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As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace. Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said:
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EDC - What's in your "every day carry?" - Guns 'N Rosaries Ep. 5
What you carry every day speaks volumes about your priorities and preparedness. In this deep-dive exploration of everyday carry philosophy, we break down the essential components of a thoughtful EDC system that goes far beyond just firearms.
The modern preparedness mindset requires careful consideration of what deserves space in your pockets and on your person. We unpack the logic behind carrying specific items, from quality flashlights that see daily use even in daylight hours, to reliable folding knives, medical equipment, and spiritual items that provide protection on multiple levels. Through practical demonstrations and candid discussion, we reveal our personal carry setups while explaining the reasoning behind each choice.
Firearms selection takes center stage as we debate carry positions, holster designs, and why most shooters don't need to modify their carry guns. The conversation extends to off-body options like fanny packs (aesthetic concerns aside) and vehicle preparedness considerations that might make the difference in a crisis situation. We tackle tough questions about family acceptance of firearms, bugging in versus bugging out, and maintaining spiritual readiness in increasingly turbulent times.
Whether you're new to self-reliance or a seasoned veteran looking to refine your system, this episode provides actionable insights on balancing practicality with preparedness. The world isn't getting safer—your everyday carry decisions today could determine your options tomorrow. Join our growing community through the Telegram link in the comments and connect with like-minded individuals committed to thoughtful preparation.
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The middle children of history. Man, no purpose or place, you have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. That intro gets me pumped up.
Speaker 2:I uh, I'm listening to it and I've got, I've got some checks. That intro gets me pumped up. I'm listening to it and I've got some chicks in a cat carrier like five feet from me, because we're growing out meat chickens. And so I'm here in the car and I'm hearing choop, choop, choop the whole time and now I'm thinking did I put a birdie in my smoke detector? No, I don't have a smoke detector up here. It was a little interesting to.
Speaker 1:If anyone's going to have a smoke detector chirping in the background. It's Anthony.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's, true, or Eric Ibarra, apparently.
Speaker 1:I saw that in the telegram.
Speaker 2:The urban crickets are batting a thousand.
Speaker 1:It's always on, every time I watch a.
Speaker 2:So Willing Spirits just bought a 365x macrocom and got certified to conceal I've not heard any issues with 365, so hopefully you don't have the first mine is one of my favorite carry guns, but is it man? I uh, I just can't shoot small guns. Um, I'm just not. I have a 43, I bought a 43 when they first came out and I just I'm not good at them.
Speaker 1:I'm like 5 to 7 yards is as far as I can shoot with those things so my 365 is the AXG Legion, so it's same size as the X Macro Comp really almost same gun.
Speaker 2:I shoot that gun pretty well, man, but it's not the small 365 yeah, well, I mean still it's only got like a three and a half, three inch, three and a half inch barrel right, it's a pretty small I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's three and a half, I think with the comp it's.
Speaker 2:You know it's four inches long you got a red dot yeah, I got a red dot what did you zero it at what yardage? 15 really. I had to switch out my red dot on my carry because it cracked and I put a hollow sun Ronin this, the 507 K comp or whatever it is. Uh, I didn't realize how big it is. I think it's nice. Yeah, I, usually it used to be my red dot that was piggybacked on my ACOG on my rifle and I took that off to put on my carry pistol and I had to zero it and I kind of like it. I don't think I just zeroed basically the red dot on top um, just to have it, just in case, uh, but I never really used it that much, but I like it. I actually haven't in here about one show because youtube doesn't like guns on live streams stream the first couple minutes anyways, yeah yeah, absolutely all right.
Speaker 2:Um, so one thing we're going to start doing. What we set up is a. Uh, guys, we set up a telegram chat, um, for those of y'all that want to talk to like-minded people that view this show. Um, I've set it up to where it has specific rooms for specific topics. We're going to lean into some other things later on as well, starting next month. We've got a little bit of a surprise coming for y'all as far as interaction with the community. It'll be a chance for you all to really gauge where you're at on some things. But this will be the Telegram chat for specifically this show. I know we have one for the regular Avoiding Babylon shows, but this one, if we could just everybody who wants to be a part of this community join this, are you going to pin the chat?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me do. We'll pin the link to the chat.
Speaker 2:We're not going to leave it in the description because I don't want just some rando.
Speaker 1:It is going to be open to everyone who wants to join. But yeah, we don't want random people, we just want some random that comes along and just sees it and who wanted to join.
Speaker 2:But yeah, we don't want, yeah, random people to. We just want some random that comes along and just sees it and jumps in it and starts harassing people. Um, but it's got some good uh topics in there. If y'all have questions about things, we can ask each other. Again, this is a community. This is not me just spouting knowledge to y'all and Rob spouting knowledge to y'all. I'm going to share with you what I know and Rob's going to share with you what he knows. You may need to fill in the gaps. I don't know everything about everything. I know a little bit about a lot, but there are some things I'm just ignorant about and I might need some help on some stuff too.
Speaker 1:Adrian sent this one up way better than the the normal avoiding babylon one. So we got just general stuff. We have networking, a self-reliance tab, training gear, specifically firearms, and then deal.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I like that a lot yeah, hopefully it works out well, hopefully we get a good community built up there. Uh, specifically, I want y'all to utilize the networking tab so y'all can start finding out who's around you. Uh, maybe it's like an hour they're like an hour, hour and a half away and maybe y'all can meet somewhere to to go do some shooting together or learn how to can or something you know, so you can start learning other people. Because the hardest part about this to go do some shooting together or learn how to can or something you know so you can start learning other people. Cause the hardest part about this is not.
Speaker 1:A lot of people are on the same background.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're going crazy, um, but there's not a lot of people that may be in this same line yet, um, and so this is a good way for you to reach out to some people. Um, and really just for your, your location, you can just take, like, the nearest major city. You don't have to put your actual address. Don't do that, please don't, don't put your yeah, don't dock yourself please.
Speaker 2:But you know, give something where a general location, right. And then when in the deals, if I see a deal on some ammo or something, I'll post it in there. Or if y'all see some deals on some stuff, something I'll post it in there. Or if y'all see some deals on some stuff, y'all can post it in there as well. Especially if we're getting closer to Black Friday, you're going to see a lot, especially right now, because, with Trump in office, a lot of these manufacturers of firearms and such they are really hurting for some cash. So you're going to see some monster sales, I would assume, here around Black Friday or so we're going to post those things in there and then some other things. General is just the general topics.
Speaker 1:We should have a medical tab to that at some point too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we will. It's kind of hard to do everything you know, like to put everything in there, you know. But yeah, well, as things come up and if the topic starts to get you know, if there's a long topic in general about, like you know, intel and area study, we'll make one for that too, like it's very easily alterable, so that won't be an issue. But that should be it. On the Telegram, like I said, I've got something cooking for you all starting next month. Rob and I got to get together on a little organization of it and how we're going to present it. But other than that, I think the first show in October we'll show it, we'll go over it, but other than that, let's go ahead and get it. Rob, you want to go ahead and play that Either video you pick.
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Speaker 2:Experience the evolution that was so good, oh my gosh. And my kids saw that Like that's not you, is it Daddy? I'm like, yeah, that's my face on somebody else's body. Kind of me.
Speaker 1:How do you do that? You should tease them so we can have your kids make stuff for us they're so excited about it like I can't believe, did he really shoot you?
Speaker 2:all right, so, uh, we're gonna get into some everyday. This is. I've seen a lot of shows kind of revisit. This Taffy really is not paid enough.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I've seen a lot of shows revisiting everyday carry since Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2:Everybody from John level. I don't know if y'all ever watched the hard men podcasts. That's a pretty decent one. As well Other Protestants, so don't hold that against them, but I've seen it a lot coming up a lot and really, to be honest with you, there's not a lot to revisit. Maybe it's to bring it back to people's mindset, for them to keep this at the forefront of their mind. Maybe they need to at least evaluate what they have or what they are or are not carrying. Man, are those chicks like driving you insane?
Speaker 1:So it's always hard for me to judge because I have really really good headphones studio headphones on, so I don't know if the average person can hear but I can hear y'all.
Speaker 2:Can y'all hear the chicks in the background? Let me know in the chat and if it gets too crazy I'll put them outside the room. I mean, they're just going crazy. I have two chicks in my, in my office, my team room space here, and they were raising them to to process them for meat, and we've had them about two weeks and they got their legs caught in in the feeder and so we had to separate them from everybody else, because chickens are ruthless, they'll, they'll just kill the other chickens if they're a little hurt, um, so we had to separate them out. So if they get too crazy, y'all let me know and I'll just move them outside the room. Um, but they don't like me talking, I guess.
Speaker 2:So, uh, a lot of these shows shows have been reevaluating it, and I've really looked at some stuff as well, and it's not really what I've carried personally. I've changed some things about what I carry in my car because there is a car EDC as well. I think we want to have some things and I've got some examples of stuff when we get to that. But it did make me really evaluate some things, um, you know. So I think it's always good to, as we say, you know, do your 5s and 25s. You know things that are close to you, check those things for um, and then you're further out threats right, your 25s.
Speaker 2:When we used to dismount vehicles, um, in afghanistan, you would check immediately around you when you first got out, see what's there, and then you would go a little bit further out and look what's out there and then you you would fully dismount from the vehicle and move out, you know, on foot. But this is kind of doing the same thing with our edc, um, and what the first thing I want to go over is mindset like why, why do we carry things? What? Why, specifically, are we deciding to carry things on our person other than our? You know our phone or keys in our wallet, right, um. And then you know what is the purpose for the things that we carry and you know what are we desiring to be able to do with those things.
Speaker 2:So for me personally and I'll let you go rob um the things I carry on my person one, I don't like carrying a lot at all. I don't like a bunch of stuff in my pockets at all, um, and I don't even like I don't even wear shorts with cargo pockets on. I don't like things in my pockets at all, and if I'm carrying something on myself, it's for a purpose. I've got my wallet because I've got to be able to pay for stuff, have to ID myself, things like that. I've got my keys because I'll be able to get it out of things. But then we have to look at well, how deep do we want to get into this? How much do we want to carry? Do we want to be prepared for everything, or do we want to be prepared for just enough? The things I consider for myself are I've got a wife and kids. I have my wife and my four kids. It's me and my son are the only two boys in the whole house. Even well, the cat's a boy, so we got another one right.
Speaker 2:But other than that like it's a bunch of girls in my house and they know if something happens, it daddy's in charge and daddy's gonna take care of it. Um and so, with that thinking and that mindset of, well, what do I do to take care of my family, or what do I need on myself to get back to my family, that's what happens, right, I need to have make sure that because, as most of us do, we probably all commute, you know, at least five to 25 miles, right, if you I don't know if you've ever walked 25 miles before, but that's a long walk. It's going to take you a while, you know.
Speaker 2:So, having things that can either you be used immediately or, uh, give me the capability, uh to uh be able to get back to my family, um, or such things, I use every day, right, my pocket knife. I use every single day. I'm either opening Amazon boxes, or I'm unveiling uh, unveiling hay, or'm freeing a pig from some bushes out in shrubbery and stuff, or something right, or I need to cut something for my car, whatever, right, I use my knife every so. I always want to have something like that, but there's a lot of other items that I have that I just rarely use, but I want to have it because I'd rather have it than and then not need it. So, having the mindset of why we're have a purpose for everything you carry and what is your overall goal for an everyday carry Cause we're not even getting into firearms yet- right.
Speaker 2:We all have a reason for that, but there are other things that you can carry on yourself, that you need to consider why that is so for me.
Speaker 1:Those are my considerations I mean, I think you summed it up pretty well. Um, I'm kind of the opposite. I don't. I don't mind having stuff in pockets and, um, I'll admit, I'm a I'm a big, cargo, short, cargo pant kind of guy. Um, I always have been. I've always just had a ton of stuff in my pockets, ever since I was a kid, and my kids are the same way. They stuff their pockets full of everything. So I don't mind it and I tend to probably be overprepared.
Speaker 1:But, generally speaking, like, yeah, I have, you know, besides what everyone has the phone, the wallet, the keys, whatever, what I carry is the stuff I feel like I have a decent chance at using in a day. Or, like you said, needing in order to to, you know, get back to my family if need, because I work about 25 miles away from home. Um, it's nice because there's no traffic, but the downside to that is is if I were to have to get from my place of work to home in some sort of emergency situation where the roads aren't passable, vehicles aren't working, something like that, I do have a 25 mile walk through the woods to get home. So I I have the the very basics I would need on hand to to make that track possible.
Speaker 2:Yeah, who's a? Miss C said you know they keep a pair of tennis shoes. That's a good idea, and and yeah, and I normally do, but then I use them and forget to put them back. You know, like I usually I got a pair of Solomon's. Just, you know, ankle high boots. They usually keep them in the vehicle for that, because I can walk forever in those things, and but one day I got to use them because I go over to our property, you know, 10 minutes away, and then I forget to put them back in the vehicle.
Speaker 2:You know, but that's a good idea, Cause the last thing you want to do is walking home in dress shoes. That's going to hurt real bad. You can have some blisters, real bad. It's just not, it's not. You're going to be having a bad day. So, yeah, things like that, thinking outside the box and some of this stuff Good, I'm glad I'm from the South, so I can't help that. That's just how I roll. I can have a guy who fit many scissors, glue, some graph paper, a small pencil. I mean you could start fires with that.
Speaker 1:You can do a lot of stuff with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a lot. So yeah, I mean there's some outside the box thinking on a lot of this stuff that you know, just and didn't but use it right, put it to use to, uh, anything that you end up having, and figure out if you want to have it or not. Um, I used to carry a um, a 50 watt radio, and it was like in a bag and I was. I just got tired of carrying that thing around and I never used it, uh, because, like, who am I gonna talk to other than, like I talked to my wife from the property? It'll reach that far, but she can't reach to me because I don't have another 50 watt radio for her to reach to me. Um, I've got one so she can hear me, but I can't hear, she can't transmit back to me, it won't reach um. So I had to get rid of that. I mean, I I just stopped using it, um, and I'll probably end up mounting it in my, my farm truck. But you know, I tried to use it and I was like man, this just, I'm just carrying this thing around for no reason, and that was back in like early days of prep. I got in the radios like real hard and heavy, um, and I went and got my like tech license and all that.
Speaker 2:But uh, yeah, just put these things to practice and see, make sure that they're worth using um, and then you know getting into. There's no reason to try and reinvent the wheel either. Okay, uh, when we get into things like um, you know carrying your firearm, aren't you where you carry it? Um, or we get into, you know, do we use off-body carry? We'll get into fanny packs and stuff like that. Um, you know, or v, you know, depending on on how you're choosing to carry. Don't try and reinvent the wheel, right, don't put a magnet in your car to stick your gun to. Okay, those things have instances of negligence discharged a lot. So let's not do that. But just figure out some things that you know are from reputable trainers and go get training about it.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of trainers that will do, you know, disembarking a car right in like a riot or something. We got one here in Alabama that does that. And you realize like if you need to get out of your car, it's real hard to get out without getting shot, cause that car's not stopping nothing Like those doors. Nine millimeter will go through both sides. It'll go through the glass, 22 will go through a door right, so that that car is not protecting you from anything. So if you need to get out of that vehicle real fast, how do you do it Right? And if you're not carrying on your body and it's in the seat, you forget to grab it right. You got to train around those things. So you, these things you got to, you got to keep in in consideration.
Speaker 2:I got like a tickle in the back of my throat. Um. So with that you specifically how I carry, I can specifically talk about the firearm. I carry appendix and we've talked about this before. But I carry appendix because I've trained that way. It's the fastest for me to draw, as well as it is the easiest for me to transition to a non-dominant firing hand from. I can't reach around to my three o'clock with my left hand. Very well, the shoulders just don't like twisting that way and so that's why I carry.
Speaker 2:But I also know when I'm in the vehicle I'm not carrying appendix. While I'm sitting in the vehicle for a while I'm going to take it off and I'm going to slide seat beside me in the console. I gotta remember to grab that before I get out. You know if something happens when your mind's racing, something's going on, you're in the middle of an antifa. You know riot like you're not thinking about those things. I mean, how many times have have y'all locked your keys in your car right and that you weren't under any stress and you still locked your keys in your car Right. So you've got to be able to train around these things and just practice with whatever you're planning on doing. You carry a like four or five o'clock right.
Speaker 1:Two or three. So, yeah, I carry outside waistband about two or three o'clock. Yeah, um, like, when I'm sitting I'll push it back to like three, maybe even a little past three, but when I'm standing I'll then push it up to like two o'clock yeah, I did a?
Speaker 2:uh, I did a course last year with a local municipalities swat team and he went from appendix he used to carry appendix all the time and then he went to a four o'clock because he gets in and out of his vehicle so much that he doesn't like to keep having to grab his firearm, and I get that, um, but he's also a twig, um, and so like you can't see anymore anyway, um, I'm a little bit thicker of a guy. You know hit the gym a little bit. So, uh, carrying four o'clock, it looks like I've got a ostomy bag stuck to the back of me.
Speaker 1:Um, see, well, I'm lucky enough where I live to wear eight months out of the year, you know, know, I can wear a like a cover garment, you know, vest or or or something like that to help conceal it. You know, three, four o'clock.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the, the trade-off I have down here. Like it's nice 10 months out of the year down here. August and September are our hottest months down here. The rest of the year down here um, august and september are our hottest months down here. The rest of the year is pretty nice. Yeah, like it's. It's still 90 degrees right now. Um, it'll be 90 degrees until next week, I think. I think saturday or sunday is like the last of it. But the other side of it is I don't really wear a jacket very much in the in the winter. I will maybe two weeks a year, only the rest of the time wearing like a thick shirt yeah, but I mean between october and april for us.
Speaker 1:You know, I have a, I have a jacket on, so yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it's a little bit easier for you to uh to carry when you have an outer garment that can cover it um anyone ever tried to go soft loops on a holster?
Speaker 2:getting tired of the single plastic clip on my small rigs? Um, yeah, I mean I have, if you want to go. I take mine off a lot, so I like the clips. Um, like, when I get home I'll take it off and put it, you know, on my dresser, um, or when I'm in the I'm taking off. When I get home I'll take it off and put it, you know, on my dresser, or when I'm taking it off, when I get in and out of the car. So I like the clips for that. I don't like the clips that are far apart, where you really got to use two hands to do it, to take it off. Like the Incog does that, and I think I have my T-Rex sidecar does that. I like to be able to take it off with one hand, like and I think I have my T-Rex sidecar does that. I don't even like that. I like to be able to take it off with one hand.
Speaker 2:So this is my carry. So I've just got these regular clips right here that I can just pop up and take right out of my pants, right, and so the the loops are fine and they're really good for deep carry. Like, there's some guys that they're a whole certain I think it's called cherry and it goes deep, super deep, but that's designed by former SF guys that used to go, you know, behind enemy lines and train indigenous people against their government pretty much, and they just need to be able to conceal where nobody, absolutely nobody, knew they had anything on, even the guys on their team, and they do that. They like a really deep conceal. So the soft loops will do that. It will allow you to conceal a little bit deeper.
Speaker 2:I'm not a fan of shoulder rigs, so the, the soft loops will do that. Well, that allow you to conceal a little bit deeper. Um, I'm not a fan of shoulder rigs, um, just because they're so loose, uh, there's, they're not very rich, and when you pull the firearm out, um, and it'll, it won't sometimes you'll have to yank on it. And then you're flagging people as you're, because it's flagging everybody behind you too. So you're pulling that thing out. Hopefully you don't put your figure on the trigger and accidentally, indeed, somebody behind you, they're they're.
Speaker 1:You know they they work for carrying full-size guns under like suit jackets at mass or something.
Speaker 2:But uh, other than that, so let me ask you something how did you, how did you get your family on board with you carrying a firearm every day? So like I will, and like a little bit of an on-ramp that you had to do, like you know, or?
Speaker 1:I was basically already there when I met my wife. I wasn't carrying every day, but I had guns already. She was comfortable with guns so she was okay. When I decided to get the concealed carry permit, we weren't even married yet, we were just dating, so she was fine with it from the beginning. So from the time my oldest was born, you know, I was carrying daily. So it's something they've just grown up around, it's just part of daily life and I bet if you ask them if the average person carried daily, they probably would assume yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do your kids know that you carry?
Speaker 1:yes, yet that somehow still does not stop them from running their head into my holster every single time yeah, and they look at you. Like you, you just did the worst thing possible to them and they're crying and it's like you know that's there.
Speaker 2:That's been there since the day you were born yeah, my, uh, my five-year-old loves to run up and just like headbutt because I carry appendix and so she'll just headbutt my firearm. I'm like you know, this is what happens. I don't know why you keep doing that. Um, so I didn't. I didn't start carrying until I was in fact I never shot it. Well, I'll say never. I didn't regularly shoot a pistol till I was in the marines for like three years no, probably about three or four years and I didn't start carrying till I got my first pistol after Sandy hook.
Speaker 1:I think it was.
Speaker 2:And so that was a trend, that was a transition for me and that was a transition for my Especially, and so it it took a little bit for her to be okay and comfortable enough with it. Now, my kids, now my kids, my kids, I have to tell them, you know, especially as they get older, like, hey, we don't tell anybody that daddy has the power right no one needs to know this, because there may be.
Speaker 2:Sometimes. I carry it where it's, it's frowned upon. Let's say yes where there may, where there might be some repercussions, but I'd rather have it, not need it, right, I'd rather risk that than being in a facility where you know somebody comes in and we're all just sitting ducks. So, my, it took a while to train my kids to know like, hey, we don't tell anybody, daddy has this, you know, and so, and so they'll come up man, and they'll like get real close and like you have your firearm on you. So, uh, yeah, but it took a little bit of getting them used to it.
Speaker 2:Um, and that that might be something y'all, y'all will have to consider, right, I would suggest, as a man, because it is your responsibility to protect your family, you, you should not be seeking permission from your wife to carry, right, you should do it anyway, and she just has to be okay with it. And if she isn't okay with it, then you need to help her become okay with it by taking her to the range, having her shoot the gun. And if she doesn't want to do that, then you got to figure some way to kind of ease her into it. You know, because it is your responsibility, it's not hers and it's not the police. We've already discussed that, right, your responsibility, it's not hers and it's not the police. We've already discussed that, right it's. You need to take this responsibility seriously, um, but be you know, be aware that it may require a little bit of kid gloves on your side to get them on board. You know, it's the same thing with, like starting to, you know, prepare as well, like putting food away and getting water filters and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Your spouse may not be on board yet you need to help them get on board, and that may be. You know, hey, you see an article about. You know, such and such town went without power for 12 days because, you know, hurricane helene came through. Right, you send that to her like, hey, what would we do if this happened? Because right now that's never happened to most of us, nothing like that. So it's a far away example that we may never come in contact.
Speaker 2:But the first time you come in contact with it or the first time that something happens, then you're going to have an issue because you're not prepared for it. So if you need to help get her on board, that not prepared for it. So you, if you need to help get her on board, that may just mean that you're slowly exposing her to this stuff, because my wife doesn't look at any of this stuff. She all she needed was for us to be out of power. For two days now we had to go to a hotel because our heat wasn't on right for. She's like what do we need to do to fix this blank check? You're right, all right, I'm doing what we got to do you know mary's nest.
Speaker 1:Prepping videos is a great resource for women and the farm internet man you know, for, um, I I did not have much issue with my wife and like I was just with firearms. But you know, just preparation and preparedness in general and I think large, well, one, it's just kind of how she is. But two, also just where we live. Like there was one winter a few winters ago where we were without water for three days because the city's water main froze. And a few years before that, right before we moved up here, the town was without power for three or four days because there were so many trees down it took the power company forever to get the lines back up. Get the lines back up, um, you know it wouldn't take much.
Speaker 1:You know, when you're in the middle, in a small town, in the middle of the woods, literally at the end of the road, to to leave a whole town of 1500 people, you know, just completely helpless, basically, um, yeah, so that that that made it easy. Now I understand for people. You know, in the middle of a city where, where they've never gone without power, water, things like that, for more than a few hours, that, um, that you get that illusion of safety. But you do have to recognize that really is just an illusion and, if anything, in an extended loss of utilities or something like that, you're in a far worse situation than than, say, I am in a small town yeah, well, even you know california has rolling brownouts where they'll have fewer.
Speaker 2:You know four or five hours a day where they may not have power because it's too much, it's too taxing on the grid and that's only going to get worse as our infrastructure gets worse. You're only going to see that more often, like with that snowstorm that hit Texas. What was that five years ago? Yeah, they switched all to renewable energy in certain portions of the state and then the ice broke all those solar panels and it just busted and they had no power in a lot of parts of the state. So, uh, these are, these are all. It doesn't have to be like a emp or civil war or whatever it could. Nature is trying to kill you, right, and you gotta be prepared for that. Um, one thing that you know for us specifically um, I've got a solar generator, but it's mostly for the freezers and stuff. I need to put one on my well, because we had an issue with our power went out. What was it last week? Did we talk about that? Last time we were on, the guy hit the power pole on my house.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was without power for like seven hours and I couldn't take a shower or anything, so I had to switch to city city water, which they don't like. Um, but they don't like that. I can do both, but uh, but I had to switch to city water and I hate it smells like chlorine, it smells like a pool, it's so, um. So I was like man, I've got to go. Now I'm looking at like I need a dedicated man. My farm internet is having a conniption fit tonight. I need to get some Starlink.
Speaker 2:I need to get some Starlink. Put that thing out here. The only problem is I only use this when I come out here for the show. Yeah, yeah, now, if y'all want to, you know, give me a Starlink. I will gladly accept robs for any topic that you want would you take sig money for Starlink do what?
Speaker 1:would you take money from sig for Starlink first, no, no, no, no, maybe, maybe, maybe my principles are fungible.
Speaker 2:We'll just say that um, so uh, let's get into what we carry. I'm gonna let you go first, cause I talk way too much. I'm taking over Anthony spot.
Speaker 1:Okay, um, where do we want to start guns or everything else?
Speaker 2:Uh, let's do it like this so you pick one thing that you carry, we'll do the gun last.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Right, cause that's what everybody's waiting for is the gun. Um, pick one thing and I'll show one thing I carry Every day. We'll do on person first, on person first.
Speaker 1:So first thing is this this is basically my wallet. It has all my, all the normal stuff you'd carry in a wallet, like cards, money, insurance cards, stuff like that but it also has a notebook for taking notes Leaving last will and testament in case you're about to die I think every guy thinks about that, right, what they would write as the last note if they're bleeding out you are but also a couple pens and a yeah, a marker.
Speaker 2:So that's my wallet notebook, pens, all that sort of stuff I uh, all that stuff I usually carry off body Um cause I don't wear cargo pockets. We already discussed this.
Speaker 2:Uh so my first thing I, this is a flashlight. All right, I always carry a flashlight, um, and I I use this thing more during the day than I do at night. Yes, like, if there, if I need to find something under my seat or there's a dark crevice in a in a stairwell or something, I'm turning this thing on. Um, this is the uh streamlight wedge. I think it is, but it's flat so it's not round sitting in my pocket, which makes it uncomfortable. Um, it charges by usbc.
Speaker 2:I don't know if y'all can see that, um, and it's just been. It's been a great little light. It's pretty bright. Um, there have been times where I've scared my kids with it, um, because they're outside doing something I'll be doing, and so I'll shine them a lot in the face and they'll get freaked out. Um, but I use this thing a lot and, uh, it's got a safety feature where you can turn it off. Let me see if I can do it. Lock, lock the button. Yeah, all right, so now it's locked. And now when I press it, it won't, it just gives me a red. Yeah, right, so it doesn't actually automatically go off. It's it's really intent.
Speaker 1:Like you do it like five times and then hold it on the fifth time if you have a uh, you ever almost start your leg on fire with that thing, because I know I have with mine I have left it on on.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I have an o light that I won't. I don't carry on me. I usually just for like I'll clip it to my hat because it's got a little clip on it. But I've left that thing in my pocket and it gave me a first degree burn yeah, yep, um, yeah, uh, just this is a lock b field journal.
Speaker 1:By the way, in case anyone's interested in what we show, we'll try to name them. Um. So my next thing since you did your flashlight, I'll do mine, and really it's same idea. This is a night core edc 29 and it's it's flat, a lot like that uh, streamlined wedge, um, similar to a little different than yours, but same idea. It's got a lockout. This is like a slider on the side that you have to do before you turn on, and this one, I think, goes up to 1200 lumens normally, and then it also has a 2000 lumen or something super mode, but that drains the power in 10 seconds. But yeah, like you said, I use this thing honestly all the time. It's got a way better flashlight than my phone Stuff like that.
Speaker 2:It's super useful literally all the time, so I love it yeah, I, uh, I like, I like a lot of these things because they have the usbc, because my phone has usbc, everything is pretty much usbc too yeah, um, so I can charge this in the car on the way to work if I, if it got dead that morning for whatever reason or something.
Speaker 2:So just the the utility of being able to charge it whenever and not having to worry about changing our batteries, and it's like IP six, I think. Whatever it is, it's like up to a meter is waterproof, which makes it nice. Let's see my next thing. So, oh, like I said, I've always got a knife on me. This is a Spyderco, this is my farm knife. The thing is, I've cut metal with this thing, um hardware cloth. If anybody knows what that is, it's like metal netting. Um, I've cut everything it's got. I don't like serrated edge blades, but this was a gift, um, so I use it all the time, though, but I always have a knife on me because I use it all the time for many, but I have way too many on me, cause I use it all the time for many, but I have way too many knives, way too many. I've got out the front knives. I've got, you know, spyderco knives. Most of them are full.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've got a few fixed blades. I've got one my wife got me as made from like a railroad spike. She got from a homestead festival year before Nice, year before last. But it's good to always have a blade on you to be able to cut things. But you never know when you're going to have to cut a zip tie or whatever. But buy a good quality knife. My dad always told me there's three things you never skimp on One is a good pair of boots, one is a good watch and one is a good knife. Your dad is a wise man boots.
Speaker 1:One is a good watch and one is a good knife.
Speaker 2:Um your dad is a wise man. The last year, forever. Um, I don't know how much this was. It was a gift, but I bought one that was a little bit of an up.
Speaker 1:Man is internet. Well, until he comes back, um yeah, we're going to put all the all, all this stuff in the gear section of the telegram. So make sure you join the telegram that's in the pinned comment in the live chat and we'll put a list of all the stuff in the gear section in case any of you are interested in it. And I don't know if he's coming back at all, guys, oh boy be, oh there he is, there he is you know, you were saying what the price, the cost of the knife was before you.
Speaker 2:So that one I don't know how much it was, but the regular one I have that. I've got a one that is a little bit upgrade for that and it's like 70 bucks that's, I mean spider co's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's not bad for a spider co no, not bad at all.
Speaker 2:Um, but I so I have a gerber um that I was issued in the marines as an auto folder and you're not allowed to have auto folders unless you're military or fire now I think. But, um, benchmade used to be a lot better. Their quality control has really dropped off now they got popular and I just don't think they're worth the money anymore. Uh, you can buy very good similar knives for much cheaper which one is this demco?
Speaker 1:have you ever heard demco? No, I would. This is about the cost of your average bench made, but I would say it's significantly better in my opinion and the problem is is, once they get into rapid expansion, you have a lot of issues with quality control.
Speaker 2:Uh, there's a one that I always wanted. I just didn't never wanted to drop the money for it. It's called zero tolerance, um, but they're really big knobs Like it's a folder, and once it's folded out, it's like nine inches long. They're crazy big and they're like two and a half inches wide. It's it's insane.
Speaker 2:But, uh, I just can't. I can't justify carrying something like that. Um, so, like I said, I don't carry a lot. The only other thing I really carry on me all the time is it's my rosary. Yeah, um, I always have it on me, even though I probably should pray it more than I do. We pray one rosary a night as a family, um, you know, but I've always got it on me because it reminds me of things. This is one of the ones I usually carry a much smaller one that will fit in the actual change pocket of my jeans. That's a little bit bulkier, but this is the one I've been carrying today. Because I was wearing dress slacks today, it was a little easier to carry.
Speaker 2:But one aspect of this is being spiritually prepared too, because, as we've seen in the last 12 days. The demons have made themselves known and we've got to protect against that, and I was watching a good video today by Dan Burke talking about all the sins that attack your family. Come through the father and if you're not prepared, you're not spiritually protecting your family, you're derelict in your duties. Make sure y'all are. You know you've got. You know I've got my scapular on. You know all the time I make sure my kids always have theirs on you know. So just make sure you're, you're carrying a, something as well that reminds you of your faith and keeps you your prayer life in in use what else you got, so my daily knife um?
Speaker 1:I would never have bought this because because they're they're stupid expensive. But it was gifted to me, but it is a Chris Reeve. Which one is this? This is the Benza, I think 31, something like that. Yeah, don't look them up, don't, don't buy one, seriously Is that what you tell Hope.
Speaker 2:Tell her don't look how much I paid for this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but, like I said, this one was a gift. So, yeah, that's the knife I tend to carry. I carry this one, even though it's, like I said, it was a gift and super expensive for the person who bought it for me. But, um, I know this thing is gonna outlast me, so I know it's gonna. It will be there when I need it to be there, no matter what. Yeah, um, but otherwise, you know other knives, like you know the demco I like. Um, I have a spiderderco 2 that I carry from time to time. Like you said, just make sure you get a good knife. Microtech is another brand I like a lot, but, yeah, any of those are good. What else I carry? I have my Rosary, of course. This is the Rugged Rosary Battle Beads. This is the rugged rosary battle beads. Do you carry a lighter on you?
Speaker 2:I do not. I do have one, like I have one in my bag. I always have a backpack with me. So I work an office job so I always have, like my leather briefcase and a backpack. My backpack is usually multi-use, uh, but I have one in there, but I don't keep one on me, um, because I I mean, when I smoke my pipe it's always at home. I gotta redo it out, you know. Um, I'll take that back. We have a really awesome pipe and cigar shop here called the briary, um, lucky, and I might go there. Sometimes it's, man, it's like it smells like granddad's house when I walk into it. Man, it's awesome. Um, but yeah, I usually don't. Now my lighters I do have. I have about three feet of uh tape wrapped around them, nice duct tape, you know because I always need duct tape for things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I just have a Zippo here. This is a St Benedict metal Zippo that I found, which is sweet. Yeah, so I carry a lighter on me all the time. I don't you know, sometimes I'll have a cigar or a cigarillo or something like that, but I usually don't like to use zippos for those. But uh, but, like I said, if I have to try to make it home walking through the woods, you'll need to be able to start a fire.
Speaker 2:So I've learned to carry a lighter, yeah absolutely, yeah, I uh, I have like knife and I have a knife and ferro rod in the car, so if I need it, I just throw it in my backpack, and I've got the lighter in the backpack as well, just in case. Let's see what else do I have? Oh, let me take this off.
Speaker 1:I was going to say what do you wear for a watch?
Speaker 2:I have a few watches. This is a Casio. I've had this since the marines. It's solar, so I never I haven't, I've never changed the battery on this thing ever and I've had this thing almost 20 years um, and but I have multiple other watches, like I have dress watches and stuff.
Speaker 2:But you always need a way to tell the time without looking at your phone. Yeah, and this was nice because I don't ever have to charge it. Um, I've got, you know, I've got a citizen eco watch that my wife bought me. Um, but I might have to send it in because my wrists are getting a little too big for it. Um, and it's like the ratchet, you know links to it. Uh, but you always need a way to be able to to tell time without, because, look at, we look at our phone way too much as it is, um, and so being able to see you know what time it is, this, you know, this has got a compass on it as well. It's also got a, uh, you know, tell me what temperature is with a barometric pressure is like it's got way too much on it. But, and I've never used anything by the time really in the alarm.
Speaker 1:So, uh, but I can tell the time without looking at my phone yeah, I have a hamilton field watch automatic or automatic manual field watch, so it self winds, keeps time pretty good. Yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 2:It's not perfect, but it will keep time pretty well see, I'm trying to think what else I got on me. I got my head, my airpods on me. Airpods yeah, it's the one you know because I need to make a phone call or something um, or listen to avoiding babylon. Uh, while I'm milking the cow, I mean that show y'all did last night, goodness there was a little a little bit much to listen to. What about it? It's a rough one. Man.
Speaker 2:I just like I love Wagner. He's a good dude but, man, he's real dry to listen to sometimes. And then you know Anthony getting into some topics that I like. I like a lot of Anthony's insights on things, because he didn't read someone else's opinion and then form his opinion off of that. And then form his opinion off of that. You can tell he sat in his truck watching videos all day and actually thought through his opinion first before he spouted it. There's a lot of guys, man, they'll read one book, and that is now my opinion too.
Speaker 1:It sounds good.
Speaker 2:Listening to them, go back and forth about some things and then Wagner giving his insight and kind of like the background on some stuff. It was a little bit of a hard listen but especially if you're a new listener that was probably a real hard listen last night. If you don't know the deep lore of avoiding Babylon, that was probably a really difficult one to follow.
Speaker 1:You know, the shows with guests are hard for me because I'm one I'm busy dealing with all the back-end stuff, all the chats, the comments, getting videos ready, things like that. So if I'm not listening, if I concentrate on something else for 10 seconds and miss what the guest said or what Anthony asked them, it just kind of puts me out of the conversation right away. Just my temperament like I. It takes me a few minutes, not not minutes, you know, seconds usually, but it takes me a little time to consider something before before I say it. Um, so it shows with guests it's hard, unless it's a guest that I know super well that we've had all the time, like hitchborn, you know, joshua charles, um, cavassos, things like that. I, I, I know them and I can roll with them easily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but uh, for me the show less, unless you've had a little bit of bourbon and then and then. That was just me and aunt. That was just me and aunt yeah, the uh.
Speaker 1:the more bourbon I the yeah the bourbon definitely lowers that response time I need. Yeah, maybe I should start carrying a flask in my EDC.
Speaker 2:I don't know what this is.
Speaker 1:Water windproof dual arc lighter You've seen the arc lighters, though right yeah. Water windproof dual arc you've seen the arc lighters, though right yeah. So I don't know that specific one, but I have a couple like a dual fuel.
Speaker 2:Is that what it means about dual?
Speaker 1:no, it just says two electrical arcs, probably in a cross I just have two electric arcs. Okay, yeah, yeah I would imagine, I don't know if, like, yeah, bourbon rob is the best bourbon.
Speaker 2:Bourbon rob turns into sassy rob is what that is bourbon rob's the stuff that gets everyone in trouble also also.
Speaker 1:Like I wouldn't. I wasn't like really intoxicated Like I. I probably wouldn't have driven just how to you know prudent stuff like that. But like man, once you know that I'm in my mid thirties, like I woke up hungover the next day. Man it's horrible, it's bad, it sucks.
Speaker 2:It's sad. Like I remember when I was in the Marines we would always have PTt monday morning but we would always go out drinking sunday night. Sometimes I showed up to pt still drunk, right and um, and we were. I would run like five miles and and I'd be fine and like the alcohol, like I'm just sweating now, like I drink half a beer and not only do I have to get up and pee every two hours, but on top of that I wake up the next morning with like the most, like I'm only I'm 44 years old, like why do I am breaking apart? I'm falling apart like death becomes her right and it's. It's insane how, just yeah, when did the turning happen? Was it like a specific age?
Speaker 1:For me, it was literally my 30th birthday. For me, it was my 30th birthday. On my 30th birthday, I had three drinks. I woke up with a headache the next day. I'm like, really this.
Speaker 2:All of a sudden. So we used to have a bar outside of m schwab in okinawa, japan. It was called whiskey whiskey something. I'll say the rest of it anyway. Yeah, yeah, sure, whiskey peters is what we'll call it um, but uh, they had a competition yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Uh, they used to have a competition. It was break the seal night and drinks were and beers were a dollar. And then what they do is they put cellophane on all the urinals and the and the drinks were a dollar until someone broke the seal. First of all, you don't challenge Marines to anything, okay, because guys were peeing everywhere other than where they were supposed to, just to keep beer a dollar.
Speaker 1:How many guys accidentally drink piss instead of a beer because people were pissing in glasses?
Speaker 2:There were bottles of beer everywhere with urine in them. Guys would just go in the corner and fill the bottle back up. Oh my gosh, all right. So as far as I think, that's all I care. Do you care anything else other than firearm?
Speaker 1:Not on my person usually.
Speaker 2:Okay, so my firearm is a. This is a Glock 19. This is the red dot on it I was telling you all about. I've got a TLR X or TLR seven X on it. It's got a rechargeable CR one3 battery in it. I only carry a 15 round mag in it when I carry it on me, because I like to conceal a little bit better, but I always carry a. I usually carry a backup uh 20 round mag on me. It's a 15 with a plus five on it. Um, and but this thing is completely stock. I've done nothing to it. It is my opinion Again, this is my opinion that 99% of people are not good enough shooters to upgrade their Glock.
Speaker 2:There's no reason to put a new trigger on it. There's no reason to even put new sights on them anymore. Yes, the sights are plastic, but there's a steel core to them now. Now, that's only really since gen 4, I think. But, um, there's no reason to upgrade anything. I'm gonna go off. You are not that good of a shooter, um, now, if you're shooting competition all the time and you need a little bit of a crisper crisper trigger, then go for it. But other than adding red dot, I've done nothing to that thing, and I shoot pretty well with it.
Speaker 2:Um, but it's in a um, it's a t-rex holder holster back before they jobbed lucas butkin. Uh, I won't buy anything from t-rex anymore, um, because of that. But uh, I love this. Now I put a a new clip on it. I have a discrete carry concepts clip on it because I like metal clips better than plastic. Especially in the heat in Alabama the plastic will get loose and there's been times where my holster has come off my pants because the clip just kind of because it was so hot, came undone. But but yeah, that's what I carry 99% of the time so what I have 99% of the time.
Speaker 1:So what I have carried recently is a Walder PDP compact with a hollow sun. What is it? An SCS PDP? I think it's literally made specifically for the PDP. It actually PDP. I think it's literally made specifically for the PDP. It actually. You can see the slide cuts actually carry up into the red dot, so it sits really nice. Co-witnesses with the sights. I like that a lot. And then Surefire X300U A 15-round magazine. It is a big. Yeah, it is a big yeah, it is.
Speaker 2:But a nice thing with a light like that, that extends off the slide right. So if you have to shove that thing into somebody, it's not going to take the slide out of battery yeah right, like they'd have to be really fluffy yeah, they would have to be a big old parker, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, you'd be a big old boy to take that thing out of battery. So if you know, if you're fighting with somebody you have to pull your firearm, show it in somebody's ribs. It's not going to go out of battery when you fire it. Because that x300 is keeping a distance. That's the same thing. A lot a reason a lot of people will put a compensator on their pistols now because it does the same thing. They keep it from going out of battery. Um, like, I have a MR nine 20 with a compensator, uh, and I don't really shoot that thing very much anymore, but I have it for that Uh purpose.
Speaker 1:And then, um I I carry a T-Rex um iron side. Um, like you said, I don't I carry a T-Rex Ironside.
Speaker 2:Like you said, I don't know if I'd buy it. Do you always carry outside the?
Speaker 1:waistband. Basically, yeah, for a few years now, for a while I did inside waistband with a hybrid leather on the back and kydex on the front, but even then it just I don't know outside the waistband isx on the front, um, but even then it just I don't know. Outside the waistband is, in my opinion, more comfortable for me so I just, uh, I dress around it to make sure it's still concealed I have way too many holsters as it is, and so I usually pick something I like and I stick with it.
Speaker 2:Um, but, uh, if we got, if you know somebody from there and they want to send us one to check it out, I'll be happy to take it out for them. But like I've got so many holsters, I've got a drawer for holsters.
Speaker 1:It's ridiculous I, I have at least two or three for almost every gun. It's stupid. Um yeah, I do have a I forget which gun. I have a black arch for they basically have a full kydex holster with a padded leather backing. Um yeah, really super nice I've never bought an alien gear holster, believe it or not.
Speaker 2:I had one a long time ago. It was okay. It was like a pancake holster. Okay. All of those are good. I'd be happy carrying any of those I like my. Walther.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:The Ruger RX-7 is probably going to end up being the winner of the Glock clones, but the Walther has gotten great reviews. The PL-1 is great double action, single action. I have a Shadow Compact and it's just a nicer version of the PL-1. And I carry that thing a lot too. I love shooting that. It's just. It's about seven ounces heavier than my 19, my glock 19.
Speaker 1:That's really the biggest reason I don't carry it as much, but I love shooting it yeah I was gonna say like I, um, I like to carry my beretta, my uh beretta 92x, a lot. I I carry my Shadow II as well but, like you said, when it comes down to it they're a fair amount heavier. You know metal frame guns. So for just average day-to-day, even though I'm a big double-action, single-action guy, all my double-action, single-action guns are metal frame.
Speaker 2:So the Palmer Stryker PDPp is just lighter, nicer to carry yeah so I go to mass in the most dangerous city in alabama, because that's how they've done all the lat masses. They put them in the ghettos, right, um, and so I carry 35 rounds because we routinely hear gunshots from where it mats. So again, like I said before, have a reason for why you carry what you carry. Um. So the reason I don't buy for t-rex anymore is because of how they did lucas pocket his brothers basically stole the company from him, um, and he is no longer associated with them anymore, uh, and they're honestly a sinking ship. Uh, they probably won't be in business, very much like tacticon. Tacticon's about out of business too, uh, but t-rex is about is about to go out of business because of an entirely different reason. They decided to screw over the one guy who made me want to buy stuff from them. So I have no desire to.
Speaker 1:It does sound like Lucas is getting ready to launch some products here soon, so hopefully he'll have some stuff available. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yes, taffy Lucas was the. Lucas Botkin was the one who did all the shows and everything. He's the one that did all the shooting shows. You know shooting videos and everything. But he's got his own channel now Lucas Botkin.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So, let's see, I think that's it for that. So I want to go into some off body carry stuff, okay, um, so this is a fanny pack, um, I don't carry it all the time, uh, but I do carry it sometimes and it has a pouch in the back for my firearm and then in the other pouches I keep some medical like I got a tourniquet here, chest seals and stuff, um, and that's for if I want to carry a knot, you know, like I'm in like gym shorts or I'm in the beach or I'm at the pool or something, and I don't want. I want something to put it in but not have to worry about being on my waist. There are other alternatives to doing that. Uh, ph elster has a the the eidolon, I think it's called Enigma.
Speaker 2:Enigma, is it Enigma? Yeah, PH PH Eidolon was similar to it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that's the same company, but I do know the. Enigma is the.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's basically like a waist belt that you put on under, and it doesn't have to be on any type of, you know, pants or anything. Be on any type of pants or anything, but the amount of men I see wearing a fanny pack. Now they're probably gay, more than likely, or Asian or Asian, that is true, or Asian or European.
Speaker 1:Well, you think gay already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do think gay already. We're being redundant, but I see it all the time. I mean, I've got a friend who I'm not going to call out, but he was wearing one on saturday and he's none of those things.
Speaker 1:Um so I'll be honest.
Speaker 2:The point is maybe I'm gay for not wearing one I, I do have one as well too.
Speaker 1:Just recently got it, and it was basically for the reasons you said Wear it at the gym. Or if I'm in just gym shorts and a t-shirt at home and I need to run to the gas station real quick, something like that Quick and easy to throw it on. Or if I'm cutting the grass. I could do that too. You know I could. I could do that too. The the upside that I like to it is is it allows me to carry a full-size gun, super concealed, you know, so like I have my m9a4 um in it and that that's a big gun to uh to try to conceal otherwise. But then, yeah, yeah, the front pouch is all medical Tourniquet, quick clot, chest seals, things like that. So not something I'd wear every day, but I think there is a place for it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it has its uses. You just gotta get over the fagginess of it. And yes, danny, it does subtract aura. That is a hundred percent true, but you have to be okay with that. See, I have a get out of jail free card. I don't worry about how I look or anything, because I used to be paid to shoot people in the face, right? Not everybody can say that, right? So I'm not worried about that as much. But yes, it does subtract aura all right, we got a super gen.
Speaker 1:Let's see what this.
Speaker 2:uh, yep, same, actually good. Some shield. Yep, love the shield, especially 2.0 eps, nice. The only issue without the front knives is, um, sometimes they get dirty and they don't deploy. I've got a few A buddy of mine who used to work for a company called Crate Tactical and occasionally if they're dirty they don't deploy out the front and I've got to pull them out and I've got to clean them and everything.
Speaker 1:That's one reason why I stopped carrying my Microtech out the front. Um, it's one reason why I stopped carrying my microtech out the front, because there were, there'd be times where it didn't, you know it would just kind of sit here or not fully retract things like that.
Speaker 2:Um, so yeah especially putting your pocket, I guess, like pocket linen, like the the stupidest things, just defeat out the front knives for whatever reason. Now I did have a buddy when I was the marines who had the benchmate infidel um, and that thing wouldn't stop for anything. It would punch through a metal garbage can and in fact he stabbed himself in the butt with it.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say that the downside of that is yeah so he was just playing with it and was, you know, putting it back in and and the whole three inches of the blade went into his butt, cheek.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was he put he had no idea, he did it because it was so sharp.
Speaker 2:He just he sat down and there was like a little bit of a pool of blood in the seat when he got up and we're like what happened and it's because he stabbed himself in the butt. Ooh, there's a lot worse places that could have happened, yeah so what's Gare wearing a fanny pack around the waist or around the shoulders?
Speaker 1:I feel it is more secure around the waist. Like you know, we say off body, but you really think about it. Like I don't know about yours, but the one I have it's got the metal clips, you know, like no one is pulling that thing off me. It is just as secure on me around the waist as like a kydex holster on a belt Around the shoulder, though I don't feel it's quite as secure and I'm not, I don't know why. Yeah, it's just a feeling I have?
Speaker 2:I don't either. It's like it's like a, it's like a seat belt. Oh, feeling, almost you know who is it. Uh, did you ever listen to mitch headburn? Yes, comedian, yes, so he had. He had a skit talking about. You know, wearing a turtleneck with a backpack was like having a really weak midget trying to take you down right, and so I feel like that when I wear a fanny pack, I feel like somewhat like I'm wearing like a seat belt, like it has just like inherent feeling to it, you know you want to like get off the back and stuff, you know.
Speaker 2:So I always wear it around my way. Now, when I wear, I always wear it to the side a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Instead of just in the front, because I don't like that thing, like you know, bouncing in front of me. Let's see.
Speaker 1:My wife. She likes the crossbody bags, so she has a similar fanny pack. I haven't seen her wear it as a cross body bag yet, but I have a feeling she she would. But she also wears like the baby up there sometimes too, so probably not yeah, have you seen the baby carriers with a holster in it?
Speaker 2:no, I don't know how I feel about that as long as it's in the kind of accessible, I don't think it's an issue no, it's got the baby right.
Speaker 2:And then on the outside is the holster. It's kind of like the seeker pocket on the vertex bag. Yeah, yeah, you know, but you don't know it's there unless you put your hand in the pocket. True, okay, I might have to look into, but then you're treating the, then you're treating the child as a, as a you know plates pretty much, and I don't think that's a good idea. All right. So besides the rosary, uh, other spiritual weapons. I have a, let's see, I have a they're all on my scapular. I have a miraculous metal, a saint benedict and a holy face cross.
Speaker 1:I think that's it. On my rosary I have the St Benedict crucifix, a miraculous medal centerpiece, and then I also have a St Benedict medal, a St George medal, St Michael medal and a guardian angel medal and, of course, like I said, I have my St Benedict medal, Zippo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know Mike from Craig. I used to shoot with Mike years and years ago. He's now started his own thing called Athena Target Systems. I talked to him a few days ago about it. Actually, I told him the first time I buy some plates I'll go shoot them and I'll give them a review on our channel for him. Let's see. All right. So let's see what else. Uh, infants do make horrible armor. That is correct. That's correct. I would not. I would not suggest that's like a 1a right that is correct, I would not suggest it, that's like a 1A.
Speaker 2:Just imagine what does it make it past my filter.
Speaker 1:There is a terrible joke. I'm thinking of that. It is funny, but I'll tell you off the air, okay.
Speaker 2:Tell me after no, no, no I cannot say this one.
Speaker 2:So next thing, I carry this in my car. This is just my off back. I've got two turn kits and stuff. This is one I built myself years ago back when I was still a working paramedic. Um, I have this and I have another one in the car. I actually have two more in the car, but one is like a chinese m1 that's just like for boo-boos. Mostly it's got like a chinese tourniquet that I'll never use unless I'm like strapping something to the car or something. But, um, look, we're gonna do a medical class next week. We have a special guest coming on to help us with that one. But I highly advise to have an ifac and know how to use it to have an IFAC and know how to use it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have a vehicle med kit in each vehicle. It'll be interesting to see what our guess is next week, what they should include compared to what I have in them. Trying to think what else I have here, the only other things I have are different. Different like firearm options for different like scenarios.
Speaker 2:I'm looking up that Rma 11. Are these ceramics? Yeah, they're ceramics. Are these the one they're doing the deal on? They're always doing a deal like buy two for like 400 bucks. Are those it cole? Let me know in the chat I've got ceramic ceramic plates. I actually got two sets of them. They had a really good black Friday sale last year. I got four plates for like 400 bucks. Yeah, they're always in sale. Yeah, Get. If you can afford ceramic plates, do it, but take care of them. Don't drop them or anything like that.
Speaker 1:Now, if you if you want something to train in and get steel plates to train in, get steel plates to train in and then wear your ceramic plates for actually protection. We might have to do an episode on um on gear like that, like carriers plates, different chest rigs, things like that. Um, yeah, so when I, when I'm going camping, hunting, hiking, walking through the woods, anything like that, in my backpack I'll have at least a day's worth of calories for however many people. If it's me, it'll be just me. If it's me and my two boys, it'll be enough calories for all three of us for at least a day, depending on what I'm carrying. You know what form the calories are in. It might be more than that, um, you know, and then they'll. Then I'll also have snacks too. You know that we can eat if it's not a life death sort of scenario yeah, so we uh let me.
Speaker 2:Let me talk about mres real quick. We'll go over that. Um, mres right now are super cheap. Um, if y'all ever listen to tj, james tj, but this runs bear, independent tj, something I just know about tj. Anyway, he had a really good episode the other day on his channel talking about right now is a really good time to buy MREs, because they are way over capacity in a lot of these warehouses. So you can get a box of MREs for like 30 bucks right now and each box is like 12 MREs, I believe. So you're looking at less than $3 an MRE. They're also switching out. The MREs are 2,000 calories per package. Okay, so do not eat three of those in a day, because that's 6,000 calories.
Speaker 1:Unless you're literally trying to survive out in the blizzard or something unless you're up in.
Speaker 2:Unless you're up in minnesota and you actually need 6 000 calories because you're shivering to death, then do it. But other than that, make sure to take a gander at what you got and make sure you're not eating cold also, the cold rations don't come with the, the uh, the chemical heater.
Speaker 1:You have to heat those a separate way. If you want them warm, you don't need to heat them up, really. But have you tried the first strike, mres?
Speaker 2:yeah, we, we first got those in afghanistan, um, and they were great.
Speaker 1:I liked them they're, they're, they're great little. Yeah, great little packs for hiking and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they don't need water or anything like that.
Speaker 1:They're good to go.
Speaker 2:I got two more items I'm going to go over. Okay so, this is a solar panel with a bunch of little attachments in here. Okay so, when I go anywhere like I'm out in my land, whatever I'm doing um, I can plug this up to something and charge something. Um, I can put it in the back of my truck and keep it charging and charging while I'm driving, or whatever. Uh, these things cost like 40 bucks and they're way better than they were like 10 years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they work really well these days.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've, they've gotten really good and it's got all the attachments for whatever. I want to plug up, um, but the last thing I want to go over is I carry a bear mace in the car. I carry it in the door because, um, when I drive through Birmingham and we don't really have an issue with Antifa or BLM or anything as much as other cities might, but I'm real close to Atlanta too. I was just in Atlanta last week actually went to my kids to the aquarium and the last thing I want to do is caught in a in a John Brown gun club riot and you know I can't do anything about it. That bear mace, you roll down that window and spray his face there. You're going to be able to get away. So it's a non-lethal capacity to be able to have to not have to pull your firearm, not to sit, stay around and fill out a police report or any of that, just so you can get out of the situation.
Speaker 1:For me, or any of that, just so you can get out of the situation. Um, for me, I have a couple different um edc guns that I will carry depending on the situation. Um so the, the like, the, the walder um fits almost every scenario. But um, so for like, if I'm going to be uh, um well, with like deer season coming up, if I'm going to be in the woods hunting a lot, instead of the you know the 15 round nine millimeter, I'll carry a, a 44 magnum um outside waistband.
Speaker 1:This is a smith and wesson forget the exact model number, but it's um 44 magnum. It's scandium frame, so it is. It is light, it's easy to carry, but it's it's. It's painful, very painful to shoot. It is one you only want to shoot if you a bear is charging you down, and you know. And for ammo, for that I have the 44 magnum hard cast that will put down a moose if I needed to um, so that you know you got to carry, based on whatever situation you're in, you know. So if I'm not, if I'm not worried about people, necessarily for a few days, I'll carry something like this for animals um, instead yeah, I mean you got bears up there, so I we've got.
Speaker 2:We've just got waffle house down here, so I'm not really worried about bears I'd be more worried about waffles, to be honest um, I don't know if I it depends I've seen stevie eat crazy stuff, so look to work at waffle house.
Speaker 2:I heard you have to kill a family member. So, like, that's not people you want to mess with. Um, I would not eat an mri after like special expiration date. Uh, that's not people you want to mess with. I would not eat an MRE after like special expiration date. That's me personally. It depends on how it was stored, honestly. But yeah, like I used to eat those things all the time in the Marines and I really don't want to eat them now, unless I have to. We see tray rats, which is like MREs in bulk, right? So it's a bunch of like powdered eggs. They throw some water in it, put the heater on it and eat a big tray rat of scrambled eggs and they're horrible. You can't put enough Tabasco sauce on those things. If that's all you got to eat, you don't really have a choice. I wouldn't eat them after expiration date. That's my personal. You go for it. If you got a stomach lined with steel, have at it.
Speaker 1:It depends on the situation too. If you're legitimately close to starving and that's what you have, you'll eat it, but you're not going to try to put yourself in that sort of situation.
Speaker 2:There's much better options yeah.
Speaker 1:Do I use 10 millimeter for bear or 44 um either or both. Yeah, honestly it uh. So I do have um two 10 millimeters. I have a smith and wesson uh um m&p performance center in 10 millimeter and then also a sig p220 in 10 millimeter. Both of those will get the job done. Don't get me wrong. Um the uh, the 44 magnum is more for for moose. 10 millimeter might not put a moose down yeah, we don't really.
Speaker 2:I mean the. The biggest thing we really have to worry about down here is like like packs of dogs, right, but I've got a rifle for that right especially because I live out in the country.
Speaker 2:People just like to. They love to drive out to the country and just leave their dog, and so then now we've got an issue with dogs. That you'll come up, they'll attack my chickens and stuff, yeah, but you know we have black bears here, but black bears are scared to death of people. They are used to be like, you know, yell, boo at them in the runaway. If y you all ever seen the videos from like Gatlinburg where, like, the black bears are there and people just like yell at them and they run away, you know, real bad. We don't really have hogs down here as much. There are portions where we have them, but nothing like Texas or Ohio. Texas and Ohio are like the worst places for hogs right now.
Speaker 1:So Bobby is right here. He says you got to get good 10 millimeter. A lot of the mass-produced stuff is basically 40 um and that's so 40 developed out of 10 millimeter. Because 10 millimeter was developed by the fbi. They find it they had a too much recoil so they they basically made a lower power 10 millimeter, called it it 40 Smith Wesson. And unfortunately that means a lot of 10mm ammo off the shelves is not as loaded as hot as it could be. In my 10mm guns I use Buffalo Bore. It's loaded basically as hot as the specifications allow, so it will get the job done. Mysticy is right. 10 millimeters fine for black bear. I wouldn't, I would tell that for grizzly. So if you're out west and have brown bears, um, yeah, 44 magnum's probably where you start for those yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:All right, I think, make sure I don't have anything in my bag. The backpack I carry is an Eberle stock. This is a what do they call this? The little trick? Because this one has a pouch in the bottom that'll come out so I can put a rifle in it.
Speaker 1:A short rifle like my .300.
Speaker 2:Blackout will fit in here so. I got a notebook. I'll keep a headlamp. I've got a write in the rain book. I usually use that for the range more than anything. I've got a fixed blade knife. This is made by a guy in South Africa and this is just for self-defense. I don't open boxes with this one, and the goal of it is to you grip it with your fist and you're pulling towards you when you need to use it. What's that Lion? Something I have to look it up.
Speaker 2:It makes that. What else do I got in here. I got some canine provisions, uh, personal water decon kit in here, nice, um, just in case you know, because this guy like antidiarrheal and some other things that um some chapstick. I've got a compass because I work like 45 miles. Well, I don't think it's that long, I think it's 25 miles now, but I have a compass in case of need for whatever reason.
Speaker 1:And where is here it is Nope, it's not in there?
Speaker 2:Oh, here it is. Nope, it's not in there, oh, here it is. So this is. You know what a seal cock key is no you ever see on the side of a business and they have a spigot and it's got no handle on it yeah that's what this is used for. Okay, so if I need to get access to water on the side of a business, I can use this to get access to water. That's what these are designed for, so I keep one in bag.
Speaker 2:So if I, if something happens and I need to get access to water and I can't get it, uh anywhere and I see a spigot on the side of a business building, I can use one of these to turn on the water and turn it off. But I think other than that, like the other things, I keep my cause, some of the stuff I download from my backpack and keep it in my car, because my car, my backpack, goes in and out with me out of the car all the time. But if I'm somewhere and I need to start putting stuff in my backpack, I've got it in my car to do it. Like my, my um solar panel, it stays in the car Normally. If I need it I can put it in the backpack.
Speaker 2:Um, I've got a power bank in my backpack too and it's got all the cords in it already attached to it, so I don't have to carry any extra cords for it. Um, but a lot of this IFAX stays inAK, stays in the car. I don't carry it in the backpack and if I need it I just grab it. I've got one attached to the headrest as well. But one thing I don't do is I don't carry a truck gun. But I also don't have any stickers on my car that would indicate I would have a firearm either.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of guys tend to outwardly project themselves a little bit too much um with their nra or even like their marine corps stickers or their, their punisher skull. Whatever it is right, yes all that.
Speaker 2:uh, yeah, I, yes, I have a solar charging power, but yeah, you don't want to indicate to everybody. Yeah, it's got all the cores in the back, it's got USB-C, but you don't want to indicate to everybody what you may have. We had we had an issue with that when I worked in the fire department in Georgia. There was some guys that were going around. They would get us called out on a call and then they would rob our trucks while we were gone on the call. Um, and they were stealing guns from guys because they're firefighters. There's probably a gun because we can't have it in the station, so it was probably in the car. So they're busting people's cars and stealing our guns.
Speaker 2:um, yes, I am judging your defund, the ATF.
Speaker 1:So I didn't bring my backpack in, but I do have an Everly stock bag with my well, right now it's my Flux Legion, the one based on the 320. I'm going to get the one based on the 320. I'm going to get the one based on the 365 when that comes out, but that's got that in there, extra mags for that and then an IFAK as well.
Speaker 2:I do have a truck gun that I use while I'm. Do you carry it with you, though, or you don't leave it in the vehicle? This, the truck gun.
Speaker 1:I do leave it't. Leave it in the vehicle, the truck gun, you leave it in that. Well, I have a truck gun besides this. So I keep a 300 black pistol locked in a case attached to the seat frames in my car. Would I do it if I lived in a city?
Speaker 2:No, whether it's smart or not to do around here, I figure there's a far greater chance I would need it than it would be stolen where I'm at, and there are ways to conceal firearms in your vehicle or even, like, lock them down in a safe, but you have to make sure they're securely attached to the frame, uh, of the vehicle. Right, so you could do like an under the seat safe. Make sure you know it's attached to the vehicle, not just you know, and there's somebody, just grab it, that's out. There's like a big drawer comes out of the truck. A buddy of mine has that, um, and he's got a rifle in there and a few mags. And you'd have no ideas there, like because it looks like every other truck, right, and so, and there's only and only he can open it because it's got like some type of pass gear or something to it.
Speaker 2:But, um, but I don't, I don't carry one into my vehicle. Even if I did, I wouldn't tell y'all, because I go downtown a lot and I don't want somebody saying, hey, there's a vehicle that might have a firearm and I'm going to bust in real quick and snatch some stuff. But if I did, it would be one I wouldn't mind losing. It wouldn't be an expensive rifle, it would be like a $500 PSA special.
Speaker 1:That's, yeah, that's what I have. All right, anything.
Speaker 2:I got stuff everywhere.
Speaker 1:It's going to be a phone to clean up after yes, it is.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be in there for a minute trying to get all this stuff back in my bag.
Speaker 1:I cleared all the guns so I have magazines and single, single rounds just sitting all over the place here. Make sure I don't have anything else. I think that's it.
Speaker 2:I don't have anything else to go over. Do we want to play the video and then we'll do questions? Yeah, we do want to play the video.
Speaker 1:Taffy buddy. Thank you.
Speaker 2:How much time we got 25 minutes. I put together a little bit of a cinematic one. I'm going to put it on my X later so y'all can see it.
Speaker 1:I'm excited for that.
Speaker 2:All right, so let's answer some questions.
Speaker 1:Let's go to. Well, you're going to need yourself some silver bullets to kill demons with. Clearly.
Speaker 2:That's true. That's 100% true. Demons only die by silver bullets. Everyone knows this.
Speaker 1:Hold on, I got the perfect gun for this. Give me a second.
Speaker 2:Does anybody know anybody who actually thought we were going to be raptured today? I don't really associate with any Protestants anymore since I came back to the faith 10 years ago. A lot of those guys were big rapture guys. I'm kind of interested to go back and look at their social media to see if they actually thought we were going to be raptured today. Uh, let's see, I'll do this one too. So, yeah, like we said earlier and we're kind of re-answering some of these, but we'll we'll create some links and stuff in the telegram chat um for y'all to, and none of them. There won't be affiliate links. I'm not doing that. I don't need the money, right. I do this because I love the love of the game, but we'll put some links out there for y'all to see some of the stuff that we have and everything. This is my Rapture gun.
Speaker 1:This is the hand of God from 310 Yuma. This thing actually shoots. What does it shoot? It's chambered in .357. It's not a perfect replica, obviously. It's not cap and ball or anything like that. This thing is heavy as heck. It shoots .357 like a dream, especially compared to shooting .357 out of my wife's little Ruger SP-101 super light. Little thing that hurts, but this one it feels like nothing. This thing's fun yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's something to keep in mind. If y'all have never shot a firearm especially the women, uh, that may be watching um shoot a heavy gun because it won't have as much kick and it won't scare you as much, right? So like, shoot it like a. I taught my wife on a bread in 92, um, and now you know, I I knew bread in 92s from when I was in the marines. We used to, you know, hammer, tent, spike them with them. But uh, civilian Beretta 92s are much nicer than what I had issued to me. They're very nice. I love mine. She loves it. Actually, I bought her one for Christmas this year and I put some walnut grips on it and she loves it. But the first time shooting, shoot something heavy. Don't shoot a little tiny gun. You're never going to want to shoot again.
Speaker 1:Shoot something heavy so it reduces for you I don't know if this is the fault of women or the fault of gun store employees, but this is almost like the first gun or first style of gun for almost every woman. I I know that likes guns and this is terrible. That's the first gun it really is, even for guys. This thing looks small and cute and whatnot.
Speaker 2:This sucks to shoot, it really does, even 38 special my wife's first gun we bought for her was the ruger lc9 um, and that thing is horrible to shoot. You can't hit a thing with that thing. It's way too light. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my wife's first gun was an LCP the first LCP, and that thing, the way it was machined, the metal on the slide was like you would go to racket and you would cut yourself just on the corner of the slide. It was machined so sharp I don't know. So then we got like the LCP Max and it all sucks Shoot the biggest gun you can conceal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, missy, that was likely adrenaline that was doing that, because .22s are especially a revolver, are very nice to shoot. You probably just needed to be honest with you. You just need to have a semi-auto and just dump a mag first and then shoot seriously. After that, just get it out of your system and just dump a whole entire mag and you don't even have to shoot anything, just shoot the dirt, just get it and then shoot seriously. I have a Kel-Tec P-17, and I love it. It was like $160, and my kids love
Speaker 2:it. I've never had an issue. 22 is is just notorious for one being dirty, dirty ammo, um, and two notorious for jams and failure to feed and failure to fire and all kinds of stuff. Right, I've never had a single issue. I've fired hundreds of rounds on my Kel p17 with brownells 22 long uh lr ammo. Never had a single failure in it whatsoever. I love and I'll put my suppressor on it and my kids love it. Uh, in fact, my my son always asked if he can go out and shoot his. He thinks it's his gun because he shoots it so often uh.
Speaker 2:But it was $160. I paid more than that for ammo for all my other guns. Yeah, that's true. We should probably do a show on bugging in versus bugging out. Situation dictates. You're going to hear from a lot of vet bro guys with an acronym called METTC, and it's basically just a way to say it depends on the situation. Okay, if I was living in a high rise apartment in downtown Atlanta, I'm bugging out. I'm getting out of the city. If I can, I'm at least getting to the suburbs.
Speaker 2:Yeah Right, out of the city, if I can, I'm at least getting to the suburbs. If I'm in suburban Alabama somewhere, probably bugging in, that's where everything I have I'm comfortable with that. I probably know my neighbors and we're much more likely to help each other out because we know each other. But I don't have either of those. I have a get home bag. I have a bag that I have set up to make sure I can get home, cause I'm the one that leaves the house for work. My wife and kids stay at home all day. I want to make sure I can get home. We're not going anywhere, right? So maybe I have a bug in bag and I don't know it, but, um, I'm not going where I'm. My goal is to try and get back to my family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm, yeah, I'm. I'm pretty much the same. So we, we live in a small town, 1500 people, um, we're a little unique because the area we live in is a kind of a tourist spot for vacations and, um, outdoor trips, things like that. A lot of people have cabins up around here. So, yeah, my bag is, like you said, a get-home bag. I would make sure to get home first, get settled, but then maybe, after a period of time I don't know how long exactly there would be a lot of properties around here, secluded properties that would have no one at them, right, because in a real like long-term emergency situation, people aren't going to make the four or five, six hour drive from wherever they live up to their small property around here. So there'd be a lot of space to to, to go to, I guess yeah, and nobody.
Speaker 2:We'll do it more in a more detailed show, but like it was, it was basically the uh ptps of most preppers that they were going to bug out to the forest and they were just going to hunt and camp until, like, society became civilized again. Right, and the thing is is most people are going to do that, so a good but it, which it means you're going to have no game to shoot anymore. You end up shooting each other for things. But, um, a good book to read about is called one second after by william fortune. Um, and then he's got like one year after and all that. But he really goes into a lot of the issues that a lot of people don't think about. Another one, or uh 299 days by glenn tate. It's a whole series and his is more about a slow collapse and that's more what we're in right now than anything you know, and that's probably a little bit better. Another series of books is by Angry.
Speaker 2:American what are they called Getting Home, something like that? Those are some good ones, man, I read a lot. What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1:I can't wait until my kids are old enough where I can read again. They're at that age where, one, they don't really allow the time and two, they also are tearing books out of hands and ripping pages.
Speaker 2:You know, I'm going to think I'm going to do because I think on Fridays I'm just going to do like a quick episode by myself. I might just throw it up on on X or something like that week's like Intel insights of things going on 20th a alert was put out that the IRGC basically told all of its sleeper cells everywhere throughout the world to go ahead and activate and start taking care of business, right? So all the police departments, those of you who don't know, I'm talking about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so like the Quds Force and stuff, and that's in response to when Trump killed Soleimani, who was like the Quds Force general. He was basically responsible for all the terror that Iran is responsible for the last 20 years. A lot of the terror in Iraq and Afghanistan that was through Tehran was done basically with his blessing uh, anyway, there yeah yeah, so there's a for taffy.
Speaker 2:There's another really good book called day of wrath, unfortunate as well, and it will scare you to death, um, and just because what it does is it goes over. It's a. It's a little novella. It's like 120 pages, maybe at most is it goes over. It's a little novella, it's like 120 pages, maybe at most. But it goes over a story of basically random terrorist cells throughout the United States that activate and how they operate. And if that were to happen, this country would be in chaos and all it needs is like 12 guys to do it. The 12 guys could bring this country to his knees if they did it the way that million William and William fortune is based his book off of, um, a plot that was stopped, uh, when they took a terror cell down, I think in Texas, um, and that's what it was based off of.
Speaker 2:So, uh, it'll it'll scare you to death. We read that book. But, yeah, I might start doing that on Fridays. Just do like a quick five-minute roundup of all the stuff going on. There's been a lot in the last week. There's been a lot going on.
Speaker 1:Well, you have access to StreamYard, so you should be able to use that to record.
Speaker 2:I might just record something just throw it up or something maybe. Um, but let's see. Do we have any other questions?
Speaker 1:uh, I don't know anything about benelli rifles. I'll be honest, I don't either I've never shot. I've shot benelli shotguns right, they make great shotguns, for sure. You don't know about the rifles I mean. Honestly, it's hard to go wrong with Italian firearms.
Speaker 2:I'd stay away from the Mauser .30-06. Right now, though, I wouldn't use that one. It's probably in bad taste.
Speaker 1:Unless you can get a really good deal on one, then maybe. Well, you could definitely get a good deal on the 3 right now can you?
Speaker 2:well, they uh. The pawn shop near my house has one for sale for like 180 bucks. I thought about buying it and just like taking the firing pin out for later on and maybe, like they'll, they'll do a recall and I can send get a perfectly good one or you'll have a friend you're no longer going to be friends with and you put the fighting pack in it and give it to him as a gift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Give it to somebody I don't like For what purpose? Taffy, Taffy's asking bolt or semi-auto?
Speaker 2:Yeah it depends on what you're If you're shooting game or you're wanting to shoot really long distance, I would do bolt Especially suppressed. Yes, Like I have a, I have a Ruger American gen two and I've got it suppressed. And I've got a, a Arkin five to 25 scope on it and I can it's only got a 14 inch barrel and I can stretch that thing out to like 1600 meters what's a chambered in 308?
Speaker 1:uh, six five creedmoor. Six five okay yeah, six five.
Speaker 2:Creedmoor has all, has everything about.
Speaker 1:It's better than a 308 for long distance shooting yeah, I have a sig cross and six, five, then I'm gonna suppress this year for deer hunting. Yeah, um, if you're saying general, maybe some hunting not long distance, not suppressed, because you're in.
Speaker 2:To be honest with you, I would go with the psa m110 yeah, it's M110.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a 308.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what I would go with. Yeah, I have, I forget the the SIGs, sigs.
Speaker 2:AR10.
Speaker 1:I forget what they call it.
Speaker 2:I've got a few guys I know who have bought the PSA M110 and they're surprised at how well it shoots. They're shocked.
Speaker 1:Good bolt gun is the best. If I'm not fighting, need fast follow-ups, I'll pick a bolt gun.
Speaker 2:Yeah. If I'm taking measured long-range shots. I'll use a bolt gun all day, every day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it is. The 716 tread.
Speaker 2:So Monday we've got MED, that's the 29th, right? Yes, so then the next show will be october something. So that's when. So that first show in october, we're gonna reveal some real, real something to y'all so y'all can kind of engaged in some things that we're doing. Um, uh, but if y'all have any things you want, like the bug in, bug out, we'll probably do a show on that and I might get somebody on who knows a lot about packs specifically. I used them a lot in the Marines but I'm nowhere near an expert. I mean, I I used to pack them horribly and they hurt my shoulders so bad till I learned how to properly pack it back, pack it back, pack it back, but now properly, we'll weigh it down to where it's much more spread load. It's not as bad, but we'll do that. But other than that, I got nothing. You got anything you want to hit before?
Speaker 1:we get out of here. Someone asked if we like Mossbergs over Remingtons. Once again, it depends on what for I like the Shockwave. Yeah, the Shockwave. For self-defense purposes, I would say Mossberg probably.
Speaker 2:Remington had really bad quality control issues for a while. What was their Shockwave knockoff? Remington had really bad quality control issues for a while. Yeah, because what was their shockwave knockoff?
Speaker 1:I forget.
Speaker 2:And it was horrible. It was failure to feed all the time, especially for pumps, which is really hard to do on a pump shotgun and the shockwave was much better than it for a long time.
Speaker 1:But, as I understand, since Remington has been bought, uh, they've gotten a lot better um, I mean also like uh, berettas have their a300 um ultimas, those are great self-defense. Um the nalia, of course, has the the uh the m4 right, or M4, right, or is that the M2? Or is it both?
Speaker 2:The M2.
Speaker 1:Army and the M4 Marine.
Speaker 2:Maybe I didn't use a shotgun in the Marines so I had to look it up. That was more of a breacher tool than anything. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the older Remington's, yeah, yeah 870s's, I mean for trap. I use a Browning for bird hunting. I have a CZ double barrel, so it all depends on what you're using it for but you get a nice over under.
Speaker 2:You can get a Turkish over under for pretty cheap.
Speaker 1:The wife uses, I think, the brand name is you get a nice over-under. You can get a Turkish over-under for pretty cheap the wife uses. I think the brand name is Pointer, but yeah, it's made in Turkey over-under.
Speaker 2:You can get a. Yeah, turkey does some crazy stuff with some firearms lately.
Speaker 1:Their whole firearm industry is really German in origin. Oh yeah, All the German companies set up machine shops and manufacturers there prior to World War, I you know, when they were allied. So that's why, like you know, your conics are basically Walder clones, because it's Walder machining, Walder tooling, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2:I had no idea. I had no idea. I used to have an old West German 226. You used to. Yeah, it was actually an issued firearm. To who was it? It was like Georgia State Police or something. I can't remember who it was. I didn't know what I had at the time. I was dumb. Was it in 356? It was like georgia state police or something? I can't remember who it was. It was you sold it. It was in 350. I didn't know what I had at the time. I was done. Was it in 350 sig? It was in 357 sig yeah, that's I.
Speaker 1:I guess I I wouldn't blame you for selling that just because you're never gonna find ammo for the thing, ever, no, I mean I wouldn't sell it now.
Speaker 2:It would be I it If I knew what I had then. I had no idea. I was so dumb. I don't sell firearms now. When my dad died I got all his firearms from hunting and stuff. All his buddies keep calling me because he's got an old 10-gauge shotgun that they all want. They're all trying to outbid each other for it. I haven't heard from him in a year but I think the last time the bid was like 900 bucks for the shotgun. Really, yeah, and it's like, it's like you know, it's not in great shape. We'll just say that. But yeah, I'll never sell anything. I'm like what's the reason? Why would I need to sell? It is to give to my kids one day. Everything Watches, knives, guns, fanny packs Maybe not the fanny packs. My boy would wear a fanny pack right now if I let him.
Speaker 1:My six-year-old would love that You'd think of the rocks he could put in that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't do Kindle anymore. Well, I'll take that back. I've been on Taylor Marshall's like every one of his launch teams, and he sends all his out at PDF and that's pretty much the only thing I use my Kindle for anymore. But yeah, real books are. There's nothing.
Speaker 1:No one wants to snuggle up on a couch with a coffee and a PDF wants to, to snuggle up on a couch with a with a coffee and a pdf. So I I when I read it generally is ebooks, um, because it's easy to keep me wherever, keep with me wherever, and I never know when I'm gonna have time to. The kids can't rip it or spill juice on it or or things, but what I do do is, anytime I I buy a book to read on on kind or whatever, I also always buy the paper version too. Fanny packs. I thought contraception was immoral.
Speaker 2:You'll see in the movies. You'll always see the guys in the Marines and they have these really thick Coke bottle glasses. We call those BCGsgs birth control glasses um, because those were the glasses. You had to wear those because they, like you, couldn't break them, true? But yeah, those guys weren't. We're not having any success with the ladies on the weekends. All right, I think we're gonna wrap it up, because we'll just sit here and we could do this forever. You'll do that Midwest goodbye and I'll do an Irish goodbye and it'll be horrible.
Speaker 1:I'll still be talking and you've been off screen for 10 minutes. I'm not even here anymore.
Speaker 2:Just see the background. Hear me messing with those damn chicks that won't shut up. Alright y'all, until next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let me end it here, thank you.
