Matter of Facts: News, No News, and a Big Problem

[00:00:00] Welcome back to the Matterfax Podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping

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[00:00:20] is on the airs of the mic and here's your show. Welcome back to the Matterfax Podcast,

[00:00:25] the Hooligans in the comments section are already trying to get my blood pressure

[00:00:28] riled up but I'm going to resist the urge to have a full blow in screaming, meaming, yelling

[00:00:35] rant today. We'll see how that works. But Andrew. Hi. Andrew is distracted so I'm

[00:00:45] going to talk for a minute. No, I'm reading on the topic that we're talking about. I'm

[00:00:51] doing research. More research anyway. Everybody knows we don't research anything. We just

[00:00:57] talk out of our heads. I mean that's the problem. I feel like that's the issue. I think

[00:01:02] that's a downfall. It's a flaw not a feature. Yes. So what's in your cup? Is that coffee

[00:01:11] or booze tonight? Well, I just came from the bar so not booze. No, coffee. I ordered

[00:01:20] it. Because I literally just ran out of coffee because one of my best Irish friends,

[00:01:28] she knows who she is. When she came to visit one time, she brought me, oh Jesus, like

[00:01:35] 15 bags of black rifle coffee which I stopped buying black rifle because of just the bull

[00:01:44] crap that they've been pulling and them donating to was it act blue and some other stuff,

[00:01:50] which I don't know. Call it what you're I mean, I know some of it's been resurfacing as

[00:01:55] far as like their tendency like the past up from like 2021, 2022, I believe. I don't

[00:02:02] know the whole story behind it. Whatever either way I drink through all that. Like I'm

[00:02:07] like, oh she gave me a bunch of coffee. I'm not going to not go that way. I mean, that's

[00:02:11] coffee. And there's stuff isn't terrible. So I drink it all and I ran out. And so yeah,

[00:02:18] no, I now I ordered six bags of black rifle or black rifle Jesus. I ordered six bags

[00:02:25] of disaster coffee which is our basically James, our madman at the helm of PBN. It's

[00:02:37] another, you know, it's something that he's running disaster coffee. I like the message

[00:02:42] that he's pushing out a lot better than black rifle. I mean, I'm all for helping veterans

[00:02:48] and stuff but when a company is that big and it gets kind of shady, I don't really know

[00:02:52] what to expect with it. So I am drinking disaster coffee. I'm actually drinking our blend

[00:02:56] that we collaborated with him with the M.O.F. Dark Humor. That's what I'm, is what I'm,

[00:03:02] drinking right now. But no, I just, I'm going to start, I'm going to start drinking just

[00:03:08] strictly like disaster coffee if I'm not going to start doing my own like roast my own kind

[00:03:11] of stuff. Just because like I really respect what James is putting forth and the fact that

[00:03:18] proceeds from disaster coffee go to disaster relief within the United States. I think

[00:03:23] that's important especially with the uptick and tornadoes that they're like, oh, I just

[00:03:27] saw but I mean screw Ohio, but I'm not going to say that you know Ohio state. I should

[00:03:32] just say Ohio state high the college Ohio state. Whatever, maybe, maybe screw their politicians

[00:03:37] yeah right? But no, no. So yeah, I'm drinking disaster coffee, the M.O.F. Dark Humor and

[00:03:46] my M.O.F. Cup that my mom made and me on the other hand, I'm drinking disaster coffee's

[00:03:51] bunker beans. As a matter of fact, there's three bags of it sitting there on the shelf behind

[00:03:57] me and I'm about halfway into the one in front. So I start roasting my own coffee beans years ago

[00:04:04] and I started specifically because you know, it was a, I had bags of bunker beans that I've

[00:04:12] bought from disaster coffee from James specifically for long term storage in my preps. And it was always

[00:04:20] on my mind of I know you have to do stuff to the, these green beans to make them drinkable but

[00:04:26] I don't know how. So that of course, it prompted me to learn how to roast coffee beans just to

[00:04:34] utilize the prep and then somewhere along the way, I just fell head first into the nerdy hobby of

[00:04:42] roasting my own coffee beans and espresso and everything else. So like, like I told you, like I,

[00:04:49] I don't know how long it's been since I've bought a bag of roasted coffee. I just, I buy,

[00:04:56] I buy mostly bunker beans, I buy, I've bought green beans from a few other sources just to like

[00:05:01] try and out see what the differences are but like that's my thing. It's just buy the green beans,

[00:05:06] roast them myself, grind them myself, pour over in the morning, espresso in the afternoon,

[00:05:10] lattes whenever we want. But that's what this is. This is bunker beans in my cup that I roasted

[00:05:18] I think last weekend. Yeah, I mean, but like what we talked about before was I mean,

[00:05:24] I, I've been looking at roasters here and there, I'll price them out or look at one or something

[00:05:30] like that and I haven't made the leap and do buying a roaster yet and I really want to just because

[00:05:35] I feel like I'm going to screw up a doing it by pan and just roasting in the tumble roasters

[00:05:42] and all the stuff that you can find it just seem, those seem just like a lot more fun in a way.

[00:05:47] More, I don't know what it is but I just like to tack behind it. But I mean to me like what we

[00:05:52] talked about before the show this is it's kind of like reloading your own ammo versus buying and

[00:05:56] bulk. I don't mind reloading, I have done it but the fact that I can just buy the roasted bean

[00:06:05] that's already done and it's great and okay cool but yeah now I see the pros and cons in both.

[00:06:11] Yeah, the one thing to think about is if you're thinking about

[00:06:17] roasting to be able to use bunker beans in a grid down situation like at that is your use case

[00:06:24] just plan for not having power available. So that's why like my roaster is up there. It's literally

[00:06:31] a jiffy pop. It's a popcorn popper but you can set it on some hot coals. I usually run it over

[00:06:36] a gas stove. You know like it's something I could and I very well might haul the prepper camp

[00:06:43] this year to be able to demonstrate roasting coffee a half or you know like three quarters of a

[00:06:49] pound in time. My usual go to is about 13 ounces because that's just what that popper

[00:06:55] 10th. I think this year, I think this year you should demo we'll have a stove down there

[00:07:04] at the booth and I think you should demonstrate roasting your own beans. Yeah, well I

[00:07:10] know that James somebody and it might have been you actually that brought it up with James and

[00:07:16] you know if James wants to get together like to do that and do a demo of how to roast bunker beans

[00:07:22] in the disaster coffee booth like I'm all on board to go and do it. The only thing of it is

[00:07:27] is that once you roast the beans what do you do with the beans are then just drink them or give them

[00:07:32] away. You know well both you could give them away. You could give them away or ask you know I

[00:07:38] mean you could go online and buy a 12 ounce bag and give them away and everything or I mean we

[00:07:47] were there going to be there for what four days so we're gonna you could definitely grind it up

[00:07:53] and drink it or save it and take a home and drink it then but I don't know you'll be fine so

[00:07:59] I'm making the executive decision that you're gonna bring it. Yeah well I mean it's not like it

[00:08:04] takes a ton of space I just need that and I need a camp stove to set it on and all the camp

[00:08:09] stuff. It will be I will happily admit that anytime you change anything in your roasting setup

[00:08:16] you kind of throw the variables back out of the window and you got to relearn it so doing this

[00:08:21] on a camp stove versus my usual burner in the backyard just that one little change is going to force

[00:08:27] me to like I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to roast a couple of batches on a camp stove in the

[00:08:32] backyard just to kind of like learn what gas setting I need to get get the roast because it's we

[00:08:38] can talk about it another time but it is when it comes to roasting coffee you need to come up to your

[00:08:45] roasting temperature as quickly as possible without burning the beans so it's kind of a you kind of

[00:08:51] got a window there of if you go too slow you skunk the batch if you go too fast you turn into

[00:08:58] charcoal so it's kind of like you know I know exactly where that setting is on the dial on my

[00:09:04] on my gas burner out back. I don't know why you haven't tell September figure it out Phil quick

[00:09:10] and start practicing yeah figure it out you you haven't tell September but you're bringing your

[00:09:13] crap so stop stop talking and the other thing is is that I could always roast a very small amount

[00:09:19] like with my little hand pan that I keep in my camping gear I mean that's not like that's that's

[00:09:25] only gonna roast basically it's basically enough to load up my it's basically enough to load

[00:09:30] like my French press you know if you want to do like quote unquote single serving like make eight cups

[00:09:37] of coffee I got a hand pan that's perfectly sized for that you just wave it over a campfire until

[00:09:42] your beans are roasted it's okay I feel like you're making excuses for not roasting coffee so

[00:09:48] no just just making conversation yeah so Kyle you're not in trouble if you don't like coffee but

[00:09:55] I am gonna judge you a little bit I mean sweet tea is life down here in the south but it's coffee man

[00:10:03] it's coffee anybody who doesn't drink coffee just holds pockets and Kyle might get that reference

[00:10:11] I don't actually hold pockets I don't worry about it but uh yeah so anyway what else is going on

[00:10:18] well that's a question for you because you know you finally broke cover this in the last couple

[00:10:24] of days on the the new adventure you're embarking on miss adventure miss adventure uh yeah so I

[00:10:32] mean I've talked about it the last couple episodes uh so I finally made a youtube channel uh

[00:10:38] it is called Bobo Fett's miss adventures uh creative yeah well I I don't know the

[00:10:47] I the the nickname Bobo Fett came from a past manager from what store when I used to work at

[00:10:53] Spencer Gifts back in college and uh she reached way back into the way back the scene for that one

[00:11:00] yep but uh yeah she called me when I first got hired on she met me and she was like Bobo

[00:11:07] you mean like I'm gonna start calling you Bobo Fett she goes because I like Star Wars and

[00:11:11] that's really close to Bulba and I was like all right so she called me Bobo Fett and then uh

[00:11:18] yeah I don't know and then we're just talking and yeah thinking about it and um yeah the name

[00:11:23] that kind of came up so yeah so that's uh that's the uh the youtube channel and it's gonna be

[00:11:28] based around I don't know exactly it's gonna be I don't want to like uh I yes so I sold actually

[00:11:35] I sold a lot of sex toys uh doing bets so um I ate crickets uh to sell some before uh it was

[00:11:45] really good at it but uh but yeah so um no this youtube channel uh it's gonna be I'd like

[00:11:53] to try to tailor it's gonna be Taylor out on my Tacoma about my truck um but it's gonna have

[00:11:57] it's gonna be like builds so I'm gonna I'm uh buddy of a really good friend of mine

[00:12:02] I've mentioned him on here before his youtube channels uh Carswell's Customs um he uh he's

[00:12:09] helping me film a bunch of yeah he helped me film this uh the install for I didn't do my deck system

[00:12:15] with him but I did do the the bed supports uh the bed stiffeners that you can buy uh so I did

[00:12:23] I installed those uh I installed the bed rack and then I also um filmed installing uh the

[00:12:30] rooftop tent uh among everything the um the bed stiffeners I think gave us the most content

[00:12:40] just because of the steps involved and what the bed stiffeners do and then also um

[00:12:46] I I already had the deck system in so when I went to go put the deck system back in or I

[00:12:50] wanted to go put the basically like I had it in I just took out both at like so they have the

[00:12:55] the center count the center uh area of the deck system then you have the two like basically wings

[00:13:00] that come out I found out when I went to go put those the wings back in uh they hit the stiffeners

[00:13:07] so I had to I showed kind of like what we had to do to get around those basically I had to take a

[00:13:11] drum roll and I drummed out a a little notch so that uh they went around the bed stiffener but

[00:13:17] raggle fraggle get in touch with the injury he might be interested oh yeah yeah I uh well have to

[00:13:23] talk um because yeah it might be interesting because yeah uh and then it's that's a thing is um

[00:13:28] doing this uh by the time so the roof rack is about a hundred I think 150 pounds give or take

[00:13:35] uh the the deck system is about 200 pounds the uh the website says that the rooftop tent is

[00:13:42] 280 pounds however the shipping information said 380 pounds uh so I don't know um it was heavy

[00:13:49] it was uh my buddy and I we got it on there we wrestled it up and got it on there uh but my truck

[00:13:55] like I noticed adding that much weight to the bed of the truck uh it's it leveled my truck out

[00:14:00] like trucks normally have like a little slant or like an angle kind of uh the way they drive

[00:14:05] naturally uh this now it's it's a hundred percent it looks like I put a leveling kit on it

[00:14:12] so uh I'm looking at um looking I'm looking at possibly doing uh suspension or bags or something

[00:14:18] I don't know yet so we'll see but uh like I said going back to the channel um it's gonna be revolved

[00:14:25] around some installation stuff uh if I want to like do uh do it yourself kind of thing um if you

[00:14:31] have a buddy who has a welder or anything like that um I have a couple ideas for some brackets

[00:14:36] that I want to uh try to mock up to you know mock up and stuff like that and uh there's a website

[00:14:41] you can buy um if you had again if you have a buddy who can weld or anything like that or if you

[00:14:45] can weld uh I found a website that can you can buy basically a do it yourself bumper uh and so

[00:14:53] I'm looking at that or maybe doing my own we'll see uh I've been spitting around a lot of ideas

[00:14:58] with one of my good buddies there and uh so yeah we'll see but uh and then also outdoor stuff um

[00:15:04] I need to get better at um recording so I really yeah I just need to get better at recording stuff

[00:15:12] like I'm going camping suppose I'm supposed to go camping tomorrow uh the rumor here in Michigan is

[00:15:17] we're looking at getting about eight inches of snow uh nice so we'll see I might we'll see uh I might not

[00:15:23] go just because uh I guess it all depends on the weather when I wake up if it's going to be sub-zero

[00:15:28] then I probably will not go but um because my my diesel heater that I'm playing on buying

[00:15:34] um I did not buy so that was gonna be my next question like are you just doing like

[00:15:39] installs and modification types of content or are you also gonna include like camping and road trips

[00:15:45] I mean um road trips I would like to do road trips and camping and stuff like that I I need to

[00:15:51] I'm looking at buying I think I'm gonna buy uh or um I think I know somebody who has a GoPro

[00:15:57] who they've never used it uh so I'm gonna try to see if I get like I want to get a GoPro mounted on

[00:16:02] the dash and do almost like uh my idea I've always wanted to do like a uh film dash cam well a dash

[00:16:09] cam but like a uh laps video you know um godship like uh you know of like driving down to

[00:16:20] soft care line or north care line or rather driving through the mountains drive you know driving

[00:16:24] around driving doing that kind of stuff and then kind of doing like a video for a proper camp

[00:16:27] and stuff like that so I know like for our uh pro uh for our um patreon trip down to Tennessee

[00:16:34] I was thinking about doing that uh and you know I don't know I I just got to get better I got to

[00:16:39] get more comfortable in front of doing stuff in front of the camera like that uh my buddy who does

[00:16:43] he's been doing some youtube videos he's like all right I'm gonna film like oh what what do you

[00:16:48] how do you do it like I don't know what like do I just talk he's like yeah just talk he's like

[00:16:51] whatever I don't know what to do with my hands yeah right so when I get really nervous I put my

[00:16:56] arm my hands are my armpits and I sniff them like this oh we're on all the way back there yeah

[00:17:01] but uh no so I don't know it's gonna be fun uh I'm hoping we'll see if it doesn't go anywhere it

[00:17:07] doesn't but uh new project I guess um but yeah so that's uh what's going on with that

[00:17:14] well like I said man I mean it's a hobby as long as it entertains you it's doing what it's supposed to do

[00:17:20] well and then just really quick though like I kind of fuel for the fire a little bit I

[00:17:25] um I dropped my truck off this morning at the dealership to get a check a bumper to bumper check

[00:17:31] up on for it and like I had two or three guys come up and talk about like oh man like you know

[00:17:39] checking out the bed rack checking out the tent uh even though it was folded up but checking out

[00:17:44] the tent like and like they were just like oh man I you know I love your truck it looks really

[00:17:47] cool like I really like the system oh is that the deck system can I see it stuff like that so

[00:17:52] that's kind of I mean that's really what I'm going for is like I just would like

[00:17:57] so that kind of gave me more incentive to try to do something like this so we'll see

[00:18:03] yeah I mean I've gotten some of the same reactions from like the soft topper and on my truck

[00:18:08] and especially once people realize like I have a 12 volt power panel into the back of the truck

[00:18:13] all the questions start about how in the world that did did you put that there because

[00:18:18] you know from the outside it literally just looks like a panel sitting on top of the bed

[00:18:23] and you totally don't think about the fact that there's there's holes drilled through the bed

[00:18:28] strategically so that the the backside of all those modules plug through when it fits flush

[00:18:34] and then the wiring job it took to connect that to the battery which by the way

[00:18:38] anybody that wants to run power cable underneath the truck following the factory wiring harness

[00:18:45] on the driver side of a Toyota Tacoma just drink a beer to settle your nerves because it's not a

[00:18:52] fun job it's a big pain in the butt especially when you got to go over the gas tank there's nothing

[00:18:56] fun about it I'm a matter of fact I've gotten my wife to do it twice because her hands and arms are

[00:19:01] smaller than mine so she can fit up in there and you know sounds like you need a snake well she can

[00:19:07] fit her hands in places to like feed the wire that these big old barecloth just they will not they

[00:19:12] won't fit it's like I said it sounds like you need almost like a snake or something to push through

[00:19:17] and tape it and pull through but yeah I mean that's the whole part of modding stuff I guess you know

[00:19:24] I got some ideas and stuff that I wanted to with mine but yeah so we'll see where it goes

[00:19:28] and the thing you mentioned about having to modify the bed stiffeners to work with the deck

[00:19:32] system that is like that is aftermarket modification 101 when you put two things together they weren't

[00:19:38] built to go together be prepared to start doing cutting grinding you just got a it's part of the job

[00:19:46] but so this this story popped up what was it yesterday day before holocene supplies the CCP

[00:19:56] so this uh so this article officially came out there it's titled March 19th 2024

[00:20:02] I for I first sawed on Instagram T Rex Arms put it out there and then it's been getting traction

[00:20:09] that I've seen ever since I mean we all know holocene is a Chinese company but this

[00:20:19] vermillion I think it's vermillion china dot com I think it is

[00:20:25] basically they have a holocene Chinese or American they kind of dove into how Chinese is holocene

[00:20:31] and it come to find out holocene is very Chinese like like supplying CCP like supply

[00:20:40] like going it's like directly tied to the to the Chinese government kind of to kind of China

[00:20:46] so yeah so they dove into it I mean they went they did a good job uh fail you should link um

[00:20:52] I can send you the link if you need it but I think you should link this story in the notes

[00:20:57] uh because I mean drop it in the private chat I'll include it in the show notes okay

[00:21:03] all right I think I can drop it in the uh our chat too can't we

[00:21:07] yeah the private chat or the comment yeah so I'll drop it in there as well um let me put all

[00:21:16] yeah so uh yeah so I mean if you can if you can take a read on this I mean it's interesting

[00:21:22] it uh this how deep they go I mean they really tie the they tie a holocene basically to

[00:21:29] the main founder who is also tied to like a couple other companies who's tied back to the the Chinese

[00:21:35] government and then who is basically um all of the all of the stuff that they produce for the US

[00:21:44] uh for civilians they're also producing for the Chinese military and everything and uh basically so

[00:21:52] I mean whether I guess it's one of those things where basically they draw the conclusion that uh

[00:21:56] the American people who are buying this a lot of the stuff up when they're put they're giving

[00:22:01] input they're had they have people that are giving input they're testing their product testing

[00:22:04] they're saying what's wrong what's good you're you are not only when you buy one of these you're

[00:22:09] actually I guess it's basically your funneling arms to the Chinese military but uh you're giving

[00:22:15] input on how to basically improve Chinese uh military uh arms and technology uh you know

[00:22:24] and that's the thing that sucks is I mean do I have some I have some howl some products I do

[00:22:28] I have two well I have a red dot and then I have a uh pistol enclosed uh emitter on my 2245

[00:22:36] I got a lamb yeah you know and so that's the thing so it's one of those things where it's like

[00:22:40] man do I want it like the thing that sucks is like the stuff that they put they have been putting out

[00:22:46] I mean it's good quality it gets good stuff it's holding up it holds up to a lot of bang

[00:22:52] but that being said it kind of goes back to me hey I kind of maybe I'll start

[00:22:58] really neat I need to start looking at okay I want to I really want to support American you know

[00:23:02] Tricicon uh EOTEC aim point uh just looking just doing a quick google here like Tricicon um

[00:23:11] like Tricicon comes out and they say so the vast majority of their Tricicon products including

[00:23:15] a cog v cog our mar our mrhd our marcc our crs or mro iron sites mgr's thermo optics and mounts

[00:23:23] are designed engineered and machined and and assembled at our facility in wixum Michigan

[00:23:29] or Auburn California 100% made in the United States and then they even go as far as I found a

[00:23:35] link that says uh we do not source anything from china it's right from Tricicon uh aim point

[00:23:43] it says all aim point sites are manufacturing Sweden so um you know and then uh EOTEC uh it says

[00:23:51] uh i found a thing from EOTEC that uh EOTEC holographic weapon um sites are made in the us

[00:23:58] so uh i mean you know i don't know i and that's a thing i've seen a couple things that are saying

[00:24:05] like EOTEC might be some some of the stuff is made in china and stuff like that but um going

[00:24:13] off of us their website and stuff they say they're made in the United States uh or you know

[00:24:18] so i don't know so here's the reason why i wrote this banner the way i did social media reps

[00:24:24] filions because there are there is a trauma seat there's three buckets of people on social media

[00:24:33] right now in the gun toer space or in in the gun influencer space they're the people who are

[00:24:39] absolutely horrified to find out that holosun supplies you know equipment to the ccp and therefore

[00:24:48] every dollar we send them and every every comment they get i mean how even if you just

[00:24:54] get something warranted or if it shows up d o a that goes to their product improvement which goes

[00:24:59] to arming arguably one of our greatest international security concerns right now being the chinese

[00:25:06] communist party and the people's repulp the uh the pla so there's people that are horrified at that

[00:25:17] there are people in the middle who are kind of like yes but you know if they're making a good product

[00:25:26] it's pushing the market and it forces everybody else to like competitions never a bad thing to

[00:25:31] the consumer and then the reason i'm over here on the right saying fills yawning is how is this

[00:25:36] a shock to anybody that a large chinese conglomerate was not doing business with their own freaking military

[00:25:45] like how is this a shock that's the part that i i'm i'm i'm has me goofed up right now is like

[00:25:51] like y'all do understand the way that a communist state works right like there are no quote-unquote

[00:25:57] private businesses in china they are all state owned or they are state invested in which means

[00:26:05] they're state owned de facto so like holosun was always basically an arm of the chinese government

[00:26:14] and holosun was always like expected to be supplying wep you know or military equipment because

[00:26:21] why on earth wouldn't they like i guess i guess what has me goofed up on this is when i win this

[00:26:29] story broke and people just lost their dad got minds i was like how was how was this news

[00:26:35] like in order for it to be news it has to be new and this this this anybody with common sense

[00:26:42] should realize this already so like to me this is like this is the on like yeah y'all you're welcome

[00:26:49] to the party guys y'all just figured this out i think to me the the most reasonable position

[00:26:58] to take on this is yes if you buy a holosun product you are sending money to holosun which is

[00:27:08] de facto enriched you know it which is de facto assisting them in producing military technology

[00:27:14] to arm the ccp i get all that but the problem is andrew all y'all out there in listener land y'all

[00:27:22] are watching this right now on something that's stuff full of components from china you're watching

[00:27:29] this on a cell phone you're watching this on a tablet or on a computer or on a t on a web activated

[00:27:36] tv you're everything in your fricking house is made with stuff from china even if it's assembled

[00:27:43] somewhere else it's made with chinese components because the us doesn't make a single we don't

[00:27:50] make we don't make integrated circuits here we don't make diodes or resistors here we don't

[00:27:55] make switches we don't make wire we don't do anything here so everything you own has chinese

[00:28:03] stuff in it right so if the argument is we shouldn't be buying stuff from china i accept that as

[00:28:12] your argument but i don't think you can rationally reasonably do it anymore not in a globalist

[00:28:19] economy not in 2024 not in the world we live in trust me i wish we had a we as americans had a

[00:28:28] more concerted effort to produce our own stuff and enrich our own industries if we know the reason

[00:28:36] then like pure red blood patriotism but if but for an even better reason because if there ever is

[00:28:42] another global war or hell another global pandemic which shuts down the supply lines it'd be really

[00:28:49] nice to be able to make our own stuff and we can't do that today no so like if there was a

[00:28:54] world war three tomorrow i got news for you most of the guidance system is in all of our missiles

[00:28:59] i'll give you one guess where all that crap came from well yeah and lots of given but that's a

[00:29:03] thing is it i mean just going off of like this article and stuff like that i mean i understand

[00:29:08] 99.5 percent of like everything in our houses either says made in china or

[00:29:17] assembled in mexico or really parts from china assembled in us whatever the only thing in your

[00:29:23] house that wasn't assembled in another country andrew is you as far as i'm assuming we'll see

[00:29:31] no i but no i know i agree with you on that but when it comes to when it comes to like the just

[00:29:38] i really when it comes to like the tech as far as weapon systems um i really think like that stuff

[00:29:45] it you know our missiles and stuff like that like any chinese parts that are getting put into our

[00:29:51] weapon systems especially at our military stage and stuff like that like that should that should not

[00:29:57] happen but it does it probably and it does but uh but no i mean it just i mean that's a thing is when

[00:30:03] this article came out i wasn't surprised uh we all know i mean it's china we all know that uh but

[00:30:11] like i said reading this article and how much they uncover and how much they tie back to china

[00:30:18] it's very it's interesting and again like that's why i keep i push by and like try to buy

[00:30:24] american do your research by american if you can that's why i push i push tragic kind of lot

[00:30:30] because they are american uh they're right here in michigan so i can't like that and yeah

[00:30:36] there you know twice is expensive probably then somehow the house on red dot but uh

[00:30:42] really not though i mean it depends on the red dot you want it depends on the red dot you want

[00:30:46] it depends on the reflex like you want like they're there rcr and their rm are hd i mean it

[00:30:52] like i think their msrp is like 800 you can find it for like five and some change give or take like

[00:31:00] 550 is your so um and a hollow sun closing midter is roughly around four you know maybe 350 400

[00:31:07] or so yeah so it's not that much you know it's not that bad but but again i mean i guess it all

[00:31:13] depend it just all depends on what you want and stuff like that and that's the thing is is like

[00:31:17] i said how will sun do they make stuff that it holds up i mean i've seen i've seen video after

[00:31:23] video from multiple people of stuff being dropped uh it's being beaten the crap out of these

[00:31:29] products and they're holding up i've like i said i have a red dot on my ar that i put i don't

[00:31:35] mean a how many rounds through and i dropped it it's fallen it's it's hit like i beat the crap

[00:31:41] out of this dot and it's never lost zero ever and so it's one of those things where it's like man

[00:31:48] i hate i hate this i hate the thought of supplying our hate the thought of like promoting a company or

[00:31:53] buying from a company that is really this hardcore china first america second i mean but really

[00:31:59] that's every company in the united states i think almost pretty much but uh but yeah i don't know

[00:32:04] i mean it's just one of those things where it was an interesting read uh i i suggest reading it

[00:32:09] and just judge for yourself yeah i mean i i personally don't fall to person for buying

[00:32:16] foreign because like you know this kind of echoes back to like the conversation of his head

[00:32:21] when we were kids about well if you're a patriot you buy american when it was about vehicles

[00:32:25] you know and everybody kind of roll their eyes at the the people buying the foreign cars

[00:32:31] are coming in from japan but you know that that constant influx of japanese vehicles that were

[00:32:36] small fuel efficient reliable and and not i wouldn't say cheap but certainly cheaper than some

[00:32:42] of the options that are made domestically like that forcing entire us auto industry to get their

[00:32:47] crap together in one hand and innovate and get better you know like i can remember a time when

[00:32:55] i was young where if you wanted a reliable vehicle you bought foreign you didn't buy america you

[00:33:00] didn't buy small american vehicles even nowadays there's a reason why i have it to come

[00:33:05] acid now in the driveway there's a reason you have to come and sit in your driveway like either

[00:33:10] Toyota has this reputation which is company culture 101 of making super reliable high quality

[00:33:17] vehicles that last a very long time if you take care of them and most japanese manufacturers

[00:33:23] have a similar reputation to that now because of that pressure the us auto industry has had to get

[00:33:29] a lot better like if you look at so i looked at a report that jd power put out a lot like

[00:33:35] couple of years back where they compared average faults per so many thousand miles for

[00:33:42] for various auto auto auto manufacturers or automakes and auto models and the interesting thing was

[00:33:50] if you looked at that that report for the last 20 years there are some trends there are two trends

[00:33:56] that are very obvious first of all no surprise Toyota and Honda were like trading one in two

[00:34:01] for the most reliable but the interesting part is you've heard the you've heard the the saying

[00:34:07] the rising tide floats all boats every manufacturer in the last 20 years has gotten better

[00:34:14] every single manufacturer four gm frigging and Chrysler all of them they have all gotten better i mean

[00:34:23] a uh i can remember when if you wanted a reliable vehicle for a college kid you got a Honda Civic

[00:34:28] well a 1996 Honda Civic has just as many faults per hundred thousand miles as a curve production

[00:34:37] Jeep or Chrysler product so even though there's still a perception that well Jeep Chrysler is not

[00:34:43] quasi reliable as a Honda no one would have turned their nose up at a mid-90s Honda for a

[00:34:48] liable vehicle that's where Jeep has gotten today and it's gotten there because of the pressure

[00:34:53] from competition so that's that little anecdote is just me saying if hollow sun if the net effect

[00:35:01] of hollow sun is that Treasure Con has had to innovate and EOTEC has had to innovate and aim point

[00:35:07] has had to innovate and all these other companies are pushing on the big guys to keep keep advancing keep

[00:35:15] getting better it's not entirely a bad thing but that being said i wouldn't fault person for

[00:35:22] saying spend a few more bucks and buy American just to understand there's no i don't i don't think

[00:35:29] you can find a single product that a hundred percent of it is truly from America something is

[00:35:35] coming from overseas because that's what we live in so i'm throwing this banner up and i'm

[00:35:43] going to start this off by saying i try really hard not to participate in like the doom and gloom

[00:35:50] in the skies following chicken little that some preparedness podcasts get into i try really really

[00:35:56] hard not to do that because i don't think it's completely i think it's counterproductive i think

[00:36:02] that fear porn is a thing and it's just not something i try to participate in the only times i

[00:36:09] like to indulge in cautionary notes is when i see a threat that's coming like coming at us and

[00:36:15] there's no debating it and when i feel like there's things we can do to not fall victim to it so

[00:36:23] how bad is the economy and how screwed are we and Andrew this is something that like you and me and

[00:36:29] that the matter of x patrons have been talking about pretty regularly lately like we're all we're

[00:36:35] all feeling the pinch right now from cost of groceries and utilities and car insurance going up

[00:36:41] every fricking year and it's just like the cost of living across the board is ratcheting up far

[00:36:50] quicker than wages are and i know that we've talked i know that we've talked recently about

[00:37:00] a couple of new stories and everything because like again my my background is in finance and economics

[00:37:05] it's just the type of stuff that i tend to follow so like i've been sharing stories that like the one

[00:37:11] that came out several months ago where credit card debt in the u.s had reached an all-time high and

[00:37:17] it's since reached another all-time high since then i think it was 1.33 trillion last i checked

[00:37:23] which is just nauseating and terrifying high interest rates on credit cards right now are

[00:37:30] 29.99 percent interest which is nightmare fuel the average american last i checked and i did

[00:37:41] i kick myself for not checking just today but the last time i saw the average american has 13

[00:37:49] thousand dollars in credit card debt a piece so if you're married that's 26,000 in some change

[00:37:55] and again that high interest rate is almost 30 percent interest so that's one that's one bomb

[00:38:03] the student loan bubble is a well-known problem it's not getting any smaller i don't know how

[00:38:10] on earth colleges are staying are staying afloat with you know tuition prices as high as they are

[00:38:15] and i don't know how people with student loans are staying afloat either because i mean

[00:38:19] i mean andrew you fall into that boat it's it's it's nauseates me to think about a person having

[00:38:24] that much debt stacked on the back stacked on their back they're trying to keep from you know

[00:38:28] putting them in the hole more recently i saw a story came out that there was an uptick in cash out

[00:38:41] equity robbing refinances on homes now this worried me because in our current in our current

[00:38:49] housing market and anyone that's in real estate anyone that's in the you know like the financial

[00:38:55] sector is well aware of the fact that interest rates are very high right now mortgage requirements

[00:39:00] have tightened up substantially the cost to purchase a home right now is astronomical because of

[00:39:07] the interest rate and because of the fact that home prices are so inflated and the fact is this

[00:39:14] is a moment in time where with all these variables being what they are absolutely no sane person

[00:39:19] should be refinancing their home if they are locked into a sub 4% rate you should ride that

[00:39:26] sob until the wheels come off you should not be refinancing in the current rates but people are

[00:39:34] and they're doing it and they're taking equity out of their home because they're so desperate for cash

[00:39:40] they're robbing the equity out of the home that they've already paid off and again home values have

[00:39:46] increased so a lot of people's equity is spread out but they're they're like one of the primary ways

[00:39:52] we Americans a mass wealth over our lifetimes by paying off our home and it upraising it appreciating

[00:40:00] and value so there they are literally selling off pieces of buy of the paid off home to deal with

[00:40:07] current with current costs and current rising cost of living and then just two or three days ago I

[00:40:15] saw the thing that prompted this that scared me the worst within the last two months there's

[00:40:22] been a spike in 401k withdrawals so understand that credit card debt his mag is maxed out people have

[00:40:34] refinanced homes into higher interest rates so that they could get the equity out of their homes

[00:40:39] people have burnt through all their savings and now they're taking out 401k loans or they're just

[00:40:45] taking cash out of the 401k's that is where we are in America right now we have you know with

[00:40:57] inflation with the economy with everything it's going on cost of living is gone up

[00:41:02] and we have burnt every dollar we have trying to keep warm in the winter now we're at the point

[00:41:10] where we're selling off pieces of a paid off house and pieces of our retirement to try to keep up

[00:41:15] with things and it is in this climate in this moment that I pose that question of how bad is

[00:41:23] the economy well it's bad enough that two generations of Americans may never retire may never

[00:41:29] be able to may not be able to afford to like if you're Gen X and a millennial right now

[00:41:37] y'all y'all are in a boat of people that are doing really really like short term gain long term

[00:41:43] loss activities and it is going to come back on us in a way that I don't know how to fully quantify

[00:41:51] yet and how screwed are we I say that if you're the person who is keeping your finger on the

[00:41:57] pulse of things if you're putting away for retirement if you're putting away in savings if you live

[00:42:01] within your means you're probably okay you're gonna have to tighten up that belt a little bit you're

[00:42:06] going to have to stretch some things out and you're going to have to work at it but if you're the

[00:42:11] person who is eyeball deep and credit card debt and getting deeper every moment because you're

[00:42:15] trying to buy cool stuff and vacations and you're not willing to adjust your spending for the reality

[00:42:23] of the situation in front of you then I mean get ready to work till noon on the day you die because

[00:42:29] that's where we're headed that's where this is heading it's now that I've completely like doom

[00:42:34] and gloom Andrew like yeah talk me out of that you can't yeah it's where I'll screw

[00:42:41] it no I mean I don't know I mean the fact that I don't know I mean yeah the fact that people are

[00:42:54] opening up one credit card to try to pay off another just so they don't get that leap he and

[00:42:59] I mean it's just it's just getting worse so I don't know I mean the thing that's gonna happen is

[00:43:03] it's gonna implode and we're gonna have to learn from it I don't know what to say I thankfully I

[00:43:10] have gotten all my credit cards all my credit cards are paid off and I do not charge to a credit card

[00:43:16] if I want it I donate plasma and I buy it with that or I save up and I buy it I buy it that way

[00:43:27] I don't I really try hard and I've been successful successful at it for not charging stuff on my credit

[00:43:35] card in quite a long time the all the stuff that I bought for like the the deck system the bed rack

[00:43:42] all that stuff that I bought I saved up for and I bought it with money out of my savings I did not

[00:43:48] charge it to a credit card because I did not want to get back into that 22 or more 25%

[00:43:55] interest rate unfortunately yes I do have student loans am I paying them off yes I'm paying off

[00:44:02] every month I pay extra do I have a house yes do I have a truck yes the truck house and student loan

[00:44:11] are my only debt that I have and I mean but that's good that's that's better than a lot of people

[00:44:18] today a lot of people yeah they are living way beyond their means so yeah try it I would say definitely

[00:44:26] buckle down if you can afford it start paying extra on stuff just start trying to get out of debt

[00:44:31] and do what you got to do get a second job I know somebody who had they got a second job because

[00:44:35] they're trying to get out of credit card debt and so yeah their the credit cards are their

[00:44:41] predatory it sucks that there even exist but the people people have really been hit hard by them

[00:44:48] and I hope people get all that debt because I think besides credit besides the student loans

[00:44:56] which student loans are I think it's a predatory loan as well credit cards are I mean I think

[00:45:02] they're the worst thing out there and so I've been trying to stay away from it and I hope others

[00:45:07] do too so save up and try to do it like I said find other ways to buy stuff if you want to

[00:45:13] put that trip off for an extra six months to a year if you can and save up cash for it

[00:45:19] so yeah so yeah I mean it sucks because they have the doom and gloom thing I mean it's reality

[00:45:25] and that's where we're at is we're coming up to a reality to where the government is their

[00:45:31] they're calling I mean they're okay with giving you money but they definitely are they're a

[00:45:34] loan shark they definitely they're calling for the money back and unfortunately for one case I

[00:45:41] I feel like I'm I'm not looking forward to the day but there's gonna be come there's gonna come a

[00:45:47] day where the government itself is their loans are gonna come do and they're gonna take whatever

[00:45:52] money they want to pay to try to pay for that and not default and all kinds of stuff and that

[00:45:57] includes 401k's so don't be surprised if you check it for a one k one day and it's zeroed because

[00:46:03] the government took it so I mean quite frankly that day ever comes then the country's gone yeah

[00:46:11] because I mean not only would the country erupt but you got to think about like this 401k's in

[00:46:18] many many cases they're not they're not the government doesn't even have custody of them

[00:46:23] financial institutions and banks have custody of them it's money you invest with a financial

[00:46:29] financial institution and they set up that 401k on your behalf and if the government swipes

[00:46:37] that money out of the banks and at these financial institutions like the country will implode

[00:46:43] not to mention the only the only way that would be a politically palatable solution to this country

[00:46:51] because you got a bear mind like I don't trust any politician except I trust them to do what's

[00:46:55] in their own best interest because that's the world that's the smart money yes Kyle they probably

[00:47:01] will but I trust them do it's in their own best interests which means they're going the whoever

[00:47:08] whatever gets them reelected is what they will do which means they are not going to piss off

[00:47:15] millions upon millions upon millions of Americans by screwing with their retirement

[00:47:22] until the penalty for not doing that is worse than doing it

[00:47:27] raggle fraggle TSP is uh for federal for government employees it's um basically government the

[00:47:34] hit 401k but in any case so that's kind of the longer short of that man like I again I feel like

[00:47:46] these are I feel like to a degree this is a self-inflicted wound because like it was about once a

[00:47:52] year the injury lets me off my leash to do like the full blown nerdy ass economics finance

[00:47:59] you know financial preparedness episode and like yeah it makes people cross eye to listen to me

[00:48:05] drone on for an hour about personal finances but Jesus Christ is an important freaking thing

[00:48:09] in most of our generation never learned it so thank god I did and I'm trying to share what I know

[00:48:15] but like I believe that what is necessary for a moment like this where debt is just piling up

[00:48:25] and piling up and piling up is two things first of all everyone every adult should have a home

[00:48:33] budget and if you don't I am absolutely judging you I love you dearly but I'm judging the hell out

[00:48:38] of you please pause this and go right down every bill you have to pay every month every dollar

[00:48:45] you spend on groceries and then on the other side of that piece paper write down your paychecks

[00:48:50] and then start start working those numbers back and forth until you get at least to zero if not have

[00:48:56] a surplus of money and if you don't write it down on that list you don't get to spend it anymore

[00:49:01] like that sounds really harsh but if you need to get your hair nails done you put it in the budget

[00:49:07] if you'd like to eat out you put it in the budget if you like Starbucks you put it in the budget

[00:49:11] if it ain't the budget you don't freaking spend it and once you learn to control your finances

[00:49:17] just for a little while you'd be shocked how much surplus money you have and how little you can

[00:49:25] actually live on but what happens is when you have a debit card and you just swipe it through the

[00:49:31] machine and the magic happens that gives you the stuff and you don't have to see the cash you know

[00:49:35] leaving your wallet it gets really really easy to ignore that five dollar day coffee or you know

[00:49:44] the tiny little expenses we spent all the time and thinking about it that adds up to hundreds

[00:49:49] upon hundreds of dollars a month gone so that's one thing the other thing is we have to consider

[00:49:56] debt like taking medicine when you're sick medicine supposed to make you feel better when you're

[00:50:04] not sick you don't need to take medicine take a medicine when you're not sick and cause other problems

[00:50:09] debt can be properly used to leverage you into a better position but only if using the debt

[00:50:18] ends up in a better position put you in a better position than not using the debt so when a

[00:50:23] person looks at student loans and they take out 20,000 dollars in student loans to go get a $10

[00:50:27] an hour job I say you're an idiot no offense you made it you made a bad decision on the other hand

[00:50:34] if you go and take out 20,000 dollars in student loans because you want to go be a doctor engineer

[00:50:39] or something that makes money that's a good investment you have to look at it as an investment in your

[00:50:43] future earnings so no one would buy stock that was guaranteed to lose money start looking at debt

[00:50:52] the same way credit cards there is no justification to become relying upon them if you generate a home

[00:51:00] budget if you can control your spending for a little bit you can build up a $500 or $1000

[00:51:06] emergency fund in a very short amount of time and now every time you have an emergency you tap

[00:51:10] the emergency fund as soon as you get paid you refill the emergency fund you cut all the credit cards

[00:51:16] off and pay them out and get rid of them and now every time you need money you go into your savings

[00:51:23] now you're paying yourself back and stay of paying the credit card companies and this isn't like me

[00:51:28] talking out about behind these are the same decisions my wife and I made years ago I haven't had a

[00:51:33] credit card since college I don't need it I pay cash for stuff I save my money I live very very

[00:51:40] tight and very much within my means but I mean it sounds like I'm just beating people over the head

[00:51:45] about it but you know there was a time when the way that I control my spending allowed me and my

[00:51:53] wife to like get ahead of things and build savings and take care of a lot of things now we're getting

[00:52:00] to a point with this economy where this is not about getting ahead and this is not about you know

[00:52:05] putting away money for a rainy day and this is not about padding the retirement account this is

[00:52:10] about fricking survival this is about being able to pay your bills and not go eyeball deep in debt

[00:52:16] this is about the financial fallout of living on debt not killing your retirement and killing

[00:52:24] your future 10 years from now or 15 or 20 years from now this is about the difference between

[00:52:31] being able to live the American dream and not being able to anymore because if you don't

[00:52:39] work to pay off your home if you don't work to put away in savings and retirement if you don't

[00:52:43] work to do those things today then you're going to work till noon on the day you die you're not

[00:52:48] going to get to retire you're not going to get to have the golden years it's not going to be there

[00:52:55] so like that is as as genuinely polite and caring as I can be into the audience

[00:53:02] that is that is what is it's take right now this is absolutely an existential danger

[00:53:08] and if you are the person who is rack-and-up credit card debt and rack-and-up you know all kinds of

[00:53:14] other debt if you're the one that's refinancing your home take of the equity out if you're the

[00:53:17] one that's burning your 401k to stay warm stop doing it right now go find a financial advisor

[00:53:24] somebody who knows far more than I do to help get you on track and get you out of this whole

[00:53:29] because if you continue on this path it goes nowhere good

[00:53:34] and the fact that it's mostly like the gen Xers and the millennials that are engaging in this

[00:53:39] just scares the crap out of me Andrew because you know call what it is our generation graduated

[00:53:45] our our generation was just getting our start in the 2008 you know the fallout of the 2008

[00:53:52] housing collapse so like we kind of had a rough we kind of had a rough rough go right at the gate

[00:53:59] you know what I mean a lot of our prime earning years were kind of hamstrung by all that

[00:54:07] and now that generation that many have struggled a lot of us have kind of gotten our stuff together

[00:54:15] and done great things with ourselves now I see that same generation in my opinion committing

[00:54:21] financial suicide and it just frustrates me

[00:54:29] why did you let me rant and rave for 15 minutes about economics nobody wants to listen

[00:54:33] to be talk about this stuff it's boring it's nerd stuff it's hard to stop you

[00:54:40] well it comes from a good place I mean I'm passionate I'm passionate about it

[00:54:45] it's it's it's my background it's my education but it comes from a good place because like

[00:54:50] I genuinely want to see people do great things and live a comfortable life I want to see families

[00:54:57] be successful and it just it breaks my damn heart when people when people are as careless with

[00:55:04] finances as they are because finances is life if if you watch this if you watch this channel because

[00:55:12] you're into preparedness and you've got beans and rice for when the world ends you damn sure

[00:55:16] better have a 401k in a retirement plan in case the world doesn't that's all I gotta say

[00:55:21] yeah yeah what happened I don't know some video just popped up from my computer

[00:55:30] I saw something flashing on your face I just wasn't sure like no I don't want to page

[00:55:36] because your face went from like your normal color to blue and then back to normal color

[00:55:41] there there was some weird stuff going on no I clicked I clicked a Photoshop to open it up and

[00:55:47] it was like hey noise but yeah that's what I give for playing on my computer for during a

[00:55:55] Phil rant but no you're right so I don't know I mean yeah I don't I mean not to be a dead horse

[00:56:01] but yeah I mean try to get things under control because nothing's going it's not gonna end good for us

[00:56:07] so yeah you know we one of these days dude you got you got to help remind me to throw out

[00:56:15] this blood pressure warning right before I get on a good rant but we might have to save that for

[00:56:19] you know when we talk about ATF for a three-letter agency who apparently no knock rated somebody

[00:56:26] this morning at six o'clock in the morning and that poor S would be may not live but there aren't

[00:56:32] enough details about that to talk about it right now so maybe next week we'll scream and yell

[00:56:38] about the ATF come on Andrew you know you live for the moments where this vein in my forehead like

[00:56:45] stands out to hear and starts pulsing yeah anyway anyway I have warned my co-host out but

[00:56:58] like I said I mean as Andrew and starts this new endeavor this new YouTube channel I'm gonna be

[00:57:03] reposting his content on this YouTube channel and we'll be letting everybody know when stuff drops

[00:57:09] I mean I'm excited for a man I think it's gonna be fun and I think there's probably a pretty

[00:57:13] enormous crossover between the preparedness community the overlanding community the camping community

[00:57:21] you know like there's the the vent diagram has a lot of meat in the middle yeah

[00:57:26] we'll see I mean it's just yeah YouTube is saturated with overlanding and stuff like that so

[00:57:31] it's just a matter of trying to do something different but we'll see how it goes not really worried

[00:57:35] about it just trying to have fun so that's always the key try to have fun all right well we'll go

[00:57:41] ahead and punt this one out the door I appreciate everybody who held on for this long we actually had

[00:57:46] like up to 10 people watching today which is interesting a whole bunch of them on X that's a first

[00:57:55] so yeah matter of X podcast had now the door if you're buying Chinese stuff don't fret too much

[00:58:02] if you're buying American stuff it's probably got Chinese stuff inside of it if you're

[00:58:07] looting your 401k to pay for vacation stop doing that nonsense and if you want more content from

[00:58:15] a certain knucklehead about his truck and his misadventures Boba Fett's Boba Fett's misadventures

[00:58:24] when he starts posting stuff you'll find it on these feeds it'll be on his feed but I'll you know

[00:58:31] throw him a bone matter of fact's heading out the door bye everybody bye

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