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In the 10th episode of Season 3 of the Constitution Commandos podcast, hosts Chris and Patrick Williams delve into essential survival skills, emphasizing the importance of weapons, fitness, and community. The episode covers practical tips for starting fires without matches or lighters, using experiences from their own attempts to kindle fire with wet materials. Highlighting the dangers of relying on lighters, they encourage practicing survival skills in uncomfortable situations to improve. The discussion extends to the significance of knowing how to purify water, clean hunted animals, and the overarching theme of preparedness for any situation, especially in the face of potential disasters like an EMP. They advocate for learning and practicing survival skills before they become a necessity, the importance of situational awareness, and building a supportive community for survival. The episode encourages listener engagement and emphasizes the value of sharing knowledge and experiences to foster a sense of unity and preparedness among listeners.

00:00 Welcome to the Constitution Commandos Podcast

00:44 Survival Skills: Mastering Fire Without Matches

01:58 Learning from Experience: The Importance of Practice

03:25 Navigating the Wilderness: Land Navigation Skills

05:42 Preparedness for the Unexpected: EMPs and Survival Skills

13:26 Building Community and Sharing Knowledge

14:59 Embracing Feedback and Learning Together

20:21 Conclusion and Invitation for Feedback

Good morning, patriots, and welcome to the 10th episode of season three.

Today, we're talking about three keys to survival, weapons, fitness, and community.

Hey, we'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic, so share them with us.

Just send us an email at podteam at the constitutioncommandos.

org.

I'm your host, Chris Williams, and my brother, Patrick Williams, is

your co host, and you're listening to the Constitution Commandos.

All American Commando: things you can do right now, let's say there are no matches,

there are no lighters, which I don't like the fact, I don't like to count on either

one of those, because, There is a limited amount of gas in your lighter, and there

is a limited amount of matches in a box.

Hold on now, we actually went in the woods one day.

All American Commando: Yeah, but we were dealing with wet brush, and we were doing

And you know what?

We need to do that again.

Yes, we

All American Commando: do.

And you can do this in your backyard.

You can do this, do it in a steel pot on your back porch.

If you live in an apartment, you can, a ferrocyte rod.

You can learn how to make a fire without the use of matches and lighters.

And I'm going to be honest with you.

I used to be a welder.

Believe me.

You do not want to have a big lighter blow up on you.

And if somebody attacks you or anything like that, those are miniature bombs.

I am opposed to big lighters.

There are a lot of survivalists out there to say they'll carry 30 of them.

But if I carry 30 of them, they're not going to be near my body.

I can tell you that right now.

Yeah, you're right.

Now, the day that we went out and hit the woods when those leaves were

there, that's a good example of what we were talking about earlier, because,

whatever's uncomfortable.

All American Commando: Oh, and we got our bird's nest, we'd get our bird's

nest started, but it was smoking so bad we couldn't keep it going.

But it's something that's uncomfortable, and I

think that's something that,

All American Commando: for me, oh, I'm going to try that again, and I'm

going to keep trying it until I figure

it out.

And,

that day we both had lighters on us,

we could have very easily struck a lighter.

But,

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: what good would our,

what good would our practicing be if we pulled a lighter out?

it's

cheating, isn't it?

All American Commando: it's easy and even if you carry a zip, I don't care

if you have a gallon of zip boat fluid, you're going to run out of fluid.

You're going to run out of fluid.

One day, you're going to have to know how to start a fire.

Exactly.

Learn how to do it without the use of modern tools.

other than a parasite rod.

which is what we talked about earlier.

If it's uncomfortable, practice it.

All American Commando: Practice these things.

Cheers.

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: If you find something that's

uncomfortable, and you will if you're paying attention,

if you find something uncomfortable, attack that one thing.

get good at it.

All American Commando: Expose yourself to it.

And that actually will be a benefit for you in the long run.

Absolutely.

All American Commando: Absolutely.

And

that was one of the things that we had struggles with that

day, but there was something else too,

What was it?

All American Commando: you got a little turnaround

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: on you got us back to the vehicle, but

the land aspect, you got a little bit turn around 6 to 10 feet off, I think,

All American Commando: on the return trip.

yeah, it's really not big enough of an area to

be that much off, to be honest.

All American Commando: Yeah, but if you miss it by 10 feet, though, and

you walk for a mile and a half, you're gonna be way more than 10 feet off.

That's what I'm saying.

no more distance than we walked.

I was way off.

I wasn't even in the ballpark.

So yeah, that's something I need to practice on for sure.

And,

Boy Scouts,

we did that kind of stuff in Boy Scouts, and how long ago was that?

No, wait, we'll keep that to ourselves.

But that was a few years ago, to say the least.

So it's something,

these are perishable knowledges, but these are things that are imperative, really,

in the form of survival.

It is.

but,

as we started talking about though, from the beginning,

knowing your personal dwelling,

if you don't know that, don't even get outside your dwelling because you're lost.

that's all there is to it.

It is critical to know where you are and know what's around you.

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: And,

that was something that I learned when the race and deal was going on with dad.

how many times did I hear Tommy Martin tell dad, you're not

going to be able to look in that mirror all the time, but you need to know

where every driver on the track is.

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: And you've done enough driving.

You know this.

you're not going to see every driver on the track,

but if you don't have a sense of where they are, you're going to

cause problems for you and them.

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: and that's the same thing in

just what we're talking about.

right here.

situational awareness.

Is extremely critical

All American Commando: and an EMP is going to be on the far end of the spectrum of,

but it's not something that's out of consideration,

it's something that does need to be considered and it's

All American Commando: another thing that you have to consider on these things is

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: If an EMP does happen

All American Commando: Don't just know how to shoot an animal.

You have to know how to clean the animal.

You have to know how to purify water.

Water purification is going to be one of the most important skills that you'll

ever have in these bad situations.

a lot of people

All American Commando: would think just iodine, but you can't get your hands

on iodine, what are you going to do?

That's correct.

And not everybody's going to have a life straw.

And if you do have life straws, they're going to wind up surpassing their

filtration capabilities at some point.

It's about 300 gallons.

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: yeah, I got some that are,

I think 10, 000,

I'm trying to remember, I can't remember his liters or gallons,

but it's a different rated is what I'm pointing.

look, the bottom line is they're going to wear out.

What do you do?

what do you do?

You got no iodine, no filtration, straws, no filtration equipment.

It.

What are you going to do?

All American Commando: Charcoal and sand, man, that'll filter any kind

of water out with pea gravel or,

but learn these skills before these skills are required.

Learn them.

and put them in practice.

If you've only started three fires.

In a primitive manner, and shit hits the fan, you're going to be better off than

that person that has never started a fire.

and if you could What is that the survivalist, what is that

the evasion instructor was talking about on that video you sent me?

He said, the key to evasion is keeping your heart rate down.

All American Commando: Absolutely.

Keep yourself from making bad decisions.

And if

you don't know any of this stuff, you don't know

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: how

any of this stuff

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: works,

you're going to panic.

Yeah.

That's all there is to it.

All American Commando: And panic is a killer.

Yeah.

Panic is a killer.

All American Commando: Absolutely.

I got to watch that Urban video too.

I got to see that.

I've been wanting to see it.

All American Commando: Yeah, it's a great video.

I got to follow up on the Donald Trump video.

And no, I'm not talking Go ahead.

All American Commando: you ought to link that video that I told you

about John with the survival video,

the, yeah,

All American Commando: the evasion, you ought to link that.

you ought to link that to this video.

and I apologize.

I cannot recall the man's name.

I would like to shoot a shout out for him, but he ought to link it to this video.

And.

All American Commando: Link the one with urban evasion,

I had to pull that one up.

I hadn't even watched that one yet.

So I will.

yeah, the 1st 1, I think is very key.

now, based on, where we grew up and we had woods, right?

we lived in the woods, right?

And so that kind of stuff that we saw on that video you sent

me, it's pretty common for us.

Maybe not to other people, but the urban video, I would really like to see,

as a matter of fact, when we get done here, I'm going to go watch that video,

All American Commando: but I think I need to remember the guy's name.

I would.

Cite him.

All American Commando: I would like to shout the guy out.

I wish I could remember his name.

I think if, if you look at the, like I said, you need to pin it,

you need to stick it to this video.

and anybody I would advise you to watch it.

A lot of it is common sense, but a lot of it is common sense stuff that the

average person has never thought of.

And that would be very good lessons to learn and to

exercise and practice on.

In case of an EMP, it would be worth its weight in gold.

and it really is, even if you already know a lot of what he's

talking about, it really is worthwhile.

All American Commando: yeah, in his urban environment, I learned about

85 percent of it is that video.

I learned about 85 percent of or 85 percent of it, I didn't know.

And his second one that I watched, I knew about 95 percent of what he said.

But there was 5 percent that I didn't know, and I'll be damned.

I am glad I watched it because I learned 5 more percent of knowledge.

Now I just have to get out and exercise it.

Are you trying to say that you don't know everything?

All American Commando: I'll be the first to tell you I don't know everything.

I don't know why people think I gotta know everything.

So I say, oh, you're so right.

And I was like, why do I have to be right?

I don't really care much for being right these days.

I just don't like it.

You were in the 82nd.

I was just a poor old squid.

So the bottom line is you got a training that I always wanted.

when I signed up for the Navy, you already know I signed up to be a seal.

And unfortunately I didn't get to go there.

But you got a lot of the training I wanted.

yeah.

And as far as training goes, more training,

All American Commando: see, I got more training than a

lot of average 82nd airport.

Oh, you got a lot of training and a lot of average

soldiers didn't get period.

All American Commando: Yeah.

unless you're talking about Rangers or SF,

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: somebody in the teams,

All American Commando: airborne trooper, you got things that

a lot of people did not get.

Yeah.

And just to be fair, for those who are listening, you were gung ho about

being a ranger when you went in.

So at the very least, ranger, I knew you were trying to go ranger and I thought

sF was what you were really, yeah, sF was what you were really looking for.

All American Commando: Yeah.

I talk to a lot of people now that say, look, I wanted to go in the

military, but because I had broken both the bones in my right leg, I couldn't go.

I was like, that doesn't make you any less patriot, right?

And I actually learned that from Chris Kyle, because you

know what Chris Kyle did.

And.

I look up to people like that because they did what I wanted to do, but even

he said, look, 180 days consecutive on active duty, you're a veteran.

And I actually had a commander who sat me down and had a conversation

with me because I was down about my job and he wanted to,

he wanted to give me some insight on how important my job was.

To the bigger picture, right?

And because of people like that, I'm able to say this now, there's a lot of

people I know who wanted to be in the military that could not, for whatever

reason, something outside their control that could not be in the military.

I wanted to do what you did.

I went in on the pretense that I would still be able to do that and

I didn't get to do that still, but.

You know what I mean?

You don't have, you don't have to be in those certain positions.

It's good to know people in those positions because there are still

people who have those skills that have been trained in certain ways that

can help you out or whatever, right?

Not all of us were cut out for that.

All American Commando: that's why I'm also excited about us changing formats about

our topics of conversation because want to get more engagement from the audience.

I know there are out there that listen.

I received 18 echo orders.

I was going to go through the S.

F.

A.

S.

Q.

Course and selection, but I was in a M.

M.

R.

B.

I know there are people with a higher level of training.

than what I've got.

I am proud of the training that I've got.

I understand the importance of the training that I've got.

I also am more than aware that there are people in the listening

audience that have more training.

Even then, if they don't have more training, they might have more experience

in a different environment than me.

And Everybody has some knowledge that I will benefit from.

So I do with this topic of conversation, which this is, I'm hoping to be our

future of podcast is going to be somehow surviving life in a S H T F situation.

I am looking forward to receiving input from other people in other

skill sets and other environments because I don't know tomorrow.

I don't know what my next environment is going to be.

I can prepare for the environment that I am in.

The first thing people need to understand and accept is you need to come to terms

with you do not know what you do not know.

That is me 100%.

I have no clue what I don't know.

And I want feedback.

I want people and I'm not saying criticize me.

I'm not here to criticize people.

I'm here to put out information to help people.

So if somebody wants to comment and offer useful knowledge.

Not criticisms.

I could care less about the critics.

I don't care if you criticize me.

I don't care about that.

But then again, I would like to know if I'm a

little off spouting or whatever.

I don't mind a little constructive criticism.

As a matter of fact, I begged for it as a musician.

And a lot of people said, I don't want to hurt your feelings.

I was like, he just did.

the thing is, And you said what I was trying to say better than I said it,

but, I think for both of us, and I think I speak for both of us when I say this.

It's not just about hearing from people who know things that we don't know.

I think a lot of it, for me anyway, is building community now.

we need to establish community.

We need to get this division from between us.

We're Americans.

Let's build community.

Let's be American.

That's what's important to me.

All American Commando: Yeah.

and that's actually the primary building block,

because I guarantee you if things go bad and let's say you're not in

a position, whether it be physically or prepared with a weapon and

munitions, let's say you don't have the food or the water stockpiled,

you don't have a way to bug out.

You know what?

You have just cut your nose off despite your face.

That's right.

You have just gotten yourself into a position to where you have no

primary, alternate, contingency or,

nothing.

All American Commando: you have gotten yourself into a bad position

already, so that's the building block.

Now I know and understand that ultimately you're going to be able to depend on

yourself, but the more people that you can depend on, the better you're going

to be and the better they're going to be.

So I would never underwrite or minimize the importance of community.

It is important.

it's.

There's no amount of words to express how important it is.

At some point, community is going to have to happen, and it would be a whole lot

easier to get a community early than late.

yeah, you're right, because, if you wait until you

have to have it, you're scrambling and, you may think you know what

you're scrambling for, but Yeah.

Your brain is blitzed.

You don't know what you're looking for.

I'm sorry, that's just the way it is.

All American Commando: Yeah, and it goes back to you don't

know what you don't know.

That's right.

And no matter how much you know, you still don't know it all.

All American Commando: Yeah.

But that's why I like the direction that we're going now.

I really am looking forward to getting feedback.

I research all the time, even with my experience, man, I'm, I run

into things constantly that, hey, I either didn't know or I forgot, or

it goes in line with what I do know.

But it approaches it from a different perspective.

And you mean an aha moment?

All American Commando: yeah, it gives me a different way of conducting a

task that I'm already familiar with.

That's right.

All American Commando: And once again, that goes back to environments today, I

can prepare for my current environment.

My environment might change.

if it's not being Arizona,

GMT20231226-172418_Recording_gvo_1280x720-1: Yeah,

All American Commando: if it's an environment, which I do have a

lot of training in the desert, so

if I do,

and mountain areas,

All American Commando: if I do run into an environment that I'm not familiar with,

and somebody on here has knowledge of an environment that I'm not familiar with,

man, there's no way in the world I'll reject it, because that is the difference

between me staying alive or dying.

I enjoy life.

That's why I want it here.

Do live like a freaking American?

All American Commando: I do.

Yeah, but that's why I joined Airborne, and I wanted Rangers, Special

Forces, and had those in my contract.

The simple fact of the matter for me back then was, I am joining an

organization that is based on war.

That's what it exists for, is war.

The defense of our nation.

People die.

I knew that once you got tabs on your shoulder, you were learning

more than the average soldier.

So I didn't want to just learn what it took to be airborne

and have all that training.

I wanted to know what it took to be Ranger and get that training.

And then I wanted to be special forces and to acquire a whole

nother level of training.

Now, wait a minute.

You sound like you're talking about, you're talking about being that one guy

amongst a few who actually want to live long enough to protect those who can't.

All American Commando: Absolutely, man.

It's the strong will to survive.

That's what's wrong with me.

That concludes our discussion today and we

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