WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Girl Power! on The Changing Earth

Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number three hundred and seventy five and we have thrown the boys out for the night. I am here with Jordan and Carol, both PBN podcast hosts, and we're gonna have some fun little girls' night. So hey, Jordan, how you doing good? How are you doing? I'm living, I'm loving the life Friday night. Just got done with work. It has been Yeah, it's just been great. So Hi, Carol, how are you? I'm doing great? All right? So PEBI listeners probably know a little bit about Jordan's she also plays Cassidy Baker in the audio drama, but not a whole lot about you. So why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself and then we'll give Jordan a shot to try and do better than I did with the Cassidy Baker voice. Okay, so I'm Carol better known as the Mistress of Metal from draven Rock Homestead, or they may know me from Daindee's podcast, which is the Gun Metal Armory. I just started my podcast a few weeks ago, so it's brand new. Still has the new car smell very cool. But I've got a lot of things planned with the show. I'm gonna have different series about chickens and gardening and all kinds of fun stuff. So all the good stuff we love to talk about. Yeah, love it, love it. Welcome, always always eager to welcome another female host to the air since uh, the business of survival and prepping is sometimes considered a male dominated uh event, which we're going to contest tonight. So yeah, that's what they like to think, that's what they like to exactly. Just because they talk about guns, you know whatever. So hey, Jordan, how you doing that? You got the new show too, so so give us a rip on it. I did so, I you know, for for the listeners who know me before I was the host of a Family Affair and now it is Phoenix Survival. I am as I like to say, set and fire to everything. Love it. Yes, I mean I felt like with my own personal apocalypse as as James always called it that I am now ready, I'm right back at it. What was gone is now new and starting all over. So it's it's definitely interesting right now I'm going through uh, just getting back into the role of it, you know, just trying to it definitely felt rusty, felt very. To get back on the mic. Hah, yeah, I hear you bad analogy. I had to relearn how to ride a bike twice. So so tonight, like I said, We're gonna put a little contention to the theory that it's a male dominated event because I'd like to argue that most moms out there are preppers, they just don't know it. Oh absolutely, I would definitely agree with that. Yeah. I mean, the minute you have your first kid, you've got to worry about bottles and the bag and the diaper bag, and it's basically a go bag. Yeah all right, it's a baby go bag. And then you're like, oh, maybe we should have adult go bags. Right, Yeah, what if I was out and something happened. So a lot of women that I talked to are like, oh, that prepping thing, and yet they're like soccer moms with the waters and the pack and so I'd love to get your guys' take on that a little. Bit, But I kind of think that maybe it starts from before you had that first kid, because you have the nesting period right when you're pregnant, and so you're your your stock pilot diapers and bottles and burd rags and wipes and all this stuff. And then I think from there it just kind of carries over because then you have to have a stalk of formula if you're doing that, and or breast milk if you're breastfeeding. And it's true, yeah, it's like, oh, I I want to go out tonight, I've got to have that pre pumped and ready to go, and right, yeah, yeah, you start thinking about things like that and how many diapers did we have that we did actually use because you were just stacking them up when they were little gush. Unfortunately I didn't have that luxury. My kid went through all of my diapers to the point that I had to figure out when times got tough in the sense of going up a size. You know, he wasn't quite or he or she whichever one of my three all of them did it is they were too big for we'll say, like a two but not quite big enough for a three. But it was just easier to save and stock up on the bigger size that I figured out how to put the bigger diapers on my little babies without them coming loose or leaking, so I was able to make better use and it was cheaper for me to go up a size and buy more of that size than to try to stay in like newborns or ones or twos. Fair enough, have you guys seen have you actually, like looked at the prices of diapers these days? No? It terrifies me. I don't even want to know. I I I just saw the price of food when we went grocery shopping, and I'm absolutely appalled at the cost because I'm one of those I track the cost of everything. Hmm, that we we spent three hundred and eighty one dollars on what should have been maybe one hundred and eighty dollars. I was just ready to be sick. Right wow. Yeah, that's when I was in Sam's the other day and then we walked through the diaper aisle and I was like, oh my gosh, it was so expensive for like ten diapers or something, It's like thirty some odd dollars. I'm like, what how our parents. Thinking about reusable diapers? Right? I know coop is water soluble. It's not fun. This is water soluble. Yeah. So and your guys is prepping events, what's some of your most important preps? From like a female point of view? So we have food, we have water, we know all that stuff, right, And I think I'm not thinking just like female sanitation because the guys are like, all right, I gotta stock those blah blah blah or whatever. You know, from like a girl's point of view, what do you think it's like something that you'd stock just for you. Just for myself. I had gastric bypassed in twenty eighteen, so I have to have certain vitamins every single day for the rest of my life. So I have to stockpile those for sure. Yeah. And have you looked at like some herbal options too that you could supplement with if you couldn't get them. Yeah, I've found a couple of books on Amazon, I just haven't ordered them yet that are going to help me try to figure that out for when the stockpile runs out, because eventually it will. Right. No, that's a great point, though, I have the same thing that I have certain vitamins that are herbal that I take, and I have them stockpiled, but I'd be like, oh man, what do I do when they run out? So that's a great I love that. I love that. What about you, Jo? You know, it's funny that she that Carol would mention the vitamins because I actually probably have way too many prenatal vitamins. Not in the sense of playing for pregnancy, but I've been taking prenatals since I was like fifteen, and my mother took hers well into her fifties. So prenatals was one of those things where when I was working in a pharmacy, I could get, you know, the three hundred count bottles for like four bucks. So you know, why not, especially since that's something I take every day. For me specifically, you know, I do a lot of fiber arts, which keeps me sane. But you're gonna laugh. My little stash is gonna be my dark chocolate. I don't eat it often, but I have to have my little little bit of sanity. I know that sounds weird since I don't really do sugar, right, It's. It's not a lot. And he and I were actually talking about it because I went through this little spell where I ate it. I ate the three bars I had, which I've had for a while, and it's like, okay, it's time to now get some and like vacuum sell and put them up. So I had a way. Yeah, well, especially with how the prices are going. But elsewise, I mean, I'm I wouldn't say there's one thing specifically. The only other thing I'm like, absolutely probably cuckoo. About is I like knives. I can use a knife for everything. Yeah, I have a full on stash knives for sure. I definitely love knives as well. So I don't know if that's really like a girl thing. I guess it is and beautiful I have some. Well, my whole thing is too shiny and stabby. Right, I love my knives as well. Can't think whatever keeps you sane is women? Was that little piece of luxury. Jane Austen actually did, like I think in her hygiene book it has like how to do post apocalyptic makeups and stuff like that, because I guess that would a lot of women would feel better about themselves if they were still putting it on. I think I think in an extreme situation. I could see we're being able to do something as little as putting on some lipsticker. A little bit of eyeliner would make you feel fresh, you know, feel like feel like the old you again. Yeah, it would be a new Meia. It's not my thing, but you know another thing we keep in hot you know, it's one of those things. Though I don't know if I have something specific is I keep. I like hygiene. I like being able to not smell like a bum or whatever that is. I told my husband, I'm like, you need to know how to make me a shower because I hate baths, like not happening at the bathroom. Bathing unless I have to, unless I shower before or after right away, still feeling nasty, sitting in my own own sturdy but water exactly. I'm like, no, I'm not knocking on those of you who like baths. I commend you right, but power off, tumble kind of girls. We need to we need to rinse pre rints. I am not okay with sitting. Yeah, my own sweat and nastiness. I need a shower first. Then maybe I'll go in the bath because it has ebsence salt in it and extra weight hurt. If I'm really hurting and I need the bath, I'll do the bath. But I'm taking a shower right after before and after. Yep, I do both. I do both because I'm that like O C D about it. Yeah, at least in the river it's running water. Yep, Yep, I can handle that well. I told my husband, I'm like, oh, we need to figure that. Plus I need some hot water, like I'm not taking no cold shower like. The depths of Hell. I'd like to remember where I came from. Yes, exactly. So we've been we've been looking at like things we could design to make that happen. You know, I write them into a lot of my books. I like how that shower happened in because. It's actually I might have some ideas for you, especially how to keep it hot so you can shower. Yep. What do you do if there's no sun? There's your problem? Well you know, well, I mean fire, Yeah. But you'd have to like pump it up, remember that necessarily. What if you do the tub on top of the hill and run it down, I'll tear enough gravity. You love it? Baby. Remember that dude Steve too that used to come to prepper camp and he had like the thing you stuck in the fire and yes, yeah. Yes, that was the other day. He said, you could also use it for he lives. Me. Think of how you see the heating and cooling for houses where they run the pipe in underneath it. He actually he did a whole system for a house based off an adobe oven that was outside and it would do a heat pump into the house based off. I've seen houses do that. Yeah, it was pretty sick. There was a really old episode of Doomsday Preppers and this guy lived in the mountains of Montana, I think, and he had his bathtub set up outside his cabin and I think he had I don't know, some pipes or something that ran to the tub and there was like a fire pit above and like it pushed the heat down into the tub or something like that. I can't remember exactly how it was, but it was and. It was almost it wasn't it like a jetted tub. I don't remember that part. I don't remember. It's been a long time, you know. But I would be okay with sitting in a cauldron if it means I get to at least. Have a hot Yeah, I know. I know I've written that in my book too, but like, uh yeah, my own bath water, I don't know. You know what. I'm gonna say, in an extreme situation, I don't care as long as I get to get a little clean, you know what. I'm still okay with the whole thought of the basins, you know, the little the basins that they have with a little Yeah, I'm okay with that. Well, when you grow up with no hot water, you learn to distribute hot water with cold water enough that you can still take a hot shower. I am absolutely fine with the basin shower because I can get myself clean. If you have an old car, you can use the radiator to make a shower from the radiator. I see. I'm okay with pouring jet gugs gugs jugs of water on top of me to cool to rent offer. But we use bowls and pots and pans. Yeah, so yeah, that's true, like standing the bait and then I don't know about all that. Yeah, anyway, showers. What about things for your man? What do you specifically know? Like if your man doesn't have this item, he's gonna go nutso so you make sure that you're stocking it right. Now cigarette smokes. Cigarettes got you? Okay, I don't disagree there? Yeah, wait did you stick your arm? Sorry? Dane has to have socks. You know what socks is a thing? No kidding? You know how most people hate getting socks for Christmas? Yeah? I love getting sucks what he wants for Christmas? Yeah, I get everybody socks for Christmas because they just blow out. I want some sucks. So for my husband, it's coffee. Like, if he doesn't have his coffee, like, that's just not gonna be so. So I'm like, I got coffee going. I'm gonna get some of them green beans from uh James. You know, right now it's he smokes, but he's actually cutting back. He's trying to get to a point where he doesn't have to have him right, you know, he's weaning himself. But other than that, I don't, I don't know. I don't know. He's so chill. He's so chill with. You know, with what's coming down the pipeline. I'm like, eat, drink and be merry because tomorrow man might be a lot different. So if you got to quit then anyway, you might as well have some fun before that happens, right, I mean, I guess that's the bane of being a preparedness person because you're like, well, you know, I'm not gonna eat the cake, or I'm gonna eat the cake. Well, you know, if the end of the world happens tomorrow, might be like, gee, I'm so happy I didn't eat the cake, right. Right, Well, you know, I haven't had sugar in so long until recently, and now I'm trying to lean back off of it again. And we were talking about it because the one thing he likes he doesn't have to have, but he does like that. I do keep as a treat, maybe not out in the open, is a sour candy. He doesn't eat a lot of it, but they do keep some sour candy on the shelf, kind of like my chocolate. We don't eat it often, but when we want it, we want it. It's there. Yeah, he does like his sweets at night. But I was looking into growing stavia because it's easier to grow, like he can. It is super easy to grow, right, Yeah, super easy to grow. But sugarcane takes off just kind of like bamboo does too. It's like a like lyne my property in it. Yeah, it'll it gets it will get invasive, just like bamboo. Well, I'll put it up against the art Jerusalem artichoke. Uh plot, they can battle it out. All right. So I sent something over in the group. If you want to mention socks, just take a quick peek there. Just know, did you get some awesome socks or what? That's one of those is my leg? One of those is my leg? Because I got a pair he said he had. Oh my goodness, it looks like a peppermint candy. The peppermint candy is my leg. Oh and the present, Oh my, I'm not sure we need to any good thing. We're not live, That's all I gotta say. No, I'm kidding, you know. The only other thing I can think of is you're gonna laugh. He loves when we have matching pajamas, Like are matching onesies? Okay, So when we were coming to Prepper camp, we both needed new pants before we left, so I bought us both a pair of like the those tactical ones. What do they call Jordan five elevens? Right? I want one of those? So I want those. I got a pair of black ones. He got a pair of gray ones. And then we both have the changing our shirts and then we have the matching hats to you, and my mom's like, you guys have maancy matching pants and I'm like, yeah, you know it's okay because they're they're He's got gray, I've got black. You guys have matching t shirts. Well, of course we do. It's the brand. You know. You guys have matching hats too. Yes, oh aren't you guys? Just take c this. I'm like, shut up. You know what's funny. Though he's the one who's picked out our matching outfits, we actually have a full matching outfit. Man, I could wait, you just wait, you just wait. He's got a match in Hawaiian shirt to match the entire. I can't wait to see you guys, like post apocalyptic you come walking up. It's like matching outfit, Like you know, Jordan's is a tiny one. That's how you know? So, Carol, what what you don't know is that at preper camp, he and I have these matching full onesies gray with the hoods and our matching carrier backpack chairs that are also slash coolers. So we are walking up up to the sleeping area or up to the campsites and we're in our match and onesies with their little backpacks. She says that she loved it. I'm not saying that out loud on the show, though, Okay, all right, So one of the things that really bothers me when I wrote the change in her series is that people, well women were like, no character is going to be as strong as Erica. She's unrealistic. I try to write her like as realistic as possible, right, because she's got like, yeah, she's like a fictional me, right, And They're like, now, like women are going to be doing laundry and cooking, and I'm just like, uh so, I'm curious to hear how like, you guys see yourself? Are you gonna be able to defend yourself? How do you see yourself in a post apocalyptic role as a female? What do you gotta start? Well, first, I think I would panic, but only in the sense that I didn't do enough or prep enough. I don't think there is enough collapse. You know, I mean, but that would be my first reaction. I think, oh my gosh, we don't have enough. I didn't do enough, you know, right, And then it would I think I would switch to survival mode after that, and I think I would start making lists and doling out chores and this is what you're gonna do, and give everybody the talk about you know, this isn't normal life anymore, So suck. It up, boom straight in the leadership role. Yeah right right, yep, I mean, because that's really what women used to do for the main part. Like it's sound like the history tries to write it as women were just little, little in the homes. But if you've ever watched like Little House on the Prairie, Yeah, she's at the house while he's like hunting and whatever. But she's got it going on, like she organizes everything and takes care of more stuff than you know anybody could count. Plus liaisoning with the community. Yeah yeah, what about you. Jordan, Yeah, you know, you're right, there's always some more we could do when it comes down to it. Though. As far as being able to protect myself, absolutely, I am actually teaching Chris how to hunt. We both can fish, so I know that would probably be one of my main roles just between the two of us. Is being able to sustain as far as food, I garden. He's very much a city prepper. I'm very much a country prepper, So initially a lot of the task would probably follow me in in some way, if you know what I mean. I'm not trying to say it's all my my role, but definitely yes, so because and because he's he's got the muscle he can Definitely there's a lot he can do and he's amazing at. But initially, I do think I would end up doing like Carol and I take a leadership role of delegating, you know, what is and isn't as far as duties and responsibilities. You know, we both have great gun control. I'm just more skilled at the hunting. We both can fish, We I garden, I can make textiles. You know, we both can start fired. You know, we we delegate it. But initially I'm going to have the higher skill set, so I do feel like there would be more responsibility on me, and then which would put more responsibility on him on the protection role. Right, And I gotta tell you too, So i've ever since Twitter with the whole Musk thing, I don't know they've been. There was so much hatred on Twitter before Musk took it over. I mean it was literally hatred ridden. I'm not kidding, like I would read it and just be like, wow, I can't believe you people are so angry. And today I saw a post that was like what does your girlfriend do that you're really super attracted to? You know? And I was like, oh, I can't wait to read this and see, like wow, the guys were responding, and I was amazed at how many guys were like, I like a woman who will listen. I like a woman who is my partner. I like I watch how she treats people. And if that's you know, all on the up and up, that really really amazes me. Right. I was so pleasantly surprised at the responses from these awesome dudes out there that are really really just fantastic people. Yeah, so can can I make a little interjection right there? So prime example. And my partner will tell me all the time he loves my maternal instincts, he says, seeing how I am protective, how much I love my offspring and others. You know that he goes that maternal instinct he goes makes you an amazing woman in my eyes, right because he you know, he's not experienced that. So it's like to me, that was flattering to know that my maternal instincts. Even if I go into mama bear or you know whatever, isn't going to be a fight. You know, especially for the three of us. We're all strong women, we're all parents, we all hold our matriarch role in our family that our spouses love us for those traits. And you're right, all that hate I've seen so many Oh I can't stand this because it is or she has kids. Well, you know what, you're in the wrong boat. All right, m h Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised, and I was like, well, maybe a lot of these women that actually reached out to me and said that, I think it's just their own fear first of all, and second of all, like their own self stereotyping and not seeing their own beautiful self worth as a powerful woman. So I've got a question for you, you know, if how are you going to handle in times in question? So, like, I'm okay with taking on those you know, air quote womanly roles, even if it's doing the laundry and cooking and what have you. What are you going to do and how do you feel about taking those roles as well? So Brock and I are very much a team on everything. Same, I would say, like, probably the only thing that's like he does I do is eye clean toilets and he takes the trash out right. So other than that, like if I'm working more than he's working, he handles a lot of like the laundry and that kind of stuff. And if he's working more than I'm working, then I would handle all those domestic areas. And then if we're working the same, then we just team it up and take care of it together. So would I think the same. Yeah, See that's how I think. I think that's the same for Carol and Dane, and then that's the same for me and Chris. Is he he actually prefers I'm able to and I like cleaning, but he'd rather clean the toilets and take the trash and let me do it the other that way, I don't have to touch that. But it's like, there are so many women out there as preppers who don't have spouses that they can support on the same way, like my previous marriage, the whole thing, other than a couple guns would be my responsibility. So he always said his only goal was to keep me alive, to keep him alive, because out side of skill, sets, there was almost little to none, right. And then there's definitely the flip side of that, where some guys just way more versed, and you know, the female in the relationship is like, well, I don't know what to do. You're gonna have to just tell me what to do, right, Yeah, it's interesting dynamic. I I just. It sentends me to see the damasculinization of men, because I find that so vastly attractive. It's not even funny. Man is attractive. Like when my own man comes home sweaty and stinky yet dirty, yeah sexy, and he goes I'm nasty, I'm like, no, you come over here and give me a kiss, right. Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. Yeah I don't. I don't get down with the the man buns and or. The skinny jean jeans. Okay they look like potatoes on toothpicks. Yeah, exactly, thank you, unless it's like cowboy jeans and they have chaps on it, like okay, okay. Wranglers are a little different, right, Yeah for sure, but yeah, you've you've gotten it where I hate the thought of dating a man who I have to worry if he's wearing my wardrobe. Yes, yeah. Yeah. Men are supposed to be men and women are supposed to be women. Now I understand, I understand there's gonna be a cross of certain traits. There are times I come. Off very masculine man's personality, but here it doesn't right. But it doesn't mean we aren't feminine or aren't able to be feminine. But that's the same with men. We want men who are masculine men. But when it comes to it, it is okay for them to have feelins. It is okay for them to come off in the sense of what's the metrosexual. They take pride in their appearance. There's nothing wrong with that, right, it's help vulnerable. Right. But my old thing is is I don't want a man who's more of a woman than I am. Now that's not saying a lot, because I'm more man than most men. But but you know what I mean, Like as my mother said, is my mother said, I you need a manly man for my manly daughter. She's right, yep, you know, equal needs equal exactly. Yeah, No, I'm with you, Carroll man buds. I have some you know, the handles and Dane all right. With me and Dane. There's times that he would prefer to be in the garden handling the garden, and I would prefer to be in the garage building things. Right, but it's equal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Brock loves gardening too. He's been like he's the lad escaper. He knows more about trees and all that stuff than I do. I always tease that he's my executioner. So I come up with good ideas and then he executes him because I'm like, so, I got this idea and it's like rainbow farts and glitter, and he's like, yeah, how is that really gonna work? Right? You know, It's funny. Mine's the same way. He goes, tell me what I need to do when I come home, and. I'll do it right? What what? What? Wait what? It's just easier that way, uh huh until I have a list. Yeah, until it like comes down to it, and then he's like no, no. No, So I'm curious for you two ladies. In my house. We have the forty eight hour rule. So this is my way of not stepping on you know, him being the man in the house and me used to being just an independent, headstrong woman. So we have what's called the forty eight hours. You have forty eight hours from the time we've discussed two come complete that task. Anything beyond that forty eight hours then becomes fair game for me to complete on my own. By however, means I see necessary without you complaining once that I did it before you did. Oh man, you're so rule based. Oh wow, you're such. A well I mean, but it works. It works. So like toilet seat broke, right, we bought a new one. He's like, oh, i'll get it. I'll get it, and I understood he worked. I didn't complain about it after the two days after the forty eight hour rule. We have two bathrooms, so don't think I did anything where But after the forty eight hour rule, you know, after two days without even thinking about it, Actually, I've completely forgot that I had told him about that. It actually happened to be past forty eight hours. I put the toilet seat on. He came home. He goes, crap, the forty eight hour rule. I'm like, oh, I did forget that exaccurate, but yeah, So that's just my way of setting boundaries for myself on not overstepping when your partner says they're going to do something. If we have an understanding after forty eight hours. If you I won't ark you about it, I'll ask you to complete it. And then after that you cannot complain if I do it myself. I'm too busy all my adhd self. Yeah, will find a moment and then I just want to not see. Yeah, I'm always working on projects and like working on you know, books and scripts and all kinds of audio drama and this and that and this. Oh I get it, but that's like I just finished painting. I'm now we even in the ends for my for Christ's moms, right. I like the toilet, Our toilets are always running. I'm like, what are you going to do next? You know, it was just the lid. It was just the lid, but it was like I was here, it was I'm one of those I like to get things done. So I don't know if that would be something to maybe consider with your partners, if there's certain things that y'all have where you like them done within a certain timeframe. I'm like that it was just easier set in a forty eight hour rule. Crazy. I think me and Dane used to be like that, Like I used to be like I want everything done within a certain timeframe. But we've been in this house for two and a half years going on three, and it's been project after project after project after project, because this house was more of a fixer upward than we anticipated when we bought it, and after a while, it just wears you down. And so now it's to the point where it's like, if it gets done in this timeframe, great, If it doesn't, well we got another weekend next weekend. Right. I think for us is we don't have as much time as we'd like, especially free time in between us both working. That if we can complete as much as we can in between, then that gives us the entire weekend to be able to actually spend together. And go do what we want. Yeah. Yeah, because we shirk tooth time. That's our that's our date days. We walk the beach and look for shirks teeth. That's cool. Dane and I haven't had a weekend just relaxing and just being together in two and a half years. I went on vacation camp. It was called Prepper Camp. I worked the whole time out. Yeah, that was my vacation. Like, yeah, but we did get a new sofa for Christmas, I do have to say we splurged. We got a new sofa. Yeah, so we have taken a day to just lay on the new sofa and do nothing, and that was a wonderful day. You know, it's raining, so you can you got good excuse all that stuff. Too cold to do anything fun. So you're right, it's actually getting too cold for me to really want to go out and be near the right. Yeah, it doesn't look like there's anything better on the horizon either. Actually took an extra day off this coming week. We were gonna be off Thursday or Friday anyway, but I took Wednesday too, and Dan took Wednesday as well, and he said, oh, we'll have an extra day to just sit down and relax, and I said, no, I'm going to get the pantry finished. Yeah, we're excited to get the pantry rebuilt. That's me. Tomorrow, I am inventorian and making an inventory of our pantry so we can start keeping our minimums of our stocked items in there. Yeah. Yep. I completely ripped out our entire pantry and I'm rebuilding it from the ground up. Oh wow, that's what I want to do, and put in some of those the rotating can holders. Yeah, it would be awesome. Yeah, those things are just so good. Yeah, we're building a deck tomorrow. My mother in law's deck was falling apart. So even if it's thirty degrees tomorrow, we are going to that deck. Yeah, and cut fire wood because we're going to have firewood stock this year. I'm not going it sounds like I know what you're getting for Christmas. I need to crochet you some warm stuff. Right, That's why we moved to Texas to be warm. And it's been We've had the dude, No, everybody had snow and everybody's like, oh, you don't ever see this here, and it's like, I just moved here. Come on, yeah, tell me about it. What's my show called? I know I was going to say change, change in Earth. Maybe all right, so before we go, what's one of the biggest tips, tricks, or piece of advice you have for the audience that you've picked up along your journeys. I would say, whatever you use from your stock, put that same number or double on your shopping list for the next grocery store trip. Love that, love that good point of view. I was gonna say something really corny but you know after that, I'm like, wow, I guess I can't crack a joke too hard. Come on, all. Right, So I've always heard, you know, don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. No, I'll listen to you with your forty eight hour rule, and don't sweat the petty things. I'm not being patty, That's that's just it. I'm not. It keeps me from being petty because I don't hold it over him and we don't complain about it. It just gets done, which gives him an out if he doesn't want to complete the task. True, all right, So he's like, yeah, it's one of those. It's our way of getting to having an agreement or disagreement without actually fighting about it. So it's like, if he doesn't want to do it, fair game. If he does, you're like wangling a wildcat. Man. He's got to have so much patience. It's not even funny. He's dealing with me. I don't know, That's what I'm saying. Not give me a good one, Give me a good one. What do you got? You know we always hear two is one, one is none. But the thing is is I My biggest takeaway is prep for your family. Prep with what you will actually use. You see all these new, big and brand new and shiny things, but you don't have to. You can. You can do so much with so little. Don't don't put yourself broke to get the newest thing when you can easily be the richest person with very little. So my my biggest thing is don't don't overdo it. Yeah, if you're gonna have to make do with what you got when the time comes, then you might as well be starting how to do that right now. Right yep, I grew up poor. There's no point in spinning all these hundreds and thousands of dollars on things, you know. That's kind of like my spinning class. You don't have to spend fifty up dollars on carters when you can use dog's liquor brushes the same. Yeah, you can find the equivalent within your budget. May may take just a hair bit more work. But it does just as good. There's no point in breaking your back over something that you can achieve on a smaller amount. Yeah. My biggest one is community. That's what I've learned on this journey is that you can't do it alone. You can't do it with just your family. You're going to need more people, so you better start figuring out who those are. That's my little wheel. There's kind of That's a something I have to work on myself. I'm a really big introvert, So being on microphone or being text message or email or whatever on the phone, I'm good with that. But face to face, I have a problem. And so I'm a paralegal and I have to see people every single day, right So I don't really know why it's a problem for me outside of work, but it is. Yeah, that's so move into a new area. We got invited to a party, you know, and it's like, oh, we should go, but we're not gonna know anybody there. But if we don't go, then we're not gonna beat anybody, so we better go. So we have we're in that pickle ourselves right now. Yeah, yeah, you know, I get it. I get it. I'm an extrovert, but when it comes down to it, I really don't like meeting new people. Right well, and that's what's so new geographical area and all that. I mean, it's gonna have to happen. We really bridged a lot of the gap with our chicken eggs. Really well, you know what, I will say this on meeting new people, though you are allowed to be picky, we have been very picky with the people we actually like. We'll we'll go out and meet people, but as a couple and as a family, we are very picky on who we want around us. I mean, we've met people who seem great and then you get them out on a one on one and you realize, oh, nope, nope, you are allowed to be picky on who you have around you. We've been there too, Yep. Unfortunately, we've got a lot of demons out there these days. So we got to just tread the waters right and look, Yeah, we didn't do any politics tonight. Good job, girls. You know, I bit my tongue. We did well. I did. I did a couple of times. Yeah I did too when we went to the when we started talking about the Barista boys. Oh yeah, alrighty guys, Well, thank you so much for coming on the site, coming on the show. I was thinking, do you guys have your own sites or does everybody just find you on PBN? For right now, I'm just on PBN, But I've I'm trying to set up like a locals account perfect okay, kind of set up like Rumble and YouTube. I just haven't gotten to it yet. Nice Rumble. I haven't actually have Rumble or YouTube, so I have I have Rumble. I have not posted on there yet. My website should hopefully be up after this weekend. I've been working on it for months, so we'll see. And then PBN and then I've got. I had a YouTube, I diluted it. I need to restart it. But I plan on start streaming as well, like actually doing videos with my podcast on YouTube. Yeah. No on on Rumble yeah yeah, yeah. Unfortunately my co host he doesn't. You know, I want to know. You know what you do is you black out his face. You just put a mask or a shadow and then you know, maybe a voice. We're gonna do the Chewbacca mask, but you know it would be kind of weird. I would I watch it. I would watch it. Right, it's me and Chin Chewychbacca. I'm sure there are copyrights on that. Probably. We got to pick on Chin a little though, since he isn't here. So it he ran he dodged us out. Alrighty guys, well, thank you so much for coming on the show. Really appreciate having me here. Great big thank you to both Jordan and Carol for coming on the show, filling in for Chin and giving me a chance to get so much needed girl time, which I don't get enough of in a house full of guys unless you count my chickens and one of my dogs. So welcome change of pace, and I hope you guys had as much fun with that as I did. Moving on to the changing Earth news, we have a couple of little CMEs coming in in front of a coronal hole that's going to be facing our way this weekend. Did a pre record this weekend because gave me the time to spend some extra time with my boys and with Chin out of town. So this was actually recorded on Saturday night. So we're up to there with our changing Earth news. If anything happens Sunday morning, you know, that's just how it is. So on the twelfth of November, there was three hundred and sixty one earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, the biggest of which was a seven point oh in the South Pacific Ocean by Fiji. So we've had some big earthquakes happening both last week and this week. South Australia, more to the central of South Australia this time was hit by wild storms. There was four hundred and twenty thousand lightning strikes recorded in one day. That's pretty big and so you could definitely see that magnetic shielding is getting more and more agitated when the activity upticks like that hail and flooding and Adelaide. In northern Argentina, there's a big wildfire there that's burning out of control. Ten active outbreaks still on the twelfth, one hundred and twenty three thousand acres of native forest on fire. In Columbia, ten departments were affected by rain, landslides, flash floods. Three people died one hundred and five hectors, so that's about or I'm sorry, one hundred and five one thousand and five hectares of farmlands affected, so that's about two thousand, almost three thousand acres of farmland affected, thirteen homes destroyed, one hundred and eighty eight homes damaged. And Ecuador, ten sectors of Ecuador are flooded without power, they had violent flash floodings, lots of homes damaged, and Eastern Spain. Hundreds of people were stranded at the airport when two point six inches of rain came in in one hour. Venetia also had strong hail and wind. On the thirteenth of November, there was four hundred and fifteen earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger. The second biggest was a five point four in Indonesia. However, the biggest of that day was a six point two that hit western central Chile about twelve point four miles deep. It was preceded by a five point seven earthquake fifty six seconds before that, and there was about fourteen aftershocks that ranged between a two point five and a four point nine on the scale in Iraq bag In Iraq, Baghdad saw heavy flooding hospitals or flooded homes and shops, and then Saudi Arabia had a very unusually heavy hailstorm. In Tarjibah City, desert dunes were covered in ice. It's a very rare sight to see, so that was rather interesting as well. On November fourteenth, there was three hundred and eighty earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, the biggest of which was a six point one in the Philippine Sea of Japan and in the Southern Pacific Ocean. There was also another six point one in Malaysia. The first week of monsoons came in hard flash flooding. Ten districts were most affected extreme flooding, eight hundred people evacuated, and then southeastern Australia and New South Wales thousands were evacuated. Two hundred people were rescued. Homes were completely washed away when they got four point seven inches of rain overnight. The rivers swelled and dams are absolutely filled to capacity right now, so not a welcome site for them. They've been having too much of that. I think Ellen's floating away. In southern France there was strong thunderstorms, rains. They got about five point nine inches and three hours massive amounts of flooding there. On the fifteenth of November, there was three hundred and seventy earthquakes that were two point zero were bigger, the biggest of which was a five point two in the South Atlantic by the South Sandwich Islands, shouting it out to Chin. With that one, Northern Columbia saw an unusually large landslide in the village of El Molina November tenth. It was three point one miles long. It killed five people and one hundred and nine people were evacuated. In the Congo Pointe Noir flooded completely significant damage to infrastructure there Ti I mean the whole town, the whole town completely flooded. Very crazy stuff to see those pictures. In Thailand, they saw extreme rains, flooding in the roads, houses, buildings, infrastructure damage there as well. And Southern Sudan is you know, the people there are just hanging on surviving hunger and violence that's happening, and they were absolutely pushed to the edge. This is the fourth fourth year in a row they saw massive floods come in. Two thirds of the country is flooded, one million people impacted as homes, livestocks, and crops are washed away. Water is contaminated by sewage because they just dig holes and things like that, and then when the water comes in, it picks all that stuff up out of those holes and it's just nasty. So it's a major risk of disease outbreak there. On November sixteenth, there was three hundred and sixty two earthquakes that were two point zero were bigger the biggest of which was a five point eight in the Salomon Islands. In Indonesia, two hundred and forty nine homes were flooded in northern Sumatra. The levees broke, one hundred and seventeen families where evacuated. Flood emergency was declared. In the UK, Sussex saw flooding. There was twenty motorists rescued and the train activity was disrupted. And then in the United States, New York got hit with multiple feet of snow as the Lake Effect brewed over there and a major storm came in. So on the seventeenth of November some very unusual earthquake activity to place. Texas was hit with a five point three earthquake in western Texas. It's the third largest in Texan history and the largest in one hundred years. For sure. There's some interesting tinfoil hat ideas behind that that I'll have to get back to you on when I learned more information. But yeah, it has to do with drilling activities and things like that, and you know, possibly other countries drilling in our country in that area, so very interesting stuff. In Alaska and Anchorage, there was a five point zero earthquake and then in Hawaii there was another earthquake storm, So everything's kind of waken up. As far as volcanic activity on the whole, we still have twenty six active volcanoes that's the same as last week. We have twenty three volcanoes showing minor activity. That is up two from last week. So when we saw the pink auroras and stuff, then we saw the earthquake activity, then we see the optic of volcanic activity. There. Also there's thirty four volcano showing unrest. That's up one from last week. As far as earthquakes go, four point zero or bigger. In the last twenty four hours now this is Saturday night, there was thirty four earthquakes and the last forty eight there was seventy three earthquakes, so that number is actually coming down just a little bit. We are definitely up for the last week and up for the last two weeks last two last week we had two hundred and seventy four earthquakes. That's up forty from the week before that, and the last two weeks we had five hundred and fifty three earthquakes, also up about forty. Ironically enough, the biggest earthquake of Saturday was the five point five in the South Sandwich Islands region, so Chin getting double hit up on the week. He's not here. As far as wildfires in the United States, we are down to only eleven thousand, three hundred and fifty eight acres burning, so that's pretty much end of the fire season there. I'm going to keep an eye on it for a couple more weeks, but then we should be good to go. The biggest state this week on fire is actually Kentucky with six two and forty three acres on fire. Second place is Texas with fifteen hundred acres on fire. Third places Ohio with thirteen hundred and thirty seven acres on fire. Alrighty guys, well that's going to do it for this week. I really hope you enjoyed the show and the Changing Earth news. You know, biggest way that you can contribute is head on over to my website and become a subscriber. You know, I put a lot of time and energy into making the Changing Earth go around, and your appreciation, you know, just in the form of helping me out with those membership dollars, really helps me not only keep the show alive, but do more stuff and be able to fund what's going on in my life. So I know we're all kind of in the pickle. But if you enjoy what you hear and you appreciate being fed every week, then by all means, come over become a subscriber. Three bucks a month, you know, not a whole lot to ask for. 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