There's a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

And we are alive.

Welcome to us to episode 3765.65 is going to be the last episode of november i believe

i'm not actually sure if when we come back on monday it will be December it will be

December the calendar does not lie.

I will, of course, shut down for Thanksgiving like I always do.

Tomorrow you'll get the Thanksgiving special show that goes all the way back to 2008.

It's only about 22 minutes long.

It's called the survivalist view of Thanksgiving.

Today, we're going to kind of go old school as well.

We're not going to go super old school, but we are going to go kind of to the basics.

This show is going to be 12 questions about preparedness answered by me.

And these questions are a mix of questions that I've received many times over the years.

Some of those I've received from you guys, from the audience, from people that I actually watch the show that I've received many times over the years. Some of those I've received from you guys,

from the audience, from people that I actually watch the show that I would call the initiated,

right? And then some of these questions are questions that I get more from the mainstream public when they find out what I do and what I'm all about. If I'm at a friend's house party or something like that and you start having conversation with people who don't really know you, they just know you through the friend or the family member, they're like, well, what do you do on the podcast? And I try not to evangelize at things like that. But if they ask, you know, I'll tell them, you know, I do a show called a podcast preparedness. And, like, first question we're going to hit today is, well, why should I bother to prep where I live is boring? Nothing happens. Keep in mind that I live in North Texas, which is one of the tornado touchdown capitals of the world. So that's an interesting thing for that person to say, not to mention hail storms, not to mention three years ago, the big Texas freeze, not to mention many winter storms that have completely shut things down around. You see what I'm saying? I think these people are generally in the mindset of what, end of the world as we know it. I just turned a guess down with that, you know, building your food pantry for the end of the world as we know it. And it wasn't just schick. It wasn't just like, we talk about fighting the zombies because if you're ready for the zombies. Like, she was serious. And I'm like, not my thing, man. This is not what we do. We teach practical everyday preparedness. We don't hinge on either apocalypse or nothing. So I'm going to hit that question and 11 other ones when we get started.

I did want to tell you guys a story real quick, though.

I've always found this funny about my granddaughter Tegan.

I guess she's like nine now.

So this is probably she's about six.

It's probably two, three-ish years ago, maybe a little further back.

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