OPERACHIN APPALACHIAN

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[00:00:27] PBM family, what is up? We are coming to you from the Jonestead. I'm here with Dave Jones, the NBC guy, and the Bankster Breaker himself as we prepare for, I don't know, I called it, what did I call it? The Appalachian Operation? I guess we could call it that. That sounds good. Yeah, these guys are in for a real treat tonight. It's only a 30% chance of rain, but I think that will be the least of the problems.

[00:00:56] You know, we were talking about if you leave early, it will be hotter. Yeah, but you'll have to benefit the light. But you really want to set up camp in the pitch dark. Yeah. You know. Yeah. So, Ben. Yeah. You've traveled this before. Yeah, I have. I've done this route, the exact route. When was that? But, uh, 2023? Yeah.

[00:01:19] Maybe summer 23, because, uh, we did the, uh, Gotham Get Out in February 24, and then Rational Ruin 25, and this was really supposed to be a Rational Ruin kind of end cap event, but we're like, hey, let's reset, come back about a month later, and we got some fun plans, I think. Well, yeah, now you have bags.

[00:01:39] Yeah, we got some bags, and Lima Tango Survival, we've got the Gray Man Kit, which is essentially two bags, and, uh, two bags, but they work in tandem. Ah, nice. So, that, that, guys, going through them and going over them, you can see it's, it's a kit designed for two people, but each bag isn't identical. Oh. You know what I mean? Okay. So, the one thing that would be... So, if you were one guy, you'd have to put one up front and one on the back. That would be something. Yeah, that would be something, but it's, it's a great kit, though.

[00:02:10] I mean, it's got it all. No. It's got two of these. Oh, nice. Yeah, it comes with two, uh, face masks, two goggles, two, a lot of, a lot of stuff. I mean, it really is a great kit for two people, and it's, it's like 395 bucks, so you divide that in half. It's not, it's pretty reasonable compared to a lot of competitively priced bags. So, but we'll see. We'll see what it's capable of tonight, Ben and I. But now, you guys are actually going to just live out of the bags. Yeah, I'm not planning on doing anything else.

[00:02:40] You don't have anything else other than what's in the bag. I'll tell you what I have. Okay. But we might not even need it. We'll see how much sweating we do. Okay. I brought three AAA batteries for my headlamp as backup. Okay. Sure. And four liquid IVs. Nice. In case. I got a few in my pocket right here, too. Oh, you got them, too? I'm like, there's one emergency thing I need. I got a whistle, and I got a freaking few liquid IVs.

[00:03:07] Like, if I'm dying, I can blow a whistle until someone saves me, and I can drink liquid IV. Because we're not going that far into the woods. But, uh. How far is the actual whole track? All right. So, this is, I'm going to actually track a GPS with some calories and our times, and we'll debrief tomorrow a little bit. But it should be about four miles on trail slash road, but mostly road. And then another eight miles or so on Appalachian Trail, pretty much that whole time, or six of those eight.

[00:03:37] So, I think, honestly, we can do whatever we want. We're going to go, of those 12 miles, go like six or eight tonight. Yeah, that sounds good. Set up camp, and then finish the few tomorrow morning, get here by like 9 a.m., 10 a.m. at the latest. And then we'll be able to do some of that fun stuff tomorrow. So, that's the plan. I feel like we could knock, like if we were just going full speed, we could knock it out pretty quick. But we're going to stop, try some things. We don't have like set challenges, per se. Yeah.

[00:04:04] But we should mess around with the bags and try to do some stuff with the bags. Do you have more than just the Lima Tango? Do you have another bag to compare? Nah. You know, I didn't bring the other bag. It was so bad. Oh. It was unfathomably good. I mean, I posted a thing on it, but I think I'll have to share it with you guys. So, I opened this. First of all, I opened the box. Like, it came in a box about the size of a backpack. And I opened the box up, and the bag itself looks nice. Like, I'm looking at the bag.

[00:04:33] It looks like someone took a bag that's packed and shoved it in the box. And the bag looks good, and the whole thing's plastic wrapped. Right? And I'm like, uh-oh, okay. We've got some competition here. So then the other day, I'm filming some stuff out of the Gray Man bag and doing like a mix of products. Like theirs versus theirs. You know, and doing video of it. And I go to grab the bag, like expecting a bag, and I lift it up, and it's just a bag in a plastic bag.

[00:05:02] All the stuff is just in the box. Oh. Oh, not packed. But the best part, though, is there's wooden matches all over. Oh, the matches are so cool. The wooden matches are everywhere. And I said, this better not be the fire kit. You know what I mean? And it is. It is. Outside of a ferro rod that's in one of those 15-in-1 plastic. I know you guys have seen them. They're like a plastic black container about like this. Yes. 15-in-1 survival kit. Nothing in it works.

[00:05:33] Yeah. The compass that don't work. Yeah. Nothing works. The little knife that you can't. Might as well be Cracker Jack toys or something. The Bunker Days guys, you might have heard. I know somebody on air has heard me tell this story, but it's so awesome. Because it just is unbelievable. But never buy one of these 15-in-1s because the Bunker Day guys sent me one with their logo on it. Because I guess you just get them from China and put your logo. You know. This is a PBN survival kit. Take it. I put the knife in my pocket.

[00:06:01] It's like I take my one I always use out. Because they were like, try the stuff out, see what it's like. So I take my knife. I put this one in my pocket. I go run outside the gym, which is like two and a half and two back. Uphill. And then uphill the other way, but downhill. You've never been on like the road, like hilly road. It's a tough run. I get back. I get home. I go to take the knife out. It's in pieces. Oh my God. It's literally all disassembled. Like unscrewing itself. The knife blade is out.

[00:06:30] The two pieces on the side are separated. The whole thing fell apart. It couldn't survive survival. It couldn't survive a five mile run. Dang. Yikes. On a road. I mean, I wasn't even running in the woods. I'm just hitting pavement for five miles. I said, okay. I don't even need to test the rest of this kit. If the knife don't hold up, I'm screwed. There's nothing it's going to do for me. You can't keep your steel in one piece. But yeah, that kit's got next to nothing in it.

[00:06:58] Hey, so you're going to drink the emergency water that's in there, right? Well, that's what I was thinking for the liquid IV. I mean, I've got water, but if we get to the point where the water is gone and you and me are both like, dude, let's stop and hydrate. Or if we wake up in the morning and we feel like shit. You know what I mean? That kind of thing. And I was thinking, open the emergency water, pour the liquid IV in it. Give it one of them. Sure. Now, do you have like a life straw? Do you have any other means?

[00:07:27] They do have a life straw in there. Yeah, there's a life straw in there. I heard your DAC didn't know about the life straw. There's some sanitabs in there. Damn that. Yeah. Oh, they got some sanitabs? Yeah. Are they iodine or like chlorine? It's the drops. Drops. Yeah. Little tiny drops. Yeah. Yeah, so. That's probably even, honestly, I'd rather do that than the life straw. It'd be quicker. But I think we have three, six, nine, twelve emergency water bags. Okay. These guys that are about that side. I don't know what they are.

[00:07:55] Like five by four or three or something like that. I think they're like, you know how much water? Like 16 ounces in each? I think it's four ounce. Four ounce? Yeah, I think it's 4.25 ounces or something like that. That's not a lot, though. Oh, no. It's definitely not a lot. It's definitely not. It's an emergency if you're drinking that. Well, that's a good point. That's a good way to look at it. There's going to be like eight of them right here. Yeah. Yeah. Gosh. I've been, so honestly, when we did this, essentially the exact same time of the year, I think it might be a little cooler tonight than it was. You guys got it pretty rough.

[00:08:24] It was a little warm, but we told, like, I underestimated how much water we needed. And I lost a canteen on the way. I always had problems losing stuff. So by the end, by that like mile 10, I was hurt. So we did stay for about 30 minutes using the live straw, rehydrated, but it took the full 30 minutes. And a pain in the ass, for sure. Yeah, I wish I had a hand-pump filter. I mean, I have one, but I wish the bag had one. That's one of the, but, you know. That needs to be on my list for sure.

[00:08:53] And, I don't know, I've been taking some electrolytes today and drinking tons of water. I am fasted right now. So I'm at about 24 hours right now. But I think there is some MREs in there, maybe. Yeah, there's a big old pack of MREs. I'll go a while, but I might have some of that. Especially by the time we hit camp, I'll have a few of that. Well, yeah, I mean, once you're in it, evaluate the whole thing. Exactly. I want to try to use everything, if we can, reasonably. There's plenty of calories. There's a big one. Okay. One of these big bag of MREs, you know, like the big bag that has, I don't know how much.

[00:09:22] I'm already hungry, I'm not going to lie. I feel like I should have ruined it. Yeah, then there's also the, they got like an SOS type bar, you know, the May Day sort of sugar flour fat bar. Sure, yeah. And then there's also a nutrient bar that I've never had before. Have you ever seen it? It's in like a square orange package. It looks like the same kind of consistency, except it's thin, about like, you know, two inches thick. And there's a list of all the vitamins in it.

[00:09:52] It's like a vitamin bar kind of thing. Interesting. Yeah. I've never seen those before, but yeah, they probably taste god awful. But we'll see. Yeah. Chewy vitamins. Yeah, right. Exactly. Mmm. Yum. I have a water story. Let's see. So we, in Alaska, you're allowed to take what they call adventure training. Mmm. And it was, you put a plan together, you know, your squad, your unit, whatever, put a plan together.

[00:10:20] And if they approve it, you don't have to take leave. You just go do it. Yeah, it was pretty cool. Wow. So ours was a hike to this place called Trout Lake. You would think it would be full of trout. Yeah. Not so much. Sounds like fun. But we had to get the water because you couldn't haul water. Yeah, you can't carry that much. So we get the water out of this lake and I mean it's glacier stream fed. Sure, yeah.

[00:10:49] Not much crap floating in it, but there was these little red bugs and you could see them. Ah, yeah. In this milk jar. We do the thing, pour it in there, shake it up, 30 minutes. They're still in there. Oh, no. Still swimming around. Do the thing, put it in there, shake it up, wait another 30 minutes. We're like, come on. Look. Oh, my God. They're still swimming around. Now, this is enough chlorine to kill a horse.

[00:11:19] Yeah, yeah. We took a half a cup of Everclear. Poured it in. Oh, there you go. Blew right through their cell membranes. That's when Everclear was 190. Yeah, yeah. That was the real stuff. That's hilarious. That is a good one. Hey, that's a survival tip right there. Start fires. Yeah. You know. That's a survival tip right there. Even Alaska Glacier Water. Don't drink that stuff raw. Oh, yeah. You get messed up. Yeah, there's always risk.

[00:11:49] If you're literally going to die, you got no other choice. There's only hope. Yeah. But, you know, I did a lot of hiking in Colorado at like 10,000 plus feet. And the water looks so clean. But, you know, they're always like, never, never touch it. You're just going to get Giardia or like all this other stuff too. We were on the Appalachian Trail, me and my family. This was when we were pretty new to hiking and stuff like that. And not that we're like experts or anything, but it was one of the first times we ever all went up there.

[00:12:17] And I don't, we went to some peak, had a huge rock scramble that looked like it was man-made. Almost like they dumped a bunch of big rocks at the top of it. It was really weird at the end. But anyway, when we were in there, we came across one of those sleeping huts. Yep. And then the creek was there and I looked at the creek and I was like, God, look at that creek. Carter, you can probably drink out of that creek. And then like 40 steps up, there's a big sign, don't drink out of the creek. It was funny.

[00:12:46] And then when I saw that, that's when I was kind of like, I guess you just can't. There's no way where you can just be like, I'll take a sip out of this water. Looks so good, ice cold. Yeah. Yeah, it's the dangerous thing. That said, I had drank water out of my hydro blue water filter, the big pressurized jerry can water filter, which I think is like one of the coolest things ever. Damn. Right out of my back creek. Really? And didn't get sick. Yeah.

[00:13:13] I mean, I only had like a glass one time because I wasn't about to go all in and die. Because I was mostly worried about chemical contaminants more than anything. You know, we were pretty close to a highway and stuff. Hey, did you get any flooding the other night? Oh, dude. It's been insane in Richmond. Yeah. Oh, it sounds like Starship Troopers in the sky at night. Yeah. It's like, it's not like lightning crack. You know what I mean?

[00:13:43] It's like lightning. The whole house shakes and you're like, what is SpaceX doing up there? Like, I don't know. It's the craziest thunder ever. But yeah, we had all kinds of stuff. Hey, since it is Friday, do you want to do 10 full stuff? Some full Friday. Are they making the weather? I don't know, man. Like I said on today's show. Yeah. 1.3 billion dollar weather modification budget and weather modification college for the Chinese. That's just China. That's just what they announced.

[00:14:12] Or that too. Right. 10 to 1. So 10 billion for what they announced. That's a really good point. That's a really good point. Sure, they do well with counting their own costs and stuff. When Maria sent me this video, you know, I have to keep telling her, not everything on the internet is real. Right. Okay.

[00:14:38] So this one drone and they put, I don't know, whatever they put in it, nitrous, ammonium, Oh, silver. Yeah. Isn't it like some kind of silver or something? They flew this one drone up there and they said this one drone made this much rainfall from this stuff. Oh, okay. And I'm like, nah. Well, the guy that Glenn had on, and that was the, I really like, he kind of stole what I wanted to do, which was find one of these cloud seating people, but maybe I'll still

[00:15:08] do it anyway. Sure. But he had the guy on for like 15 minutes and that was what the guy, the guy said something similar. He said, he said what they put up there is like 10 Skittles worth. That's what he said. 10 Skittles worth. And then also what he said is it makes the rain dissipates and it's gone. So he said that it's not the type of thing that like gets stuck up in the atmosphere, flows across the planet and all that. So, you know.

[00:15:37] But didn't they, remember when that flooding was in Dubai last year? Did they do that to themselves? Yes. They, they. Bringing the water to the desert. That they were trying cloud seating. Oh. And it flooded the airport. Well, maybe they didn't know what the hell they were doing yet. Yeah. I guess. I don't know. We do it. That guy said we do it a lot. That's what, that on, yeah. I gotta link that. I'll link it in this show. This time. There you go. This time.

[00:16:05] I said I will link it in the last one and I didn't do it. I feel like weather control would be something easy to do in a chaotic way to just to blow things up. But actually to be focused and help farmers and get the right amount would be like so complicated. Well, that's what he said that they're doing is Midwest and to get the river levels up in Lake Mead. Remember how for years it was like Lake Mead is gonna be dry tomorrow. Yeah. The aquifers. The aquifers. You gotta wonder like. Yeah. The aquifers. The freaking earth.

[00:16:33] It's obviously the most complex system we know about. So, if you're doing that in California, that might have some knock-on effects in Texas. It throws the balance out. I'm not saying that's it either. But. That's what I was worried about. Playing God with the weather, even if in a small way, that could have some weird butterfly effect. That's what I was worried about before I knew about China. That's exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking the Saudis are doing stuff they don't understand. And it's, you know, changing things in the whole world. Something's changed though. Well, like you said on your, I don't know if it was DAC or just your show earlier today.

[00:17:02] You're like, now everyone's gonna be prepping. It's like, everyone's gonna need to prep. It's in your face. It's not just talking about. Oh, yeah. Celebrities and stuff anymore like 10 years ago. Like, disasters everywhere. And even NBC guys, neighbors are prepping now because they think Trump's gonna have a third term. Yeah, a third term Trump. Like, hey, whatever gets you prepping, I guess. Yeah, man. Whatever. Whatever the motivation is, right? One thing about Trump, he can inspire action.

[00:17:32] He does inspire action. He will inspire some action. Good or bad. Yeah, he will inspire some action. Good or bad. That's true. Which I guess in some ways is better than inaction for most people, you know? But the real question is, and we'll find out one day. The real question is, is 2022 through 2025 coinkadink or sabotage from some foreign entity or not? You know what I mean?

[00:17:57] From the train derailments to the East Palestine chemical weapons attack to the, I mean, remember the sheer amount of factories. Well, then when we were doing this, there was someone that did like, what are the probabilities? And it was something like. It was probably Carl. 2,690. Carl wanted to make a whole documentary. Yeah. He really wanted to. He didn't have time because of life, you know what I mean?

[00:18:26] But he was really like, James, I want to make just a documentary on all of these attacks because this is insane. The probability of all these being an accident was like out of the realm of possibility. It seemed crazy. Because you don't hear about them now. Right. Remember it was trained derailment, trained derailment, trained derailment. And then all of a sudden it was just no more training. Food processing plants. Yeah, the food all the time. Blowing up. The one Texas. Yeah. The cows blew up. I didn't know. Cows were explosive. Yeah, right. I forgot about that. Oh my goodness. Yeah, there was so many.

[00:18:56] There was so many. And it was a huge one too, wasn't it? It was like 10,000 cows. Something like that. It was massive. Yeah. And then you know what? Maybe it died down because these enemies of the Republic were like, just send the soldiers in through the southern border. It's easier. Yeah. Yeah. Straight forward. Yeah. And then, you know, tail end of Biden, they whipped things back up with Helene.

[00:19:24] They whipped things back up with Texas now. I don't know. It seems too weird to me. Yeah. And the fires too. I'm not saying they're lasers from the sky, but everything that happened in Hawaii and California and also Canada wildfires. Yeah, that's true. So it's, you know. I'll tell you what we need probably. Talking about it has spurred this idea. What we probably need to do is go to someone, go to a voice from those communities after the

[00:19:52] disaster and say, everybody in national news was saying like this area floods a lot. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:20:25] You know, because I talk to some people and they're like, oh, I've watched there all the Yeah. Someone's crying. And we were, you know, isolated. We didn't know what we didn't know until we got out. Yeah, that's crazy. And I could see why she cried because it was a disaster. Yeah. Like real. Yeah. Like you said, it was like a war zone. Yeah. Although. You've been to those. In a war zone, you understood why that building is pancaked. Right. Yeah, yeah.

[00:20:54] That's part of the plan. The JDAM does that. Yeah, sure. This was like a barn was stopped by a bridge. You know, the top of the barn was half on the bridge. Wow. And. Crazy, man. Yeah, it was just crazy. So if you ain't prepping. Yeah. And it won't be the last, okay? We're thinking water, so now we'll get a good juke move and it'll be something totally

[00:21:24] different in some other part of the country. Right. We'll go, oh wow, what about that now? So now when you guys are on the hike. Yeah. Are you going to do, are you going to have cell coverage? Oh. Are you going to be able to do? Well, we can record without it even. True. Yeah. I would say. From about the 1 3rd mark to the 2 3rd mark, we probably will because we're actually going to be at the high point of a mountain and they've got a bunch of radio towers there, but like right down. But at the start, we won't have any, but that's fine. Yeah.

[00:21:51] And so like tomorrow morning, we probably won't, like right before we break camp, maybe we'll have it. But like you said, we can always pre-record the speaker and update later. So we'll do a few, definitely got to do a few check-ins. Maybe we'll test out the Instagram, see if we can go live on Instagram when it's best because that would be fun. Or whenever he says we've got the best signal. Exactly. We'll take a couple of looks. Maybe at the peak or something like that. Stop at a couple spots.

[00:22:18] Like right in the middle, like right after you get the good reception though, you do go about 700 feet right down into like a gorge, but you'll get nothing there. And there's so many, it's rained so much, there's so much tree cover that you'll lose signal. Oh, that makes sense. Quick, there's so much water in the air. When we did this at first, future Dan and I, we were trying to use the GPS, like the garments. Right. And they would, even with those, it was kind of in and out. Wow.

[00:22:45] At the bottom of that area, because there's so, these trees are huge. You're going to love it. It's beautiful out there. But it's like 100 foot tall trees and just, you're like, okay, no signals getting through that. That's impressive. Yeah. It's awesome. It's going to be fun tonight. And then when you get here tomorrow, sometime around 10, probably something like that. Yeah. 10, possibly earlier, honestly. It depends. We're going to be kind of facing the east a little bit. The sun will be in our faces by 6 a.m.

[00:23:15] I have no reason to sleep in. I'm sure I'll be there. Larry is not going to be home from 9 to 1. Okay. But he said the range is ours. Oh, nice. So help yourself. And last time he did that, he actually set targets and staples and stuff out for us. Yeah. Geez. Geez. So we can shoot. Oh, yeah. Let's do it.

[00:23:39] And I'll have 22, 38 special, 357. Did we determine Larry had a 44? I don't remember. I have a 45. Well, that'll work. Okay. And we can test all of them on that body armor. Nice. So we got two. I should have brought them in. They're about like, yay. They're probably about 16, 18 inch long. Yeah, I saw you. Hold them up. They're big.

[00:24:08] What I was thinking is we could draw some circles on it. Yeah. And then the number on top. Right. Put the 22 into it here. Pop, pop, pop, pop. Okay. Makes sense. Yeah, the 38. Because it should stop everything in that category. Nice. Yeah. We can do a little bit of footage of shooting and then the full analysis. Look through it. Yeah. Judge it. Score it. Yeah, that'll be cool. They'll appreciate it. Then I'm going to take my AK out and just finish it off. Yeah, do it. Do it. Why not? I brought it.

[00:24:37] I brought a bunch of 5.56. My brother-in-law, I've been watching his stuff, some stuff for him. We'll leave it at that. And he was like, I got a bunch of 5.56 here if you want to use it for anything. Nice. Nice. And I was like, okay. Well, actually, initially, with that first weekend we were coming up, he had an AR at the house and he said, I hadn't sighted it in yet. And I said, all right, well, I'll take it up. We couldn't get it out of the damn, he had one of those RFID, one of these numbers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I guess the batteries died.

[00:25:07] Oh. So word of warning, PBN fan. Yeah, yeah. You got that really nice hidden vault that has all your guns in it. You better make sure them batteries work. For real. You don't want that in the still of the night. Oh, now I'm going to go find my manual key. Where the hell is that? Yeah, who's got that thing made around? His looked like it was kind of like a homemade deal. Not bad. It looked nice, but it just looked like, I looked over the whole thing. I didn't see anywhere for a backup keyhole.

[00:25:36] I guess he's got to pry it out of there. I didn't do it. I was thinking about it. I was like, I could probably get in there. I don't want to ruin it. Well, and Marie's got the watermelon on ice. So when you guys get it on ice. Heck yeah. So you'll get your hydration and all that stuff. Dang. You know how it goes. Yeah, definitely. Woo, baby. Yeah, that's what I told her. I won't say anything else because she has some ideas.

[00:26:03] That's going to motivate me tonight when I'm rocking. Dave's going to wake up. We'll just be sleeping in the chicken coop. Yeah. We'll just be like, keep rocking and we can get there tonight. Future Dan and I pretty much did do that. Oh, did you guys? We sat for about like half an hour and just hung out. I thought you met up somewhere. Well, I went down to the bottom of the hill and got him. Oh, right. That time, you're right. That time we did that. That's true. That was the original. That was a fun time.

[00:26:32] That was Dark. No. That was Azure Highland. That was the original Azure Highland. The second one was Dark Trail March. Yes. That's right. There you go. Dan's awesome with the name. Ration and Ruin. Dan always comes up with the name. See, you know what would be fun is to turn that shit into a book one day. Yeah. You know what I mean? With chapter titles like that, that would be good. And he still remembers I made fun of these Leathermen. Oh, yeah.

[00:27:01] Saved our ass. Saved my ass. I'm like, dude, they make new ones now. This is the last century Leatherman. I remember. If you both were 30 years younger, I might have had to get up and get between. That's what the sound of like was about to happen there. It was about to be one of those. Well, if you're listening, Dan, I'll see you tomorrow. He's coming, right? Oh, yeah. He said he's going to be able to come. Yep. Okay. I told him, get here before noon.

[00:27:30] If you're listening, get here at like 10 or so. Yeah. Shoot some things. Eat some watermelon. I say 10. And hang out. Yeah. And for 10. Shoot for 10. That way we have enough time. You said you want to leave before. Yeah. If I could get up before 2, that'd be good for my day. We want at least four hours and stuff. So 10. You might even be here at 9. But we'll keep you up to date in the back channels. Yeah. I said, you know, we'll keep you, make sure we're checking in. If you don't hear from us for four hours, well, they'll be able to find us probably. I'll be blowing a whistle. That's interesting.

[00:27:59] I'm really interested to see what you guys, you know, come up with. Yeah. And if there's any holes, you know? Oh, I'm sure. It's all about capabilities and limitations. That was another thing we talked about before you got here. What? You got to come up with PBN sayings. You're right. I was thinking about this the other day. Make a post. You said something on today's cash. And I said, oh, that's a James. That's a James. Yeah, we do need a list.

[00:28:28] Because then we just put them on T-shirts. No, but we do because it's become a thing. There's some good ones. And you know what's cool about it, man, is that the type of podcasting that I do, I don't go back to things a lot. I don't go back to standards the way that you go back to standards really well. And I always kind of envied other broadcasters like on AM radio who had those standard phrases. And now we have those standard phrases thanks to everybody. So you're right.

[00:28:56] We do need to hammer those because they're sweet. Yeah. That's a cool. It feels like, I don't know, it feels like substantive. You know what I mean? Like the network has got its own vocabulary now. Legacy. Legacy. Inside jokes. But I was just thinking about that the other day. It's funny that you said that. I was just thinking. Really? Yeah. At least the Dave Joneses. You know, at least get the... We all have it. Yeah, definitely. There's a bunch of them. I can't remember what... I don't know. I'd have to listen to it.

[00:29:25] You did have to remember you had a couple good quips or slogans. They're there. They're there to be lined. Too many firsts. Too many firsts is a good one. Too many firsts is a good one. Too many firsts. That's gold. Yeah. I mean, that was literally like Azure Highland. Yeah. And how valuable was that? You know what I mean? That was probably the most valuable prepping experience you've ever had. It was. I think so. Because you came away from that. Like, I'm going to tie this down. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. Probably change your game a lot. Exactly.

[00:29:54] That's the power of fumbling over those firsts, man. Yeah. If you don't get out there and do it. I mean, you learn the most when you say... Exactly. Oh, definitely. I'm not going to do that again. Oh, yeah. Pain and embarrassment. The best teachers. Dude, that's the story of my life. I know. And if you're going to do crazy stuff, I mean, that's going to be your story. You know? Yeah. I bet you could attest to it a little, right? Oh, yeah. You took a lot of risks and did a lot of cool stuff. That's how it works.

[00:30:23] That's the only way you get good at it. True. The only way you turn... People look back and go, that guy knows what he's doing. Yeah. It's because I spent half the time falling on my face. Exactly. You just get the luxury of doing it in isolation nowadays. You can make a lot of mistakes alone nowadays. Oh, I'm glad no one saw that. Yeah. If you guys could hear the blooper reel of shows I started and ended, you wouldn't even believe it. You might look at me differently. The level of expletive that can come out when you screw up an intro.

[00:30:55] Well, all right, guys. We'll let you get and you'll probably be hearing from us. I don't know. You might hear all this in one big chunk. You might hear some of it in the evening. I don't know. We'll have to see. Look for us on a variety of platforms. We may even record a damn YouTube video and throw it up. Who knows? Whatever tickles the fancy out there on the Appalachian Trail. We'll see. Let's do it. All right. Let that be that. Talk to you guys soon.