March 27, 2025 • 29 mins
E.J. Snyder, the world’s #1 extreme Survivalist and author of “Emergency Home Preparedness” joins us to talk about things you can do to be prepared for spring tornado weather in Alabama. Then a Christian Palestinian living in Birmingham provides a new way to look at the fighting and Human abuses happening in Gaza and now in the West Bank. He also provides a historic background for what got us to this point, and offers his ideas for how we may be able to achieve stability in the region.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
As the situation in Israel becomes ever more dire, it's
important to note not only what opinions are around the country,
but also right here in Alabama. Hello, I'm John Mountce
and this week on Viewpoint Alabama, we're speaking with someone
who has kind of become a regular on this program,
Joe Abbott. You are a local Birmingham resident. You are
a Palestinian. Are you a Palestinian American? Would you say?
(00:27):
Or a Palestinian? How would you describe yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thanks for having me, John, I would describe myself as
a Palestinian American.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We're talking about the situation going on in Gaza, Palestine,
in Israel, and this has been going on now for
I guess over two years, and doesn't look like there's
an end in sight, and there's a lot of things
popping up in the news now. But let's start again
from the beginning. We know after the and this isn't
really the beginning, but I guess the latest action was
(00:56):
after what happened with the music festival back in October
of was that twenty twenty three, three twenty three, Yeah,
And since then there has been a lot of fighting
going on from both sides because both sides have laid
claim to the land. Israel says, or I should say,
the Israeli government says that it is our land. All
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of this land belongs to us, and the people living
on the Gaza Strip say, no, this is our land.
We are the Palestinians, this is our home. Can you
explain your position on this?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So, in the absence of diplomacy, there's war, and that's
where we've been at. It's not just does it go
back to, of course October seventh, twenty twenty three, but
it goes back to nineteen forty eight, and it goes
back to sixty seven, and it goes back to seventy three,
and all the wars combined really speak to the history
(01:49):
of where we're at today. And today the Israeli government
does not want peace negotiations point blank. I didn't say it.
They're saying it. They're saying it in multiple ways. They're
saying it by not ceasing the settlements in the West Bank,
which is illegal under every law contrived through the United Nations.
(02:10):
Every law says settlements in the West Bank are illegal.
So they never stopped the settlements. They're trying to ethnically
cleanse all the Palestinians out of the West Bank, but
now their target is on Gaza because of what happened
in October on twenty twenty three, they decided to go
ahead and ethnically cleanse the whole Gaza strip under all Palestinians.
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A lot of them had nothing to do with what
happened on October seventh. A lot of them are just
innocent civilians. In fact, half of the population our children
below seventeen under the age of seventeen. So that's where
we're at today. We're at a sort of a stalemate.
The Israeli government does not want peace. They want the
land without the Palestinians inside the land. Now, mind you,
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this was called Palestine prior to nineteen forty eight. Israel
is a new cuntry that was invented in nineteen forty
eight by the English through the Zionist movement, which is
a worldwide political Jewish movement for Jewish supremacy.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And one of the bones of contention I know has
been about the hostages that are being held by Palis
And I guess you've got there's kind of a we're
paying semantics a little bit about what is the difference
between a hostage a prisoner of war. And I know
because there are people on both sides, but Israel is
saying that people that are being held by the Palestinians
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those are hostages, and the people that are being held
by Israel are prisoners of war. Can you explain is
there a difference there? Are we just kind of, you know,
playing semantic games here.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There is some semantics going on. But let me step
out of that definition of what is a hostage, what
is a prisoner of war? And there's people on people
with my view that are going to disagree with me
as well. A prisoner of war is just a prisoner
of war. Right, So if it's a military officer in
the Israeli Army and they're taken prisoner by anybody, right,
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any armed faction, that's considered a prisoner of war.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
In other words, there's a battle and a side is
losing the Battlet's say, okay, we're not going to kill you,
We're just going to take your soldiers and put them
over here in a jail and a camp or whatever.
These are POWs. These are prisoners of the war.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Right, And they're POWs for a reason because they want
they have their own prisoners that they want release, that
have been wrongly imprisoned in Israeli jails, under administrative attention,
children being in prisoned with no legal process, no due process.
So there's prisoners of war on both sides, and that's
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how I would like to frame it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But then on the other hand, there are people who
were at that music festival who were taken into Palestinian
custody and they're still holding these people. Not all of
them are alive, you know, there are some, it remains
in a lot of cases people who have passed away,
either I don't know if it they die there or
if they died in the last two years during their detention.
But there's still a lot of these people, and from
what I understand from those who have been returned, they're
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not A lot of them are not in the best
shape health wise for whatever reason. And that's another bone
of contention, is they want those people released, and is
Palestine being a little bit you know COI in that
you know, these are people who by no faults of
their own, wrong place, wrong time, and now they're they're prisoners,
and what should be done there?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think mistakes have been made on all sides. Honestly,
and the most mistakes have been made on the Israeli
side because because they have the ability to wholesale slaughter
imprison the whole population. So whatever the Hamas militants did,
some were justifiable, as in taking prisoners armed soldiers, but
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when you take innocent civilians, no are innocent civilians in
anybody's book, including my own.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now Here in America, there is a lot of people
who I would say a lot, but there are some
people like you, Joe, who hold this view that Palestine
has a right to exist. A lot of these people
and there's protest going on. And this is something that's
come up recently at Columbia University as a graduate student
who is going to be deported. Has he been deported yet?
Reseis no.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He's actually in Louisiana. I believe they're taking him back
to New Jersey, but he hasn't been deported yet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So and the reason and the reason why is because
the protesting that's going on on the campus of Colombia
not entirely peaceful. I mean, there have been some clashes
that have gone on. I guess that people want to
stop the clashes and they want to get him out
and they're saying that he shouldn't be here because he's
not a US resident. So can you speak to that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes, Mahmoud Khalil was recently picked up by the Immigration
Naturalization Service by Homeland Security, and I believe it or not,
he committed no crime. His crime is free is what
he speak was his crime because there's nothing that's been
proved and nothing that's been brought up by the administration
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to a criminal activity. He has the right to express
his views. He's a Green card holder. He's not an
American citizen. His wife's an American citizen. He's a Green
card holder. He's entitled the free speech. Even foreign students
that are not resident aliens or certainly not citizens, they
are entitled to free speech. And I'll give you an example.
So if you have a Ukrainian student in this country,
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right and they want to talk about what's happening in Ukraine, right,
is that protected speech or is that prohibited speech because
it's political? Same thing with what's going on in Palestine
and Israel. They have the right in this country, whether
they're a foreign student, because foreign students are welcome in
this country, because a lot of universities want that revenue,
so they have to leave those doors open. If they
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want to shut down free speech, well you're going to
have to tell foreign students, you know what, don't come here,
and that's going to hurt a lot of universities that
rely on that revenue. So a green card is entitled
the free speech in this country because they're in a
country that advocates free speech called the First Amendment. So
they're entitled to free speech. They're not entitled to vote, right,
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there's certain things that they're not entitled, not being an
American citizen. But they're on their way to becoming a citizen.
And all this is about stifling free speech.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's all this is about.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Has nothing to do with their particular views. Because if
you're a Ukrainian student, or a Russian student, or a
Sudanese student, or a Conglese student, you can talk about
the war in those countries in this country because this
country advocates freedom of speech through our First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So how does a green card differ from a visa?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Very much a green card, you're almost a citizen. You're
entitled to stay here. If you leave this country to
travel to go on vacation, you're allowed to come here.
You're called a resident alien. Again the word resident alien,
the alien is still part because you're part of a
process because you're becoming an American citizen to become a
naturalized c.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Which so for clarification, that's different than say in illegal alien,
which means they're here from another country, but they don't
have the right to be here. They came in, they
flouted the laws, and they kind of came in around
the gate or whatever it is, right, So that's the difference.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
A resident alien has gone through a legal process to
stay in this country.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But can and is there any grounds that they could
have that green card revoked? Like if they commit a felony,
could they have the green Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Absolutely, if they commit a felony and free speech is
not a felony, and.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was gonna say and commit I should say and
are convicted.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Absolutely, if they go through a judicial process, yes they can,
they can have their green card revoked. But what happened
here is there's the administration jumped the gun, had him arrested,
and all he did was he committed no crime. There's
no felonies here. But if you want a convictim of
a felony, then fine, take him to court, convictim of
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a felony, whatever it is. But he committed no crime,
so this process was shouldn't have happened at all.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So there is no due process. You're saying that he was.
He's just he's going to be detained and then he
is in the process of being shipped out too.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's the problem here. That's the problem we have here
is that there is no due process. And now the
due process is actually catching up. The judges are catching
up and saying, hey, wait a second, you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Have to adhere to a law.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We're a country of laws. This has to be adher to.
And they're asking that they bring him back from Louisiana,
bring him back to New Jersey, and let's have it.
Let's show us your case. Where was the crime committed?
And so far the administration has shown no crime.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Do you think it's a situation where there is a
lot of pressure that they do something to quell the
problems on the campus of Bombia. So I thought, well,
we'll round up the one guy, the ring leader, so
to speak, and if we remove him, then these problems
will die down.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm glad you mentioned pressure because that's a critical word.
And let's call it undue pressure. Let's call it pressure
from a foreign country onto these the American shores to
stifle free speech. And we're talking about the state of Israel.
That is through various organizations, American organizations, namely the ADL,
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which is the Anti Defamation League, namely the APAK, which
is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. There's also an
organization called bitar USA. There's also a task force called
Maccabee Task Force which has seventy million dollars. These are
all funded by Israeli Americans for the purpose of stifling
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free speech in this country that's against Israel. Understand, Mahamoud
Khalil is facing not only the administration that came after him,
He's facing the Israeli government as an individual, mind you,
as a politically active individual. He has the right to
be politically active in his country. Again, this is called
the free country. But there's six different organizations that targeted Mahmoud,
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that are targeting other individuals to stifle free speech, to
shut down the discourse on Israel, to create the ore
of anti Semitism when it's only anti Israel, because Israel
is not a religion it's a government. It's not Judaism.
It's a government. A government makes mistakes like our government,
like anybody the other government makes mistakes. When you criticize Israel,
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apparently it's a bridge too far in this country, this
free country, that you cannot criticize is reel. Even in Alabama,
you can't boycott out Israel in Alabama because the state
legislature passed laws against boycotting Alabama. I think I should
be able to boycott anybody. I'm an American. I can
boycott Coca Cola, I can boycott Chevron, I can boycott anybody.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right, are you saying, protest or boycott either one?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well, no, because you know, a boycott is like I'm
not going to buy I don't know coke because it
I'm mad that the people who make the product refusing
to buy them. Whereas a protest is you're going to
stand out there with signs and chant and say which.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Which you have the right in this country to stand like,
I know, I just want to make sure we we
it's both. It's actually the protesting is legally allowed. Now
if if you if you're charged with trespassing, let's say
when they created those ten encampments right in those universities
in Colombia and UCLA. Well, at worst it's a trespass.
At worst, it's not a felony. It's a missimeter speeding
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is a misdemean So, I mean protesting is allowed in
this country. He has the right to protest. All students
have the right to protest.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Because you don't want violence, you don't want.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We don't advocate nobody advocates violence. Everybody advocates peaceful protests.
The ones that step out and become violent, well there's
laws you can imprison those people that step out of
that box. But we we advocate peaceful protest to raise
the awareness because the Palestine issue is the movement of
the day for peace and justice worldwide. It's not just
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in the US, it's worldwide. So it's not it's not
me Joe talking or John, it's the world is talking.
But we have certain certain bubbles, especially here in this cunt,
that are brainwashed and don't want free speech. They don't
want to stand on their own legal argument because it's fallacious,
it's false.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's also it's a very complicated issue, and it's one
that's not well understood, and so I think too often
we don't like to not have an opinion in this country.
So if we don't understand something, we kind of look
to a leader that we kind of feel this, you know,
kindred with, and say, well, if they feel this way,
then I do too, even though I don't understand it.
So maybe it's an issue of people don't fully understand
(14:29):
the situation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's exactly right, John, And that's why I don't fault
a lot of Americans, because they're really been brainwashed, and
they're brainwashed when they're young, when they're in twenties and
thirties and forties, when they start in grade school. I'll
give you a quick story. I was once in Hartchell
High School doing some training and I was pulling books
from the shelves in the library because I was going
to train the teachers on a product that we sold them,
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and I was pulling books that were donated by these
Zionis organizations out of Philadelphia. This is a Heartfell High School.
And you pull down the book and it tells you
how Israel made the desert bloom. Really, how Israel made
the desert bloom? And all that is it's brainwashing. At
the early years. So when the kids get older, all
the here you thinking, is Israel is a great country.
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It's they made the desert bloom.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They went to What does that mean? It made the
desert bloom? Like they were able to plant plants there, a.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Plant plant in the desert and make flowers come out
of the desert or fruit or something. Right, But it's
just it's just propaganda, it's all. It's all brainwashing. And
it starts early in the schools, in the preschools, and
then and then as we get into as the adult,
as a person gets to adulthood, they start listening to
mass media, which is corrupt and Zionist influence and continuing
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the brainwashing. So I don't fault a lot of Americans
for not understanding, because there's there's there's brainwashing going on
an industrial scale in this country.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So, Joe, what would you say is the solution the
best solution, not just for the people of Gaza, but
not even just for the people of Israel, but for
the world. What would you say this would be the
perfect solution to where everyone can more or less live
in harmony. We can stop the bloodshed, we can free
the hostages, all that. What would be the best solution
in this situation if we made you king right now.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's easy, That's really easy. One standard of human rights,
only one standard. John has a certain standard and Joe
has another standard. One standard for human rights. That means
John is a human being and Joe as a human being.
That's not what we have in Israel. An Israeli Jew
has more rights than an Arab Palestinian or a Palestinian
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in the West Bank or Gaza who has no rights.
And that's unacceptable. In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Five, and just in full disclosure, you are. You are
a Christian, a Palestinian Christian living and you have lived
in Alabama for how long over twenty five years with
your family and before that New York.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You can tell my Alabama accent.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah so. And in other words, you are You walked
the streets where we didn't bring in, you know, from
from somewhere else. You walk the streets with us. We
work right here. I love our community right here, and so,
and there's a lot of other people who you we work.
You're a regular guy. You're not like some strange crazy guy.
I just want to make sure everyone understands that because
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your views are different than a lot of people around here,
and it could well be because they haven't considered what
you have to say and what they have to say.
If there's a place people should go to really read
up on any of the things you've talked about and
get a in your opinion, and I'm biased opinion on
the situation, where should they go?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You know, there's a lot of YouTube. I like YouTube,
but I don't like mainstream media. Mainstream media is corrupted.
The truth is not valuable anymore in mainstream media. That's
just my view. Of course, there's youtubes like Democracy Now
that's a constant show. There's electronic intafather, which is just
straight on in terms of what's going on. It doesn't
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sugarcoat it. There's there's a lot of different As a
matter of fact, Tucker Carlson has been highlighting what's going on.
Kendace Owens has been highlighting what's going on, and of course,
on the other spectrum, you have the young Turks who
have been exposing Israel for what it is, a racist,
bigoted state.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And Tucker carries a lot of water with a lot
of our listeners. So it is good. It is good
to know that you have people on kind of both
sides of the thing talking about that, and that is
good because you want and you do want to have
opinions on both sides, especially when they come to the
same conclusion. So maybe there's there's a chance for you know,
agreement yet.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
From your lips to the too God's ears, because that's
what we want. We want peace, we want justice, We
want everybody to be treated in one human standard, and I.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Think that's what everybody wants. Joe Abbott, thank you so
much for joining me today on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
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Today you're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program
from the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Welcome back to Viewpoint Alabama. I'm John Mounts, and this
time of year, we are very aware in this state
that there is a lot of danger that could be
follow us when we're talking about tornado season. Joining me
now to talk about some of the ways that you
can be prepared is a man who has been the
extreme survivalist. He has been on Naked and Afraid, and
he has written recently written the book Emergency Home Preparedness.
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I'm talking about EJ Snyder. EJ. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. And
you know, you're right all about that in Alabama. I
live down that way in Columbus, Georgia for a while,
and I've lived in Florida, and we in the Southeast
know that, you know, there's just another hurricane sitting around
the corner, or tornado or something thing. So yeah, preparedness
is a really big part of the Southern lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And people don't realize that tornado season. Although we think
about it being something that happens in April, it happens
in May, it happens in November. It could happen. A
tornado can happen to us at almost any time, and
we have to kind of be always at least a
little bit ready, don't we.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Absolutely Mother Nature always has a vote, and tornadoes are
the one natural disaster that are unpredictable that they keep
trying to figure out how to you know, predict them
and they're getting better at warning, but man, those things
just come out of the sky, out of nowhere sometimes
and there's just not much you can do about it.
You can see the hurricane come in, you can get
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a tsunami warning. Yes, the earthquakes kind of pop up
as they do. But you know the tornado, Man, that's
a scary, scary event. And I've been through a few
of them and EJ.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The thing is, when your weather radio goes off, that's
not the time to go looking for a flashlight. Right,
You should have You have to be prepared for these things. Months,
weeks are really much always prepared, right, You should.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Be prepared right now. Everyone when they if they're thinking
about preparing, they're already late and behind the power curves.
So the big reason I wrote this book was after
the pandemic, we learned that ninety percent of the US
just stayed home, bugged in. And then the ten percent
that bugged out, half of them were just going somewhere
else to bug in. Then there was the other half
like me, then go out with a knife and a
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bow and live off the land for a good bit.
But so I wanted to make people's lives easier. We
did a video on my website djsnywer dot com called
the Ultimate bug in Home Defense Guide, and everyone was
asked us, hey, is this in a book format? We'd
really love to have this in a pay per format
so we have something to refer to. And then that's
when we decide, Hey, let's put this down in a
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book format. And that's what we did. And so I
want the every day Joe Org Joan to be prepared,
have their families prepared. Your home is your castle. It's
where people feel safe, they can operate out of. It
gives them a sense of confidence. So why not have
your home ready and do the thing like food, water,
get those things on the shelf first, make sure you
have enough. Now the CDC and over in Europe we're hearing,
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oh get yourself seventy two hours, and well that's great. Well,
in the long term of situation, if you stretch it
out one meal a day, you're only going to make
it nine days. So you want to have enough on
the shelf for yourself, every member of your household plus two.
You never know who's going to come knocking on the door,
but they always come, usually in twos when they're traveling.
And if they don't ever come. At least you have extras,
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and so plan for three weeks, then get to a month,
then do three months, and then work your way up
to six months. And don't forget prescription and over the
counter cold medicines and pay medicines. That's a big mistake
a lot of people make.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And when we talk about things that you need to survive,
the first one I think right up there at the
top is water. Now there's no way you're going to
be able to store six months worth of water. So
we're talking about how can you treat water? So how
would you if you're just a regular citizen living out
and then then you know the suburb how and maybe
there's a creek or something like that. You can't just
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drink that? So what do you do? How do you
treat you? And really just boiling it is not really
a good long term solution.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What do people do well? Boiling is a good factor.
It definitely will get the nasties out, big bubbles, little
troubles rolling boil for one minute, make sure you have
a grill or some way to get your food cooking
or your water. You know you want to boil it,
even if it's just a campfire set up or a firepit.
But make sure, I always say, have a backup, to
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the backup, to the backup. You may run out of
proke pane, you may run out of other fuels, but
have a good purifying system. There's a lot of water
bottles out there, like the Grail for instance, which is
a geopress. Have one for every family member. That way,
when they fill it up, it's easy to use, you
press it down, you've got fresh drinking water, and it's
one of the best systems out there. The Life Straw
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makes bottles, they make the life straw itself, which are
not bad products. There's a company called Life Saver that
have these five gaps on jerry cans and they have
a pump on it that activates it to put pressure
on it, and it's got a little spicket that will
put the water out. All of these things purify water
for a long term. And you always want to have
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backup filters ready to go. So when it gets harder
to press or you can see they're dirty, it's time
to switch them out. And that's a good way for
people in a more of an economical way to get
frustraanking water. All the time.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I remember when I was in Boy Scouts many decades ago,
we used to use iodine tablets, which it tasted bad,
but it did make the water drinkable.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You're right. I did a little video on my YouTube
channel Survived with EJ talking about them. And in the military,
that's how we used to purify water going across the creek.
Anytime we were on a patrol, we'd stop at a creek.
We fill up canteens, NGO the little tablets. But it
is a system. And like I said in the book,
we talk about pace planning, planning is everything. If you
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fail the PLAM plan, the FEL and so pay stands
for a primary alternate emergency contingency and it's in everything
that you're doing, even with like communications or light sources
and water. So have a water bottle first, maybe have
the big jug maybe have the tablets waiting, and then
boiling is your last emergency effort to make sure you
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have fresh drinking water. People don't think about this all
the time. I tell them, if you have a pool,
the water, the way you make your pool safe, think
about what you're putting in there. There's actually some stuff
that will clean your pool that or keep it safe
to swim in that is not a chemical and you
can basically you're that is a water reservoir for you
(26:44):
in an emergency situation. Obviously you're not going to drink
it with chlorine or some of the other stuff in
there if it's salted. But I forget what it was.
There was something I had in my pool that made
the pool safe to consume with water because I'm big
about no chemicals and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And of course you could use that water to not
to drink or even cook with, but you could use
it to flush toilets and things like that if you
needed to, if you need it in a pinch, and
it still work for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You're absolutely right washing your face, you know, cleaning things,
washing the dishes, you're thinking like your survivals. Now I
love it, and when hurricanes you're coming and stuff like that.
You tell people all the time, fill your bathtub up,
Fill your bathtubs up with water so that if the
power goes out or the water is compromised, now you
have you know, if your most bath tubs or however
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many gallons they are, I think forty gallons or something
like that. That said you've got two tubs in the house. Man,
that's that's you know, a lot of water that you
can utilize. EJ.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Let's talk briefly about communication during situations like that, because
of course everyone's got a cell phone. However, the cell
phone is dependent on two things. Number one, electricity and
number two the cell tower for it to communicate with.
Cell towers go down and if you don't have power,
the phone runs down. What are your recommendations on communicating
in emergencies.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, you're right about that about the power. So you know,
always have some of those battery backups to recharge your
phones and all. But if their phones go down, there's
all you know, there's CB systems within your you could
have mounted into your vehicle that will you know, run
the power off the vehicle as it's running. CBS are
a good way to try to communicate with folks. And
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then I always tell people, if you want to get
a good hobby, take a ham radio class, learn about
a ham radio. At least have one on hand. I
know it's highly regulated by the government because they, you know,
particularly don't really like it in my opinion, but if
an emergency situation happens, I don't think anyone's going to
be worried about you not knowing the letters and numbers
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of your handle. When you're operating, you just get on
there and it's a ham radio is a good safe
way to communicate with others. There's another system out there
that also works off of some satellite towers. But you know,
having a good sat phone is something nice. But also
there's a thing called rapid radios they just discovered, and
(28:59):
those things can go out from one side of the
country to the other, east coast to west coast in
the most remote of locations. I found it very helpful.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Very fascinating. Well, for more about the things we've talked about.
Your book, Emergency Home Preparedness is on Shalston Amazon. Thank
you so much for joining us today, EJ.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I appreciate you, and folks, if you're out there,
don't be scared, be prepared. Get over to Survivalmastery dot co.
Join us over there Ejcho zero through five, or find
me on ejsneinder dot com. And like I said, for
survival classes, I've got that video over there, and you
can get a star coup red book over there, or
go to Amazon or any of your bookstores.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
You've been listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program
from the Alabama Radio Network. The opinions expressed on Viewpoint
Alabama are not necessarily those of the staff, management, or
advertisers of this station
As the situation in Israel becomes ever more dire, it's
important to note not only what opinions are around the country,
but also right here in Alabama. Hello, I'm John Mountce
and this week on Viewpoint Alabama, we're speaking with someone
who has kind of become a regular on this program,
Joe Abbott. You are a local Birmingham resident. You are
a Palestinian. Are you a Palestinian American? Would you say?
(00:27):
Or a Palestinian? How would you describe yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Thanks for having me, John, I would describe myself as
a Palestinian American.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
We're talking about the situation going on in Gaza, Palestine,
in Israel, and this has been going on now for
I guess over two years, and doesn't look like there's
an end in sight, and there's a lot of things
popping up in the news now. But let's start again
from the beginning. We know after the and this isn't
really the beginning, but I guess the latest action was
(00:56):
after what happened with the music festival back in October
of was that twenty twenty three, three twenty three, Yeah,
And since then there has been a lot of fighting
going on from both sides because both sides have laid
claim to the land. Israel says, or I should say,
the Israeli government says that it is our land. All
(01:16):
of this land belongs to us, and the people living
on the Gaza Strip say, no, this is our land.
We are the Palestinians, this is our home. Can you
explain your position on this?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
So, in the absence of diplomacy, there's war, and that's
where we've been at. It's not just does it go
back to, of course October seventh, twenty twenty three, but
it goes back to nineteen forty eight, and it goes
back to sixty seven, and it goes back to seventy three,
and all the wars combined really speak to the history
(01:49):
of where we're at today. And today the Israeli government
does not want peace negotiations point blank. I didn't say it.
They're saying it. They're saying it in multiple ways. They're
saying it by not ceasing the settlements in the West Bank,
which is illegal under every law contrived through the United Nations.
(02:10):
Every law says settlements in the West Bank are illegal.
So they never stopped the settlements. They're trying to ethnically
cleanse all the Palestinians out of the West Bank, but
now their target is on Gaza because of what happened
in October on twenty twenty three, they decided to go
ahead and ethnically cleanse the whole Gaza strip under all Palestinians.
(02:32):
A lot of them had nothing to do with what
happened on October seventh. A lot of them are just
innocent civilians. In fact, half of the population our children
below seventeen under the age of seventeen. So that's where
we're at today. We're at a sort of a stalemate.
The Israeli government does not want peace. They want the
land without the Palestinians inside the land. Now, mind you,
(02:55):
this was called Palestine prior to nineteen forty eight. Israel
is a new cuntry that was invented in nineteen forty
eight by the English through the Zionist movement, which is
a worldwide political Jewish movement for Jewish supremacy.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And one of the bones of contention I know has
been about the hostages that are being held by Palis
And I guess you've got there's kind of a we're
paying semantics a little bit about what is the difference
between a hostage a prisoner of war. And I know
because there are people on both sides, but Israel is
saying that people that are being held by the Palestinians
(03:33):
those are hostages, and the people that are being held
by Israel are prisoners of war. Can you explain is
there a difference there? Are we just kind of, you know,
playing semantic games here.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
There is some semantics going on. But let me step
out of that definition of what is a hostage, what
is a prisoner of war? And there's people on people
with my view that are going to disagree with me
as well. A prisoner of war is just a prisoner
of war. Right, So if it's a military officer in
the Israeli Army and they're taken prisoner by anybody, right,
(04:08):
any armed faction, that's considered a prisoner of war.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
In other words, there's a battle and a side is
losing the Battlet's say, okay, we're not going to kill you,
We're just going to take your soldiers and put them
over here in a jail and a camp or whatever.
These are POWs. These are prisoners of the war.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Right, And they're POWs for a reason because they want
they have their own prisoners that they want release, that
have been wrongly imprisoned in Israeli jails, under administrative attention,
children being in prisoned with no legal process, no due process.
So there's prisoners of war on both sides, and that's
(04:45):
how I would like to frame it.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
But then on the other hand, there are people who
were at that music festival who were taken into Palestinian
custody and they're still holding these people. Not all of
them are alive, you know, there are some, it remains
in a lot of cases people who have passed away,
either I don't know if it they die there or
if they died in the last two years during their detention.
But there's still a lot of these people, and from
what I understand from those who have been returned, they're
(05:07):
not A lot of them are not in the best
shape health wise for whatever reason. And that's another bone
of contention, is they want those people released, and is
Palestine being a little bit you know COI in that
you know, these are people who by no faults of
their own, wrong place, wrong time, and now they're they're prisoners,
and what should be done there?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I think mistakes have been made on all sides. Honestly,
and the most mistakes have been made on the Israeli
side because because they have the ability to wholesale slaughter
imprison the whole population. So whatever the Hamas militants did,
some were justifiable, as in taking prisoners armed soldiers, but
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when you take innocent civilians, no are innocent civilians in
anybody's book, including my own.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Now Here in America, there is a lot of people
who I would say a lot, but there are some
people like you, Joe, who hold this view that Palestine
has a right to exist. A lot of these people
and there's protest going on. And this is something that's
come up recently at Columbia University as a graduate student
who is going to be deported. Has he been deported yet?
Reseis no.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
He's actually in Louisiana. I believe they're taking him back
to New Jersey, but he hasn't been deported yet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
So and the reason and the reason why is because
the protesting that's going on on the campus of Colombia
not entirely peaceful. I mean, there have been some clashes
that have gone on. I guess that people want to
stop the clashes and they want to get him out
and they're saying that he shouldn't be here because he's
not a US resident. So can you speak to that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yes, Mahmoud Khalil was recently picked up by the Immigration
Naturalization Service by Homeland Security, and I believe it or not,
he committed no crime. His crime is free is what
he speak was his crime because there's nothing that's been
proved and nothing that's been brought up by the administration
(07:05):
to a criminal activity. He has the right to express
his views. He's a Green card holder. He's not an
American citizen. His wife's an American citizen. He's a Green
card holder. He's entitled the free speech. Even foreign students
that are not resident aliens or certainly not citizens, they
are entitled to free speech. And I'll give you an example.
So if you have a Ukrainian student in this country,
(07:27):
right and they want to talk about what's happening in Ukraine, right,
is that protected speech or is that prohibited speech because
it's political? Same thing with what's going on in Palestine
and Israel. They have the right in this country, whether
they're a foreign student, because foreign students are welcome in
this country, because a lot of universities want that revenue,
so they have to leave those doors open. If they
(07:48):
want to shut down free speech, well you're going to
have to tell foreign students, you know what, don't come here,
and that's going to hurt a lot of universities that
rely on that revenue. So a green card is entitled
the free speech in this country because they're in a
country that advocates free speech called the First Amendment. So
they're entitled to free speech. They're not entitled to vote, right,
(08:10):
there's certain things that they're not entitled, not being an
American citizen. But they're on their way to becoming a citizen.
And all this is about stifling free speech.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's all this is about.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Has nothing to do with their particular views. Because if
you're a Ukrainian student, or a Russian student, or a
Sudanese student, or a Conglese student, you can talk about
the war in those countries in this country because this
country advocates freedom of speech through our First Amendment.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
So how does a green card differ from a visa?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Very much a green card, you're almost a citizen. You're
entitled to stay here. If you leave this country to
travel to go on vacation, you're allowed to come here.
You're called a resident alien. Again the word resident alien,
the alien is still part because you're part of a
process because you're becoming an American citizen to become a
naturalized c.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Which so for clarification, that's different than say in illegal alien,
which means they're here from another country, but they don't
have the right to be here. They came in, they
flouted the laws, and they kind of came in around
the gate or whatever it is, right, So that's the difference.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
A resident alien has gone through a legal process to
stay in this country.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But can and is there any grounds that they could
have that green card revoked? Like if they commit a felony,
could they have the green Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Absolutely, if they commit a felony and free speech is
not a felony, and.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was gonna say and commit I should say and
are convicted.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Absolutely, if they go through a judicial process, yes they can,
they can have their green card revoked. But what happened
here is there's the administration jumped the gun, had him arrested,
and all he did was he committed no crime. There's
no felonies here. But if you want a convictim of
a felony, then fine, take him to court, convictim of
(09:54):
a felony, whatever it is. But he committed no crime,
so this process was shouldn't have happened at all.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So there is no due process. You're saying that he was.
He's just he's going to be detained and then he
is in the process of being shipped out too.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That's the problem here. That's the problem we have here
is that there is no due process. And now the
due process is actually catching up. The judges are catching
up and saying, hey, wait a second, you.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Have to adhere to a law.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We're a country of laws. This has to be adher to.
And they're asking that they bring him back from Louisiana,
bring him back to New Jersey, and let's have it.
Let's show us your case. Where was the crime committed?
And so far the administration has shown no crime.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Do you think it's a situation where there is a
lot of pressure that they do something to quell the
problems on the campus of Bombia. So I thought, well,
we'll round up the one guy, the ring leader, so
to speak, and if we remove him, then these problems
will die down.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'm glad you mentioned pressure because that's a critical word.
And let's call it undue pressure. Let's call it pressure
from a foreign country onto these the American shores to
stifle free speech. And we're talking about the state of Israel.
That is through various organizations, American organizations, namely the ADL,
(11:10):
which is the Anti Defamation League, namely the APAK, which
is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. There's also an
organization called bitar USA. There's also a task force called
Maccabee Task Force which has seventy million dollars. These are
all funded by Israeli Americans for the purpose of stifling
(11:30):
free speech in this country that's against Israel. Understand, Mahamoud
Khalil is facing not only the administration that came after him,
He's facing the Israeli government as an individual, mind you,
as a politically active individual. He has the right to
be politically active in his country. Again, this is called
the free country. But there's six different organizations that targeted Mahmoud,
(11:54):
that are targeting other individuals to stifle free speech, to
shut down the discourse on Israel, to create the ore
of anti Semitism when it's only anti Israel, because Israel
is not a religion it's a government. It's not Judaism.
It's a government. A government makes mistakes like our government,
like anybody the other government makes mistakes. When you criticize Israel,
(12:18):
apparently it's a bridge too far in this country, this
free country, that you cannot criticize is reel. Even in Alabama,
you can't boycott out Israel in Alabama because the state
legislature passed laws against boycotting Alabama. I think I should
be able to boycott anybody. I'm an American. I can
boycott Coca Cola, I can boycott Chevron, I can boycott anybody.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Right, are you saying, protest or boycott either one?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Well, no, because you know, a boycott is like I'm
not going to buy I don't know coke because it
I'm mad that the people who make the product refusing
to buy them. Whereas a protest is you're going to
stand out there with signs and chant and say which.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Which you have the right in this country to stand like,
I know, I just want to make sure we we
it's both. It's actually the protesting is legally allowed. Now
if if you if you're charged with trespassing, let's say
when they created those ten encampments right in those universities
in Colombia and UCLA. Well, at worst it's a trespass.
At worst, it's not a felony. It's a missimeter speeding
(13:17):
is a misdemean So, I mean protesting is allowed in
this country. He has the right to protest. All students
have the right to protest.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Because you don't want violence, you don't want.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
We don't advocate nobody advocates violence. Everybody advocates peaceful protests.
The ones that step out and become violent, well there's
laws you can imprison those people that step out of
that box. But we we advocate peaceful protest to raise
the awareness because the Palestine issue is the movement of
the day for peace and justice worldwide. It's not just
(13:49):
in the US, it's worldwide. So it's not it's not
me Joe talking or John, it's the world is talking.
But we have certain certain bubbles, especially here in this cunt,
that are brainwashed and don't want free speech. They don't
want to stand on their own legal argument because it's fallacious,
it's false.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It's also it's a very complicated issue, and it's one
that's not well understood, and so I think too often
we don't like to not have an opinion in this country.
So if we don't understand something, we kind of look
to a leader that we kind of feel this, you know,
kindred with, and say, well, if they feel this way,
then I do too, even though I don't understand it.
So maybe it's an issue of people don't fully understand
(14:29):
the situation.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's exactly right, John, And that's why I don't fault
a lot of Americans, because they're really been brainwashed, and
they're brainwashed when they're young, when they're in twenties and
thirties and forties, when they start in grade school. I'll
give you a quick story. I was once in Hartchell
High School doing some training and I was pulling books
from the shelves in the library because I was going
to train the teachers on a product that we sold them,
(14:53):
and I was pulling books that were donated by these
Zionis organizations out of Philadelphia. This is a Heartfell High School.
And you pull down the book and it tells you
how Israel made the desert bloom. Really, how Israel made
the desert bloom? And all that is it's brainwashing. At
the early years. So when the kids get older, all
the here you thinking, is Israel is a great country.
(15:17):
It's they made the desert bloom.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
They went to What does that mean? It made the
desert bloom? Like they were able to plant plants there, a.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Plant plant in the desert and make flowers come out
of the desert or fruit or something. Right, But it's
just it's just propaganda, it's all. It's all brainwashing. And
it starts early in the schools, in the preschools, and
then and then as we get into as the adult,
as a person gets to adulthood, they start listening to
mass media, which is corrupt and Zionist influence and continuing
(15:44):
the brainwashing. So I don't fault a lot of Americans
for not understanding, because there's there's there's brainwashing going on
an industrial scale in this country.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So, Joe, what would you say is the solution the
best solution, not just for the people of Gaza, but
not even just for the people of Israel, but for
the world. What would you say this would be the
perfect solution to where everyone can more or less live
in harmony. We can stop the bloodshed, we can free
the hostages, all that. What would be the best solution
in this situation if we made you king right now.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
That's easy, That's really easy. One standard of human rights,
only one standard. John has a certain standard and Joe
has another standard. One standard for human rights. That means
John is a human being and Joe as a human being.
That's not what we have in Israel. An Israeli Jew
has more rights than an Arab Palestinian or a Palestinian
(16:37):
in the West Bank or Gaza who has no rights.
And that's unacceptable. In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Five, and just in full disclosure, you are. You are
a Christian, a Palestinian Christian living and you have lived
in Alabama for how long over twenty five years with
your family and before that New York.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You can tell my Alabama accent.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah so. And in other words, you are You walked
the streets where we didn't bring in, you know, from
from somewhere else. You walk the streets with us. We
work right here. I love our community right here, and so,
and there's a lot of other people who you we work.
You're a regular guy. You're not like some strange crazy guy.
I just want to make sure everyone understands that because
(17:15):
your views are different than a lot of people around here,
and it could well be because they haven't considered what
you have to say and what they have to say.
If there's a place people should go to really read
up on any of the things you've talked about and
get a in your opinion, and I'm biased opinion on
the situation, where should they go?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
You know, there's a lot of YouTube. I like YouTube,
but I don't like mainstream media. Mainstream media is corrupted.
The truth is not valuable anymore in mainstream media. That's
just my view. Of course, there's youtubes like Democracy Now
that's a constant show. There's electronic intafather, which is just
straight on in terms of what's going on. It doesn't
(17:55):
sugarcoat it. There's there's a lot of different As a
matter of fact, Tucker Carlson has been highlighting what's going on.
Kendace Owens has been highlighting what's going on, and of course,
on the other spectrum, you have the young Turks who
have been exposing Israel for what it is, a racist,
bigoted state.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
And Tucker carries a lot of water with a lot
of our listeners. So it is good. It is good
to know that you have people on kind of both
sides of the thing talking about that, and that is
good because you want and you do want to have
opinions on both sides, especially when they come to the
same conclusion. So maybe there's there's a chance for you know,
agreement yet.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
From your lips to the too God's ears, because that's
what we want. We want peace, we want justice, We
want everybody to be treated in one human standard, and I.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Think that's what everybody wants. Joe Abbott, thank you so
much for joining me today on Viewpoint Alabama.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Thank you for having me John.
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Today you're listening to Viewpoint Alabama, a public affairs program
from the Alabama Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Welcome back to Viewpoint Alabama. I'm John Mounts, and this
time of year, we are very aware in this state
that there is a lot of danger that could be
follow us when we're talking about tornado season. Joining me
now to talk about some of the ways that you
can be prepared is a man who has been the
extreme survivalist. He has been on Naked and Afraid, and
he has written recently written the book Emergency Home Preparedness.
(20:42):
I'm talking about EJ Snyder. EJ. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. And
you know, you're right all about that in Alabama. I
live down that way in Columbus, Georgia for a while,
and I've lived in Florida, and we in the Southeast
know that, you know, there's just another hurricane sitting around
the corner, or tornado or something thing. So yeah, preparedness
is a really big part of the Southern lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
And people don't realize that tornado season. Although we think
about it being something that happens in April, it happens
in May, it happens in November. It could happen. A
tornado can happen to us at almost any time, and
we have to kind of be always at least a
little bit ready, don't we.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Absolutely Mother Nature always has a vote, and tornadoes are
the one natural disaster that are unpredictable that they keep
trying to figure out how to you know, predict them
and they're getting better at warning, but man, those things
just come out of the sky, out of nowhere sometimes
and there's just not much you can do about it.
You can see the hurricane come in, you can get
(21:39):
a tsunami warning. Yes, the earthquakes kind of pop up
as they do. But you know the tornado, Man, that's
a scary, scary event. And I've been through a few
of them and EJ.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
The thing is, when your weather radio goes off, that's
not the time to go looking for a flashlight. Right,
You should have You have to be prepared for these things. Months,
weeks are really much always prepared, right, You should.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Be prepared right now. Everyone when they if they're thinking
about preparing, they're already late and behind the power curves.
So the big reason I wrote this book was after
the pandemic, we learned that ninety percent of the US
just stayed home, bugged in. And then the ten percent
that bugged out, half of them were just going somewhere
else to bug in. Then there was the other half
like me, then go out with a knife and a
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bow and live off the land for a good bit.
But so I wanted to make people's lives easier. We
did a video on my website djsnywer dot com called
the Ultimate bug in Home Defense Guide, and everyone was
asked us, hey, is this in a book format? We'd
really love to have this in a pay per format
so we have something to refer to. And then that's
when we decide, Hey, let's put this down in a
(22:44):
book format. And that's what we did. And so I
want the every day Joe Org Joan to be prepared,
have their families prepared. Your home is your castle. It's
where people feel safe, they can operate out of. It
gives them a sense of confidence. So why not have
your home ready and do the thing like food, water,
get those things on the shelf first, make sure you
have enough. Now the CDC and over in Europe we're hearing,
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oh get yourself seventy two hours, and well that's great. Well,
in the long term of situation, if you stretch it
out one meal a day, you're only going to make
it nine days. So you want to have enough on
the shelf for yourself, every member of your household plus two.
You never know who's going to come knocking on the door,
but they always come, usually in twos when they're traveling.
And if they don't ever come. At least you have extras,
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and so plan for three weeks, then get to a month,
then do three months, and then work your way up
to six months. And don't forget prescription and over the
counter cold medicines and pay medicines. That's a big mistake
a lot of people make.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
And when we talk about things that you need to survive,
the first one I think right up there at the
top is water. Now there's no way you're going to
be able to store six months worth of water. So
we're talking about how can you treat water? So how
would you if you're just a regular citizen living out
and then then you know the suburb how and maybe
there's a creek or something like that. You can't just
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drink that? So what do you do? How do you
treat you? And really just boiling it is not really
a good long term solution.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
What do people do well? Boiling is a good factor.
It definitely will get the nasties out, big bubbles, little
troubles rolling boil for one minute, make sure you have
a grill or some way to get your food cooking
or your water. You know you want to boil it,
even if it's just a campfire set up or a firepit.
But make sure, I always say, have a backup, to
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the backup, to the backup. You may run out of
proke pane, you may run out of other fuels, but
have a good purifying system. There's a lot of water
bottles out there, like the Grail for instance, which is
a geopress. Have one for every family member. That way,
when they fill it up, it's easy to use, you
press it down, you've got fresh drinking water, and it's
one of the best systems out there. The Life Straw
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makes bottles, they make the life straw itself, which are
not bad products. There's a company called Life Saver that
have these five gaps on jerry cans and they have
a pump on it that activates it to put pressure
on it, and it's got a little spicket that will
put the water out. All of these things purify water
for a long term. And you always want to have
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backup filters ready to go. So when it gets harder
to press or you can see they're dirty, it's time
to switch them out. And that's a good way for
people in a more of an economical way to get
frustraanking water. All the time.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
I remember when I was in Boy Scouts many decades ago,
we used to use iodine tablets, which it tasted bad,
but it did make the water drinkable.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You're right. I did a little video on my YouTube
channel Survived with EJ talking about them. And in the military,
that's how we used to purify water going across the creek.
Anytime we were on a patrol, we'd stop at a creek.
We fill up canteens, NGO the little tablets. But it
is a system. And like I said in the book,
we talk about pace planning, planning is everything. If you
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fail the PLAM plan, the FEL and so pay stands
for a primary alternate emergency contingency and it's in everything
that you're doing, even with like communications or light sources
and water. So have a water bottle first, maybe have
the big jug maybe have the tablets waiting, and then
boiling is your last emergency effort to make sure you
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have fresh drinking water. People don't think about this all
the time. I tell them, if you have a pool,
the water, the way you make your pool safe, think
about what you're putting in there. There's actually some stuff
that will clean your pool that or keep it safe
to swim in that is not a chemical and you
can basically you're that is a water reservoir for you
(26:44):
in an emergency situation. Obviously you're not going to drink
it with chlorine or some of the other stuff in
there if it's salted. But I forget what it was.
There was something I had in my pool that made
the pool safe to consume with water because I'm big
about no chemicals and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And of course you could use that water to not
to drink or even cook with, but you could use
it to flush toilets and things like that if you
needed to, if you need it in a pinch, and
it still work for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
You're absolutely right washing your face, you know, cleaning things,
washing the dishes, you're thinking like your survivals. Now I
love it, and when hurricanes you're coming and stuff like that.
You tell people all the time, fill your bathtub up,
Fill your bathtubs up with water so that if the
power goes out or the water is compromised, now you
have you know, if your most bath tubs or however
(27:29):
many gallons they are, I think forty gallons or something
like that. That said you've got two tubs in the house. Man,
that's that's you know, a lot of water that you
can utilize. EJ.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Let's talk briefly about communication during situations like that, because
of course everyone's got a cell phone. However, the cell
phone is dependent on two things. Number one, electricity and
number two the cell tower for it to communicate with.
Cell towers go down and if you don't have power,
the phone runs down. What are your recommendations on communicating
in emergencies.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Yeah, you're right about that about the power. So you know,
always have some of those battery backups to recharge your
phones and all. But if their phones go down, there's
all you know, there's CB systems within your you could
have mounted into your vehicle that will you know, run
the power off the vehicle as it's running. CBS are
a good way to try to communicate with folks. And
(28:17):
then I always tell people, if you want to get
a good hobby, take a ham radio class, learn about
a ham radio. At least have one on hand. I
know it's highly regulated by the government because they, you know,
particularly don't really like it in my opinion, but if
an emergency situation happens, I don't think anyone's going to
be worried about you not knowing the letters and numbers
(28:38):
of your handle. When you're operating, you just get on
there and it's a ham radio is a good safe
way to communicate with others. There's another system out there
that also works off of some satellite towers. But you know,
having a good sat phone is something nice. But also
there's a thing called rapid radios they just discovered, and
(28:59):
those things can go out from one side of the
country to the other, east coast to west coast in
the most remote of locations. I found it very helpful.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Very fascinating. Well, for more about the things we've talked about.
Your book, Emergency Home Preparedness is on Shalston Amazon. Thank
you so much for joining us today, EJ.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I appreciate you, and folks, if you're out there,
don't be scared, be prepared. Get over to Survivalmastery dot co.
Join us over there Ejcho zero through five, or find
me on ejsneinder dot com. And like I said, for
survival classes, I've got that video over there, and you
can get a star coup red book over there, or
go to Amazon or any of your bookstores.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
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