THROWBACK THURSDAY: Defending Your Home! w/ Reality Check

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1:01All right, everybody got their cards ready? Okay, we'll start this. B4. B4. N43. N43. Oh, you know what? That's the wrong show. Good evening folks and welcome to Reality Check. My name is Michael Clown. I got you a good name for a few minutes. Didn't I? I hope everyone's having a good evening this weekend. It's Friday. It's Friday night. The start of the weekend. If you're listening to us on blog talk radio or any other kind of streaming service switch over to prepper broadcasting dot com. That is prepper broadcasting dot com. Enjoy in our chat room. We have a live chat every night. Well, when we have a live show, there's a chat room. It's a live chat and you can get in there and you can talk with a bunch of other people and they have really really great. Really great insight on things. You know, there is. There's a lot of good people in there. I see a bunch of regulars in there tonight. Appreciate y'all joining us.

2:01And you know, if you just, if you really want to have some good commentary and some good fun and poke and fun at me. The live chat is the way to do it. Also, don't forget. If you are unable to listen to us on the internet. So if you have one of the old stop flip phones like me and you always want to listen in. And you can't get online. A way to do that is you can actually call in. We have a phone number and you can call it. And you can listen to the show. So you want to dial 3, 4, 7, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 8. And if you have any questions or you want to make a comment, you can actually press the number 1 on the phone and you get dropped into a queue. And then you can talk to me live on air. So if you missed the number 3, 4, 7, 2, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 8. So for some of my regulars, in our last two shows, we looked at bugging in and bugging out. And hopefully you kind of decided what may be best for you and your family. You said, you know what, I've got the, I listened to your show.

3:01That was all really good information, but I'm going to do my own thing. And we've got a plan. You know what, that's great. However, for those of you that are bugging in, let's circle the wagons. And as the famous line from Home Alone goes, this is my house. I have to defend it. So if everybody remembers the movie, they remember the battle plan from Kevin's, where Kevin laid out his battle plan. And on the battle plan, he's got all his traps and how he's going to get the bad guys and everything. And that's what you need. You need a battle plan to defend your home. And so for the next two nights or the next two shows, we're going to be going over defending your home. So I'm going to give you some ideas. Now again, these are ideas. You may or may not want to implement these. I'm just giving you the fodder to spur ideas. What you do with it is you and yours. I cannot be held accountable. So we need to develop a battle plan. And what we're going to do is we're going to think of this like a game of chess,

4:01where you need to anticipate what your opponent might do. So in the game of chess, you have to think three moves ahead. And the same thing is going to happen here. If you think three moves ahead, if I was a bad guy and I did this, what would I do? If I was a bad guy and I did this, what would I do? Think three moves ahead and you'll never get behind. So what do I mean by that? Well, as I said, you want to play the part of the bad guy. You want to think to yourself, if I wanted to break in to this house, and I wanted to get the stuff that was inside, what would I do? How would I do it? Are there tall bushes that I can hide behind? Do I have a big dog or do I have the appearance of a big dog with a large water bowl and a food bowl that's been placed outside where someone can see it? Do I have a sliding glass door that I could easily break in? Do I have countermeasures for the sliding glass door? So those are the kind of things that we're going to think of.

5:02So some of you are asking yourself, why do I need to do this in the first place? You sound like you're really going off the deep end really fast. And I know a lot of people out there are going, well, guess what, Slick? The world is not melting down and I'm not going to put out razor wire and landmines just yet. And that's cool. But the reason you need to start nail and start thinking about what you want to do and start writing it out and putting serious thought with it is we really don't know how much time we have left. And I'm not talking religious. We all hope that North Korea and China and Russia and Iran all stay on the peaceful side of things. But you just never know. You never know when somebody is going to interpret something wrong and then one of a nuclear capable country is going to do something stupid or just anybody. You never, you never know when a blackout is going to cause a city to descend in chaos. So after the show don't do it now, but after the show I encourage you to go research the results of the New York blackouts from 1977 and 2003.

6:08So look what happened to the city and look what, what resulted and what people did during the New York City blackouts of 77 and 03. And what you do that, then go research the effects of the 2001 Southwest blackout. And what you're going to find is in all of these cases there was a lot of panic and bad people used it as an excuse to do bad things as they do every time anytime something crazy happens. The bad people use it as an excuse to break stuff and set stuff on fire. So the point is you never know when this is going to happen. It can even be a bright sunny day on a Saturday afternoon when nothing's wrong and some drunk fool goes out and decides he wants to start shooting transformers for target practice. And he pops a few shells and transform or leaks all the oil out the cooling mineral oil drains out and then guess what the transformer fails and your city goes into blackout. So it doesn't have to be a major SHTF event. It can be something as simple as a transformer blow or whatever else.

7:11So that's why I say we need to go ahead and think about things. We need to think about what would happen if you're going to fill in the blank. So remember, you're doing a major event. Your priority is protecting your home and protecting your family. That that's what your job is is you protect the house and you protect your family. You are going to have countless unimaginable threats coming at you. So things you can't even think of are going to be happening. And especially if the event rolls into more like three days, you know, it's going to be it's going to be tough. So more or less, you know, if something goes wrong, 72 hours, 48 hours, whatever. People are going, OK, well, it's only been three days. It's only localized so I can go somewhere else. Remember I mentioned in a show a couple of weeks ago about you can go one state over and everything's OK. You go get book a hotel, you go to dinner, you enjoy your steak and a few beers and you go sleep in the hotel, you get up the next morning and come back to your house and everything's honky.

8:15Well, if the event rolls into more than three days, let's say that it's going three weeks and three months, kind of thing. You know, then that's when you have to think about because you have to, you know, I know you all will have heard this that it's said society is only nine meals away from anarchy. And you know, you have to remember desperate people do desperate things and this includes people who want to steal your belongings. People who want to simply want to just sniff around their curious and they're going to use the event to satisfy their curiosity. And this includes people that may want to cause you harm or harm to you, you know, harm to your family and the people who want to be safe. The event to satisfy their curiosity and this includes people that may want to cause you harm or harm to you, you know, harm to your family, harm to your property. There are people in this world that are evil, that mean they're just pure evil and the only way they get out of life is by making other people miserable and causing problems. Pure and simple, no other reason. That's what they do. They get up in the morning and they think, what can I do to make somebody else miserable and they do it.

9:22You know, and if you have a homestead, then you have the added risk of your animals. So being in an HOA or being in the community, you're being in a city, you're pretty much dealing with the two-legged kind. But if you live out in the country and you have a homestead and you have your goats and your chickens and, you know, all your barnard animals, now you have to, you have a bigger risk. So failure to have security measures in place can end the lot, you know, that can end with the life, that can end with the loss of livestock. That's a tongue twister. Loss of livestock can also be loss of property and danger to your life. So, you know, chicken thieves are going to be a real thing. So chicken thieves and people stealing from your garden. That's going to be a common item. And again, we're talking about, you know, multi-week, multi-month. I don't think that, you know, if a tornado ripped through the trailer park, and I'm not making fun of anybody in the trailer park. But if a tornado comes through and destroys a bunch of trailers, I don't think people are going to go to stealing chickens and the, you know, vegetables and cows in the three days.

10:25That turns into three weeks. You better believe they will. And I'm not making fun of anybody because I used to live in a trailer. So don't get your, don't get up at the about if you live in a trailer. I love trailers. I was, I made EK the queen of my double wide trailer. So we have to take steps now to keep the four-legged animals as well as the two-legged animals out of our stuff. And a simple fence may not, you know, may not do this. So where do we start? What do we do? Well, the first thing we need to do is we need to get to know our surroundings. Use Google Maps or use Bing and get an aerial view of your house and all of your land out to about five or 10 miles. So you start, you know, you put your house in the middle or your property in the middle and look at everything out five or 10 miles. And what you want to do is you want to map out all the possible resources for food, for water, for supplies. You know, we all know that the grocery store and the liquor stores are going to get looted. I mean, that's just pretty much banking on it.

11:29But think about auto part stores and boutique clothing stores and even baby or maternity stores, you know, those places may not get hit, but they offer a great source of resources. So that's why I say, you know, figure out what is near you, five or 10 miles out. And that's also going to be, you know, ponds and streams and maybe some guy that, you know, only is here for half the year. And then he leaves the other half of the year and his house is vacant, not saying one way or the other, just you market on the map. Another thing that you need to map out is your problem neighbors and your friendly neighbors. So on your map, you would mark the location of places or people that are friendly as well as areas and houses to avoid. So, you know, we always have that one house where people are coming and going at all hours of the night and we all know what's going on there.

12:29And you know that if something goes wrong, the people coming and going to that one house are going to spread out and they're not going to be, you know, the good people trying to ask if they can help. So there's that. Another thing you can do with the map, same thing with the map is track the crime in your area and you want to find the hot spots. So you can map out areas to avoid and there are two websites that are pretty good at this and I would post them in the chat room, but I have my notes on a different window than the chat. So you can read them off and it's crime reports.com, like crime and then reports all one word crime reports.com and then the other one is spot crime.com SPOT crime.com all one word spot crime. So those two websites are actually pretty good for this crime reports and spot crime. And what you can do is you click on that, you put in some information. I set the period to 30 days to start with so it starts from today and goes back 30 days. And it shows you all of the crime that has been reported in your area now granted it has to be reported. There has to be a report filed on it.

13:36You know, the police have to investigate that kind of thing for it to show up on the map, but it can show you where the hot spots are. It can show you where the good areas are. It can show you where the bad areas are. And you know, here's an idea. You could do this month to month. You could you could start today and you say at the end of the month, I'm going to run the report and I'm going to take a screenshot. And then the next month at the end of the month, I'm going to run the report and I'm going to take a screenshot. And you analyze the differences and that way you can track crimes and trends and you can see if the hot spots are actually moving if they're moving to you are moving away from you or you know what's happening. So that's something to do with the map. Another thing to do when you're using the maps or when you're mapping out your stuff is you want to map out the egress and the ingress points. What I mean by that are the roads and places that come into and out of your area. And remember, this can include power line right away because just because it's not paved doesn't mean it can't be traveled.

14:41So you have to think of any way, you know, if there's a if you've got a big stretch of woods and also in the woods break. That's a place that you could come in and out of. So in egress and in the ingress and egress points coming into out of your area. You know, think about what what you need to do and where you need to go. So I'm going to get to the second one here in just a second. I'm actually going to take a break. We've got a few really, really great sponsors and I want to go ahead and mention them while I'm thinking about it because if not, I'm going to get off on a tangent and I'm going to be chasing the rabbit and I'll forget about it. So let's go ahead and take a quick break. G man, if you want to hit it. And for those of you that don't know freeze dryer is awesome. The harvest right has got some really, really good deals. So if any of y'all are debating about getting a freeze dryer, I really encourage you to go through harvest right because they've got they've got a honey of a deal going on freeze dryers and it's not. It's an investment, but it is worth its weight and gold. It's the food is worth its weight and gold and you know that food really likes so it's a it's a good deal.

15:50All right. Number two. So we've talked about the maps. We've mapped everything out. The next thing we're going to do is we want to gather document and inventory all current food water resources and supplies that we have. So basically what we're going to do is we're taking an inventory of our entire stash everything we have any place we might have stored it. This is going to be what we have as well as what we might need long term. So you know you have a lot of food you have a lot of water. What are you going to do when that runs out? You need to make a list of everything that you have and everything you need to make a list and you want to make plans so that you can acquire critical supplies and tools. And again, you want to think food water shelter and security. You know as an example, stock up on tarps. Well, you want to stock up on large tarps in case a tree falls and punches a hole in your roof or in case you know, hailstones come through you know it rains and it hails and we have for some unknown reason we have you know softball size hail and it punches a hole in your roof.

17:04Well in grid down, you're not going to get that fixed. So tarps, you know that's something to think about and that's the kind of things I'm talking about. One of the other things that you want to do is in one of your previous shows I talked about this and I talked about making friends with your family and your neighbors and making a mental inventory of what they have. So you can go back and recap what I was saying is go around and make friends with all of your neighbors whether you like them or not, whether you agree with what they think or not. Make friends with them swallow your pride, go over there and make friends when they invite you in or when they invite you you know near the front door, make a mental note of what they have. You know you can go to different houses during the gift with gifts during the holidays. We got Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up or even Halloween man how wow I just thought of that Halloween. You can if you have kids you go around to the different houses in Halloween and you walk up to the door with them and when the couple opens the door to hand you the food, hand you the candy.

18:10Look in the house look to see what's behind them you know to the have a lot of really expensive stuff for the kind of poor. You know you go through and you make a mental note of what everybody has in their house and what kind of demeanor people have. And you make that into your inventory you know during the holidays when you actually get to walk up to their door and ring their doorbell and hey I'm your neighbor here's a gift basket. Oh thank you so much and while they're talking you look behind them and you see what's in their house and you make a mental picture of what is in view from the front door now I'm just saying. I'm not saying you should do this or not it's just an idea to spur thinking is all I'm saying you should do you can read into that however you want. So anyway oh here's an evil idea not that you should do this but if you want to do this do you have a bogus pantry. Do you have a false pantry that is filled with food and it's meant to be a decoy so do you have a pantry that is filled with old or expired food and it's meant to be a decoy.

19:18So in the event that you're compromised you point the enemy to that pantry and you can say you know take all the food just don't hurt me you can have everything that's in there I won't fight you know I'll sit here on the couch you can load it up just don't shoot me or the family. And you know then they take all your food but you know you get the last laugh well provided they don't shoot you you get the last laugh because all your real good stuff is stored somewhere else not in the you know the food. The you know the main floor pantry so they think they've gotten a good thing where you go huh they got all my old stuff they just help me rotate my stock anyway again just an idea. Oh let's see third one we can think of all right now this is going to be the big one and. If you have a paper in pen I suggest you get it because you may want to make notes on this one if not then please please please go back and read this into the show because these are going to be some really interesting subjects so behavioral problems we have all got behavioral problems and we need to learn new disciplines everybody's got a disciplinary issue everybody listening and you've got a disciplinary issue you've got a behavioral problem and you need to get it fixed.

20:34Well currently right now this is no big deal but in a grids down situation this is going to be crucial and you're going to need to get it fixed so here's what we do. Again we don't have to worry about this right now but it's something you want to start thinking about and start making plans for so first off light light discipline. Some of you are going to remember this but back in lower one and lower two I think they had people that would go around and they would monitor for lights and when there was an air raid they would run around and they would say you know douse that light or turn that light off kind of thing. You need to have light discipline so that when the sun goes down you don't display any light. If you have lights and people can see it lights mean people people are inside which means supplies which means go I'm going to go break into that house. So how do you fix that well you can buy blackout curtains like what the hotels and motels use so blackout curtains or even black you know black plastic black bags or tin foil.

21:38Now I don't suggest putting tin foil and black pastic bags up on your windows right now because that pretty much says you're drug dealer. But in the event of a grade down you know hey blackout curtains trash bags tin foil whatever you got to do you want to make it look is that you don't have any luxury lighting you know you just want to make it sure that you look like to know one's home that nub in the chat room put it perfectly you know he works the graveyard shift or people that work the graveyard shift. They have supplies for like that and so you would not look out of place going and buying that kind of stuff when you know I'm buying blackout curtains or I'm buying all this kind of stuff and if the clerk looks at you weird and go look man I work nights I have to sleep during the day. They're not going to think a second think about that so that nub that is a great idea if you work the graveyard shift and you already know what I'm talking about. If you don't work it then you can use that as an excuse to do it so that nub in the chat room and he is awesome. For those of you that are not in our live chat room you are you miss a lot of good things because there's a lot of good people.

22:44Alright so we blacked out the curtains and everything and you're thinking well that's no big deal I'm just going to use candles. The candles not very bright. Yeah. If you're a lit a single candle to see how far away you can see it I don't know if y'all know this but one candle power travels a long ways at night and you think if there's no other light pollution that one little candle flame if it's it they're just the right angle you know just the right angle where the light goes through the two curtains and travels a couple of miles away and there's one guy and he's like do you see that yeah see that what is that I think that's a house. There's a candle on in there. Oh good there's people there let's go raid them you know don't be that person don't be the beacon on the hill don't be the lighthouse that's showing off a I've got you know I've got the lights and stuff. Alright the next one is conceal your fires and smoke so everybody should research this again after the show not during research the Dakota whole and so a lot of people go oh yeah Dakota whole is man there's things are awesome.

23:52So Dakota whole DA K OTA for those of you that are listening to have no idea what I'm saying or can't understand my southern dry elect Dakota whole like South Dakota South Dakota North Dakota you know Dakota holes and rocket stoves rocket stoves another good one reason why these have a lot better combustion and they produce less smoke. So when you burn when you burn wood the smoke is basically a sign of bad combustion and so people can smell the smoke people can see the smoke and so these are two things that that produce less smoke as a nifty example and you can try this but as a nifty example I have one of those charcoal chimney starters you know it's the like the aluminum chimney and you pour charcoal in it and you stick a light under the bottom and it lights and then you pour it in your grill blah blah blah. Well occasionally if I'm cooking for myself or if I'm just making something small I just use that I just pour charcoal in it I light it I let it get up the flame I put the grill grade on top of it and I just cook on it it's like six inches in diameter and it's it's fine for like one steak or a couple of hamburgers.

24:59But amazingly there is very very little smoke that comes off of that thing since the fire is doing a really good really good job at combustion I mean the combustion on the thing is really good and I encourage you all to try this as a homework assignment make a regular if for the if you have a charcoal grill if you have a gas grill this doesn't work but if a charcoal grill grill like you would regularly on a charcoal grill and just make note of the smoke that comes off the food that comes off the fire everything is going to be good. I just make a note of the smoke coming off a charcoal grill and then do the same thing with the chimney and see how much of there is a difference in the smoke I bet when you do it you'll find that the chimney even though your foods cook in the same food the smoke coming off the chimney is a lot like less so that's an idea. And we take we touched on this last week but learn to navigate your house in the dark so we talked about it last week it's called cognitive mapping and for those of you in the chat room or for those you listening it's kind of how the blind navigate.

26:02You can't see you you make a cognitive map of your of your area and it's really good because you're going to learn the locations of doors you're going to learn the locations of walls and furniture and stuff the only problem is that it still requires the use of your toes and that's to find tables couches and bedposts we still have to find those things in the dark using our toes but everything else you know your brain will kind of make make make make a map of it. So we have light discipline we're going to have you know like smoke discipline kind of thing another one we want to have a sound discipline so in a grid down sound will travel a very long ways and people are going to be used to hearing silence so at night when there's just only crickets and stuff you get used to hearing the forest noises and then anything else like a twig snap or something you zero in on that well same things true in an extended grid down.

27:02So you can hear it so generators dogs barking laughter crying babies or even radio traffic you've got the radio and you know you're walking around with doing a perimeter security and somebody calls you on the radio that noise is going to travel pretty far and it's going to cut through the silence. Again short term is not a problem but after several weeks or after several months sound discipline is going to be an issue and you're going to have to think about that and what we're on thinking about dogs dogs are great I love my dogs dogs are great for giving you early warning they can deter intruders if they're big enough but they can also bring unwanted attention so if you're trying to remain quiet and you're trying to maintain a low profile you've seen the intruder. So you know there is the party that's going past you on the road and as long as you don't make a noise or anything they're just going to walk on past and not think anything's wrong and all of a sudden the dog just goes nuts and he starts barking well guess what dogs mean humans and humans mean food because the dogs have to be fed and if someone here's a dog barking they're going to know there's people there that are feeding the dog which means there's food available so that's another thing to think about is dogs barking that everything are going to be a good thing.

28:29I'm not going to ruin that especially small dogs again I got small dogs I got nothing to get small dogs but a high pitch dog bark and a low pitch dog bark are going to carry different distances and different you know the different frequencies and different bouncing off everything so. Yeah goodnight Fergie I hate to see you going to bad so soon but have a good one Jay Fergie. Alright the next up is smell discipline smells so grilling smoking foods tobacco products you know burning burning wood all of that travel so you the smell of smoke and the smell of what's on the smoke is going to travel a very long ways and you need to be aware that if you're cooking over a fire like if you've got a Dutch oven and you're cooking a pot of stew or you're breaking bread or you're cooking meat. You know on top of the fire that smell is going to travel with the smoke because the the smell the liquid in whatever you're cooking is going to aerosol and it's going to blend in with the smoke and the wind is going to carry it so.

29:35So you know everybody knows when somebody's grilling so if you if you roll into your great neighborhood and you've got your windows down you know when somebody's grilling you know oh man somebody's grilling hamburgers well guess what. In a great down situation that's not going to be copacetic that's going to be a bad thing. So as a mitigating factor think about a son oven now i'm not plugging son ovens they're not my sponsor I do own one I have one and I like it and i'm not plugging them as a sponsor anything but a son oven is a really great thing to have because these don't require fuel. There's no smoke there's no fire and the food does not put off an odor reason why is like the smell of baking bread and you have a big old pot of beans cooking in it all of that is contained inside of the oven and it's only going to escape when you open door so there's a glass door and it's got a gasket and all of the smell of whatever you're cooking stays inside the son oven so the winds blowing and no big deal.

30:39The food is only going to smell once you open the door to either take stuff in or stir it or whatever and you know that that dissipates pretty quick so just an idea to. To mitigate the smell discipline is having a son oven or having you know sterno to heat something up in your house or whatever some kind of chasing dish or whatnot. Let's see here. The next one up scroll down on my notes oh went too far hold please yeah sanitation and cleanliness so everybody's going to have to learn sanitation and cleanliness discipline you know as i've said before in one of our previous episodes cleanliness is next to godliness and if you don't stay clean you will get to meet him so what do we do you need to wash your hands and your. Face before every meal with soap wash your hands every time you lose use little train and even if it's only number one wash your hands every time.

31:42Now for the latrine you need to designate the latrine area downhill and away from the house and for those of you listening on the podcast or whatnot if you don't know what a latrine is it's a very deep hole in the well it's a deep hole in the ground where you use the bathroom so you want to dig a deep deep. Enough that you can go to the bathroom and put dirt in there and it's not going to bother anything that's a latrine when I say latrine I meant the bathroom outhouse kind of think. You need to have a discipline about how you use that and how you keep it and maintenance it yes you have to maintenance a latrine. You know also if you have toilets that still flush or excuse me your toilets will still flush I hope you'll know that you don't have to have power to flush your toilets if you've got the tank in the back you can take gallons of you can take a gallon of water and pour it in the back of the toilet and it will flush so if you've got a source of water a decent source of water and a septic tank more than congratulations you have a flush toilet that will function just the first time you're going to have a flush toilet.

32:47And just the same as it you know does normally now the only difference is you have to lug the water in there to it. If you have one of these fancy dance electric ones that warms the seat and sprays afterwards and warms the water and has no tank on the back well then not so much but if you got the old school poor person toilet like I do then I'm still going to be able to flush my toilet and I live uphill from the rest of my neighbors and I have a backflow preventer on my sewage system so I'm going to be sitting pretty more ways than one. Alright next is you want to wear shoes when you are outside. There are a lot of people included one that's listening on the chat room tonight that loves to go outside and go barefooted and that is all well and good when the grass is cut and everything is nice and it's a warm summer day and you're walk side barefooted and everything's great but you need to protect your feet because you can't. Get hookworms by walking barefoot and the reason that the way that works is the soil has to contain human feces and we're going to get a little bit gross right here but again this is a reality check you need to hear this so if soil contains human feces you can get hookworms while walking on it barefooted.

34:06Oh my god that's gross yet is gross but think about it during a grid down people are going to go wherever they feel like it they're not going to go in the designated area they're just walking along I got to go find a tree. Well let's say that there is a good rain storm and the rain washes everything that one person did and it washes it through your yard you know they did whatever they were going to do uphill and it washes downhill well guess what now your yard is going to be a good rain storm. Well guess what now your yard is contaminated it has those contaminated in it so that's why I say where your shoes you know you can get down there going to be multiple diseases that are going to get you and cholera and giardia are just two of them to start with so anyway oh since we're talking this would be for my my medical people out there. If you're if you've got to buy the food in your mouth you might want to go ahead and swallow it so for all of you you number files and food and a math nerds check this out one gram one small little gram of human feces can contain 10 million viruses one million bacteria 1000 parasite it's just and over 100 parasite eggs.

35:24So what's the moral of the story where your shoes and you wash your hands there's a reason why mama said wash your hands have to use the bathroom wash your hands after you get doing you know get done XYZ because you really don't want to be scratching the bottom of your foot or scratching something and then picking your nose or touching one of your mucus membranes because guess what then you got infected and as my previous show said if you get injured you're probably dead. So anyway alright next up is appearance discipline how do you look how do you appear you don't want to make your home or yourself look inviting or vulnerable you want to make it look like you are not worth somebody's time you want to look poor you want to look malnourished you do not want to look well fed you do not want to look well dressed and you do not want to do anything that attracts attention. So in normal times if you're wearing Prada or you're wearing Gucci you might get mugged but in a grid downcillary scenario you're probably going to get killed mainly because people are going to go I want whatever you know they've got a lot of money they've they've got a lot of whatever I want what they got.

36:35So in a grid down situation and again we're talking three months maybe at this point you need to look malnourished I don't care if you have to take a makeup and darken your eyes and do whatever you can with your face with makeup you need to look malnourished you need to look. Impoverished you need to look like everyone else you know think about the Grayman concept here your clothes your behavior your general appearance they all need to blend in fat and happy is going to be bad mojo that's something else think of. Let's see here opsec I said this before and you need to keep everything you have and say private and this one is a real biggie and if you need to refresh her on this I actually did a did two shows I did a show on opsec and a show on calm sec and if you need to refresh her on how to do good opsec I suggest you go back and listen to those two shows but the first rule of prep club is we don't talk about prep club.

37:39Kids teens and Facebook is going to betray you they will betray you so if you're talking about your preps everybody else is going to know about it eventually either someone is going to slip up or one of your kids is going to mouth off and say something or whatnot so keep everything that you have and say private you know just do what you got to do. Reading in the chat room somebody asked the question is should we have soap or hand sanitizer one of our our residents in here e.k. says soap is the best option hand sanitizer in a pinch so that's always true you know use use soap when you can warm water and soap is the best thing and you know there's like I think you sing happy birthday you're seeing drink a little star there's some song which you can sing that you count the 15 and rub your head. Turn around three twice and that's actually the best thing to do to make sure that your hands are clean but hand sanitizer in a pitch also what's really fun is you can actually take hand sanitizer and if you have a flint and steel you know your striker stick hand sanitizer will catch fire with a striker stick because it's alcohol so you know you get a bunch of pine needles or stuff together your your tinder and you squirt hand sanitizer on it and then hit your flint and still at it and guess what you get a flame.

39:02Learn that in Boy Scouts. Number four we're going to get back on track here. Yeah one water not likely to be really available yeah no I'm just repeating what my mother drilled into me for many many many many years. So number four make a habit to ensure your doors and windows are locked at all times I don't care where you live I don't care the neighborhood that you live in. You may leave your doors and windows unlocked and nobody cares but right now today you need to make a point to start keeping everything locked. As quickly as you can you need to get the ability to barricade your doors and your windows so that's something you need to just start getting in the process of doing is locking your doors locking your windows. A lot of crimes that happen happen in homes Miller comes their doors and windows are unlocked so I'm going to jump into this let's get to take a break again real quick I got to get something because I'm starting to get parched so.

40:11We're going to take a break real quick i'm going to let me get me something to drink we're going to jump back into this and i'm going to teach you how to break into somebody's house go ahead and take a gman. Welcome everybody yeah one thing on that survival stove I actually bought me one of those and it's pretty sweet and one of the things that I try just to see if it would work is I took like multiple sections of chimney of the I guess the pipe that you use for the chimney. And I ran it up I don't know like 20 30 feet no not 30 feet like 15 20 feet near it was really high really high leaning to one side so I know it was pretty high. But at that height the wind was blowing a little bit different on my property and the smoke was dispersing a lot faster so again it's just something to think of if you've got a wood stove that's outside now if your wood stove is inside you've got a chimney that not much you can do.

41:11I don't know what you're going to do about it but if you are on the run or if you're bugging out and your mobile you know you making. What's the word i'm looking for I guess plum or pipe your smoke a lot higher than where you're actually at it'll just spurs difference anyway that's just a oh yeah let me know you're squall that's kind of way my mind works. A lot of crimes saying a lot of crimes happen in homes merely because the doors are unlocked. People think they're in a safe neighborhood we've never had anything happen criminal goes up unlocked you just turns the knob and hey look it's open. So you want to start locking your windows and doors. If nothing else use the locks on your doors and windows because it will impede the amount of time a criminal has in getting in so they are trying to get in and they can't and that gives you enough time to respond in whatever manner you need necessary so you've got the the windows and doors locked criminals trying to get in they're rattling it that's giving you a you know

42:24giving you enough time to kind of to respond to whatever you want to you know wink wink nudge say no more so question in the chat room. Just keeping the smoke what about in the winter time when you need heat says it's a was to well that's what I was saying earlier is that you know if you've got a wood stove in your home and you've got a chimney. If it's a regular wood stove the smoke is a sign of poor combustion so this goes back to like the Dakota hole and the rocket stove. There are people that I've seen that use a rocket stove design in their house and because of the greater combustion there's no smoke or there's a lot lot less smoke. So what you want to do is you want to research now this question is for I might be underscore 3d 9 JDB so appreciate you joining us tonight awesome I'm glad you're anonymous. You know that's good for free speech and whatever else so good job on that don't feel bad that you know you just chose one of the random things you rock.

43:30But the question that you did you ask and what you need to research is. Combustion how to increase the combustion so that can either be if you've got a wood stove you either increase the oxygen that's going into it so that it burns hotter. You can look at getting like a Jefferson I think it's a Jefferson stove that. Recirculates the smoke and re burns all of the contaminants that are in the smoke so that it produces less but the name of the game is a greater greater way of combustion so what you want to look at is you want to look at wood stoves or heat generating things that I have a higher. Combustion rating and they don't output as much smoke so my. My suggestion is look at getting a rocket stove design or get a wood stove that is built on a rocket stove design so that there's there's more fire there's more heat and there's less smoke and create so be input off on it so hope that answers your question. I don't rock I couldn't even get let me get a creative name you be you be surprised you you each and every one of y'all in the chat room y'all are awesome so don't don't doubt yourself you do rock you you are awesome you are special you are special to me.

44:46All right that being said dead bolts dead bolts are not the strongest amount of protection for your home if you own a dead bolt and the lock is less than one inch long you need to replace it because that is a low quality lock and it's not going to withstand much for. So here's what you do hopefully some of y'all have heard this and so I'm just going to kind of repeat it but the screws that hold in the dead bolt plate the strike plate and the screws that hold in the hinges those screws are probably only about half inch or an inch long and they're only screwed just far enough into the door frame hold the door up what you need to do number one is you need to replace those screws with something longer like three inches. So that the the hinges on the door screw into the door frame and then into the two before stood that outlines the door frame same thing on the dead bolt you need to replace the dead bolt with one that's got the the shank on the dead bolt that's at least you know inch and a half two inches long so that goes farther into the strike plate.

45:55The strike plate itself needs to have you know the three inch screws are like lag bolts or something because you want the ideas to have not just the screw on the door frame but the screw going through the door frame into the two before stood on each side deck screws yeah. E cases deck screws Sierra brand air touched to increase combustion okay cool so flying Dutchman in the chat room I think answered the question or at least gave us something we can research. It's the Sierra brand air tight stove and what it does is it has a vent on the bottom of it so that you can increase combustion again you want to put more oxygen in there he says got one very got one very little smoke new stove new EPA regulations man I hadn't even thought about that yeah look for one with EPA regulation stuff on it I guess that's kind of like energy star for off grid yeah. All right I'm getting trouble. All right number number five and we're coming to the home stretch preemptively work on your defensive structures what I mean by that is put in higher sharper fencing put in extra plywood and concrete backer boards on certain walls to make a barrier you know I know y'all if you were here last year or last year if you were here last week.

47:16And you heard this are you maybe there's one of the other shows I talked about putting concrete backer board in between the studs in order to make a ballistics barrier. So here's a homework assignment I want y'all to go to your local big box store and I want you to get a sheet of concrete backer board and this is like what they use to attach ceramic tile to so if you've ever laid tile or if you've ever laid. Ceramic floor tiles or ceramic bathroom tiles the backer board is basically concrete impregnated fiberglass I guess. Secure it to a section of plywood take it out back and shoot it see if it stops a bullet let me know how it works I'm curious I've seen the YouTube videos but I'm just curious it may not stop five five six or three or eight but it probably will stop nine up to 45. But again I'm curious if you got you know if you got nothing to do and you just want an experiment go by you a concrete backer board and then fire some rounds at it and see if it stops it.

48:20Because you can take that and put it between studs so what I was talking about a couple of weeks ago or last week my memory is so fading. Go into your house find a wall that's not a support wall that you know would make a good shelter a good defensive position and cut the part out of it take a you know take a knife or whatever and cut out a section of the plywood in or a section of the drywall excuse me cut out the drywall in between the two studs you can put backer board and plywood in order to create a ballistics you know stop point something to stop around. Put the drywall back in place mode over it repaying it whatever and if you know if something goes wrong you have a defensive position that you can flee to you know if your house is breached or if there's a drive by and you got to get somewhere where rounds won't penetrate that's something to think about and again this is something to work on preemptively this is not something to go okay it's just hit the fan now let's start now you want to start thinking about this now that's why I'm talking about this.

49:27I'm talking about it for those of you that have got lot more money than I do there is actually a company out there called armor core like the word armor and the word core all one word armor core dot com and they actually build these kinds of panels that when you are fabricating a house you can build these panels into the wall. For any of you that are doing new construction and you got you know a little bit more money than I do take a look at armor core again they're not a sponsor I don't represent them they just sell a really cool product that I would love to have if I ever won the lottery that's what I'm going to get. Alright we're going to start on this one I may not get finished with it because I've only got a few minutes left in fact you know what I've only got a few minutes left so I'm not even start that so next week what I'm going to do in the meantime is I'm going to ask the chat room what what questions you have. So if you in the chat be thinking about the questions that you've got be thinking about what you want to do next week we are going to give the bad guys the D.

50:31The defense and layers I know what some of you were thinking so in the security world we call this defense in depth and the idea is to start at the outskirts of your property or the area that you're at and put plate put things in place that make yourself less appealing or at least not worth an enemy's time you work in. In the meantime you work in the centric layers to slow down or stop an attack coming in and next week we're going to go through this but there's going to be deter detect delay and defend and I like to say I don't want to get into it because I've only got a few minutes left and I'll start getting off on the rabbit hole and I'll sit down here the music and I'm like an oh crap I'm at the Oscars so anyway we're going to say that for next week so defense and layers deter detect delay and defend and I'm going to get into some really deep. The idea is to really great area and it's going to be things like you know, pungee sticks and nail beds and we're going to we're going to figure out how to do botulism bombs with infected rat I'm just kidding we're not going to do that it's going to be like modern art.

51:34Here's an example sharp jagged polished metal if you place that strategically in your yard and you keep it up it's called modern art but if you let it rust it's a sharp rusted object called modern art. It's called an obstacle so things like that. Alright let's see our first deterrent is how our heel is how steep our heel is oh so okay so one of the one of the guys in the chat room says that basically I'm guessing he lives up on a hill and I don't have my music playing yet okay two minutes. So one of the one of the guys in the chat room says that he lives up on a hill and his first deterrent is a very very steep hill and that's awesome and those are going to be kind of things we're going to think of let's see anybody else got anything in the chat room real quick. I said I just glanced over the clock and I'm like I can't get into this next subject I'll be. Okay well you know what we're going to go ahead and call it tonight I want you all to join me next weekend because next weekend our next Friday because we're going to really really really have a good show I've got a lot of material to cover next week and it's going to be some really really dark evil stuff but anyway well that's going to conclude part one of our little story so if you missed any part of it or need a replay you know go stream it I hope that I've helped you all for something I hope that I've spurred some ideas.

52:59So I'm going to go and catch on Sunday with the cat terrible prefer on Sunday because it really good show thank you everyone y'all have a great evening. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network see our hosts show schedules and archive programs and more at Prepper Broadcasting dot com thanks for listening.

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