Joel Lambert
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Well, we're certainly barreling towards the kinetic aspect. I think we're in World War III right now, which is a war of narratives. It's fifth-generation warfare. However, the kinetic aspect of it, we are barreling towards... with total abandon. And so I don't know. And really, one of the things I hit in my book all the time is I don't want to sell fear.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
This isn't about World War III or, you know, Civil War or even, you know, a nuclear explosion or EMP. What this is about is about getting back to the things that we can be empowered with in our own life. Take care of your house. Take care of your food. Take care of your water. Take care of your community.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
build community, connect with people that provide things that you don't provide and build that so that then we're living in a way that these things that we're worried about, if they come to pass, we're already set up for it. I believe in creating a life that we live and these things are just natural outgrowths of the way we live.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Well, when you talk to all the experienced preppers, everyone talks about ham radio, HF radio, which is absolutely the gold standard. However, it's very difficult to learn. It's not something you have to get licensed for it. I mean, in a shithead hitting the fan situation, nobody's going to be worried about licenses, but you still have to operate that. And it's not something that you can just...
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
know go out and switch it on all of a sudden be talking you know worldwide and so um for my my family i have family still in la and so i'm out in middle tennessee now and so communicating with them is the most important thing for me in a situation and so there are several things you can do the first thing i did is i got on starlink so um you know if if things go down starlink is going to i believe stay up much longer and be able to communicate through
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
through Starlink when, you know.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Exactly.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Whatever you, there are all kinds of ways to do it. All the go. We out here, we're on a generator system and then I have smaller generators if my big goes down, but we have Starlink as our primary. And then one of the other things we communicate with is we have a, a, satellite, Iridium satellite network. And Garmin bought recently a company called Delorme.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And Delorme had these location-based units that they put them in my backpack in Manhattan after the first episode when I got lost in Africa, or they lost me in Africa. I knew where I was at. They didn't. but you can text using the Iridium satellite network.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And you can, there's an SOS button that you can anywhere in the world, the rescues, you know, anywhere in the world on the network, they will, you know, send out a rescue for you. So that's my, my secondary. And then tertiary, we have some other radio programs,
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
mesh communications is another really good way, depending on one of the things that people always ask me, what is the best way for this, this, this, there is no one best day. The best way is whatever the situation dictates, you know, the situation will always be different and each person is always different.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And so you need to stack your preparedness plans based on you and the place you live and the circumstances that you're in. And so everyone's going to be different. I'm just telling you what I have set up. So I have, um, you know, I have Starlink and then I have, um, you know, the Iridium satellite network. And then I, I of course know how to use HF and, and, and ham radio stuff.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
So I have a setup for that and the ham radio network. The other cool thing about the ham radio network is these people live for natural disasters. That's what they do is they, they communicate. And that is, that is the greatest thing that could happen to a ham radio operators in his world is, is as the world ending, because then they're going to be communicating with everyone.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
passing everyone's messages they love this they really do and so if you can connect with ham radio operators they will help you out if you understand the basics and can connect with them they will help they will break their hands you need a big tower for that There are big towers. Those are repeaters. And so what you need to do is you need to be able to connect to one of those.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
That's all that you need to do. I see.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Yeah, you're thinking of the different GPS location. That is the Russian thing. GLONASS, or I think it's called GLONASS. Anyway, that's all opened up in our GPS system. units now operate on GLONASS and on the US based system. But what I'm talking about is the Iridium satellite network satellite phones.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Almost all of them operate on the Iridium satellite network and governments use this, you know, for I mean, we would have satellite phones in Afghanistan when we were deployed, all that. So the Iridium network is pretty robust and I don't expect that it would be taken down because the people that would be taking it down are dependent upon it.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
So I'm gambling that our secondary will be able to communicate on Iridium satellite. And you know, nothing is 100%. You could try to cover the greatest percentages you can and the best overlapping you can so that if something were to happen that you're not covered for, it's a very, very small percentage of possibility.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Radiation? Well, we had, that's a good question because I actually did two specials on Fukushima for Discovery Channel that were amazing. And I got to go to Fukushima, Daiichi and Daini and see where everything went down. And the amount of radiation that I got, I was wearing a rad meter the whole time and I could only get a certain amount of radiation before we had to shut down the filming.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
But what's interesting is I got more radiation on both of my flights to and from Japan than than I did actually in Fukushima. So the radiation is something that we get a lot of radiation, as you're well aware, Dr. Drew. I mean, there's a lot of radiation that's not just going to come. I mean, there are supplements that we can take to keep the radioactive isotopes from binding to those receptors.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Potassium iodide? Exactly. But for most people, we already have enough in our system. So I'm not too worried about the long-term radiation. What I am worried about are, you know, what's going to happen, the other things that are happening if a radiological event were to occur. You know, that's going to be nuclear air bursts or, you know, something that I'm going to have priorities.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
But, yes, that's a great question.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
I'm no expert, but as I understand it, yes, you're correct. And like in Fukushima, you know, we did CBR, chemical, biological, radiological drills all the time in the SEAL teams. And that was the big thing is you got to clean. We had a whole, we had a man portable cleaning station that was set up where we clean our feet. All right.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
We'd go through a whole procedure of stripping everything off and cleaning all the rads off of you. and then going on and getting someplace where there's a shelter. But in Fukushima, yeah, that's what happened. But then the radiation that was in the topsoil, you know, that's the long-term stuff that they have to deal with. It was in the topsoil.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And I actually went and interviewed this Zen monk who ran a Zen church. He was amazing. And he was trying, he saw all the children walking to school where all the radiation was, and he was really concerned about it. So he did some research and he learned that sunflowers process the cesium, whatever the isotope of cesium was, pull it right out of the soil.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And so he went and with his own money, bought all these sunflowers and planted sunflowers all across his village and all along the side of the roads to absorb all the cesium and make it safe for the kids to walk to school. Very charming story.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Personally, I think everything is going to get incredibly beautiful for the human race going into this next year. I think we're beginning a beautiful phase of our existence. I think it's going to be bumpy for a little while before that starts. So I would say, you know, building some community and getting, you know, prepared for just even a couple of weeks. In my book, I cover apartment dwelling.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
You know, obviously it's great if you're on a big spread of land, but, you know, stack yourself up for a little bit. So if you can't go to the ATM and you can't go make a run to the grocery store and and you're stuck inside for two, three, four weeks, you're going to be absolutely fine. That's my advice to everyone.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Yeah, you're great. Get a whole house unit and then get a couple small units that you can run freezers and things in if the house unit goes down or whatever. So that's what I have, a couple small ones and I have a big whole house.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Oh, you can find me on Facebook too. I think it's joel.lambert something. You can find me on there. I've got a business account, but bugingguide.com and buginginguide.com. And I look forward to interacting with everybody. Thank you all. You know, I think things are going to get beautiful.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
They're on Apple TV and Max because that's part of Discovery. That's on there. It's on Amazon. I think you can find all of them. You can find Manhunt. It's called Lone Target in the U.S. and in France, but it was Manhunt everywhere else. But, yeah, you can find all the shows. It was a great show, and I'm pretty proud of it. So, you know, check it out.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Dr. Drew, thanks for having me. Good to see you.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Exactly. And that is what I wrote my book in response to. When I was doing Manhunt, especially, I'm doing escape and evasion. I'm inserting in foreign countries. I'm dropping in places I'm not supposed to be. I'm coming up on beaches. I'm crossing borders under trucks.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And then their special tracking force or fugitive recovery team would come after me with everything they had to try to capture me before I'd make my extract point, which would be three to four days away. And I'd be doing tracking, counter-tracking, booby traps, primitive skills, all this stuff to try to get away.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
There was one cameraman with me. They never let me go alone. So the cameraman, sometimes he was pretty good, sometimes he was not. He got me caught on a couple of occasions. But about that time, the people, you know,
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And civilians kind of got enamored with the concept of bugging out, which was, you know, you have a bug out bag in your car, you have a bug out bag by your door, something bad happens, you grab the bag and you get out, you bug out until danger is over and you have enough stuff in your bag to survive and get along.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And, you know, being that I'm doing this internationally on a global television series, people would always ask me, you know, what's in your bug out bag? What's in your go bag? What do you have? What would you recommend? And I'd say, that's a terrible idea. Except in very specific cases, like a tornado is barreling straight for your house or something is coming specifically to you.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
exactly and in in that case obviously getting out you you have to there's no no choice in fact you know la may tell you you have to go but um in most cases your house is where you should stay your house is shelter you have food here you have water you have your tools you have your weapons you have your family it's a rally point that is everyone knows where it's at you know your neighbors
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
You know the terrain. You have a community there that's built in. It makes no sense to run away and leave that to try to establish that someplace else under extreme circumstances. So why not build your house and supply your house and prepare your mind and your family for...
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
settling in and staying in for an undetermined period of time where you're not going to be you're not maybe you don't have access to pharmaceuticals you don't have access to the grocery store you don't have access to an atm i mean whatever the circumstances might be emp civil war unrest world war three who knows what any you know natural disasters any of that
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Your house is the best place to be set up. And of course, if a wildfire comes or a tornado comes or something like that, you can always grab the go bag and get out. But why leave all the things you need to go someplace else to try to establish them? So I wrote a book.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Exactly. And, you know, being a bit of a prepper my whole life, you know, I would get, you know, flack from, from friends who thought it was weird and strange and, you know, but now nobody, nobody questions me after COVID and after, you know, the summer of love and all the things we've experienced over the last five years, nobody, nobody questions, you know, preparedness.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Now, now everyone's stocked up on toilet paper and everyone gets it that something, something wrong at any point in time.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Yes, I'm glad you asked that. As far as events, you know, it could be anything. It could be natural disasters. It could be a government situation. It could be some sort of conflict. It could be, you know, an EMP. It could be a banking crisis, anything like that. But that doesn't matter.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
What we need to think about is I like to divide survival and escape and evasion and preparedness into five things. essential components. And if you address these five in an order of precedence, you'll be covered whether it's out in the field or whether it's in your house or whether it's in an apartment or whatever the circumstances might be.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
There's shelter, water, food, communication, and navigation. And shelter being anything, obviously we have a house, that's shelter, but shelter is also clothes. Shelter is anything that protects your physical body from the elements or from from any kind of anything that can threaten your physical safety. So your physical body, preparing your physical body.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Water is very important as in we can only last three days without water in the circumstances that we're going to put ourselves in. So water is, and everyone, you know, we're used to turning on the tap. But what happens if even a power outage, that big pumping station in your city center now can no longer pump provide the pressure to get to your house.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
People don't think about these things and storing water. Water can go bad. You need to know how to store.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Well, it depends on how long you want to prepare for. And so I have, I always set up for a primary tertiary or primary secondary tertiary and emergency and tertiary and emergency can be the same, but I always like three levels of preparedness in the SEAL teams and in many other military groups, we'd always talk about two is one and one is none.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And basically that means if we're going to make a plan, a mission or an operation, we can only plan for having say a GPS unit to navigate with. If we have at least two of them, we have to have a redundancy,
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
before you can factor it into your planning and so um i always like to have at least three levels where i can and some of these are you know physical tools that i might have in order to start a fire or they might be the knowledge that i have where i can start a fire using a bow drill or some sort of other primitive means and so i always like to have redundancies and um you know you got to think through when you approach these things you divide everything into those five sections like i said and you're going to get a primary secondary and tertiary um
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
for each of those things that you need. And we start thinking through, and this is what I've done in the book. You start thinking through all the possible contingencies in an EMP situation. What's going to happen? Well, I'm going to have no electricity. What's going to happen to, you know, how am I going to navigate? How am I going to drive my car? How am I going to get my kid from school?
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
You know, you got to think through all these things and prepare, um, contingency plans and they don't have to be, they don't have to be thorough. They just have to be, I've thought about this and I've realized that I can't go, I can't take the freeway because such and such.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And so then you have these, these, these thoughts in your mind and it's going to guide you and you're going to improvise at a much higher level than you would if you hadn't already thought through these, these aspects.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Well, you know, things grow. Things grow in the water. You need to put things... We need to rotate. We rotate our water, and we also store it in a manner that the...
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
uh algae and stuff that can go that can grow in the water and the the all the all the creepy crawlies that will take over are not going to be able so there's there's things you can put in the water obviously there's you know we purify with chlorine and iodine also silver um you know copper things like that actually prevent uh algae growth and mold and things like that so there are lots of ways that we can store in conditions that we store them in the
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
the containers that we store them and the things that we can add and rotate. Rotation is very important that we can rotate through. And then also what happens if all of a sudden the pumping station goes down, you know, where are you going to get your water? So you got to source the water. You have to purify the water and you have to store the water. Those are the important things you need to do.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
No, you're thinking of a safe room or something. Yes, or fortifications. Yeah, something of that sort. Fortifications are a double-edged sword because one, you're fortified and it makes you safer, but it also pins you down. You're now dependent on that location. So you can no longer move as effectively as you could. So I'm not a big fan of fortifications. I'm a big fan of
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
of setting things up ahead of time. For instance, for my family in the house, you know, bullets go through walls very easily. And so one of the things I recommend in the book and that I'll have is frangible ammunition. And this is something we trained with quite a bit in the SEAL teams when we were doing house runs.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
A frangible projectile is a bullet that is basically made of compressed copper or some other metal that's pressed together. So it's lethal, but as soon as it strikes a hard object, it just fragments into a cloud of of fairly non-offensive dust. And so there are things that we need to think of in the house. And obviously we don't want to get to the point where someone's in our house.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
We've messed up if we're at that point, but we still need to plan that contingency. So how am I going to deal with this? Where are my family going to go to? How am I going to get my, yeah, there we go. Where am I going to get my kids, my wife, my parents, my pets to, so that I can clear this house and I can deal with the threat without having
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
to worry about where they're at and if they're in my line of fire. So there's all kinds of things we've got to think about.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
One of the biggest things that I always... One of the biggest things I always tell people for basic house fortification, before you do anything else, is go down to Home Depot or Lowe's and buy some three-inch wood screws, the big, long, heavy suckers, and then go through all of your doors and replace the strike plates for the panels and the hinges.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Take out those little one-and-a-quarter-inch screws or three-quarter-inch screws, whatever they put them in there, that one good kick will put those right through the wall, and put three-inch screws into that big... that big support lintel all the way around. And that is going to, I went to breacher school.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And when we're learning to break in places, you know, the difference between the little tiny screw and a three inch screw will give you at least 10 minutes of, you know, depending on how prepared they are, it will give you time to realize someone's coming in to retreat to your safe room or whatever your plan happens to be and deal with the threat and engage in whatever manner you need to.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
But the biggest thing is slowing down I mean, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. And so what we want to do is we want to make sure that that reactionary gap between something happening and us being able to respond to it is as long as possible.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
So we're able to mitigate whatever circumstances are happening, get our loved ones safe, and then engage in whatever manner we need to to deal with the threat.