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[00:00:04] You're listening here to PBN, your path back to stability here
[00:00:12] Until it's over, until it's over, and just like a soldier
[00:00:43] This is Jay Ferg, your host with Phoenix Survival, and do I have something special for you today
[00:01:24] We have two guests here with us, with Practical Tactical, Mr. Bruce and Rudy
[00:01:31] These two fine gentlemen have a business of their own, and we actually met at a gun expo
[00:01:38] So Bruce and Rudy, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves
[00:01:42] And just telling the audience a little bit about yourself and what it is you do
[00:01:49] Good morning everyone, my name is Rudy Uribe
[00:01:55] I'm in the Army National Guard, serving now 17 years
[00:02:00] I've gotten into the health and wellness back in 2015 when I went back to school
[00:02:05] After my first deployment, I wanted to learn more about how the body works
[00:02:10] And how it, just basically to learn everything about as far as recovery
[00:02:16] How to fuel it, how to train it, how to make it stronger, powerful
[00:02:20] So I graduated and took a role as a head performance coach at a fitness boutique gym
[00:02:28] And then from there, I kind of wanted to learn more
[00:02:32] And then I got into the health and wellness of a TRT clinic where now I learn more about the physiology
[00:02:39] Of how the hormones work with the body
[00:02:42] And now today, I'm here with my buddy Bruce
[00:02:45] And helping him grow his business with the Practical Tactical
[00:02:50] And bringing it, the strength and conditioning, the tactical strength and conditioning part of it
[00:02:56] What's up everybody? Obviously you heard from Rudy here, I'm Bruce
[00:03:00] I've got military training from the U.S. Coast Guard
[00:03:04] Training here, I was a patrolman for Horry County
[00:03:08] And I currently work as an executive protection agent for diplomats, celebrities, the likes
[00:03:16] And I got into this, I can tell you the warm and lovey reason of my mom got me into this
[00:03:23] And she's an old lady who bought a gun and told me I need to start teaching people
[00:03:26] Or I could get into the real reason of, you know, this world is not what it used to be 10 years ago
[00:03:32] 15 years ago
[00:03:33] And, you know, I think people need to be able to learn to protect themselves
[00:03:38] To be able to be safe with using firearms
[00:03:41] And really how to be able to shoot, move, communicate
[00:03:44] Is where, you know, I brought Rudy into this
[00:03:48] And we met almost this time last year
[00:03:54] And he actually helped kind of guide my training
[00:03:59] Into becoming, you know, a stronger, faster, more powerful person
[00:04:03] From where I was
[00:04:06] And that's been fantastic
[00:04:08] And so, just trying to marry the two things
[00:04:10] And be able to get people to the point where
[00:04:14] Even from just a prepper's point of view of like
[00:04:17] Are you going to bug in or bug out?
[00:04:19] And if you have to bug out
[00:04:20] How are you going to do that?
[00:04:21] Are you going to be the guy who
[00:04:24] Buys all the Gucci gear but doesn't train?
[00:04:27] And then you're just a loot drop for somebody?
[00:04:29] Or are you going to be the guy who
[00:04:31] Maybe doesn't buy all the Gucci gear
[00:04:33] But he trains and he can survive?
[00:04:35] So that's really what it's come down to
[00:04:37] Is being able to help educate people
[00:04:39] On how to maintain their bodies
[00:04:42] How to train their minds
[00:04:44] How to become a survivor
[00:04:46] And have that survivor mindset
[00:04:50] No, I think that's fantastical
[00:04:52] So if you don't mind
[00:04:53] Tell us a little bit of what exactly
[00:04:56] Is Practical Tactical for you?
[00:04:59] Practical Tactical for me is the culmination of the last 12 years of my life
[00:05:10] Of training and learning
[00:05:12] And really growing as a person
[00:05:15] Into the person I wanted to be
[00:05:17] For my family
[00:05:19] For my kids
[00:05:20] And being able to make sure
[00:05:23] From just like a
[00:05:24] A primal point
[00:05:26] That I'm able to keep
[00:05:27] My bloodline safe
[00:05:29] Healthy
[00:05:30] And you know
[00:05:31] In the instance of a terrible
[00:05:33] You know, event happening
[00:05:35] Being able to be that person
[00:05:36] Who's able to
[00:05:37] Have a tight circle
[00:05:38] Of people around me
[00:05:39] Who I can help
[00:05:40] You know
[00:05:41] Be a team with
[00:05:42] Lead when necessary
[00:05:44] Support when necessary
[00:05:45] And protect
[00:05:46] At all odds
[00:05:48] And so that's really
[00:05:50] Where this has come to
[00:05:50] Is like
[00:05:51] The world's a crazy place, Jordan
[00:05:53] I mean
[00:05:54] This past week
[00:05:55] Somebody tried to
[00:05:56] Invade a home here in
[00:05:57] Ori County
[00:05:58] And
[00:05:59] The homeowner
[00:06:00] The homeowner shot the guy
[00:06:02] So like
[00:06:03] Good on that guy
[00:06:03] But that's what we teach
[00:06:05] Like
[00:06:06] You need to be able to
[00:06:07] Defend your castle
[00:06:08] Defend your family
[00:06:09] And so
[00:06:10] It really hits home of like
[00:06:12] Shit's going crazy, man
[00:06:13] Like
[00:06:13] You were out there
[00:06:15] For Hurricane Helene
[00:06:16] Like teaching people
[00:06:17] To survive is
[00:06:17] Key
[00:06:18] Like the government
[00:06:19] Didn't show up until
[00:06:20] You know
[00:06:21] Days after
[00:06:22] Well and you're still
[00:06:23] Dealing with issues
[00:06:24] That the government
[00:06:25] Isn't helping people
[00:06:27] Right
[00:06:29] And I think
[00:06:30] You know
[00:06:30] I've studied history
[00:06:32] And any time
[00:06:32] The government
[00:06:33] Has gone on television
[00:06:34] And said
[00:06:35] We're from the government
[00:06:36] We're here to help you
[00:06:37] That's not a good thing
[00:06:38] They're not there to help you
[00:06:39] That is
[00:06:41] Propagandized
[00:06:42] So I do want to ask
[00:06:44] Do either of you
[00:06:45] Consider yourself
[00:06:46] Preppers
[00:06:50] I'll let Rudy
[00:06:51] Take point on this one
[00:06:52] Because I have a
[00:06:53] Hybrid view on it
[00:06:54] So
[00:06:55] Prepping
[00:06:57] So we got to look
[00:06:58] At the
[00:06:59] So
[00:07:00] Prepping for me
[00:07:01] Like I said
[00:07:02] When I
[00:07:02] When I went back
[00:07:03] To school
[00:07:04] So
[00:07:04] After my deployment
[00:07:05] One thing I really
[00:07:06] Wanted to
[00:07:07] Get better at
[00:07:08] Was
[00:07:09] Making my body
[00:07:11] A functional
[00:07:13] Vital machine
[00:07:14] Not just
[00:07:15] Being able to
[00:07:16] Walk
[00:07:16] To my
[00:07:17] To work
[00:07:18] And going back
[00:07:20] To work
[00:07:20] And doing the basic
[00:07:21] Stuff like the yard work
[00:07:22] And then
[00:07:23] Going to bed
[00:07:24] No I wanted to
[00:07:25] To learn how to
[00:07:26] Become stronger
[00:07:27] I wanted to learn
[00:07:28] How to be
[00:07:29] Powerful
[00:07:30] I wanted to learn
[00:07:31] How to
[00:07:33] You know
[00:07:33] Fuel my body
[00:07:34] So when it comes
[00:07:35] To being a prepper
[00:07:36] I think it's more about
[00:07:38] Prepping your body
[00:07:40] First
[00:07:40] Stuff that
[00:07:42] If stuff
[00:07:42] Were to happen
[00:07:43] Where let's just say
[00:07:44] Shit hits the fan
[00:07:45] Your body is ready
[00:07:46] So your body is not
[00:07:48] Your body is durable
[00:07:49] Your body can recover
[00:07:51] Your body can
[00:07:52] Withstand the beating
[00:07:53] Of what
[00:07:54] Is to happen
[00:07:55] So physically
[00:07:57] Physically
[00:07:57] I would say
[00:07:58] I
[00:07:59] I am a prepper
[00:08:00] Physically
[00:08:01] And mentally
[00:08:02] Through all the
[00:08:03] I mean
[00:08:04] All
[00:08:04] Through all the
[00:08:05] Intense training
[00:08:06] That I've
[00:08:07] Done with
[00:08:08] The military
[00:08:08] I mean
[00:08:09] Mentally
[00:08:09] I think
[00:08:10] I am capable
[00:08:11] For anything
[00:08:12] I am mentally
[00:08:13] And physically
[00:08:14] Capable for
[00:08:14] Anything to happen
[00:08:16] Now that's
[00:08:17] Far
[00:08:17] That's my
[00:08:18] Prepper view
[00:08:20] I
[00:08:21] I think
[00:08:22] That's a
[00:08:22] Great view
[00:08:23] Of it too
[00:08:24] I would say
[00:08:25] Like from the
[00:08:26] Mental side
[00:08:27] Of it
[00:08:28] You know
[00:08:29] Growing up
[00:08:30] As a teenager
[00:08:30] I did tons
[00:08:31] Of therapy
[00:08:32] And learning
[00:08:32] To cope
[00:08:33] With things
[00:08:33] And then
[00:08:34] Being able
[00:08:34] To apply
[00:08:35] That with
[00:08:36] The military
[00:08:37] Training
[00:08:37] I've received
[00:08:37] The police
[00:08:38] Training
[00:08:38] I've received
[00:08:39] The executive
[00:08:40] Protection
[00:08:40] Training
[00:08:40] I've received
[00:08:41] I'd say
[00:08:41] Mentally
[00:08:42] When it
[00:08:43] Comes down
[00:08:43] To it
[00:08:43] I can
[00:08:45] Compartmentalize
[00:08:45] To be able
[00:08:46] To focus
[00:08:46] On a task
[00:08:47] And you know
[00:08:48] Direct an
[00:08:48] Initiative
[00:08:49] If I need
[00:08:49] To
[00:08:50] So the
[00:08:51] Mental side
[00:08:51] Of it
[00:08:52] I feel like
[00:08:52] I've prepped
[00:08:53] For the last
[00:08:53] My entire
[00:08:54] Lifetime
[00:08:54] For shit
[00:08:56] From various
[00:08:57] Traumas
[00:08:57] And all
[00:08:57] That stuff
[00:08:58] And then
[00:08:59] From the
[00:08:59] Prepping side
[00:09:00] I kind of
[00:09:00] Have a hybrid
[00:09:01] View
[00:09:01] Because
[00:09:02] I mean
[00:09:02] Rudy
[00:09:02] Talked about
[00:09:03] It this
[00:09:03] Morning
[00:09:03] Before we
[00:09:04] Got on
[00:09:04] The trail
[00:09:05] Is like
[00:09:07] Am I
[00:09:08] Going to
[00:09:08] Need to
[00:09:08] Bug in
[00:09:09] Or am I
[00:09:09] Going to
[00:09:09] Need to
[00:09:10] Bug out
[00:09:11] So my
[00:09:12] View on it
[00:09:12] Right now
[00:09:13] Is I'm
[00:09:13] Not
[00:09:14] Where we
[00:09:15] Sit
[00:09:16] Like a
[00:09:18] Strategically
[00:09:18] Tactical
[00:09:19] Position
[00:09:19] Because
[00:09:20] Technically
[00:09:21] Myrtle
[00:09:21] Beach
[00:09:21] Is an
[00:09:21] Island
[00:09:22] And we
[00:09:23] Have the
[00:09:23] Intracoastal
[00:09:24] Waterway
[00:09:24] We have
[00:09:25] The Atlantic
[00:09:25] Ocean
[00:09:25] Right there
[00:09:27] And
[00:09:28] Strategically
[00:09:28] We don't
[00:09:29] Actually
[00:09:29] Pose a
[00:09:30] Threat
[00:09:30] For
[00:09:31] A
[00:09:31] Red
[00:09:32] Dawn
[00:09:32] Situation
[00:09:32] So
[00:09:33] Bugging
[00:09:33] In
[00:09:33] Would
[00:09:33] Be
[00:09:33] More
[00:09:34] Of
[00:09:34] A
[00:09:34] Natural
[00:09:34] Disaster
[00:09:35] Situation
[00:09:35] Outside
[00:09:36] Of
[00:09:36] You know
[00:09:37] Far
[00:09:39] Too
[00:09:39] Close
[00:09:40] To
[00:09:40] Charleston
[00:09:40] Being
[00:09:41] An
[00:09:41] International
[00:09:42] Port
[00:09:44] I
[00:09:44] Agree
[00:09:45] With
[00:09:45] You
[00:09:45] There
[00:09:45] And
[00:09:45] That's
[00:09:45] That's
[00:09:45] Where
[00:09:46] The bug
[00:09:46] Out
[00:09:46] Perspective
[00:09:46] Comes
[00:09:47] In
[00:09:47] And
[00:09:49] Have
[00:09:49] Multiple
[00:09:50] Packs
[00:09:50] And
[00:09:51] That's
[00:09:51] The trouble I had with last night was because we did this ruck today was what pack am I bringing am I bringing my bug in pack am I bringing my bug out pack or a get home bag so I went for my get home bag which I keep you know two days worth of food extra socks and drawers because you got to change your socks and your skivvies man that stuff will give you away in a heartbeat trench foot is not fun but like for our neighborhood I like to think of more of a bug in and lock down my area and have a set of security
[00:10:19] Grab the people I need to grab the people I need to grab the people I need to grab the people I need to grab the people I need to grab the people I need to bring them to me to have kind of like a forward operations position and figure out all right we've collected all the people we have we need are we going to take stock of our resources and lock it down or is it so bad that we have to have our stuff and bug out and from the bug out perspective you know I have all my kids they have their little bags ready with some food in it flashlight some batteries
[00:10:48] some ear pro because you know if you bug out you might have to pull a gun and I don't want my kids getting all messed up from that but I like to think that I'm prepared on either side of it because we have food saved up for bugging in we also have food that we can take with us for a bug out perspective and I know that like our vehicles for me and my wife I have you know our first aid set up I have our go bags if we need to leave a vehicle stuff like that
[00:11:15] but the plan is to collect everybody initially at a bug in location take stock figure out the situation get our situational awareness about it and if we gotta go we gotta go you know our ability to stay mobile and be mentally prepared for going from location to location is key to me and so we got maps we got waypoints all that stuff's already marked off we have to leave
[00:11:40] no I think that's fantastic so um I do want to get back into the prepping but I do want to ask for you
[00:11:49] I you know practical tactical is y'all's business but what is it that you are offering here for the people in Myrtle because a lot of people don't realize I I moved um I previously had a different podcast I was on a family affair I lived in Arkansas and Mississippi
[00:12:07] and I am now here my entire prepping style changed to a more urban living I'm used to living in a very rural country setting
[00:12:16] but finding y'all at the gun show was phenomenal because it's nice to know there are like-minded individuals that can offer so much and I just want to put out there so you can put that tag in there
[00:12:29] what is it that practical tactical does and what is it that you offer people um here locally
[00:12:37] so here locally um we offer everything that would go into surviving a situation whatever it might be
[00:12:45] natural disaster red dawn shit hits the fan um uh for a situational perspective you know situational
[00:12:53] awareness we teach you how to be aware of your surroundings um you know like god forbid there's
[00:12:58] an incident while you're at the you know the outlets with your kids or your family or something
[00:13:02] how to be situationally aware and get off the axe um how to be able to safely operate a firearm how to
[00:13:08] how to be able to have that conversation with your family your kids of you know hey we have firearms in the house
[00:13:13] we don't want to be a statistic um excuse me uh you know shoot move communicate that's that's
[00:13:20] rudy's bread and butter um and just all the the essentials that go into survival from you know
[00:13:27] the first aid stuff that we're going to be offering rudy's brothers a combat medic who really really
[00:13:32] wants to be able to offer people you know how to how to treat wounds how to if you're in the woods and
[00:13:37] you know something happens how do you splint something right um all of those things and we what i saw was
[00:13:45] there is a severe lack of of training and knowledge being offered especially in our area you know
[00:13:52] being a transient area we get people from all over the united states coming to myrtle beach with
[00:13:58] different schools of thought but you know i have people come to me that are like man i want to keep
[00:14:03] all my stuff you know and this from like a gear perspective like i'm just going to keep all my
[00:14:08] stuff black okay well black doesn't naturally occur in where we live like we might have an urban
[00:14:13] environment in myrtle beach but you get to carolina forest and now you've got woodlands like
[00:14:20] how do you blend in how do you get to a spot where you can rest out here in nature just on the hulk trail
[00:14:26] today like looking at it like if you had to bug out to the to the hulk trail for instance like
[00:14:31] how are you going to blend in how are you going to find a spot where you can recover for a little bit
[00:14:37] without making yourself a giant target um and one of the things that i'm starting to explore is
[00:14:44] um you know how to how to avoid drones that's that's something i've started exploring myself is like
[00:14:49] because drone warfare is becoming a thing it's not like how do you make yourself a small target
[00:14:54] to a drone or you know deflecting your thermal image that's all of these things we can teach people
[00:15:01] um it's just a matter of people wanting to get the knowledge and nobody here does it and i've had
[00:15:07] you're and you're right when i first moved out here i didn't mean to cut you off but when i first
[00:15:11] moved out here the first thing i started asking people is okay where are their tactical classes
[00:15:15] offered now mind you i'm i think i'm you know well versed in it but i could always learn more
[00:15:22] and you don't see it and then finding out that you offer um shooting classes one-on-one classes
[00:15:28] private groups that made it even more desirable because out here you know not nothing against
[00:15:35] palmetto state armory love them but they only do a women's day shooting on wednesdays where women
[00:15:40] shoot free and it it cost a bit and then some of the other private shooters cost even more which
[00:15:46] don't get me wrong like your cost is great your cost is more than desirable um and it's worth it too
[00:15:53] because then it's it gives me more flexibility and being able to i've spoken to a lot of women here who
[00:16:01] want to shoot but i don't know where to take them where they would feel comfortable in that setting
[00:16:05] and you offer that setting for people who are new to shooting who need more privacy if it needs to be
[00:16:13] an all women's group or a first-time shooters group versus being put in a setting next to 20 other
[00:16:19] shooters who know what they're doing who's you know you feel like you're kind of being made fun of so i
[00:16:25] liked that you offered that comfort i like that when i saw your sign it had a list even preparedness on
[00:16:32] there because like you said i haven't seen that here in myrtle before we typically go to the gun
[00:16:38] shows every year and the fact that i've started seeing more people who i know from prepper camp
[00:16:44] that um other other expos that i've gone to for preparedness and teaching at and finding y'all just
[00:16:52] really kind of hit it home that finally there's something here locally for us right and i saw that
[00:17:01] that was a problem in the area and once again nothing against palmetto state they're offering
[00:17:06] psa defense um but the problem with what they offer for psa defense and once again no knock on psa i
[00:17:14] think they're a great company um is the gentleman who's going to be teaching the psa defense he's got
[00:17:19] no law enforcement background he's got no military background he's a competition from the aspect of
[00:17:26] being able to defend yourself and make your body strong to be able to do that right and i love that
[00:17:32] y'all offer both aspects it's not just the gun and defense aspect it's also the physical wellness
[00:17:39] and well-being aspect of it too because if for y'all who don't see these two gentlemen um bruce is a
[00:17:48] very tall tall man okay intimidating in height alone but rudy is rudy is a little bit shorter
[00:17:56] but he's still taller than me but he's muscular the dude is muscular he looks like you would not
[00:18:02] want to get in a fight with him so i mean no you would not and and very intimidating both of y'all
[00:18:10] luckily y'all have that aspect being men but i'm looking forward to maybe you know getting into the
[00:18:17] rock hikes with y'all and getting myself me and my partner more physically fit where we need to be
[00:18:23] because i've let my physical wellness drop since you know i had my baby and i tell you what y'all
[00:18:29] are intimidating i am not a very big woman you've seen me on five foot two i'm no i don't want to say
[00:18:35] how much away but i i would like to be you know um inconspicuous of how much strength i actually have
[00:18:45] you know i'd rather someone look at me timid and small and then be able to take them down if i have
[00:18:49] to right and and especially for the women aspect like men are just built different from women 100
[00:18:57] percent and rudy rudy's helped a ton of women from just the the fitness and strength side he can
[00:19:02] he can talk for days on that um but i'll turn my camera on so like your viewers can kind of see
[00:19:08] like our stature it's not oh it froze you got to turn your camera off taxing like it was it was
[00:19:17] truly taxing um and to have to be able to do that and i did it with just a sidearm on on too i didn't
[00:19:24] sling my rifle or anything didn't want to intimidate people on the trail but like if you've got to go and
[00:19:30] you have a sidearm like do you want to be gassed while you're carrying all your stuff around like
[00:19:35] that's another thing people don't think about is like you see you know the the the tiktok people
[00:19:40] who are like yep no no problem i got it uh but they're out of shape and they think they can just
[00:19:46] sit back and shoot um the whole point of being able to shoot is being able to move out of the way of
[00:19:52] the fire like yeah you gotta you gotta have endurance i mean the biggest thing with uh so the problem
[00:19:59] with building muscle is that you have to make it uh you have to have a stamina because once you do a
[00:20:06] sprint i mean that depletes you so you have to be able to sprint to one cover and concealment reset
[00:20:14] sprint to another cover and concealment until you're finally clear of your uh the enemy's eyes or
[00:20:21] your what we call getting into a safety a safe position um so strength and conditioning is is
[00:20:29] very important i mean here's a great example so when i deployed my first deployment uh i deployed
[00:20:35] the infantry unit and all we did was wanted to be jacked in chance so we just wanted to lift heavy
[00:20:41] weights when we had our downtime we would go to the gym and lift heavy at that time i really wasn't i
[00:20:47] really wasn't following a regiment i was just doing what all the big guys were doing hey i want to be
[00:20:52] jacked like that guy so i'm gonna do exactly what he does and what did we do we just did we just had
[00:20:57] wear and tear on the shoulders the uh the chest i mean honestly it's just the shoulders because we
[00:21:02] over trained the upper body and because of that i was what i would they call in the military overweight
[00:21:09] and when you're an infantry uh when you're an infantry soldier you're running and jumping
[00:21:15] with all this tactical gear and during that time i sustained a hairline injury why because i wasn't
[00:21:24] properly training not just i mean i was training but i wasn't properly training my body especially my
[00:21:29] lower body that was the the lack in element that that really maybe had that hairline fracture which
[00:21:36] ended up breaking at the end of my deployment so the biggest thing that i learned from that was man
[00:21:42] if i could go back in town what what have changed what would have what would i've done differently as
[00:21:48] far as training my body for that type of uh that try that type of job in the military and the biggest
[00:21:56] gain out of that was it was a learning lesson but i mean like i said uh i broke my foot but i learned
[00:22:01] so much from it and that's the thing that made me i guess more motivated to to learn more about how the
[00:22:07] body works not just functionally but also how can i put more muscle and be strong and also be
[00:22:14] be able to move fluid versus just being just with i want to be able to move fluid versus move around
[00:22:23] where i'm just so tense and there's no flexibility because that's that's that's what's going to allow
[00:22:29] me to be in these tactical uh positions where i could shoot move and communicate if that makes sense
[00:22:38] no it makes perfect sense actually um my the reason i came home from training was actually due to
[00:22:45] injuries i fractured both my legs and messed up my back and in boot camp in training common injuries
[00:22:52] it really is but what was astounding was the number of pelvic fractures and feet fractures
[00:22:59] that a lot of women went home for and i was fortunate i didn't i wasn't one of the ones with
[00:23:04] feet or pelvic fractures yeah that that's a brutal thing to have to recover from because i know when i
[00:23:11] was in training i wound up fracturing my uh my fibula my tibula and having to go through training with
[00:23:18] hairline fractures and doing you know just just the basic training stuff with those kind of fractures
[00:23:24] it's so painful it's you know people don't realize just how much your body can do from the the
[00:23:31] perspective of like mind never matter but like once you're sustained an injury and then having to keep
[00:23:35] going with it it's rough it's but that's something also it's insane is pushing yourself through that
[00:23:41] pain but i do have i have a question for y'all i know you are our preppers in the sense to me
[00:23:48] i see you as preppers whether it be fitness and wellness and your gun control and everything
[00:23:53] is there anything you feel like as preppers that you could get better at or something you wish you
[00:24:00] you know you want to eventually learn more about oh i would say hell yeah i mean just you know and
[00:24:09] and not to touch on the firearm side of it but like that's the fastest diminishing skill there is
[00:24:14] next to golf um and and i know it's a weird comparison but like if you don't practice that
[00:24:21] stuff daily or in some frequency that is more than you know i went to the range you know six months ago
[00:24:28] like you you lose all of that so like i really want to get much better at my land nav you know being able
[00:24:36] to identify where i'm at on a map um where i've been and where i'm going and that's that's one of the
[00:24:43] most things along with my ability to like render aid i think those are the things that i want to work
[00:24:48] more um because i i definitely view myself as more of a supporting role uh when it comes to
[00:24:57] having to get into an engagement with somebody is because i can i can shoot with the best of them
[00:25:02] but to be able to support the other guys who can do more i think it is is more suited towards me of
[00:25:09] being like one of my guys goes down i can help render some aid i go down i can at least render
[00:25:13] aid to myself so my buddies don't have to worry about picking my ass up and then not getting lost
[00:25:19] because let's say the grid goes down from from a preppers perspective like how many preppers have
[00:25:24] maps like ready to go with waypoints marked out how do they know how to get there are they going to
[00:25:29] be able to read terrain like terrain features man oh my god like rudy i i think you you did plenty
[00:25:39] of land nav and you do that as part of the armor company it's like yeah so yeah so we uh the land
[00:25:44] that i mean the the land that the land that lanes uh so we've done on day and night but most of those
[00:25:52] lanes i mean the the way we train for these the way they uh what's the what's the what's the way to put
[00:25:59] this uh the way they truck the train no i guess what's what's the way uh the way they exercise the
[00:26:05] training is they want it to have where we're we're exposed to terrain features like a depression
[00:26:12] a cliff vegetation uh landmarks like railroad tracks uh a big water source so all of our uh
[00:26:22] land nav training is used to be to to have features of uh terrain features so we can use
[00:26:30] that for our for our benefit then that's what helps us shoot an asthma from this landmark to this
[00:26:37] landmark to basically redirect if you get lost but back to the whole and like the no back to the whole
[00:26:45] thing i like what i can improve is prepping i'll be honest one of the things that i can improve on is
[00:26:49] shooting being more tactical you know being being in the military i being an army national guard we do
[00:26:56] this job one week in a month two weeks out of the year sometimes we don't get that extra combat
[00:27:02] training like we would do for active duty so for me one of the things that i can be better at is be
[00:27:08] more uh more efficient with a firearms how to shoot it how to uh how to be tactical with it
[00:27:15] because i'm in my mos now we operate on a tank so on a tank i mean if shit hits the fan i can't
[00:27:24] yeah i can't just go hop on the tank i gotta be like oh shit i gotta i gotta use my my handguns
[00:27:29] where's my where's my my rifles i gotta i gotta be able to use that but again that that's one thing
[00:27:35] that i could get better at uh hunting that's a big one hunting how to provide food one of the things
[00:27:43] that i do now is that i'm pretty good at is fishing i can i can go fishing but that's the thing what if
[00:27:50] there's no water sources where you're at where you're stuck so yeah how to kill an animal without
[00:27:55] ruining the meat how to be able to skin it yeah how to cook it without getting preserved it yep preserve it
[00:28:00] yep that's a big one no i think that's i was wondering i mean when i say this don't mean i'm
[00:28:06] but you two are very much manly men but you know have you looked at the aspect of food preservation have
[00:28:12] you looked at the aspects of what you would consider almost home duties or y'all's partners um you know
[00:28:19] counteract on the preparedness with you um i know like for me at least um i'm i'm the i'm the
[00:28:30] the the preparer the the situational like developer uh for our our family unit um but my father-in-law
[00:28:38] um which you didn't have a chance to meet him at the gun show because he was working he's one of the
[00:28:41] rso's at psa but he's got you know almost half a century worth of knowledge training and experience
[00:28:48] from the u.s army and law enforcement um so like between the two of us you know we we kind of balance
[00:28:55] each other out on on the preparing and the skill side of things uh but our wives are not on that
[00:29:03] same level which i would love to get my wife there and i can honestly say that i think she's a
[00:29:07] wonderful woman but uh she she started coming around to the idea that she needs to get on with that
[00:29:12] especially with the way the world's going and everything you know with practical technical
[00:29:15] itself i'm gonna give a piece of unsolicited advice don't force it i was married for 10 years
[00:29:22] with a partner who didn't start getting into prepping until towards the very end and i can
[00:29:27] yeah i can say i'm very patient but you get me around y'all's wives i'm gonna definitely be trying
[00:29:33] to get them hooked because i you know my biggest thing i'm trying to expand and learn more on on my
[00:29:38] end is comms i have a ham i have a gmrs i also have mystatic uh you know devices so we can still
[00:29:46] communicate so i plan on nerding out and getting y'all involved in the comm system with us because
[00:29:52] why not i am very selective of my group and community around here which is very very limited
[00:29:59] and now that i've found y'all i'm like oh y'all are stuck now being my friends you poor things and
[00:30:05] the listeners are over here probably laughing and praying for you because now you're stuck with me
[00:30:11] i'm all here for it i think i think the comms thing is super important i've never been a comms guy
[00:30:16] yeah i've always been a like i i go out i'll do recon i'll get you all the information you need
[00:30:23] and put a plan together but don't expect me to hop on comms and say anything like right so and so and
[00:30:29] that's just it is you know uh my partner and i he and i want to have a larger group that we know that
[00:30:35] hey if it comes to it we you know if we are gonna bug out well maybe we have other people we can either
[00:30:42] bring with us or other people who we can connect together as a group till we hit our second point
[00:30:47] or whatever because kind of like you we in our home also have um well i have multiple bags his went
[00:30:55] up in a truck fire so i just got him a new bag um our our situation is is i have a good bag i have a
[00:31:04] get home bag i have you know an everyday carry bag and then i have a okay we're going here for a small
[00:31:13] trip and back bag i mean i've probably got way too many bags but it's how i level my gear and decide
[00:31:19] what it is i'm taking yeah it's it's a lot it's a lot to be a prepper i mean back to the comms i mean
[00:31:26] the the best guys that do comms and are in our union are the law enforcement they're the best on the
[00:31:34] comms i mean the way they sound how to communicate i mean they're i mean because they literally talk
[00:31:38] on comms all day and all the time i think honestly why comms became a more serious aspect for me
[00:31:46] was because of hurricane helene i've got friends who are still up there still recovering who live
[00:31:52] in that region every day and the biggest issue was the lack of communication so mesh static or
[00:31:59] med static communications or mesh static is what it says on there are devices in which it works on
[00:32:06] the same frequency as any electronic device so even if there's not a tower and you have one in within
[00:32:12] range you can still communicate using your cell phone it connects via bluetooth and as long as
[00:32:19] they're within range and you have these areas so so far i'll have to show y'all it's it's pretty wicked
[00:32:24] you can still communicate and and be phenomenal and speaking of which i have a listener here in the
[00:32:31] live chat who said that nub says we do sound cool on the radio so you do have an l u o over here and he
[00:32:39] agrees with you rudy completely but but being through that situation where we had no cell service
[00:32:45] like when when hurricane helene hit while we were on the mountain we had no clue what the level of
[00:32:51] devastation was outside of our area we had no clue of knowing what was waiting at the bottom of the
[00:32:58] mountain so being able to now have that communication system makes me feel more secure that if something
[00:33:05] happens and my partner is at work and i'm i'm still here with our baby we can still communicate on
[00:33:13] some level of okay uh i know for a fact it's going to be this far or i hit our stop point at this mile
[00:33:20] marker i'll be home in this amount of time you know what i mean like being able to have that system
[00:33:25] to be able to still communicate with my partner or a family member or a friend makes a huge difference
[00:33:32] in any shtf situation or everyday situation because of a natural disaster all right i 100 agree with y'all
[00:33:40] on that and i've never taken the comms thing too seriously unfortunately and i i can say that i haven't
[00:33:46] um and and that's probably to my detriment but that because i never took the comms seriously i've
[00:33:52] always i've always been the person developing the plans we have plans in place that like we've gone
[00:33:58] through with my wife and my father-in-law and you know his wife and our kids are like hey if x happens
[00:34:06] and you can't get in contact us let's say you know grid goes down emp goes off right china's like
[00:34:11] screw it let's take it all out um just from from that like red dawn perspective well how are we going
[00:34:17] to communicate okay we're not you have to know like hey it's this time of day when this goes down
[00:34:24] this this is who's coming to get you if we have to come to get you or where you need to go next
[00:34:29] yeah and you need to be able to say like hey i'm meeting at you know i'm meeting at our house
[00:34:35] and i've got two hours to get there okay i'm x amount of miles away what am i going to do okay my
[00:34:41] my car's down do i have a bike can i commandeer something like going from the perspective of like
[00:34:47] comms go down and comms go down all the time from military perspective from law enforcement that
[00:34:52] shit will go down it happens all the time that's the first thing to go when you need it is comms
[00:34:58] so we have something similar mapped out for us before we found about all of this stuff and it was
[00:35:05] literally so in our house we have a 24 to 48 hour rule depended upon the situation um and i have a friend
[00:35:13] who lives just down the street from me and i've told her if this and such and such happens you have
[00:35:18] this amount of time to get here or i'm leaving you or you have such and such amount of time if this
[00:35:24] situation happens or i'm leaving you and it's not to be ugly but i have to look at the safety of
[00:35:29] myself my child and my partner before i start worrying about other groups but at least this way
[00:35:34] as um we're gonna get her paired up with one two a mesh static a med static radio uh device so then
[00:35:41] we can still communicate and say hey this is what's happening this is what you need to do because
[00:35:46] sometimes having that little bit of extra communication can really make a huge difference
[00:35:52] on how well a plan works out 100 100 oh my god i think key to that is is also making sure you have
[00:36:01] a watch a good watch good watch like something that is i i would like to find a watch that isn't
[00:36:08] mickey mouse i have very very tight wrist i mean it's bad enough it's it's nice to finally find
[00:36:15] shoes that aren't hello kitty but i figured the light-up sketchers might give me away in the dark
[00:36:21] yeah probably not not the best choice yeah but we get you some ir strobe shoes if we get some night
[00:36:28] vision going um but i i personally i love the g-shock brand um yeah i've rocked g-shocks for
[00:36:38] 15 years since it's like you know they were cool and shit i was out of high school more than 15 years
[00:36:44] now uh but since they were cool in high school you know you get the big g-shock whatever i go with
[00:36:48] you know like a minimalist one that goes kind of blends in with the outfit earthy colors and stuff
[00:36:53] like that that i know like is gonna work when shit goes down so that's i mean it's like being able
[00:36:59] to take stock what time it is and then go go to the next waypoint and have x amount of time on my
[00:37:04] wrist to know to get there yeah well i need to i need to get a watch um that nub says everyone should
[00:37:10] have a fold-in scooter in their trunk takes up very little space and will make travel in any distance
[00:37:18] well i definitely could see that um and the one thing i'll say about like a method of transportation
[00:37:24] is is like for a bigger guy like me a fold-up scooter is not going to do it i'm a 230 pound meat eater
[00:37:30] and my get home gear and as well as my my bug out gear like i'm i'm clocking in well over 260
[00:37:38] getting on a bike or a scooter for me is it's going to be a huge detriment to like my my physical
[00:37:44] ability you're going to be to do anything you're going to look like you're playing with a toddler
[00:37:49] scooter you're a big i'm a big guy i'm much better relying on my feet and my legs which which brings
[00:37:56] us to the the making your body a functional weapon in its own way it's like i know that like my feet
[00:38:03] will carry me miles and miles and miles and that my preparedness training and my mental state yeah so
[00:38:09] this this place where we came to ruck i was telling uh bruce here that uh i've ran this trail this trail
[00:38:15] barefoot i've ran it almost half naked when it was like freezing just uh just so just to test the body
[00:38:25] hey listen this is it's this is actually safe for you just be you got to expose your body to something
[00:38:31] you got to expose to something that i used to yeah i know i've i've heard about the trail i've been
[00:38:38] told about going to that trail i've been told to take my bike to that trail i've yet to actually be out
[00:38:44] there i tried past it you can come you should come with us you should come here honestly
[00:38:51] you can come out here go for a walk bring the kids it's kids friendly it's actually super nice
[00:39:00] today's beautiful this was the perfect day i think when we started it was about just under 60 degrees
[00:39:06] it's it's warmed up now a little bit like it's shaded and it really gives you like terrain ideas um
[00:39:13] it also to let you know like the environment that you're going to be in and being able to see how
[00:39:17] that environment changes throughout the year gives you a uh yeah a look and it has terrain features
[00:39:23] all the terrain features yeah because like even just like with my ruck and my rig and all of that
[00:39:28] like going up some of the inclines here i was like i need to watch my foot placement i need to
[00:39:33] think about all these other things i'm like it really it puts perspective to what some preppers
[00:39:39] might not have have necessarily thought about from the instance of like well if i do bug out what what
[00:39:45] next i can't just hop on a road if you hop on a road in even like a combat situation it has a terrible
[00:39:52] terrible idea you need to be off the road road is a clear line of sight for anybody worth a damn with
[00:39:57] a ride and there's very few roads that actually get you out of out of myrtle beach especially if
[00:40:03] you're headed west that you have to you are going to end up in those um that the country lands
[00:40:09] through those fields that's what one of the only routes out then you got to deal with with what you
[00:40:16] might run into in certain areas going through country land um and i think that's the kind of
[00:40:21] the great thing about where we are in myrtle beach is like as far as it being its own bubble like
[00:40:25] this is not a terrible area to lock down um if you have neighbors who have a boat
[00:40:31] you know they they sell emp proofing batteries for boats and cars like i've got an emp proof
[00:40:37] battery cover in my vehicle because i want my vehicle to be able to operate i'm a big guy i got
[00:40:42] to carry stuff around i got a family um but if i need to grab a boat like my training has taught me
[00:40:47] how to get on a boat how to get it started how to drive the boat how to know like the features that
[00:40:52] are going to be in the water um because for us getting out of here is not going to be an easy thing
[00:40:56] it's you know we have water all around us we need to use that to our advantage like taking advantage
[00:41:04] of your terrain can be the most tactically advantageous thing you can do versus leaving
[00:41:10] your home base going to what might be unknowns that you might be facing more than likely
[00:41:17] see i'm gonna i'm definitely gonna need y'all's help on physical training and self-defense training
[00:41:23] because i've let that fall to the wayside because i do a lot more um homesteading you know even in
[00:41:29] the urban situation garden chickens cannon uh now i'm doing my large storage from our we've got a new
[00:41:36] sponsor pack fresh usa i've got a bunch of that i've just done started doing my large storage in
[00:41:40] like yeah i'm not anywhere where i need to be like y'all are physically
[00:41:48] oh yeah i mean i mean just i mean for someone who's listening to this
[00:41:53] they're just if i if i was not fit if i've never shot a firearm i'd be like freaking out when if i
[00:42:01] was to listen to not not freak out where you know you're gonna not be panicking yeah you're not
[00:42:05] be panicking but it's it gives you like an understanding of like wow i need to learn this i
[00:42:10] need to learn that there's a lot of things that you have to learn to be to be prepared for anything
[00:42:15] to happen i mean and and it really starts with the body you take care of that body it'll take care of
[00:42:21] you i would take care of you yeah so i do want to ask with practical tactical do y'all travel outside
[00:42:28] of this area like what what aspect of like what is your reach as far as if people who are interested
[00:42:37] in what you do social media would be the biggest reach yeah social media is our biggest reach um
[00:42:43] as far as me uh as a firearms instructor i'm a nationally accredited firearms instructor
[00:42:48] and i am all for going to new areas to one for myself because i'm going to learn something leaving
[00:42:55] my bubble so i think that that's awesome um but i i have no problem going to western north carolina
[00:43:02] where people have been impacted and taking a group of people to see this and learn about from
[00:43:06] firsthand accounts of like what they what they experienced or going out to and i love the desert i'm a
[00:43:12] desert guy i thrive in the desert i'm a weird lizard like that um i've done a full you know week-long hike
[00:43:21] in israel from the golan heights all the way through the negev to just just north of gaza through the
[00:43:27] desert and that was one of the most amazing experiences learning terrain for that so as far
[00:43:33] as reach like i'm happy to hop on a plane if i have to and and go meet a group of people and teach a group
[00:43:38] of people all these awesome things because when when you're also teaching people you're learning from
[00:43:45] them and their experiences yeah you're growing as a person yourself so as an instructor and a coach and
[00:43:51] a teacher and all that like like we we love learning learning yeah like i learn honestly to all my
[00:44:00] clients i learn something new every day i mean that's that's the part that's the point that's really
[00:44:05] practical data goes teaching and learning sharing value and if there's value we want that value
[00:44:11] again we reach out to you uh you can reach us on our instagram social media social media dm us if you
[00:44:21] have any questions hell honestly the the more questions we get the better we're prepared to
[00:44:26] to to basically give up give off that value right we have we have a website that has a contact form
[00:44:33] you can get on the website it's practical tactical prep.com um and and really i mean
[00:44:42] you know if if your listeners want to reach out to you you have our info as well um you can blast our
[00:44:47] like i'm i use my personal phone for the school because this is this is this is this is our baby like
[00:44:54] at the end of the day like i'm there for my students i have students who will message me at
[00:44:59] nine o'clock at night hey bruce i got a question about something i can you know i tell all my
[00:45:03] students like hey if you call me after nine o'clock i'm not i'm not picking up the phone unless it's
[00:45:07] like you send me a 911 text uh but if it's a question man i'm happy to answer your question
[00:45:13] until i fall asleep unless you ask me some crazy outlandish stuff that i need to sleep on
[00:45:18] but this is this is every day like i'm here for it if you have knowledge you want to share something
[00:45:25] maybe we might not have thought about talked about otherwise it's like please send it this way
[00:45:30] oh there's no limit to how much you can grow and learn with stuff like this oh that's it yeah
[00:45:38] if you're there there's the old adage of like if you're green you grow if you're ripe you rot i will
[00:45:43] never be ripe i can never say that i know everything about one topic there's a million ways to skin a cat
[00:45:49] i probably know three or four that's phenomenal no i i appreciate that i uh but i figured we'd keep
[00:45:59] tagging in here so people know you know these two guys are well versed in what they they do they
[00:46:04] especially if you're wanting to learn gun safety you want to learn physical health and well-being
[00:46:09] and the fact that you were here locally makes me even happier because usually um you know back in
[00:46:16] mississippi we had someone we would train with we do a beginner intermediate and advanced training
[00:46:21] with our weapons as well as home invasion he would get our heart rate up before we started the class
[00:46:27] because you are not going to be in a calm situation when shooting if you're dealing with a home invasion
[00:46:33] or any sort of situation in which a gun has to be used i i don't know too many people who you know
[00:46:40] calmly pull out your gun and shoot someone it just doesn't happen your your blood heart rate your blood
[00:46:46] everything is going to be moving a much more uh much faster and you're in some instances it's just
[00:46:52] going to be pure adrenaline right and you'll develop the tunnel vision um that that pns dump that you
[00:46:59] experienced like just from being law enforcement going to a going to a dv call domestic violence call
[00:47:04] you're driving there and your brain is now going through all the situations you could encounter
[00:47:09] trying to prep yourself for what's going to happen um and and that adrenaline is i mean it will
[00:47:18] adrenaline can be a killer yes for people who have not who have not put themselves in that situation
[00:47:23] where they've gotten their heart rate up and this is one of the trainings i like to do is stress
[00:47:28] inoculation training i like to stress students out who are ready for it mind you not the beginners
[00:47:33] stress you out to the point where you know we've put you through something physically taxing
[00:47:37] now you're going to get up and you're going to start shooting what's going to happen to you
[00:47:41] just from the learning perspective putting them through that i don't expect you to hit the target i just
[00:47:46] expect you to to i'm gonna function to function like i'm gonna fuck with you to the point where
[00:47:51] like i just need you to function right because no no situation is stress-free especially if a gun is
[00:47:58] being used but um that nod said to let you know those haitians know more ways to skin a cat
[00:48:04] if you need to learn
[00:48:09] oh god uh what was it donald trump said
[00:48:14] they're eating the dogs they're eating the cat i they are i've seen the videos the woman just
[00:48:20] raw like she killed a cat and is just eating it in her hands yeah and i think i try to steer away
[00:48:29] from politics a little bit but i have no problem talking about it i think i think that in itself is
[00:48:33] like something people like psychologically have to prepare for because just the the bugging out
[00:48:40] aspect if it's a non-violent bug out because of a hurricane right how are you going to psychologically
[00:48:46] deal with that like are you prepared for that people people need to think it's not just like oh
[00:48:52] it's going goofy we're going to disney it's not
[00:48:56] and it's crazy how everyone with the toilet paper the toilet paper thing is ridiculous right
[00:49:05] like i know for when they were planning for uh helene here i think or post helene i went to sam's club
[00:49:12] at nine o'clock in the morning they've been cleared out of bottled water and so a lot of that actually
[00:49:17] came from multiple reasons because i was tracking that um literally it was people also prepping
[00:49:24] for the um i wouldn't say prepping people who were a part of the corporate right the port strike
[00:49:30] but then immediately as soon as it happened people were sending out like it took us
[00:49:34] oh quite a while just to get milk back in because one of the factories in south carolina
[00:49:40] half of it was without power which is where our milk comes from so i mean it was it was a multiple
[00:49:47] things on top of each other and i don't think people realize whether it be an election whether it
[00:49:52] be a natural disaster let let it be a um a port strike that all of these things are affected now i
[00:50:02] understand most people don't keep things in their house beyond a week and which dumbfounds me but we
[00:50:09] actually ran into a situation where i normally do one large grocery trip once a month and literally
[00:50:16] prepper camp uh in happened the weekend i needed to do my large grocery trip and i was like okay no biggie
[00:50:23] when do we come back i come back and the stores are empty and i'm like well this makes for in a bit of
[00:50:30] an inconvenience which now changed my restock in the house and how i keep the house on preps because
[00:50:36] i'm not gonna lie we had to use up my storage stuff which we rotate out typically but it used
[00:50:42] it up quicker than the timeline i had originally set for my family so those situations if you haven't
[00:50:49] learned what you need to do as far as preparedness for yourself for your household and you don't know
[00:50:54] where to start reach out to me i have no problem talking to people helping you work things out because
[00:51:00] that i don't know if y'all experienced that but for us we were like oh okay we kind of let um
[00:51:06] something i normally think we're good on on our prepping i let that become a weakness because i
[00:51:11] got too comfortable yeah and i think that that happens and i think people don't realize like
[00:51:18] when it comes down to it especially with stored stuff like you get you gotta be ready to ration
[00:51:21] oh yeah everyone yeah that's the food thing so well there's a saying that says that uh you know the
[00:51:28] body can go days without uh food but the body cannot go days without water so one of the biggest
[00:51:34] things people i mean hell everyone has a pantry full of junk so what's gonna happen when shit hits
[00:51:41] the pan you run out of food you gotta get ready to go like hours without food pretty much going to
[00:51:48] your primal way of fasting yeah and i think that's that's one of the things that uh rudy really got me
[00:51:56] into what was the intermittent fasting that's how i normally eat is intermittent i got up to
[00:52:02] i got up to a point where i was doing you know 20 hour fasts which is great for your body for a lot
[00:52:07] of reasons i'm really gonna cover all that but like there's you know you run out of food what what do
[00:52:14] you do like you might have water but you're gonna have to go get food somewhere gotta go somewhere
[00:52:19] you gotta get out the couch yeah you gotta you gotta go out the house and you can't go by the
[00:52:24] food line but here's another thing you've got to think about um for us in our house we have certain
[00:52:30] allergies so just because you can get it off the shelf doesn't mean it's going to be safer consumption
[00:52:36] for that member in the household we are now dealing with additional health issues with a family
[00:52:41] oh my god so there's a whole nother animal so i personally have a soy allergy so and i mean like
[00:52:49] anaphylactic style reaction to soy so i have to be very strategic on how i prep how i cook
[00:52:55] oh yeah that's why i do a lot of pre pre cooking and cannon and now we are dealing with a potential
[00:53:01] health issue for my infant son who we have to wait for the test to come back that could completely
[00:53:08] change his diet even further so now it's like you these people have to think about yes you're used
[00:53:15] to going to whole foods or walmart and go into the gluten-free aisle now you need to start prepping
[00:53:22] for your lifestyle and how you eat if you want to eat a certain way now you need to prep for you being
[00:53:29] able to eat that certain way tomorrow yeah yeah 100 i think that goes back to you know the primal side
[00:53:36] of things it's just being able to hunt and kill meat because the body doesn't need carbohydrates
[00:53:43] necessarily it needs proteins and fat and that's what we do we do high protein high fat little to no
[00:53:50] carbs i mean rice and beans and we're not giving up being hispanic it's it's not going away okay
[00:53:57] right and rice and beans though are great things to prep and and have on deck those are kind of
[00:54:02] natural food but also you're not going to leave your your home and bug out with uh some cheetos
[00:54:09] but you're also not going to bring 10 cans of beans with you that that shit will weigh you down
[00:54:13] right oh i think that would be a great class to teach it's just like what are you going to bring
[00:54:18] if you bug out like how how are you prepared to handle that easily help y'all with something like
[00:54:23] that too if you ever need and i think i would i would love to have you come on and maybe teach
[00:54:28] some of that and even go over canning because i think that's not something i've really gotten into
[00:54:34] um i've done the sourdough bread thing from like a small homestead side side of things but canning i
[00:54:40] think is important as well as like being able to carry around meat like go on a hunt get a deer
[00:54:46] whatever it is get a boar whatever we have in our area and be able to hear that so you have something to
[00:54:52] eat so um i have i have some questions for you from my listener they ask what filters do you keep
[00:55:00] in your bags and do you carry a silcox key now real quick i'm going to jump in i don't have a
[00:55:06] silcox key i do keep saw your mini filters i do have a lifestraw not a huge fan but each of our bags
[00:55:12] even the infant we all have uh many saw your mini water filters because you can back flush them
[00:55:20] right so all of our bags have lifestraws um i do have a silcox key
[00:55:26] uh but i actually i really like the lifestraw um but i also keep being my bug out bag specifically
[00:55:35] not like my day bag is um a little a tiny little portable bunsen burner
[00:55:41] um that i actually got off amazon for like 10 bucks you put a like a camping stove style
[00:55:48] mm-hmm um and then a little little pots and pans set that it folds up i mean it takes up
[00:55:55] next to no room it's super light um and i've learned how to you know boil water as well as uh
[00:56:02] water purification tablets i think those are awesome yeah because they're light they're small
[00:56:06] you can carry them with you um you can keep a good number of them in each bag because water
[00:56:13] you're gonna need water um as well as on my maps and and this is something i like to tell people is
[00:56:19] mark all the water towers like while this while the net is still up get on google find water towers
[00:56:26] in your area find the water towers because how many people are going to be going to those water towers
[00:56:32] not them not that many right keep a pair of bolt cutters keep you know some tools that you can use
[00:56:39] and make sure you know how to use those tools and know where your water towers are at because
[00:56:43] like if you if you gotta bust open a water tower i mean you gotta bust open a water tower
[00:56:49] sure there's other things that go into that but just being able to mark those know where they're at
[00:56:53] and how that as a point of reference of like you know if it really comes down to it i'm gonna have
[00:56:59] to climb a freaking water tower here and break out the steel saw and cut into it and get some water
[00:57:05] like i can't get the the water turned on on it but you know those those are other things that you got
[00:57:12] to think about is like where's your nearest salt water source where's your nearest fresh water source
[00:57:16] have these things marked out ahead of time on your map whether they're on your route or if you're
[00:57:22] bugging in in a nearby location and how you can get to them so i've got real quick and
[00:57:28] that nub shares the same aspect i'm not hating on life straw but i do like the fact that with sawyer
[00:57:35] you can back flush in case it gets too much sediment in it with life straw you can't that nub says life
[00:57:41] straws are okay until you want to cook some food do you spit the water into the pot fire stations have
[00:57:47] some big trucks full of water too and then garden girl says here in texas neighborhoods have ponds
[00:57:53] everyone will go there i never thought about hitting up a water tower but yes sir so what do you do for
[00:58:22] some value i mean again there's a ton of value out there and if if anybody wants to reach out to us
[00:58:27] again send us a dm through all of our social media platforms and again um if you have any questions
[00:58:33] please send them our way again if if i don't have the answer i can find the answer if anything i'm also
[00:58:39] trying to become better yeah thank you so much everyone thank you so everyone have a great day
[00:58:46] go ahead i'll still be here but uh i'm gonna let rudy take out all right i love y'all have a great day
[00:58:53] so what i'll do for the listeners is i'm gonna make sure um reach out to me it is practical
[00:58:59] tactical prep.com i'm also going i have their tiktok and their instagram information so i will
[00:59:07] tag that on my instagram and my tiktok as well so if you have questions concerns reach out to them
[00:59:13] they are very very easy to hold of but go ahead sorry now what what is your aspect for this life
[00:59:19] straws because of the need in a clean water source because what if it is for the sediment you can't
[00:59:24] you don't want to just put that straight into your pot no no you absolutely don't um so coffee
[00:59:31] filters coffee filters are awesome i i always have extra coffee filters i know that seems crazy
[00:59:37] but just carrying around uh you know 10 or 15 coffee filters and a ziploc bag and your go bag
[00:59:43] is a great way to filter stuff out um from like a large uh sediment uh perspective not necessarily
[00:59:50] smaller stuff but at the end of the day let's say you're out um and you're bugging out and you find
[00:59:58] stream right there's gonna be sediment you can get the big stuff out but you also have to be
[01:00:05] prepared for like when you cook this water off like is your digestive system prepared to handle
[01:00:16] necessarily what might come out because i know like as a kid i drink from you know garden hoses
[01:00:21] garden hoses aren't necessarily the cleanest like you have to be able to deal with like that side of
[01:00:28] it from a fresh water perspective being able to boil it up and and capture the water that drips out
[01:00:33] is is another thing um and there's so many different like we can teach you how to do this stuff it's
[01:00:39] hard to kind of explain it without the doing aspect i'm a doer so i like to to in person hands-on
[01:00:46] show you how to do it because it'll make sense um i could speak words all day long but uh the life
[01:00:54] straw aspect i i more of think of that as like a all right i'm going i don't have a ton of time to
[01:01:00] stop and boil water off let me break on my life straw i've already gone through my hydro pack that
[01:01:05] i keep in my kit my hydro pack that i keep in my bag and you know whatever my cantina is that i
[01:01:10] brought with me because i'm always going to bring those extra things i try to bring anywhere from
[01:01:14] six to seven gallons of water with me in terms of like a bug out situation i have hydro packs in
[01:01:21] all of the backpacks i have hydro packs in all of the chest rigs um and that you're going to fill up
[01:01:26] with like you know bottled water and stuff that you know is fresh right off the bat well and also
[01:01:30] remember folks uh rovin blue has the ozone pin so i not only carry my mini sawyer i also keep an ozone
[01:01:36] pin just to make sure everything is sterile when i'm drinking it and and that's that's an awesome
[01:01:43] thing to point out as well but if you look back at the primal ancestors ways of survival they're always
[01:01:50] near a water source right they uh they did just fine granted our environment's different now from
[01:01:58] toxicities and pollution all that junk they put into it but when you're bugging out you need to be near
[01:02:05] water because water is most important and water a water source will also lead you to animals um a great
[01:02:13] way to tell um if a water source is clean is does a horse drink from it horses won't drink from
[01:02:21] contaminated water i'm not saying everybody has a horse but you find yourself we need to have a class
[01:02:26] you find yourself with a horse while bugging out well no no we need to have a class on that because
[01:02:32] actually you brought something to mind i apologize for uh sidetracking but right now like so hurricane
[01:02:40] helene right north carolina south carolina that water is toxic that animals are dying from drinking
[01:02:46] it horses are getting sick from walking through it dogs are getting sick and dying from walking through
[01:02:50] it is there a way to purify or clean that or do you count it as a loss but then what do you do when
[01:02:56] it seeps into the groundwater that's that's honestly that's a great question and it's it's a difficult
[01:03:05] one to answer right because that's something though we may want to think about and have to have a whole
[01:03:09] another episode one right and and for me i'd rather take an l and survive and you know have to put my
[01:03:18] body through a little bit more of a hike or or something to get to where i or i can at least
[01:03:25] know or or believe there to be fresher water than what is in front of me because i would much rather
[01:03:35] conserve what water i have and make sure i'm drinking an accurate amount for what what i'm exerting
[01:03:39] here um and get to another source than have toxic water because it like you said i mean that the
[01:03:49] animals were literally dying in north carolina from all the shit and it's literally shit that's in the
[01:03:56] water and then that's getting drained into south carolina animals are then although yeah i mean it's
[01:04:01] it's insane when you think about it which is also another thing why i like being here in myrtle beach
[01:04:07] is you know we have access to an entire ocean yes it is salt water but purifying salt water is much
[01:04:14] easier than purifying sediment-filled streams i was gonna say doesn't that still have to go through
[01:04:19] desalinization for it to be even drinkable yes it does um but but that's once again those are some
[01:04:26] things we can teach you those are things we can teach people that that's not yeah it's it's not as hard
[01:04:33] as a lot of people think it is um and really that's that's another thing is like at the end of the day
[01:04:38] surviving is only as hard as you make it um having a good plan knowing your environment like i know that
[01:04:48] the intercoastal is brackish so it's fresh and salt water mixing probably a little bit easier to purify
[01:04:55] them just pure salt water um just from a standard like science point of view but like
[01:05:04] cactuses right cactus growing up about that water and how it looks and just
[01:05:09] slimy and the gators well hey gators are food though um as long as you eat them before they eat you
[01:05:18] well and that brings us back to firearms training and survival training hey so real quick um that
[01:05:25] nub did put something in the group that i figured you would like to hear he says fallenfruit.org
[01:05:31] is a website that maps publicly accessible fruit trees and berry bushes pre-map out your bug out route
[01:05:39] to include free food that's a really really great point yeah i'm gonna actually copy this and send it to
[01:05:46] you yeah i love that that's awesome um i didn't even know that existed i didn't either but i think
[01:05:54] that's important too is is having that as an option but also like the whole community thing like
[01:06:02] having a good community of people you can rely on and knowing how to produce your own food also how
[01:06:07] long it takes to produce that food like you plant your your seeds now and then bug out for a little
[01:06:15] bit and hope that it grows do you try to lock down your area all that good stuff um got there's there's
[01:06:21] so many things with it it's actually it's actually mind-boggling when you when you put it all out
[01:06:26] there um as far as free fruit that's i mean that's fantastic i know my my neighbor's got a peach tree
[01:06:35] that i'm allowed to use but that's about it for free fruit dude it's over actually by lucky sports bar
[01:06:41] where's that um it's over towards carolina forest it's off of i'm pulling up the map real quick sorry
[01:06:51] y'all uh off of 544 and myrtle ridge drive over by the sonic um fox hollow road oh shit okay yeah it's
[01:07:01] literally right next to walgreens there's two in this area it's oh no no no ah this is funny
[01:07:09] so someone did mark it but it's a dumpster of course someone marked a dumpster
[01:07:18] i think that's important too is like having that as a resource is good but also knowing your area
[01:07:27] because you can't just rely on that one resource at the end of the day um not that it's not a
[01:07:32] edible edible non-edible um toiletries candies cookies and as seen on tvs is what they're pulling from it
[01:07:44] dumpster diving yeah yeah and it looks like there's um a few for um surfside too
[01:07:50] and there are all the dumpsters being marked of foods next to places where foods are being tossed
[01:07:58] which i think for our area it's good to note that for our area it's good to note that um
[01:08:07] we have a pretty large homeless population we do we have a huge transient location whether it goes
[01:08:12] open or not um so that that being said like you have to think that these people also are currently
[01:08:22] surviving off grid so they might they might be good people to go to but they're also going to
[01:08:28] provide a potential adversarial source uh force well it's a competition when it comes to finding
[01:08:34] freedom they they are the natural survivors of this lifestyle and that type of living so anything else
[01:08:41] is a threat to their means of living right and and that comes into preparing yourself for those things
[01:08:49] it's like you might have to engage a threat that doesn't have a gun but you do how do you prepare
[01:08:55] yourself for that and then can you try and convert this person into somebody who's useful to you or are
[01:09:01] they just a threat that has to be dealt with um and that's kind of a morbid take no no but it's it's
[01:09:07] fine because that enough saying on this app they also have a homeless map that will tell you where
[01:09:12] and when bakers will drop their day-old stuff also free meals so you got to think if if that's what's
[01:09:22] getting marked who's the who's the force that's using this and there's a clear a clear projection
[01:09:28] of the people who are using this right is that something you necessarily want to have to drag your
[01:09:33] family to is that something like there's so many other things that you're going to have to encounter
[01:09:38] on that it's like okay we're going to have to go there we know what we probably will encounter
[01:09:47] oh sorry you cut out it's just a it's just a solo op yeah yeah no it's definitely interesting i have
[01:09:57] to say but check it out it is definitely something interesting to look at especially in comparison
[01:10:03] to the route or your escape route yeah 100 percent 100 100 i'm probably not going to keep you too much
[01:10:14] i know we've hit the one hour mark i actually am planning to do uh early voting today or attempt to
[01:10:23] very nice um but i've got my uh my daughter's birthday celebration this week because she was sick
[01:10:28] last week oh god bless well happy birthday but yes sir so i'm going to actually wind it up here
[01:10:35] if you'll give me just a moment i'll close it out and then um then we can go from there but
[01:10:40] i do want to appreciate uh say thank you i appreciate you coming on you and rudy bow for
[01:10:45] practical tactical prep.com um folks i'll check them out they they do not only just gun training but
[01:10:53] body training wellness i mean there's there's a lot to who they are and what it is they do
[01:10:59] as he said here um they have bruce has no quarrels with traveling to teach in so reach out uh via either
[01:11:07] instagram tiktok one of the social media pages that they have so i appreciate everyone for coming in
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