225 Prepper Regrets - Disappointments Fails & Misfires of 2025

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So, Tonight, we're talking about…

Regrets and Disappointments of 2025

And 2025 didn’t pull any punches.

It tested our focus… drained our energy…
And for a lot of us with prepared lifestyles, it exposed a hard truth that we don’t like hearing…

We knew better, but we didn’t always DO better.

Not because we didn’t care. But because life got loud and busy.

We talked about expanding skills, strengthening community, and creating plans. We watched the world wobble, felt that familiar pressure in our gut… and still, some of the most important work got pushed off to “later or even never.” Our pantries went unrotated. Training stayed theoretical. Hard conversations never happened. And some of that motivation that we felt in the mornings… went quiet by the end of day.

If you’re feeling accountable… We are too… but that’s good.

Cuz that's a great place to start.

Missed opportunities hurt. Not because we failed, but because deep down, we knew we could have done better.

And that sting? That’s not shame. That’s your instincts reminding you to get back on track.

It's the uncomfortable truth that readiness doesn’t fade all at once… it erodes, quietly, one excuse at a time.

But all is not lost…

Awareness is where real course correction begins.

Let’s talk about that…

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TOPS Bunker Podcast

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Ep: 225 Regrets & Disappointments 2025

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I’ll say this before we start…

We really went off the rails in this episode. Way more than usual.

We apologize for that. I’ve done some heavy editing to clean it up as much as I could. And, we’ll tie it all together on next week's episode.  

So, Tonight, we're talking about…

Regrets and Disappointments of 2025

And 2025 didn’t pull any punches.

It tested our focus… drained our energy…
And for a lot of us with prepared lifestyles, it exposed a hard truth that we don’t like hearing…

We knew better, but we didn’t always DO better.

Not because we didn’t care. But because life got loud and busy.

We talked about expanding skills, strengthening community, and creating plans. We watched the world wobble, felt that familiar pressure in our gut… and still, some of the most important work got pushed off to “later or even never.” Our pantries went unrotated. Training stayed theoretical. Hard conversations never happened. And some of that motivation that we felt in the mornings… went quiet by the end of day.

If you’re feeling accountable… We are too… but that’s good.

Cuz that's a great place to start.

Missed opportunities hurt. Not because we failed, but because deep down, we knew we could have done better.

And that sting? That’s not shame. That’s your instincts reminding you to get back on track.

It's the uncomfortable truth that readiness doesn’t fade all at once… it erodes, quietly, one excuse at a time.

But all is not lost…

Awareness is where real course correction begins.

Let’s talk about that…

so Sorry, i'm I'm listening. I'm just um working on the picture for the podcast, the burnout podcast, Going Tonight Fatigue.

00:02:26.53
Jeremy
Nice.

00:02:28.89
Buddy
We are doing, we're going to prep goals for 2026. Maybe some lesson learned from last year. Yeah,

00:02:35.84
Jeremy
Lessons learned. Yes.

00:02:38.05
Buddy
fails and we'll do fails and celebrations and then yeah, i didn't yeah you know,

00:02:47.58
Keith
Celebrate the fuck?

00:02:52.18
Buddy
Like, instead of just talking all negative and fail, you know, how I failed at this, failed at that, you know, hey, what what went right, what went wrong? So, I don't know. Maybe celebration is too strong.

00:03:02.22
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:03:03.10
Buddy
It's a little gay, but

00:03:03.16
Jeremy
Yeah. ah

00:03:05.94
Buddy
and tremendously gay.

00:03:08.66
Jeremy
Yeah. So, how do we want to kick that off?

00:03:16.12
Jeremy
Buddy's back there gagging again.

00:03:17.68
Keith
Uh-oh. You're dying.

00:03:21.10
Buddy
Man, it's just I get the mic, you know, get in front of the mic and and all of a sudden I get this shit. You know what I mean?

00:03:28.55
Keith
That's because you're talking. You don't normally talk all day.

00:03:31.70
Buddy
That's true.

00:03:31.96
Keith
you don't you don't You don't have a job where you go to an office and talk to people all day long, just like me. Like, I'm silent. My brain is constantly talking all day, but my mouth is not, if that makes sense.

00:03:43.03
Buddy
Yeah.

00:03:44.03
Jeremy
See, i'm the i'm i'm ah I'm one of those types that literally could sit in absolute total silence and be perfectly – because even my brain doesn't really like register. you know I'll be looking at reels or I'll do whatever on my phone, and my brain is absolutely nowhere. That's why I go to sleep so fast.

00:04:07.03
Jeremy
just –

00:04:07.20
Buddy
Well, I'm content being by myself, and there's people who can't. you know They have to have that social interaction and stuff. I'm totally content just being left the fuck alone and and just being you know in my own – I like getting in my own head or whatever like that, but you know just doing my own thing, man.

00:04:20.19
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:04:26.29
Buddy
the Doing scrolling or you know researching stuff, you know doing work, whatever it may be.

00:04:31.95
Jeremy
Well, I will say as far as lessons learned, that's actually one of mine. i The doom scrolling. got to stop doom scrolling because and I can only do it so much anyways.

00:04:40.77
Buddy
oh yeah yeah

00:04:45.38
Jeremy
mean, i mean you know You sit there on your phone and you're looking at different you know news sources or channels and you're trying to figure out what's actually true, what's not, what's AI, what's real.

00:04:56.94
Jeremy
And i just get to a point where I'm like, dude, that's enough. I mean, i become i go down down the rabbit hole and I'll just keep going and keep going. And then finally I'll stop and be like, wait a minute.

00:05:09.69
Jeremy
Do I actually give a crap? No.

00:05:12.76
Buddy
Well, and you said something that's important, man. It's the AI now that, I mean, is it real or is it Memorex?

00:05:16.93
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

00:05:19.01
Buddy
You know, we, we don't know.

00:05:20.17
Jeremy
Mm

00:05:21.49
Buddy
And so now we question everything now, is that all planned? You know, throw a bunch of you know stuff out there. It's you right now you can actually tell like a video with AI.

00:05:34.36
Buddy
Um, a lot of the information you can't, um,

00:05:35.67
Keith
Yeah, you can.

00:05:39.99
Buddy
But there's going to be a time where you can't. I had this conversation. We had our Christmas, one of our Christmas this weekend and had a conversation about AI. And one of the guys I was having this conversation with,

00:05:55.06
Buddy
deals with AI in his job. And so he, as he's playing around with AI, he's asking, you know, some pretty tough questions to AI and trying to corner it and make, and making it, uh, he said, yeah, I was making it admit that it was wrong kind of thing, kind of not really like an argument, but like cornering it with information, like asking a really broad question and and, and taking it down from a broad question down to pinpoint to an answer.

00:06:10.56
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:06:21.78
Buddy
And he goes, yeah, it's, the answer they gave was, I haven't learned that yet. So, you know, one day you're, you're not, it's learning what's put into it, I guess, from what I understand.

00:06:36.54
Buddy
So if, you know, trash in, trash out, or is it going to be trash in or, you know, so something with substance in and and putting out real world, you know real truth, or is this going to a bunch of shit, you know, crammed into it? And, you know, I guess it's like anything else, you know, who's, who's pulling the strings back there? Is it a evil puppeteer or is it, you know, somebody who's actually trying to do it for good?

00:07:03.33
Jeremy
Right. I mean, you got to think about it, though. If, well, you know, some people call them the world elites, some people call them the whatever. If they have altered history, which they have, um and they take that altered history and put it into AI as fact, then AI only spits out what fact it knows.

00:07:26.33
Jeremy
And that fact has been altered.

00:07:27.50
Buddy
Yeah.

00:07:28.55
Jeremy
So it's no longer a fact. it's It is a lie that's become reality.

00:07:33.53
Buddy
Well, what me and you learned in in history class is not what they teach now, if they even teach history, I don't know.

00:07:33.62
Jeremy
So.

00:07:38.70
Jeremy
No.

00:07:40.33
Buddy
And even with my my daughters, the the history they learned. And so in my brain, I'm like, well, somewhere in between is the truth, you know, somewhere between, you know, the yeah America was founded, know, our, our, what was it?

00:07:48.77
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:07:55.19
Buddy
Uh,

00:07:57.53
Buddy
man, who's that guy that found it, not found in America, but found America.

00:08:01.22
Jeremy
Amerigo Vespucci.

00:08:03.03
Buddy
Well, no, you see, that's to the real person we're talking about. What we, will Christopher Columbus came, you know, over here and dumped off a bunch of, you know, Thanksgiving guys or the, my brain is not working today.

00:08:06.64
Jeremy
Christopher Columbus.

00:08:09.82
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:08:16.42
Buddy
You know, the Thanksgiving guys with the big hats and the the big turkey gun.

00:08:16.75
Jeremy
I don't know what the hell you're talking about, dude.

00:08:21.30
Keith
you're ah all over the mother You're all over the place, dude.

00:08:24.25
Buddy
Yeah.

00:08:24.27
Jeremy
Wow.

00:08:25.21
Buddy
Yeah.

00:08:25.50
Keith
So you're talking about the pilgrims are you talking about Christopher Columbus?

00:08:25.97
Buddy
It's,

00:08:28.02
Keith
Two different people.

00:08:28.98
Buddy
Okay, so Christopher Columbus, what we learned in school is christ group Christopher Columbus dumped off these pilgrims.

00:08:29.19
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:08:34.89
Buddy
And then they came over.

00:08:35.17
Jeremy
Mm hmm.

00:08:36.80
Keith
That's not true.

00:08:38.01
Buddy
Well, that's the...

00:08:38.11
Jeremy
No.

00:08:38.90
Keith
No, that's not true at all. But Christopher because Columbus found South America.

00:08:41.21
Buddy
Yeah.

00:08:45.21
Buddy
Well, we know that now, but that's not what they were teaching back when we were going to school.

00:08:46.54
Jeremy
Right.

00:08:49.53
Buddy
You know, they broad-stroked all.

00:08:49.66
Keith
oh Oh, oh i see what you're saying.

00:08:51.74
Buddy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going, i'm going they broad-stroked it all. Well, then my kids learned something totally different that...

00:08:55.00
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:08:57.91
Buddy
You know, and with the spin of, oh it was all the Nate, we're stealing Native American lands, which, well, they stole it from somebody else, you know, something.

00:09:05.33
Jeremy
Well, so Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492.

00:09:11.67
Buddy
Yes, yes.

00:09:12.50
Jeremy
You know, um I believe, if and I'd have to go back and do a little research, but I do believe he actually did make it up here to the States around Florida and in that area.

00:09:25.26
Jeremy
And he interacted with the Seminole.

00:09:27.86
Buddy
Well, there's Viking.

00:09:28.11
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:09:29.75
Buddy
In Oklahoma, they have what they believe to be Viking.

00:09:31.92
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:09:34.42
Buddy
you know I guess they're crude symbols that they use for some kind of you know alphabet or whatever.

00:09:41.62
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:09:42.07
Buddy
So way before, you know what i mean? But I get i guess what i the whole point I was getting at, which we probably take out most of this was somewhere in between what I learned and what my kids learn now and and what's out there is the truth.

00:09:44.23
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:09:54.85
Jeremy
Very different.

00:09:54.93
Buddy
And we just don't know.

00:09:55.87
Jeremy
Very, very different.

00:09:56.74
Buddy
what You know what i mean?

00:09:58.21
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:09:58.50
Buddy
It's somewhere in between. So, you know, and I don't know. I'm a history buff and I i like to watch and listen and read a lot of alternative history to try to figure this thing out because the lies you've been told, you know.

00:10:07.10
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:10:11.59
Jeremy
Yeah. Well, that's one of my goals or not one of my goals, but one of my lessons learned is less doom scrolling, more work. That's definitely a, um, uh, uh, a thing that I need to fix on myself.

00:10:29.12
Jeremy
What do you guys got?

00:10:29.08
Keith
Doomscrolling.

00:10:31.78
Buddy
Oh, yeah, that's definitely on mine, but...

00:10:34.04
Keith
um want to do an episode called Doomscrolling.

00:10:36.71
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:10:36.95
Buddy
Oh, shit, yeah, yeah.

00:10:38.43
Keith
That would be cool.

00:10:38.67
Jeremy
Dude, that would be hours.

00:10:39.38
Buddy
We could go all the way down the rabbit hole.

00:10:43.28
Jeremy
That would have to be like a year long series. Yeah.

00:10:46.29
Buddy
Well, I was totally against doom scrolling or even, you know, having the phone and sitting on it all day. I'd rather read a book and stuff, but, you know, I guess telling a little bit about myself, I've been blown up a few times and my brain just wasn't working as much as it you know as we can all tell.

00:11:01.88
Buddy
that you know it doesn't work as well as it should and like it used to.

00:11:05.45
Jeremy
hmm.

00:11:06.24
Buddy
So I started playing games, but it was more like thinking games to try to get my brain back on track a little bit.

00:11:13.90
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:11:14.14
Buddy
And that was some you know creative... you know, dietary stuff that, you know, I just want to get back on track with that.

00:11:24.39
Buddy
And and now I find myself doom scrolling a lot, which is some of it's, I, you know, I, I'm kind of dabbling in the intelligence world a little bit and have some customers and stuff.

00:11:24.54
Keith
Thank you.

00:11:35.07
Buddy
So I, it's partially job, but sometimes it does get deep, you know, to where it just kind of draining on you after, You know, every day, you know, 8, 12, 10, 10 hours a day.

00:11:47.83
Buddy
you're debt You know, like you said, desk rolling stuff. Living on Instagram, X, you know, whatever it may be. Just to, you know, try to find the latest and greatest so you can put it out there so somebody's informed, you know.

00:12:02.55
Buddy
And it's it's definitely heavy. Very heavy.

00:12:08.99
Keith
Ah, well, the episode is live. There we go. Took me it took me a dare, so to get it done.

00:12:18.10
Keith
ah Sorry, what were you saying, man? I was i was but off into the world. You were talking about were talking about Christopher Columbus and stuff like that?

00:12:25.46
Buddy
Yeah, the guys he dumped off there with the big turkey guns.

00:12:28.82
Keith
Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:12:29.15
Buddy
With the big hats.

00:12:29.46
Keith
Okay, cool.

00:12:29.80
Buddy
Yeah.

00:12:30.78
Keith
Cool, yeah.

00:12:31.66
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah.

00:12:31.77
Buddy
The pilgrims.

00:12:32.12
Jeremy
Yeah. yeah

00:12:34.07
Buddy
All right. But, yeah. So, yeah. Death Scroll. Definitely Doom Scroll. You know.

00:12:40.22
Keith
I don't do enough doom scrolling. Um, I do, I'm, I've been, I've switched over to like, but like political news. Uh, so what, what'll happen is I've got my YouTube channels that I usually go to, um,

00:12:54.62
Keith
um You know, the the big ones like Fox, of course, and, you know, things like that. And then, then what I'll do is I will start hopping around on that subject. So like if they say, um you know, we seized a boat and Fox, so i'll I'll listen to the news report and and then listen to the opinions because they're most of them are op-eds anyway. Um, they're all opinion based, but then I'll pop over cause you know, you know, YouTube will give you all different videos from different, you know, things will CNN will pop up and all. So I'll click on the other ones just see what they're saying. And it's, it's just funny, man. They, it's, it's so amazing how they completely change the narrative to fit theirs.

00:13:36.76
Keith
You know what I'm saying?

00:13:37.04
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

00:13:37.07
Buddy
Oh, yeah.

00:13:37.87
Jeremy
Oh, yeah.

00:13:37.88
Keith
am i Maybe I'm not saying that right. Change the story to fit the narrative. That's probably the better way of saying it

00:13:43.13
Buddy
Well, they put the the spin, like the O'Reilly used to have the no spin zone, you know, which was totally all spin, you know.

00:13:47.23
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:13:49.86
Jeremy
ah

00:13:51.06
Keith
It was.

00:13:52.86
Buddy
But, yeah, so look look I got a question for you, and maybe for both of you.

00:13:53.24
Keith
Yeah.

00:13:57.10
Buddy
Do you guys have a routine every day? You wake up, you got a routine where you get on and start looking for stuff, or how's that working out?

00:14:00.79
Keith
Oh, yes. Absolutely.

00:14:05.26
Jeremy
I would like to think that I have a routine, um but I kind of, you know what? And I think that's another lesson learned. I used to have alarms set for every day at a certain time that I would do this task because I realized in retirement, I don't have like,

00:14:28.12
Jeremy
I don't have an everyday schedule, so because I don't have an everyday schedule, sometimes I will... waifed off into the netherworld and just you know just completely waste time and um i'm usually the first one up um the dogs wake me up i get them out i do the thing i make the coffee they eat by 7 30 but then after that

00:15:00.50
Jeremy
um that's like my me time. I'll usually start the fire. I'll drink my coffee. I'll do whatever. But honestly, it's a lot of wasted time. I could be doing stuff, but I like my mornings. I like to watch the sunrise. I like to, you know,

00:15:18.88
Jeremy
do whatever I want to do. You know, look at my stupid phone if I'm not in the woods, you know? Um, but as far as like a morning or a edge daily routine, it's kind of hard to have one here because it's not us that doesn't live by the seat of our pants.

00:15:37.59
Jeremy
It's literally everybody around us that lives like, like on the moment,

00:15:41.43
Buddy
Yeah. Your schedule's dictated.

00:15:44.27
Jeremy
Yeah. It's, and it's, you never know when one of the kids is going to be like, Hey, we're going to go, i don't know, pick pumpkins. Can you watch the kids? And even if we have something scheduled, sometimes it's just like, you know, we have to forego certain things because of the, you know, doing that.

00:16:02.64
Jeremy
So

00:16:03.13
Keith
What what they're they're actually saying is we're going to pick pumpkins. You're going to watch the kids.

00:16:08.99
Jeremy
yeah that is kind of a way to say that. Now again, again i

00:16:13.22
Keith
You've never said no, right?

00:16:14.89
Jeremy
I am not, I am a guess I'm the meanie. i actually don't have any issues saying no to certain things. However, comma, I don't have every every bit of control in this particular house.

00:16:29.75
Jeremy
So, um you know, no.

00:16:31.93
Keith
ah Do we do any of us? Come on.

00:16:34.24
Jeremy
um But it's it's like, um it's it's kind of hard to have a dedicated schedule. And I would say that is a needs improved for this coming up year. Like I really got to get myself back into a routine.

00:16:49.04
Jeremy
Because I'm left to my own devices, i i can do literally nothing. Like i can go i can I can go a whole day of doing literally nothing.

00:17:00.84
Buddy
Waste the day away, yeah.

00:17:01.26
Jeremy
Yeah. And, you know, sometimes I think that's as stupid as it sounds. I sometimes I think that that's okay. You know?

00:17:08.89
Keith
That's being human.

00:17:10.46
Jeremy
Yeah. Like when I was in the army, because I have a, I, I, I didn't have a problem sleeping. I had a hard time getting up and like actually getting up and getting, getting to work on time. I used to get in trouble, you know, for being late and then the military, that's a thing.

00:17:26.23
Jeremy
But, yeah.

00:17:29.14
Keith
That's a thing in real life, too. Not just military.

00:17:30.94
Jeremy
Well, yeah. Well, so for, you know, first for some, it is, um

00:17:38.69
Keith
Bosses tend to not like that.

00:17:40.38
Jeremy
right. But in the military, it actually, it can have repercussions more so, like in the civilian world, you can get fired, right? Right.

00:17:49.02
Keith
Yeah.

00:17:49.18
Jeremy
Well, it's not that easy in the military. In the military, they can take time, they can take money, they can take rank, and they can make it suck really bad, especially if it's if it's a if it's a pattern.

00:17:56.93
Buddy
Yeah.

00:17:57.29
Keith
that's not good.

00:17:58.55
Buddy
The pain factor. think put the pain factor on you.

00:18:00.15
Jeremy
um But what what's weird is that after I retired, like the next day, i was up. Like I was up, up.

00:18:11.03
Jeremy
And I sat there and I sat up and I'm like, wait a minute. I'm retired. Why am I awake? What is going on here? And it's been like that ever since. If I'm not if i am not up and like actively moving um by 6.30, something's wrong.

00:18:27.45
Jeremy
Because every day I am like up and awake and I'm doing my thing. So, yeah. Having a routine and getting back onto a routine is definitely something I need to improve on and and and an actual goal for for one of my next year.

00:18:46.26
Jeremy
So...

00:18:46.42
Keith
My mornings are basically, my my routines basically, I could mimic that bit a bit. um I'm up at 435 every morning. So five o'clock, I'm absolutely 100% up and the dogs are up.

00:18:54.57
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:18:58.15
Keith
So they're going out doing their thing. You know, so I get about five, six hours sleep at night from five o'clock until eight o'clock. Eight o'clock is when work starts. So from five o'clock, the eight o'clock hour, five o'clock to eight o'clock, that's my time.

00:19:13.21
Keith
So if I choose to get up at six or seven, I lose time. That's but that morning is my time. It's my coffee time. That's my playing on my phone time. That's my checking, checking out the, the stream on Facebook or whatever else is going on. That's, that's me taking a walk outside, doing what exercise, you know, whatever it might be. That's my time. And I cherish that time. That's, that's my coffee time.

00:19:33.85
Keith
Um, sometimes there's times where I'm not feeling so great and I'll get up at, you know, seven, seven 30 and I don't have my time anymore. That irritates the shit out of me.

00:19:41.62
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:19:42.33
Keith
Um, But my day is, uh, because of, i work for myself, my day is completely different every single day. And you never, ever know what it's, how going start or stop or go. i have a board on the wall. It's a ah dry erase board that Rhonda and I use, and we have all of our projects on it. So I'll have my dailies. I'll have my project projects. I'll like, um,

00:20:08.18
Keith
A project would be like build a new chicken coop. Okay. My dailies are like fix the, fix the, you know, fix the faucet, ah you know, do this to that, fix the front door, put the storm windows on that kind of stuff.

00:20:20.90
Keith
You know, it's my dailies and I have to have that.

00:20:22.52
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:20:24.89
Keith
Because if I don't have that, ah my brain starts going all different directions. I'll, I'll, I'll go to this, you know, job, go to do this job and I'll find something else to do on my way to that job.

00:20:36.60
Keith
And I start getting, you know, I have, I need to have that sort of structure. So, that's That's pretty much how my day goes. Now, the evenings are also important to me. Once the chickens are up and and food is in the belly, that's ah that's, again, my time. That's when I usually, the TV goes on almost every night. We eat in front of the TV. We watch TV, whether it's going to be news or shows or movies, whatever it is. Watch a couple hours and we get our, our entertainment time in.

00:21:04.09
Jeremy
Right.

00:21:04.22
Keith
And then it's, but then it's bedtime, you know, anywhere between 10 and 12 is bedtime. Sometimes I'll go to sleep at 10. Sometimes I'll be in the bed at like nine, nine 30. She'll just fall asleep.

00:21:14.72
Keith
And I'll just watch TV to like 10 fall asleep. Sometimes i don't even get into the bedroom till like midnight, but I still get up every single morning at four 30 to five without an alarm.

00:21:23.49
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:21:24.11
Keith
Just that's the way i wake.

00:21:27.41
Jeremy
Nice.

00:21:27.42
Keith
I hate it. I wish I could sleep longer, but that's just, ah that's just the way it is. i can't tell you why.

00:21:33.53
Jeremy
Interesting. Interesting.

00:21:35.93
Buddy
Yeah, I'm going to get my four hours sleep every night, whether it's if I go to bed at you know midnight or two in the morning, it's going to be four hours.

00:21:43.29
Keith
Is that right?

00:21:44.22
Buddy
Yeah.

00:21:44.25
Jeremy
Four hours.

00:21:44.54
Buddy
and

00:21:45.38
Keith
Four is not good, man.

00:21:46.74
Buddy
Four to six. I mean, sometimes it is six, but a lot of times it's four. Now, for the last two weeks, I've been waking up and I do this. I've done this my whole life. It's crazy. I wake up at three o'clock in the morning.

00:21:59.26
Buddy
And sometimes I go back to sleep. Sometimes I can't. But it's like three on the dot three between three and three thirty. And no, this is just, even as a kid, i wake up, I wake up and it's, you know, there's some, I've done some research on it.

00:22:05.91
Keith
Well, I mean i'm mean, I get up at least once to pee, sometimes twice. Is that what you're talking about? Oh, you're talking about getting up. up

00:22:16.89
Keith
well yeah

00:22:17.74
Buddy
There's some things behind it. They say, you know, if you don't go down rabbit hole and stuff, people that do that, but it's a, it's a thing. You can Google it or whatever. But yeah, luckily I've broken that the last couple days.

00:22:31.51
Buddy
So hopefully it's gone away.

00:22:32.70
Keith
Maybe you should go back to the old ways of first sleep, second sleep. Rhonda and I have talked about it in the wintertime for sure. You should, you could, you could do that for sure.

00:22:39.99
Buddy
Well, I've i've actually, and you might want to elaborate that. i've i've I actually kind of do that, but you might want to elaborate that for the listening audience.

00:22:49.32
Keith
Well, first sleep, so in the wintertime, the days are very short and the dark is very long. So in the in the in the old and older days, you did your work when the when the light was out. It wasn't like nowadays where you had first shift, second shift, third shift, and people work all through the night. That's not how it was. So people would eat dinner, you know maybe have a little little you know reading time or whatever, you know that sort of thing. Then they would go to bed at like seven, eight o'clock.

00:23:14.26
Keith
Then they would wake up at like, let's say one or two, and they'd stay up for about an hour or so. And then that was their other time to, it was it was cooler at night, So that was their time to, you know, like do other kinds of stuff, so just enjoy themselves, read, read stuff or talk to, you know, tell stories, whatever. And then they go back to sleep and wake up at sunup.

00:23:34.78
Keith
So, so then they go out and actually work, you know, on the farm or whatever it is, wherever it is that they did. And this was a thing for, you know, hundreds, if not thousands of years, first sleep, second sleep. And

00:23:44.79
Buddy
Yeah, my my grandparents did it.

00:23:46.46
Keith
Yeah, exactly. It was, it was up but even up into like the thirties and forties.

00:23:47.71
Buddy
Yeah.

00:23:50.30
Keith
I think people were still doing for first sleep, second sleep, but now our lives are completely different. Now we, you know, we, we go to bed at nine, 10, 11, 12, whatever it is. And we wake up at five, six, seven to go to work.

00:24:02.52
Keith
You know, it's just things, times have changed.

00:24:05.40
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:24:05.43
Buddy
Yeah.

00:24:06.81
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:24:07.16
Buddy
Yeah, i I do get my naps. and I call it my nap. you know It could be first sleep, second sleep, but midday, you know, Dude, I take some epic naps, that's for sure.

00:24:17.62
Keith
Yeah.

00:24:17.91
Jeremy
Well, so that's another thing. Like I can nap, but my nap is not like a cat nap. but My nap is like straight up sleep. Like, i I mean, after I retired, it was almost like my body

00:24:27.93
Buddy
Oh, yeah.

00:24:32.38
Jeremy
was like, you know, hey dude, we're going to take a nap. But my nap was like eight hours. And then I'd get up, I'd see Missy still, you know, trying to solve the world's problems, and I'd go back to bed.

00:24:43.80
Jeremy
I would go right back to bed and sleep until morning. And she was just, she absolutely hated me for it. And she's like, how can you do that?

00:24:51.58
Keith
so our So are these goals for 2026, are we going to try and work on some of these things?

00:24:56.38
Jeremy
<unk> To nap more? Gosh, I wish. Um...

00:24:59.86
Buddy
I, that's my goal, but you know, Jeremy,

00:25:02.42
Keith
I take a nap every single day. I mean, i don't even know why you call it a nap, because nap sounds like nappy nap nap time for the kids. But no, it's like, I mean, I i take ah a power nap every single day.

00:25:08.47
Jeremy
Now, is it so it's more like a siesta.

00:25:12.65
Keith
It's anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. That's my lunch break. That's just what I do.

00:25:18.46
Jeremy
Like you pause work.

00:25:18.68
Keith
I guess you can call it that.

00:25:19.82
Jeremy
Yeah. Now ssta siesta is instill in a lot of you're in your europe or European places.

00:25:20.92
Keith
Yeah.

00:25:27.56
Jeremy
It's still very much a thing. It's like midday and everybody just closes, like shuts down. You know, you got your your coffee, you got your whatever in your schnitzels and you're going to sit out here.

00:25:34.68
Keith
Oh, wow.

00:25:39.03
Jeremy
Some people just kind of hang out and they drink their coffee or their tea or whatever it is that they do. But siesta is a very real thing in a lot of places. Yeah, they they literally right in the middle of the day, stop everything, close up the store, they go take a nap and then they come back or they do whatever and then they come back and they go back to work.

00:25:57.18
Jeremy
So, yeah, work in Europe and work here is very different. So, yeah. Yeah, but I would say goal-wise...

00:26:05.62
Keith
Well, I think that's going to be a yeah goal wise. I'm i'm thinking that's going to be one of my goals is is going to be time management for 2026.

00:26:12.61
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:26:13.54
Keith
I have so many projects going on.

00:26:13.61
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:26:15.58
Keith
And my my biggest problem is I'll give you, for instance, um I have a deer blind outside out there in the woods and I wanted to clean up the area around it because it's got there's a there's an easement that runs through there.

00:26:28.06
Keith
It's a nice wide, you know, what, 20 yard easement. but it's very high grass. All the, all the, the, uh, native grasses have grown up. And I cut that down every year, a couple of times a year with the, with the, uh, bush brush off, but it's broke.

00:26:40.95
Keith
So I'm having to use my zero turn.

00:26:41.56
Jeremy
Mm.

00:26:43.11
Keith
So I'm, I got gotta go out there. want to cut it all down. I've got a big old bag of, um, corn i want to throw out there. And and you and i talked about putting, you know, putting a pool out there for water, a kiddie pool.

00:26:53.62
Keith
So I go out there and I i try and start the zero turn and it ain't starting. It's not starting all. So I spent an entire day just working on the zero turn. I've tried, I've pulled out the engine part of it. Everything like that I know what I can do could not get this thing thing started, but that's how my day goes. I have one, I have a plan to do something that should have only taken about 45 minutes to an hour.

00:27:15.70
Keith
Ended up being an entire day working on something that I couldn't even do the first part of the project with for.

00:27:15.94
Buddy
Yeah.

00:27:21.92
Buddy
I thought that was the only one that that had that problem.

00:27:22.40
Keith
So, you know, it's like, no, I think, I think lots of people have that.

00:27:26.52
Buddy
It could be as easy as taking up yeah just taking out the trash and it becomes this all day affair. Wow.

00:27:31.86
Keith
Yeah, exactly.

00:27:32.82
Buddy
wow

00:27:34.23
Keith
So yeah, you know, it's, I got painting to do this week. um I'm going to be repainting the, ah the bathroom and actually the upstairs bathrooms, getting all new paint.

00:27:44.44
Keith
All the cabinets are getting painted. And then the kitchen is also getting the cabinets are getting painted. So. all that's going to happen this week. So I've been preparing for that, you know, getting different things last week. I got all the stuff ready to go. Just wanted, you know, Rhonda to get out of the house cause she's done in Texas this week. So, you know, it's easy it's easier when she's, I told her just empty out your entire bathroom. I'm going get it. When you come back, it'd be all different.

00:28:07.54
Keith
So woodwork going on, all kinds of stuff, but yeah.

00:28:10.97
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:28:12.73
Keith
I mean, i don't have the bees right now because it's winter time. They're just, they're sealed. You know, I've got them, except the little hole in the front. They, you know, to out and take cleansing flights. They're just, uh, They're wrapped up and they've got their food for the winter and that's it. They're they're in for the long haul.

00:28:27.61
Keith
So I don't have the bees to worry about right now.

00:28:28.01
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:28:29.98
Buddy
So what are the goals for the bees after the next year?

00:28:30.14
Jeremy
Nice.

00:28:33.27
Keith
Yeah, I've got some big goals for the bees. I'm going to buy a couple of nukes. It's going to run about five or six hundred bucks. I'm going to buy some nukes and these are you When you buy bees, you can buy you can buy them two ways. You can buy them as, when you buy them from a professional, if not not from like somebody down the road. When you go to a bee place and you buy them, you can either buy them men as packages or you can buy them as nukes. Nukes stands for nucleus.

00:29:01.30
Keith
And the nucleus is slightly more expensive. But with a bee package, you're getting... three pounds of live bees and a queen. The queen is not mated. She's on her, she's in her own little box by herself. And you get all these bees and you're going to put them inside the hive. You're going put the queen inside the hive. going to get used to her. Hopefully she's going to take her mating flight. Hopefully she's going to mate with them all these different drones. And then she's going to come back to the hive and she's going to grow up a little bit and start making babies. That's the plan.

00:29:32.58
Buddy
Thank

00:29:32.53
Keith
Doesn't always happen that way. I bought four hives like that of my first year. And I lost two the first year. lost one the first year and two more of the second. So It doesn't always work. Nukes, on the other hand, is a five frame box and it has, has all the bees in it, has the queen in it, and she's already been mated. She's already laying. So there's a few ah frames that have actual ah larva.

00:29:57.30
Keith
It has pollen frames in it it. has honey frames in it. It's basically a tiny little hive that's already established. So you're not trying to, all you're doing is giving an established hive a new home is all you're doing. You're not trying to create a new hive.

00:30:13.05
Keith
So that's my, my goal is to, is to, is to kick it into gear and, and beat this thing because bees were difficult last year. Very, very difficult.

00:30:22.10
Buddy
Yeah, sounds like you had a pretty tough time with them last year. And I've had my friends with with their bees had similar you know similar problems.

00:30:24.66
Keith
Tough time.

00:30:28.86
Buddy
so

00:30:29.10
Keith
Yep. I should have gotten about, eight to 10 gallons of honey this past year. I got somewhere in the vicinity of like three and a half.

00:30:40.08
Keith
That's, that's not how you, that you can't run a business like that. And then the B, the B business is my business. Homesteading is my life. The B, the business where I'm supposed to be making money is from the B's and from social media. Either one of those two things I'm not making money from.

00:30:56.82
Jeremy
So I know that last year that you said that there was like, and it wasn't just you, it was a huge amount of beekeepers across the whole country that had major, major losses.

00:31:08.46
Jeremy
Have they ever like really identified what happened with that?

00:31:08.86
Keith
Yeah.

00:31:11.58
Keith
No, no, there's a lot of, um, there's a lot of arguing going on back and forth. but They would, what I think it's coming down to what most people are agreeing on is that it's, it's, there is a multi, there's, there's several different problems combined is what the, is what's going on. But you're right. 2024, 2025 season was a was a fifty percent loss in bees. 20, 2025, which would actually, no, that was 2023, 2024, 24, 25 was a 60 to 80% bee die off in the United States.

00:31:48.47
Jeremy
Wow.

00:31:49.40
Keith
that's That's half your hives died for commercial people.

00:31:52.25
Jeremy
Wow.

00:31:52.96
Keith
They lost 80. Some of them lost 80% of their, there are commercial companies out there that make millions of dollars that lost 100% of their bees and they're out of business.

00:32:04.22
Keith
They're done.

00:32:04.45
Buddy
Wow.

00:32:04.50
Jeremy
while Wow. That's crazy.

00:32:07.58
Keith
And it's really hitting hard because, you know, the B world is, uh, it's, it's big. It's way bigger than people think it is. Um, there is, ah out in California and and other places, there is a, who's it? That's the almond farm. Is it almonds?

00:32:22.30
Keith
I think it is. What is a diamond? think diamond makes the almonds and, and yeah. Uh, They need bees. They need bees to make to fertilize all those trees. Those miles and miles of farm fields that have these trees in it, you know the nut trees, they need bees to do that.

00:32:41.78
Keith
They don't have any bees out there. So what do they do? Well, they rent them. Basically, a broker calls me up and says, hey, Keith, how many you want to give me this year? And I'll say, ah you can have eight hives.

00:32:53.91
Keith
And they'll come with a truck. They'll take eight of my hives and they'll take them for the winter. They'll take them in the cool seasons. They'll take them out. They pay you for that. They take them out to California. They put them in. They have thousands and thousands of beehives that show up.

00:33:08.02
Keith
They put them out there. The bees do all their things. And then and and then they give you your bees back and they give you money for that. That's something you could, that's part of a business. It's a huge business.

00:33:18.17
Keith
The problem is most of our food that we eat, aside from our proteins, most of our food is grown through the fertilization of the of bees.

00:33:29.56
Keith
Honey bees are and and other flying insects, but bees are the reason why we are able to eat stuff like corn and bla all this other stuff.

00:33:38.12
Buddy
Yeah, they're very, they pretty much are the workhorse of just all the vegetative world.

00:33:43.80
Keith
They pollinate everything. They pollinate the trees.

00:33:45.34
Buddy
Yeah.

00:33:46.04
Keith
They pollinate the flowers. It's not just flowers. All the trees, oak trees, every kind of tree out there, they pollinate all those things. we have We have vegetation that's growing on this earth because of bees.

00:33:57.88
Keith
So when they when they die off, we are affected by that.

00:33:58.03
Buddy
Yeah.

00:34:01.57
Keith
Prices go up, everything, it changes. So, yeah.

00:34:05.59
Buddy
Yeah, they're important, definitely.

00:34:08.69
Jeremy
I have always been told that if the bees, actual bees, honeybees, if they die, ah that's the end of civilization. And there goes the dog.

00:34:18.65
Keith
Oh, absolutely. For sure. Yeah. It is it is very, you know, its put those only people that, you know, they'll say things like, oh, you're, you're some sort of you're some kind of a tree hugging, blah, blah, blah. No, man, we're talking about life.

00:34:30.97
Keith
The actual so cycle of life on earth is what we're talking about here.

00:34:37.02
Keith
You can, you can raise all the cattle you want for protein, but you can't live off of protein. You need other stuff too.

00:34:44.09
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And honey is pretty awesome. You know?

00:34:49.27
Keith
Oh yeah.

00:34:49.49
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:34:50.07
Keith
I mean, look, there's, there's, there's nothing like having a five gallon bucket full of honey that you made yourself that you, that you, you know processed and it's that's your product.

00:34:50.44
Buddy
Yeah.

00:35:00.44
Keith
You didn't have to, but that would be hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of honey on the market, just sitting there and you got it because of hard work and your bees did the hard work too.

00:35:05.30
Jeremy
yeah

00:35:11.43
Keith
You know, they're awesome.

00:35:11.96
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. Um, I, as much as I think I want to get into bees while we're like in this house, you know, cause I still, still dream of having land. i don't know that I want to get into that venture until, or if we ever do end up with, you know, land.

00:35:31.98
Jeremy
Um, yeah, it was really loud.

00:35:33.82
Keith
Your dog's loud.

00:35:36.25
Buddy
I was about to say somebody's security system is going off.

00:35:36.38
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:35:39.19
Jeremy
ah Yeah. um You know how we talk about people who don't plan and all those kinds of things. Well, that one of those people.

00:35:47.71
Keith
You're going to have to wait to the dog. I can't cut that out. but Your dog is louder than you are on the, on my ears.

00:35:56.69
Keith
Good. You got a closed door or something.

00:35:58.71
Jeremy
Hang on just a second. I'm going to tell that.

00:36:01.30
Keith
While doing that, I'm going to get my vape. So just do your thing.

00:36:04.82
Jeremy
Yeah. Hold on just a minute.

00:36:14.13
Jeremy
This People show up at our house unannounced and unplanned.

00:36:25.53
Buddy
Yeah, luckily i don't have any friends, so hey. yeah I don't have any visitors. Like that one time we were recording and and the the doorbell rang, i was like, and the dogs started going crazy. i was like, that's not right.

00:36:39.32
Buddy
You know what i mean? And then it rang again. I was like, okay, so you know one time they they're not nobody's home, there's dogs. i'm gonna you know They kept bringing it. and i was like, all right, I got to go figure this thing out.

00:36:52.32
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:36:54.82
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. um Because of where we live, we're basically centrally located to the majority of our family here and our friends circle, if that makes sense.

00:37:11.59
Jeremy
So it's, we have people who just show up like this guy did not.

00:37:12.34
Buddy
Yeah, yeah.

00:37:18.33
Buddy
Yo, im ah um um back I'm back from work. you know Let's go have a brewski.

00:37:21.76
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. And it's not even that, um, man, this is the guy who shot the fucking hole in the house.

00:37:30.78
Buddy
I was going to ask.

00:37:32.44
Jeremy
He shows up.

00:37:33.55
Buddy
I was going to ask. He has the balls to still show up.

00:37:35.26
Jeremy
um

00:37:37.12
Buddy
Yeah.

00:37:37.78
Jeremy
Oh, well I mean, again,

00:37:40.41
Buddy
yeah Yeah, yeah, he's a friend, but, you know, damn.

00:37:43.63
Jeremy
yeah it's. and So he sends me a message and he's like, hey, do you have a belt sander set up? And I'm then he tries the video call, which is typically like if you don't message him back within about one point three seven seconds, he'll video call you.

00:38:00.21
Buddy
Yeah.

00:38:00.44
Jeremy
And so I told him, I'm like, I'm recording. um And

00:38:06.51
Buddy
We'll make sure we put this in the episode so and when he listens he can hear it.

00:38:11.80
Jeremy
yeah, well, oh, well, he doesn't listen, but yeah, let's, all right.

00:38:11.90
Keith
What's that?

00:38:14.26
Buddy
The guy who shot the the guy who shot the the certificate, he's he's the one he's one at the door.

00:38:18.23
Keith
oh

00:38:20.88
Jeremy
Since we're doing lessons learned, let's go ahead and talk about it. Let's go ahead and talk about it. Um, so I have a buddy of mine. I've known him for a long time.

00:38:34.57
Jeremy
He's also retired military and I'll predicate everything that happened with this dude's retired military. And that it in, in, in, in general, most military people, we do things a certain way. Well, the lesson is, um never allow people,

00:38:56.21
Jeremy
um to handle firearms after they've been drinking. um And so he said, hey, I want to take a look at your gun collection. i was in the kitchen processing deer meat.

00:39:13.71
Jeremy
And I opened up the safe and he's looking around. He's like, oh, dude, is so cool. is so cool. is so cool. And all of a sudden, bang. And it was a very loud bang.

00:39:22.66
Buddy
Thank you.

00:39:23.15
Jeremy
And I put down my knife and I checked myself first. And then I walked down in the den and he's like shocked. He's like, i don't know what happened. And I was like, I know exactly what happened. And I looked at it and I was like, the magazine's still in it.

00:39:35.19
Jeremy
And I looked up and there was a hole and a certificate that belongs to Missy. And I pulled the thing, I pulled down the plaque and there was hole exactly the size of a jacketed hollow point 45. And I looked out and I was like, hu he shot through the entire house.

00:39:52.40
Jeremy
Um, yeah.

00:39:52.91
Keith
Damn. Damn.

00:39:54.55
Jeremy
And, um, so I walked around to the outside of the house and I looked at the, and the siding and I could see light coming in through the den.

00:40:05.61
Jeremy
And, um, I, uh, I told him, i was like, I gotta call Missy right now. And he's like, oh dude, don't call her. Maybe she won't notice. And I looked at him and I'm like, really?

00:40:14.07
Keith
ah Yeah.

00:40:17.42
Jeremy
Um, so big lesson learned there on that for 2025. And it's funny because I'm telling you guys this,

00:40:24.16
Buddy
Yeah.

00:40:26.71
Keith
Well, hold on. that That was a story. That wasn't a lesson. What lesson did you learn?

00:40:30.59
Jeremy
the lesson is, is, um no matter how much you love your buddies, don't let them handle firearms after they've been drinking.

00:40:41.69
Jeremy
Because some people like to sneak into the closet where I'm actively recording and he's sitting here right next to me. And not only does he smell like booze and cigars, but I think I detect burnt turkey or something else that going on here.

00:40:56.34
Jeremy
So that's the big lesson learned for 2025 in that particular regard. So

00:41:01.80
Keith
Wait, this dude is sitting next to you right now as you speak?

00:41:04.44
Jeremy
literally right now next to me. He needs a belt sander and I cannot help him at this moment. And no matter how many times I persistently tell him I'm actively recording a podcast.

00:41:18.61
Jeremy
Um, he came up here anyways, instead of just helping me by dealing with my dogs and he's got a deer antler in his hands. So, yeah, but I do not want him.

00:41:28.79
Buddy
Put him on the show, man. Get hit him on the mic.

00:41:31.65
Jeremy
I do not want him on our show.

00:41:32.06
Keith
the ah the The gun cabinet...

00:41:33.18
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:41:36.31
Keith
The gun cabinet's locked, right?

00:41:38.26
Jeremy
Yes. Yeah. We have a large safe.

00:41:39.10
Keith
Okay, good.

00:41:40.13
Jeremy
It has a, it has a code.

00:41:41.50
Buddy
We want his version.

00:41:43.15
Jeremy
Um, no, maybe, at maybe a later date and time, but yeah, we do have a large safe.

00:41:43.22
Buddy
We want his version of the story.

00:41:48.43
Buddy
Okay. Yeah.

00:41:51.19
Jeremy
Um, and we have quite a large collection of guns. um This particular one is a pistol that is inside of a carbine kit. um And he just, unfortunately, he didn't drop the magazine before racking the slide, check the chamber. And ah we have, um we have to go ahead and determine that we're not going to fix that plaque or that, that certificate or anything until something equal or crazier happens in this household, which I don't think in my lifetime is ever going to happen.

00:42:26.30
Jeremy
but

00:42:26.81
Buddy
Well, a constant reminder to have for firearm safety, you know, you're going to see it, at you know, you know, it's there. So every day you're walk by and you're going to like, yeah, firearm safety.

00:42:36.32
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

00:42:37.94
Buddy
So there you go.

00:42:38.30
Jeremy
Yeah. So that's definitely a big lesson learned for me.

00:42:43.18
Keith
Hmm.

00:42:44.79
Buddy
Yeah, I can't go.

00:42:45.08
Keith
I think, uh, my big lesson learned because that before you said we what we talked about some go, we're going back and forth. I'm assuming. Right. So I think my let my biggest lesson learned from last year, biggest one, hands down, it has to be that I started by indoor planting my seedlings, uh, sowing seeds way too late.

00:42:52.95
Buddy
Yeah, yeah.

00:43:06.52
Keith
I was looking looking at the calendar just ah yesterday and it it shows that I started the planting in the first week of March. I should have been at least the first year of February. This year, we're going to start doing our seedlings in January.

00:43:22.65
Keith
Inside, in the house. So we're not gonna make that mistake again.

00:43:27.48
Buddy
Yeah, it, man, it's, i've I've done it for a few years the same way you guys do it. You know, we've talked about it on on on and off the the show. And there's a sweet spot in there. But the thing is, you don't know.

00:43:43.58
Buddy
you know you You have an idea when that last frost date is and and when you can start hardening them off and stuff, but it's a crapshoot.

00:43:47.06
Keith
right

00:43:50.84
Buddy
If you succession plant anyhow you you know every two weeks or every three weeks, maybe ah every month, plant some more seed, then you can kind of help help that problem a little bit.

00:44:05.17
Buddy
you know but i mean It is what it is.

00:44:05.56
Keith
Well, my my biggest thing are my... pipe My pepper plants are my tomato plants. Those are the two that I really concentrate on. And last year I did really well with with pickles, with cucumbers, because we do a lot of pickling. We did really good with that. Failed on a bunch of other things. We'll talk about that some other time. But the peppers and the tomatoes and what I feel like is that the peppers came to their fullest beautifulness way too late.

00:44:32.38
Keith
I want them earlier. I want them. I want to be able to be picking peppers earlier than I did this this past year.

00:44:34.98
Buddy
Yeah.

00:44:38.48
Buddy
That's more a variety thing for your area than it is because I'll have nice tomatoes. And then when the tomatoes start to, for the varieties I have, they'll start to, you know, wane off. And then here comes my pepper. My pepper's like, you know, September.

00:44:54.52
Buddy
They like it that hot, you know, that summer heat in Oklahoma that's just killing them. Then they start to grow and they start to do the thing. But when they start to really thrive, September. you know, into early October.

00:45:06.68
Buddy
So they like a little bit cooler nights, hotter days, but man,

00:45:11.32
Keith
You're talking about your peppers or your tomatoes?

00:45:14.56
Buddy
peppers, tomatoes usually start to wane off about that time, but to yeah, here.

00:45:15.53
Keith
Oh.

00:45:17.86
Jeremy
Really? Well, you guys have a completely different environment than we do over here.

00:45:23.38
Buddy
Yeah. I mean, and I'm right on this dry belt where we're going from, you know you can take a line down, you know, there's a major highway where I live.

00:45:34.14
Buddy
you that separates Oklahoma City. And, you know, you get one side of it, you're in a forest. The other side you're in, you know, rolling hills. It's, you know, almost desert, you know, plains.

00:45:45.18
Buddy
And it's drought stricken on one side of the highway and the other side, you know, you get some good rain. So, you know, you can almost just draw, you know, a line down the map. Down what's called I-35. So, but it, I don't, but, you know, in your defense, man, it's it's all,

00:46:03.22
Buddy
And I still do it. i'm I'm doing it right now. It's all a, it's just like a science fair project. You know, I've got two hydroponic systems set up in my, on my cabinet in my kitchen right now, growing peppers.

00:46:15.42
Buddy
And i just had a bunch of seed in there and I got, you know, it's one of them's got eight little, uh,

00:46:16.18
Keith
really

00:46:23.61
Buddy
you know, pods or whatever that you can grow out of. And one's got six and I've got just, I don't know what I did with these seeds. I mixed them or somebody mixed them on me and I've got crazy different seeds growing right now. And I got some jalapenos and Fresnos, some, uh,

00:46:40.89
Buddy
I think they're Trinidad scorpion peppers, the way they look. But it's weird, but there are the hydroponic stuff is coming up great. Something I've never done before. I've always gone herbs and those little hydroponic things. so But yeah.

00:46:58.14
Keith
uh, I don't, I, that can't be a goal for me though. mean, Rhonda wants to do it.

00:47:01.04
Buddy
Yeah.

00:47:01.76
Keith
She wants to do hydroponics. I'm like, man, we haven't even, we haven't even gotten the the real garden down yet.

00:47:06.68
Buddy
Yeah, it's fun, you know, and it's easy.

00:47:06.64
Keith
You know?

00:47:09.32
Buddy
I don't have to do much, but throw in some, you know, plant food, keep water levels high, throw in plant food. every And every day I look at them and like, you know, now I'm seeing some fruit off of it. You know, it it's it's getting kind of interesting.

00:47:23.19
Keith
Yeah. Yeah.

00:47:23.38
Buddy
You know, what and I check it every day, but, you know, as far as a goal, it wouldn't be a goal of mine. But it's more of a project. You know, it's like a I play more than anything because just where I'm at now, I can't have my big garden.

00:47:37.34
Buddy
Um, so it's more play.

00:47:38.29
Keith
Yeah.

00:47:39.10
Buddy
And then, you know, with my girlfriends, she has more land and, you know, we, hers is all decorative stuff. So, you know, if you look if it looks good and she likes it and it's colorful and whatever, then we can do it.

00:47:46.16
Keith
Right.

00:47:51.57
Buddy
So we do flowers.

00:47:52.52
Keith
Well, in a couple of weeks, we'll in a couple of weeks, we're going to be doing an episode on on our, you know, indoor indoor indoor starts or whatever.

00:47:58.17
Buddy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

00:48:00.13
Keith
Right.

00:48:00.95
Buddy
Yeah, we're going to, yeah, we'll do, uh,

00:48:01.30
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:48:02.84
Keith
Cool. that's definitely one of my goals is going to be to, is to sort of master that part, the the timing. And I'm going to try and going to start that next year. i got a lot of, look, failing is information.

00:48:14.36
Keith
You learn when you fail. So I'm okay with that, but I want to, I don't want to wait again. I want to make, I want to do really, really good. And and if if I get close, then I'll know I'm in the right direction. So that's one of my goals for 26th.

00:48:25.94
Buddy
Yeah. and

00:48:26.44
Jeremy
gardening Well, gardening and farming in general is a lessons learned ah thing regardless. um Because i know like for for us this year, we learned, and it's not something that we learned. It's something that we I've repeated many, many times. If you have certain peppers next to certain peppers next to certain peppers, all of a sudden you start getting like wazoo peppers.

00:48:51.63
Jeremy
um And we ended up with wazoo peppers. And it's great in all to eat them. The only problem is is that once you have those mixes, those seeds are no longer no longer the type of seed that you're looking for.

00:49:05.86
Jeremy
So, not to practice segregation, however, if you want to propagate pure seed from that particular strand of jalapenos, you have to keep them with those jalapenos. like You have to keep them separate from your other stuff.

00:49:23.62
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:49:23.83
Buddy
Yeah, if you don't, if you don't, I've learned that the hard way, you know, if you don't separate your pepper your bell peppers or your banana peppers. from jalapenos and, and, uh, some of your hotter varieties. i mean, you're putting them on the opposite side as far away as you can. Uh, at least in my zone, you know, you'll get, you'll get hot, very hot banana peppers.

00:49:42.96
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:49:43.16
Buddy
You know, I've had them in the next, uh, like grow sack or whatever, um or bin or whatever I'm in growing in at the time. And, uh, it's, it's those bees, man. They're, they're cross pollinating that stuff for you.

00:49:55.15
Keith
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

00:49:56.21
Jeremy
Well, see, that's the other thing.

00:49:56.31
Buddy
Going back to the bees. Yeah.

00:49:57.94
Jeremy
ah peppers are not dependent on insects for pollination. You can, that's, that's why they thrive really well in places like the desert because of the wind.

00:50:04.21
Buddy
Yeah.

00:50:06.42
Buddy
Well, and the wind. Yeah, the wind will get in there too.

00:50:07.51
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.

00:50:09.66
Buddy
um um And then, man, I'm a little rusty on on to go back and and research again. But, you know, they tell you some varieties of stuff to actually go out.

00:50:21.23
Buddy
You know, if you don't, the wind in Oklahoma takes care of everything.

00:50:24.70
Jeremy
Hmm.

00:50:24.82
Buddy
um But, you know, to go out and shake your plants, you know, when they start to flower and stuff, certain varieties of stuff to

00:50:32.32
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:50:34.68
Buddy
But yeah, we we've talked about 50 minutes and we're going away. This is like an ADD ah episode here.

00:50:41.46
Jeremy
Well, as far as prepper, like, and, in you know, talking about, you know, my buddy shooting a hole through the house while it is incredibly, silly that that happened. Uh, it was my irresponsibility for even allowing him to touch a gun after he had been drinking. Um, that's number one, but,

00:51:02.26
Jeremy
I would say for my own, and it's weird because we talk about it all the time, EDC, EDC, EDC. There's been a couple of instances when I've been out and about and I actually pursued a person and I didn't have a gun on me.

00:51:16.40
Jeremy
And I'm normally, like if i'm if I'm traveling outside the house, there's most likely a good probability that i'm going to have a gun on me. I'm going knife on me. I'm going to have X, Y, and z But there's been a couple of instances this year this year where I thought to myself, I don't have a gun on me and I need to possibly do a thing, but now I can't, I don't want to risk engaging in this thing without a gun on me.

00:51:44.26
Jeremy
So that's a, as far as prepper, like specific things, that things that we always talk about You know, kind of like being stuck in the storm. I know better, but I got caught without, you know, some of the normal essentials that I would have traveling.

00:52:00.44
Jeremy
So that was a big lesson learned from that. And I carried that on. But then there's been a couple of times that I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, my own, my own lacks. Like I've become lacks in certain things.

00:52:12.09
Buddy
Yeah, comfortable.

00:52:12.15
Jeremy
um Yeah, yeah. Comfort Comfort is comfort and complacity are the enemy of growth and change.

00:52:14.90
Buddy
Complacent.

00:52:20.15
Jeremy
so um So as far as like my EDC, I've got to get better about that. um But as far as the mentality... um One of my goals is is every day i have to purpose that if I'm going to go outside the house, regardless of what it is that I'm doing, as long as I'm in a place that I can carry, I will carry.

00:52:44.07
Jeremy
And I'll have those particular EDC tools with me that I know that I'm supposed to have with me. um If I know that I'm going on base and there's, you know, the potential of getting searched there, I probably won't have it with me, but that's for my own protection.

00:52:57.63
Jeremy
I don't dont want to get, you know, w rustled up by the MPs just because I went on post with a, with a gat on my side.

00:53:00.73
Buddy
Yeah.

00:53:05.90
Jeremy
um

00:53:06.37
Buddy
Yeah. It's almost like I'll go down to the wrong side of the tracks today, or I can go down to the, you know, the post go on posts and, you know, which do I really want to carry the most on?

00:53:17.76
Jeremy
Right. Yeah. Yeah.

00:53:19.03
Buddy
ah Both of them about it equally as crazy. Yeah.

00:53:21.03
Jeremy
Yeah. If I'm going into Fayetteville, I'm carrying. If I'm going on to Fort Bragg, I can't. um And um as far as like, you know, actual real, real, real prepper goals, um my last two would be my own personal physical fitness.

00:53:40.43
Jeremy
And I'm not, it's not like I'm in terrible shape, but I could definitely be in better shape. Um, and my biggest goal for 2026, and I don't, I don't want to risk putting a, um, putting a date on myself yet. I probably should, but 2026, I will quit smoking.

00:54:02.34
Jeremy
And I've started down that venture again. It's not been easy. I've tried many times, but as far as lessons in that regard, i can tell, that it is having an effect. I can tell.

00:54:15.55
Jeremy
um

00:54:16.86
Buddy
Yeah, we'll be your accountability group with that.

00:54:19.69
Jeremy
It's dude, it's so I had, I don't even know how many times I've tried at this point, but my son has not smoked in over a year and he tried doing the pouches like your, your Zen and all that.

00:54:32.40
Jeremy
So I have learned about them. I am trying them. I actually have one in right now. Um, and it does actually help. Um, and I didn't like them at first because I didn't know that there was different strengths.

00:54:46.36
Jeremy
Like I didn't realize that,

00:54:48.22
Buddy
Yes, there is.

00:54:48.57
Jeremy
You know, there was a three, a six, a nine and a whatever.

00:54:49.39
Buddy
Yeah.

00:54:52.03
Jeremy
um I took some with me and I was up in, in the, in the climbers hunting and i and I didn't realize it was a nine. Like, I don't, I don't know any about these things. So I put this pouch in and I'm like, man, I'm getting like hard core heartburn. What in the world is happening here?

00:55:08.80
Jeremy
I got like the, and I don't normally get heartburn anymore. And um I spit that thing out and I'm like, oh, to goodness. And then eventually the heartburn went away and I was like, I'm i'm willing to bet it was that.

00:55:21.53
Jeremy
So i had to learn about them. I had to learn that there's different strengths. I had to learn there's, you know, all these different things. And they have they have helped. um You know, I still like my morning smoke with my coffee. I i don't know i don't know if that's ever going to change. But um as far as like...

00:55:42.32
Jeremy
Uh, probably my biggest goal of 26 is, is to quit smoking. That's my biggest goal. Um, I've been smoking for a long time. I've been physically active all these years.

00:55:53.34
Jeremy
Um, but I know eventually as I start to get even older, um one of the two is going to give, and it's most likely going to be my own physical health before cigarettes stop being cigarettes. Like they're always going to be poison. And I've always known that they were.

00:56:10.11
Jeremy
But man, you know, anybody who's smoked, the it's it's tough. It sucks. It's like hard to get off smoking cigarettes. It's really, really difficult.

00:56:22.42
Keith
Yeah, when I i quit, I used to smoke very, very heavy, extremely heavy and a bad smoker, man. And I quit twice in my life. And the second time it took, kind um I don't smoke now, but I do vape.

00:56:34.87
Keith
um and i haven't And I haven't smoked for a long time. But I can tell you this, as it's so it's it's incredibly hard to do. And the only way for me to do it, and there's all lots of different ways, the only way for me was absolutely 100% cold turkey.

00:56:52.54
Keith
You crush them things up, and you you do not smoke.

00:56:54.28
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:56:56.95
Keith
I don't care what you're going through. If you have to go run around the block, if you have to listen loud music in your ears, if you have to go have sex, whatever and whatever it is, you do whatever you have to do.

00:57:06.91
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

00:57:09.18
Keith
to not smoke. And it's hard. And you get that first day, you're, you're like, a okay, it's really hard, but I'm making it. The second day, You're on borderline nut job.

00:57:21.36
Keith
Okay. You're borderline nut job.

00:57:22.78
Jeremy
Yep. Yep. Yeah.

00:57:23.60
Keith
The third day, it is the worst day on the planet. It's the worst day of your life. The third day, you, you just, you will, you can't think straight. You're moving constantly. You're trying always trying to do something.

00:57:35.00
Keith
You want, you know, that all you have to do is go down to that store and get that pack of cigarettes or get bum one off your buddy, whatever it is. Then the fourth day comes and things get different.

00:57:46.49
Keith
The fourth day, that's the day you're trying for. it The fourth day cuts your third day like in half.

00:57:49.51
Jeremy
yeah

00:57:53.42
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:57:53.59
Keith
And it stays that way for about a week. You're you're on edge, but you're okay. but By the time you get past your your first week, you're doing really good. And once you're past your second week, you're done.

00:58:03.98
Jeremy
Yeah.

00:58:04.10
Keith
You're done. It's ah it's over.

00:58:06.94
Jeremy
My last time in Korea in 15, 16, I had quit for, I don't know, it was like, it was a few weeks. i I think I was like around week three and whatever happened in, you know, my life,

00:58:22.30
Jeremy
um I started back and i you know, I have patches, the patches, they do work to a point, but i also have extremely sensitive skin.

00:58:34.36
Jeremy
And so even though they do work, they burn like crazy for me. Like they, they burn, burn like bad. Um, and so like the first day I tried these things, I think on that particular day I started, I had like three or four cigarettes total.

00:58:53.03
Jeremy
So I've been able to, you know, pretty much keep with that trend. My biggest triggers are in the morning when I'm drinking my coffee right after a meal and while I'm driving or riding my motorcycle.

00:59:05.03
Jeremy
Like those those events right there and drinking. and But the thing is, I don't hardly drink anymore. I barely drink. um So those are, yeah I mean, I can't avoid driving and I'm not going to avoid riding a motorcycle.

00:59:20.63
Jeremy
So I've got to find that workaround for like morning coffee time kind of thing or, you know, that kind of thing. But...

00:59:29.84
Keith
Going to have to cut probably most of this out and dr dribble it down to like a, like a small, you know, session. Going to have you know what I'm saying? his This is way too, the cigarette thing and and I'm part of it is too long for this episode.

00:59:37.22
Jeremy
Mm hmm. Yeah.

00:59:42.10
Keith
So I'm gonna have to dribble this down a little bit and we can.

00:59:43.80
Jeremy
yeah

00:59:44.29
Buddy
Dude, this has been more of a howler episode anyhow. I mean, seriously, if if we called it the lesson learned episode, i mean, and it go back to goals, we could probably take care tomorrow. You know what i mean?

01:00:00.12
Keith
I mean, you know, my my goals are are are are probably a little too big. i mean, I have, I've got, you know, you call them goals, but I got things that I have to do or I'm in trouble.

01:00:14.20
Keith
Like I have to, I have to be able to merge my tractor with my new bush hog that I've got.

01:00:14.55
Jeremy
right.

01:00:21.12
Keith
They're brush hog. They're incompatible.

01:00:24.50
Buddy
I guess.

01:00:24.47
Keith
So I'm going to have to probably rent a, you know, like a welding machine. I'm going to have to, you know, get really do it. I got a lot of work to do there just for that. I need to have, you know, that brush hog going.

01:00:35.13
Buddy
Well, I mean, your goal should be, I mean, I guess your goal would be like, I need, you know, to make that part of, you know, an income stream. I need to, you know, and then a subtask in that goal would be these other things, you know.

01:00:47.43
Keith
Yes. Income stream is that. That's a good way to put it. Yes.

01:00:51.42
Jeremy
Well, if it if it is a goal that affects your your professional life and or your personal life, is it is it a goal or is it a need?

01:01:02.67
Jeremy
Like, like if you're in your professional life of, of the homestead and the bees, if I don't do this thing, this other portion of that life is going to fail.

01:01:14.18
Buddy
That's a good point.

01:01:14.23
Jeremy
So is it, is it a, is it a, I mean, like it it's a goal based around a need. I need to do this thing. So therefore I put this as a, I purpose to do this thing.

01:01:25.38
Jeremy
You know what i mean? Like, I, I, I don't know.

01:01:28.70
Keith
Yeah, no, that makes but makes perfect sense. And that's actually, I never really thought of it that way. goal I guess goals could be things that if you fail, life doesn't end.

01:01:36.65
Jeremy
Right.

01:01:37.40
Keith
Not life in general, but your life doesn't suck. It's just something that you really wanted to do, but couldn't do it.

01:01:40.15
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:01:40.26
Buddy
It's more of an end. you could, you can almost, it's almost like an improvement, you know, it could be an improvement or any improvement is something you're currently doing.

01:01:46.46
Keith
Yeah. Yeah.

01:01:52.34
Buddy
And, but a goal could be something, you know, this is an outcome that I want, I guess, pretty much more of an outcome, but,

01:01:59.26
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. Like, your your goal to merge those two things... If you don't do it, life will suck. So then it really becomes more of a a need or a requirement.

01:02:14.88
Jeremy
But you can make it as a goal to really get it done. you know, you get it done, like, right. Like, try to do it right the first time. Yeah, I see that. Yeah.

01:02:25.75
Keith
So what's what's the what's the next episode we were going to be doing? Remember, we had two different things.

01:02:31.05
Jeremy
going to show you as

01:02:32.25
Buddy
Man, we could –

01:02:32.18
Keith
Not tonight, um so but i'm saying, what what was the other thing?

01:02:37.56
Buddy
I'd have to look, but this was supposed to be goals. What our goals are for 2026, and then maybe throwing some lessons learned, but this sounds like just lessons learned.

01:02:50.70
Buddy
And then we can – and I haven't even got to a lesson learned in mine. uh do uh tomorrow we could do the 2026 goals and then you know do the top five like we had planned i mean because we kind of went way off and fucking left gears left field talking about cigarettes and and

01:03:07.90
Keith
Well, how do we make this one right? What what do I do in in editing?

01:03:13.21
Buddy
um well i mean you could just state it like it was know we we got up once again got off in left field and and uh You know, just put it out there in front. And people probably gonna laugh because we do. You cut a lot of that left field shit out.

01:03:28.18
Buddy
But I honestly would like to do like a howler episode. You know what i mean? um

01:03:34.07
Keith
and what like Like in general?

01:03:34.45
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:03:36.50
Buddy
In general, and Jeremy probably doesn't know.

01:03:38.84
Keith
like every single week or, Oh, I got you gotcha.

01:03:40.99
Buddy
Nah, just periodically and see how I just give it a tester and see how.

01:03:42.85
Keith
I gotcha.

01:03:45.72
Buddy
um And Jeremy's Jeremy's kind of a guy, the guy to do it.

01:03:46.97
Keith
There's a, uh, there's a, uh, there's a, uh, there's a the podcast, uh, Jeremy, there's a podcast out there that is paranormal and, um, and,

01:03:50.60
Buddy
You know what i mean?

01:03:59.58
Keith
they they have a They have a show every week. Well, every Wednesday they have another show. And it's one of the guests on the show. His name is The Howler. And it's him just bullshitting for about 20 minutes with the other guy.

01:04:09.85
Buddy
He's the Ozark, he's the Ozark howler, and he's had an interesting, very interesting life in law enforcement.

01:04:10.30
Keith
Telling stories. He's The Ozark Howler.

01:04:17.11
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:04:17.18
Keith
I have been trying desperately to get him on the show, but I cannot contact. I cannot find his contact. He is so gray man.

01:04:22.58
Buddy
I don't, yeah, you're not, yeah, I don't know if you, could you'd have to go through, oh, the other dude, I forget his name now.

01:04:24.06
Keith
It's not even funny, man. Not gray man, but he's invisible.

01:04:33.82
Keith
Oh, you think so?

01:04:35.09
Buddy
You'd have to go through him and say, hey, listen,

01:04:36.18
Keith
Good man guy?

01:04:37.56
Buddy
Yeah, we do this podcast. Please listen to us. Like, subscribe, do the things. And then we want to bring on.

01:04:42.07
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:04:43.58
Buddy
But i you know what, though? We can emulate that whole thing. I think with Jeremy, I think we can do it, man.

01:04:50.07
Jeremy
Well, I know that if we if if this is one of those, we do actually have a question on the Facebook page.

01:04:50.12
Buddy
I'm not that interesting.

01:04:58.23
Keith
Oh, do we really?

01:04:58.90
Buddy
We can throw it in there. Yeah.

01:05:00.21
Jeremy
Yeah, yeah.

01:05:01.11
Keith
Well, that's what's what's the question?

01:05:01.48
Jeremy
It's ah from Andy. And Andy asks, what is the best overall survival ammo round? And what is the best homemade self-defense weapon, non-firearm?

01:05:16.63
Jeremy
Which is an interesting question. I would say so. And i personally believe, and this is just my my own you know my own ah opinion, i don't know that there is a single best survival per type particular type of ammo.

01:05:35.59
Jeremy
But if if you could only if I could only choose one and the weapon to go along with it and the stuff to take care of it, it would be.22 rifle. Hollow point 22 long rifle.

01:05:47.11
Jeremy
that would be That would be my overall go-to. That's what I think. Yeah. Yeah.

01:05:54.01
Buddy
wow

01:05:54.04
Keith
i am so I am so torn because I i want to say I 100% agree with that, but you got to be good, man.

01:06:04.77
Keith
You got to be a good shot. You got to know what you're doing because you can you can definitely defend yourself with a twenty two You can definitely hunt with a.22, but you got to be really good.

01:06:06.36
Jeremy
yeah

01:06:15.11
Jeremy
That's true. And if I had to capitulate to to just one other, even though, and and and here's how I look at it. 22 is great for a whole lot of things.

01:06:27.48
Jeremy
Are you going to be able to take down a deer with a 22? That's a debate. Could you? Yes. You'd have to be wicked good, wicked good.

01:06:34.68
Keith
Wicked it good.

01:06:36.40
Jeremy
But on the other.

01:06:37.56
Keith
Like through the eye socket, kind of good.

01:06:38.84
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:06:39.49
Keith
Yeah.

01:06:40.71
Jeremy
Yeah. um

01:06:42.26
Buddy
You know,

01:06:43.03
Jeremy
The other one that I would say, if, if, if it was just, if it came down to it, because it's also very, very universal out there right now, would have to be a weapon chambered in 5.56. So you have an opportunity to shoot 5.56 or 2.23. But I would prefer to run that suppressed just because of the sound alone.

01:07:02.73
Jeremy
That's just... they're They're loud. you know they're They're more than loud. depending on like For instance, my bolt action.223 or.556, I should say, um the hunting rounds that I use, it it's a shorter barrel. So this thing is stupid loud.

01:07:19.96
Jeremy
um But if I had to capitulate, say it gives you more ability and it's more universal, would be.556 into.233. That's what I would say.

01:07:31.35
Buddy
Yeah, you know, he said overall survival ammo. So kind of agree with you on the.223,.556 overall because you can do so many things with it. Now, you have to I guess you need to define survival. you know Is it survival to for subsistence? Is it survival for protection?

01:07:51.10
Buddy
um

01:07:51.38
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:07:52.76
Buddy
i would i would Right now, I think the best thing out on the market is you can readily buy. And we're talking even with the weapon available and the round, I would, I would agree with you. Two, two, three, five, five, six.

01:08:05.82
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:08:06.70
Buddy
Definitely. Definitely.

01:08:08.09
Jeremy
Yeah. And as far as the second part of that question, as far as a homemade weapon for self-defense... Boy, that's tough.

01:08:17.43
Buddy
Yeah, that's,

01:08:19.94
Jeremy
That's tough. If you know how to make a bow, I mean, you can do that. If you can make a bow and make some arrows or possibly a spear. um But as far as a, I mean, that that's tough, man.

01:08:30.05
Buddy
What's the best homemade defense weapon non firearm.

01:08:34.52
Jeremy
As far as a non-firearm homemade weapon, that's really, really tough.

01:08:39.16
Buddy
Is a is an arrow of firearm. I mean.

01:08:42.93
Jeremy
I mean, and don't think so. I don't think a bow would be classified as a firearm and you can make it yourself if you know what you're doing and have the right material. Um, but I don't think it would ever be classified as a, as a firearm because it's not, it's hand it's propelled by the power that you put into

01:08:59.77
Buddy
um

01:09:05.77
Jeremy
It's powered by the kinetic energy that is transferred into the string that propels the arrow, a bullet. bullets kinetic energy comes from an explosive material that is struck and actually provides the propulsion.

01:09:17.72
Buddy
Yeah, good point.

01:09:20.65
Jeremy
So it's not, yeah.

01:09:20.76
Buddy
Man, I'm going to go over the spear. i think you can take I think you could take a limb and

01:09:24.47
Jeremy
This

01:09:29.37
Buddy
take your knife out and and point it up, you know, or chip yourself, up you know, a head and like a arrowhead, you know, larger arrowhead or something do like the early natives did.

01:09:32.26
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:09:39.89
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:09:42.09
Buddy
That's what I'm going with.

01:09:42.35
Jeremy
or even or even lash a knife to your spear.

01:09:46.03
Buddy
There, man, now you're thinking.

01:09:46.56
Jeremy
you know Split the top of the spear, take the handle off of the knife, um work it down into that wedge, and then tie it in really well and use your you know use your sap from some ah some pine sap and and glue it in and then tie it up in there.

01:09:50.90
Buddy
Yeah.

01:10:02.69
Jeremy
Other than that, defending your home with a non-firearm, that's tough, dude.

01:10:09.48
Buddy
We'll have to bring Andy back on the show and see what what he thinks.

01:10:09.51
Jeremy
That's really tough.

01:10:13.72
Jeremy
Yeah, I mean, and it was, ah that's a great question, and it's from Andy.

01:10:17.73
Keith
defending Defending your home with a non-firearm weapon. So this is something that you have to have to make homemade. Is that what he's saying? Or can you just, okay.

01:10:25.89
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:10:28.15
Keith
I mean, Molotov cocktails is, you know, I mean, you're going to blow somebody up with that.

01:10:33.72
Jeremy
And your house.

01:10:33.71
Keith
That's fairly easy easy to make. Well, no, I'm saying outside. Like if you're going to you know, hit them on the outside.

01:10:36.77
Jeremy
Oh. Hmm.

01:10:39.00
Keith
um I'm thinking maybe you can make, um well, you know, he gets yeah baseball bats. and ah What about a high lie? You guys don know what that sport is?

01:10:47.18
Jeremy
Oh, yeah. Yeah.

01:10:48.28
Keith
Yeah. How about making one of those, you know, wicker highlight, uh, bats and sent and sending off spiked, you know, highlight balls.

01:10:51.91
Jeremy
Hmm.

01:10:55.77
Keith
Those things move at like a hundred miles an hour or more.

01:10:58.52
Jeremy
Dude, we could do whole episode on this. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking atlatl. If you want to get old school.

01:11:05.41
Keith
Atlatl was my first, my first choice. It was my first choice, but i didn't say it.

01:11:08.12
Buddy
What the hell is that?

01:11:09.97
Jeremy
You've never seen it at Latle?

01:11:10.01
Keith
Oh, it's deadly.

01:11:11.43
Jeremy
Oh, dude.

01:11:11.67
Keith
It's deadly.

01:11:12.51
Jeremy
Just do some Googling and look up that and you you will be like...

01:11:15.10
Buddy
right. I don't even know how to spell it.

01:11:17.46
Keith
i can't I can't believe people actually leave can actually ah ah can, you know, can, what do you call it, center shot those things. I mean, can bullseye a shot with those things.

01:11:27.10
Jeremy
oh yeah. Yeah.

01:11:27.29
Keith
From a long distance away, you have to be really good at that.

01:11:30.52
Jeremy
yeah Have you ever seen those dudes and down in like Australia? Some of the Bushmen still do it.

01:11:33.50
Keith
Yes.

01:11:34.72
Jeremy
They take down large game with those things.

01:11:37.27
Keith
Yep.

01:11:37.77
Jeremy
And there's some guys out there that are um they use an actual, like, you know, David and Goliath, they use an actual sling with a rock and they hurl that thing.

01:11:38.26
Buddy
Oh, OK. OK.

01:11:47.89
Jeremy
Man, they're good. I mean, but it, it takes years of practice to do that.

01:11:49.91
Keith
Accurate.

01:11:52.81
Jeremy
Like,

01:11:52.92
Buddy
Can of take my spear back and do a do a flingshot?

01:11:56.68
Keith
he's He's taking his spear back.

01:11:58.48
Jeremy
yeah, you're taking your spear back. I don't know Can you make a slingshot without having any kind of rubber? I don't know.

01:12:04.31
Buddy
um Well, or maybe it not slingshot. what is What is that David used?

01:12:08.51
Jeremy
And a sling.

01:12:10.17
Buddy
Yeah, sling without the shot.

01:12:11.02
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:12:11.99
Buddy
Yeah, slingshot.

01:12:12.97
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's.

01:12:14.74
Keith
Well, you can make a slingshot homemade.

01:12:16.95
Buddy
Dude, yeah, and I so i saw a when I was in Afghanistan, those kids were deadly with those.

01:12:22.51
Jeremy
Oh, dude.

01:12:22.58
Buddy
I mean, they were like, they could snipe our gunners with them from shit.

01:12:25.35
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:12:27.11
Buddy
It seemed like you'd never know where you'd all of a sudden get hit. It's like, wow, you know.

01:12:32.55
Jeremy
Yep.

01:12:32.63
Buddy
We just get shot. You don't hear a shot. You don't hear a crack. it just You hear the crack on the side of your Kevlar.

01:12:38.48
Jeremy
yeah

01:12:38.71
Buddy
And you see a kid with a slingshot.

01:12:40.82
Keith
Oh, i got I got a good one. A trebuchet.

01:12:44.97
Jeremy
Oh, dude.

01:12:47.45
Keith
Right? That's a good one, right? I'm i'm i'm thinking, um' i was starting to go medieval. Thinking like medieval stuff.

01:12:54.22
Jeremy
I saw video just the other day of, no, it was a handheld.

01:12:57.01
Keith
Chunkin' pumpkins. Oh, okay.

01:13:01.31
Jeremy
It was about, it was a little bit taller than a man. And it was based off of ah kinetic energy from a push, but it was a handheld trebuchet.

01:13:13.43
Jeremy
And they rockt yeah they rocked this thing back, and then they dumped it forward.

01:13:13.70
Keith
Whoa.

01:13:18.69
Jeremy
And when they dumped it forward, it had another like piece of it that stopped it. And when it stopped it, it slung a burning ball, like probably 200 or 300 yards.

01:13:32.55
Jeremy
So,

01:13:32.81
Keith
See, that's a great homemade weapon. What fun it would be to make that.

01:13:36.35
Jeremy
oh man, but you to have a lot of distance. Like you got to know these, that's basically calling for fire on your own property, mortar system. Now, if you got the land and you got the pre-warning and you want to go full Nick Nolte, you know, angel has fallen style.

01:13:45.24
Keith
and

01:13:53.69
Jeremy
Yeah, do it. Absolutely. But, um, is that, that's it, but he's asking home handmade.

01:13:56.09
Keith
Oh, well, there you go. What about drones?

01:14:00.93
Keith
Uh, yeah. Home homemade. Yeah.

01:14:02.61
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:14:03.15
Keith
Handmade.

01:14:03.77
Jeremy
Good question, Andy. Real good.

01:14:06.10
Buddy
Man, he almost stumped the chumps here.

01:14:06.14
Jeremy
Good times. Mm-hmm.

01:14:08.70
Keith
Andy screwed up our whole podcast.

01:14:10.39
Jeremy
yeah

01:14:11.58
Buddy
Way to go, Andy. we're going to have to bring him on again and so he can tell us what his is because, yeah, that that was, man.

01:14:18.39
Jeremy
it's probably It's probably something super cool in medieval, you know?

01:14:22.33
Buddy
Yeah.

01:14:23.27
Jeremy
Yeah. Like, he's got a whole, like, metal workshop in the back, and he's like, I made this cleaver, and I cut this dude's head completely off.

01:14:29.89
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:14:30.24
Buddy
Yeah.

01:14:34.26
Keith
I'm a big fan of those ah those swords, though. I mean, i mean now we've we have an unbelievable collection of, what do you call them, machetes. I mean, her from her dad.

01:14:44.82
Keith
Her dad had hundreds of them, so he just you know got them all out of his property when he wasn't using them no more.

01:14:49.85
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:14:50.36
Keith
A bunch of them.

01:14:50.71
Buddy
were they Were they like sickles or machetes?

01:14:53.56
Keith
Oh, some are sickles. Some are like, mate you know, some are he got back in the war. some are But they're all machetes.

01:14:57.85
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:14:59.00
Keith
They're all handheld, short, basically swords, you know, for the most part.

01:15:03.06
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:15:04.18
Keith
Shaped all differently.

01:15:04.41
Buddy
Yeah.

01:15:05.06
Keith
And I and i went out and I sharpened them all up on the ah grinder. Oh, man.

01:15:09.39
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:15:09.69
Keith
i mean Serious damage.

01:15:10.48
Jeremy
Yeah. Big thing, the big in the old days, big thing in Panama and the Philippines was machetes and, uh, soldiers would would buy them up. And I had one that my stepdad had given me from when he was stationed down there.

01:15:24.56
Jeremy
And I remember seeing him the last time that I was there, but it was in this really nice, nice, uh, leather scabbard. And man, this thing, when I was a kid, you know, I'd have it on my left hip and I'd draw it like a sword. And I'd go out there and I'd be hacking weeds. And I'm like, yeah, you son of a, you know, I'm hacking it. But they, the Montagnards and the Filipino or the Vietnamese guys, they make them by hand.

01:15:51.06
Jeremy
And they'll bring them out there sometimes because they're out there always doing something. But yeah, a lot of places in Asia, machetes are a really, really big deal and they make them.

01:16:01.31
Jeremy
They actually like, they'll take old files and you know start hammering them down and heating them up and they shape them into machetes or whatever else they need. so

01:16:11.99
Buddy
Yeah, that was one of the coolest things I got as a kid. My dad came home from Panama and he brought, he got me and my brother machetes.

01:16:18.93
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. It was a big thing, man.

01:16:20.09
Buddy
Machetes. Yeah.

01:16:22.43
Jeremy
Yeah. And then January, I'll be back down there again.

01:16:24.34
Buddy
Very cool. Oh, good for you.

01:16:27.35
Keith
All right, an hour and 16 minutes of nothing but fuckery.

01:16:31.45
Buddy
hey

01:16:35.22
Jeremy
It was good, though.

01:16:35.46
Keith
I'm just saying.

01:16:36.47
Jeremy
It's going a lot of chopping. It's going a lot of chopping.

01:16:38.62
Buddy
So do you want to do the goal the actual goals tomorrow for 2026?

01:16:38.76
Keith
There's going to be some chopping.

01:16:44.18
Buddy
We were going to record again. you want to go ahead and...

01:16:45.50
Keith
So what what was tonight supposed to be about?

01:16:48.28
Buddy
Tonight was supposed to be the goals.

01:16:48.64
Jeremy
Lessons learned.

01:16:50.17
Buddy
Oh, was it lessons learned tonight or goals?

01:16:50.42
Keith
okay. Okay.

01:16:51.43
Jeremy
Yeah, lessons learned tonight.

01:16:54.87
Buddy
No, I didn't even...

01:16:54.92
Keith
Oh, well, we hit a bunch of lessons learned. Did you learn any lessons?

01:16:57.30
Buddy
i didn't even hit I didn't even hit my lesson learned, but whatever.

01:17:00.09
Keith
Well, hit some so why can we can get them on there. What do you got

01:17:03.00
Buddy
Okay. Well, my biggest lesson learned from last year is I need to get in shape. Um, I, I did some personal professional development, uh, training and, and some, you know, just some training that was doing conducting and actually going through some stuff and just realize I'm, I'm not 18 anymore. I'm not even 30 anymore. And, uh, it's time to get back in shape. So, uh,

01:17:29.69
Buddy
not not only you know strength wise but you know get my body back in shape get into a shape size round and uh work is more more on functional fitness and and my you know actual fitness goals so i think that's the biggest lesson learned for me this past year um humbling very humbling to figure out to you know and you you can't do the things you need to do to survive you know in case you needed to just a everyday life.

01:17:59.31
Keith
It's funny, man, because when it hits, it hits. It's like, you know, I went from it went from one year to the next where it was like, you know, you you you lose a drastic amount of mobility.

01:18:02.10
Buddy
Oh, no.

01:18:09.94
Keith
And it just seems like, where'd it go? Like, what happened? like It's just weird, man.

01:18:15.64
Jeremy
Got that AGE?

01:18:15.74
Buddy
Well, and yeah, i I was on a ski a ski slope and went into a drift.

01:18:17.50
Keith
Yeah. Yeah.

01:18:24.70
Buddy
And fell over.

01:18:24.99
Jeremy
Mmm. Mmm.

01:18:26.94
Buddy
couldn't, I didn't have the upper body strength to get myself up. Usually I can throw my poles down and just jump up and jump in my ski, you know, so I'm i'm having to take off my skis. Well, the way I fell, I couldn't move.

01:18:38.49
Buddy
And the longer i stayed there, the more embarrassed I got.

01:18:39.51
Keith
Right.

01:18:42.81
Buddy
There's people skiing by laughing and, you know, and shit.

01:18:48.08
Buddy
girlfriends calling me names and I'm getting pissed.

01:18:49.27
Jeremy
oh

01:18:51.60
Buddy
I mean, I threw a kid fit up there. I threw shit. I think my pole's still probably up there hanging from a tree.

01:18:56.10
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:18:58.71
Buddy
I just threw a tinter tantrum, you know, whatever. And, you know, but it humbled the shit out of me. And so I did start working out and I'm i'm taking it up a notch. So I don't only have a lesson learned from last year, but and it was early, early, early in the year, luckily.

01:19:16.44
Buddy
And then, so now I'm actually a sustain is I'm going to sustain that and then take it up a couple notches. So.

01:19:21.89
Jeremy
If you want to learn how many times you skipped leg day and how weak your core is, hit a slope that you definitely should not be on.

01:19:27.32
Buddy
Yeah. yeah

01:19:32.81
Jeremy
I, first time I ever went skiing in my life was 2018 and me and Missy went to Vail, Colorado. Um, and I started down a slope and the, I could hear the instructor lady yelling at me. It was too late. I was,

01:19:49.97
Jeremy
It's like after biting into a hot pepper, I'm already there. And so I'm doing and I'm like, yeah, this is awesome. And then I realized i was going like Mach 5. And... and When I got down to the bottom, I felt like I had been squatting for days, like nonstop squatting.

01:20:09.39
Jeremy
bad And bad. It was a lot of fun. But once I came out of the skis and hit the like the fourth or fifth roll, I thought to myself, yeah, this is not good. I'm going down.

01:20:20.06
Jeremy
ah How did they, is it the diamond? Like how many, it's like, however, i think.

01:20:24.47
Buddy
Well, you don't want to... You got greens, which is ah you know the nice, calm, you know kind of outside the mountain slopes, and you have blue.

01:20:26.78
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.

01:20:32.72
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:33.49
Keith
Blah, blah, blah. What's your next one, man?

01:20:37.90
Buddy
I only have one.

01:20:38.30
Keith
Just going off the rails, bro.

01:20:40.70
Buddy
i only have one.

01:20:40.72
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:41.59
Keith
Talking about green and black and shit.

01:20:44.02
Jeremy
Yeah. I ended up going down to Black Diamond.

01:20:44.54
Buddy
Yeah, only have one.

01:20:47.74
Buddy
Yeah, black... Oh, shit. Oh, shit.

01:20:49.14
Jeremy
Yeah.

01:20:49.43
Keith
So you only had one lesson learned, and that's health.

01:20:52.57
Buddy
Well...

01:20:52.90
Keith
That's a good one. Don't get me wrong. It's a good one.

01:20:54.30
Buddy
Man, i can throw i can throw a lot more shit into it. I mean, i you know, my personal health, I'm i'm letting some things go that, you know, maybe I'm scared to go do a certain test that I need at my age, you know what i mean?

01:21:06.46
Buddy
So, i've you know, both of them.

01:21:06.80
Keith
The finger up the butt or the camera up the butt? Which one?

01:21:09.81
Jeremy
Yes and yes.

01:21:10.39
Keith
Both.

01:21:13.37
Buddy
I don't, you know, I can go poop in the box.

01:21:13.56
Jeremy
Yes and yes. Yeah.

01:21:15.88
Buddy
I feel like that's that's efficient enough or whatever, so.

01:21:18.58
Keith
Nah. You got to go for the full camera, man. you gotta to go Every five years, you got to go for the full camera.

01:21:23.67
Buddy
Yeah.

01:21:24.45
Keith
Once you're 40, you got to go it every five years.

01:21:27.54
Buddy
Yeah, i have I've let...

01:21:27.81
Jeremy
yeah

01:21:28.47
Keith
I just had mine done thats this this year, and it's been perfectly fine. But hey, I feel good now that I got it done.

01:21:34.74
Buddy
Well, and anne two witnesses that I've had lately, i some people I knew have died. One of them is going through it now. He's like...

01:21:45.82
Buddy
kind of, he was a fireman, decided he wasn't going to get checked out. And, uh, you know, he retired and he was like, yeah, just live his life. Physically fit dude is feeling great. You know, nothing really wrong with him. So he didn't, he just like, i don't need to go to the doctor.

01:21:59.96
Buddy
You know, it's a little more expensive when you retire because now you you don't have the free stuff out there. Um, and, uh, let some things go and went in one day, wasn't feeling good. And they ran some tests on him and bam, he's stage four.

01:22:12.38
Buddy
And, uh, yeah, so I,

01:22:13.67
Keith
That's bad.

01:22:16.34
Buddy
I promised some people I'd go get checked. So it's, it's something that, you know, it's kind of like, uh, Jeremy is smoking, you know, it's like, eh, I might need an accountability group for it, you know?

01:22:24.60
Jeremy
Yep.

01:22:27.14
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. I got my first ah camera up the butt right when I was retiring and they found some benign polyps. So I'm a every five year kind of guy.

01:22:36.43
Buddy
Oh shit.

01:22:39.31
Jeremy
As a matter of fact, I've, I had to get cleared through cardiology after that event so I can schedule my next one. So that's a thing, man.

01:22:46.17
Buddy
Yeah, I'm just ducking it.

01:22:47.00
Keith
It is.

01:22:47.21
Buddy
So yeah, i ah health health, I guess, and and fitness are are my...

01:22:52.50
Keith
would like to to put put a petition out there to all the listeners. this has this I'm not talking to Jeremy or Buddy at this time, just to the listeners. Listen to my voice.

01:23:02.97
Keith
I would like you all to, as often as you can, on the bunker, uh, posts some gifs or some memes or whatever you call them. me Whatever you kids are calling them these days.

01:23:14.77
Jeremy
Did you just say Jeff?

01:23:15.70
Keith
Reminders, gifs, gifs, whatever. Reminders. Let's call reminders since I'm, since I'm, a I'm obviously not ah allowed to talk my way. um reminders to remind buddy to go get his butthole checked.

01:23:32.55
Jeremy
Yes.

01:23:33.69
Buddy
Oh, man. Okay.

01:23:34.97
Jeremy
It's just a butthole, dude.

01:23:35.06
Keith
Okay.

01:23:36.18
Jeremy
It's just another muscle.

01:23:36.76
Keith
I, They could be funny pictures.

01:23:37.72
Buddy
But it's my butthole.

01:23:38.69
Keith
they They could be funny pictures. They could be words. You whatever could be like, hey, dude, go get yourself checked.

01:23:41.25
Buddy
Oh, shit.

01:23:43.93
Keith
Or you can actually put a picture. I mean, but, you know, keep it Facebook friendly, obviously. But I'm just putting that out there to all you listeners to help Buddy out for 2026.

01:23:48.70
Buddy
Yeah.

01:23:53.40
Buddy
Help buddy's butthole.

01:23:55.10
Keith
and until and until and you will And you will need to do this until Buddy has on air said that everything is. No, actually, I'm going to require him to to show me the paperwork.

01:24:05.40
Buddy
Oh, my God.

01:24:06.01
Keith
Yeah, that's going to be what it is.

01:24:06.39
Buddy
Here we go.

01:24:08.06
Keith
Yeah.

01:24:08.43
Jeremy
Nice.

01:24:09.30
Buddy
oh

01:24:09.52
Keith
That's my petition. that's my That is my call to action. And what is it GIF or GIFs? What is it?

01:24:15.12
Jeremy
It's gif.

01:24:16.54
Keith
GIF. I said GIF, didn't I?

01:24:18.47
Jeremy
Well, get you say Jeff Jeff is a peanut butter gif.

01:24:19.65
Buddy
Wouldn't be a listen, my butthole.

01:24:22.31
Jeremy
Is it graphics? What is it? ah Graphic.

01:24:26.10
Keith
GIF.

01:24:27.52
Jeremy
It's gif. Yeah.

01:24:28.79
Keith
GIF. Okay.

01:24:29.43
Jeremy
Graphic something, something, something.

01:24:30.97
Buddy
Hey, it's my butthole, my choice, all right?

01:24:32.97
Jeremy
Dude, it's just, it it's just another muscle man.

01:24:35.26
Keith
in fact In fact, if you guys out there on Facebook, if you guys just want to just take a picture of your finger and put it on there, that will be all that we need right there.

01:24:41.72
Buddy
Oh, no, no, no. Oh.

01:24:45.83
Keith
That'll tell Buddy what he's got to do.

01:24:47.67
Buddy
If we want to go down the rabbit hole, I could probably elaborate why I don't like this.

01:24:55.19
Buddy
Maybe that's for another, for another, yeah, for another podcast or whatever, but yeah.

01:25:02.52
Keith
I have got to go take care of my flock. It's about to get dark outside.

01:25:05.68
Buddy
Yeah.

01:25:06.00
Keith
So are we going to cut this thing off or what?

01:25:06.56
Jeremy
nice absolutely

01:25:08.08
Buddy
Let's cut it.

01:25:09.50
Keith
All right, let's cut it off.

01:25:10.52
Jeremy
Go get your butthole checked.

My Prepper brothers and sisters…

Life will never hand you a clean path to preparedness.

There will always be chaos. Always pressure. Always another reason to wait. And if 2025 proved anything, it’s that waiting doesn’t make us safer… It makes us complacent.

I’ll say this plainly.

There were nights this year when I sat there knowing exactly what I should’ve done… but chose comfort instead. And no collapse or catastrophe exposed that. Just silence. Just honesty.

That’s when it hit me:
Complacency doesn’t announce itself.
It sneaks in when things feel manageable and safe.

Well, 2025 is done.
We don’t get a redo.

But we do get tomorrow.

One task completed.
One skill practiced.
One excuse cut loose.

That’s how momentum comes back.
That’s how regrets fade away.

And this time… I’m done letting the quiet steal another year.

Next week, we’ll talk about our goals.

Stay Prepped…

Stay Happy…

Thanks for Listening…

And Goodnight…