The GGO Bugout OMNIBUS

Good Day PBN Family. It's James Walton, the intrepid commander of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. What you're about to hear is unlike anything you've ever heard before. It is a one of a kind collection of podcasts and a little more, all wrapped up into one big omnibus on the topic of the bug out. Now, what's going to make this content stand out so much is that as you listen to the shows, you will also be simultaneously dipped into the world of a bug out exercise, one that we conducted a few years ago called Gotham get Out. So as the show goes on, you'll be introduced to Gotham get Out and the rules set and the experiences of myself, the ben and the breaker of the banksters and future Dan and Dave Jones, the NBC guy as the Well really is the judge, jury, and executioner of the whole Gotham get Out exercise. You're gonna hear incredible shows today, folks. You're gonna hear from Colin and Ryan Buford on how to build a bug out vehicle from scratch. You're gonna hear from Dave Jones, the NBC guy from prepping up with the Joneses on traveling to a supply point. You're gonna hear from me on micro bugouts for family security in a collapse, which is actually a piece of member content that I pulled out of the archive for all to enjoy today. You're gonna hear from Dain d and many others throughout the show. You're gonna be taken from podcasts from Informational Podcast, Informational Entertainment Podcast, and dip back into the world of Gotham Get Out as you follow myself, the Bankster Breaker and future Dan on our journey overnight to essentially bug out to the woods and find cashes along the way, and so on and so forth. So enjoy this bug Out omnibus, starting with Dave Jones, the NBC guy, explaining the rules have got them get. Out Urban survival simulation. This is Gotham Get Out. Hey, welcome back to Gotham Get Out. This is the NBC guy, the observer controller. Yes, I will be judging these people on their prepper and survival skills. Okay, I have we have the boxes packed, they are in the car now. Everybody has at least two ways to make fire. Okay, Whether they recognize them or not, that is the question. At least two ways. Most of them will have three ways to make fire, and so this is going to be done in three phases. The first phase is at the thrift shop. Their purchases for twenty five dollars. Whatever they need, whatever they can get for twenty five dollars, and I'm going to evaluate them on that. Then the next phase is after they picked up the boxes and after they spent the night in the woods. Okay, I am going to come to their location and I'm going to evaluate their campsite. I'm chuckling because I'm pretty sure it's gonna be wow. So what they have. Each one has some kind of a bag to carry things in. Each one has some way to boil water. Each one has a light life straw. Each one has a life straw. Okay, so they can get water, but if they can get snow and boil it, you know, there you go. Maria puts some food and snacks in there. I was not thinking food and snacks. I wanted them to catch field mice and eat them if they were that hungry. Then the third phase, because there's three phases to this, they come back to the Jones Homestead, and I put them on a team task. This team task will challenge them in their leadership capabilities, their abilities to assign tasks properly, and to get things done together. So there's three phases to this, and you're gonna hear it all right here on PBN. So all I can say is, I'm gonna I'm gonna go tomorrow to the location. I'm gonna evaluate them on their purchases at the thrift store. We have three thrift stores identified. Okay, we're gonna go to each one. They're gonna have a time limit in each one. We're gonna draw straws to see who goes in first, and then that's what they're gonna have for the rest of the night. Plus whatever's in the cash boxes. Now, the cash boxes truly have some junk in them, and they're going to have to determine whether this is junk or whether I should take it with me. So there you go, PBN family. Now this is Gotham Get Out. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. What is up? PBN members, Time for a podcast. Time for a It's not a cubical escape, it's not a bushcraft for Preppers podcast. It's just time for a podcast. Reason being it's been a while since i've talked bug out with you. Now a new section that I need to add to the members out post. And if you're unfamiliar, if you haven't heard me talking about the members, it's a new location on the navigation bar at prepperbroadcasting dot com that takes you to basically the index of the member's side of things, the index right, So rather than just having to scroll through thirty pages of content and find the prepper fit in health that you want to watch, it's indexed all the prepper fitting health in one place, all the bushcraft for preppers in one place, all the blacksmithing videos in one place, you know, so on and so forth. And now that I press record on this, I realize that I have an eight hour long bug Out Examination training, whatever you want to call it. It's massive. It's a massive eight podcast. Each podcast is an hour long exploration of the bug out from start to finish. Because I feel like most people don't give the bug out it's due in terms of what it takes to really pull something like that off. Okay, I feel like the vast majority of preppers and prepper websites and YouTubers give They don't give enough to the bug out, right. They say things like, it's time to bug out, that's when you should bug out. You should bug out when this happens. You should have this in your bug out bag. Your bug out bag should be this kind of bag. And you know, all those concepts have their place in a real bug out plan. But the matter, the fact of the matter is PBM family. The bug out is, and it should be looked at in no other way. But for most people, the bug out is going to be one of the greatest undertakings period financially, physically, planning, mentally, I mean it is. It is the most underestimated aspect of prepping period, the bug out if you look at it at face value. If you take it at face value, right, and you say to yourself, what do you mean, I'm gonna throw my bag on, I'm gonna go from point A to point B, and when I get there, I'm gonna survive there with all my survival skills and the things that I have in my backpack. You are scratching the surface. You are living a sort of philosophical bug out existence, right. You haven't thought it through in short and that's very dangerous. The moment you leave your home, everything gets dangerous. Right if you decide to leave your home behind, so much has had to go wrong because your home is your number one survival shelter, right, it's your survival headquarters, it's your home base. So I just want to talk to you guys about the bug out and about some really big points, problems whatever that all have to do with bugging out, because it's been a while, you know, it's been a while since I talk bug out. And listen, we're in an economic collapse, you know, this is what we're living through right now. The civil unrest is coming. It's you know, in the inner cities it's been going on. Shortages are coming, and worse than the shortages, I think are gonna be the sheer amounts of people who just don't have the money to get the things they need. You know, we'll see we'll see robberies and burglaries and scams and all that kind of stuff just continue to skyrocket, continue to take a more solid place in our society. That's what's coming, PBN family, That's what you're gonna live through, like it or not. So the bugout might sound very alluring, right, it might sound like, well, if things get bad enough, we'll just bug out, you know what I mean, We'll go what's the first thing you should think about? What's the first thing you should do? See, the prepping world puts a magnification upon the bug out bag, and then the bug out the contents of the bug out bag. Right, So it's all about the bag, and it's all about what goes in the bag. And you're gonna live out of that bag, right, that's gonna be the deal. That bag. You should be able to live out of that bag. Well, have you ever lived out of a bag? First and foremost? Have you ever lived out of a bag? Have you ever lived out of a backpack for any period of time? Three days? Three days? Pack a bag, go into the woods, three days, live out of it, just the backpack. You're gonna learn a lot. You're gonna learn a lot. You're gonna come home, and the first thing you're gonna say is, I ain't living out of a bag. That's a bad plan, first of all. So I think we all can agree on the fact that we're you know, and if you don't believe me, just give it a try. It takes a certain kind of person. It takes a very special kind of person to want to live out of a backpack period. And of course you also have to live out of a backpack that you can carry everywhere you go, you know, SOE you like in it to almost like an Appalachian trail style existence, except remember they go to build shelters. Oh yeah, you may not know that about the Appalation trail hikers, but they go to shelters that are pre built along the way, a lot of them. Now they're prepared to sleep out in the woods if need be, but those shelters make a difference, and some Appalation trail hikers even go to hotels on the weekends. Now, PBN family packing a bug out back. So can we at least start with the fact that you need a predetermined position first, right, no matter what else happens, No matter what you think about the bug out, you got to at least nowhere you're going. That has to be step number one. No matter what bag five eleven makes, no matter what bag uh Verdicts makes or whatever company you like Max Pedition, no matter how nice the bag looks, no matter how much it looks like the perfect bug out bag. If you're gonna, really, if you're really gonna have a bug out plan, you must understand that the first step is where are I? Where am I going? Where are we going? To pack a bag before you know where you're going is as foolish as packing a bag for a well, it's more foolish, but it's It would be like packing a bag for a vacation you hadn't booked yet, right. In other words, honey, in June, let's go on vacation. Okay, pack your bags, pack them now, because we're going on vacation in June. I'm gonna make something happen. Okay, great, sounds good. Where are we going? What should I pack? I have no clue, But pack your bags now because we're going Okay? Are we going to the coast? Should I pack a swimsuit? Are we going to the mountains? Should I pack some hiking boots? What should I do here? I don't know. Honey, pack your bags. Pack your bags because we're going on vacation in June. That's the same concept, right, pack a bug out bag, we mean, pack a bugg But what do I put in? Where are we going? What do I need? What's the mission to pack a bug out bag? Before you know where you're going, You already have your foot in your mouth, right, you already have your foot in your mouth. You're already walking three steps backwards. Because how do you know what the pack? How do you know what you need in that bag? How do you know? The answer is, you don't know when you can't know. So most people conditioned by the internet and internet preppers start off on the wrong foot already because they buy an expensive bag and they fill it with gear, and they have no idea where they're taking that bag, where they're gonna go, and what they're gonna face when they get there. So there's no way you can be efficient with the gear that you're carrying. There's no way you can be efficient with the things that you have in your backpack because you don't know where you're going to begin with. And that's the scenario that many preppers find themselves in. So when it comes to bug out, you know, right off the bat, these are the things that you have to consider right off the bat. These are the issues that people run into. They pack a bug out bag up and hang it on the fence. I mean on a hook, rather in the room in the house or whatever, in the closet. And. In their fantasy world, they're gonna bug out, man, you know what I mean. In their head, it's we're gonna grab that bag and we're gonna head for the woods. And if you haven't lived in the woods, if you haven't lived in the woods with your family, if you haven't spent at least a week in the woods with your family, then you don't know anything about bugging out to the woods. You have no idea what challenges you're gonna face. I'll just tell you right off the bat. If you think that you're gonna climb into a tent with four people, two people and a dog, three people whatever in August and sleep good at night, it's not happening. You know, to camp in the middle of summer, particularly in the South, is awful. I mean, it really is, just is awful. Kind of sucks. So we find ourselves in this situation where we're thinking we're gonna show up and it's gonna be a beautiful night. It was same could be said about winter, right if you're taking a regular old tent out into the woods to survive and it's January. You're in for a route awakening, you know, so you gotta have a place to go. If you don't have a place to go forget about the bug out altogether, or or exist in a short term bug out mentality. Right. In other words, we've got to get away, asa B I'm really a short term bug out mentality becomes an evacuation That's why I always say, just start with an evacuation plan. Start with a hotel or a family member's house, you know, fifty or so miles away, thirty miles away whatever from where you live, and hammer that down first before you worry about. I'm gonna build, erect, a, purchase, whatever, an alternate location for my family where we were gonna go. We're just getting started. We're not gonna cover everything. But this is kind of sort of this could be like an intro to that big big bug out podcast breakdown that you could listen to. I'll make sure I get that in the index the members out post up Atprepperbroadcasting dot com. Now, the other the interesting thing about said location, right, let's say you hammer down a location, doesn't matter what it is, right, you can preposition. I'll tell you what if you really wanted to be minimalist, you could preposition a thick walled canvas tent, a nice big one, you know, costs a lot of money, a couple grand, probably with a wood stove attachment, right, so the ability to run a wood stove out of it, and you could have some seriously austere living going on there. Right. If you add cots and maybe tarps or a tarp large enough to lay across the floor, you could have a pretty austere but doable living environment that at least would be somewhat climate controlled, assuming you have what it takes to keep that stove fed. And I would highly recommend that if that's your plan, and you're prepositioning this canvas tent or traveling this canvas tent, then where you plan to set it up there should already be some wood split. Right. Don't get to a location after a disaster and say, oh, now I have to go about the business of splitting wood for the next day and a half. Maybe cutting down trees, breaking trees down into pieces of wood to be split not a good plan. So, no matter what the location is, no matter what location you've established, it could be of the most beautiful little cabin on the side of a cliff somewhere, which is nice. I mean, I'm not here to grade your choice of bug out location doesn't matter to me. What you decide upon, or what you can afford, or what you just figure out you need prepositioned resources at that location or else. All you're doing is running to a roof. That's what you're doing. You're running to a roof. You're leaving one roof and lots of resources behind to run to another roof and just a roof. Right, do you have running water? If you don't have running water, then you have to have water there. You can't carry water on a bug out, you know, you can't carry substantial water. I mean, yeah, you can carry some water, but in about two days anything that you've carried is likely gonna be gone unless you have a truck and you could carry a fifty five gallon brain barrel in that truck along with whatever else you need to carry for your bug out. So you gotta carry. You can only carry so much. You need prepositioned food, you need prepositioned water, probably prepositioned medical, probably prepositioned fought firearms and arsenal, right, ammunition, You can't if you have a family of four with two small kids, who's carrying all your guns, who's carrying all your ammunition? You know, who's carrying the who's carrying the twelve gauge blocks of the blocks of twelve gage ammunition? And who's carrying the uh all the five, five six, who's carrying it. There's a lot of weight. So if you're gonna go to a bug out location, you've got to have prepositioned stuff, right, Gotta have it. It's another one of those kind of unavoidables, or you could wind see. The pitfalls that you make in the bug out really can set you up for just disaster if you're not careful, they really can. They can set you up for complete and total disaster. You can find yourself in a situation where you left one bad situation and the only thing you got is in another bad situation. You know, you do not want to be the guy who strolls into a bug out location and has to immediately start hunting and fishing and trapping for dinner tomorrow. That's not the position you want to be in. So the prepositioning of food and cashes and that type of stuff vital or at least the felling of that bug out location and the protection of it. Right now, I think the final thing I want to talk about on this little podcast of ours today is what you do when you happen upon that bug out location. We've lived through some pretty hairy stuff right now, we're living through a very hairy time. Things are different, People are different. People are changing. You see, everyone's changing, doesn't matter if they're becoming a prepper or not. Everyone is changing. Their outlook on the world is changing. They look at things differently, they see things much differently. They're saying to themselves, the world is changing, and I have to change to survive it. If you truly find yourself in a position where you are leaving your survival headquarters, you know, this property, this home of yours, that you've invested all your time, money, and effort into for your life, things have gotten pretty bad where you're at, you know, and to combat that, you're going to go to a different location. And that location should have resources at it. So we'll assume that it does. And even though you might think that that location is remote and in an incredibly remote area, you have to be aware that there might be a chance that people already know about it. There might be a chance that people are already at that location. And if people are already at that location, you want to know that before you open the front door. You want to know that, probably, but before you pull your vehicle on the property. Right, So you've got to case your own bug out location when you arrive. You have to case the bug out location. You have to do recon on your own property long before you arrive so that your family is safe. You get that right. In other words, you've got to be able to say, all right, we're gonna park the car a couple miles away from the bug out location, and then what we're gonna do is, we're gonna make our way up there, maybe at about three four o'clock in the morning. We're gonna set up some hundred yards or so off of the bug out location, gonna put you know, whatever you got, optics, rifle scope, binoculars, infrared, whatever you got, you're gonna put on that bug out location, and you guys are gonna watch it, and you're gonna watch it for a while. You're gonna watch it as the day goes on. You're gonna watch it till lunchtime. You're gonna watch it and watch it and watch it and see what the hell's going on? People? There is there movement, there are people going in and out. Is there a dead person? There? Is there someone inside? Is there traffic? Maybe nothing is happening. Maybe nobody's there and nothing is changing at all, in which case wonderful. But you better make sure you better not drive right up to the front door, hop out of your car with your bag on, kick open that front door, and say, baby, we made it, because there could be somebody casing it already, or there could be somebody inside of it already. And I think that's about all I want to cover on this episode about the Bugout. If you like it, if you enjoyed it, I can do more, but I truly have done much more, And I think I will figure out a way to collect all this podcast and the other bug Out podcasts under one indexible category, and you guys can feel free to listen to it at your leisure because it's a ton of information. Like I said, it's about eight hour long podcasts. So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this. I wanted to just talk to talk to the members for a little bit, you know, about an issue that a prepping issue that is in my head right now, and that's what this is, this bug out situation. So I thank you for your time. I thank you for your support. Guys, you have no idea. You have no idea, first off, what kind of an amazing life I'm able to lead because of you. You know, I'm not in a private jet. I'm not right. I'm not living that kind of life. And that's not what I mean. When I say living the kind of life that I live, I mean I'm a writer and a podcaster and nothing else, you know what I mean. It's not something I do in my spare time. It's not something I do on the way. It's not my side hustle. You guys have given me the ability to be a podcaster and a writer, and that's what I do and it's magic. And the reason I say it thank you all the time for it is because I also have to remind myself, Hey, don't take this shit for granted. Man, Do not take this for granted. You know you've been doing this for years now and there's a lot of people in this world that want to be doing what you're doing. Do not take it for granted and make sure you thank those members for their support, because you guys make it possible. Okay, I want to thank you for funding the Prepper Broadcasting Network too, which is what your membership does in large part. You know, in large part, it takes a lot of money to run this thing now that we've reached the level that we're at, and it not necessarily a lot of money, but way more money than I could afford. And you guys make it possible for us to have this archive that is massive and exists forever, and this archive that is tailored to the struggles of the American people in this time. You've created something very special that everybody gets to take advantage of through your membership. You know, as people get more and more scared, they're gonna find the Prepper Broadcasting Network. They're gonna get incredible answers and solutions, and they're going to build their own sort of survival game plan. And that's impressive, you know, So we'll talk sooner. This is Gossam Get Out. This is Gotham Get Out. This is Bankster Breaker. Here with Intrepid Commander and Future. Dan, we are in the thrift shop. We've completed our twenty five dollars allocation of purchases for gear for tonight? How'd you do banks to breaker? I did pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I got two long sleeve shirts, a third was a hoodie, and then I got a like kind of a little hat, so full pieces of clothing, and one kind of like shoulder bag or like messenger satchel, I don't know, but something I can carry some things in. So I came in right out, like twenty three dollars and eighty cents or something, so just in budget. Did you stand in here now we're complete? You got what you got and you're not getting more. Did you send any vulnerabilities and caps in your outerwear. Given the conditions we're going to face. No, if it was gonna rain, snow, or be very very windy, I would be a little concerned that I don't have a windbreaker rain you know, waterproof, because my jackets are kind of you know, they would get soaked and freezing quick if it was rain. So but I'll have that, and so I think I'm gonna be fine, right right. So I came in four dollars and four minutes under budget. But then I watched then I watched the intrepid Commander go and find the candles and the cookwaar, which I could have afforded with my leftover cash. So he and I got backpacks. We got the two shoulder strapped backpacks. And I'm happy with the outerwear that I got and the extra layer. And I did find a hat, which is critical. So I got load carriage, I got insulation, head and upper body. I'm feeling good about it. How about you, James? Yeah, I was mostly worried about outer layer. You know, some kind of decent inner layer hat. We're getting gloves, so that's a done deal. And we're getting an underlayer too, so I'm feeling good. Yeah. I wanted to make sure we could eat something up. I'm hoping I could scavenge some of that bitter black bean on the way out of somebody's dumpster. So the paradigm for night for tonight is scavenge up cycle. We're raising each other. And we're gonna try to vanish. We're gonna try to stay out of you. And last night in the area of this exercise, mid Atlantic area, we got about a inch and a half two inches of snow, So watch your tracks tonight watch your tracks more. Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number two hundred and seventy six. And I'd like to say, hey, Chin, what's up? But Chin went awall he got sucked into a Christmas party. So joining us today is my husband, Brock Hathaway. Hey, Brock, what's up. Hey, how's it going. It's going pretty good. You know, it's been a long weekend. It happens. It was an interesting weekend. We had a good Thanksgiving event and. Uh then pretty relaxed after that. Then pretty relaxed after that. Yeah, some some interesting times. So it's good to take the days off to just be able to chill a little bit. I think, well, croquet in the backyard. Croquet, little little hacky sack, getting everybody getting killing gophers. Killing gophers, go. Oh, they're destroying our yard. And then the German shepherd loves to eat them up on top of that. So, yeah, it's been good times, but it's been cold here. Today was a nice day. Today was nice. Yeah, okay, today was nice, but it's been cold, and like we moved to Texas to be warm, I would think, but. Well that's what we At least we got firewood this year. Yeah, at least we got firewood. I'm gonna go ahead and kick our mics to both sides so way everybody can hear us out of two ears, two ears or better. All right, live stuff, live stuff, switching gears, having fun. Vergis the book. I'm working, Brox having to listen to my book all the time because I'm doing edits, and so that's fun. Huh always oh yeah, same routine. We've done this for a few books, quite a few. This is number ten that I'm writing now. But it's fun doing the back and forth and helping you with the edits. Oh, I always appreciate the feedback. There's just different brains work different ways. Brock's brain is very very analytical, so he like, I'm like, oh, they did this cool stuff from Brocks. Like, yeah, I know they didn't. You didn't do it that way. Again. I know it's fiction, but it ain't that fiction. So today, oh, I also want you to invite you over to uh, Changing Earth Series dot com. Changing Earth Series dot Com. I did some changes over there. I now have a chat system which is going on, which is new and interesting chatty. Yes, so you can contact me anytime, which could be a little scary. Well, well, I'm live on. The website, gotcha anytime? Could be kind of an inconvenience. Yeah, yeah, definitely, like I'm not getting up in the middle of the night to answer it. Well, head on over Changing a Series dot Com. Become a subscriber. It really helps I put a lot of time and energy. And how do I spend most Sundays. Getting ready for the podcast? Yeah, right, for exactly, and. So podcasts for Sundays, that's right. So yeah, Changing a Series dot Com. Become a member, it's like three bucks. We've got great membership stuff over there, the live chat going now, the audio dramas, all the book information, and I'm having a sale sale sale. Yes, I didn't even know about the I know. You didn't know about the sale. So I'm giving thirty percent off of everything on my website, which is books. Yeah, well, don't we stick out water bottles. We we do have water bottles. They would have to request water bottles because they listen to this show to know that we have water bottles there because I don't have Yeah, those are only for when we're live in person. So but good, good thinking on that one. Yeah, we do have the water bottles. But all the books, all that on sale thirty percent off. Use the code Earth in all capitals twenty twenty two, No spaces, just Earth twenty twenty two. And if you go over there, I literally put it like right there on the sale page for you. So it's tough to get it wrong. I try to help you out there, you know. Lead the horse to water, right alrighty, So we're talking bug out clothes to stay warm because I'm always cold. Oh yes, and I need to stay warm. He spends a lot of time eating my hands up in the winter. Time, not by choice most of the time. Oh but it's so good, so good. So we did a lot of ski in back in the day. We used to be up in the snow quite a bit and haven't been from Michigan. We learned how to I learned how to layer in Kansas, where you grow up. Yeah, pretty cold. Yeah, you always got to have a few layers on so that way, if it warms up, you can strip down and if it gets colder, well hopefully you broad enough. Right, Yeah, that's that's really the name of the game. I always carried around a backpack in Michigan, of like, so I could have extra clothes or take off clothes like not that way, but here because of that, if you wanted to change in weather in Michigan, just wait an hour. That's what well we always teased about. So yeah, but we did a lot of ski in and it taught us how to layer out. But I wentn't even deeper on my research. I was like, what if you were on an Arctic expedition, because. Oh yeah, because there you can't get. Right exactly, you can't get sweating. You have to be able to move still because you're like hiking and stuff like that. I mean they're taking pictures of what I guess you know that requires hand dexterity, not as much as fire and a rifle, but still you gotta be able to move. You can't be like the Christmas story with the kids. I can't Mom, I camp alone, definitely you're gonna have to be functional. Right and carrying the go bag with all that stuff that you're carrying, you know, all the waste, those are gonna be all sweat spots where it's pulling on you and stuff like that. So so there was a few different ways to look at it, but I thought that'd be a good place to start. So poseidonexpeditions dot com had a pretty cool article on like how to get ready for that Arctic vacation, and uh so that's where I where I grab some of my information for It's probably gonna be moist and. The winter time generally, Yeah, snow's pretty pretty nice most time. Yeah, I mean it's gonna be snow or rain could be worse. Yep, because now you're down with the ice of yet the cold temperatures, the cold, freezing rain. Yeah, Michigan, if you went out with the wet hair, it will literally freeze and hell. Yeah right, And what's the old saying, cotton kills. Cotton kills? Yeah, took it out of my mouth. Yeah, don't wear cotton. And when you're trying to stay warm, if you're gonna sweat, it just pulls it off of just wix the heat away from your body. So it literally remember cotton kills, which I think my thermals are like all cotton probably, yeah, so I'm definitely they're all you know, nasty anyway, we need an upgrade anyway already, So of course I'm gonna start at my feet, because if my feet are warm, my body's feeling better. Then if my you know, my feet are cold, I'm done. Like if we're out skiing and my feet are getting cold, it is overtime like that. Nothing's warm in the body up at that point. Yeah, the numb the toes are all numb, like your first toe and your ski boots and stuff. It's the worst. So but they have those electric socks now, and Dad had those electric ski boots that you can plug in. So I don't know, I haven't worn anything electric to warm me. I will only use like the thermal pack. Yeah, the little pop packs and keep in your pocket keep your hands warm. They have like socks that they'll slip into and stuff. Now, yeah, I don't know. If I could walk around. With maybe somebody from the Midwest. My feet get pretty hot anyway. It's like I'm not into like the big wooly wooly socks. Yeah, yeah, but I like the wooly side. You still got little ice cubes inside that I. Do, I do, It's true. So a thin sock is preferable underneath your big sock. It helps them wick the moisture away. And when I was thinking like the tight socks, I'm always thinking like a poly blend or some kind of synthetic. Well, on this article, they have a form of wool. But it's a special one. Oh, I gotta find it in my notes now I know I'm lost. But it's thinner than traditional wool, and it's more comfortable. Marino wool. Marino Marino wool. Yes, and so they can make even the thin socks out of that wool. That wool will naturally pull away your sweat and vaporize it, oh, vaporize, vaporize it like little lasers coming out of it. And also it works against the bacteria that causes odor. So that's a good thing, you know. I mean, none neither of Australia. Yeah, but I've known some stinky feeders and that stuff. That might be an interest in sock to try, because I don't like the big, thick wool one. So they get my feet too hot, and then you're uncomfortable when they're too hot, right. And yeah slimy, yeah not. And when you're wearing like a winter boot, they're not designed to breathe like a summer shoe, correct. Because you're trying to keep all that moisture out. So yeah, so once they get hot in there, it's I wish I had that problem, that'd be that'd be great. I wish. I don't. So now they've come a long way. So I wear an art support around my foot like all the time, and but now they have the art support with ankle and heel support in. The sock in the song. Yeah, So I mean you're you're pretty much set right there. Two is one, one is nine, three is better, Three is better. Yeah, three pairs because you never know if one's down. Well, then socks is something that you need to really think about having a few extra. It's not like we can put a lot extra in the go bag, but to be able to get a dry pair of socks, throw that on in a situation that you need to, you're gonna be very happy. Oh and make sure your go bag is waterproof because I thought mine was and it wasn't. And so if you have your socks in the go bag without being protected, now you just have wet socks to put on on top of wet socks. So that's bad. That's bad. That's bad. That was Prepper Camp twenty twenty. Did your bag leak? You had your go bag with you? I did? Mine did not. I don't think it is. He has one of like the military ones. It's pretty sick. And uh, I don't think you're as dead. I didn't have any problems with just my club figures. Figures. So the thin sock, I'm a lover of the thin sock. The Marino wool. I saw a pair of them for like twenty one dollars a pair, so I mean, you're gonna be paying for it. Ski socks are just as good. They're like the poly blends. They're really good. And then thick wool socks. So I always knew like the thick sock should be like the wool. The yep, you know, some kind of of a natural fiber opaka was really great. Again for it, you're gonna pay for it. Yeah yeah, those things they go like thirty bucks. Pair of they're proud of them. Oh yeah, Like dude, I could buy like eight. They are pretty soft and they're pretty. Comfortable, It's true, and so you don't need a lot of pears then either. People are like, I don't ever wash my wool socks. Yeah, that's cut how I felt. I was like, uh, everything needs to be washed. Okay, I don't know about that. Oh, Coza makes Marino wool. That's eighty percent Marino wool. So that's pretty good with like a poly blend three pair for only thirteen ninety nine. I found them on Amazon Cozya coz i A. So that was that was a good find. Three pair for thirteen ninety nine. That's that's awesome. Boots wise, I found a pair of boots I really liked. Oh, I'm sure you did. I'm like, it's not that cold in Texas that often though. Uh yeah, you know, my hikers work because we're not out on as much property. My hikers aren't even getting beaten, so I don't think that's a good thing. But so anyway, I really really liked the Adidas. They're called Tarik's Free Hiker boots. They will fit in an earth or a hiking environment. They don't have a lot of laces and stuff because you know how when you're out in the snow, the laces they get all stocked with snow and everything. Yeah, this is all like shielded, like the shielded front title. Yeah, and I didn't know like leather, Yeah, awesome, like your fallback, But leather also needs to be cared for a lot when it gets moist and if. You're wet, cold thing all the time, when are they getting air? Right? So that brought me to my next point because Ellen and Australia brought me ugs and brought Brock hugs too, but they're not the best fit. But we won't tell her that. Don't tell her that. And and I love the ugs. So I'm like, Okay, if I was gonna bug out in the winter, i'd probably want my ugs, but I can't wear them the bug out in Are they worth carrying? It is a definite comfort, But I don't know about care. I think So, okay, you're at you're like chilling at the fire. Yeah, you need something else to put your feet into. Well, your boots and your socks are right, I'm buying a little bit of what you're selling. If we could like tote around that huge thing that Steve made, we could we could keep him dry all the time. But that thing was heavy and you needed a fan, and you needed a fan fair enough, and power he ran it off power to you. Okay, So see, uggs are more necessity. You need something for your feet while you're just chilling something. And technically, if you were in a real big survival situation and you'd been out for a while, if you're trapping and hunting, you can. Make your own You can make your own ugs. Fair with that fur on the inside, those. Comb pelts that I did would have worked perfect. You could have had nice little slippers. Ye, fair enough. Okay, So well we're making uggs now while we're out there. That's because we weren't allowed to take them out of the house. Alrighty with the boots, make sure you try them on with all of your socks on, because you're probably going to have a bigger foot with all those socks on. I would, I would think so when you're layering up right and. When you start hiking, your feet will start expanding. So always good to buy a little half a size too big anyway, and you might want to think about a full size too big if you're wearing all those socks inside there. Just make sure it fits. When you're in the store. Walk around. They have the up and down little rock things you. Can walk on now some places, yeah, yeah, like most places you're buying yeah, hiking boots and whatnot. If you're buying online, good luck, size of my boot and still didn't match. I'm not a big fan of buyas shoes online. That's one of those things you gotta put walk around. You do, and then if you order them then you have to return them and it's all this crazy and pain in the butt ski Yeah, I don't disagree. Okay, base layer. So I've always worn like really really tight thermals, but I've learned that's a no no really Yeah, you should actually have a little bit of space even between your body and the thermal to provide that heat layer. So like the wickable sports shirts, right it spandex Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, you don't want them even like that super tight. I don't want to buy a size bigger now because I always thought like, oh it super tight. That's who everybody can see your bustles. If you get them to loose, then when you try to put other clothes on, it gets all bungie. And yeah, yeah, fair enough. And that conference so loose that you're having issues dressing, but. It should have like, it shouldn't be super tight against your skin. You should be able to have that little bit of air layer so that your heat can accumulate in there. It also allows for that waking process to happen. Gotcha, Yeah, interest, I know. So the marino wool came up again, thinner, softer than most wolves wix. The water prevents odor bacteria. You don't need loomy or whatever. Oh I'm bringing up the lab. Yeah, the loomy. I found a pair of really nice looking thermals at Iguanasport dot com hunter Bucks Arena Wall thermals. Yeah, they have the butt flap. No butt flap, no, no, not a one piece, you know, one pieces. They don't work for women, especially like it's yeah, I would believe that, right, yeah, so, but that was a point. Some of them they sell with like the feet already connected in them, so like socks as part of your lower lower thermals. No, yeah, now, because you. Can socks exactly, and if they were attached to your your leg, your pants and you somehow got wet. Yeah right now. Now Yeah, two pieces have to go together as one, so don't do that. And then also they have some like body suits, the full body suits. I just see problems there. That's your that's your lower layer, and like if you got to go to the bathroom, you know that's not happening. But you see the bonus to the one piece. You don't have to worry about like jacket riding up or something. And yeah, even some snow getting Yeah in your pant line. That's the second layer. You can wear your bibs. There's a second layer and provide that that extra layer. But we're not there yet. Okay, Yeah, we're staying. We're staying here. So Hunter bocks Iguana sports not tight, you know, not super loose. High neck or low neck totally your choice. Brock would be low neck for sure. Can't do the stuff up around. Yeah, we think he was strangled in a past life, so so I would probably go for the higher neck though, but I don't know because you can't like remove that again, Like I can put you on one of those the next Sure you can put a scar for a right, yeah, but you can't. Face masks that you can't in it. So I'm kind of going back and forth. You usually did wear a turtleneck in the snow though, when I was out in the snow, and that again, if it's a cotton one and it gets wet from snow getting up in there or whatever, you're in the same boat again. So no cotton cotton kills and the cold cotton kills. More affordable options you're looking at, like your polyester blends with nylon or radon. Make sure rate on rayon ray I'm stuck on those lasers, and make sure that it's not a cotton blend. Are your midlayer, So this includes your body armor, because you'd want to put your body armor on over. Your thermals, but under your. All that bulky stuff, right, so this would be you should have. You know, your armor should fit really snugly and it's probably gonna make you sweat more around that, so the wicking even becomes the more important. And hopefully the back of your material for your vest also wicks. Ours does, and we didn't spend a whole lot on our armors, so it's really easy to find that that option as well. They suggest looking for clothes with zippers, buttons and adjustable straps. That way, when it's too warm, you can open it up and allow air in, you know, to be able to get well. And I see a lot of a lot of jackets nowadays to have the little zipper vents you know, under back with the army along the side, so you can they vent a little bit of that out without opening the jacket. Right once you get too hot, yeah, vent those pits. Man, put some Loomy on there. Oh I'm not sponsored by Loomy, by the way, I'm just stuck on it all right. Uh, they have some funny commercials. So this can be one or two layers, or three or four, depending on how cold you are. Of course, the more layers you put on, the less you're gonna the more you're gonna limit your your mobility. Also, you know, having armor around you and stuff should help. But metal plate, that's gonna be cold. Yeah after a while, your body heat also warming it. Up too, so right, radiate off of it. I would definitely, I mean, if you're in that situation though, in any kind of unknown situation, like a survival situation, I would definitely have that arm around. If you have it, I'd just be dumb not to. So one or two layers A vest is always a good option because it provides you that core. Heat protection but not your arm. Doesn't limit out your arms, right, Choose clothing that helps the water to continue vaporizing, so you don't want to put something on over your nice wicking clothes that stops that process. And now you're just a sweat ball. So continue with the fleece or the wool, old natural fibers, no cotton. We're gonna say that many times today. Probably mm hmm. Zip up coats with high necks, so that's where you could get the next line in, you know, is that that secondary layer of bringing it up not too short so your torso is exposed. That's always a problem. Pants waterproof is best, so I wouldn't even think, like we used to wear the thermals with sweatpants. Then are coverings over it, but your sweatpants could get toasted sometimes. Oh yeah, for sure, even just skiing by the end of the day, you know, up around the waist vans a little bit wet and moist down around where the boot's been riding. Yep, so I could see that. But luckily we knew we were just on the slopes for right afternoon. But in that kind of situation. So I'm thinking, like our new tact pants or something like that, you know, even though they're kind of baggy, I could it should be a little bit tighter. So yeah, very interesting thinking about it that way. And I was like, duh, why do we wear sweatpants under there? That's like the worst thing we could do. Bibs again, so if you have that back problem where it's opening up bibs, you know, but again rough for ladies trying to pee with bibs on. Never never a fun experience on the front whatever. Yeah, Okay, the outer layer, this comes in direct contact with the elements, so it needs to be waterproof, but it also needs to be windproof. So there's a lot of things that are one or the other and not. You were just talking earlier about how you need all your stuff to still be breathable away. But you throw a wind breaker to the. Outer layer, but that's where it's shut down. You shut down the convection right there to. Boom, so that seals the baked potato in. Yeah, because you can air out, so you're not getting like that, you know much. So it should be waterproof and windproof or you're gonna be wet and cold. We have the rain suits, you know, just from Walmart or whatever we bought for one of our survival trips, so that you know, as a fallback. Ski flows do worn't great though, yeap hood hood is a good idea because you lose twenty percent of your heat out your head, so a hood's a good idea. However, hoods can be very dangerous in self defense scenarios and can be used against you, so you need to be aware of that right off the bat that it provides a handle. Handles are bad, especially ones that go around your neck pockets places the hang gear put stuff. You know, it should be really utilitarians so that you can easily stow stuff that you're using just on your clothes, your back. Your go bag is so full of stuff to have to stop and like go deep in that bag pain in the butt, unless you're in a camp. Yeah. The only time you want to be getting that deep in your bag is when you're. Camped, right, yeah, So having those spots to store stuff, a mini bag, that kind of thing is essential. I have that little shoulder bag for the day pack that goes with my go bag. If all you have is your go bag, and you need to just like go scouting around and you're gonna be wild foraging while you're scouting around. You don't have to carry the go bag the whole time. You need an alternate bag, right exactly. Yeah, that'd be a good one to create something that like hooks right to your go bag. Bottom of the pants should prevent snow from entering your boot area. So a lot of times they have elastics like our ski pants, you know, or your boots are taller so your pants can talk in. And make sure your outer layer is right top. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, I've seen the Arctic dude. He had his pants ducked in with Rock's not a fan of the loop. So colors, I was thinking about colors you want to blend in. So if you're in an urban environment, you don't want to go out and full camo, like your hunting outfit is the only thing you have that would be for the element. It's probably not what you want to be walking around in in an urban setting. Right. In a survival situation, you know have another option, and it's easy to It's easier to make things into camo than it is to make camo into a solid color. So if you bought a green or something of that nature, it's a lot easier to turn that color into camo. Tans, brown blacks, green. Right the black nighttime. But if it's like a white situation, you could be pretty obvious if you're the only black, you know, full black, walking around your whole groups. And because ours a lot of our ski clothes are black, natural colors, it'd be cool if you can find like blue jeans, you know, not blue jeans, but look like blue jeans for the outer shell, because then it would be so less obvious that, like I am dressed, I am fully prepared for this experience. Maybe you should mug me and take all of my clothing, right, right, right, so the pattern, Yeah, the denim pattern, that'd be epic. I wouldn't do bright colors either, just for obvious reasons. Yeah, dependent on your situation, right, unless you're like, yeah, found yes, yeah right, but. You wear red stuff like that. If you are situation, you might want to keep something red and shiny, yeah, and bright that you can pull out if it is a rescue situation. Yeah, something that would really break that color away from the snow. Yeah, you're black, ain't gonna do it. Either. So yeah, good point hands. So you need to have backup gloves as well. This is another thing that I would be like, back up, back up. You know, two is one, one is done. Three is better gloves, Yeah, that's my opinion. So a tight pair that fits close to the hands so you can actually use them but not have to take your glove off all the way. And then an outer shell glove you can put over the top of that. Mittens will reduce finger dexterity. So you know, I'm not the hugest fan of mittens. I mean, I guess if you had them for like at camp scenario, but still, and they do have the ones that like the top peels back, but you're gonna have gloves on underneath that. One thing that definitely wouldn't be on the Arctic Adventure to our list is those heat gloves that they make where you know, you can wear gloves and then you can deal with the barbecue and stuff. And the. Hot rocks and because then you could have your hands and your thin gloves in those still warm able to work with the fire. But a lot of times the materials that those synthetic gore attacks and stuff very flammable. And you don't want that mountain to your hand. No, especially not in a survival situation. So yeah, all right, as a for the hood, you should have a hood, but you also need a warm hat. Hoods limit your visibility and there may not be practical at all in a hostile environment, like because you can't see perpherally. So now you've got to handle that's on the back. You know, absolutely, Maybe banies are always good to have because that's nice and tight to the head, keep your head. Warm, be and then like if you're in a safe environment, you pull the hood up over the beanie. I mean, that's that's double awesome. And as my dad would always say, you need to have a good to wear around. The tu for sure, wool or fleece, both of those same way they have the hair. They have the hats too that have the little knitted brims and then still cover your ears. You can do the optional ear up and down. Those are pretty cool as well. Stick with the wool. On that Iguana sport, there was a good beanie there. It only came in white. Though I wouldn't wear white in my head, that's just too or the Bala cult clava Bala clava that's the facial wrap thing. You wrap that thing up on your head stay warm. Yeah, I'm I'm not a huge fan, but but it is there scarf. But again I'm not a huge fan because of handles, so I'm always gonna think self defence wise, and you've literally tied something around your neck. So I'm not the hugest fan of the scarf. I do like the ski masks, the ones that are fleece and have the weird. Nose of the stuff. And I do like those neck covering so I even have a sweatshirt that like the neck thing is hooked to the sweatshirt that way, when I'm out hiking, walking or whatnot, if it's too cold, you can literally pull that thing up over your ears and your face and everything. So they're super cheap nowadays. They sell the the ones you can buy for like five bucks for five or something twenty five bucks for five of them. And they're the masks that we always use to work out in. They're the skull masks. You can wear them as a bandana on your head as a neck thing. They're not like overwhelmingly thick, but still provide that warmth. Anything is going to work at that point, so I. Always just got to wear a beard. Yeah, no comment. For the mass, they can be really intimidating when you're approaching other groups. Oh yeah, those ones that we've been getting, the skulls and the fans. Right, yeah, oh hey, we're just coming yeah, no right, pull that stuff down, show your face, show your eyes, right for eyes. Snowboarding ski goggles really good to have if you're in a snow situation. It should be a lot of UV protection, uh, because. That glare coming off the snow is. Bad on the eyes and for under the eyes everywhere so bad. But now you don't necessarily need to have your ski goggles and what not all the time if you're just in a cold right, so, probably want to have sunglasses, why as bulky. I don't think about that because our glasses tint. Yeah right, so, but you could still wear the ski goggles with the glasses underneath. So yeah, you should definitely have the really good sunglasses as well. The ski goggles, though, also provide protection from chemical sprays pepper spray. Yeah, so they do have the like where it can collect around the edges on that foamy stuff. Some of them don't, and you're not taking a direct shot to the eyes. Well you're hopefully not right, so yeah, but they can provide you protection from chemical sprays. So two is one. Right. You want to be able to easily shed and add layers of clothing is the key to staying warm in the cold, and that's what we've been doing here in Texas in November. So not very thrilled about that one. Alrighty, Well, we're gonna do some changing Earth news next. We're just ripping through today on this lovely Sunday. You're gonna stick around with me for changing Earth news or you're going to make us dinner. It's completely up to you if you need help getting through the news. I can stay news, Okay, hang out with me, all right, here we go, changing Earth news, all right, changing Earth news news news. That's the way I do it. Babe, that's all in the news news news. Yeah. I need a sound sound man for sure, or sound person person sound person. Yeah, I'm try it. I've tried, you know, I was raised old school girl. What do you do it? Sun? Today is calm. A couple of small plasma eruptions hasn't been anything too big of note, although but Ben's been putting out a lot of content lately. Day. We saw the sun in the last three four days. Right, yeah, cold, it's been Uh first storm came in a little bit warm, and then the cold front hit and it's been cold. So yeah, it was nice to get out and enjoy it a little. We got some chronal holes coming across the sun. They're gonna cause some low scale geomagnetic storms. I've been reading that up in Alberta there. Their grid is already struggling with just the small scale storms that we've been having. So really yeah, pinker uroras. I think the shielding's going a little bit faster than than what they had predicted. So interesting stuff. It was all that airspray and turn it. If we wouldn't known, you know, yeah did all right. So I'm doing a little catch up from the seventeenth to the nineteenth because some interesting things went down in that time period and I didn't have a lot of it on my news that week. So Saudi Arabia is just getting hit with storm after storm after storm. One child actually died in the last rain event in that week. And it was interesting. This week they got so much hail there. It was like a wall of hail they were showing you the side, and I am not lying. It was like five foot tall, so you could see the dirt. So there was some dirt, right, But then it was like three feet of hail piled up that it. Just accumulated from the storm. In the desert, easy, yeah, in the desert. Yeah, I'm sure they're probably not really set up to deal with a lot of flooding situations. Right. It's like Texas and the snow. Yeah right, shut the city down. Yeah, and that sand it just moves. With Oh yeah, well sand and water is we know that. We live in the sand now as well. Other things of note, Germany was hit by a strong tornado that did six point seven mile long swath of damage. Fifty homes damage pretty severely. I wonder how often tornadoes happen in Germany, Germany, or even like in Europe area. Right in general, I've got a lot of worldwide listeners now, so maybe one of my German listeners can let us know how often you guys see tornadoes over there? Something I would expect in Texas, It's not something I would think of for Germany. For Germany, Scotland saw a lot of flooding that week. And wildfires in Argentina are still burning. So that was interesting. We had asteroid twenty twenty two w J one impact the earth over Niagara Falls. Really yeah, what day was that. That was on? Like the of course you'd asker that I think it was like the I think it was the nineteenth actually that we're into the nineteenth. Yeah, but I was like, Niagara Falls, are you serious? Yeah? So it was one point six to three point nine feet bag so obviously not very large, but it was seen by a lot of people. Sonic boom, that kind of thing. Record snowfall in the Great Lakes area. Three people died in that storm, and then heavy snowfall in Pakistan, like. Again not something that they really think of that. They've got the mountain. They got the mountains, right, Yeah, so why not I'm saying plenty of right. And a lot of great water for downs health. Okay, So on the twentieth flooding in Saudi Arabia continues. A wildfire broke out in southern California some valley. I've checked on the information to figure out about the wildfire, and they hadn't updated the website, which is really weird. I've never seen that happen before, so maybe usually updates, right, it's got to be because of Thanksgiving and the holiday break, so couldn't update the wildfire information. But there is another one burning in Washington as well. Really unusual for November wildfires. Especially up Washington. That's a pretty wet state. They're getting rain, yeah, a lot of rain. November twenty fe uh soccer Agimo volcano exploded with activity. Indonesia saw more massive flooding down there. They just never never get a break down. The stop, it does it, it does it. It's volcano, earthquake, flooding, tsunami, volcano earthquake. So Saudi Arabia, Mecca. So Jakarta is where Mecca is. I know you've yeah, okay, and Mecca is flooded, flooded with water. So I found that kind of interesting. I'm not gonna draw any conclusions. I was gonna say. I'm sure there's probably some proverb that goes with it, right, I'm. Just gonna be quiet. So the time has taught me to keep my mouth shut sometimes. Oh really, Yeah. There was a five point four earthquake on the twenty first in Jakarta, not Jakarta for Mecca, Jetta sorry, my bad, both with Jays Jakarta, Indonesia. Two hundred and sixty people died in that event. That was the big earthquake and it was only a five point four It was only ten kilometers deep. So New South Wales this is Allen oh still water raining, biggest rainfall one hundred and eighteen years. Their dams are full, the water is everywhere, so I've been checking in on her. And British Columbia is also on fire near Vancouver. So the west lot of the North is not doing. Too well right the Northwest, and usually they're over fire season. That's why I really wish the maps would have been up today. Anyhow, twenty second there was a seven point zero earthquake that triggered tsunami warnings at the Solomon Islands. That one was a deeper quake. Luckily not as many much damage or death from that. Well you got me there. I'm not sure where the Solomon Islands are. The Solomon Islands are down south over by the Caribbean Okay area. And then Italy there was severe weather in some of the coastal communities that caused flooding, sand bagging activity, things like that. And then there was a six point two magnitude earthquake off the coast of Baja, which is southern California, right where Mexico California meet. That was pretty big, but no damage. Nothing like that twenty third of November six point one in Turkey. That one damaged about eight thousand homes. That was, Yeah, that was a biggie to hit there. There's been mixed reports about how many people were dyed, like how many people died, so officially they didn't put that out, but I saw numbers that were about fifty people dead and about fifty people injured in that event. So it's kind of Argentinian wildfires continue to grow. Venice saw major flooding on the twenty third, so their canal system that it just could not handle the amount of rain that in that area. You'd think they'd be pretty well set up for flooding though, Yeah, I mean like the water, Yeah, like don't put that expensive stuff on the lower floor. Yeah. Once you start getting that water accumulating, though, it starts rising. Quick, it does, yeah, and everything's full so it can't drain out anymore. Yeah. And then Texas saw flooding down by the Mexico border on the twenty third from a storm down there. So here's your sign. Just flood the whole area out. November twenty fi Jetta Meca floods again. Massive flooding continues, and then Miami Beach was hit with more flooding on the twenty fourth as well. So it has not been a good year for Miami Beach at all. Twenty fifth of November, that's when that massive hailstorm fell in Saudi Arabia. Houston was hit by a tornado. Couldn't have been very big because I didn't hear very much about it, and I'm in Texas. Camp Cheka, the shavel lick volcano shivel lick shive a lick volcano wakes up, so it's a new volcano. Kempcheka is never eat slimy worms. It is Eastern Russia. So that Checha Peninsula is this little peninsula that comes off of Eastern Russia, like by in Sabiria, and it's tons of volcanoes because it's the ring of fire wakes up. It's just just showing some activity. It's the churning. It looked kind of like a cauldron, so it wasn't like overflowing, but it's active and it's churning and showing its colors. There was flubbing, flobbing, flobbing in the Caribbean with massive mud slide, so flooding there, and there's more flooding expected. They have another storm coming through uh this week, so it's not looking good there. Israel experienced major flooding twenty six millimeters in two hours I don't know the millimeters to inches conversion. And then a tornado hit New Orleans metro area on the twenty six so both those are yesterday. Today there's the Caribbean warning for flooding. There was flash flooding in Tobago, Trinidad, which is just north of South America by Venezuela, and I was very surprised because Venezuela has been on my list. Venezuela, Colombia are all at the top of South America and they've just been getting hammered, so it was nice to see them off the list. They could really use a reprieve all right. Earthquake rundown. In the last twenty four hours, there's been forty one earthquakes that were four point over bigger. In the last forty eight hours, there was eighty four earthquakes that were four point ohver bigger last week three hundred and two and then the last six weeks. In the last two weeks and ten, this is the largest uptick at earthquake activity that I've seen since September, and the Sun was much more active in September. We do have a large amount of chronal whole activity. We haven't seen a lot of large eruptions off the Sun, so it's interesting to just see like that huge increase in earthquake activity without really could be residual from stuff that we got kind of hammered with previously. Things are just on the moon on the move. Very interesting though. Biggest of today was a five point six in the Easter Islands region, so that's out in the ocean. We have twenty six volcanoes actively erupting, twenty five volcanoes showing minor activity, and thirty four volcanoes showing unrest. Most of the volcano activity is all in the Ring of Fire, and then the West coast to Africa is also lighting up right now, So it's been all those earthquakes and stuff just sure making everything go. More volcanoes were added this week because the number of eruptings stayed the same, the number of unrest stayed the same, but the ones showing minor activity went up by two. And then, as I mentioned, we don't have any of the wildfire numbers because they I saw Kentucky was number one again. I was like, wait a minute, Kentucky was number one last week and that was odd. And the numbers are all exactly the same, so I know they haven't done an update, so I'm bringing that update update next time. Alrighty, And that's the change in Earth news. I'm having to start to dig further and further. It seems like a lot of the channels that had a lot of the worldwide news in a consecutive sequence that you could just watch three or four of them to get all the information they're they're starting to slip away. I don't know why that is. It's almost like they don't want people to share what's going on globally, so I don't know possible, right, Timpaul hat, you want me to put your Timpaul hat on for you? Jump in the boat with me, come on, babe. Alrighty guys, Well that's our Sunday update, and hopefully if you ever have to bug out in the cold, you're gonna stay a lot warmer. Now, Kia is layers. I mean, when it comes down to it, try to avoid that cotton. Get some you know, start with something and you can always upgrade later. So just get something so you can layer out those layers appropriately and then you can always update later. Another big point that I always like to bring in is with the layering, that space in between, you can always stuff it with you know, newspaper, grasses. Or that's an old street trick. When you're out in the cold, you ain't got a lot of heavy stuff, Well you start shoving trash and newspaper and paper grass and you know the lungs they're dry. That's going to give you that layer that's going to help keep. You with that inlation layer that bounces exactly. Yeah, So be resourceful when all else fails. You don't kint to go out and spend a ton of money on gear. That's not not what this is about at all. The point is, you know, keep thinking outside the box, keep figuring out how you can solve your problem, how you can adapt and overcome and uh, you know, do the best you can with what you got without getting frostbite on your feet and stuff like that. That's the key, because that's you're not going to want to deal with that and that post collapses. And get water and take care of your kids and try and keep everybody calm. Yeah now, thank you. So no, that's why even when we moved to Texas, we have all of our winter gear stored. And I mean they keep talking about the next ice age If that's the case, so I'll forget it. I can't live with that by sunshine. Alrighty guys, Well, thank you so much for coming by and joining us today. Thank you, babe for filling in for Chin. That's what I'm here. It was a pleasure. Better watch out, Yeah, fair enough. Whatever. I would like having you on the show. Please go on over to Changing Earth Series dot com. Become a member. Help the Changing Earth go wrong, go go wrong. Yeah, I don't want to go on wrong go round. Really appreciate it if you guys do that. That's www. Dot Changing Earth Series dot com. When we all work together, we can make great things happen. All right, Until next time, Remember, Dream. Survive, Thrive. Thank you for joining Sarah and Chen for this episode of the Changing Earth Podcast. 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Anyway, Maria is going above and beyond what I was gonna do. So they are actually each one is going to have a tarp. Each one is going to have some kind of a blanket. Each one is going to have some way of boiling water and making a fire. Okay. Now, I did put a life straw in each one of the guy's boxes, so they'll be able to get water and maybe boil water. So I'm going to put fire making capabilities in there. I have a secret test for them. I put a bullet in one of their three boxes. And at the end this this is PBN Mom, I'm making a I'm making a recording. They swore that they would not listen to anyone. He's the skinniest. Give it to James. Oh my gosh, Maria says, these are five year old boys going out to play army. Yeah, exactly. Maybe maybe that's true. I'm not sure, but I'll tell you this. It's gonna be twenty two degrees and anywhere from three to eight inches of snow on the ground. Okay. This was Maria's idea to each put them a little flask so that they could have, like what is it an ounce or two ounces, a shot or two of whiskey. You don't want to drink whiskey in cold weather, but one shot or two shots, you know, it warms you up. But after that you lose your thermal. It doesn't hold the heat that Yeah, and there's game playing in the background. There we are. It's it's like Christmas in reverse. Okay, so we're we're putting these boxes together, three boxes, nine boxes total. Some things are positively useless. Some things you could make into something else. So that's that's the way it is. What can't you do with the screws and whensus it's shroops and a. Painting roller, a synthetic It wouldn't even be a good fire starter. Maybe you can hunt the mouses. Now that's that's where Maria comes in. She's been putting little snacks in the boxes and I was not going to put any food whatsoever in the boxes. Yeah, bread fresh. This is getting fun, This project is getting fun. So here's the hidden secret. Thing that I put in each one of the guy's boxes is a bullet. Now, they will not have any firearms on them, and this bullet probably won't be chamber to anything that they even own, but it is a bullet. And at the end, I'm going to say who has their bullet? Because a bullet, they all have a multi tool on them. They can pull the projectile out and with the gunpowder and primer, they could start a fire in the worst conditions. Okay, so that is what I want to see if someone said, hey, I'm going to keep that bullet just in case I need to start a fire that way. I'm also going to put some of my fire nuggets in there, which if you've listened to the PBA and are cotton balls cotton that comes out of pill bottles and soaked in paraffin, wrapped up in ten foil. It's kind of like Minie Sterno. And if they use that, they'll be able to definitely start a fire and probably boil some water before it goes completely to put. So this is the first daily audio cash. I'm sure I'm going to be recording more because I'm going over there tomorrow to place the boxes. They are going to travel. I think future Dan said a total of eight or nine kilometers to pick up each one of the boxes and then stay in a park. And the standard is if you get stopped by the police, you automatically fail. Should give them a pink backpack. Oh yeah, pink backpack. Oh. I am putting little bags in there that they can carry with them. I know, well, did I explain. The first part is they're going into a thrift store and they're each going to be armed with twenty five dollars. There's going to be a time limit they have to go into that store get everything they need. It's two hours, okay, two ounces, so they each get two shots. That's perfect, perfect, Okay, PBN family. Oh my gosh, I'm telling you this is going to be the exercise to end all exercises. You have heard them before doing stuff, but they have never done it in twenty two degree weather with what four to eight inches of snow. At least they'll have snow to melt. I can't kill but smiley, Okay, PBN family, Take care and stay tuned. Hello everyone out there on the Internet radio land, and welcome to Press with the Joneses, where each week we tackle the toughest questions in the prepper arena. I'm your host, Dave Jones, the NBC guy Nuclear Biological Chemical, and I want to be your personal weapon of mass instruction. I promise my listeners two things each week. First that they'll learn something new, and secondly, that they'll be entertained in the process. So here we go with show number for eleven eleven shows under my belt. Holy caw. You think by now i'd actually know what I'm doing, But apparently I don't because I have with me Dane from gun Metal Armory. He's got a Thursday night show here on Prepper Broadcast the network, and we're doing this show here together. Dan. Are you there? I am here. Can you hear me? Yeah? Here's you? Just fine? Hey? Can you tell my audience? And boy, do I got an audience? You look at that chat room? Oh you're yeah, you're bringing in some guests here. Hey, tell us a little bit about yourself and about your show. Okay, Well, I've actually been gunsmithing now for a couple of years, but I recently graduated from gunsmithing school in Prescott, Arizona at Yava By College. You know, I did the gunsmithing school and then I did the advanced training, and then I did some C and C training, which was really cool. When I was younger, I did martial arts for a really long time, Mutai kickboxing, uh, some different colleague knife fighting stuff. I'm a big fan of the kram. But as people that have listened to my show have heard, you know, things like that, I'm basically just a normal guy. You know, I'm I'm part of the security team at my church, and you know, other than that, I'm I'm a pretty normal guy. I've got a wife and a son and that's about it. Well, that's cool. And the stuff you cover on your show, Yeah. The stuff I cover on my show usually it involves gear, It involves gunsmithing, it involves tactical stuff. It could be movement, it could be gear items, it could be a vehicle, it could be all kinds of different stuff. And guns. Yeah, well of course gunsmith and stuff. Hey, and we're working on a project right now to get Dane. Now this is a little tease, okay, so it's still in the planning stages. Very basic, but to get Dane to do an AR fifteen build class, okay over the internet. It'll be very limited, small class. You sign up for the class, you get the toolkit that you'll need for the build class, and then you sign into the to the class. You'll get to see Dane do it, you know, step by step, and you'll have a chat room to be able to ask questions something like that. Did I get that right, Dane? Yeah, you got that right? Yep. We're in the we're in the planning stages at the moment. But once it's all said and done, you know, we'll get the information out there. Yeah, and he'll announce it on his show, and of course I'll plug it and then you know, we'll have it all over preper broadcasting. So stay tuned for that. I'm sure that's going to be a sellout. Hey. We got to cover a couple of things that I always do each week before we get into the meat of the the stew here the potatoes, meat and potatoes. So I always do news and some things that happened this week. Oh, well, you know the big news, right is the government shut down. Do you feel any different day? Uh? Yeah, man, I feel like my cheese isn't going to arrive in the mail like it usually does. But yeah, I've seen absolutely no impact in my life. And the longer the government shuts down, the more money we'll save, I'm sure. Yeah, but that was the big news. Hey. Did you know that I talked about last week when Hawaii sent out that missile warning by mistake that two days later Japan did the same thing. Oh yes, It's like everybody has their finger on this button. For this message to be sent out and everybody's like on edge. I don't know what caused that, but the one in Hawaii, they're still looking at their procedures and all that kind of crap. Sounds like they. The flu is in big swing all across the United States. It's so bad in California that they're not even letting you into the hospitals if you have the flu. They're setting up tents outside to keep flu people out of the hospitals and infecting the rest of the hospital. So the flu is running rampant through the United States. The death rate is not as big as normal years, but we're only halfway through the season right now. Let's see, money is no good in Venezuela anymore. That's interesting And yeah, there, this just came up this past week in the news day. Did you know that Sweden. Dust off a cold. War brochure pamphlet and they updated it and sent three point seven million of these out to their residents on how to prepare for war? Really, yeah, and that is really interesting. I know, the country that remained neutral all during World War Two is now telling their people get ready. You know, Russia's coming. It's about to get real. Huh, I guess I mean your stuff is is Sweden, the ones that like everybody there is militia. Everyone there is trained, yes, just like Israel. Yes. And that's part of the reason Nazi Germany did not go in there. They knew that they'd be fighting the whole population, so they didn't even try. And they're telling their people get ready. So that's interesting. Yeah. Wow, Hey, I always do a little funny story or joke. You know. I was an army instructor for over three years and before we taught a class, we always told a joke or something get everybody relaxed. So I have all these jokes stuck up in my head and they're divided up into categories. So this is dentist jokes. Okay, dentist jokes. So this lady goes into the dentist's office and she's in the chair and the dentist's doing the exam. He says, well, ma'am, you have a cavity and we're going to have to drill. She says, oh, oh my gosh, I hate that. That's the worst in the world. That is the worst. I just hate. I'd rather have a baby than do that. He says, well, let me know. Now I have to adjust the chair. Okay, okay. This lady goes to the dentist office and she starts taking off all her clothes, and the dentist says, lady, lady, I'm a dentist. She says, yeah, I know. She keeps taking off her clothes. He says, lady, lady, Oh my god, I am a dentist. She says, yeah, I know, and she keeps stripping. Finally, he says, lady, I am a dentist. She gets completely naked, gets up in the chair. He says, oh my god, I'm a dentist. Lady. She says, yeah, I know. I want these two pulled in. This one filled. Hey, this is great. I might have you on every Retard live soundtrack here. I yeah, oh yeah, a little naughty, but you know, you can fill in your your own blanks there. But yeah, he Zibeth there. She says, it's a little bit body. Uh, so I have to apologize up front. I think I am getting the flu, but my wife swung into action and she has me heavily medicated. So I'm either going to fall asleep during the show or right now. I got the jitters, So I think I have too much medication. I don't know what's going on. And uh, we're gonna we're gonna take a quick commercial break here in just a couple of minutes, because what we have to cover tonight is so much that we will not get through it all. Dane and I already know we're not going to get through it all. So the rest of the show will be filled in on Thursday night on Dane's show. And what time is that, Dane? That is seven o'clock Pacific and nine o'clock Eastern, I believe. Okay, So if you want to hear the second half of what we're going to give tonight, you got to tune in Thursday night. And this is basically what we're gonna do is travel to uh like a supply part, and then travel back. And it's all the considerations that you need to do to make that move safely, securely and effective. Okay, And we'll set up a little scenario to where you're traveling to. It's not going to be Walmart, okay, But but there's there is in my vicinity here, what is located on the topographical map a radio tower. And because last week we did scavenging and boy, I'll tell you, you gotta you gotta google that show. You gotta you gotta play that show because we picked that abandoned house. Lean we even took the copper pipes out of this house. Okay, there was nothing left in that house. But we're going to travel to this radio tower and back. You know, radio tower may have batteries in it, it might have a backup generator, might have some fuel, and we're going to go there with a group of people and then come back. So we're going to cover all this on the remainder of this show and Dane Show on Thursday night. Right now, we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come right back, we're going to jump right into it. Oh, it shouldn't be all about outdoor survival. I think prospering outdoors Spring Outdoors is more than just getting by prospering outdoors. It's about having the quality gear or supplies you want when you need it, from camping and hunting supplies to prepping and survival kits. You will find it all at prosperingoutdoors dot com. You don't have to search for that hard to find item. With over thirty five categories to choose from. Prospering Outdoors has it or We'll find it. Save time and money. Surprise yourself with lower prices on quality brand names at Prospering Outdoors. 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Okay, annimals So yeah, so here. I forgot to mention that our good friend Alan Riggs is in the chat room right now. He's the. G G mag charger guy in the chat room. He offers a fifteen percent discount right now on your entire order at greenovated dot com if you haven't got your charger. I mean, this is an amazing piece of prepper genius. You put salt water in this charger and it recharges your batteries. You don't need sun, you don't need you know, it can charge at any weather. Alan likes to say that if you're alive, you can have electric power because all you got to do is pee in this thing and it will charge up your batteries. So there you go. Fifteen thanks Alan. Okay, let's get started on the meat. So you are inside your personal green zone and you have your group and you're you're assembled, and you want to go to this radio tower and you want to check it out and bring back you want to scavenge it and bring back all the crap that you could possibly need. Now you have been in your green zone for months. You know your group is developed and you're ready to go on an excursion. Now, this shouldn't be the first time you've set foot outside your area. So you guys pretty much know the drill on how you move and what you move. So this is a specific mission that you're going to go on. So you want to cover all the aspects of the mission and brief everybody up on their positions, on their duties, what each person's going to do at their location, what each person's going to do on their way back, and everybody needs to know everybody else's job. And like I said in the movement class, the smallest group you should ever move with is two people because if one person gets hurt, at least the other person can help them. Okay. If yeah, if you're doing this solo, wow, you're really out there. I mean your butt is in the wind. Yeah. So let's talk about some of the things that you want to do in prepping up for your trip. Okay, you want to do a thorough map recon so you're looking at all the terrain, all the features like water, Okay, and you'd want to set up checkpoints. Okay. Now, checkpoints are the places that you will cross on your trip too, and your trip back. And a checkpoint is something that you call in uh back to your green zone, okay, to let them know that you've made it this far and they can plot you on the map. Okay, So you'd want you want several copies of this map. Okay. You're not going to take just one copy with you, and you're not going to leave just one copy back at the headquarters. You're going to have several copies so they'll be able to follow your progression along the way. If something would happen and they you know, they lose radio contact or whatever, at least they know where you reported in the last So that's the important of a checkpoint and a rally point are places that you're going to stop. I mean, you'll stop along the way, people will get their bearings, they'll you know, pick asthmas, shoot a better asthmath, things like that. But these are actually plan stops okay. And it might be at a source of water okay. So this is a difference between rally points and checkpoints. And of course you want to rally point close to your destination, but not right on your destination, close enough that you could observe this radio tower and make sure there's no one there right right, and then plan out how you're going to go into the radio tower and take the stuff that you need, and you'd want to do you know, security for that all along the way. It makes sense. Yeah, you mightn't want to do what they call a sand table, and a sand table is like a model. Okay, so you set up a model. This is inside your green zone. This is all part of your preparation. You set up a model of what the radio tower looks like. You know, if someone has been there, they have good intelligence about it, but if they haven't, you would set it up the way it looks on the map, elevation and everything, and then tell each person what they're going to do when they get to the radio tower. You know, work it out that way. Visually, you want to start putting together a packing list. So this is all the things that you need to pack and take with you. And when I talk about my movement class, I talked about you know, if you have a drone, drone, how about that? Oh yeah, this would be a great way to look ahead and get information before you step into something. Rally points, campsites, camp you gotta you gotta put together, you know, at one of your rally points, if it's far enough away that you know you're going to spend the night, you'd want to put that in there. Uh, any kind of danger areas that you would cross. And when you're looking at the terrain, think about the people that you're going to take with you, because you want to choose your team wisely grass Aba, very wise, because you don't want to take someone that you're going to end up having to carry back. I have a question, sure, okay, you you as symbole a team to take with you on this, on this uh movement, this project to go scavenge at this radio tower, should you you know, being that you're going to check in with your age Q or your green zone the entire way, should you put a back up team in place to come after you guys if you don't report in or just one or two people. That is that dumb? Or is that smart? Because you're the military guy here. No, that that is definitely smart. You need some kind of a quick reaction force. Okay, yeah, you would designate before you leave, these guys will come if we need help, and those guys will be you know they'll be stripped down, they'll be able to move quick and light, and they'll be able to come and help if you need help. And you know, like a rescue team or a quick response team. That also leads me into running passwords. You want to set up with your perimeter a running password that if they hear this password and someone running to the perimeter, you don't light them up. Okay, okay, okay, so that. You can get back through the perimeter really quick without getting shot. And it's for emergencies, so you know that means something really went wrong, we had to run back to our green zone for help, and that that's what the running password is. Yeah, so we're formulating our group. That's excellent, questioned Dane. Something I wouldn't to coverage. It's not in my notes, but yeah, you would want to have a quick response team, two or three guys, just enough to help you out of a jam. Maybe leave them with a vehicle so they can get you even faster. Oh. Absolutely, Yeah. I haven't talked much about vehicles because you know, I'm all about EMP and vehicles aren't running. But you could have a vehicle, you know, you could have a mini bike or you know, a four wheeler or or in my case, my diesel tractor. Sure that you could get there quicker and pull something out of there quick and back. Yeah. What about practice movements and stuff like that? Excellent. Yes, you want to practice everything that you're doing, your formation, your spacing, your jobs. You want to practice all that inside your green zone. Okay, it's kind of like a rehearsal and you rehearse everybody's position before you get outside your perimeter, work out any kinks or any bugs, and you know, once you get all your supplies the ship that you're going to take with you, and you get it on your gear, jump up and down. See if it rattles, See if it shakes, Get that duct tape yet battle rattle, take it and tape it down so that you and if it's loose and it's flopping, it's going to get caught on every branch, every twig you know, on the way there. So you want to tape all this down. You want to be able to jump up and down as silently as possible. Yes, that makes sense. Yeah, are you going to talk to us about the team that you're for me? Well, first, I'm actually going to start off with talking about fitness. You know, fitness is important for that team. It's it's super important, especially in a grid down situation. It's got to be maintained and it's got to be worked on as often as possible. You know. I mean, you don't have to look like the terminator or anything, but you you know, you should be able to walk around town or your HQ or your green zone without huffing and puffing. And if you can't do that, you really shouldn't be on the scavenging team. The scavenging team, or if you're a star trek fan, might's called the away team. Amen. Amen to that. You don't want to be part of the problem. You want to be part of the solution. Yeah, exactly. And if anyone in the group has you know, or in your group, not the team, but in your group, if anyone has physical limitations and involve you know, motor skills like running or jumping or walking, numbness, nerve damage, anything like that, then they probably shouldn't be on this type of team. Doesn't mean they're useless, it just means that they shouldn't be on this type of team. You know, you need women and men that are in relatively good shape. And I say women and men, because there are some women out there that can easily hold their own with men. Absolutely, there's plenty of women can kick my ass. Same here man. So you know, you need people who can see here, communicate, although speech is not completely necessary, but the rest is, if possible, Above most other attributes. You need team members who can think clearly when the crap is hitting the fan. You need people who understand that kind of stuff. So what I would do is I would look for the you know, the previous mentioned attributes that I just talked about, but I would look to specifically bring and let me know if you agree with this, I would look to specifically bring a medic, a navigator, or a point man type person. Yes, what about a hunter slash tracker type person? Absolutely okay? And at least two trained soldiers yeah okay. And I mean if it depends on the size of your group, you know, and maybe these specific skills lie with one person, you know, like you have a medic and a point man, although that would be kind of bad. You also want to rotate those jobs because, like I said, point man, it's the toughest. Yeah, they're breaking the trail, they're they're the first one. They're in maximum sentury input okay, So they're constantly looking, they're constantly scanning, so they're focused. Is always always ahead and out, and you want to break that up because it's it's physically and mentally exhausting. How often how often would you break them up? Well, it depends upon the terrain and and the people you know that you have. I mean, if you put your strongest and best up there first, you know, okay, and then when whenever they get too tired or you see that they're tired, you know, it's not a time to be rambo. If you're tired, say a man, rotate me out, you know. Yeah, it's I mean, it's the safety of the whole group. And if you're not that you're one hundred percent, then then the group isn't at one hundred percent. So rotate them out. Absolutely, I agree, although your opinion on this being a military man is absolutely imperative. So I was thinking about next go going into what every team members should bring with them. Is that sound good? Yes? Okay, And there's some things that everybody should have as a rule of thumb, like ammunition okay. Yeah, yeah, Unfortunately, and then. There's some things that are specific, like the medic will handle, you know, the more advanced first aid. Everybody should have some kind of first aid you know, cutkit on them, like an I fact, yeah, exactly, and then the medic would have the bigger things, maybe IV bag if you have that kind of capabilities you know in your medics and the EMT or something like that. Yeah, like a stompbag or a squad kit. Absolutely. So yeah, Okay, well, I mean, like like you were saying, it would be the basics, but everyone on the team should bring the absolute basics with along with defensive measures in case you come under attack. This includes a way to make fire, like a big light or a faral rod with a mag bar on it, a shelter of some sort like a poncho jungle hammock with a tarp. You should bring a metal canteam with a steel cup, you know, for purifying water over the fire, cooky simple tea, and bully youon cubes, things like that. You should bring some high calorie energy bars or mrs, enough for the trip there and back, maybe a few extra mrs in case you get stuck longer than you anticipated. Maybe a fixed blade like a more companion, probably a side arm with at least three mags, and failing that, a main battle rifle with at least five twenty to thirty round mags of course, including the one in your gun, you know, and your rifles and your pistols should be the same throughout the entire team, if you can pull that off. Ammunition compatibility and mag compatibility, Yeah, you agree with that absolutely. You want to be able to interchange. I taught the movement class for this one group, and not any one of them had the same weapon, I know, And I showed them the obvious you know, fallacy and what they were thinking that some guys had three hundred black, some guys had seven point six two one guy, you know, A couple guys had five point five six and at least they had the same ample. I don't think their magazines were the same, so they'd have to actually break it out of the magazine to put it in their magazine to continue to fire exactly. So I mean, yeah, I mean, you know, your team should run the same guns, but failing that, you should at least run the same mags. Like if you have an Air fifteen and it's of ore, you know, you can still run the same mags. But failing that all of that, you should at least be running the same calibers. Do you agree with that? Absolutely, at the minimum, same calibers. Yeah. And the Jones plan here at the Jones household nine millimeter and seven point six two. Seven point six two what by fifty one by thirty nine three eighths three eighty all right, it's the. Standard for the US Army and you know a lot of armies around the world. Nine millimeters standard, you know, worldwide. You could rob a NATO guy and get nine yep. Yep. That's a great caliber to have, especially for for a grid down situation. Yep. Any any NATO caliber, Oh yeah. And then the I had the AR platform for you know parts, it's just seven point six two because I like to reach out and touch someone. And in the nine milimeter I have the the the M nine you know, the the M they're breader. Yeah, and I have I have two of those, one for me, one for my wife. Interchangeable parts, interchangeable. Magazines, two is one, one is none exactly yep, yep. So as far as clothing goes, my thoughts were to wear something like BDU's or maybe cargo pants, and maybe if you can do this a simple like molly battle belt like the HSGI what do they call that thing, the sugrit battle belt. Some people like to go with like the big mally vest. But if you want to move quietly and quickly, you just go with a battle belt and put your mag patches around that, and maybe a bigger backpack. But we'll talk about the whole backpack thing in a little bit here. And of course you know something like an ifac on there you are. With absolutely dang, you've done this before. No, but it is great you have got this out and and Camo up. I have this in a bold am I and I think Camo up you. You want camo everywhere, face, hands, where You're going to be wearing gloves, you know, because everything wants to stick you out in the woods, so you want to wear gloves, and you want to be grumbled up as you can be. I tell people it's like turkey hunting. You want to be like that so that if you drop down in the in the bushy or in the grass, they might be able to say, huh's something there, But I can tell what it is. I can't I can't make it out. Yeah, makes sense, And that actually brings me to the next thing that we were going to talk about. The backpack. You should you should try to bring a large pack if you can, otherwise you won't be able to bring back all that much. If not that, then maybe bring up like a roll up duffel bag, maybe some dump pouches on the back of your belt, or even a couple of large cinchbags. I'm sure everyone's seeing those cinchbags these days. But each team members should carry no more than twenty to twenty five pounds of gear, including everything that they have. And keep in mind that some of that's going to strip away while you're eating and drinking, and you know, certain things that you don't you end up using along the way. So you know, but would you say twenty twenty five pounds does that sound about right? Oh? Yeah? Now, the practice inside your green zone, you put all shit on and you walk around and you see if it rattles, and you see where it falls. You know, if you can't get to your weapon, that's a bad place for it. And you can't possibly carry enough water, so you have to have some kind of water filtration or a way to get water on your way, So you start with a full canteen or two, you know, depending and then you got to get it along the way. And Dutchman came in the chat room. I'm keeping an eye on it, trying to answer questions as we go. So you want to carry some parachute cord so if nothing else, you can tie whatever it is on your back to carry it back. Well that's a good plan. Yeah, And you know, like you said, the Duffel bag and all that. So because what you're scavenging, you want to be able to bring back or stage. If it's too big to carry back all at one time, stage it somewhere, bury it, you know, mark it on the map, go back with what you got and plan another trip. I agree one hundred percent. The next thing I actually I was looking at is what each individual team member should carry. But the first thing I wanted to mention was if you can't get under the twenty to twenty five pounds limit, then strip away your handgun. You need your rifle, you don't technically need your handgun. Would you agree with that? Well, yeah, because that's gonna that's going to free up not your hang out. The extra ammo that you would take. If your hand is a day caliber, then your your primary weapon. So you know you freed up a lot of weight by doing that. Yep. Okay, So the things that I put and and after I read the different things, each team member should should go with. I want I want your opinion on it. Okay. So the first thing, one team member needs to bring a set of bolt cutters, a small priye bar and a good leathermintol with built in wirecutters. That's the first. Guy, absolutely, you see, because you're going to assume there's a fence around this thing with a lock, and you're going to assume the door is also locked. And if you get that all you have is a rock. You're not going to be able to do much. Now we have to go back. The next one. One team members should probably bring some extra water in a camel backpack like one of those one H camel backpacks, and some extra water purification tablets or water filtration gear. Absolutely, but everybody should have their their filter straw. Oh, I mean everybody. Hey, and since we're talking, well, keep going. Keep going. Okay, great Dane, I don't have too much to have you on. My show more often. I also went with one or two team members should carry a bit of extra ammo for the team's rifles, at least two extra mags per person, and some camo netting for the staging you talked about, So they if they have to cover up that item or the stuff that you bring, they can cover it up with camo netting. Yes, I mean if it's if it's not going to put you over your weight limit. But let's talk about that extra ammo. That's something that the military does all the time, you know, because that ammo is heavy, and I'm talking about your bigger weapons, your seven point sicks two the ones that are going to be placed out for security on your left and right flank. Those that guy can't carry all the ammo he may need. Okay, so you want to sorry, you want to spread down amongst your group. Yeah, oh yeah, that's a good point. That's a very good point. Spread out that extra ammo among your group. That's a good point. Yeah. Okay, So the other one I got two more the point man in the medic The point man I said should be as light as possible and have maps and at least two compasses on him. Do you agree with that? Oh? You gotta listen. If everybody don't have a compass, there's something wrong you have that. I mean, if you got cut off for your group, right, Bob, don't where he's going again? God forbid? You know you move? It's dark. They left someone he's cut off. Does he go forward or does he go back? Lost again? I would say go back, because it's easier finding your home base that it is to find the rest of the guys somewhere in the woods. So yeah, okay. And the last one I had was the medic. The medics should carry the squad kit and a couple extra tourniquets on top of his the other year that he's going to be carrying anyway. Oh my god. Yes, and a tourniquet. These new rubber tourniquets. They everybody should have one of them. Swat tea exactly. If something would happen, you'd want to be able to put a tourniquet on yourself before you know the medic even showed up. You've got to be able to render first aid to yourself quickly. It's the number one thing that kept our military why we had so many casualties and not so many deaths in this last war they got. The military went so far as to try and build tourniquets into the uniforms themselves so that you could just pull it. Yeah, just pull it tight. I mean it was experimental. I don't think it ever went forward. But think about that. If you had a trinket on your legs, on each leg and on your arms, and if you got hit, you just yanked that sucker as hard as you could and you'd stop the bleeding. Now, I remember reading about an electronic system they were working with too that was going to monitor blood pressure and automatically kick in a tourniquet like a blood pressure cuff if the blood pressure dropped too low, and tourniquet off wherever it was bleeding. Yeah, isn't that interesting? That was in that combat suit. Yeah, that was in suit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this was they were they were going to actually incorporate it into like the BDUs m H. You know, right at your phemeral and right at your uh what is it? Break you? Break you? Yeah? Break you? Or I think it's your neck, that's your bicys right, oh. Yeah, break you? Yeah yeah, I was thinking of Subclavian never. Oh yeah, yeah, Subclavian. So when do you When do we need to take our next break? Boss, Well, we're coming up on it right now, So we're going to take a commercial break, and when we come back, we're going to talk a whole bunch more about a whole bunch of stuff. Formassions. Do not buy emergency food until you compare Legacy Food Storage. You already know you need an emergency food supply. Legacy wants to ensure that you get higher quality, longer shelf life, better tasting, non gmo freeze drived food, and Legacy gives you up to double food for your money. 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On sale now find Preppers Survival Navigation on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Prepper Broadcasting, or wherever fine books are sold. Okay, we're back, geez. We are covering so much stuff and we have got a lot to do yet, so don't forget. Part two is on Dane's show and we are not even halfway through here. I might need to be a part three, four and five. Well, you know, some of the stuff, some of the stuff we've already covered a tactical movement, but it doesn't hurt the review. Like these formations that you are talking about, right, you know, in my tactical movement class, I cover two formations basically because they're the simplest and they're the ones most used. Which is the file formation, which is a simple line and the V formation, which is the upside down V. And you just moved through a wedge you know, a wedge space, and each one you have to spread out, you know, five ten meters depending on the terrain. If it's thick terrain, you close it up. If it's wide open, you spread it out. And basically, so that's everybody don't get shot with one. Bullet, you know, it's it's it's it's funny you mentioned the wedge formation, because that's the one that I picked, you know, for for our movement too, is the wedge formation and possibly either the line of the column formation and maybe even falling back to the diamond, depending on you know, with what's going on. Yeah, Now, the diamond formation is like two v's put together, and it's for maximum security, right it is. It is very difficult to pull off, well because you think about those guys in the bottom part of the V. They're looking backwards and moving forwards. Oh yeah, so it's it's hard. I mean, it's it's maximum security. If you think there's people moving around you, you would want to form the diamond. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Now when we're considering you know how we're going to move and in what formation do we or do we not? Need to consider the met TC principles absolutely, which you're you're the military man. What does met TC stand for? Uh? Mission time? Uh? Oh man, you're you're really taxing my memory here. Now mission what do we got? We got mission time? Terrain right, enemy enemy enemy uh, troops available and civilian considerations right, yes, so all those things have to be considered right, absolutely. And this is part of your planning process. So in your planning process, you you will consider all of this stuff. I mean, you look at the terrain, you look at the type of mission that you're you're going to do, which is you know, scavenge, supply run, and you look at all these considerations for your planning purpose. Hey, and you were talking about a tracker. Yeah, and that is very very important. Someone that has hunted or no signs. Okay, you can't move through a wooded area and not leave some kind of sign. So as your group goes through, you are going to break leaves, leave footprints. God forbid, you'd leave any trash, but you might drop something by accident. And this all tells someone else that's coming behind you that there's people up ahead, and if you get a really good tracker, they'll tell you how many. People oh yeah, easily. Yeah. They can look at the size of the wedge and tell you about how many people made this. And if you have that kind of guy, he's not going to let you get in trouble. He can how much weight they're carrying all that stuff exactly. He can tell you if if you run across signs of people traveling, you know, you may not be the first person to know about this radio station tower, and someone may have already been there ahead of you, or may still be there using it for shelter. So that person is very important, someone that has hunted and can look for signs. So I have a thing here. And now I've been taught that the wedge formation is best used when you're going into something unknown, but that you should keep your team members no less than ten meters apart. Is that true or have you been taught differently? Well, no, no, that's the one that you use most for movement. And now the distance between your team will depend upon terrain, you know, and formach and stuff like that. So you spread out if it's more open, and you contract if it's more you know, brush if you can't see the guy, and God forbid, don't unless you're very very good, don't do this at night. Oh that makes sense. Now, no matter what formation you choose, you should probably stay within sight or at least hearing distance of each other because you know some of your men may not be trained soldiers, and you know you don't want the whole blue on blue thing, right. No, definitely not, and you don't want to get out of sight of each other. Okay, Okay, that's why I say, unless you're very very good, don't now at night? Would you go with one lead element or multiple lead elements? No? You know, I mean there's sometimes you know, you've you've seen some formations where there's two lead elements, you know, right, Would you go with just one of the wedges? Won? Right? Right? And that's when you have a lot of people, okay, assuming so that first lead element would naturally go across any booby traps or come in contact first, and the second lead element would come around and bail them out. So that's the reason behind that. I'm assuming no one in this, you know, in listening, has so many people in their group that they could form something. Like this that's a good point. And actually we just got a really good question in the chat room. You see that from Migra there, how to how do you overnight in a position same formation? You're the military guy. Tell us that that's great, and I was going to cover this. I just didn't know when we get to it. So, as you're moving along your path, your trail, and you know Murphy's law, it took you twice as long to get to that point as you had planned, what you want to do is what they call a button hook. Okay, So you want to turn left or turn right depending on the train, move about one hundred meters and then go back along the path that you you came from. So you do a button hook. And what this does, if anybody is following you, they're following your trail, they will follow right past you, okay, and you will get some warning and you'll be able to haul ass or light them up, or you know, get out of there. And then when you stop, when you do that button hook thing and you stop, you set up security three hundred and sixty degrees. Okay, You make a little bubble, and then you know you might you might have you can't have everybody stay up all night, So fifty security or maybe two, you know, depending upon your group, how how big your group is, maybe just two guys, two guys saved. Yeah, two guys stay up and they look and listen for anybody following, because it would be a natural thing that if you come across someone has broke fresh trail, you follow where they're going. What they're doing. Now with the two guys that are going to be awakened listening, how far away from the camp would those two guys be sitting, you know, waiting and listening from where you guys are bedded down. Well, so they're not really away from the camp. They are part of the perimeter. So as you make that circle, you put the guys that's closest to your trail. Okay, those are the guys that are going to stay up and listen first, and you might rotate other guys into that positionion. So you're about, you know, one hundred yards away from your trail, and one hundred yard might seem like a lot in the woods, but you will be able to hear if anybody's following you, Yes, and if they're using flashlights or something like that, you'll be a fee. The way to go a good light discipline exactly. Maybe we should talk about that you only have flashlights with you as an absolute emergency. Okay, hopefully you're doing this move. First of all, it's going to be daylight. Secondly, if you get caught out after dark and you have to spend the night, if you don't have a moon, you don't have hope. Okay, that's just sit down and wait till dawn. You know. Just another thing that I was you know that I've been told is to when you're moving in a post apocalyptic world. Not that a lot of people have done this, but you have to treat your surroundings like you're moving behind enemy lines because in that world you kind of a are no matter where you're at, unless you're in your green's absolute Would you agree? Part of my assumptions, it's part of my four basic Two of my four basic assumptions are first of all, that everybody has more firepower than you. Secondly, everybody wants whatever you have. So so those two assumptions right there will let you know, Hey, I A should never be seen or B if I am seen, get out, get get away as fast as possible. That makes sense, hey, and night vision. Absolutely, if you have night vision, you would definitely want to give those guys. The guys stand up the night vision yep, there and mention that, yes, and and you rotate those guys. And the reason you have two is in case one guy should accidentally fall asleep, so rotate guys out. No more than two hours on a shift at least everybody can get four hours a shut eye. And you would be azed at how much four hours it would do for you, especially when you're high on a drug. Oh yeah, four I know. I know emergency room physicians that only do four hours a night. Yeah, you know, so that it makes a lot of sense. Now, there's something that we talked about before. I don't know how much time we have left, what maybe five minutes, a few minutes. How how much lot do we have left? Yeah, about five minutes? Okay. So the one thing that we need to talk about too is how you travel. Uh, each leg of the journey is probably going to depend on the sides of the group. You know, A larger element may require a few vehicles, you know, and the vehicles bring bring advantages with them, but they also bring disadvantages. Would you agree with that? Yes, vehicles, even third world countries, countries are at war, vehicles automatically draw fire. Yes they do. So if it's the fastest and only thing that's moving, uh, people are gonna shoot at it. So you don't want everybody in the vehicle. You would want some people if you only got one vehicle, you'd want some people trailing the vehicle. Okay, And maybe you're taking the vehicle because whatever it is you want to bring back needs to fit in the vehicle. True that. So yeah, so you know they come with their own set of problems and solutions. Yeah. I mean, you can carry a lot more stuff, you know, but you're louder. Right, absolutely, especially my diesel tractor. Yeah, And I mean you've you've got more survival gear and a larger group that can keep you more secure versus vehicular maintenance and gasoline considerations and so on and so forth. Yes, okay, so those are things that we would definitely have to keep in mind as far as a vehicular transport would probably go. You would you agree with that absolutely? And we got the three minute warning from g Man. Okay, so what do you want to end with here? What do you think? Well, we did not get exactly to our spot. But we got pretty much through. Our first night. Yeah, the first night, and remember that if you have to spend the night, you want to get up before dawn, get everything packed, and as soon as there's enough light that you can see to move, move. I agree on Yeah. So two minute warning from g Man. You know what, this has been great and this hour has flown by Dane. It sure has. Man, this has been so fun. Yeah, you've got to do more of this now. Everybody that's listening, you gotta tune in Thursday night at. What seven o'clock Pacific or nine o'clock Eastern? Okay, so you can pick up. We're gonna pick up right where we left off, and I have it in my notes right here, so we're not gonna miss a thing. You will not miss a thing, and I'm sure that will probably come up with things that we missed during this hour, so you'd definitely likely June in next week. There, g Man put it in the chat room. Hey, and don't forget to check out grenovative dot com. My good buddy Alan Riggs invented this device that recharges rechargeable batteries from salt water, and he's given you a fifteen percent discount. The discount is called Jones fifteen. Okay, it's it's a must have. Future shows I got coming up some great shows. Dang, I didn't even talk about those. Got I scored a interview with a three time best selling author, Tim mcwelch, and you're gonna hear that. Next weekend, we're gonna have RSDL Rebecca Fish. He's the vice president for sales and marketing for Emergent Biotechnology. She's gonna be on. And I have a future show with disaster preparedness expert Eve Gonzales. She has been to every disaster on the planet for the past ten years. Okay, and she will tell you what you need to know. Coming up, I got the North American sales rep from bio Light. This is an actual camp stove that generates electricity. It's pretty amazing. And he's got a special deal for everybody too. Okay. Thanks everybody, tune in Thursday night for part two. We'll see you, Dane. Thanks for coming on. You're welcome. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, and archive programs and more at prepper Broadcasting dot com. Thanks for listening. Urban survival simulation. This is. Gosam. Yeah, PBN Family got them. Get up, intrepid commander hidden in a little marsh off the off the back of a shopping center. You know. Spending this little bit of time in the dark of night in the suburbs has a largely, largely largely made me aware of something I already knew, and that was the fact that nobody's paying attention to shit anymore. I thought the cash was under overwatch because we had been here earlier. But the truth of the matter was it was just some dude in his truck staring at his phone. Would you be surprised to find that out? No, So what I want to do now is I want to go through what's in this cash. I've been collecting stuff lots. I got a whole onion. I'll eat that thing. Truth of the matter is PBN Family, as beautiful as this cash is, I ain't even remotely hungry. I got some delicious sliced what are these called toastadas? No, God, I used to make these in the restaurant industry all the time. Toasted slice bread basically, you know, crosstata. I got a milky Way Are you kidding me? A milky Way? And then I got an enormous bag. Oh my god, there's so much stuff in these cashes. Holy shit. I had no clue there was so much stuff in them. What am I gonna do with all this stuff? Is this what I think it is? There's no way. There is absolutely no way. There is no way. Okay, I didn't think so. Uh, Dave got a Dave's got a giant coffee can in here. He's messing with me. It's not coffee, it's other things. Oh, there's all kinds of shit in here. Oh my god. Window and door replacement hardware. Alright, this gigantic bag is beautiful. And the good news is I'm at a donation site, so anything I don't need I can take right over to the donation box and do away with it. I found some cool stuff on the way, though I'm almost remiss to part with it. I found a license plate. I found some good wood. Okay, what have we got here? Goof off heavy duty remover? Is this flammable? I don't know. I don't know if this stuff flammable or not. Let's see highly flammable yes or no caution fire? What does that? I can't really see? So good? Okay, probably not something I want to do. I just blew up my light discipline too right there? Oh, no way, no way. They packed a life straw in here. Does this thing work? Oh my god, that's almost too easy. That must have been from Maria. Know. So we got in here, so we got Oh, we got a lot of quarters. Are there. This back of it? Because well this is sort of like window replacement stuff? Got a glass bottle in here? Paint brush? What we got here? A multi tool holder? I did not expect these to be so packed. Tether? What is? They can't tell? What tell? That is? I have to make a pile here of things that I definitely don't need. Things are to take further. Inspection on this pillow? Is southing in this bag is so nice? It looks exactly like a pillow and warmers. Really they can't they can't be real. Well, what's this little wire? I'm gonna keep this little wire just for me. I guess you can never have enough tape? Right? What does this thing do? They've got tape? We got what is this single? So? Oh it's a bike brake system. They really did it good, man, he really did it good. He did a great job. Wow, aquaspectemp guard, metal trim letter etching. Okay, I don't. Know that's metal. That's metal, man, Metal is. Something, all right? Listen, PBM family. This thing is so full of stuff it's unreal. The truth of the matter is, there are some things in here that I really want really bad, and there are some things in here that I'm not interested in having. It's an ace bandage, no, So what I'm gonna do, Well, let me talk to you a little bit about what I'm keeping, because that probably use a value, right, I'm looking for cordage. What I have in mind here is pretty straightforward. Anything to make fire, anything to to make shelter easier. Okay, that's really where my head is right now. If I can make shelter with it, if I can make fire with it, I'm happy. Truth of the matter is, in all that we've been doing, in all that we've been doing thus far, it's been beautiful out. The walking, the hiking and all that is hardly warm me out, not even close. Actually, we've got a Brillo pad here, and I have to imagine that the reason we have a Brillo pad is because somebody's gonna get a nine volt battery. This is actually a steel wool, so I don't know. I've never done that before. Pine. Oh, God, Dave Jones, you are something pine wood Derby wheels and axes. Now are these wood or are these plastic? Though that I don't know. Contains four racing wheels and axles. I imagine pine would Uh they look plastic. Actually, it's a cool container. Though I'm in the dark, so it's really hard for me to see what I'm doing here, trying to stay out of the out of everybody's view. You know, this TH's too nice, this little back batness bag. I can I don't know if I have room to fit it in my backpack though. Alright, I've gotta go through these things, okay, I uh, I will see you guys soon. Cash one has been found. I have not yet been found. It's a gift and I'm going to be moving on suit to cash too, all right, got them, get out, baby, I hope you're having fun. See you. A Pepper Broadcasting network. We have to hit the reset. But to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age, and filtering all. The way up. M hmm. Hello everyone, and welcome to the Next Generation Show, where we delve deeper into the little things in life. 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We appreciate the support and we hope that we're bringing you some good content here on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. So today we're gonna be talking about building a bug out vehicle from scratch, and I think you know a lot of people, I think when I wrote the show description for today's show, I pretty much said that, hey, you know, bug out vehicles are sexy. I mean, they just are the whole idea of having your own separate vehicle that can go anywhere, do anything start every time, you know, and always and always be there and or fail right. And I think anybody who's even sat behind a car, either where you were driving by or where you were, I mean, you kind of know what it means to be that guy. And what I mean by this that guy when you're driving down the road and you look out and you see the guy with his hood up, head in and passengers frustrated and uncomfortable either in the car or out of the car, you know, and you kind of drive by and say, yeah, it sucks to be that guy. Well, I think all of us, the majority of us as adults, have a that guy story, and I've had several of them. Probably the most recent one was when I was heading I was heading to Missoula, Montana for a Fourth of July weekend, and in order to get to Missoula, Montana, it required that I go over two different passes, a Fourth of July Pass which is kind of ironic, and Lookout Pass, which is on the border of the Idaho Montana line. And we were going up. We were in my car, which is a four door passenger Sedan, and we had the air conditioning on middle of summer, beautiful day couldn't ask for more going uphill, and there was a line of there was construction that they were doing on the road, and they had narrowed the lanes down to one lane both directions up and down this pass. And then all of a sudden, I start seeing a light flicker, like a check engine light, and my radiator light comes on and it goes from orange to red. And then next thing I know, I'm starting to to pull over because you know, I mean, I have no options at this point. I shut off the air conditioner. I'm trying to baby it as much as i can, just so I don't blow it up. And I opened the hood and it's just steaming out the hood and I'm like, oh great, now what so here we are? And this this particular holiday, I think Colin was out camping, and so it was just me and my spouse at the time, and we had taken our dogs. Well, I had a gallon of water in the back, so I went ahead and put the water into the reservoir, hoping that it would help to try and because and because I was losing coolant out of somewhere, and I knew that at least if I got water and there would help. So I go and I'm like, okay. I turned the car back on, and it seemed the light goes off, and I'm like, okay, I think we might have made it go up a little bit farther. And it happens again, and I just happened to catch a pull out and when the light goes on, and I was like, nope, I can't. I can't make it any farther. And there's just a line of cars behind me and a line of cars in front of me, and this is my only opportunity to pull over. So I pulled over, and come to find out, this particular vehicle had issues with the coolant reservoir tank blowing up basically, and it under high pressure, it formed a crack and blew out all the coolant. Well, here we are in the middle of summer on top of a mountain pass, and if I met I don't know if I mentioned this, but I was actually going up the pass and the vehicle began overheating. So I was pretty much stranded. There was nothing I could do because one of the things that I had read about it is if this vehicle starts to overheat, you have to pull over immediately. Or it'll blow up basically internally, it'll pretty much destroy itself. So I pull over and you know, here we are, me and myse and our dogs at the side of the road. And we had some preps on hand, you know, because we were planning to go on a vacation. You know, we had a little bit of food, and we had, you know, all the clothes that we needed, you know, a couple of dog beds, and eventually I had I mean, there was nothing I could do that I had no tools that could fix it, so we had to call for a tow truck. And here we are on the side of the road on a holiday weekend, waiting for a toe that was going to be at least two to three hours out. And mind you, there was one lane of traffic in either direction that he was going to have to fight through, plus try and find me on the side of the road. So it started, I mean, and then we're in the middle of the summer, so it's hot out and I started to realize that we're quickly running out of water and shade. And part of the reason we ran out of the water was because I dumped the gallon of water that I had as a spare into my cooling team, my my coolant reservoir, so my backup water had been depleted, and I'm on the mountaintop with no source for water nearby and no way to get my car anywhere. So I'm pretty much just a stranded there until the tow truck showed up to save us. Right, So eventually tow truck comes up save us. An hour or two later, Uh you know, the dogs are just dying in the heat, and uh you know, about two thousand dollars later, I realized that I just paid for an education that I obviously didn't get right in the first place, because I left myself stranded and my family stranded in a situation that we should have never been in the first place, And a big part of that was because I was unable to take care of the problem myself. So this is my that guy story, and I'm sure most of you out there have one. In my situation, my car was actually too new. It was too compact. Everything was so tight inside the motor that I couldn't hardly even reach anything even if I had the tools to work on it. It was too low to the ground, so I could hardly even see what was going on? But hey, it looked nice from the street, right, you know, it's a little bit of eye candy. But the epic fail or, I guess that it kind of was, you know, an epic fail, as Colin might say. And I think it's fair to say that on more than one occasion I've been stranded as a result of a motor vehicle failure. And some of you might be wondering, you know, what does this have to do with prepping? Is this an auto show or is this prepping? You know, what are we actually on about? Well, I thought we were talking about bug out vehicles. Well, actually all of these thring three things are tied in together. And on today's show, Colin and I are going to be revealing a new long term project that we're going to be taking on, which is to build a bulletproof bug out vehicle, you know, metaphorically speaking, that can be as virtual and hardy as pop possible, and that we can fix and take care of and understand inside and out, in addition to all the reasons for doing so, so that we don't have to be that guy next time around. But first, before we get into the uh firing up the engines. On this show, Colin, would you like to share your fun fact of the week? Yo yo yo, fellow listeners. I am the co host of the Next Generation show, Colin Beeford, speaking with my father and the host of the show Ryan. Today, we're going to be going through reasons we chose to go with our soon to be bug out vehicle. But before we get too far into that, I'd like to quickly cover the craft to Call on Fun Fact of the Week. For those of you who aren't aware of the craft to go on Fun Fact of the Week, it's a segment on our show that gives you a fun tidbit of information of something that's usually related to the show topic. Some of you might have our known and some of you might have had no clue. So without any further ado, let's get right into it. Today's Craft Calling Fun Fact of the Week is the man who invented cruise control was blind. No, his name is Ralph Tetoor. Yeah, his name is Ralph Teetour and he became blind at the age of five in an accident and didn't specify what accident, but it would't surprise me if it was a car accident. Wow. That's crazy. I never knew that. So there you have it. Now, Well, can I say that's why I'm here? Yeah, another essential trivia fact that you guys will be able to handle. So okay, So here we go on with the show, building a bug out vehicle from scratch. So the first thing that we obviously, the vehicle that I described earlier in the show is the same daily driver that I've been using for years, but I've since changed locations and I now live out in the country and that vehicle no longer suits me because I live on a dirt road and I've had some challenges as a result of having a small sedan in a country setting. It's fairly obvious, but it's definitely something that I wasn't able to really change at the time. Part of me also wanted to make sure that I had a backup vehicle, and you know, we can get into some of the alternatives of having a backup vehicle, and you know, we'll get into that a little bit later in the show, but essentially, we wanted to get into the basics of starting us from scratch. So the first thing we want to identify is what do we need? What are the actual limitations that we're up against and what what do we need? What are the challenges that we're facing. So you want to approach a bug out vehicle in the same way that you might approach, you know, a natural disaster preparedness. You want to find out what's going to be impacting your area or your region, or what specifically you're working or with. So we needed a solution for a couple of different things. One of them is there have been occasions where I've gotten stuck in snow drifts in the wintertime, simply because I didn't have enough ground clearance. My car is a four wheel drive, but it still didn't hack it. You know, when you get you know, one or two or eight feet of snow drifts, there's only so much you can do. But there were more than one occasions this winter where another truck was able to get through because it had a higher level of ground clearance. Whereas even with that other vehicle getting through and paving the way, it's still left too much for me to try and shove out of the way, so it wasn't happening. Another thing that we face here are the potential for wildfires, and so we want to make sure that we have a vehicle that can access and or navigate terrain in a wildfire, which might be just exposed fields or empty you know, empty fields, or you know, maybe a yard or a ditch bank or something like that, so that we can get around. So ground clearance, something that can get around and haul during wildfire season to be able to get either our gear or our supplies, or our family or whatever out all at once, so that we're not trying to race around and you know, pick and choose what we can take. We know what we need, we can pack it right in the back and go. So another thing that I like to keep in mind is the potential for getting around other traffic in a disaster. I've seen this firsthand when I was stuck on a freeway and you know, you'd have bumper to bumper traffic and you look behind you in your rear view mirror, and here's all these four wheel drive pickup trucks that some folks are talking about in the chat room that are just pretty much going off the side of the road and bombing around until they get to the nearest off ramp, might be two or three miles ahead. But you know they can handle that kind of terrain, whereas a low centered vehicle or a vehicle with a low center of gravity and a low ground clearance isn't gonna make it. It just won't work. Another op. Another thing that I needed to maintainer keep in mind was being able to go the distance to round up family if we have to. Now with a sedan, I'm only limited to whatever I can do in one tank. So there's some considerations there that I want that will point out later, And just in general, a good workhorse something that can haul equipment, haul gear, haul us, haul the dogs, haul you know, a trailer if we have to pretty much be able to be the workhorse for the family. And in doing so, essentially we broke down the key factors looking at this specific need set and the purpose of potentially having a bug out vehicle. So to summarize all of these, you know these and you know the basics of what we're going to be covering tonight is one ground clearance, two fuel economy or capacity, three fuel alternatives, four fully mechanical options. We'll get into that, five parts availability and maintenance, six reliability, and seven economy or price. So essentially, the solution that we came up with happened to fall into my lap. And what happened was I was looking around because I was looking around for a different vehicle. I had an idea of what I was wanted, and I had not a whole lot of money to work with, you know, a couple thousand dollars tops. So what we wound up picking out was a truck because we wanted to be able to cover the ground clearance and the potential for a four wheel drive options, plus be able to navigate. We wanted something that was fully mechanical, and I wanted something that was a little bit later but not too late. I didn't want something that was way in the sixties or seventies or eighties that had really horrible fuel economy, but something a little bit newer but not you know, kind of teetering on the edge of electronics. So what I found was a nineteen ninety three GMC Sierra extended cab pickup with a full bed and a six point five diesel motor. So what does that mean. Well, we're going to get into that a little bit and what that means and some of the advantages and disadvantage of that particular vehicle. But from the moment I saw it, I knew that it had the majority of the needs that I was looking for covered, because it would have enough versatility to be able to cover some of the things that I need to be able to handle for a potential bug out scenario. So so I've got a little bit of space inside the cab, I've got a full sized bed for what I need, uh, you know, around the house. I've got four wheel drive, I've got some clearance. And it's a diesel which has some very unique fuel alternatives that we'll get into in a minute. And it's fully mechanical means. And what I mean by that is there's there are no electronics on the vehicle other than an LCD screen inside that indicates you know what time it is, and you know the the ventilation controls and that's it. Everything else is run by solonoids and springs. There's not even any real vacuum systems on this particular model. So I caught it kind of right right in the sweet spot. And this is a vehicle that we're going to be going with, So over the next you know, a couple of weeks or months or however long it takes, we're going to be giving little snippets and updates as we develop this into a more resourceful form of a bug out vehicle. But I wanted to back up and get into some of the main points and why I, you know, why I chose this vehicle specifically, and why these things are important to me, and why you should consider some of these things maybe in your own scenario, your own bug out scenario, or own bug out location, or even just your your own get home scenario or your own get home situation. So which to me is for me getting out is just as important as getting in, and opposite, you know, getting home is just as important as getting out. So first number that I went with was ground clearance. Number. First thing I just wanted to say, don't even ask if I'm going to be lifting the truck. It ain't happening. And this is something that was a logic fallacy that my dad expect when I was a little bit younger. And basically, when you lift a truck, all you're doing is raising the center of gravity of the truck. You're not actually lifting the truck or giving it more ground clearance. You're able to lift the body up a little bit, but that's only doing so much. Your actual ground clearance is from the bottom of the tire to the upper end of the axle, and that's it, I guess, the lower end of the axle. So what really is important when it comes to ground clearance is going to be the wheel diameter. Now, if you're in a low clearance early two thousand sedan with fifteen inch tires, you're only going to have so much room to physically get under the vehicle. And that's one of the main points that I wanted to make sure that I had covered with ground clearance was my ability to crawl underneath the vehicle without having it jacked up. There's another there's a series of reasons for this. Part of it is identifying problems, you know, accessing parts and components, finding out what kind of towing you know, problems you might have, or if you need to get under it to to do anything you have, you at least you have access. So being it being big enough or tall enough at least a crawlander was important to me. Another thing about ground clearance is when you have enough ground clearance, you can create your own parking spot. Now, I know how cruel and unusual that might be, but you know, if you're in an urban environment, in some instances you might need to jump a curb to be able to access something, or get around something, or move between vehicles. Sometimes a sidewalk might turn into the road that you have access to. So for me, having ground clearance was critical for that reason. And bypassing traffic like I mentioned today, was you know, it's it's something that I observed in a bumper to bumper traffic issue where those with ground clearance were able to get by. Those with ground clearance were able to bypass hundreds of cars and save countless critical moments to get out of out of traffic. So especially when it comes to you know, if you're doing a hurricane evacuation or you know, a wildfire evacuation or whatever. It might be a flood. You know, Jay Fergie just had a great show on Saturday about you. Know, wild. Wild disasters and things like that, and you know, the ability to have enough ground clearance to get out of you know, just a water, a pool of waters, it's it's critical. So that was that was important to me. The second one that I have beyond ground clearance is fuel economy or capacity. So this particular truck has a thirty four gallon tank and on the upper end it's rated at nineteen miles per gallon as a diesel motor, So if you do the math, a thirty four gallon tank at the best fuel economy possible is running at six hundred and fifty miles per tank. Now, most passenger vehicles are you have a minimum of three hundred gallons or sorry, three hundred miles per tank, but to me, it was important to be able to have more than that because there's a good chance that if I need to go somewhere that I can take on you know, the added mileage without having to jump into a or having to drop out of a fuel or not being able to refuel that kind of thing. So the fuel range is actually about fifteen minutes or sorry, fifteen sixty miles per gallon to nineteen, so it's around five hundred and fifty to six hundred fifty miles per tank. So it's generally, you know, it's generally decent in that regard. One of the benefits of a diesel is and you know, you can do this with a gas motor too, but there's a little bit better mileage with diesel, and with that you especially a pickup truck, you can add a slip tank. Now, for those of you who don't know, a slip tank is a tank that goes in the bed of the truck and you can put generally dyed diesel in it. Now, dyed diesel is not legal for use on the roads, but it is something that you can use for like refueling generators or heavy equipment or farm equipment, stuff like that. So to me, that's important to be to have the option to be able to add a slip tank. Now, how much fuel goes in a slip tank? You can I think the ones that I was looking at that don't take up a ton of space add about ninety five gallons. So when you go with let's see, so ninety five. I can't remember which portion of the math that I did here, but A gowns yeah, so that must be just for that tank. It'll add eighteen hundred miles at the top fuel economy on that vehicle. So I have six hundred and fifteen miles in the tank. Plus if I have to in an emergency dip into that slip tank, then I have the potential to travel another eighteen hundred miles. So to me, that's a significant benefit of having a vehicle that is versatile when it comes to fuel storage and those kind of options. This particular one is also a manual transmission, and that's a big plus just because it adds to fuel economy and a side benefit when it comes to manual transmissions. This is something that my grandma told me in the early two thousands. She was driving a Saturn with a manual transmission, and I had just gotten out of driver's in and I asked her, why in the world do you have this manual transmission when you could just drive an automatic. Well, she at the time lived in New Jersey, and she said, because all those young punks over there have no idea how to drive a stick. So her reasoning is actually even more logical today than it was back in the early two thousands. As it turns out, there's only about eighteen percent of Americans who actually know how to drive a five speed manual transmission. So right there, the added security benefit of having a manual transmission eliminates one sorry four fifths of any potential criminals who don't know how to drive a five speed manual transmission. So there's there's definitely a benefit to taking special consideration into the type of transmission that you have in your vehicle. Plus it's pretty basic when it comes to the fuel part of it. What I like about the fuel is it's different than the majority of the on the road. Now, there's a lot of diesel trucks out there, but when it comes to diesel, there are more alternative options. So instead of since most people are driving gasoline vehicles, when gas runs out, diesel will likely run out. You know, there'd be a little bit more time, I think for diesel to run out because there won't be as many people at the pumps for diesel fuel. They'll be there for gasoline. So I have an option. I have a feeling that there would be more of an option for diesel fuel than otherwise. So why diesel? There's I could do probably an entire show on diesel engines and why I would feel they would be more important and more versatile, but I'm gonna have to keep it brief. So one of the reasons I wrote fell back on a diesel motor is because you have the option to change out your fuels. Now, what do I mean by that? Yeah, Pappy and Chat, I appreciate the comment here he says that during the hurricane shortage he never had a problem finding diesel fuel, And honestly, I think that's that's about as truthful as it gets. But there's an added benefit to diesel fuel that a lot of people don't realize. So diesel engines when they were made, uh and generated, And I don't have the facts. We could do a whole show on it if you want, Like like I mentioned, but the guy who invented the diesel motor designed it to be able to run on any kind of fuel that you could throw at it. Just about any kind of oils that you could you could throw at so peanut oil, uh, you know, fossil fuels, household oil. And that's this is kind of where it started to really click in my brain. So if a diesel engine runs on almost anything, what are the possibilities for alternative sources of fuel with gasoline? If you have a gas car, your fuel source is gasoline and that's it. So some of the things that you can get are different forms of diesel. Now, there is the dyed diesel, which is a red diesel that's generally used for farm equipment and stuff like that. It's generally cheaper, and it's illegal for you to use it in your own vehicle because it's cheaper and there's a different tax. Rating on it. So when you get to this idea of dye diesel, it's something that you could put in a slip tank and it's legal to having a slip tank, and in a severe situation, you could potentially use that for an emergency scenario to get you by. So dye diesel is it's illegal, but if we're talking total grid down own scenario, it is an option that you can rely on. What about other kind of oils, we'll come As it turns out, household oil, like if you have an oil furnace in your house, is the same stuff. As well. It's not the same as diesel, butially essentially it's the it's the same composition that you could use in your diesel motor. So for those folks over in the northeast of the country, you guys generally use household oil to heat your homes and if there was a potential, for example, like of a scenario where you completely ran out of fuel, you could potentially tap into your own household oil system and drain it to be able to give yourself to top yourself off to be able to get by, and you'd have to check on this for the specific form of material, but you know, essentially it'll work. It might cause some damage to your vehicle, so you don't know why to do it in a in a you know, extreme scenario. But for the most part, again, diesels were designed to be able to run just about anything. Obviously, regular petroleum diesel is kind of the same thing. But one of the benefits of this is if you're stuck in traffic and people start abandoning their vehicles in a long term scenario, you can actually source fuel from diesel trucks and they're gonna have hundreds of gallons of fuel with them at a time. So, you know, if someone in a diesel truck who is just you know, a long haul trucker who's trying to get home, they're going to ditch that truck and leave it for the trucking company to deal with. So in an extreme scenario, you could actually tap that as a source. Now, the last, you know, the last form of diesel and we're going to get into this is biodiesel. Now I am doing some continuing work continued research on biodiesel, but at this moment, I am planning to do a biodiesel conversion on this truck, and for very specific reasons. Some of them are cost benefits, some of them are emissions and just general performance, and also the potential to source fuel locally. And I'll get into that a little bit later, and we'll actually have some videos of some of these changes that I'll be making to the vehicle for those folks on Patreon. So essentially, in this we've covered some of the basics when it comes to fuel and diesels. Basically, when you put fuel and air together, you get power out of a diesel. It's really that simple. You don't need all the other garbage, you don't need all the emission stuff, you don't need spark, you don't need vacuum. You put fuel in it and you add air, run the system, and it's good to go. So what this means to me is fewer failure points all in all. So let's see, we are going down the list, probably not as fast as I would like, So let's go to a quick break and when we come back, we'll try to wrap up a little bit more of these. 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And before we went to break, we were talking about some of the things that we are trying to incorporate into a bug out vehicle and the specific reasons for why we chose these things for our region, and some of the long term reasons for you know, choosing these particular whatever features or whatever for this vehicle. Basically, what we decided is this point is that we're going with an early nineties model Diesel pickup with a four wheel drive and an extended cab in a full bed. So before we went to break, we were talking about some of the ways you can source fuel for diesel trucks and some of the reasons for that and the potential for that. And one of the big things about diesel fuel is you have fewer failure points. One of the things that I've really wanted to emphasize in this vehicle was fewer failure points. You know, obviously I shared a story about, you know, my coolant tank that had the overflow tank that blew out, and because it was a pressurized system, I pretty much lost all my fluid and got stranded on the side of the road. And to me, every time you have something or some component on a vehicle or anything really, any piece of machinery, another thing that you add adds a layer of complexity. So when you start peeling back those layers of complexity, you get down to the root of what you need. It's just a vehicle to get you from point A to point B safely with you and your family and all your gear. Right, That's all a bugout vehicle needs to be, or a get home vehicle or your daily drive it for that matter. So when you start peeling off the backup cameras and you peel off the oh gosh, what else, you know, your your exam radio, and you peel off your satellite imagery, and you peel off your SAT phones, and you peel off your power windows, and you peel off your heated leather seats, and you peel off your automated driving systems, your autopilot systems, you know, all that kind of stuff. You start peeling all that thing, all all those things back, your vacuum lines, your emissions controls, all that kind of stuff, and what you have as a machine that actually works and it works dependably whenever you need it, you have fewer and fewer failure points. I don't know why, but I have a really hard time with vacuum. Vacuum to me, just really sucks, if you get the pun. But it just it always has. It's never been something that that I've enjoyed. I've always had a hard time with it. And it seems like every time I lose some sort of component, it's related to vacuum, and no one knows where to find the vacuum leak. You got to go through and test it out. So it's really hard to be able to do anything with that. Sometimes electronics fail, Solonoids and things like that have a potential to fail. You know. Obviously, electronics, especially really nice electronics, add to the draw on your system, so you kind of have have issues when it comes to that. And when you start stripping away all those complexities, what you have is something that is fully mechanical, and it's easier to comprehend without you know, extra computers. You know, if there's a major EMP scenario or something like that, they say that on occasion, all you have to do to fix the vehicle is turn it back on, so you know, it might not be the vehicles are stalled in traffic for a long period of time. You can just you just it's going to stop and then you turn it back on. But what happens if other electronics fail, like the computer that actually reads the vehicle codes? You know what if you have an issue where you know you've got to check engine light and you take it to a you know, a place to get it fixed and they bring out the scanning device and it does nothing, Well, how do you know what's going on? You know, are you skilled enough to be able to tear that thing apart and identify what the actual problem is? No, most cases, most people won't be able to you get a code, and even that's a challenge to be able to identify. So you know, that's when you go with a fully mechanical system, it's just plain easier to diagnose. You've just you've got if A then B logic and that's it. So when it so we've covered let's see ground clearance, fuel economy, fuel alternates, and having a fully mechanical system. The next on the list was parts availability and maintenance. So this particular model of car or truck, I guess I should say was pretty common. Parts are really accessible, especially body parts. The fact, I think the truck that I have has a different tailgate than the stock one, and I think it might have a newer bed, So it's that era of truck from nineteen ninety one to nineteen ninety eight, I think is pretty much the same. So I won't have problems getting body components or things like that. Some of the other stuff might be a little bit more of a challenge, more specialized, But that's kind of where we're going to get into some of the parts availability start stuff going on. You know, like if it's regionally available. I've had other vehicles where regional availability of parts was a critical thing. You know, you want to make sure that you have parts that actually match whatever vehicles are being driven in your area. So, for example, I lived in an area in northern Idaho where almost everybody drove a suber U because of the snow and how well they performed. And if you are with you know, if you're driving in an area where everyone else is driving a Subaru and you roll up in a Mercedes, you might have a little bit of a problem sourcing parts if the dealership is an hour and a half away. If you get stranded, your your your options are limited. Whereas if you are in an area where you have one type of vehicle that's very common, and you just look around looking around at the cars that you're driving that are driving around you. Dodge Durangos are actually pretty common. That nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and one or two is pretty much the same. No, actually it's probably a closer to the two thousand and four or five. So, I mean those a lot of them are interchangeable. So the body style and the type of vehicle that you choose, you want to try and make sure that you have some that are at least interchangeable, because you'll want to be able to source parts. A brand new Tesla probably not going to be able to source parts very often, very easily, for at least another ten to twenty years if that, and if so, I mean, are you even going to be you know, are you going to be wanting to drive it anyways? So parts availability and maintenance is a big deal. The other portion of that is not only you know, the ability to get parts, but maintenance. What are you doing to be able to maintain your own vehicle? And this is where you know it's time to break out the Haynes Manual or the Chilten's Manual. Do you have one? If not, get one, these are manuals that you can get and you can keep in your trunk, and they give you a full schematic breakdown on how to do everything from change your air filter to do a full engine overhaul, change out your brakes, you know, change out body components, do whatever you have to do, windows, you know, gears, anything related to that vehicle. It's an instruction manual for that. And it's not an owner's manual. It's an instruction manual. So it's a pretty big difference in something that you'll really want to keep in mind as a reference for your vehicle, especially if you have an older model one, because you can save hundreds, if not thousands of dollars by being able to maintain them yourself, which is the number one flaw when it comes to me being stranded on the side of the road with a vehicle that I can't fix. So next on the level of importance is reliability. So this particular vehicle I already know has been time tested. These engines, these diesel motors have been known to surpass four hundred thousand miles if really cared for. Currently, this one is running at about one hundred and eighty thousand miles, which sounds high, but not when you're talking about a diesel motor. So it's right about midway. And if you think about it, at roughly ten thousand miles a year on average, I have two hundred thousand miles to work with, and that breaks down to about twenty years potentially to be able to run this vehicle. And you know, potentially during that timeframe, I could learn more about the vehicle. Calling can learn more about the vehicle, We can both take care of it and maintain it properly, and you know, have more of an available opportunity to get out there and do more. So we're being reliable and being time tested is something that should definitely go into your choice in what you choose or your options and what you choose to start your bug out vehicle journey. And then lastly is the economy or the price of the vehicle. So on this particular vehicle, I paid cash, so I have no car payment. As a result of switching my insurance from my Sedan which is about ten years newer to this car that was about ten years older and a peck a pickup truck, it dropped by about twenty bucks a month. So cost savings for insurance alone is two hundred and forty bucks a year. My fuel availability increased. And what do I mean by that? Well, I mentioned before about the diesel options, but I have a biodiesel source where I can get fuel for two dollars to two dollars and fifty cents per gallon, whereas everyone else on the you know, in the vicinity is paying upwards of three and three fifty in our region. So right there, I have fuel savings of about thirty dollars a week on average times fifty two weeks a year is an annual savings of about fifteen hundred and sixty dollars per year. So when you combine the two hundred and forty dollars a year from insurance savings plus the fifteen hundred dollars a year on fuel savings. It puts me in a cash positive position of eighteen hundred dollars per year just by switching to this vehicle as my daily driver and using it and building it up as I go. Now, if I can keep repairs in line, that should cover most of the purchases and any of the adaptations that we're going to make to it. And on top of that, if I chose to add a personal car payment, like a two hundred dollars a month, you know, potential plan that I put specifically as a quote unquote car payment, that I can add that to you know, my vehicle maintenance goals or my vehicle improvement goals. All said and done, between the insurance, the fuel savings and the payment to myself as a vehicle, I have the potential to rat hole four two hundred dollars a year if I stick with that particular format that I could invest either in new work, new parts, or even potentially saving up to pay cash for a new vehicle in five to ten years. So it's it's something that you really should consider. And you know that forty two hundred dollars a year, just as a point of reference. That's less excuse me, that's more than what I paid for the vehicle. So within one year's time or even really you know, the eighteen hundred dollars a year, in two years, I would have the vehicle paid for just in the savings alone from insurance and fuel. So something to keep in mind there on what you do when you spend money on a new vehicle. You don't need to go out and buy a you know, these multi million dollar ramped up vehicles that are already you know, designed with bulletproof armor and bulletproof windows and you know, backup satellite GPS systems and all this kind of stuff. I mean, you can add those toys later on. Everything is available after market, right, So this, ladies and gentlemen, is where we're going to start. So this is kind of the the blueprint. This is what we're working with, and it's something that we're going to be going. We're going to be taking you along the journey with us. So a couple of pros and cons really quick. So some of the cons obviously we got to watch out with some basic issues with switching to biodiesel. Pappy in chat room, he's mentioning you know, blooming an eight gallon tank, eight eight thousand tank, eight thousand gallon tank from diesel algae, which is something that grows on occasion with bio diesel, so you've got to make sure you treat it. There's going to be some issues with winter cloud point. We'll get into that when we get in deep with the diesel format, So we might do it. We're probably just gonna have to do a separate show on biodiesel and and the diesel options and what we're looking at. But in being a diesel motor, we lose every opportunity of stealth during travel. It's loud, you're gonna hear it a block away, you're gonna you're gonna hear it at night. Every time it fires up early morning, the neighbors are gonna hear it. So it's just something that you have to keep in mind when with this particular thing. So we lose all stealth with this vehicle, but I'm willing to sacrifice that. It is big and bulky, so it's gonna be hard to navigate in metropolitan areas. I'm not taking it to Seattle, so don't ask if anybody needs a ride. It ain't happening. I'm not helping you move, uh, just you know, just saying it's unattractive because for what it's worth, I mean, it's an old, beat up truck, mid nineties Chevy. It's gonna have a Chevy paint job from mid nineties and that's probably the way it's gonna stay for several So it's not attractive. And as a bugout vehicle, I generally don't need it to be attractive. That's not what I want. If anything, I want less attention, not more. And the last con that I have right off the top is the unknown, the ghosts that I have yet to discover underneath the motor So, bab. Are you saying our truck is haunted? Oh yeah, ever used vehicle's haunted. So it's just something that you have to deal with. I mean, you're gonna have issues with a vehicle, so especially if you don't know the previous owner or you know, they could be feeding you aligne just to get it off their lot. So we've already run into some challenges and I'll get into some of that down the road as we get it, as we kind of explain some of the changes that we are making, and the improvements that we're making along the way. Some of the pros. You know, we mentioned some of the pros already, the manual transmission. As I mentioned before, about less than eighteen percent of Americans can drive a stick, and there's less and five percent of vehicles on the road with a manual transmission on them new vehicles, excuse me, So it kind of reduces the potential for theft. And just in having this colin, you're going to learn how to drive a stick. So it's going to be an added skill that you'll have and you will be within that top twenty percent of people who actually know how to drive a stick, So that'll be good for you. I can haul more equipment, more fuel, more animals, more gear. Another pro as I can as a result of that, I can go longer distances, and I can have more potential to be there for family members and things like that. And starting out from scratch, the main pro is we have the ability to adapt or modify and work on this thing as we go. You know, it's something that it's really not it's not a new vehicle, so I'm not afraid to punch holes or dig into stuff, you know, change things out explore and and you know, experiment on some of this kind of stuff. So it'll be it'll be interesting and hopefully you guys will get something out of this. So overall plan for this vehicle over the course of the year number one, well into particular order. We're planning to do a biodiesel conversion, which is already underway. We're gonna be adding some light bars for in different areas of the truck for various lighting tasks, and we'll get into that. We'll probably be adding some components like NERF not NERF bars, but like maybe a bull bar or a brush guard or general a bumper guard and winch system on the front, possibly even the back, and we'll explain why we're doing that down the road. We're gonna be doing some interior engine maintenance and repair, which is stuff that we've already started, and we're gonna be doing some more videos on you know, some of the things that we are doing, which should come up real quick because we're we got to get it roaded ready right off the that. We're gonna be doing a CBE radio install, some interior modifications and truck bed modifications that will probably we might even rebringing in Dane over the gun Metal Armory to see what he can come up with some potential wheel excuse me, wheel options and replacement in that regard, and we're gonna be we'll probably even do a whole episode on how to drive a stick and why. So Colin is probably gonna be instrumental in making that one happen. So I think that's that's probably enough of an introduction for what we're doing. Now. Oh yeah, amateur radio. Maybe we should get an amateur radio built into that too. So yeah, lots of options here. And in fact, if you guys have some suggestions on what we should build into this vehicle, send us a note, send us an email, send us a message on social media or something. We won't hold anything back. We'll make this the Prepper broadcasting vehicle that that you all can be proud of. So it should be a good time and we want you to get involved and you know, take take what you can from what we're doing in this project to either learn yourself or you know, teach others. So we hope that's what this is is a learning experience and a teaching opportunity. So with that, as far as a learning experience and a teaching opportunity for the pint sized Prepper project of the week. We decided it would be instrumental and fitting to do something very basic change a tire. So you don't want to be that guy, especially if you're stranded on the road just because you have a flat tire and you've never changed one before, and even a kid can do it. So Colin, why don't you go ahead and explain the basics of this and we'll try and get some photos up before next week's show for the folks of you out there who follow us on Instagram. All right, so I'll go through this and correct maybe if I'm wrong or missing anything out, you know, leaving anything out. So basically, how to change your tire on your automobile, So whether or not it would be because you have a flat tire or the tire is just damaged in some sort of other some sort of other way, maybe there's something wrong with the wheel. And you know how to change your tire. So some things you'd want to keep handy in your car would be the owner's manual of the vehicle you are changing the tire on, a jack, a wrench, a spare tire, a rain poncho just in case the weather isn't the greatest, a wheel wedge, a flashlight in case you're working in the dark with working batteries, and to support the wheeljack, you could keep handy a piece of wood or a metal rod of some kind just to sort of support, just to help out the wheeljack. And then you can also bring gloves if you don't want to get your hands for whatever reason, you. Might need gloves. So the actual how to would be to start by simply pulling over to a safe spot, preferably near if your tire is flat, and then you're gonna want to turn on your hazards and this is according to bridgedone Tire's website if I remember correctly. And then once you have pulled over and your hazards are on, apply your emergency brakes and secure your wheel wedges, and make sure that your car is in a fixed spot or position and it's not gonna. Be going anywhere. Then you're gonna want to remove your hub caps or your wheel cover, loosen the lug nuts and place the jack under the vehicle. Then you raise the jack and unscrew the lug nuts completely. The rest of the way you remove the flat the flat or damaged tire, and then replace it by putting the spare tire. On the lug bolts you know, like that are on the vehicle. Then you loosely fasten the tire with the lug nuts by hand, lower the jack, then tighten the lug nuts the rest of the way. Then you replace your hub gaps and pretty much do everything else in reverse. You put all the equipment back to their original homes and then check the air pressure before you get back on the road. And then finally you want to take your damage tire to a technician. Yeah, pretty basic. I mean, this is an essential skill, and I mean I'm sure most of us out there has experienced a flat tire. In most cases, you know, you can use something like fix a flat and sometimes it's a good idea to put some of that in your car. Just keep in mind that the guy who has to change your tire next is probably going to give you a sour face or charge you a little bit extra if they have to fix it. But essentially, you want to make sure that you've got air also in your spare tire and that it actually is in good shape. If the tread isn't very good, or if it's got cracking, or if it's flat, it's not going to do you much better than the flat tire you already have. And one of the things about the fix a flat is that you can't count on that to be that the ultimate solution. They're great and it's it works in a pinch, but I've actually been in situations in my own vehicles where the tire went flat and it actually blew out the side of the side walls and I had to use a saws all to cut the tire from the wheel so that I could just get the wheel off the vehicle and put the spare tire on. So, you know, it's just you got to keep in mind that there are other factors that come into play when you get a flat tire, and you want to try and cover as much of that as you can, So it's not always just to fix a flat solution. You've got to be able to think outside the box and have tools and gear on hand to be able to fix stuff. So some of the skills learned through this project is or are some basics of roadside self sufficiency, and this is critical to learn at a young age. For obvious reasons the basic uh the importance of basic car knowledge, like knowing your own vehicle and where the spare tire is, for example, where this the uh uh what do you call it the jack is? And where your uh what do you call it? The ranch? The lug ranches and all that kind of stuff. Make sure you have the right tools for your vehicle. And then also, you know, another skill that is developed in this project is the importance of exposing backups to backup. You know, every car has an emerge agency kit and you need to learn how to use it. You need to learn how it works, and you can, I mean, you can use this as a starting point. I mean, if nothing else, to teach someone about survival by just showing them their own self reliance kit that's built into their vehicle. You know what. Hey, for those of you out there, we hope that you like these Prepper projects. We plan to keep them coming. We've just released a pint sized Prepper project book with thirty projects that we did last year. This is volume one so far, and another one we're going to be planning for maybe early twenty twenty. So if you'd like to check it out, just go to Amazon type in my name. You can type in Collin's name, or you can type in pint size Prepper project and it'll come right up. The cost is about six bucks, which is less than an action figure, and I'm definitely I'm convinced that it'll keep your little ones entertained for more than a six dollars movie. So you know, it's also linked right there on our show page. So if you're interested, go check it out. We really appreciate your support, and if you guys would like to support us directly on the next generation show, go buy that book, share it with friends, buy it for friends, do what you gotta do, and we appreciate it. So that's our selfless plug for the week. And I think with that, let's get into the final takeaway for this for this particular episode, it really doesn't matter what you drive, it's how you think about what you drive. It's what is really riding on your tires, you know, just like that old michelinn ad I think it was from the eighties or the early nineties, and all it was was a baby in a tire. And that's really the only image you need to be able to understand how important it is for you to be able to stay on the road and moving when you really need to. But it goes beyond tires. It goes into how much you understand your own vehicle, how much you can work on your own vehicle, what you can do, what you can't do, knowing your limititations, knowing your options. The best option for being prepared while driving is not to get stranded in the first place. Right, So, we are taking on this major task of building an ideal bugout vehicle to share with you, and we're going to be sharing the process and our findings and our failures along the way. But we're also going to be sharing our thinking along the way and why we chose to do certain things as we go. But we'd like to use this as an opportunity to prompt you, the listener, from where you stand, take a moment to reevaluate your own situation and what problems you need to be able to solve in your own vehicle. And when it comes to kids, are your kids of age, how much do they know? How much do they need to know? Do they have some basic skills, do they have the ability to make their own repairs? Do they have a basic knowledge of systems and care requirements like changing oil or keeping fuel in it, or changing air filters, that kind of stuff. It's never too soon or never too early to teach these things. I mean, as it stands, Colin is in his early teens and we're going to be going through this and he's going to get just as dirty, if not dirtier than I am. I can guarantee that. So hey, now, yeah, you're going to be learning the hard and fast for sure. So for those of you out there, wherever you are in life, it can and likely will dictate your transportation needs. We are at a point where we need to learn and understand some of these systems as Colin approaches driving age, and it's critical here. So we're starting with the basics in an effort to build skills and create this monster on along the way of some kind or another. So it's important to remember if you do this on your own, that your kids are going to learn from you. So if you're not satisfied with your own abilities or your own setup, take a critical look and see where you can make changes. Try to get out from under a car payment if you can, so you can use you know, your financial means to see what kind of other options you have available. Just remember it's not what you drive, it's what you carry and how much you make sure that you get from point to point B on your own accord. If you drive a tersill or an outback or a Meada and that suits, you, run with it. But if you need to make changes and you're not sure where to start, just stay tuned and we'll kind of reveal what we came up with and our logic behind our process during the weeks and months to come, so we'll update you with the progress and hopefully we'll inspire some ideas for you along the way. Lastly, in case you missed it, we did our annual Recap a Year in the Books where we recapped some of our best moments of the last year, and we announced our new book, The Pint Size Prepper Project of the Week, which is now available on Amazon. And remember, if you missed out on any of our shows, you can always check out our previous episodes on the show page or on your favorite streaming service. And while you're there, be sure to leave us a five star review. It helps to boost our presence and allow us to share this message with others. Next week, we're going to be. We're debating on whether or not we should do this, but I think we're going to be doing a second planting episode so that we can go through some of the plant varieties that can be planted this time of year, so that you have the potential for a second and or late fall excuse me, late fall harvest to keep the crops rolling in as the months rolled down. Oh, Volcana, Yes. Volcana in chat asks if we are going to release the book on Patreon, and the answer is yes. I'm not sure how that works, but I've sent it off to James, so hopefully the Patreon listeners out there, if you signed up for Patreon, if you haven't received that yet, let me know. But one way or another, we'll make sure that you get this volume of the pint Sized Pepper Project of the Week and every consecutive all volume that we come out with free as part of your Patreon membership. So we're still kind of determining what tier that's going to be on, I think, but again, if if you're already a member and you haven't received it yet, just check to see what tier you're on and which one that's available. Atom will go from there, should be an email if you have any questions or stay tuned because if you don't want to shell out the cash to buy it right now, I'm going to do a promotion on that book so that if you want to get it for free, we'll probably issue like a one or two week promotion so that the folks who are out here can get what they want in that book and see it for free and get it for free as part of that promotion. So stay tuned. We'll try and have that on next week's show, and Volcano, I'll check into that see what's up with your one year schedule on that portion of it. So I think that's it for today. Everyone, Thanks for joining us on the Next Generation Show. Sorry for the extended version, but hopefully we can Hopefully we were able to provide some decent information other than just me talking about my truck. Hopefully it'll be a little bit more useful now that you've got a little bit of a baseline. But don't forget to tune into us next week where we explore another asp act of the little things in life that make all the difference in the world. This is your host, Ryan Buford and your co host did I lose him. Maybe a lot of colin oh lost. Yea, you remuted the button. That's all right, reminding you guys to stay informed, get involved, and be prepared. Have a great night, everybody, make it a great week. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. Tuning in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at Prepper Broadcasting Dot column. Urban Survival Simulation. This is Gotham, Yet up. Gotham, Get out, bend the breaker of Bankster's here at cash site number one, about five and a half miles in. Got a few more to go, got another cash site to hit before I get to the final site. The good news is well, there's good and bad news. Number of bad news. First, there ain't nothing to warm me up in here, nothing to eat good news. It's all very lightweight, so I could take everything that's here. I have some cordage, or actually more like twine. It's not like it's not five point fifty cord. It's like twine, or you know, thicker than string. I think twine is. The right name. I don't know. We've got a couple of light sticks. We got two big plastic bags, which if it was raining, these would be invaluable. But that's it. That's it looks like a future Dan came by and uh, I'm not sure. I think his package is gone. He would have probably got here before me, just based on the route. But we'll see. James is still here though. So with that said, travel's been decent. I'll tell you this, guys. Here's my little tip. For the last hour. I've been walking in areas that are well lit and areas that are totally dark. Obviously, I'm trying to say towards the dark to say gray Man, but you get a little depressed, a little scared, a little like the fear. Of the dark. As Iron Maiden song goes like, I'll know exactly where I am, but as soon as I hit pure darkness, I'm like, shit, do I really know where I am? And I do? But can you imagine bugging out and not really knowing where you go? My point is, if you're bugging out, hopefully you'll have a compass, but. Try to plan your bug out. If there's a few places you go that you know, you know, school work, you're in law's house, whatever. Thirty forty fifty miles away, no a route, no couple routes, even travel those routes by car multiple times, just so you can kind of understand it. So when you won't have that panic mude where you're like, oh shit, where really am. I's dark, it's cold, Oh my god. Where am I? Where am I not? Don't let that happen to you. So anyway, I has. A little prepper tip, nothing special. I'm on my way to cash site number two. See guys on the other hand. Okay, good morning or good evening, Team gun Metal. I am so happy to be here tonight, guys. I think you guys are too. Tonight we're going to do our Prepper product pick of the week. We're also going to do a giveaway and possibly another giveaway if I can remember to. I'd also like to remind you, guys that if you have any gunsmithing, any weaponry, any knives, or any other related questions any at all, feel free to email me at Gunmetal Armory at gmail dot com. Okay, if you're interested in sponsoring the show too, feel free to email me at the same address, gun metal Armory at gmail dot com. Okay, So, first thing I want to do is I want to talk to you guys about the Prepper Product pick of the week, which is going to be the Rattler Straps flint laces. I know you guys have probably read that I'm going to be giving these away tonight and I am the Prepper Product because the week the Rattler Flint the Rattler Straps flint laces. For my listeners that are paying attention, they'll know that these are firestarter laces. Okay, the flint laces come in black or brown. They come in a couple of different lengths. The length that I prefer is one hundred and eight inches, but you may need a different length for your boots. You know, some people that they need a different lengths, So, you know, depending on the side of the shoes or boots or you know, it could be a million different types of footwear. So it's really up to you what size you get. The really great thing about these laces, aside from the great way to make fire everywhere you go, is that each end of each lace has a flint on it. Now, when I first saw these things online, I thought that maybe one or two of the ag lits or the ends of the laces were farro rods. That's not the case. There is not just one or two of these things. There are four of them. There are four different farro rods on these laces that blew me away. I don't that really blew me away. But the system provides you with four separate flinch to strike from. Each pair of laces. Also includes two striker plates or blades for each for one for each boot. Okay, they're held in at the bottom of the laces on your shoe. You know where the straight across part is at the bottom of the laces, that part right there. You don't necessarily have to thread them in at the bottom of the shoelaces, but that's where the rattler straps are. A D Department to recommends that you do it. That's not to mention what you can do with the st microplator blade afterwards. It's actually it's an extremely an extremely sharp, uh serrated blade. It's a very sharp it's almost a razor blade. I'm pretty sure it's a serrated brazor blade, but I couldn't say for sure. Could possibly you could possibly use that blade for a lot of other stuff. But being that it is a little bit thin, you have to you know, take good care of it. You don't you want to snap it in a half or anything like that. Don't use it for anything too crazy, but you could use it for other survival chores along with making a fire things like that. So if you're interested in picking yourself up a pair, you can go to www. Dot Rattler straps dot com. That's r A T T L E R S t R A p S dot com Rattler Straps. Okay, so, as I said tonight previously, my my giveaway and my Prepper out to pick a week is for these Rattler straps flint laces. Okay, we have a quick we have a quick question in the chat room here. They're curious if these will pass through a metal detector. Now, I don't believe that they will, first of all, because farroh rod has some traces of metal in it, but also because the piece that's used to secure the pharaoh rod to the lace is actually metal as well. And of course someone mentioned in the chat room the striker plate is going to be the part that sets off the metal detector as well, because that's actually a small razor blade. So I think you might be okay with the laces themselves, but you definitely do not want to go through with that striker on your on your shoes. Okay. I've seen guys go through airports with the micro handcuff key on their laces from Schomertech, the bootlace handcuff key. I've seen people go through with those on their laces before, but I have never seen anyone go through with these. It's a it's a good question and it's something that we can definitely ask about. Okay, all right, so tonight the giveaway, all right, the ones I'm giving away are going to be the black ones, one hundred and eight inches long. I've actually been messing around with these things for a couple of days now, and I gotta say, these little guys, they're they're pretty cool, man. They're really really nice, really well built laces. It's not like they're, you know, cheap laces. They're actually good laces. They're strong and again you know, it's metal and it's farroh rod. You know, you can't really go wrong if you consider what you're getting for what you're paying. The retail I believe on these is less than twenty dollars, so you really, I mean, you can't go wrong, and don't forget. These don't just have to be laces, guys. These could be used as a cord wrap for knife handles, they could be lanyards, they could be anything else cord related. Really, they're they're straight up awesome, guys. I love them. I really do each lace. You know, Like I said, it comes with the flint at the end. It's got the striker plate included, and and you know that's what you use to create the sparks. But you don't have to use the striker plate. You could use your own your own pocket knife. You could easily use your own pocket knife. But I'd rather use that striker plate myself because I don't like to dull my knives or use my knives for anything but cutting. So, okay, tonight, it's everyone ready. We are going to do the question, all right. In this question, James, if you're paying attention, someone might decide to call in. But the question is going to be a pretty simple one and hopefully someone out there knows the answer. All right. It's going to be centered around ammunition, so put your thinking cap on. Okay, First, there's a few rules in place. Family members of mine can't win, and hosts of current hosts, not old school hosts, but people that are currently hosting a Prepper product. Prepper broadcasting network hosts are not eligible either. We have to be fair, okay, guys. Oh and if if you won before, you can't win twice in a row. Okay, you cannot win twice in a row. All right. So here we go with regards to ammunition. When you hear seven six' two by thirty nine or five five six by forty, five what exactly do those two numbers? Mean what does the first number seven six two? Mean and what is the second number thirty nine? Mean what are those? Things? Okay so if you guys want to answer the chat, room feel free to answer at any. Point oh my, gosh we have someone That's i'm gonna call. It i'm gonna say it that. Nub you got? It length and? Diameter, yep you are, Correct you got. It, yep that's the. One. Okay so the seven six' to two is the bullet diameter and the thirty nine is the. Case length you? Are? Correct okay, All right so that nub go ahead and email Me At gunmetal armory at gmail dot com and give me your Address and i'll get them sent out. To you, all right. Congratulations guys, all, Right okay so at. The Seat. Urban. Survival simulation This. Is, gotham yeah. All right this Is future dan Seven seven eastern. Checking in everything is above expectations at. This point i'm not Cold because i've been. Moving fast hit my first Cash, before cochrane so. That's GOOD and i found cans of beans, and soup which is. Even Better now i've moved off of the first cash didn't want to, get spotted brought my first, cash box didn't even look. At it it's picked, it up. CARRIED it i am. In a behind an office building that's got a good light, above me behind a couple, of DUMPSTERS so i, got light and there's furniture. BACK here, I mean i'm telling you it's above. Act Expectations so i'm sitting on a part of a drawer out of some office furniture that's getting. Thrown Away here i'm looking at my FIRST cash i do have some interesting things anchovies put in There. By maria but luckily, FOR me i don't have to eat. The anchovies how many a can of THE beans i. Just found the anchovies will definitely get used, later though WHAT else i got? IN here i got. Something special it's in a. Custom kit like a mesh. Black kit it's got like some kind of container. IN it I think i got a. GAS stove i got a stove KIT like i got a new. Stove, kit yeah things are. Above expectation. Holy crap very. Good to eat that soup and be all right if we can figure out a way to start. A fire there's also pink. Wild salmon did get, a bullet and that bullet gotta get. That open for the gunpowder to start. A fire i. Think LOOKS like i got a, tire pump basketball pump. Or something. There is a. BATTERY here i know you can make fires. With that i'm just gonna have to stop and think ABOUT because i am a little bit exhausted without the. Food yet but right after, This broadcast i'm gonna just. Open that canna beans and. EAT it i got two of them and something. ELSE here i got a. Little container what's? THAT contained. I think it's contained. A vodka I think i got a little vile of vodka. In There, so yep THE more, i talk the more everything is. ABOVE expectations i wonder if that's grain alcohol that can start a. Fire too? What? Else uh all? THE wait i got a slim gym that's getting eaten. Right now also along, THE way. I came across right immediately right immediately after getting dropped Off, by dave came across a. Car antenna, perfectly intact leaning up against the. Guard rail. Took that i'd count that as a weapon against. An unarmed person or maybe, an animal but definitely whipped something. WITH it i picked up two racquetball sized STONES and i. Carried those keep my eye out for FOOD that. I don't have to eat NOW because i got we. Got food and then again. Above expectations heading along, MY route i find a tub, of paints like some art kit that flew off of a car. OR something i, don't KNOW so. I got i took the. BLACK paint I think i hit. The woodline i'm on a camouflage with it put on. My face get out of the the urban environment everywhere here has got you, lights up, you know parking lot lights. And whatnot but once we get, THE woodline i want to get that on. My face so a, little camouflage a little bit. OF weaponry i got a couple of racketball. Sized stones haven't built anything better than that for, a WEAPON but i got, You know. I'M armed i. Got something and WHAT else. I find there's. Paint brushes haven't figured OUT what i could do, with THOSE but i kept them and got, some wire a little bit. Of Wire but i'm not even at my. Second cash so what's gonna be hard coming up is. Making, Choices also i'm sitting behind a couple. Sorrying to eat this beechtick. Right now oh, My god i'm eating in twenty. Four hours. It's good i'm looking inside this dumpster right next. To me he's got, foam mats the kind of like linked together. Foam MATS so I think i'm gonna eat and sleep on. Those tonight checking in at my, Next. Cash i'll actually grab. My stuff get off. THAT cash I think i'm my head to that. Finish LINE try i beat. These millennials. Oh, Whoops, anyways, okay guys that is the giveaway, All Right and i'm probably gonna do a giveaway for the book too at the end of, the show so that on, THAT question i would hope almost anyone. Could, answer Okay this i'm going. To do the book question is going to be about as simple as it, could be and you just got to, be fast is what it's going to come. Down to, All, right okay so with, Oh sorry i'm about to read the. Question again, all right let's move on to, the. Show, guys okay here. We go let's see the bug. Out bag the bug, Out bag here. We go the bug out bag has been around for a. Long, time guys we all. Know this many many iterations of this. Thing, exist okay there's the, bugout bag, the bob whatever you want to, call it as we. All know and then there's the good or the get out a, dodge bag and of course there is the inch Bag or i'm never. Coming home in addition, to these there are many many more acronyms in use for the various bags and packages. Out there many folks say that the bob actually hearkens back to the bailout bag that military pilots carried on them for survival in the event that they had to eject from. Their aircraft, of course their kits would probably differ somewhat from a, civilian kit but the. Reasoning tracks AND now i haven't actually had a chance to ask any, you know current military pilots or any old school military pilots if this, is correct but it does seem to. Make sense and, you know for a long time even bush Pilots in alaska had this type of stuff available. To them, in fact just the other day we were talking about takedown takedown lever action rifles in the Back Of alaskan bush. Pilot planes so it's something to something to look. Out there so if you look at their kits and you look at what a civilian, might need you would things are going to differ a. Little bit, You, know uh a military guy might need an encrypted radio whereas a civilian probably wouldn't need an. ENCRYPTED radio a military guy might need infrared glove sticks or infrared, signaling equipment whereas, you know a civilian probably wouldn't need infrared. SIGNALING equipment, i mean maybe, you DO but. I don't so it's it's it's definitely something to to look at the history of optimizing. And streamlining your bug out bag is probably gonna be a lot different than any other item. As well you have to consider the items. You have you got to consider the ones that. You need you've got to consider the weight of, each item what items you, can combine what your needs are things, like that, for example and a lot of bug, out bags you see a large camp or. Survival knife you'll see a small, neck knife a small, folding knife a, multi tool, a shovel, a hatchet maybe even a saw and. A MACHETE so, i mean like you've seen the Pictures on pinterest where you can see the bug out bag all, laid out and you see almost all of these items. In, there why, you know doesn't that seem a bit overkilled? TO you, i mean at the most you need the large knife and maybe a small multi tool and possibly the hatchet or. A TOMAHAWK now i. GET it i know, you're thinking why you need, the shovel why you need, the machete, the saw the neck knife and all. That stuff but if you have the right, survival knife the, right hatchet and a good leather and multi tool that already has a saw and all that other stuff, in it chances are you can handle most anything That, comes okay most of the stuff that's going to come, your way you should be able to handle without. A problem not to mention all the items that can be improvised to perform the tasks that these tools would have. Performed. Anyway okay on top, of that you consider the savings in the. Weight, department okay it'll make a. Huge. DIFFERENCE okay i just looked at the chat room There And jay fergue was mentioning that they have. Several knives but she's a, knife girl so that. Makes sense you know a lot of preppers are, knife people and THAT'S why i talk about knives, a LOT and i like to recommend good companies that you can get a, good knife a, good hatchet and a good, you know any kind of a good. Edged weapon edged weapons are definitely my. First love, YOU know i had a Subscription from Guns and ammo from THE time i was eight, years OLD and i remember looking at the knives all. The time the OTHER magazine i had a subscription TO when i was eight Years old Soldier. OF fortune i know some of you guys out there Probably remember Soldier. Of, fortune No. Not playboy the, chat room they SAID that i had a Subscription. To, PLAYBOY no i. Did. Not, okay so like we, were saying, you know we're talking about optimizing and streamlining your bug. Out, bag okay another thing to consider when you're looking at your bug out, bag is like we, were, saying weight and one of the things that creates the most weight in your bag is going to be ammunition. And, firearms okay that's my big boy. Right, there okay this is the gun, Metal armory so optimization of ammo, and firearms but more so than anything else is. The ammunition depending on what kind of guns and ammo, you're carrying how, many mags different caliber, cleaning kits and, so on you can likely leave a few items BACK at hq instead of cleaning kit for. Each caliber carry a couple of, Bore snakes carry, a handkerchief, some oil and some solivent in like a small hotel shampoo. Sized bottle it shouldn't weigh much. Of anything keep, in mind a bugout bag is more of a seventy two, hour kit so you're not gonna need a crapload of. Gun oil you're not gonna eat a whole bunch. Of solivan you're not trying to make this gun sparkling clean with your, cleaning, kit okay you just want it to be clean enough to. Continue working, of course if you're RUNNING an ak, forty seven you might not need to clean it much. At all i've told you guys about, this before but for the. NEW listeners i remember talking to a buddy of mine that was Over in afghanistan and he said he remembered Seeing the afghina soldiers CLEANING their ak, forty sevens and they would take their, bootlaces off tie their bootlaces, into knots dip them in, motor oil and pull it through the barrel and that was clean enough. For, THEM now i wouldn't recommend that FOR an ar fifteen or, you know most of the other rifles that preppers might. BE carrying i guess if that's okay, for them then that's okay. For them, But, anyways yeah just carry those couple of things instead of a big cleaning kit for. Each caliber couple of, boor snakes a handkerchief, for two, some oil, some solvent and a, small handpoo some small hotel shampoo. Sized bottle shouldn't weigh much, of anything and it should cover the cleaning needs of any firearm as long as you bring the appropriate. Boor. Snakes, okay also many preppers fail to consider. This, stuff okay you've got to look at HOW much ammo. You're, carrying again it is just a seventy two. Hour kit how many threats do you think you're gonna run into in seventy? Two, hours no this is not the. Walking dead you're not going to run into that, many threats but you may run, Into, Some okay but you don't need an entire load out like a. Soldier wood it's only seventy, two, Hours okay so keep that in mind. When packing, you know maybe three or, four mags maybe a couple hundred ROUNDS of ammo for, the rifle AND maybe i, don't know fifty or one hundred for. The pistol you don't need a. Whole lot but one thing you do need to, look at and this is something that a lot of people don't, think about is the outfit that you're wearing when you have your bug out. Bag, On okay you've got to look at your outfit and what you can carry in. Those, pockets guys the pockets that you have on your clothing or BDUs. Or acus you got to keep in mind how to spread out that weight throughout. Your outfit what type of clothing would make. That. Easier okay of course you're going to have your, own version, you know of the famous, bugout bag but you don't want to get stuck carrying all that weight on. Your, Back OKAY normally i try not to suggest military equipment or, military clothing especially military Clothing like ACUS, or BDUs, because frankly it paints a big ass target on. Your. Back okay if a bad person is out there in a post apocalyptic world and they see somebody walking around, in multiicam they're probably gonna do. SOMETHING bad, i mean that's the. Bottom line military clothing does not attract, anything good especially when that person is. By Themselves, all right this is speaking in a post apocalyptic. World currently it's not a bad thing. At all, It's FINE but. I digress there there is no, doubt though, you know even if it does paint a big target on. Your back, you know there's no doubt That the ACUS and BDUs actually it offers advantages over the average pair, of jeens and the amount of pockets it has available to store gear in are more than most other pants. OUT there i don't know if you know this, or not But the Acus or BDU's they've got, thigh pockets they've got front, slash pockets they've got two rear, position pockets and two. Calf pockets if you decide TO wear, acu pants be sure that you keep the heavy crap out of your lower calf pockets because that's. Gonna suck if you try to run with heavy stuff in your, calf pockets it's not gonna. Be good you're not gonna like it. At. All, okay also don't put anything too valuable like your map or your compass in a pocket without a button. Or velcro put the spare medkit in a, cargo pocket maybe some, spare magazines, but again be aware of how heavy this stuff. Can be if you're deploying with something like a battle belt or a rigger's belt and you have any kind of a drop leg platform. On there for you those of you that, don't know a drop, leg platform it's like a holster with a longer belt loop that hangs down to where your thigh, is okay and it usually has one or two straps that go around. The leg they, have holsters they, have plates they even have. Bulletproof ones they have all. Different types so keep in mind if you are wearing a battle belt that has any kind of drop leg platform or any kind of riggers belt with a drop, leg platform you have to consider the Thigh, straps okay the thigh straps if they interfere with the with the, cargo pocket you may not want to carry that medkit in that cargo pocket because it may interfere with that strap and you may not be able to get it out when you. Need it the same general idea applies to a jacket OR the. Bdu jacket if you decide to go, that route you got to always use the pockets to help. You, distribute wait but remember to be cognizant of your load bearing equipment because, some people especially with the, battle belts they even have shoulder straps and suspenders on them that you know that help to distribute. The load but if you're WEARING a bdu top and you've got all, those pockets those straps can go right over top of those pockets and push into your chest and you're not going to. Like, That okay so keep that stuff. In mind make sure you allow access TO your bdu pockets or to your pants pockets. Either way, all right as far as clothing, goes to what type you're going to wear is going to be a personal choice for you and. Your family something you need to make among your, family BECAUSE like i, already said military clothing makes you a huge target for, miles around whereas normal everyday gray man gear clothing that actually that's not, so bad that helps you blend in a whole, lot better. You know on the other and the UTILITY of, BDUs again it's, quite clear so, you know it's a. Personal choice but a happy medium might be something like real, tree camo, you know some something. Like that with various clothing built, for hunters the designs are usually bound to have a lot of, pocket space plenty of options when it comes to, color environment. You, know heck some of them even have. Scent lock you know that that that system that helps keep your your human scent in when you're. Hunting animals, YOU know i don't think it, works completely but it. Can help, why, not right especially if the enemy is using tracking dogs or, you know you're trying to get a deer for, your family that could be a very. Good. Thing right so those are those are a bigot you look at and keep. In mind keep that in. Your, toolbox, okay guys there are just some of the many ways to streamline. Your gear always be on the lookout for those different things that you can do and any items that you. CAN eliminate i usually like to run through my gear and process out stuff that's not needed every. Couple. Months now some. People don't some people just pack their freaking bug out bag and put it right over against the door and. That's it they don't think about it. Ever again but that's. NOT me i like to look through it all the time BECAUSE maybe i got, something NEW maybe i got. Something better you've got to make sure that everything in there is as good as it. Can Be but i'll talk to you more about that in a. Few, minutes here you know. Your results maybe another way to cut weight in your bug. Out bag another way to streamline it is by cutting weight by removing your sleeping bag and. Your TENT now i know what. You're thinking. You're crazy HOW am i going? To Sleep how i'm going to die of? hYP thebia? Not. Necessarily okay you can replace them with a jungle hammock and an emergency bivy or space blanket like the SOOL one i mentioned on previous shows The Od Green. Escape buvy it actually pairs really well with a. Jungle hammock you got to be sure when you're using a jungle hammock or any type. Of hammock sleeping out in, the wild you've got to be sure to cover underneath and. Around you. They're there you can get extremely cold out there if you don't cover. Around you, in fact, some companies like in the chat room they Just Mentioned, hennessy hammock some companies out there actually make hammock quilt for underneath. The hammock they make ones that go, under it they make ones that go. Under you they even make little bags that you can get into that's similar to a, sleeping bag but it's built for. A hammock so that's something to look at and keep, in mind and that that's another good thing they just mentioned. Chat room keep. Insulated underwear if you're going to sleep, like that, you know and use the emergency bivvy or the, space blanket you want to be sure to wear some heavy clothing because you're gonna have, the hammock you're gonna have the baby bag or the space blanket wrapped. Around you but you're all gonna need some heavy clothing to wear. As well you can also bring what was the other THING that i was trying to think? Of, It, ah yes it's a microfiber mummy sleeping Bag, liner okay you know the sleeping bag liners that you can put inside of a sleeping bag so you don't have to get the smell of your friend on you. Or whatever, you know those are really really good to keep with you when you're using a hammock for camping because they can they can aid in keeping. You warm they can really help keep, you warm and again they keep the weight to. A minimum, All right so the jungle HAMMOCK that i really like Is. The eye it's actually made by a company Called, Snug, pack Snugpak. Snug pack it's pretty easy to Find. On amazon you just type In Snug Pack, jungle HAMMOCK and i believe it's something like forty six or forty seven dollars something. Like That The Alps microfiber mummy sleeping bag liner is also Available at amazon for twenty four to. Ninety seven and, then finally The Od Green escape bibi is also Available at amazon for like thirty five or thirty six dollars something. Like, that okay those three things carried in your bugout bag should in, most environments, not all but in a lot, of environments should be able to prevent you from needing a, real big heavy tint and a huge heavy. Sleeping, bag okay that's one of those things that you want to make sure if you don't, need it you're not, carrying, it because believe, you me that's the. Gets, heavy okay, All, RIGHT james I think i'm gonna go ahead and take a break here and we'll be right. Back, guys okay it looks like we are back on the gun. Metal, armory. Okay guys, next up we are going to talk about products that you may not have heard of before that you can put in your. Bugout, bag okay some of This stuff i've spoken with you guys, about before, All right things like the fire Cord from Live, Fire gear, mora knives, You know various different types of fire, starting ITEMS different, ammo, types hey, rattler straps fire places, you know which we just give away some for you guys that are getting. Here Late Numerous schomer tech items, for, escape innovasion and many many. More. Products guys we've talked about a lot. Of them but here are some of the items and different COMPANIES that I have i have not talked a. Lot about there are a couple of different companies out THERE that i buy a lot, of. Stuff from one of THEM Is Dpx Knives DELTA Papa X Ray, dpx knives WHICH actually i think Stands For Dangerous products extreme or something in that VEIN N Sr. Tactical holsters they're a local company Here, in arizona Up In. Chino valley they literally make some of The nicest Kaidex holsters i've seen in. My life i've made Lots of, kaidekx myself, you Know when i've, Made knives i've made my. Own holsters i've Worked with kaidekx for a. Long, time guys and these guys are literally some of the best. Out there that's just, You know i'm not being paid. BY them i have only met one guy from, their company but that's. The truth they're they're some of the best. Out there another good Company that i've actually mentioned Before Is SEER PICK, S, E, R E p I, C K, SEER pick E and. E products those guys make some really cool escape and. Evasion gear Let's see sparrow lock. Picking gear sparrow makes some of the nicer LOCK picking uh tools on the market. Right now one THING that i would suggest getting from them is The Door Lock. Beginner's kit it COMES with i believe four or, five locks and the first lock has one pin in the tumbler to. Unlock it the second one has, two pins and then, three pins, four pins and, five pins so you get used to picking. Locks progressively it's a really, good, system guys and, it ACTUALLY if i, remember correctly it comes with some lock picks and an. Instruction jamnel so you might consider checking something like that out if you want to add the skill of lock picking to your. Prepper toolbox, you know it may not be the. Worst thing you can't always bash through things with a sledgehammer And a. Halligan tool maybe, You, can okay, you can but maybe you don't want them to know that you. Were there maybe that's why you would want to use the lock. Picking. Skills okay Next up Double. Tap ammo Double tap ammo And Double Tap Door breaching gear two, separate companies but both make really really high. End stuff Double tap ammo was one of the first AMMUNITION companies i had ever seen to put multiple projectiles in one bullet or in, one round rather multiple projectiles in, ONE round a very very interesting concept with these guys can do double tap door. Breaching gear these guys actually Make hammers halligan tools different types of sledgehammers that are. Actually expandable they have a collar on the end of the handle that you can unscrew and the handle will actually double, in size so you can get a lot more momentum when you're hitting a door or a car or whatever you're going to hit with. A sledgehammer i, don't know but they're expandable and they can actually be minimized so they can fit in. Your pack so double tap door breaching gear another good one to. Look At armor Light and. Tawateech watches those are two different COMPANIES that i wear, watches from and they both have tritium inside. THEIR watches i. Like tritium it's actually a radioactive isotope that is used for, night sides, for compasses, for water and for even exit signs have tritium in them. These days definitely a good thing, to have, you know a watch with tritium, in it because usually if you get the, right stuff it will actually glow for anywhere from ten to. Twenty, Years, okay like, for example if you don't know what, tritium is if you have a handgun or a rifle and you've ever looked at the sights in. The dark even after it's been dark in the room for an hour or, two hours the sites are. Still glowing chances are they're, night. Sits okay or you can look at the side of the sites and if IT says h Three or HOTEL three h three on, the Side it's. Swiss tritium it's Made. In switzerland something to, Consider, there okay. All right another, Good Company North american Rescue And North american ARMS. Or Naa North american rescue make some of the nicest rescue wipment on. THE planet i love their STUFF if i. Remember correctly they're also the ones that provide the world with the cats tourniquet, And no i'm not talking About a. Maine coon i'm talking. About. Cats Okay North, american arms on the, other hand is something that you actually. Might Need North american rescue cat Tourniquet, For no i'm. Just Kidding North american arms make stuff Like The pug, micro Revolver The sidewinder. MINI revolver i actually Have A pug mini revolver in twenty two MAGNUM and i have a, let's, SEE oh i Have a sidewinder in twenty. Two magnum, as well they're really great to have and really great to carry on you because they're. So, tiny okay let's see the, Next Company. Chiapa Firearms chiapa firearms actually took up the Patent From springfield armor and started MAKING the M six. Survival rifle some of you old timers out there may actually HAVE an M six. Survival rifle they were Made By springfield armory a long, time ago and they. Fold. Up okay inside the stock they're mostly made, of metal and inside the stock the old ones mostly made a metal and inside the stock they can store a couple of shotgun shells and some twenty. Two shells BECAUSE the M six survival rifle is actually an over under, barrel system the barrel, ON top i believe is a twenty two lr barrel and the barrel on the bottom is either a four to ten shotgun barrel or a twelve. Gauge barrel BUT if i, Remember correctly chiappa has started making some other different versions. OF it i think they have a two two three over twelve gauge version at, the moment which would be a, really interesting really. Interesting one to get it get my. Hands on i'd love to get my hands on one. Of those they also make a small survival rifle Called the badger twenty two Or The little badger. Twenty two that one also folds UP and i think it comes in TWENTY two lr and twenty two magnum and it's only a, single shot but it's, super lightweight like you don't even know you have it. On. You okay another good company For Knives Pole. Force knives they come Out. Of germany po h L poll force there makes some really, good stuff really heavy. Duty. Folders Okay lion Steel of Italy And fox Knives. Of italy both of them make some really. NICE Knives, X Gauze wound Seal and selox are really good, blood, stoppers rats r ats and cats. C ats tourniquits are, really good and soft tea if you can, afford them as well as swat, tea well all very very. Good Tourniquits chinook medical also makes really really good medical what do they call? Them modules they have these modules that they make with medical equipment in them for like a dental emergency or a blood EMERGENCY or i. Don't know they just have a ton of different modules that you. Can buy and if you're in the, medical field you have access to even more of. Their, STUFF anyways i could go on and on and on all night about these, different companies but, you know to. Probably, stop okay so you can also you can check into these companies because each one definitely has unique specialized gear to offer the prepper and. The. Survivalists okay one of the hardest things, to get, you know one of the hardest things when getting into prepping is to separate the good quality gear from. The crap. You know that's that's the, bottom line separating the good quality gear from the absolute crap and the quality advice from. The. Mallarchy okay it's extremely difficult to know if you're getting a good deal on good gear or if you're getting a good deal on gear that's going to fail you in a few months or even a few days down. The. Road, okay now one of the things that they're talking about in the chat room right, now, is oh YOU remember i was just talking About The North american. Arms pug, You Know jay fergie was just saying that she's going to be buying HERSELF a pug for, her birthday which. Is good that's a very very. Nice one make sure that when you get. That pug you either get the twenty two magnum version or you get the version with the twenty two magnum cylinder and the twenty TWO l. R cylinder do make. Both models they also make one with a folding grip that you can buy or you can buy the folding grip Separately From North american arms. Dot, com okay that's a take a look. Out there let's see here that nub and the chat room also mentioned that they want AN ms k. ONE knife i don't know what AN ms k one, knife IS but i would definitely be wanting to. See. It, uh oh there's a link in the chat Room. From kickstarter off to take a look at THAT when i get. A chance, all right let's. See here so we were just talking about getting quality gear and gear that is good and gear it. Is. Crap OKAY so i know a lot of you guys out there probably struggle. With finances almost. Everybody, does man it seems like nobody ever has. Enough, Money okay but what do you think is smarter when you're planning to save your own life or the lives of. Your family do you think it's smarter to spend ten dollars ten times for Ten cheap chinese, knockoff knives or would it be smarter to spend one hundred dollars one time and get, a good solid knife that you know you can. Depend on it isn't, rocket. Science guys it's just what it really comes, down to is it's a. Lot eating it's a lot of researching gear and. Smart. Buying OKAY when i, WAS younger i didn't know, the DIFFERENCE and i bought gear of all types and all. Price points, you know some of the gear was awesome and some was, not okay but, you know and some was just. So So but i've gone through a lot. Of it i've already made the mistakes, for, you Okay and i've already found a bunch of kick ass gear that you're. Gonna want THAT'S why i tell you about this stuff all, the time IS because i don't once you making the same MISTAKES that. I. Did okay don't, think though that just because something is inexpensive that. Is. Crappy okay the one thing that you need to, look at especially the BEST example i can give you that just because a knife or any item isn't expensive doesn't mean it's not. Good quality Is the, Moa Knife. Mr mora they're Made. In sweden these are some of the nicest knives on the planet and some of the best priced knives on. The, planet okay you can get A basic mora companion for like. FIFTEEN bucks i mean you really honestly can't. Beat that it's a, Good knife it's got a scandy grind or a zero grind, on it easy to resharpen love. Those things cannot say enough good things about, those guys and they don't. Pay, me, okay wlads we're talking about gear and what's smarter. To do, to spend, you know a decent amount of money initially and be upset that you spend a whole bunch of money but you've got, good gear or to buy a whole bunch of crap a whole bunch of times over and spend the same amount of. Money, anyway okay, you know you guys have to keep in Mind that i'm not just a gun and. AMMO guy i have a lot of other interests and a lot of other COLLECTIONS that i keep hidden in the gun. Metal ARMORY so i strive to get the best possible GEAR that i. Can afford like another good example is. GAS masks i know there's a Lot of millsyrup gas masks, out, there okay but gas masks are extremely important to get. Good, ones okay have to get good, gas masks. All right most of my gas masks anywhere from three hundred to five hundred. Dollars, each okay that's not to see us, have to but. Mine DO cause i figure if the day Comes where i'm gonna need one of those, Gas masks i'd rather not trust my life to a Twenty dollars, you know millsyerp. Gas mask you Dig what. I'm. Saying okay the next thing we're going to talk about is some frugal bug out. Bag IDEAS but i want to look in the chat room for. One, Second, here okay they're talking about survival knives a couple of. Different companies are you ASKING if? I? Knit, I no i. Don't knit and another person ASKED, if, i UH if i have? A? CANNON no i do not have a, cannon yet but maybe, Someday soon you, never know it. Could happen, all right let's see here we're going to talk about frugal bug app. Bag ideas you know we've all heard of the vaseline soaked. Cotton balls but another thing you, can do you can actually soak the little cotton make up. Remover pads those, are. GREAT man i like to use the cotton, balls too but the pads are able to be cut up into sections for smaller for, smaller fires or for multiple fires if you, want to so you can look at using the makeup remover. Pads too that's definitely a good. Option. There okay you can also instead of, buying those, you know those fire stick, firestarter aids you can actually just take, let's see maybe four or six of These strike, anywhere matches and you can glue or you can tape together the handles on them or the wood parts, on them and you can dip the tips the fire side, of them if, you will into wax to help with. The waterproofing carry a few of those to help you star a fire when you're having trouble. Starting, One, Okay now i'm sure a lot of you guys have seen those cotton balls and hot wax that are poured into a cardboard egg carton to make. Fire STARTERS but i find the shape afterwards to be a bit hard, to PACK so i actually like to use tuna cans or the bottoms of. Aluminum, cans now they're not going to be as easy to, get out but THAT'S what i like. To use, you know you can cut the aluminum can to about an inch tall and put the put the hot wax and cotton or hot wax with what's a, laundry lint like. Pocket lint you can put pocket lint and wax poured into the. Illuminum can let's. See here keep, in mind you don't always have to buy the cotton. Balls either this is actually a tip from. My wife, she said if you want cotton that you, you know you don't have to buy. Cotton balls you can actually look in your medicine bottles or in your vitamin bottles because most of, the time well not all, the time but a lot of, the time there's cotton packing inside of those. Medicine bottles it's quite common in certain over the counter medications and in a lot of. Vitamin, Bottles okay and as a fast little, side note another thing to keep your eye out for inside of medicine bottles those little. Desicate, gels okay the little waterproofing or, not waterproofing but moisture absorption gel packets those things, are, great man if you keep one of those in, your backpack or keep a few of those in your pack with, your gear keep it close to, your knives keep it close to. Your, ammunition heck save them all and put them into your gun safe or your gun, metal armory and, you know keep the moisture away from your guns and. Your ambulance stuff. Like. That okay a lot of people use them in their sace and you. Can too there's no reason. You, can okay you can also, you SKINT like, i said in your backpacks to keep moisture away from your, spare ammo from, your knives as well as other areas that you prefer to. Keep, dry okay let's see here some more of the frugal bugout. Bag ideas you can use paper clips to make fish hooks and, rod guides by the way rod guides or for keeping the fishing line on the. Fishing pool i'm sure you guys, Know. This okay fish hooks can also be made from soda. Pop tops i'm sure you've guys seen that costs nothing but time and there's multiple. Tutorials online another item you can carry in your bug out bag that weighs almost nothing that will provide, some comfort as those restaurant sized single serving salt and pepper packets for seasoning any food that you may catch or kill in The, wild okay as well as those little single serving red pepper packets from. Pizza places those are awesome, to have especially if you just killed some animal that you don't know what, it is or you know what, it is but you don't know how it's. Gonna taste little salt and pepper or maybe some, Red peppers you're gonna feel a lot better, about it. Trust me there's another Thing that i've always wanted, to Try but i've. Never tried you see it on cooking, shows sometimes and you can find It. On amazon it's called. Miracle fruit they say it's like an acid trip for. Your tongue they say that when you try, something sweet it's. A sour we try, something sour it. Tastes sweet i've always thought that maybe that. Miracle fruit it comes, in powders and it comes in pills and things. Like that i've always thought that if you were to take that miracle fruit with you in your bug, out bag it might be easier to suck some of the things that you might not want to eat if it didn't taste like, something terrible if it, tasted sweet or if it. Tasted savory, you know it might be something worth, looking into but it's just just my own. Personal, thing there let's. See here you can also get a get and carry a handful of those purel Wise from Chick fil a OR from kfc if you want a way to sanitize your hands on, the go but be sure that you understand exactly what pure kills and what it. Doesn't kill and another good one is coffee filters are good for beginning to or helping strain. Bad, water okay, all right let's take a look at the chat room here. Real, quick, yeah yeah these they're talking about the Guys at titan. Survivor, CORD yeah i actually have some Of that titan. Survivor cord that stuff is. Really nice don't get. Me wrong the fire the fire, cord stuff, fire cord live fire five point fifty cord is really good, Stuff too But the titan chord is really. Nice stuff just got some, of it really really. Cool guys you can you can definitely bet that that stuff. Is, cool uh don't don't hesitate to pick some. Up definitely another recommendation from the chat room is to get some. Shock cord shot cord is really really, good. Stuff guys highlanders says it has a million. Different uses definitely. Good stuff, all right let's. See here you can also oh yeah about the. Pure whites that's a good thing to pick up if you get. The chance. All right another great firestarter item to keep a few in your pack is those trip relighting. Birthday candles you should be easy to get to your local. Dollar store you can find. Them cheap you can get enough of those for. Your family it's a good thing. To have you can also carry a couple of those sparklers that you get on the Fourth. Of july those things, are, Awesome man they make. Great firestarters you can use them to ignite, thermite too if you happen to have. THERMITE around i don't know, who DOES but. I don't but if you have the right lane around the, needs lighting you can use, a sparkler or you can scrape the powdered chemicals off off the little piece of metal that they come on as a sparkler and keep the powder if you want to use, that powder similar to how you would use powdernesium freaking. A fire, let's see crayons can be used for. Fire Starters high lander in the chat, room said you can use a fresnelns, great thing those. Work good you can use alcohol swabs from your medkit to make, a fire nivel bat and, steel wools we all know all kinds of stuff like that is really really good stuff for making fire and things of. That, nature, okay guys, all right well we are coming down to the. End here SO what i want to DO is i want to give away. That, book Okay so i'm going to go back up and look up what is, all right let's. See here the name of the book Is Called The Preppers survival retreat Okay Or Preppers, survival retreats written by a Gentleman Named. Charlie, hogwood okay if you if you Go, to amazon you can actually read. HIS bio, i mean, this guy. This guy's, got. SKILLS man i mean he's got certification, after certification and he's got a heck of a lot. Of skills so definitely definitely want to check out his bio if you get. A chance so the description is the big question for a lot of preppers is simply where do. We go there are a variety of, options available so how do you know what's best for you and? Your family in, this book you'll learn how to break down the task of strategic location into a man's plan, of action including picking a, geographical, location area reconnaissance and, intel gathering home and land, buying basics off, grid options let's see, home fortifications and building a retreat, for you for, your group and for. Your community this this looks like an, interesting. Book guys this is definitely ONE that i would not have a problem. Getting myself but, You know i'm a, host HERE so i can't get one of THESE unless i. Buy it, all right, all right time for, the giveaway because we only have a couple. Minutes Left so i'm going to do another question and it is going to be based on, ammunition again and hopefully this one is simple enough. For, EVERYONE okay i want to look over here at the. Chat room see who we got in the chat? Room here, All right we've got a good bunch of people, here chat so this should be. Just fine, All right. Let's see the question is what DOES the A c p in FORTY five? Acp meme if, anyone knows it's feel free to answer or you can Call into that's fine. With me if no one gets the answer in the next, you know a couple of minutes or the next minute, or so, then, uh yep somebody. Got It automatic. Colt pistol you, Are correct elks won. That One Automatic. Colt pistol you, Are correct elks has one. The book, all right we need to let, you know let g man Know that elk's won. The BOOK and i believe the other person needs to email me and let me know that their ADDRESS so i can send them the. Flint, laces okay, all. RIGHT guys i appreciate you guys joining. Me tonight we're ready to. Go here don't forget to Check Out reality check. Tomorrow Night michael klein is a cool. Cat man i've been listening to him for a WHILE now i really. Like him, all right check. Him. OUT okay i want to leave you guys With a. Chinese proverb, IT goes i HEAR and, I forget, i SEE and, I remember i DO and. I, understand okay something. To ponder. Don't forget if you have any gunsmitting questions you want me to answer, on air email me at my. Usual address, Good night Team gun metal and join us next week as we find ourselves deeper inside The Gun Metal armory. Urban. Survival simulation. This Is, goss yeah, all right this is A future dan nine TO Twelve, pm eastern two hundred meters from the. FINISH line i just attempted, to UPLOAD but i don't think, it Worked so i'm doing. It again i've upcycled some basically gym matting. That's gonna be great to sleep on. OUT here a curtain rod took it apart pretty much in the shape of a, billy CLUB. So i upgraded. My weaponry when you take that billy club and loop it through two handles of a, BEACH bag I found i have improved an expanded. Load carriage inside of that, New container i've added a. Used comforter it's gonna be pretty good to sleep. With, TONIGHT yes i plan to, get sleep, AND honestly i DON'T think i need. A fire I think i could do it. Right now got SMALL diameter pvc piping THAT if i could find a way to get to, DART together i might be able to make a blow dart plastic SHEETING so i can wrap myself up in the flash sheting and the comfort and lay on these pads and get, some rack and got Everything that i've, mentioned previously a couple, racketball sizes. THROWING stones i haven't seen any game that would be worth throwing. It at and of course from my, FIRST cash i got ESSENTIALLY everything i needed to make. A fire but in my SECOND cash i found a couple of lighters, and batteries so it's really no excuse to. Not have a fire at. This point i'm gonna move to the, finish line send it in, my time move into the area where we're gonna spend the night for the, team portion and SEE if i can get fire ready for my current contestants and competitors but soon to be teammates Future Dan Out. Urban. Survival simulation This is Gotham. Get out, all right, We finished we are. A team we, are here got Them? Get out. Phase Two, congratulations jenny and we? Did? It yeah Phase two? Team? Event, Yeah Okay, so james howd? It go it went. REALLY well i was never, really cold to be honest. WITH you i had to slow down a little BIT because i was, getting SWEATY but i was just as just as warm as you. Could. Be, man well our hands have been a little bit cold while we were waiting to get teamed up here at. The end, oh well you were waiting, on me that's. My, funt well temperatures are, dropping too so this. Isn't over it's gonna be surviving. The night but the good NEWS is i think we. Found everything that takes to make fire in. Multiple, Walls Yeah jones is definitely hooked. It up they hooked. It up how was Your trip Banks? TO breaker i wasn't, terribly cold except a couple OF times i got in like a couple of wind alleys and it was just it, wasn't horrible but, it was, you know fifty mile an hour and it's, you know twenty, eight degrees which was a little. Little nippy made me remember back At, like PURDUE when i had to walk to class. In that type, of WEATHER when i would stop to broadcast or stop to do look at the caches. Or whatever THAT'S when i started to, be like oh, it's COLD like I would i would drink my water and, be like oh. IT'S cold i honestly didn't drink much water for. That reason you need. To hydrate how much water did? You drink not a whole bottle or ANYTHING whatever i let. ME taking. I drank i actually need to drink a LOT because i did not. DRINK much i probably drank forty eight hours maybe less than forty eight. Hours drunk oh, it's crazy, left it. That's all you drank a third of a twelve. Hours bottle? That's? It wow so you drank? Four ounce? IS it i drank four? Of those. YOU? And i so we got PLENTY and i still feel. The hydrate but it. WAS cold i didn't want to get. Too cold but actually a couple OF times i had to, slow down especially going up a couple, of HILLS and i did a couple of SHORTCUTS and i was kind of going up a. Hill QUICKLY then, i realized, oh SHIT like i could feel the sweat dripping down. MY back i. Gotta, stop yeah that's that was. The, Deal, so james for, the audience can you describe in general terms this is opseci, your word, love it but generally like where we're at tonight and what we're gonna try. To, Accomplish yeah so we're we're largely in a relatively sort of a thin layer of snow covered park that is, half hardwood, half evergreen and we're gonna go off into these, woods now and we've been pretty. Well equipped so this is, you know you were worried about. The LIGHTING yeah, i was but there's a lot of ambient lights in the. Right, Here yeah i'm worried. About it you can still see, your hands you can see. Your object i'll. SAY this i mentioned this in one of my daily audio cash exactly got a lot. Of those my banks break one of my h you know TONIGHT when i was Going through soul on an individual portion about, how actually if it was a grid down, bug out it'd be. Pitched. Blackout yeah lighting would be a, different matter and then security would be obviously. For real and now you've got a. Significant challenge how do you get how do you navigate? WITH light i swear, to you just like and just not stepping in a hole and breaking your. Leg. Too yep. Oh YEAH SO i i stayed mostly the sidewalks and. Move fast one guy was walking's dog and said something, to ME and i, WAS like i kept kept on cruising right. BY because i almost got hit by. A car and a guy pulled over, and. Said hey you gotta look laughed, AND right i almost. Hit you. NO way i, was Like oh, I'm DONE but, i did and that WAS before I knew i. WAS already. I laughed, but again this isn't not the first time you saw any of this train? Was today, Oh yeah i've. Never even nobody? Wrong turns did you think? You? Made oh? Not, Zero okay well. That's good, OH no i. Was good the ONLY trouble I had i was sitting down. DRINKING planning i went from each cash then playing my next move accordingly to the, next. Cash you KNOW what. I mean AND as i was looking over, THE map i, WAS like i don't remember where this place was because in MY head i was like, out back, out back, Out back AND then i REALIZED if i searched it. Out, back yeah so it, was good. You know so a little bit of admin moved to ensure we we we. Were, Safe right we're using, Text messaging we got. Our phones we're obviously doing broadcasts on. The phones we're now at, our cars but we're not coming up in. Our cars we're. Using them to charge our phones and. Replenish water and that's just. For safety off in, the distance we got a large brand name hotel and pass out a mall in. The distance we have multiple lights you can see rows. Of townhouses this is. Serious suburbia you possibly can hear the traffic. Behind us this, park is, you know on the edge of suburba tucked in between two eight lane highways and it's got a little low ground. In THERE and i think we found everything it takes to make. A fire, oh Yeah, so ben maybe Share. With james we Talked to dave about this a. Minute ago the strategy on the, Fire, TONIGHT. Well i know we're gonna try to, first off have, you know started the most difficult, way first not just gonna use our. Easiest, TOOL. Well i found half, used lighters so we. Got, THAT. Yeah. I did. No at the, uh yeah we we came across uh, donation, stations right it had stuff out in front of them and lo. And behold, but yeah we got all kinds of things That the joneses put. Into cashes they're gonna be more challenging to. Make fires so we're gonna. START there. I don't know how to. Phrase it i'm glad we got the cashes. We got but after the first cash and then subsequently the, SECOND cash i wound up, dumping yeah STUFF that i. Had found so that's a good thing to. Talk about we talked about that before WE we i got to a certain POINT where i hit my. LOAD capacity. I was i was traveling up a road and there was a tub on the GROUND and i hadn't reached. ANY cashes i had, food. Yet so, you Know now i'm at our twenty. Five which in the big scheme of things, is nothing but at twenty five hours, out eating you. Feel IT and i came up on this plastic tub about twelve inches by, twelve inches, you know and it was loaded with all these little bottles and it, was DARK and i looked walked up and although my eyes saw that they were, painting supplies my subconscious was just hoping there was something, to. Eat like little bottles. Of soda it was kind OF what i was thinking. They were. That's, FUNNY yeah i happened to some really. COOL stuff i had a hose at. ONE point i didn't KNOW what i was going to do, with IT but i. Had it found that At that. Low's area AND then i somebody smashed the guard rail on one of the main ROADS that i, was on and it, you know the separators are, All, wood. Okay wood was all smashed and. It was dense, wood DRY and i threw that in my. Book bag you, Brought, THAT oh i threw it out BECAUSE after i had to. Make, choices YEAH after i got, that nice the big, BEDROLL thing i, Was like i'm not letting. This bed this thing is. Too valuable we're going into. The woods there'll be. WOOD there i did get a little bit, of, WOOD though i did get some, scrap wood not. TOO much i hope to. GET more i have what counts as TENDER and i have what counts. As, kindling okay but the wood itself in those woods got snowed on. Last night so this fire is not a. Foregone conclusion keeping. It going is going to be the challenge because we don't have anything to split. Wood with we don't have anything to make, real fuel you KNOW what i mean for. A fire so that's gonna be. The challenge it's gonna be deadwood we go. And, collect yeah there is a falling one right, here too but the you can see it, actually sideways but, you know breaking, it down we're gonna have to use the method of sliding a log, into it prop the log up like maybe on. A rock get our good fire or, small fire go and improp some kind of hopefully maybe a split log. ONTO it i think that'll be our, best bet because you can't split. What now we obviously don't want to attract attention in a real scenario or in this. Simulation tonight there's no posted signs that say we can't do what we're. Doing here there's no signs that say you can't be in the park. At night but we don't want to press. Our locks so we're going to be in, some depression. Very concealed the chances of anybody coming in here are little. To NONE. But i think the takeaway, from me and. Maybe then you can comment on this idea is you start off and you're looking for anything that makes possible sense, to scavenge and then you hit your, load capacity and now you gotta. Make choices, and now. Once you know you're at, full capacity you, move out and then you find you're seeing other stuff available in, your environment and you got to do a. Rapid assessment you got, to say, all right what condition Is IN can i make use of it in? Any way AND now i got to a point where it WAS like i don't want to take off of my shoulders and Unload how i'm moving because it's working to swap something. It was, it WAS but i did a few times when it when it was. Valuable enough but. There was other Stuff that THERE'S stuff i could have right now that we probably could have upcycled and demonstrated something. With that, carrying capacity maybe a shopping CAR if i really wanted to play the homeless. THING up i came across. A lot of. Cool stuff so. Did you did that happen? For, you, well actually my First Day, audio CASH while i was, GOING through I said i was looking for a bunch of STUFF and i didn't find much, in NOTHING and I decided i was just going to try to high tail it out of there instead of really scavenger for STUFF because i figured the cashes would have. Better, STUFF anyway i got some, dry, cardboard uh and that's the ONLY thing i really hung. ON TO i i found like some like metal POLE that i had for a, little WHILE and i. Threw, it out so. Only really the metal pole and like uh more. LIKE cardboard i kept some, of it, BUT yeah. I didn't i realized a lot of. It would be junking and probably be. A waste, but also you guys totally outdid me with regard to. Your SCAVENGING so i was not, very creative but it also helped. Me move so, but UH maybe i should have gave it a little. Bit MORE but i, was looking especially, you know before it got really dark OUT and i hit some dark areas of. The ROAD then i couldn't see anything on. The ground but even but, you know the first hour it, WAS bright i didn't really, see much and most of IT that I did i did. Put, Back yeah so the takeaway is if if you have to move out of an urban area and do a bug out in, that manner the load carriage that you've got. Is KEY but i don't think you, can necessarily, you know plan to be able to move. And not have to make choices on what you might find along. The way. Oh, definitely yeah did you guys Find? AT uh i was passing, a big well, Outfitted building i'll just go with that at, one point and making moves of my body and with, my MIND and i was thinking about how much gaming in these scenarios affects. Your, mindset yeah, you KNOW like i, DON'T know i was making choices with food and with water early on that were exactly THE things i would do in certain survival, video games and it wasn't like WHAT would i do in. The game it, was like, you know let's go easy on. The water it's early type, of stuff you KNOW what. I mean and then sort of like the evasion of certain areas or they're cutting down TO certain i. Don't know it just FELT like i had training in this STUFF that i, don't HAVE and i was sitting, there, thinking, like man a lot of this stuff does come, from that like that the mindset aspect, of it, you know Of like i'm in an herbal. You know getting into that sort OF mindset i think was easy to do because of. The gaming so at. This point in the, individual competition let's do if, you uh let's let's each try to come up with two things that if we had to do, it again we want to sustain that kind, of success and two things that we wanted to do a little bit better and and to stimulate. THE thought i kind of already have these mind and mind so if if you don't, Mind it i'll. Go, First Yeah. So i'd like to sustain THE luck i had finding, Great stuff but, THEN again i did have my eyes scanning the. WHOLE time i meant to be. Doing THAT but i did, find stuff including insulation that is perfectly great to sleep on and a comforter to sleep WITH that i had. No expectations so my first my cash was first cash was, you know, beyond expectations because it Was. So, i'd say, you know, you know luck is the. Result of, you know, you know working hard at, it, too right and and and that happened, For Me so i'd like to sustain that if this ever happens AGAIN and i have to actually, Do this and the Other thing i'd like to sustain is just keep my wits about me to try to up cycle a few THINGS before i, got here and and it wasn't. Necessarily easy. It was it was HARD before i had. Any FOOD once i had a little bit of bite to eat off my, first CASH it i could apply more, mental POWER but i felt the, mental drain uh. FOR improvements i don't know where the BLACK paint i, found went or the, paint brushes and somewhere the original car ANTENTA that i picked up. Was. WAS lost i don't know it. Was lost and because of the nature of, the routes we had three, starting points but we had too Common cases it turns out that in my second or my my, first broadcast, BEYOND expectations i was behind the dumpster in. The light. It turns Out that bennett reached the same cash area shortly, after me and then he came, stolen THROUGH and i screwed up because he wasn't GONNA know i. Was there luckily i'd finished. My broadcast he wasn't going TO know i. Was THERE but i saw him coming around, the corner AND then i ducked behind the dumpster and left my bag on, the ground and he saw. My BAG so i guess there's a. Compromise there but another SUSTAIN is i had the time. TO look I think i found your tracks coming in. To do the first, track too if, you were and there were tracks that probably. Were mine just cruising right around by. The, McDonald's well i went behind SO when i crossed, THE street i went into that gully behind all. Those, shrubs YES but i did walk up out. Of there at, one point. Did you walk past the? DRIVE through i did not walk past the drive. All RIGHT then i didn't find. The tracks THAT'S why i saw. The. TRACK see i got freaked BECAUSE once i passed the McDonald's there was a dude in a pickup truck on right off that little, cut area like you know how you have the, parking lot and then there was a little cut and he was sitting there car RUNNING and i, was like what is going? On there you KNOW what? I mean i. DIDN'T know i was paranoid with. THE cashes i was. Definitely Paranoid so i'd say my sustain is at least trying to look for. PEOPLE'S tracks i DON'T think I found james in. This case, all right who's up two sustains and. TWO improves i definitely think THAT the i definitely think that the the cashes could. Come later i'd like for them to. COME later i felt that a lot of my. Drive dissipated oh and also probably if we didn't communicate what, WE got i think that would. Be, BETTER also. I didn't tell you anything that. Was good when when you showed me, FOUR cans i, was, like actually oh THAT didn't i. Found cans oh. Oh YEAH and i also got. A whole cooking stove set in one of, my cashes so we're on Soup. To, oh. SWEET okay i thought those all came out. Of, It WELL so i found my. Primarily married concerns, were, food heat, shelter tonight you KNOW what, I mean AND everything i was thinking had a lot to do. With that, in fact if we were to do the crafting thing harder, OR better i think the conditions being a little less cold would would make, me wanna would make me want to do, some, stuff right because ninety five percent of my head, is like we gotta beat the. Cold tonight we gotta beat. The cold everything you think about is we Gotta beat and now you. Got FOOD now i got a, milky way, ALL right i don't. Even care we just got to worry about the. Cold tonight so if, it were, you know a springtime or something, like that then it would, be like did you make? A, WEAPON no i was. GOING to i found a license plate on a BRIDGE and i, was like, All right i'm, keeping this AND then i don't know if you guys, saw it then you guys try to find my first CASH because i did leave it relatively, close BY because i left a lot of stuff. In there so in full disclosure to, the audience we put cash is at, two points but there was also. Donation, centers yeah and This is. SATURDAY night i did get a shirt for a lot of extra. Stuff won't even fit in the donation. Bins, anymore yeah and THAT'S. Where i got a, BILLY club i got, A comforter i got another bag to carry. STUFF with i jokingly walked past those BOOKS. And i found, four cans two cans of soup and two cans. OF beans i had no idea that they were FOUND because i got an Onion, from MARIA so i thought they. PACKED them i know the. Onion, camp well maybe the onion Came. FROM jones i. Don't know you. Never know, but yeah WHAT did? I say TWO things i would improve and two things what. That you would continue to do based on. Your performance the clothing? Was, perfect yeah the clothing Was, absolutely yeah it. Was great the whole the whole setup was good as far. As warmth what else? Worked? That, really, well. Well we can come back. TO you I, DON'T yeah i. DON'T know i didn't have too Many problem. Give us, some thought and here, you go thanks to break. To SUSTAIN sustain. I didn't not ONLY did i not, get lost but all every SHORT could i took was the, right decision and every SHORT could i did not take probably was the. Right decision not to. Take it there's at least Two. That i'm thinking Of where i'm almost POSITIVE if i took THEM after i kind of thought about it more and saw where they would. Lead, TO yeah i probably would have had to. Circle back so navigation number navigation, number one, number. TWO hmm. I was i was. VERY fast i FELT like i was fast even though you Beat Me future dan and you totally, outscavenged me so so maybe. ME not i felt like my stuff was pretty GOOD and i was, pretty fast and uh with my scavenging, AND upcycling i, MEAN upcycling i was pretty much got nothing. But the race portion. Of, it yeah, you'd say sustain. The pace sustain, the pace sustain the pace would. Be for the next, go round would be to, do uh would be to do neutral. Ground totally, oh YEAH because i FEEL like i probably had a very different time than, you HAD and i had a lot, of fun but we did a lot. Of start you at an extra. Donation CENTER. All i took was that little shirt right there and just went ON because i wanted to get some mileage. Behind me that place was actually really easy to, navigate though because there was some towns house town homes, back THERE and i just stayed all in there off the main road most of IT until i got to the first, intergalactic base AND and i decided to go out to the ROAD because i didn't want to play around. With them, but yeah. Any other improves, or, sustains gentlemen. My improved, would, be uh maybe be a little more creative Kind, of well there's. TWO reasons i think maybe THIS scavenger, I got i felt a little. Too pressured maybe as YOU were i think you were Saying to james that you're worried of the, security part so you. Like got the cash and got out of. Their asap that's kind OF. What i, did, too okay and in a way like that's a. Good thing on the, other hand that was like prime area to look for other, Stuff TOO and i totally just WAS like i got to get the hell out, of here because really where those cases were were the only well. Lit areas AFTER that i went through. Second cash was right right the, uh, yeah yeah your first, MY set i think that thing was, lit out. Yeah YEAH and i had the. Same scenario there was a truck parked over in a weird spot in, the LOT and i was all Paranoid and i'm looking over THERE and i, was like, OH boy i don't know somebody, in there And. That's dave see you in. The morning he's going, to bed. All right, Good Night. Dave jones thank you for. Your help we'll be doing. Boadcast tonight if, anybody's up we'll probably do another another couple. OF these i got a. Fifty battery but we're in the team. Phase event and if we expand, this event this survathalon to survive with, multiple dimensions you got, a scavenge you gotta. Up cycle it's, a race and you gotta Vanish gray man or just. Completely hide. Four dimensions they balance. Each other but if we if we can upscale, this event then the team teams could form and. There could be. Multiple teams and so this portion tonight is really a prototype of what this event. Could become exactly. Hunting to, not hunting but maybe. Team hunting, you know like if we're all gonna settle in a certain area at, the end maybe, you know you get points for finding. A team so this is almost like a prepper new kind of adventure racing, geo cashing but there's other dimensions, to, It right so tonight's. Extra dimensions we're gonna survive the night, out here temperatures going down to. Twenty two we got we got some stuff ten Nine, pm eastern and we're gonna sign off. This broadcast but after we get make some attempts at, the fire at least we'll be Back on, Stay tuned Stay Tuned. Urban. Survival simulation. THIS. Is, gossap, YEAH. Well, pbm family the sun is up and so we're all of us. Made it we're. All alive. Ben was kind enough to watch, the fire so we even got a little shut eye out of. The, deal DAN and i thank you. For. That ben how and how how was? Your evening actually it went by, pretty quick from about three am till about six, forty five which it. IS now i was fast the uh. You know the rest of the day not, as fast BUT once i got a fire going and kind. Of, chilled out chill. Pun intended. We had a. Good time we, you know we were joking around and having good. Time too, So yeah i'm starting to get a. LITTLE tired i started to fall asleep the last, second here, BUT yeah i didn't actually, FALL asleep. I think so there. We go we. Made it how, About? YOU dan i feel now the sun's back to. WARM us i feeling like we need to get this fire. Going again you want to rock? This fire one. Land seriously cold outside. It is it is a different atmosphere outside of our shelter than it. Is inside it's a whole. Nother ballgame, but yeah twenty two degrees might have bottomed out of. Twenty one. WHO knows, I mean. I'll, say this it's a little harder to stay warm around the fire than. You, think yeah definitely cout. A, fire no without, a fire we'd have. Tapped it we'd have never, MADE it i. Don't think but sun's. Coming up breakfast is on. Everybody's mind hot cup of coffee could take me to another dimension. Right now orange the immune system, back then sacrifice some. Immune, today oh we definitely sacrifice some immune. System. TODAY uh i don't have, much, report guys to be honest. With you the the makeshift camp. And everything you'll get a picture of that in the in, the sometime at. Some point get a look. At that it's. Nothing magic you got just take it with a grain. Of salt it was set up after what six hour hike and or four or five hour hikes something, like that and then, the, low freezing, pitch dark. NO light i think we fared. Pretty Well. It sure, as how it looked great to me at about four in. The morning looking at, it now maybe not, as awesome but actually pretty damn. GOOD job i think, all. Right folks you may get a wrap up from everybody on the ride home or something along. THOSE lines i Guess maybe Ben and dan should do an official, mission out over and out sort, of situation because this was. THEIR baby i was just along for, the ride. All right i'm gonna go enjoy. The day we will see you guys in the on. The flip what, Is? Today, sunday. Yeah, eighteenth well if, nothing else You'll Have sarah hathaway later in. THE chamber i DON'T think i have, a Reliance but i'll check all right out, of. JOS folks i hope You, enjoyed. DOMINIBUS folks i can tell you all, these, YEARS man i sure as hell enjoyed, making it And that Gotham get Out was. It was an. AMAZING time i learned more about prepping that night than probably on ANY class i, ever took ANY podcast i ever. Listened to i'll tell. You that so that's the importance of doing. The things go ahead and enjoy the rest of Your. Wonderful, saturday okay consider joining the supporters side for ad, free podcasts, early releases and all the BENEFITS of pep and. Family membership thank you guys so much for all the years pored and making things like. This possible talk to. You soon