Joel Lambert
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67 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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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
through Starlink when, you know.
Exactly.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's all that you need to do. I see.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But, yes, that's a great question.
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.
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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