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[00:00:16] A person who advocates and practices preparedness. One ready for any event that would disrupt their daily routine. That is a Prepper.

[00:00:51] So I am confident that we will go outside and do more work than our body can stand. I just don't know when or what I'm doing. Yesterday, I could not participate in the recap of Ration or Ruin because our school had graduation. Yes. And we went back, you know, all the teachers attended and I had my suit on

[00:01:20] and with my medals. And I think next year for Deanna's graduation, I'm going to have to bust out the uniform. See if it still fits. It's been 20 years, so I'm not too sure. But the pants I'm wearing right now were the BDU pants that I wore in the Army. So I'm pretty sure it's going to fit. If the moths haven't gotten to it, it's been in kind of storage.

[00:01:49] But that's the reason I wasn't on last night. The back channel is just, I always ask questions because I'm part of the back channel communication. And there's things that come up during the week when they're preparing their food and stuff that I know to ask questions about. But gosh darn, you have got to follow these guys on Ration or Ruin.

[00:02:15] This is a master class on survival food rationing. It's amazing. And you won't get this anywhere else. You will not get anything close to this. Any one of the exercises that these guys did, there is no prepper out there doing this stuff.

[00:02:39] I mean, yeah, they'll get out there and do a product review or it tastes good or it tastes bad, blah, blah, blah. But this, they're living it for a month. And I'm learning things. And I'm learning things. You've got to understand, I come from a background of, here's your C-ration. That's how far back I go.

[00:03:04] And in the military, they like to pass you something and you go to your position and they know you're taken care of. And that's it. But that's not the way this food is. And I was under the myopic viewpoint that all food is like military food and it's not.

[00:03:30] There's stuff you got to do and preparation you got to, you got to do. And it's just not easy, not hard. And then I think to myself, if I'm going to send someone out or if there is a movement, I always think movement is the hardest thing. Because you're doing something that's away from everything that you have.

[00:03:56] So if there's any kind of movement, how are you going to feed these guys? And this is a real lesson. So you just can't give them a ration and say, you know, go for 24 hours, see you tomorrow. And expect everything to be hunky dory if they don't have water and if they don't have a way to heat it.

[00:04:26] And, you know, it's just you can't go there with a freeze dried packet and a life straw. Let's put it that way. Good luck. Good luck. So, and also, you know, the calories and the effects. Now, I got to tell you this PBN family. So when I'm at school, I have my phone off and away.

[00:04:55] I come out almost daily and see 30, 40. One day there was over 50 messages in the back channel of Ration and Ruin. And I'm like, holy cow, when you starve someone, they like to talk. There is a lot of messages. And then I have to read them all and get all caught up and figure out what they're trying to say there. It's funny.

[00:05:24] It is funny. And weight loss, that's interesting. We could all stand to lose a little weight. You know, I'm with Ben in the idea of you want to go into SHTF around 20% body fat. That is the upper limit of what the army accepts. I think the army is 22, the upper limit.

[00:05:53] I'm not sure. Don't hold me to that. But when you get into SHTF, the sheer stress alone will cause weight loss. Okay, so these guys are somewhat manufacturing stress and they're experiencing weight loss from calorie deprivation and performing whatever their normal daily functions are.

[00:06:23] And the intrepid commander worked out on a heavy bag yesterday in the hot heatness of, it felt like mid-summer yesterday here. It was, wow, it was pretty brutal. He admitted to getting a little lightheaded. Yeah, I can imagine. So, PBN family, I'm telling you, if you're not taking advantage of their suffering, you're missing out.

[00:06:53] It's just, it's amazing. And like I said, I'm not even a part of it and I'm learning from there what they're doing. So, listen to Ration and Ruin. As a matter of fact, go back and listen to every one of the exercises. And if the intrepid commander could put them together in a standalone show or download or podcast or something like that, that would be amazing.

[00:07:21] So, someone could just download the entire, all of them. Yep. PBN family. Gosh, we got a week. Well, actually, we have a week of regular school. Then we have finals week. And we have one day of school beautification.

[00:07:46] So, really, we have like one really, one week left next week. And then finals week, if you get a 93 average or above, you do not have to take the final. So, we have a few of those. So, but the middle school, sixth, seventh and eighth, they take the final no matter what their average is.

[00:08:14] That only applies to ninth through twelfth. And twelfth's done. They graduated last night, so they are done. And it was great. Really nice ceremony. Great keynote speaker. And it was, it was beautiful. It was beautiful.

[00:08:36] I, and I thought about next year when Deanna graduates and how, how I'm going to be just a mess. Just a mess. Because I remember her first steps. I remember her birth. Where, gosh, I was a mess there.

[00:09:02] And I was all balled up and mooch was coming out of my mask. And Maria's laying on the table there, strapped down. And she says, looks up at me and says, stop crying, bitch. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I never felt so big and insignificant all at the same time.

[00:09:32] I, I felt like a speck in the mass universe that what is. It was, it was, it's indescribable. Undescribable. And then everybody in the operating room who sees every baby that, you know, they said, wow, what a big baby. Every one of them said that. What a big baby. What a big baby. She was a big baby. So.

[00:10:00] Her foot almost did not fit on the, where they, they print your foot. They had to turn it sideways to get it to fit. Yeah. Okay. PBN family. I've droned on enough. Take care. And remember, just cause Trump's in office doesn't mean you stop prepping. Do not get the Trump effect and sit back, relax. Yeah. It's all good.

[00:10:30] It's not all good. Oh, today is the day the Romanians hold their second round of elections. You know, they, they hold the first round to narrow it down to the, to the top two. And then the second round of elections is to see who's going to be the president or prime minister or whatever. And there's one guy in there that's, I don't know.

[00:10:59] He's autistic like Joe Biden, I guess. And then there's another guy. They would not let the other guy run. That won the last time they, they put charges on him. I think the guy actually fled the country. Uh, he was, he was overwhelmingly going to win. And that's why they suspended the elections. They didn't want that guy in.

[00:11:28] Uh, and he was Trump like. Now there's another guy in there who says he's, he's Trump like too. He wants to get the war in Ukraine over. He doesn't want, you know, what the rest of Europe seems to be wanting war with Russia. So I don't know. We'll see what happens. And I will report back to you if they, uh, invalidate this election. We'll see.

[00:11:58] Take care. Prep on.