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Speaker 1: Radio, where liberty and reason still reign. Doom! It is

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Sunday night. I am Alan Ray. Hey, it must be

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Sunday night with Alan Ray. Good evening. You just heard

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The Lost Runner with Jeff, who’s pressing the shiny rug

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buttons for me. God, he does such a great show.

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And actually, we’re going to overlap a little bit tonight, Jeff,

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because I had that little deal, a little blurb about

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the Space Force. I was just looking at that and

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I couldn’t help myself because, like I quoted in your show,

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put another quarter in the Tim Marshall was right again.

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My God. It’s like the guy is a prophet, but

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he’s just using his intelligence to say, Hey, this is

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where we’re heading folks. Um, we’ll do that in a

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little bit. We got a lot, a lot of stuff

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going on tonight. My goodness. Um, you know, here’s the

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thing right now, right now, I’m going to start off

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with this. My entire house smells like an Italian, uh, restaurant.

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My wife is making, um, Spiced, well, what we would

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call sun-dried tomatoes. But she is using the dehydrator to

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make them. She did this last year, too. She stored

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a whole bunch of them. She put a bunch of

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them down in olive oil and softened them up just enough.

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And we would put them in pasta with a little

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bit of chicken or something like that in it. Oh

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my gosh, it was so good. Not even kidding. Okay,

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I’ve been really, really, really on a food kick lately,

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and I got to watch it because everything that I

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just lost is going to come back. If I keep

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eating like I’ve been eating. Honestly, started Friday night. I

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sat in with my old rock band, as I told

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you I was going to do. That went spectacularly well,

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to tell you the truth. You know, for a bunch

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of old guys, we can still throw down. Not even kidding.

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We can get after it. We had a good time,

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but they had like a chicken marsala. I think I

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said that right. With these really good garlic mashed potatoes

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and green beans and stuff like it. It was all catered,

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but man, it was spectacular. And I probably ate a

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little too much and then got up on stage and played.

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which I never liked to do, but my God, that

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was a good food. And then of course, yesterday I

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was recovering most of the day and we had a

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pretty decent breakfast and my wife threw some beef tips

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and gravy in the slow cooker. And about three o’clock

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in the afternoon, we had what we call linner, you know,

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lunch and dinner combined and had noodles with it. And

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I went nuts on that. I ate way too much.

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I was miserable the rest of the night, but you

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know what? It was a good miserable. Not even kidding.

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It was great. And then today I stopped by my

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favorite diner to get harassed by my favorite Mexican waitress,

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which she did. You know, she’s the boss over there.

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She always has to come by and make sure I’m

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properly harassed. And I love her absolutely to death. She’s great.

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The restaurant’s great. It’s just one of them quaint diners

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where they got good coffee, good food. They don’t make

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anything all that complicated. Is it healthy? Probably not. I

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don’t care. It’s, it’s, it was a miserable, it’s been

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rainy and miserable since Saturday morning, just miserable. And, um,

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so I stopped there and we got, but needless to say, um,

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I’m going to have to stop eating like that. The

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rest of the week, rest of the week is going

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to be strict, healthy diet food. Like I preach to

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you on this show all the time. Um, I’ve definitely

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can say I’ve fallen off the wagon. But you know what?

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Life is short. And I’m going to tell you this

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right off the bat. OK. Yes, I have high blood pressure.

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It’s under control. Probably heading towards diabetes. It’s under control.

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Everything’s under control. And I don’t do this very often.

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But this week was just this weekend was just kind

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of a thing. But during the week, I usually eat

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so slim, so very raw material type stuff. nothing complicated,

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low sodium, low fat, high protein diet, that usually if

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they do splurge on the rare weekend, it’s not going

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to kill me. It’s not going to kill me. If

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it does, I’ll die with a smile on my face.

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Not even going to lie. So yeah, that’s the way

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it is. So anyways, back to what my wife’s doing.

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This entire house smells like an Italian restaurant. And what

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I’m doing is… I told her that I intentionally, I

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want to run down the charge on my big Anker F3800.

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I should call it hers, okay? It’s her Anker F3800,

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Solex Anker F3800. It’s this massive battery backup. It’ll run

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the whole house. We will go into prepper mode if

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the power goes out. And you could run the furnace

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with this thing for probably three straight days. If that’s

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all you’re running is the furnace, you want the house

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to stay warm, That new furnace we have, it sips energy.

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So you could probably run that for three, four days

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without ever putting any solar panels or anything to this

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thing and charging it. That’s how massive it is. And plus,

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sitting at my feet, I still have my Blue Eddy

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AC-180 and my EB-3A. So we’re sitting on… a pretty

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good storage of emergency backup, but, but she’s running this

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thing down. It has been on most of the afternoon

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and I’m still looking and I’m looking at it right now,

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by the way, blue Eddie and anchor both have apps.

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So you can, from a distance, turn them off and on.

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You can see what they’re discharging at. You can see

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how many, you know, Watts they’re running. how long they’re

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going to last. It gives you kind of an average

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of how long they’re going to last. This thing’s been

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pretty much all day running at 500 Watts and I

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could probably run it well into the night before it’ll

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get low enough where I have to charge it. 500

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Watts is pretty good. 800 Watts will probably run most

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of your house. Okay. If you peek out at 800

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Watts and just leave it there, you can run your

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house all day on this. It’s not going to run

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like that all day. because things turn off and on,

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but 800 watts is quite a load. This thing will

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power your pump if you live out in the country

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like I do. We’ve had like, I don’t know, six-hour

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power outages, and I was excited. We had the power

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go out, and I was like, yes! And I ran

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back to that thing, and I started plugging all this stuff.

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And it was cold out. I plugged the furnace in back.

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I got a little drop plug for the furnace. I

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plugged the freezer and the refrigerator in. And I was like,

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I wonder if this thing would run the well pump.

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And I was going to use the gas power generator,

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the big one for that. But you know what? I

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plugged that in to the anchor, and it ran that

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thing just fine. Just fine. It hardly put a dent

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in it. So… There you have it. It’s doing good.

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But it’s good to kind of, I mean, this thing

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will do like 10,000 charges and discharges. So it’s good

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every once in a while to just run it, let

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it get down, recharge it and go again. It’s good

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to do that. I don’t know why it’s good to

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do that. I’m not an electrician, but everything I’ve read, everything,

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all the videos I’ve watched, all the rabbit holes I’ve

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gone down. They just tell you, you know, don’t store

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it at full capacity. Run it once in a while.

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I guess it’s like a car. You know, cars are

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made to drive. If you let them just sit in

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your garage all the time, well, you’re going to have

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problems with them. That’s just the nature of the beast.

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They’re made to drive. So I guess these battery deals

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are the same way. And I have, well, just for

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that anchor, just for the big battery backup, I have

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800 watts of solar. Um, so that thing’s pretty, you know,

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that I can, I can set those up. They’re portable

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solar panels. They fold out. Um, I was smart enough

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to go to Harbor Freight and get those little, uh,

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saw horses and you can clamp them right onto those

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saw horses, give them just a little bit of an

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angle and it’ll charge that baby up. Or you can

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do pass-through charging during the daytime. If you’ve got enough

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charge on it, you can use the solar panels and

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use that as a pass-through, uh, supply. And you can

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pretty much just run things just off of the solar

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panels themselves during the day. It’s a neat little backup

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to have. And yes, I still have that massive 6,500

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watt gas generator out in the garage. Just had it

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completely gone through, completely restored. They put a new carburetor

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on it. They did a bunch of stuff to it

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and it runs like it’s brand new now. So there’s

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that too. And that led me to think about today’s episode.

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I don’t want to use the word prepping as much anymore.

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And I don’t know if I’ve made this word up.

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or if somebody else is using it too. I’m going

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to call it MPREP. MPREP for Emergency Preparedness. MPREP. And folks,

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we’re two-thirds of the way through September. That’s amazing.

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Speaker 2: That’s amazing.

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Speaker 1: And I was going through some M prep videos this

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week and I was thinking about it’s that time of year.

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Usually I wait till it starts getting cold and go, Hey,

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by the way, no, let’s talk about this. Now I’m

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not talking about prepping. I’m not talking about, you know,

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end of the world type stuff tonight. I am just

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talking about common sense, being ready for things that might happen. Yeah,

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we will throw a little bit of doom into the

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whole thing. We, we, we will talk doom tonight. PJ’s

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in the chat or he’s in the chat. I know

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Jeff’s in the chat. Um, guys, thanks for showing up tonight.

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I really do appreciate it. But, um, I want to

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talk about common sense, emergency preparedness. Um, you’ve seen this

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over the past few years, Texas, the entire, you know,

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the grid went out in Texas. There’s a lot of

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people that froze to death in their own homes. Um,

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North Carolina, Tennessee, during that deluge they had from the hurricane,

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they were out for weeks, months, some places. Odds are

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you will probably experience something more like Texas than you

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will North Carolina. Hopefully, hopefully. Now, the people on the coasts,

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they understand the risk of hurricanes. They live with that risk.

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They know that risk. Unless you’re new moving there. I

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really I’ve never been in a hurricane, but it looks

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pretty devastating. These people take it with like a grain

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of salt. Trips me out every time. Yeah, we got

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hit by a hurricane, destroyed our whole house. We’ll just

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build another one in its place and we’ll just go

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on living. But that’s cool. Odds are, and we’re playing

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the odds here, odds are you’re going to experience a day,

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two days, maybe three, maybe a week. And if it’s cold,

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that gives you an entire different set of circumstances to endure.

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If it’s warm out, if it’s hot out, there are

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things you can do to stay cool. All right. Um,

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there’s ways to stay in shade, to stay in cool areas.

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When it’s cold, you could die inside your house in

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the cold. Now I know some of you live in

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places in the desert and like California desert, Arizona, Texas, Texas,

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you can die in your own home. If the power

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goes out in the middle of summer, that place gets hot.

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There’s a lot of places that get really hot, but

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what I’m talking about right now is cool to cold

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weather preparedness. And, um, Now is the perfect time, especially

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if you’re in one of those areas that experiences winter.

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Now is the perfect time to do a few things. Now,

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this applies, this next thing applies to just about everybody.

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First off, check your battery supplies. Okay. I, in this household,

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have both regular and rechargeable batteries. I know there are

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these people out here that, yeah, rechargeable batteries. And I

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think most of them don’t understand that rechargeable batteries are

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only good for a certain amount of time, and you

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do need to replace them after a while. And they’re

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thinking that they’re just going to be recharged forever. That’s

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not the case. But they will go a couple of

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years charging and uncharging. I have regular and rechargeable batteries,

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and this is why. Unchargeable batteries, your regular alkaline batteries,

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they will outperform the rechargeable batteries most of the time.

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A good high-end EverReady or Duracell or something, they will

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outperform most of the time a rechargeable battery. They’re just better,

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and they’ll last longer for a single use. But hear

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me out. If you have a group of rechargeable batteries

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and you combine them with even a small rechargeable battery pack,

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like the little Blue Eddy EB3A, or I even have

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this little one. I don’t even know who makes it.

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Probably some Chinese manufacturer. I use the heck out of

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this little thing. It’s about the size of, I don’t know.

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It’s about the size, maybe three, four inches by about

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six inches. and about three, four inches tall. It’s not

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that big, but it does have a plug on the side,

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and you can take your battery charger and plug it

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into this thing, and it’ll charge your batteries. And this

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little beauty that I’ve got here, also I have a

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40-watt solar panel that I can spread out and charge

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this thing in just a few hours up to full charge.

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I use it for some ham radio use. I use

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it if I’m sitting outside and I’ve got that one

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computer that just, I’ve put a new battery in it,

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but it still seems to drain quick. I use it

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to power that. And it does a really good job.

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And it only cost me like 50 bucks. It was

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really cheap. Um, And I did it just as I was, hey,

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how is this going to work? And it’s been absolutely beautiful.

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But anyways, if you’ve got your solar battery or if

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you’ve got your battery charger, you can plug it into this.

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And lo and behold, you can charge your batteries on

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solar power because this thing has passed through charging too.

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So now you’re not going to run out of batteries.

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You’re not going to get to the end of your

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alkaline batteries and go, oh, well, we don’t have batteries. Well, yeah,

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now you do. So. Have a combination of both. That’s

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what I’m saying. Options. Keep your options open. Don’t be

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afraid to have options. I know some of you don’t

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like rechargeable batteries, but it’s better than nothing. And also,

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a lot of your flashlights and things like that, they

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all have rechargeable lithium batteries in them now. You can

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literally plug them into these little battery packs, and you’re

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good to go. That and a 100-watt solar panel and

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most of these battery packs, and you’re good to go.

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You know, it gives you, you can charge them up

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during the day, gives you light at night. Isn’t that

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what you want? Okay. Number two, get that furnace checked

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out now, right now. In fact, tomorrow morning I’m getting

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up and I’m calling the place that actually installed our furnace.

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They’re really good little company. They’re just south of here

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and preventative maintenance. They call it preventative maintenance or preventative

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maintenance for a reason. A little bit of attention now.

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and it doesn’t cost a whole lot now may save

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you from a very expensive, no heat call on a

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Sunday where it’s an emergency call and you have to

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pay twice because they catch things. They catch things like

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an igniter and stuff like that. So get that furnace

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checked out this week before it gets cold, before it

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gets cold, have them come in and check it out.

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Number three, Speaking of furnace, get your secondary heat sources

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figured out now. Right now. Because it’s going to start

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getting cold if you’re up here in this area, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,

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something like that. Get your secondary heat sources around now.

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A buddy heater or a Mr. Heater, they’re really clean,

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burning propane heaters. They’ve got them little tanks you can use,

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or you can get the adapter holes and plug them

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into your big 20-gallon tank. And they will keep you

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fairly warm. If you keep them on low, they’ll keep

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you from freezing. And they might last for days. I

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do have a kerosene heater, a really high BTU kerosene heater.

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I usually use it in the garage, but sometimes I

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will use it in the laundry room. It’ll keep the

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whole back of the house warm. And I use it

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with a little bit of ventilation. You got to be

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careful if you use anything indoors. But figure out your heat.

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your alternative heat sources now and test them out now.

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Even if you have to turn your thermostat down real low,

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kick these things on, see if they work, see if

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they’re good. There’s other ways you can do emergency heating.

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You can use clay or you can use paint cans

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or something like that and put candles in them. And

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they give out an incredible amount of BTUs. Is it

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going to be 75 degrees in your house? No. But

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it is going to warm things up 5 to 10 degrees,

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keep you and your kids from freezing. Have that figured

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out as well. And do it now. Now, here’s my

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own little caveat. Here’s my own little warning. Never, ever

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use an alternative heat source in your house without a

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carbon monoxide and a smoke alarm in the room. Okay?

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Promise me that. Which leads me to the other thing.

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Change your batteries and test carbon monoxide and smoke alarms now.

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Used to do it when the time would change, but

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now the time changes are kind of all screwed up.

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So I would do it now. Maybe October 1st. Your

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own little private October 1st. Change the batteries out, even

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if they’re good batteries, change them out, and test the

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new batteries, make sure they all work. If you are

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going to use an alternate heating source in your house,

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vent the room a little bit. You don’t have to

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do it much to get the fresh air in there,

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but vent the room. But promise me, if you have

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to do that, have battery-operated Carbon monoxide alarms out there.

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It may save your life. I almost was overcome by

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carbon monoxide many years ago, back in 1997. So I’m

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speaking from a place of experience. I woke up from

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a dead sleep. I was very dizzy. I was staggering

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around and I couldn’t figure out why. And I didn’t

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realize what the noise was. And that noise was a

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carbon monoxide alarm that I just happened to think. And

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it was way back in the back of the house.

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And when I finally realized what was going on and

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staggered outside to get some fresh air, it almost had me.

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This is back in a really bad ice storm in 97.

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I already sent my wife and kids over to my

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parents’ house and I was just trying to keep our

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house going and something bad happened. So won’t go into

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that very much, but I’m just saying, promise me you’ll

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do that. It may save your life. Also, secondary lighting.

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Now is the time to think about lighting. See, when

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the power goes out is not the time to think

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about all these things. a couple of times a year,

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make sure you have all your ducks in a row.

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That way, you know where this stuff is. You know

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how to set it up when it’s time. Um, secondary lighting.

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Here’s a few ideas. And I did this before, but

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my wife, uh, my genius wife who, my God, I

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thought this was the coolest thing in the world when

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she did this. Um, she had these dollar general Christmas lights,

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white led Christmas lights, a couple, you know, four or

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five of them strings of them. And with just a

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couple of double a batteries, they last days. You can

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run them things like four or five nights and they

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don’t give off a ton of light. But if you

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have like two or three strings of these things and

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you string them up around your house, you can burn

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them things all night. And they, they, the batteries will

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last for days. turn them off during the day, run

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them at night. And they don’t give you overwhelming light,

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which could be good because if you really have a

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grid down and people start getting all squirrely on you,

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you really don’t want to light your house up where

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they can see you. Oh, Zelda’s in the chat. It’s Z-Bot. Hi, Zelda.

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Thanks for showing up for me. Anyways, strings of those

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little dollar general Christmas lights are perfect for a power outage.

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you can see throughout your house with just a couple

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of these things. My wife strung them up. I came

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home from work and I went, that is the most

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genius idea I’ve ever seen. So, and there’s cheap and

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they’re effective. So you don’t have to have a lot

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of money to, to have this kind of prepping. Um,

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just dollar store, general lights. And this is the time

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of year they start coming out. So go stock up

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on them. Five, six, you know, you could probably spend

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10 bucks and get five or six of these things. Um,

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Solar-charged patio lights can also be really good for this.

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They are the type of thing that you can, if

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the power’s out, especially if it’s already out during the day,

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you can put these things outside, get them charged, and

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at night, they’ll give you five, six, seven hours at

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night of light inside your house. Make your own little

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stands for them. Be creative. Be cool about it. You

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can probably get those little ornamental little lights that stick

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into the ground and just take the little posts out

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of them and just make little looking candle looking things.

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And just a couple of them will light up the

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house enough where you can see where you’re going. So

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ultimate light sources. What else? Oh, flashlights, of course. Rechargeable

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and battery powered. Always keep your options open. A nice

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rechargeable light is good. I’ve got, well, Looking around me,

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I’ve got two sitting right off to the left of me.

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I got about four more out in the garage. I

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got a couple more upstairs. So I got a ton

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of those rechargeable lights. And I also have some regular

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flashlights that take batteries. For obvious reasons, like we talked

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about the batteries, rechargeable and non-rechargeable batteries, it’s good to

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just have a couple of flashlights that you can walk

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around and see the ground with. But always have those lights.

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There you go. Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight. You can go

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to Harbor Freight and get these flashlights. Some really good rechargeable.

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You can just plug them into your battery bank, rechargeable lights.

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And there’s like all kinds of shapes and sizes. Have

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several of them around. Next up, food. Food. Have some

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canned goods. Ready to eat meals. Always. It doesn’t cost

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a lot. And I know we’re living in a time

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where groceries are ridiculous. My wife and I was just

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out getting groceries this afternoon. We spent 90 bucks. I

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remember my mother in the seventies, mid seventies with four kids,

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mom and dad talking about spending 74 bucks every other

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week and how horrific it was. And she had to

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buy a lot of groceries. Anyways, um, we got out

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of there with 90 bucks, but there’s things you can buy. Um,

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Minute rice, those Uncle Ben’s rice packs, things like that. Soups, vegetables,

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canned meat, things like that. You know, tuna fish, stuff

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like that. It might not be what you want to eat,

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but have stuff that you can eat cold if you

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have to. And also, make sure you have a decent

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manual can opener. Okay, that’s all we use. We do

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not have an electric can opener. I think electric can

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openers are foolish. I have a really good high-end one

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that doesn’t take much effort at all to open a

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can with. And that’s what I use. And the way

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it opens cans, by the way, it kind of cuts

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around the lip. So when you pull the can apart,

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you can almost use it as storage too. You can

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wash that thing out and probably some of these tin cans,

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you can use it for something else. So there you go.

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Have a decent manual can opener with that. But now’s

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the time you can, you know, one, two cans of something.

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Every time you go out grocery shopping, you can build

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yourself a nice little pantry and have food enough for

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a week. If things go wrong, if the power goes out.

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So have a plan. Next up, water. Water is a

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big subject, huge subject, but you need to have a plan.

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I recommend always having a case of drinking water on hand.

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You can find drinking water on sale and it’s always

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usually really dirt cheap and keep rotating it. Have a

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case of drinking water on hand. Also, know where and

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how to get water around your house, around your neighborhood.

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If you have a water heater, chances are you’re sitting

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on 40 to 50 gallons, maybe 30 gallons of drinkable water.

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It’s the same water that comes out of your tap.

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And they all have those little emergency valves look like

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a little hose outlet on the bottom. Learn where it is.

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Learn how to tap that open. Learn how to get

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water out of it. Now, that said, always turn your

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electricity to your water heater off if you’re going to

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do that. And never, ever, ever, ever turn it back

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on with that water heater empty. Make sure it’s full

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before you do that. You can go on. youtube university

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of youtube and learn how to do it properly you

449
00:27:41,700 –> 00:27:43,619
have to have a little bit of uh of air

450
00:27:43,680 –> 00:27:46,460
coming in so it’ll come out the bottom but you’re

451
00:27:46,500 –> 00:27:49,309
sitting on 40 50 gallons of drinking water right there

452
00:27:50,809 –> 00:27:54,789
um storage a little bit of water storage goes a

453
00:27:54,809 –> 00:27:58,450
long way all i’m saying you can we can talk

454
00:27:58,490 –> 00:28:02,640
about water for an hour alone But go to the

455
00:28:02,700 –> 00:28:05,630
University of YouTube, go to Rumble, go to YouTube, whatever.

456
00:28:06,190 –> 00:28:09,589
There are tons of videos out there that tell you

457
00:28:09,849 –> 00:28:13,569
how to do the right thing for drinking water, how

458
00:28:13,609 –> 00:28:17,869
to get water for flushing toilets, stuff like that. And

459
00:28:17,890 –> 00:28:21,609
a lot of them have some really good ideas. Take

460
00:28:21,650 –> 00:28:27,650
advantage of that knowledge. All right, now that we’re over that,

461
00:28:27,769 –> 00:28:31,359
let’s talk about your vehicle. And you know, I’m big

462
00:28:31,400 –> 00:28:36,029
on a vehicle. In your vehicle, in your trunk, under

463
00:28:36,069 –> 00:28:41,009
your seat, whatever, tarps, blankets. There again, Harbor Freight, you

464
00:28:41,029 –> 00:28:43,130
can get cheap tarps, you can get cheap moving blankets.

465
00:28:44,029 –> 00:28:47,089
I probably have four or five tarps and probably four

466
00:28:47,109 –> 00:28:50,019
or five moving blankets in my truck. If I get

467
00:28:50,079 –> 00:28:52,619
stuck in that truck during a blizzard, I could literally

468
00:28:52,660 –> 00:28:54,740
make my own fort and I could probably hole up

469
00:28:54,779 –> 00:28:59,200
for a week in that thing. Some easy calories, things

470
00:28:59,240 –> 00:29:02,640
that store well. Things that last for a couple of years.

471
00:29:03,480 –> 00:29:09,019
You can get trail mix. Just easy calories. Something you

472
00:29:09,039 –> 00:29:11,200
can rip open and eat if you’re stuck and you

473
00:29:11,220 –> 00:29:16,079
can get really hungry. Remember, your body’s furnace runs on calories.

474
00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:20,160
If you don’t have calories, your body’s furnace is not

475
00:29:20,200 –> 00:29:22,420
going to work. So if you are stuck out in

476
00:29:22,440 –> 00:29:24,740
the middle of nowhere in your car, or even if

477
00:29:24,759 –> 00:29:31,130
you’re stuck at work, I have these freeze-dried… Mountain house meals.

478
00:29:31,990 –> 00:29:33,430
Even if I get stuck at work, I can get

479
00:29:33,450 –> 00:29:35,039
a little bit of water. I can heat these babies

480
00:29:35,119 –> 00:29:36,779
up and I can eat like a king for three,

481
00:29:36,819 –> 00:29:42,460
four days. Why not? be ready for that? Have your

482
00:29:42,460 –> 00:29:44,700
72 hour bag in your, in the back of your

483
00:29:44,720 –> 00:29:47,079
vehicle or under your seat or something, your bug out

484
00:29:47,119 –> 00:29:51,500
bag and have all these things in it. Also, and

485
00:29:51,519 –> 00:29:53,400
this is for your car and your home, a first

486
00:29:53,460 –> 00:29:57,019
aid kit. You should have, you should already have a

487
00:29:57,220 –> 00:30:00,720
pretty comprehensive first aid kit in your home. have a

488
00:30:00,740 –> 00:30:05,019
pretty decent one in your car too. You never know.

489
00:30:05,099 –> 00:30:07,119
Even if they, even if you don’t use it, you

490
00:30:07,140 –> 00:30:09,900
never know when you’re going to need it for somebody else.

491
00:30:12,460 –> 00:30:14,450
And I know I preach this a lot, but I

492
00:30:14,490 –> 00:30:16,650
want you to listen to this because there’s way too

493
00:30:16,670 –> 00:30:19,069
many people out there, way too many people out there

494
00:30:19,589 –> 00:30:23,289
who have needlessly been suffered or been injured or even

495
00:30:23,369 –> 00:30:26,390
died because they’re just not prepared for any of this.

496
00:30:28,130 –> 00:30:32,869
Let’s talk alternate communications. You should already have a weather

497
00:30:32,910 –> 00:30:38,059
radio in your house. You should have an AM, FM,

498
00:30:38,259 –> 00:30:42,119
shortwave radio, and most of those have weather comms too.

499
00:30:45,539 –> 00:30:48,900
Those are a real good necessity. Number one, AM radio,

500
00:30:49,029 –> 00:30:51,930
you probably have an AM station around you that has

501
00:30:51,970 –> 00:30:56,289
emergency channels. You probably also have an FM station that

502
00:30:56,329 –> 00:31:01,180
will tell you what’s going on. shortwave station optional but

503
00:31:01,339 –> 00:31:04,769
still could be very very useful because a lot of

504
00:31:04,829 –> 00:31:11,069
times places like WRMI in Okeechobee Florida or what is

505
00:31:11,109 –> 00:31:15,470
that WCB whatever up in Monticello Maine you can get

506
00:31:15,630 –> 00:31:17,230
a lot of information out of them and they’re a

507
00:31:17,329 –> 00:31:21,880
long way Texas has a shortwave station You can get,

508
00:31:21,900 –> 00:31:24,599
you know, if you know how to do things the

509
00:31:24,640 –> 00:31:27,400
right way, you can get shortwave radio stations in from

510
00:31:27,460 –> 00:31:32,970
across the world, actually. If you’re not a ham radio operator,

511
00:31:33,009 –> 00:31:37,109
there’s still no reason why you can’t have something to

512
00:31:37,150 –> 00:31:39,670
listen to. Even a little cheap bow fang and learn

513
00:31:39,710 –> 00:31:43,009
how to tune into the repeaters in your area. Because

514
00:31:43,029 –> 00:31:45,759
you can use those in an emergency. Even if not,

515
00:31:46,410 –> 00:31:49,660
have a cheap CB somewhere. A citizen’s band radio, anybody

516
00:31:49,680 –> 00:31:53,930
can use them. They’re legal. Have friends in your neighborhood

517
00:31:54,049 –> 00:31:57,190
get cheap CBs. They don’t cost that much. You can

518
00:31:57,210 –> 00:31:59,329
get pretty decent CBs, you know, and I know that

519
00:31:59,710 –> 00:32:02,109
you’re thinking, you know, 10-4, good buddy. And yeah, there’s

520
00:32:02,130 –> 00:32:04,150
a bunch of half-wits on CB. I’m not going to

521
00:32:04,190 –> 00:32:06,759
lie to you, but there’s also 40 channels and there’s

522
00:32:06,779 –> 00:32:09,380
a lot of channels where they are not. And if

523
00:32:09,420 –> 00:32:12,059
you live in a neighborhood and four or five people

524
00:32:12,299 –> 00:32:14,980
have CB radios that they can throw a cheap antenna

525
00:32:15,059 –> 00:32:18,319
up and talk to each other, well, then you have

526
00:32:18,359 –> 00:32:21,509
a network And now you can talk about what’s going on,

527
00:32:21,549 –> 00:32:27,170
what’s needed, stuff like that. So alternative communications. Have them.

528
00:32:29,670 –> 00:32:32,480
Now here’s the thing. I have never been in a

529
00:32:32,539 –> 00:32:36,559
power outage where I haven’t learned something. Where I haven’t

530
00:32:36,579 –> 00:32:40,880
learned one or two things, if not more. And I

531
00:32:40,920 –> 00:32:46,009
have learned that when the power comes back on, to

532
00:32:46,049 –> 00:32:50,750
have myself a little mental debriefing about it. A good

533
00:32:50,849 –> 00:32:53,250
idea is to keep a notebook handy during a power outage.

534
00:32:53,609 –> 00:32:56,710
And when something weird happens and you figure out something new,

535
00:32:56,750 –> 00:33:01,009
write it down, write it down. And when everything’s back

536
00:33:01,049 –> 00:33:02,670
to normal and you’re sitting with a hot cup of

537
00:33:02,710 –> 00:33:05,529
coffee and your house is toasty warm and life is

538
00:33:05,569 –> 00:33:09,519
good again, give yourself a little debriefing about what happened

539
00:33:09,539 –> 00:33:12,940
to that outage, what you could have done better, what

540
00:33:12,980 –> 00:33:17,769
you found out helped you quite a bit. and make

541
00:33:17,970 –> 00:33:20,339
adjustments for the next one, because you know, it’s going

542
00:33:20,359 –> 00:33:22,779
to happen again. You know, it’s going to, and the

543
00:33:22,900 –> 00:33:26,839
more unreliable the power grid is, the more that I

544
00:33:26,900 –> 00:33:31,849
should say, less than desirable people take over things like

545
00:33:31,880 –> 00:33:39,269
our power grid. People who may have learned from places

546
00:33:39,309 –> 00:33:44,130
that don’t really teach, don’t really educate. They pretty much

547
00:33:44,170 –> 00:33:46,890
just indoctrinate and send you out into the world. but

548
00:33:46,910 –> 00:33:49,690
you’re supposed to know what you’re doing. They’re going to

549
00:33:49,710 –> 00:33:55,170
be running your electricity, your water, things like that more

550
00:33:55,210 –> 00:33:57,880
and more. You should be afraid. No, you shouldn’t really

551
00:33:57,910 –> 00:34:00,079
be afraid. You should just educate yourself and learn how

552
00:34:00,099 –> 00:34:03,160
to get through it. I’m doing it because I don’t

553
00:34:03,319 –> 00:34:06,980
trust the state of Michigan’s power grid. I don’t trust

554
00:34:07,000 –> 00:34:10,380
what’s going on around me right now. I don’t trust

555
00:34:10,429 –> 00:34:14,300
the fact that we have a governor right now who

556
00:34:14,340 –> 00:34:19,059
would dearly love to eliminate natural gas or any other

557
00:34:19,360 –> 00:34:22,440
decent power supply, coal power or anything like that, get

558
00:34:22,480 –> 00:34:25,320
rid of all of it and just have big giant

559
00:34:25,360 –> 00:34:28,989
solar farms and windmills. And I know what’s going to

560
00:34:29,030 –> 00:34:32,610
happen when that finally happens. We’re going to hurt. We’re

561
00:34:32,650 –> 00:34:35,170
going to go through a lot of power outages. And

562
00:34:35,230 –> 00:34:39,949
that’s why I am prepared to do this. You live

563
00:34:40,110 –> 00:34:44,969
and you learn. That’s all I can say about that.

564
00:34:46,050 –> 00:34:49,369
It’s fall. Get moving. I’m going to take a break.

565
00:34:49,389 –> 00:34:51,349
When I come back, well, we’re going to get into

566
00:34:51,389 –> 00:34:56,000
all kinds of stuff. Boy, I don’t know. Yeah, I

567
00:34:56,019 –> 00:34:57,460
think we’re going to get into a little bit of doom.

568
00:34:57,760 –> 00:34:59,559
So don’t go anywhere. I’ll be back in just a moment.

569
00:35:21,840 –> 00:35:25,090
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Speaker 2: Today, this breakfast isn’t just breakfast. It might be the

593
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first McDonald’s breakfast you’re having at McDonald’s again. This lunch

594
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might be a weekly tradition you hadn’t had in weeks.

595
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And this dinner might be the first one you bought

596
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for not just you in a while. Whatever this order

597
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is for you, McDonald’s will be here to take it.

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Speaker 4: Get more of the chicken you love with a delicious

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Speaker 3: Pepper.

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Speaker 4: Dining rooms are starting to reopen in certain communities, and

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participating McDonald’s cannot be combined with any.

604
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Speaker 1: Other offer or combo meal.

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Speaker 4: Not to be a backseat driver, but can you say

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is Sunday night with Alan Ray. I

615
00:37:42,030 –> 00:37:44,289
am your humble host, Alan Ray. It is the show

616
00:37:44,989 –> 00:37:47,869
where we take a look around this big, giant blue

617
00:37:48,570 –> 00:37:53,269
ghetto turd that we’re rolling through space at an imaginable speed.

618
00:37:53,690 –> 00:37:56,570
And we ask the eternal question. What in the wide,

619
00:37:56,699 –> 00:37:59,659
wide world of sports is going on here? Well, we

620
00:37:59,719 –> 00:38:02,530
kind of know. Not really. I have no idea. I

621
00:38:03,010 –> 00:38:05,969
gave up. I don’t know what I think.

622
00:38:06,210 –> 00:38:08,050
Speaker 4: I think there’s some kind of deviated prebite.

623
00:38:08,409 –> 00:38:11,780
Speaker 1: That’s what I think. Um, welcome back. I think we’re

624
00:38:11,800 –> 00:38:14,300
done talking about emergency preps for a while. Let’s talk

625
00:38:14,320 –> 00:38:18,440
about other things. You know, it’s funny that I started

626
00:38:18,460 –> 00:38:24,320
talking about this flock camera thing a while back. And

627
00:38:24,340 –> 00:38:30,119
it’s really kind of funny because he, It’s one of

628
00:38:30,139 –> 00:38:32,920
the things that I think has kind of ignited the

629
00:38:33,059 –> 00:38:36,739
left and the right. You don’t see this very often.

630
00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:42,869
Nobody wants them. Completely different reasons, but nobody wants them.

631
00:38:43,969 –> 00:38:45,849
And it was kind of amazing that I found this

632
00:38:45,949 –> 00:38:49,690
article today. When was this? When was this done? Who

633
00:38:49,730 –> 00:38:52,130
are these people? What are they doing? September 18th. So

634
00:38:52,170 –> 00:38:54,650
just a couple of days ago. It says Flock offers

635
00:38:54,710 –> 00:38:59,090
employees buyouts as customers flee. It says dozens of cities

636
00:38:59,590 –> 00:39:03,219
end contracts for its controversial license plate readers. Flock is

637
00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:06,940
rolling out a voluntary severance program. It’s Wired Magazine, which

638
00:39:07,199 –> 00:39:14,119
I usually don’t care for. But that’s fine. But I

639
00:39:14,159 –> 00:39:19,130
think it’s kind of funny. people have woke up to

640
00:39:19,170 –> 00:39:22,440
the fact that this is not a good thing. The

641
00:39:22,500 –> 00:39:27,170
hill even came out. Um, what this afternoon? No, I

642
00:39:27,210 –> 00:39:29,230
guess it was a couple of days before that. Um,

643
00:39:30,719 –> 00:39:33,820
The 16th. The Hill come out and said a group

644
00:39:33,860 –> 00:39:37,139
of hackers ripped down a flock camera and stole its data,

645
00:39:37,280 –> 00:39:41,090
finding that the camera’s software can generate dozens of images

646
00:39:41,429 –> 00:39:45,030
from a single passing vehicle to develop its signature. The

647
00:39:45,070 –> 00:39:50,590
group called Stagen Ogram shared findings with Wired and 404 Media,

648
00:39:50,610 –> 00:39:53,989
which ran a joint investigation. The outlets found that in

649
00:39:54,050 –> 00:39:58,530
a 21-day period, the camera photographed roughly 50,200 vehicles and

650
00:39:58,570 –> 00:40:04,610
generated about 1.6 million images. It goes on like you’re

651
00:40:04,630 –> 00:40:06,550
stupid and it tells you what flock is, but we

652
00:40:06,590 –> 00:40:12,659
already know that. Now, The outlets, some outlets have stated

653
00:40:12,739 –> 00:40:15,739
that the camera generally captures around 28 images from a

654
00:40:15,800 –> 00:40:19,039
single encounter with a vehicle, though some can produce more

655
00:40:19,059 –> 00:40:22,239
than 100. So this kind of offsets that a little bit.

656
00:40:23,880 –> 00:40:26,739
The owners of Flock have done nothing but lie and

657
00:40:26,780 –> 00:40:29,510
deceive from day one. And when they get caught in

658
00:40:29,550 –> 00:40:34,050
a lie and they’re caught in a deception, they pretty much,

659
00:40:35,050 –> 00:40:37,550
they do the whole, you know, well, you just, you’re

660
00:40:37,610 –> 00:40:44,710
hiding something. well, that’s not exactly it. So there’s some

661
00:40:44,750 –> 00:40:49,090
stuff going on here and yes, no, I, I don’t

662
00:40:49,309 –> 00:40:55,860
endorse people taking a battery operated Sawzall using a hardened

663
00:40:56,389 –> 00:41:00,159
carbon blade and cutting flock cameras down. Um, I don’t

664
00:41:00,280 –> 00:41:03,829
recommend that. Okay. I don’t, not that I’m going to,

665
00:41:03,840 –> 00:41:06,280
you know, tell on you if you can, but if you,

666
00:41:06,300 –> 00:41:10,010
if you do, but just don’t, um, But anyways, Flock,

667
00:41:10,030 –> 00:41:13,030
of course, fires back. Flock takes security seriously and maintains

668
00:41:13,070 –> 00:41:16,940
a public vulnerability disclosure policy for security researchers to report

669
00:41:17,019 –> 00:41:20,300
potential vulnerabilities to us, a spokesperson from Flock said. Yeah,

670
00:41:20,360 –> 00:41:22,019
it’s a bunch of crap. We already know that’s a

671
00:41:22,039 –> 00:41:31,010
bunch of crap. I know I’ve gotten some pushback about

672
00:41:31,150 –> 00:41:37,309
my disdain for Flock. And it’s my hope that everyone

673
00:41:37,489 –> 00:41:40,570
truly wakes up to understand the level of surveillance we

674
00:41:40,610 –> 00:41:46,780
are under as a supposedly free nation. And just so

675
00:41:46,840 –> 00:41:50,019
you know where my head is on this whole flock thing,

676
00:41:50,719 –> 00:41:54,599
let me offer you one question. What would have happened

677
00:41:54,619 –> 00:41:57,849
during COVID if flock had been around and had the

678
00:41:57,909 –> 00:42:00,070
level of surveillance it has now? What do you think

679
00:42:00,090 –> 00:42:06,289
would have happened during COVID shutdowns? It’s not the technology.

680
00:42:09,380 –> 00:42:15,920
It’s who is running the technology. How is the technology

681
00:42:16,579 –> 00:42:25,340
being used? Who has access to this technology? Now would

682
00:42:25,380 –> 00:42:27,400
also be a great time to discuss our cell phones,

683
00:42:27,900 –> 00:42:30,840
internet access, our vehicles. Our vehicles all have GPS in

684
00:42:30,860 –> 00:42:37,880
them now. We the people, and this goes left, right, center,

685
00:42:38,119 –> 00:42:45,260
I don’t care. We need to demand 100% transparency regarding

686
00:42:45,420 –> 00:42:48,909
how much of our information is gleaned, how much of

687
00:42:49,070 –> 00:42:56,449
it is being used, and who’s using it. We live

688
00:42:56,469 –> 00:42:58,610
in interesting times, and we’re supposed to be a free nation.

689
00:42:59,550 –> 00:43:04,039
We really are. It doesn’t feel free anymore. It really doesn’t.

690
00:43:05,079 –> 00:43:08,960
And I know, you know, our friends on the left,

691
00:43:09,579 –> 00:43:12,699
they don’t want flock because, well, you could track down

692
00:43:12,760 –> 00:43:17,030
illegal aliens. You can track down criminals in the hood.

693
00:43:17,530 –> 00:43:23,070
You can actually enforce the law using them. People on

694
00:43:23,090 –> 00:43:25,690
the right don’t want it because it’s a direct violation

695
00:43:26,449 –> 00:43:30,190
of the constitution and federal judges don’t seem to care.

696
00:43:30,230 –> 00:43:36,860
The Supreme court doesn’t seem to care. And I know

697
00:43:36,900 –> 00:43:39,320
that people say, well, if you’re not doing anything wrong,

698
00:43:39,380 –> 00:43:41,579
you shouldn’t worry about it. Yeah, you really should. You

699
00:43:41,619 –> 00:43:45,409
really should. When they set flock cameras up in front

700
00:43:45,489 –> 00:43:49,690
of ammunition and gun stores and take pictures of who’s

701
00:43:49,730 –> 00:43:53,210
coming and going, yeah, you should worry. When they have

702
00:43:53,250 –> 00:43:56,639
flock cameras set up by shooting ranges, yeah, you should worry.

703
00:44:00,300 –> 00:44:04,389
It’s not because… of what’s going on maybe right now,

704
00:44:04,869 –> 00:44:06,530
but what’s going to happen in five to 10 years,

705
00:44:06,869 –> 00:44:09,210
what’s going to happen when the wrong people are in

706
00:44:09,269 –> 00:44:12,739
power and they decide to use all that information to

707
00:44:12,780 –> 00:44:16,679
come after you, even though you’re not breaking any laws,

708
00:44:19,969 –> 00:44:24,070
you see threats from high profile politicians all the time.

709
00:44:24,889 –> 00:44:29,500
Why would you trust them? to have instant surveillance to

710
00:44:29,639 –> 00:44:32,840
everywhere you go, everything you do. Why would you trust

711
00:44:32,880 –> 00:44:38,059
them with that kind of information? You shouldn’t. And it’s

712
00:44:38,079 –> 00:44:40,840
a shame that we have to live that way because

713
00:44:40,900 –> 00:44:43,039
flock would have good uses. I mean, you could track

714
00:44:43,079 –> 00:44:46,889
down kidnappers. You could track down people who are lawbreakers,

715
00:44:48,889 –> 00:44:50,289
but that’s not what it’s going to be used for.

716
00:44:50,309 –> 00:44:57,889
And the perfect example of this is, is the Patriot Act.

717
00:44:59,289 –> 00:45:02,070
And I know the Patriot Act probably was needed at

718
00:45:02,110 –> 00:45:04,780
the time, but that time is over. But yet the

719
00:45:04,800 –> 00:45:07,260
Patriot Act is still here. And I remember the day

720
00:45:07,320 –> 00:45:09,780
it passed. The day it passed and they came out

721
00:45:09,800 –> 00:45:12,300
and said, hey, we just passed this Patriot Act. Now

722
00:45:12,340 –> 00:45:14,519
we’re all going to be safe. I turned to my

723
00:45:14,559 –> 00:45:19,079
wife and I said, this will be used against law-abiding

724
00:45:19,139 –> 00:45:22,280
citizens in the United States. And guess what? It has.

725
00:45:25,159 –> 00:45:28,099
Here we are in 2026 and it has been used

726
00:45:28,340 –> 00:45:33,869
against law abiding citizens. What do you think is going

727
00:45:33,889 –> 00:45:37,250
to happen with these flock cameras? All right, moving on.

728
00:45:38,250 –> 00:45:41,150
And if you listen to the lost wanderer tonight, Jeff

729
00:45:41,610 –> 00:45:46,559
had a story about space force. And I kind of

730
00:45:46,579 –> 00:45:49,690
hit on this too. I couldn’t resist seeing this, and

731
00:45:49,730 –> 00:45:52,230
so I’m just going to reinforce this. This is according

732
00:45:52,269 –> 00:45:55,230
to The Independent. American troops must ready themselves for combat,

733
00:45:55,309 –> 00:45:58,190
not only in Earth’s orbit, but in the regions surrounding

734
00:45:58,210 –> 00:46:00,949
the moon, according to President Donald Trump’s top military advisor

735
00:46:00,989 –> 00:46:03,679
on Wednesday, following the first public revelation that the U.S.

736
00:46:03,699 –> 00:46:08,360
has deployed weapons in space. Addressing military personnel and defense

737
00:46:08,400 –> 00:46:11,719
industry leaders at the Aerospace and Cyber Conference near Washington,

738
00:46:12,090 –> 00:46:15,239
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kane,

739
00:46:15,360 –> 00:46:18,280
urged the armed forces to adapt so the military is

740
00:46:18,320 –> 00:46:21,659
prepared to fight, endure, and win from the seabed to

741
00:46:21,699 –> 00:46:27,539
the cislunar space. Here we go, folks. We’re carrying the

742
00:46:27,559 –> 00:46:30,070
battlefield to space, like Jeff was pointing out. But here’s

743
00:46:30,090 –> 00:46:32,710
my take on this. And I kind of mentioned this

744
00:46:32,969 –> 00:46:36,719
in Jeff’s show in the chat. This is not a

745
00:46:36,780 –> 00:46:39,550
surprising statement to me. And I know it is not

746
00:46:39,590 –> 00:46:43,090
a surprising statement to Jeff because I actually sent this

747
00:46:43,170 –> 00:46:45,869
book to him and he read it. Tim Marshall, in

748
00:46:45,929 –> 00:46:50,989
his book, The Future of Geography, discusses the future of

749
00:46:51,030 –> 00:46:57,579
the space race in depth. And he discusses what.

750
00:46:59,530 –> 00:47:03,920
May end up being the battlefield in space. The wars

751
00:47:03,960 –> 00:47:06,820
that may break out in space over resources, even though

752
00:47:07,539 –> 00:47:12,280
resources are infinite in space, what a war in space

753
00:47:12,519 –> 00:47:15,639
may look like, what skirmishes in space may look like,

754
00:47:16,139 –> 00:47:19,889
what power struggles in space may look like. Once again,

755
00:47:20,389 –> 00:47:26,889
Marshall has gained my respect. This guy is, like I said,

756
00:47:27,530 –> 00:47:30,360
put in Jeff’s chat, It’s like put another quarter in

757
00:47:30,380 –> 00:47:33,449
the Tim Marshall was right jar because the guy’s like,

758
00:47:33,469 –> 00:47:35,190
he’s like a prophet. Like I said, at the top

759
00:47:35,230 –> 00:47:39,389
of the show, when I, when I read this and

760
00:47:39,409 –> 00:47:43,449
there’s been other things there, the, the conflict in Iran,

761
00:47:44,130 –> 00:47:47,110
there’s been all the Ukraine conflict, a bunch of things

762
00:47:47,179 –> 00:47:52,480
that have happened over the past few years that Tim

763
00:47:52,539 –> 00:48:00,059
Marshall has called flat out. He wrote these books in 2019, 2020.

764
00:48:00,059 –> 00:48:02,860
And he saw what was coming. I was like, my gosh,

765
00:48:03,099 –> 00:48:06,280
to have that kind of insight. And he travels all

766
00:48:06,320 –> 00:48:08,000
over the world. So he sees this type of thing.

767
00:48:08,420 –> 00:48:11,530
You know, he has discussed the situations with China, Russia,

768
00:48:11,710 –> 00:48:16,769
USA and others. And the way he talks about what’s

769
00:48:16,789 –> 00:48:20,230
going to happen in space with these, you know, all

770
00:48:20,269 –> 00:48:26,429
of these countries and especially China, Russia, USA. He makes

771
00:48:26,489 –> 00:48:30,639
the U.S. Space Force sound like a reasonable idea. So

772
00:48:30,659 –> 00:48:32,599
I recommend that. If you want to get this book,

773
00:48:32,659 –> 00:48:38,420
it’s called Future of Geography. You can get it on Amazon.

774
00:48:39,460 –> 00:48:43,670
And it’s Tim Marshall, just like it sounds. I highly

775
00:48:43,730 –> 00:48:46,010
recommend it. We’ll stay on that long because Jeff discussed

776
00:48:46,050 –> 00:48:50,250
that in length. Oh, we got 10 minutes. What do

777
00:48:50,269 –> 00:48:52,090
you want to talk about? Oh, let’s talk about this.

778
00:48:55,630 –> 00:49:01,400
I was laughing about this one. According to CNN, You know, CNN,

779
00:49:01,420 –> 00:49:05,579
the people who got kicked out of the White House. Sorry.

780
00:49:06,699 –> 00:49:15,429
That’s funny. They’re so mad. Oh, my gosh. Anyway. According

781
00:49:15,449 –> 00:49:21,369
to CNN. Former President Barack Obama. and the former vice

782
00:49:21,429 –> 00:49:24,389
president and person who will never be president, Kamala Harris,

783
00:49:24,570 –> 00:49:29,360
on Monday, among the latest high-profile Democrats to call for

784
00:49:29,500 –> 00:49:33,900
greater government action to address artificial intelligence as some industry

785
00:49:33,980 –> 00:49:37,380
leaders call for a slowdown in the technology’s development amid

786
00:49:37,480 –> 00:49:43,809
growing public concern. Quote, we need government and specifically our

787
00:49:43,849 –> 00:49:47,420
leaders in Washington. I don’t want your stupid subscription CNN

788
00:49:47,440 –> 00:49:52,110
go away. To get proactive in coming up with concrete proposals, laws,

789
00:49:52,170 –> 00:49:56,690
and regulations that deal with serious safety concerns. Anticipate AI’s

790
00:49:57,110 –> 00:50:00,059
impact on jobs and our kids, and make sure that

791
00:50:00,139 –> 00:50:04,239
AI’s benefits are widely spread, Obama said in a statement

792
00:50:04,280 –> 00:50:08,480
on Monday night. Okay, let’s stop right there. I don’t

793
00:50:08,519 –> 00:50:11,530
need to go any further in this article except to

794
00:50:11,570 –> 00:50:16,730
tell you Democrats want to control artificial intelligence. That’s what

795
00:50:16,769 –> 00:50:21,519
all this boils down to. Okay, let’s talk about this first. First,

796
00:50:21,699 –> 00:50:29,179
I do believe that there needs to be some laws

797
00:50:29,340 –> 00:50:35,090
put in place regarding technology. Our laws, a lot of

798
00:50:35,170 –> 00:50:38,409
them are outdated and have nothing to do with modern technology.

799
00:50:44,210 –> 00:50:51,130
I believe there needs to be transparency laws that protect… artists, writers,

800
00:50:51,989 –> 00:50:57,360
and others whose work is being exploited by AI and

801
00:50:57,380 –> 00:51:00,800
they’re not getting paid for it. It’s a real problem.

802
00:51:00,860 –> 00:51:03,960
And I understand it. Now that said, I can tell

803
00:51:04,000 –> 00:51:08,820
you from recent history that Barack Hussein Obama and Kamala,

804
00:51:08,840 –> 00:51:13,469
the cackling Harris and their ilk, they don’t want to

805
00:51:13,510 –> 00:51:19,269
protect those being exploited. No, what they want is, is

806
00:51:19,329 –> 00:51:26,880
to control artificial intelligence. They want the opportunity to try

807
00:51:26,960 –> 00:51:32,559
to twist AI into a narrative-pushing machine. They don’t want

808
00:51:32,719 –> 00:51:36,079
AI working against them, which it could very well do

809
00:51:36,239 –> 00:51:38,579
if the truth all comes out, so they will work

810
00:51:38,619 –> 00:51:42,360
behind the scenes to corrupt artificial intelligence to the point

811
00:51:42,760 –> 00:51:45,980
of it being a propaganda machine for the dumbed-down, drooling

812
00:51:46,960 –> 00:51:54,539
neo-socialist Democrats. Think Twitter pre-Elon Musk days, okay? That’s what

813
00:51:54,559 –> 00:51:58,389
I want you to think about. And yes, AI can

814
00:51:58,429 –> 00:52:02,469
be influenced. AI can be made to lean certain ways

815
00:52:02,829 –> 00:52:07,679
if the data is put in there artificially. But let’s

816
00:52:07,739 –> 00:52:12,559
talk about what we know about Twitter pre-Musk days. We knew,

817
00:52:12,980 –> 00:52:17,429
we knew anything right of center-leaning politics was being throttled.

818
00:52:17,530 –> 00:52:22,639
We knew that. We didn’t know to what extent it

819
00:52:22,699 –> 00:52:26,570
was being throttled and by whom in the upper echelon

820
00:52:26,590 –> 00:52:30,389
of the government until Elon Musk opened the floodgates. Now

821
00:52:30,510 –> 00:52:36,639
it’s still not great, but you can tell that it’s

822
00:52:36,780 –> 00:52:40,719
different because the left is seeing opinions other than their

823
00:52:40,900 –> 00:52:45,059
own and it’s freaking them out. It’s causing them trauma.

824
00:52:47,679 –> 00:52:51,250
They’re taking to their TikTok accounts and shaving their hair

825
00:52:51,289 –> 00:52:54,550
and crying and screeching at people because they don’t think

826
00:52:54,610 –> 00:52:58,679
the way they do. They’re just coming to the realization

827
00:52:58,719 –> 00:53:00,900
that there’s more than one way of thinking. We’re not

828
00:53:01,000 –> 00:53:08,170
all goose-stepping idiots. If the left is allowed to control

829
00:53:08,269 –> 00:53:12,739
and regulate A.I., like they were controlling and regulating Twitter

830
00:53:12,840 –> 00:53:17,260
and other social media, Facebook, things like that. Remember, during COVID,

831
00:53:17,280 –> 00:53:23,119
it was particularly bad. I guarantee you, I guarantee you

832
00:53:23,159 –> 00:53:26,570
that artificial intelligence will quickly become the wheel links of

833
00:53:26,639 –> 00:53:30,110
modern technology. It will be worthless. It’ll be an echo

834
00:53:30,170 –> 00:53:34,329
chamber of leftism instead of just a way, a tool

835
00:53:34,389 –> 00:53:41,170
that you can use to create, explore technology. and benefit

836
00:53:41,929 –> 00:53:45,170
yourself and the people around you. It’ll become worthless. It’ll

837
00:53:45,190 –> 00:53:47,610
become not even worth having. And a lot of it

838
00:53:47,690 –> 00:53:49,989
already is. I think a lot of it already is,

839
00:53:50,090 –> 00:53:54,789
but I’m not anti-AI. I use artificial intelligence a lot.

840
00:53:55,530 –> 00:53:57,929
Not like Orty and Jeff and people like that, but

841
00:53:58,010 –> 00:53:59,260
I use it at work a lot. I use it

842
00:53:59,280 –> 00:54:03,719
at home a lot. It makes certain tasks much easier.

843
00:54:05,780 –> 00:54:08,500
It does things that are absolutely incredible. I can tell

844
00:54:08,519 –> 00:54:13,019
you right now, Whatever Spotify is using for artificial intelligence

845
00:54:13,059 –> 00:54:15,760
is absolutely phenomenal. They’ve turned me on to so much

846
00:54:15,800 –> 00:54:19,400
cool music over the week because they know Spotify’s AI,

847
00:54:19,420 –> 00:54:25,480
their DJ, AI, DJ thing, whatever. Yes, AI is great

848
00:54:25,500 –> 00:54:31,239
for error codes. Exactly. But the Spotify AI, man, it’s

849
00:54:31,280 –> 00:54:33,789
tuned into me and it knows I don’t like your

850
00:54:33,889 –> 00:54:36,590
everyday run of the mill, whatever you hear on radio crap.

851
00:54:37,739 –> 00:54:41,019
I like different things. I like raw. I like bluesy.

852
00:54:41,119 –> 00:54:43,360
I like the, and it, and it feeds me the

853
00:54:43,409 –> 00:54:47,440
steady diet of independent artists and I’ve grown attached to it.

854
00:54:49,110 –> 00:54:52,809
I really have. So it’s really not the enemy. It’s

855
00:54:52,849 –> 00:54:54,250
a tool that you have to know how to use,

856
00:54:54,309 –> 00:54:56,289
but it can also be used against you. It can

857
00:54:56,309 –> 00:55:00,170
be used against everybody. And if these people get ahold

858
00:55:00,190 –> 00:55:02,619
of it and attempt to control it and turn it

859
00:55:02,679 –> 00:55:06,039
into a left is left wing echo chamber, uh, It’s

860
00:55:06,079 –> 00:55:07,780
just going to destroy it. It’s going to make it worthless.

861
00:55:07,900 –> 00:55:10,980
We might as well just hang it up. Got about

862
00:55:11,019 –> 00:55:19,610
three minutes. Real quick. California has passed their billionaire tax law.

863
00:55:22,670 –> 00:55:25,679
and a California entrepreneur, Eric Schiffer, warned that the state’s

864
00:55:25,929 –> 00:55:28,139
proposed billionaire wealth tax, well, they haven’t passed it yet,

865
00:55:28,219 –> 00:55:31,300
could drive some of its most successful businesses out of California,

866
00:55:31,760 –> 00:55:34,980
predicting a giant sucking sound of entrepreneurs heading for the

867
00:55:35,059 –> 00:55:40,760
exits if voters approve the measure. Schiffer, chairman of family office, patriarch,

868
00:55:40,880 –> 00:55:44,860
and CEO of Reputation Management Consultants, told Fox Business that

869
00:55:44,900 –> 00:55:48,079
he works with several billionaire clients, including some in California,

870
00:55:48,460 –> 00:55:51,739
and said many are unhappy about the proposal. Huh, how

871
00:55:51,760 –> 00:55:55,190
about that? It’s happening in New York. It’s going to

872
00:55:55,210 –> 00:55:57,019
happen in California. And guess what they’re going to do?

873
00:55:57,030 –> 00:55:58,989
They’re going to run to the federal government with their

874
00:55:59,010 –> 00:56:02,949
hand out going, well, America should pay for this screw up.

875
00:56:05,230 –> 00:56:06,809
I don’t want to pay for it. I don’t want

876
00:56:06,849 –> 00:56:09,730
a single penny of my tax dollars going to California. Sorry.

877
00:56:10,690 –> 00:56:15,210
They’re running the billionaires out on purpose. In their minds,

878
00:56:16,730 –> 00:56:21,960
California Democrats, just like New York Democrats, think that These billionaires,

879
00:56:22,280 –> 00:56:24,909
just because a lot of them vote Democrat, will just

880
00:56:24,989 –> 00:56:27,570
roll over and say, we can know what you’re right.

881
00:56:27,949 –> 00:56:33,010
We don’t pay enough taxes here. Here’s more money. We’re

882
00:56:33,030 –> 00:56:34,590
just going to roll over and give more of our

883
00:56:34,639 –> 00:56:40,360
wealth to the government. Instead, the ones who actually create jobs,

884
00:56:40,900 –> 00:56:45,559
who create wealth, create higher standards of living. Well, more

885
00:56:45,599 –> 00:56:48,829
than likely, just walk out. This isn’t rocket science, people.

886
00:56:50,530 –> 00:56:53,829
Businesses need to be profitable. They need to make a profit.

887
00:56:53,889 –> 00:56:56,889
I have helped run several businesses. I’ve been on the

888
00:56:56,929 –> 00:57:01,710
upper echelon in the decision-making process of businesses. If they

889
00:57:01,809 –> 00:57:06,940
don’t show profit, their credit rating goes down. If their

890
00:57:07,059 –> 00:57:11,679
credit rating goes down, it starts a downward spiral that

891
00:57:11,920 –> 00:57:15,360
often ends with closed doors, lost jobs, and even more

892
00:57:15,440 –> 00:57:21,840
people pooping on the streets in San Francisco. but the

893
00:57:21,880 –> 00:57:24,260
left doesn’t get it. They think these people just need

894
00:57:24,280 –> 00:57:25,610
to do it out of the kindness of their hearts.

895
00:57:26,719 –> 00:57:28,820
In the business world, there is no kindness of your heart.

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In the business world, if you don’t show profits, the

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banks run you out of business. Pure and simple. That’s

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the way it is. So are we going to see

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businesses fleeing California? Maybe. If they pass this, I think

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you probably will, just like you’ve been seeing them leave

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New York, New York City. They’re bailing as fast as

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they can And of course, as usual, man dummy is

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running over to the federal government going, somebody needs to

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bail us out. Somebody being you and me. Well, folks,

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I’m tired of looking at my paycheck and thinking that

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I ought to be a lot closer to retirement than

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what I am. And I would be if I wasn’t

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paying for a bunch of illegal aliens and a bunch

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of socialists with their failed programs. I’m Alan Ray. This

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is Sunday night with Alan Ray. Thank you so much

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for tuning in. I really appreciate it, guys. We didn’t

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do a whole lot of doom tonight, but we’re ready

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for it, right? We’re ready for the doom.

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Speaker 2: Bring it on.

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Speaker 1: We can take whatever you have. Lord willing, Lord willing,

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I will be back next week. Same bad time, same

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bad place. Really looking forward. Everybody have a great night. Remember,

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pray for wisdom and discernment because we need it now

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more than ever. Peace.