Storms & Radios

[00:00:05] Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co-host Chen Gibson. Blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number 481.

[00:00:36] Hey Chen, what's up? Chen's up y'all. Well, March has been crazy, right? Holy smokes. Right? I woke up in the middle of the night and I looked at the weather and then I followed the stream of storm all the way to your house. So that was actually April, you know, just the beginning of this month has been crazy down here. We actually, so Texas got pretty hit during March, I'm not gonna lie.

[00:01:02] But for some reason, I don't know, maybe it was our, everything in my house has new roofs from last year. So it was like the new roof shield over my house. And yeah, we've been... I've seen an insurance commercial with the umbrella. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I think, yeah, State Farm's like, no more storms allowed to touch this house. Yeah.

[00:01:29] But, um, no, it's been good besides like, yeah, that the storm the other night got really wild. Um, the other day. Um, working from home is interesting. Cause I'm literally like at my house in a different state than where all my clients are. It's like, what do you mean there's a tornado? Yeah. It's like thunderclapping. It's sunny out here. Tornado warning. My power flashes.

[00:01:58] The internet goes out and I finally could call my client back and he's like, well, are you going to get that application done for me today? I'm like, I don't know, man. After I stopped seeing the flying monkeys and the witch on the bicycle go by. Yeah. Yeah. It was crazy. I was like, I don't know. Now I got it all done. And you know, that's just the day in the life of the remote employee. I'll, I'll take it. It's nice. Yeah.

[00:02:27] So, but, uh, I've, I've had fans for years nagging me about the lost Vegas years and had those two pieces of that book up for a while, um, for members only. And, uh, I've, you know, I had some extra time on my hands. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know, wait, I think I got the wrong number. Sarah, Sarah, are you there? So, uh, yeah. So I finished the Las Vegas years.

[00:02:54] I'm actually putting, um, I'm finishing up the first round of, uh, edits on it right now. It took me about three weeks and I'm done. Hmm. Yeah. Well, you know, you gotta edit, edit, edit. Um, it'll definitely have another round of editing done and then it goes off to the official editor. So it'll be still be a couple months. Yeah. Before it comes out, but definitely before prepper camp. And, uh, yeah. So everybody it's common. I promise you it's coming.

[00:03:24] Um, all of the changing earth series is available on Kindle unlimited now. So I mean, yeah, I finally did it. I, I bent the knee to the corporate giant and, um, it's doing really great picking up a lot of traction over there. So, uh, yeah, I'd love it. If everybody, you want to check it out, your member of Kindle unlimited, you can now read them there. And, uh, please leave me a review. Don't just leave me a review on one, put them down on all the books.

[00:03:53] This is, uh, this don't get the series, the Hollywood. So, uh, been doing a ton of podcast interviews with other podcasters. So keep your eyes out. Those interviews are going to be coming up and I'll definitely point you in the direction of some of those. They've been really cool. Some of the people just want to talk about, you know, the practicalities of what I do as far as self-defense and anti-kidnapping. And then, uh, had a really cool interview.

[00:04:21] Um, it's called a reasonably spontaneous conversation. Yeah. Yeah. And I went on the, the podcast with this gentleman. He was a spectacular guy. Um, we had great conversation, really bridging gaps that, um, you know, sides that the world has tell us. They, they taught us the two sides exist, right?

[00:04:47] Well, I've been actively trying to smash down barriers and, uh, just introduce people to the preparedness lifestyle. And, um, you know, we all have insurance. We need to get, get out of the digital world back into the analog world. Right. Like we need to be there for each other and we need to understand, like, we're not so far off if you just sit and have a conversation. Mm-hmm .

[00:05:11] And you can be open-minded about ideas and still stand strong on your own values. But it doesn't mean that you can't, you know, listen and, um. Be respectful. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And share. And then be surprised at how, how much you have common values and beliefs and, and things that. So it's been, it's been a lot of fun. So I'll be sharing that along the way. Good. Uh, we got our. How was Joe Rogan's studio?

[00:05:41] Oh man. I'll. I'm getting. When's that coming out? I'm getting ready to just go down to Austin and like sit out in front of the studio. You got three hours to put us on. Yeah. Yeah. You know, when I have all this free time and, um, I'll be like, Hey Joe, you want to go work out? You know, I'll kick your ass sparring. I'm sure of it. I'm sure of it. So. Hey, I'm still pretty quick, you know, still pretty quick. So.

[00:06:10] He's getting old. I'm sure he's older than I am. Maybe. Oh, I'm sure. I don't know. I'm pretty much the oldest one at sparring classes. Now. These days. Telling you. Yeah. They're like, Oh, you should do this different. I'm like, come talk to me in 25 years. Yeah. Tell me how you feel. I've the other day I did a huge leg workout in the morning cause I got to keep my knee in shape, you know, do a huge leg workout.

[00:06:39] Then I go to MMA class that night and he had invited a neighboring school. And it's like, okay, all we're doing tonight all night long is three minutes sparring rounds. I'm like, I gotta sit down. Yeah. Like I gotta take a break. I'm like, I'm sorry. You know, to my instructor, he's like, Oh no, you paid your dues. Cause I walked in and pick the biggest guys first because I knew I would only have so much energy. Right. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, still going.

[00:07:09] So I'm ready to take on Joe. That'd be great. So, uh, audio drama, all of the remixes are going up. It's a lot of fun to relive some of the stories and bring them back to life, you know, in a new way. So all of the remixes are going up on all of the podcast platforms right now. Uh, PBN over on YouTube as well, but I'm going to shift focus back over to rumble just because

[00:07:37] they love all kinds of content. And, uh, yeah, my stuff, uh, could be a little bit too violent for, um, YouTube. It hits a little bit too close to home. Oh my goodness. So yeah. Yeah. How many like car crashes and animal attack videos are there? Are there like viral, you know? Yeah. Status. Yeah. I don't know. So I'm just going to pull back over to rumble.

[00:08:04] Um, so you can find my channel and rumble at changing earth and we'll just keep camping over there. PBN crew and everybody's a lot more comfortable there anyway. Absolutely. So beyond that, the earth has been off the chain. Like if this isn't the changing earth, I don't know what is. It's incredible to watch what is going on. It's such an exciting time to be alive.

[00:08:33] Um, so I've got lots of great change in earth news obviously later, but what I wanted to point out was the wildfires around the Saluda area where we have prepper camp and, uh, you know, all the same prayers, man. Yeah. There was, there was three major ones in North Carolina plus a couple in South Carolina that were close to the state line. Uh, it's, it's insane.

[00:08:59] There was no other one popped off in the town just a little east, but they put that down right away. They saw it, you know. Yeah. It's insane. Yeah. I was like, you know, I don't want to be chased out by a hurricane last year and then come back to, you know, wildfires on this year. Yeah. I told, I told Hannah that, you know, the girl that, um, is part of the family that owns it. Yeah. Like you all been like between floods of fires. It's been, it's been something else. Yeah.

[00:09:29] That's just forever. It's just, hasn't really relented since, uh, I just got an email from, this is their 30th year. Isn't that cool? That is cool. Anniversary. Nice. That's very cool. 30 years. That's an, that's an, that's an, that's an, that's an, that's an, that's pretty good. That's an accomplishment. For a business. Yeah. That's a great place too. I love it there. It's a really great setup and everything. If I was closer, I'd probably just, you know, go do some camping there anyway.

[00:09:59] Cause I've been over there talking radios. Yeah. Oh yeah. I bet. I did a class over there. Yeah. That's key for them. Yeah. That's what they were worried about being able to, cause well, we know we lived it, no cell phone service. Right. Yeah. So yeah, I, I got them hooked up with the, with the threes. And you got a deal. We might as well announce that in our, in our beginning credits here. The intros. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:26] So I've been smoothing with Redivis, the, the manufacturer and the rep, you know, I told him that, you know, co-host and all that stuff. They call the changing earth with Sarah. Sarah. That's awesome. Yeah. So she gave me a, she gave, she gave us a discount code. Um, so you guys get $10 off. And so that code is R 10 off. R 10. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:10:56] 1 0 0. Foxtrot. Foxtrot. Right, sir. No, it would be Romeo 1 0. Oscar. Foxtrot. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, and I just looked at the website before we, uh, fired up the show. And even with the crazy tariffs, uh, they're still holding their price that, uh, 60 bucks for one of the reviews we're going to talk about and 150 bucks for the other radio.

[00:11:25] So they're still on sale. Yeah. So that's really good. And like, we're talking a quality product here. We're going to jump into it, but we're talking a quality product here. Not, uh, you know, the $5 bail fang, get a, you know, case for 10 bucks from Timo. YouTube was lit up with this, with this radio, because as far as the, I don't think you get a better bang for your buck for value, for value wise.

[00:11:53] And I have radios that are more expensive and obviously less expensive, uh, the bail fang, right? The, the gateway drug to radio. Yeah. Yeah. But, um, I, I got, I was given one to demo, liked it so much. I went and bought the other, the more expensive one I bought with my own money because I liked the demo one so much. Okay. Before we jump into why you like it so much.

[00:12:22] Um, so these radios are doing GRMS and ham. Um, so on the analog. So there's two versions. There's an analog version, which is old school, like CB radios, analog. Right. Um, what everybody traditionally thinks of ham and walkie talk, like the Walmart walkie talkies. So those are all analog radios. Right. Um, over the air, like FM, like FM music, analog radios.

[00:12:50] The newest craze. I mean, it's probably been around for a decade or a couple of decades, but the newest thing in ham radio is digital. So it, uh, it's, it's much more efficient in the, the use of the airways. So you can get twice as much traffic back and forth on the same frequency. Um, some of that, you know, like in your car now you get the, um, you get the, uh, Oh yeah. You get the digital radio. Yeah. That gives you a good car. Yeah.

[00:13:21] So that's, that's cause it's sending, um, mess data across the airways. So we can do that with, yeah, but, uh, so they sent me the, the HA1 UV, which is the model number of the analog radio. Now you can get the HA1 G, which is the GMRS radio. The UV is the dual band ham radio.

[00:13:47] And I'm not going to say this, but if I were to, you know, if we were just hanging out by the campfire, I tell you, you could unlock either of those radios and they can both do, uh, ham, uh, two meter, 70 centimeter GMRS. And well, they, they come with Noah, the weather that's not unlocking it, but they have that. So you could really open these radios up.

[00:14:18] Got you. So, um, you just have to have your own chin in your back pocket. Yeah. So you, there's a YouTube university is amazing. Yep. And it tells you what button to push and hold and what knob to turn and spin at the same time. And what special passcode to enter. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And boom, the radio does all the frequencies instead of just one or the other. Okay.

[00:14:48] It's like, so I did that. Um, I watched the video and heard about it and talked about it at a campfire. Um, but it's awesome because then you still have to be mindful. If you have a GMRS license, you can talk at GMRS frequencies and GMRS powers.

[00:15:13] If you don't have that, you could talk on those same frequencies at lower powers. Um, but then when you go up to the ham frequencies, the ham bands, um, that you do have to have a license. So, um, the only caveat to that is if there's an emergency, I think I've said this several times in the past, a life or limb, then you can use the radio. Right. Right. In an emergency situation. We had happened here during the hurricane.

[00:15:43] Um, people were just getting on asking for rescue. You know, they needed help. Right. And that's totally legit. That's not a problem. Um, and you can listen to them. Like if you bought a radio, as long as you don't talk, if you can just listen and half of radio is listening, right? Right. Gathering data. So information. So yeah, you can listen. So yeah, so that for 60 bucks.

[00:16:08] So twice as much as, as a bail fang and bail fangs, not waterproof, doesn't have as big a battery. It doesn't have as nice of interface. Uh, this, the speaker on that, um, analog radio is outstanding. It is so good. So crisp and loud. Uh, uh, like if you're outside and you, I put it, I typically ran with it at only a quarter turn. Crazy.

[00:16:34] Not even full blast because it was so loud and clear. It, I mean, it was outstanding. Um, yeah, that's a lot of times if you're like, you can't even hear what it's saying anyway. What is it? Yeah. So if you're like, well, I don't know if you're going to hear it, but I could hear it over like the side by side or the, um, the track. Oh yeah. Now, obviously I'm going to like, you know, kill the throttle on the track there and pay attention once I hear it, but I can hear it. Right.

[00:17:03] You know, some of these radios, you can't even hear it. I don't think I could. Yeah. I don't think I could hear it. So, uh, that, that is really nice. And like, if you're like here on my property, Rhonda's, my wife is in the house working and I'm out doing crazy stuff, trying to get stuff done. Right. And I, I typically put it on full volume just in case. So I don't miss her call, you know? Um, and.

[00:17:30] Well, how half the time I can even get it through the bracket, I'm standing there yelling right at him. Yeah. So I, I was one, there was certain boxes that I wanted checked, right? I went, so to get the next radio, I wanted to have certain things. Water being waterproof was one of them because when you're out there, I was tired of using Ziploc bags, put my radio in. Yeah. Put it in the bag, take it out of the bag. It's raining.

[00:17:57] You know, these they're, they're, uh, IP 67 rated. So they can be in three foot of water for up to half an hour. Okay. Take them out, dry them off and they're still fun. Yeah. So like bug out bag type material. Bam. Yeah. Um, this is for both radios, but we'll keep with the analog. So, um, the analog, like I said, the check boxes were waterproof, tough. I mean, I've dropped them already.

[00:18:26] Um, they really feel solid in your hand. Um, good clarity. They have USB C plugs in the back for charging, which was critical for me because I'm tired of having like, if you know, like the bail thing, you had to put it in a cradle. So yeah, just chart with like cradles everywhere. Yeah.

[00:18:51] Well, my cell phone charges with USB C, my, that my wireless earbuds charge with USB C, you know, now every radio that I get is going to have USB C charging. Right. This came with a cradle. So you could set it at your desktop. Yeah. But it's nice to be in the car, plug it in. It's still anywhere. Yeah. How many, how many times do we have charging? Yeah. Right. I mean, you run with one cable with you all the time, right? Yes.

[00:19:18] And, and you know, you can top something off if you had to, as opposed to having four or five different, um, proprietary cables and those big desktop cradles. Power plug. Yeah. You got to put a power plug and then the power plugs all filled up. I don't have room to put it. They get all dusty when you're not using them. Yep. So I really, the other thing that I like is chirp programming, which

[00:19:45] neither of these have, but they have, when you buy the radio, you get a free copy of the, the software that they use. Ah, and it's pretty slick. You can, uh, you could program, uh, you know, squelch squelches is the, is the volume at which it receives an incoming call. Right. So, um, if you have a really weak signal and you want to get that signal, you turn the squelch down to like one or zero and the signal will come through.

[00:20:15] If you don't want to hear all that far off stuff, uh, like some radios, like FM radios, they have like near and far mode. Right. Basically it's just a squelch. So when you put it on local only mode, it's putting the squelch up high. So you don't get any of that far off. But like when you're traveling across country, you put it on. Yeah. Cause you're trying to get something, anything. Cause you're trying to get anything. Yeah. Right. To keep you awake. So that's the same thing with these.

[00:20:42] But the cool thing was with the software, you could set each memory channel to a different squelch. So if, you know, if you have like one that you run at your house and you don't want to get all the neighbors, you might turn the squelch up a little higher. So you just get your family. But, um, if you have one that, you know, okay, this is the channel that we use when we go into town, you might want to turn the squelch all the way down. So you get like as much traffic as you can across your radio. I thought that was cool. That is pretty cool.

[00:21:12] And you can also adjust your power. I mean, I'm thinking kind of, I always think kind of nefarious. Cause I'm trying to think worst case scenario. I have to write bad guys and stuff. It's like, if you had one of those and you were looking for a group, you could just turn it up louder to try and pick up as much noise as you could. Well, yeah. So that's, um, um, they would turn their squelch all the way down.

[00:21:37] Um, but to get a, to get around, um, the bad guy, you would put, um, you could put your, your, set your powers, uh, as low as the proper etiquette on a radio is use as little amount of power as possible to get your message received by the party. You want your intended party. So it's like a game. So what you could do.

[00:22:05] It's like, how, how can I go and still get it through? Yes. Okay. If you're playing, you know, um, paintball with your team, you guys are going to want to like get a feel for, you know, can I, can I run it low or maybe medium, um, power and it run as, you know, the lowest setting you could to get you guys heard. Um, and then that way anybody else trying to like listen in on the other team or whatever,

[00:22:32] they have to find what channel you're on, what frequency you're on. And then, um, hear you. And if you're like on the other side of the hill, y'all are like have a rally point and, you know, talking to get there and have the power just low enough so you can get the signal. They might not hear you wherever their rally point was fair. Okay. They might, but I mean, you can only do so much, but right. Right. That's the game. Yeah. Okay. I like it. Yeah.

[00:22:59] So that's, that was a cool thing that I really did like, um, about program and then on screen programming you're saying. So you don't have like the big clunky buttons. Well, we know the, the, the H3 that, that I had liked and talked about at camp. Um, my biggest thing about that one was it wasn't waterproof, right? Mm hmm. So many boxes, but it wasn't waterproof. Yeah.

[00:23:24] Uh, but that one you can, you can share programming from one radio to the other wirelessly, which is slick. Oh, that, yeah, that is cool. These, these, I haven't found that yet. So, uh, to program from scratch, the easiest way to do is use the software with a computer. Um, or you can, you can use the menu and the keypad on the radio. I hate the radios that don't have numbers. There's some people like them cause they're just simple.

[00:23:54] They're like, you guys program for me, hand it to me. I just want a volume and I want to push the talk button and up and down channel selector. Yeah. That's it. That would be me. I like to show me how. Yeah. One 42 dot five, you know, six to all. And I like to be able to type in my frequency. Right. Um, so you could program a frequency and if you're doing a repeater, um, repeaters take

[00:24:20] a little more programming cause you have to do a sending frequency of receiving frequency. It's sometimes they have like a, uh, a coat, a tone to open, to be able to open a repeater. So you have to program a couple of different things, but you can do that all from the, uh, face keyboard of the radio. So that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Cause if you didn't have access to software and technology and stuff, you'd still be able to use that.

[00:24:50] Yeah. If you're traveling, the biggest time this would happen is if, if you were traveling and you met somebody, do you want to talk to them on that, whatever their repeater or whatever, you could key up that. I like to try to plan ahead and put frequencies in on my, uh, travel. Of where you're going. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but say there was a better one, you know, local knowledge or whatever. There was a better one to use.

[00:25:19] Or with GMRS, you can only own private repeaters. Okay. So you can literally get to a campground say, and the campground has a repeater for everybody to use. Well, if you didn't know that ahead, you could get there and program it in with your key pad and be able to use it. Um, yeah. Yeah. Got you. Okay. So, yep. Um, what else? Let's get down to that.

[00:25:46] The, um, the shape. Does the analog have the weather alert? Yeah. So the analog, this, that's one positive for the analog over the digital. And I'm, I'm begging the rep to get that added in. The analog version has weather frequencies pre-programmed in. So you can go in there and choose which one you want to listen to.

[00:26:13] You, you, um, find the one that's broadcasting for your area. Cause there's like 11 or 12 NOAA frequencies used. It depends on what area you're in. So you could program that in and listen. And you can go into the menu on the radio or on, on my computer and set it to alert function, which is really nice because set it to alert and then you could just, um, go about your business talking on whatever frequency you want.

[00:26:42] And just like your cell phone, if an alert comes out, it overrides and, and turns on the NOAA channel and you can hear the alert being broadcast. I tell you what, sometimes those alerts are annoying as hell. Well, but, but I've been hearing a lot of stories about people surviving the tornadoes that just ripped through because of those alerts. Yeah. They're annoying. Like summer thunderstorms are the biggest pain.

[00:27:11] And like during Helene. Oh my gosh. All night long. That thing way. It's like, if you just could get some sleep, you couldn't because yeah. Yeah. But, um, so, um, on the digital rate, just a quick preview on the digital radio. It doesn't have the alert function. Right. It only has, you can monitor it, which doesn't make sense to me. And I'm sure there's going to be a, uh, firmware update. Update to the software. Yeah. That they can. Yeah.

[00:27:40] And then you just update, um, the radio. Well, you can set the passwords on the programming. That's cool. Like the, the price, you know, it's the third, the price. Yeah. And it's, it, it has that weather alert function. That's huge. I think that's huge because for me, these, these, although they're kind of my little thing, you know, I love to play with these radios. They're honestly a tool. Right. They're absolutely cool. They're not a toy.

[00:28:09] Um, I don't just get on there to chat or Joe below down the street, just to talk about whatever coffee we're making. That's a, I really do have it to gather information and to be able to contact people that I need to talk to when, and if I need to talk to them. Yeah. So, um, that's, and gathering information is the no, no weather. I mean, if that goes off, that was so cool.

[00:28:35] And I found out and it worked for a thunderstorm, but, um, it worked. So, uh, that was great. You should have more thunderstorms coming your way. That's for sure. Thanks. Yeah. I can use the rain. So that's good. I know. Yeah. So, um, couple other cool things. I mean, they're like just nuances. Uh, the way that both of these radios are shaped, they have a little wing at the top. They like, uh, like half of an hour, like a T they're shaped like a T almost. Yep.

[00:29:05] So at the top, so when you're holding it, your pointer index finger and your thumb kind of keep the radio from slipping through your hand, you know, it's not just straight to grip. Yeah. The little things like that, but they thought about the mic placement is just inside of where your fingers land. So you don't have to worry about covering up the mic. So that's good too. I thought that was cool. That is cool. And these are, how do you say, how do you say the company name again? Redovus? Redovus? Redovus. Alluents.

[00:29:36] Okay. It's like a, it's like a subset of Redovus. Alluents, um, is, is like they call them the, like the Alluents, the, the HA1UV is kind of what everybody calls them, but Redovus is the website you go to. They're the company that sells them. Yeah. The parent company. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm liking it just because like you say, the waterproof factor, because if you're playing on any kind of like, if you're getting any kind of movement, scouting part,

[00:30:05] anything working in the yard. If you're going to use it for other, anything other than just in the car or the house. Or the house. Yeah. It's gotta be weatherproof. If you're going to use it outside between sweat, it, you know, you're cleaning the pool that falls out of your pocket or whatever. Yeah. It falls into the pool. Stuff like that. Uh, out camping, out hiking, out hunting. Yeah. When do you just not, you're just not moist at all. Rain is a thing. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And like having to go through streams. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:34] So, um, it really is for, you know, instead of paid 30 bucks, you pay 60 bucks, right? It's, it's well worth. And they last. Yeah. They're not garbage when you need them. Uh, they're kind of, they're pretty much a knockoff of the Motorola that the police use is kind of like, okay, you look like, yeah, look like a copper. Um, another cool thing that I didn't really pick as what I wanted to have on a radio, but

[00:31:03] it has it is the little channel dial on top. If you looked at the picture, there's the antenna on top. There's, uh, another like turn knob. Yeah. Which is the channel. So you could change channels on this radio, either radio by spinning that knob or by pushing the up and down arrow on the keypad or typing in the actual frequency or channel number. Got you. So you can do more of a scan. Multiple ways. Yeah.

[00:31:31] So it depends on what, like, if you're, if you're sitting in a chair or on a rock or something and you just want to, I need to go to channel 23. So just type in 23 and hit enter and it takes you right there. Or if it's on your belt and you can't really see, just spin the dial that's on top. Yep. And you'll hear it's channel 23. That's nice. Channel 24. There's times I wish that. Yeah. The bail things definitely don't have that capability. Oh, bail thing. The worst.

[00:32:01] I mean, there, that bail thing is what got me into radios, right? Right. I mean, you start reading these prepper novels, you author scare the crap out of us. Yeah. We got to go buy this stuff. So I bought a bail thing. That's how I learned how to program radios, how I learned how to talk to radios. The whole that got my license with a bail thing. Yeah. But now I'm learning the little nuances and what's better. What you want, which it's like your first car and then the next car you buy.

[00:32:30] Or like your first computer, then you're dialing it in. Yeah. What, what it suits you. No, for sure. And that's really cool that they gave us the code. So guys, check it out. The red of this. Red of this. Yeah. So I'll put the code up on our, on the website. Yeah. I am not getting any commission for this. I was super happy that the rep shout out to me say, hey, you're going on to the show.

[00:32:59] Why don't you give this, hand this out to the people? So I'm like, thank you very much. So this is all for, for the listeners. I'm not getting any kickbacks. So that's go, go for it. You know, it's, it doesn't, it just decreases your price. It's not increasing at all. Peeps help them peeps.

[00:33:16] So if you take everything I just said about the analog, the HA1 UV, and then add, add to that. It has twice the power transmission power. So the analog. So you can go basically twice as far. Five. Well, maybe not twice as far, but you, you have stronger capabilities. Okay.

[00:33:46] It has Bluetooth audio, which is super cool. Crazy. It actually comes with an ear plug, a wireless. Interesting. Yeah. That has a push to talk button on it. Oh. So you can have this radio in your backpack and not even touch it. It just pushed the button on your, your headphone, your earbud, it started talking, then, you know, release the button. Now we're talking like. Yeah. And that was included in the price.

[00:34:14] So I think that costs 40 bucks if you want to buy just one of those alone, 40 to a hundred bucks. Yep. So that was included in the package. So Bluetooth is awesome. I also tried it with the Bluetooth earbuds that I use with my phone. Right. Because they're a little smaller. Now I don't have the advantage of having to push the talk button on it, but they're a little small and they fit underneath my ear protection.

[00:34:41] My ear pro for like shooting or the ones that I use when I run the chainsaw and stuff. So I could hear the radio even over a chainsaw. Wow. Because I have the Bluetooth earbuds. That's cool. And so, so like if you had like an Apple phone or what an Android phone and you have earbuds for them. Yep. You could, you could, you can pair them with the radio. With the radio. So that's slick, right? That is slick.

[00:35:09] You could be gray man or lady. Yeah. You could be walking around town with this in your bag, your backpack. And nobody would ever know you're listening. People think you're talking on the phone. Uh huh. But you're talking to somebody else on the radio. Yep. How cool is that? That is. And can, you can still like, uh, listen to, um, like firefighter type lines, police type lines, that kind of thing.

[00:35:35] If you, so some of them, you can, some, some of the frequencies are within the range of this radio. So some of them, you can, I think that my town police department, they're like dispatch is a frequency that I can get, but they're like tactical channels. I can't get. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair. Yeah. So that's, that's town by town. But like if there was a big riotous events, like you can find out about it.

[00:36:04] Well, a lot of, a lot of ham and where I am, I'm shocked up here in the mountains of North Carolina. They have a huge GMRS community. We have repeaters all over the place. I actually, with this radio standard, um, antenna inside the house, talk to a repeater 48 miles away.

[00:36:28] Cause I just looked, I did, I pulled up Google maps and I found out the location of the repeater and I did a distance measure distance. So that's, that's a crow flies. That's not driving distance. Right. 48 miles away. That's incredible. With a walkie talkie. Yeah. That's crazy. Now that's, I mean, I was on, my house is on a mountain and the other, I'm at like 1100 feet. And that, that repeater was like 1600 feet. Right. There's probably nothing in between us.

[00:36:57] Um, fair. Yeah. So it's not like you're on flat ground in a city. Yeah. Right. But that's insane. Still, that's insane. I mean, I know I get another repeater that I checked. It was 24 miles away. Crazy, crazy. So, I mean, that's best case, you know, mountain peak to mountain peak kind of thing. Yeah. But, but that's the benefit of it having repeaters. And with GMRS, you can have your own repeater.

[00:37:22] So if you had property that had a lot of peaks and valleys, buy a repeater, put it on a peak. Yeah. Yeah. And a lot of the valleys on either side of the peak will be able to talk. Mm hmm. Which is that you can't, well, you can get a ham repeater, but there's a lot more hoops you get it. It's just a lot more involved. Right.

[00:37:44] With GMRS, it's not as powerful, but you can buy like a 10 watt repeater for 400 to $600. And like a ham repeater, those are thousands of dollars. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, you can rig like, guys will do like two bale fangs together and do a simplex repeater, which is a little different.

[00:38:10] But a true repeater, you can, you can, it uses two frequencies, one in, and then another frequency is what it spits, it transmits the message back out on. So you could buy your own on GMRS. Yeah. Yeah. It seems like Phil liked the GMRS direction as well. It just seems more open. Yeah. Even though you have to work harder at it. I like them both. Yeah.

[00:38:36] I was a hundred percent ham when I lived in Charleston because they don't have a good, they don't have good GMRS coverage down there. Right. So really it's, it's location specific, but if you live in a location that doesn't have any good coverage, you can set up your own, you know, I know I have, I bought like a car GMRS that mounts on the, it looks like a CB radio bouncing the car. Uh huh.

[00:39:04] And I bought two of them because they're made to plug together to make, they have settings to make them into a repeater. And those are 50 Watts. So I could have my own in case of emergency, I could stand up my own 50 watt repeater here. Got you. So. Yeah. And your hill helps just helps. Yeah.

[00:39:27] Um, but yeah, I, GMRS is, you know, it's, um, what is it? $35 for a 10 year license. Right. Yeah. It covers the whole family. Yeah. Yeah. It's like $35, but you have each person has to, to get their own, take the class, get their license and you have to follow the guidelines of how you're talking on the radio and everything else. Yeah.

[00:39:54] You can't use it for like playing paintball, but GMRS, I mean, uh, ham there's, you can do a lot more with. Yeah. Fair. GMRS is catching up. And if you don't want to study and you just want to have something in your back pocket, it's the way to go. Yeah. You might get to the point where you say, you know, after three or four years, you might say, Oh, maybe I do want an extra capability.

[00:40:19] Maybe I'm going to be the comms guy for my little community and everybody can talk to me on GMRS and I can talk to the outside world on ham. Now we have to just figure out how to bounce it from North Carolina to Texas. Now we get into the other cool thing. So the, the HD two, which is the red of this HD two. Yeah. The other radio. That's like 150. Yeah. That's digital.

[00:40:47] Now digital can, it can do analog channels and it can do digital channels. Um, on digital it's, um, it's much clearer until it's not. So with analog, it kind of fades out. Yeah. Um, you have digital like there or not. It's yeah. So digital, it kind of like you have really decent reception until all of a sudden it just drops off, falls off the cliff.

[00:41:15] Um, so you have good, but the digital can be the repeaters or hotspots can be plugged into the internet and you can, I was in Charleston when I got this radio and I was playing around with it. I got into, uh, they call them talk groups, the channels. Uh huh. Um, think of it as like a Facebook page. Right.

[00:41:40] So I got into the Facebook page and there's all other people joined that same Facebook page. We could all talk to each other. I, I could talk to people on my walkie talkie in Charleston and they were up in North Carolina. That's crazy. And if you and I were both on digital and either we, a hotspot is literally what it sounds like, like a hotspot, like for cell phones. Yeah. Like, yeah. Internet. Internet. Yeah.

[00:42:09] Well, it's a hotspot just for these digital radios. So you could have one of those into your house. Your walkie talkie gets into the internet through that hotspot in your house and you could talk worldwide. You and I could talk on walkie talkies and we could each be walking around our property. Crazy. It is right now. I know. I know the internet goes down. I know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you grew it down.

[00:42:36] Just because an EMP could take out your car. Doesn't mean we don't drive cars to work every day. Right? Right. Yeah. So during good times, use what you can use and have back. And have backups for when you don't. Right. All talk. That's why like you still, you're not going to. Contingency emergency. Right. Yeah. Maybe your primary is your cell phone and your digital internet connection.

[00:43:02] So you and I could talk to each other, primary comms through our digital. Maybe our alternate or contingency for you and I are contingency might be a ham. Right. You know, which doesn't need the internet, but just for ease of use day to day, key up the mic, put it on the changing earth talk group, key it up. And anybody on the changing earth talk group can talk to each other.

[00:43:30] Just like they were talking into regular walkie talkie. And how, like what can other people just listen in on that group? It's just like a walkie talkie. It's just any walkie talkie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If they dialed into that. Yeah. If they dialed into the right thing. What a talk group is, I mean, I'm lucky enough here in this area to have multiple repeaters that actually for free, I can get into the repeater and then they have talk groups you can do.

[00:44:00] So I can, there's like a Western North Carolina talk group. I can get in. I could talk to people across the state. There's a PRN talk group, which I don't know what that stands for, but that's the one that I was in. It's for a North Carolina, South Carolina talk group. So I was at Charleston talking to people. I think he was in Raleigh or Charlotte. I forget. So talking to people all over the place.

[00:44:24] So it's like, if you know the talk group passcode is basically what it's like five or six digit number. If you know that number, you could program your radio. You know, you put the name of it in, you say what frequency you have to call in on and what the passcode is and a couple other programming things. And then it's in your radio, and then you just tune your radio to that channel and key it up and talk. All right. Go.

[00:44:55] It just, it just like your GMR S radio with your family. Right. You guys keyed up and talk. Well, anybody could hear it. Right. Well, the same thing here, but it's a little more through obscurity is it's not really secure, but just because not everybody has. All right. Yeah. Not everyone knows how to use it and not everybody listens to the same frequency like on an analog radio.

[00:45:20] If you would hear something when I broadcast, but you've ever deal fax machines. Uh huh. Yeah. That's what it sounds like. Gotcha. So they wouldn't hear audio. They will only hear squeaking and squawking. Huh? And if you had a DMR radio, you could hear it because they're, you know, they encode and decode the message. Now here's another campfire discussion, sir.

[00:45:50] Now, if you and I were just sitting at the campfire, just you and I, right? Nobody else is listening. Uh huh. Yeah. Nobody's listening to us. They have encryption. 256 encryption. Okay. Which is just like Mesh-tastic. Uh huh. Which is just like a lot of like police radios and stuff having this 256k encryption. Got you. So if you and I feared for our lives because there was a mean biker gang in town. Right.

[00:46:17] We might flip on the encryption. And if you had the key and I, the encryption key and I had the encryption key, nobody, even if they could hear the squeaking and squawking on a digital radio, they wouldn't be able to understand what was being said. Interesting. Got you. So there's a lot of good things about digital. Uh huh. I mean, I know, I know, I'm not saying money doesn't have value, but for 150 bucks on sale right now.

[00:46:47] Right. Go get it. To have all that. And then use the code. To have a radio that you could open up and do GMRS, MERS, which MERS you don't need a license for at all. Of those frequencies, you don't need a license. You could just use it right out of the box. Gotcha. So GMRS, MERS, HAM two meter, HAM 70 centimeter analog on both of those, and then two meter and 70 centimeter digital. One little walkie talkie does all of that.

[00:47:18] And then God forbid the mean biker gang comes into town. Then you can encrypt. Yeah. That's cool. All right, guys. Romeo 10 off. Romeo. Oh, R one zero. Oh, F. I say too many. You put it in the show notes. Yeah. Yeah. We'll put it up in the show notes. And that's cool.

[00:47:47] I, cause I, you know, we, we, you've been experimenting with a lot of things. So it's cool to have. Yeah. And I play with the stuff and I kind of like figure out what, I mean, I've got more, I've got a whole table full of radios and this one, the analog version of this, if you don't care about the digital and price is really an issue, I'd say get that one. Right. At least get that one. If, if you have 150 bucks while it's still on sale, because it's, I think it's on sale

[00:48:16] for almost half price right now. Oh, gotcha. Okay. The tariffs didn't hit it yet. So. So go get it. This, this has so many, so much capability. Yeah. Love it. Well, good job. Good job. Good, good communications information. Cause that's an area where, you know, we're lacking. So I'm like, Christian, you gotta be, you gotta be the man, you know?

[00:48:42] Um, and I put in the PBN, um, elements page. I think I dropped this in the deals over there too. So you, you could see anybody in the PBN family can see that over there as well. Got you over on element. Mm-hmm. Awesome. Yeah. All right. Well, how about we do some change in earth news? All right. You going to stop me? You going to cut me off? I am. I'm going to stop you. We're going to, or we're going to have like an hour and a half show.

[00:49:10] We're going to already have an hour and a half show for them, but that's okay. We don't get as many shows out these days. So, uh, so excited about radio. I know I'm cutting you off. You are shut up. All righty. Let me whip through the, uh, change in earth news here. Dream survive thrive. This is changing earth news. We have some, uh, interesting things on the board.

[00:49:39] That's for sure. All right. So changing earth news. This is going to be March 1st to today. We're recording on April 6th. So it's going to cover that period and, uh, the world of extremes. That's why you need radios and you need communications because we have no idea what is coming. And, um, it seems like they're always talking about, Oh, these generational once in a lifetime,

[00:50:04] once in a generation event, like every storm, you know, I don't know if it's like news media hype or what, but, uh, uh, we had some serious stuff going on. So, uh, believe it or not, the Southern Plains like, um, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas coming into March 1st was all still very much drought. Um, a multi-year drought. Um, a multi-year drought. So, for example, Lake Travis is at like 35% full.

[00:50:32] Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, they're only at 32% of normal snowpack for those states. So, um, still dealing with a lot of drought. So we've got extremes, right? One area right next to each other can be just extremely drought ridden. And the other area is just getting slammed with flooding. Uh, it just seems to be more and more extreme.

[00:50:54] Southern Europe, like Spain, Italy, Greece, they were still dealing with some droughts, but especially Northern Africa, countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tunzania, um, exceptional dryness up there and having crop failures due to that dryness. So, just something to keep our eyes on because we want to make sure. I'm always on the lookout for weather patterns and how it's going to affect our agriculture, agricultural yields. So that's really where my eyes go.

[00:51:21] Uh, March 4th to the 6th, North American, uh, storm happened with wildfires. The storm hit 20 plus states with blizzard conditions, 22 inches of snow in Iowa, 68 mile an hour winds. Um, and then wildfires burned up 284 acres in San Antonio, Texas. So again, we're dealing with these extremes.

[00:51:45] There was an EF1 tornado in that storm by I, by Atta, Oklahoma. One person was injured and they got two inches of rain and Northeast causing, uh, flooding, flooded, flooding in the subways. Also, they received pea size hail in Pennsylvania, but we've seen much bigger hail, uh, around the country this, this month. Uh, six people did lose their lives.

[00:52:14] Three in Nebraska from the blizzard conditions, three in Mississippi from the storm chaos, and over 400,000 lost power in the Dallas Fort Worth area alone. March 13th, there was actually an EF0 tornado. Why is it important? It was just south of Los Angeles. And they also had another, um, EF0 up in Northern California as well. So we're talking some mountainous areas that don't usually see tornado activity.

[00:52:44] Um, sure they weren't filming a movie or something. Oh, what's that? Oh, film in the movie. Yeah. It was a special effects. It was sharknado. Yeah. So yeah, just odd, you know, um, gosh, was it last year? We seen, uh, uh, the tornado that started up on top of a mountain, which is just crazy. Doesn't usually happen like at all. Um, March 13th to 15th, there was floods in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

[00:53:13] That was due to river overflowing. There was 30 deaths reported with that. And those are just like the preliminary reports that came in. Um, they had homes, roads destroyed, lots of infrastructure damage along with those 30 lives that were lost. March 14th to the 15th, we had another tornado outbreak here in the United States in the Midwest and the South. 56 plus tornadoes across 10 states.

[00:53:41] There was 42 people that lost their lives. 12 people in Missouri, eight in Kansas, six in Mississippi, four in Texas, four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, three in, um, oh, AR. Um, I know it's not Arizona. So Arkansas, there we go. Yeah. Just north of me. We got so lucky in that storm in particular because all of the activity went north.

[00:54:09] Um, EF four is reported with this outbreak, 190 mile an hour winds in Diaz. Larkin had 170 mile an hour winds. So we're talking just a big storm. There was actually, um, a supermarket that collapsed in popular and popular bluff, Missouri that killed one person there. Total of 170 people injured, 340,000 at least without power.

[00:54:37] So it was a big storm that probably did some damage to some agriculture in areas like Missouri and Kansas where they were losing barns and things like that to tornadoes. March 13th to the 16th winter storm of wildfires. Again, we're in the Midwest in the United States. There was blizzards that came in 12 inches of snow in Minnesota, South Dakota, 60 mile an hour winds.

[00:55:06] Three people unfortunately lost their lives in car wrecks there. 100 plus wildfires in Oklahoma was a big wildfire day because of the winds. And then in Missouri, they had 1.75 inch. So it's about the size of a golf ball. Um, hail damage that came down in Missouri. March. I told you this, this month was ripping the 19th to the 20th.

[00:55:31] We had more blizzards come in and storms while they always say March, right, is in like a lion out like a lamb, right? But it didn't go out like a lamb. It went out like a bang. March 19th to the 20th. 10 inches of snow in Nebraska and Minnesota, Iowa again with road closures.

[00:55:54] Um, big old hail came down in Illinois and actually, um, one of the show hosts lost his pool in that storm. So yeah, you know, it was on the move. We, we had the same thing happen to us last winter with the pool actually. So it'll be interesting to see if it's still holds water this year. Um, that host had just spent time like building up.

[00:56:19] I know beautifying the area and building the pool in. Yeah. Um, again, uh, agricultural probably minimum. We're, we're not into full on plant season yet. Um, especially not up there, Texas for sure. We're there, but not up north. March 19th to the 20th. Storm Martin Ho came in. That's literally Martin Ho.

[00:56:48] So it's, it's hilarious. Um, hit, it's probably like Martin Ho, you know, Portugal, Spain, Martino. Something from the princess bride movies. Yeah. Yeah. Um, hit Portugal in Spain, 75 mile an hour winds, three inches of lane of rain flooded Lisbon and Porto.

[00:57:09] So hail two centimeters in diameter in Galicia, dented vehicles and five or 50,000 homes were without power. Big old storm came in. No lives lost, but, uh, you know, lots of downed trees, lots of wind damage. Um, March 23rd to 25th storm and hail damage in Saudi Arabia.

[00:57:32] So this area has just become like insane with the amount of hail that's picking up and flooding and everything like that. Um, so they got 3.5 inches of rain in Mecca and Jetta, three centimeter hail in Jetta, which was smashing windows, vehicles, no confirmed deaths at this point. But they did have flash flooding, disrupted power, and this is all happening in the desert.

[00:58:01] So very interesting activity. I'm telling you the change in earth. We did have a big coronal hole on the sun at the beginning of March. It was gigantic. It was, I've just never seen anything like that. It's the biggest one I've ever seen. And, uh, so it had earthquake activity upticking and then it really hit at the end of the month. So let's get into some more solar stuff.

[00:58:27] 23rd to the 27th, um, there was three M class flares, 28 CMEs that came off of that. It actually put us in a level two G one geometric storm, no, um, outages or power outages or anything like that. Um, and not even really a good show from it as far as like the Northern lights go.

[00:58:50] March 26th to the 20 to the 31st, Kilauea was doing some really interesting eruptive activity. And it kept going for quite a while. Some of the lava fountains were up to a thousand feet in the air. And it put off a lot of lava in the, in those activities. Again, there's nobody really around Kilauea. It's one of the most active volcanoes. Um, they're around it, but people understand like it's erupting. So they're not building houses right next to it.

[00:59:21] Um, it would have to be a big bad eruption for that. This was just typical activity. Also the Yula Yula one eruption happened in Papa New Guinea. So they had ash plumes there up to 10,000 feet in the air. That's just the ash going up that high. Um, it coated the homes and fields. So it's just hitting local subsistence crops. Um, but still you don't want to have volcanic ash on everything.

[00:59:49] And then on the 28th, there was an X one solar flare that came off the sun. It was not aimed at earth. Um, it is a big, bad eruption. Would not be good if it was aimed at the earth, but it did not. And we didn't have any of the radio blackouts. There was a potential that some of it was going to hit us. And we did not see the radio blackouts or anything like that. Thank goodness for that. I know it's, it's my son against your radios. I think you're waiting.

[01:00:21] Yeah. Yeah. I have them in a Faraday cage. Um, March 28th was the 7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar. It was a huge, huge earthquake that did a lot of damage over there. They felt it really, really far away. Um, 36 people even died in Thailand and one in Vietnam, even though it was centered in Myanmar over or just about five.

[01:00:51] I mean, it's going to be over 5,000 people. They're still digging people out of rubble rubble. And some of the, um, entire villages were just flattened and destroyed. It was really bad earthquake. If you haven't watched any of the footage of it yet, you really should. And they had all these like high, those big high rise buildings that have the pools up top and water storage up top. There was a cup like in the pool.

[01:01:21] Yeah. Yeah. There was a guy in the pool as it's like going. And then people standing down below is like the water's just rushing over the edge of these buildings. Cause they were shaking so much. I saw one with the guy. It was a guy and a girl in the pool. Yeah. And it had like the infinity edge and the water kept sloshing back and forth. I was worried for them. Right. Like you're going to go over the edge of the pool. Yeah.

[01:01:45] So that was, um, that was a huge earthquake that hit and they've seen a lot of activity since then. Um, there on the March 30th, there was a tornado cluster in Arizona, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, three tornadoes touchdown in 24 hours. There was a super cell tornado and noble giant hail reported no, um, damage to homes, but

[01:02:14] no lives lost. Thank God. March 30th, there was massive flooding in Peru and Trujillo 600 plus homes were flooded. Cars swept away. They don't have a death toll as of yet. So they're hoping that no lives were lost in that event, but it did do a lot of damage to their power lines, to, um, the, the whole town basically.

[01:02:40] Um, on March 30th, the 31st, they had flooding in Paraguay near Asuncion. There was 300 homes inundated, no casualties reported from that, but they did have a lot of people displaced from that activity, potential loss of soybean and maize crops down there in the lowlands.

[01:03:02] In Greece, they had flooding massively, especially in the, um, it was the island of Paros and a hundred plus homes of vehicles flooded, no deaths reported. I'm telling you that Ellen's trying to get me to visit all the time and she's potentially going to be in Tasmania. And I'm like, there is no way you would find me on a little island right now.

[01:03:32] Like no way. Um, that's just my personal opinion. And everybody's got their own, their own path to make, but those islands have been getting slammed. March 30th, the 31st, there was another winter storm in the Midwest in the United States, 12 inches of snow in the Dakotas, 40 mile an hour gusts, four inch softball sized hail in

[01:03:59] Viola, um, Arkansas with damage to the roofs. No deaths from that storm, but they definitely had power outages and hail was literally smashing the homes in Arkansas. March 31st, there was a 6.1 earthquake in Indonesia, 72 kilometers southwest of Tambolica at a depth of depth of 10 meters. They're really well set up for earthquakes.

[01:04:29] They experience a lot of them in Indonesia. It was just a very big quake. So luckily no lives lost in that event. They don't have the big skyscrapers swinging around and things like that. March 31st to April 1st, uh, the volcano in the Philippines, Can Leon was erupting ash plume up to 4900 feet in the air, no deaths, but they did have that ash affecting crops like rice and sugarcane.

[01:04:59] So that's where they grow a lot of sugarcane over there. March 31st, flash drought risk, central Texas. So it's still, it's just been dry, dry, dry in central part of Texas. Obviously not the north. Um, there was a 6.3 earthquake in the Pacific Antarctic Ridge. So nobody's going to be alive to see out in the middle of the ocean unless you're on a boat, but still very significant earthquake event. We've been seeing a lot of uptick.

[01:05:26] And, um, just keep in mind that may is actually like, when you look back at a lot of profits and whatnot, may as a time they ding for major for like the great quake in my book to happen. And so every May I'm a little bit more tense. Um, I actually finally wrote a prequel story. I was thinking of you, Chin, when I wrote that story and you still haven't read it, but that's just a side note.

[01:05:57] But, uh, if you sign up to my, uh, My name is Chin and I have a problem. It's called radios. Yeah. If you saw, I'll have to cast it over the radio for you. If you sign up to my mailing list or if you're already a member, it's free in the members area and you get it as a free download when you sign up to the, um, to the newsletter. It's called before the earth broke and dog made me a really cool cover for it.

[01:06:26] So, um, it's like colorful and happy, you know, instead of like, um, kind of do me gloomy like my covers are. So I was like, Oh, it's before the earth broke. It's, it's really cool. So check that out. Okay. April 1st to 2nd, we're coming into the month of April. We had floods, Baldwin County, Alabama, 300 plus homes flooded power outages.

[01:06:52] We had an, uh, M 5.6 solar flare on the first. Uh, it should not cause a lot of activity. It caused some, uh, a rural displays that were, um, seen from Scotland to Canada. So we're talking up North, nothing big. Um, on April 2nd to the fifth, is when we had big storms in Southwest and Midwestern United States.

[01:07:22] 53 plus tornadoes touching down eight deaths, one in Arkansas, one in Missouri. That was an EF three in Arkansas. EF two in, um, Nevada, Missouri, Nevada, Missouri, six in Tennessee or C near LaGrange. Hail, 167 reports of 2.5 inch hail in Tennessee. So that's tennis ball size there coming in.

[01:07:51] Uh, windows shattering from the hail. Kentucky got flooded. Dawson Springs got completely flooded out, annihilated from this last storm. Little Rock in Arkansas had some big problems with flooding going on. They got four inches of snow in Michigan. So up North, it was still cold enough to snow. And I tell you what, that storm brought in some cold to Texas. It's like, I think we're habits.

[01:08:19] We want second winter is this year. Cause it got cold again. Um, Semeru in Indonesia, the volcano erupted ash plume about 15,000 feet in the air. And then we have that G1 geomatics bank magnetic storm come in from the, um, M class solar flares. The fourth to the fifth, Sitkin, uh, great Sitkin erupted up in Alaska.

[01:08:45] So a lot of times those volcanoes are just on showing unrest alerts on the volcano. Um, where, where I go to watch what volcanoes are erupting. And this one finally did let loose. It was really slow lava, but it was a confirmed eruption up there. There was a 6.9 earthquake that just happened on the 4th and Papa New Guinea. Uh, that was a tsunami warning issued with that earthquake, but it was canceled.

[01:09:14] And then storm Kathleen hit the UK and Ireland. 80 mile an hour winds, 3.5 inches of rain recorded at Cork, 2 centimeter hail in England, denning vehicles and one death in Ireland due to that storm. But a hundred thousand without power. April 6th, which is today, there was a 4.6 earthquake in Iran this morning. Um, you know, Iran where they could potentially be testing things,

[01:09:44] but, um, no damage was reported from that. No power outages, no agricultural losses reported. Updates are still pending on the, on that earthquake. Um, that's it still reporting, you know, these just droughts next to massive flooding activity, which is just really interesting. As far as earthquakes go, January, we had about 17,500 earthquakes that were 2.0 or bigger.

[01:10:14] February, it went up to 24,500. So the earthquakes were, had a big uptake in February. March kind of calmed down and went back down to 20,000. It's still a higher number, but, um, not as bad as February was. I do expect April to be higher than March, just because of, we've seen some really big earthquakes just recently. And normally it takes time for the earth to kind of chill out after that.

[01:10:43] I looked at the volcanic numbers today. There's 37 erupting. So that's down a couple from last, from last month, which is good. Uh, 38 showing minor activity and 24 showing unrest. That takes us to, uh, what? 16. I suck with math on my head. 19.

[01:11:11] And then, 6, 7, 8, 9. 99 still on the list. So we're down one volcano from last month. We were at 100 last month. 99 volcanoes on the wall. Yeah. 99 would take one down, pass it around. No, we were up to 104 last month, but we had all of those earthquakes in February. So I'm not really surprised that we saw the amount of volcanic activity we did. It's still a big, big,

[01:11:41] the numbers are still really, really high comparatively to what we were looking at just two years ago. As far as wildfires in the United States, we have 11 large wildfires going right now. There's 128,600. Nope. 128,066 acres on fire. None of those fires are contained. South Carolina is number one on the list. We kind of knew that was coming. They still have one fire burning 15,973 acres.

[01:12:12] Uh, North Carolina is number two on the list. Yeah. Last, last month. No, uh, for Mark, for today, actually, when I looked at the list, last month we were crank. We had to be number one. Yeah. Yeah. It's come down. Cause you guys just got the rain. Mm hmm. Yeah. This is current numbers as of today. So this would be the beginning of April. Um, 9,314 acres still on fire. North Carolina,

[01:12:40] Florida is number three on the list with three fires, 4,332 acres. One new fire is actively burning. And then Georgia is number four. It's kind of an honorable mention because they have one fire that's burning 3,434 acres. So it's pretty good fire. So I thought, well, they don't usually make the list. Let's get them on the list this week. And that's one. All righty guys. So a lot going on with the changing earth.

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[01:14:37] that the planetary timelines kind of speeding up. So have faith, uh, take a breath. So much chatter in the world, but just, no, it's going to be okay. We're going to be all right. I think. Alrighty. Until next time. Remember dream. Survive. Thrive. Thank you for joining Sarah and Chad for this episode of the changing earth podcast.

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