The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Phoenix Survival with Practical Tactical

Episode Date: October 26, 2024

You're listening to PBM. You're playing back the stability. I keep on moving forward. Always getting closer. March until it's over. And just like a soldier. I keep on moving forward always getting closer i'm marching till it's over Good morning PBNers, this is Jay Ferg, your host with Phoenix Survival, and do I have something special for you today. We have two guests here with us with Practical Tactical, Mr. Bruce and Rudy. These two fine gentlemen have a business of their own, and we actually met at a gun expo.

So Bruce and Rudy, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourselves and just telling the audience a little bit about yourself and what it is you do. Good morning, everyone. My name is Rudy Uribe. I'm in the Army National Guard, serving now 17 years. I've gone into the health and wellness back in 2015 when I went back to school after my first deployment. I wanted to learn more about how the body works and how it all just basically to learn everything about as far as recovery, how to fuel it, how to train it, how to make it stronger, powerful. So I graduated and took a role as a head performance coach at a fitness boutique gym and then from there I I kind of wanted to learn more and then I got into the health and wellness of a TRT clinic where now I learned more

about the physiology of how the hormones work with the body and now today I'm here with my buddy Bruce and helping him grow his business work with the body. And now today I'm here with my buddy Bruce and helping him grow his business with the practical tactical and bringing it the straight to conditioning, the tactical straight to conditioning part of it. What's up, everybody? Obviously you heard from Rudy here. I'm Bruce.

I've got military training from the U.S. Coast Guard, training here. I was a patrolman for Horry County, and I currently work as an executive protection agent for diplomats, celebrities, the likes. And I got into this, I can tell you the warm and lovey reason. My mom got me into this, and she's an old lady who bought a gun and told me i need to start teaching people or i could get into the real reason of you know this world is is not what it used to be 10 years ago 15 years ago and um you know i think people need to be able to learn to protect themselves to be able to be safe with using firearms and really how to be able to shoot, move, communicate is where,

you know, I brought Rudy into this and we met, um, almost, almost this time last year. Um, and he actually helped kind of guide my, uh, my training into becoming, you know, a stronger, faster, more powerful person, um, from where I was. And that's been fantastic. And so just trying to marry the two things and be able to get people to the point where, even from just a prepper's point of view of like, are you going to bug in or bug out?

And if you have to bug out, how are you going to do that? Are you going to be the guy who buys all the gucci gear but doesn't train and then you're just a loot drop for somebody or are you going to be the guy who maybe doesn't buy all the gucci gear but he trains and he can survive so that's really what it's come down to is being able to help educate people on how to maintain their bodies, how to train their minds, how to become a survivor and have that survivor mindset. No, I think that's fantastical. So if you don't mind, tell us a little bit of what exactly is practical tactical for you. Practical to Actual for me is the culmination of the last 12 years of my life of training and learning and really growing as a person into the person I wanted to be for my family, for my kids and being able to make sure from just like a a primal point that i'm able to keep my bloodline safe healthy and you know in the instance of a terrible you know event happening being able

to be that person who's able to have a tight circle of people around me who i can help you know be a team with lead when necessary support, support when necessary, and protect at all odds. And so that's really where this has come to is, like, the world's a crazy place, Jordan. I mean, this past week somebody tried to invade a home here in Horry County, and the homeowner shot the guy. So, like, good on that guy, but that's what we teach like you you need to be able to defend your castle defend your family and and so it really hits home of like

shit's going crazy man like you were out there for hurricane helene like teaching people to survive is key like the government didn't show up until you know. Well, and you're still dealing with issues that the government isn't helping people. Right. And I think, you know, I've studied history, and any time the government has gone on television and said, we're from the government, we're here to help you, that's not a good thing. They're not there to help you.

That is propagandized. So I do want to ask, do either of you consider yourself preppers? I'll let Rudy take point on this one. I have a hybrid view on it. So prepping. So we got to look at the. So prepping for me, like I said, when I went back to school. So after my deployment, one thing I really wanted to get better at was making my body a functional, vital machine, not just being able to walk to work and going back to work and doing the basic stuff like the yard work and then going to bed.

No, I wanted to learn how to become stronger. back to work and doing the basic stuff like the yard work and then then going to bed no i wanted to learn how to become stronger i wanted to learn how to be powerful i wanted to learn how to you know feel my body so when it comes to being a prepper i i think it's more about prepping your body first stuff that if stuff were to happen where let's just say shit hits the fan your body is ready so your body is not your body's durable your body can recover your body can withstand the beating of what is to happen so physically physically i i would say i i i am a prepper physically mentally through all the i mean all through all the intense training that I've had, I've done with the military.

I mean, mentally, I think I am capable for anything. I am mentally and physically capable for anything to happen. Now, that's far, that's my prepper view. I think that's a great view of it too.

Um, as I would say, like from the mental view of it too I would say from the mental side of it growing up as a teenager I did tons of therapy and learning to cope with things and then being able to apply that with the military training I've received

the police training I've received the executive protection training I've received I'd say mentally when it comes down to it I can compartmentalize to be able to focus on a task and you know direct an initiative if i need to um so the mental side of it i feel like i've prepped for the last my entire lifetime for shit um from various traumas and all that stuff and then from the the prepping side i kind of have

a hybrid view because i mean rudy talked about it this morning before we got on the trail is like am i going to need to bug in or am i going to need to bug out so my view on it right now is is i'm not where we where we sit like attack is strategically tactical position because technically myrtle beach is an island um and we have the intercoastal waterway we have the atlantic ocean right there, and strategically we don't actually pose a threat for a red dawn situation. So bugging in would be more of a natural disaster situation outside of, you know, like a hurricane. But unfortunately we're still far too close to Charleston being an international port. I agree with you there. And that's where the bug-out perspective comes in

and why I'm kind of a hybrid. I have multiple packs. And that's the trouble I had with last night because we did this ruck today. It was, what pack am I bringing? Am I bringing my bug-in pack? Am I bringing my bug-out pack or a get-home bag? So I went for my get-home bag,

which I keep two days' worth of food, extra socks and drawers because you've got to change your socks and your skivvies man that stuff will give you away in a heartbeat trench foot is not fun um but like for our neighborhood i like to think of more of a bug in and lock down my area and have a set of security grab the people i need to that are in my circle and then bring them to me to have kind of like a forward operations position and figure out, all right, we've collected all the people we have, we need. Are we going to take stock of our resources and lock it down?

Or is it so bad that we have to have our stuff and bug out? And from the bug out perspective, you know, I have all my kids. They have their little bags ready with some food in it flashlight some batteries um some ear pro because you know if you bug out you might have to pull a gun um and i don't want my kids getting all messed up from that but i like to think that i'm prepared on either side of it because we have food saved up for bugging in we also have food that we can take with us for a bug out perspective and i know that like our vehicles for me and my wife i have you know our first aid set up i have our our go bags if we need to leave a vehicle stuff like that um but the plan is to

collect everybody initially at a bug in location take stock figure out the situation get our situational awareness about it and if we gotta go we gotta go you know um our ability to stay mobile and be mentally prepared for going from location to location is is key to me and so we got maps we got waypoints all that stuff's already marked off we have to leave no i think that's fantastic so um I do want to get back into the prepping but I do want to ask for you I you know practical tactical is y'all's business but what is it that you are offering here for the people in Myrtle because a lot of people don't realize I I moved um I previously had a different podcast I was on a family affair. I lived in

Arkansas and Mississippi and I am now here. My entire prep and style changed to a more urban living. I'm used to living in a very rural country setting, but finding y'all at the gun show was phenomenal because it's nice to know there are like-minded individuals that can offer so much. And I just want to put out there, so you can put that tag in there, what is it that Practical Tactical does? And what is it that you offer people here locally? So here locally, we offer everything that would go into surviving a situation, whatever it might be, natural, disaster, red dawn, shit hits the fan.

For a situational perspective, situational awareness, we teach you how to be aware of your surroundings. God forbid there's an incident while you're at the outlets with your kids or your family or something. How to be situationally aware and get off the X. How to be able to safely operate a firearm, how to be able to have that conversation with your family, your kids of, you know, hey, we have firearms in the house.

We don't want to be a statistic. Excuse me. You know, shoot, move, communicate. That's Rudy's bread and butter. And just all the essentials that go into survival from you know the first aid stuff that we're going to be offering rudy's brothers a combat medic who really wants to be able to offer people you know how to how to treat wounds how to if you're in the woods and you know something happens how do you splint something right um

all of those things and we what i saw was there is a severe lack of of training and knowledge being offered especially in our area you know being a transient area we get people from all over the united states coming to myrtle beach with different schools of thought but you know i have people come to me that are like man i, I want to keep all my stuff, you know, and this from like a gear perspective. Like, I'm just going to keep all my stuff black. Okay, well, black doesn't naturally occur in where we live. Like, we might have an urban environment in Myrtle Beach, but you get to Carolina Far, and now you've got woodlands. Like, how do you blend in?

How do you get to a spot where you can rest out here in nature? Just on the Hulk Trail today, like, looking at it, like, if you had to bug out to the Hulk Trail, for instance, like, how are you going to blend in? How are you going to find a spot where you can recover for a little bit without making yourself a giant target? And one of the things that I'm starting to explore is, you know, how to avoid drones. That's something I've started exploring myself is like because drone warfare is becoming a thing. Like how do you make yourself a small target to a drone or, you know, deflecting your thermal image? That's all of these things we can teach people. It's just a matter of people wanting to get the knowledge.

And nobody here does it. And I had you're and you're right when i first moved out here i didn't mean to cut you off but when i first moved out here the first thing i started asking people was okay where are their tactical classes offered now mind you i'm i think i'm you know well versed in it but i could always learn more and you don't see it. And then finding out that you offer shooting classes, one-on-one classes, private groups, that made it even more desirable because out here, you know, nothing against Palmetto State Armory. Love them. But they only do a women's day shooting on Wednesdays where women shoot free and it costs a bit. And then some of the other private shooters cost even

more, which don't get me wrong. Like your cost is great. Your cost is more than desirable. Um, and it's worth it too, because then it's, it gives me more flexibility and being able to, I've spoken to a lot of women here who want to shoot, but I don't know where to take them, where they would feel comfortable in that setting. And you offer that setting for people who are new to shooting, who need more privacy, if it needs to be an all women's group or a first time shooters group versus being put in a setting next to 20 other shooters who know what they're doing, who's, you know, you feel like you're kind of being made fun of. So I liked that you offered that comfort. I like that when I saw your sign, it had a list, even

preparedness on there, because like you said, I haven't seen that here in Myrtle before. And we typically go to the gun shows every year. And the fact that I've started seeing more people who I know from Prepper Camp, that other other that I've gone to for preparedness and teaching at and finding y'all just really kind of hit it home that finally there's something here locally for us. Right. And I saw that that was a problem in the area. And once again, nothing against Palmetto State. They're offering PSA defense. But the problem with what they offer for PSA defense, and once again, no knock on PSA, I think they're a great company, is the gentleman who's going to be teaching the PSA defense. background he's got no military background he's a competition from the aspect of being able to defend yourself and make your body strong to be able to do that right and i think that y'all offer both aspects it's not just the gun and defense aspect it's also the physical wellness and well-being aspect of it too because if for y'all who don't see these two gentlemen um bruce is a very tall tall man okay intimidating in height alone but rudy is rudy is a little bit

shorter but he's still taller than me but he's muscular the dude is muscular he looks like you would not want to get in a fight with him so i mean no you would not and very intimidating both of y'all luckily y'all have that aspect being men but i'm looking forward to maybe you know getting into the rock hikes with y'all and getting myself me and my partner more physically fit where we need to be because i've let my physical wellness drop since, you know, I had my baby. And I tell you what, y'all are intimidating. I am not a very big woman. You see me, I'm five foot two.

I'm, no, I don't want to say how much I weigh, but I, I would like to be, you know, um, inconspicuous of how much strength they actually have. You know, I'd rather someone look at me timid and small and then be able to take them down if I have to. Right. And especially for the women aspect, like, men are just built different from women. Right. A hundred percent.

And Rudy's helped a ton of women from just the fitness and strength side. He can talk for days on that. But I'll turn my camera on so like your viewers can kind of see like our stature. It's not. Oh, it froze. You got to turn your camera off.

Taxing. Like it was truly taxing and to have to be able to do that and I did it with just a sidearm on too. I didn't sling my rifle or anything didn't want to intimidate people on the trail but like if you've got to go and you have a sidearm like do you want to be gassed while you're carrying all your stuff around like that's another thing people don't think about is like you see you know the the the tiktok people who are like yep no no

problem i got it uh but they're out of shape and they think they can just sit back and shoot um the whole point of being able to shoot is being able to move out of the way of the fire like yeah you gotta you gotta have endurance i mean the biggest thing with uh so the problem with building muscle is that you have to make it uh you have to have a stamina because once you do a sprint i mean that depletes you so you have to be able to sprint to one cover and concealment reset sprint to another cover and concealment until you're finally clear of your uh the enemy's eyes or your what we call get into a safe a safe position um so strength and condition is is is very important i mean here's a great example so when i deployed my first

deployment uh i deployed the infantry unit and all we did was wanted to be jacked and tanned so we just wanted to lift heavy weights when we had our downtime. We would go to the gym and lift heavy. At that time, I really wasn't following a regiment. I was just doing what all the big guys were doing. Hey, I want to be jacked like that guy, so I'm going to do exactly what he does. And what did we do? We just had wear and tear on the shoulders, the chest. I mean, honestly, it's just the shoulders because we over-trained the upper body. And because of that, I was what they call in the military overweight.

And when you're an infantry soldier, you're running and jumping with all this tactical gear. And during that time, I sustained a hairline injury. Why? Because I wasn't properly training, not just – I mean, I was training, but I wasn't properly training my body, especially my lower body. That was the lacking element that really made me have that hairline fracture, which ended up breaking at the end of my deployment. So the biggest thing that I learned from that was, man, if I could go back in time, what would have changed?

What would I have done differently as far as training my body for that type of job in the military? And the biggest gain out of that was it was a learning lesson. But, I mean, like I said, I broke my foot, but I learned so much from it. but I learned so much from it. And that's the thing that made me, I guess, more motivated to, to learn more about how the body works and not just functionally, but also how can I put more muscle and be strong and also be,

be, be able to move fluid versus just being just with, I want to be able to move fluid versus move around where I'm just so tense and there's no flexibility because that's what's going to allow me to be in these tactical positions where I can shoot, move, and communicate. Does that make sense? No, it makes perfect sense, actually. The reason I came home from training was actually due to injuries i fractured both my legs and messed up my back in in boot camp in training common injuries it really is but what was astounding was the number of pelvic fractures and feet fractures

that a lot of women went home for and i was fortunate i didn't i wasn't one of the ones with feet or pelvic fractures yeah that that's a brutal thing to have to recover from because i know when i was in training i ended up fracturing my uh my fibula and having to go through training with hairline fractures and doing you know just just the basic training stuff with those kind of fractures. It's so painful. It's, you know, people don't realize just how much your body can do from the perspective of, like, mind over matter. But, like, once you're sustained an injury and then having to keep going with it. It's rough.

But that's something also is pushing yourself through that pain. But I do have a question for y'all. I know y'all. I know y'all are preppers in the sense to me, I see you as preppers, whether it be fitness and wellness and your gun control and everything. Is there anything you feel like as preppers that you could get better at

or something you wish you, you know, you want to eventually learn more about? Oh, I would say, hell yeah. I mean, just, you know you want to eventually learn more about oh i would say hell yeah i mean just you know and and not to touch on the firearm side of it but like that's the fastest diminishing skill there is next to golf um and and i know it's a weird comparison but like if you don't practice that stuff daily or in some frequency that is more than, you know, I went to the range six months ago, you lose all of that. So I really want to get much better at my land nav, being able to identify where I'm at on a map, where I've been and where I'm going. And that's one of the things, along with my ability to render aid. I think those are the things that I want to work on more

because I definitely view myself as more of a supporting role when it comes to having to get into an engagement with somebody. I can shoot with the best of them, but to be able to support the other guys who can do more, I think is more suited towards me of being like, one of my guys goes down, I can help render some aid. If I go down, I can at least render aid to myself so my buddies don't have to worry about picking my ass up. And then not getting lost, because let's say the grid goes down from a prepper's perspective. How many preppers have maps ready to go with waypoints marked out? Do they know how to get there?

Are they going to be able to read terrain? Terrain features. Terrain features, man. Oh, my God. Like, Rudy, I think you did plenty of land nav, and you do that as part of the armor company. So, yeah, so the land the land that i mean the the land that the land that lanes uh so we've done on day and night but most of those lanes i mean

the the way we train for these the way they uh what's the what's the what's the way to put this uh the way they truck the train no i guess what's what's the way uh the way they exercise the training is they want it to have where we're we're exposed to terrain features like a depression a cliff vegetation uh landmarks like railroad tracks uh a big water source so all of our uh land nav training is used to be to have features of uh terrain features so we can use that for our for our benefit then that's what helps us shoot an azmat from this landmark to this landmark to basically redirect if you get lost but back to the whole thing like no back to the whole thing i like what i can improve this prep and i'll be honest one of the things that i can improve on is shooting being more tactical you know being being in the military i being an army national guard we do this job one week in a

month two weeks out of the year sometimes we don't get that extra combat training like we would do for active duty. So for me, one of the things that I can be better at is being more efficient with a firearm, how to shoot it, how to be tactical with it. Because in my MOS now, we operate on a tank. So on a tank, I mean, if shit hits the fan, I can't just go hop on a tank. I got to be like, oh, shit, I got to use my handguns. Where's my rifles?

I got to be able to use that. But, again, that's one thing that I could get better at, hunting. That's a big one. Hunting, how to provide. One of the things that I do now that i'm pretty good at is fishing i can i can go fishing but that's the thing what if there's no water sources where you're at where you're stuck so you had to kill an animal without ruining the meat how to be able to skin it yeah how to cook it without getting preserve it yep preserve it yep that's a big one no i think

that's great i was wondering i mean when i say this don't mean angla you two are very much manly men but you know have you looked at the aspect of food preservation have you looked at the aspect of what you would consider almost home duties or y'all's partners um you know counteract on the preparedness with you? I know, like, for me at least, I'm the... I'm the preparer, the situational, like, developer for our family unit.

But my father-in-law, which you didn't have a chance to meet him at the gun show because he was working. He's one of the RSOs at PSA, but he's got, you know, almost half a century worth of knowledge, training experience from the u.s army and law enforcement um so like between the two of us you know we we kind of balance each other out on on the preparing and the skill side of things uh but our wives are not on that same level, which I would love to get my wife there.

And I can honestly say that I think she's a wonderful woman, but, uh, she, she started coming around to the idea that she needs to get on with that, especially with the way the world's going and everything, you know, with practical itself. I'm going to give a piece of unsolicited advice. Don't force it on me. I was married for 10 years with a partner who didn't start getting into prepping until towards the very end. And I can, I can say I'm very patient,

but you get me around your all's wives. I'm going to definitely be trying to get them hooked. Cause I, you know, my biggest thing I'm trying to expand and learn more on, on my end is comms. I have a ham. I have a GMRS.

I also have misstatic, you know, devices so we can still communicate. So I plan on nerding out and getting y'all involved in the comm system with us because why not? I am very selective of my group and community around here, which is very, very limited. And now that I've found y'all, I'm like, oh, y'all are stuck now being my friends. You poor things. And the listeners are over here probably laughing and praying for you because now you're stuck with me. I'm all here for it.

I think the comms thing is super important. I've never been a comms guy. I've always been a, like, I go out, I'll do recon. I'll get you all the information you need and put a plan together. But don't expect me to hop on comms and say anything. Right. So that's just it is, you know, my partner and I, he and I want to have a larger group that we know that, hey, if it comes to it, we, you know, if we are going to bug out,

well, maybe we have other people we can either bring with us or other people who we can connect together as a group till we hit our second point or whatever, because kind of like you, we in our home also have, um, well, I have multiple bags. His went up in a truck fire. So I just got him a new bag. Um, our, our situation is, is I have a good bag. I have a get home bag. I have, you know, an everyday carry bag. And then I have a, okay, we're going here for a small trip and back bag. I mean, I've probably got way too many bags, but it's how I level my gear and decide what it is I'm taking. Yeah, it's, it's a lot.

It's a lot to be a prepper. I mean, back to the comms i mean the the best guys that do comms and are in our unit are the law enforcement they're the best on the comms i mean the way they sound how to communicate i mean they're i mean because they literally talk on comms all day and all the time i think honestly why comms became a more serious aspect for me was because of hurricane helene i've got friends who are still up there still recovering who live in that region every day and the biggest issue was the lack of communication so mesh static or med static communications or mesh static is what it says on there are devices in which it works on

the same frequency as any electronic device so even if there's not a tower and you have one in within range you can still communicate using your cell phone it connects via bluetooth and as long as they're within range and you have these every so so far i'll have to show y'all it's it's pretty wicked you can still communicate and and be phenomenal and speaking of which i have a listener here in the live chat who said that nub says we do sound cool on the radio so you do have an leo over here and he agrees with you rudy completely but but being through that situation where we had no cell service like when when Hurricane Helene hit while we were on the mountain we had no clue what the level of devastation was outside of our area we had no clue of knowing what was waiting at the bottom of the

mountain so being able to now have that communication system makes me feel more secure that if something happens and my partner is at work and I'm still here with our baby, we can still communicate on some level of, okay, I know for a fact it's going to be this far or I hit our stop point at this mile marker. I'll be home in this amount of time. You know what I mean? this mile marker, I'll be home in this amount of time. You know what I mean? Like being able to have that system to be able to still communicate with my partner or a family member or a friend makes a huge difference in any SHTF situation or everyday situation because of a natural disaster.

I 100% agree with y'all on that. And I've never taken the comms thing too seriously, unfortunately, and I can say that I haven't um and and that's probably to my detriment but that because i never took the comms seriously i've always i've always been the person developing the plans we have plans in place that like we've gone through with my wife and my father-in-law, and his wife, and our kids are like, hey, if X happens, and you can't get in contact with us, let's say grid goes down, EMP goes off, right? China's like, screw it, let's take it all out. Just from that Red Dawn perspective, well, how are we going to communicate?

Okay, we're not. You have to know, like, hey, it's this time of day when this goes down. This is who's coming to get you if we have to come to get you or where you need to go next yeah and you need to be able to say like hey i'm meeting at you know i'm meeting at our house and i've got two hours to get there okay i'm x amount of miles away what am i going to do okay my car's down do i have a bike can i commandeer something like going from the perspective of like comms go down and comms go down all the time from military perspective from law enforcement that shit will go down it happens all the time that's the first thing to go when you need it is comms so we have something similar mapped out for us before we

found about all of this stuff and it was literally so in our house we have a 24 to 48 hour rule depended upon the situation and I have a friend who lives just down the street from me and I've told her if this and such and such happens you have this amount of time to get here or I'm leaving you or you have such and such amount of time if this situation happens or I'm leaving you and it's not to and such amount of time if this situation happens, or I'm leaving you. And it's not to be ugly, but I have to look at the safety of myself, my child, and my partner before I start worrying about other groups. But at least this way, as we're going to get her paired up with one too, a mesh static, a med static radio device,

so then we can still communicate and say, this is what's happening this is what you need to do because sometimes having that little bit of extra communication can really make a huge difference on how well a plan works out 100 100 oh my god i think key to that is is also making sure you have a watch a good watch good watch like i don't have a watch i i would like you have a watch, a good watch. Good watch. Yeah, I don't have a watch. I would like to find a watch that isn't Mickey Mouse. I have very, very tight wrist. I mean, it's bad enough. It's nice to finally find shoes that aren't Hello Kitty,

but I figured the light-up Skechers might give me away in the dark. Yeah, probably not the best choice. Yeah. We can get you some ir strobe shoes if we get some night vision going um but i i personally i love the g-shock brand um yeah i've rocked g shocks for 15 years since it's like you know they were cool and shit i was out of high school more than 15 years now uh but since they were cool in high school, you know, you get the big G-shock or whatever. Now I go with, you know, like a minimalist one that goes, kind of blends in with the outfit, earthy colors and stuff like that, that I know, like, is going to work when shit goes down. So, a listener.

I mean, it's like being able to take stock of what time it is and go to the next waypoint and have X amount of time on my wrist to know to get there yeah well i need to i need to get a watch um that nub says everyone should have a folding scooter in their trunk takes up very little space and will make traveling any distance well i definitely could see that um and the one thing i'll say about like a method of transportation is is like for a bigger guy like me a fold-up scooter is not going to do it i'm a 230 pound meat eater and my get home gear and as well as my my bug out gear like i'm i'm clocking in well over 260 getting on a bike or a scooter for me is it's going to be a huge detriment to like my my physical ability you're going to be to do anything you're going to look like you're playing with a toddler scooter you're a big i'm a big guy i'm much better relying on my feet and my legs which which brings us to the the

making your body a functional weapon in its own way it's like i know that like my feet will carry me miles and miles and miles and that my preparedness training and my mental state yeah so this this place where we came to ruck i was telling uh bruce here that uh i've ran this trail this trail barefoot i've ran it almost half naked when it was like freezing just uh just so just to test the body hey listen this is it's this is actually safe for you just be you got to expose your body to something you got to expose to something that yeah i know i've heard about the trail i've been told about going to that trail i've been told to take my bike to that trail i've have yet to actually be out there.

I drive past it. You can come. You should come with us. You should come here. I'm going to have to because I have a carrier group. You can come out here, go for a walk, bring the kids. It's kids friendly. It's actually super nice.

Today's beautiful. This was the perfect day. I think when we started it was about just under 60 degrees.'s it's warmed up now a little bit like it's shaded and it really gives you like terrain ideas um it also to let you know like the environment that you're going to be in and being able to see how that environment changes throughout the year gives you a uh yeah a look and it has terrain features all the terrain features yeah because like even just like with my ruck and my rig and all of that like going up some of the inclines here i was like i need to watch my foot placement i need to think about all these other things i'm like

it really it puts perspective to what some preppers might not have have necessarily thought about from the instance of like well if i if I do bug out, what next? I can't just hop on a road. If you hop on a road in even like a combat situation, that's a terrible, terrible idea. You need to be off the road. A road is a clear line of sight for anybody worth a damn with a rifle. And there's very few roads that actually get you out of Myrtle Beach,

especially if you're headed west. You are going to end up in the countrylands through those fields. That's one of the only routes out. Then you've got to deal with what you might run into in certain areas going through country land. And I think that's kind of the great thing about where we are in Myrtle Beach

is as far as it being its own bubble, this is not a terrible area to lock down. If you have neighbors who have a boat, you know, they sell EMP-proofing batteries for boats and cars. Like I've got an EMP-proof battery cover in my vehicle because I want my vehicle to be able to operate. I'm a big guy. I've got to carry stuff around. I've got a family. I want my vehicle to be able to operate. I'm a big guy.

I got to carry stuff around. I got a family. Um, but if I need to grab a boat, like my training has taught me how to get on a boat, how to get it started, how to drive the boat, how to know like the features that are going to be in the water.

Um, because for us getting out of here, it's not going to be an easy thing. It's, you know, we have water all around us. We need to use that to our advantage. Like taking advantage of your terrain can be the most tactically advantageous thing you can do versus leaving your home base going to what might

be unknowns that you might be facing more than likely see i'm gonna i'm definitely gonna need y'all's help on physical training and self-defense training because I've let that fall to the wayside because I do a lot more homesteading, you know, even in the urban situation. Garden, chickens, cannon. Now I'm doing Mylar storage from our, we've got a new sponsor, Pack Fresh USA. I've got a bunch of that. I've just done, started doing Mylar storage in. Like, yeah, I'm not anywhere where I need to be like y'all are physically. Oh yeah. I mean, I mean just, I mean, for someone who's listening to this,

they're just, if I, if I was not fit, if I've never shot a firearm, I'd be like freaking out when, if I was to listen to not, not freak out where, you know, you're going to not not freak out where you know you're gonna not panic yeah you're not be panicking but it's it gives you like an understanding of like wow i need to learn this i need to learn that there's a lot of things that you have to learn to be to be prepared for anything to happen i mean and it really starts with the body you take care of that body it'll take care of you i would take care of you yeah so i do want to ask with practical tactical do y'all travel outside of this area like what what aspect of like

what is your reach as far as if people who are interested in what you do social media would be the biggest reach yeah social media is our biggest reach um as far as me uh as a firearms instructor i'm a nationally accredited firearms instructor and i am all for going to new areas to one for myself because i'm going to learn something leaving my bubble so i think that that's awesome um but i i have no problem going to western north carolina where people have been impacted and taking a group of people to see this and learn about from firsthand accounts of like what they, what they experienced or going out to,

and I love the desert. I'm a desert guy. I thrive in the desert. I'm a weird lizard like that. Um, I've done a full, you know, a week long hike in Israel from the Golan Heights all the way through the

negative to just, just North the way through the Negev to just north of Gaza through the desert. That was one of the most amazing experiences learning terrain for that. As far as reach, I'm happy to hop on a plane if I have to and go meet a group of people and teach a group of people all these

awesome things because when you're also teaching people, you're learning from them and their experiences yeah you're growing as a person yourself so as an instructor and a coach and a teacher and all that like like we we love learning yeah like i'll learn it honestly all my clients i learn something new every day i mean that's that's the part that's the point that's really practical to have, is teaching and learning.

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the more questions we get, the better we prepare to basically give off that value. Right. We have a website that has a contact form. You can get on the website. It's practicaltacticalprep.com. And really, I mean, you know, if your listeners want to reach out to you, you have our info as well. You can blast our info. Like, I use my personal phone for the school because this is our baby, like, at the end of the day.

Like, I'm there for my students. I have students who will message me at 9 o'clock at night. Hey, Bruce, I got a question about something. You know, I tell my students, like, hey, if you call me after nine o'clock, I'm not, I'm not picking up the phone unless it's like you sent me a nine one one text. But if it's a question, man, I'm happy to answer your question until I fall asleep. Unless you ask me some crazy outlandish stuff that I need to sleep on.

But this is, this is every day. Like I'm here for it. If you have knowledge, you want to share, something maybe we might not have thought about, talked about. Otherwise, it's like, please, send it this way. There's no limit to how much you can grow and learn with stuff like this. Oh, that's it. Yeah. There's the old adage of if you're green, you grow.

If you're ripe, you rot. I will never be ripe. I can never say that i know everything about one topic there's a million ways to skin a cat i probably know three or four that's phenomenal no i i appreciate that i uh but i figured we'd keep tagging in here so people know you know these two guys are well versed in what they they do they especially if you're wanting to learn gun safety you want to learn physical health and well-being and the fact that you were here locally makes me even happier because usually um you know back in mississippi

we had someone we would train with we do a beginner intermediate and advanced training with our weapons as well as home invasion he would get our heart rate up before we started the class because you are not going to be in a calm situation when shooting if you're dealing with a home invasion or any sort of situation in which a gun has to be used i i don't know too many people who you know calmly pull out your gun and shoot someone it just doesn't happen your your blood heart rate your blood everything is going to be moving much more uh much faster and you're in some instances it's just going to be pure adrenaline right and you'll develop the tunnel vision um that that pns dump that you experience like just from being law enforcement going to a going to a

dv call domestic violence call you're driving there and your brain is now going through all the situations you could encounter trying to prep yourself for what's going to happen um and and that adrenaline is i mean it will adrenaline can be a killer yes for people who have not who have not put themselves in that situation where they've gotten their heart rate up. And this is one of the trainings I like to do is stress inoculation training. I like to stress students out who are ready for it, mind you, not the beginners. Stress you out to the point where, you know, we've put you through something physically taxing. Now you're going to get up and you're going to start shooting.

What's going to happen to you? Just from the learning perspective, putting them through that. I don't expect you to hit the target i just expect you to to i'm gonna function to function like i'm gonna fuck with you to the point where like i just need you to function right because no no situation is stress-free especially if a gun is being used but um that not said to let you know those Haitians know more ways to skin a cat if you need to learn. Oh, God. What was it Donald Trump said? They're eating the dogs. They're eating

the cat. They are. I've seen the videos. The woman just raw, like, she killed a cat and is just eating it in her hands. Yeah, and I think I try to steer away from politics a little bit but i have no problem talking about it i think i think that in itself is like something people like psychologically have to prepare for because just the the bugging out aspect if it's a non-violent bug out because of a hurricane, right?

How are you going to psychologically deal with that? Are you prepared for that? People need to think it's not just like, Oh, it's going to Scoofy, we're going to Disney. It's not. And it's crazy how everyone with the toilet paper, the toilet paper thing is ridiculous. Right.

Like, I know for when they were planning for uh helene here i think or post helene i went to sam's club at nine o'clock in the morning and they'd been cleared out of bottled water and so a lot of that actually came from multiple reasons because i was tracking that um literally it was people also prepping for the um i wouldn't say prepping people who were part of the corporate right the port strike but then immediately as soon as it happened people were sending out like it took us oh quite a while just to get milk back in because one of the factories in south carolina half of it was without power which is where our milk comes from so i mean it was it was a multiple things which is where our milk comes from. So, I mean,

it was, it was a multiple things on top of each other. And I don't think people realize whether it be an election, whether it be a natural disaster, let, lest it be a, um, a porch strike that all of these things are affected. Now I understand most people don't keep things in their house beyond a week and which dumbfounds me but we actually ran into a situation where i normally do one large grocery trip once a month and literally prepper camp uh in happened the weekend i needed to do my large grocery trip and i was like okay no big, no biggie. When do we come back? I come back and the stores are empty. And I'm like, well, this makes for a bit of an inconvenience, which now changed my restocking the house and how I keep the house on

preps. Because I'm not going to lie, we had to use up my storage stuff, which we rotate out typically. But it used it up quicker than the timeline I had originally set for my family. So those situations, if you haven't learned what you need to do as far as preparedness for yourself, for your household, and you don't know where to start, reach out to me. I have no problem talking to people, helping you work things out because that, I don't know if y'all experienced that, but for us, we were like, oh, okay.

We kind of let um something i normally think we're good on on our prepping i let that become a weakness because i got too comfortable yeah and i i think that that happens and i think people don't realize like when it comes down to it especially with stored stuff like you gotta be ready to ration oh yeah everybody yeah that's the food thing so there's a saying that says that uh you know the body can go days without uh food but the body cannot go days without water so one of the biggest things people i mean hell everyone has a pantry full of junk so what's gonna happen when shit hits the fan and you run out of food? You've got to get ready to go hours without food.

Pretty much go into your primal way of fasting. I think that's one of the things that Rudy really got me into was the intermittent fasting. That's how I normally eat is intermittent fasting. I got up to a point where I was doing you know 20 hour fasts which is great for your body for a lot of reasons and rudy can cover all that but like there's you know you run out of food what what do you do like you might have water but you're gonna have to go get food somewhere gotta go somewhere yeah gotta get off the couch yeah you gotta you gotta go out the house and you can't go by the food line but here's another thing you've got to get out the couch. Yeah. You've got to go out of the house, and you can't go by the food line.

But here's another thing you've got to think about. For us, in our house, we have certain allergies. So just because you can get it off the shelf doesn't mean it's going to be safe for consumption for that member in the household. We are now dealing with additional health issues with a family member. Oh, my gosh. That's a whole other animal. I'm nother animal so i personally have a soy allergy so and i mean like anaphylactic style reactionist to soy so i have to be very strategic on how i prep how i cook oh yeah that's why i do a lot of pre pre-cooking and canon and now we're

dealing with a potential health issue for my infant son, who we have to wait for the test to come back. That could completely change his diet even further. So now it's like these people have to think about, yes, you're used to going to Whole Foods or Walmart and going to the gluten-free aisle. Now you need to start prepping for your lifestyle and how you eat. If you want to eat a certain way now, you need to prep for you being able to eat that certain way tomorrow.

Yeah, yeah, 100%. I think that goes back to the primal side of things. It's just being able to hunt and kill meat because the body doesn't need carbohydrates necessarily. It needs proteins and fats. And that's what we do. We do high protein, high fat, little to no carbs. I mean, rice and beans, we're not giving up. Being Hispanic, it's not going away, okay?

Right. And rice and beans, though, are great things to prep and have on deck. Those are kind of natural foods. But also, you're not going to leave your home and bug out with... Some Cheetos and taquitos. But you're also not going to bring 10 cans of beans with you.

That shit will weigh you down. Right. I think that would be a great class to teach. It's just like, what are you going to bring if you bug out? How are you prepared to handle that? I could easily help y'all with something like that too. If you ever need... I would love to have you come on and maybe teach some of that

and even go over canning because i think that's not something i've really gotten into um i've done the sourdough bread thing from like a small homestead side of things but canning i think is important as well as like being able to carry around meat like go on a hunt get a deer whatever it is get a boar whatever we have in our area and be able to hear that so you have something to eat so um i have i have some questions for you from my listener they ask what filters do you keep in your bags and do you carry a silcox key now Now real quick, I'm going to jump in. I don't have a Silcox key. I do keep Sawyer mini filters. I do have a LifeStraw, not a huge fan, but each of our bags, even the infant, we all have a mini,

Sawyer mini water filters because you can back flush them. Right. So all of our bags have LifeStraws. I do have a Silcox key uh but i actually i really like the life straw um but i also keep being my bug out bag specifically not like my day bag is um a little a tiny little portable bunsen burner um that i actually got off Amazon for like 10 bucks. You put a, like a camping stove style. And then a little, little pots and pans set that folds up. I mean, it takes up next to no room.

It's super light. And I've, I've learned how to, you know, boil water as well as water purification tablets. I think those are awesome because they're light, they're small, you can carry them with you, you can keep a good number of them in each bag because you're going to need water. As well as

on my maps, and this is something I like to tell people, is mark all the water towers. While the net is still up, get on Google, find water towers in your area. Find the water towers. While the net is still up, get on Google. Find water towers in your area. Find the water towers. Because how many people are going to be going to those water towers?

Not that many. Keep a pair of bolt cutters. Keep some tools that you can use. And make sure you know how to use those tools. And know where your water towers are at. Because if you've got to bust open a water tower, I mean, you got to bust open a water tower. Sure, there's other things that go into that. But just being able to mark those and know where they're at and have that as a point of reference of, like, you know, if it really comes down to it, I'm going to have to climb a freaking water tower here and break out the steel saw and cut into it and get some water like

i can't get the the water turned on on it but you know those those are other things that you got to think about is like where's your nearest saltwater source where's your nearest freshwater source have these things marked out ahead of time on your map whether they're on your route or if you're bugging in in a nearby location and how you can get to them so i've got real quick and that nub shares the same aspect i'm not hating on life straw but i do like the fact that with sawyer you can back flush in case it gets too much sediment in it with life straw you can't that nub says life straws are okay until you want to cook some food. Do you spit the water into the pot? Fire stations have some big trucks full of water, too.

And then Garden Girl says, here in Texas, neighborhoods have ponds. Everyone will go there. I never thought about hitting up a water tower. But, yes, sir, so what do you do for cleaning a water source when you want to cook some food? And he asked, do you spit the water into the pot from the straw i mean i guess you could do it from that aspect um i'll tackle that in a second rudy's got to take off here oh no yeah sorry so he's gonna so much i appreciate you no jordan thank you so much no thank you so much for you know allowing us to actually share some value

i mean again there's a ton of value out there. If anybody wants to reach out to us, again, send us a DM through all of our social media platforms. Again, if you have any questions, please send them our way. Again, if I don't have an answer, I can find an answer. If anything, I'm also trying

to become better. Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you. Everyone have a great day go ahead i'll still be here but uh i'm gonna let rudy take out all right i love y'all have a great day so what i'll do for the listeners is i'm gonna make sure um reach out to me it is practical tactical prep.com i'm also going i have their tiktok and their instagram information so i will tag that on my instagram and my tiktok as well so if you have questions concerns reach out to them they are very very easy to get a hold of but go ahead sorry now what what is your aspect for this life straws

because of the needing a clean water source because what if it is for the sediment you can't you don't want to just put that straight into your pot no no you absolutely don't um so coffee filters coffee filters are awesome i i always have extra coffee filters i know that seems crazy but just carrying around uh you know 10 or 15 coffee filters in a Ziploc bag in your go bag is a great way to filter stuff out um from like a large uh sediment perspective not necessarily smaller stuff but at the end of the day let's say you're out um and you're bugging out and you find a stream right there's going to be sediment you can get the big stuff out but you also have to be prepared for like when you cook this water off, like is your digestive system prepared to handle necessarily what might come out?

Because I know like as a kid, I drank from, you know, garden hoses. Garden hoses aren't necessarily the cleanest. Like you have to be able to deal with like that side of it from a freshwater perspective being able to boil it up and and capture the water that drips out is is another thing um and there's so many different like we can teach you how to do this stuff it's hard to kind of explain it without the doing aspect. I'm a doer, so I like to in person, hands on, show you how to do it because it'll make sense. I could speak words all day long. But the LifeStraw aspect, I more think of that as like, all right, I'm going.

I don't have a ton of time to stop and boil water off. Let me bring on my LifeStraw. I've already gone through my hydro pack that I keep in my kit my hydro pack that i keep in my bag and you know whatever my cantina is that i brought with me because i'm always going to bring those extra things i try to bring anywhere from six to seven gallons of water with me in terms of like a bug out situation i have hydro packs in all of the backpacks i have hydro packs in all of the chest rigs um and that you're going to fill up with like you know bottled water and stuff that you know is fresh right off the bat well and also remember folks uh rovin blue has the ozone pin so i not only carry my mini sawyer i also keep an ozone pin just to make sure everything is sterile

when i'm drinking it and and that's that's an awesome thing to point out as well but if you look back at the primal ancestors ways of survival they're always near a water source they did just fine granted our environment's different now from toxicities and pollution all that junk they put into it but when you're bugging out you need to be near water because water is most important and water a water source will also lead you to animals um a great way to tell um if a water source is clean is does a horse drink from it horses won't drink from contaminated water i'm not saying everybody has a horse but you find yourself we need to have a class you find yourself with a horse while bugging out

well no no we need to have a class on that because actually you brought something to mind i apologize for sidetracking but right now like so hurricane helene right north carolina south carolina that water is toxic that animals are dying from drinking it. Horses are getting sick from walking through it. Dogs are getting sick and dying from walking through it. Is there a way to purify or clean that, or do you count it as a loss, but then what do you do when it seeps into the groundwater? That's honestly a great question,'s it's a difficult one to answer

because there's something though we may want to think about and have to have a whole another episode on right and and for me i'd rather take an l and survive and you know have to put my body through a little bit more of a hike or or something to get to where I can at least know or believe there to be fresher water than what is in front of me. Because I would much rather conserve what water I have and make sure I'm drinking an accurate amount for what I'm exerting here and get to another source, then have toxic water.

Because, like you said, the animals were literally dying in North Carolina from all the shit, like, literally shit that's in the water. It's now drained into South Carolina. Yeah, I mean, it's insane when you think about it. Which is also another thing why I like being here in Myrtle Beach is, you know, we have access to an entire ocean. Yes, it is saltwater. But purifying saltwater is much easier than purifying sediment-filled streams. I was going to say, doesn't that still have to go through desalinization for it to be even drinkable?

Yes, it does. But once again again those are some things we can teach you those are things we can teach people that that's not yeah it's it's not as hard as as a lot of people think it is um and really that's that's another thing is like at the end of the day surviving is only as hard as you make it um having a good plan you make it um having a good plan knowing your environment like i know that the intercoastal is brackish so it's fresh and salt water mixing probably a little bit easier to purify than just pure salt water um just from a standard like science point of view but like practices right i was just thinking about that water and how it looks and just

slimy and the gators well hey gators are food though um as long as you eat them before they eat you well and that brings us back to firearms training and survival training hey so um that nub did put something in the group that I figured you would like to hear. He says, fallenfruit.org is a website that maps publicly accessible fruit trees and

berry bushes. Pre-map out your bug out route to include free food. That's a really, really great point. Yeah, I'm going to actually copy this and send it to you. Yeah, I love that. That's a really, really great point. Yeah. I'm going to actually copy this and send it to you. Yeah. I love that. That's awesome. Um, I didn't even know that existed. I didn't either, but I think that's important too, is, is having that as an option, but also like the whole community thing, like having a good community of people people you can rely on and knowing how to produce your own

food also how long it takes to produce that food like you plant your your seeds now and then bug out for a little bit and hope that it grows do you try to lock down your area all that good stuff um there's there's so many things with it. It's actually, it's actually mind boggling when you, when you put it all out there. Um, as far as, as free fruit, that's, I mean, that's fantastic. I know my, my neighbor's got a peach tree that I'm allowed to use, but that's about it for free fruit. Dude, it's over actually by Lucky Sports Bar. Where's that?

It's over towards Carolina Forest. It's off of... I'm pulling up the map real quick, sorry y'all. Off of 544 and Myrtle Ridge Drive. Over by the Sonic. Fox Hollow Road. Oh shit, okay. Yeah, it's literally

right next to Walgreens. There's two in this area. It's... Oh, no, no, no. Ah, this is funny. So someone did mark it, but it's a dumpster. Of course. Someone marked a dumpster.

I think that's important, too, is, like, having that as a resource is good, but also knowing your area because you can't just rely on that one resource at the end of the day edible edible non-edible um for toiletries candies cookies and as seen on tvs is what they're pulling from it. Dumpster diving. Yeah, and it looks like there's a few for Surfside too. And there are all the dumpsters being marked of foods next to places where foods are being tossed.

Which I think for our area it's good to note that we have a pretty large homeless population. We do. We have a huge transit location. You have to think that these people also are currently surviving off-grid. So they might be good people to go to, but they're also going to provide a potential adversarial force. Well, it's a competition. For them, they are the natural survivors of this lifestyle and that type of living. So anything else is a threat to their means of living. Right. And that comes into preparing yourself for those things it's like you might have to engage a threat that doesn't have a gun but you do how do you prepare yourself for that and then can you try and convert this person into

somebody who's useful to you or are they just a threat that has to be dealt with um and that's kind of a morbid take no no but it's it's fine because that and i'm saying on this app they also have a homeless map that will tell you where and when bakers will drop their day old stuff also for emails so you got to think if if that's what's getting marked who's the who's the force that's using this you got to think if if that's what's getting marked who's the who's the force that's using this and there's a clear a clear projection of the people who are using this right is that something you necessarily want to have to drag your family to is that something like there's so many other things that you're going to have to encounter on that it's like okay we're going to have to go

there we know what we probably will encounter. Oh, sorry, you cut out. It's just a solo op. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's definitely interesting, I have to say. But check it out. It is definitely something interesting to look at, especially in comparison to the route or your escape route.

Yeah, 100%. 100%. I'm probably not going to keep you too much longer. I know we've hit the one hour mark. I actually am planning to do early voting today or attempt to. Very nice. I've got my daughter's birthday celebration this week because she was sick last week oh god bless well happy birthday but yes sir so i'm going to actually wind it up here if you'll give me just a moment i'll close it out and then um then we can go from there but i do want to appreciate uh say thank you i appreciate you coming on you and rudy bow for practical tactical prep.com um folks check them out they they do not only just gun

training but body training wellness i mean there's there's a lot to who they are and what it is they do as he said here um they have bruce has no quarrels with traveling to teach in. So reach out via either Instagram, TikTok, one of the social media pages that they have. So I appreciate everyone for coming in and those listening to the replay. But take care, have a great week, and enjoy your weekend okay folks Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at prepperbroadcasting.com.