Surviving the Apocalypse (Maybe)

This week, Ami and Lydia are preparing for the apocalypse. Or at least talking about it. Do you need a prep kit. What would actually be useful to know. And how prepared is prepared enough. We explore survival skills, everyday preparedness, and the fine line between being ready and overthinking everything. Expect some questionable survival strategies, honest thoughts, and the realization that we might not last that long.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:08

What's up, A student?

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On the microphone, you've got Amy and Lydia. Woo woo!

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We're back with another Thursday episode as always.

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We're back with this will be on the test. Will this be on the test? Some of it might.

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I mean, it's like if you listen closely. So make sure to grab a notebook and a pen.

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Because this will be on the test. Okay. Today we are talking about having a prep kit. Are you are you prepared for when shit hits a fan? It's a treacherous times, guys. It is. Um, should I explain real quick why? Yes. I know we usually do that afterwards, but I feel like it's it's such a weird topic. Yeah. Um, I was talking to one of our listeners, and they told me that, yeah, because of the news and everything, like they thought it would be an interesting episode to see like, do we have a prep kit? What do we think about it?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

And they said this even before the new wars broke out, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:17

Yep, yep. That was before. And then I think like two days later, another war started. Um, so yeah, that's what we're talking about today, because Lydia and I are experts on this topic. Of course, obviously. So, let's jump right into it. Lydia. Would you rather be the last living person on Earth in a zombie apocalypse or be stuck with Donald Trump in a zombie apocalypse?

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Okay. Are he and I the last people in like if I'm stuck with him? Or is there a potential for me to escape somehow?

SPEAKER_03 1:52

You're stuck with him. Like you are with him. So if you find uh like a town with a hundred people, you have to convince them not only to take you in, but also to take Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

Okay, but I don't have to repopulate the earth with Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

See, that is like then I'd rather not humanity can die.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

I mean, either way, if you're just two people, are you really repopulating the earth?

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Well, no, but I don't want to put another one of him, like you know, on this planet. Yeah, no, I get that. That's you're not repop I mean, I don't know. Yeah, no, you're not.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

Because then your kids are gonna have to do it and their kids are gonna have to do it. Like, that's a lot of Alabama. Oh well.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

If um we're the last two people on Earth, I'd rather be alone. Okay. If we can find a different civilization and I just have to hang out with him, for the sake of humanity, I would choose to be stuck with him, I think. Okay. I might not live the longest because I will go into a deep depression.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

But for the will of the world, yeah, that would be my choice.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

That makes sense. I think if there were like different civilizations and you're with Donald Trump, let's presume you're in the US, chances are there are some people who like would love to take them him into their civilization. And honestly, I do think the people who are more prepared are probably the people who voted for Trump. So, like, that might actually be a leg up.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Yeah, and and I had a thought that yes, I don't stand behind his decisions, but he could be an entertaining person to have at a party.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

I think so. I think he might be fascinating. Yeah. Like, I don't love that he's the president, but I do think he's a fascinating person. That's true. I I think he might get a little frustrating, but then again, who wouldn't? Yeah, no, I think I mean you you choose the company.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

Yeah. Okay. Well, would you rather live on a farm during the apocalypse, obviously, or in a villa?

SPEAKER_03 4:05

I mean that one's so easy, no? You pick the farm. You pick where you can provide and where you have the weapons. Yeah. But the only thing I would say about a villa is like you wouldn't have to go outdoors. So like you could potentially make a garden on the roof and like be very safe in your little house.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

And usually, like when I picture a villa, I feel like it's usually a bit on the outskirts.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

And like secluded anyway.

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Has a fence around it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:37

So you would be, and I mean, notoriously, zombies don't climb fences in most of these.

SPEAKER_03 4:45

What zombie movies have you been watching? Because it's so false.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

Um Zombie Land. And that's it.

SPEAKER_03 4:56

Yeah, okay. So you get your information from uh uh what was it, a comedy? A comedy.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Yeah. Um there they don't climb fences.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

Do they not?

SPEAKER_00 5:07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

I don't think I think it depends on the lore, honestly. Like there are some zombies that are sprinters. Is that not what you call it?

SPEAKER_01 5:15

I think it is.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

Like the tail. Yeah, but like the the uh the background information kind of. So like Harry Potter lore is like it explains the world. Maybe I've always misunderstood the story.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

No, that it sounds like a nice word. Let's go with it.

SPEAKER_03 5:33

Okay, let's go with it. Um, so would you change to villa? I'm actually kind of digging the villa right now. Like a farm makes more sense.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

No, this is gonna sound okay. Anyway, does the villa come with the workers?

SPEAKER_03 5:46

No.

SPEAKER_01 5:47

Because if I have like a badass gardener to help defend my honor.

SPEAKER_03 5:52

Yeah, you have Donald Trump.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

Oh, right. I'm fine because he's totally for protecting women. I think you can fend for yourself. And then he would push me into the zombies.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

That's an that was not bad.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Appreciate it. Would you rather um survive a nuclear attack? Oh my god. Would you rather survive a nuclear attack in a bomb shelter and never see the sun again? Or live outside but have your life shortened by 20 years? Live outside.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

Okay, but then you would like let's say most people, the average lifespan is 86, eh, okay, you still got quite a few years. I should have said 30 or 40 years.

SPEAKER_01 6:35

I can't. I can't.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

I just thought it was relevant because doesn't Switzerland have like a lot of bomb shelters?

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

And you know, nuclear attack.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

It would take a while to go outside. Oh my god. No. I think even if you okay, should we change the question? Do you rather get safe, like be able to escape into the shelter, but you have to spend the rest of your life in the shelter or die in the bombing? Is that too gruesome?

SPEAKER_03 7:06

No, but I think like for me, that's kind of the same question of um I mean, we can ask that one too, but like, would you rather be the first person infected or the last person infected?

SPEAKER_04 7:17

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 7:18

Because I feel like for a while most people were like, the last person infected, I've survived. But I'm kind of more on like the first person infected. First of all, everyone's looking for me. Yeah. Because I'm patient zero. What up?

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Um, I'm famous.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

I'm famous. No, but also like the last person alive means everyone you've cared about dies. And I'd rather, like, I'm very selfish. I'd rather just not know that. Yeah. I'd rather just be like, whoops.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

If I have to live in a bomb shelter for the rest of my life, I would rather not.

SPEAKER_03 7:49

Okay. I think, honestly, okay. I think we would both choose not. But I'd be curious to ask this question again in a few years if one of us or both of us has has kids. Yeah. Because I'm I'm guessing if you're a parent, you're like, no, you save that little like bundle of joy, bundle of terror, whatever you want to call it, no matter what. So I think that's fair. But okay, my thought was you don't die in the explosion, which honestly I think is kind of preferred, but you have like severe radiation poisoning and like you slowly die over 20 years where you have like different cancers forming and everything.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

If you live outside.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

Yeah. I mean, yeah, you're exposed to radiation, so it wouldn't necessarily be a fun time. Time.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

So you're living in a radiated environment.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

How big is the shelter?

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Like you have little towns in it. It's not comfortable. You have to share rooms.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

You build a community. Okay, that that makes it more difficult. I think I think I would live outside.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

I don't know. Radiation scares the shit out of me, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Yeah, but even just fall fucks with my mental health.

SPEAKER_03 9:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

But I understand the whole radiation. I mean, I wouldn't want if I have kids, this changes the thing completely. Yeah. But that like if I have to live outside on radiation, I'm just doing everything I can to not get pregnant. To not put kids into that world.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

I think.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Although maybe mutation, and the kid is like super resistant to radiation. Anyway, let's move on.

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SPEAKER_01 10:48

Do you know any preppers?

SPEAKER_03 10:51

Yes. I actually know quite a few. Not like I have a bunker.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:57

But like I have a prep kit. I have a backpack to grab when shit hits the fan. Really? Mm-hmm. I know quite a few people, actually, I would say that like and I don't here in Switzerland or in Mexico mainly? No, both. Both places.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 11:14

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Mexico seems I might be prepper if I live in Mexico also. Just because of like the um earthquake.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

Yeah, I think there it does like you just it is more common for people to just have extra water or like canned goods. Also, because like um um elect what do you call it? Like uh power shortages happen. So it's not really a prepper, it's just like I mean I guess that is kind of what a prepper is, right? Like if things were to go badly for a while, do you have enough to sustain life? Um most people I know I think have like a little backpack or just some water somewhere or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Okay. So you don't. Um I know of people who like who for whom it is a thought. Um like they build our house and they they built it in a way that they could they have solar panels on the roof, and that is mainly because of the like for the environment. Yeah, but then as like a a different or another thought in their head is we could sustain ourselves if need be.

SPEAKER_03 12:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

They have a nice garden and everything. So I think it's in the back of people's minds. But I don't know of anybody who who has a backpack ready or do you think okay, I'm just thinking out loud right now.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

Because our society has kind of changed from providing for yourself, which I mean people still do, but in a very different manner, to like if like going to the store and getting stuff, so like one person provides for a bunch of people or like one company. Do you think that's why people are more likely to be preppers? Because we no longer are like there was no need for preppers 200 years ago because everybody kind of could sustain their own life. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 13:13

I think I think that's an issue, and also less a sense of community. If there's um an emergency, I think back in the day the thinking was more okay, I have chickens, the neighbor has pigs. So you know, I know that we can sustain each other if shit hits the fan. Yeah. And now I I think people are more to themselves.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

That's true. Oh, that's interesting. What I say.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 13:43

Okay. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

But on that note, if you had um 500 francs, what would you buy to prep?

SPEAKER_03 13:54

Um bomb shelter for 500 francs. Well, a cardboard bomb shelter. Bomb shelter. Um, I honestly like I don't think it's a bad idea to have some water canned goods, no, flashlight, some entertainment.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

COVID.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

It would have been good if everybody would have had a bit of extra toilet paper at home so people wouldn't have freaked out.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Yeah, maybe I'd buy a bidet so I wouldn't need the toilet paper anymore. Oh. I don't know if that was. That's true. Um yeah, I think also like a first aid kit or something. Like a really good first aid kit.

SPEAKER_01 14:38

It's a really good first aid kit that's 200 francs gone, though.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

Easy.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

And then I mean we live in Switzerland, so I would just get like bottles of water. Some canned goods, uh Swiss Army knife, and a deck of cards.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

There.

SPEAKER_03 15:01

I feel like like that is something that we underestimate is boredom. Boredom. And like you want my guess is if shit hits a fan and we need these prep kits, you're gonna want some entertainment to distract you a little bit from what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 15:15

Because it seems all dramatic in the movies, and it is, but between the drama, there's just nothingness because you have to wait.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Yeah, and there's nothing to do. So, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 15:25

That would be my my prep kit. What would be in yours?

SPEAKER_01 15:29

I think um ramen, a lot of ramen.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

But if there's a water shortage, how are you gonna cook that water?

SPEAKER_01 15:37

Oh, and dry. I feel like ramen you could make work dry. Yeah, I think so. Mix it with the spices and stuff. Um, I would. Aren't there like these water filter bottles?

SPEAKER_03 15:50

Yeah, we actually have one.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

I think I might get one of those. So I'm probably That's smart. Right.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

I don't know where ours is.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

I think I would go if I make one, I think I would go pretty pretty survival. So like that and something to start a fire.

SPEAKER_03 16:05

Oh, smart. I forgot that.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Um I'd be so fucked. It's okay if we we combine forces, we'll be fine.

SPEAKER_03 16:14

Have you ever thought of this? Because like I live in Zurich and I was like, if shit hit the fan, I would try to pack a backpack and start hiking towards Crabenden.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Like, I don't think.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

I would definitely go there if shit hit the fan.

SPEAKER_03 16:26

Okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

Zombies don't hike notoriously.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

No, but like you wouldn't want to be in a big city. No. And where our mom lives is like very much not a big city.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

Yeah. Yeah, it's way out in the sticks. I would definitely go there.

SPEAKER_03 16:38

Interesting. Okay.

unknown 16:40

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

But that's kind of what mom describes it as a safe house, also, no? I feel like she said this.

SPEAKER_03 16:49

Um I don't know if she meant it in this sense. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

Um, okay. I would yes, something made fire, water filter, ramen noodles. Um, so sorry, my knife is a good idea.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Oh, flashlights.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Flashlight. I wanted to say condoms. But no, because do I wanna like get pregnant in this time? That's my thought.

SPEAKER_03 17:21

Yeah, I think it depends on the the scenario we're in. Because like, okay, maybe we need to discuss this real quick. I honestly don't think that we're that close to the end of the world. I think every generation thinks they are. Um, with like World War I, World War II, like now we have different wars, we just came out of COVID. I think people have a lot of anxiety around it. I think the media is good at making us scared. So I don't actually think this. I think if something was gonna happen, it's probably like something like COVID, where it's like, okay, you need a few weeks where you can grin over it. And even if COVID had been a little, let's say, worse and more people had died, yeah. I think humanity will come through it. If something like the internet going down or like all of our electrical systems crashing, you wouldn't want a kid in that world. Like it would take humanity, I think, 10 to 20 years to be like, fuck what's happening, who's in charge? There would be chaos.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

No, I was thinking zombie apocalypse.

SPEAKER_03 18:29

Oh, okay, yeah. Maybe not. Little zombie boo.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

You bit my finger off it off my finger. I mean, no, in a in a crisis situation where you know chances are it'll get better than not. But I was thinking zombie apocalypse.

SPEAKER_03 18:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Um yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Okay, no, scratch the condoms.

SPEAKER_03 18:58

Don't scratch the condoms. That makes me I think, oh, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 19:06

I would take my sourdough starter. That's actually not a bad idea. I mean, I don't know if we have an oven.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Or flour. But you can build an oven.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

I'll bring my sourdough starter and flour. And then um uh I don't think I'm at 500 francs yet. The first aid kit, I would add also. And then I'm probably there. If I can, maybe like one of those warming blankets. Oh, an emergency blanket.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Yeah, we have one of those.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

You do?

SPEAKER_03 19:38

Yeah. For like hiking and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Yeah, fair. We don't have a first aid kit, but that woman that froze to death on the bike?

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Where? When?

SPEAKER_01 19:48

Oh my god. Um I can't remember where. It was somewhere. I can't remember if it was, I don't think it was in Switzerland, maybe France.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

And she went hiking with her boyfriend, and he went to go get help. And then she froze to death, and then it was this whole thing. Did he actually like did he leave her behind or did he try and go get help?

SPEAKER_03 20:06

And yeah, hiking's crazy. We should do an episode on hiking. I love hiking.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

I think they might have been ski touring. Okay, I can't remember, but in the mountains for sure.

SPEAKER_03 20:18

Ugh. Yeah. That's not a nice thought.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

No. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Different different epic. Um do you you have any life skills currently that you think would make you useful in an apocalypse situation?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

I know how to bake bread now. I don't think that's underrated.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

I think that's super friggin' useful.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

I just started baking sourdough bread, as you guys saw maybe on our Instagram account. Yeah, so I think that could be useful to feed people. It's bake bread. Um, besides that, I mean, I'm teaching.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

I think that's super useful. People will want their kids to be like somewhere with someone who like is safe and like passing on knowledge is, especially in an apocalypse situation.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Would be so shady.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

You can still teach them how to read, yeah. You can teach them basic math.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

Like, I think that's more important.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

They just can't ask me where so-and-so country is.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

That may no longer be important in an apocalypse situation.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

This country, well, we're figuring it out. Ask me in 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

Where it was? No.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Um then I mean maybe music to like lift people's spirits. Nice. Yeah, I think that's podcasting, obviously. Podcasting, obviously. I have I feel like I have basic carpenting, very, very, very basic carpenting skills. Yeah. Which could come in handy.

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:56

But hopefully there's somebody more skilled there. Because otherwise I'm not billing much. Anyway, what about it? Um I mean teaching, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

Teaching. I do think Rex would be a great person to have in the because he likes it. He knows different plants. He can like bake. Yeah. His family had sheep and like chickens, so he knows how to take care of animals. I think that I would know how to do too, actually. Like basic farming. Um I would also say basic carpentry. Like I don't think I could design a house, but I could help build one. Uh-huh. And there I think like my skills are higher than most people actually, just because we've done it quite often. Um, and then like maybe the like knitting and crocheting and embroidery that I could actually make clothes. That is good.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

That's very good.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

That might be like my strongest.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

Oh, we could have quite the community too.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

We could.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

I mean, okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

We could have a little fan. Shit hits a fan, you know. We'll do like a little A students uh A students community.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

Very nice.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

Um, okay. On top of this question, if you knew that like shit was gonna hit the fan a year from now, is there a skill you would learn?

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Um do I have to choose just one?

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Yes, I think so. I think you gotta be like, I'm going to learn this one.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Okay. Oh, no. Yes, I do know. Um like first aid.

SPEAKER_03 23:33

Oh, that's okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

I like it. I would do like classes. Hopefully, I would learn how to like mend basic wounds, kinda, like stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 23:42

Nice. Yeah. Okay, that's a good one. I like that you picked that because I was thinking more foraging and maybe hunting.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

I think foraging might be more useful because I do, and maybe I'm completely wrong because I've never been a hunter, but I do feel like foraging makes more sense because hunting you can figure out.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

Point and shoot kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Even if you don't have a gun, like I you can probably figure out how to build a snare or something. Like, I do think that is a certain logic behind it.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 24:20

Foraging is like, don't eat that. Don't eat that. Like, what just don't touch that.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

That's like my everyday at school. Don't, don't, don't, don't.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Why? What no? I'm gonna have to tell your parents. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Um, that's a good that would be a good skill to have actually.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

And I think with the hunting, if it's like apocalypse situation, the animals would then be like come to civilization more and more.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

Within a few years, yeah. But I think the foraging is like can maybe just get you through those rough situations. Although in winter you're still fucked here in Switzerland.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

I mean, yeah, but if we still have electricity and you can freeze things.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

Yeah. Or you dry them.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

Yeah. Is that part of foraging, you think, or is it just collecting berries?

SPEAKER_03 25:18

I think it's just collecting. But I think the knowledge, like you the knowledge of foraging, like I would try to specifically pick like foraging in Switzerland. Because I think it's too vast to say, like, I can forage anywhere. Um but I do think like, yeah, just knowing which plants are there are so many plants that are edible that I don't know about. Yeah. And it's actually something I would like to learn, but maybe one day. There should be a life course on this.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Yeah, there's two of my friends became pharmacists and they had to make these like books, and they're so gorgeous. And it's like books of plants and what kind of an impact they have on your body or how they can help and stuff, and it's really cool.

SPEAKER_03 26:00

I think it'd be cool to do like a week where like someone takes you into the forest and you forage and then you go home and cook it so you know like how to cook it. That'd be very cool. That'd be so cool. I would pay someone to do this if anybody knows how to do this.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Yes, that doesn't know.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

Um, on that note, slightly, what food could you live off of for a very long time without getting sick of it? Presumably you're eating the same thing over and over again.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

I mean, I could eat watermelon or apples for a very long time and not get sick of it, but I don't think that's a question. I honestly think the answer is probably something like rice or pasta. Like something just you'd probably get sick of it eventually, but it's just a very solid food.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Yeah. I was thinking I know this isn't like an apocalypse food, but I eat cottage cheese every day. I've been doing so for a while, and I'm not sick of it. But that's not a very realistic.

SPEAKER_03 27:01

You need to learn how to make your life skill that you're gonna learn is to learn how to make cottage cheese. Um, that would be a good skill though, like learning how to make things out of dairy.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Uh yeah, that would be a good skill.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

Maybe not specifically cottage cheese, but like cheese.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

Do you know roughly what the process is with cottage cheese? Because I have no clue.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Not with cottage cheese. With other cheeses, I do, but not cottage cheese.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Yeah. Okay. Um probably bread.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

I also thought bread, but still bread sucks. It's still good. Okay. Last question. Do you think prep kits are worth making?

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Sure. Sure. I I don't think it's worth having anxiety about. Like I know some people are like, oh my god, I need to renew my prep kit every so and so.

SPEAKER_03 27:56

I mean, if you have a prep kit, it's good to keep it up to date, for sure. But not having anxiety about it, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Um I think yes, it's fine, but it also makes sense to have a first aid kit at home anyway. Yeah. And then I think I think how it's portrayed in the movies is not realistic. Usually when there's an emergency, yes, you do have to get out and go, but you'll have a few minutes to gather those things.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Yeah, I think if I can hang on here, because I think it depends on the emergency situation. If it's something like COVID, it's nice to have some extra water, all this stuff that like Yes. But honestly, like um, when we were in Mexico, at one point in the middle of the night, the uh earthquake alarm went off. And we didn't we didn't grab shoes. Tarek was out on the street in his boxers, like we realized we had a bit more time, but like for me, the I mean it was just leave. Yeah. Because you're not safe in the building. And I wouldn't have like I would I don't even know where I would place a backpack that I would grab it, that I would think of grabbing it, because I think the the instinct of survival kicked in so strong that even if I had had a prep kit, it would have been pretty useless.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

So I do think it's worth it for and I do think the most likely scenarios that would happen in our world is something like um like a uh climate crisis for a few days and then we figure it out. So there I do, like I understand that point. Um yeah, sorry, I interrupted. I don't know if it's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

No, that makes sense. I think maybe I'm I am somebody who can usually in a crisis situation like force myself to okay, what do you need and then go? Like we had a fire alarm go off when I was in in a hotel in the UK, and I was freaking out, and still I was like, okay, ID. Like grab your ID and now leave. That was nice. No, and so I think because of that, I don't feel like I have to have a backpack ready. Yeah, because I feel like usually I can compose myself enough to be like, okay, first aid kit and now go.

SPEAKER_03 30:17

Yeah. But then in that sense, it does make sense to have a backpack where you have like some water and the first aid kit. I think it that does make sense again. Just for me, like the the earthquake alarm in Mexico, you have 30 seconds. And then I wasn't like, okay, what do I need? I was like, okay, we need to get out of this house right now.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

There was no earthquake, it was just a false alarm, luckily, but still, I think I'm not sure I have that. Like mine is more just like, look, get out.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Yeah, which is also fair. I think it's not. I mean, why not?

SPEAKER_03 30:51

Yeah, I I think honestly, I get it, especially if you're a caretaker.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Mm-hmm. Yeah, if you have if I had kids, yeah. Probably.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

I think then it's like then I understand it even more. Yeah. Funny stories?

SPEAKER_01 31:09

I don't have any funny stories. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_03 31:11

I know.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

I've never prepped. Oh, well, uh actually I do.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

So, um, well, kind of. I just have an anecdote. Dumaney's family, they have a really nice garden and they freeze all their food and they can live off a lot of their own food during the winter and stuff like that. So they're almost self-sustaining.

SPEAKER_03 31:33

Yeah, they're like total goals. Yeah. My God.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

And at one point during COVID, I joked to his mom. I was like, I know where I'm coming if there's a crisis, because their pantry is just full with anything you can imagine. It's amazing. So yeah, that's my only story I have in the broken apocalypse, is that I know where I would go. Um, but I don't really have, thankfully, any funny stories.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Oh, I do have a funny story. We have a funny story, actually.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

When we were in the US, hurricane came through, and our dad wasn't home. It was just our mom. Sorry. Our mom and us kids.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:25

And it was said to be like a category five or something, and it kept dropping categories. We got very lucky. Um, but first, like our neighbors, their granddad came over and he was like a military man, and he's like, You're gonna board up the windows. So we boarded up all the windows, and then he was like, Okay, we're gonna find the safest area in your house. And he took us, we we were seven people, yeah. And he's like, Okay, he found the smallest little pantry closet we had, and he was like, You're gonna get in here if it gets too windy, and we're like, Are we sure? I don't fit. And then our mom was freaking out, so she was like, Okay, we're gonna put some canned goods um and water up in the attic because we had to know that people had to like break through their attics, but then she put like a shitty little crowbar up there. Like, how are we gonna get out of that? Like, we didn't understand.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

Um it wasn't very rational.

SPEAKER_03 33:23

It wasn't very rational. Thankfully, some friends of Ian's were going to like this community church, and they were like, Why don't y'all come along? And we got there with like our I don't know, cans of beans, and there were families with like canoes. Oh my god, they were so ready. They were so ready.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

It was full of food. It was I was maybe five. Yeah. And for me, it was the bizarrest sleepover we had. I had no idea what was going on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:51

I mean, we got super lucky by the time it hit, it was like a tropical storm. So it really wasn't like we got really lucky with it. Um, but yeah, that was That was funny.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

That was Was that the time when she went when she was freaking out a little bit and she went to go drink margaritas?

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Yes, we were we were um boarding up the windows, and like we all had a little bit of anxiety, but I guess as a kid you don't really know what to do. Yeah, and like people were evacuating and she decided not to evacuate, and I think that gave her a lot of anxiety because she was alone with six kids not having evacuated.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, no chance you're gonna.

SPEAKER_03 34:27

And our neighbors had a generator, and I think she went over for something else. And I'm guessing, like, I don't know, I just these neighbors are so sweet.

SPEAKER_01 34:36

Now, as an adult, I can like as a kid, I was like, why would you do that? And now as an adult, I can fully understand.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

Fully understand that you're over there and you're probably freaking out, and you're like, what do I do? I have my kids here, and then and then the neighbor was probably like, I'm gonna make us a margarita, and then she was just gone, and we couldn't find our mom.

SPEAKER_02 34:54

And like this was before the storm even hit, and we were like, She abandoned us, she's gone.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

Oh, we had a good childhood. It's like she went to have a margarita, and we're like, We've been abandoned.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

I'm sure she had more than one margarita.

SPEAKER_00 35:09

Very possibly.

SPEAKER_03 35:11

Um, yeah, I forgot about those funny stories, but I feel like that was we got very lucky that nothing happened and that it was a lighter storm in the area that we were in.

SPEAKER_01 35:20

And we got to sleep in a church.

SPEAKER_03 35:22

Yeah, it was a really cool church, too.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

There was a slide in there.

SPEAKER_03 35:24

There was a slide, there was a basketball court in there. We played basketball. It was what a weird story. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Yeah. Well, um, I guess our advice is make a prep kit and uh as always, don't be an asshole.

SPEAKER_03 35:40

Yeah, don't be a dick. If if the world ends, you know, share the love. Build a community.