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Afternoons on the Drive, Joshua Piven has been chased by knife wielding motorcycle abandits
and that was just his ex wife. Dave Borgenicht has been surrounded by alligators,
encountered bears, mountain lions, and lots more. Together, they have
teamed up for a book called The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook the Apocalypse.
It actually came out in nineteen ninety nine. Guys, the original did.
Yeah, this is the latest iteration, but yeah, the Worst Case Scenario
Survival Handbok itself appeared in nineteen ninety nine for the first time it has been
ever since. And Dave was that didn't have anything to do with turning over
the millennium and everybody was scared their computers were going to crash. Yeah,
it actually it was certainly part of that. It was also just our fascination
I think with action movies and James Bond film and wondering is that really what
you do if you have to jump out of a plane without a parachute,
you know, can you catch catch the guy? Can you catch jaws?
How do you find up a shark? Really? What do you do if
you encounter a bear? What do you do if you need to jump from
a moving car? And and we set off to find experts who had all
the answers to that stuff back in ninety nine and have been looking for answers
ever since. Have you been making revisions along the way, Joshua, We
have. You know, things obviously have changed since the nineties. It was
almost the pre internet era, so definitely, you know, things have changed,
and we've you know, done other books we've updated the scenario is obviously
the new book we deal with AI. We deal with robots, stuff that
really kind of wasn't around back then. So we kind of focus on different
apocalyptic situations, so kind of your your normal run of the mill, you
know, disasters, super volcanoes and asteroid crashes, and then we also cover,
you know, how to defeat the supercomputers and defeat the robots and kind
of deal with all the various contagions, but also rebuilding society. So it's
kind of a mix of fun things. You know, it's zombies and it's
uh, terrestrial is attacking, but then it's also the you know, the
real stuff that actually probably has a greater probably greater chance of actually happening.
Joshua Piven, David Borgenik. The name of the book is Worst Case Scenarios
Survival Handbook. Apocalypse Uh and josh uh, Dave. Let's start with some
of the things you go over in the book, For instance, apocalypse proofing
your finances. You know, there was a time when everybody thought you had
to put all your money in beanie babies. Yeah, those they're they're adorable
and cuddly. It might help you better bunker. But uh but yeah,
No, the first thing you're going to want to do is go back to
paper. The digital currency uh uh. You know that we're all pretty much
involved in is not really gonna help us. So you want to, first
of all, just print out your records online of your investments and make you've
got uh you know you're avoiding digital currency. You want to you want to
try to hold some cash, but not convert everything. You want to think
about converting your your digital in investments into things like land, into things like
gold and hard goods, physical gold, maybe barbable items. We have a
list of barbarable items that might be good to stockpile in the event of an
apocalypse or a collapse of the the economic system, and that could help you
use have extra currency like batteries and chargers and water purifiers and things that are
going to be valuable in the event of a shutdown and Joshua pivot. I
don't know if it's because we live in a country where part of the year
the tornadoes are trying to rip the roof off of your house. Part of
the year the prairie fires are trying to burn your house down. Part of
the year we have snow and ice storms that are trying to freeze all your
pipes. And then I'm intermixed with all that as a random earthquake. But
lovely wife has me putting safes everywhere just in case in the storm, shelter
in the closet. They're all fireproof. I mean, so how much of
this needs to be hoarded in your safe as well? Yeah, you guys
do live. We have a little rough over there, you know. I
think you know, listen, the safes are I think are useful assuming that
they're fireproof. Now, just you know, to be clear, they may
protect papers and passports and things like that, but you know, if you
have like you know USB sticks in there. Those are likely to be destroyed
if there's a lot of heat, so just you keep that in mind.
But you know, we we do recommend taking some of your important things,
you know, passports, printing out all your passwords for you know, all
your digital accounts, your banks and your investments, having that off printed out
ready to go, put it in a waterproof you know that could be in
it can be in your safe. But if you're you know, if you
need to evacuate, you have to have that stuff ready to go. So
that's part of the part of the list of things that we give you to
have in your go bag, and we kind of explain how to pack a
go bag if you only have say thirty minutes until there's a disaster. But
certainly you know, if you if you have if you have a safe room
in your house during a tornado, you know, it's probably a good place
to be. But there's certainly lots of other lots of other disasters where as
safe is not going to save you. They are the authors of the worst
case scenario survival handbook The Apocalypse, Joshua Piven and David Borgenik Dave. But
let's get into packing that go bag. Lovely wife and I have one just
because we've been through some of these things that I just described. But what
we what we run into is throughout the year, Oh gee, I need
some deodorant. Let me go grab some out of the go bag, and
then we gradually depleted. Yeah. No, you definitely want to make sure
that you keep it up to date and things expire. I act was given
a go back by my mother back when September eleventh happened. Uh, and
it's still down the basement. But I do update. I certainly did update
during the pandemic. You want to make sure you've got a gallon of water
at all times. You want to make sure you've got protein bars and flashlights,
maybe a battery powered radio if you can, If you got that dryer
lint actually is useful to pack and for starting fires, lighters and matches,
water for purification, tablets, lots of other writems that we lift in the
book. But you certainly want to make sure that you're taking a look at
it at a regular basis, and you know, deodorant maybe not as essential.
Make sure you've got the fast bags in the work gloves and the small
mirror and compass and that stuff and the duck. Take can't forget the duck.
Oh, I never never never, Yeah, Dave Borg and Nick Joshua
Piven And the name of the book is the Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook the
Apocalypse and Joshua defeating the robot Army. I mean, they're coming for us,
all, aren't they. They they are coming. And you know,
it's like, when we pick up this stuff, it seems like it couldn't
happen. And then two years later, you know, the police are using
robotic dogs in New York City, So this, you know, this this
stuff is real and we do, you know, we we talk to the
engineers and robot designers on how to deal with some of this stuff. And
you know, I think the main thing is they all have a power source.
So if you can find the power source and disable it, obviously that's
important. But you know, we take you through. Okay, Well,
maybe if you can get sand in the gears to slow it down, right,
or you can use tar, or you can you know, get the
robot to you know, get it putting stuck in something like wet sand.
You know, they have some of them have trouble with scares you can kind
of get away that way, although you know, pretty soon, I'm sure
the robots will be climbing stairs pretty easily. But you know, we do.
We do cover the robots and the robot army, and you know,
the the the source behind it, which may be the supercomputer and you know
create by as guy Net and coming for all of us. So yeah,
that's that's definitely one of the important things in the future. I think that
the most stageous ones are probably the roombas. Yeah, yeah, the vacuums.
The vacuum they look at it. But you know, uh, you
know, I went into a super box store the other day and the floor
cleaner was running itself, and I thought, the robots are taking over.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I go into Giant the supermarket and
the thing is like going down the aisles and coming right at me, and
I was like, you know, if this thing was weaponized, that's that's
next for the shop. That's next for the shoplifters, I think is you
know, they're coming to the shoplifters first, and the supermarter. Well,
guys, what about all the robots. I mean, I gotta I gotta
admit, we've got two roombas for vacuuming, We've got one for damp mopping,
and I've got a robotic lawnmower that has all the kids in the neighborhoods
spellbound when it's out there doing its thing. Uh is it a good idea
to have all these bots in your house? I think I worry more about
the data that's being sucked up and what's being what's being done with it.
I'm not I'm not worried that the room bob is going to vacuum me to
death in my sleep, But I am a little I am a little concerned
with the you know, the series and the Alexas of the world just mining
our data, and you know, they're they're always listening, and who knows
where it's going or what's being done with it. And you know, all
it takes is one nefarious actor out there to uh, you know, to
vacuum the stuff up. Dave, I don't know you feel you feel safe
with your roomba. I mean it comes back to the power source thing.
At the end of the day, I can easily pick that up and take
the battery out, and probably the same with you know, the simple robots
that we got today. I don't think. I suppose some awesome hacker could
go in there and try to trip me, but it's not going to attack
me. I was being facetious. You know, it might attack your cat,
yeah, my dog. It is partially facetious, but for the most
part very serious. The worst case scenario survival handbook The Apocalypse, authors David
Borghenik and Joshua Piven, have brought it to us, and I thank you
for joining us today. Guys, thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews,
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