The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Matter of Facts: Things Everyone Should Know

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

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Welcome back to Matterfacts Podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We talk prepping guns and 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 Rabelais, and my co-host Andrew Bobo is on the other side of the mic, and here's your show. Welcome back to Matterfacts Podcast. Andrew's not around. I had to get Gillian to pinch hip for him which kind of works out better for me because I get a much prettier co-host to look at while we have a conversation. You say that every

time. Andrew's a pretty boy. Andrew's not pretty and I don't think he's going to be upset about me saying he's not pretty. No in fact fact, I think it's funny to say, when we were on the camping trip, we've told some people this, and Andrew, I've told Andrew this, from behind, the two of you look very similar. You both wear hats, you have the same build, you both have beards, although his is, I mean, yours is longer. But but from the back I can't really really tell and there were a couple of times on the camping trip where I either reached to grab your hand or touch your butt or I turned around in the cave and thought it was you and it was Andrew and so there was a couple of times where I was like oh shit that that's not my husband. I can't grab his butt. Although I'm sure Andrew would have liked if I grabbed his butt. But it would have made things a little awkward. Well, it made it awkward for me

because I was so convinced, like just looking at the two of you walking next to each other. I was like, damn, I didn't realize how much alike you look from behind, especially when you both have on your hats. So there was a couple of times. Actually, there was a few times where I was like, oh, that's not my husband's butt. Oh, that's not my husband's hand. Oh, I probably shouldn't turn around and try to get into his arms. So probably because of that and because it's just fun to mess with you about it, he texted me, like like i don't know

a couple of days after we got back i was like hey dude where'd you get those plaid shirts you were wearing no oh great i sent him a link to him he's gonna mess with me at prepper camp i see it coming. Well, you know. I don't know. I'll have to be very diligent before I reach out to touch his butt. What if you just touch the beard first? Because that really does separate the two of us. Well, I'm just going to have to tell you both just turn around. I mean, you don't walk the same, but I'm not as observant as I probably should be. So especially when you're in a cave, that was just a little weird.

I was like, oh, you are not my husband. Anyway. Anyway. So this is a topic I've had kicking around for quite a while, honestly. And like Andrew and I, I don't know, we always find our stuff to talk about, but I thought this might be a good one because like, you know, having been with me for 19 years and been married to me for quite a while, like one of the things that frustrates me to death is you, I'm sure you've heard me say like, that should be common knowledge or that should be common sense. Like, there's no reason I should have to tell somebody that. Everybody knows that. And people continue to frustrate and surprise me with the things they don't know. So I thought this would be a topic, you know, like what things out there, I mean, I guess you could couch this in the world of preparedness, but so many of these things, to me at least, they feel like adult. You know, like as an adult, there are things you should know how to do and a lot of

those things I find are things that typically today get referred to as prepping but to me it's like no if you're just a functional adult you should have been doing these things a long time ago and maybe in the course of talking about some of these items you can help me figure out like why people stop learning these things okay so. So what is your first item? Well, honestly, the first thing on my list is probably one of the most basic things. To me, it's like you and I have made a concerted effort to have enough food stacked up that if suddenly the grocery stores disappeared off the face of the earth, we're going to be the last people probably within 20 miles to go hungry. You know what I'm saying?

We always make a point of having extra food. We may not always have everything we need. And that's something honestly, I could probably get better about is keeping a better, keeping better track of what specific items we have. But it's not as if we're going to go hungry. Well, first, I think it's not fair to say that we're going to be the only people within 20 miles i think there are a lot more people in this lifestyle around us than we know especially in south louisiana i hope so i hope so too but i think you you're dealing in absolutes again and i don't think that that's fair i do that i just think back to like hurricane ida the number of people that like, I don't think you can count New Orleans. Well, no, I was talking about the people that live around us

that were like, oh yeah, I've got like two bottles of water and a couple of bags of chips to get through Hurricane Ida. Or then the couple that we had to run a gallon of water to because they had no water at all when the water pressure dropped. i mean so after the great depression and then once america really started to get back up on its feet people forgot or they died out and they they we've really never had food shortages and we've never had to stand in line for a piece of bread and a bowl of soup. And so that saying of hard times make strong men and easy times make weak men. Well, we've been living in an easy time for a very long time, I would say, at least since World War II, we've been living in an easy time. And so people, they don't know what it's like to not be able to go to the grocery store,

not be able to afford, you know, food or just the daily things that they need to help their family stay healthy and raise a family. I think right now in our economy, I think a lot of people are feeling it a little bit. They're feeling not being able to afford groceries or diapers or wipes or certainly not going on vacations. You know, they're feeling some of the strains of being in this recession, but it will never, well, for them, it will probably never get back to the Great Depression days. And, I mean, I'm not suggesting that it won't, because I think that's always an outcome that can happen. But in this day and time, it's just, it's not something that they will ever really experience. You know, they'll feel the pressure

of it and I think some people and families that are lower income feel it especially if they don't have government assistance they feel it or and or using are using government assistance correctly, they will feel those pressures and it will be hard for them. But I think that's why people don't feel like they need to have buckets of food and water storage and all of the, you know, backups to the buckets and backups to the backups. And because one, they don't believe it'll ever happen to them. And two, they just don't know what that's like. And they don't have the common sense to, well, and they also trust the government is here to help and that the government would never let that happen again, you know.

And so they don't see the necessity for that. So it really is just a story of like times aplenty. It's the grasshopper in the end. It's absolutely times aplenty. And even though it gets hard and there's pressure, it's, you know, we go in waves in this country. It gets really hard at some, you know, for four years and then it lightens up for four years or it gets hard for eight years and then it lightens up for four years or eight years. You know, it all depends on who's in office and what and i understand that the president doesn't have you know it's probably i don't know i'm not really good at statistics or or math but i would say 20

percent the the the president has anything to do with true economics in this country you know it's who you're voting into congress and um you know all that stuff but i mean since you open up that can of worms i will say that like with the economics and the finance background i have i believe that a majority of the the ebb and flow of the economy is really driven by speculators in stocks and futures markets, but those same speculators are driven by current legal policy. You know what I'm saying? So like if the president comes out tomorrow and says, I'm canceling the Keystone pipeline, that in and of itself does not affect the cost of oil but it does make speculators freak out and they drive up the cost of a barrel of oil so it's it's one of those things i've argued

with people that say the president doesn't control the cost of gas and i'm like control no influence absolutely well yes of course influence and i guess that's really what i was trying to get at but same thing with the cost of a box of ammo like if or a gallon of milk yeah if the if the current if the current political leanings make it seem as though there might be incoming gun you know gun regulations then you can you best believe that the cost of guns and amber are going to go through the ceiling and that's not because the president said make guns more expensive it's because the market reacts to the perceived the perceived leaning you know but neither here nor there i was going to start this episode off by saying that the presidential debate is going on right now and i cannot think of

anything i would care right now i don't know if it's right now or not i i know it's this afternoon this evening i am not upset about not watching it i could not explain to you i couldn't explain to you in clean language how little i care about i only want to watch it for the entertainment aspect i really do i think it would be really entertaining to watch these two men one who is a vegetable and sadly so. And then the other who, I don't know how you even describe Trump. I used to call him a blowhard. Whatever that means. I think if Biden is not doped up or sped up,

or sped up, if he's not given speed or whatever he's been given to do these types of shows, or if you even go into the tinfoil hat of he has a doppelganger or somebody, you know, a body double that goes out and does these kinds of things, going up against Trump, who is well-spoken and fast on his feet and has great comebacks. And, you know, I'm not I'm not necessarily a supporter of either either men. I do have my opinions on which one I would rather see in the White House. But I do think that I'm either I'm either going to tune in and watch the the hour, or I'm going to just catch the reruns. To me, watching the presidential debate feels like watching a fistfight in an old folks' home. And that's not that far off from what it is.

It's not far off, considering who is running this country. And not only is he a joke to the rest of the world he's a joke to his own party well he i absolutely he's a joke to his own party um and i you know talking about common sense the blinders are on for so many people that still support this man he he really should be in a home somebody comes and gives him his food and medicine every day he should not be running a country we are a joke i mean america has been a joke to the rest of the world for quite a few decades now but um at least under trump i can see we we could get back to some powerful ways you know i think we could probably reclaim some of the the power that america had at one point but right now america is such a joke well i i would i would argue that

our president is probably already in an old folks home and being given his ice cream medication on daily basis i don't believe he's running the country no no no he might i don't believe he might be standing in front of the microphone yeah he's definitely the face but he is not no absolutely not and i don't believe that i'm sorry you got me down this this isn't the uniparty episode we could have talked about that where i just ran rave about how you know the Republicans and the Democrats, two sides of the same coin and that whole thing. But, okay, so food, water. Basic necessities. Yeah.

And, you know, talking me through it the way you have, it makes sense that, like, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, like, that really probably was about the last time that people on a large scale faced hunger in this country. Like, I'll be the first to acknowledge that there are still to this day people who are dealing with food security issues, even in this own country. Oh, gotcha. And the one thing you said in the course of that conversation talking about the people that are feeling it, I think probably the one group that, the one group that are feeling it that most people probably haven't thought about, they're the number of savings accounts that have been drained. There's a substantial portion of the upper middle class in this country that is unable or unwilling, one or the other, to adjust their lifestyle for the current economic realities. And they are burning sticks of their house to stay warm in the winter like they are they're they're cashing out their equity they're cashing out their retirement they're doing everything possible to keep the vacations going and the disneyland going and

you know eating out five times a week they're doing everything possible to keep that going until the music stops and you and i you know like we work we're you're more plugged into it than i am but you're very plugged into like the local a lot of local groups and everything and by the way for anybody that has a wife that loves to facebook snoop people encourage that that is the greatest source of local intelligence i've ever seen in my life. It really is. I mean, I'm in two mom groups on Facebook. And you get all the tea. I do. I get all the tea. I read all the posts. I'm sure I don't read every post. But, you know, from which husband is cheating on which wife to who stole $30,000 from one of the private school PTAs and which, you know, and, and his, and her,

her police officer husband, who is also in the financial, um, he's a financial investigator for the parish, by the way. That's going to go over well. Yeah. And so, yeah, I get all the tea, but it, it, it also, I also get a lot of the, I see a lot of the sad stories of, you know, right now there's an effort on one of the mom groups to help this single mother, four children. I don't know what happened to the father of the children, but she's working, can't make ends meet, kids are starving. And so they've put together this whole resource to go drop off food clothes necessities necessities that this woman needs and so that's a good thing that comes out of these groups if you can filter out the ones that are real and the ones that are not just scamming people out of money because they don't want to get off the couch to go find a job or, you know,

but we'll wait before you keep going. Um, what I start when I start to bring things to you is when I start to see multiple posts in a week of things like that. Yeah, this person wants to know about consolidating their debt. This person wants to know about getting a third job as a teacher. This person wants to know about, you know, legal fees that if they were to do this, what would happen? And so when I start to see a lot of these women posting, getting, trying to get information from, you know, opinions from other people in the community of, have you been through this? What is the best option? Who can I reach out to? Things like that. That's when I start to worry and start to think, you know, it's we live in the wealthiest parish in the state. Why are these women having such a tough time? Is it because they didn't plan? Is it because they truly are in a situation where they don't make enough money?

Maybe they are on welfare or whatever. Or did they buy the $65,000 SUV and the $350,000 home and they already have $25,000 in credit card debt and they really just can't make it work because they've already gone out to eat three times this week or whatever. Those are the people I don't really have sympathy for because I live within my means, even if that does mean I have $150 in my checking account for the last week before I get paid again. I don't make a lot of money as a private school enrichment teacher. But I also live within my means as best as I can. But it's times like that when I start to see all these things start popping up on these sites that I follow where I'm like,

something's not right here or something's going on. Hey, hon, what are you hearing on your side? And is this something that we really need to buckle down for? Or, you know, maybe we should look at our preps again and maybe we should add six more buckets of this. You know, what are you, what's coming from your side that we could potentially feel? Yeah, because I feel like a lot of times I'm looking more at like big picture national trends and you're more looking at what's happening in this neighborhood or in this this town or in this parish. And when those two things correlate together, all of a sudden it's like, oh, this is this isn't just 20 percent of the population. This is our neighbors. This is people that live close to us. Like this has come home now. But the thing I was going to, and you, you, you, you went towards it, but I remember at one point, and this is going to lead into the next thing that I really wish

people would do. And you, you said it outright when you said live within your means, which I call living on a budget, which budgets a four letterletter word to a lot of people but boy is it a four-letter word to me but you know it makes life a lot it makes life a lot simpler but anyway like i remember you talked to me about it was a it was a woman who was on one of the groups husband made i don't matter how much it was it was six figures like it was easily double what i make yeah easy like and and i'll just i remember being in shock going i i'm going to read this to you do you remember what the number was i don't i remember this was months ago i i remember like evil the evil phil the little devil phil on my shoulder like spit on that guy's grave like you make that much money and you can't make it work

they were losing their home yeah they were losing their home they they were they were behind on the mortgage maxed out on credit cards savings drain like it was and she i want to say it was financial apocalypse yeah the the two of them made three times more than what we make i remember remember it being, I know it's well over $200,000 if you add both of them together, or maybe it was 180. I remember them, I remember thinking, these people make double, triple what we make, but they're going into foreclosure on their home, they're losing their car. And, you know, I know that she even put that they had credit card debt. And I was like, And, you know, I know that she even put that they had credit card debt. And I was like, I just can't.

And so every comment was, you're living way outside of your means, lady. Like, it was like knocking on their head going, hello, is anybody home? Like, what are you thinking? And then no one really had sympathy for her because no one in that group makes that much money. I'm saying no one. I think most people in this town make six figures. I know. Well, I don't know the number anymore. But anyway, a lot of people make a lot of money here.

If anybody's curious, just google like the median household income for mandeville louisiana let me know what you see yeah i can i can promise you it is probably at least 50 more than what we make because you're like you said you're a private school enrichment teacher i work in the public sector and neither one of us makes i make decent money yeah i mean you make good i could make i could make decent money. Yeah, I mean, you make good money. I could make more money, quite frankly, if I went to the private sector. But, like, you and I have had that conversation before, and it's always like, yeah, I can make more money, and I could also put a match to my work-life balance and never be home with my wife and daughter. Like, that was the life I lived in the private sector before I got laid off from that and came to work where I am now,

where I live to have a suitcase six months out of the year like i know people that do it it's just not what i want like i want i want more time with my wife and daughter than what my skill set in the private sector would afford me yeah it's one i mean at the end of the day it it's like, which would you rather more, the money or your husband? There's only one right answer to that, babe. The money. Of course. But the thing you brought up was living within your means.

I call that budgeting. Like, it never ceased to amaze me. And I'll be the first to admit, because my dad does listen to this podcast, and he's probably listening to this, I was not the best student of his wisdom about budgeting when I was young, you know, like 18, 19, 20, but who is? But then by the time you and I got together, and like really about the time that we were living on our own, we were married, we had our apartment together, I had a year left in college. By that point in my life, in my mid-20s, I was, I would like to think, fairly financially savvy. Like, I was, I was, like, eye-wateringly frugal at that point in my life. Well, you had to be. Well, yeah, I mean. You really didn't make

any money at that point. I mean, the only luxury I had was that my Mazda Miata, you know, I had a second vehicle that, like, I raced around and did hit some road rallies and stuff with, but even that looked like it had been salvaged from a junkyard. It was two different colors. And I mean, I had used parts on it. I mean, it was one of those things where it was like, I went to work, I went to school, I paid the bursar's office and I paid the rent. And that was it. Phil did not spend money on stuff that didn't need money spent on it we we went out to eat we went out once a week we went on a date and the only reason we did that regularly is because we only had one day off a week together like six days i wouldn't see you awake by the time by the time you would get home from work i was already in bed and by the time and when i'd wake up you'd still be asleep like we, we passenger like ships in the night for the first year of our marriage. But all that being said, budgeting to me has always been the key to making your money work. Like, you know, it sounds really simple to say, live within your

means. But when you sit down and you write down on paper, every dollar that's coming in and you assign every one of those dollars, something to do, like you and all your buddies are going to go pay the rent. You and all your buddies are going to be put aside for this bill. You and all your buddies are put aside for groceries. You make every single dollar go to something and then you make money go to savings because you have to. And I feel like that's, that's that, that one line item is the one that a lot of people fall really short on and it gets them in trouble is they don't ever save money for the tire that blows up for the engine that goes out for the car that has to be replaced for the $500. You got to squirt out

because your kid breaks their arm. You know, like things happen. And I've known people who when things happen, they got to whoop out a credit card and go into debt to cover it. Because they don't have $6,000, $7,000, $8,000 just sitting in a savings account on standby. I don't. We do that. I know we do, but I don't. Well, but your emergencies are my emergencies and it also bears pointing out for the audience like you and i still to this day maintain separate accounts separate accounts somewhat separated finances i don't know like i wouldn't say somewhat i mean we

we do not have any joint accounts our checking account and savings accounts are not joint. What I mean by separated finances is like, it's not as if you have a bill that can't be paid. I just tell you, get over yourself, go sell yourself on the corner. Like, we've subdivided financial responsibilities because we both work. And we keep separate accounts. financial responsibilities because we both work and we keep separate accounts but if you if you ever get in a pinch or i get into pinch the other one's right there to jump in you know i'm saying yeah so that's what i meant by like we haven't we have somewhat separated finances because your bills are my bills my bills are your bills but the primary responsibility for each bill goes to one or the other of us but we have

always since our since since my college days since we've been living together we've always talked about having a budget living within that budget spending money that like if you want to spend money on something all i ever told you was, because back when you were, when we first started this whole exercise, I remember, I know you're trying desperately not to make that chair squeak, and it just squeaks. It's a thing. I just did it. But I remember, like, your frustration, and I think of the reason a lot of people resist the idea of budgeting. Your frustration was it felt like poverty to say, well, I can't spend money on that.

And then my reaction was, but I'm not saying you can't spend money. I'm just saying you've got to write it down on the budget. Like if you want to spend $20 a week or whatever it costs, I don't know, to go get your nails done, you just put $20 times four in the monthly budget and there's your nail money. But now we know that money's going to get spent on doing your nails, which means it can't go to this or this or this. It's a very simple exercise.

And to me, what I see is I see a lot of people who, like, three days before payday, they're flat broke and they don't have money for milk or bread. Or I see people who are like $25,000 in credit card debt can't pay their house note. You know, I see people who very obviously did not go through this exercise years ago, by the way, of putting things into a budget and putting themselves into a good financial situation where they had some leeway in their budget. You know what I'm saying? And now that the economy has gotten a little rough and things gotten a little tighter, now they're hosed because they were already living on a knife edge, making the minimum payments.

And the minute the cost of your car insurance or the minute your groceries or the minute any little thing goes up, now you're in the negative. Yeah. And I feel like that's where we're at. I feel like that's where we're at. And I tell everybody, I'm like, you know, the time to live within your means isn't today. It's six months ago or a year ago. That's when you should have been doing all this. Because if you don't like the way we've run our budget, the way like down to things like the house we purchased, the cars we purchased, the fact that we don't have credit cards, that's all been done to

live very comfortably within our means to where if the bills go up a little bit, the bills go up a little bit. We just eat out a little less often. Or if one of us loses our job, yeah, it hurts, but it's not an immediate, oh God, we're going to lose our house emergency. We just react to it. But I feel like a lot of these people, they're one emergency away from losing everything because they've lived so close to the red line for so long. Absolutely. I mean, I think you're right. I think, again, they've never, they always have a credit card to fall back on, or they always have, you know, something to fall back on to where they don't feel the pressure until, you know, she's writing in a mom group saying, I don't know what to do. You know, you know what I'm saying?

Like they just, I don't know. Yeah. I agree with you. You violated wife code. Yeah. And it's recorded. It's going to's gonna be on the internet i know it's okay okay um do i reach for the low-hanging fruit and say people have forgotten about their own duty to maintain their self-preservation which is a roundabout way of saying there's a lot of people that don't know how to defend themselves, don't know how to defend their families.

So I was looking at a list of things that we no longer teach to children that we should. I guess this was just populated maybe through AI or whatever, but self-defense was actually on that list of how to, how to defend yourself. So, um, I, yeah, I think again, a lot of people live in a bubble. It will never happen to me. It's the same story that parents tell not my Johnny, my Johnny would never do that. A lot of people live in this own reality that they've created for themselves or for their family or whatever, like they're untouchable, that those sorts of things will never happen to them. And I am guilty of that. You know, I know of the things that are out there,

that the harm that can come my way. In fact, I mean, I'm going to new Orleans tomorrow and I'm scared to death and I've been anxious about it for the last two days. And, you know, I, but you know, what I've done is I've mapped out my, my way down there. I know exactly where I'm going. I know exactly which street I'm going into. I know which neighborhood that I'm going to go around. I'm not going I'm going. I know exactly which street I'm going into. I know which neighborhood that I'm going to go around. I'm not going to go straight through it. And well, stupid me, but also on the other, you know, the other hand, good me. I've looked at the crime rate map in that area to see what crimes have been committed within the last two weeks in that area

within the last month in that area. And I probably shouldn't have done that. I also have reminded myself that it is just a car. So if my car gets stolen, it is just a car. So I know you're shaking your head at me. But it is one of those times, especially with my anxiety that I wish you could just drop me off for this appointment. And then I'll call you and in the hour before I'm done with this appointment. And then you just can come get me. But I can't live like that. I will have to do things on my own. I have to go into scary places. New Orleans is a very scary place for me. I do not want to be in New Orleans. It's going to make me start to cry. That's how anxious I am about this. I am not anxious about sitting in a chair to get a tattoo for five hours. I am anxious about driving to New Orleans to get my tattoo.

I am not scared of the needles and the pain that I will have. I am scared about driving into New Orleans, especially by myself. This is one of those moments I really wish I'd been able to convince you to get your concealed carry permit. I understand that. And I know, but you're my concealed carry permit. Can't you just drop me off at my appointment and then you go home and then I'll call you when we're an hour from being done and you can come get me, right? Oh, I know it doesn't work like that. And I have to do this, but I've taken, I think every precaution that I can take. Like I said, I know it doesn't work like that. And I have to do this. But I've taken, I think, every precaution that I can take. Like I said, I have looked at my route, I have looked at escape.

You know, I've looked at which, which roads are one way, which roads once I, you know, I'm on this one way street, can I turn right or left when I get there? Because New Orleans, Can I turn right or left when I get there? Because New Orleans, the guy who designed New Orleans was obviously, obviously. Intoxicated. On something that maybe was more than just alcohol. But, yes, was maybe even completely out of his mind. But I feel like I've done everything I can.

Do I wish, oh wait, go ahead. What are the two rules of vehicle security? Well, you lock your door. That's number one. And then your, your vehicle is a very, very big weapon. Okay. Three rules of vehicle. Oh, um, you don't roll your window down. You did it the other day when you parked. I did it the other day when you parked it at Piper school behind somebody. Oh, I gave myself

enough room to get out. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you, so this whole tattoo saga, My appointment has been canceled once before. I've now waited nine weeks to get this tattoo. The first time I was supposed to go down there, I was super anxious again. And once again, I had already mapped out everything. And you told me something in bed that night and you said, well, you said, you know, remember that your vehicle is a weapon. in bed that night and you said, well, you said, you know, remember that your vehicle is a weapon. Keep your doors locked and don't roll down your windows for anyone, which I know all that stuff. But then you said, if you cannot see the bottom of your tires, you're too close. The bottom of their tires in front of you, you're too close to the vehicle and you will not be able to make an escape. And boy, did that stick with me because all week I have been

practicing when I'm out. I don't know if you've noticed, but I have been practicing making sure that I can see the bottom of their tires in front of me to make sure that I can get out of a situation because I am obviously not the best driver. I tried to kill myself twice in a car. Not intentionally. I come up too close to the back of a car when I'm at a red light. And I obviously do not leave myself enough room to get out if I need to. But I am making a very, very concerted effort to make sure I can see the bottom of their tires.

So thanks for that. You can thank the Department of Defense for that little tidbit. Yeah, you told me that. Well, but for the audience. Andrew and I, we actually have one of our patrons who, I believe if I recall correctly, he was an 88 Mike, a truck driver in Iraq. He needs to come on the show. Does he want to drive me to New Orleans?

I don't think so no to come on the show and talk about like you know how to maintain security in your vehicle and defensive driving and offensive driving things i would love that before two o'clock tomorrow one o'clock tomorrow it's going to be most of the same things i've already told you years you just don't listen to me i do listen to me. I do listen to you, obviously. I do listen to you. I'm just very nervous about that. I think if you keep your head on straight, you'll be fine. I'm sure. I feel like I have to Mad Max it when I go down in there. Like, where's my codpiece? Is that what it's called? Yespiece eddie eddie's heart just skipped a beat when you said that do i have to send a picture to the group now i'm joking no i'm not no he's just he's just

he's gonna have to live with the mental image of his mom in a spike codpiece now no i do feel like you do have to be mad max down there it is kind of you know people are freaking crazy it is kind of run by the the the what what am i trying to say it's um the prison is run by the inmates the inmates run by the asylum the asylum is run by the asylum is run by the inmates yes prison asylum Prison, asylum, it is an asylum. So I have to go down there unannounced and incognito. I don't want them to see me, but I drive a really pretty car, which I'm sure is going to look really pretty to someone that wants it.

Just don't leave anything that would attract somebody's attention and make them want to smash a window. Yeah, I know. anything that would attract somebody's attention and make them want to smash a window yeah i know but um so self-defense i feel like it's a big one and i don't personally understand that personality because like i don't know like i have very clear memories of like somebody knocking on my parents door when i was a kid by the way back back in Texas, beating on the door in the middle of the night, you know, just idiot teenagers knocking on people's doors and running off being idiots. And my dad marched up to that front door with a 9mm handgun, like, who the hell is beating on my door at 1 o'clock in the morning?

Like, I remember those lessons from my dad about firearms are only in this house to protect the family. These are not things that we collect. We don't play with these things. These are tools for ending people's lives. So that if somebody tries to hurt your family, you end them. And I've never been able to figure out the personality that says, I have slightly more grace to give to the people who say it could never happen to me.

I think they're idiots. But I can at least give them grace and say, okay, that's the difference between ignorance and stupid. You don't believe it'll happen. And it probably won't. So, like, statistically, we live in one of the safest times of our lifetimes. Like, the crime rate now compared to, like, the 80s is nothing. The crime rate now compared to like the 80s is nothing. So I'm willing to give most people the buy and say,

you're probably not going to be involved in a violent situation in your lifetime. But the ones that I really can't figure out are the ones that acknowledge there is violence in the world, but they say, I'm not willing to use violence to protect myself or protect my family. Like I saw a real go on Instagram the other day, and I'm sure you probably saw it. I was pulling my, the little bit of hair I've left out, but it was a bunch of mothers who were asked, would you kill to protect your child? Oh yeah, I've seen it. Over half of them said no. They wouldn't, they wouldn't use violence. They wouldn't kill somebody that was trying to hurt their child. And I just like tilted my head like how does that work like you would rather sit there and watch your family be

harmed than have to get your hands bloody and then i don't even have to ask you what you think would happen if somebody tried to hurt you or you or our daughter i would stick my fingers in their eye sockets like i mean you i would just i told my sister on the back porch today in regards to my mother screaming at our child the other day. Yeah. I saw red. We had to get out of that house. I was going to knock her head off. Yeah.

And it will never happen again. I guess, like I said, I don't understand that personality that says I'm not willing to use violence to protect my family or protect myself even. Like, you know, admittedly, I have a very idealist way of looking at fatherhood, husbandhood. But I look at it as my life stopped being mine the day we got married. I have a responsibility to stick around for you and our daughter. I am a nice person. Very. very i am too sweet for your own damn good i am too sweet for my own damn good however i come from a long line of schizophrenic crazy ass women and if you push me far enough you will see the inherited crazy that is in my line oh this is gonna be such a

good one to keep it keep forever i've got you you admitted i was right and now you're admitting that you come from a family of crazy people i've just gotten really good at keeping it hidden and blocked away until i don't look at me like that. I have kept the crazy hidden, but I'm just, you know, this is just a warning to, I, I will kill a bitch. I will. I, I will do what it takes to keep my family safe. Had that, had I been on whatever documentary or questionnaire or whatever that was, when they were asking those women if they would kill for their children, I probably would have shut the whole thing down by answering, oh, without question, in a heartbeat, without a doubt, and I will sleep peacefully.

I'm telling you, I am from a long line of crazy women i just do a really good job of not letting it out most of the time most of the time you haven't seen crazy keep it up buddy we'll see the inherited crazy oh but she only thinks she's seeing all of my crazy i keep some head locked up way in the back i keep saying to myself oh it obviously skipped me it skipped me but then we start talking about this and i'm like oh no there it is there you are there's my hand for. There's my happy little nutcase. I knew you were in there. So what else?

We've talked about, you know, I feel like food and water and self-protection and even budgeting are pretty low-hanging fruit. I think those are all duh, you know. So go ahead. Well, but to my point, these all sound like adulting 101 things right yeah and yet there's people out there say well no that that's prepping and i don't know what prepping has to do with keeping your family alive and fed and housed and clothed but you know we'll get into that to wrap up the show, but I guess that was what I wanted to remind everybody that I started down this topic because, to me, there's this huge Venn diagram where prepping and air quotes and adulting 101 overlap. And most people, their Venn diagrams are really, really shallow. Like, they see prepping as this weird thing that weird people do. And I see it as if you're an adult, you should be doing these

things. But yeah, I mean, but again, we live in a time where, what did you call it? Time of plenty? Yeah. A time of plenty. Okay. So here's some of the things on this list of, um, and again, I Googled things kids should know but are no longer taught. The look on your face already tells you I'm going to be very upset. Yeah, well, get ready. Hang on. I, for some reason. Okay.

The number one thing. Are you ready for this? Cooking. No. Cooking. People eat out. Who the hell doesn't know how to cook? People don't know how to cook.

Okay? They don't know how to listen to their ancestors when they cook like I do. They know how to use freaking YouTube. You can youtube how to cook rice well anyway cooking is number one i think that is one thing that we do not teach our kids nowadays because fast food restaurants you know it's such a how many people do we know that do not cook at home because all they do is eat out? How many kids at school eat out for dinner? They probably skip lunch or get a Pop-Tart in the morning.

And then mom or dad brings them fast food for lunch or packs them fast food for lunch or, you know, and then again, they go out for dinner because they've got seven things on their to-do list to do after school. And then it's too late to cook a good meal at home. And so they just stop at McDonald's or they run into that restaurant for an hour and a half. And then they don't have to do the dishes. They can go home, take their bath, and go to bed. So cooking is number one. And with going out all the time comes all the extra sugar and the seed oils and the carbs and the crab. Well, of course.

I mean, let's not even get into that. Cooking was the number one thing. The second one I don't really agree with, although I think eventually it will be used as a secret language. It's cursive. So I don't see how that would fit into prepping unless eventually maybe 50 100 years from now you're trying to you know write a message to someone and these people don't know how to read cursive or write it um the third thing which i think is super important first aid basic first aid think about it now going down that road i do need to get a little more serious about trying to get

little miss in that room to embrace like first aid although i don't know what like when it comes to her you know my my whole philosophy on preparedness. It's always like meet a person where they are. You know what I'm saying? Like it does me no good to sit here and force you to learn how to use a tourniquet if you just desperately don't want to be in the room. It does me more good to kind of like seduce you with the knowledge so you don't realize you're learning, which is a lot of times when she gets a bobo

or whatever, I'm talking her through what i'm looking at i'm talking her through what i'm looking for moments yeah i'm trying to i'm trying to explain to her like this is what i'm looking for so i know how bad you're hurt and then this is what i'm going to do to fix it and this is why i'm doing those things and i'm just hoping that i'm penetrating that beautiful, thick little skull. So that maybe one day when she gets older, she'll be like, I know how to use Band-Aids. I know when to leave something exposed to air and when not to. I know when to do those things because Dad taught me. So to kind of run down this list a little bit more, the next one was time management skills, which I think they absolutely, as a teacher, I can attest, kids do not know time management.

What? There's a, I don't believe it's a recognized mental illness or time dysplasia or something like that. Yeah. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Time dysplasia or something like that. Yeah. It's people that say that as a result of being neurodivergent, which we've got to get Eddie to come on and raise the value of some time to talk about that as a subject, like neurodivergence. But they try to insinuate that because they're neurodivergent that they have no ability to manage time. They can't recognize time.

They need a job that doesn't mind if they're two hours late because like they just zoned out and didn't know what time it was and that drives me freaking bonkers like as a person who is prone to that by my own admission like you know i've got a calendar full of freaking alarms and i've got to-do lists with alarms on them. And I tell Piper all the time, that's not there because like, yes, I'm very OCD, but I am hyper organized because I forget things. So my phone's always in my pocket and it's ringing constantly saying, did you remember to do this? Did you remember to do this? Did you, did you edit the podcast today? I have a reminder in my phone that says, do the podcast today. Yeah.

But anyway. Critical thinking skills. Holy Jesus. Home maintenance. Interpersonal communication. Learning from failure. Mechanics. Budgeting is on here.

Thank God. Conflict on here. Thank God. Conflict resolution skills. Credit and how to manage credit. Budgeting. Yeah. Again, creative, not creative, effective communication skills. Home economics. Absolutely home economics.

Sir, home economics is not taught anymore. It's supposed to be taught in the home sir listen listen listen listen it is not taught in the home not much is taught in the home but everything you describe right now makes me so freaking aggravated because like i learned all this stuff from my parents like my dad taught me how to work on stuff around the house and how to work and how to work on cars and mechanics work and very very basic electronics like i was never an electronics guru but dad's like your dad and you but my mom too my dad well taught me how to cook so parents like ours that did teach us those things are unicorns in today's world parents don't i'm and i'm not saying every parent i i'm not i'm a majority of

parents do not teach their children these things they don't teach them coping skills they don't teach them how to negotiate they don't teach them how to negotiate with a salesman when they go to buy their first house or their first car. I brought you. I didn't even bring my dad. I didn't have my dad to do that. And so you came with me to buy my first car and you came with me to buy the house, you know, and to buy your second car and to buy my second car. I mean, so, yeah, these skills are not being taught at home. And they're not being taught in school anymore because those aren't getting the test scores. We're not testing children on home ec. We're not testing kids on how they can negotiate with each other or how they can communicate effectively. Or do they have good conflict resolution skills and budgeting

skills we're not teaching them those things because those aren't testable and that doesn't bring in money from the state so no school is not reaching it parents are either too busy or don't care to teach it to their children or or they weren't taught it themselves. So they don't know what to teach them. I've blown his mind. No. So a couple of things. First of all. There were two more that I didn't say.

Oh. Relationship skills, how to be in a relationship. They're not. I still know how to do that. Sir, you do a lot better than most people. And we're teaching our daughter how to be in a relationship by making sure that our relationship with each other is kosher. And we're, we focus on ourselves and we focus on our marriage and we focus on each other and we were not selfish. And so we're not sitting her down going now Piper this is how

you do this in a relationship and this is how you do that in a relationship we're giving her the example to live by the example to we're giving her all of these things just by showing her our relationship and so in it statistically and scientifically and whatever ickly that you want, Callie, Killy, Callie, that you want to say, it sticks with the child. I grew up saying to myself by looking at my parents going, this is not the relationship I want with my husband. I will not be that wife. I do not want that in a husband.

Okay, I do want this part of their marriage, but I do not want this. So when you're raised in an atmosphere that is like the one that I grew up in, you're very quick to point out to yourselves and make lists to yourself of knowing this isn't right people who love each other aren't supposed to treat each other like this people who love each each other don't do these sorts of things people who love their children don't do these sorts of things to their children you know and so those were all things on my list with, you know, if you want to think of it like an A point with the Roman numerals under it, you know, marriage, loving your spouse. And then you had all these bullet points underneath it. Sorry, I'm going off on a tangent. I saw those things. And as I grew up and started to get into more serious relationships,

and once I found you and realized that we were going to be more than just a boyfriend and a girlfriend or, you know, whatever, that list stayed populated in my head, and I was checking him off. Does he do this? Does he do that? Okay, if I do this, how is he going to react to that? Is he abusive? Is he emotionally that okay if i do this how's he going to react to that is he abusive is he emotionally abusive is he physically abusive what are we going to do if this happens and how will he react to that and so trust me when i tell you you checked off the list that i had that was built by my parents so where was looks good in a uniform oh that was the very first one okay

i knew it was on there see she she talks a lot about lists now but i'm pretty sure that the um the tan skin and the muscles what one are over i mean 21 year oldold Gillian was very smitten. 21-year-old Gillian really liked that picture hanging on your friend's refrigerator. And then I didn't know that. I mean, hell, six months into our relationship, I tried to get you to leave me. I didn't want to break up with you, but I wanted you to break up with me. Little did you realize how stubborn I was. Well, I think I was really scared that you were checking off all the boxes. I really think that that's what it was.

You were really starting to fit this thing that I had created. And you checked all the boxes on my list of things I wanted and didn't want in a boyfriend or fiance and a husband. And yeah, I freaking got scared. I was like, oh, God, this could really get serious. And here we are 19 years later, you never left me. And see, the funny part of it is, is that, like, and I know, I know you and I've talked about it, maybe not in exactly this language. But like, to me, you were never auditioning to be my girlfriend, you were auditioning to be the mother of my children, whether you realize that, well, I didn't realize that at the time. And I

didn't realize that I was also putting you through that audition as well. But anyway, so our children look at the relationships that are around them and the relationships that they're in, whether that's parent, child, sibling to sibling, whatever. They look at those things and any rational human being will say, I this i don't like this i i'm comfortable with this i'm uncomfortable with this and hopefully hopefully if they're strong enough they will learn how to take the things that they do want and learn how to deal with the things that they don't necessarily want but it's not posing a threat to them. Because there are things about you that I just, oh, it drives me nuts. But do I want to get rid of you because of those things?

Absolutely not. Name one thing. No. I'm perfect. You're perfect in every way. Perfect in every way. Oh, God. What?

What? I'm curious now. No. And the audience is right here. They're probably curious. I just motioned the microphone when I said the audience. Yeah, I know. So anyway, relationships and relationship skills. And yeah, why do you think the divorce rate is as high as it is?

I think that's social engineering personally. Well, true. I mean, again, easy times. You don't like who you're married to? Get a divorce. You don't like what your husband does? Get a divorce. You don't like what your wife does?

Get a divorce. There is no, well, put in the work to make it better. It's lazy. And I think a lot of the things that we talked about boils down to people are just fucking lazy. They're lazy. They don't want to put in the effort to put food away to take care of their parent, their parent, their children or their families. They don't want to put in the effort to cook a meal at night or go grocery shopping to cook. They don't want to put in the effort to build a budget and then the effort to live by the budget. They don't want to have to do that to to build a budget and then the effort to live by the budget

they don't want to have to do that they're lazy things have been handed to them their whole life maybe they haven't had to work for anything maybe they haven't had to have something go on in their life where all hell broke loose and you've hit rock bottom and you've had to claw yourself back up to the top you know that was actually something gillian rant that was actually something i was going to point out though like the one group of people that i see that take a lot more of this to heart honestly are i would say like lower middle class less than even the poor people who do struggle every day who do have to pinch pennies they do well i mean you know there's a group of people out there that they live five, like five dollars away from bankruptcy every day.

And it's been my observation that a lot of those people, like, they know how to get by. They know how to freaking cut corners. They know how to make a dollar stretch because they have no choice. I mean, I don't think she would mind me talking about this but look at jordan she had boxes that had to be checked off and one of those boxes was i will not live like i grew up where we did not have food to eat yeah and so she prepped and she takes care of her children because she knows that she has food in there she has a garden she has this she has that she has food in there. She has a garden. She has this. She has that. She decided, going through her really tough upbringing, that she was not going to live like that.

And she wasn't going to provide for her family like that, her children like that. So, yeah. I guess I just find that kind of disheartening that, like, most of the people, I would suspect a good portion of our audience and a lot of people you and i know that are in this lifestyle they were brought to this lifestyle i don't find so much anymore by people who like they grew up like this it's some kind of an emergency or some kind of a bad time that brought them to this you know i'm saying like for our friend it was she grew up in abject poverty that that was her apocalypse moment that brought her to this for me it was it was it was a combat tour and then hurricane katrina you know watching a city eat itself and i don't know i feel like you've had a couple since we've been together

i mean hurricane ida was probably the most recent oh this is why we do all this kind of moments. But I don't know. I don't disagree with you. I think laziness does spawn a lot of these shortcomings, these basic life skills I feel like most people should know, but for some reason they don't. And I do feel like it's caused by a time of relative peace and prosperity, a time of relative peace and prosperity a time of plenty i do feel like it's probably one it's a lot of probably create a lot of laziness in its wake i mean the the old adage

of the four seasons is playing out now that good times make weak men weak men make hard times hard times make strong men strong men make good times we're at the weak men make bad make hard times point yeah and i feel like we're really starting as like within the preparedness community i'm finding more and more through talking to people like people that are in our mindset like they they feel the pinch they look around they can see the money cannot doesn go as far, inflation's through the ceiling, but they're still making it. Because these are people who've always said, like, I'm going to live within my means. I'm going to have money in savings. I'm going to prep for tomorrow.

They've always been like that. And so when the economy gets a little out of whack or the grocery bill goes up, they're like, okay, well, I just readjust things. You know, like this is the reason we do these things is that when it's's hard times we're ready for them and we just roll with the punches i think that's our generation i i think there's a there's a sort of thing going on in social media right now it's mostly i think a joke and maybe it's kind of an internal self-deprecating maybe well it's not self-deprecating but we're kind of laughing at ourselves that we're doing this but as millennials and older generation millennials or younger gen x yeah gen x but we're millennials gen xers yeah but we're millennials and the joke is

that you know we're we're all in our 40s now or the older ones are in our 40s now and we've we're all in our forties now, or the older ones are in our forties now. And we've, we're, we're skipping the midlife crisis and going straight to grannying our garden. You know, like we're, we're not partying until, you know, one o'clock, two o'clock in the, at night anymore, but we are getting up at seven o'clock to check on our tomatoes. You know what I'm saying? Like. That hits a little too close to home, seeing how we're growing potatoes and chives in the backyard so it and and we're so proud of them they're like our children and i think that's that i'm hopeful that our generation will kind of turn course for this country we'll kind of go back to those old ways of knowing that no you can't trust the government

i think we've been given plenty of examples in our lifetime that you cannot trust the government. Weekly. Well, yeah, but I think, I think for the most part, we paid attention, which, and we, a lot of people probably won't admit this, but we all have tinfoil hats, you know, and I think we, I would like to hope that our generation has woken up to the BS of this country. I would like to think that maybe I'm just in a small sect on Instagram of, you know, watching these other millennials tend to their gardens in Moomoo's and grounding and spiritualism. And, you know, you are a big old hippie, aren't you? I'm not a hippie, actually. I'm a witch.

But at least you shave. At least I shave. But that's what we're seeing. We're seeing, I think that's what I, anyway, I would like to think that that's what we're seeing is that our generation is kind of turning the tide of we're not going to raise our children like this the tide of we're not going to raise our children like this anymore and we're we're not going to keep them in public school anymore

because we do realize that it is such a mind trip mind control entity of you know branch of the government so we're pulling our children out in groves to put them in private and homeschool groups. Well, but the other thing. Go ahead. Go ahead. The other thing I'm seeing, and I hope this isn't just us in a small group of people, because like we see this a lot with the group we just went camping with a few weeks ago. We're teaching our child the things we think will put her in a good position as an adult. We're teaching her how to cook. We're teaching her the basics of how to run an adult. We're teaching her how to cook.

We're teaching her the basics of how to run a stitch. We're teaching her the basics. Yeah. And that's what these people are doing. Like these people who have these Instagram accounts. And I couldn't even tell you. It's more than a handful. It's more than a dozen.

It's more than that. It's blah, blah, blah. That's what these people are doing they are they are teaching them things that are no longer taught at school home ec running a stitch that's how i learned to sew was in home ec class in high school i learned in the army well and they might still be teaching that in the army but they're not teaching it in home ec class because home ec is not there anymore. They're not teaching it in automotive class anymore or what is that, shop? They don't have shop class anymore. Industrial tech.

Yeah, they just don't have those things. And I could put on my tinfoil hat for a second and say that that's on purpose. Why would we want to give our children, why would we want to teach them those things that could eventually um make them smart or take care of themselves and not have to rely on the government but see this is what i was going to say earlier and then we got i got distracted i actually am pretty emotionally at peace with school not teaching any of those things like i don't i don't care if school teaches my kid first aid i'm gonna teach her first aid yeah i don't care you are but again and so like i am an enormous personal accountability person i understand that some people's parents suck but in order to guard my own mental health i had to decide a long time ago i cannot be

responsible for every other parent's f-ups i can't i have to i have to be responsible for my kid and if another parent doesn't do right by their kids i can't allow that into my i can't allow that to take my my peace and happiness because it does frustrate me well it's one more thing that we have to teach our child is how to deal with people eventually that weren't taught these things that were the right hook comes in place yeah right but in all but in all honesty like you know i i I will happily take it upon myself to teach my child all those things. She and I have had very constructive conversations that, God, I hope she takes to heart one day about, like, her natural rights. Not even constitutional rights.

Her natural rights as a human being. Like, no one has the right to do this to you because you're a person. And you have a right to have control over your own body you have a right to speak freely without you know facing violence or harm from it you have a right to these things and if anybody tries to take you these things from you you fight them to the nail period so like those are things that I've tried to talk to her because I want her to grow up with a sense of, you know, like, I am in control of myself. I have these rights that cannot be taken from me. I never want my child to grow up in a world where someone else can take away her agency because of perceived authority.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Look, there have been times she and I have talked, and I've maybe gone a little over the edge, but I've told her flat out. I'm like, you know, these are the things I believe as, like, a libertarian or an anarcho-libertarian. Like, you know, just because somebody wears a uniform doesn't mean they have the right to harm you without cause. Doesn't mean they have the right to do these things to you like you have a right to yourself you have a right to protect yourself but i just feel like we live in a world where so many parents are too too self-centered and too lazy and probably too just caught up in their own nonsense to recognize that they have

that duty to teach their children these things and like you point out earlier they probably weren't taught by their parents so now it's become a generational knowledge gap this is where we start breaking generational curses well i feel like building new generational strong suits. I hope you want to call it. I hope so. And I mean, I hope, I hope the audience got something out of this conversation. Like this is, this has been something that frustrates me fairly regularly when I just look at it. Cause like, and you live with me, God bless your soul. But like, you've watched me go through this where somebody does something and i'm like how do people not know how to do that like you've done that at least 10 times today on this show what how do people you looked at me like i was crazy like how did people not know how

to do that cooking budgeting okay but like so the whole budgeting thing, I understand how most people suck at that because I understand that like my background in economics and finance kind of gives me a leg up in that arena. But when people, when you talk about how people don't know how to cook, I mean, we have cell phones now. They're hooked up to the internet. There is more knowledge sitting in your pocket than all of the libraries of the world had a thousand years ago. So when you tell me people don't know how to cook, like you can't go on YouTube and Google how to boil rice. I can't even compute that. Like how does that work? Because just because someone can read instructions and try to do it doesn't mean that

they can do it i can't bake that's but wait time out you can't you can't bake because you have difficulty following precise instructions okay okay yes that's true that's why i cook savory food because i can listen to my ancestors tell me when to stop putting in the spices so they're they're but but here's the thing yeah but the thing of it is you know how to cook baking okay comparing baking to cooking is like comparing algebra to geometry it's all math but it's different you know what i'm saying or not not out yeah algebra and geometry or algebra and trigonometry like it's all math but it's very different but quite frankly i mean you can bake you i'm just

a lot better at than you are but then again you out you savory cook 10 times better than i do because i want i want a recipe with precise instructions and none of your recipes include those yeah it's always funny to me when you're you're like hey babe you're gonna have to write this recipe down so i can make it for you one day and it's like i don't i know i don't know what i put in here look the look she gave me when i was measuring out salt to put in something, you would have thought I drug her grandmother up out of her grave and slapped her in front of her. I mean, it was like, what are you doing?

And I was like, measuring the salt? Why? Because in baking, you have to measure the salt. We're not baking. I know, but I'm a baker. So, I mean, I guess we'll start wrapping this up. Your list annoys me. It's not my list.

It's Google's list. Well, Google's list annoys me terribly. Google's list. Well, Google's list annoys me terribly because, like, everything, almost everything on that list is just an internet search away. Like, the stuff isn't difficult. Again, lazy. Okay, so maybe I should just rename this. People are lazy and the apocalypse is going to suck a lot worse for some of us than others.

Sounds like an appropriate name. Yeah, I think I'll... You need to shorten it, but... Yeah. I'll figure out a name while I'm editing. But... Do you have anything else to say to the audience before we kick this one out the door? No, I've had two Gillian rants.

Gillian rants? That could be a new hashtag. Gilly rants. Gilly rants. Gilly... That sounds like a problem you need an antibiotic for. A ghillie rant? Well, ghillie rants and Phil rants.

They kind of go hand in hand now, apparently. I only have them when I'm on your podcast, though. Have you ever had a ghillie rant on raising values? I think I have once, and it was towards you. Because I didn't like what you said about something. I don't remember now, but. Was I right when I said it? Depends on who you're asking. If you were asking me. Which one of your two personalities would I ask? Long line of schizophrenia.

Remember boys, the hot crazy matrix, all women start at a four. No, I don't have anything else to say. I'm good. All right. Well, thank you for filling for Andrew. We can call him a lazy slacker and bully him in coming on next week. He's not lazy. He's got a lot going on in his life up there in Michigan.

Well, he was having a whole lot of fun camping and fishing this past week. I know he sent us videos of his, what did Kyle call it? His sweet tea waterfall. I'm jealous. I was too. It was a beautiful waterfall. I hope he's having fun camping. I'm sure he is.

But MatterFacts Podcast going out the door. See everybody in a week. I'm sure he is. But MatterFact's podcast is going out the door. See everybody in a week. Bye, everybody. Bye. Thank you. Outro Music