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Season 3

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Join us in this episode as we delve into the remarkable journey of transitioning into the exciting yet challenging world of our thirties! We kick things off with some light-hearted anecdotes, including a comical fall I took while walking my excited canine companion through the snowy landscape. Those slips and trips remind us that despite aging, we can still embrace adventure.

As we navigate through the episode, we explore interesting insights on dog training, the essentials of maintaining an active lifestyle post-30, and the joy of good footwear while walking. A significant part of this discussion centers around surprising gifts from a memorable trip to the Smoky Mountains—two exquisite knives that symbolize our camaraderie and countless adventures as friends.

Equipped with stories from our Tennessee adventure, we uncover the delicious local cuisine, wonderful attractions, and the importance of engaging in family-centered fun that fosters strong bonds. This experience highlights the beauty of community, reaffirming how shared connections often spring from the most unexpected encounters.

Finally, we wrap up by reflecting on deep conversations with fellow passengers during our flight home, showcasing how faith and community can bring people together, promoting a spirit of connection and understanding. Join us to explore laughter, warmth, and the valuable life lessons we learn along this interesting path! And don’t forget to share your own memorable moments of growing up! Subscribe and share if you enjoyed our tales!

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Chapters

00:00 - Introduction and Birthday Reflections

08:18 - The First Fall: A Humorous Tale

18:09 - Dog Training Adventures in Winter

27:59 - The Fitness of Walking: Key Insights

40:39 - Surprise Gift Discussion: New Gifts Revealed

46:34 - The Smoky Mountain Trip: Highlights and Recommendations

01:00:04 - Culmination of a Tennessee Experience: Food and Fun

01:12:49 - The Power of Community: Conversations on Flight

01:22:19 - Wrapping Up Thoughts: The Future and Final Remarks

Transcript
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so, nick, I had my first post 30 fall today break your hip, no no, no man, but I just turned 30 and uh was walking my dog to connie bro.

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I do wonder how many people hear your burps in the background and wonder if we're summoning Satan.

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They are gnarly sometimes.

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They are more roars than they are burps.

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I try to get real away from the microphone.

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But I was walking her.

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She gets really excited about the snow.

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She loves to just walk and lick it up.

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It was funny because if you follow her tracks there's just like paws and then like a streak from her mouth that's, and then like just her paw prints, um.

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But anyway, she gets excited and she was pulling and I try to get.

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I've been trying to train her to not pull um at all, just because when it's slippery like that it's very hard to manage for you.

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And so, as she's getting excited and going, I pull against the leash right.

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But my pulling against the leash on the fresh snow makes me slide forward.

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You know, for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction.

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Well, my dog was not the reaction.

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My boots sliding across the snow was the reaction and so I went down full on like um.

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There was a moment where both feet were in the air to the left before my like knee, hip and elbow on the right side landed.

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But I landed in in the fresh snow, mostly, broke my fall and Takani's sweet dog comes up to me and just, oh my gosh, you know she's like you fell down.

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She's immediately like around me, hovering, trying to make sure I'm okay.

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I'm like, all right, let me make sure everything's all right.

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I'm like going through, like what landed?

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I kind of get to my knees and then I stand up and I'm, you know, trying to make sure I don't react at her because I want her to behave that way.

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I want her if you know, billie Jean or I fell to come to us, or if we were her right for her to come to.

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So I'm trying to tell her good girl, good girl.

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And then I tell her to sit so she just relaxes, so I can get my bearings, and I go through and I got no pain, no pain at all.

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I'm like, all right, well, let's keep walking, we'll see.

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And and I could say for a 30 year old guy, I got no pains or anything so far.

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And this was just earlier today, before I came to the podcast that I took, that took that that.

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Just wait till tomorrow.

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Also, be glad you weren't carrying a 2011.

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Might've shot your pee, pee, that's true, cause them be going off, but they only go off because 1911s go off.

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I mean, yeah, yeah, you know both the same.

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I mean a hard hit.

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You know, like that's the sort of thing people don't think of sometimes, like I wouldn't fall Well you might fall.

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Yeah, that's true?

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Anyways, it's also why I don't carry a 320.

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I carry a Flux Raider and it's not pointing at my pee-pee, it's pointing at the ground behind me because it's in the backpack.

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But anyways, I just thought you'd find that funny.

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No, yeah.

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It is kind of weird.

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When you're like that's my first fall into my 30s, I mean it's probably only gonna get harder to get up.

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I definitely didn't get up as fast as I used to.

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I'll say this cold weather's got my.

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My knees have been aching the whole time it's been cold yeah, when we're doing our walks we usually go for two miles per walk and, um, I noticed on mile two yesterday I was having some serious creakiness in my right knee.

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Are you walking in these?

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boots, oh hell, yeah, I love they're so comfy I mean they, yeah, but they're like they're not necessarily great for walking long distances, oh no I think that I think they're great because they are like one, they're great for cold weather, snow, ice, right, they're pretty grippy.

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And two, I think boots like this help you make the most out of walks, because you're up.

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Well, I think they make you do the full stride which is heel to toe, push off.

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Heel to toe, push off right, and I can really feel it in my calves and the back of my hammies and I think, like that's the point of like I'm a big believer that walking is the best workout if you do it right, if you take small steps while walking and do it and like you get, you get more steps.

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Quote, unquote, right.

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That's not the real benefit of doing long stride walks.

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And this is all just regurgitation from, like a PT guy who was like he told me he's like don't ever run with weight on.

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These dummies who are running with plated vests or weighted vests are stupid.

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Really Don't run with weight.

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If you want to get really good exercise for your whole body and cardio, you can do short sprints of running to try to increase like your fastest time and like short distance, like continually trying to run a mile faster and faster.

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But if you're going for distance and stuff like that, you can jog and run with no weight.

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But if you're gonna do weight to try to do, like you know, more muscle development and like resistance exercise, you should be doing, you should be walking.

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You should be doing heavy weight, heavy weights, full stride walking.

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So like, all right, wear your 20 pound vest and ankle weights or whatever right, but like again, that will do more for your body than running, because it's going to exercise more muscle groups and it will improve cardio and such.

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But you won't get the benefits if you're not doing the full heel to toe step in strides like, if you're just walking like some homie around the mall, just not just daydreaming and not caring at all about your form.

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It's like anything else, right, you need to be aware of your form.

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So, anyways, all I said I like these boots because I can feel that they make me walk in the right form.

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Okay, and they have increased my time quite a bit.

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I've got my kilometer pace walking, not running.

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I've got my kilometer pace with the weighted vest down to right under 12 minutes per kilometer which is on time for the classic four miles in an hour.

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Naismith rule, right Like you should be able to do a solid pace of four miles an hour.

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And I'm able to do that with weight.

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Nice, that's good, I like it.

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I've been training, I've been training, anyways, said that's my uh, that's my um.

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You know, first, first foray into, uh, old age, um, but before I forget, I have a gift for you oh man, it's exciting because it's your birthday gift.

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And yes, did I get it on my secret birthday trip with my wife?

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I did.

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But it was one of those things where I was like you know what, we're kind of at a point in our lives where you're a friend of mine and your wife is now a friend of my wife when we're out places.

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I do think we think of you guys when we see wife that when we're out places, I do think we think of you guys when we see things, especially when we're in tennessee and mace windu, you know, would drag herself through broken glass to sniff the boot prints of dolly parton.

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So I was like you know, like we gotta get got to get her some Dolly something.

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Oh yeah, so I know Billie Jean got her a gift a nice little cute Dolly Parton kitchen towel not for you to use.

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Do not use that towel, Pat.

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The Dolly Parton towel is not for your dirty, greasy hands.

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We need to tell my wife to not use it, because she's utilitarian sometimes.

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Oh, is she really?

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She's just like she'll use it up Dude Billie Jean had a course correction for me when I grabbed the bright white Christmas towel in the kitchen hanging from the stove.

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Yeah, of course, to wipe off a mess, right, and I was informed that's not what that towel's for.

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Is it for drying hands?

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No, it's actually that towel's not for anything other than Christmas decoration.

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If I needed to clean up a mess, use the dirty, nasty black kitchen towel.

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I'm more like your wife in that way and Mace Windu's just like over there, like baby food, you know cast iron skillet.

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I always, I always felt that you know, mace and I were kind of on the same psyche to some degree.

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Yeah, just to you know, it's a towel you know what you're supposed to use it, for yeah, I won't, I, I won't use it.

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We just gotta, we, I gotta, relay the message yes, yes, oh, and that too.

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You got me a birthday gift, and it's new headphones and new mics for the studio, which is good because, honestly, I was gonna ask you if I could take something home, because I have quite a few videos that I've been recording on my free time that are very miscellaneous.

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They're not rants, right, they're just miscellaneous activities and I'm like I recorded it.

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Why not turn it into content for the pod?

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oh yeah, so a little voiceover mic, but I do need to voice them over, all right because they're the one is like this the process of learning how to spray paint my rifle.

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Oh yeah yeah, which turned out sick.

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Have I shown you the pictures?

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No, not yet.

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Well, it turned out sick.

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However, I also drank about five beers while doing it that's how you're supposed to and it got pretty wild at points.

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Just a man alone in a garage With a rattle can.

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Flip flops rattle.

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Can gas mask on?

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Rifle hanging from the ceiling.

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It was awesome.

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It was a lot of fun.

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Completely unloaded.

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Headphones died, so I just started playing the music out loud.

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It was great, dude, it was such a good time.

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Let me show you.

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I'll pull up the picture here, but anyway, so there's that one.

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And then I did another one where I tested out a silencer for my FNX-45, which it wasn't like a very exhaustive testing, but it was cool and I kind of just want to use the footage for a conversation about firearms and accessories for firearms.

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Right, but anywho, what are these mics and what are these?

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headphones.

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I mean the headphones.

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They're pretty basic.

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Hold on, hold on.

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Don't let anyone don't say that man Don't say that because, yeah, don't say it, because most people here have no experience doing podcasts, so like these are pretty fancy to anyone else this is true.

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So I will say we, we don't go tippy top of the line.

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I I do know good gear, I can be a bit of a gear whore, but at the same time we gotta you know, we're balling on a budget.

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We're balling on a budget at the mick and pat show we are, and so we've been uh for the past two years rocking the uh um, just some sm58, sure microphones which are kind of like your workhorse, ford f-150, just microphone.

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That's the, that's the uh most commonly used microphone everywhere, anywhere you're at um, and we had some little uh pop filters on them.

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But uh, now we've got some, some fancy shore podcast microphones, um, and they're not the full.

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There is a next level up from here and they're like 450 a pop.

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I didn't get those, but these are uh basically sure came out with a I was gonna say I know for a fact we don't have 450 in our bank account.

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Yeah, yeah, these uh, um, these uh, um, uh, these new, sure microphones.

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Basically they're, you know, they're like that classic podcast shape microphone, a radio microphone, and the biggest feature on them being, you know, we've got a a big, thick, uh pop filter on them so that, uh, you know we're not blowing out stuff.

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It's got a better low end to it.

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And then also our yeah, it's just some headphones that kind of upgrade our headphones to some higher end AKG headphones so that we can, while we're recording I'm kind of like mixing live and making sure everything's sounding good.

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And our other microphones kind of had some a lot more background noise coming through on them and so, yeah, we just kind of had to.

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We didn't have to, but I thought it'd be nice to make it a little more, a little more official.

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It's funny because day one in the Macon Pat headquarters, we were in this giant office um, not giant giant, but it's really long and echoey and we were just sitting holding the microphones with our hands, talking.

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And then we've now we're where we are now we've got a little studio set up with uh excuse me, with we have, you know, uh, bass traps in the corners.

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We've got props.

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No, you're not a real podcast unless you have props, it's true, you know, and things on the table and stuff around you, but we've got foam on the ceilings and curtains up and a big thick carpet on the floor to help with echoing, and so so this dog we got a dog now and a pretty big and fluffy dog.

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It probably helps with the audio quality in the room.

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And so now we've the microphone was kind of the next step, so hopefully our voices are coming through nice and clear for you.

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Take a, this is, this is the rifle, this is my 223, wild.

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Oh nice, I went for the, the multi-cam patterning across it really wanted to have like.

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I wanted that like reptilian hex pattern, but also the know multi-cam breakup of colors and things.

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Yeah, no, this is sweet.

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And this is, and then I'll give you another picture in a video so you can see.

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And what?

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That's awesome.

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No, this is a.

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That's what you got to do.

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You got to paint your guns.

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You got to paint your guns, bro.

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If it's a black gun, paint it.

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If it's a wood gun, paint it.

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It's a wood gun, leave it alone yeah well, I mean, I would even paint a wood gun if it was a certain price wood gun.

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You know what I mean yeah, but I mean just in general, people get scared about like spray paint on spray painting, or I mean people get, or people get scared about spray painting, just their black gun yeah it's gonna work the same way.

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Just do it.

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Do what you want, that's true.

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Live your truth you're just just like jamming out to music while recording oh yeah pretty sick, though, right that's pretty good, awesome, and I'll show you I'll show you the picture.

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So I picked the colors and kind of the style to match my ghost hood cone camo and uh, so I did take a picture of it leaning against the camo.

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Um, but essentially the process I followed with that was the base coat of tan and then the laundry bag hex pattern.

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I just put a laundry bag across over it and that was enough to mix it up and give it the hex pattern as I sprayed over and then after that I just drizzled it with soap.

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And did layers.

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I love the soap method on there.

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That soap method video you sent me did it work.

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I think so.

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I mean I said, say I pretty much, just did soap over it yeah.

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And then sprayed one coat of a color, then soap over that one coat of a color, then soap over that, one coat of another color, soap over that.

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And I did all that over after I had done stripes of various hex kind of scale patterns.

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So that's why there's like hex patterns but then there's different infill.

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Uh-huh, it's because the soap filled in.

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Yeah, on the hex stuff, but anyways.

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So here you can see it right against my actual camo that I used as inspiration.

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That's pretty good, that's like pretty one-to-one right, that blends right in there.

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Yeah, it goes to a camo brown.

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That's awesome.

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What's funny is like there's a Sig Spear sitting down the road for $3,500, with like you know, it's all camoed out, this camo looks better.

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With like you know, it's all camoed out, this camera looks better.

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Well you know who's?

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Six beers right down the road, it's at the gun stop.

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Oh okay, I was gonna ask if they miss it or not like if we could get it oh yeah, no, no, I know what I mean.

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Like uh, just like uh stock, like uh cerakote, whatever.

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But yeah, the the soap method is wild yeah, and, and so I'm going to do the fluxes next.

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Oh, you're painting the flux.

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And I'm painting the flux up before next week because I'm going to bring it next week to blow Rice-A-Roni and Hoffman their mind away.

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So for those of you who don't know, next week we're having some guests on to review emergency individual first aid kit setups as well as like a not necessarily individual first aid kit, but like a car first aid kit and how to kind of set those things up.

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And I'm bringing in all of my first aid stuff with what I currently have set up and then I'm going to let them tear it apart and tell me what to put in it instead.

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I like it, and then I'm gonna let them tear it apart and tell me what to put in it instead.

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Um, so now I will say the uh, we have talked about painting guns in the past, yeah, and you've talked about defense weapons and like being careful about how you paint that.

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Oh, yes, yes yes so I'm like your.

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Your flux is kind of a it is a personal defense weapon, yeah so what's the?

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are you like stormtrooper?

00:18:30.932 --> 00:18:33.299
or like are you doing like a hello kitty pattern?

00:18:33.299 --> 00:18:40.001
I was thinking about going like iron cross actually, you know, like, really like ss, you know memorabilia stuff.

00:18:40.082 --> 00:18:43.969
Oh that's, that's dangerous yeah, I, I I'm just kidding.

00:18:43.969 --> 00:18:46.193
I want people to get scared when they see my gun.

00:18:46.193 --> 00:18:48.840
No One.

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If you hear that and you don't think that's silly and you think no, no, no, no, I do want people to get scared when they see my gun.

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It's a gun that will be enough to scare them.

00:19:00.028 --> 00:19:05.071
If you put the Punisher skull on your gun, it's not scaring them anymore.

00:19:05.619 --> 00:19:14.515
And in fact, that's only going to build a case against you in the court of law that you're a vigilante seeking to harm people because you're psychotically imbalanced.

00:19:14.515 --> 00:19:27.989
So here's what I'm saying Paint your guns for the aesthetic purpose of you know, a spray paint helps protect against rust, it looks vibey, it's cool.

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Paint it for camo, because black is not a color naturally found in the world.

00:19:32.130 --> 00:19:36.948
Right, all that jazz, but do it right so you don't like jam up your gun and gunk it up.

00:19:39.201 --> 00:19:57.819
When it comes to personal defense weapons, like your handgun, a Flux Raiderider or a more small sbr, sbs, when you paint those, you should actually go in the other direction make them look as probably harmless, perhaps not a toy, right?

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We don't want, we don't want the court to think that you don't respect the seriousness.

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Orange tips on them, yes, but you are painting them to perhaps make sure you don't come off in case you ever have to use it.

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You're not coming off as someone who wants to use this firearm, but this is more like perhaps a recreational tool, a sporting tool that you happen to have on you at the time of use and you used it for personal defense.

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That you happen to have on you at the time of use and you used it for personal defense.

00:20:28.307 --> 00:20:34.653
So I'm going with my Flux, the classic route of 80s, 90s, jazz.

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Styrofoam coffee cup.

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Do you know the?

00:20:39.317 --> 00:20:39.957
jazz design?

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I think so.

00:20:41.280 --> 00:20:48.193
Yeah, the jazz design is the classic white, white, teal, purple zigzag across the teal.

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You know what I'm talking, oh yeah, yeah.

00:20:50.267 --> 00:20:56.932
The classic ski jacket color Yep, and so I'm going for that method to have it be more of like a sporting cool.

00:20:56.932 --> 00:21:01.423
Yeah, I use this in competitions because I don't need my flux to be camo.

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I'm not using the flux in a hunting or even, like you know, red Dawn environment, where I need it to blend in and not give my position away.

00:21:12.090 --> 00:21:16.069
But I might be using the flux in a ooh ooh bad guy.

00:21:16.069 --> 00:21:29.000
I need to pull it out of my backpack way, and at that point it doesn't really matter if it looks like a gun or if it looks like a coffee cup, so that's, and I kind of think it looks sick.

00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:38.715
I've always thought like if you're gonna do it, might as well do it with a gun like that yeah that you know its purpose is to be vibey yeah, for sure.

00:21:38.736 --> 00:21:40.539
So the flux has some flare.

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It needs a little panache a little, a little, uh, a little bit in there, I guess the uh you'll paint it uh.

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With the stock closed actually I'm painting it with the stock open and taped, because that's one of the things they say is that you should tape the stock right when uh, when, painting it.

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So I was thinking about the function of that.

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That's one one where the on the flux uh, if you don't know who you're, if someone's listening doesn't know, basically there's a button you push and the buttstock like flings out.

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That's what I'm gonna go for.

00:22:12.251 --> 00:22:14.164
I think that'll be awesome and this is gonna.

00:22:14.204 --> 00:22:16.270
You know, that will be just literally on the body.

00:22:16.270 --> 00:22:19.324
I'm not gonna make my hollow sun aims that.

00:22:19.324 --> 00:22:30.387
Or the compensator uh, I'm, this is literally just the housing of the flux, because everything else will come off and could be used for a more serious purpose yeah, I think that'll be.

00:22:30.387 --> 00:22:39.321
Uh, that'll be awesome well explain the flux, sorry, I just want to show you I was just saying for the flux, uh, basically the on the.

00:22:42.045 --> 00:22:46.310
Well, the flux raider is a chassis for uh pistol.

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So you take your, you take a sig pistol and you drop it into uh your, this chassis system.

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That's a little bit simplified.

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But, um, there's a button, you hit and the, the buttstock flings out fast, and so when you're painting a weapon, you got to be kind of conscious of if you're painting parts of it that have uh functions, that have to be you know anything that has to move on there.

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You want to be careful about how you're painting that stuff.

00:23:17.106 --> 00:23:22.008
So I was just uh, yeah, the, you can't paint the, the part that pops out, because you kind of gum it up, jam it up.

00:23:22.008 --> 00:23:23.933
Potentially, if you put that layer on there, it's not, the stock's not going to spring.

00:23:23.933 --> 00:23:24.556
Kind of gum it up, jam it up.

00:23:24.596 --> 00:23:27.231
If you put that layer on there it's not the stock's not going to spring out.

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And additionally it's nice because most of the springs are already covered by the flux you know when they're installed.

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But they've also said like hey, make sure you remove in your fire control unit and all that stuff.

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Of course, right.

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So or are you gonna?

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I am gonna paint the slide down, but I'm gonna paint the slide to be that like a vapor wave, sunset orange, so it's gonna be like a.

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The top of it's gonna be like a golden yellow, all right that just fades into like a orange, almost like neon orange red, and then I'm gonna just uh, like weather dry brush the edges of it with a pink, all right, so that way it looks kind of like as it wears off, it looks like there's pink underneath it, but not a Barbie pink.

00:24:17.146 --> 00:24:22.701
Well, honestly, if I just turn the computer here, you can see the background Pretty much.

00:24:22.701 --> 00:24:27.471
It's going to go with that kind of vibe, but more solid, less smoky.

00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:31.631
It's kind of like this Flux is going to have a Macon Pat Show vibe to it.

00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:32.523
Yeah, it's going to be very.

00:24:32.523 --> 00:24:34.204
I mean, we bought it for the show.

00:24:34.204 --> 00:24:37.164
That's true, it's a tax write-off.

00:24:37.164 --> 00:24:39.903
I've heard for things to be tax write-offs.

00:24:39.903 --> 00:24:42.387
You just have to buy them and use them in one episode for it to count.

00:24:42.387 --> 00:24:44.731
We've used it in a lot of episodes.

00:24:44.731 --> 00:24:46.354
Yeah, exactly, so there you go.

00:24:46.354 --> 00:24:51.191
But anyways, all that said, guns, guns and stuff, cool things.

00:24:51.191 --> 00:24:57.065
I have a gift for you, but you get to pick.

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And now yes, I want one of these more than the other.

00:25:00.748 --> 00:25:01.309
All right.

00:25:01.740 --> 00:25:06.319
So I might be butthurt based on which one you pick, but that only adds Annie's to the stakes.

00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.826
Oh my gosh, down in Tennessee.

00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:25.931
I went to pigeon forge in gatlinburg, uh for my birthday weekend my, my wife surprised me, was taking me to the smoky mountains, which I love, the smoky mountains, um, and she took me down there for my birthday.

00:25:25.931 --> 00:25:33.517
We went out thursday and it was really fun with my group of uh, our group of like dudes that we do our cqb classes with, and all that.

00:25:33.517 --> 00:25:36.633
I was like, hey, boys, let's do a little bit of reconnaissance research here.

00:25:36.633 --> 00:25:39.018
Here's all the facts of what I know.

00:25:39.018 --> 00:25:42.592
I know like we're roughly flying out around this time.

00:25:42.592 --> 00:25:45.501
I know it's a straight flight, no connecting.

00:25:45.923 --> 00:25:52.441
I know the weather where we're going is going to be roughly around this temperature for the weekend and to expect some rain, yada, yada right.

00:25:52.441 --> 00:25:58.962
And uh, everyone's like, all right, let's freaking figure out all the flights flying out of like denver international airport at this time.

00:25:58.962 --> 00:26:00.586
You know, let's all right.

00:26:00.586 --> 00:26:02.772
Based off those, what are the ones with this temperature?

00:26:02.772 --> 00:26:11.405
Uh, and we just were going through them and like I was like if I had a bad money, I think we're gonna go to pigeon forge, but I don't know which airport.

00:26:11.968 --> 00:26:15.237
And I had a couple dudes like knoxville no, not knoxville.

00:26:15.237 --> 00:26:16.840
It Nashville, nope, not Nashville.

00:26:16.840 --> 00:26:17.722
Too long of a queue.

00:26:17.722 --> 00:26:28.200
And also connecting flights, and like we were all just like geo, locating everything, and then like we pinned it down like perfect flight time, all that stuff, and so I sent a picture to the boys of the gate after we got to it.

00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:32.875
I was like we nailed it boys, and of course I didn't want to under.

00:26:32.875 --> 00:26:34.457
I didn't want to take the wind out of her sails at all.

00:26:35.018 --> 00:26:42.526
So, I told her we had made a guess, oh yeah, but like I didn't tell her where and so when we got there I was like oh, this is perfect, I'm so excited.

00:26:42.526 --> 00:26:45.244
It is exactly where we thought we were, I was going.

00:26:45.244 --> 00:26:52.558
But I'm so stoked and I showed her the messages and she thought it was really funny, nice, but um, oh, that's awesome.

00:26:52.598 --> 00:26:54.842
So we went there and there's a place there that I love.

00:26:54.842 --> 00:27:16.344
It's called Smoky Mountain Knife Works oh dang, and it's like this massive, massive knife warehouse store full of like probably 200 different no, not 200, sorry Probably about maybe 25 different tables, but each table has anywhere from like one to 10, 15 brands.

00:27:16.711 --> 00:27:20.781
So you probably have like 200 brands in total represented there, if not more.

00:27:20.781 --> 00:27:24.800
The only thing is that they used to have more local handmade knives.

00:27:24.800 --> 00:27:29.178
They just don't really now anymore and the last time I was there was over 10 years ago.

00:27:29.178 --> 00:27:36.634
But they're like I'm looking for something that's made in Tennessee, yada, yada, and they're like, well, we don't really have a ton of those.

00:27:36.634 --> 00:27:40.143
But K-Bar knives apparently are made in Tennessee.

00:27:40.143 --> 00:27:43.577
Oh dang, I was like I don't really want to get a K-Bar.

00:27:43.577 --> 00:27:44.993
Like that's pretty excessive.

00:27:45.034 --> 00:27:48.959
He doesn't need it, a bear killer he doesn't need a you know freaking giant K-Bar.

00:28:05.630 --> 00:28:06.351
I'm sure he already has a giant.

00:28:06.351 --> 00:28:08.854
Give him something like that's cool, but also like will serve a purpose, like you know something, daily utility, all right.

00:28:08.854 --> 00:28:09.535
So I got us two knives here.

00:28:09.535 --> 00:28:09.955
Oh, my gosh, a knife.

00:28:09.955 --> 00:28:12.439
They are the uh k-bar defense master series in con, in tandem with uh cooperation with tactical defense institute.

00:28:12.459 --> 00:28:29.555
Now, these aren't just like joker, okay, I want you to know like this is not like chinesium right like these are designed in partner with like law enforcement right to be specifically like knives that a police officer is can use and rely on.

00:28:29.555 --> 00:28:33.282
All right um the this, these knives these are.

00:28:33.282 --> 00:28:49.056
You should never pull it out to cut like really cardboard string rope, anything like that, because they are made of very sharpened thin steel and they will chip on things like that like these are literally.

00:28:49.115 --> 00:28:56.317
I mean, these are really much designed to like cut through tissue and do it really well with a certain style of fighting.

00:28:56.317 --> 00:28:58.741
So you'll see when you open it, right.

00:28:58.741 --> 00:28:59.423
But here's the thing.

00:28:59.423 --> 00:29:02.491
One is FDE, one is black.

00:29:02.491 --> 00:29:08.240
I kind of want the FDE one, but if you get it, I don't want it anymore.

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.744
All right, I'm just going to be bummed and grumpy about it.

00:29:10.744 --> 00:29:12.154
All right, because you got it.

00:29:12.154 --> 00:29:14.553
I have no idea which one's which anymore.

00:29:14.553 --> 00:29:22.565
Yeah, the only thing I can tell is that one of them is 02-1481 and the other one's 01-1477.

00:29:22.565 --> 00:29:26.573
I have no idea which one's which.

00:29:26.593 --> 00:29:29.057
So I'm just picking and I get the one I get, yeah.

00:29:29.116 --> 00:29:33.564
And technically actually they're, I guess no, sorry, k-bar might be based in Tennessee.

00:29:33.564 --> 00:29:36.771
These are made in Taiwan, so they're kind of made in China.

00:29:36.771 --> 00:29:37.773
But these are like high quality stuff.

00:29:37.894 --> 00:29:38.174
All right.

00:29:38.174 --> 00:29:40.981
No, I like it All right, left or right.

00:29:40.981 --> 00:29:44.115
What if I have a preference as well?

00:29:44.115 --> 00:29:44.798
What do you want?

00:29:44.798 --> 00:29:48.278
I mean, I'm not an FDE man.

00:29:48.892 --> 00:29:52.355
Oh, okay, but I don't know which one's which.

00:29:52.355 --> 00:29:56.674
All right, let's open this thing up.

00:29:56.674 --> 00:30:02.515
All right, let's open this thing up, all right, cool, so um, they should be.

00:30:02.555 --> 00:30:04.900
oh sick I think I got the fdu I got the fdu.

00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:06.082
Oh, let's go all right.

00:30:06.082 --> 00:30:07.609
So, um, you'll see as we open these.

00:30:07.609 --> 00:30:17.363
Um, okay, good, good, so there's a bubble wrap um a kydex holster.

00:30:17.784 --> 00:30:31.916
Oh, with the buckle it's just open, oh dang, oh, it's a fixed blade it's a fixed blade that goes into a kydex holster yeah, this is sexy and these are punch blades yeah, so these are awesome you can you?

00:30:31.936 --> 00:30:39.432
essentially the whole methodology is to rip it out and box with it and like, and let it be what you strike with.

00:30:39.432 --> 00:30:41.135
And a lot of guys they want to.

00:30:41.135 --> 00:30:52.637
They want to hold it like this right, like like you might hold a pistol, where this finger groove rolls over, uh, the part of your finger between your first uh knuckle coming down from your fingernail.

00:30:52.637 --> 00:31:00.962
For people at home, right, okay, if you look at your finger, your first knuckle is the one that is closest to your fingertip, your fingernail.

00:31:00.962 --> 00:31:02.548
So that's first knuckle.

00:31:02.548 --> 00:31:10.474
Your second knuckle is the joint between that and then your last knuckle is actually your knuckle knuckle, which you would use to box with, like that.

00:31:10.556 --> 00:31:14.352
That tip is what you also don't go second knuckle, you tuck it in the third.

00:31:14.352 --> 00:31:22.067
You tuck it in, yeah, because essentially you want to hold it and make a fist thumb over to keep it from being able to roll.

00:31:22.067 --> 00:31:28.863
Oh, yeah, and you're slashing but also jabbing, and you're jabbing just the same way you would with a fist.

00:31:28.863 --> 00:31:38.609
So even if you and it's also like I was watching someone someone was like, if you hold it like this and try to strike out like a little pokey, like you're pointing a gun and trying to poke someone with the tip of a pistol.

00:31:38.609 --> 00:31:40.977
A good chance is.

00:31:40.977 --> 00:31:44.351
As you're going for that jab, your thumb's gonna get caught on something.

00:31:44.351 --> 00:31:51.236
Slide back, you're gonna tear your thumb ligament and pop it out of place where you're gonna break your fingers and the knife's gonna roll.

00:31:51.436 --> 00:32:04.384
So you hold it as you would yeah, you'd hold it like you would your fist for boxing, and then you're boxing out and jabbing and if you need to do some hammer swings right.

00:32:04.384 --> 00:32:05.627
Oh my lanta.

00:32:05.627 --> 00:32:06.751
Doesn't that feel strong, though?

00:32:06.751 --> 00:32:11.711
Doesn't it feel like it's going to make your punch like oh yeah, hurt way more, not to mention cut someone's face open?

00:32:12.151 --> 00:32:15.971
no, this, oh it's a, it's a mean old thing.

00:32:16.271 --> 00:32:19.093
I like it, yeah, and feel that seat on the Kydex.

00:32:19.192 --> 00:32:19.813
Oh, that's nice.

00:32:20.032 --> 00:32:22.933
That is a secure thing.

00:32:22.933 --> 00:32:24.654
Now you may look online.

00:32:24.654 --> 00:32:26.255
When people look online, they may see.

00:32:26.255 --> 00:32:34.738
Police stopped carrying these and the reason was police were carrying them OWB, so they were just carrying them on their basket weave belts.

00:32:34.738 --> 00:32:36.077
People were just grabbing them off of them.

00:32:36.117 --> 00:32:39.519
Yes, people were pulling them off of them and killing them with their own knives.

00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:40.799
Oh, that's not good.

00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:51.643
So this, though, to me, is what we would have on us as a secondary backup on the belt, but of course concealed, yeah, or on a vest, or anything like that that you want.

00:32:51.643 --> 00:32:54.084
But all that, anyways, I hope you like it.

00:32:54.923 --> 00:32:56.464
Oh, this is sweet, I like it.

00:32:56.644 --> 00:33:03.747
I hope we never have to use it, but feel the edge Just like run your finger across it, like it is crazy sharp.

00:33:04.886 --> 00:33:05.086
Oh yeah.

00:33:05.106 --> 00:33:09.648
And like it scared me when I first felt it and like ran my finger across it.

00:33:15.690 --> 00:33:22.959
No, and I think, like you know, like the age of the Rambo knife is kind of done as far as like it's just not really I mean just shaved off like a nice clean.

00:33:22.959 --> 00:33:32.022
Oh yeah, you just shave your hand with that thing, you know, because so like, the blade on this is literally two thumb length.

00:33:32.022 --> 00:33:35.278
I'd say it's two inches long, right at it.

00:33:35.450 --> 00:33:39.554
I think it's like exactly the length of my thumb maybe the blade is shorter.

00:33:39.554 --> 00:33:42.759
I guess the whole spine of the knife is the length of my thumb.

00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:48.082
Yeah, so I mean, it's as long as your thumb, more or less.

00:33:48.082 --> 00:33:59.896
And so the big old Rambo knife, while cool the utility factor, well, we don't use it as a bayonet anymore.

00:33:59.896 --> 00:34:06.673
Multiple utility Might be nice to have the big old Rambo knife to chop down a tree, but that's really.

00:34:06.673 --> 00:34:17.552
You know, these smaller, compact and particularly shaped knives have a pretty specific use and I like it.

00:34:17.552 --> 00:34:18.175
I think I might.

00:34:18.456 --> 00:34:30.652
This might go, this might go on the plate carrier too, you know, yeah that's what I was thinking about, like, here's the thing as a civilian, if you're in a plate carrier, you don't really need to worry about concealing it anymore, right?

00:34:30.652 --> 00:34:32.777
Um, for the most part.

00:34:32.777 --> 00:34:58.585
But also it's kind of one of those things like if you're wearing a plate carrier and you're a civilian, you're probably pretty careful about who's coming up to you and getting remotely close to you, probably way more cautious than a police officer or someone who has to deal with like people all day and just gets used to it because so because I will say, if I'm day-to-day carrying a knife, I want something I kind of can cut cardboard with two.

00:34:58.626 --> 00:35:08.465
So they're gotta go well, that's what I'm saying, right, right, that's what you have, that one in your pocket yes, you might have to double up and or like though the um depending on.

00:35:09.628 --> 00:35:12.853
I carry different things in different situations, right?

00:35:12.853 --> 00:35:18.684
So, like day in, day out, this won't be like concealed on me all the time.

00:35:18.684 --> 00:35:20.893
Let me say this, though, but go ahead.

00:35:22.516 --> 00:35:25.402
Notice orientation it comes in what.

00:35:25.402 --> 00:35:26.123
What handed is it?

00:35:29.617 --> 00:35:30.219
is it lefty?

00:35:30.219 --> 00:35:30.699
No, no, no.

00:35:30.699 --> 00:35:32.664
Does it go in the in the band?

00:35:32.664 --> 00:35:35.471
Yeah, righty, okay, it's right-handed orientation.

00:35:35.530 --> 00:35:37.293
What handed are you Lefty?

00:35:37.293 --> 00:35:47.326
Yes, so now I'm going to flip mine around to be lefty oriented, so that way I can go for the concealed carry draw.

00:35:47.326 --> 00:35:54.842
And that's how a lot of these are like essentially marketed, or like not marketed, but designed for use.

00:35:54.842 --> 00:36:00.639
Is that this is your punch back while you're going for your draw, if need be, if you need to create that space or anything, but also you get to do the cool thing from.

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:03.168
You know modern warfare 2 you're.

00:36:03.168 --> 00:36:08.746
You know you got your knife out for you know the freaking quick stealth to slash it.

00:36:08.766 --> 00:36:13.117
Yeah, you know what I mean yeah, uh, that's more of a joke right but it is.

00:36:13.177 --> 00:36:15.121
It is like, honestly, that is like a very.

00:36:15.121 --> 00:36:16.775
You know that's kind of the point of like in the ideal behind this is like is like, honestly, that is like a very.

00:36:16.775 --> 00:36:24.172
You know that's kind of the point of like in the ideal behind this is like this is a get, this is a create space weapon and it's not meant to be like your primary.

00:36:24.172 --> 00:36:27.701
But that said, what's your primary hand going to be doing?

00:36:27.701 --> 00:36:29.753
Going for your concealed carry pistol?

00:36:29.893 --> 00:36:41.942
so therefore, it's a great for a secondary hand yeah and it doesn't take much cord, like you don't have to do a lot of training to get your non-dominant hand up to speed on punching right, I like this.

00:36:42.021 --> 00:36:48.860
This sheath on this is nice, uh, where it's kind of inset on the top here so that you can do that.

00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:54.320
Well it's, it's grooved too so you can do that thumb so, yeah, so the thumb push gets your hand where it needs to be.

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:55.583
Yeah, it's pretty sick.

00:36:55.811 --> 00:36:59.317
You're gonna have to in the video for this one, you're just going to have to add pictures of this knife.

00:36:59.317 --> 00:37:01.454
Yeah, and so people have an idea.

00:37:01.996 --> 00:37:10.844
I like it and I love you know there's been a lot of like Chinese versions of the K-Bar you know, come out.

00:37:10.844 --> 00:37:21.952
But I do, just I love the origin of the K-Bar and this might be an overtold story, but do you know about where the name comes from?

00:37:21.972 --> 00:37:26.338
I do, and I don't want to ruin it for you because I think you probably like telling this story.

00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:39.862
Well, I don't know all the story, my version is short, but basically back in the day somebody wrote a letter.

00:37:39.862 --> 00:37:48.998
I don't know where the letter went to, but it was a little bit of an illiterate individual, you know, just saying that they killed a bar with the knife.

00:37:48.998 --> 00:37:50.940
You know, basically that was.

00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:54.105
They couldn't make it out what it said, so they started making these knives, the K-bar.

00:38:02.610 --> 00:38:04.134
And it said I K'd a bar with this knife, but so bar comes from killing a bar.

00:38:04.134 --> 00:38:05.719
What I understood, what I understood, was that it was a, it was the knife.

00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:10.010
It was like based off of the bowie knife but designed to be a bayonet, fixable knife.

00:38:10.010 --> 00:38:16.554
And, like you know, I think they were like some of the first, like rifled, you know, muskets or whatever, or springfields.

00:38:16.554 --> 00:38:28.882
But anyways, from what I say, it was a Marine at an outpost and he wrote the letter while he was dying from his wounds and all they could make out from all the blood on the letter and all that was K-A-B-R.

00:38:31.711 --> 00:38:32.373
Yeah, you're right.

00:38:32.373 --> 00:38:37.579
It was like, oh, he killed a bear, we can't really make anything else out of it, let's go check on him.

00:38:37.579 --> 00:38:39.157
And they got up there and like he's dead.

00:38:39.157 --> 00:38:43.356
But the bear is freaking poked full of holes and they're like damn that's a good knife.

00:38:43.356 --> 00:38:52.735
So that could be total FUD myth, but it is the story that I like a lot, but it's one of those ones where I don't care.

00:38:52.735 --> 00:38:53.237
Yeah.

00:38:57.570 --> 00:38:58.713
That's what the, the uh ethos of it is behind you.

00:38:58.713 --> 00:39:00.135
Gotta get after a bear with that thing.

00:39:00.135 --> 00:39:01.057
Yeah, yeah, super cool.

00:39:01.057 --> 00:39:01.920
No, I think that's a.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:03.182
I'm excited.

00:39:03.182 --> 00:39:04.092
It's awesome gift.

00:39:04.092 --> 00:39:07.838
Um goes with another allen wrench.

00:39:08.420 --> 00:39:17.733
What I've learned is that I can never have too many, so I'm always looking for one, and I have at this point probably a hundred and I'm always looking for one and I'm always losing one.

00:39:17.753 --> 00:39:18.092
Yeah, that hundred.

00:39:18.092 --> 00:39:19.454
And I'm always looking for one and I'm always losing one.

00:39:19.454 --> 00:39:19.813
Yeah, that's true.

00:39:19.873 --> 00:39:21.795
That's the thing I'm always losing the one I need.

00:39:21.795 --> 00:39:27.797
I just was so sad I pulled one out of my AR's pistol grip because I was like, oh, I need a justice and I put it.

00:39:27.797 --> 00:39:37.581
I know I put an Allen wrench up in here and I pulled it out and I looked and I was like, oh, it's rusted to hell and it snapped on me when I started trying to torque it.

00:39:37.581 --> 00:39:41.443
Oh no, so even a nicer one would be better.

00:39:41.523 --> 00:39:53.427
But anyways, tennessee Pretty sweet I'll give like the high Hitch and forge, because you said you were excited to go there again, had you been there before.

00:39:53.588 --> 00:39:53.947
I had.

00:39:53.947 --> 00:39:55.409
But again, it was like 10 years ago.

00:39:55.409 --> 00:40:02.994
It was before the fires and stuff came through and it was during like the fall.

00:40:02.994 --> 00:40:05.641
And so when I went last time it was like fall season and I did a lot of ATV in and kind of stuff like that.

00:40:05.641 --> 00:40:06.543
Did you go to the same?

00:40:06.829 --> 00:40:07.891
amusement area.

00:40:08.731 --> 00:40:09.813
No, this time I totally.

00:40:09.813 --> 00:40:14.860
Last time I didn't do like anything other than like ATV and zip line and staying in like a little cottage.

00:40:14.860 --> 00:40:20.947
This time, billy, gene and I, we went to the Old Mill, which is crazy deal for food.

00:40:20.947 --> 00:40:26.322
If you want to be able to feed yourself for like two whole days, go to the Old Mill.

00:40:26.322 --> 00:40:39.731
You get a ton of, like a ton of food, unlimited sides, and then like your entree and it's more than enough to you know, each entree is two meals on its own, nice, more than enough to you know.

00:40:39.731 --> 00:40:40.715
Each, each entree is two meals on its own, nice.

00:40:40.715 --> 00:40:41.277
Um, and then we went to um.

00:40:41.297 --> 00:40:44.007
We were staying in gatlinburg, which gatlinburg is literally copy paste estes park.

00:40:44.007 --> 00:40:47.034
Like, if you've been to estes park, it's unreal.

00:40:47.034 --> 00:40:56.253
Like you walk through gatlinburg, you're like down to the like tiny little weird swiss mountain town cabin vibe of the mall.

00:40:56.253 --> 00:40:58.675
It's very surreal.

00:40:58.675 --> 00:41:02.539
It was like it was like the same firm built Gatlinburg and Estes park.

00:41:02.539 --> 00:41:05.240
It was very, it was very strange.

00:41:05.240 --> 00:41:13.387
I sent pictures to Hoffman, who's a police officer up in Estes, and he was like I think you're in Estes.

00:41:13.387 --> 00:41:17.050
I'm like, yeah, no, dude, like it's.

00:41:17.050 --> 00:41:17.431
It's really weird.

00:41:17.431 --> 00:41:19.672
But stayed there.

00:41:19.713 --> 00:41:23.536
And then we went to this new theme park or attraction.

00:41:23.536 --> 00:41:29.041
It's new to me, right, I think it's been around since just before COVID, but it's called Anakista.

00:41:29.041 --> 00:41:35.547
It's like this top of a smoky mountain theme park where you take a gondola up to it.

00:41:35.547 --> 00:41:43.614
Of course, they don't have like really skiing there at all.

00:41:43.614 --> 00:41:46.860
Um, it's in february and there's like no snow anywhere, right, and the hills just aren't that big.

00:41:46.860 --> 00:41:53.836
But you take a ski lift up and, um, you are at this really nice kind of like view.

00:41:53.836 --> 00:42:07.356
It's like it's like literally like a theme park that's just designed around good views, but they have, um, quite a bit of food and like kind of uh, some nice like drinks and bars and stuff up there, and then they have like a, a tower.

00:42:07.396 --> 00:42:08.721
You go up the stairs and look around.

00:42:08.721 --> 00:42:24.085
You have this beautiful view all around you of the smokies, um, and then they have this like wobbly rope tree bridge thing that you go through to get back to the like the ski lift if you want to go back down, and it's pretty cool.

00:42:24.085 --> 00:42:29.922
It's like it's probably like 30 to 40 feet up in the air at most, but it's a.

00:42:29.922 --> 00:42:33.391
It's like bridges, rope bridges going from tree to tree.

00:42:33.391 --> 00:42:35.514
Oh wow, you know that was really fun.

00:42:35.833 --> 00:42:39.800
Um, and then they have a really dope light show at night.

00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:43.126
That was pretty mesmerizing and very entertaining.

00:42:43.126 --> 00:43:15.471
They have like a total pretty sweet, entertain kids for hours like jungle gym area like, um, just like you know the coolest things for kids to kind of jump around and swing on super high in the air, uh, mountain roller coaster like that's like gravity powered right, so like you get your own individual cart, you're just ripping around going mach 5, uh, through the treetops and then, uh, the last thing they have is like a zip line that you can use the zip line to get back down to the bottom.

00:43:15.791 --> 00:43:25.018
Oh, rather than taking the, the chairlift the zip line looked pretty sweet sweet looked like you had a pretty good you know distance on it, but, um, billy, jean's not.

00:43:25.018 --> 00:43:27.992
You know the risk-taking type zip liner.

00:43:27.992 --> 00:43:33.112
Yeah, and I'm not just gonna go down on my own like so, and I think she would have gone if I pressured her.

00:43:33.112 --> 00:43:37.641
But we were also like, yeah, this is cool, but let's also go like walk around town and stuff.

00:43:37.641 --> 00:43:45.737
They have this thing there where there it's like a it's a winery mead place and they it's.

00:43:45.737 --> 00:43:48.664
It's surreal, I've never seen anything like it anywhere else.

00:43:48.724 --> 00:44:01.043
When you go to these towns that are really big on like brewing and stuff, you go to one of their five companies like tap rooms, and each tap room is, quote unquote, a different company, all underneath the same parent company.

00:44:01.043 --> 00:44:13.137
But we went to one and they're like for 10 bucks you get 10 samples here and you go to any of the other places, you get 10 samples and if you do all five, you get a t-shirt at the end.

00:44:13.137 --> 00:44:16.731
Oh nice, and the t-shirts alone are like you know, they sell them for like 30 bucks.

00:44:16.731 --> 00:44:34.795
Yeah, I was like, uh, yeah, all right, so we paid 10 bucks for each of us and, dude, you get like easily probably like two glasses of mead wine or moonshine, oh wow, like just about each stop and it is the best wine I've ever had in my life.

00:44:34.795 --> 00:44:36.860
Like they had watermelon wine.

00:44:37.742 --> 00:44:56.518
You know what it tasted like like water it tastes exactly like watermelon, not like a jolly rancher watermelon it tasted like the best version of watermelon, but they like we're like we don't use anything other than like watermelon, right, like we just freaking ferment watermelon, right.

00:44:56.518 --> 00:44:58.161
That is unreal.

00:44:58.161 --> 00:45:00.532
Uh, they had blueberry, that was.

00:45:00.532 --> 00:45:04.541
They had like a blackberry one, um, and the mead.

00:45:04.541 --> 00:45:05.862
The mead was really good.

00:45:05.862 --> 00:45:20.492
The ciders were good, um, and the moonshine was the best, because the moonshine had enough burn that it offset how sweet the taste was on these like fruity flavors, right, and so the moonshine was also.

00:45:20.492 --> 00:45:30.485
You know, it's like fortified, so it's like freaking like 30 it's not real moonshine right, but it's not like it's also not wine, right, um, but it was really good.

00:45:30.927 --> 00:45:39.275
We bought two bottles and drank them in the hotel room that was awesome yeah, um went to a little local brewery, the gatlinburg brewery.

00:45:39.315 --> 00:45:39.978
They were pretty good.

00:45:39.978 --> 00:45:53.722
They had quite a few decent, award-winning beers and then, uh, a ton of you know gift shop stuff walking around checking out local coffee stuff, local food, um, and they have this place there in pigeon forge.

00:45:53.722 --> 00:45:58.152
And pigeon forge is like you know, uh, pigeonge is kind of like best way to think of.

00:45:58.152 --> 00:46:02.233
It is like the preamble to Estus, you know.

00:46:02.233 --> 00:46:07.277
It's like it's a lot nicer than like Loveland outside of Estus.

00:46:07.277 --> 00:46:38.081
It's probably like think of like a bigger, golden and bolder, less trashy, but like very touristy and very affordable, like there's a lot of cool things to do, like dollywood and all of dollywood's other attractions, um, but it's like the preamble, like you're going down this one road that will lead into pigeon forge and it's very exciting, um, but there's also just a lot of other cool stuff like buy one pair of boots, get two pair free.

00:46:38.081 --> 00:46:40.465
Wow, it's tempting.

00:46:40.465 --> 00:46:42.637
It's all based around families.

00:46:42.637 --> 00:46:44.295
Families are what come here.

00:46:44.295 --> 00:46:49.358
So dad buys his boots the most expensive ones Mom and kiddos' boots are free.

00:46:50.210 --> 00:47:04.389
And then there was a spot where it was called Duncan's Jeans and it was all of the overstock or regular jeans from wrangler, carhartt, levi's, and they had them sized on the wall like in, like the types where they were going.

00:47:04.389 --> 00:47:07.918
And, dude, I bought like six pairs of wranglers.

00:47:07.918 --> 00:47:09.661
Oh nice, they were all fine.

00:47:09.661 --> 00:47:17.672
The only thing was like this the size I would usually wear was way too small, like it was like it was like it was sized small or listed as the wrong size.

00:47:17.672 --> 00:47:23.431
So then I just want to size up and everything fit like great, even with concealed carry, nice.

00:47:23.431 --> 00:47:25.896
And uh, all of them were like 50 off.

00:47:25.896 --> 00:47:38.043
So we got like close a little over eight, not 800, a little over 700 worth of jeans before billy jean, myself and a couple jeans as gifts for people you know, expensive jeans.

00:47:38.264 --> 00:47:38.445
Yeah.

00:47:39.572 --> 00:47:41.668
And we paid like $390.

00:47:41.668 --> 00:47:48.237
Wow, and I buy jeans maybe like once every three years, four years, yeah, and now I have like six pairs of Carhartts to just.

00:47:48.657 --> 00:47:49.340
Just load it up.

00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:54.461
Yeah, I'm wearing some linen ones right now, linen lined, oh wow, loose fit.

00:47:54.461 --> 00:47:57.815
That was pretty sick, sick, uh.

00:47:57.815 --> 00:48:03.519
Then we did the dolly parton um, stampede, stampede, which was sold to me.

00:48:03.519 --> 00:48:07.894
Now I didn't pay for it, my mother, it was my mother's gift for my birthday, uh-huh, uh.

00:48:07.894 --> 00:48:13.693
But I was informed it was a civil war reenactment, but it's not, it's not a civil war in it.

00:48:13.873 --> 00:48:21.875
I didn't text back Because I just like I don't know where he is, but all right, and I've never been there.

00:48:21.875 --> 00:48:24.117
But I was like I don't think, that's what.

00:48:24.710 --> 00:48:29.557
I don't think Dolly Parton is big on like violence, so they didn't shoot each other at all.

00:48:32.090 --> 00:48:44.842
He texted me the Civil War reenactment, I was like, and I was like, I thought that was maybe another like, an additional, like, an actual like we're going down to see, all like the dudes who, just like you know, I really want to do that.

00:48:45.121 --> 00:48:46.344
I really want to do that again.

00:48:46.384 --> 00:48:50.007
Because, you know, like a true Civil War reenactment, that's awesome.

00:48:50.007 --> 00:49:00.077
I was like I wonder if he thinks, if he's going to the Dollywood Stamp, and they told him that Well there's the North and the South, and those are just sides of the room.

00:49:00.210 --> 00:49:02.777
One side's the South, one side's the North and that's the team you're on.

00:49:02.777 --> 00:49:06.157
Yeah, but they don't shoot each other.

00:49:06.157 --> 00:49:08.375
They play more like stampede competition games.

00:49:08.394 --> 00:49:09.297
Which side were you on?

00:49:09.617 --> 00:49:10.320
I was on the North.

00:49:10.641 --> 00:49:11.342
The North did not.

00:49:11.342 --> 00:49:20.938
People on the North did not get nearly as excited for being on the north people on the south were way more excited.

00:49:20.938 --> 00:49:21.018
Now.

00:49:21.018 --> 00:49:21.539
The north won the night.

00:49:21.539 --> 00:49:22.922
We won, as you know, history would tell.

00:49:22.922 --> 00:49:25.293
But like so what is the stampede?

00:49:25.293 --> 00:49:26.958
So you get divided out it's.

00:49:26.958 --> 00:49:28.161
Are you like in an arena?

00:49:28.481 --> 00:49:35.898
it's kind of an arena, like a rodeo arena yeah and um, you're sitting in these long lined tables, right?

00:49:35.898 --> 00:49:39.963
You know, crack me open one of those so I can crush it before Billie Jean gets here.

00:49:39.963 --> 00:49:42.565
Thanks, brother.

00:49:42.565 --> 00:49:47.239
But you're in this.

00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:56.070
It's like a bench seat and you file in from one side or the other and they're divided in like section numbers, right?

00:49:56.070 --> 00:49:59.971
So we were in like B5 or whatever, and it was great seats.

00:49:59.971 --> 00:50:20.836
It was like in the middle of the north side, perfect side, view of everything, good perspective, and there is a single server for your whole like bench of like could be like I don't know, maybe 20 people and, uh, he just comes down the line dishing out food and you get what you get you get what you get.

00:50:20.896 --> 00:50:22.340
Yeah, you get, but you get a lot.

00:50:22.340 --> 00:50:26.099
Yeah, you get, like easily the best it was a cream of mushroom soup.

00:50:26.099 --> 00:50:28.085
I was told I hate mushrooms.

00:50:28.085 --> 00:50:30.452
All right, holy shit bro.

00:50:30.452 --> 00:50:36.634
I was having an out-of-body experience with this cream mushroom soup and billy jean's the same way, like we were both.

00:50:36.634 --> 00:50:38.159
Like this is unreal.

00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:43.503
They don't give you a spoon because they know you're just going to drink it out of the bowl and I did that?

00:50:43.590 --> 00:50:46.010
These Colorado kids eating the food of the South?

00:50:47.753 --> 00:50:57.902
I was sitting next to this couple from Kentucky and they were really friendly and I'm like no spoons and he's like that's why they got a handle on the bulb.

00:50:58.512 --> 00:50:59.809
And I was like oh, all right bro.

00:51:00.510 --> 00:51:02.478
But dude, it was so good, it was so good.

00:51:02.478 --> 00:51:07.420
And then there was, I think, a roll as well.

00:51:07.420 --> 00:51:32.202
Yeah, you get this soup and a roll and then they come out and they just freaking drop your full small chicken on your plate, like it's a complete chicken per plate, and then they put, like uh, pulled pork down as well and mashed taters and corn on the cob and uh, man it was.

00:51:32.202 --> 00:51:37.199
It was so much was coming out so fast that I couldn't keep track of it and I was just trying to destroy this chicken.

00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.039
It was easily the best chicken I've had in a long time.

00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:41.856
Like the seasoning was unreal.

00:51:41.856 --> 00:51:53.155
Billie Jean, though, we found out, was allergic to horses, which we didn't know beforehand, and so, like post-soup, she started like having rattling breath.

00:51:53.695 --> 00:51:56.719
Oh, no, like literally like, and I was like okay, are you no?

00:51:56.739 --> 00:51:58.302
Like, like, literally, like I was like okay are you all right?

00:51:58.422 --> 00:52:00.925
And she's like yeah, I'm fine, I just have a hard time breathing.

00:52:00.925 --> 00:52:17.251
She was actually like panicking internally, and I knew she was panicking, but I knew she was trying to keep it together, and so I just kept on checking in with her, like hey, do you are like, do we need can go?

00:52:17.251 --> 00:52:19.742
I kept telling her like it's okay, it's, it's, I'm not mad, I won't be upset, you're, you know, your health is a priority.

00:52:19.742 --> 00:52:21.931
And she kept to be like no, no, we're good, I'm like all right, she wants to be tough.

00:52:21.931 --> 00:52:23.034
I'm gonna let her be tough.

00:52:23.034 --> 00:52:32.114
As soon as the show was over, though, we went and like she was having like a momentary, like wow, I really cannot breathe, oh my gosh, uh.

00:52:32.114 --> 00:52:40.222
So we did some benadryl and then we went back and then we had more cider Benadryl Moonshine yeah, Benadryl Moonshine at the hotel and it fixed her right up.

00:52:40.302 --> 00:52:44.547
But we didn't know she was allergic to horses before that Because I guess everywhere else she'd been around horses.

00:52:44.547 --> 00:52:47.974
It was like very open outdoor.

00:52:47.974 --> 00:52:58.373
Maybe it's the bison Because, bro, they fucking opening act, they allow like four bison just running around.

00:52:58.373 --> 00:52:59.096
These bison are running around.

00:52:59.096 --> 00:53:00.219
You can tell these bison are all amped up.

00:53:00.219 --> 00:53:03.831
And I'm like I was so shocked because I've never seen bison move like that.

00:53:03.831 --> 00:53:12.516
I've only ever seen like bison in colorado just chilling, eating grass, the way these bison will run around and herding together and putting their horns down forward.

00:53:12.516 --> 00:53:21.813
They did that in like some huge, like easily 10 foot span texas longhorns oh man, and I saw those.

00:53:21.813 --> 00:53:23.597
I'm like those are people in costumes.

00:53:23.597 --> 00:53:25.981
There's no freaking way.

00:53:25.981 --> 00:53:34.900
I'm seeing with my own eyes bison losing their marbles, getting chased around with horsies uh, but no sick and uh.

00:53:34.900 --> 00:53:46.929
This one girl came out easily the most like hottest cowboy chick I've ever seen in my life, like she's in like, you know, like the red spandex outfit.

00:53:46.929 --> 00:53:53.057
But the reason she's so hot was because of her athletic ability oh yeah she.

00:53:53.139 --> 00:54:17.001
She came in riding her feet planted on the backs of two horses, standing up, just riding around the whole time never sat down, just like rollerblading on horses and then she jumped through a loop of fire with these horses and I just was like it was crazy because some people were just sitting next to me eating food.

00:54:17.001 --> 00:54:24.583
Couldn't be bothered and I'm like standing up waving my hat around like oh yeah, let's fucking go.

00:54:25.130 --> 00:54:26.918
I'm just losing my mind, dude.

00:54:26.918 --> 00:54:29.297
I was like, how are you people?

00:54:29.297 --> 00:54:35.143
So she's running around one hand on the reins waving her arm in the air like cheer for her.

00:54:35.143 --> 00:54:36.534
This is clearly the.

00:54:36.534 --> 00:54:44.615
It was like they're like she's from saginaw michigan, which I used to live in, saginaw michigan, and they're like she's like avoiding death every second.

00:54:44.655 --> 00:54:47.842
I'm like you guys know what this is, how insane this is.

00:54:47.842 --> 00:54:50.862
The horses were also like very well trained, billy jean pointed out.

00:54:50.862 --> 00:54:53.032
Billy jean was like look how steady their backs are.

00:54:53.032 --> 00:55:02.068
Like they're very well trained with their running and trotting to keep their backs as level as possible, but still, yeah it was unreal.

00:55:02.148 --> 00:55:11.583
I was like I was like you know, the only time I've ever seen this Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer and it was CGI yeah, I can't.

00:55:11.583 --> 00:55:14.572
I like I was, I could not process what I was seeing with my eyes.

00:55:14.572 --> 00:55:18.594
There's a couple other performative acts that are really cool.

00:55:18.594 --> 00:55:32.005
Like they do, like this black light one that is definitely for, like, I think, kind of kiddos and young ladies, little girls, where it's like butterflies and everyone's like got black, like butterfly and giant flower petal costumes.

00:55:32.005 --> 00:55:33.806
That was really sweet.

00:55:33.806 --> 00:55:48.032
And then there's like quite a few just like patriotic ones of just like, honestly, people being pioneers and working together to go across america and all that stuff.

00:55:48.032 --> 00:55:52.853
There's no violence, there's no conflict, until the end when it's like, all right, north versus south.

00:55:53.134 --> 00:55:56.561
Let's do some rodeo relays, and that was pretty cool too.

00:55:56.561 --> 00:56:01.577
They did like, uh, they did a uh little little piggy race relay race.

00:56:01.577 --> 00:56:06.117
They did chicken chases where kids from the audience came out and chased chickens.

00:56:06.117 --> 00:56:09.652
Oh yeah, they did quite a few where they actually pulled audience members out.

00:56:09.652 --> 00:56:13.918
They did like, uh, toilet seat horseshoes.

00:56:13.918 --> 00:56:16.382
That was awesome, that was funny.

00:56:16.382 --> 00:56:21.177
And then they did a water bucket relay with a bunch of audience members.

00:56:21.177 --> 00:56:34.152
That was pretty funny because the South's bucket straight up had bullet holes in it Ours I don't think did, but it was like as soon as the dude picked up water out of the big barrel, just leaking out the bottle.

00:56:34.172 --> 00:56:35.277
It was spilling everywhere.

00:56:35.277 --> 00:56:39.498
I'm like oh, oh, wow, they have no chance, it's totally rigged.

00:56:39.498 --> 00:56:43.998
So stuff like that was really fun.

00:56:43.998 --> 00:56:46.422
Um, and the food was delicious and excellent.

00:56:46.422 --> 00:56:54.664
I drank two beers and two like moonshine cocktails of dolly partins and I was I was a happy camper.

00:56:54.664 --> 00:56:57.139
That's awesome and they give it to you in a boot.

00:56:57.139 --> 00:57:03.784
It's not a real boot, it's like a baby's boot, but it's still boot yeah, you get to drink out of it.

00:57:03.990 --> 00:57:04.411
It's pretty sweet.

00:57:04.411 --> 00:57:08.125
No, I love it because the things I I haven't been there.

00:57:08.125 --> 00:57:16.181
I want to go there someday, uh, but like live performance is kind of like a fleeting thing.

00:57:16.382 --> 00:57:16.603
Oh yeah.

00:57:16.643 --> 00:57:25.402
And like that sort of like, and this is like arena performance, it's like it's just cool Live animals, people, lights, light shows, you know?

00:57:25.530 --> 00:57:27.235
everyone there wanted to be there.

00:57:27.436 --> 00:57:27.938
Like not.

00:57:28.190 --> 00:57:33.172
I'm not talking about audience members, the, the the performers, the performers and the servers.

00:57:33.172 --> 00:57:44.119
Like Billie Jean, looked it up and turns out they make $30 an hour base, plus whatever tips you give them, and the tips go straight to their Venmo.

00:57:44.889 --> 00:57:50.503
So like they have their Venmo stuff up everywhere for you to Venmo them a tip, so that way they don't have to worry about waiting for whatever.

00:57:50.503 --> 00:57:54.293
And then I was trying to look up what performers get paid, but I couldn't find it.

00:57:54.293 --> 00:57:55.855
But they get paid really well, Like very easily.

00:57:55.855 --> 00:57:57.916
And then I was trying to look up what performers get paid, but I couldn't find it.

00:57:57.916 --> 00:57:59.498
But they get paid really well, Like very easily.

00:57:59.498 --> 00:58:17.427
Like dude, that guy making $30 an hour plus tips, and he does it, you know, Friday nights, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and then, has the rest of the week off to do whatever other second job he wants.

00:58:17.447 --> 00:58:19.751
That's real good living and pigeon forged.

00:58:19.771 --> 00:58:20.512
Shout out to old Do to dolly parton.

00:58:20.512 --> 00:58:20.893
Dude, she's a saint.

00:58:20.914 --> 00:58:23.721
You know, like, uh, dolly parton's a saint and I think she's a capitalist.

00:58:23.721 --> 00:58:24.362
I like it.

00:58:24.362 --> 00:58:26.655
I like it too, you know, here's the thing, bro.

00:58:26.675 --> 00:58:39.355
Before, before I had been to pigeon forge, I was like I get it, she's a southern belle with a big rack, like who doesn't love her right, and she seems nice and has no controversies about her.

00:58:39.355 --> 00:58:51.592
Uh, then you find out she literally like saved the state of tennessee during, like mines being shut down and pretty much was like we're gonna give everyone a job in the state of tennessee.

00:58:51.592 --> 00:58:58.302
And you're like, oh so she is literally a saint, like yeah, she it's unreal.

00:58:58.684 --> 00:58:59.510
It is pretty crazy, though.

00:58:59.510 --> 00:59:17.101
As you're leaving, it felt very like I don't know how I was describing it felt very culty, but like you're leaving and exiting the stadium to go to the gift shop and there's just a giant portrait of her with like flowers just right above the stairwell.

00:59:17.101 --> 00:59:18.896
So you have to just see her in flowers.

00:59:18.896 --> 00:59:21.737
I was like feels weird.

00:59:21.737 --> 00:59:24.534
But I get it.

00:59:24.534 --> 00:59:30.393
Dude, people love her because she is a saint and she did a lot for that state and those people, so I like her a lot now.

00:59:30.393 --> 00:59:31.034
That's awesome.

00:59:31.034 --> 00:59:32.097
I'm a big fan of Dolly.

00:59:32.097 --> 00:59:32.960
That's awesome.

00:59:33.059 --> 00:59:33.963
Also she's a great singer.

00:59:33.963 --> 00:59:36.498
She's legit, she's a great singer.

00:59:36.498 --> 00:59:37.126
Hey, yeah, she like she's legit.

00:59:37.146 --> 00:59:40.436
She's not just uh, yeah, yeah, she's got, she's the real deal.

00:59:40.436 --> 00:59:49.275
And I and I wonder about if you feel the same way like watching, all going to that show, watching it happen.

00:59:49.275 --> 00:59:57.097
Did you feel excited about like I want to come back here again, but with kids?

00:59:57.217 --> 00:59:58.019
yeah, no, dude.

00:59:58.019 --> 00:59:58.621
Here's the thing.

00:59:58.621 --> 01:00:10.262
Billy gene and I can we both said this, but we could not stop thinking the whole time about how perfect gatlinburg and pigeon forge would be for you know, pat and pat's family.

01:00:10.262 --> 01:00:38.844
Like the whole time we were there we were just like dude, this would be the best thing to bring kids to, especially because you can get a really great like airbnb cottage thing with separate rooms and it's like not stupid expensive like it would be to do that in any other mountain town in colorado and everything there is like oriented around the family, like every attraction or thing that you go to.

01:00:38.844 --> 01:00:43.201
Every store is oriented around like keep the kids entertained, dude.

01:00:43.201 --> 01:00:45.197
And here's how you know like they got it down right.

01:00:45.197 --> 01:00:53.239
There are cheap dollar store like family dollar toys in every single place.

01:00:53.239 --> 01:00:59.472
Oh yeah, and it's like everyone knows your kid doesn't need something from pigeon forge.

01:00:59.472 --> 01:01:10.452
What your kid needs is just another cap gun to keep them occupied at the you know outside of the hotel room and horsing around until you could get to the next fun event together as a family.

01:01:10.452 --> 01:01:12.820
Yeah, and like they got it.

01:01:13.282 --> 01:01:15.469
And also there's this place called three bears.

01:01:15.469 --> 01:01:16.050
They got it nailed down.

01:01:16.050 --> 01:01:16.972
They're there's this place called Three Bears.

01:01:16.972 --> 01:01:17.773
They got it nailed down.

01:01:17.773 --> 01:01:18.273
They're famous.

01:01:18.273 --> 01:01:20.237
They literally got three bears out back.

01:01:20.237 --> 01:01:22.740
Costs like three bucks to see them for kids.

01:01:22.740 --> 01:01:25.284
Real live bears, real live bears, dang.

01:01:25.284 --> 01:01:32.300
You just go upstairs they're like bears out back three bucks and there's real live bears out back for you to show the kids.

01:01:32.300 --> 01:01:36.074
And then you come back in and guess where?

01:01:36.074 --> 01:01:36.695
You come back into the toys.

01:01:36.695 --> 01:01:42.291
Yeah, like the whole place is a gift shop the whole place is a souvenir shop but the toys are right there next to the bears.

01:01:42.472 --> 01:01:43.594
Oh yeah and uh.

01:01:43.594 --> 01:01:48.251
It's awesome, man, I loved it and like the whole time, I was like we got to come back.

01:01:48.251 --> 01:01:49.275
I not only do.

01:01:49.275 --> 01:01:51.400
I want to go back for billy jean's birthday but.

01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:58.121
I do want to go back with my kids because it is one, a beautiful, a beautiful place, but two, it is so family friendly.

01:01:58.724 --> 01:02:12.420
Yeah, and in fact those sorts of things are going away, yeah, like they are fleeting, they are, you know, like even in the same way that, let's say, even Estes Park is different now than it was 20 years ago.

01:02:12.420 --> 01:02:22.074
Oh for sure, Just like the you know, especially like the family-focused touristy stuff and I get it Like I always think of this scene from remember, a Goofy movie.

01:02:23.117 --> 01:02:23.880
Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:02:24.190 --> 01:02:35.778
And they go like Goofy takes Max to see the oh that like hillbilly hick show with the animatronic.

01:02:35.778 --> 01:02:38.007
What is it?

01:02:38.007 --> 01:02:48.132
I know you're talking about, yeah, uh, what's that animal called possum, animatronic possum, you know, and it's like it's weird and max doesn't like it.

01:02:48.273 --> 01:03:35.275
You know, and you can tell, even in that movie it came out a long time ago this kind of fleeting thing of like he's just trying to enjoy a moment with his boy, yeah, before his boy goes to college exactly and like how, uh same, with, like the movie cars where, like, that town has just died, yeah, it used to be like the spot to go to, like that, that, like you know, 1960s, 70s america, where people weren't getting on planes to go to Italy, they're getting in their cars and their Volkswagens and taking the family to the Rockies and to the Smokies and you know, uproot 66 and like seeing all these things and you're going to go see the world's biggest ball of yarn and then go see whatever this dinner show you know, like that sort of thing, um, it's fleeting and going away.

01:03:35.295 --> 01:03:42.237
And then then there's like the like that sort of thing it's fleeting and going away, and then the Dollywood Pigeon Forge stuff is like it's a holdout and so I want to take my kids.

01:03:42.237 --> 01:03:52.737
I want my kids to have that experience and there are cheesy aspects to it, whatever, but also like it's done well too, it's like I want to take my kid here to see this.

01:03:52.737 --> 01:03:56.612
It can be a special thing for them, a special family memory, family-focused, focused thing.

01:03:56.672 --> 01:04:26.340
And so the uh there and there are still things like that that you can take your family to, but the pigeon forge, dollywood, gatlinburg are, is still like a holding true to that whole thing it is and like you see it in, like the pricing of everything, like I never saw anything that felt like they were gouging me for like hey, if you want to get here and you brought your kids all this way, you got to cough it up yeah, bears 30 a pop, yeah, no bro, there's, don't even run.

01:04:26.380 --> 01:04:27.706
There's stuff that is like we got to.

01:04:27.706 --> 01:04:29.755
They took our pictures somewhere.

01:04:29.755 --> 01:04:31.724
Oh, they took our picture at the great stampede.

01:04:31.724 --> 01:04:38.195
And then they have an individual person come up to you with the picture book they like find you in the crowd and they will sell it to you for $60.

01:04:38.195 --> 01:04:51.487
Yeah, and they're like $60 for this and like the booklet and I'm like it's a great picture, but no, but at the same time, you see, like the cost for kiddos for that event is like $20.

01:04:51.786 --> 01:04:54.711
Right Versus $60 per parent.

01:04:54.711 --> 01:04:58.762
You see, the tickets for kids to all the attractions are deeply discounted.

01:04:58.762 --> 01:05:08.277
There's super friendly kid meals everywhere and even the bars and live event stuff is very kid-friendly and appropriate to bring around.

01:05:08.277 --> 01:05:11.476
And I'm just thinking.

01:05:11.476 --> 01:05:14.327
Sometimes it's expensive for Billie Jean and I to go to Estes.

01:05:15.150 --> 01:05:15.289
Right.

01:05:15.610 --> 01:05:21.054
I can't imagine what it's like to try to take your kids For a bad buffalo burger To Estes for a day.

01:05:21.054 --> 01:05:22.219
You know what I mean.

01:05:22.219 --> 01:05:33.056
And like you're right, like it's just like it's one of those places where, like you want to go somewhere and you want them to be like hey man, thanks for bringing your kids, your kids are cheaper.

01:05:33.056 --> 01:05:39.094
Like we're not gonna milk you for everything you got.

01:05:39.094 --> 01:05:41.079
Yeah, to just bring your kiddos along here, like we're happy they're here.

01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:43.692
And that's just not the truth with most places nowadays.

01:05:43.692 --> 01:05:51.753
Most places are like you brought your kids dope 60 bucks same price, as you, and it's like it's just brutal, uh.

01:05:51.795 --> 01:05:57.605
and then places like that also wonder why things are dying and they blame it on anything but greed.

01:05:57.605 --> 01:06:01.759
But anyways, all that said, it was a blast.

01:06:01.759 --> 01:06:02.820
I freaking love it.

01:06:02.820 --> 01:06:05.016
We met so many great people.

01:06:05.016 --> 01:06:06.757
I made a lot of good friends.

01:06:06.757 --> 01:06:11.021
As Billie Jean says, I just make friends with anyone who's willing to talk and listen.

01:06:11.530 --> 01:06:12.914
One of the sickest things was dude.

01:06:12.914 --> 01:06:14.686
I flew back when we were flying back.

01:06:14.686 --> 01:06:15.237
Frontier Billie Jean and I were in.

01:06:15.237 --> 01:06:16.128
Different parts of the sickest things was dude.

01:06:16.128 --> 01:06:19.139
I flew back when we were flying back, you know, Frontier Billie Jean were in and I were in like different parts of the plane.

01:06:20.815 --> 01:06:26.697
But I sat down and there's this black dude against the window coming from.

01:06:26.697 --> 01:06:42.414
He's from Los Angeles and he was connecting back to Los Angeles, flying back from Tennessee, and then there was this you know middleaged white lady in between us and she was talking to him quite a bit about stuff.

01:06:42.414 --> 01:06:46.559
And then I kind of was listening to Namahead and talking to her and it was.

01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:57.739
I can't remember entirely what it started on, but then it got kind of political and we're talking about Trump and the new stuff and people appointed and she was super based.

01:06:57.739 --> 01:07:14.862
She was super duper based and had lived here in Colorado in Grand County and Summit County and she lived in Grand Junction and Granby and I was like, hey, I just want to know your thoughts, like thoughts on good old Heemeyer.

01:07:15.530 --> 01:07:15.811
She's like.

01:07:15.851 --> 01:07:18.280
I think he did everything right and armed nobody.

01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:25.016
And he had every right to do what he did and I'm like damn For those of you who don't know, look up Marvin Heemeyer.

01:07:25.016 --> 01:07:25.539
Rest in peace.

01:07:26.690 --> 01:07:27.353
Rest in peace.

01:07:27.414 --> 01:07:27.715
Marv.

01:07:27.715 --> 01:07:31.054
But anyways, I saw that I was like this chick's based.

01:07:31.054 --> 01:07:41.710
As hell Turns out she's like her and her husband are super strong believers.

01:07:41.710 --> 01:07:42.952
They're pastor kids, they support a collegiate mission guy.

01:07:42.952 --> 01:07:52.577
She knew what the NAVS was and I had done the NAVS in college and all that and we just were talking about all that stuff in faith and we talked about politics and all that.

01:07:52.577 --> 01:07:55.778
But there was things I don't think we quite disagreed on.

01:07:55.778 --> 01:08:01.702
But there was a lot of things where I was like ooh, I just don't know about that, I don't know enough about that subject or whatever.

01:08:02.182 --> 01:08:07.025
She was really gentle and patient to not try to be wacky and force me to believe things.

01:08:07.025 --> 01:08:10.467
Right, you know, some mountain people are freaking wacky.

01:08:10.467 --> 01:08:37.180
But then we were talking about faith when I started talking to her about some sermons and stuff and then like biblical masculinity and you know how, at our church there had actually been guys who had been offended by some of the biblical masculinity callings and had left our church at points and stuff or were challenged by you know some of the things our pastor preaches on, as you know what.

01:08:37.180 --> 01:08:38.181
What is the church supposed to look like nowadays?

01:08:38.181 --> 01:08:44.474
And she was just talking about how she has a pastor living in her house now with her and her husband.

01:08:45.034 --> 01:08:57.115
He's just so burnt out of people, like just leaving the church because they can't seem to, they can't seem to have a conversation to just talk about, be like hey, I'm just not sure I agree with you on that pastor.

01:08:57.115 --> 01:08:59.103
Could you, could you sit down and explain it to me?

01:08:59.103 --> 01:09:07.854
Xyz, you know, run through these things and instead people would just rather be like oh, I don't believe in jesus anymore because the pastor says something I disagree with.

01:09:07.854 --> 01:09:12.934
It's like okay, I don't know if you ever believed in the first place, but anyways, we're talking about that.

01:09:12.934 --> 01:09:18.725
The black guy decides he's done listening to his music and stuff and he's like hmm, and he starts nodding his head.

01:09:18.970 --> 01:09:24.738
I'm like, oh wait a second, like did we just get a whole row of believers here?

01:09:24.738 --> 01:09:28.274
Are we about to have church, bro?

01:09:28.274 --> 01:09:45.541
It turns out he just started throwing out some freaking fire and he's like, yeah, I entirely agree, and I really think the biggest thing Christian community, like the Christian church, is struggling with right now, is like true community and how communities are not going to be perfect and that you need, as another believer, to bear one another.

01:09:45.541 --> 01:09:52.827
I'm like my brother, dude, you just literally like took words right off the page of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book Life Together.

01:09:52.827 --> 01:10:04.001
So then I'm going into like my favorite content, which is Life Together from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and bro, we just had fricking church.

01:10:04.001 --> 01:10:05.265
Baby, it was a Sunday when we flew back, but it was awesome, dude.

01:10:05.265 --> 01:10:10.439
It was like we were just living it up, talking about you know just what it means to truly bear one another as believers.

01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:20.451
What it you know, uh, how gossip and uh, withholding forgiveness in your heart is like truly poison to a fellowship yeah.

01:10:20.511 --> 01:10:30.313
You know it will kill a church body, um, and just like going through and it was just awesome Cause we're just talking and like everyone's, like all three was like yes, yes, and it was.

01:10:30.313 --> 01:10:31.215
It was great, dude.

01:10:31.215 --> 01:10:35.122
And I could tell there's people ears perking up around us.

01:10:35.122 --> 01:10:36.274
No one ever like chimed in, no one ever said shut up you wackies or whatever.

01:10:36.274 --> 01:10:36.731
But I could tell there was people ears perking up around us.

01:10:36.731 --> 01:10:39.099
No one ever like chimed in, no one ever said shut up you wackies or whatever.

01:10:39.099 --> 01:10:42.140
But I could tell everyone was kind of like peeking their heads and turning.

01:10:42.140 --> 01:10:43.555
I could see a couple of heads nodding.

01:10:43.555 --> 01:10:47.675
I could see a couple of confused faces, expressions, but it just felt good man.

01:10:47.956 --> 01:10:53.774
Oh yeah, kason, hope you're well, brother, praying for you and your family out in LA.

01:10:53.774 --> 01:10:59.860
They live in like the heart of LA and saw a lot of people lose their homes and stuff, oh yeah.

01:10:59.860 --> 01:11:08.654
And then Cammie is the lady that I met, but she's a snowbird now and lives in like Havasu during the winter in their house down there.

01:11:08.654 --> 01:11:11.798
So I don't really think you need prayer.

01:11:11.798 --> 01:11:14.599
You're living it up in Lake Havasu, just kidding.

01:11:14.599 --> 01:11:19.841
I hope you guys are having a fun time, but anyways, it was.

01:11:19.841 --> 01:11:23.567
It was a good trip, man, it was a blast, it was super fun that's awesome.

01:11:23.849 --> 01:11:25.273
Yeah, that's not like a good trip.

01:11:25.273 --> 01:11:26.957
The.

01:11:26.957 --> 01:11:33.773
It's fun to go go on this trip because it was a surprise.

01:11:33.773 --> 01:11:34.435
You didn't know.

01:11:34.435 --> 01:11:38.216
I mean you knew because you had your secret squirrels out there.

01:11:38.216 --> 01:11:47.721
Yeah, locating, but at the same time, like it was fun to be surprised a big 30th, have a, have a trip planned, go out, it's a fun surprise.

01:11:48.162 --> 01:11:57.216
Uh, get some time away, super wholesome, like and just awesome good time and capping it off with a good plane ride back.

01:11:57.216 --> 01:11:58.277
That like.

01:11:58.277 --> 01:12:08.846
You know what I love about interactions like that is how like faith strengthening they are and hope giving they are.

01:12:08.846 --> 01:12:09.712
You know, it's just like.

01:12:09.712 --> 01:12:15.823
It's like oh yeah, I'm not the only one and not even close, not the only one.

01:12:15.823 --> 01:12:18.536
Yeah, it was super it was super.

01:12:19.278 --> 01:12:20.921
uh, it really poured into my cup.

01:12:20.921 --> 01:12:22.073
Yeah, you know what I mean.

01:12:22.073 --> 01:12:23.136
It was very encouraging.

01:12:23.136 --> 01:12:41.742
Um, it was just like it was just cool to see two people, cause it's one thing to meet another person who says they're a Christian, but, dude, when you meet people who are like they can get into the meat with it and be honest, and not they can get into the meat with it and be honest, and not they can talk about the problems in the church without it being like gossiping or slander.

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Oh, dude, it was dope.

01:12:44.015 --> 01:12:47.519
It was so good, yeah, or without it turning into like a weird like.

01:12:48.270 --> 01:12:49.234
Don't Christians suck?

01:12:49.536 --> 01:12:52.252
Yeah, it wasn't that at all yeah or like, or even like.

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Even if they are, it's just not being able to agree, or whatever.

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Yeah, no, this is like we're aligned in this and it's a special thing.

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Yeah, no, it was lovely, but anyways, I think that's kind of all I really wanted to run over.

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This is a short episode, but I just really want to give you your birthday gift, because your birthday is next month anyways.

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Yeah, it's coming up.

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Now we got these sick knives.

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Oh yeah, I'll be carrying mine.

01:13:25.036 --> 01:13:25.479
I got the belt for it.

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You know I'm gonna.

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Here's the thing.

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I gotta figure out configuration.

01:13:26.947 --> 01:13:27.550
Where does it go on the belt?

01:13:27.550 --> 01:13:31.666
Where's the best place for it to go for the the hook and hand grab?

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And it's not in the way, because I carry two backup mags in addition to the pistol, and so it's like I think it's the, because, if the, if the main carries on the pp, yeah, this is on three o'clock.

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You think that's three o'clock I'm if mean, but I'm not going for that with my dominant right so for you it's on three o'clock three, but for you it's, you know, you're mine nine you know it's the night, it's like you know.

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Yeah, back nine I was kind of thinking.

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I was thinking nine to eight because I'm like, oh, let me grab my wallet that hand, reach around to the back and then come back with it anyways, yeah, I like it yeah, I'm gonna go home and play with it in the mirror.

01:14:16.984 --> 01:14:18.814
We just like to we just like to larp man.

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I hope we never have to use any of these tools.

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Yeah, dude, I'm.

01:14:22.908 --> 01:14:26.076
We just role play the whole time you're larping this thing tonight.

01:14:26.076 --> 01:14:28.240
Yeah, for sure yeah, me too.

01:14:28.702 --> 01:14:35.291
Speaking of which, uh, the cqb video should be coming out soon, as soon as mick here is finished with the video edit.

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It's a lot of work because I've been adding muzzle flashes and blood effects, so it's an unreal amount of work yeah, that's a lot.

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It's like editing a movie, yeah it's like probably, I would wager close to four hours of footage recorded, oh god, and it's not that the event was over four hours it's just like that.

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It's that many like total and video footage I've going been going through and editing down and then after that you get down to like you know, your your 10 minute cut and you're like all right, gotta cut it down more, unless this is gonna be an explanation video.

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So I'm cutting it down to like just the freaking action, music montage, sick video.

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And then I'm having everything else, just like playing with breakdown and uh, that can be, like you know, put up in our episode here so people can see, like listen to us breaking down the cqb stuff while also seeing footage of it.

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But the next event's happening soon and this time it's gonna be a night event.

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Well it's.

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It's going to kind of night.

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We're going to start in the afternoon.

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Yeah, we're going to start in the afternoon, but because it's winter and sunset's so early, we'll get to use Nod's.

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And I don't own Nod's, but I do own a flashlight.

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And if there's anything I love doing, it's ruining people, enjoying expensive stuff.

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Yeah, and I want the guys to come in with nods and us to be op for.

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With flashlights and beat them.

01:16:03.777 --> 01:16:08.121
Yeah, yeah, just like shine flashlights in their freaking nods and then shoot them.

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I'm bringing my mag light from 2001.

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I'm going to win.

01:16:11.818 --> 01:16:13.442
Hell yeah, bro, that's so sick.

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Mag light duct taped to the Orbeez 14.

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D batteries.

01:16:18.855 --> 01:16:23.859
Yeah, that's amazing, your freaking $14,000 freaking quad nods.

01:16:24.029 --> 01:16:27.939
I don't think there's a gun in the world that feels as good as reloading as it does.

01:16:27.939 --> 01:16:33.479
To put fresh batteries in a Maglite Like fresh batteries in a Maglite is an unreal vibe.

01:16:33.479 --> 01:16:43.801
It's beefy Just makes such a solid sound like you're like oh we got power for the next two hours.

01:16:43.801 --> 01:16:45.283
This flashlight's gonna be bright.

01:16:45.283 --> 01:16:50.421
It's like to this day, still like one of the dimmest things in like your home.

01:16:50.421 --> 01:16:54.336
It's so horrible it's so funny I should night stick.

01:16:54.556 --> 01:17:05.213
I actually maybe I will bring my own mag light, just so we can compare like what a two and a half foot long mag light looks like compared to a two inch long.

01:17:05.333 --> 01:17:10.144
Freaking you know, surefire, oh my gosh, I am, though I'm pretty stoked for that.

01:17:10.144 --> 01:17:37.637
Uh, just because there's a lot of guys I know who have been practicing with their nods, but I haven't ever done any like very tight quarter stuff, like their practice is like driving a car with nods on setting up a tent uh, hiking walking flat range well, a lot of them actually don't just do flat range, a lot of them go for like real night hikes right or like flat range shooting oh, as far as actual actual, like like firearms, modulation and I feel like should I get the smoke machine out for that?

01:17:38.118 --> 01:17:39.662
Oh, dude, should I haze out the room?

01:17:39.662 --> 01:17:45.887
Smoke it up, dude, that way they know what it's like to have nods on and be like shit I can't see anything.

01:17:45.887 --> 01:17:46.390
I can't see anything.

01:17:46.390 --> 01:17:47.512
I got to take the nods off.

01:17:47.512 --> 01:17:54.094
I will say this If we bring the smoke machine, I'm sure some dude's bringing this I know two guys with thermals.

01:17:54.094 --> 01:18:01.360
I bet they'll bring them and attach them to their helmets so that way they can have the sync up between nods and thermals.

01:18:01.360 --> 01:18:03.476
And that would be sick for everyone to see.

01:18:03.476 --> 01:18:06.779
See how you can't see the smoke through the smoke.

01:18:06.779 --> 01:18:10.599
Now see, with thermal you can see the three dudes on the other side of the smoke.

01:18:10.599 --> 01:18:12.222
That'd be dope, that's cool.

01:18:12.222 --> 01:18:18.479
Anyways, we're doing that, so we'll have a whole nother advanced breakdown of CQB.

01:18:18.479 --> 01:18:20.009
It'll be cooler footage because it'll be green.

01:18:20.009 --> 01:18:22.319
Yeah, we're going to have to get a green camera.

01:18:22.951 --> 01:18:28.101
I have a night vision, not a cam, but I have a night vision monocular that's digital.

01:18:28.101 --> 01:18:32.833
Oh yeah, that I'm sure we could jury rig up Tape to an iPhone.

01:18:32.854 --> 01:18:34.398
Yeah, something like that.

01:18:34.398 --> 01:18:35.239
I like it.

01:18:35.239 --> 01:18:39.128
Yeah, that's awesome Cool, oh man.

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All right.

01:18:39.430 --> 01:18:40.595
Well, hey, thanks for joining again.

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Ken, thanks for wishing me a happy birthday, because I know you're doing it.

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I can hear you.

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It's well past my birthday by the time you're hearing this, but thanks for saying it anyways, it's the thought that counts.

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I hope you are encouraged by this.

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I I hope you are encouraged by this.

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Pat Till next time.