The Prepper Broadcasting Network - ICFA: Reality Check: Workplace Preparedness and Uncommon EDC Items

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

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It came from the archives! Well, good evening, everyone. I hope everybody's having a great evening this Friday. I see M.I. Gray is in the chat room. Good evening to you, M.I. Gray. I hope everything's going good. My name is Michael Klein. For those of you tuning in that have never heard of us before, this is Reality Check. Hey, if you're listening to us on blog talk radio or some kind of other

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If you are listening to us and you're on the Internet tonight and you're like, you know what? Normally I'm not on the Internet. I'm driving down the road and I don't have a way to. Yeah, E.K. finally made it in. So I guess chat's starting to clean up. But if you don't have a way to listen to us on the Internet or you can't connect in and whatnot, you can actually call and listen to us on the phone. So if you call the number 347-202-0228, you can actually listen to the show. You get dropped in. You can hear me talking. If you want to ask a question or have a topic you want to talk about, press the number 1. When you press 1, you get dropped into the queue, and you can actually talk to me live on the air, or you can ask your topic live on the air, and we can chat back and forth, you know, on the air.

So that's always a good thing. That number again, 347-202-0228 if you can't connect to us online. So I see some people getting in the chat room. Hopefully everybody can hear me in there. Somebody in the chat room can say, yes, we can hear you. I will continue on. Otherwise, I'm just going to sit here and babble for a few minutes because hopefully, yes, sir, as I'm guessing, I'm guessing Pappy's saying, yes, sirs. I hear you. There we go. All right. So we know where audio is getting out. All right. So I'm going to give a little aside here just because

the last few shows that I've done, kind of interesting the way that the material that I've chosen and then what's happening in the news. So I'm going to let you all in on a little secret. The show tonight is not about the shootings. It's not about the stuff that's in the news, but it actually does tie in. But that's not what I'm doing the show on, and that's not the reason why I'm doing the show. When I do get to prepare a show, it takes me about two weeks to do it. So I have a lot of stuff that are, hey, Pappy's called in. Good for you there, Pappy.

See, it does work. You can call in and listen to us on the phone number. What I do is I get ideas and I think, you know, I want to talk about that. Or, hey, you know, that would be a really good topic. And it takes me about two weeks to develop a show. So what happens is about a week before the show airs, I start typing out a description that's going to go online. And then I start typing out about my show, you know, start typing out my show notes that I'm actually going to read from. And so when you hear the show that I'm doing, it's not because, hey, it's in the news. I'm going to cover that. What's actually happening apparently is I'm doing the show, and then it's in the news.

I mean literally like I did the show on survivor guilt, and literally within 24 hours they had the Amtrak derailment that happened literally like 40 miles south of my house. literally like 40 miles south of my house. And there were passengers injured. Some others were just fine. And I watched one of the brothers of the engineer that died tell his story. And dang, if you couldn't see some of the triggers that I discussed on survivor guilt. So two weeks ago, yeah, two weeks ago now, I started planning for the workplace preparedness. Because if you were with us last Friday, Blog Talk was having a little bit of problems, and that show

didn't go, so what I'm talking about tonight was actually supposed to be talked about last Friday, but now it's been two weeks, so I started planning for Workplace Preparedness, and it was based on an unrelated event, but then we have the shootings in Florida, so here's what I propose. I think

my next show is, I'm going to do on what preps you need to buy after you win the lottery, because that way everybody listening to me tonight will be winning the lottery. Can you do a show on me winning the lottery? Am I gray? I really hope you didn't just type that in. I hope you just type that in because of what I just said, because if not, then that is going to be super freaky that I just mentioned about buying preps to win the lottery. And here you are talking in the chat room about winning the lottery, because if that's the case, that is scary, freaky. But hopefully you heard me say lottery, and that's why you typed it in. But anyway, I will end my little aside now and get on with the show.

But just so you all know, it takes me like two weeks to put a show together, so when I talk about something, it's not because I've been watching the news. It's because I was thinking about it, and then the news apparently has been watching me, so anyway, EK test to that effect. So we all prepare to take care of our families, and I hope that we all carry supplies and a medical kit in our vehicles. You know, we all have our bug out bags. We all have our EDC bags. We all have the stuff that we should have in our vehicles and whatnot. And I know a lot of us out there carry an EDC bag. EDC meaning everyday carry. It is your purse. It is your backpack. It is whatever you were carrying on you at all times. And it doesn't have to be a bag. It can be your pockets. So a lot of people's EDC inventory will be, you know, just a pistol and a knife and maybe

a flashlight and a cell phone and some cash. Some people carry a backpack. Some people have a purse or whatever. But what we're going to be asking is what do you actually carry in your EDC? So I'm going to be referencing a bag, but it could be your pockets as well. So excluding firearms and the means of protecting yourself. So we're not asking what kind of pistols or what kind of firepower you carry. We all understand that we should be carrying something if you choose to do that. If not, then, hey, pepper spray or stun batons or whatever you want to carry, that's fine. But what do you all carry in your EDC? And I'm asking this to the people in the chat room that can be interactive.

So this is your question tonight. I want your suggestions. I want you to start typing it in stuff. So to those in the chat room, excluding firearms, what items do you carry in your EDC? Now I'm not talking about a bug out bag. I'm talking about your get home bag, your everyday carry bag, things that you go to work, you know, that kind of thing. And when I say, um, we're also thinking grid up. So we're not thinking grid down. This is your normal Monday to Friday, eight to five type of stuff. So you get up,

you put this stuff on your backpack or whatever, and you go to work and you're driving a truck or whatever, and you're coming home. This is not SHTF, everyday normal grip stuff. What do you carry in your EDC bag? So I'm seeing a lot of things coming in. Yep, that's pretty good. Lighter, bandana, multi-tools, cell phone, lighter, fire starter. Yep. A compass. That's a good one. Munchies. Yep, snacks and stuff. Pocket dump. There you go. Do a pocket dump. So keys, flashlight, thumb drives. That's a good one. Cliff bar, another good one. Well, Pappy, I know because you exercise so much. one cliff bar another good one well pappy i know because you exercise so much um there's actually a verse in the bible that says only the wicked run without being chased so that's why i don't run all righty how many of you carry benadryl

so think about it if a co-worker has a peanut allergy and they're having a reaction, this is going to be SHTF for them. So do you carry Benadryl? What if the coffee pot, and we're going to be talking like an office setting, what if the coffee pot shatters and someone's arm gets cut really, really deep? That's going to be an SHTF situation for them. So again, while we're waiting on the chat to build a little bit uh let me give you some ideas so we first we said benadryl how about a pulse oximeter literally how many people of y'all carry a pucks up so here's a real world example that i have a couple of weeks ago had a man pass out for no reason and he suffers a concussion he's knocked out and you're not sure if he's breathing or if he has a pulse do any of y'all carry a signal mirror or a mirror

that you can stick under his nose to see if he's breathing if not do you carry a little $30 put socks from walgreens you slap it on a finger and instantly you can tell the pulse and you can tell the auto o2 sats you can know if he's breathing you can know if he has a finger and instantly you can tell the pulse and you can tell the O2 sats. You can know if he's breathing. You can know if he has a pulse and you can tell what state he might be in due to the numbers. So those are the kind of things we're going to be thinking about tonight. So who all carries an IFAC? IFAC being Individual First Aid Kit.

I'm sure everybody carries a first aid kit. What about a SWAT-T or soft-T tourniquet? Do you know what those are? Do you know how to use them? Do you know what's the difference between a SWAT-T and a soft-T tourniquet? When you built your IFAC, did you build it just to suit your needs? Did you think about your co-workers or maybe your family? You know, you built the first aid kit. You got it. That's great, but did you think about your coworkers or maybe your family? You built the first aid kit. You got it. That's great.

But did you think about only treating yourself or maybe one other person? Or are you thinking about treating several people, maybe three or four people? In your IFACs, do you have enough roll gauze and enough two-by-twos or enough four-by-fours to handle a wound that is really, really bleeding. Okay, Jay Fergie, you're going to start jumping ahead here again. Jay Fergie is on top of it tonight, baby. I swear she's hacked into my computer and reading my script. So do you, do you have enough gauze? Do you have enough two by twos or four by fours to handle a major wound? Again, going back to that coffee pot thing.

You know, Band-Aids that we all have in our first aid kits are fine for scuts and scrapes. But, again, in an office setting, somebody drops a coffee pot, even though it's tempered glass, if you drop it on the corner of something, that glass is going to shatter. And, you know, the hot coffee and sharp glass glass do you have enough stuff to deal with that what if someone does pass out or faints or whatever or slips and they cut their head and there's a very large gash in their head do you have enough supplies in your ifact to treat them or are you only worried about yourself do you carry non-latex gloves because some people have latex allergies? You know, do you carry burn spray? So again, hot coffee or someone just microwaves and they're about to put

400 degree food in their mouth and it dribbles all over their chin or whatever, whatever reason, somebody burns themselves. Do you carry burn spray in your EDC bag? You know, the hot coffee, the tea, the toaster oven, you can all cause minor burns. So do you carry some kind of medical spray to deal with that? You may never need these, but, you know, if your coworker does, they're going to be very, very appreciative of it. So I said Benadryl. That can also be any kind of anti-allergy medicine because there's going to be a lot of people out there that've got peanut allergies chocolate allergies milk allergies and perfume allergies now think about this perfume allergy so you're getting on to an elevator with an older woman and she's wearing a gallon of chanel number five that's going to trigger somebody's allergy if

they're not careful and they're going to go into anaphylaxis. Do you know how to recognize the symptoms of that? And do you know how to treat someone that's gone into anaphylactic shock? You know, again, do you carry the Benadryl? And it's not the Benadryl tablets, it's Benadryl fast melt, Benadryl liquid, or something that can be administered if a person can't swallow or if they can't breathe, you know, you got to think about that. And then getting to Jay Fergie's, do you carry an N95 mask or an emesis bag? Do you carry some kind of N95 mask in case there's a fire or there's a problem with the air? You know, what if somebody hits the building, like physically runs into the building and like the ceiling tiles fall? If you have ever messed with a drop ceiling, you know how much the dust and the debris fall out of those things.

If you bump a ceiling tile, you know there's like a waterfall of dirt falling out of there. So any kind of earthquake, tornado, Duke's a hazard driver, hits the wall, causes a lot of shaking. That's the kind of thing you're going to be thinking about. I mean, heck, even in my building, I work in a really old building. If you drop a case of printer paper, you're going to cause ceiling tiles to fall. We had a supply guy come up, and he had like five cases of printer paper on a dolly.

And he went to go put down the dolly, and the thing fell. The stack toppled over. And with the two or three things of paper, two or three reams of paper hitting the floor or the cases of paper hitting the floor that was enough that it shook basically my entire floor and like four ceiling tiles fell of course there's dust and everything else and don't even get me started on the asbestos start of it so do you carry an n95 respirator mask because if something bad and happens the ceiling's going to come down Are you going to be able to breathe all that? So I'm going to go ahead and take a break here real quick. I'm going to read back through the chat and check some of these. I can see some

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Of course, a folding knife, a knife sharpener. I actually do carry one of those. I have a little small whetstone that I carry with me. Benadryl, an EpiPen, MedKit, TraumaKit. Several people have tourniquets. An IBD, meds including aspirin that always melt, so melt aspirin, you know, melt Tylenol, that kind of good stuff. Several people said Swat Teas, got a lot of their stuff from Doom and Bloom.

And by the way, Doom and Bloom, they have some really great products. So I'm a sponsor. They're not a sponsor of me. I got no skin in the game, but I've met them both, both Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy. Those are some awesome people. I have a lot of their stuff. I have some of their dental kits. I have their tourniquets that they have, the Softie tourniquets.

Really, really good stuff for them. Let's see. Jay Fergie says, have a first aid kit with suture and N95 mask. Yeah, of course, she's got a suture kit. That woman carries a MASH hospital with her everywhere she goes. Wound closure stuff.

Snacks, jerky. M.I. Gray posts the Dark Angel Dark Kit. He posts a link to darkangelmedical.com. He says the kit goes with me everywhere. I'm going to have to check that out. Somebody else says N95 mask. Yes, mask. Gloves and a mask every day on the

duty belt. Yeah. For the paramedics and EMTs, that's one of the things they carry everywhere is gloves and masks and whatnot. It would not hurt you to carry a pair or two pair of non-latex gloves, you know, nitride or whatever, around with you. And it's not just somebody's bleeding. You know, your dog messes on the carpet and just goes absolutely everywhere, and you've got to clean that up. It's really nice to have a pair of gloves

to clean up dog poop. So it doesn't have to be SHTF and it doesn't have to be blood and guts. It can be, you know, cleaning puke out of something. Uh, let's see. EDC purse, gun in the purse. Yep. Um, do-do-do-do-do. Jerky, jerky, jerky, books, cash, change, yeah, extra cash, extra pair of undies, now, Jay Fergie's got it right, that's something I carry with me, is a change of clothing, I think I've, I think I've covered that, yeah, I covered that a little later on, but, yeah, a pair of, change of clothes, blood clot powder, playing cards. Now, that's a good one I hadn't thought of, but, you know, when the cell phones go down and the EMP hits, you know, we're going to have to play solitaire some way, and sometimes we're going to have to do it manually. Sawyer mini filter, flashlights, change of clothes in the car.

Yep, very, very good. So speaking of changing clothes and puke and everything else, I'll get back on the emesis bag. So an emesis bag is a bark bag to you non-medical folks. And there are times when I have gotten sick and I did not think I could make it to the restroom. And as M.I. Gray says in the chat room, TMI. But you know, hey, what? Reality can slap you in the face, and so that's why it's called Reality Check for a reason. In my building, everybody loves Wednesdays because the company caters for lunch. So where I work, the company usually caters in food for lunch. What if when the food they brought in was actually tainted, and people got food poisoning, and they start yakking all over the place? I don't want my my tps reports ruined so i carry an emesis bag because sometimes you might not make it to the bathroom and quit in enough time uh elks in the chat room says a cooking kit yep little small little kit or cooking kit um j fergie says you know pads and tampons because

they're good for gunshot wounds so you know even know, even guys, you know, you're thinking that's weird. But, hey, man, maxi pads are small. They're lightweight. They're folded up, and they absorb a lot of material. And it doesn't have to be blood. It can be, you know, any liquid. It'll absorb. All right.

How about glow sticks? How many people in here carry ecstasy with them and you pop a roll and get your uh your nike your um mixed paper rub out you do with your glow sticks and your maybe i'm sharing too much with you people how many of y'all carry glow sticks well here's the reason why some people do yep good as secondary flares well here's a here's a wake-up call an emp is going to fry an LED flashlight. So if you've got an LED flashlight and even some lithium-ion batteries, those are going to be gone after an EMP or a CME event. Believe it or not, a lot of lithium-ion batteries require control circuitry to limit currents and stuff, and this is built into the battery. So the little small cell phone batteries, maybe not so much,

but sometimes AA's and especially anything that's going to be running like a power tool, those lithium ion batteries have got circuitry built into them to keep them safe. And in an EMP or in CME, those are going to be gone. So if you've got a device that's not in a Faraday cage that uses lithium ion, chances are it's going to be gone. So if you've got a device that's not in a Faraday cage that uses lithium ion, chances are it's going to be gone. And an LED flashlight certainly qualifies as an electronic device. So if you've got all your flashlights as LED, great, but just as FYI, if an EMP hits, they're gone. So what I do is I carry a couple of green and white Callum light sticks. And that way, if my flashlight doesn't work or something is a problem,

I actually have a source of light. I also carry them so that in the event that there is a problem with my building, I can drop them in my stairwell. So as I'm running down the stairwell or running up the stairwell, I can pop a few of those and throw them in the stairwell. The reason why is this. In an emergency, people are going to be panicking. People are going to be going crazy, and a light source in the stairwell, especially a dark stairwell or hallway, could be a lifesaver. We hope that the emergency lighting is going to work, but we don't know because they're on all the time, and those batteries only get changed once a year, and nobody ever really, really tests it by going downstairs and just cutting the power

to the building and seeing what happens. Let's see. In the chat room, I'm seeing no glow sticks for the TSA. TSA does not approve of the glow sticks. So if you're flying, can't have glow sticks, but otherwise, it might be an idea. Another person in the chat says, Zofran and a small number of pain pills.

All right. J Fergan E.K., what does Zofran do? I know that's a pill. I know it's something, but I have no idea what it is because I'm not a doctor. So, y'all please, denalgia. Okay. Anti-nausea medication. Now, that is a good one that I had not thought of.

So, kudos to y'all for that one. Anti-nausea medicine. That's a really good one, especially when you're having to sit in the meeting with Carl and he's giving his sales figures. All right, what about a change of clothes? And I don't mean jeans and the hiking boots. So yes, you can have your change of clothes in the car that, you know, you're wearing your business attire, something goes crazy, you go out to your car, you change clothes, you put on your hiking boots, you put on your jeans, and then you still go tromp through the woods making a direct line to your bug out location or whatever. No, I'm talking about your dress clothes. I'm talking about your business attire. Do you carry a spare pair of underwears, khakis, polos, skirts, dresses? skirts, dresses? You know, do you carry a button down shirt? Something that if you're in the, if you're in an office setting and you're in business attire and something goes wrong,

do you have a change of clothes? So how often do we spill a cup of coffee on us or we drop greasy food? You know, we go to, um, you make it all through the morning. Your meeting is at one o'clock that afternoon and you go to lunch and you go to eat something and you drop it off your fork and it hits the plate and it splatters all the grease and juice that was in your plate all over your shirt. And now you got to go to the meeting with that. And, you know, shot wipes are really good, but all the kids are eating them. So, you know, shot wipes might not be available for very long. So carry an extra set of clothes. It might be beneficial to think about that. You know, I carry underwear.

I carry a polo, and I carry a pair of khakis and socks in my EDC bag. Again, if something goes wrong, I carry the spare polo and a pair of dress pants in my bag, and I have them in food saver bags. I carry the spare polo and a pair of dress pants in my bag, and I have them in food saver bags. So what I did is I put my pants and underwear and a shirt, everything in a food saver bag, and then vacuum sealed it. And it sucked it down. It reduced the space. It makes them very flat. And in the event of a massive coffee spill or a massive unexpected revenge of Montezuma, I don't have to embarrass myself. I don't have to go home.

I don't have to walk myself. I don't have to go home. I don't have to walk, you know, do a walk of shame down to my car. I just grab my bag, walk to the bathroom and change. So, all right, to the chat room, somebody says, so Zofran's good for nausea, a small bottle of mixed meds, Imodium, yep, Imodium AD, Gas X is another good one. Let's see, make sure all of your meds are properly labeled if they're prescription yes so if you're carrying some kind of prescription medicine or some kind of regulated medicine please for the love of god make sure that it's in its original bottle make sure your name is on it and make sure you have a prescription for it because if you dump all those pills in a ziploc bag like i used to do you're going to get someone like ek after you because i used to have tylenol and aspirin and imodium ad and um

ibuprofen and all kinds of good stuff in a ziplock bag and it's like i know what it is i know what i want to take and it was casually pointed out to me by ek that yes but if you ever get pulled over they're not going to know what that is and you're probably going to have some explaining to do and i was like uh yeah that's a good idea so keep your meds in the bottle you know even if it's a small bottle just keep your meds in the bottle make sure the bottle is labeled if it's prescription please make sure your name is on it uh it says in the state that jay fergie is, it is a misdemeanor for each loose pill and a felony for each one that's under control. So I guess that'd be a narcotic type thing.

That nub in the chat says spare uniform. Yep, that's another good one. If you work where you're having to change clothes or you've got a company assigned uniform, it's always good to have a spare uniform somewhere. Extra shoes, that's a good one. Tarp small blanket. The reflective Mylar blankets, yep, that's a good one to keep in an EDC bag. So for those of you that are in the chat room, here's a question to you. Why would you carry a Mylar blanket in your EDC bag?

You're just going back and forth to work. It's no big deal. Why might, what's a, what's a situation that you could think of where you might need a mylar blanket? Yep. Yep. I got it. So Jay Fergie posted holds the heat that nub post shock. And that is absolutely right. So again, going back into our, um, dude knocked unconscious, uh, coffee pot shatters everywhere, you know, blood loss and whatnot like that. Uh, people are going to go into shock. And when people go into shock, their body temperature is going to plummet. They're going to have all kinds of problems. So those little reflective blankets, you know,

that's not just your bug out tent and there's all that can, those can save lives for people that are lives for people that are going into shock. And also, as that nub says, rain catchment, and you can signal planes. So other items we can think of. Let's see here. Chewing gum. Chewing gum is good to calm the nerves, and it's also an adhesive. So a little back story.

I was 13 going camping with the Boy Scouts, and we had our water pitcher, and we had a five-gallon water jug, and the water jug sprung a leak and would not hold water. And it just so happens I was chewing a piece of gum, and so I had chewed it, chewed it, chewed it, chewed all the sugar out of it. We turned the water jug over. I cleaned it. I took my gum. I slapped the gum on the bottom of the water jug. We filled it back up, and it lasted us the entire weekend and never leaked, and then after it was over and we got back to the scout hut, I took my gum back off of the water jug and threw it in the trash and started chewing again. No, I'm just kidding. I didn't do that. Yeah, I really did. EK didn't know about that. Germ-X hand sanitizer. Well, Pap says some type of hat. Yeah, a hat's a really good one to have. An empty water bottle.

That's another good one. Chapstick or lip balm. You know, that's not really needed maybe during the summer, but during the winter, you know, when the winds are blowing, chapstick or some kind of lip balm can be really, really good. We've already mentioned the common meds like Tylenol, Ibuprofen. Pepto-Bismol is another good one, Gas-X, you know, some kind of Tums or Rolaids, Snail, Snail Mix, Trail Mix or Snacks, Crackers, Pappy was mentioning that earlier, you know,

Beef Jerky, some kind of, some kind of calorie mix. I saw handkerchief or bandana earlier, if you've got a shemagh or a keffiyeh, anything like that. How about sugar tablets? So you think about it. If you've got a coworker and they've got a problem where their sugar bottoms out, having a sugar tablet or sugar packet can be a really, really good thing. Having a sugar tablet or sugar packet, you know, can be a really, really good thing. No, I said, I started to say snacks like trail mixer crackers, but I got it mixed up.

No, I did not say anything bad. Jeez. Safety pins is another one someone mentioned in the chat room. Yep, I carry safety pins with me. And no, I don't have the little safety pin thing that I put on my shirt that, you know, anyway. If you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then sorry. So anyway. All right, chat room, keep it coming. So next part. So we've got a few items to add our EDC and we're going to keep reading off some of those, but having the items is only going to be half of the equation.

You need to educate yourself on the use of them and the emergency procedures. So are you trained in first aid? Are you trained in CPR? Do you have some kind of medical knowledge? Do you know how to use an AED machine if the company has one, if there's ones around? Do you know how to use an AED machine if the company has one, if there's ones around? One thing you can do is run through the list of possible scenarios that might happen at your workplace and figure out how to do it. And that can be in an office building or can even be on the traveling on the road. So for those of you that are truckers out there listening to us, I appreciate what you do.

You keep this country moving. And that's your workspace. That's your office in the semi. So this is what we're talking about there too. So again, going back to the faint thing, what do you do if someone faints? Do you know how to deal with someone fainting? Do you know how to deal with someone that is unconscious? If they've hit their head or if they've got a severe concussion or something, do you know how to deal with all that? You know, do you know how to test for pupil dilation where you take a. Oh, it's the air conditioner.

I didn't know what that was. It sounded like it was raining here, but it's the air conditioner. Sorry, squirrel. Do you know how to test for pupil dilation with a flashlight so you know the medical people out there yeah but some of us that don't have any medical experience you know learn how to use if someone faints learn how to use the flashlight to check pupil dilation and if someone's having a seizure or the diabetic blackout or they're choking do you know how to deal with someone that's choking do you know how to deal with all Again, do you know how to use an AED? So OSHA, believe it or not, OSHA actually had a really good quote in one of their

manuals that I was digging through, and it says, quote, it takes more than just willing hands to save lives. Untrained individuals may endanger themselves and those they are trying to rescue. And that is actually a really good thing is that, you know, if you're trying to help somebody and you don't have training, you could do more damage. Now, you might want to educate yourself on the Good Samaritan Law and figure out, you know, how that, how much that covers you. But, you know, learn how to do stuff so that if you're not just, you know, you've got your stuff, learn how to use it. That way you're not endangering yourself or anybody else when you're trying to rescue somebody. Let's see. Jay Fergie says, emergency numbers attached to your shirt, spare eyeglasses. Yes,

spare sunglasses. Contacts if you've got them. So contacts, contact wash, spare sunglasses and prescription eyeglasses, toothbrush, floss, and toothpaste. Yep, I carry those in my EDC. I carry those because I have to go to meetings pretty often, and you know, after I've had a really big, nice, fat, juicy cheeseburger with loads and loads of white onions, I need to brush my teeth. M.I. Gray says a ham radio and two antennas depending on where I travel. Yep. I carry a little HT with me.

Pappy says, I wear a road ID bracelet for others to easily find my emergency contacts. Yeah. If you've got any kind of medical issue, then you probably already carry the medical ID type bracelet, but dog tags for those of you that, that have dog tags or maybe still have your dog tags, wearing those or have a pair made that you can wear. Dog tags would be a really good thing.

A good jacket, regardless of the weather. Yeah, actually, I carry a coat with me. You would call it a coat, but it's a jacket. And I carry it even in the summer because I never know when I'm going to need it. And it's not just for the cold. It can be if I'm going into a freezer or a cold area where there's like a cold storage, but also it makes a really nice pillow just to kind of roll it up and lay on the grass. Can't hurt to learn sliding scale.

Now, Jay Fergie may have to, can't hurt to learn sliding scale. Now, Jay Fergie may have to, Jay Fergie or EK may need to elaborate on that. Sliding scale, learn the sliding scale. You need to know it for a coworker if anything ever happens. That nub says, most AEDs will tell you what to do step by step. Yes, they do, but it also benefits to know how to use an AED.

Pap in the chat room says roadid.com, R-O-A-D-I-D.com. Oh, okay, so the sliding scales for the diabetics. Yeah, I think AK has mentioned that once or twice about something. But anyway, yeah, learn how to deal with diabetics. People around you will be diabetic, and you won't even know it. And if they get too much sugar or not enough sugar, they're going to have a bad day and do you know how to deal with that? So this is all really, really great advice. I appreciate y'all jumping in on this. So I'm sure everybody listening has a firearm. Pretty much everybody has an AR-15 and I'm pretty sure everybody would agree that just because you have the tool does not mean that you know how to use it effectively or to its full potential.

And these are going to be the same things for your EDC items. So again, learn how to use your stuff. Just because you have the IFAC does not guarantee that you can save lives. Pap says emergency whistle. Now that's a good one I do not have in my bag is an emergency whistle. All right, we're going to shift gears here real quick and do some PR, HR crap. So this is going to be more towards those that work in an office, particularly multi-story buildings. I work in a three-story building, and it's really old, and it's kind of rickety and would be really, really bad in a fire. So do you know the evacuation routes of your company? So for your business, either one-story or multi-story, do you know your evacuation routes? Have you ever taken the time to actually read your company's evacuation plans?

Do you know what your company's emergency preparedness plans are? Have you ever read your company's business continuity plan? So Pappy in the chat room says, yes, he has. He developed it. And some of you probably have. Some of you have probably written the BCPs and your dr dr kind of stuff and your um meantime to recovery and all that kind of good stuff but if you haven't you know it's a lot of corporate mumbo jumbo but you know it can benefit you to read the company's plans so do you know where the

safe places are in your company have you scoped that out you know do you know where to shelter for if there's an earthquake or if there's a tornado or if there's an active shooter? You know, you get a disgruntled employee. Do you know which walls in your building are support walls? Do you know which ones are dry wall? You know, if you go back to some of my previous shows, I talk about taking the backer board and building part of your house with backer board so that you have cover, not just concealment, but actual cover. Something that has a ballistics kind of coefficient to it. So let's see. Chat room says, that nub says, speaking of good Samaritan laws, I got a liability umbrella for the insurance company that covers me in case I do something stupid.

Dude, that is an awesome idea. Talk to your insurance agent, the people that are doing your insurance, either house or car, and say, you know, hey, look, I have a tendency to try to help people and save lives. Is there some kind of insurance umbrella that I can purchase that saves me? That nub says it's very cheap. It's like $10 a month. So that is stupid worth it.

I will actually check that out. That is a heck of an idea, that nub. Us as preppers and just by our very nature, we're going to be trying to help people to an extent. I mean, you know, we're going to let the sheep go to slaughter, but if we can save some of them, we will. But that is a hell of an extent. I mean, you know, we're going to let the sheep go to slaughter, but, you know, if we can save some of them, we will. But that is a, that's a hell of an idea. Someone says, in my grace, says get a trauma med class. Yep, take trauma med class. Take you an EMT class or,

you know, if nothing else, go to your local college and sign up for some paramedics classes. That nub says that insurance policy also covers if someone breaks into your house and cuts themselves and whatnot. EK says please get training first to know what you're doing in all major situations and whatnot. So those are really, really good ideas. So I mentioned active shooter a minute ago. So do you know how to deal with an active shooter? And when I say, do you know how to deal with active shooter? I'm not talking about returning fire. No, we're not talking about returning fire. Not all of us are allowed to

carry firearms in our company. Some of us, moi, are limited to knives and tactical pins. And, you know, it's not just you. Do you know how to avoid or handle panicked people? So this is one I alluded to a minute ago. The sheep to slaughter kind of thing, do you know how to handle a large group of people? Do you know how to avoid panicked people? So if something goes wonky in your business, people are going to run.

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That is good, sound advice, medical kits. So in the chat room, we're saying baseball bats, golf clubs, braided rubber hoes. One of the guys carries all that stuff in his office. You can have whips and chains and certain leather products, too, if you've got an office or a playpen, depending on who's in the office and what you're doing. Hey, that may be your office. I'm not going to knock that. There may be some of the people listening in the chat that your office is a dungeon, and you are the dungeon master. you were the dungeon master and that's your your thing you know you need to make sure your clientele is actively protected if someone if someone forgets to say the safe word and things go south you know you need to be prepared for that you think it's funny but you know you've really really stopped to think about it that uh that could happen so anyway we'll get back to shooting people. So what I was talking about a minute ago is with herd mentality takes over,

you need to know how to deal with people that are scared and running. You need to know how to react. I appreciate that, EK. I'm going to take that as a compliment. You need to know how to be prepared to guide people to safety or avoid them and get yourself out of danger. So again, reading the books, you can figure out where your choke points are in your office. So I encourage you to go back and watch some videos of recent mass shootings and recent disasters.

So there's Columbine. There's the Aurora theater shooting in Colorado, there's the Kenya mall, there's, you know, what's in the news lately right now with Florida and all that kind of good stuff. But seriously, go back and go on YouTube or go on Vimeo and start looking, if you can, at unedited amateur footage of mass shootings or mass casualty or something went wrong and people started running. Look for the patterns. Look the way, look how people behave. Watch how people run. Watch how people cover. Start learning how the herd mentality works so that when something does happen, you may have an advantage. You know, if there's a case in a gunman, let's say, you know, active shooter or disgruntled employee and everybody's screaming and running,

do you know where to go in your office? Do you know if your desk or office has enough sectional density to stop a bullet? You know, one thing to think about is a ballistic clipboard or backpack. And again, I wrote this show two weeks ago, so I swear I did not write this show based on the news. I think the news is based on my show. But a ballistic clipboard, a ballistic backpack, that's something that I carry. I actually have a little insert

that I put in my EDC bag. I actually have a backpack, like a student's backpack. It's not camo. It's black. And it's designed to stop a bullet. It won't stop a rifle round, maybe. It might stop 5.56. I don't know if it'll stop 7.62.

But it'll certainly stop handgun ammo. So, you know, if you have a backpack, chances are there's the laptop packet, you know. Try one and get one of these little inserts. Now, granted, they're probably off the wall right now because of what's happening in Florida. The price of those has gone way up. But give it a little bit, and I'm sure those prices will come down.

And if you Google like hardwire or bullet blocker or something like that, you'll probably get it. I think they can be gotten for around $100. So, yeah, I actually do have one am I gray hold on one second let me get my copying and my pasting here I think that'll work so that's the one that I I actually have is is from that um from that company so speaking of the the backpack thing I would hope that your EDC is like a typical college backpack. So for those of you that do carry a backpack or you do carry a bag of some sort, I really hope you're practicing your gray man techniques and you're not using a digital camo backpack with the MOLLE straps and a Gadsden flag patch. And, you know, if you work for a black rifle company, that's great, and kudos to you.

But if you're like me and you work in an office with a bunch of Starbucks drinking snowflakes and suits, your EDC needs to blend in. So a messenger bag, a European shoulder bag, you know, whatever. Make it so that your backpack or your rucksack or whatever you're carrying your EDC stuff in blends in, so the gray man kind of thing. And then make sure it's got some kind of ballistic protection and stuff. That's a good idea. Jay Fergie says her husband carries his blood type on his bag. Yeah. Again, going back to the dog tags, man. You know, carry tags or carry some kind of identification that has your blood type on it.

carry tags or carry some kind of identification that has your blood on it. So, um, next thing to think about are continuing on with your like company's policies and emergencies and preparedness and stuff, read your company's preparedness plans, you know, not just figure out where in the company, um, you can hide or where the exit points are, but figure out how your company wants to deal with something. So flying Dutchman, I appreciate you getting in there flying Dutchman. I'm sorry it took you a long to get in, but appreciate you joining us tonight.

So reading through your corporate preparedness plan, a lot of that stuff is going to be like corporate mumbo jumbo, but you never know what the executive's plan for the employees are. You know, you might be kind of surprised that if you get the corporate emergency plan, it says the corporate's plan is to, number one, grab all the treasury bonds from the state, number two, board the helicopter, and number three, let everybody else fend for themselves. You never know. But you should be knowledgeable of how the executives and the managers are going to deal with the issue.

And the reason why is, at the very least, you can be out in front of the fray. Jay Fergus says we're expendable. Yeah. Don't I know it. Here's an example. If your company evacuates the floor, and again, thinking multi-story building, if your company evacuates the building floor by floor and you hear that the first floor is evacuating, evacuates the building floor by floor, and you hear that the first floor is evacuating, you can go ahead and hit the stairwell and be down three or four flights of stairs before the next group leaves. You may not know that unless you're reading the company manuals that says, we are going to evacuate floor by floor. This could put you out of harm's way a little bit faster. And again, it's just an idea to think about. Another thing to know about

is the corporate policies, or another reason why you need to know about corporate policies is HR. So going back to the insurance policy comment earlier, this is a real thing. After you're done saving people, you're going to have to deal with HR, and you're going to be told how you should not have interveneded that saving the fellow co-worker should have been left to the professional like the police and the ems i actually have this problem in my current company we have people they're called safety officers and they're trained in first aid cpr they're trained to use the aed um but they're also trained not to treat anybody. They're trained to keep them still and wait for EMS. So they put on a reflective vest, a bright green reflective vest.

They go to the victim, and they just keep them calm and still until EMS gets there. So there is no head-to-toe. There's no alert and oriented times three. If the victim is bleeding and there is a risk of bodily fluids the safety officers literally they have to do this they have to go and put on a full blood-borne pathogen protection kit you know this is in the form of a plastic apron gloves and a face shield and to top it off the gloves are actually latex gloves so you know i mentioned that one time to the safety officers like hey dude you need to have latex free gloves because i might have a latex gloves. So, you know, I mentioned that one time to the safety officers, like, hey, dude, you need to have latex-free gloves, because I might have a latex allergy. I don't, but I just

said that. And, you know, it's like latex-free or nitrite or something, and I was basically told, I don't need to worry about that. That was none of my concern. It will be a concern when you touch someone with latex gloves, and they have an an allergic reaction and then they end up suing you for touching them so again carry benadryl um some of the other scenarios that might affect your work or tornadoes earthquakes a burst water pipe flooding you know again do you know where the safe areas in your building are and they may not be the stairwell my building is kind of a wooden building and the stairwell might be the idea but it's probably not the best idea because it's all wood so as i was saying earlier you know know your know your office know your office's structure good lord i'm getting tongue-tied tonight

know where your lord load-bearing walls are know where your drywall is you know that kind of good thing all right last getting down to the end here another bad idea is train derailments that are carrying hazard chemicals you know there's been a lot of train derailments in the news lately and a lot of times these tanker cars are going to get damaged if there is a chemical emergency near you or in your building do you know how to deal with that do you know how to evacuate you know where to evacuate do you know how to stay upwind of the gas if there was a problem you know how to deal with that? Do you know how to evacuate? Do you know where to evacuate? Do you know how to stay upwind of the gas if there was a problem?

You know, all these kind of things play in. So last thing, play what if. You know, think of the worst thing. Yeah, heck yeah. Flying Dutchman says, do you have a metal fire escape? You know, do you have a fire escape and my grace says always carry your keys because and mi gray has got a great one because if you're in an office building and you're down on the third floor and all your stuff's up on the eighth floor and fire alarm goes off you're not

going to be able to go back up to eight to get your stuff you're going to have to leave the building so yeah you know always carry your keys always carry you know some very very bottle things so that if you can't go back to your bag, like you come into work, you throw your bag underneath your desk and it stays there all during the day. And the idea is if something goes crazy, you grab your bag and get out. Well, what if you're at lunch and can't go back and get your bag? So there you go. So saying a minute ago, think of think of the worst that could happen. So in your office building or where you work, whether that be a truck or whatever, think of what can go wrong. And think of what can go wrong in adjacent buildings.

So it may not be your company. What about a company near yours? So what about if the company next door to you has an active shooter? The company next door to you has an active shooter. You know, they have a spouse that goes nutso and brings in a fully automatic AK-47 with, you know, armor-piercing tracer rounds or whatever. And they start going nuts on an exterior wall. The bullets are going through that company's wall and coming into your company's wall, you know. Those bullets may not stop at the walls.

Another idea is, again, if you work a few miles down from a chemical plant, what if that chemical plant has a spill? The fumes coming off of that may not stop at the gate. You need to broaden your thinking and think about those items in your EDC, or at least where you can get to them quickly. All right, back to the chat. So, husband keeps blood type on his bag, starting traveling, traveling internationally, had to swap out from expedition bag. Yep. Um, buy a plate from a baby girl school backpack. Yep. Uh, we were talking about that earlier about putting a ballistic shield in the backpack. Now, um, metal fire escape carrier keys. Backpack now.

Metal fire escape. Carrier keys. Huh. And my grace says that then one of the Navy Yard shootings that people had to evacuate, and they couldn't get back into their office for a month. What if you work close to Memphis? Well, do what that nub does. Get the backup bottle of scotch, grab the barbecue, and have fun. Yeah, I know, getting to the end of it.

Anybody else have anything to offer in the chat room? We're going to get here real quick here in just a second. Any other things we want to mention? Anybody in the chat room said, hey, I've got a Eureka thing. We've had someone look like they are scoping out the vehicles. Yeah, okay. That's a good one. Don't keep your stuff in your vehicle where people can see it. Don't make yourself a target. So even though you've got your EDC bag and you've got your stuff in your vehicle, maybe you need to cover it up. So all the really, really good things. All righty. Well, as I always say, if anybody has any questions or wants to correct me on something, shoot me an email or hit me up on Facebook. I always welcome

constructive criticism. Now, tomorrow night, wow, man, Dave is jonesing them for a cheap prep. You need to join us tomorrow night. Dave is going to be prepping on a tight budget. You know, there's preps that almost anybody can do in a grid down situation that can save your life. And what he's going to be talking about tomorrow night is dollar store, Harbor Freight, Walmart, Family Dollar. You are not going to be able to look at those things the same way. His show was one hour earlier. So his show is at 8 p.m. Eastern, 1 a.m. Zulu. That is Dave, and he's going to be jonesing them up for the cheap preps. So everybody loves cheap, cheap preps.

I love Harbor Freight. I love cheap stuff. Someone says, happy birthday, Jay Fergie. So Fergie is apparently having a birthday. Uh-oh. Happy birthday, Jay Fergie. Oh, it's tomorrow. Okay. Well, happy birthday tomorrow. Good for you. All right, everybody. Well, that's all I have tonight. Thanks, everyone. Have a great evening. Have a great weekend. Don't forget to join us again tomorrow night. Y'all are awesome. We'll be right back. The End Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

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