February 22, 2025 • 44 mins
In this explosive episode of the MOA Broadcast, host Sam Wilson dives into the latest headline-grabbing controversies and survival lessons that might just save your life. First up, Sam breaks down the escalating standoff between the Associated Press and President Trump over the contentious renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." With press credentials at stake and freedom of the press in question, Sam unpacks the non-political facts behind this brewing media battle.
Then, in a harrowing tale from New York City, Sam recounts the shocking story of Jared Adorno, a man brutally attacked with his own plastic baseball bat on the subway. The incident sparks a deep dive into the importance of situational awareness in urban environments and practical survival tips for everyday life—including why pepper spray might be your best self-defense tool.
Sam also takes a detour into the wilderness with the tragic story of an experienced hiker who didn’t make it out alive from the Adirondacks, leading to an in-depth exploration of the "10 C’s of Survival"—a must-know list for anyone venturing into the great outdoors.
But it’s not all doom and gloom! Sam wraps up with an unbelievable survival tale from Australia, where a farmer fights off a towering, seven-foot kangaroo in a wild, real-life showdown straight out of an action movie.
Whether you’re navigating city streets, political headlines, or the backcountry, this episode offers critical insights on staying prepared, staying safe, and, most importantly, making it out alive.
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Alright folks, we are back with another episode of the
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MOA broadcast. We've got all kinds of good information for us
today, so we're going to get right into it. Picking up where
we left off last week. So if you caught last week's episode,
and this has been all over the news anyway, you'll recall that
the AP, the Associated Press has been, shall we say, deadlocked
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in the Battle of Wills with the White House and particularly
President Trump, it seems. President Trump when he took
office and again, just to preface all this, we are a political
here. We're not going to get into the political side of
things. But we do discuss current events and right now a lot
of those events happen to be in the political realms. We're not
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going to inject our opinions. We're going to do what the news
used to do, which is just give you the information and then you
can draw your own conclusions. So that being said, as of last
week, the AP refused to recognize the fact that President
Trump had renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. Now
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this is something that he legally is allowed to do or has the
authority to do and he did this in conjunction or cooperation
with the Department of the Interior. So he renamed it the
Gulf of America. The Associated Press refused for whatever
reason to recognize this. And so they were not allowed to come
in for certain press briefings until they decided to change
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their mind and address it by the name that is legally now known
by in the United States, which is Gulf of America. Google Maps,
Apple Maps, other online maps providers followed suit and
began listing it as the Gulf of America. But for some reason,
the AP refuses to do so. So President Donald Trump said
Tuesday that he will continue to restrict the Associated Press
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access to his events and news conferences until the news
outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
in its reports. Now specifically, they are banned from the
Oval Office and Air Force One. They are still allowed to go
into the White House apparently and have their, you know, press
pass or whatever it is that they call it there to get clearance
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to get inside the White House, but they're not allowed into
certain press briefings. According to Trump, we are going to
keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the
Gulf of America. Trump said, speaking to reporters who
witnessed the signing of an executive order at Mar-a-Lago,
his Florida estate. We're very proud of this country and we
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wanted to be the Gulf of America. This was the first time the
president directly addressed this after two journalists from the
AP were denied entrance to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. There was a
press conference. There was a press conference in Mar-a-Lago
or whatever it was on Tuesday. The AP reporters were not
allowed inside. They had to watch a live television feed of
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Trump's remarks and were unable to ask questions. They were put
on detention apparently. The AP has framed this dispute as a
First Amendment issue, but Trump's team says access to its
events is a privilege extended by invitation and that while the
AP is still permitted on White House grounds, it no longer
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has the right to be part of pools that cover events where
space is limited, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.
So, I mean, when I look at this news report, it seemed like
maybe we're spending an inordinate amount of time on
such a simple thing, but I don't know what the
Associated Press politics aside. Forget that. What does the AP
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hope to gain by getting locked into a battle of wills with a
president that has shown for decades before he was even in
the Oval Office that he's not inclined to back down from
things. So, I don't really see what the AP stands to win
from this and so far they have lost their access to the Oval
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Office and Air Force One for press briefing. So, which means
someone else is taking that place. The space they formerly
occupied has now been given to someone else. So, I don't know
what they really stand to gain out of this and why they've dug
their heels in so deeply, but we are committed to accurate
re- and current reporting. So, as of now, they are banned
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from those areas. We will keep you updated if there are any
developments in this. All right. Moving on to our next report.
Should we go to New York? New York City. What has become of
you? A man says he was beaten with his own baseball bat on a
subway in a man says he was beaten with a home baseball
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bat and I'm not laughing at this poor man. No disrespect to
him. He went through it. We'll get to that here momentarily.
On a subway in Soho early morning, early Monday morning,
Soho stands for south of Houston Street. So, this is lower
Manhattan. This is kind of an artsy fartsy area. Lots of nice
dining shops. All kinds of interesting things, but this
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was at 1 AM. So, what happened? The victim told the news that
he was the attack came out of nowhere and they are still
looking for the suspect. Jared Adorno 25 says a fun night out
in the city with his friends turned to horror on the four
train as he was heading home around 1 30 AM Monday. When the
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train stopped at Spring Street, another man got on and
Adorno says by the time the doors closed, the man had
grabbed a plastic baseball bat from Adorno's backpack and
started hitting him in the face. We don't know why exactly
although the suspect demanded his belongings. Adorno says he
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managed to get away once the train doors opened at the
Bleecker Street station. So, for at least several long
seconds or a minute or three, he was fighting this man who
had taken his own plastic baseball bat away from him and
started to beat him about the face with it like an enraged
Jose Canseco attack gone awry. I had blood just stained all
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over here on the side of my face. My jacket was covered in
blood. He just started going for it. I'm over here blocking
doing the best I can. Adorno was transported to a nearby
hospital was left with bruising and swelling about the head, a
broken nose and dozens of stitches throughout his face.
Let's see if we've got a picture. Let's go to the MOA
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computer here.
My goodness. This poor guy, he's in the in the photograph
here. Let's see if we can.
I mean, he's got his nose bandaged both eyes are swollen,
totally shut. His forehead is swollen. There are bruises and
cuts all over his face. This guy, the attacker, did a number on
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this poor man who was apparently just minding his own
business. New York. Okay, we'll get to that in a minute.
Adorno was transported to a nearby hospital left with
bruising and swelling. A broken nose doesn't. Okay, I didn't
sustain any hemorrhaging in the brain. So, I'm just happy
about that. I feel like I had an angel on my side. I don't know
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said now that he can finally open his right eye, he said the
internal swelling has gone down. Doctors anticipate he will
make a full recovery so far. No rest have been made.
Despite this brazen out. This is the interesting thing about
statistics. Despite this brazen attack, NYPD data shows
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transit crime, crime that takes place on MTS. They call it or
they used to call it Metro Transit Authority. The MTA is the
public transportation system in New York. Now, surprisingly,
it is it is quite good. The coverage there is rather amazing
for a city of that size and that many people. If you are
taking MTA in New York City, there are very few places you
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can't get really close to either with a train or a train
followed up by a bus ride and then being dropped usually
within a few blocks. Most of the city has really, really well
very good coverage. It's very well covered in the city there.
So, their MTA, at least it used to be, was very good as far as
coverage. Now, they say their their transit crime
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is down 6% from this time last year. Now, here's the funny
thing about statistics. Unless this particular man was
attacked violently and assaulted last year, while transit crime
itself may be down 6% for him, it is up 100%. So, you know,
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there's an old saying, figures don't lie but liars figure.
And that's what you see here. I'm not saying that the NYPD, their data is lying,
but you got to put in the context the perspective of what has
happened to you. This poor guy was just riding the bus home or the train home
and all of a sudden he's getting violently beaten down with a baseball bat
for no apparent reason. The guy tried to rob him. He didn't give up his goods.
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He managed to escape. Fortunately, when he got off at the Bleaker
Street station and made it to street level, there was a cop car not too far
away. So, he was able to report it. But unfortunately, this guy has not been
apprehended. He got off near Spring and Prince Street. Well,
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it's unfortunate that he was going through such a difficult time
where he was because Prince Street pizza is there.
I have never had the opportunity to go, but I left New York right around the
time or visited a number of times right around the time they were opening.
They have square pies. So, well, let's just get into that. If you've never been
to New York, New York is an amazing place. I don't know what it is. Let me rephrase
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that. It was an amazing place. From everything I've seen on the news and
everything that I've spoken with people that still currently live there,
it's almost a disaster zone like in the movie Escape from New York.
If not for me with a movie Escape from New York, probably one of Kurt Russell's
best motion pictures in so far as just being a lot of fun
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and adventure and entertaining. He plays this essentially for the purposes of
this context. He's a mercenary. The president of
the United States has plain goes down New York at this time.
This is one of those 80s like apocalyptic style movies by John Carpenter,
the director. And New York has been because Manhattan
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is an island. It's it's been basically fenced off. It's been isolated and
Manhattan is a prison. So, the worst of the worst go to
Manhattan and they're dumped there and they're just left to rule and to
exist amongst themselves and whoever is strongest wins and survives.
And so, Kurt Russell, the president's plane goes down.
He has some top secret information and he's got to go to some World Summit to
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you know, do his thing as president. And Kurt Russell has to go in there and
rescue him. So, but the whole thing is, is New York is just this this hellscape
of a nightmare. There's violent crime, freaks and all this kind of crazies.
It's a pretty entertaining movie. But that's almost what New York City is
like now. I was just watching a video the other day in New York City in broad
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daylight. There was this guy who was walking around
Buck naked with a metal pole of some sort and he was just attacking people.
It's it's probably in during the daytime. It's in the teens, 20s.
It's freezing there. Maybe 30s during the daytime. It looked pretty cold on this
day judging by what people were wearing. And this guy is walking around Buck
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naked and beating people with this stick. I mean, what in the world New York
used to be this amazing place to me coming from the Midwest.
One of the things that stuck out to me the most because in in the Midwest,
your population is fairly homogenous. It's almost all white people for the most
part. And white culture and white food. So when you get to New York, you see an
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astonishing amount of diversity you've never seen before.
If you're from, you know, the country in the Midwest like I was,
you go there and to me, one of the things that stuck out to me the most
were the lines of demarcation neighborhoods where it was almost like
when you crossed over one block into another,
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you could just it was a totally different neighborhood from crossing one
side of the street to the other. You could be going along in a Puerto Rican
neighborhood and then you would go a couple of
blocks cross over the you know, cross to crosswalk or the sidewalk or the street
or whatever. Then you're in an Italian neighborhood
and then a couple of blocks you'd be in a Jewish neighborhood
and there were the culture was so strong and unique to each neighborhood. It was
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like each little neighborhood was its own little city or country.
If you were in a Jewish neighborhood, you wanted to go to the bakeries and you
wanted to go to the delis and get a Reuben sandwich or corned beef
or pastrami, probably not corned beef but pastrami and all the other things that
they would have in a Jewish deli. The food was delicious.
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In certain neighborhoods, you would want to get a Cuban coffee.
You go to Italian neighborhoods and you want to get you know, stromboli
or calzones or pizza or whatever the case may be but
it was it was just amazing the amount of diversity and the way it was divided up
in New York City. Now I have no idea what the city
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is like as far as all that but we know from what we see on the news that
there is a tremendous increase in crime and all kinds of other problems so it's
real shame. That being said, before we get too far
off track, what do we learn from this gentleman's case? Poor Mr.
Adorno that was attacked with his own baseball bat.
Situational awareness. That's what this really comes back down to again.
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Now I'm not saying this guy did anything wrong. He may have done everything
right. Sometimes I mean I've been on the train
in New York when those doors closed man it came on. Sometimes like the thunder
dome in there. Many times there are no problems at all. You take your ride and
it's no big deal. Once those doors closed though
anything can and probably will happen depending on the neighborhood and the
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time of day. Situational awareness though. We've
discussed this before. What is the point? Situational awareness is not just
being aware of your surroundings. It's seeing problems
before they manifest themselves. Okay. You see, okay something's coming up
here. Oh, this guy coming out like you could usually not always but usually you
could tell or many times you could tell when somebody was getting ready to
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board the train because on the train usually have your
earphones on or you're reading something or whatever else but when you would
pull into the train stop at least I would you would always be scanning all the
people as the train pulls in. You pass all these people standing there
on the platform waiting to get on and you're looking okay.
That person looks like a problem. That one doesn't. That may be a threat and
you're trying to identify these threats and problems
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before those doors open because once the door is open and people rush in
the doors close then you're locked in there until the next station
and I'm telling you from experience a lot can happen from one station
to the next. So situational awareness would be the thing to hopefully see
this coming. Either create this your first your first
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goal in a situation like that is going to almost always be to create distance
meaning get some space between you and the other person.
I don't know what happened here and again we're not knocking the poor guy the
guy beat down because the picture this guy he got brutalized.
Just brutalized. But it's possible again the story doesn't go into detail.
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It's possible he may have been more aware of what's going on and may have been
able to prevent the situation or create some distance or maybe exit the car
or change cars before this happened and he was brutally beaten
for no reason at all. We're glad he made it out okay.
You know the other thing is everyone especially in Midwestern and Southern
States they always say well the Second Amendment or you know me
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carrying this that and the other firearms aren't always an option for a lot of
people for a number of reasons. And the other thing is you gotta
remember that firearms if you use a firearm that's your business not mine
you're going to have some legal issues that go along with it afterwards. That's
a rather final solution to certain problems.
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Pepper spray is is almost universally accepted and you obviously have to
check your local laws. There are some places that frown upon it but
pepper spray is a great option if your laws allow it because at the end of the
day everybody goes home alive. So we'll get more into that later but
pepper spray is a good one. If you have it you should definitely familiarize
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yourself with it. It has a different level of effect on
certain people and animals. I've had to use here where I live in the
hills of Oregon. I've gone through several cans of pepper spray in the last
couple of years due to stray dogs attacking me while I'm walking my dog.
Most dogs do not like having pepper spray used on them and they typically tend
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to run away and leave you alone and they tend to remember it the next time you
come around. Sometimes they you know other dogs are
affected less by it but the important thing is situational
awareness and have a plan be prepared before it comes to some guy
disarming you with your own baseball bat and brutalizing you with it on the
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foretrain. Okay one more story before we get to the
break. This time we go yet again to Florida.
We'll just call him Andre 20 dressed up with an FBI jacket and body armor when
he visited a haunted house in Seminole. That is
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let's see we are yes in Seminole. According to a police report the Florida
man was armed with a black airsoft handgun that resembled a
Glock handgun. While walking through the haunted
house Andre turned the corner to where the host of the house was
standing. The host was in a costume but wasn't
part of the role playing at the time of the incident.
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Before he knew what happened Andre pulled his gun from his holster
and began to pistol whip him with the handle of the gun
repeatedly just hitting him just under his eye causing
causing significant injury. Now imagine this you're just some guy
doing a free haunted house in your local neighborhood
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in Seminole, Oregon. I think that's near clear water.
Actually I think it's about 30, 35, 40 minutes west of Tampa in mid Florida.
You're just doing a haunted house and all of a sudden some guy flips out pulls
out an airsoft gun and starts pistol whipping you for no reason.
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After the pistol whipping was completed the man told the victim
that he thought he was a statue. He refused to apologize and then he
laughed and ran out of the house. The victim chased him out of the house to
prevent him from leaving. The sheriff's office listed the charges
as aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
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and added a felony because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Apparently
in Florida and maybe elsewhere I have no idea. It's against the law to
commit violence to another person while wearing a bulletproof
vest. Victim was treated by EMS for bleeding under his eye.
Wow Florida continues to amaze. Okay we are going to take a break after the
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break. We're going to get into the 10 C's of survival. We teased this last week.
We're going to get deeper into it after the break.
More make it out alive with Sam Wilson after this.
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Will you make it out alive? Oh right we are back from the break.
Now before the break we mentioned the 10 C's of survival. C is in Charlie. The 10 C's
of survival. Now we mentioned this in our last episode as well.
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I'm going to go ahead and flesh that out a little bit more in this episode.
So what are the 10 C's of survival? A number of people over the years have done various versions
of this list. Basically it's just an easy way to keep in mind a handful of essentials
that you should have with you whenever you go out into the backwoods.
As we've seen a number of times in this program that oftentimes people they get one of the things
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that gets people the most is they're just simply not prepared to make it out alive.
And yet again that is the purpose of the show. It's not just about having some particular tool,
having some particular skill or toy or whatever. It's about a prepared mindset and thinking about
what could go wrong before it happens. That's how you make it out alive. It's not just having the
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latest and the greatest in technology. It's really about preparing, expecting the unexpected
as Dalton would say. So let's get into a brief story. We go to the Adirondack Mountains in
upstate New York. Now for those of you outside the U.S. as we have a number of international
listeners, most people when they think of New York they think of New York City and maybe even more
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specifically Manhattan which is called the city in New York. Upstate New York and upstaters will
be very quick to tell you this very loudly is very different from New York City. You start
getting upstate it starts getting more rural even though there are cities it's just a very, very
different atmosphere and type of people and situation and whatever you want to call it
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from being in the city. Okay. That being said if you're ever upstate especially near Rochester
I want to recommend getting yourself a garbage plate. It's been a number of years now since I've
had one but I think there were meat basically it's like a big bowl or plate of comfort food.
There's meat, cheese, potatoes and I seem to remember quite a bit of hot sauce.
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It goes down really good with a couple of beers. So if you're in New York especially upstate get
yourself a garbage plate and thank me later. You'll enjoy it. All right now we go to the
Adirondacks. We're not going to use this lady's name unfortunately she did not make it out alive
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but the female hiker of Delaware was found dead on McNaughton Mountain in the Adirondacks on Saturday.
She may have been a very experienced hiker reports say but according to other reports
she was not adequately prepared for a winter hike in the Adirondack high peaks. These are mountains
better around 5,000 feet not extremely tall but the many started getting a little bit of elevation
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weather can be very unpredictable. So she was in the Adirondack high peaks around 5,000 feet.
Of Wilmington, Delaware she has been described by those who know her as an avid hiker who was
experienced and passionate about mountaineering. She went hiking in the Adirondack high peaks region
on Friday and was reported missing on Saturday morning when she was supposed to meet with a
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group of hikers. Unfortunately her body was found later in the day on McNaughton Mountain assuming
I'm pronouncing that correctly. The coroner who did her case said she was not properly dressed
wearing only a pair of sneakers for footwear. She was wearing drawstring fleece sweatpants
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and her clothes were reportedly soaked through. She also did not have gear such as a space blanket
or good fire starting material. So we already know where this is going but what is the point?
She was not prepared. I don't understand. I guess maybe it goes back to when the
ultralight movement of hiking started making its way in. Used to 30, 40 years or more ago
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when people went hiking or backpacking they had these big thick heavy leather boots that were
basically they were almost mountaineering boots in a lot of cases but they were hiking boots.
Very heavy and for someone just going on a day hike it was kind of overkill and if you were
going to be doing like a through trail or going on a long backpacking trip especially on very well
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established trails these boots were overkill. They were very heavy and what happened is if you
were at elevation you around snow a lot you had to keep waterproofing these boots otherwise the
leather would start absorbing moisture and it would just become a mess. It would never ever dry out
because it's so cold and so wet and it would just very quickly became very heavy very cumbersome
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very cold because they're they're soaked and they're freezing. So then you would fill them with
waterproofer you know whether it's mink oil or nithfoil or whatever in the world was available
at the time. Snow seal came out yada yada yada and the boots just kept getting heavier and heavier
and it was just it was kind of an ordeal and so ultralight hiking kind of came out and and guys
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started I think Jardine was one of the first guys if memory serves me but I haven't read some of these
books in a long time so forgive me if I'm incorrect but they started pushing wearing tennis shoes to
go hiking because especially on very well established trails and if you're not mountaineering or
anything it was very easy to get by on a weekend hike or even a several day hike wearing tennis
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shoes they're very comfortable more importantly they were very light and they provided enough support
if you were going ultralight ultralight meaning a backpack weight of you know maybe 10 15 18
pound or something like that maybe 20 25 pounds fully loaded which is not that much if you're
decent size and you're an experienced backpacker. So the tennis shoe thing kind of became popular but
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this was before we had the technology we have now the advancements and synthetic materials and
shoes and so forth these were just regular old tennis shoes so guys would sometimes wear through
these you know and in a couple of days or weeks and they would have another pair waiting for them
with their next drop their supply drop. Now we have shoes that are hybrids between like regular
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boots and hiking boots and duty boots and tennis shoes they cover a lot of different things while
giving you the support you need but they're much lighter waterproof and so forth that being said I
do not understand for the life of me why so many people are wearing tennis shoes on these trails.
I was always taught growing up that footwear is absolutely one of the most important things
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because if your feet or ankles fail you you are in serious trouble and if you're if you're
uncomfortable in your feet or they're hurting it's just going to go downhill from there.
On my hundreds of miles if not more on the Oregon trails alone in the last couple of years
I cannot tell you how many people I've seen in open toed hiking shoes. The thing with that is is I
know a lot of people are going to be fans of open toed sandals and so forth it's one of those
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things where it's just fine until it isn't. Then when the chips are down like this poor lady she had
she's she's wearing sweatpants and tennis shoes at 5,000 feet okay that's not acceptable and
unfortunately that contributed we don't know exactly what happened but it contributed to her loss of
life. So let's get into the 10 C's the first one let's pull up the list here we're going to go
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through and we'll name each category and then we'll kind of flesh it out as we go on the first one
is a cutting tool that basically means a knife we'll come back to that one later knives or everyone's
favorite topic to discuss so we'll get to that in a moment. Next we have a combustion device
cover or shelter a container cordage candling cotton material cargo tape
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compass and a canvas needle. Now I'm not going to go we aren't going to have time we could spend
literally we could easily spend hours going through this list and the items involved here
we'll go through some of them so a cutting tool uh okay let's just jump right in that's almost
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everyone when you talk to guys about the outdoors okay the either the gun or the knife is the big
you know it's the hot rod it's the showpiece they want to talk about and fantasize about and
go through we'll keep this simple um I'm a professional knife maker I've been making knives
for nearly 15 years now professionally in full time for a very good portion of that
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the level of quality that we have with any decent piece of cutler whether it's custom made
factory made is so much higher in a lot of ways than stuff we've had in the past that if you buy
any decent good quality piece of cutlery or knife you're going to be okay in most cases
is what gets people is not the failure of their cutting tool in fact I have read easily hundreds
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of these survival stories that I share each week in the MOA broadcast in most of them that I come
across the people don't even have a knife whether they live or die they don't even have a knife on
them so I'm not discounting the importance of a cutting tool especially a quality one
but you don't want to go you know lose your mind over this obviously if you're a knife aficionado
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if you like knives and that's where you spend your money then the sky is the limit you can buy
knives anywhere from 30 bucks on up to thousands of dollars depending on what you want to spend
in my mind if you're buying a quality brand I'm not going to name names for the purpose of this
broadcast other than my own Wilson custom knives or tech line knives obviously uh because I believe
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in what I do if you're buying a decent especially if it's an American made piece between 50 and 150
bucks you're getting a good quality knife most likely um you can go from there on up to three
to five hundred or more depending on what you want to spend but if you buy a ten dollar knife from
you know the cheapo box store you should you're gonna you're gonna get probably what you expect
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okay so spend a couple of dollars doesn't have to be fancy if you like knives and obviously you can
spend more but it doesn't have to be fancy to be to work and to be utilitarian um it's the most
of these situations are not like the survival scenarios we see in movies and books where
the knife is the thing that made the difference in whether they survived or not that isn't usually
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the reality of the situation uh more often than not it's about being prepared that being said a
good full tang knife I make hollow handle survival knives I have a lot of faith in the knives that
I've designed and made over the years I've got tests where I beat them with axe handles and
ball bats I do chin-ups on them the important thing again is not so much what you you know which
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particular knife you get as long as it's decent quality it's it's more about how you use it and
the other things you have involved in your kit and the way you've prepared for the situation
so we'll get on to this cutting tool that kind of covers a cutting tool um a combustion device
was number two we covered this last week in our episode on fire you're going to want at least
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at least two different methods for fire starting because the old saying is two is one and one is
none if you only have one disposable lighter or one whatever your fire starting device is
if anything happens to it or you lose it you now have zero okay so two is one one is none
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the next is going to be cover or shelter obviously uh we've done several of these stories where if
the people have been able to keep the snow and or the rain and these these razor sharp winds
from cutting through off of them they would have they would have lessened the impact of the exposure
that they were facing so keeping the wind off I mean that wind will lower your body temperature
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can take away moisture all kinds of problems so cover and shelter is going to be very important
the next a container this applies more specifically in most cases to a water bottle
so whenever I go out I have at least even though I have multiple different water vessels with me
I always have one stainless steel canteen okay and the reason for this being uh I can boil it
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if need be it's going to be durable sometimes your plastic bladder can get punctured and then you lose
not only the water you had in them but then the potential for future gathering of water so I like
to have at least one metal container that way I can boil water in it if need be if I run out of
either my filter gets broken or I don't have water purification tablets I can put water right into
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the canteen and boil it and I've got clean water so that's important candling this refers to a
candle I don't think most people are going to take candles although we do have emergency candles
for maybe inside your tent or other situations if you have adequate ventilation but basically this
means a light source every one of my kits have multiple little flashlights whether it's inside
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one of my waterproof hollow hand survival knives if it's inside of a little tin if it's in a ziplock
bag whatever you've got you should have multiple sources of light because you would be surprised
how quickly you become basically paralyzed out in the wilderness if you can't see if you all you
have is artificial or natural light once the sun goes down you're done until the morning now if
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you've got good moonlight you can do some things but it does not take the place of a good flashlight
cargo tape this refers primarily to duct tape duct tape is a great resource duct tape can be used
obviously for taping things for binding things it can even be used for splinting duct tape also
burns very well in most cases again check your particular tape I like taking along duct tape
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and some gaffers tape if you're not familiar with that gaffers tape GAFFER gaffers tape it's very
similar to duct tape pardon me very similar duct tape it's a cloth based type tape but it does not
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leave the residue that duct tape leaves behind I've got a roll of duct tape in all my bags
and then the truck and the in the shop everywhere it's very handy stuff and again doesn't leave all
that that adhesive behind the duct tape does and then finally we get to we go through oh we missed
one here cotton material this basically refers to a bandana type item or something similar that
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can be used for making a sling you can do some very rudimentary water purification with this
a head covering neck or throat covering if it's windy and so forth we get to compass
obviously we don't need to explain the importance of a compass but this is what I'll say about a compass
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even more important than having a quality compass is know how to use it I have been hiking with a
number of people who had most of them did not have a compass of any kind other than the GPS on
their phone the ones that did have a compass with maybe one or two exceptions had no idea how to use
it because it's more than just knowing okay I know which way north or south is now what does that mean
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if you don't know where you are or where you're going or where you've been so again like all these
items have some experience and plan ahead use them and prepare with them and then finally a canvas
needle or a sail needle this is great for making repairs you can even do some very minor surgery
like getting out splinters or contaminants out of your flesh or out of a wound with these
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these they're good for puncturing as well again do some research look up the 10 C's of survival
there's a lot of good information that we just won't have time to cover in depth
remember the when you look at how you prioritize your 10 C's of survival or your kits or your bag
whatever remember the rule of threes okay this is a very very widely accepted rule in the backwoods
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in the world of survival okay you can go roughly these are estimates obviously you can go three
hours without shelter that means exposed to the elements three hours without shelter three days
without water and three weeks without food now obviously that's not written in stone but that
gives you an idea as to your priorities get yourself protected regulating your body temperature
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is extremely important regulate your body temperature then worry about what you know water
to keep yourself hydrated food is usually a distant third by far the vast majority of these
survival scenarios last 48 to 72 hours now that's not saying they don't ever go the distance but
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usually food is the least of your worries injury exposure and dehydration are what wind up getting
people usually so just something to keep in mind okay we are going to finish on a high note here
let's go to our final story of the day this takes us to victoria australia
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a seven-foot kangaroo puts farmer in headlock and beats him up
i'm sorry i'm not going to use this guy's real name i'm not going to make fun of him anymore
i'm sure he's already been given it to him by his buddies but let's just get into it a man in his
seventies was attacked by a kangaroo and has been left scarred by the macho marsupial the report
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states we'll just call him terry terry 74 was riding his motorcycle across his farm in the
australian state of victoria on saturday night when the kangaroo began following him
the kangaroo measured around seven feet tall by terry's estimations and started
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started growling and jumping up and down he told the local news station
next thing i know he was on top of me terry said he had his top poles right around my back
we were almost headbutting each other i just kept punching him until he let me go and he jumped away
according to terry
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so this guy is riding his motorcycle on his property and a seven foot tall kangaroo jumps out
grabs a hold of him and gets him in a headlock and starts headbutting him while he's punching
him at the same time okay let's go we continue terry made a break for it barely making it on to
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his motorcycle before the kangaroo charged for a second time one more jump and he would have been
on top of me again terry says the man was rushed to local hospital where he received stitches
bandages and antibiotics his shirt was torn up by the attack if he hadn't had on a thick shirt
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the abrasions would have been much more severe terry's wife said
so this kangaroo had a real bad attitude i don't know what terry did or didn't do but it wasn't
enough to tear him up once the kangaroo came back for seconds okay kangaroos let's go into the
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technical side of this kangaroos can reach sizes of up to 200 pounds and around seven feet tall
depending on the species according to experts they are powerful animals most attacks involve
kicking people leading to bruising and puncture wounds from their sharp toe claws
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the sorts of injuries verne's said some expert i don't know where the rest of his name is in this
article the sorts of injuries this guy received is typical it was a bit strange that he was attacked
repeatedly usually the kangaroo realized its mistake i.e. that you're not a kangaroo you're a
human and that's the end of it but apparently this kangaroo really wanted a piece of terry
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and he got it folks
speaking of kangaroo fighting tactics their words not mine kangaroo fighting tactics the headlock
is what male kangaroos do they kick and rake with their feet and then try to throw their
opponents with their powerful forearms so the headlock punch and kick you and then judo slam you
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to the ground uh i don't even really know why they so we get into this this is something i didn't
know a leslie carter an associate professor in evolutionary anthropology at university college
london says kangaroo males don't protect females or the group from what i've seen
they're simply protecting their potential to have a baby so just being close to a mob which is what
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a group of kangaroos are called is enough to trigger this behavior so maybe terry rode through
there are some other females around and kangaroo jack didn't like the cut of his jib and he took
it out on him repeatedly i don't know but apparently they don't do this to protect other kangaroos
it's just a matter of protecting mating potential so before warren terry do not go back
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around kangaroo jack would pepper spray deter a kangaroo i don't know we won't have time to
explore it in this episode but we will get to it in another episode that is going to do it for us
today folks remember be forewarned that is forearmed make sure you are prepared ahead of time to make
it out alive because if you don't make it out alive you don't make it out at all
Alright folks, we are back with another episode of the
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MOA broadcast. We've got all kinds of good information for us
today, so we're going to get right into it. Picking up where
we left off last week. So if you caught last week's episode,
and this has been all over the news anyway, you'll recall that
the AP, the Associated Press has been, shall we say, deadlocked
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in the Battle of Wills with the White House and particularly
President Trump, it seems. President Trump when he took
office and again, just to preface all this, we are a political
here. We're not going to get into the political side of
things. But we do discuss current events and right now a lot
of those events happen to be in the political realms. We're not
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going to inject our opinions. We're going to do what the news
used to do, which is just give you the information and then you
can draw your own conclusions. So that being said, as of last
week, the AP refused to recognize the fact that President
Trump had renamed the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America. Now
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this is something that he legally is allowed to do or has the
authority to do and he did this in conjunction or cooperation
with the Department of the Interior. So he renamed it the
Gulf of America. The Associated Press refused for whatever
reason to recognize this. And so they were not allowed to come
in for certain press briefings until they decided to change
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their mind and address it by the name that is legally now known
by in the United States, which is Gulf of America. Google Maps,
Apple Maps, other online maps providers followed suit and
began listing it as the Gulf of America. But for some reason,
the AP refuses to do so. So President Donald Trump said
Tuesday that he will continue to restrict the Associated Press
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access to his events and news conferences until the news
outlet goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
in its reports. Now specifically, they are banned from the
Oval Office and Air Force One. They are still allowed to go
into the White House apparently and have their, you know, press
pass or whatever it is that they call it there to get clearance
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to get inside the White House, but they're not allowed into
certain press briefings. According to Trump, we are going to
keep them out until such time as they agree that it's the
Gulf of America. Trump said, speaking to reporters who
witnessed the signing of an executive order at Mar-a-Lago,
his Florida estate. We're very proud of this country and we
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wanted to be the Gulf of America. This was the first time the
president directly addressed this after two journalists from the
AP were denied entrance to Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. There was a
press conference. There was a press conference in Mar-a-Lago
or whatever it was on Tuesday. The AP reporters were not
allowed inside. They had to watch a live television feed of
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Trump's remarks and were unable to ask questions. They were put
on detention apparently. The AP has framed this dispute as a
First Amendment issue, but Trump's team says access to its
events is a privilege extended by invitation and that while the
AP is still permitted on White House grounds, it no longer
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has the right to be part of pools that cover events where
space is limited, such as the Oval Office and Air Force One.
So, I mean, when I look at this news report, it seemed like
maybe we're spending an inordinate amount of time on
such a simple thing, but I don't know what the
Associated Press politics aside. Forget that. What does the AP
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hope to gain by getting locked into a battle of wills with a
president that has shown for decades before he was even in
the Oval Office that he's not inclined to back down from
things. So, I don't really see what the AP stands to win
from this and so far they have lost their access to the Oval
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Office and Air Force One for press briefing. So, which means
someone else is taking that place. The space they formerly
occupied has now been given to someone else. So, I don't know
what they really stand to gain out of this and why they've dug
their heels in so deeply, but we are committed to accurate
re- and current reporting. So, as of now, they are banned
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from those areas. We will keep you updated if there are any
developments in this. All right. Moving on to our next report.
Should we go to New York? New York City. What has become of
you? A man says he was beaten with his own baseball bat on a
subway in a man says he was beaten with a home baseball
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bat and I'm not laughing at this poor man. No disrespect to
him. He went through it. We'll get to that here momentarily.
On a subway in Soho early morning, early Monday morning,
Soho stands for south of Houston Street. So, this is lower
Manhattan. This is kind of an artsy fartsy area. Lots of nice
dining shops. All kinds of interesting things, but this
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was at 1 AM. So, what happened? The victim told the news that
he was the attack came out of nowhere and they are still
looking for the suspect. Jared Adorno 25 says a fun night out
in the city with his friends turned to horror on the four
train as he was heading home around 1 30 AM Monday. When the
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train stopped at Spring Street, another man got on and
Adorno says by the time the doors closed, the man had
grabbed a plastic baseball bat from Adorno's backpack and
started hitting him in the face. We don't know why exactly
although the suspect demanded his belongings. Adorno says he
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managed to get away once the train doors opened at the
Bleecker Street station. So, for at least several long
seconds or a minute or three, he was fighting this man who
had taken his own plastic baseball bat away from him and
started to beat him about the face with it like an enraged
Jose Canseco attack gone awry. I had blood just stained all
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over here on the side of my face. My jacket was covered in
blood. He just started going for it. I'm over here blocking
doing the best I can. Adorno was transported to a nearby
hospital was left with bruising and swelling about the head, a
broken nose and dozens of stitches throughout his face.
Let's see if we've got a picture. Let's go to the MOA
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computer here.
My goodness. This poor guy, he's in the in the photograph
here. Let's see if we can.
I mean, he's got his nose bandaged both eyes are swollen,
totally shut. His forehead is swollen. There are bruises and
cuts all over his face. This guy, the attacker, did a number on
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this poor man who was apparently just minding his own
business. New York. Okay, we'll get to that in a minute.
Adorno was transported to a nearby hospital left with
bruising and swelling. A broken nose doesn't. Okay, I didn't
sustain any hemorrhaging in the brain. So, I'm just happy
about that. I feel like I had an angel on my side. I don't know
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said now that he can finally open his right eye, he said the
internal swelling has gone down. Doctors anticipate he will
make a full recovery so far. No rest have been made.
Despite this brazen out. This is the interesting thing about
statistics. Despite this brazen attack, NYPD data shows
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transit crime, crime that takes place on MTS. They call it or
they used to call it Metro Transit Authority. The MTA is the
public transportation system in New York. Now, surprisingly,
it is it is quite good. The coverage there is rather amazing
for a city of that size and that many people. If you are
taking MTA in New York City, there are very few places you
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can't get really close to either with a train or a train
followed up by a bus ride and then being dropped usually
within a few blocks. Most of the city has really, really well
very good coverage. It's very well covered in the city there.
So, their MTA, at least it used to be, was very good as far as
coverage. Now, they say their their transit crime
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is down 6% from this time last year. Now, here's the funny
thing about statistics. Unless this particular man was
attacked violently and assaulted last year, while transit crime
itself may be down 6% for him, it is up 100%. So, you know,
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there's an old saying, figures don't lie but liars figure.
And that's what you see here. I'm not saying that the NYPD, their data is lying,
but you got to put in the context the perspective of what has
happened to you. This poor guy was just riding the bus home or the train home
and all of a sudden he's getting violently beaten down with a baseball bat
for no apparent reason. The guy tried to rob him. He didn't give up his goods.
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He managed to escape. Fortunately, when he got off at the Bleaker
Street station and made it to street level, there was a cop car not too far
away. So, he was able to report it. But unfortunately, this guy has not been
apprehended. He got off near Spring and Prince Street. Well,
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it's unfortunate that he was going through such a difficult time
where he was because Prince Street pizza is there.
I have never had the opportunity to go, but I left New York right around the
time or visited a number of times right around the time they were opening.
They have square pies. So, well, let's just get into that. If you've never been
to New York, New York is an amazing place. I don't know what it is. Let me rephrase
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that. It was an amazing place. From everything I've seen on the news and
everything that I've spoken with people that still currently live there,
it's almost a disaster zone like in the movie Escape from New York.
If not for me with a movie Escape from New York, probably one of Kurt Russell's
best motion pictures in so far as just being a lot of fun
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and adventure and entertaining. He plays this essentially for the purposes of
this context. He's a mercenary. The president of
the United States has plain goes down New York at this time.
This is one of those 80s like apocalyptic style movies by John Carpenter,
the director. And New York has been because Manhattan
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is an island. It's it's been basically fenced off. It's been isolated and
Manhattan is a prison. So, the worst of the worst go to
Manhattan and they're dumped there and they're just left to rule and to
exist amongst themselves and whoever is strongest wins and survives.
And so, Kurt Russell, the president's plane goes down.
He has some top secret information and he's got to go to some World Summit to
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you know, do his thing as president. And Kurt Russell has to go in there and
rescue him. So, but the whole thing is, is New York is just this this hellscape
of a nightmare. There's violent crime, freaks and all this kind of crazies.
It's a pretty entertaining movie. But that's almost what New York City is
like now. I was just watching a video the other day in New York City in broad
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daylight. There was this guy who was walking around
Buck naked with a metal pole of some sort and he was just attacking people.
It's it's probably in during the daytime. It's in the teens, 20s.
It's freezing there. Maybe 30s during the daytime. It looked pretty cold on this
day judging by what people were wearing. And this guy is walking around Buck
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naked and beating people with this stick. I mean, what in the world New York
used to be this amazing place to me coming from the Midwest.
One of the things that stuck out to me the most because in in the Midwest,
your population is fairly homogenous. It's almost all white people for the most
part. And white culture and white food. So when you get to New York, you see an
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astonishing amount of diversity you've never seen before.
If you're from, you know, the country in the Midwest like I was,
you go there and to me, one of the things that stuck out to me the most
were the lines of demarcation neighborhoods where it was almost like
when you crossed over one block into another,
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you could just it was a totally different neighborhood from crossing one
side of the street to the other. You could be going along in a Puerto Rican
neighborhood and then you would go a couple of
blocks cross over the you know, cross to crosswalk or the sidewalk or the street
or whatever. Then you're in an Italian neighborhood
and then a couple of blocks you'd be in a Jewish neighborhood
and there were the culture was so strong and unique to each neighborhood. It was
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like each little neighborhood was its own little city or country.
If you were in a Jewish neighborhood, you wanted to go to the bakeries and you
wanted to go to the delis and get a Reuben sandwich or corned beef
or pastrami, probably not corned beef but pastrami and all the other things that
they would have in a Jewish deli. The food was delicious.
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In certain neighborhoods, you would want to get a Cuban coffee.
You go to Italian neighborhoods and you want to get you know, stromboli
or calzones or pizza or whatever the case may be but
it was it was just amazing the amount of diversity and the way it was divided up
in New York City. Now I have no idea what the city
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is like as far as all that but we know from what we see on the news that
there is a tremendous increase in crime and all kinds of other problems so it's
real shame. That being said, before we get too far
off track, what do we learn from this gentleman's case? Poor Mr.
Adorno that was attacked with his own baseball bat.
Situational awareness. That's what this really comes back down to again.
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Now I'm not saying this guy did anything wrong. He may have done everything
right. Sometimes I mean I've been on the train
in New York when those doors closed man it came on. Sometimes like the thunder
dome in there. Many times there are no problems at all. You take your ride and
it's no big deal. Once those doors closed though
anything can and probably will happen depending on the neighborhood and the
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time of day. Situational awareness though. We've
discussed this before. What is the point? Situational awareness is not just
being aware of your surroundings. It's seeing problems
before they manifest themselves. Okay. You see, okay something's coming up
here. Oh, this guy coming out like you could usually not always but usually you
could tell or many times you could tell when somebody was getting ready to
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board the train because on the train usually have your
earphones on or you're reading something or whatever else but when you would
pull into the train stop at least I would you would always be scanning all the
people as the train pulls in. You pass all these people standing there
on the platform waiting to get on and you're looking okay.
That person looks like a problem. That one doesn't. That may be a threat and
you're trying to identify these threats and problems
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before those doors open because once the door is open and people rush in
the doors close then you're locked in there until the next station
and I'm telling you from experience a lot can happen from one station
to the next. So situational awareness would be the thing to hopefully see
this coming. Either create this your first your first
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goal in a situation like that is going to almost always be to create distance
meaning get some space between you and the other person.
I don't know what happened here and again we're not knocking the poor guy the
guy beat down because the picture this guy he got brutalized.
Just brutalized. But it's possible again the story doesn't go into detail.
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It's possible he may have been more aware of what's going on and may have been
able to prevent the situation or create some distance or maybe exit the car
or change cars before this happened and he was brutally beaten
for no reason at all. We're glad he made it out okay.
You know the other thing is everyone especially in Midwestern and Southern
States they always say well the Second Amendment or you know me
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carrying this that and the other firearms aren't always an option for a lot of
people for a number of reasons. And the other thing is you gotta
remember that firearms if you use a firearm that's your business not mine
you're going to have some legal issues that go along with it afterwards. That's
a rather final solution to certain problems.
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Pepper spray is is almost universally accepted and you obviously have to
check your local laws. There are some places that frown upon it but
pepper spray is a great option if your laws allow it because at the end of the
day everybody goes home alive. So we'll get more into that later but
pepper spray is a good one. If you have it you should definitely familiarize
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yourself with it. It has a different level of effect on
certain people and animals. I've had to use here where I live in the
hills of Oregon. I've gone through several cans of pepper spray in the last
couple of years due to stray dogs attacking me while I'm walking my dog.
Most dogs do not like having pepper spray used on them and they typically tend
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to run away and leave you alone and they tend to remember it the next time you
come around. Sometimes they you know other dogs are
affected less by it but the important thing is situational
awareness and have a plan be prepared before it comes to some guy
disarming you with your own baseball bat and brutalizing you with it on the
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foretrain. Okay one more story before we get to the
break. This time we go yet again to Florida.
We'll just call him Andre 20 dressed up with an FBI jacket and body armor when
he visited a haunted house in Seminole. That is
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let's see we are yes in Seminole. According to a police report the Florida
man was armed with a black airsoft handgun that resembled a
Glock handgun. While walking through the haunted
house Andre turned the corner to where the host of the house was
standing. The host was in a costume but wasn't
part of the role playing at the time of the incident.
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Before he knew what happened Andre pulled his gun from his holster
and began to pistol whip him with the handle of the gun
repeatedly just hitting him just under his eye causing
causing significant injury. Now imagine this you're just some guy
doing a free haunted house in your local neighborhood
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in Seminole, Oregon. I think that's near clear water.
Actually I think it's about 30, 35, 40 minutes west of Tampa in mid Florida.
You're just doing a haunted house and all of a sudden some guy flips out pulls
out an airsoft gun and starts pistol whipping you for no reason.
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After the pistol whipping was completed the man told the victim
that he thought he was a statue. He refused to apologize and then he
laughed and ran out of the house. The victim chased him out of the house to
prevent him from leaving. The sheriff's office listed the charges
as aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
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and added a felony because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. Apparently
in Florida and maybe elsewhere I have no idea. It's against the law to
commit violence to another person while wearing a bulletproof
vest. Victim was treated by EMS for bleeding under his eye.
Wow Florida continues to amaze. Okay we are going to take a break after the
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break. We're going to get into the 10 C's of survival. We teased this last week.
We're going to get deeper into it after the break.
More make it out alive with Sam Wilson after this.
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Will you make it out alive? Oh right we are back from the break.
Now before the break we mentioned the 10 C's of survival. C is in Charlie. The 10 C's
of survival. Now we mentioned this in our last episode as well.
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I'm going to go ahead and flesh that out a little bit more in this episode.
So what are the 10 C's of survival? A number of people over the years have done various versions
of this list. Basically it's just an easy way to keep in mind a handful of essentials
that you should have with you whenever you go out into the backwoods.
As we've seen a number of times in this program that oftentimes people they get one of the things
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that gets people the most is they're just simply not prepared to make it out alive.
And yet again that is the purpose of the show. It's not just about having some particular tool,
having some particular skill or toy or whatever. It's about a prepared mindset and thinking about
what could go wrong before it happens. That's how you make it out alive. It's not just having the
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latest and the greatest in technology. It's really about preparing, expecting the unexpected
as Dalton would say. So let's get into a brief story. We go to the Adirondack Mountains in
upstate New York. Now for those of you outside the U.S. as we have a number of international
listeners, most people when they think of New York they think of New York City and maybe even more
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specifically Manhattan which is called the city in New York. Upstate New York and upstaters will
be very quick to tell you this very loudly is very different from New York City. You start
getting upstate it starts getting more rural even though there are cities it's just a very, very
different atmosphere and type of people and situation and whatever you want to call it
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from being in the city. Okay. That being said if you're ever upstate especially near Rochester
I want to recommend getting yourself a garbage plate. It's been a number of years now since I've
had one but I think there were meat basically it's like a big bowl or plate of comfort food.
There's meat, cheese, potatoes and I seem to remember quite a bit of hot sauce.
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It goes down really good with a couple of beers. So if you're in New York especially upstate get
yourself a garbage plate and thank me later. You'll enjoy it. All right now we go to the
Adirondacks. We're not going to use this lady's name unfortunately she did not make it out alive
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but the female hiker of Delaware was found dead on McNaughton Mountain in the Adirondacks on Saturday.
She may have been a very experienced hiker reports say but according to other reports
she was not adequately prepared for a winter hike in the Adirondack high peaks. These are mountains
better around 5,000 feet not extremely tall but the many started getting a little bit of elevation
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weather can be very unpredictable. So she was in the Adirondack high peaks around 5,000 feet.
Of Wilmington, Delaware she has been described by those who know her as an avid hiker who was
experienced and passionate about mountaineering. She went hiking in the Adirondack high peaks region
on Friday and was reported missing on Saturday morning when she was supposed to meet with a
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group of hikers. Unfortunately her body was found later in the day on McNaughton Mountain assuming
I'm pronouncing that correctly. The coroner who did her case said she was not properly dressed
wearing only a pair of sneakers for footwear. She was wearing drawstring fleece sweatpants
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and her clothes were reportedly soaked through. She also did not have gear such as a space blanket
or good fire starting material. So we already know where this is going but what is the point?
She was not prepared. I don't understand. I guess maybe it goes back to when the
ultralight movement of hiking started making its way in. Used to 30, 40 years or more ago
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when people went hiking or backpacking they had these big thick heavy leather boots that were
basically they were almost mountaineering boots in a lot of cases but they were hiking boots.
Very heavy and for someone just going on a day hike it was kind of overkill and if you were
going to be doing like a through trail or going on a long backpacking trip especially on very well
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established trails these boots were overkill. They were very heavy and what happened is if you
were at elevation you around snow a lot you had to keep waterproofing these boots otherwise the
leather would start absorbing moisture and it would just become a mess. It would never ever dry out
because it's so cold and so wet and it would just very quickly became very heavy very cumbersome
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very cold because they're they're soaked and they're freezing. So then you would fill them with
waterproofer you know whether it's mink oil or nithfoil or whatever in the world was available
at the time. Snow seal came out yada yada yada and the boots just kept getting heavier and heavier
and it was just it was kind of an ordeal and so ultralight hiking kind of came out and and guys
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started I think Jardine was one of the first guys if memory serves me but I haven't read some of these
books in a long time so forgive me if I'm incorrect but they started pushing wearing tennis shoes to
go hiking because especially on very well established trails and if you're not mountaineering or
anything it was very easy to get by on a weekend hike or even a several day hike wearing tennis
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shoes they're very comfortable more importantly they were very light and they provided enough support
if you were going ultralight ultralight meaning a backpack weight of you know maybe 10 15 18
pound or something like that maybe 20 25 pounds fully loaded which is not that much if you're
decent size and you're an experienced backpacker. So the tennis shoe thing kind of became popular but
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this was before we had the technology we have now the advancements and synthetic materials and
shoes and so forth these were just regular old tennis shoes so guys would sometimes wear through
these you know and in a couple of days or weeks and they would have another pair waiting for them
with their next drop their supply drop. Now we have shoes that are hybrids between like regular
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boots and hiking boots and duty boots and tennis shoes they cover a lot of different things while
giving you the support you need but they're much lighter waterproof and so forth that being said I
do not understand for the life of me why so many people are wearing tennis shoes on these trails.
I was always taught growing up that footwear is absolutely one of the most important things
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because if your feet or ankles fail you you are in serious trouble and if you're if you're
uncomfortable in your feet or they're hurting it's just going to go downhill from there.
On my hundreds of miles if not more on the Oregon trails alone in the last couple of years
I cannot tell you how many people I've seen in open toed hiking shoes. The thing with that is is I
know a lot of people are going to be fans of open toed sandals and so forth it's one of those
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things where it's just fine until it isn't. Then when the chips are down like this poor lady she had
she's she's wearing sweatpants and tennis shoes at 5,000 feet okay that's not acceptable and
unfortunately that contributed we don't know exactly what happened but it contributed to her loss of
life. So let's get into the 10 C's the first one let's pull up the list here we're going to go
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through and we'll name each category and then we'll kind of flesh it out as we go on the first one
is a cutting tool that basically means a knife we'll come back to that one later knives or everyone's
favorite topic to discuss so we'll get to that in a moment. Next we have a combustion device
cover or shelter a container cordage candling cotton material cargo tape
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compass and a canvas needle. Now I'm not going to go we aren't going to have time we could spend
literally we could easily spend hours going through this list and the items involved here
we'll go through some of them so a cutting tool uh okay let's just jump right in that's almost
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everyone when you talk to guys about the outdoors okay the either the gun or the knife is the big
you know it's the hot rod it's the showpiece they want to talk about and fantasize about and
go through we'll keep this simple um I'm a professional knife maker I've been making knives
for nearly 15 years now professionally in full time for a very good portion of that
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the level of quality that we have with any decent piece of cutler whether it's custom made
factory made is so much higher in a lot of ways than stuff we've had in the past that if you buy
any decent good quality piece of cutlery or knife you're going to be okay in most cases
is what gets people is not the failure of their cutting tool in fact I have read easily hundreds
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of these survival stories that I share each week in the MOA broadcast in most of them that I come
across the people don't even have a knife whether they live or die they don't even have a knife on
them so I'm not discounting the importance of a cutting tool especially a quality one
but you don't want to go you know lose your mind over this obviously if you're a knife aficionado
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if you like knives and that's where you spend your money then the sky is the limit you can buy
knives anywhere from 30 bucks on up to thousands of dollars depending on what you want to spend
in my mind if you're buying a quality brand I'm not going to name names for the purpose of this
broadcast other than my own Wilson custom knives or tech line knives obviously uh because I believe
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in what I do if you're buying a decent especially if it's an American made piece between 50 and 150
bucks you're getting a good quality knife most likely um you can go from there on up to three
to five hundred or more depending on what you want to spend but if you buy a ten dollar knife from
you know the cheapo box store you should you're gonna you're gonna get probably what you expect
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okay so spend a couple of dollars doesn't have to be fancy if you like knives and obviously you can
spend more but it doesn't have to be fancy to be to work and to be utilitarian um it's the most
of these situations are not like the survival scenarios we see in movies and books where
the knife is the thing that made the difference in whether they survived or not that isn't usually
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the reality of the situation uh more often than not it's about being prepared that being said a
good full tang knife I make hollow handle survival knives I have a lot of faith in the knives that
I've designed and made over the years I've got tests where I beat them with axe handles and
ball bats I do chin-ups on them the important thing again is not so much what you you know which
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particular knife you get as long as it's decent quality it's it's more about how you use it and
the other things you have involved in your kit and the way you've prepared for the situation
so we'll get on to this cutting tool that kind of covers a cutting tool um a combustion device
was number two we covered this last week in our episode on fire you're going to want at least
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at least two different methods for fire starting because the old saying is two is one and one is
none if you only have one disposable lighter or one whatever your fire starting device is
if anything happens to it or you lose it you now have zero okay so two is one one is none
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the next is going to be cover or shelter obviously uh we've done several of these stories where if
the people have been able to keep the snow and or the rain and these these razor sharp winds
from cutting through off of them they would have they would have lessened the impact of the exposure
that they were facing so keeping the wind off I mean that wind will lower your body temperature
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can take away moisture all kinds of problems so cover and shelter is going to be very important
the next a container this applies more specifically in most cases to a water bottle
so whenever I go out I have at least even though I have multiple different water vessels with me
I always have one stainless steel canteen okay and the reason for this being uh I can boil it
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if need be it's going to be durable sometimes your plastic bladder can get punctured and then you lose
not only the water you had in them but then the potential for future gathering of water so I like
to have at least one metal container that way I can boil water in it if need be if I run out of
either my filter gets broken or I don't have water purification tablets I can put water right into
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the canteen and boil it and I've got clean water so that's important candling this refers to a
candle I don't think most people are going to take candles although we do have emergency candles
for maybe inside your tent or other situations if you have adequate ventilation but basically this
means a light source every one of my kits have multiple little flashlights whether it's inside
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one of my waterproof hollow hand survival knives if it's inside of a little tin if it's in a ziplock
bag whatever you've got you should have multiple sources of light because you would be surprised
how quickly you become basically paralyzed out in the wilderness if you can't see if you all you
have is artificial or natural light once the sun goes down you're done until the morning now if
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you've got good moonlight you can do some things but it does not take the place of a good flashlight
cargo tape this refers primarily to duct tape duct tape is a great resource duct tape can be used
obviously for taping things for binding things it can even be used for splinting duct tape also
burns very well in most cases again check your particular tape I like taking along duct tape
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and some gaffers tape if you're not familiar with that gaffers tape GAFFER gaffers tape it's very
similar to duct tape pardon me very similar duct tape it's a cloth based type tape but it does not
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leave the residue that duct tape leaves behind I've got a roll of duct tape in all my bags
and then the truck and the in the shop everywhere it's very handy stuff and again doesn't leave all
that that adhesive behind the duct tape does and then finally we get to we go through oh we missed
one here cotton material this basically refers to a bandana type item or something similar that
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can be used for making a sling you can do some very rudimentary water purification with this
a head covering neck or throat covering if it's windy and so forth we get to compass
obviously we don't need to explain the importance of a compass but this is what I'll say about a compass
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even more important than having a quality compass is know how to use it I have been hiking with a
number of people who had most of them did not have a compass of any kind other than the GPS on
their phone the ones that did have a compass with maybe one or two exceptions had no idea how to use
it because it's more than just knowing okay I know which way north or south is now what does that mean
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if you don't know where you are or where you're going or where you've been so again like all these
items have some experience and plan ahead use them and prepare with them and then finally a canvas
needle or a sail needle this is great for making repairs you can even do some very minor surgery
like getting out splinters or contaminants out of your flesh or out of a wound with these
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these they're good for puncturing as well again do some research look up the 10 C's of survival
there's a lot of good information that we just won't have time to cover in depth
remember the when you look at how you prioritize your 10 C's of survival or your kits or your bag
whatever remember the rule of threes okay this is a very very widely accepted rule in the backwoods
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in the world of survival okay you can go roughly these are estimates obviously you can go three
hours without shelter that means exposed to the elements three hours without shelter three days
without water and three weeks without food now obviously that's not written in stone but that
gives you an idea as to your priorities get yourself protected regulating your body temperature
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is extremely important regulate your body temperature then worry about what you know water
to keep yourself hydrated food is usually a distant third by far the vast majority of these
survival scenarios last 48 to 72 hours now that's not saying they don't ever go the distance but
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usually food is the least of your worries injury exposure and dehydration are what wind up getting
people usually so just something to keep in mind okay we are going to finish on a high note here
let's go to our final story of the day this takes us to victoria australia
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a seven-foot kangaroo puts farmer in headlock and beats him up
i'm sorry i'm not going to use this guy's real name i'm not going to make fun of him anymore
i'm sure he's already been given it to him by his buddies but let's just get into it a man in his
seventies was attacked by a kangaroo and has been left scarred by the macho marsupial the report
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states we'll just call him terry terry 74 was riding his motorcycle across his farm in the
australian state of victoria on saturday night when the kangaroo began following him
the kangaroo measured around seven feet tall by terry's estimations and started
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started growling and jumping up and down he told the local news station
next thing i know he was on top of me terry said he had his top poles right around my back
we were almost headbutting each other i just kept punching him until he let me go and he jumped away
according to terry
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so this guy is riding his motorcycle on his property and a seven foot tall kangaroo jumps out
grabs a hold of him and gets him in a headlock and starts headbutting him while he's punching
him at the same time okay let's go we continue terry made a break for it barely making it on to
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his motorcycle before the kangaroo charged for a second time one more jump and he would have been
on top of me again terry says the man was rushed to local hospital where he received stitches
bandages and antibiotics his shirt was torn up by the attack if he hadn't had on a thick shirt
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the abrasions would have been much more severe terry's wife said
so this kangaroo had a real bad attitude i don't know what terry did or didn't do but it wasn't
enough to tear him up once the kangaroo came back for seconds okay kangaroos let's go into the
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technical side of this kangaroos can reach sizes of up to 200 pounds and around seven feet tall
depending on the species according to experts they are powerful animals most attacks involve
kicking people leading to bruising and puncture wounds from their sharp toe claws
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the sorts of injuries verne's said some expert i don't know where the rest of his name is in this
article the sorts of injuries this guy received is typical it was a bit strange that he was attacked
repeatedly usually the kangaroo realized its mistake i.e. that you're not a kangaroo you're a
human and that's the end of it but apparently this kangaroo really wanted a piece of terry
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and he got it folks
speaking of kangaroo fighting tactics their words not mine kangaroo fighting tactics the headlock
is what male kangaroos do they kick and rake with their feet and then try to throw their
opponents with their powerful forearms so the headlock punch and kick you and then judo slam you
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to the ground uh i don't even really know why they so we get into this this is something i didn't
know a leslie carter an associate professor in evolutionary anthropology at university college
london says kangaroo males don't protect females or the group from what i've seen
they're simply protecting their potential to have a baby so just being close to a mob which is what
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a group of kangaroos are called is enough to trigger this behavior so maybe terry rode through
there are some other females around and kangaroo jack didn't like the cut of his jib and he took
it out on him repeatedly i don't know but apparently they don't do this to protect other kangaroos
it's just a matter of protecting mating potential so before warren terry do not go back
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around kangaroo jack would pepper spray deter a kangaroo i don't know we won't have time to
explore it in this episode but we will get to it in another episode that is going to do it for us
today folks remember be forewarned that is forearmed make sure you are prepared ahead of time to make
it out alive because if you don't make it out alive you don't make it out at all
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