Adapt and Survive: Essential Skills for Post-Disaster Scenarios

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

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and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

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with liberty and justice for all.

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Good morning my fellow patriots and welcome to episode five.

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Today we are going to talk about some disaster scenarios and some

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of the essential skills to develop in order to adapt and survive.

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Be sure to chime in with your knowledge and experience.

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Just email us at podteam at the constitutioncommandos.

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org.

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We try to keep the confusion down about what we're saying.

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We understand what the other ones say.

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And even though, you still trained a different way than I did.

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So there's a lot of misunderstanding maybe there, but just to be clear, when

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this time comes where you have to live off the land, as we're talking about

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after an EMP, If you have weapons, you want to use that as little as possible

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simply because, first of all, unless you can replace the ammo that you just spent,

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you're just going to be out of ammo.

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But at the same time, firearms give away your position faster than anything else.

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Anything that makes noise will give away your position.

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But, you want to save your firearms for those times when

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you've got multiple attackers.

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Simply because, you're probably going to miss a few rounds.

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Hopefully not.

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Hopefully you're well trained, practiced, whatever, but you don't want to use your

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firearms unless it's absolutely necessary.

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Get used to using primitive weapons.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, don't think I won't use a firearm if I

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have to eat, but I guarantee you it'll be a one bullet one kill thing.

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It's not gonna be me going out and shooting up a bunch of my bullets.

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Now, if you think rounds are expensive now, try

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to get them when that EMP hits.

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And when the barter system becomes a real big trading issue.

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You're going to find out Chapstick is going to be very valuable one day.

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Oh yeah.

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So don't waste your rounds at all.

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Don't waste them.

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They will be necessary.

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Just don't waste.

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All-American Commando: And then on top of that, things you can do right now,

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let's say there are no matches, there are no lighters, which I don't

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like the fact, I don't like to count on either one of those because.

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There is a limited amount of gas in your lighter, and there is a

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limited amount of matches in a box.

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Hold on now, we actually went in the woods one day.

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Yeah, but we

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All-American Commando: were dealing with wet brush, and we were doing

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And you know what?

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We need to do that again.

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All-American Commando: Yes, we do.

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And you can do this in your backyard.

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You can do this Do it in a steel pot on your back porch

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if you live in an apartment.

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You can, a ferrocyte rod, you can learn how to make a fire without

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the use of matches and lighters.

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And I'm going to be honest with you, I used to be a welder.

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Believe me, you do not want to have a big lighter blow up on you.

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And if somebody attacks you or anything like that, those are miniature bombs.

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Yeah.

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I am opposed to big lighters.

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There are a lot of survivalists out there that say they'll carry 30 of them.

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But if I carry 30 of them, they're not gonna be near my body.

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I can tell you that right now.

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I look at if you're a crack head, you don't

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want to use those lighters.

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I'm just saying, but yeah, you're right.

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Now, the day that we hit the woods when those leaves were there,

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All-American Commando: that's

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a good example of what we were talking about earlier,

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because, whatever's uncomfortable.

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Oh,

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All-American Commando: and we got our bird's nest.

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We'd get our burgers started, but it was smoking so bad we couldn't keep it going.

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It wouldn't catch.

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But that's something that is uncomfortable.

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Yeah, we'd be eating like three or four little

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All-American Commando: bitty two inch flames.

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Absolutely.

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But it's something that's uncomfortable, and I think that's something that, for

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me, Oh, I'm going to try that again.

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And I'm going to keep trying it until I figure it out.

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And that day we both had lighters on us.

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We could have very easily struck a lighter, but what good would our,

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what good would our practicing be if we pulled a lighter out?

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It's cheating in it.

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All-American Commando: It's easy.

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And even if you carry a zip, I don't care if you have a gallon of zip boat flute,

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you're going to run out of fluid, you're going to have to know how to start a fire.

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Learn

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All-American Commando: how to do it without the use of modern tools.

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Other than a parasite rod.

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Which is what we talked about earlier.

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If it's uncomfortable, practice

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All-American Commando: it.

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If you find something that's uncomfortable, and you

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will if you're paying attention.

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If you find something uncomfortable, practice it.

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Attack that one thing.

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Get good at it.

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All-American Commando: Expose yourself to it.

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And that actually will be a benefit for

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All-American Commando: you in the long run.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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And that was one of the things that we had struggles with that day,

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but there was something else to

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What was it?

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All-American Commando: You got a little turnaround on you got us back to the

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vehicle, but the land nav aspect, you got a little bit turn around on the

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last 6 to 10 feet off, I think, on the return trip.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, it was really not big enough

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of an area to be that much off to be honest.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, but if you miss it by 10 feet, though, and

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you walk for a mile and a half, you're going to be way more than 10 feet off.

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That's what I'm saying.

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No more distance that we walked.

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I was way off.

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I wasn't even in the ballpark.

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So yeah, that's something I need to practice on for sure.

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And Scouts, we did that kind of stuff in Boy Scouts.

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And how long ago was that?

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No, wait, we'll keep that to ourselves.

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But that was a few years ago, to say the least.

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So it's something, these are perishable knowledges, but these are

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things that are imperative, really.

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And, In the form of survival.

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It is.

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But, as we started talking about the, from the beginning, knowing

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your personal dwelling, if you don't know that, don't even get outside

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your dwelling because you're lost.

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That's all there is to it.

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It is critical to know where you are and know what's around you.

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And, that was something that I learned.

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When the racing deal was going on with dad, how many times did I hear Tommy

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Martin tell dad, you're not going to be able to look in that mirror

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all the time, but you need to know where every driver on the track is.

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And you've done enough driving, this, you're not going to see every driver

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on the track, but if you don't have a sense of where they are, you're going

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to cause problems for you and them.

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And that's the same thing.

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And just what we're talking about.

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Right here, situational awareness.

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Is extremely critical,

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All-American Commando: and EMP is gonna be on the far end of

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the spectrum of, SH ht F moment.

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But it's not something that's out of consideration.

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It's something that does need to be considered

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All-American Commando: and it's another thing that you have to consider on

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these things is if an EMP does happen.

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Don't just know how to shoot an animal.

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You have to know how to clean the animal.

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You have to know how to purify water.

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Water purification is going to be one of the most important skills that you'll

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ever have in these bad situations.

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A

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lot of people would think just iodine, but you

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can't get your hands on iodine.

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What are you going to do?

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All-American Commando: That's correct.

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And not everybody's going to have a life straw.

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And if you do have life straws, they're going to wind up surpassing their

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filtration capabilities at some point.

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It's about 300 gallons.

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Yeah, I got some that are I think 10, 000 I'm trying to remember,

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I can't remember his liters or gallons, but it's a different

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rate.

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It is what I'm pointing.

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Look, the bottom line is they're going to wear out.

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What do you do?

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What do you do?

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You got no iodine, no filtration straws, no filtration equipment.

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What are you going to do?

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All-American Commando: Charcoal and sand, man, that'll filter any kind of water

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out with pea gravel or, but learn these skills before these skills are required.

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Learn them, and put them in practice.

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If you've only started three fires in a primitive manner and shit hits the fan,

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you're going to be better off than that person that has never started a fire.

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What

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is that?

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The survival is.

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What is that?

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The evasion instructor was talking about on that video you sent me.

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He said the key to evasion is keeping your heart rate down.

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All-American Commando: Absolutely.

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Keep yourself, you don't bad decisions.

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And if you don't know any of this stuff, you don't know how any of

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this stuff works, you're going to panic.

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That's all there is.

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Panic is a

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All-American Commando: killer.

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Panic is a killer.

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Absolutely.

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So you don't, I got to watch that urban video too.

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I got to see that.

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I've been wanting to see it.

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Video.

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Yeah, that's a video.

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Donald Trump video and, no, not talking.

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Go ahead.

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All-American Commando: You ought to link that video that told you

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about you talking about the survival

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video.

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All-American Commando: The, yeah, the evasion.

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You ought to link this video.

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You ought to link that to this video.

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And I apologize, I cannot recall the man's name.

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I would don't remember his name.

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Shoot a shout out for him name, but he ought to link it to this video.

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. Link the 1 with urban evasion.

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I had

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to pull that up.

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I hadn't even watched that 1 yet.

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So I will.

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Yeah,

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The 1st 1 I think is very key.

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Now, based on, where we grew up and we had woods, right?

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All-American Commando: We lived in the woods,

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right?

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And so that kind of stuff that we saw on that video you sent

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me, it's pretty common for us.

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Maybe not to other people, but yeah, the urban video, I

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would really like to see them.

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As a matter of fact, when we get done here, I'm going to go watch that video.

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But I

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All-American Commando: think I need to remember the guy's name.

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I would cite him.

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I would like to shout the guy out.

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I wish I could remember his name.

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I think if if you look at the,

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like I said, you need

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All-American Commando: to pin it.

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You need to stick it to this video.

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And anybody I would advise you to watch it.

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A lot of it is common sense, but a lot of it is common sense stuff that the

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average person has never thought of.

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And that would be very good.

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Lessons to learn and to exercise and practice on in case of an EMP, it

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would be worth its weight in gold.

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And it really is, even if you

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already know a lot of what he's talking

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about, it really is worthwhile.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, in his urban environment, I learned

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about 85 percent of that video.

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85 percent of, or 85 percent of that I didn't know.

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And his second one that I watched, I knew about 95 percent of what he said, but

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there was 5 percent that I didn't know.

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And I'll be damned.

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I am glad I watched it because I learned five more percent of knowledge.

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Now

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I just

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All-American Commando: have to get out and exercise it.

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Are you trying to

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say that you don't know everything?

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All-American Commando: I'll be the first to tell you I don't know everything.

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Oh, a lot of people think I gotta know everything.

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So I say, Oh, you're so right.

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And I was like, Why do I have to be right?

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I don't really care much for being right these days, I just don't like it.

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But, yeah, I don't, as a matter of fact, you were in the 82nd.

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I was just a poor old squid.

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The bottom line is you got a training that I always wanted.

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When I signed up for the Navy, you already know I signed up to be a SEAL.

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And unfortunately, I didn't get to go there, but you got a

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lot of the training I wanted.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, and I got more training than a lot of

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average 82nd Airborne Troopers.

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Oh, you got a lot of training than a lot of average

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soldiers didn't get, period.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, unless you're talking about Rangers

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or SF, somebody in the teams.

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No, just as an 82nd

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Airborne Trooper, you got things that a lot of people did not get.

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And just to be fair, for those who are listening, you were gung ho about

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being a ranger when you went in.

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At the very least, ranger, I knew you were trying to go ranger and I thought

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SF was what you were really looking for.

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Just because, I talk to a lot of people now that say, look, I wanted to go in the

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military, but because I had broken both the bones in my right leg, I couldn't go.

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That's what it sounds like.

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That doesn't make you any less patriot, right?

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And I actually learned that from Chris Kyle.

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All-American Commando: Yeah.

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Because you know what Chris Kyle did, and I look up to people like

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that because they did what I wanted to do.

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But even he said, look, 180 days consecutive on active duty.

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You're a veteran.

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And I actually had a commander who sat me down and had a conversation

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with me because I was down about my job and he wanted to he wanted to

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give me some insight on how important my job was to the bigger picture.

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And because of people like that, I'm able to say this now, there's a

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lot of people I know who wanted to be in the military that could not.

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For whatever reason, something outside their control that

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could not be in the military.

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I wanted to do what you did.

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I went in on the pretense that I would still be able to do

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that and I didn't get to do that still, but you know what I mean?

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You don't have, you don't have to be in those certain positions.

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It's good to know people in those positions because there are still

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people who have those skills that have been trained in certain ways

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that can help you out or whatever.

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Not all of us were cut out for that.

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All-American Commando: That's why I'm also excited about us changing formats, about

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our topics of conversation, because I want to get more engagement from the audience.

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I know there are out there that listen.

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I received 18 echo orders.

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I was going to go through the SFAS Q course and selection,

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but I was in an MMRB.

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I know there are people with a higher level of training.

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I am proud of the training that I've got.

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I understand the importance of the training that I've got.

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I also am more than aware that there are people in the listening

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audience that have more training.

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Even if they don't have more training, they might have more experience in

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a different environment than me.

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And, Everybody has some knowledge that I will benefit from.

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So I do with this topic of conversation, which this is, I'm hoping to be our

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future of podcast is going to be somehow surviving life in a SHTF situation.

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I am looking forward to receiving input.

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from other people and other skill sets and other environments,

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because I don't know tomorrow.

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I don't know what my next environment is going to be.

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I can prepare for the environment that I am in.

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I am unaware.

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The first thing people need to understand and accept is, you need to come to terms

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with you do not know what you do not know.

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That is me, 100%.

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I have no clue what I don't know and I want feedback, I want people

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and I'm not saying criticize me.

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I'm not here to criticize people.

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I'm here to put out information to help people.

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So if somebody wants to comment and offer useful knowledge.

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Not criticisms.

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I could care less about how to criticize.

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I don't care if you criticize me.

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I don't care about that.

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I know what I did.

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I know what I'm capable of.

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But

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then again, I would like to know if I'm a

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little off footing or whatever.

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I don't mind a little constructive criticism.

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As a matter of fact, I begged for it as a musician.

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And a lot of people said, I don't want to hurt your feelings.

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I was like, you just did.

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The thing is, And you said what I was trying to say better than I said it,

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but think for both of us, and I think I speak for both of us when I say this,

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it's not just about hearing from people who know things that we don't know.

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I think a lot of it, for me anyway, is building community now,

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we need to establish community.

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We need to get this division from between us.

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We're Americans.

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Let's build community.

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Let's be American.

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That's what's important to me.

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All-American Commando: Yeah.

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And that's actually the primary building block, because I guarantee you, if things

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go bad, And let's say you're not in a position, whether it be physically or

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prepared with a weapon and munitions.

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Let's say you don't have the food or the water stockpiled.

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You don't have a way to bug out.

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You know what?

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You have just cut your nose off to spite your face.

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That's right.

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You have

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All-American Commando: just gotten yourself into a position to where

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you have no primary, alternate contingency or You know nothing.

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Really

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All-American Commando: I mean you have gotten yourself into a bad position

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already So that's the building block now I know and understand that ultimately

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you're going to be able to depend on yourself But the more people that you

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can depend on the better you're going to be and the better they're going

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to be So I would never underwrite or minimize the importance of community.

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It is important.

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It's There's no Amount of words to express how important it is At some

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point, community is going to have to happen, and it would be a whole lot

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easier to get a community early than late.

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Yeah, you're right, because, if you wait until you

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have to have it, you're scrambling and, you may think you know

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what you're scrambling for, but,

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All-American Commando: Yeah,

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your brain is blitzed.

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You don't know what you're looking for.

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I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, and it goes back to, you don't

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know what you don't know.

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That's right.

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All-American Commando: And no matter how much you know,

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you still don't know it all.

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Yeah, but that's why I like the direction that we're going now.

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I really am looking forward to getting feedback.

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I research all the time, even with my experience, man, I'm, I run

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into things constantly that, hey, I either didn't know or I forgot, or

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it goes in line with what I do know.

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But it approaches it from a different perspective.

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And it gives me an aha moment.

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All-American Commando: Yeah, it gives me a different way of conducting a

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task that I'm already familiar with.

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That's right.

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Hey.

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And once again, that goes back to environments today, I can prepare

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for my current environment.

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My environment might change.

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If it's an environment I'm not used to.

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Yeah, if it's an environment, which how I do have a lot of training in

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the desert, so if I do and mountain areas that I'm not familiar with, and

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somebody on here has knowledge of an environment that I'm not familiar with,

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man, there's no way in the world I'll reject it because that is the difference

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between me staying alive or dying.

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I enjoy life.

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That's why I wanted airborne like a fricking American.

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Yeah, but that's why I joined Airborne and I wanted Rangers, Special

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Forces and had those in my contract.

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The simple fact of the matter for me back then was, I am joining an

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organization that is based on war.

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That's what it exists for, is war.

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The defense of our nation.

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People die.

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I knew that once you got tabs on your shoulder, you were learning

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more than the average soldier.

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So I didn't want to just learn what it took to be airborne

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and have all that training.

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I wanted to know what it took to be Ranger and get that training.

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And then I wanted to be special forces and to acquire a whole

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nother level of training.

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Now, wait a minute.

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You sound like you're talking about, you're talking about being

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that one guy amongst a few who actually want to live long enough.

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To protect those who can't.

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What's wrong with you?

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All-American Commando: Absolutely, man.

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It's the strong will to survive.

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That's what's wrong with me.

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Well, that concludes today's episode, and

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we appreciate you listening in.

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Hey, keep your eyes open and your head on swivel till next time.

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I'm Chris Williams, and on behalf of my brother and

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myself, we are the Constitution Commandos, and we're signing off.