Oh , that's all this me every time . Welcome back To the come on , you know , podcast . I haven't done it , you know , while , get off my back . It's been a month , leave me alone . I've got stuff going on . Anyway , it's good to be back , though , well , for this episode .
Speaker 1So it's , it's crazy because I'm happy when I sit down and do an episode , but in between time it's like , yeah , I'll do one tomorrow , then tomorrow turns into Well , tomorrow turns into tomorrow , but you know , it turns into next Thursday . Who , the next Thursday turns into February . So it's like , whatevs , sit down , do it , knock it out , have fun , anyway . So I wanted to , oh , you know what . Okay , before I talk about this . So , hey , I'm gonna , I'm gonna call this segment of the show Stories bout little bro . Let me tell you about my me , tell you about a little bro . Real quick , this , this , this lives in my head . Free , a little Frankenstein head , a Frankenstein head bro . It's like , hey , man , long day of work , gonna go home , eat some steaks , make a baked potato . And he's like , man , I'm a baker , potatoes gonna take , you know , 40 minutes and whatevs , but I want to do at these steaks I gotta cook . Like , yeah , this sounds like good idea . So it's a good dinner , you know , that's so like he does it next day . I'm talking to him . He's like man , I had that steak . I had a potato to put sour cream on the cheese , bacon bits I'm like Bacon bits . It's like , yeah , I'm like why didn't you use your bacon , cuz I would have took to . Like you bake the potato for 40 minutes . You're gonna just put . He's like oh , yeah , yeah . So anyway , lives rent free in my head . That's me talk , bring you future stories about him anyway .
Speaker 1So so Subject I want to talk about is a little controversial , and it's not controversial because it's controversial , controversial because people really do have opposing opinions about this , and I want to . I Want well , it's not my opinion , but I Would like to disclose and talk to you about what I would do . So I want to talk about if we encounter a zombie attack , and I mean like Nationwide or worldwide , rather . So the thing is about zombie attacks . You know we've all seen movies , blah , blah , blah . You know we we all have or maybe we don't , some people do , some people don't have a plan of what we would do or what we think we would do right . So I want to talk to you about what I think about it , what I would do and how I would , you know , try to survive , because , you know , escaping a zombie apocalypse To me it requires , like a strategic approach , so things I would focus on , and I would love to hear what you would focus on or how you would do it . Or , if you think my idea is stupid , or if it's ingenious , which it will be so what would I do in a zombie attack ?
Speaker 1And , and so here's the thing too . So I'm so to a co-worker and this , this , I say this topic is controversial because I've had arguments with my friends about it , with my best friends about it . Like they , they had ideas of what they would do and they were different than mine . And we went , we went to war about it , but I talked , I talked to a Co-worker about this and he had a good point . He's like , hey , what type of zombies are you talking about ? Are you talking about Walking dead zombies ? We're takes them , like you know , 30 minutes to walk 10 feet . Or you're talking about World War Z zombies with their clothes , and speed is ridiculous . It's like Cheetah speed , you know . They're really fast and they attack in like super packs , like World War Z was crazy . Those zombies are out of control . But you know what I'm saying .
Speaker 1So that was a very good question , and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say I'm going to meet in the middle , and what I mean by meeting in the middle is mix it up a little bit . So , however fast that zombie could move when that person was not a zombie , like they keep that same you know , speed or physique , not the same mental capacity , because they're zombies . But if that zombie was a track star I mean when they were alive , then for my scenario , then they're a track star . If they were , you know , out of shape , bum dude not catching me , so I'm going to go with that . Whatever they were when they were not a zombie , then I'm going to say , for my scenario , that's how they were . So this is what I would do .
Speaker 1So I think , like I said , it's a strategic approach , as is surviving anything . And you could , you know , take the zombies out of the situation and say a quake or asteroid hitting or something where it's chaos , you know , but and something that will require focus on long term survival , or immediate , obviously , but then long term survival . So my plan , so I'm big on , so I well , you know , you have those people that are preppers and they're like dude , all I do is the zombies . I have everything else . I'm good to go , I'm ready , you know , I just need the disaster to happen .
Speaker 1Then you have those folks , that kind of 100% shoot from the hips , like I don't know , I don't know what's going on , so I'll just react to it as it happens . I don't know if I'd be too scared , all that blah blah . And then you have those folks in the middle . I think I'm a middle person . Some things I'll shoot , I'll shoot from the hip with , and some things I will probably have a plan in my head , but I would definitely be able to react immediately to what's in front of me , react to contact . I would definitely be able to do that and I would probably develop my plan as I go . So you can call that shooting from the hip , but it's kind of like rifling from the hip , like I have , you know , long distance in my sight , but I don't know , I don't know what I'm talking about . Anyway , this is what I would do .
Speaker 1I would try to definitely stay informed . What's going on . I would assume like , slowly but surely , all our communications would just go down somehow , right , and this is fun . This is a fun topic , you know . You can see what type of person you are about just describing your plan , but I would definitely try to stay informed . God bless those folks that would stay hunkered down and try to keep us informed , because that's another and that is you got to remember like people deliberately would have to stay doing whatever job they're doing while there's a zombie attack . They have family , they would probably be trying to get out of dodge as well , but whatever . But however , however , whatever , I need more cold sending pigeons . I would try to stay informed , so I would definitely try to figure out my shelter situation . I'm going to hunker down Now .
Speaker 1This is my friend and I differ . My friend is like hey , he'd stay in his house . He's sitting . My prepper , you know , guns , this , that . And I'm like no man , there's no zombie movie or show that you've ever seen where they stayed in one spot . No one stays in one spot because you're going to run out of resources in that spot and then the zombies made just like if you stay in your house , they're going to just crowd around your house and just be there and you can't kill all of them , you're going to have to move . I would move .
Speaker 1So I try to find like some type of like defensible location , something with like like one entrance . You know what I mean . So the zombies can't just like coming out of the sewers on me underground , all of that . And I would be asking for too much if I didn't want any windows . But I kind of want windows so I could see what's going on . But then I would try to like patrol those windows and all of that . Like well , if there's . If there's no , I don't want any windows . Like I would try to go to a facility that has multiple levels and I would prefer no windows on the ground level , if that makes sense . But that's asking for Christmas gift something with some like reinforced doors and windows and stuff like that , but basically Limited entry points , just in case the zombies kind of Develop some type of intelligence and they remember how to open doors and something that I could easily get to at , like the entry point . So some way I could easily get to if it becomes penetrated . Right , and this is something I said to my co-worker . I definitely would like .
Speaker 1I Want other people around me , you know . Of course I would Try to get my family together , but I would definitely want and other folks with with their families . But people like I would try to formulate a team , because you work better together , then alone yeah , I mean Would work well alone . You know what I mean . If you gather people , they may have certain skills that may become useful . I mean someone may be a medical person , someone may be I don't know a professional Brick Mason . You know what I'm saying . But you want somebody . You want , you want people with skills that you could use , preferably when you're trying to survive , because I'm talking , I'm not talking just fighting the zombies , I'm talking about After that , when you got to keep the lights on , you know if somebody steps on a nail , you need some definitely medical person , right , someone that can I Don't know know how to get clean water .
Speaker 1So all of that I mean , which I would know , but you know . So I would try to definitely your provisions . I try to stock food and water best I could , but I would try to do that while I'm finding my shelter location . So I've always said , hey , I and everyone fights me on this I I say , hey , I would haul Taylor to a Walmart and like , hey , everyone will be doing that . So are you sure ? You don't know , because , like my friend said , he would hunker down in his house . So I'm like you don't know if People would have the same mentality as you and just want to hunker down in their house . So the Walmart's may be empty because people may just be afraid to go to a big open air like a Walmart .
Speaker 1So when I'm talking about a Walmart , I'm talking about bringing my team to a Walmart , setting up a defense , and then it goes hand in hand . When I said , hey , I would try to like , stay in the know somehow , stay up on communications , you know , preferably from a reliable source , but who knows ? But so I would try to Do these things like In advance , meaning I know it's about to go down . I'll pull my team together , convinced him like , hey , stuff is going down , let's head to a Walmart . You know , hope it's not a 24 hour one , hope it's a closed one , break-in , set up defense . Let's go from there . So , and I picked the Walmart because you , you have provisions .
Speaker 1Normally Walmart's in the south have weapons and tools and , yeah , I definitely gas up my truck first thing , try to get some . I Would try to be ahead of the game as much as possible . If not , I'm shooting from the hit . I'll shoot from the hit , definitely , you know I , when I'm gathering my team , hopefully my team would have a means of transportation along with mine . So I'm gassed up and it has to be reliable . And then I would also well , if I'm in a Walmart , I have bikes , so some type of like silent transportation just in case I have to maneuver around the zombies . I'm assuming that they are like sound sensitive . They could hear you . I think I'm getting from the shows and the movies and all that . They can hear you . They will probably hear my truck coming from a mile away and they'd be chasing the truck .
Speaker 1And when I'm saying this , it's like , yeah , I'd be trying to kill the zombies and stuff like that , but I'm not going to spend all my time trying to kill all the zombies , because I'm assuming that I would definitely completely be outnumbered and there will probably be more zombies . Then I have the capacity for killing , you know , to reach my limit , and then I'd be hungry and tired and trying to gather my team , anyway , so , whatever . So , being in this Walmart , if I was in a Walmart , I would have a sustainable , like you know , provisions of water source but , as I stated , it would run out . And I'm talking , you know , weeks , what it was if I'm in Walmart , maybe months , but all along , you know , I'm trying to figure out what's going on . So I have my team and you know we will let people in if they seem trustworthy and not trying to take over , because everyone's at that time like probably going to be fighting for resources . It'll shift . It'll shift from the immediate shock of it's a zombie thing going on actions on contact people kill the zombies just trying to get to a zombie free , integral transition into like hey , like some type of like sustainable living , right , we got to wake up and eat and figure out stuff on the daily and we have to do other things . We have to , we have to relearn how to live instead of just fighting zombies , right ? So I definitely like fortified my Walmart somehow . So that would .
That would entail me probably going out on like night missions and get more vehicles , trying to find a better vehicles and stacking them up in front of my fortified Walmart and then , like you know , the team that I have like kind of talking to them about like this is crazy , right , this sounds like a legitimate thing because in my brain . I'm just thinking Walmart , so all the things I could do with the war . So it's fortifying this shelter . I have my resources that I'm coming up with a plan . So that's what I mean by I'm kind of half and half , like I'll shoot from the hip , but I'll also have have a plan . Right , I'm figuring out how to live and then I'll come up with the like a long term strategy . That's when you got to think about where the zombies aren't . You know what I mean . But so I'd fortify my Walmart . I'll set up , you know , the more deliberate it becomes , I'll set up traps for zombies .
Speaker 1And you know , if I have a decent person on my team , maybe previously engineered , I don't know , military person or something like that , somebody that has some type of skills that could help identify who has what type of skills and employ them efficiently . And then , like you know , you got to have redundancy . You got to have , hey , if someone is a medical person , I would have them try to teach someone else what they know quickly , just in case they go you know what I mean Like they go down some type of redundancy , but anyway , so I would try to work on like communications while I'm fortifying Walmart . See if the like ? That was my first point , but I will continue . I will continue to try to work on communicating with outside person , outside people outside outside I can't say outside outside people See what's going on . I would continue . I would have a communications person say , hey , this is your everyday job . If you can't do anything else , what else ? Like whatever skills I need because , like and I'm fast forward in like months now , like I'm in this Walmart for months already Because you know I see myself being successful with defending it , knocking out zombies , trying to do everything that I could do to be non detectable to the zombies .
Speaker 1I guess if that means like wiping zombie guts on my face while I go , try to find an abandoned car to drive it and for the fire , you know what I mean . Like stuff like that . I definitely try to meet my team or whoever I'm with . I would try to like try to not be so removed from the past life we had . So you know , if you work out , I set up some gym equipment in Walmart . You know what I mean .
Speaker 1Work out , just try to stay mentally in the game , because when you put people in predicaments where they just have to survive , they tend to get down because maybe six months ago they weren't in that situation . So six months ago they were on a couch playing video games . So it's a whole new way of living and they may get depressed . So you got to stay mentally fit because there's dangers out . You know what I mean . But so I would try to , once I'm settled with my team and we have everything locked down and we have a little routine , security routines , checking for the ZOM heads . You know , I don't know why I just said ZOM heads but I just made up a new , don't ? You know ? Nobody's still at ZOM heads . You know we have a little routine .
Speaker 1I would start incrementally going out further , further distances , walking where I went , coming back just to try to , you know , have contact with any other survivors and stuff like that . And I would definitely and I would do that one because I , you know , I would want to see if there's other survivors too , because I would definitely have an evacuation plan , while I would have to because we're going to run out of resources at Walmart anyway . So I would be , day by day , developing my evacuation plan . Yo , I'm really good at this . How do I get ? Maybe I watch too many movies , or maybe I'm just smart , but I definitely have and so and so I would . I would also be mindful of other folks doing the same thing and eventually trying , you know , finding my fortified Walmart or whatever .
Speaker 1I'm saying Walmart , but something like that that already has a lot of provisions . I don't have to go hunt for my food every day and then dodge zombies . 7-eleven yeah , if it's a 7-Eleven , then we're not talking about months , we're talking about weeks . Right , but 7-Eleven is smart because I'd have a fuel source . But I would only have a fuel source , you know , as long as the fuel pumps are working . So that's neither here nor there .
Speaker 1But I definitely have evacuation plan , a bug out plan , which would include a bug out bag . That'd be first thing . I'd always have that with me , because who knows what will happen to Walmart ? It may not even be the zombies , a pipe might bust and a Walmart may explode , so we may have to roll out . So I'd always have my get out of dodge fast bag with me and every day , as I'm like going out trying to find routes that are clear , clear zombies , not a lot of abandoned vehicles I'd plan those routes . I would mark it and say , hey , this route is clear up until mile 6 or whatever , and then which I would know I would I know any main roads would probably be horrible . So I'd do my best to avoid main roads and what I would assume to be highly populated areas and all of that . So you know , because a highly populated is a probably be highly populated zombie areas at that point . But so , yeah , and I'd definitely try to keep my team going mentally , like I said earlier , like try to try to reach back to that normal life we had somehow some way . If I could hook up some video games , if I could hook up I don't know a popcorn making machine , I do that , but I definitely support my team .
Speaker 1I would definitely invite others in if they seem trustworthy because , like you know , we've all seen the movies where they let a group in and a group just wants to take over there . That always seems stupid to me because it's like I'm not gonna . Why are you gonna try to fight me ? Because the end result of a fight could be you killing me and I'll just turn into a zombie , or vice versa , cuz I'm not gonna be the one that gets killed . I tell you that , but like vice versa , right , so it's like you have to be mindful of not make . I know people are selfish and blah blah , but you got to be lot . To me , logic wins in the end . People can be selfish here for five minutes , not think through , but you can't be completely selfish to think that you can take over somebody's domain easily , kill them . They turn into zombies . So you got a double kill them , which causes you to use whatever tools or mechanisms you use twice . You know I mean . So it's like I think TV gets that wrong .
Speaker 1I think if there was a zombie joint , I think the zombies will probably be all the recent dead people and you know some . Some people now get caught . So that would that would make new zombies . But I don't think it'd be a lot of . I think it'd be a lot of hey , let me in and we need help . These zombies are on our tail . But I don't think it'll be a lot of people like , hey , let me in , and then they come in and we're taking it over . We're gonna tie you up .
It's up like the movie , say cuz . It's like realistically , there's enough resources for everyone . We just got to get through the zombies . You know what I mean . So it's like if you have a good solid group of folks . I think they would get together and then take over a Walmart . And you're not taking over a Walmart , you're just getting past the zombies and securing that location , right . So I don't know if you , if you are a fan of the movies and how they think it'd go down and you want to go , get me , let's battle , let's do it , leave it in the comments or whatever . Whatever I have available , come at me .
Speaker 1But I think my plan , although it is it's descriptive , yet not detailed , meaning like I'm , you know I'm not saying hey , I'd go to the Walmart on 17th and , and you know whatever , 17th and 4th Street and my bug out bag would have like candy bars and a water purification pan-held system , and I'm not saying like what I would exactly have , which I think that would be more of a that's .
Speaker 1You could get into discussions about that stuff , you know , because people will be like , well , why wouldn't you have dehydrated food ? It's like because this is an emergency . I don't know where I could find dehydrated food , you know , I mean unless I'll have a whole bunch of canned goods in my bag . No , you wouldn't , because you couldn't carry it and I've never seen you work out my life , so just trying to be like reasonable , and I'm saying this like you can remove zombie and , you know , replace it with any natural disaster or I don't know , if aliens attack , what would you do , you know ? Would you wait for a government response or would you , you know , find the nearest palm shelter and set up and think you'd survive ? I don't know so , but I have a very yeah , like my plan is pretty good , is better than yours , so that's all I have to say . But uh , so that .