1 00:00:11,052 --> 00:00:13,332 Andy: This is the Secure Family Podcast. 2 00:00:13,332 --> 00:00:15,162 Welcome friend, I'm Andy Murphy. 3 00:00:15,552 --> 00:00:19,842 This show is all about empowering parents to protect themselves and their family. 4 00:00:20,322 --> 00:00:23,292 I believe that security is the foundation of happiness. 5 00:00:23,382 --> 00:00:25,902 I want your family to be safe and happy. 6 00:00:26,232 --> 00:00:29,802 If that sounds like something that resonates with you, subscribe to 7 00:00:29,802 --> 00:00:32,772 the show because there is always something new to talk about. 8 00:00:33,612 --> 00:00:36,522 The information that I share on this podcast is for general 9 00:00:36,522 --> 00:00:38,232 information purposes only. 10 00:00:38,562 --> 00:00:42,582 My goal is to empower you to make safer decisions for yourself and 11 00:00:42,582 --> 00:00:46,662 your family because our safety is our own responsibility. 12 00:00:47,292 --> 00:00:51,552 Today, I get to 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a man known as Disaster patrick. 36 00:02:12,133 --> 00:02:14,803 Patrick is not the typical disaster expert. 37 00:02:15,073 --> 00:02:17,443 No doom and gloom, no scare tactics. 38 00:02:17,443 --> 00:02:21,373 Just real actionable insights from the forefront of the world's 39 00:02:21,373 --> 00:02:23,203 toughest disaster challenges. 40 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:29,269 Between setting the world record for 28 hours of nonstop CPR, building emergency 41 00:02:29,269 --> 00:02:36,709 shelters with Lego blocks, and evacuating 240 cats in 90 minutes, Disaster Patrick's 42 00:02:36,709 --> 00:02:41,449 mission is to push the edge of what's possible in preparing for a disaster. 43 00:02:42,025 --> 00:02:46,825 Patrick has a great saying, prepare for a disaster and you'll never experience one. 44 00:02:47,185 --> 00:02:49,705 Here's my conversation with Disaster Patrick. 45 00:02:59,641 --> 00:03:02,851 So Patrick, thank you so much for taking time outta your day 46 00:03:02,851 --> 00:03:04,651 to talk with me and my audience. 47 00:03:04,651 --> 00:03:06,001 Introduce yourself to everybody. 48 00:03:06,248 --> 00:03:09,938 Patrick: Well, I'm the person that's going to help you rethink the 49 00:03:09,938 --> 00:03:12,458 way you do disaster preparedness. 50 00:03:12,458 --> 00:03:17,018 I've been doing disaster planning for over 20 years, and I think that 51 00:03:17,018 --> 00:03:21,168 the way that most people do disaster preparedness, is completely wrong. 52 00:03:21,558 --> 00:03:26,268 So I decided after a long career, um, as a disaster professional 53 00:03:26,268 --> 00:03:30,018 in private service, I decided to become a full-time content creator. 54 00:03:30,108 --> 00:03:33,978 So now I create videos that show people disaster planning. 55 00:03:33,978 --> 00:03:37,038 Doesn't have to be hard, it doesn't have to be difficult. 56 00:03:37,038 --> 00:03:39,318 It can be fun and it can be interesting. 57 00:03:39,618 --> 00:03:42,768 And the way people call me is Disaster Patrick. 58 00:03:44,123 --> 00:03:45,833 Andy: That's a great, that's, that's great, man. 59 00:03:46,163 --> 00:03:52,013 Um, Given your experience, uh, you know, with families and with people, 60 00:03:52,133 --> 00:03:55,763 there's always that one person in the family who's very, like, 61 00:03:55,763 --> 00:03:58,883 preparedness minded and it seems like nobody else is. 62 00:03:59,153 --> 00:04:03,143 So how do you help the preparedness minded person get the whole 63 00:04:03,143 --> 00:04:04,398 family to buy into the plan? 64 00:04:05,201 --> 00:04:06,041 I try to make it fun. 65 00:04:06,611 --> 00:04:09,311 One of the things I'm doing this year, for example, and I'm doing it 66 00:04:09,311 --> 00:04:17,021 live on YouTube, is I am building the world's first, very first FEMA rated. 67 00:04:18,011 --> 00:04:19,121 Hurricane shelter. 68 00:04:19,171 --> 00:04:21,991 And hurricanes are something that a lot of people deal with 69 00:04:21,991 --> 00:04:23,461 in the south and on the east. 70 00:04:23,671 --> 00:04:28,201 And so you understand exactly the implications of what I'm about to say. 71 00:04:28,891 --> 00:04:34,051 This is gonna be the first FEMA rated hurricane shelter, and 72 00:04:34,051 --> 00:04:35,191 it's gonna be made entirely. 73 00:04:35,881 --> 00:04:40,801 Outta Lego blocks, and it's gonna be really cool because what I'm 74 00:04:40,801 --> 00:04:42,031 doing is I'm building this thing. 75 00:04:42,031 --> 00:04:44,431 I have Lego Master Builders working with me. 76 00:04:44,641 --> 00:04:48,631 I've got, uh, people from the University of Maryland, uh, people who are aero 77 00:04:48,631 --> 00:04:52,681 physicists, people who know wind, they know, and these guys test, 78 00:04:52,831 --> 00:04:56,731 you know, uh, they test 7 47 wings and, and they have a wind tunnel. 79 00:04:57,481 --> 00:05:01,711 And the wind tunnel can blow up to 200 miles per hour. 80 00:05:02,161 --> 00:05:04,681 So we're gonna take this structure for the, so for the next nine 81 00:05:04,681 --> 00:05:05,881 months we're gonna build this thing. 82 00:05:06,301 --> 00:05:12,151 And then in September of this year, 2026, we are gonna put it in the 83 00:05:12,151 --> 00:05:16,771 wind tunnel and we are going to test it under 200 mile per hour winds. 84 00:05:18,196 --> 00:05:20,986 People sometimes ask me, why, why in the world would you do that? 85 00:05:21,436 --> 00:05:24,706 I mean, why in the world would anyone need a Legos? 86 00:05:24,766 --> 00:05:27,406 A A, a a hurricane structure made outta Legos? 87 00:05:27,436 --> 00:05:31,666 And my answer is this, I wanna tell everyone that look, disaster 88 00:05:31,666 --> 00:05:32,956 preparedness is in your reach. 89 00:05:33,856 --> 00:05:36,226 And it doesn't have to be doom and gloom because to be 90 00:05:36,226 --> 00:05:37,056 honest with you, and I think. 91 00:05:37,336 --> 00:05:41,536 What ends up happening is a lot of people don't wanna get 92 00:05:41,536 --> 00:05:42,616 involved in disaster planning. 93 00:05:42,616 --> 00:05:43,786 Frankly, I wouldn't either. 94 00:05:43,996 --> 00:05:46,666 I totally get it because it's doom and gloom. 95 00:05:46,696 --> 00:05:49,456 It's boring, it's depressing, it's terrible. 96 00:05:49,666 --> 00:05:53,616 So what I'm trying to do is trying to say, make it fun. 97 00:05:54,841 --> 00:05:56,011 Let's make it empowering. 98 00:05:56,611 --> 00:05:58,741 And kids they love Lego blocks. 99 00:05:58,741 --> 00:05:59,731 That's one of the first things they did. 100 00:05:59,731 --> 00:06:01,981 As a matter of fact, I have a video going, coming out in a couple weeks 101 00:06:02,161 --> 00:06:06,391 where we, I took school supplies, just school supplies, things you'd find 102 00:06:06,901 --> 00:06:09,301 in any elementary school classroom. 103 00:06:09,676 --> 00:06:14,116 I built a wildfire structure entirely out of it in this seven year old's 104 00:06:14,296 --> 00:06:16,036 backyard in his family's house. 105 00:06:16,246 --> 00:06:19,306 And we literally built it back there and we tried to light it on fire and 106 00:06:19,306 --> 00:06:23,146 lo and behold, it stayed up and, and we prevented smoke from entering it. 107 00:06:23,146 --> 00:06:23,896 It was amazing. 108 00:06:24,226 --> 00:06:27,676 But the whole point of doing these is to show people that it could be fun. 109 00:06:27,676 --> 00:06:30,946 So what I would tell those folks is I would say, here's what you have to do. 110 00:06:30,946 --> 00:06:32,026 It's a two-prong strategy. 111 00:06:32,896 --> 00:06:35,716 First, you have to tell people that. 112 00:06:36,106 --> 00:06:39,946 They are responsible for their own disaster preparedness. 113 00:06:40,261 --> 00:06:40,681 Mm-hmm. 114 00:06:41,956 --> 00:06:43,966 There's too many families that say, that's okay. 115 00:06:43,966 --> 00:06:45,196 Mom and dad will handle it. 116 00:06:45,226 --> 00:06:48,436 As soon as you say Mom and dad will handle it, why would the kids do it? 117 00:06:48,826 --> 00:06:52,276 If it's boring and awful and doom and gloom, but instead of the parents 118 00:06:52,276 --> 00:06:53,956 say, well, you're responsible for it. 119 00:06:53,956 --> 00:06:57,316 Now the kids think, okay, so now what do I need to do? 120 00:06:57,796 --> 00:07:01,876 And so they look to something that's really fun and empowering and they, 121 00:07:02,056 --> 00:07:03,796 that they can say, I can do it. 122 00:07:04,756 --> 00:07:08,206 Because I think if they think that they can do it and that it's gonna 123 00:07:08,206 --> 00:07:11,656 be fun and interesting for them, and something that's going to train 124 00:07:11,656 --> 00:07:16,276 their mind a little bit, then you will get far better participation. 125 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,030 Very cool. 126 00:07:17,030 --> 00:07:21,680 So I have a lot of questions about this Lego, uh, hurricane shelter. 127 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,315 Um, how many bricks are, are we talking here? 128 00:07:25,315 --> 00:07:28,580 Like there's gotta be like thousands and thousands right? 129 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:29,570 8,000. 130 00:07:30,335 --> 00:07:30,875 Wow. 131 00:07:31,085 --> 00:07:31,595 Okay. 132 00:07:32,105 --> 00:07:34,955 Uh, you tell me a little bit about like what the structure, 133 00:07:34,955 --> 00:07:35,705 what it would look like? 134 00:07:35,705 --> 00:07:38,615 Or is this, I know this is a, you know, project you're working on, 135 00:07:38,915 --> 00:07:41,885 uh, or is secret or can you tell me like, what, what, what does 136 00:07:42,410 --> 00:07:43,340 Patrick: We do know the structure. 137 00:07:43,340 --> 00:07:46,130 The structure is designed, so we do the design. 138 00:07:46,490 --> 00:07:49,550 I'm working with a couple of partners because I'm gonna be building it at 139 00:07:49,550 --> 00:07:53,240 Lego conferences, so we're going and collecting bricks because hey, one 140 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,380 of the biggest problems is how in the world are you gonna get 8,000? 141 00:07:57,785 --> 00:07:59,165 Uh, bricks and plates. 142 00:07:59,465 --> 00:08:03,665 And so to get that many brick, bricks and plates requires a lot of participation. 143 00:08:03,665 --> 00:08:05,645 So I'm partnering with a couple of big firms. 144 00:08:05,855 --> 00:08:08,075 Uh, we're gonna be announcing it in just a few weeks 'cause we're 145 00:08:08,075 --> 00:08:09,845 just finalizing the website page. 146 00:08:09,845 --> 00:08:12,665 It'll go on my website, disaster patrick.com. 147 00:08:12,665 --> 00:08:17,675 There will actually be a page that is specifically for that challenge. 148 00:08:18,425 --> 00:08:22,475 And what we're gonna do is, is, uh, slowly build this up and people 149 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:23,675 will be able to see it being built. 150 00:08:23,795 --> 00:08:26,015 And every week I'm doing a little vlog. 151 00:08:26,290 --> 00:08:28,750 Uh, to show people, um, the progress. 152 00:08:28,750 --> 00:08:29,590 How are we doing? 153 00:08:29,740 --> 00:08:34,600 Because I'll tell you something, it's frustrating, tremendously frustrating. 154 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,960 It's fun and it's interesting, but it's, but it's something that 155 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:38,980 you have to do a lot of thought. 156 00:08:38,980 --> 00:08:40,900 There's a lot of moving pieces, so to speak. 157 00:08:41,050 --> 00:08:43,180 There's a lot of people you, you know, you have to integrate. 158 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:46,120 So, so I want people to see that journey and say, Hey, if 159 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:47,470 I can do this, you can do that. 160 00:08:48,395 --> 00:08:49,265 Andy: Yeah, man, I like it. 161 00:08:49,355 --> 00:08:50,795 Uh, you know, best of luck with it. 162 00:08:50,795 --> 00:08:52,145 I think that's gonna be fantastic. 163 00:08:52,145 --> 00:08:54,665 I will definitely, definitely check that out. 164 00:08:55,205 --> 00:08:56,435 Um, so 165 00:08:56,865 --> 00:09:01,515 Legos aside, what does a realistic disaster plan look 166 00:09:01,515 --> 00:09:02,715 like for the average family. 167 00:09:02,966 --> 00:09:04,616 Patrick: A realistic disaster plan. 168 00:09:05,456 --> 00:09:06,266 Don't have one. 169 00:09:07,016 --> 00:09:07,916 Don't have one at all. 170 00:09:08,246 --> 00:09:10,076 Here's what I tell people there. 171 00:09:10,081 --> 00:09:13,916 I want you to think about, I want you to think about the 172 00:09:13,916 --> 00:09:15,386 number of families you know. 173 00:09:16,391 --> 00:09:18,491 Who actually write out a disaster plan. 174 00:09:19,301 --> 00:09:21,311 You know what the answer is zero. 175 00:09:21,371 --> 00:09:24,461 Or maybe there's one or two or there maybe that one family that, 176 00:09:24,581 --> 00:09:25,961 that they are just committed. 177 00:09:26,081 --> 00:09:27,281 They write the plan down. 178 00:09:27,701 --> 00:09:30,581 All the other families, they never do it, period. 179 00:09:30,821 --> 00:09:34,811 So the system I proposed to people, as I say, look, I wanna change the way 180 00:09:34,811 --> 00:09:40,571 you think about disaster preparedness, instead of it being focused. 181 00:09:41,411 --> 00:09:45,821 Around a document, a dusty old binder or a piece of paper that you and I 182 00:09:45,821 --> 00:09:50,951 both know, you're never gonna update, you're never gonna look at, your 183 00:09:50,951 --> 00:09:53,201 kids are never gonna care about it. 184 00:09:53,501 --> 00:09:56,951 And I want you to focus it around a backpack. 185 00:09:58,181 --> 00:10:04,631 A And I'm not talking about the backpack you buy at Walmart or Home Depot or 186 00:10:04,631 --> 00:10:07,796 whatever, that you know how you, you, you and I have seen these a million times. 187 00:10:08,456 --> 00:10:12,866 You buy the backpack, it's a big red backpack and it's got a zip tie on it 188 00:10:13,646 --> 00:10:17,816 and you open it and it's got a bunch of generic junk that no one's gonna ever use. 189 00:10:18,026 --> 00:10:19,406 And it happens all the time. 190 00:10:19,406 --> 00:10:22,976 Matter of fact, I was at an RV park, uh, I did, I do a lot of, uh, disaster 191 00:10:22,976 --> 00:10:26,816 preparedness, uh, for our RV parks and campgrounds have done thousands of them. 192 00:10:27,146 --> 00:10:30,266 And one of the things that happened was, um, I was delivering a presentation 193 00:10:30,536 --> 00:10:34,466 and there was a family, a, a a, a couple, I'm sorry, who were traveling 194 00:10:34,466 --> 00:10:36,296 around the country in their rv. 195 00:10:37,121 --> 00:10:40,061 And they asked me, Hey, would you look at our disaster backpack? 196 00:10:40,721 --> 00:10:41,291 I said, sure. 197 00:10:41,291 --> 00:10:43,721 And they said, 'cause we feel totally disaster repaired. 198 00:10:43,721 --> 00:10:45,041 We're totally ready, Patrick. 199 00:10:45,041 --> 00:10:45,971 We've got this down. 200 00:10:46,841 --> 00:10:47,441 So I said, okay. 201 00:10:48,041 --> 00:10:52,301 So we opened it up and we pulled out all the obligatory stuff, the flashlight, 202 00:10:52,301 --> 00:10:53,741 that wasn't that great, yada, yada. 203 00:10:54,191 --> 00:10:56,831 And then there was a piece of food, right? 204 00:10:56,831 --> 00:10:57,701 And it's a hockey puck. 205 00:10:57,731 --> 00:10:58,391 That's what I call it. 206 00:10:59,081 --> 00:11:00,041 It's hockey puck food. 207 00:11:00,701 --> 00:11:01,931 It's like right? 208 00:11:02,321 --> 00:11:03,281 It's hard as a rock. 209 00:11:04,116 --> 00:11:05,231 It'll, it'll, it'll break. 210 00:11:05,231 --> 00:11:08,291 Diamonds mean this thing is hard as a rock. 211 00:11:08,711 --> 00:11:11,351 And so anyway, so as we were going through everything, I suddenly pulled 212 00:11:11,351 --> 00:11:17,261 out my, my, uh, pocket and I opened it and they said, well, wait a minute. 213 00:11:17,261 --> 00:11:18,101 Whatcha doing? 214 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:20,711 And I said, I'm making you lunch. 215 00:11:21,791 --> 00:11:23,381 And they said, why are you making us lunch? 216 00:11:23,381 --> 00:11:24,576 Why'd you cut that open? 217 00:11:24,671 --> 00:11:28,001 I said, because you have to eat the food now. 218 00:11:28,601 --> 00:11:33,431 You have to test it now, you have to eat it now because this is food you're 219 00:11:33,431 --> 00:11:38,321 gonna be relying on in a potentially life-threatening situation where 220 00:11:38,321 --> 00:11:42,221 things are chaotic and you have to have food that you can actually eat. 221 00:11:42,221 --> 00:11:45,401 And you know what, we ended up discovering that food, they couldn't 222 00:11:45,401 --> 00:11:47,126 actually eat because of food allergies. 223 00:11:47,826 --> 00:11:48,046 Oh 224 00:11:48,046 --> 00:11:48,206 wow. 225 00:11:49,091 --> 00:11:51,761 so these are the, so what I say to people is I say, say, look, 226 00:11:51,761 --> 00:11:52,421 here's what we're gonna do. 227 00:11:52,931 --> 00:11:54,491 You're gonna start with an empty backpack. 228 00:11:55,136 --> 00:11:55,976 And we're gonna build it. 229 00:11:55,976 --> 00:11:59,216 And I use a method, we don't have time to talk too much about it today, but 230 00:11:59,216 --> 00:12:01,226 it's called the five Pocket Method. 231 00:12:01,226 --> 00:12:03,686 I've used it with my high net worth clients, where they're 232 00:12:03,686 --> 00:12:05,246 busy, they're jet setting types. 233 00:12:05,516 --> 00:12:09,416 I've used it with all kinds of families and businesses, and basically, instead of 234 00:12:09,416 --> 00:12:12,446 writing a plan down, I have engineered it. 235 00:12:12,656 --> 00:12:18,536 The sys, the system I've developed is where you can put everything 236 00:12:18,536 --> 00:12:21,356 you need in the backpack, and everything in the backpack will 237 00:12:21,356 --> 00:12:22,776 tell you exactly where to go. 238 00:12:23,681 --> 00:12:27,551 The backpack will say where you need to go and what you need to have in 239 00:12:27,551 --> 00:12:31,511 order to get there, and how to be successful once you get get there. 240 00:12:31,751 --> 00:12:37,001 So that's the system I use because then I can inspect a backpack and I 241 00:12:37,001 --> 00:12:39,161 can pull it open and say, ah, perfect. 242 00:12:39,251 --> 00:12:39,581 Great. 243 00:12:39,581 --> 00:12:41,141 I know exactly everything. 244 00:12:41,291 --> 00:12:42,431 I know where you're going. 245 00:12:42,431 --> 00:12:46,031 There are the car keys, there are the house keys, there's this, there's that. 246 00:12:46,961 --> 00:12:48,881 That tells me more than having to write it all down. 247 00:12:49,676 --> 00:12:50,036 Right. 248 00:12:50,696 --> 00:12:55,166 So by doing that it, it gives people also kind of a tactile feel, 249 00:12:55,621 --> 00:12:56,041 Mm-hmm. 250 00:12:56,041 --> 00:12:56,846 learn by doing. 251 00:12:57,026 --> 00:12:58,676 I used to do this when I used to train EMTs. 252 00:12:58,676 --> 00:13:00,176 I say, listen, don't worry about the book. 253 00:13:00,176 --> 00:13:00,776 Don't read the book. 254 00:13:01,646 --> 00:13:02,966 We're gonna do it by hand. 255 00:13:02,966 --> 00:13:05,816 We're gonna put the mannequin down and I'm gonna show you how to do a patient 256 00:13:05,816 --> 00:13:06,326 assessment. 257 00:13:06,746 --> 00:13:09,266 And we did it, and they learned far better that way. 258 00:13:09,476 --> 00:13:11,846 So when I work with families, that's what I do as well. 259 00:13:11,846 --> 00:13:15,416 I say, listen, we're gonna create a backpack for you that will have 260 00:13:15,416 --> 00:13:16,676 everything that you need in it. 261 00:13:16,676 --> 00:13:20,846 And plus, people respond much, much better to objects than, than 262 00:13:20,846 --> 00:13:22,166 they do to some old disaster plan. 263 00:13:22,791 --> 00:13:26,301 Andy: Patrick, in the responses that you've given me so far, you're talking 264 00:13:26,301 --> 00:13:30,321 about bringing the kids in from the beginning, not like parents are 265 00:13:30,321 --> 00:13:33,381 sheltering, the kids saying, oh sweetie, you don't have to worry about this. 266 00:13:33,561 --> 00:13:37,341 You're saying make everybody involved in the preparedness process. 267 00:13:37,521 --> 00:13:38,241 Patrick: Absolutely. 268 00:13:38,421 --> 00:13:41,451 And the philosophy I tell people all the time is, if I do 269 00:13:41,451 --> 00:13:43,731 nothing, no one else will either. 270 00:13:44,091 --> 00:13:45,471 No one else will. 271 00:13:45,771 --> 00:13:48,111 And that's the philosophy I want you to take. 272 00:13:48,111 --> 00:13:51,321 Whether you're doing any kind of preparedness response or 273 00:13:51,321 --> 00:13:53,841 recovery activity with a disaster. 274 00:13:54,501 --> 00:14:00,261 If I do nothing, no one else will either because, because if the parents are doing 275 00:14:00,261 --> 00:14:02,901 it, it's if I do nothing, that's okay. 276 00:14:03,246 --> 00:14:04,386 Mom and dad will do it. 277 00:14:05,406 --> 00:14:07,206 If I do nothing, that's okay. 278 00:14:07,506 --> 00:14:08,496 FEMA will do it. 279 00:14:08,766 --> 00:14:10,686 If I do nothing, that's okay. 280 00:14:10,686 --> 00:14:12,546 The fire department will handle all of it. 281 00:14:12,546 --> 00:14:14,466 I say to them, absolutely not. 282 00:14:14,856 --> 00:14:19,176 You need to assume if I do nothing, no one else will either. 283 00:14:19,176 --> 00:14:22,956 And if you do that, then what happens is you now, you see how 284 00:14:22,956 --> 00:14:24,666 that changes your mentality. 285 00:14:24,996 --> 00:14:29,946 It puts you in a place where everyone can be involved and isn't simply, you 286 00:14:29,946 --> 00:14:31,446 know, telling kids that philosophy. 287 00:14:31,446 --> 00:14:32,676 It's saying, okay. 288 00:14:33,126 --> 00:14:35,766 You have to handle your own disaster preparedness. 289 00:14:35,766 --> 00:14:38,406 And oh, by the way, here are the tools available. 290 00:14:38,676 --> 00:14:42,306 That's why I did the video with the 7-year-old because his parents 291 00:14:42,306 --> 00:14:43,656 weren't there building it with us. 292 00:14:43,656 --> 00:14:45,936 I mean, they were there watching us just to make sure everything 293 00:14:45,936 --> 00:14:48,036 ran fine, but they didn't touch it. 294 00:14:48,036 --> 00:14:49,026 They didn't work with it. 295 00:14:49,026 --> 00:14:53,256 We did it all on our own because I wanted to show people that if you 296 00:14:53,256 --> 00:14:59,736 empower someone, even a 7-year-old, they can build a wildfire shelter entirely. 297 00:15:02,236 --> 00:15:09,106 Experience, but you are success. 298 00:15:09,708 --> 00:15:10,458 Andy: That's great, man. 299 00:15:10,638 --> 00:15:11,928 Yeah, I like that philosophy. 300 00:15:11,928 --> 00:15:16,368 I, I like the way, the way you're thinking about, and you know, when 301 00:15:16,368 --> 00:15:21,288 thinking about families, how does your preparedness plan shift when you need 302 00:15:21,288 --> 00:15:26,658 to factor in, maybe elderly relatives, people with mobility issues and pets. 303 00:15:26,958 --> 00:15:30,528 What sort of things do people need to know to make a plan around their entire 304 00:15:30,528 --> 00:15:32,988 family, not just an able-bodied person. 305 00:15:34,653 --> 00:15:37,533 Patrick: I tell 'em, don't do the same thing that you would do for 306 00:15:37,533 --> 00:15:39,093 yourself that you would do for them. 307 00:15:39,453 --> 00:15:43,983 So one of the things I advocate for is I say, you need to create 308 00:15:44,043 --> 00:15:47,193 a disaster backpack for grandma. 309 00:15:48,183 --> 00:15:50,943 You need to create a disaster backpack for your dog. 310 00:15:51,933 --> 00:15:54,813 You need to create a disaster backpack for your baby. 311 00:15:55,263 --> 00:15:59,163 You need to create a disaster backpack for your extreme valuables. 312 00:15:59,433 --> 00:16:01,863 As a matter of fact, actually have done this before. 313 00:16:02,013 --> 00:16:03,663 I was working with a high net worth family. 314 00:16:03,663 --> 00:16:06,343 You're gonna think you're gonna think this is crazy, and maybe it is. 315 00:16:07,203 --> 00:16:10,533 They owned a really expensive Xbox. 316 00:16:10,563 --> 00:16:12,213 It was, it was custom made. 317 00:16:12,213 --> 00:16:13,923 It had, it was made out of gold. 318 00:16:13,923 --> 00:16:16,833 It had other stripes on it, other valuable me metals on it. 319 00:16:16,923 --> 00:16:19,983 It was like this, like a special thing that they received. 320 00:16:20,253 --> 00:16:23,013 And when I was doing their disaster plan, they said, would you create 321 00:16:23,013 --> 00:16:25,233 a disaster plan for that Xbox? 322 00:16:25,233 --> 00:16:26,583 And I said, just an Xbox. 323 00:16:26,583 --> 00:16:28,983 They said, this is a $50,000 Xbox. 324 00:16:28,983 --> 00:16:30,573 I said, that's an expensive Xbox. 325 00:16:31,113 --> 00:16:35,253 And so I said, so we literally created, we literally created. 326 00:16:35,808 --> 00:16:42,348 A backpack for the Xbox because that is because what they told me, 327 00:16:42,498 --> 00:16:44,028 we're not leaving without that. 328 00:16:44,388 --> 00:16:45,173 And I said, okay, that's fine. 329 00:16:46,068 --> 00:16:49,278 Whe, whether you, and I think that that's crazy or not, is beside the point. 330 00:16:49,278 --> 00:16:54,498 But the point I'm making is that if you see something valuable enough, you need 331 00:16:54,498 --> 00:16:57,498 to have a way to transport it on its own. 332 00:16:57,498 --> 00:17:01,848 So what I tell families is, is stop creating a backpack for the family. 333 00:17:01,998 --> 00:17:02,748 Stop that. 334 00:17:03,318 --> 00:17:04,998 Create a backpack for yourself, and then. 335 00:17:06,158 --> 00:17:08,198 Create a backpack for everyone else. 336 00:17:08,198 --> 00:17:10,238 A matter of fact, in a few weeks, I have a video coming out. 337 00:17:10,448 --> 00:17:15,008 I, I worked, uh, with this be, this, this the sweetest golden retriever 338 00:17:15,548 --> 00:17:16,988 I've ever worked with in my life. 339 00:17:17,528 --> 00:17:23,028 And I created a disaster backpack specifically for that dog because I said. 340 00:17:24,063 --> 00:17:24,963 To the family. 341 00:17:25,233 --> 00:17:29,883 You don't you, when you create a disaster backpack, that's your backpack, yours, 342 00:17:30,723 --> 00:17:34,113 the backpack you create for grandma, or for your dog, or for your baby or 343 00:17:34,113 --> 00:17:36,963 whatever, that's their backpack alone. 344 00:17:37,203 --> 00:17:41,433 Again, it goes back to this original concept of if I do 345 00:17:41,433 --> 00:17:43,863 nothing, no one else will either. 346 00:17:43,863 --> 00:17:47,973 So I have to create the backpack for them because they can't do it on their own. 347 00:17:48,273 --> 00:17:50,973 And so by doing that, I now empower them. 348 00:17:51,618 --> 00:17:54,468 I now empower them because I'm giving them what they need. 349 00:17:54,498 --> 00:18:01,548 The key here is if you are in a position where you are taking care of someone 350 00:18:01,548 --> 00:18:05,148 or you're taking care of an animal or another person, you wanna make sure 351 00:18:05,148 --> 00:18:09,768 that everything you are including in that backpack is specifically for them 352 00:18:09,768 --> 00:18:11,448 and not intermingled with your own. 353 00:18:12,483 --> 00:18:14,013 Yeah, and that makes a whole lot of sense. 354 00:18:14,013 --> 00:18:17,193 And that makes sure that, you know, everybody else, they pick up their bag and 355 00:18:17,193 --> 00:18:18,753 they, they take it out the door with them. 356 00:18:18,753 --> 00:18:20,373 It's theirs, they're responsible for it. 357 00:18:20,853 --> 00:18:24,513 Um, when comes to preparedness, what are some of the things that 358 00:18:24,513 --> 00:18:26,943 parents and families are overlooking? 359 00:18:27,183 --> 00:18:30,423 What are those items that we're forgetting that we really are going 360 00:18:30,423 --> 00:18:31,713 to need when something goes wrong? 361 00:18:33,348 --> 00:18:37,188 Psychologically, um, I have, well, I was mentioning before I have the 362 00:18:37,188 --> 00:18:41,718 five pocket method, and one of the things, one of the five pockets is 363 00:18:41,718 --> 00:18:46,758 psychological, and people forget that all the time because we have, you know. 364 00:18:46,953 --> 00:18:52,323 We have our flashlights and our pocket knife and the obligatory dry food and the 365 00:18:52,323 --> 00:18:57,453 water packets, and we've got, you know, the first aid kit, which, which always 366 00:18:57,453 --> 00:19:00,663 has like a bee sting kit or a snake bike kit, even though no one knows how to 367 00:19:00,663 --> 00:19:02,793 use that stuff except EMTs and stuff. 368 00:19:03,303 --> 00:19:07,563 But we have it in there anyway because it makes us feel better, but we forget. 369 00:19:08,538 --> 00:19:09,798 In a disaster. 370 00:19:10,008 --> 00:19:15,348 We wanna stay focused and staying focused means we need to add 371 00:19:15,408 --> 00:19:23,958 items to our backpacks that make us feel as though we can refocus. 372 00:19:24,168 --> 00:19:25,398 So I joke around all the time. 373 00:19:25,398 --> 00:19:26,718 You and I were just talking about Xboxes. 374 00:19:26,718 --> 00:19:28,038 As a matter of fact, I say this for real. 375 00:19:28,038 --> 00:19:29,523 I, I dress high school audiences a lot. 376 00:19:30,288 --> 00:19:32,838 I say to them, you know, what is one of the biggest things 377 00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:35,688 you need to make sure that you include in your disaster backpack? 378 00:19:35,688 --> 00:19:36,918 And everyone's on the edge of their seat. 379 00:19:36,918 --> 00:19:37,188 What? 380 00:19:37,368 --> 00:19:39,708 And I always go, you're a Nintendo Switch. 381 00:19:40,968 --> 00:19:43,188 And, and, and, and I, and they think, think about it. 382 00:19:43,188 --> 00:19:47,688 And I say, I say, I say, I say, say, look, if, if you're evacuating to 383 00:19:47,688 --> 00:19:51,948 somewhere you've never been, or you're in a situation where something bad happens 384 00:19:51,948 --> 00:19:58,368 to your house, it doesn't matter whether you're five 15 or 95, no matter what. 385 00:19:59,283 --> 00:20:02,253 You wanna have something that's gonna comfort you, that's gonna 386 00:20:02,253 --> 00:20:03,903 relax you, it's gonna take you away. 387 00:20:05,103 --> 00:20:06,633 From what's going on around you. 388 00:20:06,963 --> 00:20:10,503 So the other thing that I'd say to folks is, I say it doesn't 389 00:20:10,503 --> 00:20:11,613 just have to be a game system. 390 00:20:11,613 --> 00:20:14,223 It can be if they're, if they're a teenager, but if they're a kid, as 391 00:20:14,223 --> 00:20:18,183 a matter of fact, they actually have these, these are small Lego sets and 392 00:20:18,183 --> 00:20:21,723 they're, they're about this large, they have about 50 to 70 pieces or so. 393 00:20:22,223 --> 00:20:25,733 That will keep a child busy for a while and they can build a small object. 394 00:20:25,763 --> 00:20:26,393 It's really fun. 395 00:20:26,813 --> 00:20:30,893 It gives them something tactile to do, takes them away from what's going on 396 00:20:30,893 --> 00:20:33,143 and gives them a challenge for adults. 397 00:20:33,293 --> 00:20:36,053 Weirdly enough, this is gonna sound really strange, but I actually 398 00:20:36,053 --> 00:20:37,253 do this with adults all the time. 399 00:20:37,253 --> 00:20:38,333 It works for kid kids too. 400 00:20:39,233 --> 00:20:46,793 Incense sticks or something that has a smell that reminds you of home because 401 00:20:46,793 --> 00:20:50,393 smell is the closest s sense that we have. 402 00:20:50,778 --> 00:20:51,438 To memory. 403 00:20:51,978 --> 00:20:57,198 I don't want you to think I'm in a disaster shelter in some 404 00:20:57,198 --> 00:20:59,448 random, you know, school gymnasium. 405 00:20:59,718 --> 00:21:02,808 I want you to think when you close your eyes, you're about to go to bed. 406 00:21:02,838 --> 00:21:06,318 All you do is you smell something that reminds you of home. 407 00:21:06,588 --> 00:21:10,188 So as I said to people, lotions, sometimes just whatever, something 408 00:21:10,338 --> 00:21:13,548 that will psychologically refocus you. 409 00:21:14,313 --> 00:21:18,543 To a state of relaxation, and then when you wake up in the morning, something 410 00:21:18,543 --> 00:21:19,803 that will get you back into it. 411 00:21:19,803 --> 00:21:24,453 So, so something along those lines psychologically, because it makes a 412 00:21:24,453 --> 00:21:29,073 big difference in how people react, the decisions that people make and how they're 413 00:21:29,073 --> 00:21:32,553 gonna behave because the disaster could be one day, one week, or even a year. 414 00:21:33,228 --> 00:21:33,588 Andy: Right. 415 00:21:33,828 --> 00:21:35,778 Yeah, I, I completely agree with that. 416 00:21:35,778 --> 00:21:38,898 And you, you illustrated your point really well. 417 00:21:38,898 --> 00:21:43,608 Like in the, in the time where you get to sit and rest, at some point you're 418 00:21:43,608 --> 00:21:46,608 gonna want something that's going to bring that comfort to you, and it's 419 00:21:46,608 --> 00:21:48,648 gonna help your brain just to calm down. 420 00:21:48,918 --> 00:21:51,888 Your unconscious brain is gonna take over and kind of work on some stuff. 421 00:21:51,888 --> 00:21:55,098 And when you're done with whatever it is, the nten, the Nintendo 422 00:21:55,098 --> 00:21:57,888 Switch, or your favorite book, you're gonna feel a whole lot better. 423 00:21:57,888 --> 00:21:59,298 I, that's fantastic, man. 424 00:21:59,550 --> 00:22:03,030 Patrick: Yeah, and it's worked so well, especially with, especially when 425 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:06,000 you're dealing with people like what you and I were talking about earlier 426 00:22:06,030 --> 00:22:10,500 with grandma, with a baby, with a dog, whatever, and, and someone who is a 427 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:15,725 dependent because you wanna make sure that they have something that makes 428 00:22:16,140 --> 00:22:18,090 them focus that's unique to them. 429 00:22:18,090 --> 00:22:22,290 I say this to clients all that time, don't, you don't have to tell. 430 00:22:22,700 --> 00:22:28,700 Anyone else what that object is, you don't have to tell anyone else. 431 00:22:28,850 --> 00:22:31,160 Just put it in your disaster backpack. 432 00:22:31,250 --> 00:22:32,060 Yours. 433 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:33,500 Yours, not the family's. 434 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:34,190 There's no family. 435 00:22:34,190 --> 00:22:34,670 Backpack. 436 00:22:34,670 --> 00:22:35,690 Your backpack. 437 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,740 And that makes it exclusively something that helps you focus, 438 00:22:39,740 --> 00:22:40,195 so you're absolutely right. 439 00:22:41,310 --> 00:22:41,970 I like that. 440 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,650 Andy: Um, What is something in all of your experience that you've 441 00:22:46,650 --> 00:22:48,155 had so far in life, what is. 442 00:22:48,825 --> 00:22:55,065 One tool or maybe a, a concept that you have found to be really 443 00:22:55,065 --> 00:22:59,355 helpful that you really didn't anticipate being such a big deal. 444 00:22:59,721 --> 00:23:03,771 Patrick: The philosophy I tell people all the time is prepare for a disaster 445 00:23:04,041 --> 00:23:05,211 and you'll never experience one. 446 00:23:06,366 --> 00:23:10,596 And I do that because my message is this, because when I, when I, when I 447 00:23:10,596 --> 00:23:14,316 was first an emergency professional, I started my career as, as, as 448 00:23:14,316 --> 00:23:15,426 actually a disaster professional. 449 00:23:15,426 --> 00:23:16,896 I'd actually worked in ambulances. 450 00:23:16,956 --> 00:23:21,636 I'd actually worked in ambulances years prior, but Hurricane Katrina is when I 451 00:23:21,636 --> 00:23:24,366 became an emergency professional, and. 452 00:23:24,791 --> 00:23:28,841 I just felt like it's overwhelming and all I hear about is this is 453 00:23:28,841 --> 00:23:33,371 the age of disasters and there's no way you're gonna be able to, to, 454 00:23:33,371 --> 00:23:35,351 to, to, to prevent these things. 455 00:23:35,561 --> 00:23:37,511 And I noticed that. 456 00:23:38,016 --> 00:23:41,976 At some point, everyone's going to experience a disaster, and the 457 00:23:41,976 --> 00:23:44,676 messages are always doom and gloom. 458 00:23:44,916 --> 00:23:49,296 All we have to do is have these big prepper sts where we have enough, you 459 00:23:49,296 --> 00:23:53,316 know, you know enough supplies to last us through the apocalypse and stuff. 460 00:23:53,466 --> 00:23:56,406 And I just go, wait a minute, wait a minute. 461 00:23:56,556 --> 00:24:00,486 We live in modern human management systems and this is the best we got. 462 00:24:01,611 --> 00:24:02,361 This is it. 463 00:24:02,931 --> 00:24:07,161 And so what I did was I said to myself, you know what is, uh, you 464 00:24:07,161 --> 00:24:08,451 know how I'm gonna change the world? 465 00:24:09,681 --> 00:24:14,091 I'm gonna change the world by changing the way we view disasters, 466 00:24:14,751 --> 00:24:19,071 because I believe firmly that you never have to experience a disaster 467 00:24:19,071 --> 00:24:21,051 in your entire life, and you don't. 468 00:24:21,576 --> 00:24:25,416 No one ever has to because here's what a disaster is. 469 00:24:25,416 --> 00:24:27,246 And, and I, I do this whenever I keynote. 470 00:24:27,246 --> 00:24:27,906 I keynote a lot. 471 00:24:27,906 --> 00:24:31,236 So I speak in front of large audiences and I would say, okay guys, so 472 00:24:31,236 --> 00:24:37,056 let's imagine, alright, it's, uh, the Bay area of California, okay? 473 00:24:37,596 --> 00:24:43,146 And the bay area of California gets a 10.0 earthquake, 10.0 earthquake. 474 00:24:43,686 --> 00:24:46,536 And I say, how many of you believe that that's a disaster? 475 00:24:46,536 --> 00:24:50,166 And I get a bunch of hand raises and I say, what if I told you. 476 00:24:51,651 --> 00:24:56,751 That the year of this 10.0 earthquake was 20,000 BCE. 477 00:24:57,171 --> 00:24:59,241 So 20,000 year. 478 00:24:59,241 --> 00:25:02,241 So 20,000 years before Christ that long, 479 00:25:04,251 --> 00:25:06,021 and there's no one who lives there. 480 00:25:07,071 --> 00:25:09,681 All of a sudden everyone thinks, well, I guess it's not. 481 00:25:10,041 --> 00:25:15,021 And so, 'cause the message I say to people is, is look, the disaster 482 00:25:15,021 --> 00:25:18,261 only occurs when a natural event. 483 00:25:19,356 --> 00:25:25,596 Disrupts our daily routine, human management systems, governments, 484 00:25:25,596 --> 00:25:28,236 businesses, families, all that stuff. 485 00:25:28,506 --> 00:25:34,926 So what I say to people is, is I say, look, if you properly apply what I 486 00:25:34,926 --> 00:25:39,336 teach you using backpacks and using other systems and having different 487 00:25:39,336 --> 00:25:44,976 philosophies and approaches, then all of a sudden if you have an earthquake, 488 00:25:45,396 --> 00:25:47,611 whether it's a 1.0 or an 8.0. 489 00:25:49,296 --> 00:25:52,656 You're not gonna be experiencing a disaster at all, because 490 00:25:52,656 --> 00:25:55,656 what's gonna happen is you are gonna be prepared enough. 491 00:25:55,836 --> 00:26:00,246 I'm gonna put you in a position where you're gonna be stronger afterwards. 492 00:26:00,516 --> 00:26:04,956 That's how I want you to define a disaster, and that's what I've 493 00:26:04,956 --> 00:26:09,066 done, is I believe we have the definition wrong of a disaster. 494 00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:11,526 This is how I define a disaster. 495 00:26:12,306 --> 00:26:15,606 A disaster occurs when you are weaker. 496 00:26:16,401 --> 00:26:19,791 After that event, whether it's a, whether it's a category five 497 00:26:19,791 --> 00:26:22,611 hurricane or a category one hurricane, and I've been in both. 498 00:26:23,481 --> 00:26:23,721 Okay? 499 00:26:25,101 --> 00:26:30,681 If after that hurricane, whatever size it is, were you weaker afterwards 500 00:26:30,681 --> 00:26:32,481 or were you stronger afterwards? 501 00:26:33,651 --> 00:26:36,921 And that tells me whether you experienced a disaster. 502 00:26:36,921 --> 00:26:39,081 Now the community can experience a disaster, but 503 00:26:39,081 --> 00:26:39,896 that doesn't mean you have to. 504 00:26:40,596 --> 00:26:41,766 That's what I say to people the time. 505 00:26:42,066 --> 00:26:44,646 You don't have to, your business certainly doesn't have to, because I 506 00:26:44,646 --> 00:26:50,196 tell this story about, uh, in, during the San Francisco earthquake, which 507 00:26:50,196 --> 00:26:55,476 occurred in the early 20th century, there was a man from Italy, a businessman. 508 00:26:55,476 --> 00:26:59,556 He ran a bank called the Bank of Italy, and his bank was reduced to rubble. 509 00:27:00,966 --> 00:27:05,556 And what he did was he pulled out a safe from the bank and he took it out 510 00:27:05,556 --> 00:27:08,016 in the street, and he sat out a table. 511 00:27:08,826 --> 00:27:13,566 He took out his his ledger book and he had a pen, and anybody who walked 512 00:27:13,566 --> 00:27:17,886 up to him and asked him for a loan, he gave it to them with just a handshake, 513 00:27:19,986 --> 00:27:22,866 and he gave away all the money in that safe. 514 00:27:23,586 --> 00:27:28,596 And of all the money he gave out, 98% of it was paid back later. 515 00:27:29,931 --> 00:27:32,721 And in fact, he was able to build it. 516 00:27:32,721 --> 00:27:34,431 He actually renamed his bank. 517 00:27:34,431 --> 00:27:35,421 His bank had been destroyed. 518 00:27:35,421 --> 00:27:36,651 It was called the Bank of Italy. 519 00:27:36,741 --> 00:27:39,136 He changed the bank name to Bank of America. 520 00:27:40,431 --> 00:27:44,331 And that's one of the ways he was able to take the, the disaster. 521 00:27:44,451 --> 00:27:47,571 He was able to take it and say, listen, I'm gonna empower you. 522 00:27:47,571 --> 00:27:50,931 And the greatest stories I hear about in every disaster are people who say, 523 00:27:51,171 --> 00:27:55,551 I'm gonna take this experience and I'm gonna find a way to make myself better, 524 00:27:55,791 --> 00:27:58,131 my business better, my community better. 525 00:27:58,731 --> 00:28:00,591 I'm gonna make a stronger overall. 526 00:28:00,801 --> 00:28:04,161 That, and that is true resilience right there. 527 00:28:04,251 --> 00:28:07,491 That is what will mean if you prepare for a disaster. 528 00:28:07,551 --> 00:28:10,071 You will never, ever, ever experience one. 529 00:28:10,071 --> 00:28:13,191 But it's a, but it's a sense that we have to put ourselves in the position 530 00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:17,331 to realize that if we can do that, that is the biggest shift and that 531 00:28:17,331 --> 00:28:20,211 is the largest thing that I have learned in my time in this profession. 532 00:28:21,276 --> 00:28:24,186 That's a phenomenal, uh, point of view, man. 533 00:28:24,276 --> 00:28:27,936 Um, I, I had never thought about it that way before, but yeah, I mean, 534 00:28:27,936 --> 00:28:30,576 I could tell you I've been through, you know, big hurricanes and things 535 00:28:30,576 --> 00:28:34,566 like that and usually, you know, I've come out, you know, on top and in a 536 00:28:34,566 --> 00:28:35,886 better position, me and my family. 537 00:28:35,886 --> 00:28:41,106 But, you know, now that I, I, I look at your de definition of a disaster. 538 00:28:41,106 --> 00:28:44,196 Like, yeah, my community had a disaster, but my family didn't. 539 00:28:44,436 --> 00:28:46,956 You know, that's, that's a big mindset shift. 540 00:28:48,201 --> 00:28:51,921 Well, and one of the things I say to people all the time is I, I say, say, 541 00:28:51,921 --> 00:28:54,681 look, you know, I understand that, that, you know, we've gone through 542 00:28:54,681 --> 00:28:59,721 something large here, but afterward, look at what you're doing and saying 543 00:29:00,411 --> 00:29:01,936 it's not what's been destroyed. 544 00:29:03,801 --> 00:29:06,801 It's what's been suddenly revealed to you? 545 00:29:07,401 --> 00:29:10,491 What has been revealed to you during the pandemic? 546 00:29:10,551 --> 00:29:12,741 I say this to folks constantly. 547 00:29:12,741 --> 00:29:16,191 When I keynote, I say to them, how many of you remember COVID? 548 00:29:16,221 --> 00:29:19,791 Every hand goes up and I say, how many of you were home? 549 00:29:20,361 --> 00:29:21,771 How many of you stayed home? 550 00:29:22,461 --> 00:29:24,561 Just were home for at least for some period of time. 551 00:29:24,561 --> 00:29:26,151 You didn't know if you were gonna be working. 552 00:29:26,331 --> 00:29:28,491 You didn't know if you still had a job afterwards, and your 553 00:29:28,491 --> 00:29:29,751 job said, don't do anything. 554 00:29:29,751 --> 00:29:30,501 Just stay at home. 555 00:29:30,651 --> 00:29:33,201 And a lot of hands go up about 80 to 90%. 556 00:29:33,951 --> 00:29:41,241 And I always say, you know how 10, 15 years ago you always said, you know, 557 00:29:42,291 --> 00:29:44,331 I've really been wanting to do blank. 558 00:29:45,006 --> 00:29:49,026 I've really been wanting to think about blank, like changing my job or doing 559 00:29:49,026 --> 00:29:51,186 something new or moving somewhere. 560 00:29:51,246 --> 00:29:53,916 And you know how you never had the time to think about that? 561 00:29:53,946 --> 00:29:54,321 Well, guess what? 562 00:29:55,446 --> 00:29:56,376 That was the time. 563 00:29:56,766 --> 00:29:59,046 That was the time you had, yes. 564 00:29:59,046 --> 00:30:02,376 There was something destroy your normal way of working was destroyed. 565 00:30:02,466 --> 00:30:02,796 Got it. 566 00:30:03,096 --> 00:30:07,086 But what was revealed to you, what was revealed to you is that now you have a 567 00:30:07,086 --> 00:30:12,606 few days where you can sit and think, what can I do to make myself better? 568 00:30:12,786 --> 00:30:17,016 I actually had this happen a number of times where we, I had people who 569 00:30:17,016 --> 00:30:21,276 were, uh, young millennials, so people who were born after, say, 1995 or so. 570 00:30:22,381 --> 00:30:27,601 A lot of those folks, they sparked a great resignation because a lot of them said, 571 00:30:27,871 --> 00:30:29,851 you know what, I'm in a job I don't like. 572 00:30:29,881 --> 00:30:33,571 I'm in a profession I don't like, I don't, I'm in a place I don't like. 573 00:30:33,571 --> 00:30:35,671 I wanna change the way I live my my life. 574 00:30:35,851 --> 00:30:41,311 And they took COVID and they said, I'm gonna turn COV into a success for me. 575 00:30:42,171 --> 00:30:46,431 I'm gonna take this opportunity that's really once in a lifetime and 576 00:30:46,431 --> 00:30:49,761 I'm going to change what I'm doing because I get a chance to, because 577 00:30:49,761 --> 00:30:54,831 the world is, is in a chaotic place and there's real opportunity there. 578 00:30:55,371 --> 00:30:57,111 So that's why. 579 00:30:57,846 --> 00:31:03,726 When I talk to people about disasters, I, I say, I want you to think about it on 580 00:31:03,726 --> 00:31:06,036 how is this going to make you stronger? 581 00:31:06,036 --> 00:31:07,446 Don't think about your home being destroyed. 582 00:31:07,446 --> 00:31:07,986 That's sad. 583 00:31:08,226 --> 00:31:08,766 Absolutely. 584 00:31:08,766 --> 00:31:09,936 Do need to grieve about that? 585 00:31:10,266 --> 00:31:11,046 Absolutely. 586 00:31:11,286 --> 00:31:12,126 No doubt. 587 00:31:12,396 --> 00:31:16,626 We need to, I, I would give you a shoulder to cry on, but after we're done. 588 00:31:17,871 --> 00:31:22,371 Then we're going to say, how can I make myself better and stronger? 589 00:31:22,431 --> 00:31:23,841 Do I still wanna live here? 590 00:31:23,901 --> 00:31:24,201 Yes. 591 00:31:24,231 --> 00:31:24,771 Okay, fine. 592 00:31:24,831 --> 00:31:25,881 Are we gonna rebuild the house? 593 00:31:26,001 --> 00:31:26,301 Great. 594 00:31:26,541 --> 00:31:28,731 Or what things do we need to change or whatever? 595 00:31:28,761 --> 00:31:30,291 Or maybe we decide we don't wanna change anything. 596 00:31:30,291 --> 00:31:31,071 We just say, you know what? 597 00:31:31,461 --> 00:31:34,251 I live here, I'm gonna deal with hurricanes every 10 years that are gonna 598 00:31:34,251 --> 00:31:36,381 be cat fives, and I just accept that. 599 00:31:36,711 --> 00:31:41,091 And so whatever it is, I just tell people, we need to get your mindset 600 00:31:41,091 --> 00:31:42,561 back because you're not a victim. 601 00:31:42,591 --> 00:31:43,611 I'm not gonna let you. 602 00:31:44,946 --> 00:31:48,426 A, I want you to become a stronger person afterwards, and I'm gonna say, 603 00:31:48,636 --> 00:31:53,706 Hey, the disaster, it didn't make you a, it gave you an opportunity you 604 00:31:53,706 --> 00:31:55,776 never knew existed in the first place. 605 00:31:56,016 --> 00:31:59,376 And then that's how I change people's mentality about these things. 606 00:32:00,006 --> 00:32:04,296 Andy: Yeah, man, resilience is so important, uh, is a very key message 607 00:32:04,296 --> 00:32:07,056 for what you're telling me here, and I, and I greatly appreciate that. 608 00:32:07,356 --> 00:32:11,946 There is one thing that I want to, um, ask you about and, and this 609 00:32:11,946 --> 00:32:13,446 one seems to be hard for people. 610 00:32:13,836 --> 00:32:14,256 Um. 611 00:32:14,976 --> 00:32:18,426 When dealing with something like a wildfire or a hurricane, there's always 612 00:32:18,426 --> 00:32:23,016 people are going to say, Hey, there's gonna be like an evacuation suggestion, 613 00:32:23,016 --> 00:32:25,686 or there's gonna be an order for a family. 614 00:32:25,746 --> 00:32:28,956 When do they need to evacuate? 615 00:32:28,956 --> 00:32:31,836 When do they need to know that they need to try to ride it out? 616 00:32:31,866 --> 00:32:32,716 What's your thoughts there? 617 00:32:33,055 --> 00:32:33,355 I 618 00:32:33,355 --> 00:32:35,965 Patrick: say to them, go back to your backpack. 619 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,460 Open up your backpack and say, can I, can I stay here? 620 00:32:42,700 --> 00:32:44,860 Or do I need to evacuate now? 621 00:32:45,220 --> 00:32:51,130 Because if somebody says to me, well, I live in this big house, okay. 622 00:32:51,130 --> 00:32:52,750 And it's like a castle almost. 623 00:32:52,750 --> 00:32:53,860 And I say, oh wow, great. 624 00:32:54,310 --> 00:32:55,750 And they go, we have a cat three. 625 00:32:55,780 --> 00:32:56,590 And I said, okay, fine. 626 00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,080 I'm not gonna leave because I don't need to leave. 627 00:32:59,860 --> 00:33:02,230 Because I'm fine, because my house is great. 628 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,660 And so I say to them, let's look at your backpack. 629 00:33:04,930 --> 00:33:09,490 Do you have the supplies to shelter in place? 630 00:33:10,210 --> 00:33:11,500 Can you do that? 631 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,570 Because that will tell me everything. 632 00:33:13,570 --> 00:33:14,830 So I'll look in your pantry. 633 00:33:14,830 --> 00:33:15,910 I'll look in your backpack. 634 00:33:15,910 --> 00:33:16,630 I'll look at everything. 635 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:22,330 Now for people who say, I live in a place that's near to the coast and 636 00:33:22,330 --> 00:33:24,670 I have to evacuate no matter what. 637 00:33:25,060 --> 00:33:29,020 I will open up their backpack and I will say, where are you evacuating to? 638 00:33:29,020 --> 00:33:32,230 And I'll pull out a map and the map will say it'll actually be circled. 639 00:33:32,230 --> 00:33:33,790 It's not a written plan, it's just a map. 640 00:33:33,790 --> 00:33:36,130 And they've circled two places where they're gonna evacuate to. 641 00:33:37,060 --> 00:33:38,050 And I say, okay, great. 642 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,940 If that's what you're gonna do and you need to evacuate to those places, you 643 00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:45,190 need to do that now because you know what? 644 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:48,220 There's gonna be a lot of traffic and you're not gonna make it otherwise. 645 00:33:48,835 --> 00:33:55,285 So it all depends on looking at what your backpack has in it and 646 00:33:55,285 --> 00:33:57,955 saying, do I need to do this now? 647 00:33:57,955 --> 00:33:59,635 Is it better to do this now? 648 00:33:59,755 --> 00:34:03,925 Because frankly, don't wait for law enforcement to tell you to leave. 649 00:34:04,105 --> 00:34:07,885 If you live in a place that is too dangerous and there's one road in 650 00:34:07,885 --> 00:34:11,395 and out and your disaster backpack says, I have to travel, you know, 651 00:34:11,395 --> 00:34:15,280 30, 40, 50 miles and you live in Los Angeles, you need to leave now. 652 00:34:16,630 --> 00:34:20,050 You don't need to wait for, for, for, for someone in a uniform 653 00:34:20,050 --> 00:34:21,550 and a badge to tell you to leave. 654 00:34:21,730 --> 00:34:25,600 In fact, one of the things I say to folks, I say, listen, if you plan 655 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,850 on sheltering in place, love it. 656 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:28,480 Great. 657 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,350 Stay in place. 658 00:34:29,530 --> 00:34:30,010 Awesome. 659 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,570 Here's the thing, make sure that what you have in your backpack 660 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,180 empowers you to stay in place. 661 00:34:38,170 --> 00:34:40,480 Does it give you the tools you need? 662 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:47,050 To be successful during and after that disaster, because if it doesn't, you're 663 00:34:47,050 --> 00:34:48,760 gonna experience a, a, a disaster. 664 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:49,360 There's no doubt. 665 00:34:49,750 --> 00:34:50,290 There's no doubt. 666 00:34:51,190 --> 00:34:56,200 But if you prepare yourself well enough now you're not gonna have one. 667 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,035 Because if it's just. 668 00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:02,020 A situation where you're gonna have to evacuate ahead of a hurricane. 669 00:35:02,170 --> 00:35:06,310 I'll never forget this, and I was a young Cal, I'm, I'm obviously from California 670 00:35:06,460 --> 00:35:11,770 originally, and I moved to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, after I got, got a job 671 00:35:11,770 --> 00:35:13,360 in the gout in, in the governor's office. 672 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,860 And I, I loved working for them. 673 00:35:14,860 --> 00:35:15,460 It was amazing. 674 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,220 But when I went into private service, um, I got hired to do this hurricane planning 675 00:35:21,220 --> 00:35:24,220 for this large construction site Okay. 676 00:35:24,220 --> 00:35:24,820 In Florida. 677 00:35:25,150 --> 00:35:26,410 So I went down to Florida. 678 00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:33,910 And I talked to the site supervisor and I said, okay, so, so senior management 679 00:35:33,910 --> 00:35:38,830 of this construction company has said to me, if we have a hurricane, uh, 680 00:35:38,830 --> 00:35:40,360 you guys need to evacuate the site. 681 00:35:40,930 --> 00:35:43,480 Doesn't matter whether it's a category one, category two, 682 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,130 whatever, we have to evacuate. 683 00:35:45,370 --> 00:35:49,780 And the two guys who were the site supervisors started laughing 684 00:35:50,650 --> 00:35:53,315 and they turned to me and said, young man, where are you from? 685 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,810 I said, I'm from California. 686 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,040 And they said, you don't know anything about Florida. 687 00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:04,750 I don't even stop mowing my lawn unless it's a category three or higher. 688 00:36:05,380 --> 00:36:11,000 So, and he said, for us, Floridians, we understand what a cat one's about. 689 00:36:11,950 --> 00:36:15,130 We understand what a CAT two is about, but once it starts getting 690 00:36:15,130 --> 00:36:18,490 to a Cat three, cat four, cat five, all of a sudden we decide to leave. 691 00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:22,510 And I can appreciate what he said and it, and it's a really great lesson actually, 692 00:36:22,510 --> 00:36:27,730 because learning and talking to people locally will give you so much information 693 00:36:27,910 --> 00:36:30,040 on how people respond to disasters. 694 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,120 But one of the things I tell folks is, is I say, regardless of whether you're gonna 695 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,700 stay on the construction site or not, in this case, they weren't allowed to. 696 00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:38,440 Corporate policies that they had to leave no matter what. 697 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:39,130 They could stay at home. 698 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,060 They can't, the site. 699 00:36:41,210 --> 00:36:43,340 What I say to people all the time, you, you know, you know 700 00:36:43,340 --> 00:36:46,070 when somebody says, well, if it's a cat two, I'm gonna stay here. 701 00:36:46,070 --> 00:36:50,060 I always say, what I want you to assume is, is it's gonna be a cat three. 702 00:36:50,330 --> 00:36:56,900 Always assume it's one rank higher than what you are expecting, because then 703 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:00,230 you'll then you're never caught unaware. 704 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:05,200 Because we're getting hurricanes now that go from Cat two to Cat three to Cat 705 00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:07,150 four in a period of just a few hours. 706 00:37:07,180 --> 00:37:08,500 It's happened multiple times now. 707 00:37:08,590 --> 00:37:10,240 I thought it was only gonna happen once and ended up 708 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:11,470 happening four or five times now. 709 00:37:11,860 --> 00:37:15,280 So what I say to folks is I say, look at your backpack. 710 00:37:15,430 --> 00:37:20,620 If you need to evacuate, you need to say, does my backpack allow me to evacuate? 711 00:37:20,620 --> 00:37:21,070 Then. 712 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,290 You say we're expecting a cat two, uh, so I'm gonna assume it's a cat three. 713 00:37:25,530 --> 00:37:29,280 So I'm gonna stop mowing my lawn and I'm gonna decide, am I gonna stay here or not? 714 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,720 That will depend on how much preparedness have you done. 715 00:37:33,750 --> 00:37:37,830 And the backpack is the easiest way for me to assess those things because 716 00:37:37,830 --> 00:37:40,710 then I can say, Hey, look, look, you have an evacuation location. 717 00:37:41,550 --> 00:37:44,760 It's a hundred miles away, or two oh miles away, grads, grandma's 718 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,050 house in Atlanta, or whatever. 719 00:37:46,410 --> 00:37:47,190 You need to leave now. 720 00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:48,540 You need to leave. 721 00:37:48,540 --> 00:37:48,900 Leave now. 722 00:37:49,615 --> 00:37:51,595 If you can't stay here, leave now. 723 00:37:52,075 --> 00:37:53,545 Don't wait for the weather person. 724 00:37:53,545 --> 00:37:55,525 Just leave now and then just say it's a road trip. 725 00:37:56,395 --> 00:37:58,675 Road trip, gonna go see grandma, then we're gonna come back. 726 00:37:59,215 --> 00:38:02,455 They'll But if you say, I'm gonna shelter in place, I just say, does 727 00:38:02,455 --> 00:38:03,835 your backpack allow you to do that? 728 00:38:04,435 --> 00:38:05,815 Because I don't know what kind of house you have. 729 00:38:05,815 --> 00:38:07,585 I mean, I don't know any of that stuff, but whatever house it is, 730 00:38:07,585 --> 00:38:10,735 I always say to them, do you have enough based on where you live? 731 00:38:10,735 --> 00:38:13,225 I actually work with people who are high net worth, who just, 732 00:38:13,225 --> 00:38:14,395 they just stay in their house. 733 00:38:15,055 --> 00:38:16,135 They just, why not? 734 00:38:16,135 --> 00:38:17,125 They live in a huge place. 735 00:38:17,125 --> 00:38:17,815 It's all defended. 736 00:38:17,815 --> 00:38:18,835 Well, you know what I mean? 737 00:38:18,835 --> 00:38:19,675 It's no problem. 738 00:38:19,675 --> 00:38:23,695 It's hard for them to leave, and so it's only certain situations, but that's 739 00:38:23,695 --> 00:38:24,865 what I tell families all the time. 740 00:38:25,075 --> 00:38:29,005 Don't let the badges and don't let the uniforms tell you when to leave. 741 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:33,560 You leave based on what your backpack will allow you to do. 742 00:38:33,805 --> 00:38:38,575 In other words, what your preparedness has done in preventing that disaster. 743 00:38:39,234 --> 00:38:40,134 Andy: I love it, Patrick. 744 00:38:40,134 --> 00:38:40,944 That is awesome. 745 00:38:41,334 --> 00:38:45,714 Um, you know, as we wrap up here, you have given me a whole lot of stuff to 746 00:38:45,714 --> 00:38:48,264 think about, uh, a, a big mind shift here. 747 00:38:48,834 --> 00:38:55,254 Um, if you could leave families with one core preparedness principle that they can 748 00:38:55,254 --> 00:38:57,624 just carry with them, what's it gonna be? 749 00:38:58,094 --> 00:39:01,897 Patrick: Every single person is responsible for their 750 00:39:01,897 --> 00:39:03,067 own disaster response. 751 00:39:03,892 --> 00:39:06,142 Whether they're seven or 70. 752 00:39:06,832 --> 00:39:10,282 Now, that doesn't mean you have to like have it all on their own, but you 753 00:39:10,282 --> 00:39:13,012 have to let them know you can do it. 754 00:39:14,002 --> 00:39:14,842 You can do it. 755 00:39:14,992 --> 00:39:18,832 Now, if there's somebody who has dementia or someone who is just too 756 00:39:18,832 --> 00:39:21,022 young, then of course you help them. 757 00:39:21,562 --> 00:39:23,152 Because they can't do it on their own. 758 00:39:23,602 --> 00:39:27,472 But for most families, when we're talking about your kids, I don't 759 00:39:27,472 --> 00:39:31,162 want you to say, gee, my child is seven years old, therefore they can't 760 00:39:31,162 --> 00:39:32,632 create their own disaster backpack. 761 00:39:32,722 --> 00:39:35,092 I'm gonna prove that to you that that's totally wrong. 762 00:39:35,962 --> 00:39:40,492 Um, kids have to understand that when they're on a field trip, when they 763 00:39:40,492 --> 00:39:45,652 are at school, when they are on the bus, it is their disaster response. 764 00:39:45,892 --> 00:39:50,062 Not mom and dads, not the teachers, not the school bus drivers. 765 00:39:50,062 --> 00:39:51,082 It's on their own. 766 00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:57,022 And that seems harsh, but it's not because in the end you are giving them trust. 767 00:39:57,667 --> 00:40:02,677 You are saying, I believe you can do it when you do it for them. 768 00:40:02,827 --> 00:40:07,147 You are saying you are not trustworthy enough to do it on your own. 769 00:40:07,207 --> 00:40:11,377 And I can tell you, working with a 7-year-old and using school 770 00:40:11,377 --> 00:40:15,997 supplies to build a wildfire shelter entirely on our own. 771 00:40:16,177 --> 00:40:18,397 I can tell you right now, it can be done. 772 00:40:18,997 --> 00:40:23,887 It can absolutely be done, but you've got to trust them and empower them. 773 00:40:24,097 --> 00:40:31,147 When you do that, you will see a magical transformation in how people 774 00:40:31,147 --> 00:40:33,937 behave and how people are prepared. 775 00:40:33,937 --> 00:40:37,537 So, and that's why I do the videos that I do in the videos I'm gonna be 776 00:40:37,537 --> 00:40:42,727 doing, because I want people to see, everybody can make this interesting. 777 00:40:42,727 --> 00:40:45,607 It can be fun, it can be empowering, and it can be something where 778 00:40:45,607 --> 00:40:47,587 every single person can prevent. 779 00:40:49,222 --> 00:40:49,762 Themselves. 780 00:40:50,504 --> 00:40:53,654 Andy: Patrick, man, I so appreciate your time today. 781 00:40:53,654 --> 00:40:56,594 I am excited about what you're gonna be doing in the future. 782 00:40:56,834 --> 00:40:59,054 Uh, I know people listening are as well. 783 00:40:59,054 --> 00:41:02,684 Where can people find you online so they can follow along with your journey here? 784 00:41:03,063 --> 00:41:06,213 Patrick: Well, my website is disaster patrick.com. 785 00:41:06,273 --> 00:41:09,483 Um, and I will say this, which is I have a YouTube channel. 786 00:41:09,483 --> 00:41:10,443 It's brand new. 787 00:41:10,653 --> 00:41:12,483 We've got all kinds of videos going up. 788 00:41:12,483 --> 00:41:14,163 So I just put up a video. 789 00:41:14,163 --> 00:41:16,713 Uh, we put up our first video a while ago, uh, because we 790 00:41:16,713 --> 00:41:17,853 were just testing the waters. 791 00:41:18,023 --> 00:41:21,113 I evacuated 240 cats in 90 minutes. 792 00:41:21,383 --> 00:41:24,143 Um, I did CPR for 28 straight hours. 793 00:41:24,143 --> 00:41:26,993 I set a world record and now we're doing this Lego one. 794 00:41:26,993 --> 00:41:33,533 I have a lot of other videos, and in fact, this month, this month, starting today 795 00:41:33,533 --> 00:41:37,883 actually, um, we are putting up videos. 796 00:41:38,243 --> 00:41:44,723 It's a 30 day challenge I'm giving to families where every single day. 797 00:41:45,738 --> 00:41:51,768 I will take you from an empty backpack to a totally completely 798 00:41:52,158 --> 00:41:56,508 filled backpack for yourself, for your kids, everybody, and it. 799 00:41:57,138 --> 00:41:58,848 And I walk you through the steps. 800 00:41:58,848 --> 00:42:01,518 And then on the weekends, Eddie, I give them like drills and things. 801 00:42:01,518 --> 00:42:06,018 I say, Hey, look, on one day I want you to cook and you can't use any heat. 802 00:42:07,008 --> 00:42:09,558 You have to just eat everything just cold as it is. 803 00:42:09,558 --> 00:42:10,368 Can you do that? 804 00:42:10,578 --> 00:42:13,878 And then on the last day, I, I say this, actually say, uh, there, 805 00:42:13,878 --> 00:42:16,968 there's actually a challenge, I say where I, I have them doing everything 806 00:42:16,968 --> 00:42:18,318 for a whole day in the dark. 807 00:42:18,678 --> 00:42:22,458 Now, I'm not saying everyone's gonna do that, but I want to challenge 808 00:42:22,458 --> 00:42:24,618 people to say, here are the steps. 809 00:42:24,618 --> 00:42:29,478 So we start on day one and I take them through my five pocket method and walk 810 00:42:29,478 --> 00:42:33,948 them through everything they're gonna need in that backpack and get this. 811 00:42:34,668 --> 00:42:41,388 They don't have to write down a single word, not one thing on that disaster plan. 812 00:42:41,388 --> 00:42:42,858 You don't have to write a disaster plan. 813 00:42:43,068 --> 00:42:47,088 We're gonna construct your backpack totally from scratch, and by the 30th day, 814 00:42:47,268 --> 00:42:49,728 you'll have a filled backpack entirely. 815 00:42:49,908 --> 00:42:51,168 So that's how we're starting. 816 00:42:51,168 --> 00:42:53,028 I got a ton of other videos going up. 817 00:42:53,178 --> 00:42:55,728 I got explainer videos, I got reaction videos. 818 00:42:55,728 --> 00:42:57,108 I've got all kinds of stuff going up. 819 00:42:57,668 --> 00:43:01,718 All I wanna do for everyone out there is I hope you go on my YouTube channel and sub 820 00:43:01,718 --> 00:43:04,568 it because we have so many great videos. 821 00:43:04,568 --> 00:43:06,008 I want to empower you. 822 00:43:06,008 --> 00:43:08,828 I want you to feel like you can do it because you know what? 823 00:43:08,978 --> 00:43:10,598 I've been doing this for 20 years. 824 00:43:11,138 --> 00:43:13,718 You can, and I'm gonna show you how. 825 00:43:14,618 --> 00:43:15,488 Thank you for having me today. 826 00:43:15,488 --> 00:43:16,028 I appreciate it. 827 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:16,399 Andy: Yeah. 828 00:43:16,399 --> 00:43:17,394 Patrick, thank you so much. 829 00:43:17,634 --> 00:43:19,699 I look forward to what you're doing in the future. 830 00:43:19,759 --> 00:43:20,539 Best of luck, man. 831 00:43:20,935 --> 00:43:21,775 Patrick: Thank you very much. 832 00:43:25,838 --> 00:43:28,928 Andy: Well, that's all that we have for The Secure Family Podcast for today. 833 00:43:28,958 --> 00:43:30,278 Thank you, friend for listening. 834 00:43:30,578 --> 00:43:33,458 Thanks again to Disaster Patrick for being on the show. 835 00:43:33,728 --> 00:43:36,938 For more on him, check out Disaster Patrick.com. 836 00:43:37,778 --> 00:43:41,498 Take back your privacy and personal data with help from DeleteMe. 837 00:43:41,798 --> 00:43:45,908 Get 20% off of privacy Plan when using the code Dad at checkout. 838 00:43:46,418 --> 00:43:50,228 DeleteMe is the official data removal service of The Secure Dad. 839 00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:54,308 If you enjoyed this episode or learned something new today, I'd be 840 00:43:54,308 --> 00:43:58,418 grateful if you would follow the show, subscribe on your favorite 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