Matter of Facts: Roast My Sh!t part 2

Welcome back to the Matter of Facts podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping, guns, politics every week on iTunes, Ditcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at mwefpodcast dot com, on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us be a Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host, Phil Raveley Andrew Nicker on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Welcome back to Matter of Facts Podcast. I was this close to not turning our video on on time because I was goofing off with the wives who are both in the chat with Raggle, who's not a wife. Fantastic, I'm aware of Well, you never know, this is the first time for twenty twenty six. I'm not here to judge now, I'm here to ask questions. Do do, do not, don't hold ask dontel is not just an army policy, It is a policy with this podcast. All right. So there's a little bit topic and then a big topic that's carry from last week. So last week I wouldn't say we roasted nick stuff. We we critiqued it, gave a critique and and I don't think we were we were like unfair although you're you're drinking bourbon this time, so you might be unfair to me by the end of this, but we'll see. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think I'll be wildly out of pocket with any calls unless you unless you've slipped in some silliness there. No, I mean no more than usual. I mean I am off work tomorrow, so I am off of work, but not off of duty. I have things to do in the morning. I have to dig a trench. I don't have to do anything near that unpleasant sor right, it won't be too bad. I just I have to go to a hospital to bring someone to and from an outpatient procedure. That's not fun. Not as bad as digging a trench, but not fun. Well, I mean depends on the hospital. I mean I've dug some fun trenches before. It's not a I don't think there are fun hospitals. Yeah. Anyway, So admin work mini topic, big topic. If you'd like to promote bad decisions by becoming a patron that Lincoln is in the show description, you too can promote bad decisions, bad spending, habits, horrible efforts towards retirement savings, potentially silly things purchased that will, you know, maybe slightly delay renovation aspirations. Those sorts of things. We shall see. We shall see. If you'd rather buy merch for the vibes for the Southern Gals at link is also in the show description, and it won't touch your pocketbook near as badly as a set of night vision, So you know, buy a shirt and save some money. Yes, I would. I would say that that's the Prepper equivalent of girl math. You know, you'll have to give it to me. You can. And if you'd like to prevent war crimes with disaster coffee, use code m mof this is disaster coffee in my cup. Actually, no, I'm lying, this is not. This is a leftover dunkin Donuts because we do actually drink that. Okay, so not from the store. Not from the store, like we purchased the ground coffee dunkin Donuts. It's not even good, I'm and I love terrible coffee. Uh well, okay, so that was missus MF that picked that up. Because we were getting ready to blast out of town last weekend and I just I worked until literally like an hour and a half before we left, and I just didn't have the time to roast a batch of coffee and grind it and pack it, so I told her, but just just pick up coffee. It'll be fine. That's fair. It was fine. It wasn't as good as disaster coffee. And I have now fixed that problem because I just got through roasting a batch this afternoon from the thirty five pounds that are on the shelf back there. Well, I mean, if I'm going to be a post apocalyptic warlord one day, I have to have the thing necessary to keep all the minions in my under my control. Reminds me, I found a tea bush that will grow in Illinois. I might it's a flowering tea bush. I might plant some tea. You should also potentially consider growing chickory. Chickory doesn't have caffeine in it. It just tastes vaguely like coffee, very vaguely. If you've ever drank it. I have not, but I've heard it's somewhat vaguely coffee like. It's a an acquired taste, kind of like Louisiana heat in the summer. It's an acquired acquired heat stroke. I see, yes, Yes, Jim rawl is saying I tried and dewy sausage this week. What is wrong with you? Cajun's yuck? Oh, Jim, I'm so frickindising, all. Right, that's fighting words, Jim. I am not a Cajun, but I love that sausage. That's good sausage right there, So I will say, I will say and dewey is a very taste, like I personally love it. I am banned from bringing it into this house because my wife says I smell like a ndwey sausage for like a week after I eat it. Really, Oh, I love it. It's fantastic. Oh it is. It definitely is. Doctor scary guy, how dare you suggests substituting chickory for anything with caffeine? I mean, I am the person likes to promote bad decision making. That is a bad decision. Consider it promoted. Yeah, And Jim rawl is saying I loved the red beans and rice, Okay, I mean, I'll let's just slide on the andwe as long as we have the red beans and rice. I put it in my red beans and rays. That's what it's meant for. Good. Good, because that's what I use it for. Well that and I made a sandwich out of it the one day that was a good call, that that was all right. So let's have discussion. Before we have discussions Silencer Shop versus b ATF E will the NFA go down? Before we give prediction, I do just have to say that the freaking memes on social media, glorious slit the last couple of days holding sweet Baby Jesus in the manger? Have the memes been on freaking point. Every every goon, every freakin' LARPer, every gun advocate, every single person in the gun space right now is salivating over the idea that we just might see the NFA struck down nationwide. Man, all I'm saying is the reason I'm digging a trench is to power a mill in my garage. So if the NFA goes away, boy's gonna play in the garage. I mean, I already told you that if you decide to go into business making certain things, you might need an angel investor, and I might know some people who'd be interested. I also know some people who are interested. I've got a few different guys that I'm in touch with. We probably know a lot of the same guys. Some very similar guys. But I know some very similar guys that happen to have a fully equipped live tooling CNC department full of lathes and free time. They're not working three shifts yet. Jim rawls as being the naysayer already saying the court decision sounds great, but you know it's not happening. All right. Here's what you want to know. What I see happening. I see the Supreme Court going it's Congress's responsibility. That's honestly what I see happening. And they'll say Congress is already spoken because Congress did their job. Now. I don't see the NFA going away in its entirety. I could see them striking down suppressors. I could see them striking down short barreled rifles and shotguns. I do not see this Supreme Court siding with gun owners and saying machine guns for everyone. I just don't see it. I just don't see it at all. Suppressors, I think, are a very hard thing to argue against at this point, because look, the reason why they really got banned back in the day was two things. It was one organized crime and two poaching, coaching being the biggest one. That sold that. And let's be realistic here, most poachers, they weren't using suppressors. It was the argument that they used though. So yeah, I meant most poachers nowadays are using either crossbows out of season crossbows all year round, or unsuppressed rifles all year round in areas where there's just not enough police presence to deter it. Yeah. So kind of my thought process on this is is like, first of all, bear in mind that I'm the guy who looks at every single gun law and says, we already have a gun law that trump's all these and it's written by a bunch of old guys in the you know, in the Bill of Rights frigates for everyone. Yeah. But all that being said, I personally have said on numerous occasions, I don't think I will live long enough to see the NFA go away. Yeah. I would love to be wrong I have. I have so phenomenally little faith in this Supreme Court or any Supreme Court. And I know, I know, as Stuart listens to this after the fact, he is already just curiously working his little thumbs to get get a response together about all the historical reasons why I'm wrong. But this is like an emotional response. I have no faith in the Supreme Court neither. I have no faith in this Congress. I have no faith in this White House. I have no faith in any of these politicians. Because the gods honest truth is, there is literally almost no one in power today who really wants to see Billy Billy, Billy Joe and Jim Bob or Leeroy and Darryl running around with frickin' un with suppressed short barrel machine guns. Yeah, nobody wants to see that. Nobody really wants to see the common man armed with anything even approximating military grade firel. Well, look at all the look at all the surveillance companies that are now hiring massive uh multinational security firms for armed security for all their executives because of how terrible the anti flock sentiment and anti plant paolunteer and all those other and all this other stuff is. Even like the AI data centers, All the companies that are putting up those things are starting to hire armed security for their executives all the time because they're terrified of how much we're saying fuck you go away. Two things. Doctor, scary guy, you're a somebody almost. I did say almost no one. Almost no one. I'm willing to allow for the fact that there are a few freaking insane psychopaths out there that believe like I do, that you should be able to buy RPGs out of a vending machine with no background check, no freaking tax stamps, none of the freaking nonsense. I should be able to freaking build a minigun in my garage if I know how to put one together, and everyone else can just go to hell if they don't like that. That's what the Second Amendment means to me, and it is the reason why I spent years shut out of the Second Amendment community at large because I was too extreme. But my opinion hasn't shifted in twenty years. I believe exactly what I did back then, But the overten window of gun owners has also shifted in my direction. I think now shifted it. Hmmm, several things. Okay. First of all, COVID, No, I think it's earlier than that. Oh, hold on, COVID Summer of Love. Yeah, that's one. And even though this is not a recent event, I still to this day believe that a combination of Ruby Ridge and Waco, in concert with every other time, including more recently where someone got their door kicked in over an enavay violation and got shot or got hemmed up or their family members got hurt. I think that's happened enough times in history that now gun owners are waking up to the fact that, like there are no good gun laws. Every time somebody says we need another gun law for common sense and safety, we wind up getting hammed, you know, run over by it. What do you think I think it was Juwat because what we had was we had Okay Desert Storm one, Operation I Recking Freedom Afghanistan, all of that Operation during Freedom and Iraqi Freedom Album, all of Juwat. What we have as an entire generation of individuals who were from the time I was like fourteen fifteen, actually no, I was like eleven when we first started the invasion Jesus Christ next. So for the last twenty five five years, we've been sending eighteen year olds overseas in mass with fully automatic weapons, sniper rifles, grenade launchers, fucking tank I was twenty one when I deployed, exactly. We have been sending young people in mass overseas for the first time really in mass since Vietnam, and it was seen as at least acceptable, not popular necessarily, but acceptable that we were there doing it, and we all watched them do all that cool guy shit. And we also, why can't I, I'm thirty five, Why does a seventeen year old get to have a forty millimeter grenade launcher? And I So, I don't agree with anything you say, but doctor scary guy had just hit on what I was thinking. It's not just cheap, it's yeah. I think it's the combination of the two. That's the other factor right there. It's the fact that like this, bear in mind, I deployed in a like deployed. I was boots on the ground in OIF two. So I was in country during two thousand and four when the assault weapons band expired yep or sunset it. So I was in that generation that literally was playing with them, sixteens in the desert, came home and all of a sudden, these things were freaking legal again for the first time in ten years. And you guys all had experience a lot. It's a combination of the two. You have a massive, fully televised war with all the people coming back with experience with those arms, and a small amount of deregulation at the same time, and one in which my generation was heavily overrepresented in those engagements. There's a lot of gy Fats that are between like forty and fifty right now because we were that prime age range, where like we were eighteen to twenty four years old when that was going on. A lot of the guys I graduated high school with that went into the military. They all did time in Iraq and Afghanistan, not all of them in combat. In fact, most of them were not in combat, but they did time overseas. Yeah, and when they came home. The first thing they did when they got out of the military air fifteen AML plate carrier, that's air I. Did so one other thing, Raggle asked earlier. Our machine guns still test this are so ore, SBRs and SBS's suppressors are not. Yeah. So, I mean, I am firmly in the boat of I don't have any faith in anyone that has the ability to rule this one way or the other, and I live to be proven wrong. Oh yeah, I would love nothing more than taking my twenty two caliber gatling gun plans and just hooking a motor to that because fuck you, this is silly and I love it. I would love to be proven wrong. I will happily go on social media and like tell eat my plaid crow publicly and happily with perfect I will be the happiest wrong mother effort you've seen in podcasting duel wielding ludies. But at the end of the day, I just can't bring myself as much as I enjoy the memes they've been fire great, as much as I enjoy sticking my sticking the middle finger up to the anti gunners and rubbing it in their faces and be like, oh, look what's about to happen, just to watch them come nclude. It's good, it's good, clean, Fine, it's not much, but its honest work. But I just can't bring myself to believe it's really gonna happen, because I just don't think there's that many people in this country that really and truly want everybody to have the kind of guns I think everybody should have, even people in the second even if people in the second amenmic community, dude, get a little uncomfortable when you start talking about groups of people they don't think should have guns having lots of guns, Well, let's let's be very honest. There's still a very big section of the elder two a community that's really fucking racist, like and there and if not outright racist, very classiest, very ageist, oh most defin very much like I can have guns, but the young folks shouldn't. I can have machine guns because I grew up with them, and I know how to do it and I know how to handle it. What are your seventh favorite cataracts? You can't even fucking see the end of your driveway? My personal favorite. I can have machine guns because I had to pay fifty thousand dollars for these things. Oh yeah, which, well, what about my investments? Fuck your investment? Yeah? That that's that's like saying that I hope the housing market never corrects because I my grandpa, my grandfather said that exact sentence. I the housing market cannot crash because my retirement will be gone. Do you know what I told my wife? If the housing market does correct, does correct in our houses? If our house dumps thirty percent of value, guess what, we're fine. I've been making extra payments on this SOB to build up a lot of equity in it, and my equity position is still pretty shirt up. I guess what's going to happen if my house is thirty percent of value? So does everybody else's great, we're all on the same boat again. When the tide goes up, all the boats go up. When tide goes down, all the boats go down. That's how the economy works. Boys and girls. The only way you get pinched by that scenario is if you're way over leverage more than you should be, and if I have to explain to you why that is. You should have a financial advisor that knows more than I do. You probably should. And even if we don't have to explain that to you, you should have a financial advisor. They're really not that expensive. If you have a four to h one k an ira or any other kind of retirement account through work, the company that your job has that retirement portfolio through has financial advisors, you are an existing customer. When we went to talk to ours, it was five hundred dollars. It was five hundred bucks for from now till forever of them dealing with us for that because we have our retirement to count through them, and as long as we have that account, we never have to pay another dime for financial advice. Yeah, five hundred bucks is pretty cheap. He helped me move some things around. Those investments have already more than made back that five hundred dollars and extra, quite a bit extra funny how that works, Oh, a couple of things we've gotta address MS video. I also don't care about their investments. You, me and everybody don't care if if all these old people's freaking m sixties are suddenly worth reasonable money tomorrow, hallelujah, great um less see here, Jeff Jag. If it does, I'll have a bit of me President camachuing looties within the month. Fuck yeah, I will, dude, I will, I will. I will superimpose a President Camacho's head over yours and put that on our social media. It's going on everywhere. That would be freaking out hell landishly funny and raggle fragle. Their wealth doesn't supersede our rights, unfortunately in this country. Sometimes it feels that way. In every country it does. It is that way. Well, let's be real here. Anything that comes with a fine just means it's legal for a fee. Always important words to live by. Oh, you poisoned millions of people twenty million dollar fine. So twenty million dollar fine. I can poison millions of people's what you're telling me perfectly? Okay, you're ready to uh? Are you ready for part two of Roast my shit? Rate the stuff rate my shit, my shit. I mean, it just really depends on which way you want to go with this. The rules, the rules one to five two scores. One to five, five be the best, one being the worst. Rate for practical and for cool, two separate scores. All right, I can do Now I have I am gonna present to you my work EEDC, which is gonna have an interesting curveball thrown into it that you might see coming you might not. I got an idea the man perse slash PCC to do everything and use car money on a helmet. Oh I love that part. Yeah, I'm sure you do, because you didn't have to spend its exactly why I love it. And there is there's a point I want to make here because you brought up brand loyalty and why you're not brand loyal Yeah, I'm gonna throw one in here that's gonna be controversial. Not all chineseium is junk, and not everyone needs pro gear. Agreed, agreed. I'm just gonna tell you personally, I always subscribe to the idea that like having something that is good enough and gets you training is usually a lot better than having like, you know, the top tier hype beast whatever bull crab someone on Instagram is shilling today. I would rather you have airsoft stuff, which, let's call what it is. Most of your Chinese nylon goods on Amazon are not that bad these days. They are not NI are rated. Well, that's freaking horrible. I guess I, I guess I just won't be able to fight the Chinese when they paragru have been in my backyard. Right, I mean, look, thermals will be a problem for you, Infrared reflectivity will be a problem for you. I'll just cover myself in mud. It'll be all right. Work for Arnold Schwarzenegger, work for me too. Unless you are fighting a near pure adversary with nods and thermals, it does not matter. But in my use case, I am much more likely to have to fight against a bunch of people trying to loot my house. Random bangers with glock nineteen's probably, and if they are running around with aviation grade pbs fourteens on their heads. I have a whole different set of problems to deal with. Oh yeah, you've got a lot of problems, but very and like like I said, that is semi controversial, Like this is this is coming on the tail end of like us talking about how good revel Raiders stuff is for the money. I love his equipment. It is absolutely like top tier stuff for bottom tier prices. Value to performance is very peak with his stuff. But I also I also I don't ever have k buying the cheapest thing out there. But I also don't recommend that a person just sit on their money until you could afford the best of the best. Because if it's like the argument of a high point. If buying a high point because it's what you can afford today and it makes you able to defend yourself and your family today, that's better than saving your money for six months to get a glock, to get a glock nineteen, Yeah, it's much better gun. Not arguing that point, but you're you're you have no gun for six months. That's not necessarily a plus. You know, it's it's it's the same argument that I have. I find that I have all the time with people that go on and on about the truck gun thing or the truck gun PCC or whatever truck rifle. Look, man, the gun that you have on your hip beats the gun that's wherever the fuck else that's not on your side right now, because at the very least you can throw down covering fire and get the shit out the way. All right, let's start working through this. I don't know if that matter of fact logo on the screen is going to be in the ways. I might actually be Okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna mix that and everybody knows what show this is. If you don't know what show you're watching, that's your fault. It is, okay, So the work eedc No gun's allowed. Because as much as I would love to tell all of you out there that like, we have a right to carry guns wherever we want and YadA YadA, yah, I and a lot of people working places where bringing a gun into your workplace won't just get you fired, it will get you prosecuted. Yeah. That's that's one of those risk ward scenarios we've discussed before, where the the everyday risk is considerably higher than the possible payoff. Yes, so my work eedc is, incidentally enough, this little bitty pocket knife, because there's a specific provision in my workplaces rules where you can have a pocket knife with a blade less than two and a half inches perfect. It is this weapon of some guests two and three eighths of an inch. It's a little bit of Gerber paraframe. Dude. The Gerber paraprame is a great knife. I'm still pissed I lost mine. I like it because, like it's a classy looking little knife. I keep this thing like a razor blade, yep. And mostly it's for like you know it literally, mostly for utility use. But in the pinch, it's a knife. Any knife's better than no knife. I'm pulling stuff out of my pocket because I carried it all the time. Streamline protag one L nice. This is a dual fuel, so you can UCR one twenty three double a's and I keep spare batteries in my work bag all the time, good, and in my truck and on the shelf and in the safe pretty much anywhere I go. I've got CR one twenty three is close at hand, a mainstay ration because I had there has been a time where I was at work until like nine thirty at night because we had a bomb threat calling calling in the facility, and when that happened, they locked the place down. No one's allowed to leave. So I was supposed to go home at three thirty that afternoon, and I was there untill nine thirty at night. So forever, forever and ever after that, I make sure I've got a man's stay rational on me. So I've got like three thousand plus calories on hand in case I need it, not a bad call, A twenty six house camel bag that actually stays in my desk. BeO Fang UB five R Mini because backup coms are a beautiful thing. If cell phones go down, and I know that I can take that BeO Fang and I can hit the Lacombe repeater that's not too far from my house from my workplace, from that third story. So if the cell phones went out, my wife were to grab any one of these radios and then just really powered on because they all stay dialed to the little come repeater. I can reach your on that nice uh power brick and a charging cable. Because the Bao fan can charge off USBC, my phone can charge off of the USBC, and that is going to be my primary communications device, is my phone. Right drammamane emodium et cetern dramma mean an emodium because if you have a case of Upchucks or down chucks, a double dose of that will help mitigate that long enough for me to like get home and get you know, get done what I need to get done, et cetera. Because migrains are a bastard m h. Single use super glue. Because in a pinch, if you have, I mean really anything from like a broken zipper in your clothing to a button that decide to pop off, to a cut or something you might you might would normally get a stitch, put in band aids, alcohol pads, shears, caause, four x four stairy strips, chest seals, cat turn a kid cohesive, bandage, quick clock, sponge, and roller gauze nice. All of that stays in my work bag, which is usually like two feet to my left or at the very most I am never more than like twenty five thirty feet away from that bag at all times. But now this is the stuff that comes to work with me every day, comes home with me every day, and it is there to make sure that a if there's a really weird situation, I have some bare minimum, you know, trauma stuff to deal with it. But more than anything, there's a lot of stuff in here that's like comfort. Awi's bobos because I work a nine hour shift and I work an hour away from home, So like if I suddenly get a case of down Chucks or up Chucks, I need to make it stop and long. An hour drive home is a long drive home some days. Yeah, yeah, right, So practical cool I expect a one for cool because there's nothing here that's I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go practical first, and i'm gonna go practical. I'm gonna give you a four. You're losing one point. You've got the water bladder in there, but you've got no way to filter or purify the walk. True, So i'm gonna give you a four. I practical. I'm gonna give you a two on cool for for two reasons. One, you know how to use all of this shit. You know how to use it, and understanding your gear is always a little bit cool. And I did not know those new mini radios charge off of USBC. That's fucking awesome. That's fantastic. You don't have to have a separate, weird random ass charger to recharge that thing. It can all work off a power brick. That's awesome. And actually the the the bigger green BeO fangs, I have the GM fifteen pros or gmris only it was also charge of the USBC. Dude, that's sweet. That is so nicer than all the random ass chargers. All of my HTS charge off a USBC straight into the battery. I might have to upgrade, dude, having that other having that other style of the chargers is a pain in the ass to bring with you. It it is, and it is the reason why. Like, so everyone's heard. Everyone in the gun community has heard the gag of like does it take lockmags? Right, it's kind of funny, but it's kind of true. The same twelve gage doesn't take lockmags. Yes, I'm going to tell you that in the in the radio world, HTS, if it doesn't take a freaking USB C to charge to me, it's freaking useless. Like it's too easy to integrate into the goddamn battery. It works too well, it's too ubiquitous. Just put a freaking USBC port in the damn battery and quit screwing around with whatever proprietary bull crap you're using to charge your radios today, all you manufacturers, if you refuse to put I am part of the USBC supremacy gang at this point. If you refuse to put usbc's in your radios, I will dog them out forever. Yeah, it's at this point. There's really no excuse. There's no excuse of it than greed. That's really all it is. So yeah, doctor scary guys say you can buy USB C batteries for the UB five R. That is true, they do make them. I will be buying those batteries this weekend. But the USB, the the UB five R Mini is also ABE airband capable airband. Oh bruh, you can't know. I have no interest in planes other than you. They fly above your head. Yeah. I mean sometimes they do, but most of the time they're flying the fuck somewhere else. Okay. So to be and to be fair, I have a I have a regional airport like three quarters of a mile maybe from my workplace. We the the building regularly gets buzzed with traffic. That's making a battery. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, we have a we have a local single engine airport that's downtown for me, but I think three planes a week leave there's it's all a crop duster and these two old bastards that fly showplanes around. Yeah, doctor, scare guys, say, consider a small crank charger for when the batteries are dead. I mean, that's not unfair. I don't like them. I don't like them. I lean in this direction because like this is this is not a kit for I'm going to be stranded for three days. This is a kit largely centered around the idea that it really is just there to make sure that I am comfortable and provided for until it's time to drive home. Yep, that's fair. Look, worst case scenario if like my car is to say able, or something weird happens and I have to hold up for like, you know, a longer period of time until someone can come into town and grab me and bring me home. I have thirty six I have thirty two hundred calories sitting there in a mainstay ration and all the water that comes through the friggin building, which is already filtered. Yeah. Look, I don't know if any phil have you ever used one of those crank radios or crank chargers, just they're freaking obnoxious. They take so goddamn long to do anything. I would rather have a second battery pack than that because of just the convenience, because then I don't have to sit there and just wind away for a couple of hours. I mean, a small solar panel, like the solar panel I was gifted by one of our patrons for Secret Santa, does a way faster job. And it's also worth pointing out that, like, as long as the building is powered, I have a freaking USB charger sitting on my desk, and you have a generator set on the building, don't you. There is a generator for the emergency systems for the whole campus. Okay, so there'll be theoretically power you could tap into. Yeah. So this, this power bank is really a backup to a primary that has a backup. So I feel okay about it. I think it's fair. Okay, So a four and a two, give me a four and a two. I'll take it. Next up, Scorpion and Merse baggun truck gun. I call it Immerse because it's Amerse. Stewart's been calling get man purse ever since I built the silly thing, and I can't break him with the habit, So I'm not I'm just giving up with everybody else. So cz Scorpion. I actually meant to and totally friggin didn't remember to look up that light manufacturer that I do know. It's a stream light, and I want to say it's there. It's there. It's their white light and ir light. Oh okay, that makes sense, and IUR laser all in one. It's not a it's not a particularly high performing IUR laser or i OUR illuminator, but it does have that capability. It works with my night vision if ever I decide to employ the two together. I've got a red dot on the top and I can still kind of use the irons if the red dot goes down. So there is that. It's kind of a weird position to have the light like on the bottom of the handguard like that. That is actually strictly done to keep the width of the firearm down. That's for storage, yeah, because if I have the light on the side, now the whole thing's wider. Oh it's a lot wider. Do you have a folder on that folding the pistol brace is that folder. I wonder if you put the light on the same side as the pistol brace when it's folded down, you're going to get a similar width profile. About that, but in the in the place this is normally stored, I store it with the pistol brace fully extended so they keep the width to the minimum. Is really my best interest enough. I keep it stored with a twenty round magazine. The merse the man Person has three thirty round hold magazines in it along with two fifteen round hold magazines for my daily carry and is really quick clock gauze, gauze four by four is cohesive bandage, and a cat turn a kit basic blowout kit type of stuff. The idea behind this was, like you and I have talked about the fact that like I don't do bag guns like most people do bagguns where it's like a gun in a messenger bag that you go to get your Starbucks with. My version of baggun is like hotel gun. It's I'm gonna be four or five hours away from home. I really would feel better if I had a little more than one nine MILI and one extra magazine. I'd like to have a little bit more firepower, and a Scorpion is like the perfect middle ground for me of definitely more capabilities than a handgun, use the same ammunition as the handgun, which is a happy meal all by itself. It is I don't have to carry two kinds of ammunition. I mean, have a magazine cross compatibility where I could like use glock mags and both of them would be kind of fun, but it would in this case. The Scorpion is a really reliable firearm. It's dead simple, straight blowback. The magazines are freaking stellar. I've never had a funk problematic this thing. And the merse is the attempt to have like the things I would normally have on a chest rig in a non tactical looking form factor because I can literally sling this thing around my you know, over my neck, cross body like a messy bag, have it up against my side, and it doesn't look like a chest rig. It doesn't look like have the PCC under your jacket standard executive protection kind of idea. I mean, I've literally run this thing before where I had the brace folded and it was up against my chest with the sling really really choked up short, so it stayed nice and high, and I had it underneath the coat. Yeah, had any freaking clue? No? Absolutely not? No? All right, so can you Now I don't know this, so I'm gonna ask, can you HK slap the scorpion? Because this will impact your score? Yes, you can ten out of ten pull the charge and handle of the rear and then rocking up to the top and then dropping a magazine in HK slap it. Okay, that's a five cool because you get a plus one for being able to HK slap it. That's always a plus one cool. I'm gonna give it a four practical, better than I thought. I'm gonna give it a four practical. And the reason why I'm not giving it a five is because I fucking hate bags like that. I hate wearing them, I hate carrying them. I just I don't know. I have tried those sling style bags before. They were all the rage when I was in high school and I tried them, and my god, they were just always in the fucking way. Okay, so let me ask, because it's hard to tell from this, h do you think that this is one of those like crossbody bags that like, because this is literally like a uh, it's like a messenger bag that would sit down by your hip and the strap would be across most of your body, right, like an old school like army messinger. This is literally an old army surplus. I think it was technically like a matt bag or like a document bag. Yeah, kind of thing, almost exactly. Yeah, you take the bag off, handed off to the next guy. He goes, Yep, I cannot stand using those But my god, there's nothing in here that isn't practical for the purpose you're going for, except I just hate those bags. I mean fair, But for the sake of argument, what would you use instead? Not chest rig? That's the key here is I'm trying not to have a rig technical looking stuff. I would probably go, and this is less practical but more comfortable to me, I would probably go mag in pocket, extra mags in backpack. Backpack is another perfectly good hood. I mean, and look, you can get fifteen bucks. Right, I mean, look, these scorpion mags are small enough. I bet you you can find it inside the waistband pouch. For those scorpion mags, I means is a mile long, dude, Why you gotta dalg on me? About my torso being tall. All we all know that I'm lending a torso room to stick those mags up your torso a little bit. I mean, listen, just because I could freakin appendix carry a freaking RPG seven doesn't mean I have a tall torso. You do, and you could. Someone's gonna meet me in person one day, be like, you don't look that tall, and I wait till since that doesn't he just said I had a tall torso. I have little bit legs. I'm like an upside down t Rex, right. I think I'm what, I'm like four or five inches taller than you until we sit down, then I'm shorter. Yeah, it is the weirdest experience on Earth. And I've been shaped like this like my entire adult life and still don't understand how it happened. That's weird biologies. I'm pretty convinced that, like, I'm a dwarf and I'm just waiting for the magic to reactivate and then I'll shrink down to my normal size. Do you think you could fit a second tournique in their film? I mean the only other thing because sometimes, yeah, I have heard now, granted I don't have any experience with this myself, other than using a tournique one time on a work accident victim. You're thinking, like a really big muscular thigh away, dude, you're a muscular kit dude. If you take one in the upper thigh. I've heard of people needing up to four on a leg wound. Not unfair, I had kind of, I mean, I do. It's on the list to just bulk order a bunch more cat turniquets. They do expire by the way they do. They do go bad over time. Nylon does die just by existing. Most plastics do. I will say that I'd kind of always so bear in the mind that like I am in that narrow generation of military veterans where we were pretty well taught to use an Israeli bandage like a tourniquet if it was not available, it can make do, and so can your belt. But if but a cat turner quit is way faster. Can't disagree with that, I mean, and that's for the cost of them. They're what like thirty five bucks now, I think I thought they were up to forty. They might be up to forty. Still, I dropped fifty on one because they're extremely effective and very easy to use with extremely little training. Yeah, especially before stage it appropriately. Before we move on back up. You got one. Okay, it's well, it's not very visible here, but it is visible here. You can see how a lot of that medical equipment is actually vacuum bag together. Yeah, this is a This is the thing I tend to do with a lot of my kids. As I take it, I vacuum bag it together. I don't suck it down like for super tight, but enough to get most of the air out, and then I will cut a slit in the side, like not all the way past where it crimps together, but just enough that you can like rip it open bare handed. It's something I do more than anything, just to keep like humidity away from it and it gets Yeah. Well, and if the whole bag gets submerged, then at least medical equipment stays druck. Yeah, because the tourni kit'll still be fine. Soaking wet. I mean you'll get a little more stretch out of the nylon, but not enough to matter. Yeah, But to me, it's just it's a small thing. And it also means I could pull that whole thing out and it's all self contained. Yep, all right, next up, the do everything the GPR with expensive boltons. So this is the sixty inch carbing I built forever Go Air Precision lower M four enhanced Upper, which I don't know if you and I've ever talked about or you're aware of what the difference is between your standard your standard air precision upper and the enhanced upper YEP, so for the audience it isn't aware. The enhanced uppers use a proprietary arrangement around the barrel nut. Whereas normally you have like outside threads and the barrow nut screws onto the outside and then your handguard usually attached to that barrel nut. With the M four enhanced uppers, that junction point is actually beefed up. The barrel nut goes inside the upper and has outside threads and it screws down and then the handguard. If you get the proprietary arrow handguard attaches directly to the upper, so you don't have I really like it too. I will say that it is. It is a bit heavier than a standard arrangement. I get a lot less flex out of the handguard like this, which is kind of important if you're going to be mounting the laser on the extreme end of the freaking foe end, and it's freaking tough. It hasn't given me any problems. The only down inside too, it is you're kind of locked into proprietary errow precision stuff, which is not a downside if you like it. And yes, yes it's not downside except they're dead rip arrow precision. But that's fine. That just means I'm gonna keep this need a different upper. It's two pins, new upper, go forth and shoot more stuff. Yeah, I mean it's it's not like you lose the firearm because of that. The upper is a consumable part when it gets to Yeah, and to be to be perfectly honest, like I'll be honest at this point, Like if I had an issue that could be corrected, like the rear the rear charging handle latch that's built into the upper start to wear out, I would find somebody that can we out aluminum and just like put all adult there and machine it down, like I would do what I had to do to keep this thing together. You'd be shocked how how long it will take you to wear out that upper. Because I have phil you, we've brought this up before. I am an above average consumer of bullets. I have yet. The only upper I have ever destroyed was on a Springfield XDM, and I cracked the slide at the frame rail hoof too well, it was on its third barrel, you know, it had been shot quite a. Lot, quite a lot a couple of times. Yeah. I was told that that was not considered a typical defect for manufacturing. Or regular use by Springfield. They would not warranty that slide. No, can't say I blame them, No, given the wear that was on the slide, I'm not surprised. Yeah. So back to the sixty inch Vaxine gunner profile barrel, which I'm a bit of a faction whore. I like their gunner profile. I think it's the goldielocks barrel because you get like lots and lots and lots of beef all the way out to the gas block, and then from the gas block to the end of the barrel where rigidity is not as much of an issue. They strink it down to a pencil barrel to give you a little bit the Yeah. The engineering term is polar moat moment of inertia, meaning if you save a pound on the extreme end of a lever arm it it has more impact on how fast the gun swings versus if you save a pound at the pivot point. That's really nerdy. It doesn't really apply to firearms much. It does, but it's one of those things. I'll tell you this much. If you're trying to freak in save weight, that's the place to save weight on a barrel and not impact the performance much. Uh. Toolcraft one volt just because Toolcraft makes good stuff and it was cheaper than every other option that had a brand name on it at the time. ALG Defense trigger group because I wasn't in the mood spend guysly money. Yeah a shot. I've shot the snot out of this ALG Defense and I really don't have This is a I want to say. They're act their Advanced combat trigger whatever they call it. It's like the OEM plus you know, Millspec trigger. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with that. Jeff has a good question. I wonder how many barrels, bolts, and gas tubes you replaced before you'd have to replace an upper. Jeff, I don't know that I've ever heard of someone wearing out an upper, and the Marine Corps has tried. I have heard of a few people wearing out uppers, and usually it's it's exactly what I talked about before. It's the the charging handle starts to just jump loose because that little nub where the latch grabs it starts to wear smooth. Which but that is that is after years and years and years and years and years and many many many barrels and gas tubes like that's that's a gun that's been taken apart, reassemble multiple times. The gun of theseus as it were, Yes, okay, vortex, red dot and magnifier. Nothing really is nothing really fantastic about him. As a strike fire two and a three X magnifire, It's solid, solid, does fine. Hall of a Sudden l three twenty one. Because at the time I put this together, the Hollis and Iris had not come out yet. I toy with the idea of upgrading to that, but it's kind of one of those things of like what I have is fine and it works, and it's like eight hundred bucks I'd rather put towards a chronograph. Yeah, you gain more spending that money elsewhere at this point. Yeah, Arisoka light, which was not cheap, But I will just say like total shout out to Arisoka Defense. If you are in the need or in the want for a really nice weapon. Light before you buy, sure far before you buy anything, go to Arisoka and just look through that tool they use where you can pick the body you want, the heads you want, the tailcap to this and that and that, and just look at what you can put together yourself. Because what I have here is a Malcoff device's head. I want to say it's Aristoka's own body, which is compatible with either a pairs here on in one twenty threes or a sixteen six fifty battery. I like the sixteen I like the sixteen six fifty. I wouldn't have been opposed to an eighteen six fifty, except that body is not compatible with CR one twenty threes. And I, since I'm so heavily invested in CR one twenty threes and every other damn thing that's gonna related, compatibility is king. In that point, compatibility is king. I have four sixteen six fifties that are all USBC rechargeable, and I keep them topped off. So it's one of those things where it's like I don't expect to have to use zerr one twenty threes. But in a pinch, I like to know that the light that the batter I use for everything else will also fit in that thing. Surefire what is it again? It's the tail switch that takes a crane plug, but it also has the button on the back for a backup. I don't know what that is. I forget off the top of my head what the Surefire's name nomenclature is, and I don't really care. And a unity switch to run the light and the laser and all that crap together. Now that's the rifle. It's got some magpole crap onto, but nobody really cares. Howard light Earpro. Look you a magpole crap on your rifle. It's it's basic, bitch. It always works. Love it and that And that's the thing I don't. I don't care if it's cool or not. I care that it works, and it just just so happens to also be pretty decent. Yeah, Howard light Earpro with a COMMS upgrade, because I'm not spending pel tour money. Not happening Amazon chest rig because like I said before, not all chinesey and misjunk. This really hasn't proven to give me a problems yet, and it will last long enough for me to eventually upgrade in something nicer, or in a pinch, take the freakin' bacarion and turn it into a chest rig. If I really needed something, I have thought about that it's possible, okay, And in the chest rig m HM bail thing radio because this rig you can actually see the push talk isss traps. It's rigged up for comms. It'll plug into that Howard light, It'll plug into my helmet. Uh runs off a BeO fang. Any of the bo fangs runs off a standard K plug. This is actually the reason why I got those little short signal stuff four to forty monoband intenna is because they're really really small, and they're really high quality, and they don't you know, come up to hear on you when I'm wearing it. And spare batteries, chess Seal quick clot four by fours Israeli bandaged cohesive bandage like your basic bitch blowout kit. Medical stuff can't go right. The idea here was very simply, this is the the do everything. This is. I didn't want to bring a plate carrier out because frankly, you and I have the same plate carrier, and there's only so many times I can show you how vicarion looks before everybody's just like, okay, Phil, who gives a shit? Yeah, it turns out where shows for rebel, This shit's awesome, deal with it. Yeah, but in this case, this is like, this is everything I think you really need to run rifle. Yeah. Plus plus comms because one of the reasons I started dipping my toes so much into comms was from the stand point of like, if my wife and I are in a situation where like I am having to use this stuff to protect the home, I want to be able to communicate back into the house with her. And being able to do that through my cans where nobody else can hear what's being said and her talk freely to me is a plus. Yeah. You know, I like the Howard lights. I had a pair for a lot of years that now lives in my work toolbox, and I upgraded to some pel Tour. Sport tax which I think we're worth the upgrade. They give you better sound damping, they give you better auditory awareness because they've got a microphone on both sides. I have found they do a better job of maintaining consistent volume. The Howard lights, I've noticed if you're having a conversation while gunfire is going off, you just get emptiness, emptiness, emptiness every time there's a shot. It's like, it's not it's just cutting the audio in instead of adjusting the decibel level. Does that makes sense? And that's not to go And then their cost to benefit ratio on the Howard lights are phenomenal if you have a buddy you're gonna take out shooting, or a buddy that's getting into shooting and you're looking for a gift for that person for whatever. But I'm a pair of Howard lights, what are they like? They're like fifty bucks? Right? They might be less than that, and I'll be honest. I mean the closest competitor to these things is the Walker Razors. I like the Howard lights better. I'm not a fan of the Walker Razors for how they fit my head because I wear glasses all the time. So I will say that for Howard lights or Walker Razors. Amazon does sell the gel cup insert. The gel cups are a huge upgrade, especially the ones that have the slot for your glasses. I find that even the ones that don't have the slot for your glasses help because they just mold around your glasses so much better they do, they do, They are better than the traditional foam shell. But I will say this much the reason why I poke Howard Lights. If you're gonna mimic this and you want to get the Coms Upgrade, which is another Amazon purchase. They do have that clip on Mike's Mike Boom forum, which is great. Well, but here's the reason I pushed the Howard Lights because they do make this exact same Comms upgrade for Howard Lights and for Walker Razors, and I think and for Pelterers. But what I found out was that if you use the Coms Upgrade on Walker Razors, there's something about the way they're wired where if the battery dies in this Walker Razors, you also lose your comms. But Howard, but with the Howard Lights, if the battery dies, you like you stop hearing the outside world, but you still hear your coms loud and clear. I think my Peltars are the same way. If you if you lose your battery and the Peltars you lose your coms. Interesting, now I will now I will say this is something I've not thought about now. I will say this much. When I plug those up, I lose one year. M like, okay, it's kind of trade offs one way. It's almost like if you put the coms upgrade on. And by the way, this is plug in through the head the headphone port, so it's gonna be the same way if you're like, you know, wiring in any kind of audio. But with the Howard lights, to me at least, it really sounds like I lose that that awareness in my left ear, I hears, yeah, And I mean this is this is kind of like shades of user experience and also bearing a mind like price point. But for my money, the Howard lights, the Colm, the coms add on, and the gel cups that is perfect poor Man's com you know, like perfect poor Man Peltars. Yeah, yeah, no, dude, they do a great job. I ran them for years. Even shooting in competitions, they don't do great unless you're doubled up for like three hundred win mag or something with a big heavy muscle break. Because I don't shoot for reasons. Yeah, things, You don't shoot for reasons unless you like giving yourself concussions. I guess I don't one thing I have to include in here, and then you can rip me or gas me up, go for it. Raggles said, just the height over bore bother you with that one. So here's the thing. If it weren't for the riser that's included here, which is not the easiest thing to see, that red dot and magnifier would actually be about the regular height of maybe a touch higher than I was gonna point that out. Yeah, but there is a Bobro engineering riser underneath that red dot, and it's because of that little bit on the end of the rifle there. Yeah, I mean that's Jack and the whole package up about another three quarters of an inch. Now, I will say, and I like Andrew and I talked about the spore when we talked about night vision. I am I am perfectly capable of getting a PBS fourteen in behind a non raised to the ceiling red dot. Yeah, crane your neck a little bit. You have to adjust your stance a little bit. Like it can be freaking done. It is not as if you need these gigantic hype beasts risers that are like four and a half inches up off the gun. It's not that big of a freaking deal. It can be done. But I will admit that when you're in a hurry and you're trying to come upon target quickly, you will bounce your PBS fourteen off the top of your rifle a lot less with a little bit of a rise. I believe that. I believe that, and I'm gonna say it is a little bit embarrassing and a little bit uncomfortable when that vibration transmits through the end of your four thousand dollars piece of night vision into the helmet that is rigidly strapped to your face. Because it should be strapped on fairly rigidly. Yes, John Waning, this thing is not a vibe like you should have the chin strap fully engaged. And in my case, I actually wear a I wear a neck gaiter undermine, just to keep the beard and everything, like you know, yeah, just so it doesn't get caught in the straps and I end up yeking hair out. I mean, yes, it's like you know, it's it's bitch boy YouTuber problems. But it's hard to put a price on comfort, all right. So what you got I'm gonna go practical for because you've got night vision shit on there, and and for the vast majority of people that's really not gonna enter into their use case. They'd be better off with a white light weapon light, which I realized your light does that. I realize your light does that, But the actual cost to add the IR on. For most people is not worth the squeeze I was gonna say, I actually would rip myself a little harder on practicality, okay, because if you if you leave the light on this gun, and this is not a cheap light, but it's a very very high performance white light. But if you leave the light on and you take off the hollow sun and the switch, you're saving your off like at the time retail about eleven hundred bucks. Yeah, I mean it does. Too, batter negate from the practicality of it a lot other than price, yeah now, but it's it's money that can be spent elsewhere for a game that most people won't get, which is why even though I have night vision, like playing with night vision, I'm the first to admit that like night vision comes. After a whole bunch of things. Oh my god. Yes, I would say for the use case that it is for when you've got to throw something on quick. This is fantastic for a doing chores around the house. Rig It is way lighter than armor, because let's be clear, I think each of my plates is seven and a half pounds, so that's rounds of extra weight. You got level fours. Yeah, for ceramics, seven and a half pounds sounds about seven and a half pounds piece, so call it fifteen pounds of extra eight plus the nylon, which is probably two pounds or so. It adds up. I'm wearing tear on your body. It adds up for fatigue. It adds up when it's hot out because those plates, once they get up the body temperature, guess what, now, you're just wearing a fairly heavy vest. Anybody that warm, anybody that reacts to body armors heavy with workout boar is a an idiot that you ever worn it for three straight days, has never worn armor in a combat zone for days or weeks or months on end. That shit gets heavy quick, and it don't get any lighter just because you get stronger. I will admit you can acclimatize yourself to wearing it to a point. You can, but you could also Fatigue is rare it and be even more in the green. I mean for. A post hurricane hanging out around the house, Chestrick, It's going to be comfortable, it's gonna be user friendly, it's going to be mostly out of. Your way for home defense. Rick, It's fantastic. I love it. For cool, I'm gonna go three. It's pretty cool because you got comms and you know how to use the comms, and you have a comms plan, you got your medical kid here. I'd like to see you add another tourniquit on here. Again, I like to have at least two, just because I'm a big guy. You're a big guy. Sometimes one is not enough. And I'm and I am getting this from people I know that have used them in combat and have used them. In emergency medicine stateside. Not unfair at all. It's not here, And I didn't include it because I think it's kind of unnecessarily weigh in the scale. But like the expectation is also that I would also have my war belt on if probably was wearing all this, and that war belt comes with another tourniquit, a whole another blowout kit, pistol mag in which case, in which case I wouldn't ing you for it at all. I would probably give it a or. But you know this as it stands. As it stands, I'm gonna call it a three, because you know, it's just it. It does. It does the things it says on the ten. With a little bit of extra stuff, you could probably get away with not having and. Missing a couple of things I would like to see. This is the problem. I see a lot with minimalist chest rigs, and I realize I am not the cool guy that goes out and does the cool guy shit kicking doors. But almost all of them I see skimp on the medical all the fucking time. And the one thing I've always heard from Vietnam veterans up through g AT veterans, I've never really talked to a whole lot of World War Two veterans because a lot of them are dead. Before I was. Really around all this stuff was you never ever ever have enough medical or ammunition. No h ten out of ten like And this is not a criticism of micro riggs. This is trade off. It is a trade off. It's convenience. It's convenience for capacity. I don't even want to call it convenience. So here's here's here's the problem. On the In the one column, you have weight, speed, maneuverability, ability to access tight areas, ability to slide through tight areas. Like you have all these things on one side, and on the other hand you have in the middle of a freaking gunfight. Damn all that. I want all the AMMO, all the medical, all the all the party favors. You cannot have both equally. No, No, you gotta give one to get the other. So this becomes kind of the argument about like your everyday carry. There is the gun you would like to carry because it's teeny tiny and doesn't weigh anything. It sucks. It sucks in a gunfight. In a gunfight, you want the big horkin double Stag nine, with the compensator, with the freaking red dog, with the Stendo mags. You want all the firepower because you really need to frig in guns down to save your life. But on the flip side of things, you don't want to carry the stupid thing because it's this freaking big and it weighs three pounds. That is the trade off you have to make with micro rig versus chest rig versus reky rig versus slick carrier you have to give to get, and it's just a question of like what balance point makes sense for your use case. Oh, it absolutely does. I just because of the things I've been told and the injuries I have seen people have at work just doing homeownershit around the house. Yeah, I think two tourniquets is the minimum for a rig like this in my opinion. Now feel free to disagree. If your war belt has another one, great, I'm trying to find a place to put two more tourniquets so that I've got four, because I've got four limbs on my plate, carrier and belt that I usually run together. So that's my bias. Pro kit pro tip everyone in the audience, raise your hand. If you own a chain saw, now put it down. If you don't own a setah chainsaw chaps, if you put your hand down, you're wrong. You will go get chainsaw chaps. And I ran without one for a long time, and I was an idiot for doing so. First of all, they can save your leg, which is important. You only get two of them and you really need them both. Second of all, they make interesting bedroom tire. Take it up for your spouse. I'm not here to judge. But if that's your kink, you should go for it. And third of all, my chaps have a pocket, and that pocket has a cat tourniquet in it. Because Christ forbid I ever managed to sync that freaking chainsaw into those freaking chaps and it manages to get through them. I would very much like to have a cat turnicuet literally at my disposal immediately to slip on my leg because I like having two legs that in chainsaw chaps. Don't care cover your arms, they're chaps, yes, But the point is you have a chainsaw, it's really good at removing limbs. You should have cat turn get gott, it's great at removing limbs. Phil have ever told you what happened at the festival in a small town near me? No? But I think my stomach is about to turn. So there was a guy. They had a dead tree out in front of the little museum in this town, and they decided they wanted to have it chainsaw carved during the festival. And then this guy was about twenty five feet up the tree and he slipped. Oh, that chainsaw missed his chaps and went into his groin when he slept. Oh, Jesus, he was not alive when they got him out of the tree. Believable cut us from moral artery with a chainsaw done inside of twenty seconds. Oh my gosh, yes, I'm I was not present for the event. There were a lot of children present the event, so the chaps might not always save your life, but it's better. My wife just said, I'd rather two legs, but we don't need to bring in the outwear to the bedroom. Weirdo. Well, I mean maybe I would not be the first husband to wear chaps to the bedroom. They just wouldn't be chainsaw chaps, that's true. I'm also trying to smooth talker into the idea that, like silkies and night vision on my head, that could be a bedroom vibe that is considered lingerie. Yeah yeah, no, that's right, it's male lingerie. Uhuh fits. She's just as expensive, she's not. She's not gonna go for that. Look. I've been trying to convince my wife to let me buy nods for a while now so I can night snack with the dog, and she tells me that the dog's already too fat, So. Oh, what are we gonna do? Damn? Okay, last, but not least we all saw this coming. Obligatory night vision LARP, ludicrously expensive Gen three PBS fourteen white fog for twenty three hundred plus bomb and it's aviation grade so it doesn't have a single blemish in the tube. It is what you commonly referred to as freaking amazing. Running this with a Wilcox G eleven and mod Armory band at JARM because they are the only people that make an aftermarket JARM out of aluminum that is not a plastic piece of crap that has been like runner by a humbee and abuse severely. I couldn't. I couldn't say that. Like, so, if I take you a titanium one, well, here's the thing. The mode Armory one works works fine titanium. I will happily say, though, that if I had to do this all over again and I hadn't got the Wilcox G eleven for free thrown in on the deal from Andrew, I would have gone and bought a Dovetail, a Dovetail compatible Wilcox and a Dovetail mound, and like that would have been a much cleaner, nicer, more stable mounting solution than what I have here. But I got the G eleven for free and the Modern Armory band at jarm Works, so I'm not really upset. Team Wendy Bump Bump helmet and cover Enforced Nightlight. Now, en Force doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to weapon lights, but I'm going to tell you that their ir and Viz Light weapon light makes a really nice helmet light. It's it's right enough for admin tasks and for ir us. You can pop this thing on and like fully illuminate a room nice. What I usually do on this thing is I actually like tilted back so it aims up at up the ceiling. If I'm inside a room and flicking on and it's like turning the light on really useful. That is sitting on top of a Unity for more amount, which actually mounts in line with with your Peltour mounts nice, and it's sitting on another it's sitting on another set of Howard lights ear probems, the same thing that I have on a headband. I also have bastardized onto this set of peltortmounts. And you have bunged your night vision appropriately. I do recommend that you employ some bungees to help stable. It kind of like add a little bit of pre load to the night vision. It'll take all the slack out of the mouth and the JRM and everything. In this case, I actually I run my bungies. So what I'm careful not to do is I don't put the bungee like in between the JARM and the night vision. I try to put it up a little bit higher. But point is, it applies just a little bit of tension. And also the other thing you see on there is a homemade land you'd just made out of five point fifty cord. Yeah, ties off to the night vision. It's got land. You're just smart. It's got a big velcrow pad on it. Just stick it right on the top of your helmet. And that is specifically made long enough that when I have my night vision down inside of its pouch, that lander is long enough to reach up and out the pouch and then tuck down into the molly on the outside of the pouch. So because I have talked to friends of mine that ran PBS fourteen's in theater, I didn't we were still using PBS seven's, but they have like opened those bags up aggressively and spit their night vision out of the bag and onto the ground. That was expensive. Fortunately they take a beating, But this was an attempt to like to make make it so that if the PBS fourteen does fall out of the bag, then there's a chance that the lander catches it before it hits the ground. And that's the only reason for having a lander is that if it does pop off of its mount or something goes wrong, it dangles from your helmet instead of smashing on the ground. Yeah, that's a pretty that would be a pretty poopy day given the cost. So yeah, this is the obligatory night vision larp. It's love it. The last time I add it all up, I think it's like five g's on top of I mean, I mean, it's obviously a five cool and it's it's ludicrousally expensive. Everything night vision is ludicrystals. It is, but it's but it's an instant five cool. I mean, you can't you can't knock it. It's fantastic. It's perfectly usable. It gives you way more. Capability than not having night vision does. Practical, I might rate this lower than you would. Actually, I'm gonna call it a one practical And we agree on something it gets you, it gets you into night vision. So it has some practical because it gives you a capacity you wouldn't have otherwise. But for Fox's sake, you can do so much with five grand. Okay, but I do have one extra slide, all right, before we talk, we discussed the practical aspect of this not shown cool tripod and phone mount for photography and stargazing. Yeah, that's just so so. Putting a night vision on a helmet is Instagram cool, but about a low practical but just every day cool, my god. But having a phone mount so that you can connect I can connect a literal phone to the PBS fourteen, put the whole thing on a tripod pointed up in the sky, and use this thing for nighttime photography. Just phenomenal, just phenomenal. Do it? Do I get a couple of extra practicality points? I mean you do. I'll give you one. I'll give you two practical because you can do cool science shit with it. You can stargaze with it, you can look at planets, you can do that, you can do the night walking around. I'll give you a two. Stargazing with the PBS fourteen is how I convinced my wife. We needed night vision. I know, I know, and it is. It is neat, it is. I'll give you that. But my god, man, I know so many people that five thousand dollars would be a seriously advantageous amount of money to suddenly find in their checking account. That spending five thousand dollars on night vision. For me, just as to the cards, it's not I mean, heck's that would be a considerable portion of the bedroom renovation I'm doing. That would be most of it, actually, if not all of it. I mean, like we said before, that's not unfair. Like, if you have adult things to spend money on, then you don't need to spend money on night vision. If your retirement is not fully funded, you should not be buying night vision. Okay, we have to discuss what fully funded means. Because for your age, Okay, for your age, if you are not to a point where your financial advisor says, no, you're on track, you're doing good, then. You should not be spending five thousand dollars on night vision in my opinion, because look, you will probably never I'm not going to say you never will, but you will not likely ever use night vision in self defense unlikely. It's extremely unlikely. Might you use night vision in an aggressive situation? Yeah, I would argue that's far more likely than in self defense. Will you use it in the bedroom? I would? I would too, But I don't think this is missus. Mof is is not swayed by such arguments. Look, what was it. The average American is carrying fifteen thousand dollars in credit card debt or something like that today. Yeah, the average American is carrying fifteen thousand dollars in credit card debt. If you are anywhere on that scale of carrying credit card debt and I find out that you have bought night vision instead of paying off that interest bearing debt, I will harass you in person and over the phone, because it's costing you more money. To just cost you more money, you know. I related to someone just today that I actually don't own a single credit card, and they were shocked. Look, I have a couple. We use them on and off. We use them for online shopping because it's easier to correct fraud on them, but we also never carry a balance on them. So it's it's I we use it functionally as a debit card, and that's how you should use it. That is how you should be using it. But look, some people don't. Some people get in over their head because they make poor decisions. Correct those poor decisions before you go buying fun stuff there. So, oh, Jim, that's a fair point if you have enough bass Pro rewards in bass Pro sales night Vision, which I don't know if they do, go forth and rewards points. I used Micabella's rewards points to buy what did I buy? Oh my eight seventy Express combo and field and security combo. Yeah. And in case the shotgun rounds back in the day, I use Micapella's points for that. And that was all points from gas because you got you got two points for gas, You've got five points at Cabella's, and you got one point for everything else. But so just in gas points, I bought a shotgun. The guy at the checkout counter thought it was hilarious. That's freaking outstanding, all right. So this has been rate slash Roast my Ship part two. I mean I tried my best. I tried my best not to pick stuff you'd already brought forward. I was trying to bring like a different flavor. Fair enough. Andrew has said he's going to make every attempt to join us next week for the tenth anniversary, and we're going to start with race rating and roasting his stuff, followed by general tom foolery and goofing off. Yes, I've heard people have been saying, make it a two hour show. I mean I have to go to work the next day. Yeah, me too, But that's what coffee's for. Coffee up. Yeah, I mean, we'll we'll figure out how to make it work. But the point is I'm looking forward to it too. I never thought i'd still be podcasting after ten years, but here we are still having fun and people still tune in and giggle at us. So having fun is the important part. Having fun. I will be the first to men, and we will talk about this at length. But like I remember when I first started podcasting, I told Gillian, and I told Andrew, and I'm pretty sure I told you too the first day, it's not fun. I quit. That's fair, man. Why add more hassle to life than you already have. I already have a full time job. I don't do that for fun. I do that for money. If this becomes a full time job, I don't want to do this too. Like that's just two full time jobs to pay jobs. Yeah, only only one of these two things pays me money to offset the pain and the acid is and this is not exactly paying me bare fifty cow money. True, it doesn't really. It doesn't pay me like mag bull p mag money for that matter. So you know, as long as it's not a negative on the balance sheet, that's all that matters. That is a point. Jeff JAG's gonna roll us out. If you've never used night vision, a peak at your girl naked, you've failed the test. No I haven't. I just leave the lights on and leave the night vision stowede Yeah, way less pumping into shit. Yeah, way less bumping into shit. Way less creepy too. Yeah. Anyway, all right, matter of fact, it's gonna go out the door, and I to everybody, hope you tune in for the tenth anniversary next Thursday at seven thirty Central eight thirty Eastern. If you're not gonna make it, I understand, you can just listen to this in the podcast and all your favorite podcast directories. You can watch it on YouTube or Facebook or rumble at your leisure and we'll talk to you another week. By everybody, good night de