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10 Bushcraft & Survival YouTube Channels You Should Watch!
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May 3, 2025
My favorites and my friends: Ugly Tent: https://www.youtube.com/@UglyTent Skills 2 Survive: https://www.youtube.com/@Skills2survive Boondockery: https://www.youtube.com/@boonedockery7220 Killinger: https://www.youtube.com/@KillingerUSA The Modern Minuteman: https://www.youtube.com/@themodernminuteman2557 Evasion Survival Alaska: https://www.youtube.com/@howling.wilderness.alaska
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in today's video I'm going to show you
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10 YouTube channels that are bushcraft
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survival prepping related and I think
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you need to watch them and subscribe to
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them cuz they are awesome and they're
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friends of mine so stick around
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[Music]
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so getting some office work done today
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and I thought I'd do a video and share
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some of the channels that I subscribe to
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and the of people that I actually watch
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and I respect and some of these guys I
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actually know personally camped with
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them hung out with them and then um the
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other guys I haven't met in person I've
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talked to many times online email uh
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through chat stuff like that and they're
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all really good guys um and they have
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great content but they're not these
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gigantic channels uh that are out there
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they're more of what I would call the
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lesserk known under the radar channels
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like mine where they have kind of a
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niche following um but they all have
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great content and they deserve to be uh
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shown more and I want people to know
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about them because I think they're worth
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viewing and watching and I want to share
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them with you so 10
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channels and they cover a really uh
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spectrum broad spectrum of different
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topics but they're all very related to
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the kind of preparedness mindset so
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let's just put that under the umbrella
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preparedness right so under the
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preparedness mindset we have
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bushcrafting skills we have survival we
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have prepping we have minute man uh we
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have all these different you know kind
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of subcategories but they all kind of
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interrelate and it's all about um
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outdoor skills um gear and equipment and
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knowing how to use that stuff and these
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guys will show you a lot of cool stuff a
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lot of cool gear a lot of great reviews
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but also some very good skills and um
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just being out in the woods doing stuff
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they're got these are people that go out
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and actually do things and I respect
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them i admire them i know them and I
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think you should be watching them so
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let's just jump right into it and let me
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show you these channels and hopefully
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you'll subscribe to them and you'll
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learn something now these are in no
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particular order um so we're just kind
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of going to go through what um I have
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saved from these guys and the first one
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we're going to look at is um a channel
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called
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Boondockery actually fits much better
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than the
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ILBE yes I know that's coming from me
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that's almost blasphemy but it does i
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mean it fits very very well and I am
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very confident if I had half the amount
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of kit in the pack as I do right now the
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cool thing about the boondockery channel
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is um this gentleman uh is former
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military um of course he's retired from
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that now uh he has some property I
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believe down in down in southern Ohio
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area he gets out and he does a lot of uh
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campouts field testing of gear he's very
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into military surplus and he likes to
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show you how to modify it how to use it
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he reviews it all the time um he's just
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a really nice guy john is a fabulous guy
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uh very well spoken uh his channel has a
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lot of different um a variety of
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subjects and he's always showing you
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cool things um I can't say enough about
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him great guy and just cool stuff and uh
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you know he has these little videos that
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sometimes just pop up and surprise me
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like he did a whole series on dying u
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military surplus using walnuts and I
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hadn't seen anybody else do that um I
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certainly knew you could do that but
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I've never seen anybody do military
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surplus and he had a lot of great
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success with it and he showed how he did
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it um and like I said very well spoken
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very easy to watch and just he's been
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around for a long time and he has a lot
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of great videos on his
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channel next is a channel called Ugly
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Tent and uh kind of a strange name for a
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channel but uh Kenny who runs this
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channel is I met Kenny a couple well
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actually probably more like five years
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ago um I was on a camp out um down south
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and found out that he lived close by to
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the park I was at so we were texting and
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he came out and met me we went on a hike
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together we chatted um really super nice
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guy um and what's cool about his channel
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is um especially a lot of his earlier
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videos he did a lot of campout stuff
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where he would go out and show you how
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to set up things how to do tarp
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configurations
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um you know he would do these different
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kind of challenges kind of minimalist
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overnights and you know he he will go
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through and show you everything he's
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doing and um when I was getting into
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this stuff I learned a lot from his
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channel and I still do he has uh a lot
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of great ideas he's a very wellspoken um
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smart individual um and he's an author
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he's written some books um uh he is also
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a man of faith and uh he likes to share
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that with people um so he's He's someone
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to watch for sure and I don't think his
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channel gets enough
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love so this is uh Skills to Survive and
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his name is Chris and Chris uh is a
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gentleman that I've known for a very
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long time when I started getting into
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YouTube
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um he was someone I followed and
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basically uh he and also Ugly Tent he
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the three of us we um we did some review
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videos together where we shared
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equipment we kind of did it around Robin
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sent it to each other and did our own
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review of the gear um so I've known him
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for quite a while we chat through email
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every once in a while um he always
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invites me down to the Georgia Bushcraft
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meet to come hang out with him and I I
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haven't made it down yet so I've never
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met him in person but uh I follow him on
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social super nice guy um he has a I
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believe he's a paramedic or has a very
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extensive um first aid background and um
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does that for a living uh but his
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channel um is a lot like mine where he
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does a lot of gear reviews but he'll
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also go out and show you how he uses the
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stuff and how he sets things up and um
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just a wealth of knowledge and he always
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has really cool videos with really cool
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gear and I admire the stuff that he
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shows and does and once again it's one
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of these channels that kind of flies
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under the radar doesn't get the love
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that it deserves but uh you definitely
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need to check out Skills to Survive
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so this channel is called Bushcraft and
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Baseball and uh the reason why I love
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his channel and just love this guy's
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approach to things is he has one of the
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most extensive survival knife
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collections I have ever seen bar none
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plus he has an affinity for woodland
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camo just like me i admire that uh a lot
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of his videos are shorts he doesn't do a
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ton of long- form videos so he does a
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lot of short videos on YouTube and he
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does a lot of Instagram posting but his
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knife collection is it it would blow
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your mind so many cool vintage survival
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knives bushcraft knives i I I can't even
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imagine how many he has i would love one
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day just to go rumage through his his
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house and look at his knife collection
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because I'm sure it is enormous um but
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uh Bushcraft and baseball really nice
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guy uh like all the others um very
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knowledgeable he also does
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a lot of these survival kit videos where
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he'll break down
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and he'll show you everything that is in
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in his kit and I know people love
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survival kit videos because it gives
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them good ideas how to build their own
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and he is a wealth of knowledge on that
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subject um always has the right stuff in
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his gear and pack and he'll show you uh
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how to use it and um how to put it
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together let's talk about the most hated
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axe on the internet
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this guy's the axe guy comments down
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below let me know how stupid I am for
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even messing with this plastic garbage
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it's what they say it's what they tell
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me and also make fun of me so this is a
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channel called Killinger Homestead and
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uh it's interesting i used to camp with
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this guy all the time um back in the day
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uh when I was starting getting into this
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stuff uh he was a Bushcraft USA guy so
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was I on the forums we met and there's a
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group of us that would hang out he was
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from I think he's in northern Ohio uh so
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we used to camp all the time and he and
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I have traded knives and bought stuff
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from each other but he uh moved his
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family out to a
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homestead and um he does uh these videos
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where he will go through and show wood
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processing and axes and chainsaws and
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tractors and so it's stuff that I don't
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have a lot of knowledge of not as much
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as he does so it's it's fun to watch and
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you can learn some stuff he's very
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knowledgeable um very well spoken um his
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does a lot of axe restoration type
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projects um but you can tell he's out
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here doing it he's living living his
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life and he takes you along for the
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journey his videos uh sometimes are long
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so if you like long content uh they're
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great uh he has a lot of those a lot of
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information but he's out here on his on
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his property doing work and taking you
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along and there's no hype um it's you
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know he's that's one thing about all
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these channels I'm showing you these are
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just average guys to me they're people I
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can relate to some of these all right so
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this next channel and the next couple of
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channels we're going to dive into the uh
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category of the modern minute man and
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it's a really interesting subject matter
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because I think you know years ago there
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was a lot of misconception about people
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who did stuff like this um there's been
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a lot of bad press about people who are
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Minutemen or you know in militias and
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things like that well these channels
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that's not it that's not what this is
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about these are individuals who feel
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that they need to be uh tactically uh
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prepared and trained um and need to have
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skill sets that are um more military
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style because if things go to crap like
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they potentially could uh you may have
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to uh you know patrol your property
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looking for invaders or bad guys um you
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need to defend your home defend your
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family uh defend yourself and you need
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to be prepared for that and that's what
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these these two next channels we're
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going to look at what they dive into and
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what they are very very good at and um
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these are not um overly political
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channels by any means they're not
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pushing an agenda uh there's nothing
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like that this is about um taking
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another step in the prepare uh the
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preparedness u mindset um so you know
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you have your food you have your water
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stored you have supplies you have first
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aid training you have survival training
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you know you know how to raise chickens
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and can food and grow gardens but you
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have to protect your property uh that's
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just the reality of things because
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there's so many bad people out there
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with ill intent and these guys are
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showing you how they train and how
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they're getting ready and there's uh
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well let's just get into the channel so
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the first one so this is the modern
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minute man channel uh the the guy who
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runs this is named Jay and he has become
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a friend of mine and um Jay has been
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very instrumental in changing uh my
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mindset or making me more aware of this
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tactical uh approach to things and being
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prepared
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um in that regard and he is a wealth of
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knowledge he is an author uh he's
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written several books um and uh he loves
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to share what he knows and his channel
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dives into gear equipment tactics um all
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this stuff and he's always trying new
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things and he's always willing to share
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with people and he's just he's a very
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intelligent man um very well spoken and
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he does a great job with his channel
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showing you all this different stuff and
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he's out doing it he's out on on this
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property patrolling he's working with
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other guys uh training um and it's a
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fantastic resource and um I actually
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um did a video with him uh last year
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went to his property did a patrol and
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training he showed me some stuff kind of
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taught me a few things and um you know
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I've learned so much from him about how
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to do stuff now this channel is really
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interesting and this guy is an
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interesting dude he lives in Alaska the
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name of the channel is Evasion Survival
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Alaska um I've been following him for
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years and he has had different
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um forums and groups uh he's been doing
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video for a quite a while
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but um his mindset is that you are going
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to fail unless you are not out in the
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woods humping a rock carrying a gun and
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training and that's what he is training
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for he is training in wilderness real
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wilderness situations and areas he is
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out doing real patrols of this
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wilderness with all the gear and he is
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out there doing it now he uh his
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channel's very different than a lot of
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the other guys his his language is very
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salty so you got to be forewarned uh
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that's the way he is and he tells it
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like it is there is no BS
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whatsoever um and you know you can tell
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that this guy is he's the real deal and
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um I don't know a lot about his
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background um I believe he has military
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background in training i'm not sure not
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100% he's very private that way um uh I
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believe his name is Ivar Bergman that's
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Liam he goes by that may not be his real
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name i don't know he's kind of a a
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mystery sometimes and I think that's
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good because um you know he's not um
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he's not out there trying to overly
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promote stuff or make money this is not
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what this is about this is about
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100% sharing knowledge of what he does
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and here he is out in the wilderness
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creeping
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around and then he'll stop here and
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he'll he'll talk and tell you what he's
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doing and why he's doing it but um he's
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taken this whole uh preparedness thing
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to another level and he is somebody who
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is absolutely will be ready when
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something happens in the future he I
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know him because he was following me
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when I first started my channel and uh
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he
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actually commented that he made a
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suggestion for a video to make he said
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"I want to see you do a video about uh I
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think it was like the 10 things you
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would grab when hits the fan." That
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was a huge That became a huge video it's
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a horrible
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video old video not very well done uh it
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was definitely in the early days but
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that's been a very huge video it's got a
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lot of views and so he and I I got to
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know him that way and then he was
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starting his channel or he had a channel
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um and I started following him and his
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stuff is he's just it's very different
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because what he does is he will sit here
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and he goes through um a lot of pocketk
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knife reviews and old pocketk knives and
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restoration of old pocketk knives but he
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also is a fisherman an avid fisherman he
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goes out on these fishing trips and
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he'll take you along with that show you
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about that he does like the bushcraft
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camping stuff he'll he'll do that um but
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right now currently he's doing a lot of
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these uh these knife reviews uh does
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some of the budget stuff like Rough
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Rider so I really like watching this
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stuff because he's you know he he's very
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personable he's a funny guy uh and he's
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not an American um I believe you have a
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lock here you got to go all the way back
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here and do it this is so much easier
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okay
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i really like that idea and I was
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looking at it and I'm going well I
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should know this but I think he's a Kiwi
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i may be wrong maybe he's Australian um
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I sorry if I got that wrong bud um but
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he he's a cool guy but not is it a half
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canoe lockback didn't know what it was i
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had a look at the number and I had to
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look it up here is the tank
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samp for you guys you experts out there
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he's talking about Case Knives
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here it is and he loves spam he's always
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got his spam hat on i love that that's
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that's one thing we share we're both
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lovers of spam so great channel second
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chance George uh check his channel out
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it's growing it does it does very well
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people love to watch his videos just
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because it's he's a wealth of knowledge
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and loves to share all this cool stuff
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that he knows about pocket knives and
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everything else
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the black rubber band so this is a
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channel I just kind of uh recently
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stumbled upon i I should have known this
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guy i I mean I I've I know of him and I
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think he uh follows me and he's on my
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Facebook group
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um and I recently found one of his
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videos and it's this video right here
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where he goes through his get home bag
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okay everybody does a get home bag video
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right millions of them i've I've done
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them um some are great some are horrible
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this is probably one of the most uh
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straightforward common sense videos on
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the subject I have ever seen bar none um
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I just really really appreciate this
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video um and how he did it and he talks
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walks you through everything that he
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puts in his get home bag why he carries
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it it's all very common sense it all
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makes sense um and
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uh you know upon looking more into his
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channel it is very prepping uh centric
19:57
but it's all common sense stuff about
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what you do how you do it the philosophy
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behind things and how he does it um
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another guy very well spoken and I think
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this video it's a long video i think
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it's all one take i mean he I I can't do
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that i stumble and bumble all the time
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but I think he did this all in one take
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really a cool cool channel uh when the
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you got the water tablets in here you
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also want to flip this up open this up a
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little bit to flush the threads u on
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this as well because what can happen is
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is you can get contaminated water on the
20:32
threads the water inside has been
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purified but then the stuff on the That
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that is such that is such a big tip
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right there that just shows that he
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knows what he's talking about these are
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things that I even forget to mention or
20:45
do um but he doesn't he covers it all go
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watch this video subscribe to his
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channel fantastic this is Modern
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Refugee great great great channel
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i have followed this guy uh since I
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started on YouTube and he follows me as
21:06
well so we've known each other excuse me
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we've known each other for quite a while
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and he is kind of instrumental in uh my
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decisions on early on when I was buying
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packs because he had all these fantastic
21:21
reviews of Maxed and Vanquest bags that
21:25
no one else had or they were just I
21:27
thought they were very well done and I
21:29
learned a lot about those packs in
21:31
particular i'm a pack junkie so is he so
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I would go to his channel and learn
21:36
about it and that's kind of how I
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started following him now uh he does a
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lot of uh flashlight reviews really good
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reviews on on this gear and kind of
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really breaks it down and shows you up
21:48
close um about this gear and it's really
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cool and he does he goes out and does
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these outings out this is stuff that
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requires to be outside right it said I'm
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on a tabletop and
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I even though I have more stuff to do on
22:05
a
22:07
tabletop can you hear that i'm actually
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heading to camp number one i'm going
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to So he you know he's out hiking going
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to one of his uh predetermined camps
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he's a East Coast guy he's got the
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accent going but real cool dude um I
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like the stuff he does and you know once
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again it's one of these channels that
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just doesn't get enough love in my
22:31
opinion and it needs to be uh recognized
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for what he um what he brings to the
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table for the community
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so Gear Review
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Depot all right so these are the
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channels that I watch I follow and that
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I love and um I would really appreciate
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if you give these guys some love because
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YouTube's algorithm does not always um
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favor the smaller channels
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and um I would like to see these guys
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get the recognition that they deserve
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because they are a wealth of information
23:05
they are out there taking the time to
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show you
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um and teach you uh and help you make
23:13
informed decisions on things and as I
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always say knowledge is power it's very
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important um and if you can learn
23:21
something on YouTube before you have to
23:23
go out and do it or you have to go out
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and buy it that's a big plus and these
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guys are helping you with that and they
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are just they're just fun channels to
23:30
watch and they're just something
23:31
different out there than all the the
23:34
mega channels so give these guys a
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follow um if you like my content do the
23:39
same for me um subscribe i try to post
23:43
once a week at least um also hit that uh
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23:49
notification to let you know when the
23:51
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those guys as well check out my socials
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uh Facebook group uh Instagram i have a
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web page with some information on there
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um and as always thanks for watching and
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we will see you next time on the
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Prepared Wanderer
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living with your firearm having your
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firearm out with you when you're camping
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when you're doing work cutting wood
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whatever it's a whole another ball game
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when you're living with your firearm
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it's something that if you haven't done
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it you should try it because I'm here to
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tell you you're going to learn a lot
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you're going to learn how heavy these
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things are and you're going to learn um
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