June 27, 2025 • 24 mins
Christian ; Follower of GOD Servant of CHRIST
Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
GOD Provides / JESUS Saves
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Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
GOD Provides / JESUS Saves
Patreon
https://bit.ly/3jcLDuZ
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the Alpha Male Podcast, the podcast
where we talk about what it means to be an
alpha male the right way, with God at the center,
made in his image, strong, dominant, we don't apologize for it.
Today's episode is one I'm excited to do. I've thought
(00:23):
about it for a while. A young man's edc a
young man's everyday carry and thinking about this, I'm primarily
thinking about a young man in school and high school
and college, or maybe in a restricted place. Maybe stuff
you'll take going to the airport, going on a trip
you can have with you in an airport or a
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restricted place, whatever that might be. Or maybe you're just
a grown man that's into every day carry. Maybe you'll
just get some cool ideas for stuff that you're not
yet carrying and maybe want to consider a try carrying. Anyway,
That's what today's episode is going to be about. I'm
gonna plug in the bio if you want to skip it,
skip around three minutes and forty five seconds. Who am I?
(01:08):
A question we should all ask ourselves. I am, first
and foremost a servant of God, made in his very
own image, a follower of Jesus Christ. A simple man
(01:30):
called by God to the great commission to share the
good news of Jesus Christ. Next a little bit about
my background and what God has allowed me to do
and bless me to do in life. Grew up what
most would consider very poor in the backwoods of the
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southeastern and mid Atlantic United States, hunting and fishing. Join
the Marine Corps at seventeen, did a couple of combat
tours in Iraq, so a decorated Marine Corps combat veteran
infantry assaultman. After the combat tours, I was an urban
(02:18):
warfare instructor for the United States Marine Corps under Mahave Viper.
I also served in the US Army, both full time
and part time National Guard. Also a veteran of law enforcement,
I served with LAPD. I was a sworn peace officer,
(02:38):
a cop for LAPD. I worked regular patrol assignments and
more specialized assignments. One of those more specialized assignments was
warrant service fugitive recovery. Also had some other law enforcement roles.
I am in FBI certified firearms instructions and been certified
(03:04):
by another three letter government agency, and a lot of
firearms and training things. I've also been a private contractor
worked in the private sector pertaining to tactics and gunfighting
and protecting America from enemies foreign and domestic. I served
(03:27):
as the commander of a tactical team to stop active
shooters in a large metropolitan area. That was our primary mission,
to stop active shooters, which sadly are a thing in
America today. I've also been blessed to do quite a
bit of competition shooting. Started my first formal competitions. Even
before joining the Marine Corps seventeen, I had won more
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shooting competitions than I can remember. I have competed in
all manner of suplines and shooting, been blessed to be
a state rifle and pistol champion, West Coast Regional Champion.
Like I said, been blessed to win more shooting competitions
than I can remember. Mentioned hunting, I've hunted to put
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meat on the table, starting when I was a child.
I've also been a professional big game hunter and guide,
hunting and slaying all manner of beast, and I don't
apologize for that. Humbled to be the host of three podcasts,
Simple Man Sermons, Alpha Male Podcast and Gum Fighter Life. Obviously,
(04:39):
his things not mentioned have been blessed to do many
other things, but again, first and foremost, I'm a servant,
a servant of God, a believer and follower of the Bible,
the word Jesus Christ, and I don't apologize for that.
With that, Yeah, let's transition into today's topic. All right,
(05:06):
Let's get this episode started with a couple of caveats.
It is a commandment to honor your father and mother.
They not me. If you're a young man have dominion
over you and your life, or to submit to them.
You shall honor your father and your mother. The next
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one is for parents. You're gonna know your kid far
better than I know your kid, obviously. You are gonna
know whether or not they're ready, and their personality traits,
what they can handle and what they can't handle, far
better than me. I'm not saying that every kid out
there should have this stuff. I'm saying they are options available.
(05:50):
And I'm also coming at this from the assumption that
most most young men are going to be going to
public school. If you homeshore your kids, awesome, or if
they go to a private school or something like that,
that's that's great. But I still think that most young
men go to public school. It's even what apply to college.
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So if you have listened for any length of time,
you'll know I'm big on every day carry for men.
If you're a young man, maybe it's time to get
started into every day carry if you're not already now.
The number one thing that you should have with you
is is God. Is the Word of God. You should
have that on you in some form or fashion. Is
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where I'm gonna start with this is most kids are
probably have a smartphone. Most kids, you probably see them
with their smartphone all the time. Most young men are
probably on their smartphone a lot. You can also have
the Bible on your smartphone. I'd recommend like a small
DC Bible, have one of my baby bug out bag,
my bailout bag. But I also have one on my
phone that's quite handy for times when I have a
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few minutes and I just want to read the Bible.
The Bible app is really good. There's a bunch of
different trains, and if you have service, even has a
mode where you can just play it and it'll read
it audibly on some of the translations. I really like
that for times when I'm busy. Anyway, staying on the
phone topic. There's a lot of cool stuff you can
do with your phone. So a couple of things you
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can have on there are the US Army Survival Guide
and the SAS Survival Guide. One cost two dollars. One
is free, but just the coolest survival guide if your
kids into that kind of stuff, Army military kind of stuff.
The US Survival Guide US Army Survival Guide rather or
the SAS Survival Guide. Those are pretty cool. Another big one,
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I was actually out scouting around some new area in
the wilderness today and I used it, and that is
a compass. If you have an iPhone, I believe it
comes with a compass. Not only is it a compass, though,
it'll show you direction and travel cardinal direction. It even
makes a little buzz or something like that when you
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cross a cardinal direction like north or south. It's pretty cool.
It will also show you elevation and something really cool.
If you look at it, it will show your latitude and longitude.
What's cool about that is if you're going out somewhere,
you can literally take a screenshot of it and send
it to somebody if you still have service, and that
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will tell them exactly where you are with your coordinates. Now,
I know there's ways to track cell phones and stuff
like that, but a lot of times that can take time.
This is a good easy way at least to let
them know where you're starting your journey, your adventure, the
last place you were. You can literally take a screenshot
of that and send it and it gives a GPS
coordinate location. So that's really cool. And again, your kid's
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probably carrying a smartphone anyway, so why not have that
stuff and know how to use it. I remember when
I was in school, cool kids had Jance support backpacks.
Whatever kind of backpack you have, it probably has a
smaller pouch in the front. You might be able to
use that smaller pouch for EDC stuff. Maybe that you're
designated EDC pouch. You can kind of stand in as
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a bailout kid or a bug out bag. That your
kid's probably got to have a backpack or you probably
have to have a backpack anyway, so why not have
one compartment of that designated for your EDC stuff. Now,
besides the Word of God, the two main things that
I carry are a firearm, a handgun and a knife.
Those might be off the table for you, and a
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lot of circumstances, especially again if you're in public school.
But let's continue down that list. One of the other
things that I carry and use a lot is a flashlight.
My number one recommendation for a small, handy EDC flashlight
is going to be a stream light. The one that
I EDC the most is a micro stream USB rechargeable.
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But it doesn't have to be that. You know you
and or you know your children better. If they take
care of stuff in our lose it, get them something
nice and even that flashlights not super expensive. If they're
not gonna take care of it and or'll lose it
or break it, and they're just prone to that, get
them something a little bit cheaper. The kind of person
that leaves stuff everywhere and loses it, maybe go a
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little bit cheaper on the flashlight. But a good handy
flashlight is kind of a gateway into DC for a
lot of people. Even a lot of people even if
they could, they wouldn't carry a you know, they wouldn't
carry a knife for a gun, they might carry a
small flashlight. It comes in handy a lot. I know
that your cell phone has a flashlight, but it's kind
of an afterthought. It's nowhere near as good as even
a cheap purpose built flashlight. It's much better to have
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one you drop some keys, you're looking for something at night,
whatever the case might be. They come in handy a
lot anyway. A small flashlight is one of the things
that I carried that pretty much anybody should be able
to carry. Don't go with the crazy tactical ones with
the neuraled ends and all that stuff, the strike bezel,
because they might consider that a weapon. They might not
be permitted to have that. Honestly, a good pinner pencil
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is a far better weapon anyway, but a good edc
flashlight might not be a bad idea. The next one
pair of cord bracelets. I don't know if they're still
in style. They weren't when I was a kid. I
don't even think they existed. I don't even remember seeing
para cord actually until I joined the military. But pair
of cords everywhere now, and the bracelets are pretty common.
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I don't think anybody would bat an eye at one.
They make all kinds of cool ones. In fact, when
I was out scouting today, I don't like to wear
a jewelry, but I put one on my belt just
to have. I also carry some pair of cords to
my pocket because I really don't want to break into
this thing unless I have to. And I do use
para cord quite a bit, but if I needed a
bunch of it. Let's say I got stuck out today
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in the wilderness, twitsch to my ankle and I had
to make a shelter, I'd have a lot of five
point fifty cord on hands, so they're pretty handy for that.
Mine also has a whistle. Mine also has a whistle,
so there's that. Now. The one I have has a knife,
so you probably couldn't have this one, but also has
a small compass on there. If you get the dirt
cheapest ones from China, the compass may or may not work,
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but if you check it and it's a decent one,
it should actually work as a compass. Take all different
manners of these with all different kinds of stuff on there,
but they're cheap, they're light, they're easy. Why not have
one in your pack. This next thing may be controversial,
and that is a pharaoh rod. And again, you're gonna
know your child, or you're gonna know yourself better than me.
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If you're a pyromaniac or your kid's a pyromaniac, probably
don't give them a farra rod and send them to school.
But most farro rods somebody looking at them, unless they're
in the bushcraft edc world, they're not gonna know what
they are. They're just a rod of different elements and
you can get them all manner of sizes, even make
the little toggle ones that I like. I put one
on my wife's hiking pack, on my miniature baby bugout
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bag or bailout bag. They just like kind of look
like a zipper pool or something like that. You would
never know that it was anything like that. But it's
a fair sum rod and you strike it with something
hard and it will make a spark to start a fire.
May want to consider having one of those. They're a
good thing to have the light even when they're wet.
You get hundreds and hundreds of sparks off of one,
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and assuming your kid can handle it, I think being
able to start a fire and build a fire is
a manly skill that young men should have a couple
other things. If your kids are into doing stuff outside outdoors,
if they're outdoorsy type kids, or if they're involved in
sports or anything like that. The small tubes of sunblock
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and bug repellent. Maybe it's time to stop supplying all
that stuff for your kid and expect them to be
responsible for it. Give them some more responsibility. A small
thing a sun block, a small thing a bug spray,
depending on where you live, maybe one or the other
or both. Also, those cheap emergency ponchos, you know, handy
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for a lot of uses, most notably for a poncho,
and they cost a dollar or two. It's stuck out
in the rain, do you get stuck outside for whatever reason,
a downpour? You throw it on, much better off. You
want to lay on the ground or lay stuff on
the ground, stuff like that. If you just lay it
out again, they're a dollar or two. If you use it,
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or they use it, just replace it, it's a dollar or two.
Along those lines. Those milar space blankets also cheap, and
they actually do work, so if you live in a
colder climate where you kid might get stuck outside for
whatever reason, they actually do work. They're pretty cool. I
have used them, you know, again in the wilderness that
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was quite a bit colder than I anticipated. They do work,
They do work quite well, and they are very lightweight. Again,
that front pouch of a book bag or something like that.
They're not going to notice the extra weight or anything
like that. I don't think. The next thing is I'm
gonna talk about a little bit more somber. Things have
changed quite a bit since I was in school, and
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I'm not that old, guys, but we had a rifle team.
We had a shooting team in school. Talking grade schools,
we would walk down the halls with weapons with a
bunch of other kids in the hallway. Me and my
best friend would go deer hunting behind the school because
we were poor and it was one of the few
places with public land. Walk through town with a weapon
and we would go deer hunting behind the school, like
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the soccer field, but like there was quite a bit
of land owned by the school that was public lands
hard to come by when you're a poor kid in
the South, and we would hunt deer back there and
shoot deer back there. This is when we were too
young to have a car. Anyway, We had guns at school,
in school, around school, and we fought all the time.
I wasn't a Christian growing up, and I fought a lot.
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I thought sometimes just because I like to fight, and
that's not good and you shouldn't be that way. But
I mean, or anybody else ever had the thought to
use a gun on another kid Because we hunted, we
used guns. We knew what they were, we knew what
they did, and that's not what we wanted to do.
Even if we had a pocket knife in our pocket,
we didn't use it on another kid. We just fought,
got a little bloody, we got a little beat up. Anyway,
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I digress. It's a far different time now, and I
realize that, at least I think I realized that. So
the next thing is I want to talk about are
a little bit more macabre, but I think it would
be I think it would be naive for me not
to talk about them. How About a good tourniquet, you know,
a good thing to have for you to have for
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if you're a young man, or for you to have
your parent. But sadly, school shootings are a thing nowadays.
If your kid gets a cut or something like that,
if they want to have a couple of band aids,
that's fine. But if they need a band aid, they
can probably go to the school nurse. If they need
a tournique, they need one right now. Best to have
one on you, especially if you're in a situation where
a lot of people need tourniquets. It's best to have
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one or two now to go to military and stuff.
Standard is a cat tourniquet. If you're in high school,
that's probably fine, but a rat tourniquit will work on
smaller people and dogs. I mean, I want to look
into those and go that route. Or a swat tea.
I don't know they've ever heard of me, but Refuge Medical,
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Bear Independent. They make really good medical kits if you
want your kid to carry, like a full law medical kit.
But a tourniquit is a good thing to have if
it's something you don't know how to do as a parent,
I recommend you learn how to do it and do
it with your kid. It's probably something they'll think's pretty cool.
Bring them on, let them crank it down on you
until your blood stops pumping in that you know appendage.
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They'll probably think that's pretty cool and you'll learn something
and they'll learn something. But a tourniquit they don't again,
they don't weigh a ton, So put it in that
front pouch and hopefully they never ever need it or
nobody they know ever needs it. But a good thing
to have. Now, there's all kinds of tactical pens and
stuff like that, tactical pens, the little neuraled ends and
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all kinds of things on there, but you probably not
get away with that in school. Just a good solid
metal pen. Even me, I got one when I worked
at LAPD. Just a good solid metal mind was a
Zebra pan. I carried it for years and years and years.
Now I just carry a sharpie because the number one
thing I write on is myself. But a good metal
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pen and was smart enough to know what good uses
a metal pen can have. This is something that is
rather expensive. It's a kevlar panel of whatever size you
want to put in the backpack. I don't know if
that's something you want to consider, but a way to
do that on the cheap is let's say an old
kevlar soft arm or vest from police, or an old
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flak jacket that you can buy on eBay and just
take the panel out fit that in the back of
a backpack and hopefully you really never need that if
you're not let's say a kid in school and you're
interested in the improvised weapons. We did a whole episode
on improvised weapons. So if you are in a non
permissive environment and you need a weapon, that's probably the
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episode to go listen to. And if your kid is
homeschooled or private schooled, if they allow it, or just
when you go to pick them up and they hop
in the truck they're going to do something outside after school.
My favorite place is to be when I was a kid.
There's a lot of times on a river bank or
in the woods or in the swamp or something like that.
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They're going to do something outside and you think they're ready,
maybe it's time for a knife and showing them how
to use it properly. My number one recommendation for anybody
to get into edc or for a good carry knife
is a Buck one ten slim. If you want to
carry in a belt pouch, this traditional one ten would
be a good heirloom quality knife. If you want something
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more modern and practical with a pocket clip, the Buck
one ten, and that'd be my number one recommendation for
a young man as well. They also make the one twelve.
In some places you can't carry a knife blade over
a certain length A lot of times just three inches.
I do believe the Buck one twelve is a smaller
blade and is legal in those places, but same basic
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design and everything else. There's a lot other good knives
out there. We could do a whole episode on that.
We will. We've definitely done entire episodes on knives anyway.
I still have my first pocket knife that my grandma
got for me, and and we're pretty poor, so it
is not a buck It is a Pakistani knockoff. In fact,
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you can barely read the word Pakistan on there because
of how much it's been used and loved. I still
have it, and when I started this podcast, I started
thinking about it and it was literally right behind me
with an arm's reach. My grandmother has since passed on
and I can't even recall that was when I got
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this knife, six or seven probably, and it's well used
and well worn. I still keep it sharp sharp as
a cheap Pakistani knockoff knife can be. It is a
little small walking knife. It kind of looks like a
miniature version of a Buck one ten. It's very classic design.
That is one thing. If you're gonna get your self
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or your young man and your life a knife, consider
making it a locking knife. I know the old timer knives,
the little pen knife that you put in your pocket
are kind of classic, but usually they don't lock, and
that can cause injuries. I speak in firsthand experience and
getting stitches because I was using one to push down
on something and I didn't realize it didn't lock, and
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it folded on my fingers. So if you can, and
you probably can, because there's a lot of designs today,
getting a good locking knife might be the way to go.
I think that'll pretty much be it for this. I'll
start wrapping it up and going into the tactical tips
of the day. Tactical tip of the day, we touched
on a flashlight, something I just used when I took
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the dog out for a walk, even though I had
my nicer EEDC light. I use these all the time. Walmart,
in the camping section they usually have these cheap headlamps.
They're literally I think a dollar and I buy a
bunch of them at a time. I use them until
they get worn out or I forget and leave one
on and they go dead. They're a little one dollar
led headlamp. They're great for using as what they are,
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a headlamp. They're also great and they're cheap enough you
can just turn one on and use it as kind
of like a small floodlight if you're reading at night
or something like that. Good thing for your kid to
have in their pack, good thing for you to have
in the glove box in your center console by the bed,
is so cheap and easy a lot of times. If
you don't know, I live off grid, they're nice and
handy for having for dealing with a generator and things
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like that at nights, being outside at night, even if
I have a better flashlight, want my hands free animal
doing a task that's pretty close in front of me.
Those small cheap headlamps. Again, they're a dollar. The other one,
in contrast to that one, I don't have any first
hand experience with. But you might want to think about
this not super applicable to me, because again I usually
carry a gun and a knife, so if I want
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to break glass, I'm just gonna break glass. I make
these glass breaking bracelets that I've seen, never used, but
it's basically shot cord with a tungsten bead on there.
The way I've seen it is you hold it in
your two fingers, like your thumb and your pointer finger
and you pull it back with the other hand and
let it go in at snaps and breaks glass. For
that school shooting scenario, if your kid getting kidnapped, or
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things we don't want to think about, there may come
a time where escape is important. And again, know your
kid at their prone of vandalism. Don't get him this,
but those glass breaking bracelets, they may come in handy.
They're not prohibitively expensive anyway. Consider those your tactical tip
of the day, hopefully, which will bring us to the
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tactical verse of the day. Honor your father and mother
that your days may be long upon the land which
the Lord your God is giving you and parents. The
most important thing your kids need they're probably not getting
in school, and that's to know God and have a
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relationship with God. So whatever else you teach them or
don't teach them, make sure you're teaching them about God,
the Word of God. Whatever skills you may or may
not need in life, whatever subjects you may or may
not need moving forward in life, you certainly need God.
It's only by His grace that you receive every breath
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and all that you have, and everything that you have
is a gift from God. Remember that remember that your
kids are a gift from God and we are all
servants to Him. With that, thanks for listening and have
a blessed day.
Hello, and welcome to the Alpha Male Podcast, the podcast
where we talk about what it means to be an
alpha male the right way, with God at the center,
made in his image, strong, dominant, we don't apologize for it.
Today's episode is one I'm excited to do. I've thought
(00:23):
about it for a while. A young man's edc a
young man's everyday carry and thinking about this, I'm primarily
thinking about a young man in school and high school
and college, or maybe in a restricted place. Maybe stuff
you'll take going to the airport, going on a trip
you can have with you in an airport or a
(00:44):
restricted place, whatever that might be. Or maybe you're just
a grown man that's into every day carry. Maybe you'll
just get some cool ideas for stuff that you're not
yet carrying and maybe want to consider a try carrying. Anyway,
That's what today's episode is going to be about. I'm
gonna plug in the bio if you want to skip it,
skip around three minutes and forty five seconds. Who am I?
(01:08):
A question we should all ask ourselves. I am, first
and foremost a servant of God, made in his very
own image, a follower of Jesus Christ. A simple man
(01:30):
called by God to the great commission to share the
good news of Jesus Christ. Next a little bit about
my background and what God has allowed me to do
and bless me to do in life. Grew up what
most would consider very poor in the backwoods of the
(01:52):
southeastern and mid Atlantic United States, hunting and fishing. Join
the Marine Corps at seventeen, did a couple of combat
tours in Iraq, so a decorated Marine Corps combat veteran
infantry assaultman. After the combat tours, I was an urban
(02:18):
warfare instructor for the United States Marine Corps under Mahave Viper.
I also served in the US Army, both full time
and part time National Guard. Also a veteran of law enforcement,
I served with LAPD. I was a sworn peace officer,
(02:38):
a cop for LAPD. I worked regular patrol assignments and
more specialized assignments. One of those more specialized assignments was
warrant service fugitive recovery. Also had some other law enforcement roles.
I am in FBI certified firearms instructions and been certified
(03:04):
by another three letter government agency, and a lot of
firearms and training things. I've also been a private contractor
worked in the private sector pertaining to tactics and gunfighting
and protecting America from enemies foreign and domestic. I served
(03:27):
as the commander of a tactical team to stop active
shooters in a large metropolitan area. That was our primary mission,
to stop active shooters, which sadly are a thing in
America today. I've also been blessed to do quite a
bit of competition shooting. Started my first formal competitions. Even
before joining the Marine Corps seventeen, I had won more
(03:50):
shooting competitions than I can remember. I have competed in
all manner of suplines and shooting, been blessed to be
a state rifle and pistol champion, West Coast Regional Champion.
Like I said, been blessed to win more shooting competitions
than I can remember. Mentioned hunting, I've hunted to put
(04:13):
meat on the table, starting when I was a child.
I've also been a professional big game hunter and guide,
hunting and slaying all manner of beast, and I don't
apologize for that. Humbled to be the host of three podcasts,
Simple Man Sermons, Alpha Male Podcast and Gum Fighter Life. Obviously,
(04:39):
his things not mentioned have been blessed to do many
other things, but again, first and foremost, I'm a servant,
a servant of God, a believer and follower of the Bible,
the word Jesus Christ, and I don't apologize for that.
With that, Yeah, let's transition into today's topic. All right,
(05:06):
Let's get this episode started with a couple of caveats.
It is a commandment to honor your father and mother.
They not me. If you're a young man have dominion
over you and your life, or to submit to them.
You shall honor your father and your mother. The next
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one is for parents. You're gonna know your kid far
better than I know your kid, obviously. You are gonna
know whether or not they're ready, and their personality traits,
what they can handle and what they can't handle, far
better than me. I'm not saying that every kid out
there should have this stuff. I'm saying they are options available.
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And I'm also coming at this from the assumption that
most most young men are going to be going to
public school. If you homeshore your kids, awesome, or if
they go to a private school or something like that,
that's that's great. But I still think that most young
men go to public school. It's even what apply to college.
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So if you have listened for any length of time,
you'll know I'm big on every day carry for men.
If you're a young man, maybe it's time to get
started into every day carry if you're not already now.
The number one thing that you should have with you
is is God. Is the Word of God. You should
have that on you in some form or fashion. Is
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where I'm gonna start with this is most kids are
probably have a smartphone. Most kids, you probably see them
with their smartphone all the time. Most young men are
probably on their smartphone a lot. You can also have
the Bible on your smartphone. I'd recommend like a small
DC Bible, have one of my baby bug out bag,
my bailout bag. But I also have one on my
phone that's quite handy for times when I have a
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few minutes and I just want to read the Bible.
The Bible app is really good. There's a bunch of
different trains, and if you have service, even has a
mode where you can just play it and it'll read
it audibly on some of the translations. I really like
that for times when I'm busy. Anyway, staying on the
phone topic. There's a lot of cool stuff you can
do with your phone. So a couple of things you
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can have on there are the US Army Survival Guide
and the SAS Survival Guide. One cost two dollars. One
is free, but just the coolest survival guide if your
kids into that kind of stuff, Army military kind of stuff.
The US Survival Guide US Army Survival Guide rather or
the SAS Survival Guide. Those are pretty cool. Another big one,
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I was actually out scouting around some new area in
the wilderness today and I used it, and that is
a compass. If you have an iPhone, I believe it
comes with a compass. Not only is it a compass, though,
it'll show you direction and travel cardinal direction. It even
makes a little buzz or something like that when you
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cross a cardinal direction like north or south. It's pretty cool.
It will also show you elevation and something really cool.
If you look at it, it will show your latitude and longitude.
What's cool about that is if you're going out somewhere,
you can literally take a screenshot of it and send
it to somebody if you still have service, and that
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will tell them exactly where you are with your coordinates. Now,
I know there's ways to track cell phones and stuff
like that, but a lot of times that can take time.
This is a good easy way at least to let
them know where you're starting your journey, your adventure, the
last place you were. You can literally take a screenshot
of that and send it and it gives a GPS
coordinate location. So that's really cool. And again, your kid's
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probably carrying a smartphone anyway, so why not have that
stuff and know how to use it. I remember when
I was in school, cool kids had Jance support backpacks.
Whatever kind of backpack you have, it probably has a
smaller pouch in the front. You might be able to
use that smaller pouch for EDC stuff. Maybe that you're
designated EDC pouch. You can kind of stand in as
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a bailout kid or a bug out bag. That your
kid's probably got to have a backpack or you probably
have to have a backpack anyway, so why not have
one compartment of that designated for your EDC stuff. Now,
besides the Word of God, the two main things that
I carry are a firearm, a handgun and a knife.
Those might be off the table for you, and a
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lot of circumstances, especially again if you're in public school.
But let's continue down that list. One of the other
things that I carry and use a lot is a flashlight.
My number one recommendation for a small, handy EDC flashlight
is going to be a stream light. The one that
I EDC the most is a micro stream USB rechargeable.
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But it doesn't have to be that. You know you
and or you know your children better. If they take
care of stuff in our lose it, get them something
nice and even that flashlights not super expensive. If they're
not gonna take care of it and or'll lose it
or break it, and they're just prone to that, get
them something a little bit cheaper. The kind of person
that leaves stuff everywhere and loses it, maybe go a
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little bit cheaper on the flashlight. But a good handy
flashlight is kind of a gateway into DC for a
lot of people. Even a lot of people even if
they could, they wouldn't carry a you know, they wouldn't
carry a knife for a gun, they might carry a
small flashlight. It comes in handy a lot. I know
that your cell phone has a flashlight, but it's kind
of an afterthought. It's nowhere near as good as even
a cheap purpose built flashlight. It's much better to have
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one you drop some keys, you're looking for something at night,
whatever the case might be. They come in handy a
lot anyway. A small flashlight is one of the things
that I carried that pretty much anybody should be able
to carry. Don't go with the crazy tactical ones with
the neuraled ends and all that stuff, the strike bezel,
because they might consider that a weapon. They might not
be permitted to have that. Honestly, a good pinner pencil
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is a far better weapon anyway, but a good edc
flashlight might not be a bad idea. The next one
pair of cord bracelets. I don't know if they're still
in style. They weren't when I was a kid. I
don't even think they existed. I don't even remember seeing
para cord actually until I joined the military. But pair
of cords everywhere now, and the bracelets are pretty common.
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I don't think anybody would bat an eye at one.
They make all kinds of cool ones. In fact, when
I was out scouting today, I don't like to wear
a jewelry, but I put one on my belt just
to have. I also carry some pair of cords to
my pocket because I really don't want to break into
this thing unless I have to. And I do use
para cord quite a bit, but if I needed a
bunch of it. Let's say I got stuck out today
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in the wilderness, twitsch to my ankle and I had
to make a shelter, I'd have a lot of five
point fifty cord on hands, so they're pretty handy for that.
Mine also has a whistle. Mine also has a whistle,
so there's that. Now. The one I have has a knife,
so you probably couldn't have this one, but also has
a small compass on there. If you get the dirt
cheapest ones from China, the compass may or may not work,
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but if you check it and it's a decent one,
it should actually work as a compass. Take all different
manners of these with all different kinds of stuff on there,
but they're cheap, they're light, they're easy. Why not have
one in your pack. This next thing may be controversial,
and that is a pharaoh rod. And again, you're gonna
know your child, or you're gonna know yourself better than me.
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If you're a pyromaniac or your kid's a pyromaniac, probably
don't give them a farra rod and send them to school.
But most farro rods somebody looking at them, unless they're
in the bushcraft edc world, they're not gonna know what
they are. They're just a rod of different elements and
you can get them all manner of sizes, even make
the little toggle ones that I like. I put one
on my wife's hiking pack, on my miniature baby bugout
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bag or bailout bag. They just like kind of look
like a zipper pool or something like that. You would
never know that it was anything like that. But it's
a fair sum rod and you strike it with something
hard and it will make a spark to start a fire.
May want to consider having one of those. They're a
good thing to have the light even when they're wet.
You get hundreds and hundreds of sparks off of one,
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and assuming your kid can handle it, I think being
able to start a fire and build a fire is
a manly skill that young men should have a couple
other things. If your kids are into doing stuff outside outdoors,
if they're outdoorsy type kids, or if they're involved in
sports or anything like that. The small tubes of sunblock
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and bug repellent. Maybe it's time to stop supplying all
that stuff for your kid and expect them to be
responsible for it. Give them some more responsibility. A small
thing a sun block, a small thing a bug spray,
depending on where you live, maybe one or the other
or both. Also, those cheap emergency ponchos, you know, handy
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for a lot of uses, most notably for a poncho,
and they cost a dollar or two. It's stuck out
in the rain, do you get stuck outside for whatever reason,
a downpour? You throw it on, much better off. You
want to lay on the ground or lay stuff on
the ground, stuff like that. If you just lay it
out again, they're a dollar or two. If you use it,
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or they use it, just replace it, it's a dollar or two.
Along those lines. Those milar space blankets also cheap, and
they actually do work, so if you live in a
colder climate where you kid might get stuck outside for
whatever reason, they actually do work. They're pretty cool. I
have used them, you know, again in the wilderness that
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was quite a bit colder than I anticipated. They do work,
They do work quite well, and they are very lightweight. Again,
that front pouch of a book bag or something like that.
They're not going to notice the extra weight or anything
like that. I don't think. The next thing is I'm
gonna talk about a little bit more somber. Things have
changed quite a bit since I was in school, and
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I'm not that old, guys, but we had a rifle team.
We had a shooting team in school. Talking grade schools,
we would walk down the halls with weapons with a
bunch of other kids in the hallway. Me and my
best friend would go deer hunting behind the school because
we were poor and it was one of the few
places with public land. Walk through town with a weapon
and we would go deer hunting behind the school, like
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the soccer field, but like there was quite a bit
of land owned by the school that was public lands
hard to come by when you're a poor kid in
the South, and we would hunt deer back there and
shoot deer back there. This is when we were too
young to have a car. Anyway, We had guns at school,
in school, around school, and we fought all the time.
I wasn't a Christian growing up, and I fought a lot.
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I thought sometimes just because I like to fight, and
that's not good and you shouldn't be that way. But
I mean, or anybody else ever had the thought to
use a gun on another kid Because we hunted, we
used guns. We knew what they were, we knew what
they did, and that's not what we wanted to do.
Even if we had a pocket knife in our pocket,
we didn't use it on another kid. We just fought,
got a little bloody, we got a little beat up. Anyway,
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I digress. It's a far different time now, and I
realize that, at least I think I realized that. So
the next thing is I want to talk about are
a little bit more macabre, but I think it would
be I think it would be naive for me not
to talk about them. How About a good tourniquet, you know,
a good thing to have for you to have for
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if you're a young man, or for you to have
your parent. But sadly, school shootings are a thing nowadays.
If your kid gets a cut or something like that,
if they want to have a couple of band aids,
that's fine. But if they need a band aid, they
can probably go to the school nurse. If they need
a tournique, they need one right now. Best to have
one on you, especially if you're in a situation where
a lot of people need tourniquets. It's best to have
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one or two now to go to military and stuff.
Standard is a cat tourniquet. If you're in high school,
that's probably fine, but a rat tourniquit will work on
smaller people and dogs. I mean, I want to look
into those and go that route. Or a swat tea.
I don't know they've ever heard of me, but Refuge Medical,
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Bear Independent. They make really good medical kits if you
want your kid to carry, like a full law medical kit.
But a tourniquit is a good thing to have if
it's something you don't know how to do as a parent,
I recommend you learn how to do it and do
it with your kid. It's probably something they'll think's pretty cool.
Bring them on, let them crank it down on you
until your blood stops pumping in that you know appendage.
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They'll probably think that's pretty cool and you'll learn something
and they'll learn something. But a tourniquit they don't again,
they don't weigh a ton, So put it in that
front pouch and hopefully they never ever need it or
nobody they know ever needs it. But a good thing
to have. Now, there's all kinds of tactical pens and
stuff like that, tactical pens, the little neuraled ends and
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all kinds of things on there, but you probably not
get away with that in school. Just a good solid
metal pen. Even me, I got one when I worked
at LAPD. Just a good solid metal mind was a
Zebra pan. I carried it for years and years and years.
Now I just carry a sharpie because the number one
thing I write on is myself. But a good metal
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pen and was smart enough to know what good uses
a metal pen can have. This is something that is
rather expensive. It's a kevlar panel of whatever size you
want to put in the backpack. I don't know if
that's something you want to consider, but a way to
do that on the cheap is let's say an old
kevlar soft arm or vest from police, or an old
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flak jacket that you can buy on eBay and just
take the panel out fit that in the back of
a backpack and hopefully you really never need that if
you're not let's say a kid in school and you're
interested in the improvised weapons. We did a whole episode
on improvised weapons. So if you are in a non
permissive environment and you need a weapon, that's probably the
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episode to go listen to. And if your kid is
homeschooled or private schooled, if they allow it, or just
when you go to pick them up and they hop
in the truck they're going to do something outside after school.
My favorite place is to be when I was a kid.
There's a lot of times on a river bank or
in the woods or in the swamp or something like that.
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They're going to do something outside and you think they're ready,
maybe it's time for a knife and showing them how
to use it properly. My number one recommendation for anybody
to get into edc or for a good carry knife
is a Buck one ten slim. If you want to
carry in a belt pouch, this traditional one ten would
be a good heirloom quality knife. If you want something
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more modern and practical with a pocket clip, the Buck
one ten, and that'd be my number one recommendation for
a young man as well. They also make the one twelve.
In some places you can't carry a knife blade over
a certain length A lot of times just three inches.
I do believe the Buck one twelve is a smaller
blade and is legal in those places, but same basic
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design and everything else. There's a lot other good knives
out there. We could do a whole episode on that.
We will. We've definitely done entire episodes on knives anyway.
I still have my first pocket knife that my grandma
got for me, and and we're pretty poor, so it
is not a buck It is a Pakistani knockoff. In fact,
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you can barely read the word Pakistan on there because
of how much it's been used and loved. I still
have it, and when I started this podcast, I started
thinking about it and it was literally right behind me
with an arm's reach. My grandmother has since passed on
and I can't even recall that was when I got
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this knife, six or seven probably, and it's well used
and well worn. I still keep it sharp sharp as
a cheap Pakistani knockoff knife can be. It is a
little small walking knife. It kind of looks like a
miniature version of a Buck one ten. It's very classic design.
That is one thing. If you're gonna get your self
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or your young man and your life a knife, consider
making it a locking knife. I know the old timer knives,
the little pen knife that you put in your pocket
are kind of classic, but usually they don't lock, and
that can cause injuries. I speak in firsthand experience and
getting stitches because I was using one to push down
on something and I didn't realize it didn't lock, and
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it folded on my fingers. So if you can, and
you probably can, because there's a lot of designs today,
getting a good locking knife might be the way to go.
I think that'll pretty much be it for this. I'll
start wrapping it up and going into the tactical tips
of the day. Tactical tip of the day, we touched
on a flashlight, something I just used when I took
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the dog out for a walk, even though I had
my nicer EEDC light. I use these all the time. Walmart,
in the camping section they usually have these cheap headlamps.
They're literally I think a dollar and I buy a
bunch of them at a time. I use them until
they get worn out or I forget and leave one
on and they go dead. They're a little one dollar
led headlamp. They're great for using as what they are,
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a headlamp. They're also great and they're cheap enough you
can just turn one on and use it as kind
of like a small floodlight if you're reading at night
or something like that. Good thing for your kid to
have in their pack, good thing for you to have
in the glove box in your center console by the bed,
is so cheap and easy a lot of times. If
you don't know, I live off grid, they're nice and
handy for having for dealing with a generator and things
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like that at nights, being outside at night, even if
I have a better flashlight, want my hands free animal
doing a task that's pretty close in front of me.
Those small cheap headlamps. Again, they're a dollar. The other one,
in contrast to that one, I don't have any first
hand experience with. But you might want to think about
this not super applicable to me, because again I usually
carry a gun and a knife, so if I want
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to break glass, I'm just gonna break glass. I make
these glass breaking bracelets that I've seen, never used, but
it's basically shot cord with a tungsten bead on there.
The way I've seen it is you hold it in
your two fingers, like your thumb and your pointer finger
and you pull it back with the other hand and
let it go in at snaps and breaks glass. For
that school shooting scenario, if your kid getting kidnapped, or
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things we don't want to think about, there may come
a time where escape is important. And again, know your
kid at their prone of vandalism. Don't get him this,
but those glass breaking bracelets, they may come in handy.
They're not prohibitively expensive anyway. Consider those your tactical tip
of the day, hopefully, which will bring us to the
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tactical verse of the day. Honor your father and mother
that your days may be long upon the land which
the Lord your God is giving you and parents. The
most important thing your kids need they're probably not getting
in school, and that's to know God and have a
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relationship with God. So whatever else you teach them or
don't teach them, make sure you're teaching them about God,
the Word of God. Whatever skills you may or may
not need in life, whatever subjects you may or may
not need moving forward in life, you certainly need God.
It's only by His grace that you receive every breath
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and all that you have, and everything that you have
is a gift from God. Remember that remember that your
kids are a gift from God and we are all
servants to Him. With that, thanks for listening and have
a blessed day.
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