And we're alive. What's up fam is Anthony dream Johnson president of the Mandasphere CEO and co-founder of the red man group CEO 21 studios and founder of the 21 convention and 20 University and the 22 convention here today of the special episode of the red man group on Friday Because holidays tomorrow 4th of July happy independence day everybody Episode 110 surviving America getten obviously play on Armageddon For bring on today's guests for the show special guests want to announce that we are of course sponsored by the 21 convention Tickets coming soon for the main event They're ready on sale for 22 convention to 21 summit larger event and the 21 convention patriarch edition all coming to Orlando, Florida Yes in the middle of this, you know, super crazy year. That'll be October 1st to 4th in Orlando, Florida Learn more at the 21 convention org. 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He's been watching for quite a while I've known him for over a year now great dude And he's actually an attendee of the convention a couple times over as well So he's familiar with what we do familiar with the show and the speakers and the content and all that He's also an expert on surviving survivalism prepping and family and home defense self-defense to So t-dog a little bit more about you can you introduce a little bit more about what you do to the show and your history? Sure So obviously the first rule of prepping is not to admit that you're a prepper Which is why I'm not using my real name or my photo here because I don't need anyone knowing what I do or what I'm prepared to do Basically, I've been doing this from a with corporations with Some small government entities with local governments and even some some federal government agencies have been doing emergency planning for them since 2003 Damn So I have quite a bit of experience. I actually went to school for it. I have two two masters degrees in emergency planning In addition to I was working on a PhD all but dissertation decided to quit on that one because The counter-terrorism business this doesn't pay. So, you know going forward I own my own consulting firm and I actually sold it in 2014 and since then all I've been doing is You know semi-retired and right now what I'm doing is I working for another consulting firm and I work with municipalities and counties in one of the most populated states of the nation and actually helping them get prepared for Hurricanes and disasters and stuff like that. Yep. Absolutely and obviously with COVID I became a coronavirus expert Overnight I was actually on the governor's reopening committee as one of their experts so I actually had to go up to the the capital and Insist with that that was before they had the easy coronavirus testing So I had to get the Q-tip up my nose Sucked for that, but it's a lot easier now But yeah, one of the things I do now is obviously emergency planning I do a lot of continuity planning in terms of how a city and county governments continue to operate their Services after an event and one of the things I've been doing a lot of is actually what they call red teaming Which I'm not sure if you're familiar with that term or not, but I'm not what does that mean? So red teaming is basically You're trying to poke holes in plans. So if they have Fourth of July traditionally is is a big big massive events for municipalities where they have their firework shows obviously everything's canceled this year, but What we would do is we work with law enforcement we look at their emergency plans and Basically try to figure out all the gaps and all the holes that exist that you know People could take advantage of whether it's terrorists or what's what's more likely nowadays, you know homegrown terrorists But you know that was the type of thing we do It's actually one of my favorite things because you could just be you could be evil You can think evil you can think how to kill people you Purpose because if I can think of it other people can think of it as well. Yeah, something's got to do it ahead of time Otherwise, you're not prepped for it. Absolutely land for it. Yeah Yeah Cool so before we get more into the show give you know different things we're gonna go into and how guys can get prepared just to Take care of themselves to care of the future, you know, be responsible self-responsible as men But obviously, you know, one of the reasons I chose to do this the show we've been talking about for a few weeks Is this whole year has been nuts not just COVID obviously and then the government responses But the protests the riots the looting the shooting like it's it's getting wild out there It's pretty obvious at this point My question to pose to you to kind of preamble, you know, as we go through the show is Obviously at this point civil war is an issue. It's been talked about for a while Even the CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey was talking about it and advocating for it wildly enough back in like 2018 And we're recently this is a topic you see all over the alt news mainstream news Something keeps popping up. I even saw it on Bloomberg today.  Sure But you know the chance of another American Civil War, it's been over 150 years since we have one the chance obviously is not zero Nor is it a hundred percent? So talk to me about what your thoughts are and the potential that just say in the next six to 12 months Never mind, you know, the next hundred years. Who knows but for the immediate future of Americans young men What is your view on that and what is the rule? What is your opinion on the chance of it? Okay, I'm not 100% sure of the chance of a civil war, but civil unrest is a hundred percent chance You know, I think we're gonna continue going on to the election season with with an escalation of violence the Those on the left, I guess you would call it Are clear in their intentions and what really worries me is the eventual response it's gonna happen from the people on the other side and You know knowing what I know about those people because I'm you know, one of them but there is a it's gonna be an Unproportional response and I don't think these people really know what they're what they're in for and you know Honestly, the people on the ground who are doing it You know, they're just useful idiots in the grand scheme. Thanks. The planners of of the of the riots of the civil unrest I think they're actually banking on it I think they want we call them the brick people because it's sure pallets of bricks everywhere. Mr. Of course, you know, you know, they're planning on having a response They they like to see when when a patriot, you know Has a concealed weapons permit and then ends up shooting more people because it just it just Perpetuates the violence on both sides. They want to see that eventual escalation Well, it gives ammo to fake news to play it and spin it a certain way So it's like it's fuel to this bullshit fire that keep creating as I see it Yeah, of course, exactly So, you know, I think I think the people on the right if you want to call it that have shown amazing restraint at this point and Except in absolute necessity they haven't went out and proactively decided to attack they've kind of stayed back and observed yep and You know, I hope it stays that way I really hope that the the people in this country can wake up to see what's going on and that there isn't this This escalation if it does escalate, you know going back to the Civil War It's not going to be like, you know, the first of a war. We're not anything like that It's it's going to be fourth-generation warfare. There's going to be a lot of a It would be similar maybe to what we just saw which is mass unrest throughout the country But significantly more of that like more widespread. It doesn't happen There's in the cities, maybe it spreads out in the suburbs a lot more It's a lot more cake because yeah, there isn't a north that the north isn't invading the south even you know There's no way it's happening. There's this nonsense at this point the country. It's a lot bigger now You know, you know, the what you know, a lot of America name and exist back then and 1800s as we know today Exactly and this and this war if it is going to happen, it's going to be an ideological war It's not going to be a race war. I think it's going to be left versus right You know, they were very polarized as a nation When you look at the the election results from 2016 and and every runoff since then it's it's it's close So, you know, there are many people in this country who are who are very staunch believers in leftism and on the opposite side there's there's many people who are staunch believers in in conservatism and That's the problem. They're they're they're no longer talking and now they're resorting to physical violence. Yep Yeah, it's getting wild out there, man So this yeah, allegedly, you know, one more point to you did mention though that the right has thrown supposedly called the right Whatever it sure or have you want to frame it? You know what? It's fourth of July. It's called Patriots Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because I've never you know, I voted for Trump 2016. That's pretty obvious I endorsed them, you know on the channel before just before the election before that I had never voted for a Republican in a general election. I was a romp hauler. So wait, no 12 So I'm not really a traditional conservative nor was I a fan in any way of the establishment a Republican thing I was not before 2016 or since I don't like that crap, but I do like Trump, obviously But I did want to say what my so yeah, the the labeling is interesting. Yeah, Patriot I consider myself an American above all and that's most important to me the Declaration of Independence the Constitution these things freedom But you did mention though the restraint on the right and I wanted to highlight that that's a lot different from you Can even go on Google guys can look this up You can look up Jack Dorsey, you know the CEO to owner the founder of Twitter and he was advocating for civil war in 2018 pretty pretty brazenly on an interview with some major news website and He's the epitome of this like leftist fucking Kami hipster douchebag Who just has is this oblivious to how serious that is and what that actually looks like if if that actually the conflict breaks out and The Patriots the Americans who call them Start pushing back and they're not written. They don't they don't have their restraining where they drop it They just go, you know, it's what do you call it? I mean pull the triggers way to call it internally as well as physically but Yeah, it's it's dropping the restraint. It's it's and Scott Adams to one of some guy an author. I follow on Twitter Yeah, I follow Scott. He's been saying that too that you know the the Americans who are armed to conceal carry daily in Florida there's over a million. I think at this point.   That's that's a very very high likelihood actually there could come a breaking point in society where we're no longer going to be silent and that's what worries me as an emergency planner is Is that that eventual escalation of violence? Like, you know, right now right now with what's going on with those on the left the the law enforcement although, you know Limited in their and their capacity could handle this if given the chance Yeah, if the right were to respond there is there's no entity on this planet That's going to be able to hold them back. Yeah So, you know law enforcement doesn't have the manpower or the capacity and and the majority of law enforcement are Are right there, you know, they're on the right side of the political spectrum not all of them But if I had to guess it's a good 65% Especially now with you know, the left the left has been pretty openly and brazenly defund the police abolish the police I mean, dude, New York City just cut a billion dollars out of their police budget. Yeah In a way, I'm actually kind of happy that that's happening. It's good It's gonna sound a counter countertutive, but okay, this is a it's a social experiment You know, we've watched California and degraded to what they are for the last, you know, 30 40 years And we're and the people of the rest of the country are starting to see what works and what doesn't work So we're when we when the law enforcement is is defunded and they abandoned their posts as you've seen You get you get recklessness you get, you know anarchy and not not the way, you know Not Stefan Mon used version of anarchy where we get literal anarchy They get blue flu, man the blue flu is coming Yeah, we get we get violence and with without any without any consequence and What was it going with that but anyways, so, you know in a nutshell I'm okay with the the temporarily defunding of the police because I think it's waking the the waking people up You know people are starting to see that that it is not all all You know sugar-coated situations when when we have communism or socialism going in it's it's strong man rule You know, I think I actually said to you that link of that What was that one guy's name the the warlord of Chaz or chop? Oh, Ross, I think Ross and then yeah the rapper. I love that guy like that guy was badass He opens up his trunk.    I'm kind of becoming indifferent You're coming politically blackpilled blackpill. Yeah Well, the reason is to it's like there's that old saying that you know Both they say about the 1930s, Germany, like, you know, they come for your neighbors and they come for the other one Then they come for you.   It's fucked up man 100% well Stefan was obviously very pivotal in the 2016 election You know, and I'm a good example of that, you know before I was red-pilled from the Manusphere perspective I was surfing around the internet and I watched a video of his called what pisses me off about the Paris attacks And at that moment that literally was the first video I watched of Stephon's and at that moment I started to consume his content and and look for others like him and that was a pivotal point in my life and You know, that's me and I was I was pretty awake politically beforehand But yeah, he really opened my eyes. Imagine the type of effect that he had across the spectrum. Yep So, you know, he was I'm surprised it didn't take him out, you know, months ago If not even last year, so it's pretty obvious that it why it happened now because you know, we're entering election season Yeah, and I don't think that's gonna farewell for YouTube. I think when DOJ Investigates this and I know Attorney General Barr has already mentioned that that's under undergo you know, this is just one more example of Abuse so yeah, he wasn't even at their community strike guidelines. He was I think yeah clear He had all three set up good to go. Yeah, and just just nuked men's fucked But anyway, let's get into more practical stuff today. We could go by this all day long We should maybe we should some time So you have a kind of presentation when you go through but also you sent me this cool very cool PDF And I will actually be sending us out to guys on the newsletter for free. It's PDF that you sent us I appreciate that. Yep. It's like a There's 21 basically events what this is it's called a family survival guide I created this for a a company that I owned a couple years ago. It's unfortunately didn't didn't stick I tried it for a year couldn't make a profit But it was basically a tactical school that we did force-on-force training With for civilians, but we also did preparation Classes as well. So this was one of the one of the lead magnets that we use for that website So it's pretty good. It's all up to date still with exception of the The pandemic section there there's a I could have updated it with COVID But I didn't want to take the time you guys all know what COVID is So I think I used Ebola as the example on this on this one But yeah, no, this is something I want you to give out to all the listeners Yeah, and the attendees of the 21 because there's some good information in here It goes it goes over what to do in the first five minutes because the first five minutes of your decision making after Any event is the most important time So, you know the first five minutes is key once you figure out what you're going to do then You roll out your plans and you have all your preps in place and you continue on so Use this as a starting point if you don't have preparation plans go ahead and use this if you already are a Prepper or whatever you want to call yourself a survivalist then you know use this and see if there's any gaps I'm like a volcano in here Hey, this is for everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not just Florida. Yeah, this is cool I like out specific for a preach example. It's a good way to start.   It's shaking at the fan power can go out for you know weeks at a time and it hasn't for them after hurricanes I think that's one of the problems with with prepping.  It works really well But you know, that's not what it's about. It's not about having bunkers. It's not about having a tin foil hat It's not about having this massive armory. Although I I would prove if you have one, but you know for the most part It's simply as you said, it's about preparing for what we could expect and you know What do we what could we have in our in our area? So you're in Florida? Hurricanes tornadoes. Well, dude straight up, you know, I've told I've talked to you about this and you know What we all just went through with the COVID stuff.  Everything was gone. The food is getting the still some food But even that was getting low the water was gone.  Now.   It's not about zombie apocalypses or or a solar flare Which takes out the grid.  Yeah, absolutely You know, there's parts of the United States that are that are more prone to certain ones obviously Florida and or along the east coast is you know Hurricane, you know, but you know, we have tornado alley right up the center of the country We go across to to California and to the into the west coast There is you know earthquakes and if you go further north there's volcanoes, so Spires him and the forest fires a brick forest fires brutal Yeah, absolutely, and we don't even have to talk about large-scale disasters We could be discussing something as simple as your home burning down. Do you have the preps to survive?  Yeah, I should at the fan. I remember we're getting into the survival community back then it was very similar to the Manisphere I found it was really funny. They had all the same forms the same They had a very similar lingo kind of community thing going on.  I'd like shooting ranges and stuff They kind of walk me through the ropes guys are professional like NRA certified instructors of firearms and stuff They're super helpful for free I was amazed at the positivity and camaraderie in that community because it was so different from the contrast that they get portrayed in the Media as these crazies a lot of them are just like good dudes It just like the one they're just kind of worried about, you know a hurricane Don't get me wrong there are crazies. There's crazy everywhere Of course, yeah, which is why you never talked about prepping Because you don't you don't want to be a target. Yeah, you don't people right robbing your house for sure Yeah, exactly So, you know you mentioned that you had enough preps in your in your home to last you at least at least two weeks Basically because water is obviously key. Yeah, if I had to guess I would say the majority that the people who live in North America Couldn't last two days Two days of going to a grocery store whether something so, you know for me 72 hours is also kind of the guideline to 72 hours without food people just got nuts, right?  We can't rely on the government for anything So if your preparation plans is to have enough food to last until FEMA comes in Your plan is is a big failure at that point. Yeah So yeah prepping is about giving you peace of mind. It's not about prepping for zombies It's it's about giving you and your family peace of mind and I'll tell you what I Start to really get involved in this from a personal perspective after I had a family, you know Once what once that that first child is born you start to realize that your your role is Is as a protector is much more than just protecting yourself? then Well, let's get into it man I know you have a whole we got that whole document we can get into this is actually a PDF We can send you guys.  Thanks to teedog here. Just go to 21 studios calm and add to your email on the newsletter thing And then you can get it and I'll send it out to that email list there about a week from now Not even a couple days. I'm gonna be next year. It's coming Thursday When's our Thursday sign up and link in the description for you guys who want to get it? Yeah, all right good So the goal that I wanted to present today is first of all, it's this is a starting point I know there's a lot of people out there, you know, the the guys who were survivalists that can live in the woods by themselves and skin skin Animals and stuff like that. That's not what we're talking about here. I want to look at The practical side of prepping that the majority of Americans will be able to do, you know So it will benefit mass will be from like really quick, right? Yeah, exactly. That's that's where I want to go for low-hanging fruits I know a lot of people out there are very prepared But a lot of them aren't I also don't want to get into specifics of gear or tools Or, you know, which solar generators the best there are plenty of content creators out there on in the YouTube world If you want to get specifics feel free to look that kind of stuff up if you do have a specific question, you know Do we have a live chat going on? There's a live chat. Yeah Questions we can pop up on the screen. Yeah, I pop them up I'll do my best to answer them But you know, I don't really want to get into endorsing a specific brand of knife or hatchet None of that stuff, right? But you should have a knife and a hatchet, but I'm not gonna tell you what kind to get So that's I like this though Let's start on some basics because most guys are not they're not prepped man You're like you're saying most most people even guys in the menace for they're not prepped They don't have more than a couple days of food and water and stuff. That's just the average American Yeah, absolutely. And and we've been conditioned that way, you know, a hundred years ago That would have not been the case, you know My grandparents literally could live their entire lives without having any grocery store because they lived on a farm They had their own garden. They they they pickled their vegetables. So they were around they had this cellar. It was badass They made their own wine. I remember my yeah, my first glass of wine when I was like 18 months old, you know, my It was a family tradition that the grandfather would give everybody a taste of this this was choke cherry It was the most disgusting thing ever. Jesus those of you from the Midwest know I could tell by the name Yeah, it was awesome But the grandpa was the same way though He was my he was famous and the family for making wine that everybody loved like when he died Oh, they were I mean, they missed him.  So this man died about five years ago.  We were to share this bottle of wine and do a do a toast to him at his grave site Damn, though, it was the most amazing thing.  No, I'm wearing a pink Polo with Cackies and your wife sitting next to you with like that guy. Yeah, the mansion did that could have went really bad really fast All right, so, you know, that could have went one or two ways if he were to Shoot several rounds into the crowd Chances are the fight or flight would have kicked in most people would have ran But there is the odd chance that they would have ran towards them and the fight instinct kicked in so Lone wolf is a myth if you if you're planning on having your prep plans You and your family alone you're you're gonna have a very hard time, especially for an extended period of time So what I would recommend anyone as a starting point is to get with like-minded people get with people that have that's similar similar beliefs of the world whether it's political or religious beliefs of the world and and Get together and create a formal group Something formal. You don't want to have anything willy-nilly where it's like, yeah, if something happens We'll just get together. No, you need to have something formal have written bylaws have a leadership There you go have a leadership structure and then practice together get your families to work together go camping together go fishing go hunting Have monthly or quarterly meetings where you actually go over your preps and hold each other accountable So if your groups minimum food is six months worth of food per individual, you know, hold each other accountable for those But there's no possible way that you could hold off any kind of long-term event with just you and your family Just imagine if you were under under siege and you have to keep guard on your on your home or your property for extended period of time You just you just can't you need to have more so one other alternative to this to those have a bug out plan Right bug out to somewhere that you think that is more defensible for a long term like that. Sure. Yeah We'll get the bug out here shortly But but yeah, even then bugging out with a group of people in a convoy is a lot safer than bugging out as an individual Yeah, you know, you saw what's going on in When they shut down interstates and they block off interstates.   What are the threats in your specific area? So right now, obviously what we've been chatting about is, you know, societal collapse Leftist riots, whatever you want to call them and um, I think that's pretty high up on my list and my group's list We're keeping an eye on that But um, uh, close number two is natural disasters. So we're we're heading into the summer season Hurricanes or or well, we've already had I think three named storms this year already, which is above average for this time of the year So, you know hurricanes wildfires This type of stuff is obviously a close second for me We said a huge tornado in Orlando too recently like massive.  It's crazy.  So um, I'm not an expert in tornadoes in florida, but I do know that that um There's more tornadoes in florida than any other part of the country, but they're small So they're not like the size that you get up in in kansas Yeah, a lot of them are actually over water. So they don't even really get counted but uh, the weather conditions in florida make it prime for For uh tornadoes for sure All right, so, you know, let me go down the list and you keep going you could have you know, the viral outbreak has always been an issue Um, now whether you believe this is a real thing or it's it's not a real thing It's it's you know viruses or viruses. They have the potential to mutate and they do every year. So viral outbreaks um on my list, so After viral outbreaks, I actually have this conventional war and um or martian law. So No matter who the president is There's always that that situation where I fear and I always have fear that they would they would misuse their their political power and have a military Inact martial law. So I guess this is called amerigheden. I think that's actually the title. That's that's Title the episode. Yeah, that's the title of the episode. It was actually a movie. I think alex jones was involved a few years ago And that's what it was about. It was about the military going door to door and confiscating weapons And you know, I wouldn't put a pass to anyone in power You know and and you know, I have a lot of law enforcement friends and I ask him this question all time And I'm like, you know, what would you guys do if given the order to go door to door to confiscate weapons? And they and they always say I wouldn't do it. But here's the situation They're not going to be given an order to go door to door They're going to be given an order to go in and get this crazy guy who's been threatening somebody with his weapons All right, so they're going to treat them as individuals and for them. It's just a mission Is this another bad guy? They're taking off the street. What they don't know is i'm not a bad guy You're not a bad guy. We're just patriots So they're going to go in and it's going to take I don't know how many times How many of these events are they're going to take until these police officers wake up The mill is always going to be as well a section of law enforcement, you know Even if it's 80 won't do it in 20 do that's still 20 a police force won't carry that shit out. That's a problem Yeah, absolutely. No, that's uh, that's a good 200,000 people probably Yeah, it's same for the military even if the vast majority of guys in the military would refuse that kind of order If you still have 10 20 that's a sizable chunk Will willing to do horrible stuff and I don't want to I don't like admitting that but if that's It's got to be more than zero that would carry out an often order like that So here's the thing about the military that that a lot people don't understand most of them are patriots Most of them would never do that intentionally, but these guys love a mission They they want the action. They they they want to they want to execute the mission and it really does It causes me some grief knowing that these guys Would do whatever it takes to to carry out that mission even though that may mean disarming patriots Yeah, you know, there's I guess this this may be conspiracy theories when you see the the delta force in operation Stateside doing things against patriots, you know, there was You know, the whole Waco situation if you recall what happened in Waco the The rumor is that delta force played an operation in that in in that So the fact that we have tier one special forces operators Going going out and and doing what they do best Which is not designed to be going against american citizens. That's it's a scary situation What is tier one, uh, special forces mean there's tiers to special forces like seals So basically the tier one would be, you know, seal team six and then delta In the army, so those would be the tier one and then anyone below that would would be, you know, the other tiers They're all badass But but those two units specifically have a lot of counter terrorism type uh type Job, so okay All right, so then we got biological chemical nuclear EMPs or solar flares, you know solar flares happen all the time and there's it's only a matter of time until It creates enough of an electrical mag Electro magnetic pulse where we're going to have issues with you know components on the planet So but those are that that's my my list and of course your list would be completely different depending on the area So if you're up in washington state, you may have, you know, volcanoes as As an issue. I don't have any issues with volcanoes where i'm at. Yeah, I thought that we know of All right, so jesus so once you've identified your potential threats The next step is to develop plans for those those threats and again that pdf document that i've provided This is a good starting point. There's there's 21 issues 21 type situations, you know earthquakes floods Looting forest evacuations all that kind of stuff is in there This is a good starting point, but come up with real specific plans of what you're going to do for each one of these events And when I say specific, I mean literally specific where what are you going to do? What are the type of equipment you're going to need? How do you and your family and your group? Muster, how do you communicate all that kind of stuff? Yeah Okay, who's involved so it's all it's the basic questions who what where when why Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and again This is not stuff that you want to be figuring out on the fly when the tornado is in your backyard This is not something on the fly that you need to figure out after there is riots in your in your neighborhood This is all you want to be able to execute on it, you know immediately. Yeah, absolutely Absolutely, which is actually the next step which is monitoring events so step three and in your whole preparation plan is to monitor what's going on in the world And I'll tell you right now a lot of us Me included we kind of live in it in a In a sphere of like-minded individuals. You got to get out of your echo chamber.  I have I don't want to get too involved, but I am a member a fully fledged member of antifa According to my social media So I have an alter ego where I am in on all this kind of stuff and I listen to their chatter and I look What's going on? Yeah, all right Not that I believe in anything. They're nonsense that they're doing but it's good to know what their mindset is So it's good to keep it a keep an eye on them, man. Absolutely. So law enforcement does this too I know they keep they keep tabs on these people, but it's you know playing into it Yeah, so before they were deemed as a Terrorist they were deemed as a gang so most of the units the gang units were involved in keeping an eye on that That's funny Yeah, I don't I don't yeah the wimpiest gang on the planet. Basically Gang of soly and and the crib the cribs and the bloods in the tifas the tifa. Yeah Exactly Rather than a red or a blue bandana. It's a it's a rainbow bandana. Yep. Yep.   I know a lot of us have Disconnected from mainstream media, but these guys will project they'll project what's going on Sometimes days or weeks in advance Follow social media obviously and then when you're out and about situational awareness, you know, simple self-defense keep your head on the swivel if you if you're familiar with I think it was lieutenant colonel jeff cooper. He had this this color code system where you should be kind of operating in a Uh, you know a yellow or an orange type situation, you know, white is basically oblivious You never want to be in a white as a as a person, you know, I wasn't a white this afternoon for about 30 seconds but uh, you know Other than that during that one specific uh task that everything else you should be Well, some of our speakers at 21 convention have actually, you know, discussed this and laid this out and speeches at 21 Uh, specifically guys who were in firearms instructing and edge weapons and stuff like that. Sure. So yeah, it's yellow orange red right? Yep. Yeah, and then and then black So you don't want to be you don't want to be in white, which is basically oblivious to the world And you don't want to be in black, which is in panic mode. You want to be under control. So, um, you know With that said, I don't I don't operate in red all the time.  Well, this isn't the order they're recommended, but you check you watch people You check for exits you find out where the exits are immediately in the building Usually they're marked by the red signs right exit exit Where the exits because that tells you where people can come from you check people in the store, you know Wherever you're around you check hands always watch hands hands hands hands hands And I've seen martial arts guys say this firearms guys It's always about I guess cops too, right? But they're always watching your hands because you can't do anything with your feet You can't do anything your arms are useless without your hands pretty much Uh, you know the eyes and the head can be misleading, but the hands will tell you a lot and if you can't see them You know, there could be a big problem there 100 is that is that uh, so absolutely exits people and hands Yep, absolutely missing anything or no, I think I think from a situational awareness perspective I think you hit it right on that. Okay, yeah Okay, so now the next thing is um, so if you just want to recap the steps So everyone's kind of following with me So the first one is identify the threats that you have in your specific area Once you have that done identify plans that you would use for those specific threats All right, then you're going to monitor the events in the world around you The fourth step is to establish some kind of readiness levels with your group Okay, so your survival group your prep group whatever you want to call them Literally my my team's just called the group.   I got it. Oh, okay, then I'll take it That's the problem, right? All right. So uh, the step four is establishing readiness levels So basically the way we have it with our group and the way it's worked out Well is there's four there's four levels the first is guarded The second is advisory and we have high alert and then we have activation of the group Okay, so you know a good example of what's going on right now with society The riots were starting, you know, was that a couple weeks ago at that point when the riots start you elevate up into a guard level All right, so the group is activated.  We have a what's up group So, you know, you send a message saying hey everybody watching this you basically just elevate your your guard Um, the minute that the riots start to continue property damage is starting to occur We elevate up higher Okay, and that that would be the next step Then if once they start to spread and this is kind of where Um, this is where we're at right now. They're spreading. There's very few attempts to actually quash the riots around the state So i'm operating and with my group in a high alert situation Got it Okay, and then the last part obviously is the group activated So if it was if shit were to hit the fan and the police were not able to handle it My group and I would actually mobilize We would go to our primary location our meeting spot and at that point we would we would kick in the plans Yeah And example that even the other day and uh, it was a lake county florida not too far from here There's a sheriff who's talking about something similar. You know, it wouldn't be group activated It's more specifically what you're saying, but he's talking about uh deputizing every gun owner in the county Yeah, every law which is which is I think very much larger scale what you're saying here But it's same thing. It's like if shit, it's a fan and you need to take care of it That's like the sheriff's job too. My understanding That's the sheriff's job to basically not only deputize if they need to but organize a militia for the county Yeah, the sheriffs are an elected official So they have a lot of autonomy over let's say the chief of police for a city police agency Yeah, so they can do stuff like that Whereas most city agencies wouldn't wouldn't be able to do that You know, they have they have accreditation standards and all this kind of stuff that they have to meet But uh, yeah, man, uh, you know the sheriff that's their purview if they want to deputize every citizen in the population They could I'm not sure how that would work You know in in the grand scheme of things and I'm not sure if being a police officer offers any additional protection Um as the average armed citizen for in terms of use of force, you know So I don't know what the benefit is but um other than maybe a little bit of deterrent for those people that are causing problems Yeah, yeah All right, so three plans, uh three plans that I think everyone should have the first one is a get-home plan ghp Okay, get-home plan. You need to figure out how you're going to get home if you travel lots if you're if you're on the road Your family is Is relying on you whether you have children Whether you have a wife or five or six girlfriends at home Whatever you're gonna whatever you have going on your situation these people rely on you you rely on them So we have to make sure we get back to them That's the first thing the second thing you need to do Is determine if you're going to stay home where this is basically where most people are at right now I would say in society they're staying home. They're they're keeping an eye on what's going on But that's the buggy in plan or what I like to refer as a home security plan because it's You know, we're not really bugging in we're just maintaining the security of our own of our own place Um, and then the last one obviously is the bug out plan and a lot of people a lot of prepers are so They want to bug out.  I got how long is that gonna last? Or down down in florida for example where The mosquitoes now would eat you alive in 10 minutes Um, so and the heat and the rain and the humidity and the sun or the weather Yeah, it's miserable. So, you know bugging out is is a last resort and too many Prepper type people are are really focused on the whole bug out plan, which um, you're missing But bug out can also mean not just the woods. It can mean a different location of your state or nearby state But that I have a plan like this. It's not I'm a bug in out to the woods Yeah, I'm bugging out to the beach is where I'm going because I have I think I know where you're going Yeah, exactly I have but I have places I can go to I have options actually But there's a favorite I have and that's that I've actually established that plan Yep, because I think it's a better location to Orlando if the rides kick off here I don't think it's particularly likely it's not like tampa mammy, but it could happen And if it really got super nuts, I would have at least the option of bugging out And doing it in a certain timeline, obviously if you're way too late, you're fucked, but Yeah, it's an option who I have and it's something I've given serious thought to I gave it More serious thought I had it in my mind before the pandemic and the minute that shit hit the fan I was like, okay, let me establish this and get ready for it immediately I never had to do it, you know, not even close, but Especially as the riots broke out the protesting. I was like, all right. This isn't even more relevant now Yeah, absolutely But going back before you even worry about bugging out you need to get home Yeah, right. So that that's kind of the key. That's where that's where your preps are That's where you have the majority of your of your tools.  There was something going on but There was literally people who couldn't get home. They were they were stuck in the parking lot Because they didn't have their gps and they had no way of getting home Um, you know, we've become so reliant on our technology that we're basically You know, we're We're useless without having it's also the main way to communicate, you know, a lot of people that I don't even have a Landline at my house. So it's the main way to communicate internet or phone cell phone I don't have I don't have like short wave radios to contact people Well, we've got to communication here in a second But yeah, so have designated meeting places with your family. Make sure you have enough gear in your vehicle That's going to last you let's say a couple days All right So if you had to if you had to to hike for two days to get back to your family worst-case scenario You have water. You have bug spray. You have sunscreen You have some of the you have Maybe some weaponry You know food, you know, we can go pretty long without food, but definitely have some water in there Yeah, and then of course you need to have plans for what happens if there is a failed communication If the internet is down if if there is an emp and and literally everything that we know no longer works You know, where do we go? So You know, one is one is none and two is one You know go by the old saying so you want to have some redundancy in here have have a Primary location where you're going to meet and if for some reason that location is no longer usable then have a secondary location Yeah Exactly. So and again, this all should be in writing and pre-established so everyone knows what they're doing And you should be drilling this with your group Home security plans. So this is the bug in obviously I like to prefer to be at home. I'm more comfortable I got my bed. I got I got my 60 000 rounds of 556 You know, is that literal? Is that literally how much? No way you have the machema? Oh, I do. I bought it great I bought it when it was 22 cents around and now it's like 45 cents around. So it's basically that's amazing Yeah, of course Don't even ask me how many how much nine millimeter I have But yeah, yeah, wow I have I have four digits of ammo, but I know that I know those guys like you that have literally five digits That's amazing. That's impressive. It's a it's a um It's an investment.  I don't think there's any states have limitations on The like the quantity there are states that have limitations of the type Like if you go to jersey with a hollow point, you're fucked Oh, even in florida, you can't use um, what is it the the fire shotgun shells?  You can't buy those apparently Oh, really?  They want how much my millimeter you have A couple boxes Oh, got it. Yeah, same couple boxes wink Yeah I love nine Yeah, well, we'll get to this We'll get the different calibers if you want and we'll discuss the advantages of different calibers But what I did want to talk about at some point is you know owning a firearm or multiple firearms ideally Is very a lot of guys don't you know a lot of guys some guys do a lot of guys don't Just some basic introduction to what should they even look for and purchasing the first let's say the first two firearms they ever own Uh, let's come back to that because I'm kind of on a thread here of protecting your home Got it. Got it.  There's a lot of technology available Force multipliers that you could use in your home security plan There's there's motion sensors. You can buy off amazon for 10 bucks That will send an alarm and they're battery powered so you can put them in the woods if that's a blind spot You put them in the woods and when someone's walking through there, you'll hear the beep Um, you know that so what are some those like the some of the basics here So that sounds pretty cheap and pretty super cost effective So how would people find that on amazon and are there any other Very basic and effective tools like that that should be good type of wireless motion sensors They're they're used for like garage doors and stuff like that Okay Yeah, a dog if you have a if you have a good dog who knows when and when not to bark They can be they can be a great asset too. And of course the ultimate force multipliers night vision So I don't know about you but uh I know a few people who have some night vision and you know, welcome to america We can own the exact same stuff the military is using And it is fun as hell. So Um, absolutely. That's that's a great force multiplier because how much would a decent pair of night vision goggles cost? well, if you just want to get like a pbs 14 which is like a gen 2 or gen 3 now and by the way for those of you're Listen to this gen 2 is plenty good You know when you get when you get to gen 3 what you're getting is more clarity, but gen 2 the the level of of Illumination that happens with gen 2 is plenty good for any situation And we're talking like under 300 dollars or no, no, no, no You're probably looking at uh, 3 000 to 4500 dollars. Damn Yeah, it'll be hard for a lot of guys It would it would be hard and again, it's it's a toy for me It's not something that I think I'm ever gonna have to use but anything cheaper than that like 500 bucks So just be pretty useless now. You can actually buy some like gen one night vision stuff for For pretty inexpensive, you know 40 50 dollars, but it's yeah, no There's there's a lot of these like a little handheld thing It's not something you're going to be able to mount to a helmet or you're not going to be able to mount it to a To a firearm for example, but it'll You are true libertarian 1776 man. Harry snatch. Appreciate it. Harry snatch. I like that Yeah So yeah, um when it comes down to Night vision, you're if you really want to do it the right way You get get a proper helmet with uh with amounts and all that kind of stuff here The 4500 bucks will get you pretty good stuff.  I actually I have a gen 2 uh pvs pvs 7 which is it's it's a little old technology I'm just thinking about the guys watching who are new to this and it's like they have to weigh that cost against You know, oh, yeah I wouldn't do night vision You're gonna do food before you do before you do what before you do night vision. There's no yeah Yeah, sure If you if you want to get into the real tactical stuff get get yourself a rifle with a white light a weapon mounted light And you can fight at night time. So yeah, the the night vision is is fun And you know if shit hits the fan, I'm gonna have a huge edge over anyone else I'm sure All right, so in your home use force multipliers use technology to your advantage and then If you really think that things are gonna be happening and there's gonna be uh, Let's say mobs of people at that point you need you start to start to stage your tools start staging weapons start staging ammunition Load all your magazines Of course, if you have kids running around stuff, you got to you got to keep that in consideration to with with safety and all but Get ready for a fight But also get ready for an evacuation So if you're overran by a mob of 500 people Which could happen those two those two guys that you pulled up there the the wife and the husband If they were overran, they would have had no chance They would have there's like a hundred people.  I heard it was between three and 500 Damn, I don't know that.  That's a lot. So dude has a 30 round mag maybe and She had I don't know like some yemen is like 22 caliber pistol with maybe seven rounds in it And I both had like such dude. They had such bad like gun safety and like they're muzzle sweeping each other You know what?  Nobody got shot.  Just basics man basics like don't point a gun at somebody.  They superimposed him in there. It's the funniest stuff But anyway, so plan for an evacuation So if you're if you're home were to be overrun, how do you get out? Where do you go from there?  So you You know 25 of your stuff you need to cash somewhere hide it Put it somewhere where where nobody else can find it You know, I know a lot of people will literally dig holes in the woods And they'll get what they'll get waterproof waterproof containers and then put a bunch of decos into their desiccant in there to absorb any moisture And they'll they'll drop ammo and cash and and food and water That is a good thing. Absolutely.  Um, so, you know, the walking dead is is a good example of what not to do in many cases, right? Yeah, yeah, all right. So we're gonna get to the bug out plan all right, so Bugging out first of all is a last resort and you only do that If you can't stay put All right, so you do you don't want to bug out because bugging out is inserting a lot of danger you're gonna deal with traffic jams You're gonna have fuel sort shortages You're gonna literally have these people blocking roads and riding in the street. So It is as a last resort and if you're gonna do it you need to have a place to go If you don't have a place to go you're adding a lot of variables that you can't control you can't control Yeah, exactly even if you're prepped to the max you can't plan for everything. So it's unknowns, right?  So I always recommend and the way we have our plan set up is we don't we don't bug out unless we absolutely have to Yeah So if you're gonna bug up by the way, it needs to be a flexible plan and you need to have redundancies in place And again, you have to have a rally point where where you're gonna meet if if the first bug up location has been compromised Okay, so again What I don't want to see people do is oh shit I got to get packed up and then immediately what you do is you start running around grabbing your stuff You should have a list doesn't have to be all be staged, but you should have a list of the things that you're gonna need All right, so, you know, I don't I don't load up an arsenal of stuff in a vehicle I have one rifle. I have a specific rifle that I keep basically oiled and lubed And suppressed for for use whenever needed and that's my bug out rifle All right, so it's a multi-purpose Fit businessman right on man. I like it. He's a twitter follower too. Sweet. Good. Thanks for watching, man Um, okay, so vehicles no ballistic protection a round the most Miniscule around a 22 caliber bullet would zip right through the sheet metal of your vehicle So there's no protection from from anything. That's a real threat Let's keep that in mind in your car and that's true for all cars pretty much past about 1980 older older cars that are protection, but only maybe maybe so, yeah Maybe a lot of people don't actually let's let's clarify this because a lot of people don't that's a myth that your car is like bulletproof It's not the engine block will stop almost any round, but the rest of the car is fucking paper thin Yeah, yeah, yeah So the movies the movies are all bullshit You know your car the car door is not going to stop a bullet super unlikely in a way that it will No, and actually I can I can I have a funny story if you want me to tell it real quick Sure Okay, so back in the day. I was like 18 a couple of my friends went out to the woods.  So we're like, yeah, it's cool. Right. Shoot your car Right. Jesus. Hyundai pony Right. Remember the Hyundai pony So he shot his car, but he didn't realize he had his window rolled down So as it went through the sheet metal he smashed the window inside his door And then the rest of the winter the dude had no window Nice. So yeah, it was pretty good. So they had no ballistic protection whatsoever Um, and again with that said is you need to Think about your convoy security make sure that you have You know a driver and someone who's going to be a defender, you know rifleman in every vehicle No, I don't have anything. I go incognito incognito. No way to follow him only a red man group Can you get t-dog info?  Yep Same thing though. Yeah Last thing I want to discuss is you should be radio communication. So That those cheap family style radios they work for this perfectly They can get a voice the voice activated ones if you want to do that They're they're like 40 bucks for 10 or something. They're like 10 bucks a piece. They're on amazon There's a bunch of them you can get Exactly and you can get I think any any brand will communicate with with each other because it's the family radio frequency Just I wouldn't use that for any super high security communications But if you're like if you're saying hey, I'm going to go up two blocks ahead You guys hold back, you know that kind of stuff is fine One more thing I do want to discuss about driving if you're if you're going to be driving anywhere It's best to drive with night vision with no lights on All right Because then you're not visible And if you can't drive at night using night vision the second best is a drive during the day Driving at night those those lights stand out like a beacon for everyone to see so You know driving at night is usually not a good idea unless you're under night vision Got it All right, so that's basically the whole prepper the whole prepper plan You want to talk about gear and equipment stuff you're going to need Yeah, there's some basics and I know firearms would be I really think every american who's uh an adult insane Is is sane should on a firearm and the founders or advocates of this thomas jefferson all these guys So for the guys who are watching who are american they don't live in you know, some commie country or whatever Canada uh Canada right Where you know, what are some of the basics with selecting the first two or three firearms they're ever going to own Hang on shotgun rifle. What should they what should they buy? What should they look for within a within a reasonable budget that the average guy can afford Yeah on median say median income 36,000 or whatever the first thing is you want You want redundancy so one is one is none two is one so keep that in mind So if you're going to have a rifle then have two rifles And those two rifles should be similar You know the ar 15 platform for example, as long as it's a mill spec rifle you can interchange parts back and forth So, you know, if a bolt carrier or something gets damaged or or You know a gas the gas tube gets loose or whatever you just basically switch out the parts So, you know, I do have parts for all my rifles But I I operate under if one breaks I grab the second All right, got it Also, you want to make sure you have checklists and you want to maintain all of your equipment So whether it's battery operated or whether it is Something that could You could spoil have this stuff on a spreadsheet develop a spreadsheet of all of your gear And the locations of the gear and anything that has a shelf life on it You're going to want to you're going to want to check so my medical kit for example I have antiseptics and all this kind of stuff. I also have a bunch of medications We'll get to that coming up, but you know some of it expires So I actually have that as a as a as a cue that We've been a more basic one is this food, right? You have to cycle through it Otherwise, I think it's old, you know stale and you know expired and stuff Sure. Yeah, absolutely. If you're if you're going like grocery store canned food avenue for sure If you go with well, let's let's talk about food since that's that's that's topic So so minimum six months worth of food per person. All right So you you need to do you need to do your math figure out how much food that you would you would need for a six month period Um, my group we have a year. So all of us have a year for per person So when my when my that's using mre's or like, what are you guys doing? Okay? So, uh, I have a mixture of Food food, but it's it's it's survival food and it's basically these these one gallon tins full of rice and beans and And different things you can actually buy got it off Costco. It was actually pretty inexpensive overall I think it was like $1,800 for you know, three or four months worth of food Well, it's not bad And it lasts 25 30 years I think but I also have a lot of the camping stuff, you know the freeze dried things Yeah, yeah, you know and I use that you know when I go camping and stuff like that But that stuff lasts shelf life 25 years, but literally I'm pretty sure if I go 30 years with it It's it's gonna be fine Dude, what I do is I just stuck up on beef jerky, man I find it when he gets uh, you know these stores locally half because beef jerky lasts a long time Like a year or two That's not a super long time to have 30 years but for hurricane stuff And dude whenever he goes half off like I'll get my favorite brand the exact kind of shit I want tastes good no msg and disgusting crap in it.  It's not perfect like rice and beans, but you can get those too I stock up on all this stuff. Hey, do me a favor text me your address So when she has a fan, I know where to get my beef jerky. Yeah, I'll let you know dude Yeah, yeah, man All right, so so that's a short term you need to have food to basically get you buy in a short term But I would recommend also looking into longer term things In terms of seeds, you know, if you had to bug out when you were in a situation seeds are really cheap If you get, you know heirloom seeds you can buy 100 000 heirloom seeds for like, you know pennies basically Dude, I think they were banning the sale ease in california recently because people are buying and stocking up on them It's because they're valuable. I wonder why exactly now the heirloom seeds There's the purpose of the heirloom seed is they're not jillent genetically modified So you could actually you could harvest the seeds out of the fruit and then replant them the following year Got it. All right So that's why you want to have them if you if you go to walmart or whatever or loas and you buy this the seed package You're going to get one crop and they'll never reproduce Damn, that's good. And I didn't know that it's good to know. All right. So now we're going down to water So you have food you have six months worth of food freeze dried whatever your deal is beef jerky Um, that's what we thought on uh, obviously storing an enormous amount of water is hard I mean, I have yes, I have a couple weeks worth but beyond that. I have little things. I have tablets Yeah, you need filtration you need ability to create water when there isn't any It's impossible to to to have enough water for you and your family because it takes roughly a gallon and a half of water per person per day Yeah under normal conditions Yep, you're trucking through the woods or you have extremely hot like there's no power now your air conditioning is down It's it's going to be worse. So what I would recommend is um, you know Three weeks worth of worth of water to get you past the majority of Of you know localized disasters and then have the capability to either filter or to To somehow purify water and you can use iodine. There's these tablets. There's iodine. That's what filtration systems Um, you know in my in my get-home bag in my car.  Dude, life straw is awesome.  It's awesome. Have you tried using it? I have not I have not I have a better one that I've used a life.   It's um, it's called a life saver It's about 120 140 bucks.  Which is amazing any virus is above three microns So I had a filter would take that out Um, okay, so going back to water. Um, you need to have some way of making water out of something Um, boiling it takes a whole lot of time takes a whole lot of energy. So Um, and and sometimes if you happen to be in a buggo situation, you just don't have the capability So definitely have some kind of filtration system Uh, the life straw brand actually has a I think it's called a family filter where you basically you take a Like a gallon of water and you put it in this hopper and gravity filters it out So you're not no longer sucking through it. Um, I actually have that too in in in a bag It might now what's the most cost-effective and cheapest way to get clean water and simplest iodine will be the iodine Yeah, I would say iodine is yeah, okay. Cool. Good to know. It's gonna taste a crap though You can also use you could you know in a long term such a situation you can also use bleach Um liquid bleach doesn't last very long But if you go to the store and you buy the the granular chlorine or the shock That stuff doesn't ever go bad So you can use a small amount of shock mix it up into your water in you know 10 part per million for examples Which is to be careful mixing it the yeah, it's very small amount You don't need a whole lot.   Uh, geez Well, I mean for body armor I know for example like when I got my first one I picked 3a was a popular one But there's also in terms of soft body armor for the chest So yeah body armor body armor 3a is basically pistol caliber. I would do a 3 plus Okay, a 3 plus gives you rifle rating for the most common round, which is the 223 round in america So if you want to stop someone shooting at you with the most common gun in in america Then you should probably get a 3 plus and everything beneath that's pretty much just handgun 2a 3a and all that stuff Exactly. Yeah, and then there's a 4 but the 4 is good for like armor piercing 30 odd 6 You know, I don't I'm not really concerned about that, but I do have four I have a set of four ceramics, but I don't use them because I mean if you need that like who's shooting at you Dude, like we have big problems if you need that if you need that shit We have really serious problems, dude. Yeah, my goals. They're never gonna see it. They're never gonna see me to shoot me Right. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Okay. So we got water. We got you have to have living accommodations so that may be a That may be an rv or some kind of trailer or maybe you're gonna have a tent or something like that But whatever you have that's something you should be planning for All the hygiene stuff that you know, the whole toilet paper nonsense that you saw with kovat It's completely ridiculous that people are going to get toilet paper. You should have that stuff Stocked up, you know, you should have it. You should have sunscreen If you have ladies living with you you want to have their their feminine stuff that they got to deal with If you have babies you want to have diapers Soap, you know, get yourself some soap Tactical soap baby It's in the link in the description man. Get your soap, bro. There you go. Uh, it has pheromones so, you know You'll you'll attract all of the uh The leftist bitches when they come to soap right here, baby. Yeah Okay, so first aid supplies you need to have the capability to handle your own medical conditions so I recommend everyone having an ifac which is Um and individual first aid kits, but in addition to that you should also be doing more in terms of your first aid supplies Um, I don't want to tell you what I have but I literally Could do surgery if I knew how to I have the full surgical kit of shit With painkillers and numbing agents.  I could totally do it Well, let's let's talk about this. So for the convention, for example Uh, 21 convention, we do have first aid kits on hand and we do have a paramedic Who's a volunteer at the event and he's available for us What I do is I ended up what I was so what I you let me know what you think about this But on amazon if you go or walmart, there's cheap first aid kits that are like trash They're 20 bucks 30 bucks for like camping.  You'd say guys should aim for if they go on amazon or to target or something or walmart If you're just going to buy a pre-prepared kit, you're probably not going to get the greatest stuff Of course, of course You could do some research on on buying stuff individually. You might get better better things But you know, if you spend 100 bucks on a first aid kit, it's going to be a pretty pretty darn good first aid kit For what most of us are are you capable of doing? Yeah, you know, we're not going to be doing surgery with it. But uh, you know One thing I threw leading though was a quick clot. So for gunshot wounds You could get that really cheap on amazon. It's like six bucks a pack or so. No, it's not very expensive It does go bad though. So you have to make sure you rotate that through Yep, and don't if it's the powder stuff do not get it in your eyeballs I'm sure yeah, it's going to stuck. Yeah, dude I'll take nothing in my eyes except water and saline Exactly. All right. So you need sleeping gear. You need clothing. Okay.   So have a couple pairs of shoes In your in your kit as well Tools and that kind of stuff, you know, depending on the type of Area where you're going to be maybe going to you may want to pack So like a toolkit where there's saws tree saws or or shovels or that kind of thing Uh communication equipment we talked with that Um, there's a lot of options for communication. You can get into ham radio. I'm definitely not an expert at that I haven't I haven't even done any research on it. There's different types of licensed Radio frequencies that you can buy a license for But you know, for the most part the family radio frequency spectrum If if you guys in your team have a frequency and it's It's not like channel one subcategory one Right like use one of the other random ones the chance somebody finding it's going to be pretty tough unless they have a scanner So again, we're not talking about anything any kind of major major communication Or classified type of communication over these frequencies Okay power you're going to need to you're going to need electricity So you need to have a battery plan think of the type of equipment that you have And what type of batteries they take and you need to have a way of having rechargeable batteries so those those What are they called the alkali batteries those things are shit They get a little bit of moisture They'll start to ooze out their stuff and and they'll fuck up your your am I allowed to swear by the way? Yeah, I go for it. Yeah, okay.  So I would spend the time buying lithium ion duracelles or or energizers You're going to get way better battery life out of them and they don't have the same Pensity to to basically corrode with moisture the more reliable. I didn't know that way more reliable. Yeah way more reliable So lithium ion or what was the other one lithium ion or some sort of rechargeable Which are mostly lithium ion batteries, too Okay, so again, if you're going to have a recharging Plan as part of your thing. We're going to get the power to recharge that do you have do you have solar energy? Do you have You know that kind of stuff.  It's pretty cool. Okay So I have a crank. Um, I have I have a tornado room. It's literally a metal room um for tornadoes and During the tornado event that you were discussing the other A few minutes ago.  Yeah, it's soup. It's backup. Yeah, it's good Yeah, exactly. All right, let's talk from the question from a viewer here Does he known is some survival books to recommend? You know, I do I have a whole bookshelf full of this stuff but I didn't I didn't actually uh make a list so I don't know do you want me to put put it together and you can somehow post it somewhere Or even it's like one or two. I know we were talking about the sas survival handbook before the show The sas survival handbook is is written by a brit who actually lives in america. It's pretty good And he wrote another one called contact. I think it's called and that and that's basically how You know the militia if you want to call it the militia would basically use military tactics Um, if need be so I think both of those books are good. Uh, the medical book. There's a doctor Just to clarify the sas survival handbook and then contact. Yes Um, I can't remember the guy's name. He was uh, he was a special forces guy from from england But he lives in virginia. I think now or something like that But yeah, um anyways We'll talk about guns Yeah, so let here's my question about guns Uh, first of all, what's the most important first gun a guy can buy for under 700 dollars? And what type of gun is it? Is it a rifle? Is it a handgun? Is it a shotgun? Okay, and let's say the budget's, uh, 700 750 750 or something like that max. No problem Just for the firearm Glock 19 Glock 19 hang on I'll tell you why because Glock 19 is going to be compatible with most of the law enforcement type Ammunition or magazines So the majority of police went away from the 40 caliber and they went to a 9 millimeter pistol Uh, you know, so you'll be able to literally insert their magazines into your weapon. It'll function Um, it's small enough that it's concealable But it's big enough that it's not a micro gun So if you had to buy one I'm going to go with the Glock 19 And you get about 500 550 bucks. Do I I paid 4.99 from my brand new gen 4 Not well now. They're more. Yeah. Yeah, of course. It's hard to get. Yeah, exactly But I love it. I have my Glock 19 is my third handgun.  It shoots every time. It's awesome And it's accurate.  I don't think that's the weapon. Yeah All right, so but it did the old guns I had though the other ones were I paid There were 300 bucks a pop, you know, she liked that there were trash I mean it was so much about her to spend 500 bucks clean and get an awesome gun that just works And I'm not saying that Glock is the best gun, you know, I have a ton of different pistols You know, I have some these I have I have well, I have a whole basically it's a firearm. I probably own it, but um First it hits a fan scenario. Glock's are tried and tested. They're they're very reliable You could drop them in the mud and and again, this has been tested all over the internet You can look at this stuff. They function really well And the main reason is there's the interchangeability of parts and ammunition and magazines that you'll run across the Well, the ammo is cheap too. You're saying because it's a nine millimeter One of the cheaper cheaper pistol rounds for sure, which is good. Why Why is it cheap? So you could buy you could buy two boxes and be okay Well, no, I mean, uh, why you know, it's cheap and okay But what I'm getting guys like one of the benefits of cheap ammo, for example, we'll come to buy more And you can practice with it. You can practice. Yeah, it's stuck up too. It's easy to stock up I know a guy who basically doesn't shoot anything other than 45 and 45 is great But I'll tell you this situation 45 is a almost a half inch round flying under the speed of sound. So when it hits It hits hard because it's big but you take the same, you know, force equals mass times acceleration That's the formula for this Yeah, and you take you take a nine millimeter round flying, you know, almost twice as fast Although it's a smaller projectile. It creates a tremendous amount of force So most law enforcement agencies with the new ballistics of nine millimeter rounds They've come a long way and I would I would stick Conversion you're familiar to bullpup Um, I don't know what that means. What's bullpup? Well, bullpup would be a rifle that has the action behind the behind the trigger What what type of bullpup are we talking about? He'll let us know here in a second. He's listening. There's a delay for them. So give it a second Okay. Yeah. So so that's what I would do for a pistol Shotguns, okay shotguns are cool. I'm not I hate shooting shotguns to tell the truth I just don't find them very fun. I own a couple and what I would recommend for anyone is Going back to the going back to what everyone else has. It's a mosberg 500 Yep, you know, you get a mosberg 500 the majority people are going to have mosberg 500s If you have to commandeer their rifle for parts, so be it That and you know, you can Tactical it out all you want, you know, because it's such a popular firearm You can basically buy all the tricks and stuff for it pretty cool Um, they're cheap too, man. I got mine brand new for 2.99. Yeah, they're cheap. They're cheap.  It's a fan. I need to kill a It's a good backup around that's right. Yeah, I don't use it Yeah, well, you also have like how many weapons do you have you want me asking? I have one one gun One 100 guns more like it. Yeah, you have you have I have several weapons You have also several weapons several several several several xx with the two on the end of it I don't know about that, but um Okay, go into rifles because I think the rifle is going to be a primary self-defense weapon in a in a survival scenario Okay, and I don't think anyone's going to argue with me If you have the capability of getting an ar-15 get an ar-15 Yeah, I know cheap me good one. I mean uh pre-built from 500 bucks, you know, psi stuff Yeah, palmetto state you can get them for 500 550 bucks ish I actually have a couple palmetto or I know a guy who has a couple palmetto state rifles and they're really reliable You know, they they make good stuff But that's not the only brand, you know, and again by cheap by twice So if you have the capability of spending more they they get a nicer rifle get something that has that has You know something that maybe has been used in war like, you know Daniel defense is the is my particular brand that I use allegedly for most of my rifles Because that's the brand that the special forces guys use now. Why are you recommending an ar-15 over say an ak-47 or an ak-74? Okay, ak-74 take it off the table right off the bat. It's it's a weird round You're never going to find that one. Shit is the found you can't even find it right now in a gun store. So Take that off the off the plate. The uh the ak-47 is an excellent round. It has good ballistics It doesn't have the greatest accuracy, but there are enough people in america that you may be able to find some support for it But let me tell you how many ar-15s there are There's a lot more All right, so if you're trying to find the ability to to use ammunition to to load up magazines and share amongst your team The ar-15s the way to go and the ballistics on the the 223 or the 556 round are devastating like Although it's only a 22 caliber round Its velocity is when that thing hits a a human target It's a devastating round the wound channel is insane The ar-15 is very similar to what the military uses right and i'm 16. Yeah, it's a civilian version. It's the same round Um, obviously doesn't have select fire. So you're not going to be doing any full auto Which honestly full auto is stupid anyways for the most part Let's clarify that because a lot of people don't know a lot about guns They think full auto is awesome and it's fun, but it's that's not the case in real life, right?  That's the way to go Accuracy is everything 556 round or the 223 round, which is basically the same thing slight differences That is a very accurate round 600 yards for sure Anything under 600 yards.  Let's pause here and blow up some other gun myths real quick for home defense And even I mean this is good stuff. A lot of guys don't know this stuff They think full auto is awesome and that that would be the best way to go and even if you could it's not Technically you can write up with an NFA license and all that tax stamp bullshit, but it's pretty rare people do that So that's a good myth to blow up What is some other you know top two or three myths about firearms? Especially for newbies that they need to learn before buying one and then starting the train and learning how to use them And take care of them some other basic myths There's too many youtube guys out there that are that are all tactical And I think I think before you become tactical and you gear up with your condor and your your tactical gloves and your Your red dot sights is this you need to learn the fundamentals how to how to handle your weapon how to break your weapon down and clean it Um, but which by the way, you should also have cleaning cleaning equipment for you if you're going to have a gun you better be able to maintain it Um, I need to look on my rem oil. So there you go Exactly, but you know, you need to have more than a rem oil. You can need some solvents and that kind of stuff That is about some reasoning. So I'm getting I'm getting there. I'm getting there So when you're talking about a rifle, you don't need to be cool to be effective, you know, buddy with the pink shirt He had a an old school a2 ar 15 probably from the early 90s That thing was freaking awesome, man Like he had a carry handle on it and everything but it did what do you have to do He got in college back as when he got in law school Exactly, he didn't have like a 600 dollar eotech on it He just had a literally just iron sights and it was did exactly what he had to do right? It was a turn So before you become cool Learn how to use it get yourself some good training There's tons of people out there that can teach fundamentals and as you progress up There's there's less good trainers, but as you progress up through the through the Your skill set you can you can become amazing. Um, would you recommend guys try to find local? Intro classes to using a firearm. I know they have those pistol classes and stuff like that Yeah, actually, uh shooting classes.com is a new website that is kind of becoming a um A congregation of firearms trainers around the country where they advertise their stuff So it's a single spot. Uh, it's actually a florida base company. Believe it or not from the space coast the guy I think it was a marine That's marine and that's shooting shooting classes.com shooting classes.com. Yeah, good. Good stuff. Sweet. Good Um, okay now going back to handguns. So with your rifle, uh, don't be all cool You do here's a couple things you do need you need to have at least four magazines All right, so it comes with one buy three more Um, and then uh, by the way, I prefer poly but steel ones are just just fine. They worked they worked the same Um, and then you need to have a sling All right, so you need a new way of being able to go hands off the rifle So you need to put a sling on it. I don't want to get into what type of sling Do your own research, but Get a two-point sling All right from a pistol perspective Where are you going to put it? What kind of holster are you going to have? What kind of belt do you have? Too many of these douchebags, um, that you see on the streets are carrying it in their waistband. Yeah All right.  So, um, I don't even like using leather holsters for that purpose Because they get over time they get loose and stuff right.  So I go 100% Would leather be even worse in florida or high humidity areas? Yeah, it's same or even it's it's hot and humid that leather's going to become Uh supple and it's going to move and and shift. So go with something hard. Go with something plastic like kydex I think this we already answered this question He's asking best tactical seminars camp schools the shooting classes.com Shooting classes.com is a good place to go depending on what part of the country you're in if you're in florida I know I know a good dude. It does this stuff Um, yeah, he's a speaker at the convention man. The convention. Yeah Yeah, check out deepwood. What is it?  These are shooting from unorthodox positions. You need a light. Yes, absolutely So any any gun that I use for fighting has a has a weapon amount of light on it Whether that's pistol or whether that is for a rifle. They are all they all have a light 100% Now I have one rifle that is geared towards night and I use that with my nods So that one what do you think about uh, what do you think about trudium night sights on weapons? Yeah, trudium night sights are good But uh, if you can't identify the target you shouldn't be eyeing eyeing the target with your sights Got it right. So you need to be able to identify the target target acquisition, which is key The night sights to be for what a low light situation rather than no light in your house Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Oh, and they also help with with lining up your sight picture So, you know, again any weapon that I any firearm that I use to fight with has night sights and has a weapon amount of light Got it. Yeah, I have lots of other guns that are just for fun, right plinking and stuff like that I don't go all out on them But if I'm going to fight with it my my concealed carry gun, you know, my glock 19 that I use for shits of fan That those are all have lights on them So here's a question if a guy buys a rifle from a r15 from, you know, Palmetto State Armory for 499 500 bucks Hell need to spend at least another 4 500 bucks on magazines ammo a sling and a light Sure about it So then if they really want to even if they get a 500 weapon that's put together, you know comes perfectly intact or You know complete. Yeah, still need another 500 bucks At minimum maybe you probably need to put iron sights on it too. Most of them don't come with iron sights So if it comes to the front sight, you may need to put a rear sight on it So yeah, if you if you budget 700 dollars for an ar you're going to be in pretty good shape Okay. Yeah, cool Well, that was the price pre-covid Now I'm sure it's going to be hard to find Yep All right, so optional firearms if so if you if you don't have the the capability to get an ar 15 because you're in one of those Socialist states or or can actually Canada can have a have an ar 15. They have to jump through a million hoops Yeah, it's getting harder too. This is the recent shooting. They're getting nuts again on guns Yeah, do a 22 long rifle Just do a 22 rifle like a ruger 10 22 or something like that It's a semi-auto the 22 round although it may not be devastating when it when it hits center mass You're gonna get out of the fight, right? So you can carry 2000 rounds of 22 ammunition Like like nothing, right? So if you really have no other options This is actually a pretty good firearm for just all purposes. You can like I said keep a thousand rounds Yeah, it's super cheap to write 22. I'm it's even cheaper than nine It's we're talking like a like a penny around Damn, I need to get one next down. Yeah, no meter. It's kicking around 25 sides around now. I think What would you need to spend? What is that little this 22? What would that cost decent one a ruger 10 22?  What what kind of distance do you get in this weapon? 100 yards pretty accurate. Yeah I'm not gonna reach out a thousand yards with it, but not making headshots at 850 But but it's a cheap weapon though with a lot of ammo you can get for cheap That's right. And and if you ever get shot in the knee with a 22, you're out of the fight Yeah, so so when it should hit the fan scenario if you don't have any other options again This is I think it's a great option Yeah, it's good and they're not banned in any state of this country So you anyone could go there and get one of them. You may not be have a flash hider on it And it were adjustable stock, but you know a wooden stock ruger 10 22 or or something like that They are they're very effective Reliable this guy's asking Increasingly good questions. So okay another one Yeah, you could but why would you? Um, so the the only thing that's regulated on an ar-15 is the lower, right? So you can and there are 99 of them are mill spec So they're all basically built to this exact same dimensions So you can go ahead and take take the barrel out put a new handguard on Put a new upper receiver charging handles You can do whatever you want with it and that's what a lot of people do a lot of people will buy a cheap ar And realize oh, I don't like this this handguard I'm gonna I'm gonna spend 350 bucks on a free float handguard or you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna put this different You know badass Stock on it and by the time you're done you spent $2,200 on it when you could have bought a daniel defense for 1500 and it'd been better So we Yeah, it's been a fun show man. We're going for over 90 minutes now time flies.   So You know, don't get scammed into spending more than you need to uh, do your research Food over guns I know we spent a lot of time on guns because that's the cool thing to talk about but get food get your water situation Ready and then more than gear. It's it really is the plan It's your plan in your mindset during an emergency that's going to make you survive or not Yeah, you were the weapon you were the tool right to win. Absolutely.  Yeah, just what we're talking about in the show man all the time. There you go soft responsibility Yep, there's a quick question to round out too. What is the Now i'm guessing this answer is rice, but what is the cheapest food you can stock up on? Just to have around right is it rice? Yeah rice and beans rice and beans long term rice the last years too, right? Even if it expires.  Well, he's supposed to eat the bugs enemy, right for the new world orders. There you go That's right. But eat the brugs brother come with the rice the Rothschilds that serve that serve plan for us Of rice and beans. Yeah easy enough. Yeah Well, yeah, the rice is cheap man.  There you go. Yeah, a little hacks man. Go to the Asian store. Yeah Here's the final question too. I like uh What do you think about a factory ammunition for your weapon whether it's a hang on a rifle versus reloaded ammunition?   Um, I know a lot of people reload their own If you reload your own cool, then you can trust it, but buying reloads.  All right. Uh, what is the most important thing? Now my guess is trigger control, you know, literally smooth trigger action and not jumping and shit with a firearm But what is the most important thing in your opinion that people need to learn about when they start learning how to shoot firearms? any firearm I mean Outside of safety like safety, I think should be an obvious one not not killing people on accident and yourself But outside of safety, which is super important. Yeah muzzle. I would say muzzle awareness is probably the first So knowing where your muzzle is at all times Okay, um, and then if the second in terms of in terms of marksmanship and accuracy Is probably grip grip grip and trigger trigger control are kind of go hand in hand, but Grips grips really important. Most people don't know how to handle or how to actually hold the gun Which means they can't deal with the recoil.  Yeah cool All right, it's been a good show. I appreciate your time. The guys learned a lot Guys get pretty engaged on this. I appreciate that guys Uh t-dog. Thanks for your time. You know, I'm gonna have you on the show in the future Maybe see you at 21 in the future, you know Have you out? Yeah, I'll be there Yep, uh guys make sure you get this, uh the pdf. I don't have that screen anymore But uh, you get that pdf we're shown early in the show You can go to 21 studios.com. That's a gift from t-dog here And that's going to go out on email in a couple days. 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