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Speaker 1: This is episode eighty five of Native Lampod, where we
Speaker 1: give you our breakdown on all things politics and culture.
Speaker 1: Where your hosts, unless say, changed from last week, Tiffany Cross.
Speaker 3: Angela Rode, and I'm Andrew Gillan. What's up, y'all?
Speaker 5: Ag Andrew, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: Great question.
Speaker 1: I will yield to you first what you want to
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about?
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 5: I am a little nervous about what's happening in Iran,
Speaker 5: but not so much about what's happening there. I'm really
Speaker 5: curious about how it impacts us. So, like, what happens
Speaker 5: if you know, a nuke hits the United States, or
Speaker 5: or what happens if it's just the fall of society
Speaker 5: and government is not functioning. How will we survive? And
Speaker 5: I'm interested in that because Angela, I'm at the state
Speaker 5: of the people who are had a whole simulation around
Speaker 5: what would happen, and I haven't been able to stop
Speaker 5: thinking about it.
Speaker 3: Interesting, Angela, what's up?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: I want to make sure that I give you all
Speaker 7: the video that we can drop on this show, by
Speaker 7: the way, from that simulation. But I also I want
Speaker 7: to talk about survival skills. I know we have a
Speaker 7: guest joining us to talk about just that, and it
Speaker 7: feels very urgent to me that we're a little unprepared.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's my homeland security background or what,
Speaker 7: but you go to Ready dot gov right now and
Speaker 7: they've even taken down a national Infrastructure security report that
Speaker 7: we would normally go to to rely on for what
Speaker 7: happens if the electric group is attacked.
Speaker 3: Well, then I watch all to survive.
Speaker 1: Finally, y'all, I think I love for us to just
Speaker 1: get a little conversation going about what happened this week
Speaker 1: in New York's very important race for mayor. So let's
Speaker 1: get into it. Well, y'all heard what we're talking about today.
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Speaker 5: Andrew, speaking of spreading the word, we actually one of
Speaker 5: our regular viewers who sends in questions all the time.
Speaker 5: I just want to remind the viewers please send in
Speaker 5: a video of yourselves with questions comments. If we say
Speaker 5: something you agree with disagree with, you know this is
Speaker 5: a conversation with you. We are not three people talking
Speaker 5: at you. So we so appreciate when y'all send in videos.
Speaker 5: And this brother has sent in a lot, so let's
Speaker 5: hear from him.
Speaker 8: Hated of Lamb folks is Ernest Champelle. Once again, I'm
Speaker 8: inside today, so it's not gonna be loud and noisy
Speaker 8: like you guys clown me on before. But anyway, just
Speaker 8: want to make a comment about why it's important that
Speaker 8: black people are concerned about Iran, Israel and now the
Speaker 8: United States war.
Speaker 4: You remember.
Speaker 8: World War two. That war was fought in Europe, but
Speaker 8: when the United States got pulled into it, hundreds of
Speaker 8: thousands of black gis and clean. Both my grandfathers and
Speaker 8: a great uncle, and I'm sure you guys have relatives
Speaker 8: who were in the war got drawn into it, they
Speaker 8: got drafted into it. They had to go fight. It's
Speaker 8: fast forward to the Vietnam War and the Korean War.
Speaker 8: Black people had to go fight. Let's fast forward again
Speaker 8: and the Iraq War, and once again, young brothers had
Speaker 8: to go fight. And I remember living in Washington, d C.
Speaker 8: Near the old Walter Reed and I would see soldiers
Speaker 8: coming back who lost their legs, and these young men
Speaker 8: were mad and angry, and so a lot of people like, well,
Speaker 8: you know, I got to deal with issues in here
Speaker 8: in America, but you got to understand everything's related, especially
Speaker 8: when it comes to economics. So get ready for gas
Speaker 8: prices to go up, because the Iranians are gonna cut
Speaker 8: off the Spicott and whatever oil's passing through that straight
Speaker 8: up horror moves is gonna get stuck because you've got
Speaker 8: all this fighting.
Speaker 5: Ernest, well, thank you for that, and we thank you
Speaker 5: for being inside. We clowned you with with love, my
Speaker 5: brother the.
Speaker 6: Same way in the middle of our intro.
Speaker 5: We we uh yes, and we we are so grateful
Speaker 5: that you take the time, want to listen to us
Speaker 5: every week, but also to drop a video and uh
Speaker 5: offer your questions and commentary. And that's such a good
Speaker 5: point that he made, because should Congress and the President
Speaker 5: reinstate the military draft, our boys would would be at
Speaker 5: risk first, and so you know could at bone spurs
Speaker 5: as we know did not. He was a dodge or
Speaker 5: draft dodger. Uh and Donald Trump, but he is all
Speaker 5: too willing to put us in a position to have
Speaker 5: our boys go and fight an award that they did
Speaker 5: not start. So thank you, thank you for that perspective.
Speaker 5: This is why we like having conversation with our viewers
Speaker 5: and we love hearing your points. Andrew. I'm concerned because
Speaker 5: the last time we were all together, the United States
Speaker 5: had not bombed Iran the Foord, Oh site. Now we
Speaker 5: understand that we have not even really disrupted their nuclear process.
Speaker 5: So at this point I am thinking about That's why
Speaker 5: at the State of the People tour in Baltimore, one
Speaker 5: of my favorite parts, we were just walking through a
Speaker 5: group of us me Joy read the Mario Solomon Simmons.
Speaker 5: We were just walking through and Michael Harriet and his
Speaker 5: wife Karen and Angela said, do you guys even know
Speaker 5: what you're walking through? We were like, no, what is this?
Speaker 5: It was like just shells with empty food, and it
Speaker 5: was an entire simulation of what happens should society fall,
Speaker 5: and Iran is not the only way that society can
Speaker 5: fall if a nuke gets If we get hit by
Speaker 5: a nuke, the coastal cities are done. All of us
Speaker 5: live in coastal cities, and so you might have a
Speaker 5: situation where it's just Middle America that's left. There's no
Speaker 5: functioning government. What does that look like? So I'm a
Speaker 5: little nervous about it.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I want to hear from Andrew, but Angela, I want
Speaker 5: to hear from you because you were talking about in
Speaker 5: our pre production call some five point plan or five
Speaker 5: action plan or something. So I'm just curious what y'all
Speaker 5: think about all of that, and how nervous y'all are.
Speaker 6: Andrew, are you going?
Speaker 3: I thought you okay, whomever you go.
Speaker 7: Okay, Andrew sink is Lencoln, so I would just say yeah.
Speaker 6: So I was just like, you know, just in case
Speaker 6: in case of christ.
Speaker 1: I got the issues out of order I was taking,
Speaker 1: So you go, okay.
Speaker 6: No worries.
Speaker 7: So what we did in Baltimore was create like what
Speaker 7: is commonly been known as tabletop exercises or I was
Speaker 7: calling it a five points activation. And the reason we
Speaker 7: did this is to ensure that our folks could get
Speaker 7: ready again. We spend a lot of time telling people
Speaker 7: all of the things that can happen, and you know,
Speaker 7: all of the crises that we are just write one
Speaker 7: step away from experiencing, but not a lot of time
Speaker 7: on how we prepare for them.
Speaker 6: So all of this is inevitable.
Speaker 7: It seems to me that our most reasonable service is
Speaker 7: getting people, at least prime to think about how they
Speaker 7: would respond. So our first activation point was a store,
Speaker 7: a convenience store where there was nothing left on the
Speaker 7: shelves and they were in the middle of a food
Speaker 7: and water supply shortage. How do you respond if there's
Speaker 7: no food on the shelves, and even in the convenience store,
Speaker 7: y'all know that, Like if you can't find nothing else,
Speaker 7: that's seven eleven my head. At toilet paper, you're looking
Speaker 7: for people experienced that during the pandemic. So if you
Speaker 7: go there and there's nothing, now, what do you do
Speaker 7: you know? Do you know about the black vendor that
Speaker 7: sells toilet paper? Can you order a in bulk? Do
Speaker 7: you know about the folks down the street that have
Speaker 7: a natural spring and you can get bottled spring water.
Speaker 7: Do you know about the local black farmers that produce
Speaker 7: different types of crops and produce and you know all
Speaker 7: of these things? Do you know about them? Are you
Speaker 7: connected to them? The second point was whe where the
Speaker 7: electric grid was attacked and power had been out for
Speaker 7: thirty days, we had someone acting. Eugene was acting. Even
Speaker 7: the battery operated candles, like people will be like, oh, well,
Speaker 7: I'll be good because I have these candles. What happens
Speaker 7: if you don't have to write batteries?
Speaker 6: You know? What are you going to eat?
Speaker 7: Do you have the type of meals where you can
Speaker 7: put mix it with hot water and you now have
Speaker 7: meals for.
Speaker 6: A little while? Do you have enough bottled water?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 6: What are all those things?
Speaker 7: The third point was if the cell phone towers are
Speaker 7: down completely and there's no internet either. We rely on
Speaker 7: these things so that we can organize ourselves around this.
Speaker 6: I can call my parents.
Speaker 7: Don't worry if I can't drive because the power goes
Speaker 7: out in my car it's stuck in the garage, I'll
Speaker 7: call it uper.
Speaker 6: Are you whose number do you read?
Speaker 5: Do you even remember? Like I don't remember a lot
Speaker 5: of people's numbers anymore. When we remember a week of
Speaker 5: dial right, right.
Speaker 6: That's it? So whose numbers do you know by heart?
Speaker 6: If you can't?
Speaker 7: If you have those phone numbers but the cell phone
Speaker 7: towers are down, do you have a satellite phone?
Speaker 6: Did you know about satellite phones?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 7: The next bunker or the next activation was a bunker.
Speaker 7: If there's a white supremacist attack like the J sixers,
Speaker 7: who are basically running the country at this point, attack
Speaker 7: black folks just like they're doing or wearing random ice
Speaker 7: where uniforms. You don't even know if these are actual
Speaker 7: ice officers. What happens if the attack comes to your
Speaker 7: front door or at least on your block. Are you prepared?
Speaker 7: Do you know how to defend yourselves? Do you have
Speaker 7: the tools necessary to defend yourselves? The final activation point,
Speaker 7: which I thought was the most scary, and we're starting
Speaker 7: to see it become more and more real every day,
Speaker 7: is the ice holding facility and officers were grabbing people
Speaker 7: off the line as they came through and zip tying
Speaker 7: them and sitting them along the floor. We had a
Speaker 7: surveillance that and what happens. There was a recording that said,
Speaker 7: you're at an ice holding facility, you don't have any rights.
Speaker 7: You don't have a call you can make. You can't
Speaker 7: call your lawyer. Bathroom breaks are at nine am and
Speaker 7: five pm, and we'll give you water when we have it.
Speaker 7: There's no food right now. How do you respond in
Speaker 7: an environment like that? How do you know to get
Speaker 7: your folks out? Do you know where to find them?
Speaker 7: Is there some what is the thing that we put
Speaker 7: together to ensure that from dread Scott the deportation?
Speaker 6: As LDF said right, that we actually.
Speaker 7: Have some type of protection of our citizenship ship which
Speaker 7: is hanging in the balance right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so those are the part points. That's amazing. I'm
Speaker 5: scared again, but that's amazing.
Speaker 7: Well, the idea is not to scary the ideas to
Speaker 7: force us in the conversations where we think about how
Speaker 7: we solve for them.
Speaker 6: They are scary. Tip, I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 7: But for me, the one thing that gave me solace
Speaker 7: besides the ice one which is really scary and I
Speaker 7: don't have a saft for it.
Speaker 6: We do have.
Speaker 7: Answers for most of those. They're expensive too, you know,
Speaker 7: like can we have it? Can we all pull together
Speaker 7: by a generator if if you know, if the electric
Speaker 7: grid goes out can we do that?
Speaker 5: So anyway, well, Andrew doesn't have a sink right now,
Speaker 5: so what I'm curious.
Speaker 6: How are you.
Speaker 3: Gyard?
Speaker 5: And you know I don't have buterations though, because you
Speaker 5: have three children, you have a wife, and to be
Speaker 5: honest with you, look forgive me feminists if this sounds sexist,
Speaker 5: but truly, if there is a man around, we all
Speaker 5: look into you like you got to figure out. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take care of myself. But I wouldn't be if
Speaker 5: I was at your house, Andrew, I would be looking
Speaker 5: at you. You have to figure out how to get
Speaker 5: us out of here safely, and then your whole family
Speaker 5: is gonna be looking to you in that moment, Daddy
Speaker 5: and husband, what's your plan for us to get out
Speaker 5: of here safely?
Speaker 1: And as we know, we've all got lots of friends
Speaker 1: single and otherwise that you know you had a household,
Speaker 1: you got to care for the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I was just trying to explain to my.
Speaker 1: Kids how uh they have to set the example when
Speaker 1: their friends come over for how to treat our home,
Speaker 1: because if you don't know how to take care of
Speaker 1: your home and set the expectation that if you drop
Speaker 1: a thing that's food on the floor, you should pick
Speaker 1: it up immediately because we don't want that squished into
Speaker 1: the wood floor of our home, you know, to take
Speaker 1: some pride in that, but to take that to its
Speaker 1: logical extension, we do have to be prepared.
Speaker 3: What I was thinking about when I.
Speaker 1: Was listening to some of the scenario playing is that
Speaker 1: it doesn't require a war for us to get to
Speaker 1: the point where we have to rely on these things.
Speaker 1: I mean, I live in Florida.
Speaker 3: We deal with hurricanes.
Speaker 1: I mean it feels like, you know, year round, and
Speaker 1: in some ways it's many years round because you know,
Speaker 1: in some instances you're three four years later still trying
Speaker 1: to recover from a storm that that affected your home
Speaker 1: back then. And yes, crises also show up. But I
Speaker 1: think this is important and this is why our guests
Speaker 1: who will be bringing on a few I think is
Speaker 1: going to be relevant for our audience, and that is
Speaker 1: you just never know. And in the context of war,
Speaker 1: when we are seeing nations and nation states move away
Speaker 1: from you know, wars showing up in the form of
Speaker 1: military troops, you know, landing and disembarking and walking down streets,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be our home front issue visa ve look
Speaker 1: at what we see happening under this president in California
Speaker 1: and elsewhere.
Speaker 3: But when you deal with players that.
Speaker 1: Are not as let's say vast as the United States
Speaker 1: with regard to as military capacity, there are many of
Speaker 1: them are going to the systems that disrupt the things
Speaker 1: that we rely on every single day. So what happens
Speaker 1: if through the push of a button over the internet
Speaker 1: from anywhere, someone can shut your grid down, someone can
Speaker 1: contaminate your water system where you live, someone can decide
Speaker 1: that they're going to play with the lights at this
Speaker 1: intersection and that intersection and turn out the whole city.
Speaker 1: What it is that we do to to to survive that?
Speaker 1: Because when it gets real real, y'all, and this is
Speaker 1: really what the power of that kind of warfare suggests,
Speaker 1: is that their intention is to turn people against people.
Speaker 1: So you take away people's food for long enough, we
Speaker 1: become pretty much a pariah, and they are going to
Speaker 1: survive for ourselves and for our families. And when it
Speaker 1: gets even more scarce, even deadlier, and more harmful, decisions
Speaker 1: start to get made. Because what do we all know
Speaker 1: to be the truth at the base of all humanity,
Speaker 1: and that is that a man wants to survive, the
Speaker 1: body is built to do such a thing, and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll do whatever is required in order to survive. So
Speaker 1: looking forward to looking forward to that, that that conversation.
Speaker 5: All right, it's time to pay some bills. Don't go anywhere, guys,
Speaker 5: We'll be right back on the other side of his break. Well,
Speaker 5: I just I want to say quickly because I want
Speaker 5: to talk about the mayoral race really quickly. But I
Speaker 5: just want to say, during the Holocaust, like you had
Speaker 5: older people snatching food from babies because it was this
Speaker 5: primitive survival instincts that kicked in that you needed to eat.
Speaker 5: I am down here in one of those black towns
Speaker 5: I told you all about, at the home of Michael Harriet.
Speaker 5: And when I tell you, guys like his whole setup,
Speaker 5: like they are growing. They're on to Angela's everything. Angela
Speaker 5: was saying, I was thinking, I feel so safe right now.
Speaker 5: If something happened right now, we do have all the
Speaker 5: things Angela talked about there. It sits on twenty two
Speaker 5: acres of land. There are multiple gardens, so we could survive,
Speaker 5: sustain ourselves. Here, I'm saying, we like I live with
Speaker 5: Michael inn. But we have literally I'm hiding things here
Speaker 5: so I don't have to pack them every time I come,
Speaker 5: but they get there. And that's another thing. If you
Speaker 5: have to flee your area and airports are down, everybody's
Speaker 5: going to be on the train tracks, everybody's going to
Speaker 5: be on the highway. Are you the kind of person
Speaker 5: that builds community, community or you the kind of person
Speaker 5: that fights for your own individual survival? I think I'm
Speaker 5: the kind of person. I know I'm the kind of
Speaker 5: person who would build community. You're welcome to walk with us.
Speaker 5: But being here, they are pretty much off the grid.
Speaker 5: The house runs on well water. They're growing potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, everything.
Speaker 5: This house is well protected. I'll say that because I
Speaker 5: don't know if Michael harry One means a lot of
Speaker 5: his business, but it's well protected like we would all be.
Speaker 1: When we talk with our guests, that we can dig
Speaker 1: into what are the advantages for those folks who aren't
Speaker 1: living in more ruralized areas and still want to survive,
Speaker 1: but they don't have the land to grow their own.
Speaker 5: They need blocks from the White House. Andrews, right, I
Speaker 5: know you know very well. I don't know if I
Speaker 5: feel safer there or do I say, like more of
Speaker 5: a target, you know? And I can't because in DC,
Speaker 5: you all know you will see snipers on the roof.
Speaker 5: That's not that's normal, you know, because like, oh, a
Speaker 5: dignitary is probably coming down this street today, and you
Speaker 5: know clearly that's the secret service, you know, Will Iranians
Speaker 5: or not? I don't want to depend on Iranians. Will
Speaker 5: any enemy say I'm going to try to take out
Speaker 5: this white house and like Calisi, who cares who's in
Speaker 5: the surrounding area? Or will it be a bunch of
Speaker 5: sleeper cells awakened and individuals committing random acts of violence
Speaker 5: and trying to be prepared for both? And I live alone,
Speaker 5: so you know, getting plans of action among our social groups.
Speaker 5: If the network is down, it's like, okay, you got
Speaker 5: an hour after something happens to walk to my house
Speaker 5: and then we're going to flee gas stations if you
Speaker 5: don't have gas for your car, like how well you dart?
Speaker 5: The gas stations are going to be packed.
Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, questions, Yeah, we got all the questions.
Speaker 3: I think we hope we'll get to and so to get.
Speaker 1: Y'all some answers as we as we bring our guests on.
Speaker 3: But before we get there.
Speaker 1: Mondani, in case you missed it, don't be embarrassed. There
Speaker 1: was a race held this week in New York. The
Speaker 1: pretty big deal for those in the city of New
Speaker 1: York because it included, well hel a bunch of candidates,
Speaker 1: one of which was the former governor of New York,
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo, who had been leading the race the entire time.
Speaker 1: And then as a result of the elections, when people
Speaker 1: got out to be able to decide, they told us
Speaker 1: what they wanted. Let's run this clip and see see
Speaker 1: what people shows.
Speaker 9: Republicans are slamming Mom Donnie as anti capitalism and anti
Speaker 9: Semitic for criticizing Israel, which he denies.
Speaker 1: He says he's focused on the cost of living.
Speaker 9: We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for
Speaker 9: a city they can afford, a city where they can
Speaker 9: do more than just struggle, one where those who toil
Speaker 9: in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor
Speaker 9: in the day.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, so we saw and and got to hear. The
Speaker 1: news media on the introduction to Zoran's speech, wanted to
Speaker 1: type the typecast this race as sort of being about, uh, frankly,
Speaker 1: the big national issues, and it sounds to me, based
Speaker 1: off of the little and very limited following that I
Speaker 1: was able to do from you know, just you know,
Speaker 1: down here in Florida, it sounded to me like this
Speaker 1: brother really leaned into the everyday issues that appear to
Speaker 1: be showing up for people. How do I, you know,
Speaker 1: get groceries and under Trump's economy, uh, and still be
Speaker 1: able to enjoy the quality of life that I thought
Speaker 1: I was going to enjoy, you know, living here. They're
Speaker 1: talking about housing, They're talking about rent rates, and how
Speaker 1: it is that corporate New York has really taken over
Speaker 1: so much of the real estate and made it quite
Speaker 1: unaffordable for regular everyday people, uh to to to to
Speaker 1: live in the city. I just wanted to quickly share
Speaker 1: with y'all that some of the uh, the the surprise
Speaker 1: and the outcome of this race was was really born
Speaker 1: about because the money advantage was so significant obviously for
Speaker 1: uh the former governor. The former governor also in the
Speaker 1: lead up to the election, over Mandani enjoy significant Black
Speaker 1: support throughout the city. He began to close the spread
Speaker 1: of support amnks black voters throughout New York and the
Speaker 1: lead up to the election, collapsing that quite a bit
Speaker 1: and obviously running away with it. I'm curious to know
Speaker 1: from from the two of you real quick is whether
Speaker 1: or not you think this has greater implications for the
Speaker 1: City of New York or is there a message here
Speaker 1: for Democrats as they figure out how it is they
Speaker 1: run and win elections again.
Speaker 5: Yes, there is a message here. So I have to say,
Speaker 5: because I understand if you don't live in New York,
Speaker 5: you might be thinking, well, why do I care about
Speaker 5: the New York City mayoral race? But it's so important
Speaker 5: because to me, it shows that you can still inspire people.
Speaker 5: He ran on a very progressive platform. He was a
Speaker 5: state assemblyman, lived an immigrant, lived in Queens, born in Uganda.
Speaker 5: He was a part of this like rap group. So
Speaker 5: there are all these videos of him with like all
Speaker 5: this flavor, you know, rapping with in this rap group.
Speaker 5: He's she a Muslim married to a Syrian woman, and
Speaker 5: it's such an important story in transparency. Uh, we have
Speaker 5: a friend in the race, well, somebody we know who
Speaker 5: I would call a friend in the race anyway, Angela, y'all,
Speaker 5: if you're listening, Angela's making a face anyway, Okay, okay,
Speaker 5: I have a friend in the race, and I really
Speaker 5: value people who have conviction in their beliefs, and Mondani
Speaker 5: had conviction in his beliefs when they asked that he
Speaker 5: is not running for leadership in Israel, he is running
Speaker 5: for leadership in New York City. And the way the media,
Speaker 5: the political elite, the donor class all tried to crush
Speaker 5: this man's campaign because he did not have some undying
Speaker 5: loyalty to Israel. He defends Israel's right to exist, just
Speaker 5: as he does with the Palestinian people. And so the
Speaker 5: friend that I have in the race hedged a little
Speaker 5: bit and completely reverse something he was highly critical of Israel.
Speaker 5: And then because all this pressure around him, he walked
Speaker 5: back his words and it's like, oh, well, I didn't
Speaker 5: mean that when I said it, and it was disappointing
Speaker 5: to see. So I was out loud and proud and
Speaker 5: happy to support Mundani in this race. And to me,
Speaker 5: why it matters if you don't live in New York.
Speaker 5: It just shows you can be who you are authentically,
Speaker 5: and if you jump out there and take a chance
Speaker 5: and run for office, support somebody who's running for office
Speaker 5: takes some sort of action, there can be victory. All
Speaker 5: you people who ask about third parties, well, third party parties,
Speaker 5: you're very seduced by the president. Can we elect the
Speaker 5: president who's a third party? Mandannie happens to be a Democrat,
Speaker 5: but a third party person could have run on that
Speaker 5: same platform and won this race. It wasn't about the party.
Speaker 5: It was about what he was saying, making public transportation,
Speaker 5: free freezing rent, and those things resonated with the people
Speaker 5: of New York. So I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's going to be more to
Speaker 1: watch here, everybody. So if you're listening, know that these
Speaker 1: were the primary races that were held this past week,
Speaker 1: and that there is still a possibility that candidate Cuomo,
Speaker 1: former governor of New York, may file to run in
Speaker 1: this race and go to the general election by running
Speaker 1: as an independent, and so lots to watch.
Speaker 5: Cuomo. Don't do that. And if New York you have
Speaker 5: a chance to send a message to the America right
Speaker 5: now by doing something progressive. And I applaud you all
Speaker 5: for electing Mandannie as your candidate that you're taking to battle,
Speaker 5: but please do not put Andrew Cloma. He and Trump
Speaker 5: share the same donors. It's like we always say white
Speaker 5: supremacy is nonpartisan, not that he's a white supremacist, but
Speaker 5: they share a lot of the same supporters. So AnyWho, Angela,
Speaker 5: I know you live in Seattle and you're like, I
Speaker 5: am not really into this mayoral race. But what I
Speaker 5: think you are into is the message it sends.
Speaker 6: Yes, I will tell you.
Speaker 7: The one thing that I've been following on social especially
Speaker 7: is the number of folks who have felt encouraged by this.
Speaker 7: You know, it's really hard to come out of November
Speaker 7: last year and not feel all the hopelessness and be like, well,
Speaker 7: what do we have to do? Like there's no point.
Speaker 7: And also it gives me I have some questions about
Speaker 7: these election results still because I don't understand from I'm
Speaker 7: talking about from November, not from the man winning yesterday
Speaker 7: or sorry this week. I I want people to remember
Speaker 7: that there's always something we can do, even when it
Speaker 7: does feel hopeless.
Speaker 6: You might not be able to see it, but you know,
Speaker 6: the Bible talks about.
Speaker 7: Midnight, and a lot of us are raising the church
Speaker 7: and we always hear that midnight is the darkest hour.
Speaker 7: But you know, Don has to break at some point,
Speaker 7: So congratulations to New York on the dawn breaking sooner
Speaker 7: for y'all than the rest of us. But the Don
Speaker 7: is breaking, it sounds.
Speaker 5: Like, Okay, guys, on the other side of this break,
Speaker 5: we're going to talk about survival of the fittest. And
Speaker 5: I don't mean in the gym, I mean in the streets.
Speaker 5: Don't go anywhere. We'll tell you what we're talking about
Speaker 5: on the other side. All right, time for our guests,
Speaker 5: and I'm so so excited. We all are so excited
Speaker 5: to welcome Sharon Ross, better known as an Afro Vivalist,
Speaker 5: and yes, we're going to get into all of what
Speaker 5: that means. Sharon Ross, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 5: You would do a much better job saying what you
Speaker 5: do and what is an AFRO. Before you joined the show,
Speaker 5: we were all talking about how we're concerned about surviving
Speaker 5: when all of the structural parts of society have collapsed.
Speaker 5: What does that look like? And you walk it like
Speaker 5: you're talking because you don't just teach about that life,
Speaker 5: you're living that life. So walk us through who you
Speaker 5: are and what is an afro biblist.
Speaker 4: Everybody, I'm AFRO biblist. I am a African American survivalist.
Speaker 4: Put that together and it's Afro biblist. So I came
Speaker 4: up with that because I am a I am my
Speaker 4: father's son. Growing up, he was a marine and my
Speaker 4: little sister was too prissy to hang out with him,
Speaker 4: and I was the tomboy. So that's why I say
Speaker 4: I'm my father's son. And he is the one who
Speaker 4: started me on my journey to learning how to hunt,
Speaker 4: learning how to protect myself. I grew up in a
Speaker 4: all white community with which is where I ended up today,
Speaker 4: and I had to learn how to survive in an
Speaker 4: all white community in the early seventies. So I grew
Speaker 4: up hunting with him and fishing and learning how to
Speaker 4: harvest animals and all of that. And after I graduated
Speaker 4: from high school, I moved on to Houston and then
Speaker 4: came back here because that was a culture shock in
Speaker 4: Houston for me. It was too many, too many people
Speaker 4: and not enough woods for me, so I had to
Speaker 4: come back, and long story short, in my thirties, I
Speaker 4: decided that well, it was around Katrina that the aha
Speaker 4: moment came upon me and said, I do not want
Speaker 4: to be like them. Suffering. I want to prepare and
Speaker 4: get ready for whatever it is to come my way.
Speaker 4: And so that's where my journey started, on preparing and
Speaker 4: being a prepper and getting back out in the woods
Speaker 4: and hunting and doing my journey. People thought I was crazy.
Speaker 4: I've lost many, many friends because of it. But granted
Speaker 4: they're slowly coming back because they're realizing I'm not that
Speaker 4: crazy lady anymore, all right. And and so I started,
Speaker 4: you know, teaching a little bit to other people about it.
Speaker 4: It was it was hard to get other people, you know,
Speaker 4: ten years ago, sorry about my dog, ten.
Speaker 3: Years ago, love it welcome, ten years ago, to.
Speaker 4: Try to get people to understand that, hey, something may
Speaker 4: happen to us here in the Pacific Northwest, especially you know,
Speaker 4: the big earthquake that the Pacific Northwest is supposed to have.
Speaker 4: I mean, we're twelve years behind, so they're saying we're
Speaker 4: supposed to have a big one. Even with people knowing
Speaker 4: that I was still the crazy cu Cooh conspiracy theorists
Speaker 4: all of that, and so slowly people started asking me
Speaker 4: to join them and get presentations and classes and whatnot.
Speaker 4: And uh, when it came to COVID, people were going
Speaker 4: crazy in my office on Oh my god, I need
Speaker 4: to go get supplies. And I was telling people then
Speaker 4: before it got to the States, because I I don't
Speaker 4: watch local news. I watch international news, and international news
Speaker 4: was telling us the truth. So I was telling people,
Speaker 4: y'all really need to uh take this COVID thing that's
Speaker 4: going over in China seriously because it's going to come
Speaker 4: to us. And they're like, yeah, whatever, you're you're stupid,
Speaker 4: you're crazy, you know what. Whatever, And uh so I
Speaker 4: started ordering my my respiratory mask and and everything that
Speaker 4: I was needing, and they already knew that I was prepping.
Speaker 4: So I was. I had my food, I had water,
Speaker 4: I was good to go. I was good to go.
Speaker 5: Well, you were smart to do that. I'm so so
Speaker 5: sorry didn't just because we're tight on time, but you
Speaker 5: were so smart to do that. But I definitely want
Speaker 5: Angela to be able to jump in and ask you
Speaker 5: a question because she just did this great simulation and
Speaker 5: we want our to equip our audience with some specifics
Speaker 5: of what they need. So Angela, I'm tossing it to you.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Tip and Sharon for joining us today.
Speaker 7: You had my ears perk up when you said Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 7: I'm born and raised in Seattle, and I moved back
Speaker 7: home last summer full time. I've been split in time
Speaker 7: between here and LA and before that between l A
Speaker 7: and d C. But I wanted to first say that
Speaker 7: I hope I can put you in my emergency front.
Speaker 7: We are going to do five people that we need
Speaker 7: to be in connect connected to in this this arm
Speaker 7: again and were about to go into. So hopefully I
Speaker 7: can put you on my list. I'm gonna save and
Speaker 7: remember your ten digit phone number. But I also want
Speaker 7: to say that I think it's really important.
Speaker 4: Yes, let me just say to be in my group,
Speaker 4: you need a year's worth of supplies. If you plan
Speaker 4: on coming, if you get the invitation to join me
Speaker 4: on my sixty five acres, you have to have a
Speaker 4: year's supply for every person in your family or you're not.
Speaker 7: Getting this is This is excellent, Sharon, this is perfect.
Speaker 7: So can you talk us through one. How have you
Speaker 7: prepared yourself to survive? I hear you saying sixty five
Speaker 7: acres when you say a year's worth of supplies, walk
Speaker 7: us through this like we slow and low kids, we
Speaker 7: don't know, So talk to us about how we prepare
Speaker 7: and we get sharing afro vibilists ready. We want to
Speaker 7: get it ready, we want to get it right. So
Speaker 7: tell us what I'm taking notes, What are the supplies
Speaker 7: we need for a year?
Speaker 3: Or is that where you would start?
Speaker 4: Where you start is in your kitchen. Look through your
Speaker 4: cabinets and find any and all shelf life stable foods
Speaker 4: meaning rice, beans, canned foods, dried foods, which is the
Speaker 4: high or freeze drive foods. Pull all of that out,
Speaker 4: put it in a tote and put it aside. And
Speaker 4: that's where you're gonna start with your pantry supplies. And
Speaker 4: then after that, you want to start going to your
Speaker 4: food pantries. If you look up I think if you
Speaker 4: google food pantries near me, it'll pop up every food
Speaker 4: pantry in the United States and you can literally find
Speaker 4: what's in your area. I would guarantee, I would suggest
Speaker 4: that you go to every pantry that you can that
Speaker 4: will allow you to get food. The fastest way to
Speaker 4: build up your pantry supplies is going to a food pantry.
Speaker 4: Save your money for now, because you're gonna need a generator,
Speaker 4: You're gonna need water purification systems. And if this war
Speaker 4: pops off, you're gonna need a full face mask with
Speaker 4: the respiratory uh filters. There's a lot. So I always
Speaker 4: tell people to try to save your money and utilize
Speaker 4: the food pantries first. Now people look at me and
Speaker 4: say like, oh, but I'm I work full time. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm taking for other from other people. But keep in
Speaker 4: mind that from me. I used to work volunteer at pantries.
Speaker 4: We threw away a lot of people, a lot of
Speaker 4: food because people have the nerve to be picky. You're
Speaker 4: getting free food and they have the nerve to be
Speaker 4: and so at the end of the day we would
Speaker 4: have to throw that food out. So I still recommend.
Speaker 7: You reference sharing a generator and a water purification system.
Speaker 7: A lot of folks talk about not getting generators because
Speaker 7: they're cost prohibitive. Can you talk to us about reasonably
Speaker 7: priced generators, reasonably priced systems?
Speaker 6: No, we're here, Can you hear us?
Speaker 4: I can hear you.
Speaker 7: Yes, Okay, So I was saying in your remarks you
Speaker 7: mentioned getting a generator in a water purification system.
Speaker 6: Can you talk to us.
Speaker 7: About reasonably priced water and water purification systems and generators?
Speaker 7: And if that is, what is required for your years
Speaker 7: long supply to go on your sixty five acres.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna kind of eliminate my sixty five acres
Speaker 4: from it because I'm fully now and you guys are
Speaker 4: just starting. You can't start where I'm at. So I
Speaker 4: would say, use your water catchments. Also, use your roofing.
Speaker 4: If you're living on a house, use the water from
Speaker 4: your gutter and to have that drain into a fifty
Speaker 4: five gallon water barrel. And because you can use that
Speaker 4: water later on to purify it, to drink, to you
Speaker 4: bathe in and whatnot. And then the best, I like,
Speaker 4: the best water purification system would be Soyer, which is
Speaker 4: s A W y e R. They have a household
Speaker 4: system that you can use set up to your system
Speaker 4: and it's a drip system that goes into a container
Speaker 4: that you would need to use a generator. If you're
Speaker 4: living in a house and the electricity goes down, you're
Speaker 4: gonna need one of those. And right now generators are
Speaker 4: a hot item because people who are going through these
Speaker 4: natural disasters are buying generators. I mean I have five.
Speaker 4: I mean people are like, yeah, you're doing too much,
Speaker 4: but you know what, I have a backup, my backup,
Speaker 4: to my backup, to my backup. I mean when I
Speaker 4: find them on sale, I buy them. So there you
Speaker 4: got your water purification system, you got your generator. And
Speaker 4: another thing I would also recommend is a solar generator.
Speaker 4: So you go out and buy I use. Let me
Speaker 4: show you I am now plugged into.
Speaker 1: Jackery and and say more about jackeriye, say it again.
Speaker 3: Can you explain that.
Speaker 4: Is a solar generator. So you hook this to your
Speaker 4: solar panels and it will charge and it will get
Speaker 4: full up to one hundred percent. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you can see that, but I have seventy four percent
Speaker 4: on here.
Speaker 1: But when I play, it'll hold the electric power, it'll
Speaker 1: hold it.
Speaker 4: And this is a little one. This is just from
Speaker 4: my laptop my cell phone. But I have a bigger
Speaker 4: one that's over there that's running, that's being charged right
Speaker 4: now for the generator. And that's the one that I
Speaker 4: use at night. So during the day I use this
Speaker 4: fallen and then the larger one I use at night.
Speaker 4: So during the day, when the generator is running, I'm
Speaker 4: running the big one to make sure that's one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Once it gets to one hundred percent, I disconnect it,
Speaker 4: turn it off, and then when it gets to night time,
Speaker 4: I turn it back on. And that's what I use
Speaker 4: at night if I want to watch a movie or
Speaker 4: something like that. But Jackery, I recommend this one I
Speaker 4: found on sale for one ninety nine. The bigger ones
Speaker 4: they can be in the thousands, but I recommend them
Speaker 4: because they will come with your solar panels and they
Speaker 4: work great when.
Speaker 3: I have That's good advice.
Speaker 4: When I have the Jackerie plugged into the solar panels.
Speaker 4: Believe it or not, they charge faster on the solar
Speaker 4: panels by the sun than they do from the generator. Wow.
Speaker 1: So what I'm share in Yes, I have a quick
Speaker 1: question as we were thinking about our listeners all across
Speaker 1: the country you had alluded to in your earlier statements.
Speaker 1: If this war pops off, there are all kinds of
Speaker 1: scenarios that can lead people wherever they are in the country,
Speaker 1: whether they're living lifestyles similar to yours or in more
Speaker 1: urbanized areas, or they could be you know, in rural
Speaker 1: south but collected to the grid system, and so everything
Speaker 1: is pretty much provided when it comes to an urban service,
Speaker 1: if you will. So, as we think about the kinds
Speaker 1: of scenarios that might lead people sort of down this road.
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear you articulate what maybe just some
Speaker 1: of those might be. And then second, if we accept
Speaker 1: that to be the case and we want to then
Speaker 1: make preparation, what would you recommend You mentioned you know,
Speaker 1: you're clearly at a much more advanced level, But for
Speaker 1: the rest of us that are out here who are
Speaker 1: comfortably where we are and just don't want to put
Speaker 1: at risk really life and health should emergencies, you know,
Speaker 1: impact us, what kind of guidance would you offer around
Speaker 1: getting started.
Speaker 4: So it gets started other than what I've already spoke
Speaker 4: about is yes, Because so what I think is going
Speaker 4: to happen is our enemies out there know that our
Speaker 4: power grid sucks, they know it's bad, they know it's
Speaker 4: one hundred years old, et cetera. So I don't think
Speaker 4: and I hope that they won't nuke us, if you
Speaker 4: know what I mean about doing a ground attack. What
Speaker 4: I think may happen is they'll set something off above
Speaker 4: our atmosphere and that will take down our whole grid
Speaker 4: once they do, or they will attack the substations. So
Speaker 4: we've got fifty five thousand substations in the New United States.
Speaker 4: All they have to do is take out nine nine
Speaker 4: to take out the whole country. Okay, So that's why
Speaker 4: it's important to get a solar system set up, get
Speaker 4: your solar s up and ready to go, just in case,
Speaker 4: because you know they can't put out the sun. Well
Speaker 4: they might, but the sun's going to be there for us.
Speaker 4: Then the electricity will be if an attack is taken
Speaker 4: upon us here in the United States.
Speaker 5: There's also things like ham communicating via radio like Ham radio,
Speaker 5: and but even just trying to find each other in
Speaker 5: the immediate aftermath of something happening. I've bore witness of
Speaker 5: this myself. I was at CNN at the time nine
Speaker 5: to eleven happened, and you could not get in or
Speaker 5: out of DC. It was complete gridlock. I was angel.
Speaker 5: I believe you were still in DC when an earthquake
Speaker 5: happened and you weren't there. This was like twenty ten,
Speaker 5: twenty eleven. I thought you were still living there then,
Speaker 5: But there was an earthquake that happened in DC that
Speaker 5: reached d C and you another time where you couldn't
Speaker 5: really get in or out. My question is about weaponry
Speaker 5: because as black people, we are in a unique position where, yes,
Speaker 5: we can fear and Iranian regime wanting to defend their
Speaker 5: land by striking us here domestically. However, we also have
Speaker 5: homegrown terrorism that is now operating out of the White House,
Speaker 5: that has emboldened white nationalists, that actually employs white nationalists
Speaker 5: within the administration. And so in terms of defending ourselves,
Speaker 5: I'm curious your thoughts on can you hear me, miss Ross?
Speaker 5: Are you still there?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: Okay, So in terms of defending ourselves, you know, I'm
Speaker 5: learning how to shoot a shotgun, but what kind of
Speaker 5: weaponry should we be thinking about, if any? Obviously in
Speaker 5: states where it's legal and going through a legal process, right.
Speaker 4: So I was just gonna say, if any, find first
Speaker 4: find out if what you can carry, Go out and
Speaker 4: get your license to carry. Number one, be legal about it.
Speaker 4: Number two, go out and find I would suggest to
Speaker 4: go to a range and just sample different firearms and
Speaker 4: see what you're comfortable with before you go out and purchase.
Speaker 4: And then once you purchase, go join a class and
Speaker 4: learn how to use that firearm properly. It's really important
Speaker 4: because you know, you still got people out there who
Speaker 4: think they can hold their guns like this, you know,
Speaker 4: and that ain't the right way to hold a gun,
Speaker 4: you know, And you got to learn the importance of
Speaker 4: that gun being on safety and why it should be
Speaker 4: on safety at all times until you're able, until you're
Speaker 4: wanting to use it. So take those steps first and
Speaker 4: start researching what type of firearms you want, if anything,
Speaker 4: you would want any something small enough to be on
Speaker 4: your person so you can be able to conceal it
Speaker 4: when you're going into a crowd or you know, going
Speaker 4: into the stores or whatnot, because a lot of people
Speaker 4: still will they'll freak out when they, you know nowadays,
Speaker 4: when they see someone walking through the store, you know,
Speaker 4: with the gun on them. You know, you want to
Speaker 4: make sure that it's concealed, and it will just cause
Speaker 4: your problems in the future if if you're exposing yourself
Speaker 4: because you know, you got people out there, who are
Speaker 4: you know, gonna be panicking or whatnot, thinking you're gonna
Speaker 4: shoot up the store or whatever. So be careful with that.
Speaker 5: The dog agrees with you and.
Speaker 7: Sharing I was gonna I was gonna ask. So you
Speaker 7: talked about the pantry, we talked about property. We haven't
Speaker 7: really talked as much about produce or the other things
Speaker 7: that we need to ensure that we're okay. So I
Speaker 7: don't know if folks if there's a way that folks
Speaker 7: can tap in with you and learn, like what is
Speaker 7: that down that list you know of things that people
Speaker 7: need to survive for a year, whether they're on your
Speaker 7: property or not. What does that look like? Give in
Speaker 7: the crisis that is looming, we want to ensure that
Speaker 7: our audience, our listening audience, and their family.
Speaker 6: Members are okay.
Speaker 7: I've learned a lot about satellite phones recently and the
Speaker 7: importance of AVA ass to that tip just talked about radio.
Speaker 6: What are the other things that we.
Speaker 7: Really need to be leaning into in these treacherous times.
Speaker 4: You want to make sure that you have all of
Speaker 4: your medications prescriptions if you can get if you have
Speaker 4: to take a medication on a regular basis, talk to
Speaker 4: your doctor and see if you can get a minimum
Speaker 4: of a three month supply. And start stalking up on meds,
Speaker 4: even over the counter medications. When you're going to the
Speaker 4: stores and you find you know, allergy medicines, diarrhea medicines
Speaker 4: that are on sale byom and just start stocking up
Speaker 4: on them, I stalked up on toothbrushes. So my routine
Speaker 4: when I was in the city before I moved here
Speaker 4: to my homestead, I would go to the dollar store,
Speaker 4: grocery outlet and ace hardware. They were like on each corner.
Speaker 4: That's what I called my prepper corner. And I would
Speaker 4: go into grocery outlet and tell myself, Okay, my limit
Speaker 4: is a dollar ninety nine, and if I can buy
Speaker 4: something for a dollar ninety nine, I can get as
Speaker 4: many as I want. So I would find toothbrush packets
Speaker 4: for dollar ninety nine, toothpaste, those dental floss things, you know,
Speaker 4: anything for a dollar ninety nine and under, and I
Speaker 4: would buy those. Anything, any canned foods that was a
Speaker 4: dollar ninety nine, I'd buy any medications. And then sometimes
Speaker 4: I'd go in and say, okay, today's my five dollar limit.
Speaker 4: I can buy anything five dollars or less and find
Speaker 4: them on sale. And that's another good way to stock
Speaker 4: up there. You know you want to get a lot
Speaker 4: of your personal hygiene items, start stocking up on that,
Speaker 4: on your soaps, on your detergents. I make my own
Speaker 4: laundry detergent, which consists of borax baking soda, a washing
Speaker 4: powder soot soap, and then a scented what do you
Speaker 4: call those? You know, the scented Yeah, the smell good.
Speaker 4: If you get those, you combine all those two together
Speaker 4: one tablespoon I'm sorry, one uh one fourth cup is
Speaker 4: good enough for a whole load, so you don't need
Speaker 4: to use a lot of it. Oh and I also
Speaker 4: put oxyclean in that mixture too, so you don't need
Speaker 4: a lot of it. And it lasts a long time.
Speaker 4: I'm on a three gallon bucket that I made and
Speaker 4: it's I'm still I've still got like a year left
Speaker 4: of use from that. So things like that. Think about
Speaker 4: your soaps because if you go out and buy those
Speaker 4: big soaps, you know, the big block soaps you can take,
Speaker 4: you can cut those down to like the Hotel fiaps.
Speaker 4: So one of those big soaps can bring can get
Speaker 4: you twelve of the Hotel five soaps, you know what
Speaker 4: I mean? So think that way. Think always think, Okay,
Speaker 4: if I'm going to buy this, how long is it
Speaker 4: going to last me? And then can I stretch it?
Speaker 4: How long? How long can I stretch it out? That
Speaker 4: makes sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sharing your advice has been really really good for us,
Speaker 1: and we know we've got to get you out of
Speaker 1: here soon.
Speaker 3: But I wanted to just ask if.
Speaker 1: There are resources that you would recommend folks access from
Speaker 1: wherever they live. If it's going to a website that
Speaker 1: you find particularly helpful, or if there's an organization that
Speaker 1: you've connected with that you might want to recommend that
Speaker 1: folks go to to get more information. I love if
Speaker 1: you could do that, and then I didn't hear the
Speaker 1: answer to it, so I just want to ask it
Speaker 1: one more time, and that is for radio communication. If
Speaker 1: satellites were to go down, are we talking analog? What
Speaker 1: do you recommend for being able to be connected via coms?
Speaker 4: Satellites will evangel go down? I think Ham radios are good.
Speaker 4: I do have my HAMD radio license, but there is
Speaker 4: a radio etiquette to it. So you need to join
Speaker 4: a class and learn what that etiquette is because it
Speaker 4: is FCC license and it is against the law to
Speaker 4: not follow their etiquette. And then if you don't want
Speaker 4: to use a HAM radio, find a radio that's got
Speaker 4: a long range to it where and then give each
Speaker 4: one of those to your team members and then start
Speaker 4: practicing the use it, start creating your own code, so
Speaker 4: you only you and your team will know what that
Speaker 4: code means. Okay, satellite phones, that's an iffy iffy because
Speaker 4: they're really expensive and then they have an expensive monthly service.
Speaker 4: So unless you are using that every single day to
Speaker 4: get your money's worth out of it, satellite phones can
Speaker 4: be kind of iffy iffy. There is an app on
Speaker 4: your phones. I think it's called zel o z E
Speaker 4: l l O and it's a walkie talkie system. So
Speaker 4: go on your phone and get find the apps that
Speaker 4: are off grid apps that you can communicate with two
Speaker 4: other people and you can set your all your team
Speaker 4: members up on that and you be able to utilize
Speaker 4: your your utilize that app through your phone off grid
Speaker 4: when the grid is down, so your phone may be
Speaker 4: you may not be able to make a call, but
Speaker 4: you'll be able to use that app as a radio
Speaker 4: to call your members.
Speaker 1: Excellent advice and I'm loving that you're you're recommending that
Speaker 1: you get practice with this before an emergency hits. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then resources was the was it was the other
Speaker 1: resources that you'd recommend.
Speaker 4: Which which one to learn more about what it means
Speaker 4: survive right now?
Speaker 3: Survived so of course.
Speaker 4: You know go to my website. Really, so my website
Speaker 4: is it's it's a disaster because I had a web
Speaker 4: designer doing it and now he's gone and I can't
Speaker 4: get to my website. I can't update it, but it's
Speaker 4: still information there to go to get current, go to
Speaker 4: my Facebook page afro Bibleist Facebook page, and I do
Speaker 4: have lists on there that has a full list of
Speaker 4: what you need to survive, a full list. I even
Speaker 4: asked chat GPT about it and it's on there and
Speaker 4: Jack chat GPT has a good list and I shared
Speaker 4: that list. So when you want to find anything current
Speaker 4: when it comes to prepping or any kind of knowledge
Speaker 4: that I'm putting out there, most likely I'm going to
Speaker 4: put it on my Facebook page first because I'm still
Speaker 4: trying to get access.
Speaker 7: To and I'm sharing one last thing. Oh sorry, no,
Speaker 7: I didn't mean to go off. I was going to say,
Speaker 7: we just did this process where we got experts, policy
Speaker 7: experts from a variety of fields to contribute to our
Speaker 7: black papers, policy initiative process through State of the People,
Speaker 7: and we don't have one on survival skill. So I
Speaker 7: would love if you would consider doing a black paper
Speaker 7: on that to help expose our audience and our people,
Speaker 7: our communities to what's needed to be able to survive.
Speaker 7: Right now, your list, the other things that you feel
Speaker 7: comfortable sharing, we would love to have you. I would
Speaker 7: connect you to doctor David Johns, who's the editor in
Speaker 7: chief of that process.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, listeners, you all have heard it direct here
Speaker 1: from the expert.
Speaker 3: Herself and what it means to survive.
Speaker 1: Well, as far as I'm concerned, you ain't said a
Speaker 1: silly thing yet. All of it makes sense for survival
Speaker 1: and we want to make sure that we are and
Speaker 1: we and our listeners are equipped for whatever the condition
Speaker 1: might be, you know, getting off the grid and living
Speaker 1: you know, more independently might be some folks's aim and
Speaker 1: others that just might be I don't know what might
Speaker 1: come right and how do I make sure I protect
Speaker 1: my family and myself. We thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being so generous with your time, miss sharing, and want
Speaker 1: to make sure that you leave any contact information with
Speaker 1: us that we can share with the listeners that you
Speaker 1: are willing to, so that folks have a way that
Speaker 1: they can get directly to you. And of course, as
Speaker 1: you mentioned before, following you on your Facebook page.
Speaker 4: So feel free so one thing before I give that
Speaker 4: announcement is also go hit your second supply stores like
Speaker 4: your Goodwills and whatnot, and start purchasing shoes for your
Speaker 4: children that are one, two, three, four sizes too big.
Speaker 4: Shoes and clothes. If you got infants, go buy them secondhand,
Speaker 4: get them washed, and put those aside, because when it
Speaker 4: comes to that there's we're gonna be suffering in the
Speaker 4: next six months to a year and beyond. So make
Speaker 4: sure that you've got enough clothes. Go out and buy
Speaker 4: your blankets. Go get the second hand blankets and then
Speaker 4: wash them and then put them away. You can find
Speaker 4: more information like I said, on me at afrobiblist dot com,
Speaker 4: afroviolists on YouTube, which I don't do a lot, afro
Speaker 4: biblists on Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 5: Like I said, perfect, Thank you so much, Afrovibleist. We
Speaker 5: learned a lot. Thank you so much for doing all right. Well,
Speaker 5: I'm going to get all my supplies to make sure
Speaker 5: we're good and on the other side of this break,
Speaker 5: we're going to tell you what we need you guys
Speaker 5: to do this week. Don't go anywhere, y'all.
Speaker 1: We have had a full show and still so much
Speaker 1: to talk about, but want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: get the chance to issue what our audiences and joys
Speaker 1: hearing from each of us each weekend.
Speaker 3: That is, what are your tegaways?
Speaker 1: Give me your CTA answer, Latiff, what do you want
Speaker 1: us to do or know?
Speaker 7: Mine is to find five people in your city whose
Speaker 7: phone numbers you could memorize and who you can stay
Speaker 7: connected to in a time of crisis. I would definitely
Speaker 7: encourage that that's mine for this week.
Speaker 5: That's a good one. Well, I want to thank everybody
Speaker 5: from my last CTA. So many people have sent me
Speaker 5: vegan recipes and v ideas. I don't know what I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do in an apocalyptic America trying to be vegan,
Speaker 5: so I want to stay with the survival theme though,
Speaker 5: because we got so much good information from our guests,
Speaker 5: I would say my CTA is learned. The earth is
Speaker 5: so generous with what the earth offers us. So even
Speaker 5: if you're in the city, learn gardening, like learn how
Speaker 5: to grow your own food, grow tomatoes, grow an avocado,
Speaker 5: this great protein, grow onions, like herbs, all of those things. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I think that's a good idea because who knows what
Speaker 5: tomorrow is going to bring so yeah, let's get back
Speaker 5: to like being self sufficient just within ourselves.
Speaker 1: I love that mine is I guess I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe personal, but maybe I think hopefully applicable outside of individual,
Speaker 1: and that is I would Last night I participated in
Speaker 1: a call for a relative who is right now and surgery.
Speaker 1: I won't say money details, but a watching my phone
Speaker 1: for the updates that are coming and knowing that God's
Speaker 1: doing he he what he must do and we'll do
Speaker 1: for successful surgery. But what it reminded me of as
Speaker 1: we all were on the zoom talking last night, was
Speaker 1: how the history and our community of really secretive or
Speaker 1: being secretive around our health, keeping it very close to
Speaker 1: the vest. That the time that you are learning about
Speaker 1: a relative being gravely ill is when a relative is
Speaker 1: called and saying you need to call us and such
Speaker 1: because you know they're on their last And I just
Speaker 1: thought about how it has built a real trauma scar
Speaker 1: for me when I get the update the call, because
Speaker 1: now I associate somebody's health update with you know, you
Speaker 1: know they're on their way out, and you know, my
Speaker 1: dad's very much came like that. I mean, we had
Speaker 1: just finished the race for governor and he had just
Speaker 1: been campaigning, and then it's like everybody keeps things from
Speaker 1: you out of protecting and to keep it close.
Speaker 3: But what I wanted to salute was this this hopeful.
Speaker 1: Energy within our community of being more transparent around ours
Speaker 1: and our family members health journeys. I don't mean the
Speaker 1: broadcast it, but amongst with each other, so that we
Speaker 1: can kind of disrupt this cycle of secrecy there that
Speaker 1: is very deadly and I think creates something I didn't
Speaker 1: really realize or really associate before, which is a real
Speaker 1: trauma in me about health and health updates and whether
Speaker 1: or not the only time you share is when somebody's
Speaker 1: about to tap out. And and and I think we've
Speaker 1: I think that tradition is deadly. I think is much
Speaker 1: more in the spirit of who we truly are as
Speaker 1: a people to be sharing with our with our with
Speaker 1: our with our close people so that they can champion
Speaker 1: and pray for us uh and help to keep us
Speaker 1: on the straight and narrow as we all try to
Speaker 1: navigate this life and live the best of it. So
Speaker 1: that's my scene today.
Speaker 5: I like that I don't know why we're so secretive,
Speaker 5: especially with black folks. Yeah, you know, I mean like
Speaker 5: our grandparents, like I didn't want to worry anybody, you.
Speaker 3: Know, absolutely my dad was that way. He didn't want
Speaker 3: to load on.
Speaker 1: And if they weren't, it was like, you got enough
Speaker 1: to deal with in your life, you know, you don't
Speaker 1: have to do, you know, deal with mine either. And
Speaker 1: then some of it is like a little shame. You know,
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't go to his doctor every year, and
Speaker 1: so maybe he thought by having, you know, avoided all
Speaker 1: that stuff, that that he was in some way part
Speaker 1: responsible for the situation.
Speaker 3: I mean any number of things.
Speaker 1: Y'all may have ideas out there listeners, family around while
Speaker 1: we do that, and I.
Speaker 3: Do think we got to do a better job of
Speaker 3: just lifting it up.
Speaker 1: Angela, you've exhibited and been very transparent, you know, I
Speaker 1: think and beyond with with our listening audiences as you're
Speaker 1: navigating it very personally. But I was talking to my
Speaker 1: sister and just completely lost control last night in the
Speaker 1: conversation because when I got the note about joining the Zoom,
Speaker 1: I thought that this, you know, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: what is am I just learning that there's something here
Speaker 1: that about to happen?
Speaker 3: And I was afraid about joining.
Speaker 1: And the truth is is Our family has worked really
Speaker 1: hard over the last couple of years since the passing
Speaker 1: of both my dad and his brother's illness and my
Speaker 1: grandmother and grandfather.
Speaker 3: That we have got to do a better job.
Speaker 1: Of one just as a family and being in concert
Speaker 1: and connection, but two as we all grow older our
Speaker 1: health and how we can support each other through it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I love that. Well, this is why we encourage you
Speaker 5: all to please tell a friend about the show, because
Speaker 5: I you know, we don't know everyone who listens, but
Speaker 5: we know most of y'all who listen, we have the
Speaker 5: same background. There's a lot of commonality here, so hopefully
Speaker 5: and listen to this conversation. It will invite somebody to
Speaker 5: be more open about their health status and more open
Speaker 5: about something that they're going through health wise. Don't do
Speaker 5: that to your kids. I have to tell you, like
Speaker 5: I've always had to hear about something going on my
Speaker 5: mom from somebody else, and it's like, yeah, just you know,
Speaker 5: share that information with your kids. And if you know
Speaker 5: somebody who's going to do something, please send them this
Speaker 5: episode so maybe they can be encouraged to share.
Speaker 4: Mark friend.
Speaker 5: Thank you, subscribe, I love it.
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