spk_0:   0:42
Good morning, everyone. It's morning somewhere, wherever you are.

spk_1:   0:45
Good morning. And welcome to show the big show That was important and critically acclaimed. But guess it is recorded in our car today. We're in the red studio. Then we're heading to living the state of I wa I wa I wa You did it. You did it. Uh, I, uh I, uh That's where the tall corn grows.

spk_0:   1:04
You have a little get that out of assists.

spk_1:   1:05
Except for this year. The tall corn really didn't go that well in Southern I with this year because it kind of had a drought. But anyway, we're a long we gotta episode today for you that she does not know what it is. A Mystery Episode History Episode Mystery episode My co host does not know it is, but she could talk on all three of these subjects. My episode podcast idea for today is three things every prepper should do that are critically important to keeping you healthy, wealthy and wise. Is that a really boring? Okay.

spk_0:   1:51
Okay. Like, get regular exercise.

spk_1:   1:54
Oh, no. You don't know what the artist is. A mystery episode. This isn't just you inventing stuff I actually have a plan here. Hello. We'll pull and get regular exercises as a bonus. Number four just that is a good point. Are you ready? Born ready? Okay. This is probably the most boring one there is, But it's the truth. Probably the number one thing you can do for your health, no matter what condition you're in from elite athlete, uh, would marathoner Iron Man Iron Woman all the way to the biggest couch potato on the planet is to wash your dad gum hands.

spk_0:   2:50
All righty, then. The primary way to transmit transmissible disease from one human to another in modern society is absolutely sick. Person accidentally gets some of germs on hand or cough some of germs onto surface. New victim touches said surface new victim at some later time. Not too much later. Touch his face, touch his nose. Touches food that goes into mouth touches pen holds pen and teeth. Will Does something transfers germs to own mucous membranes. Gets infected, gets sick. That's the number one transmission road Washing hands does an amazing job of cutting down the level of transmission of most transmissible diseases. That or not well, they're called sexually transmitted diseases because they require a little bit more intimate contact. It's nothing magical about the sex part. It's just about the close contact. But if it doesn't require that intimate of contact, hand washing does an amazing job of cutting down infection rates.

spk_1:   4:04
Okay, and by hand washing, we're nuts. We're not just talking about dip in your hand for three seconds under some cold water azur walking out of the big box store bathroom. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about actual hand washing,

spk_0:   4:24
so the most important things there are soap. It doesn't have to be anti bacterial soap. In fact, I don't use this stuff if I can avoid it, because the extra chemicals are not particularly helpful and, uh, might have some negative effects. So regular garden variety soap is fine, but you lather up good poems fingertips around the base of the nails. If you kind of swirl your fingertips around in the palm of your hand, that's a good way to get stuff on your nails. What you're doing is lifted everything off your hands so that when you rinsed the soap off the germs, go with it down the sink. they're doomed. Yeah, the temperature of the water actually is not that important. Except to make this effective, you actually have to spend a little bit of time with the rubbing the soap around and rinsing steps. 20 to 30 seconds is way more effective than 10 seconds. And it's been found that if you use warm water, people will actually do it for the recommended period of time. And if they're using cold water, they tend to go a little short because it's uncomfortable. Yeah, if you insist that you keep your hands in the cold water long enough, it actually does. Just about the same job is warm water, But you won't unless you're thinking about

spk_1:   5:39
it. Okay, Now here's Here comes my part of washing hands that I'm gonna throw in here because so much of the time, it's not as okay, I'm gonna throw. A caveat here is not as important to wash your hands regularly and all the time. And, you know, you've become a compulsive hand washer at home because pretty much you're gonna be exposed to the germs that you have, which you already have, and your family, which isn't as much germs as everybody else now, Yes, You still want to maintain good hand washing regimes and stuff like that. But if you hold hands with your spouse, well, you that's what you're doing. You know what she described

spk_0:   6:24
Devon Street.

spk_1:   6:25
She's grabbed my hand. So there were. You know, this is not This is something that's not as big of a deal but strangers. Dear me, you're not only it's not their germs, it's all the people that they've been in contact today or all of the surfaces that they have touched. All of the people who have also touched the surface is. So when you're out in public, you know you need to keep your hands away from your face if you can without before you watch. Certainly every time you're gonna eat, you want to wash your hands before you eat in public. Maybe, maybe it's not such a big deal if you're in your car and getting the food to the window, but we still we keep. I've got right here. I've got a reaching down and grab it right here.

spk_0:   7:10
Can't sanitize your job because you're still not as effective as washing with soap way better than doing nothing. Plan is the alcohol dehydrates the germs and causes most of them to croak.

spk_1:   7:24
And it does. It does pretty good job of it.

spk_0:   7:26
So you put some of this in your poem, You make sure your rub it over the fingertips and nails again. You swirl your fingertips around in your poem to get some under your fingernails. It does a much better job than, say, a moist wipe would do or even what they would call an antiseptic, moist wipe. It does a better job than that, but not quite as good a job is s open water 20 to 32nd walk.

spk_1:   7:49
The old moist towel at is better than nothing, I suppose. But not much.

spk_0:   7:54
It is because I'm thinking about the thing about grime is some of the germs are are in the grime, and some of the germs are sticking invisibly to the surface so hands can look queen and not be clean. But if they look dirty, they absolutely have a higher proportion of stuff

spk_1:   8:09
on him. Right? So the old moist towelette No, I'm gonna give you another caveat with cleaning. Let's say you go and you wash your hands and you wash, wash, wash, wash. Get a really good you do a great job. You're walking out the bathroom door and you grab the handle of the door. Boom. You may as well have. When I was in middle, I'm not washed her hands in one hand, a stoker. The minute you grab grab that bathroom door, you have just invalidated your entire hand wash. And you know, I don't know how women are not spent a whole lot of time in women's bathrooms, But I'm telling you how many times I've been in a man's bathroom watch. You gotta go in there and use the bathroom is turn around and walk right back out and grabbed that old door handle. Yeah,

spk_0:   9:04
syrup cious. Studies show it's common in both sexes, but it's more common in men's bathrooms in women's bathrooms.

spk_1:   9:12
Yeah, you did a article not long ago. Bet Noro Virus. And one of the ways that normal viruses spread is contaminated surfaces.

spk_0:   9:25
Absolutely the primary way. Nora virus has spread his contaminated surfaces,

spk_1:   9:29
and, you know, this is this is what I'm talking about. Norovirus is is spread through fecal matter and poop or vomiting. You know, This is how it happens. So no, it's I can't it. It's boring. It's something we've all learned. We were four years old. It's boring. What does this have to do with prepping? Because this can keep you safe, and especially if we get into a situation where there's a virulent flu or a big transmission disease problem,

spk_0:   10:08
or any time a lot of people are moving around like there are refugee centers or there's a lot of people trying to bug out. There's a whole lot of people going through the convenience stores and gas stations. You may be stopping it to get through. There's just Ah ah, lot of sick people moving around and it's easy to catch things. And I have had norovirus were while traveling, and if I had had to get myself anywhere, it wouldn't have happened. It just wouldn't have happened. I was totally

spk_1:   10:38
happened with me driving because it was she was that bad off. I mean, we were point.

spk_0:   10:43
Every bush looked good

spk_1:   10:44
and she was dehydrating in front of my eyes.

spk_0:   10:50
The reason space

spk_1:   10:51
she was becoming she was shriveling, looked ahead of yourself. Some kid halfway across my lane, he's looking at his friend. I got a big pickup truck. Oh, I'd like to kick him bearable, but

spk_0:   11:06
that sounds like the time to transition to part two. Deep breath transition. You

spk_1:   11:13
can get that in the texting with the cell phone that you're driving down the road. You know, checking your cell phone. Yeah, I get that. Okay, probably shouldn't I have a bad habit of doing it now? My cell phone is on the floor, right? It's a moment. It's getting charged, but it's on the floor

spk_0:   11:30
and he's got the not driving AP set upon,

spk_1:   11:34
and I've got them not driving. Yeah, so it stops me from doing anything if I'm actually driving because I know everybody does get attempted from time to time. Even Spice gets tempted from time to time, and she's not a phone person,

spk_0:   11:50
and I'm pretty serious about refusing that. But But I did get audio peppers

spk_1:   11:55
and she so I'm going to say, Don't text and drive being my point to be. That's not my main point, and this is one that's just so dumb is so boring. I'm almost hesitant to mention it.

spk_0:   12:17
Oh, it's not always boring. I remember one time when it was extremely exciting. It was a dark and stormy night and salty, and I were driving home after one of our adventures. Yes, when out of the dark, Not very far in front of us because we couldn't see very far on a dark and stormy night, there was a black line stretched across the road, and we hit a guy wire for a telephone pole at put height of the car. Almost full speed and the trunk of poll that the drunk driver had also left attached to the guy wire whipped around like a bowl. Oh, and slammed into my side of the car while the hood of the car came up and smashed the windshield. We stopped very suddenly, and

spk_1:   13:01
from 55 60 each of 25 Boom.

spk_0:   13:06
Yeah, it was extremely quickly. It was

spk_1:   13:10
like an arrested cable on an aircraft carrier

spk_0:   13:13
and very much like the arrester cable around my chest kept my face from slamming into the windshield that had come 10 inches toward my face or a foot toward my face. When we hit the thing, everything crumpled back toward me. My seat belt caught me and I remember seeing that splintering windshield about four inches in front of my nose as we were all stopping.

spk_1:   13:38
What happened? Wasthe e guy were caught on the very, very, very top part of the front fender. You know, they've been six inches higher. We would have been decapitated.

spk_0:   13:48
Yes, we wouldn't be here. Would just

spk_1:   13:50
cut us in. Half

spk_0:   13:51
been the hit, but it

spk_1:   13:52
caught the very front of the car. There were actually three wires. One went underneath the car. One went back into the grill and cut all the way through the radiator in the third wire, caught just the very top of the hood and took the hood and peel it back and through the hood through the windshield.

spk_0:   14:18
Yeah,

spk_1:   14:18
so I mean, the windshield made of safety glass. So it didn't shatter on us, but literally, the hood was probably maybe a good foot inside passenger.

spk_0:   14:30
It was 10 inches to a foot and with a small car. So yeah, that was no warning. That was no approaching car to watch out for that was salty. Had been doing a perfectly good job of driving. I had today

spk_1:   14:43
stopped in that town miles south of us. I had just stopped and I bought a drink to help keep me alive and keep me way gives a midnight or after you were driving back from an event and I just woken up by, you know, walked around intentionally was getting a little drowsy. So I got out work myself up and it was cold out, so that won't be up. Yes, I was wide awake, but I just didn't see it. We're going around a curve and you know, three

spk_0:   15:16
thin black lines on a dark night

spk_1:   15:18
across the road in the dark are really hard to see going around a curve. And also they were just there and it was nothing I could do. I didn't even have time. Just like that. Looks like a bank.

spk_0:   15:31
We're here for two reasons. Look and seat belt, both of us at our seat belts out. And they both caught our faces before our faces impacted that windshield, which was coming to meet us. So, yeah, wearing safety belts is 0.10

spk_1:   15:45
and this was the kind of this was the kind of wreck that would not pop airbags because it didn't hit the air bag. Censor the cable's just didn't hit where the sensors were. So yeah, we're here because we are alive today because of seat belts. And I know this is boring. I get that. But if you are a prepper, what is your number one goal? Survival

spk_0:   16:08
survive and thrive

spk_1:   16:10
survival. And the best way for you to survive in an automobile is to put on your seat belt. Will it save you all the time? No, they won't. But you have a lot better chance of walking away from an accident or a least going going away from an accident in a kn ambulance is supposed to a hearse. If you wear your seat belt and I know it's boring, I get that. It's boring.

spk_0:   16:33
So what takes five seconds when you get in the car?

spk_1:   16:36
This is the number one thing a prepper can do other than washing your hands to save your life or to keep you well, and people still won't do it. I don't get it. I get it. When you're driving around town, you're only going to blocks. But a lot of the steep of the serious injuries and cars happened within three blocks. I'm bad about that

spk_0:   16:58
and drive to work. I'm really good about reminding him. E

spk_1:   17:02
drive the work of three blocks from work, and we do not live in the metropolis. There are days when I don't see it in the car with road when I drive to work in day like you know, but virtually cars have gotten so annoying about seat belts that, you know it's seatbelt. Usage is way up because they're just so annoying. But we've also got like we've got a 3/4 ton pickup truck and it's not in the state of Missouri. It's not illegal for me to drive that without seat belt, but I put it on. I can drive anywhere I want to, legally, without a seatbelt, because it's not a passenger vehicle or not considered a passenger vehicle. Yeah, which is kind of a strange law, but that's what it is. So, anyhoo, long story short, that's number two. Number three is a little more egg, but it's something I think we can all relate to. Maybe the best way to survive other than the 1st 2 The best way to make it through to your old age is to always of Wade, putting yourself in a Hey, hold my beer and watch this situation.

spk_0:   18:34
Yes. Don't be. That guy is that

spk_1:   18:36
guy. We were friends, and I'm not gonna name friend. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna name him.

spk_0:   18:42
Oh, my personally would least like to light fireworks with somehow. He's

spk_1:   18:49
in his forties. I have no idea how that happened.

spk_0:   18:52
He spends more time in the emergency room than some emergency room physicians. I know.

spk_1:   18:57
Just cause I mean, what? That's kind of like what could you have been thinking? You know, I guess I blew half of my hand off, But you gotta admit it was funny. No, I really don't. Those that is a direct quote from a conversation with him last weekend. In fact, Spice and I were sitting here Fourth of July. Actually, it was about the first of July in I'm gonna call him Bob. It's not his name, but I'm gonna call him Bob Smith. Just because I don't want a name is a very unique name. And she could google it and you'd find him. It's extremely unique name. Uh, Kayla is not your honest grassy Chicago Bears, but it's kind like your honest graft. So you're the guy who played center for the Chicago Bears. There's really only one of us. Okay, so it's that kind of name, but it isn't her arms aggressive. He's I don't know her honest. And I don't think he does this with fireworks, either.

spk_0:   19:58
Certainly not. It's got his fingertips,

spk_1:   20:03
but ako bob. I looked over the spices, you know, we were kind of thinking about what to do. Fourth of July was in the middle of the week. We couldn't really do anything. And maybe we should get together with some friends. You know, we got some friends who have a lake and they go out and shoot fireworks and stuff like that. But you know, the one thing I don't want to do

spk_0:   20:24
Go watch fire with Bob.

spk_1:   20:25
We're not. Let's not go do fireworks of Bob Smith. Oh, absolutely not. Oh, no, that was not the word She is is a G rated podcast. So

spk_0:   20:36
Elect Bob, Another circumstances. I enjoy spending time with him, But if fireworks are involved or anything,

spk_1:   20:43
are shotguns or

spk_0:   20:44
power tools power

spk_1:   20:45
tools of any kind of explosive gases? Electricity? Well, he's a little more careful that electricity and his father is There's a complete maniac when it comes to electricity.

spk_0:   20:59
He still half blown, fell through walls by contacting things carelessly, though.

spk_1:   21:03
Well, I guess that's true. But that's mostly because his father took all the safety mechanisms off to make it easier. T that's what happens. He is there supposed to be a hatch covering that three phase? No junction. But it's hard to maintain if you leave the hatches on. Yeah, that don't you? There you go. So, yeah, he he has ended in this. So we said this list last fourth of July and then two days later for the July, um, as usual, spending our fourth of July holiday in the emergency room. This is his wife is also a good friend.

spk_0:   21:51
He thought it would really, uh, startle the neighbors if we did this. Yeah, it did. Yeah, it started the E m s responders. D'oh!

spk_1:   22:04
When the a Mills Cruz know you by your first name,

spk_0:   22:07
the basic point about this is when, especially when you're handling dangerous things and vehicles are dangerous things. Don't forget that, please. Whatever you're handling dangerous things, you think about potential outcomes and potential failure points

spk_1:   22:24
and if you're going to do something that might be somewhat dangerous, at least do it in a very safe way.

spk_0:   22:29
Yeah, we D'oh! Ah, lot of things which might otherwise be very dangerous. But we do them in the safest way possible. We do it because they're fun, frankly. But

spk_1:   22:37
any time you go into a cave and go under into the actual cave itself and you're under under rocks, so you can't just go to the surface and get out when you're diving. It was very dangerous and extremely dangerous thing. But if you have training in the right equipment, you know it's fine. You're quite safe, you know, as long as you follow the plan so that even a catastrophic failure won't kill you because you have enough backup stuff. And enough, um, leeway built into it.

spk_0:   23:14
Enough consideration of how you're gonna handle events,

spk_1:   23:16
right? And you pre plan your pre trained so that a if I have this rig fails on switch over this other rag, my buddy knows I'm in trouble. Boot. It gets We totally lose all visibility. We know to go to the line, work our way out, feel for each other where we are, You know, that kind of stuff

spk_0:   23:34
and the lines there because that's part of the safety protocol. Yeah, lay the line which, as you go out, we'll

spk_1:   23:39
never go anywhere. You don't have a line. You know, there's all kinds of stuff that you do, and we've had several friends who died in case. Least I asked, you didn't really know them so much, but I had several friends who died in caves, and every one of them was doing something that was either pushing the edge of the envelope or just dumb. You know, one of my one of my mentors died in a cave because she was doing ah, hold my beer and watch this thing

spk_0:   24:13
trying to go somewhere. Nobody had ever gone. And the reason nobody had ever gone there before is because it was too small, too tight and no room for error. And one of their happens, it's It's a fatal outcome. Yeah, so most of us actually do things that are are ah, and modern world. I guess a lot of people don't other than driving their cars, and they don't think about their cars being as dangerous as they are. but in prepping situations, you definitely do handle a lot more things. You're handling firearms, Okay, Some people don't treat them like they're always loaded and point them in bad directions and do dumb things with those. Would

spk_1:   24:56
you do a lot of it in today's world? Is people making YouTube videos doing stupid things intentionally? You Do. You see a lot of that and just don't be one of those people, really. We die young. They lived with broken place our whole lives because they did something stupid. You know, it sounds all three of these things are kind of boring in there. Kind of no kidding kind of things. But, you know, people still do them every single day. Just don't be that guy. Don't be that girl.

spk_0:   25:35
It's mostly about considering both consequences and failure points and having plans to deal with the kinds of emergencies that are most likely to arise

spk_1:   25:46
Right now. The whole idea behind prepping is to be a survivor, and if you catch the flu and die from it, the pandemic clue because you didn't wash your hands, that's New York. But if

spk_0:   26:03
you catch the Noro virus and you just can't leave when the hurricanes bearing down on you. Because you can't be in a car for 15 minutes at a time

spk_1:   26:11
and full stop. Even if you're not in a regular survival situation. You still don't want the Noro virus? Trust me on this one. Yeah. I mean, the moral Noro virus is spread by poop. Who wants to eat other people's

spk_0:   26:25
poop? Well, it could be vomit too. You want to eat something

spk_1:   26:32
else is vomit? No. Watch your dime and okay, we're done. We out, doctor later. Bye.