SERE Kits: An Empirical Approach

Kind: captions Language: en hello everyone and welcome back to part three of our series on escape and concealment so uh we were going to have part three be a continuation of the uh restraint escape and we're going to talk about different kinds of european style russian czech style handcuffs and hand restraints but we've actually hit a little bit of a snag uh it turns out that we in our training exercises you know internally here at the shop have snapped off keys and all of the keyways of our foreign style handcuffs so that's going to have to wait for a little bit while we get some more imported in from europe so yeah that should sort of tell you as to how that episode is going to go but in order to put out as much content as possible we already had this sort of part four ready um but we're going to go ahead and put it push it out as part three and this series this particular episode in the series is going to talk about our sort of seer kit type stuff so this is the episode we're going to talk about um that we think is probably going to get a lot more traffic because everybody likes gear a lot more than you know sort of education or training right so we're going to go over all of the gear and stuff in our sort of seer setup now uh the reason that we're talking about this and where we sort of got our motivation from is a few years ago quite a few years ago in 2013 uh this whole seer kit ideology became very very popular and this happened because a a time magazine article was written about in response to special warfare group navy devgrew seal team six whatever you want to call them they put out a solicitation for a brand new survival kit and it was very intriguing because it was something that had not been well it it was kind of a new generation of survival kit and in that kit were a few things like you know handcuffed keys and handcuffed shims and things like that and that was very unique because that had not been seen uh as a military survival kit for a very long time in fact most of the survival kits from the military looked sort of like this you you know your vietnam era you know um line drawing you know typewriter written survival kits and that's you know that's something that the military had been working on for a very very long time and uh hadn't really sort of jumped past that cold war slash vietnam you know anywhere from the 60s to like the 80s style of survival kit they haven't jumped into a new uh era yet so um you know dev grew was looking for a new type of survival kit and that sort of that solicitation was written into a time magazine article and then quite a few different other entities jumped on board as well and they thought hey this is pretty cool because this has got a lot of new technology in it um so that exploded like i said and a lot of companies sort of created um their own versions and this is where we sort of see the spinoff and the creation of a civilian style survival kit slash seer kit type thing really because seer isn't in and of itself um is not necessarily a civilian uh civilian sort of program if you will and we we talk about this in part one so if you haven't already i forgot to mention check out part one and part two because that talks a lot about why we don't think necessary necessarily is it is a perfect fit for a civilian type setup but like i mentioned there are lots of survival kits on the market today and a lot of them include seer type components so that's where we sort of start to see the birth of this seer it's restraint escape style kits for the civilian sector now here's where they fall short a lot of these searches are based they are that they either have a plastic container or a metal like suma container like on the previous slide um they're they're going to have some kind of physical container all the little bits and bobs are put in this one container and that's your sear kit right well you know what if you know this is not really a sort of you know rabbit hole what if scenario this is a very likely scenario you're not going to have time to get to your kit if you're going to get you know snatched and grabbed off the street you're not going to have time to take those items out of your kit and layer them on your body somewhere you need to have that already pre-staged so we find that a lot of times people are going to go out there and they're going to spend you know 100 hundreds of dollars in some cases on these searches and they're just going to like put them in their pocket and go around like they're like they're perfectly fine they can escape any situation well that's not necessarily true um you know these seer kits are are great and it's better to have one than to not have one but let's be real when we're talking about the the adversaries we're going to be facing we're simply going to be you know grabbed off the street and we're not going to have chance to implement our escape plan right you know in the even worst case scenario uh what if you are uh you know taken and uh put in a a situation where there is no sort of westernized standard of human living right you know you're not going to have a lot of the tools you think you might have and you're going to have a lot more than you you know you didn't think you would have as well so the situation can be highly dependent on where you're at so like this image shows uh an isis prison in i believe syria at the time i think it was right there in the merv on the uh iraq syria border but uh the point is is that we sort of have a romanticized view a lot of times of what seer is going to look like and what a restraint escape situation is going to look like and it might not live up to your you know expectations so we need to to to take some considerations uh when it comes to actually the what the stuff we actually use you know is right so this is why we came up with this sort of system we have conventional survival kits right that are built for survival like solcoa is a company out there that's right at the cutting edge of if you're going to buy a pre-made survival kit you know soulcoa makes the best ones they're the ones who won the the solicitation for the original stuff and they've just been doing great stuff with all their civilian kits so if you buy one of their pre-made survival kits you'll be pretty you'll be sitting pretty right and then there's also dedicated sear kits that don't have quite so many survival components but they are dedicated for restraint escape and things like that well we wanted to kind of merge the two and and not necessarily create just one big kit that's both a survival kit and a sear kit we wanted to incorporate both sort of ideologies into the same thing uh the same system right we're not talking container based we're not talking like uh you know gear based we're talking a sort of survival escape system really is what was what we're looking at and that's how we're kind of approaching it so really um we're looking at not just one container but multiple containers like you know it's the layer throughout our body you know so that if we have you know all of these components together we'll be most prepared but if we can't necessarily take our survival kit with us but we can take our search kit we'll still be sort of okay you know we'll be able to make do and then we have a lot of specialized gear that not very many people are talking about when it comes to even seer kits a lot of people don't necessarily uh think about some of the things that we're going to talk about here in this which is probably going to be a very long video um but yeah that's why our main sort of system is we have a survival kit component um with with some seer tools in it so we have some bare bones stuff in it with that then we have a sort of seer capsule sort of mentality which has some survival tools in it as well so a little bit of each in each kit so that you can function both both ways and then we have sort of escape aids which are not in any container but they are layered on our person in various spots um you know concealed on our body somehow that we're and this is a daily thing so that we're not necessarily relying on the ability to layer these items uh from our circuit on our person you know if we get yanked out of bed in the middle of the night we'll still have stuff on us that's that that's the mentality with it and then finally of course the most important part by far is the knowledge part the knowledge part is most is the most important because not only is it the hardest to find but it's also the hardest to learn very few places and and and sort of government entities are going to talk about seer you know the seer courses that the military has are of course classified and even some of the tactics that are in those classes are classifieds and you know nobody can talk about them really a lot of the technology itself is classified as well so we don't exactly we're not exactly dealing with an open source um sort of system here you know we're not you the culture is not open source when it comes to seer even from seer from other countries like good luck finding any data whatsoever on russian seer courses and we know they exist um we know that you know from our professional atmosphere that they do exist we just you know in the civilian sector you're gonna you're not gonna find any information on them at all um so that's something to to consider is moving forward is that the knowledge part is the most important but it's also gonna be the most hard to find so when it comes to most seer kit contents you know like i said before we we don't necessarily think that seer is a good mentality from or seer as a concept isn't necessarily a good lens from which to view this in a civilian capacity it's not a perfect fit uh but the tools are so you're gonna see you can google you know buy search it or something like that and you're gonna find a bunch of different ones from a bunch of different companies and most of the time they're gonna have these four things inside them first of all you're going to have restraint escape tools next up you're going to have containment escape tools so once you get out of your hand restraints you're going to have to get out of your cell or container that you're in somehow and third up is barter slash trade components now a lot of times these this doesn't exist in a lot of commercial sear kits i can't think of any actually that have bartering tools in them but we'll talk about that in a minute and then lastly survival components things like ferro rods you know fire starters things like that you know those are are quite common to put in kits because they're quite cheap and very small to to put in there so that's what most sear kits have and it's kind of roughly the the categories from which we approach um the the sort of search it concept right so let's go through each of these categories and let's talk about some of the specific tools that we keep in our seer kit specifically now first up is restraint escape so handcuff keys like we mentioned before absolutely crucial there's two main kinds that we personally use there are many out there but these two are the are the really the two big ones for one on the left is the tiny inconspicuous handcuff key and the one on the right is the uh the delta key the one on the left uh the the tiny inconspicuous handcuff key really the only selling well there's two selling points for it one it has it has a clip on it and that allows it to be clipped into things like underwear t-shirts and the rolls of fabric all kinds of in your sock and you'll never know it that's a huge selling feature that not many handcuff keys have because the attachment point is really the crucial part you know you can have you know 50 different handcuff keys on you but if you have to sew them into your clothing every time that gets tedious and you're not going to do it unless you leave them permanently sewn in your clothes but then you have to buy an awful lot of handcuff keys whereas this one you could buy three or four of these and just clip them in your t-shirt clip them in your underwear as you go about the day and you know just continuously you know when you take your clothes off you know and change clothes just move the key over to this new set of garments and that works quite well and it's pretty cheap to do the other handcuff key is the delta key and for obvious reasons it's preferred in some areas because it works on a lot more cuffs than the than the plastic one however it's also metal now granted it is titanium so it is very metal detector resistant but it's not completely irresistible to metal detectors whereas a plastic key is so that's something to keep in mind we keep both we use one we have one or two of each in the little survival capsules that we use um but yeah it's just something to keep in mind is that if you're trying to go for a zero metal content that's you know the delta key is is kind of it's gonna have to go out and then uh another type of key which we have not seen anyone at all talk about is the um the the sort of uh and hua if that's how it's pronounced anhua cuffs from oscar oscar delta they met oscar delta is i believe a british company that makes these keys and these keys are the only ones on the market that work for the chinese police handcuffs now we had of course planned to show these handcuffs in you know part three but that's going to have to come later so we'll show you how these handcuffs work specifically but the short version is you can't use a normal american handcuff key on them you have to use this tube-like thing because the key is actually has to be a try hollow triangle shape now so these uh handcuffs are obviously the only thing on the market that work for these handcuffs so you're if you're in you know southeast asia most southeast asian nations use these handcuffs and a lot of middle eastern nations use these handcuffs as well and you cannot shim them the only way to get out of them is using this type of key now that being said you know oscar delta is is doing a great thing by offering this the only company that offers it so far but keep in mind is that their keys aren't quite perfect so if um as you can see here on this image the key on the left has been used one time and the key on the right in this image has been used not at all as you can see the one on the left is rounded out quite significantly and that's because the turning force the torque needed to to actually open these chinese police handcuffs is quite significant it is double or triple the amount of effort required to turn the key on an american style set of handcuffs and that's important because the key is made out of copper this uh delta uh you know oscar delta and hua key is made out of copper and it's basically a one time use tool and in some cases like these two keys here that i have that i'm showing you right now they didn't ever open the handcuffs so as you can see on the image on the right where the three keys there on the on the coin the one on the left we took a pair of pliers and bent it into more of a triangle shape and those work fine uh those work a lot better than you know just crimping it just a little bit into more of a triangle permanent triangle shape uh that works out quite well on these chinese police handcuffs so if you buy these and put them in your kit just recognize that you're going to have to do that because these keys as they come from oscar delta some of them work some of them don't some of them work flawlessly on certain chinese handcuffs but the as you know as we were going to talk about in the video on about these specific handcuffs their machining tolerances vary widely like some of these handcuffs like we have a pair of these handcuffs that the key that comes with the handcuffs cannot open like that's how bad these are manufactured and so if you're trying to cover the most tolerances the the most different kinds of of these chinese police handcuffs you're going to have to adapt your keys to do that so that's just kind of an aside you know we wanted to talk about this in a different video of course but that's going to come out a little bit later but yeah a a dedicated key for chinese police handcuffs is crucial if you spend a lot of time in those areas not so much a concern for america but these are used widely around the world and then up next is of course the um the the ubiquitous handcuff key shim now this is just an example one that we have sort of it's the key style handcuffed shim where it's got a little bit of a little bit of a grip to it and we bent it so that it can fit in a kit a little bit better you know you can buy these you can use these you can use the split paul kind of the russian kind depending on where you were taught um they uh those work as well actually those are the ones i use in my own personal kit but this is just an example of a handcuff shim or our hank of shims are quite crucial especially if you are you know sort of uh using up against a blue box type system it's really the only thing that's going to work you know you know if you can take advantage of the fact that nobody can you know double lock the cuffs right so uh take a look at um parts one and two for talking about more about shims but yeah shims go in the kit um also um extra kevlar cordage and i have this as an example a size reference next to this sort of crushed up dollar bill and kevlar cordage is a great escape tool now you can put this in your kit you can also sew it into your clothing very loosely so that you could just pull it out like i've got it on a couple of pairs of pants i've just got it you know wrapped around the inside of the waistband so that i can reach around behind and pull it out from inside the pants it's just like pulling a you know the thread loose on a sweater but instead of pulling the pants loose it pulls the kevlar cord out so that's a good way to do that as well if you didn't want to store it in the kit and then up next is something that not a whole lot of people well a lot of people talk about the normal ceramic razor blades but you can also buy ceramic razor blades are becoming very very commercially popular and this company called slice makes like holiday gift wrapping you know cutting tools and things like they're a craft company and they make a great escape innovation tool which is basically their version of an x-acto knife but it's all plastic now it must be noted that on the inside of where this razor blade is held in it's held in by a metal spring but you can you can pull that out quite easily and make this entirely plastic and this is great because a lot of people are used to buying these little six dollar ceramic razor blades with little hole in them and things like that and those are those are good there's work but why not have why not have a tool with a handle on it because a tool with a handle on it uh can fit inside the small survival capsule we're going to talk about in a minute and it it greatly greatly expands your capability so that's something to keep in mind and it can also function as an improvised improvised defensive tool if need be has a cap on it and things like that so that is a great tool to use if you're in if you're looking to get into it it's expensive it's quite expensive the razer blades are roughly double what uh normal razor blades normal ceramic razor blades cost um and i think the whole tool itself is like gosh i hate to quote a price on film that's going to change let's say you get anywhere from 15 to 30 bucks one of these um razor blade tool x-acto knife things and it comes with a couple of blades uh so depending on where you get it from so yeah that's that's something to to look into ceramic razor blades non-metallic absolutely uh crucial for a kit like this then up next are lock picks now these are the absolute smallest lock picks that i would consider using and these are the the bogota i think nano i think that's what they're called we have a few the minis the micros or whatever they're called and we have all different sizes of these bogotas they're expensive they're very expensive uh tools but they are titanium they're low they're they're not made of a ferrous metal which means they're harder harder to detect with a metal detector once again um and so yeah that's why they go in our kit because these are the smallest ones that we can use um physically right there are smaller ones out there smaller lock picks but they are made of steel which is you know quite magnetic and very easily detectable via a metal detector and they also don't quite have the capabilities these have so um you know this is about as small as we go with with the lock picks and they fit easily on the survival type capsule and then up next is something that not very many people talk about because it's kind of expensive is an escape saw now this particular escape saw i think we got from shomer tech but there's now a couple of different brands out there um and they we put the price here on the screen as 20 bucks because that's i think what the msrp is but we got this one for eight dollars um i can't remember from where i think it was shimmer tech but i'm not entirely certain and we got a few of these and this saw is like you you would you don't quite understand how sharp it is until you get it and i've never seen a saw like this before not even like a small like jeweler's little saw this kind of saw is amazing it will cut through everything so this saw is worth way more than its weight in gold and i would highly recommend getting one of these little escape saws like this and also it functions as a handcuff shim it's the right size to work as that and it's long so it will work on a lot of those uh handcuffs that like we showed before those rigid cuffs where it has a re you need a really long shim to get in there and bypass those locking poles this one will work it will work quite well in fact and the saw blade doesn't get in the way when it's used as a handcuff shim so this is one of those tools where it's like you're hesitant to buy it because it's like ah that's kind of expensive for such you know tiny little saw there's better saw blades out there right um but we pulled the trigger on it we bought it and we bought a few of these and they have been amazing i would not hesitate to buy uh quite a few more of these so that's the so you and this saw blade goes by a few different names [Music] but you can generally just google escape saw and you'll find it it's a very small little saw blade like that then up next are a couple of more you know more like containment escape tools like for padlocks so we've got a quick stick and an easy decoder once again they're bent to sort of fit the round container you can leave these in or you can take them out i personally don't rely on these i take them out because they're um they're steel spring steel and it i'm trying to get i personally my personal one is trying to be as as as have as little magnetic signature as possible and these really don't grant me a whole a whole heck of a lot of capability considering i have a saw blade i have you know lock picks themselves things like that i can get i can fashion a way to get through a padlock um without using this type of tool so put them in if you want i think a few guys have them in theirs here but yeah that's something to consider these are fairly common component in a lot of search kits and then up next is barter slash trade items now this is one where we kind of want to explain what we're talking about here because a lot of people get bent out of shape when it comes to talking barter goods now i will admit that bartering in a stereotype scenario is probably not a good idea it's not a super great thing um it usually most seer doctrine like anybody who's been through a normal seer course will tell you yeah bartering is it that went out of the window you know back in the 50s right we don't barter anymore we avoid civilians as much as possible and because usually a civilian population means we're going to get turned in you know the united states military learned that very well from vietnam and subsequent conflicts uh throughout the middle east is that basically yeah you're not going to have a population that is on your side this isn't world war ii anymore the world has changed quite significantly now that being said we also have to remember though that in the civilian sector we might have that option you know we are not you know like downed aviators you know where most seer courses are you know um meant to sort of portray we're civilians right we're in our own communities so bartering might be an option if nothing else we're talking about like bribing guards and things like that and that might be a better option and gold is very very small it's very lightweight if you keep a gram or two on you um and it it's relatively cheap for what you can get out of it see these little one gram bars are very very small you can see how they fit there but two of them fit on a quarter and you can fit these very easily pretty much anywhere and they have a lot of value so you can use them to easily trade you know the the uses for these are quite literally endless in a civilian sphere type scenario not so much useful in a conventional military sense but we do have to remember the origins right these did exist in the military sort of history right there were such things as barter kits as you can see here on the slide you know aviators throughout the pacific and in some parts of the european theaters mostly the pacific theaters as far as we know but comment below if you know where these were used more often these barter kits are sort of a lesser known part of history where they are a kit of of valuable things that could be used with a native population to help get a downed aviator to back to american friendly lines right so this one on the right here contains a very nice mechanical watch with a little watch band you know watches aren't typically that hugely valuable to you know westernized society but to you know a sort of pacific islander culture back in the 40s they you know a very you know um very tribal like culture a timepiece might have a lot more value than a gold coin would um you know likewise a lot of these you know small shiny baubles and things like that going back to the you know quasi-offensive you know era of of um you know colonists you know trading with you know native americans and things like that they weren't trading things that had particular value um to the to the you know the westerners but to the natives they had great value so things like that you know a little copper or uh you know so you know very low carrot uh gold um very ill-fitting uh pressed you know rings things like that might have great value and that's where sort of where we're coming from now in a modern day society we of course are going to use these little gram pieces little gram bars of gold because they're easier to carry and you know things like that but you know just keep in mind is it bartering while it has come out of the the doctrine for most of um you know american societies it might be willing to put in it might be worth putting in your circuit um just on your you know out of your own considerations so um to think about that is something to think about you don't have to do any of the stuff we're saying of course but it's you know a lot of people um put down bartering or a lot of people of course overestimate the power of borrowing like they're going to be able to walk up to a guard and say i'd like to be led out of jail please here's one one gram of gold like no it's not going to work like that but in a situation where you might have the opportunity to barter you want to have something to barter with so that's why we include gold now another barter tool that we use is uh diamonds now diamonds historically have been quite bad for currency they have very little resale value they they cannot be divided easily like gold can and they are very very uh different every single diamond is different which means that it basically checks all them uh you know checks all the boxes for not becoming a currency so diamonds are not a great shtf's currency it would not be a good idea just stockpile diamonds or anything like that now that being said we do include one diamond one little .23 carat diamond in these kits because as you see look how small it is it is so small and it cost us around 250 bucks to buy it from a certified american vendor now if you've ever been to a foreign country like afghanistan and you try to buy some of the jewelry that's you know on base or um you know come this stuff that comes through the kyber pass and stuff like that you can get non-certified almost certainly illegal diamonds for a lot cheaper and um that would probably be you know an option for some people if you're not too concerned about you know u.s laws you know if obviously if you're in the u.s you have to obey us laws and those kinds of diamonds are illegal but if you're in afghanistan if you're in a country that doesn't necessarily care about the diamond trade that might be an option for you and you can get it for a lot cheaper you buy a two carat diamond for like what 50 bucks or something like that you know off some kid in a foreign country and it'll be a perfectly fine you know perfectly fine diamond of course it's you know morally questionable but you know that's just how the diamond trade works in other countries but we might have a future video talking about that kind of stuff but yeah sorry we're going to leave it kind of vague for now but the point is is that diamonds can serve as a last currency and that's because a lot of like i mentioned a lot of terror groups use diamonds to finance their terrorism to this day even though they're not a good currency they don't necessarily have a whole lot of resale value they're very hard to tell what value they have um you'd need a very special you'd have to know what you're looking at to tell how valuable a diamond is and even then it you know it might mean something to some you could have two you know diamond uh you know you could have two jewelers look at the same diamond and give you a different price for it so that's not admit that's you know basically rules it out as a currency unless you're dealing with like a terror group or something so if you're held you know if you're held captive by a terror group or if you've you know you've gotta uh you know pay your way through you know a dirty guard or some kind of border checkpoint in a foreign nation which we may or may not have had to do many times in the past um diamonds work that ones work quite well so keeping one around you see how small it is it doesn't hurt anything it takes up no space in your kit and if you can do that you know it would not be a bad thing to do and then moving on to a more conventional barter thing you can just keep cash on you like um we have this uh um dollar bill here which is a 50 bill a 50 american dollar bill and then we also have a 50 euro note that we can cram up and uh shove in um our kit so that works out quite well um you can use you know spend money no matter where so euros obviously europe you're not going to find any place in the united states it takes euros but that's so that's why we have the american dollar bill and the american dollar bill functions in a lot of it works in most countries on earth i haven't i don't think i've ever been to a country that did not accept american dollars at some place now a lot of places of course within europe don't accept american dollars in the countries but you can always find some place that does i haven't been to anywhere where you have to use america you have to use the local currency with the exception of places like war zones where um the local population does not want to get caught with american currency because um that mean that they might get labeled as a collaborator with americans right so like in a lot of places in you know iraq and syria you're not going to find you're going to find that the locals don't want to take american cash they want to take their local currency or something else in trade because they don't want to get caught with the american dollar bills at least that's the way it was a you know a few years ago but yeah keeping cash on you in your little survival cat capsule is very very important then up next is sort of the sort of survival components and the first one up is this little thumbtack compass compasses like this are quite amazing i think the very first uh first time that we heard about this was a little nato 40 millimeter compass a little dry cell compass that i think they're still made nowadays but they work quite well these are i think thumbtack they're labeled as thumbtack compasses from county comm it's the only place i've been able to find them but they are very very small as you can see by how small it is compared to that quarter and they fit very well inside the lid of the survival capsules or uh if you don't want to glue them to the inside of the lid uh you can just stick them in there they also fit very well in little you know pico containers as we'll talk about in a minute um but yeah these these compasses work quite well i will note though that somehow or another we've got like i don't know 15 or 20 of these laying around and so at some point in time uh they become demagnetized now some of this only happens with a with a couple of the ones we have like they they no longer point north and i don't know how or why but it's just kind of a reminder that if you're dealing with something this small and it's a dry cell you might want to might want to keep checking it every now and then to make sure that it actually does in fact point north and you haven't de-magnetized it in some way because the needle is so small um and you know so yeah that's something to keep in mind and then up next this is something that we know we don't really see a whole lot of people talking about but water treatment tablets in a survival capsule um and this is something that you like our personal experience sort of came out and i'll show you an image and this image was from nepal when we were there a while ago and this image is taken from about 300 kilometers from the nearest town so this road is the only part of the road that goes through this part of the country it's down um a little bit further south than uh kathmandu uh the main the capital there and it's in the middle of nowhere um quite literally there is nothing uh except for this road um there's no humans there's no villages there's there's nothing in this particular part of the country for you know a couple hundred kilometers around and there's garbage everywhere there is trash everywhere you would be surprised um at how much garbage is in places around the world that like where no humans should be or go like i remember going to um going to indonesia and just going to the beaches there and just walking the beaches and you cannot take a single step without stepping on some plastic garbage so suffice it to say the world today in is polluted it's polluted as heck and it is not a um place that i want to drink water from you know this is not the kind of thing where you can go back and um look at you know survival guides and survival manuals from like 50 years ago and say like oh you know you can drink water that's clean coming out of a mountain or things like that you know that's really it's really going to be hard to find a spot of water on planet earth that has not been contaminated by human beings even in some of the most remote areas on the planet so that's why we want to carry water treatment because water treatment tablets can prevent you from getting very very sick and if you're on the run and you get some kind of thing like giardia or you know crypto or something like that uh you could quite literally be dead within a couple of days um if nothing else you're gonna be sapped of all energy uh within within 24 hours and that's not good and if you're in some kind of you know escape and evasion scenario right so that's why we talk about water treatment tablets and we keep them on us no matter what now these are the um uh potable aqua tablets no they're the mic they cated in micro pure tablets there are some other ones called from israel card called uh tahar mayem i think is how you say it you'll notice the packaging has you know hebrew lettering all over it when you google like water purification tablets they are a lot smaller and they might fit in these survival caps a little bit more but these were micro pure tablets that we had um and we just you know shoved them in there because it took up a little bit extra space and prevented the the kit from rattling so much so that that's why we have those in our kit all right and up next is something that i don't i haven't seen anybody talk about at all and this is a micro sd card now this is one of those things where we're gonna have to be kind of cryptic again about why we have it um but we we always all of us here um separately and independently carry a micro sd card and you know sometimes multiple ones um and on that micro sd card we have three partitions so the first partition is unencrypted it is just a normal you plug it into a usb adapter plug it into a computer you can read it normally and that thing in that that partition has our identity documents you know scans of passports drivers licenses things like that visas you know entry paperwork um [Music] if you're traveling in a country that requires it a lot of times you know vaccine paperwork things like that medical records if you know if we get injured and you know we're unconscious somebody finds this you know capsule on our person they plug in this micro sd card they can get our medical records and things like that if they need them um we also have on their sort of information arc you know like we've mentioned before um sort of like a you know like a noah's ark of information you know information that's likely to be banned so a couple hundred survival manuals you know all kinds of things that are likely to not be available in a lot of places so we keep that you know on the unencrypted part because so it's easier to get to so on part two i'm afraid we're gonna have to be you know even more cryptic about that um part two is gonna also be encrypted and it is going to have a negotiating tool a small bit of information that we can give people the password to we could tell them the password to allow them to install the encryption software and decrypt partition 2 and that can serve to verify our identity if we needed to we don't want that unencrypted because we want people to have to interact with us at some point in time so so we get picked up for something and we need to verify our authenticity but we can't we don't want to have it on an unencrypted drive we could physically tell our captors slash interrogators right okay open partition 2 on the hard drive here's the password for it that should verify our identity or it could be used to barter so we could say hey this is the information we have if you want to talk about negotiating for our freedom we can do that too and then partition three is essentially our insurance policy it is um another partition where we can have a whole host of information that might be valuable to any government agency on earth and um if you know part two partition two can serve to verify the authenticity and verify who we are verify that we do have the access to the information that we do have and part three is the um is the full on sort of information that can be used to ensure our freedom or if nothing else it can be used to um ensure our our authenticity right so uh that's that's sort of what we keep on the micro sd cards hopefully people out there who are in the know who might need this sort of setup will recognize what we're talking about because every analyst out there has an insurance policy once you've seen enough stuff out there to make sure that you you know a lot of times intel analysts and people not necessarily analysts this is more of an ops thing but people who get involved in special programs or things like that oftentimes realize that in order to make it home in one piece they need some kind of insurance policy to make sure that their government comes and gets them and doesn't just leave you know drop them like third period french right so you know incidents have happened over time and um you know i'm just going to leave it at that so microsd cards uh are very um very very important especially when it comes to information and then sort of along those lines is a more thing that we can talk a little bit more freely about is is a blood now this is something that is more of a governance and government thing only but you can make your own and essentially a bloodshed you can read about it on your own it's fascinating to read the history of these but essentially what it is is a document it's a document that has one statement on it or a series of statements and it is written in most languages on earth most common languages certainly the language is in a specific area so if you're operating in say like southeast asia every language spoken in southeast asia will be on this bloodshed and essentially it's a document that says hey i'm an american i'm in trouble uh if you help me if you help me my government will pay you a certain dollar amount and um yeah hell you know help me get back here take this take you know rip off a corner of the document that's your receipt essentially that you helped me and you can go to the embassy and claim your reward right um these were very popular in world war ii they came out they arose actually out of the very first bloodshed i believe was uh from a balloonist in france from like the 17th century or 18th century or something like that don't quote me on that but this go this concept of a bloodshed goes back hundreds of years quite a long way really to the very first time you know the very first air travel with balloons is how far back they go and they're still used today although nowadays they look more like this this is what bloodsheds look like in today's modern military they're mostly the same piece of paper you know durable tyvek paper um but they are uh put in belts um so they call they're called blood belts nowadays now of course we can't show what one like looks like for real because you know there aren't any pictures of that on the internet and they are heavily serialized um so you you sign these out these are controlled items you sign these out just in the military when you're issued one you sign these out just like you signed up for night vision goggles or weapon uh catalog because it has currency value each corner of that document is worth ten thousand dollars i think is the going rate um so if that gets into the wrong hands you could potentially be paying terrorists up to forty thousand dollars of hard american dollars no questions asked so that's why these are kind of a sort of a not really a taboo item to talk about it's just nobody really knows about them so if you wanted to make your own um you can i would advise doing this actually it'd be quite good quite good to have you know put it on some type of paper print it out on some really durable you know paper right in the ring pipe or something like that and you just keep it around um because that's a really good part of a survival kit you know so it's a sort of bloodshed now obviously you can't really make one that is you know valuable you know uh has value to it like you know tear this corner off and it's worth ten thousand dollars that would be kind of not really doable but you can write on a piece of paper in a bunch of different languages as you know a phrase like please help me get back to the nearest you know american embassy or something like that and that would be good you know that's what we do a lot of times um so yeah bloodsheds are very very useful and then so the next concept is switching gears quite quite radically here um this is the next concept that we wanted to talk about because it has more of a pop culture reference than anything and uh so this is also by the way the part where you know we're going to be talking about some kind of adult topics so if you've got you know kids around listening to this you might want to hit pause for a second or skip past it um not to say you know we're you know going to get particularly vulgar it's just you know this type of stuff is not quite pleasant or for mixed company and this is the idea of the plan d evasion plan of you know evasion or plan simply and this comes from a movie because people remember movies more than they remember us classified documents right this comes from a movie called papillon steve mcqueen movie from you know way back in the day oh really good movie they did a remake of it here recently but the original is of course always always better but there's one particular scene right at the beginning of the movie where steve mcqueen's character is he's got this little capsule in his hand and for those of you who don't know you know without spoiling the content of the movie the movie is about a guy who is sent to um devil's island um and he is basically the worst prison in the world and for a crime he didn't commit of course right and it's it's about documenting his journey to escape and things like that so that's the plot of the movie if you haven't seen it before but suffice it to say very harsh conditions right and the only possessions he has in his possession are in this little capsule and the movie sort of explains it to try to explain to a civilian uh audience what is exactly going on because it's a key part of the movie and um steve mcqueen his character is kind of an expositional moment within the movie he's being observed by a fellow inmate and a hammock on board the the transport ship and he's observed um putting money in this little survival capsule right and he and he remarks you know as he's putting the money into the capsule um he makes our mark of you know oh you know the things we have to do you know for survival you know i'm shoving things up one's uh rear end right so it's a sort of rectal capsule um that he keeps money in and as most people know this is very much a thing in u.s prisons today so um skipping out of the fantasy land because we don't want to ever do anything survival related you know based on a movie right this actually is a real thing in fact this is an example a 3d model of a of the oss the office of strategic services developed this what they quite literally called a rectal tool kit and it is a metal capsule that has all bunch of these little tools and stuff in it for escaping and evading and a little handle for all these tools as well and uh it's quite big if you look at the look at how big the capsule is it's quite significantly quite quite large in fact much larger than i think anyone would would want to put it delicately but it's also press fit together there's no threads in it at all it's press fit together and it's meant to you know go right up inside a person and uh for retrieval later so that you could pass a strip search and so that if you're in captivity you could still have access to some tools now the uh the the british our friends from across the pond are not to be outdone they have their own version as well this is a more more modern version from our friends over at mi6 they created one as well and this is the only photo we could find of one and it is we don't know how big it is um but as you can see the knurled surface there has got to be sort of painful um you know going in and coming out from its hiding place um but yeah so this is a this is a real thing this is not something that that's just you know in movies or whatnot and then we also have to remember the prison example everyone knows about the you know the old um to put it crudely the prison pocket right that everybody uh knows about so this is the modern day version this is a very mysterious product that appeared on schumer tech's website a few years ago and it's um it has a quite obvious usage now as you can see one is quite tapered there's no hard surfaces anywhere on it there's no you know jagged surfaces and it looks like it has one very specific use now the shimmer tech capsule is very very interesting because it sort of unscrews in the middle right there it has an o-ring on it so it's waterproof um so the contents inside don't get soiled and sometimes you'll find these being sold with a packet of lubricating jelly right there so there's really only one one possible usage for this capsule and the capsule itself is interesting because it's made out of magnesium some additive normal metal it's made out of magnesium so that if you had a ceramic razor blade on the inside of that capsule you could shave the capsule itself is a fire starting tool which is interesting um it's a great concept there are a few you know a few cons to it though um but yeah the shimmer tech capsule is quite interesting now one thing that we we must talk about is uh this is the you know like i mentioned the the very crude term the you know prison pocket right um this is something that modern day corrections is very much prepared for people have been shoving things you know up the rear end for quite literally forever as long as prisons have been around so they've gotten quite good at detecting that sort of stuff now this is where you know sort of non-magnetic stuff comes into this is the boss too this is what most county what pretty much every christmas department in the world or at least in the united states in europe they have these and these are designed to detect all kinds of metal inside a person right so if you swallowed something that's metal it can detect it via the sensor on your back um you should basically it's a metal to take that you sit on and it can detect all kinds of metal you know up inside your sort of intestinal cavity and things like that so um that's why these you know old-school tools won't necessarily work and that's why the shimmer you know magnesium is uh not as ferrous as steel it's about like titanium actually but magnesium does break down over time it does weather and things like that so if you're wanting a capsule we would recommend one that is plastic entirely plastic if schumer tech were to make one out of delrin that was that exact shape and size that would fit the bill and we would buy a whole you know pallet load of them um but yeah it does it does weather quite significantly the one i have here is um starting to get a little bit of patina on it from being exposed to the elements uh over over time and sweat and things like that but um yeah so these metal capsules and metal tools inside the capsules you know this is why um you know our when we're talking about civilian escape it's really kind of ridiculous to think that you could get anything past a you know corrections type you know atmosphere um sure you know a person could swallow a plastic handcuff key and no corrections department in the world would ever know it there's no way you could ever detect that except for maybe an x-ray and a sharp eyed x-ray technician but at the same time like if you get a hank of cancer out of prison what are you going to do with it like you know most of the time you're going to be transported in handcuffs with you know using a uh a blue box or black box so it doesn't matter if you have a key or not so that's just something to keep in mind is that these you know the tactics and tools we're talking about today cannot be really used in a correction style environment but if your adversary does not have one of these detectors you're golden another thing that is that has recently hit the market is from a company called tracer tactical and these are what they're calling tongue inserts i think that's the latest product name they've given these and this is essentially a basically a shoe a shoe tongue that you it's a hollow cavity it's velcro on the top and you can slip all of these tools inside it put it back in your shoe lace your shoe on top of it and no one would ever know it's there it's quite an interesting concept we haven't tested these specific ones out but we have um before these became commercialized we had privately and personally sewn our own versions of this so i'm wondering uh where they got the idea from because i think i probably know um but yeah this this company makes these um they're pretty cheap you can get them and things like that but once again you know if if you know you're worried about if people are worried if corrections are worried out there about these sort of things look the christian departments already know about these as soon as they hit the market um the chicago police department issued an internal statement warning officers about these so every cop knows about these but your adversary who's trying to kidnap you or take you hostage probably won't because they don't have the infrastructure so once again that's that's sort of why we're we're talking about this and then really these are the rest of our uh sort of capsules as you can see there the sort of shomer tech um a magnesium capsule in the middle um back in the back left corner that's a summa container from solcoa that's the larger container the large size i prefer personally the small size because it's i'm able to fit roughly the same amount of stuff in in mind it's just crammed in there and it's significantly smaller so i can keep it in a pocket it doesn't seem like if you look on the website the large and the small assembly container it does they don't seem like they're that much of a difference but trust me if you're once you get both of them in your hands the smaller one is is significantly smaller and is a lot more pocketable in a more concealed fashion now obviously you know like we mentioned before assuming containers not necessarily the best for concealing things like that so we personally use most of us here use delrin battery lockers battery containers from county com they're the only website that we have been able to find that has these and um the you know 18650 size seems to be the best um it's the biggest of course though uh one guy here as you can see in the image one of our guys has the double a size and he's that works out fine for him it's a little smaller actually it's a little bit bigger diameter wise but you can fit a little bit less in it than the shimmer tech magnesium capsule but yeah once again it's plastic and you know you can if you wish um put a little lanyard on it like the double a one does there or you can sew like a little pocket with a safety pin on it like we have there and just slip to slip it in there and then dangle it down inside inside the front of your pants there so that it's um it's always on you right so that that's how you can carry these capsules there's a bunch of different ways you can even use it you know the top right corner we have a you know a normal travel wallet you know for tourists and things like that and a very touristy thing to have but it's great for storing sierra gear and steer equipment because it's flat if it's under your clothing and it's um it's got a lot a couple of good pockets in there to keep everything nice and flat so that's um you know choosing a container is the hardest part but you know if we're pushed to to choose one these um 18650 sized uh delrin battery lockers are the best because they can function as like a sort of plan division right or the sort of papillon container right because they're just that's about the biggest you can use one of these for as you can see we've sanded off the top on one of those to make it a little bit more smooth just in case we have to do do the dirty deed right so um and it's not very it's not really pleasant to talk about but if if it comes down to it and you know um that's that's what we're going to going to do um so yeah not a whole lot of people talk about that sort of thing that's why we wanted to bring it up is because it's actually quite a quite a significant thing it's one of those things that everybody thinks about but nobody talks about so we wanted to finally talk about it because we've been doing it for years and it's actually sort of kind of may or may not be making its way into a lot of official seer courses so um you'll you'll see that as a lot of some sometimes depending on the instructor but um yeah so that that should help you out with your containers um and then like i said you know to sort of move forward the this is a system right this is not just focusing on the gear but so this is a system and the first part of the system we have is our survival kit so that's my personal one um that's the the the small assuming container that's my survival kit now there might be if you guys are interested we're obviously not survival experts but if you're interested let us know and we'll do a full video on the survival kit because that's going to take a while to go through but yeah sumo container survival kit with a couple of you know maybe handcuff key or sham or something in there and then next we have the survival capsule so yeah that's that's my survival capsule that i use every single day and as you can see i have a little clip on it and i could clip it to the very front of my belt or around a pant button and let it dangle down in front of in front of my uh private area right and so because it's a little bit people are less hesitant to to grope your groin area right even during a pat down people are far they're looking they're feeling for a gun they're feeling for a knife they're not feeling for a tiny little capsule like that right so that's something to keep in mind and then of course i have these tiny ink and speakers handcuff keys me personally i carry anywhere from three to four daily on pretty much every article of clothing i have um i might seem a little bit paranoid whatever i don't care it just makes it a lot easier because we do a lot of spot training around here sometimes where it's like oh okay now you're gonna you're kidnapping me right now let's okay fine let's do this so it makes a little easier to do that kind of stuff so and once you develop a habit it's you know kind of hard to quit um and then also i tend to carry most days in you know one of my back pockets a dedicated lock pick set just because you know like i said we do a lot of training around here um both at work and here you know privately um i spend me personally i spend maybe 10-15 minutes a day you know practicing lock picking um just because that's a skill i i want to improve on some guys over here you know some guys here don't necessarily do it that much some some guys do spend you know take like a whole saturday and do it it's been a whole whole day picking locks once a week or so but i like to do it you know 10-15 minutes a day or so so i keep that keep you know locked picks on me a lot and then also i tend to have pretty much every item that has a zipper to include pants zippers if there is a zipper that's on my clothing it's got one of these tiny little pico pools from uh candycom on it and they these pico pools have two things in them and two things only one is one of those thumbtack compasses that is uh that is one of the items and the other item i can't show on camera because i'm not really sure what youtube's policy is on it but i do have a prescription for chemical uh go substance so back in the day a lot of uh a lot of military survival kits from world war ii you'll find had substance called dextroamphetamine basically go pills so that you're able to take this pill and uh stay awake for days and you know it's basically a you know a slightly less a slightly less harsh version of freaking you know meth so the modern version of of dextroamphetamine uh is a substance called adderall which a lot of people love and know and i personally do not like it at all um but you know just like you know when i was in college i remember pretty much everybody i knew was on adderall at some point um because they were able to just they were handing it out like candy at student at the student health you know clinic um but uh you know once i realized hey you know most military survivor kids used to have dextroamphetamine in them you know obviously you can't really get modern-day meth you know and put that in a survival kit but we you know we have you know being sort of cryptic once again sorry we have found out that a lot of times a lot of pilots are prescribed you know adderall uh and they they don't take it regularly but they do put it in their own personal survival kits so we did the same um it's not i wouldn't say it's it's like a it's not necessarily a widespread doctrine but it is what a lot of people do and we have seen a lot of people do that so um it's like one of those things it's not really a secret but it kind of is um so we'll see a lot of people you know but you know especially on youtube they'll they'll talk about their survival because it'll be like an obviously empty spot well that's because there was a prescription pill bottle in there for adderall um it's sort of like a go pill so that's what i do um i have a you know prescription for it it's all legal all 100 you know aboveboard and all that kind of stuff i keep a copy of the prescription in my survival kit just in case you get held up at another you know another country because that happens a lot so yeah if you can't get your hands on adderall like a couple of guys here haven't really bothered getting the prescription they could but they haven't bothered with it um the you can just use caffeine pills and that works out well that's what i used for years before i realized hey um you know the the military medicine medical system will give you pretty much whatever you want so and they don't really care about it so uh yeah that's that's something to consider is some kind of chemical tool to help keep you going in an extreme environment so that's what i keep in the little pico pools um and yeah so another thing is you may have noticed some people probably have noticed in this very long video already the coin the quarter that we have in the uh that we've used as a scale reference throughout this entire video is actually a tool as well and this is a separate thing that we usually keep in our pocket with other pocket change and this is not a normal quarter this is actually a concealment quarter if you turn it over and you look you can actually see along the left side there there's a little bit of a raised edge from where we didn't quite press it together but if you take a the sort of ring tool that comes with it and you smack it you put the quarter in the ring tool smack it really hard on a table it comes apart into two pieces you separate the halves and inside you can fit an sd card so that's pretty cool as you can see if you've watched this video this far you probably did not know that quarter was a legitimate escape and evasion tool it looked just like a normal size reference thing so that's how sneaky some of these escape innovation tools can get and we use that one quite a lot it's expensive though it costs um roughly 25 bucks for a quarter like that but um it's well it's well worth its weight if you're trying to get an sd card somewhere where you shouldn't have one like through customs or something um but uh next up is you know a bloodshed you know things like that you can even throw in a an s2 underground com card we tend to travel with those a lot too however our com cards that we keep we keep them in you know waterproof ziploc bags but the con cards we have are printed on waterproof paper or not waterproof water soluble paper so that all we have to do is pour some water on it and it disappears and we were never associated with the s2 underground project ever you would never know who we are so that uh that's something to keep in mind if you wanted to do that um but yeah that's um that sort of shows how much of a system this stuff really is um one thing to note is that we did not talk about this is really just a seer component and one of the huge components of seer in the military today is communications so we didn't talk about communications at all we didn't talk about gps's or or our you know satellite communicators or sat phones or anything like that all of that is part of a survival kit we're just talking about our absolute last ditch stuff the stuff that we have on us or like right next to us that if we get grabbed out of our bed in the middle of the night what are we going to have and that's and that's this sort of stuff you know if we get you we're going we're standing in line at a coffee shop we get a black bag put over our head yanked into a waiting van what do we have on us that's this stuff i don't carry you know a satellite phone in my you know back pocket every day right um you know i can carry it in my backpack but it's not my back pocket so just the kind of stuff we have on our person to help sort of get out of a situation like that now when we continue the series we'll probably end up adding on because i'm sure somebody here will come up with a really good idea or they'll be like hey we completely forgot to talk about this topic um so we will talk about that in a future video i'm sure we'll end up ending this series with sort of a hodgepodge mess of a video of like oh wait i forgot um this kind of stuff so keep that in mind and you know some of the other considerations before we end um even though we're talking about gear we do have to remember though that sometimes we can have the best gear in the world but we can't escape and we can't get out of the situation and you know to draw on a sort of example again from hollywood this is from the sort of german series called um generation war and this is a scene in which um there are uh you know um it said in world war ii right and it's set on board one of the trains to you know auschwitz or dachau and something like that i can't remember which one it was but one of the prisoners basically wants to escape and as they try to take out the shiv they had hidden and they tried to dig away at the floorboards the rotting floorboards to to get out of the train uh the other prisoners try to stop them and you know that's it's kind of a a hollywood example to kind of get people's minds thinking of like oh okay well what if my fellow prisoners don't want me to escape and you know as like i mentioned before we don't make doctrine off of movies because it's usually not true but in this case there are very good examples and this is one of the great examples that we hear about and this is you know the the great escape right the the you know award-winning movie and real-life story of the escape from stalag lift three um and we must remember that this is one of the very own this is one of very few cases where american or not american well um i think there were a couple of americans i'm not quite sure don't quote me on that but there were 50 prisoners who once they were recaptured from the great escape that were essentially murdered at the personal request of of hitler and his cronies um as a lesson to the others so we must remember that this is one of the more high profile cases that everyone remembers and we're talking about this but we also have to remember that during you know japan during world war ii and especially vietnam and that conflict it was a common tactic for a hostile nation to say okay we're not going to put up any fences but if any one of you escapes we're going to kill everyone else you know for every one person that escapes we're gonna kill five of your fellow prisoners and that served as a very good deterrent because they actually carried it uh carried through with it a few times very few very hard to find documentation but it did happen um a few times and this is one of the the more well-known cases where prisoners were executed essentially as a warning to the others so that's something to keep in mind is that you can have all the tools you have all the knowledge but do you even want to escape in a certain situation you know that's something you're going to have to come up with on your own and you know it's very hard to say some more considerations you might want to think about is can can you even do it can you once you get out what are you going to do nowadays in 2020 it is virtually impossible to live a life as another person to have a fake identity in the united states of america it's impossible so like this is a a passport from world war ii uh a fake one this is what a fake one looks like and as you can see it looks quite real um it looks pretty much identical to the real one in fact by the end of the war a lot of identity papers um looked so real that they were that the real documents were actually getting called out as being fakes so uh that's not the case now so you know we've got to remember that you know it's not like back in the day where you could have a fake id business you know some high schooler using a cheap fake id to get into a bar or something like that you know back in the late 90s early 2000s it's not like that anymore you can't do it it's not possible like most states nowadays have the real id type thing so you cannot create a fake identity um even as we're looking forward we're leaning forward and reason we're talking about this sort of thing is is from your sort of covid passports right they're hard to fake right they're going to be hard to fake they're either going to be digital or they're going to be in such a way that it's very very very hard to get around and you know the example here is is that we're looking forward this is the case from dare county north carolina which was one of the more interesting cases because they quite literally were not letting people who owned property back onto the the islands which consider this was a county in the outer banks of north carolina so they were quite literally restricting and you had to look at all the stuff you had to have you had to have an entry permit to get into your own property and you had this you had to show that entry permit to law enforcement officers to get into your own property so like if that's doesn't you know have you know inklings or if that doesn't if that isn't reminiscent of you know europe in the 1930s i don't know what is um so you know having to apply for a permit to get onto your own land in america to transit on a public road that's coming and it's already happened like we don't need to sit here and you know sort of theorize no this is what has already happened and the next time you know as we're sort of here in late november uh 2020 we are moving forward into a second wave of lockdowns you know a few states have locked their populations down like california just got almost the whole state just got locked down i think yesterday um yeah it's it's something to be concerned about and you should be concerned about it because you're not going to be able to fake a lot of these documents um but yeah so that's one of the considerations to think about when it comes to sort of escape and evasion in the united states is hey the documents you're going to need are not fake-able they're not fake-able with you know conventional tools now you can bypass but that's that's another video for another time in fact we're going to have a whole other episode on confinement escape and then you know talking about okay i've gotten out of my restraints i've got my gear i've got some tools on me how do i escape confinement how do i get out of my like in this case this image shows an isis prison cell in syria how do i get out of this sort of environment and we're going to talk about that in another episode along with what to do once you get out once you get out and how to and how to stay out so i know this video has been very very long and i thank you for staying with me um because this is some very important stuff that not a whole lot of people um talk about and frankly due to youtube's algorithms not a whole lot of people are going to see so we wanted to remind everyone to check out our other platforms we are on check out our com cart especially on our website which we will link to below if youtube allows us to link if you haven't already done so check out parts one and two i know that it's a lot of content and i know that it's a lot of listening and it requires a lot of you know attention pain and things like that and not a whole lot of people have a lot of time but these issues are things that we can't talk about in a short period of time we have to give you the long form answer for all of this because it really matters on how we present the information we can't just say do this or do that because it depends everything depends so check out our other platforms for more information on this we're going to continue this series hopefully we can get our our handcuffs that we broke we can get new ones in soon um but we might not have that before the end of the year to be honest um based on how you know shipping is being locked down for covet and things like that in europe so we don't know but we wanted to put this out because it's it's information that we think is important uh once again so yeah uh check out our stuff we're going to host this video on youtube but it's also going to be on lbry.tv the link of which will also be below and it will also uh link to it on all of our other platforms like key base and uh parlor and things like that we're not even gonna bother with youtube or not youtube we're not gonna bother with instagram anymore um so so yeah i know it's a theme that of ours as of late but this is a lot of heavy stuff and you know we've got to remember to that that a lot of times nowadays in especially us here at the s2 underground we're walking a fine line we're walking a fine line between you know sort of unnecessary paranoia and prudence and planning and we need to make sure that we're staying on course right we don't want to go off the deep end and and start making bad decisions based on inter on things that may probably won't happen but we also don't need to to be blind to what is already happening so yeah make sure you just take care of yourself don't let yourself get drawn into a lot of this negative type stuff that we have to think about we certainly don't like to to talk about this too much but it's information that we have to talk about and then you know we'll refer people back to this video series and things like that we don't like to live this type of stuff because it's just not fun it's not it's not happy so it's good information we do have to talk about these unpleasant topics unfortunately more than what we would like we would like to talk about happy uh and and good things um more often than we do but we're we're not in the business of entertaining right we're in the business of sharing information and saving lives hopefully so um keep that in mind stay safe out there make sure you take care of yourself physically and mentally and we will see you next time always remember to fight in the shade and and we'll come back at you with this next episode soon so take it easy