Published Dec. 20, 2024, 9:02 a.m.
9am Off the Grid - Shawn Starry - Film Producer/director of Panhandle Documentary on @HomeSecConsult channel. The documentary is about the suspicious nature of the Texas wildfires and potential DEW involvement. The illusion has been revealed, it's up to you to decide what to do with it. Hes a retired , dedicated skilled security consultant who seeks to serve the community in a capacity that helps promote safety and preventative measures. We will be going over drones and the nuclear threat. Also Ralph the IT Guy and Karen the Riveter X/Twitter: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vAGROrewjNJl Rumble: https://rumble.com/v616f0w-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-12202024-off-the-grid-shawn-starry-drones-nucl.html https://rumble.com/v616ehq-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-12202024-off-the-grid-shawn-starry-drones-nucl.html Odysee: https://odysee.com/@BrandenburgNewsNetwork:d/bnn-2024-12-20-off-the-grid-shawn-starry-drones-nuclear-threat:1 https://Live.BrandenburgNewsNetwork.com BrandenburgNewsNetwork.com Guests: Donna Brandenburg, Shawn Starry, Ralph the IT Guy, Karen the Riveter
Good morning and welcome to Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg and it's the twenty day of December twenty twenty four. Welcome to our show. Had a funny story this morning. OK, so like I started off real early in the barn getting doing barn tours. I had barn tours this morning. So feeding, cleaning stalls. I love mucking out stalls. It's one of those jobs that nobody wants. So nobody complains. It's a safe space. It really is. And, uh, had a, had a great time this morning. So I realized that the clock is ticking and I'm, and I'm looking at this going, oh my gosh, uh, got a little bit late in the barn. So I tear home today, what hair jumped in the shower and everything. And, uh, and here we are, we made that there, that there is commitment. That's a Patriot commitment right there. So anyhow, I'm going to bring on my guests this morning. We have, in fact, Sean Starry, Karen the Riveter and Ralph the ITI. Good morning guys. How you doing? Good morning. Good morning. I couldn't even believe it. I even got my TikTok video done before I jumped on here. This has got to be a record. I walked in the door at about twenty to nine, still didn't have any makeup on and needed to get my barn clothes off and such. And it was like, man, I was like a flash getting ready here. I'm glad you put other clothes on. Yeah, nobody wants to see that. Just trust me. I'm sixty-one years old. I did not get my coffee, however, so I am going to take a break for coffee in just a minute because we know what happens if we don't have coffee in the morning, right? Some people get hangry. I get like savage. I need my coffee. So anyhow, what are we going to talk about today? Boys and girls, the off the grid, by the way, I bought all of Sean's books that he recommended. So I'm sitting here waiting for them all to come in. I'm sure that a lot of them will be in today or tomorrow. So, so Merry Christmas to me. Yeah. More books. There's a hard decision. Everyone should have as many books as possible. Yeah, so we can go in a lot of different directions. Do you want to continue on? I think I'd like to continue on the discussion on drones as well as radiation. We actually have a Geiger counter. So we decided to do some experimentation outside to see what it was reading here. And I'm not an expert on any of this at all. I'm not going to pretend to be. So I'm listening for information and would love any clarification that anybody would like to give on this subject for drones and such. But Sean, I just thought it was an extraordinary show yesterday. You've had so much information in there, not only on the drones, but also about being prepared having a bug out bag and all those things that are off the grid survival which I absolutely love this kind of stuff I I did foraging for food for years and you know I I like I said I home birthed and homeschooled and I'm kind of a do-it-yourselfer kind of person if I can macgyver my way through anything I will try yeah one of the important factors about um about survival skills or developing survival skills is that you never stop you never stop learning you never stop growing um you know any any information is useful information so um you know there's there's uh There's going to be a lot of information that's going to come out, I'm sure, down the road here as far as the situations with the drones. But I think in the general sense that most people have is they kind of know what's going on because we know that there's been radiation spikes all over the country. And people are generally concerned about what's going on. whether the government wants to open up the doors and say, hey, we've got sixty missing nuclear warheads or something else, they're not going to be very quick about it to tell the American people about it. The reason being is because they don't want to look incompetent. This is my belief that Joe Biden is going to want to go out his last days looking and singing a little pretty. But for the rest of us, we need to be on our tippy toes. We need to be having the right tools is essential for any kind of survival. I have a quick question for you. You were talking about Sixteen yesterday. Is that just because of the movie that you were comparing, or did you have some other source of information that you were indicating possibly Sixteen? So I had some other personal information that was handed to me by somebody within the intelligence agencies that there were sixty nuclear warheads that were missing. But then also, I kind of referenced the movie because Central Intelligence Agency has a history, a long-standing history with Hollywood since World War II, putting out a lot of propaganda movies. um and you know and what I mean by propaganda it doesn't always mean bad but sometimes it could be it's their way of letting us know what's coming down the pipe times it could be to deter another nation from getting into a nuclear war uh like they did with the um the nuclear movie back in I can't remember off the top of my head the name of the movie but It shows Kansas City getting hit and then the aftermath of that. But that particular movie was a pretty powerful, I guess, because Gorbachev decided that he wanted to have world peace with Ronald Reagan. So Gorbachev and Reagan sat down and said, okay, we need to cut back on how many nuclear missiles that we have and we need to show the rest of the world that we're not going to continue this cold war between one nation and another. Can you state the movie that you were talking about just a minute here? I was a little distracted. Oh, let me punch it up here real quick. I can tell you the name of it. We have a whole bunch of links in the chat here. Which one does anybody want me to put up first? Start out with a ready government radiation. Let's do that one. Yeah, that one was one that I found real interesting because it says that it was last updated in June. I just found that kind of odd that they would update that considering we've known about a lot of this stuff for decades at this point. So why the recent update? Oh, so they've got a FEMA app on there and everything. Wow. That is whenever the government changes things, it's a good reason to look into why. That's a great question. Well, I, you know, one of the reasons is why government tends to update things is one is could, uh, very well could be for, um, the next generation, uh, has a different, I think they were different visual syntax compared to the older generations. Uh, it could be like the education system is poor than the previous generation. Another reason is because they're withholding vital information as far as safety and how to go about things, or it could be just a general outline. If you go back from the Cold War era, when they were putting out information, A lot of the information they were putting out were based on what scientists knew at the time. And then when you kind of go down the line, the one before this, the information was more comprehensive, but it wasn't put in the same style format as this one was. Yeah, my ability to trust the government is like on a zero at this point in time because they've covered up too much stuff and they've broken trust with everyone. There's no reason to trust them on anything that they have to say because they have proven themselves to be untrustworthy. And that does have some basic, basic information about... nuclear fallout uh response stuff like you know don't use don't use conditioner when you wash your hair um just use shampoo and soap that kind of thing uh and it's got you know information on If your pets were outside, make sure you clean them before they track potential radiation and fallout all over your house. Which, yeah, good information, but they don't mention iodine in there as far as I can tell at all. Yeah. Yeah, typically in the military when they do what they call the... Clean units, when you're going through a clean unit, they say the best form of clean unit material that you can find is iodine. Liquid iodine is your best bet. And when you're washing your hair or when you're washing your skin, iodine is the best, liquid iodine anyway is the best type of solution to use other than your typical like Dawn dish soap is actually the next best thing. really yeah because doctor soap has been known to remove um any kind of contaminant that's that's on animals um uh no it's safe and gentle on animals safe and gentle on humans so it actually just gets the surface very very clean so um it's famous for the skunking Yes. Dogs, for example, dogs get sprayed with it. You can use it with a combination of hydrogen peroxide and such. And it also cuts grease and oils, which are also something that you want to avoid in an event like that is don't use lotion because now you've got something more for the material to stick to. Yeah, you don't want those particulates to stick on your skin or hair or anything like that. Yeah. And also, if it's something that we can probably kind of take away from firefighters is the... Modern respirator stuff for firefighters is a little bit different, but more of the commercial grade stuff that you can normally get as a respirator if you needed to go outside. One of the old things they used to use in firefighting was they banned beards because you couldn't get a good seal on a respirator on your face if you had a beard. I don't have that problem. Yeah, me either. Not an issue there, guys. Yeah, and there's some good respirators out there. Like those ones there, the three M ones with the cartridges, you can get new cartridges for those fairly easily and just keep using the respirator for a very long time. And those respirator cartridges do have expiration dates on them. because respirators tend to soak up humidity from the air, and so after they've been unsealed for a certain amount of time, they lose some of their effectiveness. And you can also check and make sure that you've got a decent seal between the respirator and your face. If you put the respirator on, cover up the air inlets on the cartridges and breathe in and make sure that there's some good resistance there, you can make sure that you've got a good seal, which is really something that everyone should be doing if you're using a respirator in an area where you've got hazardous material anyway. But particularly important in situations where you might be breathing something in that would pose long-term harm. Under what circumstances would you want to have a respirator versus just... I mean, if you didn't have a respirator, when you stay inside... There's different kinds of respirators, but not all of them, they're not all the same. I'm just thinking, like, General Joe Schmo hears that he should evacuate or stay at home... And he doesn't have a respirator. Or even if he does, what are the types of circumstances where the average Joe Schmo in public is going to need to have this information? I'm trying to get to, like, you were talking yesterday about the levels of radiation. Most of us don't have a Geiger counter. So how would we know? What kind of a goal would we see? So we have a couple of assets which we can use. Number one is our eyes. When you're looking outside, looking outside of your home, Take a look at the environment around you. If you're, say, let's say it's in the springtime, the grass should be green, trees should be green. But what you notice is everything's turning brown. It looks like snowing outside, right? But there's no wind. or very little very very little one um but you see accumulation it looks like snow on the ground or or like just white substance and powder um and that should give you the visual cue that uh if you you have a you're in a nuclear fallout zone um And it's probably best just to plug in, get to the lowest point of your house, which is your basement, because you're actually insulated below the ground from the nuclear radiation, because nuclear radiation tends to breathe. So when it's on a surface, it tends to breathe upward, not downward. So it's best to get below the ground level you know wrap your your your ceilings your your walls as much as you can with as heavy-duty plastic that the act as a barrier as well like maybe over your windows and things like this but but if you you know typically if you know that you might be in a potential zone. One of the things that they do is, well, like you'll see this in the Amish community, but you won't see the basements, the basement walls on the outside. The reason being is because they put planter boxes around the outside of their home. They put as much dirt as possible towards the basement walls. So that way the amount of elevation of dirt is above ground. So when they go into their basements, they're protected from any form of radiation. The more earth you have, the better the protection. That's interesting. I'm kind of surprised. Is that the reason why they berm it up? Yeah, that's why they berm up the sides with as much earth as possible because earth tends to absorb and kind of absorb and deflect radiation, because radiation tends to be more airborne rather than just, you know, sinking, like, because of the atomic weight is much lighter than most things, it will tend to, as it decays, it starts to kind of go up into the atmosphere, just kind of like, like your other gases. And as I understand it to the most critical time period for reacting to something like that is the first about three to five days because of the the the main problems that you have with fallout tend to be the. radioactive cesium and iodine that get dispersed, correct? Right. And those have a fairly short half-life, which is why they're also such a kind of an immediate danger that you have to take care of. And then once those have a chance to degrade a little bit, then it becomes much less of an urgent problem, more of a long-term problem. But Right. Two different, two kind of different reactionary concerns. So there's stages in the decay or the, I don't know, the decay of the radioactivity. So what do you do once you're past the first few days? Well, one of the big things we need to be concerned about is making sure you have the materials on hand to button up the outside of your home and But the other thing is prepping. A lot of people don't understand that prepping for food, prepping for water, prepping for sanitation. Sanitation is going to be one of the biggest massive challenges people are going to have. You know, there's situations, you know, where you might be stuck in a basement for two weeks and you have to go pee or you have to go poop. Where are you going to go? Some people will have makeshift buckets. Well, that's okay. But where are you going to dump that bucket? Because you don't want the human waste anyway to end up coming airborne. which then could turn the whole basement into becoming toxic. The other thing is, do you have a healthy form of oxygen? Do you have a way to get oxygen into your basement just to keep that fresh flow of air circulating? Those are going to be their three biggest critical factors. functions right there other than that it's just a boredom you know uh if you've got little kids you know how you're gonna keep your kids uh you know from kind of freaking out and uh you know kicking off and running upstairs and running out into the stuff you know uh There's a mental toughness to it, but when folks go through something like this, they have to work together as a team. They have to trust in one another and just overcome those challenges. So it's a good idea to prepare, prep for this, make sure you got a checklist, go through your checklist, make sure you got everything you need. Let's talk about a checklist. You know what? I'm going to go grab my coffee here a minute, and then I will be right back. But I'd like to go through like a checklist that we could maybe put together. Ralph, if you could throw it in the private chat, then I will post it on Telegram. Okay. Yeah, nobody – I'm just saying my generation – I don't think we're prepared for this at all. We never got any kind of education. We were never taught to get under our desks in school. We were taught stop, drop and roll and don't do drugs. But we don't have a clue about how to deal with this. And then if the electrical grid went down and we weren't able or the Internet and or we wouldn't have any idea what is going on, what the risk is. And I think a lot of people would die simply because they would go or at least become ill because they would go outside to check things out because they don't even know how dangerous that is. Yeah. You know, and that's one of the things that you know, my generation, we, we grew up with the baby boomers, you know, Mark baby boomer and, uh, um, Like my grandparents were born in eighteen ninety eight. So a lot of the information I got from them, from from my parents, you know, they were my educators. They're pretty much my primary educators. My father was assistant upon collecting books with as much knowledge as possible. And everyone should have books, lots of books. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The room I'm in right now has three walls covered in bookshelves. You know, and rightfully so, because, you know, what's sad is, you know, the younger generations of today, they're at a disadvantage. I'm not going to blame any generation for being, you know, this or that. it's, you know, everything comes down to what it was is the government's control over the education system. Um, but it's like, you know, it's like I told my, my kids when they were little, I said, it doesn't matter what age you are at and, you know, um, It's never too late to learn something, right? So, you know, find something that you're passionate about or, you know, even find things that you're not passionate about that may seem irrelevant in your life. You know, make sure you're collecting books on how to. things or how to do this or how to do that. I said, the more you have those, you have them on hand because Lord knows that the internet itself is so fickle. It can be wiped out with a series of electromagnetic pulses in the residential sector anyway. We may not have the ability to communicate with one another Even the core infrastructure of the internet is fairly fragile. We went through, I don't know, what was that last week? I think that we talked about how critical that level three data center in Chicago is and how, you know, there's, it's still, it's not, the internet's not magic. It's just a whole bunch of computers talking to each other. And in a lot of cases, it's a lot simpler than what people think it is. You're absolutely right. And one of the big things that, you know, when I Typically in the past when I was going on TikTok and trying to educate people, I would say, you know, go to these websites, you know, the useful websites like howto.com or whatever website you can find. And if you find something, when you save it down to your computer or your phone, make sure that you're printing it out. make sure you laminate it, put it in a binder, just collect the information. I said, there's nothing wrong with having a physical copy because it's always better to have a physical copy than to be the guy that goes oh the internet's out electricity's gone what do I do now I have a famous idea but I had everything on my computer yeah unfortunately my battery's dead on my computer so what do I do now I uh you know it's better to be the guy I go well I've got the physical copy I'm gonna pull that out and start reading and uh people would be surprised too from a psychological standpoint if they start reading things like the physical hard copies of things how much calmer they're going to be, but as they're reading, they're learning something. Um, so, um, while the internet is great and we have, there's tons of information on there, we can always print that stuff out and have the physical copies, or I should call it hard copies of things, but we cannot just rely on the internet for everything, because it's, you know, just like Ralph says, it's pretty fickle, so. And one, you know, that's one advantage that we have with all of the, all of the obsession with making everything electric that's been going around, that's one big advantage of that is that there are a lot of ways to generate electricity yourself. Whether it's using your car to charge a battery, to run an inverter, to charge a phone or something like that, to use that as a generator, you can have just a regular generator. You can take an alternator from something and hook it up to a bike. You know, you can use solar, you can use wind. If you've got a stream running near you, you can use water. That's one of the big advantages of, of the electric stuff. Now there's a lot of, there's a lot of disadvantages in the way that a lot of modern electric stuff is constructed. But on the other hand, there are some major advantages to it as well for off the grid use. Yeah. Disadvantages like the, uh, the chips that they contain and such, which can be easily compromised. And the fragility of lithium ion batteries and forced obsolescence that comes along with them. Yeah, my wife and I, we went through a major flood some years back, and all of our utilities were turned off completely. Not only just turned off, but they were actually cut. from that neighborhood there. So my wife and I, we spent the first two years with absolutely no electricity whatsoever. We didn't have any heat in our home during the winter time. We've had to, you know, I had to put a lot of my military training into actual practice in order for my wife and I to survive the first two years. But then after that, During that two years period, it was a lot of taking what I've learned while I was working on the job, how to build a zero-point energy generator to just going on YouTube and watching how a lot of the other good folks out there that have done something. So we have found multiple ways to build our own entire infrastructure. And one of them was, is we took a septic tank and we buried the septic tank in the backyard. And what we did was we put a gas nozzle, welded the gas nozzle on the top of it. And so we fed a line from the gas nozzle into the house, into a fifty gallon barrel that was halfway filled up with water and detergent. And then on the top side, on the other side, we have another gas nozzle. And that actually goes through, I call it a dry filter. It's a water filter that you can mount on your wall. But that's like a dry filter. And that goes through that. And then it comes out and it goes into our gas line. Now, as far as our furnace and our stove, I would switch out to natural gas fitting with propane fittings. so you can run in your entire house off of methane gas with just having a propane fitting because they're the same gas classification and you can heat up your home you can cook your food uh just off the methane from your septic tank so um great idea do you have plans for that A lot of that stuff is in my book, which is called The Survivor's Bible. Oh, which I bought. So there's a lot of other things in there, too. You know, pretty much almost everything that's sort of mechanical features that's in the book is the very things that my wife and I, we invested our own money, our own time. I'm putting this into our property. Now, it's been a couple of years since we sold the property to the city. Now where we live, we have the normal stuff like everybody else does. to get through that survival training. I will tell you, the first couple of weeks is gonna be a shock. People are gonna go through a shock, why? Because we're not conditioned to live without electricity. We're not conditioned to live without internet or maybe even communication. We're not conditioned to live without the certain amenities that we're so used to. And that is why a lot of the intelligence sector goes on to say, well, they have this firm belief that eighty percent of the population would wipe itself out because. if there's no electricity and the reason being is because people are not used to not having electricity and somehow or some way it just sort of uh you know people react to it very differently than each other but um you think about like some things like your food storage you know we're typically normally we're used to having refrigerators they're powered by electricity what's going to happen if if there is no electricity Um, how are you going to keep your food storage last for a long time? And there's a lot of books out there that will teach you how to build, uh, roots, uh, root cellars, uh, how to prepare your food for long-term storage. You know, back in the day, they used to use tallow, they use salt. Um, they would, um, dry out their beef. Uh, folks would can them, they put them in the, in a glass bowl jar, uh, and pressure cook them. Um, So these are things that, you know, for thousands of years, our ancestors had done, they've lived without electricity, this, you know, they've used these methods. But when electricity came along, you know, a lot of good folks were, a lot of this knowledge just sort of tends to evaporate, because nobody's talking about it, nobody's sharing it. But The good thing is that there are still people like myself and others who have continued on trying to find a way to get this information out and to continue to share this. So this is kind of my legacy. My hope is that a lot of people will at least have a hard copy in their hand. So if things do go south, at least they'll have some type of a guide in their hand to be, OK, well, this is some things that we can do. You know, same thing like with transportation. You know, in the book, there's different ways that we could be using transportation. You know, if we're not able to use automobiles because we can't get gasoline, well, you know, there's a lot of creative ideas in there, so... I like the original off-road vehicle, the horse, quite honestly. I'm still a fan of Steampower. And I'm just going to say again, The Walking Dead. I mean, they did go to horses in The Walking Dead because eventually gas didn't work. In that fiction, I'm pretty sure... That the gas lasted them a lot longer than it realistically would. There's another fiction that's more recent called Earth Ending. And that one, it's a massive pandemic that knocks out almost everybody. I mean, it gets bitten by a snake just before it happens. So he's kind of out in his cabin alone for a few weeks trying to survive his snake bite. And when he comes out of it, he finds out that almost everybody is dead and everybody else is suicidal. There's only two other people he meets at first. And the first thing he did was go to the library because he had to learn how to survive. Yeah, a good idea. And, you know, there's another technology, too, that you can build yourself at home. It's real simple, and that's a wood gasifier. And you can run all kinds of different internal combustion engines off of that, such as a generator if you need power, and make power out of wood. And they're real easy to construct. It used to be a fairly common technology, and we've kind of lost that. You used to be able to buy wood gasifiers to be able to fit to especially Model As, Ford Model A. And you could also fit them to a Ford Model T and run your car on wood. Well, that's the thing too. You know, if you're in a potential nuclear fallout zone, you know, you can't, well, one of the big things is you can't go outside and start grabbing things. But they will tell you is never burn a wood. that has any type of radiation fallout contaminant on it. But in a normal setting, you know, if you live in an area where there's a lot of wood, there's a lot of underbrushes, it's not a bad idea. Like my family and I, we have a wooden fireplace, a metal box basically. Every winter, or I should say every spring and summer and fall, I go out and we have more than plenty of wood to cut out. And I bring that back and split it and I store it here at the house and I use it in the wintertime to keep our house warm. So, you know, so there's... practical application of it is really simple like a lot of those gasifiers um actually pretty beneficial um one of the biggest over challenges that people are going to have is sourcing the materials um you know the amount of money that people are going to have to spend uh just to build things you know uh that was something that at the time it wasn't really I didn't really have problem with that because I was making pretty good money um but the the time the time itself you know I had to spend the weekends um you know putting these things together watching the videos bringing them together my wife would help me um but you know this economy is uh it's it's it's going to be pretty tough for a lot of folks trying to find um stuff that they can afford. So, you know, that's one of the things that we did was try to focus on stuff that we can afford or things that we can barter with things that we can trade. So we utilize Facebook marketplace a lot with, you know, trading services or trading materials, or we, we make a lot of jelly jams, you know, homemade jelly jams. You know, I, you know, use that as a way to barter with somebody else who has a CNC workshop. And, you know, they can make a few things for me, and I would give them a couple, two, three jars of Jilly Jam. So, you know, that kind of a lifestyle is still happening. So you don't necessarily have to have money in order to get the things that you need up. So, Yeah, that whole barter system is something that everyone should take a personal evaluation of the assets that you have, because you probably have more than what you think you have, not only in physical assets, but also in your skill sets. And that's the most important one, in my opinion. When President Trump recently has been talking about raising the debt ceiling, my concern on raising the debt ceiling is that's kind of been in place to control in to control the interest rates a bit. And if that debt ceiling raises, we're going to see massive increase in a massive increase in interest rates, which there's going to be a lot of implications for that. Now at probably is something that needs to happen. But when we see a financial collapse, which it looks to me like it's coming, you're going to have to think about things and your personal economy differently than what you've thought about it in the past. Oh, for sure. You know, we're We're in a PI system right now, which is something that occurred during Woodrow Wilson's time as president, when he allowed the world bankers to come in and basically dictate how our financial system was going to be converted. We went from back in gold to silver dollars with gold and silver to the fiat system. But it wasn't until the nineteen sixties that it became more prominent. And one of the challenges is going to be as right now, I think you're trying to navigate through is is how do we, you know, get into a new financial system where we're not going to have the vulnerabilities of like crypto. I mean, even though they have end to end users. But, you know, right now the government is in the position where they're going to be controlling crypto or regulating crypto anyway. Um, how do we go from this to this? Uh, but when we do get into the other one, how do we get it to the point that we're not vulnerable or other nations or, uh, or black cats or hackers aren't going to, um, manipulate the system, you know? And so I think that's, that's part of maybe this, you know, transition, um, That's probably one of the reasons why he's talking about, you know, the interest rates being as continuing on until they get something, you know, secure and permanent set up. So. Well, I think, too, you know, this is all good stuff to talk about, and it's really important to talk about it before anything like this happens, because as we've mentioned before, you should never do preparation work out of fear. You know, this is not anything to be afraid of. It's something to get prepared for so that if it happens, you're secure, you know, and you can help yourself, your family, your community, you know, anyone, you know, you want to be basically kind of the anchor for being able to keep things for survivability. You know, any of this stuff is generally fairly survivable if you're prepared for it. Okay, so I like the US debt clock stuff and see what they have going on here. I think it's pretty interesting. So Fed dollar, the dollar is falling. And, you know, to your point earlier, too, about... Ta-da! printing stuff out. I ran some experiments years ago because I like old books. I like books, but I like old books too. What I used to do, and this was before e-readers were much of a thing, is I used to take books and shrink them down and print them out in really small type so that I could carry full books around on one sheet of paper or maybe two sheets of paper. And the experiments that I ran on that were that I could shrink down text to about one point six. Well, no, about one point eight point type reliably and print them out on an inkjet printer. And I even with people who had relatively poor eyesight, they could still read that. If you do it correctly, you have to use a very clear printable font, and you have to print it out in not just black, but print it out in a dark, dark blue, which forces the inkjet to go into color mode. And because the color jets are offset slightly, like microscopically slightly, but slightly from the black jets, If you can toggle it into color mode, you can get a lot more detail out of it. And it lets you shrink it down much smaller and still have it be readable. That's a great way to go to do that. One of the things I've done is everything that I kind of print out, I laminate it. So that way, you know, it survives the wear and tear over time. And you don't have to worry about it being contaminated or, you know, having to throw it away. Or, you know, that it's going to survive the water, it's going to survive, you know, the beating. That's also an advantage of laser printers, too, is laser printers are actually the printouts that come out of a laser printer are somewhat inherently waterproof. because it's not an ink, it's actually a plastic powder that's baked into the paper fibers. And so we actually use laser printers a lot in environments where either the printer is going to be exposed to cold. Like if it's in, if it's somewhere where it's going to be stored over winter in an unheated area, that'll ruin an inkjet printer, but a laser printer will generally continue to work. But we also use them in situations where the prints are going to potentially be subjected to a lot of moisture for that reason is because they'll, even if you don't laminate them, they stand up to water quite well. I'm going to put Sean's books up here. Hang on a minute. Last one didn't come through. I don't know why. The last one is called wikihow.com. What's that? Oh, okay. Go there. Oh, and that one has a downloadable Kiwix version. If anyone wants to have an offline copy of WikiHow, if you download the program Kiwix, that is one of the things they have in their downloadable library where you can have an entirely offline copy of that site. Yeah. Okay, there's Sean's book, The Survivor's Bible. And next one is WikiHow. So where should we look in here just to check, to test this thing out? Okay. So go up into the, um, the search line. There's this wiki, how to do anything. Okay. So no, click on that too. How do you, uh, how to do anything. So put in there, um, Let's do this. How to source oxygen from underground. Oh, wow. We've got oxygen concentrators. Check this out. Okay, this is a really Oh, I would help if I spelled it right, wouldn't it? Ta-da! That would help. Real news for real people by real people at the kitchen table. You get what you get. How to make oxygen and hydrogen from water using electrolysis. That's interesting. Using the graphite from pencils. interesting way to do that okay well this is really interesting so you could go in there and start making up your own survival uh binder I think that's a great idea like maybe like how does here's a good one how to can food for a long term. So you're talking to people who have done this. So I've done canning my whole life. And one day I invited Karen over and I said, okay, Karen, I'm going to teach you how to do this with a digital canner, which is kind of cool. I know how to use the weighted one as well as the digital one, but the digital canners, if you have electricity, that is like a chip shot easy. Everyone should own one of these things to put, to put food up because it works really well. Have you ever used a digital one? I never have. I've always used the old-fashioned canners, the big pot, and then it would have the rack in there, and you put your jars in and then fill it up with water and just do it that way. Or I would cook the food in a crock pot, put it in the glass ball jars, and then I've got this vacuum seal that you can put right on top of it. You can vacuum seal it. And pops the lid down and you just put the ring on. Freeze dryers are also amazing. You have to understand the enzymes if you're going to decide whether you press your can or go... with a water bath or a vacuum seal. To do a water bath, you have to have a high sugar content and high acid content to the food. So if you have vegetables, it doesn't work quite so good because you've got to kill that enzyme reaction and that's why you use a pressure canner to get the heat high enough to deactivate the enzymes. When I was younger, I decided to can some soup starter. I thought I'd just throw it in the normal way that I do meat because you can do meat in a water bath canner. You don't have to do it in a pressure canner. Typically, I will do it in a water bath canner just because you get more jars in and it works fairly well. But anyhow, I decided to make a soup starter and I had all the good veggies in there and such and the jars sealed and everything. And I thought, okay, well, this worked out pretty good, you know, trial and error. About six... I don't know, three to six months later, I started noticing a really garlicky cause I cook with a lot of garlic smell coming from somewhere. And sure enough, it, it wasn't enough to kill the enzymes and it all had to be thrown out. But that's one of those things that you try, you trial and error, you know, you do things for trial and error and you get it figured out at some point in time. And then, then, uh, You understand why things have to be done the way that it is. So your fruits and jams and jellies can be water bath canned. If you know how to do the meat, you can do meat in a water bath canner. That's typically how I would do beef and pork and chicken and such. But if you're doing anything with any vegetables in it that are not a high acid veggie, you have to pressure can it or you're going to lose everything. Yeah. yep donna taught me how to use the presto digital canner and then I have made some mistakes along the way too sometimes you just have to learn um I had to call the company one time because there was a message on the thing that I didn't understand and I had it there was a a minor error that I had made and everything turned out to be fine but I had to I got a little uh I want to say scared. I just didn't know what was happening, but I figured it out. And so there's, there's, it's a journey. But we have a lot of our, we raise our own chicken. And so this year, I canned a lot of chicken. And just recently, in this last week or so, we opened a jar, used the broth and some of the chicken to make a soup with in a little crock pot. And the rest went into what we call a chicken parmesan in a bucket. We just, you mix it up with some um, pasta sauce and put some cheese on the top and voila. It's a, it's a good meal. And that, that was a fun way to use our chicken. So anyway, I, I also did some venison, but I didn't do a, again, learning. I had too much head space on that one, but next time we get some venison, I'm playing around and canning a bunch of it again. Oh, it's pretty easy to do that, too. It's not something to be afraid of. And, you know, if you got a phone, a friend that you can call, they can out that's been doing it for a long time. They can really help you. The one thing about with canning on the stove with a weighted canner, you have to watch that. You can't just like walk away from it. A pressure canner. You can you can walk or digital one. You can walk away from that. And it's just going to you push the when it beeps, push the advance button. And that's pretty much all there is to it, which is pretty, pretty amazing how quickly and easy that works. I use the digital can or two as if I have a lot of leftovers. Sometimes, you know, like if I make a big pot of chili or something like that. And we have what's left over. I'll throw it in the digital canner and I'll can the chili or soup or whatever we have that's just there, right? And that works pretty well. Yeah, I think the canner itself is really easy. The harder part is learning things like headspace, what uses water, what doesn't, the recipes, food safety concepts. So there's a few things you can get books for, again. Or the jar room off. Yep, things like that. Donna was a great teacher, by the way. If you ever want to take a course offered by Donna Brandenburg about how to do anything, I think she was a really good teacher. She showed me. She had me do it. Every step of the way was consistent. And I came when I came home and had the opportunity to do it myself. I remembered everything pretty well because of how she taught me. So thank you. Thank you. I think I think the thing of it is, is that you have to realize or understand why you're doing it, not just do it this way. But you have to understand why are you doing it the way you know, what are you accomplishing? What's behind the method that that's I think that's a pretty, pretty important thing. That's a pretty important thing to understand. Really, I think that gets missed a lot in a lot of teaching processes is the why. They tell you what to do, but they don't tell you why to do it. I'll be right back, guys. Okay. And yeah, I don't have a whole lot of experience with canning, but I do have some experience at this point with freeze drying and That is, that's a lot of fun to do. And that works great for, you know, very, very long-term preservation of things. But it also works great for making just like ingredients that you can use on a daily basis because you can freeze dry up a large batch of like vegetables when they're in season and pull little bits of them out throughout the year or, you know, just as you need them. make a large batch of something and you've got a whole bunch of little bits. And it also actually, I tend to like some of the ingredients out of a freeze dryer for cooking with them better than, than fresh in some cases, because it adds a different texture to things. Yeah. Plus, if you do a lot of hiking or something like that, it takes a lot of the weight out. As long as you've got a clean source of water wherever you're going, or can make a clean source of water to rehydrate stuff, it takes a lot of the weight out of carrying stuff. That was something that I I picked up from someone who was actually criticizing freeze dryers, uh, as being impractical, uh, things that pray off people's fear. And it's like, no, there's an awful lot of really good uses for a freeze dryer, especially if you've got a garden. Right. Well, yeah. I mean, that's the thing, you know, a lot of people don't understand is that, you know, you need to have multiple options because one of the things that I've learned is anyway, being in a survival situation is you may not be able to utilize one thing. And you may, you know, you may have a couple of options that you may not be able to do. So you're going to, you know, but the big thing is, is knowing how to do something. that is priceless because if you, I mean, you can get your hands on the materials, you can, you can build materials or you can go buy them. Um, but knowing how to do something, that's not something everybody has a skillset to do. And, you know, whether it's freeze drying or whether it's, um, um, like I, I do a lot of, I smoke a lot of my meats, you know, and I have different timings on certain meats. So I don't dry them out completely. I mean, I don't want all the nutrition value to go out of it. some of the meats are you know kind of really tender still uh but smoking a lot of the meats I do uh but I also do freeze dry I also do canning I mean I I don't just I don't get hung up on just doing one thing or one thing only because it's kind of pretty uh it kind of defeats the purpose of what it is that you're trying to do is do long-term storage and uh you know And that's a big key importance is people need to understand what is the most perishable things you have down to the stuff that's going to last forever, which is pretty much honey. And how do you store these things? How do you prepare them? What's the best way to prepare them for long-term storage? And having that multiple options, that's something that I like to have because, you know, if one piece of equipment breaks and then I'll have something to fall back on to and say, oh, I know how to do this. You know, I've got the equipment for this or, you know, so. I love seeing the food storage guides that are put out by the Seventh-day Adventist community and the Mormons. And because they both tend to, they both like to, they're big into long-term storage of food. generally they try to have, as I understand it, a seven-year supply of food on hand for their family. And so they've gotten really good at figuring out which foods can last for a very long time and how to manage that, how to rotate it, how to make sure that the food isn't spoiled, all that kind of stuff. Like, you know, white rice keeps, brown rice doesn't. And, you know, all the experiments that they've done over the years to try and figure out how to do all that. There's a lot of knowledge to be gained there if you look up some of their guides. Well, that's the thing, you know, is if you know how to properly, like, you know, this has come from trial and error to myself, you know, how to properly store your foods and You know, I started out just doing like all the new wave stuff and new age stuff, you know, trying to buy all these little oxygen absorbers and stuff like that. And then when I went back, we've got cookbooks from my grandfather and great grandfather's time. And one of the things that we discovered was in the beginning of the book, it actually talks about long-term food storage. And they would have like these barrels. At the bottom of the barrel, they would have two to three inches of salt. And then on top of that, they would have some kind of like a cheesecloth. And then they would start storing all of their food in it. And the salt at the bottom of a bucket or a barrel, what it does essentially is it holds all the moisture to the bottom of the barrel. And the salt will absorb it, keeping everything above that salt line level completely dry. It was far cheaper just to go get a bunch of salt and just fill the bottom of the buckets, you know, two, three inches, than it was to go out and try to buy, you know, a hundred, I think it was like a hundred or a hundred and fifty oxygen absorbers. Because the oxygen absorbers, you know, you can't utilize them later down the road. Eventually, you just have to chuck them out and throw them away. You know what the oxygen absorbers are actually, most of them, what they're made of? is just iron. It's like elemental iron in little packets and that way what happens is the iron absorbs the oxygen as it rusts and then it forms stable rust and that way they can do it in a non-toxic manner. Oh, that makes sense. See, I didn't know that. I learned something today. Well, you know, when we talk, we learn something every day. Guys, I hate to do this to you, but I'm juggling about five million projects right now. Not quite that many, but a lot. But I think that we need to curtail this for the day because I've got somebody on their way over to the house right now. And so. I think what we should do is call it good for the day. And let's do this again next week. Sean, I love you coming on this. This is great. I tell you what, I've learned so much from listening to you and the information that you're sharing. It's amazing. So everybody, I put the books out there. Go ahead and buy Sean's books. Let's say a quick prayer, and then we're going to get on to our day. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for the ability for us to get together and share knowledge and to help teach each other and truly function like a family should. Your family, your children, and humanity. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity. to in fact take care of the world around us and be a servant here. It's an honor and a privilege to work on projects that you want us to work on and to learn to become more like you every single day. Thank you so much for that. Thank you for Sean and Karen and Ralph and all the wonderful people out there that are listening. Give them your peace today and hope and help them to become prepared so that they're not afraid no matter what happens. And we can just walk boldly forward knowing that you're with us all the time. Thank you so much for being a great friend to us. We want to be a friend to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. And with that said, boys and girls, that part of the show, and I'm sorry, I just got a call. That's why I'm kind of like a little bit rushed here. Normally I'll sit here and talk all day with people, but this part of the show, boys and girls that we go to, ding, ding, ding, ding, go to brendabergforgotten.com because I'm the best non-consumer who's ever not considered in history of the United States of America. 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