The Prepper Broadcasting Network - WOMENS WEDNESDAY: Ladies of Prepper Camp

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You're listening to PBM. You're paying back to stability here. Welcome back to the Changing Earth podcast. This is episode number 446, season 15, episode 46. Got a very spectacular show to bring to you guys tonight. You know, we're always touting prepper camp because it's just our big family reunion time. And so we have the ladies.

From Preper Camp, not all the ladies, obviously, but good handful of ladies. They have either been part of Preper Camp, teach Preper Camp, or host Preper Camp here on the show tonight. So we just heard Chapter 46 of Virgis, and we're talking a little bit about losing faith and leadership, something that's easy to talk about these days. This was a chapter that was kind of tough for me because, you know, they, you know, go to take this land back from the natives and everything. It was kind of my ode to, you know, people taking their space back after the collapse happens. So I hope you enjoyed the episode tonight,

but let me go ahead and introduce the guests. And also let me say, happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. Appreciate everything that all the moms do, trying your best to raise these little rugg rats. So happy Mother's Day. So first, guess. Up, we have Survivor Jane, the host of Prepper, or the hostess of Preper Camp, the hostess with the Mostess. Hi, Jane, how are you doing tonight? Hi, thank you for inviting me back. Good to have you on. I was excited.

I've been wanting to do this show for years, literally for like at least the last three years. And I always just forget, like, Preper Camp just comes around again. And I'm like, darn it, I was going to do the lady show. Well, I think it's a great idea, and I'm looking forward to it tonight. Our second guest is Nicole Wallace. She is one of the badass shooting instructors from Wolf Fire Firearms. So hi, Nicole. How you doing?

Hey, Sarah. I am doing fantastic. Now, did I get your last name correct? Yes. Okay. All right, good. I was worried. I was collecting information on you before the show.

Oh. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So welcome to the changing earth. You're a new voice on the changing earth and on podcasting. So I want to welcome you to the show. And yeah, thanks for joining us. We got Jordan Smith in the house from Phoenix Survival, PBN host. How you doing, Jordan? I'm good. Thank you for so much for having me. Oh, of course, of course. And we got Gillian Rabley host of Raising Value co-host. the most important host of raising values. So how are you doing, Gilead? I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, Sarah. You're very welcome. Thanks for joining me. So all these ladies, you know, we're all a part of

prepper camp and sometimes guys are, you know, a little bit more involved in prepping. And these ladies here are here to tell you that no, no, no, it's definitely a woman's game as well. You should get out to prepper camp and check it out. Jane, how is Prepper Camp 24, shaping up, or are you just going to be submerged in goats until we start putting tents up? Both, both. Honestly, both. The homestead doesn't stop just because Preper Camp is, we put it on every year. That's just our mission. That's our ministry. But we have got some fantastic speakers and classes. You know, we always strive to do at least 20 to 25 new classes a year. Yes.

So when you're talking about 64 classes and at least a quarter of those, if not more, are new classes, there's always something for a repeat, repeat, repeat, which those of us that go to it know, it's like a big family reunion. Half the time we're seeing people from all over the country and sometime internationally come in. we have a great surprise speaker for Saturday night also we've got great things going to be happening on Friday night on Saturday night you know we always tried to throw things to just step it up just a little bit more I'm Brad from five times August going to be back playing this year he will be there again absolutely I just love spending time with them I'm bringing his friends you know he's he's gotten to where now he's inviting his own friends and neighbors to come to prepper camp so you know when your guest music guest is inviting not just their family but now the following years bringing friends and neighbors too that's pretty awesome right yeah that is it's just the uh honestly i'm like can't we just live at preper camp and then go back to real life like we'll flip that we'll be like three

days of other life. I wouldn't mind. So Nicole, how many years have you been at Preper Camp? And why don't you just talk a little bit about what you teach there and, you know, how beneficial your classes, because it is a good one. Awesome. So I have taught for three years there. And so this will be my fourth year at Preper Camp. And I love it. In my own personal life, I'm such an introvert, but out there, everybody is amazing and so friendly. You can't help but just be moved by the energy and the vibe and just how wonderful everybody is. So I teach a home defense class. So just kind of basic, like how to make sure you're safe in and around your own home.

This year, I think we're bringing back the female shooter kind of class where we just address things that are kind of unique to us. We're the fastest growing dynamic in that world. And, you know, most things are geared for like big guys. And our bodies are very different. And our circumstances are very different, right? We were talking before the show about maybe we carry in a diaper bag, right? We're probably going to have kids with us. Right.

So we go over all the, all the terminology and things, you know, so that we can be much more educated in that world. And then we're going to teach a new class about night vision and thermal optics and kind of how to own. Thermal optics. Yep. In that environment. Super cool stuff. So that'll be a really interesting class that we're going to step into this year. Very cool.

I use that a lot in my books. So I have like the coolest design for a thermal cloak that could like hide you from thermal. Well, that's neither here, no there. Jordan, how many, how many years you've been coming to Forever Camp? And what are you doing this year besides bringing a bigger baby? Right. I think it's going to be my fifth year, actually. I think my first year was in 2019. teens and then I'll be teaching the utilizing fiber for homestead and survival and then yes my family

is growing and it seems to be growing and coming along to Preper Camp as well love it love it yeah wouldn't be the same without you all right Gillian you coming back this year I am coming back this year so yeah I've only I know I'm so excited and I've only been one time but That was so life-changing that I asked off for this like a year before. So I technically can't. But I went on and told my principal, I was like, look, next September, I'm going. I will be gone. You will have to find a substitute.

If you can't find a substitute, it's up to you. I don't care because I will be in saluta. I love it. That's what I told my kid's school. Yep. That's what I tell them. I'm like, my kid's school actually gave him it off excused because of what we were doing because we go to an educational experience. Yeah, I don't think they counted the three days that

she missed year before last as an absence because I showed them pictures of her taking notes in her classes. I mean, at that point, she was what, 10, I think. Right. And my child is in, in these tents and there, she's taking notes on what these people were saying. And I'm like, I don't know if you'll ever, ever, ever kill a deer, skin it and, you know, do whatever. It's just woman is telling you, but you go, girl, I am so proud of you and you take those notes. Right. Christian was even in the Dutch oven class one year. I know. Like we did the, we did, oh, what was it? All the way in the back. It was something with weapons. And I'm like, all right, Piper wants to go to this. We'll go. Let's go. Let's go do it. Oh, Hakeem's glasses. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So, but I will be there this year. I will be helping out the boys. They will be doing. podcasting, live podcasting again, and I'll be helping with the booth and all that stuff. So I'll have to take a moment to actually get on there this year. I'm so busy. Always so busy there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's really exciting because Preper Camp has been a topic in our house for five years. I mean, Phil and Andrew have been going for five years. And Jane and Rick have just taking us in with open arms and I love it. And so now they have a booth and they'll be doing the podcasting and I think Phil is doing a coffee roasting demonstration for PBN and for disaster coffee. So I'll be helping with that as well. Lots of interesting fun things coming about that. So

be on the lookout for fun things like that. Let's do favorite prepper camp memory. And Jane, why don't you start us out again? Because you just have the longest amount of memories of Preper Camp. This woman been rocking it for like a decade now. You know, I have just one that's my top, top favorite. I'm going to try to make it as fast and short as I can. There was an elderly gentleman that was very, very, very obese.

And anybody that's been in Preper Camp, you know that it's in a beautiful orchard like campgrounds, which is kind of rolling heels, so you got flat, but you got also kind of up the heel there a little bit. And I saw this gentleman way down trying to walk up some stairs, and it was just one step at a time. And I thought, I got to go. I'm going to just run up the hill, you know,

so I don't have to stand behind him. And that little angel on my shoulders said, uh-uh. So I went on nuts. So I went down and I walked beside. him on the stairs and it took forever one step at a time and just to get up and he was going to the restroom so I was asking him how he was enjoying himself and what did he like and just a little chit-chat anybody that knows me knows I love to talk to people so I talked to him the whole way up and then just gave him a hug and said I just hope he has a really really good time that was the last

I saw of him the following year somebody called me to the registration tent and said there's this family that wants to see you. And it's like, oh, okay. So I rush over there. And it's a lady. And she had all these young kids and middle age kids and older kids. There probably had to have been at least 10 to 12 people. And the lady came up and she said, I just want to say thank you. And it's like, oh, dear, what do I do now? And she said, you took the time with my husband. And that was like, oh, what husband? What husband? And she goes, you walked with him up the stairs and all he could talk about the rest of the time at Preper Camp. And when he got home, how nice that lady was that took the time and that she was the one that was running that show. And I was making it sound like it was a whole big deal.

And of course, I'm embarrassed because it's like, you know me. I don't need all that stuff. I don't look for that stuff. I just love people. She said, well, we all came here because he does. died a week later. And our family wanted to come where Papa had the best time of his life. And we will all our family wanted to come and enjoy that time. And it's like, wow, talk about, you never know when you might touch somebody. So that's my all-time favorite. And I've never

had anything that could top that. Right. That moment. Oh, that's good one. That's a good one. Oh, who's going next after that one? Yeah. I guess I'll go next, so nobody else feels awkward. But so my rain story, but I'm going to save that one. I think everybody knows my first year. But last year. Yeah.

But last year, there's been this couple that comes to my self-defense class every year. and they look like I think they live like in New York you know and they're definitely midwesterners and she's just the sweetest old lady her and her little husband you know and she came outside of a store and her husband was attacked and in this moment he actually got the upper hand so she had like gone to the car but then the guy like kicked his knee and he had just had knee surgery. Her husband ends up going down. This guy's like going to, you know, beat on her husband. Here she comes out of the car just full of confidence and vigor and push this guy back off her husband and defended him until the police could get there. And she was like, you know,

you gave me the confidence to be able to do that because the confidence is 90% of winning the battle. And I'm like, it is. So. Wow. Yeah. So that was a pretty cool one as well. well where it's like wow um okay thank you lord for putting me here to make this difference in people's lives you know this it's awesome so uh yeah that's definitely my my one of my very special memories other than just most amazing time with amazing people including my family i guess i could i could throw i've got a couple memories but my my most the first memory that comes to mind with Preper Camp is meeting Dave Jones for the first time. And he told me, once he figured out who I was, oh, you know, you're J-Fer, you're Jordan with a family affair.

He goes, I'm going to be honest with you. I thought you were going to be about 35 years older and 150 pounds heavier. And all I could do was laugh. And then he was like, I bet I sound it taller, didn't I? I said, actually, yes, I thought you were much. Oh, that's funny. But, you know, it was one of those impressions. The only other ones I can think of is, I guess for me, what keeps me wanting to come back and keeps me is not only everybody there, but like I had, what was it, I think? Last year, the year before, when I first came, when I first started teaching, there was this, this family, the two gentlemen, and it was a father, a brother and a son. And they were there and they learned how to spend. And then they came back a few years later.

Do you remember this young man? And he had grown up and he didn't look like a little boy anymore. He looked like a young man. So it was for me, it's being able to meet these people and then come back and see him a year or two years later. And just to see that we are making an oppression on him really just melts my heart. Yep, for sure. That's nice. Yeah, wait until you understand what it's like to be a teacher.

Yeah, right? Yeah, martial arts was that way as well. So I don't, I've only been one time, but like I said, it was such a life-changing year for me. And I never taught a class, although Jane, I do have an idea for a class. I'll probably be laughed off the stage, but I do have an idea I'd have to talk to you about. Absolutely. But for me, for me, the anticipation of just seeing everyone that we have. have grown to love through our podcast and knowing that they're all going to be there.

And we get to hang out with them. And we have to, you know, we get to stink together and we get to drink day old coffee together. And you walk the hill a thousand times to see each other. But just being with everyone that has a like-minded personality and like-minded lifestyle. And, you know, it's just like going home. It really is like going home. So like I said, we talk about it in this house at least once a week. We, you know, we were talking about it at lunch today.

It's Mother's Day at the Hobotchi Grill. We're talking about Preper Camp. So I'm not lying. I'm really not. No, it's true. So it is true. We talk about it on both podcasts. And it's just it's being around all those people that, you know, when when you talk about

your lifestyle with just you know jane dough outside or whatever you're a lot of times you're judged and then you have hundreds of people there that live the same lifestyle or trying to live the same lifestyle and it is it's just like going home so that was me all right nicole your last up now i agree with so much of that um and i have a couple things right so um for those of you who know or don't know, I got into this through Dave, who started at the beginning and he taught the self-defense class and he loved Pepper Camp and he was so excited for me to go the first year that I went and I loved it. And then, of course, we know Dave passed away. And so I was invited to pick up his class and to teach my own. And he died right after Pepper Camp.

And I will tell you, that was the best week of his life was that whole week and the weekend. of Preper Camp, but the very next year, the people who lined up to hug me and tell me stories, it was unbelievable, the people who had come year after year. And I enjoyed it so much. And I felt so much love from that community from people I didn't even know. It is such an amazing place. He touched a lot of people. Yeah, I knew him even before, like just Preper Camp. I actually the first year we were there. I was like, Dave, you were right next to me. Like, we never said hi.

We had been like on the computer so much. And then, yeah, to be able to connect, that was a really good year. It really was. And then I love to teach. I especially love to teach women. And so I know it doesn't come through through audio, but I am about a foot shy of being six feet tall. So when I stand up on stage, right, not such an imposing figure, right?

So when I tell women, look, you can carry anything you want to. We are fully able to defend ourselves. I had a lady bring her husband up. And it was like, see, I told you, she's not this giant person. Same. I think Gillian's the only one over like 5'5 here. Right. That's funny.

Wow. She wins. Right? I know. I think so. We're all the shorties. I'm the shortest one in my family. Are you?

I am. Most of the women in my family are six feet. Even my nieces are taller than me. Wow. Yeah, I made it taller than my mom. I was like, I'm good. I made it. That's it.

I might be bringing Mama with us this year. We'll see. Oh, that would be so cool. But, yeah, she really would like to experience it. And I know that all my family there would love to meet my mom. So I'm like, we'll see, you know, if she's willing to do the road trip and everything. And then Ellen's definitely coming from Australia as well again this year. So I am so excited about that.

Awesome. Right. Yeah, she won't be on the boat this year. So we got a full crew coming out. That's for sure. well okay most important survival tip so i will start this one off um it is my rain story and i learned very well during my first year at preper camp a lot about rain camping and uh so yeah it's not it's not a tip from a class although i've learned a ton especially from jane's class um

I picked up a lot of basics that I didn't know I was missing, like how to reseal jars with a break bleeder. Leader. Yes. I did not know I was missing that tip. But we lived in California for so long. You know, we didn't go out rain camping. And so that first year there, we just got flooded,

literally raining in the camp or in the tent with our, our air mattresses floating. So luckily we had got the van and we just made the best of it. We had tarps up to keep us warm and the family pulled together so much and it just made it an amazing experience. And then we had you guys there to, you know, at least dry out one of our sleeping bags, a couple of them. Yeah.

So we had some dry bedding. But, you know, we pulled together a lot as a family. and it just showed me like just how adaptable we can be and still be so happy together. So that's really my survival tip is like be happy with the ones you love. Oh, that's great. All right. So I will say, I'll jump in.

It's to the survival tip, maybe, maybe not. For the people that are considering coming to Prepar Camp or the people that are at Preper Camp, my suggestion is that nobody is totally prepared nobody so you don't get it by thinking oh i am so far behind there's no way to catch up that's not true because there's always things that we all can can build on there's always things that we can strengthen um so i don't like for people to feel like, oh, only the really experience ones are going to be going, because that's not what Preper Camp is about.

Preper Camp is learning. And when you stop learning, you stop living as far as I'm concerned. And Gilling will definitely be there to tell me, you know, to back me up with that. Life is all about knowledge and all about learning. So for those that say, no, I already know all that. Well, you know, good for you, but, you know, I'm going to have to call you on that because, like I said, we all can learn and nobody is totally prepared. Absolutely. I have to back you up on that one, Jane, because I just did the Women Who Prep conference.

And one of the things that I was telling people during that conference was, you know, prepping this lifestyle is so big and you can get lost in it so quickly and so easily. And so, you know, what I kept saying was how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? And so you have to take this lifestyle and you have to take prepping one step at a time. And you're not going to have it all and you're not going to be the best prepared. I mean, we have the best story for that with Hurricane Ida that, you know, came through the house and we had trees land. We've been prepping for quite some time. But the one thing we didn't have was a chainsaw to saw our way out of our house. And so, you know, you're not going to have it all.

And it's going to be those aha moments going, oh, yeah, you know, I guess that would have been really good to have. We have all the food and all the water. But what if a tree fell on top of your house and you can't get out? You're not going to get out with an X. Right. Yeah. So true.

Yeah, you've got to just take it a little bit out of time, a little bit out of time. And that's why community resources are so important, too, you know. I think that's why we have become so close to. to everyone in this community is because we know that we can reach out to y'all and be like, hey, we have this problem. How would you go about it? Or what did you do to fix it? Right. Yeah. There's never a question like that. If you have a question and you reach out to anyone in the PBN community, I mean, host or on the element lines, any of that, I mean, everybody is just there to tell you whatever you need to know. And that's one thing I was going to add, too,

is like sometimes you learn so much from the people in the audience or after you know yeah yeah it's it's great uh that's one of my favorite parts as well is just uh you know the amount that you learn as you're going so good stuff all right jordan or nicole you guys i was going to say i i i 100% agree with like you're never going to know everything um but my survival tip would be know what your resources are, whether that is equipment, a person, your own body, your knowledge, right, know what resources you have available, and make sure that you are competent with them and occasionally test yourself, right? Because in a moment, right, sometimes your brain like completely forgets what you have available to you. I will tell you this year I thought I was going to learn how to

land nav, right? I have zero sense of direction, but I was doing all right. I was out in the woods, and then I got turned around, and I had to call for help, and he was like, well, why didn't you use your compass? And I was like, of all the things, I know I have my compass. I used it all morning long, but I panicked in this moment. For God, I had this tool, right? So go through your stuff, make sure you know what you have, and then you know how to use it, and what could possibly go wrong with it, and then how you fix that. Fair enough. Yeah, there's a lot of times that we get gear, gear, and more gear and, like, how much do you actually practice with it? Yes.

All the year in the world won't help if we don't know how to use it or how to fix if something goes wrong with it. Good one. Really good one. I don't know if I can back that one up. I mean, I don't think I can stay behind me. That's what happens. I mean, every point everyone's making is accurate. I mean, it's, you.

You never really know, I mean, you'll think you're prepared and then it's easy as how many years in a row did we forget the propane? Or, rephrase. Twice. Twice. You know, forgetting you had to bring the propane or forgetting something as simple. And it's just kind of like my second year was the rain. So for me, learning then, it doesn't hurt to have an extra pair of shoes or to Scotch Garden of tense. because there could be a link.

Oh, I did all that. I did all that. Still didn't matter. So even those who call themselves hardened preppers who have been doing it for years, we still are learning and constantly changing the way we do things to make it easier, more efficient, better, whatever's going to suit our needs because we on a fly then figured out, okay, we'll just pick up the pit that we left you, Sarah. And we'll just pick from our pit instead of,

cooking from our propane. I mean, it just happens. You adapt, overcome, you know, improvise adapt and overcome. Well, that's one of the things that made the rainier so enjoyable was the intrepid commander, Mr. James, forgot his gas for his stove. And at the camp store, they only had the kind for my stove. So he was like, hey, can I do coffee on your stove all weekend? I was like, sure, it's just keeping my tent warm, you know so yeah we we ended up with more gas than we came with i'm still using that gas so thank you james appreciate it yeah just never know but that no it's all about community it is that is and that's one of the things i love i'm always like we just need to buy like the massive piece of property and then everybody has their house like on the outside you know garden in the middle livestock that kind of

stuff and ready let's do it yeah be there. So goals for this year is what I had next on the list. I will say that I started teaching the anti-kidnapping and sexual assault class last year. I have taught that class privately since, a couple times since. And it's an emotional experience to go through just teaching that class. so every time and then the stories and the things that you're told afterwards, I will tell you that Satan is at work on our earth right now.

And there's a lot of hurt people out there. And doing that class, you know, really gives people the tools that they need to fight that. But like the devil tests me each time I do it too, you know, to where it's like, it is an experience and an emotional process to go through. I'm so passionate about doing it. I know it's the Lord's work and that's where he wants me to be. So I'm there. But it's definitely been an interesting undertaking and I appreciate the opportunity to do it, Jane,

and just share that knowledge. So my goal is to try and teach that class without shedding a tear this year. Wow. Yeah. Because it was really something, you know. And then you listen to the fathers even that come up and tell you stories about what happened to their daughters and things like that. You can just see it all over, you know, the amount of pain. And so it's really been a challenge.

That's really been one of those things where, you know, you got to put on the armor of God so you can help people. Oh, absolutely. Yep. Yep. We will definitely be trying for that. Thank you. Yeah. As far as my goals go, drum roll, please.

I am finally going to be getting the companion book to Rick's Secret Garden Survival of how I actually make things in the kitchen from the homestead here. That is what I've been working on and hopefully will be done by Preper Camp. So I've been diligently trying to, you know, get that done and get my chores and homesend and everything else. But it's not a cookbook. I stress that because everybody knows I am not a cook. But can I tell you how I do something? Can I tell you how I did it?

Can I tell you some of the shortcuts and some of the things that I've been able to do? I want to touch the people that don't have a clue, which is me. Nice. I didn't have a clue as far as what the kitchen was. and what this was. I didn't even know what side the forks went on and all that other stuff. You know, to me, you just grabbed a utensil to stir with. It didn't matter if it was a spatula or if it was a knife or a fork, you know. So that's where I'm coming from. I'm going to share all the different tips and tricks and break bleeder type of things that I can to make people

realize, oh, well, I can do this and can pull the book out just in case something was to happen and know how to substitute something for this and know how to do different things like that. So it's not a cookbook. I'll stress that I'm not a cook, but I am a survivor in the kitchen, and I can teach you how I did that. We actually have a chat room now for the PBN family cookbook as well. So if you're not in the element, you got to get in there, have James get you in there. Because that would be cool.

You could do like tips from Jane in there. That'd be awesome. Oh, yeah. I'm definitely after that book. Very nice job. Love it. All right. What about you, Nicole? I see goals for this year. My personal goals are to learn how to land nav and jujitsu. Oh, you're a cuddler? Right? Yeah, the cuddlers. It's not going as well as I had hoped that it was going to go. No, it doesn't. It's a very, very difficult one. I will teach you some survival stuff so that when you get it. into those positions, you can actually just destroy somebody and get out of there.

Perfect. Mm-hmm. Yes, right? But that's part of my, how do you not freak out and figure out what resources you have available, right? Are my arms pinned? Oh, but I have my legs. Right. Or maybe I have arm left, right?

How do you not? Yep. How do you stay? Yeah. Beginning juditsu is all about defense. So that's the most important thing you can learn there is defense. Yes. So, fairly new to it.

But that is my goal. And so then just I've expanded some of my class stuff for proper camp. So I'm hoping when I get up there that it's super interesting to everybody else as much as it is to me. Very cool. Very cool. That's nice. Yeah. I call them cuddlers because, you know, Jiu-Jitsu is just rolling around with sweaty guys all night pretty much.

Oh, that's funny. Right. I wonder what you're talking about. Yeah. Yeah. So I call them cuddlers. Yeah. It is, right?

Uh-huh. It is. But none of these big guys want to roll with, like, the short new girl, you know? Yeah. You got to just assert yourself in there and be like, yeah. Good luck tapping me. It'll never happen. I might not get you, but you're definitely not going to get me either.

Right? And it has been eye-opening to know just how wiggly you can be to get out of something. Yep. yeah no I trained full MMA so like I love to stand up fight so mine's all just about if I by some reason ever get in that position how can I just destroy and get out of there really fast because I I hate cuddling it's not my fortitate I could do it but like yeah I'd rather just do the stand up yes I much prefer being on my feet to to leave the situation yeah but Most of the time when women are attacked, it's by a single assailant,

and they want to take her to the ground as fast as possible. So jiu-jitsu is a good idea for females, for sure. But defend, and then you can just rip fingers off and, like, smash through noses, put your fingers and eyes that you can't do in a training room. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, so once you have the defense down, you learn those little, you know,

where you can really hurt somebody really fast, and that's your out. You don't have to worry about arm locks and all this stuff. So, we've learned some chokes. And I have a good friend who's like six foot two and 240 pounds. And I'm like, come here. I have to practice this in class. Yeah. I had like a 400 pound dude who was like, I was like, hey, I just learned this in class.

Come over here. And he's like, no. No. I'm like, you can bench press me. He's like, no. Uh-uh. I'm not playing. I'm like, fine, whatever.

I'm taking my ball. Go home. That's right. All right. What about you girls? Jordan and Gillian? So I have actually been working. I have two goals, but I've been working on these goals. And one of them is my health. And so a lot of times in the preparer community, we harp on making sure you have food storage and water storage and all that other stuff. But a lot of times your health takes a back seat. And so if you have to bug out, you really need to be able to bug out. And if you're going to bug in, you really need to be able to buck in kind of thing. But I don't know if y'all know this, but about a year and a half ago, I was looking at an amputation of my left, no, my right leg underneath my knee, so below my knee.

And so he, the doctor said, you could really, you know, if you lost about 100 pounds, it might get better. And so I'm halfway there, but your health is. Yeah. Yeah. And not looking at an imputation anymore is even better. Yeah. So being able to walk up the hill without as much pain or, you know, having a little bit more flexibility in my leg is going to be a lot nicer. So that is one thing that I will continue to work on. That it's going to be a goal of mine. I'm actually very surprised with myself that I haven't fallen, like fallen off of this for over it. almost a year now. So June 1st will be a year. Now it's a lifestyle. Awesome. Yeah, now it's a lifestyle. Good job. Yeah. Now it's lifestyle. The second thing was actually from a class at Prepper Camp. I'm not going to get her name because I'm not going to remember it. But she did a class on herbs and medicinal herbs and all that stuff. And when I tell you like it sparked something in me, I, so I've been like eating three. books, trying to learn what's just in my backyard, what's a good herb, what's the medicinal value of this herb, or even just plant that's growing out there, that most people consider

a weed. And this is going to sound so silly, but I've been so afraid to move past just reading and getting knowledge. And yesterday, yesterday was the first time I made a tincture. So it'll be sitting. I know. I'm so excited. It's going to be sitting for six weeks to do what it does. But that is my goal. I want to be, I want to make more tinctures and more selves and things like that and learn more and more about what the earth provides for us. Yeah. Herbal remedies are so important. Herbal remedies. Yeah. Well, you know that it's amazing if you look at all the crap that they're putting in our food. I mean, I read something where they're putting sawdust, sawdust now in the food for fillers as fiber. And it's acceptable and we're eating it and we're paying for it.

And the same thing with medications and what have you. I think it's an awesome goal that we're learning what we have right in our own backyard that we know what's been put on it, you know, no fertilizers or no pesticides or whatever it is. And we're being able to actually heal our body from the crap that we put in it, you know, all these years. That's wonderful. And that's what we did. I started to see a holistic doctor. I dropped the, you know, regular, just family doctor and went to a holistic doctor. And we started to just turn packages around and read what was on the back. What are the ingredients in this? And if it had anything that was an inflammatory or you weren't supposed to eat it, like it, you know, it's probably not for human consumption, but they say in small amounts it's fine. We stopped eating it. And I can't tell.

you just how much better all three of us are just eating real food eating real food gillian garden garden girls are curious what tincture did you start i started a mimosa flower tincture i saw that i'm so i'm so proud of you and i'm so excited thank you jordan i'm i'm proud of myself because i was like okay i know i have this right and y'all making this tincture so easy you're put the flowers in a jar, you put vodka in the jar, and you just screw the top one, and you hide it away in a cold, dark place for six weeks and shake it every week. And honestly, it is, it's that easy. And you could do that with so many things.

I know. I don't know. I was so scared to do this. I did it with red clover. Same thing. Red clover teacher. Very good for women. And that was good for like, well, it was for the old goat, really, because he said my moods

were kind of getting. Oh, you were getting. Moody, so you did it for him, Mom. So he's like, yeah. So we planted this whole field of red clovers because it's supposed to be a natural hormone, whatever. It is, it is. It is. It's not, it's hard.

But, yeah, I mean, it's that, it's, honestly, it's that easy. And you can have all kinds of different things depending on, you know, what your body needs. So it's not like it's some scientific, whatever they have to have. concoctions or whatever you have. And you don't have to buy the best vodka either. No, that was the best thing. It was an $8 bottle of vodka and a mason jar I had, of course. I have tons of mason jars and I went on an overnight retreat with my sixth and seventh graders. And right outside of our cabin was a mimosa tree that I've been looking for for a couple of weeks now, even asking strangers, do you mind if I come pick some flowers off of your tree? I promise I'm not a weirdo, but I'm probably a

weirdo. Yeah. But not a real bad one. Well, the pharmaceuticals, they pull out one chemical out of that same thing, right? And then they can even artificially create it. But they're taking out the one thing that causes your body to react a certain way. And when you find it in nature, all those buffers for your body, the way God intended, are there. Right.

Nature. Yeah. Absolutely. So you don't have all the harmful side effects and all that stuff going on. man, I researched it so hard when I was having all my stomach problems. And they put me on like, anti this, and I that, six different pills every single day. Yes. I was like feeling like just, I went from working out, you know, working a 10 hour day, working

out four hours after that to being like on the sofa, feeling like I was dying. I was like, that's it. I'm no, all this is out the window. I went back to nature's medicine. We solve the problems. So there's so much we said for it. Yeah. I take a, we're going off on a tangent, but I take a daily supplement from my doctor.

It's called D-I-I-N. And it's something that is found in broccoli. And it has helped with perimenopause. It helps with your hormones. And I will, I told her, I was like, you can tell me to get off of it. I'm never getting off of this. Don't tell Rick about it. I don't know.

I have a whole pantry full of red clover now. My ship just sells that now. I'm giving it away for the young girls now. I mean, I'll bring you some mimosa. You bring me some red clover. There you go. I have a swap meat at Preper Count. Passing tinctures under the table.

That's what we do at PreperCamp. What do they call that? Yeah. Oh, I love it. That's good stuff. The it's one of my herbal healing is one of the things that really got me into the survival community, you know, because I always grew up hunting, fishing, gardening. That was like country, country lifestyle. But when I started doing the herbal medicine, that's when people are like, oh, you're a survivalist. I'm like, what is that? Yeah. What are you talking about? What? You have a word for it now, you know? I thought I was just country girl. So, uh, uh, Yeah, that's really where a lot of my passions came from. So good pick up there, Gilliam.

All righty, guys. Well, we have pretty much just chatted away the whole show here, and I still got to do the changing Earth news because it's been a crazy week of Earth news. So that's one of the things that really struck me over the last couple days is how you said, Jane, you know, nobody's ever really prepared. Well, I can tell you that nobody is because when I was looking at the prospect of like, oh, this CME is coming and it really might be a lights out event, I was like, oh my gosh.

I still have this to do and that to do and this to do and I was saving for this and I was saving for that. And it could be tomorrow and it could be any tomorrow. And that's what we get too complacent. We really do. And thank you so much for mentioning that because most people are so excited about the beautiful sky. that they don't really realize that that's not any of it. That has nothing to do with what is actually behind the curtain, which is that our whole infrastructure and grid could be taken down

by these beautiful red and fuchsia and green and blue. The red should not even be there. Okay, that is a horribly bad sign. And it went all the way down to Puerto Rico. first time which is unheard of yeah unheard of

yeah especially it wasn't actually like a huge solar event like it wasn't as big as a Carrington event obviously but yeah which thank goodness it wasn't

but if that doesn't open each and every one of our prepper eyes to we can't exclude anything no you cannot exclude any thing even though it's remote you can't exclude it you have to have some type of contingency for it.

Yeah, that's steam engines. That's like we wake up tomorrow and it's steam engines. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So that was, that was, I had my little wake-up call. I was like, okay, there are some things that have to get done, like right now. Mm-hmm. For sure.

All right, guys, so we're going to jump into Change Your Earth News. If you want to jump off, you are more than welcome to do so at this point. Thank you so much for joining me, ladies. Can I just jump in and say Prepper Camp September 27th through the 29th? Yes, ma'am. And the tickets, we still have some. And that would be just going to Preppercamp.com and click on the tickets there. As you've heard us all talk about, nobody's a stranger there.

You're all community. And Sarah, thank you so much for inviting us all on the show to talk about our experiences is and what Preper Camp has done for us all. Absolutely. It's like my favorite thing. So thank you for joining me and just making a fun of it. We'll have to get everybody together for an audio drama blooper show, get the girls together. I've been hanging out too much with the guys.

So we'll have to do that. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Well, thank you again. You're welcome. Thank you so much, Jane. Thanks, Sarah.

I'm going to hop off too. Yep, I'm hopping off. All righty. Bye. Bye. All right, guys, let's go ahead and get into some Changing Earth News. Survive, thrive. This is Changing Earth News.

All right, Changing Earth News. So today is May 12th, 2024, and top news is obviously the X-class solar flares. They even put it in mainstream media news for a change, which is really unusual for them to do. We had a total of seven X-class flares, pretty much rapid fire from the sun at the earth. We reached a geostorm of KP5. It was very low level. KP5 is the highest level, though. There's nothing really more than when we reach level five of the geostorm.

storm. So it's just varying degrees from there. So we did have auroras as we was talking about with Jane. It went all the way down in Puerto Rico. And the crazy is just not over with yet. This is not just an event where it's gone tomorrow. So it's going to wane. But the earth has been basically supercharged with all this energy. So we should see some more jet stream activity and possibly earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, that kind of thing. So I've got my eyes on. We're checking it out. Also, everybody be extremely aware your body is going to feel this solar activity. You have an increased rate of a heart attack, of stroke, but also your cognitive abilities are going to be affected. You might have noticed you had a migraine, that kind of thing going on.

So give yourself a break. Anybody who has any kind of psychological problems, it's going to be worse on these days. So that's one of the reasons why I watch the sun a lot, because when I'm dealing with people all day, I want to know kind of how are people going to be as far as their mental status goes. Okay, so let's break it down. On May 5th, we had 474 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 6.1 in Indonesia. There was a 6.5 earthquake in Japan that left one person dead and 20 people injured. Texas, we had some massive, flooding. It was actually just south of where I am in the Houston area. They had about 400 water rescues due to the water level there. And we've still had more and more weather coming in.

Tanzania also had a flooding event when they were hit by Cyclone Hedaya. And that cyclone also hit Kenya and Kenya is already dealing with flooding. So that was more rain for them, which should not do good things. Northern California was hit with a storm. They had snow actually up there in the mountains, so late snow up in the Sierra's. On the 6th of May, there was 376 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 5.6 in the Philippine Sea by Taiwan. There was a 2.2 near the airport in Charlotte, South Carolina. There was a 3.5 earthquake near Edmond, Oklahoma.

There was flash flooding events in Texas that, unfortunately, a 4-year-old lost their life in. and then 288 people dead, homes destroyed, roads destroyed, bridges destroyed in Kenya. So this is a major event, and they need some prayers over there. So everybody say a little prayer for all the people affected by that flooding over there in Kenya. Lincoln, Nebraska was hit by a tornado, and in Turkey they had strong storm surges that produced tsunami-like waves. In India, an Utturk hand, there have forest fires that are becoming unmanageable. They've already lost five firefighters to that disaster. Over 1,000 hectares of land have been burned up there.

On the 7th of May, there was 390 earthquakes that are 2.0 or bigger. Biggest of which was a 5.6 east of the South Sandwich Islands. There was a 5.3 earthquake in Quanghai province in China did some major damage. 16 tornadoes hit six states Monday night. Barnesdale, Oklahoma was particularly hard hit. They received some major damage there. On the 8th of May, there was 386 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 6.1 in Vanatu.

In northern Utah, there was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake with aftershocks. Utah were talking Yellowstone. So we always keep an eye on that. It's questionable whether Yellowstone could really be the disaster that they think it is. My money is more on Campy Flagray than Yellowstone. And then in Arizona, they had some wildfire sparks up. These fires are taken off, not contained at this time. On May 9th, there was 350 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger,

biggest of which was a 5.1 of a not two. There's a 6.2 in Indonesia, and then Tennessee experienced some massive flooding on the 9th in the central region of that state. Also, northern Georgia saw some major flooding. On the 5th or on May 10th, there was 403 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.8 in the Philippine Sea near Taiwan. There was a 5.2 earthquake in Chile. There was a 5.8 earthquake in northern Taiwan. And then the Philippines saw an earthquake. They had 352 homes destroyed there in that event. In Tennessee, they had tornadoes tear through the state, left three people dead. And this was some major wind damage, even aside of the tornadoes. Tennessee got particularly hard hit that day. In Bunbury, Australia, they also had a tornado, put two people

in the hospital there. On the 11th of May, there was 361 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, the biggest of which was a 5.2 in Vodatu. There was a 7.2 earthquake in China. And that one's always up in the air. The 5.2 in Vatou was the biggest that they put on the USGS. The 7.2 earthquake that happened in China, it comes out of China reporting.

And then whether it happened the day before or that day is always up in question. it's just an interesting source, but I saw enough information on it to mark it down. In Hawaii, they had flooding due to epic rainfall. Some areas saw 19 inches in one area. In northern Afghanistan, they had torrential rain flooding, killing hundreds of people. They definitely need some prayers over there.

Big disaster. Southern Brazil has just absolutely been devastated, guys. We've been talking about Brazil for months now, and I have to do a show on how the sequence of events went. But the flooding has just not abated in southern Brazil. They have lost a lot of crop land. They have 240,000 people displaced, still doing water rescues. The water's still coming.

Definitely a big situation going on down there, and it's really going to hamper the global food production because a lot of stuff's grown in Brazil. Portage, Michigan was hit with a tornado on the 11th. In the United States, we have had 105 tornadoes since Monday across the country. Finlay, Pennsylvania was another area that was devastated by tornadoes. And then in Delhi, India, they had a massive sandstorm. Two people died, six injured in that event.

And then in BC, they already have wildfires going. and again, they're having a big evacuation event today. So lots of news about that, even today. May 12th, there was 367 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger, biggest of which was a 6.2 in the North Pacific Ocean near Mexico. Guangdong, China, their flooding is also getting worse there. Millions of people at risk. The water is not subsided there either.

And then the U.S. has seen more rain in the south today, so we'll have to see what happens with that. So you can see that the flooding levels have really, really spiked up because of the solar activity this past week. As far as volcanic activity, we have 33 volcanoes erupting, which is still really, really high. Numbers haven't come down. That's still the highest I've reported of active volcanoes on our planet.

No change from two weeks ago. We have 21 showing minor activity and 27 showing unrest. So they really haven't gone anywhere since we reported on it two weeks ago. As far as wildfires in the United States, we have 8,965 acres actively burning right now. That's coming from six fires. Two of them are contained. In Arizona, they have three new fires, totaling 4,923 acres. None of those are contained.

In Oregon, we have one new fire totaling 3,278 acres. none of those are contained. In Florida, they have one fire, 464 acres. That is not contained. And in Mississippi, there's one new fire, 300 acres total, and that fire is not contained either. All right, guys, well, that's all we have for you tonight. Thank you for sticking around for a little bit longer show.

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