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Bob Toombs

Founder of Mountain Readiness, a North Carolina-based preparedness and survival-skills training organization, and a bladesmith and homesteader.

Sep 22, 2026

MikeHOST
19:32
And I think in some ways it's probably not feasible for a lot of people.
19:37
Well, just on the financial side of things, I mean, you can spend a boatload of money stocking up, right? And so what is your immediate need, right? Water, okay? Water, shelter, and food.
19:54
Security falls into that.
19:55
I mean, if we're going sideways in the world, yeah, security kind of kicks up to the top there.
20:00
But, you know, focus on – here's what I try to tell people is – Turn your power off.
20:10
See how that goes for you.
20:11
Shut the breaker off and then test your preps.

7 MINS LATER

MikeHOST
27:32
So tell us a little bit about the programs you run and just, you know, kind of if someone's looking to go out there and check it out, what are we getting into?
14:32
That's
14:32
cool.
14:32
Cool stuff.
14:34
We'll see how it goes, man.
14:35
I know we were talking about some stuff.
14:37
I talked at Midwest preparedness, kind of about what, you know, growing up and life and what that looked like and the importance of, um, the importance of getting your home in order because all this kind of crazy stuff going on in the world and, you know, this, uh, fuel prices we, we touch.
14:54
I think we talked about this just the other day, didn't we? About the AI data centers and the blackouts.

32 MINS LATER

47:24
yeah

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