The Changing Earth - Area Assessment

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What is up? Welcome to the Changing Earth Podcast. Hey, Chen, what's up?

Hey, Chen's up. Nothing much, man. We're just sitting back drinking margaritas.

Chillin. Get out. Well, guys, we got back on the air. We missed, we missed February.

And then we missed week one of March, so we were here.

Week one was like week day one. Well, stay tuned. It was.

I didn't flip the calendar page over. I know. I was at the same time.

Where did that go? And my buddy is was over and he's like, don't you have like a podcast to do? I'm like, oh my gosh. Where did February go? What?

What even happened here? So this is episode 490. We're here touching base today on area intelligence, but I'm going to give you the heads up right now.

We're going to be swirling a lot.

So if you are really, really serious about your area intelligence, because this is a super important show.

Shelby is the guy who has to go to go to Amazon, look up the area intelligence handbook by Mike Shelby and buy a copy for you.

I actually got a copy for me, got a copy, and I gave it to my sheriff.

I mean, he's a good, he's a good sheriff. He's not a bad sheriff. So, I mean, that's how much I, it's a great book.

Yeah. And I might say great guy as well. I mean, he's a phenomenal gentleman. So definitely don't mind promoting him. His work really good stuff.

He's the forward observer group.

Yeah. Yeah. They have YouTube channel news, you know, members, emails and whatnot.

I don't know if he'll be a backup of proper camp this year.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure. He hasn't been because there's been conflicts and schedule. I'm not sure about this year.

Yeah. I'm on this year's schedule, guys. It's changed up August 13, 14, 15.

This year's schedule. I like it because it works with the school schedule.

I was going in a high school, you know, what that would look like.

But I just I was over. I was over to the event location twice this past week.

Well, that's another reason why I'm so busy. So, um, yeah, exactly.

So I was over there a couple of times. It's, it's just so cool.

We have this secluded part for prepper kit.

And then the facility also has a little bit further away, but has has like restaurants and shops and all on the same priority.

But, you know, I feel like we're getting spoiled this year. It's just crazy.

So there's a general store like a real general store. Yeah.

And tons of places to stay, but you can still camp if you want to.

I'm awesome. They're going to have an awesome tent city. I saw real.

A bunch of RV spots, uh, cabins. I know the last time the last place we went to didn't have a lot of cabins here.

We got a good selection of cabins. We have a hotel onsite.

How crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Two. The one, um, has rooms like open to the outside and ones have room.

They're open to the inside, you know. Yeah.

I think they're making a making arrangements for shuttle buses.

Oh, boy.

This is like older Walt Disney World.

I was going to just take my van and like have people pay.

Yeah.

I have a big tip jar.

Yeah. That's right. That's right.

I've been looking into one of those.

I know what you're going to be playing over the last week.

You'll be playing the, uh, your, uh, your audio drama on the loudspeakers.

I will be and the change in earth music.

If you haven't checked out the music I'm making.

Um, so much fun. Yeah.

Um, so that's over at the change in earth series.

Look up the soundtrack.

And, uh, I've just been, like I say, a candy candy store.

So yeah, all, all the music that I'm designing as well.

So that'll be going.

I'm just really looking forward to it. It's going to be a ton of fun.

Yeah.

I'm trying to chop rock and to get one of those like a robo cart.

So it's easy to take the one around there.

It's like a, it's like a cart that like is self propelled kind of.

Because he's always carrying books around for me.

You know, and I feel bad.

So he's like, if I got to bring down one more thing of books, I'm like,

we're out of this one.

You know, so a little bit bigger hall this year.

But we can drive the band down in.

I'm super excited.

And we can expand capacity because of it, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So guys, this is the year if you haven't been.

Yeah, call and make your again, make your lodging reservations.

Whatever way you want to go.

Call and make your reservations.

Right.

Get your tickets.

Get a place to stay.

And then you're all set.

The lodging starts right across the county.

Like it was before.

You know, between better breakfast there being be it everything.

Now we have pretty, a pretty good amount of lodging right there on site.

I think Saturday nights going to be better because, you know,

Brad's going to be playing, which is always awesome.

Five times August.

And you're so much closer, right?

You don't have the people that are staying off site.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think that's going to be much better as well.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We still have a lake again.

So we still have a lake.

So we still have that going.

Oh, but discounted tickets.

No, we still the event.

It's not like.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we still can do our fishing and everything.

I love it.

We're getting totally spoiled this year.

Yeah.

I'm going to be telling stories of like year one that I was there.

And we got flooded out.

We had to walk.

Oh my goodness.

Oh, both ways to get our books down here.

Oh, Amber alert.

Oh, my goodness.

She's been.

I don't think she's had enough time with Lisa now.

She's like underfoot all the time.

She's in the other room and I got the door closed.

Yeah.

You've got to let her in.

She's like Sarah was in there.

I know it.

She's talking to her.

So down in Texas.

She's only 19 years old but I think it's.

Yeah.

So I'm pretty excited.

The spring is actually.

We've been blessed.

It's like.

It's coming already.

My future is already blooming.

I'm going to have.

Features soon and all that.

So.

That's what's on my agenda.

Eggs are crazy.

Maybe these are finally lain that could worked out slick.

It is the best design ever for a chicken.

I did concrete on the bottom so it can just be closed out.

Like, oh, having your birds on concrete, whatever.

But here, there's so many mice and the red ants

that I had to do something to combat,

give them a piece space that I can control, you know.

And usually you're walking in all this muck and everything.

It's great.

I'm just so old.

So if anybody wants to hit me out

about that chicken coop, feel free.

It was very inexpensive.

It's just a dog kennel and then PVC and chicken wire.

So, you're right.

Welcome to the Texas chicken kennel.

Oh, I'm telling you.

It was a challenge to everything in Texas is a challenge.

You know, you grew a garden.

I grew gardens of Michigan.

I grew gardens, you know, in Cali.

Like, we had huge gardens.

I'm here, you grew a sand.

You grew a sand.

Yeah, you get it all together.

It's just looking great.

Boom.

Sand just explodes.

It's really crazy.

So maybe it's that Sahara, you know,

we get the Sahara that blows in the sand

from the Sahara desert, you know.

It blows that much sand in.

I'm telling you, it's crazy.

It's like living on a beach or something,

but the beach is ours away.

It's insane.

So other than that, too, I've been training a craft,

mega, craft, mega, I don't like the word.

I'm really bad with it.

So what it is, it's phenomenal.

I've been training with a gentleman

who is a phenomenal instructor.

So found another great mentor here in Texas.

I've been blessed my life to have incredible mentors.

And you want to talk about taking, you know,

just your personal safety, your ability

to defend yourself next level.

That's where you need to go.

You need to find a good instructor.

There's always good instructors and bad instructors,

but I'm having a ball on training craft.

So that's been four days a week,

they're training and then trying to get the gardens ready.

And doing all the videos, if you guys haven't

checked it out, changing your audio drama,

the videos are turning out really, really cool.

It's kind of like a storyboard through the show

to give a little matter to the audio

drama instead of just watching nothing on YouTube.

Now I'm just really time to zoom with it.

The pilot script was picked up by a production company.

So it's a good first step in the right direction.

There's a lot of steps we still need to take

before changing your series comes to your TV screen.

But it's great to have had that step.

And I need support.

You guys can give me liking, sharing content.

Get on over there or liking share videos,

that kind of stuff.

Just let's people know that you guys

want to see changing Earth on the TV screen.

So appreciate everything that you guys can do for me

on that level, because we're moving forward.

I'm pretty excited about all that.

So all right, area assessment.

So you have been doing other stuff.

Let's kind of talk about what you're into right now,

because that's a good catch up.

Anyway, I kind of, I mean, like you,

I moved to a new area, right?

Not recently, but we're finally starting

to get our seats in a pattern going.

So I've been trying to build a network of people

and not really influence, like, you know,

bow down to me.

But if it's where people know of me,

or if I walk in to talk to somebody,

I can actually have a conversation with them

that they'll pay attention.

You know, it's not just the blow off.

So I've been doing things like, you know,

we started the cert team here in our county.

And that's through the Sheriff's Department.

So that, you know, so I can call the sheriff on his phone

and he knows me when I call and we, you know,

you know, I mean, I'm not high up on his list,

but I'm enough that he knows me by name.

And he could call from me and, you know, I don't abuse it,

but that's a good thing to have, right?

And like I said, you know, this book,

I'm sure he gets all kinds of threat,

paint, you know, reports and everything else.

But this book, I gave him my book

because I figured it would be a way for him to look at it

from a different angle.

You know, the more you can learn the better off you are, right?

So I, you know, and I've been just assured you are

because you've got through different angles.

That's what we're all about, right?

So like I joined the local ham club

and getting in with all the radio guys.

And I talked to everybody, no matter where I am,

I talk to them about radios because it's a way

to get in front of them and have a conversation

and be, get my community better prepared.

We all know what it's like to be without a cell phone,

especially if you go through one of the major things

that you have here.

So I play off of that.

So that, and then I've also, you know,

I've done some a lot of stuff with the local elections, right?

So I got in with my county board of elections,

and I've got in with the party that, you know,

I'm affiliated with.

So again, you're meeting more, like you meet a lot

of business people at the monthly meetings

for the political party, right?

So you can get to know people and get to share information

back and forth with them.

So all that has been my way of trying

to build out a spider web of information.

And I can also get, if I need something done,

I can, I can, they can help me find somebody

to execute whatever I need done, right?

So even with, like, with Preppercamp, you know,

I've been working so hard to do meshtastic

in my county.

So I was talking to the people at the facility

about putting a repeater up there.

Uh-huh.

You know, it'd be great for Preppercamp to have a repeater.

Is it work?

I don't think so too.

Yeah, if it works, well, I might, I might entertain

just leaving it there.

If it doesn't work well, well, then we'll just use it

for Preppercamp and move on.

But if it works, well, I mean, I already told them,

I get them a couple meshtastic notes so they can play with them.

But to get a nice, the solar repeater,

like we had at Camp Last Year, I'm, I'm toying with that.

But they already said that they have some locations.

I can go put it up at.

So that's cool.

And for anybody who doesn't know the cert team

as your community emergency response team.

To, yeah.

Yeah, and a lot of communities, like, I know,

in my area, there's already one established.

Like, you don't got to do what Chinden

and go and create the wheel.

You can go and just become a part of it.

You're also doing a lot of stuff for your elections

in your area, so don't sell that short.

Yeah, so I mean, I've done stuff like poll observer.

So like, you can, your political part, whichever one you're in,

I don't know, whatever.

But your political party can have people sit

at a polling place and watch to make sure things

are being done correctly.

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And watch for inconsistencies.

And then you can't stop.

You can't get involved physically at all.

But they typically give you a phone number to call.

And then you can call.

And it's either with your county or the state.

And then you can say, you can make a report.

You can say, I saw this.

I witnessed this, this, this, this.

And you can also tell the, in North Carolina, it's a chief judge.

So the polling location has a chief judge,

which is like the head manager for that location.

And then two judges, and those are like assistant managers.

And then they have like the people that work at the computers

that's checking in and, you know, check your address.

All right, right.

So we don't do that kind of thing, you know?

So you can tell, if you see, like if you say,

that person walked out with a piece of paper

that they're not supposed to leave this premises with,

or that person came in with a piece of paper

and that's, you can't stop the person,

but you can go to the chief judge and tell it.

So you can be involved in trying to make sure

your elections go smoothly.

And be in part with your party.

There's like a lot of elections that

didn't have anybody running against them and stuff like that.

Just sit in there, like type it away on Facebook.

It's not getting it done.

Right.

You're okay.

Yes.

I know it was very discouraging that we only

had like 24% of the registered voters vote.

We had a really big turn for this last.

That's that's we had a really big turn out in Texas.

I don't know if it's because you can't say,

I don't like the candidates, you either help get a candidate

in that you like, or you have to hold your nose

and pick the best of what's available.

Right.

You know what I mean, I mean, not voting just gives

any, but it's just throwing your one vote into the wins

and letting somebody, right?

You got to pick the best of what's available.

And if you're really proactive, either you

or you find somebody in your community

that would be a good person for that position

and encourage them and support them

and help them pass out literature

and put yard signs out and all that stuff.

Get involved.

Well, that's the thing.

There's some areas, like I say, that don't they go,

they run unopposed.

And so those are actually sought after a lot of times

because that's an easy end, right?

And once you're in, then you can climb.

You're like, oh, I've already done this part.

Yeah, we had some people cross parties.

They voted one way for years, years and years and years.

And it also did this election season.

They changed parties.

And they are very, George Washington

would not approve of their basic lifestyles.

And they ran unopposed.

I cannot believe that the county party chair

and the state party chair did not get involved

and they at least run more candidates,

find candidates to run against that person.

I'm against somebody.

Because they ran unopposed.

How can that happen?

Yeah.

That's insane.

I know.

So that's why, so it's important.

That's all part of area assessment, right?

To know what's going on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's no vote, like research, you know,

actually like understand.

A lot of times each party will have a vote for them.

Yeah, a lot of times each party has like a month or two

out leading up to the event.

They'll have like meet the candidates, right?

They'll have like you can they'll do their little speech

and for, you know, they're they have let some banquet hall

or something and you can go wash them and talk to them

and questions and the answer.

So you can meet them.

I know when I like growing up in like in a bigger city,

they have like new stations that do it here in rural America.

You have to go see them in person.

Yeah, whatever back room.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm growing in in this area.

I'm like, that's cool.

One thing I do have to actually give to California,

if you can believe it, is we used to get an actual like

booklet on.

That's yeah, yeah, what you were voting on,

the candidates, pros, cons, all that kind of stuff

and then where you could go to get more information.

And it was actually pretty thick.

Was it good?

It was a clean.

It was a data or it wasn't like,

I mean, it wasn't like one side or the other push, you know,

which was really, really cool.

I mean, I hate to like give, but I got to get credit.

We're trying to do the other thing.

California is where a cert started.

So that's where it started.

Yeah, well, there's a lot that happens there.

We're actually preparing for cat for a catastrophe season

right now, you know, I'm in the insurance world.

So it's time to start making sure we have everything

on point and whatnot, because we're coming in

to the catastrophe season.

Yay.

We're actually hitting it right about now

with the time in Texas when the big storms are all through,

you know, so we've been hitting that pretty much as well.

But yeah, it's really important to know your area.

A lot of times when I think area assessment,

I go like personal self-defense, right?

So my bubble's like super small.

You got, when you're doing area studies,

you got to take off all those glasses, right?

All those things that kind of you vote

with your tunnel vision, and you got to look big.

You can't, a lot of, a lot of preppers

will look at this like, you know, the three Bs, right?

So that's how that's what they're preferring for.

But what, look at your, the big thing that Mike talks about

in his classes are, look at your area.

Really look at your area.

You know, do you have, right?

Do you have, do you have like correctional facilities?

Or like, do you have a border in a national border,

close by, or you know, what crime, what, you know,

syndicates do you have?

You know, is it a gang, or is it a cartel,

or looking at a secondary level there?

Like, they did a lot of big crackdown in the cities here.

Like Houston and Dallas.

And that pushed some of the crime out to the smallest.

Yeah.

I know we're seeing that in my little rural area.

So then they have to crack down on those ones too.

So that's, you know, with like a homeless and stuff there.

So the cities don't want to deal with it

or don't want to see it.

Right.

The easiest thing is come on and get on the bus.

We'll take you out for, you know,

you end up in rural America.

You'll be so happy.

But yeah, but I mean, you've talked about dams, right?

Look for, you know, if they're a dam, you know,

you know, do you remember coastal area?

And you know, there's hurricanes every year

or there's our fault line.

Chemical railroads.

Railroads.

It's very wide.

Yeah.

We're back.

Yeah.

Because there's some areas where like,

they started building on top of, you know, areas

where they were mining something

or, you know, underneath the ground,

they were harvesting some kind of chemical out.

And then later it becomes an issue

with the neighborhood that was pulled there, right?

And you can also look at what do you have for industry

around in your community or your county

or whatever, your region.

And then try to do, especially now that would like,

grok and all these internet searches we can do,

but for similar, yeah, look for similar industries

and what emergency events, catastrophes do they have

in that industry?

And then you can go back to you and kind of say,

okay, it hasn't happened here,

but it did happen five states over.

And this is what happened.

And then you can study what happened,

how they reacted to it,

how do they respond to it?

Emergency response.

And then do, you know, after action report

to kind of like say, if we did this,

it would have been better than their reaction.

You know what I mean?

Or they did this really good, we need, yeah,

we need to say, okay, the wind is blowing this way,

you gotta be on, you know, these roadways

or, you know, congestion or, you know,

is this a bottleneck here?

How do people evacuate?

You might be far away from the incident,

but what's the wind going to do with it?

That's a big deal.

So look at what really is in your neighborhood,

not the romantic, you know,

we're just gonna hunker down and...

We're gonna be able to stay here forever.

One of the things that I look around at is like,

okay, if something happened and people are bugging in,

where's all the water coming from if the taps turn off?

Yeah.

Right?

Whose property has the water?

Cause they're gonna be stuck in a defensive position,

you know, to try and everybody's gonna need water.

So you can only store so much water

and then you're gonna need it.

So how long term is your bug in?

And power, how do you get the water?

Like, I live on real property with a well.

So as long as I have power,

whether it's something I get off site,

you know, with like electrical power,

or do I have power that I create on site, right?

I can get water out of my well.

Yeah.

And we talked about the water.

So if my well doesn't go dry.

Where's my well-ghost dry?

Right.

I know when she was a kid,

growing up, we had a well,

at a well went dry in the middle of the water.

So my neighbor, you know,

every couple days they would run a garden hose

from their house to our house

and we'd fill up all the shelves and stuff.

Oh my goodness.

So that was courtesy.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a good thought.

We always talk about it when we're on the wells.

Also, we had a generator.

Well, that's not a long term, you know.

It's funny how I think about water conservation now,

way more.

Back when I lived in the townhouse,

it was conserving dollars, right?

Yeah.

How much money did I want to pay?

Now it's like,

I don't want to overtax my well

because there's not like a fuel gauge on my well

where I could see a little starting to run low

or you know, we're in the drought or what.

There.

Just something.

It'll start pumping.

Our pump would hop when it was under a lot of pressure.

Oh, yeah.

The least that we could get it to hop

because then it would rub on its electrical cord

and fix the humor place and, you know, all that stuff.

I did think about it a lot more

back there for sure, for sure.

We had the joyful experience of having

our, all our septic tanks were full.

We had to, we had to get that pumped once

that when I had that.

I mean, yeah, that was years.

Years and years was living here.

But I grew up with skeptic and well when I was a kid,

we had those and then, you know, when I became an adult,

I always had city, you know, mispalities

for the, for the infrastructure.

And now I'm back out to, you know,

living with the my own well.

They have those, they have those emergency toilets.

They're just like the bucket.

You know, you had a little toilet seat on it,

you put the little chemical in there, watered off.

Hey, man, I wish I had a have one.

We have one in the trailer, right?

I was like, I'm worse comes worse.

We can just go on on the trailer.

We got a guy out there pretty quick.

But again, when something like that happens

in the life of so many things about preparedness,

you're like, oh, how long is it?

But that's something that you have to be,

if you're not prepared, if you're prepared,

it's, it's an annoyance,

but it's not like life threatening or major event.

I like, we were two weeks without power here at my house

after the, after Helene.

My wife didn't miss one day of work and she tell her works.

Right.

Because we had things in place to take care of this, right?

And that gives you the ability to have the correct mental.

Yeah.

Like, you have to expect the unexpected

and take things and strive.

And I say that as somebody who's pretty like,

I was a control freak big time.

And when little things went wrong,

it used to really dishevel my world

and emotionally disrupt me.

And just understanding that, you know, you're ready,

you're gonna be able to make it through anything,

you know, you're good.

Jesus, got your back, right?

Well, I was you to take that pressure off,

take your foot off that gas pedal a little bit, you know.

That's cool.

You make better decisions when you're not freaking out

because of pressure.

That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, you know,

like finances, you know, if you're not like underwater,

you can make good decisions if, if you, you know,

if you, if you have some kind of backup power or whatever,

then you're not freaking out because the power company

isn't, you know, telling you wouldn't power be a kind of,

you know, we've, we've got a fireplace in the house.

So like, if power goes out in the middle of winter,

I know like it's, you know, we're not gonna freeze.

My pipes aren't gonna freeze.

And my plumbing's not, you know, there's a lot, yeah.

But so this thing, even in Texas,

this all, please, what we're saying is actual events, right?

So during this class that we took,

they did the, the, the likelihood matrix, right?

So the impact matrix where you, you draw a big box,

you divide the box up into four corners, right?

Four quadrants.

Right.

And then to help you understand what you have to prepare for,

you do like in the, in the bottom left,

you'll do low impact and low likelihood.

So if it happens, if it did happen, no big deal, right?

And the likelihood of it happening again is no big deal.

So then if you go to the top right quadrant,

you would put high impact and high likelihood.

So that's like, in my mind, that's like,

these are storms, you know, like storms, like coasts.

Like these are things we are going to, you know, you're gonna have flooding,

you know that you're, you could have a major storm.

Every couple of years, they have them, right?

And so that might be something,

you might want to prepare for a hurricane and, and either, you know,

how do you evacuate?

How do you secure your house?

That kind of stuff, if you live in a hurricane zone,

or tornado, how do you prepare for a tornado, right?

That's the stuff you got to, you know,

you might want to put money into one of those tornado shelters,

where you go into the ground and survive it,

then you do in five ARs in the closet, right?

It might have to design on where you spend your money.

So doing a grid like that will show you,

if you're honest about it.

Like take the time and be honest and be honest.

You have to be as police force.

What's the, yeah.

And, and you can, you can, you can put it,

put what's in each quadrant, you know,

so you'll have like the other two quadrants,

the top left would be low impact,

but high likelihood.

So it's like summer, summer like, you know,

thunderstorms happen all the time, right?

So there's a high likelihood that you're gonna have a thunderstorm,

but the impact, you're without power for an hour or two hours,

you know, like, because a power company can come,

it's not a regional event.

They can come, they'll fix, you know,

get rid of the clear of the tree and fix that.

Or if that's a couple hours and work,

that kind of thing.

Yeah.

So, you know, fill the thing,

fill the four quadrants out,

and then you can actually start making good decisions

on how and what you need to do to get prepared.

You're not just saying,

oh, I read this Prefer manual and it told me

that I'm supposed to have, you know,

10 weeks of food of every piece.

I'm supposed to have this count of ammunition.

I'm supposed to have these three weapons, firearms,

and, you know, all this other stuff.

Okay, everything has its place.

There's no, yeah, there's no one size fits all.

Look at us, we were at,

we were at Pepper Camp door in the store, Haleen.

So all my preparations were not with me,

it's never what I had with me that I was prepared for travel, right?

So I had my travel preparation.

We need to go like hand-browning,

and then as I drove home from that,

I am looking at flooded out houses and everything else.

And I'm like, I could get home

and there could be nothing left of everything that I did.

Oh, great.

So you just, you have to look at what the, you know,

what the actual emergencies are,

what the actual threats are for your local area.

And that's what the whole thing with the area of study is.

Don't just go in and say, you know,

Sarah down in Texas told me how to do this,

and you live in New Hampshire.

Well, Sarah probably might have every 10 years,

might have an ice storm,

but you're gonna have one five times, six times the winner, right?

So there's things that you need to do.

I know my grandfather growing up,

he had two snowmobiles because they weren't toys.

They were, if they had to get out in the winter,

that's how they went out to get groceries

or went out to get gasoline or whatever they need to do.

You know, so,

and I have a little bit of urgency,

they can go, yeah.

So, but, you know, grandpa had them because he needed them.

Right.

Yeah, and that's how, that's the smart play instead of just,

like you say, finding a list and they're like,

well, this was what it's, what it's, what it's like.

There's plenty of lists online.

Yeah, there's plenty of YouTube videos

that I'll tell you from the expert.

And actually, what you need.

Okay, so I really like the defining the spaces as well

because I do that on more of a local level for like,

assessing the risk to your immediate residents, right?

Yeah.

For area where it's like yours only,

and then the area where it is.

It's a area of operation, yeah.

It could enter if they're allowed.

Right.

So, I like that.

He kind of broke that down as well.

Operational environment, it's like everything.

And then the area of operations,

you're life right now.

So, how far are your kids going to school?

Yeah.

How far are you going to work?

That kind of thing.

And you could actually have multiple area offer.

You could have your home and your office for you.

It's the same.

But, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. So, you could have maybe three or four different.

So, you're going to want to know exactly

around these locations.

Yeah.

What are you going to be going?

Yeah.

The area operation is not like the whole state, right?

That's a different one.

This is exactly you need to plan for what's going to be good.

The local geographical area is that you frequent the most.

Yeah.

And what could affect that and what you could have to deal with in that?

Yeah.

Brooks got like all kinds of trains that he has to pass

on the way home, you know, so that kind of thing.

And you could look to see,

do some digging to see what's on those trains.

What they transport.

Right.

You know, say, well, we might need a chemical mask,

a gas mask for this chemical.

And the vehicle, yeah.

Yeah.

In the vehicle.

Because you might be able to drive home and scrub down

when he gets home, you know, a decontaminate.

But if he can't breathe, can he hold his breath that away?

Right.

You only got three minutes without air.

That's kind of the way.

But it's stuff like that.

I mean, you might not think about it, but you might have.

Like, yeah.

No, it's true.

In Vegas, they're taking all kinds of nuclear

through there and whatnot.

And it's like right by the string was like, who would think,

right?

Yeah, right.

You'd never think that.

So that's a little crazy.

OK.

And then the area of interest is the ring just outside.

I'm going to step out here.

Yeah.

So that's what we're talking about with like,

OK, you might have this nuclear facility in nearby,

or a military base, or a major highway, even we do, you know.

And your area of interest might be the alert zone for you.

You might see activity start popping up in the area of interest,

which will start giving you the time

to alert and prep in your operation, you know what I'm saying?

So if you say, you know, this circle around outside

of my area of operation, there's a correctional facility.

And that facility had a jailbreak, right?

So you could say, well, if that jailbreak,

the easiest way of getting away from the jail

would be to come the power lines that go behind my house.

You might want to be on alert if you're not home, call home,

tell them to make sure to lock down or tell them to go

to mom's house, or go to grandma's house,

and hang out there until we get the all clear,

until we know everybody's captured, either hunker down

or evacuate, but knowing what's in your area of interest

could give you advanced warning so that you have the time

to prepare as opposed to, you know, just watching inside

that one mile radius or five mile radius,

whatever you choose for your area of operation,

and just watching inside that.

And then all of a sudden something blows into your area

where you had no advanced warning.

Yeah.

It's nicer to have a little, a little heads up.

But that's one of the reasons why, like,

wasn't too hippity-hopper moving into Tennessee

because of something happening at East Coast.

There'd be so many people coming through there,

but I was like, hmm, I don't know.

That's a really major thoroughfare, right?

Yeah, it depends on where.

That comes off those mountains and goes into that area.

So I was like, no, I don't know.

I wasn't very hippity-hopper.

I'm a beautiful state, too.

So, and close to you guys, that'd be better.

Yeah, we're good.

But like you're seeing, you got to know terrain, right?

Physical terrain, the weather,

we've already touched on most too.

Human terrain, like what are the people?

On human terrain, you know, with election seasons

is a really good time to look at who's got what yard sign up.

You'll start seeing who's who.

Am I surrounded by people that are voting alike?

Or do I have an oddball, three houses down

that has a sign that's not similar to how I vote?

It's start marking that, writing that

that have a notebook or whatever you need.

How are you want to do it?

The spy operation.

But you're just, it gives you advanced notice, right?

It's true.

God forbid, like you're in some big red flag

where they have red flag laws, right?

And you're going to want to know who's friendly

and who's not friendly.

Because somebody could be, you know, call,

what's your sheriff like?

You know, governance.

They also talk about knowing your governance.

So, what are your, you know, your county,

your city council, your county town council?

What are all those people like?

Yeah, you know.

And what's your sheriff like?

What's your, your chief of police like, you know,

kind of know that it's a lot different

down in Texas than it is in Minnesota.

So, that's definitely something that's going to be, you know,

different on your area assessment.

But have you noticed how much?

It's, it's changing places you always, it's like,

well, this is, there's a lot of country music bars here.

It would never change.

And you look at the, on the ballot, holy smokes.

For two generations away from losing our freedom.

And so it takes, and that's, that's a constant.

That's not, that's not like, oh, we made it.

No, 24, yay.

Look at all the headwinds.

Recent example that everyone will know at this point

as I ran.

I mean, when I was born,

it was a much different country than what it is now.

That's too different.

Oh, yeah, you see some of these videos about the 70s.

And I ran, it's like, they had short shorts

and everything else, right?

Right, yeah.

And everything, they were super advanced.

They were a first world nation doing just fine.

And then two generations later,

they're oppressed and, you know, living under the booth.

So don't, don't think it can't happen here.

It's our vigilance as American citizens.

Look at some of the committees

that are trying to set up in Texas.

Are they in Texas?

Yeah, exactly.

Because freedom reigns here.

So there are, it takes advantage of it, right?

Yeah, they learn the rules.

That they play on the edge of the rules.

Where they can, you know, there's a gray zone right there

where they play at hard.

Yeah, yeah, they're all for the minorities

till they become the majority

and there is no minority.

All right, but that's neither here nor there.

We can, we could have a whole nother kind of well on that one.

Well, that's just talking about what's your political, you know?

And you should know.

You should know what communities are around you.

It's a lot different if it's an

how much community or a Muslim community.

It just know, I'm not saying you could,

you could like or hate one of those two sides, right?

That you just bet you, it doesn't matter.

But as long as you know for your household,

how you're going to deal with it,

if the one that you don't like how they live

starts to get more influence in your town.

In your area.

And you're also going to want to do what you can do

to keep that other influence from gaining in your town.

Right.

And that takes us being active, being aware,

getting it out there and making a difference.

Uh-huh.

Amber's got competition tonight.

Yeah.

Black guy was like, uh, so I'm going to get out and I'm like,

wow, wow.

Anyway, that's my early assessment.

He's always assessing the area.

Good for him.

Dogs are awesome.

He's like 115 pounds now.

He is the size of a miniature horse.

He's 19 or, yeah, exactly the same size

as my aunt's miniature horse is my German ship.

It does.

He doesn't move.

Yeah.

So, okay.

So we talked about all that kind of stuff.

Um, and then we're going to get together with James

and talk about, um, you know,

getting together a challenge or something that we can start

doing a little bit more of the area.

And the other thing we, we've been talking a lot about

up threats.

You also want to do your assessment to know

what you have for, um, positive assets.

Right.

What do you have for people that you can work with and, like,

strong, uh, community, add to your community?

What do you have for resources in your community that you can

work with to help?

You know, do you have a good fire department or a good volunteer

fire department or a good search team or a good, you know, volunteer police?

I know the sheriff's department here starting, starting up like a volunteer

sheriff's department.

So there's a lot of stuff like that.

You can look for that are positive.

What do you have for a good off-grade comms in your community?

Do you have a good GMRS, uh,

repeater system or a good ham repeater or a good mesh-tastic?

What can you do to help improve it?

Improve it.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's not just a negative.

Also look at the positive assets.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

We got it.

It's all part of your.

Yeah.

Everyday areas.

That's all part of your area is stunning.

Yeah.

So my area is getting ready to grow like huge right now.

So I know that's definitely on my radar.

We have the city of Tyler is basically just out foring right now.

And so new shopping complexes and howling and tons of stuff going out.

So it's like, well, okay, where does that take us from the future, you know?

Yeah.

It's from almost 30 years in Charleston and I watched this like two lane road that

used to go down to the dump, turned into, that's where on that road, it gained to four lanes

and then it was over congested and there was housing and development, par with developments

and by the time I left, I'm like, yeah, that's just crazy.

And the other thing too that I would think about like, this was really hard to judge but

they found like lithium north of where I'm at.

So what does that mean?

What does that look like?

Future mining.

Future mining.

So look at, look at, look at, look at existing lithium mining facilities and look how

that grows because I'm sure you can research over time how long it took to get to what stage

and then look at what infrastructure was developed and everything else.

So that's something, you know, the lithium could be something that you could say, how?

This is something, it could be good for the economy but it could also mean there's going

to be tons of traffic, there's going to be a heavy burden on housing, you know, there

will be building a lot more houses.

So that's something, what do you have for dangers, you know, what threats does the lithium

mine create, what, you know, what exposures, what kind of, you know, health threats, you

know, does it carry stuff in the, in the wind, you know, is that something you could

be breathing?

You know, there's a lot, you can, yeah, and that's to say, with data centers too, right?

Data centers with water uses and with energy use, electricity.

That's another thing they're doing here, except you know, I'm getting ready to like launch

just thousands of satellites to be able to heart or store all the data up there, which

I think is a phenomenal idea.

You don't have to worry about cooling.

Yeah, right?

Yeah.

You see, he's got, he started a phone, like a cell phone service.

Oh, really?

And it's, yeah.

So it's going to satellites instead of to towers instead of to towers.

I mean, why not?

So the amount of dead, I guess he proof with the internet, he can, he can have contact,

right?

Connections.

Right.

And now that, as they build out the, the infrastructure in space, they can add additional

usage demands with cell phones.

But yeah, he's doing a cell phone service now, like AT&T Verizon.

Now it's going to be like a Starlink or whatever he calls it.

Starlink mobile version.

The other thing is the only thing that bothers me about that is if he's got like the

whole thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Me too.

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I'm concerned.

I mean, because I have Starlink at the house and they read this stupid deal where they gave

me a free Starlink mobile antenna thing, antenna router.

It's free for usage as long as I have the account.

And I pay five bucks a month, add it onto my original bill.

So of course I got that.

So now, like, if I travel, I'm not dependent on AT&T or Verizon.

I can do, I can do Wi-Fi calls for my phone.

And then I've got, I've got my walkie talkie, my cam radios are digital, DMRS and those

passion to the internet.

So I can talk through my radios or my cell phone through, if I have my Starlink mobile

with me.

She says as she's been experiencing internet problems, oh, I was talking through the

lithium battery thing and I saw you fell off the thing and like, well, I'll just winging.

So what's the reason?

Yeah.

I was saying, that's like the perfect example of what's in your area.

Right.

You know that's coming.

So research, how that's affected other areas in neighborhoods where, because you could

watch a timeline and see how it affected those areas, you know, what did it do, positive

and negative, what did it do to those areas and then pull it back to see how it can affect

you and what you need to do to plan for it.

Hell, you might need to say, there's a bubble right there.

And in five years of them opening that mine, it's like real estate is hot and heavy, right?

But if 15 years in open to mine, it's dirty and, you know, they're starting to, whatever.

So you might not have the hot, so you might want to sell at a certain time.

You might want, we were going to sell, let's just say, we were going to sell the house

in five years, whatever, that was our gameplay.

But you might say, oh, it looks like if I hold off for eight years, that could be the sweet

spot and we could like double our money if we, so there's stuff like that that you

can, you can watch what's happened to other communities and pull that back to your community

to make plans.

Yeah.

That's true.

I like that.

Okay.

We all have homework to do.

Yeah.

You got to research it.

You know, you got to.

It's not enough to just learn.

It's the same as self-defense, you know.

You got to know what's in the area.

So, Amber's like, I'm getting in there.

Where's Ragnar?

All right, let's go ahead and get on with some change in earth news.

We got tons to talk about and catch up on.

Dream.

Survive.

Thrive.

This.

I'm going to get in there.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's go ahead and get on with some change in earth news.

We got tons to talk about and catch up on.

Dream.

Survive.

Fry.

This.

He's changing earth news.

All right.

Change your news.

Been a while.

So, I've only been looking for like the really big things that had a really big impact.

And we've had them.

So, that's what I'm looking for.

I don't want to.

For everyone with running down everything that's been going on.

We'll get to the volcano numbers later.

But it looks pretty much like we are still above 100.

I think we're at 104 last time we're on.

So, we're still sitting at the same type of area today, which is, you know, that.

That activity doesn't seem to be slowing.

So, let's jump into it.

In January, we had a.

Big old floods in the sea in region 54 plus disaster events.

And with volcanoes going on alerts there, that's over in Asia.

So, that was some big activity that was happening.

Had a big impact displays multiple families.

January 16 to the 23rd storm Harry hit Western Europe.

There was about 390 plus deaths from that event.

Damage was greater than $1 billion in damage.

So, that was a huge storm that came crashed in Mr. Harry there.

On January 18, there was an X 1.9 class solar flare.

But, honestly, the last January hit a little bit, as you can see.

But we've been really quiet on the Sun.

It's been really just kind of chill with not even really a lot of big corona holes going by.

So, very interesting.

The Sun said us humans are doing enough chaos back and relaxed a bit.

Right.

Yeah, it's it's killing.

And that always accompanies human beings going a little mental crazy.

So, it's good that it can just chill out for a little bit.

There was a big event in Southern Africa, probably flooding down there.

It doesn't tell me what it actually was.

100 plus deaths, 1.3 million effective.

But they're in their storm season down there.

So, I know there was an event that came across Maddie gas car in there.

Oh, that's a next month.

So, yeah, they're definitely down in storm season right now.

And they always get a lot of rain.

North American winter storm.

Fern.

I love that they always give all these storms names.

Really, like everything needs the name now.

There was 174 deaths involved in that one though over a million power outages.

That was the big storm we had in January.

We're even got really cold down here in Texas.

We're going to February.

We had first to the seventh, a couple of X class solar flares.

They were not directly earth facing.

We did have some intense radio and satellite disruption from one of those.

But again, not something that was going to be like, hey, everybody.

This is the last episode of the changing earth you're ever going to see.

February 1st.

We had 24 inches of rain in Sao Paulo.

And one day, 35 deaths from that event.

Hundreds displaced.

And again, what we're really looking for as the earth keeps evolving from where it's at now.

Is we're looking for more extremes because of the weakening of our magnetic magnetic shielding.

It just kind of lets our weather do a little bit more crazy stuff.

So that's what we're looking for when I say like I'm looking for unusual events in Japan.

Coast, they had a serious snowfall 30 plus deaths from that snowfall 300 plus injured tropical cyclone.

Giants, I hit on February 10th.

That's the one that hit Madagascar 59 deaths plus 723 affected.

Madagascar was like one of those coastal islands that was literally just taking the brunt of the storms coming in from Indonesia before they hit the coast of Africa.

And so they can bounce in between Africa

and Madagascar sometimes.

So there's some brave people over there.

That's again, the type of situation where you know

you're gonna be hit with those storms.

So you better be prepared for that coming on.

And I'd not be like, oh, who knew?

We were gonna get hit with another storm this year.

What we got, California storm came in the 21st to the 24th.

They had a large avalanche up in Lake Tahoe,

nine people, unfortunately lost their life in that event.

And then they had the extreme whiplash,

those ones saying, stream weather, 90 degree Fahrenheit

record heat right after that.

So I always tease that California is like land of extreme.

Like it's a light switch.

It's just on and off and on and off.

It's gotta be cold during and lots of time it's hot.

So they're dealing with a little bit of that right now.

This is their season.

It's just hot and cold.

But again, the extremes is what we're looking for.

February 26th, there is a big glacier collapse,

which is pretty interesting.

The glaciers, some of them are collapsing.

Some of them are growing.

So you guys really gotta do your research there

before you just talk about like,

oh, the warming's taken out our glaciers.

It's actually just the movement of the planet

and this happens.

The one earthquake that I found really, really interesting

was there was a 4.9 earthquake in Louisiana.

I'm the Louisiana Texas border and that's not because I'm

near that area that I'm interested in.

It just hasn't happened there in a lot of years.

That one did happen where they were doing a lot of fracking.

But with the amount of activity that's happening

on the ring of fire and to see the west coast

just kind of stalled, nothing really happening there

is just eerie.

Either it's being released enough

through these little drill points and stuff.

This constant activity is releasing enough or it's building.

And if it's building, that's a problem.

So you can see the stress fracture coming down

where it hit Louisiana is at the very bottom

of the North American cray time.

That sits on the eastern side kind of the United States.

It's like kind of from Yellowstone down to Texas

and then back up to Maine.

And the Numa Dread fault line is on the North American

cray time edge.

So obviously that's why we keep a watch on that one.

The earthquakes that happened on the Numa Dread

were just seriously insane to read about.

Like a month of these people just thinking

that the edge was coming because dirt

just blasting out of the ground.

The Mississippi ran backwards.

Lakes were formed out of nowhere.

Some areas went up like two stories.

And just a minute it was really crazy stuff to read about.

As far as erupting volcanoes, we have 42 volcanoes

currently erupting, which is still mind blowing to me

after watching these for so many years.

To me, like, wow, 29 is so many.

And that was just like two years ago.

And now we've been riding that 42 for like a long time.

So I'm interested to see it like move again

because that was pretty cool.

33 volcano showing minor activity, 27 showing unrest

for a total of 102.

So we're still up over 100 volcanoes

on our planet showing activity.

One of the signs that I always look for

is from an Edgar K. C. Prophecy that, you know,

like Vesuvius and Pele are going

than Nevada and the West Coast of the United States

better watch out.

Pele is still on the list, but Vesuvius is nowhere near

at Campy Flagray.

The super volcano in Italy is still on it.

And I can't remember the town.

It's on one of the islands.

Oh, man.

The South Sandwich Island?

No, I want to say like Sicily.

It's definitely in the Mediterranean,

but they have just been losing like a ton of land.

Their whole one side of their city is just like falling.

Oh, yeah, I saw pictures of that.

Yeah, like the town just is falling off the cliff.

Yes, it's just going.

And then it falls like their major road

is down there at the bottom.

So are these falling down?

It's like you see, you see like a cutaway

that is the part where cop likes it.

There's a car still in the garage

because the earth is on a fall the way.

Right.

It's just boop.

It's insane.

And we're talking like a mile long area that's being.

So the earth is on the move when you're

seeing stuff like that happen.

That's been there for hundreds of years, you know?

OK, as far as earthquakes, December,

there was 20,363 total that were 2.0 or bigger.

We went up in January.

We had that solar activity.

We went up to 21,130.

But in February, we're down big time.

We went down to 17,211.

So and I haven't really seen the solar activity uptake

to push those numbers.

We'll see what March does.

Like I say, there's been some biggies already.

And we're definitely eyes wide open.

But if that solar energy stays pretty chill,

I don't think we'll have too many problems.

Alrighty.

Well, we made it through the show.

I don't know if our live feed to Twitter actually made it

for the show or X.

Oh, my throat's dry.

I haven't done this in a while.

I got to get back in practice.

I'm going to have to do that.

I'll be ready for prepper camp all that talking all

of no voice by the end.

All right, guys, get your tickets to prepper camp.

Speak enough.

It is and you're lodging so to end August this year.

And it's a cool place.

You could actually go early adduvication

or stay late adduvication.

Yeah, we always come in a little bit already.

It's awesome.

I mean, there's a ton of stuff to do in aim

and around this area too, so.

So cool.

Yeah, we're so thrilled.

We're definitely glampers this year for the show.

I'm not even bringing my trail.

We're staying on the top.

Yeah, because then Brackto got to worry about driving.

Anyway, let's just take out some prepper camp.

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I might need a little break.

I've been hitting it really hard.

My family's like, OK, we need some time too.

These videos take some time.

But I'm still thinking middle April,

everybody's super excited to see what happens to Erica next.

I've been getting lots of people contact me.

You can't leave us hanging there.

So I'm sorry.

I need to get caught up.

But we are talking like middle April, four, season five

to be coming out.

And then once I get that under control,

we're going to be doing the Las Vegas

here is my new book on the podcast here.

I'm going to have the nag chin and the spending

some more summits with me.

But that has come down the pipeline.

So and you can get a hold of chin.

If you want info on the any of the cert stuff,

you're you're much tastic.

And all the comms, oh my gosh, way over my head,

you've got a contact chin for that one.

Go to change your series.com, same stick.

You go to the contact.

There's a contact for chin.

And there's also a contact for me on there as well.

And we love to hear from you guys.

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All right, thanks for coming, Chin.

I appreciate you taking time, man.

He's good.

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