210 Family Style Situational Awareness - Britt Tells Us How

Tonight, We’re talking about Family Defense with special guest Britt from The Dirty Garden Hoes Podcast. My co-host and better half, Rhonda also joins us tonight, along with Buddy and myself to hopefully hit this topic head-on, cuz it’s an important one… especially right now with violence popping up in cities all across the US and around the world. Brittany’s gonna tell us how she deals with it and how she prepares her young family to navigate through uncertain times.

But before we get to that… I would like to take a moment to remember Charlie Kirk.

Charlie, you were a true American Patriot. You will be missed and not forgotten.

Now here’s Britt’s take on defending her family and preparing them against violence. 

Let’s get to it…

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Transcript

Tonight, We’re talking about Family Defense with special guest Britt from The Dirty Garden Hoes Podcast. My co-host and better half, Rhonda also joins us tonight, along with Buddy and myself to hopefully hit this topic head-on, cuz it’s an important one… especially right now with violence popping up in cities all across the US and around the world. Brittany’s gonna tell us how she deals with it and how she prepares her young family to navigate through uncertain times.

But before we get to that… I would like to take a moment to remember Charlie Kirk.

Charlie, you were a true American Patriot. You will be missed and not forgotten.

Now here’s Britt’s take on defending her family and preparing them against violence. 

Let’s get to it…

00:08:10.34
Brittany Baker
Yeah, thank you guys so much for having me back on. I really appreciate it, and I always love chatting with you guys. um So I'm a mom of four kids, um and right now they're four under 10 years old.

00:08:20.92
Brittany Baker
um Very chaotic bunch. Love them very much. um But I was a single mom for my oldest two. I was a young mom. I was also the oldest of six, so I was very familiar with kids, and being the oldest, you kind of take the lead and you're in charge. And we were all homeschooled, so we were all together 24-7.

00:08:40.86
Brittany Baker
And that really taught me a lot of, you know, watching out for my siblings growing up. But when you become a mom and you're in this crazy, scary world, especially with two kids um that are, they were just under two years apart.

00:08:54.71
Brittany Baker
So it was always, you know, one one hand with one kid, one kid on the yeah other hip, whenever we went places.

00:09:02.48
Keith
Yeah.

00:09:03.07
Brittany Baker
And over time, I just, you know, learned a lot of situational awareness. um I think just being a female in general, we're kind of just taught to be aware of our surroundings a lot more.

00:09:14.63
Brittany Baker
um And once you become a mom with little kids, you it's it goes up even higher. That mama bear really comes out. um The intuition really turns on, especially if you know what to look for.

00:09:26.00
Brittany Baker
um i've just I've just learned that like trust your instinct. I have been in some of those situations where i didn't feel right. I was definitely getting followed in Walmart. I'd picked up my two kids and I you know hightailed it to the door because I was like, nope, this is not a safe place.

00:09:43.02
Brittany Baker
um And I learned that one of the... most dangerous places that we are at every day in our week is the parking lot. um You're distracted, there's cars everywhere, you know, you're in close proximity with other vehicles, and it's a really scary place to be, especially with a mom of four kids.

00:10:01.74
Brittany Baker
We've had to set up, you know, all the kids get in one door on one side. um They're very aware of their surroundings, you know, all hands are on mom as we're walking through places, and it's It's definitely just something I've had to teach my kids and be very open and honest with them that this world is scary and that there are people in this world that unfortunately, you know, want to take them and want to, you know, disappear. And that is something that I never would have thought I would have to tell my kids and teach my kids about.

00:10:31.56
Brittany Baker
But you do. It's one of those things like it's this world has only seemed to got get scarier as, um, you know, it's gone on, and I, I remember when I was growing up, my mom was like, hey, come home when the lights, you know, when the street lights come on, um, and now I'm like, kids, I haven't heard from you in 30 minutes, and you're at your friend's house right next door, I need you to, you know, I need to see your eyeballs, type thing, so it is, uh, the world has definitely changed a little bit, wouldn't you say?

00:10:46.57
Buddy
Yes.

00:10:59.50
Buddy
Definitely. Yeah, not the same.

00:11:00.72
Keith
Yeah, and I remember growing up that we had, i mean, it it wasn't even when the light comes on. It was the light was on all night. And when it started blinking, we had to go in. I'm much older.

00:11:10.32
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:11:11.25
Keith
But those were those are days where you can just be out till 9, 10 o'clock and be 10 years old coming from your friend's house, walking you know a couple blocks away, half a mile.

00:11:12.92
Brittany Baker
but

00:11:20.20
Keith
You didn't have to worry about anything. I mean, there was still bad people back in those days, but it has gotten a lot worse.

00:11:21.91
Buddy
Yeah.

00:11:24.38
Brittany Baker
Yeah. yeah

00:11:27.45
Keith
I mean, a lot worse.

00:11:29.68
Brittany Baker
Yep. Unfortunately, I think, you know, some mental health has played into it. And also, you know, just people being from not our country, they don't think about, you know, the well-being of our children and community.

00:11:41.37
Brittany Baker
um it's It's definitely been a learning experience. I was born and raised and ah not around firearms. And that changed when I got married to ah my husband, who was former military.

00:11:54.79
Brittany Baker
And he worked at a firearms instructing one of those like um tourist places that, you know, the people go that want to try all the different firearms. He worked there for a while. So he was really good about walking me through from the beginning how to use a firearm. But prior to that, I just was was never around them. My family never had them. We were born and raised in Florida.

00:12:15.06
Brittany Baker
um It's only been constitutional carry for so long. There and I just I learned you have to use the tools that you have um I always carried pepper spray luckily never needed to use it I learned you know some close quarters you what to do hands with my hands and things and then it was just really teaching the kids that mom's head is always on a swivel so I taught them a code word that if I said this one word they were to be quiet, to get close to mom, and to not look around. I didn't want them to think it was their job to find the threat or to look around and figure out what was going on. Their job was to stay with mom and to make sure their siblings stayed close, especially the older kids.

00:12:58.91
Buddy
That's a good point.

00:12:59.01
Brittany Baker
And yeah, it's definitely one of those because I am out with my kiddos with just me by myself a lot.

00:13:00.04
Buddy
Great point there.

00:13:07.36
Brittany Baker
We just traveled cross-country home and it was just me and the four of them. And you know, gas station stops and food stops, and we stopped at a park to play so that they could run around, and I really had to keep my head up and on a swivel because I was in unknown environments. I was in different states where not all the laws are the same, and it was one of those things that I needed to teach the kids, like, hey, you know, keep an eye out for what we call red flags, but an adult staring at you, um somebody, you know, an adult asking a child for help.

00:13:41.28
Brittany Baker
That was one thing I taught them was like, if an adult needs help, say, hey, go ask my mom or go ask my dad.

00:13:47.07
Keith
An adult talking to a child.

00:13:47.22
Brittany Baker
Adults should be asking. Yeah, exactly. Why adults think they can go, hey, you know, can you help me find my dog to a 10 year old child? It just that's not OK in my world.

00:14:00.42
Brittany Baker
um

00:14:00.50
Keith
Yeah, and you're saying you want to cross country. that's ah That is a living nightmare if you've got little kids. Because, you know, those those ah those rest stops that you go to you know, bathroom breaks and when whatever it is, let them run around, those are but prime locations for getting your kids snatched.

00:14:05.69
Buddy
Wow. Yep.

00:14:15.58
Keith
Because they're right on the highway. they They're gone in second.

00:14:17.18
Buddy
ye

00:14:17.34
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:14:18.50
Keith
You won't see them, you know, five minutes later, they're in the next county.

00:14:23.00
Brittany Baker
Yep. Yeah, it was and it was me and 10, 8, 3 and year old. So it was it was all of us going in places and doing everything.

00:14:28.16
Keith
Yeah. Wow. Hmm.

00:14:31.84
Brittany Baker
And I have one boy. So he would go into the I have two boys, but the youngest is two. um So the eight year old, you know, would have to go into the bathroom by himself and I would stand right outside. And, you know, if it was a matter of minutes that he wasn't in there or even if I just.

00:14:47.36
Brittany Baker
saw somebody strange walking in there. My mama bear. I was going to go full mama bear mode in that. um But I'm just really aware of the people in our environments wherever we go.

00:14:58.25
Brittany Baker
Because you can just tell you have intuition. um I believe the father has really given us that that brain that brain, that intuition inside of us, where if it doesn't feel right, it's probably not.

00:15:10.81
Buddy
ah quick question Quick question for you there. um You said, you know, you're talking about your intuition, you're in that that gut instinct. What are some of the red flags that you're looking for when you're when you see somebody who, ah you know, might be sketchy or or, you know, sends that red flag up to you? What what what are some of the signs they put out there?

00:15:31.14
Brittany Baker
um I normally pay attention to body language, will pay attention to kind of where they're looking, making eye contact, what they're, you know, paying attention to. um i don't feel like other adults should be staring at my children or even looking at them for a long period of time.

00:15:47.84
Brittany Baker
um You know, pacing back and forth or just odd. Like if if I'm at a park with my children and you're an adult, male or female, because unfortunately, females are still involved in that process, um that if they don't have a child with them and they're just sitting at the park, that's that throws an instant red flag to me.

00:16:02.26
Buddy
Yes, they are.

00:16:09.64
Brittany Baker
um And they could just be sitting there from their walk and whatever. I'm not saying that everybody in that situation is bad, but it does throw up a like, okay, I'm going to keep an eye on them. um When, you know, interesting conversations happen, I've heard a story and it didn't happen to me, but it happened to a friend of mine um that a...

00:16:31.25
Brittany Baker
He was, I think, a construction worker or some sort of utility worker came up to her at the park when she was with her kids and was like, hey, I have something in my eye. Can you help me get it out? My hands are dirty.

00:16:42.28
Brittany Baker
Well, he was like up in her personal space asking for her help like this. And she she she just said it felt odd. She didn't know quite know understand what was happening. He came out of nowhere.

00:16:52.79
Brittany Baker
um There was a truck just in the parking lot with another male in it. And she just politely was like, well, can't he help you? And she he said that she was very disgusted. And he kind of brushed it off and was like, no, I need your help. I need your help. And she was she just quickly was like, okay, here's a baby wipe.

00:17:09.37
Brittany Baker
And grabbed her kids and left. She said it just felt off. It felt weird um that, you know, somebody wanted her full attention for that situation.

00:17:20.37
Keith
Yeah, i'm the I'm the kind of person that i I have apps and Rhonda will tell you this. I have absolutely no problem telling anybody that who bothers me that they're bothering me.

00:17:31.32
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:17:32.29
Rhonda
not for that

00:17:32.32
Keith
No problem whatsoever.

00:17:33.81
Buddy
Yeah.

00:17:35.19
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:17:35.32
Rhonda
My kids actually had a car pull over to the curb. One time they were roller skating on the sidewalk and And um they rolled down the window and asked ask for and instructions how to get somewhere.

00:17:49.47
Rhonda
But um the kids didn't know how to tell them where to go. And the guy opened his car door. So luckily, they knew enough to go run in the opposite direction of the way the car was driving.

00:18:00.45
Rhonda
But that was that kind of freaked me out when that happened. Because you don't think anything's going to happen in your neighborhood.

00:18:03.47
Keith
So many kids aren't taught that.

00:18:04.30
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:18:06.46
Rhonda
But it can.

00:18:08.16
Keith
No, I'm sorry. and So many kids are not taught that. that's that was That was your kids?

00:18:11.87
Buddy
Yeah.

00:18:12.80
Rhonda
Yeah.

00:18:13.61
Keith
Yeah, that's a lot of a lot of parents don't they don't think about stuff like that. though theyre you know They're raising their children in what they think are really nice communities. I got news for you. They're bad people in nice communities, just like they are everywhere else.

00:18:27.23
Rhonda
And I heard, ah heard you mentioned Brittany about, you're teaching your kids about getting in one side of the car um, paying attention to things.

00:18:27.36
Buddy
yeah

00:18:27.60
Brittany Baker
yep

00:18:37.28
Rhonda
What are some of the other things you've taught your kids?

00:18:41.24
Brittany Baker
Um, some of the big ones is, you know, that code word, um, just being aware of their surroundings. If they feel that something is off or somebody is talking to them, um, I will always tell them, you know, come tell me immediately.

00:18:54.53
Brittany Baker
Don't think about if you're going to get in trouble, you know, they, I've taught them, they have intuition as well and they need to trust, you know, what they think, feel, see. I'm trying to think what are the others? It's kind of just become second nature at this point with me and the kiddos,

00:19:11.10
Brittany Baker
when we're going in places.

00:19:13.18
Rhonda
That's so important.

00:19:13.22
Keith
The code word is awesome.

00:19:13.50
Brittany Baker
um

00:19:14.62
Keith
I've not heard that before.

00:19:16.30
Brittany Baker
Yeah, and it's a code word where it's basically like the big kids know that they're now in charge of making sure the little kids are close, and they know that mom sees or feels something that's just not right. It doesn't automatically mean that there's a threat, that there is some big situation, but it just means, hey, you're staying close to mom, I need you to be quiet, I need you to listen, and I need you to take seriously whatever instructions mom is giving.

00:19:42.80
Brittany Baker
And it'll be one of those things where in Walmart and I've gone through a test run with them. And just to make sure that they understand one, that they remember the code word because they're children. So, you know, they don't always remember things.

00:19:55.38
Brittany Baker
And just to see their response and then to be able to talk through, i would rather talk through, you know, what we did right and what we did wrong in a test than in a real world situation.

00:20:06.60
Brittany Baker
Another one of the things we taught the kids when they were younger is if somebody did pick them up, and this was something my husband taught them from being prior military, if they did pick them up and they were close to mom and dad, that they needed to tuck into a ball.

00:20:21.14
Brittany Baker
And the reason that we told them that is because mom or dad was going to take out, you know, the legs of the person who grabbed them. whether it was with a firearm um or, you know, something of that nature. We wanted, you know, the kids to tuck in a ball and be safe.

00:20:35.14
Brittany Baker
But we told them that if mom or dad wasn't around, if they didn't hear us or see us, that they were to, you know, kick, scream and be as loud as they can.

00:20:35.43
Rhonda
wow

00:20:43.03
Brittany Baker
Yes.

00:20:44.39
Buddy
So are your kids, have they been around firearms? Are they comfortable, you know, with the the the loud noises of firearms? You know, the I guess, are they inoculated to the sounds of firearms?

00:20:56.39
Brittany Baker
yes

00:20:59.33
Brittany Baker
Yes, they've been around the range. um They also, you know, fireworks and my husband rides a motorcycle. So, you know, when he turns on the motorcycle, they actually all get excited and start cheering.

00:21:10.47
Brittany Baker
I'm pretty sure we're raising little motorcyclists.

00:21:10.85
Buddy
Ha, ha, ha.

00:21:12.39
Brittany Baker
So, yes, loud noises do not seem to bother them.

00:21:12.91
Buddy
Ha, ha, ha.

00:21:15.63
Brittany Baker
We've kept them around a lot of them.

00:21:18.28
Buddy
You got your own little bike gang going on there. That's nice.

00:21:20.55
Brittany Baker
Oh, yeah. The two-year-old wants to ride a motorcycle every every day, all day long. That's all he talks about is dad's motorcycle.

00:21:27.58
Buddy
Nice.

00:21:27.58
Rhonda
I think that's a good point, buddy. It's ah important to give your kids nerves of steel.

00:21:34.70
Buddy
Well, you know, and the way I look at it, um, most kids out in, you know, you you call them Walmart kids, or at least that's what, you know, there's these kids in Walmart that are notoriously just, you know, running away from their parents. They're getting into everything. They're being allowed. They're just being kids.

00:21:53.49
Buddy
And, you know, the parents can't control them. Well, you know, uh, it sounds like to me, not only can you control your kids, you know, they take it seriously when you go out and, uh, you know, i could just totally see people give it, you know, a 10 year old or eight year old, given some, their mom or or dad attitude, you know, if they did see something out there that, that threw up a red flag to give them attitude, you know, and that's the wrong time for it.

00:22:20.08
Buddy
So, you know, that's pretty awesome what you've done.

00:22:21.13
Brittany Baker
Yeah. And I think what's helped with that is really just being open and honest with them that this stuff does happen. I think there are parents out there that want to shelter their kids. They don't want them to know about, you know, the things that are happening in the world and how kids are being taken. And i am very open with them. You know, I'm not going into explicit detail of what happens, obviously, but I am open with them to the point of there are people and they go out there and their job for the day is to take children from their parents.

00:22:52.61
Brittany Baker
And they never want to give those children back to their parents. And that is something that when we're out in public, we are very open with, hey, there bad people out here. Everybody might seem nice. They might have a smile on their face, but we don't know them.

00:23:05.81
Brittany Baker
And we don't know if they're good or bad. And I think that's really helped with them understanding how serious it is. um We have, you know, worked closely with the Foundation Caleb House, with the 501c3 nonprofit that rescues children from being sexually trafficked.

00:23:22.31
Brittany Baker
So, you know, sharing those stories. um We actually had one... day we were at a state park with one of our friends and it was our vehicle and our friend's vehicle and we were getting the kids out and the dads had walked down to the beach to just scope out the area find a spot for us to get set up and I was at the vehicle with my kids you know getting them changed and getting all their stuff together and the other wife was at her vehicle And this car pulled around with both windows down, blaring music, and parked right next to us and was like eyeing us, eyeing me specifically down because I was on the outside of the vehicle, was just eyeing me up and down.

00:24:04.47
Brittany Baker
And it was just one of those like we instantly knew what they were doing and why they were there. And it was one of those terrible feelings. The husbands walked up quickly because they heard the music and they were obviously scoping out the place as well.

00:24:18.24
Brittany Baker
They walked back up and said, get in the car, we're leaving. And we packed the kids back up. We instantly knew what was happening. And the kids, you know, the two and three-year-old were having meltdowns because we were just getting out of the car and just going to the park. And we had to nicely tell them like, hey, there was bad people there. We had to leave and, you know, ah helped the meltdowns.

00:24:38.96
Brittany Baker
But the 10 and eight-year-old understood because we had been open and honest with them previously in that situation.

00:24:48.08
Buddy
Wow. You just really...

00:24:49.78
Keith
You know, so pra you you mentioned about practice and, going you know, going over some things like just doing a test run. That is awesome for muscle memory. memory and ah And it's not just what we're talking about here, but pretty much anything that you do that you want to get yourself better at or your family better at, that test runs are awesome.

00:25:09.52
Keith
I mean, look look at it this way. we We do the same thing with our animals. We take our dogs for walks, get them used to the neighborhoods, get them used to people, being around people. if you if you If you don't do that with your dog, you get a dog who's unsocial, doesn't know the world out there.

00:25:24.96
Keith
They can either be bad or they can actually be too good. It's the same thing with with human beings. You got to put people through like test runs and practicing. You don't have to go all full out on it, but I think that's a really good thing.

00:25:37.02
Keith
I didn't do those things with my kids we were younger. I'm, you know, I'm older, than much older than you are. And I wasn't really a prep of survivals back in those days, but I still had awareness.

00:25:49.25
Keith
Like I remember once when we went to a, me and my two boys were in the the the truck and We went to an ATM. I pulled up, I put the card in, ah put my number in.

00:26:01.00
Keith
And right at that moment, somebody started walking up to um on my side of the vehicle from the back of the truck. And i saw it. I said, I i knew it was going to happen. I didn't want to have to get into a conversation with the person, but ah my number's in there. So I quickly hit the cancel button, grabbed my card and I just drove off.

00:26:17.82
Keith
That was pre days of having a firearm. Would I have, you know, done something differently had I had a firearm? No, because of my kids were in the car. I'm not going to get into a shootout with my kids in the car.

00:26:27.74
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:26:27.95
Keith
You know?

00:26:28.61
Brittany Baker
Yeah, not worth that.

00:26:30.51
Keith
No. No.

00:26:32.27
Rhonda
Brittany, you talked about public.

00:26:33.55
Keith
um oh I was going to say one more thing, but those are those little tiny things you can do yourself.

00:26:35.52
Rhonda
okay

00:26:38.82
Keith
Like the next time you drive up to an ATM, practice with yourself. Like put your card in know where the cancel key is, look through your mirrors, look behind you, look around you, be aware of everything that's going on around your vehicle while you're getting your cash.

00:26:53.99
Keith
that other people might want out of the machine. You can do that just by just every time you go to the ATM. And believe it or not, after two or three or four times, you're going to do that instinctively every single time.

00:27:05.70
Brittany Baker
Yeah, head on a swivel has been my my key phrase um ever since yeah I was growing up, especially being oldest of six. It's just I was always, people would be like, what are you looking for? what are you looking around at?

00:27:17.79
Brittany Baker
And I would just be like, I'm aware of my surroundings at all times. And I think my dad taught me a lot of that. I didn't realize he was teaching me. We would play a game where it was just people watching and we would just genuinely look at people and kind of talk and, you know, we would guess what they did for a living or, you know,

00:27:35.53
Brittany Baker
If they were from the area or if they were tourists. And I realized he was teaching me as a child to be aware of my surroundings and to kind of see what was common, what was uncommon. He would have us like close our eyes when we were sitting at a restaurant, um when we were waiting for our food to kind of fill the time. And he would go, ok close your eyes.

00:27:54.09
Brittany Baker
And he would say, how many people are in the room or which way is the exit? Or how many people in the room were wearing hats? And with our eyes closed, we had to answer it because he taught us to be aware of our surroundings.

00:28:08.63
Brittany Baker
And I think that was something I've definitely passed on to my kiddos.

00:28:09.13
Buddy
He's

00:28:11.61
Brittany Baker
as i've

00:28:11.88
Buddy
train training little ninjas. Yeah.

00:28:14.21
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:28:14.85
Keith
I was going to say, yeah that's he was he was a fan of Jason Bourne.

00:28:20.55
Brittany Baker
i don't I don't know what he was a fan of. ah He was definitely just, he was a dad, you know, of six. So I think keeping us busy and, you know, keeping us safe was a priority for him.

00:28:31.04
Rhonda
That's a great game.

00:28:33.35
Brittany Baker
Yeah, and it kept us busy, you know? What were you saying, Rhonda, though? I know you had a question there.

00:28:37.90
Rhonda
i was going to ask you, you talked about public places and parking lots and Walmart and whatnot. Do you have any stories or even suggestions for large, like crowded areas, like a carnival or parade or outdoor gathering?

00:28:52.57
Rhonda
I personally would like to know if you you have four kids, but you don't have four hands.

00:28:57.20
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:28:57.30
Rhonda
So how do you keep up?

00:28:59.36
Brittany Baker
Yeah, that has always been a joke of mine. I tell people, like, the jump from two to three kids is the hardest because now you have more kids than you do hands.

00:29:07.53
Rhonda
Awesome.

00:29:08.36
Brittany Baker
After that, like, you know, three to four, not a big deal because it's kind of the same thing. You just add another kid on there. um Buddy system is a huge thing with us. um A big kid, you know, and a little kid staying together at all times has been huge.

00:29:22.08
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:29:24.18
Rhonda
ah

00:29:25.66
Brittany Baker
Let's see. What did we do? We actually just went to a few. i will say I have learned one thing to do and I've never had to use it. But if your kid does get taken or is just missing, you just start saying as loudly as you can. You start describing them so that other adults and other people around you can also be looking for them. Because if you're just yelling Johnny,

00:29:48.06
Brittany Baker
Nobody knows who Johnny is, but if you're yelling, you know, 10-year-old boy, red shirt, blue jeans, white shoes, other people can help you look for them because those are just really busy places and kids slip away really easily. It doesn't mean that anyone took them. It could just be that they were curious and saw, you know, a horse and went left instead of right.

00:30:09.48
Brittany Baker
But I do think, you know, getting other people involved in those situations can be a huge help. That was one thing I learned that um I've passed along to a lot of other mamas that go into those busy situations.

00:30:15.48
Rhonda
That is

00:30:21.79
Rhonda
a great idea. Great suggestion.

00:30:25.00
Brittany Baker
Yeah, and then my husband and I are very much head on a swivel and not in our phones. um We both do work full time from our phones. So there are still moments that we're on them. We're adults and it's 2025. So we use them a lot.

00:30:38.92
Brittany Baker
But it's more about especially when we're in those large crowds, you know, phone is not a priority. I see too many adults, you know, just staring at their phones 24-7 when they're out public.

00:30:50.71
Brittany Baker
when they're out in public

00:30:50.90
Rhonda
And

00:30:53.09
Buddy
That's so true. is very true. it It drives me absolutely crazy. It's like a pet peeve of mine, but, um, well, and I, I put together some curriculum to teach, uh, for a community, um ah you know, a free freebie for the community, you know, just community outreach program about situational awareness.

00:30:59.37
Keith
You see a lot of teens that that way too.

00:31:13.90
Buddy
And pretty much we've talked about almost all the situations, you know, uh, tonight, uh,

00:31:16.89
Brittany Baker
Thank you.

00:31:21.63
Buddy
that I, that I have in this, this little, uh, presentation, you know, it's a 45 minute presentation, but you know, there's, there's so much that people, I mean, you take, you take it for granted your safety and especially today and today's eight, you know, there's just so much, there's so many threats out there that the threat analysis people have is, you know, it's, they live in a bubble in their own little world where, you know, Oh,

00:31:49.57
Buddy
you know, somebody's going to come save me if if something happens and, you know, everything's cool.

00:31:50.41
Brittany Baker
Thank you.

00:31:54.84
Buddy
Nobody's going to do that. This is, you know, like Oklahoma or this is, you know, Kansas. They're not going to do this shit to me, you know. I just, it drives me crazy just watching people in their phone because, you know, I want to go up and and like tap them on the shoulder, you know.

00:32:13.02
Buddy
with a blue knife or something, you know, you know, not like a knife, like going stalk somebody, but like a training, you know, tool or something, or just go and tap and show her say, Hey, you know, wake up. I could just, could have just come up and stabbed you, you know,

00:32:22.48
Brittany Baker
Yeah, show them yeah show them how easily it is that things can happen. I mean, we're starting to see it. We just saw the um shooting at Walmart in Michigan not too long ago.

00:32:35.03
Brittany Baker
And it it's definitely popping up in more just normal places for people. So I'm hoping people are starting to wake up into, you know, there are terrible people everywhere we look.

00:32:46.69
Brittany Baker
And another thing is, if you're not comfortable with a firearm, get comfortable with something. Have some sort of tool, self-defense, that you are comfortable with using and then train with it. That's really what matters is training with what you actually feel comfortable with.

00:33:01.17
Buddy
Yeah, and you need, i mean, like you you said it earlier, you're traveling across country and and the firearms laws are different in different states. So one state you can, you know, have your concealed carry and and be, you know,

00:33:13.66
Buddy
Just like you were in in your in your own state. And next state over, you might not be able to carry anything. When I lived in New York, I had to actually take my firearm when I got to the you know to town or to my and where I lived in Brooklyn.

00:33:28.86
Buddy
I had to go to the local precinct and check it in. And then if I wanted to maybe go to a range or go out of town, ah You know, we'd go upstate or Pennsylvania go somewhere to fight, you know, where we were going to shoot for the weekend or something. I had to go ask them permission and fill out all these forms to get it back. You know, it just seems so crazy to me.

00:33:47.46
Buddy
You know, this is my gun and my safety, but, you know, different rules, different places. And, you know, it's like they say, you go to war with the the army you have, not the army you want. So, I mean.

00:33:58.59
Brittany Baker
Yeah, and not only the army you have, the army you train with. I think people think, I have a firearm, you know, I used it, I trained with it years ago.

00:34:02.20
Buddy
yes

00:34:06.11
Brittany Baker
It's like, nope, you need to be training often with a firearm, or you need to be training often with, you know, hands-on self-defense. It's definitely something that's a skill that when you need it, you don't want to have to think about using it.

00:34:19.87
Brittany Baker
It just needs to be autopilot, which means you need to train with it.

00:34:23.71
Buddy
And I think there's a big misconception out there. People think, oh, well, you know, i have a gun. i This guy, he's an NRA shooter and he trained me out to shoot. And, you know, I do the Mozambique drill and I got that down and this and that. But, I mean, when I have trained people in the past, it's I'm not training you to take the person out.

00:34:44.58
Buddy
I'm training you to break contact, to get out of the situation, you know, with some bear spray to the eye of, The eyes will do that. You know, there's, there's a lot of tricks to the trade that, you know, you just, the end goal is to get away, you know, not to necessarily end somebody's life.

00:35:01.04
Buddy
Now there's times where you have to, but you have to make that decision. So, you know, that's a good point you made.

00:35:05.35
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:35:07.53
Buddy
Chain with what you have.

00:35:07.76
Brittany Baker
Yeah, and knowing knowing exits is another thing I was thinking about. We really taught our kids is knowing where the exit is. And my husband and I, it really started with us knowing where the exits are whenever we walk into any situation.

00:35:20.84
Brittany Baker
And it was it became a game at date night. We would be sitting there talking about, you know, if this happened, what what would you do first? And so we could learn what each of us were going to do because, you know, your your spouse, your partner is your your your person. You know, they're the ones who are going to watch your back if they're with you in that situation.

00:35:39.87
Brittany Baker
And what are we going to with the kids? And it was always, you know, if in a perfect world. You know, me and my husband work together with all the kids. You know, the kids are instantly my priority. And he is going to be the one, you know, covering from the front or, you know, taking out the bad guy, things like that.

00:35:55.83
Rhonda
Thank you.

00:35:55.84
Brittany Baker
But you have to know where those exits are. Even when you walk into your local Walmart, do you know where the exits are? you know where the bathrooms are? um When you're in unfamiliar places, you know, how can you get out of the building as quickly as possible? Even if somebody were to come in the front door or in the back door or the kitchen area.

00:36:13.89
Brittany Baker
Knowing all of those places and knowing your address, you know, especially location, if you do need to call 911, knowing landmarks is a huge thing. When we were traveling, whenever we stopped, I would try to pick a landmark in the area because I couldn't remember what road we were on every time we stopped for gas. But I would pick out two or three things so that if I needed to tell 911 or tell somebody where we were at, they could at least, you know, pinpoint or get close.

00:36:41.62
Buddy
Yeah, knowing the exits you got off to to you know read refill up your car or go to the restroom or get some food, that's a good idea.

00:36:47.40
Rhonda
Thank you.

00:36:51.70
Buddy
And it's something I need to practice too. Because you see the signs that go, oh, exit 136. There's an Arby's there. That's where I'm going to go. And there's also a Sitco, so I'm going to go fill up or a Buc-ee's.

00:37:04.62
Buddy
So it's it's a it is what it is. I mean, I just wish people – yeah, go ahead.

00:37:08.12
Brittany Baker
And you please you think places like Bucky's, you would feel safe and you would feel comfortable and it's brightly lit, but that place is chaos.

00:37:17.25
Buddy
Oh, yes.

00:37:17.35
Brittany Baker
There are so many people in there. And unfortunately, that's where people get distracted the most. So that's where the people, the threats are going to be looking. Because parents are distracted and there's so many people and they're right off the highway.

00:37:28.00
Buddy
Yeah, there's

00:37:31.92
Brittany Baker
I can't tell you how many how many times it happens just because they literally can jump in their car and be to the next county in a minute.

00:37:39.61
Buddy
Yeah, and there's a lot of shiny things in there.

00:37:39.98
Brittany Baker
So.

00:37:41.77
Buddy
And it's not like there's just some shiny things for a lady. There's shiny things for a guy. So, I mean, the drill that when I travel, I don't i'm travel with my kids anymore. They're grown, but, you know, travel with a girlfriend or whatever.

00:37:54.80
Buddy
You know, she'll go over to the... the women's kind of things at Bucky's and I'll go over to the men things, you know, we'll, we'll look and then we'll meet up in the middle with some snacks and whatever. But I mean, it's Bucky's is a prime, i guess that'd be a, a high payoff target for somebody trying to take kids or, you know, traffic people or, you know, to kidnap or whatever. So.

00:38:17.96
Keith
I would think it's probably a predator rich environment that any kind of like a large park where there's lots of people, but definitely anything that's off the highway, yeah you you're going to find predators.

00:38:27.48
Buddy
Well, and just the parking lot is chaos. I hate driving into a Bucky's parking lot because it's it's it's, oh man, it's like the high school parking lot, you know, back in the day, you know, it's just chaos, you know?

00:38:32.39
Rhonda
yeah

00:38:40.41
Rhonda
I travel by myself a lot and that Buc-ee's is one place I will not stop by myself.

00:38:46.32
Buddy
Yeah, it's, you know, you have to choose your battles on the road.

00:38:48.04
Rhonda
You're right. That's chaos.

00:38:50.23
Buddy
So especially when you're on your own.

00:38:50.58
Keith
We go through the, uh, we go through the drill every time Rhonda goes to Texas. Cause she goes to Texas like every five weeks, five or six weeks ah by herself. And, um, you know, she's on the road for eight hours there, eight hours back and you have to stop.

00:39:03.83
Keith
There's no doubt about it. And so we go through the drill right before she leaves every time is you, do you have your gun? Where's it at? How are you going to access it? You know, are are you going to carry it you going to keep it on your body? how are you going to this time? You know, we, we go through all of it. Where's your extra rounds?

00:39:18.08
Keith
Uh, what do you, you know, what not to do, what to do, head on a swivel, watch your gas, all that stuff.

00:39:23.12
Buddy
Yeah.

00:39:23.32
Keith
We go through it every single time. I know I'm being like repetitive and, ah and, uh, uh, pain in the ass, but I'm still going to go through it every time she leaves.

00:39:32.33
Buddy
Well, you got a plan.

00:39:32.49
Rhonda
It's much with your much easier being me and not having to wag kids around.

00:39:38.12
Buddy
but how many people don't have a plan? They just get in the car and say, okay, they might know where they're going. ah And they, they get in their car, they pack up and, you know, they're forgetting their toothbrush and forgetting a lot of things.

00:39:48.79
Buddy
And then the first thing they do is pull out their phone and and pull it up to, you know, to go wherever they're going. And they have no idea. They don't have a hardcore map, you know, in case their phone goes down or goes dead or whatever. So our hardcore hardcover, you know, a regular old, old school map, you know,

00:40:07.33
Brittany Baker
Or the days of MapQuest. I remember that.

00:40:09.78
Buddy
matt

00:40:09.80
Brittany Baker
the

00:40:10.58
Buddy
And you know what? and And I think there's the world's worst app is the Apple map.

00:40:12.00
Rhonda
all the Really?

00:40:19.24
Buddy
That thing is the bane of my existence, man. I cannot stand it. it it oh

00:40:24.20
Keith
I thought you ran and out Android.

00:40:24.85
Buddy
Google maps all day long.

00:40:25.69
Keith
Oh.

00:40:27.02
Buddy
I have Google, but but the girlfriend has an Apple phone and she's always co-pilot and she'll post.

00:40:30.49
Keith
oh

00:40:33.00
Buddy
I'm like, just put your phone down. I don't care. i know where I'm going because Apple maps will get you lost. and Sydney, the squareliest places, man. Now they do have some, it has some good features about, you know, the speed traps and stuff like that, but, oh man, I just can't stand it.

00:40:49.20
Rhonda
Google Maps has that too.

00:40:50.97
Buddy
Yeah. But yeah, I guess I'm going off in the weeds, but you know, having a plan is where I'm getting at there that, you know, that's, you gotta have a plan and people, a lot of people just, they just live in the moment.

00:40:51.79
Rhonda
to

00:41:03.20
Buddy
They don't,

00:41:03.67
Rhonda
one

00:41:04.71
Buddy
they're not planning for anything, but you know, and we're not really talking about our, art our listeners out there because we are preppers or survivalists. We, we you know, we practice what we preach and, and we're not like that, but they're, you know, I'm sure we could hear the stories about people who know people who, you know, just have no clue.

00:41:23.92
Rhonda
Exactly. We all have those in our lives that don't have.

00:41:25.83
Buddy
Zombies, zombies daily, you know,

00:41:26.67
Rhonda
Okay.

00:41:28.42
Keith
Well, and you know, and, and prepper survivalists and, uh, just people who are in the preparedness mindset, they come at all different levels. So we've got beginners and intermediates and we have, um, experts that are probably listening, going that I wouldn't do that. Nope.

00:41:43.00
Keith
Wouldn't do that. Nope. Wouldn't do that. You know, but it is like, like I was going to ask Brit, um, ah Do any of your children, maybe the older ones, are they weapon friendly? Do they have any type of self-defense?

00:41:56.02
Keith
and And if not, or if so, what do you how do you feel about that? Maybe, you know, what age to give them a knife or, you know, teach them how to fight or, you know, and or shoot a gun?

00:42:07.99
Brittany Baker
Yeah, our oldest, um she's 10. She has been around firearms. She's been to the range. um But we don't have... The kids do not have any sort of knives or any sort of what I would call weapons um on a day-to-day basis.

00:42:22.50
Brittany Baker
The 8-year-old boy is still not quite ah shown the level of responsibility we feel like for a knife. He's still got those 8-year-old boy thoughts and sometimes.

00:42:33.28
Brittany Baker
um But... We do, you know, talk about hands on and close quarter things. We have talked about putting them into like MMA or, you know, some sort of teaching, you know, the eight year old how to use his hands. We're just we haven't gotten there yet.

00:42:48.91
Brittany Baker
You know, there are a lot of it's a lot of just staying with mom and mom is the lead and the protector. With them.

00:42:57.92
Keith
Okay, yeah, good good to know. my ah My son ah is, well, how how old is ah Tristan now? 25 or something, in he?

00:43:07.98
Rhonda
Don't ask me.

00:43:08.21
Keith
think so.

00:43:09.11
Buddy
supposed to know that.

00:43:09.29
Rhonda
yeah

00:43:09.30
Keith
I think he's something like that. I am supposed to know. I think he has 20, but yeah, he was born in 1999, so probably now, but he's getting his first gun. He could have gotten it. I taught both of them how to, how to shoot when they were very little.

00:43:20.72
Brittany Baker
Thank you.

00:43:22.66
Keith
I think they were, think they were 10 and 13 when or maybe even earlier than that, taught him how to shoot and um you know, all that, but neither one of them have a firearm at this point, but he's getting his first firearm this week. I think he's I think he's settled on a Walther.

00:43:41.73
Keith
So he's going to get a Walther's firearm.

00:43:42.03
Rhonda
Awesome.

00:43:42.67
Buddy
Nice.

00:43:43.77
Keith
Yeah.

00:43:45.42
Buddy
Yeah, my I taught my girls that when they were 13.

00:43:45.97
Keith
So,

00:43:48.46
Buddy
That was ah the age to where we decided we were going to learn how to shoot. And so, you know, pistol, rifle, just gave them some, you know, instruction. We go to the range and it was Instagram time for them. They're taking many selfies and, and that, that was more about what you know it was all about, which drove me crazy, but you know, they did learn a few things and, uh, you know, several times growing, you know, as they grew and we have self-defense and, and home, uh, home invasion weapons. We have, you know, some things placed around the house and they know where they're at. And, you know, I would just periodically go up to them and say, okay,

00:44:30.40
Buddy
take what is that?

00:44:30.47
Brittany Baker
Thank you.

00:44:31.60
Buddy
Oh, it's a shotgun. Okay. So how do you load it up? You know, you know, I would get, you know, just go over safety stuff. Okay. Put, put these rounds in there, you know, okay.

00:44:42.84
Buddy
You know, get it, put it into action and and things like that. So, um, they're asking me now to, to teach them again, because we we've kind of, you know, they're growing, they've grown up and got a little older. So they're, uh,

00:44:58.02
Buddy
gone different ways and stuff. But then they're coming back to me. It's like, dad, i'm thinking about buying this pistol. Is it a good one? You know, Hey, can you come teach me how to shoot again? And so, you know, I think people, the kids will come around, you know, cause they're smart.

00:45:13.74
Keith
lu ah

00:45:13.88
Buddy
They, they see that the way the world is, he says.

00:45:18.09
Keith
Learning to be a shooter, whether or not you carry a firearm or even own a firearm is empowering. It's, it's, it's, ah it it gets, ah it's getting you over a fear Right off the bat, I can tell you, you know, i knew i knew a year or maybe even more than that before I even purchased my first firearm, exactly what I was going to get.

00:45:38.14
Keith
i watched videos. I watched training ah training videos, all kinds of stuff. But still, when I got my first firearm, it was a Glock 17, you know, full size.

00:45:49.48
Keith
And the first time I i went to the ah range, I went by myself, didn't have any instructor with me, and I was scared shitless.

00:45:56.61
Buddy
Yeah.

00:45:57.36
Keith
You know, had to pull that trip.

00:45:57.49
Buddy
Which way does this bullet go?

00:45:59.75
Keith
and to Yeah, to pull the trigger for the first time. And when I did pull it for the first time and i and felt the recoil and how loud it was, it it was like, took my breath away. you know But then after I got to shooting it and understanding it, and the fear drops out and you you empowers you, becomes empowering.

00:46:08.02
Buddy
Yeah.

00:46:16.88
Keith
I think it's ah ah think it's a great day out you know to bring somebody to a shooting range, even if they don't want to carry or own a gun.

00:46:24.11
Buddy
Well, I've had dates that, you know, take, we'd go to the gun range. We'd, you know, Hey, surprise date. We're going to go. And then we'd go shoot some rounds. And some of the gun ranges I'm around where I live, they'll they actually have a little bar and grill there. So you can actually have a beer, uh, and, and eat a burger or something. But, uh,

00:46:41.91
Buddy
Yeah, i've done I've done the date night gun range thing, and I've taken you know my girls, you know hey, we're going to go out and eat lunch.

00:46:42.06
Rhonda
phone with

00:46:50.28
Buddy
We'll go eat lunch. It's like, okay, what are we going to do now? to the mall? No, we're going to the range. And so you know surprise them, and they love it. But yeah.

00:46:57.15
Keith
nice Nice family day outing. I like it.

00:47:00.17
Buddy
so So go ahead, Brittany.

00:47:00.44
Brittany Baker
Yep. i remember I remember my first time on the range because I was um born and raised not around firearms. They weren't in the house. My parents didn't shoot. i was 25 years old when I first touched a gun and was taken out to the range.

00:47:15.82
Brittany Baker
And after those first few shots, I just started crying. I just was bawling my eyes out because, one, all of the, like, buildup, not being around firearms, you this fear of it. And then, like you guys were saying, the overwhelming...

00:47:30.68
Brittany Baker
just feelings of the recoil and the sounds and the environment and then it was like I did it you know like I was proud of myself for pushing through the fear and feeling confident in having a firearm and being able to use it and getting to that point my husband felt so bad because he was the one who took me out to the range when I started crying and he was like hey take a minute just just breathe it's okay like you did it And it was just because I had built it up so much in my head, this fear of them and just not being around them, not being familiar with them.

00:48:01.23
Brittany Baker
um It's definitely something that it's worth it once you push past that little bit of fear.

00:48:07.66
Keith
That's right.

00:48:07.79
Buddy
That's awesome. Yeah.

00:48:09.62
Brittany Baker
yeah

00:48:09.75
Keith
So what else can we talk about when it comes to family situational awareness?

00:48:15.33
Rhonda
I would like to circle back to something that was really important that Britt mentioned earlier, if that's okay. and You know, we teach all of our kids and and everyone's just kind of naturally taught to watch out for men, right?

00:48:27.95
Rhonda
And earlier you mentioned women being involved as well. And I think that's important because it's becoming more and more of a thing.

00:48:35.73
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:48:35.85
Rhonda
ah

00:48:35.81
Brittany Baker
Yep. yep

00:48:36.43
Rhonda
Women are used for lures to lure people in and sometimes even in children.

00:48:39.93
Brittany Baker
yep

00:48:42.13
Brittany Baker
Yep, that's what, um it was a total shock to me when I learned that um women were becoming more of the lure, more of the first person that interacts with the child or the adult.

00:48:55.74
Brittany Baker
um it's its You have to watch out for everybody nowadays. It could be, you know, a sweet old grandma and she was paid $100 to just distract you as the mom so that somebody else could grab your child.

00:49:09.31
Brittany Baker
it's It's little things like that that unfortunately people will do just about anything for money. And sometimes they won't even ask questions as to why they were asked to do that one thing.

00:49:20.21
Brittany Baker
So I have taught my kids to just be aware of anybody and everybody. Unless you know them. Unless, you know, mom and dad and you know them by name. um We've taught them, you know, ah we they have a separate code word for just school pickup.

00:49:35.75
Brittany Baker
You know, if the person who is says they're picking you up from school, if you don't know them and they don't know the word, you do not leave with them. You do not get in the car. I don't care what they say, what they promise to you. Tell you you're going to be in trouble. Tell you you want a million dollars.

00:49:50.55
Brittany Baker
Like, do not get into the car with them um across the board. That has just been something, you know, it doesn't matter the size, the shape, the gender, um you know, the color of their skin.

00:50:03.46
Brittany Baker
Just there are bad people. in all of those places, in all of those kinds, unfortunately.

00:50:11.53
Keith
Yeah, I think one of the problems that we've run into, that ah and it might be recent, and I mean recent up in maybe decade, maybe, I don't know, half a decade. But I think that criminals or or just, you know, bad people, they're They're more emboldened, they're more fearless, and they they don't fear ah repercussions.

00:50:33.37
Keith
I think that a lot of them get away. i've I've heard stuff like on real crime deals where people have ah you know done something with a child and they've only gone to to prison for you know a decade and out in six years. you know that's That's free rent for six years. There's people that aren't afraid of being caught.

00:50:53.35
Keith
they're I think they're more emboldened than they're, you know, it's it's like what when you have a ah cop killer, you know, cop killers are the worst because if anybody who would kill a cop would kill anybody, their own family they would kill.

00:50:53.71
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:51:06.99
Keith
know, that's because they're fearless. You should be afraid to, to you know, to harm a police officer.

00:51:09.51
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:51:12.99
Keith
You should have a fear in your body of that.

00:51:13.16
Brittany Baker
Yeah. I think those intrusive thoughts, because everybody has intrusive thoughts, but I think there are people out there that just act on them. They don't even think past the intrusive thought.

00:51:24.55
Brittany Baker
I mean, you hear stories about yeah people at a mall, and it was just a few years ago, but just some random person picked up a kid and threw him over the balcony, three and he lit three stories down in the mall.

00:51:36.98
Rhonda
Thank you.

00:51:36.94
Keith
Yes, I heard that.

00:51:36.96
Brittany Baker
And just a random thing.

00:51:38.22
Keith
Yeah.

00:51:39.48
Brittany Baker
And you just you never know what's going through other people's heads. And a normal person wouldn't, even if somebody had that thought, you don't act on intrusive thoughts, you know?

00:51:50.92
Brittany Baker
We've all had that, like, what if we went, you know, off this bridge, what would happen?

00:51:51.14
Keith
yeah

00:51:54.94
Brittany Baker
Or... It's crazy to me that people have those intrusive thoughts and they're just unfortunately mentally ill and they act on them. And those are the people that I'm always worried about. I mean, we were in New York City recently seeing the Statue of Liberty and we were on the ferry.

00:52:12.18
Brittany Baker
And that was something my husband and i commented to each other was like, hey, just be aware that like anybody could come up and pick up our kid and throw them overboard in the water. And he even said like, hey, I have...

00:52:23.75
Brittany Baker
it's you know, really good survival swimming lessons, so I'll be the one to go in if something crazy were to happen. We just had that quick communication and praise the Father, you know, nothing happened. We kept our hands on them at all times, but you just unfortunately don't know.

00:52:39.92
Keith
Yeah, you guys are an awesome team. That's pretty cool.

00:52:42.63
Brittany Baker
it's It's been we've been married five years now um and he worked in, you know, he was prior military and then he worked in a training center where it was training police officers, um you know, close quarters and.

00:52:57.60
Brittany Baker
forget what it was called, but a lot of tactical close quarters, you know, his job was to be the bad guy and to basically take out the officer so that the officer learned. um And they did it for civilians, too. So his his job was to be the bad guy for other people to learn.

00:53:13.71
Brittany Baker
So he now thinks that. that way when we're out in public.

00:53:17.17
Keith
Right, right, yeah.

00:53:17.88
Brittany Baker
It was definitely a learning curve when I met him and married him. And, you know, I had to, but I was, I was a single mom prior to that. I was the one who always sat and faced the exit so that I could watch every person that walked in and out so that I was aware of who was in my environment.

00:53:33.53
Brittany Baker
Um, so I was, a I was already, i was already, you know, a little odd to begin with, but he definitely taught me a lot more about, you know, what I could actually do if something were to happen.

00:53:34.70
Keith
I do the same thing.

00:53:45.83
Keith
I used to make, ah when Rhonda and I first met, and we were getting to know each other the first year kind of stuff. I used to make her get out of the seat that she got into when we went to a restaurant because she was in the wrong one.

00:53:56.39
Keith
Now she knows exactly which one I'm going to sit in.

00:53:58.18
Rhonda
Yes.

00:53:58.71
Buddy
Haha.

00:53:59.00
Brittany Baker
Yeah, we actually will go back and forth sometimes because i it was just ingrained to me to always sit there and I had to learn, you know, to to swap with him and let him sit on that side. But there's been a few days where he'll have a really bad migraine or he'll just be off and he'll just switch with me. Hey, can you keep an eye? Because he knows that he can trust me to watch the exit just as much, you know, just as well as he can.

00:54:21.76
Brittany Baker
And he knows that if I see anything, I will alert him at a moment's notice.

00:54:26.09
Buddy
yeah know I used to go out and eat you know lunch with a bunch of my military friends, and either when I was in or even since then. And it's funny to see a bunch of guys who are combat vets go out to lunch and fight over who's going to watch the door.

00:54:42.19
Buddy
You know what I mean? So it is.

00:54:43.42
Keith
That's funny.

00:54:43.48
Brittany Baker
Oh, man. Hmm.

00:54:44.68
Rhonda
It's funny.

00:54:45.62
Buddy
I mean, it's funny, but we all have that same survival mechanism. And, you know, I've i've had some therapy and you know with the PTSD thing and... And there was a ah saying somebody brought up one time, that which keeps you alive in combat will actually kill you in the sa civilian world.

00:55:06.34
Buddy
And so it's just a man. It was deep to me. And I was like, kill me. Wait a minute. Hold on. But and it's more of a survival thing. And and I think softer than kill. It's it's you know something you have to manage. But you know it's good to...

00:55:19.91
Buddy
you know, take turns watching the exit and, and having trust in somebody else to, to look out for your best interest too. So that's awesome.

00:55:30.06
Keith
Yeah.

00:55:30.07
Brittany Baker
Yep, and he knows that I'm, you know, with the four kids by myself often, so he needs to feel confident in me, so him being there and being able to know that I'm just as aware as he is, um and, like, moms just have this intuition and instinct, like, we have...

00:55:47.35
Brittany Baker
mama bear mode, you know, and we have, and I've taught women to just trust that feeling, you know, God gave us that, that is the Holy Spirit, whether you believe in the Father or not, there is something in you that is saying, like, you know, you don't feel safe here, or that person is just doesn't feel right, or this situation feels off, just trust it, because you would rather trust it and be safe than not trust it and be sorry.

00:56:13.09
Buddy
Very true.

00:56:15.24
Keith
Yeah, i don't mind being the weird ah weirdo.

00:56:15.42
Buddy
so So I got one last question for you, Brett.

00:56:20.45
Brittany Baker
Okay.

00:56:21.12
Buddy
What is your everyday carry? And you don't you can dance around it ah as you want. So you can just tell me you know exactly what it is. so what

00:56:27.75
Keith
Any weapon are you just talking firearm?

00:56:29.74
Buddy
I'm talking everyday carry from you know all of it.

00:56:32.01
Keith
Oh, everyday care.

00:56:32.10
Brittany Baker
All of it?

00:56:32.81
Keith
All of it. Ooh.

00:56:33.75
Buddy
I want a pocket dump or a purse dump.

00:56:35.13
Keith
What?

00:56:35.44
Brittany Baker
but Okay.

00:56:38.11
Buddy
Do we need to do it on another podcast?

00:56:39.69
Keith
you're you're You're asking a woman yeah askings kind a woman what she carries in her purse?

00:56:39.83
Rhonda
That was good.

00:56:39.95
Buddy
I mean, you got that much...

00:56:43.34
Keith
i don't know, man.

00:56:44.59
Buddy
Well, survival-wise.

00:56:44.87
Brittany Baker
I'm actually... I'm actually very minimal. I am a very minimal person. um I have a fanny pack. um it' ah it could be a across

00:56:53.71
Buddy
Yay!

00:56:54.83
Brittany Baker
It could be a crossbody.

00:56:55.04
Buddy
and The fanny pack.

00:56:56.64
Brittany Baker
I wear it as a crossbody sometimes, a fanny pack other times. It just depends how many kids I have in tow with me. um I needed something hands-free.

00:57:02.41
Buddy
Hold on, Brett. Did you hear that, Keith?

00:57:05.38
Brittany Baker
Yep.

00:57:06.96
Buddy
She carries a fanny pack.

00:57:07.24
Keith
She's a woman. She's a woman.

00:57:08.99
Buddy
Oh, come on, man.

00:57:10.27
Keith
Men don't wear fanny packs.

00:57:12.11
Brittany Baker
My husband will carry a fanny pack. It's a very tactical.

00:57:14.70
Buddy
Yay!

00:57:15.35
Brittany Baker
it is woodland camo. It is all manly.

00:57:19.97
Keith
ah rnda rhonda Rhonda got me one or got us one, and it is actually very, very cool.

00:57:20.21
Buddy
So, okay.

00:57:20.31
Brittany Baker
He will carry it, though.

00:57:25.17
Keith
But I don't i can't call that a fanny pack. Fanny packs were those little things you put around your waist and had a little zipper on it, and you stuck your little two little fingers in to pull out a little dime when you were going to call somebody.

00:57:30.41
Rhonda
their first

00:57:37.23
Keith
That's a fanny pack.

00:57:38.05
Brittany Baker
That's like a coin purse. That makes me think of like a change purse.

00:57:39.97
Keith
Yeah.

00:57:42.19
Brittany Baker
Oh, man.

00:57:42.52
Keith
no No, tactical is cool.

00:57:43.15
Buddy
So,

00:57:44.40
Keith
That's fine. And camo, a plus. We're there.

00:57:47.14
Brittany Baker
Yeah.

00:57:47.60
Buddy
so

00:57:47.71
Brittany Baker
Yeah, he is all woodland camo or Marpat. That is the only two things he will, you know, use.

00:57:53.24
Buddy
So, me me and Jeremy Bolt, the other host of the show, we we carry fanny packs you know in public, and we carry our pew-pews in the fanny pack, and and that's how we roll.

00:58:03.92
Buddy
And it's odd to for Keith to hear that. he he's you know It's not masculine enough for him. so

00:58:09.14
Keith
Change the word, man.

00:58:10.07
Rhonda
Yeah.

00:58:10.86
Keith
It's not fanny pack. it

00:58:13.26
Buddy
I don't know what the hell to call it.

00:58:13.25
Keith
Those two words don't need to be put together.

00:58:13.43
Brittany Baker
cross it Is cross...

00:58:15.37
Keith
I'm sorry.

00:58:16.56
Brittany Baker
Is crossbody better?

00:58:16.82
Buddy
I don't what else call it.

00:58:18.38
Brittany Baker
Like, people call them crossbodies.

00:58:18.74
Keith
yeah Yes. Well, well, now crossbody is what is what Rhonda and I carry.

00:58:22.00
Brittany Baker
Waist...

00:58:24.05
Keith
We carry slings, sling packs, cross crossbodies, sling bags.

00:58:25.48
Buddy
it

00:58:25.61
Brittany Baker
Yeah, slingbags.

00:58:26.24
Rhonda
and and

00:58:27.51
Buddy
It's my cross butt.

00:58:27.87
Keith
Yeah.

00:58:28.55
Buddy
All right. My cross. butt

00:58:30.42
Brittany Baker
but

00:58:30.81
Rhonda
let's thing that called

00:58:31.04
Brittany Baker
My cross waist.

00:58:32.88
Buddy
Okay.

00:58:33.01
Rhonda
yeah

00:58:33.16
Buddy
So go, go ahead. I, I just, I just wanted to make that point that, you know, there's other people out there. So we're Keith, we're the, we're the, you're the odd one that does it, you know?

00:58:41.85
Keith
I'm the odd man out. I'm odd Billy Todd or whatever.

00:58:42.97
Buddy
Yeah.

00:58:44.09
Keith
Yeah.

00:58:44.65
Buddy
Yeah. Billy. Yeah. Billy Todd. There you go.

00:58:46.34
Brittany Baker
I didn't carry one for a long time, but I just needed to be hands-free with the kids and keep everything on me. um And I don't carry a lot. So in my fanny pack is my firearm.

00:58:56.97
Brittany Baker
um It is a P365. We're a SIG family. It's just how it is.

00:59:00.77
Buddy
Oh, yeah.

00:59:01.88
Brittany Baker
um My slick kit from Refuge Medical... um I carry a pocket constitution because, a yes, I am that person. Yeah,

00:59:10.27
Buddy
Oh, wow.

00:59:11.57
Brittany Baker
yeah it it stays with me all the time. um I carry the triangular bandage. I specifically carry the one from Warrior Kid Medic. I don't know if you guys have heard of that one, but it's basically an orange triangular bandage, but it has, like, stick figure diagrams on it, so it's really user-friendly instructions.

00:59:27.09
Buddy
Instructions, yes. Yeah, I have one.

00:59:29.40
Brittany Baker
ah My kids can use it. We train with it. I love it. um And then I carry a Slishman pressure wrap. um It's a child tourniquet. And then my soft tee tourniquet is the one I use that I carry for adults.

00:59:42.65
Brittany Baker
um Those items are on me other than the pocket kind of ah pocket constitutional that actually... stays in my cargo pocket if I have cargo pants. But even if I'm in a dress, those items are staying, you know, in my fanny pack, on my body.

00:59:56.71
Brittany Baker
I don't go anywhere without medical or my firearm. If I can't carry my firearm because we were traveling in certain states, um my pepper spray stayed with me at all times. I'm trying to think.

01:00:09.87
Brittany Baker
i I really don't carry very much. I have like a hair tie, I think, outside of that and some band-aids. But I am, I'm a very minimalist, um low maintenance female.

01:00:21.60
Buddy
I imagine you have a boo-boo kit with all your kids. You probably have one.

01:00:24.85
Brittany Baker
That's in my diaper bag. Yeah, my, my diaper bag, you know, has all the kids stuff.

01:00:26.39
Buddy
Okay.

01:00:29.45
Brittany Baker
But band-aids are the one thing that stays in my bag because every boo-boo can be fixed with a band-aid.

01:00:36.19
Buddy
Oh, yeah. and And some of the things that aren't boo-boos, but are the kids think they are, you know.

01:00:41.78
Brittany Baker
Yes. Oh, yes.

01:00:42.49
Buddy
Yeah.

01:00:42.93
Brittany Baker
That's what any little paper cut, they need a bandaid. um And I do not do those fancy kid character ones. I'm like, you you get the good old brown latex free one.

01:00:54.48
Buddy
Awesome.

01:00:54.51
Keith
Yeah, we we like we like to think that Bigfoot is the the the the original prepper survivalist tops. really ah Really, moms are, and you think about it.

01:01:06.29
Keith
Because they've been prepping and and everyday carrying. you know soon as you have a baby, you become basically a prepper survivalist. You just don't know it.

01:01:14.81
Brittany Baker
I mean, your job is to keep a whole other human being alive and take care of their every want and need every day.

01:01:18.96
Keith
That's right.

01:01:21.67
Brittany Baker
yep. mean...

01:01:25.76
Buddy
So what you're saying is we... Wow. yeah Last night it was Bigfoot was the original survival.

01:01:32.03
Keith
The original Prepper Survivals.

01:01:33.07
Buddy
Yeah. No, it's mom.

01:01:33.94
Brittany Baker
but

01:01:34.31
Buddy
I have to agree with you. I think it's it's a mom.

01:01:37.98
Keith
Well, who came first, moms or Bigfoot? I mean, I think about that way.

01:01:41.44
Rhonda
You learn real quick what you have

01:01:41.81
Buddy
that's a That's a debate for another day.

01:01:42.39
Brittany Baker
i mean Does Bigfoot have a mom? is

01:01:47.13
Buddy
Yes.

01:01:49.30
Brittany Baker
He had to have, right? He had to be raised by a badass.

01:01:53.24
Buddy
Well, Patty was a female, so...

01:01:53.65
Keith
That's yeah. And actually our our mascot is actually Patty from Patterson and she was a female. Yeah.

01:02:01.01
Brittany Baker
There you go.

01:02:02.02
Keith
yeah

01:02:02.94
Brittany Baker
I mean, there there is one specific thing that females can do that men cannot do, and that is bring a whole human, you know, grow the human and bring a human into this world. So I say that just makes us top to begin with.

01:02:15.60
Buddy
Yeah, I'll leave that to the experts for sure.

01:02:15.62
Keith
There you go.

01:02:18.84
Brittany Baker
Oh,

01:02:21.10
Keith
Rhonda, you got anything for Britt?

01:02:24.95
Buddy
um It looks like her mic is off now. It looks like it's stopped working. so Yeah, we can hear you.

01:02:29.91
Brittany Baker
no.

01:02:31.01
Rhonda
What's going on? Can you hear me?

01:02:32.96
Keith
Yeah, we can hear you.

01:02:34.99
Rhonda
Okay, that's weird.

01:02:35.86
Keith
Were you trying to talk?

01:02:37.15
Rhonda
ah Yeah, I've talked several times and it didn't seem to, my line's not moving at all.

01:02:42.64
Keith
Oh, it's it's moving on.

01:02:42.76
Rhonda
Like I see little line from everyone else.

01:02:44.35
Buddy
It is now, so you're good.

01:02:47.80
Rhonda
No, I was just saying you learn really fast when you become a mother what to keep in that diaper pack.

01:02:53.24
Brittany Baker
Oh yeah, and what is not essential.

01:02:56.22
Rhonda
Exactly, and how heavy it can be.

01:02:58.81
Brittany Baker
Oh yeah. On top of the child.

01:03:03.02
Rhonda
Right.

01:03:04.92
Buddy
So that's about all I have.

01:03:05.17
Keith
All right.

01:03:06.41
Buddy
I mean.

01:03:06.52
Keith
Closing thoughts.

01:03:06.66
Rhonda
Yeah.

01:03:07.20
Keith
Anybody?

01:03:08.28
Rhonda
I

01:03:09.72
Brittany Baker
Keep your head on a swivel. That's what I'll close with.

My Prepper Brothers and Sisters…

….. As we’ve seen time and time again, violence can strike from anywhere, any time. What may seem like a normal, safe, mundane, even routine situation, like grocery shopping, picking up the kids at school, or enjoying the day at the park… may actually turn chaotic and violent within seconds. In the UK, 112K kids go missing every year… that’s over 300 per day. In Europe, a child goes missing every 2 minutes on average… that’s 720 per day. But these numbers as horrible as they are, don’t even compare to the US stats of missing children presumed taken by non-family members. In the US, over 2300 children are reported missing every day. And that number only accounts for children under 18 years of age. It doesn’t include missing adults.

It is our job as human beings to look out for one another, to protect one another. As Preppers, it is our responsibility to prepare for threats against us and our loved ones by learning and training and practicing so that we can be the best protectors we can be.  

Stay Prepped… Stay Happy…

Thanks for Listening… And, Goodnight…