Top 10 Ways to Build Real Self-Reliance

The world feels louder and less reliable at the same time. When headlines blur into rumors and AI sludge, we end up asking a more important question: what can we actually do today that makes our families safer, steadier, and harder to shake?

We start with where a lot of people are right now, burned out, looking for reverence, and trying to live a normal Catholic life without getting dragged into nonstop outrage. From there we pivot into practical preparedness and self-reliance: the resources we trust, the skills that carry over into real life, and the mindset shift from gear obsession to competence. We talk get home bags, tactical first aid, training priorities, communications that still work when cell towers do not, and why physical books still matter in a world where digital libraries can be edited or erased.

Then we zoom out to the part most “prepper” content misses: you cannot do this alone. Community resilience beats lone wolf fantasies every time, and knowing your local area, the people, the patterns, and the risks is its own kind of intelligence. We also get honest about the “why” underneath all of it: faith as the guardrail that keeps preparedness from turning into fear, selfishness, or cruelty, especially when life gets uncomfortable.

If you care about preparedness, survival skills, Catholic fatherhood, and building a calm plan in a chaotic era, this one is for you. Subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a push to start, and leave a review with one skill you’re working on this month.

Transcript

Opening Banter And Sick Season

SPEAKER_01 0:00

The middle children of history, man. No purpose to place. We have no right to war. No right to punch.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

How you been?

SPEAKER_02 0:45

Getting better.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

Y'all on the men? Yeah, hopefully.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Good.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Man, that that funk that just like keeps circling around that everybody's getting all the time and it just keeps coming back. Like we've a we haven't had it since probably mid-December, but we've got a bunch of friends at church who have it. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Yeah, I I feel like someone in my household has been sick since Thanksgiving. I'm not even joking.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

I bet it's not fun. How was the trip for the funeral?

A Funeral Trip And A Rough Mass

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Oh. I mean, the funeral was exactly what I expected. I bet it was. Let's see. I bet it was. The so not at the funeral, but then so the funeral was on the Friday, and then the Sunday after we went to the just the closest pairs to the Airbnb we were staying at. Because you know, you always have that last day's always busy because you got to check out at a certain time and then find a find some place to go to mass and then drive, you know, four hours home. So we went to the local Novus Ordo. I'd never been there. Looked like a pretty church. So I'm thinking maybe not gonna be so bad. Let me tell you, I was wrong. I was so wrong. The let's see. When I knelt for communion, so first off, this parish I don't know how many people, three, four hundred, right? 90% of them 60 and older, of course. They had 10 Eucharistic ministers, and it took longer than your average Latin mass, you know, communion, of course. So my whole family had to do the the rigor moral just to get to the priest for communion. We're about the last people online because we came from all the way the other side of the church. But I go to kneel down, and the priest is so surprised he literally steps back. Like he's like, he's like, and I just stick out my tongue, and he's and then he he almost drops it putting on my tongue because not only was he surprised by me kneeling, apparently no one receives on the tongue there either. So that was fun, fun weekend.

Latin Mass Resurgence And Reverence

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Yeah, we uh so with this last week we had a mission at one of the parishes here. Father Lawrence Carney came in from the holy face devotion, yeah. And it was like four nights, so it was like three nights of theory, one night of practic, you know, like practical application was the last night. But I went, I only got to go one night. I went to third night, and he was going over how you know for communism and everything, but he kept stressing. He's like, if you don't go to a Latin mass now, he goes, You need to go. And this is not a Latin mass parishes having this at really. He's like, You need to go to a Latin. He's like, There is no more rever. And you could see like the pearl clutching happening in the midst of it, you know, this way, you know, but he just kept on it, and nobody like pushed back on him, you know. But you know, it was it's rare that I'm around a priest that he just radiates holiness and reverence, yeah. And other than in person, his voice sounds like Kermit the Frog, other than that, right? Like this, like I we anybody would be blessed to have him as their parish priest. I don't like his he had he had a really off opinion about the SSPX, but I'll give that to him. But other than that, man, it was like I enjoyed it a lot, and then my wife went the the fourth night, and she's like, I didn't know what was going on, but I loved it. Because I couldn't go the fourth night because I, you know, we went to the uh feast of St. Joseph, and my son was serving, but she got she said she got to go by herself, and it's really that my wife gets to go anything by herself like that, and so she got to go and she loved it, you know. She looked, she liked him, you know, and she really enjoyed what he had to say. Yeah, you know, I want to show y'all something, and I want y'all to realize how back we are. Okay. We've never been so back.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

I saw I saw another another. Hold on, let me see if I can find it real quick. Same thing, but it was from a completely different like publication and place. Let's see here who sent it.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

This is this comment's 100% correct. You're what we are seeing is a massive influx of TLM and TLM adjacent parishes, right? Like very reverent novos orders. We have a couple in the diocese that are at Orientum, and they are just sucking up everybody. And and then we've seen a lot more people come to our Latin mass the last four or five weeks as well. And you know, regardless of what the polls say, there is a resurgence going on right now. Intellectually honest people are looking for the most truth, and they're finding it at the at the Capitol Place.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

What's uh I'm not gonna say funny because I I actually think it was completely in uh intended. Hold on, I'm I did find that tweet here real quick. So this tweet that was retweeted by Jason, of course.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

He would be want to retweet this. Jason is one of my favorite follows. He there is no more troll poster than he is, researcher.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

So you yours was from Toronto. Apparently, researchers in New Jersey are also warning that the R-word is making a resurgence.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Look, it's there's no such thing as an R-word or an N-word, right? It's just retard. Like no one's scared of saying retard.

SPEAKER_02 6:30

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

No, like it was that's all about retards. I saw one of those clips like look, look, I don't call retards retard, I'll call retarded people retard retard. Yeah, and everyone knows exactly what that means. 100. No one's no uh, there's no obfuscation there, there's no you know, like kind of trying to dance around it. Everyone knows exactly speaking of the gamer words.

SPEAKER_02 6:55

Anthony and I think we have a fun segment for locals, possibly sometime soon. We're gonna take the old Jim Crow voting test to see if we would be allowed to vote under Jim Crow. I don't think that's gonna be good. It'll be interesting. Yeah, that's not gonna be good at all.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

That's yeah, I don't think that's gonna go the way y'all think it is.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

Oh man, but yeah, both the TLM and the Novus Ordo, I the uh you know, Benedict with Sumorum, you know, he said he wanted mutual enrichment. Of course, we know that real that enrichment really for the most part, at least in terms of liturgy, went one way. I do I do think maybe there was a uh how do how do I say this? I think the people maybe that moved from the novice order to the TLM maybe made them a little bit more well-rounded, so maybe there was mutual enrichment in that direction. But I mean, since since traditionos, it's not like the you know, people's local novos orders have gotten more reverent from Latin mass people having to go there, yeah. No, if anything, it's it's been the exact opposite, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

You know, and I think the a shift that I've seen over the last couple of years, because we're so burnt out from like the Francis era, and we're so burnt out about talking about church politics, and a lot of us just want to live a Catholic life. Look, can you just leave me alone? Let me raise my family in the faith, you know, especially here in Birmingham. We our bishop has been very helpful in the Latin mass, but he's not one we expected to be that. Well, I didn't expect, especially where he came from and everything, and some of the turmoil that was surrounding him when he came here, but he's let us have our masses and he's not said anything, right? He's not trying to take them from us or anything. I'm very grateful for that, and he's allowing us to live our Catholic life.

SPEAKER_02 8:52

But so, like you guys aren't even running on a two-year long like dispensation or anything like that.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Yeah, I don't even think he's asking permission, right? But he also has some really good priests who are advising him as well. Yeah, but uh, you know, the thing I have noticed when we have new people come to the Latin mass, there's these phases they go through, right? The first phase that I've noticed is they go through the awe of like, I can't, you know, this is amazing, this is a beautiful mass, right? And they go that that's you know, that's a short-lived stint, and then it turns to anger.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

It's yeah, it's almost like the five stages of grief.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Yeah. So then you know, you're going to anger, and then it's like, I cannot believe this was taken from us. Yeah, why have not have I not had this in my entire life? Because what people do is they they they have some introspection about like I'll probably I may have not gone through life and made the mistakes I did if I had this support and this reference of the mass and the representation of how we should worship God. And we still see now, like you know, we've got guys that come to the Latin Mass now and they've got a chip on their shoulder, right? And they're they're like they're they're they're all of a sudden they're like TLM supremacy. Look, I'm a TLM supremacist myself. I think everyone should go to the Latin Mass or whatever your ethnic orientation of the Mass is or the Eastern Catholic, whatever it is, the most reverent mass you can go to, other than the ordinary, that's a blasphemous back to calling Easterners ethnics. I love it. So we're bringing it back, baby. But but there's this chip on their shoulder they have because they want everyone else to see what they they've seen, the treasure and they want to bring it and they're angry and they don't really know how to charitably go about it. And you're in that stage for a couple of years, most of the time. You know, some people are short-lived, right? But on average, they're in that for a couple of years, and it can really turn people away from wanting to go to Latin ass if that's your representation of it, yeah. And then eventually you get to this point of like, look, I'm tired of being angry all the time, I just want to worship God, right? I think that's where like you and me and Anthony are at, and a lot of other people that watch your show. We we've hit that stage, and I think that's gonna do a lot better for the faith because we're not trying to beat it in anybody's brain anymore. Like, you don't go to the Latin Mass, you're not a real Catholic. Like, you may not have access to it, yeah, right. And I think that a lot of places don't. If they took our Latin mass away, we would not have a third order to go to or a traditional order to go to. I mean, you know, so I'd be out in the wind. Like, what would I do? Right. But and a lot of people are in that position where the nearest, like, well, y'all are two hours away from the nearest one. Y'all are making a four-hour round trip every Sunday, and that's crazy that you have to do that, right? But it also shows your commitment, you know, and it shows what you're willing to go through to get the faith as it was passed down from our ancestors, and I think we I think we're gonna see a lot bigger resurgence now. The children, yeah. The child treads. I think we're gonna see a bigger resurgence now because we are much more capable of charitably explaining the faith and expressing the faith now that we're out of that. A lot of us out of that anger stage. Because I think like the last five years, six years of the Francis pontificate was nothing but anger.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

It felt that way, yeah. We're a depression, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Yeah, but I think that's also why a lot of us haven't just like gone guns ablazing about this Pope Leo and Pachamama Piazko, right? Like, what do we expect? Like, these people were raised ago in in in horrible seminaries, right? And how long did it take me to come out of that? And he was they were formed much deep more deeper than I was. That brainwashing's there, it takes a while to get out of that brainwashing.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

I mean, I I was a Catholic in the mid-90s. Yeah, I would not be surprised if any priest that was a priest in the mid-90s had pictures like that. Now, should we expect more of them? Absolutely, absolutely we should, but we also also have to be realistic. Like, what the hell do you expect, people?

SPEAKER_00 12:56

Right, and not that we should accept it, but we should understand the situations they came from, and not not that we're excusing it, but don't be surprised anymore.

SPEAKER_02 13:07

Like 50% of clergy out there are probably gay, and that I would say probably on the lower number, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

I'm trying to, I'm trying to be trying to get a benefit of the doubt here. Um, but because like I I'm blessing a good diocese. We have a very orthodox diocese, but I've been to dioceses where I could see it'd be a much higher number. So it's just it's a wasteland out there, and we got to have charity for people who don't have access to what we have access to.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

I mean, of uh of that weekend with the funeral, the two priests of the two parishes, yeah, there no no way they were straight men. No way.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Yeah. We've we've got one here. He smells of patchouli and wears sandals all the time, and he doesn't do the confetti or in his Novusordo. I'm pretty sure he's gay.

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Now, our local Novusordo priest does wear sandals all the time. But that's just because he's kind of like a kind of like a hipster. Okay. Super long beard, wears sandals like Stoike.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Does he drive well? Does he ride one of those like one-wheel big bikes, you know, with like the tiny world in the back? No, Subaru, but he's not a lesbian icewear. Yeah. I actually like our local Novosorto priests, but there are so I've seen, in my experience, my experience may vary to yours. There are two big issues with India with a dot priests. One is I can't understand them. Yeah, that is an issue. The second issue is they have a much when they come here, they have a much higher rate of sexual assault than any other priests.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

I also just tend to think their formation is terrible. Probably. That's more than likely correct.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Look at some of these comments. Definitely hipster. Yeah, stay away from stay away from the Bajit priests if you can. Some of them are good. I've met a few that are pretty good, but a majority of them, I mean, I just not have any against them, I just can't understand them, man.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

The long the longest confession I've ever had was with an Indian priest, and it should have been a short confession. I was getting you know, it took me 20 seconds basically, and then he went on for literally 10 minutes. And I'm like, dude, number one, I don't trust anything you're saying because I don't think you were foreign well. Two, I cannot understand a word you're saying. Three, just give me my penance.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

I had uh I had an African priest once to give me a penance of just what I want you for your penance. I want you to examine where you are in the world and how you can love people more. And that's when you go, no, give me an am I supposed to do that? I need something I can accomplish knowingly, right? Like, give me a four rosaries or something, right?

SPEAKER_02 16:05

How many half an hour later, Adrian's out at the range? This is what I thought he meant. I'm done. I'm examining my place in the world and learning to love people more. Bam, bam, bam, bam.

War Rumors And AI Fog

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yeah, getting a little range therapy in, you know, you did like I love myself more too. Yeah, all right. So, worldwise, you know, I haven't really to be honest with you, I haven't really been keeping up on stuff. I'm just so burnt out with all the craziness going on. Not only that, but I can't trust anything either. Like with the AI garbage. I gotta do something else, right?

SPEAKER_02 16:40

This war has been weird. I like there's almost nothing as to what's actually going on out there.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Like, is Netanyahu alive? I don't know. I have no idea. Maybe, maybe not. Because every time he comes out with something, it's never you know in public, and no one other than Mike Huckabee vouches for him there, and I don't trust him as far as I can throw him, you know. And then there's videos of his wife, you know, going about herself on these you know conference calls, and she looks like she's been crying for like 22 days, you know, like hasn't been that long already. I mean, it's been almost two weeks since supposed March the 9th, right? So we're at 14 days, so yeah, two weeks today is when he supposedly was killed. Look, you know that Ocean, you know that was his wife because she looked haggard. That's all I'm saying about that.

SPEAKER_02 17:37

And you know, then there's reports that the uh the our brand new carrier is out of commission for 12 to 18 months from a laundry fire. Yeah, I mean, I don't believe that. I don't believe it's out of the fight. I don't you think they're moving it for something else, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

That could be too. You know what I would love, and this is like a night. I have no I have no reason to believe this. I have no supporting evidence. This is just an Adrian fever dream. This is wishful thinking, is what this is. I would love if we found out that Trump got us into this thing with Iran so we could pull out, and then Iran just like decimates Israel, yeah, just to get them off because there's nothing more, nothing better to do to get rid of your blackmailers than let somebody else take care of them for you.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

I don't think we have that Trump anymore. Maybe 2016 Trump. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

I don't even know if 2016 2016 Trump was there either. No, he used to he there is just and this Joe Kent stuff, man, is I I I support Joe Kent. Like I someone who's deployed that much and who has way a lot of people who I respect speaking out for him. I'm much more on his side than anything. I think he saw the beast and he realized how bad it was, and he got out. He's like, I can't do anything here.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

I'm not going out what 11 to point deployments with the 75th. Yeah, like that's nothing to sneeze at.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

Paul, you talking about uh Timu QAnon? Yeah, that dude, you can't believe a thing that dude says.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

No, he's an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

He he has been blatantly wrong about just basic historical facts.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

Joe Kent lost his wife during the fight against ISIS, right? Yeah.

unknown 19:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:32

And then supposedly uh Gork, Sebastian Gorka, whatever his name is, who's the director of the counterterrorism, whatever. Like it's all messed up in his lies. He's talking about he's he he talked with someone from team one from the Green Brays, and they knew him. Like, first of all, you know, Green Brays don't have teams. No, it's not they're not SEAL teams, man. No, they're they have ODAs. Um, so obviously you didn't talk to anybody and you're just making stuff up. It's just it's I don't know what to believe about anything. I think AI is muck mucking things up and making things murkier, and I think that's intended. Yeah, I think it's intended for us to be confused and not have all the correct facts, and other than what you can see with your own eyes at this point, we can't believe anything that's going on.

SPEAKER_02 20:18

I mean, I I think so, like we've heard that there's 8-10s now operating over there. You don't operate the A-10 unless there is no anti-air to speak of, yeah, you know, so like, and I've I've I've seen that they're saying that Apaches are operating, so like there's no more anti-air defense. The Strait of Hormuz is closed mostly because the the civilian ships don't want to chance it, but like none of our naval ships really have to worry going through there, you know, with all their surface air missiles. So do you think we go after uh that island?

SPEAKER_00 21:01

I think it would be dumb. There's no reason to. I mean, then I can see maybe there's they have information I don't, but based on the open source information that I have, is not worth the risk of American deaths, yeah. Agreed at all. Like not when we have air superiority like that. You get A10s, because you can get an A10 down about 100 feet off the deck, right? They they can do whatever they want at that point. I don't think it's worth it, but who am I to tell some guy not to be able to go get his? I got mine, why can't he get his?

SPEAKER_02 21:31

That's true.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Who is that?

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Not sure. I mean, I see them on the channel all the time. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

Thanks. Thanks for watching. Here's your shout out. I appreciate you watching. Hopefully, we're giving you enough information to keep you around. Paul used to live on Carg Island? That's crazy. I don't know what is that what he means. I don't know. But that'd be crazy if it was.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

That would be crazy. Why would wait, you're saying there's access to Agartha from Karg Island?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Then we have to take it.

SPEAKER_02 22:09

Oh, in Dubai.

unknown 22:12

Man.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

I at what point do you think Russia will join in? I don't I don't think I think they're so tapped out, man. They can't all they can all they can do is provide you know tertiary support like Intel and stuff. That's about it.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

They're they're using North Koreans and in Ukraine, they don't have much left.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

They're so and they can't pull out and say face. No. I do think it's it's insane. Well, nice, nice. It's it's actually it's it's on brand, but for Iran to start taking out everybody's power, right? And desalination plants, like hey, if they're going down, everybody's going down with them, everybody's gonna, you know, dehydrate together, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 23:04

I mean, if to be fair, it's just the Israeli playbook without nukes.

SPEAKER_00 23:07

It is, it is, and then you we'd really know if the Iranians were going by the by the Israeli playbook if they took over an area and started blasting pornography everywhere. True, which they won't do, so they won't do. They have they have better morals than that than they israeli do.

SPEAKER_02 23:26

Well, all right. We said we didn't want to talk about Iran tonight, Adrian.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Yeah, we touched on it for a minute. It's not we we got you know, it's it's still going on. We gotta kind of touch on some things, although the terror has the terror attacks have dwindled. Yeah, so I wonder if they're pulling back as a negotiating tactic or what, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

I mean, literally, it's been what 25 years now. So two-thirds of my life like expecting lone wolf terror attacks and just never materialize, which is a good thing, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

But I'm waiting, man. What's what am I carrying?

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Anticlimactic is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

There's like my truck gun needs to get some use, or somebody's truck gun does, you know, other than those ROTC kids.

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Those kids at the Citadel, man. The what did they get? They just got awards. They uh the ones you got in the house. Yeah, purple hearts, and then Medal of Freedoms, I think. No, it was an actual military award. Uh was it? Yeah. I forget, I'm not gonna look it up, but whatever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

Does that do this this would never happen? Adrian would just call him a retard. Yeah, he'd he'd be a retard telling me, trying to calm my language down. He doesn't have any minds to talk to me. No comment on that one. What was it? Uh what was Command and Conquer? You remember Command and Conquer?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Oh, yeah, which one is that? I mean, I remember all of them, but yeah. Red Red Alert. Red Alert 2 is my my jam, dude. That the Hellmarch from that is that's an awesome song to work out to, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 25:08

Yes, it is. Yeah. Uh let's see. Do we want to get into the topic now, or do we just want to keep pushing it off? Would man used to the craps I've had to take from MREs. Crap and a brick. The first three weeks I was at boot camp, I didn't poop once. That's not healthy, man. It's not healthy at all.

Top Resources For Self-Reliance

SPEAKER_02 25:31

It's probably the stress and you know, no sleep, but it's like my second old my second oldest anytime we travel anywhere. Kid doesn't poop and then he comes home and it's just like on the toilet for like 90 minutes. You hear it come out and it goes tink. Okay, so you wanted to go over each of our top five lists for resources to become self-reliant. What did we say? Self-reliant, yeah, self-reliant. Yeah, I didn't know exactly what you meant. Hey, that's even better. So, like mine are like I didn't know if you meant specifics or if you wanted more general. So I won general. I hope you maybe went specific.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

I went pretty specific, yeah. So I've got some I've got some resources here. My last one is a big one uh that everyone can have access to without having to buy anything. But the first one I want to go over is for those of y'all don't know him, all of the tactical wisdom books.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Yep, I got mine right up on my safe.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

So the first one we went over when we did get home bags, and we did something else out of here, but this is first aid, yeah. First aid's a good one, yeah, as well. I don't have that one because way beyond that, knowledge-wise. But I would suggest anybody else who doesn't have any any type of first aid background to get it. But the baseline is the priority number one, and just to give you all an idea of some of the contents, he goes over that everything from general awareness skills, minimum first aid and supplies, the bare minimum supplies, and he goes into like how much food, how much water you should have on hand outside of the FEMA recommendations. The FEMA recommendations is like three days of food, six days of water, I think is what the official is now. Goes into basic survival kit. We did the get home bag, which is a good one, gives you some ideas and like a baseline. The belt kit. I don't I'm not a big fan. I have like I have a gun belt, right? And I don't really train with it a lot. One big I I when I go to the range, I don't train from a gun belt because that's how I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be carrying on a belt, right? I'm carrying concealed, right? So every time I go to the range, I'm training from concealed, but a gun belt does have its uses. I do use it when I'm training other people. Just you know, I could have what I need on a couple extra mags, some first most of the skills of drawing from concealment, you know, from will translate pretty well to a to like a gun belt.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Yeah, whereas getting used to draw from a uh you know uh outside the waistband gun belt and a big old you know holster doesn't necessarily translate well to drawing from concealment.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Yeah, yeah, and it's it's much easier to draw from a gun belt than concealed, so it does translate pretty well. Um you're gonna be much faster from a gun belt, depending on what type of retention holster you have. Like I have a level three retention holster on mine, and it's not as fast as just like like a straight draw codex, but yeah, gun belt, it can be good, especially for training if you're out just shooting, you know. But also, like I have my chest rig that I'll wear when I go out to my property as well, and I'll have a gun belt so I can have the pistol on me, and I'll have to, and it's not concealed, and it's not like chafing me from all the walking and stuff I do around. Yeah, and so there is there is a purpose for a gun belt, but in the event of things going sideways, you're probably not gonna be carrying a pistol on you as much, you're gonna be carrying a rifle. Because if things have gotten you know that bad to where you're having to worry about being armed all the time, you're gonna want something that can reach out and touch something a little bit further than 25 yards. Yeah, not that you can't shoot farther than 25 yards with a pistol, but if you're shooting past 25 yards, you really need to be going to something a little bit longer. Goes through patrol EDC bag, a full ruck, how to organize a team, communications, functional fitness, and so forth. So that if we can't get anything else, get this. This one you can get on his website, it's like 20 bucks. I think it's 10 or 10 or 15, honestly. Yeah, I think I got all of them for like 10 or 15 each because I bought a bunch of them at once, bought different ones. He's got everything from that, and then you get into scouting and patrolling. This one's a good one. And then let's see what else we got. Uh Fieldcraft is another good one. You can replace this, this one, with the first edition of Boy Scouts Handbook, which is probably about the same price, but it's a little thicker and goes more in depth about things. And then defensive operations is a good one to have, whether you're urban or suburban or rural. But like, how are you gonna protect your house? How are you gonna protect your property? How are you gonna protect your neighborhood? How to set up community security operations, things like that. Because in the event that gas gets so expensive that we're not able to go anywhere, when they're basically enforcing the 15-minute cities on us, you're going to that means police aren't coming either. But they can't afford back in 08 when the recession hit, the fire department I worked for were not going to some calls if they weren't of an emergency net nature, right? Because gas was so expensive, like the lock keys in a car sort of thing. Yeah, we weren't doing that, you know. That was before my time on. I just I like it to hear stories from guys who are on the job at the time. But you know, just you these are things that you need to at least be mentally aware of what you would do, even if you you haven't put the skills in practice yet, because you last thing you're gonna do is be blindsided by it and and not know how to make a decision on it whatsoever. So that's my first one. What do you got?

SPEAKER_02 31:22

Oh man, I went really general.

SPEAKER_00 31:25

That's fine. We got people of all knowledge bases watching us.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

So my thought was what motivates someone to do all this work, to buy all these things, learn all these skills, practice all this stuff. What what will motivate someone to to go through all that work? And for me, like the first thing that came to my mind was like family. Yeah, like if you really want to learn to be self-reliant, have a you know, get yourself a family, have kids, have start having more kids because that you know that is what it shows you your your weaknesses, it shows you, you know, your because especially for guys, uh measure women too, but like you're always thinking about what ifs, what could happen, what you know, all always worrying about things like that. And it it it drives you to to get better, to learn more, to be more prepared, especially with my boys, like just doing things with my boys, teaching them the things I feel they need to learn. Um it shows me where I myself am weak and what I need to learn too. So yeah, I know like the the number one thing that has driven me to to become more self-reliant is having more people depend on me.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

Yeah. Absolutely. Nothing will correct your priorities than having more kids. Right. Once you hit that three, four kids, and you're you're like, and then you're starting to think, like, well, I don't need a new car every three years, right? I don't need a new phone every time they update because I gotta buy diapers or formula or or whatever, you start to it starts to get your priorities in in check, and you start to realize what is actually important, right? And you're able to align your thoughts in a much more ordered manner as well, right? Because up until that, like when you first get married, and it's just you and your wife, and y'all don't really have anybody dependent on y'all, and maybe your wife works, so to be honestly, if something happened to you, she'd be fine, right? That's different because you're much more selfish, yeah. You're like, Well, I'm you know, I'm gonna go hang out with the guys, my wife will go hang out with her girls, and like we'll just, you know, maybe occasionally we'll hang out together as well with our friends or whatever. You start introducing kids and that, then it's like, well, I can't stay out till 10, 11, 12 o'clock because I gotta get to work in the morning, or I gotta put my kids down. Yeah, you know, so I gotta make sure I get sleep because now I've got somebody else I've got that depends on me. And you and it, and then the more kids you have, the more you start realizing, like, especially you know, we've got four kids, and going out to eat is super expensive now, even fast food, yeah, minimum, minimum sixty dollars, minimum, right? And you do that twice a week, you know, you're looking at five hundred dollars a month on going out to eat. So we try not to go out to eat anymore. It's just not, and not only that, but the quality of food is horrible. It is, um, it's just not they don't even, you know, and and the service is horrible. So then if you can save yourself$100 a month, what can you do with that? What else could you do that but savings, maybe you know, put a down payment on some land, or you know, do maybe even just a couple of acres, so you and your kids can go out in the woods your own couple of acres, like whatever it is, and enjoying those times with your your family as well. Like our property we have down the road, 40, you know, 40 acres. My kids just like to go and just like walk around and like spore the woods, and we'll bring hammocks out and put them up, and they'll just hang out. And that's they love it. They don't need TVs, they don't need books, they don't need iPads or nothing. They just want to run around the woods, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

My my oldest his favorite toy or thing for entertainment is uh Flint and Steel. He will spend hours in the summer trying to light fires with that thing.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Yeah, I mean, yeah, get him a do you hear? Does he do you even got him a fire starter kit? Like just like a feral rod and a piece of steel.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Yeah, so he's yeah, so he's got this, yeah, it's it's literally just that. And then just a few months ago, I found what's called the blast match. Same thing, it's a feral, it's a you know, it's a basically a feral rod and and steel, but it's in this little plastic thing, and you just clam it against like you know, whatever tinder you have in your hand, and it it it just kind of takes some of the makes it a little bit more idiot-proof, little foolproof.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

Yeah, if you can teach someone how to build a fire, they never have to worry about being cold for the rest of their life, or they never have to worry about being able to cook food or anything. Yep, like the outdoor boys is a sign tangent, it's one show that I will let my kids watch on YouTube without me having to watch it with them. Yeah, there's literally nothing. Super safe, and that my kids love it, they want to do everything that they do, right? My my kids want to go camping all day. In fact, I'm taking them camping next month. My girls are in American Heritage Girls, and so I'll take them camping for that with with uh with the troop, and they love it. My boy comes, and you know, we just do it like a family thing with everybody, and they they want to be involved in all that. So exposing your kids to good resources and good role models, and not role models as someone to emulate to try and be like, but someone that's using the skills that you want them to have so they can see how they can be beneficial to them. No, I would not let my kids watch the Warning Babylon. That's fair. Yeah, just how it goes. All right. So that go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 37:12

Paul uh wants to know what's our uh gun to depend on ratio.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Look, there there's a fine bound. Look, I I'm never if you can afford it, buy as many guns as you want, right? Have an equal amount of ammo though. But me, what I've done for my family is I have a rifle for everyone in my house. Now, whether they can shoot it or not, that's a different story, right? Some of them are way too small. I've got a six-year-old girl. The rifle probably weighs as much as she does. Yeah, but when she leaves this house, she will get a rifle, and she will know how to shoot it really well before she leaves this house. So that's where I'm at. I think a lot of guys buy way too many firearms that they should be buying ammo and training.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

This is a dude calling me out right now, guys.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

What if you can afford it, go for it. But you need to be buying training too. Like when I train guys, I tell them all the time, look, I I'm not the only way to do it. I am a way to do it. This is the way I like, right? You need to go get training from other guys to figure out the way that you like to do it, right? And get training from multiple different guys. Now, you have to be careful who you get training from sometimes, but if you get good references, anybody that's in that cloud that claims to be an NRA instructor, steer clear. Stay away from them. You can become an NRA instructor off of an online class. Yeah. What you're doing, like there's not that that's the bar has fallen, is on the floor at this point with NRA instructors. But there are good ones like War Lizard out in Arizona. Here in Alabama, we've got Lighthorse Tactical in Georgia. They've got a few. WarioPro it has some good classes, they're a little pricey. I don't know if I'd pay for them, but there's some pretty good classes if you can afford it. And when because the problem is when you go to buy a class, it's$400 for two days, you're also spending$400 in ammo. Right? This that doesn't include the ammo cost. So you're spending$800 on a class, the amount of ammo you're choosing. So you have to be aware of that. But just find a good trainer near you, you know, and don't worry about how many guns you have, worry about making sure you can use the one you got. The downside for me is their training near me is yeah, four hours away. Yeah, you're you're probably gonna have to be at the at a point where you find somebody has like some good online classes, like like Warrior Post Society puts his on his app or whatever it is you can subscribe to and then go out and try and put them in practice.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

If you don't have access to a trainer near you, find someone that puts them online and just try and put them in practice the best you can.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

It's certainly more expensive. I I know that, yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Yeah, I'm running low, man. I'm running low.

SPEAKER_02 39:55

It has been shipped.

SPEAKER_04 39:56

Help us all the way.

SPEAKER_02 39:57

So once I get it, I will send it right to you.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

All right, my next one. I know a lot of y'all, I've turned a lot of y'all onto him in the telegram chat. Uh so if you're not in the telegram, get in telegram. But this book is by Mike Shelby. There we go. The area intelligence handbook in the Marine Corps, of which I have experience working in Intel. There's always this chicken and egg conundrum, right? Does Intel drive operations or do operations drive Intel? In my opinion, and I come from Intel, so I'm biased. Uh, Intel drives operations, right? Now you can pick up more Intel from operations, yeah, but you know, most successful operations are based off good Intel. And the Area Intelligence Handbook, what it does is it allows you to set a to to procure the skills to be able to understand your area and who are the actors in your area. So we had black, gray, whitelists, right? Black guys are you know, black ocean, you should be aware of this. People we want to stay away from gray for people who are kind of in the middle, right? And then white who are good guys, right? And establishing that, establishing who's the good actors in your area, the bad actors, what their motivations are, and things like that. So you get so you're not caught off guard. Say things go sideways for a little bit, and you start getting brownouts once a week to figure out who the who are the people who are most at risk of visiting some type of violence on you.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

We uh we should try to get him on the show.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

He's willing to come on. I've talked to him. He's he'd he'd be happy to come on.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Any any Monday, man.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Yeah, I'll talk to him. I'll see what we can do. Maybe next Monday.

SPEAKER_01 41:53

That works for me.

SPEAKER_00 41:59

Our son. No, I'm gonna pass on that. All right, what you got? What's your next one?

SPEAKER_02 42:05

My next one is one so once again, they're all very general, but my next one is can be a little to be self-reliant. This might be might not make a ton of sense, but I think to be really self-reliant, I need to actually how we're doing this. Yeah, that would be nice. I mean, I would probably just buy a gun with it. I mean, let's be honest, but to be self-reliant, you you need a community, yeah. Which like I said, it might not make a lot of sense right off the bat, but no one is no one ever can really truly be like entirely self-reliant. You do need yes to rely on others because you can't know everything, you can't do everything. You there's not enough time in the day to practice every skill that you would need, you know, in life, which is why human communities developed in the first place. Really? Yes, so you you need some sort of community, and I know it's something for me that's that's not easy because I you know the community I live in is already super small, and the subset of that that's willing to go through stuff like this and learn stuff like this is even smaller. Yeah, but that's why we have things like the show and the telegram chat, and there's lots of lots of things online and just out there, so you gotta find a community that's gonna help you, you know, prepare and help you learn the things you need to know.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

Yeah, you're exactly correct. The lone wolf theory is is dead in the water, right? There the you cannot survive on your own. You absolutely need a community. And in in in fact, you know, my wife and I have been discussing, you know, do we move closer and just go to go from you know, we're on seven acres now. Do we go down make maybe two or three? And we're closer one to the sacraments uh than we are now, and two, we're closer to some of our friends. And that we can have a because as it is now where I live, you know, I'm a I'm 10 minutes away from one family, and then everybody else is like 40 minutes away.

unknown 44:10

Right.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

And so there's not a although I'm, you know, all of my community interaction is from me making the drive. Yeah. Right. And not a lot of people are willing to come out here, you know, for that. So we're in that discussion now. Like, do we do that? Do we stay where we're at? And that that decision may be taken away from us. We may not have an option. We may not be able to sell the house for whatever reason. I I'm not shouldering two mortgage payments. I just and on top of that, you know, maybe I can't find anything that's good, you know, that will work for what we need it to, you know, because I still, you know, maybe I won't be able to do cows like I do now, but maybe I could just do pigs and chickens. Things are super simple, and plus like they're they're quick turnaround. And but yeah, it's a matter of like we're having a discussion now because is that what's important to us? You know, do we want to be closer to community? You know, as it is now, I've got friends that at the parish are like, look, if something goes down, bring your family, bring all your weapons, all your ammo, and all your food, and we'll pack like sardines in this house. Um, you know, we'll have access, I have access to everything I need here. We'll commandeer this 200 acres next to me that the that they're not doing anything with right now, and we'll just take it, you know, they won't be able to do anything about it. But you know, that's a that decision. A lot of you know, a lot of y'all are moving because you want to be closer to a light mass, but it's more of an aspect of wanting to be closer to the community of the Latin than anything.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

Yeah, it and yeah, community is super important for your for your faith life as well. And yeah, that's something that we that we struggle with is you know, we are very different from the local the local Catholic community, you know, in terms of being trad leaning and also not 70 years old, so it's hard to fit in there, and then you know, the lads and mass community is so far away and everyone's so spread out that you see them once a week, and then you know that that's it. So, you know, having community is just hard, but like you know, like you said, like moving is that an option, sure. But if we're going to move, I want to move to a place that I know has a you know not something more than just a temporary like Latin mass community, and sorry, but right now, like all your diocese and Latin mass communities are kind of just temporary, yeah. You know, so until that gets figured out and solidified, I'm not gonna pick up and move all our whole lives, you know, to be closer to like city that we want to get away from, only for that to get up and disappear, too.

SPEAKER_00 46:46

So, yeah, those the the Latin mass diocese and Latin masses have that sword that sort of Damocles hanging over them at all times.

SPEAKER_02 46:54

Always, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_00 46:55

Even if our even in our parish here, everyone's still spread out because we can't live near the parish because it's a horrible crime-ridden area, yeah. And so we it's not like we can all just take it over. Now, you know, if we ever get like a wealthy benefactor that comes in and just buys like five the five blocks around it, maybe we could turn it into a little enclave, right? But until that happens, everybody's spread to the winds, even in our parish, you know, and and so we all have to make that decision of where our priorities lay and what we're willing to do. Like you and I, you know, your drive is a twice as long as mine or a little bit more, but it's what we're willing to do right now. But when things get rough, will I be able to make that drive? You know, that's where you know, that's where the decision comes in. Do we move? Do we move closer to be able to have access to it? Maybe I'll go from a 45-minute drive to a 25-minute drive. That makes it a little easier. So it's just everyone has to make that decision for yourself and what's best for you and your family.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

Yeah, yeah, and this is largely true. It's it's largely foolhardy to move to you know, closer to anything church-related because it is even even if you're not a Latin mascoer and there's a novice oral parish you like that you want to move closer to. Sorry, that priest is gonna be there 60 years, yeah, 10 years at most, you know what I mean?

Comms Basics And Physical Books

SPEAKER_00 48:15

Like, and then you're gonna get Father Joe come in and he's gonna put the tabernacle in a room somewhere down the hall, and he's gonna do what he wants to do. Even even at some of the FSSP parishes, specifically, I'll I'll talk about the the one in Georgia, they're going through an issue right now where they have wealthy parishioners who are trying to get them to move the parish away from where it's at now because they want to be closer to it, right? And a lot of people have moved to be around that parish. And what are those people supposed to do now? You know, if you move it further further away from where it is now, and that's that's that's even happening in FSSP parish. So you it's it's very rough to move near these things because you never know what's gonna happen, you know. All right, let's just do my third one. Look, I'm I'm giving y'all tangible things, and Rob's coming in here with like theory, and you know, you're getting the best of both worlds here. Y'all, y'all are gonna remember much more of what Rob's putting out there about it.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Yeah, but yours are more yours, like you said, they are tangible.

SPEAKER_00 49:25

Yeah, y'all are just gonna remember like Asians trying to hawk books to us. I have I I I have no affiliate links, by the way. I get paid nothing.

SPEAKER_02 49:32

Just wait till we get to my my fourth point or third point, which is which is just plain books.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Buy books, they're good. Learn to read. So, my third one is the gorilla's guide to Bao Fang Radio. For those of y'all that don't know anything about comms, this is a good introduction. He explains it to you like you're a retard because you probably are. When it comes to figuring out those radios, I feel like a retard. Man, I've got my ham license, and I still feel stupid using these things. But knowing how to communicate, just basics, even if you just get them for like the GMRS channels, which is basically just a you put a channel in and it works like a walkie-talkie with a little bit extra range. Yeah, even if you just do that, you need to have a be a way to be able to communicate. For example, here on my property, when we're milking the cows, I'll have a radio on me so my kids can talk to me in the morning when they get up, like, hey daddy, what are you doing? You know, like I'll make the cows that way. They're not calling my cell phone, right? Because I may not hear it or may not get the signal, but that radio is catching me anywhere on my property, it'll stretch the entire length of my property and get good signal, you know, and then also having that as a secondary means of communication with your friends. If you can't get through to them on the cell phone, like it happened in 9-11, and all the cell phone towers were just clogged up with people trying to make calls, you've got a secondary way of being able to communicate with me. I'm gonna kill this right there. There we go.

SPEAKER_02 51:16

So the the the Bow Fangs. For people who don't know, Bao Fang is just a brand, right? Yeah. So you just you can go on Amazon, Google, Bao Fang, and there's they have a lot of different options, and they're on the most expensive ones are like 50 bucks, and you don't even need something even that that expensive.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

They're super cheap, especially just to get into and learn how to use. But learning how to use it, first of all, is gonna give you a whole lot more benefit. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02 51:55

So, as uh as I already stated, my third one books, just plain books. Tangible books, not ebooks, right? Tangible books because one we see that they're literally editing books now that are 20-30 years old to include things like TikTok in them, yeah. So, yeah, if you if you have an ebook version, it's open, it's open to change at any time. And they could just remove it from your digital libraries, yeah, and then also if you have a crazy EMP event, you're just gonna lose it all together anyway. So, yeah, physical books. You know, when I was thinking about it, obviously I thought of actually all the books you've already mentioned, but you know, I think I think you know, learning self-reliance, it's not just a set of skills, a lot of it's a mindset, and honestly, like good fiction books can help you with oh yeah, with stuff like that, you know, you know, things like you know, especially not so much us as grown, you know, being grown individuals, but like to form our kids in a way where they grow up to be self-reliant, like you know, good good stories like Lord of the Rings, you know, and stuff like that can help form them into self-reliant individuals. Growing up, a book like Hatchet by Brian Paulson.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

Even if it's my daughter loves Hatchet, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

Even if it's not like it doesn't, it's not like super specific with all the survival techniques, it it's more about teaching a mindset, you know. There was one book I read growing up, and it was it was meant for it was meant for kids. I got it at like the the scholastic book fair. It was Basher 5 2. And it was about a pilot. It was a true story about a pilot who he was F-16 pilot in over in Yugoslavia during the the wars in the 90s there, and he was shot down over Yugoslavia and had to had to you know had to do sear basically to to evade and get get found and rescued and all that. And what he talked about throughout the whole book was just uh having the will to live, yeah. You know, just always having the will to live and and always fighting until eventually you win. And I think, oh, not Brian Paulson, Gary Paulson. Brian was the main character's name, right? And Hatchet.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

It's been a while since I read it, maybe. I just know my kids freaked out when they read it, and there's this situation where they go and they find the plane under the water, and the dead bodies in there, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 54:36

Yeah, but but yeah, I think just I think reading and and teaching your kids those those stories and stuff like that can can help make a self-reliant individual.

SPEAKER_00 54:48

Yeah, and showing them that you can get through this stuff, it may hurt for a little bit, but you can get through it, right? And just giving them that that that resilient mindset of you don't just have to accept what happens to you, you can change it. Yeah, right. Yeah, buying Robeson. See, you're you're your memory's on point.

SPEAKER_02 55:14

That's my wife.

Training Guides And Paying Craftsmen Well

SPEAKER_00 55:18

Yeah, I uh hatch is a great one. So if if y'all ever read, there's there's a couple of good like prepper series out there. Angry American makes a good one called the Coming Home series. Okay, it's pretty it's a really good series, and it's basically about the power goes out. They don't show they don't say how, but I don't think so anyway. It's been a while since I read it. Um, but it's a series of books, and it goes from a guy he's in Florida and he's having to get home from like Tennessee, right? When this thing happens, and what goes on and like all the pitfalls of having to get home and everything. Another good series is 299 Days by Glenn Tate. It's not his real name, he's a uh it's a pen name. That's a good series, and it goes it is 299 Days actually reminds me more of what's going on now because it's about a slow collapse uh more than anything. There's not like one event that happens and everything's crazy. It's like slowly we lose trust in our institutions, slowly we start not getting power as often, slowly it's harder to find food, you know, whatever. And then it's interesting and how like the sheriff's departments turn into warlords, and like it's you know, it's it's a good book series as well. And then you've got like the one second after series, which was written by William Fortune, who was on the EMP commission, so he's very knowledgeable about EMPs, and he also does one year later, and maybe one month later, one year later. I can't remember something like that. There's three of them, but you know, things like that give you an idea of like what could happen. Yeah, right. I have an old, old video I did on my channel five years ago about a gentleman who grew up in Krosovo during the the fall of Yugoslavia and what happened, and just his story there. Maybe I'll leak it sometime so y'all can and I just basically go over his story of what happens over a couple of videos, but yeah, I go over some like practical steps to do, but uh just getting an idea of you know the depravity that people can go through and being prepared for it, because we're gonna be called to not only get our families through it, but you're also gonna be called to take care of your neighbor when they need it. They come to you and they don't have any food, you need to be able to have some food to give them, right? You need you know, whether it's like a pound of rice and here's some beans, and hey, go on like here. You this will get you by for a few days, you know, till you can figure something out, or maybe you need to take them in and and incorporate their their labor into what you're doing, whatever it is, right? Um because we're not going to be on the we we will not have the luxury of being able to turn people away if you have something that that can help them. That's not what we do as Christians. And so, but unfortunately, a lot of people in this in this niche of the of the internet are all about selfish themselves, yeah. Yeah, all about well, I'm gonna take care of my family and everybody else, I'll just shoot. You know, like that you're gonna last about a week because people are gonna realize that you know you can't be trusted, and you're gonna be taken out. Uh you're gonna have some type of marauders or raiders or somebody's gonna take everything you have. So, you know, to your point, yeah, reading good books, even just like classic literature, the illiot, you know, the Odyssey, you know, things to fill your kids' minds with how to inculcate the virtues, you know, are gonna get them a whole lot farther than watching Bluey. You know, even if it is a crossover event with the Mickey Mouse Club, right? Crazy. That is our kids' Infinity War. Yeah, I saw that tweet. That is exactly that was the perfect encapsulation of that. My kids are they have like no idea what to do with that information. All right, my next one, and before my last one, these are I'll I'll give y'all a link to these. These are hard to find. This these are written by a guy who he was uh he was a green beret, but he goes by the pen name of John Mosby, and he wrote a series of books called The Gorilla Gunfighter. Okay, and they're like they're self-printed, right? So they're they're not you know from like Amazon or anything, they're like I think it's uh Lulu, I think is the printer, but he goes through like you've got gunfighter one, two, and three. One is clandestine carry pistol, two is preparedness, rifle, and carbine, and three is training drills for building skills. And for those of you that may not have access to someone to train you, these are good resources to have to try and train yourself, and they're in book form, so you can refer back to them, they're based off fundamentals that have been around forever, you know. So that's a good book series. He also did another book called Way of the Forged Man, He Who Does More Is Worth More. Right? And it's basic, and that's basically a mindset book of why we do what we do. I'll link those, I'll put them in the telegram.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:20

Have you read his uh Reluctant Partisan? Yep, I got that one too. I got all his books. Forging the hero. If it was comfortable, they'd call it camping.

unknown 1:00:31

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:31

That one's new. Yeah, you're right, they're not exactly cheap.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:35

Nope, they are not. But uh all the proceeds go to him. Like, you're not having to worry about like Amazon taking 75% of his that's true, yeah. I'm all about paying paying people more if it's going to them. Like, I try and I try and patron a lot of people in my parish, and I tell them not to give me a discount, right? Because I know it's going to you know provide for their family. Yeah, right. I'm willing to pay a little bit more for that, right? I know not all everybody can do that all the time, but if you can do that occasionally to support people that you personally see all the time, you should. It's one thing I love about Twitter.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:12

You know, I've I've met so many people on Twitter that have their own different businesses. Like, you know, JD Evers? Yeah. Like, you know, you can you can get a knife anywhere, and you can get pretty good knives just about anywhere. But like, I'd rather order something like that he handmade, yeah, you know, that's a work of art made by you know a good solid Catholic guy. I'd rather pay a little bit of extra money for that any day than go get a Gerber from the local camping store.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:43

Yeah, I agree. I agree wholeheartedly. I think we should pay well for people who are good at their craft. Yeah, like for instance, my barber. When I go to my barber, I pay I mean, I see him twice a month, every basically every two weeks, and I pay$40 a haircut, but he's good at his craft, right? And I'm willing to pay him a little more, and and also like it's an appointment base, so like I know if I would go in there, I'm getting in there at that time and I'm going to talk later. Whereas I don't have to wait like for super cuts, and yeah, I might get in 40 minutes after I got there.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:18

Right. My my boys they hate getting their haircut, right? So it's their hair's long and crazy right now because they got kind of my curly hair, but not completely, so it's just all over the place. So we were down in down in the nearest big city this weekend and at the mall there and walked by sports clips. And I'm like, let's let's just hop in there, see how long the wait is. Six hours. Six hours. I'm like, sorry, kids, you're not getting a haircut today.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:47

Yeah, well, now the downside with my barber, if I don't get if I miss my appointment, it's three weeks before I get in.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:52

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:53

So I'm like, with a little ragged for a few weeks. Ocean. I will never bald. I will get gray hair, but I will never bald. You want to know something?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:08

I was told by my wife and Sun's this weekend that I apparently have multiple gray hair up top. No, it wasn't it wasn't just oh look, there's your first one. It's like, oh no, here's your first dozen. I'm like, what do you mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

I I went to my barber because he he trims the beard too, and I was and I was like, I noticed that more like I'm due for one this Wednesday, and I'm going in and I was like, Man, it's like I was looking at myself in the mirror getting ready for work this morning, and I noticed I got like a dozen gray hairs. He didn't say anything, he just trimmed my beard, and he goes, I don't see any gray hairs. That's why I think Adrian's white bugs. That's right. That's exactly what it is. Lie to me, baby. Lie to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:51

Okay, okay. I've had like three or four gray hairs in my beard. That doesn't count. That's not going great.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:57

It's just my couple popping in. My wife tells she's like, No one thinks you have gray hairs, they think you just have really light blonde hairs in your hair. Like, I see them, I see them in the light, and they're translucent.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:10

Like, that's not what I'm saying. I try to play it off this week. I'm like, no, no, it's just really blonde. And he's like, No, daddy, that looks clear, that looks gray, daddy.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:22

Yeah, I agree. I'm at the point, like I tell my barber all the time, I was like, if I start getting like that bald spot, like dude dudes get, we're shaving the whole thing. You're gonna see if ever I get that point where I'm balding, it's all coming off. I will never have the comb over nothing. It's just I'll just have like the beard, and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:41

My dad didn't get the bald spot, he got and mine's starting to do it. His the forehead just got a little bit bigger, bigger and bigger and bigger until it was just a you, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:52

There are two demographics that give the best fades: black guys and Dominicans. If you want to fade, you go to a black guy or a Dominican.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:05

And Adrian only knows this because he was a Marine. There's a lot of Dominican Marines. That's right. That's 100% correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:16

You got that predator hair.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:23

Well, funny thing is, it's not even the first time that's been said on this show.

unknown 1:05:26

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:26

We made our before it was the predator forehead.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:29

The predator forehead, that's what it was. Okay, so did you just go or did I? I just went.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:37

Your number four? Didn't I? Yeah, I did the the gunfighters.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:40

The gorilla guides.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:41

Yeah.

Learn By Doing It The Hard Way

SPEAKER_02 1:05:42

Okay, my number four is doing. Just doing things. Like Yeah. You can just do things. Like like what so when I grew up, like we you know, we had a cabin up in the area I live in now, and like So we did, you know, I I fished some and we did a lot of camping and canoeing and stuff like that. But like I wasn't I never grew up hunting. You know, my family wasn't big into guns, wasn't big into hunting, anything like that. So a couple years ago, it's like, you know, after we moved up to this area and you had the COVID and things, and you know, things are clearly just getting worse. It's like I need to hunt. How the hell do I do that? I don't know. You can go try it, just gonna go do it. So you just gotta, you know, just gotta get out there and and do things and make mistakes, learn from those mistakes. Figure out what works for you and what doesn't work for you. So, you know, camping if you're not used to camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, shooting, all of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:49

Just try it. I'll tell you, when I when I was a firefighter, that's when I got into bushcraft. Like, and I love like I'm still I love bushcraft. Doing anything like the dirty civilian guys. I don't know if you watched their video on Saturday where they set up a pod site and trying to see if people could find them with their I did watch that today, actually. Yeah, yeah, that's it. That was a really good one. But I love bushcraft, like I I love doing that stuff. I love getting out and learning how there's nothing more demoralizing than your four-year-old daughter asking you, Daddy, why are you a firefighter and you can't make a fire? Girl, I can make a fire. I'm just trying to do it the hard way, and this wood's wet. Give me some gasoline and lighter, we'll get this thing going.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:41

But yeah, just do stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:43

Yeah, if you are going to um so last year we uh so uh grouse season goes from mid-September through end of the year, December 31st. So after deer season ended, there was a couple weekends left uh before the end of the year. So my wife and I were like, well, let's let's go drive around, look for grouse, not knowing whether or not grouse shows still show up when it's snow on the ground or not. So we just have a it's gotta be a 16-17-year-old minivan that we drive around the back roads when we hunt for grouse, and we made the mistake of going along all the roads we went on before the snow fell. And the end of the road we have the most luck on is at the bottom of a hill. You have to what are you doing? I'm gonna show you. Okay, then you have to turn around on and then go up the hill. Yep, let me tell you, front wheel drive, front wheel drive minivan at the bottom of a snowy hill on December 31st. We got stuck, and I I she put her in the driver's seat and I pushed that van while she gunned it up that hill. It took probably 10 minutes of straight pushing that van. I I we got up to the top of the hill, and I just I I just leaned against a rock and started throwing up. That's how much exertion it took. I mean, I get back in the car, and one of my sons goes, Daddy, let's not go hunting in the snow again.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:17

All right, for y'all that haven't seen it, Chrysler is coming out with a four-wheel drive all-train minivan. No way, the Chrysler Grizzly. It's got about 14 inches of clearance, right? And it's four-wheel drive. It's got a and you can get it in a V8.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:41

No.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:42

Yeah. Talk about like your your Trad off-road vehicle. You know, if you've got more than you know, six, four kids, we're really more than five kids, you can't really fit in this thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:54

We're at we're at four kids, and we need need.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:57

Yeah, the minivan, like you're you're reaching capacity of minivan at this point. Yeah. But once you hit like five kids, unless you've got like an older one who doesn't need a booster seat at all, like you're you've pretty much outgrown the minivan. Chrysler Grizzly. Yeah, it's still only a concept. It's supposed to start on sale this year in the fall. In Japan, we had the Toyota Delica, which was a all-terrain four-wheel drive van. I had one when I was in Okinawa, and it was amazing. In fact, I had it had a sunroof that was entire roof of the vehicle, and I got in trouble. I got pulled over by MPs because one of my Marines as I was driving, because you're driving on the other side of the of the road and the other side of the vehicle, yeah. He decided to open up the window, right? And he got up on the roof and was like surfing on the top of my vehicle. I got pulled over and got sighted for it. Well, I mean, yeah, it was fun to me. I I never got stuck on that thing. I used to go to a bunch of beaches, but there's no parking, it's just basically a bunch of like coral wreath and and shell parking areas, and so a lot of people would get in there and like they would just spin out forever. But I think I got it in and out of everything, it was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:15

I'm telling you, I I wish would they sold the you know those$10,000,$15,000 most basic pickups imaginable here. Like the perfect little off-road, not off-road, but side road hunting vehicle.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

Yeah, I'm looking for like I'm wanting to get like a 2013 or earlier diesel truck, yeah. Just because I want to deal with the deaf and all that, yeah. And you can find them. It's just a matter of you know, you're basically picking what mechanical issue do you want to deal with all the time. You know, like if you want to get like a dodge with the Cummins and the Allison transmission and all that, but then you're dealing with mostly drivetrain issues occasionally, or if you want to go, like I won't buy a Ford from that area, era that era was not a good time for Fords. GMC that was a pretty good era for GMCs, so but I also want to go even further. I'm gonna go back to like the 80s, like box style diesel truck, right? But then I know I'm gonna have to do a lot of work to those things, yeah. So it won't be like a daily drive or anything. You sent me a rusty, but trusty. I'll give you, I'll trade you. I've got a 2008 Nissan Titan Pro 4X, only 180,000 miles on it. I'll trade you. How about that, Paul? It works great, it's just I need a diesel because I need to haul a little bit more than my truck will do. We I tried, I took two cows or two steers to get processed. Yeah, and there's this one portion in Alabama where I was basically going up like a 15% grade for two miles, and I didn't realize I didn't know this. I don't haul very often, so I'm I was pretty retarded on this. But when you're hauling in my truck, you have to be in third gear. Okay, you can't be in drive or overdrive. You really need to be in third gear. And I was going up this hill, and I got probably a mile and a three-quarters of this hill, and all of a sudden, like my transmission fluid is burning. I'm pouring smoke out the back. I have a semi behind me that all of a sudden I just see him go back in my rear view mirror, and I barely got to the top of that thing, and I was like, Man, I don't know. I almost didn't make it. I was I was not gonna be happy having to be straight on the side of the road with two steers in the back of a in a trailer. Let's see. Look, we're bringing it back, baby. That and porch monkey, we're bringing it back.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:47

Oh Garden State reference.

Free Prepper Classroom And Offline AI

SPEAKER_00 1:13:52

All right, let's see. My last five. My last one. All right, let me hold on. This is not a tangible asset, this is something else. Let me show you. This is where are we? Here we are. All right, here we go. Let me share it. So this is Bear Independence Prepper Classroom. I will put this in a link in the telegram chat as well. This goes through everything you need to know. Wow, water, tools, security, medical combo, mobility. There's hours and hours of things in here. Bug out plan, useful SE HTF school. Like there's 30 videos in here. Okay, this is a phenomenal resource. It is free. Anyone can get it. You can download the videos if you need to refer to them later when you don't have access to the internet. It is a phenomenal resource. I highly suggest everyone begin watching them. And then not only that, but Barry's usually pretty good. If you if you you're making a good honest effort of doing things, he's pretty terrible with his answers and trying to answer your questions as well. That sounds like a good Monday for me.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:08

Nicotine, caffeine. I mean, no, okay, not so much. Have you seen the any stories or ads on this? Off-grid AI-powered, like survivalist database.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:33

Yeah, they used uh Nomad to make it, I think.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:36

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:36

I haven't dove it too much into it, so there are some companies who will sell you like an offline database and library, right? They basically just pack it onto an external hard drive. Right. And you but I've seen videos where you can create your own. I think someone just did it and made it easier for everyone to just do it themselves and not having to having to go in and and you know just basically completely wipe up a laptop, put it all out yourself. You just basically load this this software onto it, and it'll do everything for you.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:08

Yeah, because like I mean, say what you want about AI, but the idea of having like this extensive database of everything you would need, right? Survive, but having an LLM on top that you can like ask it, like instead of going through and browsing it all yourself, like being able to ask it a certain question, it did it is it does seem interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:36

Yeah, you know, anything that can collate information for you and you don't have to do the research for yourself, and it but it only references the documents you give it, right? Right, it's much less capability for it to go awry, yeah. Right. So if it's if it's disconnected from the internet, I think it it could be a good use of that.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:57

Calculus is built on hubris.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:02

Look, if it weren't for calculus, we wouldn't have string theory, right? We wouldn't have quantum mechanics either without calculus. To be fair, what has quantum mechanics done for us? Nothing, it's done nothing for us. It doesn't exist, first of all. But unlike nukes, it yeah, and nukes don't exist either. No, they do exist if they did, Israel would have used them by now.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:30

No, there was there was something that was like uh like a smoking gun the other day, and I'm like, I'm gonna have to share this with Adrian. I'll have to go back and find it.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:49

Look, see I I've always said FDR's legs was the smartest person that ever watches our show. For a second, I'm like, what the hell are you talking about, FDR's legs?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:02

And then I do that now. What?

SPEAKER_00 1:18:09

I'm here by myself now. I can say whatever I want. And Rob can't do a thing about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:16

I like the back button on my mouse and it backed out.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:23

I thought you were protesting string theory. For oil, man, this is Dune in real life. Oil is just spice.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:39

And wait, did y'all did you ever watch? Have you watched the new dune? Like one and two? Yeah, I've watched one and two. Like nukes are still like the worst thing, the biggest weapon they have. These people can travel galaxies, and you're telling me nukes are still the biggest weapon you have?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:54

Well, that and if lasers hit their shield, it's like a nuke, yeah. Right?

unknown 1:19:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:03

And you know what? The Timu QAnon guy, he has a bachelor's in English. He's not even, he's he has no background in philosophy. He has no background in history. What are you saying? That's the only degree he has. That is the only degree he has. He is a bachelor's in English.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:27

Wow. Yeah. I was gonna say something really bad about people who have degrees in English, but then I forget that I'm friends with Kale Zeldon.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:36

That's like listening to Anthony about theology. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:45

No comment on that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:47

The sad part is Anthony's theology is better than most priests. It is. He's literally self-taught. He's like an idiot savant when it comes to the elder brother theory.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:04

That's a great tweet, hold on. Just cut it and post it. Anthony Abate, the idiot savant of the of Elder Brother Theology.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:30

Bye, Adrian.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:39

Oh man. All right. Uh let's see. I think I'm done with mine. You got a fifth one?

SPEAKER_02 1:20:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:45

It's what is it? What is it? It's gonna be great. I'm ready.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:51

It's faith. Like the uh the I don't know. There's nothing that's made me more nothing that's made me feel more self-reliant than just the faith, you know. There's nothing I can that you can ever rely on as much as as God, obviously.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:13

If we were materialists, nihilists, or even hedonists, right? When the if the the collapse of society happened without faith, like what are you doing everything for? Right. Like, what is the purpose? Like, why not instead of like having to take care of your family, why not just get rid of them? Abandon them, or you know, whatever. Like, why why not? And it's faith that that puts those guardrails up for us, yeah, and that gives us those guides on what how we're supposed to treat each other, you know, and and you're exactly correct.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:50

And and I'm glad you went that way because like I was like, man, am I getting too like see, I'm I'm glad you went the direction you did too, though.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:58

Like, because I was thinking about that, because I was like, to be honest with you, my one of my resources was just gonna be the Bible, right? You need to be reading scripture every day, and I'm talking more to myself than I am to you, right? I do I am not in scripture nearly enough, right? I am way too much on Twitter and on my phone. Yeah, and same, yeah. I try and excuse it by saying, Well, you know, I do a show and I need to keep up on these things, or like I need to keep aware of all this happening you so I can keep prepared for what's going on, but I need to be spending way more time in God's word, and then as well as the writings of the saints, yeah. Because otherwise, I have lost my why. Right, and faith is what gives us that why, why we do what we do. So, yeah, you're completely correct. Uh and a good reason, then you don't get it. Hold on. So if y'all don't have it, is that the ignatius? The ignatius. I got the do not get the leather bound one, right? Razoring is lucky, it won't stand up. Yep, it won't like I've got the leather bound one. I gave it to my wife so I can get the hardbound one. But did you see the pocket one now? Yeah, I can't believe that putting they just want me to spend more money, is really all that is. But uh but these are phenomenal. There's some things in here, right, that are a little a little too happy clappy, right? But mostly this is 99% good.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:40

That's because it's like 99% scat on. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:45

But to your point, we uh and and if you need this, you can still beat someone to death with this, too, if you needed to, because this is about eight pounds.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:53

Could also, and I'm not gonna say you should, throw that thing in a chest rig, and that's not a bullet.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:00

It would, it a hundred percent would. Definitely nine millimeters. Uh put that thing in your backpack, and that's your that's your back sappy. But yeah, it's having access to constantly reinforcing your why, and that's what that's what scripture does for us. It allows us to and like again. I'm speaking more to myself, like I don't spend nearly enough time in it. This morning I woke up and I've been reading where is it? I think my wife moved my wife will move stuff, and she's like, Well, I'll put it up. Where did you it where you put it doesn't make any sense? You know, like where'd you put it up in the attic? Where's the woman? I don't know. Like earlier today, like our kids were going crazy today, just like weird stuff for no reason. She cut she texts me, she's like, I need you to come in here and do some deliverance prayers because the kids are way off today. So I come in, I was like, All right, where uh so I've got the leather-bound copy of deliverance prayers by Father Ripper. And you got a leather bone copy?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:02

Yeah, I got a leather bone copy. You ain't got a leather bound copy.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:05

I don't got a leather bone copy, you got a little bit of the guy. Y'all should get a copy, but every time I use it, the next time I go to try to find it, I can't find it. It takes me forever to find it, right? And so I finally find it, and I'm going through like the perimeter prayer and stuff, and I put it in, I'll go around and I'll sprinkle holy water right because I try to do that once a month just around the house because you know, people come in and out, bring their demons with them, whatever. And they stay, they stay for a little bit because they like our house, it's nice and cozy. But you know, just being caught up and being aware of the spiritual warfare we're going through and having the faith to lean on to be able to fight the battle. Yeah, I do. I do need the deliverance. In fact, I have a cop I have a copy back here, and it's just like the paperback one, and that's my reserve, right? If I can't find my leather bound one, I know where that one's at. Now I need a leather-bound one. Oh, they're great. Leatherbound deliverance. You know what the sad part is, Steven? Say to Anthony is my confirmation saint. You know I know why he was my confirmation saint. So when I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and it was time for confirmation. 112 bucks. Are you joking me? That's no, I bought mine for like 40. There's got go to his website. Well, 160 on eBay. Yeah, don't go on eBay. What are you doing? Go to his website. But anyway, St. Anthony's my confirmation saint. The reason being is because I didn't know any other saints, and that was the hospital I was born in, was St. Anthony's. So that's why he's my confirmation saint. That's how little catechesis I had growing up. What's his website? Uh, what is it? Census truth census tradition. Traditionus press, I think. Yeah, yeah, there it is. Whoa. There we go. Yeah, so catalog. Deliverance prayers. She's got a let's see. Or if you go to that one, if it has the leather bottom. Yeah, there's a 50, it's$50.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:19

I should order 10 of them and sell them for 160 bucks on eBay, apparently.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:24

You should. Yeah, that's probably immoral, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:27

Is it though? I don't know. You'd have to ask him. I like how he's got his book Dominion. And then he sells a different book that's a summary of Dominion. I need the summary.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:45

I need the cliff notes of Dominion.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:50

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:54

Yeah, he's got a lot of good ones on his website. Magisterial authority is a really Good one.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:01

I've heard that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:02

Yeah, it's a good one to have. All right, what questions we got? Let's see. I saw it's called capitalism, Rob.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:17

Yeah, it is kind of a juice move, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:20

Ask yourself what can I provide the local warlord in my area? What value can it get out of me? Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:26

Ask yourself not what your local warlord can do for you, but what you can do for your local warlord.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:32

Yeah, exactly. Look, that's community right there. Warlord's gonna give you community. For those of y'all wondering, I am drinking watermelon moonshine with screwball. So it's like an alternate peanut or jelly.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:52

Huh.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:53

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:54

Really good. Really good.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:57

I drink, yeah. Man, if y'all, man, I hope shop lobster's paying y'all well. They pay us some lobster, literally. Because that is some pricey, some pricey stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:10

Now you know why we accept payment in their lobster.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:13

I get it. I get it. I went to go buy, I went to go look at it. I think maybe I'll get some, maybe we'll do like you know, Easter, do some lobster. And I still may. Yeah. Um, but that's like a that's like a one time a year type of thing. It is, it really is. And the sad part about it is lobster used to be prison food. To the point where prisoners rioted, they didn't want to eat it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:38

That's right. But uh, you can even order live lobsters from them.

SPEAKER_00 1:29:44

Like they'll send it like will it still be live when it gets here? Yeah, man.

unknown 1:29:47

Oh, that'd be great.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:49

Right. Like you know, you know what we gotta do? You gotta be like, kids, we're doing it, we're doing a craw ad boil. Then they come home and you're like, here's the crawd ad.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:03

Have you ever cooked a live lobster? Once. Did it scream on you? It's not it's screaming, it's it's the water escaping like the steam effect, yeah. But it sounds like screaming, it does.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:19

Great lobster, lobster for cigs. No, man, I don't need cigs. I got knickknacked.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:26

I tell you what, so we have a men's group that we do in our parish, and it it's kind of turning like men's group poker night, and the amount of guys who smoke cigarettes now has increased. That's so based. It it's it's wild. Like hell, I mean, if you're gonna die, you might as well smoke a cigarette on the way out. Man, I would get a lobster just so I would freak out my daughter's dog. Like put it on the ground when it's like walking around, you know. That would be funny. I just like thought of what would happen. My daughter's dog is the most stubborn thing. That little white thing that I've showed y'all before, and it's the most stubborn, like I'll call it and it'll just look at me, and it won't come whatsoever. Now, my German shepherds, like, they can't wait to be around me. I don't even have to say like their whole name. I get like one syllable out, and they're they're running up and like wanting me to pet them and everything. Her dog could care. Her dog is a cat, basically.

Energy Shocks Gas Prices And EV Reality

SPEAKER_02 1:31:27

Did you see there was an explosion at the Port Arthur oil refinery in Texas?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:32

I just saw that. Oh, gas is gonna be expensive, y'all. Those Tesla owners are laughing at us.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:40

Yeah, except all the electricity they put in their car is gonna be used by AI. Yeah, there's that. Yeah, I saw that a minute ago. That's from the Valero refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Reports of an explosion. That ain't good. That ain't good. Would not surprise me if it's an aerial drone.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:07

Well, it it doesn't really even take that. It you could just you just need like four or five guys with like 308s come in there and just start shooting stuff. Well, your average electrical substation, that's all you need. You need six rounds of 556 to completely take out a substation. Bro, that's the biggest reason I haven't bought diesel yet. Is because it it will be ten dollars a gallon by this time. Now, if you went the biodiesel route and went around taking up everybody's like fried oil and turning in your own biodiesel, you could probably get down to about two dollars. But man, you smell like french fries the whole time. Nobody wants to smell like that. My biggest issue with electric cars is the batteries. Like 20 years later, like so. Right now, if you look at Teslas that are like manufactured around 2012, you can get them super cheap right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:02

Yeah, because you need to put$30,000 in batteries in it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:06

Like they're getting like 30, 40 miles total now because the batteries have depleted so much, and now you gotta basically put a$20,000 battery into it to get it going again. Yeah, that's my biggest issue with these electric cars. That's why I liked like the Chevy Volt more, is it was more of like gas generator attached to uh yeah, it was basically a gas engine with a mini power station attached to it, yeah. And the gas would charge the electric motor port. Like that made much more sense to me than a full electric car. Gas here is still like 339 a gallon.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:43

It's about that where we were where we're at.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:49

Do you know? So do you know that how they make so you know you have like 87 octane, 89 octane, and 93 or 93 or 91? Do you know how they make it? Yeah, you know how they make 89. Oh, they just mix the two together to make the 89. They mix the 87 with the 91.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:08

Well, see, where so where I'm at in most places in Minnesota, you'll have the the 87, and then the 89 will actually be a little bit cheaper because the 87 is 10 ethanol, the 89 is 15 ethanol.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:27

Really? Yeah, we're not allowed to have anything more than 10 ethanol here. Lucky, yeah, and you can actually get ethanol-free gas here.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:36

One yeah, one nice thing about where I live at in particular is we're you know so much of an area for boats and four-wheelers and snowmobiles that all the gas stations will have like the non non-ethanol gas too.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:50

We have a lot, yeah, because I live on a lake and we have a lot of you know, because boats can't take ethanol right at all either. So, like I'll like my my zero-turn blow mower. I only put ethanol-free gas in it so it doesn't rust out real bad because that's the problem with ethanol, it rusts the uh internal mechanisms of the engine real bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:13

Fiducious supplicants lets you bless electric cars.

Lent Discipline And Easter Plans

SPEAKER_00 1:35:19

Only individually, not as a couple. Right, yes, of course. Yes, yeah. I want to make sure everybody was clear about that. That's how we get around the rules. Because apparently Catholicism is turned into Judaism. Basically, you as long as it's you know on Fridays, if you just call it fish, it's still fish, even if it's a burger, right? Fish burger. It's a yeah, yeah, ethanol is horrible for your car. I am so ready for Easter.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:53

I miss meat so much, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:56

So my kids, I've forced dependence on them of no desserts whatsoever during lunch. Now we've had well, like they've gone to a birthday party, and I wasn't gonna make them not eat birthday cake or whatever that day, but mostly it's been no desserts, and they cannot wait. Are we gonna like have nothing but like cake on Easter? It's like, no, we're gonna have like a small, very moderate dessert, but we'll have dessert for eight days in a row. Yeah, right. Just you know, just be aware. Like, we're gonna have some ice cream and some cakes, and you know, because my oldest daughter, she's 13 and she's really into baking right now, and she she wants to make desserts so bad right now. She's got a sweet tooth that'll you know that's bad. But yeah, they can't wait. But it it makes it it's gonna make it that much better when they finally get it, yeah, for sure. Well, and that they're really enjoying, they're not enjoying not the going without, but they can like like she can't even watch look at pictures of cake right now because she wants them so bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:59

I think I might have to get a wagu brisket and smoke that thing for Easter. I don't know what we're doing at Easter yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:06

Like, it's you my in-laws won't come over because they're boomers, and that's what boomers do. They don't want to be around family on holidays. It's so weird, right? It is so it's sad, is honestly is what it is. That like that that Instagram post I sent you from Mark Driscoll. Yeah, 100% on the money, yeah. 100%. And we're seeing that in our parish too. The boomers don't tithe as much as the Gen Zs and Millennials do, whatsoever. But anyway, I digress. But we don't know what we're doing for Easter. I don't know, like maybe I'll smoke a turkey. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do something. We're probably gonna go to midnight mass so I can actually do something that day. Um, because otherwise our mass is at 10 45 and it breaks up the day and I can't smoke.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:51

You mean Easter vigil?

SPEAKER_00 1:37:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:55

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what we're gonna do for mass. I don't know if we'll go. I don't know what we'll do. I don't know if they're you I don't know if they even have an Easter lads in mass. You know, because it's done by a priest, by not that parish's priest, it's you know because anyways, I don't know. I'll have to figure that out.

SPEAKER_00 1:38:22

That's the one benefit we have here. Like our priest is pretty good about doing that stuff, even though he's not like he was kind of drafted into doing Latin mass, but he's really taking it on. Yeah, he's done really well with it. Although sometimes when he reads the gospel in Latin, it takes forever because he doesn't he's not a really good Latin reader, right? Yeah, but man, I give him a benefit of doubt, like he does his best, and he's a he's a good priest, probably on the spectrum, maybe I don't know, but he's I think he was an engineer, which you know maybe spectrum-like. But he's a good priest, man. I I like him, I like him a lot. But yeah, Easter is we're we're less than two weeks away, are we?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:06

Sunday was was passionate, was yeah, sorry, passion tide, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:11

Yeah, we're less than two weeks away. It's gonna be a great Easter, guys. Some craziness is probably gonna go on, though. Y'all need to be vigilant. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:20

That is true.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:23

Especially if you live around a bunch of muzzies. Be aware of what's going on. Keep your eyes peeled. Yeah, Lent did go fast. This is your ocean. It went real fast.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:43

Yeah, engineers, man. I think it's required. But I'm gonna give you I am of the opinion that autism is a superpower. It's just how much you lean into it, how much of that superpower you have. Your kryptonite, though, autists are trains and airplanes, and airplanes, yeah. That's exactly right.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:13

I was lucky enough to kind of get the gun tism, you know, it's semi-useful.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:18

It is, it is, and you can arm a small army, right?

Rifles Long Range Practice And Gear Talk

SPEAKER_02 1:40:22

You can buy a like a gun, you can't go out and buy a train, a real launcher, you can get the model ones, but then you're just a 40-year-old with trains. It's not good.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:34

I bought a so I I'm I retrofitted my 16-inch rifle, and I'm gonna make it to my SPR. It's gonna be my long-range rifle with a suppressor on it. I bought a bought Cobbar Optics, I bought a 3 to 18. Just go for it. And so I've I've got to get a new butt stock on it because the butt stock I have on it isn't really good for long range. Yep, and I gotta get a bipod, but I've got a probably a thousand rounds of 77 grain, which is what I'm gonna learn because I'm not good at shooting long range, right? Like I can shoot 500 yards with like an ACOG or like a red dot, like I can hit a man-sized target, but hitting like a five-inch target at five or six hundred yards, I I'm not practiced with that whatsoever. So I'm looking to get into that. So I retrofitted my rifle to do that. So we'll see how that goes. We've got a range here that I go to a member of that we it goes up to 1400 yards. I'm not hitting 1400 yards with this thing, I'll probably hit eight at max, but I'm gonna see how long I how I can stretch that thing out.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:41

Do you get it six five Creedmore? Something like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:44

I do. It's a bolt action. Uh, it's a Ruger American Gen 2. I've got with and I've got a 5 to 25 Arcan on it, the EP5. So I could probably hit a thousand yards with that. It's a ranch, it's a ranch rifle, so it's only 18 inches.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:00

I didn't want it a shorter one because I can't where I'm at, the furthest I can see is probably 500 yards. Yeah, you're never in the mountains or anything.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:42:11

Even if I was in the mountains, like they're the mountains here are so forested right that you can't shoot that far anyway. So 500 yards is really probably the max, but uh like from my house to my to the to the drive to the where the driveway comes off the road is 115 yards. So and then probably 300 yards around my house is as far as I can see. And I could see over a hill into another pasture that's probably 500 yards, right? So I really don't need to be shooting at that, but I have the 6'5 cream more just in case I do want to try to stretch it out to a thousand, see what I can do. We'll see. That's a skill that I've never practiced too much, other than hitting like a man-size target at 500 yards, but to go.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:58

Yeah, 200 yards, 200 yards is the longest range we have around here. Is it? Yeah, and you'll never even get a you might get a 200-yard shot down a straight road around here, but that's about it. You had me until the deep fried Twinkies. I gotta admit, I enjoyed boiled peanuts the one time I've been to the two times I've been to your area of the country.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:25

Deep fried Twinkies, Twinkies are already a perfect item. You don't have to deep fry them. I'm not a fan. Anything that has a seven-year shelf life has been perfected by God. It's seven years.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:43

That's why MREs fall short at like what three or four.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:46

That's right, because they're of the devil.

SPEAKER_02 1:43:55

I ordered a a case of the uh the close combat assault rations, the new the new ones, right? Yeah, and what so it was a case of ten. And I haven't I it took a while to open them. And I opened them just and was going through them, and um hope picked out one that something on the inside had broken open, but the outside was still still contained, but like something happened inside that that case it was growing something living in there, and it was not good. She showed me, and I'm like, oh like it looks so terrible.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:33

That's good protein right there. But so you it down here, you can get regular bowl peanuts, or you can get spicy, yeah, or Cajun, depending on who you guys are.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:45

I was gonna say, I think I think I always saw them as Cajun.

SPEAKER_00 1:44:48

And when it like so when you go to like I don't know if y'all have Texas Longhorn or whatever up there, or Longhorns or Texas Roadhouse, that'd give the peanuts, but boiled peanuts, you can eat the shell, the shell, yeah. They're soft.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:03

You don't have to spit them out, you can eat the shells. Okay, you you kind of you put a couple in your mouth and you kind of just suck all the salt out of them and then kind of just chew them.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:14

Yep. This is the first place I ever had peanuts in Coke to. You ever tried that? No, I've I've get salted peanuts, yeah, and get a Mexican Coke with a you know in the bottle.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:28

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:29

And you take a sip out of it, give you a little bit more, and then put a whole bag of salted peanuts in there and drink it. It will change your life. Shell in the shell or out of the shell? Out of the shell. Out of the shell. Out of the shell, it'll change your life.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:43

Really?

SPEAKER_00 1:45:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:45

We'll have to go to the store tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:47

Yep, it's good. Uh let's see. Look, I'm gonna tell you all right now, I do here in Alabama, we have some really good Mexican restaurants, and you know they're good because only Mexicans go there. We have some really good ones because they got all the meat the whites don't eat. That's right. That's right. Twickies Kool-Aid and watermelon and walk. I thought Ocean made that comment. Let's see. Bull bold peanuts are really just they're just literally boiled peanuts. They're they're boiled and it softens them up so you can eat them easier. And then some of them they'll put like red pepper flakes or something in to make them spicier or Cajun seasoning to make them spicy. I love the cake, I love spicy food.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:45

So I'll they're not usually like super spicy.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:49

No, they're not. It's yeah, it's it's not that bad. Like do y'all have Hattie B's up there?

SPEAKER_02 1:46:54

No. So Hattie B's down here. Yeah, boiled peanuts is like a I don't know if it's southern or more like an Appalachian sort of thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:06

I've only I we so we didn't have it in Kentucky. Growing up in Kentucky, we didn't have boiled peanuts. I didn't I never saw boiled peanuts until I moved to Georgia. I'm gonna say they're big in Georgia. Yeah, Georgia and Alabama is where I've seen them the most.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:21

East Tennessee has them too.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:27

So I guess it is like a deep south thing, not so much a southern thing. Because there's a difference, right? South of the Mason Dixon is southern, but Kentucky is not deep south.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:38

No, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:39

Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina is deep south. Everything else is just southern. There's a difference. All right, let's see. Do you have any other comments?

Public Land Hunting And TLM Commutes

SPEAKER_02 1:47:55

Not really. Do you have BLM land up there? So National Forest Land, like okay, we are right in the middle or right on the edge, I should say, of the superior national forest in the boundary water. So literally, like one side of our town, you go that direction and it's all private. You go the other side of town in that direction, it's all national forest for a hundred miles. So it's actually really nice because you can go hunting, camping, basically do whatever you want out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:28

Make sure you're wearing your orange when you're hunting on public land. Oh, yeah. Oh, you yeah, for sure. Like on my property, my 40 acres, I don't have to worry about it. But I used to go hunting public land with my dad when I was younger. Like we were dicked out. We were basically like safety cones walking around.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:46

Oh, yeah. Up up here, apart from like bow hunters early in the season, you know, I mean they still have to wear some orange, but I mean, up here, no one like it's all just orange, there's no camo. You know what I mean? It's just all bright orange.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:01

The other BLM, Bureau of Land Management.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:04

Yeah, in Minnesota, you have to wear orange on private land too.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:10

Hey, y'all in the chat, say what how far you are away from your Latin Mass if you go to Latin Mass. 100 miles exactly. Yeah, I'm I'm 40, I'm about 40 miles from mine. It's all highway for me to get there. That's where we're discussing whether we want to move closer or not. Plus, my 13-year-old, she's gonna be driving in about three years, and I don't want her driving on the highway that much. Oh, you know, that I'm kind of concerned about that as well. So we'll we'll see what I'm I may not have an option. May the world may end in 2029, you know, like so. I may not be able to move. We'll see.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:54

What else?

SPEAKER_00 1:49:55

All right, so for those of y'all that are not in the telegram, get in the telegram. The comment. Competition is going until the end of the month. So next Monday will be the last show before the competition is up. The competition right now is simple. It is build a get home bag and do a 30 at least a 30-second video on it in the telegram chat of why you put in there what you put in there. I don't care what you have in there, just have a reason for why you put it in there. And then I'll select a winner randomly. It's not subjective here where I just pick somebody and they're the best. It's going to be randomly. As long as you make an entry, you are entered in. And the the prize this month is a avoiding Babylon merchandise of your choice. One item.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:47

Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 1:50:48

Who knows? Have you seen the have you seen uh who who's it that Sam did it? Yeah. Rob pressed the back button on his thing again. Yeah, just got mine the other day. Okay. I don't have time for that. I really don't. Like I I can bar like I try and do the little office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that's about the most I have the time for.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:18

Yeah. I mean Madden's is the longest of the canonical hours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:51:23

That's like a single man's game, or like you hate your family.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:28

But but okay, so the the lectionary though, it's not all the prayers that go with the readings, it's just the readings. Yeah, so it's like so. I have the bookmark here for the feast of Saint Joseph, right? It's a page and a half of reading. You could do that, no, not at all. That's shorter than a violent intimacy, and and it would accomplish your what you stated about needing to read more scripture because the first on that day, the first three lessons come from Genesis. Then the looks like the remainder of that day comes from a sermon by Saint Bernard.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:10

What hour is Matins normally prayed at? Like 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:16

Yeah, but it once again, this isn't this is just this is just the readings, right? Because the the mattens has a lot of sermons from the fathers and doctors of the church.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:27

So I may I may get that then. Tell Sam to send me a copy, and I'll review it.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:32

Well, I'll I did it, I even bought my own copy. I could have had tan send me one for free.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:40

Look, I I just need to fill out my bookshelf better so I can be a wait, a proper trad. Is this for real? Sam's a family.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:50

Tabasco sauce, no way.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:51

You know where Tabasco sauce. So the family who started Tabasco Sauce is the reason that we have neutras.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:59

The reason we have what? You know what a neutra is? Nutria? Yeah, is that is that it's like uh that animal that you can eat for lent? I mean, can you? I think I I think it's been declared by a local bishop. They're like a beaver almost, right? Kind of, yeah. So let's see. I think beaver, nutrias, and capabaras you can all eat for lent.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:24

There we go. Let me zoom in a little bit. Nutria, also known as the koipu, is a large semi-aquatic rodent native to South America that has become an invasive species in many parts of the world, right? So the family who brought in the nutria is the family who started Tabasco sauce, and they brought in the nutrias to for their coats to make basically like you know, fur coats out of them. Well, then a hurricane came through and busted out their pens, and nutrients got everywhere. Until 9-11, the job of the U.S. Marshals in Louisiana was to kill nutria. Then 9-11 happened, and the marshals had to be given a different job. It's a little bit of lore for y'all, in case you weren't aware. I got that from an actual U.S. Marshal who is recorded for have killing over a thousand nutrients. Wow. Yeah. So thanks, Sam. Got the Chipotle Tabasco. I introduced my kids to Chipotle for the first time this weekend. So did we, and my daughter is addicted. Really? My oldest, she loves it. She, in fact, it's funny because she asked for light sour cream, and I've never seen a bigger scoop of sour cream in my life. It was swimming and so ladle of the it was. She said light sour cream, and she must have said she thought she said all the sour creams.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:07

It was I laughed so long.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:09

My um my daughter liked it. My two boys just kind of picked it theirs, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:16

That build your own tacos for the kids is amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:19

That's what we ordered them. And like Maddie ate all the meat. Yeah, Iggy ate the chips. My daughter ate my wife's. Yeah, my wife's ate mine. But yeah, so me and Hope had to get the uh sofritas. Since we're both doing the meatless lent, that was well.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:39

You're doing a meatless entirely, yeah. Wow, it was that's hardcore. It was meh. I'm just doing the sofrites, they are okay. It's like it's like tofu, right? Yeah, yeah, it just takes on the flavor of whatever it's in. It's just the consistency is a little weird. Yeah, I've had it before. Wait, because I'm only doing Wednesdays and Fridays, like Wednesdays and Fridays, I'm standing in fasting, so I'm eating one meal a day on those days. Yeah, um, is I I'd have a hard time doing a meatless lent because my kids won't eat that, right? Like they they love a burger or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:12

In fact, do you know how many burgers I've that how many have eaten burgers I would have eaten after my kids didn't eat the whole thing that I've had to throw away this lent?

SPEAKER_00 1:56:27

I make I make so I'm making burgers on Thursdays, and my burger recipe is basically just is ground beef. Yeah, I put in a tablespoon of sour cream per pound of ground beef. Yeah, put in chopped up bacon, like a not cooked, yeah, yeah, yeah, and basically a pound of shredded cheddar cheese. Sweet. And I make smash burgers out of it. And some salt and pepper. Man, and it because when you put it on the especially you put it on a black stone, and it gives it like a nice crust, yeah, man. On it, man, it's so good. My kids might just tear it up. Thanks. You're welcome. You're welcome. Thanks for that extra penance here. I'm not into your pencil for you. You're welcome. Hey, if y'all ever come down to visit, I'll make y'all some burgers.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:12

I will I will eat them, that's for sure. And it's made from our cows, so you know that's that's awesome. It's organic and or this grass-fed, yep. Grass-fed beef has we don't do any grain fed at all. So much a better flavor to it. It really does.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:28

Yeah, our steaks are phenomenal. My wife makes a really good steak from our cows.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:33

There's one of the UPS guys in our area, he just retired from UPS because he's got a ranch where he does his own cows and and and pigs, and every year, every other year, I'll buy like 50 pounds of ground beef from him. And man, the flavor in it is just yeah, you don't even realize what beef really should taste like until you get beef like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:56

The biggest difference I've seen is pork. The pork pigs is so much better. Like, I didn't like pork chops growing up, I hated pork chops because they're it was like pork jerky, right? It's like real tough.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:09

But my wife doesn't like pork because of that. She likes bacon, she likes ham, but she won't eat a pork chop really because that same reason.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:17

She'll eat my pork chops. Will she? My pork chops are my when we make pork chops. My wife makes them in the crock pot, and my kids fight over who's getting the fat. And my kids don't like fat. But they will like they will fight each other to get the fat. It's they're so good. Yeah, that's so now. Like, I won't buy pork from the store at all anymore. Like, it's just not even the same. I'll have to try get her some actual pork and see if she likes that. I do anywhere between three-quarters to an inch. Well, perfect. That's about what I do. And I only like ribey's. My wife likes sirloins and like New York strip. It's not enough fat for me. I like a ribeye. The ribeye is the the best cut of steak.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:02

Have you tried the uh getting them cut the the top sirloins, like picania style? Picania style. So picania is it's what we would call top sirloin, but it's it it keeps the fat cap on. It's a Brazilian cut of steak. But so think of a sirloin, but with a thick fat cap on one side, and it it it I mean it's still not as good as a ribeye, but it's it's pretty good. It's my second favorite cut of steak.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:31

And what a lot of people don't understand, most of the flavor for a steak comes from the fat. Yes, right, which is why people like love wagyu because it's marbled with fat. And to be honest, and just so y'all know, unless you're in Japan, you're not getting true wagyu, right? Right, it's not at all. In fact, most steaks you get at restaurants is Frankenmeat, it's a bunch of meat glued together, right? You're not even really getting a real steak. But the the when it so, like one of the restaurants we like to go to, you know, it's just me and my wife, Ruth's Chris is a good steakhouse that you'll get a really good steak from them. Did you see they just came out with a new dress code? What's the dress code? Oh, they're getting the Canadians in there, huh? In the restaurant industry, black people are called Canadian. Oh I was unaware of that because as in hey, don't sit that family of Canadians with me.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:34

Up here, we have we get uh quite a few Canadians, so hey, it's probably the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:39

Canadians don't tip.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:41

That's true. Um, yes, but that is exactly why.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:46

There's always been address code. When did they just have to publish it now?

SPEAKER_02 2:00:50

Yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:52

Yeah, Wagyu is an unhealthy cow, that is correct. I don't care, it tastes amazing. You can't get Kobe beef here in the United States either. That's not real Kobe beef.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:02

The stuff that comes from Japan with the certificate, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:06

It's not you when you get here in the States, it's not actually from Japan.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:10

Well, like, but you can have it shipped from Japan.

SPEAKER_00 2:01:14

Yeah, but you're it's gonna be so expensive you're not buying it. Like you're you're the what you have at like Costco is not no, no, I'm not talking about Costco.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:24

I I did once have Kobe steak shipped from Japan, and you're right, it's yeah, it was a one-time thing, yeah. Never again. Yeah, people from the Commonwealth is what we're saying now. The Commonwealth. Wait now, wait now, wait. Are we talking about actual Canadians with that one, or is that another euphemism?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:42

North Africans as we call down here, we call Canadians Northern Mexicans, Northern Mexicans, yeah. Snowbacks, I'll see Wagyu is a uh contradiction in terms because Wagyu only comes from Japan.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:02

I'm sure they just mean they're genetically, yeah. Those you know that cow that cow breed.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:12

All right, what else we got?

SPEAKER_00 2:02:14

We've been going on two hours.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:16

Um yeah, we're a little over two hours.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:21

All right, we got any other questions before we get off here. I will talk to Mike, see if we can get him on for next Monday. That'd be cool. I'd love that. Go over that area Intel, area handbook, Intel area familiarity, whatever. You have the book in front of you. I know, hold on, it's under my other stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:43

Where is it?

unknown 2:02:45

This one.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:46

Area intelligence handbook. He did another one called the SHTF Intelligence Handbook. That was really good. So I did a he so in Murphy, North Carolina, they used to have a a conference there called Mountain Readiness, and now it's moved to somewhere else. And I think what's his name from Brush Beater does it now. But I did a conference there. Well, I didn't really I manned his booth for him while he did a conference there, and he had a book called the SHTF intelligence book, and it's it's was the precursor to this one. It was good, it wasn't as in-depth as this one is, but yeah, he'd be good. I'll see if I get him on on Monday. I think everybody liked the the show with Chris that you were taking a break. That's good. Did you watch that one yet? I haven't yet. No, I'll have to do that. It was a good one. We had we had a good time. I told Chris he needs to create that IFAC business, and I will promote that. I mean he really should. Yeah, he really should. That way, you know, do that because all his like they're really his wife and all his girls are like really great seamstresses. Like, y'all could just create your own iFac. Yeah, create your own little business and do it.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:56

Yeah, we could make the website, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:59

All that GNR approved IFACs.

SPEAKER_04 2:04:05

That's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:07

Yes, I have chickens. I have about 60 laying hens right now. We've got about 15 or 20 that's gonna repo replacing about 15 or 20 of ours right now that we're that we're we've got their brooding box, and we have coonies as pigs because they don't root, they graze, so they're a lot easier, and plus they're a lot more docile, so they're better with the kids. When I kid I don't have to worry about them trying to eat my kids, my kids go in there and feed them. Do you have a lot of the um the wild hogs in your area? I don't hear no east of me across the border in Georgia. There's a it's a bad problem, mostly because of the urban sprawl happening that's pushing them out in Georgia. Eventually they will come here, but we've got so many farmers here that love their firearms that I don't think they'll be an issue.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:02

It'd be fun, I think, to try hunting the man, especially if you can do it in like a helicopter.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:09

Yeah, like 300 blackout suppressed or something, or maybe even get like a FRT on like a like a belt-fed weapon, man. That'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:20

Yeah, one of the uh Lima sixes, yeah, with an FRT on that thing.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:24

Yeah, like I'm I've I've thought about buying a 249, like a civilian version. Like as soon as they have an FRT for that thing, man. 10 grand, dude.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:36

Yeah, you're at least at least the brand new ones from right from FNR. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:42

Let's see. Paul said, Plus Adrian has all the night vision there. Basic rice, you shoot them at night. Yeah, so I my biggest issue right now is coyotes. Right now it's coyote mating season, so I have to be on a lookout for coyotes. They they'll I've seen them in the yard at like 3 p.m. in the afternoon. And I just I didn't have a rifle on me at the time, so I couldn't do anything about it. But right now, coyotes are the issue. Feral hogs, because even just if one of my pigs got out within six months, it would be unrecognizable. Because within six months and hair, exactly, they completely transform within six months. So, and they're not good to eat, especially the males, because they fight so much, they have cysts everywhere from from their fights. Any CCW bags, preferably one, wear of the shoulder for daily carry. Are you Miguel? I'm assuming you're a man. I mean, you could go with anything from like I I carry so this is I have an Eberly stock. Yeah, this is my Eberly stock dirty trick, and it has a pouch. Let's see if I can show it on the camera better. There's a pouch in the back where I can keep a firearm in here. In fact, I have a magazine in here right now. It's got a little slot for a magazine, two magazines, actually. So when I'm a if I go somewhere I can't carry, I'll have it in my backpack. You know, if I just or like if I'm going to work and I'm not wearing like a suit, then I'll carry it in my backpack so it's not entirely visible. This uh otherwise you can wear like a fanny pack. If you like fanny packs, and and you want to be gay, you can wear a fanny pack. Uh Adrian says that, but both him and I do have one.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:26

We do I have a fanny pack.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:29

This is this I have an eberly sock fade sling, yeah. And you can carry it on the front, like a crossbody yeah. Bag let me see if I can yeah, you can carry it on the back or or along around the front, whatever you want to do. Any position. But that's one I have.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:49

Yeah, I mean, and just be aware when you're carrying off-body like that, your draw time's gonna be a lot slower. Um, in fact, I just watched a video by Charlie Cox earlier today, who used to be the cameraman for Grantham before Grantham got found out that he was cheating on his wife with a bunch of other women. But he did a really good video today of drawing from a bag, an off-body bag, and how slow it is. And basically, he put the 21-foot rule into visible display, and it was super slow. He got the guy, he was he, I mean, he got to 30 feet, and the guy he was still getting to the guy before they ever got it out. Just be aware of that. It's gonna be a you you need to practice with it because the issue they had was it kept getting hung up on the zipper, the zipper kept locking up.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:37

What is what is the brand of my fanny pack? Do they make crossbody bags too?

SPEAKER_00 2:08:42

I have an Everly stock fanny pack, like the bandito or something like that. I forget what my brand is. No, different guy, different guy, not the guy that plays Daredevil. I I will tell you that as well. I grow meat chickens, I do Cornish Cross. I don't I try the red range, I was gonna try the Red Rangers, but the the cost difference on the four extra weeks of feed is not worth it. But I do Cornish Cross, and everyone who has our chicken remarks how they've never had chicken that good before.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:16

Really?

SPEAKER_00 2:09:16

Yeah, it's it's an entirely different. My wife will bake it, she'll broil it, and she'll usually do two at a time. She'll do two whole chickens, and she'll she'll season it with like basil and you know some other stuff, and we'll have one that we'll eat, and the other one we'll piece out and make stuff with, like chicken salad or whatever. And like people remark that our chicken's the best thing ever had. I do about anywhere between 50 and 100 chickens a year for meat chickens. Uh why are you doing an eight-inch AR-10? You might as well do an eight-inch 300 blackout. Yeah, I process all my chickens myself. Well, my family. I don't do it all by myself. That'll take forever. But we have families come over from church too, and we'll we'll give them a chicken or two to brab them, and they love it. They come over and they get free chicken out of it, and they get to spend a day, and we feed them lunch and stuff, and we make a day out of it. So it's it's a big, it's a good community building event. All right, any other questions before we get off here? I need to eat something because I'm getting a little lighthead from this peanut butter and jelly. Forgot to eat dinner. That'll do it. Well, like I told my wife to get pizza for the kids, and I just can't eat pizza anymore because it just it does not sit well with me. Since we because we're 80-20, we're 80-20, we're 80% organic, 20% not, and whatever they're doing with these pizzas, man, it's just my body does not like it, it rejects it completely. Yeah, we have a pucker machine. I have a yard bird, I think is what is the metal one. And I got it for like 200 bucks used, and I've had to replace all the rubber fingers in it, but other than that, this worked great. I've shocked the crap out of myself with it too, because it has like a like a little breaker in it, and sometimes if the GFI sets off, you have to sit hit it. Well, the rubber button on it has come off, and so if you hit it, it's just connecting to you and God, and so it'll shock the crap out of you. It is the flour in the dough, that's 100% what it is. We have a really good pizza restaurant here called Capella's, and they they get all their flour from France, and that's about the only pizza I can eat and I have any issues with. Because uh flour from France doesn't have the gluten and the demos and all that. Did you uh ever get your hoplite flashbang?

SPEAKER_02 2:11:57

I do not, I have not ordered it yet. I was going to, but then I forgot.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:03

I haven't already yet. I I was debating whether to do that or just going to get my license through IWI and getting some real flashbangs. Get the real ones. Yeah. Now if Poplight wants to send me one, then I'll try it out for him. But I that's a that's a little much to be paying for a trainer for me for right now when I can buy the real thing for 70 bucks. That's true. And it's one use, but I mean I'm not gonna use that trainer that often either.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:32

Oh here hold on. Whoever was asking about the the bags, the concealed carry bags. This is the brand I got my fanny pack from, but they do crossbody bags. So this is meant to be worn, you know, where it's like here on you, basically.

SPEAKER_00 2:12:53

That looks nice and European and gay.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:56

It does. I mean, there's a reason why the fanny pack and not that. Yeah. But that is an option.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:04

That's night shoots.com. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:13:13

Alright. No more questions. I think we're gonna end it there. We will get in the telegram chat. Have you posted the link to it at all? I'll post it right now. Post it. So get in the telegram, get into the competition. The only thing in here, uh the goal is I want y'all to build your own get home bag and kind of and think about it. Right? Something a bag that you have set aside and ready for you. If something happens, you can get home. Right? And I want to help y'all to get in that mindset of you know, if something happens, I have what I need to get home. So get in, get in the competition, create a 30-second video. We're in the last week and a half of it, right? Which is probably when everybody's gonna do it now. I need to do it this week. Everybody's a procrastinator. But get in there and like I said, the the winner's gonna be randomly drawn, guys. So there's no reason not to do it. Just put your put your entry in and explain the 30-second video of why you put what in you want. And I don't care about that, just explain why you did it. It's not you can't be wrong. Like if you put in there, hey, I put a bunch of Skittles in there because I need to keep my blood sugar up to get home, like that's a good enough reason for me. At least you thought it through. Right? What you did. But just have a reason for why you did what you did. Aren't you in the Telegram ghost? Yeah, you're in the channel. Yeah, you can join. Just put your just put your uh entry in. Yeah, we already answered that. Good. All right, but yeah, get in telegram chat. Other than that, we have a lot of shared information on there. We have our own resident autist in there who gives us all the intel because he watches all of it. He's a good source of information. We have a lot of good discussions in there.

SPEAKER_02 2:14:59

What do you have in your hand that sounds like you've been in a like nightmare on Elm Street?

SPEAKER_00 2:15:06

Is that what it sounds like? Where he's like scraping along the pipe.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:09

It's just well, I was gonna say also like uh hallway chair.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:16

An urban cricket? No, it's uh yeah. I need to I need to uh WD 40 it. It's just a it's the canned onion. It's man, I've probably had this thing ten years, at least. It's probably my favorite knife. Because I don't care if I lose this, so it means I'll never lose it. Of course. But uh like it's probably my favorite knife. I've I've carried this thing more than anything else. But yeah, I'm just sitting here playing with it entirely. It's probably without squeaky here all the time.

SPEAKER_04 2:15:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:45

Because I had the I had to tighten the uh the uh washers on it or the nuts on it, because it was like super loose and it kept coming out, but that's probably what you're doing. I'll just play with my knife. That's all it is. All right, y'all join the telegram. There's a lot of good conversations having there, a lot of good knowledge transfer. I'm in there and I answer questions whenever I'll whenever you know, whenever y'all have anything that somebody else doesn't answer, if I've got the answer to it, uh or at least I'll direct you to the resource for it. Rob's in there pretty frequently too. So you just y'all get in there, meet other people near you, see if you can find other people near you, start creating that community like we talked about earlier. But other than that, guys, see you in the telegram, and we'll talk to y'all next week.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:59

I'm trying to be with the beat, and I'm trying to take my boy, I'm putting up it's all it's not.