Ep. 24: Emergency Preparedness and Becoming a Prepper

In this episode of The Silvercore Podcast, Travis Bader speaks with Ian Jones from The Canadian Prepper Podcast Podcast and discusses how he got into prepping and what he would recommend to others to have in order to be prepared for any eventualities.

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Topics discussed in this episode:

• Into [00:00:00 - 00:02:09] 
• The Canadian Prepper Podcast. [00:02:09 - 00:02:34] 
• How Ian got into the prepping world [00:02:34 - 00:08:00]
• Zombie apocalypse [00:08:00 - 00:08:43]
• Doomsday prepper stereotypes, the realities of preppers & ghosting [00:08:43 - 00:11:29]
• Best preparation is knowledge and training [00:11:29 - 00:13:15]
• Approach from people to preppers since COVID-19 [00:13:15 - 00:14:34]
• Being a prepper and not advertising that you are a prepper, but getting the word out former people to get on the plan [00:14:34 - 00:15:20]
• Stigma attached to being a prepper & hobbies [00:15:20 - 00:16:33]
• Where should people start off & security systems [00:16:33 - 00:18:59]
• Access to water & the Rule of 3‘s [00:18:59 - 00:21:07]
• Reasonable preparations during emergencies [00:21:07 - 00:23:09]
• What Ian spends his time learning and education himself on & different skillsets to have [00:23:09 - 00:25:17]
• What to keep in a vehicle [00:25:17 - 00:27:16]
• Bug-out bag or bug-in bag  [00:27:16 - 00:29:54]
• Background in Boy Scouts and being prepared [00:29:54 - 00:30:41]
• Camping & physical fitness [00:30:41 - 00:32:17]
• Distilled points for being better prepared [00:32:17 - 00:35:08]
• Physical fitness & mental fitness  [00:35:08 - 00:38:35]
• Taccom, Canadian Prepper Podcast & Canadian Patriot Podcast [00:38:35 - 00:40:20]
• Outro [00:40:20 -00:40:44]

Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources which may be beneficial to you:

• Silvercore [00:00:10] [00:00:21] [00:00:24] [00:00:31] [00:00:50] [00:01:28] [00:01:37] [00:01:53]
• Kylmit [00:00:56] [00:01:08]
• Bradley Smoker [00:01:24] [00:01:33] [00:01:41]
• The Canadian Prepper Podcast [00:02:04] [00:02:10] [00:39:24]
• Bill C68 [00:05:37]
• Krav Maga [00:07:00]
• Les Stroud [00:07:23]
• LARPing [00:07:31]
• Jack Spirko [00:09:12]
• The Survival Podcast [00:09:14]
• Slam Fire [00:15:33] [00:16:39]
• OPSEC [00:14:57]
• Rule of three’s [00:19:32]
• TCCC [00:24:17]
• CGN, Canadian Gun Nutz [00:25:37]
• Beavers, Cubs, Scouts [00:30:03]
• Air Cadets [00:30:08] [00:30:10]
• OFA [00:34:29]
• Taccom [00:38:46] [00:39:15]
• Canadian Patriot Podcast [00:39:55]

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