achieving adventure

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

 

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* I am at the NRA Expo in Nashville, so I have pre-recorded an awesome episode

 

News in Two Minutes Segment

By J.Bradbury of PreparePDX.com

* New desalination technology could answer state drought woes

* http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150217144246.htm

* Nuke Deal: World Powers, Iran Reach Crucial Framework

* http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/04/02/officials-agreement-on-outline-for-iran-nuclear-deal.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1

* Terror attack over, 147 dead at Kenya university

* http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/02/kenya-university-attack/70815094/

Topic:

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Natural Disasters

http://cleversurvivalist.com/2013/06/06/natural-disaster-response-rebuilding-sustainable-communities/

Brainstorming a community rebuild list

Scenario:

* A town was just destroyed by an F4 tornado (Tornadoville)

* Some people had home insurance, but most did not.

* Most small towns have members that are in construction

Helping your Communities with the Initial Rebuild

1. Allow Red Cross to come in and help.

a. Not Quick or Efficient

b. But they can still help

2. Allow any and ALL private organizations that are willing to help

a. Churches

b. Small non-profits

3. All town members:

a. Use their resources to help other

b. Basic damage control and cleanup.

i. Fencing

ii. Moderate home repair and land cleanup

iii. Remove large trees

iv. Give room and board to the new homeless

4. I don’t really need to spend any more time here, because there is a lot of resources for this.

How Do We Help with Post-Response Community Rebuilding?

1. Large call to action for all local and regional businesses

a. Larger businesses have more expendable funds

b. Local businesses will have the biggest gain from involvement

i. They become town heros

c. Businesses have more expendable funds will need to come up with cost-effective, efficient processes to cover needs

i. Clothing Shops: Basic clothing needs (not expensive trendy items)

ii. Grocery Stores and Restaurants: Basic food needs

Rice, oats, basic veggies

Temporary diet change, higher quality foods not necessary

Best connections to get cheap foods

iii. Construction Crews, Businesses, and Engineers: New Cheap Permanent Homes

Rebuilt

Trailers are temporary

Need to rebuild

a.

Housekeeping:

1. NRA Expo at the Music City Center in Downtown Nashville

a. April 10-12th

b. NRA Members get in free (and only NRA)

c. www.nraam.org

d. Planning to have a gathering Saturday, Apr 11th @ 7pm

i. Location Maggiannos Little Italy of Nashville

* limited space is available

ii. go to cleversurvivalist.com for more information

2. Today is someone interviewing me, and if you would like to interview me on your podcast, just go to theprepperpodcast.com/media

3. I have updated my web

How to Prepare for Grid Down Scenarios

Short Term (storms, hurricanes, tornados, etc), build a basic storm bag

Lighting

* Headlamps

* Cheap LED flashlights (using AAA or AA batteries)

* Keep lights in every drawer

Heating/Cooling

* 400W and 800W inverter

* Run electric blankets and small personal fan

* Natural Gas or propane heating

* Fireplace or Woodstove

Security

* Storm Shelter

* Safe Rooms

* Bugging out

Food/Water

* For short term, just a couple packs of granola bars or meal bars

* Couple bottles of water in your bag

Long Term (CME, EMP, Large Scale Disaster)

Water

* Quick, cheap storage is to use 2-liter soda bottles, or juice bottles

* Create water catchment and storage

* Roof catchment

* 50 gallon barrels

* 250 gallon IBC totes

* Ponds, rivers, streams

* Wells

* Get mechanical well pumps

* Filter your water

* Gravity fed

* Berkey Filter

* DIY use 5 gallon buckets and berkey filters

* Sawyer Mini system for each family member

Food

* Cooking Food

* Food you don’t need to cook, or require less cooking

* Canned Foods

* Gardening

* Learn storage methods

* Dehydrated foods

* Freeze-dried foods

* Non-electric appliances

* Meat grinders

* Blenders

* Can-openers

Climate (Heating and Cooling)

* Heating

* Cooling

Lighting

* Garden solar lights

* Candles

* Kerosene Lamps

* Flashlights and Batteries

* Handcrank or shake

* Camping Lanterns

* Handcrank or shake

* Matches and lighters

* Waterproof matches

Health

* Leave this to you guys, since you seem to hit on this a lot

* Have a basic first aid kit, preferably a more extensive kit

* Prescription medication

Backup Power

* Battery Banks

* Generators

* Solar

* Voltaic

* Thermal (most efficient)

* light

* Wind

* Hydro

* Geothermal

* Biomass/Biogas/Wood/Methane

* Rocket stove

* Wood stove

* Wood gas

* Transportation

* Bicycle

Build Relationships with Your Neighbors

Other Resources:

* Getting Started

* Getting Started in Prepping (aka Prepping 101)

* Low Cost Storm Survival

* Going Off Grid

*

Housekeeping

1. NRA Expo at the Music City Center in Downtown Nashville

a. April 10-12th

b. NRA Members get in free

c. www.nraam.org

d. Planning to have a gathering Saturday, Apr 11th @ 7pm

i. Location unknown

2. Please give me a review at theprepperpodcast.com/itunes

3. Today is someone interviewing me, and if you would like to interview me on your podcast, just go to theprepperpodcast.com/media

4. I have updated my websites

News in Two Minutes Segment

Topic:

Possible Events to cause Power grid failure

*

* Basic Storm

* Tornado

* Hurricane

* Blizzard

* EMP

* CME

* Hacking Attempts

* Geo-Magnetic Event

 

Concerns in grid-down scenarios

* Recovery will be over a year or two in a large scale grid-down event

* Grocery Stores will close

* Only have 2-3 days’ worth of food anyways

* Many that use their heads can get by for 14 days with no input

* Loss of Electric Devices

* Cooking food

* Perishable foods in fridge and freezer

* Heating and Cooling systems

* Lighting

* Vehicles (either fried electrical or gas pumps are off)

* Water (municipal water facitlities, or electric well pumps)

* Security (systems go down)

* Riots

* Theft

* Burglary

* After 60 days 50-100 million could be gone because

* Rampant disease

* Dehydration

* Starvation

* Murder

* After 3-4 Months

* 100-200 Million could be gone due to the same reason and that they neglected to Bug Out early enough before disease, rot, gangs and hoards.

* A few will manage to make it to the country for “easy pickings”, but will probably not live long.

* Health and Sanitation

* Flushing toilets

* Dysentery from bad water

* Viral or Bacterial Outbreaks

* Even prepped, self-reliant people will be vitamin deficient

Housekeeping:

* Don’t forget to join and get active at TopSurvivalForum.com

* Please give me a review at theprepperpodcast.com/itunes

* Questions or Comments: (978) KNOWS-IT or (978) 566-5748

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News in Two Minutes Segment

By J.Bradbury of PreparePDX.com

* Army opts for openness to security

* http://www.emergencymgmt.com/safety/Army-Openness-New-Computer-Security-Tool.html?elqaid=25900&elqat=1&elqTrackId=6B9102C4795824EC3122C966D8484E40

* How the most at risk cities for preparing

* http://www.emergencymgmt.com/disaster/How-At-Risk-Cities-Preparing-More-Power-Outages.html?elqaid=25900&elqat=1&elqTrackId=9CE5F39441006D1F10C02ECCB009B3A8

* Q&A: A Japanese Mayor On Tsunami Response Lessons For Oregon

* http://www.opb.org/news/series/unprepared/japanese-mayor-discusses-tsunami-earthquake-reponse-lessons-for-oregon/

Topic:

Importance of Youth and Community to Preparedness and Liberty

 

 

* Tell me a little about you, who you are, and how you got into preparedness?

* What is your mission here on earth?

* Tell me what the reroot usa movement is…

* You have a podcast called I AM Liberty, tell me why you chose to start a podcast, and a little about it?

* What are the three largest issues you see on the horizon for the prepared?

* What can we do about it?

* So you have a community approach to preparedness.  Why do you think that community is the way to true preparedness?

* What do you think is our best way to grow a community of prepared individuals that want to work together?

* I also noticed that you focus on the development of our youth, why do you think the youth of our nation is the key to a bright future?

* Can you give me specific ways that we can develop our children to be patriots, warriors, and critical thinkers?

* Tell me what your vision is for reroot usa and I AM Liberty…

* What are three resources you would recommend for others that are just starting in preparedness?

* Tell us how we can find you or how we can contact you and learn more…

* If you have any final wisdom or final words for everyone, I ask you to do it now before we go.

Resources:

http://iamliberty.wordpress.com

http://iamlibertyshow.com/

http://rerootusa.com/

http://www.prepperwebsite.com/

http://economiccollapseblog.com/

http://www.threatjournal.com

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/our-world-a-survivalist-graphic-novel

There will be no podcast this week.  Thank you for your time and attention.  I have some personal things to attend to this week and I hope you will join me next week.

Hint: Birthdays

Housekeeping:

* Don’t forget to join and get active at TopSurvivalForum.com

* Please give me a review at theprepperpodcast.com/itunes

* Questions or Comments: (978) KNOWS-IT or (978) 566-5748

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News in Two Minutes Segment

By J.Bradbury of PreparePDX.com

* Tell me a little about you, who you are, and how you got into preparedness?

* What is your mission here on earth?

* Tell me what the reroot usa movement is…

* You have a podcast called I AM Liberty, tell me why you chose to start a podcast, and a little about it?

* What are the three largest issues you see on the horizon for the prepared?

* What can we do about it?

* So you have a community approach to preparedness.  Why do you think that community is the way to true preparedness?

* What do you think is our best way to grow a community of prepared individuals that want to work together?

* I also noticed that you focus on the development of our youth, why do you think the youth of our nation is the key to a bright future?

* Can you give me specific ways that we can develop our children to be patriots, warriors, and critical thinkers?

* Tell me what your vision is for reroot usa and I AM Liberty…

* What are three resources you would recommend for others that are just starting in preparedness?

* Tell us how we can find you or how we can contact you and learn more…

* If you have any final wisdom or final words for everyone, I ask you to do it now before we go.

Resources:

http://iamliberty.wordpress.com

http://iamlibertyshow.com/

http://rerootusa.com/

 

http://www.prepperwebsite.com/

http://economiccollapseblog.com/

http://threatjournal.com/

 

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/our-world-a-survivalist-graphic-novel

Housekeeping:

* Visit TopSurvivalForum.com

* Give me an ITunes Rating by going to theprepperpodcast.com/itunes

Topic:

Intro:

 

Dr. Lewis and Janet have a long history of helping people achieve their maximum potential.

Dr. Lewis stays current on the latest research pertaining to nutritional supplements and optimal health.

Janet Lewis is a Certified Natural Health Consultant with a unique perspective on alternative and complementary nutrition from studying with numerous national leading alternative health experts.

Their company, Doctor’s Nutrition, provide Evidence-Based Nutrition™ , where you get information based on years of experience treating patients with natural compounds and verifying the results with pre and post lab tests thru your local Labcorp that is available nationwide.

This service is provided without the need for waiting for hours and spending lots of money in a conventional doctor’s office by offering free consultations.

They also provide access to the pharmaceutical grade products that you need. This insures that you get only the formulas that you need based on your specific health needs.

Questions for both Episode 65 and 66 combined:

* Can you tell me, a little bit about you?  What your certifications are? And how did you get into preparedness instead of some other medical path?

* What is the biggest problems that you can see that face the preparedness industry?

* What would you say was your biggest mistake you have ever made in preparedness? Be Specific…

* What would you say was your biggest triumph?  Something that you were just excited that you accomplished or achieved.  Be specific…

* How can you prep and survive during tough times if you don’t have the health and energy to meet your goals, or if you don’t have access to medical care because it is unavailable during a crisis?

* Would you elaborate on why you feel our foods are not adequate for optimal health and survivability?

* But What about that wonderful choosemyplate.gov? 

* With the new “Un” Affordable healthcare act, there is increased fear and confusion. Can you explain what you believe the best course of action a person could take?

* We know that growing your own food is a wise thing to do, but is it enough?

* Can you explain the difference between genetically modified foods, RBST, glyphosates and their impact on your health and your ability to sustain life and energy?

* In our food supply, we have a net gain of toxins and a net loss of nutrients. Where would someone start who is seeking optimal health and energy?

* Do these toxins create things like stress, anxiety, depression, hormone problems or obesity or any other diseases?

* What are some of the best resources for preppers and survivalists to help them prepare now for their nutritional needs in the future?

* Where can someone find you if they want to know more about what you do and how you can help them?

a. http://pods.drsnutrition.org

 

“We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.” ~ Michelle Obama

Housekeeping:

* This is the very last time you will be offered the FREE WEBINAR: Creative first Aid Kit Components during this launch

a. 45 Min Webinar

b. All the things you can learn:

i. Up to 20 Common Items you probably already have

ii. to use what you have

iii. Awesome survival techniques using these items

c. http://theprepperpodcast.com/creativefirstaid

 

News in Two Minutes Segment

By J.Bradbury of PreparePDX.com

* Emergency Preparedness week

* Ultra early stroke care

* http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/02/04/ultra-early-stroke-care-can-start-with-paramedics-study

* long lived northeast storm

* http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/next-winter-storm-northeast-great-lakes

 

Topic:

 

Intro:

     

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Lewis and Janet have a long history of helping people achieve their maximum potential.

and Janet have a long history of helping people achieve their maximum potential.

Dr. Lewis stays current on the latest research pertaining to nutritional supplements and optimal health.

Janet Lewis is a Certified Natural Health Consultant with a unique perspective on alternative and complementary nutrition from studying with numerous national leading alternative health experts.

Their company, Doctor’s Nutrition, provide Evidence-Based Nutrition™ , where you get information based on years of experience treating patients with natural compounds and verifying the results with pre and post lab tests thru your local Labcorp that is available nationwide.

This service is provided without the need for waiting for hours and spending lots of money in a conventional doctor’s office by offering free consultations.

They also provide access to the pharmaceutical grade products that you need. This insures that you get only the formulas that you need based on your specific health needs.

Questions for both Episode 65 and 66 combined:

* Can you tell me, a little bit about you?  What your certifications are? And how did you get into preparedness instead of some other medical path?

* What is the biggest problems that you can see that face the preparedness industry?

* What would you say was your biggest mistake you have ever made in preparedness? Be Specific…

* What would you say was your biggest triumph?  Something that you were just excited that you accomplished or achieved.  Be specific…

* How can you prep and survive during tough times if you don’t have the health and energy to meet your goals, or if you don’t have access to medical care because it is unavailable during a crisis?

* Would you elaborate on why you feel our foods are not ad...

Housekeeping:

* I still have room in my FREE WEBINAR: Creative first Aid Kit Components

a. 45 Min Webinar

b. All the things you can learn:

i.Up to 20 Common Items you probably already have

ii. How to use what you have

iii. Awesome survival techniques using these items

c. http://theprepperpodcast.com/creativefirstaid 

News in Two Minutes Segment

By J.Bradbury of PreparePDX.com

* Ultra early stroke care

* http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/02/04/ultra-early-stroke-care-can-start-with-paramedics-study

* long lived northeast storm

* http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/next-winter-storm-northeast-great-lakes

Product Review:

Ozark Trail Men’s Low Profile Hiking Boot

I bought these shoes because I had soaked through some other shoes I was wearing in the rough.  I tested these shoes out in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.

Unboxing the Item:

* I felt that it was typical with a Walmart boot.

* It seemed heavy and rigid.

* I thought it would stink as a shoe, but needed something dry.

* I liked the rugged sole, it looked like it would work well in outdoor terrain.

Reviews:

* Most People thought it was a good shoe.

* Many 4 star reviews, some five and 1 1-star

* Good Comfort

* Stylish

* Many people said they would buy another pair.

My Review:

* I actually do like the Ozark trail brand for cheap wear.

* This shoe wasn’t any different.

* Tried shoe in Appalachians

* Only bought it because I needed something cheap and dry

* My Normalcy Bias: over 50 hours a week I wear steel toe boots

* The shoes fit well, but just a bit loose.  Not a big deal for me.

* My feet did not get extremely tired in them.

* A little stiff on the sole, so it make it more difficult to “feel the trail”

* I like to be one with nature when in nature, so this detracts from that a little

* The insole is also a little thin and too firm, but you can buy a good insole.

* So for $20, can get these shoes and upgrade with a $20 insole: totaling $40

* Other people made a few comments on these shoes about being round shoelaces.

* I don’t care, because I ALWAYS double tie my laces, and I generally swap them out with paracord.

* I also wear another Ozark trail hiking shoe and my edc, and keep another pair in my vehicle.  I use these shoes daily.

Housekeeping:

*

* Today is the official announcement: FREE WEBINAR: Creative first Aid Kit Components

* 45 Min Webinar

* All the things you can learn:

* Up to 20 Common Items you probably already have

* How to use what you have

* Awesome survival techniques using these items

http://theprepperpodcast.com/creativefirstaid

*

News in Two Minutes Segment

* Full Spectrum Survival

* https://www.youtube.com/user/FullSpectrumSurvival?feature=em-uploademail

* Doolittle Raiders

* http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2015/01/29/doolittle-raider-edward-saylor-dies/22529753/

* Guy Builds snow cave

* http://www.newser.com/story/200694/guy-builds-snow-cave-to-survive-2-nights-in-canyon.html/

Product Review

Waze Android App (available on iOS as well) 

* Smartphone App that acts as a crowd sourced Navigation app with real time traffic and hazard information.

* originally started by an Israeli company

* sold to Google in 2014

* function where it crowdsourced most of its updates.

* It had problems with the map accuracy

* corrected since Google bought it

* Waze feels like a cartoon version of Google Maps.

* updated map now

* everything a Libertarian wants in a map app

* interesting with the sounds and updates that it has

* It has an almost “game-like” feel to it

* Rack up on points based on your driving where you are ranked out of the people in your state. 

Examples of items you can report on the app are:

* Police

* Traffic Jams

* Objects in the Road

* Cars Stopped on the side of the road

* Weather

* Accidents 

Examples of information you get on the app:

* Traffic

* Other Users (by username, not real name)

* Estimated Time of Arrival

* Trip Length

* Mileage

* Speed by GPS

* Anything that has been reported

* Gas Prices near you

Topic: Tracking Animals

* Most basic question in tracking: What Animal is it?

* To successfully trap, you must learn to observe.

* Next, you must make the correct deduction from observation.

Birds

* Hopping on ground

* Feet side by side

* Meaning it is unaccustomed to the ground

* It must feed in air or on shrubs/trees

* If it is a fruit or blossom eater, it walks along branches

* If it feeds on insects, it hops from branch to branch

* Hopping birds should be insect eaters

* Not always the case (think chickens and canaries)

Walking Birds

* These birds walk

* Some or all of their food is on the ground

* It will feed on:

* Grain

* Fallen fruit

* Ground living creatures

* Flesh found on the ground