Pandemic

D&D008: Civil War, Riots and Political Fallout

Could all the riots, civil unrest and clashes be leading up to a civil war in the future for the United States? Brian and I talked about all this and much more in this week’s show. With the shooting in Portland, the Kyle Rittenhouse case, and the Jacob Blake case, it seems like we could be heading down a dangerous path.

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D&D 006: Kalamity Kamala, Covid, and Red Dawn

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This week Dale and Brian do a movie review of red Dawn (the original) and cover some “prepper lessons” we can take from the movie. They also went into some Covid stats from the CDC, and what Kamala Harris running a VP means for the election.

With the media hype about how everyone is going to die from Covid is we let everyone go back to work, and let children go back to school we went over what these numbers actually are, and what they mean.

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D&D 005: Body Cams, Biden and Hunger Games

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In today’s show we talked about how 2021 might suck even worse than 2020 does. With the election coming up, the possible second wave of covid and the likely civil unrest on the horizon, the coming months could be interesting to say the lest.

We had Dales wife Lisa on with us today to talk about the Corona Virus, a couple of conspiracies, and of course aliens. Because Lisa was on with us today we decided to review The Hunger Games and talk about how some of the underlying stories apply to preparedness and life in general.

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D&D 004: Situational Awareness, Trump, and the Media

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This week Duff and Dale talk go over how the media, politics and current events play into our personal situational awareness. We covered what some good (and bad) news sources are, and how social media affects our decision-making process.

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D&D 003: The Future of Technology

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Today in the show we took a deeper look into the future of technology which we covered briefly in episode 2. Automation, quantum computing, video surveillance, 5G and digital twins are all on the horizon.

An article from Forbes.com was brought to our attention by a friend titled “16 Tech Trends That Will Soon Shake Up The Consumer Market” and we gave our thoughts on a few items from this list. I will say, whoever wrote this article is a little more optimistic than we are. As with any new technology, it can be, and usually is abused.

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