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Keith
Whoa, what? I thought we were doing Q&A.
00:03.86
Jeremy
Yeah, but whatever happened with that.
00:03.99
Buddy
ah
00:07.70
Buddy
Yeah, I forgot about that too. ah You got that list, right? Well,
00:13.34
Keith
Yes, I just pulled it up.
00:15.42
Buddy
man, I actually got a good one from an actual listener, but he's a it looks like he's a retired detective out in Pennsylvania. So...
00:27.73
Keith
Cool.
00:28.61
Buddy
I, and he he's wanting us to do a show and talk about some things about like a situational awareness, um, how to defend yourself without, you know, firearms and stuff.
00:34.18
Keith
Like what?
00:40.48
Buddy
Well, I messaged him earlier and I was like, dude, uh, would you want to come on and talk about this? it looks like you got the background. And he goes, yeah, sure. So, um,
00:51.35
Jeremy
So self-defense, self-home defense with homemade weapons and gadgets and do it, not firearms.
00:58.97
Buddy
Yeah. So, I mean, we could go back. We did hardening the home already, but we could do something, you know, and I started thinking about it, you know, not everybody lives in the South or in a country where you can, you know, open carry on your property or or whatever, you know, or or in like for me, I, i don't open carry, but you know, we carry everywhere we go.
01:21.47
Buddy
So um live, I remember living in New York and I couldn't,
01:22.25
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
01:27.05
Buddy
couldn't carry it all, man. I barely could carry a knife. So you gotta, you gotta to rewire yourself. So I thought it it was, like it'd be a good one. And this guy's a listener. He's been listening for a while when dug into his bio and his profile stuff. And, uh, I'm gonna actually, he was a detective somewhere in Pennsylvania, close to where my daughter is.
01:47.00
Buddy
And I know I do. It's close there too. He's a detective retired. They're both retired. So gonna have him actually checked out, make sure it's not my ex-wife. Um,
01:56.59
Keith
yeah
01:57.45
Buddy
having a PI running a coma up my ass.
01:59.69
Keith
Uh, don't do that.
02:00.13
Buddy
So
02:01.83
Keith
That's bad.
02:03.57
Buddy
yeah, so I don't know. We'll we'll see.
02:07.15
Keith
you have any reason for that?
02:07.27
Buddy
um
02:08.55
Keith
That you mean to to take place for her?
02:10.72
Buddy
She's crazy. She's absolutely fucking crazy.
02:11.81
Keith
Oh, okay.
02:13.09
Buddy
so
02:17.72
Buddy
And I could send you to a ah website right now where you can you can see how crazy she is.
02:17.93
Keith
Yeah. I know. Crazy.
02:24.51
Buddy
Yeah, I got crazy, crazy magnet on my forehead stamped or something. i don't know.
02:28.62
Keith
So you have more than one daughter then.
02:31.06
Buddy
Yeah, I got two daughters. Yeah.
02:32.11
Keith
Okay.
02:32.50
Buddy
From the same.
02:32.65
Keith
Gotcha.
02:32.90
Buddy
one I've only been married once. Got the same. They got the same mom. It's just.
02:37.02
Keith
One is in Oklahoma and one is up there.
02:39.52
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah.
02:40.27
Keith
Yeah.
02:41.26
Buddy
Yeah. I don't mess with. the She likes it up there. She doesn't like it here. So I've been trying to get her to come back.
02:47.11
Keith
Yeah.
02:48.10
Buddy
You know, she's.
02:51.96
Buddy
she's not doing it though. She likes it, so she's going to stay.
02:53.96
Keith
It is what it is. Mm-hmm.
02:55.48
Buddy
She's 18, so hey, do what you want to do.
03:00.48
Keith
Um, I just heard that there was a, like a shooting or something that just happened.
03:05.68
Buddy
Yeah, Florida State University.
03:06.19
Jeremy
ah Florida.
03:07.58
Buddy
ye
03:08.98
Keith
What's going on with that?
03:10.86
Jeremy
um Let's see here.
03:13.19
Buddy
and like got They got the campus lockdown. Five or six people so far have been wounded. Nobody dead as... as The last I saw,
03:20.94
Keith
Do they have the shooter?
03:23.01
Buddy
I didn't see that they had. I just know that they'd locked down the campus.
03:27.31
Jeremy
I'm pretty sure they i'm pretty sure they they got him.
03:27.42
Keith
Huh?
03:30.85
Buddy
Okay. I didn't get that far in it.
03:31.67
Jeremy
that's
03:33.54
Buddy
I was working on something else.
03:34.03
Jeremy
um Fox News. FSU shooter ID'd used sheriff deputy mom's weapon and killing police. Oh my god.
03:46.78
Jeremy
Hang on a second. Stupid ads. Fuck it.
03:50.79
Keith
used sheriff's deputy's mom
03:54.49
Jeremy
So I guess his mom is a sheriff's deputy. says two people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting at FSU on Thursday. Police identified the suspected shooter as 20-year-old Phoenix Eichner, a student at the school. They also said his mother is a sheriff's deputy and Eichner used his mother's weapon in the killing.
04:16.43
Jeremy
His mother has been an officer for over 18 years and authorities say she has done a tremendous job.
04:23.19
Keith
And she didn't do a tremendous job paying attention to her son or the or her weapon.
04:26.92
Jeremy
Yeah, authorities said um authorities have said that the two who were killed were not FSU students.
04:34.47
Keith
they have a reason for it?
04:36.79
Jeremy
and
04:38.42
Keith
did the did Is the guy alive, the shooter?
04:41.28
Jeremy
I think that they have... me see here. So far...
04:44.88
Keith
Catch his ass or shoot his ass or what?
04:47.77
Jeremy
so far it
04:48.64
Keith
I'm always interested in the why in these things, you know.
04:52.12
Buddy
Yeah, that usually comes out later.
04:52.20
Keith
It could just be crazy.
04:54.13
Buddy
i mean, is he a student there?
04:55.17
Keith
Yeah.
04:56.91
Buddy
you know, what was he doing on campus?
04:59.65
Keith
yeah Yeah, exactly.
04:59.86
Buddy
You know, what what was the situation?
05:00.69
Keith
Did he get kicked out of school?
05:01.73
Buddy
I mean,
05:02.67
Keith
Was he, did somebody pissed off of him? Did he fail a grade? Did he just go crazy? You know?
05:07.97
Jeremy
Well, you know what's interesting is i was watching something recently and they said that with almost every ah single school shooting that has been happening since they started recording school shootings, that the shooter is typically on some kind of medication altering the mind, be it antidepressants, antipsychotics, um...
05:37.40
Jeremy
ADHD medicine, some kind of mind altering medicine, almost every single case.
05:42.38
Buddy
Yeah, that's usually, yep. They over medicate kids, man.
05:45.55
Keith
interesting
05:47.28
Buddy
It's terrible.
05:47.51
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. You know, in the old days, ADHD was not a word. It was not a thing. ADD, ADHD.
05:53.67
Keith
yeah
05:54.70
Jeremy
That was not a thing. You had a hyperactive kid that lacked discipline. That's, that's really, you know, what it is. But, i you know what they've Now they've done studies where it used to be where one in every you know however many hundreds of children was autistic. Now it's like one in 10.
06:14.36
Jeremy
And a lot of that they think is largely due to two primary things. um Of course, vaccinations and not necessarily the typical vaccinations that you know we actually do need.
06:29.99
Jeremy
It's this other stuff that's out there. And the other one is the food industry, um specifically dealing with stuff with sugars and synthetic sugars and not, you know, GMO foods and the crap that they put into our food and why it's still allowed here in the United States. I don't know.
06:49.87
Jeremy
But it's there is a link. There is a link to um autism, ADHD, and the food industry and the the the medicine industry.
07:01.17
Jeremy
Because big pharma, medicine, food, and natural homeopathic medicines are real. The other crap, all it does is just mask a symptom.
07:12.53
Jeremy
You know, um that's all it is. And in my opinion, this is just is just me.
07:16.76
Buddy
Thank
07:17.92
Jeremy
There's no real doctors left in the world except for people who work in like orthopedics. Everything else is literally just you're masking symptoms. i am I'm convinced that they cured cancer ages ago.
07:31.22
Jeremy
But because it affects the bottom line of big pharma, they they push doctors to give chemo. Chemo is poison. It's literally poison. So...
07:41.70
Buddy
Yeah, I've been deep diving this whole homeopathic and functional medicine. I guess that's a whole thing now. You know, there's doctors out there that are switching over to functional medicine.
07:49.16
Jeremy
Yeah.
07:51.99
Buddy
And I wanted to break in.
07:52.24
Jeremy
Yeah.
07:54.43
Buddy
I couldn't do the voice. You know, I can i can sometimes do a Trump, but I was trying to do an RFK.
08:00.21
Keith
What is functional medicine?
08:00.29
Buddy
Couldn't get it.
08:00.63
Jeremy
Yeah.
08:03.70
Buddy
It's basically alternative medicine. You know, there's a buzzword. um
08:07.83
Jeremy
The way they used to do things.
08:07.83
Buddy
You know, Yeah, it's, it's, they, they find the, they find the problem and not, you know, like, like Jeremy was saying, masking it.
08:09.86
Jeremy
That's...
08:15.57
Buddy
So they said, okay, well, uh, you know, we could give you all these over the counter things, but let's try some mushrooms for this, or let's try methylene blue, or, or we're going to cut the sugars back.
08:23.26
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
08:27.76
Buddy
You know, we want you go on a, uh, I've been reading up on a histamine diet. Uh, lot of, a lot of problems, uh, A lot of people have, and I think I do. ah Some of my problems are with histamines. i The foods i eat, there are certain foods that produce the histamines. I have swelling in joints and you know all over. I feel like I'm a bloated toad.
08:50.34
Buddy
you know, looking into that, but yeah, it's, it's a, it's a thing out there. And I really like, and ah RFK, what he's doing and hopefully, you know, we'll get some real, real results out of it, out of all this and not, you know, one just throwing medicine at, you know, the problem, which, you know, ah being a vet and and seeing guys in the army and injured guys and stuff like that.
09:06.18
Jeremy
Yeah, ah I like RFK. Yeah.
09:16.05
Buddy
When I was in the hospital, it it was amazing. it's just a shit ton of of medicine being thrown at you. And, you know, some people took it, some people stuck it in and the drawer didn't take it and sold it out there on the outside.
09:29.49
Buddy
So, you know, if you needed something, you always went to the the soldier pharmacy.
09:30.80
Jeremy
yeah
09:34.78
Jeremy
Yeah. And you know, you brought up RFK and I think that a lot of people, um especially on the left, discount him because of the way he sounds and his voice. um Interestingly, both him and his sister sound like that.
09:48.62
Jeremy
And it's a, it's a, ah it's a, it's a conditions called spasmoidic dysphonia.
09:53.98
Buddy
Thank you.
09:55.22
Jeremy
um And it basically, yeah, it causes the the vocal cords to spasm, like basically while you're speaking.
10:06.75
Jeremy
um But that dude, that dude's buff. That dude's like, he works out like a lot.
10:13.89
Keith
he's yeah He's ripped.
10:15.32
Jeremy
And having him in place of that, whatever the hell that person was, I'm much more confident in ah RFK. Yeah, definitely more more confident than him.
10:27.69
Buddy
Yeah, but he can he take corn pop? That's the question. He might be buff, but we that's the question of the day.
10:35.87
Jeremy
You know, Biden is supposed to give, i think it's he it was either last night or today, he's supposed to give his first talk after the presidency. I mean, it's only, did he?
10:43.86
Buddy
Oh, he did it already.
10:45.73
Jeremy
I didn't get to watch it.
10:45.85
Buddy
Yeah.
10:46.60
Keith
Oh yeah, it's done. Yeah, I didn't watch it either either, but I heard some highlights from it and he just, he ripped on Trump and all kinds of stuff.
10:52.94
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah. I'm surprised they let him out of his room.
10:55.34
Buddy
man
10:56.48
Jeremy
Yeah.
10:57.08
Buddy
Well, shit. I mean, he can come out for three minutes and be all energized and do a press conference. Hell, he looked great. You know, he looked like he's all well rested and and he could read even.
11:07.95
Keith
yeah
11:08.34
Jeremy
Wow.
11:08.89
Buddy
I mean, it was great. Good stuff.
11:10.89
Jeremy
Wow.
11:10.92
Buddy
But whatever.
11:12.89
Jeremy
All right. So what are we doing?
11:21.31
Keith
Uh, we've got some Q and a today. Um, I think buddy, you've got some Q and a that you, uh, pulled from the listeners and, um,
11:29.48
Buddy
I've got a few. Do you have that list pulled up? i
11:35.33
Buddy
Let's see.
11:37.69
Keith
you got a few, well, I see, I see the list right here. It's that's plenty.
11:42.15
Buddy
Yeah, I mean, it's some I pulled from the past as well. I know we've we've addressed some of them. i Yeah, if we want to go down that go down the highway with them, I guess. Yeah.
11:55.05
Keith
Give me some let me see give me some prep some people's names. Not, you know, it has to be like Joe. What do we got?
12:05.44
Keith
How about about
12:08.15
Jeremy
where are these Where are these questions?
12:10.08
Keith
how about we go Josh?
12:10.25
Buddy
Well, hey, they're on the on hard drive under podcast prep questions, I think. I guess what I put them on. short
12:22.83
Keith
Yeah, you did.
12:27.72
Buddy
It's, yeah, it's Word document, so
12:31.12
Keith
It says, buddy, you're always complaining about having bugger. So who would have asked you that? Let's say, let's call her.
12:37.86
Buddy
Well, you can say some of them are anonymous. You know what i mean?
12:41.28
Jeremy
Hmm.
12:42.56
Buddy
um
12:47.63
Jeremy
okay
12:48.04
Buddy
I should have named them.
12:49.13
Keith
ah about like that?
12:49.17
Buddy
Yeah.
12:52.16
Keith
Yeah, we used to do this all the time, Rhonda and Is that how you spell Leanne? don't even know. Fuck it, who cares? It doesn't matter anyway.
12:58.84
Buddy
Hey, you know what? There's some funny spellings out there. so
13:03.66
Keith
What's another person's name? How do you get my husband? This has got to be a woman. Let's call her. Let's see, we got Josh Leanne. Let's call her.
13:14.75
Buddy
who
13:17.01
Keith
What was that?
13:18.61
Buddy
That's on our own website. I was trying to go in there and get some names. um ah
13:23.22
Keith
Oh, I see.
13:23.74
Buddy
but we can just put We can just put random names up there and say anonymous.
13:27.75
Jeremy
Yeah.
13:28.27
Keith
That's fine.
13:29.49
Buddy
ah yeah And you know what though? You can also say, hey, we didn't get permission to use names, so we're not going to use a name, but
13:36.16
Jeremy
That's true.
13:36.21
Buddy
You can say that on all of them, I mean, or you can you throw out a couple names too.
13:41.45
Keith
Well, let's ah let's go ahead and start with the first one.
13:46.54
Keith
Buddy, you go ahead and do the do the questions. What's
13:49.41
Buddy
Oh, I got to pull them up.
13:52.10
Keith
wrong with you, man? Get on it.
13:54.68
Buddy
You me to do all the questions?
13:56.16
Keith
Oh, yeah.
13:57.50
Buddy
Man, i i didn't have, i was I should have printed them out. Damn it. Okay. Well, let's bullshit for a minute. And then in the meantime,
14:03.96
Keith
That's a good, that's a really good question right there.
14:06.40
Jeremy
much
14:06.40
Keith
I'm going to go with a name we already know on this one.
14:07.46
Jeremy
would
14:10.16
Jeremy
Well, there is another Jeremy in the group.
14:12.08
Keith
There's a couple of them, yeah.
14:14.84
Buddy
Well, we don't even have to, you know, say it's somebody from our group. It's a listener. They don't have to be on our Facebook group. I mean, I'm sure they're...
14:20.78
Jeremy
Yeah, that's that's true, too.
14:20.90
Keith
oh Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:23.85
Buddy
ah Dude, I got to get all way in here.
14:30.38
Buddy
We could talk about what's in our garden for a minute, you know, what what what we're planting in there what we got in so far as an update. And then I'll pull this up. I'll go on mute and then get this thing pulled up.
14:42.19
Keith
Why? Why are you going to unmute?
14:43.31
Buddy
Well, I don't know. I feel like I'm, I got to find it now. I have to go all the way into the drive, which is right here. I'm in the drive now. All right. You may, you may do the whole list.
15:00.04
Keith
Yeah. You
15:00.85
Buddy
and Okay, or you can, let me see, where fuck is it?
15:03.38
Keith
want me to do this? I'll do this. i don't care. All right. So first up, we got from ah Josh. And of course we've never used last names on the show. So we're going with Josh and I'm at, you know what? I'm not going to say where they're from.
15:17.34
Keith
ah Josh is asking, well, this is, this is a pretty typical question. What are the top three events you are prepping for? um Everybody go ahead and blurt out one at least.
15:30.34
Jeremy
EMP.
15:32.20
Keith
Oh, I like EMP. EMP is good. Okay. For me, it's a it's a nuclear war. ah that's That's just my thing. I figure it's got to be the worst thing that could happen, one of, if not the worst things that could happen realistically ah to the world.
15:49.62
Keith
And it pretty much covers if you all the bases. If you you know prep for that, you prep for everything. So that's just my thing. But for me, number one is nuclear war.
16:02.65
Keith
Buddy, what you got?
16:05.24
Buddy
Well, one of the things is civil unrest. I feel like...
16:08.32
Keith
I knew you were going to say that.
16:10.36
Buddy
Because that's my life.
16:10.43
Keith
I knew it.
16:11.76
Buddy
That's my life, man.
16:12.06
Keith
Nah.
16:13.19
Buddy
um
16:13.22
Jeremy
the spidy The spidey sense has tingled.
16:15.98
Buddy
Well, yeah, and I follow it for you know certain people, certain groups, and... Right now, it's we're at a tipping point, and I can deep dive into it if you want, or we can stay out.
16:27.08
Keith
there
16:28.89
Buddy
But in the next few months, going into summer, is a there's a kind of inflection point whether it's going to blow up or blow out. So it's starting to gain traction.
16:39.67
Keith
Really?
16:42.55
Buddy
May 1st is May Day. It's a typical socialist world type of celebration that they have in the socialist world. They call it May Day.
16:54.06
Buddy
the democratic socialists of America love that day. They're trying to get some protests going, uh, through unions and do the normal crap that they do. And, uh, you know, trying to oppose the Trump 2.0. So, uh,
17:09.97
Buddy
I would say, keep your eye open. Now, what's, what's it mean to you, you know, living in a, you know rural Kentucky or something, maybe not. If you live in a city, a larger city area, yeah, my, you know, you live outside of Philly in a suburb, you might see some, some change in life, but look at, it's the third and fourth order effect, you know, maybe not the second, but third and fourth order of effect that will come out there and, uh,
17:38.05
Buddy
you know You'll see those kind types of things. I'm hoping it'll fizzle out, but it's starting to gain some traction.
17:40.68
Keith
you
17:43.70
Buddy
so
17:44.39
Jeremy
I'm going to be honest, man. At this point in our our history, i just get it done. either Either do it or don't do it. It's like, dude, either send the meteor or don't send the meteor. Like, let's fucking get this going.
17:56.58
Jeremy
Like, either do it and stop being a bunch of pansies or stop talking about it. That's kind of where I'm at. It's like, golly, man. All they do is they're like, yeah, we're going to do this. We're going to do that.
18:09.86
Jeremy
And then they wean out. It's kind of like when we were waiting to to take on the Republican Guard in Iraq. Bunch of weenies. And i just, I would really just, I want them to either do it or shut up and go away.
18:21.92
Jeremy
That's where I'm man.
18:22.08
Buddy
Yeah, there's got to be a point. i mean, you know you you can only wait so long. You know you got that anticipation. i i you know I don't know, but we'll see what happens. Yeah. yeah
18:32.95
Keith
Well, it was a good time to ask, is there anything that you foresee, ah buddy, in your area studies and all that sort of thing coming up?
18:42.66
Buddy
oh Yeah, it's it's it's gained a lot of traction, the movement. um There's a lot of people that are starting to, you know, that voted for Trump that are like, oh, wait a minute, I didn't vote for all these tariffs.
18:54.41
Buddy
I didn't, they they voted for Trump, but they didn't really think about, you know, what he really said. You know, maybe they were looking at his hair. I don't know. Um, and you know what I mean? They just really didn't pay attention what he was saying.
19:09.55
Buddy
Well, he's doing, what he, Trump is a man that does what he says. And, uh, you know,
19:13.55
Jeremy
And that's because they don't know what tariffs are. They have absolutely no concept of what he's doing, but they because they don't understand that the rest of the damn world has been doing it to us, and we've been eating it for generations.
19:18.42
Buddy
yeah.
19:28.08
Buddy
Well, and, and people, You know, they they live in a bubble. yeah I'm getting my news off CNN or I'm getting my news off MSNBC or The View or Facebook or whatever.
19:36.33
Jeremy
Yeah.
19:40.24
Buddy
You know, they they live in this bubble area to where it's basically an echo chamber.
19:40.50
Jeremy
the
19:44.52
Buddy
So they're hearing what they want to hear. You know, i challenge people to listen to the other side to get the other's perspective. and And maybe that's why I'm so angry all the time. I don't know. I listen to both sides trying to because somewhere in the middle is the truth.
19:59.33
Jeremy
yeah
20:00.07
Buddy
But, you know, hey, the end of the day, you know, what is the truth? It's it's your perception.
20:06.39
Jeremy
Yeah.
20:06.64
Buddy
and And so, you know, it's just what you want to go with. but
20:10.33
Jeremy
If I had to choose between Rachel Maddow and the meteor, send the fucking meteor.
20:10.62
Buddy
Yeah.
20:15.09
Buddy
Hey, I'm not watching Rachel Maddow because there's no substance to it
20:15.26
Jeremy
I mean...
20:19.08
Buddy
I draw a line when there's no substance to what they're saying. So, ah you know.
20:22.20
Jeremy
Ugh. I would rather get punched in the junk five times than watch The View ever. In the history of ever. Seriously.
20:30.96
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah. I don't watch the view either, but you know, but you, i mean you have to be, people need to be aware and of what's really going on around them.
20:34.06
Jeremy
Bunch cackling hags.
20:41.45
Buddy
And with the area study thing, I preach and, and, uh, you know, you, you just, And it goes back into, you if you're listening this podcast, you're a prepper, you're survivalist, you know, something brought you here as well, you know, Oh, I'm going to know what to put in my bug out bag. Or I to know what groceries to buy. Or I want to know, you know, should i can, uh, food or should I buy canned food, you know, or, you know, whatever it may be.
21:06.57
Buddy
Well, you have to, at the end of the day, you, you only got so much money and I've said this before, you need to spend that money wisely and prep according to the immediate threats you have. I mean, cause you're not going to prep for every scenario.
21:23.08
Buddy
A lot of them overlap, but not every scenario. So, um, you know, good luck with, with, you know, unless you just, ah you're independently wealthy, you know, good luck with prepping for everything.
21:34.88
Buddy
So you got a deep dive into what is my immediate threat and go with that.
21:39.23
Jeremy
All right.
21:39.66
Buddy
So,
21:40.25
Jeremy
That's it.
21:42.89
Keith
ah Yeah, I would definitely put in like, ah i would do water well like water purification, get your water purification skills and gear equipment, whatever it is you need to do, get it all together and train with it and know how to use it.
21:47.08
Buddy
Thank you.
21:59.03
Keith
um Because I've heard that, you know, um a tactical attack from, let's say, ah from anybody really a terrorist or an enemy of any sort could be the water supply.
22:13.50
Keith
It could happen. So that would be a devastating thing. If you take out, you know, the water supplier of any major city, they're done. It's like yeah you're, and you know, you're having a big problem.
22:27.16
Keith
You're poisoning the water or, you know, something like that.
22:31.43
Jeremy
Yeah.
22:33.73
Keith
don't know. That's just me. I mean, I'm a water person. So, you know, I can always i can always find food, but water is the the big deal.
22:41.02
Jeremy
yeah
22:41.19
Buddy
Well, look at it from another point. what What if they hit you with a multi-prong attack where they hit your substations all at one time, your whole city's black, and then they hit the water system. And then, uh, here they come, uh, hitting different venues, you know, maybe large gathering places, you know, uh, there's a scenario out there about hitting some hospitals and, and, uh,
22:51.67
Keith
Yeah.
22:59.30
Keith
yeah
23:04.89
Buddy
I've done a deep dive into that and actually briefed it a few times now and up staying. I've not seen anything lately, but, uh, you know, if they hit it multi, what they call a, uh, what do they call that?
23:17.71
Buddy
Uh, coordinated attack, a complex attack, you know, it, it could be devastating. So, I mean, okay. So yeah, there's a multi-prong, uh, attack going on. That's a complex attack. So what does it mean to me?
23:32.86
Buddy
Okay. Well, my water might go out. So, you know, that's where you, that's where you start planning things. Okay. You peel back the onion. It's like, well, I'm going water. I'm going to need food. Well, how much do I need? You know, 72 hours at a minimum, probably longer.
23:47.69
Buddy
you know, it's, it's just, you know, I don't have all the answers, but I have a lot of scenarios.
23:50.88
Keith
Yeah.
23:53.53
Buddy
Okay.
23:53.98
Keith
Yeah. Well, and you were talking, you know, you said civil unrest. And one of the things you talked about was the Trump thing. I mean, what could they really do, though? i mean, and first of all, we don't really know who they are, but you're talking about civil unrest, meaning in certain cities, are you talking about the entire country, some kind of planned uprising because they don't like Trump? Is that what you're talking about?
24:16.97
Buddy
Yeah, I'm talking about a mass uprising. I'm not talking about your, your you know, garden variety antifas or wannabes, you know, your twosie, threesie people who are, you Molotov cocktailing Teslas, you know.
24:29.48
Keith
I don't think you can get that many people together, man, without knowing about it.
24:32.08
Buddy
Well, and what I've seen, what I've seen so far, they've been, it's, they're coordinated. Okay. They have a coordination. they They're coordinated nationwide. They have groups.
24:43.37
Buddy
They're every Saturday, they're hitting Teslas. So if you know a Tesla dealership, just to test my theory, go on there Saturday and go drive by and see what's going on. You'll see people out there might only be three, 300, might be 3,000.
24:57.38
Buddy
They're out there with signs picketing. ah some months Sometimes they're breaking in. Molotov cocktailing, spraying spray paint on the Tesla dealers, you know, because Elon Musk is an evil fascist you know tech guy.
25:14.72
Buddy
But, you know, it will take ah something like a 2020, what is it, 2020 or Summer Love, George Floyd riots from the BLM period,
25:24.57
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
25:26.77
Buddy
ah to something of that caliber to even spark a nationwide movement. so There's going to be an inflection point somewhere. What's it going to be? you know And I have theories, but the they're they're definitely looking at it.
25:43.32
Buddy
they're They're peeling back. they've They've planned for something. As soon as Trump got, within three days of Trump's election, the anti-Trump movement,
25:54.29
Buddy
They had already had pre-election a award in case he wins type meetings three days after they had a meeting on how they're going to take on the Trump 2.0 presidency.
26:09.50
Buddy
Believe it or not.
26:10.10
Keith
ah Trump's going to do what Trump's going to do.
26:10.38
Buddy
So,
26:10.61
Jeremy
Yeah.
26:12.14
Keith
And so far he's done everything that he's promised he was going to do and more, if you ask me. um I don't have any problem with anything that he's done so far. Do I like everything? No, but I never like anything. well what That's ridiculous for me to say that I'm going to like every single thing that Trump does because I'm a supporter.
26:29.17
Jeremy
yeah
26:29.51
Keith
yeah it's just No, sorry. ah you know it just but you know His four years are going to be up and that's going to be it. Somebody else is going to come in and do their thing. That's just the way, that's the way these things are.
26:38.53
Buddy
Yeah.
26:42.54
Jeremy
Well, the other the other part about it, and and again, this goes back to that book that I'm always talking about, Color Communism and Common Sense. If you look at but how that was written and um you think about, like for instance, World War II and shortly after World War II when we went into the Cold War, these are all brown shirt tactics.
27:03.08
Jeremy
So all these little dudes out there from Antifa and whomever else, they're the modern version of the brown shirt. They're young people. who are weaponized um because they have weak minds and they were influenced by the powers that be, whomever those powers that be are.
27:19.46
Jeremy
And they're sent out in the world to cause chaos and they were sent out in the world to cause dissension. But it's weird. They're doing that to Tesla's now only because the only thing that they know is Elon Musk supported orange Batman.
27:35.60
Jeremy
That's the only thing in the world that they know. yeah, You take these individuals that are, for lack of a better term, weak-minded, and now they have turned them loose to cause chaos, which is exactly what they want. They don't care necessarily about the end state other than power.
27:52.59
Jeremy
They're trying to cede dissension and chaos. That's all they want right now. That's it.
28:02.87
Jeremy
Can't stand it.
28:04.47
Keith
All right. Well, Leanne has asked, uh, buddy, actually this is going to buddy.
28:09.28
Buddy
Uh-oh.
28:09.58
Keith
she asks, you always complain about a heavy bug out bag.
28:10.04
Jeremy
all
28:13.70
Keith
and And I have heard you many times say that.
28:14.82
Buddy
Uh-oh. Okay.
28:17.25
Keith
Uh, so what's in yours?
28:22.08
Buddy
All right.
28:22.06
Keith
Leanne has thrown the gauntlet down, boom on the table.
28:25.66
Jeremy
Damn, dude, you got called out.
28:25.80
Buddy
All right, Leanne.
28:25.94
Keith
She wants, um,
28:26.52
Buddy
Here we go.
28:27.58
Jeremy
you got called out
28:29.00
Buddy
Yeah. I'm coming off the – I'm climbing the ropes now. I'm in the corner. i'm about to come off with a super – yeah.
28:35.26
Jeremy
Take a Motrin first for that bad knee and back.
28:35.62
Keith
Superfly.
28:39.00
Buddy
but yeah
28:39.58
Jeremy
Yeah.
28:40.04
Buddy
All right. So currently, I've recently, thank God i recently did this or I wouldn't even remember. Cause I pack, you know, i I pack mine seasonable, my bug out bag.
28:51.31
Buddy
Uh, I don't really have a bug out bag. It's more of a get home bag. Um, if I were to have a bug out bag and I, I, wow. How should I take, take this things I would put in a bug out bag.
29:03.64
Buddy
Um, I'm just waffling all the place here. Uh, Things I would put in my bug out bag would be ah water filtration.
29:16.18
Buddy
and would have a way to start a fire. Um, and I would do it a couple ways. I, you'll hear me say, you know, most multiple ways, you don't need 80, 80 ways to light a fire. Well, you need a couple ways, you know, you need redundancy or something that is multi, you know, functional, something that more than one purpose.
29:35.89
Buddy
So you fire, you need a way to filtrate water. You need a way to collect water. Um, you need shelter. Uh, so I'd put a poncho in there, um, I like ponchos. They're very functional.
29:48.88
Buddy
You can make them into a litter, carry somebody away. You can make them shelter. You can put them around to you and wear them in case of it's raining.
29:56.46
Keith
Do all kinds of things with a poncho.
29:58.46
Buddy
Several things. I would have some bungee cords in there for my poncho and my shelter. i will have a poncho liner in there because it packs down real well. And it's also good in case I have to spend a night out in the woods and keeps me warm.
30:12.37
Buddy
I would have ah probably another poncho. like two because like you can lay on one and have one ah above you and they're just so cool. I love ponco learners and poncho and ponchos.
30:29.69
Buddy
550 cord.
30:29.79
Keith
I'm not even sure I've ever seen a poncho liner.
30:32.77
Buddy
Oh my God.
30:32.78
Jeremy
You have. They're... they're Yeah, they're like they look like a silky blanket.
30:34.17
Buddy
Yeah, you have.
30:35.04
Keith
that a military thing?
30:35.07
Buddy
Whoobies.
30:39.25
Keith
Huh.
30:39.93
Jeremy
they kind They look...
30:39.97
Keith
And they go on the inside of the poncho.
30:40.17
Buddy
Yeah.
30:42.41
Jeremy
Well, theyre they they attach to the poncho.
30:44.73
Keith
Oh, they'd like a zipper or Velcro or something?
30:47.92
Jeremy
It snaps, pull the dot fastener, and then they have little ties the
30:50.22
Keith
I gotcha.
30:52.04
Jeremy
ah little tie ties on the corner
30:54.63
Keith
ah
30:54.70
Buddy
Yeah, it's, I have a hard time keeping around my house because everybody loves them so much. They're so comfy, but, you know, going, I will have ah a way to, you know, a little hatchet, nothing crazy, a way to cut, you know, in case I do need to make a fire.
31:13.89
Keith
chop wood or chop zombies.
31:15.54
Buddy
Yes, wood or zombies, a way, I will have a headlamp.
31:15.72
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
31:21.33
Buddy
I will have a, like a little lantern. In case, you know, I'm setting up shop to do something. um I'm going to have maps of my area in there in waterproof ah pouches and water, you know, Ziploc.
31:35.55
Buddy
What else? I'm just going off the top my head here. So, yeah.
31:39.68
Keith
So, okay. So what I'm hearing is that you're keeping, you're keeping the the most minimal amount of stuff that you need to survive without forgetting critical things like maps.
31:52.14
Buddy
Yeah, I'm going to have certain things in there and going to have things that are multi-purposed. They'll have more, you know, and I'm going to, I'm a minimalist when it comes to stuff, especially the bug out bag because I got to carry it.
32:00.02
Jeremy
Yeah.
32:05.89
Keith
and i didn't I didn't hear you say bolt cutters. I didn't hear you say sleeping bag. i didn't hear you say ah five gallon jug of water. i didn't hear you say a lot of things.
32:18.17
Jeremy
Yeah,
32:18.99
Buddy
Oh, hell no. I've carried a five gallon, a five gallon jug of water and all my gear before, you know, it's heavy. yeah
32:26.12
Jeremy
yeah that that actually does...
32:26.25
Buddy
So I'm going to take them very minimal stuff. I'm going to, you know, a water, another cool tools at watercock key, you know, that has, so yeah.
32:29.36
Jeremy
That does suck.
32:35.50
Jeremy
Silk cock.
32:37.73
Buddy
ah Those are awesome to have because, you know, you get to a ah industrial building, you can use those to turn on, turn off water.
32:44.13
Keith
Yeah, for those of you out there who don't know, look it up.
32:44.40
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
32:46.59
Keith
Silcock is what he's talking about. It's a little tiny metal ah key sort of thing that fits over ah hydrants, spigots that are on buildings, mostly commercial buildings, so that people can't just walk up and and you know take water.
32:51.71
Jeremy
that...
33:03.59
Keith
You have to have the special key. You can actually get them on Amazon. You can get a three-pack for about $9. They're very, very cheap.
33:11.11
Jeremy
And they're very worth it.
33:12.49
Keith
Very worth it, yes.
33:14.32
Buddy
All right. few other little things. going to have a robust, uh, first aid kit and make sure you got a tourniquet in there. Um, I think I said five 50 cord. Um, I'm going to, you know, have extra ammo along with my weapon.
33:29.42
Buddy
Um, I'm going to have a way to signal in case, you know, I get in trouble. I'm going a whistle or, and I'm going to have we'll call it VF 17 panel or a way to signal somebody from far away.
33:41.09
Buddy
They can see, you know, something bright in color, maybe it,
33:43.39
Keith
What is a VF 17? What is that?
33:46.86
Buddy
it's a, uh, it's a panel that we carry in the military that we, a lot of times we, we would put them in a certain configuration, uh, and put them on our, our vehicles. It's a recognition thing, uh, or bring, well, these would be like, uh, pink, uh, fluorescent colors, um, pink or green, uh, lime color.
33:58.41
Keith
oh okay. It's got like black and white boxes or squares or lines or something on it.
34:06.87
Keith
Oh, okay.
34:09.57
Buddy
Um, and then we'd bring in helicopters with them too. So, uh,
34:13.61
Keith
Why would you need that?
34:16.69
Buddy
Well, that's a great question.
34:16.77
Jeremy
It's.
34:17.50
Keith
you don't eat you don't You don't need that. You can take that out, throw it on the floor. You don't need it. Next. What's your next thing?
34:24.53
Buddy
I might not carry the whole thing.
34:25.09
Keith
well Well, here's the thing.
34:25.85
Buddy
i might.
34:26.31
Keith
why Why would you need it in the first place? Because you're not going to be dealing with military people who also have them, just happen to have them with them.
34:32.74
Buddy
Okay. So you, you have it.
34:35.16
Keith
Well, let me rephrase. Leanne is not going to Is her name? Did I say her name right?
34:40.47
Buddy
Yeah.
34:41.19
Keith
Okay. She's not going to be out there looking for other military people and trying to communicate with them. So throw it on the floor, done with it, move on. What's next?
34:47.74
Buddy
Well, other people, when you, when I'm going to plead my case here, man.
34:49.52
Keith
What do you What do you got? What do you got?
34:53.78
Buddy
When you, I'm trying to, if I pull that out, I'm wanting to be found. And so I might throw it on a car on the side of the road or up in a tree to signal somebody for help. I mean, what if I break my leg and can't move?
35:06.94
Buddy
So it's a way, you know, with my whistle or that, that I can, you know, call and help if I need it.
35:11.37
Keith
The only person that's going to understand it is a military person who has used it.
35:15.85
Jeremy
Well,
35:16.08
Keith
I wouldn't understand it. I look it and go, Oh, look at the pretty colors.
35:18.57
Buddy
Help me out here, Jeremy.
35:19.75
Jeremy
okay.
35:19.85
Buddy
Help me out.
35:20.63
Jeremy
So the via when we say VS-17, it's probably just a, it's the way we know it. It's a brightly colored piece of cloth or something along those lines, which you can use to signal somebody else in order to get help.
35:35.36
Jeremy
It doesn't have to be a VS-17 with the you know safety orange and the chartouche color. it's um It's a brightly colored piece of clothing or something along those lines that you can use to signal someone from a distance ah to get their attention. Like if, let's just say, for instance, you had some kind of brightly colored thing and you were on a mountainside.
35:58.00
Jeremy
and you fell and you got hurt, but you know that there's a helicopter or you see a helicopter coming in, you start waving that thing like you're the you know the last unicorn trying to get on the ark.
36:08.49
Jeremy
you know you're that's what it's really for. And you can also use them if you are part of a group that has a prearranged signaling system. So let's just say, for instance, if you are coming by and you're coming down the road and you need to know whether or not this particular thing is safe, you look for a prearranged signal on a prearranged spot um that tells you, hey, the road is clear.
36:34.81
Jeremy
If you don't see that set, that brightly colored piece of clothing there, The road's not clear. Don't go that way. So that's something else that you can use it for. So we just say VS-17 because that's how our brains think.
36:47.77
Keith
and Okay.
36:49.92
Buddy
Are you convinced yet?
36:50.19
Keith
um I'm still not sold. I'm not going to be carrying one. I'll carry a mirror, a signal mirror.
36:53.14
Buddy
ah There you go.
36:54.96
Keith
How about that?
36:56.42
Jeremy
Have you ever tried to use a signal mirror to signal an aircraft?
36:56.42
Keith
Yeah. It's hard. It's very hard to do.
36:59.49
Jeremy
It's a pain in the ass.
37:02.31
Keith
Yeah, it is.
37:02.95
Jeremy
It really is. Because if you don't know what you're doing, you're just you're just shining a light somewhere in space.
37:06.84
Keith
Got to practice with them.
37:09.85
Buddy
Yeah, they don't work at night either.
37:10.12
Keith
Exactly. No, they don't.
37:11.59
Jeremy
No, and they don't work for night. And honestly, I had and i had a i had an issued you know signal mirror for ages.
37:14.28
Keith
Green laser does.
37:20.14
Jeremy
You know what I used it for? Putting camo on my face. Making sure that i that's that's exactly what I used it for.
37:25.86
Buddy
It's got multi-purpose. See, there you go.
37:27.15
Jeremy
Yeah. And I used it when I had to shave. Yeah. so
37:30.35
Buddy
Yeah. Three purposes there. You can, you can put it in your kit.
37:34.05
Jeremy
yeah
37:35.10
Buddy
All right. So I guess, I mean, Leanne, I hope I, I hope I answered it.
37:37.33
Keith
that That pretty much is it answers it.
37:40.97
Buddy
You can, you can ask again or instant message me and I can give you a better list.
37:44.50
Jeremy
Now what kind of weight are you looking at
37:49.97
Buddy
40 pounds is good for me. I used to like throw in as much as I could, but
37:51.23
Jeremy
and
37:53.61
Keith
Do we, do we need it to make this question three, three freaking hours long and come on. um the I mean, what are we doing here? Yeah.
38:01.34
Buddy
I like to move fast.
38:02.72
Jeremy
Okay.
38:02.80
Buddy
Let's go to the next one.
38:03.86
Keith
There you go. Just keep it light. Throw stuff in there you like. There you go.
38:07.64
Jeremy
Do it.
38:08.52
Keith
Good to go. Right?
38:10.65
Jeremy
All right.
38:10.80
Keith
Good.
38:11.13
Buddy
Exactly.
38:11.47
Keith
Chris, who I'm assuming is a woman, but I could be wrong. But Chris says, how do I get my husband into prepping? He thinks he has it all covered with his guns.
38:21.62
Keith
Okay, we've heard this one before.
38:21.92
Jeremy
Oh, man. Oh, Lord.
38:23.49
Keith
We know that. You know what, Jeremy? You take this one.
38:27.42
Jeremy
Guns are cool. Bullets is cool. But you if you have the mentality that you're going to go take other people's stuff in a time of crisis and you are a you know legal my you know gun owner and you think that that's what you're going to do.
38:46.26
Jeremy
you're going to go trying to take the stuff of other legal gun owners and you is going to get shot. That is what is going to happen.
38:53.03
Keith
Live by the sword, die by the sword, and that's how that's how it's going happen.
38:56.49
Jeremy
Yeah.
38:56.86
Buddy
Somebody's always better.
38:58.35
Jeremy
You have to, and the the gun thing, you need to be able to be prepared to protect your stuff, but you have to have stuff because if you come for my stuff,
38:58.37
Buddy
Somebody's always faster.
39:09.68
Jeremy
You're not going for anybody else's stuff. That's that's how I feel about it. So that's that's all I have to say about that. Yeah. Yeah. We all like guns.
39:18.94
Keith
Yeah, I mean, yeah once you get ah a grid down situation, a really bad situation, i can guarantee you that my firearms, and I say that plural, will never not be near me.
39:30.98
Keith
They will always be on me at all times, and I'll be protecting mine and my own and everything.
39:31.52
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
39:35.56
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
39:35.71
Keith
If you try come try and take it, you're going to spend a lot of bullets trying to do it. you may You may take it. You may get it. why Why do that? Just get your own shit.
39:44.89
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.
39:46.29
Keith
You know? And protect it.
39:48.02
Jeremy
you You may find me dead, but you will find me in a ditch covered in brass. Let's put it that way.
39:56.80
Keith
ah Exactly.
39:57.60
Jeremy
And you can leave me there. That's ah that's that's how I feel about it.
40:01.51
Keith
I took my, I went out for a woods walk yesterday morning, did the whole entire perimeter. It was a long one. And I took my rifle, a couple of mags, Balfang radio, a couple other things.
40:16.87
Keith
not Didn't go too heavy on this one. my The Balfame radio, they those things are awesome, but they're also freaking cheap. they're They're not very well made, man.
40:28.05
Keith
I pull i tried part tried to pull this thing off my, I had it in my belt. I pulled it off the belt and I guess it got caught on something and the antenna snapped right off.
40:38.56
Buddy
Ooh.
40:39.45
Keith
The heck's going on with these things, man?
40:41.40
Buddy
yeah they're throwaways.
40:41.45
Jeremy
Now, are you talking are you talking about the actual threading snapped off or just the base part of the antenna?
40:49.76
Keith
it's a good question because couldn't find it. I looked everywhere.
40:52.01
Jeremy
No.
40:53.08
Keith
And I still contacted Rhonda, who was at the house, because I wanted to do a ah woods test you know to see how far it can go. And she she actually heard me.
40:58.60
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
40:59.91
Keith
I heard i heard her crystal clear, um but she heard me. as it was a little bit scratchy, she said. And I was about 350 yards away, but i was down up and over a mountain with nothing but trees.
41:17.97
Buddy
Thank you.
41:18.12
Keith
And she still heard me. And that was without the, might the, yet the antenna, which I thought was pretty good, and which is why I started by saying they're pretty awesome, but they're also cheap. That's the second one I broke, man.
41:29.39
Jeremy
Yeah, I am when I'm going out to do missions. I usually keep my radio, um i have ah a Kydex insert that's typically for a magazine.
41:41.76
Jeremy
But what I do is I actually put that into a magazine pouch and then I put my radio locked, of course, so I don't jam buttons and turn on the stupid siren. um But I put that in that Kydex insert so it doesn't get you know mashed around.
41:56.95
Jeremy
And they do have antennas that are, they they're called thumb antennas. theyre only about two inches, two and a half inches tall, and they're wide. And they screw into your typical, you know, Baofeng antenna base.
42:11.35
Jeremy
But um I really, really like those. If you're...
42:13.91
Keith
are they Are they powerful? i thought they had to be really long to be powerful.
42:17.57
Jeremy
no now Well, so here's antenna theory 101. It's not necessarily how long, how thin, or how fat your antenna is. What it has to do with is the output of your...
42:26.99
Keith
We're talking about radios here, right?
42:28.49
Jeremy
Right, right, right, right, right.
42:29.35
Keith
and Okay, okay.
42:29.57
Jeremy
of Of course, of course, man, of course.
42:30.82
Keith
Okay, yeah.
42:31.41
Jeremy
It's 2025.
42:31.44
Buddy
Ha ha ha ha.
42:31.50
Keith
All right, yeah.
42:32.25
Jeremy
We don't judge.
42:32.98
Keith
All right.
42:34.14
Jeremy
um But so antenna theory has to do with what does your antenna have to go through or above or around to get a signal out? And that all depends on, one, how much wattage your radio is pushing. Typical UV, five hours, five watts.
42:49.60
Jeremy
If you're communicating within, say, you said 350 yards,
42:55.96
Keith
Yeah.
42:56.86
Jeremy
So 350, I would say max like 500, even in the woods, I've you've used those thumb antennas and they work wonderful, especially if you're within some, yeah.
43:05.98
Keith
Really?
43:07.88
Jeremy
But then again, you also have to think is what is, what is it you're trying to achieve? Are you going through a building or are you out in the woods? So you, you have to, you have to think UHF, VHF, those two particular things.
43:14.10
Keith
Right, right.
43:18.61
Jeremy
And the UHF and VHF without getting too deep into it, ah those bands within those bands contain certain frequencies. So with a UV5R, let's assume that you didn't illegally, you know, illegally unlock it like I have.
43:34.02
Jeremy
um FRS is communicating at the lowest level of the VHF broad, you know, with that within that band. Once you start getting up into GMRS, which is the gap between HAM and FRS, then you start pushing up into VHF.
43:51.29
Jeremy
Not quite, almost, but you're almost there. VHF is really, really good if you are like talking across a distance outside. UHF is really good if you're in a building or you're trying to go from a building to the outside.
44:06.41
Jeremy
that's what That's one of the best the best ways to describe it.
44:08.10
Keith
So what did, yeah what did somebody maybe did to my radio? What, what did I, what did I get? What, what frequencies?
44:19.27
Jeremy
um Well, I think I put you onto a
44:23.68
Keith
Oh, so you did it. Okay. All right. We're talking straight up.
44:25.33
Jeremy
Wait, wait, no, no, no.
44:26.08
Keith
All right.
44:28.60
Jeremy
I didn't do anything.
44:28.75
Keith
I was trying to keep you out of this, but
44:31.12
Jeremy
I think I talked to you through something.
44:33.91
Keith
that's true. You did. You did.
44:35.00
Jeremy
um I think I put you, i we put you onto FRS frequency.
44:40.73
Keith
Yes, that's right.
44:41.69
Jeremy
So um you're communicating with that within that band. And the easiest way on the Baofeng is just go through your um your menus. And when you see the VHF or UHF pop up,
44:54.57
Jeremy
the Baofeng is good that it will automatically change itself to match the frequency level at which you were trying to communicate.
45:02.14
Keith
ah Okay.
45:02.44
Jeremy
So
45:04.45
Keith
All right. ah So that was, um who was that? What was that?
45:10.01
Jeremy
that was the crit from Chris.
45:10.46
Keith
ah Oh yeah.
45:12.37
Jeremy
How do I get my husband into prepping?
45:14.28
Keith
Right. So, um, okay. so besides the fact that he, he wants to be the the lone gunman, um, what else would we, could we get Chris's husband to be excited about?
45:28.16
Jeremy
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
45:29.50
Buddy
well you know i've seen this before um i met a lady in texas who was sneaking to a a prepper type uh training event she was sneaking around she was being a little mischievous she she told him she was going shopping with her sister her sister dropped her off at a prepper um
45:38.97
Keith
Sneaking. Wow.
45:50.22
Buddy
meeting and and she was telling everybody, yep, I'm so not supposed to be here. My husband doesn't buy into this. He said, everything's going to be fine.
45:58.77
Keith
Wow.
45:59.64
Buddy
And we were all just like, what?
46:01.87
Keith
That's the first I've never heard that before.
46:03.75
Buddy
Yeah, I was, I was floored and she sat right next to me.
46:03.79
Keith
Wow.
46:06.07
Buddy
I was like, Holy crap. Okay.
46:08.39
Keith
kind of reminds me of these people who had to lie to say they were vote they they were voting for Trump, but they weren't.
46:08.63
Jeremy
That's...
46:13.47
Keith
ah You know what I'm saying? Those people that were afraid to say they were voting for Trump.
46:17.56
Jeremy
Oh, man.
46:17.78
Buddy
Yeah, she, she, She, um on the down low, she she's has free-dried food and all kinds of stuff. You know, her husband's like, what is this? ah I'm going to make something out of it, you know.
46:28.57
Buddy
ah What is this, you know?
46:29.65
Jeremy
i think that that's I think that that's kind of, I don't know another way to say it, but I think that's kind of ugly. So, I mean, let's just say your significant other had a hobby, right?
46:43.28
Jeremy
would you Would you smash on your on your your significant other's hobby if that's something that they really enjoyed?
46:49.28
Keith
Well, no, but you're exactly right. That's the thing. ah This person he's talking about, whoever she is, she obviously, her husband or boyfriend, whoever was, had had a problem with preppers.
47:02.19
Jeremy
Hmm.
47:02.50
Keith
Otherwise, she would have just you know grown grown a set of balls and said, I'm going to go to prepping, either come or don't, but shut your mouth. That's it.
47:10.93
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
47:11.01
Buddy
Yeah. And I'll give you a little background on her. ah After talking with her a little bit, I pulled a few, few little nuggets out of her. She, she's a country girl and ah her sister, you know, she grew up on her and her sisters grew up on the farm and her husband was a city guy.
47:27.71
Buddy
They lived in the city and they just moved back away from the city because, you know, looking for a retirement place and and he's a, he plays a lot of golf and,
47:28.59
Jeremy
Ah.
47:34.72
Jeremy
the
47:36.59
Buddy
You know, that's where his energy and time and money goes into it. And while she's playing, while he's playing golf, she's out, you know, not shopping.
47:42.83
Keith
and
47:43.61
Buddy
She's ah watching prepper videos and stuff and and she's concerned about things. Oh
47:47.87
Keith
Yeah, exactly. And I used to, ice used to play golf years ago. It's very expensive. It's more expensive, I think, than prepping.
47:55.01
Jeremy
I would say so.
47:55.30
Keith
If you ask me,
47:55.81
Jeremy
It's probably even more expensive than shooting.
47:58.87
Buddy
so yeah, definitely.
47:59.16
Keith
it's it, yeah, it's very expensive. So
48:00.71
Jeremy
i mean, how much does a round of golf cost normally, like an average?
48:04.64
Keith
nowadays I have no idea, but it was, i know it was very expensive back in the day.
48:08.35
Jeremy
Think about how much...
48:08.40
Buddy
Yeah, but if you get really good with that golf swing, i mean, you got, you know, you can have close quarter combat. And then plus, you can probably pick somebody off of what, 300, 400 yards.
48:18.74
Buddy
I mean, there you go.
48:19.27
Keith
Zombie killing machine.
48:20.46
Jeremy
Wow, man. Yeah, but think about how many.22 bullets you could buy for a round of golf.
48:22.02
Keith
All right. Yeah, no shit.
48:29.23
Keith
Exactly.
48:30.26
Jeremy
my My version of golf is a bucket of golf balls, a 12-pack of beer, and a tennis racket. that's That's a good time. Yeah.
48:39.84
Keith
Okay, so ah let's see.
48:40.21
Buddy
Wow. Is
48:41.80
Keith
um There is a Jeremy who says... Um, what's, Oh, this is, no, this is a great question.
48:46.39
Buddy
that you, Jeremy?
48:48.55
Keith
Actually. What's better caning or freeze drying.
48:51.85
Jeremy
Hmm.
48:52.61
Keith
That's the question. And what I can tell you from what I know is that, uh,
48:53.42
Jeremy
That's a good one.
48:58.63
Keith
Freeze drying, freeze dried. Let's talk about the actual product. Freeze dried foods are far superior than canned foods because they have shelf lives that were that could be 20, 30 years.
49:14.14
Keith
could be three decades long or more in some cases. Another the thing about freeze dried food, it's very light. all Freeze dried food is food that all the moisture has been taken out of it.
49:26.01
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.
49:27.12
Keith
So it's very light. It's extremely light. You wouldn't, you couldn't even imagine you can carry, can carry a month's worth of food in the backpack with freeze dried food.
49:33.99
Jeremy
yeah
49:35.79
Keith
ah Canning is not, it's very heavy. It's mainly it's, it's glass jars. The the jars alone way, you know, way stuff. So this and that, but there are some cons about freeze drying.
49:46.51
Keith
One is very expensive. It's very expensive to free to buy a freeze dryer. If you want to do it yourself, um, And freeze dried food is actually pretty expensive.
49:56.91
Keith
It really is. But you can get yourself, um you know, a couple of, you can, you can find the canning jars. We we found them at Dollar General, really good ones, ball ah with the wide mouths.
50:07.58
Keith
and Okay. We found them with it with the jars, cans, lids, at the whole thing. And they were super cheap.
50:12.86
Jeremy
Yeah.
50:13.02
Keith
Very, very cheap. Bought a couple of cases of them.
50:15.67
Jeremy
Yeah.
50:15.72
Keith
And you can, and now if you're staying where you're at, You know, which you're not bugging out, which is going to be 99% of all preppers are going to be staying where they're at. and It's not going to be a situation where you're heading down the road.
50:29.12
Keith
It's just not.
50:30.16
Jeremy
Yeah.
50:30.49
Keith
If you did have to bug out in a certain situation, if the world got that crazy, yes, freeze dried food is the way to go. That's my take on it.
50:39.08
Jeremy
Yeah, I think that each one has its purpose and its place. um If you are in an area that is generally secure, away from most of the chaos, and that's where you're going to make your castle, then yes, canning is is is is amazing.
50:58.44
Jeremy
It doesn't have as long of a shelf life, but you're also wanting to can the things that you do use on a regular basis.
51:05.44
Keith
Exactly, rotate it out.
51:06.63
Jeremy
You know what i mean? and But the great thing about freeze drying, though, let's just say, for instance, you, I don't know, you made a bunch of chili. And you take that excess chili that you didn't get to eat and you put it in the freeze dryer. You freeze dry it. It removes every bit of moisture, but it locks in all of the nutritional value that it had when you cooked it.
51:26.08
Jeremy
And the flavor, it generally, the flavor that it had when you cooked it. Yes.
51:31.04
Keith
Yeah, no, you're right about that. You do lose nutriition this is a little bit of nutrition when you do canning because you're using heat to kill the microbes and all that.
51:35.72
Jeremy
yes Yes. And of course, a lot of people don't like vinegar and, you know, depending on what you're canning depends on how much, you know, of that, that you're using.
51:48.13
Jeremy
Um, most of our sauces that we did last year, didn't have a whole lot of vinegar in them, you know? But well especially with the tomatoes, but now when you start getting into the okra and you start getting into you know your pickles and stuff like that, of course, you know it's got a lot of vinegar and whatnot.
52:04.05
Keith
Oh yeah. lot of vinegar, a lot of salt.
52:06.33
Jeremy
But those are salts that are needed down the line. It really is. And people, there's a, there's a big argument out there about salt, you know, that people like, Oh my God, it's going to, you know, you're going to raise your, your blood pressure. Bullshit.
52:22.22
Jeremy
You need more salt in your life. You do, you do. And people don't realize that. So i think we both have their place, uh, depending on your own individual situation.
52:33.26
Keith
I would love to get a freeze dryer, but man, the the price, I mean, like what, five four or $5,000 for a good one.
52:36.61
Jeremy
They're so expensive, dude.
52:41.06
Jeremy
The,
52:41.13
Buddy
Yeah, you can pick up a small ones, like $2,500.
52:41.86
Jeremy
The base model. Yeah.
52:44.71
Buddy
ah Costco had one, not I actually saw one at Costco. Man, it's been about a year. About $2,500. Tractor supply has them for around $2,500, $3,000.
52:56.33
Buddy
But used ones.
52:56.86
Jeremy
Yeah.
52:57.71
Keith
Are they really, really small or something or?
52:59.48
Buddy
No, I mean, like like Jeremy said, you know, you... instead of throwing away that leftover chili or lasagna, whatever you had, um it has smaller trays. um So you're not going to do mass production out of it.
53:11.42
Keith
Right, right.
53:12.62
Buddy
But I mean, if you have, you know, at the end of the week, you made chili, you have a lasagna on Thursday night and chili, chili on Sunday, you got a little leftover, you know, that weekend or maybe the next Sunday, you just freeze dry it, you know smaller portions.
53:26.84
Buddy
So it's just expensive, man.
53:28.24
Keith
Right. And I didn i didn't even think about that. That's a great point, Jeremy, is that you got leftovers. you know you You don't have to actually make foods to freeze-dried. You're already making food.
53:36.89
Jeremy
Yeah.
53:36.91
Keith
Just freeze-dried your leftovers. You're good to go.
53:39.13
Buddy
yeah We do the same thing with just freezing, you know?
53:39.14
Jeremy
Yeah.
53:41.70
Buddy
Yeah.
53:42.13
Keith
Oh, yeah. I mean, there's always like a giant thing of either beans or chili or something in the freezer. at all i mean, we we got a giant thing of beans sitting up there, and I think probably going have it tonight, actually.
53:47.22
Buddy
Yeah.
53:47.25
Jeremy
Yeah.
53:51.26
Jeremy
ah The least expensive one that Tractor Supply has on their website right now ah is the Harvest Right, of course, and is the medium ah freezer dryer with premium pump and mylar starter kit.
54:06.11
Jeremy
ah For $2,395. So... then... Yeah. Yeah. these...
54:09.91
Buddy
No, we've gone down or about the same, I guess.
54:11.59
Jeremy
so and then
54:13.28
Keith
Well, that's really not that bad cause i remember because i I was a dealer. Actually, i think we we still are a dealer for Harvestripe. And they were well above like $3,800 or something like that.
54:25.72
Buddy
Oh, you got the hookup.
54:25.84
Jeremy
yeah
54:27.87
Keith
Well, no, you have to be able to sell stuff in order to get it for for a better price.
54:31.66
Buddy
Oh, okay.
54:31.75
Jeremy
yeah
54:32.47
Keith
yeah And I could never sell it.
54:32.61
Jeremy
but these
54:33.55
Keith
They're just so damn expensive. Nobody would ever buy them.
54:35.67
Buddy
Yeah.
54:35.80
Jeremy
But these are you know and these are the medium size, and they go up in price. And when you get up to the first large ah large one, it starts at $2,995.
54:54.77
Keith
Okay, so $3,000, $2,500 to $3,000 for freeze dryer. That's what we're looking at.
54:58.77
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.
54:59.76
Keith
Okay.
55:00.30
Jeremy
And then they're, they're dealing in some other brands that I'm not a hundred percent familiar with this brand. It's called blue Alpine. Um, no, no, but their, uh, their price point for that particular brand that, and this is from tractor supply is starts out at 3,099.
55:07.16
Keith
I've not heard of it, no.
55:08.03
Buddy
Never wait of it.
55:17.49
Jeremy
Yeah.
55:19.50
Buddy
Wow.
55:20.33
Jeremy
yeah
55:21.87
Keith
All right, look, we're going to speed through some of these because we're running out time.
55:25.18
Buddy
Hey, do you want to do you want to save some for another in a and for another podcast?
55:25.43
Keith
Yeah,
55:28.77
Jeremy
Now we can burn.
55:29.52
Buddy
I mean, we could half of them.
55:30.45
Jeremy
We can burn.
55:32.01
Keith
I mean, that's fine. what What do you want to do, Jeremy?
55:33.28
Buddy
Yeah.
55:34.56
Jeremy
um Let's at least get through this next one.
55:37.75
Keith
Okay, this next one is from Casper. The question is, i have a small apartment. How can I store my food, water, and gear?
55:47.65
Jeremy
Mm-hmm.
55:47.85
Keith
Great question. Great question.
55:49.98
Jeremy
um I'll take that one real quick. um Every nook and cranny that you think that you don't have, you do. um Under your bed, um in your closet, um you have to start looking at what you currently have in your apartment.
56:06.93
Jeremy
And I would generally guess that anybody asked that kind of question is living small anyways. But you need to start looking at unconventional places that people don't think about. um And one of the products that I would definitely suggest is called the water cube.
56:21.15
Jeremy
If you are trying to store water and you're trying to um ah keep it on supply, even if it's in a small closet, you can get the water cubes and you can actually stack them.
56:33.96
Jeremy
um So the the great product um and, or I'm sorry, not water cube, water brick. There's, they're just, they literally look like, yeah.
56:44.42
Keith
Yeah, the water bricks, where they're like 18 by 18 or something like that.
56:45.30
Jeremy
Yeah.
56:47.42
Keith
or
56:47.89
Jeremy
Well, they have a bunch of different sizes.
56:48.01
Keith
i think different sizes. Okay.
56:49.93
Jeremy
Yeah. And you can literally set aside a corner in your in your small closet and start stacking water. So.
56:58.95
Keith
Yeah, I've seen people take those and use them as a stand, like for shelving. So they'll have like ah a cube on both sides, a piece of wood going across, another cube, a piece of wood going across.
57:04.13
Jeremy
Yes.
57:07.71
Keith
And they actually make shelves out of them. So they got their water built into the shelf.
57:11.25
Jeremy
Yeah. And you can also use them for food products.
57:14.43
Keith
Oh, really? Hmm.
57:15.04
Jeremy
Yeah, because they're BPA free and they're water safe, for so they're food safe.
57:19.03
Keith
Nice.
57:19.09
Jeremy
and If you want to make it even safer, you can add Mylar bag into it, but you can actually, you know, you can store your beans, your rice, and your dry goods in those things.
57:28.33
Keith
One thing that I would say, because I've been living in apartments for many, many years until just now, And one thing I can tell you for sure is don't be afraid to throw shit out.
57:39.26
Jeremy
Yeah.
57:39.42
Keith
Get rid of stuff. You don't need, but i have ah a pretty much a rule. If I didn't need it all year, ah i'm not going to need it for the next year. Throw it away.
57:46.81
Jeremy
Yeah.
57:46.98
Keith
Get rid of it. Give it to somebody, whatever it is you want to do. yeah But don't be afraid to throw stuff out. Don't be afraid to give stuff away.
57:55.53
Jeremy
yeah
57:55.61
Keith
If you don't need it, you don't need it. Just get rid of it.
57:58.29
Jeremy
yeah
57:59.78
Buddy
Yeah, want when I lived in New York, a small apartment, I mean, it's all I could afford, um and married, we had to be very...
58:07.41
Keith
A closet, you mean in New York?
58:08.91
Buddy
Yeah, pretty much.
58:08.97
Keith
a closet, basically.
58:10.41
Buddy
um We got very creative with our our storage. So, you know, our bed, like Jeremy said, he puts stuff under the bed. Well, some stuff didn't fit under the bed. So we we actually elevated, there was these plastic, hard plastic blocks that elevated the bed up about...
58:26.81
Jeremy
Oh, yeah, yeah.
58:28.22
Buddy
ah almost 12 inches, maybe 14. So it was a little harder to get and out of bed, but hey, it worked. It gave us more space underneath.
58:35.75
Jeremy
You're going to snap a fucking ankle coming out of that thing.
58:36.49
Buddy
I'm like... thank
58:40.44
Keith
and Set up like a Tarzan rope and just swing across the room and into bed.
58:42.91
Buddy
Yeah.
58:43.76
Keith
That's awesome.
58:44.63
Buddy
I ran across the small apartment and jumped into bed.
58:44.79
Jeremy
Yeah.
58:48.03
Buddy
That's how I got in. But, um you know, and like you were saying, you stack those stack cubes are great. You know, maybe a water blivet that, you know, Hopefully there's water in your lines in case the water goes out.
58:57.53
Jeremy
You're
59:00.60
Buddy
So my bathtub, can fill that bathtub up with that water, Belivet.
59:01.25
Jeremy
you're talking about for the bathtub. Yeah.
59:06.62
Buddy
There's different things, but yeah, we got very creative.
59:07.64
Jeremy
Yeah.
59:09.22
Keith
You're talking about the bladder.
59:10.48
Jeremy
Yeah.
59:10.74
Buddy
Yeah. Yeah.
59:11.47
Keith
Okay.
59:11.93
Buddy
Belivet. Call it. That's army term, I guess. Yeah.
59:14.27
Keith
Blibet. Okay. Yeah. Like the big, the the bladders that you you put in your, in your tub, you fill them with water and they basically fill your whole water, your tub up with water.
59:19.26
Jeremy
Mm-hmm. Yes. Yeah.
59:22.09
Buddy
Yeah, and you're going to have water in the lines even though the water's out.
59:22.11
Keith
Yeah.
59:25.41
Buddy
So you'll have a little bit.
59:26.52
Keith
Sure, but if you've got big storms coming, throw it in there, fill up with water. If you've got tornadoes coming, outbreak, hey, you know, a lot of people just died recently from tornado outbreaks. And Jeremy, you went down and saw all the people, and you did too, buddy, all the people that had from the hurricane.
59:37.93
Buddy
Yeah.
59:40.13
Jeremy
Yeah.
59:40.49
Keith
Just get yourself a black. They're very inexpensive.
59:42.99
Jeremy
yeah
59:43.23
Keith
Fill them up, then empty them out, and you're good to go.
59:46.08
Jeremy
Yeah. Yeah.
59:48.39
Buddy
Just be creative.
59:48.44
Jeremy
Good questions.
59:50.10
Buddy
Creative.
59:50.12
Jeremy
Good questions.
59:52.40
Keith
All right, guys, that's going to be it. That is a wrap.
