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Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to the Mike Force podcast. Today we're talking about EDC Prep everyday carry prep for families. I'll line it out for you. Did you see the fight last night? Justin Gaethje omg that was an insane display of two warriors going head to head. It was pretty intense. Now I was pretty disappointed by the Alex Pereira fight. He didn't seem to be himself. He wasn't as offensive and active as you usually see him. But he's also fighting one of the best fighters in the world who I think if he wasn't from Paris France gain, it would have been a more dynamic lead up to the fight as he is the interim number one contender and now he holds that position because he beat Alex. That Justin Gaethje fight though that second round where he almost lost it and he bounced back, oh my gosh. It was insane. So a couple updates before we get into it. Just got back from Hurricane Utah. It's spelled Hurricane but everybody pronounces it Hurricane. Beautiful place, super hot this week and the average it should be in the 80s and 90s. It was in the hundreds so we got out early. I did some content for Phil Craft Outpost if you're not aware. Well I want you to go to long haul supply company.com which is my company. Sign up for the email and join a couple hundred thousand people on this journey of preparedness. Long story short, I bought back the assets from Fieldcraft Survival that is now dissolved and I witnessed my baby dissolve over the last 18 months. I was focused on a lot of personal things going on in my life but they contacted me six months ago and said hey, would you be interested in acquiring the assets after we dissolve? And the answer is yes, because I refuse to let something that I built from zero to die to fade away. Now the point now in preparedness is to bring you content media because to be quite frank, I just don't have any other assets or resources to throw at it. And I know how to build a business but it's like starting over now. I did content at Hurricane on off roading and over landing as a block. I want to be the four wheel drive 247 an Australian YouTube channel, the American version of that. Just demonstrating through experience kind of what we do. It wasn't too extreme. We hit a the Lucky 7A7 trail and did it in old versus new like old trucks versus new trucks. An FCJ 80 and 83 Toyota Hilux pickup truck versus a Bronco, a new Raptor Bronco Mad Yeti, Andy, Chris, Luke, all these guys came out with me. Voskin. It was an amazing time. Got to to spend time with my family as well. I'll be posting that video in a couple weeks on Phil Craft Survival's YouTube channel which is linked down below. I want to say a big shout out to our sponsors Carnival. Look, if you're not prepping whole food and just focused on meals ready to eat, you're wrong because you should prep and stage food that you're actually going to enjoy and that's whole food like beef, chicken and pork from Carnival 25 year shelf life and things that I use and integrate into everyday life. Also Primal Power. I did a little commercial segment for Primal Power. It's Beef liver. Word of caution, it's the most delicious beef liver you'll ever eat. But it is beef liver. 200 plus percent of your daily intake of B12, 10 grams of protein and collagen. Also, it's New Zealand grass fed beef and it's an amazing snack that I eat every single day tied up with Wasatch Wagyu. That's kind of like my everyday habit and routine. Talking to the wife last night after the fight, going down rabbit holes and we're talking about making these habits and routines a ritual for yourself. And it's true. If you don't treat your body, your health and wellness with the utmost respect, the same way you treat your faith in God, then you're not going to take it serious and you're going to fall off the bandwagon. So check out the description down below and take back your health and wellness in 2026. It's the first thing that you could do in your preparedness outside of your faith in God. Guys, family EDC is not complicated, but it is responsibility over gear. I did a survey on philcraft outpost on YouTube and most of you said you want to gear and review or gear in review content. What's the latest and greatest? A lot of the latest and greatest that you could truly affect outside of the gear is your habits, routines and your responsibility. You, if you're a man, have responsibility to your family. You, if you're a woman in that position, leading your family, also have that responsibility to lead the rest of your family in being best prepared. And the first point is that EDC changes. The second, other people depend on you. I mean, think about it. Most self defense, everything, tactical training, gear, choice hotels get you more of what you value.
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even the philosophy the law is based on self defense, not family defense. But the dynamic changes when you are protecting yourself and your family from an adversary. How does it change? Well, think about it. You're in a vehicle and somebody tries to carjack you. Well, in self defense, maybe the best tactic, especially if they get the element of surprise jump on you, is to give him the car. But what if your child is in the back of that car? You might have to. You will have to take more risk. And that's what I'm talking about. A single guy can build a pocket dump around himself, but a father or husband has to think in terms of of his capability for his entire family. First aid, great example. You got a tourniquet on person. Guess what? That's not enough. If you're in a rollover accident, me and the wife and the kids were on the way to Hurricane Utah and there was a big accident headed northbound on I15. Turns out it was a fatality accident. Some person or people not paying attention came up on a construction zone, rammed into people flipped into the grass and one of the occupants was thrown from the vehicle and died. How tragic. But if you are alive and your responsibility is to treat your family, that EDC individual tourniquet is not going to get it done. The goal is to be able to solve the first problems that hit your family when normal life breaks down. And a family EDC system should answer simple questions. Can I stop the bleeding for my family? Can I communicate with my family? Can I keep my kids warm? I was on a hunt in Wyoming where the temperature ranges and variations can change drastically based on weather shift from 75 degrees in sunny to freezing. Which is what happened on my elk hunt with my kids, my 4 year olds at the time and if I didn't come prepared by having the right equipment, including my Laura space blankets which I wrapped them in, it would have been a precarious circumstance but I was prepared. Can I give them water? You know that solo grail filtration system is awesome, but it's potentially not enough. Do I have the right vehicle or mobility set up to be able to break contact? Do I have the self defense tools necessary to defend my family? Because that pistol in the Wayspan seven plus one, 10 plus one even 15 plus one maybe it's not enough. So the first lesson is the vehicle that you drive is your family base camp. It's one of my favorite parts of being being prepared is the justification to get out your rig and to have a vehicle that's capable because that is your logistics supply train in that worst case. All right. I think about my time in Afghanistan in 05 doing long range movement to contact patrolling operations in a Land Rover. One of my favorite times in the mill. Beautiful time where we're away from the flagpole. We are living self sustained off a vehicle and now I do similar to that off road and overland experiences. I just bought an awesome RV. Go to my patreon.com Mike Glover Linked in the description down below. I do a walk around of that when I go in the back country with my family. I have to be prepared nearly like I was on long range operations because I'm self sustained and self reliant in the middle of nowhere, away from people, away from infrastructure, away from help in that worst case scenario. So I am my first response. For families the vehicle kit matters more than your pocket dump because you have the capacity, the space, the load capacity to be able to stockpile that rig, to be capable to do the supply run, to break contact from the natural disaster and it needs to be treated Like a mobile support platform. Also it means you could justify that to your wife that we're going to load it out and do all the cool stuff, the first aid kit, the trauma gear, the blankets, the rain protection. In fact, on Fieldcraft Outpost, because you guys have asked me, that's the majority of the things I'm going to talk about. 50% of the survey want that. Jumper packs, tire inflators, basic tools, all the things. The vehicle kit is what turns a breakdown in a storm or a injury or a long delay from a crisis into a inconvenience and not the potential loss of life. One of the highest priorities in the first pieces of content on outposts I'll be talking about is first aid. Why? Because statistically it is the highest probability of you running into as a catastrophe. I've throughout my life have been the first responder on many accidents. I don't know why. I talk to other people and they're like, yeah, I've never really seen an accident. I've seen dozens and in some cases have been the difference between life or death for several people. And in one case I talk about this in a mini documentary. I've talked about it in lessons Learned in first aid. I had the tragic and unfortunate. I say it's fortunate because I was there in the last moments of his life where I was on the scene of an accident that happened to be my team sergeant and a good friend of mine, Walker Booth and his wife's motorcycle accident where I was able to
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the first aid tragically passed away. His wife passed away on scene but was able to be there in the last moments of their lives. Medical should be the anchor of family EDC because injuries are more likely than gunfights, disasters or collapse scenarios. And every family kit, every single one, should have a normal first aid and trauma capability to stop the bleeding. A tactical combat casualty care kit will handle the same scenarios as a accident or disaster. Also, if you overland and off road like I do, there is a probability, a higher probability of you coming across an accident or being involved in an accident yourself. There were times in San Hollow, the national park where we almost rolled over. Now we're intentionally putting ourselves in that situation. But how many people do that and are not prepared? How many people go hunting and are not prepared? How many people go on cross state trips and are not prepared? How many people go hiking, camping, fishing in their rig or RV and are not prepared? Well, you should be, you should be prepared to live and thrive in the long haul. So I'm Going to review some of these kits. But the number one recommendation is a bag, a casualty, mass casualty bag that is going to allow you to treat multiple people that have similar injuries. One bandage, one compression gauze, one tourniquet is not enough. So the breakdown would be a minimum of two tourniquets per person in your rig and having the ability to stop the bleed per person. So add the multiple. One of the kits with no affiliation that I talk about is the my medic kit. And it's amazing piece of kit on top of that. You need systems for kids. It's one of the reasons I recommend the rats tourniquet with the rapid application tourniquet. Where many people are like, is that really good? And there's controversy around it. But I recommend it because it's good for pets and for children, smaller children. I can't talk about first aid without talking about communications, because como gear is one of the most important aspects of overall survival because it's your lifeline, especially when help is needed. And the family that communicates well handles emergencies better. So it's not just comms outside of your area. Over the horizon sat, gsm, cdma, cell phones, even handhelds. It's about communication between you and your family. Let's say you're camped up in an RV site and you're going to go ride your bikes with your kids, leaving one of the spouses behind or one of your friends or family behind. One of the spouses. That would be a Utah thing. Let's say you're leaving your wife behind with one of your children and you're going out with one of your other children, riding bikes. If you don't have a verbal comms check. Who, what, when, where, how? What happens if I don't come back? This is how long I'll be gone. Basic communication. Then you're setting yourself up for failure. What happens when you're gone for an hour and you told your wife you're going to be back in 30 minutes? Is there a contingency plan for what to do just in case? Honey, I'm going out for an hour with our son. If I'm not back in an hour, I want you to try to hit me up on my walkie talkie. If you can't reach me by walkie talkie, I want you to drive to this intersection down the road and, and wait for me. If I'm not there in another hour, I want you to assume that there's something that happened. Here's my route. I want you to go ahead and get in the vehicle and drive down that route and see if you could find me. If I'm not back or you can't find me and we've exhausted that contingency, you need to call for help using our Starlink that's hooked up to an rv. Better yet, if you have an inreach, I want you to go on the other inreach and I want you to try to pull up that communication and see if you could find breadcrumbs of my location or an SMS text on inreach. Your EDC plan should include all the things in a PACE plan. Primary alternate contingency emergency. One of the coolest things that I've reviewed recently is called the POC link radio. There's a PAC one Ultra that does communication over the LTE network, piggybacking off of all the providers, and also allows you to communicate via wi fi and push to talk no matter where you're at in the world. So if you're on a cell phone tower and you're at the house and you're trying to get a hold of your husband who's on StarLink in the RV, you could literally push to talk and talk to him on a walkie talkie with little to no latency. I'll actually link that in the description down below because I think it's important that you guys have options. Is it the end all be all? No, I don't think there is an end all be all. You know, the ham radio guys will tell you mostly that there's an end all be all and it's ham radio. I, I disagree. You have to have all the primary alternate contingency and emergency plans broken down. You, your primary could be your cell phone the entire time. If it works, it works fine. But if it doesn't, what's your alternate emergency? Contact cards. A family rally point. School pickups. A simple code words Pro words are used in the military for operations. Like we use football analogies like kickoff, touchdown. Why? Because we're communicating our intent through a couple words. It's also OPSEC operational security, but we're communicating through a couple words the intent of what's happening on the operation. If you say kickoff, it means we're beginning the operation via the start point. I don't have to say, hey guys, we're beginning the operation via the start point. I get to say kickoff, right? Have your vernacular down. And kids take their cues from adults. If you panic, they tend to panic. If you stay calm, give clear instructions and move with purpose, they settle down. And family preparedness is not just having gear. It's creating enough order that your family can follow you through a bad moment without everyone melting down. In self defense, I want you to think beyond your personal protection with the pistola. It's not enough always in self defense. The scenarios are you are at the gas station, the atm, name it, and the guy comes up to you and says, give me your wallet. That's not self defense. You're likely going to see a whole bunch of things transpire before or, or it's going to snap fast into the worst case scenario where you're fighting for your life and you have to fight for your family's life. And again, the tactical advantage goes to the person who has the tactical advantage. A lot of guys have said, why would I ever use a rifle in home defense? Why would you not use a rifle in home defense? You have more rail space for accessories. You have the ability to mount an infrared laser and use NVGs. Why would I use NVGS in my house? Because you have the advantage of the night. Also you know the layout. So the bad guy comes into your house and you just got a pistolo and you have to use a white light. You don't have the tactical advantage over somebody who doesn't or over somebody who has NVGs. Yeah, I'm going to use NVGs. Yeah, why not? If you have the budget, why not re look your capabilities and elevate your game? And that's the point. Long haul supply is powering Feelcraft Outpost, which is the media arm of educating you on preparedness. It's what I intend to do. I started Fieldcraft Survival because I was looking for purpose. I wanted to give people education,
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understanding of how things work via my experiences. Experiences may vary, opinions may vary. One of the things that I try to do is make Feelcraft a conduit for experts. Individual experts can be found in their verticals, their sole proprietor verticals all over the place. And the answer and the solution is not to find one and to worship them. It is just like I did in special operations. Find as many experts as possible and get their input, philosophy, tactics, techniques and procedures and add what is applicable to my toolkit, my kit, bag. The more the merrier. I will be providing that service on Outpost in the email and education on my Patreon because it's my passion and you should know I am not the end all, be all solution to anything.
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When I learn, I keep an open mind. When I was taught Single man cqb, I thought it was ridiculous until we did simunitions hits and I realized it's an applicable tool to my job. Because I'm alone. I'm in Yemen, in Pakistan, in Iraq with a pistol in my waistband protecting Americans who don't have a lot of capability. And sure I have a skill set from the military, but was based off of a core curriculum of team dynamics. Close quarters battle was always done with multiple players. What happens if you don't have another player? What happens if your spouse is not a number two man or woman? You have to have something. So keep an open mind and continue to learn. It's what I'll continue as a promise to you to push every single day. If you want to support the channel, just stay where you're at. Spread the word. Subscribe. A lot of people don't subscribe to this channel and just know that I appreciate you and everything you do for us. Longhaulsupply company.com Appreciate you guys. Have a good week.
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