Join John Rush and Bill Anderson as they unravel crucial strategies for staying safe in potentially dangerous situations. Bill discusses his approach to self-sufficiency, honing in on the necessity of observing your surroundings and making informed decisions to protect yourself and your loved ones. Whether you’re at a sports event or just running errands, this episode provides valuable tips to always be prepared.
SPEAKER 07 :
This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything. Now, here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we are ready. Ready Radio, KLZ 560, thanks for joining us today on this fine. It is now the 15th of August already. Bill Anderson joining me today. Bill, welcome. How are you today?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m doing well today, John. Doing good. So how are you doing?
SPEAKER 10 :
Always a joy. I’m doing great. Always a joy, by the way. Appreciate you joining us today. And for those maybe tuning in for the first time, Bill, give a little bit of your background. You’ve been joining us here on a routine basis, but we get new listeners from time to time, and I need to remind myself of that as well. So give everybody a little background on yourself.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure. Well, I’m a pastor. That’s probably my first job. first calling, if you will. That’s the first mission of our life. We are a pastor. We’ve been out here in the Elizabeth area about 15 years at our church, but it is a small church, so we are bivocational, so I do other things as well. We own an electrical and heating and cooling service company, so we do a lot of things with that, put in generators and things of that nature. I am a second-degree Krav Maga black belt, so I also teach electrical Krav Maga, and we also teach gun stuff. So we are listed and licensed, I guess, if you will, as a Colorado firearms instructor, and so we can get people all trained up so they can get their concealed carry with the new requirements, and we teach a lot of self-defense. So we’ve got a lot going on. We also live on a little bit of land here, and we’ve got our little homestead, if you will. I kind of feel guilty calling it that because it’s not really what an official homestead would be, but we have… probably about seven breeding chick, uh, rabbits. And we have, uh, probably about 30 breeding chickens. And so we have a pretty huge garden. Try to, try to just be that, uh, self-sufficient as much as we can, and have that lifestyle design that kind of fits all of the mission, which in my opinion is to serve the Lord.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I appreciate you doing all that, by the way, and thank you for your background and the things that you’ve brought to us on a routine basis. We appreciate that greatly. And for those of you listening, we’re going to continue on. We’ve been covering for the past couple of weeks, probably try to wrap things up today on this bill so we can get to a different topic next week, but talking about how to be aware and how to handle a situation where we’ve had, and we’ve had a couple of these here of late, and they happen from time to time. I don’t want to say that we are overrun by these by any means. I think the left wants you to think that we are, but the reality is we’re not overrun with a you know, active shooter situation. But as we head into the school season and just different things that can come up, I think, you know, as we always say, Bill, we want to be ready for the what-ifs of life, those things that might come our way. And so the last couple of weeks we’ve talked about how to handle some of those situations, and we started off with just knowing what to do, how to respond, you know, what should you do in a particular situation, who are you with, and and then kind of combining all of that to know what do we do next. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, having that plan in place is very important. I kind of touched on it, and I’ve been saying it a few times for the past few weeks, but you can get rid of the mindset of prepping or self-sufficient or whatever you want and start to incorporate, hey, this is lifestyle design. And, you know, I’m going to now design my lifestyle, design my choices, if you will, you know, to kind of hedge some of this stuff that’s going on out there. So, you know, it kind of plays right in because, you know, if I’m going to go to an event that there could be something, and whenever you get people in the mix, right, there’s potential for something to happen. And I’m going to start with my choices. I’m going to start, you know, looking at, hey, what’s the event? Where is it at? What time of day is it at? A lot of times people find themselves in these situations. In fact, the one that kind of queued us off with this whole topic, was the violence there in Philadelphia, which these people were shot and attacked. And, you know, it was 3 o’clock in the morning. And my first question is, like, well, what am I doing out there at 3 o’clock? And I’m not – you know, we don’t want to restrict our lives to say, hey, you know, once the sun goes down, we’ve got to lock the doors and, you know, button down the hatches. But it’s like, okay, well, if something’s going to cause me to be out that late, well, then – I better take that into consideration. And having that forethought and thinking through the plan, talking with whoever’s going with you and say, okay, hey, just real quick, here’s what we should do. If something happens, you know, having whatever tools and equipment on your persons in your car to get you out of that situation, taking into consideration all the laws or whatever that you might have to abide by, And that’s what I talk about with lifestyle design. When I park somewhere, am I parking it because it’s close and convenient and I don’t have to walk as far? Or am I parking in a spot to where, hey, if something goes down, I can get there and I can get out of whatever, get off the block, get out of the town, get out of the parking lot in an easier way. Those are the kind of choices this all starts to have to begin with, John.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And again, what we want people to realize or to think through is all of what you just said. And I think to your point, Bill, a moment ago really comes down to what is the situation? Where are you going? What are you doing? What are you going to be doing? Where are you? What are you going to be at? For example, we’ve got Bronco Games and that starting, so that’s an outdoor stadium, arena, whatever you want to call it. At the end of the day, what does that look like compared to maybe an indoor setting compared to what would you be doing if you were at even, heaven forbid, Bill, as you would know, church and things like that? Anytime you’re in a larger gathering, you’re going to the mall, you’re going to go to a farmer’s market, whatever the case may be, The thing that we have to make sure that we’re doing, and this is where I think it gets a little bit difficult for folks sometimes, Bill, is we have to be on our guard at all times, and that’s not always easy.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, we are oblivious, right? We really are. Our heads are on our phones or whatever. We need to become observers of your environment, and you can do so in a way that doesn’t make you look like you’re doing that. You know, you don’t want to always be on point because that’s going to stick out too. But, you know, you can observe and look for the details. Things, more times than not, John, whether people think so or not, really don’t happen all of a sudden. There’s tons of indicators, tons of indicators. You know, you look at the last, um, you know, uh, you know, I’m thinking of the, the one presidential in Pennsylvania, the presidential assassination. And it’s like, how many people said that looks weird. That looks funny. Here’s a guy up there. Hey security, you know, and it’s like how many indicators, you know, when you’re dealing with a crowd of people, it’s really hard to be sneaky. And so the point you’re making, the point I’m making is, you know, that’s the, Be observers. Get your head up and look around and go, you know, what looks normal? What doesn’t look normal?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think that old – really quick, Bill, that old saying of if something doesn’t look right, it probably isn’t, meaning even if people around you aren’t listening and paying attention, then at least do something for yourself. I mean – I get it. We want to try to help as many people and try to save as many as we possibly can. But if other people around you are not going to follow or pay attention or, you know, they think you’ve, you know, they think you’re some sort of a wackadoodle because you’re mentioning something. Well, if it doesn’t seem right to you, you know what? It may very well not be. And just because the rest of the crowd is saying there’s nothing to, you know, don’t look over here. There’s nothing to see. That doesn’t mean there’s not a problem, Bill.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely right. And don’t blow it off. And also, too, John, don’t take for granted that, oh, there’s a security guard here, or there’s a police officer here, or there’s the Secret Service here. They’ll protect me. Yeah, no, you’ve got to stop taking for granted. And trusting, you know, this is where that whole self-sufficient idea comes in at, right? I’m not going to trust my safety to somebody else, you know, and so… Yeah, really quick, Bill.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, I’m at a sporting event. There’s all these security people all over. You know, I’m okay. I’m safe. Well, yeah, I’m… You know, no offense, Bill, nothing against all those folk. I know a lot of people, even Denver PD, that work off-duty at times doing different things and so on, and even they will tell you that they cannot. I’ve got a good friend that is doing that right now, does that a lot on the weekends where he’s an officer, but yet goes and does a lot of these events and so on, and the reality is he’ll be the first to even tell you. He can’t see everything, Bill. He does his best to see the things that he can, but… You know, you take, you know, you take, you know, I call it my high stadium. I know that’s not the technical name, but you take the Bronco Stadium. Reality is, you know, how many entrances and exits are there? You know, there’s multiple gates, multiple things going on. There’s people that can come in from other areas that aren’t even a main gate. Reality is, you know, it’s like the airport. Is it 100 percent secure at all times? The answer, Bill, is no, it is not.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, it’s not. There’s always a weak link in the chain there, if you will. There’s always a place that if somebody wants to get in and do something, they’re going to get in. Now, these are deterrents, and they’re good. That’s right. Just like when we put… locks on our doors we put lights and we put bushes on our houses and we we put you know beware of dog on front door you know at the end of the day they’re going to slow people down but if somebody really wants in they’re going to get in that’s right if somebody is really you know bent on going to a place and shooting up as much as they can you know with that amount of force, you know, officers, things like that, you may not get as many people as you want, but, you know, you might get a few. That’s right. And you might be one of the few that gets taken out, you know.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and, you know, really quick, you know, not to give, again, people think, well, don’t give these folks any ideas. Trust me, folks. Bad people think about ideas and things. And every time I go to one of the games at any event, I guess I should say, concert or the stadium or anything along those lines, Bill, I’m even looking around on my way in because, and again, I’m not trying to give anybody ideas, but you take especially Mahi Stadium, the Broncos Stadium, And you look at the way things are positioned there and, you know, folks that could easily park in an upper parking lot. And by the way, there’s no security checks going on in those vehicles that are rolling in and out of those parking lots. And you look at all of the vast array of people that are down there. in those parking lots tailgating, and again, not giving anybody ideas, but you literally could sit up on top of one of those hills and literally have your choosing as to those that you would want to start, you know, taking out per se. And again, folks, believe me, I’m not giving anybody any ideas. People have thought of these things before. Reality is, Bill, look how much damage you could do in a scenario like that and never even enter the stadium.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, exactly. I mean, we just, I think I told you, we went to the Faith Day at the Rockies a couple weeks ago. Okay. And how many buildings are surrounding the stadium? Correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
Correct. Yeah, point being, there’s no way to protect all of those, meaning that you’ve really, especially in those situations, and I do, you have to have your head on a swivel. You have to be looking at all places. I mean, I don’t know about everybody else, but I’m looking up at the stadium. I’m looking out in the parking lots. Even as you’re walking around the stadium, I’m looking out, I’m looking up, I’m looking around. Is there stuff that just doesn’t look right? Is there somebody doing something that doesn’t look like they should be doing it? In other words, does it not look correct? And if that’s the case, where should you be? What should you do? And these are things, Bill, that I just know because I watch how people not only drive but how they attend these events and so on, and the majority of people are oblivious to what’s going on around them.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, even just walking out of the, you know, King Soopers there, you’ve got to watch out for people because they just blast right into the driving area there, and, you know, they’re not paying attention to you. And then you’ve got electric vehicles that don’t make any noise. Correct. And, you know, it’s just— All right, so let’s go—
SPEAKER 10 :
Just get your head up. That’s right. So let’s go before we take our break here. Let’s get started on and still talk about, okay, you have been involved or you are now involved in something where, again, we’ve done everything that you and I have talked about. You’ve prepped. You’ve prepared. But even with all of that, you find yourself in a situation where there is an active shooter. There is something going on. And heaven forbid that would ever happen, but you could find yourself in that particular situation. So now all of a sudden we’re in that scenario. You and I talked a couple of weeks ago even about, okay, what’s the first thing you do? And that is, hey, protect yourself, protect your loved ones that are with you. We didn’t get into a lot of details, Bill, into how to do that. We talked about exits and getting away from things as quickly as possible, but maybe that’s out of the question. Maybe we’re not in a situation where we actually can exit. Okay, you’re an expert in this field. And by the way, maybe this is a situation because of a stadium event or something like that. We don’t have anything with us. You can’t even take a knife into a situation, you know, into an event along those lines. So in that particular situation, what do we do?
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Well, it goes into your plan. You know, if you don’t have a plan, then you’re not able to execute anything. Then you’re just thinking on the fly. So I know we’re going back to the beginning, but it’s like I’m looking at the stadium as I’m sitting there before anything happens, I’m going, okay, here’s how I get out of here. We’ve got a couple of different places I can go. And maybe I’m able to have that conversation with those with me. Most of the time I’m not because they just think, you know, oh, you’re being crazy again. But at least in my head I’ve got something mapped out. I’m knowing where to go. You know, I’m looking, hey, are there places that I can get to for coverage on, especially if shots are being fired? That’s probably going to be my first thing, you know, because – the number one answer here with any self-defense scenario is, well, it depends, right? I can sit there and go, Hey, you do this and do that. But then all of a sudden that person, you know, makes a turn and doesn’t go down the path he was going. Well, now, uh, now my cover is now exposed. And so it’s, it’s, It’s so hard to give a here’s an absolute when so many variables are at play. But, you know, I’m probably looking for some type of cover. You know, I’m looking around. Maybe, you know, some people might not agree with this because. hey, you’re going to put yourself in a room. Yeah, maybe. Maybe if that’s what I need to do to get cover, I can definitely defend myself with somebody coming into one single doorway versus chaos. I can definitely do that. So maybe I’m headed to the bathrooms. Maybe I’m looking for a janitor’s closet. I don’t know, but I’m looking for something. Here’s one thing. Some people say, you know, if you look for concealment, which, you know, doesn’t stop bullets, you know, but I’m just out of sight. Right. You know, people, I think, got this misconception that, you know, the shooter is just going to go around shooting everything. Oh, there’s a blanket there. There could be somebody under the blanket, so let me shoot the blanket. They’re not doing that because there’s limited ammo. True. And they’re going to probably shoot at what they want to know is going to be effective. So out of sight. It’s out of shot. There’s been lots of cases in shootings where kids and teachers and stuff, in this case, have hid under blankets and undercoats, and the gunman walked right by them, and they didn’t know they were there. So, you know, I’m looking for some kind of cover or concealment, and then from there, I can now start to plan, okay, where do I want to go? And by the way, usually… It’s not where everybody else is going because you will face a bottleneck situation.
SPEAKER 10 :
Great point. Great point. Meaning everybody else is heading that same direction.
SPEAKER 08 :
And now you’re sitting ducks.
SPEAKER 10 :
For me, Bill, that’s the last thing that I don’t know about you, but when I look at things like that and I’m always looking at, okay, where could I exit or go where everybody else is not going? Because people are sheep. I hate to say that, but they are. Where they see one person go, that’s where typically everybody else is going to follow. You see that at stoplights where there’s two or three lanes wide and the stoplight ends up with 10 cars in one lane because it all stacks up. And yet the other two lanes are completely open because where one goes, so does everybody else. Same reason why you can park way out in the parking lot all by yourself, like you were mentioning. And when you come back out, and I do this because of nice vehicles and so on, but when you come back out, you know, sure shoot, and there’s going to be three or four people around you because people are sheep. They just are attracted to someone else. They do the same thing when exiting in this particular situation, Bill. They’re going to exit where everybody else is going, meaning you should be looking at and trying to figure out okay, if we’re going to get out of here, we’re not going that way. We’re going to go completely the opposite direction because now you’re just sitting ducks.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and another typical thing is people will exit the way they came in. Yeah, very well said. Because that’s all they know. Very well said. If they came in the front door, then in their mind, that’s how they’ve got to go out. You know, and like if I’m at a restaurant, you know, and somebody comes in the front door and everybody else is headed to the front door, I’m thinking, hey, I’m going to go to the kitchen.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m going back door, side door, wherever.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wherever, nine times out of ten, there’s a door out the kitchen. I mean, not always, but this is where you also need to kind of know your areas. It’s better than not knowing. And you can’t… nail down everything. And the more you do this, John, the quicker you’ll become at it, and then all of a sudden it just becomes second nature.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and really quick, for some people that are thinking about this, where let’s say, for example, you’re at a stadium, where naturally, Bill, in most cases, I think in all cases, it’s going to start unloading from the bottom to the top. Me, if I’m closer to the arena or the field, let’s say, you may find yourself wanting to actually run to the field and trying to go out one of those exits, or to your point, go find yourself something you could barricade behind, around, and so on. There’s a lot of things, by the way, that are down lower versus up high. And I get it. Some are going to say, wait a minute, the shooter’s probably up high. He’s going to be shooting down below. Well, to your point, if you can get underneath something to where those those bullets or he can’t even see that you’re there, they can’t reach you is what I’m trying to get at. You may find going down in the opposite of direction of what everybody else is doing might be better off.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you might be better off. You know, I don’t think he’s going to. sit there and waste rounds and waste time on, well, there might be somebody hiding behind there. He’s going to be shooting at things he can definitely see. That’s right. And easy shots, too, right? People that are bottlenecked up, things of that nature. Right. And it goes to kind of the follow-up with this, too, is part of the plan, part of all this stuff, hey, let’s gather together in a spot where we’ve got maybe cover and concealment and then go to the next spot, then go to the next spot. But we’re working out our plan to get out. And on me, no matter what, I definitely, definitely, definitely always have my trauma kit. And you can get smaller ones. I know these tourniquets and things can be bulky. You can get what’s called the soft tee tourniquet, which takes a little bit of practice. And by the way, John, any of this equipment, they always make trainers for them, and you should be training with it. You should be training with it, right? You should be doing it. I mean, there’s times where, hey, I’ll just throw my tourniquet on. I got the blue ones, the trainers, and it’s like, let’s just get a rep in. Let’s just throw it on. You know, um, and, and just get that rep in. So, but you’re carrying stuff with you and I have a little setup where my soft teeth tourniquet is in about a court. Ziploc bag. I got a little bit of duct tape. You can buy a, um, a small section of duct tape. You can buy it. You can make it, you can roll your own up. I got a little bit of gauze in there and right there I can cover the tourniquet, the chest seal. And I can also cover, you know, stuffing a wound with the gauze. So right there is kind of my basics. Now, the idea is, you know, that’s not a full trauma kit, but the idea is if I get shot or if my loved ones get shot, it’s enough to get us to the next point. Great point. And then to the next point, you know, and then I get to my car maybe and there’s another trauma kit or I get to the ambulance or I get to something. But these are the things I’m having with me. And then I can relax a little bit because I got a plan, you know, and you can relax and enjoy it a lot more knowing your plan versus, well, let’s just hope for the best and see what happens. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Great segue. All right. We’ll come right back. Text line, by the way, 307-282-22. Anything you want to add, anything you want to ask, we’ll do our best to get that answered and handled as well. But give us a call if you’ve got a question also. Studio line 303-477-5600. Myself, Bill Anderson. We’ll be right back. And don’t forget Bill’s website. It’s prep2protectco.com. Prep2protectco.com. And then our website, of course, ready-radio.com. We’ll be right back. KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Again, good friend Bill Anderson with me today. And, again, website that he’s at where you can sign up for classes and a lot of the things that we talk about on a routine basis you can do through him. Prep, the number two, prep2protectco.com. So prep2protectco. Again, you can find links there also off of ready-radio.com. Bill, one thing I want to go back to also as we continue on and remind everybody, we talked about this the very first week in this particular sessions of conversations we’ve had along these lines is, am I competent in my ability? context in the environment, and then that moral obligation. I think those are things also that people need to be thinking through anytime we get into a scenario along these lines. And I know we’ve been talking a lot the last couple weeks about, you know, an active shooter situation. But remember, we’ve had some situations here of late, Bill, where you could be at the mall and it’s a person with a knife. I mean, the reality is it could be somebody running down the sidewalk in a vehicle. It doesn’t have to be somebody with a gun.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it can be any of those things. In fact, you know, FBI statistics outside of gang and drug related violence. is that you know you’re more likely to be attacked with a hammer or a screwdriver than a knife or a gun now obviously times are changing things are going to be being more violent but um you know statistically speaking you’re probably not going to be in that situation but you know hey you’re going to be sucker punched you’re going to be hit with a blunt force object you’re going to be you know attacked with with another sharp type object you know and we talk about guns and knives and not being able to take these into particular areas. But you know what? I can carry a screwdriver in there. I mean, I go through TSA all the time with with tools that people are like, hey, you can’t take a gun or a knife. I’m like, well, I don’t really need one because I’ve got other options. They’ve got those.
SPEAKER 10 :
And there’s a lot of you that know this, but maybe some of you don’t. Bill, there are even pens that are real pens. They write. If you were to pull it out, you could actually write with it. That’s also, to your point, you could be used as a weapon as well, and they are well within your rights to carry on with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was stumbling for that word, the battle pen or the fighting pen, and you jumped in there and saved me. But yeah, I’ve got multiples of those in my water bottle bags and things like that, and I’ve never been questioned. I kick them through TSA all the time. Never get questioned on them. It’s a pen. Hey, it’s a pen. You know, they even make dummy Sharpies with, you know, actual metal points, you know, but… I mean, I don’t know how far you want to take this kind of stuff, right? I mean, we’ve got a friend that we teach in Krav, and we do a lot of the gun and the knife stuff, and he’s like, hey, you know, he works at a… I won’t name the place where he works, but he cannot take that stuff into the facility where he works. And so he’s been carrying one of those fighting pins, if you will, and it’s like, okay, great. You can change. You have to adapt. Don’t get so stuck in the, well, I can’t do this or I can’t do that. Okay, you can’t. So then… Figure something out. We say that a lot. FSO, figure something out that you can do. Don’t be so restricted in my optic in the rules or whatever you can and can’t do, so narrow-minded, narrow-sighted that you can’t figure stuff out to use with other things. Statistically speaking, remember that guy that was on the 16th Street Mall whacking people with PVC pipe? That’s right. There’s been a lot, even down here where my neck of the woods, Castle Rock has been you know, numerous people, two people that I know personally were kind of approached at a gas station, the Safeway gas station. And, you know, so there’s, This is a broad topic. You know what?
SPEAKER 10 :
You brought up something that I want to jump into because this is something I don’t think most people think about. Before we do that, though, somebody also texted in and said, remember the shooter at CIA headquarters Langley Base walked down the queue of cars waiting for ID checks at the gate with an AK-47 to shoot people in their cars. They teach us not to lay flat on the floor because bullets will scoot along the floor. Instead, crouch down as low as you can to minimize your profile. Both good points, by the way. Thank you for that. On the gas station subject, this is something that is, you know, this can go along the lines of active shooters, but also just to keep yourself safe. The one thing that people should be doing and most don’t, Bill, is when you go to fill up, a lot of you, this includes male, female, young, old, doesn’t matter. When you go to fill up your car, Please, get out of the car, have your keys in your pants pocket or whatever you have where the keys are not in the vehicle, lock your vehicle, and then proceed to pump your fuel. So many people, especially in the winter months, they want to just jump out really quick, just shut the car off fast, jump out, start filling up, jump back in. Well, Bill, in the meantime, depending upon where that fill neck is and what you’re actually doing on the vehicle, you could be on the clear on the other side of the vehicle from where the driver’s door is hanging open, Somebody just hops in, boom, off they go. Everything that’s inside of the car goes. And by the way, we’ve read about these stories happening, so I’m not telling you guys something that doesn’t happen. It does. You could avoid that by just taking the keys, lock the car, have them in your pocket, done deal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and I will add to that, and it goes back to my aviation days when I was in the Army. as crew chief for the Cobra helicopters. And when we fueled that helicopter, we stood off on one of the corners, away from the helicopter, observing the whole thing. So you plug the gas thing in, you let it go, and then you go stand at either headlight you know, the passenger side of the door, and I just stand there, you know, a little bit away from the car, and I’ve got eyes on what’s going on behind me. If my car is in the back of the row, like there’s gas pumps in front of me, then I’ll take a taillight. But I’m off to the side just observing my car. You know, a lot of people, I see it every time. They stick the nozzle in the thing, prop their foot up on the curb, pull their phone out, and they go into la-la land. Correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, by the way, a couple of things along those lines. A, you really shouldn’t be smelling the fumes of the gas coming out anyways. It’s really not a good thing to do. We’ve all learned through the years, myself included, being in that industry where that’s not a good thing to be breathing. So to your point, A, not only are you being safer on the whole vehicle and what’s going on around you, you’re not sniffing those fumes while they’re going into the vehicle either, Bill. So that’s another tip. And on top of that, even if you’ve got anything on you, static electricity, things along those lines, You’re safer in not being around it while it’s actually filling. Now, I get it. There are going to be some of those situations where the pump handle’s broken. You’ve got to stand there and fill it, or do you? If you guys have any kind of a gas cap, I know a lot of vehicles now are capless, but if you’ve got a gas cap, keep in mind you can always shove the gas cap into the handle area. It will fill automatically, even if the little thing is broken, and you can walk off to the side. So there’s always a way, typically, Bill, to get around that, even if the handle is messed up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, there’s always a way. And I was even at Costco. I don’t think Costco allows you to sit in your car and fuel it. I was at Costco pumping gas, and somebody was in their car, and a little guy, a little attendant came out and told that person, you can’t be in your car. You’ve got to get out. So that was an interesting rule there. I didn’t know that good enough. Okay. Maybe that was just the one. It was the one in Parker.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I don’t know that I’ve ever paid any attention to that. But, you know, the other thing, too, this is something else. This goes back to the whole observation. I know we’re kind of switching gears here a little bit, but it all applies. So you’re filling up your vehicle. By the way, there’s lots of things that happen at gas pumps. You see videos, at least I see, probably because people send me a lot of this stuff, Bill, but there’s things daily where there’s some sort of problem happening at a pump. Could be, you know… could be violent related could be somebody’s just not paying attention they drive into the pump uh they’re close to the road and somebody drives off the road at a high speed and it runs into the pumps i mean all sorts of stuff could happen so to your point i think gas pumps can be one of the most dangerous places you’re at and you need to really be paying attention one other piece of advice this is from me as a car guy a it’s courtesy two it’s for your safety If there’s a line of pumps and you’ve got the ability to pull through the end and go to the very first pump, not the first pump that you’re driving to, but I guess you could say it’s the last pump, but technically it’s the first pump, you always want to be at that far end, away from the road as much as you can, Bill. And for a lot of you listening, you may just roll in, you go to the first pump that’s open, you get out, you start pumping. No. Go to the very end. Number one, it’s easier to get out. You don’t have anybody in front of you when you actually go to leave. And then on top of that, you’re the farthest away from the road as well, Bill. Another thing to look at is, as you’re pulling in, what’s going on at the station? There’s a station that’s just down the street here from the radio station that I typically use, and I use it because fuel there is quite a bit cheaper, Bill, than it is in other places. So I tend to fill up there because of the cost. Now… On the same token, we are in Saudi Aurora here at the station, meaning there’s a lot of bad dudes running around this area, and you have to have your head on a swivel at all times. And that happens to be a particular station where if I roll in there, Bill, and there’s a bunch of people loitering around, and there’s a bunch of homeless hanging around, and there’s just a bunch of—you can just tell. Just a bunch of nonsense going on. Guess what, Bill? I’m not stopping to fill up. I always have enough fuel left in my tank to go somewhere else if need be. That’s the other thing, by the way. Don’t fill up when you’re on fumes. Fill up at a quarter of a tank. That gives you plenty of options to go someplace else if need be. So bottom line, Bill, is don’t pull in if there’s a bunch of nonsense already going on at that station.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it just all goes back to that being – Observe it, you know, be in the Sherlock Holmes, be in the Columbo, you know, be a student of observation. It’s definitely a lost art and lost skill. And it’s something I’m working on, too. I got to crack up, though, because Saudi Aurora, I haven’t heard that since I was in high school.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s where we’re at. Well, and along those lines, I shared this story with my wife the other day. So I’m filling up, not at that station, but I’m over here at the Maverick. It’s not the Maverick. What’s the one down here on the corner, Charlie? It’s not the Maverick. What’s it called? Right over here. I can’t remember the one right on the corner. Right down here. Anyways, just down the corner for us. And it happens to be where if you want to come off of one road and jump onto another, you can. Now, most people don’t cut through, especially the direction this guy cut through, because you’re going across both lanes of traffic when doing so. But I’m about to pull out, and luckily I’m watching, which I normally do, so I’m watching, I’m paying attention. A guy in a Dodge Charger. or Dodge Challenger rather, comes rolling through, and I am not exaggerating. You would have thought I was on some sort of a Dukes of Hazzard, Starsky, and Hutch show. I was waiting for the camera guys to pop out at any time to film this guy because he came rolling through the gas station. I’m not exaggerating, Bill, doing at least 40 to 50 miles an hour. How no one got killed with him rolling through as quickly as he did is beyond me. But another one of those reasons to pay attention. If somebody had been walking out of the pumps at that point in time, they’d have been run over.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that’s a great observation right there. If you’re not paying attention, like looking at your phone while your gas is getting pumped, you might have missed that. You might have been in the way. That’s right. At least if you’re watching and you can see that happening, you can see that develop, again, you’re not caught by surprise. If you’re caught by surprise, it’s because you weren’t paying attention more times than not. Sure, there’s some surprises, but…
SPEAKER 10 :
if you’re caught off guard it’s because you weren’t paying attention you weren’t watching you know you could have seen that guy coming from you know i saw him come off the night you know i happen to be just looking and i tend to do this anyways but i happen to see him roll right off of in this case it was yale going back over to havana and i just happened to see him hop off of yale and i’m like what in the world is this guy doing and i thought man he’s in a hurry to get gas no He went in a hurry to get gas. He was running from something. I was waiting for the cops to roll through at any given time because he was running from something. Because bottom line is he went in and hopped back out and literally ran against traffic, you know, getting back out onto Havana. How in the world he didn’t run into somebody and cause a huge accident is beyond me, Bill. I mean, he just got extremely lucky that there wasn’t anybody in his way that entire way through. But I’m not exaggerating when I say he rolled through that station about 50 miles an hour.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah, he was on the run. You know, John, I know I like to throw little things out there, kind of kick the beehive, if you will. But, you know, you can avoid gas stations. Just get an electric car.
SPEAKER 10 :
You can. You can. No, you are 100% correct on that one. And that’s one I could get off on a whole tangent when it comes to the… You know, our side of the aisle, and I love our side of the aisle greatly, but I feel like in the EV world, and you own one as well, but I feel like our side of the aisle, Bill, because of – and I get it. Government pushed EVs. They did it the wrong way. They tried to get us to do something that a lot of people just didn’t want to do and, frankly, probably doesn’t even fit for them to do. Unfortunately, they killed the EV market. and they didn’t need to. EVs are not bad. They’re not inherently bad on their own. No, you’re not going to buy one to save the planet. In fact, in some cases, they’re probably more harmful, not in some cases, in all cases, they’re more harmful to the environment than buying an ICE engine vehicle is. Unfortunately, Bill, the left killed them because of the way they pushed them through government. Had they just let them work their way into the marketplace on their own, they would have sold all on their own just fine.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah, and it’s always a fun conversation. I mean, I got my solar. I got my EV. I didn’t pay business taxes for three years. I mean, it was 100% selfish. I wasn’t trying to save nothing. I was trying to save money.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s okay, too. You could do whatever. Yeah, again, nothing wrong with that. Again, going back to the whole being ready, watching, paying attention, and this is for some folks even, Bill, because I watch them. They go, they fill up. They get done. They go inside. They’re getting their coffee. They’re getting their whatever. You know, great. And by the way, more power to you. I’m not against doing any of that. But as you’re inside even of those facilities, you know, I don’t know how many convenience stores and C stations get held up over time, Bill. But I guarantee you a lot. And me personally. I don’t go in those places. It’s not because I don’t want to, don’t like to. I just feel like there’s no reason for me to be in there, number one. Number two, that’s where all the action is going to happen if there is any, and I don’t want to be a part of that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it’s just making the right decisions and good choices. You know, I don’t remember at what point I texted you this week, but there’s two words that I started to incorporate in a lot of what I do. And those two words are so that. And so whenever I plan something, whenever I venture into a new learning or a new whatever, no matter what I do, I always want to say, I’m doing this so that. And what that does is that brings focus, that brings intention, and that brings purpose to what I’m doing. I’m going to stand this way. As I feel my car so that if something happens, I can see it. Right. So that and I’m starting to put that into more places into my life, John. And it’s really a very powerful tool. You know, kind of going back to the topic here. Hey, I’m going to carry my my my little trauma kit with me. so that I’m ready to protect myself against the uncontrollable. I can control that, right? As I’m sitting here going into this venue, maybe I’m going to take note of what the nearest hospital is so that I know where to go, I know what to call. I’m going to go look at, you know, the closest bathroom or the closest janitor closet or whatever so that I have a place to go to if I need to. And it seems cumbersome at the beginning. It’s not. You know, but over time, all of that stuff goes away and then it just becomes that lifestyle design. Right. I’m now just doing this. without having to go through the whole hard, cumbersome process, it now just becomes the way I think. And now it’s like, oh, I got that, I got that, I got that, I got that. It’s like anything. When you’re learning to drive or you’re learning to ride the bike, you remember when you’re learning to drive, you’ve got both hands, you’re white-knuckled on that steering wheel, you’re double-checking that mirror every 10 seconds. I mean, you’re doing all the things. Now everybody’s driving, you know, and it’s like you’re lucky if you have one hand. You’re probably driving with your steering wheel, doing whatever you’re doing with your hands. But, you know, that’s the point I’m trying to make is because it seems cumbersome at first, but you start to apply these principles into your life. And then over time, you’re doing them without even thinking, right? And it goes back into that competency thing that we talked about earlier. You know, you’re not going to get competent on anything through hypothetical thinking, wishful thinking. You’ve got to get the reps in, and you can do it. 98% of it is mental, 98% of it, right? If this guy were to attack me right now, what would I do? By standing there in line at 7-Eleven or whatever, you know, you don’t go in there. If this guy turned around and did this, right, I’m playing this scenario in my mind. Nothing’s going to happen. He’s not going to do that, but I’m getting a rep in. Getting a rep in, you know? Right, right, right, right.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, I fully agree. That so that, I like that. This last week I talked about how AAA came out with a study because I’m a big guy on backing into parking places, all sorts of reasons why. It’s not only safe, you know, all sorts of things. And by the way, the so that, you know, I back into parking places so that it’s easier to exit. I back into parking places. so that I can see everybody in front of me so I’m not backing over anyone. I back into parking places so that. Again, I like that term, Bill, because you can go down that line and say so that, and you can come up with five or six different reasons as to do X, Y, Z. Okay, great. If that’s the reasons, then there’s your reasons.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and you can also use it to declutter your thinking too. For example, earlier this week, we were doing kick defenses and a person defending my kick. And then he’s like punching me in the back. And I turned around and says, you punched me in the back. And he’s like, yeah, I says, okay, I want you to say I’m punching you in the back so that, and finish the statement. He says, I punched you in the back so that, and I’m like, you can’t finish a statement, can you? I said, now you punched me in the face so that now finished that statement. Oh, I’m going to punch you in the face so that I knock you out. Oh, There you go. So the point I’m trying to make to him is it’s like you’re doing, because you applied that word so that, you realized what you were doing had no impact. Gotcha. It was useless. It was a waste of time. Yeah. Right. So now figure out how you’re going to hit me so that something does happen.
SPEAKER 10 :
Great point. No, I think even your what you said a moment ago, even with purchases you make. OK, let’s go back to the solar, the EV backup generation, which we’ve got to get back to at some point, because that’s another big deal that we need to. still stay focused on. OK, do you want a generator? So that do you want solar? So that are you going to buy a different vehicle? So that I mean, I like that because when you now have to answer that question, you’re becoming a smarter consumer, by the way, because now you’re going to sit down and really figure out so that I can do X or I can, you know, potentially in some cases save money or I can, you know, I can live off the grid or I can, you know, you just keep filling in the blanks, Bill. And at the end of the day, you’ll have your right answer. But if there’s not enough answers there and you’re just like, so that I can keep up with the guy next door. Well, then your answer is no, don’t do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct. Correct. And then you get into what I texted you earlier this week. with the whole polymath. Right. And now I’m going to start to stack these things to support my overall mission. Right. Right. So that the, the EV supports the solar supports, you know, you start to stack it now. Right. And, and Hey, I got the trauma kit. I got, you know, I go get the trauma training. I mean, this is a fun world.
SPEAKER 10 :
And Bill, a lot of this comes back down to, you know, the whole Ready Radio. And I don’t talk much about this on Ready Radio. I do more of it on Fix It Radio on Saturday mornings. But, you know, I’m going to do this sort of maintenance to my house, my car, myself, so that my property values stay up. I have less repairs down the road. I have, I mean, you can use that for so many areas of life, Bill, where it becomes this, oh, I’m going to do that so that I don’t have to do it on down the road.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, and it gives you purpose. Can I give you an example that just happened to me today? Absolutely. Oh, my gosh. I love this. We talk a lot of this stuff. We talk a lot of how-to theory stuff, but when it actually comes to fruition in our lives, it’s a good reminder. And even though we’ve done this, we’ve had this happen over and over again in our lives. That’s why we’re talking about it. We’ve got this experience. But when it happens again, you’re just like, it’s so exciting. Right. I messed up, and I put in some floor outlets in concrete. And, John, I know you’re not going to believe it. I put them in cricket. I put them in cricket. So you know you’ve got your laminate floor that is on a line, and now my boxes are 45 degrees out of that line. And I’m looking at that going, hmm. Now, the floor hasn’t gone down yet. We’re still really early. But the concrete’s in. And so I’m like, oh, I contacted Wiremold to see if they can custom make me a box, and they said no. And then I’m like, okay, I’m going to have to chip out this concrete, dang it. I cannot believe I’m going to, and I’m just dreading this. But you know what? My dad passed away, and I went to Iowa, and I came back with a couple trailers of his stuff. In there was a gas concrete saw. Oh, nice. And I tried to start that thing a while back. I couldn’t get it started. So I took it to the shop. I took it to a guy and said, hey, can you get this thing running for me? Can you tune it up? You know, and it’s probably a year ago, okay? And I’ve never used it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Until now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Until today. Until today. I went out to my shop. I grabbed that thing. I set it down. Two or three poles, thing fired right up, and I said, let’s go fix those outlets. There you go. To your point, I maintenance that. I paid for that. I didn’t need it at the time. I wasn’t trying to cut anything when I gave it to him. But I had it fixed so that today, that was worth its weight in gold.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. Great example. No, that is a great example. And so many things can apply to that. And by the way, a lot of what I’ve been doing with folks know this. I’ve been cleaning up things from, you know, my folks and their estate and just the stuff that my dad accumulated over all the years, some of what you’re even referring to. And then it’s the decision of what do you keep and what are you getting rid of? What are you going to maintain and get running like you’re talking about and so on? And a lot of that is, you know, a so that I’m more organized so that I have what I need so that I’m throwing away the stuff that I do not need so that somebody else, if I donate, this might be able to use this more than me. And you go down that list and keep going and going and going. And, you know, bottom line is I want to get through all of this stuff so that at the end I actually have a completion date and I’ve got all this stuff done so that I can move on to the next project.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, man, I just changed the world with those two little words tonight.
SPEAKER 10 :
And, you know, I think a lot of us do that. We just don’t verbalize it that way, Bill. In other words, I think a lot of people in their mind do that. They just don’t say it out loud.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but then when you step back and start saying it. It reminds you to have that life of purpose. And it reminds you, oh, yeah, you know what? I have gotten kind of cluttered with my thinking, with my ambitions. Because, you know, like you and me, right, we have our hands in so many things. And I’ve had a lot of people go, you know, if you just focus on one thing. It’s like, but all of the things that I do, John, I sat back and I started to look at it and I go, okay, what’s my main mission in life? Okay, got it. Now, everything that I do needs to come into submission, which sub means underneath that mission. So these are the pillars, if you will, that hold up and support the mission. And if anything does not do that, then it’s a waste of time, it’s a waste of effort, and it is. So it really kind of comes back to this, and it’s like, okay, yeah, why do you Why do you have this? Why do you have that? Why do you do this? Why do you do that? And it’s like, well, because it all supports my mission. And that’s why I’ve kind of redefined whole. No, it’s not proper. It’s not self-sufficient. It’s now a lifestyle design. Yep. that puts me in a position so that I can fulfill my mission.
SPEAKER 10 :
Great ending. Bill, as always, I appreciate it. Bill Anderson, Prep2ProtectCO. It’s a number two in the middle there, Prep2ProtectCO.com. Bill, as always, I appreciate it. We’ll see you next week. Talk to you later. All right, man, have a great rest of your day. And don’t forget, ready-radio.com is our website. We’ll be right back, get things finished up, KLZ 560.
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