Matter of Facts: On The Road Again

[00:00:06] 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.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host, Phil Ravelet, Andrew, Nick are on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Welcome back to the Matter of Facts Podcast. Nick is on the other side

[00:00:32] of the mic. Andrew is not. Andrew is training to be a YouTube moderation specialist because apparently they need a lot of help right now. Our last, they do our last stream got nuked from, from YouTube, a record four and a half minutes in because we violated YouTube's firearms policy by displaying firearms that you can plainly see all around us outside of a controlled

[00:00:55] area slash gun range. I mean, there is a hacksaw handle behind me. I've got a box shotgun shells back there. Apparently that's it. I don't know. I, my theory is our, our, our, our discussions about extracurricular activities involving buckets of water and restrained subjects might have been a little spicy and hurt some ice feelings. And they just pushed the, um, the band button and selected random reason. Who knows? I don't know. It could be the discussion

[00:01:24] of diesel fuel. You know how the environmentalists feel about diesel. I don't know anything about environmentalists other than the fact that it, every time I drive by one, it makes me want to push my gas pedal down harder. Good. So yeah, that happened for those of you who usually watch this on YouTube. Um, you know, that's, this is a good excuse. This is a good reason to remind y'all that we also stream on Facebook, which is also pretty screwy, but also on a rum, we did go down

[00:01:52] on there, but also on rumble and rumble's been okay. You know, I can talk about pretty spicy stuff and rumble doesn't pitch a hissy fit. The only downside of rumble is rumble has not finished their API yet. So that like when people comment during the stream on rumble, we don't see those comments. It all, that only works through Facebook, YouTube so far, which is frustrating, but you know, we'll, we'll do what we can do. You know what we might be able to do?

[00:02:17] We might be able to throw signal on one of our one and or both of our PCs so that the patrons can harass us mid show. I mean, the patrons can harass us mid show regardless. Cause we are in a, yeah, but my phone is silenced when we're recording. So I don't know that about the harassment until afterwards. True. But see the frustrating part of it is our patrons as much as I love and adore them, they're usually talking while we're streaming, but they're not talking to us. They're

[00:02:44] just talking to each other, which I guess that could be the re I mean, part of that is probably because like we've, we've worked to build like a nice little cadran community, a very like-minded people. And they actually enjoy talking to each other or harassing each other. Sometimes there's some bullying. I mean, you know, the things happen. Bullying is good for you if well applied. Yes.

[00:03:07] And it is well and judiciously applied by that group frequently. Uh, one of those bullies is our merch provider. So to that family who will shall remain nameless until they want to come on the show and out themselves as weirdos of all this weird little podcast, I'm glad they provide the merch. And if y'all would like the merch, those links are in the show description. Cypress survivalist, that link is also in the show description. Our nonprofit is running our next

[00:03:34] event June 14th. The URL is www.cypressurvivalist that has three S's in a row. Don't miss one of them or you won't find us or just Google cypress space survivalist. And we're like the very first thing that pops up in Google, but it's cypressurvivalist.org and all the information you need about the lunch and learn on June 14th shall be there. Admin work done. Now I was up now for the fun. I was up

[00:04:01] very, very late last night because, um, earlier in the week I had attempted to snatch a satellite pass from Noah 19 and boogered it up pretty badly because I got my timing off. And at the moment I walked out there with my laptop and all my nerd crap, the satellite had already passed me and was over the North pole. So not conducive to reaching it from new Orleans, believe it or not. And I mean,

[00:04:29] you know, when you consider the fact that they're like 22,000 miles up in the air and they literally traverse the entire span of the earth from North pole to South pole fairly quickly, you kind of only get one bite at the apple. But last night after we streamed, I got it. I managed to catch it. I was sitting out there smoking a cigar 15 minutes early and the result of all that was

[00:04:59] that's a nice waterfall there. Yeah. I got a, I would say a near perfect hit on Noah 19. Great signal strength. Very, very strong. Had a great waterfall, had a great signal that y'all can't hear because, you know, audio and technical difficulties. Um, I was running, let's see here. I was actually, what you could see on the right side of that screen was orbitron, which is another

[00:05:27] program I use to like watch where the satellite is in its orbit. So I was really watching the satellite while recording. So I could try to get an idea of like, where is it? How close is it? How good is the pass? And this, this weird little mismatch of software and hardware I put together, not anything I invented standing on the shoulders of others that have done it before me came together really nicely.

[00:05:49] And I got pretty surprisingly nice images from Noah 19. So one of the things is worth pointing out about the, the Noah satellites 15, 18 and 19, when you start talking about trying to like receive these data packets, which are images from these satellites is what you're pulling down is multiple layers of images. At the same time, you got visual, you have IR, you're looking at the humidity in the air,

[00:06:17] you're looking at weather events, you're looking at all sorts of different types of images. And that was the end result, which that's pretty cool. On the right side is your vis is your visible elements, which I was kind of surprised just how nice that looked. I mean, look at the reef sections north of Cuba. That's beautiful. Yeah. And then on the left side of the screen, you're literally looking at a weather event that was coming across like North Texas, North Louisiana

[00:06:44] yesterday evening. And this, this was in real time. So this was like 10, 15, 10, 20 last night. And the whole reason that I went down this road, cause like, you know, we've talked about software defined radio on the show before. And when I started down this road, it really was an effort to use it like an information gathering tool. That's why I've really focused hard on like, you know, can I listen to like trunk radio systems, the area, if there's public access or public

[00:07:11] emergencies going on, can I, can I pull down ADSB information so I can look for aircraft that are flying around me. And now looking at this, it's all just kind of an extension of this idea that like that information is out there because the radio waves are wide open when they're not encrypted. And I want to know what information I can pull down and make use of that doesn't involve me staring into the doom screen, logging onto NOAA, logging onto a website or going through a third

[00:07:40] party that I don't have control over in order to be able to access that information. This came off of a very old, very, very abused laptop and a $35 like USB dongle and an antenna that's a pair of rabbit ears. The technology required to do this was very, very minimal. And I would say like the hardest part is just, it's, it's the nerd stuff, you know, it's like tweaking settings and chasing things and reading

[00:08:09] guides and dealing with the backend of the software a little bit. Yeah. But this was the end result. I mean, I would say it's pretty worthwhile. I would say that if we, if you were in a situation where like, you know, say your internet access was cut or prolonged grid down situation where you just kind of need to be abreast of what's going on with the weather, this might be a really good option because if it looks that good,

[00:08:34] not that I'm looking forward to having to use it this way, but the next time we have like a hurricane coming towards Gulf coast, I might fire this back up just to see what those images look like. How useful are they? I mean, it's good enough for Noah. It's gotta be good enough for us. Well, the only, the only thing I think you're going to be missing there is some of the ground temperature data and wind speed and direction data. Yeah. Which, yeah. I mean,

[00:09:03] you're not a meteorologist anyway. So what you're looking for is like yesterday to today's picture to look at the storm track and do your best guess. And actually going down that road. So one thing worth pointing out is like the, these NOAA satellites being polar orbiting, they, they, they pass, you get a pass on any one of these satellites about twice a day, about 12 hours apart. Figure, you know, isn't that interesting how that works? So like if you were, if you were

[00:09:32] focused on this cause you had nothing better to do or than watch the weather, you could catch both of those passes and have an AM pass and a PM pass and AM pass and a PM pass and start over, start overlay or interlacing those images together. So you could literally use it for storm tracking, or you can just use it as a snapshot to say, Hey, I don't, you know, internet's out or the day or the local cell towers are out. I can't get to my usual weather, you know,

[00:09:57] weather sources. AM radio is only so good. I want to look and see what the weather is doing over the horizon. This will give that. Yeah. Yeah, it absolutely will. You know, I know you said, uh, when we were talking about this earlier, that these satellites are not going to continue to be maintained longterm. What kind of timeline did you hear about that? So what I heard was that I think the, the period where they're going to stop maintaining it has passed,

[00:10:26] at least a current Noah has no intention of like decommissioning these satellites in the way of like taking them down out of the air or like giving them to, you know, destruct destroy commands or anything. They're just going to stop babysitting them. So sooner or later, something's going to break and they're not going to fix it. And part of that is also because like these Noah satellites, like the oldest ones, I mean, they're ancient. There's a reason, there's a good reason why they're,

[00:10:54] they're not going to maintain them anymore. And they have been, the technology has come quite a long way and they have superseded them with much, much newer, much more modern, much higher quality, much higher resolution, much better stuff that unfortunately I do not currently have the technology in my hands to be able to interface with them, but it's not that big of a lift. So the next

[00:11:19] thing I might be fooling with, well, but in all honesty, so the, the, the software defined radio program that I have SDR sharp is perfectly capable of tuning to L band frequencies, which is like 1.7 gigahertz. Um, the SDR I have, this is your antenna technology that's limited, right? Yes. So I would

[00:11:42] have to trade, I would have to trade the, um, the lazy little rabbit ears I have like off your grandmother's television set. That's not going to work for L band. I would need a dedicated L band antenna. I would honestly need a small dish. I would need a, uh, an L and a low noise amplifier to be able to not just boost that

[00:12:07] signal, but also obscure all any nearby frequencies away from the feed. Like it's, it's doable depending on what level of DIY I'm willing to suffer from, you know, like few hundred bucks down to maybe, maybe like under a hundred. Um, but it's doable to build a small L band dish and, um, to add that L and a to

[00:12:33] it. And then once I have those two things, I've already got the software I need to record the data packet and the SDR to tune the antenna. The only thing I'd be missing actually, no, come think of it. The same program I used to get all these images set dump. It has the decoding profiles already in it for the ghost satellites and a few others. Interesting. So you're talking about an antenna. I mean, it,

[00:13:01] it would be manually aimed. It would not be like one of these nice, cool little self-tracking ones, but I mean the, the next hurdle to get into, to go further down this road is L band satellite. And okay. That would give me access to far more satellites that are far higher quality that provide me more information. And also because the bandwidth is so much different instead of VHF, we're going into the microwave range. Right. I also have the ability to get at some more of that data that you just

[00:13:31] mentioned that is just simply not within the purview of a 40 year, 40 plus year old satellite. Right. Cause there's not enough room just to stuff that data. Yeah. And the, here's the thing of it, the, uh, the note, the three no satellites I can still get at that. I'm got, I got at the other night. They also have L band on them. They simulcast L band and

[00:13:54] VHF. So the L band, from what I've been told from other people, the L band is not necessarily, it's a little bit higher resolution out of those satellites, but at a certain point, your problem is not the 1970s APT data transmission protocol. The problem is the actual instrumentation on the satellite itself. Yeah. You're going to run into a limitation somewhere eventually. But once you get into L band, you just, you have a lot more satellites up there you can

[00:14:22] play with and get imagery out of. So I don't know. I mean, Well, it seems like to me, like at the very least for the near term, this will be usable for you. In, in the near term, I mean, you'd say like the immediate, the right here, right now, that is perfectly usable. And I'm very happy to continue fooling with it. While I look at the feasibility of going, of, of doing what I need to do to be able to play around

[00:14:51] with L band signals. I don't know if I would make the next jump, which is S band, because once you get into S band, you're talking about a whole nother set of, a whole nother set of dishes, a whole nother set of L and A's. And then you're also talking about the fact that I'd have to dump my, uh, SDR dongle because it won't tune in S band. It doesn't go high enough. So it's just one of those things where it's like, you know, every hurdle is another hurdle. I was pretty impressed. I was

[00:15:18] able to get this one this good on the first try, but this is when you start talking about like playing around with satellites and SDR, this is kind of entry level. This is where you start because the barrier is so low. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, it allows you to learn the software it allows you to get your feet in the door with just a very minimal investment. I think you're talking less than a hundred bucks, right? Um, cause like 35 for the dongle, a few bucks for

[00:15:48] the antenna. So I bought the package, which was like 45 bucks for the antennas and the dongle. So even more affordable. And the only other thing I needed was a lap, was a laptop that honestly, you could have gotten out of a trash bin. I would imagine a raspberry pie. One of the, one of those mini computers would probably work as well. They work okay for, just like recording the data. Okay. But most of the people I've seen that have gone that route, they still offload the data, the, the wave file. Cause you're recording it. You're recording the

[00:16:16] audio, but they offload that wave file somewhere else. And that's what takes the processing. The decoding does kind of eat some processing power. But in my case, like, I don't know if you've ever seen the laptop I use for a lot of this stuff. It's, it's old dude. It's like a, it's like a mid two thousands HP. Like I bought it, dude, I bought the thing you, I mean, it was good when you bought it. No, I mean, I bought it used reconditioned. It was like one of

[00:16:43] those things where like a place goes out of business and they sell off all their technology for pennies on the dollar. And then those are a good buy. Sometimes I think I've got like 150 bucks in a laptop. It's got eight, eight gigs of Ram 500, 500 gigs of, um, hard drive space. It's old and it's not the fastest thing on earth, but it'll run these streams. It'll let me do, you know, audio editing. It lets me play around the SDR. It does lots of stuff. It's not,

[00:17:11] it's not a multimedia gaming machine. And I don't care not for that amount of money. Well, it's not its purpose. Honestly, when I had the funny part of this is that the cost of that laptop doubled when the battery and the power supply died and I had to replace those. I bet those batteries are not cheap. Yeah. I mean, I got a couple of years out of the first one, but it very obviously went bad. I had to go, I had to go searching the internet like, okay, where do I find a battery for a 15 year old laptop?

[00:17:41] Yeah, that can be the hard part. A lot of times you can get lucky and just run them off, off AC power, you know, just plugged into the wall, but that's not its purpose. And it's not efficient. And some of them won't even do that without a battery in them anymore. This one will, but it was very unhappy about it. And a laptop that is tied to a wall is just a tiny,

[00:18:04] unseemly little desktop, which it is just a really bad desktop. Yeah. So anyway, all that said and done, my first foray into SDR was more successful than I thought it was going to be. I was expecting a lot more snow and a lot more just crap than what I got out of it the first time. I'm pretty impressed. I would imagine cloud cover is going to have some impact on that. Cause like if you're sitting under

[00:18:30] a hurricane, even if you were to go outside, you're probably going to have some crap signal because hell my parents had satellite TV and satellite internet for a minute when I was growing up. And there were times where dense enough clouds, you couldn't do anything. And that is kind of the interesting part of this is that I got the hail Mary pass last night. The satellite went literally directly over my house, not, not glance and angle, just right

[00:18:56] over the top of the house. So I had the perfect condition there. It was a near cloudless night. It was perfect. Like you couldn't ask for any better to run that experiment than that. Fantastic. Now, speaking of asking for things, house reconciliation bill fails. Ah, the disappointment. I am here for it. I, I, like you and I were talking about before we started

[00:19:21] talking, like I am under no illusions that the absolute indignation from the second amendment community is what pushed the house reconciliation to build a fail. But I don't know, man. Like I want to be optimistic, but I'm just not an optimist by my nature, but I'm not going to lie. I, I would love to see any Congress person who voted yes for this fricking thing without the hearing protection act or

[00:19:49] the short act like flogged in public. You know, I, I think the real reason why this didn't pass is because a shutdown looks bad for the party that's in control to a certain percentage of the public. And I think there are quite a few people. I don't think this is a radical statement in Congress who are not a fan of Trump. No, that might be a critical understatement to be perfectly honest.

[00:20:17] Right. You know, and I'm sure that the idea is, Oh, we're going to make them look bad every opportunity we can up until the midterms, you know, so we can take back as many seats as possible. I get it. It's politics. That's what they're going to do. But Jesus fuck. I mean, come on. Why are suppressors such a problem? All they do is prevent hearing damage. They're still loud as

[00:20:40] a firecracker. I mean, my God, I, I personally have just never gotten over this idea that like my ideas on the second amendment shouldn't are possibly still controversial, but are not unknown. But I tend to think that the words shall not be infringed are the most amazingly clear, instructive, self-descriptive language in the entire constitution of the United States of America.

[00:21:07] And the fact that we continue to have to have this argument about that's not a firearm so we can regulate it and we're not regulating it. We're just taxing it and we're not taking it away from you. We're saying you can't have this one that will always aggravate the shit out of me. Like, why do we have to have this debate over and over and over since I was a freaking child? Like, sometimes I get really frustrated. I think to myself, I'm like, Jesus Christ,

[00:21:34] can, can enough of like the boomers and the Gen Xers just shuffle off this mortal coil so that the millennials who see in the Gen Z's who seem to understand the situation a little bit better can finally be in power and force this issue through and say, stop fooling with our guns, leave it alone. You're not allowed to. I don't think that we will ever get the kind of firearms

[00:21:56] regulation that you and I want, which is none. Well, to be fair, simply because I will never be able to cash. I will never be able to buy an RPG out of vending machines. I've already given that up. I might ask him for a lot though. Oh, I'm asking for RPGs out of vending machines. I want to see the crazy multimillionaire makes a super yacht with bigger guns than the Yamato.

[00:22:21] Why? Fucking cool. That's why. I would really, and why should they not? I would really, really get a chuckle out of turning my Toyota into a technical. Right? I mean, it's a Toyota. It's, it's kind of required at this point if you live anywhere remotely Sandy. And the best part of it is, is that I live in an open carry state. You do drive around with the 50 cal in the back of my Tacoma.

[00:22:52] That would be now pretty cool. Granted, you're going to have to watch out for like low hanging power lines and stuff, but you know, that's the same as a ladder rack. So you might as well be, you'd probably be all right. It'd be fine. It'd be fine. But no, I just, I don't think we're going to see a whole lot of movement from anything positive or negative in Congress right now. Cause it's just going to be obstructionism after obstructionism up until the midterms. Nothing's really going to be accomplished, but it seems to be the way the

[00:23:18] system is, is designed to function at this point. You mean this is the way the system is designed to dysfunction. Correct. I mean, if it's, if it's the intention of how it's working, then that's the design. I mean, how many times have you heard me say sometimes that thing that looks like a flaw is actually a feature Congress getting nothing done and continuing to be reelected is not a flaw. It's a feature to them at least. Yeah. They've been doing it on purpose for an awful long time.

[00:23:47] Yeah. So the purpose, speaking of why this is not a live stream, speaking of why this is not a live stream episode. You sound really good about slipping at the very beginning, but you know, I failed the topic of the show is on the road again, because the reason we're not talking to you live and in living color on our usual Thursday evening is because come Thursday, I won't be here. I will be

[00:24:13] at our alternate worksite in North Louisiana. Um, and I initially was willing to try, I'm actually still going to bring my personal laptop and that stuff just to play around with SDR crap. And like, you know, if, if, if I just feel the urge to do some, um, you know, social media stuff, or if I want to throw some old patron episodes onto, uh, you know, onto the patron feed, I, if I decide I want to do

[00:24:41] anything, it'd be nice to have that stuff with me to do the work. I would, but mostly I started to get a little concerned about whether or not I was going to be able to like schedule and live and die by a 730 show time on Thursday night, because there is some small chance that we might be coming home Sunday, Thursday. I don't know, totally up in the air. There's, um, an equal chance we might stay

[00:25:10] through Thursday and come home Friday morning. There's every chance that I might wind up with like unscheduled testing tasks at last later into the evening, Thursday, then we plan to, that'd be unlikely. Um, there's probably the best opportunity is, or probably the best chance of a snafu is honestly that I'm in a weird place at work where I do my absolute best to like fly under the radar

[00:25:36] and stay at my desk and stay in my lane. And I really don't want the executives to know who the hell I am. But over the years I have opened my big freaking mouth way too many times. And I've proven that I'm really, really good at figuring things out too many times. So now the head of my agency knows me by first name basis. And so does the deputy. And so do most of the other executives.

[00:26:05] And so do the senior leaders for all the, for most of the divisions. Congratulations on your failure. Yes. My, my, my attempt to hide was an unmitigated failure. And it probably doesn't help that like, you know, in my office, It'll wear the cat ears. Well, that might, that don't think it would have helped much, but the other problem is like, they definitely wouldn't have called on you to speak in public. No, but their problem is I'm memorable. You know, like when you work in a white collar office and you

[00:26:32] have a beard halfway down your daggum chest and you're almost six feet tall and you're kind of loud. Like I stand out like a sore thumb in that office and I'm very easy to remember. So I've become memorable. So I'm probably going to wind up having to do some hobnobbing and go to dinner with all these people. The last night we're there because to say, no, fuck off. I have to go do a podcast would be construed as rude. And I, I don't know.

[00:26:59] I, it's one of those situations where like my innate desire to be a hermit is being trumped by social expectations of which my wife told me, no, you feel you really need to go and make an appearance if you get invited. And I was like, thanks. You do, you do, you know, especially if you would really like to see them push forward, those stop the bleed courses or improving the first aid capacities or the disaster response in your office.

[00:27:24] Being on a first name basis with the, with the head honchos are usually a good way to get started on that. Yeah. Well, for me, it just more comes down to like, you know, I've spent 12 years at this place just absolutely grinding my dag of molars about lack of technology, lack of progress, 1990s business processes and all the other crap that I've vent about frequently. And every once in a blue moon,

[00:27:52] something shakes up and I get an opportunity to push things in a positive direction. And that has always come about because I'm known because people know my skillset. They know what they know what I'm about. I'm not, I am an open fricking book at that place, but they also know that like, Oh, we want, we want to do something that's automated or we want to do something that like uses like, you know, off the shelf, off the shelf applications, technology that are outside of our organization right now.

[00:28:20] Whenever people happen upon certain topics, they usually come find me because they know I know. Yeah. And if I, and unfortunately that puts you in a position of societal expectations, unfortunately, but you know, the end result of all that is that I get to take care of my family. So I guess I'll continue to tolerate it, but as it applies to this little exercise, um, I have to drive 340 miles away from home and stay there for a week,

[00:28:50] which is not like, you know, the end of the freaking world. I mean, most families deal with something similar to this from time to time. It's, it's a thing, but it's one of those moments where I get in my head. Cause I started thinking about, I'm like, okay, I am not driving 340 miles away from home, barehanded. And you know, without some, some party favors, some extracurricular type activities on hand, just in case things go to 11. But on the flip side of that,

[00:29:20] I also have to have a conversation with myself about how much stuff am I willing to bring with me into a hotel room where the only thing between me and the maid cleaning me out from a $4,000 set of night vision goggles is the do not disturb tag on the front door. And that's a fair, that's, and that's a really fair, honest assessment of the situation is like, I can lock the stuff up in my vehicle, which does not give me a warm fuzzy while I'm at work. Or I can lock it up my vehicle while I'm out to dinner one evening with a

[00:29:49] bunch of people and it's sitting in a parking lot. And that doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling either. Or I lock it up in a hotel, not response. Or I lock it up in a hotel room and I'm kind of in the same boat all the way around. And so, I mean, it's not like it's that hard to spoof those hotel room locks anyway. So it's especially the key card lock. So it's one of those situations where it's like, the answer is not bring nothing. That's dumb.

[00:30:14] The answer is not bring so much stuff of such and such a value that I'd be really annoyed if it disappeared. And the answer is not, the answer has to be to what, what to bring with me for my own purposes, for my own peace of mind, in case things get weird. The answer has to be like, what am I willing, what am I willing to lose? And what precautions are reasonable to take to prevent it from getting lost? Well,

[00:30:44] heck look at Trek situation. What are you willing to lose in a hotel fire? Yep. I mean, that's, these things happen sometimes happened to Trek. You know, I, me and my in-laws were down in Tennessee. There was a very real possible chance of our, of our Airbnb or whatever the hell it is. We were staying at the, the cabin of burning down in a wildfire. I brought stuff. I could stand losing. Yeah. So,

[00:31:13] but before we get into all that, the, um, Oh, you know, let's just reorder these things. No, I don't want to reorder them. I had them in the order. I had them for a reason. So the first, the first thing I have to go over and I used to go through this exact same situation whenever I'd go to prepper camp in years past by myself, it's getting the home front ready. So like my, my thing is, is like the first thing I'm going to do. And I started doing it this morning.

[00:31:43] I'll be doing it most of today and tomorrow. Today's Friday for the audience, Friday the 16th. It's the day after we just streamed to y'all and Facebook and YouTube nuked us and we're here again. But anyway, it's fine. So like, I'm going to be spending a bit of time the next couple of days catching up on all the household chores, trying to, trying to get like everything in the house, clean everything, all the dishes done, all the laundry done. I'm going to roast two batches of coffee. So Gillian's got plenty of coffee on hand. I,

[00:32:12] my goal for the next two days, mostly while she's away. Cause like, she's dealing with some stuff with her family and she's at work right now, which is why we're doing this. But anytime I'm not spending time with her, I intend to be kicking my ass to try to get things done here. So I'm leaving the least amount of work for her to do so that the only thing she has to worry about is feed herself, feed my child. Don't burn the house down. A good bonus. And she,

[00:32:42] understand like Gillian is a very capable woman. She's, I have full, I have full faith in her ability to manage a household by herself. I have full faith in her ability. But she's losing half of the adult labor in the house. And the bigger, so the bigger problem is at least in this household is like, because of weaponized ADHD and a variety of other things. Like I, I do a ton in this house and away from this house. I'm always busy. I don't like sitting around. I am constantly working on stuff.

[00:33:12] So it's not just, she's losing half the labor, but she's losing the half of the labor that traditionally is like, Hey babe, you've had a hard day at work. You sit down. I'll take care of this. That's gone. That's going to be gone for a week. So she's going to feel that impact immediately. And my goal is to give her at least, you know, so many days of we got clothes, we got food, we got coffee. We're fine. We don't, I'm trying to remove things from,

[00:33:40] I'm trying to not let things become an immediate problem for her. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. I mean, no, none of us want to be a burden on our spouse, especially when we're away from home. Yeah. Cause you know, you don't like being away from home. Anyway, without your family. So why, why would you want that guilt on top of it? If you got the time, you might as well get it done ahead of time. Yeah. Just makes everybody's life easier. The other thing, especially like, I doubt your wife is as into roasting coffee as you are.

[00:34:09] She does not roast the coffee in this house. Right. So, so that's a task that she, not that she couldn't do it, but she doesn't. Well, and she, you know how I feel about like specializing within a household. Like, I don't need to know everything you know how to do. You know how to do it. Yeah. I know how to do it enough to get by. And that's as good as it needs to be. So my time is better spent doing things. I'm really good at then trying to get really good at things. You're really good at. And that's what we mean. Give me a look at things.

[00:34:38] Does she understand the mechanics of how to roast coffee? Sure. She sat out there with me to do it, but she hasn't invested the hours and it's a scam. And burnt three, four pounds of beans trying to figure out the timing and everything. She hasn't invested the time in to figure out how to roast coffee to the degree I have. And why would she? She's got me. So my goal is I roast 285 grams, which is the only time I'm ever going to measure anything in the metric system. My bad. But just convert it to grains.

[00:35:08] No. But anyway, 285 grams in a batch that that's for all of us drinking coffee together. And with me being gone, I won't be half the coffee consumption will disappear with me gone. So I'm going to roast two batches at 285 grains each. And there will still be coffee waiting on me when I get home. So that will handle that. Then you can enjoy a cup of coffee come Saturday morning without a hassle. Yeah. I,

[00:35:37] I stopped by the credit union today and snatched 500 bucks of emergency cash out of my savings account. That is in addition to the emergency cash that stays here at the house. And that was kind of part of what my thought, that was something I explained to my daughter. Cause even she asked me, like, why are you getting cash? And I said, well, I, I have cash at the house and I always keep cash at the house. And I told her, I'm like, when we would go on trips, I take, I take that roll of the bills, stick it in my luggage.

[00:36:07] And when we get home, if we didn't spend any, I put it away. And then if we did spend some, I go take it out of savings for plunge ship, put it back. You know, that's, that is emergency cash. That is the debit cards don't work. We need gas. We need groceries cash, but on the road, it is get home cash. It is the debit cards don't work. I need gas. I need to be able to get home. I cannot in good faith drive 340 miles without emergency cash, nor can I in good faith, not leave it here for my wife and daughter.

[00:36:37] So I went and got more. And I think that's perfectly fair. I think that's a wise decision. I mean, if your entire family's coming with you, the emergency cash at home is pointless. So it might as well be with you. Yeah. But I, I do think it's a good idea to keep some in both places. Yeah. And I'm, I'm going to leave the overall majority of the firearms here. Like all the emergency food, emergency water staying here. Gillian knows where all that stuff is.

[00:37:04] I really don't foresee her running into much trouble. I'm really trying to plan for like the things I'm not expecting to happen. And I've put my brother, my brother-in-law and my sister and both my parents on high alert to basically tell them like, look, from this day to this day, I'm not going to be here, which means if that little lady or that little lady calls you, it's time to be, it's time for, it's family time. I expect you to drop to do a run to the rescue. Like I would, if I were in y'all's position. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

[00:37:34] So I feel like I've, I am in the process of doing everything I reasonably can do to make sure that my family, it's not even like make sure they survive. Cause they're good. They're going to be fine. Oh yeah. It's more of a, make sure they're comfortable. Yeah. I want them to be comfortable. I don't want them to have to worry. I don't want them to be in a situation where it's like, Oh crap, what do we do? Phil's not here. It's like, no, I'm trying to, I'm trying to get as much that dealt with today and tomorrow. So that Monday morning, when I point my little nose North,

[00:38:02] everything else is pretty well handled. And part of that is also going to be the fact that fortunately I've been to this place several times. This is where we deployed back in 2016 when that tornado, that F3 tornado wiped out my workplace. Oh yeah. I remember that. And it's also like in the same general area as like some in-laws I have that live up that way. My wife's twin sister and her family. I know the area. I can literally drive straight there without a map. So if I didn't,

[00:38:32] I'd have a map. I'd have some printed out directions. I wouldn't be depending on my cell phone. I know the route. I know where I'm going to go. I know that what detour I'm going to take to get around Jackson, Mississippi, because God forbid, I don't want to drive through that fricking hell hole. I know where I'm going to stop. I know where I, I know this route. I've done this before. I have no concerns about that. I do need to make a judgment call on, party favors to bring.

[00:39:00] And I'm kind of halfway back and forth between taking the scorpion or possibly taking like my night vision, a arch break that in half. So it'll fit down into, you know, my little gym bag that I use for kind of, I don't want to call it quiet. Yeah. Quiet carry. Like I don't, if I've got a couple of like very traditional, like gun bags and those only go to the range. Me too. Yeah, exactly. If I'm those, those go to and from the range. Yeah. And I've got,

[00:39:28] I literally have a very non-script gym bag. And I tell you what, I can, I can lock and I can drop my chest rig and my AR like broken in half down in there. And you've never know. I can drop my scorpion and the Merce over there with all the extra mags and the IFAC and everything, drop that in there and still have room for other stuff. I will probably wind up hacking one or one of one or the other. And I'm back and forth on which to bring. And I'll probably fill the rest of the space, honestly, with like pouches of mountain house.

[00:39:56] I talked to you yesterday about bringing a five gallon water can and a bike chaining it into the bed of the truck, just to make sure it doesn't pick, you know, grow legs and walk off so that I've got five gallons of water. I've got some emergency food. Uh, but even as I say that, I question if that's even necessary because like if I bring mountain house, I have to bring away to boil the water. No, you don't. You can cold soak mountain house. You just gotta soak it for a few hours.

[00:40:27] Yeah, but it works. Well, but the other, the reason I'm talking myself out of that is cause I already keep a fair amount of water in the truck. Um, you're probably from, uh, the, the Tacoma is not unique in this. A lot of trucks have like that storage area underneath the back seat. Yeah. Mine's full of tow cables and stuff. Yeah. No, no, no. All that crap is in my toolbox in the bed. Everything that's underneath those seats is like, you know, the Jack and the, and those tools and everything. And it's emergency roadside stuff. It's the jump box. It's,

[00:40:55] but every single square inch is packed around all that stuff with extra water bottles, just little, little, you know, 12, what are they? 12 ounce water bottles. Something like that. And then I've got a 20 ounce Camelback brand, the BPA free water bottles. I've got those in all four of the doors. Cause I got tired of always, I used to keep like just regular old disposal water bottles on the doors in case one of my pastors or my wife or daughter would get thirsty. There'd just be some water right there.

[00:41:25] And I stopped using disposable water bottles. Cause I hate using disposable water bottles. So I got refillable ones. And whenever somebody takes a sip, I just say, okay, that one's got to go in the house. It's got to get cleaned and sanitized and refilled. And even if I'm dumping out a bunch of water, I don't care because my thought process is okay. It's cheap. Well, my wife drank out of it today. If I happen to have my mom or somebody else in the car tomorrow and she drinks out of it, I don't want people cross contaminating stuff. So I'm just going to, you don't want to spread it. You know, if somebody's sick or whatever.

[00:41:55] Well that, and that way I can comfortably tell us my, when they say, Oh, whose water bottle is this? It's yours. Cause you're the only person that's drank out of it since it came out of the dishwasher. So it's just, it's more for the comfort of the next passenger to know you can get into that if you need to, but I've got a fair amount of water and I keep a couple of mainstay rations in the truck all the time anyway. So I've got enough water and food to make it a couple of days. Just stays on board the truck at all times.

[00:42:25] You know, as much as I don't hate the idea of mainstay rations, them compared to a nice warm pouch, pouch of mountain house, or even a nice cold pouch, mountain house. If you feel a lot better mentally with the mountain house than you do with the mainstay rations. True. But I'm also looking at this from the perspective of the literal only reason I would open those up is if there is no other food available. Oh,

[00:42:54] and if I'm in a situation where everywhere in the town I'm in, there is no food available. Phil is done with this work trip and I am driving home because there's no freaking food. That's true. So that's really what I'm looking at. I have been known to crack into a pouch of mountain house just because I don't feel like eating what restaurant is open. That's the good thing about having mainstay rations though, is that you will find, you don't, you will find the motivation to go find something to eat. But yeah, I mean, so yeah, I mean,

[00:43:22] I guess I don't really need to bring food and, you know, food and water. I've already got, I've already got probably not more than what you already have. Yeah. Cause I mean, I have, I have enough to make it a couple of days and like, you know, I were talking about earlier, like I'm going to gas up every time I hit a half tank. As soon as I pull into town, I'm going to top off a full tank of fuel in the, in that truck out there. If I'm gentle with the gas bell will get me about 400 miles. It's 340 miles. So like, even if I can't get you within striking distance, a home, worst case, even if I can't get all the way home,

[00:43:52] I can get close enough to either walk the rest of it out or have my parents or have my brother-in-law or my wife. Somebody come pick me up, say, Hey, I'm conked down the side of the road. Right. Exactly. You know, and I think that you do have to post or put some, I'm going to call it sane limits on yourself. Yeah. Because you can get kind of carried away. I mean, you've got a pretty good medical kit in your truck from everything we've talked about. You've got your, your prior,

[00:44:18] a little bit of an EDC medical kit that you're going to be tossing in your, in your suit. To be fair, I've got two medical kits in the truck. I've got, I've got, I've got the blowout kit that's up on the roof and that's like the, Oh shit, I'm going to die kit. And then I've got the boo-boo kit in the bag, behind the back seat. That's like band-aids and Tylenol and Benadryl and ibuprofen and Cobang. And just it's boo-boo. Stuff. And then I've got a smaller boo-boo kit in my carry on that stays in my overnight bag. So like part of,

[00:44:48] part of what I'm butting up against Nick is that my normal every day, I am just driving to work. I have the boo-boo kit and I have the, I have the blowout kit. When I go on a trip where I expect to be gone overnight, I bring my overnight bag. That's toiletries, hygiene. It's a bar soap. Cause I refuse to go anywhere without my own bar soap. I've been in places way too many times where they give you this tiny little wafer of shit. And I'm not, I am trying to wash my body.

[00:45:16] And that soap is generally crap anyway. Yeah. I mean, the soap I bring on trips is dial. So it's not exactly like, you know, it's not nice, but it'll get the job done. And the reason I bring dial, it's reliable. And if you throw it away, who cares? So, I mean, my norm, my normal level of, Oh, I'm going to go out of town. I bring these things is already. I'm going to have emergency food. I'm gonna have emergency water. I'm gonna have medical stuff. I'm going to, I'm going to have, I'm going to have your daily care.

[00:45:46] I'm going to have a tire inflator. Cause it lives in the truck. I'm going to have a patch kit. Cause it lives in the truck and never comes out. I'm going to have a jump box. It lives in the truck. You see a theme developing here. And I have to remind myself of that. Like the question of what to bring is, what do you feel like you need? That isn't already on board or isn't already going to be packed? Because that's just what you do every single time.

[00:46:12] And the only answer there is that the things I don't usually bring in the truck is it involved leaving in a parking lot outside my workplace is I don't usually bring my firearm. That will, that will have to happen. Um, at this point is more a question of like, do I just pack a handgun and like a couple of spare mags? Do I bring the scorpion? Do I go grab the AR? Cause at that point it's all going in the gym bag. Anyways, it doesn't matter if it's the AR or the scorpion. It's just a question of,

[00:46:41] do I want commonality of ammo? Everything's going to run off nine mil or do I really want to, bring five, five, six either way. Do I really expect to have to need it? No, I suspect it's going to sit. It's, it's just going to sit. If I suspected I was going to need that much hardware, I wouldn't be going. I wouldn't be going. That's if I had a choice, you know, people kind of giggle when I put it that way, but like, that's kind of always been my point of view is like, if, if the answer to the question is,

[00:47:08] I feel like I need some serious crap to go someplace. I don't need to go there that bad. I just, or if you really need to go that way, they're that bad. You're going with friends who are also in kit. Yeah. And I'm also going in with like, no, no worries in my heart or mind of, Oh, I don't know if I want to be seen with this. Like, no, I, if, if, if we're being seen, yes, if it was a situation where like, I had to go for again, like get my wife or get my daughter. And I was going into a bad situation to get them.

[00:47:38] I am. Yeah. We were all, yeah, I am coming in. Like I am about to invade Panama. Like there is a 0% chance. I'm worried about what this is going to look like, or, Oh, what if the hotel mate steals my gun? Cause it will, I'll be sleeping with the stupid thing at that point. Yeah. So this is more of a, I think, honestly, I think what I usually bring is probably going to be okay. I'll pack the scorpion. I'll pack, I'll pack the merge.

[00:48:07] That gives me a 20 round mag and three 30 round mags and two mags for my, uh, carry gun because that Merce also has two, um, two CZ seven, five compact, the 15 round mags loaded with hollow points just stays in there all the time. It's got an, I've got another eye pack in that bag. Um, all my emergency roadside stuff is already there. I think I really just need to bring like my work backpack, my personal laptop.

[00:48:36] If I just feel like having something to foots with, I think that's a good idea. Yeah. I go back and forth on that too. Cause it's just one more bag of crap to haul around. But my problem is like, I am such a hermit on work trips. Like I literally, I go, I go work and then I go back to the hotel room and then I, I never underestimate that. Just the entertainment value of it. Yeah. And that's probably the reason you're going to have a few hours at night where you're by yourself. Uh, I mean, depending, and that's kind of what I'm wrestling with is like,

[00:49:06] I, I could wind up having to go out to dinner, having to go do, you know, I don't know where part of my hesitation is Nick, is that what we're, what we're doing up there is the continuation of operations drill. So this is like a simulated, you can't go into the office cause all hell is broken loose in this case. Creatively enough. Thank you to our, um, coop director who he and I have kind of become friendly because he realizes the stuff I'm into.

[00:49:33] And he's also kind of a low key prepper and prior army. Good. Also has a beard. Yeah. There's a lot of commonalities there, but anyway, but, um, this scenario he cooked up was, um, like massive protest around government buildings, IDs found under vehicles in the parking lot next door to our workplace. So they are suspending operations and we're deploying to the alternate work site till things cool off down here.

[00:50:03] Like that is the scenario we're operating under. Interesting. So it's one of those situations where like, we're going up there to determine are all of our systems and applications going to work as advertised. And we're going to be able to run full operations from up there. Once the staff gets there. The problem with that is, is we haven't run this. We haven't run this exercise since before COVID it's been five years. There's a lot. Something's going to bring.

[00:50:32] There's a lot of stuff that has changed in the last five years. We have a lot of new applications online. We have a lot, a lot of things. I mean, our entire data system, our entire data center has moved since then. There's just, there's so much that has changed and there's so many things that could go wrong. There's every possibility I could go up there and be bored. Nothing works. Well, but there's every possibility I could go up there and be bored. Everything works fine. I get all my testing activities done in like two or three hours.

[00:51:01] I spend the next two days with my thumb in my fricking behind bored because everything worked. And there's every likelihood that nothing will work. Everything will blow up. Everything will catch fire. And we will be troubleshooting crap with guys from DC and Kansas city, literally all fricking day for the next three days. I don't know. I would bring it with you just because I know myself,

[00:51:28] I do not handle being bored for three straight days. Well, would not be good for me. I will get into some shenanigans. It's not, no offense. You would have sucked in the military. I would have caused it. Look, my grandpa is exactly like me. And at one point he stole machine guns during, during an exercise. Cause he got bored. You okay. Cause apparently. So apparently when you're, when you're on a,

[00:51:56] a field op doing op four, apparently you can get away with just stealing the enemy's equipment. Well, first, first of all, it's not referred to as stealing. It's referred to as tactical acquisitions. Sure. He tactically acquired a truckload of machine. Yes. Because as op four, that is your job is to be a miscreant. Yep. Which it sounds like he was. Oh yeah, he definitely was. He was, he was, you, you would like him. You and him would get along pretty well. He used to,

[00:52:26] he drove trucks in the military and in the army. And he was over in Germany during the cold war. He said, apparently those deuce and a halves can get up to about 85, 86 mile an hour. If you take the governor's off and you do eat the engine a little bit. Yeah. If you take the governor off and then you pinch the wastegate tube shut on the turbo. I not, they get going. Not, not that I would know from personal experience. Comma. However, comma, let's say that with a,

[00:52:56] with a, with an experienced light wheel mechanic who is willing to bend some rules. They can do things that, um, they could do some things that am general had no fricking idea they would do. Uh, I am told on a mountain pass at true top speed, they are shockingly uncomfortable to drive. Oh dude, doing, doing, doing 70 miles an hour in a deuce and a half feels like being strapped to the front of the DeLorean in, you know, back to the future.

[00:53:23] Like you don't know if you're about to die. You don't know if you're about to go into orbit. You don't know what's about to happen. I mean, at a certain point, let's see here. I think the highest I ever read one of those engines was like 3,400 RPM. And at that, at that engine speed, it sounds like the vowels are about to tap dance on the hood. Like it's probably cause they are. Yeah. You know, you just keep, keep, keep pushing and keep pushing. But anyway, this is why I told you on the last episode,

[00:53:52] like if I ever had a legit piece of farm property, I'd get a deuce and a half just for the nostalgia because. Just a plan. Good God almighty. That was a fun vehicle to rag out. You couldn't, I mean, you had to, you had to really seriously miss, miss use and mistreat it to break it. You do. Yeah. But I mean, you could slap the thing upside the head, like a biker chick and it would just take it and grin and say, you hit like a punk. There's a machine shop near me that has a,

[00:54:20] it has one of the multi-fuel deuce and a halves that they've rigged up for their company truck. It's just stupid. It's atrocious. It's, it is atrocious. And they painted it up in the silliest possible way. If I remember, I'll grab a picture next time. Everybody is. It, it, it's a spectacle. I'll give them that. So I guess to kind of round this out, like, you know, I,

[00:54:49] I feel like the things I just normally bring on trips are going to serve me very well. I, I am doing everything humanly possible to like leave my wife and daughter in the best possible position while I'm gone. I don't want them to have to struggle and I don't want them to have to worry about this didn't get done or that didn't get done. Like at this point, my, my, if I have any concerns, it's for the, it's for those like black Swan events. I can't predict, you know what I'm saying? Like there is this thing with her mother that is still kind of hanging over

[00:55:18] the family. That's still in motion. That's still just things are still happening with that. And I'd feel always as a fan and I would feel much better if I didn't have to like punch out of the cockpit and leave her here while she deals with that by herself. Cause I know if things go to 11, those are the type situations I'd be there to comfort her. All right. Be there at a back fillers, be like, Hey, I got Piper. You get out of here. I'll see you tomorrow. Like I'm not going to have, I'm not going to be here to do those things. And well,

[00:55:48] fortunately she's got your family. That's in the area to fall back. True. True. But it's not, it's, but it's not me. It's not the same. I, Oh, I fully understand that, but you know, it's the realities of life. Sometimes you just have to, you have to risk that. Yeah. And other than that, like the only thing that really, the other thing that is a, it's always a serious concern of mine, but it's just, it, like I said, it's the black Swan event, dude. What if some, what, what if there's a car accident?

[00:56:16] What if somebody falls and breaks an arm? What if, what if something happens? And even if it's nothing I could have prevented, I could have at least been here and not five hours away. When it happened, I could have been here to help deal with the fallout of it. I mean, those are, those are the things that are going to worry me literally until the minute I get back home. Oh, absolutely. So, I mean, even when I'm with my wife on vacation, I have worries like that. Like, you know, my house got a lot of trees around it.

[00:56:46] Sometimes we get storms when I'm gone. Am I going to have a roof when I get back? Is my house going to be flooded? You know, you're, I think you're always going to have those concerns, but you're doing everything you can to set yourself and her up for success. Black Swan events by their definition cannot be predicted or mitigated. I know. Even as I, even as I say it, I like, I know that's the definition of a black Swan event is you can't predict it, but those are, I guess what I'm saying is like,

[00:57:16] you know, as I, as I go through the motions this weekend of getting ready to be gone for a week, just like we're doing right here. Like we, I, I thought originally I was going to say like, yeah, let's do the stream. I'll be sitting in the hotel. I'll be bored anyway. You know, it won't be a big deal. And then I was like, no, let's, let's go ahead and get one more thing off my plate now. So that, yeah, it doesn't less worry. Yeah. And that's, that's a lot of what I'm going to be doing for the next 48 to 72 hours is just every little thing I can get off my plate.

[00:57:46] Let's, let's get it off the plate. Let's not leave it for later. Let's not let it be, uh, Oh shit. I should have done this, you know, a couple of days ago. Let's just burn myself down, put in some extra work. I got to schedule a wash on my car and vacuum it at some point this weekend. I've got, I got a list of, I have a laundry list of things to do, starting with the laundry that is turning on the other side of this wall. There you go. But you know, I just, I feel like I,

[00:58:14] I feel like my goal right now is to prepare the family from, for us to be divided. Which is not something we normally do because, you know, we're very tight knit family. We're, we're usually together. We, the furthest away, Mount Gillian, the furthest apart we use yours when Gillian and I are like out running errands and Piper's here at the house. And we're, we're 10 minutes away most of the time. So. Yeah. It's understandable to have some reticence about that because you're used to being there all the time, but you know what? Odds are.

[00:58:45] It's probably going to be just fine. Probably will be. And you've got yourself, you've got her set up for success as well as you can. You got the insurance. You got the, you got the insurance and the food, the spare, the spare emergency cash. You got family and friends around. Not much more you can do other than drag her with you, make her take time off work. Yeah. Well, that was the air conversation that was had was that if this was happening next week, when she's off or when she's off school for the summer, yeah, just come with. Yeah. Then her, my daughter would have just packed up and come with me. I mean,

[00:59:15] they can hang out in the hotel, go bump around Shreveport, do whatever, but. Oh yeah. They'll find something to do. Yeah. But as it stands, this is kind of looking like this is the way it's going to be. Yeah. Well, you know, enjoy it, I guess. Hmm. Break the network. Thanks, Nick. I mean, that, that is our goal is to break. If something's going to break, let it break right now, but yeah, best to break it in testing for sure.

[00:59:45] Yeah. I don't know. I'm, I'm just waiting to see what, wait and see what a bucket of fun this is going to be. Well, worst case you could always quit. I like money. Don't we all. And if you know where that quote is from, we can be friends. And if you don't, then your childhood was awful. Yes, it was. All right. I have no earthly idea what we're going to talk about. I was about to say next week, but it's not next week.

[01:00:14] It's like in two weeks. Next, next, next, next week. We'll, we'll figure out something. We have lots of, who knows, maybe the government will do some silliness and we'll have a new topic. Why do you say that? Like it's a maybe like that's all the government does is silliness. It's more of if they do silliness, that's worth us talking about instead of just general silliness. I see. So there's like a certain threshold for silliness that, that arouses our, our attention. Right?

[01:00:42] Like the government forcing the pipeline workers to sweep the road every three hours that they cross with their machinery, where they're putting in that gas pipeline from us, shutting down traffic for a half hour. That's just your normal generic silliness. You know, Nick, I, I try really hard to like stick to being a happy little libertarian. And every now and then you say something that just makes me think, nah, screw it. Anarchy is the way burn it all to the ground. I tell you, man,

[01:01:12] sometimes I wonder, sometimes I wonder, but you know what? I, I like being able to call the cops sometimes. Granted, the only times I've ever had to call them, they showed up 45 minutes late. Still was nice. They showed up. Didn't do any good. That might be the topic for next week. Sure. Governmentals. What to do in the cops are 45 minutes. I was thinking governmental silliness, but you know, we can do that.

[01:01:42] I don't know. Oh, you know what's interesting. I meant to mention today and I almost lost it. Apparently they're finding some additional pieces of electronics and solar panels coming from China that can function as a kill switch. Oh boy. Which makes me wonder about that power outage on the, the Iberian Peninsula that seems to have come from their solar fields. First of all, this is, this is Phil's shocked face. Yes. And second of all,

[01:02:11] Jackries are built in California winning. Absolutely. Oh God almighty. How bad is that? That I'd rather buy something from the fruit loops in California than I would from, from the fruit loops in China. They got some smart tech folks in California, man. You got to give them that. So now you're just making me wonder if my, hollow sun on my shotgun is going to blink out of existence when the CCP gets ready to move against us. Probably not. Otherwise they'd already be doing it against the Ukrainians.

[01:02:41] Oh, be my guys. Excellent point. Hollow sun is now a combat proven optic. Jesus Christ. Well, it is. I mean, I'm going to start taking notes. Cause apparently I think we just figured out a whole bunch of stuff to talk about. Sounds like a plan. All right. Matter of fact, so going out the door, y'all are watching this today. Whenever today is that this gets scheduled for, but we're not here, but you're welcome to leave your comments.

[01:03:09] You're welcome to leave reviews on the podcast. You're welcome to harass us on social media. I love all that. I love hearing from y'all, but most of all, I look forward to the opportunity to make Nick shake his head in disgust at something. One of you has visited upon us. It happens every now then it's always a lot of fun. It's a hard bar to hit, man, but people will hit it. Don't make me call Eddie. Good night y'all. Be good. Night everybody.