, if you're not careful, they don't exactly latch all the way. Is there something people can do for their windows or around their windows to set up a little more defense. Well, you can actually get alarms for like if your window gets open when you don't want them to, you know, like they're just like gets noise alarms that will go off for a real like you know, if you think there's civil unrest and stuff. You can stretch chicken wire over a window, like really tight. I never thought about that. I've definitely got. Yeah, that'll stop them all top cocktail if it's done right. Huh yeah, that's one of those Yeah. Yeah, it's just tied. You stretch it the better. But uh, when windows, that's the main things for windows, I would say. Right, right, So you know a lot of a lot of individuals. Well you, I mean, sorry, hold on, I'm fighting with my puppy's he's trying to eat my cord. So I apologize, y'all. Oh lost my train of thought. I was gonna ask you something, Sam, I'm so sorry. Fine, Well, what is your opinion with everything that's going on, as far as the fact that you see a lot of people are now happing to shelter in place certain states like San Francisco in California, is not uh, you know, not punishing certain crimes unless it's in effect, and then they're still not charging people. I saw videos where people were stealing from a Walgreens, wiping the shelves out and nobody could do anything about it. They got to walk out with their bags and their baskets full. Ah. You just gotta take care of yourself, you know. And if they're not going to enforce the law, I mean, I think that's more of a you're gonna see that more in cities and such. But there's also people are going to be at home and they're going to be bored, and there's gonna be kids out of school and stuff, and you know, people might there might be some things happen, but I it just depends on how long it goes on and just how unhappy people are. And your area too, I mean the city. I wouldn't want to be in the city, that's for sure, because yeah, that's it's hard to say. As long as people are fed and can stay at home. You know, staying at home might not be so bad. There is a lot of food in this country. I know that there's bear shells in places, but that's they're working on the supply chain and getting things there. There's really we produce a lot of food. It's not that it's not there, it's just getting it there. It sells out as fast as they get it there. And they've actually lifted a lot of the restrictions on truckers, like the electronic logs system they used to not they could only be on the road or work so many hours. And there was some other. Road the electronic shutoffs too, where you could only be on the road for eight hours and then you had to have an eight hours offer. Yeah, and there was there were some other restrictions that made it pretty difficult were on them. And excuse me, I'm kind of glad that they relaxed that. But at the same time, those guys can only work and ladies can only work so hard. I mean staying on the road a long time. I mean there's they can only do so much and there's less infrastructure to support them because everything's shut down on their trip. So that's even more difficult on them. So, but you'll probably see some some eating up at the grocery stores on some things I and some of that you see it's people wanting to particular product or a particular brand. Like I've heard people say, I can't find my brand of this, Well, is there another brand of the same thing on the shelf? Have you looked for that? Because I don't know that they have. I mean that just seems like sometimes Oh no, I'm not saying that they're not like complete shortages, but I. Know someone who says that if can only have this brand, I said, well they don't have it, well, then I'll go without. Like if you really want that item, you'll learn to take what you can get. Yeah, and oh, there is a time too where there's there's a lot of stuff sold out at storage, but there was plenty of it online. And I know that it's hard for some people to order online. They're afraid their patches being sold. There's all that, but it's like it's still out there. It's just a little bit harder, and that's unfortunate. But we're not we're not. I don't think people are gonna start quite yet, that's right. So I'm what what would you suggest for those individuals who do not have guns or enough guns and AMMO to be able to defend themselves. And you know, like you said, are usually our go to is firearms. I know I'm now with everything that's going on, I'm a full time carrier only because I have seen some people act really stupid over some really just stupid stuff that I don't want to risk it and hurt because of somebody else's ignorance. Well, there's you can turn a weapon, a lot of things into weapons. A baseball bat exactly. I mean that you can also stick some nails in it if you really want. Yeah, yeah, uh heck, even a frying panel work if you's all you got. I'm a big fan of just carrying a couple of knives on me and for a backup. Now those I will say that knives. The laws will vary someplace is you know, you can't legally carry this or that. So but the only time getting caught yeah and the other some states that's you had two or three inch plade And usually what usually nobody gets caught for that unless they're getting caught for something else that's much worse. So, I mean I have to say, but uh, even like a tire aren't iron Like if you're traveling in your vehicle something, you know, they can't really say much about you having tools in your vehicle. So you know, think about what's in the toolbox that can be used as a bludgeon er. There's just there's everywhere if you just look around. Volcan said in the chat room. According to Modern Combat and Survival, the new and knife is a pairing knife, as they are so common that no one really questions it. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so just common things I mean, and. She says theasily replaced. Now, I you know, I used to doubt tactical pins a little bit. I thought I was like, how could something break glass? How could something be that tough? And I got this little car. It's like a USB drive car. It'll chart your phone and you put it into the twelve in your car. But it's also a glass breaker. And I did a view for that, and you can actually work you bust your waist shoulder, And that kind of leads me to believe that, well, maybe those tactical pins with the car by tips would actually be pretty useful. Again, you know, that's going to take some strength but it's better than I expected. Right, Well, I've done a monkey ball's fist where you use a ball bearing in its Now you're not saying it's legal in some areas, but being what it is, but it I my husband has made a hole in the wall testing it out, not sure and how strong it was. So if if that tells you anything, it's if it's enough to crack a hole in a hard wall, it's enough to crack a hole in someone's head. Yeah, I mean a walking stick a cane. So there's there's some canes that are actually, uh, they're pretty formidable looking. There's one the United Coultary Commando Survival Hammer. That thing is crazy looking and it's just a walking stick, but it's also like a hammer. Pepper spray works, but I have to say, like with pepper spray, you gotta be careful that can be turned on you or if the wind blows right. Yeah, up in. Alaska, I feel like if most people get pepper spray, they need to not say that they need to be sprayed by it, but they need to understand what it feels like because there's usually some sort of flyback on it. I'll get exposed to it. As well. M hm, and you might make somebody just angry. That's what sometimes that would happen with bear and stuff. In Alaska, they would people would carry bear spray and they would just wind up in raising the bear or pepper spraying themselves, and then they've got a barry. Deal with right, those are spared. Asked what about a T shirt that says I'm infected. I don't think that'll work as. Well, you know, I nowadays I might be a little bit cautious about yeah, because I kind of thought about, oh, you can put up coronavirus, you know, quarantine signed around your place. But now I started thinking, like, if it gets bad, you know, maybe that would be all right. But at the same time, if you let people think that you're infected, if there's any like blowback towards people that are. I mean in Kenya, somebody got like stoned to death because they were infected, and so you have to wonder, wow, you know, like would somebody it We're not there yet here, but would people just is it possible for people to reach a point where they're just angry at people that are infected and they retaliate because look what happened with the cruise ships places wouldn't want the doc which I can't blame him, actually, but now people were starting to be you know, they wouldn't didn't want them to dock in the United States even though they were American citizens. It's like, wow, that's really making a statement. Well, you know, you didn't want it to spread, so volcano says and Chat. I once saw a black belt master take out the black belt student using a standard cane with a big loop at the top of the candy cane shape. It was very impressive. He was seated and barely moved. And volcanics are prepared get the caution tape. Yeah. Yeah. If things get really bad, I mean you might have people sleeping shifts and stuff. I mean that's what they do in the most That's an old tactic, you know. Gard That's what we did on Bood. We always had two up while everybody else slept, and we took shifts and you rotated out and you reported at the end of the shift if any activity, if any at all, any changes, Yeah. Yeah, and just working in teams and stuff and just you know, kind of washing each other's back. If you have a really a big enough property to to have like multiple layers of fences and gates, you know, fences or even people can get over fences. Barbed wire really helps. You can still get barbed wire and stretch it wherever you want. We have a lot of osage orange trees, so if you can, oh yeah, then good luck to you, because I know we've about tore our sides open trying to get past those trees before on our own properties. Yeah yeah. And putting up just if you have driveway, a long driveway or something, putting trees and debris and just piling stuff up, anything to slow people down. There's also I mean if you have a long driveway or you've just lots of backroads. There's an old trick. It's a tiger track. See like what if if a vehicle a vehicle has a certain weight, So like a small utility vehicle might weigh fifteen hundred pounds or something, whereas a big truck is thousands of pounds. So if if a spot in the road can take the regular weight of the smaller vehicle, then that's great. But if something bigger comes across, they'll drop it a pit mm hmm, or in a hole or something that'll damage or tire very you know, and that's real like hardcore stuff. That's for We're not there yet, you know. No, we're not that, No, not quite. But people are gonna get bored, and I don't you know, quarantining people in the United States is a lot different than quarantining in other places. It's people are better armed and they're not used to being told what to do as much. Right, And then you've got people who get bored, and you get hoodlums and troublemakers who think they can take a bad situation and make it a great opportunity for themselves. Yeah. Yeah, and this is this is a different thing. People are afraid of getting sick and it's I but there's a lot of people that still think it's a hoax. And I'm just like, how on earth can you think it's all a hoax? Because if it's a hoax, then these people are better than any Hollywood producer ever dream of being. You can't get countries to work together on basic things, how are you going to get this in the countries to work? Right? Well, you know, I've ran into the same situation where someone directly think they think that the Democrats created this. I'm like, this is the one time in life the Democrats aren't fighting with the Republicans. They're trying to figure out what to do so we can slow this down. So it's like, I just I don't know it is. It does dumbfound me in the fact that you hear that we don't need mask, but yet now they're producing mask for all of our medical stuff and all these people. If you look all across the world, all everybody uses mask. I just felt like America didn't want to admit that we had a mask shortage, not that the mask were ineffective. So I think masks do help. I think it realizes how bad the exposure is going to be. I'm not gonna say it's going to hundred percent prevent it, but there's nothing wrong with taking that extra precaution. Yeah. There was an interesting bit on Chris Martins's channel A Peat Prosperity. Yes Or. He talked about there was a doctor that explained like there was a big difference between Okay, well maybe a mask won't get rid of everything or protect you from everything, or you might touch your face or you might but there's a big difference between and one reason the medical people are so at risk is if they get exposed, they've got somebody that's probably infected, coughing in their face or something, so they're starting off with a huge virus load. Whereas if you or I go touch a doorknob where the virus is on and still active, and then we touch our face, we've found a little bit of the virus and we have days for our immune system to kind of help with that. So we get sick, but we won't get as sick as like starting out with a huge viral load. So there's it all helps, you know, minimizing how much should the virus load you start out with. Think about the fact. Prime example for a little bit of and I say self defense, I mean in health self defense on this one is I keep gloves in my car. I do wear a face mask when I go into public. I have had some positive reactions and quite a and have had one very negative reaction, which I probably found a little more too entertaining than I should have, because you know, people react differently. But I wear gloves when I go to the gas pump. I make sure, oh yeah, I take out my card, I'm holding it and anything that's been in my hand with those gloves will be disinfected too, so I will not put a card that I've swiped in something that everybody else has done too, because you know, most people don't clean their cards or their wallets, so you're asking bacteria or viruses or germs just to sit there. So I had a gentleman watch me leave the store, and I got one glove off just so I could grab the door. Then got my alcohol and a spray bottle and sprayed and disinfect it and clean stuff and watched me as I did it, And it was more of a puzzlement look than anything. But it's like, if I practice that now and it gets any worse, well then you know I'm doing the right thing. Even if it doesn't get any worse, at least I can still prevent from getting sick gas pumps. People don't think about the fact of how nasty gas pumps are. Wear gloves, Oh yeah, yeah. And they went back and forth and how long this thing live on surfaces. And now it's four days, now it's five days. I have not heard a definitive date yet of how long it actually lives. I just err on the side of caution and just say, like I'm just gonna say ten days and just go on the day more than what the extreme outlook is, because yeah, because I it's now that's under like ideal circumstances. There's been some studies where like, if the humidity's just right, if the temperature is just right, it'll live for like nine days on some surfaces, and that's really like ideal conditions. But it's like, okay, well, I'm just gonna go with that and just think that it's got ideal conditions all the time, just. To be safe, right, It's better safe than sorry. Well, you know, when I said I wore the mask into the store, I had a woman who worked at a Walmart out here who when I walked in, I had two people stop me, one before and one after asked me where I got my mask from. They wanted one just like it, because mine is an RZ mask in which I could change out the filters on so I'm not worried about it, and I could still spray down or clean my mask the outer cloth and then let it air out and dry out or however you want to disinfect. But I had one woman, Yeah, I heard her say, Oh, well, I don't know if I should say it the same way she said it, but basically the essence was uh, hell no, and uh that I had the corona and so yes, and that she was positive I had the corona. Is what she said to a couple picks. Oh sorry, my puppy is getting a little too rambuctious. He just bit me to where. She would say in it to some customers that were in the store watching me that she yelled for the other lady got to come help her. She goes, I ain't touching her. So I had to laugh because she she was convinced I had the corona and I don't. But I wasn't the only person in town with the mask on. I was probably the only person with the rainslickuor gloves and the face mask on. Yeah. I think seeing people in personal protective gear kind of it shocks people out of their little bubble. They have to kind of face some reality that they don't really want to accept. And that's that's what you see a lot of that. That's why there's so much anger. It's people just can't accept this reality and it's not good. I mean, I it's tough. You know, you wake up every day and it's like oh no, what's next. But it's better to kind of accept it than to just say there's nothing happening, right. I don't understand putting your you know that was like it's if you're not a part of the EOC for COVID nineteen with Prepper Broadcasting Network, you need to reach out to us because there's a lot of information going on here. I'm not going to say who the individual was, but it's like a couple people who are in the EOC are dealing with the fact that they are still working and they're trying their best. But there's other individuals who have kept their head in the sands so long that they can't cope. They almost can't cope with what's going on around them, the fact that now they're not allowed. Certain states or certain towns are not even allowing you to leave your home. So it goes to show this when we're saying to be ready, you've got to be ready for all the outcomes because there's a good chance you're going to be affected in a way you weren't expecting. Yeah, and people are having to learn to get along a little bit, and the families leave very or they leave very separate lives even though they're in the same house, and especially those have like really big houses and such, and you're gonna have to learn to kind of be around each other more than they they're used to, and that that can cause a lot of problems. You're telling me, who was so bored today because he hasn't been able to do anything for a couple of weeks because of the rain. Like, how am I supposed to keep this man in the house if we have a quarantine when he gets bored so easy and the weather's bad. Hmmm, So that's something I have to keep in mind too. So it's it's one of those it's like, huh, how do you how do you keep those who don't do well being stuck in places entertained? You could quill it with him. A couple used to do that all the time, like they did people used. To hurt then then actually, you're talking about a grown man who is a d D. Yeah, I'm not putting a needle in his hands, said around it. So see, I mean that's tough. You know, having something to do is important. It's being busy and a lot of people are facing that and it's a hard one to approach. To everybody's situations different, right, Well. You know it's kind of like Jen says here when we were talking about how people are keeping their heads in the sand, they said, that's how every other person around here thinks. No one thinks it's going to hit our tiny towns. And Ozark says, overall, we are very sheltered. They are using they are used to reading about this in other countries, and they are both dead on. I mean, our town has several cases, and I live in a small county, but this is not something that's limited to a large population. This is going to be anybody and everybody and their brother. I actually wanted to make a comment real quick on the cases. So our health department or Mississippi Department of Health, has been monitoring it, and we were looking at the age range, and I heard where a lot of people said, oh, it's an only certain age range. Well, we have three children under eighteen, I think a couple of toddlers. Then eighteen to twenty nine, we have twenty four cases. Thirty to thirty nine thirteen forty to forty nine is twenty seven. Then you have eighteen cases fifty to fifty nine. For me, there's no real set factor with age, like we're hearing. I mean, I see the little ones aren't getting it unless they're immuno deficiency, but eighteen to twenty nine is still getting it just as easily as the sixty to sixty nine year olds. Yeah, there's definitely a lot in Italy, there's a lot of young people getting it, and even if they get over it, there's sometimes like really massive lung damage which is quite frightening. And you know, people say, oh, there's all these underlying factors that these people have existey conditions and they're old and all that. Well, what do you think it comes from? In the US is like, we have a very we have an older population. A lot of people are overweight, they have diabetes, they have heart problems, they have all these risk factors that they're saying, well, this country has a high death rate because of this. It's like, well, we have some of a lot of the same risk factors. That's not real, you. Know, right, absolutely sorry, I got distracted. Matt said, give him a project to fix something, plant something. Well, right when I was putting I don't trust him. In the garden, Volcano said you can still go outside in the backyard. Give him to do yard work away from your garden. Yeah. Yeah, but no, he can play with the kids while you do that stuff. There you go, Yeah, I don't mind doing that. Yeah, pretendingly most men are. Even psychology shows, men are better with pretend play than women. Yeah, I'm speaking of men. That's another thing that's disturbing about this virus and just horrifies me, is that and Italy in places like men men are dying in a much higher rate than women. And it's because of your ACE inhibitors. The ACE two inhibitors is what's replicating it. Men replicated twice as fast as a woman does. Yeah, there is some evidence about the ACE two and there's there's been some charts and stuff. It's kind of debated because that people try to pretend everybody is the same and uh, but there's yeah, there's something to that, and I it's it's really it's really frightening because there's you know, yeah, that's just just tough. I don't know, it's really bothered me a lot. I'm like, oh my goodness, Like so so Matt. Says in chat, he goes the immortality rate that is higher, not the infection rate. Viral pneumonia series, no matter how old. My question for you, though, is being are you and your husband both taking the extra precautions to protect yourselves as well as defend and protect what you have? You don't have a Yeah, I'm. Just saying, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've been. We haven't been going anywhere for a long time. I've we've went out one time for gas since January thirty first, and we did it at four am. We haven't been anywhere, and we you know, just we we're kind of out in the country and we've got lots of senses and stuff and lots of barking dogs. If everybody, uh has a dog, like that's that's really helpful. Sometimes people tell me they're like, I haven't. They'll show me their dogs. Listen a picture. They'll be this little dog. They're like, it's not really a prepper dog. It'll be like a Pomeranian or something like. It doesn't matter a dog. A dog will make noise, right, Yeah, you can have a Chihuahua and that chihuahua will save your life. I like to use the example of a you know, pickles of the Chihuahua and Black Mountain, North Carolina ran out and harassed a bear and saved an entire family because this bear had like walked into their house or slighting that store and bull dog like died. But you know, chihuahua saves the family. It's dogs are amazing and even the smallest one will make noise. Oh yeah, they can get away with it. You know, if it was if if a big dog had the attitude of a chihuaha, you'd have to have it put down or something. I think I've had. I've had both of them, and it's yeah, they're their attitude is but yeah, dogs, dogs really are helpful. But yeah, we've got some defenses in place and stuff, but we live like kind of far back. I mean you have to you have to really, like I guess I have like a four whel drive or something on top of it to get up here anyway, and so it's really actually kind of hard to find. So no, well, see that works out for you, but unfortunately for me, I'm off the freeway, so people who know that can look and see my house from the freeway, so I'm kind of a bit of a disadvantage. Yeah, and people sometimes they're like, oh, everybody should try to hide where they're at or on the undisclosed location, and it's like, come on, you can people really want to find you that. You can look up your address online or do a background check for a little to nothing, and your tax records are all out there. It's very hard to just like be completely anonymous, right, Yeah, I mean it's you can't. I guess if you have everything in a shell company and there's some things, but people can track you down if they really want to. It's it's pretty impossible to completely hide. No, I understand. So Ozark says in here whas are as loud as flash bangs. Yeah, I would agree with that, Like. Yeah, absolutely, I've had before. So volcanos, Uh well, Jen said her daughter had had pneumonia when she was eight or nine several years ago. She was it was absolutely terrible and Gin, you're right, and it takes months and months to get over that, especially when it affects your respiratory system. So Volcano said, my dad used to have two dogs while out in Africa, a German shepherd and a cocker spaniel. The German shepherds were heavier sleepers, so what happens is if someone came, the cocker spaniel would start up and that would get the shepherd going. That's actually awesome. I never thought about the fact that a German Shepherd could be a heavy sleeper. Yeah. Yeah. Our parodies are a guy the lazy sometimes, but they kind of sleep with one eye open. They're they're pretty good dogs, though, are Our mutt is actually the one that he has a bay that we call it the we call it the brown hound day he has. He sounds like he's part squirrel dogs and half lab, so he's like confused. He like points at squirrels, so he's like he tries to treat like the squirrels like their birds. And oh yeah, he's a mess. But he's a good dog. No, I understand. That's like our piple. She she's very good dog. She's not the heaviest sleeper. She hears a noise, she's gonna be up and she's going to be watching before she barks, so she's yeah, yeah, I watched her body reactions before I start listening for a bark, because if she's barking, she's taken off towards it. Yeah. 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Disaster Coffee offers every customer the ability to join the National disaster Relief effort. Get yours at disastercoffee dot com. All right, so I was able to pawn them off on my Kidrook's. Stilling Matt in the chat room that we need another puppy. Maybe when all this is over, we want to get a German shepherd for our next dog, because it would be a good addition. I think the baby doll she would be terrified, though, because they don't really require any hurting up. They just want to kind of hang out anyway. So, well, don't you have a great couple of Great Pyrenees. Yeah, yeah, we do, but well they're more of a guard dog. They don't really like round them up. They just hang out with them, and right. I didn't want to round them up. Sorry. Yeah, Ruby's getting old though, she's going to be ten this month, and she's starting to slow down. So at some point we'll need another dog, so we'll probably get a German shepherd if we. Can no understand, Sorry about that. Uh so what would you do we have? We've talked to out firearms briefly. We've talked about sound alarms. That's always a good one. I know Dave Jones had mentioned putting up caution tape and signs, which earlier I think it was volcaner Jen had said that right now, until everybody's infected, you're gonna end up with people being a little more apathetic. Let's see looking on here, trying to go back in the chat, and look, I know we've talked about being able to have your own weapons. You can use anything that's readily available to you. A lot of us women were taught walking out to your vehicle, keep your keys in between your fingers. You can always take an eye out with that. Now, we're not saying to go self harms, to go intentionally harm someone, but we want you to be able to have the means to defend yourself. Even if you don't have a firearm. There are a lot of things you can do to just protect yourself and your family. What would you suggest for children as far as a defense method. I know with my children, my son carries a knife, which he's allowed to he's very responsible with it. And my girls we've talked about the kicking, scratch and biting, you know, whatever means necessary. But is there something especially what things are now? You know what, I'll be honest, I try not to even take the children out if at all possible. Yeah. Yeah, all the things you measured are good things. You know. Some people, you know, give their kids a little instruction in some of the martial arts and things and getting out of hold and stuff like that. When I was little, my dad taught me a few things that like they taught him in Vietnam. He got me and like we grab hold to be until we had to get out of stuff. Things like that. Just being situationally aware too, that's really important. There's gonna be people that are not not so nice. Yeah. I mean I heard someone on Facebook. I don't know if this is true, this is but they explained this. They told this story that they were at a Dollar General and their little girl found a thing of life saw and she took it, and then this lady was like, what if you got their little girl and she tried to take it like physically from this little girl, and the mother saw it, and it's just like wow, you know people. Have got to that point, right, child is going to get in the way for it. Yeah, And I think that, you know, it's probably time to keep a even in smaller towns where you think people won't act that way, just keep a closer eye on them if you are at a store. I would try to just stay out of stores as possible, but you know, people are gonna be acting weird about certain products and stuff. And I just couldn't believe that that somebody would just try to physically take a candle liesaw from a little kid like that. It would be surprising. But I have seen worst instances were Black Friday. I've seen people take toys straight out of people's hands or children's hands as well here with them. So I mean people people really are insensitive and don't care if it as long as it means they can get it for themselves. Yeah yeah, match in the chat of gas. Volcanic gas might destroy the super solker. I'm not sure how robust the plastic is. Matt, of course says in time it will. Short term Volcanos's point then yeah yeah, gun full of massive volcano says light the match afterwards through MythBusters preview. You need a bit more than a match. Yeah yeah, Just like with molotaze, you don't want bottles that are extremely thick because they're. Harder to you know, hard right, not knowing about this, this is just you know, especial. Yeah, like wind bottles, like fetcher or something, right right. But we're not there yet. But and I hope we never get there. I don't think we will. I hope not. I do think we will get to a point where people might start seeing you. You're gonna have a lot of people who are going to return back to a state of just pure ignorance. And when I say ignorance, folks, I don't mean stupid. The definition of ignorance is not to know. But I think You're going to see a lot of people maybe change their perspective and start doing stuff. Others I don't believe they'll change at all. The cities are going to be just terrible though, like what's going on in New York and then Baltimore with the National Guard. I mean that's. That. I don't think some people are going to respond too well that there be in a military presence there, especially if they have to stay in their house. That the cities that are already have an extremely high murder or violence rate, that's gonna get weird real fast. People don't handle stressful situation as well. Yeah, and they don't want to stay in their house. I mean, my sister is in Washington State and she says that they're just gonna have to lock it down more, and the governor's threatening to do it because people will not stay at home. You have people in Seattle and places they're still going to the parks that are having ruler plade time in the parks. They're having bonfires together, they're in line at hot dog stands, and it's just even though they have an extremely high rate of coronavirus, it's that I think they've gave people a chance in this country to like stay at home, and they can't just lock everything down all at once. That would just cause me acid panic. But they're doing it gradually. I mean, right now, I think the latest count was seventy million people are under lockdown, or maybe it was eighty six million up to because they locked down New Jersey. That's a big portion of the country already. Really yeah, yeah, they're they're doing it gradually, and I think that I don't really think that it was necessarily something that anybody wanted. I mean, I don't think anybody wanted to do it. But China had some real strict majors they took, and some of those wouldn't work here. You can't. It's America. You can't go welding people into their houses and or doing things like that. But you can. It's a cute lockdown orders and things. I think some of the lockdown orders they're doing is what it's like a two hundred and fifty dollars fine or some sort of fine or penalty if you leave your house for non essential trip. Mayah, I'm not sure where to find are. I think we are gonna get to a point where we see more mm hmmm, uh than than what we have been. Yeah. And in Italy they in Italy even weeks ago. If you if you broke your quarantine and you went out and then you were found to have infected somebody, they would try you get charged with murder like that. That's yeah, like h and infect someone. Yeah. If if you know you have COVID and you go out and you infect other people, or you break your quarantine and infect people, yeah, they can charge you with murder in Italy, and that was weeks ago. My friend is that I met like a preper. I actually met him in a prepper chat room and or a prepper group on Facebook because he was trying to uhh's. He lives with his parents, which is pretty traditional until you get married over there. You live with your parents to take care of him and stuff. And he's twenty five and he's like, here's my food supply, went out and bought I felt my parents and he wanted to lock it down and and so I started talking to him, and I've kind of watched it progress and check on him. He's still okay, but the situation is just awful, right. I can only imagine I actually have a few friend out in Belgium, but I haven't heard from him, which makes me a bit concerned, being that he is battling cancer, so him getting this would not be very good for him because he had stage three. Yeah. Yeah. The sad thing is he's my age, you know, he's my age with stage three brain cancer m and they didn't I lived that first year and he's made it five years past. So it's like, oh Lord, and then this happened. Yeah, and people might have to start you know, Matt just mentioned I saw in chat about places with central HVAC. What a scary thought is that we've discussed is how this virus can travel through air, through vents and in these buildings, because there's many cases where they've discussed like how did people get this in the same building and if they didn't go on elevators of each other or something, which of course you could get it that way. What it is traveling through event system any places like where the air system is so all these high density buildings in New York all over. You know, it's a scary thought. It is. And we say this not to scary y'all, to the listeners. We're saying this so you can be aware and start thinking and stuff, because if you start taking the extra steps now, you can add a little more security and a lot more defense to your plan. I'm not saying somebody's going to come to your house, but these are precautions, not just for times like this, but any day in time. Because car break ins have gone up around here. I haven't seen like actual home invasions increase yet, but I'm not to say it won't. Who's to say it will in either direction. But it doesn't hurt to have some sort of plan to protect you and your family. I have a chickens and a garden. People get desperate enough because they're out in the open. Who's to say that's not going to be tempted. I have an electric fence, but it always helps to have something else as a backup. Yeah, yeah, it definitely does. And this whole crisis has made us do some things like that we were intending to do at some point, like do more gardening and projects like that, and so we started doing them. And there's a lot of you know, sprouting, something people can do an apartments. It's just you can throw a lot of sprouts in the jar or sprout tray and have something fresh to eat me. Room, absolutely, yeah, something for me is. The rain has been constant, but today I took my time with tenning to the chickens. If it's even if it's raining tomorrow, it's not gonna matter. I've still got to go out there. I'm late on some of my seed, but if I can at least get something going, I can still have some fresh lettuce and spinach for my family until the peak of the heat hits, in which it'll kill off the plants. Yeah yeah, right now. Yeah, and find another means to being able to support and take care of your family really makes a big difference for us being able to grow our garden, being able to get eggs. I got twenty one eggs out of my coop. Mind you, coop hadn't been probably checked since Monday, which that's still a good amount of eggs to have been there since Monday so or Tuesday. So you know, I'm able to clean put up the eggs, and be able to have some of food for my family. So gardening is a great one. If you want fresh vegetables, you can still can very picking. Just know what you're picking. I always pick blood. Yeah, yeah, so just just educate yourself before you jump into it, but there's no harm in finding ways to self sustain for your family. Fishing is a big one Turkey seasons right now, So it just depends on where you live and what's going on. Yeah, yeah, and as time, if times get tough, the fishing and hunting might be a little harder there's more people doing it. And also if people are getting kind of being a little bit weird, it might be kind of dangerous to do it yourself. So that's some other things to think about. Again, we're not there yet, but there are a lot of people already talking about like how they're gonna hunt and fish and stuff like crazy when there's no game wardens hunting all this, And if everybody rushes out and does that over time, it will there will be less right. Well, see, we have to deal with the effect of having private property. We have ponds that many people were aware of. We had to deal with trespassers before. There's no telling how that it is now. I mean, even if we have it posted land and we have a right to defend our property, we can shoot at them, but who's to say they won't try to shoot at us as soon as we try to enter our own property, you know, so we have to deal with the Yeah, you have people who are going to take advantage of somebody else's stuff and think they have a right to it, even though they don't even own or ask permission to enter the land. Yeah, yeah, it's you know, you just got to figure out that you can do a lot, just on very little property too, if you just you know, just planning your space out well and do container gardens and things like that, and just you know, you just do what you can. It's very for everybody. Every little bit helps. A lot of people are baking their own bread. Now that's not actually that hard to do. You can you can make a lot of things at home. Oh well, I'm gonna actually mention something. If you don't mind, I'm sure go ahead. So we had a freezer fiasco. I went and I picked up a bunch of meat that I had ordered from the butcher this morning. Come find out it was a frozen ten pound bag of beef. So now I have to figure out recipes beforehand because now I have to thaw it out and pre cook it. Well, that being said, our freezer, for whatever reason, someone must have got in it maybe a child, I don't know. It never closed properly, so half of the meat in my freezer this morning when I went to put the meat up, was thawed. So I ended up having to spend my day to day cooking up almost all the meat or all the meat that had thawed, and pre cooking meals and then vacuum sealing it and freezing it again so I could actually freeze it because for those who don't know, if you raw meat, you cannot refreeze it. So tonight, yeah, I made probably four or five different dishes and frozen so keep folks have a contingency plan because something like that could have been a fiasco and I would have lost a lot of money on all that meat that I had in there. Yeah. Yeah, I ordered some of those little like five inch aluminum pie pans because I just we were talking about convenience food, like if you want something you can just pop in the oven because you're tired or you're sick, or something you can make a lot of, like your own pot pies or fruit pies, or you can have a pie shepherd's pie and then just get the vacuum feeler out and kind of lightly vacuum s feel and so they don't freeze or burn. And then you know, you pop two of those in the oven, maybe four if you're really really hungry for two people and you got a quick meal, and you could just make a bunch of them and make like a whole bunch of different pies. Oh I like that idea. See, folks, it's not just so we always have to end up food at some point. Yeah. Yeah, you can get those really inexpensively. It was like eight dollars for fifty pands and you know, okay, yeah it's a liminum and stuff, but you can just like crumple it up and toss it, you know, like you don't have to do dishes. It saves on that too. That helps. I'm not above using paper plates or doing some convenience things like that. And we don't create a lot of garbage around here, but you know, sometimes it's nice to not have to clean up a bunch, especially what if you do get sick, like you got to take care of yourself at home, or there's only a couple of people, or you need some convenience stuff. Right. Oh no, that's smart because I never thought about it like that. I mean that was like, uh, I actually had to go out into town today, unfortunately, because I have cut sugar out of my diet so I don't cravate. I don't think about it to me, and it's an unnecessary spin and that my husband is like, we have nothing sweet in the house. Mind you, my husband probably has one of the largest sweet tooth I've ever seen in an individual. So I had to go and I made sure I stocked up on vanilla pudding mixes and all sorts of little snacks and candies, and I ton them you have to make this last. Now, I'll be gone in a week, if not a couple of days. But at least I tried, because I don't I'm not going back out again. Yeah, I'm Sometimes people get caught up on just buying rice and beans and all this stuff and it's like that's great, but do you got any spices to go with that? Do you have any like we like yellow rice, like yellow rice for you know, either Chinese dishes or surfries, just any for a lot of things. Well, you just buy saffron and then you can have your own like yellow rice, because that actually buying a yellow rice mix is kind of expensive. It's like two dollars. Rice cooks up about the. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's pricey. So I just bought a little bit of saffron. I was like, well, we can turn some of this white rising in yellow. And no, it works, it really does. So cookies. Sorry, cookies. Well, I didn't mean to go off there, but I do appreciate it because, as you know and I know, life is going to throw us a bunch of curveballs, whether it be my freezer door being left open, whether it be coronavirus or whatever may happen. We have to be able to jump at any notice and take that action and run with it. So if I hadn't caught it early enough, I probably could have accidentally let everything in that freezer have spoiled. It's fortunate enough to fix it. Like you said, you know, you're able to make do with what's available. You're not going to just go for one thing. You're gonna make it convenient and easy for your lifestyle. So fit your preps to you, fit your preps to your life. Lifestyle. Uh, Sam, is there anything else you want to say before we close out for tonight's show. This time, I hope everyone gets through this all right. I think it's social distancing as much as possible, you know, just trying to stay calm with one another and your household is important. That's a lot of people are stressed. It's like people are going to say things and it's gonna you know, there might be some kids moments for a body's got to kind of cut each other some flack and you know, well, you all get through. This isn't the first time something terrible has happened ur a pandemic. Are a lot of our grandparents great grandparents survive Spanish flu and and we're here today. You know that's right. And remember everybody handles stress very differently. Just because you and I may have a calm head on our shoulders doesn't mean everybody else does too. Yeah. Yeah, you know you's got to take deep breasts and I you know, try to stay out of town as much as possible because people are pretty tense and people are getting worked up, you know about a lot of really, I mean even small things. I've been called more names than the last three weeks than I haven't two or three years of writing prep stuff. It's just people are very honest, So and I've actually found see you get a little more of the backlash, but I've actually found more openness to being a prepper that I've had people reaching out to me asking me tips. And advices as time has gone on. So maybe this will. You're gonna get the good with the bad and the ugly with the beautiful. So I mean, just bear with it. Hang in there, all of you, keep your heads on your shoulders. I promise you we are going to be able to get through this, probably better than anybody else who is because we have been prepping for a reason. Yep. All right, folks, Well, I hope you all have a great night. Thank you so much in the chat room. It was definitely lively and great to have Sam again. Thank you so much. I appreciate eight having you on And to our listeners next Saturday, make sure my dates are right, I believe. Next Saturday is our Prepper Women Preppers round table, in which I will have the ladies from the chat room and Sam if she's able to come back on, and we will be discussing prepping from a woman's point of view and how it affects us today. All right, folks, have a great night. Take care and we will see you next weekend. Welcome to Wage, Welcome to. The Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote. Self reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show, and visit us at prepper broadcasting dot com