I was time traveling and missed Radio Check Sunday!

You know what a zombie is when a person dies and is buried it seems a certain voodoo priest who will have the power to bring him back to life it's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own you see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes following orders not knowing what they do not caring you mean like democrats It seems Mamdani's out to create the first New York autonomous zone for Halloween. I'm going to be the first to say it. I think that he's blocking off 160 streets so kids can safely walk the streets on Halloween without worrying about vehicles. I guess I'm about as jaded as it comes, PBM family, but Whenever I hear someone tell me that they're going to make things safe for kids. It almost turns out to be the opposite completely. You know what I mean? It's very rare. Especially when it's organized. Especially when it's government. You know what I mean? Government related. We're going to make things safe for the kids. We're going to make things better for the kids. No child left behind. So on and so forth. And I'm supposed to sit here and trust this isn't going to go down. Now I don't think it's going to be a targeted attack on children. But I do think you're. I do think there's something behind it. I do. I think that Halloween some very interesting things will happen. In those 160 streets that are blocked off. To police vehicles amongst other vehicles. Now hopefully I'm wrong. You know. But I you know. I trust my gut. And when I first read this it just. I don't know, it stuck out like a sore thumb to me. It just made perfect sense. It sounded like, yeah, New York City's brand new autonomous Halloween zone. Sponsored by Mom Donnie and the taxpayers in New York. Not really what I want to talk about today. What I really want to do is tell everybody that I'm sorry for missing the radio check last night. I took my son out to go see Donnie Darko because they were playing it in theaters. And it was so good. It was so fun to watch him watch Donnie Darko for the first time. And the movie started at 7 and we were getting out at 9. And I was like, oh, that ain't going to work. So my apologies. We'll be right back to it next Sunday, though. You know, nobody's perfect, right? Just is what it is. It was a very big weekend. Very big weekend. We had a really, one of the most amazing field trips I think I've ever been on. Probably the most amazing field trip I've ever been on. It was a full-scale, fifth-grade campout, overnight job, you know, from early in the morning till the next afternoon. And I was just really blown away at not only the organization of the field trip, man, as we did, like, You know, hikes and activities and fishing and fire starting and shelter building and scavenger hunting. And, you know, the Intrepid Commander created a nice fire for everybody that we, after dinner, we had s'mores on and, you know, added a bunch of wood to that bonfire. Built it up real big. The kids played all night with headlamps on running around. This is a public, essentially a public school, by the way. The kids played all night running around the woods or the campsite, rather, with headlamps on. And it was beautiful. It was a beautiful thing. It rained almost the whole day. It stopped nothing. And I was really impressed with the kids in that situation. You know what I mean? I really was. There was not a lot. I don't even remember hearing anybody complain. Right? But the rain started to come on stronger as the night carried on. And well into the night, the rain started to pour a little bit. And I sat there alone at the fire I had started. And I walked to the car and grabbed something I'd brought along for just this situation. Ha ha ha ha. I grabbed the camping percolator and some disaster coffee and headed back over to the fire now that was basically red coals and abandoned. I told all the parents, you can go to sleep, I'll put the fire out. A couple lingered on and I told them I'm going to make coffee if you're interested because the kids, this time it was probably about 9, 30, 10, and the kids, they were nowhere near ready to go to sleep despite having a huge day, you know what I mean? So I said, you know, I'm just going to make some coffee. I know it's late, but Maybe you're more than welcome to have some. And you know. A few parents took me up on the offer. Some of them just wanted the coffee to stay warm. Because it was starting to get a little cold. Plus they were wet. And then. And then I headed back to the cabin. And let the kids. Have their fun in the cabin. While I sat like a sentry on the front porch. And drank coffee. Well we played some board games first. But then I sat like a sentry on the front porch. And just drank coffee. Um. Yeah, it was a great time, man. It was really, really a great time. I had a ball. I had a ball and I was blown away and it was, I don't know, you know. I say it a lot, but the world's changing and it's changing in all kinds of ways, you know. And, you know, there are these old lines that we cling on to. These old sort of adages that we cling on to. These things that we assume work and things that we assume don't work. You know what I mean? Just a lot of old think, if you will. And, you know, I don't know. I guess probably the most important thing is to each his own, right? Well, there's two things. I guess also the power of the individual. You know what I mean? Don't underestimate that. We live in a society of reviewers. And it's as gross as any reviewer is. You know what I mean? But we are quickly becoming, or have become really, a society of reviewers and commenters. And for the most part, onlookers. And what happened during this camping trip, and I've seen this happen at events like Prepper Camp and other things in my life, is that you get around enough doers. You get around enough people that are willing to do the right thing and put Instead of looking at a situation and going, huh, what's going wrong here? What can I complain about here? Sort of like Congress. They actually get to work. And that's what it was. It was a bunch of kids and a bunch of parents who were fully prepared to get whatever work needed to be done, done. And to have a great time in doing it. And spend as little amount of the time complaining. And that was what we got. We got a great event out of that. But it applies to everything in life. You know what I mean? It literally applies to everything in life. You can look at the world and say it's all falling apart. It's all coming down. It's all ruined. It's all trash. It's all S-H-T-F. And you'd be right about some parts of the world, sure. There are some parts of the world that are like that. Maybe you look at your part of the world and think it's moving in that direction. Well, it's probably time you get your hands dirty in your part of town. And if you say to yourself, I'm unwilling to get my hands dirty in my part of town. In other words, you know, try to make something, change something. You know what I mean? We're in that position here in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger is just letting felons out of jail just for fun. It's a new thing she likes to do. She likes to just let the felons out. Um. She didn't want ICE to do their job in Virginia, and we lost four Virginians to illegal alien crime. Lost them. Murder. Death. Murder. Abigail's going, ooh, that nasty old ICE, at least we kept them out. Now she got a new game, though, her new game's Let the Felons Out. Let the felons out, let them vote, let them have guns, let them do whatever they want, man, you know? And then when something happens, she'll just smile at the camera with her little witchy smile. Oh, whoever's out there, like, where's the Abigail AI witch stuff? Let's get on that. I know I got Virginia listeners. Like, where's the people using AI to train? It's not a great leap. You could put a green tone on her skin, you're good. Little hat, done. But yeah, the mother of mayhem. I'm working on something right now. Actually, it's called The Witch's October. Not The Witch's October, like the ownership side of it, but The Witch is October. And I think you're going to like it. It's a little short just yet. It's some prose, but I think you're going to dig it. I'll let you know when it's ready. Don't worry. uh pbn family the weather is cooling it is a great time for firecraft phenomenal time to really get into it phenomenal time to really sort of comb your way through the things that work for you and don't work for you Right. The little exercise that the kids did, here's a great one for everybody who's out there who's like, I'm starting from scratch with fire. The little exercise, I was very surprised by this, but I did not plan this. I had nothing to do with this. This just really, really surprised me and it was really cool, the school. But a great exercise that they did, and you could do, is they had the ferromagnesium block combo. You've seen it. And, you know, they didn't shave the magnesium. I just realized that. I guess that might have been too much for the kids. Anyhow, whatever. It all, it worked so well. The kids, so this is just a heads up for those of you out there. Everything's wet. So they took some leaves that they could find that were as dry as possible and some sticks. And then they tore up cotton balls and put them on top of that. And showed the kids how to strike the flint, or the ferrocerium rod, rather. And... You know, I was busy with fishing, as you can imagine. I was manning the fishing station of like 12 kids at a time casting. Some of them who've never touched a fishing pole. Right. So you can imagine I was a little tied up, but I did sneak over there when my son was there because I wanted to see him in action. And I, you know, saw when I look over people lighting fires. You know, no lighters, nothing, just shower and sparks onto the cotton ball and then the leaves catching fire. And they did it in a pie tin, you know what I mean? So it was like real safe and real easy to move around. When Jacob, my son, was lighting his fire, his buddy used another tin to put cover over it, right, because the rain had started coming hard. And his buddy put a tin over top of it so that he had room to work but still could light and get the fire lit. And, you know, there was just lessons there. You know, there were lessons there. And it was nice. I enjoyed it. It was... It is that time of the year. You know what I mean? To figure out if it's cotton balls. To figure out if it's dry. For me, it's dryer lint and wax. It served me my whole existence. If I don't have anything else, it's feathered sticks, right? Feathered sticks is... If you've never played a rat... Now, you've got to have knife skills to do a feathered stick sword. It's kind of a dual skill thing, right? You got to be able to use a knife and start a fire. But if I were in a situation where I had, you know, a lot, a lot of rain like I did to deal with and no Bigfoot fur, then that's what I would do. If I were in that situation at camp, you know, the teacher who put the whole thing on, she was phenomenal. I mean, just an amazing effort. She handed me a lighter. And I went up to her and I said, do you want me to start this fire? Because everybody was eating lunch. So I figured I could get it started before the kids saw it and wanted to swan dive into it. Because you know how kids are with fire. So I got that going. And I went over to get firewood to add to the fire. And she handed me a bin with a lighter and some lighter fluid. And she was like, this is if we have to rush it. Which, look, I get appreciated in the rain. Don't get me wrong. Um, but between just, you know, pulling some sticks out of the trees that were hung, finding some good pine for the resin, and then, uh, you know, having that, that Bigfoot fur, that, uh, dryer lint and wax. I mean, that stuff is, you start a fire in almost any condition with that stuff. And it's great. I mean, it's great, but had I not had it and everything was wet, then I would have found the driest sticks I could. and uh shaved all the bark off and feathered them out feathered them out as many times as i could as best as i could you know maybe about i'd probably try to do about 15 of them and uh yeah lighter matches whatever like i said the cool thing about those feathered sticks is that they're they're tender and kindling all in one right they're kind of a combo And the way that I build a fire, I've told you so many times, but the way that I build a fire is the way to build a fire. It's the log cabin fire. There's nothing better in my experience. I mean, someone can show me a better way. But like I said, if you've got all the time in the world to sit there and build a fire, then great. Do it any way you want, you know. You can do an upside down fire. You can do a front side right back side fire. You can star fire lay. Whatever. If I got wood that's cut like fuel. And I need a fire. And I don't want to be fire guy who's just going to sit here with the fire all night. I just know man. I just know I can do two pieces of fuel. Two more pieces at a 90 degree. Two more on top of that. Turn 90 again. You know what I mean? And build that log cabin up three, four rows. Start my fire in the middle with plenty of kindling. You know that you can lean the kindling all inside that fire lay. You can lay it across the top of that fire lay. There's so much airflow because you've got these big spaces on the sides of the fire. You know what I mean? It is the very best. That's all. But now it's the time for you to figure out what works for you. You might find out that like, yeah, that one's good, but I like this one better. It's the cool evening season, right? Get the fire pit. Play around. Play around with fire starters. Play around with the... Play around with the freaking ferrocerium rod. See how effective that can be. Play around with your storm matches. Play around with regular matches. Lighters. Butane lighters. You know, Zippo lighters. Play around with... You can even get a flint and steel and play around with that thing if you want. You know what I mean? Play around with embers and tinder bundles. If you want to get some hardwood, some really dry hardwood, some really dry softwood and try some friction fire, you can do that. You know what I mean? I put no stock in friction fire whatsoever. I just don't. I just really have no, you know what I mean? I don't know. I probably should practice it a little more, but it's just, I don't know. I, I've never been in a situation in all my years where I've been like, I have no way to start fire. I better get wood and start rubbing, rubbing it on a plane of other wood. You know what I mean? And you can pretty easily set yourself up that way. You know, years ago, years ago, a guy gave me a, uh, just one of those little 3d printed lighter holders that says, let's go Brandon on it. He was a 3D printer guy I was working with when I was making fishing lures and stuff. And I just put that thing on my keys and hold a lighter. And people probably think I smoke cigarettes or smoke weed or something like that. I don't know, but I just always have a lighter, you know? You always have a lighter. I have bags in my car that have ferro rods and matches in them. Obviously, the house has lighters and matches. You know, it's one of those things where it's like, What kind of situation do you find yourself in where you can't find a lighter, you can't find matches, you can't find anything but two sticks to rub together to start a fire? If my ancestors figured it out 500 years ago, you know, to use metal to make fire instead of sticks and rocks, then I think probably we should, you know, we should stick with that. That's good tradition. Put ferro rods everywhere. It's just a ferro rod. It's just a rod. You wipe it off. It doesn't matter. You can pull it out of the ground. Wipe it off dry. It'll spark. As long as you have a striker, you know, something. And you can strike it with the back of a knife. So now's the time to play with all that. Now's the time to do all that, learn all that, you know. Now's the time to smother fires to death is what it is. That's what time it is. It's the time to get in the fire pit and smother a fire to death when you want it to work and go, Ooh, I screwed up, and here's why I screwed up. Because most of the time, I'm telling you, most of the time, when you're failing a fire, it's just something's too wet, or you're going too fast and you're smothering it. There. That's a free lesson on fire from the Intrepid Commander. Trust me, I've been at it a long time. Not as a survival aficionado, but just as a kid who grew up outside of Philly and liked to burn stuff. Which then lent itself to a career in cooking, which then lent itself to a career in prepping and survival. Folks, 9 o'clock tonight I'm going to get on and do our Dirt Cheap and Free Prep Series. I did miss two days over the weekend. Just is what it is. Again, nobody's perfect. We're going to hit back hard tonight. 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. 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