Join John Rush as he explores beyond traditional prepping into the future of self-reliance and survival skills. By examining common scenarios and what-ifs, John uncovers how these skills apply to everyday situations and emergencies alike. Whether it’s mastering the art of microgreens for sustainable food practices or understanding the new tax on ammo in Colorado, John provides practical advice to get you prepared for 2025 and beyond.
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Here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. All right, and it is time for Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you for joining us today. I appreciate it. Live program, November the 15th as we head into the holidays, a couple of weeks away from the Thanksgiving weekend. And thank you all for listening. We appreciate it very much. Today, I’m going to talk about 10 must-know skills that every prepper needs to survive. Dan, thanks for sending me the video. It’s a good video, and I thought it was some things that we could sort of recap as we kind of end out this year. I’ve got a few shows left throughout the year as we head down into the Christmas season, but really kind of wrapping some things up for 2024. and some folks only have listened to us for a short amount of time, so sometimes I feel like I’m repeating things from yesterday when it may have been six months ago when we actually went over some things because of how quickly, in my case, the calendar goes by. So if it’s a repeat for some of you, then you’ll know. On the same token, these things are good to be reminded of, I feel like, on an ongoing basis just to make sure that we’re shored up on all of our skills in this regard. Now, as I always say, Just because we talk about prepping and end-of-the-world stuff and so on, these things can be applied to all sorts of different scenarios. It doesn’t have to be a great end-of-the-world, EMP, solar flare, things along those lines. It could be all sorts of things. It could be a cyber attack. It could be something local. It could be wildfires, things along those lines. You name it, and it could hit any of us at any time. Now, before I get going, all of our sponsors, which I want to say thank you to each and every one of them, BP Appraisals, which they were on with us live last week on Fix It Radio. If there’s anything you need in regards to an appraisal, current vehicle, gun collection, classic car, whatever, great guys. Burke Payne will help you out. That’s where the BP from BP Appraisals comes from, and his link is right on our website, ready-radio.com. And then Instafarm, another great product, which… I’m amazed at how quickly the microgreens grow, how little effort it actually takes to make that happen. It really is a plug-and-go sort of a thing. And I think in our family, and it’s just my wife and I, we’ve already been through, I want to say, four or five trays. have reloaded. And the way the reloading works, if you know, for example, you may be out of town, you know, don’t reload as many trays because it’s going to grow whether you’re there or not. And the one thing we’ve noticed is as time goes by, they will keep growing to the point where these microgreens, I mean, they don’t become full plants because that’s not what their design is, but they’ll kind of start to flower a little bit and not necessarily go bad, but you can just tell as they’re getting older what they start to look like. They get a little droopy and so on. So, you know, idea being it takes about seven days for these things to sprout and grow, and you probably want to eat those in two weeks, 14 days or so. So it’s not like they grow in seven, you’ve got to eat them all the next day. No, there’s a little bit of time there, and it’s all self-watering, and everything works well, comes pre-done. You can get a subscription on the trays and the seeds and the plants as you want. It just depends on how you want to do it. Instafarm.com. There’s a link on our website, ready-radio.com, and there’s a great special that’s going to be coming up here over the Black Friday weekend. So keep that in mind as well. But InstaFarm, fabulous product. Thank you guys for sending me a kit to test out. We’ve fully enjoyed it, and we will continue to restock it and use it. All right. Ten must-know skills that every prepper needs to survive. Now, to me, I would take prepper out, and I would say that everyone needs to survive. Take the prepper part of that out. And as I’ve said many times, I feel like the prepper community gets a bad rap. I understand there are some extremists. And by the way, there’s extremists in anything. There’s extremists that go to church. There’s extremists in politics. There’s extremists that are in any industry. I mean, you name it. There’s an extremist in most everything. It’s just the way some people are. And my point is, you don’t have to be an extreme prepper to be prepping, to be prepared. Again, prepping for the what-ifs of life that might come along, and you don’t know what those are going to be. Some of the things that I want to focus on in 2025 may not even regard physical things. I’m going to do my best to even bring some folks on and talk about some of the other things that we should be getting into, you know, financially speaking, long-term care, things along those lines. In other words, you know, how do you prepare yourselves for all of these different things that may come along? And it very well could not be an end-of-the-world scenario, but you still want to be prepared for it whatever way possible. So, Ready Radio. And you’ll notice that when producer Ann even made our little logo, there’s a box with a checkmark, meaning let’s check off the things that you need to be ready for no matter what it is. And that’s what we try to do. So I know I’ve spent the past several months because of the upcoming election and what people might have thought was going on there. And again, I want to touch on that here just as a moment as well. I don’t really see much coming out of the left in regards to any kind of uprisings and things along those lines. Number one, they’re too busy shaving their head and doing other things in a particular movement that has nothing to do with resisting things, if you ask me. Most of those that would have resisted, I think, are in total disarray. They’re trying to find a cry room right now and trying to figure out what to do in life next. They’re really discombobulated. So I don’t really see much in the way of uprising. If we haven’t seen it by now, which we haven’t, I don’t think you’re going to see it. So not that we still shouldn’t be prepared for those sorts of things because those things could come at any time with any particular situation that may arise. But do I think it’s coming out of this election? No. Doesn’t mean that we let our guard down and that we’re not ready for things that may come along. It just means in that particular scenario, I’m not too worried about it. Now, one thing as well that I wanted to touch on. I was reminded this week somebody was asking me, hey, John, somebody here at the station that’s new into the gun world. Where do I buy ammo? And so I went through a few things, and my advice also was, you know, if you don’t need to buy a whole lot of it right now, wait a little bit, because my prediction is ammo prices will come down, not go up. Typically, under a Democrat regime like we’ve just had with Joe Biden, I mean, Obama and Biden are two of the best gun salesmen there are. Even the fear of Kamala pushes prices and things up. Ammo does exactly the same thing. It follows the same trends. Now, some would say, no, that has nothing to do with it. It’s all supply and demand. Well, that’s true, too. But demand can be affected by politics, which then affects supply, which then affects price. My point with Donald Trump being in there is most people won’t be worried about civil unrest and things along those lines. And no offense if there’s any kind of civil unrest. It won’t be from the folks that are buying guns and ammo. So that’s why you’ll start to see more of a supply. and that will push prices down. So I’m not telling you not to buy ammo. I’ve watched some of the prices, and frankly, even in the last two weeks since Trump won, even leading up to it, prices started to drop. I saw today you could buy 1,000 rounds online, 1,000 rounds of 9mm for like $220. Not a bad price at all. So, once again, you’re going to see some of those things start to drop, I believe, in price. And I may get into that here in the coming weeks in regards to those sorts of purchases and so on, especially as we head down the stretch into Christmas. You may want to do some things for gifts for others and so on, and I’ll get into some of that as well. We’ll come up with some good things for some of you who never know what to buy. That other person will give you some ideas along those lines. But the 10 must-know skills that every… Prepper needs to survive. I’m going to replace prepper with person. Number one, again, some of these are going to be repeats. We’ve talked about these a lot. Oh, really quick. Somebody just asked me, what about the new tax on ammo? That does not go in until, I believe, April. Don’t quote me on that. I need to look that up. But I think the new law that passed, the new tax, will not take effect. I think it’s either 1st of April or end of April. I need to double-check on that. It’s a 6% tax here in Colorado. And, yes, all of us will pay it, even if you… mail order your ammo. If you buy it local, wherever, it won’t matter. In other words, you won’t get away from that 6% tax just from buying it online. So, yes, that is something to think about. So that will be a 6% increase, although this is a prediction. I think you’ll see ammo prices go down more than that by the time that 6% is instituted. So at the end of the day, I think you’re still going to pay less for ammo on down the road. Now, would I advise you to buy something in Colorado first quarter? Sure. Some of you that have the ability to have ammo drop shipped to a friend or a relative that’s just across the state line, run up, pick it up, bring it down, you could also do that. And believe me, a lot of people will be doing that, and it will not end up as the state of Colorado thinks at the end of the day. People will find ways around it, trust me. They’ll go out of state. They’ll do whatever they can. What they do with these sorts of things, like they did with cigarettes or anything else, they’ll create a black market. It’s stupid. It’s the dumbest thing ever. People thought they did something really good in the election, but what they really did is now just created a black market for guns and ammunition. Stupid. Anyways, that’s another subject for another day. But yes, thank you for that question, because there’s probably some people thinking that goes into effect. It’s not January 1. It’s later in the year. I’ll double check that for you. And on my daily show, I’m going to talk about some of that next week anyway. So if you want to listen in, I’ll have some of those definitions as to when some of these things that just passed in the last election, when those take place. But number one, how to find water and then make it drinkable. Now, we’ve talked about the drinking part of it, how to have filters, you can boil, and so on. But, again, these are skills that we need to have, and we need to be sharing with others, kids, family, nieces, nephews, and so on, if you’ve got any influence, grandkids. Number one, how do you find water? And then how do you make it drinkable? Now, something to think about. If there’s a complete, utter meltdown of the system, whatever, again, cyber attack, solar flare, whatever, complete meltdown of the system, water sources that are fairly visible in public will be overrun automatically. Just like animals flock to water, so will people. they will be drawn to it for various reasons. So if you don’t have a good water source, meaning that if you’re on the municipal water source right now and you haven’t taken some precautions on the front side, and even if you did, eventually that water will run out, where are you getting your water? And then how are you going to make it drinkable? And for some of you, even though in Colorado, and this is where I will say this is stupid law, in Colorado you’re not technically allowed to have rain barrels. Yeah, I said that correctly. In Colorado, those are not legal. Makes no sense, but you’re not allowed to capture that water. Now, in these times, all bets are off. Won’t make any difference. But prior to that, how do you put some systems in place to where you’d have some storage of water even coming off of your roof and other things, and or if you’re out and about and you’re not at home, you’ve bugged out, do you know how to find water? and then make it drinkable. So that’s a skill that I’m not going to define and get into. We’ve done that a lot on this program. You need to have some of the even portable devices that are out there where you can take pretty much any kind of water and make it drinkable. But be thinking in your head, if I were to go X, Y, Z, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, if you’re bugging out and you decided not to stay in, what resources are you going to have around you? And depending upon where that is, water may be plentiful or not so. So that’s something else to think about. Now, one other thing to think about when it comes to water that we all kind of take for granted is we manage water really well. What I mean by that is our infrastructure is such that there are, you know, gates and things on all of the different canals and dams and so on where we can divert and let water flow according to the water rights owned by those individuals that are downstream. And water is controlled very well everywhere, not just in Colorado. Really here in Colorado, though, because we’re at the headwaters. Where I’m going with this is if you’re used to having a running stream next to you but only runs once the gates are opened up, the spillways are opened up in the springtime, but something happens in the winter, that water may never run. There’s not going to be anybody upstream to turn things on, is my point. So these are some things to think about as to, you know, not only where you live now, but where would you end up? Because some of those things may not actually work on down the road. Or in some cases, because there’s no one managing it, maybe flooding and other things that would come up. Again, we manage these things for various reasons. Some cases, depending upon the rainfall, snowpack, and so on, sometimes we release water to avoid flooding. Those things won’t be there. Once everybody’s off taking care of themselves and their own families, they’ll meet nobody left to manage those things. So how do you find water? How do you make it drinkable? Think through that. Now, we’ve talked about food a ton. I’m not going to spend a ton of time here other than the foraging and hunting aspect. Foraging meaning what can you eat around you? And literally, if you’re hungry enough, like what plants can you eat? What insects could you eat? Other sorts of things that you could forage for. You know, what’s edible around your area? And by the way, what’s not? What would poison you? Do you know what those items are? Are there certain plants that are growing around you that would make you sick if you ate it? So something to think about, something to look up at. And that’s not something that, you know, we cover about, I don’t know, five states or so, the territory that this signal covers. And then you, of course, can listen online. I cannot speak to everybody’s area. I don’t have enough knowledge, nor would there be enough time to talk about every area that our signal covers. Some of you will have really good luck finding things to forage and eat out in the wilderness. Others may not find anything. And then on top of that, be thinking about what could you plant and grow on your own every year. And that’s a whole other conversation. Hunting, that’s a big one. Now, keep in mind with hunting, it’s not just shooting. Because when you’re in these circumstances and you start firing weapons, you now automatically tell everybody where you are. And if you’re trying to be a little more stealthy and kind of run under the radar, firing a weapon is not going to help you. It’ll actually make things worse. So be thinking about the hunting end of things, and do you know enough to, for example, can you shoot with a slingshot? Could you kill something with a crossbow, bow and arrow? In other words, if it’s not a gun, pellet gun, for example, could be another item to use, which I think we’ve gone over that in the past. It’s been a while since we’ve done that, but could you actually use an air rifle? Trapping is another one. Snares. Yes. Snares, traps, anything along those lines. Some of you have have traps that you may even own. Those things can be picked up relatively easily. And if you’re not good at making snares and things like that, what else could you do to to Charlie’s point? Trap animals, small animals, by the way, squirrels, rabbits, things like that. And then, of course, food storage, we’ve been over that several times as well. But, you know, making sure that whatever you end up with, you’re able to store it properly when, in this case, there’s no power. How are you going to handle the storage of food and do you know how to? Again, we’re talking about skills everyone should know. Do you know how to dry meat? Do you know how to smoke meat? Do you know how to salt meat and have it, you know, for years and years and years before we had refrigeration, which really didn’t come along, what, Charlie, mid-1800s or so probably was, you know, block ice where they learned how to store it in ice houses and had ice boxes and so on. I’m guessing, you know, late 1800s, early 1900s, something like that. Believe it or not, we’re so spoiled today with ice. We go to the machine, go to your own freezer, pull it out, or you go buy a big bag of ice down at the supermarket. We’re spoiled when it comes to ice. For years and years and years, there was companies that all they did was cut block ice out of glaciers and things like that and figured out a way to store that all summer long so people had some sort of cold storage. And before that, you salted meat typically. And a lot of people have no idea how to do that today. Side note, most people have never killed anything and then had to skin it, gut it, handle it, and know what to do with the meat as far as that goes. Very few. And there’s things along those lines that you’ve got to make sure you’re doing correctly or you can spoil the meat that way. One of the things I even have seen hunting is people that don’t cool the meat off quickly enough after they’ve killed an animal. I was taught that as soon as you kill an animal, it’s gutted, and you even try to skin it as quickly as you can to get that meat cooled down. Because remember, that animal is a warm-blooded animal, and the meat is warm, and you’re trying to get that cooled off as quickly as you can, especially if it’s in some of the warmer months of the year. I’ve seen many a hunter, in my opinion, make a huge mistake by just taking that animal, throwing it in the back of the truck, and then hauling it back off to camp that might be half hour, 45 minutes away. Wrong way to do it, by the way. Totally the wrong way to do it. So side note, learn how to do some of those things. And if you don’t know how, find somebody that can teach you or study up on it. Well, this one we’ve covered a lot. I’ll get to that in a moment as soon as we come back from break. We’re going to talk about disease management, but this is a big deal also. One of those things that you must know how to do. That end of things could be as much of a killer as not eating and drinking. So, all right, Ready Radio. It’s ready-radio.com. We’ll come right back. Don’t go anywhere. KLZ 560.
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You all know that I listen to a lot of audible audio books along these lines. And some of it, the authors weave a lot of other stories and different things into the book itself. It’s not just about… survival although typically that’s the main theme and i think they do a pretty good job of thinking through a lot of the scenarios that may come up and there’s always the you know nefarious bad guy that shows up and you know they make it exciting and so on which which by the way i’m fine with it makes the books more exciting and it actually gets you to think about things that you wouldn’t think about otherwise so along the lines of disease management Hygiene and the like. It’s one of those things that a lot of people just forget about. Again, we take certain things for granted, like I just said a moment ago about ice. We take that for granted. We pretty much have ice at our disposal. And as Americans, we’re big on ice. A lot of other countries, they use it sparingly. Never in a drink. Most of us always have it in a drink. and probably have more than what most other countries would look at and say, why are you putting that much ice in that drink? But that’s how we do things. We’re really, quote unquote, spoiled along those lines. Our cleanliness and hygiene and so on, same situation. We’re very used to having all sorts of things at our disposal to keep things clean. That will change in an end-of-the-world scenario. Do you know how to still keep things clean to keep yourself safe? And most people don’t think about it that way. They think of just being clean to be clean, not to be clean to stay safe. So, again, think about the disease management end of things, everything from how would you store things, where would you put things. I’ve talked in the past even in regards to trash. Where would you keep your trash? Do you have the type of property where that trash could be burned, reused, composted? On down the line we go. What would you do with those things? Because it will start to build up. Quickly. And what are you going to do along those lines? And, again, depends upon whether this is something that’s happening summer versus winter. This one’s interesting. You know, this one, this is in all the books that I read, of course, listen to, and that’s conflict resolution. How do you deter conflict? Defer from it. Deter from it. Whatever you want to say. How do you minimize some of the heightened things that will be going on? Because they will be. especially right after an event. It will get dicey. Do you have any kind of skills that enable you to negotiate and calm a situation down? Do you know what those are? Do you know what some of the key words are? How do you handle that? And it’s not always the guy with the biggest gun that wins, although sometimes that is the case. But do you know how to deter conflict? And if not, might not be a bad idea to learn up on. Now, personally, I think that’s one of those things you should learn as a life skill no matter what. That has nothing to do with an end-of-the-world scenario. Can you defer conflict? Do you know how to do that? Now, most of us… that have worked any kind of a retail job, typically you know how to defer conflict, or at least you’ve had some lessons or you have some understanding of that. I guess there could be some in retail that don’t, and anymore I look at some of the folks in retail and wonder if they’ve been taught anything. But typically those folks in retail have some conflict management skills. If you’re the owner of a business, typically you have some conflict management skills. You know how to defer some of these things that may come up. And if you don’t, I would highly recommend that you learn some of them. And again, there’s all sorts of books. audio, YouTube, teachers, et cetera, out there that will go through and teach you how do you do conflict resolution, how do you avoid conflict. So again, if you’re not familiar with that, familiarize yourself with those things, some of the key words, some of the things that you would do, some of the body language and so on, so you would know exactly what to do. Somebody also said being too clean can also reveal your level of prep and might make you a target. Yeah, can’t argue that. And sometimes you want to be careful how tidy things would be. If you’re trying to run under the radar, you still, of course, want to be clean, hygienically speaking and so on. But you may want to make it look like you’re not so clean. In other words, disguise some things to make it look a little different than what it actually might be. So that’s a great point because, yeah, you could actually give off a whole different vibe if you’re quote-unquote too clean. So great point. Thank you for that text message. Our text line, by the way, 307. 200-8222-307-200-8222. Next one, and this has been interesting in the book I’m currently reading right now, how to secure your property no matter where you end up staying. Home, somewhere else, where are you at? And these are things that you need to learn as well. Everything from fencing. Tall fence, short fences, some of it’s to keep animals in and out, some of it’s to keep people in and out. There’s other things now, and some of these can be purchased legally. There’s what they call bang sticks, which are essentially a shotgun shell that is done in such a way that you put a trip wire on it, and it would go off if somebody tripped the wire. And you can make it to where it actually injures people or where it would— You know, just make a loud sound and try to deter people that way. But these are things to think about, you know, booby traps and so on. And a lot of these books that I’ve read, people really get into the, you know, into the nitty gritty of what do you do to keep yourself safe? Because, again, when everything hits the fan and everybody starts to get desperate, which will happen in a very short amount of time after an event happens. If you have anything, back to the last text message, if you look like you’ve got something worth having, they will be after you. So how do you deter those people? Give yourself even an extra few seconds of time in one of these scenarios. If you can gain four, five, ten seconds by having some different booby traps around, it could be life versus death. And I’m not trying to scare anybody. This is how are we prepared and how would we handle those sorts of things. So, again, how do you secure your property no matter where you end up staying, whether that’s at your current home or someplace else that you would end up bugging out to and you end up there? Be thinking, okay, once I’m settled… What am I going to do to secure my site, my property, keeping anybody else from it? Are you going to camouflage it? Are you going to hide it? Are you going to act like nobody’s around? And even then, how do you know if somebody’s coming? I’ve talked in the past about everything from different types of portable game cameras and so on, whereby they could show you what’s going on. The problem with some of those is if we have complete power loss, Unless you’ve got some sort of battery storage and these things have been somewhat protected, they may or may not work in that situation. So we’re thinking on the front side, how do we handle those things now, preparing for that, and what would those items be? Fire is a big one. We talk about fire a lot because that’s one of those things that, yes, you’re going to have to have. You not only need it for warmth, you need it for cooking, but there’s other things you’re going to need it for as well. And fire is one of those things where I think some people really understand full well how to use it. And I’ll be flat out honest, some have no clue. You know, I’ve over the years been to camp spots and again, hunting trips and things along those lines. And I’ve watched what other people do with fire. And sometimes you just shake your head. You’re just like, what are you guys doing? None of what you’re doing is effective. What I mean by that is, do you know how to cook over an open fire? Do you know how hot the fire needs to be? Do you know where to put the pot to have it cooked? Do you know, you know, when do the coals look right? Do you know how to build the fire properly to where you get the most effectiveness out of it? Do you know where to build the fire if you’re out bugging out? Would you know where to build the fire so that it’s the most usable and so on? And what I mean by that is, you know, we in our area, we get snow. Go to the mountains and bug out, even locally in a park. A lot of people are going to want to put the fire under the tree because it’s a little more sheltered. Well, if the tree has snow on the branches or the leaves or whatever, and you put the fire under that and something happens, which, by the way, the fire is going to create heat, and you very well could melt the snow off of said branch, and now it falls on your fire, put your fire out. Most people don’t think through some of those things to even know where’s a good placement for the fire. Where’s the wind? How’s it coming at me? Where am I going to put things strategically because of that? And again, I’ve watched people build fires with none of what I just said taking into account. So these are things that if you’ve never done it, learn. Fire can also deter predators. It, of course, is going to warm you up. Now, Something else to think about, and this is something that’s come up in these books. Some, not all. Fire is also a signal. Back to the person that texted and said, if your house looks too clean, that may be a deterrent. You know, having a fire also is. Fires can be seen, the smoke from can be seen a long ways away. Charlie and I will look out here to the west all the way to the foothills, and we can tell if a house catches fire even. It doesn’t take much for a plume of smoke to come up for us to see it. Remember back in the day where, you know, cowboy and Indian days, they would signal one another with fire, smoke signals, things like that. So fire can be great, and it can help us survive. It could also be a killer, giving our location away. You might, you know, depending upon the situation, you may find yourself to where you’re only going to be able to cook and do something firewise in the pitch of dark. Because if it’s halfway, you know, nice out during the daytime where people can see, they’ll see the smoke. Now, you can always smell as well, but even that’s a little harder to define where it’s coming from versus visibly seeing the smoke or seeing the flame. Yeah, I know at night you’re going to see the flame, but you have to be pretty close. I’m talking about, you know, do you want to signal somebody a mile away that you’re there? Smoke signal will do that. So, again, fire can be a great aid or it can be one of our enemies. Now, on top of that, do you know how to start one? Even with a lighter or something that would allow you to start a fire easily, do you know the basics of how to even start a fire and make it work properly, have the right drafting into it, and so on? Again, I go back to the placement of. And I’m not sure most people have that skill. I’m guessing very few do. They might know how to start a fire, but can they start it and keep it going? Do they know some of the tips and tricks along those lines? And these are things for you guys to be thinking about. And if you don’t, practice. In today’s world, there’s everything from fire pits to as long as it’s the right time of the year and you can have a fire. You can practice, though, and figure out exactly how do you make a fire work properly. Again, as always, be careful. Fire can be our friend or it can be our enemy. So where I’m going with this is these are skills that each of us need to have. Do you have it? And do you know how to use it once you have it? So keep that in mind. Pass some of these things down. Do you know how to manage the fire even once it starts? That’s another thing. Do you know how to keep it going? Do you know the most effective way to keep that going? Do you know what type of wood to use? Depending upon where you are, what do you use to start the fire with? How do you build it up from there? Certain woods do better than others. If you’re looking at a fire to last all night long, you’re going to want more of a hardwood than you are a softwood. So those are things that you need to know a little bit about what’s around you, where are you going to be, And the other thing in our area, anything green doesn’t burn very well. So you need even a tree. You need something that is, you know, been cut, dried out, dead, whatever the case, because if it’s an alive tree, yes, I know in a forest fire, living trees will still burn, but that’s because the fire gets so hot, it consumes them, it dries them out, and it dries them out, consumes them, and that’s how that works. To just cut a green tree and make it, you know, turn that into a fire, good luck. Good luck. Doesn’t work very well that way. And again, some of this you know from being out in the woods and doing some of these things. So another one of these things where, you know, learn about it. It’s not only something to read about, but test it out, try it out, make sure you, your family, loved ones know how to do, how to start a fire. And, yeah, there’s all sorts of aids. But remember, those aids will run out as well. Eventually, you’ll be to a point where you’re going to have to make sure that you’ve got the ability to keep fire going indefinitely because who knows how long the power will be out. So, all right, I’ve got still four more things to go through. I’ll have plenty of time to do that. Our lines are open, 303-477-5600. Don’t forget, you can text us as well, 307-282-22. Again, 307-282-22. Website ready-radio.com. We’ll be right back. This is KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio. It’s ready-radio.com is our website. And again, live program today, November the 15th. If you’re listening to a replay of this, you know what day it is. Okay, next, after we’ve talked about fire and how important it is, but also needs to be managed and so on. Again, one of those great items that we benefit from or literally can kill us. Next one, mapping and signaling. So number one, do you have paper maps? Or do you know your area well enough to where you don’t need one? That’s not usually going to be the case unless you’re somebody that’s lived in an area for a really, really, really long time. Then you may be okay not having a physical paper map. But otherwise, you really need a map to know where are things. How do I get from A to B? Where are some of the side roads, terrain? If I need to go around something, how do I do it? And again, one of those things that in these books that I listen to, most people right off the bat, they go to try to use their phone to determine where they should be and the direction they should head and so on, and it’s of no use to them. So now they’re relying on where do we go find a map? What convenience store can we go in and grab whatever map from? And I’m not sure most of them even have maps anymore. At one time, it was the standard. You’d walk in. There was a little round thing that you spun around that had all the different maps in it. And if you were traveling out on the highway especially, you could get a map of not only your state but probably the four or five states around you. It cost a few bucks. You’d buy it, go stick it in the glove box, and there you’d have it. Not anymore. Now, unless you purposely go out and buy a map, or like in my case, I was doing a lot of the cleaning with my folks’ stuff, and they’re downsizing and so on, and yeah, there was some Rand McNally nationwide maps. And again, those aren’t going to be exact. They’re not going to tell you where every little side road is. But in general, they’ll give you some ideas of where things are at, at least as far as that goes. Now, one other thing along that line. Do you know how to read one? With GPS today, I’m not sure, especially young people, really know how to read a map. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. Do they always know that if you’re looking at the map and you’re holding it where it’s face up, north is always up? Do they know that? We were taught that, Charlie, you and I and others, when we were grade school. You’d lay a map out, the top was always north. It’s just the way a map worked or how a map worked. I’m not sure young people today know that. Honestly, I don’t think they know. I don’t know that they know that every time you open Google Maps, the top of the page is north. I’m not sure they really understand that. That’s even today when you look at a map, even a Google map, unless you spin the map around or do something different, it’s going to point north. Up is north. And, again, I’m not sure most people – I’m not sure most young people understand what I just said. So can you – not only do you have a map, can you read the map? And I’d be surprised at the amount of people that probably can’t read a map. And I’m not saying that in a joking manner. It’s something that you probably should go over some folks with. John and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, well, it’s John on I-25. That’s all right. I’m just kidding. One of the things that is still available in most of your state welcome centers, like when you drive into the state of Wyoming or into Colorado, there are paper maps that are giveaways.
SPEAKER 06 :
Really?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. In my forerunner, when we did a road trip, I’ve got Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Kansas, and a South Dakota one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good. Good.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they’re not great maps. You’re not going to land that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 09 :
They’re going to get you where you’re going.
SPEAKER 06 :
They’re not topos. They’re not going to tell you every little thing, but they give you a pretty good idea of what’s going on.
SPEAKER 09 :
And where you’re at. And the other thing is if you’re, like, I have a Wyoming Gazetteer, which is a little better because it’s a little more detailed, but you should at least pick up – those are still available in a lot of – Like an REI or a JAX or something like that, they have maps like that that you can pick up. And that’s always good to have. But one of the things my wife and I, we always do, is when we go out in the backcountry, we try to have a map with us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
Just in case.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, good idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, because you never know when, you know. Say you’re using your phone and your phone dies. Now that Onyx Backcountry app is useless.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right. No, John, again, I hate to say this, but with modern technology and we’ve had the iPhone around since 2008, in another, what is it, three years, that’ll be 20 years, people have had smartphones in their hand. I’m guessing most young people don’t know how to read a map.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and that’s kind of sad in a way because that’s a skill that’s going to come off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I mean, I gave the example not long ago, John, where I had somebody that I know very well, a younger person that I know very well, have some respect for, and by no means, you know, this is not a criticism, but they asked me or they informed me, you know, you can take a topo class, you know, topographical map class. And I looked at them kind of funny like, well, huh? And they looked back at me and said, yeah, they give topographical map lessons. I’m going to take one. And really, for a minute, it caught me off guard, John, because I’m just thinking, a lesson for what? Well, I didn’t realize that, I guess, if you’ve never been taught how to read a topographical map, you don’t know how.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. And the other thing is, REI teaches that class every year, land navigation. And they’ll take you out, like the one in Fort Collins. we’ll take you out to one of the state parks outside of Fort Collins and teach you how to do land navs.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, I guess, again, John, I guess growing up with no technology, a dad that hunted and fished, and we’d take a topo map for whatever area we were going to go fishing or hunting in or whatever, and you quickly learned to grab that map out, and at any point in time, you could literally, based on the markers around you, point to the map exactly where you were.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I didn’t learn it growing up. I learned it in… basic training and then in a couple of different schools I went to in the military, which is the same thing. But from what I understand, they still teach land navs.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So… That would be one way if somebody wants to learn it, just enlist.
SPEAKER 06 :
Interesting. Well, I guess I took a lot of that for years. I don’t take it for granted now, John, but I did then. I mean, my dad was one of those where, again, you went down, you’d go to, in our case, Boulder Army. store that’s who had all the topo maps and if we were going to go to a particular area scout it out hunt fish whatever you you know rolled one of those things up or you folded it up you put it in your pack once you got there you pulled it out the minute you got to wherever it was you’re going to start hiking into you laid it out you started looking at all of your landmarkers where were things at where were the steepest hills where were the ravines you know what were the gullies and all the different things those are all on the topo map yeah and they are
SPEAKER 09 :
um you were talking about uh water at the beginning yes and finding it well you know in the city those people are going to be tough but it’s like people like me i happen to know not too far from where i live there’s a there’s a spring that runs all the time got it and things like that yep more than even you were saying that you know that creek runs well it only runs when you uh They open the floodgates, but if you know where there’s like a spring or something, and it’s maybe a little off.
SPEAKER 06 :
John, no offense. I hate to say this, but again, other than a select few young people, do they even know what you just said? I’m being honest. I mean, unless they’ve been out in the wilderness with somebody that’s helped them, showed them, or whatever, I’m not exaggerating. Do they know what you just said? I mean, they think spring is the time of the year.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you may be right. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, again, that’s one of those things, too, that a topo map will even show you where some of the, you know, if you’re out in the woods, it’ll tell you where some of those natural water sources are, where the bodies of water are, and so on. But, yeah, as I said earlier, keep in mind, all infrastructure dies because nobody’s there to manage it anymore. Nobody’s going to open that. If that farmer’s ditch runs in the summertime and you’re thinking that’s where the water’s coming from, if that thing doesn’t get turned on, it ain’t running.
SPEAKER 09 :
The one that’s going to be interesting is, like, a lot of people that are up in the mountains, but maybe they’ve just moved there from somewhere else.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Places like Lake Dillon and stuff will become, you know, really popular places for people to try to get water because you’ve got that huge reservoir.
SPEAKER 06 :
John, the Platte River running through town will become a nightmare. Oh, yeah. Think about that. I mean, really, think about that. As far as the city goes, it’ll be one of the first places that becomes pandemonium.
SPEAKER 09 :
I would say definitely same thing. We don’t have a river. We’ve got Crow Creek and Cheyenne, but I’m sure that would be the same way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. And by the way, folks, those are the areas I would avoid at all costs. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, John, well, you have a good day.
SPEAKER 06 :
You betcha, man. I appreciate it. And I mean that because those will be the places where all the riffraff ends up hanging out because they’ll be looking for the same thing. So shelter, I’ve talked about that plenty in the past. I’m not going to spend much time on that. But, you know, do you know how to stay warm and dry and where to build the shelter? And are you resourceful enough to even find those things around you that would enable you to do those things? Number nine, basic understanding of electronics. This is one I hadn’t thought much of. Again, growing up, being around some of the folks that I was, and growing up in the automotive world, I take a lot of these things for granted. I’m still one of those to where if something’s not working, I’ll go grab the one of many digital volt-ohm meters that I own, and you go grab one, and you start doing diagnostics to figure out what’s going on and why is this particular thing not working, electronically speaking. Most people don’t even know what a DVOM is and have no idea how to use one. So, again, that’s one of those things where if you don’t have a basic understanding of electronics, DC and AC. Now, in an end-of-the-world scenario, AC is probably not going to work unless it’s coming out of some sort of a converter that you’ve owned and enables you to have AC. Most are not going to have any kind of AC. Mickey, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just wanted to comment on the fire. Things not to burn. Your deck, because it’s got stains. Your furniture, because it’s got stains. Plywood, because it’s got chemicals that bind it together. Hot treated wood. They use arsenic to preserve the wood. Uh, there’s more, but any, you know, Mickey really quick to anything that would have any kind of coating plastics, et cetera.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Don’t burn any of those things. Dangerous.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Yeah. You wouldn’t want, don’t kill yourself. Stay warm.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right. Absolutely. Thank you for that. Mickey, you’re, you’re a hundred percent correct. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. No, he’s right on the money, folks. Be careful down the road if that were to ever happen, the things that you’re actually going to be burning because, yeah, those sorts of things will happen as far as what Mickey just said. Back to the electronics, which Mickey could have chimed in as well on because he understands what I’m talking about, but have basic electrical skills. This is one of those areas where like taking a map class. If you’ve never had a basic electronics class, take one. How does electricity flow? What are the basic principles of? How do you make something work that isn’t right now? What are some of the basic checks you can go through to determine what’s going on? I mean, these are things that I feel everybody should have a skill for that many don’t. And going back to the whole map reading we were just talking about with John from Cheyenne a moment ago, these are lost skills that most people don’t have anymore. Last but not least, sewing. Now, you wouldn’t think that this is an item you should know, but really it is. We start talking about the end of the world type scenarios. You’ve got to know how to fix basic things, how to put a button back on, how to sew a patch on, how to darn a sock, and so on. These are basic skills. These last three that I mentioned, by the way, there are still classes out there that you can go take and have that skill set now moving forward. All right, that’s it for this episode. Ready Radio, the website again, ready-radio.com. Thank you all for listening. We appreciate it very much. Text line as well. I can always take a text message, 307-200-8222, KLZ 560.
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