WOMENS WEDNESDAY: Ladies of Prepper Camp

You're listening here, good payin, you will pay us back just to be ready here. Hello one, Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number four hundred and forty six, Season fifteen, Episode forty six, got a very spectacular show to bring to you guys tonight. You know, we're always touting Prepper Camp because it's just our big family reunion time. And so we have the ladies from Prepper Camp. Not all the ladies obviously, but good handful of ladies. They have either been part of Prepper Camp, teach Prepper Camp, or host Prepper Camp here on the show tonight. So we just heard chapter forty six of Vergis, and we're talking a little bit about losing faith and leadership, something that's easy to talk about these days. This was a chapter that was kind of tough for me because you know, they go to take this land back from the natives and everything. It was kind of my ode to, you know, people taking their space back after the collapse happens. So hope you enjoyed the episode tonight. But let me go ahead and introduce the guests, and also let me say Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Appreciate all that everything that all the moms do trying your best to raise these little rugrats. So happy Mother's Day. So first guest up, we have survivor Jane, the host of prepper or the hostess of Prepper Camp, the hostess with the Mostess. Hi Jane, how you doing tonight? Hi? Thank you for inviting me back. Good to have you on. I I was excited. I've been wanting to do this show for years, literally for like at least the last three years, and I always just forget, Like Prepper Camp just comes around again and I'm like, darn it, I was gonna do the Lady Show. Well, I think it's a great idea and I'm looking forward to it tonight. Our second guest is Nicole Wallace. She is one of the badass shooting instructors from Woolf Fire Firearms. So Hi Nicole, how you doing? Hey Sarah, I am doing fantastic. Now did I get your last name correct? Or? Yes? Okay, all right, good. I was worried I was collecting information on you before the show. Oh yeah yeah. So welcome to the Changing Earth. You're an you voice on the Changing Earth and on podcasting. So I want to welcome you to the show, and yeah, thanks for joining us. We got Jordan Smith in the house from Phoenix Survival PBN host. How you doing, Jordan, I'm good. Thank you for so so much for having me. Of course, of course, and we got Gillian Rabblay, host of Raising Value co host but like the most important host of Raising Values. So how you doing, Gilliad? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. Sarah, You're very welcome, thanks for joining me. So all these ladies, you know, we're all part of Prepper Camp and sometimes guys are you know, a little bit more involved in prepping, and these ladies here are here to tell you that no, no, no, it's definitely a woman's game as well. You should get out to Prepper Camp and check it out. Jane, how is Prepper Camp twenty twenty four shaping up? Or are you just going to be summersed and goats until we start putting tents up? Both? Both, honestly both, you know, I the Homestead doesn't stop just because Prepper Camp is. We put it on every year. That's just our mission, that's our ministry. But we have got some fantastic speakers and classes. You know, we always strive to do at least twenty to twenty five new classes a year. So when you're talking about sixty four classes, and at least a quarter of those, if not more, are new classes, there's always something for a repeat, repeat, repeat, which if those of us that go to it, No, it's like a big family reunion. Half the time, we're seeing people from all over the country and sometime internationally come in. We have a great surprise speaker for Saturday Night. Also, we've got eight things gonna could be happening on Friday night on Saturday Night. You know, we always tried to talk all you things. Just step it up just a little bit more and we're to. Be just at five times. August gonna be back playing this year. He will be there again. Yeah, absolutely. I just love to spending time with them. You know, he's he's gotten to where now he's inviting his own friends and neighbors to come to Prepper Camp. So you know, when your guest music guests is inviting not just their family, but now the following year's bringing friends and neighbors too, that's pretty awesome, right. Yeah, that is it's just the uh Honestly, I'm like, can't we just live at Prepper Camp and then go back to real life, Like we'll flip. That will be like three days of their life. I wouldn't mind. So, Nicole, how many years have you been at Prepper Camp And why don't you just talk a little bit about what you teach there? And uh, you know how beneficial your class is because it is a good one. Awesome. So I have. Taught for three years there and so this will be my fourth year at Prepper Camp and I love it. In my own personal life, I'm such an introvert, but out there everybody is amazing and so friendly. You can't help. But just. Like just be moved by the energy and the vibe and just how wonderful everybody is. So I teach a home defense class, so just kind of basic, like how to make sure you're safe in and around your own home. This year, I think we're bringing back the female shooter kind of class where we just address things that are are kind of unique to us. We're the fastest growing dynamic in that world, and you know, most things are geared for, like big guys, and our bodies are very different and our circumstances are very different. Right, we were talking before the show about maybe we carry in a diaper bag. Right, we're probably gonna have kids with us, right, So we go over all the all the terminology and things, you know, so that we can be much more educated in that world. And then we're gonna teach a new class about night vision and thermal optics and kind of how to own thermal optics, right yep in that environment. Super cool stuff. So that'll be a really interesting class that we're gonna step into this year. Very cool. I use that a lot in my books. So I have like the coolest design for a thermal cloak that could like hide you from thermal Well, that's neither here nor there. Jordan. How many how many years you've been coming to for every camp? And what are you doing this year besides bringing. Right? I think it's going to be my fifth year. Actually, I think my first year was in twenty nineteen. And then I'll be. Teaching the utilizing viber for homestead and and survival. And then, yes, my family is growing and it seems to be growing and coming along to Prepper. Camp as well. Love it, love it. Yeah, wouldn't be the same without you, all right, Gillian, you're coming back this year. I am coming back this year. So yeah, I've only I know, I'm so excited and I've only been one time, but that was so life changing that I've I ask off for this like a year before. So I technically can't, but I went on and told my principal was like, look, next September, I'm going I will be gone. You will have to find a substitute. If you can't find a substitute, it's up to you. I don't care, because I will be in Saluta. Gone to. That's what I I'm like. My kids school actually gave him it off, excused because of what we were doing, because we go to an educational experience. Yeah, I don't think they counted the three days that she missed year before last as an absence because I showed them pictures of her taking notes in her classes. I mean at that point she. Was what ten, I think, right, And my child is in these tents and there she's taking notes on what these people are going to And I'm like, I don't know if you'll ever ever ever kill a deer, skin it and you know, do whatever. It's just a woman is telling you. But you go, girl, I am so proud of you and you take those notes right. Christian was even in the Dutch oven class one year. I know, like we did the we did oh what was it? All the way in the back. It was something with weapons, and I'm like, all right, Piper wants to go to this, we'll go. Let's go do it. Hakim's classes. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So but I will be there this year. I will be helping out the boys. They will be doing podcasting live podcasting again and I'll be helping with the booth and all that stuff. So I'll have to take us on my actually get on there this year. I'm so busy, always so busy there. Yeah yeah, yeah. So's it's really exciting because Prepper Camp has been a topic in our house for five years. I mean Phil and Andrew have been going. For five years, and Jane and Rick have just taken us in with open arms and I love it. And so now they have a booth and they'll be doing the podcasting and I think Phil is doing a coffee roasting demonstration for Phoebian and for Disaster Coffee, so I'll be helping with that as well. Lots of interesting fun things coming about that. So be on the lookout for fun things like that. M hm, let's do a favorite prepper Camp memory, and Jane, why don't you start us out again, because you just have the longest amount of memories of prepper Camp. This woman been rocking it for like a decade. Now, you know, I have just one that's my top, top pay favorite. I'm going to try to make it as fast and short as I can. There was an elderly gentleman that was very, very very obese. And anybody that's been in prepper camp you know that it's in a beautiful orchard like campgrounds, which is kind of a rolling heel. So you got flat, but you got also kind of up the hill there a little bit. And I saw this gentleman way down trying to walk up some stairs and it was just one step at a time, and I thought, I gotta go. I'm going to just run up the hill, you know, so I don't have to stand behind him. And that little angel on my shoulder said, uh ah, So I went on nuts. So I went down and I walked beside him on the stairs and it took forever, one step at a time, just. To get up. And he was going to the restroom. So I was asking him how he was enjoying hisself and what did he like, and just a little chit chat. Anybody that knows me knows I love to talk to people. So I talked to him the whole way up and then just gave him a hug and said, I just hope he has a really, really good time. That was the last I saw of him. The following year, somebody called me to the registration tent and said there's this family that wants to see you. And it's like, oh, okay, So I rush over there and this old lady and she had all these young kids and middle aged kids and older kids. There probably had to have been at least ten to twelve people. And the lady came up and she said, I just want to say thank you. And it's like, oh, dear, what I do now? And she said, you took the time with my husband. And I was like, oh what husband? What husband? She goes you walked with him up the stairs, and all he could talk about the rest of the time at prepper camp and when he got home how nice that lady was that took the time, and that she was the one that was running that show and was making it. Sound like it was a whole big deal. And of course I'm embarrassed because it's you know me, I don't I don't need all that stuff. I don't look for that stuff. I just love people. She said, Well, we all came here because he died a week later, and our family wanted to come where Papa had the best time of his life, and we will all our family wanted to come and enjoy that time. And it's like, wow, talk about you never know when you might touch somebody. So that's my all time favorite and I've never had anything that could top. That, right that moment. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Oh who's going next after that one? Yeah, I guess I'll go next, so nobody else feels awkward. But so my rain story. But I'm gonna save that one because I think everybody knows my first year. But last year, yeah, but last year. There's been this couple that comes to my self defense class every year and they look like I think they live like in New York, you know, and they're definitely Midwesterners. And she's just the sweetest old lady, her and her little husband, you know, and she came outside of a store and her husband was attacked and in this moment, he actually got the upper hand, so she had like gone to the car, but then the guy like kicked his knee and he had just had knee surgery. Her husband end up going down. This guy's like gonna, you know, beat on her husband. Here she comes out of the car just full of confidence and vigor and push this guy back off her husband and defended him until the police can get there. And she was like, you know, you gave me the confidence to be able to do that, because the confidence is ninety percent of winning the battle, and I'm like, it is, so yeah. So that was a pretty cool one as well, where it's like, wow, okay, thank you Lord for putting me here to make this difference in people's lives. You know, that's awesome. So yeah, that's. Definitely my my one of my very special memories other than just most amazing time with amazing people, including my family. I guess I could I could throw I've got a couple memories, but my my most The first memory that comes to mind with Prepper Camp is meeting Dave Jones for the first time and he told me once he figured out who I was. Oh, you're you know, you're Japer. You're Jordan with a family affair. He goes, I'm gonna be honest with you. I thought you were going to be about thirty five years older and one hundred. And fifty pounds heavier. And all I could do was laugh. And then he was like, I bet I sound it taller, didn't I said, actually, yes. I thought you were much. Oh that's funny. But but you know, it was one of those impressions, the only other ones I can think of is I guess for me, what keeps me wanting to come back and keeps me is not only everybody there, but like I had, what was it? I think last year, the year before when I first came, when I first started teaching, there was this these this family, the two gentlemen, and it was a father, a brother, and a son, and they were there and they learned how to spend. And then they came back a few years later. Do you remember this young man and he had grown up and he didn't look like a little boy anymore. Where you look like a young man. So it was for me, it's being able to meet these people and then come back and see them a year or two years later, and just to see that we are making an impression on them really just melts my heart. Yep, for sure, it's nice. Yeah, wait to. Understand what it's like to be a teacher. Yeah right, yeah. Martial Arts was that way as well. So I don't I've only been one time, but like I said, it was such a life changing year for me. And I never taught a class. Although Jane, I do have an idea for a class. I'll probably be laughed off the stage, but I do have an idea I'd have to talk to you about. But for me, for me, the anticipation of just seeing everyone that we have grown to love through our podcast and knowing that they're all going to be there and we get to hang out with them and we have to you know, we get to stink together, and we get to drink day old coffee together and walk the hill a thousand times to see each other. But just being with everyone that has a like minded personality and like minded lifestyle and uh, you know, it's just like going home. It really is like going home. So, like I said, we talk about it in this house at least. Once a week. We you know, we were talking about it at lunch today it's Mother's Day at the Hibachi Grill. We're talking about Prepper Camp. So I'm not lying. I'm really I'm really not so, and it is true. We talk about it on the POT both podcasts, and it's just it's being around all those people that you know, when when you talk about your lifestyle with just you know, Jane do Outside or whatever, you're a lot of times you're judged, and then you have hundreds of people there that live the same lifestyle or trying to live the same lifestyle, and it is it's just like going home. So that was me, all right, Nicoll, your last up. Now I agree with so much of that, and I have a couple of things right, So, for those of you who know or don't know, I got into this through Dave, who started at the beginning and he taught the self defense class and he loved Prepper Camp and he was so excited for me to go the first year that I went, and I loved it. And then, of course we know. Dave passed away and so I was invited to pick up his class and to teach my own, and he died right after Prepper Camp. And I will tell you that was the best week of his life. Was that whole week and the weekend of Prepper Camp. But the very next year, the people who lined up to hug me and tell me stories. It was. It was unbelievable, the people who had come year after year. And I enjoyed it so much. And I felt so much love from that community, from people I didn't even know. It is such an amazing place. He touched a lot of people. Yeah, I knew him even before, like just Prepper Camp. I actually the first year we were there, I was like, Dave, you were right next to me, and like we never said hi. We have been like on the on the computer so much. And then uh yeah, to be able to connect that that was a really good year. It really was. And then I love to teach. I especially love to teach women. And so I know it doesn't come through through audio, but I am about a foot shy of being. Six feet tall. So when I stand up on stage, right, not such an imposing figure. Right, So when I tell women, look, you can carry anything you want to. We are fully able to defend ourselves. I had a lady bring her husband up and it was like see. I told you she's. Not this giant person. Same I think I think Gillian is the only one over like five to five. Here she wins, right, I know, I think. So we're all the shorties. I'm the shortest one in my family, are you? I am most of the most of the women in my family are six feet even my nieces taller than me. Wow. Yeah, I made it taller than my mom. I was like, I'm good, I made it. That's it. I might be bringing Mama with us this year. We'll see. Oh that would be so cool. But yeah, she really would like to experience it. And I know that all my family there would love to meet my mom. So I'm like, we'll see. You know, she's willing to do the road trip and everything. And then Ellen's definitely coming from Australia as well again this year, So. I am so excited about awesome. Right. Yeah, she won't be on the boat this year, so we got a full crew coming out, that's for sure. Well, okay, most important survival tip. So I will start this one off. It is my rain story and I learned very well during my first year at Pevery Camp a lot about rain camping and so yeah, it's not. It's not a tip from a class, although I've learned a ton, especially from Jane's class. I picked up a lot of basics that I didn't know I was missing, like how to reseal jars with a break bleeder. Yes, I did not know I was missing tip. But we lived in California for so long, you know, we didn't go out rain camping, and so that first year there, we just got flooded, literally raining in the camp or in the tent with our our air mattresses floating. So luckily we had got the van and we just made the best of it. We had tarps up to keep us warm, and the family pulled together so much and it just made it an amazing experience. And then we had you guys there to you know, at least dry out one of our sleeping bags, a couple of them. Yeah, so we had a dry bedding. But you know, we pulled together a lot as a family, and it just showed me like just how adaptable we can be and still be so happy together. So that's really my survival tip is like be happy with the ones you love. Oh that's great, all right, So I will say I'll jump in it's to the survival tip. Maybe maybe not for the people that are considering coming to prepper camp or the people that are at prepper camp. My suggestion is is that nobody is totally prepared nobody, So you don't get by thinking, oh, I am so far behind there's no way to catch up. That's not true because there's always things that we all can can build on. There's always things that we can strengthen. So I don't like for people to feel like, oh, the only the really experienced ones are going to be going, because that's not what prepper Camp is about. Prepper Camp is learning and and when you stop learning, you start let you stop living as far as I'm concerned, you know, and Gillian will definitely be there. Didn't tell me, you know, to back me up with that. Life. It's all about knowledge and all about learning. So for those that say, no, I already I already know all that, well you know, good for you, But you know, I'm gonna have to call you on that, because like I said, we all can learn and nobody is totally prepared. Absolutely, I have to back you up on that one, Jane, because I just did the Women Who Prep conference and one of the things that I was telling people during that conference was, you know, prepping this lifestyle is so big, and you can get lost in it so quickly and so easily, and so you know what I kept saying was, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time. And so you have to take this lifestyle and you have to take prepping one step at a time, and you're not going to have it all, and you're not going to be the best prepared. I mean, we have the best story for that with Hurricane Ida that you know, came through the house and we had trees land we've been for quite some time, but the one thing we didn't have was a chainsaw to solve our. Way out of our house. And so you know, you're not going to have it all, and it's going to be those aha moments going oh yeah, you know, I guess that would have been really good to have. We have all the food and all the water, but what if a tree fell on top of your house and you can't get out. You're not going to get. Out with an X right, Yeah, so true. Yeah, you've got to just take it a little bit at a time, a little bit out. Of time, and that's why community resources are so important too, you know. I think that's why we have become so close to everyone in this community, is because we know that we can reach out to you all and be like, hey, we have this problem, how would you go about it? Or what did you do to fix it? Right? Yeah, there's never a question like that. If you have a question and you reach out to anyone in the PBM community, I mean host or on the element lines, any of that, I mean, everybody would just it's just there to tell you whatever you need to know. And that's one thing I was going to add to is like sometimes you learn so much from the people in the audience or after you know, yeah, yeah, it's it's great. That's one of my favorite parts as well as just you know, the amount that you learn as you're going so good stuff, all right, Jordan or Nicole, you guys. Sorry, I was gonna say I I one hundred percent agree with like, you're never going to know everything. But my survival tip would be know what. Your resources are, whether that is equipment, a person, your own body, your knowledge. Right, know what resources you have available and make sure that you are competent with them and occasionally test yourself, right, because in a moment, right, sometimes your brain like completely forgets what you have available to you. I will tell you this year, I thought I was going to learn how to land. Now I have zero sense of direction. But I was doing all right. I was out in the woods and then I got turned around and I had to call for help. And he was like, well, why didn't you use your compass? And I was like, of all the things I know, I have my compass. I used it all morning long, but I panicked in this moment, For god, I had this tool, right, So go through your stuff, make sure you know what you have, and then you know how to use it and what could possibly go wrong with it, and then how you fix that. Far enough, Yeah, there's a lot of times that we get gear, gear and more gear, and like, how much do you actually practice with it? Yes? It All the gear in the world won't help if we don't know how to use it or how to fix if something goes wrong with it. Good one, really good one. I don't know if I can back that one up. I mean, I don't think I can see behind. That's what happens with every point everyone's making as accurate. I mean it's you. You never really know. I mean, you'll think you're prepared and then it's easy as how many years in a row did we forget the propane or rephrase twice twice, you know, forget we had to bring the propane, or forgetting something as simple. And it's just kind of. Like my second year was the rain so for me one and then it doesn't hurt to have an extra pair of shoes or to scotch guarden tents because there could be a link. And all that still didn't matter. So even those who call themselves hardened preppers, who have been doing it for years, we still are learning and constantly changing the way we do things to make it easier, more efficient, better, whatever's going to suit our needs. Because we on a fly then figured out, okay, we'll just pick up the pit that we left you Sarah, and we'll just cook from our pit instead of cooking from our propane. And I mean it just happened. You adapt, overcome, you know, improvise, adapt and overcome. Well, that's one of the things that made the Rainier so enjoyable was the intrepid commander mister James forgot his gas for his stove and at the camp store they only had the kind for my stove, so he was like, Hey, can I do coffee on your stove all weekend? I was like, sure, it's just keeping my debt warm, you know. So yeah, we ended up with more gas than we came with. I'm still using that gas, So thank you, James, appreciate it. Just never know. But no, it's all about community. It is. That is and that's one of the things I love. I'm always like, we just need to buy like the massive piece of property and then everybody has their house like on the outside, you know, garden in the middle, livestock that kind of stuff, and yeah, be there. So goals for this year is what I had. Next on the list, I will say that I started teaching the anti Kidnapping and Sexual Assault class last year. I have taught that class privately since a couple times since, and it's an emotional experience to go through just teaching that class. So every time and then the stories and the things that you're told afterwards, I will tell you that Satan is at work and are pot on her earth right now and there's a lot of hurt people out there. And doing that class you know, really gives people the tools that they need to fight that. But like the Devil tests me each time I do it too, you know, to where it's like it is an experience and an emotional process to go through. I'm so passionate about doing it. I know it's the Lord's work and that's where he wants them to be, So I'm there. But it's definitely been an interesting undertaking and I appreciate the opportunity to do it Jane and just share that knowledge. So my goal is to try and teach that class without shedding a tear this year. Wow. Yeah, because it was really something, you know, and then you listen to the fathers even that come up and tell you stories about what happened to their daughters and things like that. You can just see it all over them, you know, the amount of pain and so that it's really been a challenge. That's really been one of those things where you know, you gotta you gotta put on the armor of God so you can help people. Yep, we will definitely that. Yeah, as far as my goals go, drum roll please, I am finally going to be getting the Companion Book to Ricker Garden survival of how I actually make things in the kitchen from the homestead here. That is what I've been working on, and hopefully we'll be done by prepper camps. I've been diligently trying to, you know, get that done and get my chores and everything else. But it's not a cookbook. I stressed that because everybody knows I am not a cook. But can I tell you how I do something? Can I tell you how I did it? Can I tell you some of the shortcuts and some of the things that I've been able to do. I want to touch the people that don't have. A clue, which is me nice. It didn't have a clue as far as what the kitchen was and what this one. I didn't even know what side the forks went on and all that other stuff. You know. To me, you just grabbed a utensil to stir with. It didn't matter if it was a spatchelaw or if it was a knife or a fork, you know. So that's where I'm coming from. I'm going to cheer all the different tips and tricks and break leader type of things that I can to make people realize, oh well I can do this and get pulled the book out just in case something was to happen, and know how to substitute something for this, and know how to do different things like that. So it's it's not a cookbook. I'll stress that I'm not a cook, but I am a survivor in the kitchen, and I can teach you how I did that. We actually have a chat room now for the PBN Family Cookbook as well, so if you're not in the element, you got to get in there. Have James get you in there, because that would be cool. You could do like tips from Jane in there. That'd be awesome. Oh yeah, definitely after that book. Very nice job, love it all right, what about you, Nicole. Let's see goals for this year. My personal goals are to learn how to land now and jiu jitsu. Oh you're a cuddler, right, yeah, cuddling as well as as I had hoped that it. No, it doesn't. It's a very very difficult one. I will teach you some survival stuff so that when you get into those positions you can actually just destroy somebody and get out of there. Perfect. Yes, right, and but that's part of my how do you not freak out and figure out what resources you have available? Right or my arms pinned? Oh but I have my legs right? Maybe I have arm left? Right? How do you not? Yep? How do you stay? Yeah? Beginning jiu jitsu is all about defense, So that's the most important thing you can learn. There is defense. Yes, fairly new to it, but that is my that is my goal. And so then just I've extended some of my class stuff for prepper camps, so I'm hoping when I get up there that uh, it's super interesting to everybody else's as much as it is to me. Very cool, very cool, it's nice. Yeah, I call them cuddlers because you know, jiu jitsu is just rolling around with sweaty guys all night pretty much like, oh. That's funny what you're talking about. Yeah, so I call them cuddlers. Yeah it is right, Uh, yeah it is. But none of these big guys want to roll with like the short new girl, you. Know, So you got to just assert yourself in there and be like, yeah, good luck tapping me. It will never happen. I might not get you, but you're definitely not going to get me either. So right, and it has been the eye opening to know just how how wiggily you can be to get out of something. Yep. Yeah, no, I trained full mma, so like I love to stand up fight, So mine's all just about, uh, if I, by some reason ever get in that position, how can I just destroy and get out of there really fast? Because I hate cuddling. It's not my ford to take. I could do it, but like, yeah, I'd rather just do the stand up. Yes, I much prefer being on my feet to leave the situation. Yeah, but most of the time when women are attacked, it's by a single assailant and they want to take her to the ground as fast as possible, So jiu jitsu is a good idea of her females for sure. But defend and then you can just rip fingers off and like smash through noses, put your fingers and eyes that you can't do in a training room yep. And yeah yeah, and that's uh So, once you have the defense down, you learn those little you know where you can really hurt somebody really fast, and that's you're out. You don't have to worry about arm locks and all this stuff. So now we've learned some chokes, and I have a good friend who's like six foot two and two hundred and forty pounds, and I'm like, come here, I have to practice this in class. Yeah. I had like a four hundred pound dude who was like I was like, yeah, just learned this in class, come over here. And he's like no, no, I'm like, you could bench press me. He's like no, uh, I'm not playing. I'm like, fine, whatever, take my ball, go on. That's right, all right? What about you girls? Jordan and Gilliad. So, I have actually been working. I have two goals, but I've been working on these goals, and one of them is my health. And so a lot of times in the proper community, we harp on making sure you have food storage and water storage and all that other stuff. But a lot of times your health takes a back seat. And so if you have to bug out, you really need to be able to bug out, And if you're going. To bug in, you really need to be able to bug in. Kind of thing. But I don't know if y'all know this, but about a year and a half ago, I was looking at an amputation of my left no, my right leg underneath my knee, so below my knee, and so he the doctor said, you could really you know, if you lost about one hundred pounds, it might get better. And so I'm halfway there. But your health is awesome. Yeah yeah, and not looking at an reputation anymore is even better. Yeah. So being able to walk up the hill without as much pain or you know, having a little bit more flexibility in my leg is going to be a lot nicer. So, uh, that is one thing that I will continue to work on that. It's going to be a goal of mine. I'm actually very surprised with myself that I haven't fallen, like fallen off of this for over almost a year now, so June first will be a year. Now it's a life awesome. Yeah, it's a lifestyle, a good job. Yeah, now it's a lifestyle. The second thing was actually from a class at Prepper Camp. I'm not going to get her name because I'm not going to remember it, but she did a class on herbs and medicinal herbs and all that stuff, and I want to tell you, like it sparked something in me. I So I've been like eating through books trying to learn what's just in my backyard, what's a good herb, what's the medicinal value of this herb or even just just plant that's growing out there that. Most people consider a weed. And this is going to sound so silly, but I've been so afraid to move past just reading and getting knowledge. And yesterday, yesterday was the first time I made a tincture. So it'll be sitting, I know. I'm so excited. It's going to be sitting for six weeks to do what it does. But that is my goal I want to be. I want to make more tinctures and more souths and things like that, and learn more and more about what the earth provides for us. Yeah. Herbal remedies are so verbal remedies. Yeah, well, you know that. It's amazing if you look at all the crep that they're putting in our food. I mean I read something where they're putting saldust saw dust now in the food for fillers as fiber and it's acceptable and we're eating it and we're paying for it. Yeah, and the same thing with medications and what have you. I think it's an awesome goal that we're learning what we have right in our own backyard, that we know what's been put on it. You know, no fertilizers or no pesticides or whatever it is, and we're being able to actually heal our body from the crep that we put in it, you know, all these years. That's that's wonderful. And that's what we did. We started. I started to see a holistic doctor. I dropped the you know, regular just family doctor and went to a holistic doctor. And we started to just turn packages around and read what was on the back one of the ingredients in this and if it had anything, if that was an inflammatory or you weren't supposed to eat it like it. You know, it's probably not for human conception, but they say install amounts. It's fine. We stopped eating it, and I can't tell you just how much better. All three of us are just eating real food, eating real food. Jill Garden. Girls are curious, what tincture did you start? I started a mimosa flower tincture. I saw that. So I'm so proud of you, and I'm so excited. Thank you, Jordan. I'm proud of myself because I was like, Okay, I know I have this right, and y'all making this tincture so easy. You put the flowers in a jar, you put vodka. In the jar. And just screw the top one and you hide it away in a cold, dark place for six weeks and shake it. Honestly, it is. It's that easy, and you could do it was so many things, I know, I don't know. I was so scared to do this. I did red clover, the thin red clover, and that was good for like, well, it was for the old goat really, because he said my moods were kind of getting you. Were getting mood for him. He's like, yeah, the planet, this whole field of red clothes, it's supposed to be a horriblee whatever it is. It is, Yeah, I mean it's that's honestly, it's that easy. And you can have all kinds of different things depending on you know, what your body needs. So it's not like it's some. Silific whatever that you have to do concoctions or whatever. Yeah, and most of them it would have to buy the best vodka either, you know. That was the best thing. It was an eight dollars bottle of vodka. Yeah, and a Mason jar I had, of course, I have tons of Mason jars. And I went on an overnight retreat with my sixth and seventh grade and right outside of our cabin was a mimosa tree that I've been looking for for a couple of weeks now, even asking strangers, do you mind if I come pick some flowers off the tree? I promise I'm not a weirdo, but I'm probably a weirdo. Yeah, but not a real bad one. Well, they pull out one chemical out of that same thing, right, and then they can even artificially create it. But they're taking out the one thing that causes your body to react a certain way. And when you find it in nature, all those buffers for your body the way God intended are. There, right nature? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so. You don't have all the harmful side effects and all that stuff going on. Man. I researched it so hard when I was having all my stomach problems and they put me on like ani this a I that six different pillars every single day. Yes, I was like feeling like I'm just I went from working out, you know, working a ten hour day working out four hours after that, to be like on the sofa, feeling like I was dying. I was like, that's it, I know, all this is out the window. I went back to Nature's medicine. We solve the problems. So there's so much we said for it. Yeah, I take a we're going off on a tangent, but I take a daily supplement from my doctor. It's called din D I I N and it's something that is found in broccoli and it has helped with perimenopause. It helps with your hormones and I will. I told her. I was like, you can tell me to get off of it. I'm never getting off of this. Don't tell Rick about it. I don't know. I have a whole I have a whole pantry full of red clover now my day. I sha't just sell that, not giving it away. For the young time in both. I'll bring you some mimosa. You bring me some red clover. There, you go have a swamp meat at pepper count. Passing tinctures under the table. That's what we do it. They call that. Yeah, oh I love it. That's good stuff. The It's one of my herbal healing is one of the things that really got me into the survival community, you know, because I always grew up hunting, fishing, gardening. That was like country country lifestyle. But when I started doing the herbal medicine, that's when people are like, Oh, you're a survivalist. I'm like, what is that? What are you talking about? What? You have a word for it? Now? You know a lot it was just country girl. So yeah, that's really where a lot of my passions came from. So good pick up there, Gilliam. Alrighty, guys, Well we have pretty much just chit chatted away the whole show here, and I still got to do the changing Earth news because it's been a crazy week of Earth news. So that's one of the things that really struck me over the last couple of days. As how you said, Jane, you know, nobody's ever really prepared. Well, I can tell you that nobody is, because when I was looking at the prospect of like, oh, this CME is coming and it really might be a lights out event, I was like, oh my gosh, I saw this to do and that to do and this to do, and I was saving for this and I was saving for that, and it's could be tomorrow and it could be any tomorrow. So like, and that's what we get too complacent, we really do. And thank you so much for mentioning that. Because most people are so excited about the beautiful sky that they don't really realize that that's not any of it, that that has nothing to do with what is actually behind the curtain, which is that our whole infrastructure and grid could be taken down by these beautiful red and Fusia the red. The red should not even be there. Okay, that is a horribly bad sign. And it went all the way down to Prayer to Rico. Mm hmm. First time in overs. Yeah, unheard, unheard of, yep. Especially it wasn't actually like a huge solar event, like it wasn't as big as a Carrington event obviously, but. Yeah, thank goodness it wasn't. But if that doesn't open each and every one of our prepper eyes to we can't exclude anything. No, you cannot exclude any thing. Even though it's remote, you can't exclude it. You have to have some type of contingency for it. Yeah, that's steam engines. It's like we wake up tomorrow and it's steam engines. Mm hmmm. Yeah. So that was that was I had my little wake up call. I was like, Okay, there's some things that have to get done, like right now. For sure. All right, guys, so we're gonna jump into changing Earth news. If you want to jump off, you are more than while come to do so at this point. Thank you so much for joining my ladies. Can I just jump in and say Prepper Camp September twenty seventh through the twenty. Ninth, Yes, ma'am, the get tickets. We still have some, and that would be just going to preppercamp dot com and click on the tickets there. As you've heard us all talk about, nobody's a stranger there, you're all community and Sarah, thank you so much for inviting us all on the show to talk about our experiences and what prepper Camp has done for us all. Absolutely, it's like my favorite thing, so thank you for joining me and just making fun of it. We'll have to get everybody together for an audio drama blooper show. Get the girls together. I've been hanging out too much with the guys, so we'll have. To hear it. Yeah right, yeah, yep, Well, thank you again. You're welcome. Thank you so much, Jane. Thanks Sarah. I'm going to hop off too. Yep. I'm hopping alrighty bye bye bye. All right, guys, let's go ahead and get into some changing Earth. New. Dream, Survive, Thrive. This is changing Earth. News all right, changing Earth news. So today is May twelve, twenty twenty four, and top news is obviously the X class solar flares. They even put it in mainstream media news for a change, which is really unusual for them to do. We had a total of seven X class flares, pretty much rapid fire from the Sun at the Earth. We reached a geostorm of KP five. It was very low level. KP five is the highest level though there's nothing really more than when we reached level five of the geostorm, so it's just varying degrees from there. So we did have auroras, as was talking about with Jane, it went all the way down to Puerto Rico. And the crazy is just not over with yet. This is not just an event where it just it's gone tomorrow. So it's gonna wane. But the Earth has been basically supercharged with all this energy, so we should see some more jet stream activity and possibly earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, that kind of thing. So I've got my eyes on we're checking it out. Also, everybody be extremely aware your body is going to fuel this solar activity. You have an increased rate of a heart attack of stroke, but also your cognitive abilities are going to be effective. You affected. You might have noticed you had a migraine, that kind of thing going on, So give yourself a break. Anybody who has any kind of psychological problems, it's going to be worse on these days. So that's one of the reasons why I watched the sun a lot, because when I'm dealing with people all day, I want to know kind of how are people going to be as far as their mental status goes? Okay, So let's break it down. On May fifth, we had four hundred and seventy four earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, the biggest of which was a six point one in Indonesia. There was a six point five earthquake in Japan that left one person dead and twenty people injured. Texas we had some massive flooding. It was actually just south of where I am in the Houston area. They had about four hundred water rescues due to the water level there, and we've still had more and more weather coming in. Tanzania also had a flood event when they were hit by cyclone Hidaya, and that cyclone also hit Kenya and Kenya's already dealing with flooding, so that was more rain for them, which did not do good. Three things, Northern California was hit with a storm. They had snow actually up there in the mountains, so late snow up in the Sierras. On the sixth of May, there was three hundred and seventy six earthquakes that were two point zero bigger, biggest of which was a five point six in the Philippine Sea by Taiwan. There was a two point two near the airport in Charlotte, South Carolina. There was a three point five earthquake near Edmond, Oklahoma. There was flash flooding events in Texas that unfortunately a four year old lost their life in and then two hundred and eighty eight people dead, homes destroyed, roads destroyed, bridges destroyed in Kenya. So this is a major event and they need some prayers over there. So everybody say a little prayer for all the people affected by that flooding over there in Kenya. Lincoln, Nebraska was hit by a tornado. And in Turkey they had strong storm surges that produced tsunami like waves. In India and Ooh, turk Hand, they have forest fires that are becoming unmanageable. They've already lost five firefighters to that disaster. Over one thousand hectares of land have been burned up there. On the seventh of May, there was three hundred and ninety earthquakes that are two point oh bigger. Biggest which was a five point six east of the South Sandwich Islands. There's a five point three earthquake in Queenhai Province in China did some major damage. Sixteen tornadoes hit six states Monday night. Barnesdale, Oklahoma was particularly hard hit. They received some major damage there. On the eighth of May, there was three hundred and eighty six earthquakes that were two point oho or bigger, the biggest of which was a six point one of the not too in northern Utah there was a four point four magnitude earthquake with aftershocks. Utah we're talking Yellowstone, so we always keep an eye on that. It's questionable whether Yellowstone could really be the disaster that they think it is. My money's more on Campy Flag Ray than Yellowstone. And then in Arizona they had some wildfire sparks up. These fires are taken off, not contained this time. On May ninth, there was three hundred and fifty earthquakes that were two point zero or bigger, biggest of which was a five point one of a not to there's a six point two in Indonesia, and then Tennessee experienced some massive flooding on the ninth in the central region of that state. Also northern Georgia saw some major flooding On the fifth or on May tenth, there was four hundred and three earthquakes that were two point oh or bigger, the biggest of which was a five point eight in the Philippine scene or Taiwan. There was a five point two earthquake in Chile. There was a five point eight earthquake in northern Taiwan, and then the Philippines saw an earthquake. They had three hundred and fifty two homes destroyed there in that event. In Tennessee, they had tornadoes tear through the state left three people dead and this was some major wind damage. Even a side of the tornadoes. Tennessee got particularly hard hit that day. In Bunbury, Australia, they also had a tornado put two people in the hospital there. On the eleventh of May, there was three hundred and sixty one earthquakes that were two point oher or bigger, the biggest of which was a five point two in Vanatu. There was a seven point two earthquake in China, and well, that one's always up in the air. The five point two in Vanatu was the biggest that they put on the USGS. The seven point two earthquake that happened in China, it comes out of China reporting, and then whether it happened the day before or that day is always up in question. It's just an interesting source. But I saw enough information on it to mark it down. In Hawaii, they had flooding due to epic rainfall. They some areas saw nineteen inches in one area. In northern Afghanistan they had torrential rain flooding, killing hundreds of people. They definitely need some prayers over there. Big disaster. Southern Brazil has just absolutely been devastated. Guys. We've been talking about Brazil for months now and I have to do a show on how the sequence of events went. But the flooding has just not abated in southern Brazil. They have lost a lot of crop land. They have two hundred and forty thousand people displaced, still doing water rescues. The water is still coming. Definitely a big situation going on down there, and it's really going to hamper the global food production because a lot of stuff's grown in Brazil. Portage, Michigan, was hit with a tornado on the eleventh. In the United States, we have had one hundred and five tornadoes since Monday across the country. Finlay, Pennsylvania was another area that was devastated by tornadoes. And then in Delhi, India, they have had a massive sandstorm. Two people died, six injured in that event. And then in BC they already have wildfires going again. They're having a big evacuation event today. So lots of news about that. Even today, May twelfth, there was three hundred and sixty seven earthquakes that were two point zero bigger, biggest of which was a six point two in the North Pacific Ocean near Mexico Guangdong, China. They're flooding is also getting worse there, millions of people at risk. They're the water is not subsided there either. And then the US has seen more rain in the south today, so we'll have to see what happens with that. So you can see that the flooding levels have really really spiked up because of the solar activity this past week. As far as volcanic activity, we have thirty three volcanoes erupting, which is still really really high. Numbers haven't come down. That's still the highest I've reported of active volcanoes on our planet. No change from two weeks ago. We have twenty one showing minor activity and twenty seven showing unrest, so they really haven't gone anywhere since we reported on it two weeks ago. As far as wildfires in the United States, we have eight nine and sixty five acres actively burning right now. That's coming from six fires, two of them are contained. In Arizona, they have three new fires totaling nine and twenty three acres, none of those are contained. In we have one new fire totally in three and seventy eight acres, none of those are contained. In Florida they have one fire four hundred and sixty four acres that is not contained. And in Mississippi there's one new fire three hundred acres total and that fire is not contained either. Alrighty guys, well that's all we have for you tonight. Thank you for sticking around for a little bit longer show really really appreciate that. Everybody in the chat room, thank you very much for you know, piping up and listening to the show and joining us. Please go over, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel. It's author Sarah F. Hathway. Just look for Changing Earth. Look for the Changing Earth symbol. Come on over to the website become a subscriber. It's Changing Earth series dot com. Thank you guys so much for listening on Mother's Day, and have yourself a very beautiful rest of your day. Until next time, remember, Dream, Survive, Thrive. Thank you for joining Sarah and Chen for this episode of the Changing Earth podcast. 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