The Prepper Broadcasting Network - This Week In PREPPING News - Spacex Cell, Roof Ninja, Broke Fema

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Starting point is 00:00:39 Five years. . Five years. five years. five years. five years. five years. Rumble, and Odyssey. Welcome back to the workshop where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness, and share success. I am Toolman Tim. Today is June the 6th, 2024. This is episode 454 of Workshop Radio. How is everyone out there this evening? We have got a very full episode for you.

Starting point is 00:01:05 I'm excited to dive in. It's been great to be back in the swing, to have the show going the way it's supposed to go. Love being back. So first off, we have a dedication for this show this evening. And for those who haven't or didn't hear the news, Mr. Kabosu, or Kabosu, depending on how you pronounce it, the dog that inspired the meme, that inspired Dogecoin, passed away this week. And we all love dogs around here. And what a sweet little face. So I wanted to dedicate

Starting point is 00:01:38 tonight's episode to Kobosu, the dog that inspired the Dogecoin. So there you go, folks. Everybody pour one out for him this evening. So all right. With that, we spun the big wheel. And you guys know that it is Thursday evening, which means it is time for This Week in Prepping. And we start out with a rule to live by. So I spun the big wheel. We ended up being rule number 11. Now, this is an odd one. This is one that I tell my kids quite often. Bear with me as I tell you, but short and sweet, always be at least second worst. Now, what do I mean by that? And really what this rule has served me over the years is to not bring undue attention to yourself. I've been able to see this illustrated time after time in the last couple of years running the daycares.

Starting point is 00:02:32 And this is what ends up happening is the worst employee or the worst person at their job or the person that is doing the worst job in general always gets the most interest or attention from the hires up. And of course, you're looking down on them. You're always like, okay, you need to do better. Or you're really just getting the short end of the stick because you're not doing a good job. But here's the problem. As soon as that person gets fired or takes themselves out of the equation, what ends up happening? The person who was second worst all of a sudden gets all the attention and they become the worst one. So like I said, always be at least the second worst. I know that seems like a negative. It almost seems to go against what we talk about here, but it is something that I've learned over

Starting point is 00:03:24 the years. I'm going to shout out, we are on the vertical, uh, short speed as well. Hey man, Pedro Esparza. Great to see you. Freddy's Wonderland. Great to see you. Larry Tonkre. Great to see you. Taha. I I'm sorry if I mispronounced that. And, uh, thank you. And shout out from Texas. Good to see you. We got 28 people over here on the, uh, shorts feed right at the moment. And let's come back to the main community over on the regular feed. And we've got David Hossfeld in here this evening. Good evening from Michigan. Rachel Brown says, rule 11, fly under the radar. Absolutely. I agree. And Byron Roberts says, I fired four in six months that fit that description. Yep. No word of a lie. True story. That is exactly how it goes. We've been really struggling with a few employees and different

Starting point is 00:04:11 things as we go along. And yeah, but again, that's the one that gets paid attention to. Ryan Pippen puts it up here. The nail that sticks out gets the hammer. Yep. And hey, who do we got here? Somebody wants to shout out, man, we got 54 people over on the shorts. I lost it that quick. Pedro wants to shout out. Thank you, Pedro. Good to see you. Great to see everybody. Sawyer stepper and somebody trying to use the, uh, Oh man, here we go. Anyway, this could be fun. Let's see where this goes tonight, guys. All right. So that is rule to live by rule number 11, at least be second worst. And hopefully you can be the best at whatever you're doing, but there you go. All right. So this evening we are going to dive into my, maybe my, I don't know,

Starting point is 00:04:57 can we call it my favorite section of the show? So here we are. We are going to go into. So here we are. We are going to go into. If anyone dies, anyone dies, while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room. The time has come for Stranger Than Fiction. And I see somebody from Algeria over in the short speed. Good to have you. So this evening we are going to take a look at the week that was the news in prepping. So you know where we end up with this kind of stuff. So we talked about Mr. Doge Dog. Good to, you know, sad to see it happen. But I had my show notes all put together this evening for you guys. And I got a message from my good buddy Chris Dixon. And you guys know

Starting point is 00:05:42 him. He is one of the delinquents from the workshop community. And he said, Tim, you got to talk about the water main break in Calgary, which I didn't even hear about. So if anybody over on the shorts or in here had heard about it, let me know. But this was pretty crazy. So early this morning, let's deal with the story first. Let's bring it up here for you. So early this morning, according to globalnews.ca, Calgary activates municipal emergency plan after water main breaks in Spurs boil water advisory. This was the worst. Some of the restrictions that I saw on this boil water, well, the water restrictions were some of the worst I've ever seen. So they advised people not to shower, not to shave, not to run any water, any water using appliances, nothing like that. So let's dive in real quick. City of Calgary activated its municipal plan as the fallout from a water main

Starting point is 00:06:36 break the night before continued to escalate. So sometime in the evening between Thursday and Friday, no, sorry, between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, one of the massive main lines that runs through Calgary. And if you don't know, I mean, Calgary is basically tied for the biggest city in Alberta, ruptured. And it said right here, the South feeder main serves 1.2 million people. So what do you do guys, if you wake up in the morning and you've got no water, or the city is telling you, holy shit, we have no water. We have a plan. We're going to try to fix it, but we don't know what's going to happen. That's what happened to all these folks. And I didn't delve too deeply into the social media end of things, but it sounds like that most of the

Starting point is 00:07:23 Calgarians were losing their ever-loving minds because again, what do you do? You got babies, you can't bathe your babies, you know, you might not be able to make formula if you happen to have formula. So you need to have a plan in place. This is exactly what everybody in the prepper sphere works toward, in the prepper sphere works toward making sure you can take care of these everyday mundane things. I mean, it is fun to talk about, you know, some of the big things that could happen to you at some point, but here's the deal. When it comes down to it, you got to look out for the everyday things. That's what I try to teach everybody as I can is look out for the things that are most likely to happen. And what's more likely to happen than an absolute water main break in the city you live in. And so,

Starting point is 00:08:12 you know, I flipped through some of the Facebook posts and different things, but of course in Canada, news isn't allowed on Facebook. So it's a little bit more difficult to find some of this stuff, but most of the people ended up being lost, not really knowing what to do. There were some good Samaritans in there who were offering, hey, if you need water to make baby formula, if you need to, you know, look after your babies anyway, I'll try to help you. But here's the thing. We know Chris Dixon. He is living in the heart of water restriction country right now. And he has rainwater catchment, right? Here he is right here. He says, Chris Dixon says,

Starting point is 00:08:51 if you can't look after the here and now, you'll never get through a big one. Yeah. If you can't get through the small one, forget the big one. You ain't even touching the medium one, dude. This is the problem that a lot of folks end up having. So rainwater storage, water storage, a lot of folks end up having. So rainwater storage, water storage, whether that's five gallon buckets, whether it's a whole bunch of, you know, 40 packs from Costco, we know this, but man, this is the type of shit that just jumps up and grabs you almost instantly. So be prepared for this kind of thing. I don't care, you know, look after our health. We're going to talk about having a will later on. We're going to talk about, you know, we talk about different times, financial preparedness. You know, people like to talk about some sexy things like maybe EMPs or CMEs or all that.

Starting point is 00:09:33 You know what? Whatever. If you haven't looked after water, don't even talk about that shit. But so here it is. You know, the largest city in my province is going on what looks like by tomorrow morning. Anyway, we're looking at 36 hours at this point without any water. So what in the world do they do? Hopefully you have a plan. Hopefully you had a plan before you started. And of course, most people say, I'll just wait and the government will take care of me. Well, we're going to talk

Starting point is 00:10:01 about FEMA a little bit later. Not that FEMA is in Canada, but we're going to talk about fema a little bit later not that fema's in canada but we're going to talk about fema a little bit later and we're going to see just exactly what we can expect the government to do when uh goes sideways like this so anyway had to touch on this early on i really don't know um where else to go with it other than store water and that's one of the most free preps out there. We know that, right? Turn the tap on. If you're already paying for your water, you might as well stock some away. Rain catchment. You know, I'm, I've been toying with the idea and it may end up this summer. I don't know, but you know, the cabin in Tennessee, we have some water rain catchment that we're working on down there, but I've been looking at putting an underground poly cistern here at the house for an extra storage of water. And Mike Avery says, he says, didn't they make it illegal for the United States to have rain

Starting point is 00:10:55 barrels like they did in Argentina? So that, guys, here's the thing. There's two things I'm going to talk about there. First, I'm going to say allowed versus able, just because you're not allowed to store rainwater doesn't mean you shouldn't. But also that's a bit of a myth. 48 out of 50 states in the U S have no restrictions on storing your own rainwater that falls on your own ground. They're a whole lot more restrictive on say streams and rivers that flow through your property, but 48 out of 50 states do not have restrictions. So there you go. And, uh, yep, there it is. One step closer said rain catches only illegal in certain States and a lot less States than most of us think. So, and Pippin says, I did not hear this heard. There was another ship hitting a bridge in South Carolina. Huh?

Starting point is 00:11:40 Did not know that. And Rachel Brown says we are missing some likes. Slap that sucker right in the algorithm. Yes. Right between the algorithms. Yes. Thank you very much. All right. So that's the first story of this evening. That is the water shortage. Well, there's no shortage of water. There's just shortage of potable, clean, drinkable water. But you should see some of the pictures, guys. It is, I don't know if there's anything up here, but definitely a scary scenario. All right, next. I don't know if you guys heard about this. I touched on this yesterday when I had Jake on the show. SpaceX, this comes from PCMag.com and SpaceX, our good buddy, Elon Musk, is in the process of launching cellular Starlink service. Now, I absolutely loved my Starlink internet while I was

Starting point is 00:12:27 in the woods in Tennessee. It was some of the, I mean, it was awesome to be able to sit there where you barely had a cell signal and be able to live stream was one of the greatest things. And now they're looking at tying into cell service as well. Again, people are like, well, what happens if the grid goes down? Well, I don't really care about that at this point. I mean, I can, I don't mind, but when it comes down to it, I want backups for everyday life. How awesome would it be to have your internet coming through satellites when the power's out on the ground? All you need, I mean, I ran Starlink itself off of a little solar power station the whole time I was

Starting point is 00:13:05 out there. So this just gives us another option. And let's dive in a little bit because it looks like they're at least early on trying to play nice and not overstep their bounds with some of the cellular competition. So SpaceX aims to launch cellular Starlink this fall. They revealed the target date in an FCC filing that also urges the commission to loosen restrictions on RF emissions to improve the system's coverage. Yes, this is kind of cool. I like this quite a bit. And Rachel says, if the grid goes out, you have bigger problems. Yep, we all have way bigger problems than what happened to our RSP now,

Starting point is 00:13:52 don't we? Brian Roberts says, I want creature comforts for as long as possible. Yeah, me too. That's exactly it. I mean, I, I, I use my phone. I just, like I said, I went to a hockey game the other night. I'm going to do a video on this because, um, the first time I went, I took my great big over the shoulder tactical carrying bag, or as Becky likes to call it, my MERS. And it was way too big. You know, you couldn't keep it on your shoulder sitting down because you know, those seats are small. The only place to safely store it was under your seat and you're always worried you're going to leave it behind. So the second time I took just an around the shoulder or sorry, over the neck kind of chest carry wallet that I got from John Willis at SOE. And that thing was awesome. And what I've realized is, and again, you don't want to be completely contingent on this, but this cell phone is great for a metric shit ton of stuff,

Starting point is 00:14:37 including loading a bank card or two into your Apple wallet and being able to mostly rely on into your Apple wallet and being able to mostly rely on this. Now I stash some cash in here as well. So just in case I have a backup, but it worked that entire evening at the hockey game without fail. I was also able to load my tickets on there. So creature comforts, are they great? Sure. Could I live without them? Absolutely. At least some of them anyhow. So here we go. Could I live without them? Absolutely. At least some of them anyhow. So here we go.

Starting point is 00:15:08 SpaceX supports nearly all the commission's recent SCS order and looks forward to launching commercial direct to cellular service in the United States this fall. Here's what's really cool about this. And again, this was a big thing that Jake and I talked last night. This is going to tie into your existing cell phone. Everybody realizes that if anybody's going to use something, it has to basically, the cell phone is going to be the portal that everything comes in on. So I'm not exactly sure how this is going to work yet, but again, it's going to allow you to completely interact via your cell phone. So it's like another option.

Starting point is 00:15:40 So right now there's emergency satellite comms or sorry, emergency satellite messaging built into the iPhone. Great. I love it. That is another option that I can use. Now, number two, how about SpaceX? I've already, SpaceX Starlink. I've already subscribed to it. It is now my internet in my shop. So I have it for traveling and that kind of stuff. So it's going to be interesting to see how much more it costs for the cell, but I love having that option. One step closer says more competition, always a good thing. And Rachel says, if you have to put your purse under the seat, wrap the strap around the leg so you don't forget it. That's actually a great idea. I could just picture me jumping up to celebrate a goal and frigging tripping my old ass down the frigging stairwell. But anyway, that's a whole other story. So the filing also teases more about SpaceX's long-term goals for the direct-to-sell Starlink system, which will beam internet data to unmodified,

Starting point is 00:16:34 that's the cool part right there, unmodified smartphones on the ground, making it a useful way to serve consumers in cellular dead zones. So I haven't completely figured out whether this is going to require a hardware, a piece of hardware that you can use, or if this is going to allow people, it reads to me like you're just going to be able to use your cell phone and connect to Starlink on the ground without a distributor or a relay. I don't know. We'll see. I could be completely wrong on this, but they said making it a useful way to serve consumers in cellular dead zones.

Starting point is 00:17:12 If you guys remember, it was maybe Hurricane Sandy. I can't remember which one it was, but they talked about at the time how expensive it was to come in and replace the infrastructure, the phone infrastructure, the IT infrastructure, because it all washed away. And so a lot of the new suburbs or the rebuilt suburbs weren't getting landline, or I think they were getting DSL, but they weren't getting any landline infrastructure anymore because cell phones had taken over that. So I thought, I remember, you know, many, many years ago, you know, one of the big, one of the big areas for third world countries that couldn't catch up was not having communications because it was just too damn expensive to set up landline phones, you know, in the third world. So then when

Starting point is 00:17:57 cell phones came out, all of a sudden they were able to set up cell in so many places they normally wouldn't because now you don't have to run wiring from this house to this house to this house, every block in the country. All they had to do was put up towers and boom, Bob's your uncle. Well, guess what? Now they don't even need towers or a lot less of them. Now you can just use the low earth orbit satellites from Starlink and beam it down directly using an existing infrastructure that already exists. So I don't know. I'm a big fan of this. You know, Elon, some people will take him or leave him, but I certainly appreciate what he's been doing. So here it is. SpaceX currently intends to only provide text, voice, and web browsing through its, you ready for this? This is an important word here,

Starting point is 00:18:46 supplemental coverage network. So in other words, right now they're playing it coy. They're like, hey, we don't want to step on competition's toes. We're going to be something different. I don't think it's going to stay there. I can't see it staying there because for me right now, Starlink is better than most of the internet. Actually, Starlink is better than any internet available at my house right now. The only other option I had is Fiber, which isn't available on my block, but I could pay $10,000 to have them trench it in for me. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Starlink's great for that. trench it in for me. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Starlink's great for that. So I'm kind of excited about that. Yeah, so the filing teases direct to cell Starlink, which will beam internet

Starting point is 00:19:31 to unmodified cell phones, smartphones. I love it. And they're going to start with voice, web browsing and supplemental coverage. Future innovations may permit even more robust supplemental coverage service and enhanced features. While this improved service will not substitute for, they're playing this up really hard, and I assume this is, you know, to get away from, you know, pissing off their competition and also playing nice with the government. While this improved service will not substitute for terrestrial mobile networks, it would provide an enhanced source of connectivity where those networks do not exist. So that's how you get your foot in the door. You're like, hey, we are going to,

Starting point is 00:20:09 we are going to supply a service to folks who don't have cell service, who have really shitty cell service. So it would be great again, to be able to have, you know, unlimited cell service at the top delinquents gully if I need it. You know, I don't particularly need it because now I have a, you know, I have internet, so I don't really need it that much, but this will be great. I really like the idea behind it. So yeah, here it is guys. If you can see this little, I guess I'll, I'll show you, if you can see this little chart right here, and for those on audio only listening to the recording tomorrow or the next day. Starlink satellite network. Look at that. Beamed directly from the network, from the satellites, down to an unmodified cell phone.

Starting point is 00:20:51 Doesn't get much better than that, does it? And across the board, aggregate out-of-band limit, by contrast, will unfortunately undermine the goal of providing robust coverage during emergencies. So here's the thing. Starlink is, they're trying to play nice with the government, but they're also asking the government to allow stronger signals within the band. So it's not something too technical that we need to get into. But again, it's one of those things that they're going to have to work around in order to do it. And I assume their idea is let's play nice, but think about this guys. Right. So Dixon says, what is an unmodified cell phone? I, I hope it means a, like, I hope it means what any average Joe would expect from an unmodified cell phone. If I read the term unmodified cell phone, I think an off the shelf iPhone or an off the shelf Android like these two.

Starting point is 00:21:46 If it means anything other than that, then they're being really disingenuous with their marketing and their FCC filing. So if it'll hit directly to it, I'm all for that. If it won't, I mean, then all of a sudden the price goes up, the, you know, the barrier to entry becomes a bigger issue. So I don't know. I'm excited. Here we go. SpaceX and its partner T-Mobile, the first U.S. carrier to adopt the cellular Starlink tech, told the FCC that the radio frequency limit is too constrictive. We already talked about that part, but what I was kind of interested in was the fact that SpaceX wants to partner with T-Mobile. So all of a sudden T-Mobile could be the cell network that says we now have 110%

Starting point is 00:22:27 coverage across the entire nation. How cool would that be? That'd be a neat selling feature. But really beyond this, this is just another thing. If you're going in the back country or you have, you know, issues somewhere, this is another tool to help you out. It's something else to use. I love it. I'm going to keep my eye on it. You know, if it's available for a reasonable price, I may even test it out. So Mike Avery over on the vertical stream says with all those solar flares, don't forget to have an underground bunker with a Faraday cage to protect all your electronics. I'm not sure if they're being funny or serious, but you know, if you're concerned about that sort of thing, a Faraday bag,

Starting point is 00:23:05 a Faraday cage is not always a bad idea. Jake last night actually talked about these kits you could buy on Amazon that would allow you to make your own little bag. You buy the, um, copper woven aluminum foil fabric, and then it comes with copper impregnated aluminum foil tape as well. So kind of interesting. I'd love to give it a shot. All right, let's take a look at the delinquents in the chat here this evening. We got 20 people on the horizontal feed at the moment. It's great to see everybody.

Starting point is 00:23:35 All right, we got one step closer says, In Honduras, neighborhoods in the capital city were waiting for more than 20 years to get landlines. And then cell service came in and solved the problem. Uh, yep, absolutely. I, I mean, it's crazy how you sit around, sit around, sit around and think it's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. And then all of a sudden somebody comes up with a solution that isn't even an issue anymore. So yeah, I love it. Um, I seen a funny article about a, a literal, I mean, they're a tribe for lack of a better term, uh, basically an un, uncommunicated with tribe of some sort that kind of got hooked on Starlink internet.

Starting point is 00:24:16 So good and bad, who knows where you end up with it. Let's move on guys. This is going to be a short one. I know it's fun to shit on California, especially the Oakland area, because I mean, they're literally losing their baseball stadium because nobody wants to go there. But California in general, guys, I mean, no offense to any of my fine folk who live there and want to live there. I get it. You choose where you want to live. But this is an interesting story. This is,

Starting point is 00:24:52 oh, this comes from NBCMontana.com. And this is definitely the type of story that inspired this title, Stranger Than Fiction. And here you go. Thieves stealing copper wiring from traffic lights force Oakland to install stop signs. Oh boy. So here you go. Crime so bad people are now I'm going to dive into this story just a little bit. Cause it's interesting. They aren't technically stealing the copper wiring as much as they're hijacking the power, going to the power lines for homeless encampments. So again, in California's infinite wisdom, their solution to stop homeless people from stealing their power and interrupting their signal lights is to just put up stop signs. They said there's been multiple accidents since then. Holy shit, I tell you. Here you go. City officials in Oakland, California replaced traffic lights at a busy intersection with stop signs

Starting point is 00:25:45 Oakland, California replaced traffic lights at a busy intersection with stop signs after thieves gutted the signal for its copper wire. Okay, so at one point, copper wire was stolen. In place of the traffic signal hanging over the intersection, drivers now see a four-way stop sign. The signal which previously hung there reportedly suffered from outages due to frequent tampering with its electrical systems. Residents told the outlet a nearby homeless encampment may be to blame. No shit, unfortunately. Anyway, thieves appear to have attached wiring to electrical boxes near the signal, rerouting power from the signal to the encampment where it powers RVs and other large electronics. Holy shit, guys, what in the world is going on now? Okay. First off those homeless folks, I got to pat some of

Starting point is 00:26:33 them on the back. That's pretty damn ingenious. We've got another story, a little bit similar coming up right after this, the fact that they were able to tie into this and power. I mean, it never ceases to amaze me where and when you can find power. You know, I needed to find, I wanted to plug in one of my solar generators and I peeked around in a Love's parking lot and it didn't take me very long to find an unguarded power outlet. You know, I ended up using it for a little while, but it doesn't take long. And if you're, you know, if, if the rule of law has nothing to do with what you're, you know, if, if the rule of law has nothing to do with what you're, you know, where you consider your morals, then this is the type of thing you could end up

Starting point is 00:27:10 dealing with. And the other problem with this shit is that it's really, really deadly. You get tied into that kind of stuff and nobody's being safe. It's just literal, you know, live power running across whatever they can find. Many, many, many moons ago, you guys have heard that I went to Bible college to be a pastor. And my first year, I took something called extreme discipleship because in 1999, everything was extreme with an X, not with an E. And they took us all over New Brunswick. And then twice that year, we took a one-week mission trip to New York City. And we worked in an old abandoned hospital called NYSEM, the New York School for Urban Ministry. And they told stories about how the squatters had lived in this abandoned hospital for years.

Starting point is 00:27:57 And this ministry bought the building and they helped the homeless as they could. But the problem was, is they were trying to rehab this building. And so what they would have to do is, as the homeless would move into other sections of the building, they would have to block off certain sections because they couldn't kick them out and whatever. But I always remember the guy talking about the way they had run power in there.

Starting point is 00:28:20 And one of the most sketchy shits I'd ever heard of was, you guys know what drop ceiling is, right? With the T-bars. So it's like everything you ever see in hospitals, high schools, that kind of stuff. Those drop tiles with 8 million pinholes in them. And they're all held up by a inverted T-shaped T-rail or T-bar. Well, some of these homeless dudes had an expertise in electrical and they energized that T-bar system. So they were able to run power down there so that they didn't have to go and get copper wiring or anything like that. How insane, truly crazy is that? So this reminds me a bit of this. So anyway,

Starting point is 00:29:00 I just wanted to share this story. I thought no matter where you stand on the homeless end of things, I thought it was pretty damn ingenious that they tied into that. But I mean, I don't know. It's just it's such low into the power, the electrical lights. So what are we going to do? Let's put up stop signs. Yeah, that works for me. And if you guys want to see a really interesting story, I'll see if I can remember to post the video. All the links to all these articles are in the description, but I watched one the other day, the United States most dangerous target, and it was in San Francisco. Literally every item in there was behind glass or under an enclosed container. So, so, so scary. Beth Emily says, I love your stories, Tim.

Starting point is 00:29:54 Thanks, Beth. I always appreciate that. Red Flyer Media. Do not forget about our good friend, Rebecca, who has designed our new intro and outro. What great shit that is, guys. I love it. I've had so many compliments on that. So that is, guys. I love it. I've had so many compliments on

Starting point is 00:30:06 that. So thanks again, Rebecca. I love it. Mike Avery over on the vertical, I saw something there I didn't want to miss, said, oh yes. So speaking, going back to the Starlink thing, they're trying to get a stronger signal to cut down on latency. Yes. So actually Elon Musk just announced the other day on Twitter of all places that they had the shortest, I want to, I hope just announced the other day on Twitter, of all places, that they had the shortest, I hope that's the proper term, the shortest latency or the fastest latency they've ever had. So they're getting, they're approaching latency of landline DSL, hardwired DSL. They're not quite there yet, but it's, yeah, yeah, they're getting much, much faster. So it's kind of neat. And, uh, Mike Avery says, I think Starlink saves them around $120 billion

Starting point is 00:30:51 a year. I'm not sure who they are, but I like hearing that anyway. So yeah. Oh man, we got a lot, a lot of stories tonight. Um, I've been, so if you get like, if you guys want to, you know, peek behind the curtain just a little bit, it's really not that big of a deal, but you know, three or four times a day, I'll scroll through Google news. I've got probably six or eight different places that I kind of go to for prepping related news and that sort of thing. And so anytime I find a story that I think might work, I just throw it into a notepad file on my phone and then I email that to myself the day before when I prep this show. And then I pick, depending on how many stories we have and what kind of time I figure we can fill in, I pick the best ones and the rest go

Starting point is 00:31:35 to the cutting room floor. So yeah, there was a few this week. There isn't, there won't be a segment workshop wasteland. There really wasn't any, um, decent post-apocalyptic pop culture kind of stuff. So there you go. All right. You ready for the next story? This one's fun. This has actually been sitting on my radar for a couple of weeks. And if you heard it already, uh, good on you, but I had to share it. It's, it is the perfect example of making do with what you have, getting by with what you have. This lady here would have fit in really, really well in the hobo culture of the 1920s and 30s. This one comes from skynews.com. Roof Ninja. You guys heard about this? I don't know if you did. You guys heard about this? I don't know if you did. Roof Ninja woman found living inside a shop sign. She said it was an old safe spot. In other words, it was well known to her and her family

Starting point is 00:32:33 and maybe her associates. The 34 year old had a coffee maker, computer, bedding phone, a printer, and I believe even laminate flooring. So if you can see this picture here, guys, I wonder if I maybe make it a little bigger for you. Now that didn't work. All right, here we go. So anybody in the audio, this is a family grocery store called Family Fair, F-A-R-E. And on the roof, there is a triangle signage thing that is basically just blank space inside. It's not structural, it's just architectural. And there was a door on the back. There was power nearby. And this lady had been living in there, spoiler alert, for just about a year.

Starting point is 00:33:15 A woman was living inside a sign on the roof of a Michigan supermarket, told police officers who found her it was an old safe spot. Now, I've never lived in Michigan, but I've lived in Alberta, Canada, and I've lived in Nova Scotia, Canada. And I want to tell you something, it gets cold there. And guess what? Michigan might as well be Canada because it gets frigging cold there. I'd like to know how this lady kept herself warm. Apparently she is a functioning member of society who just chose to live within her means by, you know, living on top of a grocery store. She had been there, 34-year-old woman who has not been named was found by police in the attic-like space inside

Starting point is 00:33:51 the family fair sign on the 23rd of April. The woman had been living there for over a year, had a coffee maker, computer, bedding, phone, printer. The sign was estimated to be about five feet wide, eight feet high, and a door that was accessible from the roof. They also put it in a metric, but I'm not going to subject you guys to that. Asked how she found the space, and she said it was an old safe spot that was known to her family and a secret to most others. Not anymore, the police said. She stopped short of explaining why she'd been living there for almost a year. The woman who emerged in black clothing with ski goggles perched on her head had been given the nickname Roof Ninja. So there you go. True story. This lady found a place that she could live. Now, Austin Seidel

Starting point is 00:34:37 says, hey, what's this all about over on the shorts feed? Good to see you over there. Yeah. So we're taking a look at some of the stranger news stories and trying to take some preparedness lessons out of this. And for this one, this is, this is ingenious. You know, there, there's a guy named, uh, I think his channel's camping with Steve. He's an Albertan who does, and a lot of people know him. He's got way over a million subscribers and he picks things like this to camp in overnight. And his, his goal is to do it for a night or two and not get caught. So, you know, maybe this lady did it simply because she wanted to, maybe she did it because she's like the YouTubers who build forts inside of, you know, toilet paper rolls at Costco and want to see if they can get away with it. Or maybe she was down on her luck and needed somewhere to

Starting point is 00:35:21 live. I don't know. I mean, this would fit right in with, if you guys have ever read the book Possum Living, I love that book. It was actually something I almost described to at one time. Not anymore, of course, but yeah. So this is one of those things that she was able to live safely and comfortably within literal feet of being found out on a daily basis. Did it for long over a year. This reminds me of one of the very first stories we covered. If you guys remember that story about the meth head mother and son who lived in an underground bunker beneath an RV lot, like not an RV, like an RV sales building. And I have looked to find a follow-up on that. And there's been no follow-up ever since. It seems like the news is like, Hey, the story's

Starting point is 00:36:09 interesting, but the resolution never is. So I don't know. This might be a really interesting exercise to walk around the next time you're in a city or a town and just to walk around and look for an area that you're like, Hey, that would be a really great, I don't know, can you call that a bug out location, but somewhere for someone to rest their feet, to get out of the weather, to stay away from people who have the worst intentions at heart, you know, who knows what it could be, but I just thought that this had, you know, post-apocalyptic living space all over it. But really, it's just about being an ingenious instance. They never pressed charges. They didn't even get her name, apparently. Red Flyer Media says lots of buildings have

Starting point is 00:36:55 empty spaces that are big enough to live in. Absolutely, they do. After, you know, post-COVID at the moment, and I am not recommending you do any of this, but post COVID, there has been an absolute glut of retail spaces that have closed down and office spaces that have closed down. Now, here's the thing. You watch some of the videos, you hear about it. For them, it's worth keeping them open and with heat and lights and everything for 10 years until they rent them, simply because that's how the finances work out for them. So this is the type of thing you're probably going to see more and more squatters doing. You know, there was a video on TikTok yesterday. The lady went out back and she, her water bill had been exceedingly high for the last couple of months. And it ended up that the, how do you want to put

Starting point is 00:37:48 it? So the squatters that had moved into the home next door to her had been stealing her water and who knows what else for many, many years. So here's the thing. Back when I was doing property management for the banks, there was that one place that we ended up having to bust the door down with a sledgehammer. I don't know if I've ever showed you guys that video. I don't even know if it exists anymore, but it was a hell of a time at the time. We went in and the folks that had been squatting in this business, they had, these are the things they had done. Outside on the sidewalk, the town has one of those, you know, you can reach down in and turn the water on or off. Well, they turned the water off on the people living in there because

Starting point is 00:38:32 they hadn't paid their bill. They weren't even supposed to live in there. Well, the town turned the water off. These guys were pretty ingenious. They got a long extension bar and they took a socket that was the wrong size, put it down in there and hammered it down with a hammer so that every time the town came to turn off the water, it was simply go back out, put it in and turn it back on. There was no way the town could actually turn the water off just to that building at that point. So that was number one. Number two, you go out back and the gas line, the gas company had come in and put one of the locks in place. Well, guess what these guys did? They cut into the line above it, below it, and bypassed the lock. They didn't even haul the lock out. They just bypassed the whole damn lock.

Starting point is 00:39:17 And then of course, so that was water, that was gas for heat. And what did they need? They needed power. Well, in Alberta, just about every business has outlets outside for the employees or the customers to plug their vehicles in. Because in the dead of winter, if your car sits for more than a couple hours without heat, you could not be starting it in some cases. So they tied into that power to the butcher shop right next door. So they had power, heat, and lights. And they slept in the basement on next door. So they had power, heat and lights and they slept in the basement on mattresses. So they were below ground too. I mean, I've probably mentioned this before, but it would be rather interesting to speak with somebody and not, hopefully not in an

Starting point is 00:39:57 exploitative way, but I would love to speak to somebody who was homeless or is homeless about some of the hacks and things that they've learned over the years. Uh, you know, I, I don't love when people go out and like, you know, film themselves helping homeless people out and that kind of, I don't get it, but I sure would love to be able to learn from them. Maybe, I guess that might be the way to put it. So anyway, there you go. Uh, let's see hard way. Alaska says I'm thinking of living in a storage unit if I sell my house until I get some new property. Don't tell the company you're going to do it because most places it'll void your lease or whatever.

Starting point is 00:40:33 You're not allowed to. But, you know, if you're careful and you just kind of pop in, especially the ones that aren't super monitored and maybe don't have an automatic open and close gate, you could probably get away with it for a while because man, those are, I'm surprised that isn't happening more because they are cheap as the day is long. All right, here we go. Last story from the stranger and fiction section of this week in prepping. And this one is, this is just a thing to be aware of. And speaking of the government not being able to fulfill what they

Starting point is 00:41:05 love to say they may or may not be able to do, oh, here we go. As busy hurricane season looms, FEMA warns it could run out of disaster cash. Now, if you haven't heard, they're predicting that this is going to be an above average hurricane season, where folks are going to be handling more than the average number of nasty storms. So that could be the truth. That might not be the truth. I don't really care. I'm going to prep. Well, I don't really live where hurricanes are going to affect me at the moment anyhow, but it is one of those things to be aware of. But instead of taking that angle, I'd like to talk a little bit about the FEMA cash shortfall. And this has been something apparently that's been going on for the better part of a decade.

Starting point is 00:41:50 With a grim storm forecast ahead, says Yahoo News, the nation's top disaster responders are in danger of running out of cash at peak hurricane season again. FEMA is on pace to run dry by August without congressional action. That could leave Florida and other states staring at massive expenses and slowing recovery efforts if a major storm hits. Now, I've had George Siegel on here multiple times, the documentarian who lives in Florida, who has talked about the need for, you know, an area that we probably disagree a bit on is the need for improved building codes. I still believe that it is up to the individual to worry about things like that, but I'm never going to convince anybody who is higher up than me and I really don't give a shit about it. However, if someone lives in Florida, you want

Starting point is 00:42:42 to have a contingency plan because I'm going to guess that there are folks who can't even get insurance on their properties. And some folks that probably rely or think they're going to rely on FEMA cash if the storm comes through and finally hits them. I believe it's Tampa Bay that is long overdue. I don't want to jinx it. I don't want to bring bad omens on anybody, but there's some areas in Florida that are long overdue to get hit by a storm. And I hope it never happens, but I wouldn't want to have, I would want to have some serious preparations

Starting point is 00:43:14 in effect. I would want to do my damnedest to get insurance. And I mean, I like Florida. I just, man, I don't know. It would be a hard one. But beyond all of that other bullshit, what does this article tell us? Don't rely on the government to come and save you. There's not going to be a single, you know, was it Ronald Reagan that said the scariest words in the world, or we're here from the government and we're here to help. Yeah. They're not even going to be able to say that at this point and don't expect them to come running. So what is the individual in charge of? Our own, our own needs, our own preparations, and to be our own insurance agency, I think. Now that doesn't mean that, you know, you can't or shouldn't have insurance because I believe everybody should have all the insurance that

Starting point is 00:44:03 they can get. But here, here's the words that are a little bit scary for folks. FEMA will have to, or probably will need to, switch to prioritizing life-saving, life-sustaining work if funding dwindles. In other words, triage, economic triage. So we're going to pick the things that either, in most cases, the squeaky wheel gets the grease or, you know, the certain area that needs votes or whatever happens when it comes down to it. If you live in that area, once again, don't expect there to be government money when shit goes completely sideways. And I know I have lots of friends that are in the hurricane area. Just, just be weary of it, folks. Red Flyer Media says, I am two hours inland from the Texas coast and we have issues

Starting point is 00:44:51 when hurricanes hit, flooding, tornadoes, power outages, and strong winds. And like, I don't want to sit around and, you know, talk about the negative all the time. We're not going to do it, but it's just about being cognizant of where you live. You know, for us here, for me, extreme cold and probably a train derailment with some nasty ass chemicals on it are my two biggest concerns here in Alberta. Now, when I was down at the Lincoln's Gully, one of the concerns was tornado watches or tornado. when Skelly, a little bit of signal. If anybody's over on the vertical feed, we're going to end that one now,

Starting point is 00:45:54 just so we're not pulling out too much, but you are more than welcome to come over to the horizontal feed on the YouTube channel. So yeah, we've, uh, here we go. All right. So we did, that's where we take a look at the, the news that affects us as preppers, but I wanted to do,

Starting point is 00:46:15 and I don't know if I'm always going to have content where I can share this with you, but I'm going to this week, we're going to do a segment called Today in Prepping. I can't call it This Week in Prepping. Why? Because that's the name of the show. But here's the story that I wanted to highlight this week. Somebody who may be considered a bit of a folk hero within some of our circles, you know, 20 years ago today. I hate the name that they gave it, but they did call it Killdozer. Now, didn't they? 20 years later, how and why a man went on a rampage through Granby in an armored bulldozer. Homestead Twins, good to see you in here. Always love to see you guys in here. So we're not going to talk about this story a whole lot. If you haven't heard this story before,

Starting point is 00:47:02 do yourself a favor, go out and read both sides of the story. Watch the documentary that's out there. Listen to some podcasts. But when it comes down to it, there was a dude who was exceedingly pissed off at his local government and decided to weld impregnable sheets of solid steel to the outside of a dozer and went on a rampage in his city. Destroyed a ton of buildings, didn't kill anyone, maybe or maybe not for lack of trying, but either way, this is the

Starting point is 00:47:33 type of shit that happens when a dude is pissed off and fed up with being run around the ringer by the government. So for what it's worth, Killdozer happened 20 years ago this week all right let's take a quick look back at the community here and we got gunfighter concealment great to see you says i live in central florida oh close to the east coast and i will have to say the best in humanity in times of a hurricane more than not it gives me some hope and i love to hear that you know to back up just a little bit, the nasty water shortage that's happening in Calgary right now with the big water main break, what I was able to find on social media was a lot of people offering to help.

Starting point is 00:48:16 And truth be told, at least in short-term bad scenarios like this, I think humanity still wants to help one another. Now, long-term, that's a whole nother kettle of fish that we're not even going to deal with tonight, but I love hearing that gunfighter. You know, I remember I had some guys on the show a while back there that the Matter of Facts podcast, they came on to talk about their experience with a hurricane in Louisiana. And it was more of the same, you know, folks helping folks out. So I like hearing that.

Starting point is 00:48:51 So anyway, 20 years ago this week, killdozer happened. That's all we need to talk about at this moment. All right. So with that, let's slide on into. You stay in the back.

Starting point is 00:49:04 You stay in the back and You stay on the back. And you keep your gun handy. And you keep your gun handy. Our country is still full of thieving murderers. Get ready for iReddit on the internet. All right. So this is iReddit on the internet. And what is that, you might ask?

Starting point is 00:49:20 Well, most of you probably know at this point, but there's always new folks in here. And this is one of my favorite segments as well. If you don't know what Reddit is, they used to call it the front page of the internet. Some people call it a cesspool. Some people call it a vast suppository. No, I'm just kidding. Repository of information. But either way, it's a really cool place to get a lot of information on topics you're

Starting point is 00:49:42 interested in. So each week I go to our preppers. That's the subreddit or the forum that is all about prepping. And I pull out one of the top news stories, the top trending stories of the week to share with you guys. And this one comes from subtotal nine guy. And I try to give credit where credit's due so that I don't, uh, you know, if somebody creates something, I'm going to offer them, you know, the praise for doing it. So thank you. And Chris Dixon says, that's still my favorite intro. Yeah, I like that one too. It just hits at home, doesn't it? Because we got a few of them thieving,

Starting point is 00:50:16 lying patriots here in Canada too, don't we? All right. So this is a, this is a boring topic. So you guys can call it quits. No, I'm just kidding. This is just one of those topics that, you know, I've had Letty Lou on to talk about a couple of times, but it's a good reminder because I realized that Becky and I still don't have something completely on paper yet that we probably should. Not having a will is being unprepared for something that is 100% going to happen. Yep, period, heard, and whatever you want to call it. 100%. I'm sitting here waiting for a relative to drop off their pets because they suddenly have no home and no car. This is simply because their common law spouse didn't have a will and they're in a state that

Starting point is 00:51:01 doesn't recognize common law marriages. 10 years of partnership and they're out on their own. We talk about EMPs, pandemics and war. But those are way less likely to happen than the grim truth that we're all going to die someday. Please give yourself will and a power of attorney documents updated as needed. Yes, because, you know, Becky and I have had those conversations. You know, you don't want to have those conversations, but we have. But we haven't put anything on paper yet. And we've talked about it and we damn well should.

Starting point is 00:51:31 You know, as humans, it's one of those things that we just like to kind of pretend that we don't want to talk about. It's like if you don't admit it, it's not going to happen. But simply put, it's something we all need to talk about. So let's go down and grab a couple of the interesting comments here. Southern AD said, just had this conversation with my parents the other day, just after my grandma passed. They both told me that if something happened, they wouldn't want to be artificially kept alive. And I told them the same. And then the next person said, put it in writing, exclamation point. And that is the truth. Again, Becky and I have shared those exact thoughts with one another.

Starting point is 00:52:09 OCUS 424 says, agreed. A lot of people will say whatever in the moment, but when it comes down to legally binding documents, people will get serious about their wishes. It is also to cover yourself in case a sibling or family member that didn't hear them say it, don't want you to do it, right? And a little further on, I don't know to what extent they mean this, but me thinking personally is that if I hit about 75, I would personally start to look at whether a DNR, do not resuscitate, would even be a good idea. CPR is great and all, but it's a high risk last ditch effort that almost always breaks ribs. I have been within moments of seeing it be legally required to be implemented on individuals who I knew would have no quality of life left if we could get them back. In at least one of the states where I work, we must attempt resuscitation unless a DNR is present that meets the following requirements. Signed by a doctor

Starting point is 00:53:07 and the patient. Jewelry and tattoos mean nothing. Has to be a form or legally binding document. Has to be physically present during any incident. I have to start CPR even if your family member says you have a DNR. If it can't be found, it doesn't matter. If you're banking on your medical person of attorney or power of attorney, I stress this because it can't just be legal power of attorney being on scene and telling us to stop. They will have to physically have the paperwork telling us that there is a DNR. So just a few thoughts, you know, not to go too far down the rabbit hole, but holy cow, that is something that needs to be talked about on occasion.

Starting point is 00:53:51 And finally, Patient War says, I'm an ICU nurse and I see this all the time. Partners of 20 plus years who never thought to get legal paperwork completed. And here's the worst part. They couldn't make any of their own health care decisions. Then one of them winds up on life support and the decisions have to be made by a sister they haven't seen in decades or a wife they never actually divorced. Some of these situations are super messed up. I've seen people kept alive on ventilators solely for social security checks to keep coming. Heard about that too and that's a sin. They were going to be the legal wife, a patient never divorced. And the current common law wife got zero say, even though she kept telling us the patient would never want it. So there it is guys. You know,

Starting point is 00:54:35 you've heard about people who have kept their grandparents in a freezer simply to keep getting their pensions or whatever happens. This is the kind of shit too. So make sure it's somebody you trust, make sure it's, you know, you have legal medical power of attorney and make sure you put it on paper. Those are the things. Take five minutes in Google. What does it take to make a will that's legally binding in your province or state? That's it. There it is. Yeah. And again, speak of the devil. We're going to talk about Chris a bunch tonight cause there's another segment completely due to him. Um, but assign someone you trust to oversee your wishes as well. So yeah, uh, I always, I really enjoy checking out some of these things, uh, from Reddit. There's always, you know, they are, they definitely bent toward the practical end of things on Reddit,

Starting point is 00:55:26 you know, almost to the point where they look down their nose at any prepper who even talks about the chance that something really bad could happen, but that's okay. I, I really enjoy the practical side of things. So anyway, there you are,

Starting point is 00:55:41 folks. Let's go on from there. Nothing like eating under an open sky, even if it is radio. Dropping the dime on Precious Metals. So it's been an active week in the Precious Metals market. We're not going to talk about that per se, but I found an interesting little article this week came from theglobe and mail.com, a Canadian news article site and a new site and take them or leave them. But this was something that Becky and I had kind

Starting point is 00:56:12 of gotten into just a little bit in the last while. And, you know, Becky has an affinity for jewelry, me, not so much. So I decided, you know, she has going to sound funny, but she likes things like white gold. So I've, you know, when I get her things now, I try to make sure that it has some precious metals. You know, it's a majority of some sort of precious metal. So here you go. In uncertain times, gold jewelry offers financial security. I like this. As a child, Ahmed didn't understand why her mother, sorry, Abdeeba Ahmed didn't understand why her mother loved gold jewelry so much. But when her family came under financial stress and her mother sold the gold to keep them afloat, Ms. Ahmed realized the gold jewelry could be a reliable emergency fund.

Starting point is 00:56:57 Now, I like this a lot, actually. And it just so happens that I watch a YouTuber called Silver Dragons, and he goes to Harry's coin shop on a regular basis. And this week they talked about finding ways to have the funds to get precious metals that you don't even realize. And this was things like, you know, a hundred year old silverware that you've been keeping that have been collecting dust for whatever. It was broken jewelry.

Starting point is 00:57:24 It was, hey, my wife lost one earring, but she's not going to get rid of the other one. These were ways to find kind of an emergency fund or some silver or gold that you didn't think about. Another one was if you go in to get a gold filling pulled, don't leave it with the dentist. They got to give it back to you. Becky has to get her rings resized. So when she gets them resized, we are going to make sure that we mention to the jeweler or the jewel smith or whatever they happen to be, we want the pieces of gold that they cut out of the ring. They don't get to keep that. We're paying them to do it. We want the scrap gold back. So there you go.

Starting point is 00:58:00 According to a 2023 report, the World Gold Council, this is really interesting, According to a 2023 report, the World Gold Council, this is really interesting, Indian households, Indian households own approximately 25,000 tons of gold, or 12% of all the gold that's been mined globally. How crazy is that? I know, right? So interesting. I didn't know that the Indian culture was so much into gold and silver or gold mostly, but let's go on. These gold ornaments, sorry, women in India often receive gold jewelry during weddings, births, and festivals. According to the World Gold Council, roughly 50% of India's gold jewelry demand is at

Starting point is 00:58:41 weddings. These gold ornaments are a form of financial independence, says a person's name I can't pronounce, director of the South Asian Studies Institute at the University of Fraser Valley. It was something that had been seen as sacred for the young bride as she left her family's home. She took with her an asset, and I would add in there a hard, tangible asset that could be converted into a different type of currency if she was in crisis, she said. You know, we're doing a little bit better for ourselves. We have been buying silver and a little bit of gold for since before COVID, so maybe about five years. And, you know, hopefully things always continue the way they are, but we look at it as a really nice way of stashing some money away for a rainy day. I really like it. Uh, yeah. And, um,

Starting point is 00:59:33 Ms. Ahmed was in high school when her grandmother in Bangladesh needed money for metal expense, medical expenses in Canada. Her family was struggling financially as well. Her mother was on disability and could not well. Her mother was on disability and could not work. Her mother sold the gold jewelry she had accumulated over the years to make ends meet. It helped pay for two months rent, she said. In my head, I thought it was just aesthetics, but it went from aesthetics to asset accumulation, which is a whole different life. I love that. I thought that was really cool because I am a firm believer. I really want almost everything to have multiple uses. I got a cool flashlight in my battle box

Starting point is 01:00:13 the other day. It's what they call a fighting flashlight. But more than that, it's a flashlight that works really, really well. I watched a video from a dude who was, he's all about self-defense and he talked about a Kubiton. I believe that's what it's called. And he basically laughed at them. It's basically a self-defense stick or whatever that you leave on your key ring. It serves no purpose other than if you ever get attacked and he's like, if you've never used it, you might as well, it's might as well be useless to you. But he talked about a flashlight and he said, hey, you get a good heavy flashlight. It could be a self-defense weapon if you want it to be.

Starting point is 01:00:52 But here's the deal. It's not going to be that for you, for your chance, almost never. It's literally going to be a flashlight. It's going to be something you're going to use every single day when these old eyes can't see something down in the dark crevice and you're trying to look for it. It's a tool that you grab all the time. And that's the way I look at, and you're going to say jewelry. Well, that's not a tool. No, but for somebody who wants to wear jewelry, a wedding ring or earrings like Morgan Freeman, the myth is, or the story is that he's got, you know,

Starting point is 01:01:21 two gold earrings that could pay for his funeral or burial if he ever dies in a foreign country where he doesn't have cash with him, that kind of stuff. I love the idea of it not just being a store of wealth, but also something you can wear on a daily occasion or any occasion at all. So yeah, I just like that. And this article here, it was kind of interesting. They actually interviewed the dude that I started buying gold from, or at least the store called Aaron buys gold in Edmonton. And then I realized really quickly that their prices were way out of whack and that, uh, they were way, way above spot. So I ended up eventually finding, uh, Bex in the city who has the lowest price in all of Canada, unless you're buying tubes of

Starting point is 01:02:05 silver and then it's Costco. So there you go. Gunfighter concealment says I have three of his silver backs. Do you have any gold backs, Tim? When you say his, I don't know whom you mean, but yes, I do have some gold backs. I love gold backs. I don't have very many. I haven't bought any from a store, but I did a trade with a dude from within the workshop community a few years ago. I think I have eight or nine dollars of goldbacks and they're really cool. If you guys haven't seen them, I'll dig them out some evening and show you, but they, they look a lot like a Canadian dollar bills, except they're impregnated with actual gold. And on the goldback, it says, Oh, okay. Sorry. I got to cut myself off. Gunfighter concealment. Silver dragon has silver backs made. I did not know that. I would love to have my own

Starting point is 01:02:54 silver backs made. Now you got me thinking, cause we do have some silver one ounce coins coming up here right away. Um, the, the pre-order ended, but there'll still be lots available for, I think we, I think we sold 21 on the pre-order and I'm having 50 printed. So there's that. I didn't know he had, but anyway, Silver Dragons is awesome. But yes, I do have some gold backs. I traded them with Renegade Butcher way back. And yeah, so I keep them in my safe. They're, you know, they're not worth a ton, but I love them. I just, I think they're a, they're more, I wouldn't even call them a collector's item. Like they're just a neat way to have a very, very minute amount of gold. I also really, really love the Zombox or Zombiebox. If you've seen those, they've released, they're starting on a second

Starting point is 01:03:39 series of them, but I've got the eight or 10 of the first series of silver ounces and they're really neat. Okay. Where are we going to go from here? All right. Let's, uh, we, we do have a segment, uh, in a moment from sunshine prepper. Uh, this will be Willow's last. Uh, she has an announcement to make. We'll, we'll get into it and you'll see it. But before that, let's cover this week in the workshop. And that is where I share with you folks, the things that I have done for accountability and inspiration. I like to where I share with you folks, the things that I have done for accountability and inspiration. I like to hopefully let you guys know some of the shit I've been up to so that you see that I'm not sitting on my ass, not doing anything, but also you might be like, Oh, I might try that. You know, if Tim can do it, I could probably do it too. Hey. So last weekend,

Starting point is 01:04:21 I created an archway between two rooms at the new north location of the daycare. The crazy thing is, guys, that one day's work is going to save us roughly $30,000 a year. And you might say, how in the hell is that going to happen, Tim? Well, let me tell you a quick little story. So when we found this daycare location, it was perfect for us. It was a previous, in a previous life, it was a, um, an accountant's office, which meant it was a very big building with a whole bunch of small office spaces. Now we're like, this is going to be perfect. But what we discovered was that the allowable space of kid per room was something like four kids for each small room.

Starting point is 01:05:07 Now, in every room, that also requires someone to supervise them. So each room was like four kids to one supervisor. We quickly realized, talking to our licensing agent, she's like, you know, if you knocked out this wall, this wall, and this wall, so roughly four walls, you would be allowed to have 10 kids in that same space and only one operator. Because when kids are three and up or four and up, I can't remember what it is, you're allowed 10 kids per one supervisor. So we realized really quick that if we took down these doors, we wouldn't have to hire another employee and we'd be able to have two more kids in the same space. So we can go from eight kids and two employees to 10 kids and one employee.

Starting point is 01:05:53 So my next five or six weekends, four of those are going to be creating archways. So the first one's done. So, you know, sometimes you can make money by not spending money. And I like that. So something completely non-prepping related, we ended up, me and my son-in-law, Curtis, ended up going to two Oilers games last week, including the one where they clinched their berth in the Stanley Cup finals. Now, if you're like, what the hell is he talking about? That's okay. It's sports. I don't talk about it very often on here. I don't spend a lot of time doing the whole sports ball thing, but when the local team is, you know, steps away from the Stanley

Starting point is 01:06:30 cup, I'm going to do my best to support them. We had a hell of a time. Um, yeah. So anyway, uh, looking forward to seeing them in the Stanley cup. Hey, spags unfiltered. What a great love Bobby. Good to see you in here, brother. What's up. What's up. What's up. All right. love Bobby. Good to see you in here, brother. What's up? What's up? What's up? All right. I talked a little bit about it, but, uh, my EDC carry at, uh, the hockey game was, um, a lot smaller on the second day. I'm going to do a video on it because I was, uh, I really enjoyed doing it. But again, like I told you, I'm a big fan of, uh, around the neck. If you don't watch me on a regular basis around the neck knife with my small little flashlight. And I'm like, Hey, why not getting around the neck, you know, wallet or satchel in order to carry it, these events. And it worked great. Next. We also went Saturday was a busy day,

Starting point is 01:07:14 but we went to the townwide yard sale at Macklin, which is 10 miles away from us. We had a lot of fun. I got a bunch more prepping gear and I'm probably going to do a video on the prepping hall that I have done at the last two yard sale weekends we did. But one of the coolest items, if you didn't see my pictures, was this gas powered lamp from Coleman from the early forties. And it's an indoor lamp that was made to have a shade. It's wonderful. I'm going to rebuild it and show you guys, but I'm excited about it. If you haven't seen my video this week, I did a, um, a power bank video on an anchor power bank. That was, uh, the first time I've ever been disappointed with a piece of anchor gear. Let's leave it at that tomorrow. You guys will get an

Starting point is 01:08:03 unboxing of battle box mission one 111. Pretty good gear in there this month. You'll see. I didn't want to spoil it too much. I've been talking with the flashlight a little bit. I spent the afternoon with Curtis, my brother-in-law, sorry, my son-in-law. I think I might have called him a brother-in-law earlier. I didn't mean to. We knocked out a punch list over at the 12 unit, got a ton of shit done over there, including swapping out. I was 12 or 13 light bulbs in a single apartment that the guy got kicked out of. So there was that little bit of drywall work. We've been trying to fix a hallway light.

Starting point is 01:08:37 Guys, I tell you, sometimes it just doesn't go the way you want it. But I ended up having I ordered parts. Sorry, let me back up. I ordered light bulbs for this fixture. I went to put the light bulb in the holder completely disintegrated. It's old plastic. So I'm like, okay, I'll reorder a proper socket for it. I ordered the socket. It shows up the sockets, a different shape than the light bulb. I'm like, this has been going on for four weeks. So we have three lights in this one hallway and one of them has been burned out ever since. It kind of sucks. I hate not having a light there.

Starting point is 01:09:13 It's not a safety issue to me. It just doesn't look nice. So I decided screw it. And I ordered, because of course these lights are from the late nineties, you can't get them anymore. So I ordered three brand new lights to replace all the lights in the hallway. So that's something that's coming up. So sometimes you just got to cut your losses and say, I'm done dealing with ordering parts. I'm just going to frigging replace them because how much time are you really going to waste? Right? Earlier this week, I had the honor of being interviewed for a really cool history of radio documentary podcast. I don't have a ton of details on it yet, but the dude found me from the two episodes that Carrie Brown and I did on Art Bell coast to coast. It was a real honor. I spent about an hour and a half talking to the guy about Art

Starting point is 01:09:58 Bell and kind of the all night overnight radio host kind of jam that happened in the late eighties through the nineties and early two thousands. It was a lot of fun. I took Charlotte to a track meet today. She did pretty good. It was the, the, the,

Starting point is 01:10:15 the finals of her area. I think she got fourth place in a triple jump. So I was really proud of her, but yeah, so that was this week. I didn't have, it was a lot more. So I've been trying to implement Google calendar into my day-to-day life and it's working really,

Starting point is 01:10:31 really well where I've earmarked each day to a theme and then I add the tasks in along with it. And it was a, yeah, so it's working really, really well. And so it's, it's forcing me to focus on very specific things each day. I'm getting bigger things done without letting the little stuff get in the way. And yesterday, I, um, my, my wife, Becky, I don't know why I was going to call her my wife. You guys know Becky. She started a peel and stick tile job on the, behind the stove and the bathroom. And I basically finished them for her yesterday. So that was a nice little job too. And Spags Unfiltered said, coast to coast is the bomb. Yes, we do miss Mr. Art Bell

Starting point is 01:11:11 now, don't we? So, all right, we are going to move on to our segment of the week, Sunshine Prepper. We do have, I do have another segment in the bag from Thesea for the cookbook of the collapse. She's going to do one a month to start with. So you guys will see that in a couple of weeks, but let's hop over here and we will, if you guys don't know Willow, she came to me through a mutual friend, Nicole Sauce, and she wanted to do something of her own and so we did kind of an accelerator program to get her started. I offered her a segment space on the podcast and it's worked out really well for her so far and you guys will find out here in a moment why she is stepping back for a little while and it'll make sense when you hear it. So let's let Willow take over.

Starting point is 01:12:10 Hello and welcome to today's Sunshine Prepper News. I'm Willow, the Sunshine Prepper, here to spread a bit of positivity on the unavoidable doom and gloom. I've missed you all the last two weeks, more on that at the end, but you're here for the sunny side up of the news. Let's get into it. Today, in part to make up for lost time, I'm going to cover a bit on a bunch of different topics. So buckle your seatbelt and put on your shades and sunscreen because here comes the sunshine. Of course, that means it's time to get your weekly dose of goofy giggles in, especially since you had a break. Let's do a solid 10 seconds of laughter. All right, three, two, one, go. Okay. I don't know about you, but I feel good after that. All right. I will address first the thing that I least like to address. As time goes on, though, I feel like it's long-term more detrimental to

Starting point is 01:13:05 hide from the topic, but American politics real quick. Gag reflex from the putrid corruption aside, I'm sure you heard Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges. And to be honest, what bit of this I followed, it seemed like a jury of sane peers wouldn't be able to get a conviction, but we're in clown world and I don't know what the heck is going on in New York. I think it'll lose on appeal, but how long that'll take is, I don't know. And at that point, is the process actually the punishment? I don't know. I'm not a big fan of the guy, but it smells fishy, but hopefully soon some of that fish will get cleared up when our legal system is able to provide a firm and just outcome for Hunter Biden. I haven't looked into what his trial is

Starting point is 01:13:46 about enough, something about a gun, but I look forward to finding out more about the details and watching how justice plays out. At the end of the day, I think my biggest petty bone is why no one is in jail for the cocaine in the White House, but hooray! Now that that's over with, on to the next topic. Let me refresh your palate with a random nugget of hope. Something much more fun. Hope that despite our species' collective assaults on nature, she remains unwavered. There is a new fungus among us! Out in the ninth tragic wonder of the world known as the Great Garbage Pacific.

Starting point is 01:14:24 Sorry, Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A brand new species of plastic eating fungi has emerged. It isn't going to make a huge impact, you know, at least not yet, but it's kind of cool. I mean, we have to take whatever wins we can get, right? Nature finding a way to digest plastic feels like a solid win to me. All right. Up next, we have the first confirmed human casualty of H5N1 in Mexico. I think it was a gentleman, but they had no former contact with chickens or other animals. And so the current suspicion is on mice. And in New Mexico, so stateside, 11 household mice have tested positive for H5N1. They were in close proximity to infected dairy herds, but there is now a growing concern about mice spreading it.

Starting point is 01:15:09 And for whatever reason, that reminds me of a headline on how rats were spreading the bubonic plague in New York only a few short year or years ago. So woohoo, bird flu is likely headed to a rodent near you. Up next, there were three water mains that broke in Atlanta around the same time. And then I hear a rumor, not confirmed yet, that a suspicious amount of more than one water mains have recently broken in another major city. Something to keep an eye on. Is it infrastructure sabotage? Or is it just infrastructure aging?

Starting point is 01:15:43 Trick question! Because it won't matter to you either way if it happens, because you're going to be under a boil water advisory or worse if something like this happens in your area. So make sure you keep plenty of water and filters in your preps. Water is light. It's pretty important. Also on the topic of water, you may want to check in with your local treatment plant. Some places are starting to switch to chloramine instead of chlorine gas to clean the water, and these things do not off-gas the same. It can have a negative effect on your garden. I'm not sure how much really. It would definitely kill your fish if you tried to off-gas it like it was chlorine gas. So just something to be aware of if you're using

Starting point is 01:16:21 municipal water. Okay, time for the last update, the sunshine prepper update. Don't panic. I'm not going away. Well, sort of, but not all the way. So when I started, I was an independent body. And right now I am a host body, a luxury hotel preparing to spawn a brand new human unit. If my awkward jumble of words flew by you, I think in normal person speech they say, hey everyone, I'm pregnant. But who needs normal people if clown world is the new normal? Anyways, to cut straight to the point, I do have to step away from focusing on the doom and gloom for a bit because I didn't last time and all my milk dried up early. It was no bueno and it was during the formula shortage. So that was

Starting point is 01:17:12 kind of stressful at times. I'm also continuing to have the intense all day version of morning sickness is not great. And my body's kind of like, Hey, slow down and sleep more. So the hope is to migrate into a sort of bubble of blissful ignorance as much as possible through the end of the year. I'm due in October. So we're a little over halfway through baking this new pie. And while I can't focus on the doom and gloom, that means I can dedicate my focus more to the sunshine. So, um, yeah, that's the plan. I'll still be over on my new podcast, the sunshine prepper podcast, putting out roughly a 20 minute episodes weekly. And so keep an eye out on that and keep your fingers crossed, but don't hold your breath. There's a plan in the works for a few silly sunshine prepper Spanish shorts. Have you ever

Starting point is 01:18:02 wondered how to say beans, bullets and band-aidsaids in Spanish or how to say two is one and one is none? Well, my Spanish-speaking husband and I plan to help the Prepper community out with a bit of some edutainment. Is that what you call educational entertainment? Anyways, that is the news and those are my updates. I love you all so much for being on this adventure with me. I look forward to when I can do some new segments again, but I got to practice what I preach. And this has been Willow. So I hope you guys enjoyed that segment from Willow.

Starting point is 01:18:35 I think the world of Willow. First off, we need to send a big congratulations, a workshop congratulations to Willow, who as she told us is with child I'm excited for her it's a shame I loved having her on the show hopefully we can keep working with her when she gets back around to doing what she's doing but make sure you add her over on the podcast feed but what I think is interesting is there has so of all the weeks that Willow has done this segment, I would say 90 to 95% of the time, at least one of the articles she talks about is an article that I had in my show notes. And this

Starting point is 01:19:14 was no exception. She talked about the water main breaking breakages. And it's funny that Chris messaged me earlier today and talked about it because I actually had in my notes from earlier in the week, there's been some water main breakages in Atlanta as well. And that's what Willow talked about. So we're definitely on the same page. She will be missed. I just want to say thank you, Willow, for the content you have provided to me, to the sunshine that you've brought to the show. And I hope to see you back around when you are no longer with child. So congrats, Willow. Can't wait to hear all about your journey and guys support her in any way you can her YouTube channel and her podcast. So with that, I haven't named this yet.

Starting point is 01:19:59 I don't even, again, I'm always trying to come up with new segments for this show, things that fit the vibe of what we're talking about. And this one, once again, that we should call this the Chris Dixon show, because this one also came from a text that Chris sent me last night or the night before. And he said, I believe he opened the text with the exact words of food for thought. And so technically, or at least in the interim, that's going to be the name of this segment, food for thought. And he said, basically his text was, I just finished reading 299 days, one second after in the Borrowed World series, and throughout that entire series, I never heard any mention of eyewear or glasses for preppers or during the collapse. And I thought, huh,

Starting point is 01:20:55 you're right. It's not something that is mentioned almost ever in prepper porn. So I just typed it into Google. And of course, the first article that come up was something from Reddit. So I just typed it into Google. And of course, the first article that come up was something from Reddit. So I just grabbed some quick thoughts from a bunch of different sources to share with you because he's right. I don't remember them really mentioning eyewear. And I want to tell you, that would suck if you needed, you know, glasses and you didn't have them. It reminds me of a time enough at last. If anybody's ever seen that classic Twilight Zone episode, you would not want to be the last man on earth, be a book lover and not be able to read your books. Now, would you? So this one here, does anybody have any recommendations for correct eyewear? I had

Starting point is 01:21:39 normal pairs. They say are scratch resistant, but scratch nonetheless. When I think about a shit hits a fan situation, if I don't get lasASIK and run out of contacts and break my normal glasses, then what? So this was a great suggestion from somebody. First, they said, look into prescription PPE safety glasses. They're what I used for shooting, but now I use them everywhere. Not cheap. My insurance won't pay for them, they're durable so it's worth it love that idea next somebody says last i checked zeni optical if you've never heard of zeni it's a z e or in the canadian parlance z e n n i optical and they sell lots of six or seven dollar glasses we also deal with um at the moment i'm having a, I can't remember the name of it.

Starting point is 01:22:25 There is a company in Canada that's also available in the US that makes really cheap. Anyway, look for the discount optical places like Zenni. This person said, being half blind, I have a second pair on me, a third in my glove box. I found a slightly out of date prescription in my car trunk, another in my fire safe and so on. In other words, buy a bunch of cheap glasses and keep them. But they said Zenni also sells safety prescription goggles for a good price. And somebody said, if you're in the United States, ask for an ANSI Z87 rated prescription safety glasses. Another quick tip. And they said, well, they're not indestructible. They're designed to

Starting point is 01:23:03 protect your eyes from impact and abuse. And they said, I think the only thing that scratched mine was some spall from the gun range. Another great tip. Now, this got me thinking, what did people do before, you know, before eyeglasses were an everyday occurrence? So I found a few more little spots here. It said completely anecdotal, but I have a family friend who moved to the Ukraine in the early nineties, following the collapse of the USSR. And he reported that glasses were pretty much uncommon in the area where he lived. And many people made do by squinting all the time. Sounds like me. Every time I'm trying to read the ingredients or the active

Starting point is 01:23:45 ingredient in a product at this point, it's getting bad or the instructions on a tubal caulking. How about that? Oh man. All right. And then somebody else here, this came from Reddit as well. They said, what did people do before glasses? And some people said, I think they just made do. And in most cases they suffered. The first glasses were invented in Italy in the 13th century. Before this, the magnifying properties of curved glass had been known since the early 13th century, and Arabic sources say that convex lens magnification was studied as early as the 1020s. Poor eyesight associated... Now, here's something that I didn't think of, and it's interesting. Poor eyesight associated with farsightedness was and remains the most common eye issue, followed closely by

Starting point is 01:24:33 presbyopia associated with age. Magnifying convex lenses help correct this. Before the widespread development use of lenses, people suffering from these afflictions were simply unable to see well up close. At the time though, here's the big kicker, the literacy rate was less than 5%. Remember, it was almost 40% as recently as 1970. So when it came to reading or writing, few people were even able to do it. So their lack of eyesight for close vision wasn't an enormous thing to overcome. In other words, losing your eyesight or, you know, not being able to read things up close fine print has been a byproduct of Gutenberg's printing press. It's been a byproduct of the literacy rates becoming almost 100% in the modern world. And my guess is that it wouldn't be an issue in a post-collapse long-term

Starting point is 01:25:36 situation. Now for us, yes, I think the phone has completely destroyed my eyes over the last few years. But if you went into a post-collapse world where you're not doing a whole bunch of up-close straining to read text or a bright screen, this kind of thing would disappear in a generation or two. But that's not going to help us now, is it? They said, though genes and nutrition may play a role in nearsightedness, education and myopia seem linked, suggesting that when people do a lot of close work, their eyes grow longer, the better to focus up close, but the worst for long distance vision. Some optophthalmologists believe that dim light also exacerbates this effect. Interesting. Hey, so there you go. Um, back over to the delinquents in the crowd. Christine Dixon says, considering the number for eyeglass wearers in the U S alone is 64%.

Starting point is 01:26:29 It should have come up a bit. Yes, it should come up a lot more than we think about. That would be a simple prep that most, well, I shouldn't say most, but some don't think about Rachel. Good to still have you in here. Wasn't sure if you'd make the whole episode tonight. She says, I max out my eye insurance and hit all the sales to make sure I have extras. Yes.

Starting point is 01:26:48 And also something we did for Charlotte, at least when she was younger, as you outgrow a prescription, save it because an outdated prescription, at least in my mind, is still going to be better than no prescription at all. Right. And Digger says, don't know if it's just me, but over the last few years, it seems to me, you just can't seem to get your glasses clean without streaks. Now I'm going to say sunglasses. I keep multiple pairs of sunglasses. I cannot wear something that gets scratched up. It, it drives my eyes crazy. It almost makes me a bit motion sick. And I am anal about cleaning

Starting point is 01:27:24 my sunglasses when I'm driving and it is miserable to try to keep those buggers clean. I don't know. I wish there was a better solution for it. If anybody has a good solution or if there's something that you might be able to apply to them, maybe, I don't know. All I can tell you is that when I bought this new truck, All I can tell you is that when I bought this new truck, they put an anti-rain coating on the outside of the windshield. I believe it's actually a coating, not just, you know, it may be a peel and stick. I don't know. But I rarely have to use my windshield wipers anymore. So what I'm getting at is it would sure be nice if that same coating could be applied to eyeglasses for what it's worth.

Starting point is 01:28:04 So, all right. Well, the next segment is it's the apocalypse in update of day, the judgment day, judgment day, the end of my world. Let's dig into the mailbag. So our final segment of the evening is of course the community nail bag, where we dig into the mailbag. So our final segment of the evening is of course the community nail bag, where we dig into our bag of nails, I mean mail, and see what happens to pop out. And this week I got, I believe we have, yeah, just one rather lengthy email. We're going to quickly touch on it, but this came from Andy C and it was talking about the de-googling phone episode I did with Sean. And I wanted to fill you guys in on it.

Starting point is 01:28:51 There's some good resources in here and it was a very well-received episode. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We'll definitely have Sean on again. I'm going to do a review on my de-googled Android once I've put enough time into it that I can give you a good review. But he said, regarding de-Googling your phone, Sean was a brilliant guest with a healthy philosophy. Just to add some extra context, options, and resource, he said, I found minifree.org in 2018. It's a UK company that set up LibraBoot, a hardcore online privacy project that started in 2013. MiniFree sources old ThinkPads and replaces the BIOS, which is the firmware that initializes the hardware.

Starting point is 01:29:34 LibreBoot is the open source BIOS firmware that cannot phone home to Intel. In other words, the PC launches using a free, as in freedom, BIOS running a free operating system. It runs fast and if you use Tor or Firefox, it will keep your business private from Google. LibreBoot is a deep dive tech heavy page. I'm not too technical. So from personal experience, this extract makes it the most digestible. LibreBoot is a community oriented project with a focus on helping others escape proprietary boot firmware. We ourselves want to

Starting point is 01:30:06 live in a world where all software is free. And so LibreBoot is an effort to help get closer to that world. Unlike the big vendors, we don't try to stifle you in any way. And it goes on like free and open source software. I, uh, yeah. So when you see Intel talk about their boot guard, which prevents, uh, that it gets into the weeds here a little bit, but, uh, this, so Andy just basically wanted to let us know that there are other people out there doing exactly what Sean's trying to do with the de-Google phone. If you want to look into it, it's L I B R E boot B O O T dot O R G. So yeah, I like that i i had more from the community this week but that was the one i wanted to share because i love hearing from folks who really resonate with episodes and i want to

Starting point is 01:30:54 guess that folks really resonated with uh j class night on the show i know we did a completely out of the ordinary evening episode or early evening episode for you, but, uh, it has been well watched so far. So let's put it that way. Um, yeah, I, I enjoyed it. So here's a couple of things, um, kind of, as we close up here, a couple of thoughts for the rest of the week. Tomorrow, you're going to get a unboxing video for BattleBox. So it's the pro edition that I have, Mission 111. I'm really quite enjoying the gear I've got from them. This would have been my least favorite box so far, but I haven't got anywhere I'm like, man, this is just filler and junk. I really, it's stuff I'm going to use for the most part. So that's coming tomorrow. Sunday evening,

Starting point is 01:31:44 I'm going to have an interview with the Everyday prepper. He's a dude that I met really quickly at Kentucky sustainable living. So I can't wait to chat with him. I'm going to be doing that interview from a hotel in Montana because we're going down there for the weekend to pick up an engine block for my brother-in-law. So that'll be fun. And today while I was at the, I actually went to McDonald's, grabbed a coffee and did a couple hours worth of work. I did some outreach to some guests and I got confirmation for late June that I'm going to have one of my guests that I've been trying to reach out to for quite a while. A dude who was a guest on Joe Rogan, a guy who was an expert on some really cool things that I

Starting point is 01:32:25 cannot wait. I'm not going to unveil it yet. I'm going to tease it for a little bit longer. So look forward to the announcement on that. It's been somebody I've mentioned. It's not Mike Rowe, so don't get too excited, but it's a damn good get, guys. I can't wait. I keep reaching out behind the scenes to get folks, interesting folks that I can bring on the show for you. Also, as I mentioned in the past, there is going to be some more out of the ordinary timed episodes. I ended up doing Jake's episode as a live simply because Jake was comfortable with that, but I've been giving guests the option to do pre-recorded episodes with me as well to help mitigate some of the issues that I had earlier, you know, with the lead singer of the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones, Dickie Barrett.

Starting point is 01:33:10 I really want to give some of my bigger guests the chance to be pre-recorded and then I will figure out a time where they come in. So you're going to see some, a little bit difference there, but you're going to get your Saturday, let's see. You're going to get your Sunday evening show every week for an interview and you're going to get your Thursday with the this week in prepping. So you'll get those. But then there's going to be some prerecorded that maybe fit in in certain places. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know what I'm doing behind the scenes for you guys. And Mike's Homestead said, how do you know I was looking up if Mike Rowe had been on Rogan? I'm still working on Rowe, I promise. And I keep mentioning to everybody out there that if you have a connection, make it work for me. I will get an interview with Mike Rowe, you know,

Starting point is 01:33:54 Lord willing. And as long as he's still kicking, I'm going to get him some sort of interview that I will bring to you guys because he's my white whale. But either way, this guest is exciting. you guys because he's my white whale. But either way, this guest is exciting. He's an author, a nonfiction author, and that's all I'm going to say for now. But I cannot wait. I believe it's June 25th, but I got to look to tell you for sure. So that's what we have coming up. Other than that, guys, I hope that your week has been going great. My ass is getting up real early tomorrow morning to take Becky north to the daycare. We had a bit of an accident. A kid actually broke their arm at the daycare today, which I hadn't mentioned. He's going to be okay. It's sad that it happened. It wasn't through negligence or anything. It was just something that kids do. You know, the parents

Starting point is 01:34:43 were as okay as they could be, but you know, four years in the daycare industry, this is the first time we've had a kid kind of injured and it really sucked. It broke my heart, ended up set Becky quite a bit. So we're going up early tomorrow morning just to oversee some paperwork and some different things. Yeah. So there you are. I cannot wait. Yeah. I can't wait to talk to you guys on Sunday evening. If you've got any suggestions. So here's the thing. One thing I love about these Thursday evening episodes, they are becoming more and more community centric. So I have a ton of people who are, you know, sending me suggestions behind the scenes. I love Chris Dixon because he'll just text

Starting point is 01:35:24 me up and be like, hey, Tim, you should look at this topic or that topic. But I love getting it from a lot of people. So email's great. The real Tim cook at gmail.com. And you can also, you can use the form on the website. Everybody seems to like the form at toolman, tim.co. I don't talk about that a lot. Uh, one other thing I wanted to shout out again, just cause I love this damn t-shirt so much is the latest from SOE. It's a early nineties neon splatter print, uh, original SOE or SOE original.com. Uh, John just makes great stuff and he just keeps sending me these shirts and I frigging love them. So he never asked for anything in return for sending me these shirts, but I believe in companies just like what John does. And I

Starting point is 01:36:06 believe in supporting your friends. So give John some support too. So that's it for me this week, guys. I appreciate you. I'm going to get a little bit more done here this evening and we will see you Sunday. So as always stay happy, stay, and have a great week. Altyazı M.K.

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