The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Hacks to Warm Your Winter Woes

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

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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. This is episode number 488. Man, I'm just clicking down to that 500. Hey, Chin, what's up? Chid's up, y'all.

Man, you guys got to give it to Chen. He's been with me for like six years, I think, podcasts. Is there anything I could do to help? Yeah. Thanks, Ken. You're the best. appreciated but I've got my new command center for Christmas I saw pictures man

NASA would be envious well you know all the audio that I'm working with it's so hard of my eyes yeah so I was going to get two monitors to work that way and I saw the 34 inch and I was like oh yeah I can see the audio stream on the it's like in living color in front of me it's it's pretty pretty epic so um i'd had that um my old computer for 12 years i couldn't store anything on the hard

drive because none of the programs would work if i did and you know i got she didn't owe me nothing so yeah good for you yeah so merry christmas to me i've been saving for a little bit and got a top of the line and you know they keep saying like all the gamers and everybody is are saying that um because of the AI, they're buying up all the RAM. So it's going to get more and more expensive to get yourself a nice system. So I was like, well, all right, done. Put a fork in it. So yeah, I'm stoked.

Stoked. So Christmas is right around the corner. I got family in town, you know. Chickens are doing good. They're popping little eggs out. and I like having the young ones this time of year. You don't have to worry about light in their coop as much, but the old betties will be struggling.

My old chickens, I got two of them. They're about to have a come to meeting with God moment because. Have them over for dinner. Yeah. They're not laying anymore. And, you know, we're going to turn that section of the coop into a breeding section come springtime. So it's like, if you guys don't.

get off the pot here so yeah you're in it right yeah yeah you're in it you're in the pot literally so um and i've just been um going through um backup preps and making sure that they move like they're supposed to you know you store stuff away and then never get back to them and stuff like that so uh yeah i've just been uh doing that kind of stuff And that's hard times out there right now. So spiritually helping people out, you know, makes a big difference as well, trying to keep everybody's spirits up. And we've had a lot of CME activity that's messing with people's brains and all this stuff. And this time of year, it's like, rough.

Yeah. So what have you been up to? You've been just chilling? You've been cold out there, too. Everybody's been cold. Yeah, it's been up and down. I mean, not up high, but in the 60s and the 40s during the day. You know, it's just fluctuating between that.

Mm-hmm. And it drops down to the 20s and 30s at night, sometimes the 40s. But, I mean, it's like bounce. It's not, the cold hasn't set in for good yet. Yeah. You're about to get it. Yeah. You're about to get it.

It's coming your way. So. That's fine. I mean, this up and down, it's kind of a pain. Yeah. There's red snow around, but not here. Gotcha. Yeah.

Yeah. That's what my dad's like, well, you guys are always on the national news. Your area is always on the national news. Yeah. It goes around us, you know. We've gotten pretty lucky, minus a roof that we had to replace. So, but that's taxes. I looked up the history of our house, and it's been replaced every four years.

The roof? Yeah. It's crazy, right? Mm-hmm. Well, yeah. And when we bought it, it had like hail damage and stuff, so we wanted them to put a new roof on because I'm, you know, insurance. So that's something I want to deal with.

I know about the roofs, you know. It's one of the things that we care about the most. How do you like my new, see, yeah, I'm podcast in the family room there. Yeah, right. Right? I got my grand piano back there. yeah my office is kind of a mess right now from the uh computer switchouts and christmas time and whatnot so i decided to go to a clean area of the house yeah don't i wish

all right well in light of the craziness that's going on as far as the weather goes it's been real cold up north man bitey bitey and one of the you know theories is that we're going into the next ice age which you know forget it i'd rather go out in a flood first i'm gonna be like i'm just gonna keep going to wherever the equator is if that's the case man i'm out of here so uh because i'm not a snowbird anymore or no those are the people that come down from out north right i'm not a snow lover anymore so unless I can play a hockey um so you play hockey indoors yeah right exactly um so but um we've done some shows in the past on cold weather survival so i was kind of looking for things to like you know get outside of the groove of what we've already done everybody knows

well, you should know about like the terracotta pots with the candles in it and things like that, how to make those little space heaters and everything. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just get on a Pinterest and look it up. You're going to find like 80 articles on how to make one. And they're great. The Amish actually make a heater that uses that concept. Yeah. And it's really, really nice.

So you can check that out. if you need, like, a heating source and you don't want to pay a ton because they're just so efficient. They still use power, but they're so efficient. So, um, they're pretty good. I was watching a, uh, YouTube video, when was it? Uh, a couple days ago. And they were talking about how the medieval times, how they used, like,

castles were, um, how they heated them. And it had a lot to do with like, because they're built a stone. So the, the sun and the fireplace would heat up the rock and masonry around it. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That makes sense. And then they hang a lot of tapestries and whatnot as well.

Yeah, because they didn't have like glass for windows and whatnot back then. So I'm in the castles as well. There'll be one reason why I'd actually want to go to Europe would be to see the castles and that kind of thing. So let's talk about just some of the common things that you should really already know from a base level. layering your clothes is essential the other thing you can't just like I mean you can't just layer clothes

especially when you're in your house that kind of thing but cotton kills so cotton it does if it gets moist especially it is going to suck your body heat out so hard

so I always layer my first layers with like a poly blend material something that is going to wick that moisture away and then provide me with heat on top of that usually it's like I've got tight workout pants that kind of thing to put that baseline layer down but if you're like skiing out or you know you're out in the in it right you've got to have you can't just have cotton layers a lot of thermal underwear are all cotton and yeah so you think you're doing great by layering up but you're actually putting that cotton right next to your body to get wet and then suck moisture from your body so uh and then if you're

out in the snow as well uh and then that all that cotton gets wet it'll also suck moisture from your body so like back in the day they used to use you know alpaca socks are great alpaca elpaca i say it weird i know um wool, right, like the wool jackets, that kind of thing. Natural fibers are going to be way better for keeping you warm, even when you start get wet, that kind of thing. Windproof. The wind has been bitey for us. It always is. We get the Texas winds, you know, but we've had like this mist on top of it. So having that windproof outer shell, a lot of times I can get away with my windbreaker just super, you know, zipped up even after working out

and whatnot, it keeps that my heating. Yeah. So, gloves, of course. The ones that are nice are the mitten ones that have the part you can peel back and then you have your fingers right there. Yeah.

Those are like my favorite hunting gloves because then you can just pull it back when you need it. Right. Otherwise, you're sitting there waiting in a tree stand. Yeah. Because my hands are always cold, you know.

And the mittens are always warmer, but you can't use your fingers. Right, exactly. So that's a good solver for that. The hat. So I finally, after living and being in the cold for too long, I finally have a system that I like. I wear my ball cap, and I just put my knit cap over the top of it. Yeah. I know it's kind of ghetto or whatever, but like those things.

It gets so itchy on my head. I hate having a knit hat on it. Well, I like to have the brim. Right. You know? Mm-hmm. It helps with like if it's, if it's like snowing or raining, it keeps it off your glasses. Now I'm going to wear glasses.

Right. It keeps it off your glasses and it keeps it, you can like use it for the sun. I mean, how it can get like too hot, I can just lift it up so that my ears are back out and everything. Yep. But the wind just bites in my ears. so I like to have an insulated ball caps that I like for the wintertime with the air flaps you can flip down oh yeah that they tuck inside so you don't know like the toque with the brim though yeah yeah yeah yeah those are legit as well I'll check out the material they're making them out of it looks like fur a lot

of time so but it's not it's fake fur these days unless you're buying it I don't know like top of the line stuff which I'm not buying these days so yeah so check out the fabric that they're making out of sturdy boots of course um not just sturdy boots though but like they should have enough room for you to have the layered socks in there uh so that's a thing and when you start hiking your feet are always going to swell like if you're working or do anything your feet are going to swell a little bit so that even puts extra in there so make sure that they're appropriate for winter time I think that a lot of people don't have a change of shoes and their go-back.

If you're outside, your boots are going to get, I don't care how much you waterproof them. Right. Yeah, the spray, all that stuff. I mean, they have like the dutch bottles. Like if you're out there shoveling and working in the. You get stuff on your pants and then they drip down into your boots. So even if your boots are or. They can be so waterproof that your feet sweat in there.

And that can happen as well. So that's why the extra layers are important. But having those dry clothes, you know, in your go bag, but like I said, don't think many people pack an extra pair of shoes into their go bag. I don't, that's not a thought that I don't think a lot of people have. So what I know I am now, I heard it the other day and I was like, Duh. Like, I have my boots on my feet, but, you know, something.

Yeah, the extra pair. Mm-hmm. I don't, yeah, I don't pack that. Right? I was thinking maybe if you got a pair of slippers, like just the hard bottom slippers, and then vacuum seal them super snug, you know, you can put them down the back of your go bag. And at least then, if your boots were soaked, you'd be able to have something else on to provide protection. Yeah.

on your feet while those were drying out so um something to think about change the shoes in your go bag um trying to bring some out of the box I've been podcasting for I've been doing this for 10 years now right so I'm like I know right I'm yeah I'm on the hunt for like those unique ideas that oh yeah that makes sense I never heard that um should have a have have the uh listeners right in what's your yeah let's see uh we can pick a topic instead of a sticker or something yeah oh we got one farmer on there hi you guys got the cold weather outside of the box cold weather tips that you think that nobody else knows about feel free to throw them in there all right so of course your emergency kit right

Water is the biggest issue that I deal with is water storage. I'm always up against the water storage, you know? And it's so ugly to, like, people like, oh, you're storing water, mm-ber-durber, immediately, right? So I found these, you know, they're like, why are you storing water? Aren't you on city water? Are you on a well? So if the power goes out, you know, you're going to have water. I'm like, yeah, I know.

Yeah, well, if the power goes out, yeah. You still have to have a way of getting water. Well, we still have water. That's what we experienced up here. Everybody on the well, they had to figure a way to hook a generator up to the well. Right. Yeah, if you have the well, when you have city water, though, like you can still turn the tap on.

Well, the city could still run out of. Exactly. Our. Yep. And if it's any kind of long duration incident, that's what you're looking. at you know yeah the water um i found these five gallon uh water jugs at walmart for like 24 bucks or something and you can stack them so they look like jerry cans yeah they look like square uh blue oh yeah just like um yeah five gallon water bottle the the lids on them were a little flimsy my dog

knocked one off of the other one when they weren't full and the lid broke, like, right away. So, not happy with that. Take it out of their allowance? The dogs? Yeah. Yeah, Ragnar, he's in big trouble for that. He's got a baseball bat tail.

I mean, it took out Christmas decorations already. Yeah. But he's being good with my dad, so. Hold on with the dogs. Yeah. Yeah. Movie. Yeah, he's a crazy.

Of course, though, you guys, you need your flashlights, your batteries, the portable chargers. Having those little batteries that can charge your cell phones, so you don't have to, like, use your cell phone as a flashlight. Yeah, have the flashlight. So, headlamps. I've got a bunch of flashlights with a solar charger. Yeah. Gold zero and stuff make them. Yeah.

I just leave them in the windows. Yep. They make the ones that plug it to the wall, too. I like that. And they would come on. If the power went out, they came on automatically, but they were also a flashlight. Oh, that's cool. So they're always charged.

And then if the power went off, they lit up. And now your rooms lit up. That's sweet. That's cool. Those are nice too. Batteries, you can do the rechargeable batteries if you want. That's cool. The portable chargers.

Multi-tool duct tape. Like, these are your essentials. You guys should definitely know about essentials if you've been listening to my show for 10 years. Duct tape and zip ties. Yeah. Medications, you don't want to have to drive and have to get that stuff. You want to be able to spend those few days in your house without having to go out for anything. And I understand now, so we switched roles a while back.

you were like the urban guy and i was country sarah yeah and then now i'm much more urban than you are and for me it's like five minutes to the store now so i know i miss it so well i miss parts of it like right i only have one big box hardware store where i used to have multiples of the two major ones right so you could go like price compare and whatnot yeah 10 miles my house yeah yeah now i just have one with 20 miles of my house. I was like, that's what you get. Or you're like, go order it online and then wait for it to come in. Oh, we do a lot of that.

Then we just drive it because it's like an hour away. Yeah. There's three different towns an hour away. Each have both of them in it. Right. So if I need the one that's not local, I typically order it and then just run down there and get it. Okay. So you're not wasting your time.

Yeah, because sometimes you go it, it's not inside. Yeah. And you're like, I just drove an hour to get down here. No, I get that. I totally understand that. Yeah, so, but I understand now, like, how easy it is to just start shopping per day when you live that close, right? Oh, yeah, when you, yeah, I had a Walmart that I could have walked to. Yeah, exactly.

And I had a grocery store right across the street from the Walmart. If I don't have it. Gas stations and restaurants. What am I going to? It's not a big deal, right? Yeah. Door dash is me dashing out the door. to go get it

if I want takeout. Right. I almost feel bad now. It doesn't deliver it here. For like order. I'm like, that's the laziest thing we can do is order door dash because it's literally right over there.

We are being so lazy. So, um, yeah. So when it is, uh, this type of weather, guys,

of course your food storage needs to be up to snuff. Um, prepare with changing earth. com. If you go to prepare a change in earth. com, they have great deals on, uh,

it's my pageant storage. supply and they have great deals on your long-term food storage I wouldn't you know if we were out of power for a few days I'm not going to be tipping into my long-term food storage but man you bet I would if we were you know a couple weeks in I don't you know have that much ready on hand because we live so darn close to the grocery store now you know I used to have like oodles um but yeah and i mean we were two weeks without power after the storm so yeah i did a lot of cooking on the grill yeah you did i remember like pizzas on the grill and i did i made i was like what can i do i'm getting bored of hamburgers yeah what can i do my mom made um

while because my dad were fighting over who was going to fix the oven she's done roasts like full on we couldn't do the that's something you have to you have to think plan on long-term storage or emergency storage yeah food storage and it played on how you're going to prepare it right that's a great point if you have enough propate takes for yeah how much charcoal for a week yeah right or propane yes so or do you have enough wood or access or firewood what we We have done is, you know the little candles that they use for catering? Yep. I bought just a whole tray of those.

Those like external candle things? Yep. And I have those back and they'll burn for days and you can cook over them if you had to and everything. So that's like, that's like, I have stages of, oh, crap, right? Oh, we're in this stage of, oh, crap. Package, the Tudorfish and package of. barbecue beef and stuff in these like astronaut packages the plastic ones you don't have to cook you just take them out yeah we did a lot of those too um canned and then the can beef the canned chicken

my mom's got some canned salmon and stuff you know yeah those aren't my favorite but i still buy that kind of stuff because that is like okay i was just talking about like the stages of emergency right yeah so you're going to go through the freezer and cook all that crap off that you that's going to be like the last thing i want to eat yeah it'll be around yeah love that okay so insulating your living space i know we've talked about this on episode before i remember talk about tapestry right put hang the rug up yes um the sheets blankets whatever in front of your uh windows doors weather stripping check the heating system like the last thing you want to have happen in the middle of the winter when it's freezing airs cold is to have your heating system go go belly up and usually it's a lot cheaper to have it

checked out and fixed than it is let it go bad yeah yeah because it's not everybody else's probably going bad too like everybody gets the air conditioner fixed during that first heat snap exactly and then they're busy and you're on a schedule it's kind of a supply and demand You know, how fast they get you. So the craziest thing, when we moved here, we have heat pumps here. Yeah, we did too. When it gets, like, too cold here, the heat pump doesn't work. Yeah.

And then you have to, like, turn on the emergency heater, which costs, like, 80 billion times more. Yeah. I'm like, what kind of scam is this? so um but they are the heat pumps are efficient i can't you know dog it that much but what what kind of heater gives up when it's too cold yeah so that's a good thing to check out when you're buying because it's not made for streams right yeah it's made to like maintain temperature at a certain degrees um so what do you have if you have a fireplace you better have firewood that's why i was for sure even if you live in texasas i got a

spare like freestanding woodburning stove just in case a need of a backup? Oh, backup? Yeah. Yes. Dude, a backup to the woodburning stove. That is some

that is some proper guru right there. Man. We're going to go into the other one. That's pretty cool along those same lines. Your pipes, right? So put the little, you got to have,

them insulated you've got to have them styrofoamed and then even the outdoor faucets we put little caps over those so everything's good that is one of the faucets two are those they they self-drain oh you see the like the external faucets now on new construction

it has some self-drained so you don't have water all the way out to the very end duh that would make sense right you might have to wait a minute I never had that before well the my water full um has gone through a couple freezes and it's made it i mean i can't i can't complain yeah um that's been really really nice that's like i can't remember what it is i think it's like 35 gallons of that's all potable water you know all drinkable so uh yeah and it sits outside right and so i wasn't sure i was like man we can't really roll that thing anywhere

do anything with this big. Yeah, 35 times 8. Right. That's kind of heavy. Yeah. So, yeah, we, it's just sat out in the freezes and it's always been good. It always maintains its integrity. It's been a really good system.

So if you guys, it has like a pressure release valve on the top. Yeah. For heat. Yep. Yeah. When it expands and whatnot, or if you're overfilling it or whatever to let itself do what it needs to do it's been a really slick system that's the water full system and uh i can't complain they're a little bit spendy but you're going to get what you're going to pay for so you can put a blue

you know what 30 gallon barrel out there i think those are there or they're 50 gallon those blue barrels 50 gallon yep and they're great and everything but they everybody knows what you're doing they know what a blue thing, I mean, anybody who's been preparing for anything sees those blue barrels and you know that they're still in water. So the waterfall's a little bit more incognito and I've been really pleased with that system. I can't complain about it at all. Everything that it has said, it's lived up to be. And a really nice guy who put it together. He does a lot of military products and whatnot. Okay, so pipes and faucets, that was one of our biggest problems when we had the freeze in Texas

was people's houses weren't prepared for that. Did you have a lot of cross spaces? Our house was really good. We didn't have that problem. But in Texas in general. Do they have that in Texas? A lot of cross faces? Yeah.

Yeah. And just not as insulated because it's just not weather that comes to Texas, you know? Right. They don't even have a snowplow, like, at all. I got two snowplows. I know. I was like, where did I move to? No snowplow?

They laughed at me when I bought a snowplow from my side by side. I'm like, hey. You never know. And you can do your driveway, right, with it. You can do your driveway with it as well. They put folding tables on triangle, wooden triangle, and turn it in a snowplow. Nice. Texas, they, it's so night and day from like California when disaster comes in as far as like, oh yeah, this sucks.

Get her done mentality. Yeah, yeah. We're just going to tighten up our bootstraps and get her done. All right. Stay weather aware and mobile ready. So monitor, monitor, monitor. I think we did a whole show. I'll make sure I link it through in the blog, the show, our older show.

our older shows because we did one that was great on all the weather apps you brought it to the table with that one i just got jeper i saw there were black friday sales there were jumper cables for us so i bought like two more sets so now there's one in every car instead of just having one in the garage yes yeah i did that one year um they have like emergency car kits so i made sure i like bought Fletcher 1 have one for our car all of that they have the

they have like fold out shovels in there they have flares in there they have all the warning things you put out but they have the jumper cables and then all like your quick fix it stuff yeah that was a pretty decent kit that I got

for the vehicles I like the idea of having sand or cat litter for traction yeah because if you get stuck not just snow mud as well right so you're like oh well it doesn't snow here

but it does help for if you're in the mud as well I mean it's not as great but or you can get ice I mean yes yes no doubt the shovel of course and then making sure your car is ready to go

we have this story we bring it up all the time we were having problems with our engine where we had a coolant lake And so we were putting water in our engine, right, because we were going to go through so much cooling. Yeah. And then I got cold. And the whole engine block froze, blew out all the freeze plugs and whatnot.

So make sure your car is ready as well for the cold. Batteries. I was chuckling because you have problems with engines and you're in Texas now. So it could take on a whole different. Sorry. That's so bad. Um, now I'm like all off, all off course. I want all F troop on you.

Right. Um, oh, uh, tires, windshield wipers. Yep. Biggie. Those good quality wipers make a whole heap of difference. They really do. They're going up in price though, too, man. I know.

I hate getting wipers. Everything. I was like, ah, they're probably good. for a little bit longer. I can't see through my winchew. So, yeah, those are- I hate them. I know.

They're really important, though. Okay, so five out-of-the-box ideas that I really love these ones. So the D. Oh, go for it. I like that one. The Sackner. The DIY Rice Sock Hot Pags. They're awesome.

And you can also put them in the freezer for a, cold pack. So you just fill an old sock with uncooked rice. It's got to be uncooked, guys. And time off. Microwave it for one to two minutes, or you can heat it over the fire, but be careful that you don't start anything on fire. And you can use them in your pockets.

You can put them in your bed, sore muscles. You know, that's one of my problems as an athlete is when it's wintertime. everything's tight you know i just hate oh so i'm cold all the time everything's tight so it's really nice sometimes to have that warm up pack that you can just like ugh they're going to be warm for hours no chemicals involved along the same lines back in the day they used to use baked potatoes for the same same kind of purpose yeah and then you could eat it too when it When it wasn't getting you warm anymore, yeah, you can eat it. So great ideas for being able to something that's reusable.

I don't know if you've ever stocked rice before, but it's kind of hard to not have some rice that develop some bugs. So I can't throw it out, right? So we have a whole bunch of rice that's like, well, if the dogs need rice, or again, your stages of desperation, right? Like right now, I'm like, no way. I mean, I would eat anything. It's extra protein. Exactly. That's what I was saying.

But if it was there and you didn't have any other options, I think I'd rather eat the buggy rice. But you can also use it for these hot packs and that not going to be a big deal. Dry ice is how I've heard to pull the oxygen out of the rice. So store it. But anyway, that's not here or there. So I love, that's a whole other show in itself. How do we preserve the rice?

Store rice, yeah. I love the warm zone. So, of course, you can do the blankets, tarps over furniture, like making your... Fort? Yeah, like when you're a kid, you get to make the fort. Yes. So whenever we're out of power and whatnot, we try to shut down the rest of the the house just all come into one main space bring out one of the mattresses um and everybody just

bomb out together under all of our blankets and everything like that you know and uh not all it's fun for the family you can play cards or do whatever you know but uh you could actually put your tent in the house as well i mean why not you're not going to stake it down obviously but um having that tighter heat space you're going to be able to utilize your body heat a lot better that's one of my faves i like that one all right so spice up meals i laughed when i saw this yeah right i was like i don't know i'm not very spicy spice up meals for an internal fire so cayam pepper or ginger in hot soups or tea and they're going to help boost your circulation for a thermo effect which is probably I should probably do I've got really cold hands typically so I should probably actually eat more

of that stuff I eat a lot of ginger for sure uh for my stomach but uh I'm not really a peppery type person but this tricks your body into feeling warmer without extra calories that's interesting I want to know the science behind that one if like you know how when you drink alcohol you feel warmer

but you're actually not that is bad yeah I'm wondering about like the long term effects of this one as well but I saw I know a lot of people

like their spicy stuff so you need beans that'll warm everybody up oh yeah oh gosh Brock would love that one. We were so poor one time when Fletcher was little

that my mom had made us like this big. She makes really good beans and cobasso with bacon, you know, and she had given us like this big pot of it. We ate it for like four days, you know, because that's all we had to eat. And so he's at school. He got thrown out of class for me, dashes.

That's awesome. Yeah. I felt so bad as a parent. I'm like, oh, man. My kid's a speaking kid. Yeah. So, okay, pre-warm your bed with a heat brick. Love it.

Like taking your sheets out of the dryer, you know? Put them right on. I used to have those like pans that you put hot coals or hot rocks in. No bedpan. Yeah. Well, not the bedpan. that kind of pan. But they used, it almost looked, you know, like the, the, um, the popcorn used to cook popcorn

over, uh, campfire. Yeah, with the little. It looks a lot like that, but they would use it to heat up the bed. Yeah. I love that. I will, I mean, and I even have it in my books, one of the things that Erica always does because she doesn't want to live underground is she keeps her clothes and she's going to wear the next day in bed with her.

Yeah. Right. That way it's already warm. That's the worst. I know. Get out of the nice warm. I've added all your cold clothes. Okay.

The tech twist to wit, the heat brick. They have an app controlled hot water bottle. Get out of it, that's. Come on. No, get this. My martial arts instructor, he's got an AI bird feeder. so when the bird lands it alerts you that there's a bird at the feeder and it takes a picture of the bird and tells you what kind of bird it is and then they have like you can like dress them up to holiday theme and stuff if I didn't know there was a shortage of AI bird feeders that we just think if they could do that for wild birds now what they're doing for you yeah legitimately And they're probably dressing me up an embarrassing clothes.

A little elf costume. Yeah. Oh, no. So, yeah, they got that. Okay. Leverage pet or plant. Heat buddy. So I'm a snuggler in the wintertime.

Yeah, the pet thing. The plant thing that was new to me. Right? That the plants, subtle humidity with the plants, from soil evaporation creating a micro I have a plant

right next to my bed I don't know if it helps in that way but I mean maybe medicinal purposes it grows across my whole window

so instead of having like blinds I have plant it's kind of cool yeah all right so now let's go into

five tips to keep your body from freezing if you were out in the elements because this is a big deal just you could get caught it's hard sometimes really hard to see we were looking

today in North Dakota this morning it was like 10 below or something with like 40 mile an hour sustained wind 60 mile an hour gusts that is cold

and when you have the wind whipping like that and the snow coming like that it's kind of hard it's kind of easy to lose your way so that's where the big big problems come in also with layering the homeless people

they'll use like newspaper and things like that to actually create that insulation layer so the sky's the limit when it comes to doing that layering you could use plant matter all of that in there so if you're or if you're stuck in a barn you can use hay that kind of thing so don't let the cold freeze your brain out start thinking about okay I'm stuck here I need to make sure my body doesn't freeze so our rules of three uh we got three minutes without air three days without

water three weeks without food three hours without shelter in an extreme environment so shelter is going to be first you got to get out of that wind even if it's just behind a rock or a tree the head like we're having that head covered and your neck I didn't realize how important the neck was as part of that equation. I can believe it, though, because when I'm, when I only have my head covered and my neck's exposed, I get really cold. Yeah, I packed those winter neck gators. Uh-huh.

I have those in my bags. Yeah. Yeah. They're, they're real cheap these days. Uh-huh. But they're super nice to have. I have one. I can look on sale.

I'm always watching for sales. Yeah. Yeah, I have one connected to my, like, sweatshirt that I wear when it's really cold to go walking and stuff. There's one connected to it. So, get rid of wet layers. So literally get that clothing off of you. It's not going to do you any good or move it to an outside layer or something. Make sure that next to your body is dry.

25% faster the heat is removed. from your body when your clothes are wet. So got to get them off. And then the dry materials, right? That's what I was saying about the dry materials. Fetal position is going to maximize or minimize your exposed area. So that's the position you want to go into. If anybody else is with you, even an animal.

What is it? Star Wars where he cuts the thing open to crawl inside of it, you know, Oh, ha, that's even on my notes. That's funny. So that's really, really important to make sure that you are utilizing that heat if you have access to it. Don't be like, oh, well, I'm not going to use this. The Native Americans would build a fire and then bury it, right? And then sleep on top of that dirt.

probably not a bad idea if the choice is I'm going to freeze to death or well if you have a fire you can sit next some fire to you but sometimes you can't do the fire you can build a decode fire though much more likely that you can the decode of fires two holes you build the fire on one side you put an airflow down low and that would make sure your fire is protected as long as you can dig down in that dirt and you're not like that. like a freeze zone, right? The frost, yeah. Mm-hmm. And if you could get a decodeifier going, you can put your poncho over the top of it and let all the smoke come out through your poncho or through your clothes so that you're literally getting steam heated. You're going to smell lovely, but you're going to be warm, right?

Generate heat with controlled movement. So light arm exercises to boost your circulation. but do not sweat avoid over exertion aim for steady rhythmic motion so do not sweat when i used to sit up on the um where my grandpa would be out trap shooting right and it would be so cold in michigan that's why i'm in like this huge jacket and everything and then you come into the um recreation area the rec room where there's a fire going and everything you want to get warmed up first but he'd my jacket away right away. I'm like he doesn't want me sweating at all because you get any of that sweat and then you go back out and sit there. It gets frozen. You get hypothermia. So this is some

serious business guys when it comes to hypothermia. This is body parts that are going to have to be cut off and things like that if you play with it. Hydrate and fuel wisely. Sit warm, not hot fluids. um dehydration is going to make it worse don't drink ice water i know you probably don't want ice water but um i i tend to drink a lot of ice water and when you drink ice water your body has to warm it before being able to utilize it so um always have just another chain right no alcohol no caffeine no alcohol especially um high sugar snacks like chocolate A quick energy for heat production, so not a bad idea. You know, maybe you have a barn that you have to go to, those kind of things.

Maybe keep a little stash out there, a little food stash. Somewhere the mice aren't going to get it. Or use it as the mousetrap, whichever you want to do. Okay, the other one that was interesting was rubbing limbs can shock the system. So you want to warm people up very, very slowly. So I was like, all right, what does the hypothermia look like? We do have this in our older shows as well, but it's just important to know. So stage one, you're cold, but you're still totally there.

This is when we start shivering, you know, you get goosebumps. It's because your body's trying to warm you up. You're breathing and heart rate are going to spread up a little bit. So just be, you know, breathing. at that point, most people think, I'm fine, I'm just going to tough it out. So that would be me completely. And it's a bad idea. You have to take steps right then to start warming your body up a little bit more. Moderate hyperthermia, the shivering is literally uncontrollable. So your body is now into functioning without your mind being able to stop it.

of like you're drunk, you're going to talk like you're drunk. And then you make poorer decisions as you start getting colder. Yeah. So that's one of the reasons why it's better to stop and get warm than thinking like I'm just going to continue trying to get to wherever I'm going, right? If there's any question that you're not going to make it, you need to stop right now and get warmed up before this starts happening. This is a stage where people feel hot

So they'll start stripping off clothes it Their clothing Which is crazy It happens in 25% of cases That's insane to me That's your body just tricking you That's kind of a mean trick too I know we heard a case that a guy

Was found dead And it was because he stripped off his clothes Well, it's because of this hypothermia. Yeah. That's weird. Severe hypothermia, so that's where you're shivering stops. That is a bad, this is a bad thing. You run out of energy to make heat.

This is your delirious. You're hallucinating now. Your heart rate, you're breathing, it's all going to slow down instead of speeding up. Your body is now running out of energy to actually do what they, what it can do. People will appear dead at this point, but they are saveable, so never assume they're dead until they're warmed and still dead. So that's, if you're there, you're in big trouble.

And then you go into where you're like going into cryostasis, basically, where you turn colors, your muscles are rigid. That people can come out of that, but you're usually going to end up with some kind of brain damage and whatnot because it's just too cold. And then stage five, it's cardiac arrest. You're done. There's no more coming back after that point. It's one of the things I found really interesting when we had Dr. Bones on and we were talking about dehydration and starvation, like the body reaches a certain point where even if you got food and water you're done right which is crazy so yeah cold weather survival it's serious stuff guys that's why i thought you know with whatever is going on um right now with how fast our winter came in this year how really cold it is up north already and it doesn't look like there's much relief coming for

the north um we're looking at like another month where it's just going to split and be abnormally cold up north and abnormally warm down south which i am absolutely looking forward to because it got cold here fast it usually gets cold like in january february right but it got really cold here fast so sorry guys up north uh it's not looking it's not looking good for the next couple weeks okay checking over to chat see if anybody's got any tips tricks comments everybody's like the day's quiet tonight. It's December quietness. Mm-hmm.

Everybody's wrapping the Christmas Christmas. Yeah, I was working on that a little bit earlier myself. All right, well, let's go ahead and get into some change in earth news. Do you see how far I have to turn my head just to see to the end of my monitor? That's pretty cool. Just saying. All right, here we go. Survive. Thrive.

This is Changing Earth News. All righty, changing Earth news. So the big news has been these big, big, big solar flares and big. The sunspot that's on our sun right now is gigantic. Like, it's bigger than the one that hit the, that, um, hit the, that, um, cause the Carrington event so we have been all eyes on it it's the Lord takes care of us so well it's not even funny um because they just like they're fire fire fire fire they turn towards the earth they're just all quiet and then boom boom boom boom right it's crazy um but there was a um

sunspot system that's north of that big system that's on the sun right now and that one was firing M class today. So we're very much still in a solar lookout because this huge, huge sunspot is just aimed directly at us. It's really crazy. When Ben on Suspicious Observers is like, I've never seen one this big, I tend to take note because he's been watching it for a long time. Yeah.

And then they put up the comparison of what the one that causes. a Carrington event versus this one. And if you guys don't know, the Carrington event was a solar flare that hit our planet very severely. At that time, there wasn't a lot of power. There were telegraph lines. So the telegraph lines got hit, exploded all over the place. So it's one of the reasons why we know that having this type of incident today with the

infrastructure that we have would be really, really catastrophic. so all right so November 4th we had dual X class flares it was an X 2.5 an X 1.8 they had blackouts in the Americas the Pacifics I don't know if you've been noticing like the radios don't seem to have as much frequency basically that the radio stations have been a little static year lately if you listen to traditional radio that kind of thing so that that's coming off that. November 5th, we had Hurricane Iona, came in and a cat two, hit Hawaii, caused $150 million in damage, killed two people in that incident. November 5th, there was flooding in the North Philippines. These poor islands have been getting absolutely hammered by incident after incident after incident in these places and the amount of activity that is in the ring of fire is crazy.

We're going to talk more about that as we get to the end of the stories. But they got hit on November 5th to 11th with flooding eight plus inches of rain. 114 people lost their lives in that event and they have 500 million plus and losses from that flooding that happened in the Philippines. November 5th, 6th, we had wildfire activity in the Appalachians, three new large fires, 10 million in suppression went out to control those fires. The Appalachians have been lighting up a lot more. I didn't hear as many wildfire scenarios happening in the Appalachian region until like these last couple of years.

So I wonder if it's been like lower overall rain levels or something the past few years. years or Tim Foll hat here it comes to chink with them doing the spraying the chem trails the oh what's the chemical

sodium dioxide comes down onto the plant life and makes it more flammable that's a good or maybe it's just the cycle and it's just time for that to happen naturally so I don't know but I've been hearing a lot about them.

November 9th, we had more solar activity. We had the X-1.7. The auroras have been insane off of some of these events. Just red, literally like blood red, which they should be green. Red is not normal. Pink is not normal. It should be green. And they shouldn't be down as far as they are.

This X1.7 caused blackouts in Europe and Africa. it hit that end of the planet more than it hit North America. November 9th, we had a 6.8 earthquake in Japan. They are built for a lot of this earthquake activities. So they usually come through it a lot better than places like the Middle East where the pancake buildings are. November 9th, lots of volcanoes, guys. Oh, my gosh.

Wait till you see these numbers. It's insane. And I've been watching them like, I know, I've been watching them like all month because I'm just like, oh, oh, what, what? Okay, this is what is the earth doing? All these volcanoes is going to mean the next ice age. So you better know how to survive the cold. I better just get used to it.

November 9th, they had a big eruption in the Philippines. Can Laan volcano. November 10th to 15th, there was a cyclone that hit. the Philippines and Vietnam came in as a super typhoon, which is a category five equivalent when you take it over to hurricane status. 114 people unfortunately lost their life in that event, $2.5 billion worth of damage from that storm. So when it's winter up here, it's summer down there, they're still seeing the cyclones go off.

November 11th, another X5.1 solar flare went off. They are actually monitoring a lot more of what happens with the solar activity to our astronauts and also our airplanes when they're up that high. Because honestly, we say we're in space, we're exploring space. The amount that that space station is up in space, if you had like the Earth, Earth and a globe is like so tiny it's like that tiny right that's how far away from the earth they are so they get a lot of this they're kind of in the direct line of getting hit with this stuff the November 13th event caused 47 satellites from Starlink to deorbit so they are

having problems with this last big solar impact they had took out like 70, satellites. So this is a problem that they're having with the satellites. But this is the biggest single day loss in fleet history was to the 47 here. So I guess it had to be less like 27 or something. November 13th, the 30th, Akilauea has been going off. If you haven't checked it out, it might not be going now, but man, it was still going last night. And just a huge spewage of the lava just coming out just great pictures

and some spectacular stuff really big release over there very safe it's in the park it's not threatening anybody that kind of thing so it's just once the smoke gets too intense that they have to shut the airports down

they might have to ground flights that kind of thing November 19th Camcheco went off up in Russia and they had flights grounded because of that 10 kilometer ash plumes off of that the Camcheca eruption actually they found

50,000 plus puffins the little puffins do you know what puffin the little birds? They're so cute that all lost their lives it caused a red tide and so the beaches were just carpeted in the carcans of these little birds which is just so sad very sad but you know the chemicals that the volcano spew off we just put the blame straight there November 21st there was an earthquake near

Bangladesh it was a 5.7 to 5.4 swarm 10 to 100 people it's kind of wide numbers on that but they have a lot of stuff going on over in their country right now so that's just the Estimation 600 plus injured. Flooding happened on November 21st off of Cyclone Senyar, and that was in Southeast Air and Asia. 860 plus people lost their life, 1.5 million damage from that event.

I don't know how our world keeps up with this increase of severe activity as far as like rebuilding and rebuilding and rebuilding. but we better figure it out. Maybe we can start making the homes like I designed for my books, right? I was thinking about it. That would be so cool. Some of the pictures, because I'm designing them now for the videos for the audio drama,

I'm like, I want that house. Like, I think I'm going to figure out how to make that happen. They got to do it different than stick built. Right? Stick built with asphalt, shingham. that can get blown off. I have heard of some new roofing systems that are coming along. They have the poly.

It's like a membrane that goes over the roof. It's just to see how long can it hold up in the sun in extreme areas. What's the other? I thought I had heard another really cool one the other day of building systems. And I was like, it's about time, man. come on, we're smart enough to do this, you know, to figure, to think our way around this problem. And maybe that's why the ancients built in stone, you know, like they figured out how to do that because all their stuff was always getting destroyed because the, the atmosphere of the

planet was different back then or something, you know? Anyway, again, speculation. Sri Lanka, India, they were hit by a cyclone that was a category 3 plus equivalent, 475 plus people lost their life in that event. This is part of the 100,100 plus people that died in the Asian floods. Big landslide happened in Sri Lanka probably helped be triggered by that flooding event. 200 plus people were buried alive. 500 plus homes were destroyed in that event.

So that is just, I don't want to be in a landslide. That has, no, no. December 1st through 3rd, Populikai erupted in Mexico, the volcano there. They had some big ash fallout in Puebla with flights delayed there. December 4th through 6th. we were hit with the extreme cold wave that has been affecting the northern part of the United States and Canada and all the way down to Texas where we are very cold and negative 45 degrees Celsius in Siberia dude forget that negative 34 degrees in Montana forget that right uh-uh rolling blackouts frost quakes reported because it's getting so cold yeah what is a frost quake it gets so cold that it that it freezes the water systems in the ground causing earthquakes

wow um 11 hypothermia deaths so this is legit this is why i wanted to bring you guys the cold weather survival today because Man, you're doing good to only have 11 at negative 45 degrees Celsius. Right? And we're talking like a lot of the northern part of the United States and over there in Russia.

Some of those places, they can't even turn their car off during the wintertime because the engine would not be able to restart because it's so cold. My son told me that. I'm like, that's bull crap. Right? I looked at up. They have engine

block heaters you have to take them in yeah um December 4th earthquake hit jing jang china m 6.1 I don't know what goes on there but they have some mega earthquakes from that place the jing jang china X-I-J-I-N-G China it is not on the eastern side it is on like the northwestern side of China in like an area where you wouldn't think that, you know, there's a whole lot there. But they have some major earthquake activity in that area. I always see it up. So anyway, buildings cracked, five people injured.

And that event, December 6th, which we're knocking on the door, what were we have? That was yesterday. Yep. Yesterday, the Yakatatatat, earthquake hit, well, the earthquake hit Yakutut. but Alaska, 7.0, home shifted, small tsunami caused by it, 50 plus million in damage. This is a 7.0 on the top of the ring of fire. The ring of fire has been going crazy with activity and nothing. I mean, yes, activity in California, but we're not talking like anything major.

So again, hopefully that activity is being worked out in those minor quakes that we're seeing. But if I was living in California right now, I would be on red alert because we had that one, Alaska. We had one down in Mexico. Usually they hit the halfway point and the North American craton sitting right there as well. So that could cause earthquake activity to jam down in Texas up into the New Madrid. up all the way into, you know, Maryland and stuff like that because the North American Kraton shoots right up through there. So right now I would be on an earthquake watch for the West Coast and then we just have to watch activity to see how far it's going to travel around

what the extremity of that's going to be. But to see that big earthquake is concerning to me. It does make me worry about, I've been worried about California getting hit for a while. because I see what the what the ring of fire is doing right now and that that works so if you look at the earth and you look at the Pacific you can go on a Dutch sense

Dutch Dutch sense he's a great earthquake breaker downer will tell you all kinds of information but literally it was all around the ring of fire with the 7.0 up on the top which was the unusual one

that could have been helped by the cold to make it worse but you've got to think about like the whole Pacific Ocean shifting and then it was like how much do you think the Pacific Ocean weighs

right like crazy the whole thing right? Oh man it's intense it's some cool stuff to watch that's a very cool planet we live on

December 4th fourth through seventh we also had wildfire activity in australia's northern territory they had 10 plus large um fires going eight million um has burned this season to date so they're doing some evacuations up there and again so wintertime here summertime there October um well in November October November yeah so October we had 21,488 earthquake that were 2.0 were bigger on our planet. That came down, actually, for November. That's why I was kind of encouraged about some of this.

But the volcanic activity usually follows that big earthquake uptick by a little bit. So remember back when it used to be a big deal to see like 28 and 29 erupting volcanoes for years, for years and years and years while I've been recording it? It was like, wow, 28. 29. Oh, my gosh. crazy, right? On our planet, as of yesterday, well, this morning at about 3 a.m. when I went to bed. Forty-six volcanoes erupting. Forty-six. Fourty-six. That's just crazy.

The numbers aren't going down. They're only keep upticking. I haven't seen. I haven't seen. we had like one month where it went down one volcano but I've not seen this downtick at all it's only been uptick for the last year which is insane 46 volcanoes erupting 41 showing minor activity so almost as many erupting as showing minor activity and 23 more showing unrest so these are some volcanoes that don't usually pop up on our screens 110 volcanoes

either erupting minor activity or showing unrest so we're now well past the 100 point that was like wow we got 100 now we're well past the 100

mark so keep those woollies out because that's what happens when you put all that that volcanic emissions into the air you think cars are bad or cows wait until we see what happens

from all these volcanoes to our planet so it's going to be fun we've been in a warming pattern for a long time so yeah and we have the arrogance to blame it on humans like we like we you know I'm sure we can push it like you know I'm sure we can help push it like that little bit

but Mother Nature God's like here hold my beard let me show you how this really works you know we don't really have a say over what happens it's why we should not be trying to manipulate it all righty changing earth news we got a lot that's going on on our planet good time definitely guys if you're over west coast right now please make sure you have your earthquake readiness kits together ready to go um you know shoes by your bed that kind of thing the specific earthquake items that we've talked about you have that ready to go because um hmm i would be concerned if i was over there already guys well that's

it i hope everybody out there has a very merry merry christmas um and you're just filled with the warmth of the season and jesus love and um just have it make in a very special time. I can't thank you enough for the years of dedication of my show. I have people that, you know, have reached out to me. They've been listening to me for a decade now. And it's just really special. That means a whole lot to me. And I'm happy to have brought you. I'm happy to have you along on this journey. You know, it's been, it's been great. And Chin, amen, brother. Thank you so much for all the years that you dedicated to, some crazy gal doing a podcast

on Sunday and I can't tell you how much I value your guys' friendship and your love. Yeah. Amen. All righty, well that's my Merry Christmas message. We will not see you guys until after the new year.

I don't know what date that is. I'm not even going to look because I'm just going to look forward to a happy holidays, but it's always the first Sunday of the month. And I think we'll probably, I'm I'm getting close to getting caught up with projects with the audio drama so we can start looking at possibly doing the read of the Las Vegas years and then taking some of the survival stuff out of the Las Vegas years and have fun with Erica and Vince again on there. We're going back in time.

We're going to rewind it. The Lost Vegas Years. The Lost Vegas Years. Yeah, you like that, the play. I did. Because everybody's like, what happened to the nine years? What happened to the nine years? And so I was like, here's the Lost Vegas years for you.

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