The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Matter of Facts: On The Road Again

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

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Welcome back to the Matterfags Podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns politics every week on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Go check out our content at MWFpodcast.com on Facebook or Instagram. You can support us via Patreon or by checking out our affiliate partners. I'm your host Phil Raveley. Andrew and Nick are on the other side of the mic and here's your show. Yeah, welcome back to Matterfax podcast. Nick's on the other side of the mic. Andrew was not,

Andrew was training to be a YouTube moderation specialist because apparently they need a lot of help right now. Our last stream got nuked from YouTube a record four and a half minutes in Because we violated YouTube's firearms policy by displaying firearms that you can plainly see all around us outside of a controlled area slash gun range I Mean there's a hacksaw handle behind me. Yeah, I've got a box shotgun shells back there. Apparently that's it I don't know. I, my theory is, our

discussions about extracurricular activities involving buckets of water and restrained subjects might have been a little spicy and hurt some ice feelings. And they just push the the band button and selected random reason who knows I don't know. Could be the discussion of diesel fuel. You know how the environmentalists feel about diesel. I don't know anything about environmentalists other than the fact that every time I drive by one, it makes me want to push my gas pedal down harder.

Good. So yeah, that happened. For those of you who usually watch this on YouTube, you know, that's this is a good excuse. This is a good reason to remind y'all that we also stream on Facebook, which is also pretty screwy. But also on a rum, we did go down on there, but also on rumble and rumble has been okay. You know, I can talk about pretty spicy stuff and rumble doesn't pitch a hissy fit. The only downside of rumble is rumble has not finished their API yet. So that like when people comment during the stream on rumble,

we don't see those comments. It all that only works for Facebook YouTube so far, which is frustrating, but you know, we'll, we'll do what we can do. You know what we might be able to do? We might be able to throw signal on one of our one and or both of our PCs so that the patrons can harass us mid-show. I mean the patrons can harass us mid-show regardless because we are innocent. Yeah but my phone is silenced when we're recording so I don't know about the harassment until afterwards. True but see the frustrating part of it is our patrons as much as I love and adore them they're usually

talking while we're streaming but they're not talking to us they're just talking to each other which I guess that could be the reason. I mean, part of that is probably because like we've, we've worked to build like a nice little cadre and community of very like-minded people and they actually enjoy talking to each other. They do or harassing each other. Sometimes there's some bullying. I mean, you know, the things happen. Bullying is good for you if well applied. Yes. And it is well and judiciously applied by that group frequently. One of those bullies is our merch provider. So to that family who will shall remain nameless until they want

to come on the show and out themselves as weirdos of all this weird little podcast, I'm glad they provide the merch. And if y'all would like the merch, there's links in the show and out themselves as weirdos that follow this weird little podcast. I'm glad they provide the merge. And if y'all would like the merge, there's links here in the show description. Cypress survivalists. That link is also in the show description. Our nonprofit is running our next event, June 14th. The URL is www.cypresssurvivalists.com that has three S's in a row. Don't miss one of them or you won't find us, or just Google Cyprus Space Survivalist.

And we're like, the very first thing that pops up in Google, but it's cypressurvivalist.org, and all the information you need about the lunch and learn on June 14th shall be there. Admin work done. Now, I was up- Not for the fun part. I was up very, very late last night,

because earlier in the fun, I was up very very late last night because um earlier in the week I had attempted to snatch a satellite pass from Noah 19 and Boogered it up pretty badly because I got my timing off and at the moment I walked out there with my laptop and all my nerd crap the Satellite had already passed me and was over the North Pole. So Not conducive to reaching it from New Orleans No believe it or not, I mean, you know when you consider the fact that they're like 22,000 miles up in the air and they literally traversed the entire span of the earth from North Pole to South Pole

fairly quickly you kind of only get one bite at the Apple but last night after we streamed, I got it. I managed to catch it. I was sitting out there smoking a cigar 15 minutes early. And the result of all that was. That's a nice waterfall there. Yeah. I got a, I would say, near perfect hit on NOAA 19.

Great signal strength, very, very strong. Had a great waterfall, had a great signal that y'all can't hear because, you know, audio and technical difficulties. I was running, let's see here. I was actually, what you could see on the right side of that screen was orbitron, which is another program I use to like watch where the satellite is in its orbit. So I

was really watching the satellite while recording so I could try to get an idea of like, where is it? How close is it? How good is the pass? And this, this weird little mismatch of software and hardware I put together, not anything I invented standing on the shoulders of others I've done it before me came together really nicely and I got pretty surprisingly nice images from Noah 19 so one of the things worth pointing out about the the Noah satellites 15 18 and 19 when you start talking about trying to like

receive these data packets which are images from these satellites is what you're pulling down is multiple layers of images at the same time you got visual, you have IR, you're looking at the humidity in the air, you're looking at weather events, you're looking at all sorts of different types of images. And that was the end result, which that's pretty cool. On the right side is your visit is your visible elements, which I was kind of surprised just how nice that looked.

I mean, look at the reef sections north of Cuba. That's beautiful. Yeah. And then on the left side of the screen, you're literally looking at a weather event that was coming across like North Texas, North Louisiana yesterday evening. And this was in real time. So this was like 10, 15, 10, 20 last night. And the whole reason that I went down this road, because like, you know, we've talked about software

defined radio on the show before. And when I started down this road, it really was an effort to use it like an information gathering tool. That's why I've really focused hard on like, you know, can I listen to like trunk radio systems, the area if there's public access or public emergencies going on, can I, can I pull down ADSB information so I can look for aircraft that are flying around me.

And now looking at this, it's all just kind of an extension of this idea that like that information is out there because the radio waves are wide open when they're not encrypted. And I want to know what information I can pull down and make use of that doesn't involve me staring into the doom screen, logging on to know a logging on to a website or going through a third party that I don't have control over in order to be able to access that information. This came off of a very old, very, very abused laptop, and a $35 like USB dongle and an antenna that's a pair of rabbit ears that the technology required to

do this was very, very minimal. And I would say like the hardest part is just it's it's the nerd stuff, you know, it's like tweaking settings and chasing things and reading guides and dealing with the back end of the software a little bit. Yeah, but this was the end result. I mean, I would say it's pretty worthwhile. I would say that if you were in a situation where like, you know, say your internet access was cut or prolonged grid down situation where you just kind of need to

be abreast of what's going on with the weather. This might be a really good option. Because if it looks that good, not that I'm looking forward to having to use it this way. But the next time we have like a hurricane coming towards Gulf Coast, I might fire this back up just to see what those images look like, how useful are they? I mean, it's good enough for NOAA, it's got to be good enough for us. Well, the only thing I think you're going to be missing there is some of the ground temperature data and wind speed and direction data. Yeah. Which, yeah, I mean, you're not a meteorologist anyway. So what you're looking

for is like yesterday to today's picture to look at the storm track and do your best guess. And actually going down that road. So one thing worth pointing out is like these NOAA satellites being polar orbiting, they pass, you get a pass on any one of these satellites about twice a day about 12 hours apart figure You know, isn't that interesting how that works? So like if you were if you were focused on this because you had nothing better to do or than watch the weather You could catch both of those passes and have an a.m. Pass and a p.m. Pass and a.m. Pass and a p.m. Pass and start and start overlay or interlacing those images together so you could literally use it for

storm tracking. Or you can just use it as a snapshot to say, Hey, I don't you know, internet's out or the day or the local cell towers are out. I can't get to my usual weather, you know, weather sources, AM radio is only so good. I want to look and see what the weather is doing over the horizon. This will give that time. Yeah, it absolutely will. You know, I know you said when we were talking about this earlier that these satellites are

not going to continue to be maintained long term. What kind of timeline did you hear about that? So what I heard was that I think the the period where they're gonna stop maintaining it has passed At least a current Noah has no intention of like Decommissioning these satellites in the way of like taking them down out of the air or like giving them to you know Destroy destroy commands or anything. They're just gonna stop babysitting them So sooner or later something's gonna break and they're not gonna fix it and the part of that is also because like, these NOAA satellites, like the oldest ones, I mean, they're ancient. There's a reason, there's a good reason why they're not going to maintain them anymore.

And they have been super... Yeah, the technology has come quite a long way. And they have superseded them with much, much newer, much more modern, much higher quality, much higher resolution, much better stuff. That unfortunately, I do not currently have the technology in my hands to be able to interface with them, but it's not that big of a lift. So the next thing I might be fooling with, well, but in all honesty,

so the software-defined radio program that I have, SDR Sharp, is perfectly capable of tuning to L-band frequencies, which is like 1.7 gigahertz. The SDR I have... This is your antenna technology that's limited, right? Yes, so I would have to trade I Would have to trade the The lazy little rabbit ears I have like off your grandmother's television set that's not gonna work for L band. I would need a Dedicated L band antenna. I would honestly need a small dish. I would need a an LNA low noise amplifier to be able to Not just boost that signal but also obscure all any nearby frequencies away from the feed

Like it's it's doable depending on what level of DIY I'm willing to suffer from You know like few hundred bucks down to maybe, maybe like under a hundred. Um, but it's doable to build a small L band dish and, um, to add that LNA to it. And then once I have those two things, I've already got the software. I need to record the data packet and the SDR to tune the antenna. The only thing I'd be missing actually actually no, come think of it, the same program I used to get all these images, SatDump, it has the decoding profiles already in it for the Ghost satellites and a few others.

Interesting. So, you're talking about an antenna, I mean, it would be manually aimed, it would not be like one of these nice cool little self-tracking ones, but I mean, it would be manually aimed. It would not be like one of these nice, cool, little self-tracking ones. But I mean, the next hurdle to get in, to go further down this road is L-band satellite. And that would give me access to far more satellites that are far higher quality.

That would provide me more information. And also because the bandwidth is so much different, instead of VHF we're going into the microwave range. Right. I also have the ability to get at some more of that data that you just mentioned that is just simply not within the purview of a 40 year 40 plus year old satellite. Right because there's not enough room just to stuff that data. Yeah that and here's the thing of it the the note the three no satellites I can still get at that. I'm guy got at the other night. They also have L band on them They simulcast L band and VHF

so the L band from what I've been told from other people the L band is Not necessary it's a little bit higher resolution out of those satellites, but at a certain point, your problem is not the 1970s APT data transmission protocol. The problem is the actual instrumentation on the satellite itself. Yeah, you're gonna run into a limitation somewhere, eventually.

But once you get into L-band, you have a lot more satellites up there you can play with and get imagery out of. So, I don't know I mean, well, it seems like to me like at the very least for the near term This will be usable for you in in the in near term I mean even say like the immediate the right here right now that is perfectly usable And I'm very happy to continue fooling with it

while I look at the feasibility of going, of doing what I need to do to be able to play around with L band signals. I don't know if I would make the next jump, which is S band, because once you get into S band, you're talking about a whole nother set of a whole nother set of dishes, a whole nother set of L and A's. And then you're also talking about the fact that I'd have to dump my SDR dongle because it won't tune in S band, it doesn't go high enough. So it's just one of those things where it's like, you know, every hurdle is another hurdle. I was pretty

impressed. I was able to get this one this good on the first try. But this is when you start talking about like playing around with satellites and SDR, this is kind of entry level. This is where you start because the barrier is so low. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, it allows you to learn the software. It allows you to get your feet in the door with just a very minimal investment. I think you're talking less than 100 bucks, right? Um Cuz like 35 for the dongle a few bucks for the antenna So I bought the package which was like 45 bucks for the antennas and the dongle

So even more affordable and the only thing I needed was a lot was a laptop that honestly you could have gotten out of a trash bin I Would imagine a Raspberry Pi one of the one of those mini computers would probably work as well. They work. Okay for Just like recording the data Okay, but most of the people I've seen they have gone that route They still offload the data the the wav file because you're recording it you're recording the audio But they also that way and then you have somewhere else that and that's what takes Yeah, the processing the decoding does kind of eat some processing power

But in my case like I don't know if you've ever seen the laptop And that's what takes the processing. The decoding does kind of eat some processing power. But in my case, like, I don't know if you've ever seen the laptop I use for a lot of this stuff. It's is old, dude. It's like a, it's like a mid 2000s HP. Like I bought it, dude. I bought the thing you mean it was good when you bought it. No, I mean, I bought it used reconditioned.

It was like one of those things where like a place goes out of business and they sell off all their technology We're paying is on the dollar and then Those are a good buy some oh, I think I've got like 150 bucks in a laptop. It's got eight eight gigs of RAM 500 500 gigs of Hard-drive space it's old and it's not the fastest thing on earth But it will run these streams. It'll let me do, you know, audio editing. It lets me play around the SDR.

It does lots of stuff. It's not a multimedia gaming machine and I don't care. Not for that amount of money. Well, it's not its purpose. Honestly, when I had, the funny part of this is that the cost of that laptop doubled when the battery and the power supply died and I had to replace those. I bet those batteries are not cheap. Yeah I

mean I got a couple years out of the first one but it very obviously went bad I had to go I had to go searching the internet like okay where do I find a battery for a 15 year old laptop? Yeah that can be the hard part a lot of times you can get lucky and just run them off off AC power, you know, just plugged into the wall, but that's not its purpose. And it's not efficient. And some of them won't even do that without a battery in them. Anymore. This one will, but it was very unhappy about it. And a laptop that is tied to a wall is just a tiny, unseemly little desktop desktop which it is just a really bad desktop. Yeah So anyway, all that said and done my first foray into SDR was

More successful than I thought it was gonna be I was expecting a lot more snow and a lot more just crap Than what I got out of it the first time. I'm pretty impressed. I would imagine cloud cover is going to have some impact on that. Because like if you're sitting under a hurricane, even if you were to go outside, you're probably going to have some crap signal. Because hell, my parents had satellite TV and satellite internet for a minute when I was growing up. There were times where dense enough clouds, you couldn't do anything. And that is kind of the interesting part of this is that I got the Hail Mary pass last night. The satellite went literally directly over my house,

not glancing at an angle, just right over the top of the house. So I had the perfect condition there. It was a near cloudless night. It was perfect. Like you couldn't ask for any better to run that experiment than that. Fantastic. Now, speaking of asking for things, how's reconciliation bill fails?

The disappointment. I am here for it. Like you and I were talking about before we started talking, I am under no illusions that the absolute indignation from the Second Amendment community is what pushed the House reconciliation to build to fail. But I don't know, man. Like, I want to be optimistic, but I'm just not an optimist by my nature. But I'm not going to lie. I would love to see any Congress person who voted yes for this fricking thing without the Hearing Protection Act or the Short Act, flogged in public.

I think the real reason why this didn't pass is because a shutdown looks bad for the party that's in control to a certain percentage of the public and I think there are quite a few people I don't think this is a radical statement in congress who are not a fan of trump No, that I think that might be a critical understatement to be perfectly honest Right, you know and i'm sure that The idea is oh we're gonna make him look bad every opportunity we can up until the midterms You know so we can take back as many seats as possible. I get it.

It's politics. That's what they're going to do. But Jesus fuck. I mean, come on. Why are suppressors such a problem? All they do is prevent hearing damage. They're still loud as a firecracker. I mean, my God, I personally have just never gotten over this idea that like.

My ideas on the second, maybe shouldn't are possibly still controversial, but are not unknown. But I tend to think that the words shall not be infringed are the most amazingly clear, instructive, self-descriptive language in the entire Constitution of the United States of America and the fact that we continue to have to have this argument about that's not a firearm so we can regulate it and we're not regulating it we're just taxing it and we're not taking it away from you we're saying you can't have this one that will always aggravate the shit out of me like

why do we have to have this debate over and over and over since I was a freaking child? Like sometimes I get really frustrated. I think to myself I'm like Jesus Christ can it can enough of like the boomers and the Gen Xers just shuffle off this mortal coil so that the Millennials who see and the Gen Z's who seem to understand the situation a little bit better can finally be in power and force this issue Through and say stop fooling with our guns. Leave it alone. You're not allowed to I Don't think that we will ever get the kind of Firearms regulation that you and I want which is none Well to be fair simply because I will never be able to cash, I will never be able to buy an RPG out of vending machines. I've already given that up.

I might ask him for a lot though. Oh, I'm asking for RPGs out of vending machines. No, no, no. I want to see the crazy multimillionaire makes a super yacht with bigger guns than the Yamato. Why? Fucking cool. That's why. I would really and why should they not?

I would really, really get a chuckle out of turning my Toyota into a technical. Right. I mean, it's a Toyota. It's it's kind of required at this point. If you live anywhere remotely sandy. And the best part of it is that. I live in an open carry state. You drive around with in the 50 cal in the back of my Tacoma. That would be pretty cool.

Granted, you're going to have to watch out for like low hanging power lines and stuff. But you know, that's the same as a ladder rack. So you might as well be, you'd probably be fine. It'd be fine but now I just I don't think we're gonna see a whole lot of movement from anything positive or negative in Congress right now because it's just gonna be obstructionism after obstructionism up until the midterms nothing's really gonna be accomplished but it seems to be the way the system is is designed to function at this point you mean this is the way the system is designed to dysfunction? Correct. I mean if it's the intention of how it's working then that's the design. I mean how many times have you heard me say sometimes that thing that looks like a flaw is

actually a feature. Congress getting nothing done and continuing to be re-elected is not a flaw, it's a feature to them at least. Yeah they've been doing it on purpose for an awful long time. Yeah. So the purpose, speaking of why this is not a live speaking of why this is not a live stream of so usually I'm really good about slipping at the very beginning. But, you know, I failed. The topic of the show is on the road again, because the reason we're not talking to you live and in living color

on our usual Thursday evening is because come Thursday, I won't be here. I will be at our alternate work site in North Louisiana. And I initially was willing to try, I'm actually still still gonna bring my personal laptop and that stuff Just to play around with SDR crap and like, you know if if I just feel the urge to do some so, you know social media stuff or if I want to throw some old patron episodes on to You know onto the patron feed if I decide I want to do anything It'd be nice to have that stuff with me to do the work. I would but mostly I If I decide I want to do anything, it'd be nice to have that stuff with me to do the work. But mostly, I started to get a little concerned about whether or not I was going to be able to

schedule and live and die by a 730 showtime on Thursday night because there is some small chance that we might be coming home Thursday. I don't know. Totally up in the air. There's some small chance that we might be coming home Thursday. I don't know. Totally up in the air. There's an equal chance we might stay through Thursday and come home Friday morning. There's every chance that I might wind up with like unscheduled testing tests that last later into the evening Thursday than we planned and that'd be unlikely. There's probably the best opportunity is, or probably the best chance of

snafu is honestly that I'm in a weird place at work where I do my absolute best to like fly under the radar and stay at my desk and stay in my lane. And I really don't want the executives to know who the hell I am. the executives to know who the hell I am. But over the years, I have opened my big freaking mouth way too many times, and I've proven that I'm really, really good at figuring things out too many times. So now the head of my agency knows me by first name basis. And so does the deputy.

And so do most of the other executives. And so do the senior leaders for all the for most of the divisions Congratulations on your failure. Yes my my attempt to hide Was an unmitigated failure and it probably doesn't help that like, you know in my office It'll wear the cat ears. Well that might that don't think it would help much But the other problem is like they definitely wouldn't have called on you to speak in public No, but their problem is I'm memorable You know like when you work in a white collar office and you have a beard halfway down your daggum chest and you're almost Six feet tall and you're kind of loud like I stand out like a sore thumb in that office and I'm very easy to remember

So I've become memorable So I'm probably going to wind up having to do some hobnobbing and go to dinner with all these people the last night we're there because to say no, fuck off. I have to go do a podcast would be construed as rude. And I, I don't know. It's one of those situations where like my innate desire to be a hermit is being trumped by social expectations of which my wife told me, no, you feel you really need to go and

make an appearance if you get invited. And I was like, thanks. You do. You do. You know, especially if you would really like to see them push forward those stop the bleed courses or improving the first aid capacities or the disaster response in your office. Being on a first name basis with the head honchos are usually a good way to get started on that.

Yeah. Well, for me, it just more comes down to like, you know, I've spent 12 years at this place just absolutely grinding my daggum molars about lack of technology, lack of progress, 1990s business processes and all the other crap that I've vent about frequently. And every once in a blue moon, something shakes up and I get an opportunity to push things in a positive direction. And that is always come about because I'm known because people know my skill set.

They know what they know what I'm about. I'm not I'm an open frickin book at that place. But they also know that like, oh, we want we want to do something that's automated, or we want to do something that like uses like, you know, off the shelf, off the shelf applications, technology that are outside of our organization right now. Whenever people happen upon certain topics, they usually come find me because they know I know. And unfortunately that puts you in a position of societal expectations.

Unfortunately. But you know, the end result of all that is that I get to take care of my family. So I guess I'll continue to tolerate it. But as it applies to this little exercise, I have to drive 340 miles away from home and stay there for a week, which is not like, you know, the end of the freaking world. I mean, most families deal with something similar to this from time to time. It's, it's a thing, but it's one of those moments where I get in my head. Cause I started thinking about, I'm like, okay, I am I driving 340 miles away from home, bare handed and you know, without some some party favors some extracurricular type activities on hand, just in case things go to 11.

I also have to have a conversation with myself about how much stuff am I willing to bring with me into a hotel room where the only thing between me and the maid cleaning me out from a $4,000 set of night vision goggles is the do not disturb tag on the front door and That's a fair that's and that's a really fair honest assessment The situation is like I can lock the stuff up in my vehicle Which does not give me a warm fuzzy while I'm at work. Or I could lock it up my vehicle while I'm out to dinner one evening with a bunch of people and it's sitting in a parking lot and that doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling either, or I

lock it up in a hope not response or lock it up in a hotel room. And I'm kind of in the same boat all the way around. So it's not like it's that hard to spoof those hotel room locks anyway. So especially the key card lock. So it's not like it's that hard to spoof those hotel room locks anyway, so it's especially the key card lock so it's one of those situations where it's like The answer is not bring nothing That's dumb

The answer is not bring so much stuff of such and such a value that I'd be really annoyed if it disappeared And the answer is not that I'd be really annoyed if it disappeared and the answer is not the answer has to be to what what to bring with me for my own purposes for my own peace of mind in case things get weird the answer has to be like what am I willing what am I willing to lose and what precautions are reasonable to take to prevent it from getting lost well Well, heck, look at Trek's situation. What are you willing to lose in a hotel fire? Yep.

I mean, these things happen sometimes, happen to Trek. Me and my in-laws were down in Tennessee. There was a very real possible chance of our Airbnb or whatever the hell it is we were staying at, the cabin burning down in a wildfire. I brought stuff I could stand losing. Yeah. But before we get into all that, the, oh, you know, let's just reorder these things. No, I don't want to reorder them. I had them in the order. I had them for a reason.

So the first thing I have to go over and I used to go through this exact same situation whenever I'd go to prepper camp in years past by myself. It's getting the home front ready. So like my thing is like the first thing I'm gonna do and I started doing it this morning. I'll be doing it most of today and tomorrow. Today's Friday for the audience, Friday the 16th. It's the day after we just streamed to y'all and Facebook and YouTube nuked us and we're here again. But anyway.

It's fine. So like, I'm gonna be spending a bit of time the next couple of days catching up on all the household chores, trying to, trying to get like everything in the house clean, every, all the dishes done, all the household chores, trying to get everything in the house clean, all the dishes done, all the laundry done. I'm gonna roast two batches of coffee. So Gillian's got plenty of coffee on hand. My goal for the next two days, mostly while she's away,

because she's dealing with some stuff with her family and she's at work right now, which is why we're doing this. But any time I'm not spending time with her, I intend to be kicking my ass to try to get things done here. So I'm leaving the least amount of work for her to do. So that the only thing she has to worry about is feed herself, feed my child, don't burn the house down. A good bonus.

Yeah. And she understand like Gillian is a very capable woman She's I have full full faith in her ability to manage a household by herself I have full faith in her ability But she's losing half of the adult labor in the house and the bigger so the bigger problem is at least in this household is like because of weaponized ADHD and variety of other things like I I Do a ton in this house and away from this house. I'm always busy. I don't like sitting around. I'm constantly working on stuff. So it's not just she's losing half the labor, but she's losing the half

of the labor that traditionally is like, Hey, babe, you've had a hard day work, you sit down, I'll take care of this. That's gone. That's gonna be gone for a week. So she's going to feel that impact immediately. And my goal is to give her at least, you know, so many days of we got clothes, we got food, we got coffee, we're fine. We don't, I'm trying to remove things from, I'm trying to not let things become an immediate problem for her. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. I mean, none of us want to be a burden on our spouse, especially when we're away from home.

Yeah. Because, you know, you don't like being away from home anyway without your family. So why would you want that guilt on top of it? If you got the time, you might as well get it done ahead of time. Yeah. Just makes everybody's life easier. The other thing I especially Especially like I doubt your wife is as into roasting coffee as you are. She does not roast the coffee in this house.

Right, so that's a task that she, not that she couldn't do it, but she does. Well, and she, you know how I feel about like specializing within a household? Like I don't need to know everything you know how to do you know how to do It yeah, I know how to do it enough to get by then that's as good Yeah needs to be so my time is better spent doing things I'm really good at then trying to get really good at things. You're really good at and that's what we mean going and look at things

Does she understand the mechanics of how to roast coffee? Sure. She sat out there with me to do it but she hasn't invested the hours and I've had a roast coffee sure she sat out there with me to do it, but she hasn't invested the hours and It's a scam burnt three four pounds of beans trying to figure out the timing and everything She hasn't invested the time in to figure out how to roast coffee to the degree. I have and why would she she's got me So my goal is I? Roast 285 grams, which is the only time I'm ever gonna measure anything in the metric system my bad but Just convert it to grains Which is the only time I'm ever gonna measure anything in the metric system my bad but

Just convert it to grains No But anyway 285 grams in a batch that that's for all of us drinking coffee together and with me being gone I won't be half the coffee consumption will disappear with me gone. So I'm going to roast two batches at 285 grains each, and there will still be coffee waiting on me when I get home. So that will handle that. Then you can enjoy a cup of coffee come Saturday morning without a hassle. Yeah. I stopped by the Creighton Union today and snatched 500 bucks of emergency cash out of my savings account. That is in addition to the

emergency cash that stays here at the house. And that was kind of part of what my thought, that was something I explained to my daughter, because even she asked me, like, why are you getting the cash? And I said, well, I have cash at the house and I always keep cash at the house. Cash stays at the house. And I told her, I'm like, when we would go on trips, I take that roll of bills, stick it in my luggage. And when we get home, if we didn't spend any, I put it away. And then if we did spend some,

I go take it out of savings, replenish it, put it back. You know, that is emergency cash. That is the debit cards don't work. We need gas, we need groceries cash. But on the road, it is get home cash. It is the debit cards don't work. I need gas. I need to be able to get home. I cannot in good faith drive 340 miles without emergency cash, nor can I in good faith not leave it here for my wife and daughter. So I went and got more. And I think that's perfectly

fair. I think that's a wise decision. I mean if your entire family's coming with you The the emergency cash at home is pointless. So it might as well be with you Yeah, but I I do think it's a good idea to keep some in both places Yeah And I'm I'm gonna leave the overall majority of the firearms here like all the emergency food emergency water staying here Gillian knows where all that stuff is. I Really don't foresee her running into much trouble. I'm really trying to plan for like the things I'm not expecting to happen.

And I put my brother-in-law and my sister and both my parents on high alert to basically tell them, like, look, from this day to this day, I'm not gonna be here, which means if that little lady or that little lady calls you, it's time time to be it's time. It's family time I expect you dropped you and run to their rescue like I would if I were in y'all's position. Oh, absolutely Yeah, so I feel like I am in the process of doing everything I reasonably can do to make sure that my family is something like make sure they survive because they're good. They're gonna be fine

make sure that my family is something like make sure they survive because they're good. They're gonna be fine. Oh, it's more of a sure they're comfortable. Yeah, I want them to be comfortable. I don't want them to have to worry. I don't want them to be in a situation where it's like, Oh crap, what do we do? Phil's not here. It's like, No, I'm trying to I'm trying to get as much that dealt with today and tomorrow. So that Monday morning when I point my little nose north, everything else is pretty well handled. And part of that is also going to be the fact that, fortunately,

I've been to this place several times. This is where we deployed back in 2016 when that F3 tornado wiped out my workplace. Yeah, I remember that. And it's also in the same general area as some in-laws I have that live up that way. My wife's twin sister and her family. I know the area. I could literally drive straight there without a map. So if I didn't, I'd have a map. I'd have some printed out directions. I wouldn't be depending on my cell phone. I know the route. I know where I'm going to go. I know what detour I'm going to take to get around Jackson, Mississippi because god forbid

I don't want to drive through that frickin hellhole. I know where I'm gonna stop. I know where I I know this route I've done this before I have no concerns about that. I do need to make a judgment call on party favors to bring and I'm kind of halfway back and forth between taking the scorpion or possibly taking like my night vision a arch Break that in half so it'll fit down into you know, my little gym bag that I use for kind of I Don't want to call it quiet. Yeah quiet carry Like I don't if I've got a couple of like very traditional like gun bags and those only go to the range me, too Yeah, exactly. I'm those go to and from the range.

Yeah. And I've got, I literally have a very non-script gen bag and that tell you what I can, I can lock and I can drop my chest rig and my AR like broken in half down in there and you've never know I could drop my scorpion and, um, the Merse over there with all the extra mags and the IFAC and everything, drop that in there and still have room for other stuff. I will probably wind up hacking one or the other, and I'm back and forth on which to bring. And I'll probably fill the rest of the space, honestly,

with like pouches of mountain house. I talked to you yesterday about bringing a five gallon water can and bike chaining it into the bed of the truck, just to make sure it doesn't grow legs and walk off, so that I've got five gallons of water. I've got some emergency food But even as I say that I question if that's even necessary because like If I bring mountain house, I have to bring away to boil the water No, you don't

You can cold soak mountain house takes guys over for a few hours You have the works well But the other the reason I'm talking myself out of that is because I already keep a fair amount of water in the truck You're probably from the Tacoma is not unique in this a lot of trucks have like that storage area underneath the back seat Yeah, mine's full of tow cables and stuff. Yeah, And then all that crap is in my toolbox in the bed. Everything that's underneath those seats is like, you know, the jack and those tools and everything. And it's emergency roadside stuff.

It's the jump box. It's, but every single square inch is packed around all that stuff with extra water bottles, just little, you know, 12, where are they 12 ounce water bottles, something like that. And then I've got 20 ounce Camelback brand, the BPA free water bottles. I've got those and all four of the doors because I got tired of always, I used to keep like just regular old disposal water bottles in the doors in

case one of my pastors or my wife or daughter would get thirsty, there'd just be some water right there. And I stopped using disposable water bottles because I hate using disposable water bottles. So I got refillable ones. And whenever somebody takes a sip, I just say, Okay, that one's got to go in the house. It's got to get cleaned and sanitized and refilled. And even if I'm dumping out a bunch of water, I don't care because my thought process is okay, well, my wife drank out of it today. If I happen to have my mom or somebody else in the car tomorrow and she drinks out of it,

I don't want people crossing, taminating stuff. So I'm just gonna... You don't want to spread it. You know, if somebody's sick or whatever. Well that, and that way I can comfortably tell somebody when they say, oh, whose water bottle is this? It's yours. Cause you're the only person that's drank out of it

since it came out of the dishwasher. So it's just, it's more for the comfort of the next passenger to know you can get into that if you need to, but I've got a fair amount of water and I keep a couple of mainstay rations in the truck all the time anyway. So I've got enough water and food to make it a couple of days, just stays on board the truck at all times.

You know, as much as I don't hate the idea of mainstay rations, them compared to a nice warm pouch, pouch a mountain house or even a nice cold pouch a mountain house. If you feel a lot better mentally with the mountain house than you do with the mainstay rations. True, but I'm also looking at this from the perspective of the literal only reason I would open those up is if there is no other food available. Oh, yeah. And if I'm in a situation where everywhere in the town I'm in, there is no food available, Phil is done with this work trip and I am driving home because there's no freaking food. frickin food. So that's really what I'm looking at. I have been known to crack into a pouch of mountain house just because I don't feel like eating what restaurant is open.

That's the good thing about having mainstay rations though, is that you will find you don't you will find the motivation to go find something to eat. But yeah, I mean, so yeah, I mean, I guess I don't really need to bring food and you know, food and water. I've already got probably got probably not more than what you already Yeah because I mean I have I have enough to make it a couple of days and Like you know, we're talking about earlier like I'm gonna gas up every time I hit a half tank as soon as I pull into

town I'm gonna top off a Full tank of fuel in the in that truck out there if I'm gentle with the gas belt will get me about 400 miles is 340 miles so like even if I can't within striking distance a home worst case even if I can't get all the way home I can get close enough to either walk the rest of it out or have my parents or have my brother-in-law or my wife somebody come pick me up say hey I'm conked down the side of the road right exactly you know and I think that you do have to post or put some, I'm gonna

call it sane limits on yourself. Yeah. Because you can get kind of carried away. I mean, you've got a pretty good medical kit in your truck from everything we've talked about. You've got your, you're probably your, a little bit of an EDC medical kit. Well, I mean, that you're going to be tossing in your, in your suit. To be fair, I've got two medical kits in the truck. I've got the blowout kit that's up on the roof and that's like the, oh shit, I'm going to die kit. And then I've got the boo boo kit in the bag behind the back seat. That's like band-aids and Tylenol and Benadryl and ibuprofen and Cobang.

And just it's boo boo stuff. And then I've got a smaller boo boo kit in my carry on that stays in my overnight bag. So like part of part of what I'm butting up against Nick is that my normal every day I am just driving to work. I have the boo boo kit and I have the I have the blowout kit. When I go on a trip where I expect to be gone overnight, I bring my overnight bag. That's toiletries hygiene It's a bar soap because yeah, I refuse to go anywhere without my own bar

So I've been in places way too many times where they give you this tiny little wafer of shit And I'm not I am trying to wash my body that soap is generally crap. Yeah I mean the soap I bring on trips is dial so it's not exactly like, you know, it's not nice But it'll get the job done and the reason I bring dial it's reliable well but and if you throw it away who cares exactly so I mean it's my norm my normal level of oh I'm gonna go out of town I bring these things is already I'm gonna have emergency food I'm gonna have emergency water I'm gonna have medical stuff I'm gonna have to have your daily care I'm gonna have emergency food. I'm gonna have emergency water. I'm gonna have medical stuff I'm gonna have to have your daily care. I'm gonna have a tire inflator because it lives in the truck

I'm gonna have a patch kit because it lives in the truck and never comes out I'm gonna have a jump box. It lives in the truck. You see a theme developing here and I have to remind myself of that like The question of what to bring is what do you feel like you need that isn't already on board or isn't already going to be packed because that's just what you do every single time. And the only answer there is that the things I don't usually bring in the truck is it involves leaving in a parking lot outside my workplace is I don't usually bring my firearm that will that will have to happen. At this point is more a question of like, do I just pack a handgun and like a couple of spare mags? Do I bring the scorpion? Do I go grab the AR? Because at that point, it's all going in the gym bag anyway, it doesn't matter if it's the air or the scorpion. It's

just a question of do I want commonality of ammo? Everything's going to run off nine mil or do I really want to bring five, five, six either way? Do I really expect to have to need it? No, I suspect it's going to sit. It's, it's just going to sit. If I suspected I was going to need that much hardware, I wouldn't be going, I wouldn't be going. That's if I had a choice. People kind of giggle when I put it that way, but like that's kind of always been my point of view is like if if the answer to the question is I feel like I need Some serious crap to go someplace. I don't need to go there that bad

I just or if you really need to go that way there that bad you're going with friends who are also in kit Yeah, and I'm also going in with like no no worries in my heart or mind Oh, I don't know if I want to be seen with this like no I if if if we're being seen Yes if it was a situation where like I had to go for you and like get my wife or get my daughter and I was Going into a bad situation to get them. I am cut. Yeah, we roll Yeah, I am coming in like I am about to invade Panama like there is a zero percent chance I'm worried about what this is gonna look like or oh

What if the hotel mates deals my gun because it will I'll be sleeping with the stupid thing at that point yeah, so this is more of a I Think Honestly, I think what I usually bring is probably going to be OK. I'll pack the Scorpion. I'll pack the MERS. That gives me a 20 round mag and 330 round mags and two mags for my carry gun because that MERS also has two CZ75 Compact, the 15 round mags. Loaded with hollow points. It just stays in there all the time. It's got an I've got another I pack in that bag. All my emergency roadside stuff is already there. I think I really just need to bring like my work backpack,

my personal laptop if I just feel like having something to foots with. I think that's a good idea. Yeah, I go back and forth on that too, because it's just one more bag of crap to haul around but my problem is like I am such a hermit on work trips like I literally I go I go work and then I go back to the hotel room and Then right and never underestimate that just the entertainment value of it Yeah, and that's probably the reason you're gonna have a few hours at night where you're by yourself I mean

Depending and that's kind of what I'm wrestling with is like, I could wind up having to go out to dinner, having to go do, you know, I don't know. We're part of my hesitation is Nick is that what we're, what we're doing up there is the continuation of operations drill. So this is like a simulated, you can't go into the office cause all hell is broken loose in this case creatively enough. Thank you to our Coop director who he and I have kind of become friendly because he realizes the stuff I'm into. And he's also kind of a low key prepper and prior army. Good. Also has a beard.

Yeah, there's a lot of commonalities there. But anyway, but this scenario he cooked up was like massive protests around government buildings, IEDs found under vehicles in the parking lot next door to our workplace. So they are suspending operations and we're deploying to the alternate worksite till things cool off down here. That is the scenario we're operating under. Interesting. It's one of those situations where we're going up there to determine are all of our systems and applications

going to work as advertised, and we're gonna be able to run full operations from up there once the staff gets there. The problem with that is we haven't run this, we haven't run this exercise since before COVID. It's been five years. There's a lot, there's a lot of stuff that has changed in the last five years. We have a lot of new applications online.

We have a lot, a lot of things. I mean, hell, our entire data system, our entire data center has moved since then. There's just, there's so much that has changed and there's so many things that could go wrong. There's every possibility I could go up there and be bored. Nothing works. Well, but there's every possibility. I could go up there and be bored.

Everything works fine. I get all my testing activities done in like two or three hours. I spend the next two days with my thumb in my freaking behind bored because everything worked and there's every likelihood that nothing will work. Everything will blow up. Everything will catch fire and we will be troubleshooting crap with guys from DC and Kansas City literally all freaking day for the next three days. I don't know. I don't know I

Would bring it with you just because I know myself I do not handle being bored for three straight days well Would not be good for me. I will get into some shenanigans. It's not no offense. You would have sucked in the military. I Would have caused look my grandpa is exactly like me and at one point he stole machine guns during during an exercise because he got bored You okay because apparently So apparently when you're when you're on a field op doing op for Apparently you can get away with just stealing the enemy's equipment. Well first first of all, it's not referred to as stealing It's referred to as tactical acquisitions Sure, he tactically acquired a truckload of machine. Yes, because as op for that is your job is to be a miscreant Yeah, which it sounds like he was. Oh

Yeah, he definitely was also he was a he was you would like him you and him would get along pretty well He used to he drove trucks in the military in the army and he was over in Germany during the Cold War He said apparently those deuce-and-a-halves can get up to about 85 86 mile an hour if you take the governor's off and you do eat the engine a little bit Yeah, if you take the governor off and then you pinch the wastegate tube shut on the turbo take the governor off and then you pinch the wastegate tube shut on the turbo. Mm hmm. I not, they get going. Not, not that I would know from personal experience comma, however,

comma let's say that, um, with a, with a, with an experienced light wheel mechanic who is willing to bend some rules, they can do things that they could do some things that am general had no frickin idea they would do. I am told on a mountain pass at true top speed, they are shockingly uncomfortable to drive. Oh, dude, doing doing doing 70 miles an hour in a deuce and a half feels like being strapped to the front of the DeLorean in you know, back to the future. Like, you don't know if you to the future. Like you don't know if you're about to die.

You don't know if you're about to go into orbit. You don't know what's about to happen. I mean, at a certain point, let's see here. I think the highest I ever read one of those engines was like 3,400 RPM. And at that, at that engine speed, it sounds like the valves are about to tap dance on the hood, like it's probably cause they are. Yeah. You know, you just keep, keep, keep pushing and keep pushing. Sounds like the valves are about to tap dance on the hood like it's probably cuz they are yeah You know you just keep keep keep pushing and keep pushing but anyway

this is why I told you on the last episode like if I ever had a legit piece of farm property I'd get a deuce and have just for the nostalgia because Just good God Almighty That was a fun vehicle to rag out you couldn't I mean you had to you had to really seriously miss you miss you use a mistreated to break it You do yeah But I mean it you could slap the thing upside the head like a biker chick and it would just take it in grin and say You hit like a punk There's a machine shop near me that has a has one of the multi-fuel deuce-and-a-halves that they've rigged up for their company truck

It's just stupid It's atrocious. It's it is atrocious and they painted it up in the silliest possible way If I remember I'll grab a picture next time they drop. What the hell else are you supposed to do with the deuce and a half? Make it a bigger spectacle than it already is It it it's a spectacle. I'll give them that So I guess to kind of round this out, I feel like the things I just normally bring on trips are going to serve me very well. I am doing everything humanly possible to leave my wife and daughter in the best possible position while I'm gone. I don't want them to have to struggle and I don't want them to have to worry about this didn't get done or that didn't get done. Like at this point, my, my, if I have any concerns, it's for the,

it's for those like black swan events, I can't predict, you know what I'm saying? Like there is this thing with her mother that is still kind of hanging over the family. That's still in motion. It's still just, things are still happening with that. And I'd feel always as a fan, and I would feel much better if I didn't have to like punch out of the cockpit and leave her here While she deals with that by herself because I know if things go to 11 Those are the type situations. I'd be there to comfort her. All right be there to backfillers be like hey, I got Piper You get out of here. I'll see you tomorrow like I'm not gonna have,

I'm not gonna be here to do those things. And- Well, fortunately she's got your family that's in the area to fall back on. True, but it's not, but it's not me. It's not the same. Oh, I fully understand that, but you know, it's the realities of life.

Sometimes you just have to, you have to risk that. Yeah. And other than that, like the only thing that really, the other thing that is a, it's always a serious concern of mine, but it's just, it, like I said, it's the black swan event, dude. What if some, what if, what if there's a car accident? What if somebody falls and breaks an arm? What if, what if something happens? And even if it's nothing I could have prevented, I could have at least been here and not five hours away when it happened. I could have been here to help deal with the fall

out of it. I mean, those are the things that are going to worry me literally until the minute I get back home. Oh, absolutely. So, I mean, even when I'm with my wife on vacation, I have worries like that. Like, you know, my house got a lot of trees around it. Sometimes we get storms and I'm gone. Am I going to have a roof when I get back? Is my house going to be flooded? You know, I think you're always going to have those concerns, but you're doing everything you can to set yourself and her up for success.

Blacks want events by their definition cannot be predicted or mitigated. I know. Even as I say it, I know that's the definition of a Black Swan event is you can't predict it, but those are, I guess what I'm saying is like, as I go through the motions this weekend of getting ready to be gone for a week,

just like we're doing right here, originally I was gonna say like, yeah, let's do the stream. I'll be sitting in the hotel. I'll be bored anyway, you know, it won't be a big deal. And then I was like, no, let's, let's go ahead and get one more thing off my plate now so that Yeah, it does unless we're down. And that's, that's a lot of what I'm gonna be doing for the next 48 to 72 hours is just every little thing I can get off my plate. Let's, let's get it off the plate.

Let's not leave it for later. Let's not let it be. Oh shit, I should have done this, you know, a couple of days ago. Let's just burn myself down, put in some extra work. I got to schedule a wash in my car and vacuum it at some point this weekend. I got I got a list. my car and vacuum it at some point this weekend. I got, I got a list of, I have a laundry list of things to do starting with the laundry that is turning on the other side of this wall. But you know, I just, I feel like, I feel like my goal right now is to prepare the family from,

for us to be divided, which is not something we normally do because, you know, we're very tight knit family. We're, something we normally do. Because, you know, we're very tight-knit family. We're usually together. The furthest apart we use yours when Gillian and I are out running errands and Piper's here at the house, and we're 10 minutes away most of the time. Yeah, it's understandable to have some reticence about that because you're used to being there all the time. But you know what? Odds are it's probably gonna be just fine. Probably will be. And you've got yourself, you've got her set up

for success as well as you can. You got the insurance, you got the insurance and the food, the spare emergency cash, you got family and friends around. Not much more you can do other than drag her with you and make her take time off work. Yeah, well that was the other conversation that was had was that if this was happening next week when she's off or when she's off school for the summer, yeah just come with. Yeah then her or my daughter would have just packed up and come with me. I mean they can hang out in the hotel, go bum around Shreveport, do whatever but. Oh yeah

they'll find something to do. Yeah but but as it stands, this is kind of looking like this is the way it's gonna be. Yeah, well, you know, enjoy it I guess. Hmm. Break the network. Thanks, Nick. I mean that that is our goal is to break. If something's gonna break, let it break right now, right now but yeah best to break it in testing for sure yeah i don't know i i'm just waiting to see what wait see what a bucket of fun this is gonna be well worst case you could always quit i like money don't we all and if you know where that quote is from we can be friends and if you don't then your childhood was awful Yes, it was all right, I have no earthly idea what we're gonna talk about I was about to say next week But it's not next week. It's like in two weeks next next. Yeah next next week. We'll figure out something We have lots of who knows maybe the government will do some silliness and we'll have a new topic

Why do you say that like it's a maybe? Like that's all the government does is silliness. It's more of if they do silliness that's worth us talking about instead of just general silliness. Oh, I see. So there's like a certain threshold for silliness that arouses our attention.

Right, like the government forcing the pipeline workers to sweep the road every three hours that they cross with their machinery where they're putting in that gas pipeline from us shutting down traffic for a half hour. That's just your normal generic silliness. You know, Nick, I try really hard to like stick to being a happy little libertarian and every now and then you say something that just makes me think nah screw it anarchy's the way burn it all to the ground I tell you man sometimes I wonder sometimes I wonder but you know what I like being able

to call the cops sometimes granted the only times I've ever had to call them they showed up 45 minutes late. Still was nice they showed up. Didn't do any good. That might be the topic for next week. What to do when the cops are 45 minutes late? I was thinking governmental silliness but you know. Oh we can do that. I don't know.

Oh you know what's interesting I meant to mention today and I almost lost it. Apparently they're finding some additional pieces of electronics in solar panels coming from China that can function as a kill switch. Oh boy! Which makes me wonder about that power outage on the Iberian Peninsula that seems to have come from their solar fields. power outage on the Iberian Peninsula that seems to have come from their solar fields. First of all, this is Phil's shocked face. And second of all, Jack Greaser built in California. Winning! Absolutely.

Oh, God almighty, how bad is that that I'd rather buy something from the Froot Loops in California than I would from the Froot Loops in China? They got some smart tech folks in California, man You got to give them that now you just make me wonder if my holos on on my shotgun is gonna blink out of existence When the CCP gets ready to move against us Probably not otherwise they'd already be doing it against the Ukrainians. Ah, be my guy some point Holosun is now a combat proven optic. Well it is I mean. I'm gonna start taking notes because apparently I think we just figured out a

whole bunch of stuff to talk about. Sounds like a plan. All right matter of fact we're going out the door y'all are watching this today whenever today is that this gets scheduled for but we're not here But you're welcome to leave your comments. You're welcome to leave reviews on the podcast. You're welcome to harass us on social media I love all that. I love hearing from y'all But most of all I look forward to the opportunity to make Nick shake his head in disgust It's something one of you has visited upon us. It happens every now and then. It's always a lot of fun.

It's a hard bar to hit, man, but people will hit it. Don't make me call Eddie. Good night y'all. Be good. Good night everybody. I'm going to be a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a

little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a I'm going to go ahead and get started. you