1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's me Josh, and for this week's Select, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: I've chosen our episode from two thousand nineteen, where we 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: cover an old House Stuff Works article Chuck had written 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: years before, back when he was the Adventure section writer. 5 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: It's a fun and interesting look at both how to 6 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: stay alive in the desert, as well as an in 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: depth look at some silly sentences that Chuck wrote. I 8 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: hope you enjoy Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a 9 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: production of I Heart Radio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 10 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: over there. You put the three of us together, and 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 1: you've got stuff you should know just in case you 13 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: ever get lost in a desert. Is what we're going 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: to give as our gift to you. Tradition. You know 15 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: what's funny, As I was reading a podcast newsletter today, 16 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: like an industry newsletter, and I'm gonna buzz marketing now, 17 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: all right? Uh? And I mean there's only one. Now, 18 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 1: there's probably more than one. There's several, are there? I think? 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: So all right? I should get on the at least two. 20 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: Two can be several, right, isn't that the Biblical unit 21 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: several is two. I thought the Biblical unit was a cubit, right, 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: I'm glad we can laugh in this one. Um And 23 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: it said there was an article specifically about podcaster burnout, 24 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 1: and they interviewed someone that was like, you know, she 25 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: started podcasting in two thousand seventeen and blah blah blah 26 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: and experienced burnout. And I gotta laughed. I was like, 27 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, like people burn out in 28 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 1: different ways, and they may have a it's tougher workload 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: than nuts. But I just sort of snickered that after 30 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: eleven or click going on eleven years, very soon do 31 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: you have this April eleven years? Like we we have 32 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: moments of not burnout, like we get a little warm, 33 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: kind of like this again, but that quickly passes very quickly. 34 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: You know. I'm never like, uh, I've never burned out. 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 1: I would say that where I don't want to do 36 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: this or anything. No, I know, I would say there's 37 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: probably been like literally five times. I'm sorry to use 38 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: the word literally, but I literally mean literally in this sense. Yes, 39 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: because you've built a statue of paper machee after each 40 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: time represent each burnout, right, right, And they're they're on 41 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,880 Speaker 1: my desk, so you can count them. There's five. But 42 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: it comes in like just digging into a topic at 43 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: a time when there's like a bunch of other stuff 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: going on or whatever. It's just been a really long 45 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,079 Speaker 1: stretch where maybe we're recording more than usual, and then 46 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,239 Speaker 1: when we get in here to record, it's gone agreed. 47 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: That's when it doesn't happen. I don't think I've ever 48 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: been and let me knock on wood, I don't think 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 1: I've ever been in a recording session with you and 50 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: been like not wanted to do it, my friend, And weirdly, 51 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: I'm more burnout with movie crush at times, like it sounds, 52 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,839 Speaker 1: trust me, I'm seriously complaining. But ask Emily how many 53 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: times I've been like, I gotta watch this movie tonight 54 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: notes on because it takes long, and like I have 55 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: to pause to take the notes because I don't want 56 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: to miss anything. So it takes like three and a 57 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: half hours to watch a movie and take notes. And 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: that's how I guess you're you're fundamentally not able to 59 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: enjoy the movie. It's not like enjoying a movie right, 60 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: You're quite analyzing DNTs. It a little bit, and it's 61 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,679 Speaker 1: at night. Kind I guess, yeah, you're right, kind of, 62 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:31,079 Speaker 1: but and it's at night, so it's like I'm technically 63 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: not at work, and sometimes it's just like I don't 64 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: want to watch whatever. Yeah, don't point Break. Who's who's 65 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: his point Break? Jordan Morris of Bubble and Jordan Jesse go, Okay, yeah, 66 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: point Break is a good one. No, no, no, it was. 67 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: It was really kind of fun watching that. Actually, I 68 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: don't know why I pulled that one up, okay, because 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: it was the most recent one I watched. But to 70 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: take notes on Point Break, it can be a little tedious, 71 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: right bra. There's that one great part where they do 72 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: the midnight surf and Kiano has just learned, you know, 73 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: and you just hear this because it's obviously a d 74 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 1: R like recorded afterwards, and you just hear him yell 75 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: m E and surfing. Man. It's just such a great line. 76 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: Does he say F or the F word? Well, he 77 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: says the F word. That would have been better if 78 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: you have said maybe on T N T. That's how 79 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: it says, oh boy, oh there's one. Oh have you 80 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: seen that's sorry? I know we haven't even started yet. 81 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: Out of the way. Have you seen that video of 82 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: Keanu on the New York I believe subway giving a 83 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,599 Speaker 1: seat up to a lady who's standing. No, but he 84 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: is a legendary good guy, yes, who's been through some 85 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: horrible stuff. Yeah. Um, and I just want to be 86 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 1: his friend, Keanu Reeves. If you're listening, friends, okay, well 87 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: he's your friend first, because you asked, well, we could 88 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: share him, Okay, all right, I get him on Tuesdays 89 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: and Thursdays. That's fine, so we can learn together. Yeah, okay, 90 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: all right, that's fair. You can have him. We'll alternate weekends, okay, 91 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,559 Speaker 1: because you know Canada on the weekends, that's that's a party. 92 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: He think he's a good guy on Monday through Thursday. 93 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: To see how many seats he gives up on a Saturday. Alright, wait, 94 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: hold on, one more thing. Can you imagine Keanu Reason 95 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: listening to this conversation at first, kind of chuckling himself, 96 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: and it's getting like weirder and weird rights finally, president 97 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: stop and maybe it never listens again. We just blew 98 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: our chance. Chuck alright, one more thing, and then I 99 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: swear I'm done. I meant to tell you that I 100 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: did some l A sessions recently for movie Crush and 101 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: UH the Great Show High Maintenance on HBO. It's one 102 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: of my all time favorites. The dude on there, Ben 103 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: Sinclair as the guy, the WE delivery guy, UH is 104 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: just like. One of the main reasons I went there 105 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: in person was just so I can meet him. I 106 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: meet him and the first thing he said was is, hey, man, 107 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: I used to listen to you and Josh when I 108 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: UH was a shusher at this lesbian poetry bar. And 109 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: I was like what I was like, first of all, 110 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 1: it's a suure. He's like, it's a poetry bar, you know. 111 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: I said, there and shush people, and He's like, but 112 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: I ustill listen to you you. Guys always wonder what you 113 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,280 Speaker 1: look like. Did Josh quit smoking? And I was like, 114 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: why don't you people ever reach out right, like do 115 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: you know what that would admit to me? Which he 116 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: was just a suture at the time maybe, but now 117 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: he's made it. Yeah. So anyway, I told him that 118 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: you quit smoking, You're doing great. I don't think he's 119 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: listening for a bit, but do you think he's listening now? 120 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if he got back on the train 121 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: or not. But if he did, do you think he's 122 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: friends with Ken Rees? Maybe? But Ben Claire gives up 123 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: his seat for no person got that's his And if 124 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: you if you say, like maybe you should stand up, 125 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: he goes. Now he would give up his seat. Okay, anyway, 126 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: let's talk about desert survival. Imagine Chuck, Ben Sinclair is 127 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: making his way through the desert in his car, priest 128 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: will say, and he runs out of not just gas 129 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 1: but electricity as well, which he might he has a 130 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: big RV. Actually that's worked into the show. Okay, he's 131 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: in his RV, so he just straight up runs out 132 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: of gas, which probably happens a couple of times a 133 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: day in a big old r V. I would imagine. Okay, Um, 134 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: Ben's in trouble because Ben was not expecting to have 135 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: this extended stop and unexpected stop in the desert, so 136 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: he did not bring a few things. Okay, if Ben 137 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,440 Speaker 1: were paying a little less attention to whether people were 138 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: talking you need to be shushed or not, and more 139 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: attention to his desert survival, what would he have packed 140 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: in that RV? Chuck, Well, Ben Sinclair would have had 141 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: probably a pound of weed, Okay, so he's got a 142 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: good start there because he could burn that for a 143 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: signal fire or for comfort and warmth. Um. Well, I 144 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: mean I wrote this dumb article. This is a great article. 145 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: Did you notice my stupid thing I did with the 146 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: music titles? Sure, the Oasis thing and all of them 147 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,400 Speaker 1: are song titles. All the sidebars are song titles. And 148 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: that was back when I was like, oh man, I 149 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: am the most clever person alive. So I got the 150 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: wonder Wall one um, rescue me. Okay, I gotta excuse me, 151 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: but I was thinking more of the TV show than 152 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: the song. There's also, so everybody, if you go onto 153 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com right now and look up 154 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: how Desert Survival Works. Each page, almost every page has 155 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: a a a sidebar, and the title of the sidebars 156 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: are song titles. Rescue me? After all, you're my wonder wall. 157 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: What's what could it be? It's a mirage? What could 158 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: it be? It's a mirrage? What is that? I'm telling y'all, 159 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: it's sabotage. Okay, that's a good one. And then finally 160 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: a little shout out to uh Annie food, glorious food. Okay, 161 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 1: So that was that was what used to make me 162 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: happy at work. Yeah, I remember those days. Yeah you too. 163 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: When you do like a clever photo caption and that 164 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: would be that would get you through the week. We 165 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: would stand up and like share it over the cubicle. 166 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: Halloo caption. Yeah, this is gonna blow everybody's mind. All right, 167 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: So you're in the desert, you want to have uh, well, 168 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 1: let's just let's just talk about this stuff. Okay, Yeah? 169 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,480 Speaker 1: What what should be in your kid? Water? A mirror? 170 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 1: That's a big one. Way to start a fire. Yeah, 171 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 1: that's a big one too. Basically, just a lighter, food, water. 172 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: If you're gonna cross the desert, have a lighter, which 173 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: seems counterintuitive because it's hot in the desert, but no, 174 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: trust us. Well you'll see you want a lighter on 175 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: you a mirror which you'll see too. Yeah, that's what 176 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,000 Speaker 1: we'll do. We'll see what's supposed to be in the 177 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: pack and in the r V, and then we'll go 178 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 1: back and we'll Okay, I'm suddenly burned out. Should we 179 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: take a break? Yeah, all right, let's take a break 180 00:09:37,520 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: and let's start the podcast in earnest. All right, everybody, 181 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: welcome to stuff. You should know. I'm Josh, there's Chuck, 182 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: there's Jerry over there, and we're talking desert survival. So 183 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: let's get to it. And so this is all due 184 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: to the fact that we just recorded a very tough episode, 185 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: so we're clearly just goofing off now. Um, so we're 186 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: talking about deserts, and we did a desert episode and 187 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: a desertification episode two and I think one on the 188 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: dust Bowl. But something that all deserts have in common 189 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,959 Speaker 1: is not sand, is not even heat. It's a lack 190 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: of water. Yes, technically Antarctica is the largest desert on 191 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: the world, in the world, Um, and there's lots of water, 192 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: but it's all locked up as ice. There's no available 193 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: water in exactly the same way as there's basically no 194 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: available water in Death Valley in California. Um, deserts have. 195 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: The next thing that they have most frequently in common 196 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 1: is again not sand, but exposed bedrock. All of those 197 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: cool for nations or whatever, that's actually the bottom of 198 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 1: the earth you're seeing exposed. All the soil has been 199 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: dried out for so long because down basically it's been pants. Um. 200 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 1: We've got some good pants stories by the way, coming soon. Yeah. Um. 201 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: The soil is so dry that it can't be held 202 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: in place. The wind is blown it away, and so 203 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 1: what you're seeing is the exposed bedrock sand only makes 204 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:27,199 Speaker 1: up something like of the world's deserts. Yeah, I mean 205 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:33,199 Speaker 1: you got pebbles, desert soil. Sometimes that bed rock you're 206 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: talking about. We're gonna talk about o acs. So I 207 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: think Antarctic is Survivor or Antarctic Survival or even Arctic 208 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: Survival deserves its own episode short day. So we're just 209 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: gonna be talking about hot deserts and all of that 210 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,679 Speaker 1: sand and exposed bedrock and pebbles bakes in the sun 211 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: and shoots that heat back out and it's just super hot. Okay. Yeah, 212 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: So her is the biggest obviously the biggest, biggest problem. 213 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: If you get trapped in the desert on foot or 214 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: in a car, uh, and you think about, like, never 215 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: go desert hiking. I don't need to worry about this. 216 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,559 Speaker 1: But have you ever been like, oh, I'm gonna take 217 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: the long route through from Texas to California because it's 218 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: more scenic, uh, And then your car breaks down and 219 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: you're in big trouble if you don't know what you're doing. Um, 220 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: that happened to a woman. I can't find her name 221 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 1: right now, but she is a She was a grandmother. 222 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: I believe she's seventy two, who was driving in her 223 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: Prius and it ran out of gas and electricity on 224 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: the way. I believe to Phoenix and um, she had 225 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 1: an unexpected trip with her dog for nine days in 226 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: the desert and survived. Yeah. Did she eat her dog? No? Okay, 227 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: luckily she did not have to eat her dog. Did 228 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: she survive on the saliva of her dog? Yeah? They well, 229 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: they spit one another's mouth, so it was kind of 230 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: but they did that an it was a wash. So 231 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,599 Speaker 1: dehydration is obviously the kind of um physical symptom you 232 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:07,079 Speaker 1: might experience if you run out of water, uh, decreased 233 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: frequency of urine. Of course, if your urine is very 234 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 1: smelly or very deep yellow, your mouth is going to 235 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: be dry, your you know, as things increase dehydration wise, 236 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna get sunken eyes. Your heartbeat is gonna increase. 237 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: And if you get to the stage where you literally 238 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: have no urine, or if you're vomiting and have diarrhea, 239 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: then you're pretty bad shape. Yeah, so vomiting and diarrhea 240 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: is like that last thing you want to do while 241 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:36,320 Speaker 1: you're dehydrated, because all it is is just getting rid 242 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: of any remaining hydration you have. It's not good. That's 243 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:44,120 Speaker 1: that's a bad reaction to dehydration. Um. And we'll talk 244 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 1: about heat casualty coming up. But um kind of psyched 245 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: about that bit. Oh yeah. But when we talk about 246 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: water and rationing water, there's an old saying ration sweat 247 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: not water, meaning, um, don't like drink all your water once, 248 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: but rash and your sweat. Like they say not to 249 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: you know, if you are lost like this, like don't 250 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: go hiking to find civilization during the peak of day. 251 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 1: You want to ration how much output, how much you're sweating. Um, 252 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: but you you do have to take in that water. Yeah, 253 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: so when you're in the desert, you you recommend, or 254 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: to say, the experts recommend, because it's obviously a very 255 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: well researched article, um that that somebody drink a gallon 256 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:32,720 Speaker 1: of water a day. Well, I mean that's what they say. 257 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: If you've got like a you know, unlimited amounts of 258 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: water a gallon a day, you need a rashtion it 259 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: somewhat if you have very limited water obviously, But what 260 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 1: you don't want to do, which happens a lot of times, 261 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 1: is to be found dead with water in your canteen. Yeah, 262 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: which is God, it's haunting sure. And um and like 263 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: you said, I mean you want to you want to 264 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: rashtion your sweat, not your water, but you do kind 265 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: of want to rash in your water, like you know, 266 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,240 Speaker 1: I don't want to be a little water piggy right 267 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,960 Speaker 1: out of the gate. But you also you recommend um 268 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: via the experts that you that you don't just wait 269 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: until you're thirsty, because you'll only get about two thirds 270 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: of the amount of water you actually need just by 271 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: going by thirst. You want to actually stop and like 272 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 1: drink more water than you think you need. Yeah. And 273 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 1: if you're hiking around again, we we talked about morning 274 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: and evenings or the best time to go look for help. Um, 275 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: if you see a trail, go down that trail because 276 00:15:30,440 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: you have a better chance of finding someone there. Um. 277 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: Follow the birds. Birds generally and animals go towards water. Yeah. 278 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,480 Speaker 1: Apparently if they're circling in the morning or the evening, 279 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: they're probably circling around water. Try and get some groundwater going. 280 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 1: But very wisely, you point out through the experts that 281 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: if there's like a little, you know, small mountain in 282 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: between you and those birds, in a longer way around 283 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: the mountain that's flat, take the longer way that's flat, 284 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: because even though you might cut off a couple of 285 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: hours between you and the birds, you're gonna really exert 286 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 1: yourself going up that mountain, whereas instead you want to 287 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: you want to take the longer but slower, less exerting 288 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: path to get to that water where the birds are circling. 289 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: For sure, if you're with someone, um, don't talk. I mean, 290 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,040 Speaker 1: you know, you can talk some, but don't just chat 291 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: about your day. Try to conserve your words. Try and 292 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: breathe through your nose. What do you think about grace jump. 293 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 1: If you happen to see any wet sand or standing 294 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: water anywhere, then you're in luck because you can dig 295 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: down in there and you will probably find more water 296 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: under you know, this groundwater underneath it, which is that's 297 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: a benaan. If you find like a groundwater in the desert, 298 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: you're probably gonna be okay. Yeah, If you don't find 299 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: any water and you run out of water, you're probably 300 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: not going to be Okay. No, you also want to fire, 301 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: which you said isn't very intuitive. But uh, if you've 302 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: ever spending time in the desert, the temperature swings are huge. 303 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 1: You can get cold in the desert at night, and 304 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: then fire allows you to purify water. There's that whole 305 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: safety feeling. It keeps mountain lions away, right, Sure. I 306 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:23,440 Speaker 1: would guess just about any critters don't go near fire 307 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 1: because they associated with wildfires in the desert. Brush fires, 308 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: rescue signal you can, you can do that, I'll trick. 309 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: I think we even did a show on smoke signals 310 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: early on. No, I don't think so. No, No, And 311 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: I wanted to I keep forgetting to write. Are you sure? 312 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was like an early, early early 313 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: to go listen to it, Yeah, because I wanted to 314 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: do that. It's probably not very good. Um, but your 315 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: whole point of all this is to find people and 316 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,080 Speaker 1: to get rescued. Yeah. You make a great point about that. Yeah, Like, 317 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: like the point of being lost in the desert is 318 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: to make yourself visible. Yeah. The point of not being 319 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: lost rather or being lost in finding rescue the key 320 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: to being found, how about that? Right? So, if you 321 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 1: are in a car. If your car is not working anymore, 322 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: it's out of gas or whatever, flat tire, um, blow 323 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: it up. Basically, stick a hanky in the gas tank 324 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: and just blow it up. So you want to stick 325 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: the hanky in the gas tank. You want to fashion 326 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: a bow and arrow, light the arrow, stand back and 327 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: shoot the cars gas tank. That's what you want to know. 328 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: You want to open your hood, entiere rag to it, 329 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: or a bandanna around your antenna or something, anything like 330 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,160 Speaker 1: a typical sign of distress. Um, if anything to make 331 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: it like something's up here. Sure. Yeah, like even if 332 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: the hood is fine, like you raise a hood as 333 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,719 Speaker 1: an indicator. Yeah, like if there's no engine trouble, right, 334 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: you can still raise the hood. It's all right. Nobody's 335 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: gonna like arrest you when they rescue you. Uh, if 336 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: you can spell out UM S O S or something 337 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: like that with help clothing or help on the ground, 338 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: for if a helicopter or plane is nearby. Yeah, it's that. 339 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,879 Speaker 1: That woman in Arizona was rescued by writing help. I 340 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: think that's actually how they found her. She wrote help 341 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: in sticks. Oh really yep, nice her dog told her 342 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,119 Speaker 1: to do that. Stuff works. Uh, if you are in 343 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: your car. You've got a leg up because you have 344 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: your rear view mirror or your side view mirror that 345 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: just just go ahead and break that thing off and 346 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,959 Speaker 1: use it. Yeah. I think we said in the first 347 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,399 Speaker 1: few minutes that we're trying to forget about now that 348 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: you want to have a mirror in your survival pack 349 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,680 Speaker 1: no matter where wherever you're going hiking. Yeah, but a 350 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: lot of people don't have survival packs in their car, 351 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: like most people, I think. I mean, I don't know, 352 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 1: I think about it. I've got like jumper cables and 353 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: some rain cks. Does that you know after that last 354 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 1: stupid Atlanta ice storm a few years ago that stranded 355 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: people snow apocalypse? Yeah, I um, I think I had 356 00:19:57,320 --> 00:19:58,760 Speaker 1: something in my car after that, but I have a 357 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: different car now. It wasn't my but it was like 358 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: some water and a blanket and some granola bars. I 359 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: need to like stock up minded Emily's car with that stuff. Yeah, 360 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: for sure, you never know. I think they just remember 361 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: when we had some tornadoes in Atlanta a few years ago. 362 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,439 Speaker 1: You me and I were like, we really need like 363 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: a crank radio and like all this stuff. We started together, 364 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: and You're like, I wonder what's on TV before you're 365 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: not you're watching the Japanese game shows. He'd forgotten, like 366 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: eight hours go by. But a signal mirror is important, 367 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: you know, you just uh flash that thing. It says 368 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,679 Speaker 1: here too. I was about to make fun of it, 369 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: but I realized I wrote it. But practice on a 370 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 1: nearby rock. I thought that was a good advice. I mean, 371 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: you don't want your first attempt at signaling somebody with 372 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 1: the mirror to be while you're trying to signal somebody 373 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 1: in a passing aircraft. Probably so. And I mean like, 374 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: if there's no cloud cover, you can get somebody at 375 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: like thirty thousand feet if you do it right. So heck, yeah, 376 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,960 Speaker 1: practice on a rock. What else you're gonna do while 377 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: you're sitting around in the shade. Nothing? Yeah, there might 378 00:20:57,320 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: be a Delta pilot up there that's like, oh God, 379 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,000 Speaker 1: what is that? That's so annoying. You should have a 380 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: whistle in your survival kit so you can blow it 381 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: if you see someone from far away. And um, they 382 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: recommend that if you honk your horn for help, to 383 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: be like hunk, hunk honk, and then wait and honk 384 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: honk honk, because if you just lay on it like 385 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: you're if you're in traffic, someone might hear that and 386 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: just think this car has this horn stuck. Yeah, there'll 387 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 1: be like that's so annoying. I'm gonna continue on past 388 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 1: this weird um path and death valley that no one 389 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: should be down. So let's say horn is Let's say 390 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,399 Speaker 1: you are in your car, your car is is jacked 391 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: up um, and you're like, all right, I've exhausted my resources. Here, 392 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,800 Speaker 1: screw this, i gotta go take a hike. Leave a 393 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: note on your car and say like, hey, I'm broken 394 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 1: down and I've gone northwest on at two a pm 395 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Also, I'm Chuck Bryant, who hopefully you're looking 396 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,919 Speaker 1: for you found him. Check out my podcast Stuff you 397 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: Should Know and a movie crush. Yeah, never miss an 398 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 1: advertising opportunity. But if you do, stay with your car, Yeah, like, 399 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: just don't sit around in your car, like sit in 400 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: the shade. They even say to sit on a blanket. Yeah. 401 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: The reason being is because there can be something like 402 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:18,479 Speaker 1: a thirty degree height temperature difference between the ground and 403 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: the air above the ground. That's that's how barren and 404 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: hot the ground gets, and it's It's not like the 405 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: air above the ground is cool. It's still hot because 406 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 1: the ground is heating it. But the ground itself is 407 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 1: taking in all of that unbroken, unfiltered sunlight directly into it, 408 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,080 Speaker 1: holding as much as it can, and then shooting it 409 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: back out is basically infrared heat um back into space 410 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: through you. And if your butt is touching the ground 411 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: through conduction, it's going to transfer directly to you, or 412 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: is through the air, be going through convection from the 413 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: air to your butt, which is not nearly as efficient 414 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: as conduction. So don't sit directly on the ground. Even 415 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: sitting on a rock is better than sitting on the ground. 416 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: But ideally you want to find the shade that your 417 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: car is producing, sure whether it's the hood that's up 418 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: or or just the car itself or whatever, and sit 419 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: in that shade as best you can. Get your feet 420 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,960 Speaker 1: off the ground, like you said, I think too, Yeah, 421 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: and take off your shoes and socks, especially if you're 422 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,679 Speaker 1: hiking around um during your breaks. Uh. They also say 423 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 1: to not to take off your clothes. Your instinct might 424 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: be to take your clothes off, but um, those clothes 425 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: you want them soaking up sweat because that'll cool you down. Um. 426 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 1: And also you know you don't want to be you 427 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,639 Speaker 1: don't want to take your shirt off and also have 428 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: like a third degree sunburn after day one either. I 429 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: thought about that too. It's like that's I mean that 430 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,240 Speaker 1: that clothes that situation worse. Right, it's doing something to 431 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: protect you from the UV, you know, I think it 432 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: teases The average T shirt has like a SPF of 433 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 1: four or something like that. That's better than nothing, better 434 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,479 Speaker 1: than nothing. Um. Also, chuck, if you are right, and 435 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: I guess if like you're actually using this information we're 436 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 1: giving you right now. First of all, good luck, we're 437 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: pulling for you. Secondly, um, if you are going to 438 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,920 Speaker 1: take off your shoes, don't do it in the sun 439 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: because just that exposure of your bare feet to the 440 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,959 Speaker 1: sunlight for that short of a time can make your 441 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,600 Speaker 1: feet swell and you might not be able to get 442 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 1: your shoes back on, which if you do end up 443 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: having to hoof it out of there, you want your shoes, 444 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: You want your feet all swoll up. No, so take 445 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: take your shoes off and let your dogs air out 446 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: in the shade. Only make a little hat if you 447 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 1: don't have one. Out of whatever you've got something in 448 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: your car or something whatever. Like if you have a 449 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: piece of cardboard, put it on your head. This is 450 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: the greatest sentence. No, I love it? Are you really 451 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,959 Speaker 1: you didn't like this this article? Huh? I don't know. 452 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: It's just sort of a reminder of darker days at 453 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: this job. So may I read this? Sure, if you 454 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: don't have a hat to wear, fashion a head covering 455 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 1: with what you have on hand. You may look silly 456 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: wearing a cardboard hat, but your goal is to vive, 457 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: not win a beauty contest. And Lord, drink a liter 458 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,320 Speaker 1: of water per hour to stay properly. Know we cut 459 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: out that part earlier because it didn't sound right. I mean, 460 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: maybe that's if you have all the water in the world, 461 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: but that just sounds like that's a lot of water. 462 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:19,840 Speaker 1: How you burn through your water? Uh? If your car 463 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: is stuck and this actually happened to me once. I 464 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: got a car stuck in the desert one time in 465 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: the middle of the night with my friend when yeah, 466 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,360 Speaker 1: I got it out without deflating my tires. But they 467 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,239 Speaker 1: say if you're stuck in the sand, to deflate your 468 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: tires just a little bit. Um. Don't like start goosing 469 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: it because you're gonna dig yourself in more. Just apply 470 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: like steady accelerator pressure and turn your wheels kind of 471 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: back and forth a little bit, let a little bit 472 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: of air and you might be able to get out 473 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: of there. Yeah. Again, don't let a lot of air 474 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,360 Speaker 1: out because if you do get out, you still need 475 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: to drive back home, and you don't want to do 476 00:25:53,359 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: that on overly deflated tires. No, okay, Um, so if 477 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: you're going to should we should we take a break? 478 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 1: Now you think? Why not? Okay, We're gonna take a 479 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: break everybody. There's there's a lot more to come. You're 480 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: not toast yet because we have more stuff to tell 481 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 1: you how to survive in the desert right after this. 482 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 1: I really do love that sentence. That was a great sentence. 483 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: There's one more in here. I can't wait to call out. 484 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: So I'm sure I know what it is. Uh, should 485 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 1: we talk about oaces? Sure? I mean it depends on 486 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: where you are. But you know, the an oasis is 487 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 1: just when wind has blown away enough sand that you 488 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,040 Speaker 1: get down to that groundwater. It's all in oasis is yeah, 489 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: you know, like an aquifer. Yeah, imagine if there's nothing 490 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: above the aquifer. Now you've got a lake boom. That's 491 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: an oasis. Yeah, but they can they can be big 492 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: enough and exposed enough that you can have this like 493 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,880 Speaker 1: lush oasis in the middle of the desert. There's really 494 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: no better word for it. Yeah. And then you know, um, 495 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: if you're in the Sahara Desert, like the communities form 496 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:28,600 Speaker 1: around these oases. There's one very large one called the 497 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: Cargo Oasis that is a hundred miles long and depending 498 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: on where you are, twelve to fifty miles wide. There's 499 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: plenty big to hold small towns. Plenty big. It is, 500 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,120 Speaker 1: it is. I'm just laughing at this article. I can't 501 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 1: believe I wrote this thing. I I really I value 502 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: this laticle. This It was great, well written, well researched. 503 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: This is when I was assigned, you know, your survival guy, 504 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: and I wrote a lot of these. You know, we've 505 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: covered a few of him on the show, but still 506 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 1: plenty left. I thought these days were over. Uh. If 507 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: you are hiking, the first thing they say is to 508 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: walk slowly. You may your instinct maybe to get out 509 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: of there fast and find help fast. Very good advice, 510 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: but that's no good no, not only do you want 511 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: to remind yourself to slow down, because that's what it takes. 512 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 1: You're not gonna just walk slowly automatically. You're gonna be 513 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: freaked out. So you have to stay calm and say 514 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: I've got to walk slow and just take breaks every 515 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: about ten minutes out of every hour, I think. Um, 516 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 1: but if you're with a group you want to walk, Um, 517 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: you want to set your pace by the slowest and 518 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 1: least fit person in the group. Just everybody walk that slow. 519 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 1: That person will help pace everybody else. Um, and it 520 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: will keep that person from just dying trying to keep up, 521 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: like literally dying trying to keep up. I mean everyone 522 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,760 Speaker 1: else has to be like cheez, Big Larry in the 523 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: back is really holding us back. But Big Larry is 524 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 1: probably walking at the right speed, right, which is slow. Yeah, 525 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,479 Speaker 1: at least for you, he's walking slow enough for you 526 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,720 Speaker 1: to slow you down. That's right. That's not a T shirt, 527 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,719 Speaker 1: but it's still true. Should we get to your favorite 528 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: part of this, which is heat casualty. Yes, I know 529 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 1: you've got some science on this, right, yes. Well, the 530 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,520 Speaker 1: three major categories are heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and then 531 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 1: heat stroke in that order. Yeah, and heat cramps, or 532 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: you know, you can get those on a hot afternoon 533 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 1: if you're out playing frisbee, you can. And all of 534 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 1: it comes down to it's just basically an escalating um 535 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:39,560 Speaker 1: imbalance between water and heat salt loss. So so like 536 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 1: the electrical conduction in your muscles and all that from 537 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: your heart to your legs is out of whack because 538 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 1: you have lost a lot of water and you still 539 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: have a higher salt concentration, or else you've lost a 540 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 1: lot of salt and there's still enough water that you're 541 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: you're just not your muscles aren't aren't working quite right, 542 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: so they can cramp. Right if that happens, you say, 543 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: drink like a power raid. If you got it, what 544 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,480 Speaker 1: are you sitting there holding onto it for in the 545 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,680 Speaker 1: first place. For if you're lost in the desert with 546 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: a power aid, I mean fire it down. It's like 547 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: I don't like blue purple. That's true. Um, So that's 548 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: step one. If you have a power eid. If not, 549 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: if you have some water, drink the water. The cramps 550 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: are gonna go away. You can overcome um heat cramps 551 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: pretty easily, it sounds like, But you want to stop rest, 552 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: getting some shade stop moving, and a ten to the 553 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,080 Speaker 1: heat cramps for sure. Yeah, that may lead to heat 554 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 1: exhaustion if you don't have water and this, like you said, 555 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: it's just an escalation of that imbalance. Um, you may 556 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 1: be irritable or feel weak or have a headache, or 557 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: if you're vomiting and have nausea or clammy skin, then 558 00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: that's like heat exhaustion is seriously setting in. It is UM. 559 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: And so again, like salt and electrolytes are really important 560 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 1: to the electrical conduction in your body, and your body 561 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,800 Speaker 1: moves through electrical conduction. It's a big, big components. So 562 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: if that's off, your body's off. But then if you're 563 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 1: really in trouble, you're you enter into heat stroke. And 564 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: this is the point where your body's system at getting 565 00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,920 Speaker 1: rid of heat has been overwhelmed by the heat it's 566 00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: taking on and you're in big trouble. When that happens, basically, 567 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: on a cellular level, your body is failing systemically because 568 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 1: proteins aren't folding correctly in Proteins do just about everything 569 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: there is to do in a cell. They're starting to 570 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 1: clump up and get weird, and then cells are suddenly 571 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:37,080 Speaker 1: dying um. One of your body's main tricks at getting 572 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: rid of heat is through convection, sending your hot blood 573 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 1: to the surface of your skin, which is why if 574 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: you go into a sauna, your your skin gets flushed. 575 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: But also if you'll notice your heart is pumping, is 576 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: beating really hard, even though you're just sitting there, you're 577 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 1: in the heat. And the reason why it's your heart 578 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: is working overtime shooting blood out to your skin to 579 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: get rid of heat so that your body can cool down. 580 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: It's using your blood is a heat transfer mechanism, amazing, 581 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: and your heart actually speeds up. You're actually pumping out 582 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 1: up to eight leads a minute of blood, more than 583 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,480 Speaker 1: your heart usually pumps out when you're starting to enter 584 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 1: heat strokes. So it's a big deal. Yeah, I would 585 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: imagine that would put you in danger of cardiac arrest. Yes, 586 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: I think that's one of the results of that whole 587 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 1: thing of severe heat stroke, so bad headaches, very dizzy, nausea, vomiting, 588 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: your muscles might be spasm ing. That heart rate like 589 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: you were talking about, is way high, and you may 590 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 1: be full on hallucinating at this point, or you may 591 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: fall unconscious like heat stroke is no joke. Um, so 592 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,760 Speaker 1: you gotta find shade fast, which is I mean, that's 593 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,840 Speaker 1: the biggest part of our biggest challenge in desert survival 594 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,720 Speaker 1: is finding shade. You know, there's just nowhere, but the 595 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: big rock can be your shade exactly, like whatever, it 596 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 1: doesn't matter, just fine shade because the difference between shade 597 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: and sunlight in the desert is substantial. Yeah, and they 598 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,640 Speaker 1: like if you have any water, like, now is the time. 599 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: This is when you're found dead with your canteen full 600 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: of half full of water because you're like, no, like, 601 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 1: I still I'm a day away from finding help. Right, 602 00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: you have no idea how far you're Yeah, like, this 603 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: is go time to save your life. But also, if 604 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: you have any cool compresses, put them in your armpits, 605 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: put them in your groin. Yeah, um, do whatever you 606 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: can do cool cool yourself down. If you have any 607 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: cool compresses left over from the party around the campfire 608 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 1: the night before apparently, yeah, you're like, if I can 609 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: only cool down, Oh wait a minute, I have a 610 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: frozen compress I can put in my crutch. Um. They 611 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 1: are all kinds of animals in the desert that can 612 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:47,440 Speaker 1: be dangerous. Um. Whether it's spiders, um tran Chillas are 613 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,240 Speaker 1: scary looking, but they're probably not gonna kill you. Yeah, 614 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: they don't really care about you. They don't want to 615 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 1: bite you and knew what they do bite you. It's 616 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: like a stupid tranchila. Yeah, I mean, none of these 617 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: things wanna find you like you will find these brown 618 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,320 Speaker 1: reclue is in black widows, under rocks or under brush 619 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 1: or something like that. So don't go reaching in there. 620 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,120 Speaker 1: Don't go reaching in some hole like Timothy Dalton and 621 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:13,400 Speaker 1: Flash Gordon. You know what hole did he reach into? 622 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 1: You saw Flash Gordon? Right? No, the old one. No, 623 00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: you should probably enjoy that. I didn't realize that was 624 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,959 Speaker 1: Timothy Dalton in there. I thought it was a blonde guy. Well, 625 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: he played Flash Gordon, but Timothy Dalton played the bad guy, 626 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: one of the bad guys. But there was a challenge 627 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,839 Speaker 1: where they had to stick their hand in this big 628 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,240 Speaker 1: hole and there was a stinging creature inside this blob. 629 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: It sounds like that Joe Rogan show. What was they called, 630 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: You mean the Joe Rogan podcast. No, No, it's the 631 00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:44,479 Speaker 1: Fear Factor. Remember Fear Factor. I used to like that show. 632 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: That was a good show. I could never have done 633 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: that show though, because of the stuff you eat. Yeah, 634 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: there was some gross stuff. That's where I just I 635 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,239 Speaker 1: was like, I can do all that stuff, but I 636 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: can't eat that. I can't eat gross things. You could 637 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,799 Speaker 1: have done everything else though, well, I mean to a 638 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: certain degree, but yeah, there's no way I could eat 639 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: eat those nasty things. Yeah, you'd probably have an easier 640 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 1: time with that than me. Um. I don't know, man, 641 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: I think that would be pretty disgusting. On top of 642 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: that though, like doing things like sticking my hand in something, 643 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: or having like a box full of like spiders put 644 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: over my head or scorpions or whatever, I could do 645 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: that I would not. I mean, like for what to 646 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: be on TV? Well, exactly, all right, beat on TV? 647 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 1: Is it so great everybody? No, it's not. It's cracked 648 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 1: up to be certainly not where the box of scorpions 649 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:34,720 Speaker 1: on your head? Speaking of scorpions, there are thirty different types, 650 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,680 Speaker 1: more than thirty different types of scorpions and just Arizona, 651 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 1: so uh, and they're all over the place, you know, 652 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: They're in Georgia and in the mountains in the woods 653 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,879 Speaker 1: of Georgia have very few of them are poisonous. Nah, 654 00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: not very many at all. I think a couple of 655 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,680 Speaker 1: them can actually kill a person with their venom um 656 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: by stinging you with that tail. They'll still hurt you though, 657 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: Just don't go near the scorpions. Yeah, I mean you 658 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,279 Speaker 1: can get sick from any of these. Is like, a 659 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 1: black widow is probably not gonna kill you either. No, 660 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,400 Speaker 1: but if you're already like in danger of something like 661 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,480 Speaker 1: he stroke exactly, a black widow bite is not going 662 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 1: to help, and it's going to be exacerbated tremendously. No. 663 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,920 Speaker 1: But if you do get stung or bitten by something 664 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 1: like that, and if you don't have that cool compress 665 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: and your crutch, use that cool compress around the biters sting. Ye, 666 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: don't elevate it. Yeah, that's a big one. Sure. You 667 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 1: also want to put it kind of a loose turning 668 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 1: kid around it. You want to be able to fit 669 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,360 Speaker 1: one finger in the turnikud so tight ish, I guess 670 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,879 Speaker 1: there's a way to put it. Yeah, and again get 671 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: in the shade, wash it off with some soap and 672 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: water if you have it, and then just dump that 673 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: water all over the ground. This is used up. Uh, 674 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: And then we have snakes rattle snakes and coral snakes 675 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,680 Speaker 1: are going to be your biggest danger. And remember coral 676 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,360 Speaker 1: snakes are red, yellow and black. And there's a very 677 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: helpful saying, red touches yellow and harm a fellow, red 678 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: touches black. Make it a snack. No red touches black. 679 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,040 Speaker 1: It's okay for Jack. And this raises my second favorite sentence. 680 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: Oh no, just remember you're Jack in this scenario. It's 681 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 1: okay for Jack now. And then finally, I think we 682 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:37,680 Speaker 1: sound drunk. We're not. Um. There are lizards, um, specifically 683 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,960 Speaker 1: the do you say HeLa monster or Gila monster? I 684 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: think it's Heila. I think it's a British sayguila and 685 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,640 Speaker 1: the wrong right they say aluminum. Um. So the Gila 686 00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,400 Speaker 1: monster and the Mexican beaded lizard um the beat. It 687 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: is only in Mexico and Guatemala, but you can find 688 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,239 Speaker 1: those gilas in the in the US of A. Those 689 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: are big, daddy though. Yeah, they get up to like 690 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,960 Speaker 1: two feet I think. And this is actually my favorite sentence. 691 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 1: So I'm talking here about the Mexican beaded white to 692 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: yellow spots and stripes on their raised scales. It's about 693 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: a foot long. I described the Geela monster, and they say, however, 694 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,840 Speaker 1: if you see a two foot long lizard coming in 695 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,279 Speaker 1: your direction, maybe you should just walk the other way. 696 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:24,160 Speaker 1: Sound advice. I thought you were joking when you picked 697 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 1: this article. No, I think it's a good article. I 698 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: don't understand why you're being so hard on yourself. All right, 699 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:34,160 Speaker 1: this last part is legitimately interesting. I think the fact 700 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,399 Speaker 1: of the podcast is contained in here, like the uncontented 701 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 1: go ahead, No, no, it's your fact, it's not my fact. 702 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 1: All right. Two big other dangers to other big dangers 703 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:52,720 Speaker 1: or sandstorms and flash floods. Sandstorms can be very fast 704 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,920 Speaker 1: or they can last for a long time. They can 705 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: last weeks in the Middle East. But if you're driving, 706 00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 1: you don't want to drive through a stands to pull 707 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,080 Speaker 1: over and like put on your hazards, roll up your windows. Yeah, 708 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 1: why did you say turn off your headlights? Do you 709 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: remember that? I get why you put on your hazards, 710 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: But why turn off your headlights? Is it because you 711 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 1: don't want to wear your battery out? Maybe? I think so, Okay, yeah, 712 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 1: that would be my guess, because I didn't know if 713 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 1: maybe that created an electrical conductivity or something, and lead 714 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,719 Speaker 1: to lightning maybe, And if you're hiking around and there's 715 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,319 Speaker 1: a sandstorm, then try and tie something or pull your 716 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,040 Speaker 1: shirt up over your face. But on those sunnies, um, 717 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: they say, if you have spare water, wet the cloth 718 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,800 Speaker 1: before you put it over your face, and then I'm 719 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: granting you the fact of the pith. Let's talk about 720 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: flash flooding. Flash floods because the desert does not absorb 721 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,319 Speaker 1: water very easily. Um, because it's basically bedrock, and water 722 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,320 Speaker 1: doesn't go into bedrock easy. Um. Like, if it rains, 723 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:52,239 Speaker 1: it rains hard, and it rains fast, and a substantial 724 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,120 Speaker 1: amount comes down and it collects very quickly because it 725 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,719 Speaker 1: has nowhere to go and can create what are known 726 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,480 Speaker 1: as flash floods. Because of this, more people drown in 727 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,360 Speaker 1: the desert than die of thirst. That's what they say. 728 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,120 Speaker 1: That is an amazing fact. That's one of the most 729 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,760 Speaker 1: amazing facts I've ever heard in my life. It really is. Um. 730 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,080 Speaker 1: And then what was the James Franco movie The True 731 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: Story where he was, yeah, like there was a flash 732 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: flight in that right, I don't remember, I think so. 733 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: I feel like he was it rained and he was like, 734 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 1: oh thank god, it's raining and then the water just 735 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 1: started rising really fast around because he was in a gully. 736 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: But if you like, don't camp out overnight in a 737 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 1: dry creek bed, because it is no joke. It can 738 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,319 Speaker 1: it can happen really fast. And I was driving through 739 00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 1: New Mexico once on my big out west trip post college, 740 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,320 Speaker 1: and my friend and I drove through the most lacious 741 00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: storm I've ever seen in my life. Um, and we 742 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:54,359 Speaker 1: literally saw water running flowing uphill and I was like, 743 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,880 Speaker 1: am I seeing things? And he's like, no, dude, He's like, 744 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:02,839 Speaker 1: that is definitely uphill. Water was flowing up hill some how. Yeah, 745 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,640 Speaker 1: I guess it was just so much of it. But 746 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,000 Speaker 1: we drove through it until we saw um in front 747 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,200 Speaker 1: of us, uh, telephone polls like down in the on 748 00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:14,920 Speaker 1: the highway, like all in front of us were like, 749 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,920 Speaker 1: I think we should probably pull over at this point, right, 750 00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,359 Speaker 1: And we waited out, but they're usually pretty quick. It's 751 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 1: not like it does this for like days like it 752 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,839 Speaker 1: does in Atlanta. It was like like thirty minutes of rain, right, 753 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,040 Speaker 1: But but it can be inches and inches of water 754 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,359 Speaker 1: and again, like six inches can pick up a car 755 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 1: and carry it away. It can certainly pick you up 756 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,359 Speaker 1: off of your feet. And there's plenty of stories about 757 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,399 Speaker 1: people being drowned in canyons and Petra Jordan's the very 758 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:46,319 Speaker 1: famous archaeological site. People like every ten twelve years, like 759 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,160 Speaker 1: a couple of dozen people will suddenly drown in a 760 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 1: flash flood because they were totally unprepared and in the 761 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,880 Speaker 1: wrong place when it just the sky just opened up 762 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,879 Speaker 1: on them. So it definitely does happen, for sure. Yeah, 763 00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,239 Speaker 1: the good The plus thing about the desert with understorm says, uh, 764 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,239 Speaker 1: you see it coming from a long way away, like 765 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,480 Speaker 1: it's they happened fast, but it's just so wide open 766 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,279 Speaker 1: out there. Like we remember driving for like an hour 767 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,640 Speaker 1: and a half towards this storm. I was like, man, 768 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:13,880 Speaker 1: that looks pretty bad up there. And the closer we 769 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,040 Speaker 1: got and then it was just like, you know, hell 770 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:19,320 Speaker 1: had been unleashed on us. So what do you do? 771 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,879 Speaker 1: Did you like drive to higher ground or now we 772 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: we just kind of just pulled off to the side 773 00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,920 Speaker 1: of the road and waited like half an hour and 774 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,440 Speaker 1: then it lightened up. But it was crazy. Yeah, it 775 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,600 Speaker 1: was pretty scary. I mean not being in a car, 776 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: but just seeing how like the debt it went from 777 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: sand to feeling like we were in a river in 778 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,800 Speaker 1: like twenty minutes. That's crazy. Glad you made it, Chuck, 779 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 1: you survived to write this article, which was a good article. UM. 780 00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,800 Speaker 1: If you want to see this article yourself in person, 781 00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,480 Speaker 1: go to house stuff works dot com and type in 782 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,439 Speaker 1: Desert Survival by one Chuck Bryant and you will agree 783 00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:54,399 Speaker 1: with me. It's a good article. And since I said 784 00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,319 Speaker 1: that it's time for listener mail, hey, guys, listen to 785 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,440 Speaker 1: Central Park episode and really enjoyed it. The content was 786 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: spot on as always, But Josh made a comment about 787 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:08,239 Speaker 1: the podcast being too conversational. I think this is a 788 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:12,040 Speaker 1: really appropriate listener mail. What funny is that? Um? I 789 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,360 Speaker 1: think the conversational aspect is one of the most special 790 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,799 Speaker 1: things about it. Guys. The banter between you two makes 791 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:21,280 Speaker 1: me pause for thought and oftentimes laugh. As an educational podcast, 792 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,360 Speaker 1: I think having dialogue and debate about these subjects is 793 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 1: important in my own household. Stuff you should know is 794 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,400 Speaker 1: very important part of our lives. UM. I introduced it 795 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,680 Speaker 1: to my boyfriend almost three years ago and it has 796 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,720 Speaker 1: taken a special place in our relationship. For two years 797 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:38,839 Speaker 1: we were long distance, myself in Canada and him in Sweden. Wow. Uh, 798 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,920 Speaker 1: And we would download episodes when traveling. It always gives 799 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 1: us something to talk about and keep the conversation going. 800 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,040 Speaker 1: Makes this laugh together, and we even sing the jingles. Uh. 801 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,680 Speaker 1: My favorite is the opera version, much to his dismay. Uh, 802 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: my favorite episode is the Golden Age of Gray rob 803 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,000 Speaker 1: Grave Robbing, which makes me laugh so much that I 804 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:00,880 Speaker 1: had to put it on that. I still like to 805 00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,839 Speaker 1: put it on when I'm having a bad day. That 806 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,120 Speaker 1: was great. I loved hearing that was the live one 807 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,279 Speaker 1: right from London. That's right. I once joked that I 808 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: would sell my dog, my first dog, for a ticket 809 00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:13,440 Speaker 1: to one of your live shows. You don't have to 810 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,640 Speaker 1: do that. You can exchange money instead, That's right. Or Stacy, 811 00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,239 Speaker 1: if we're coming to a town near you, give us 812 00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,959 Speaker 1: an email. Yeah, I'll put you on the old list. 813 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: Just threatened to sell your dog and we'll get you 814 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,960 Speaker 1: in for free. Guys, thanks so much for giving us 815 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,160 Speaker 1: a jumping off point for more conversation and debate. Please 816 00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,840 Speaker 1: give a shout out to my boyfriend Jeff Um. Sorry 817 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,359 Speaker 1: Jeff that I got on listener mail before you. Yeah 818 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: take that, Jeff. Yeah, that is Stacy Coombs The only 819 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:46,160 Speaker 1: way that that could get any more appropriate is if 820 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,720 Speaker 1: this episode comes out and Jeff is lost in the debtsert. 821 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,520 Speaker 1: I hope that didn't happen. I hope so too, But 822 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:53,920 Speaker 1: I mean that that would really round out this episode, 823 00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: don't you think. Yeah, but Jeff, if you're out there 824 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,319 Speaker 1: to look for an RV, Ben Sinclair might be inside, 825 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,120 Speaker 1: I'll probably give you some weet uh thank you, Jeff 826 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,640 Speaker 1: and Stacy and Stacy's unnamed dog who's not for sale. 827 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,400 Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with this, you 828 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,359 Speaker 1: can go to our website stuff you Should Know dot 829 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,560 Speaker 1: com and check out all of our social links there, 830 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,600 Speaker 1: and you can also send us an email to stuff 831 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:21,080 Speaker 1: Podcast at how Stuff Works dot com. Stuff you Should 832 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: Know is a production of I Heart Radio. 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