Matter of Facts: 10th Anniversary of MoF

Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping, guns and politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at mwfpodcast dot com. On Facebook or Instagram. You can support us be a Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host, Phil Raveley Andrew Nickar on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Welcome back to Matter of Facts Podcast. Ten years of sociopathy, undiagnosed childhood autism ballooned into fully high functioning adult autism, nerdiness, tactical crab survivalism, preparedness. Am I missing anything obscene amounts of random tangent? Obscene amount of random tangents? I will be fully derailed from doing the admin work if my co says anything to say about it. Part of the reason why we're bs and right now is because original cost Andrew had a computer problem immediately before we were supposed to go live, and in the interest. Literally sixty seconds before. We go yeah, and and in the name of solidarity, we said screw waiting for him. It's funner to make fun of Andrew's computer. So yes, before we roast anything he presented to us this evening. We're gonna roast his fricking computer because my ancient, barely working cobble together Walmart special is still cooking and is locked up. Yeah. Well, you know that's the thing. About all these all these weird updates that they try to push through everything, is that every once in a while they decide to shot up the entire process. Yes, yes, all right. There are a lot of nerds in the in the chat right now. Not to overlook the fact that our wives are among those nerds. Is Rachel said love the intro. There's a story behind that. So part of the credit goes to Stewart. And anyone who's been in the Patron chat for more than about five minutes has met stud He's probably told you you're wrong about a variety of things, and unfortunately he's usually right because Stuart's been into preparedness since before I was born. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, oh, do I want to throw Andrews? Do I want to throw Andrews video up here before he's ready? Because I just watched him run across the room. You probably could. He's got no audio. It looks like he might have a microphone and he has a camera. I'll let him add himself and not not ruin his fun. But anyway, so Stuart Stewart worked with a friend of his who is a who's a songwriter, wrote the lyrics, had Ai compose the new intro and outro music for Matter of Facts really good. And then I passed it off to my wife and asked her like, hey, can you make an intro video around this? And I gave her large amounts of an artistic license and minimal direction. Nice and seriously stang up job on. Stewart is saying no, which means I'm probably wrong again. Claud Ai actually took the was it which is a Steward? Is it Claude or Clauda? I know what it is. I know what it is. I'm just messing with him because he lives to tell me I'm wrong about things, to be fair. When he does, usually it's pandantic or very. Accurate or pedantic and very accurate. Usually yeah, yeah, it's usually that one. Andrew, do you wanta me bring you into the show. I've been holding off to let you let you finish your setup. I don't know if he has audio yet. I don't know if he does or not. There he is hello, oh, he throws, Oh Jesus Christ, I'm gonna throw his computer out a window. That's good. Can you hear us? Can you hear me? I can hear you. Thank Christ. Great success, great success, great success. No. I The reason I asked when we were starting was I was, Uh, we bought a little cheap like a Honda, and I got new headlights for it, and I was like, Oh, this shouldn't be too bad. Nope, I was wrong. I could have told you you're wrong if you'd ask. Yeah. No. Everything was going pretty smooth until I went to go take out the driver's side headlight and the top one of the top bolts it was stuck in like the housing, and it just twisted the housing out, and so I had to like, I don't wrench on it and stuff. So then I looked at the time I was like, oh crap, I'm like, I gotta go, so I'll finish it in the morning. That's like the last time I was changing headlight bulbs on my Tacoma. They're they're secured in the buckets with these little bent up paper clip looking things, and yeah, one of them spraying out of the headlight housing into the engine bag. So you'll never see that again. Oh no, I no, no, I found it. I found it. I had to to remove the winchell washer reservoir on that side to be able to get it. And then I got that. I got I got that whole side buttoned up, got the new ball bend, got the Bennet paper clip thing back in place, put the washer reservoir back inside. Decided I'm gonna be the adult in the room and I'm gonna change the driver's side headlikee as if the pastor's side went out. The other one's not far behind, right, That little bastards spraying immediately afterwards, and then I had to take the battery out to get that one. After twenty years together, my wife knows to look on my face when I come in from outside working on something and just not to ask questions. That's fair. Sorry you were saying, Andrew. I was gonna say it. And then my electric wrench died in the whole during the whole thing, so I'm like, oh man, I have to go to like. Old school and get anyway. I know. Okay, So for just a brief moment before we start tenth anniversary. Did anybody in attendance or in the audience think we ever get here? I didn't know when the show started, so I don't know. I popped in here kind of in the middle, so it seemed like it was gonna keep rolling to me. So you missed the very beginning where it was very pained and very very very rough. Mm hmm. I think I missed the first like year and a half or two years of the show. You didn't miss much well, I mean, Andrew was great from the moment he came on. It was me that was stumbling and bumbling like a moron by myself. It's hard to hold a conversation just with yourself unless you've got some severe mental instability issues or you're a machinist. Do you say that like those two things don't go don't run together? No, they definitely do. Yeah, you'd fit right in at work, all right. So plan of action for the night the admin work. You should be a patron. If you're not a patron, you should fix that. You should buy some shirts, and you should buy some coffee. Let's get to topic. We have some hold on. I think there's a lag, but hold on one second, I just want to throw it out there that we have new coffee that drop, so we need to make sure we cover that. H Okay, fine, we will talk about the coffee ever so briefly before we get the show on the road. This is actually a a cup of the S'mores, which is our newest offering Disaster Coffee. I brought I brought home a bag of the s'mores and a bag of the pecan pie, and Smores beat pecan pie handily in this household at least. Yeah. It's uh, it's good. I mean I I like the pecan pie, like pecan So my fiance really likes the pecan pie with like a little bit of like like some caramel additive to it. Uh, that is really good. The small Yeah, the Smores is good. But yeah, no, it's uh, it's exciting over at Disaster Coffee, trying to get a couple of things I've been working on the trying to not we're not rebranding, but just refreshing off the website and stuff like that. So did you try the did you try the pecompie black? Yeah? Yeah, I like, can you taste the pecans? Yeah? Yeah you can? Yeah, like that I like that the s'mores is really good because I'm like, I actually taste like I'm eating like a ure It's like I'm drinking it. Like I wasn't as big a fan of the s'mores when it was dead black, and like I was telling this. I was saying this in the patron chat, and of course Stewart told me I was wrong, But like, well, so my issue is is that, like I associate, because I'm a coffee snob at this point, I associate smokiness with a dark roast, and I taste the smokiness in this coffee, but then I taste things that I associated with a medium roast. So it's not that it's bad, it's that my brain is telling me, like these two tastes don't go together, right, But you put a little bit of coffee creamer in the s'mores and then it like it knocks the smokiness down and then you almost get like a bit of a marshmallow taste coming out from the coffee and the coffee creamer working together. Just a little bit of creamer and a dash of sugar, and that's a perfect cup. Mine just tastes like what how I actually make my s'more and just take it. Tastes burner, that's smokiness. Yeah, probably. Yeah, Stuart's saying dark humor for the wind. Dark humor's good. But I find that the more the more I drink coffee, the more I have to be like in the mood for a dark roast. I'm kind of turning more into a meatium roast person over the years. I mean, it's a good user friendly roast. I mean, there's not really a bad way to go with a medium roast. You can definitely go bad with too dark. Yeah, especially like if you're having coffee with food, the dark roast can really overpower the food. Sometimes this kind of ruins it. Yeah, I find that dark roase worked really well though if you're smoking a cigar while drink it in because then if you're smoking a cigar, a coffee can kind of get lost in a little bit. But that dark roast is so robust, Like if you're smoking a really flavorable cigar, you need that dark ROAs to bounce it out. Yeah. Probably all right, Gillian saying I didn't think of that. It does kind of taste like a burnt marshmallow, but not in a burnt Starbucks coffee kind of way. Their coffee just tastes like sadness. It is sadness. Starbucks is like no serious coffee drinker or licensed Starbucks. I wouldn't consider myself a serious coffee drinker. But the one time I went and only one time I went to Starbucks and attempted to order a coffee, it was far more of a trying situation than I felt was reasonable for getting a cup of coffee. Yeah, well, I mean there's reasons for that. Yeah, I don't know. And then I and then I had it and it was shit. And I am a fan of shit coffee like gas station coffee, fast food restaurant coffee, sketchy diner coffee, burnt coffee off the pot at work, great, fine, love it. Starbucks coffee is just terrible. Yeah, I mean, there are reasons for that. They tend to use kind of lower quality beans and then dark roast the crap out of them to try to mask the staleness of them. It's it's not. A good thing. But anyway, so we have a topic and then I'm sure we'll get derailed in the middle of that topic, and then towards the end of the show I will unmute my phone and allow the patrons who now have my personal cell phone number from the patron chat to call into us if they would like. And I'm I'm not promising it's gonna work because so far Gilly and I tested this and we were like, you know, two attempts out of four it worked. So if it don't work, it don't work. But we're gonna give it a We're gonna give the old college try nice. But first we have to have part three of Roast My Shit, and tonight Andrew's the one who's up for the roast ink yay. So he submitted to us a pistol, his night vision larp set up a scorpion, I said, another, GPR looks like an her basic bitch six inch car, being the big brother to our A three hundred's his thirteen oh one and his six naf creed more. Thanks, So, Andrew, do you have any sins you want to you want to confess to now before we start clicking through this? Uh, ninety nine point nine percent of the stuff was purchased when I was single. I was going to be just fan. I was going to be polite and say that there's definitely some single man spending going on here. Well. So, I mean it's funny because like I remember, if those of you who know who win is yes, I remember like our first time at prepper camp, like we're or we met this guy named When and he's you know, he's sweet dude, Like I mean, I missed him. I wish we could see him more often. But anyway, he he's sitting there and he's pulling gear out of his van that he has and he's pulling like he's like got this ar and then he's got this this night vision set up and he's got like all this stuff. And I'm like, holy crap. And this is before I had night vision or anything like that. And I'm like, dude, I said, how many kids you got? And he's like I think he said two or something like that. And then he was or you know, and then he's you're married. He goes, yeah, I go, how do you forward all this stuff? He's like I got it before I was married and before I. Mean and and but that's the thing though, is like it's just interesting because it's not not saying like I don't have the money to do it, but it's just it's priorities are shifted, you know. Oh yeah, priorities instead of I mean, yeah, I still go out and shoot, I still buy ambo and stuff like that. But I mean, I haven't bought a new gun in a long time. And it's one of those things where I'm fine with the gear I have. It's good. I try to find the classes to help run it and learn it better. But other than that, I'm like, Okay, instead of this, you know, money that I could upgrade a quad tubes, It's like, what I can you know, shift towards you know, the house, Like okay, remind you know, because we're trying to remodel our bathroom and you know, we want the kitchen and we want, you know, we want to do a bunch of stuff to the house, and so it's just like it's just yeah, priority has shifted, so but you know, and that's the thing is I jokingly, I mean, when when my fiance and I met and we kind of like when we first started dating and stuff, I kind of it was it was like, you know, joked around about, you know, having to sell my stuff and she's like no, She's like, no, you're not. She's like, you don't have to. I'm not that person, like you know, so and so. I mean, and she's never and she's she'll never ask me and stuff, and I'll never ask her to get rid of animals because the farm that we have is I mean, I look at him and I'm like, man, I. Got's cool because we have a goat right now and. We we got him for he's a buck, and so we got him to help breed the females that we have and uh, we raised him. We got him in February I think of this year, and so it was cold out and so he stayed in the house for a long time and to this day, I mean, he was like he'll just like walk in the house, look around, like, hey, what's up some floor? But uh but he no, he's cool, Like I mean, he's he's one of the most chill goats and I claimed him as my goat. So but uh but yeah, no, it's fun. I mean, And that's the thing is, it's although I do have to say though, my six point five freed more when I I did buy that. When I did buy that. When I was before, when we were dating my fiancee, you know, boyfriend girlfriend, I was like, hey, I'm getting this rifle. She's like all right, cool she and I was like, going go with me to pick it up. I was like, yeah, sure. So I went to my friend's shop. To go pick it up. And at the time I had the uh SO on it, I put the Vortech Vortex Piper HD on it. At the time I had the. Hortexpiper it was the hs T I think it was, which is and there, And so I'm sitting there, my buddy's like, hey, uh, this just came out. It's the uh the upgraded version to what you have and its first vocal plane. Like, oh, how much is that? And he told me. I was like, oh, I looked at. I looked at and she was like get it. I was like hoping you talked me out of it. And she's when he was like I would. She's like, I'm not going to talk you out of that stuff. And I'm like okay. And that's that's when he knew he owed this lady a ring, right, uh huh. Anyway, No, it's uh, it's a lot of fun. Yeah. So one thing before we get going raggle fraggle saying, oh, you went full farm. We need an in depth update on this at some point, and we do. It just cannot be tonight because we already have enough to cover in one night. But Andrew has said that schedule allowing he wants to start coming around the show more often. Yeah, yeah, and I and I have intentionally left his admin credentials active ever since he left, hoping he would come back. Oh we knew he wasn't gonna be gone forever. Well we we. I can't speak for the rest, but I've been bullying him low key for well over a year now about so bro. Yeah, no, I do want to come back. It's it's yeah, it's just hard second shift and I only get I only get like thank one or two thursdays off a month. So yeah, uh doctor scary guys. So this new guy, Andrew was my co host for the first I think I rode shy. I rode by myself for about the first year, and then Andrew came on. And that's gonna be like whole discussion in our origin story we can unpack as we reminisce about ten years after we roast your stuff. But you were with me, You and I were coat were running together for what about six or seven years? Yeah, probably not. Yeah, and then when when life happened and you had to kind of circle your wagons and take care of adult things, we tapped Nick. And Nick's been Nick and I have been running together for ever since. Mm hmm. Yeah, so it worked out good. So yeah, calling Andrew the new guy, it's kind of hilarious because like I've I've known Andrews since my kid was like in pre pre. K almost ten years. Yeah. Almost, all right, so let's let's roast. Let's roast some shit. Number one right out of the gate. Pistol M and P nine C two point oh yep, I love that pistol. Yep. So this signer MPs, signer NPS. Uh so the NPS the two point oh actually just came out or it's just getting ready to come out. Uh and yeah, I. Am gonna it's gonna be hard for me not to buy that one because like it's with some of the upgrades and stuff that they've done to it. But the the NPS for the closed de meta optic, you can't beat it. I've dropped it, smacked it against stuff, I mean, beat the crap out of it. I've ran a lot. I mean, I don't know how many rounds I've ran through it that is sitting on a on a plate because I did have that pistol originally cut for an armar, and so I had an armor on that pistol. And then I switched to an SR a turgeron SRO on top of it, and then I switched to the NPS and then. I just actually I just got it. Put it in there not long ago as but is a faxon threaded barrel and shout out to faxon their customer service. Holy crap. Basically bought the barrel, went out to go shoot it, and it hung up. Every single round. It would not It wouldn't it would not cycle with just FMJ, would not cycle. The the the locking like the lug and stuff, it wouldn't lock in, and so I had to tap the slide forward and it would lock in. Try did a suppressor on it got even worse. Uh and so yeah, so I reached out to him and I was kind of like I kind of was thinking, like they're gonna just give me the middle finger, but because it was like a month or tube I think before they got back to me, and the guy was like, finally got back to me. He's like, hey, man, sorry, uh, your email got buried. I'm gonna send you one out. I'm gonna send you another barrel out. What's your address? All this stuff. So I gave you my address, sent me another be all out and that one actually didn't even fit into the gun, like into the slide, like it was even worse fitment. So I mailed them back and I was like, hey, this is what's going on. I send him pictures everything, and the guy was like, all right, I'm gonna send you another one and let me know. And I was like, dude, if. This is like third times a charm, but if this is something, I'm like, I know I had some because I had some slide work done on this pistol as you can see Eric Coata and stuff like that. But yeah, I I don't know. I mean the finally the third one showed up and it dropped right in and shot. Well. So pretty happy with that stock trigger. I haven't done anything with the trigger. Those of you who know MMPs know the first gen the trigger like is actually terrible. It was terrible. The second gen trigger actually isn't bad. They've done a lot of good work to it. I like the second gen trigger. I've recently been kind of like playing with the idea of putting like another one in like an aftermarket, but I don't think I will. But then for war and then for on the slide or on the UH. On the mags, I'm running high technology Magwell's, so it's like it adds. I think it adds like three or four rounds or something like that. Nice. I can't remember. And I've been I mean, I've been running those for years, so I've been really happy with it. You should try the trigger I've got in me and my wife's m MP nine C. Yeah. I didn't care for it, Phil. Phil hated it because it's a really light, really short reset. It is. I don't mind the short reset, but it is entirely too light for my taste. It's like a two to two and a half pound trigger. It's it's quite light. But I Andrew, I gotta ask why get rid of the r m R in favor of the Steiner? What what caused you to make that shift? So what caused me to make that shift is one you'll see it on top of my shotgun, Okay, and so I needed I needed a sight on top of my shotgun. And the rm R like works perfect. Also, I have shifted away with my carry gun, and I've shifted kind of away with open emitter. Okay, So because of the fact that if something ever happens, uh and you drop it in the snow, snow gets in front of that emitter, your site is so well. You and it does snow often by you. Yeah, and uh, and or dirt lint. I mean, I appendix carry is the way I normally carry, and so I mean lint. So yeah, exactly, an open arm mart in the rain, you understand. Exactly, scary guy dropping that on us. You know, I have very little experience with with dots in general other than on an AR platform. So yeah, yeah, close. I closed the mitter is the way to go. I think that's the future of dots. I mean, obviously they're always they're always doing something different with the dots. But I think closed the mitter is it trumps open emitter all day long. And then it's just yeah, to me, the picture is clear, uh, And then yeah, I don't have any issues. Opens. Yes, I have open emetters. I have four or five of them, I believe on other pistols. I don't carry those pistols. But they're on other stuff. So so do we rate it here or do I show you the next picture, which is more pistol stuff. I mean, I don't know, it's a nick question. Andrew, you're the roast, not the roaster. Let's do a rating per slide. Okay, let's do a rating per slide as presented. I shall give it a four from practicality. Okay, it is. It is a bit. It is a bit of extra gun, having an extend, having an extended magazine, and having having a red dot on the top. And I but on the one hand, I want to say, like this is a little bit bigger than I think most people would carry. But I also carry double stack nine mill and I do that pretty comfortably, even though I have the world's largest comming towards So apparently. The MP the two point Oh, it's it's the same size as the Glock nineteen. Basically it is was the m m P. This was this was their answer to the Black nineteen, like their competition to it. But yeah, I'm. With Phil, I'm with fill in this song. So for one thing, I don't I'm still not sold on anything that modifies magazines for practicality because I've played around with mag extensions when I was doing competition shoots, and I had more issues with mags with mag extensions on them than I did with magazines that were made for that number of rounds. And I believe it's down to a spring tension issue. I Now, as far as like the size of the gun, Andrew and me were not that dissimilar in size. I mean I I did, for often concealed carrying my XDM, which is a twenty one plus one pistol. Full size, full frame, and you and Andrew are about the same height. I mean he's he's he's got a couple of inches on me. He's a pandix carrying it. I was carrying it strong side hip and I didn't have any printing issues. Yeah. And I mean and when I carry this, I mean I'm not like I'm not wearing like a you know, super tight actually small shirt. I mean it's generally when I'm carrying like this pistol, I have another I have the m M P nine C, the first gen, so it's like the subcompact version, and I'll carry that. With like a T shirt and stuff like that more comfortably. But I mean without the without the mag extension. You can carry this thing in a T shirt. It's really like it's a daily driver carry that I carry this in I wear usually when I carry I usually I usually wear more button ups anyway, And so I yeah, so I mean I usually when I'm carrying it's I usually wear like a button up or something like that anyway, or I wear more of a baggy T shirt. But anyway, Yeah, No, I get what you're saying with the mag extensions. So Nick, we're we're both on a full or four for practicality. Four for practicality. I'll give it three for cool. I'm gonna give it a four for cool things because cam slide it can't have a four for cool. It's it's a freak. It's an m m P. It can't be that. But it looks cool. That's why I got the three, because it looks cool. Look it's got which means he's got a codskin on. The first of all, no carry gun can be cool. No carry gun can be more than three cool unless it's a little bit unreliable or weird, like if you have to explain to gun buddies what the hell it is you're carrying now. We can get into the four cool territory had five cool. I mean, if you're carrying something that you would see unforgotten weapons, that's an automatic five cool. Okay. Now my dream carry gun is a Mataba say Unica. Okay, that's fair. The Italian then the the mid nineties Italian auto Revolver. I'll never own one because the last chance I had to buy when it got sold out from underneath me. And like they are conservatively a fifteen hundred dollars handgun if you'd get nothing with it but the gun, and they're just doing nothing going up price, so I'll probably know he's one. He's got three different block, three different call of duty upgrades on there. He's got a skin, he's got a dot, and he's got mag extensions. That's a four. That's a solid four lift call of duty. Uh huh okay. Okay, okay. And then he gave us this, which is all of that with a can. Yeah. So I mean obviously those those holsters and the light and the light. Yeah, obviously those holsters cannot run with a can. But I just figure I throw it on there just for shits and giggles, because that can is awesome it's a it's a rugged upcity in forty five, so yeah, it's I love it. It's a. It's a it's an awesome can so. And the Surefires are legit. I've got one on my my cz PO nine. I actually have the older X two hundred hanging from the bottom side of my Kimber nineteen eleven, which is a relic at the point, and it's really is well okay, but. So did you ever get it to run through a full case of AMMA without a jam? Uh? The kimber actually, yes, the kimber is wow. The Kimber was very reliable until I saw I was started. So when I started reloading, I'm forty five a sped for the thing. My first foray into reloading was with Oh, it was a Delta Precision I think FMJ bullets, so I have really good luck with those. I made a bunch of them. They were very reliable on my gun, just reliable as factory AMMO had been. And then I switched to two hundred and thirty grain Extreme bullets, which is a plated bullet and the dimensions are a little bit different, and I immediately started having trouble with a very slightly undercrimped case, and the gun would hang up from going into battery by like a sixteenth of an inch. Now, once I realized my problem, I went back through. I literally hold the seatings, the seating stem out of my out of my die, and just ran every last one of those rounds back through and put a very slight taper crimp on him. The gun's been fined since. But that's fair first cartridge I'd ever reloaded, and I learned that lesson the hard way, that when you switch components you really need to go back to square one and start over again. Yeah, but anyway, Yeah, I mean, okay, I will allow for the four cool with this setup. Oh definitely, that's a solid four cool. I mean you can't go wrong. There two more call of duty upgrades. I'm just saying, okay, okay. Brasicality wise, though, it is going to be difficult to carry this. Pistol with that much suppressor on it. Yeah. Have you seen the guy from what was an Idaho? I have you would return fire with a freaking suppressor? All right? Oh? Yeah, well suppressed five seven at like ninety yards? It wasn't he wearing a schmag. Yeah? I think he was. He had the operator beard shamag and and the hat. So yeah, no, when I uh, this is when it's in when it has a suppressor on, it's a backpack pistol. Yeah, it goes in the backpack. It's not I'm not a Panix carrying with the suppressor. You damn sure ain't got a holster in a hurry with that thing on. It is that your pants are. I am really happy to see you. Okay, So we are Okay, we're jumping right to nods. We are jumping right to the obligatory Instagram certified night vision LARP. Oh yeah, talk us through this? Oh, I mean, what do you want me to say? Uh so? So basically, uh so, this was my upgrade from uh the PBS fourteen. I sold that to Phil uh and then I went with quads or not quads? Sorry, yeah, I. And I have my own thoughts on quads, but we won't go there yet. Uh So, No, this is a team windy bump helmet. I actually just put the Shurf fire X three hundred Vampire on the side. It was running a what's the length that you have force? I just I eyed on me. It completely died. I thought I thought it quit working. I thought it was the batteries swapped out batteries and it never turned on ever again. Wow, I threw in the trash. Uh so yeah, So anyway, I just I just put this on here. Uh. This the Vampire light, which is nice because I like it a little bit better than the the en Force anyway, because in Force, if you weren't careful with it, it actually would Uh it could bump, It could. Bump on very easy. Uh. This one is a little bit harder just to ring bump on. And then also it. Had the uh it has the UB, it has the or I R rather it has the I R white and then off. And so that's what I really like about this is it has it sits in the off position and so it won't drain battery. The same batteries have been in this thing for I think over a year, because it's like I just I don't necessarily run that often anymore unless I'm shooting night under night vision with my pistol. But in the batteries it booted right up. When I turned it to white light, it booted right up, no issues. And so I put it on my helmet I'm running the sword in Supreme pros on the on the for ear pro it has a Udi Mark headset adapters for it so that it mounts on top of our mounts right onto TM Wendy. I they're not bad. Uh, the Unity Mark headset adapters, they're not too bad. Still getting I run them, and I do like them. I'm kind of thinking about going to like the was it the opscore talk about that they kind of, yeah, I think about I think I might run those, but I do. I do like this. I do like the pressure that this puts around the ears. Uh, it's pretty stable, so that's that's very nice. As you can see what's nice about the uh the So these are this is from night Vision US. Night Vision is where I got this set from. It's the B and v D fourteen thirty one mark two, so it's binocular night Vision is all that stands for. And then it's fourteen thirty one, so it's it's based off the PBS fourteen bodies. So each each lens is it's pretty much a PBS fourteen and they bridge them together like a like a thirty one. And then just how it kind of and what I like about it is like you like, uh, the top left picture. You know, that's basically the night vision stowed all the way up. The top right. You can actually fold those down for a little bit of clearance, and then obviously you can see when it's folded down, you can see where it's Uh, you can actually fold them up and you kind of look underneath them without actually pulling your nightment all the way up. What I like about this as well is I can pull just one side up if I want to, so I can just I can turn it into a monocular setup just by flipping the one side up. There are presets. The knobs that you see on the bottom right, the knobs on the right and the left side, those are actually pre sets, so I can actually set those and it it won't like go past you know that that set that setting, so it'll it'll go right to every time where I want to go where I want to put it. Uh, nice built in IR, so just basically double click the knob, IR a little IR flashlights built in so it turns on a little bit of a little bit of extra illumination. Runs on a double A battery, so it and I think it's like I think on the battery pack is like fifty plus hours, give or take. And I think on the on a double A is like fifteen to twenty hours if I remember it. It's not bad. No, it's not. I mean does not take a lot of power to run. That's still that's that's so fifteen hours on a double A battery. That's pretty darn good for two for a pair of nods. Yeah, and I uh, I the one thing I don't like is I I don't like the Rhino mount on here just because like obviously you can see like how high it sits up when it's sitting there. I want to upgrade to a Wilcox or there's another company. Call don to start with a CD or something like that. Or the name of it, but basically it uh, they came out with a basically it's uh, it's the competition to Wilcox. Now actually is way lighter than a Wilcox mount Uh. It actually has way more adjustments. Uh, and it's I don't know if it's stronger or not, but because will I mean obviously it's milled up, you know, like aluminum stuff like that. But no, it I I kind of was looking at that one. But yeah, let's see. I will just say while you're collecting your thought. The one thing that's really not appreciated by people that don't spend a lot of time in night vision is either running a monocular or having the ability to flip one eye open. Having one eye unaided and one eye ate it really really helps a lot of situational awareness when you're under night vision. It like it's it sounds like it wouldn't matter much, but just the ability to like have both eyes open. One eye can see out in the dark, and one I can see like right here, am I still in the shadow? Am I standing under a street light in a puddle light room? Fully exposed? Like it? I find that for me at least, And part of this could be the fact that, like I, the last time I ran binocular night vision was with a PVS seven and that's not a great experience. But the time I've spent under a single optic, like, I find it really does help to maintain what's going on around you to have one eye wide open. I so. Going off from the PVS four team to the duels, I find that I actually like duels more. I the one thing I. Did like, I actually find I actually find that like my death perception is a little bit better with duals versus just a PVAs fourteen, especially when you're in the freaking dark. The one thing I did like about the Prevs fourteen is. When I was shooting. When I was shooting, so basically I would have the out, the fourteen would be on my left eye and then I would shoot. I'm right eye dominant, so I would shoot and I'd keep both eyes open, and I would shoot well. When I would shoot the with my red dot my eyes, i would see white phosphorus image. But then i'd see like the rectang or like the dot, and then the circle and dot from my optic in that white because if it was so dark out now, like you're saying, you know, having the one eye open is really nice for certain things. I mean, I do agree with you on certain things with that, but really, I mean, you're not running these straight up to your eyes like when I run. I run it with a little bit of a gap in between my eyes and and and the night visions, so I can see out of my peripherals just fine. I can see if I'm walking into a lighted area. I can see obviously when you're when you're running around or walking around whatever, you're just walking through the house. If you walk into a room that's light, you're gonna notice the difference when you're because these are autogated, so like as a manual gain on it, these are autogated, so like it automatically adjusts that gain. So a PVS fourteen is also AutoGate, autogated. But I have a manual gain to switch saying you have an auto. Gain, yeah I have. Yeah, you have a manual gain, so you have you have you have a nod that you can twist to, you know, do whatever. Mine is just it lightens and darkens and it does everything on its own. But but that's the thing, is like when I'm walking around, if I walk around the house or if I'm walking around outside, I mean, yeah, I can definitely just I can tell, okay that's a lighted area, that's not a lighted area, for one. But then also, like I said, I keep the night vision away up from my eyes just enough to where I can still use my purps. And that's why I don't really necessarily like quad t ei. There the one night vision class I did, there's a dude that was had quad tubes and he let a bunch of us like mess around with them. And maybe it's the generation that he had. I don't know, But like one, I didn't like it because when the where the two so basically has four tubes, and then those tubes come in and that you have a single piece of glass that kind of comes in and that bridges it and everything. I didn't like because where both of those pieces of glass came in to make the like the two into one, it had like a small crease in your vision. And so so I really didn't like that. And it was on both sides and it drove me up the wall. It was faint, but I could still notice it. I didn't really care for it, you know. And then so that's the thing, so I really don't care for that. And then also I didn't like it because I didn't care for it. I didn't like that it took away my peripheral. So the quad tube sits like, I mean comes and sits like right here, so you get that wide periphial vision. I think it's one hundred degree field of view. And I just didn't care for it because I like the idea that I can walk around and if I want to look, if it's a lighted enough area. I can look and I can look at my peripheral I can see stuff. So I mean that's just me though. I mean, and granted, I maybe if I had them and I ran them for a long time, I'd get used to it, no issues, and I wouldn't complain. I'd be like, man, you know, pogues, you freaking run dual stuff, pores poors. But anyway, yeah, all right, so. It's always weird to give you a practicality score. I gotta get smart. I gotta give it a one for practicality. Yeah, it does jam that that's wow. Well it does. It does the job. But all right, Andrew, total investment in this headset, I don't oh. Oh wait wait wait nick nick nick, No, no, no, that is the question we're not supposed to ask. All I'm saying is the the cost makes it wildly impractical? Yeah. Will it do a job, yes it will. Is it a cost effect solution for the majority of people? No, absolutely it is not. Oh no, I mean I mean, just like what you guys said the last episode with fills and stuff. I mean, if you like, I mean, it's nice to have. I wouldn't. Yeah, I would definitely. It's cool. It's fun things other than this, but I mean, but it is. It is the great equalizer as far as things go. Oh, you can own the night. I mean, I don't know how many times it was. I I had, Like when I when I my old house I had and I lived in the city, I had a ton of fun of just people watching. I'd sit on my porch and home from work at midnight one o'clock, sit on my porch and I'd smoke a cigar and I'd turn my lights out and everything, and I would just sit in the dark and I'd watch people come in from the bar, like walk past my house in the with the bar drunk people like freaking walking around like it was pretty It was pretty hilarious. The storm we just had, like I don't know, a month or so ago, maybe not, we had a tornado go by the house and it knocked out power for you know, I think it was for a full day or something. I got home and really, I mean, I could have grabbed a flashlight, but instead I was just like ah throughound the night vision walked around, checked on the on the horses, checked on the bar, and made sure nothing was going on and just watch. Yeah, if you have it, you're gonna find use. You're gonna find uses and excuses to use it, for sure. So but I will give it two for practical And I'm conflicted about not giving it a three, but that feels a bit much of a reachion. I'll give it a two for one reason, I know he lives in the country. Pest control fair enough night vision. Night vision for rural pest control can be a lot of use. As matter of fact, use. Green light or red light flags for uh spottings for for pest control. Night vision's more fun. Raggo has actually is actually trying to entice me to come up to North Louisiana to go pop some pigs in the middle of the night. You should I Unfortunately the weekend he asked me, I was like, everything going on right now, the school's beginning, wife and daughter at Defcon two. Like, now, it's not good time, but I really need to make time to go up and visit and you know, smoke some pigs. Proverbially and literally. I will say, though, I'll give it. A four for cool. Oh absolutely, it's freaking night vision. M hm. My vision, like you have to have at least a three. Cool. Oh yeah, it's like the Hot Crazy Matrix starts at a four for a reason, it does. My wife disagrees with that. We've had discussions. My wife is. My wife has asked me why that was, and I just gave her this look like I haven't met every female member of her family. Right, defend your point, honey, exactly, Yes, my wife. My wife is telling Raggle to abscond with me. He should. She wants pork. Andrew, how much does this set up wigh on your head? Because I know my my. Ballistic helmet I think is four and a half or five pounds. Honestly, I've never I've never really should I yeah I should, but I never have because I don't want to know. It's it's something that you can you definitely feel it, definitely feel that weight. I mean bump helmet. It's gonna be lighter than my like four and a half five pound ballistic helmet. Yeah, yeah, the bump helmet is considerably lighter than that. But uh, like, I mean, so I have the T T NBC mohawk on it too, in the back on the top and then you can see the Swordan's I got the it's a counterweight. Uh, it's I mean, it's only like it's mostly batteries. I have double A and c R one two threes in it, but I have a couple, I have a it's I can't know how many ounces of lead in the back, so it counterweights. But no, I I honestly, I don't know. I you can definitely like if you're if there's days where I'm if I haven't worn it in a long time and I put it on, I'm like, oh crap, Like it takes me like it's like a bowelhead kind of thing because you got to find that gravity again. So but no, I it, yeah, you know, it's it's definitely something to get used to. And it's not just the weight. It's the fact that the weight is like there's certain the wait that's I hang it off the front of your face out here. That really does torque the muscles in the neck if you're not used to it. Sure, all right. Scorpion three plus micro so basically the little brother to mine. I thought you had the three micro Huh, I said, I thought you had the three plus micro. No, I got the the Evo three three. Yeah. Yeah, so this is yeah, so the Scorpion three plus micro. Obviously it doesn't necessarily look micro because the rail that I put on it, I don't remember the company that the company that did that rail or HB Industries, that's who it is. So uh So basically start from you know what is it? The tip to butt is Grant I'm likes to say. Uh so, I just through I've had it for a little bit now with the sub nine so rugged rugged sub nine uh suppressor on it, dedicated suppressor on it. It's uh, I mean, I think I got it. It's on the roof with the the trilug adapter, but I mean I think it's quiet. It is stupid quiet. That is one of the best suppressors, suppressors I've ever shot. Uh That is a Then that's the Shurfire Scout vampire light on there, and it's got oh I can't remember, it's got the tail click the tail uh end on it. So it's got a clickie on it, the. D zero zero tail cap. It's got the button and the and the plug and the plug yeah yeah. So that and then that goes into a unity accent uh switch, which that which is threaded through which I actually need to get another accent because after I got this rail and I extended it out a little bit, as you can see, the cables are kind of stretched. Uh. There you can see it. So I actually I actually needed an accent with like the seven inch cables versus like those were the four I think it was or something so like. So, yeah, so I need to get the next one up that has a little bit longer cable. Uh. But then the the Steiner. So that's a Steiner d ball Uh. The I think it's the eye two. Uh. So it's just the it's the's no infrared light, hence the uh, the vampire light. That's why that's my infrared if I need it. And what's nice is about the accent is uh, I have it pro I have it set up to where I can either do just the laser or I hit the other button. It's two buttons on it, and so I hit one button, it's just the laser and all I hit the other button and it illuminates. It's the illuminator and the uh and a laser. Yep. So the Steiner that one. I've had that laser for a long freaking time. Uh, and I and it's not like it's still going strong. So that's the green, green and IR laser on a combo. And then it's got the A point acro on the top, close themitter dot the this the the riser in the mount and everything. Actually that was done. That was actually milled by friend of mine. Uh here I lived that lives locally that him and I get together and shoot every once in a while. He owns a machine shop. And I was like, and at the time I was looking around for I want to put the acro on it. I'm like, I cannot find a riser with the like the with the bea retail that comes out for the steiner. I cannot find that anywhere. And so he's like, well, let me look. Let me talk to my designer, and so him and his designer sat down and they milled a few of them out and stuff, and so yeah, so uh that's from him, and I just spray canded, just rattle camp nice. And then the one the next upgrade I. Want to do, and I think it's going to be officially done, will be the trigger. I have not graded the trigger on the CZ scorpion that it's gonna be the Timney trigger. So that yeah, and then uh, that is the strike industries. Uh it's a strike industries, not stock. But the brace is what I what it is, So the strike industries brace. So yeah, So and then that actually all sits in my that mystery Ranch messenger bag. Nice that it folds right up into it. Actually I have enough room. I do have a med kid in there, so I have turn a kid in there. I got a blowout kit basically, and then I have I have four mags in there right now, four thirty round bags. And this actually sits and they're just fine with a thirty round bag. And I yeah, I went to Detroit and went to Detroit with this thing, walked on Detroit, went through the hotel, everything, and like you just couldn't tell. So that miss bag looks, it looks it works out really nice. So okay, I'm prepared to give it a three for practicality agreed, which is overcoming some built in buys I have against bag guns mm hmm, which is I am fully prepared to admit it is totally just a me thing because I look, I tell young ladies that want to carry, and they're convinced that they want to carry their gun in their I tell them the same thing all the time. I don't like guns and things that are easily taken off the body. I just don't. Regularly left behind. I would like to give Andrew more credit than that, but again I'm fighting it's built in bias. I'll give it a three for for practicality. H cool. I'm really conflicted. I kind of want to go four, but then I keep pulling myself back to a three because we we have we have a PCC, and I am a Scorpion fan. I mean that that it does bear pointing out. We've got we've got light laser can, red. Dye, dedicated can, and it's in a very compressed package. Very cool. Yeah, I just push the button. Phill Okay, three practicality, four cool. I'm gonna also give it four cool because we as we know from talking about Phil's you can HK slap. This, yes, and the HK slap is kind of obligatory. Like any anybody that makes an nine milimeter PCC that you cannot HK slab, I question that you're. Doing it wrong. You you are clearly making a choice to be less cool if you cannot do that. With your gun. The entire reason for tolerating nine milimeter pccs is to h K slap them. Yes, by the way, higher purpose of them do either one of y'all? Watch a YouTuber called a Print Shoot Repeat PSR. Yes, have you seen the music video he did of the HK slab I did? It was great that and I've got knods are burnt into my subconscious forever. Anybody that hasn't seen psr's music videos, you should. If you don't giggle, you have no soul. M h Okayot's made. A lot of contributions to the three D printing Gun Gun Sphere. Yeah. I tried to entice onto the show when he was I wouldn't say before he kind of blew up, but like when he was a smaller, more upcoming show, and he didn't blow me. I mean we talked back and forth a fair bit. He just he had too many irons and fire and too much going on, and I was like, Hey, I totally get that, dude. The best of luck to you. All right, So Andrew you you've you've managed to beat the odds with a combined score of seven from both of us. Not just all right, rifle, I'm going to ding you on this not because there's anything wrong. Sights never mind, there it is. I'm sorry you're slingded. I thought for a second there. Jesus, no, Nick was prepared to come off the top rope at you. I should now that I think about it, I should have you should have got I should have got to you guys, like just the most ridiculous stuff like I should I should have AI a freaking high point with you know, an EO tech on it and stuff. M hm, okay, wait I could I could have swore that was just the sling there For a second, I was about to chew you outside. Okay, y'all you well Andrew talks to you about that. I'm going to put that on the docket as a topic for a future show, and we are going to uh no, the most ridiculous gun build we can imagine. Oh have you have you seen the. It was a three fifty seven Bulldog with a bayonet and a six x magnifier on it. I think I broke Phil's mind. No, I'm I'm doing what I said I was gonna do, because see, I learned a long time ago that if I tell you, oh yeah, I'll put down the list as a future topic. I never remember to, so now I do it in the heat of the moment. It's a good call, all right. Man. The number of ars I've seen people showing off at the range prior to Pica without any sights on them at all or just a front sight stupid high. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. Oh that's exactly what I told them. I'm just I'm just I'm more disappointed in you than your mother and christ that's a low bar. At the gun range. I started training having to be an r so at we literally had to explain to a young man why he could not bring the rifle he built that had no sights on it at all to the rifle range that's one hundred yards away to the berm, because we weren't confident he'd be able to hit the berm without sights, and we made him go to the pistol range. And it started off as well, I just want to function check the gun, which was fair. You just built the thing, you want to make sure it runs. Go to the pistol range where the burm's only twenty five yards away and and three times as tall, and you know, like, unless you're trying to send five five six, to Jesus, you should be able to hit that without sights. And then he proceeded to argue with us that why couldn't you go to the rifle range because you have no goddamn sits on your rifle, sir. So yeah, anyway, Andrew take us away. So, yeah, this is probably this is my oldest ar that I have. It's I think this is this is. The second one I ever built. The first one I built, I actually sold and I regret it. I missed that one. But this is, yeah, this one. So it's built that it's the M four E one upper and lower in rail pof trigger and it's a two and a half pound flat faced trigger. US night Vision. The designight I R V laser and I R it's the green IR laser and IR VIZ combination. The Holo Sun five O three are which you can't I don't think you can find this one anymore. I've had this one on here. I've had this one frickin' forever. This is the site that actually, like I said it, when I started getting into the night vision. It sits on a scaler works one point nine to three inch mount, which is awesome. I start. I had this mount way before I got into night vision, just because of neutral head position and everything going into that kind of research and just and like realizing the strain on someone's neck when you're hunched in on a on a rifle all the time. Uh, and then just being able to have your heads up and the the ability to how it helps you with you're being able to look around a lot more and your attention to detail. But also just you're not so you're not tired. It's this. It takes a strain out. Uh, it's a And then I got a Surefire so coom R C two UH suppressor on it. It's on a ten and a half inch barrel. I don't remember the make and model or the make of the barrel. Who made that arisaka handstop on the bottom. And then I have a law Tactical folder on the back. With a SB Tactical SB A three. It looks like I think something like that. So yeah, and then I think that's a blue blue force gear. I think, uh, sling. But but yeah, I that this rifle solid practice. I've had that. This rifle I've I don't know how many I don't even know how many rounds I have through this rifle and it's fricking been going. Nice. You got a hat tip from Ragle, thank you. Yep, it's uh that's a good can. I really like it. The funny part about it, uh, the only thing that's really I mean, I don't it doesn't come off. It's a dedicated can on there. Now. The funny thing about the Surefires is if you get carbon lock on them, the way they tell you to take it off is loosen the loosen the cap or loosen the the neck on it basically and shoot around and it shoots the suppressor off. That seems ballsy. So I had to do it one time. Uh. And yeah, no, I had to do it one time. And uh, I mean after I after carbon locked one time, I was like, you know what, I'm never gonna take it off. So I I haven't taken it off. It's probably been on there out for a few years now. Now. Is an integral part of the barrel? Yeah? It is? Uh, so I should put it. I should Beth put a stock on it because I'm sure it's technically welded on by now, but uh. I doubt the ATM you see it that way. Technically welded and legally welded are very different things. Yeah, it's not worth getting your dog shot over. Although they did transfer suppressors without a Form four. Uh, Michigan, you still have to Yeah, Michigan, it's written the state law. You have to have Form four or Form one. H for I believe, yeah, no one if you make your own four if it's a transfer. But yeah right, but yeah, so uh yeah so anyway, No, I I love this. This is uh, this is a great rifle. Yeah, I don't know what. So why why are you butt hurt over at Phil? It's nothing a butt hurt over it. I'm actually gonna give it lots of practicality points. M hm. I would go so far because because it's suppressed, even if you're shooting supersonic ammunition out of it, it's gonna hide the it's gonna take a lot of the crack out with that. With a with a silencer that large and that efficient, better than a muzzle break it. Being on a tent, on a ten and a half inch barrel, your overall links still got to be a ride around the same what would be with like an eighteen inch barrel and no can which is nice and maneuverable. Yep, I don't see. There's nothing on here that's bad. Everything's pretty pretty good. And everything here does does a job, and nothing here is like superfluous. Well, if I'm gonna if I'm gonna give it any shit, I'm gonna knock a point off of the practicality score for lack of a white light. Wait, doesn't that it's on the other side. I think the r has a white light building. I thought it was. I thought it was an IR but I believe I I thought I had. I don't have a picture of it. There is a white light on the other side. You just need to see it, Okay, I get that. If there is a white light, I give it four for practicality. Yeah, I would agree. I'm only gonna give it a three for cool. And that's not because there's anything wrong with it, but because there's nothing wrong with it. It's just too practical. Yeah, to be that cool. And this is kind of this is like, Andrew, this is the thing Nick and I were talk about when we first proposed doing this, Like it's almost like the more practical it is drags the. Cool down because it's because it's it's like It's like a woodstock Remington seven hundred with like an eight power fixed optic on it. There's just nothing wrong with it. There's nothing wrong. But for an exact reason, it's not cool because there's nothing. Wrong with it. It's got to be it's gotta be a little ostentatious, out of pocket, silly over the top to really nail the cool at A five's. Not about painting it. But I've never been a big person on painting my guns. You know, I've heard every argument for and against rattle can of your guns, and I still refuse to. Like I have I have cancer spray paint in the garage. If we have to freaking like if we have to go red down the freaking Chinese paratroopers tomorrow, I will rattle cant every gun in this goddamn house. Ten out of ten, no cap. Unfortunately, in the meantime, I just can't bring myself to do it. Here's the problem with that. The vast majority of the time, it's not your rifle's lack of cameo that's blowing your fucking security. I will say that it's not. I will say that the only guys in the military I ever met that really, really really needed their rifles to be like camoing out to the Nines for mission, you know, for op second mission. Use we're doing way cooler shit than I was. Oh yeah, they're scout snipers, or they're long rangeery kind of guy. Or look, the vast. Majority of people, even in the military, a camel gun is not gonna save you. It's not even gonna help. Yeah, okay, so I gave it shit. Here I am forgetting my own scores. Four. I gave four practicality, A three cool. Uh yeah, I will say also a three cool. One thing. I will say the only thing on this rifle that I don't think it needs. I don't like handstops. Okay, handstop, pull up, holl up. I will defend Andrew's honor on this. Mm hmmm, because I have the exact saying. That's so technically, Andrew, you have to correct me if I'm wrong. It doesn't look like Ariska's handstop. It looks like I think they call it their fingerstop. Yeah, the hand the handstop is asymmetrical. It's like it's kind of like smooth on one side and almost like hooked on the other. Yeah, the fingerstop is almost like a little cylinder. So yeah, So what I like about this is I put basically, I I put it between my middle finger and my index finger, and I that's where I put it. I I can actually grab it like and I can clamp down on it, pull it on my shoulder, and then when I put my thumb around and I can actually like it puts it right on the button for the laser. So you're using it as an index point. Yes, yeah, okay, And that's fair. And that's what I was gonna say. I'm not gonna argue with that as an index point. That's I've never found I needed that. And again I only pointed out because, like I recognize the part I've got the exact same one on my six inch car being for exactly the same reason, because I also drop it between my ring finger and my middle finger, and that puts my thumb in the perfect spot for the pressure switch. It puts my thumb in the perfect spot to hit the the override switch on the back of the white light tail cap. It is the as long as I put that peg right here between these two fingers, I know that my thumb and my thumb is within reach of all the controls on that on the front of that gun. That okay, that's fair that I know in my hand that like where when I have my index finger and stuff around that, I know I'm not gonna even come close. To touch in my can. Yeah. And for for a gun that is primarily put that on there, and for a gun that is primarily intended to be run with nods that's gonna have you know that that is going to have night vision crap on it. Things like index points start to matter a lot because you're gonna be doing this in virtually no like you have to do by feel. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that. That makes sense. Okay, more points, Andrew. But I had to defend your honor on that because I heard I saw where he was going, and I was like, not exactly the way he's intending this. And I almost ASKEDBR this a long time ago. But I will never SBR. I will never ASKBR my scorpion or this because legally these are pistols and legally I can carry this loaded in my gun and my in my vehicle. Yeah, A technically correct, the best kind of correct. Yeah, Well, I won't allow your the stupidity of your state legislatures to cost you cool or practicality points. Right, So my score stands. Okay, okay, the three hundred's large, angry brother, I don't. Think it's necessarily large. I mean, I don't think it's any bigger than your guys is. Uh oh no, they're basically the exact same size, big angry. But I see a change here that has occurred since I saw this three hundred, this thirteen oh one last really, Yeah, you changed the furniture on it, didn't you? No, it was all black before. I mean, this is how I remember it when I went up to see him. Oh this, I don't think so, maybe I'm am, I I might be misremembering. Then did you stay in somebody else's house that had a black that had an all blacked out thirteen oh one that we should talk about? I mean, if I did, he. Made a hell of venison roast. Either way, all right, Andrew lay this one on us. Yeah, so this is the yeah, the thirteen oh one. Uh so, basically I have the artist industries furniture. Basically, all they. Did was they just took the magpole, so that that's the the stock is actually a magpole. I think it's the. Stock to a stock or the the guards guard van guard the stock I think it was for. I can't remember what the stock is for, but basically they build, uh they build an adapter plate for it. Uh. And I can't if it's the if it's the Remington. Or what I want to say, it's Remington stock. I think it is. Maybe it's like, yeah, it might be a Remington stock in the zukoff rail or the front rail there. So basically running that, I have the stream light protag on the front just as a button I did for shoots and giggles. I did run it one time with a switch, but that switch died very quickly. It rattled loose on everything. Do that to most things? Yeah, mr, so this is where I put my arm R on top of this. If you if you have not shot out a if you if you have a home defense shotgun of any kind and you do not have a red dot on it, trust me, it's a game changer. And it's pretty much like at this. Yeah. I have the S Tech so I have the S TAC player, the. Cards, the shotgun cards for the side. I have probably a dozen of those. Uh. We did when Nick came down. We came up. Rather, we did that class, and I mean that those cards worked amazing. Dude, They're fantastic. Yeah, and then I have the match saver on the other side, which I that thing is saved me in matches. It's and that's why they called the match saver because it literally it helped out with with grabbing that round. Yeah, the sling. For the life of me, I don't remember them making them out or who made that sling, but I love how it senses down, gets out of the way, keeps tight. Uh. The only thing I the only thing I was looking on Artius there, so they they he's they started doing some aluminum front ends. Uh this this plastic, the plastic it when I did that class about halfway through, actually I got through the class, but I found my light was about ready to fall off because it just worked loose on that on that plastic. Uh, it just didn't clamp very well. I clamped it way tighter than I probably should have now. Uh. But but yeah, I I think the only I think the upgrade that I'm looking at I might be doing to it is I might get a different front end for it, right. Front end. Oh yeah, so it's an aluminum front end versus plastic. Other than that, I love the shotgun. It it's a workhorse. It works out really good. So I only have one question, and only because this will factor into the scores. What is your load out? In the shotgun cards? Load out is so the I'm trying to remember now. Because I see two two shells brass up and the rest brass down. So I'm assuming that the brass. Up, if I remember, those are slugs, the brass down the brass down, and it's sitting behind me. I could go grab it if I wanted to get us kicked off on YouTube. Please. The brass up are two slugs, and then the brass down is number eight Federal Flight Control buckshot. And then the match saver is actually if I'm running a class, uh, it's usually it's bird shot or something like that, but that it is actually a slug in that too. So shout out to if you guys ever watched the movie or watch the show Terminal list. Uh, when they're in Mexico, they're running a thirteen oh one, uh Mexico and watch it. I mean Nick you, I mean you took the class with me. I did the way he does that the way he does the ammunition change over from uh from a buckshot to a slug and then pops that. Dude. I remember watching that and you ever see that meme of Leonardo DiCaprio where he's like leaning up, you know, and he's pointing. At the TV. I like, I literally done that drill, Yeah, literally, and then it's like, oh, that's a thirteen oh one too. So uh huh. But yeah, no, this is a smart Semiato reload or smart Semiato ammunition swap. Yeah, yeah, so I I love it. It runs great. Like I said, the only thing I might change in the future or down the road might be that front rail. Other than that, and then the other thing I might change out is so that the front piece that keeps the the magazine, the tube and the barrel kind of together. That's plastic. I might actually buy they do. There was a company that makes one out of aluminum, So actually I might buy that by that and get that plastic out of there. But I have seen guys get their shotgun barrels hot enough to deform those plastic clamps. Yeah yeah, I mean it takes a lot to do it. I mean, that's it. I mean I guess it depends on what you're shooting and stuff like that. But I mean, like I said, I never had any issues when I ran that class. I ran that shotgun class twice now with this gun, never had any issues with it. Lucian. There was the guy Andrew. I don't know if you remember, there was that that really skinny tall guy ended up melting his mechanics gloves to the barrel of his shotgun. In that class. Yeah, melt melted holes right through the through his shotguns because he was c clamping the shotgun like an ar. Hoof too. You'll learn that lesson real quick. All right, they get hot, I'll give it a pair of hours. Now, here's the thing I am holding back because five practicality. I don't know how you get there, but it just feels wrong you give something a five practicality, So I have to hedch my bets a little bit. But I'm going to give it a four practical and a four cool because it's a freaking bread a shotgun. That's shotgun. It's well kitted out. And I told you Nick, you had you are emotionally and legally obligated and morally obligated to put a red dot on your shotgun. Oh, I know, I'm looking at buying a pair of Hollis on five oh seven's dude, a five seven and a scaler works, you will not be upset with yourself. Yeah. Instead of doing that, I bought a mill and one thousand dollars worth of number two aluminum or yeah, number two aluminum. Wire, and I got a rent a trencher. So you could make your own mountain save that much. No, I absolutely could. Yeah, that's not even the thing. It's gonna happen. I am putting a red dot on that shotgun. It's happening. It's just well, like I said, four practical, four cool, easy, easy score. I feel good. About all that. I'm gonna give you a three practical has all the things out. Peer me out, hear me out. Okay. The price of the thirteen oh one, I bought a three hundred tres class the gas to get to Andrews. And two cases of AMMO. I guess it depends on what you pay, what you think you paid for it, because the thirteen oh one wasn't that much for me at the time when I bought mine. It was gonna be seven hundred dollars more to go to the thirteen oh one. What'd you get your score? Eight hundred six? All right, Yeah, I got a deal. I got I got a hookup that I I do engraving and some a little bit of custom gun work for a guy and he gives me dealer pricing on everything. I think I think I bought. I think I got this. I think the deal. I think I got this for eleven hundred. Yeah. See at the time, at the time from to get a thirteen oh one, when I bought my three hundred was when Illinois was had an active PIKA and people were trying to get shotguns. I had to get something right because ar had to leave. Yeah, had to have something. Wanted to semi auto. So the thirteen oh ones in Illinois were going for like sixteen eighteen, and I was able to get shotgun Ammo class fuel. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it was really it was very hard for me to justify more than doubling the cost. But the three hundreds are good. The three hundred is a good shot. Oh oh, it's a solid gun. I mean we shot it. We were shot for shot. Neither one of us had a. Single malfunction all day. I truly, I well and truly think that two things would happen to thirteen oh one if the eight three hundred didn't exist. I think the thirteen oh one demand would probably be double. What it is. Yes, definitely, because when you compare like everything else in this segment, you're talking about like a Banelli, which is three three times as much, two to three times as much and arguably not as reliable. Arguably not as reliable. I feel and this is not an undercut to Bretta, but I feel like Bretta almost is competing with itself because the eighth three hundred is as good as it is, it it undercuts the argument for the thirteen oh one just a tiny little bit. But I can happily say that, like if the eight three hundred didn't exist, I would have probably just sucked it up and bought one of these. Yes, but that's exactly what it would have been. But I fell into the same trap of at the time I bought mine, the eight three hundreds are crept up in price a fair a bit, but the thirteen oh ones around here it was sixteen seventeen hundred bucks. Yep. I have the same issues, and no one had one around here. Any thing if you. I mean, I had a special order the A three hundred, so I was gonna have special order the thirteen oh one two anyway, not to miss you, like even though I got it, even though I bought it from a friend of mine over the new ones. Yeah, but even though I bought it from a friend of mine. It's one of those things where it's like he's sending two kids to kids to college. So it's like I don't have the heart to freaking nickel and diamond on price. If he says it's going to cost is what it costs. No. Me and me and the guy I get stuff from, we trade favors. I do the engraving forum for cost. He gets me guns for cost and animal for cost. It's it's a good deal. Yeah, so you're giving it a three for practical What about cool? Oh, definitely a solid four. It's a fantastically cool shotgun. It has all of the things I would want to see. I'm a cool shotgun except for being drum fed. Drum Fed shotguns don't don't. Don't do it for me. Actually, don't care. They look cool as fuck. Love it unless it's just past twelve, in which case I will give that a five cool. I did go into the saying that you have to give up some practical some practicality. Oh, you absolutely do, and you have to have the folding stock on the spats fall otherwise immediately down to a three cool. Yes, okay, this is I think this is the last one, last one, last one. So this is my Christiansen arms MESA F F T H six point five creed more I have. I have the hucksworks ventum uh seven six two flow through can on the on on the end of it. I don't recall what what suppress or cover that is, but it works out great. Uh. And then I had the Harris bipod. I actually Harris, No. I'm borrowing. I borrowed it from a friend of mine and I have not seen her to give it back yet, So I just kept on there. But I'm upgrading that to a nicer bipod, uh, something that I can actually it can kind of get a little bit lower. The Harrises are nice, but yeah, they look the Harris Is for what they are are phenomenally quality bipods. Are they as as collapsible as some of them are modern ones? No, but they always just work Harris bipods are extraordinarily okay ish, Yeah, they do not job they do. They do exactly what they're supposed to do. They do it acceptably in most circumstances. Like if you like, if you don't have a good reason to get something other than a Harris and you need a bipod, you probably just need to get a Harris on it. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it. And yeah, like I said, Harris is nice. Like I said, shooting long range, I've done too long range classes now where you're you go out to about a thousand yards and shooting prone with the Harris is actually very uncomfortable, especially if you if because you can't get low enough so you actually by the time you get on the gun, and if not, if you're kind of in a dip and you can kind of get that the bipod like in a in a trench a little bit to where it kind of sits a little bit low, that's not bad. But like I have a I have a bag that I put underneath the rear stock, and that bag actually like I have put that bag and then I have to put my arm and my fist kind of up into it because that bipod just sits up a little bit too high, So I do want to upgrade to a different one that kind of it'll actually spread out like a little bit further and it'll actually angle, so it actually you can actually push into the dirt a little bit more and kind of and start and put some more pressure on it. But for right now it works. The class I use it on it worked okay. Like I said, this this rifle. I put this rifle together. I used to have a Savage one ten tacticle in sixo point five creed More. I sold it because out of the box actually with the Viper HS or h HS T or whatever the scope was on it, with the suppressor and the rifle, it was pushing like I think like ten pounds give or take. Like it was heavy and and plus the the Savage was like a twenty inch barrel, a twenty barrel or something like that. Like it was a long barrel. If not long, I think it was actually longer than that. I think it was a twenty two inch barrel. And then it was a heavy barrel too. It was Yeah, the Savage tactical rifles, they're they're chunky, they're chunky. I shot a lot of deer with that rifle and it worked out great. But when I was thinking about going out west, I was like, I don't really want to be crawling around the mountains with a ten pound rifle. So I bought this and like, I'll like this out of the box. I think it's like five and a half pounds with the can. Uh. Plus the can is three D they're three D printed, so like they're the flow through, they're super light. And then no gas in the face, which is the bolt gun, so you won't really get that, but the flow through is really nice. Uh. And then with the it's got the viper, the the Vortex viper HD, the five to twenty five first boat line and that. Yeah, I'm very happy. I'm really happy with this setup. This this for long range shooting. I'm very comfortable out to five six hundred yards now. Nice shooting this gun. I only have one question before we proceed to the judging. What am are you shooting at? It is? Uh So the stuff I was using for that class was sm B onety grain seller and BOYD Yeah yeah, SNB one gin. I do really like it's the Hornity Hunter precision is the stuff I really like it's one hundred and forty three green. I really like that guy that round or that particular cartridge for shooting. Deer and stuff. But I really I mean the S and b uh. I was shooting. Pretty good groups, the the Hunter X a little bit better groups, but it wasn't nearly you know it for the cost. I would say, it's not. So you're not rolling your own auto monolithic copper projectiles, is what you're saying. I am not. I have a ton of Campia five cool may not handloading reload. It's just one of those things I've just never gotten around to yet. Yeah, okay, man, I get it. So I next I have my next target for bullying. Mm hmmm. Have you get Andrew into handloading? I have all the stuffs them. You're not doing it, sir. I've had all the stuff for about six years now, a six years actually longer than that. I've been at my current job for nine years, and I got it. I got all the handloading material before I left my job before that. So okay, the harassment will continue until the handloading begins. That will give it a four practical. But I'm not going to point off for not handloading. Yeah, that's fair. So I mean give it a. Four cool because it's it's it's a nice rifle. It's nicely put together. I see good stuff on it. But you can't have the five cool because you don't. You don't you have joined the brethren of handloading nerds. Yeah, if you're going to do long range shooting, you have to handload for absurd precision. The rules that the rules, but that that one hundred and forty grain s and B that hitting a thunder hitting a thousand yards with that was it was a little bit tough. I definitely had I think I had to go forty two inches up for that. For the I had to dial forty two inches up. That'll do it. Yeah, that's a lot. I hit a couple of times one thousand yards, but it's yeah, no, it's interesting. It's uh. I definitely want to get into handload because it's uh, that's the next that's gonna be the next thing to dial it in. Hey, man, if you have the time to spend in tweaking a handload, you can make a very good rifle into a phenomenal rifle very quickly, especially with a can. Yeah. All right, so that's been. The third part of Roast My Shit. Now we have I'll give it a half an hour plus or minus before at least two of us turn into pumpkins. Yeah, I do have to get up at four point thirty in the morning. Okay, So for any of the patrons who have the number and would like to call, and that also includes my wife, because she did say that she might call us. What the phone line is open? The phone line. I'm not promising it's gonna work, Stewart, I did promise to call. Yeah, so the phone line is open, and we'll spend the last half hour reminiscing about the general insanity that has been this show. So bear in mind that, matter of fact, started ten years ago because I got a wild hair at my butch tried to convince a bunch of people who didn't really care, didn't know me from a hole in the ground, that the prepared lifestyle was going to save you some pain down the road if you would just plan ahead a little bit. Yeah, definitely does. And then after I don't know seven eight months of bumbling around in the dark not knowing what the hell I was doing, Andrew and I actually met each other on Wasted Am podcast. I remember how what I'm trying to remember how they came about. I think you you'd come on their show as a guest before. Yeah, well, so what happened was and I remember this, so it was like Steve and Eric, I wish they would. I wish they could come back on because they they had a great show. But yeah, they so, I mean I listened to them their show a ton, and I remember I remember like basically, I mean I kind of just would. I was in their chat all the time, and I was in the Facebook group, and basically we kind of did a we did a thing. It was like, hey, you know, you guys should get a guest on. I'll be your first guest kind of thing. And we called we We always joked around that. I was like patient zero, and so so I got on. I got on their podcast and we were I mean, we're talking, you know, we did the podcast, did whatever, and then I think there was another down the road. I think they had Phil on and then they reached out and was like, hey, we want to do kind of like a roundtable with you and another guy, uh that to come on. And then so they had both of us on another show and then that's when like I remember Phil talking about you know, he was talking about his Master Matter of Fact show and stuff, and so I started kind of listening to that some of the bunch of the back episodes, and then I remember he was talking on there about like, hey, you know, like I'm kind of looking for a co host. You know, I was thinking about getting a co host, and I remember reaching out to him like, hey, man, if you're looking for a co host, I've been kind of wanting to get into the whole podcast podcasting thing, like I'd love to be your co host, and he was like no, he flat he flat out. I remember, I dude, I remember it because I remember you were like, no, I really want someone. Local, Like I really have someone local. Yeah. In my defense, the state of podcasting at the time did not make remote podcasting anywhere nearest convenient thing as it is now, and I had no real idea how the hell we were going to pull this off. Dan Opson into the country. No, But it was just funny because I was just like he was like, yeah, I'm looking for a co host, and I was like, I mean, hey man, I'm like I'd love to do it, and he's just like no, I really just I really want someone local, and I was like, all right, cool, and then I don't remember. It was like not very long late. It wasn't down the road. It wasn't very much longer. And then you reached out and you're like, hey, you know, hey, do you want to you know, do you want to come on? And stuff like that, and so guys, y'all talk. I'll be back in one second. Okay, Yeah, I remember I came on and that was it. I mean, I think I think I found this show through the Reloading Podcast. Weren't you and Andrew? Weren't you and Phil on? I think it was called the Reloading Podcast? Phil. Phil was on the Reloading Podcast quite a bit. I wasn't. Yeah, that's that's how I found you guys. Started listening to you guys, because man, yeah, it's all in the same vein. I don't even know how I found the Reloading Podcast. I might just have been looking around. Oh ship, that's how Raggle found it, too nice. That's awesome, man, But look, I think you had been on the show for at least a year before I started listening to it, so I didn't know the show without you being on it. Yeah, no, it's uh, definitely you had to think about it, think that it's been ten years. It's like, that's just that's crazy because I remember, God, I remember. Where was I living? So actually was so I was Actually you were living with your buddy in that house, weren't you? So you guys were renting? Well no, so I well I lived with my buddy. I lived with my good friend Ken, and I would podcast in the basement, if I remember, right, I think, so yeah, and and then. And then I slowly and then I think, what was it? And then I moved I was with him because that's where because we started, like this shows this started. I think it was just before I moved to the company I'm at now to where I'm at now, and and so yeah, we were recording and then and then I moved moved up like an hour so north forty five minutes or so north because I started the company at now. And then I moved in my friend of mine he bought a house, so I moved in with him and up into Cedar Springs and then did the podcast in the basement there too. And then I did that, I mean yeah, there for a while. And then because I mean I moved I lived there for I think five years, right, and then I bought my house, uh in Ionia, and then I moved there and then that's when I had the whole backdrop and everything like that, and then and then yeah, and then sold that house and then moved in with my fiance a year ago and been doing you know now. I mean, obviously I don't do it do it here that often, but uh you know, but yeah, no, that's uh, that's the lane, that's the road of. So when I came up to do that class, you, I worked with some family members of mine and I was telling me, I gotta be off this day because I gotta run. I gotta drive up to Michigan to go to stay at my buddy's house and do a shotgun class and like, oh, who is it? And I mentioned it. I told him who you were, and the like, well, how do you meet him? Like, oh, yeah, I listened to this podcast. I was like, so you've never met this guy and you're just gonna go sleep in his house? Like well, yeah, but I mean we're we're all gonna have a shitload of guns, so it's probably. On the skin. Yeah, no it uh yeah, it's crazy. I mean I remember, God, what was it Prepper Camp? I mean, Phil and I we remember, like we recorded together for how many years before we met up at Prepper Camp. I want to say it was like two and a half years at that point before we actually media jair face to face. Yeah, and it was like, hey, you know, yeah, that was kind of an odd experience because at that point, like I felt like, Okay, this is gonna sound corny as shit, really admit that. But like you know, Andrew and I at the point where we finally met at your face to face, We've been podcasting every week for about two and a half years. We texted back and forth more often than that. I mean, this is like pre patron chat, pre signal chat. But like we talked all the time, and I felt like we gotten to know each other fairly well. And I had never laid eyes on this son of a bitch before. That all happened. Yeah, And it was kind of the same experience when I met Uncle Randy, and I met your mom and I met your dad and they all knew who I was, and I was like, hey, guys, that's awesome. Yeah, but it was a fun I mean it was fun, and I will freely admit yes I did. I wouldn't say a shot down. But when you first reached out to me, I was like, I was really hoping to have a local co host. Yeah that's what you said. You're like, no, I want someone local, and I was like, okay, Well I really okay. But again, think about think about the first couple of years, all the technical problems, all of the figured out. How when that like in the days before stream Yard, and even before stream Yard, you remember we used zen Caster for a while. We have gone through so many different permutations of trying to figure out how to freaking like how to talk to each other over the internet and record it even before streaming, and all those technical challenges that I did not want to confront. But once you and I sat down started talking, I was like, well, shit, I guess we're gonna figure this out at the same time. Gotta make it work, right, yep up? Hang on, first caller coming in. Good. Hey, can you hear us? You're on matter of facts? Yes, I can. Can you hear me? If you give me one second keep talking, I'll turn your volume up and we'll all be able to hear you. Oh. Don't turn it up. Well, we gotta have. So this is I will I will spoil it for the audio listeners. This is Stewart. He is the one most directly responsible for the new intro music. So if you hate it, I'll give you his email address. You can talk to him about it. Everybody is direct number. There you go. I wouldn't do that to him because he has my direct number and he could po he could send that to every freaking Democrat call list. There is. Awarding. I wouldn't do that. Good It's nice to know that you have standards. It means I can do I can have a preemptive attack and then change my cell phone number. There you go. Perfect. Well, nobody else was calling in. I wasn't going too, but well, I didn't want y'all to get lonely. Hey man, it's good to hear your voice again. So what are y'all talking about today? Well, we spent about an hour and twenty minutes going through the third round Ofast My Roast, my Ship talking about Andrew stuff and now sarcasm. Oh, because I'm usually like. And I don't read sarcasm very well. Yeah, Gillian said she would call him from the living room, but I poked my head outside and she's not in the living room, so I'm not quite sure where she ran off to living room of lives. I mean, unless calling from the living room was like a euphemism or an analogy, but I'm. Not aware gone from the bathroom. But anyway, Stuart, while we have you, I do just have to say thank you for the effort you put into the intro music. It slaps yes, fantastic. Cool, I'm glad. I just wonder if Piper liked hers. Oh that was so funny doing hers. So she liked it in the same way that teenagers don't like anything that's great. I mean, she is a tea, she's a teenager after all. I will say that I like the intr music you made for us, but the music you made for raising values that we will be using in the very near future when that show reboots. That was a home run. Gillian and I literally tear up every time we listen to it. Fantastic Well, I'm glad. Yeah, And you're also partially responsible for the fact that our outro on the streams is now going to be like two and a half minutes long, so I won't be upset if anybody doesn't stick around for all of it. But what I did was I wanted to use the whole intro outro song that Stewart put together with his friends. And it's also set to like, you know, some pictures of projects, a lot of pictures from past prepper camp and summer camp trips, and it's supposed to be kind of an homage to everyone that's joined us on this crazy little journey. When I told Gillian that I came up with the lyrics with my friend Claude, I thought she would get that it was Claude. AI. Neither one of us put that together. I thought you had a friend Claude who was just a really good songwriter. I mean, it would not surprise me if he had a friend named Claude that was a songwriter. I mean, Stuart knows a lot of folks. Yeah. Well, it's also worth pointing out that, as is famous by now is I don't read sarcasm very well. I need I need the sign that says sarcasm. We could do that. I mean, but yeah, man, so since start, since before we lose you, how long have you been listening to this show? Shortly after uh, Andrew became your your co host. Yeah, so that's getting back to around eight and a half nine years ago. Oh yeah, you've only had one. You only have one current Patreon who's been a Patreon longer than me, and that's Tommy. That's right. I actually went back and pulled because Stewart asked me to ask me to like look it up and see who was the longest seeing patron, and we figured it was him, but I think Tommy beat him by a couple of months. Nice thanks Tommy. H it's been a long time. Yeah, all right, man, well and a half eight and a half to nine years of harassing you to get a chain saw. I knew we were. I knew you were going to bring up the chainsaw. He did not promise to let that go. He yeah. So for the for the listeners that aren't aware, Stewart's the one that asked me if we could do call ins for this show. And I tried to bribe him, say only if you stop bringing up the chainsaw and the shotgun, and he said never mind. I was like, oh damn it. You take all the fun at everything. So yes, you are the reason why I bought a chainsaw. Actually, you and Ida are the reasons I bought a chainsaw, and then you and Nick and Andrew are the reasons I bought a shotgun. Well, I remember andrewing me to get a chainsaw as well. Yeah, he wasn't very persuasive though. Oh he's about the asshole, and I am okay. Well between asshole, between your persuasiveness and Ida's assholeness, that's what really encouraged me to get a chainsaw. There's something about three oak trees on your house. It's kind of a motivation. Yeah, and who you are brings it to you that that was clutch. That was definitely clutch. That's what family's for. Anyway, Guys, let somebody else call all. Right, appreciate going in, man, and thanks again for the Thanks again for the work you do on the intro music. That's that's gonna stick around probably for the of the show because I love it. It's pretty. I am moderately surprised that that worked as gracefully as it did. It did work very well well. We so like like Andrew remembers, like when Trek Trek still lives in the middle of nowhere, but before he before he had reliable internet in the middle of nowhere. The most reliable way to get him on the show was to call him on a cell phone and like cable it into the freaking pod track. So like you know this, it's not like this setup has never been used before. We just haven't had use it in years because I've got fiber and Trek's got you know trecks. Well, I mean, hell Andrew, there were years where your internet was on the fritz because you lived in the middle of nowhere without reliable internet service, and I had to cell phone you in a few times. Yeah, I mean that was Yeah, that was I had to uh when I lived up when I lived up North, and it was like wireless internet that you know, it beamed you know, from the tower or whatever, and it was like terrible. But and now right now, now we have starlink is what we're running now. And it's been oh that's what you're running up. Yeah, well that latency is actually really good. Yeah, yeah, the Yeah, I'm running on starlink and it I really like it. It it does really well. I'm actually in the process of wiring up the house, putting hot spots around just to like extend the internet because we live we have so we have aluminum siding and we have a metal roof, so it's far day cage. So as soon as you walk in the house, was all cell phone signal. And then I put so the hotspot I have. And right now if I actually walk and it's for whatever reason, if I walk into the bathroom and I close the door, I lose I lose WI FI. That's really strange. And so I'm actually I'm running. I just got more Cat five cable. I'm gonna run through the basement. Uh. And then I'm gonna actually put it into another location. And then I'm also gonna beam internet to our pole barn, our horse bar so that I can put cameras and stuff out in the horse barn so I can we can watch the animals. So they get Yeah, I'm gonna need to I'm gonna need to figure out a point to point internet beam for the garage. Once I move this all out there, I can we can talk about it. There's a company that I Unify. It is who I go through. Yeah, that's that's what I was looking at, was a unified system. Yeah, Unify is great. I I really like Unify. I That's who I have for my Internet or for the router and then that's why I had through the cameras and stuff like that. So but yeah, I've always. Liked the night the Nighthawk Nightgear, Netgear con night Yeah, yeah, negear Netgear Nighthawk router Mode. Yeah. I just actually threw that away because I don't know anymore and I lost the power bank to it when I moved. So yep, right, yeah, they're they're a solid system. I don't know if they make a point to point. I don't know if they do. There's a lot of points. I mean, there's a lot of companies that do it. Yeah, Like I said, this Unify, Uh it's you know, the biggest thing that's the biggest thing about it is it's it's POE So it's power over Ethernet. So you've got to run a cord. So that's what right now I'm looking at I'm like, all right, I think I can. I think if I put it the one point here, I can do it here. But then I'm like, all right, now I went down to the basement and it's more of like a seller, and so I went down there and I'm like, all right, so I gotta like snake it through different areas and then I got to like and then I'm like, okay, it's gonna go over top of the AC unit. So I located the AC unit pipes. So now I'm like, all right, can I get through the wall? Can I go put? Like? Can I fish a lineup through the wall to you know, basically drill a hole into the wall and then fish a lineup and and you know, so it's a it's a it's a process. So yeah, all right, So picking up from show started just with me Andrew came on board. Andrew I felt like, really helped me push the show along because first of all, just like the back in the organic back and forth of the conversations Andrew and I were having, like they weren't scripted. We were lucky if we put together like a freaking like a four line like this is what the show is going to be about. I think I was right to get you to like to prep one time, like, hey man, like let's actually like prepare the show notes and stuff like that or whatever, and you're like, nah. I'm not gonna lie though, Like I I I had the experience from before Andrew came on where like in order for me to maintain a conversation by myself. I wouldn't say I ever scripted a show because I hate doing that, but I had to like write pretty in depth, like, oh, what's it called? Like craft, guys, what do you call it when you outlines? I had to write real, really in depth outlines of all the points I wanted to hit, all the sub points, all the freaking talking points. Like I had to write all that out, and thank god I wasn't doing it on the stream, so I could actually have that in front of me and like not read it off, but have something to refer to. But like, it was really difficult for me to have that forty five minutes to an hour long show by myself, and that was the only way I could ever find to do it. So once Andrew came on board, I found that I was able to just like we could just back and forth and talk things out, and I like the fact that the conversation was more organic that way. And then out of a little bit of sheer laziness. I just hate outlining in like doing all that, Like I'd rather just kind of like see the pants, shoot from the hips, see what comes out. And then usually Stewart would say, hey, you idiots misspoke about this, and then rake me over the calls afterwards, So you know, there was always that. Yeah, that's fair. And Stuart makes a good point. You know, if I had less than one hundred yard run, I could just run Cat five cable. It is one hundred and fifty feet each, and I'd have to dig a second trench because I'm running two twenty lines and you can't bury a Cat five cable within a foot of two twenty line. This is true. It does spooky things to the electrons. Yeah, the electrons in the two twenty line and the electrons in the uh, the line will be fine. They start to talk to each other. It's the Cat five cable hearing the two twenty line that becomes a problem. Yeah, and so Andrew like, I don't want to get like super in depth because I feel like that almost merit's like a half episode by itself. Yeah, about the moment at which it became very obvious that like you were going to have to pull back from the show to focus on life and adulting. So that's the question, how much do you want to get into Oh, I mean we can, I mean, you know, it's yeah, I mean it just won you know, the job when I got when I got promoted to supervisor for second shift, and when I went to second shift, you know, that was basically because when we were doing the whole time we were doing the show. When I when I first started here at this other company, was I was on third shift, so you know, getting up for the show at six seven o'clock, it wasn't really too bad and everything. And then and then it's you know, and then I went to second shift, and now, yeah, second shift, I mean I work, I work one thirty pm to eleven thirty pm, you know, and so, uh, it's it's just it's just hard, uh if and honestly like it. If we get if we do with what I what I would like us to do, which is going Monday through Friday, then I'll never have a Thursday off, you know because right now, my schedule the way my schedule because we do where we work four tens and they rotate because of the schedule, we rotate. And so right now, like I worked Monday, I was off Tuesday, I worked Wednesday, and now I'm off Thursday Friday. This week next week I'm on and then I work the weekend and then I'm off Monday, and then I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, but then I'm off the weekend Saturday. That's my three days off and then you know, and that's that repeats and stuff, and so like I get like two Thursdays off I think a month or so, and and then two weekends off a month and so you know, yeah, it's just it's it's definitely hard. That's one reason and I had to pull back from the podcast was just just not enough time. I just couldn't, like you know, and then when and then that's the hair of thing too, is you know, we're like trying to grow the podcast because before we were just like all right, let's just record on this day, this day, like you know, we'll pick a day in a time and we'll do it. But now because trying to. Grow it and stuff and statistics and everything show that in order to grow a podcast, people in general, they like a structure. You can't sit there and you can't really grow something if you are like, hey, we're gonna do it on a Friday, we're gonna do it on Tuesday. We're gonna do it at this time at six pm at seven pm, so at Thursday nights at seven thirty, eight thirty pm, you know, it's like this is the time, and unfortunately it's just it doesn't line up. So it's hard for second shift. I mean fortunately that the moment, the moment at which like that that streams there and to be frank like for the audience, like I pretty much hold Andrew. I'm like, we will abandon streaming and I will match your schedule any way I have to, like, and I even I'd had talks with Gillian because like we could see what was going on, and I told Gilly and I'm like, you know, if Andrew pulls out of this show, I don't know if I want to do this by myself, Like I was. I was really having a moment where I was like, I don't know if I want to continue the show because Andrew and I had built such a friendship and a camaraderie together doing this, and I was like, I don't know if I want to do by myself. I don't know if I want to do without him. I didn't know, and it just it happened and it worked out that, you know, Nick and I were starting to get to know each other fairly well at that point. He he he'd started out as listener and then start and then become patron, and it was this was all happening right about the same time that, like Andrew and Nick took a shotgun class together. Nick and I started to get to know each other better, and I don't think either one of us had ever really let on to Nick, or really to anybody outside of like Gillian that, like Andrew, was starting to have to pull back from the show. And Andrew and I sat down, talked about it, and honestly, we both came to the same conclusion, like, you know, Nick would be an excellent second seed, and it became the natural choice to wrap him, you know, to make the proposition him and I think initially you agreed on kind of an interim basis, like I mean, I'll trye and see if I like it. Yeah, that's truly what it was. Because I've never done something like this prior to this. It sounded like fun, so yeah, we might as well. I hadn't talk it over with my wife because I wanted to make sure she was all right with my name being attached to all the Shenanigans because. Of what she does for work. Yeah, you know, and I encouraged that. I mean, I I flat out told you. I'm like, look, this is these are decisions that I made, with the full endorsement of my wife, to start podcasting in the public eye under my full Christian government name. And Andrew pretty much, like you know, took anonymity and lit it on fire and through it out the window, you know, when he came on, and I pretty much told you the same thing. I'm like, look, dude, I mean, it's not like we're freaking like overthrowing governments or freaking building any nuclear weapons or anything in our basements. But like, if you come on. People that are going to take poorly to the things we say. And unfortunately, even if you come on the show under assume name, your face is still out there. So it's one of those things where it's like, you, if you're not comfortable doing that, I don't blame you, but if you're gonna do this, you kind of have to be a little comfortable with that. Mm hmm. No, there's there's a certain level of anonymity you give up when you're willing to go and say the things you think in public. Yeah, and you know what, I've been doing that two people I know for a very long time. I've never been shy about my opinions of things, and I try to phrase them as best I can. And I'm no, I'm no like stunning debater or anything like that. But I like to think that I can make myself fairly clear more often than not. So I figured why not give it a shot, And it's been a lot of fun. Love it. Yeah, I enjoy doing it every week. I have to say that bringing Nick into the show has changed the tone. Like I find that I find that I have always been a nerd, and I wear that I wear that title very happily. And I find that Nick and I nerd out about a lot of stuff Like there. I wouldn't say we have all the same interests, but normally when one one or the other brings something to the table, the other one's nerdism kicks off and it's like, Oh that's freaking cool, tell me more. Oh that's a technical thing. Yes, although it works out well and Andrew, he gets the exact same look on his face you do whenever I talk about finances, like just the glaze over, like please make him shut up. Hey man, finances are, you know, as much as it is boring and as much as we probably harp on it too much, it's so critically important, I mean, as important as medical stuff. Given that the average American cannot screw together four hundred dollars for an emergency on the spur of the moment, I don't think we do talk about it too much. People just don't listen very often. You know, it's and and and it's probably people that don't listen to us. I mean, look look at the explosion in financial shows that have been going on in YouTube in the past five years. Ten years ago, you saw Dave Ramsey. That was it. That was the only guy that was really doing finance stuff other than stocks on YouTube. Yeah, sog is correct. Shame on them for not being able to screw together four hundred dollars for an emergency. That is a problem. I mean, without getting into the financial rant that I'm notorious for, like the idea that I could not put together four hundred dollars on the spur of the moment, Like just just the thought of that makes my stomach do flip flops. Oh yeah, I mean, look look at the opportunity loss that that is like, I spent more money than I should have recently on that mill and the wire and all the stuff that goes along with it. And because I was able to just grab that cash and go do that, I was able to take advantage of an opportunity to buy a very excellent piece of equipment for a really good deal that I probably won't see that opportunity again for a long time. I mean, I told you what happened, Like over the weekend, I had it on my radar. At the end of the month, I was going to take my budgeted gun money, fun money, same thing, and I was going to buy a Garman zero C one pro chronograph because Tommy let us play with his in summer camp and I want one, and yeah, they're like five hunter bucks full retail. And I was going to wait till the end of the month, and then all of a sudden, Amazon got an alert from Amazon saying that the price dropped to four hundred dollars, and I ripped two hundred dollars out of savings like that fast and snatched up because I'm like twenty percent, yeah, twenty percent discount. Not turning that down. No, that's pretty it's pretty hard to pass up. And again it's opportunity costs right there. It would have cost you more if you had to wait. Yeah, but anyway, one of the parts of being an adult is that you get to save your money and then do adult things spur the moment. Absolutely. The other part is that you get to be responsible for extra people. Yeah, well, you know that's what happens when you play the game of making people. Yeah, making people, or I was gonna say adopting people, but that that's pretty much the way I characterized my relationship with my wife. I adopted her. There you go. I stole her from her family, made her a rabbel ay and it's an overturn policy kind of situation. My father in law told me the same thing, no returns. Yeah see, my in law has told me no returns, but they told my wife you can come back whenever you want. So I still haven't gotten a clear answer on what exactly the difference is. Her choice versus yours. Uh, that might be it, but I think at this point if I tried to return her, she would freaking like break my legs and Stephen it'd be like a Stephen King novel. Oh yeah, all right, well, we're we're coming up very quickly on two hours, and I'm just gonna warn you two especially because you remember the rules. You cannot leave until I get your audio, until everything uploads and everything wraps. But now the outro is like two and a half minutes long, so you have to stick around. Fire it. It's fine, Go take a pee, come back out, be done. Yep, audio, Yeah, that's fair. We will have the discussion after the fact about like whether we leave this very long rollout or we shorten it up. I mean, we'll make decisions. Later if you have any strong views the website or the patron chat. Yes, the patron chat does tend to get priority because they pay, they pay, but also they can bully me much more directly than anyone else can by leaving feedback on the website, so you know there is true. But guys, I just have to say, like before we roll this out, like Andrew, I'm glad you can make it. I'm glad you are coming back to the show when you're able, and I'm glad you made it tonight, Like hell yeah, I have missed the shit out of you. I totally get why you had to pull back, and I'm like super excited for where your life is going. But I've missed the hell out of you. Also, we need a farm tour. We do need a farm tour, and we need the pictures of the goats. And you know what else, We now have three missus m O webs and we need to get them all together. On the show. We do. I will, I will, I will make your fiance and honorary Missus MLF. Even though that like the the paperwork hasn't done yet, it's pretty much done. She got him a pet goat. He's locked down. It's fine. Uh, Gillian has said yes with an exclamation point in all caps. It's gonna have to happen. We have too, I mean, you cannot disappoint mom. Yeah, that's funny and nick like I am. I am eternally grateful that you decided to step up a couple of years ago and join me on this this wild little I appreciate being asked. Man, it's been a lot of fun, dude, it is. It has been a tremendous amount of fun. And like just for the for the listeners out there, like I didn't really know if the show was gonna make it to ten years. I didn't know if I was gonna make it to ten years. Andrews had to talk to me off the ledge multiple times over the years about like be just getting frustrated and saying, to hell with all this, and I just want to forget, like close all the accounts, water up and throw it in the trash can. And him and Gillian have, like the two of them have talked me off the ledge several times about like no, no, no, take a deep breath, don't choose violence just yet. But I do have a solution to your inconvenience as arsome. Oh, don't put that in my mind. But I just have to say, like I've really enjoyed this, this whole thing, like ten years of podcasting, the friends that have been made, the people that we have met, watching those people go on to do the things they have done. I mean, we ran out of time. I was going to actually put together a list of like some of the guests that we've had on over the years and like where their careers have gone, but it is, it has been so much freaking fun, so much freaking fun to watch to watch all these people and to watch these people like knit their own relationships together just because they kind of met through the show and just one thing, like Stewart, you were never the one who pushed me to the edge of throwing the show in the trash, not even once you've honestly you've been, you've been. You've been very instrumental in helping to keep me honest, if not making my hair fall out a little faster at times. But anyway, let's go ahead and wrap this up. Yeah, matter of facts, ten years down the pipe, Price knows how many more we have in us. But for the for the people that watch tonight, I appreciate you hanging out with us, For the patrons who support the show. Thank you so much for not just for the monetary but for the encouragement because it keeps this show on the rails and ron applause from my two co hosts like this was never a one man operation. It never can be a one man operation. You two have definitely pulled more than your y'all's wait to keep this thing going. Well, appreciate it being on yep, thank you. All right, matter of facts, going out the door and at every body, see ya in another week and long ass outro, but stick around for it. I think it's worth watching at least once. And it's worth pointing out that for those of us who is joined, who have joined us at Prepper Camp or any of the MBA summer camps, you might recognize the faces you see you can get out our body. Uh. 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