Ed Calderon's Everyday Carry (EDC) Pocket Dump with a Navy SEAL

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okay yeah and let's see what you got well I'll take it . a lot of weird stuff um a lot of the stuff that I

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is based on experiences both my own and some of the experiences shared with me by former students by people that I've learned from by my mother you know a lot of things.

The things I wear have a lot of cultural meaning and are also kind of a reflection of where I am from. I'm from a place where it's very hostile. I was born and raised in Tijuana and you can learn a few things. I grew up skateboarding, uh, I was a punk rock kid, you know, growing up, a lot of the ninja stuff I learned early on was related to breaking into places, you know, breaking into places to skateboard, that was the first kind of introduction I had. In some ways, the macgyver side is nice, so one thing from the beginning we found out if Tijuana is the best escape and evasion equipment you can have with yourself.

You know, money, money, skateboarding was a crime, you know, not

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ing an ID. It's a crime and the municipal police would pick us up and put us in the back of the truck, you know, and they'd give us a ride and we'd have to pay, which is something I always recommend to nice people. What I want to find out is when they travel, when they move, find out what specifically the value is in the place they travel to. They are currently traveling around the US so I typically carry a very specific traveler debit card that I can use for purchases is not tied to any of my finances and I just cash out in kobudera somewhere, I just take the card , you know, and some places and some situations will only require cash, so one thing I always tell people is to carry value with them if they can cash out. one way you can carry value another way you can carry value is, uh, gold now used to be another at another time for another in our times in other parts of our history where people carried value with them in the form of jewelry, rings , stuff like that. nature that they might bother with they might sell uh they can trade um these have gotten me out of some situations in the past is uh there are some places in the world where you know these will buy you more things than that you know and some situations in the world that might be the case, you know, people consider jewelry not just as an item of uh, you know, that accentuates your awareness of your wealth and like people know it, but it's actually capable of carrying wealth with you in this thing of This way is something I try to do myself.

I've found myself in situations where I need to pawn some of this or sell it to make it a pretty good way, an interesting way to get money. How long have you been? with you, how much would you take with you in certain places? It is region specific and depends on the region. Personally, I like to think of it this way. I carry a budget with me to get back to where I need to be right, whatever that may be. maybe you know you can do your numbers uh pretty quickly, you know you do it using a travel app, uh, you can figure out what that budget is for you, you know, break down the emergency case, okay and the last little one I have.

For you, this is a small RFID black dot. These are made by a company called Four Tech Five. Amazing little records. Basically, it is an RFID chip encased in hard plastic. You can swallow this and take it out. Don't ask me how. Know that what you do is programmable. You can take your smartphone or your travel phone and program things like websites, geolocation, geotags, information numbers, medical information, things of this nature that you can store on disk like this, so this is a way to transport . wealth with you, so it's like a USB stick that doesn't exactly look like a thumb drum, so the first time I saw them, they were something of this nature that was being used to smuggle prepaid cell phone card numbers into the prison system in Mexico. so they can then export people overseas and I took my notes and then this company started making them so I quickly saw the value of something like this currently this thing has about 200 in credit for a total that you can have. with you if you need to make a deposit, there you go, don't spend all that in one place.

I'll try not to. I have a question when it comes, you have the gold, you have money, money, you have the rfd chip with uh with uh credit, there you guys are getting into some bitcoin and carrying that around with you? I know it's like it's a big quick payday for the cartels. Yeah, I mean, it's uh, you know, cartels are some of the criminal groups that I deal with. They have gotten into cryptocurrencies, it is something they have reached, but they diversify their portfolios. You know, one of the main things they're working on right now is metals.

You know, a lot of the places are hit hard in the Sonora area. region where the cartels are taking control, are they actually specifically targeted because of their ability to produce gold and much of the money that is smuggled from the US to Mexico? They are no longer making hay bales for cash. We're making gold or cryptocurrencies yeah so it's a different game yeah some things are evolving it's funny because it's becoming widespread and that's one of the things you know our government is upset about because it's a narcoinsurgency. as a phenomenon, it's providing a quantum leap when it comes to some of the strange techniques that are coming out of it, again, a focal point of research, when it comes to counterterrorism, and you know the usefulness. utilization of drone technology, drone technology for attacks down there, uh, it's in uh, Mexico is basically a wild west laboratory, a lot of things that are like learning that down there, are being put into practice, you know, that's a lot of stuff that I take and then I show it to people, yeah, specifically law enforcement people on the state side who have never seen that here, but they will know, so some of the things What I'm introducing are things like that, you know?

Stuff like this is a great idea. This right here is a great idea. We've been experimenting with that and also provide medical information for people in a specific location if you're traveling with a group that can be scanned if you can't memorize. something that you can put in there a lot of the things that I carry that I consider essential also being honest, these are a lot of the things that I actually carry with me through the airport uh, all the things that I'm going to show you except for one thing, it's not tsa insurance uh value tsa insurance that I can travel with and that I can travel with across borders, that's not the problem with that, there is another essential element that I have used a lot in my life, uh, it is the medical management teams and One of the ways we learned to take things south was through training with Americans returning from the initial advance in Afghanistan and Iraq.

They came back with an incredible experience when it came to medical management. Some of these people were coming. back and we could still see the moon dust on them and they were showing us some things we didn't know, you know, we were one of the first operational units in Mexico to carry tourniquets, they didn't. I didn't recognize them, I'm talking about 2005, it was an era of five, 2006, they didn't recognize what they were like in the hospitals where we put people inside the hospital who had a tourniquet and the doctors came out. You know, scalding us for using something that's prohibited, yeah, and one thing we quickly learned is anything related to carrying a tourniquet in a plate carrier.

We were traveling around the sun a lot, so the sun would affect some of the functions of the plastics. If we moved in places where any tactics would give us a path and draw attention to us, it would be dangerous, so we learned this from some of the contractors and guys we were working with in terms of training at the center. line towards the left leg uh, carrying the tourniquet fully expanded now the reason we would carry it like that was this assault, we couldn't carry a lot of things on our belts so we just carried it down the pant leg if we had someone who was there specifically to deal with medical driving situations, you can carry three or four tourniquets in your pant leg, no problem, you can pre-install them if it's specific to each teammate, we went with high visibility, high visibility because after putting some of This happens in and in dark environments and people start rolling and it becomes a mass casualty event.

You quickly realize why high visibility is very important when it comes to turnstiles. Black is cool, he's tactical and he's cool, but I think these things have to be personal. They need to be high, also psychology, color psychology influences these types of things out there, we have had cases of students who returned with negative experiences wearing black tourniquets that look tactical, look like paraphernalia related to firearms, tactical equipment that is They come back Questioning more during country inspection points makes sense and also realizing that if you put this to someone in the world you may be practicing medicine in one place and that could lead to more problems.

Are you going to solve this? Some elastic versions of some large elastic tourniquets sold commercially have been misinterpreted as drug paraphernalia by certain governments, which has led to people being put in a detention site for a while, you know there's no, I mean, to me I personally like the high visibility. um this is just the product of just years of doing things in places where I depend on some of these things and uh I want to attract a lot of attention so this is what I'm going for I mean it makes a lot of sense because if you don't bring your equipment , then it doesn't need to be.

If it's an essential item, it doesn't have to be in your backpack, it doesn't have to be in your car, it has to be with you and that specific part of your person usually isn't like that, there aren't many, maybe there's a weapon. fire on this side, there are safe alternative uses for that ratchet strap, you can use it to bend certain types of bars that are not hardened steel that you can find. There is in the world, put the tourniquet on two steel bars or two pieces of metal that are separated, start breaking them, that's enough leverage to maybe bend or burst something, so it's actually a breaking device and it can You can use it as a breaching device in some situations, you can also use it to try to hold two doors together in a hotel if you find yourself in a situation where you need to barricade yourself somewhere and it's a pretty good and interesting improvised restraint if you know what I'm doing. doing that is all I'm going to say.

I usually like to carry things that are multi-purpose, so that's what makes this, if you don't mind, ask you. I haven't seen this. This is a soft tourniquet. a force gen off um thing we like about them was that the metal reel the plastic didn't lasta lot in the sun out there uh and again we were using things over and over again because we didn't have a Supply Chain like you have here, like you would wash a tourniquet and re-wrap it and reuse it, so it wasn't a one-time thing. single use, it was definitely effective, or another part of the medical equipment. what we would carry was the single flat wrapped uh single package for our personal use um beacon uh beacon

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the chest cheeto gaz specifically the new cheeto guys that have some antimicrobial capabilities this is good we've tried it uh when you talk about being in an environment where maybe If you have to deal with something long-term, you want to resolve something with us, as far as you know, for long-term field care, there are a lot of books and a lot of instructors that are quite influential in my life, that showed me I told myself some of the benefits of this packaging gauze, of course, and this packaging gauze, usually what I do is I just cut, cut a line and take it out like it's a piece of uh, if it's like a toilet paper dispenser or dispenser of napkins, you can start peeling it all off so you don't have to throw it over your shoulder, it doesn't pile up on the floor outside, you know that's something I tend to carry with me, they're great and It's also one of the things that I use a lot and of course new, it's safe if you have a shirt, if you have something that has labels on it, it's a good place to put it, the hemostat is fine, just clipped on, these are good for a lot of things.

Apparently they can also go through a pig's torso if you like that TSA secure equipment, medical administration approved, hold a bleed, stop a bleed, hold a bleed, if people don't know what they are, get some training , there are incredible people. out there that you can train with uh these are essential items again always on my person it's not something I have in my backpack it's not something I take anywhere else these are my person the only time they come off is when I pass a point of inspection maybe a TSA or a border protection agency or something like that going to a country but you migrate to a backpack and put it back on well, another thing to keep in mind with all this, the people I travel with know where There's most of these things are because if something happens to me, my secrets are just that they won't be good with me dead, you know, yeah, so it's something that I try to achieve some uniformity with people, um, what else do I have on my person? we cover uh we cover financial financial you know financial value transportation value monetary value with you that can buy me most of the things that I need, yes, that's one of the purposes, that's why you usually show it at the beginning because that solves a lot of problems, but if For some reason that's not going to solve any problem, I carry health insurance.

The money can increase health insurance if necessary. You know if that could buy me other things if I need a good idea forever. keep in mind when you travel you know where to get things you know what is legal you know there are no bribes available or appropriate there you know if you want to go to Mexico you can get a you know you can get most things there are always bribes available bribery is available mainly outside the United States complex. You have to remember that when you travel, your concept of normal stays at home and you can't travel with it.

Also, their bill of rights and constitution generally don't work in others. countries, so keep that in mind too, so your concept of normal has to change. You know, normal is a fluid concept. When you travel, it has to change. Another item that I always try to gather for myself is an essential item that I have had. Heard about this, a cutting implement now. I think I consider knives to be an essential item. I have tactical knives. I also carry quality knives. I'm not saying this is the best knife or the best option for anyone. What I'm saying is this.

If you want to talk about things that have a body count, most of the knives you will see in the testing rooms are cheap, like cheap gas station knives or kitchen knives, the Ak-47 of the knife world is a knife for 89 degree meat. They sell a warm Walmart with an injection molded handle and that shows up everywhere like a murder weapon. Now we are not talking about emulation, but realize that if you want to be armed anywhere, the easiest thing to do is get something to arm yourself with and, if history has shown us everything, the best weapons when it comes Some of the people who are not officially warriors or who are not part of an army or military are generally farmers. tools or tools that become weapons, that's how things generally progress, so you can go to a place where a tactic that you know, not a spring-loaded knife, will be completely prohibited, but you can buy this at Walmart, you know. pioneer woman floured knife, this knife outperformed equivalent tactical folding knives and fixed blades worth $300,800 but $300,400,800 uh and stress tests in terms of stabbing a pig's torso and stabbing parts of it in ways very specific, this one beat all of them and it costs about seven to eight dollars oh at Walmart this cardboard some friction tape or duct tape if you have any of that bougie uh and carry it uh like my mom used to carry it one two three nice and when you want to extract it pull that and it goes into your hand, well what about the head of the sheath that you stab through the sheath?

It's not intended for anything other than holding the blade in place, yeah right, where did I learn this from people who use this type? of things uh, if you want to learn about stabbing, if you don't want to learn about modifying items like this and carrying some things like this, you won't get that in a dojo, you usually won't get that. That martial arts thing you're going to get from some people who have a living methodology behind them, the people who live through these kinds of things, so a knife is usually at the top of the list of things like Don't get make it safe, uh, but no, uh, you always get this question, hey, yeah, like you feel safe traveling, even if it's a checkpoint or a safe space, uh, safety is an illusion, anyone who's really provided security at places, uh, and facilities and things like that. normally you know you can take care of a lot of things, but a lot of the things that we're actually doing in security theater to try to convince people that they're safe, you know, the best way to have a gun with you at any time.

The place is knowing how to make and transport the things to make that weapon. Sharp objects are the easiest manufactured tools humans have created to kill each other. Yes, you can ban guns, you can ban knives, but all I need is a piece of carpet and uh and a crystal bic pen uh the carpet provides enough friction to sharpen your crystal lipstick into a basically needle shaped hypodermic needle now this will go into something like this quite easily with enough with a little bit of force now that basically did you're a plastic hypodermic needle using the carpet, yeah, now why would you need to do something like that?

Why would you show something like this to people? uh 21, 22 years old you know student traveling internationally trying to do something surplus any good advice for humanity and she had three of these put in her

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someone tried to grab her one of these went through the hand of whoever tried to grab her uh something interesting about that later we learned that because he was arrested it's hard to detect them inside your body with an x-ray yeah an added bonus I guess I don't know this is a scam this is a concept this is a weapon component based, something you can carry with you, modify it slightly and it becomes a weapon, oh ed, why not use the pin as is?

I've seen people with that I've seen it too, trust me, you put a hypodermic thing in there, go straight ahead now, why would you need to know things like this? Yeah, well, you also have a doctor there too yeah, sure, yeah, it could be a crying knife, it could be crying if you know what you're doing, it could also be something meant for decompression if you know what you're doing, but this is an example of a modified object of environmental origin that someone can make and knows how to make something like this. I mean, again, I'll show you.

Simply kneel on the mat. You can put an angle on it pretty quickly. Because? Would you need to know any of this? You know that knowledge is power and it is. You know, you know yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, if a wolf kills a sheep, the sheep doesn't eliminate, the rest of the sheep won. They don't remove teeth to try to prevent wolf attacks from happening, you know, that seems to be the idea that many Americans have right now, yes, in places where things are becoming less permissive, even in the far reaches of this country, You know?

Things like this seem like news to some or seem like a fad to others, uh, but they have a living history that is undoubtable. You know these things are out there. People know how to use some of these things in a very nefarious way. In this way and when I show things and give them in public it is for nothing more than to show people that they are capable of being armed anywhere, which is a freedom they have, with which they are born, which I really like. what you're posting here because I don't hear a lot of brands, I hear a lot of mentality, yeah, a lot of outside the box thinking.

I work outside the vault, I mean, I'm a knife pioneer, I don't. making money with a pioneer woman we were not related in any way it's just something that performed amazingly in the class and I could be the guy who says hey my knife is better than yours this is my design I have to be honest with him. the fact that this thing outperformed most knives there it's a tool it's a tool first and then it turns yeah and you know, it's one of those things that our ancestors used to live off of tools and they designed things in a very specific way because they use they were not a trick they were not something they carried and they took a photo next to their cup of Starbucks coffee it was something they carried to use my mom carried a kitchen knife every day and used it as a tool and when someone tried to go after my cousin she rightfully stabbed him he just changed his mind he said tool well let's get away from me too yeah I personally like having options uh I think the ability to protect yourself and your family and having the means to do so should be an internationally protected human right most places suffer human rights violations of the type of an oppressive force or group.

The cartel members the government usually targets or live off of an unarmed population and people need. It's like figuring out the relationship between disarming a populist and then turning the population into a resource. I hope they resolve it here before it's too late. Sometimes these episodes can be quite long and will always keep you on the edge of your seat instead of sit here and watch it alone, why don't you go to vigilanceelite.com, buy yourself some company and get yourself some Vigilance League gummy bears are they not bad? Another interesting part of the things that I show people how to carry and what to carry and why they carry uh we just went through the gun side we just went through I mean I travel I travel all over the country and internationally so Realistically, having a gun with me 24/7 is not something like that, no it is not not available or appropriate for me in most cases, so I have to make do with what I have and Another thing that I usually ask people to discover and wear for themselves and these are accessories, is what I now call what an accessory is. prop is a social engineering tool and it is also a social engineering exercise device.

Now a lot of us, you know, don't get out much and that's okay, every once in a while I run into people that I train who have millions of dollars in government training. they jump out of planes they blow up doors they do a lot of cool things and they have incredible training and incredible experience but you put them in a corner to try to beg for 20 dollars from the environment in an hour and they just fall flat on their face why it's a different skill set it's a different thing being scary and being big and composing is not something you want if you want to beg for money now hey ed why teach people to beg?

It's an amazing way to teach people how to take a step back, you know, shut down some of the things that we instinctively have with us, sometimes as men, and even some of the women sometimes, what are some of the elements of that? I carry it with me or show people how to wear it well. One of them is just a plain pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. Now you know. Hey, people don't smoke anymore. Oh yeah, they just don't. Generally, people who do think. The fact that people no longer smoke tells me a lot about your social and economic status and about where you move in the bubble and you know that if you lose your house keys you won't lose them, you won't just look for your keys under the lamp.

KnowThat's not the only place you can look for the keys. You know, and if you prepare for your living situation outside of your living situation, there may be things that you're not familiar with or that you're not familiar with. I didn't find it, this is a social lubrication device, it's also a resource, it's also a payment method, it could be many things, right, uh, I don't smoke, but I smoke like you hold a cigarette in a very specific part of the world . It means you are a local, an expat, or someone who doesn't belong there. A simple thing like lighting a cigarette in a certain environment will attract the trust of certain people.

It will allow you to enter smoking circles, for example. This is just an example of something. that might give someone the opportunity to practice some of these things on a daily basis to interact with someone start a conversation with a random stranger maybe a lot of us turn that off because we're stuck on the tile, you know, because people suck because that guy, that guy smells like patchouli and it's weird and what would he have, what would he have to show me, yeah, of course. We get into that bubble, which is a weakness and a strength would be relating to people in certain environments, but now what effect does that have in the long term?

I mean, this can give me some of that under the right conditions. yes, it's an element of software, it's a social engineering device, a package of these has gotten me room and board for the night in certain places, with conversation started, an element of shared suffering, hey, we're the only two smoking in the room, yes, good. There will be a lot of trust between them because all of these people don't smoke, yes, of course, this is an example of something like that. It's an accessory. I usually call them props or you know, social lubrication devices. I always wear something like this.

I, another one might be, you know, a flask of alcohol, uh, have a drink of that in a public place that you know you know on a corner, you know, and it'll endear you to some people, maybe it will. I'll write you off as a threat to others, maybe maybe start a friendship or a conversation with other people too again social holidays that's what they are and then you come up with little things like uh uh two headed coin silver coin hey yeah What is that to you? You're going to scam people with things. Yes, that's another element you can do with it.

But mainly it is an entertainment thing. You know, this. Tap and write something on a piece of paper that people won't know and suddenly a name magically appears. It's part of a trick I play on some street kids from time to time to get back on track and win a friendship or investment. in someone on the ground who can then help me know what to look for, information, information, making friends in environments, a lot of people don't know how to just start a conversation with someone, hey Ed, what's up with the language barrier? Yeah, you know, I've had the opportunity to be with people who are completely from another part of the world and you pull out a bottle of tequila, they understand what that means, you know, you pull out a pack of cigarettes. and you start, they know what that means, um, it's not just about plugging holes and making holes, it's also about making connections, if anything, that's what makes me someone that people look to for some kind of training because I try and not just Be prepared but disruptive and if you want to take over an environment, smile, that's how it's done;

Otherwise, you need to know that you have the backing of a government or something behind you to help you. figure it out, uh, but you can do a lot with little things, you know again, it's about getting comfortable and uncomfortable. I like what you're saying here you know social skills are like a lost art since you know social media came out and uh and And I think it's a lost art from some of the training that I provide to the civilians that I have and they're also members of the armed forces. I do begging exercises where I ask them to invent a prop specific to the street corner they were on.

I'm not going to try to make money before someone says something. I don't use that money for beer, by the way, it all goes to charities, but they raise money from the environment. One of the first things I find with people is a psychological block from doing it like ed I never had to ask for money before I wasn't taught like that at home and I said well I mean it's a privilege to block you like that yeah if your son He was starving. Believe me, you wouldn't just beg, steal and throw, maybe even kill, that's not something you want to know about yourself when you really need it, yeah, a lot of the things I do specifically with some of the city breaks.

The urban survival and urban uh urban movement classes that I do are putting people in a position where they can figure out specifically what makes sense as an accessory in an environment, what makes sense to them in terms of what to verbally approach people with. . as far as giving them, you know, a donation and money, giving them a brochure, you know, one of the best props you can have in the US is a dog, yeah, and a good cardboard sign, a good cardboard sign peculiar, you can make a lot of money, but a lot of people are going to have that mental block of this, you're not supposed to do this, but they're not supposed to do this and then they realize that people make a living with that and not only makes a living with it.

They become very good at reading the environment through it, yes, you learn who the players are, you learn who owns the three corners, you learn to be a passive observer while begging, you learn the social economic status of the environment, you learn . what people tend to keep in their pocket, you know, you learn some things like that in just a certain period of time, we had a class somewhere in the Midwest where law enforcement was part of that class and we during a panhandling We found out exactly how a heroin distribution ring worked in that environment: they were paying for the products and uh uh on the bus and they were picking up the products at the store by two completely separate people who were calling and this guy already paid. this guy you know another good thing about you know social you know social things and like cigarettes alcohol magic you know currency all that kind of stuff is cool you know what everyone wants to talk about ooh the gray man Let's put on a hoodie and let's go over some of what you know, you can't be a gray man all the time or you can be, but the hoodie isn't going to cut it and where I'm going is if you're You know, if York creates good cover for the action, so if you're going to be comfortable as a beggar then that's a great cover and if you have the accessories to be able to make it perfect then maybe you know you want to be one.

You know, I don't know any golfers, yeah, you know, whatever it is that makes you, whatever it is, you're the competitor, whatever you're most comfortable with, one particular item, it's going to be a great cover, make up. a story, invent a prop, develop the skills and also if you're going to develop, you know the people, hey Ed, but are you teaching spies or what are you doing? A lot of the social engineering, a lot of the begging exercises, I do a lot of the urban exploration and surveillance stuff that I do low means low tech stuff that I do uh the question is always like yeah, are you training spies like why are these people learning all these things?

Begging on the corner teaches you a lot of things, specifically how to observe, how to pick up marks. how to come up with a cover story how to make things make sense for the environment actually how to dress for the environment when you have a purpose in the environment and you dress for it that just changes everything now what does that teach you? a lot specifically how to act calmly in a situation where something or someone might question or confront you. I had a student who owns property in Los Angeles walk over some squatters who were quite aggressive and he played the role of a squatter perfectly. because he had already gone through some of the training and had actually been handing out packages of new socks to some of the homeless people in the town around his property with the specific intent and purpose of simply social lubrication, yeah, so he was known. not as the owner but as a guy who went around and gave them now that might seem completely familiar to people, but he saved them a beating at the time and he thought about the battle, he thought about the whole concept that he was showing them about you . you know, passive resistance, you know, passive resistance is something you know again, people want action, you know, you know, sometimes the best fight is the one you don't get into and a lot of the things that I show them to people until now. like begging, reverse purse snatching, social engineering, convincing someone you're psychic, for example, is something I also do in some of the classes.

I have the entire student base chasing down a single individual in an urban environment and basically getting open source information with them on their phones and one of us walks up to him and starts cold reading the individual with an earpiece. Now it's fun to do it, it's an amazing exercise, but it teaches everyone. All the students come out of that exercise and the first thing they do is go to social networks, they start deleting things, they start deleting, there is a lesson in many of these things, the professionals seek to scam you, yes, and one thing that produces is a student. which is quite hardened for that and people want to talk about the gray man, me personally.

I like to talk about the zebra the Tijuana zebra do you know what a Tijuana zebra is I don't uh we don't have zebras in Mexico so we painted donkeys to look like zebras for some reason in Tijuana tourists like to take pictures with them and once in a while and then there are shows out there where you know one shows up, you know, that's all I'm going to say. I once had this surreal and mystical experience of being on a corner in Tijuana and seeing a donkey painted like a zebra walking down the street. street on a Sunday morning and I was watching the shows, what a strange thing to see and no one was looking at it, it was normal, it was completely in its element and then I realized that you can hide all you want, but if you don't No You convince yourself that you are the environment, you are part of it, you are awake, yes, and that takes effort and that is what it is about, that is where this comes into play and the other thing that you are doing makes a lot of sense. with the socks you know you're building trust, yeah, you're being nice to people, you're investing in people, that's probably the best advice I can give you, you know, everyone wants to see enemies everywhere, I like to see friends everywhere, Yes I can, and friendship is an investment that you have to work on, you have to work at it and also realize that part of the investment will not be giving them a car, it could be as simple as carrying a prepaid cell phone with you, already You know, a burner or something and give them. is to give to someone who may not have twenty dollars or less, it might be a drop in the bucket for you, but there is someone somewhere in the world who would kill for a phone, yeah, and would probably punch someone in face by someone who gave him a phone um uh when I did some executive protection work uh um uh recently and one of the first things I do is try to look for a parking attendant, I try to look for an important idea, I try to look for a someone who is in charge of the environment and I invest in them.

One of the things I would normally give them is a smartphone, something cheap, something I bought online, maybe 100 smartphones, something with a cell phone chip that you know, it's unlocked and I tell them. Hey, can you keep this phone? It has credit and you can keep it after we leave. I just need someone I can call for awesome information. The best source of local intelligence created instantly just by giving the gift of a phone. Very good idea, um, other things, you know, I'm known for counter custody and escaping from restraints, um, I didn't go through any psychic training, not level one, level a or c, not the one you do on the computer or the They kick you somewhere, what I did was basically be in the middle of the abduction, the abduction capital of the world during the time I was working there, and I had to learn not only from the people who kidnapped individuals, but also of some. the people who escaped, I got to learn a little bit about how tools are made and hidden and I got to see things live, things like tool migration, now tool migration is an interesting concept, it's something I don't see lots of people talking. specifically in the weird thing that you know, seeing or escaping an Asian type community, people want to hide something on their person and have it ready there, they want to go through checkpoints, they want to go from their house somewhere in Tennessee to Baja and they only have their stuff with them, the problem is that they have to go through multiple inspection points and if one thing is found, everything might be found, you know, think about going on a flightinternational and they find you a key, a handcuff key when you arrive in Korea, yes, there will be some time, you will need to figure things out correctly.

The ripple effect of the dominoes, so one of the things I try to instill in people is the ability to build to build and do. I give someone a handcuff shin, which is a small piece of steel that you can use to bypass the functionality of certain handcuffs. It is an incredible tool. Giving someone a better tool is teaching them that you can do that with something like a set of pliers from the inside of a Swiss Army knife, which is the best fake you can use to escape from handcuffs, or teaching them hiding to hide something like that. on their person, they already have it, you know, simple things like this, these pants are not. special in some way, yes, but all of these Levi's already have a strap built in so the handkerchief can hide there nicely so you can open a pair of handcuffs that aren't locked with a secondary lock, why? you hide it right there, well usually one is none so I usually hide two, one in the front, one in the back so I can access the front and the other one is no another reason why I hide it there because it's close of a rivet. the in the uhen the pants, so if I get scanned or patted with Garrett's wand, it will be masked, it will mask its magnetic signature by being hidden near an existing piece of metal that is already in the pants and also, when you do a frisk, it will be hidden by a physical barrier for detection by having fabric over it so that it has multiple layers of concealment in that small space, yes, and I learned it from a 15-year-old boy in Sona Norte who was a clutter seller.

Oh, it went to the whole summary of why I would hide something in a very specific place and that's a product of the living environment, you know, another new product, combined environment, it's a ceramic razor blade, uh, non-ferrous, you can't detect it with a surgical metal detector, um. piece of friction tape, uh, stuck in the mouth, uh, undetectable, uh, you want to talk about an essential element? Cutting instruments are quite difficult to make or craft if you don't have the right tools, so that's one of those things that is always available. You know, it's a little ceramic razor blade, so it's like a medical scaffold.

Yes, it is made of ceramic, so it will never show up in a metal detector. It appears as a dense object. Also, it's a square, so it doesn't have this. discernible sharp object, look at it like this and uh friction tape on the blade stick it between your teeth uh probably not the safest thing on the planet, but you can talk about tool migration. I'm going to search, put something in his mouth, search, spit it out, put it back, move on and again, that is the methodology that some of the nefarious people out there practice every day and if it is new to you or you have never done it Seen before, now you know, so if someone spits something in your hands you're probably better off running or gunning if you have the option, does that make sense?

A lot of the things that I show, things like this, there are two, there are two reasons why I would show something like this to arm people. the right knowledge, the skill set to apply this themselves and two to recognize it when it is applied against them. It takes one to know which one you want to train a group of ambushers. I have counter-ambushers. You have to teach them to be the best ambushers. planet first the same concept you know you want to teach them how to fight to fight or protect themselves against the bad men out there you're going to have to turn them into bad men themselves it's very slow so I have a question about this right? here I can see that for just a second there are all these medical scaffolds made of porcelain, which is made of ceramic, ceramic, so ceramic is brittle and breaks, it's almost like glass, but specifically it's a cutting tool that doesn't you need. a lot to cut something how much skin emerges between the outside world and your carotids approximately that amount that these are being used by gangs in the world for mutilation for intimidation as a weapon as a means of constructing a weapon um Also, the cutting instrument is one of the essential elements that our ancestors always had.

That's why there are a lot of arrowheads all over the country. The cutting instrument is an essential element and is one of those elements that is prohibited the most. and more so when you're out in the world, so again, this is a product of these little ceramic blades hidden in various places placed in a band-aid that you know, stuck, you know, deeply hidden, including being locked in a press of leeward. -on type nail in someone's hand to hide it and penetrate multiple layers of security in some pretty high security places. Yes, these things are interesting in terms of the possibilities they could bring to someone.

Furthermore, the shape is not threatening. put that behind an anti-theft device label for a blu-ray or a video game and it's gone, you can stick it like a label on a book again, but now you have a kind of phone cover on your phone between your phone covers on your phone , I mean anything that's in the shape of this little square, yeah, now you have a cutting instrument with you, you know, in case you need it, and another essential item that a lot of people, a lot of our ancestors used to wear. carry with them that kind of loss uh over the years it's cordage just a piece of cord right, how many times have you found yourself on the knee for a piece of cord? this is a uh catholic uh scapulari or scapular when we were working one of the first things that some of the older kids gave me was a scapular uh of the holy death and the reason they gave me something like that is because the enemy that is what they would carry and That's the faith they had, so they were very interested in fighting fire with fire, so they would give this to all the new kids to scare them.

You know, it's a psychological thing. When we used it, we saw the power of having. About the people we were dealing with, sometimes people would see us and see what we were wearing and they wouldn't know who they were dealing with in a way, so it had an effect. We quickly realized that we can replace. a lanyard on those traditional scapulars with something made of kevlar, this lanyard is made of the same thing, they make body armor with very good heat and tensile resistance, specifically what you would need if you wanted to cut something. like uh, zip dice and that's the first way, that's the first reason you made them, we would use them to open the zip ties of the people we would arrest, that's what it was for, it wasn't for anything related to county custody anymore forward. in life we ​​realized and that they had a function that they could be used to cut one's ties if you were in a situation like that which led us to try to hide things that you know, a quarter-high waist, which is accessible from the bottom and We would make these friction saws with some of this expandable kevlar cord, so two loops for your feet create friction or two loops for your hands if you want to grab someone.

The interesting thing about this cord is that it will cut plastic. but it also cuts meat if you like, it can also cut seat belts, making it a self-rescue tool. This could cut the steering column into the plastic on some cars if you want to access something like a car's steering column. you know, the '90s Honda, you know, if you want to start cars or the pre-'95 Ford F-150, well, um, we can also put this over the arm of an industrial door to block it from closing, um, you can use it like a modified restraint for someone, you can use this for a lot of things and if you have kids, give them some of this and wrap up their Christmas toys and a bunch of zip ties and just watch them learn a set of skills that you might know, save them for later in the life and if you want I can demonstrate using this.

I'll absolutely take you, I'm sure we'll have to set it up now. We will do it in the moment. in the end, I'm sure that's something else and, uh, an interesting little object, uh, speaking of component-based objects or things that you can build or create, this is a Home Depot, all the components that are here are purchased at Home Depot, you know, the choco. famous chocos that's what we used to call nunchucks in Mexico what is it is two links of steel water pipe with base two metal washers and a wire a garage like a tow line wire type cable cable wire um handles to jump the rope that's what they're right that's how they are transported, where you can carry the extended component, the way you put it back together, all the parts from Home Depot, washing machines hold their structure well and when you're done, it's gone, it's a component.

Again, why would you show that to anyone? It's great to be able to set up anywhere in the world. Two criminals know this. They have weapons that arm and disarm. They take it apart and knowing what something like that looks like is interesting training. experience for law enforcement, for the military, for civilians who are actively trying to protect themselves and their families, and for anyone who wants to have a better knowledge base and skills as to how to recognize some of these things, it is not about of emulating a criminal activity, it's about It's about reflecting it and reflections are usually done the other way around and we want to reflect the knowledge that we get from it again, it's not about emulation, it's about reflection when you see what worries you, what What you fear, you recognize it. learn how to react better, I think that's a better course of action, where did you come up with that?

That's something I saw, there's a friend of mine, he's a boss, uh, NSW, boss, uh, tracker, dan, sanchfield, uh, he showed me That was something like that a while ago and I've been slowly building some elements like this one and modifying them a little bit for my own use during my trips around the country and showing them to people, um, and it's out there. he learned it from someone you know, yeah, it's out there. I mean the creativity and critical thinking you put into your edc is pretty amazing. You can just, if you don't have anything, you can create something and you can create something that is momentary and could be gone the next day because I don't know if people understand what that could mean to someone if you don't have it. you have options, you know, and usually these are the options of people who don't have options, they're desperate, you want to talk about someone to worry about and worry about someone who can arm themselves anywhere wherever they go, they don't have cash.

They will make it in any of the three corners They don't have a weapon They are the weapon They can create the weapon They can make the pointy object They know where to locate the staff They can befriend the people around your house and gain access to some information about you, you know who can go online with your multiple catfishing accounts and discover open source information about you and I have students do all of that in a training environment so they can be better prepared to recognize it when they find out again. take one to nobody, I like, uh, your cable that has I'm sorry, the emblems on them, yeah, because if I heard you correctly, you know, um, that's one mind for everyone, right, basically no, that's it, that was that.

It was what it was just with me, I mean, people see a lot of the Santa Marta iconography that I use. It's a cultural thing. It's also a thing of cultural pride. I come from a place where that, you know. It's, it's, it's, there's a reason why death is a woman in Mexico, you know, because what a woman is a woman, the image of a woman is someone who gives life, so death has to be someone. , uh, that's a woman and the image, uh, was specifically for that. We're fighting a scary group and this is what they believed in, so we put it on ourselves and it can also confuse a certain population, so one thing I used to do at the agency and in extracurricular activities is like Like We were talking before, you're not always going to be a great man, you're not always going to fit in, so one thing I would do is go to an area where I just don't belong, I'm not going to look like a local beggar if I go to Colombia, anymore.

You know, as a white kid that goes to the worst neighborhoods, no American goes to Columbia to panhandle, so what would you do in certain scenarios like you would? dressing too confidently, you know, going into those areas with a rolex on, a pair of two thousand dollar sunglasses, a pair of, you know, any nice shoe dressed to perfection because it confuses them and they don't know what is. I don't know if I should rob this guy or run from them, it's disturbing. Sometimes if you trigger a stimulus that is completely off baseline and some of these people are used to it, they will freak out.

You know things I've done myself where having someone approach you with the first intention and suddenly start recognizing someone as someone you know for some reason and just stopping someone because it was you. I know the intention was to rob you and the intention was for you to be the victim, almost like you turned to them like, hey, I know you just start toTo get their attention, you start talking about knowing them for some reason, which creates a momentary pause. For some people, yes, it may be enough for you to run the other way. Now these things take practice and if you didn't grow up in those places, if you didn't go through the life of a neighborhood rat, if you had it.

You know, if you had a good childhood, you know, some of these things may not come naturally to some, some people have this naturally, you know, they come to a class and it's about remembering more than learning, whatever it is. in what you know how to remember. the first fight most people never go through is showing up for training, that's the first fight most people will never go through and the second is the actual flying and you know you don't want to learn any of this stuff. When you need them, it's probably a better idea to get comfortable with the uncomfortable before you get to the point where the learning curve will be against you.

Yes, you have to be able to do it. You are also describing the ability to adapt to certain environments and I know that necklace is not going to work everywhere. Why do you know that overconfidence in the dress is not going to work everywhere? Not me, that's not going to work. Yeah, you know. At a country club, no one cares about everyone wearing a Rolex, you know, so being able to adapt and understand the mindset behind what you're doing in a particular environment is extremely critical. You dress for the party and if the party goes. to be in Mexico you dress for that party if you dress for this type of handcuffs, they will be available in the environment you dress for the type of restrictions that might be possible there you dress for the medical threats that could be available there you carry what you need in the environment, you don't carry what you want the environment to need from you, you don't and sometimes all it takes is a quick online search on Facebook and entering a community of expats from the environment you are in.

You'll be moving, so not only will you develop a good working knowledge of what it's like to move there, but you can also have some contacts about what you're going to do there and can see what's normal. there, what's out of the norm, there, you can use geotag locations on social media to go specifically to the place you plan to visit and actually see the people there on videos and see the people, what what people wear, what to look out for, how to dress, not locally, but dress appropriately, which is quite important in some places and people miss that note and you don't have to spend years training, this is a lot of things, I mean , it's something I put people through in two. days and you get a good working knowledge of some of these things in terms of being able to apply them and also being able to transfer them in small ways to your children and your loved ones because that's very important.

Part of it is also that these skills need to be transferred to my mom and a lot of them I learned from kids, criminals and people I was fighting, but I never made the mistake of dehumanizing them, they could be the enemy, they could have done something horrible to her. to some of my friends and some of the people I used to work with, but they are still teachers, yes, and you have to, you have to, you have to always keep that open mind with each other. the other half is doing and that's what I'm putting mine well uh some other items I want to show these are again extras and change your pocket and then if you're a member of law enforcement you know be careful . for these ones that change your pocket and also just hancocky uh this little thing is very sneaky and has been through multiple searches uh from various law enforcement professionals uh that when I demonstrate and hide things in your change like knives for coins or things so old school stuff again that's inspired by some of those old school coin knives the oss used to make too changing your pocket you know, armed in your pocket again hard to spot hard to find hard to see specifically in your pocket another small The item I recommend to people are these personal alarms.

You can put one in your bag and one on your belt, so if your bag gets separated from you in a nice restaurant, you can hide it somewhere and put it behind you so that someone wants to sneak up on you, you can hear them, you know, door detector, door alarm, something you can give to your child when you are out in the world, put a monkey knot on them and let them know if they have any problems at any time. At any time they can pull on it and you can tell it's pretty loud, it won't turn off unless you put it back on, so this little device on one of your kids' belt tells them about it, don't let them play.

Just if something happens, throw it away, there are lots of ways you can use this, a little personal alarm, not just for jogging, and it's a cool little device that you can carry with you, extra security, that is, it's a personal alarm. There are several types of them online. I recommend people buy this one. It is a generic brand alarm. He is a boss. It is a fairly cheap electronic alarm online. Another thing I recommend people buy is for travel specifically if you see a lot. from hotels is something called a saber wedge, it's basically a door wedge and an alarm system at the same time and in the same package, any manipulation of the door will activate it and there are other things you can do with it that we can't .

We'll talk about this here, but that will probably be for another program and this little object is a pen testing device. It basically sends Wi-Fi handshakes, so it blocks certain Wi-Fi networks, not all Wi-Fi. Networks are susceptible to this specific thing, but a lot of this, uh, a lot of them, you know? In Mexico, I find a lot of them, they're still susceptible to this little device basically, you know, drowning out Wi-Fi signals. the environment to be able to disconnect the wifi in a specific place and why that would be important. Wireless cameras and Wi-Fi enabled cameras are being used more and more by sex trafficking rings, criminals, people who hunt and look for blackmail material in there people in the world and it's just one of those things that is very good to know.

It's also very good to know. It's also quite interesting to realize that you can source most of the components and build most of these things yourself online and again. news, it's a toy for certain people, it's a pen testing device for other people, but it could be a lifesaver for others if you know what you're looking at, yeah, you know, I could have used one of those, uh, when I worked for the agency, especially traveling around 90, I don't remember the percentage, but most of the spying happens in hotels around airports, you know, and we'll run into that at different airports, different, you know, yeah, people trying to carry out surveillance on that and if it turns out that we had one of those, most of those listening devices, you know, they broadcast, yeah, this was done by a guy I work with a lot in social media, uh, and we did it to my specifications, you know, it's bulletproof because I always break the and also the pink with some Hello Kitty stickers on there, why, color psychology, you know black is cool and all, but carrying around a black device with a button yeah probably not the best thing on the planet color psychology again same thing with the tourniquet you know again a lot of my things that I wear make sense across the board because I've had the experience of wearing them and buying them and if not it works it doesn't make sense I tend not to carry it anymore and I tend to leave it behind I'm on the road every week so what I carry is legit what I carry with me this is not this is not a trend these are not uh mostly not you're training props or anything like that, these are things that I carry with me internationally, yeah, over and over again, who would I be to talk about some of these things if I didn't apply them every day, so that's what What am I trying to do? and I love it, you know, do you have anything else, we're going to demo a little bit of restraint release with that lanyard on a perfect little bit, you know, what I love about your edc is, you know what we see?

We see product ads all the time and who has the best right and yours is about mindset, social skills, being resourceful and it's perfect because everything here is a tool that doesn't have to be, you know, the pioneer woman's knife that could be. be anything, yes, and it works software over hardware, you know what makes someone dangerous is the intention, if your intention is to always be prepared, always be armed, even if you are not allowed to be armed, you know that no power and not being. allowed or two completely different things, yes, and most Americans should be aware of that fact, uh uh, in all aspects, um again, the ability to protect yourself and have the means to do so and that of your Fat and protecting your family should be an internationally protected human right.

The places where the greatest number of human rights violations occur are the places where society is disarmed and turned into victims, did you hear that? Well, Ed, I just want to say thank you for coming out here and showing us all this stuff and it's amazing, there's been nothing like this out there, so I don't know, it's just that a lot of this stuff is a product of desperate people and conversations and Never, ever miss the opportunity to have a conversation with good people. let's talk about the border, let's talk about the goalkeeper, see you later