The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Changing Earth 10 Year Anniversary

Episode Date: August 6, 2025

Celebrate 10 years of the Changing Earth Podcast with us! From Day After Disaster to The Las Vegas Years, Sara F. Hathaway has woven 500 hours of survival wisdom into gripping stories that inspire and educate. “It’s not just about the knowledge; it’s the friendships that are irreplaceable,” -Sara Hathaway. Dive into our anniversary blog for highlights from a decade of episodes, eerie real-world parallels, and a glimpse at what’s next—maybe even a TV series! Subscribe at https://www.authorsarafhathaway.com to access every episode, pre-order The Las Vegas Years, and join our survival community. Here’s to dreaming, surviving, and thriving together!

Welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson, blending survival, fiction, and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway, and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. You know, 10 years of podcast and we still have technical difficulties. It's still new. What's still going on?

It's because the technology is always evolving, you know, and we're just trying to start with it. I'm glad you said evolving, not improving. Yeah, right. That doesn't necessarily mean it's improving. It's just evolving. No, we like our new streaming platform, and it's okay, and so I can't complain, but we're still getting the bugs out of it. I just don't get the normal use out of it. But big news today, guys, big news.

Well, 10-year anniversary, first of all, right? 10 years of doing the Changing Earth podcast. I started when I was 25. Here I am 10 years later, still 25. and it's just amazing how prime doesn't fly don't I wish no a little bit older than that I'm a little bit older than that now so when we started I have only published day after disaster the series the change in Earth series has grown into 11 book series 11 you guys heard me right guys here we go the Las Vegas years look at that it has arrived it looks so beautiful too that's you know that's my man oh douglas hogan ripping up the covers so it is available for pre-order right now help me out guys go pre-order one it's a couple bucks come on support a struggling author you know did it amazon order it up if you want to sign one you can order them

for me and i'll have um out at prepper camp so you know you're getting hooked up chin but uh yeah it's finally done how many years ago 10 years ago uh i've published day up disaster, I was like, I'll cover, I'll cover those years eventually. So we finally did it. Yeah, 11 books. The audio drama now, the audio drama is really cool project to be working on, hopefully a TV series before too long. We got pieces of motion, but you know how it is, so you just never know.

Almost 500 hours of survival knowledge. Holy smokes. And I got to tell you, when I was going back through, I'm trying to pick two. We tried to pick two shows that we really liked out of every season. It was rough. I was like, I set a lofty goal for myself because there's so much good. I don't go back through and listen to this. Yeah, I, I miss read that.

I thought you said pick two shows out of 10 years. And then I read it again. And you said two out of each book. I'm like, oh, you don't have that much time. I know. I'm sorry. I didn't realize I'm going to be such a challenge. There's a lot of crazy good survival knowledge in there.

Like I said, my goal now is to go back and listen to them all because it's just, it's incredible. I was like, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, I forgot all about that. You know, I forgot all about learning about so many awesome professionals and everything. So many amazing friendships. And I have to tell you, that's the biggest takeaway I have besides 500 hours of survival knowledge that, you know, you got to learn with me as it went. But the friendships that have made Chin, you, Intrepid Commander is going to join us in a minute, you know, Dave and Doug and friends, Dale and Lisa, I mean, James, I'll just do honorable men. mentions of them as we go on through the show today, but so many really incredible people. And I'm not just talking about like friendships where, um, you just talk to each other online.

I mean, yeah, digital friendships. Yeah, most everybody, um, that, you know, there's a lot of people out of the people that came on my podcast that I am personal friends with, like in person and everything now, which, uh, without those 10 years of podcasting, you know. I don't know that those friendships would exist. So Ellen was supposed to come on today. Unfortunately, we both got the flu at the beginning of week. Funny how sisters unite, but that happened.

And so she had to work today. I'm not going to be on. Yeah, no, she's not going to be on. I know. I'll talk with you. I'll get her. I know. She's like a day off from us.

What? Australia. Yeah. Hey, I just asked Grock. I just asked Grock. how many the, what's the average number of books a self-published author does? One to three books over their career and some do three to seven. Max.

Right. How did you see you have odd already? And I'm working on those math. You know, that's a much more daunting task. One to three average over a career. Right. Well, I can't, you know, I overachieve a little bit. It's kind of one of my flaws as well.

I get a little a lot overdrimmed, we'll say it that way. Well, you used to say you're a writer, you're an author,

you're right. I think you're a podcast or you talk a lot. I do. I do. My husband was like, don't you have a podcast to do?

So, yeah, we took Christian into the camp today to summer camp. So it's his first week away from mom and dad. And,

yeah, it's nice. It's fun. I found a mama. All right. So, Las Vegas years pre-sale. Grab it now. Completely help me out.

That'd be awesome. Let's try and rank this book up, number one. I pick some great categories for it. And I know we can get there. I'm already pushing the threshold. With your guys' help, you know, that was my last really big takeaway from doing 10 years of podcast, the survival community that has stemmed off of this show. The lives that have been touched, it's irreplaceable, man.

Irreplaceable. Chin got me this beautiful little 10-year anniversary gift, which is... Yeah, I'm sucking up to my boss. Yeah, I did get to a Bronco. You did. But, yeah, thanks, man. But, you know, the survival community, the people, James and I were actually talking about that earlier, just how, what a difference it makes in our world.

because we can get a little closed in working on projects a little bit. And then today we're going to do a couple of giveaways. We're going to give away a copy of Las Vegas years, and I'm going to give away a T-shirt. So stay tuned for that. That would be a pop-up in the chat. I don't know how many people are over in element, but I'll pop up in the chat. And I'll have some questions, and we can go there and check it out. and see who wins.

Who wins? All right. I think I have the technology on properly now. Maybe. Maybe. All right. So the other big deal that's going on is Prepper Camp. And, I mean, Preper Camp is awesome.

If you go back and listen to some of my shows, you can listen to every single year that I was. there at PreperCamp, which is insanity of five years ago. And I was realizing that as well. There's a lot of fun, really fun shows in here as well. The Goose Egg Show, where we played Family Feud and Doug just bombed out. I'm not allowed to talk about that with him. But yeah, Preper Camp's coming up.

James is doing a really cool interview session with everybody that's involved in that. You got to, guys got to check that out, tune into it. I always wanted to do that, so I'm a little jealous, but I'm glad he took the ball. Rick kicked his butt, I think, and got him going. Why don't you, come on, and crappy commander, come on, come on, it's your time to shine. He's there. Oh, I got to add him. There you go.

Yeah. Technology. I need, like, somebody to take care of me, you know. Hey, I'm going to sweeten the giveaway pot with a, with a lifetime PBN membership. You decide who gets it. How's that? Oh, my goodness. Lifetime.

Lifetime membership. Maybe they got to buy a Las Vegas to get it or something along those lines. How about that? You make the call, whatever you want to do. Just let me know who they are. I love my people. Like, I believe this is literally $2.99 to go pre-order that book. If you can't spend $2.99 on me after I was spent.

Oh, for sure. You know, that, uh, dad, I'd rather just, we just do the giveaway because that's super awesome, dude. I didn't expect you to do that. Works for me. Hold on. Chin got me all emotional. I forgot to check the mail yesterday.

And I went down, I was like, oh, crap, I got to check that before we get on the air. and that I opened up that box with it. I'm like, turn it, Chin. Oh, my God. You're going to get me all teared up. Yeah, that's beautiful, man. That's a wonderful little gift 10 years in. Brucking up to the boss, man.

Chin was talking about the authors, but the other thing, and maybe you can look it up to verify Chin is the podcasters. Yeah, we did that too. I sent that to say that. What's the average podcast? I mean, there's no way they make it 10 years. It's like six months or something, right?

Yeah, yeah, it's like six months. Yeah. Six months, yeah. Yeah, like 75% attrition rate, too. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've seen it. I mean, we've seen it here at PBM. But, yeah, it's amazing.

It's absolutely incredible. When did Chin come on? Chin came on. I was actually looking at this because I was going through all my shows. when we were on endless night. So I think it's like definitely over five years ago. I think Chin came on six years ago because I was going back to work. So Jen's been with me six years.

Gee, chin, man. You're the best. I was still living in a different state at the time. Yeah. And I was going to quit. Confusion. I know. It's like, what can I do to help?

Yeah, I was like, what can I do help? Thinking I could, like, help find, find talent, you know, find guests and stuff for the show. No. She was like, found it. Nope. She had to suck. It's crook and just found it, baby. Here's what you can do.

You're super smart. You're not doing anything Sunday night, are you? Yeah. Block those out for me. I know. That's why. There were a lot of, a lot of big decisions, a lot of sort of make or break decisions that took PBN in certain directions over the years since 2018 and uh definitely one of

those was you know bringing you guys on bringing Sarah into the prepper broadcasting network airwaves because that you know what i had no idea that was going to turn into the the absolute monolith that is the audio drama on top of you know the great show that you guys do every week and i you know The other big thing that I think you should know about Sarah is that you do the informational podcast in a way that I don't think anybody does it. When it comes to taking a disaster, doing an hour on the disaster, and making it entertaining, but also informative. Like, I can't do it. I don't have the skill set that you have to, I guess it's your layout. I don't know.

but it's the wildfire show that you did probably a month ago something like that was during the la fire yeah i mean that show was just that whole show was a clip i was putting clips together for like youtube and stuff and i was just like this whole show is a clip you know because not it's hard for me to stay focused i get like airheady and and then other shows are like too focused and it becomes like listical, you know what I mean? Number one, number one. It goes into the goal. Yeah, you do the, you do the legitimate like emergency preparedness

podcast the best, I think. You know, just enough banter so that it's not like, I got to go. But not so much banter that you're like, what are we talking about? I forget what we're even talking about. Right. I loved it yesterday. I was listening to show number one, season one, show one. and Sarah's like, I'm going to try a new format.

We're going to do, read a little bit of the book, talk about, you know, some kind of skill or knowledge-based, you know, set. And then, you know, we're going to go into it. And I guess it works 10 years later. That's a good format, Sarah. You had something there. Right. And now we got the new book.

I was just thinking, like, we could, I've got to get through some more of the audio drama stuff. I'm trying to catch back up with videos and everything. So I'm sorting the audio. drama of world out. But as soon as that is back to where, like, I'm only doing working on one show at a time again instead of multiple areas, we can do the Las Vegas years and read that book on here would be a lot of fun.

Yeah, that'll be sweet. Talk about changing her, changing earth, you better hurry up. It's like the whole West Coast was under tsunami warning. I don't know how much longer. You have to pass out life jackets. It was a three-pointer in New Jersey yesterday. Yeah, I saw. Right on the edge of the Crayton, and it hit the North American Crayton, like sits from Utah,

scoops down in Texas and goes up in case people don't know what I'm talking about. But right on the edge of the Crayton, I mean, you can do a map and look at those mountains going there. And then it hits the New Madrid as well right in there. So not only did you nail the format, you nailed the title of this whole series, the changing earth. Yeah. Yeah, it just happened that way, too. I knew it was going to be a series,

and I was publishing with Tate publishing at the time. They were the worst ever. I've got bookmarks from them. Yeah. Back when I was a fan boy. But it taught me how to, like, self-publish my own books. I mean, God has a reason for everything. So it was definitely a move to go that direction.

But, yeah, publishing with tape publishing, and oh no i got totally you guys got me all flustered now hey it's wild man like i said it's not it's not a common feat you're you're standing on two uncommon feats at one time you know that that's the crazy part it'd be wild enough to come on and say i've been podcasting for 10 years but when you add the whole book book publishing and not just book publishing you know the series it's never do a series like that there's no way I could do it. It's amazing. Like I said, our brains must just be

different. The next Dynasty, the next Walking Dead type series. Yeah. Once it gets found by the right person, it's just... Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So timely right now.

But it's just one of those things where so many people have the idea, say they could do it, or say they have the first book in the series, like so few people will take the series as deep as you've taken it, side quests the whole nine yards. Yeah, she's got the two spinoffs, right?

Oh, yeah. You've got a, you've got a television series with, what, three movies now? Three, basically three movies that you could put, you know, in between seasons. Yeah. Directors, what are you waiting for? People. Producers. Jesus.

And that's what we're watching right now. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy to me. It's like there's this gem out there, and people are like, no, I think we should do Caddyshack 7. That's what we should do. What are they doing now? Naked Gunn. Come on.

Yeah, obviously, I'm Neil and did it. Over again, not even seven. It's Caddyshack 1 redone, right? Yeah, right, exactly. We'll keep redoing the same moving. Yeah. Make it worse while we're at it. Yeah.

Yeah. It seems like inevitable to me. You know, the landscape is shifted. The world is shifted in a very big way. The world is shifting. underneath our feet, too. So it seems inevitable, you know, that somebody picked it up and goes,

oh my God, I'm so rich now that I met Sarah Hathaway, I can't believe it. You know? I'm going to work, man. I'm ready to go. They're like, you have enough energy to keep up with me? I'm like, do you have enough energy to keep up with me?

Whoever takes the risk is going to become a very rich person. That's all I can tell. That's going to be fun. Yeah, so after disaster when I did that one I honestly had no idea what the disaster was yet what started what was the idea the just the wine cellar situation yep I'm going down to school and my family's up in the foothills and so it was really just a thought exercise on like what do I do if shit goes down down here right

And so I had no idea what the real catalyst was going to be. I've always had this writing angel. It sits on my shoulder and the writing angel like, this is what it was going. Right? And then it just all comes back around on its own. It was really, really incredible stuff. Yeah. And it took me eight years to do that book.

Did it really? Wow. Yeah, I just picked it up. It took me eight years to do the first book? Yep. And then... What? 12?

How many more years to do the rest? Three in one year. Yeah. Three in one year. Yeah. Well, I was blessed enough that when I had Christian, we had the ways and means for me to be able to stay home. Oh. So Christian just sleep in your.

Yeah. I mean, I had so much energy and so much, you know, to give. I started two businesses and I wrote three. What a cool, what a cool mind frame to write a survival book from a woman's perspective, too, a little, like postpartum. Right, with the baby. Wow. There's been some eerie coincidences. Like, for example, when I was writing Dark Days in Denver, and it's the spoiler alert for anybody who doesn't know my series.

It's the Yellowstone eruption happens in that book, you know, and the sky goes dark, right? It's orange haze. well California was having really bad fires at the time and so it was all orange outside and then Swenson has Erica on that neck chain while my friend was going to school in Costa Rica and so my martial arts instructor was just drilling us with chokeholds all the time and he's pinning us to the ground like you're it's for real right to the point where it was like oh my gosh my throat hurts so bad I need ice water I need this I mean, that it was just mimicking like exactly what I was writing in my book. I was like, okay, that's creepy. I mean, that's the way to do it, right? Yeah. First-hand experience.

Yeah, I was like, this is the worst. And then also when I was writing Battle for the South, the Houston hurricane happens, right? And that was three months before Ian hit Houston. it. And I wrote that part of my book three months before it happened. And the same hospital that they used to triage people and Ian was the one that I had picked to write into my book. Because I would look at topographical maps and everything. I was like, great. That's trick. That is a trick. Yeah. Like I say, the writing angel is like, this is the story that you need to bring forth. And so I just always listen.

Listen. I'll tell you what. I mean, we want the best for you and we want to see it go as far as it can go. But what you've done, you know, never discount what you've done with the books and with the audio drama. I mean, you created the universe. You know what I mean? The universe is there. And that's like I said, I know a lot of people in life writers, preppers that have a great idea and one day they're going to bring it to life and it never happens. You know, it's a very rare person that brings it all together with that many books. You know, when I accomplish a goal, I always have another one on the list. And I hardly take the time to go, wow, right? Yeah, you should wow a little.

Right? You should definitely wow a little. I was posting the audio drama. No, I had to go back in my records because I didn't even realize it was my 10-year anniversary. But I had to go back to each old one. I was trying to figure out of a worker right there. Right. I was trying to figure out how long I knew Doug, Hogan. Right? So I was like, okay, I'll just go back in my podcast because the first time I met him was him was him coming on my show.

Sure. Yeah. Then I was like, oh my gosh, I'm coming up on my 10-year anniversary, July 24th, I published my first show. This is crazy. Yeah. And just about 500 shows. I don't know how my count got so off. so we're going to go through some of the books some of the episodes you can stick around if you want James and walk through it with us you're more than welcome um it'd be great but let's stick to a little bit of a format so we get some learning done as well we're not there we go right there's how it's done raining them back in yeah i mean like i said like i said start out with day after disaster like I said. At this point, I really didn't know that it was going to be the Great Quake Catalyst.

I had always filled my head up with a lot of prophecy, though. So that's probably, you know, where it came, where everything came. Oh, yeah, you told, you were the person that told me about the Hopi raining, lightning prophecy that

never left my head ever. It'll never leave my head. You know? Yeah, that's wild. Yeah. So, and they all converge on like the same thing. So, but during this period, I was reaching out to people trying to get an interview somewhere, right? I've got this book. I've got this podcast. I'm trying to get an interview. James Talmadge Stevens. He was known as Dr. Prepper. Oh, I remember Dr. Prepper, I think. Dr. Prepper. Yep. He passed away. His survival book.

was actually, like, his college thesis that he put together for, yeah. And he gave me that moment, you know, that, hey, come on the show. Let's talk about what's going on instead of, oh, another fiction author, that kind of thing. And his big schick was eat what you store, store what you eat. Great advice. Right. How many of us go out and buy? shit, we're never going to eat.

Yeah, I did in the beginning, for sure. Right. Exactly. And now it's like, okay, we're only buying the things we actually eat so we can rotate them. And so to get that piece of information like that early on was really, really beneficial, I'd say, as far as like honing into like functional preparedness. Yeah.

Because one of my friends, he grew up in a prepper household and his father cared more about stocking food than putting his kids through college. So there's extremes, right? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And this is kind of like the reality knock, like, hey, you might have that stuff for 20 years and never actually eat it. 20 years as long as you think.

Yeah, rotation is important too. You know, that's a big one. That's a big one. But, you know, the other big thing in storing what you eat is making sure you can cook the raw ingredients that you're storing. Working with it. Exactly. You know, the rice and the bean. It's awesome that way.

That the dehydrated, how to cook all the dehydrated stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one too. Probably good to have a little practice with that before you, for the end of times. Right? And you just got all these powders. The other thing, though, that he talked a lot about that doesn't really get mentioned, kind of on our preparedness landscape now, is it's your,

societal obligation to prepare. It's your responsibility to, you know, be part of your community and not being a burden on your community if you needed help. Yeah. Do you think that's part of a mature, like the more mature you get into preparing, the more you start to come around to that mindset? Yes. You know, when you first, when you first come out, you're reading all these novels about

this, that, and the other. and you know the lone wolf and all this crap but the more you get into it the more you realize if you can get the community involved it's less of a burden and less arrows pointing your direction if anything were to happen right so if you can invest the time up front before something happens there other people are also engaged in in the recovery or whatever oh yeah yeah i wouldn't disagree with that also um you know because my game plan was like oh i'm taking my kids to the woods yeah we're all there at one point yeah i read that terrible idea at one point yeah right back the backpack have it sitting in the closet you're ready to go oh yeah boom uh-huh ready to roll

so origin manual what's on the menu tonight the other one that was really cool just because I had some really bad stomach issues in like 2018 my gallbladder went bad but they told me you know it was basically because of a lack of medication they had to be on all these medications and I was like no man that's just making me feel horrible. And so I got into herbal healing a lot. And Kat Ellis came on my show. She was one of the original. She was the best. Right? And I know, I don't know what happened to her. I know she wanted to go to like law school so that she could go in and really start making a difference. She cared enough that she was like, I'm done sitting on the sidelines. So I'm not going to be podcasting

anymore. I need to jump and actually, you know, be making, be having a voice. And she, I don't know she went after her law degree so that she can help change the world which is great so yeah her her not her whole archive but her shows are archived at prepper broadcasting dot com if you go search the herbal yeah yeah i don't know how many i have up there it's probably close to 10 all right search the herbal prepper yeah you can listen to her i didn't know that yeah she's so incredible and it really gave me the um uh like mom has high blood pressure okay well what can we plan so that if your medicine was suddenly gone we can figure this out you know that's important yeah so many people are on part of tuticles well food and medicine is a great starting point i'll tell you that much yeah

that's not a bad way to get in at all yeah that's where we're starting out like the awesome shows so that was yeah um the eat what you store as storage you eat and then the survival medicine honorable mentions um my good buddy skip buck was on we did a lot of physical fitness whatnot he's just an awesome man uh james hart he did a lot of my like desert survival um lots of wilderness survival material dr bones of course that's when i first got dr bones don't drink the water water, I met him in person, and he had always wanted to be a villain in a book series. So I was like, I can make your dream come true, buddy. And now, Dr. Bones actually plays Dr. Bones on audio drums.

Yeah. Wait, Swenson picks him up. That was, like, the best, like, scene. Right. Yeah. And that would be him. Dr. Bones. did uh i think he did the first at least in the prepper world when and we were probably

ahead of everybody anyway but he did a show with nurse amy in december of 2019 that we reposted on pbn and it was something something and strange pneumonia's in china and it was covid i mean it was what he was talking about he we didn't know it as that yet but him and nurse amy talked about it they were talking about COVID they just didn't you know I mean they were talking about it's like what is this thing what could it be there's definitely something going on well even in it was such a crazy show to look back on at the same time we got really really sick uh sick not yeah in December because it was before we moved I remember exactly because I was really sick we were trying to move to Texas and everything yeah and uh bad enough to go into the doctor

and a doctor was just like, yeah, you got a cold, you know? There's nothing we're going to be able to do for it. And then boom, boom, boom, COVID's here. And it was like, oh, yeah, it was kind of crazy. Yeah, we had some run through our house in November that year, but I don't think it was COVID because we got it. We got it for sure because I remember it all hit us in a different way. But it was weird.

It was a weird way. Definitely. Definitely your run of the. a meal definitely not generated in a lab or man made. It's everybody definitely has nothing to do with genetics. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, but that was a good one. Dale and Lisa are a good when you know, survival is prepper. Now you're doing like a Hall of Fame of Prepper podcast now.

Yeah. So, go ahead, Chin. Oh, no, I was just saying, yeah, Dale and Lisa, they were She got a Didn't she get a gig for Neosporan?

She's like the host for that now? The Scope woman for Neosforn? It's a running joke because Lisa Nate Neosforan. And she's all about Silvasorb. And I got to tell you, this is funny

that you brought that up. My mom picked up the cat. The cat just calls the out of her arm. She's squirting blood. I'm like, so, oh, my gosh. So, yeah. So I'm like, this is a cat bite. Like, maybe we should go to the hospital.

No, no, I might be fine. Blah, blah, blah, blah. She's ripped over. I'm like, okay, you know, whatever. We'll figure it out. We put the silver stuff on there. I just buy the generic one because, you know, an author. So you could watch it pulling the pus out of her arm.

Like, it's legit. Yeah. It's really good stuff. So there's something to be said for it. Yeah, Lisa and her Neal Sporin. She's like, don't use that stuff. Sorry, Nealcline. They won't be sponsored

the changing Earth, I guess. Definitely not. Uh-oh. We lost their chin. Oh, no, he fell out. The mesh node broke. The repeater broke. That's what I was like.

If he was on a radio, I can hear him right now. He's trying to hop. out to Texas so he can hop to Texas and be able to connect with me at one of those things. You mean via repeater? Yeah, or like put up a weather. He's getting close. I know. He's damn sure getting close.

He sends me little diagrams every day almost about where he's seeing signals. Where is reaching? Yeah. Okay. So we get no without land. And this is where I'm going to do a giveaway. So if anybody's out there in chat. I guess I should be on element, too, huh?

I'm going to pull up element just in case. I think he's back. There he is. So. I got a cut out. He said something sensitive. You know, Sworn didn't like my comments. Oh, yeah.

We thought your mesh past agnose failed. We were. That stuff's amazing. Oh, no. We don't swirl chin on this conversation. that's a no funny conversation the wife and I were

squirrel for a second the wife and I were taking the dog out for a walk today as she started talking about fighter ins and all this stuff that I said just put it on the table and I'll take it and then she goes yeah it's like when you start talking radios I'm like yeah just put the walkie talkie on the channel and go

it's like I tell her what channel you know just just set it and get it and forget it yeah That's what I'm talking about. I've been nagging. Come on. Hey. All righty.

So, in between one and two is the Las Vegas years. In between book one and two. I don't know if I can show it. Even says 1.5 now on this one. Right? Great idea. During that time that I was out, I went and ordered the book, Sarah. So everybody listening, if the co-host can order the book, they can get on the stick and order the book.

I'll be order in mine for sure. That's right. Pre-order, you guys, help me out. But how many years are in between book one and two? And if you can tell me to answer, then I'll give you a... Oh, trivia question. I like it. Yeah.

Yeah. I like it. That's the... So whoever pops up, I think I can see... Am I, can I see the chat? James, am I doing things correctly? Oh. Like in the stream yard chat?

Yeah. It's in that comment section. Yeah, I got. Yeah, up on the top. Yeah. Everybody's quiet. What are you guys doing out there? You're quiet.

It is very quiet. Sunday. Plenty of people watching over on X. Yeah. Come on guys. It's weird that our usual suspects on YouTube aren't here. Yeah. I picked a bad night.

What do they know that we don't know? Right. What are you doing, man? You know what I'm doing? I'm waiting for Jesus. He'll tell me when it's right. There you go. All right.

So with that plan, my favorite one, my mind blower during podcasting season two was having Doug on. This was the first year for Doug, so I've known him nine years. And he... When you met Twenson. You know what I was a pastor when I asked him to do that. Oh, my goodness. Jesus. I know.

So he, though, came on the podcast and absolutely blew my mind with everything that the government already has in place to control the United States. If they just say, oh, it's a national disaster. Boom. They can control the air. They can control you, lodging, food, water, oil. Everything you could possibly think of It was all taking control slowly by slowly With executive orders

And then I believe it was Obama That went, well, we'll just make these all into one So that we'll just say it, boom, now we got everything His class on that at Pepper Camp Is a don't miss class It is. We have it on changing earth. We did survive in martial law on changing earth because he got rained out and Colleen

and with where we were at with what was going on right about then we thought it's very important making notes and he told me I need to be a little bit more compliant and I said we'll see about that yeah because if people come to your house

the fed rolls or whatever and they don't come back and check in, that's where the next force is coming to, you know? So he made a good point. I don't know if it's within my nature, though, so we'll give it a try. It's like Erica and the closet. Yeah, so Erica being put in the sweat box,

that's no like, you didn't draw from self-experience there, did you? You got to be a little more compliance there. You won't end up in the sweat box. Well, yeah, that's what, It sounds like, oh, I'm never getting arrested with you. We're going to get in too much trouble. What? This is a sweet angel.

No, now she's in the real life sweat box. Now she's down there in Texas. I live in Texas. Tell me about it. Man. And the other one that really, really blew my mind during season two. Oh, guys, I should caveat all this with you can access. If you go to change your series.com, you have to,

to subscribe and become a member. You don't have to pay me if you don't want to, but I do appreciate it if you do, because that's a lot of years of podcasting. But you become a subscriber and you get access to the membership information. And then I have all the books listed out with all the shows that go with them. So you can literally listen to the whole book series and get the survival lesson that goes with it. So that's where I'm pulling all this, the shows from. And you can find and randomly around on my website as well, but that's the easiest way to find, like, what content with what is through that area. So I interviewed this guy, and his name is Craig Polfus.

Sorry, I don't pronounce it very well, but he did higher brain living for survival. And I tell you what. He had me read materials that just blew my mind as far as human evolution and how we never evolved to the next step without a disaster. But like you'd like to think that eventually we would be wise enough to be able to go to that point without destroying each other or having this huge disaster before human civilization advances to the next level. it's like the dark age stuff like that right um he had me read this book called the watchman's rattle

which i would highly recommend if you are into any kind of advancing your brain to the next level because it just goes through like a lot of how the prefrontal cortex comes up with ideas and like um for example a fire break how they know how to back burn stuff now right so they'll start a fire in front of the big fire so they can back burn it to the fire and then the fire doesn't have anywhere to go to anymore. No more fuel, yeah. So the guy who thought of that was literally

being surrounded by a fire. He had one spot he could stand in so he lit everything in front of him on fire to burn to the fire to save his life. And it was just that pre-form. Could you imagine being there with that match in your hand? I think this

is going to work. I'm screwed one way or the other We might as well give him a try Yeah And then he was like I'm just going to burn it to the fire And it worked And now it's a process that we use

To help contain water wires and whatnot So really really crazy Cool stuff from this guy That I learned from him And his quote that I love And I really needed to hear this The past does not exist So you're forgiven

life gives you a fresh moment to start over with every day but if you're reacting to the past you will destroy yourself you will distract yourself from the present moment oh definitely bra bro you got time to start over every single morning so there's no use in bringing the past with you except to learn from quality experiences you know so that was that was that was right and that was a pretty good one honorable mention big time in season two would be

Abe Lloyd he's wild forging and I did quite a few interviews with him incredible wild forger and I highly recommend that if you don't know the wild things in your area that you find someone who does and find out

like I literally chase these people down there was a guy removing a beehive from our neighbor's house and he's like, come over here and I'm like, you have a piece of that I don't, uh-uh-uh, uh-uh, he's like, yeah, come over here. So I go over, he gave me all this honeycomb and everything,

but he started telling me about all the native plants that are around, I'm like, dude, I'll pay you to teach me, right? And he's like, oh, just start to raise bees. I'm like, no, but that's a place good people to learn from. I just highly recommend that you, you know, figure out what is a ground you to eat. So before you absolutely need it. And the key with the foraging is the moment you figure out what it is and you're 100% sure, pull it out of the ground, bring it in the house, wash it off, eat the parts that are edible, prepare the parts that are preparable.

Because in my experience, my personal experience, the biggest thing that held me back and the biggest thing that I think holds people back in forging is they become real good at identifying things and that's where it stopped you know like oh that's a with a thistle over there and that's willow over there and that you know and then when it comes time to do stuff with it you're yeah you're at you're at that too many first sort of position right so yeah grab it pool it bring it in play with too many first I remember somebody else to say in the comment about many first We did cat tails one day that we actually had a good one yeah because everybody talks about it and then acorn bars I've got recipes on that

acorns are great and they're all across the country there's so many things you can grind it into and toast it and grind it and toast it and drink it in water and it gives you a jump just like coffee does man I've never made acorn coffee before Yep, you put a little... That might have to try. Yeah, it's good stuff, man. Okay, Walls of Freedom. So Walls of Freedom is one of my favorite books that I wrote.

It has a lot of wilderness survival at the beginning. You know, it's like half wilderness survival, half farm, urban type survival. And I just really... It caused me to grow in ways because I had to create the whole new society and everything. so it caused me to really grow my author skills and the new grounds beyond being able to do the wild foraging with it, which I love.

The wildlife survival. See, he just wants to be on the show, James. It's okay. The bird. Chin rolled out again. I know. He does that. He does that. He does that.

Yeah. He's popping back in. Okay, so two of my favorites from Walls. Oh, you know what? I should hold up a second. What did Chin find out? Did you actually do the homework assignment? Let's see if I can.

I went with a couple of shows. It wasn't the whole side. But it would literally book what that, anybody that starts their book series off with the vague character stuck in a wine cellar has my attention going, forward. So I thought that was brilliant. The whole thing. Wake up, it a panic, smelling wine in the darkness, and she has to figure out how to get out of the wine cellar.

You had me. That was one of my favorite moments. That's the original book. My book doesn't start that way anymore. What? You know, I might have to rethink my contract now. No, I re-edited a day after disaster once. So in that scene,

gone all together or just in a different spot? No, it's just in a different spot. So how much is my book worth now since I have like the OG, huh? Right. Oh, man. Yeah, that's the original copies. Yeah. That were done through tape will probably be worse something because it's not long.

So, yeah. But, yeah, it doesn't, it starts, she wakes up at Henry and Carols now and then tells the story. I do it as a flashback Because producers look at your first 50 pages And I love the whole thing She was going through like the coat closet was down there She's going through all the purses

And rummaging through everything To figure out what she had And what she Yeah, this is the best Very McGiver-esque, right? Yeah Oh no, what it reminded me of is like early Video Game, early stage video.

Oh yeah, yeah You know what I mean? Like you just started the video game Yeah, I got a forage, I got to see. I got a clean, like high. Walk over and touch that rock and see what's under. Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah.

That's what it reminded me up. It was a great intro. Fletcher's actually thinking about design and a video game. He's been working out for a while, so. Oh, you know, there's something you should check out. The whole series. I'm so glad you brought that up. There's something, I won't talk about it,

But there's something that out there called N-E-S Maker. Oh, huh. You've ever seen it? Yep. That would be a cool way to do it. I have like a previous version of one that they did on PlayStation that was like RPG maker. Yeah, yeah. I had to sit around for a while.

So, yeah. You can make a cartridge now, like a legit Nintendo game. changing her video game sweet crazy it's sweet all right you got to talk to fletcher as if you don't have enough to do yeah you throw a video game in there what the hell books podcasts audio books and everything else so all right top two from walls is um the foot care for long hiking and bug out so people focus on their bag their bag their bag and like first of all can you carry that bag all right like can you legitimately carry that bag for any amount of distance and not just the end of the driveway and back right so yeah some of these some of these tests

that james and the guys are doing where they're actually hiking through the woods it's insane but it proves a lot listening to you guys it's like mm-mm-mm right oh yeah if we had to if we had to conduct an operation after that last 12 mile hike yeah at 2 a.m. like if we had something important to do

yeah we didn't need it in that we didn't need it in that before we got into anything or an adrenaline jump or something you're right that was rough and those bags weren't heavy that they weren't really very heavy at all but yeah you're gonna cross two states scale

a hundred-foot mountain, you know, and then go in and do the operation and come out with their machines. Yeah. That, yeah. You got to give a little. And we weren't even carrying guns or ammunition. Think about that.

No guns, no ammo, no body armor, nothing. That one's calm. I'm going to hit that topic. But, okay, feet. So your feet are your wheels. You don't have feet. You ain't going nowhere, okay? And you can't have rotten feet

and you can't have toe. that are messed up and you've got to know how to take care of your feet you've got to have your boots broken in you can't just have like oh these are my bug out boots ha ha ha okay so um yeah so um yeah so that one was important really really important to me um and maintaining your weapons so ben brendham awesome dude um modern self-protection podcast uh super guy another guy I've met in person, sold me my AR, very down-to-earth, just super guy all around. And he played, did some audio drama work as well. He was Nicholton at the start, done a lot of shows together, and he's just taught me a ton about firearms.

So any of those ones are great to go back and listen to. That man is like crazy, crazy good when it comes to weaponry. So honorable mentions Season three I have an interview for my father-in-law who's now passed away And he was a vet So he did an interview with me I'm prepping for your pooch

And you know Those are the memories we make doing this kind of stuff After being here for a decade You know And the legacy that we get to leave behind for our children as well. I know if something happened to me, they have over 500 hours of me talking about different stuff.

So that is a special thing about podcasting. So he's up with Jesus waiting for us. I can't wait to see him again. He's a fantastic man and a really great guy. The other one is Dave Shostokas.

And he's a constitutional lawyer and definitely a little bit, you know, outside of my realm of knowledge. So I definitely wanted to pick his brain. And we did a lot of shows on like, is the Constitution still relevant? And what are the dangers of having a two-party system? And these are things that we don't really, you know, sit and look back on retrospectively. So great topics, great things, great things to go over there. Okay. Battle for

the South. Battle for the South. This is season four of the Changing Earth podcast. I mean, I had the hardest time picking out of this lineup. This. Okay, we're talking.

Ellen's on the show doing boat survival. We got Doug back on doing all kinds of cool navigational. Things that are kind of outside of the room. Women's survival, female survival, Doug, you know, talking about different perspectives, you know, as a police officer and things like that, that, you know, women need to think about survival.

Samuel Culper, who is Mike. Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's, come on, Ching. Forward observer, yeah. Yeah, from Forward Observer, right. So he. Mike Shelby, yeah.

Twice. Survivor Jane. Oh, man. Um, Dr. Bones is back on there. James Rizone, he, we did an interview on interrogation. And, um, he's an actual interrogator who was like over in the Middle East and stuff. I mean, phenomenal for where I was taking my characters and whatnot, you know. Um, Brian Duff, Nicole Lepleon.

Nicole, yeah. Yeah, Nicole Appellian's on. And, uh, she's just fantastic. Fantastic, fantastic herbalist. John Green, nobody will know John Green because I couldn't share his real name. But he is from Homeland Security, very high up in Homeland Security, and some great interviews there.

Doug Huffman, not Hogan, Doug Huffman, owned Sierra Survival, and he did a lot of my close quarters combat training with me, urban evasion stuff he is was phenomenal to train with i don't think i've said that word enough about all of these incredible people so like if you want just a season where you're just going to be downloaded with some serious awesome survival information this is in both this is it um favorite shows of mine from the season since i had to pick to you i set that goal for myself, was getting and staying self-defense ready with Dan Lobos. He was my martial arts instructor for 20 years now.

That's fair to say. He is one of, I mean, the man tells me to jump. I would say how high. I trust him with my life. And he's just an incredible individual who does so much to use his time to better other people's lives. So incredibly stellar man. And this interview that I did with him is a lot of the foundation of my self-defense class.

So it's not just about moves. It's about nutrition and your body. Because if your body ain't ready to defend itself, it doesn't matter what you know. You're going to roll around like a roly-poly-o-y, right? I mean, that's it. So, yeah. So it doesn't matter how much knowledge you have if you don't have your body in decent shape to be able to execute those things and carry that bag, do that hike, you know.

And if you think it's easy, go ahead and try one jiu-jitsu class. At the end of that jiu-jitsu class or a sparring class, Brock and I started doing crab now, too, Craven-Drop. I say I'm very wrong because I'm from Michigan. But we started doing that as well, just because I wanted to learn. I get to be a white belt again. I'm a beginner. So that's fun and, you know, good exercise and whatnot.

So still training in MMA, still expanding the horizons. And it's just really important to do so. Stay ready, get ready, stay ready, keep your bone structure up. And yeah, you're going to have to do that like four times a week at least. So typically I wake up and train in the morning and at night during the week. So which is why I have to or else I lose my brain. to the other one we were getting to because you said carrying ammo on the hike right James Yeager

God bless him he's in heaven as well now before I got a chance to go meet him and give him help because I was looking forward to that one I love poking the bear really really amazing incredible guy as well no nonsense dude um but he made me read his book private defense contracting by james yager before i did the interview with him and i tell you what i am so glad i did because his lists in that book are for like what you need if you're going over to do an operation right and you're going to survive maybe a week or whatever out god knows where all your gear that you need

everything that you need to carry. So if you're looking for like, what's my military loadout look like? How much more, right? How much more gear do I have to carry? Yeah. How much is the other stuff worth it to me if I need to carry these bullets? Oh, yeah. Right?

Because. Yeah, well, that's when the bug out, like the pack everything bug out bag goes out the window. You know what I mean? Because it just becomes unfeasible. Right. and where are you going to move? How are you going to move with that thing on? Yeah.

And, you know, the movies are great. Like, oh, I'll get the ammo. They pick up this huge duffel bag, supposedly full of guns and ammo. Like, dude, the handles would have wrecked straight off that thing. Like, I don't get over the shoulder, no problem. Or no, I like the guys that carry it, like, in their right hand the whole time. Yeah, oh, I got it. I got it.

I'm like, dude, no, you wouldn't. My bag is like this bag full ammo. And I'm like, yeah, that's crazy. And then you'd have to have the guns on your back. You're not going to have them in the bag with them. Your guns begin all stressful. Anyway, so that's my take on it. So that's why those are my two.

All right, so let's see. We got some other people in the chat. Has anybody guessed how many years are in between book one and two? I guess it's a tall order. You guys aren't a red change in earth? this is an easy question easy for me

all right right I got to figure it out I had to timeline that sucker tell fire will forge to take it yet okay so the next what just take a guess

Firewill forge and chat in the YouTube chat over there yeah yeah Firewall Forge just just start the numbers. There's a freebie involved, dude. Yeah, you can, you can win

a copy of my new book The Las Vegas years. Oh, you can get rid of this one. He said three years. No, longer than that. I'm going to hop off, Sarah. I appreciate you having me on. Commander.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Congratulations. Tremendous. The two we have been tremendous. for years and sarah i know you're the woman of many projects but definitely take the time to enjoy what you've created and accomplished because it's it's above average we know the averages we know we know the metrics you know and that's you appreciate all right chin good to talk to you too my man fire wolf thanks for popping in i'll see you guys all right firewolf you're close you're very very close now

you're just knocking at the door whoops sorry 7 knocking at the door let's see if you can get I'm going to go on in the next question so what

or who changed the whole direction of my novel series there's somebody that changed the direction of my whole novel series, who was that? I think for her in four days. Yeah, now you're over.

Now you're over. And you can go even your, I've rounded it all. But now you're past again. That's funny. Think middle ground. So when I started doing dark days in Denver, my focus turned very much to human trafficking. And so if you can tell me, you're pretty darn close now, one less. Who in their right mind would think human trafficking would be a modern day issue?

I mean, it's still, blows my mind that that's a thing. That's why I was blown out of the water. Oh, I put nine. You're right. Nine years. Yep. You can. Oh, I didn't.

If you go over to changing our series.com and hit the contact button, you can just shoot me an email, and that way we can connect. I'll grab your address and send you out a book. You are the winner of the Las Vegas years, but please go pre-order as well. It really helps me out. Okay, let's get through some of these, some more. We're lagging. So, yeah, the human trafficking really hit me hard. And knowing that human trafficking hit me hard, if you can guess,

oh, Firewolf is going to get hooked up. Because if you can guess who influenced me to change the direction on my book series, then you'll get a free T-shirt as well. And it'll be easy for me to send out both for one's place. Skip came on the show. We did a show on Stop Human Trafficking. That's why T.J. was created so I could really highlight the horrors of human trafficking. And also bring my readers into the central region so we can look at them that's going.

on there what the repercussions are of that going to our to our country so the one of the interview that i did with skip is also a great interview also the basis of my sexual antisexual harassment class oh if you get one you have to get the rest well you can order sign copies from me over there while you're there get hooked up Um, they're not the new covers, but I still have a few sets of my old covers on sale over there. Um, you'd have a new cover that you just won and then old covers. But, uh, I'm getting ready to take those prepper camp and, uh, put them on the clearance rack. So they are a great deal over there, but it is the old covers.

If you want the new ones, you can order them there as well. Okay, number two on that list was prepping for addicts. Um, I don't know that enough of us really think about, like, like, oh, that person drinks beer all the time. That person smokes cigarettes. That person, cocaine habits, heroin, pills, pharmaceuticals, right? There's so many addictions that people have, and we need to think about that when we are planning for preparedness.

Dan Lovaas actually did that interview with me as well. Great guy, of course, but it's a really good one. And like I said, that whole, I was blown away. I was like, I'm going back to a list of my own shows. This is really good stuff. Honorable missions? I was. That was a wild moment for me.

To look through there and be like, whoa. Phil Nels, he had Raven Bladesmithing. He was on. Dr. Fraser Schilling from Berkeley was on regarding the coastal, the coastal, the ocean level increase. Michael Pollan from the Yellowstone Observatory was on. And Michael Loftus came on and did his anti-kidnapping class with me. He is really a big basis for my anti-kidnapping class.

That man is amazing. He was like a boxer in the Bronx who was like, sick of watching women get, you know, assaulted and whatnot, and just started teaching women to defend themselves. Really honorable task, put it together really well. Great job. Phil Rabley, that guy was on there. And Rick, you know, Austin was on there. So Endless Night, that's when Chin joins the show. Thank you, Chin. Endless nights. All right. Endless night. And Fernando, Aguirre is one of my highlights from that. Oh, yeah.

We did some amazing stuff on that season as well. But Fernando, he came on and talked about the collapse of Argentina and was like, if you don't think it could happen in the United States, think again. You listen to that man's story. It's incredible. So that one I would definitely check out. And we had Hakima. Hakeem Isler was odd.

and he did psychological warfare, his psychological warfare class, which is really cool. He has a cool set of, like, personality traits that you can use to kind of, like, figure out people. And these are really good tips to know if you're going to be a leader. Chief Master, my martial arts instructor took me all through these types of things when I started teaching martial arts so that you can understand people's personality types and teach to each style of how they're learning. Really nice stuff. James Yeager and the Flood Show is in that team.

My favorite. That was my second favorite. Yeah. Have we got past your first one yet or you hold more? You still hold that? No, my first one was the very first show getting stuck in the one. Yeah, yeah. So that was, I don't know that my favorites are particularly.

productive prepping tips, but they're my favorite shows. And James telling you no. You don't drive to the floodwater. But what if, no? We've got to do a half-hour interview here. That was the best. Those are my two favorite shows. So we did Turticket and Stop, Stop, Bleed with my buddy Tim Johnson.

He's now a big-time paramedic. He does a lot of, um, still too. teaching on stop bleed classes and stuff like that um kevin reader remember we had him on for the wound yeah that was interesting and uh Doug ben bredum back on Nicole again you know great community and a lot of community shows and self-reflection shows in that season which is always good stuff hope on the horizon was 20-20 so that is our COVID mark and believe it or not my favorite show from hope on the horizon is communist takeover and because I was curious like how did Germany fall into what they fell into before World War II what's that really looked like and so we ended up finding way better

information than we wanted to um wasn't that the one that i was afraid of training the wrongs the wrong listeners oh um no that was how to become a tyrant i think that oh yeah okay yeah i was like oh man this is not the right show um but um this one had that list of like all of the different um communist goals that have already been accomplished which is just crazy um healing from psychological abuse is the other one that i picked out in that one because it pretty much summed up all of 2020 we were all psychologically abused and our country still has a lot of healing to do um you know the healing and love those are the only things that are really going to stop more and so we have to we have to we have to heal and we have to uh hope

that other people will feel as enlightened to do so. Or else, we're not going to be in a good place. Erica in the world at this point, we're in a very strange parallel with her, like, overcoming this. So that was pretty interesting. Honorable mentions here, Doug did his National Emergency Freedom show, which was incredible. James Walton, the Intrapid Commander, was on. He did his Second Amendment show.

we did that long distance hiking show that was really really good chocolate block full of great info for the long and then how to cope with psychological torture that was pretty good the bitter end is the last book i only podcasted 14 episodes of that one because i gave away all my books if you want to check them out you can get them all for free i mean all you're doing is supporting me by actually buying them which is great But I want you to have the information. Anyway, so I gave away all my books, and I wasn't going to give away the end of the series. So that is one that you have to actually go by if you want to experience the end of the series. And I was scared to write this book because I was afraid of not giving the series the justice that it deserved at the end.

And it's a big book because I just kept writing until it felt done. and so I'm pretty proud of that one and so that's what we did Preper Camp 2021 was a show in there pretty fun on the Australia lockdown and the tracking guys you want like what was happening here was crazy

what was happening in Australia was insanity so that's from the mouth of our resident Australian right yeah boots on the ground for that one yeah and that was crazy um then we did burgess and it's full of some amazing it was a lot of like summarizing a lot of knowledge that we've been really putting together during these 10 years um and deep dives into topics that we felt like we didn't really explore enough um once again i love the beginning of that one flying in the airplane was like

I love that because you pulled it together. It was fine. That would love that. Yeah, that they're in the air while the earthquakes go on and everything. Yeah. And then I had to put that when I did my video. I put that in a video. Did I?

No, that's during season one. I didn't put that one in video I like. It's amazing how fast that technology made it possible. me to do what I do. It was like, it's not available to do that, and now it is. So it was pretty neat. We did the show on choosing your hard, though. And I really loved that show. It's like, you know what? Exercising is hard. Not exercising is hard on your body, and you're going to face a lot of circles, you know. Prepping is hard. Not prepping is hard. So choose you're hard. What do you want to, you know, what do you want to be facing? And then maintaining

calm and different, difficult conversations. That's something I'm still. I have to go listen to that one again. Yeah. Over and over again. It's been a week. Um, great tips there, though. And then honorable mentions, we had, um, Rick, that was the, Austin, that was the 10-year of Preper Canber anniversary last year. So that was a pretty special milestone for them. Carrie Hanson came on and shared with us what she was doing with

her podcast, which are some amazing mom survival stories. If you're going through like difficult times and you don't think there's anybody else out there experiencing these things. She has some crazy podcast, yeah. Yeah. Some

a butcher came on, you know, and we got a whole Purr Survivals, lots of great stuff I meant Dave Jones, Phil Ellen, the whole crew. Then live shows. So if you go into my website and you go to the podcast, the live show links are shows that really don't have a season because we were just floating around in between books. And there's some amazing shows in there. There's some really funny shows in there as well, too.

So, yeah, some great goodies. they're all listed there. So you don't have to, like, search around for them. They're all there. The PreperCamp Livecasts are there. A lot of planetary news and, like, the show that James was talking about, like, you know, Nightmares Trevor, that one's there. But my two favorite out of that are actually the two most recent that we did.

Last month's surviving catastrophic flooding. That was a great show. There's a lot of information in there. and we all need to be prepared because it's getting crazy and it's worldwide and it's crazy awesome and then the wildfire safety tips the fire right yeah that that is and we were both coming from experiencing like you in california me we had north carolina's after on a fire so it's like we were both talking from our hearts on those shows right and i was in helene man That was fun.

I'm so glad my home state could expose you to that experience. Yeah, that was good. All right. So there you guys go. Ten year recap. Changing Earth. We're going to do a little change in Earth news, but we better get after it because we're getting long on time. And I don't want to keep your guys' ears forever.

I know y'all got stuff to do. Let's jump into some Changing Earth news because we had some biggies going. on let me just get my tech all fired up over here dream survive thrive this is changing earth news all right so we are looking back to july 6th for changing earth news um tropical storm chantelle hit South Carolina five people dead from flooding so I know you're always like

oh it's always flooding over there that I thought it was kind of worth I'll mention because five people 60 mountain hour win so it wasn't that bad the hurricane season's been creeping and slow but that's the same thing it did last year I'm telling you if they're

forecasting a hurricane over North Carolina again I want to think twice I'm just said that was a little spooky Typhoon Danes hit in Taiwan China and the Philippines

there was a total of 34 lives lost in that event 22 injuries 8 people missing from that billions of dollars in damage in the Philippines and the Philippines have really

been getting hammered I don't know about being out on that island right now they also had crop damage to things like rice vegetable crops, that type of thing. We had a couple of tropical storms, but

Mount Louis Toby lackey, lackey in Indonesia. I know I'd probably say it wrong, but we were playing a drinking game right, if we were playing a drinking game right now. Lua Colby Lackie Lackie. It's been erupted, big

time. It was actually like big time. When I look at the volcano numbers, you don't usually see, like, major eruption. There's only been two times, and I think it was last month that was the other, it might have been the month before that, but they've both been very recent, as far as major eruption going, and it is Luatobi, lackey, lackey, went up like 19,000 meters of the ashfall into the air. So that's making some big noise over there. What else do we get? We had some tornadoes touchdown, but we're talking light,

tornadoes, 10th, 11th, some droughts going on, but it hasn't been too bad. And honestly, I know it's harder than Haiti's in Texas, but it's been cooler than a lot of our other summers have been. So I know. We've had heat warnings. Yeah. All the last two weeks up here. We sent it all to you guys this year.

Oh, thanks, but no. You guys are like at the same temperature as us almost. So that's supposed to continue through. August. You guys are supposed to cool down for like a week and then it's going to crank back up a little bit. July 14th, flash flooding in

New Jersey. Two lives lost there from the flooding. Possible crop damage to corn that's growing up there. The volcano in Ireland erupted on the 16th. It is a name that I cannot

even try to pronounce. But it's not the one that begins with an R. I can't remember what it is, rhetoric, rhetoric or something like that. It's one that begins with an S, sunda-hunder or something of that nature. But I cannot read their language even close. The volcanoes have all been very, very, very active. Lots of noise going on, which puts a high alert up for West coast. I hate to do that. But it is just eerie out there right now. Tornadoes, 18th

to the 19th. We're talking winds, big winds in Ohio, Nebraska. Everything had kind of calmed down in Texas. We're getting like some thunderstorms and things like that. It was cool out in California. We haven't seen big wildfires, knock on wood. Praise the Lord.

And ask that he, please continue that. the 22nd to the 24th was the Limassol Valley fire in Cyprus. Two people died in that one. 10,000 hectares burns, so that's a big fire going on. That's over in Europe area in Turkey, I believe. And it's likely olive oils, vineyards, things like that that are going to be affected by that. Greece had a big fire from a helicopter crash. Oh, they're doing life after people again.

Do you ever watch that show? I took notes on that show to write my books. Love that show to death. And they're doing new episodes on it. And one was about like, when people just go away in New York, then like there's like 9,000 helicopters flying over New York airspace at any given time. So if they were just instantly gone,

that all those helicopters would be crashing down. That was pretty cool. Oh, no, this is the fire in Turkey. The Sayatagazi fire. Ten firefighters lost their lives, unfortunately, in that one. It was out in wool areas, but still 10 people died. The firefighters, 14 injuries. We're looking at possible crop losses from that incident.

CME came in on July 24th. And ironically enough, that was not a huge CME that came in, but right after that is when we had the hurricane that kicked up, Hurricane Iona in the Pacific, reached category three, didn't hit land, though, but you've watched these things empower themselves when the solar energy come off. And we had the 5.0 in Japan, and then we had like 75 mile an hour winds. South Dakota and we had the 8.8 earthquake in Kamcheca and that is obviously the biggest event that we've had go on. I watch a few different people on earthquake coverage. When the earthquake first happened they reported it USGS and pretty much everybody else was reporting it as like a 7.8, an eight-pointer. The buoys did light up with motion, so, like, there was an active event taking place.

But then USGS actually went back and started upgrading the of that. I've ever seen the numbers bump up. Yeah, they bumped up. And usually they bumped down. And, like, the rest of Europe, and everybody was reporting it as, like, a 7.8. So I don't know. I don't, I mean, I don't have a. a clue what they're thinking over there.

And then it, you know, it's making news as like the biggest earthquake. And that was a lot of them upgrading it. So interesting how the narrative gets pulled around there. Nonetheless, there was one indirect death from that incident, 23 injuries. And then in Kamcheca, again, we saw the lava flows. There was a couple of droughts. are going on in Turkey, Great Britain. It's just, you know, that time of year for us.

CME kicked off on July 30th. It was a KP3 to 4. No big impact from that one as well. But we did see a hurricane kick up the next day. It went up to 75 miles an hour, but didn't get a rating and didn't make landfall. So we're good with that. So we're just kind of cruising through July, right? We hit August 1st, and we had a 4.8 in Japan, another 4.8 in Japan, 4.7 in Japan, 5.6 in Russia, 5.6 in Russia, 5.0 in Russia, 5.4 in Russia. So obviously, this activity is not over. Great Sitkin. So this is our country up in Alaska. They're seeing lava flows and whatnot from that mountain.

And then Kilauea erupts in Hawaii. This is all going down on August 1st. Like July was just really quiet and then boom. Then the second, we're looking at a 4.6 in Japan, a 4.4, 4.6 of 4.9. You know, all above 4.0s are pretty good earthquakes. And we just have a chalk block. 4.8, 4.5, 4.7, 5.6 in Russia, 5.6 in Russia, 5.0 in Russia. I mean, I was like, what is going on?

So I can't wait for the end of August to see what the earthquake numbers actually come to. Because this is really crazy. This is a lot. Then Sitco starts erupting again. Kilauea is still erupting. Another 4.6 comes through. I mean, Japan and Russia are just still rattling. And the West Coast, you know, we got a couple of four-pointers on the West Coast yesterday.

So the energy has to go somewhere when it spins around the ring of fire. You don't want it to build. Then we get really bad stuff. 5.5 in Japan and then the 5.0 again in Russia, a 6.0 yesterday, actually this morning, in Russia. And then we had the one on the East Coast and the one on the New Madrid. So we have a lot of really big earthquake activity kind of going on right now. which is a little bit spooky. But obviously, even though it's not an 8.8, you know, I don't believe it in my heart that it really was.

I think we would have seen a much bigger tsunami from it if it was. I don't know why they would do it as a news cycle, but whatever, you know. That's not my call. Volcanoes actively erupting on our planet, we have one major eruption going on. We have 40 volcanoes erupting. Remember back in the day when I was like, wow, 29. That's a lot. We haven't seen that.

Now we're up to 40. We've been sticking at 40 month after month. Eruption warning on 41 volcanoes under that and volcanic unrest on 24 under that. So we actually added two more. We're at 104 last month. We're now up to 106. This will cool our planet. I mean, you don't have to worry about global warming if all of these freaking volcanoes keep going.

They can cool our planet. One volcano can be more than we've done in 100 years. So it's legitimate. I hope we're ready to build greenhouses, you know. So we're going to have to figure out how to grow a lot of few really fast. As far as earthquakes go, we had 18,881 that were 2.0 or bigger last in June. We had 20,530 in July, so we did see an uptick. But like I said, I'm really going to be interested to see what the August numbers look like.

Wildfire levels, we're doing pretty good. And we're doing pretty good around the world. I mean, there was that big fire in Turkey. But like last year, South America was burning up and stuff. it's been looking pretty good as far as it goes um i'm i'm always looking at fires that are like bigger than 10,000 hectares these are i want the big fires right that'd be about 20,000 acres that we're picking it pushing into a big fire range um the fire preparedness level for the united states is at a three i would still caution everybody i don't care where you are in the

united states we had a lot of material come down last year we had some warm temperatures like you said, Chan, all weird places this year. So we need to be wildfire ready. But in total in the United States, there's five new fires, a total of 29 active fires, 306,000 acres on fire. Five of those fires are contained. Number one state on the list is Utah,

coming in with two fires, 66,087 acres. No new fires, none contained them. Arizona is number two on the list. They have five active fires. 62,199 acres, no new fires, none of those are contained. Alaska is actually number three on the list with two fires, 40,894 acres, no new fires, none of those are contained. And then number four is California.

Two fires, 40,276 acres, zero new fires. One of those fires is contained. So we'll just keep praying that they continue that through the year because, They really don't need another wildfire year. I can tell you the insurance marketplace is a mess there. If you ever want to talk about ridiculous, how ridiculous bureaucracy eventually backs you into a corner, I'm your gal because it's insanity. And a lot of layoffs have been happening in Northern California because of the AI takeover. so they're getting hit I it's kind of like watching Armageddon happen from afar

having a peek into the window of what's happening there in that state and it's it's not good it's not good stuff so we'll just hope they figure it out you know I'm glad I got out and I'm praying for everybody that's there all right guys well I've been winded out. Let's see. Let me check over to our comments one more time. See who's around in chat rooms. Firewolf, hit me up.

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Did I say his name? Oh, I might have. I might have actually said his name in the show. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Firewolf. First one to fire off that email, right? Uh-huh, yep, first one to fire that email. Rewind.

Be kind and rewind. Oh, no. That's a deal. Blockbuster. Blockbuster, yeah, exactly. Well, guys. After 10 years of podcasting, I'm blown away. I really appreciate.

I've got viewers that are listeners that are like, hey, I'm still listening. And it's really touching. And thank you, Chin, for the gift. And I really appreciate everybody. You guys want to get me a gift? The best gift that you can get me right now is go out and pre-order the Las Vegas years. get the other books while you're there you can order them

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