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And good afternoon, Denver. This is Bill Anderson filling in for John Rush today, and I hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas. If you want to call in today, the number is 303-477-5600. And it’s interesting, you know, over this Christmas season, you know, we happen to have it every holiday season, if you will. The debate of saying Merry Christmas versus Happy Holidays, you can kind of laugh at that because holidays actually comes from holy days. So if you want to say Happy Holidays, fine. Happy holidays. Just the ignorance of people with, you know, getting over zealous over words and not really understanding where all the words came from. But at any rate, I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas. And now is the time when the holidays are over, unless you count New Year’s, I guess. I don’t really look at that as a holiday per se. I don’t. celebrate New Year’s Eve or anything like that. As far as that prepping mindset goes, the best thing you can do on New Year’s Eve is stay home, but, you know, to each his own for sure. We don’t want to, with this program, put in anybody’s mind that we’re saying you have to live in a bubble, that’s for sure. But, you know, during this time, it’s a great time to plan for the next year. New Year’s resolutions, you know, usually don’t last very long, but, you know, if you wanted to view it that way great but if you know if you don’t whatever it’s a great time to start over think about the next year and so what i want to talk about today is is winter is not pause it is a prep season you know as the days are getting shorter there’s not as much you can do outside for some odd reason we have been blessed with some beautiful weather so we can still do some things outside we’re not you know, hit with snow or cold weather. Crazy to think that this Christmas it was 70 degrees out. It’s just kind of mind blowing. But at any rate, you know, usually this is a time where we can’t really do much as far as outdoor stuff. And so what do we do during this time? So I wanted to talk about today and maybe you guys can chime in if you want to call and give some of your ideas of what you do during this, you know, not so downtime, but downtime period. this inactive season maybe when we’re not gardening and doing some of those outside projects because of the time of year, but what you do during this time. And first thing I want to talk about is kind of setting the frame, if you will, and why winter is very important and the hidden advantages that we can see or we can find in winter that oftentimes we miss out on. It is shorter days so that we have to be inside. I typically have around my house what I call our winter projects and usually come up with those in the summertime. Like, you know, touching up paint inside or, you know, remodeling a bathroom or currently right now what we’re doing is we’re expanding our laundry room into our garage a little bit by about two feet and opening up that area. so that i can have a bigger butler’s pantry for all the canning and dehydrating and sprouting that we do and so we’re in the middle of that also another project on this winter’s list is to install the steam shower that i’ve had in a box for a couple of years and get that in so you know it’s a great time to be focusing on those indoor projects it’s also a time to you know be working on maintenance maybe it’s the time i repair tools maintain things around the house that we use. One of the things that I’ve been doing as well as I bought a, I usually use a wet stone to sharpen my knives, but I bought a diamond plate stone so that while we’re watching TV or whatever there in the living room, it’s not really a place I want to have water. So it’s kind of wet stoning can be kind of a messy, messy process. But the dry stoning or the dry stone on the diamond plate, you know, I can go through and touch up all my knives and can do that while I’m watching TV. You know, another idea while you’re watching TV is you can learn some knots, maybe work on your knot tying skills. You can plan what you’re going to plant this coming spring and maybe even go ahead and order those seeds before the rush of those seeds are on and you might be getting last year’s, but honestly, probably a lot of seeds you’re buying in the springtime anyway are probably a few seasons ago. Another thing you can do is you can sharpen up your skills. Pick a skill you want to get better at. It’s a great time to maybe focus on getting your ham radio license or learning a little bit more about radios or Meshtastic or GRMS and playing around with some radios. You can definitely work on that. Any other skill you want to work on during that time or learn, you can get on to an online course. maybe tighten up your medical skills. It’s a great time to take a first aid or a CPR or any type of a trauma class during the winter and get those skills going because those are often held indoors. So you can find something like that. You can go through your house and here’s something you can do. You can buy a FLIR one. I mean, this is kind of a little bit more of an expense. but you can buy a FLIR one that will attach to your phone. It’s an infrared camera and you can go around and on those colder days, you can find the draft points and look, you know, around your windows. Maybe that window needs, you know, the caulking touched up or the seals, you know, done, or there’s a draft point, you know, in a wall, maybe figure out in the ceiling or some insulation you can put in, but you can go around and look for, for things of that nature. You know, the caulking around our windows and our, our bathtubs and stuff is something that we tend to neglect. And it’s a great time to do that and just pick one thing and go, okay, here’s what I’m going to do, you know, this weekend or whatever. All those things. All right. So now let’s talk about some free things. So, you know, we can get all kinds of wrapped up around things that cost a lot of money, but let’s talk about some free things. So You can actually, and this is something that I’ve been doing, and I’m not a fan of AI, but I am a fan of AI, meaning that I think there’s a huge danger with AI, but I also see the potential and the usefulness as a research tool with it as well. And one thing that I did for the month of December was I went through my library and I took all my medical books, my herb books, my you know, Chinese medicine books, my, you know, back in the old days, the homeopathic books, the traditional medicine books, and I listed them all into ChachiPT. I listed all of the tools that I have, like I have some cups and I have some infrared stuff. I have a sauna that I built in my house, a traditional dry sauna. I have a cold plunge that I built and put into my house. I have a lot of different things like that, massage chairs and things like that. So I listed everything that I have. And then I said, okay, give me a learning plan with all of the resources that I already have. And that way I don’t spend any more money. And it goes through all this stuff and came out and it spit out a learning plan. It says, okay, start with this book first and go back and revisit, you know, chapter one, and then start to integrate, you know, the different tools that I have slowly and surely and clean up your diet. And so, you know, I took in the month of December and really focused on just health. I think winter is a great time to do that. We always think of summer with health, you know, because we can go outside and exercise, but, you know, there’s a lot you can do inside too and incorporating, you know, hey, am I going to do the paleo diet? Am I going to do the keto diet? Am I going to start learning to ferment things? Because, fermentation is really good for, for your gut. Am I, you know, going to start looking at some body weight exercises, all this stuff that I can do inside cold exposure, whatever, and, and really tune up, you know, maybe do some fasting through this time and really clean up that health. And then that way it comes springtime, you know, you’re already there. You’re already, you know, in shape, you’ve dropped those pounds, you’re feeling great. You know, detox, you’ve done whatever you needed to do and now you can you can go to work. So, you know, take something you already have. Maybe you’re a good cook and, you know, you want to you want to get better at cooking and say, okay, for the month of January, I’m just going to focus on this one skill set, put it into the to the AI and say, give me a learning plan. And see what it says. And if you’ve got any, you know, people are scared about AI. But if you’ve got any, you know, any background about that topic, you’ll know when it’s, you know, shooting a fluff. And you can call it out on it and correct it. Basically, AI is just going to put out whatever you put into it. And, yeah, there’s the whole conspiracy that it’s going to feed you stuff. Remember what it does. is it has its blockchain of resources that it pulls from, and it pulls from those things and spits it out, and it researches, you know, things at lightning speed. Like if I put in there 10 books I already have on my shelf and say, summarize these books, give me three things that all these books have in common, you know, I’ve used it as a research assistant, and now it’s just spitting out that information that therefore I can, you know, streamline my education process. Another good thing to do is, you know, on the house maintenance side is make sure I know. I’m sure most of you guys know where the cold water shutoff is of your house. Go take a look at that. Make sure it’s not leaking. You know, do all that maintenance stuff. Maybe, you know, repack your first aid. Look for stuff that’s expired that’s no good. Get that out of there. Last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about, you know, generators and backup power. You can explore that. and go, hey, what can I, you know, spend this month getting more educated at, and what can I get better at, and so that’s one thing that I would really say you can totally use the wintertime for, and not only that, but I plan on doing it for the rest of the year. The problem is, you know, you get into the spring and the summer months, and if you have any kind of homestead or animals or garden or anything like that, you understand how quickly your time gets consumed with things that have to happen that can’t wait, right? You’ve got to plan at a certain time. You’ve got to maintain the garden at a certain time. You’ve got to pick at a certain time. And then once it’s picked, then you’ve got to figure out how to put that stuff up and preserve it and things like that. So, you know, you don’t have as much you know, scheduled things that you have to do in the wintertime that you do in the summer. So this is a great time to do that. You can walk through your house. You could do safety checks and go, hey, where’s the vulnerability? Like we talked to Chris there that week about, you know, the vulnerability of garage doors. You know, I can take a look at my garage door. How secure is that? Do I have eyes on that side of the house, meaning camera, lights, whatever it may be. Then The other area we can start to look at is, you know, our tangible things. Maybe we’ll start with paper. And what I mean by paper is do I have my emergency contacts printed out so that somebody could find them if I need them? Phone numbers that, you know, if something happens to my memory or I’m not able to regurgitate that from memory, it’s a place for it. My insurance information. maps big fan of paper maps go through your medicine cabinet look for medicine that maybe is expired and you know get rid of that of course you know that that is just a a suggested you know date anyway that they have to put on there you know just because it says it’s expired doesn’t mean it necessarily goes bad and if you’re unsure you can talk to a trusted medical advisor and and see what they have to say about it. Usually antibiotics and stuff like that is usually good for about a year and then they start losing their potency. But, you know, if you talk to your general doctor, he may tell you, oh, yeah, three months, you got to get rid of that. But know who you need to listen to in that case. Do I have, you know, information on, hey, how do I get out of my house? What if there was, you know, home invasion? How would I exercise at all? That stuff is really good to be doing. during these winter months. We talked about skill refreshing, not tying, first aid refresher, practicing and messing around with our radios. How am I going to get out of my house? Maybe I can retouch up on my navigation skills. If you haven’t done navigation with a map and a compass for a while, you might be able to spend some time getting re-familiar with that. Some things that might cost, you know, zero to $50, you know, this is where you can start to build that momentum. Again, not everything has to cost money. You know, look at what you have. Go through stuff. You know, another great winter project is, you know, maybe take a room and organize it. Take those boxes of stuff that you, you know, got a bunch of junk in or a room that you got a bunch of stuff in and start to go through it and go, you know, do I really need this? Is there a way I can give this away, give it to Goodwill, throw it away, or maybe give it to somebody who is just getting started and they’re prepping and they’re readiness and you’ve gotten something better and you can give it to them? Start to declutter your life. But let’s look at food extension now. So wintertime, you know, it’s really you could start to work through that pantry maybe, start to work through your freezer. What happens a lot of times in freezers is stuff gets in the bottom of a chest freeze or in the back of a, you know, stand-up refrigerator freezer, and you forget it’s there, and all of a sudden you’re buying the same thing over and over again. What we do at our house is we’ll do what we call a freezer fast. And it’s not really the correct technical term, but we’re not going to go to the store and buy anything. We’re going to clean out our freezer. And there’s dangers with that. I get it because some people say, well, if you clean out your freezer, you’re basically starting all over again. True, but I’m also rotating. I’m also rotating that stock inside there. And so stuff that you look in there and it’s like, oh, here’s a steak from three years ago. And it’s like, Probably don’t know if I want to eat that, freezer bird and all that stuff. So we start to go through our freezer to make sure, you know, stuff is, you know, not expired, not terribly old. I’m always freeze drying. You know, we got a whole bunch of blackberries the other day, about five trays worth of our harvest right freeze dryer. And, you know, I’m freeze drying those as they come along. So that’s something I can do. But maybe I’m starting to use some of that. free-stride food, starting to go through those boxes and, you know, hey, this is getting, you know, up there on the shelf life. Let’s test it. Let’s, you know, reconstitute that Thanksgiving dinner from five years ago and see what happens with it. You know, you can start to learn to use your preps like, hey, how do I make soups and stews and broths and, you know, kind of play with the ingredients you have. You know, and all this, guys, by the way, is just – getting better at the skills, putting into practice what we talk about and making it a lifestyle and not just something that we do for the what ifs, but making it a lifestyle. Usually in the wintertime too, you can start to look for sales on things and maybe it’s time to stock up on the salt or the beans or the rice or the oats or whatever it may be and you can start to upgrade those things. On the warmth and efficiency of your house, you can, like I said before, start to put seals around outlet covers and doors and maybe you can put some window plastic up. I mean, it’s not the most aesthetically nice thing, but it can definitely help retain heat in your house and see if you can cut down on your utility You can put door sweeps in. That’s that little weighted thing that’s right there at the bottom of your door. You can put that in. You can go through your batteries. Start to take a look at your batteries because batteries do go old and some of the cheaper ones, the acid will actually start to leak on you and you’ll get that white powder stuff all over the place and you want to clean that up. Here’s something that I didn’t even realize that happened to me. So my whetstones, going back to my knife sharpening, I thought it’d be clever to store them in an ammo can. I thought, oh, that’s a really good idea. I could put them all in this ammo can. I had a .50 caliber ammo can, which was a large one. So I put all my stuff in there, and then I opened it up one day, and it was all just full of mold. And I didn’t even think to realize, hey, this thing is, you know, sealed tight. And so the stones obviously had some moisture in them. And, oh, I had a big mess on my end because I didn’t think that one through. But, you know, you can go through and start to check on stuff like that. Anyway, we’re going to grab a break here. And when we come back, we can continue on this conversation. If you’d like to chime in and maybe tell us what you do during your wintertime and some ideas that might help some people out, the number is 303-477-5667. And we’ll be right back after the break.

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All right, and we are back from the break. One of the things I was thinking about during that break is, you know, we had the crypto guys talking about know learning about cryptocurrency and you know that’s something maybe you can spend some time on doing during this down time is you know researching that and maybe looking at your investment portfolios and and tweaking that you know by the end of the year here we just got a few more days for the end of the year getting whatever you need to do for those tactic tax deductions uh buying some gold buying some silver i know a lot of outfits are offering specials during these times so that’s another thing you can do so this next section here i want to talk about is you know some things i’ve seen some failures over the winter that i have seen commonly over the past few years or so but the number one thing is you know as soon as that cold snap happens you know we we had one briefly but we really haven’t gotten down where it’s been really, really cold is that’s when all of a sudden people start turning on their furnaces and their furnaces aren’t working. So make sure, make sure you got those tune-ups, fire your furnace up, make sure everything’s working because at 1 a.m., good luck trying to find somebody to come out and when they do, they’re going to charge you an arm and a leg. And, you know, usually if you’re the one calling at 1 a.m., there’s a lot of other people too because You know, many other people are in that same situation. So here’s a tip for you being in the electric and heating and cooling business. You know, don’t worry about putting in really heavy, high HEPA filters into your furnace. Your best bet is to buy the cheapest filter you can and change it every month, especially if you have pets. the filter is there to protect the equipment. It is not there for air quality. If you want to talk air quality, which, oh, hey, there’s another topic we’ll talk about here in just a second, but health concerns, you know, cold and flu season, that’s not the filter you put in your furnace. That is not what you’re doing with that filter. In fact, if you’re putting a really heavy type of filter on there for air quality, you’re going to stress that motor because the motor has to breathe. It has to suck air, then push air. It pulls air through your returns and then pushes it back out through your supplies. And if your filter, think of trying to breathe through a really dirty mask, it’s really hard to, right? It takes a lot of effort. Well, that’s what happens with your your motors inside your equipment is it’s going to overwork it because it’s working twice as hard to pull that air through that filter. So buy the cheapest filter you can, buy a case of them, and then on the first of every month just go change that filter. If you want to talk air quality, we can get some UV lights in there. We can throw in some humidifiers. That’s another thing. Room humidifiers, guys, if you’re using city water, what happens is when that water turns into that vapor and goes into your room, then when it starts to come back to water there, you’re getting a particle, a little white powder, that is now getting distributed inside and that’s being picked up from your your furnace system and that will get put onto your filter and you’ll get this very white fine dust on your furnace filter and you look at it and it won’t be necessarily dark in color but you’ll hit it and then all this white stuff will fall off that is from the the calcium and all the stuff in your city water from those room humidifiers so your best bet you know you can Get a whole house humidifier. That’s going to be a little bit better. It’s good for your wood. If you’re having static electricity in your house, your house is dry, you need to get some moisture in there. It’s good for our health to get a little moisture in there. People are worried about, oh, my vents will rust out. They’ll get mold in there. And it’s like, no, if it’s installed correctly, that’s not going to happen. So if you want more information on that, you can go to our website, prep.com. The number two, protectco.com. That’s kind of our all-around website where we have our gun classes. We’ve got a link to the church out there, and we’ve got a link to Arc Electric Heating and Cooling where you can call us up for those heating and cooling needs and then generators or any electrical needs from there as well. But furnaces go out. We see power outages with electric stove, and now you ain’t got nothing to cook on. We’ve been talking about that in the past. So, you know, maybe you want to have a charcoal grill or something like a propane grill, and please don’t cook that inside your house. Please don’t do that. Hopefully the audience listeners here that we have on this station are going to try to do that inside their house, but you never know. Frozen pipes. you know, hey, is there a spot where it’s vulnerable? You know, like that laundry room that we’re moving into our garage, that’s where our washer and dryer is, it’s on an exterior wall. I’m going to relocate that, relocate that into the interior wall so that that pipe, it’s happened one time, I think, in 12 years since we’ve been in this house that that pipe froze because it was on an exterior wall, and it was pretty cold when that happened, but something to consider. Frozen pipes, you know, do I know where those vulnerabilities are. Do I get insulation on them or whatever? Vehicles won’t start because of the cold. So making sure those batteries are nice and fresh and ready to go, you know, in those cold days. So what do you do? What’s next? Yeah, this naturally opens up the topic of I got to put these things in order and be that watchman and go, hey, it’s winter. We’re Yeah, we’re blessed to have these nice warm days here, but it’s not guaranteed. And any moment we can get a cold front come through and it can go from 70 degrees down to 30 degrees in one day. So we don’t want to get stuck in the current. Wow, man, it’s super nice today. I’ll worry about that tomorrow because that’s the difference between being prepared and panicking. as you’re panicking when you’re not prepared. And simple fixes. This is the time to be doing it when you’re not in need of it. And that’s the best time to do it. All right. So what about people that get hurt in the winter? Here’s what gets people hurt in the winter. Running the car, warming the car up in the garage. with the door closed. You know, that’s a bad idea. I’m going to start my car. I’m going to get it nice and warm so that when I get in it, it’s warm and, you know, start my car in the garage. That’s a bad idea. Bad, bad, bad. You’re getting all that carbon monoxide. And then if you open up the garage door to vent the exhaust, well, now you’re looking at a security risk. And if I’m puffing my car, as they used to call it, warming my car up? Well, can somebody get in it? Are the keys in it? Do I have a remote start? You know, all these things that I need to consider. You know, these are things that get people hurt in the winter. What about, you know, using a bunch of candles even in the car, let’s say? You know, there is a risk, and I don’t know if it’s really that big of a risk, to be honest with you. In my opinion, you know, running a candle in your in your car, are you really going to get that much carbon monoxide from that candle for heat? It’s possible, I guess, but I guess the other way to think about it is there’s other alternatives. That is probably a worst case scenario. So do I have the hand warmers, the foot warmers? Do I have something I can do? I’ve seen people put those little buddy heaters in their campers and in their rooms and in their houses. And, you know, those guys will kick out some carbon monoxide too. I’ve experienced it myself. What about your food? I’ve got enough food. I’m good. These are the things that, these are myths that people believe that get, you know, get people in trouble. My phone will always work. I think that’s a big one is people are so reliant and dependent upon their phones now. Oh, I always got my phone. I don’t need that. I got my phone. Well, we talked about that a few weeks ago, again, about the event that happened in New York City where the hackers, if you will, they didn’t necessarily hack into the system. What they did was they had various computers around the city that just overwhelmed the system. They jammed up the traffic, if you will. And once you get so much traffic going on, the network becomes flooded and it shuts down. And that’s when everybody’s phone stops working. So they don’t have to you know, get into the network to break it down. There’s other ways that they can, you know, cause confusion and cause your phone not to work. So don’t, you know, get stuck with, hey, my phone will always be there. I have the phone numbers all stored in my phone. I have all the information. I’ve got it all on my phone because the phone will not always work. That’s another Another myth. I mean, why do you think people believe these things? Is it – I don’t know. Is it just – I think it’s a false sense of security is what I think it is. And we live in the United States. We live in the greatest country in the world. We’ve got all these privileges that we are forgetting that they are privileges and not necessarily a right. You know, another one is, well, I’ll just jump in my car and drive. You know, if something happens and I’ve got to go somewhere, I’m just going to jump in my car and I’ll drive to safety. And it’s like, well, yeah, you and everybody else is thinking about that. And, you know, it’s hard enough to get home on a Friday night because everybody’s leaving work and the traffic is, you know, crazy. Now you’ve got everybody trying to escape a massive event. Yeah, you’re not going to go anywhere. So, you know, is there anything that you’re thinking of? Oh, I’m good with that. I’ve got insurance. I’ve got a job. I’ve got a little bit of savings. I’ve got a little bit of food put up. I’ve got, you know, this or that that will always save me. I think you’ve got to be careful because it could be a myth that gets you hurt. So, can we mentally… Walk through these scenarios. Run through experience. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Scenario one, power’s out. It’s 8 o’clock and the temperature’s dropping. You have kids, young kids, and you have elderly parents or maybe you yourself are elderly. Mobility isn’t that great. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? So the power is out. It’s 8 o’clock at night. The temperature is rapidly dropping and you got kids, you got elderly parents, or even you yourself, maybe you’re getting elderly and you’re not able to take care of yourself like you used to. What would you do? Well, is there a room that you can all gather in? Okay. Is there, do you have that box, that power box, those tiers that we talked about, the blackout box? Who goes and gets it? Where is it at? Did you grab it and now you turned your flashlight on and it doesn’t work because, oh, the batteries are dead or the acid is all leaked out or it’s one of those that you got to charge, rechargeable battery, and you let it slip and now it’s not recharged. You see how easy this can just all fall apart on you, right? This is at the last minute and now all of a sudden You’re going through the stuff that you thought was good. So as you see the breakdowns in those systems, now you go, how can I mitigate? Do I have extra batteries in here? Do I have maybe a flashlight that works up on wind-up power? You know, they’ve got those that you wind up and you can get a little bit of light. Do I have the candles now? Do I have… you know, matches to light those candles. If I do have a candle, am I in a good ventilated area where I’m not going to be, you know, carbon monoxide? I think most homes are fine with tea candles or whatever. I mean, that’s how they used to live back then. They had everything with light candles. So you run through those scenarios, you know, and then you start checking those things, start working through those. All right, scenario number two. Here it is. You’re outside and you slip on the ice. And you hurt yourself. And now you can’t drive. Can’t go anywhere because you’re hurt. So how are you going to get back in the house? Do you have means to call somebody to help you? Do you? Oh, but wait a second. What’s our first scenario that we’re building on at 8 o’clock at night? The power’s out. You were going to go to the store to get some lights, to get some batteries. Now you slipped and fell. So the lights are still out. The power’s still out. Temperature’s rapidly dropping. And you have people depending upon you. And now you’re stuck outside on the ice. And you can’t drive nowhere now. And you can’t even get back in the house. So is there anybody else that can take charge? Who’s going to get you in the house? How are you going to let them know that you’re hurt? What’s going to happen with the temperature continuing to drop? Is there water that you may need to shut off? Do you need to turn the faucets on to start the spigot to keep water lines from freezing? What about food? What’s that food going to be required for cooking? How’s that going to work? Have you thought through that? So you see how you can mentally go through these games during this time to mentally find gaps in your systems and in your preps and then try to mitigate from there. All right, another scenario. This one is something I want you to think about. Let’s get rid of first scenario, second scenario. And you start to think, this stuff’s boring. It was fun at first. I was really into it, but nothing’s ever going to happen. I think we’re just fooling ourselves. And then your family members start to chime in and go, yeah, I don’t know why you’re wasting all the time and money and energy on this stuff. Not only getting started, But what we kick the show off with, this is a great time to be maintaining your preparations, maintaining your equipment. You know, it’s not fun to be sharpening your knives. It’s not fun to be going through your house, looking through your medicines. I mean, it could. Some people enjoy it. But it also could be boring. You could find something else to do. It’s not exciting. You know what this is called? It’s called discipline. Discipline of checking things when nothing is wrong. Kind of like cars, right? We check our oil. A lot of us don’t even check our oil anymore. Oh, it hits the mileage. You just run it in and let somebody do it for you. No big deal. Nothing wrong with that. But the problem is, is you get out of practice. You know, when I was a kid, you know, we didn’t have the greatest cars and, you know, we, The routine was we pulled up to the gas station. We stuck the nozzle in. We set it so they would fill. We’d pop the hood. We’d go and check all the fluids. We’d check the oil. We’d check the washer fluid, check the things you could check. You couldn’t do the coolant, obviously, but you’d check those quick things while your tank was topping off. If you had to put some oil in there, we usually had a can of oil or You know, inside the trunk or inside the hood compartment there somewhere. In those older cars, you could keep all kinds of stuff in there. You know, jugs of oil, jugs of, you know, brake fluid, steering fluid. We had all that stuff in there because, you know, we top our cars off. But we’ve gotten out of the habits of that. And it’s like, oh, we’ll just run those guys in. So the point I’m trying to make with that, that same disciplined mindset of checking things when nothing is wrong is important. And this is a great time to be doing this. Why do you think boredom actually equates to safety? You know, if you’ve ever done any type of mechanics or anything like that, I was in the Army. My MOS was 67 Yankee. It was a Cobra crew chief helicopter. I was the gunner pilot and I was the crew chief. So I fixed everything. you know, it seems so monotonous. Tying the safety wire, checking the rivets, and you get complacent. Well, there was a saying in the Army, and the saying is complacency kills. You know, we had a thing called FOD, foreign object damage, and the turbines would suck in those things that we forgot about, those wrenches we set down or those pieces of trash, and the turbines would suck those in and hit those turbine fins and blades and do all kinds of damage. So you cannot be complacent in your jobs. You can’t be complacent in your fitness, in your health. You cannot become complacent in your spiritual relationships. your family relationships, all of this stuff is important, and you have to guard against the thought of this is boring. This is useless. Nothing’s ever going to happen. And maybe nothing ever will happen, and that would be wonderful, wouldn’t it? But the moment it does, and if you’re ready, you’ll be very thankful. that you took all that time, all that boring time to get stuff ready. All right, we got one more break, and when we come back, we’ll be wrapping this stuff up. Again, if you want to call in, 303-477-5600. 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All right, and we are back. 560 KLZ Ready Radio. And we were going over some scenarios before we took the break. We also talked about some of the things you could do over these winter months in preparation for springtime, for summer. And really what we’re doing is we’re trying to establish lifestyle design. You know, you guys can get such an education free online these days through YouTube or through Facebook and groups and other people that, you know, you can really learn a lot and not have to spend any money. Find like-minded people, learn from them, you know, and just simply ask the question. Say, hey, I would like, you know, somebody knows how to do radio, let’s just say, and say, I would really like to learn more about that. Could you spend some time with me? Could you answer some questions? Can you get me going in the right direction? You know, and you can really do this. We live in such an age now where knowledge is just so readily available. It really does fulfill the end time prophecy of, you know, knowledge will run to and fro, which I don’t know if that’s necessarily about just general knowledge. But anyway, that’s another conversation, another topic. But anyway. It’s true that, you know, you can talk to people all over the globe and you can learn basically anything. Yeah, there’s the whole idea of, you know, everybody’s trying to make a buck and they’re trying to get you to sign up for their course or buy their book or whatever. And, you know, we understand people need to make money just like, you know, you go to work for a job or you do whatever you do for your income. Those people are doing that too. And you support, you know, at our church, we have Lunch and Learns. And, you know, we’ll do different topics. We’ll do canning and we’ll just spend an afternoon after church, somebody within the church teaching how to can, you know, and it’s a great resource. It’s a great, you know, learning environment where the community supports itself, if you will. And a lot of people are genuine in wanting to share their knowledge and share their experiences. not everybody is going to instantly go, oh yeah, if you want to want that, it’s going to cost you a lesson, you know, or it’s going to cost you so much. You can get on, you know, the library, you can go to the library, you can get books, you can download PDFs. Guys, it’s there. I had a An old guy from Houston, Texas that I used to work with, and he told a story one time. He says, you know, I went out of town and I told my boys, I had two boys at the time, and he says, I need you to mow the yard while I’m gone. And he came back and the yard was not mowed. And so he got his boys together and he said, hey, what’s the deal here? I asked you guys to mow the yard. And they go, oh, we couldn’t get the mower to start. And he says, oh, really? So he goes out and pulls a couple of times and, you know, sure enough, it doesn’t start. And so he reaches over there and he pushes the button that kind of primes the carburetor with some fuel. You know, you push it three or four times and then pulls it and it fires right up. And they go, wow, that’s amazing. He says, it’s not amazing. He says, here’s the problem. He says, you lack, you lack the want to. I told you to do something. And you gave it, you know, half of a try and threw your hands in the air and walked away. And you lack the want to. And I’ll tell you this, and maybe this will resonate with you today. Is there something in your life that is not done? The room that’s not cleaned, the preparations that you haven’t gotten around to, the class that you bought that you never took. oh, I’ve been meaning to get to that room to clean that box out, or I’ve been meaning to fix that leak. I’ve been meaning to patch that door. I’ve been meaning to, well, here’s the reality of it. You lack the want to. You lack the want to. Find the want to. Find that lifestyle design. Find that reason as to why we do what we talk about on this show, and it doesn’t always have to come down to spending money, okay? Because that’s where everybody’s mindset now is everybody’s trying to make a buck. What strings are attached? What do you want? You don’t have to spend a dime. You just lack the want to. The old saying, if there’s a will, there’s a way. So think about this. If the power went out tonight, if the power went out right now, how would you react? Would you be calm? Or would you be scrambling? Would you be confident in going to your blackout kit and knowing that everything in there is going to work? And remember, we talked about the tiers. Okay, most power outages are out just for a little bit. Well, that time has expired and now you’re moving into the next tier. Okay, so now I’ve got I’m past an hour. Maybe I’m going into three to five hours. What’s the next stage? Am I confident? And if I got that portable generator, it’s going to start. Am I confident that my solar generator is charged, that it’s going to power the refrigerator or whatever I need it to power? Hey, maybe you got medical equipment that somebody’s life is dependent upon it. What if it goes past that? Now we’re talking about it’s out for a day or two. Would you still be calm or would you be scrambling? These are the questions that you run through to build that confidence. And some of us out there are suffering from a false confidence. We can be sincere, but we can be sincerely wrong in our thoughts. And a lot of times within the prepping community, a lot of people aren’t teachable and they aren’t humble. And I think you should check that. You should check that during this winter time and go, you know, is there something I can learn? Or am I so, so fixed on my ideas, my plans that I’m not going to budge? I’m not going to learn from anybody else. This is the way. I’ve done this for a whole bunch of years, and I’m not going to change. Well, that’s something to consider. Maybe you lack the want to. What is the weakest point in your systems? Is it something within your house, maintenance-wise? Is it something in your health? You know, most people forsake that. And as we’re coming up on the new year here, and I’ll be with you guys next Friday as well, maybe we’ll talk about this, but that health is your number one tool, guys. Because if you’re sick, if you’re weak, if you’re broken, it’s really tough to be able to do anything when the time comes. It’s really hard to go out to that ice. and pick that person up that slipped and fall and get them into the car. Maybe you’re the one that slips and falls. Does your body break? Can you get up? Maybe you’re the one that’s got to go out and get the portable generator and pull on it a bunch of times because, you know, it hasn’t been started in a while. Are you going to physically be able to pull on that thing? What if you got to all of a sudden get moving blankets over your windows or something? Are you physically able to? So I would say, in my opinion, first and foremost, the number one preparation that you can focus on is your health. Get that in check. We’ll talk about that next week because John will be out again and we’ll talk about how your health is your number one prep. And things that you can do, again, very cheap, right? We don’t have to go through this great expense to get healthy. We don’t have to buy all this health food. We don’t have to buy all these supplements. It’s a lie. All right. You guys have a great week. Remember, prep2protectco.com. And we’ll see you guys next week on Ready Radio.

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