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218 Winter Is Coming Part One - We Are The Ready, We Are The Odd, Stay Frosty

• Keith Otworth & Rhonda Triggs • Season 8 • Episode 218

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Keith
Um, I've been to other plenty other ones. Oh yeah. There was a lot of good stuff. I picked up a, um, brush hog, um, for a nice brush hog.

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Buddy
Oh.

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Keith
I mean, it's old, you know, it's old and used. It'll need a little bit of this and a little bit of that and some new blades. But, um, all in all it's, it works. It's, it's nice machine. And, um, it's, you know, these, these things are thousands of dollars new use their hundreds of dollars. I picked it up for 125 bucks.

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Keith
I won the bid on it.

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Buddy
Oh, wow.

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Keith
So, yeah. And there was an actual brush hog. Um, I think is it is a brush hog, the brand.

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Buddy
Yeah, there's a brand.

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Keith
I think there's a, there's brand.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
Yeah. There was a third one that was an actual brush hog and that one went for like two 50, but they did it last. Had they, had they done that one first before the other two, would have definitely bid on it and went and went higher than, you know, two 50.

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Keith
I would have went to like 300 for it. uh, but I didn't want to miss out because everybody was looking at them. Everybody wanted the brush, you know, one of these machines. So the first, the first one that came up, I just started bidding on it and I won the bid. So and I was like, damn, I should, they should went to go one first, but it is what it is. I picked up that and I got a, um, um, what's what are those things called? Um, and the the, the, the wording is, is coming, is um being missed here. I'm forgetting stuff.

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Keith
I'm losing my mind. Um, the The things that you you you build and you stand on while you're doing work on a house, whatever, you call those things?

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Jeremy
scaffolding.

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Keith
Scaffolding. I can't remember the damn, is it age? It's gotta be age, right?

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Jeremy
I don't know. I mean, you used to work in that industry.

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Keith
Scaffolding. I know, so i used to build it all day and pull it down all the time. It's like, what the hell?

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Buddy
You got CRS, can't remember shit.

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Keith
Can't remember something, I don't know.

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Jeremy
Yeah, man, you got that a you got that Age.

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Keith
But yeah, and what is that?

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Jeremy
age

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Keith
Age? h Damn, I got the AGE. Yes. Scaffolding. Yes. And it's very, it's nice. It's got like, you know, wheels on it and very, very strong holds thousands of pounds. So, and they, I got it for 17 bucks.

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Jeremy
man

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Keith
You know, we're talking, these, are these are like, you got to go check out an estate sale. These auctions are pretty, you know, I, it was raining and freaking icy cold. Everybody was wrapped up. There was fires going.

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Keith
And I thought for sure nobody would show up because it's raining. Dude, I get down, it's on dirt road. I live on dirt road. I'm going down dirt road and look ahead of me and there are just hundreds of trucks which with trailers.

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Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

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Keith
I'm thinking, oh my God, I'm not going to get anything here. And there was a lot of people and they were looking for tools and anything they can get their hands on.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
you know But they also had some big machines that, You know, you might know more of a buddy is farming equipment, like farming equipment, big, big stuff, like big things you pull behind tractors and they, they put seeds in the ground and all kinds of other things.

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Buddy
Oh yeah.

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Keith
And I didn't know what they do, but yeah.

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Buddy
A lot of those are, they'll have ah a publication come out. It's like a little magazine. And i don't, I don't know if where you live, you have these guys who just hang out at the gas station and, and drink coffee all morning. And then they'll get a, they call them a tornado or something. They're little taquitos or something. And they'll get a couple of those and hang out and just bullshit all day long and then go start working.

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Buddy
I guess they're retired. i don't know.

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Jeremy
A lot of the notices are in those penny penny newspapers.

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Buddy
Penny finders. Yeah.

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Jeremy
Yeah, the penny finders and the free magazines and all that.

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Keith
Oh yeah.

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Keith
Yeah.

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Buddy
But yeah.

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Keith
Well, i mean my, I did the deer, I was cutting my, you know, the the deer leases and I told the guy, I'm like, yeah, I'm i'm doing this on a zero turn because my, my brush hog is done.

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Keith
It's down. and And honestly, the zero turn mowers, it's a, it's the ones I have are big industrial size, like, i don't know, 65 inch. They're big. They're almost as wide as a brush hog anyway.

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Buddy
Yeah.

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

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Keith
So I'm not losing that much in them, but I don't want to put the wear and tear into them that, you know, that goes into these things when you're bouncing around deer leases and stuff, hitting holes and everything else.

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Buddy
Oh, it's rough on them man. youll you'll You'll mess one up quickly.

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Keith
It's rough.

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Keith
Yeah. So he was, he sent me that thing. He's like, Hey, this is, these the people that had the estate sale at your place before you bought it, your house. And he said, they're having one right down the block. and I'm like, well, how, how close is he goes, dude, it's like your next door neighbor. Like they're just two and half miles down that way.

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Keith
And so i looked at him like, yeah, I can do that. And it was worth it. So now I got hooked up with this auction company and you know, I'm on their list now. So they'll hit me up every time there's one and I can just go check shit out.

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Keith
Yeah.

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Jeremy
Nice.

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Buddy
That's awesome. I got a buddy that he's an auctioneer and he does that. He does twice a year. He does it next, next to my land. Uh,

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Keith
Is he see the they see the guy who talks fast, or is he just owns the thing?

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Buddy
well, he, I think he, he, it's mainly a silent auction. So he'll, he'll put stuff out there like a week before.

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Keith
Oh.

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Buddy
So everything has to be in there by the weekend before the auction. And then you come in and, and you look at it and you can put a bid on it. um Or you can, you know, flat it, you put a bid on it to buy it and then he will do an auction, you know, you know, i guess fast talking.

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Buddy
I've never heard him do that, but I don't know.

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Keith
Yeah. Yeah. Does he do that whole but but bra but i would i don't know what they're like i don't know what that is, but something.

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Buddy
That's at the cow lock auction, I think. Yeah.

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Keith
you know if fifty dollars here if you know company i was seventy dollarss and was seventy dollars went seventy dollars ah

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Jeremy
That's, that is like a whole, um, like they have like competitions.

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Keith
like a language do they really

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Jeremy
Uh, yes. People like they actually like they have a competition to to see which auctioneer is like the best auctioneer. And honestly, i have been in countries and been able to pick up languages faster than I can understand what the hell those dudes are saying.

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Buddy
Yeah.

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Jeremy
The only thing I can ever pick up is like a random number. but

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Keith
Yeah, that's all I can get, man. You know, know he's saying stuff.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Buddy
it

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

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Keith
He's like, he'll say really fast, this is a great saw that you should definitely have in your toolbox. He'll go, great saw, have it in toolbox. And I'm like, I know he's saying tools in there somewhere.

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Keith
Yep.

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

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Keith
but i'm like i know he's saying tools in there somewhere

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Buddy
Yeah, that's not the place to get an itchy nose or an ear, you know, itchy ear.

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Keith
but

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Keith
i had I had to think of that a few times because i I have a habit of adjusting my hat. I do it all the time. like my I wear a cap, and that's that's one of those things. They'll look at you when you're doing that, you're like, oh, shit. No, no, no, no, no. Definitely.

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Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And there are people at auctions I have seen that are there literally only to do one thing and that's jack up the price um on other people.

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Buddy
Oh, yeah.

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Keith
Definitely.

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Buddy
Oh, yeah.

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Jeremy
Yep.

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Buddy
You got to watch those guys.

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Keith
I didn't see that here at all, although I did jack up this one lady. she was trying It was a water catchment system. It was like a great big tub, and it it had a whole filter system on top and in and out inlets and all that.

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Jeremy
Hmm.

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Keith
It was pretty nice. And they started to bid at like $5. five bucks And I was like, $5? five bucks I'm like, what? i'm so like They were like, $5? And was like, $10. He was like, oh, $10, right over here, $10.

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Keith
And this lady jumps in. So I started bidding on her all the way up until – don't I think we got up to like 50 and I just let her have it, but she could, she could have had she could have had her five bucks. I mean, I just, I, you know, I thought she would stop, you know, but, uh, what I did notice was that the Mennonites were there.

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

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Keith
There was a lot of Mennonites there. Um, not Amish, but Mennonites and they're tough, man. They're, they're, they're hombres, man. These people, they're, they get in, they, they bully their way to the front of the line that, you know, and there was a bunch of these, um,

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Jeremy
yeah

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Keith
canning jars that I wanted. They were really nice mason. They were mason jars. And there was like six boxes of various ones and different parts and pieces. And he won the bid.

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Keith
And because you win the bid, you get to pick which box you want. he said, I want all of them. Took every one of them. It was like, it was like, it was like $18 a box. And he bought like all six boxes, like an entire table of mason jars. I'm like, what the Like, dude, come on, man.

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Keith
I would have liked to have one of those.

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Buddy
Well, those guys, they have extra money.

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Jeremy
That's

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Buddy
They're not spending on alcohol or or hookers or cocaine or anything.

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Keith
That's true. That's true.

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Buddy
so

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Jeremy
for taxes or other stuff.

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Keith
Yeah.

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Buddy
Taxes.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
Yeah.

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Jeremy
Yeah. I always get those guys like those two different brands.

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Keith
So, yeah, it was good.

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Jeremy
I always get the the Mennonites and the Amish confused. And then you get down when you get downwind of them and then you figure it out.

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Buddy
Well, here's...

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Keith
I find... i find

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Keith
I've never heard that one before.

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Jeremy
Hmm.

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Keith
But that but i have I have noticed that the Amish are much rougher with the big old beards and the the kind of the older clothes. And the Midnights are like very well kept and shaved.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
And they wear like really nice hats and that their clothes are like black.

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Jeremy
I don't know, man.

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Keith
And black and like these guys were like clean, like black pants, black jackets, black hats. And they weren't like... they weren't like Amish hats. They were like these round, forget what they're called, but they're a different style of hat.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
Even the kids were dressed like that, you know?

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

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Buddy
Well, i call them minonina or I call them Amish lights. The Mennonites are Amish light. Kind like ah you can drink Budweiser, Bud Light. But yeah, my daughter lives up in...

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Keith
Hey, you know, you know what? I did see one of them over at the food stand. I'm like thinking, wait a minute now. Amish don't eat no, you know, fritter pies or, you know, what's going on? What's he drinking over there?

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Buddy
Chili cheese, Coney.

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Keith
Chili cheese and that kind of thing. Yeah, exactly.

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Buddy
Only at the auction, maybe.

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Keith
ah yeah

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Buddy
yeah my My daughter lives in ah in central PA and right in a middle of Amish country. and when i I went up there a few months ago to see her and we we got out through... Got to go through the country and stuff.

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Buddy
It was very interesting just to go up and see all that.

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Keith
I love Pennsylvania Amish. I absolutely love them.

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Buddy
Yeah.

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Keith
I've been there many, many times and I just, I love it. It's such a cool um environment to be in.

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Buddy
Yeah, the the the adults are cool, but those kids are a feral, man. My gosh.

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Keith
I don't know about the kids, but i mean the but but the but the adults, they make good stuff.

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Buddy
Woo!

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Buddy
Oh yeah, definitely. Definitely.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
You know, furniture, food, all that, everything's really good.

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Buddy
I think I'm going to go next.

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Jeremy
There is a, go ahead.

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Buddy
was just going to say, I don't think I won't go back next summer and spend a little more time up there to actually go through. There's little Amish towns.

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Keith
Yeah. who

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Buddy
There's a one called intercourse.

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Keith
Is it really?

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Jeremy
really huh oh that's

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Keith
Yeah.

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Buddy
Yes. Intercourse. That's an, and they recently changed it, but anyways, that's,

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Keith
Well, there's a lot of Amish in Missouri and we have them all around us. Like and like literally in in my woods, we have Amish land. And there's actually amish Amish stores that you can go to that are all like, you know, real flour and real real grains and real stuff, you know.

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Jeremy
yeah yeah well there's a there's a store over on the southern pines side uh

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Keith
Expensive, but, you know.

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Jeremy
uh, to us. And it's a, it's, it's called Dunrovin. It's a country store where they have like old school candy and all that kind of stuff. And they have a whole section of Amish made stuff, leather, you know, furniture, stuff like that.

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Jeremy
And cheeses, milk and that kind of thing.

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Keith
yeah

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Buddy
Well, there goes all of our Amish listeners.

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Jeremy
So, yeah, yeah.

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Keith
No, no, no. We love that. Yeah. i I have an Amish beard.

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Buddy
Yep.

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Keith
I mean, I don't, you know, I got the whole upper lip shaved and all that. And just, ah I had the whole beard thing, but I definitely don't dress Amish. I'm, you know, for me, it's Carhartt pretty much all the way, but I don't think they're wearing Carhartt.

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Jeremy
and You know, there's only one reason i don't support Carhartt. There's only one reason, and that's because they force their employees to take the shot.

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Keith
What's that?

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Buddy
yeah

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Jeremy
That's it.

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Keith
Really? I didn't hear that.

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Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah, they force their employees to get the shot or leave the company, and I was like, well, and that does it for me.

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Keith
That seems so anti-Carhartt, man.

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Jeremy
i know.

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Keith
they're like you know they're they're They're like my sport. and Other people wear Nike and and this and that.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
I wear Carhartt. I'm like, this is my sport. you know It's like, wow, that's crazy.

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Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and that's,

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Buddy
I have very few car stuff, but I do have a few things that I can't let go of. I'll just say that.

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Jeremy
yeah, it's their, their duck cotton is, is some of the best, but it's just, I just can't bring myself to support a company that, that, you know, did that. It just makes me angry, but

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Keith
T-shirts long and short and hoodies, uh, mostly what I have. And I think I've got some caps to you, but I, everything I got car hurt, I love it.

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Buddy
Yeah, it's, it's durable.

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Keith
Just it lasts long and it's good, good stuff.

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Jeremy
yeah.

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Jeremy
I don't like thick cotton shirts anymore. i I don't even wear, I hardly ever wear jeans anymore either. I just, I like soft and I don't know why now, but I like soft t-shirts and like I'm wearing a polo right now.

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Buddy
Nope.

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Jeremy
It's one of the ultra softs. I can't stand thick, regular t-shirts anymore. I just don't like them.

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Buddy
I'm with you on that.

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Jeremy
I don't.

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Buddy
I got to wear wicking stuff in the soft and Merino wool socks.

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Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

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Buddy
I mean, i maybe I'm spoiled. I don't know, but.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Keith
I wear almost exclusively Carhartt force shirts, long sleeve and short.

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Buddy
Love those, man.

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Keith
And that that's the wicking so soft and comfy.

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Buddy
Oh, I got a few of them. Hell yeah.

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Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

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Buddy
you know

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Jeremy
And I also, I don't wear, yeah I don't wear t-shirts that have logos or any print on them when I'm working out or running, you know, or even like road marching.

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Keith
You know, but then you're you're talking 30 bucks a pop, though, you know.

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Jeremy
Cause that, that material sits on your chest and just rubs. I mean, did a, I did a, I think it was a 50 miler we were doing and I came away with there and I had to put band-aids across both of my nips.

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Buddy
Your nipples.

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Jeremy
It was bleeding, bleeding like crazy.

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Buddy
Yes. Yes. yeah

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Jeremy
Yeah. Hell yeah.

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Keith
what's what's the one that I figured you for an armor where they call what's the one, the armor, a body arm is a body armor under armor.

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Jeremy
Oh, Under Armour? Under Armour?

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Keith
Yeah.

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Jeremy
Yeah, i don't I don't particularly care for their stuff.

00:14:05.55
Keith
My kids are all, they, my, well, my football player kid, he's all into the under armor stuff, but I don't like it. It's too, for me, it's too tight and I'm fat. So i look stupid in any way, you know, you know, it's like a, ah yeah.

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Jeremy
Yeah.

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Buddy
I went through my Under Armour phase. Yeah.

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Keith
A long time ago. So, I mean, it just doesn't look right on me, man. Cause it's like, dude, you're, Under Armour and you, you're not, it's oxymoron what's happening there.

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Jeremy
Yeah. yeah Well, I mean, you know, this last cruise that we were on, i was, i was leaving the gym and I'd done my, my yoga and meditation. i was walking back to the room and I'm just wearing just workout shorts.

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Jeremy
And this lady, I was walking by this lady who was already drinking at like seven 30 in the morning.

00:14:45.57
Keith
Oh, that's not good.

00:14:46.39
Buddy
What's wrong with that?

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Jeremy
And she, I mean, you know, but she was like, if you get any shorter shorts, we're going to be able to see everything.

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Buddy
Why are you so judgmental?

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Jeremy
And I looked down and I'm like, It's not that the my shorts are short. It's because my i got big-ass tree trunk legs, lady. Who are you yeah

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Keith
no No, you no you you said that No, we're not going there.

00:15:02.41
Buddy
Oh, I thought you were going somewhere else with that.

00:15:08.47
Keith
you told you so You told us, Jeremy, you like the shorty shorts.

00:15:12.64
Jeremy
doing?

00:15:13.40
Keith
you So, that's what she meant.

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Jeremy
Yeah, I do. Yeah. If I'm going to go work out, especially if I'm doing legs, I like shorter shorts so I can get free range of movement. I got to put paint to taint when I'm doing a squat, man.

00:15:23.92
Buddy
I'm... I'm...

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Jeremy
I've got to get down on the ground, you know?

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Keith
When I... When I watch those military movie movies and shows and stuff, I see i see the guys that are like, these all they are is just legs coming out.

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Buddy
i'

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Jeremy
Yeah.

00:15:37.88
Keith
My shorts go way past my knees.

00:15:38.10
Jeremy
Yeah.

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Jeremy
Oh, I can't stand it

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Keith
My shorts go almost to my socks, dude.

00:15:43.38
Jeremy
Hell no, dude. I can't stand anything.

00:15:44.40
Keith
Like Vato style, you know what saying?

00:15:46.80
Jeremy
ah I don't like anything below my knees like that. unless ah if If I'm going to pants, that's fine. But if I'm wearing shorts and I feel the bottom of my shorts touching past my knees, it drives me berserk.

00:15:57.25
Buddy
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

00:15:59.10
Jeremy
Like berserk.

00:15:59.55
Buddy
yeah

00:15:59.88
Keith
But, oh, no no no, no, no, no. I get what you're saying. But see, the shorts that I wear, there they're like more tactical cargo-ish and camouflage.

00:16:07.06
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:16:08.25
Keith
And they've got the – you probably know what they are, but I don't know what they're called. But they've got these pull strings at the bottom.

00:16:14.33
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:16:14.41
Keith
So i I tighten them to go above my knee, and then i and I'll knot them in so they can't come loose.

00:16:18.41
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah,

00:16:21.78
Keith
And so they're – yeah It's hard to explain, but they won they won't fall below my knees. But normally they sit, they they normally sit right at the top of my knee above it.

00:16:30.88
Jeremy
yeah.

00:16:30.74
Keith
But because I'm, like I said before, I'm fat and not built right. They usually fall down.

00:16:35.96
Jeremy
yeah yeah

00:16:35.91
Keith
So they're usually going down. And this way I tie those things and now they can't go below my knees. I don't like that feeling either, man. it It pisses me off all day. I'm trying to pull them up over my knees.

00:16:44.14
Jeremy
Oh, but it's like that that bottom dangly part like brushes your leg hair and you're like, what the fuck? can't stand it. mean, even my regular like just regular shorts, if if I like the particular style and the size is right, I'll actually have them hemmed up a little bit to make them shorter.

00:17:04.27
Keith
Can you even imagine what I would look like in shorty shorts and a fanny pack and an under armor shirt?

00:17:09.42
Jeremy
Hell yeah, dude.

00:17:10.43
Keith
I mean, do you even do you even know?

00:17:10.75
Jeremy
Hell yeah.

00:17:12.43
Keith
i would fit in with all those people.

00:17:12.82
Jeremy
Skies out, thighs out, brother.

00:17:15.31
Keith
no. no I would fit in with all those people that are protesting with the pink hair and the purple hair and all that. I would fit in with them if I wore that.

00:17:21.96
Jeremy
Fuck it, man. Skies out, thighs out. You got to rock them trunks, man. You should see me in...

00:17:27.09
Buddy
Yeah, we're going to have.

00:17:28.33
Jeremy
Sometimes in the gym, I'll intentionally wear like some old Ranger panties that that I should have no business wearing in public, barely have a liner left on them and just, just intentionally do leg day in those things.

00:17:40.68
Jeremy
I think it's hilarious.

00:17:42.86
Keith
Oh, my God.

00:17:43.33
Buddy
We're going to have to do some Tops Bunker Ranger panties just with the logo on one on the on the left leg or something.

00:17:48.45
Jeremy
Hell yeah, dude.

00:17:51.18
Jeremy
Yeah, absolutely. i will definitely get those.

00:17:52.17
Keith
ah I'm going to have to look those up, but I'm afraid what my browser is going to pull up.

00:17:57.06
Jeremy
yeah

00:18:01.06
Jeremy
just shit That's great.

00:18:01.11
Keith
You know, I don't trust it.

00:18:05.53
Buddy
He might get it.

00:18:05.73
Jeremy
jessica You don't even have to safe search it. Just put in Army Ranger panties. Of course, it may come up with actual panties, but they're black silkies. They're black silk shorts.

00:18:16.33
Jeremy
And the Marines wear green silk shorts.

00:18:16.76
Keith
oh Oh, man, that's not, I don't even understand that, man. No.

00:18:22.30
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:18:23.61
Keith
m

00:18:24.43
Jeremy
Yeah, they're great.

00:18:24.58
Keith
Okay. Well, now that you wasted all of our time talking about this this crap, ah what are we what are we talking about today?

00:18:29.33
Jeremy
Hell yeah.

00:18:31.70
Jeremy
winter

00:18:31.73
Keith
Oh, wait, you know what? im want i want to i want to start with something. Before we do, go ahead.

00:18:36.50
Jeremy
Well, I was going to introduce our montage ah for the evening to to really develop our subject.

00:18:45.27
Keith
You want to do that right now or you want to do what I was going to do first?

00:18:48.21
Jeremy
Go ahead.

00:18:49.36
Keith
We got SpeakPipe people.

00:18:53.21
Jeremy
Nice.

00:18:54.00
Keith
Yes, we do.

00:18:54.82
Buddy
Oh, shit.

00:18:55.03
Jeremy
Absolutely.

00:18:56.36
Keith
I'm telling you, it's crazy. at we you We put that thing out, not a lot, but we got a few. I think there's like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine. That's about 10, 11, something like that. They're all short. I'm going play them right now for everybody.

00:19:08.75
Keith
um These are people that we asked on Facebook to please go on SpeakPipe and... And show everybody how easy it is to get on the show. And we got we got hits.

00:19:18.00
Jeremy
Hell yeah. yeah

00:19:19.34
Keith
So first one's coming in from RMFT. I think we all know, most of us know what that means. It's Roll Tide. Roll, Mother, Roll Tide.

00:19:27.17
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:19:28.07
Keith
um Let's just play it.

00:19:37.94
Keith
Yes, sir. ah Next one is Annette. I mean, we all know Annette. She's on the Dirty Garden Hose show. One of the hosts on there. but the host on there

00:20:22.12
Buddy
Man, that's, I have some ideas on that one.

00:20:23.38
Keith
That's a good one.

00:20:24.70
Buddy
We'll talk, we'll talk about that one.

00:20:25.56
Keith
Okay, good. Good. good i thought I thought you guys would like that one.

00:20:27.10
Buddy
Yeah.

00:20:28.72
Keith
Yeah. So that's a great, I wish everybody had put an idea, but that's great that she did that. Now, the next one I think is Scotty, our Scotty, that's been on the show before, but i I don't think he put his last name, so I'm not sure, but it sounds like him.

00:20:41.05
Keith
Let me play it. Got the crickets.

00:20:56.11
Jeremy
Nice.

00:20:57.13
Buddy
Yeah, I think that is him.

00:20:58.19
Keith
that that sounds like him, right?

00:20:59.46
Buddy
Yeah, pretty sure it is.

00:21:00.99
Keith
and he And I think the last time he was on with us, he was also recording from outside, too. That was, you know, I heard the crickets, so. ah This next one is Jason from Florida.

00:21:22.88
Keith
Yeah, there's two people that said Keith and Rhonda. I don't guess they, on the Facebook, maybe they, because Rhonda runs the Facebook, I guess. I don't know. um But yeah, there was a couple those. And then this one is Sean from, i believe, Delaware.

00:21:43.55
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:21:56.14
Keith
Cool.

00:21:56.57
Buddy
Yeah, a good one.

00:21:56.99
Keith
Good, good, good, good, good. Next one is Jeff from Dayton, Ohio, I believe. you go.

00:22:11.03
Keith
that's all That's what we asked, right?

00:22:11.59
Buddy
Yeah. ye

00:22:12.71
Keith
We just said jump on and say hi. if that's If you say one word, we're good with that.

00:22:17.38
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:22:17.38
Keith
He said about five, so that's great. Next one is Frank Deegan. We all know Deegs.

00:22:46.20
Keith
Okay, looks like he's watching some TV. ah Nice, Frank. Appreciate you checking in with us. Next one is Andy, and that's all I got is just Andy. i don't know where from.

00:23:11.03
Buddy
Yeah, we've had him on um the show.

00:23:11.33
Keith
Andy Blair. have was he?

00:23:14.60
Buddy
Yeah, Andy, he was one of our first security guys on there.

00:23:17.59
Keith
Oh, Andy.

00:23:17.83
Buddy
did Yeah, it's good to hear from him, yeah.

00:23:18.47
Keith
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Well, glad he jumped on. That was cool. Uh, next one is Dave from Pennsylvania.

00:23:40.42
Keith
There we go.

00:23:41.33
Buddy
Yeah, he's been on the show too.

00:23:41.48
Jeremy
Nice.

00:23:41.95
Keith
Uh,

00:23:43.17
Buddy
He's one of the, back in the, before we changed the format, we did the collection team, did a couple episodes with that. He was one of those guys.

00:23:52.60
Keith
how do I not remember these people?

00:23:54.44
Jeremy
Yeah, I don't remember him.

00:23:55.35
Buddy
I just, I still talk with him regular.

00:23:55.82
Keith
I don't remember him.

00:23:57.51
Buddy
So him and aunt Joe and a couple other guys, pretty regular. So.

00:24:01.58
Keith
Dave. Okay. Well, I'm sorry, Dave, for not remembering. I'm, I'm, I'm old. I got age. According to Jeremy, I got a Um, and then the last one is Willem and he is from South Africa.

00:24:08.05
Buddy
Yeah, AGE.

00:24:14.42
Keith
And I know we had people in South africa because I've seen the stats and where the people come from. So I know we have listeners in South Africa. We, One of them decided to jump on this big bike, man. So here we go.

00:24:46.27
Jeremy
I love that.

00:24:46.15
Keith
Awesome.

00:24:46.83
Jeremy
I love that accent.

00:24:47.03
Buddy
ah We need to have him on.

00:24:47.28
Keith
Awesome.

00:24:48.39
Buddy
If if you if you're listening and you this, man, instant message us on Facebook and we'll get back to you. We'd like to bring you on if you'd like.

00:24:56.60
Jeremy
Mm-mm.

00:24:56.61
Keith
I watched a program about preppers while back. I don't think it was doomsday preppers was something else. And, um, they did a whole thing on South Africa, the South African prepping it, you know, uh, industry or whatever you want to call it.

00:25:10.38
Keith
And there's a lot of preppers out there, man. I mean, and they take their stuff serious, man.

00:25:12.86
Buddy
They have to.

00:25:14.18
Keith
They take it really serious.

00:25:15.74
Buddy
No, it's life or death right now with them. i mean, I don't want to go into it on this episode.

00:25:18.30
Jeremy
Oh yeah. Yeah.

00:25:20.20
Buddy
I can, but it's life or death, man. I mean, they have to.

00:25:23.42
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:25:25.08
Buddy
it's It's not, well, it'd be nice if we can get some extra beans and rice this month.

00:25:24.97
Keith
That's crazy.

00:25:28.89
Buddy
No, they're they're they're living it hard. And it's coming this way if we don't watch out, so...

00:25:31.40
Keith
Right.

00:25:34.10
Keith
Could be. Yeah. I mean, that's just's true. I also do have a And I'm to find it here. Wish I had the... dinner and Music to go in here, but I don't.

00:25:45.26
Keith
But I got a fan mail.

00:25:47.33
Buddy
You can edit that in.

00:25:49.05
Keith
Yeah, I probably could. ah got up And that will happen right now. Let's see. I got a fan mail that came in from Buzzsprout. Somebody on the actual...

00:26:00.76
Keith
app, you know, there's a little button on the app that says contact the host or say hi the host or what says, something like that. I forget. Uh, let me find out where that is.

00:26:13.07
Keith
Actually, i think the fastest way for me to get this, I'll cut all this out. Let's just go to my email. I think that's where it popped in.

00:26:25.13
Keith
Uh, well, shoot. I don't see it there either.

00:26:34.46
Keith
ah Hold on. was that all my Was that on my phone? Let me see.

00:26:39.58
Buddy
So it's it's it's on the bus, Sprout.

00:26:39.86
Keith
ah

00:26:42.49
Buddy
Yeah.

00:26:45.80
Keith
Maybe it is on the Blah, blah, blah.

00:26:46.77
Jeremy
There's got to be an AI voice thing for this. And this is where Keith got lost looking for a thing.

00:26:51.15
Buddy
Yeah.

00:26:54.25
Keith
Okay, where where the hell did I read that from? um It came in on my thought.

00:27:02.85
Keith
Hold on. Buzzsprout home. Episodes. No dynamic. Fan mail. Okay. fan There it is. All right. Here we go. It's on the fan mail section. We got a fan mail that came in from Glencoe, Oklahoma.

00:27:17.79
Keith
Is that someplace you're from?

00:27:18.66
Buddy
whoa

00:27:21.33
Buddy
No, it's I know where it is.

00:27:21.41
Keith
you you

00:27:22.53
Buddy
ah

00:27:23.11
Keith
You know where it's at? Okay.

00:27:24.35
Buddy
Yeah.

00:27:24.30
Keith
And it's pretty nice. um there's um There's no name. um I don't think. It says... um

00:27:35.41
Keith
I pinned your podcast website. i don't how to do that. It says, I'm 57 years old, hunted probably 50 of those years, and listening to number 216. That was Jeremy's hunting episode.

00:27:49.60
Keith
um Wait a minute. Was it 216? I don't think it was 216. Was it?

00:27:53.82
Jeremy
I don't know

00:27:55.30
Keith
I don't think so. But anyway, um and maybe it's right.

00:27:57.66
Buddy
Sounds about right.

00:27:59.29
Keith
Yeah. ah Actually, it was. It was last week. 216 was something I really enjoyed. Things I've been trying to teach my kids since they were old enough to understand what we're talking about from central Oklahoma. I've worked all over Oklahoma and Texas oil fields and renewable energy for the last eight years away from home can be challenging, but I really appreciate what your podcast has covered long time listener and love your content.

00:28:29.83
Keith
Just join the Facebook group today.

00:28:32.57
Jeremy
Nice.

00:28:32.98
Keith
So, yeah. There you go. I'm i'm glad people are, you know, reaching out. um And i'm I'm assuming that's where the fan mail drops. I think i think it's exactly where it drops.

00:28:45.35
Jeremy
Well, I think it's pretty cool that, that people were able to revive that speak pipe, you know, platform. Cause we haven't heard anybody on speak pipe and don't know, golly, like a while, you know, and,

00:29:00.21
Keith
yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah. yeah

00:29:01.82
Jeremy
you know And also to get fan mail actually through one of the podcasting apps where you listen to your podcast apps. That's actually even cooler.

00:29:11.84
Keith
Yeah.

00:29:12.11
Jeremy
so

00:29:12.26
Keith
Oh yeah.

00:29:12.56
Jeremy
yeah, man. That's neat.

00:29:13.58
Keith
Uh, actually I'm looking right now. It looks like before this, our very last speak pipe was from Frank Deegan over a year, ah year ago.

00:29:21.44
Buddy
I was going to say, yeah.

00:29:23.46
Jeremy
Wow. Wow.

00:29:26.30
Keith
Yeah.

00:29:27.04
Buddy
I'll be honest. i don't know how to do it. I see it on the website. I guess I ought to try it out sometime.

00:29:32.08
Keith
In your browser, speak pipe.com slash what's that?

00:29:32.44
Jeremy
when i first When I first started listening to you guys, go ahead sorry but when i first started listening to you guys i actually

00:29:37.63
Keith
Uh,

00:29:40.87
Jeremy
i left a ah speak pipepe

00:29:43.10
Keith
Did you really?

00:29:44.53
Jeremy
yeah it was a while back

00:29:46.14
Keith
must have ah must have gotten rid of those by then. ah Yeah, it's simple, man. in Your browser, you put in your phone or your phone's probably the best place to do it. You put in SpeakPipe. That's S-P-E-A-K-P-I-P-E, just like a sound. SpeakPipe.com slash tops.

00:30:03.73
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:30:04.39
Keith
And immediately on the screen, you'll see a button that says record. Now you can put in your name. Or you can put in no name. You can leave your email or not. None of these people, actually a few of them did. One, two, three.

00:30:16.92
Keith
Looks like about five of those. Actually, everybody except for Jeff put their emails on there so we can get back with them if we wanted to. And that's a good way for us to get hold of Willem and Seba wants to come on the show. His email's on here.

00:30:31.48
Keith
But you had that choice. You could put your name or not. could put your email or not. um The one that was, I'll play it again. um Let me see here. Where are we?

00:30:45.68
Keith
I know we're here someplace. There we go. um It would be Dave, Frank, Jeff.

00:30:56.71
Keith
It was right Scotty and Sean. I'll cut all this out. don worry about it.

00:31:05.48
Jeremy
I think it'd be worth listening to an episode about real life stuff in Africa just to hear that dude's accent.

00:31:07.87
Keith
Scotty. Okay, right here. So.

00:31:13.60
Buddy
Yeah, we definitely need bring him on.

00:31:13.67
Keith
yeah Yeah, that'd be cool. ah This one here.

00:31:26.37
Keith
So he he said he said his name, this is Jason from Florida, but on my on the speak pipe, it just says anonymous because he decided not to put anything.

00:31:33.09
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:31:34.13
Keith
And you don't have to. You don't have to put anything that you don't want to put on there. And you just press the button and you just say whatever going to say. And then you stop the recording. And then it's then you get on the show. And if you don't, if you want to just contact and say hi, but you don't want to be on the show, just say it.

00:31:48.79
Keith
We won't put you on there. Simple as that. Simple as that.

00:31:54.06
Buddy
Too easy. Maybe I'll figure out how to do it.

00:31:56.16
Keith
Way too easy. So bring us in, ah Jeremy, with what we're going to be doing tonight.

00:32:02.85
Jeremy
Well, I mean, it's um getting cold. It's getting nasty. And as we all know... Winter coming! Winter's coming!

00:32:29.17
Jeremy
yeah so winter is coming and i think for some hell yeah have you ever heard of um oh gosh uh

00:32:32.63
Keith
Love that music.

00:32:38.92
Keith
The two two guys with the electric guitars that do it or something.

00:32:41.74
Jeremy
Well, it's, ah I think they're called, is it fat something, a number of strings. It's like, it's like four or five dudes. They all play a different instrument. Most of them are on electric guitar or acoustic guitar, and it's like a whole ensemble and they're doing that song.

00:32:57.71
Jeremy
Oh dude, it's fucking kick ass. um But yeah, the winter and yeah, I can't remember what it's called.

00:33:02.43
Keith
I think I have heard that.

00:33:05.83
Jeremy
But yeah,

00:33:06.91
Keith
And the the last one that comes in is like a, like a country star, I think you heard, you've heard that one too.

00:33:07.31
Jeremy
but

00:33:10.66
Jeremy
Well, that one, yes. so that's got the, yeah, um that has got the lead singer and lead guitar from Anthrax. um Excuse me.

00:33:23.06
Jeremy
I'm trying to think of the the country star's name, but he's also an accomplished guitarist. And it's just a bunch of dudes just wailing on that particular song. So, yeah, that's pretty cool.

00:33:34.92
Keith
Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.

00:33:36.68
Jeremy
So, and I know for some people, winter is definitely already here.

00:33:37.03
Keith
Good stuff.

00:33:41.05
Jeremy
Um, one of my former soldiers who lives out in Colorado hit me up with a screenshot. It was 21 this morning where he lives. And, um, I'm sitting over here complaining about 48.

00:33:48.62
Keith
o Where's that?

00:33:51.67
Jeremy
He lives, uh, in the Pueblo area. So just, uh, South of Colorado Springs.

00:33:58.64
Buddy
Yeah, I think Colorado might have a few, actually ski ski resorts starting to open already. think they've had had enough snow in the western part.

00:34:05.80
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

00:34:09.26
Buddy
I'd have to double check myself, but I was told that.

00:34:11.07
Jeremy
Yeah. And as much as I tell myself, I would love to live there like Montana or Wyoming. And then I see that and I'm like, a you know, ah do like winter, but I don't know if I love that kind of winter. Yeah.

00:34:25.08
Keith
Well, I'm going to tell you this.

00:34:25.50
Buddy
It's a different

00:34:25.92
Keith
Rhonda and I went to Colorado for a vacation and it was wintertime and it was snowing and our cabin was up in the mountains and we, we had hundreds of elk around us on on this land.

00:34:35.89
Jeremy
man

00:34:37.27
Keith
It was a fence. It was a hundred acres of fenced in area just with that cabin and all the elk in that area. They were just inside that area as their own personal, you know, ah group of elk.

00:34:48.08
Keith
And it was absolutely gorgeous. And it was the most amazing thing. And we went into the mountains and we went through some caves and, It was snowing and it was beautiful. But I'm going to tell you this. When you go to the town, it's the same as every place else, man.

00:35:00.31
Keith
It's dirty.

00:35:01.41
Jeremy
Yep.

00:35:01.33
Keith
It's slushy.

00:35:02.50
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:35:02.50
Keith
It's nasty. It's cold and wet and people are sneezing. And it's just like any other place ah in the wintertime.

00:35:06.65
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:35:08.90
Keith
You don't you don't see the beautiful unless you're there as a vacation.

00:35:09.19
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:35:12.61
Keith
Trust me.

00:35:13.53
Jeremy
Yeah. And they still have elk roaming the town and it's, you know, yeah.

00:35:16.14
Keith
Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

00:35:17.72
Jeremy
And you get to see a tourist getting speared by elk, which I think is hilarious.

00:35:22.66
Keith
but

00:35:23.10
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:35:23.16
Keith
I love, love Colorado, man. I thought it was, just thought it was beautiful, man.

00:35:26.32
Jeremy
yeah I've been there quite a bit and I've been through of one of my daughters lives in Wyoming. um And I mean, I love the area. i love the mountains. I've always loved the mountains since I was a kid.

00:35:38.19
Jeremy
As I get older, I appreciate, the winter more now for some reason, even though I was raised in South Texas. But but there are a lot of things that individual people have to do to get their homes, to get their cars, to get their whole lives ready for the weather that is inevitably going to be here and for some people already is.

00:36:00.15
Jeremy
So, and I, yeah, and I think, Buddy, are you starting us off on that?

00:36:00.96
Keith
That's right.

00:36:06.26
Buddy
On the ah ah it's I just zoned out there for a second. I was thinking of that. Um, what am I starting out with?

00:36:15.08
Keith
You're thinking of what what what? What were you thinking of?

00:36:17.07
Buddy
I'm having a buddy moment.

00:36:18.41
Jeremy
Yeah, you are.

00:36:18.86
Keith
okay. and That's all right.

00:36:20.13
Buddy
Okay. So I was going to start, I was gonna talk tonight on, on a vehicle loadout, but, um, what, what, what'd you have in mind?

00:36:27.67
Jeremy
yeah just take it away.

00:36:29.48
Buddy
Okay. Well, um,

00:36:30.05
Keith
ah Okay, so keep in mind that we don't have ah massive amount of time, and we will cut out a whole bunch of what we have. So let's not let's not linger, is all i'm saying.

00:36:36.52
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:36:38.40
Buddy
Well, do want do we want to like split it up?

00:36:38.54
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:36:41.26
Buddy
Because we've already taken 30 minutes. So do we want to like have another episode with a lot of stuff in it and maybe just talk about some of it tonight?

00:36:51.18
Keith
Well, I'll tell you, okay, all right, so let's do this so so that we so that it's on the recording. All right, since we have so much to talk about with the winter coming, remember, it's been just me or me and Rhonda in the past. Now it's all three of us and we got a lot of content.

00:37:03.91
Keith
So maybe we'll break this up into two. It's possible.

00:37:06.59
Jeremy
OK.

00:37:06.53
Keith
If we do, we do, and that's what it is. um Let's go ahead and get your guys at least in there because I know I'm going to do the stuff on homesteading and the home, which i which is my specialty, and I've got a lot to go through.

00:37:15.53
Jeremy
Mm hmm.

00:37:19.97
Keith
So we probably have to make it to two.

00:37:20.26
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:37:22.68
Jeremy
OK.

00:37:22.84
Buddy
Yeah, definitely. i think I think that's probably the wisest thing for us.

00:37:26.38
Jeremy
OK.

00:37:27.15
Keith
Yep. And apologize for all you people in the Southern Hemisphere. Right now, it is coming out of and going into summer. So, yeah, it is what it is.

00:37:33.50
Jeremy
If. Yeah. but For those of you whose toilets flush backwards. So yeah.

00:37:40.22
Keith
Backwards. Yeah.

00:37:41.19
Buddy
man. ah man

00:37:43.30
Jeremy
All right.

00:37:43.17
Keith
Like Willem in South Africa, right? that's That's down below. So, you know.

00:37:47.51
Jeremy
Yeah. Below that.

00:37:47.56
Keith
Well, you know, I say i say that, but Even people like that are in, you know what? I'll save it for the intro. I've got i've got some ideas i want to put in the intro. oh just scratch all that. But yeah, William's in this in the and the southern hemisphere.

00:38:00.74
Keith
So right now he's probably going into his summer, coming out of winter.

00:38:04.78
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep.

00:38:10.03
Buddy
We'll have to ask him when he comes on.

00:38:12.15
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:38:12.25
Keith
Yeah.

00:38:14.31
Jeremy
All right.

00:38:15.29
Buddy
All right. Well, what I'm, what I'm going to talk about today. So pull out your notebooks. If you feel the need to take notes, but this would be good time to do it for these two episodes. We're going to, we're going to have here.

00:38:26.33
Keith
You know, these days we don't use notebooks, we use cell phones, but go ahead.

00:38:29.67
Buddy
Okay. Whatever. I'm old. Okay. all right, so um I'm going to talk about the winter. Basically, you spend a lot of your time going to and from wherever you're you're from, going to and then coming back in a car, some kind of vehicle or whatever. So in the wintertime, you want to make sure that those vehicles are in tip-top shape.

00:38:49.41
Buddy
And there's some things you need to go through. and and you know, winter's different than summer and and then we're depending on where you live, uh, there's either a drastic difference or there's a subtle difference, but it's still a great time to look over your vehicle and, you know, make the changes you need to, to make for that time.

00:39:10.29
Buddy
So what I'm going to talk about is mainly what you need inside of your vehicle to get ready for an emergency that might happen. And so, uh, basically I've broken it up into different sections.

00:39:23.72
Buddy
So we have a recovery communications or a signal warm or warmth first aid, uh, your bug out, get home and then a miscellaneous section. So I'll break that up into these, to these different sections and I'll try to stay brief with it and not go into, you know, to,

00:39:45.15
Buddy
too far in the weeds because you know, you can look a lot of this stuff up by, uh, using the Googles. So anyways, so on the,

00:39:52.42
Keith
Yeah, and it's also it's also specific to your needs. Everybody's got different needs. so you know this is this is what you're going to come up with for what you have, right?

00:39:58.03
Buddy
yeah.

00:40:00.67
Buddy
And for Oklahoma, I, and I tried to add things that are, we, we get a little bit of everything. We don't get the, the very heavy snow, but we'll get the ice. We'll get, you know, we'll get very cold weather.

00:40:11.58
Buddy
We'll get the, what the wind and stuff, but I,

00:40:12.45
Keith
Oh, you you definitely get the ice. There's no doubt about that.

00:40:14.55
Buddy
Oh, yeah. And I've lived in New York and and have have messed around upstate and got to nor'easter. So i understand that, you know. Florida, you know, it's a little different story.

00:40:26.09
Buddy
But, ah you know, it'll still get cold there. You'll get your your cold and and you'll get you maybe your one snow every 10 years or whatever. But yeah. So, you know, it's all situational dependent. So, all right.

00:40:38.30
Buddy
So going start out with recovery. So, you know, just keeping it basic, you need a snow shovel you know and they make them where they fold up where you can put them into your trunk or, you know, into a box in the back of your SUV or your truck or something, but some kind of small snow shovel, just in case you get snowed in, you might be at work and, uh, there might be a snow that dumps and they don't release early and you might have to go out and, you know, snow, uh, snow shovel a little snow.

00:41:07.67
Buddy
For instance, I was lived in New York and, we got dumped on overnight and I had to get, I had to actually dig the whole car out. It was all the way up to, I could barely see which car was ours because I could see the top of it. I knew where I parked it.

00:41:20.27
Buddy
And, and then the snow, snow vehicles came through, they came through and, clear the roads, which pushes all the snow onto your car.

00:41:22.59
Keith
I like that. That's good.

00:41:29.24
Buddy
So it was definitely stuck. So I had to dig into with my, ah ah a dustpan. I had to dig into the, trunked where I had the snow shovel to get the snow shovel out in order to shovel. So that's an example, but a snow shovel is, is kind of a ah baseline item you need depending on where you live. Of course.

00:41:52.78
Buddy
Um, also something like kitty litter or, or a bag of salt, you know, the salt you put on sidewalks, um, in Oklahoma, we get a lot of ice. And so keeping kitty litter or, you're,

00:42:06.77
Buddy
a bag of salt melt, uh, for a bag of salt for ice melt. You can throw it them underneath your tires, let it sit a couple of minutes and sometimes you can break them free because you know, ice is way different than snow.

00:42:19.52
Buddy
Um,

00:42:19.42
Keith
I second that because we've had, you know, growing up, I know we always had the snow shovel and even a little bag of that ice melt, usually salt um inside the front door, because a lot of times you had to dig your way out of the front door.

00:42:34.92
Buddy
Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. And that's the thing too. Um, also something as you could take as well as you can go and get a carpet remnant, you know, from the carpet store, you go in there and pretend like you're going to buy carpet and you need a couple different ones, so but you get four of those. And if you can't, if your wheel spin, sometimes you can throw those down and just get enough, uh, traction to pull yourself out. So that's something else that is kind of a hack that can be used. It's, uh,

00:43:04.77
Buddy
it'll It has worked in the past. I've seen it done. so

00:43:07.92
Keith
Have you ever seen those people that the videos where the people put the two by four cut it like ah like a piece of two by four on their their tire on the but on the sides? are Actually, on the top and the bottom, but on the sides.

00:43:19.25
Keith
And they use ah like a ratcheting set to ratchet it to the tire.

00:43:22.83
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:43:23.27
Keith
and then they can And then they get themselves out with that.

00:43:23.75
Buddy
I have not i've not seen it, but I've used 2x4s to roll ah roll out on

00:43:28.95
Keith
Roll out. Yeah. These are like you take a two by four that's cut. ah You keep a couple of them that are about the width of your tire in your car and you and everybody has ratchet sets. I mean, come on, right? Everybody these days has set.

00:43:39.36
Buddy
Yeah. yeah

00:43:40.71
Keith
And then what you do is you just put them you put them on the tires, like where the treads are going going across ways. And then you just put the ratchet around it and ratchet it in. And then when you turn the tires, that two by four spins down into the mud and gets you out or the ice, whatever it is.

00:43:56.28
Buddy
Which is a perfect.

00:43:56.46
Keith
I got stuff. By the way, I got stuck at the ah ah auction yesterday.

00:43:57.94
Buddy
Ha

00:44:01.38
Buddy
ha ha ha.

00:44:02.36
Keith
Well, my truck, I pulled up on the grass and it went right into it. and i said, this is not going to be a good day.

00:44:08.16
Jeremy
hmm

00:44:08.11
Keith
And I went over to the owner who had a big old tractor. I'm like, Hey man, I'm like, he's old guy. He's real nice. And i was like, Hey, I'm stuck out there. And I'm like, I'm your neighbor down here. He's like, you're stuck. He's like, like, what you mean you're stuck? And I said, well, I brought the wrong tires with me.

00:44:20.96
Keith
He goes, you bring them city slicker tires.

00:44:23.28
Buddy
ah

00:44:24.26
Keith
I said, actually, I did. I said, I had really nice all-terrain tires, but you know living for a year and in Kansas City with those rotten roads, they just ruined them. He Kansas City's got the worst roads, don't they? I said, yeah. He goes, I'll get you out. Don't worry about it.

00:44:37.10
Jeremy
too.

00:44:37.14
Buddy
Nice.

00:44:37.36
Jeremy
That's, that's like the worst place to get stuck is surrounded by a bunch of other trucks.

00:44:42.45
Keith
Oh, yeah.

00:44:42.80
Jeremy
there

00:44:43.46
Buddy
Well, it's the it's the best and the worst.

00:44:43.35
Keith
Just trucks. They're looking at you like...

00:44:45.14
Buddy
It might hurt your ego a little bit, but you got you got everything you need there.

00:44:48.63
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:44:48.94
Keith
Yeah, exactly.

00:44:49.44
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:44:49.70
Keith
They're like, are you're dumbass. I'm like, dude, what?

00:44:51.42
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:44:52.28
Keith
I mean, this is what I got. this is It's all I have, right? Come on.

00:44:55.62
Jeremy
Now is your truck four wheel drive?

00:44:57.63
Keith
Oh, yeah, but the tires are are literally slicks. I mean, they have no tread left on them whatsoever, man. I got to buy new But remember, I don't drive it down the road.

00:45:03.88
Jeremy
mm-hmm.

00:45:05.52
Keith
This is my farm vehicle. It's what I have around the house. And I know where my slick spots are on the property, so i don't go near them.

00:45:08.31
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:45:11.46
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep.

00:45:13.36
Keith
So sorry to cut you off, man.

00:45:13.74
Buddy
Well, no, that's a perfect segue for the recovery strap that you should be bringing.

00:45:14.52
Keith
Go go for it.

00:45:19.91
Buddy
um so And I use ratchet straps a lot for my recovery straps or a broken ah ah broken ratchet strap because you'll break them. And I always save them because I'm kind of a hoarder when it comes to stuff like that. I mean, you know things have... I like to have multi-purpose stuff.

00:45:36.79
Buddy
you know if you If you buy something for one purpose, ah you know you can find another purpose for it. Yeah. A recovery strap nice to have in your instance right there so they can pull you out.

00:45:48.77
Buddy
Ratchet strap, sometimes if you have to self-recover, you can take a ratchet strap you know and strap it up to your bumper or your somewhere on a pendle mount or something on your vehicle, and you can ratchet yourself out just enough to pull yourself out.

00:45:49.65
Keith
That's right.

00:46:05.28
Buddy
So those are good to have.

00:46:06.05
Keith
I've seen people do, I've seen people do that with the big ratchets, the big ones.

00:46:09.74
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah. And and yeah you're not going to do it with the little, you know, one inch one from tractor supply, but you need to get the large one.

00:46:12.95
Keith
Mm-mm.

00:46:15.44
Keith
A winch is nice to have too, but it's hard. You know, that's a lot of money to get in your truck.

00:46:19.18
Buddy
Yeah. If you have one, so it's awesome. But, and then ah the last thing I have, just I'm trying to keep it simple and and short, but to get your mind, you know, to work a little bit and make it situational independent for your own area.

00:46:32.87
Buddy
The last thing is, you know, an eye scraper with a brush on it is just basic kit to have because, You might be at the grocery store. You might be at work. You might, you know, be wherever and, you know, overnight or within an hour or so you you got dumped on and you can always just go out there and scrape that stuff off.

00:46:51.25
Buddy
Uh, I don't really, and brush it off if it's snow, you know, it's just something to have that's in your vehicle. Most people have it anyways, but you believe you have to, the people that don't, you'd be surprised how many people don't have this stuff.

00:47:06.78
Buddy
So, uh,

00:47:08.42
Keith
Yeah, and then you're out there with your with your nice leather jacket that you just got for Christmas, and you're trying to wipe off these nasty windshields with your $300 leather jacket. Me, I dress like crap anyway, so I'll just i'll just use anything I got. But yeah, you're right.

00:47:23.51
Buddy
Well, you can't use CD cases anymore because nobody has CDs.

00:47:26.92
Jeremy
yeah

00:47:27.83
Buddy
I mean, you remember those days?

00:47:28.33
Keith
Dude, yes, I used to use them too. That's right, yeah.

00:47:30.99
Buddy
Yeah. It's like, shit, which one am going sacrifice now? Is it to the Beastie Boys or is it going to be Drunk Hit Murphy's?

00:47:35.71
Jeremy
Pearl Jam.

00:47:36.92
Buddy
ah

00:47:37.34
Keith
That's right. And never, ever, ever, ever put boiling water on your windshield. You may think that this is a good idea to melt the ice.

00:47:43.07
Jeremy
No, dude.

00:47:45.32
Keith
Do not do it.

00:47:45.99
Buddy
Oh, yeah. i Yeah.

00:47:46.97
Jeremy
No.

00:47:48.07
Buddy
Yeah. I was going to say that. Yeah. ah yeah um I'm not even going to tell him myself there, but we'll go through the next thing now.

00:47:55.30
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:47:56.51
Buddy
So and the next one, the next one's I've seen it happen.

00:47:58.41
Keith
you saying you may or may not have done that? Mm-hmm.

00:48:02.09
Buddy
I may have done it.

00:48:02.19
Jeremy
Mm-mm-mm.

00:48:02.93
Buddy
I may not have done it. Could have been wife too. Anyways. So communication and signals the next one. If you do get stuck somewhere, you fall off. And we had the episode and it slips me what number it was.

00:48:17.04
Buddy
The last year episode where we had the scenario based episode where, uh, buddy got into the snow and and got stuck and, you know, buddy, the prepper guy, uh, do you remember what an episode that was?

00:48:28.37
Keith
I just, you know, I don't, but I just looked up today and I, and I, that episode is actually the third, uh, the third highest ranking episode out of all of them all time.

00:48:38.56
Buddy
Yeah. So, you know, you need a way to signal that's, that's awesome. We maybe need to do some more of those. Um,

00:48:45.33
Keith
Yeah, maybe.

00:48:46.79
Buddy
So you need a way to signaling, you know, just in case you, you got out depending on where you're at. So here's some things that you can use for signaling help. Okay. So mercy flares.

00:48:58.87
Buddy
You can actually buy it on my Amazon. You can buy emergency flares, believe it or not. ah Easy to use. You just sometimes depending on what you get, if it's an actual flare or even glow sticks, really easy to use maneuver, read the directions and you It's they're easy to use and, you know, open them up, take them out as far as you can away to, you know on the road to get people to stop.

00:49:23.24
Buddy
Cause if you went off the road for whatever reason, you don't want them coming up on top of you. So take them out as far away as you can to give them.

00:49:30.81
Keith
I keep glow sticks in my get home in my bag. I mean, even the but this, it's my, yeah my bag that I wear out in the woods, you know, with my, with my several different types of knives and fire starters, I can have a couple of glow sticks.

00:49:33.56
Buddy
Yes.

00:49:38.20
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah. but

00:49:42.14
Keith
I mean, it's a great thing to have if you need to signal somebody.

00:49:45.34
Buddy
Yeah, and and go ahead.

00:49:45.62
Jeremy
I will. Well, I was going to say, I will say about your, uh, your glow sticks or chem lights as we call them. Um, you do need to keep those in a, uh, a stable environment temper temperature wise. Um, cause if you, like I had a bunch out in my garage, uh, I think the grandkids wanted to play with them and I went to go pop a couple of them.

00:50:07.80
Jeremy
Uh, they were not good there. You, the expiration date and everything you, you gotta watch cause it's a,

00:50:09.78
Buddy
Yeah. yeah

00:50:13.33
Keith
Good know. Good to know, man.

00:50:14.80
Jeremy
It's sialume, I think is how you say the chemical that's in there. It's like two chemicals that mix together and it makes the it makes the light, but they they do break down. The actual chemical breaks down.

00:50:25.68
Keith
Well, i have I have cases of them because we used to sell them in the kits back when we were OGGX off-grid Texas.

00:50:31.33
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:50:32.33
Keith
So I've got cases of them, but I guess I should go through there. i mean, each one is individually wrapped in a special, you know, these aren't like the play ones. The ones that we got were actual emergency, you know, ones.

00:50:40.43
Jeremy
Right.

00:50:43.16
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:50:43.38
Keith
But I'll have to check that and and see if the dates are right. that i'll come I'll get back to you on that and see how it goes. so

00:50:48.25
Buddy
Yeah, you definitely need to pop a few and and and check them out and make sure they still work because Jeremy is right.

00:50:48.43
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:50:54.32
Buddy
um they They have a shelf life and then i've we got cases of them when I was in the military. We got cases of them in Afghanistan and we ended up throwing cases of them away because they had expired, you know.

00:51:08.44
Buddy
So moving right along.

00:51:09.42
Keith
Right, right.

00:51:10.82
Buddy
let's So every big box store sells like an emergency signaling kit that has the triangle. ah They'll have flares in them. Sometimes they'll have different things to signal, but they're easy to get $30. Yeah. Yeah.

00:51:27.13
Keith
I'm a fan of those now because you they had the super bright LED ones where they're not fire. I'm a fan of those. They're they're bright, man.

00:51:34.14
Buddy
yeah And they got the little, some of them have the little hockey puck on hockey pucks, but they're like the size of a hockey puck and they're usually orange yellow or or fluorescent yellow. And they have different light patterns where they flash the IR strobe.

00:51:48.36
Buddy
um There's a wheel, you know, there's a wheel, you know, it's, they have different patterns to where you can just put those on the road, roll them. Even if you can't get out of your car, you can throw them out the window. and try to get them as far up on the road and it it'll make a beacon that'll flash light. So, uh, in different patterns, whatever you set up for a a signal and they're fairly cheap. You can buy six for like, I don't know, $15, $20 on Amazon.

00:52:12.77
Buddy
So, uh, it's just an SOS beacon is all it is. So it might be something good. They're small enough to where they don't take a lot of room up. They run on batteries, uh,

00:52:23.75
Buddy
And some of them you can get them that are you self-charge them, but I wouldn't advise that. And just put them in your vehicle, and and if you need them, you need them. ah The next one would be some kind of radio, like a ah an emergency radio, something with FM, AM.

00:52:40.70
Buddy
ah Your Balfang radios have AM or have FM on there where you can – something you can hear get weather.

00:52:51.66
Buddy
and maybe you know get some kind of news off the fm channel just something that you can you know have an or you know a blizzard might be coming in and you might have to you know either decide whether to hoof it or to uh and see if you can make it to safety or stay bat down the hatches and stay where you're at so it's good to have information uh something like a bow finger radio will have the fm channel no weather radios uh different NOAA weather channels that you can get. and you're going to have to know how to use them and how to find them, in which there's several videos out there on the internet that has those. So something nice to have, but something to get yourself information.

00:53:35.88
Buddy
And sometimes your phone isn't going to work. So just keep that in mind. Also with the Balfang radio, you can, you know, switch to different channels and you can listen, turn to scan and see if somebody is talking on a channel. And if you can hear them, they might be able to hear you and you might be able to get on there and say, hey listen, I'm in, I'm in an accident and go from there.

00:53:57.63
Buddy
um A flashlight is good to have. A flashlight with a strobe um feature is even better, but a flashlight would be good just in case you have to signal somebody.

00:54:09.90
Buddy
um Also a reflective vest, something that, or maybe a VF-17 panel for the military people out there, something that you can signal.

00:54:21.15
Buddy
that you need help and if you're driving down ah a snow-packed road and you see a vf-17 panel or or a strobe or a reflective gear you know you're going to take note of that because that's not normal you know what i mean especially if it's laying on top of snowbank so maybe you can

00:54:35.42
Keith
take You can take that thing and attach it to ah ah a branch and just wave it in the air when a car comes by.

00:54:39.93
Buddy
yeah you can there's a lot of different ways to signal but you're just you're trying to you know

00:54:40.02
Keith
They'll see they'll see it.

00:54:46.77
Buddy
you're trying to get help. You're trying to do what I'm looking for here. You're trying to, to get attention to yourself from other people. So, you know, stuff like that.

00:54:57.15
Buddy
And also the last thing i want to talk about with communication things a ah emergency whistle, ah emergency whistle. Sometimes once you've, if you Say you threw a flare and you're down in a snowbank. Well, then if you have a whistle, you can whistle to people. you know They're yelling at you.

00:55:16.19
Buddy
And some areas, if you get in ah a waddy or a holler or something where it echoes a lot, they're not going to be able to really tell where you're at because voices carry. But a signal, a whistle will a lot of times so direct people and hone in on you.

00:55:30.85
Buddy
And I don't know the actual reasons why, but for whatever reason, whistles are more, you can, like, it's more of a beacon of where you are. So.

00:55:41.70
Keith
ah decibels on some of those whistles are also really high.

00:55:44.75
Buddy
Yeah.

00:55:44.70
Keith
They're, they're powerful.

00:55:46.60
Buddy
And you can also call in a pack of wolves if you need them, you know, to eat or whatever. So I'm kidding. So. All right, so the next thing is warmth. So you're going to need something to warm up with. So I highly suggest that you have an emergency blanket with you you. know, the little space blankets take no space at all.

00:56:06.02
Buddy
You can wrap up like a taco in them. We've talked about that before. um Also a wool blanket. You can get that space blanket and wrap up like a taco and pull the wool blanket over you, and you're going to be warm, believe me.

00:56:20.06
Buddy
it's It's a great combination there. Um, tea candles. We've talked about tea candles before that you can buy for a couple of dollars at the dollar store. You can buy these tea candles, the unscented kind.

00:56:32.61
Buddy
Uh, but get some matches and tea candles and a little tea candle can save your life. Even in your vehicle, it's not going to put a lot of, uh, like soot out or, or smoke.

00:56:45.21
Buddy
It's just going to put enough in and you want to crack your window a little bit. But if your hands are cold and starting frostbite, you can put that little tea candle down there and and it could it could save your you know save your life. it's It's really interesting how something so small can actually save your life.

00:57:00.11
Buddy
So something, you might get a couple of those.

00:57:01.82
Keith
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:57:03.87
Buddy
um

00:57:06.83
Buddy
The next thing would be a hand warmer. So you can buy them at every box store, uh, has them, especially winter time. lot of hunters use them. They'll stick them in their pockets when the hands get cold, but you just break them up, stick them in your pocket and they're warm. And if you buy them kind of like your, uh, your, uh, float, your fluorescent sticks, your glow sticks, they have a shelf life on them.

00:57:32.13
Buddy
And, uh, so if you bought them last year, you might, you know, take them out and try them this year. Uh, to see if they're still good or just buy new ones.

00:57:38.76
Keith
I was going to ask because I've got cases of those. I used to also sell them and I'm just, I'm just wondering now maybe that they don't work no more.

00:57:42.33
Buddy
Same thing.

00:57:45.66
Buddy
Well, you know, it's something say you've got to go outside and work for your chickens, take a couple of them and stick them in your pocket and see if they were, you know, it's it's worth a try, you know, to see.

00:57:52.32
Keith
Right.

00:57:54.98
Buddy
And if you, they just, they'll have, they have a shelf life on them too. So, and I don't know what they are, but they have them for individual hand sizes and they have them up to blankets and,

00:58:05.65
Buddy
I used to put them in my boots in Afghanistan, ah especially around at night if it got really cold and you're on watch or something to where you can put them in like an insole of your boot and it worked out pretty good.

00:58:18.34
Buddy
They work great in your sleeping bag. You can throw them in your sleeping bag. you throw one down at your foot of your sleeping bag, one up around your midsection, and, man, you're toasty all night long. Just try to stay.

00:58:28.27
Keith
Man, if there's one thing I can't deal with is is when my ah my toes get cold. I don't, man, I don't like that at all.

00:58:32.63
Buddy
Yeah.

00:58:35.06
Buddy
You just don't want to roll over on them and fall asleep because yeah they can burn you. So you got to watch that. um So have extra winter clothing in your vehicle. ah You know, extra, watch you like we call them watch caps or stocking caps or whatever, toques whatever you call them.

00:58:51.20
Buddy
ah Extra gloves in there. And not only for you, but you might have somebody to ride along with you that might need some too. So just carry a you know a little bag full of extra stuff, extra socks. You know, you might get out and try to push yourself out. And now you got your shoes wet, you got your socks wet.

00:59:09.09
Buddy
so you might think about extra socks, extra gloves, extra hats, and then even maybe carry some waterproof boots with you just in case, um, when, you know, I'm happiest when my feet are dry.

00:59:23.14
Buddy
I'll just put it like that.

00:59:24.32
Keith
You can get all this stuff at a Walmart for super cheap or on Amazon. Super, super cheap.

00:59:28.98
Buddy
Yeah.

00:59:29.36
Keith
You don't need designer stuff. We're talking about emergency stuff here. Not designer stuff that you need to wear every day that's got to last you through a work day. is there just These are basic essentials that that could save you from getting frostbite or just anything. Catching a cold.

00:59:43.54
Keith
and That's it is.

00:59:45.55
Buddy
Yeah.

00:59:45.78
Keith
I'll give you, for instance, I went to the auction yesterday. It was icy cold and it was raining. was in It was in the upper 30s and it was raining. And wore jeans and ah and a heavy, you know, my heavy hoodie.

00:59:56.82
Keith
I was freezing my ass off. But there's people out there that were wearing whole snowsuits and they were just toasty, you know. Now, did they look stylish? No, they didn't. They looked like fools. But they were toasty and I was freezing my ass off.

01:00:07.33
Keith
who's the Who's the better for it, right?

01:00:09.97
Buddy
Yeah. um it's It's that time of year. We got to start thinking differently. I went out, I was actually mowing the grass yesterday and and i've I've had frostbite and probably chill blame before.

01:00:22.15
Buddy
And when it even starts to get kind of chilly out, the tips of my fingers and my ears and my nose will all start tingling a little bit.

01:00:29.97
Jeremy
Oh yeah.

01:00:31.19
Buddy
And I was mowing the grass yesterday, you know grass still growing here and it just got a little bit cold and a little bit of that North wind came and I felt it. So it definitely woke me up a tad, but, uh,

01:00:40.37
Jeremy
Yep.

01:00:43.10
Buddy
All right, well, going back to, I'll finish off and with food and water. You need to have food and water with you at all times. ah You know, calories or heat. So having something to munch on, some snacks, and we've talked about, you know different snacks, power bars, ah you know, trail mix, whatever it may be, just to have some, if you get stuck somewhere, just to have some nutrients.

01:01:05.39
Buddy
And it's mainly not so you can go out and run the Mogadishu mile, but after you get done eating it, but it could, you know, in it fuel you to get home, but it's more for the warmth.

01:01:17.94
Buddy
It, when your body is kind of cold, if you start eating a little bit, it's going to help, you know, interior warm your body up with calories. And then of course, water, um, you want water now.

01:01:29.80
Buddy
You don't want your water to freeze. So, uh, tea candles will help melt it if you needed to. So there you go. All right. The last, uh, well, we're going to talk about first aid,

01:01:39.71
Keith
thought said that was last.

01:01:41.04
Buddy
yeah do I, oh no, got one more.

01:01:42.59
Keith
thought you said that was last.

01:01:44.80
Buddy
I always have one more thing.

01:01:45.17
Keith
Oh, okay. All right. One more. Go ahead.

01:01:47.90
Buddy
First aid kit, just typical.

01:01:48.65
Jeremy
Typical. Typical.

01:01:50.07
Buddy
Yeah. Have your IFAC with you know and I'm a, I'm a safety guy. I'm a medical instructor, individual first aid kit, have your own kit there.

01:01:55.63
Keith
Tell everybody what IFAC is again. See how easy that was to remember.

01:02:02.72
Buddy
Yeah, I had to, write it out phonetically there. and Okay. So just have your first aid kit with you. Cause you never know what's going to happen. Um, I'm actually taking a wellness medicine class now.

01:02:14.92
Buddy
And, uh, the, the inner, the injuries that happened in the mountains, especially, you know, during the winter are very different than, you know, things that I'm really normally normally aware of and ah and usually see. So, you know, educate yourself a little bit, you know, get the things you need in there.

01:02:31.92
Buddy
Um, But have a first aid kit with you. And and but another thing that's important, if you take medication on a regular basis, have that with you. Because you might be stuck somewhere for just a little bit. You might be driving, you know, highway to see grandma on Thanksgiving and and they shut down the highway, you know.

01:02:52.56
Buddy
And what are you going to do? Well, I only have an hour ride home like to get to the house, but you don't have your meds with you. So don't create a medical emergency that, you know, can put your life in danger by not having your meds with you.

01:03:05.47
Keith
I saw a, I saw a YouTube short ah last week, I think it was, where somebody was saying that, you know, you know when you go to the pharmacy and they give you your medicine, it comes with like a, you know, with your prescription on it and everything, your name and all that kind of like paperwork comes with it.

01:03:21.20
Buddy
Yeah, yeah.

01:03:21.89
Keith
um They were saying that if you carry your medicine, you know, traveling or in your car or anything that you should, you should save those and put them with it because you're carrying a controlled substance.

01:03:31.82
Buddy
You could be, yeah.

01:03:33.25
Keith
you You could be, you it could just be pain. It could just be, you know, something for your, for your snot, but it could be ah something like, you know, a very powerful painkiller or something like that. And you get caught with that stuff, that's, you know, you can get in trouble.

01:03:46.09
Buddy
Well, I mean, people get high off antihistamines and stuff, you know, there's just different things.

01:03:49.54
Keith
I mean, how they know you're not trying to sell it, you know?

01:03:51.74
Buddy
Well, I mean, you know, you go to, you go to, well, they put stuff behind the counter now, like the little red, uh, Allergy pills, you can't even buy those out there now because people crush them up and make meth with them or whatever, you know, whatever they may make.

01:03:59.95
Keith
Right, right.

01:04:00.12
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:04:03.10
Keith
That's right.

01:04:07.43
Buddy
But, you know, to have that with you is is very smart. You know, have a list of your medications, you know, if you do get into an accident to to hand to the first responders. And especially the people who are, you know, taking to the hospital, because if you're on a bunch of medications, that might be the difference between life and death. So, you I'll get off my, my first aid high horse here, but you know, it's just some tips for you.

01:04:30.95
Buddy
I'm going to, this is.

01:04:31.17
Keith
ahlic you At least you didn't say the R word this time.

01:04:33.96
Buddy
Yeah.

01:04:34.47
Jeremy
Oh.

01:04:35.15
Buddy
I've got one more thing though. Okay.

01:04:36.59
Keith
no, no. R word. Refuge. refuge

01:04:38.57
Buddy
Oh, that you said it.

01:04:38.85
Keith
yeah are The R.

01:04:39.22
Jeremy
go

01:04:40.88
Buddy
You said it now.

01:04:41.29
Jeremy
a

01:04:41.64
Buddy
Yeah. I got you trained.

01:04:41.75
Keith
No, i'll cut i'll cut i'll I'll cut it, but...

01:04:44.55
Buddy
ah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, umm go ah I'm actually going work with, ah try to get us some some discount codes. So I got a conversation with them coming up pretty pretty soon again.

01:04:55.07
Buddy
um Also, you know, it's it's idea to have a battery booster, you know, some ah the battery pack boosters and jumper cables with you, a tire pump, because the difference in...

01:05:10.26
Buddy
and air pressure in the winter and the summer's different i know all of a sudden now every tire's flashing now because they're low on my so you know tire sensor so i need to go add yeah yeah um in a battery pack you know those new boosters you can get them they're they're cheap enough now where i can buy them so definitely something to put in there in in having your vehicle too because you know it it's sucks when you you've

01:05:19.81
Keith
Yeah, i just I just checked all mine. my that Mine are all screwy now, too.

01:05:38.86
Buddy
i've I tell us a quick story of quick. Flew in from out of country, got to Oklahoma city, got out and got to, it's, it's a snow storm. It's the winds blowing ah from the North and and there's wind chill into the teens.

01:05:55.43
Buddy
It's just crazy. There's snow dress. Well, the car has been parked there over a week. And now I have to shovel out. I have to do all these things. And I just came from the tropical area.

01:06:08.19
Buddy
You know, so my body wasn't used to it. I didn't have the right clothes. I had a hoodie on just dying. So, you know, planet What don' I guess I'm getting at here is plan ahead. And and the car wouldn't start.

01:06:19.03
Buddy
And so and it's well late at night. It's it's like 11 o'clock at night. Nobody's up on the top floor where had to park, ah the parking garage. So, you know, a battery booster is is is something that is very nice to have. Luckily, security came by and we got jumped and life is great again. So you can cut that if you need to, but just learn from my mistakes.

01:06:44.59
Keith
I got the, I got one. It wasn't that that cheap because I really wanted a good one. The one I bought, I think was like 120 bucks or something like that. But there are a lot more ah more cheaper ones that are out there.

01:06:57.85
Keith
But the one that I've got is a lifesaver, man. And it's absolute lifesaver. And it's small, compact, fits in a little case. I'll put it in the show notes to look at it. I think it's more expensive than most people would need.

01:07:09.23
Keith
But I'm, you know, for my homestead i use it to to start my tractor i mean i've got ah i had a bad battery in my truck for the longest time but it would still run so i would just i didn't want to put a brand new battery in yet so i just carried that thing around me and if i ever had a problem with it i popped those things on there my car my truck started right up i mean it's it's really it's really yeah soul on them i mean they're really good and you can pick them up for really inexpensive uh like i said the one i got was like 120 and it's worth every single dollar it is paid for itself over and over again it has

01:07:27.91
Buddy
Yeah, I'm sold on them now. Yeah.

01:07:40.17
Buddy
Now you got the pump and the battery booster combo.

01:07:42.98
Keith
It has the pump. I've never used the pump ah because I also have a separate one that's for a pump.

01:07:47.33
Buddy
Yeah.

01:07:47.27
Keith
But the thing is, i put, I got the pump one and I got this one and I put them, I put them both in the vehicle when Rhonda goes to Texas. So I know she's got, she has her air and she's got her her ah jumper anytime she needs it.

01:08:00.59
Keith
And then we got so great. She went and got her own. So now I get to have my back. So yeah.

01:08:05.78
Buddy
Awesome.

01:08:06.69
Jeremy
Nice.

01:08:07.23
Keith
Yeah, definitely good to have, man.

01:08:11.80
Keith
Okay, so that's that's that's great information, man. Jeremy, did you want to ah talk about some of your stuff or do you want throw it on another episode or?

01:08:19.56
Jeremy
Yeah. um Well, I just, I'm going to do it pretty quickly. It's about engines. and RVs, engines real quick, I'll cover it. We all know that engines need gasoline and we all know that gasoline to include diesel is ah biological um ah liquid and that liquid will break down over time.

01:08:38.50
Jeremy
And we gotta make sure that one, your vehicles are topped off um more than i would say half if you if you can. I would say ah keep your vehicle at all times more than half full.

01:08:52.18
Jeremy
um And if you have things like ah your generators, you got to start your generator regularly.

01:08:53.79
Keith
Bye.

01:08:58.36
Jeremy
And if you don't, what you need to do, and this is for all of your engines, this is for every single kind of engine that you have that is not run regularly. You need to stabilize that fuel. So you don't want the fuel breaking down inside of the engine, inside of the fuel lines, because it turns into this kind of gelatinous sort of mess, like a slime.

01:09:17.94
Jeremy
starts to oxidize. It starts to leach out other chemicals, and it will ruin an engine over time. So you can get a product like Stabil. Stabil is pretty much the most widely known product there is.

01:09:28.34
Jeremy
They have some for regular fuel. They have some for diesel.

01:09:30.52
Keith
you

01:09:32.24
Jeremy
And they also have stuff that they use for um for your ethanol-free fuel. I suggest to everybody that uses any kind of small engine, which most of your generators are considered small engines, I always suggest using ethanol-free fuel.

01:09:47.84
Jeremy
Ethanol and For a lot of small engines, which we consider small engines to have small injectors, those injectors can get gummed up by regular fuel over time. So you use ethanol free and it helps for the engine lasts a lot longer. It helps it run cleaner it helps it run hotter.

01:10:05.95
Jeremy
But if you don't use it on the regular, you still got to stabilize that. So I would say you got to start your engines regularly, even during the winter. player Pull your generator out, pull it out to the backyard in a safe distance away from the house, crank it up, let it run for five to 10 minutes, let some of that fuel get through, top it back off, add a touch of your stay bill, and then put it back up.

01:10:28.60
Jeremy
If you're doing that, say, once every couple of weeks, even once a month. If you put it on a regular schedule, your engine's going to last a lot longer. Engines that sit idle and do not get used break down and they fail.

01:10:42.03
Jeremy
You got to use the engine in order for it to run properly. um And I know that a lot of people, and to include myself, we have ah RVs. Some people actually have their RV worked into their emergency plan.

01:10:55.60
Jeremy
You got a whole other house that you can haul if your vehicle works during an emergency situation. And you also have to prep that thing for the winter. um Most ah RVs are not super well ah insulated.

01:11:13.71
Jeremy
So you got to get in there and you have to be able to remove all of the water out of your system. And you can do that by draining it, making sure your gray tank is empty, making sure your black tank is empty.

01:11:27.17
Jeremy
And for some people like me, what I do is I have a small attachment that I connect it to the inlet valve and I turn my air compressor down to about five to seven pounds.

01:11:40.18
Jeremy
And I actually inject air into my water system and actually force out any air that's built up or I'm sorry, water that's built up. You can do that or you can actually use RV antifreeze.

01:11:53.52
Jeremy
Um, you have to use a significant amount to be able to replace any water that might be in your line. with the RV fluid. Um, and you may have seen it before. It's like a bright pink.

01:12:06.52
Jeremy
Sometimes it's a bright blue color, but basically all you're doing is you're dumping it into the sinks and you're dumping it into your water inlet to be able to replace the space in your water lines. If you do not get all the liquid out of there.

01:12:22.37
Buddy
Oh, wow.

01:12:22.39
Jeremy
So yeah, it's a, yeah, it's a, it's expansive.

01:12:24.35
Buddy
ah didn't know that. Okay. Okay.

01:12:27.07
Jeremy
Cause I mean, like my, my RV, that we have, it's a fifth wheel. It's, it's technically four season rated, but i always winterize it because we're not, we're not traveling that much during the winter using it because i mean, even though we have, you know, the further West you go ice dry weight, my fifth wheel weighs 17,000 pounds.

01:12:51.74
Jeremy
If I catch a snow drift or, or, you know, an ice flat I'm in with that thing, go ahead and, you know, go ahead and call that,

01:12:56.58
Buddy
Oh man. Devastating.

01:12:59.87
Jeremy
I call that my last episode.

01:12:59.92
Buddy
Yeah.

01:13:02.33
Buddy
Throw out your glow sticks.

01:13:03.58
Jeremy
Yeah, go on my glow sticks. um But, you know, we ah we we just don't use it that much during the winter. So, you know, you you create a checklist, you go through and you go through and I just basically go from the back all the way up to the front. And the back for us is we have a garage in ours. So I start closing up windows. I start making sure that they're sealed off.

01:13:26.75
Jeremy
You know, and you kind of go forward through the whole thing. And then one of the last things that I do is I make sure that I expunge any water that has built up in the lines by using that compressor.

01:13:37.64
Jeremy
And I just force all of the air or force air into the water line to, you know, get rid of all of it. um You know, it's just a process, but you got to do it. It's the same thing with boats.

01:13:48.43
Jeremy
You know, a lot of.

01:13:48.63
Keith
It seems like ah an RV would be a very... It's not an elaborate plumbing system. So it should be it should be fairly simple to get those lines free, right?

01:13:54.24
Jeremy
It's it's not.

01:13:57.75
Jeremy
It is. It is simple. The problem is that...

01:13:59.53
Keith
what what are we What are we talking about? A sink?

01:14:02.26
Jeremy
ah Well, I mean, it depends on the size. There are very elaborate ah RVs. I have...

01:14:06.08
Keith
Well, let's talk yours.

01:14:07.72
Jeremy
Okay. I have two bathrooms. I have a bathroom in the garage. I have a bathroom in the master. I have a... and Yeah.

01:14:14.46
Keith
ah who Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. An RV?

01:14:18.12
Keith
So what do you mean a garage?

01:14:20.27
Jeremy
I have a garage. So I have a toy hauler. So our... Our RV, which is it's a recreational vehicle, some people call it a travel trailer, depending on the state that you're in and how it's titled. But mine is a fifth wheel, 40-foot long recreational vehicle that gets towed behind my truck.

01:14:39.22
Jeremy
So,

01:14:40.23
Keith
It has an actual garage in it, like for like bikes and four wheelers or something.

01:14:44.93
Jeremy
yeah, yeah.

01:14:45.32
Keith
Oh my good dude, you're like rich and shit.

01:14:48.19
Jeremy
No, no, I actually found it. I found that on Facebook marketplace, it was an older couple. All they wanted was what they owed and I bought it from, I got an extremely good deal.

01:14:56.87
Keith
Wow. So you got a ba you got a bathroom back there too?

01:15:01.09
Jeremy
Yeah, it's a, I mean, it's a half bath. It's just the toilet and the sink, but I have.

01:15:04.85
Keith
yeah but Yeah, but his or hers, i mean, you can both be taking dumps at the same time. shit That's awesome, man.

01:15:08.67
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

01:15:09.43
Keith
I love it.

01:15:10.10
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. So I've got one, two toilets. I've got one and each one of those has a sink. I have a shower. And I had the kitchen, of course, has its own sink.

01:15:21.94
Jeremy
So those are all, you know, regular.

01:15:24.45
Keith
That is kind of elaborate, actually.

01:15:26.31
Jeremy
Yeah. So you've you've got all the water that's coming from the outside into the RV and then those go down into the gray tank. The gray tank is just your gray water. So your soapy water.

01:15:37.53
Jeremy
um And then you have your black tank, which is your toilet water.

01:15:37.95
Keith
Mm-hmm.

01:15:41.66
Jeremy
So the rule of thumb is, is that you always get rid of your black tank water first. You know, you clean and you like exercise the demons and you get rid of all that foulness out there, right?

01:15:56.00
Jeremy
You give it a, you try to flush that tank out as well. Cause if you let that black tank sick and you know, you just think it's done. It's never, ever done. It's never, ever clean enough, but you really got to get in there You can drop some tablets down in there. There's an old trick where I actually take um an entire, but well, about a half a but a bag of ah what's it called? Baking soda.

01:16:21.70
Jeremy
And I dump an entire gallon of vinegar down on the top of it and just let it do its thing. And then I flush the tank out. So. you do your black tank first and then you do your gray tank.

01:16:32.40
Jeremy
The gray tank helps push along any of that material out your hoses and down into the system. um And then, ah you know, but even before all that, you've got to cut off the water and get it away from your actual, cut the water off, get rid of all of that.

01:16:49.60
Jeremy
And then that's, that's when you really start your winterization process and winterizing a fifth wheel like mine or one of those long, long bus style, you know, a class A driver. It's the same as winterizing a house, you know, making sure your windows are good and tight and sealed up, making sure that your doors are closed properly and all these, all these different things. It's literally just, you know, winterizing a residence. That's all it is.

01:17:13.19
Keith
Right.

01:17:13.42
Jeremy
So it just happens to be on wheels. So, but mine has, um mine has an onboard ah generator.

01:17:17.23
Keith
Right, right, yeah.

01:17:22.73
Jeremy
So that's why a lot of people actually incorporate ah their ah RVs or their travel trailers into their emergency plan because I do have an onboard generator. And I can fill up that onboard generator and actually use that fuel that's inside of the RV that I put in there to fuel the generator as an external fuel source because I actually have a fuel pump on the side of it that I can activate and fill up my vehicle.

01:17:50.73
Keith
Like ah like ah like a for a four-wheeler or something like that?

01:17:53.07
Jeremy
ah Yeah, yeah. Now, what I only use ethanol-free gas to power that particular generator.

01:17:55.23
Keith
Motorcycle.

01:18:00.87
Jeremy
um But if I wanted to, you know, if I needed fuel to get, you know, into a vehicle to go from A to B, I can actually use that. So, yeah, I mean...

01:18:09.38
Keith
Right, yeah. So it's not diesel. That's great. I mean, i i like I like diesel, but with your system, it's it's a most you multifaceted. You can like use it for different things.

01:18:19.14
Jeremy
Yeah. I mean, in the in like like I have a Cummins turbo diesel truck. This particular generator is made by Cummins, but it's not a diesel generator.

01:18:28.46
Keith
Right, right.

01:18:28.69
Jeremy
So, um yeah, I mean, it's taking care of your engines and your vehicles and and any of the stuff that you use that you know requires fuel.

01:18:29.02
Keith
Yeah, yeah.

01:18:39.48
Jeremy
It's really not that difficult, but you have to remind yourself to do it because a lot of people, they don't really they don't really take into consideration just how quickly ah gasoline nowadays breaks down.

01:18:51.73
Jeremy
that That corn crap that they put in there, that the ethanol, it destroys gasoline in a very, very short amount of time.

01:18:55.77
Keith
yeah

01:18:58.45
Jeremy
And just to prove to yourself, if you were to take a just brand new fresh gas from the pump, fill up a jar and just set it and you know put the lid on it and just set it to the side, watch how quickly it goes from clear to dark.

01:19:14.02
Jeremy
Like you can't see through it. And it's usually but less than two weeks nowadays. Mm-hmm.

01:19:18.03
Keith
Yeah. And somehow what it somehow water gets into it somehow. I'm not sure what the process is. There's some kind of a chemical chemistry of some sort.

01:19:27.92
Jeremy
That is because of the biofuels that you're they're using now. So the ethanol comes from corn and corn is a, you know, it's a plant. The plant itself, you know, and generally, if you really think about what plants are, they're just colored water.

01:19:36.72
Keith
Right.

01:19:43.56
Jeremy
I mean, mean, think about it.

01:19:44.02
Keith
Yeah. Yeah.

01:19:45.19
Jeremy
If you bite into a thing of lettuce, it feels like you're drinking water. It's because it's just green water.

01:19:49.42
Keith
Yeah, I mean, I forgot to do the the what you're talking about, the winterizing.

01:19:49.65
Jeremy
saying

01:19:52.34
Keith
I do it very, very well across the board, but I forgot my gas in a couple of my machines. And so I was i was terrified when I was like, oh my God, I can't believe where I forgot this.

01:20:03.77
Keith
So when you know summer came around or whatever it was, I was like thinking, I hope these things actually start. But I went out and got me some of the, what is it, the what weatherman?

01:20:09.69
Jeremy
yeah

01:20:12.63
Keith
What's the, I can't remember that. it's It's the additive you put in your fuel tank. It comes in a white bottle. What's that called?

01:20:22.20
Jeremy
Well, I know one of the most popular brands is ah your Stabil. You know, you've got that one. And I think what you're talking about is like WeatherMax or weather Weather something or another.

01:20:28.85
Keith
yeah Yeah, stable's a good one.

01:20:34.26
Jeremy
it's like It's a fuel additive.

01:20:34.33
Keith
Yeah, I thought a had like a I thought had like an ocean an ocean name.

01:20:38.57
Jeremy
a

01:20:38.58
Keith
Like Sailor Man's Weather...

01:20:41.14
Buddy
No,

01:20:42.22
Jeremy
Seafoam.

01:20:42.30
Keith
Seafoam.

01:20:42.80
Jeremy
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:20:42.98
Keith
Seafoam. Thank you. Thank you.

01:20:44.35
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:44.76
Keith
Buddy, where you been? What's going on here, man? You sleeping again?

01:20:48.32
Buddy
no, no, no. no um

01:20:49.35
Keith
You should have had my back like five seconds ago. Come on.

01:20:51.44
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:52.70
Buddy
i wanted you I wanted you to get that AGE working for you and see if he's going to kick in.

01:20:55.53
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:55.75
Keith
AGE is killing me, man. But yeah I got a couple of bottles that's of that seafoam or the other brand. There's another brand that's just like it. And put it in there and they just run they run so smooth.

01:21:02.28
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:21:04.75
Keith
But I think it's because I use those additives because I guarantee you they had water in them, man.

01:21:09.75
Jeremy
Yeah. So i I always tell people that if you have a particular engine that's been sitting and you and it didn't get winterized or it didn't get you know stabilized, If you have any doubt in your mind whatsoever, the first thing you should do is to go ahead and ah dump the fuel.

01:21:27.97
Jeremy
Either you can siphon it out or you can just take your fuel line, go ahead and just siphon it off or you know get it out of there, put it into a separate thing ah and either burn it off or properly dispose of it.

01:21:41.53
Jeremy
um Go ahead and change your inline fuel filter. Go ahead and change the fuel filter out. which you should be doing on a regular process you know ir regular schedule anyways, but go ahead and change out your fuel filter and then put in fresh gas with a half a container of seafoam.

01:22:01.16
Jeremy
ah And what that does is that additive, it acts as a detergent. Go ahead and run the engine, run through that entire thing, of yeah like that entire tank, and it will you know clean out all of that crap that's in there.

01:22:15.59
Jeremy
And if you have to, if it's bad enough, like for instance, last, I think it was last year or the year before Missy accidentally put diesel, uh, in our riding lawnmower.

01:22:24.52
Keith
Oh, whoa.

01:22:25.95
Jeremy
Yeah. Right. I, and I told her, I was like, why did you do that? And she's like, well, it's in this particular color. And I was like, but it literally on the side of it had giant black letters that said diesel.

01:22:38.78
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:22:40.60
Keith
No, no, I get it. I took Rhonda into the shop the other day and taught her about the gas cans because I know my gas cans, but does she? you know i

01:22:48.91
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:22:49.60
Keith
um wanted to make sure of that.

01:22:50.96
Jeremy
Yeah. so all I did was i went ahead and I disconnected the fuel line. I got rid of all the fuel. um And then I went ahead and just while that was draining, i went ahead and pulled that fuel filter off, swapped it for a new one. And I actually changed out the spark plug as well.

01:23:08.94
Jeremy
Just, you know, just to make sure because the flashpoint of diesel versus regular fuel is completely different.

01:23:11.45
Keith
Mm-hmm.

01:23:15.15
Jeremy
Um, and then what I did was I just put fresh gas in there. um and about a quarter container, cause it's not a huge tank on a riding lawnmower. I put about a quarter container of seafoam in there.

01:23:27.77
Jeremy
Um, and it took a couple of tries to actually like get it going. But once it started to chug, you know, you can see a bunch of black smoke coming out, but as soon as the fuel took and it actually started going, everything was fine.

01:23:37.06
Keith
That's the oil.

01:23:41.37
Jeremy
So, yeah, I mean, there are,

01:23:41.92
Keith
Nice. Mm

01:23:46.05
Jeremy
There are people who ah have probably accidentally put diesel in a regular car and like, oh my gosh, well, why is my car not running? You can salvage it if you do not try to continue.

01:23:59.00
Jeremy
If you stop what you're doing once you realize the mistake, you can't actually recover from it. In a car, it's not as easy, but something like a lawnmower or a generator or something like that,

01:24:10.85
Jeremy
it's definitely doable. And then my last note is, is if you do have a generator, which I encourage everybody to have, um and you have like, mine is just a regular, you know, gas generator, I would encourage you, if you can afford it to start looking into a dual fuel generator.

01:24:27.35
Jeremy
um And also one that you can ah piggyback into your house. And what I mean by dual fuel is gas and propane. So Propane doesn't really spoil.

01:24:38.08
Jeremy
It lasts for a very, very long amount of time. And it's generally less expensive to be able to use than it is to have regular gas. um i owe Yeah, yeah.

01:24:48.87
Keith
And diesel will last a lot longer than regular gas too.

01:24:52.38
Jeremy
But diesel itself, I mean, you know, like for instance, I've got a 50 gallon tank on my truck. If I was to go all the way to empty and fill it up, that's like the GDP of a small country. It's ridiculous.

01:25:05.59
Keith
oh Yeah.

01:25:06.82
Jeremy
Um, but now on the converse of that, if I'm not pulling and I completely max out my fuel capacity, I can go almost a thousand miles on one tank if I'm not pulling.

01:25:06.94
Keith
Wow.

01:25:20.03
Jeremy
Um, yeah, but then that's the trade-off.

01:25:20.76
Keith
wow

01:25:23.60
Jeremy
I get a whole lot of fuel, but it's wicked and expensive. You know, it's so, you know, I, that's your, that's your trade-off. Now, if I'm pulling, I'm losing a ton of gas, of course, you know, it's just,

01:25:36.04
Jeremy
you're You're pulling at um at a minimum when I pull my fifth wheel, I'm pulling 17,500 pounds minimum. If that was just nothing inside of the the RV itself.

01:25:47.19
Jeremy
But mean, you start loading up motorcycles and you know gear and stuff, all your stuff for where you travel you're talking close to 20, 22,000 pounds.

01:25:52.59
Keith
Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

01:25:56.99
Jeremy
twenty two thousand pounds so Um, you know, that's, that's what I've got as far as small engines, regular engines and stuff like that. And these are things really, they're not wazoo stuff. You know, this is not new. This is actually like, this has been our going around for, you know, a long, long time. It's just, there's a lot of people I think that don't really, you know, they think about fuel or they think about, you know, food, they think about water, they think about power, they think about how am I going to cook if the power goes out and all those things.

01:26:27.50
Jeremy
Well, if it got bad enough and you knew actually needed to leave and you go out to start your car and it doesn't start, well, what are you going to do then? Where are you going to go You know, you're stuck. And just preventative maintenance in itself, especially going into the winter, will make your vehicles last a lot longer.

01:26:40.72
Keith
Mm-hmm.

01:26:43.05
Buddy
Well, I like to use the time change it to set certain things in motion. And and when the time changes, i'll I'll use that to go out and and service generators and, you know, smoke alarms, you know, change batteries if we still have the batteries in them.

01:26:55.39
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:26:59.46
Buddy
Some of them would do, some of them don't. Some of them are hardwired or whatever. But, i mean, there's certain things um in in the prepping world and just everyday life that it'll it'll trigger, you know,

01:27:10.47
Buddy
just by the time change. And if they take that time change away from me, i don't know what I'm going to do.

01:27:12.04
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:27:15.93
Jeremy
Well, I mean, you know you bring up smoke smoke detectors, and that's that's actually really good point to bring up.

01:27:15.95
Buddy
I'll be lost.

01:27:22.20
Jeremy
Um, people think about smoke detectors, what they also should be thinking about is to detect gas, you know, cause you know, or carbon monoxide is a silent killer.

01:27:29.36
Buddy
Oh yeah. The carbon. Yeah.

01:27:33.87
Jeremy
You don't know it's there. It doesn't smell like anything. It doesn't, you're not going to even know it. You're going go from man that's warm to dead. Like that's, that's literally what it's like. if you don't have proper ventilation and you're around those kinds of fumes, you're not going to know why all of a sudden you're feeling sleepy.

01:27:49.95
Jeremy
And you feel a little bit loopy and I need to lay down and take a nap. That's the kind of crap that you hear about like on, you know, special victims units.

01:27:53.49
Buddy
you know

01:27:57.65
Jeremy
Why are these people blue or why are they pink? Well, that's because they they all died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

01:28:03.51
Buddy
You brought up a great point on that dual gasoline, you know propane generators, because you know I'm actually going to look into that now.

01:28:03.50
Jeremy
So. Yeah. Yeah.

01:28:14.23
Buddy
that That was a good point, because a lot of people...

01:28:17.81
Keith
And you can hook up ah a tank, like a propane tank that you'd normally hook up to like your grill to it.

01:28:22.63
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:28:22.76
Buddy
Yeah.

01:28:22.76
Keith
Oh, okay.

01:28:23.33
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:28:24.04
Keith
Okay.

01:28:24.73
Jeremy
Yep.

01:28:24.79
Buddy
And then a lot of people heat their homes with, with propane tanks and stuff like, uh, it's, it's a great, uh, how can I say this without saying it?

01:28:25.12
Jeremy
And

01:28:29.01
Jeremy
yeah, they're very large, but Yeah.

01:28:36.81
Buddy
Uh, if you have those kinds of means of like, my dad used to have a propane tank in the back of the truck, you know, back in, I think it was seventies. Uh, and he would run gasoline and sometimes he'd run propane.

01:28:48.83
Buddy
He just flipped the switch. I mean, it's kind of crazy, but you know, we used to do things like that, but, um,

01:28:51.25
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:28:54.91
Buddy
There's a lot of propane tanks out in the rural areas because that's how they, they you know, heat their homes.

01:29:00.67
Keith
that's my house. My house is propane.

01:29:02.42
Buddy
Yeah, and you're and you're cooking with it and doing all kinds of things with it. So, heating you know, your hot water comes out of it. So, yeah, those are – that's a great point.

01:29:13.97
Buddy
You just – you got that light bulb going.

01:29:15.87
Keith
Well, but when you come down to the, the smoke detector thing, um you were talking about time change and that's a great way of calendarizing yourself, you know, scheduling yourself each year, or twice a year to do some of the things that you would normally forget to do.

01:29:29.28
Keith
um But the smoke detector thing is, you know, for us, ah we just bought duals. And I think everybody should just buy dual. Buy a dual smoke detector. That means it it detects smoke and it detects carbon monoxide.

01:29:41.36
Keith
Because even if you don't have a house that has gas, you have a car that produces carbon monoxide.

01:29:41.56
Jeremy
yeah

01:29:46.56
Keith
And yet you might have a garage. And you might have a leak in your door between your garage and your house and carbon monoxide might be getting in there. There's all different types of things you can think about. So why not?

01:29:57.69
Keith
say I say, to sell them. I used to tell people all the time, it's only a couple of dollars more for a dual. Just get the dual.

01:30:04.28
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:30:04.41
Keith
It'll run. it'll It'll look for both. And hardwired, it's hardwired into your home. And I'll talk about this when I do mine. But. you know, hard while hardwired into your home, you still got to have a battery backup because when your power goes out, you need to have something running those smoke detectors.

01:30:17.96
Keith
Smoke detectors save lives.

01:30:18.43
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

01:30:19.90
Keith
They do.

01:30:22.06
Jeremy
Yep. And then you get that incessant chirp and fulfill every stereotype and of mankind.

01:30:28.23
Buddy
Yeah.

01:30:29.39
Keith
Well, a lot of people don't know that there's a, there's a, uh, there's a 10 hour, uh, uh, what he call it?

01:30:31.50
Jeremy
ha, ha, ha.

01:30:35.89
Keith
Um, there's a button on there that will turn the chirp off for 10 hours.

01:30:39.86
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

01:30:39.94
Keith
So if in the middle of the night it's chirping and you're, you don't want to change your battery out, you want to go to sleep. You just take your broom handle and press the button and hold it down.

01:30:47.13
Jeremy
Mm

01:30:47.14
Keith
I think it's like five or eight seconds, whatever it is. And it puts it into a sleep mode for 10 hours, 10 hours later, it's going to start chirping again to remind you of the battery's going low.

01:30:55.89
Jeremy
hmm.

01:30:57.35
Buddy
Which will work great and in unless it's your carbon dioxide and you'll never wake up.

01:30:57.41
Keith
So,

01:31:03.25
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:31:03.69
Keith
No, that's an alarm. you know and i And I like the ones that talk to you. They're not even that that expensive. They're like $30 a piece. It's worth your life, $30 a piece.

01:31:10.57
Buddy
Wow.

01:31:11.94
Keith
They talk to you.

01:31:13.08
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:31:13.14
Keith
Carbon monoxide detected. Carbon monoxide detected. They actually talk to you.

01:31:17.13
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:31:17.40
Buddy
We're kind of creeping into the homestead thing episode.

01:31:17.57
Jeremy
i ah it's it's It's easier to bundle up in the winter because once it gets warm again, you can only take off so much before it's illegal.

Homestead Winter Preps:

Home & Structures

·    Inspect roof for leaks, access the attic if you can and look for signs of water damage.

·    Clean gutters and downspouts to prevent ice dams.

·    Check and seal windows and doors with weather stripping, caulking.

·    Check the Insulation in attics, basements, and crawl spaces for etiquette coverage, and water pipes that may need foam rubber wraps or electric heat tape like mine.

·    Test and service wood stoves, chimneys, and flues.

·    Clean and store window screens; Install storm windows if available. Remove Clean and Store your window screens.

·    Stockpile firewood in a dry, covered location.

·    Test your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms. Don’t overlook this one. These devices save lives.

·    Ensure that your generator is serviced and ready; give it a test run.

·    Drain garden hoses and store them indoors like a garage, shed, or basement.

·    Shut off and drain outdoor water spigots or better yet… replace old spigots with 12” Frost-Free Sillcocks. Other names for them are… faucets, taps, hose bibs.  

·    If you have exterior faucets and exposed pipes, make sure that you insulate them.

·    Check home heating system (replace filters, test thermostat).

·    Add draft stoppers or door snakes to exterior doors.

Livestock & Animals

·    Inspect barns, coops, and shelters for drafts and leaks; patch holes. Maintain ventilation in animal shelters without creating drafts.

·     Drafts are bad… Ventilation (fresh air) is good.

·    Add extra bedding (straw, shavings) for warmth.

·    Ensure water heaters/de-icers are functional for water troughs.

·    Clean and sanitize water troughs before freezing temps hit.

·    Store extra feed and hay in a dry, rodent-proof location.

·    Check feed bins for pests; seal any gaps you find.

·    Provide windbreaks for livestock pastures.

·    Move livestock closer to shelter.

·    Get some salt licks and mineral blocks. Animals get less salt and minerals during the winter months.

·    Trim hooves to prevent ice buildup and slipping.

·    Inspect and repair fences before the ground freezes.

·    Collect and store extra bedding materials.

·    Check first aid supplies for animals and restock if needed.

·    Make sure chicken coop lighting/timers are set for egg production. providing 14-16 hours of light daily, even in winter, stimulates hormone release for laying, preventing the natural slowdown that occurs with shorter days

Garden, Orchard & Crops

·    Harvest remaining late-season crops.

·    Pull dead plants and compost them (if disease-free).

·    Cover perennial beds with mulch or leaves for insulation.

·    Protect fruit trees with trunk guards against rodents.

·    Wrap young trees and bushes to prevent frost damage.

·    Drain and clean irrigation lines.

·    Store garden tools and clean them (oil metal parts).

·    Sharpen pruners, shears, and blades.

·    Plant cover crops (winter rye, clover, etc.) if not too late.

·    Store garden stakes, trellises, and fencing.

·    Empty rain barrels and disconnect hoses.

·    Label and organize saved seeds for spring.

·    Collect and store compost; turn pile before freeze.

·    Bring potted plants indoors or into a greenhouse.

·    Protect greenhouse structure (seal cracks, add insulation).

Equipment & Vehicles

·    Service tractors, ATVs, and other machinery (oil, filters, antifreeze).

·    Drain fuel or add stabilizer to unused equipment.

·    Store small engines (mowers, tillers) properly.

·    Check tire pressure; cold air can deflate tires.

·    Inspect snow removal equipment (plows, snowblowers).

·    Stock up on fuel, oil, and spare parts.

·    Grease moving parts to prevent freezing or rust.

·    Charge and store spare batteries.

·    Lubricate locks and hinges to prevent freezing.

Water & Plumbing

·    Insulate or heat-tape vulnerable water lines.

·    Drain and shut off irrigation and outdoor plumbing.

·    Ensure backup water storage (filled barrels, cisterns, etc.).

·    Check for leaks or weak joints in plumbing before freezing sets in.

·    Store emergency water filters and purification tablets indoors.

·    Keep extra buckets or containers ready in case of water outage.

Tools, Workshop & Storage

·    Organize tools; store them off the floor in case of moisture.

·    Clean and oil hand tools.

·    Inspect power tools for damage.

·    Check extension cords for cracks or frays.

·    Stock up on maintenance supplies (grease, oil, hardware).

·    Store paint, adhesives, and chemicals in temperature-safe conditions.

Firewood & Heating

·    Split and stack firewood off the ground; cover with tarp or roof.

·    Move a few days’ worth of wood indoors or to a sheltered porch.

·    Clean out fireplace or stove ash from last season.

·    Check and replace firebricks if damaged.

·    Inspect flue damper operation.

·    Prepare kindling and tinder supplies.

·    Keep a metal ash bucket ready for safe disposal.

Security & Preparedness

·    Check all locks, gates, and fencing.

·    Test security cameras and motion lights.

·    Keep walkways and entry paths clear and salted.

·    Maintain emergency communications gear (radios, walkie-talkies).

·    Review bug-out plans in case of severe storm damage.

·    Prepare winter car kits (blankets, shovel, water, flares).

Driveways & Paths

·    Stockpile sand, salt, or ice melt.

·    Check and service snowblower or plow.

·    Repair potholes or drainage issues before freeze.

·    Mark driveway edges with reflectors for snow visibility.

·    Store snow shovels and ice scrapers near entrances.

Household & Pantry

·    Inventory and rotate food storage.

·    Can, freeze, or dehydrate late harvest produce.

·    Stock up on shelf-stable staples and pet food.

·    Fill propane tanks and backup fuel stores.

·    Check medicine cabinet and first aid kits.

·    Wash and store extra blankets and warm bedding.

·    Rotate or restock emergency candles and matches.

·    Prepare a backup cooking method (camp stove, rocket stove).

Personal Preparedness

·    Update bug-out bags for winter (clothing, blankets, gloves).

·    Check winter clothing for wear (boots, coats, gloves, thermal gear).

·    Test flashlights, lanterns, and headlamps.

·    Refill batteries and power banks.

·    Make sure everyone knows winter safety procedures (frostbite, hypothermia).

·    Review emergency contacts and communication plan.

·    Keep vehicle fuel tanks at least half full at all times.



Winter Preparedness should come as a no-brainer to most people, much less the seasoned Prepper Survivalists that we’ve become. But, life happens, stuff happens… hell, shit always happens and prevents us from performing as seasoned Prepper Survivalists much in the way that your brain surgeon leaves behind a scalpel in your melon after sewing you up because he or she is thinking about the 18 holes of golf scheduled later that afternoon. Ok… bad example, but you get what I’m saying.

We’re all human. We all have loads of useless white noise filling up the empty spaces between brain cells. That is to say, we forget shit… all the time. Like punching out the time clock at the end of a long day, or leaving tools in the bed of your truck overnight, only to find them in the morning, all rusted over and FUBARed, or No Honey, I didn’t leave the toilet seat up again. Ok, another bad example.

But, that’s why we need lists. Lists are awesome… lists are golden… lists, keep us from looking like idiots in the eyes of our Prepper friends when we forget to load-out our vehicle before taking a road trip with our mom into the mountains during an imminent hurricane disaster. Shit happens. I’m an HVAC specialist. How dumb would I look if I forgot to replace the filter in my furnace, right?... really dumb.

But listen… we’re gonna give y’all a leg up on this one… take a look at the show notes for this episode. There, you’ll find downloadable checklists for the fall and winter season. 100% free of charge with absolutely no strings attached… a gift for you and yours from the Bunker. Click it… download it… and start checking off the boxes that pertain to your specific needs. It doesn’t get any easier than that, my friends.

 

Stay Prepped… Stay Happy….

Thanks for Listening… And, Goodnight…




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