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In this episode, Peter Von Panda dives into an unboxing and review of the Streamlight TLR-7A Flex, showcased in a sleek FDE (Flat Dark Earth) color that gives off a sophisticated burnt bronze vibe. For those considering an upgrade to their tactical gear, Peter explores the light's impressive features, including its build quality, customizable switch options, and user-friendly design. From effortless battery changes without removing the mount to a reliable momentary light function, this compact accessory is built for performance. Whether it's for home defense or night surveillance, the TLR-7A Flex proves to be a reliable choice. Listen in to find out why Streamlight products continue to be a top pick among tactical enthusiasts. ▶ Get this product here: https://geni.us/faAws ---------- LET'S TALK ABOUT LIVING BETTER: ▶ Podcast: https://geni.us/FtGAT4 ▶ My Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/shop/petervonp... ---------- IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHOW SOME LOVE: ▶ Buy My Book: https://geni.us/qwbZAE ▶ Become A Channel Member: https://geni.us/AA3Jk ▶ Patreon:   / petervonpanda   ▶ Merch: https://petervonpanda.storenvy.com/ ▶ Free Panda Group: https://panda-research-institute.mn.co FOLLOW MY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: ▶ Instagram:   / petervonpanda   ▶ Facebook:   / petervonpanda  

Riley and Jacob explore the latest trends and innovations from SHOT Show 2025. We discuss a memorable find at the show and reveal the advanced Ruger RXM, designed with Magpul. We also highlight the competitive features of the Rost Martin lineup and the new Titan X laser training pistol from Mantis, aimed at improving dry-fire training. Our discussion includes weapon-mounted lights, comparing innovations from Streamlight and Surefire

In today's episode of Tactical Headlines, we dive into the latest firearm gear updates! Tyrant Designs boosts your Glock 43X and G48 capacity, Streamlight enhances its TLR tactical lights, and CZ USA is launching the competition-ready Shadow 2 SA pistol. Plus, Trijicon's VCOG 1-8x28 is now the USMC's go-to optic, and there's an awesome deal on Leupold's Mark 5HD optic with a free wind meter! Don't miss out!

Sometimes, when a 12-gauge response might be or is required, the best choice can be the ubiquitous non-shotgun firearm, like the Mossberg Shockwave or the Remington TAC-14. Michael's choice is the Rock Island VRF-14…semiauto, magazine fed and fitted with a 1000 lumen/green laser from Streamlight. MichaelBane.TV - On the Radio episode # 233. Scroll down for reference links on topics discussed in this episode. Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed here are our own and may not represent those of the companies we represent or any entities affiliated to it. Host: Michael Bane Producer: Flying Dragon Ltd. More information and reference links: What is Totalitarianism?/Robert Longley, ThoughtCo Blog Britain is Now a Totalitarian State/C.A, Skeet, PJ Media Denver Police Chief, Mayor, react to South American Gang Presence in City/Erika Gonzales, Fox 31 The Great Home-Defense Debate: Shotgun vs. AR-15 vs. Pistol/Kevin Michalowski, USCCA Rock Island Armory VRF-14 Streamlight TLR RM 2 Laser-G The Music of Hey Judy The Music of Max Hixon

The 3rd installment of a 3 part series about flashlights.

In an obtuse world Mark & Jefe are here to keep you vertical.This episode we talk about EDC hand held lights versus WMLs and why you might consider one opposed to the other.  Support Our Sponsor -> Attero Arms: https://atteroarms.com/Source Material:  An Evaluation of Light Positioning on Suspect Accuracy in Low Light Environments https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24751979.2021.1970482Books We Recommend:Triphasic Tactical Training Manual: https://a.co/d/0I1iYRuThe Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy : https://a.co/d/6jU0EDWTarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia: https://a.co/d/fZm4jqpFollow us on Instagram @livelaughlarp_podcastEmail us questions/topics at live.laugh.larp.podcast@gmail.comFind the Fit'n Fire YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/fitnfire

Today, I am talking with Kenny G from R3 Contingencies about being prepared for travel, both by car and by plane, as well as developing situational awareness while planning your trips. Featured Event: Save the Date for the LFTN Workshop Ticket Sales, January 20, 2024 at 9am Central. Theme, “Back to the Basics.” Workshop is April 25-27. Sponsor 1: The WealthSteading Podcast, InvestableWealth.com Sponsor 2: Last change for the $35 Homesteading and Permaculture Bundle with a 17 episode podcast analysis of Toby Hemenway's Gaia's Garden and a whole HOST of other things! https://permies.com/w/bundle?f=495  Show Resources R3 Contingencies Website Main content of the show Kenny G started R3 contingencies in 2020, Since then he has helped expand their services. So they can help if you lost everything from your cell phone charger to a full suit, to giving you a plan after a break-in. Why should I prep for travel? I have a good travel agent isn't that enough? What should I be concerned with road trips I have AAA is'nt the best thing to have? What is the most common problem you see and what is the easiest way to prevent it? How about flying? What if I want to travel internationally? What if it's for business vs pleasure? Does it change my travel plans? Make it a great week GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce.  Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link Transcript 00:03.643 --> 00:09.346 Howdy, everybody, and welcome to today's live interview with Kenny G. Kenny G, you going to play some music? 00:11.448 --> 00:12.228 Maybe a little later. 00:12.248 --> 00:14.569 I think I forgot my guitar at the show.   00:14.810 --> 00:16.230 Is Kenny G your real name?   00:17.231 --> 00:17.891 Close enough.   00:19.712 --> 00:20.293 That's right, guys.   00:20.833 --> 00:29.518 Kenny G's been on our podcast before on a different topic, but he reached out to me and said, hey, I want to talk about things people should know while traveling.   00:30.359 --> 00:30.519 And   00:31.329 --> 00:47.931 I kind of added because I know you're going to end up talking about this like situational awareness, something that has really struck me in the last couple of years that I've been on the road is so I was driving to Texas and you know how those alerts come over your phone that everybody turns off because they're annoying.   00:47.952 --> 00:48.873 Yep.   00:49.721 --> 00:51.261 Okay, so one of those alerts came over my phone.   00:51.301 --> 00:53.022 I'm like, I have Amber Alerts.   00:53.302 --> 00:53.742 Shut off.   00:53.782 --> 00:54.442 Like, what's up?   00:54.622 --> 00:56.982 And a convict had escaped prison.   00:57.022 --> 01:00.963 So it was a different kind of alert.   01:01.383 --> 01:03.223 And he had taken people hostage.   01:04.364 --> 01:07.384 And they said, this is going on in this area.   01:07.404 --> 01:14.246 Well, I had made the critical error of following my GPS instead of my map to get around, to route around a traffic issue.   01:14.886 --> 01:16.446 So I didn't actually know where I was.   01:18.511 --> 01:23.636 And so when it said where it was, I didn't know where I where I was, where it was in relationship to that.   01:23.756 --> 01:30.864 And luckily, I had more than half a tank because I usually top off about every half tank when I'm driving somewhere long distance.   01:31.364 --> 01:33.206 And I got all the way to my destination.   01:33.226 --> 01:35.829 And it turned out I was within a couple of miles.   01:36.029 --> 01:41.795 And the guy ended up taking a family hostage, driving to Ohio and killing them before he was caught.   01:42.905 --> 01:45.507 And so that's what I mean by situational awareness.   01:45.587 --> 01:53.572 Like we get so used to technology that sometimes it's a really bad idea to just put your faith in it.   01:53.672 --> 01:55.033 But there's a lot of stuff you can do.   01:55.053 --> 01:56.074 Oh, I lost the light.   01:56.454 --> 01:59.516 There's a lot of stuff you can do between now and then.   01:59.656 --> 02:02.038 But let's start with before we jump into that.   02:02.418 --> 02:03.939 I'm just giving everybody the overview.   02:06.021 --> 02:09.283 Tell us who you are and how you ended up on LFTN anyway.   02:11.467 --> 02:14.528 Um, Ken or Kenny G if you prefer.   02:14.608 --> 02:17.630 And yes, that is the real first initial for my last name.   02:18.650 --> 02:24.372 Um, I am working or I work for the emergency concierge service, our three contingencies.   02:24.953 --> 02:27.774 We see a lot of things happen up, down, left, right.   02:28.634 --> 02:31.595 And I thought it would be a great topic here.   02:31.715 --> 02:35.357 And not to mention, I've reached out to Nicole for several things regarding business.   02:35.477 --> 02:37.338 So pay it back, right?   02:37.858 --> 02:37.998 Yeah.   02:38.018 --> 02:40.759 So what is our three contingencies before we jump in there?   02:41.738 --> 02:46.003 They are, as far as I know, the world's only emergency concierge service that there is.   02:47.684 --> 02:50.528 What does an emergency concierge service do?   02:51.949 --> 02:57.795 For example, let's say you go on a flight and they lose your luggage and you have a business meeting.   02:58.656 --> 03:02.861 It would have been something that we prep for and we would have clothes delivered to your hotel room.   03:04.275 --> 03:05.236 Well, that's pretty cool.   03:05.316 --> 03:13.801 With, you know, a Visa gift card if you need it, a phone charger, standard stuff that you may have forgotten or gotten lost.   03:13.921 --> 03:16.883 Or example, you run out because your kid's in the hospital.   03:17.343 --> 03:23.247 We deliver a phone charger to you, food, basic necessities, toothbrush, toothpaste, stuff like that.   03:24.226 --> 03:24.406 Wow.   03:24.426 --> 03:25.207 That sounds really good.   03:25.227 --> 03:25.547 Yeah.   03:26.588 --> 03:26.748 Yeah.   03:26.928 --> 03:27.829 I found your website.   03:27.929 --> 03:30.111 So I thought I had to, you know, show it.   03:30.972 --> 03:33.234 Cause we have that capacity here.   03:33.374 --> 03:33.694 Okay.   03:33.774 --> 03:35.936 So let's go back to traveling though.   03:35.996 --> 03:39.779 Cause traveling has probably taught me more about prepping than anything else.   03:40.540 --> 03:45.164 One thing I learned is you never leave the house without a snack in your bag.   03:46.414 --> 03:53.399 Because you're going to end up on a train somewhere in the middle of the night in Eastern Germany and you didn't have time to get dinner.   03:53.479 --> 03:55.560 And luckily you have that snack in your bag.   03:56.120 --> 03:59.102 But why should I prep for travel?   04:00.203 --> 04:05.526 And if I'm like with a tour group, should I still should I still prep for travel?   04:05.546 --> 04:06.167 And if so, why?   04:08.505 --> 04:10.647 Absolutely, you should still prep for travel.   04:10.907 --> 04:14.550 And prepping for travel is essential because let's face it, you never know.   04:16.311 --> 04:18.452 I live in New Hampshire, I'm really close to Boston.   04:18.833 --> 04:26.278 When the big dig was happened, I have literally driven into Boston and had the road closed that I drove in on, on the way out.   04:28.099 --> 04:29.200 Yeah, what's that mean?   04:29.220 --> 04:30.281 Do you just get stuck on the road?   04:31.901 --> 05:00.958 uh yeah i had to get rerouted and i was stuck in a traffic jam for about four hours what should have been an hour and a half trip literally took me all day and had i not done things like you know make sure my gas tank is kept half topped off bare minimum i keep a gallon of water in the car i keep cliff bars in the car i mean i know they're not the healthiest thing for you but they do help satisfy your hunger and there is such a thing as driving hangry and i would not recommend it   05:01.869 --> 05:02.469 Well, why not?   05:02.489 --> 05:06.971 Because you make stupid choices when you're hangry.   05:08.592 --> 05:11.893 I mean, I know it says no U-turn, but I don't see anyone here and I'm starving.   05:14.334 --> 05:22.897 Yeah, I took a wrong turn on my way from Oklahoma City to Tennessee, which literally all you need to do is stay on the stupid freeway, which is I-40, right?   05:23.958 --> 05:24.198 Right.   05:25.126 --> 05:27.688 But I got on the freeway going the wrong direction after getting gas.   05:27.728 --> 05:30.391 And then I took the next exit, which was a terrible idea.   05:30.511 --> 05:36.896 Ended up driving 28 miles one direction to where I could finally turn around after paying a toll and 28 miles back.   05:36.916 --> 05:41.680 And I kept looking at the gaps every so often that said, don't drive through here.   05:42.741 --> 05:45.922 And I finally like I was like, well, there's so many cars coming.   05:45.962 --> 05:47.063 I'm not going to do it right.   05:47.143 --> 05:52.685 But I was really tempted and I got to the toll booth and I asked about those things like, oh, yeah, we actually have cameras up.   05:52.705 --> 05:56.226 We would have busted your ass because people get into accidents when they do that.   05:56.826 --> 06:00.828 So I made the right choice in that turn and in that situation.   06:00.968 --> 06:06.470 But what does what does prepping for travel look like?   06:08.410 --> 06:08.970 Depends.   06:09.070 --> 06:10.551 Are you flying or driving?   06:10.951 --> 06:13.631 I mean, we're talking about driving, so let's go with that.   06:13.651 --> 06:16.772 A simple low-hanging fruit is get AAA.   06:17.632 --> 06:23.974 It doesn't cost much, and if you get one tow, just one in like four years, it pays for itself.   06:24.994 --> 06:30.875 I used to work for a towing company back when I was younger and had hair, and it started out like $150 to pick you up plus $15 a mile.   06:30.915 --> 06:32.256 That adds up really, really fast.   06:38.846 --> 06:39.186 Yeah.   06:39.747 --> 06:46.232 So I have AAA for this reason and the poor people have had to tow me at least twice a year since I got it.   06:47.933 --> 06:52.417 And except for this year, because it's the second or third or something.   06:54.379 --> 06:59.102 What happened in 2020 with AAA is they would pick your car up, but not you.   06:59.122 --> 07:03.006 Yeah, that sounds about right.   07:03.326 --> 07:06.048 And they said they didn't want to risk giving the drivers COVID.   07:06.108 --> 07:07.129 So I was in 2020.   07:09.451 --> 07:10.411 Maybe it was 2021.   07:10.471 --> 07:11.932 It was still in effect.   07:12.092 --> 07:19.073 I get caught in the middle of the wilderness, basically, between Chattanooga and Sparta.   07:19.893 --> 07:21.714 So I'm like literally on the side of the road.   07:21.734 --> 07:22.874 There's nothing around.   07:22.914 --> 07:26.115 And they're like, well, you can't ride with the driver because of our policies.   07:27.555 --> 07:28.755 And I'm like, what am I supposed to do?   07:28.775 --> 07:29.755 You know what they told me to do?   07:29.775 --> 07:31.276 Get an Uber?   07:32.036 --> 07:32.676 Call a cab.   07:34.890 --> 07:37.215 I'm like, I don't know if you understand where I am right now.   07:37.275 --> 07:38.999 Because, you know, they're always like, are you safe?   07:39.059 --> 07:40.361 I'm like, no, I'm not safe.   07:41.143 --> 07:43.448 I'm on the side of the road in the middle of the winter.   07:44.700 --> 07:47.401 And so they were like, well, we don't know what to tell you, ma'am.   07:47.521 --> 07:49.561 This is this is the deal during covid.   07:50.502 --> 07:58.404 And that made me rethink my relationship with Triple A. Now, what I ended up doing was asking the driver if he cared if I jumped in and he said, are you sick?   07:58.464 --> 07:59.004 And I said, no.   07:59.024 --> 08:00.085 He said, then go ahead.   08:00.725 --> 08:01.485 And I did get it.   08:01.785 --> 08:03.586 Like it was a driver decision.   08:03.606 --> 08:08.147 And I did have friends coming to pick me up if that didn't happen.   08:08.167 --> 08:11.188 But they were going to have to drive like two hours to get me.   08:12.228 --> 08:14.631 Meanwhile, my car was towed, you know, because it was broken down.   08:15.011 --> 08:19.635 So what do you think about that in AAA?   08:19.675 --> 08:25.441 Like they're kind of dead to me, but not dead to me because it's the only towing service I've really found that seems to work at all.   08:26.342 --> 08:28.764 That doesn't cost you an arm and a leg when you have to get it.   08:28.784 --> 08:28.864 Yeah.   08:29.205 --> 08:29.445 Yeah.   08:30.552 --> 08:35.134 Yeah, like, okay, first of all, everyone went insane during COVID.   08:35.634 --> 08:41.617 I mean, let's face it, totally reasonable, rational people I know lost their freaking minds.   08:42.497 --> 08:46.839 So I can't fault AAA too much, and they've probably done away with that policy.   08:47.419 --> 08:53.082 Like way, way back in the day, 2010, they actually could not leave you on the side of the road.   08:53.862 --> 08:55.203 They had policies against that.   08:55.771 --> 09:00.993 If you had to like load five people into your tiny two person cab, you did it.   09:01.433 --> 09:04.014 You drive to the next exit and you let them off.   09:04.554 --> 09:09.355 But as I said, people lost their minds during COVID.   09:10.696 --> 09:12.416 Yeah, that happened once to my mom too.   09:12.436 --> 09:19.259 She was stuck in the middle of the freeway, like the middle left middle because the car went into limp mode.   09:19.279 --> 09:19.939 Do you know what that is?   09:20.993 --> 09:24.395 Yes, that is when it enters in when it only does 30 miles an hour.   09:24.516 --> 09:33.182 Oh, no, it did five, five, five in a rainstorm on I-40 won't go more than five rush hour traffic.   09:33.262 --> 09:35.883 She pulls into the left shoulder, calls AAA.   09:37.204 --> 09:40.667 And they're like, well, we can't get there for four hours.   09:42.448 --> 09:43.048 Are you safe?   09:43.088 --> 09:44.790 And I'm like, no, she's actually not safe.   09:45.578 --> 09:50.641 Like anybody could just reef into the back of that car and they go super fast and whatever.   09:50.881 --> 09:51.501 And you can't see.   09:51.982 --> 09:55.884 So the police came and they actually drove her to the next exit, which was nice.   09:57.585 --> 10:01.687 That is something you should probably look at depending on your location.   10:02.227 --> 10:06.089 Suppose the police had said, no, we don't want to wait for AAA.   10:06.109 --> 10:08.010 We're going to call one of our guys and they'll tow you.   10:09.651 --> 10:14.254 And a lot of AAA states, if they cannot get to you in a reasonable amount of time, they will pay for the tow.   10:15.586 --> 10:18.849 I have had that happen with them too, where they couldn't get there for four hours.   10:18.889 --> 10:20.130 And I said, what's my option?   10:20.170 --> 10:21.471 And they said, you get reimbursed.   10:22.731 --> 10:24.473 And then they reimbursed me 80 bucks.   10:27.315 --> 10:29.136 Yeah, that probably wasn't enough to cover the tow, was it?   10:29.356 --> 10:32.417 It actually was in that case, because I live in the middle of nowhere.   10:32.777 --> 10:33.057 Yeah.   10:33.657 --> 10:37.759 It would not have been the case had it been that incident in the middle of the road.   10:38.679 --> 10:40.359 So we didn't know what limp mode was.   10:40.580 --> 10:44.801 So I didn't know why the car was only going five miles per hour and going doop, doop, doop, doop, doop.   10:44.921 --> 10:47.242 But I was like, hmm, sounds like a transmission problem, right?   10:47.802 --> 10:55.344 Had I known about limp mode, I would have been like, hey, cops, let us get over to the right hand shoulder and then we'll just limp to the next exit.   10:55.464 --> 10:56.404 Down to the next exit.   10:56.504 --> 11:05.206 It seems to me that limp mode is a really dangerous thing when it drops you to five miles an hour and won't let you do anything because you basically can't get yourself out of a situation at that point.   11:05.246 --> 11:06.846 I don't have that car anymore for that reason.   11:08.606 --> 11:09.226 They're dead to me.   11:09.847 --> 11:11.227 People become dead to me easily.   11:13.737 --> 11:21.261 Well, if it's between limp mode and the car not running, I prefer limp mode because, you know, at least I can move a little bit versus some cars.   11:21.301 --> 11:23.743 They will literally just shut down and tell you, nope, not moving.   11:24.063 --> 11:25.044 But you're capable of it.   11:25.244 --> 11:25.564 Don't care.   11:25.604 --> 11:26.004 Not doing it.   11:26.664 --> 11:27.145 Exactly.   11:27.165 --> 11:42.634 I mean, I've driven on on rims before to get out of dangerous situations just because I'm like, I know this is going to cost me a lot, but I'd rather pay money for that than like die on the side of the road because my car had a blowout of some sort in a really dangerous place.   11:43.514 --> 11:47.436 Um, but you know, I'm a weirdo and everybody's like, why do women always do that?   11:47.476 --> 11:50.278 I'm like, cause I'm not going to get out of my car and get hit by a semi.   11:50.378 --> 11:58.121 That's why I, I feel like woman versus semi semi wins every time, every time.   11:59.402 --> 11:59.782 Yeah.   12:00.202 --> 12:04.405 Red fire made it says waited six hours in Austin at night with a motorcycle.   12:04.465 --> 12:04.745 So, um,   12:05.737 --> 12:09.778 How what else should you do besides have something like AAA?   12:09.798 --> 12:11.319 Because I mean, it works.   12:11.499 --> 12:12.759 It is better than nothing.   12:12.839 --> 12:18.081 It's probably the best option I found out there from a price to benefit ratio.   12:18.821 --> 12:22.702 But obviously, I have lots of stories about being stranded by AAA.   12:22.782 --> 12:24.382 And we have some in the comments here.   12:24.422 --> 12:26.623 Like, what else can you do?   12:28.985 --> 12:57.057 something else this is just very basic stuff get a floor jack one with wheels on it i don't recommend the bottle jack and the reason i say the floor jack with wheels is because if you need to you can use it to help get your lug nuts off keep your car on the ground put those stupid little bar they give you and put the jack on the side of the bar so that way when you jack it up it turns the lug because some people out there like my wife she weighs 110 pounds soaking wet   12:58.044 --> 13:02.385 If she's driving an F-250, she does not have the body mass to get that lug off.   13:03.025 --> 13:03.686 It doesn't matter.   13:03.826 --> 13:04.646 It's not happening.   13:05.346 --> 13:12.448 However, she can jack it up, then stand on it, or use the jack in reverse to retighten the bolts if she needs to.   13:14.389 --> 13:19.850 And to know how to do that, how do you know those things to do besides just that one tip?   13:22.731 --> 13:25.732 Heard a lot of horror stories and found ways around them.   13:25.752 --> 13:26.452 Yeah.   13:27.524 --> 13:30.086 The other thing is try to have more than your cell phone.   13:30.206 --> 13:33.268 I mean, I know, like you said, we've become so reliant on these things.   13:33.588 --> 13:34.309 It has a light.   13:34.409 --> 13:35.970 What do I need a flashlight for?   13:35.990 --> 13:37.731 You want a flashlight.   13:37.851 --> 13:43.355 If it's pouring rain out, you do not want your cell phone sitting there as you're trying to get your lugs off.   13:45.338 --> 13:51.063 And your cell phone is not as bright as something like a Streamlight or like a decent pocket flashlight even.   13:53.244 --> 13:53.825 Correct.   13:53.985 --> 13:59.389 Another thing is, and I hate saying this, but dollar store glow sticks, they're not road flares.   13:59.869 --> 14:06.254 But, you know, if you buy five of them and just crack them and toss them down the road, at least they give people something.   14:06.354 --> 14:09.116 And worst case scenario, you have a glow stick light.   14:10.617 --> 14:11.738 Yeah, that makes sense.   14:11.798 --> 14:13.139 You know, I have one of those...   14:14.682 --> 14:21.028 cigarette lighter plug-in tire inflator, like compressors, it has a built-in light too.   14:21.048 --> 14:22.829 So every time it's on, it's flashlights on.   14:22.869 --> 14:27.313 Cause they just assume you need me in the middle of the night and you can't see anything outside.   14:28.574 --> 14:30.496 So that's another good one to have.   14:31.057 --> 14:34.560 The only thing I worry about with those is if your alternator dies or   14:35.094 --> 14:40.559 Because most people don't know that their alternator dies until they're going, why are my headlights getting dimmer?   14:40.879 --> 14:41.139 Yeah.   14:41.619 --> 14:43.401 And why did my radio stop?   14:44.122 --> 14:44.882 Oh, that's weird.   14:45.102 --> 14:48.085 So they just keep driving and then now your car is literally out of power.   14:48.906 --> 14:49.306 Right.   14:50.227 --> 14:53.008 I mean, those you're using it because you have a flat tire.   14:53.088 --> 14:56.890 And I don't know if you know this about me, but I have the flat tire curse.   14:57.971 --> 15:05.235 I may have actually finally passed it on, but there was a series of years where every time I went on any road trip of any kind.   15:06.846 --> 15:13.032 There was a tire blowout or a flat or I came out from the hotel one morning and there it was flat.   15:13.652 --> 15:20.659 And so that's why I have that thing, because I was like, OK, I can pump it up, get to where I need to go to get it patched or whatever.   15:20.699 --> 15:21.940 I do have a patch kit.   15:22.160 --> 15:24.723 I'm not terribly good at patching tires myself.   15:25.640 --> 15:28.041 But I like I can plug them if I need to.   15:28.341 --> 15:34.905 Usually it's it's a strength issue of getting the thing into the hole.   15:35.265 --> 15:35.765 The reamer.   15:35.965 --> 15:36.185 Yeah.   15:36.205 --> 15:36.525 Yeah.   15:37.266 --> 15:37.506 Yeah.   15:37.566 --> 15:39.507 That's that's my challenge with those.   15:39.647 --> 15:43.689 But I think like the more stubborn I am about it, the better it is.   15:43.749 --> 15:51.133 But having that way of inflating tires, no matter what, has been really helpful because I'm usually 20 miles from somewhere useful.   15:51.773 --> 15:53.515 at any given time when there's a problem.   15:53.575 --> 15:58.221 It's not like, oh, hey, look, there's a repair guy and my car just broke right here.   15:58.301 --> 16:00.944 Or there's a gas station and my car just broke right here.   16:00.964 --> 16:04.287 It's always like, okay, nope, no self service.   16:06.049 --> 16:06.770 Now what do I do?   16:06.810 --> 16:08.713 I got to get somewhere where I can go somewhere.   16:09.493 --> 16:11.736 So what's the most common?   16:12.337 --> 16:12.497 What?   16:13.587 --> 16:18.268 Another advantage to those is, at least around here, we get weather that's like negative 20.   16:18.848 --> 16:22.389 And when it is, those gas station compressors will not work.   16:22.990 --> 16:24.930 They turn on, but they don't pump air out.   16:25.290 --> 16:29.531 Those little plug into your lighter air compressors still work.   16:30.192 --> 16:31.492 Yeah, especially if your car is warm.   16:32.692 --> 16:33.192 Exactly.   16:33.813 --> 16:37.734 What do you tell people to do who are driving in environments like yours where it is really cold?   16:37.754 --> 16:42.675 Like what else should they have in the car besides some, you know, basic water and food?   16:43.775 --> 17:09.888 space blanket you can buy 10 of them for like 12 bucks on amazon and they are a lifesaver and this may sound weird but believe it or not if you are broken down in a car with no gas the car will be colder than the actual outside because why is that a giant ice box something to do with the metal and thermal dynamics and some math that is just beyond me at the moment   17:10.339 --> 17:14.622 But yes, there have been multiple studies done, one of them actually done by AAA.   17:15.222 --> 17:19.465 And it turns out outside of your car actually is warmer than inside of your car at a certain point.   17:19.765 --> 17:21.627 Yeah, unless you have a windshield, I assume.   17:21.647 --> 17:23.188 That's insane.   17:23.728 --> 17:23.948 Yeah.   17:26.250 --> 17:26.870 Oh, the cat.   17:27.871 --> 17:28.291 What else?   17:28.612 --> 17:30.893 Space blankets, water, food, anything else?   17:31.273 --> 17:32.814 Hand warmers, anything like that?   17:33.535 --> 17:35.817 Hand warmers are a nice one to keep.   17:35.897 --> 17:37.698 However, most people lose them.   17:39.180 --> 17:41.381 I've stopped recommending them because people throw them in their trunk.   17:41.422 --> 17:45.444 Then when they need them, I can't find them or they throw them in their glove box.   17:45.524 --> 17:50.006 And then, you know, I throw 10,000 other things in my glove box and I cannot find them.   17:50.647 --> 17:54.269 You mean they don't all have a little kit in their card with all the stuff in it?   17:54.689 --> 17:55.489 No, no, no.   17:55.529 --> 17:56.110 Most people don't.   17:56.150 --> 17:59.271 They just throw it in the back of their truck or in their trunk, whatever.   18:01.713 --> 18:05.495 Another thing I tend to recommend is just some basic toiletries.   18:06.431 --> 18:09.033 Toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, soap.   18:10.234 --> 18:19.961 I mean, if you happen to get stuck or God forbid sleeping in your car because the roads are closed, they washed out, they had to close down the road because some guy's holding a family hostage.   18:21.142 --> 18:28.628 If you can sleep in a Walmart parking lot, go into the Walmart and just, you know, wash your face, some other necessities.   18:28.788 --> 18:30.449 It makes you feel 10 times better.   18:31.860 --> 18:32.120 Yeah.   18:32.180 --> 18:35.122 I know somebody who actually ended up in a Walmart parking lot.   18:35.162 --> 18:42.948 I think recently waiting for her husband when the past got just jacked up with truck trucks sliding all over the place.   18:42.968 --> 18:44.509 And luckily they got a hotel that night.   18:44.749 --> 18:50.713 That's the other thing is when they closed the highway snow or something, all of the hotels are instantly booked.   18:51.534 --> 18:51.694 Yep.   18:52.655 --> 18:54.396 So how do you get your hotel room in that case?   18:54.476 --> 18:57.198 If you see a road closing, how do you get the hotel first?   18:59.209 --> 19:01.230 Go for off the beaten path.   19:01.350 --> 19:03.212 Don't look for hotels next to airports.   19:03.252 --> 19:04.332 That's what everyone goes for.   19:05.133 --> 19:07.134 And those tend to be the first ones that fill up.   19:08.175 --> 19:10.116 And this is a little tweak here.   19:10.436 --> 19:11.317 Don't look for hotel.   19:11.357 --> 19:12.157 Look for motel.   19:12.437 --> 19:13.618 Everyone looks for hotel.   19:13.938 --> 19:14.679 Those fill up.   19:14.819 --> 19:15.820 Look for motel.   19:16.480 --> 19:18.782 And you might be able to find something a little better.   19:19.942 --> 19:24.505 Downside motels tend to be a little lower quality.   19:24.645 --> 19:25.706 So, yeah.   19:26.306 --> 19:27.307 Bed bugs are a thing.   19:28.047 --> 19:28.468 Oh, yeah.   19:29.304 --> 19:35.029 Well, that and fights outside your door at certain motels.   19:35.329 --> 19:36.110 Oh, yeah.   19:36.130 --> 19:36.991 Three in the morning.   19:37.271 --> 19:37.591 Yeah.   19:38.212 --> 19:38.352 Yeah.   19:38.432 --> 19:43.076 I like to when I'm going to be if I'm at a motel that feels sketchy, which I try not to do.   19:43.756 --> 19:47.800 I love to be on the front office side of the building.   19:49.521 --> 19:52.544 Because the fights all seem to happen in the pool area.   19:53.826 --> 20:14.091 where they can't see so just a little i mean if you end up in that situation and it's safer than staying in your car then you know see if you can get located somewhere where the people who are there all night and awake all night are are also able to see your door that's super helpful um   20:15.379 --> 20:20.782 The thing I noticed, so I was one time, I've done a lot of things on I-40.   20:20.822 --> 20:22.703 This was in New Mexico.   20:23.183 --> 20:24.504 Blizzard was coming through.   20:24.524 --> 20:29.327 And one person was driving, one person was calling.   20:30.427 --> 20:33.309 to make reservations.   20:33.409 --> 20:39.995 Calling was better than the websites at that time because the websites would allow reservations to go through when there weren't rooms.   20:40.735 --> 20:41.716 So it was better to call.   20:42.197 --> 20:50.323 It's almost better to pull over for 10 minutes and find where you're going and then go rather than drive as fast as you can out of that situation.   20:50.383 --> 20:54.647 But everything was booked for hours around that closure.   20:54.687 --> 20:57.329 And I-40 was closed for a couple of days because of that blizzard.   20:58.314 --> 21:01.195 I ended up actually driving south.   21:01.916 --> 21:02.796 We didn't get a hotel room.   21:04.077 --> 21:04.717 We drove south.   21:04.737 --> 21:07.378 Because you know what happens as you go further south?   21:07.638 --> 21:09.880 Usually, it gets warmer.   21:10.780 --> 21:15.582 And eventually, we got to the rain part of the storm instead of the snow part of the storm.   21:15.622 --> 21:16.383 And then we get heavy.   21:16.423 --> 21:20.524 So we just replanned our entire route around.   21:21.285 --> 21:23.606 I'm not driving in the snow and I-40 is closed.   21:27.503 --> 21:29.025 Oh, I get that.   21:29.425 --> 21:38.395 Something I've seen is if it's a blizzard, hotels actually will put a cot in like the gym and only be like, tell you what, 50 bucks on a choice.   21:39.697 --> 21:40.438 Is it pleasant?   21:40.758 --> 21:41.078 No.   21:41.098 --> 21:42.680 Is it better than sleeping in your car?   21:43.101 --> 21:43.361 Yep.   21:44.262 --> 21:44.642 Yep.   21:45.183 --> 21:46.645 That's actually not a bad play.   21:48.004 --> 21:49.265 Lots of cots in the gym.   21:49.305 --> 21:49.825 Who cares?   21:49.905 --> 21:52.326 I mean, it's actually better than dying outside.   21:53.606 --> 21:59.548 What's the most common problem you see when people are traveling and are there ways to prevent it?   22:02.229 --> 22:06.371 Most common problem, especially with flying, is lost luggage, believe it or not.   22:08.152 --> 22:11.253 There is, well, I haven't used this trick in a few years, but   22:12.637 --> 22:15.618 A friend of mine actually recommended this one to me for your carry-on.   22:16.278 --> 22:21.440 If you put a starter pistol in your bag, you have to declare that you have a gun in your bag.   22:21.940 --> 22:29.602 Starter pistols are legal in all 50 states, and they are then required to take much better care of that bag.   22:31.223 --> 22:35.304 So it increases the tracking on it and increases the odds that it'll get to your destination.   22:36.400 --> 22:45.284 Now, if you don't want to go this route, and if you don't have a starter pistol, it's just not something you want to do, it depends.   22:45.344 --> 22:46.965 Are you traveling for business or pleasure?   22:47.685 --> 22:52.807 If I'm flying for pleasure and I get there and they've lost my bag, whatever.   22:53.227 --> 22:54.828 My friends make fun of me a little bit.   22:54.948 --> 22:56.909 I wear the same clothes for a few days.   22:57.029 --> 22:57.990 I go to Goodwill.   22:58.010 --> 22:58.950 It's not a big deal.   22:59.867 --> 23:03.850 Suppose I'm traveling for business and my bag had my suit in it.   23:04.350 --> 23:10.094 This is now a significantly bigger deal because I need to go to the place and look nice.   23:10.154 --> 23:17.840 I can't show up in my travel clothes because let's face it, I look like a hobo at this point because I dress for comfort on the flight, not to impress anyone.   23:18.860 --> 23:26.186 In this case, something we recommend doing is if you're traveling locally, look up places where you could buy a replacement and get an idea.   23:27.142 --> 23:43.909 so you know i need a new suit well i don't want to buy one well there's a men's warehouse right here how much will this cost me okay cool if you're traveling internationally this changes significantly because at this point now you need to before you go look up the translations   23:45.385 --> 23:47.546 Europe does not use the same sizes we do.   23:48.326 --> 23:53.448 And if you go in there with American sizes, you are not going to get clothes that fit at all.   23:53.928 --> 24:01.430 And it can save you a lot of hassle in the long run, just looking up basic translation for sizes, especially when it comes to undergarments.   24:03.991 --> 24:07.712 The way I learned that was by being there and asking him, what size do you think I should try on?   24:10.143 --> 24:14.606 but I actually get really frustrated with the American sizes on Birkenstocks.   24:14.686 --> 24:20.811 Cause I know my Birkenstock European shoe size, which is different in a Birkenstock than other shoes in Europe.   24:21.652 --> 24:28.137 They are the same sizes, but yeah, anyway, something about the wider footbed means I can have a smaller size on that.   24:30.880 --> 24:34.262 You order them on Amazon and they're like, get size nine.   24:34.303 --> 24:35.944 And I'm like, but is it,   24:37.691 --> 24:38.812 Is it a 42?   24:39.072 --> 24:39.853 Is it a 40?   24:40.073 --> 24:40.914 Is it a 39?   24:40.954 --> 24:42.316 Like, what are you actually going to send me?   24:42.976 --> 24:46.620 So I've had a lot like it varies the translation a little bit.   24:49.322 --> 24:52.345 It varies, especially depending on undergarments.   24:55.528 --> 25:00.213 Bras in particular tend to go by much different sizes over in Europe than they do here.   25:01.491 --> 25:04.413 So that's something you need to prepare for and be aware of.   25:04.433 --> 25:11.918 I mean, I know women's sizes are all over the place anyway, but you're going to have to deal with the translation and the sizes being all over the place.   25:12.679 --> 25:15.921 Yeah, I was really frustrated because I had to order a bra here.   25:15.941 --> 25:21.525 And it's like you measure yourself under your boobs and there's a number.   25:21.545 --> 25:24.447 So one would think logically you use that number.   25:24.487 --> 25:27.769 No, you add two to four inches to that number and then you order that size.   25:28.618 --> 25:29.738 And I had to go look it up.   25:29.818 --> 25:33.699 I'm like, how do I stop getting bras that are like too tight?   25:33.739 --> 25:34.659 Cause I'm not going to wear these.   25:34.679 --> 25:35.700 I kept returning them.   25:35.720 --> 25:38.120 And I was like, Oh, because it doesn't make sense.   25:38.140 --> 25:40.421 That's why it does not make sense.   25:41.381 --> 25:41.561 So.   25:41.581 --> 25:44.102 Men's sizes are easy, at least in America.   25:44.122 --> 25:46.242 Like you just wrap a tape measure around your waist.   25:46.262 --> 25:46.522 Okay.   25:46.722 --> 25:47.043 34 inches.   25:47.343 --> 25:50.403 That's how it should be done for women.   25:50.503 --> 25:56.425 Like waist, this hip, that like, here's your size in seam.   25:56.465 --> 25:56.805 The other.   25:58.175 --> 25:58.836 Imagine that.   25:58.916 --> 26:03.599 No, we have to call them numbers so we don't admit how big around our waist are.   26:03.739 --> 26:05.620 I think it's a vanity thing here.   26:06.440 --> 26:08.301 Somebody in the comments is going to fix that for me.   26:08.321 --> 26:10.103 They're going to be like, no, it's based on blah, blah, blah.   26:11.844 --> 26:13.184 No, I agree with you.   26:13.224 --> 26:16.406 I think it's, oh my God, my hips are this big?   26:17.547 --> 26:19.909 Instead of just saying, oh yeah, you're a size 12.   26:20.429 --> 26:21.730 Yeah.   26:21.750 --> 26:22.430 12 is beautiful.   26:22.990 --> 26:25.392 And then 12 has changed from the 50s till now.   26:27.396 --> 26:27.977 What hasn't?   26:28.617 --> 26:30.459 Yeah, that's also true.   26:30.479 --> 26:32.921 I mean, and it will again by the next 50s.   26:32.961 --> 26:34.642 I'm not sure I'll be alive for the next 50s.   26:34.662 --> 26:35.003 We'll see.   26:37.205 --> 26:43.110 OK, well, so let's go back to getting prepared for air travel.   26:43.170 --> 26:45.812 Like, what do you recommend people do for that?   26:48.573 --> 26:52.837 Okay, the key to being prepared for air travel is being prepared for the TSA.   26:53.457 --> 26:55.639 I hate to say it, but that is the number one thing.   26:56.159 --> 26:59.162 Make sure you wear shoes that you can take off easily.   26:59.702 --> 27:06.388 Try to limit the metal on you, like your watch, your ring, whatever, take it off, throw it in your carry-on.   27:07.449 --> 27:09.610 Always make sure when you travel, you have a carry-on.   27:09.670 --> 27:16.276 Worst case scenario, at least you have, you know, a spare pair of pants, boxers, shirt, and socks that you can change into.   27:16.561 --> 27:18.942 I mean, I always need that spare pair of boxers in my luggage.   27:20.063 --> 27:20.883 I figured you would.   27:24.064 --> 27:25.685 I got what I get pulled out for.   27:25.705 --> 27:32.889 I got I actually started setting off the the thingy on my last trip.   27:34.509 --> 27:37.991 And oh, I have a metal hair comb.   27:40.313 --> 27:56.332 that on you know in nashville didn't set it off but it totally set it off at this other airport and they were like you got to take it all the way out ma'am we have to make sure that's what it is i was like okay here yeah here's my non-sharp metal hair comb   27:58.050 --> 28:03.094 The TSA is not a group you want to play a F around with.   28:03.354 --> 28:03.734 Yeah.   28:04.114 --> 28:07.397 And I will drag you into a side room faster than you can blink.   28:07.457 --> 28:07.757 Yeah.   28:07.837 --> 28:11.920 I mean, whatever it's, it's, it is important to know that I, I travel a lot.   28:11.980 --> 28:14.501 So I work really hard not to have to get pulled aside.   28:15.062 --> 28:23.708 And in the last year, because I travel with my food now, mostly to stay on my eating plan, the food trips them up more than anything else.   28:25.629 --> 28:32.016 Like, if you have a summer sausage in your bag, you can guarantee that they're going to have to look at it and make sure it's not a liquid.   28:32.977 --> 28:33.938 Oh, yeah.   28:34.498 --> 28:38.362 I have problems with highly processed food.   28:38.843 --> 28:41.586 So a lot of the times I'll pack a protein powder with me.   28:42.407 --> 28:45.570 Every time I go through, they need to get someone to test that powder.   28:46.551 --> 28:47.132 Every time.   28:48.503 --> 28:50.325 The same goes for cheese starters.   28:50.805 --> 29:02.153 Like the cheese, I did a cheese making class and I had to go through and I, you know, like when you're teaching a class, you're not going to check under the plane, risking it getting lost the culture you need to teach the cheese class.   29:03.254 --> 29:08.698 So I had this little white packet of powder and they were like, what's that?   29:08.978 --> 29:13.162 And I was like, well, it's a mesophilic culture for making cheese.   29:14.383 --> 29:14.843 Duh.   29:16.363 --> 29:19.067 And they were like, yeah, we can have to get someone to do this.   29:19.448 --> 29:22.032 We need to make sure that's not cocaine, ma'am.   29:22.072 --> 29:22.773 I'm like, really?   29:24.943 --> 29:26.364 Do I look like I'm on cocaine?   29:26.384 --> 29:27.245 But I guess whatever.   29:27.545 --> 29:28.986 Maybe I do look like I'm on cocaine.   29:29.006 --> 29:30.648 I do drink a good amount of coffee.   29:33.030 --> 29:33.650 You and me both.   29:35.432 --> 29:36.693 I love me some good coffee.   29:37.754 --> 29:40.516 So let's go back to situational awareness now.   29:40.556 --> 29:45.160 Let's say I know I need to fly to Texas in May for Exit and Build Lamb Summit.   29:45.220 --> 29:49.623 And I'm going to go from Nashville to Austin.   29:50.524 --> 29:57.527 And then I'm going to like grab an Uber to wherever I'm staying for the exit and build land summit in Bastrop.   29:58.368 --> 30:09.212 How do I figure out from a just geopolitical slash whatever's going on standpoint, what I need to be aware of there?   30:09.372 --> 30:19.697 And it's sort of like, I guess the background for this question is when I flew from California home for Christmas or home here after Christmas, I got a text from my dad saying, did you make it home?   30:21.092 --> 30:21.852 And I was like, yeah.   30:21.932 --> 30:26.294 He's like, well, there were protests that shut down the airport in LAX.   30:26.334 --> 30:28.134 And I was like, well, I didn't fly out of LAX.   30:28.214 --> 30:29.815 So because I just try not to.   30:31.495 --> 30:40.558 But I know I've been in one other incident where protests and riots kind of broke out at the hotel I was in in Ferguson.   30:41.741 --> 30:49.927 Which I totally, by doing a little bit of situational analysis, could have avoided that one by just knowing what was going on in the world.   30:49.967 --> 30:54.211 So like, are there steps you recommend people take or how do we prepare ourselves for that?   30:56.212 --> 31:00.356 Depending on where you're going in the world, as you know, most places have patterns.   31:01.056 --> 31:02.077 It's something to look into.   31:02.557 --> 31:06.921 Like last time I checked, France rioted around the same time every year.   31:07.878 --> 31:09.159 Don't go to France during that time.   31:10.300 --> 31:13.143 If you get invited to stay at a place, do a little bit of Googling.   31:13.663 --> 31:18.507 This may sound basic, but look at house prices around there.   31:18.688 --> 31:25.834 If you're seeing a giant four-bedroom house that's 2,000 square feet and it's only valued at $40,000, not a good neighborhood.   31:26.615 --> 31:27.375 Not a good neighborhood.   31:29.827 --> 31:31.408 Be aware of that before going in.   31:32.248 --> 31:34.009 And most of all, listen to your gut.   31:34.409 --> 31:38.110 If your gut says, uh-oh, bad things, bad things, don't go.   31:38.130 --> 31:42.352 It doesn't matter if you're Sac-A-Meal or Navy SEAL.   31:42.912 --> 31:45.433 There are certain situations that you do not want a part of.   31:45.813 --> 31:47.894 And even if you win, you lose.   31:49.568 --> 31:59.485 and this is a tip for international travel a lot of places they have signs that say beware of pickpocket everyone does the same thing they touch their wallet when they see that sign   32:00.543 --> 32:02.083 Don't touch your wallet.   32:02.744 --> 32:04.864 If you're a woman, keep your purse zipped up.   32:05.224 --> 32:08.625 Keep it going around your body, not hanging off one shoulder.   32:09.046 --> 32:11.466 If you're a man, keep your wallet in your front pocket.   32:11.906 --> 32:13.567 No one goes for your front pocket.   32:13.887 --> 32:15.868 It is way too close to the family jewels.   32:16.288 --> 32:20.609 If someone sticks anything in my front pocket, I am aware that they are there.   32:22.349 --> 32:23.950 I got pickpocketed in Prague.   32:25.175 --> 32:32.182 And it was not a lot of money, but I always kept a little change purse in my bag.   32:32.963 --> 32:36.286 And somebody got it out of my bag and that was it.   32:36.366 --> 32:39.829 And I was like, well, I'm glad I don't keep, like I always wear one of the undershirt   32:41.673 --> 33:06.621 things when i have to travel with cash and that's where you know my important stuff was but i lost five bucks man so they had a good day so even when you know you could be pickpocketed and you think you're situationally aware you can still get pickpocketed and not know it absolutely if you're going into a high pickpocket area it is not a good idea to carry cash in your wallet   33:07.589 --> 33:35.989 or in your bag worst of all um another place people usually get swiped is falling asleep at the airport oh yeah yeah tell you how many people i've talked to said hey i fell asleep in the airport and my laptop's gone my wallet's gone my cell phone's gone i'm calling you from a random person's cell phone can you please help me yes we could but still shouldn't have been in that situation in the first place oh i know somebody whose laptop got swiped on the airplane   33:37.401 --> 33:38.421 That's kind of impressive.   33:38.601 --> 33:39.021 It was.   33:39.061 --> 33:40.362 They were in the airplane.   33:41.162 --> 33:44.742 They worked on their laptop, put it in the bag, and at some point got up to pee.   33:45.723 --> 33:52.684 Came back to their seat, didn't notice it until they walked off the plane and were going to sit down and do something, and their laptop had been taken out of their bag.   33:53.324 --> 33:55.544 Presumably by the person sitting next to them.   33:56.705 --> 34:00.865 They were able to report it and catch the person before they got to the next flight.   34:01.225 --> 34:04.006 So they got their computer back, but...   34:05.319 --> 34:13.866 Like some people are very brazen about stuff, which is kind of interesting because now I'm making everybody paranoid about being around people all the time and their stuff getting stolen.   34:13.906 --> 34:16.188 But the other thing is when you travel.   34:18.550 --> 34:20.771 Do your best not to bring stuff that can't get stolen.   34:20.811 --> 34:22.513 That's that's something I've always thought like.   34:23.900 --> 34:28.024 If this gets stolen, it's going to be a bummer, especially if they can crack my password.   34:28.064 --> 34:32.648 But if they can't crack my password, what happens is this gets reset, right?   34:33.749 --> 34:36.171 And gets resold somewhere in theory.   34:37.912 --> 34:43.917 Everything that's on this, I can restore to another one of these in about 10 minutes right now.   34:45.699 --> 34:49.202 My laptop, it would actually really hurt if that got stolen right now.   34:51.331 --> 34:54.797 So that's where I'm like, oh, that's my weak spot.   34:54.817 --> 34:56.519 Because that's usually like this.   34:56.599 --> 34:57.721 It usually can be restored.   34:57.761 --> 35:03.891 But right now there are some decisions I made about the laptop that need to be unmade if it's going to travel with me.   35:05.683 --> 35:07.705 And some things like that you can't get around.   35:08.265 --> 35:11.528 I mean, I need to bring my laptop if I'm traveling, period.   35:11.588 --> 35:12.088 End of story.   35:12.108 --> 35:12.869 It has stuff on it.   35:13.309 --> 35:14.470 I mean, like you said, my phone.   35:15.251 --> 35:18.954 I can, you know, back up everything and get it all on my new phone in 10 minutes.   35:19.534 --> 35:23.558 Also, I have a nifty app that allows me to track this, take pictures, and listen to what you're saying.   35:24.398 --> 35:27.601 So, yes, I stand good odds of getting my phone back.   35:27.701 --> 35:30.183 But if it gets lost, eh, whatever.   35:30.523 --> 35:33.085 I can literally pick up a burner at Walmart and is it great?   35:33.345 --> 35:33.546 Nope.   35:33.926 --> 35:34.747 Will it do what I need?   35:34.987 --> 35:35.147 Yep.   35:35.492 --> 35:36.192 Will it get me through it?   35:36.552 --> 35:36.752 Yep.   35:38.573 --> 35:45.434 Another thing people can do is take photocopies of your identification and any cards you have with you and put them in your safe at home.   35:46.634 --> 35:56.896 And then if you're out and about and your passport gets stolen, at least you have the information you need to start the ball rolling to get some sort of identification.   35:57.816 --> 35:59.996 That brings me up to another travel tip.   36:01.016 --> 36:03.857 Take copies of your ID and email them to a friend.   36:04.757 --> 36:04.997 Oh, yeah.   36:05.768 --> 36:09.451 We keep copies of frequent travelers ID on hand.   36:09.871 --> 36:14.595 And if you lose your driver's license, your odds of checking into that hotel go way down.   36:16.197 --> 36:21.641 If we send them a picture of your driver's license, about 50 to 60% of the time, they'll take that.   36:22.422 --> 36:25.104 And they'll go, okay, you lost your driver's license.   36:25.144 --> 36:25.645 Totally get it.   36:26.305 --> 36:27.386 We'll work with you on this.   36:27.807 --> 36:29.508 Hopefully your card was already on file.   36:30.390 --> 36:30.650 Yeah.   36:31.251 --> 36:35.354 Well, and if you if you store things in more than one place in that situation.   36:35.374 --> 36:39.517 And this is because I've done months of travel with a backpack.   36:41.078 --> 36:44.060 If you don't have all of your identification with you.   36:44.360 --> 36:45.922 So if you have some at home, that's real.   36:46.846 --> 36:48.408 that can be overnighted to you.   36:49.148 --> 36:56.576 If you have a passport and a driver's license in two different places, if one gets stolen or lost, you probably have the other one.   36:56.596 --> 37:02.062 If you have them all in a nice, neat little container with your credit cards, you just lost everything at once.   37:03.163 --> 37:10.090 So I usually would have two different credit cards, separate places, two different IDs, separate places and cash separate places.   37:11.593 --> 37:11.773 Yep.   37:12.153 --> 37:14.555 And sometimes you lose your social security card too.   37:15.935 --> 37:17.336 I do not walk around with that thing.   37:17.736 --> 37:18.597 Me neither.   37:20.218 --> 37:22.099 No, don't walk around with your social security card.   37:23.139 --> 37:27.742 Like some of our frequently travel clients, what they do is they keep an Amex on file with us.   37:28.262 --> 37:28.522 Yeah.   37:28.682 --> 37:30.963 So that way, like, and they just leave their Amex at home.   37:31.443 --> 37:38.067 So no matter what happens, oh crap, I got here and the border patrol literally stole my wallet.   37:38.367 --> 37:39.728 They do that depending on where you go.   37:40.859 --> 37:46.142 Okay, we got you, call up, get you this, get you this, get you that, charge it all, you're set.   37:47.042 --> 37:55.206 What could have been a major, you know, hiccup now just became a slight little bump in the road and you can go on with your trip in relative ease.   37:56.907 --> 38:01.369 So with your concierge service, if I lose my ID, like how do you help me out?   38:02.790 --> 38:07.332 We'll email you a copy of your ID that we got previously from you because you told us that you travel.   38:08.052 --> 38:12.975 We'd also get a general indication of the sizes and type of clothes you like to wear, long or shoe sizes.   38:13.956 --> 38:16.498 Know what type of phone you have, whether it's an iPhone or Android.   38:16.558 --> 38:18.879 So that way we can send you an appropriate charging cord.   38:20.941 --> 38:23.082 Do you ever like shoot out phones to people?   38:24.083 --> 38:24.243 Yep.   38:24.623 --> 38:26.405 We had one guy who called us.   38:26.745 --> 38:28.866 I remember this one because it was from the Washington airport.   38:29.687 --> 38:31.528 And he's like, hey, can you help me?   38:31.988 --> 38:33.149 Everything just got stolen.   38:33.569 --> 38:34.810 I'm like, okay, you got your phone?   38:35.010 --> 38:37.092 No, I'm calling you from some random stranger's phone.   38:37.771 --> 38:39.032 Okay, what's around you?   38:39.052 --> 38:40.072 I'm at the Washington Airport.   38:40.132 --> 38:40.513 No, no, no.   38:40.613 --> 38:41.913 What is actually around you?   38:42.254 --> 38:43.114 There's the five guys.   38:43.514 --> 38:43.854 Cool.   38:43.894 --> 38:44.555 You like burgers?   38:44.655 --> 38:44.855 Yep.   38:45.175 --> 38:47.697 We're going to order you a burger, fry, and a drink.   38:48.437 --> 38:49.037 Go over there.   38:49.157 --> 38:49.417 Get it.   38:49.578 --> 38:50.058 Sit down.   38:50.478 --> 38:51.058 Relax.   38:52.259 --> 38:57.102 And we had someone deliver him a cell phone, a $500 Visa gift card.   38:57.522 --> 39:01.864 We emailed a copy of his ID to the hotel and had an Uber pick him up and take him there.   39:03.445 --> 39:04.646 I bet he was happy about that.   39:05.529 --> 39:07.651 He was, he upgraded it next time he got home.   39:10.493 --> 39:11.714 So how does that get paid for?   39:11.774 --> 39:19.580 It's like, okay, so this $500 gift card, is that you pay in addition to it and the subscription that you're paying is like for the service or how does that work?   39:20.561 --> 39:24.664 In his case, the $500 gift card was wrapped up in his subscription fee.   39:25.644 --> 39:25.885 Okay.   39:26.482 --> 39:29.024 So that was just part of part of the service.   39:29.824 --> 39:39.651 On the financial side, does that work because you have multiple people you're working with and it leverages together or do you buy insurance policies on top of that to cover costs?   39:39.671 --> 39:45.815 So we refer to it as flex funds per account and your flex funds can be used for anything.   39:46.556 --> 39:48.117 I need a $500 gift card.   39:48.218 --> 39:48.478 Okay.   39:48.618 --> 39:49.259 I need a phone.   39:49.419 --> 39:49.760 Okay.   39:50.280 --> 39:56.488 I need Uber Eats delivered to me for a week straight because my kid just got into a motorcycle accident and I'm not leaving his side.   39:56.808 --> 39:57.169 Gotcha.   39:58.671 --> 39:58.911 Okay.   39:59.031 --> 40:03.577 So you pay, I noticed on your site, it's like $50 a year up to $1,200 a year.   40:06.105 --> 40:06.866 Yep.   40:06.966 --> 40:08.768 Are you adding flex funds on top of that?   40:09.048 --> 40:10.850 Or is that part of that?   40:10.870 --> 40:13.932 Flex funds are wrapped up into the subscription fee.   40:15.033 --> 40:17.395 Some guy, he travels in and out of Canada a lot.   40:17.435 --> 40:20.398 He cannot stop mouthing off to the border patrol.   40:20.858 --> 40:24.021 So they take his cell phone every single time.   40:24.702 --> 40:28.305 So every time he gets out, he's like, hey, can I get another cell phone?   40:28.665 --> 40:29.005 Yep.   40:30.587 --> 40:32.749 He should just not have a cell phone in Canada.   40:34.338 --> 40:39.359 You know, he actually tried just deleting everything off it so they wouldn't have anything to hold them for.   40:39.679 --> 40:40.459 And they held them for that.   40:41.419 --> 40:42.839 Wait, why'd you delete everything off this?   40:43.560 --> 40:44.120 What are you hiding?   40:44.900 --> 40:47.900 Because at the border, you're required to open your cell phone.   40:48.720 --> 40:49.161 Really?   40:50.221 --> 40:50.421 Yeah.   40:50.741 --> 40:51.281 You didn't know that?   40:51.901 --> 40:59.562 No, because I don't know that I've gone to Canada with a cell phone since before flip phones went out of fashion.   41:00.142 --> 41:03.083 When you come back, they will tell you to open up your cell phone.   41:04.568 --> 41:05.509 What are they looking for?   41:05.529 --> 41:10.853 Nefarious text messages?   41:11.494 --> 41:11.814 Yes.   41:12.254 --> 41:14.396 Proof of nefarious acts, stuff like that.   41:15.177 --> 41:17.659 It's one of those, what I believe is government overreach.   41:18.019 --> 41:19.000 That is awful.   41:19.941 --> 41:20.261 Isn't it?   41:20.281 --> 41:23.924 Is that going into Canada or coming back to the U.S.?   41:24.164 --> 41:24.825 Coming back.   41:25.305 --> 41:25.605 Okay.   41:26.406 --> 41:26.986 So it's the U.S.   41:27.027 --> 41:27.707 government doing that?   41:28.688 --> 41:28.788 Yep.   41:29.468 --> 41:31.170 Well, at least he always gets held up coming back.   41:31.250 --> 41:31.610 So, yes.   41:31.950 --> 41:32.371 It must be.   41:32.391 --> 41:33.071 Yeah, those are U.S.   41:33.151 --> 41:34.893 agents asking to see yourself.   41:35.173 --> 41:41.899 Yeah, so I have traveled with smartphones to Europe and back and not had that.   41:41.959 --> 41:43.741 I don't know why Canada would be different.   41:46.523 --> 41:48.805 They're more worried about it because we're their neighbors.   41:48.886 --> 41:49.706 I don't know what to tell you.   41:49.726 --> 41:52.669 I mean, but it's our agents on your way back in, not their agents.   41:53.370 --> 41:53.710 Correct.   41:54.010 --> 41:54.771 And heck, screw you.   41:56.752 --> 41:57.573 just gave up my rights.   41:57.673 --> 41:57.773 Okay.   41:57.793 --> 41:58.493 We have a question.   41:58.513 --> 42:03.276 Do they, do you help people with alternative travel arrangements?   42:03.336 --> 42:06.498 Example in July, I took a train from Hungary to Romania.   42:07.079 --> 42:14.484 There was a train wreck and one train for eight hours became a five plus a bus for 22 hours.   42:14.584 --> 42:20.928 So basically in that situation, do you help them find a better way to get somewhere when, when stuff goes wrong or.   42:21.792 --> 42:24.073 Yes, that is one of the reasons we are here.   42:24.193 --> 42:30.395 We have done everything from getting you a ride service because they have different ride services depending on where you go.   42:30.955 --> 42:33.316 And we also partner with various travel agencies.   42:34.696 --> 42:34.936 Okay.   42:35.116 --> 42:39.598 I mean, generally speaking, if you book through a travel agency and something happens, they got you.   42:40.138 --> 42:41.939 They will help you work around that.   42:42.299 --> 42:43.939 Will they answer the phone 24 hours?   42:44.120 --> 42:44.820 Usually not.   42:45.520 --> 42:48.441 But when they do pick up the phone, they will help you.   42:49.764 --> 42:53.867 we had a client who his flight got canceled and he's like, I don't know what to do.   42:53.887 --> 42:54.888 I just need a ride home.   42:55.308 --> 42:56.269 I just need a ride home.   42:56.329 --> 42:57.170 I just need a ride home.   42:57.190 --> 42:58.351 I'm like, relax, relax.   42:58.871 --> 42:59.852 Ended up calling everyone.   43:00.252 --> 43:01.353 No one had a ride for him.   43:01.413 --> 43:05.336 The only thing was like one taxi service and it was going to cost a small fortune.   43:05.856 --> 43:08.819 Well, it turns out it was off season for limo services.   43:09.659 --> 43:12.962 So they were offering rides like dirt cheap.   43:13.302 --> 43:15.163 So we got this guy to stretch the limo.   43:17.265 --> 43:18.386 That's actually hilarious.   43:19.761 --> 43:20.602 Screw the taxis.   43:20.662 --> 43:21.542 I'm taking a limo.   43:22.883 --> 43:24.244 If it's cheaper, why not?   43:26.045 --> 43:31.449 Well, what basic overview advice would you give anybody who's looking to travel in 2024?   43:32.129 --> 43:33.690 Just like around the U.S.   43:37.172 --> 43:41.375 Number one piece of advice is know where you're going and know the local culture.   43:42.656 --> 43:45.398 I mean, I know that seems simple, but it's...   43:46.428 --> 43:47.990 Really not.   43:49.431 --> 43:51.333 Example, you go to Hawaii.   43:51.914 --> 43:53.115 They don't like to be rushed there.   43:53.716 --> 43:54.197 Period.   43:54.677 --> 43:55.578 End of story.   43:56.699 --> 43:59.762 I once lived there for over two years and I never once heard a car horn.   44:00.704 --> 44:05.288 Versus you go to Boston and it's, hi, welcome to Boston.   44:05.889 --> 44:07.431 I mean, it's just the way it is.   44:07.451 --> 44:08.432 Same thing with New York.   44:10.816 --> 44:14.580 Verse over there, you'll never hear a horn when the emergency vehicles come down.   44:14.921 --> 44:15.942 Everyone just pulls over.   44:15.962 --> 44:17.463 It doesn't matter what side of the road you're on.   44:17.964 --> 44:19.045 They don't like to be hurried.   44:19.085 --> 44:20.647 Your meal's coming out slow.   44:21.828 --> 44:24.351 And if you're a tourist, they're going to refer to you as a Howley.   44:24.371 --> 44:27.674 They will be very polite to you because you are bringing them a large amount of money.   44:27.694 --> 44:29.837 However, you are not one of them.   44:29.897 --> 44:30.838 Do not confuse it.   44:32.372 --> 44:41.359 Go down south, people tend to be a bit more on the polite side when it comes to customer service and a bit more rude in their personal lives.   44:42.099 --> 44:45.662 It's a weird formula, but is what it is.   44:46.422 --> 44:55.849 You go to New York, Boston, California, people talk fast, people drive fast, and you might as well get used to hearing the sounds of horns with red lights because that is your life.   44:57.470 --> 45:01.373 I'll tell you what, I live in the south and I flew home to Portland, Oregon.   45:02.227 --> 45:06.831 Well, it's not home anymore, but at the time, and I'd been here for years.   45:07.111 --> 45:13.036 And what happens in the checkout line here is you talk to people you don't know and nobody thinks it's weird.   45:14.918 --> 45:20.063 So I'm at the airport and we're going down the escalator and it's like kind of backed up.   45:20.123 --> 45:26.128 And I say something to the people in front of me and they're like, like, I'm going to ask them for money.   45:28.337 --> 45:29.638 Why did you talk to me?   45:29.698 --> 45:32.079 Northwest, you don't talk to strangers, apparently.   45:32.099 --> 45:40.545 And it seemed very unfriendly to me because I had apparently acclimated to polite conversation here out and about.   45:41.445 --> 45:42.146 Exactly.   45:42.166 --> 45:45.688 And I thought, man, I'm from here and you guys are rude.   45:47.819 --> 45:52.643 Or you go to New York and you try that, people are going to be reaching behind their back or backing up slowly.   45:53.023 --> 45:54.545 Because, oh, they're going to rob me?   45:55.065 --> 45:56.967 I talk to people in New York all the time.   45:57.007 --> 45:59.288 And what I learned is usually I'm asking directions.   46:00.650 --> 46:02.951 Like, is it that way to this street or that way?   46:02.972 --> 46:06.795 Because they all pop up out of the ground like a freaking prairie dog.   46:06.815 --> 46:07.856 And I'm like, I don't know where I am.   46:07.876 --> 46:10.298 And they'll be like, it's Fifth Avenue that way.   46:10.418 --> 46:15.121 And as long as you're walking the direction they are, they usually be like, yeah, that way.   46:15.998 --> 46:18.841 But if you try to stop somebody and ask them, they'd be like, screw off.   46:19.682 --> 46:22.104 So that was my hack in New York.   46:23.646 --> 46:27.770 New York, New York, and like Pine Bush, New York, very different cultures.   46:27.810 --> 46:30.573 You think that you just crossed six borders in a time zone.   46:31.293 --> 46:32.535 That is how different they are.   46:33.813 --> 46:35.394 Pine Bush, New York is out in the country.   46:35.454 --> 46:37.395 Last time I checked, it was a UFO hotspot.   46:37.895 --> 46:40.176 People went out there, watched little lights dance in the sky.   46:41.116 --> 46:42.657 Everyone's all friendly, whatever.   46:43.117 --> 46:45.938 You go to New York, New York at like two in the morning, you step outside.   46:46.619 --> 46:47.679 Very different environment.   46:48.420 --> 46:50.821 Yeah, I don't I haven't really been to rural New York much.   46:51.501 --> 46:56.443 I had an uncle who lived in Manhattan, so he used to always go there and visit him.   46:56.503 --> 46:58.344 But I don't know if he's still there or not.   46:58.624 --> 46:58.964 Anyway.   46:59.324 --> 47:02.746 OK, well, if people want to learn more about your service, like how do they do that?   47:04.281 --> 47:07.422 Go to r3-kon.com.   47:07.862 --> 47:19.767 Also, we are starting up a YouTube channel, giving various sorts of advice, like how to avoid bed bugs, especially if you have a job that requires you to travel and puts you up in cheap hotel rooms.   47:21.108 --> 47:21.468 All right.   47:21.668 --> 47:22.529 Any last words?   47:25.710 --> 47:26.370 Arrivederci.   47:27.290 --> 47:27.611 All right.   47:27.651 --> 47:28.771 Well, thanks for being on today.   47:28.891 --> 47:31.932 Thanks for having me, Nicole.   47:32.232 --> 47:33.253 It was a great

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On today's Coffee with Rich, we will be joined by The Mike Seeklander. Currently Mike Seeklander is owner of Shooting-Performance LLC (www.shooting-performance.com), a full service training company and the American Warrior Society. Mike is also the co-host of The Best Defense, the Outdoor channels leading firearm instructional show. Previously, mike was Chief Operating Officer, Director of Training and a Senior Instructor at the U.S. Shooting Academy in Tulsa, Ok. He was directly responsible for the development of all U.S.S.A. training programs. Prior to that as an employee of the Federal Government, Mike has served as the Branch Chief and Lead Instructor for the Firearms division with the Federal Air Marshal Service as well as a Senior Instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). He has extensive formal training and experience in all phases of military and law enforcement training. Mike is a highly sought after tactical and competitive trainer and a high level performer on the competition handgun circuit. Currently a nationally ranked competitor on the practical handgun competition circuit, Seeklander has authored/produced instructional books, DVD's and has developed hundreds of lesson plans specifically related to basic and advanced firearms training. As a local law enforcement officer with the Knox County Sherriff's Department as well as the Knoxville Police Department mike worked in corrections as well as patrol and with the Organized Crime division. In 1990 Mike joined the United States Marine Corps and was trained as an Intelligence Specialist with Top Secret clearance. Mike is a combat veteran of Desert Storm/Shield (Gulf war 1). He holds secondary MOS's of Combat Engineer and Primary Marksmanship Instructor. Mike is the recipient of numerous awards and honors in the law enforcement community, and as a semi-professional shooter. Coffee with Rich Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/rhodieusmc/videos American Warrior Show: https://americanwarriorshow.com/index.html SWAG: https://shop.americanwarriorsociety.com/ American Warrior Society please visit: https://americanwarriorsociety.com/  

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I'm talking about a photograph that I made on the Oregon coast today doing blue hour probably, I think it was after the senate set sort of like you know, the golden hour to talk about right as the hour as the sun is setting into the sunset, the blue hour, they also talk about as after the sun goes down, there's a lot of those blue kind of purple tones that show up in the atmosphere, or you know, in the clouds and the water. There's just a lot more of that tone as the sun drops and as the spectrum shifts from what we see in the daylight to what we see at nighttime, but I think this was a photograph taken on the Oregon coast. I think you're Bandon if I'm right, and I really liked this photo just had, it wasn't really a big structure in the wave or a big curl or anything like that. That'd be that'd be really striking. But I really appreciated this photograph as kind of a close up look at just sort of the dreamy feeling of being on the coast but there's definitely a photograph that I liked a lot and I liked that line in the skies it is it cuts across. As you can kind of see at the top there there's a bit of a like a cloud break that goes down and that's where we get a lot of that light from the sky in the background that kind of cuts underneath. That big brand of cloud that goes over the top of the snapback causes a lot of bounce from the ground back up to the sky and then back down and you get a cooler or well you get a diffused sort of soft light and net effect which I think is really cool. 1:50 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look up Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert on surrealism on camping, you cool stuff over there kind of continue with some of the stuff that I've been talking about the last couple episodes talking about some everyday carry camping stuff that a an outdoors II stuff that I have around with me as I was gonna talk a bit about flashlights too. I've been trying to pick up some some kind of outdoor flashlights that I can have around with me had the headlight I have a headlamp I have a black diamond headlamp I like that headlamp works pretty well for me it's a pretty rugged, kind of outdoorsy sort of Rei ready tool works pretty well. I think it's around like 190 lumens or so for the spotlight piece and then there's sort of a not as bright kind of wild angle LED light on there to also as the switch over to the red LED a lot of that stuff is nice works pretty well hasn't really failed me yet runs on three AAA batteries I think it's a pretty cool piece I think it's been fine I've been also kind of looking around at other flashlight units and other kind of outdoors sort of work and utility flashlights that I can get ahold of for the longest time as as a kid I was really into the mag light systems you know like the the kind of like the cop lights that you'd have the runs on the DSL size batteries and I had like the the to sell flashlight That was a good one to kind of put they had like a truck holster these little pins that you can put down kind of drill them straight down to the bed of your truck by your your left hand driver side as you kind of dropped down to the floor there before you get out your driver's side door and you could kind of pop in a to sell mag light there as you truck like I said that was pretty cool and but I'd have the add the mag lights and stuff around a long time I think that's what you know what they have like the five seven mag light that for sell three so they have the two double a mag lights yeah you know the model across the lineup and stuff had those for years. Those ended up kind of failing on me after a while and now they're really not supposed to but I think like the back end sort of rested up and then I had some trouble with corrosion with the batteries that were in there and I wasn't able to break it open with the the PB blaster penetrating fluid that I was hoping to use on it. Anyway that's all to say that maglite has been put aside I think for a couple years I haven't used other stuff LED is the way to go maglite hasn't really updated the technology so that you're still using kind of a real lame like 50 or 80 lumen incandescent ball but they just pop in there which I think is really inferior especially at this point and they're LED conversion options that they make, I think are really limited and aren't really anywhere near the type of LED it's you know, it's just it's it's like a reproduction of the same incandescent ball but as like an LED as a real kind of harsh I thought blue light to it. And it doesn't really have that kind of bright and crisp sort of layout and focusing beam system that you get even with really cheaply made Chinese LED lights now So I was trying to find so that kind of brought in some of the cool sort of outdoorsy or utility stuff toughness that the maglite had with its branding, or you know, kind of with its flashlight engineering. And then something that kind of brought in some of the cool LED, focusing being light technology stuff that we have with the more modern flashlights that that we've had over the last 10 years or so right, like blue LEDs came out in 2008, something like that. So that's the first time that we had red, green and blue LEDs, which allowed us to make white LEDs and that allowed us to make you know, all these cool color changing light emitting diode patterns that we have now and that's where we can get these diodes that are real bright and just kick out a ton of light versus their power output. So we can run these incredibly bright 1000 lumen flashlights out of just like a handheld couple battery, you know, like I know, a few afford DSL battery or an eight double a cell battery. You can load up these flashlights or you can load them up with your own rechargeable batteries which is a really cool new feature you can juice them up with USB like your iPhone and then punch that light on you can run a sustained like 1000 lumen torch for hours off of that it's really cool yeah those kind of options now so that's the sort of stuff that I was looking into I was looking into a couple different brands, a sort of durable, reliable and useful sort of outdoor utility flashlights. I think that the Marines or special forces use one specific light that's like $1,000 insanely priced then it's finding this other ones stream light I don't know if you heard these flashlights I've heard of them a bit before I've seen them in some other stuff and it seems like they're kind of 6:47 I don't know sort of like an industry standard so I think if you're doing a lot of like first responder work or like you work with and you're working an ambulance I think you have a Streamlight has a contract with a lot of emergency response people and so they have like these stream light flashlights some really cool stuff it seems like nicely made utilities a lot of metal flashlights, a lot of polycarbonate flashlights, lot of safety flashlights, a lot of wood lanterns, and I like these big new kind of like big carry lights that have like three sort of like three led diodes laid out in this triangle shape on the front. And then a red flash on the site manager big old honkin lights but they're expensive man if you get if you get I think like their top whatever they're they're 20 it's like it's like iPhones or something they're serious about their 2020 model flashlight is like $170 you get like 1000 lumen handheld flashlight it's rechargeable it's got a bunch of buttons on it supposed to be dropped proof shatterproof tactical proof or you know all sorts of stuff that they're kind of making claims on on its usefulness and and its reliability and it's pretty cool man these lights are just incredible on like some of the stuff that they can do it seems you know I mean, or at least like to whatever degree they're trusted in emergency response or police use I think like the police use these Streamlight lights a lot a lot of people in kind of professional settings seem to use them a lot so I was looking around at him minimum even just for Penn lights those are starting at like 30 bucks it seems like and then as you're getting into like some of the nicer mid range stuff you're talking about 50 bucks a light or you're talking up from there into something even even higher into like the $100 like averaging $80 to $100 to $200 or $250 for some of these these lantern lights that they have listed out there so cool, cool lights, cool flashlights man, if I was gonna get a premium flashlight I probably get one of these seems like they're gonna last a long time seems like they have good warranties with them and they've got like a bunch of a bunch of different stuff around it that this seems like man What a cool like Marina like that's gonna be a really reliable constructed piece that you can carry around with you but at that price point, I just can't really see that it matches what I need and where I need to go very well I can't really spend $75 on a flashlight it just sort of doesn't really quite fit with what I'm trying to be up to right now and for the way that I've kind of been talking you know, it's like flashlights sort of go bad, you know, use them for a while, but you don't use them all the time. Or at least like in my circumstance like you know, it's like I use it, I like to use it, I need to have a flashlight. I got him. I got him around where I need them. But I needed to be good. But I also needed to fit a certain price point where you kind of get the best sort of trade off between these two different things. And I think you can make a quality flashlight for less than $100 right. So I was looking around I found this other brand out of Portland called coast and you see him they're distributed everywhere. You can find them in a lot of places you can I think you can find them at Walmart. You can find them online. on Amazon, they're all over on Amazon in stock. You can find them on their site you can find them I was gonna say Home Depot, they've got a big selection just laid out at Home Depot you can get a bunch of different pieces lanterns, magnetic work lights like utility lights and then a bunch of ranges of flashlights and they have a steel or like how do I say like a mag light style series that's sort of a steel metal casing and then they also have this other one that's a polycarbonate casing that's sort of like almost like plastic but it's like a steel case with a polycarbonate coating is supposed to be good for some outdoor or you know some kind of I guess higher work stress threshold flashlights so I think that's kind of what I went I went with coast and I thought it was kind of cool that they are a Portland company. They've got a whole led line they've got like a line of knives too that are inexpensive and kind of cool to get ahold of and if you can find them I throw one of those in the toolbox it seems kind of fun. But these lives these these lights these flashlights is pretty easy to get ahold of I picked up a poly steel 11:13 400 I think that's a 400 lumen handheld poly steel Latics for double A's and that's got like a real solid beam on and the poly steel is cool it's that polycarbonate case so it's kind of like it's kind of like plastic but it's like it's like that it's a polycarbonate so it's like the plastic or you know it's like that kind of the plastic that's on a Glock handle or it's on you know like a knife handle or something like that but real sturdy, you can kind of swing that thing under the ground and it seems like it it still stays intact still still works I think that's sort of one of the things that this this model prides itself you can go online to coast Portland calm their website and you can watch these tests these stress tests their flashlights where for whatever use this is I don't know if you're going to do this a bunch I guess get this flashlight but they have a guy up on like a 10 storey building and he checks this lit flashlight off the building down into an empty parking lot below you watch the flashlight fall to the ground drop boom bounce kick over slide off and the light stays on why would a miracle so works so I guess the I guess it's tough is what they're telling me which is really actually pretty wild. If you try and do that with a lot of other led flashlights you're really going to have that led you're gonna have the power to the LED interrupted from the battery source that's going to get knocked out and probably cracked or messed up. And the LED circuitry itself is going to crack and shatter and you're not going to be able to use that chip anymore to emit light in the same way that you had been before so that's what's really cool about these is that they can take what seems like you know like what are you doing this for kind of a thing but they're crushproof 12:57 I think they're waterproof IP x eight rated flashlights they've got the the CO be the chip on board, light panel LED light panel kind of on the side of one of the flashlights that I picked up you know it's got the straight beam ahead. But then it's got that kind of newer led lantern effect that some of these flashlights have now where it's got instead of just like a single spotlight led lens through the front of the light, they've got this like strip of LEDs now on the side of it you kick a kick another switch that turns on and it's sort of more of a broad and open lantern light that you'd have if you're walking the dog or something like that or you want to kind of fill ambiently the light in a room with a flashlight you can kick that light on and sort of a softer illumination across across the ground without any kind of spotlight and a sort of a warmer white color to you also click that button one more time boom it turns into red so you got a safety light you click it one more time and you got flashing reds which is pretty cool that you have a few of those different options but but yeah, I got I got that one that's a I think almost 1000 otherwise it should get that right i think it's I think it's 800 lumens out the front spotlight and then another 500 lumen light out the side chip on board see ob or whatever it is but that that sidelight so yeah really bright lights I got that 400 lumen spotlight there's also like I was talking about headlamps early add that Black Diamond one I think that was like maybe like 150 lumens it's sort of averaged out to be there for the spotlight and the wide the wide light that I had there for for this coast stuff they have a they have a headlamp it looks more like a miner's headlamp you know like the cool thing about the LED stuff the backpacker stuff that's all kind of sleek in design it's small it's kind of a compact methodology that they're laying it out and but if you look back in time and you look at like the miners lights add these minor headlamps is Oh man, how's it Without a bin but I think it was just kind of a shiny piece of metal that kind of cupped around a pretty regular incandescent bulb and that was supposed to sort of lens forward your light for you so you can kind of grab it and focus it all toward the toward the front of you. And that was a pretty inferior way of doing it at the time but that was how they produce their headlamp spotlights at the time they kind of improve that technology over the last 100 years of course, and even during the the you know, the battery operated days you'd have like a big miners like like the high end headlamps or like just these big old beastly lights and then it runs a wire down to your hip, we're on your belt, you have a battery pack hooked up, and then you kind of switch it on from there, it juices up your light up your back on a on a cable and then boom, out the front of the light comes. I don't know 500 lumens or 400 lumens or whatever it is you get your real sustained light there. Now with some of the advancements of the LED stuff, you still have those lights and those are really high end and really cool tactical lights but even just looking at some of these kind of more simple headlamps from coast that they had, they had the kind of the big kind of miners headlamp style spotlight section thing there. And that put out 400 lumens of light, which was a you know, maybe done a double at least what my little headlamp was doing. So it's kind of cool that you can just kind of pop in, pick up some of these other tools and stuff and and they're waterproof crushproof ip x eight rated kind of outdoor utility tools and so it's cool that you can get a hold of those things. And it's nice that they're as inexpensive as they are, they're really a lot less than the Streamlight lights. But man, I really like those stream lights also. So I'm going to try and keep an eye on him and if it seems like it comes up with a good deal or a good value, I'm trying to pick up one of those, those kind of Streamlight higher end lights. I might go for it too but really for the value for money and utility that it provides. It seems like these coasts lights are a real score. The last one I picked up was a penlight. So this is sort of the everyday carry light that I've got with me in my bag are actually in the ammo can. I put that that kind of that smaller poly steel 400 Coast's light that's in the, in the ammo cam box been in the pocket every day I've got this, this little pocket pen light still kind of the same thing. I think it's a 110 lumen light. 17:26 It's got two AAA batteries in it. And it's about the size of a pan just a little bigger, kind of like a bit of a like a like a thick Sharpie is sort of about as big as it is. But that size in the pocket, it's got the same waterproof rating. crushproof rating is as the other pieces that I talked about. But yeah, it's just a smaller handheld penlight that I like really quite a bit I think it's pretty cool to have like a more full size light I know my I know my phone has its LED on it, that's really nowhere near as bright as what I'm able to get out of this out of this panel light so it's kind of cool having that piece around me and even even already in the last couple of days of nurse I pull this thing out a lot more than I thought I would to try and try and use it as a utility, especially in spots where the the phone light would come in is no good. So kind of fun stuff going around, working the flashlights, trying to check out some different brands and stuff. Maybe I'll still try out a maglite in the future. Those are kind of fun for nostalgia sake. But I think some of these coastlines might be the the direction I go and it's kind of fun. 18:35 You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo 19:14 data management stuff that maybe we can talk about some other time. Like how to use hard drives, how many you need, how many backups you need, how to like re archive stuff, and probably just talk about like the Trump like because we're not experts, but just the trouble that we have of trying to sort out the hard drives that we have. And like where the data is, do we have duplicates over like I think you were talking about that today of the duplicate that you have. files in the archive? 19:39 Yeah, I've been putting together I'm also trying to get in shape for 2018 all my photo work for that year. So I've been putting together and archive of all my stuff and yeah, I'm at that point where I really just have to weed out all the duplicates that I have so many things. Yeah, 19:56 yeah, I'm definitely there to where there's so many different little parts of file. They've been made from the original RAW file that was taken like the original photograph, there's so many derivatives of that that have come out of it over over time, especially if it was a photo that I liked that I ranked highly, you know, and then I'd already exported, there's already copies of that as a JPEG, or some other like smaller web sized die, 20:18 I have a lot of different sizes. Yeah. 20:21 And that's the one that I'm trying to get through right now, I'm going to try and go through this catalog. And I'm going to try and sort it out so that I pull like the top few 1000 photos of the last decade, that are the raw files that I really want to be able to work on or get access to, or make new versions over prints over something, whatever that might be, but I just have access to kind of quickly or, you know, like, Oh, yeah, these are all the memories that I'm really after. I want those best versions of the files available to me. But a lot of the time, I'm noticing that, like, it's really difficult to get to that given like the current archive structure that I have, where it's just all 100,000 photos that I have, yeah, I can't really get the stuff in the way that I need to. So I'm going to try and like figure that out where it's all the best stuff that I want to have with me, right now everything gets archived to the cloud, or to some some cold storage thing, or, you know, to some old hard drive that gets shut off or something but some some place where we get like everything stored there. And then really just like the last like year, or 18 months or so, and like the next six months or so is what I want to be able to like keep on the hard drive that I'm working on. But we should talk about more like harddrive data stuff as the year comes out a little bit closer. 21:32 Yeah, I know we're planning on, or we're kind of in the process of changing around how hard drives are set up for stuff. 21:41 Yeah, we're trying to get I think a little bit bigger stuff because like right now I have a four terabyte hard drive here. That's the one that plugs in. And that one's been great for, like doing some storage stuff. But now like, you know, like the data rates, they just the cost comes down so much that you're able to get a really large size, large capacity, hard drive for not much money. And I think the like the, the cost of that is a lot better than some of the cloud storage stuff. And just some of the efforts of trying to put something in the cloud, and then trying to pay to keep it there year after year after year. I'm really looking for a lot of these things that aren't really super important and super high priority to be able to put in some kind of cold storage thing like this, like what we're talking about, where we have a backup of it on a hard drive. That's kind of put aside that we don't have to worry about too much. But kinda like what we noticed, I think like what one of those burned cables, it's in the trash right now. Is a signal a signal of is that hard drives go bad sometimes like that hard drive, that we had that portable one where it burned out of the USB port. 22:38 Right? It's terrible. Yeah, yeah. There's nothing on it. 22:43 Yeah. So that Well, yeah. And yeah, he's not backed up. So yeah, that's the thing. There's a back. So it would be terrible if you know, one of these hard drives went where it was the like the soul, the soul House of all of the data that we have, especially like all like the decade of photographs that we made and stuff. So I'm really trying to be conscious of trying to keep those in multiple places at the same time. So we've done an effort to put those up on the on like a cloud storage service, which has been okay. But I think it's like, it's not the best version of those files. If I understand, right, it's like a JPEG version. There's a few limitations are added if I understood, right, but it's, it's okay. I don't know, we'll try and put a bunch of stuff up on the prime photo service like that. 23:27 I was gonna ask which, which services you're using right now? 23:31 Yeah. But amazon prime cloud services is what I'm trying to use for the photo storage. And they have like unlimited photo photo uploads for a lot of stuff. And we put up a lot of stuff on that. But you kind of keep, you have to make it current. There's all this stuff from 2016 and 2017. That wasn't really part of that. And so I need to upload all of that content. I've been in the cloud. 23:53 Sure. Yeah, you just have to keep keep adding to it. Yeah, I have to 23:57 keep that keep some of that stuff saying to him, I think he will still there's there's a lot of gaps within like 2015 and 14. And it's all just stuff that we can file ourselves, but, but stuff that didn't make it up originally. And so now that I have like this, this like new catalog, like so what I would say before I get out of myself, what I did this weekend is that I took the hard drives had this one terabyte hard drive that I use is like my portable drive that's like my storage and stuff like the tank that I have with my laptop when I'm in my bag out on the road. And then as all my photos on it, and it's really just a copy of like the whole photo archive for a long time. But what I've been wanting to do is update that for 2017. And take every photograph, I have every JPEG DNG file and any RAW file or photo file that I have on my computer on any amount of drives. I want to try and condense that down into one set of files that are organized in some way. And so I wanted to use Lightroom to do that since Lightroom. And it's back and when it when it brings in files. It'll bring in files from one hard drive and then write them into a new file architecture on another hard drive. And so I tried Take, I tried to take everything and I backed it up into the four terabyte hard drive. And then I brought everything back over. And I filtered it through Lightroom. So they could get everything put into a new file architecture that matched by by like month and date and year of the file date. And most most of the metadata is correct. But like, you know, Marina, like a lot of the metadata for whatever weird camera or whatever set of film that we had that was scanned by some computer that never had its clock set, and still says 2002. There's all sorts of stuff that has the wrong metadata date, where it shows up, like when my d3 battery died, and instead it was 2007 in February, again, because I was the first date that that computer knew in that camera, and just reverted to that date again. 25:49 So worst, no, sir. 25:52 So it's Miss it's misstated. But it's really fine for most cases. So I was able to bring all this photos back over, I put a new collection together, it was about 500 gigabytes or so. And then it was able to transfer that back over to the to the larger drive. And then the plan is to wipe the go drive, the one that I have with me all the time, and then bring back over like I was talking about at the beginning, like the top few 1000 photos, and then everything that I'm kind of currently working on for this year. And last year, so there goes a heat, bang, bang, bang, bang, sounds like hammers on a pipe, it really does every time exactly what it sounds I never used to like when it comes into in the fall. And those start popping. It's pretty funny all through the winter, all through spring style, I guess like in the 70s. late May. But, but yeah, so we're trying to do like this collection of archiving all these photos and trailer, organize it together. And it's been a fine process so far, but like trying to get your harddrive straightened out, especially when you're a little short on space, because you sort of wait until you start to organize your harddrive until, until you're running low on space and you're like Oh man, I gotta do something, I gotta move these files around so I can kind of get by so and that's what I was running into problems with to where, like every harddrive was starting to get full and I go Oh man, I gotta get like a new hard drive. And like we were just talking about hard drives go bad, especially portable ones, especially the spinning disk drives like the mac book I have now that's an SSD, the solid state systems are going to last a lot longer than the spinning disk disk mechanisms because that magnetic spinning disk plate is going to mechanically fail after some number of miles of revolutions that makes that the motor does that the solid state system has the advantage because there's no moving parts is just electricity. And so it's really conceivable that there's really no finite point that that drive will fail. Like most thumb drives or something optical media, it's kind of like thought that that's going to burn out after 20 or 30 years, you're not really even going to be able to use the disk as it's stored unless it's stored, like a good condition with thumb drives and other like solid state media. If if the ROM doesn't lose whatever data was on it, it's likely that you know it'd still be readable if it was damaged. So it's kinda interesting, like how 28:14 different types of interesting and what's not. Yeah, this guy. 28:22 Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back end

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As we came into the entrance, there was a handful of dispersed campsites as sort of ran off into the well I don't know it's sort of a desolate area out there really. I mean, if you look at it, it's interesting contoured landscape that you see these, the sandstone and the sandstone mounds that kind of come up all around where we were, while we were camping, we were surrounded by other folks too, that were a little further off, but this was remote dispersed camping. And so we came down to the edge of this, this wall of rock. And in this photo, I walked around kind of farther to the other side where you can see the car and then this drop off of rock is as the fast setting son pulls up the shadows higher and higher into the rocks in the background just before the end of the day where there's no more more light left over that area. But it was a great spot to camp and it's really cool. There's so many wild places out there especially are outside of those, those national parks area so it's really cool and it's really fun to get to be out there. I think this is from 2011 1:44 you can see more of my work 1:45 at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at that Bitly Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert on surrealism camping and cool stuff over there. kind of continue with some of the stuff that I've been talking about the last couple episodes talking about some everyday carry camping stuff that a an outdoors II stuff that I have around with me as I was gonna talk a bit about flashlights too. I've tried to pick up some some kind of outdoor flashlights that I can have around with me had the headlight I have a headlamp I have a black diamond headlamp I like that headlamp works pretty well for me it's a pretty rugged, kind of outdoors he sort of Rei ready tool works pretty well. I think it's around like 190 lumens or so for the spotlight piece and then there's sort of a not as bright kind of wild angle LED light on there too also as the switch over to the red LED a lot of that stuff is nice works pretty well hasn't really failed me yet runs on three triple A batteries I think it's a pretty cool piece I think it's been fine I've been also kind of looking around at other flashlight units and other kind of outdoors sort of work and utility flashlights that I can get ahold of for the longest time as as a kid I was really into the mag light systems you know like the the kind of like the cop lights that you'd have that runs on the D cell size batteries and I had like the the to sell flashlight That was a good one to kind of put they have like a truck holster these little pins that you can put down kind of drill them straight down to the bed of your truck by your your left hand driver side as you kind of dropped down to the floor there before you get out your driver side door and you could kind of pop in a two cell mag light there as your truck like I said that was pretty cool and but I'd have the add the mag lights and stuff around a long time I think that's what you know what they have like the five mag light that for cel three so they have the two double a mag lights yeah you know the model across the lineup and stuff had those for years. Those ended up kind of failing on me after a while no they're really not supposed to but I think like the back end sort of rusted up and then I had some trouble with corrosion with the batteries that were in there and I wasn't able to break it open with the the PV blaster penetrating fluid that I was hoping to use on it. Anyway that's all to say that mag light has been put aside I think for a couple years I haven't used other stuff LEDs the way to go mag light hasn't really updated the technology so that you're still using kind of a real lame like 50 or 80 lumen incandescent ball that they just pop in there which I think is really inferior especially at this point and their LED conversion options that they make, I think are really limited and aren't really anywhere near the type of LED it's you know, it's just it's it's like a reproduction of the same incandescent ball but as like an LED as a real kind of harsh I thought blue light to it. And it doesn't really have that kind of bright and crisp sort of layout and focusing beam system that you get even with really cheaply made Chinese LED lights now. So I was trying to find some of the kind of brought in some of the cool sort of outdoorsy or utils Stuff toughness that the maglite had with its branding or you know, kind of with its flashlight engineering. And then something that kind of brought in some of the cool led focusing being light technology stuff that we have with the more modern flashlights that that we've had over the last 10 years or so right like blue LEDs came out in 2008, something like that, that's the first time that we had red, green and blue LEDs which allowed us to make white LEDs and that allowed us to make you know, all these cool color changing light emitting diode patterns that we have now and that's where we can get these diodes that are real bright and just kick out a ton of light versus their power output. So we can run these incredibly bright 1000 lumen flashlights out of just like a handheld couple battery, you know, like you know, a few a Ford, D cell battery or an eight double a cell battery. You can load up these flashlights or you can load them up with your own rechargeable batteries which is a really cool new feature you can juice them up with USB like your iPhone and then punch that light on you can run a sustained like 1000 lumen torch for hours after that it's really cool yeah those kind of options now so that's the sort of stuff that I was looking into I was looking into a couple different brands of sort of durable reliable and useful sort of outdoor utility flashlights. I think that the Marines or special forces use one specific light that's like $1,000 insanely priced then it's fine in this other ones stream light I don't know if you heard these flashlights I've heard of them a bit before I've seen them in some other stuff and it seems like they're kind of 6:41 I don't know sort of like an industry standard so I think if you're doing a lot of like first responder work or like you work with and you're working an ambulance I think you have a Streamlight has a contract with a lot of emergency response people so they have like these stream light flashlights some really cool stuff it seems like nicely made utilities a lot of metal flashlights, a lot of polycarbonate flashlights, a lot of safety flashlights a lot of what are lanterns I don't like these big new kind of like big carry lights that have like three sort of like three led diodes laid out in this triangle shape on the front. And then a red flash on the side manage big honkin lights but they're expensive man if you get if you get I think like their top whatever their their 20 it's like it's like iPhones or something. They're serious about it they're 2020 model flashlight is like $170 you get like 1000 lumen handheld flashlight. It's rechargeable, it's got a bunch of buttons on it supposed to be dropped proof shatterproof tactical proof you know all sorts of stuff that they're kind of making claims on them on its usefulness and its reliability and it's pretty cool man these lights are just incredible on like some of the stuff that they can do it seems you know i mean or at least like to whatever degree they're trusted in emergency response or police use I think like the police use these Streamlight lights a lot a lot of people in kind of professional settings seem to use them a lot so I was looking around at them minimum even just for Penn lights those are starting at like 30 bucks it seems like and then as you're getting into like some of their nicer mid range stuff you're talking about 50 bucks a light or you're talking about from there into something even even higher into like the $100 like averaging $80 to $100 to $200 or $250 for some of these these lantern lights that they have listed out there so cool, cool lights, cool flashlights man, if I was gonna get a premium flashlight I probably get one of these seems like they're gonna last a long time seems like they have good warranties with them and they've got like a bunch of a bunch of different stuff around it that seems like man What a cool like Marina like that's gonna be a really reliable constructed piece that you can carry around with you but at that price point, I just can't really see that it matches what I need and where I need to go very well I can't really spend $75 on a flashlight it just sort of doesn't really quite fit with what I'm trying to be up to right now and for the way that I've kind of been talking you know, it's like flashlights sort of go bad, you know, use them for a while, but you don't use them all the time. Or at least like in my circumstance like you know, it's like I use it, I like to use it, I need to have a flashlight. I got them. I got them around where I need them, but I needed to be good. But I also needed to fit a certain price point where you kind of get the best sort of trade off between these two different things. And I think you can make a quality flashlight for less than $100 right. So I was looking around I found this other brand out of Portland called coast and you see him they're distributed everywhere. You can find them in a lot of places you can I think you can find them at Walmart. You can find them on Amazon. They're all over on Amazon in stock. You can find them on their site. You can find them wasn't gonna say Home Depot they've got a big selection just laid out at Home Depot you can get a bunch of different pieces lanterns, magnetic work lights like utility lights and then a bunch of ranges of flashlights and they have a steel or like how do I say like a mag light style series that's sort of a steel metal casing and then they also have this other one that's a polycarbonate casing that's sort of like almost like plastic but it's like a steel case with a polycarbonate coating is supposed to be good for some outdoor or you know some kind of 10:38 I guess higher work stress threshold flashlights so I think that's kind of what I went I went with coast and I thought it was kind of cool that they were a Portland company. They've got a whole led line they've got like a line of knives too that are inexpensive and kind of cool to get a hold of and if you can find them that's one of those in the toolbox it seems kind of fun. But these lives these these lights these flashlights is pretty easy to get ahold of I picked up a poly steel 400 I think that's a 400 lumen handheld poly steel Latta ticks four double A's and that's got like a real solid beam on and the poly steel is cool it's that polycarbonate case so it's kind of like it's kind of like plastic but it's like it's like that it's a polycarbonate so it's like the plastic or you know it's like that kind of the plastic that's on a clock handle or it's on you know, like a knife handle or something like that but real sturdy, you can kind of slam that thing under the ground and it seems like it it still stays intact still still works I think that's sort of one of the things that this this model prides itself you can go online to coast Portland calm their website and you can watch these tests these stress tests their flashlights where for whatever use this is I don't know if you're gonna do this a bunch I guess get this flashlight but they have a guy up on like a 10 storey building and he checks this lit flashlight off the building down into an empty parking lot below you watched the flashlight fall to the ground drop boom bounce kick over slide off and the light stays on why wouldn't miracles so works so I guess the I guess it's tough is what they're telling me which is really actually pretty wild. If you try and do that with a lot of other led flashlights you're really gonna have that led you're gonna have the power to the LED interrupted from the battery source that's going to get knocked out and probably cracked or messed up and the LED circuitry itself is going to crack and shatter and you're not going to be able to use that chip anymore to emit light in the same way that you had been before so that's what's really cool about these is that they can take what seems like you know, like what are you doing this for kind of a thing but they're crushproof 12:52 I think they're waterproof IP x eight rated flashlights they've got the the CO be the chip on board, light panel LED light panel kind of on the side of one of the flashlights that I picked up, you know it's got this straight beam ahead. But then it's got that kind of newer led lantern effect that some of these flashlights have now where it's got instead of just like a single spotlight led lens through the front of the light, they've got this like strip of LEDs now on the side of it you kick a kick another switch that turns on and it's sort of more of a broad and open lantern light that you'd have if you're walking the dog or something like that or you want to kind of fill ambiently the light in a room with a flashlight you can kick that light on and sort of a softer illumination across across the ground without any kind of spotlight and a sort of a warmer white color to you also click that button one more time boom it turns into red so you got a safety light you click it one more time and you got flashing reds which is pretty cool that you have a few of those different options but but yeah, I got I got that one that's a I think almost 1000 What is it? she get that right i think it's I think it's 800 lumens out the front spotlight and then another 500 lumen light out the side chip on board CLB or whatever it is but that that sidelight so yeah really bright lights I got that 400 lumen spotlight there's also like I was talking about headlamps really add that Black Diamond one I think that was like maybe like 150 lumens that sort of averaged out to be there for the spotlight and the wide the wide light that I had there for for this coast stuff they have a they have a headlamp it looks more like a miner's headlamp you know like the cool thing about the LED stuff, the backpacker stuff that's all kind of sleek and design it's small it's kind of a compact methodology that they're laying it out and but if you look back in time and you look at like the miners life, they had these minor headlamps is Oh man, how silly would that have been but I think it was just kind of a shiny piece of metal that kind of kept around a pretty regular incandescent bulb and that was supposed to sort of lens forward your light for you so you could kind of grab it and focus it all toward the toward the front of you. And that was a pretty inferior way of doing it at the time but that was how they produce their headlamp spotlights at the time they kind of improved that technology over the last 100 years of course, and even during the the you know, the battery operated days, you'd have like a big miners like like the high end headlamps or like just these big old beastly lights, and then it runs a wire down to your hip, we're on your belt, you have a battery pack hooked up, and then you kind of switch it on from there, it juices up your light up your back on a cable and then boom, out the front of the light comes. I don't know 500 lumens or 400 lumens or whatever it is you get, you get your real sustained light there. Now some of the advancements of the LED stuff, you still have those lights and those are really high end and really cool tactical lights. But even just looking at some of these kind of more simple headlamps from coast that they had, they had the kind of the big kind of miners headlamp style spotlight section thing there. And that put out 400 lumens of light, which was you know, maybe double at least what my little headlamp was doing. So it's kind of cool that you can just kind of pop in, pick up some of these other tools and stuff and they're waterproof crushproof ip x eight rated kind of outdoor utility tools and so it's cool, you can get a hold of those things. And it's nice that they're as inexpensive as they are, they're really a lot less than those Streamlight lights. But man, I really like those stream lights also. So I'm going to try and keep an eye on them and if it seems like it comes up with a good deal or a good value on trying to pick up one of those, those kind of Streamlight higher end lights. I might go for it too but really for the value for money and utility that it provides. It seems like these coasts lights are a real score. The last one I picked up was a penlight. So this is sort of the everyday carry light that I've got with me in my bag we're actually in the ammo Can I put that that kind of that smaller polysteel 400 coast light that's in the in the ammo cam box been in the pocket every day I've got this this little pocket pen light still kind of the same thing I think it's a 110 lumen light it's got two AAA batteries in it and it's about the size of a pan just a little bigger kind of like a bit of a 17:28 thick Sharpie is sort of about as big as it is but that size in the pocket it's got the same waterproof rating crushproof rating is as the other pieces that I had talked about but yeah it's just a smaller handheld pen light that I like really quite a bit I think it's pretty cool to have like a more full size light I know my I know my phone has its LED on it that's really nowhere near as bright as what I'm able to get out of this out of this panel light so it's kind of cool having that peace around me and even even already in the last couple of days of nurse I pulled this thing out a lot more than I thought I would try and try and use it as a utility especially in spots where the the phone light would come in is no good. So kind of fun stuff going around working the flashlights trying to check out some different brands and stuff maybe I'll still try out a mag light in the future. Those are kind of fun for nostalgia sake but I think some of these coastlines might be the the direction I go and it's kind of fun. 18:29 You can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or if you're more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com Ford slash Billy Newman photo 19:09 most of this podcast has been brought to you by using cakewalk sonar brought to you by band lab maybe I talked about this a little bit but band lab is a website or a company and I guess it made a purchase of the software cakewalk sonar that had been for a short time previously owned by Gibson Guitar company since like 2011 or something like that. So interestingly a couple years ago or something they Gibson said hey, we're not going to do any more updates to the sonar software. So that's just sort of abandoned but sonar was like one of the professional die editors for a lot of multitrack recording studios especially stuff that you know that was that was PC based PC based recording other than maybe addition or Reaper tract as a bunch of other stuff out there but sonar I've been cakewalk and so on. I have been one of the long standing multitrack recorders out there, so So, I guess it was purchased by this company band lab. They're continuing continuing to do updates and development in the software. And it's available for free now, which is pretty cool. So you can go to band lab.com you download like their installer software. And yeah, you can just download a full functioning version of the the top of the line, sonar was a cakewalk Platinum studio had come out a couple years ago. And so that's what I'm recording into right now. It's a pretty nice layout, it's working fine on this, this older windows 10 machine that I'm working on right now. And it's pretty fun, I'm having a good time recording into it through the audio interface that I've got going the h4 and with the XLR inputs coming in left and right into it and then it's the two in two out USB interface. So it's just going over like a USB cable out into the computer. And it seems like we're getting great preamp quality a lot better than we did with the what is it the ad the audio digital converter that's in this unit apparently have to take like an analog signal and then crunch that down into data and then get that into the computer so that this doc and record the the way whatever it's going to do. And apparently it's beginning like technology does it's getting progressively better over time. So I guess a lot of the things that used to be maybe very expensive for ad conversions are now a bit better or higher fidelity or you know, a full bit was like CDs or 16 bit and maybe there's like a 32 bit ad conversion or 64 bit ad conversion so it's probably just a level of recording sampling that's or maybe that's even just different altogether. I don't really know the process ad conversion but what I do know is that this one that I had that's about 10 years newer than the other one I had seems to have way better preamps maybe is what I'd say but just the way that it's able to control the sound as it comes in seems like it's it's much better and doesn't really contain that it's sort of like this weak digital sound is one of the best way I would describe it something that you'd have like early sound cards and stuff like that to where it's it just didn't really sound like it had like a full quality of the track to it when you recorded it. So kind of interesting stuff but yeah, this one sounds a lot better than the other one did and the other one was pretty good for its time it was a lot better than the sound cards that would have been available for for me and I mean that's what I was using to record stuff even up to just a couple months ago. So yeah, isn't the h4 n again got the keyboard in here ready to go I need to figure this out with some other cool stuff there's like setup with a piano sound for a while. I switch it over to this nice little pass it's pretty cool. on the Mac I'm pretty frustrated I'm on a PC now right so on the Mac there's this great program I think by rogue Amoeba called for Raja ferragosto. And like that it's it's really cool. What you call like a soundboard app where you can kind of trigger you can hit a key right like that a bit it'll trigger some sound that you have sent you know just some patch of sound that you have as a clip in that spot. So you can build your own soundboard. So you have a keyboard you can punch in like all these different sounds that would play through your computer you can record stuff I really want to use it but it's only it's like Apple Mac only. I can't put it on this PC shoot. So I think what was it discord that the chat and call communications platform app that a lot of gamers use. I guess there's like a couple soundboard utilities that those guys use on the windows side. So there might be something in there where I can do a MIDI controller to have in the background to grab a couple patches. The thing I'm trying to do there really is to figure out like the MIDI controller that's in cakewalk and see if I can build my own set of patches like I only need like three or four. And then against I can hotkey those and record like this one. That'll be like the intro music and that'll be the outro music in the speech. Some some amusing sound soundbite that I can drop in. Right That's all I need. 24:09 Probably not though, but I'll try to figure something out with it. It's kind of fun kind of goofing around with it really. I'm not sure if I'll use this keyboard a lot in the podcasting process but other two other than to annoy the the poor. While I was gonna say folks, but probably just folk, just one or two people that are that are poorly making the choice to check out this long winded podcast. So thank you if you made it all the way to 20 minutes and 50 seconds into this program. So yeah, it's kind of fun doing all this audio stuff and working in cakewalk sonar and learn about some audio recording stuff, I got the multitrack and stuff set up pretty well. So I can do. I can do this input I can do an input into the mic over to the left of me and then again, got the keyboard in here got the MIDI controller set up to do some recording to so that recording to a wave and that'll be Together another episode I'm sure you excited of the built at wood photo podcast that I'll be able to, I guess throw up on to my website maybe in the next 24 hours or so. I got to make that party's here that's the thing that I want to make a little bit more fun in the next like 40 minutes or so is just trying to like get everything open and get this file loaded into my WordPress site. It's kind of like a more automated way to do that right? I should look into that. Maybe that's the sort of automation stuff I need to try and figure it out. 25:32 Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo comm few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo calm. 25:54 Thanks for listening to this episode and the backend

Welcome back to another episode of Swing Cast Shoot: An Expensive Hobbies Podcast! This week, join me as I talk about some of the products that were announced this year at Shot Show and give you my opinion on what is good, bad, and just plain expensive. From brands like EOTech, Streamlight, Sig, and more! 

Jonny not Johnny Castro joins the podcast. Jonny is a Philly cop and a forensic artist. Jonny has been painting photos of fallen Officers for the last 5 years. We talk about what a forensic artist does, how he got his start in art, and about his portraits of fallen officers. This podcast is made possible by the great folks over at Copquest.com CopQuest.com is a law enforcement discount super store. They have over 120,000 products including Safariland, Blackhawk, Condor, Bianchi, Heros Pride, Streamlight, and many more. They set themselves apart with their print-on-demand Custom ID Shop. A CopQuest.com Custom Patch is more than high quality fabric and heat-fused vinyl. Their patches command respect. They show a person's tribe, who they are willing to stand up for and stand up with. So, show some passion today and make a patch! The band is Blacktop Rodeo, new comers to the podcast. Check them out. Www.Facebook.com/blacktoprodeo Www.Instagram.com/blacktoprodeogroup Www.blacktoprodeo.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/poorly-made-police-memes/support

Jeffrey Morse went into surgery to repair an aneurysm. There was a 75% chance he wouldn't survive. Fortunately, he did wake up, but when he did, he discovered he was paralyzed from the neck down. Complications from the surgery that saved his life cause a spinal cord stroke that mean everything would change. And then, after a lot of hard work, Jeffrey defied all the odds and walked out of the hospital. One thing that jumps out at me from this interview is how much Jeffrey's career as a pilot informed his mindset and recovery -- perhaps more than he realizes. You can hear the conversation in the player below or by clicking this link.   Click here for a machine-generated transcript. About Jeffrey A Morse At 49 years old, Air Force reservist, flight instructor, and scuba diver Jeffrey Morse found himself lying in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down after suffering both an aneurism and a stroke. Doctors told him that he would likely never walk again, but Jeffrey wasn't the type to give up. With incredible inner strength, determination, and faith, Morse defied all odds against him. He set a goal that he would walk out of the hospital in six weeks when he was set to be released. And to the astonishment of his medical team, he did just that! He continues to live with disabilities such as the use of his right arm--in fact, he wrote this entire book FINDING FORWARD: You Have the Will Within* with one hand. Still, Finding Forward encourages positive thinking and forward movement. With piercing honesty, Morse takes the reader through many of the challenges that he had to face through both therapy and every day life. He discusses the fears, the continuous claustrophobia, guilt from the burden he felt that he was putting on his loved ones... he shows how he dealt with these arising challenges and learned to overcome them. There is always a path forward, and as Jeffrey Morse says, we need to help each other find forward together. His mindset was liberating, and in many ways it saved his life. The Pilot of his Recovery Jeffrey served as a pilot in the military and in private life -- flying into and out of combat areas. As he went into surgery, he knew he might not survive. He had spent his life living his life. By the time surgery came around he had already had to confront his mortality and the possibility that he might not come back from work. While that can happen to any of us, it's not something most of us spend time thinking about. It's part of the reason many of us were unprepared for stroke. Jeffrey also talks about what to do when you encounter trouble in the air: Never stop flying the airplane. As a pilot your job is to keep that plane flying until you want to put it down. For those of us not driving aircraft, it means figure out your most important task -- for example, to live -- and focus on doing that job. Live and move in the direction to keep living. Keep flying the airplane that is you, no matter what. It's your only option. Jeffrey also described his process in various parts of the conversation in terms of steps he would take. He broke things down into their constituent parts and then executed them in order. Checklists are an important part of flying. You go through the list every time for every step. When an emergency comes up, one of the first things a pilot will do (while the other pilot continues to fly the plane) is pull up an emergency checklist to govern their actions. Checklist are not limited to airplanes of course. NASA uses them. Accountants use them. Logistics teams use them. The ER uses them when they call a stroke code. Checklists are an important part of everyday life and a great tool to use in our recovery. With pilots it is such an ingrained habit and procedure that using checklists not only tells them what to do. It informs how they think about what they do. And that logical and determined thought process can get us through some very stressful times. Finally, Jeffrey talked about the importance of communication with air traffic controllers around the world. The default language for all air travel is English, but that's not enough to ensure clear communication when thousands of lives are at risk. First, even among native US English speakers, there are miscommunications over words and pronunciations. For example, in college, I, a native New Yorker, was pair with Angie, a native Texan, for a game of Pictionary. We ended up in a bit of a conflict because she disagreed when I said that "saw" and "sore" were pronounced the same. She insisted they were pronounced differently. Now, expand the challenges beyond the US an when speaking English with folks from England, we can still have language based communication challenges. Simple words like "pants" mean different things in the two countries. And that's to say nothing of the rest of the world where English is not someone's first language. Aviation English makes strict use of vocabulary that is standardized across dialects around the planet to enable pilots to communicate key facts, questions, answers, and instructions with other pilots and controllers to reduce the likelihood of mistakes. We see this in the medical field, too. There is very specific language. Outside the medical context, its fine to say, "My arm is not straightening today. In the medical field we might say, "I'm experiencing high tone in my bicep." Neither is wrong; just like "sore" and "saw" are pronounced the same. One is just more precise than the other. That precision can make difference between treating an arm for tone and spasticity in an overactive bicep, or simply pursuing exercises to break down accumulated fascia. Jeffrey talked about learning and using the language of the doctors and therapists. Doing so makes communication clearer and faster which can result in better treatment and quicker relief. And these are just some of the ways that a lifetime in aviation has informed Jeffrey's thought process. It would not surprise me to learn there are many more. Fascia and the Fuzz Speech Jeffrey gets a lot of relief from neuro-muscular massage. This technique breaks up the fascia that naturally forms on and between muscles. As it builds up, it makes it harder to move. It's why our muscles feel stiff when we first get out of bed or if an injury keeps us immobilized for a time. Massage, Tai Chi, Yoga, aerobics, and really any extensive movement can help break it down and help us move with less resistance. The video, "The Fuzz Speech," is a fascinating exploration of fascia. It's the one Jeremy talked about in our conversation. You can watch The Fuzz Speech here. The Writing Process To hold and read a book that someone has written and published it kind of amazing. Those incredibly thin documents, with ink and pigments spread throughout them in precise patterns, are piled on top of each other and combined transmit a deeply personal story from one person to another. And how does this magical artifact come into being? What complex steps do authors have to take? Again and again they tell me you just have to write. You can listen to other conversations I've had with authors at http://Strokecast.com/authors and you hear that theme keeps coming up, expressed slightly differently. In Jeffrey's case, he says it comes down to simply butt-in-seat time. You've got to carve out the time and then dedicate that time to just making it happen. If you don't feel you have the skills to create a polished manuscript, that's okay. A ghost writer, like Bonnie, can help with that part. But it's still your story and your feelings that you need to get on the page. And to do that, you just have to consistently take the time and do it. Hack of the Week Carry a flashlight with you. This is even more important this time of year in the northern hemisphere when it gets darker earlier and stays darker later. You need to be able to see where you are going, and many of us need to be able to see our feet while walking. You don't want to trip over something in the dark and have another injury. A flashlight doesn't need to be a big thing. It can be a small thing. There are plenty of designs that will fit on a key chain or in a small pocket. You can even find options for connecting them to your cane. Before my stroke, whenever I travelled I kept a small "tactical" flashlight in my pocket. It was bright, had a strobe function, and was easy to hold in one hand. It was great when power would go out in a hotel, I would try to find things in an unfamiliar rental car, or an airplane would have a power glitch. I also found it helpful to have the extra light when I plug cables in.  You can often get free ones as branded give aways from all sorts of organizations, if you don't have one. Your doctor's office may even have some spares laying around printed with the name of whatever drug the pharmacy reps are promoting on any given day. Or you can order one to fit your particular needs. Obviously, flashlights are not hard to find. Here are a few I found on Amazon that look interesting: OLIGHT I1R 2 Eos 150 Lumens EDC Flashlight Powered by a Single Built-in Rechargeable Li-ion Battery, Tiny Rechargeable Keychain Light USB Charging Cable Included* This one is cheap, fits on a keychain, and you can easily recharge it from a computer or many phone chargers. Streamlight 66122 Stylus Pro 100-Lumen Penlight* This is slimmer and longer. It will be more at home in a short or coat pocket or a purse or bag. The classic pen light can be unobtrusive when you don't need it. Some folks with dexterity challenges may find it harder to hold with an affected hand. Fenix PD36R 1600 Lumen Type-C USB Rechargeable EDC Tactical Flashlight* This type definitely gets more spendy. It may be overkill for most purposes, but it is super bright and durable. It's practical, the strobe may make you feel safer since it may temporarily blind someone who may cause you harm, and…and…Ok. It's kind of an expensive toy. But look how cool! LightBaum- Adjustable LED Flashlight for Crutches, Canes, & Walkers* This is interesting. It's a flashlight you can mount on a cane or other mobility device. You don't have to hold it and can use it to directly illuminate your path in the dark. PS ZAP Cane 1,000,000 Volts W/CASE* Finally, if it's legal for you to purchase one and possess one in your jurisdiction, this may be an option if you need a weapon of some sort. The cane has a built-in flashlight, sure, but it can also shock someone with a million volts. Links (If you don't see the table of links below, visit http://Strokecast.com/FindingForward) Where do we go from here? Connect with Jeffrey on Facebook and check out his website at JeffreyAMorse.com Share this episode with someone you know by giving them the link Http://Strokecast.com/FindingForward Sign up for the monthly Strokecast email news letter at http://Strokecast/com/News Don't get best…get better

The AR platform is like a LEGO set. You can add on all kinds of different components to make it be whatever you need it to be. Josh Froelich, competition shooter and all around outdoorsman, shoots everything from pistols, to shotguns, to long range rifles, and everything in between. Josh runs through a few of his setups to show what he uses for different situations whether it be home defense, hunting, or long distance shooting. Brad asked Josh several questions including, at a high level can you give a quick explanation of the AR platform for someone who knows almost nothing about it, what makes the AR platform so popular, can you walk us through selecting calibers for different use cases, what separates different types of ammo and what do you like about the ammo you use, what is your home defense AR setup and why did you choose each accessory, do you recommend an AR for home defense weapon, what is your LR (Long Range) setup and why did you choose each accessory, hat are some scenarios that you like to or need to use an LR AR platform, what is your competition AR platform setup and why did you choose each accessory?Gearbox Talk is brought to you by GoWildDownload GoWild today. Join a community of shooters, hunters, anglers and outdoor enthusiasts.http://bit.ly/DownloadGoWildNowGear Mentioned:Power-Shok Rifle 300 Blackout https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/power-shok/power-shok-rifle/11-300BLKB.htmlVarmint & Predator 223 Remington https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/varmint-and-predator/varmint-and-predator/11-V223VM53B.htmlTrophy Copper 223 Remington https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/premium-centerfire-rifle/trophy-copper/11-P223TC1.htmlBarnes TSX 224 Valkyrie https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/premium-centerfire-rifle/barnes-tsx/11-P224VLKBTSX1.htmlGold Medal Berger 6.5 Creedmoor https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/gold-medal/gold-medal-berger/11-GM65CRDBH2.htmlJP CTR-02™ Rifle https://www.jprifles.com/1.2.1_CTR02.phpStealth projects suppressors https://stealthproject.com/Streamlight tlr1 https://www.streamlight.com/en/products/detail/index/tlr-1Vortex razor offset red dot 6 moa https://timetogowild.com/gearbox/products/bobwards-773595-vortex-vortex-razor-ded-dotMAXIM CQB PISTOL: GEN 6 – PDW BRACE FOR AR15 https://www.maximdefense.com/product/maxim-cqb-pistol-pdw-brace-for-ar15/JP LRI-20™ Semi-Monolithic https://www.jprifles.com/1.2.5_LRI20.phpvortex razor 4.5-27x56 https://timetogowild.com/gearbox/products/vortexoptics-RZR-42708-vortex-optics-vortex-optics-razor-hd-gen-ii-45-27x56-ffp-ebr-7c-mradMagpul PRS Gen 3 Precision Adjustable Stock (Gen 1 Unavailable) 

Trent sits down this week with Chris Otway, factory sales rep for not only Benelli but Vortex, Streamlight, and more.  The guys talk the latest hunting and shooting gear for the upcoming hunting season.

This year, 2021, continues to deliver on mass quantities of endless annoyances. This week we do a little ranting about how knife fights have suddenly become West Side Story Redux and a little bit on the utility of crossdraw holsters.   MichaelBane.TV - On the Radio episode # 67. Scroll down for reference links on topics discussed in this episode. Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed here are our own and may not represent those of the companies we represent or any entities affiliated to it. Host: Michael Bane Producer: Flying Dragon Ltd. More information and reference links: Worst.Oscars.Ever https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2021/04/26/worst-oscars-ever-n2588511 https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/tv-talk-worst-oscars-ever/ Critical Race Theory is Marxism https://www.theepochtimes.com/marxist-based-critical-race-theory-part-of-global-affairs-anti-racism-course-materials_3788001.html https://spectator.org/critical-race-theory-cancer/ https://www.theaquilareport.com/critical-race-theory-what-it-is-and-how-to-fight-it/ D&L Sports Custom SLR Carbine Fuller Phoenix Shop for DeSantis Holsters at MIDWAY USA Shop for Streamlight at MIDWAY USA Streamlight JM Custom Kydex Shop for Sig Sauer 365 Holsters at MIDWAY USA Leaked ATF Document on “Ghost Gun” Ban https://thereload.com/leaked-atf-document-details-biden-plans-to-ban-ghost-guns/ https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/20/department-of-justice-atf-leaked-document-ban-ghost-guns/ The Music of Deraj The Music (very little music) of Rockland Ladies

Welcome to the NH 2A Podcast where we discuss anything related to the Second Amendment including firearms, gear, and current events. Hosted by Jared and Jacob in the free state of New Hampshire. In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons between the Surefire X300 and the Streamlight TLR7A. Be proficient, politically active, and polite. *** Any information contained in this podcast should not be considered to be legal advice ***  Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/nh2apodcast)

Enjoy this discussion on Polymer 80's, 80% ar kits, morel mushrooms, turkeys, and a Steamlight headlamp that is AWESOME. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brollc/message

What new products is Streamlight rolling out in 2021? Listen in and learn about the company's competitive innovation and design principles.

In this episode of The Mag Life Podcast, Daniel welcomes Paul Baxter, Product Group Specialist at Streamlight. For any regular shooter or conceal carrier, a weapon-mounted light is an essential piece of equipment and should not be taken lightly. Streamlight has produced top-quality lights that have found the balance between long-term reliability and affordability for … Continue reading "180 – New Streamlight Lights 2021"

Threat Preparation - Preparation Equipment (Physical Preparation)PART 1Defensive PurchasesCameras - ICRealtime; Ring & Arlo camerasUpgraded entry protection - locks, kick platesLandscaping - holly, briars, dense foliage, avenues of approach Offensive PurchasesFirearms - pistols, rifles, shotguns - Consistency across platformsPART 2Alternative weapons - tasers, stabbing, blunt, Byrna Self Defense launcher (byrna.com)Protection - body armor (catiarmor.com, safelifedefense.com), helmets (hardheadveterans.com), bump in the night bag (check our Uncensoredtactical podcast for more information)Force MultipliersTeams & Family - Shoot, Move, CommunicateDogs - integrate them into training (fortressk9.com)Gear - NVGs, lights (Surefire or Streamlight), lasers (recommend IR lasers with Night Vision over visible lasers), communication (Baeofang radios), prebuilt positions

Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 385 – tonight we’ll talk about Second Call Defense, Faxon Firearms, Black Rhino Concealment, Medical Gear Outfitters, Swampfox Optics, Franklin Armory, Sig P365XL, Streamlight, New Canik, 3d printing, the gun experiment and more! FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 385 – tonight we’ll talk about Second Call Defense, Faxon Firearms, Black Rhino Concealment, Medical Gear Outfitters, Swampfox Optics, Franklin Armory, Sig P365XL, Streamlight, New Canik, 3d printing, the gun experiment and more! FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 385 – tonight we'll talk about Second Call Defense, Faxon Firearms, Black Rhino Concealment, Medical Gear Outfitters, Swampfox Optics, Franklin Armory, Sig P365XL, Streamlight, New Canik, 3d printing, the gun experiment and more! FULL SHOW NOTES HERE

Injuries from photo accidents outnumber wild animal attacks, Camp Stoves still the most risky. Molle clip light reviews Streamlight sidewinder. Coast clip light. Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 168 Photography and Wilderness Risk If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work, or  a podcast interview, please drop me an email.  Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session,  please visit  GoldenHourWedding.com or you ...

Streamlight Flashlights and Cutting Christmas Trees In The Forest Gear that I work with  Professional film stock I work with https://imaging.kodakalaris.com/photographers-photo-printing/film/color I keep my camera in a Lowepro camera bag  https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/magnum-400-aw-lp36054-pww/ When I am photographing landscape images I use a Manfrotto tripod  https://www.manfrotto.com/us-en/057-carbon-fiber-4-section-geared-tripod-mt057c4-g/ A lot of my film portfolio was created with the Nikon N80 and Nikon F4 https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/f4.htm https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/n80.htm The Nikon D2H and Nikon D3 were used to create many of the digital images on ...

We’re safely back at the Secret Hidden Bunker and hard at work. Michael shares some thoughts on getting home and gunning up, on the importance of written lists in planning and, finally THE ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME! MichaelBane.TV - On the Radio episode # 43. Scroll down for reference links on topics discussed in this episode. Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed here are our own and may not represent those of the companies we represent or any entities affiliated to it. Host: Michael Bane Producer: Flying Dragon Ltd. More information and reference links: Greg Ellifritz on NEXT WEEK!!! The Value of a Written Plan Finagle’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law Sig 365 to 365XL Conversion ARMSCOR VR80 Streamlight Five Finger Death Punch https://www.facebook.com/fivefingerdeathpunch/ https://fivefingerdeathpunch.com “Living the Dream” Music Video The Music of Jerry Jeff Walker AN AMAZING SPECIAL OFFER FROM MICHAEL JANICH FOR TRIGGERED VIEWERSAND MBTV LISTENERS! UNTIL 7 NOVEMBER YOU CAN GET $100 OFF MARTIAL BLADE CONCEPT’S ACCLAIMED DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM. IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT TRAINING FOR SELF-DEFENSE BEYND THE GUN, THIS IS A DEAL YOU CAN’T PASS UP. READ ABOUT THE DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM HERE: Martial Blade Concepts Distance Learning Program https://martialbladeconcepts.tv https://www.martialbladeconcepts.com/distancelearningprogram THE DLP IS ALREADY A SPECTACULAR DEAL AT $500. AT $100 OFF, IT IS TRULY A STEAL! Use the code BANEJANICH2020 on check out.  

How many flashlights are too many? Does blade size really matter? Should you carry a spare magazine?  Captured from a recent Guncranks Live! livestream, Host Brent T. Wheat, AH/GUNS Publisher Roy Huntington and Executive Editor Tom McHale answer those questions and more while discussing everyday carry gear. The guys share what lights, knives and guns are in their pockets, as well as other gear they carry when in public — plus the usual jokes and stories, including a shootout with a wild opossum and a homemade laser that can start fires. Watch Guncranks Live! on Facebook or YouTube every Wednesday at 8PM ET. Read and subscribe to GUNS Magazine at gunsmagazine.com.

B. Hill, from the popular podcast "The Ain't Shxt Show" joins the sleuths to shares some hilarious stories from working in insurance claims. An exploding tooth claim from a hard french fry at Wendy's. The case of stomach pains from a woman who at six taco supremes and a side of pintos and cheese at Taco Bell and a workers comp claim where the supposedly injured man is soaking up the sun in the sunny Bahamas, and a stripper with an injured spine performing the tango.If you need the services of a private investigator to look into workman's compensation claims reach out to Blackman Detective Services today.The Sleuths and B. Hill discuss episode seven of ABC's Stumptown called November Surprise. Lindsey shared about a post she saw on Facebook of a dashcam capturing an accident and the Sleuths talk about dashcams. Should you own one? We talked about the NextBase 522gw Dash Cam The Sleuths and B. Hill play mad libs and get into the season.Mentioned on this episode: WireCutter.com does cool reviews of tech gadgets  In the episode of Stumptown Dex used a Streamlight to distract the rival P.I. to defend herself against her ASP Baton The Stumptown Comic Book  Follow B. Hill on Instragram @Bhill_919 and Twitter @Bhillyaheardme

On this week’s episode, we discuss the Italian Firearms Group Defiant Stock 1 made by Tanfoglio, The Rock River arms LAR-22 style AR 22lr’s, and the Streamlight TL-Racker for the mossberg 500/590 and Remington 870’s. For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast

On this week's episode, we discuss the Italian Firearms Group Defiant Stock 1 made by Tanfoglio, The Rock River arms LAR-22 style AR 22lr’s, and the Streamlight TL-Racker for the mossberg 500/590 and Remington 870’s. For all the show notes and back episodes, head over to firearmsradio.tv/gun-and-gear-review-podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/talkinglead/TLP_285_The_Story_Of_Kryptek.mp3 Welcome back to the Talking Lead Podcast Lead Heads! This episode we continue our stellar 2019 SHOT Show interviews form the Buck KnivesLeadquarters with Butch Whiting co-founder of Kryptek Camouflage and Kryptek Outdoors Group. The Talking Lead Jackwagon Train stops by to pick up a fresh load of Jackwagons. And we giveaway the 7th EDC Pocket Dump Rewards package provided by Talking Lead, Buck Knvies, Streamlight & FLEOA Lefty and Brooksy have a great conversation with Butch about how he and Josh Cleghorn took an idea they came up with while serving together, in the Ninewa Providence in Northern Iraq and began their journey in what would result in the world renowned Kryptek Outdoor Group. We get to know Butch in a way that only Talking Lead can bring out in people through the "New Guy" questions. Butch shares everything from his first gun to his days as an Apache Helicopter pilot to his favorite kind of game hunting. Listen now for the whole exciting story! Jackwagons this week are courtesy of the Lead Head Brigade and include two SHOT Show gun thieves, Connecticut Dem Jillian Gilchrest a big box store that punishes heroism and more...

http://traffic.libsyn.com/talkinglead/TLP_282_CJ_Buck_and_WWII_Vet_Albert_Mampre.mp3 We are back with a loaded Talking Lead Podcast episode Lead Heads! Fresh from the Official Leadquarters of Buck Knives we bring you all the cool gadgets, guns & people from the 2019 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. Lefty kicks off Talking Lead's 4 days of interviews with the owner of Buck Knives himself, CJ Buck. CJ fills us in on the history of Buck Knives spanning back four generations beginning in 1902. CJ and Lefty talk about Buck's new line of Cerakoted knives and some special environmental projects they are involved in with Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars. Next up CJ and Lefty have a very special guest join them at the Buck Knives' Leadquarters studio. World War II veteran Staff Sergeant Albert (AL) L. Mampre of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division drops in and delivers a memorable interview. Al shares some of his personal war stories and give us the secrets to living a long and happy life. Another lucky Lead Head is announced to receive a EDC Pocket Dump Reward from Talking Lead, Streamlight, Buck Knives and FLEOA! All this and lots more...Listen now!

http://traffic.libsyn.com/talkinglead/TLP_281_-_Optics_101_Reticles.mp3 Welcome back to the Talking Lead Podcast. On the eve of our travels to SHOT Show we drop an information packed episode on you Lead Heads. J-Mack with RITON optics joins Lefty to talk about scope reticles and some factors you want to consider when choosing the right reticle for your scope. Also joining the conversation Lefty invites Ranger Sniper and Author Paul Martinez to add a professional shooter's perspective and expertise. As all ways before we get to the meat and potatoes of the show the Gunny comes to the rescue with the Talking Lead Jackwagon Train to haul off a new bunch of Jackwagons. This episode's Jackwagons are: A crooked Chicago anti-gun city official found with 23 guns in his office, a cop killer in Provo & TSA sending guns to Tokyo. After our course on reticles Paul talks about his new book "When The Killer Man Comes: Eliminating Terrorists As a Special Operations Sniper". Paul is giving away two autographed copies of his book to a couple of deserving Lead Heads and we giveaway another EDC Pocket Dump Rewards package from Talking Lead, Buck Knives, Streamlight & FLEOA. So tune in and get "Leaducated"!

Duty belts are as old as policing. From the beginning, para-military uniform adaptations of duty belts included police officers. Police belts symbolize the disciplined body of the justice system. When policing started, officers were part of the night watch. Officers carried tools like lanterns and sometimes a stick for self-defense. Eventually, law enforcement belts became a symbol or a brand. Officer’s dress code included a trench coat plus a Sam Browne belt. Belts consisted of a leather piece, brass buckle, and another leather strip which connected front to back passing through the officer’s chest and right shoulder. When I see photographs of police officers who used this setup, I can imagine myself being one of them. These officers carried a nightstick, flashlight, and revolver. Over time, law enforcement evolved, and more tools were added. All these new tools or toys, as some of us see them, started adding weight which translated in back, hips, and knee injuries. However, there are new options to consider when setting up your belt to avoid or prevent injury. Here are some critical factors. 1) Duty belt’s material: Majority of duty belts are either made out of durable nylon or leather. Nylon is lighter and flexible; however, some departments discourage nylon because it doesn’t look “professional” since this material could rub off over time with daily use. Leather belts can look professional. Police departments like the way manufacturers can make it look glossy or basket weave. However, leather can add weight to the already heavy-duty equipment. 2) Manufacturer: Price is a significant factor, primarily if your department doesn’t provide a uniform allowance or pay for all of the uniforms. I suggest you do your research and go with quality manufacturers. Don’t forget to read the reviews, not just reviews like t “It looks good,” but more about how it feels after the usage for a while. I use Bianchi Duty Belts, and so far the belt is lighter than my old leather one. Remember, security officers also use some of the duty belts, and they don’t carry as much equipment as we do. 3) Comfort and Size: Your waistline will determine the size as well as your level of comfort, and the number of pouches and holsters you attach to your belt. Remember, you might want to buy a bigger size. You might gain a little weight, but if you are like me, I wear many layers during the winter, and I have to open loosen up it up a bit. Let’s take a look the way I set up my duty belt. Your setup depends on the number of tools you carry, personal preference, and policies by your department. One thing is sure if you are a rookie, you’ll change the setup for the first two years because you’ll learn what works and doesn’t work for you. (Starting Counterclockwise from belt buckle) Taser Tasers are useful for many reasons, some to stop subjects who aren’t complying to commands, other times to make the taser spark showing you aren’t playing games. I placed my taser next to the belt buckle because I’ll reach to use it with my dominant right hand. My academy taught me always place the taser on the opposite side or away from your firearm because, in a high-stress scenario, you could grab your gun instead of your taser to stop someone while resisting, a true story this happened before: https://link.tacticalbluetv.com/shot-with-taser. If I’m that close to a subject, I’m not reaching for a taser to make someone comply, hands-on baby! Magazine Holster My magazine holster is unique, well, not really, but I like it. I have a double handgun plus AR15 magazine holster. The reason I chose this setup is the location where I work. My backup is 10–15 minutes away. I like the idea of having another AR15 magazine just in case I have a defective magazine in the AR15 already, or I experience a double feed which prompts me to do a rapid clearing drill and reload. I never hear anyone ever said, “I brought too many rounds to this gunfight!” Flashlight Holster I carry many flashlights, in the vehicle, in my go pack and on me. This particular flashlight is what I call my “Vehicle Search” flashlight. I can place it in tight places when I’m looking for contraband, e.i AC vents. Always use your non-dominant hand to handle your flashlight or any tool which isn’t essential for fighting. Like my old academy, sergeant used to say “Nothing In Your Gun Hand.” PR24/Flashlight Loop Next, I have this velcro loop for my PR24. If you never used a PR24, you are missing a cool and useful tool for crowd control. Make sure you take the necessary training before using one. It’s useful, but deadly if you strike one of the red zones. By the way, it’s hard to find one in the market. It took me a while before I got ahold one. This loop is multi-function because I also use it for my long Streamlight flashlight. Radio Pouch The radio goes in my non-dominant hand. All my fellow officers at the police department use different setups for their radios. Some use the radio clip which it’s attached to the radio’s battery. Others have metal clips or “Porta” clips. I use a swivel pouch which is easy for me to use. If I have to take the radio off my duty belt, I turn the pouch upside down and pull up, easy. Tourniquet Holster If you don’t use a tourniquet on your duty belt, you are automatically failing in this job! Tourniquets could save your life or your fellow officer’s life in a life-threatening situation. If you are shot, after stopping the threat, the first thing you need to do is to stop the bleeding. Having the tourniquet easily accessible can be the difference between bleeding to death or winning the fight! If possible also carry an Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) close by as well. Glove Pouch My glove pouch is directly behind my spine. The reason for this methodology is to avoid spine injuries if I fall backward. Never place anything which could compress the spine discs if you fall, such as handcuffs or other hard tools. The injury isn’t worth it. Place something soft or nothing at all. If you have a small waistline and you need space, consider adding a double magazine pouch to save space. OC Spray I carry my OC spray in a pouch directly behind my baton. The reason is that I prefer to use my dominant hand to withdraw the bottle. I’m not sure if this is the best place for it, but I’m more concerned with the other tools mentioned above. Baton To use my baton, I’ll withdraw it from the holster. Using my dominant hand with an upper and downward motion extending the baton. Firearm My Glock 22 holster is near my hipbone. I place it about 1 inch in front of the hip bone. This way, it’s comfortable for me while sitting in the patrol car, but also it doesn’t interfere with the seat belt if I ever have to do a rapid retrieve while sitting. Double Handcuff Pouch Police Academies don’t emphasize the importance of proper handcuff placement. Usually, police officers place their handcuffs in the back of the duty belt. However, think about it; if you are going to handcuff someone and your non-dominant hand is holding the suspect’s hands, what’s the other hand doing? Moving back to open the pouch and retrieve the handcuffs. If you notice before, your torso automatically leans forward. The movement places you in an odd disadvantaged position. If your handcuffs are in the front, the whole time you’ll maintain the upper hand. You won’t have unusual movements. You’ll reach the pouch, open it, and handcuff. If you practice enough, it can be a fast and smooth movement. If you decide to use this setup or another, the important thing is to practice, practice, practice. You should be able to grab any of your tools in the daytime or dark. Muscle memory plays a big part in the officer’s safety. Remember, my goal is that you go home safe to your family. “Don’t Be An ASS, Be An ASSet!” https://youtu.be/i157jKuTWTE

Jacob, Stephen, and Kaden discuss handgun mounted weapon light philosophy, as well as some of the best light options on the market today.

Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold were the brilliant masterminds behind, and the architects of, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. As conscientious hunters, they quickly learned that being good stewards of our natural resources ultimately coincided with healthier, more abundant, wildlife populations and, thus, would ensure hunting for future generations. So, today on The Revolution with Jim and Trav presented by Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, World Fishing Network and MyOutdoorTV, we'll closely examine conservation efforts in the U.S., as well as abroad, and if it's time to rethink our current practices. Weighing in on today's discussion in a special two-part interview will be Ivan Carter of Carter's W.A.R., Officer Bill Webster from Wardens Presented by Streamlight and Hollywood Weapons very own Terry Schappert.

Do you carry a light for personal defense?  If you do, what light have you selected?  How do you carry it?  Where does it rank in importance in your EDC? In today's episode Richard and I talk about things like: How Richard and I met in real life and social media safety The flashlight revolution The Beginnings of Flashlights Maglite  Streamlight SL20 Rechargeable Surefire 6P  Lumens is all the focus but there are more aspects to a quality light Candela - Candlepower “peak beam intensity” measures the largest reflected intensity. Lumens - Total amount of light - measures one moment in time and all of the light that is output. How lumens and candela work together Standards - ANSI/Neema/Plato FL1 Standards and how they are helping you to make good choices when it comes to lights Problems with FL1 standards - The runtime issue Tlr 6 Review and Graph  GHG  -   What makes for a good light My EDC Flashlight  Batteries and how they can improve the performance of your light Lithium is the way to go. Cr123  AAA  AA  How do you select a good self-defense/personal protection light? Specific recommendations: Elzetta Streamlight Protac HL  http://amzn.to/2zhVSEM SHOT Show - coverage Exclusive Patron Only Content Popularity does not equal expertise Influence comes with responsibility Credentials aren't necessarily important either Skepticism - Is it a bad thing? "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."  - Thomas Jefferson The source of our Rights Federalists - Whatever we write down limits us to what we write down. Anti-Federalists - All governments eventually restrict rights so we need a Bill of Rights. Scalia opinion in Heller  Ruger - a stock report on rgr   Important links for the SSA Podcast: Please consider subscribing to the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast by heading to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/itunes.  By subscribing you will be sure that you don't miss a single episode.  I would also appreciate it if you would take the time to leave a review and a rating.  Please let me and others know what you thing about the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast.  The feedback helps me to create better content and it helps other folks figure out if the SSA Podcast is worth downloading.  Again, just head to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/itunes and leave your feedback.  The SSA Podcast is sponsored by Safety Solutions Academy and you the listeners.  If you would like to support the SSA Podcast just head to SafetySolutionsAcademy.com/support and you can learn about how you can become a Patron of the Safety Solutions Academy Podcast for as little as $1 a month.  Every little bit helps, so consider becoming a Patron today!  Don't forget there is a ton of quality content available through SSA.  A great place to start is SafetySolutionsAcademy.com.  Make sure to check out our blog and podcast content as well as the main training courses that we offer.  You can find us on FaceBook at:  Paul Carlson SSAPodcast Safety Solutions Academy On IG you can find me at Paul_SSA  We are getting ready to spool up our YouTube channel again as the weather starts to look better so make sure to subscribe to SSA on YouTube. 

Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold were the brilliant masterminds behind, and the architects of, the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. As conscientious hunters, they quickly learned that being good stewards of our natural resources ultimately coincided with healthier, more abundant, wildlife populations and, thus, would ensure hunting for future generations. So, today on The Revolution with Jim and Trav presented by Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel, World Fishing Network and MyOutdoorTV, we'll closely examine conservation efforts in the U.S., as well as abroad, and if it's time to rethink our current practices. Weighing in on today's discussion in a special two-part interview will be Ivan Carter of Carter's W.A.R., Officer Bill Webster from Wardens Presented by Streamlight and Hollywood Weapons very own Terry Schappert.