TACTICAL TUESDAY - Training Situational Awareness on The Changing Earth

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Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that

will help you dream, survive, and thrive.

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Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast.

This is episode number 448, season 15, episode 48.

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what?

Come on.

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Yeah.

Second week of June, June 9th, we're not going to have a show.

It'll be, we'll do a rerun show or something like that, but we'll not have a live show that

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So I'm going to be getting in from doing some a little fishing vacay and there's actually

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I'm going on a boat in the ocean, well, in the Gulf, but it's salt water, which is and

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So yeah, I'm stepping outside of my comfort zone.

Good for you.

Yeah, I just know that's when like the pole shift is going to happen and I'll just be

like, woo, right in the way, baby, yeah, is there a three hour tour?

It's three hours out to go fishing for five hours to come back for three hours.

So it kind of is a three hour tour, like, yeah, well, and then we got prep camp coming

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All right.

So in verges, this is classic.

This is classic situational awareness week.

They walk into the restaurant.

What does Johnny say?

There's a table in the back for just table for two.

You remember?

Oh, yeah.

You like to sit in the back so you can watch the whole restaurant.

Oh, if you're not in the habit of doing that by this point, get in the habit of doing

that.

Um, once you are in the habit of really being aware of what's going on around you,

you will not want to sit anywhere else and it'll drive you absolutely bonkers when you

have to.

I do.

Do you ever like run like you have a bunch of people and they all want that one seat with

their back against the wall looking at?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, because I've taught my boys now, right?

So yeah, Fletcher always wants to sit the same way and a couple there and they get their

first.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I had that happen with like a work party and everybody was there before me.

I had to sit with my back to like an aisle of like people walking up and down this like

row in between the tables.

Like right behind.

I was just, my boss was like, are you okay?

I'm like, not really actually at this moment.

I cannot see.

I know there's a ton of activity going on behind me and I do not like that.

Right.

So other big happenings that happen, you know, this is basically when Johnny has, you

know, the heart to heart with Virgis and Virgis tells him a Cassidy, Johnny tells him about

that his dad's hooked up with the militias.

So interesting stuff in this conversation are really big turning point for these two when

they kind of, you know, solidify that they're back together.

The crew.

The crew.

The crew.

So we have done a ton of episodes on situational awareness and you're like Sarah, what more can

we say?

You can really never say enough because situational awareness is the most important part of survival.

It is the most important part of surviving any self-defense situation.

If you were just so focused on that one person that walked up to you that you never saw

that there was five more coming around you, you're in big trouble, you know.

So you just can't, you can't say enough, you can't sharpen your skills enough.

We're all in those moments when we get in like our own head and we're like, whoa, how

did I ever drive this far?

Or, you know, how did all of these people come around me and I didn't realize what was

going on?

It's one of the most important things and it's just something that can slip in everybody

just when you get in your own head with your own thoughts or anything like that.

So you really can't say enough about it.

I found a killer article I'm going to throw it up in the chat for everybody who's found

along in the chat.

I would highly suggest going and reading that article.

We're going to go over it a little bit today, but because they have some great exercises

that I had never seen before for sharpening those situational awareness skills.

So that's what we're going to focus on really.

You know, if you're in a typical self-defense situation, it's going to really take you

like two to five seconds to realize like, oh my goodness, I'm in danger.

And your perpetrator is absolutely relying on that factor that it takes you that time

to realize it because in that time, that's when they gain the upper hand over you.

But we don't want to have that happen.

That would be scary.

Right.

Do do do.

Oodle loop is always important.

We got to remember Oodle loop always.

So Oodle loop is observe, orient, decide, act, observe, orient, decide, act.

Oodle, while we're speaking of Oodle, remember James has his ebook on sale.

This weekend, I got the paperback, I mean, the paperbacks like 11 bucks, I know what you

should have.

And then you go on and give them a good review.

Yeah.

That's true.

This big character.

Yep.

Ooda.

No.

Anyway, my kids were like, wow.

A little practice.

Now practice.

But they liked it.

Overall, they really liked it.

So yeah, it's a good book.

Yeah.

So go check that out.

I can't remember the exact name of it.

I'm so bad.

Isn't it?

The world of.

The world of.

The world of.

Yep.

Yep.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate that.

I just remember Ooda.

Ooda, I know.

When you said it, now all I think about it is this little character.

Right.

Yeah.

Observe, orient, decide, act, observe, orient, decide, act.

So.

That's pretty.

She's from.

It's this paralysis, right?

Yes.

Exactly.

Because you're constantly going back through that cycle.

Yeah.

And nothing, you know, observing and orienting are really important pieces of that.

Like don't just focus on the decide, act, part, because.

Like you were saying, you see just one person and there could be three or four or a crowd.

Exactly.

Exactly.

Yeah.

And if you're just focused in, I mean, it doesn't.

Or like.

If you're approaching your car, maybe there's somebody else too.

So observing and orientating is the best idea because you need to get yourself in a position

where you are at the back of that restaurant.

You can see everything that's going on around you, especially in a self-defense situation.

One of the reasons why I'm not overly as crazy about just training jujitsu because you

go to the ground with somebody, there could be three other people standing above you and

you're done.

Okay.

So one of the other things that I picked out of this article that I really liked was developing

that baseline.

It seems really basic that you needed to develop a baseline, but I've never really thought

about it, right?

What is normal here?

Right.

Yeah.

Right.

It's just kind of assumed.

But I've never really focused on the details of what's normal, like noise level, smells,

lighting, those kinds of things.

You know, what's that?

Yeah.

I saw that list.

Right?

Yeah.

I really like to that as well.

How much for moving and how they're acting?

Just the overall energy of the place, like did that energy just change?

There could be a problem.

So what warrants a second look?

So uncomfortable behavior was like number one, if somebody is like acting uncomfortable,

they are uncomfortable about something.

There's some reason why, because that's not our natural state to be in.

Well, for most people, some people, you know, but most people, you're not like being uncomfortable

is not your natural state.

So if that's happening, that warrants a second look, a usual action, observing their

hands, right?

Any kind of nefarious activity, or if they have a weapon or something like that, they're

going to be reaching like to guard over that object, you know, pretty constantly.

I wear my knife at my side, and I play with it a lot, right?

I know.

I know.

Because it clicks, click in and out of the, it's like a pen, right?

Clicky, clicky, clicky.

I'll be right there.

It's got a heart.

It's.

Yeah.

The heart is.

It's a heart.

It's a heart.

It's a heart.

Yeah.

Six played with a heart.

Right.

Yeah.

Six played with the heart.

She.

And I was walking through prepper camp one time.

Keep popping it open and close.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Click, click, click, click.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So I'm walking through prepper cap and natives like hand off the weapon, ma'am.

I'm like, you have a tail.

I know.

He was looking, right?

He knew exactly where my hands were.

And so I tend to do that as well, because when I'm wearing my knife in a crowd, I don't want

somebody to be able to just walk up and take it from me.

I know, but you're.

I know.

It's like, I know that it would like concealed a firearm.

You're, especially a new carrier is always like adjusting, right?

Oh, huh.

I do.

Away.

Right.

It's like, oh, I've got something.

I've got something.

Yeah.

Um, aggressive, erratic behavior, of course, but then like you said, bulges in the clothing,

you know?

I was out here in Texas, like I seen a dude riding on a motorcycle and his shirt was blowing

and his pistols just like right there, tucked in the back of his pants.

Yeah.

I like it.

Amen.

God bless Texas.

So how do we improve, like I'm always looking for ways to improve situational awareness?

I snuck up on Brock the other day.

I was like standing behind him for like three minutes before I scared the crud out of him.

And he's like, dude, I'm slacking.

I'm like, yeah, you are.

You know, just because you're in your own house doesn't mean you should be comfortable.

Gosh.

Really guy.

So um, lots of things like when we're driving around, we tend to like pick a color car.

Then we're always looking for those cars that will definitely slap you from ever getting

some place and going, how did I get here?

Right.

Right.

That's the worst.

I'm so mad at myself whenever that happens.

Oh.

So have you ever played the game?

Well, they call it Kim's, Kim's game, Kim's, come on.

Kim's exercise or something like that in the military.

And it's where you have like 10 to 15 items that you look at it for a minute.

And then they take it away or cover it up.

And then you have to remember what was there?

It's like the car with it.

There's a card game like that too.

Right.

Yeah.

I played a ton of memory when I was kid.

I love that.

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Garden girl just was chatting up on the chat that the tornado touched down just a few

miles from the in-laws Texas got destroyed.

It got really hit last night.

We'll talk about that later.

But yeah.

Wow.

So anyway, this is an easy one, 10 to 15 items.

Play with the kids.

The kids love these kind of games.

Like memory.

Yeah.

And then you know, you and your spouse can practice these things.

Make sure it's random items.

You have to do random items.

I like this one too.

I witnessed description.

So this could be fun at like a party type scenario or even even at prepper camp, you know,

we could take up around a picture of like a random person and just show it to everybody.

I'm like, this is the subject and then like come back later and be like, right down what

that person looked like.

Yeah.

Let him look at it for a fixed amount of time.

Yeah.

Get 15 seconds or 30 seconds and then right.

But then they can't write it down to later.

See I'd be like cheating.

I'd be like soon as you walk away, I'd start writing it down, you know.

But now you got to wait till later.

If you have a pad and a writing utensil with you, I typically do, you know, writer, you

write.

I'm a writer.

I write.

I have lots of pens.

Not everybody does.

It's amazing.

Well, don't have a writing implement.

Oh, but everybody's got their cell phone and they have the notepad in there.

I know, but it's not the same.

No, it's not.

Nobody uses it either like it's cumbersome.

So on the stylist, I don't know, they didn't really take off very well.

I prefer I actually like style like I bought a tablet that has a stylist because I just

like writing and so I like using my thumb and my first finger is thumbs.

Yeah, I've been doing so much audio building.

I have like a twitch in my arm right now.

I was like, do, do my mouse work the other night from all the fine stuff that I do,

right?

Twitch, I'm like, no, no, I don't want it over there.

So is that is that she did that at the dojo we did my mouse work?

Yeah, yeah.

That definitely happens at the gym.

No, but I have gotten my my butt back into class.

So I am training with all them 20 year olds again, feeling pretty good.

Expand your peripheral vision.

This is great.

I exercises are always awesome.

Literally, you can like do eye exercises for your eyes like they're in a little gym and it

helps you keep your vision better longer or keeps your eyes stronger.

Glasses are great.

I wear them every day, but they also help weaken your eyes more.

So anything you can do to help strengthen your eye muscles is really good.

And if it can be part of situational awareness, boom.

So what he was saying to do is, you know, develop a habit of scanning everything.

I mean, whenever we're outside of a vehicle,

first thing I'm going to tell my kids is head on a swivel.

Yep.

Put your head on a swivel, put your head on a swivel.

So this is actually scanning your environment without moving your head.

And you do the area directly in front of you first,

and then you keep going looking further and further and further out.

And so once you get good at it,

then you try to describe things that are in your peripheral vision

without turning your head to look at them.

Are you doing it right now?

You're doing it right now, aren't you?

Oh, I'm swiveling.

All right.

I got, I got a V8 or glasses on.

Oh, you're swiveling that.

You're looking, you're maverick up in there.

So that's a good one.

And it's good for your eyes and it's good for situational awareness.

So that's something I'll definitely do.

When you see me looking all bug-eyed and weird, you'll know why.

Um, the observation scavenger hunt.

So this was kind of cool.

Jordan the other day was talking on our host group.

You know, I got my kids coming out for a trip.

What, uh, what's like a cheap way to have fun, right?

And I use to always take my kids to museums and like the little locals you

zoo that's cheaper and stuff like that.

Um, just, you know, take them to the, uh, to the, um,

nature preserve and things like that.

Just because it's an inexpensive way to have fun and,

right, enjoy, jump, enjoy each other's company.

So what you can do is if you've been there, especially, you know,

you can come up with a list of items.

And so when they come in, you can have them, you know, um,

let's look at the list, find the items.

And then when you're all done, they have to go and write out as many of the items as they

can remember from the list.

So again, it's like a memory exercise, but, um, I thought it would be fun.

Like that'd be cool to do with the kids in a museum.

Um, same thing with the exit interview.

So if you leave some place, you can do this with your spouse or your kids or whatever.

Quiz each other.

How many employees did you see?

Um, my characters actually do this a lot in the books.

You know, how many guards do you see?

Um, Eric has doing it with the kids all the time.

Hmm, go figure, right?

So how many employees did you see?

What did the people at the table next to you eat?

Like, typically I can't answer that question.

I'm about, so I had to dig myself on that one.

Oh, did I lose your chin?

Did not.

Oh, okay.

Just thinking maybe, huh?

We're talking about watching people eat.

Oh, yeah, it's dinner time.

We haven't even got your dinner yet.

Um, how many exits?

That should be something that's not just part of the game.

You should be doing that all the time.

Yeah, where are the exits?

You know, that's, that's got to be second nature for you.

Um, what kind of decorations were there?

How many tables were there?

So those, did you see that I sent you?

Uh, it was, uh, yeah, I did watch talking about what this one guy did with his kids.

Yeah, what direction to when you get out of that emergency exit to get back to your car?

That's a good one for the kids to see if they're paying attention to, like,

when they get turned around in a building.

The orientation.

Yeah, I thought that was a good one.

Yeah, if we go out this way, where's our car?

Right, right?

That is a good idea.

That guy was cool to you.

I liked him.

I was like, I do that same thing.

I do that same thing.

I'm like, uh, I hate that.

That's cool.

That's new.

Yeah, yep.

I had on a swivel.

I'm like, oh, I don't even know where I got that from.

I've been saying it to the kids forever because like, you know,

when they're literal running through a parking lot or whatever,

it's like, did you got a look?

Um, find the difference exercises.

This is literally like when we were younger and they had those highlight magazines.

Do you remember those?

They had like, find the hidden things or find the differences between the two pictures.

Yeah, I like those puzzles.

Me too.

Yeah.

There's some cool like game apps that still do it.

So you can definitely do brain training this way.

Um, and then how many can you find?

So this is again, how many blue cars?

How many beetles?

How many stop signs do we pass?

What how many people were wearing this color?

How many people were wearing that color, right?

So you just got to pick one objective when you walk out the door

and then you start counting those items.

And you'll be so surprised at what you just start noticing because you're looking for one thing.

Whereas before a privateer, all just a blur.

Like, oh, there are some people there, you know.

I noticed a bit, like I say, because it was really ticking me off when I just space out when I'm driving.

Because I know that's not good.

Right.

So I start, I count blue cars typically.

Like you got into, it's like, oh, what are you going to do when I get home or,

oh, that was a good song, right?

It didn't all of a sudden.

Yeah.

Or it was just singing along.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And then I'm like, oh my gosh, I got home.

And I don't even remember driving through this part and that part and this part.

But when I'm counting blue cars, I always remember.

Like, oh, yeah, I saw a blue car there.

So, really good stuff for a situational awareness.

And taking it down to people then.

Once you get out of the car, oh, he's wearing blue.

They're wearing blue.

And you know what else is not happening?

You're not looking at your cell phone.

That's the worst.

Yep.

Like anybody in the audience who's looking at your cell phone and parking lot,

shame on you, stop it.

Please, for your own sake.

And then teach your kids not to do that to you.

Like, we used to have answering machines.

So, even if an event of a rings, guess what?

They can leave a message you can call back.

But you're going to be safe.

You know, not a prey.

They don't want you to look them in the eyes.

They don't want you to know who they are.

They don't want you to be able to do a description of who they were after the fact.

So, if your head's up and doing that, now you're no longer the prey.

Um, this one was weird.

I don't really go to the mall or like,

I don't know.

If I'm in a store, I'm usually like,

after certain things.

It's like people in those stores are usually after.

But the who's really shopping game at the mall?

To like,

yeah, who's really shopping?

Like, who's actually there buying stuff?

Are they just walking around?

But I did like the one before that.

Like, if you're at a park,

you have one minute to try and what are they doing?

You have one minute to get your best guess of what this person is doing at the park, right?

So like, obviously, it's obvious if they're playing football or something like that.

But if they're just standing by the post, then that's a little bit different.

Like, what are they doing?

So basic people watching with it with a with a fiction author though,

you would bake up anything.

You'd be like,

brand story going on.

And I'm like, uh, the guy's just leaning against a light post.

They're the next savior of the universe.

He is working on mentally developing his super power.

Yep.

He knows the secret code to the safe that is located underneath the pole that he's leaning against.

Now you're right.

But I come out.

You got to be practical to you.

And even if you are making up a story,

you're there and noticing the people and what they're doing.

Right.

So.

Give me a name to play with the kids.

You know, see how many items they can pick out of the scene to make a story.

Oh, yeah.

So like, the lady has an umbrella.

The guy has whatever's wearing sneakers and shorts.

I mean, whatever, you know, yeah, that's true.

Now she's turned into Mary Poppins and he's actually the chimney guy, right?

You know, list 20 items or 10 items and then make a story out of it.

Uh-huh.

That'd be like a fun summer thing to keep the kids busy during the summer.

Yeah.

Garden girls probably over there taking notes.

Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.

Then we'll whip her snappers, be situationally aware.

Nice to know.

Um, this goes right along those lines.

Describe the area you've just been through.

So it's got to be unexpected and random because you can't just let them like start

memorizing as they go in.

But I mean, with little kids, cool.

With adults though, like, spring it out of them and just be like,

hey, we just walked through there.

Well, it's like four things you noticed in there, right?

Yep.

With kids, you can prime them.

They can, you know, and then just pick out a few things that you'd expect them to see.

Or you can have them describe like one thing that was in there in detail.

And that way people start paying attention to, oh, when I'm coming through this area,

I need to pay attention to, you know, whatever thing was.

Um, I don't do public, um, commuting.

I don't do commuting at all actually right now.

So, yeah, public transportation or even when you're driving like the same route every day,

you start to notice certain cars that are always like on the road with you.

I used to notice that when I was leaving, um, cool headed for Auburn.

You know, there's certain cars that are leaving at the same time as you.

And so like pay attention to who those people are.

Um, when do they join you?

When do they leave?

This is just keep your brain sharp.

It's not that you're like monitoring them.

But then you can really start to see like, oh, wow, there's a heavy traffic today of like

different drivers that aren't usually here.

Or different passengers that aren't usually here.

What is, what's the difference today, you know?

So that's kind of cool.

If you're in like more of an urban, urban area or your community or whatever.

Where can the gun man hide?

I love this one.

I do it all the time.

Um, when I'm out walking or whatever, I'm like, oh, sniper points, sniper point.

Oh, hidden in the third layer.

You can meet it.

Um, third layer has to do with like camouflage when you're in the woods.

There's a first layer of the second layer.

Third layer is really difficult to see people in the third layer.

Um, so this is always a fun exercise.

I'm always thinking of like where people could jump out to like ambush you and stuff like that.

Probably that's a fictional writer thing going on.

But um, good practice for everyone.

And then you can add different limitations like where could you hide to get cover?

And not just concealment.

Get them started thinking about that.

Um, and then the last one was was kind of creepy.

What's different on your street?

Take pictures of your neighborhood and store them.

I'm thinking I'll be a little creepy just walking down the street like I'm taking my normal walk

and I'm just taking pictures of all my neighbor's houses.

I'm sure easily enough done.

Well, yeah,

I'm like, you can

a phone or something if you have a year.

Yeah, that's true.

I could just like be talking on the phone and like video and all the way down.

But anyway, so he's like take pictures in the neighborhood and then study them careful.

Study the neighborhood carefully.

Put the pictures away.

Store them away and then study the neighborhood carefully.

I do this, um, especially because I love to garden.

And when we moved to Texas, we're in a different zone, right?

So in order for me to know how to garden down here,

my biggest learning tool was watching the people who garden down here, right?

When are they tilling their soil?

When are they planting?

When are, you know, and that's what really got me on track for my garden.

And so I really did study them carefully.

And I was looking at, oh my gosh, that dirt's been disrupted.

I know they've planted.

So I've got to get my planted, right?

This year I was actually early.

And it's the best yet.

So I was in earlier than the one local that I look at.

One of the locals was already in one wasn't.

So I decided it was good time.

To look at the difference.

Yeah, yeah.

So then once you have the pictures and you've been watching your neighborhood and stuff like that,

try to list out the things that you think are different than before.

Like my neighbor had some roof damage, you know,

that was a change that I noticed.

One of my neighbors, like they were lawn mower, wasn't working.

So now their grass is super long, right?

And so I've been noticing just changes like that.

But then you can take out the pictures

and compare it to your list and see like what differences are actually there.

So cool exercise.

But I was like, that's kind of creeper to just like.

Yeah, you have to be careful.

Right?

I don't want my neighbors to think I'm like a wackadoodle

because I'm taking pictures of their house.

But I got pretty nice neighbors.

We want to keep it that way.

Yeah.

One nice thing about Texas.

But practicing situational awareness,

guys can't overemphasize the importance of, you know, doing this daily,

whenever you're out in some place, public, whenever, whenever.

Somebody pulls up at your house, you know,

if you have a dog and it's barking,

like you can't just ignore the dog.

You have to actually go look.

I like, oh, what's the dog barking at, you know.

You got a little yapper that barks at everything.

Still, you've got to go look because

Miss Amber Poo might have actually spotted something, you know.

No, she really is a good alert dog.

Right?

Yeah, I mean, usually the yappers, that's what they're best at.

It's really alerting you to what's going on.

So, um, my, you know, shadow, my black lab,

she'll just be like sleeping right through it.

She wouldn't care.

But, um, so yeah, every day, every day,

situationally aware, it's going to be the best for you.

Because if you aren't aware that somebody just pulled up in your driveway,

now they're at the door before you are aware of it.

Now they're through the door before you are aware of it.

And we all slack.

We all get in our own brains.

We all get complacent.

And it's just something we have to stay vigilant on.

So, there you go.

Like a new list of some, some cool things to do.

I'm going to do them as well.

We'll have to do like a report back on how things went.

Because I needed some new exercises myself.

I've been counting blue cars for a long time.

You do and you guys got anything like that that you guys do

for just to stay sharp in your travels?

You're like, no.

No blue cars.

Head on a swivel.

Just all the cars that drive by.

Yeah.

That's just the biggest thing.

Well, we're out traveling.

You know, I've really got to watch the people

because it's just sketchy situations can happen a lot faster than you would imagine.

And with Christian, you know, still being little.

We both pay attention when we're out.

Like at malls and up.

And we've literally like walked out of a Walmart because we've heard

an argument starting to bubble over.

Right.

Now we're out.

Yeah, we can come back later.

Any fight you're not in is one you're going to survive.

Because it's the one you're going to win.

Yep, exactly.

Because honestly, like once a situation begins,

doesn't matter if you technically win or lose,

you're still going to lose.

There's still an element of you can be injured even though you won.

So.

All right.

Hopefully that gave you guys some new tools.

I wanted them.

So I thought it'd be fun to share them tonight.

All right, let's go ahead and get into some change in our news.

It's been wild on our planet, guys.

Wild.

So the insurance market's going to be so interesting.

But here we go.

Change in our things.

Dream survive thrive.

This is changing earth news.

So I said that the insurance market place is going to be wild

because as a cog in that engine,

I really have no idea how our insurance

as we currently know it is going to survive.

The amount of disasters that are just unfolding.

It just honest.

A lot of the conversations around my extended family have been

our policy one.

Yeah.

You know, the rates have gone.

The rates are going to have you like where everybody's like,

who are you with?

What do you know what trying to find a better rate?

Yeah, it's not going to happen.

They're going to know.

Like, you know, two billion dollars worth of hail damage

to Austin last year.

I mean, there's all your auto.

You know how many like use car parking lots and everything.

We're just splattered with hail.

And then all these storms are coming through.

All these tornadoes are coming through.

It is just I don't know how I don't know how it survives.

You can't.

If you look at the numbers,

somebody's been paying like $1,500 a year for 30 years.

It was like $45,000, right?

Their house goes down and we're rebuilding it, you know,

300,000 to 500,000 or upwards.

Those numbers don't jive.

Like, they just don't work for the companies to keep

expanding that premium over and over and over and over and over again.

So yeah, like I say, as somebody who's a cog in the engine,

I don't know.

That's going to be real interesting as all I could say.

Okay, so changing earth news,

May 26, 2024.

The solar, our sun is quiet for a moment.

It's like the calm before the storm on the sun.

The sunspot that gave us all the problems in the beginning of May

is coming back around and she's about to show her ugly little head again.

And so it's been a little bit calmer right now,

but there's a lot of movement happening within the sunspot.

And if it keeps that up, we're going to be looking at the same type of situation

we were dealing with the beginning of May.

So we have to keep our eyes on this because it could be a big problem really fast.

And then other than that, there was some like big filaments on the south

or an eruption would not be good for planet earth if those went off.

But all in all, a general quiet kind of going on, like I say, calm,

calm before the storm.

And hopefully it doesn't happen while I'm out on a boat in the ocean.

Oh, I'm going to need prayers, guys.

Lots of prayers.

I know it should be like awesome fun trip.

But I'm just, I know I'm growing more gray right now as I speak.

Okay, May 20th, 369 earthquakes are 2.0 or bigger.

Biggest of which was a 5.1 in Peru.

There was a 4.1 in San Diego.

There was actually tons and tons and tons of earthquakes over there.

And like I said, last week, sometimes good to see the little ones

because that can be pressure release without a big one.

So we just don't know.

Historic flooding in Brazil continues.

Areas have been just absolutely decimated.

The water is now getting up so high that even like some of the high ground is becoming just

non, you just can't be there anymore.

So really crazy situation going on there and they're definitely not going to get those fields

planted in time for a harvest this year.

A freak storm left Poland blanket in in the hail.

Oh, and boots on the ground.

Yeah, I got to say I was in our chat room here from our buddy over there in Portugal.

Normally Portugal 35 to 40 degrees Celsius snowed again in two parts in the big mountains.

So of course up in the mountains, but still this time of year, crazy sauce.

So the Sierra Nevada's haven't been doing anything.

When we looked at it, I think it was like the same longitudinal of over there.

So Arizona, Tonto National Forest, 5,000 acres burning.

Kenya was bracing for more rain as cyclone Ayala hit.

Kansas.

They had a huge dust storm.

Just huge hubbub.

They're called hubbubes.

I know everybody who is a mature like.

Yeah, Kansas.

In central Kansas.

Kennell, Kennell laugh.

But yeah, huge dust storm residents there saying they never seen anything like it.

Just went straight to black, black skies.

May 21st, 387 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

Biggest of which was a 5.7 in Papua New Guinea.

Oklahoma was hit by multiple tornadoes.

Omaha, Nebraska was getting flooded.

Eastern Colorado hit by golf ball size hail event.

The Netherlands hit by extreme flooding event.

Also other areas of Europe flooding.

Also Russia, southern China, record rain falls in a lot of those areas over there.

So this is not just the United States going crazy.

This is the whole world going crazy.

Southern China is also experiencing record heat.

So I feel them like that's what we've got going on in Texas right now.

It's May and it feels like it's dang near middle of August.

It's just the worst because we just had so much rain and the storms.

When the hot runs into the cold, that's what's creating all this craziness.

So Oklahoma was also hit by a dust storm.

Now I know I lost you.

No, no, okay, it did a beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.

May 22nd, 348 earthquakes, our 2.0 or bigger,

biggest of which was a 5.6 in the Maluku Sea and Indonesia.

Naples, Italy.

So this is right near Camp Flagry.

The Campy Flagry, the volcano there, the super volcano.

They were literally evacuating on May 22nd.

They had a 4.4, biggest earthquake in 40 years.

The inmates of the nearby prison were being evacuated.

So Campy Flagry has not calmed down at all.

It is still making a lot of noise.

Io was hit by tornadoes.

Lots of tornadoes just ripping through the middle of our country.

Arizona wildfires up to 14,000 acres.

Central Illinois, I-55, closed due to a dust storm.

So we have these dust storms on top of the other storms.

It's going to be like this, guys.

It's just the atmosphere becoming supercharged, super high, super low.

So that's why we're going to have just more insane weather.

And that's why I'm worried about like how the insurance industry is going to

actually handle all this.

May 23rd, there was 363 earthquakes at 2.0 or bigger,

the biggest of which was a 5.6 in the southwest Indian ridge.

Oklahoma was hit by a series of tornadoes.

I've been lucky enough where we're at.

They've screwed into the east or to the west and pretty much missed our area completely.

So it's kind of crazy to wake up some mornings and find out that just down the road,

somebody else got screwed over that night.

May 24th, there was 377 earthquakes at 2.0 or bigger.

Biggest of which was a 5.4 in Peru and New Jersey.

There was another 2.9 earthquake.

Parts of Iowa and Illinois destroyed by tornadoes that night.

Just relentless activity.

Multiple people died in those events and the wind turbines got destroyed.

I bet you that also happened up where it was hidden in northern Texas because I know that

area is all wind turbines up in there as well.

Prayer is out to everybody that's been affected by these tornadoes.

We are talking about a lot of devastation and really that's what the change in our series is

all about is infrastructure being destroyed but not so much like a mass casualty of people.

And so how do you handle that when your infrastructure is being ripped out from underneath you

and you still have all these people that relied on that infrastructure?

So that's what's going to give you more climate refugees and things like that.

May 25th, there was 383 earthquakes or 2.0 or bigger.

The biggest of which was a 6.3 in Vanatu.

Northern Texas that was this morning or yesterday 5 people died up there in the tornadoes I came

through. I've heard 5 to 11. Many more people were injured. It really hit Collin, Denton and

Cook counties. So big, big disaster in those areas. Again, just say your prayers for those

people if you weren't involved. Thank the Lord first and then pray for the people that were

in the Philippines.

Mulban, Kuizang was hit by Typhoon. It's A-G-H-O-N-A-K-N-N and caused a major flooding event over there.

There is also a huge landslide that happened over there. So those people are definitely going to

need our prayers. The island folks are just getting hit. Montana declared a disaster due to

flooding. New Mexico wildfire they have started was up to 1500 acres. That is the blue two fire

and a lightning strike started a fire near the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

So we had eyes on that one. May 26th there was 394 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

Biggest of which was a 6.3 and Vanatu, another one. So not the same one that hit the day before.

When energy comes in there, it's like the punch point for our planet and that feeds out around

the ring of fire. So we always have to keep our eye on that because that can be bad things in the

coming week for the ring of fire. Especially two of them back to back like that.

Rodgers Arkansas was hit by a tornado Ohio when I was doing my research. They were on a tornado

watch right now for a potential tornado outbreak with the storm that's moving through there right

now. Cyclone Ramal is making landfall in Bangladesh right now today. That was live action and then

the extreme heat in Texas is the big story. A lot of people are still out of power in Houston.

Now they're getting this extreme heat. So not a good situation there. As far as erupting volcanoes,

we have 31 volcanoes erupting. That's the same as last week. We have 25 showing minor activity.

That's up to from last week and we have 26 showing unrest. That's down to from last week.

So we have the same number tornado or volcanoes. I've been talking too much about tornadoes today.

Same number of volcanoes on the list but two more moved up into minor unrest as opposed to

just being in the unrest category. For wildfires, we are at a preparedness level of two. So everybody

got to start purking up about those wildfire risks. There are seven large active wildfires in the

United States right now for a total of 32,671 acres on fire. Two of those fires are contained.

Arizona's number one on the list with one huge fire, 14,402 acres. No new fires. Two of

the other big ones are contained at this time. Oregon's number two on the list with one large

active fire, 6,340 acres. That is not contained at this time. Colorado's number three on the list with

one large active fire, 5,699 acres. That is not contained at this time. Alaska's number four

on the list, one large fire, 3954 acres. That one is also not contained. A lot of Canada's

burning up on that side. So I wasn't really surprised to see Alaska up on the list.

So yeah, I mean, I guess we need some, I was going to make like a Wizard of Oz joke, like,

you know, with all the tornadoes going on. But I don't know if that's really appropriate today. It's

it was a really rough night for a lot of people last night. So just send more prayers out to them.

There's been like 15 to 20 tornadoes or something that's hit Pennsylvania this year.

It's a black, right? That's a weird, weird weather everywhere.

Yeah. And with that big sunspot turning background, I don't know. They were comparing numbers to

like this last big CME that we had compared to like big ones we've had in the past and where the

Aurora traveled to as far as like way more intense flares than that one we had. And the Aurora

didn't go that far. So you know the earth's shielding is not doing well, even though that's

something that nobody in the mainstream media wants to talk about. And we just don't know what

kind of effects that's going to have as this transition happens under planet. I mean we don't

have records from 12,000 years ago besides what we can find in the dirt and the trees and whatnot.

So yeah, they all want to use that tag word climate change, but they don't want to go too far

beyond SUVs. Right. Exactly. There's another like huge piece of ice breaking off of the ice

sheet. And so of course they're going to blame that on climate change, but that's actually like

mother nature's natural way of cooling the planet. So that happening would actually like trigger

in the next ice age because that would bring less salinity to the water. And it shuts down that

the flow and the Arctic, the current, just like the movie day after tomorrow literally

just like that movie. It was like a movie too. That's when New York froze over. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah.

Because you know we have mammoths that were froze while eating. I mean that's a quick freeze.

We've never really seen anything like that happen on our planet. So how does that happen? Right.

It was like a big harvest, right? A big harvest, right?

Free strife. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can still eat it. Everything.

Yeah. People do. Yeah. It's crazy. All right, guys. Well, until next time, stay safe. I hate

really I hate to stay to say stay safe. Um, I'd rather stay, say stay free. Right. But right now with

the crazy weather, like make sure you got that situational awareness going in more ways than one.

Those people that just got hit in Texas, one of the biggest things they were saying was we just

never saw it coming. Like it happened that fast. There's a lot of times that I'm like, yeah, yeah

warning, whatever, you know, so just don't be that person.

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