WEBVTT - CLASSIC: Bug Out Bag 101 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.600 Fellow conspiracy realist friends and neighbors our classic episode this 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:12.360 evening is only more relevant as time goes on. I 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.040 know we get a little bit soapboxy in this one, 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:17.960 But if you're listening now and you don't have a 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.720 bug out bag, do it? Get one immediately? 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:23.279 What's in your bug out bag? 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:27.920 Well, look, I don't want to put you on the spot, Ben, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.639 you cut this if we need to. I notice that 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.120 you carry a bag around a lot. Do you consider 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.360 that to be part of your bug out bag? I 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.440 don't know, system I guess or like? Is it partially? 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.280 Are you partially able to get out at any time? 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:44.760 Is that something we should be thinking about. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.560 Well, I appreciate that I may not be the best 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.800 sample size for this because I'm a little more on 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.040 the paranoid end of the spectrum. I'm on an extreme 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.360 end of a couple of spectrums if we're being honest, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.840 but I will I will say that. You know, as 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.400 an eagle scout, it is important to always be prepared. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.319 Got it if possible. Right before you make an entrance, 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:14.880 you know your exit strategy. We were We get pretty 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.240 in depth with our bug out bag exploration and shout 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.920 out to our friends like the Casual Preppers podcast, The 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.840 question is this, if you were cut off from everything, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.200 from all modern conveniences, for all of a sudden, all 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.040 of a sudden, all at once, for seventy two hours, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.199 what would you need to survive? What would your loved 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.200 ones need to survive? 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.040 It's a good question and when we do our level 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.760 best to answer. In this very practical and functional episode 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:49.000 of stuff they don't want you to know. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:54.240 From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:58.640 riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.680 learn this stuff they don't want you to know. A 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.480 production of iHeartRadio. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.600 Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:17.640 my name is Nolan. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.320 They call me Ben. We are joined as always with 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:24.359 our super producer Paul Mission Control deck and most importantly, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.280 you are you. You are here, and that makes this 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.519 stuff they don't want you to know. This is a 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.880 little bit of a weird episode for us because in 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.919 a in a few of our recent shows, we had 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.760 touched on the idea of emergency preparation, right we had uh, 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.400 we had mentioned building out bug out bags just just 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.840 in passing. Remember we didn't go to into depth. But 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.400 I don't know about you guys. I was surprised that 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.880 so many of our fellow listeners wrote into us on uh, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.560 you know, Facebook or Twitter and asked us to make 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.760 an episodisode just about bug outbacks. Did you guys see 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.040 any of that? Yeah? 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:09.360 Yeah, I mean I think it's an important thing that 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.480 maybe we don't think about in our busy lives all 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.919 the time, that we need to be prepared in case 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:21.840 something goes down all of a sudden. We learned it personally. 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.320 I think we had a close encounter with something like 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.480 this when snowpocalypse occurred in Atlanta, when we realized, oh, well, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.920 if something does go wrong and let's say even your 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.320 vehicle is a has to be abandoned, is there enough 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.080 stuff in your vehicle to be safe for a night? 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:43.560 Two nights, forty eight hours? And we noticed a response 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.760 with everyone listening that they also wanted to know this information. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.040 Yeah, and so this episode's going to be a little 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:55.640 bit different from some of our previous episodes. I don't 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.440 know about you all, but I don't think this will 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.040 include anything quote unquote. But you know, perhaps we've already 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.360 drifted past our old definitions of normalcy nowadays. Anyhow, in 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.080 this episode, we're going to walk through what a bug 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.960 out bag is, whether you need one, what you should 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.240 put in it, what you should watch out for along 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.200 the way, and maybe reveal some of our own hard, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.200 hard learned lessons here. Guys, you know, we can see 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.560 each other right now, but our fellow listeners, can't You 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.960 all look great? By the way, I want to point out, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.880 I'm wearing my old, my old, old jacket that I 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.320 used to live in. Seriously, for three months I lived 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.120 in this jacket because I was not prepared, and I. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.599 Well, it's sort of like a utility belt of a jacket, right, 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.200 Like it's got all these pockets where you can put 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:46.760 all kinds of necessities in. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.560 There, right yeah, man, yeah, absolutely, And I never I 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.960 never thought that I would have to use it that way, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.239 but I got caught out because I wasn't planning ahead. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.400 I'm a fan of improvisation, but in this in this 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.400 sort of situation, we do need to plan. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.840 So can you tell us just a little bit of 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.800 like high level info on what happened or is it 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.080 a mystery just about how you found yourself in that 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:11.960 kind of situation? 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:19.000 Yeah? Yeah, Okay, I screwed up, Matt. That's exactly what happened. 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.960 I screwed up. I was living abroad and I thought 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.240 at the time that the hostel I was staying in 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.080 was gonna well, like ale, I don't know these people 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:31.600 that I lived with. I thought it was going to 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:38.479 be a safe, pretty reliably consistent domicile situation. I traveled 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:44.760 to another town and I couldn't find a place to 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:49.200 live there, so I was sleeping rough unless I literally 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.160 like made friends with someone on the street and trusted 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 them enough to sleep at their house, which you know, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.640 I'm not a fan of that. 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:02.280 So yeah, but your jacket or having something on you 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.080 that you could carry a couple of things on you 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.560 became really important. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.680 Oh yeah, man, this is ridiculous. This actually used to 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.600 be a different color, but it got so sun baked 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.960 and dirty and like I was washing it in a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:16.800 river and stuff. It was weird. 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.560 Well, I think that very much applies to today's episode that 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.880 we're going to be getting into, just the concept that 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.920 I would say a lot of us, but me personally, 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.000 I walk around with two pockets four pockets in my 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.640 pants and that's about it. I guess there's a fifth 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.400 little tiny one that you can fit a USB driver, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:35.719 so you. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.520 Don't go for the cargo pants. Matt, you're not a 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:38.159 cargo guy. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.320 Well, I haven't been lately. Maybe I need to switch 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.760 over in these times at least. But most of us, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.640 if we're walking around, we don't have a lot of 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.240 storage on us, unless you got a really good jacket 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:51.760 or something. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:53.599 You know what. I get a lot of crap for 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.800 this from my daughter included, But I am a big 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:00.760 fan of a satchel I carry. I have several shoulder 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.360 bags and I carry them for that very reason because 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.520 I don't want to stuff my pockets with crap. And 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.440 if I have like a little, nice, low profile shoulder bag, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.200 I can put all the little things in it that 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.560 I might need, whether it's like nose spray or breath 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.640 mince or you know, a batter rang what have you. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.640 I've got it all in there in my little utility satchel. 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.520 And I get a lot of crap for it, but 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:22.600 I stand by it. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.840 You know what Ben got me this. I think it's 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.600 called a Supreme bag. I think that's what it's called. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.600 But it's a small bag. It looks almost like a 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.560 fanny pack, but a little larger and much cooler, but 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.280 you can put it over your shoulder. When I was 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.320 watching my son for about a week week and a half, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.600 that became like I had to have that. If I 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:47.640 didn't have that bag, they had like snack or food 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.480 for him, water for him, all the basic necessities. If 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.160 I didn't have a small bag like that, I would 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.280 have been out of luck. So that kind of thing 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.880 that you're talking about, nol Is could be really helpful. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.000 And it's fashionable too, Matt. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.240 And one thing I would point out about your satchel 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.160 strategy is I like that you also have all your 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.360 bags that I've seen have these highly adjustable straps, so 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.880 you can put it really close to your back, which 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.240 is great in a situation where you need to keep 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.400 an eye on snatch and grabs. And it also it 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.240 kind of transforms it into a single strap backpack. I 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:25.680 think that's really smart totally. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.240 You can wear it up high on the small of 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:28.960 your back if you're riding a bike, like as a 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.400 messenger bag. I even have one that has a cross 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.920 chest attachment that allows you to really wear it up 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.319 high on the back and gives you more support. I 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.240 don't know. I'm a big fan and I will never 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.800 let an eleven year old bully me into thinking otherwise. 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:49.080 So I agree, you know, Matt, Paul and I have 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.280 your back on that one, of course. But eleven year 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.400 olds are some of the most powerful, brilliant people in 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.160 the world, so we would have to team up. But 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.520 we've got your back. Before we get into today's show, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.720 how about we do a quick, just a very quick 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.360 Twitter roll call. Yes, shout out to grummin six hundred 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.480 who posted to conspiracy stuff to let us know the 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.160 breaking news. As we record this, it's been confirmed UK 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.439 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for COVID nineteen. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:23.480 Did you guys hear about that? 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.160 I did just this morning. Yeah. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.280 And another secretary that's high level also tested positive. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:31.680 M Yeah. 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.880 And wasn't there an official that was a or maybe 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.200 an official? I think it was an evangelist who was 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:41.120 a COVID denier has now tested positive as well. Called 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:42.520 it's called karma right there. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.480 Yeah, we're getting to the point where instead of knowing 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.520 of famous, notable figures in the world getting COVID, you 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.840 may soon by the time this episode comes out, you 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.800 may personally know someone who is confirmed to have contracted it. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.679 But again, the US, unlike the rest of the developed world, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.040 is not rolling out testing in a very efficient way. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.880 And so now that many of us are forced to 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.320 contemplate the sudden and unexpected changes in our day to 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.760 day lives and status quo, we also have to think 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.640 about how we will adapt if our normal environment, whether 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.920 that's our home space or our neighborhood, how do we 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.599 adapt if that place becomes either unsustainable at some point 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.720 or dangerous? You know, what do we do if we 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.960 have to get out? Or what do we do if 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:40.560 our normal methods of survival like running water, easily available food, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.319 and so on. What do we do if they run 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.120 out and we have to survive until help gets to us. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.000 That's where a bug out bag comes in. So here 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:50.079 are the facts. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.440 This is a question that I had. I'd never heard 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.400 this term before, bug out bag. I'd love to explore 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.760 a little more about where that comes from. But another 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.880 term for it is a go bag. At its most essence, 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:05.480 it's really just a bag that contains those bare necessities 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.880 that you really need to have handy, and the contents 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.200 can vary. We're gonna give you to that, But here 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.280 are some of the reasons you might need to have 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.560 one of these ready. The one I always think of 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.880 is if you know you're you're some kind of high 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.920 level criminal and you've been found out and you'd go 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.400 on the lamb or maybe change an identity. That's sort 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.280 of the more like alarmist fiction y type one, but 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.920 it's not entirely fictional. So maybe you need to leave 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.440 one location for another, or you're stranded in a location 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.760 like you said at the beginning of the show now 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.120 with the snow apocalypse and being able to need to 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.280 survive using your car as a temporary domicile in really 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:45.480 difficult conditions climate wise, or you're forced to be mobile 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.360 for some amount of time. That's a little more of 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.960 the potential on the lamb or just potential like you 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.320 need to be on the move for whatever reason. There's 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:55.600 many reasons this could be the case. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:00.280 Well, well, yeah, the whole point is there are endless 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.960 reasons that you may need to do one of those things, 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.760 be mobile, if you get stranded or you just need 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.520 to leave for one reason or another, and it could 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.760 be due to a natural disaster, some kind of you know, 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.400 I mean the reality of maybe an active shooter somewhere 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:21.280 near you, your car breaks down, maybe you're in the 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.840 middle of a pandemic, and civilization seems to be collapsing 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.360 all around you. The whole idea is that when you 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.640 have access to a bug out bag that you have 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.400 prepared carefully, this thing can keep you safe and healthy 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.440 for at least a temporary amount of time. And we'll 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.679 talk about exactly how long you can essentially set up 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.120 your bug out bag or your go bag to last you. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.680 Yeah, yeah, that's a key part here. It is meant 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:52.840 to keep you safe and healthy for a temporary amount 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.920 of time because one of the golden rules is that 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:59.320 you typically want to be able to pack no more 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.319 than you can and carry for a sustained amount of 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.360 time by yourself, even if you have friends and family 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.680 with you. So to that question, where does the term 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.679 come from. I've heard it called a a bug out bag, 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.600 a go bag, a go home bag, but the origin 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.080 of bug out bag is largely believed to come from 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.679 what was once known as a bailout bag used by 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.240 pilots and aviators in the military. So back in the day, 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.360 the bailout bag had a couple of items that were 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.520 critical for pilots if they were shot down or if 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.559 they experienced an engine malfunction and they landed in the 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.360 middle of nowhere or even enemy territory, and things like 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:44.440 a knife, you know, compass basic survival gear. Of course, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.120 you know, remember when you're putting together your bug out bag, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.640 you're probably not going to be jumping out of a plane. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.520 You're probably not going to commandeer an island or do 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.360 any sort of you know, movie stuff the John Wick 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:00.360 Mission Impossible type situations. You're just making sure that you're 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.240 as safe and healthy as possible while you either reach 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:08.640 permanent safety or get emergency assistance. One other seed on 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.240 a plant here. The old bailout bags used in air 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.439 forces did used to contain at least according to the stories, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:21.280 did used to contain a small amount of like gold 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.360 or silver bullion. And that's been the subject of a 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:29.360 lot of alarmist uh prepping industry sales points now, you know, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.480 but we'll we'll get back to that. So another question 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.680 you would probably have to ask, a question many of 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.600 our fellow listeners have received in the past, is is 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.480 it crazy? Is it overkill to have a bug out bag? 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.840 The answer is in general. No, no, it's not. It 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.360 depends on how weird you get with it. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:51.000 You will get reactions though from maybe a lot of 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.480 depending on who you surround yourself with. I just know 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.360 my immediate family and friends are like, you have what? What? 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:58.560 What do you have in your car? 0:14:58.720 --> 0:14:58.920 What? 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.720 Why would you you do that? And then you have 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.040 to explain, And then a lot of times you'll notice 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.720 people are a little more understanding I guess after you 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.120 give them all the reasons. But yeah, I would say 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.520 I have encountered that sentiment quite often. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.320 It's one of those things that's really easy to pass 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:21.240 judgment on until you know the situation reveals itself where 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:24.240 you were actually the smart one, you know, I mean, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.880 like what we're in right now, or the snowpocalypse situation. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.400 I mean, I don't think anyone would judge you if 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:33.200 you had made the right preparations and then that situation 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.040 presented itself and you were much more able to take 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.320 care of yourself and your loved ones than others who 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.800 maybe thought that was a wacky idea. So I think 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.880 reducing the stigma of things like this is really important 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:47.240 because it's not just some kind of doomsday prepper thing. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.920 You know. I think maybe the term bug out bag 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.680 makes you think like, oh, I'm bugging out, I'm freaking out. 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.680 Everything's crazy, you know. But no, it's absolutely just good 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.680 emergency preparedness, right. 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.760 It's an emergency preparedness set. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.040 There you go. That sounds a little more legit. 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.640 I like to maybe we just call it, maybe call 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.760 it an improvisation kit. I don't know something, yeah, something 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:18.080 yes and bag, yes and bag. There we go. That's good. So, yeah, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.840 it's possible, like any anything, it's possible to go overboard 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.000 when building out kit like this. But most of the 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.840 most of the stuff at least that we would cover 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.400 or that we would we would recommend looking into, is 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.560 pretty reasonable. And a lot of it depend on the 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.000 time you want to put in UH and your level 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.000 of h mcguiverance. Depending on your mcgiver factor. A lot 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.160 of this can be made with easily obtainable supplies. That's 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.480 really important. Right now as we record this, there's a 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.480 lot of information out there about preparedness, about bug out bags, 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.920 and some of it is misinformed. UH, some of it 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:59.480 is coming from a place with an agenda. It's coming 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.680 from folks who want to sell you something and this 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.439 can lead to overkill. More importantly, it can lead to 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.760 spending a lot of money on things you don't need well, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.520 like bone broth, Yeah, like bone broth or gold bullion, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:18.119 or you know, paying paying out the wazoo for something 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.040 that's kind of cheaply made and may actually break if 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.119 you ever use it on a regular basis. So, like 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.000 for an overkill thing, you don't need to pack huge 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.639 amounts of heavy equipment. You need stuff you can carry 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.359 and you can use. So this gets us to different 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.239 like types of bug out bags, Matt, you mentioned there 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.600 was a Traditionally they're defined by the amount of time, right, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.679 what is that amount of time for you guys? 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.440 Usually it goes by hours, but it's really like a day, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.160 Like you do a twenty four hour bug but bug 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.679 out bag, that's kind of your just standard. This is 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.560 the absolute minimum that I would need to be okay 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.600 for a full day and night, and then you it 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.320 generally goes from that to two days, like forty eight 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.080 hour bug out bag. The cool thing about these things 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.880 is that let's say you've got a twenty four hour 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.720 or forty eight hour bag set up as a singular thing. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.760 Let's say in your trunk you keep extra supplies that 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.400 would turn that into a ninety six hour or longer 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.280 bug out bag situation, just because the only things really 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:30.320 that are limiting you there would be your food, your water, 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.000 things that would run out because a lot of the 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:34.800 tools and things you keep in a bug out bag 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.000 aren't gonna limit you by a number. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:42.439 Of hours, right right right the hour limitation or the 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:47.720 hour definition, there is gonna really hinge on three things. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.960 It's gonna hinge on well, let's call it three point five. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.160 It's gonna hinge on the amount of food you need 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.160 to survive every twenty four hours, the amount of water 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.560 you need, which is even more important, and the amount 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.720 of medication you need if you're on a regular medication 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:08.159 schedule that's vital to your health. So this means that 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.080 a bug out bag can be defined also by what 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.080 it's not. It is not a long term survival kit, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:16.840 you know what I mean. You're not gonna take this 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.240 stuff in here and build a cabin and just live 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.760 there forever. It's not a boding or aviation emergency kit. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.399 You can put it in the trunk of your car. 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.439 But for an auto survival kit specifically, there's going to 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.919 be things in that kit that you don't need to 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.160 have in a bug out bag, right, Like you don't 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.320 need fix a flat in your bug out bag. You 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.199 don't need you do need it in your car, but 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.760 you do need it in your car absolutely, and you 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.800 can carry more in your car too, obviously. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.080 I think that's a really smart way of looking at it, Ben, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.199 because no one would ever begrudgs you keeping supplies in 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.440 your car, you know, for the event of a breakdown, right, 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:56.960 But yet people seem to look askance if you have 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.800 some sort of like contingency plan back for like some 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.520 other you know, larger emergency that is not automotive related. 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:06.280 So I think that's a really good point. 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.080 It's weird because I guess it's all in presentation, right, 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:14.720 Like the the stuff that I we keep in my car, 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.280 I do have it, I do have it separated out. 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.639 But there's the car stuff, you know, like the signal flares, 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.199 that kind of that kind of thing, jumper cables, and 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.719 then there's the bag you can grab. But it doesn't 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.680 look as crazy if it's in your trunk, right, because 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:30.760 everybody's got weird stuff in their trunks. 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:35.199 Well, Hey, speaking of trunks, guys, why don't we Why 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:38.520 don't we start going through like what we have. I'd 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.119 love to give you guys a rundown of my bug 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:46.280 out trunk, you know, before we get on too further 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.240 in this. But before we do that, maybe let's take 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:50.520 a quick word from our sponsor. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:21:00.439 All right, we're back, Matt. I'm intrigued. What, yeah, are 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:02.359 you going to give us the rundown? Are you going 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:03.680 to do an unboxing video? 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.399 Okay, so before we get into no, I'm not gonna 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.480 do an o a boxing video, but before we get 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.640 into you know what you should probably be thinking about 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:14.320 putting in your bug out bag. I just want to 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.840 kind of give you my rundown, and i'd love to 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.240 hear you, guys just what you keep with yours, if 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:24.280 that's okay. So, first of all, I've got an old, old, 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.359 old Toyota that I ride around in, and in the trunk, 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.640 I've got sleeping bags for my family, blankets, jackets, bottled 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.040 water for at least two days, energy bars for at 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:39.160 least two days, a fully charged battery powered generator back there. 0:21:39.680 --> 0:21:43.480 And those are just the basic things in like if 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.639 the car breaks down or something and we need to 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:50.480 walk a lah a snowpocalypse or something like that. Then 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.480