Matter of Facts: Pocket Dump Time

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[00:00:17] I'm your host Phil Rabli and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic and here's your show.

[00:00:22] Welcome back to MatterFacts Podcast. Andrew and I thought we'd sit down and do a pocket dump talk about Everyday Carry

[00:00:28] and unfortunately this glass of

[00:00:30] gentlemen Jack and Coke is not part of my Everyday Carry. This has to be an occasional treat. Oh, I have water.

[00:00:38] I mean, I did tell you before the show started like oh dang I forgot my drink. I thought you were talking about water or coffee.

[00:00:46] Well, okay, coffee was a reasonable

[00:00:48] coffee was a reasonable assumption, but like

[00:00:51] drinking straight water just seems like a waste of perfectly good coffee grounds, you know, like

[00:00:56] I get all my water intake by converting it into coffee and

[00:01:02] no one can convince me otherwise. My wife yells at me all the time about how am I drinking enough water?

[00:01:07] But then I point out to her that water's in coffee, so

[00:01:10] that should work. Sure. Good afternoon A. Smith. Don't think I've seen you on the stream before.

[00:01:20] Hi Andrew, I think is that you? Do you know who that is?

[00:01:25] It might be.

[00:01:27] Should we use your your witness protection alias or?

[00:01:31] No, no I

[00:01:33] Why no sweet tea he says. Okay, I will recant my former statement

[00:01:37] it is perfectly acceptable to convert water into sweet tea or coffee but drinking just straight water

[00:01:43] just sounds like a sad existence to me.

[00:01:47] Personally, um, I mean

[00:01:49] It's good for you though.

[00:01:51] Depending on what country you're in and what city I guess as long as you're not in flint. Oh, yeah

[00:01:57] It's definitely safer to drink, you know battery acid than the water in flint

[00:02:04] Um

[00:02:05] Yeah, so yeah. No, I just I don't know. I was thinking we were sitting down to record and

[00:02:11] I was just thinking of a uh

[00:02:13] Oh, yep. That's yeah, that's my buddy

[00:02:17] My friend Andrew another Andrew

[00:02:20] Damn it. There's two of them

[00:02:22] There's two of them

[00:02:23] You should have seen it when we were because I went to college with him

[00:02:25] You should have seen it when uh, when we were in college and I finally convinced him to be my best friend

[00:02:30] and uh

[00:02:32] Did this involve like coercion or bribery?

[00:02:35] Well, he was a guy that he kind of stuck to himself and I bugged him like every day because he was awesome

[00:02:39] At what he did

[00:02:41] And then um, I finally just like we just started talking and hanging out and I think yeah

[00:02:45] I think he felt sorry for me. He was like I guess I you know

[00:02:47] Like a puppy dog you find on the side of the road

[00:02:50] So in other words you wore him down

[00:02:52] Yeah, basically that's what I do persistence is a good trait though

[00:02:55] I know right

[00:02:56] But uh, yeah

[00:02:57] No, we're just talking about uh everyday carry

[00:03:00] And if we we can get into it if we want to we can get into what we have in our vehicles as well

[00:03:04] kind of uh, I mean we don't have to get into exactly what we have in our vehicle because mine

[00:03:08] ever since I uh

[00:03:10] Expanded to my deck drawer system that grew huge like pretty by a large number

[00:03:16] Uh, but um, but yeah, so I don't know. I mean

[00:03:20] Do you want to jump right into it or yeah, do you have any housekeeping at all that we got to do?

[00:03:24] Well, I mean housekeeping wise i'll tell the listeners that um

[00:03:28] I have recorded the first non podcast streaming youtube video in god knows how many years like years and years ago

[00:03:36] You know

[00:03:37] I was dabbling in youtube videos and short form and mid form stuff and

[00:03:41] It was mostly gun reviews and things like that

[00:03:44] And then frankly youtube pissed me off so bad with constantly jerking us around about like what they would monetize and what they

[00:03:51] Wouldn't allow and channel strikes. I just said to hell with it and just quit

[00:03:54] You know it it really reached a point very quickly where it was not worth my aggravation

[00:04:00] To put in the time it takes to do even the most basic youtube video and

[00:04:05] The production quality I am willing to indulge in and capable of pales in comparison to what the big channels will pull off

[00:04:12] Because I just don't have the budget or the technical know-how or the software to do it

[00:04:16] but

[00:04:17] It just it wasn't worth the hours of time investment for

[00:04:21] Put up a 10 or 15 minute video and then have it get kicked straight back in my face by youtube

[00:04:26] So I quit and more recently I started looking at you know, like

[00:04:31] I started looking at a lot of things we've been talking about and i'm like

[00:04:34] Some of these things could be expounded upon

[00:04:37] Outside of a podcast in something like a ted talk type of format. You know i'm saying

[00:04:42] Where I can just like sit down with the audience and do a show and tell and explain like

[00:04:48] Not just what has what i've done, but why?

[00:04:51] Why I did it this way to see that makes sense to them. So the first one is like

[00:04:56] It ended up being a 45 minute

[00:04:59] video about off-grid communications

[00:05:02] And it's not all inclusive. It's just kind of like explaining the progression of

[00:05:08] Where I started why I started where I did and ending up at like where i'm at right now

[00:05:13] Which you and I were talking about right before the show started like me testing the the man pack that i've been building

[00:05:20] and you know, it's

[00:05:22] It's going to be a little on the dry side, but

[00:05:25] I don't know somebody out there might find it useful

[00:05:28] And when it comes to man pack radios for the from the civilian world

[00:05:32] Most of them are ham not a lot of guys have

[00:05:35] Taken it upon themselves to build something like this

[00:05:38] For a gmrs radio and then document it. So maybe somebody out there will find it remote, you know somewhat useful

[00:05:46] But that's that's what i've been working on it's um

[00:05:52] It's a work in progress I will probably release it in the next couple of days

[00:05:57] So if you're listening to this on the audio stream

[00:05:59] That might already be out and you should go check out our youtube channel

[00:06:02] If you don't know how to find that it's in the show description

[00:06:05] So i've tried to make this as easy as I can for y'all

[00:06:08] Uh, I guess the other thing that we should probably talk about is prepper camp

[00:06:13] if you are going to prepper camper you want to and you have not bought tickets yet buy tickets because

[00:06:18] They're only going to go up in price

[00:06:21] As the event gets closer

[00:06:23] If you are trying to go and you have not gotten and you want to stay at the location at the area good luck

[00:06:29] Uh get in a spot. Uh, there's probably no spots left if anything there might be tent city, but I doubt it

[00:06:36] uh, so yeah, I would uh

[00:06:40] Get your tickets and go

[00:06:42] We're gonna be there with the booth. We'll be sitting next to james and

[00:06:47] With disaster coffee and probably a bunch of the other people from pbn

[00:06:51] The cadre there from pbn. So yeah, well jane and rick have uh have made a pretty solid commitment that

[00:06:59] You know since I am I believe all or most of the pbn crew have booths

[00:07:05] A lot of them are doing sales. Our intention has never been to do sales out of our booth

[00:07:09] We're really using it like a mobile recording studio

[00:07:12] So I think our intention is to go in there and do pretty much what we did last year

[00:07:17] Try to grow people in for interviews

[00:07:19] You know set up the webcam set up the laptop to record

[00:07:23] I have totally and completely given up on streaming from that location unless somebody wants to drop starlink on us for free

[00:07:29] Because the the bandwidth is just not stable enough and even with starlink i'd be worried about weather or something screwing with it

[00:07:35] So I think the best solution is what we've done which is to

[00:07:38] You know set up out there fully self-contained running off of jacquard and solar panels record come home edit

[00:07:46] And then let it out afterwards and like last year

[00:07:49] I'm struggling to remember. I want to say we put out something like 12 videos

[00:07:53] With the with the concept. I don't remember it was a lot

[00:07:57] I mean we did three four we we did about four interviews a day all three days

[00:08:02] We were out there. So we pumped out a lot of content from

[00:08:07] Showgoers from like friends of yours friends became friends of mine over that trip and

[00:08:12] Other pbn hosts and just people that were walking by like hey you want to come on the show

[00:08:16] So it was a great experience and I hope to be able to do that again

[00:08:19] And this year we will have my wife and daughter with me to help

[00:08:23] You know

[00:08:24] My wife will be there to help herd the cats

[00:08:28] Which I need desperately

[00:08:30] I need a cat herder

[00:08:33] But um, yeah, I mean if if anybody wants to come to prepper camp and you can't get a spot at the campsite

[00:08:38] it's it's a little late in the year to try to pull that hat trick off but

[00:08:43] Asheville is not far away

[00:08:46] There are bed and breakfasts all over the area. So like

[00:08:49] You may not get the stay at camp experience, but you can still come to prepper camp

[00:08:54] You're just going to have to find a spot off site to stay but that those those

[00:08:59] Those things exist

[00:09:01] You're just gonna have to do some digging to find them

[00:09:06] But anyway on the topic um

[00:09:09] Pocket dump time, you know, like we've talked before about everyday carry and

[00:09:14] The the concept of like you're carrying things on your person to be able to address needs and

[00:09:21] When I like the first thing I want to say as we go into this topic is that I don't believe there are

[00:09:26] Many wrong answers here. It really is

[00:09:29] You know down to like the way you dress how much you can carry what you're going to carry where you're going

[00:09:35] This is a highly

[00:09:37] highly individual decision

[00:09:40] The only wrong answer when it comes to like what do I include my everyday carry is I never thought about it

[00:09:45] That's the wrong answer. But if you've thought about it and you've weighed your options, I kind of say okay

[00:09:50] Well asa llama lincoln, you know go with god you made your decision

[00:09:54] Hopefully the stuff you bring with you is which you need

[00:09:58] but it it's just another outgrowth of like everything else we talked about preparedness it is

[00:10:03] This might happen. I want to have this thing to address that need

[00:10:07] And um, I tend to start with like really mundane things

[00:10:10] A lot of people go straight for like the really crazy things and I I go for mundane

[00:10:16] This is a wallet

[00:10:18] Most men carry a wallet, right?

[00:10:21] Most men don't carry an rfid blocking wallet

[00:10:24] So that your uh your cards and all your stuff inside your wallet can't get

[00:10:29] you know snagged if somebody has a

[00:10:32] An electronic device handy to be able to read these magnetic strips through the leather which does happen sometimes

[00:10:38] I also make a point of carrying cash because

[00:10:41] If anybody's never been in a situation where you whooped out your debit card and it didn't work

[00:10:45] I have several times cash helps cash just helps grease gears. So I make a point of

[00:10:52] Always keep it an rfid blocking wallet. I always keep some cash inside and you know

[00:10:57] Like very very common sense things like driver's license and concealed carry permit and

[00:11:05] I figured that was a given it should be a given but insurance cards

[00:11:10] This should be a given for most people that you have like if you have health insurance

[00:11:14] You have your card in your wallet, but i'm gonna tell you that i've met. I don't carry it. Why not?

[00:11:19] Because it's on my phone

[00:11:22] Do okay, let's say hypoth let's say hypothetically

[00:11:26] You were found at a scene unconscious by medical personnel. No, I guess it wouldn't matter

[00:11:31] I mean they'll get your medical they'll get your insurance information before they release you know

[00:11:35] Well when I go through mine, um

[00:11:38] Yeah, we'll we'll compare but uh anyway, yeah keep going

[00:11:42] Okay, so

[00:11:43] Very mundane thing wallet. I like rfid blocking wallets for obvious reasons. Um

[00:11:50] Car keys

[00:11:51] Should be self-explanatory. I've got house keys on here

[00:11:54] I've got keys to gun cases and various things that I don't leave these I don't it's not that I

[00:12:01] Am not comfortable leaving these keys at home. It's that these keys are always in my pocket

[00:12:06] So if I walk up to any variety of locked cases in this house that have firearms in them

[00:12:11] I don't have to think about what that key is over here

[00:12:13] That key is on the mantle that key is in my freaking pocket right next to my truck keys

[00:12:18] And I can pop it and get into it anytime. I need to

[00:12:23] So again when I wake up in the morning the wall goes in the back pocket these go in the front right pocket

[00:12:29] Then flashlight and knife

[00:12:33] And this is pretty self-explanatory except that you know

[00:12:37] This is the knife I carry when I can carry what I want when I can't I actually have another pocket knife

[00:12:42] I carry at work because I work at a place where if you carry a big knife like this people freak out

[00:12:48] And you are I am allowed per the regulations to have a knife as long as the blade is less than two and a half inches

[00:12:56] So I have a very very small gerber para frame that has a blade that is just barely short enough for me to get away with it

[00:13:04] And that's what I carry just so that nobody give me crap about it

[00:13:08] And then i've got this little surefire x this uh little surefire our protac 1l

[00:13:13] Is like the perfect is the perfect size for an everyday carry light in my opinion

[00:13:18] It fits in a back pocket. It runs off of cr 123 or off of a double a in a pinch

[00:13:24] I

[00:13:25] Always have batteries close by if I need to swap this thing out

[00:13:30] and um

[00:13:32] I actually have a procedure I go through every morning

[00:13:35] Because this is one of those lights where like on the first tab you get 80 lumens and on the second

[00:13:39] If you double tap it you get 300

[00:13:42] so I go through a procedure every morning where I point this thing to the floor and I double tap that tail cap because

[00:13:48] If the battery is getting too weak to run at the higher power level, it'll default back down to the first level

[00:13:54] So the first time I double type this cap and I see that dim light come on

[00:13:58] I know the battery's about to die

[00:14:00] So it's just a way for me to function check the light every day. And if you can't tell

[00:14:04] From the amount of anodizing that's been worn off of this thing

[00:14:07] This thing is a freaking warhorse. It's been in my back pocket for years. It's never given up never quit

[00:14:14] And in case it does I have a whole fact. I have a whole spare light

[00:14:19] Only been taken out of the package doesn't even have a lot

[00:14:21] It doesn't even have a battery in it sitting in my wall safe just for the day

[00:14:24] This thing finally quits on me, but it hasn't yet

[00:14:28] um

[00:14:30] Andrew pointed out to me before we start streaming

[00:14:32] I cannot show you the handgun I carry everywhere because youtube and or facebook will

[00:14:38] Pea their pants about showing firearms outside of a gun range. So whatever pull up a picture of it

[00:14:44] Uh, I don't have pictures of it handy unfortunately

[00:14:48] but

[00:14:49] It's a double stag 9 millimeter and 99% of the time that is the smallest firearm

[00:14:53] I'm willing to carry like i've heard every argument for these really really

[00:14:58] Small subcompacts like the glock 43 or the sig was it the p365 I think it is the the little bitty tiny one

[00:15:06] I've heard every argument in the world for those

[00:15:08] I don't like tiny little mouse fart guns even if they're chambered or nine millimeter

[00:15:12] Even if they hold 10 rounds, I don't like them. I I prefer

[00:15:16] I prefer a compact size not subcompact double stack nine millimeter and I am willing to dress around that gun

[00:15:25] So if that means I can't get away with wearing jim schwarz in a in a tank top

[00:15:29] I'm emotionally at peace with that. I want to carry the gun that I know I shoot well

[00:15:34] because I subscribe to this very different method of thought where

[00:15:39] You know

[00:15:39] There's the idea that you carry a gun because it's comfortable to carry with the understanding you're going to carry it

[00:15:45] Probably for your entire life and never have to actually use it

[00:15:48] I subscribe to a different philosophy where I say i'm going to carry the gun

[00:15:52] I know I operate the best because on the day i'm in a fight

[00:15:56] I don't want to be thinking to myself damn

[00:15:58] I wish I had the better gun that I left at home because it weighed another four or five ounces

[00:16:02] So that's what I carry

[00:16:04] The only exception to that is if i'm wearing dress clothes

[00:16:07] Because if i'm wearing like, you know slacks and a jacket and I know i'm going to take the jacket off

[00:16:13] I can't conceal

[00:16:15] I can't conceal this double stack nine mil. So in cases like that, I have an ankle holster and a five shot j-frame

[00:16:22] And it disappears under a pant leg and then i'll usually pack like a i'll pack a speed a bianchi speed strip with me

[00:16:29] Just have some extra ammo

[00:16:31] so

[00:16:33] That's pretty much like oh

[00:16:36] And this is something I want to get on on camera cell phone

[00:16:40] Almost everybody today carries a cell phone if you don't I envy you

[00:16:44] But everybody carries a cell phone and nobody really thinks of these things as being part of their everyday carry

[00:16:49] It's it's a cell phone. It's not a piece of prepper prepper gear, right?

[00:16:53] But let me tell you what this thing is to me from my way of thinking. This is my primary communications device

[00:17:00] If I want to talk to my wife, I pick this thing up

[00:17:02] I punch a magic button on it and my wife answers sometimes when she wants to

[00:17:08] On the flip side, I think this is also my secondary communication device

[00:17:12] because if the if the

[00:17:14] If the data circuits are up

[00:17:16] But the text message and voice circuits are down or if they're overloaded because there's a local emergency

[00:17:22] But I can still get data I can peg her on on signal or I can get her on facebook messenger or whatever. I have

[00:17:29] purely data based ways to contact my wife through this thing

[00:17:34] And it's also an intelligence gathering device because if there's something weird going on

[00:17:38] I can get on this thing and get on this thing called the internet and I can start punching stuff in to try to get information

[00:17:45] So don't discount the fact that this is a communications and an intelligence

[00:17:50] An intelligence gathering device. It's not just for posting pictures of your tech cool stuff on instagram

[00:17:56] You know i'm saying it's in your pocket. Anyway, you might as well figure out a way to make it useful that is

[00:18:01] That is my everyday carry in a nutshell, you know knife gun

[00:18:06] The usual nonsense flashlight

[00:18:09] That's what I carry every day

[00:18:12] That's all that's it

[00:18:14] dang

[00:18:16] That's every day. I might supplement that depending on a situation, but that's that's the base layer. What about you?

[00:18:24] Um, and don't include anything in here that you won't carry every now and then this is every day. Well

[00:18:30] Uh, well, I mean i'll i'll start from head to toe

[00:18:34] Um, so I mean I know I wear it a lot on this show

[00:18:37] I mean well, so my ball cap that i'm wearing. Um, I usually am always wearing a hat

[00:18:41] The only time i'm usually not is usually at work

[00:18:46] Usually at work i'm not wearing a hat and then uh

[00:18:49] I don't I mean i'll take it off occasionally, but I like wearing hats

[00:18:52] Uh, but this hat I wear the most it's uh, it's from a company called eagles and angels

[00:18:57] Uh, it's basically it's a veteran owned company that the guy actually takes uh uniforms from special operations

[00:19:04] Uh guys who have seen some crap, uh and done some stuff. I think he did stuff from

[00:19:09] uh, like the uh rob roanel who um smoked bin laden, uh, alleged allegedly

[00:19:16] Um, he like he he takes their uniforms and he slices them up and he makes patches american flag

[00:19:21] patches and stuff with them

[00:19:23] Um, and so yeah, i've had this hat for I don't know how many years i've had this hat and it's actually started to

[00:19:28] Wear i've never washed it. Uh, it's a flex fit american flag hat. I love it and I actually was just on their website

[00:19:36] Uh, and they actually have it back in stock

[00:19:38] So I might buy another one so that I can retire this one

[00:19:41] I don't know it's broken in and comfortable and sweat stained and it's been through a lot. So

[00:19:46] Uh, but then the other thing I have, uh, next thing I have is my gators

[00:19:51] Uh the gators ballistic

[00:19:54] Where they at? Oh

[00:19:57] Sunglasses, um, yeah, there we go. Anyway, uh, they're the gators marauder, uh ballistic rated od green sunglasses

[00:20:06] uh, and then

[00:20:07] I have

[00:20:09] Dropped down to my waist. Uh

[00:20:12] I have a the i'm wearing the the tier one concealment the x core edc belt

[00:20:17] So I like it because it actually when you first buy it you buy it and it's a little bit bigger

[00:20:22] but you actually can cut it and then you uh, so

[00:20:27] See if I can get this to

[00:20:29] so basically it it um, can it

[00:20:33] It's a latching system. So it basically kind of it has a tooth right here that kind of grabs and it latches in

[00:20:40] And then you just undo it

[00:20:41] But what's nice is you have these screws these set screws right here

[00:20:44] To where you just undo those two things this whole thing this whole slide this slides off and you can actually cut it down

[00:20:50] If you need to and you put it back in there put the set screws in and then it holds

[00:20:54] It's thick ridge. It's thick. It's rigid very stiff

[00:20:58] I've never had any issues. I love it. Um, actually you can see on the the side that I

[00:21:04] Carry my pistol on

[00:21:05] Uh that it's actually pretty worn on that side just from the nylon and stuff

[00:21:11] So I just trim it up every once in a while

[00:21:13] um

[00:21:14] The pistol I am currently carrying that I usually carry all the time is my mmp 9c

[00:21:20] 2.0 version

[00:21:22] It's a 13 round mag 9 millimeter, but I actually have a hive technologies

[00:21:28] Base plate on it. So it's a plus three base plate

[00:21:32] Which I like it just it and honestly, it doesn't really print all that much that

[00:21:37] It doesn't really print that much bad or much worse. Sorry. I don't speak english

[00:21:41] I should carry a dictionary if you edc

[00:21:45] But I like it um at that and then when you're mag changing

[00:21:48] I just like also because you can easily just you can hit the the mag release drops the mag really quick

[00:21:54] And then you for a quick reload if you need it, but

[00:21:58] It's topped with a steiner

[00:22:01] mps red dot

[00:22:03] is it used to be have it used to have the sro on it, but

[00:22:07] Unlike phil, I believe in multi-gun

[00:22:10] Depending on your situation

[00:22:12] I am currently waiting on I have a I have the mmp 9c the first gen

[00:22:19] subcompact pistol

[00:22:21] I'm actually waiting on I sent the slide off to get milled

[00:22:24] And i'm actually going to put the steiner or not steiner. I'm going to put the trigicon sro on that

[00:22:30] So i'm just waiting on that one to get back because that's going to be my summer carry

[00:22:34] Just because it doesn't

[00:22:36] It's a little bit it's smaller than the the compact that I carry right now

[00:22:42] But it's just a little bit more comfortable

[00:22:44] In the summer and it's better for shorts and stuff like that

[00:22:47] But can I point out because you bring up this whole summer carry thing that down here in south, Louisiana

[00:22:53] It's always summer. Well, we all we have is summer like yeah

[00:22:57] The winter is not long enough to merit a whole another gun to carry. It's just yeah, it's

[00:23:02] Summer

[00:23:04] Little bit of winter more summer

[00:23:07] No, I mean, I know a lot of people that and I mean i've carried this gun for for a long time

[00:23:12] I've carried this gun every day

[00:23:13] Uh in the summer in the winter spring fall, whatever

[00:23:16] uh

[00:23:16] But I don't know

[00:23:17] I mean

[00:23:18] I've had this pistol sitting around and I decided to do something with it and it's one of those things where I might carry

[00:23:22] It you know, I I don't know if i'll carry it every day during the summer

[00:23:25] But it's just definitely another option to have

[00:23:28] Uh that I like so and I like options you've kind of you've kind of gone

[00:23:33] In the same philosophy. I have just I guess

[00:23:36] Different steps where i'm like, I want the double stack nine millimeter, but in a pinch i'll drop down to the ankle carry j-frame

[00:23:43] Well, I mean they're both double stack

[00:23:45] That's the thing is both my nine the 9c the 2.0 and the 9c the the subcompact

[00:23:50] They're both double stacked. I guess my question then is that do you have a firearm you carry when neither one of those can fit?

[00:23:56] Or do you ever find yourself in a situation? No, I dress around it. I dress around either of them

[00:24:01] so, uh, I mean

[00:24:03] Yeah, I mean like right now. I usually i'm always wearing a button-up shirt of some kind. Uh

[00:24:08] I just I find that it's just easier

[00:24:11] Uh to conceal

[00:24:12] Uh, because I like to appendix carry and uh the the holster i'm carrying currently with it is it's a holster co

[00:24:19] uh made in michigan, um, so

[00:24:23] Uh, they I really like their other holsters i've been rocking this one for I don't know a number of years now

[00:24:28] I don't remember how long but uh

[00:24:31] Yeah, I mean I I like to appendix carry and so I found uh with appendix carrying

[00:24:36] I found that uh, yeah, i'll wear just a normal t-shirt sometimes but uh,

[00:24:40] I wear I wear a button up quite a bit. Uh, just to help with the printing and um, just that security of

[00:24:47] You know, it's just not it's not gonna print not gonna ride up or anything like that. So

[00:24:51] Yeah, uh, but uh, basically I mean because I work a lot

[00:24:55] I if i'm not working generally I sometimes i'm in shorts

[00:24:59] Uh, but generally when i'm working, um, i'm always wearing 511 ridge pants

[00:25:05] Um, and so I and I wear them outside of work too because just because they're comfortable

[00:25:09] But if i'm not wearing those then i'm usually wearing like wrangler blue jeans

[00:25:14] Uh you normally and so

[00:25:17] So one of those two things, um

[00:25:19] In my left side, where is it at? Um, usually i'm rocking the leatherman rev, uh multi-tool

[00:25:28] Uh, and then with that I actually have the stiletto pro

[00:25:31] Uh thousand lumen flashlight

[00:25:34] Um, so what I like about this is it's rechargeable. So I don't have to deal with batteries or anything like that

[00:25:39] but uh, oops, what's nice is if you hit the right button

[00:25:44] It actually has a

[00:25:46] If you can see that

[00:25:47] It's yeah, it's got a green light

[00:25:51] So it's got a green light you just hit it and it's got a green light

[00:25:53] Um, if if it's green, you know, it's good to go

[00:25:56] It'll be yellow and then it'll turn red and then obviously as it dies, it'll go down to a lower

[00:26:02] Lower setting but what I like about it

[00:26:04] It's got a button on the side that you can hit it and it it goes

[00:26:08] Low medium and then high lumens and then it has the programmable button

[00:26:12] In the back here that you can either do press and hold

[00:26:16] Uh, and you can determine the kind of how program it what you want for lumens or you can uh,

[00:26:21] Click on click off kind of thing. So um, I have that one set to a thousand and then um

[00:26:27] My first click on this one is like 300 350 or something like that. Um funny story tsa has no idea what to make of this

[00:26:34] And also

[00:26:36] also security, uh security at events don't know what to make of this either. I was going to a ball game

[00:26:42] Uh baseball game and I was carrying this and the guy looked at it and he goes is that a knife?

[00:26:46] And it was facing up like this

[00:26:48] And I just simply I I clicked on the side and it flashed him right in the eye and he goes that's a flashlight

[00:26:53] I said, yep. It's a flashlight. He's like, okay, you're good to go

[00:26:56] Yeah, so they don't know what to make of it because it's it's just thin

[00:27:00] I mean it looks like a knife. I don't know it people are if they don't know what they're looking at

[00:27:03] But it kind of has the profile of an out the front knife

[00:27:07] Like I kind of I can understand how somebody would make that but that mistake

[00:27:11] But you would think that you know the glass like that would just be a giveaway of hey, it's a flashlight

[00:27:16] Now you're giving people way too much credit

[00:27:18] I do I do want to latch on to one thing you mentioned though having selectable power levels

[00:27:22] Like I cannot emphasize like I and you and I have also we've debated this

[00:27:28] I wouldn't say vigorously. We've debated this back and forth whenever we talk about

[00:27:32] pistol mounted lights

[00:27:33] Because like on my everyday carry I don't have a pistol mounted light

[00:27:37] First of all, I won't take one neither one of them will and that's why I carry this

[00:27:41] but the other thing that their reason i'm such a big proponent of having like so quickly selectable power levels on your everyday carry light

[00:27:48] is because

[00:27:50] This light gets used mostly to say hey

[00:27:53] There's a puddle of water honey

[00:27:54] Don't step in it or my daughter drops something on the floorboards of the truck at night when it's dark and i'll

[00:28:00] Pass her my flashlight so she can find it and i'd much rather have 80 lumens

[00:28:05] shining on the floorboards

[00:28:07] Than 300 or a thousand lumens shining on the floorboards blowing up my windshield so I can't see where i'm going

[00:28:14] So like well to me

[00:28:17] When you have that low power level it gives you the ability to make this more of a utility item

[00:28:22] And less of a dedicated burn retinas down when i'm trying to shoot somebody I you know type of item

[00:28:28] Yeah, I mean whether it's a thousand or not

[00:28:30] I mean it's still utility but I get what you're saying because I find myself actually like

[00:28:35] You know I find myself hitting just the front button right here which is like low lumen

[00:28:41] The lowest level then I find myself hitting a thousand the thousand but yeah I see what you're saying

[00:28:46] Well, not just that but if you have a if you have a mounted weapon light

[00:28:50] That weapon light is good for one thing and one thing only and that shining things. You don't mind shooting

[00:28:55] Because I mean you can't you can't pull your gun out and then you know wave

[00:28:58] Wave it around to use the light to look for stuff in a parking lot

[00:29:01] Like it's just not there's a reason why the there's a reason why the detroit police department can no longer have weapon lights on their pistols

[00:29:07] Jesus christ andrew did you have to put that in my head right now?

[00:29:11] Because now i'm imagining a police officer shining a light in a dark parking lot walking around muzzling the hell out of everybody

[00:29:17] Oh, no, that's even it gets better. It's uh, okay checking. I they were checking ids and they're like no, okay

[00:29:22] Yep. No, that's you. Yeah

[00:29:25] No, no, no, I don't know

[00:29:28] Moving on

[00:29:31] Tell me somebody didn't use a weapon mounted light to check somebody's id

[00:29:36] Okay, i'll tell you that someone used did not use a weapon on light to check someone's id

[00:29:41] So anyway from this day forward if anybody ever tells me only police are well enough trained to be trusted with guns

[00:29:47] I am not responsible for what happens next it might involve fiscal violence. It will definitely involve ridicule though

[00:29:54] Yeah

[00:29:55] So back to topic before it gets us off too far, uh, then I carry a

[00:30:01] uh

[00:30:04] It's a crkt m16 tanto

[00:30:08] tanto knife folder

[00:30:10] Um got it from a buddy of mine in for being in the wedding. So that's kind of cool

[00:30:15] Um, I carry a lighter. Um, I think everybody should carry a lighter on you if you don't even if you don't smoke but uh lighter

[00:30:21] Uh, the wallet that I carry is I carry this

[00:30:25] It's called the extra

[00:30:27] Card holder basically card sleeve

[00:30:29] Um, it is the rfid protecting. Uh, what I like about it is um

[00:30:34] I had a wallet like yours before and it just got so big like my hips like i'd be driving and my hip would just

[00:30:40] ache so I found it I'd

[00:30:42] Take it out and put it in the in the glove or in the like the the tray the center tray or whatever

[00:30:46] It is and I found that I would actually hop out and I would leave it

[00:30:50] Um, and as you're I mean as I got older and stuff like that it was like, okay

[00:30:54] I need to grab it so I would do that but I got i've got this

[00:30:57] And i've liked it. Um, I like it because it only holds like four or five cards

[00:31:01] You hit the little button on the side it pops them up

[00:31:03] Uh, it actually has uh the sleeve on this side here or this side here or this side

[00:31:09] So you can actually put money. You can fold up some money in there. You can fold up extra

[00:31:14] I have cards in there. I mean I got my cpl. I got some other

[00:31:17] Some other cards in there. Uh

[00:31:19] but I found uh trying to be just trying to be a little bit more

[00:31:23] I mean I say minimalist and I mean look at all the crap that I carry

[00:31:27] but when it came to my wallet, I was trying to slim it down and one of the things I did was I

[00:31:31] um, I don't carry my uh insurance card on me. I don't carry credit cards on me

[00:31:36] Uh, I don't carry I carry i'll have I have some cash on me and I have my debit card

[00:31:41] On me and then I have some corporate cards on me and that's about it

[00:31:44] But I don't carry I don't have any personal credit cards actually I closed them all because I don't want

[00:31:49] I just

[00:31:50] Trying to get out of debt and so I just closed all I basically don't have any of that stuff now. So

[00:31:54] Uh, but like my hsa card that I have a bunch of my like range cards that I have for with codes

[00:32:01] I took pictures of it all I put it on my phone and it's in a secure folder

[00:32:04] It's a secured encrypted folder on my phone

[00:32:07] uh, and I found like I just I don't need it. I don't need to carry a

[00:32:11] uh

[00:32:12] My blue cross blue shield card with me everywhere I go like I

[00:32:17] The only time I really need it is if I need to go to the hospital if I have an appointment of some kind

[00:32:21] And i'll grab it

[00:32:22] Um, and honestly i've used my phone and that's when I was actually i'm uh when I was at the hospital a couple weeks ago

[00:32:29] um

[00:32:30] The lady she was like yeah, she was actually companies are going digital now

[00:32:33] So they're not even sending cards out. So she's like if you have it on your phone I can take it

[00:32:36] So I was like here's here it is

[00:32:38] You know so

[00:32:40] So yeah, so that's kind of like the reason for that and it goes into my front pocket versus my

[00:32:44] My back pocket so uh, that's not bad

[00:32:47] um, so yeah moving down, I mean, I know I got a lot of crap. I got more crap than what phil does but uh,

[00:32:53] Ankle, um, I carry every single day. I guess unless i'm wearing like flip-flops or something like that, which is not very often

[00:33:00] Uh, I am wearing a it's called a reicher not reicher nylon gear. It's a um ankle

[00:33:08] med kit

[00:33:09] So I carry that every single day

[00:33:12] Inside of that it has a soft turn soft tactical tourniquet

[00:33:16] quick clock combat gauze hyphen twin packet chest seals trauma shears

[00:33:22] Inside of that I added

[00:33:24] Stream light micro stream flashlight. I added inside of that just uh, because you know, you need light

[00:33:30] Uh, so yeah, I wear that every every single day at work

[00:33:34] All yeah everywhere and again

[00:33:36] I get some funny looks at when I go to events and my ankle buzzes

[00:33:40] When they want when they wand me and it buzzes at my ankle and they're like, what do you got?

[00:33:45] And I said ankle kit and you're scanning you're hitting my tourniquet

[00:33:49] And so they you know freak out and stuff and wanted to look at it. So whatever

[00:33:53] Uh, but boots wise, um, i'm either wearing uh victos taculus boots or i'm wearing the salman forces

[00:34:01] The force is two quest 4d gtx boots which are waterproof and um

[00:34:06] They're comfortable so and then besides that I got my phone and my keys

[00:34:10] So so that's your base layer. Is there anything that like you add to that?

[00:34:16] situationally what i've described so far is kind of my base layer, but I

[00:34:21] I make a lot more amendments to this. I feel like depending on what situation i'm going into no, I mean

[00:34:28] Depending on situation. I mean like that's where my backpack comes in comes into play

[00:34:33] Uh, but I generally like I carry all this on me all the time and it sounds like a lot but it all packs down

[00:34:41] And i've gotten to where i've moved stuff around to where

[00:34:45] Like my wallet will go into my front pocket and then I might put my keys in my back pocket

[00:34:50] Uh, my you know, my my truck keys. Uh, i'll put those like maybe in my back pocket

[00:34:55] uh, but other than that

[00:34:57] No, I don't

[00:34:59] I really don't scale it up or down. This is kind of just everything that I grab

[00:35:03] I mean, obviously it goes into different places depending on what i'm wearing because of my pants like if i'm wearing jeans

[00:35:09] Obviously wranglers and stuff. I don't have pockets down at the knees like cargo pockets like I do my 511s or

[00:35:15] the victos, uh

[00:35:17] Shorts that I wear

[00:35:18] So if i'm wearing jeans, yeah things are more in my pockets and stuff like that versus my 511s

[00:35:24] You know my extra the extra wallet is down in my left side on the left cargo pocket

[00:35:31] And so that kind of frees up along with my keys and stuff like that. So

[00:35:35] Yeah, well from from my perspective like

[00:35:38] I've already talked about how like i'll swap out my gun based on the based on the environment like you know

[00:35:45] Quite frankly lately my wife and I have been invited to several different weddings and at a wedding

[00:35:50] I'm in a unique situation with regards to how I usually dress because normally when I dress it's

[00:35:56] T-shirt or it's a button down shirt and I can conceal double stack nine under it either than one of those very easily

[00:36:03] i'm almost exclusively wearing like

[00:36:06] Wrangler um work pants and they do have some very low not the big poofy cargo pockets

[00:36:11] But they have some very low profile like thigh pockets

[00:36:15] and I don't even usually carry much in them, but um

[00:36:18] With what I normally wear I can conceal double stack nine

[00:36:22] No problem whatsoever

[00:36:24] But if i'm at a wedding or something like that or something where i'm it's very dressy

[00:36:30] Shirt being tucked in is going to be mandatory

[00:36:32] Dress slacks is going to be mandatory and in those types situations. I just don't have

[00:36:38] A way to conceal double stack nine millimeter that is

[00:36:42] Concealable enough that I am comfortable with it

[00:36:44] You know i'm saying especially given the environments that i'm in like

[00:36:48] Gun at a wedding would set off alarm bells for some people

[00:36:52] Even though I don't think it should I mean hell there were people I armed armed at my wedding and I was

[00:36:56] Emotionally in peace with it, but that that's neither here nor there

[00:37:00] So in those situations i'll swap out my gun and i'll ankle carry a j-frame because

[00:37:05] I can carry that as long as i'm wearing long pants period of discussion

[00:37:09] Um, I have found myself in the situation several times recently of having to be in hospitals a lot and not for myself

[00:37:16] Thankfully usually it's for aging family members that i've had to take to appointments or i've had to a company or whatever

[00:37:23] and in those cases

[00:37:26] Obviously gun and knife stay behind. It's a hospital. They they're a little sensitive about that

[00:37:31] But in those situations bearing in mind that like my cell phone is my primary and in some ways my secondary communication

[00:37:37] You know device

[00:37:38] I carry a little a little charging brick and I carry a rolled up

[00:37:43] Charging cable for my phone and usually i'll even include a usb battery pack

[00:37:49] purely for the fact of i'm going to be someplace for

[00:37:52] Potentially the next four to eight hours

[00:37:56] I don't know if i'm going to have a power a wall outlet available to charge my phone

[00:38:00] I don't know if i'm going to have to resort to the battery pack

[00:38:02] But I know that battery pack from experience will charge my phone from zero to max several times over

[00:38:08] And it's just a it's just a way to bear in mind that like in the environment i'm in i'm going to be

[00:38:14] Stationary i'm going to need to keep in touch with my wife. I'm going to need to you know, be reachable

[00:38:19] So having extra power on tap to make sure my phone stays charged

[00:38:23] That becomes more of a priority than it would be if I were at home or if I were vehicle bound

[00:38:28] Because if i'm at home, i've got all kinds of things here to charge my phone

[00:38:31] And if i'm in my vehicle, I have all kinds of ways to charge my phone on my vehicle

[00:38:35] But if i'm in an unfamiliar environment where I don't know how long i'm going to be here and I don't know

[00:38:40] Exactly what situation i'm walking into is there going to be a wall outlet available for me to charge my phone or not?

[00:38:47] so having those just that extra step of

[00:38:50] I know the I know enough of the environment i'm going into that. I don't know everything about it

[00:38:55] So i'm going to make sure I have some things take care of myself

[00:38:59] I don't always carry like a bag in if i'm going to be at a hospital like if i'm going to be staying

[00:39:04] If I know i'm going to be there all day

[00:39:06] I will always make a point of carrying a small bag with me and in that small bag is like

[00:39:10] bottles of water it's

[00:39:13] Usually i'll throw a liquid ivy into it. I always make sure because i've talked about on the show before but i'm

[00:39:20] hypoglycemic

[00:39:22] My dietary changes have made that much less of a problem that it used to be

[00:39:26] And that might be a whole show all by itself

[00:39:28] we can never get a nutritionist come on the show and talk about like high fat high protein diets for people who managing their

[00:39:34] blood sugar, but

[00:39:36] You know like I always make a point of having water and I always make a point of having some kind of snacks

[00:39:42] peanut butter crackers

[00:39:43] Something with protein in it because I know that if I don't manage my blood sugar

[00:39:47] It's going to make it impossible for me to manage the situation

[00:39:50] So again, if i'm going to be someplace all day

[00:39:53] I'm going to make sure I have something to eat with me because i'm not i'm i'm one of those people that because of my

[00:39:59] blood sugar

[00:40:00] If I skip a meal, I might just feel crappy. I might pass out

[00:40:05] I don't know it kind of depends on what my body feels like doing that day. So I have to manage those things

[00:40:11] um

[00:40:13] other than that

[00:40:14] I can't honestly like

[00:40:16] I understand all the arguments for carrying a medkit on your person

[00:40:22] It's not something i'm usually willing to indulge in

[00:40:26] simply because

[00:40:28] Yeah, we'll talk about truck edc here in a minute

[00:40:32] but

[00:40:34] It's one of those things where like I am weighing out the likelihood of necessity given the environments i'm in

[00:40:41] And I judge that the bulk and the weight of carrying it every day is probably not warranted

[00:40:48] Given that I given that I do have that available to me wherever my vehicle is which is usually not that far

[00:40:55] Yeah, no, I don't know. I mean the the

[00:40:58] Uh the ankle kit that I wear

[00:41:00] You'd never know you even had it on it's it's super light

[00:41:03] So I guess that's why that's it's easy to carry. Um, I mean, yeah

[00:41:08] The only thing that I really change like I said with my backpack is I usually carry a backpack everywhere I go

[00:41:14] Uh, it's got yeah, I'll have some snacks in it

[00:41:17] Food or you know some extra water if needed. Uh, but yeah, I have a mobile

[00:41:23] Charging kit that I put together

[00:41:25] So basically it just uh, it's I think it's like three or four

[00:41:30] It roll it rolls up but you unroll it and it's got like three or four

[00:41:34] I think it's got three compartments and I have a uh,

[00:41:38] Vehicle, uh if I I have a little vehicle for a cigarette that has two usb

[00:41:44] Plugs built into it. Um, I have two wall chargers

[00:41:49] I have multiple cables

[00:41:50] Uh for my phone for my phone. I have a portable

[00:41:55] battery brick

[00:41:56] Uh that you know for recharging stuff

[00:41:59] and then yeah, so

[00:42:01] That's basically that and then inside the backpack. I carry more medical

[00:42:04] So I actually have a ifac from dark angel medical

[00:42:09] In there and then I actually have extra

[00:42:12] Some extra med supplies in there and sometimes I even have uh, i'll throw some

[00:42:18] Ibuprofen in as well depending where i'm going but in my backpack. I have

[00:42:22] A sleeve a couple sleeves of batteries

[00:42:25] so

[00:42:26] Thyrum, I believe it's called

[00:42:29] Uh, they have their couple different battery packs that you can buy so I have those

[00:42:33] I have a headlamp in there

[00:42:36] spare mags for my pistol

[00:42:38] Uh, if I have uh, once I get it finished put put together

[00:42:43] I was carrying a folded ar inside of my backpack as well

[00:42:48] but again that different depends on where I go because obviously I can't go into

[00:42:53] Uh a hospital or something like that with that

[00:42:55] So when I was uh, just recently when my i'll stay with my uncle in the hospital

[00:42:59] um, I basically I had uh

[00:43:02] Uh my work laptop I had you know all kinds of you know enough stuff in there to charge and all that stuff

[00:43:08] So so now let's have that conversation about what we carry in our vehicles to the degree of which we are kate

[00:43:15] We are willing to share with the world what all we carry in our vehicles

[00:43:21] Um funny thing is a lot of things you just mentioned keeping your backpack is what I keep in my truck

[00:43:26] because you know right now my truck's parked down front of my house and

[00:43:30] Most places we go we're gonna go in my truck if we go in my wife's jeep

[00:43:34] I have a lot of the same things in her jeep just

[00:43:37] For that redundancy and not having to think about it. Um

[00:43:43] In the truck, I keep first and foremost. I keep a complete pack of cr123 batteries

[00:43:50] take a wild guess why because

[00:43:53] This thing runs on cr123

[00:43:55] The light that stays in my truck at all times which is a two cell version of this thing

[00:44:01] Runs on cr123s

[00:44:03] If anybody needs to wonder why you would keep a flashlight in your truck

[00:44:06] It's because human beings don't see great in the dark and things usually break when it's dark outside

[00:44:12] So if you want to start fumbling around inside your engine bay in the dark have a party

[00:44:16] But I don't so that's why I keep lights, but I digress

[00:44:19] Um, I keep a complete

[00:44:22] IFAC strapped to the roof of my truck

[00:44:25] Which is like tourniquet quick clot gauze co-bang, you know freaking israeli bandage

[00:44:32] Four by fours ad pads. The whole thing is so stuffed

[00:44:36] That if you get if you manage to make that bag regurgitate its contents

[00:44:40] You might never get it all back in there

[00:44:42] But it is everything I can think of to deal with massive trauma and that that stays glued to the roof of the truck

[00:44:49] at all times

[00:44:51] um

[00:44:53] I have a tourniquet separate from the med bag sitting it sitting, you know right next to it and there's another tourniquet inside the med bag

[00:45:02] What what else is in there?

[00:45:05] charging I keep I have uh usb ports in the in the uh

[00:45:09] I have the little dongle that plugs in my cigarette lighter port has twin usbas

[00:45:13] And i've got charging cables for me and my wife and my daughter's phones all in there

[00:45:18] Just because you never know when somebody's going to need one especially on a long trip

[00:45:21] It always comes up

[00:45:23] um, I because I recently made the jump into um

[00:45:27] gmrs radios and off-grid comms. I have a whole gmrs mobile 20 watt sitting in the truck

[00:45:34] I thought you hated radios. What the heck you know

[00:45:37] i'm

[00:45:38] Radios tickle that nerdy part of my brain

[00:45:41] But you know from a perspective of having a way to talk to people independent of

[00:45:47] It's not that talking to people independent of cell phones is my biggest concern

[00:45:52] it's more the fact that like cell phone and I talked about this in the video that i'll be publishing shortly like

[00:45:57] I think I think the un I think people that haven't thought about it before are under the mistaken impression that like if I call if I hit

[00:46:05] Andrew boba on my phone right now that this phone connects directly to your phone and they talk to each other

[00:46:10] There are people out here that think that's how it works. It's not

[00:46:13] Most people that are that are you know, like their iq is at least approaching the median they understand

[00:46:19] It's not how these things work

[00:46:21] But this thing contacts the local cell the local cell tower and that cell tower routes the call through a very complex

[00:46:28] infrastructure to call Andrew and connect to from his nearest cell tower to his phone

[00:46:35] And that whole infrastructure

[00:46:38] Can go down and it does sometimes so the whole idea of having radios is

[00:46:42] When that infrastructure stops behaving itself, I want to be able to talk to people

[00:46:47] You're easily too easy to get distracted or this isn't a comms

[00:46:52] This isn't a comms

[00:46:54] Episode yes. Yes. Yes. I know but the point is I have I have ways to keep me and wife my daughter cell phones running

[00:47:00] I have a method of comms if the cell phones stop working. I have

[00:47:05] The ifac in the truck. I also have I call it a boo boo kit or an owie kit which is

[00:47:10] Like a whole ass tupperware container

[00:47:14] filled with

[00:47:16] Not not ifac stuff not turnikits. It's got band-aids in it. It's got medical tape. It's got gauze. It's got

[00:47:24] Benadryl and Tylenol and ibuprofen

[00:47:27] It's

[00:47:28] Like the I always tell people that an ifac is if you don't fix this in five minutes

[00:47:33] This person's going to die. That's an ifac a boo boo kit is

[00:47:38] If you don't fix this it's gonna suck for a long time

[00:47:42] It's not gonna kill you. It's just gonna suck. Well

[00:47:46] unfortunately, you know if if it's my wife or my daughter that are

[00:47:50] That need Tylenol or need Benadryl or have a need a band-aid. I don't want their lives to suck

[00:47:57] So I have this whole tupperware container full of friggin like, you know

[00:48:02] Kitchen cabinet medical stuff and i'm going to tell you right here now

[00:48:06] I had that kid in the truck exactly a week before I had to pop it open the first time because my daughter had

[00:48:12] A headache and needed an ibuprofen like having that stuff at the ready comes in handy so freaking often

[00:48:19] And my wife also has a boo boo kit and an ifac

[00:48:24] Um, I keep water in my truck

[00:48:27] I couldn't even tell you how much because it's all little 12 ounce bottles and they're dispersed all over the truck like

[00:48:33] When I was trying to pack water into this truck

[00:48:36] Any available space that I could fit a water bottle. I stuffed it in there

[00:48:41] Just like instead of having a couple of big five gallon jugs

[00:48:45] I was just like hey, there's a little bit space right here putting our water bottle in there

[00:48:48] You know

[00:48:49] And at this point like if you oh if you lift up my back seat and you fold forward my back seat

[00:48:53] There's just water bottles everywhere because any available space I had left I filled

[00:48:58] Um, I keep mainstay rations in my truck, which are little vacuum packed foil wrapped

[00:49:04] Emergency rations. They actually come from the marine from the maritime world

[00:49:08] But they're impervious to salt water. They're impervious to heat

[00:49:12] I want to say they have a 10 year shelf life and like it's the perfect thing to keep in a vehicle because

[00:49:18] Almost any other food product you keep in a vehicle as hot as it gets is going to go bad

[00:49:23] And it's in about six months max mainstay rations don't care. They're built to be in bad environments. So

[00:49:29] I've got emergency food emergency water. I've got medical i've got a flashlight. I keep a set of um

[00:49:36] led

[00:49:37] emergency lights

[00:49:39] That have little bases I can set them out on the road or they have magnetic bases

[00:49:43] I can pop them on the side of the truck

[00:49:45] So if I have a breakdown I have a way to signal to other drivers

[00:49:49] And then I have a whole in my bed, I have a toolbox and that toolbox is like oil and

[00:49:56] You know rescue tape if I have a busted radiator hose need to fix and it's

[00:50:01] It's recovery gear. It's a snatch strap. It's

[00:50:05] Every it's tools. It's everything in the bed of my truck is I am stuck someplace or I am broke down

[00:50:11] I need to get myself free everything inside the vehicle mostly is sustainment stuff

[00:50:16] Sustainment stuff and I also keep a tire inflator a plug kit

[00:50:21] And a jump box again if the truck stops behaving itself. I have the things I need to make it behave itself

[00:50:29] Oh and pro tip anybody here that has a serpentine belt the next time you change it throw that serpentine belt

[00:50:34] Either in your trunk or your toolbox or whatever and have the tools you need to change it on the side of the road

[00:50:39] Or even if you don't have the tools like just

[00:50:42] Wrap it in the direction it's supposed to go kind of get it on the pulley get somebody to bump your starter

[00:50:46] It'll pop it right on

[00:50:48] Just in case you shred a serpentine belt in the middle of nowhere. You need to get your vehicle going again

[00:50:52] I've done it before

[00:50:55] So like that's that's the stuff I can think of that I carry in the vehicle. It's mostly centered around

[00:51:00] if the truck stops

[00:51:02] Make the truck move again

[00:51:04] And the ability to self-recover so my family's not stuck out there

[00:51:09] and it's the ability to sustain us if

[00:51:12] We are truly really stuck

[00:51:15] And then ways to call for help keep the cell phones going and have a way to have a way to talk if the cell phones stop working

[00:51:21] um

[00:51:23] about the only thing we that I don't carry in the truck that

[00:51:26] Might happen in the future would be like

[00:51:29] I might throw one of these uh, baofeng gmo gmrs radios in my truck just to have like

[00:51:34] You know

[00:51:35] Like if I have to stay in the truck and somebody has to walk away from truck. I have a way for them to

[00:51:39] Keep in touch

[00:51:41] I don't know. I do know that at some point i'm gonna have to set up a little radio bag or a little pelican case with a portable radio

[00:51:48] For gillion to be able to reach me

[00:51:50] If she's in her vehicle because she doesn't want a radio permanently mounted in her vehicle and an antenna and a tenant permanently mounted

[00:51:57] And like that that's one part of my comms plan that I haven't fully fleshed out yet

[00:52:01] But it's going to have to happen sooner or later

[00:52:05] I think that's about it

[00:52:08] Mm-hmm, you have half of a camping outdoor store in your truck

[00:52:13] Well, yeah ever since I added uh my drawer system so the deck drawer system kind of

[00:52:18] Uh escalated um a little bit you don't say but uh, yeah, uh, but no so basically. I mean basically I have

[00:52:25] uh, and

[00:52:26] I have a uh road atlas map system that I I have in the back seat

[00:52:33] That fits right behind the passenger seat

[00:52:36] uh, so

[00:52:38] I can I actually need to buy a new one a upgraded one because this one I think is about five or so maybe six years old

[00:52:44] Uh, so I need to get one that's more up-to-date more current. I have

[00:52:49] Extra water. I got a crowbar in there just in case I need to use it for self-protection or to

[00:52:57] Bend something or get something on stock. I don't know pick your

[00:53:01] poison I guess

[00:53:02] uh, I have

[00:53:05] Let's see

[00:53:06] Besides like the tire stuff and all that crap. Uh, oh I have a rain kit so I have uh

[00:53:12] Basically just a nice jacket for when it rains

[00:53:17] So I have that in there all the time. I keep a wool blanket in the in the behind the seat also at all times

[00:53:23] Uh a couple I keep extra mags

[00:53:26] In my center console some extra batteries stuff like that

[00:53:30] Uh on the passenger side

[00:53:33] Uh the headrest I actually have again from dark angel medical. I actually have their uh, their head basically

[00:53:39] It's like a headrest ifac

[00:53:41] Uh has two tourniquets in it has chest seals. I mean all that stuff that you need

[00:53:46] Uh to do that on top of that. I do have a

[00:53:49] I have a small med bag that I carry with me has uh, it has a small tank of uh, oh two in there

[00:53:55] Um, I have the bag valve bag valve mask. I have non-rebreather

[00:53:58] Non-rebreather everything I need to do

[00:54:01] Um, either do a um, you know to do an npa or you know npa or whatever

[00:54:06] um

[00:54:08] I can do I have in that bag is multiple tourniquets

[00:54:13] I have a

[00:54:14] IFAC that is actually in the door that I got from stop the bleed

[00:54:19] organization

[00:54:21] So it's right there. So I honestly if it's on my driver's side and it's on the driver's side

[00:54:26] passenger

[00:54:28] Door, so I just got to jump out grab open up that door grab it

[00:54:31] And you and you just rip it open and it has everything you need stage tourniquet everything. So

[00:54:37] I have that uh jumper cables, obviously jump pack

[00:54:41] Then you move back to the deck drawer system

[00:54:44] Uh, I actually need now that i've got to organize how I want. I actually need to put it in there but uh

[00:54:50] I'll have a like a two ton jack

[00:54:53] In there that I can use that folds down pretty nice

[00:54:55] Uh

[00:54:58] Camp stove food a lot of food that I have in there

[00:55:03] uh

[00:55:04] folding chair

[00:55:06] Fuel extra fuel for camp stove stuff like that. So

[00:55:10] Um, yeah, I don't know. I'm I know i'm missing some other stuff but

[00:55:14] Yeah, you reminded me of rain rain gear. Uh, it's multiple pairs of gloves

[00:55:18] So it's mandatory to keep a poncho or a raincoat in your vehicle down here

[00:55:22] Anybody that disagrees with me like I knew I knew who i'm gonna be laughing at when you're on the side of the road

[00:55:27] changing a flat in a rainstorm, but

[00:55:31] Yeah, yeah

[00:55:33] No, I um

[00:55:34] one of the things that uh, yeah, I mean what is it I

[00:55:39] I don't know. I mean i've got i've added so much in there now that with especially with this, uh

[00:55:45] Uh this drawer system and stuff. It's i've added a lot in there. So

[00:55:49] Uh, but no, I mean that's the thing it's and it's my truck is actually something that's ever expanding

[00:55:54] It's i'm always putting stuff in taking stuff out

[00:55:57] You know, so it's it's always it's always changing it changes more than my actual edc. So

[00:56:03] so I guess like the the

[00:56:07] To start I guess tying this whole thing together with a bow like the method to the madness here

[00:56:11] Is that like the whole idea of like everyday carry really comes down to the idea of like

[00:56:17] you know

[00:56:18] One day potentially some situation is going to arise and there are things that could make that situation much more tolerable to you

[00:56:26] So it just kind of pays to like have those things at the ready and be in the habit of carrying them

[00:56:33] and the thing that I will the thing I posit to most people is like

[00:56:37] I in all the time i've been in in this world and doing these kinds of things

[00:56:44] I have never once

[00:56:46] Had to draw my firearm down on somebody

[00:56:49] Not even once i've been in a situation where I thought I might but fortunately it didn't unwrap. It didn't unwrap that way

[00:56:56] I have

[00:56:57] been

[00:56:58] On the scene of a car accident four times where there was no police officer and no emt on site before me

[00:57:06] That's four times

[00:57:08] Me and that ifac might have been the only thing keeping somebody in one piece until professionals showed up

[00:57:14] Professional showed up

[00:57:16] So the ifac to me is a good thing to keep because again

[00:57:20] We're zero for the gun and four for the ifac

[00:57:24] The the boo boo kit I keep in my truck

[00:57:27] I have lost count of how many times i've had to pull that out for tylenol or for band-aids or for

[00:57:31] Benz drill or for whatever else i've lost count of how many times I pull that out

[00:57:37] um

[00:57:39] This flashlight, I mean obviously I carry it a lot

[00:57:41] But I don't know how many times I pulled this hand out of my pocket and handed it to my wife or handed it

[00:57:45] To my daughter or i've used it to illuminate parking lots or the power goes out here at night

[00:57:52] And i'm in a dark room all of a sudden

[00:57:55] I just pull this out pop the light on and start walking around like they like telling everybody in my family in my household

[00:58:00] Like hey y'all stay where you're at because I have a light

[00:58:03] I'll bring you a flashlight or i'll bring you a lantern. Just don't go stumbling around the dark and hurt yourselves

[00:58:09] This thing gets used constantly

[00:58:11] This knife has been used more for cutting open mail and packages than for doing tactical stuff

[00:58:20] So I guess the point i'm making with the with this little rant is like

[00:58:24] You know consider the fact that it's very often the most mundane things for the most mundane reasons that you carry stuff

[00:58:30] It isn't always

[00:58:31] Uh, I need to I need to shank a terrorist and then you know perform first aid on 14 people

[00:58:37] a lot of times it's

[00:58:39] Um, I don't see in the dark very well without a flashlight or somebody has a headache and needs Tylenol

[00:58:45] so like I I always go back to the idea that like

[00:58:48] Preparedness is something we should be doing every day

[00:58:51] And we should be if you're gonna prepare for an extraordinary situation. I'm behind that

[00:58:58] But if you're going to prepare for an extraordinary situation at the same time you ignore a mundane situation

[00:59:04] I'm going to give you side eye and possibly even force wittaker eye

[00:59:09] Because

[00:59:10] You know if you're gonna have a tourniquet, but no band-aids in your house. I don't know what you're doing

[00:59:16] Can't fix every problem with the tactical stuff unless you're unless you're doing it for instagram cloud

[00:59:21] Then by all means ignore the band-aids and get extra tourniquets

[00:59:26] Although I don't think most of the instagram rangers are doing tourniquets. They're just showing off

[00:59:32] hmm

[00:59:33] Just saying i'm just saying guys like

[00:59:36] You know think rationally about this think about what you're doing and um

[00:59:41] The advice I usually give people when they first start out in preparedness and they're like

[00:59:45] I need food

[00:59:45] But I don't know what to get and I tell them go get your grocery list

[00:59:48] And then buy like four of everything on that list and you're going to be in pretty good shape just on that

[00:59:53] Um, if you want to know what you should carry on yourself

[00:59:56] Start thinking about the last six months of your life and think about

[01:00:01] Oh this would that this situation I wish I'd had a flashlight guess what you should carry this situation

[01:00:07] I needed a lighter or I needed a pocket knife

[01:00:10] Or I needed cash

[01:00:11] Guess what you should start carrying or my phone died. Guess what you should start carrying

[01:00:17] like

[01:00:18] A little bit of hindsight a little bit of

[01:00:21] Analyzing our situation a little bit of looking at the situations

[01:00:25] We are people we know have been in will inform you very quickly what you should do going forward

[01:00:30] If we're just honest and smart enough to make the adjustments

[01:00:35] Anything else Andrew?

[01:00:37] No, it's the way to end it. This jack and coke has definitely started kicking

[01:00:41] I don't think i'm gonna do any editing tonight. It would be a bad decision

[01:00:46] All right. Well

[01:00:47] Everybody uh, yeah, I mean

[01:00:50] Comment below if you want to be interesting to hear what everybody else has uh, what they you know

[01:00:54] What people carry and ammo and all that stuff?

[01:00:58] But yeah, so I don't with that I will uh, I don't know

[01:01:03] We'll get some time to record again soon. Our schedules are pretty crazy for the next couple weeks

[01:01:08] Yes, so

[01:01:09] Yes, they are but at camp we'll get a chance to sit down and talk and visit and probably

[01:01:15] Do something i'm sure

[01:01:17] Yeah, for sure

[01:01:18] All right

[01:01:19] Matter of fact podcast going out the door dump your pockets look at what's in them and start asking yourself those questions about

[01:01:25] Am I carrying the things I should or am I not talk to you on a week? Bye everybody?