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Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.

I'm Kyra Blackwell.

I'm Christine Sirclicette.

And I'm Rosie Garen, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

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Today's episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Don't Panic, but Do Prepare for an Emergency.

Guys, I recently listened to this podcast about natural disasters.

Every time I finished an episode, took my headphones off, I started to panic and think about

whether I was prepared for something.

And so it being me.

Oh.

What'd you buy?

I impulse bought this emergency go bag kit, which I know, I know, I know, wirecutter doesn't recommend it.

But I did give myself like a dash of credit for actually taking a step toward preparing and not just sitting and sort of doom scrolling or rocking my head in my hands, worrying about what is going to happen next.

So good?

Yeah.

Well, I think it's not totally bad.

I mean, I think we have some better recommendations, but I think it's better than nothing.

Preparing for disasters is one of those things where I think a lot of people maybe it's on their radar as something that they should do,

but it's really easy to push that type of thing off. I don't know. I think of it a little bit like

making a budget. People want to get on a budget. And then they're like, I'll do that someday. And then

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