Matter of Facts: The Prepper Library

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, and welcome back to Matter of Facts Podcast. I really really hope that this thing is behaving itself correctly because we've had all freaking kinds of technical problems the last couple of shows that I don't even think most of y'all are aware of. To be honest, Phil fixes it in post. I really do work my behind off impost try to make everything behave itself. Hey Raggle, that's mild comfort, because if he can hear us, that means we have made it out to the internet. Behold Internet. Yeah, but yeah, I've been fighting with technical issues on the backside of this podcast for a hot minute. It's been more than a little bit frustrating. Yeah. Well, unfortunately that is the nature of the electrons. Yeah, right now, I'm actually just kind of bumping through everything to make sure that everything is actually behaving itself. Good the dog. Okay, your wife has confirmed they can hear us. No, the pre record is next week, so yeah, since Raggle brought it up, he's reminding me of the admin work that has to be done. So this episode is live, We're still here. Next week is the one that's pre recorded, So Nick and I will not be here. And if you wanted a good night to show up and misbehave in the chat, that's the night to do it, because I won't be here to stop you. True. Also, I think we forgot to do the admin work on the pre record. I think we skipped it entirely because I think you got me on a rant and then we got on a sidetrack. We really can't go from a rant straight into a sidetrack. We should know better, We should know better, but it happens so often. Oh you know what I just thought of? I bet I know what's goofed up here? Oh no, oh yes, oh yes, I boogered something up here. Did you forget to set the local back up? I bet I did, Mother of god. Yep, local recording is not running. Can we start at mid stream. We can't. We cannot, so I will have to use the cloud recordings, which are usually not quite as good. But it'll work out, and we're we're gonna get this. We're gonna get the train back on the train. One of these days. They will stop messing with the interface and Phil will be able to remember where all the buttons are well. To be fair, part of this is because, like you know, I was using Chrome for the longest time and that was good, and then Chrome started misbehaving badly did so, then Firefox was okay, and then Nick convinced me try Edge, and Edge actually seems to be pretty stable for this. Unfortunately, that meant that I am still chasing down all the settings and all the gramlins that I had in Chrome that worked perfectly. Yeah, and now I have to find remember all those settings in a brand new interface. I have to say the last the last couple episodes are you've been using Edge. I've gotten almost no cutouts from your audio, which has been quite nice. It's definitely better. I just I gotta gotta go through the whole thing. Jeff Jaggs saying greeting gents to carrier from the signal chat Philip Loody's homemade expeding Firearms Don't beat Me to the damn punchline. Love that book. So let's do admin work and then we'll get to the topic. This would be a fun one. There are patrons in the chat, and there's patrons in the signal chat, and there's patrons all over the country. And if you would like to join this group of sociopaths, you should consider it. The links in the show description dollar a month or however much you feel like being generous. It keeps the show running, and it means I don't have to deal with sponsors, which I am eternally thankful. For, and you can come watch me try to get feel drunk in Kentucky. Mmmm. Yes. It does also gain you entry to the matter of fact's camping trip which is coming up in the summer. And what do you mean try to get me drunk like I had? Like I take a lot of arm twisting to indulgence. I mean I made you a triple that was significantly stronger than you were expecting last time. Yes. Fortunately, something about the Cherokee blood in me means that I get hammered really quick and sober up really quick. So like, Yeah, it's damn shame. I'm a cheap drunk. But about thirty minutes of water and no more drinking and I'm pretty pretty much back to normal. Yeah. Unfortunately for me, your wife was there and noticed how full that couple was of ninety percent bourbon. She she encourages my malfeasans most of the time. Yeah. Anyway, oh, Raga wants to know how he can give you money. Damn it, one of these days, as soon as okay, so Ragle buy his coffee. The problem. The problem is I can think of about a couple of good ways you could throw money at the show to the show. That's not the problem. The problem is all of the like back episodes, all the perks of being a patron are are like backed into Patreon. I don't know a good way to get you to that without that interface. We could mail him a USB. Of the raw audio files. It's close enough to me. I can white him over and he could just shove a thumb drive into my machine if he wanted to. I mean, I suppose he could. I mean, then again, I could all dead drops of cash. Then again, I mean I do have a Proton drive that's got like fifteen gigs on it if I remember right, And that's that's where I'm storing, like the entire show and all the raising values and all random facts. Yeah, I mean we're up like episode four hundred and something on matter of facts. So like there's a lot, a lot in there. I should just start sending you empty hard drives for cold storage. I mean, I've got an extra hard drive right back here that all that backs upon. Two. I've got a big frigging one terabyte in this machine that it backs up on too. I've got a cloud drive. It's back in several spots. I know you have liked foul cast. Did you use the word big and one terabyte hard drive in the same sentence. Well, but that's the one that's internal to this drive or to. You know, you can put more than one. Inside, not in this tiny little thing. You want to bet you can't. I've been trying to fit at least three more in there. Next, stay away from my desktop, no I need. The only thing that can make me is the fact that you're that far away. And the. Raggles saying he does buy my coffee. Technically it's me and Andrew and James Walton's coffee, and it is really good coffee. There's actually like thirty five pounds of it back there on the shelf. Because you know, if I'm going to be a warlord when the world falls away, I have to be able to keep my wing and drink anyway, merch of the Southern Gals links in the show description. I've really got to make some time to like sit down with the brand and like take another look at the merch line. I really know if you want to, if you want to do a video conference, we can do that. Yeah, it's just you know, one more thing to have to do in the midst of everything else that's going on. Rachel, I would happily, happily make you to the best deal on a pair of a pair of camping cots in my living room because we don't have a spare bedroom. Works for me. Just ask Nick how long of a drive it is to get to South Louisiana from y'all. It's only like fourteen and a half hours, and like seven of those hours is in Illinois, so I'm already like halfway there by the time I get somewhere cool. Oh God, I hate your state, me too, So passionately. It's it's it's bad, but it's bad. But I did thanks to one of a friend of one of our patrons, I have got access to a private range, a private gun club hopefully here soon toward the end of the month, so I'll get to do much more shooting, hopefully without range masters asking me why I am doing double taps and triple tap drills because apparently that's too fast. Yeah, I hate those people. Anyway, to the topic. Otherwise, we'll ramble on all night about range days and firearms, and we'll probably pick up where we were to where we were in the signal chat. We were talking about obscure French firearms from World War two, World War One. Yeah, so we kind of teased out that we were going to talk about the Prepper Library. And I think that this we've so Andrew and I talked about this year's ago, and. You and I talked about it a couple of years back to in like the abstract. Yeah, we kind of talked detail. We didn't talk about it in a lot of detail, and it wasn't like really targeted. It was kind of in generalities. Yeah, this time we're going to talk about it a little bit more pointed. But numbers well, FMTM numbers and all that. But I enjoy going over this kind of thing because there's a i would think, broad cross section of the baredness world that knows damn ganwell how to find every freaking Army field manual and technical manual out there if you really want to do some digging. Yeah, most of the sort free, Yeah, for free. Most of the Cebrary of Congress, excellent resource. Most of this stuff has been declassified for decades, since before most of us were born. It's available, it's out there. Most of it's still pretty pertinent and pretty useful. It's not difficult to find. But there is a group out there that doesn't even I think, realize some of this stuff exists, Like especially for I would think a lot of younger only civilians that weren't military, they have they I don't think it even occurs to some of them that you know, like you have to bear in mind that your average How can I politely talk about my fellow veterans, of which there are several in the chat, some of us, some of my fellow brothers and sisters in the army, and Uncle Samu's misguided children were not the brightest crayons in the box. They ate the crayons and probably the box too, and so, to. Be fair, the crayon munching ones are some of the better ones. True, but for that reason you cannot depend on common sense to guide them very well, and everything must be written on like a seventh grade reading level. Well, also considering the fact that a lot of them when they join are seventeen eighteen and Phil, I don't know if you remember being seventeen or eighteen, it's been a few years. But I was dumb, like really dumb. I enlisted when I was seventeen. I was slightly smarter than the average private, and I was still very dumb. So you could tie your shoes on your own. I mean not bragging. I had an eighty nine composite score in my ASFAB one hundred and thirty two on the Mechanical Aptitude Portion ACE. I'm not sure what those numbers, suffice to say that I scored high enough on the as FAB I could have walked into military intelligence if I had decided to nice. I'm not a stupid person. I have the common sense of a sack of potatoes, but I'm not a stupid person. But the problem is, like even everything I had to learn, had to learn how to fix a black helicopter, came in a stack of books about this tall Yeah. Like it's not like they give you a toolbox and say go make helicopter, make wirthly bird noises. Everything's documented. Everything's written down, every procedure, every bolt, every nut, every torque spec everything's written down. Everything's documented. That's the way the millitary works, and by exhaustive detail. Yeah, and it has to be that way. But for that reason, this documentation is still floating around on the Internet, and it's very useful for a person who's trying to expand their knowledge base and learn skills that are slightly off the beaten path, maybe even on the beaten path. But anyway, I'm gonna flip two of these things around and that's gonna completely screw up. That's gonna goat and screw up the order i'd put this in. But you know, let's put it back the way it was. Otherwise I'll get myself completely get jacked up. So let's start with medical crap, because that is the order in which I started putting all this together. So this is FM twenty one DASH eleven. You can literally search Google for these documents. FM twenty one Dash eleven First Aid for Soldiers. And this is a literal field manual for how to keep your buddy from dying. It's written on about a sixth grade reading level. It's easy to understand. It's filled with information, some of which has been superseded by more recent information. And that's kind of where some of this stuff needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because, like you know, Nick and I were talking before the show, and this whole section in here about basic first eight, this has all kind of been superseded by more recent information. Like though following this, I would have to say, following this can work. There are better techniques now. But if your choice is between I know nothing and I have this book, not a bad place to start. Certainly it may not be. Best practice, but these things did work, just not as well. Yeah, And I mean, like now, when you get down to about chapter four, when you talk about stop the bleeding, when you talk about preventing shock, when you talk about first day for severe wounds and immobilizing fractures, like, none of this is going to turn you into a paramedic. But if you have next two or zero medical knowledge, all of this is a really good place to start to kind of orient yourself into the mode of, like I have an emergency medical situation, how do I deal with it? If you know nothing, this is not a bad place to start. Another good place for basic medical info is the old Boy Scout handbooks. I'm not talking about the ones from like the last ten ten years or so. Go back to like the nineteen eighties, maybe early nineteen nineties Boy Scout handbooks. They had an exhaustive first aid section that is almost word for word in this manual, just with slightly different tools. Yeah, I will say when you get down to like chemical biological agents and nerve aide and all that, I hope you don't need that chapter, but it is in here if you just are if the world. Do and you don't have mop training and mop gear, just. Let it happen pretty much at that point. The other thing, the other thing I threw in here is ST. Thirty one, Dash ninety one, the Army Special Forces Medical Handbook, which is a lot of building on f M twenty one Dash eleven, And just to be perfectly fair, some of this is getting into some pretty I don't want to call it esoteric, but I mean bear in mind that the missions, the mission of special forces, think the Green Berets. You're embedded with Native forces. You're not just a soldier, You're a soldier. You're the assistant village chieftain. You might be the only medical medical asset for one hundred miles in a direction. This book goes into pediatrics and gynecology and burns and blast injuries and you know, shock and emergency surgery. This covers some pretty extreme things. But again, if you're in the situation of I know nothing and I am stuck in the middle of nowhere and I have to figure it out, that is where this book really comes in. It takes FM twenty one to eleven and builds on all of it to a higher level to obviously not the level of a Green Bray, but this is the book that is meant to codify a lot of that knowledge. And if if you do find yourselves wanting some more in depth, more modernized look for secondhand medical textbooks on say like diagnostic medicine. Yeah, you know, you might not have like the names of the test or necessarily the best medical the best medicine recommendations, but the diagnostic criteria for a lot of diseases does not change very often. And if you can get last year's model, because i I believe the current ones are hundreds of dollars, but you can get secondhand ones of a year or two years old for closer like fifty seventy five bucks. Sometimes they can have some really great bits of information in there. It does require you to have a little bit higher level of learning because it is going to be using medical terminology, but it's an option. Yeah, before we go any further, I got to remember to throw this up, so I put all of these, all these teams and fms I'm going to show you tonight. I shoved into a folder in my Google drive. I made it shareable at that QR code up there, so I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the show. And honestly, like, if any of y'all are on social media know how to get hold of me there or the signal chat, remind me and I'll drop this link in there to make it easy. And frankly, Nick, if you want to include anything, just ship it to me and I'll swap it over and drop it into this drive. Let me dig through. I have a hard drive with about one hundred terabytes of PDFs on it, or one hundred gigabytes of PDFs. Stewart is going to raise the two of us because he has all of it. Yeah, he has everything I have. He has everything he has, He's had longer to collect. It all to be fair? Am there? When it was written to be fair? You know, Stuart had already been basically, I mean, he had already been a prepper for twenty years before I was born. I mean, I have blueprints for the show chat in that in that drive. That seems worthwhile, That seems like a thing everyone needs. All right, So medical crap is done. Now let's talk about the basics. So the reason I call this the basics is because is this, to me is kind of a broad cross section of different stuff. And someone's probably wondering why you start with the Ranger Handbook, And this book is not what you think this is SAH twenty one Dash seventy six. This book, if you get past you know, the Ranger creed and all that, it gets into things like principles of leadership, duties and responsibilities, assumption of command, it talks about operations and fire support, which may or may not be super super useful to you. But the first, the whole first two chapters on this is really more about how to organize a force to do a thing, and the principles are not that different whether you're talking about a mag or a fire team. Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. I mean, proper organization is really organization and logistics are really what separates quality operations from everything else. I mean, the reason why the US military can do all the crazy things is doing right now and I ran is because it is organized down to the minutest possible detail and all of it is supported by a logistics chain. Yeah, and getting down here into I don't know that I encourage any of y'all to read to go through this chapter with a lot of military mountaineering, talking about blaze and rock climbing techniques and repelling like I did some of this years and years ago when I was much younger, like tying Swiss seats and basically repelling with things that are not meant, not rated for repelling. Do so at your own risk. Quality repelling gear is expensive for a reason. Yeah, Rope and stupidity is cheap. Actually, rope is cheap. Stupidity can be expensive. You know, Doctor scare guy makes a good point not to are always useful. They are, but please do if you plan on repelling off of anything while we can get some correct instruction from a person that actually knows what they're doing, because reading it in a book and attempting it for the first time in the real world is a bad idea. Yeah, and I'd probably also throw in here this chapter eleven about evasion and survival. If if your interest in preparedness veers more towards bugging out or like primitive survival, learning to put together field expeding shelters, this can be very useful. Again, test in safety with backups first. Yeah, the first time you attempt to start a friction fire, you will be miserable and it probably won't work. Before we move on to the next book, didn't I tell you the story? I used to know a guy who taught a primive survival school over on the east coast South Carolina, North Carolina. I don't right, I think you have. Yeah, he used to the ending of his fire starting class, he would have every single student use whatever method he had taught that they preferred to try to make a fire like bow drill, banging rocks together, dancing around and praying to gods whatever they wanted. They had to try to start a fire. He said it was a ninety eight percent failure rate. That's not surprising, but he did it like that intentionally because he's at the end of everyone failing. He would walk around with a cigar torch and say, you can buy these for less than ten dollars and their wind proof and they will start that fire even if it's a little damp. So knowing how to do a friction fire is cool, but having one of these is better. And that was kind of his whole point about everything. He taught, how to make a shelter from a tarp, how to do this, how to do that. It was always this is a last resort. Your first order of business should be to have this in your pack, not to go out in the woods bare handed and just figure life out because that sucks anyway. Okay, FM three Dash twenty five. Map reading and land navigation. There's a joke here, I'm sure, because everyone who ever served has a joke about land naw, everyone has gotten lost at least once everyone has gotten turned around. But it's ever been in boy Scouts has jokes about land Nov. I will be the first to admit. When I was in basic training, I was learning land Nov. I was freaking determined. I was gonna ace land Nav. I was. I was a competitive little seventeen year old. I was like gunning for you know, like I wanted. I wanted expert marksmen. I missed that by one shot. I wanted to blow the Landav away. I missed that by one way point. My entire base training is just this. It was. It wasn't like I was ever like right on the version, not passing. I passed easily. It was always I was just one one little bit away from like woo recognition, Like no, no, just if you'd just been like a tiny little bit better, you'd got a pat on the butt. You know. My grandfather would have said, you did exactly what you should have been Basic do just enough that you're just below recognition, Yeah, not poorly enough that you don't get other recognition. Well, Unfortunately, when I was learning land Nav, I actually nailed every way point except for one that I missed. And the problem was I misread. First of all. It was the longest stretch on this course, and apparently I got started off like four or five degrees off and I wound up on the wrong side of a ridge line I read the map. As I read, I got kind of lost in the ridges in the valleys, looking at the looking at the map, and I thought I was supposed to be on this side of the ridge. I was supposed to be on that side of the ridge. And some smart ass in their infinite wisdom put check in points that looked exactly like on both sides of the ridge, so that if you went to the wrong side, you got the wrong waypoint. Oops. Yeah, I was not the only one that made that mistake, but I was very annoyed. It seems like that was done on purpose. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was also just for for reference for anybody. If you're looking at an old TM or FM and you see this right here where it says remove old pages, insert new pages, this is literally just a change notification. It tells you that when this got updated on eighteen January two thousand and five, the instructions were to remove these pages and replace them with these pages to update the information. Just because the Army is trying to save paper when you're trying to update, like, you know, ten thousand manuals across the country makes sense. Yeah, but to be fair at that at that point, it was more difficult when this was written. Yeah, well this was back in the day when like everything was paper man, you was ever maintained at your unit, yep. But so yeah, I don't know how much I really have to go into what map reading and land ab is. I mean, you're literally learning to read these maps, which I wouldn't say there's anything particularly special about the maps that the military uses. Like you can get comparable ones from oh what is. It, topo maps dot com? Topo maps. My topo map dot Com, I think is the one. They'll even send you printed copies. US Geographic USGS US Geographical Service. They have a problem with the USGS maps is they are not as up to date as other sources. I will I will tell you that that's true. They're fairly good. But you're you're right as far as topographical information, the USGS maps are fine, perfectly acceptable. If you want it to include road bridges, industrial areas, that's going some interest. My top on maps dot Com will do custom maps for that of your area. I've got a pretty big one. That's why was it vinylized or rubberized or something like. That for our area? It's quite nice. I had actually started a project forever ago and I never completed it. I was going to print all the map tiles from USGS have like basically like everything within a mile of my area, and then laminate them and do this whole wall. So I had like all wall sized top graph haalfcal map of like my home and a couple of points of interest pinned, and then the area around it. And it ended up not happening because what's over here is all the mantis X targets better use, I think, I mean debatable, But anyway, this whole book is all land av it's map reading. If you already know how to read maps, you'd probably still give this a bruise. If you know absolutely nothing about how to navigate using a map, this is not a bad place to start, because the principles of land NAP have not changed since George Washington. No, they really have not. And again, if you can't get this, which you can get it for free online, boy Scout handbooks have the exact same stuff. They've been teaching it to boy scouts since it was started. You can find a number of YouTube videos that walk through this in a how to where they they talk you through the rationale behind it. If you're a person that needs the rationale behind it to keep something in your head like I do, can be helpful. Yeah, next up TC thirty one, DASH twenty nine Special Forces Cashing Techniques. Now I will happen. First of all, this is not CASHINGASH. This is CASHINGACA. And I will just forewarn anyone that reads this that, like, this is very, very very bland. But let's say hypothetically, you're just getting into you're just getting into preparedness, and you are preparing for, say a bug out situation where you do have to literally cash things outside your home, or you're preparing for a bug in situation where you're cashing things in your home. I find that this gives you a really good kind of step by step methodology to think about in a rational, compartmentalized way, how to cash these things. It talks about things like looking for a spot where really, like, once you get past this whole section about cashing things outside, all right, starts talking about equipment sketch of the site. A lot of this really is kind of aimed at, like if you're catching things outside, but once you get into things like packaging and steps and packaging, cleaning, drying, like these are things that are equally appable inside the home. For long term storage. Jim mm hmm. Yep. And here's here's something I'll be the first event I suck at and closing instructions. M B. I've got I've got buckets of food, and I have fairly vague indications on the outside of those buckets. What's actually inside those buckets? Blue painters, tape and marker. And and you know, here's the bastard of it. Whatever I wrote on them at the time made perfect complete sense to me, and now I look back at them, like, I can't remember exactly what I was thinking what I put in here, But if it ever gets to that situation, I guess we're gonna figure it out. You could always just open it, yeah, and I do that occasionally. But I also use oxygen absorbers, so oh that's fair. Once you pop one, it's kind of a you know, un done. So you use. Oxygen absorbers inside the bucket, not inside the bagged subcomponents. Yes. Interesting. So what I do is a lot of a lot of the things I'm putting away in my food storage are like literally bought from grocery stores. So like the bags of rice stay in their plastic packaging, the bags of beings stay in their packaging. I fill the bucket up so that there's little airspace left as possible. Pop an oux absorber and usually a desk and pack too, just in case there's a little bit of laterly. Well, okay, and when you live down here and your your relative humidity the summer is like ninety percent. Yeah, it's all the human A desk in pack is a good idea. Oh, I would never dispute that, not in your area. But I'll toss a desk and pack and an auction absorber and there take the lid and these are gasketed. These are gasketed lids, so you literally have to use a hammer. Oh. I wonder if that's where I lost my dead blow hammer too. It's probably sitting where it is. It's probably sitting on top of one of those buckets. I'm looking forward the other day and my toolbox couldn't find this stupid thing. And I bet I just save the mystery. I'm surprised that you haven't gone to the Gamma seal threaded lids with the with the gasket. If I have to buy when I buy some more, I probably will. But I bought a bulk pack of these sobs before even Gamma Gamma lids were a thing, So you. See, I got I got luckily and introduced to that by very early on. Yeah, well, in this case, y'all introduced me to them a couple of years too late. That happens. But these are gasketed lids. You literally have to like set them on with a with a dead blow hammer, and then you have to have a bunk wrench to take them back open because you gotta cut them off almost well, I will say that I have. I have. They call it a wrench. Basically, it's just it's kind of like a gigantic bottle cap opener, but it literally it literally like flexes and pulls back the lid enough to release the seal. And once that happens, you can like peel the sides of the lid up. But I'm gonna tell you that when. You a lot of times it does crack the lid though. When you do that. I've gotten pretty lucky. And maybe that's because of the ambient temperatures down here, because like you got a bear in mind, like when it freezes or snows down here, that's a very very cold winter for us. And these things are garage kept. So yeah, plastic is happier above seventy degrees than it is below seventy degrees. Yeah, and it's above seventy degrees like nine to ten months out of the year down here. Yeah, I suppose I would probably improve the improve the flexibility significantly. Yeah, But anyway, I tossed this in because like this really is primarily aimed at cashing things outside, but a lot of this is also really useful for cashing things inside. And again, I like this because it kind of gives you a framework, and that's what a lot of these do. It's not like it's going to tell you everything you need to know, but it is a framework so that if you know fuck all about it, this will at least kind of walk you through the steps and the brain work so that you don't start off completely turned around. At the very least, it gives you a starting point to work forward from. It's better than having nothing. Yes, hurright, a couple more and then we'll move on to the fun stuff. FM thirty one Dash twenty dash five. This is special Reconnaissance Tactics and techniques. So I'm just gonna say there's a fair amount of this particular manual, and I mainly include this because, like again, the principles in here apply to a variety of things. If you're walking your neighborhood because you're trying to see what's going on with your neighbors, if you're just like practicing good situational awareness, and you're you treat going out into the town as an opportunity to like observe your surroundings and see what's going on around you. Like, a lot of this really helps set up that framework so that you are thinking about this in a logical way. It gives you some techniques too, for how to categorize stuff in your head to help member to help you remember it, and how to document it so you can pass it on reliably. Of course, I sped right past. Oh no, I'm not even gonna bother because every time I try to like go to a specific chapter, I wind up blowing right past it. It happens. But yeah, talking about premission activities and really just going through like the nuts and bolts of like how to how to approach reconnaissance as a subject can be really helpful. I think that's okay, that's it for the moment. So one of the things I tacked on here in the basics because I think that a lot of people would be able to do more for themselves if they had a little bit of basic information about their about how stuff works in their house. Go down to your local hardware store and pick up a basic book or a local bookstore, a basic book on plumbing and a basic book on home electrical because most of that stuff can be troubleshooted with a couple of wrenches or a screwdriver, and you can save yourself a ton of money in the long run, which can help you budget for preps long term. Another thing that I've done that I don't see a ton of people doing is I put every single manual for all of my power equipment, power tools, any appliances in binders. I have three or four now of different like echin half binders. I've got gas power. This one is mostly gas power equipment. And if I go to my spring and fall maintenance cycle. I grab the gas power equipment binder. I go through it, and I go, okay, I need one quart of oil for this machine. I need three quarts oil for this machine. I need eight quartz oil for my truck. And I go down the list. I make myself a list, check my stocks in the garage, and then top it all off, find out what I need and get it. Ahead of time. But I never have to go searching for my manuals because on one of our bookshelves is several binders in a row that are just full of manuals for just certain things. Now I know some people I don't need to read the manual you do, because I guarantee you you don't know what spark plug you need or your generator off the top of your head looking at the spark plug that's been in there for ten years, that the writing is all rubbed off of. Yep. It's just little things like that which air filter you need for whatever piece of equipment. It's just stuff that can make your life a little bit easier and take a little bit of mental load off yourself. It helps. I'll also say that, like in addition that I mean YouTube University can be a great thing. And you know, exercising your google food, I cannot tell you the amount of stuff I have fixed over the years by googling this piece of equipment is doing this. You will find someone that is smarter than you that has already solved that problems. Matter of fact, I had an issue with Okay, Nick, what is the one thing you were not supposed to do with a gas lawnmower if you don't want it to if you wanted to behave itself like the one thing you're definitely not supposed to do. Sorry, two things, well, flip it upside down or leave gas in it over the winter? Ding? Ding ding. So I didn't leave gas you didn't. I didn't leave gas in it over the winter. It was actually the last cut of the summer. And you know, you, okay, down here, you get to that point in the summer where like the grass growing starts to slow down. And I thought I cut it for the last time of the year, like I thought, I got away with it, and then my wife informed that no, it did indeed it did indeed need one more cut, which annoyed me. So I went and took the lawnmower out that had been sitting in the shed with gas in the freaking car bowl for six weeks. Ethanol gas. Do you have a place that sells non ethanol gas? Yes? Why were you not buying that for your lawnmower? Because I'm an idiot in a cheap skate. That's fair. It does cost a little bit more, yes, but normally what I do is the last time I use this thing, these things for this for you know, for like the season, is I turn off the pet cock, I run them until they're dry, I get all the fuel out of the bowl. And I hadn't done that. So I pulled this thing out. I yanked the rip cord and it started. It was surging and bucking and just throttling, doing all the things you don't want a law mower to do. And so I got on Google and said, but Honda, this brand, you know, this model lawnmower is surging, And within sixty seconds I had a YouTube video that literally showed you how to pull off and disassemble and clean and rebuild the carburetor. Yep, took me no parts. I was prepared, like honestly, at that point, if I'd have torn something, I was going to get a rebuild kit and and a fresh carburetor and just do what I had to do. But I actually got away with it, didn't rip any didn't rip any any seals or anything, And it took me nothing but a couple of screwdrivers and a bench vice. Yeah, that's you. Carburetors are pretty simplistic devices. They're not that complicated. The trouble you can get into is when you get into like small two stroke engines like chainsaws and weed whips, those little tiny carburetors with the little tiny valve pins. It can be very hard to get the varnish out of those without scoring that inside of the valve pin. And then once you do, you're done. It's just garbage. But I will say that, like, if you find yourself in that position where you're fooling with a little carburetor, if it ain't if it ain't working, you can't make it much worse accurate, So that's very to lose. By trying to take it apart and hose the bastard out with carb cleaner mm hm. And realistically pose it out with carb cleaner, that's like eighty percent of the time it fixes it. Well. I took the steps to take this thing apart, pull the pulled the float out, pulled the needle out, and like really like pumped carb cleaner, threw all the passages and everything in it. And when I put it back together, and you know, like got every thing back together, I had to pull the rib cord of quite a few times, get fuel all the way back in and fill the bowl. Yeah, because you do have to suck fuel back in. But once that thing fired, it ran like brand freaking. New, yeah, because there wasn't varnish blocking the carburetor needle. And then when I got it finished, I turned that pet cock and let it run itself all the way dry. Do you put stable in all of your fuel? Put stable in the fuel that I'm storing for a length of time, Usually the can that I'm I'm like feeding the lawnmower out of. I don't, But that's because usually I'm moan, like down here, I mown lawn every week. In the I keep about let's see, six lead or six gallons to jerry can. So it's like twenty four gallons of fuel I keep and every time I fill up those five gallon cans, because sometimes we go through less fuel than others Sometimes because the fuel has been sitting so long, I dump into my wife's car or my truck. I put stable in all of those all the time, and I have had so many fewer issues with my small engines just because the fuel doesn't get slightly off. You know, I have a big lawn, I have a lawn tractor. I go through a fair amount of fuel in the summer. I will say that the one thing that I started doing a while back, and admittedly there are cheaper ways to do it, but like I went out and bought four or five of the big one gallon jugs of pre mix two stroke fuel like Husk Varner or Steel brand. Yeah, well for the chainsaw and for the for the weed eater which string the string tremor we call on weed eaters around here. So like, yeah, same thing. But anything we string anything that's two stroke, I just run it off of that stuff. I will I have basically. Ethanol free gas is slightly higher octane. Yeah, but to me, it's ethanol free. It's already got the correct amount of oil in it, like it's and it's sealed. Yeah, And for for as often as I have to pull out a chainsaw and really work it like the amount of the cost involved in buying it like that where it's it's already sealed up and it's it's until you break the seal. It's supposed to be shelf stable for a couple of years. Like, I see no reason not to invest in that. Now that's said, I've got about eight or nine of the little bottles that you pour into a one gallon container to you know, make your own two stroke fuel. So if I was gonna be using the teen saw a lot, I do have that available. Yeah, but for for pull it out, cut a couple of things, put it away, just pour, pour a half tank full in there and let it, let it eat. It does work pretty good. Rango brings up a good point. Have you considered a battery powered lawnmarer? First off, No, I have one point one three four acres or something like that. I know that number off the top of my head because you guys will hear about it next week. I'm in a pissing match with the county. So uh No, I would absolutely not consider a battery powered lawnmar because my lawn is large and sometimes I have to mow it twice a week, and I do have a battery powered string trimmer, which I fucking love. It's one of those Milwaukee M eighteen single battery jobbers. I can do my entire yard almost three times on a single battery. It's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. I might, I might one day find myself drug over to the dark side, but I don't know. I've grown up with gas powered everything, and I have. I have used gas powered chain saws, and I will or gas and electric powered chain sauce. My dad has a very nice steel Steel brand battery operated chainsaw's it's okay. It's a good trim saw. If you have a couple branches you need to cut up, or a small tree that you need to do, it's okay, as long as it's a softwood tree. I have. Thirty four or thirty five hardwood trees in my yard, and occasionally one of them will fall down or drop a very large branch. That saw does not handle it. But what I can tell you, my little steel two stroke, sixteen inch trim saw fantastic. If I need something bigger, I've got an old Shinnandawa that is essentially a dirt bike with a handle with a thirty inch bar. That'll be fine. I did get too angry with our old string trimmer. I uh. I was given an old string trimmer that had problems when I got it, and I, through belligerents, kept it for several years, and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse no matter what I fixed on it. So finally one day I just I just got fed up. I drove down to the hardware store and I bought a brand new battery power bookause I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. See, I'm going the other direction of like I like my gas power chainsaw, I'm gonna butcher this because I think it's an MS two fifty that I have. It's the it's the biggest homeowner grade saw they made that steel makes. Yeah, like any any bigger of a saw, I'd be in the ranch, the ranch grade ones. Have. I sent you the picture of that old Shennan Dallas saw I have. Is it a two stroke or four stroke? It's a two stroke, but it's a I want to say it's a seventy cc chainsaw. O. It's a beast it is. It is the biggest saw. I have ever held. It originally came with a thirty eight inch bar, and my grandfather put a thirty on it because he thought thirty eight was a bit big. Nice dude, The kurf on that chain is three eighths of an inch. It's wicked, no what I keep and I honestly I haven't looked in a while, but I need to get a little bit better better. I keep checking Facebook mark place for somebody that's like getting rid of, like an MS like a three sixty, or like one of the bigger professional grade steel or pricey. They are worth it. Every now and then I see one like used or even like the older, like like an OS forty six, which is like the predecessor to the four sixty, and there's nothing with them, and the parts are available, and it's not hard to like tear one apart down to the basically the powerhead throw a new car. There may to be user serviced. And I keep my eyes open because if I got a good deal on one, like like a thirty six of forty six something beefy, I would like to pick it up and make it into a little project saw. And the best part of it is is that I'm fairly Mecanquencline. But I'm not like God's gift a small engine repair. If I got into a situation where I couldn't fix it. There's a steel dealership on the other side of town. They will, oh, look after Hurricane Idam. That's when I found this place. Was after Ida. I didn't have any problems with the chance. I just got because it was brand new and my brother in law was teaching me how to use one at the time. But after that I went looking forward. Then you're a steel dealer and that's it. And that place, come to find out, because I talked to one of their apparently one of their regular customers the first time I went in the day after hurricane they opened up. They had to their technicians out front under it under a tent, hint on a table, and they were literally rebuilding and reworking chainsaws and sharpening chains ten hours a day for a week. Good and like literally you chose cash, you drop your chainsaw on the on the bench, and like if it needed parts, they charged her for the parts. It was cash only, because I mean they were you know it was it was after Hurricane Ida. There was no power, there was no cell service. There was no internet service, but they had parts, but they had a whole all the parts that were that were not like within the first foot of the business because I mean the business is self flooded. But they were on high ground in the parking lot. They were rebuilding chainsaws. But anyway, you know, everybody. Always talks about getting a bigger chainsaw, and I do I understand where people are coming from with wanting wanting a slightly longer chainsaw, but I can tell you this, with a fourteen inch chainsaw, you can take down to twenty eight or thirty inch tree. I've got's a lot of tree. That is a lot of tree. I've got an eighteen inch bar online, and I don't feel from having used it to chomp up some fairly large I've chopped up trees where you had to get at it from both sides because the blayd the bar wouldn't even go, would just barely go halfway across the trunk. Yeah, but that chainsaw was really running out of ass push or pushing that eighteen inch bar. They do. So that's why I say that I really like to get something bigger, something that would probably push a twenty six inch bar better. And do it with some authority because honestly, it's faster. Yes, well, and it would also give me the ability I'd have to buy another bar, and I'd have to hip hitcan all the chains I bought, because I have several chains now for this eight inch bar. But I would I would have even dropped down to a sixteen inch bar because if I had the bigger option. Yeah, it gives you better torque on that smaller bar for sure, though. And you know, I just I just I see people often over spending on tools compared to what they really do need. I have needed that thirty inch saw exactly two times. I've cut down a lot of trees, and one of them was an old, an old weeping willow that had a five foot diameter trunk. And you're only gonna do it with a gigantic saw because it's just a gigantic tree. But I've never had a That's the only tree I've ever had where my like eighteen or sixteen inch saw wouldn't have done the job. There's very few trees that size, really, this is true. All right. We got to get back on the band. We're fifty minutes in and we have three more bolt points. We could always do this again. No, No, let's power through. Okay, hood rat stuff. Everybody likes doing hoodrat stuff for the purposes of the rest of the show. When I say hood rat stuff, I am implying that this is only done in Minecraft or in Doom. If you're from my generation, definitely not things. Definitely don't do this places you get put on government watch lists or where you're local, and what local and federal laws preclude such things. Anyway, with all that out the line, FM thirty one DASH twenty one, Guerrilla warfare and special forces operations. If you want to learn how to screw with a much larger and better trained force of people, if you would like to cosplay as the Afghanis or the Vietnamese or the Taliban, screwing with the US Army, or in any way, shape or form you'd like to resist an effort by a larger, better trained force to occupy your area, this is something you should probably be looking into. Fundamentals resistance and guerrilla warfare organization for the space, victual forces effort effort unconventioned warfare where theater support logistics, intelligence, communications, infiltration. This is a very this is very much a teaching the principles of how you and your buddies could resist another force in minecraft. Yeah, okay, you were being very very still and very very quiet. I thought you got booted. I was listening to you, and I did not realize I had not moved. Sometimes I will do that. That's all right, No, that's this is all good stuff. I mean. The the trouble is, anytime you try to practice anything like this, if you're not doing it on a paintball or a speedball course or an airsoft course, you're probably running a foul of many laws. So to a degree. But I would say, especially this chapter five, where you're talking about logistics, intelligence, communications, that you can do. Those are all things you really can do today. Even the infiltration Haitian part. Of this, well, I mean, if you start infiltrating government buildings. In an unlawful manner back then poorly, But think and think about this as guerrilla warfare. So we're not talking about infiltrating government buildings, we're talking about infiltrating other groups. Sure, Nick, don't you think it'd be helpful to know how to walk amongst the blue haired hippies and not alarm them? To your presence. I I don't know if I'm physically capable of doing that. Anymore. I don't know that I was physically capable of it at any point, because they would say things and my brain would immediately have to correct them because they were wrong. But if you were infiltrating, you would have to control that. I don't know that I could my self. Control varies from that of like a twelve year old and down some days. Man, it's it's it's a struggle. We need to put Rachel and Gillian in a like a support group together. I think they are. I mean they're both in a teachers union. Uh, Gillian's not barb teachers union. All right, private school, that's a win. So anyway. Thirty one Dash twenty one. Also thirty one Dash ten Denial operations and barriers. If you would like to learn how to keep people out of places you don't want them, think about like, think about like you live on a rural property and you would like people not to just walk onto your property. Think about like, if you live in a neighborhood and you would like to control access in and out of the neighborhood, blocking roads, presenting barriers, Those sorts of things. It also does show does go into a little bit, not just roads, but like common paths of travel that are not like your normal approved. Paths of travel. So how people use the land a little bit, things to look out for important things. Yes, so natural corridors of travel. That's the word, that's the phrase. All, that's it, all right? What else do I have in here? TM thirty one dash two hundred unconventional warfare devices and techniques. This is definitely bombs, pungee steaks. This is definitely only approved for use in minecraft or doom. Do not do any of this in your mom's basement. She'll be pissed at you. Yeah, it turns out all of that as felonies. Don't do this in your wife's basement either. She'll be absolutely as pissed at you as your. Mom would be. Yeah. Anyway, Incendiary systems, explosives, applications of explosives, small arms, harmful additives, chemical materials. I'm gonna repeat once more for the stubborn and the slow. Do not do any of this unless you are unless you live in a non extradition country, or you have a much better lawyer than I do. Yeah, I mean. I guess lawyers are that good sometimes. But you know, if it ever does come down to the point where you are resisting a superior force, it's that or die, And if you do this you might die anyway, so you might as well play hardball. I guess I suppose. But yeah, it's just take a little peruse through here and you start to get the impression very quickly that when I said this was hood rat stuff, I met it. I mean this is literally thermite incendiary. Yeah, I mean, Thermite's not exactly that hard to make. It's also really good for stump removing. So there's a bunch that you can play with. There's a bunch of city folk right now that are a combination of intensely curious and horrified all at the same time. The first time I learned how to remove stumps was a old farmer that had leftover dynamite. It's a very aggressive form of stump removal. I later learned how to use potassium nitrate and thermite. Wait a second, incendiary cigars No Japanese incendiary soap. I don't think I've read this one before. Resembles a bar of ivory soap. Mm hmm hmmm. Yo, anyw So yeah, if you want to learn how to make things that'll get you a sent club fed and be Bubba's roommate, then you know that this is a good place to go. And last but not Lea's TM thirty one Dash two ten Improvise Munitions Handbook. This is kind of more of the former, but also I'm sure if y'all have stuck around a couple of shows, y'all have heard me and Nick talk about how stupidly easy it is to make firearms from things you find at hardware stores. It is, well, that's where a lot of this is coming from, because this book is literally how to build things if you can't get them procured for you by the Department of Defense or Department of. Wars, including how to make primary and secondary explosives out of household chemicals and natural byproducts. Yep, for official use only. I don't want to get sued, and I'm already on enough government watch lists. So our tax money paid for this, Our text money paid for all this. That's the beautiful part of all this is that your text money paid for this, and it's declassified so it's available on the internet. We should probably talk about VPNs one day. If you're watching this, you're on the same government. Watch this, im it's too late. Probably it's fine. Look, most of this information, whether you find it in a TM or an FM or an SM you can also find on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok. Heck, there's a there's a couple of guys I know of on Instagram that give out various black powder recipes and how to grind them into into the appropriate F series in order to use in various firearms. Smoke as powder a little more difficult to make. I mean, you can make most of these things at home. Just know that if you do start making explosives of home, there are laws regulating their manufacturer, use, disposal, and storage. So do so at your own risk and know the possible consequences. Oh look, a pipe pistol yeap, pipe pistol. Yep, otherwise known as the the poor Man's Liberator. Mm hmm, God, how primitive do we have to be to call anything the poor Man's Liberator? Well, I mean, realistically, that is a fire shotgun. Oh, I was gonna call this the gun buy bag special. It is. I mean, at one point, at one point, Mike County was giving out one hundred and fifty dollars gift. Cards for firearms. I can make an awful lot of block frames out of PLA for one hundred and fifty dollars. And they finally put a stipulation at the bottom of that's a no three D prints or homemade firearms will be accepted. Because everybody was turning in pipe shotguns, three D printed lowers, you know, all kinds of random joke they were claiming with firearms for one hundred and fifty dollars. So, just so we're all caught up, the government is so pearl clutching worried about ghost guns. They want to legislate the matter of existence. But when you try to be a responsible citizen and turn one in, When I try to be. A responsible citizen and manufacture ten to try and get fifteen hundred dollars in gift cards, it sounds that's across the line. It sounded a little less like gaming the system when I saw it. Was absolutely intended to be a self fulfilled tax refund. Nick, are there any government watch list you're not on? I feel like I asked this at least once an episode. I don't know that I've ever violated FCC law. Oh, here's how to make reusable primers. Oh there you go. Well, I mean, all you have to do is all primers are reusable with enough effort. But m pipe pistol for forty five caliber ammunition. Anyway, y'all, y'all get a point. The point is is that there is a tremendous amount of this information out there, and Stuward is going to take me to task, literally as soon as we wrap about Yes, why haven't I taken him up on the fifteen point six terrbites of crap that he has? And I don't know, I might finally have to bend and yield to his exhaustive knowledge of preparedness. I did get too angry with that. I don't know why that came up. I clicked a space bar by accident, and that came up. Oh that was probably the last one you brought up. Oh that could be no Ragle. I'm not on this X Venzer's red Street. This is not a watch list, that's a congression qualification. No, but this little smart ass right here, So I put I made a meme and I posted it. I'm pretty sure you saw it, and it said the only government list. I'm not on is Epstein's. And then this freaking smart ass was was like going to check the sex offender registree and I said, same thing, Yeah, Epstein lists sexfender registree. Hey man, it's as far as I'm concerned, it's a congressional qualification. Now, also studies, did you see that there were five hundred and thirty six no votes to releasing records about congressional sex allegations. Yeah, it turns out if if a congress person, all of well most of Congress thought it would be better if people that did sexual assault of other staffers in Congress got to stay in Congress and anonymous. So the way I read that is, there are five hundred threety six sex of you know, rapists and pedophiles act accordingly at minimum. At minimum, there's five hundred and thirty six of them. I'm saying. In the House, I'm saying, if you voted no, there is literally no justification for it. You my you are my house in my eyes, period. My House rep voted no on that. So I will be writing a number of extremely strongly worded opinions on that fact. Polite, professional, but strongly worded and you know what, I just I don't see how we can think otherwise at this point. Up you're you're you're protecting pedophiles, you're protecting rapists, You're protecting cannibalistic pedophiles, you're protecting rapists. And Congress again. I mean, Nick, you you are you are saying that You're saying that is if we're supposed to conclude something. Else, I'm saying that you're supposed to conclude that anyone that is attempting to protect sexual predators is themselves implicated in those crimes. That is not an opinion. I'm going to state that as a fact. You want to assume me, fine, sue me prove that you are not protecting sexual predators. But I want you to say that in open court. But Nick, what if it collapses the system? That's fine, your terms are acceptable. I'm sorry. If the system is that broken that the only way it stays around is by raping and murdering and eating children, that's not a system that I think deserves to exist. I am so freaking shocked. We haven't gotten this stream taken down YouTube yet, but there's still time. Oh we will, all right, there's a couple of things, extra credit, expeeded homing firearms, PA looting to have it like we've get. Yourself a copay. We've talked about this before. I don't actually think I have a copy of that in that folder. I will put it in there as soon as we wrap do that. Also, if you guys can find one, get one of these. It will help you in doing homemade expedient things. There are some various springs that you have to make in order to use these homemade expedient devices, and a lot of the techniques for how you do that are discussed in here, as well as equivalent wire types, ways that you can make equivalent springs of different wire types by changing the windings. A lot of very handy information. This is the guide to the book. It's stout. The actual book is like, nah, it's quite exceptionally stout. So see what you can get. These are extraordinarily expensive, brand new. Do not buy a brand new one, find one second hand on faceboo, marketplace or Craigslist, because I believe the brand new ones are like three hundred bucks. They're they're exorbitant. Guy. The comments might have answered the question being s banned. They let be from what I've observed and we are definitely shadow band. I had a about a week and a half of fun where apparently we snuck out underneath the Instagram algorithm and the YouTube algorithm. It'd be fine, and yeah, all of our reels suddenly were like had like fifteen to twenty times the reach they normally do. For about a week and a half, it was pretty cool. And then I said something that upset the global pedophile elite, and promptly everything got slapped back down. Yeah. I think I think at this point it is safer to assume that your local state and congress state and national representatives and congress people are pedophiles than not. I mean, I mean, you know, I trust them, but I think we should verify their whereabouts. I neither don't trust them. I don't I don't trust them. I'm being I don't trust them that part. We should verify all of this anyway. I probably won't trust the results either way, because they will investigate themselves. And finally, they did nothing wrong. Again, that's what the government tends to do. They are all right. I don't know that you call it. I would call this honorable mention, but it's not. It's just the thing we've talked about on multiple occasions, Know your Opponent, Rules for Radicals and Unrestricted Warfare, and we've talked about both of these books and apparently demonology books about Moloch because apparently Alex Jones was right again. I need to get a jar for that. You know. I have mixed feelings about Alex Jones because like in his just hear me out, Just hear me out in his prime, when he is like when his little rant is twisted all the way up to like double digits, it's a thing of beauty, okay, but a phil rant is amateur hour compared to compared to an Alex Jones cookoff, like I am. I am shocked he has not had a literal medical episode in the middle of one of them. It is impressive. It is a beautiful thing to behold. He would have made a fine drill sergeant. Oh God, yes. But an Alex Jones rant to me is like entertainment. I don't expect it to be educational, but he's right often enough that it's alarming. It. So I came to Alex. I found out about Alex jones existence not through his stuff, but through other people making parodies of his stuff, and the the the longer time goes on, the more I see serious intelligent people going, yeah, I mean, he's not one hundred percent right, but he's also not wrong. And here's why he wasn't entirely wrong, Like good god. Yeah, I do have to agree with Ragel. I don't watch him regularly, and I disagree with Jeff Jack about Jones being an op. Candace Owens, I'm the jury still out on. But handas Owens, I think the issue with her is she got a taste of the spotlight and then it started to drift off her and she panicked and is now groping for anything she can. But the difference between her and Alex Jones is like Alex like, okay, if you take the Alex Jones. Jones' message has never deviated from a fairly fine point of the government is trying to murder us something. But here, here's the thing about Alex Jones. If you take the body of work, all the crazy shit he said over the years, it's not that he's always right, it's that he's off. He's right often enough that when you look at this body of just like LSD infused insanity and then he's actually right a bunch of times. It's a little unnerving. Yeah, I mean he was. He was right about the cloned cows. I mean, he was right about the frogs being turned gay by chemicals in the water. He was right. He was right about the Moloch thing on the island. He was right about Jeffrey Epstein. He was. It's like, he's not always right, son, but when he's right, it's okay. It's bad, man, it's really really bad. He's He's like, he's like the one eyed guy with the huge arm, bitch that that's got really horrible near that's really horribly near side that you send up to bat clean up. He's gonna swing and miss a bunch most of the time. But when he connects and it just sails out into the next county, it's a beautiful thing to watch. That's Alex Jones. He gets up, he gets Look, if he was a reporter, he'd be out of a job in a week. East wings and misses constantly, but every now and then he connects, and when he does, it's like. Oh, yeah, I'm with jeff I mean, if they we did discover they were lizard people, I would be more annoyed with the fact that Alex Cholz is right yet again than the fact that they are lizard people, because then their behavior makes sense. A guy that comments the Sandy Hook thing, I think that I I think he got carried away with himself, like his own supply, I think he got carried off with himself. I think he he is so into his own head about some of the stuff that in that instance, Yeah, he was horribly horribly wrong. Now do I think it was right to find him the GDP of France? Now? No, No, that. Don't think he could have possibly done that much damage to a few families. Do I think it's kind of odd some of the things that happened around that event, Yeah, I do. But I also think there's some really odd things that happened around the Vegas shooting and around Yuvaldi and a bunch of the other ones that we will never probably get answers of. There. There was a lot of really weird things that happened around the Trump assassination where they killed that guy and then we've never heard anything about it ever. Again, you know, the guy that was conveniently got within like two hundred yards of the president on a roof that was ever so slightly sloped and too dangerous for secret service agents kind of makes you go, hmm, yeah, you know, Look, there can be things that happen that make stuff look kind of weird, that are entirely non sequiturs. Shit happens like that all the time. Reality gets weird sometimes, and there's these weird idiosyncrasies that we can never really truly explain. With some stuff, I think that's the case behind the Sandy thing, That's the case behind the Uvaldi issue with the police not entering. I think that. The Uvalde police never entering the building is a combination of horrible training scars that got a lot of people killed and cowardice. Yep, when you bring those two together, you've got this is our trained response, we wait till we get the go word, and cowards that are like I'm gonna wait because nobody else is going in, and I'm gonna keep everybody else from going in. Ah Man, I think, yeah, I mean to tie up Alex Jones. Like my issue with that, with the way that all went down, is multiple things can be right of the same time. It's very plausible that what he said about Sandy Hook was just flat out completely and totally wrong and off and over the top. It's also very possible that the response to it was little more than the government weighing the scale to try to decimate one of the supporters of their opponents. Yeah. And it's also possible to admit that a lot of the things Alex Jones says sound freaking cuckoo bananas, and yet every now and then he's right. And that's terrifying. I mean, so does the entirety of the Epstein files. Yep. And that is, from everything I have seen and read, an accurate depiction or at least a partially accurate depiction of the events of his life. YEP. I found really funny, Phil. Have you have you heard about this? Apparently in the Epstein files there's evidence that he had his prostate removed because of prostate cancer, and they mentioned finding a prostate in the body that is supposedly Epstein's after his supposed suicide in the jail cell. How do you have a prostate after you've had your prostate removed? Phil? That ship just doesn't grow back. Does Stuart look into the prostate thing? I need your wisdom. Prostates do not grow back. I'm fairly certain they don't grow back anyway. I'm just saying we're gonna have a conspiracy theory episode. You can talk for an hour about it. About Epstein's prostate that shouldn't exist in the autopsy because he hadn't removed. If you make me name the episode Epstein's prostate, you're gonna get me banned off the Internet. Actually, I think it's already trending quite a ways over a few different sections of the Internet. Oh the hell with it. I've already been banned off the internet twice. Might as well just you know, third times the charm. Well, that's good, Stewart. I'm glad you haven't had prostate cancer anyway. Wrapping this up, know your opponent was radical as unrestricted warfare. We've pretty well talked about both of them. And I will make sure I put copies in that Google drive, that that Google Drive folder that is shared over here over there. I can never figure out like where the things are. And because my cameras, I think it's over there. Damn it, I got it wrong. It's over there. I get it wrong every time too. Yepes, You're right, Okay. The funny part is to me, you were right pointing at it, and I was wrong. Oh, because I'm on the opposite side on your screen. Yeah, and also my camera's reversed, so you know. But anyway, I will make sure I put copies of those in the folder for anybody that wants to grab them. Unrestricted warfare I've talked about before. It's a really interesting look at the mindset of fifth generational warfare, like how you attack someone without attacking them because everybody's got nukes and nobody wants to pop pop the quirk on the world. Yeah, and then that that book, right, there is another proof in my theorem of that mutually assured destruction is that it wouldn't occur. Because they want to do everything possible to do warfare without firing nukes. I don't know, man, I just I don't. It would take a lot to convince me. It would actually probably take a multiple nuclear exchanges between two powers to convince me that if somebody got nuke that they would immediately respond with nukes. So I don't think the theory is necessarily that like one side gets new can they respond by nuke in the air side. I think it's more the idea that like given the early warning systems for ICBMs. The idea is that if if I see all of their nukes go into the air, then all mine go into the air and response. Right, But I my, my, My point is, I don't think that would be the response. It may or may not. I don't think it would because I, you know, because. The problem is the only way to test the theory is extra spicy. Oh yeah, no, it's It's definitely one of those. It's one of those undisprovable theories or unprovable theories. I just don't think that people that would attain the level of power that would allow them to respond to a nuclear exchange with an unlimited nuclear exchange, I'm not certain. Well, I don't know, man. Well, but here's here's the other trick is that even if you're trying, not even if you're you're doing this in the eyes of like fifth generation warfare, it's post nuclear age. Everybody's got nukes. We don't want nobody to throw nukes around. It's also the fact of, like if we had a superpower, superpower unlimited war today, if everyone shelved their nukes, the death toll for one country to overwhelm another is still going to be millions upon millions of people. It would be dozens dozens of millions at the least. So the problem becomes, if you can avoid that bloodshed, you can avoid the mutual destruction to your economies, you can avoid decimating cold generations of young men on the battlefield. If you can do that and still take your opponent down several pegs, that's better. And that's where that's where the idea. These aren't going to have the manpower advantage very much longer either. Yeah, well, all the more reason for them to utilize the principle as an unrestricted warfare to try to harm someone else without them having to commit their military to the effort. Like that's because that's really what the book is. Regardless of the justification of whether or not you're trying to prevent nukes or you're trying to do it without committing a committing a kinetic force, it's how do I how do I harm that other nation who is my economic opponent without having to use my military against them? And then rules for radical as we did a whole episode on where we basically talked about, you know, like the mindset of Marxists and how they think and how they operate, which even for me was educational with the with what I already knew before I read read through that cover to cover. Agreed. Yeah, let's see if we have any interesting comments before we rule this guy. The comments, I like, the drone stuff kind of just makes everything as still made and nobody gets to steamroll the other team. But you know, Nick, we were talking with the patrons earlier today about World War One and about like how fast warfare evolved over the course of that war. Like you start off World War One with dragoons in cavalry charges, and you end at machine guns and artillery pieces. Actually, some of the last battles of the war still had dragoon cavalry charges. Yes, but my point is is that we we start the war with basically like Napoleon Hens armies in terms of tech level. Yeah, at least in forms of tactics. Yeah, a lot of them were still doing masked troop movements and on a brisk walk. And we end almost at the at the point like not at the point of like Lightning War, World War two, Nazi Germany, but we end at a tech level that's quickly approaching that Like we have primitive arm troopers, air support, yeah, we have. We have primitive air support. We have primitive repeating farms. We have widespread use of maxim guns and loose guns, machine guns, we have primitive tanks, we have primitive can weapons. Like you have to understand that like World War Two gets a lot of the press for for I guess gets more notoriety, but like World War One as a as an exercise in pushing military technology, it advanced warfare very very rapidly over that period of time. So my comment with that as the backdrop to god that comments is like, I don't think I think that while we're watching drone warfare really come into its own in the Ukraine War right now, I don't think drones are going to be a viable area denial application for very long because something is going to counter drone, something has to. Well. I think what we're seeing here is very similar to the Spanish Civil War and that this is the testing bed for a lot of new and semi new military tech for the West versus the East. Look at what happened in Venezuela and what's currently happening and Iran. This is basically the US going They have all of Russia and China's best anti air stuff. Let's just blow it all up and see how well our equipment. Does you know? That comment makes me think of though, talking about drones used for area denial. Do you remember the old sci fi movie from the ninety Screamers. It's based on phil k dick hig story. I think that's kind of the that's where my mind goes when you talk about using area denial when you could. But something's gonna come along counter that because it has. To, well, at the very least not necessarily that it has to just that humans are intelligent. They're going to find a way to try and to try and fix that. But the earth thing I was going to bring up, since we were talking about military technology, did you hear about one of Iran's hypersonic missiles bypassed Iron Dome today? No? I did not, yep, mock mock fifteen hypersonic hypersonic cruise missile went right through Iron Dome and struck a well. Iron Dome doesn't have hypersonic missiles. Cferently that we know of well, But hypersonic missiles are kind of like the bleeding edge of that technology stream right now. The idea was always like you know, with the idea was with ICBMs, is that we get this thing way up high in the air, we come up over the top, we drop it and. Then dropping in a ballistic arc that's not trackable. Yeah, and then the minute most other nations figured out a way to counter that, then the new method I think it was the Russians that initially started pushing this idea, but the new method of beating all the missile defense systems was hypersonic. YEA or nap of earth missiles that then transition to top attack. Yeah. And I mean I saw a video from this this morning, and I mean, dude, it's it's literally blink of an eye fast, It's it's shocking. I would be shocked. I would be shocked if we don't have some matter of interception technology that can at least attempt to knock down those missiles simply because look, I ran they put a lot of money into their military shop. It's a wildly different scale. Well, it's all we put in that. It's also a case of proximity because like in order for in order for someone to try to get get an attack on us, you either have to come over the North Pole, or you have to cross a couple of really big oceans. Whereas I ran for I ran to play FAFO with all their neighbors. Is like, sure, throw something in the air and it's going to land. Well, look at Russia. They've been trying to play that game in Ukraine. Now for how long? Stuart's corrected me as he loves to. We started the hypersonic missiles and Hillary Clinton gave it to the Ruskies. Look, I'm I'm not. I have no idea If that's accurate, it probably is. He usually is correct. I'm just saying, if we are giving away military technology, odds are we have something two to three generations more advanced than that. Because look, the Chinese roll out a plane and they claim it can do xyz. It doesn't a matter of fact, do that. Neither does the Russian plane. So we roll out a plane that is even better than their planes, claims that they can't reach and our plane works. Look, I just I. Our the amount of money we put into our military industrial complex compared to the amount of capital other countries have available, not even that they put into theirs that they have available. Period, It's an order of magnitude different. We don't free healthcare? Well yeah it is. And you know what, Oh well, I guess you got to pick those trade offs sometimes. I mean, I'm not really a. Fan of the extremely vast sums of money we literally light on fire, blowing up brown people in mud huts. But I'm not in charge. I don't want to be. I don't know, man, I think a Nick I think a Nick and Phil president vice president ticket would be hilarious. One and or both of us would be assassinated in record time. I mean, because I would just get rid of the CIA. And that's what killed Kennedy. He wanted to get rid of the CIA. And I would definitely audit the FED just for fine, just just to just to just to flick the light on and watch the cockroach just scatter, you know what they would just do. They would just fail it on purpose and be like, what are you gonna do? We don't oh, I was that's what they would do if they just I would like, you know, be working out in a garage even though I don't own a weight bar and drop it on my neck. Probably, yeah, anyway, what happens. Anyway. But this was the Prepper Library and that QR code is to a very small folder that has some things in it. I'm going to put some more as soon as this wraps. So like, if you're watching this on stream, give it a couple hours and then you're welcome to go and hit it. And I don't know if Nick throws some stuff my way or anybody else does. I'm more than happy to just keep adding to it. And it's not going to take up a crazy mass spased on my Google Drive. But I think that depends on if I start sending a gun blueprints. I mean, they're legal until California figures out how to enforce their state laws on the internet. No Supreme Court has ruled they are legal. I was being facetious. I don't give a shit what California says. I don't live in I don't live in California. I don't live anywhere near CALIFORNI, and California can suck my ass. To quote another Phil, it'tis the land of fruits and nuts. Yeah, well, to quote this Phil, California is going to have to show up to my front door with their big boy pants on if they want to have discussion with maybe why their state laws don't work in the Louisiana have fun, eat shit and die anyway, But we are going to go ahead and wrap this one up. It's late, I have an early morning and a busy morning tomorrow. And as we said before, next week's show is pre recorded, so you're welcome to come, You're welcome to join Nick and I may or may not be in the comments, but it's not going to be a live recording because I have personal things that I need to do that day and I really need to just like clear my plate on that Thursday and Friday and focus on the home front for a bit. More than likely the following week will be back to live and to keep the natives from getting too restless, I probably need to load up the patron feed with some more content like I did this week. Yes, I mean we're around like episode four hundred and sixty eight, I think, and I'm putting like episodes in the two hundreds on the patron feeds. So those are from like several years ago, but still great episodes from back in the day. So it's on one of the perks of being a patron you get access to a whole nother podcast of shows that is from way way way back in the past. It's not available to the public any longer. So if you've only been watching us for like the last couple of years, and you want to hear the show from the pre Nick days when it was Andrew much Andrew yes or track Yeah, I mean I think he was. Yeah. I think Trek's been in and out for years, long time. Yeah. But anyway, we'll go ahead and wrap this one up. It's nine o'clock at night. I have an early wake up in the morning, and this has been the Prepper Library. Just the one thing I'm gonna tell you all guys is you might start at what we laid out tonight. Do not stop the information that's provided in those tms and fms and those guides. It's useful. A lot of it's been superseded by my newer information. The point is not to get these books and then that is all you read and you are now proficient in life. The point is to use that to learn and to grow and to increase your knowledge, so that on the day when the lights turn out for the last time and it's time to do hood rat stuff, you have some kind of a basis of knowledge from which to draw from absolutely all right, matter of facts, going out the door again, out of everybody. Take care of yourselves, take care of each other. And I won't talk to y'all next week neither we'll nick, but stick around for the show anyway, by y'all. All right, De de de De