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Good afternoon, Denver. Today I am filling in for John. This is Bill Anderson, your preparedness pastor, your modern day Noah. And today we’re going to talk about a little bit of kind of reservation and with this whole preparedness thing. Today is 523, and we are live. If you want to call in with any comments or questions, 303-477-5600. We welcome your call and your feedback and your input. It’s always great when we have a little bit of participation. So, you know, through the course of the many topics we have covered here on this program, I’m sure there’s a lot of people that, you know, may have some opposition, some reservation, maybe even, you know, as a listener, you have a little bit of, well, I don’t know about that. So let’s kind of go through. I’ve pulled up 10 things here of what I think that, you know, is maybe some of the most common reservations to this whole idea of prepping and preparedness. So the first one is normalcy bias. which means nothing’s bad ever happened to me, so nothing will. And I think this is a dangerous trap that we can fall into because, you know, just because everything’s been fine so far doesn’t mean it will be tomorrow. You know, everybody thinks things are fine right before a hurricane or a tornado. We actually had a tornado out here in Elizabeth just a week or so ago, and so it’s kind of crazy. didn’t hit us, you know, thankfully it was north of us, but, uh, you know, it was pretty close. People were calling us and guess what, you know, Albert County. did not send an emergency alert out. So, you know, there was no way to prepare through the government, if you will, and their notifications. So we can’t fall into this trap of nothing bad has ever happened to me, so nothing ever will. People assume life will continue, as it always has, and they don’t understand the risks and the society’s ability to respond to disasters, especially like what we just had here locally. Hey, we didn’t get the warning. We thought it was going to happen. So, you know, how do we kind of deal with this if maybe we’re thinking this or maybe we’re talking with somebody, a family member or a friend, and kind of trying to encourage them to, you know, hey, get some things on hand, get ready for something that may or may not happen. You know, it’s all in the future for all of us. But how do we do that? I mean, one of the ways is to share stories of everyday disturbances. I’ve talked about it many times. Hey, you could lose a job. You could have a storm. You know, the grid can go down. And by the way, we have seen these just recently. You know, the economy is going down. I was listening to the news this morning. And on average, you know, every year the unemployment is going up and up and up and the jobs are going down and down and down. And that has been a common or a continual trend for many years now. So, you know, hey, you might be next, you know, in your job. And a lot of them are self-employed. Well, you may lose a contract. You know, we’ve had that experience in our particular business. Storms, like I said, just last week we had a tornado right here in Elizabeth. Grid failures, we’ve just recently seen that globally. We saw the air traffic control go out up there at DIA. and also pandemic shortages, or we can add in there, you know, tariff shortages if you want to. It doesn’t really matter. Any of these things we see today, and we should be able to relate with that and stop thinking that, oh, we’re safe from all that because we’re not. We can use these current events to show that how quickly things can change, especially we’re all very familiar with, you know, the pandemic that happened and how quickly, literally like overnight, all of a sudden stuff changed. And we also got to avoid the fear mongering, focus on reality and resilience instead of, hey, let’s, you know, this could happen, this could happen, because prepping isn’t about fear. It’s really about, you know, the frame of mind. All right, so the next thing is the perceived cost. So there’s a lot of people out there that go, hey, I can’t do that. You know, it’s going to be super expensive. It’s too expensive. I’m barely making it as it is. I just spoke with somebody that I know that happens to work at, you know, the local Safeway, and he’s telling me stories, people coming through with their grocery carts, and I didn’t believe it. Didn’t believe it, but I know the guy and I know he’s going to be honest. He’s not going to lie to me. And he’s like six and $700. And, you know, they don’t have very much in their cart. And I’m like, really, are you kidding me? I mean, he’s like, yeah. and the stuff people are buying is crazy. There are people out there that are trying to decide, hey, do I buy groceries this week or do I pay for medications or do I pay for whatever? You fill in the blank. My utility bill, gas to get into my car, whatever. That question is definitely coming into play. So yeah, it can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Many people believe that prepping requires thousands of dollars of gear and food and And there is part of that, a part of that, that whole commercial market of, hey, I’m in the prepping world and I’m going to, you know, tell you all about doomsday. And by the way, I got, you know, X piece of equipment that will only cost you, you know, 400 bucks and it’s going to solve the issue. And my response to that is skill will always outperform gear. Gear is important, but the more skill you have, the more knowledge you have, then the less equipment and tools you’ll actually need. So you don’t need to go out and buy land if you don’t have it. You don’t need to go out and spend tons of money on food and gear. You can start small and build gradually. And this is a good idea anyway. It’s a good idea. And go through, me and my wife have what we call, we go through freezer fast. So, you know, for some reason, you know, we buy things and then whatever you bought ends up at the bottom of the freezer, right? And it could be in there for a couple of years and it’s like, hey, let’s start rotating and going through our freezer instead of going to the store. That’s what we call, you know, going through a freezer fast. And so we’re going through that right now, and it’s, you know, we’re not going to the store and spending $600 or $700 on groceries because we’re able to actually start utilizing what we have in there. You know, hopefully you’ve stored it properly so it hasn’t gotten freezer burnt or whatever. So, you know, the cost could be a consideration. But, hey, why don’t you start with just $10 a week, you know? I mean, that’s not going to get you far, but it’ll get you something. You can buy a lot of cans. canned goods, a lot of them are a buck a piece, you know, you can buy some water, you can buy whatever for, for 10 bucks and just start there, you know, start this layering program. I talk about these layers and I think it’s important, you know, when you’re last week, we talked about the the travel bag and it’s like, Hey, you should have a on the person’s layer. Then you have your, you know, maybe a more expandable pack, you know, on your backpack or whatever, and then you have a bigger pack in your car, and then your ultimate pack may be at home or whatever. You can kind of do the same thing, right? We start layering our prepping. We start for three days. Hey, okay, what do I need for three days? And, you know, food, you probably don’t need any food for three days. Most of us can probably afford to, you know, fast a little bit and shed some pounds there. You know, people are like, I’m starving. I’m like, you’re so far from starving. You know, you’ve got a lot of food in the fridge there, meaning on your body. But water is definitely very important. But let’s start with three days. Hey, and then move it to a week. Okay, now move it to a week and a half or two weeks and building from there. Whenever I talk about, especially with food, you know, really the ideal target is six months. Now, why do I say that? Why do I say six months? Because during the chicken egg craze, when everybody was like, oh my gosh, I got to get chickens because the eggs are through the roof. They didn’t realize it takes six months for that chicken to get to the point where it can lay an egg, you know, and the price of eggs is going to go, who knows where it’s going to be in six months. It could be back down to normal, right? So six months when you plant that little seed, yeah, they do have, you know, radishes and some lettuces and you can get some 30 day lettuce, 30 day spinach. You can do all that. But for the most part, when you’re planting that tomato, you know, Hey, it’s, it’s a good chunk of time. It’s a couple months, 60 to 90 days, depending on the variety of tomato and, you know, whatever it may be, cucumber, watermelon, corn, whatever, uh, wheat, it’s going to take time for that to grow. And so if you’re planning out for six months, then you start that process. Then during the growing season, during the time of raising your chickens or raising your rabbits or growing your produce, you still have stuff to maintain until you get to that point. So that’s a good starting point. But listen, that’s overwhelming. Oh my gosh, six months of food, that could cost so much money. Yeah, but not if you just start with you know, three days, and then move it to six, then move it to nine. Hey, in three-day chunks, you can build it up pretty fast. And then you also highlight, hey, what’s free or what’s, you know, cheap? How can I learn to maybe eat some of the weeds available? Now, that sounds kind of weird, right? Eat the weeds? Did you know? I can’t believe this. I was talking to somebody the other day, and I said, hey, you can eat dandelions. And they’re like, what? They’ve never heard of that. I remember… My grandparents and my aunt going out in the yard, taking dandelion flowers when they’re yellow and the young leaves and throwing them in the salad. And they went out there and actually it’s pretty healthy for you. So learn what kind of resources people, there’s been people that have starved in, you know, national forests and out there in the wilderness, they’ve starved surrounded by food because they didn’t have the knowledge to They didn’t have the knowledge. So, yeah, I said this earlier. Skill and knowledge will always trump equipment because I know how to take care of you know, eating some of the foraging. I know how to use some of the weeds out there like mullein and comfrey and yarrow, and I know how to use that for first aid. I also know how to maybe start a fire with some sticks and things. And so that doesn’t cost anything but a little bit of time and knowledge to research that stuff. and to learn. All right. So we’ve covered a couple of them, the normal bias. Hey, everything’s going to be great. We’ve talked about the perceived cost. What about John and I’s favorite topic, the social stigma. People think I’m crazy. People think I’m one of them crazy doomsday preppers, right? That’s kind of going away a little bit, to be honest with you, because people are like, you know, yeah, I kind of get it. You know, and whenever you watch the show’s And I talked about this at church on Wednesday, but reality-based TV is so far from reality. We even actually had a guy in church on Sunday said, hey, I was on a show, and you’re right. They told me word for word what to say. And then they’re like, hey, this friend that you’ve known for years, act like this is the first time meeting him. It’s all staged, right? So when we start looking at a lot of these especially these survival shows, you know, which we like. The most recent one we liked to watch was Extracted. That was a pretty fun one. But, you know, when you watch Alone or when you watch, you know, whatever it may be, it may not be reality as we would see reality. And so Doomsday Prepper, it’s like they’re looking – Producers are looking for the extreme. They’re looking for the drama, right, because that’s what people want to see. And, you know, it’s pretty boring stuff, actually, survival. It’s pretty boring. But, yeah, there’s a weight that that brings. Like, these guys are nuts. They’re nutjobs. So this whole culture portrays preppers as, you know, these paranoid extremists discouraging people from associating with them. And it’s like, yeah, that’s not really the case. You know, because you go back several, you know, a couple of decades back to, like I say, our grandparents. And it’s like, you know, it’s really not that case. I mean, everybody had a small garden. You know, in fact, World War II, they had World War II victory gardens. It was a patriotic thing. to actually be prepared because the more you’re prepared, the less of a burden you are on the government, the less of a burden you are on society, on your neighbors. If you’re running around all of a sudden needing from everybody, that’s not being patriotic at all. So we want to change the narrative from doomsday prepper and use different language like, hey, self-reliant or resilient or or Ready Radio. So we share, you know, stories of our grandparents, our families, maybe even normal people. Like, hey, I’m a pastor. I’m a normal person. Well, you know, maybe you don’t think I am. But yeah, normal people do this kind of stuff, especially out where I live in Elizabeth. It’s like, yeah, a lot of people have chickens. A lot of people have gardens. A lot of people have goats. It’s like, you know, you’re kind of a weird person if you don’t, that kind of thing. So it’s not about being paranoid. It’s about being prepared. And by the way, preparedness people or prepared people aren’t crazy. They’re calm when others become panicked. So just kind of keep that in mind. Uh, don’t worry about what people think about you, you know, because if this stuff happens, you know, you’re going to kind of be the hero. All right. What about procrastination or I’m, I’m, overwhelmed. There’s so much to learn. I don’t know where to start. I’ll just do it later. You know, the whole thing of overwhelming. There’s too many options, too many things to decide. Where do I start? How do I start? What do I get? You know, I talked about, you know, stuff out there that’s being sold that a lot of it is junk. You know, I’m just sorry. I’m sorry. Like a lot of these multi-tools, you know, yeah, most of them are junk. You know, have you ever tried to actually turn a screw? You know, these screwdrivers on the multi-tip that I broke because, you know, they don’t turn a screw. A lot of that stuff is in there. We watched a, on our last trip, there was a documentary on Victorinox, which is the Swiss Army knife. And they have all these parts and pieces in there. And I’m just thinking that, Man, most of that stuff isn’t really practical. It’s gee whiz stuff. And what I mean by that is like, yeah, gee whiz, you got that, but it ain’t no good. It’s display only. It’s a novelty item. So that could be overwhelming, yeah? I don’t want to waste my time, my effort on stuff that I don’t know is going to work or not. So the idea of preparing for every possible disaster, yeah, it can be overwhelming. It can be paralyzing. And it can put people off because, hey, that’s a big, big elephant in to swallow right but we do that one bite at a time so we need to make it simple and we need to make it practical practical so how do we do that well we can look at things such as hey prepping in in 30 days do a google search on that and there’s so much free stuff out there we’re working on one on our website prep2protectco.com it’s up there but it’s a little premature if you guys have you know, signed up to receive that, and I haven’t got it out yet. But, you know, there are 30 days in prepping. We’re getting ready to launch a kind of a social media campaign, if you will, through Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, all of those with our Prep to Protect brand, and we’re going to be going through these steps, you know, for the next 30 days, and we’re actually going to break it out into four weeks. all the different areas. But you can break it into themes like I’m going to be doing on water, food, power, gardening, livestock, and you just take little tiny chunks at it. And all this stuff, it doesn’t take a lot, especially if you do just a little. You don’t have to do it all. You just got to take one step at a time. That’s it. So just one simple step towards that. And it’ll get you started. Most of the time, though, we just stay paralyzed and we don’t move. It just takes one step. You know, a lot of times we just lack the want to. Some people say, hey, I want to do that. And my response is, well, do you want to do that or do you want to do that? Because there’s a difference. You know, if I want a bowl of ice cream and I sit on the couch and go, hey, I want a bowl of ice cream, and I just sit there, well, I’m just wishful thinking, right? I’m like, hey. Drop a bowl from out of the sky. I want one. No, but if I really want one, I got to get up and go get it. And if I don’t have any in the freezer and I got to go to the store, well, if I really want it, then I’ll get in the car and go. You understand? So it’s like, yeah, I want to do that. But do you really want to do that? A lot of people struggle with that because they have great ideas and they never put anything to it. So it’s just kind of wishful thinking. So, so far we’ve talked about, you know, four items of the 10 that we’re going to be going over, but it all is going to boil down to, yeah, I want to do that. Okay. What do you really, really want to do that? All right. If you have any comments or would like to chime in on those first four, give us a call 303-477-5600. We’ll take a quick break and we’ll come back. KLC.

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All right, and welcome back. So we are talking today about some of the opposition or resistance to preparing and preparedness and getting kind of ready. A lot of these things we talk about, you know, in theory sound great, but are we taking action on this stuff? You know, having an understanding about something or maybe even just reading about something or hearing it. It doesn’t really make you an expert, right? You can, oh, yeah, I heard something about that, but I never did anything about it. That’s kind of how we ended before we went to the break here. So, so far we talked about the normal bias, right, where I’m like, hey, nothing ever bad is going to happen to me, so nothing ever will. We talked about the perceived cost that this is expensive and I’m barely making it as it is. We talked about the social stigma. People are going to think I’m one of them crazy doomsday preppers. And then we talked about the procrastination or this is really overwhelming and it’s just too much information. So the next one I want to talk about is, you know, we become dependent on the system. So if something happens to me, the government will help me or somebody else will help me. This is a frustrating thing, even, you know, to all preppers when we start talking about, hey, you should kind of take care of yourself. You should get some things in order. You should maybe stock up on a little bit. And the response is, well, I don’t have to because you’re doing all that. That’s really kind of a shot in the stomach. It’s like, well, what do you mean? Well, I don’t need to do it because you’re doing it. Okay, well, I’m doing it for me and my family. I’m not doing it for you. I mean, we already talked about being overwhelmed and the cost of all this stuff. I can’t do it for everybody. Now, yeah, we want to help everybody out, but the reality is we can’t. And it’s a pretty selfish idea that somebody would have when they think, hey, I don’t need to do anything because somebody or the government will take care of me. I don’t even understand that mindset because, you know, how many times have we heard it’s taking longer and longer to for emergency response to get out there. I just said earlier in the program here today that we had a tornado last week. I think it was on Sunday. And our county did not send out the emergency broadcast. You know, how you get the thing on your phone or the sirens. I didn’t hear no sirens. I heard nothing. And that’s a big complaint on Facebook. You know, the groups of our area is, yeah. Yeah. the emergency response notification system did not go off. So are you trusting, hey, I don’t got to worry about tornadoes because there’s a siren, or my phone will give me, you know, an alert, or maybe my neighbor will come tell me. Guys, that’s a dangerous spot to be in. I mean, we could talk about, hey, if we have no electricity, how are those things going to work? If you have no electricity, how is the cell phone tower going to repeat the signal for you to get that notification on your phone? If there’s something happening, your neighbor’s probably worried about himself. He ain’t worried about running over to you and tell you. It’s kind of crazy, right? We have to take some responsibility for our family. You know, the Bible talks about he who does not provide for his own household is worse than a heathen. Wow. That’s kind of crazy to think of it in that terms. So many just trust the government. They trust FEMA. They trust, you know, social services, social networks to save the day. I don’t really need to worry about that. You know, the cops will come and help me. The paramedics will come and help me. And we’re grateful that we have them, right? And they’re trying their best. Don’t get me wrong. We’re grateful that we have these systems to help us out, but they too can be overwhelmed. Think about if a big tornado goes through your town. Yeah. Who’s going to get prioritized? You probably think it’s you, but you may not be at the top of the list, right? And by the way, if their homes and the fire stations and stuff are knocked out, now that those trucks and those people have to come from another county, farther away. How long is that going to take? So we really have to be careful of putting our trust in anything. And this is where I define self-reliant, not that we become a hundred percent self-reliant. You know, there’s a fallacy and I mentioned it last week with John that, you know, anybody that says, Hey, I’m a hundred percent self-reliant. That’s not true, right? I cannot produce my own fuel. There’s things I cannot do. There’s things that I definitely have depended upon other people. And when you go back in later or earlier cultures and later societies there, you’ll see that that’s how they work too. You know, you had the blacksmith, you had the town doctor, you had the merchant store. You know, not everybody had a store. Not everybody was a blacksmith. Not everybody was a doctor or a dentist or whatever. But they did what they could before they had to go to that next level. But they all work together. And, you know, they all, you know, traded things and, you know, you bring a chicken to get your tooth pulled or whatever. But, you know, there is that collectiveness that you got to create within your community, maybe within your family, whatever it is. But really don’t be so self-absorbed to think, oh, they’re going to take care of me. You know, what if 911 doesn’t answer? What if the stores closed for 10 days? What if? I mean, look at Katrina. Look at COVID again. Look at that big freeze they had in Texas. Systems fail, guys. And we can’t trust systems. And there’s a whole other side topic of we can’t really trust government maybe. And so we have to come back to that same conversation again. Self-rescue and family readiness is so important, and we must take that seriously. Help may not come right away, but maybe you can be the help, right? You are your own first responder. Maybe the guy across the street needs help. Hey, I can maybe help him out, right, because the system isn’t going to help. So that’s a good way to think about that. But be careful on the dependency of systems. All right, the next excuse I hear all the time is I have limited space or I’m limited with my mobility or I’m too old. So I can’t store anything. I don’t have room. I live in an apartment. I live in a wheelchair. I have you fill in the blank. I’m too old. I hear that one all the time. Oh, I’m too old for that. Well, people, you know, they have health challenges. Everybody has health challenges to some degree. People who rent, that property’s not theirs. There’s people who live in small spaces such as apartments, all this stuff, and they feel like it’s not practical for them. Well, there’s a lot of things you can still do. You can still get compact things, items. You can store things under your bed. You can figure out all kinds of storage places that you can look for, look around, right? Maybe you have some off-site places. Maybe you can learn bucket gardening or balcony gardening, solar charges still on the balconies there. You could do water bricks for water storage. I mean, there’s things you can do. no matter where you are. You can prep anywhere, anytime, with any limited ability. It just takes a little bit of creativity. Again, do you want to or do you want to? And, again, if you’re in an apartment complex, you know, now you’ve got a community of people with small spaces. Yeah, and I know there’s a ton of risk with that. because if you read a lot of the doomsday novels out there, even though they’re fictions, there’s a lot of truth that could come out of those things. But I’m prepped, and I’m a friendly guy until I use everything I have, and now my family’s starving, and now I’m not so friendly anymore. So I’m not going to be a good neighbor anymore. I’m going to come take it because I know you’ve got everything. So we have to use wisdom with that. as well. We have to definitely be careful with who we share stuff with, but there’s no excuse. You know, you just lack the want to is really what it comes down to. So the seventh thing that we see is misunderstanding of what prepping is. What is it? You know, again, it kind of comes back to that. Hey, I’m, nothing’s ever going to happen to me, that normalcy biased. I don’t need to prep. I don’t need to prepare. I’m not expecting an apocalypse. You know, they think they’re preparing only for the end of the world, but it doesn’t include just a job loss, storms, chain supply issues, power outages, political up, you know, uprisings, so many things that can happen. Just think about, What if there was a riot or a demonstration or a protest and they blockaded access to the store? Now you can’t get to the store. Maybe they blockaded your neighborhood and you can’t get out of your neighborhood. Oh, that’ll never happen here, right? That’ll never happen to me. No, not in my town. Yeah, well, we kind of go back to redefining what prepping is. Shift from the focus of it’s not about the end of the world, everyday resilience, everyday resilience. You know, what happens if the car breaks down? You know, we talked about, and we had a caller chime in last week, which was great, by the way, that it was a psychiatrist or something, and you’ll correct me if I’m wrong, but had a PhD and had all this education, nothing wrong with that, not knocking that, but then had a flat tire on the side of the road and didn’t know how to change a tire. And the person that shared said, you know, the guy was there going, you know, I’ve got a doctorate in this stuff, but I don’t know how to change my tire. There’s a little bit of responsibility, in my opinion, that comes with owning your car, right? You don’t have to be a master mechanic to You don’t have to be like what John is, you know, or any of his, you know, shops that he represents on the radio on Saturdays. You know, these guys are experts, right? But being an owner of a vehicle, you should know how to change a tire. You know, one of the things I did with my three daughters was, yeah, we taught them how. Hey, Dad, my taillight’s out. I said, all right, let’s go out. Aren’t you going to do it for me? No, I’m going to, I’m going to coach you through it. So you know how to do it. I’m not going to do it. And yeah, that sounds mean, but it’s not mean it’s, it’s teaching them. It’s teaching them. Right. So that they can change. They’re not dependable on anybody. Hey, Mike, it’s funny because some of my daughters, right. I’ve had, you know, boyfriends or whatever. And, uh, and they don’t know how to do it and they got to go out and change it for them. And I’m like, sheesh, you know, I often say that my three girls are more manly than a lot of supposed men out there today. Not that they’re manly, but anyway, I don’t want to continue on that conversation because I don’t think it’s going to work out. But, you know, if you’re going to have a home, you should know how to turn off the breakers, turn on the breakers. You should know how to reset breakers, owning an electrical company. we have that a lot. Hey, my power’s out. Just check your breakers. Yeah, I did. And we go out there and it’s like, yeah, your breaker’s tripped. We tried to coach you through on the phone. You know, you kind of pushed back a little bit like, yeah, what do you think I’m stupid? Yes, of course I checked the breaker, but you didn’t check the breaker. You didn’t know how. And so we kind of coach them through that and show them how to do that. You should know where the main shutoff of your water’s at. Do you know where it’s at? If all of a sudden the faucet or Something breaks and you’ve got water pouring out of your bathtub or your toilet or your sink, do you know how to go shut off the main water before you do more damage? These are simple things that you should know, and that just becomes with the responsibility of owning a car, of owning a house, of owning some of these things. So being resilient. And also, too, like self-defense. People are like, oh, you’re giving to violence because you’re self-defense or you’re preparing and this and that. Well, everybody is doing that because they buy car insurance or they buy home insurance. Oh, no, I’m doing that because the law requires me to. Okay, yeah, we’ve got those. Okay, but why do you buy car insurance? Because, you know, I hope that I never need it, but if something happens, I’ve got this insurance. You know, I don’t get homeowner’s insurance. And then say, hey, let’s test the insurance and light my house on fire and see how well my insurance does. Or I got car insurance. Let’s run my car into a tree so I can utilize my car insurance. Let’s not go out and get in a fight because I know how to do self-defense when self-defense is just insurance. Hey, let’s not, you know, just test the faith because I don’t need it. Yeah, so prepping is like car insurance. You hope you never need it, but, man, you’re sure glad when you do have it. And if you create this system, especially with food, that it becomes a living, rotating pantry, you become your own grocery store. You’ve heard of those be-your-own-bank things, right, where you’re – whether it’s a life insurance policy or an all-in-one mortgage from Kirk. We actually got one of those from Kirk from Take Aim there. And, you know, you become your own bank. And instead of going out and borrowing money and paying interest to the bank, you borrow money and you pay interest back to yourself. So same idea with the food and things like that. You become your own grocery store. I got to go to the grocery store. Okay, we go down to our pantry. Yeah, you’re always going to need some things. But anyway, we’ll move on. But the terms like readiness and home security and family protection, these are all different words from prepping that we use. And that’s kind of where our Our little company comes into play with the prep to protect, and we kind of open-ended there. Yeah, I’m going to prep to protect against you fill in the blank. And speaking of that, you know, our summer gun classes are filling up fast. You know, everybody’s concerned about the big change in requirements for CCW, which is interesting to me because we’ve been teaching these classes for a couple years, and it’s like, oh, well, let’s just turn in our syllabus of what we already teach. So we didn’t have to really make too many adjustments. We were already teaching these things to begin with. And we teach from the perspective of everyday carry and self-defense. And it’s a class like no other. We’re not just going out there shooting paper. We’re talking about de-escalation. We’re talking about distances. We’re talking about hey, the gun is the last resort. Most people think, I’ve got the gun. And it’s like, yeah, you’re not going to use that gun in most places. And if you are, you’re probably going to be in pretty big trouble. Let’s think of it this way. What if you were able to carry on an airplane and something were to happen? Am I going to be shooting my gun in an airplane? Probably not. Probably not a good idea. Not probably not. It’s definitely not a good idea. So, yeah. redefine it, be prepped to protect against you filling the blank. All right, we’ve got a couple more that we’ll pick up here after the break. 560-KLZ.

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Today we are talking about some of the responses, rejections, oppositions, if you will, to the whole idea of prepping and preparedness. First one we talked about was it’ll never happen. Nothing’s bad ever happened to me, so nothing will. The next one is the perceived cost. This is too expensive. The social stigma of I don’t want people to think I’m crazy. the procrastination or this is overwhelming, so I’ll do it later. It’s too hard. Well, nothing ever gets done. Dependence on the system. I’m not too worried about it because the government or somebody else will bail me out. Limited space or mobility or age. Too old for this. Don’t have enough room. Maybe I’m physically not able to do as much. Misunderstanding what prepping really is it’s a it’s a big deal of just the terminology and i know john have i and i’ve talked about that quite a bit just about hey we hate that term prepping we use it because that’s what people are most familiar with but we really need to start redefining it and it’s not doomsday prepper or the extreme that everybody thinks is all right so the next one i have is the faith faith-based fatalism, and I deal with this one quite a bit, actually. People say, well, if it’s God’s will, it’s going to happen anyway. We know plenty about God’s will, and, you know, do we just sit back and let it happen? You know, people that say that kind of stuff, I’m sorry, but the truth is that they haven’t read their Bibles. They may have heard stories or they’ve got little clips, glimpses of things within the Bible, and they act like they’re an expert. You know, it’s the Dunning-Kruger effect. And the Dunning-Kruger effect, by the way, applies to all of this. And the Dunning-Kruger effect is this. It simply says that you get exposed to a little bit of knowledge about something, and all of a sudden you’re an expert. This is, you know, big time with social media and the Internet and the amount of information going out there. Somebody reads a little bit of something, and then all of a sudden they’re an expert. I’ll give you an example. Last Saturday, yeah, we’re crazy. We’re crazy. We’ll just accept it so you don’t have to say it or think it or whatever, but we drove, you know, six hours, Grand Island, Nebraska. from Colorado here to pick up some chickens. People are like, what? There’s chickens, like, down the road. Why would you drive to Nebraska? Well, we drove out there because there’s a, on the rare side, a breed called the Bard-Holland chicken. The Bard-Holland chicken was developed around, you know, the 30s to 20s, And the problem was they had an issue with brown eggs. So at that time, most of the chickens were laying brown eggs, but they thought, hey, the white ones taste better. It was more of a status symbol to have white eggs instead of brown eggs. This is how stupid people are, which is interesting because now it’s the opposite. Now people think, oh, I’ve got to have a brown egg because it’s more healthier for you than a white egg. Anyway, so you see the point. So they created this breed, and it’s an American breed, by the way, just because it has the name Holland in it. It has nothing to do with Holland, the country. It’s created here in America. That would look like a barred rock, but instead of laying brown eggs, it laid white eggs. And it used to be really popular. People back in those times raised chickens for both eggs and meat. And so that’s what they call a dual-purpose bird. And they’re listed on the livestock registry for endangered species. So they’re estimating less than 1,000 left in the world. But anyway, I thought that was kind of cool and kind of support bringing this breed back. And, you know, none of the commercial hatcheries have it, so you’ve got to go to these small, obscure farms that are breeding these chickens and get them. So we drove six hours to get these barred fallen birds. And I posted on the social media, and some guy commented, hey, that’s a common bird. My neighbor’s got three of them in his yard. Well, they look very similar to the barred rock. The barred rock has red earlobes and lays brown eggs. These guys have white earlobes. And if you don’t know this, the earlobe will tell you the color of the egg that the chicken will lay. and these guys have white earlobes, and they will lay white eggs. So they are different, but Dunning-Kruger effect is this guy has a little bit of knowledge because he looked at a couple pictures or his neighbor has this, and he’s like, those aren’t rare. They’re all over the place. Yeah, but he’s an expert, right? He’s an expert on chickens, and I’m far from being an expert on chickens, but I’ve definitely done my research to know what this breed is. So going back to number eight, the faith-based, Fatalism is, hey, you know, God’s just going to take care of everything. I’m going to sit on the couch, and he’s going to drop that ice cream. I’m going to sit on the couch, and he’s going to give me a job. If God wanted me to have a job, he’s going to give me a job. If God wanted me to have, you know, a pantry full of stuff, he’ll stock it for me. And, guys, that’s not like the Bible. The Bible says that, hey, Joseph, go prepare for seven years because there’s going to be seven years of famine. Go prepare. Build an ark, Noah. You know, work on these things. Yes, God works. His things will happen. And it will happen when God has a will or a plan, such as, you know, revelation, the tribulation, or another conversation of if the church is going to participate in that or not. You can do whatever you want with that. You want to have a conversation with me about it, I’d be happy to have it with you. But, you know, we’re going through it, so whatever. Well, you can go through it in one or two ways. You know, you can go through hard times, prepared or unprepared. Yeah, God’s will, it’s going to happen. You know, it’s God’s will that it’s going to rain today. It’s my choice whether to carry an umbrella or not. That’s a perfect way to sum that up, right? So, yeah, it’s going to happen. There’s plenty of biblical examples of Proverbs 6, the ants. Proverbs 21, 20, Joseph, Noah, emphasizing preparedness is wise stewardship and not a lack of faith, right? Trust God, but, you know, make sure you tie up your camel. So faith prepares, fear panics. The Bible says fear not. Fear not. There’s some people that have done, depending on the translation, 365-plus times of fear not in the Bible. And that’s a fun way to say, hey, there’s one for every day because God’s got to remind us don’t fear. All right, number nine. Number nine, the lack of community support. Nobody around me is into this. And I’ll even say the lack maybe of family support. Nobody around me is into this. My family’s not into it. Whatever. Whatever. People are more likely to act when they see other people in their community, in their network, in their family, taking it serious. Because isolation breeds apathy, which means, you know, no feeling. Yeah. No feeling. So, yeah, try to build that community. You know, look for people. Maybe look for, you know, local meetups or, you know, skills nights with different groups. There’s communities within Facebook that you can join and be a part of or workshops. They’re really out there. They’re all over the place. You just got to look for them. Or if there’s not one there, create one. You know, maybe within your church. Hey, great place to start. We do some of this stuff at our church. We call them Lunch and Learns. and so, you know, every so often after church, we’ll be like, hey, we’re going to have a lunch and learn. Everybody brings a, you know, a little dish to share, and we’ll have a topic. We’ll have usually one person to kind of lead it or teach it. We’ve done car maintenance. You know, we’ve done, you know, spring cleanup. We’ve done planting seeds for the springtime. We’ve done starter for sourdough. You know, a lot of people really like that. We’ve done pincers, you know, using things for medicine if you don’t know what that is. I mean, the list goes on and on. We’ve done lots of first aid, CPR, you know, look for it. And then if you can’t find that either, you know, maybe look for a friend or just bounce ideas off. And there’s lots of things that you can even find online. So you can do this stuff remotely if you want to. So you’re not alone out there, but it may take a little bit. of time to find those people who share that with you. And, you know, the stronger we are individually, the stronger we are as a community, right? In the Roman army, they had what was called the phalanx. And each Roman soldier had his shield, and he would link it up with the guy next to him on the left and the guy on the right and somebody above him, and they’d build a shield wall. And the group was all protected. But all you had to do was hold up your shield. In the book of Nehemiah, when they’re rebuilding the wall to protect Jerusalem, your responsibility was just, hey, build that wall right in front of you. And the guy next to you was building his wall. And the guy next to him was building his wall. We don’t have to take on the whole thing. We just have one thing. All right. And the last thing, the last thing is, People just have fear or denial. It’s too scary to think about that. Man, I don’t want to think about the world going to Hades in a handbasket. I don’t want to think about what could happen. We watch these shows on TV and in the movie theaters, but I don’t know. I don’t know. It’s too scary to think about that. So some people avoid prepping simply because it causes anxiety. Causes anxiety. And that can be a big problem. It’s a big problem with a lot of things today. People don’t want to talk about the reality of where we are. So how do you offer help for those people? Well, you keep encouraging. Don’t be overwhelming. One step at a time. Be confident. Peace of mind. Family security. That’s what it’s all about. Right? The more prepared you are, the less anxious you should be. You’re not going to think of everything. That’s impossible. And let them know you can go at your own pace. It’s going to be okay. Guys, as we end this program, do you want to or do you want to? And if you want to, take away all the excuses. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. All right, guys, John, we’ll be back, and we’ll talk to you guys next week. In the meantime, keep your eyes open, your ears open, and be ready.

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