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We're chatting about the people, places, events, and flavors that make Johnson City, Tennessee a lovely place to live. An interview show hosted by Colin Johnson.
Proud member of the Maypop Media family of podcasts.
0:00:00 - (Colin Johnson): It is a little chilly today, which is what it's supposed to be, because it's. Christmas is right around the corner, and I am excited for you guys to get to meet my new friend, Jesus Rodriguez, with Coyote Tactical. Welcome to the podcast.
0:00:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Thanks so much.
0:00:14 - (Colin Johnson): I. I looked you up online, where I looked up your company, and I was like, this is cool.
0:00:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I was about to say, if you look me up, you may find some.
0:00:21 - (Colin Johnson): I didn't. I didn't go deep. I didn't go to beat. Went very, very. What is Coyote Talk? Okay, so I'm. I'm excited to learn about it and share that with our listener. First things first. What do you love most about Johnson City?
0:00:36 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So we come from my wife and my children. So we came from South Florida. So there's no seasons. Yeah, it's just summer and probably degrees of summer.
0:00:46 - (Colin Johnson): Hot, hotter summer, summer light.
0:00:48 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. Yeah. More humid summer and maybe more dry summer. And then. Yeah. So we were looking around just for a change of pace, try to get out to somewhere that our. Our goals essentially were go somewhere where we have seasons, for sure.
0:01:01 - (Colin Johnson): Okay.
0:01:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Go somewhere where cost of living would be cheaper. We were just. We were just getting suffocated. Where were you?
0:01:06 - (Colin Johnson): In Florida.
0:01:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): South Florida, Like, Miami area. Okay. So, I mean, it was just one of the areas that's getting suffocated out the most. I mean, when we started, it was, you know, $2,000, then it was 2,200. And this is all in the span of, like, two years. Then it became 24, then it became 3,000, and it's just like, you know what? It becomes untenable to do rent or anything else. So we said, nope. Once it started reaching 3,000, we said, we're out of here.
0:01:27 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. Especially if you're just renting something.
0:01:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh, yeah, for sure. And you can't buy anything. It just. It's too astronomical down there. So I told my wife. Nope. I was like, we're getting out of here. We're gonna. We're gonna hit up somewhere that is. Has a better cost of living. Your money goes a bit further. Um, wanted to take the kids out of just, you know, the. The. The city life. Um, I had family in Spain. I mean, I. I went a ton of times to the mountain.
0:01:49 - (Jesus Rodriguez): They had no power. So we had, like, a family out there that was very rural, as rural as it can get.
0:01:53 - (Colin Johnson): Mm.
0:01:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No washing machines, no nothing. So, I mean, I would always enjoy my summers out there. We. We would spend 3, 4 months at a time out there, and I just always Had a blast. So I said, you know what, this is the perfect time to leave. Find somewhere that we can go a little bit more rural, hopefully start the whole homesteading journey.
0:02:11 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:02:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And just give children the. That experience that I had growing up, which was very formative for me, you know, looking back, because it brought me into the whole hiking and, you know, all the exploring that I do, the traveling same. So, yeah, I was really big into that. And then once we started looking around, we were like, okay, it also has to be a place like Florida that has no income tax. So again, money goes further.
0:02:35 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And then we just started looking around. We went to North Carolina, that's not a state that has no income tax. But we were just looking at it just for, you know, beauty hiking, white water rafting, et cetera. And, you know, beautiful, beautiful place, don't get me wrong. But the price of it was just more than we wanted to. And you know, hey, you're. They say you're getting 40 acres, but out of the 40 acres, maybe only three of it are usable because the rest was vertical.
0:02:56 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:02:57 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And we said, okay, that's not going to work. Asheville area, we went to Waynesville, Hendersonville, like that whole kind of area around there. Then we went through Kentucky. Kentucky, it's an interesting place because you can buy an astronomical amount of land for like nothing. There was 200 and 300 acres for, you're talking about maybe $250,000.
0:03:19 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, wow.
0:03:20 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But there's just nobody out there. This is like, you know, Irving, right. Et cetera. So we said, okay, this is beautiful out here, but we can't. How am I going to grow a business in this area where there's nobody? And I think if I remember correctly, when I was looking, Kentucky has a net loss every year of population.
0:03:34 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, wow.
0:03:35 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And not only that, but just it's a very low income. So we said, okay, this is not going to work out for us. Then we came through Tennessee and we just fell in love with whole Tri Cities area. It offered the community that we're looking for. My wife was like, look, I don't want to be too rural. Why I don't. Can't have a Walmart and Ashley furniture.
0:03:52 - (Colin Johnson): Things work.
0:03:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:03:53 - (Colin Johnson): I need, like, I need life.
0:03:54 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I said, okay. When we came around through here, we said, you know what, this is perfect. We're in Johnson City. We also have a property, a farm that we bought in Jonesboro. So it just offered that perfect mix where you're. You still have enough community, enough size of a city. But you're still able to be removed enough where you still feel that you're, you're, you're good, you're in the mountains, and within 45 minutes, you're in North Carolina to do whatever hiking, whitewater rafting you want to do.
0:04:19 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. And we've got all that on this side of the mountain.
0:04:21 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:04:21 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. Well, it sounds like it was a very methodical sort of process.
0:04:25 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Did you like, spreadsheet going? And like, it's funny that you say a spreadsheet, because I actually did have a file because in Photoshop and I had like multiple layers where I said, okay, where flood zones, where like hurricane zones, tornadoes, nuclear reactors. I had a nuclear reactor layer where I was like, okay, where is there a possible reactor that may kind of have saw some downwift drain? This is overkill. But.
0:04:48 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And then by the time that I overlaid everything, there was just some small pockets that I think we fell perfectly.
0:04:53 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, wow, that's crazy. Well, and we have a big one down in bridge with a Y12 or.
0:04:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I forget what it's called. I've driven past it one time and I was like, gotcha. I was like, that's probably the one that I saw on my little radar map that it's.
0:05:05 - (Colin Johnson): Yes. And it's west, so it would, I guess, blur this direction. Something, God forbid, happened. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think you're, you're not alone. There are a lot of people running spreadsheets and doing mates and going, okay, this has this, this, and this. All right, it meets nine of our 10 criteria. And here we go.
0:05:23 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. And it ended up just being it. It ended up working so great. Cuz when we did buy our property, it ended up being that the shop that we found was only three minutes, just down one road. So, I mean, and I've been able to walk from the shop, you know, to the property. Sure, it's, it's 45 minutes, but just to see, you know, hey, how long will it take?
0:05:42 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:05:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And so I was like, wow, this could not have been more convenient to find 5,000 square feet so close to my, my, my property. And 5,000 square feet would have been untenable in South Florida. You God knows what you would have paid for that. I was for. I was paying. I had 1,200 square feet. And I think a hundred square feet was used up in a bathroom. Probably not another 200 square feet was used up in a wannabe office.
0:06:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So realistically, you had nothing left to work, and that was already $2,000.
0:06:12 - (Colin Johnson): I'm not for rent, you know, and.
0:06:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I'm have 5,000 square feet now for almost the same price.
0:06:16 - (Colin Johnson): That's awesome.
0:06:17 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So you can't go wrong.
0:06:19 - (Colin Johnson): That's great. How many kids you does have?
0:06:22 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Two.
0:06:23 - (Colin Johnson): Okay, how old are they?
0:06:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): We got five and one that just turned two. Oh, that's fun.
0:06:28 - (Colin Johnson): Ages. Yeah. You got your hands full at this age. Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. Well, talk to me about Coyote Tactical. Where did you come up with the name Coyote Tactical?
0:06:39 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I'm terrible at naming things.
0:06:41 - (Colin Johnson): I guess we need to throw solutions on the.
0:06:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, yeah. Like, let's just make the name even longer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm incorporated. We're having trouble just with, with trademark and stuff. They're like, you gotta shorten your name so you. But anyways, yeah, the name. I'm. I've always been terrible at naming things. So coyote is just a color in one of the many colors and military colors. There's, you know, coyote brown, et cetera. So I said, I said, okay, coyote, coyote brown. I said, I, you know, I like the animal because it's.
0:07:08 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I've. I've always just kind of been my own lone person.
0:07:11 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:07:12 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You know, they had the whole concept of lone wolf, et cetera.
0:07:14 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:07:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But coyotes, for the most part are. They are alone. They do their own thing. But if they do decide that they want to tackle something bigger than themselves, they have no problem banding together to get the job done. And then they all go their separate ways again. Which is pretty much how I've always been.
0:07:28 - (Colin Johnson): Okay.
0:07:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, I, I half jokingly tell people, it's like, look, I. I've never had a friend. I still to this day have no friends. You know, it's just. But whenever we need to get something done. Okay. I'll always find like minded people would just band together, we tackle the project, we get it done, and then everybody's just, everybody's just gone again. And that's. I don't know, it's worked for me. I've never had any problems. I don't, I don't do this guys night out. That's what my wife always says. She's like, you're the only person I've ever been with that doesn't have like a, oh, I'm gonna go out, whatever, one week in a month or whatever it is to have guys night out.
0:08:02 - (Jesus Rodriguez): She's like, at least I know where you are.
0:08:04 - (Colin Johnson): You know, you're here all the time.
0:08:06 - (Jesus Rodriguez): All the time.
0:08:07 - (Colin Johnson): She's hinting, that's right.
0:08:09 - (Jesus Rodriguez): She's Actually trying to get rid of me. That's funny for her. Yeah.
0:08:11 - (Colin Johnson): Carly. I think she's glad I have some hobbies.
0:08:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. Yeah, she's. She's. She's actually set up, like, play dates for the kids and, like, set up, like a date with me with like a. I don't know, a husband. You know, I'm just like, I don't know if I want to do this.
0:08:22 - (Colin Johnson): But sure, yeah, go play with this guy Hosters.
0:08:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. I don't even know Colin. Why would I want to play with him? You guys should. You guys like the same things. Go, go, go.
0:08:29 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah, we'll be fine. We'll be fine. So tell me, so Coyote Tactical Solutions, what do you guys do?
0:08:35 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So we do manufacturing of essentially everything except clothes. So we do all the manufacturing for tactical gear. Plate carriers, chest rigs, belts, medical pouches. That's how we got started. Was the medic entry into the medical products. Because I'm also a nurse, so that's how the whole thing kind of just started off. I mean, I would go to training courses before I did any of this.
0:08:57 - (Colin Johnson): Do you have a military background?
0:08:59 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No, I could not join the military because I have rheumatoid arthritis. No. And I had to take an injection every single month, you know, just to pretty much function. And so I went to the recruiter and then, you know, they ask you the basic questions, you know, of your medical history, this, that, the other. I told them exactly what I have, and they. The moment I said that, they were like, no, you're like, this is. It's an automatic disqualification.
0:09:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You can't serve because, you know, we would have to get you the medication to an austere environment. And then they were like, you know, your condition is also a condition that gets exacerbated with stress, which. Which is true. You know, whenever you do reach stress, I mean, there's. There's been times where I literally can't walk, you know, just swell up. It just. It's the. It's the swelling, the pain, and just sometimes just. You literally just cannot move. It's not like, oh, it's painful. It's just, no, I can't open my mouth. I can't even.
0:09:44 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, as a nurse, sometimes I couldn't even rip open the paper to give a patient the Tylenol. I would. It was embarrassing, but I'd be like, look, I understand that at the time I was like, 32. I was like, I understand. I'm 32 and you're 60, but can.
0:09:58 - (Colin Johnson): You help me My fingers aren't working right now.
0:10:00 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. I was like, yeah, so. So that, you know, that was. That was kind of a bummer because that happened, you know, back. I don't even know how many. How many years ago that was, but it was kind of a bummer. And I said, okay, you know what? I'll find some other way to, I guess, serve in some capacity. Yeah. So, I mean, I went through a whole long circle or journey to get to where I am right now. It's. It's not like, oh, I. I've always wanted to be tactical, and this is how I ended up here.
0:10:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's just a series of events that just led to that. Yeah.
0:10:27 - (Colin Johnson): I don't think it's ever a straight, like a. Oh, I had that thought. I mean, maybe some people can do that.
0:10:33 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And Darryl, I've always loved design. That's so. It's. It's in the realm of designing, which was, which is the part. The aspect that I love the most. I've. I never went into this. It's funny, like, I tell everybody, I never went into it being like, I want to be a businessman.
0:10:46 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:10:47 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I always thought that, hey, I have great ideas. I'm going to somehow license this idea or patent it or something, and I'm going to be able to do big things for other people and I'm going to make great money. Right. And that just made it work out that way. And I said, okay. It seems like the only way that I can get my ideas out there is to just do it myself.
0:11:06 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:11:06 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So when I first started off, you know, I shopped around for, hey, people to make it for me. And then that just became. It was just too. Too expensive for somebody to do. And I said, okay, after I've paid you, what would I have to now sell this for to make any money? And if there's a distributor involved, now they need a cut. So what. What do I make?
0:11:23 - (Colin Johnson): Right?
0:11:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I said, okay, I go, I gotta phase them out. So then I started shopping around for people in my area in South Florida, because South Florida back in the days used to be a massive textile hub. So there's a whole lot of talent out there that knows how to sew.
0:11:36 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:11:37 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But they're already now in the aging population, you know, 60s or so. So I shopped around. I found some old ladies that, yeah, okay, yeah, we know how to sew. They would all. They would all do it from their house. So I would cut the stuff manually at my house. I would take them the prepared work. They'd sew it, and then, okay, they'd let me know, hey, it's done. You know, a week, two weeks later. So the production time is very slow as well.
0:11:59 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I'd go. I'd pick it up. Okay, hey, I pay them, and then, hey, I sell it, and we kind of go from there. And then eventually it came to a point that it was like, okay, this is just way too slow, and I'm relying on other people to manufacture it for me. Tell me what can or can't be done. So while I was working as a nurse, I said, you know what? I was like, I feel like if I've done nursing, I've done architecture. Before that, I also worked in the film and video game industry as a 3D artist. I was like, I know that I can figure this out. So I bought three machines.
0:12:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I sold my couch. I sold my. My kitchen table. I was living by myself at the time.
0:12:33 - (Colin Johnson): I was going to. Sorry.
0:12:33 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, yeah. No, this is bre. This is pre. A wife would have never talked.
0:12:37 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah, she'd be like, why are we.
0:12:38 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Sitting on the floor? Yeah, it's like, no, we get a little folding tables, so, yeah, we'll be fine. Sitting on the floor probably would have been okay because my wife. My wife's Asian, so. Yeah, so it probably would have been normal. There you go. But, yeah, so we sold everything. I got three machines, and then I would just. I started working on it. It took me about six months to even teach myself how to sew because I didn't. I didn't have, you know, videos or. I didn't have any teaching.
0:13:01 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:13:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it took me about six months, and I was like, okay, I now understand it. And then once you understand that, you now do understand what can or can't be done, because a lot of ideas cannot physically be sewn or made just because of how they have to be turned or manipulated.
0:13:16 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. It's hard to.
0:13:17 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. So that gives you a whole. So learning that. If I didn't learn that, there's. I don't think there's any way I can be where I am now.
0:13:23 - (Colin Johnson): Gotcha.
0:13:23 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You have to learn that beginning part to know what's even feasible. Right. And then it's interesting because those things that are unfeasible before, as technology advances and now we have different laminate fabrics, laser cutting, 3D printing, then you start realizing, well, the things that were impossible back then now suddenly became possible, and it became way cheaper to do. So it's. Yeah, it's a whole long evolution. And Then once the business got to a certain point, I just kind of walked away from nursing.
0:13:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I only got. I got into nursing because my. My father's an ER physician. He's a director of an er, and he always told me, throughout my entire life, he says, go into healthcare. He's like, there's always going to be sick people. You know, he's like, that's just the reality of the world. Yeah, okay. I didn't listen. You know, I. So like I said, I went through the architecture thing, the design and film and video game and everything else.
0:14:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And once, that was 2008, when I was graduating, the whole film and game industry, and I had so many offers back then. I had Pixar. I had all this bunch of people giving me job offers. But then once 2008 came, there was a massive crash in the market. If we all remember you working in the States, it was tough. So a bunch of studios shut down. And then they realized, okay, not only are we going to shut down, save some money, but we're also going to send a lot of the work to India.
0:14:41 - (Jesus Rodriguez): India and China, like, ate up tons of the work back then. So the competition was so fierce. It's like, to work in any game studio, it's like, okay, you have to have, I think it was like four AAA titles under your belt. 12 years of experience. They raised the bar so high that.
0:14:56 - (Colin Johnson): Hardly anybody could make that.
0:14:57 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You could. You just couldn't do it. My dad said, now's the time to do what I've been telling you to do forever.
0:15:02 - (Colin Johnson): So.
0:15:03 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I did. Yeah, I did the whole accelerated nursing program. You know, graduated top of the class, finished a test as best as you can possibly finish it because it's an adaptive test, and did that for seven years. And then that's when I just transitioned eventually to Coyote Tactical. And that's how I started the company making medical pouches. Yeah.
0:15:21 - (Colin Johnson): Did you see, like, an issue at the hospital? You're like, it's not.
0:15:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's not about that. I saw an issue in the hospital when I. Whenever I would go, I slowly got started into going to training courses. This, that, the other. Just kind of feel it out, see, see what's going on. And I would notice that everybody was without a medical kit. And I said, you would figure that if we're dealing with weapons, something dangerous. I mean, I've seen people negligently discharge.
0:15:44 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You know, things can happen. And I go, if we have the capacity to. To hurt or be hurt, at least we should have some level of Training of medical. And then you, that industry really started to take off medical. You started seeing a lot of instructors coming out with their training videos with, with classes for medical tccc, which is the tactical, combat, casualty care, et cetera, which is kind of the gold standard for treating people with life saving or life threatening injuries.
0:16:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I said, okay. I was like, I'm a nurse, I can do this. And then what I did see, everybody was wearing china stuff. So I said, no, I can do it better and I can make something that looks better aesthetically. I have a design background. And then that's how I got started. And then the medical stuff just kind of just organically caught on. Back then, you know, social media, you were actually allowed to grow and exist and organically grow.
0:16:36 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Now it's impossible, but yeah, so it just organically grew. And I said, hold. Okay. So I was able to just walk away entirely from nursing, focus on the business. And then, you know, I started adding my brother, you know, to help out and some other people and we just kind of kind of grew from here over there. Yeah.
0:16:52 - (Colin Johnson): What are, what do sales look like for 2024 for you?
0:16:55 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So let me tell you, and these are conversations that I've had with other people in the industry. The last four years have been arguably the worst four years of that's probably ever been experienced. You know, people thought, okay, you know, it's, this is not a political thing. People are going to say, oh, it's politics.
0:17:12 - (Colin Johnson): No, this is this reality.
0:17:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, it's not a political thing. You know, when Obama was in, it was great because. And he was actually the number one gun salesman. You know, he, the more guns were sold under that administration than any other time in history. People would think, oh, it's under Trump because it's, everybody is comfortable. When people are comfortable, they don't buy. When people are scared is when they buy. But did anything happen on their bomb. Nothing happened gun gun wise under Obama.
0:17:36 - (Colin Johnson): Well, and the Democrats wouldn't want you to know that. So more guns during his presence.
0:17:40 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, I already knows that. You know, and then it's like, okay, so there was actually more threats under, you know, the next administration. But that's, that's just the whole other thing. So things were great back then. Things were great then under the four years of Trump and then these last four years, you know what really happened? There was a combination of things. You're, you're exiting kind of that, that Covid period where supply chains are still to this day messed up.
0:18:03 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, before COVID you can Order something. You can order rolls of fabric and you can get it delivered that same week. Now even now, today we're, we're at the end, we're in December now almost. We're about to enter 2025 and you still are backlogs of three to five months sometimes for, for fabric. So when you're in an industry like ours where you're constantly producing, how do you exist when you have to sometimes hit these snags of three to five months for stock? You're talking about ykk. Everybody knows ykk. It's a zipper app on everything.
0:18:34 - (Jesus Rodriguez): YKK during COVID and even exiting Covid was nine months backorder for zipper.
0:18:40 - (Colin Johnson): That's just because of the production stopped. Like because essentially stop.
0:18:44 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I called the YKK plan. You know what they told me? Our machines are so big that we need. I forgot how many employees they said by 30 per the machine. Right. But it's this six foot distancing guideline that is preventing us from running this, this loom in this mill because we can't have the people. And I go, you're a multi billion dollar company. You're telling me that you can't call your local, you know, your local politician and say, you know how much taxes are generated just from ykk. And wherever they are, you can't tell these people, hey, you got to create an exemption.
0:19:13 - (Colin Johnson): We were so afraid of being close to each other.
0:19:15 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I mean it was just, it was just insane. So yeah, it's, we're in that flux period where the. Yes, the lead times are coming down. So that impacted production. That definitely changed a lot of people of how they design things. Because if zipper was X amount of months, we have five colors. That's five color zippers you're talking about. Each one now is five to nine months. So we said, nope, we streamlined everything down to one color with black zipper.
0:19:42 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And now everything is kind of just running off of black zipper. So you have to adjust to just survive.
0:19:48 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:19:48 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Then you had, then the 1:2 punch of inflation started really taking off. That took away people's purchasing power. So I mean this was not a good four years for anybody in our industry. Everybody has seen everybody that I've spoken to, from the data that they've analyzed, they're seeing anywhere from about 47 to 60% reduction in sales.
0:20:08 - (Colin Johnson): Isn't that crazy?
0:20:09 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And it's massive.
0:20:10 - (Colin Johnson): But everything else is, I mean, but the things you have to buy are going up. So you're like, well, I'm making less money and I have to pay more for just regular stuff.
0:20:17 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, it's a.
0:20:18 - (Colin Johnson): It's a double whammy.
0:20:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's a terrible thing because everything is just a. It's like a race to the top because, like you said, you're. Everything is going up. Material has gone up. I want to say, maybe five times this year. I just got a. I think on Friday, another price increase, and you're like, what's the problem?
0:20:32 - (Colin Johnson): I'm like, why? It doesn't make sense to my mind.
0:20:34 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh. And then when you then started, if you really want to get into interesting stuff. So now fabrics entering 20, 25, they cannot be using. If I remember, it's called C7. It's. It's like a chemical that it has, like, that pfas. So now, apparently the government and the EPA is trying to make everything PFAS free. So the thing is that the chemicals were being used on the fabric as a. As a what they call dwr, the durable water coating.
0:21:00 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But now they have to switch away from PFAS free. So now the quality of the materials is so poor, where you just scratch it, and it leaves just a terrible white mark across it. Even if you fold it, it has a terrible white mark across it. So I've spoken to all the mills, and I go, I'm sorry. How can we sell a product like this that mars the moment you move it, bend it, or anything else? They said, look, we can't do anything about it. We had to switch to this new c. Whatever it is, this new chemical that's PFAS free, and it's causing this problem.
0:21:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I said. They said, well, the only thing we can do or you can do is you have to educate your customers that this is the way it is moving forward. I go, how do you educate a customer that the way moving forward is that your product looks worn in before you even get it? It's so. It's crazy. So now there's other mills now that are. They have, like, 70 engineers. This other company I spoke to, and they're like, no, we're. We're figuring out. We're working it out. We've got a solution. I mean, I tested their fabric. I can do whatever I want with it. It doesn't have that issue.
0:21:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So let's hope for the best, because it's just a compounding issue where, okay, if I can't do this anymore, now you're starting to, like, go back to older technology. Okay, I can't use laminate fabrics anymore for the laser. Maybe go back to court. It's, it's, it's wild. It's a battle. Everything is a battle.
0:22:17 - (Colin Johnson): Well, talk to me about the products you're making. And so medical kit, like for our listeners, why would we want to have a medical kit from Coyote Tactical on hand at home?
0:22:28 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, so it's, it's not about Coyote tactic or anybody else, you know, you, you want to have at the bare minimum. And it's not about having bandages or, oh, I'm going to have, you know, people buy these little generic ones that they see at what's this thing Academy and.
0:22:43 - (Colin Johnson): Oh yeah, the little red box with those.
0:22:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, it's just like, oh, wow, cool. I have my bandages, I have my anti diarrheal and I have like an.
0:22:49 - (Colin Johnson): Aspirin or something and some pterosporins in there.
0:22:51 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, talk to the p. I go, that is not a medical kit.
0:22:54 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:22:55 - (Jesus Rodriguez): That is like, hey, a boo boo thing. Store that somewhere else in a bathroom, like that's fine. But at the bare minimum, in your car or anywhere else, you should have a kit that has at least, you know, a combat gauze or something similar which has an anti clotting agent tourniquet for sure. Because bleeding is the number one cause of death.
0:23:12 - (Colin Johnson): Bleeding out.
0:23:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Bleeding out, yeah. And if you have an arterial compromise of any of any form, you're probably looking at maybe two minutes or less of time that you'll survive and you're going to go unconscious most likely before that two minutes even happens.
0:23:26 - (Colin Johnson): Sure.
0:23:27 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So at the bare minimum, I mean we sell medical contents that are all made in the US from North American rescue. We then manufacture the pouches that hold it all in a, you know, concise form that people can just readily access and not have any problems.
0:23:42 - (Colin Johnson): Stick it under your seat.
0:23:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, So I usually just have it in the glove box or anywhere else. The great thing is that it's not, it doesn't just serve as, oh, I just put it in my glove box and forget about it. It's great that you can grab it. If you, if you're into the space that we are of training and going to the range, you don't have to be wearing it. You don't have to be, you know, because some people have that fear of like, oh, I'm going to go to the range and I'm going to look, I'm going to look tactical wearing all this stuff and people are going to look at me weird. It's like, you don't have to wear this stuff.
0:24:07 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:24:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Just put it in your bag, have it Somewhere nearby. So if something does happen to you or anybody else, because in most cases it's not to you, it's for somebody else.
0:24:16 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:24:16 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And you know, there is smaller compact kits that, yeah, we, you know, we do sell, you know, so carry on you, what they call the EDC everyday carry, you know, carry something on you every day. Especially if you, you carry like most of us do, concealed carry or anything else. If you are a responsible citizen, that is, that is caring and you're trying to protect not only your loved ones, but you have the duty.
0:24:37 - (Jesus Rodriguez): This isn't my, this isn't my opinion. This is not like a written rule that says if you conceal carry, you have to do X, Y and Z.
0:24:43 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:24:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I've always understood that concealed carry is not just about you and your family. That if you have the ability to protect other people from harm, it is just your moral obligation 100% to go ahead and protect life, even at the risk of your own life. That's just the way that it is. Um, so if you have the ability to create a hole, you should have the ability to plug said hole. So, and this is, and this is even to.
0:25:10 - (Colin Johnson): I like it.
0:25:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. And this is even to the person that you, you probably just put down, you know, because again, this all comes down to moral and ethics. Yes, I stopped the threat. Do I now have a moral and ethical obligation to, to now treat this person and prevent them from dying? There's, there's, there's people that out there that'll say no.
0:25:30 - (Colin Johnson): Like that person, the reason I was.
0:25:32 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Shooting them was that person forfeit his life the moment that he attacked other life.
0:25:36 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:25:37 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You then have the other people that say, we neutralize the threat.
0:25:41 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:25:41 - (Jesus Rodriguez): We now have a moral and ethical obligation to still save and protect life.
0:25:46 - (Colin Johnson): I think that's. Yeah. Do you love people or do you look at them like as creations that the Lord made, you know, that are equal to you?
0:25:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Right.
0:25:54 - (Colin Johnson): And some people are just, you know, they're making bad decisions, coming after you, and you, you made a different decision.
0:25:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And you don't know. You don't know what they're thinking. Right? Yeah. You don't know if it's.
0:26:02 - (Colin Johnson): You don't know what their motivation is.
0:26:03 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Or you don't even know if it's medication induced. You don't know what it is. I've worked in the industry, in medical for a long time, and I've seen people do things you would not believe solely because of medical side effects or especially when you get into antipsychotics, antidepressants things like that, they all have side effects of delusions, hallucinate. You have no idea. Yeah.
0:26:22 - (Colin Johnson): You're like, I'm taking this for delusions and hallucinations and it's making it worse, you know.
0:26:25 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So it's an interesting thing. You know, I've so people battle with that. I'm pretty much cut and dry. Yes. If I, if I stopped it, I know that I'm not going to get further hurt or potentially put myself at risk. Right. Like if the person has a gun, hey, you put him down, make sure he can access it. If you have the chance to get closer, to maybe kick it away or something, do it. Everybody has their own line of. I'm not willing to risk getting any closer.
0:26:52 - (Colin Johnson): Sure.
0:26:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's just where do you draw your own line? That's, that's really all it is, you know. And I think, I'm sure if you.
0:26:57 - (Colin Johnson): Were in that situation, the shock and stress of it all is going to be highly intense. And then to have the wherewithal to say oh and I need to go help this person, that's going to be another, it'll be another step. Which is pretty amazing.
0:27:12 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And that, that falls into. There's just legality too. I mean a lot of the stuff especially it could change from just jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
0:27:19 - (Colin Johnson): Sure.
0:27:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Of whether it was justified, whether it wasn't. We see it all the time.
0:27:22 - (Colin Johnson): Different states are totally different. Yeah. I mean but the, the interesting thing is I have a friend who has a, He's a big YouTube channel guy and doing well. But there are hundreds of cases, you know, a year where people are stopping a threat and saving lives and they are never publicized. You know, it's just.
0:27:40 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh yeah, of course they, the, the publicized number is over 2 million cases a year of, you know, care, caring or a self defense situation preventing a crime or somebody preventing a crime on someone else.
0:27:54 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:27:54 - (Jesus Rodriguez): That's 2 million is kind of like the, the agreed upon number but it's probably north.
0:27:58 - (Colin Johnson): Amazing.
0:27:59 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:27:59 - (Colin Johnson): I mean 2 million and people talk.
0:28:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): About, okay, hey, you know, gun violence, this, that the other, you know, and you look at it and you say okay, so tell me the number. The number comes out to something like 36000 according to FBI stats of you know, gun shootings, gun, gun violence, yada yada. Okay. But then you look at the numbers. 20,000 of that is suicide. So I don't consider that a person who is gun violent. It's tragic, it's unfortunate. And most of those are suicides. By veterans, because you have 22 a day that commit suicide.
0:28:28 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So 20,000 out of 36 off the bat are taken away. That's a person that did not hurt somebody else. So you're left with 16,000. Then you further break down the number and almost all of it is gang on gang or some other sort of violence. So this is not like gone wrong, it's not an everyday thing. And then you have them minuscule portion which is justified, you know, shooting by cop, this, that, the other.
0:28:49 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Now they don't, they don't really break it down to you. How many of those cases were person that had a weapon versus not had a weapon, et cetera. And people don't understand it. Just because you don't have a weapon doesn't mean you're not dangerous. You have a car that's a weapon. You can drive into the officer you are, you know, you're in your house and you have a knife, that's a weapon. You have a boiling pot of hot water, that's considered a weapon.
0:29:09 - (Colin Johnson): Or you're a big guy and you got a female, you know, agent down.
0:29:12 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And disparity of force, that's what they call it. So it's like I can totally justify that if this guy is a massive monster of a, of a bodybuilding guy. I can totally justify there was a disparity of force there. So I, I had to. Because if I don't, he's clearly four times my size.
0:29:27 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:29:28 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it only gets worse and exacerbated when you're, when you're a female.
0:29:31 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:29:32 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Which is why every female at the very, at the very minimum should be, you know, trained in at least, hey, how to handle a gun, how to shoot a gun. And then, you know, just start understanding that it's not just a dude's thing. There's, there's so many compact carry options for women. There's comfortable carry options for women in, in the yoga pants and this, that, the other. There's, there's ways that you can carry comfortably.
0:29:52 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:29:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So.
0:29:53 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. And in Tennessee you don't need apartment anymore, right?
0:29:57 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Anymore. Yeah. But you still need, what did you still need permits to go, I guess do certain things. There's like, they give you privileges if you get the permit. So that to me is still like, okay, is there a constitution or is there not? Because I could have sworn that it's very, it's very cut and drawn, very clear.
0:30:09 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. You have the right to bear arms.
0:30:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. It doesn't say, it never says where you can and cannot it doesn't say what kind of arm. And all of this goes back to, you know, people think that this is an American thing. The right to bear arms did not start here. This. If you go back to what they call the assize of arms, this is back in Europe, it was mandated by the King and everything else that you had to have. I forget what all the items were, but you had to have your own sword, your own shield, your own armor, this, that, the other. So if you are, you are essentially the militia. That's right. If you were called by the king to action. Yeah.
0:30:45 - (Colin Johnson): If you were getting grabbed by another.
0:30:46 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Country that you can grab your stuff and go. So it's like, it's interesting how the roles kind of like flipped where it's like you can't have anything over there anymore. And then here it's. We built upon that foundation where, yes, the citizens have the right to not only defend themselves, but be called to arms by the nation state if they.
0:31:05 - (Colin Johnson): Ever needed it, or man together and overthrow the tyranny of evil if the government goes really bad, you know.
0:31:10 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, which, which you're, you're seeing now, which is funny. You know, you look at places like, like Canada, they, they just had the, the press conference saying, okay, all of these guns now are now banned. We're confiscating them. And then what are they doing with them? They openly said on the news, we are. These confiscated guns we are then sending to Ukraine for their citizens to fight. So, so it's like, okay, so you strip your citizens to then arm other citizens in another country to fight against. Like you said, tyranny.
0:31:38 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But is that not tyranny?
0:31:41 - (Colin Johnson): Sounds like.
0:31:42 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So then who's gonna, does Ukraine, when they're done, send it back to the Canadians to fight the tyranny that they're expecting, you know, experiencing it sounds like.
0:31:47 - (Colin Johnson): A good time for takeover. Canada, if I'm American, you know.
0:31:50 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Well, that's, that's why Trump don't have any guns.
0:31:52 - (Colin Johnson): We just walk up there and take over.
0:31:54 - (Jesus Rodriguez): That's why Trump had jokingly hinted you guys can be the 51st state and you can be the Governor Trudeau.
0:31:58 - (Colin Johnson): Well, and I think if, you know, if you're not product protecting the border, I mean, if you're allowing a lot of illegal aliens through the Canadian border, then it makes sense to maybe take it over.
0:32:06 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I'm not really so worried about the, all the illegal aliens across Canadian border. People don't realize, you know, again, because I'm in this space of military, people do not realize how many Chinese soldiers there are in Canada being trained in winter warfare? Why are we. Why are we allowing our northern neighbor, our ally, supposedly to train Chinese soldiers in winter warfare, literally right on the border?
0:32:28 - (Colin Johnson): It doesn't make sense.
0:32:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's crazy. And that. And that was hidden for a long time.
0:32:32 - (Colin Johnson): There's a lot of stuff.
0:32:33 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Essentially, they had to admit that, okay, fine, yes, it is true. Like, the government had to finally. Okay, yes, it is true. That's wild to me, you know?
0:32:42 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah, I don't. I don't look favorably upon that.
0:32:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I don't know.
0:32:47 - (Colin Johnson): Like, I don't know. It's just crazy. There's a lot of crazy stuff going on, and you're just kind of like, okay, yeah, yeah.
0:32:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, I lived in Canada for a while. I lived in Vancouver, and this was kind of in that. That flux period where there was. Since you say you don't understand a lot of things, this is just like icing on the cake. There was an ISIS soldier. He was a Canadian, I guess he was a Canadian citizen at the time. He. He left Canada to go fight for isis. He ended up killing a Canadian soldier. Okay. He ended up getting captured, getting sent to Guantanamo Bay.
0:33:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): He did X amount of years there, yada yada, and eventually he was being, you know, let go back to Canada. Okay, what did the government of Canada do? He filed a lawsuit against the government of Canada because of the mental suffering that he suffered in Guantanamo Bay. He won said lawsuit. If I remember correctly, it was something like 13 or 15 million dollars that this guy was awarded for killing a Canadian citizen, a Canadian soldier.
0:33:37 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And the guy was let go and paraded around all the news stations in Canada to tell his story of trauma. How is this not. I mean, I was watching this while living there and going, this is insane.
0:33:49 - (Colin Johnson): This is insane.
0:33:50 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, this guy just crazy. Killed a soldier, and I walked out with 15 or $13 million.
0:33:55 - (Colin Johnson): Like, I mean, what does that say to all the kids in that Canada? Like, I want to grow up to be that guy.
0:33:59 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:33:59 - (Colin Johnson): Like.
0:34:00 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And there was a whole lot of people that left from. From Canada and everywhere else to go fight for isis, you know, so it's wild, man. The. The whole. There's a lot of inverted reality, a lot of inverted things that are going on.
0:34:10 - (Colin Johnson): It is the global landscape of just countries of war. And I mean, it's getting.
0:34:15 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's.
0:34:15 - (Colin Johnson): It's getting a little crazy. So. But anyway, we're not talking about that. So at a bare minimum, you're saying a medical kit in your car.
0:34:23 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:34:24 - (Colin Johnson): What do you guys sell for? Like a household kind of thing? What would you want to have at home? Same kind of deal or something a little bigger? I mean, do you have. Yeah, with suture kits and that kind of thing you can buy and that.
0:34:33 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I mean, everything goes into your, your level of expertise, your level of knowledge. There's no point in having the tracheostomy kits and suture if you have no idea how to use it.
0:34:42 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:34:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): There's people that do that, that they have. Oh, I have my decompression needle for attention pneumothorax. Did you even know where to put that needle into somebody's chest?
0:34:51 - (Colin Johnson): I know.
0:34:51 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No. Cool. You watched a YouTube video. That is not the same.
0:34:54 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:34:55 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You know, you have to understand, you know, physiology of people of where to actually do this, or you could actually create much more harm.
0:35:01 - (Colin Johnson): 100.
0:35:02 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So, yeah, there's, there's things that you don't even want to get into. But at the bare minimum still, because. And this probably happens to more people than not. I mean, people get themselves cut at home all the time. Washing dishes that. I used to see that accident all the time when I would work with my dad in the er. You're washing a fragile cup or maybe it's a wine glass, it shatters. People get cut in their hand all the time. Yeah, you got a big old bleed. Okay.
0:35:26 - (Jesus Rodriguez): At least now you have gauze, you know, a combat gauze, something with a clotting agent in it. Then now you stop the bleed now. Yes, you can go ahead to the hospital and now you get sutured. Yeah, at the minimum. Yeah, you, you have to have those things. When it comes to tourniquets, it's nice to have tourniquets, but tourniquets are also now size dependent, so they're not exactly perfect for working on children.
0:35:47 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:35:47 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So because just the size of their bodies is not going to compress well enough. So if you have children now, at least, you know, find a viable option where you can have something, you know, for children. I taught my, My son, my 5 year old, how to use the tourniquet, how to put it on himself or other people, you know, if there ever was a need for it. I'm trying to talk to the school, you know, to get things like that in there. There's not a single thing in the school, anything at all. I don't even know there's a defibrillator in that school.
0:36:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it's like at the bare minimum, especially with everything that's going on in the. In the world, there's just. Schools are a soft target and they're made that way on purpose, you know, at the bare minimum. You know, it's like, we should have some. Some sort of kits and at least have the staff trained at the bare minimum. And if anything, have, you know, a moment. You do fire drills. Why not have like, hey, you know, an hour or so where we can just apply a tourniquet at the bare minimum.
0:36:36 - (Jesus Rodriguez): At the bare minimum. A tourniquet is so easy. You slide it on, you tighten it, you turn the windlass, and you're good to go. It doesn't get much easier than that. It can come.
0:36:44 - (Colin Johnson): I've heard it's not any fun to have it on.
0:36:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's very painful. Yeah, but it's more painful to die, you know, or. Or to. Or like. Yeah. So I don't know.
0:36:51 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah, maybe they pass out and did the pain.
0:36:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
0:36:54 - (Colin Johnson): So, I mean, but they're still not bleeding out.
0:36:56 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, you're not bleeding out. Yeah. You're going to survive. And the pain is only going to be until you get to the hospital. So it's not like in. In. In war somewhere that I gotta wait for a helicopter then the whole ride. So it's like here, your. Your level of treatment is so much faster. You're not spending hours. And people always had the fear, especially when it came to tourniquets, because there was just the myth going around, you know, years ago, where if you left the tourniquet on for, I forget, it was like. It was like no time. It was like an hour.
0:37:21 - (Jesus Rodriguez): They. That's it. You have a loss of a limb. Right. Because of the circulation. Yeah, that's just not true. It's not going to happen. And again, you're in America. You're going to get treated very fast.
0:37:31 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:37:32 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You're not going to get to that point of you show up at the.
0:37:34 - (Colin Johnson): Hospital with a tourniquet on because you. They're going to get you right back.
0:37:37 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. You're not going to wait.
0:37:38 - (Colin Johnson): Sorry, sir, you've got sniffles. We're going to set you.
0:37:40 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, sorry. Somebody has diarrhea, they go ahead of you. No, you're going to be treated first. So. So, yeah, it's just things like that. I definitely turn it because definitely combat gauze. When then you start getting into more specialized things. Okay. Burn dressing, you know. Yeah. People get burned, you know, at home all the time. They spill some water or oil spills on them. This is not going to treat you or cure you.
0:38:00 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's just literally going to help the pain. It's going to alleviate a lot of that. And again, you still have to go to a point of care, but at the, like I said, at the bare minimum, tourniquets, gauzes, for sure. And then if you start now, getting into now gear. Okay. You know, yes, you know, have, have your, your, your pistol. Everybody has their own kind of thing that they're, that they prefer. Some people like a pistol, some people like a shotgun, some people prefer a rifle.
0:38:25 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I don't prefer a rifle. For home defense. American walls are all drywall. It doesn't matter what bullet you're using. You're going to have over penetration. So now you have a whole lot of not only legal, but you have a whole lot of other issues, especially if you have children. Okay, where am I in the house? Where are the kids in the house? Where am I shooting the perpetrator? There's too many things to think about in that moment and you don't want to risk. Okay, yeah, I maybe scared the guy away or I shot him, but I also, you know, hurt my child in the process.
0:38:50 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:38:51 - (Jesus Rodriguez): That's probably why I wouldn't go for shotguns either. Unless you maybe you go for maybe a very light, you know, bird shot or something.
0:39:00 - (Colin Johnson): But they have those stun pellets, like it's a sandbag almost.
0:39:04 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, they, I don't even know if I've never looked into, see if they sell them. But yeah, that's like the less than lethal. That's more like law enforcement where they have those, they have plastic pellets and stuff. But yeah, definitely a weapon. And then if you ever wanted to go further than that, where it's like, oh, hey, I'm now getting into now. Now you're entering a realm of preparedness.
0:39:23 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:39:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Okay, then you start now thinking into, okay, at the bare minimum, a chest rig. Now I have a fighting load. I have my rifles, I have my medical kit. I have this, that, the other maybe hydration. And now again, it's just everything is how far do you really want to take it? You know, some people never see that ever happening. They never see that I ever need this. And these are the same people that rush out and they buy, you know, they're, they're all fighting for water because they never even store water.
0:39:49 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:39:49 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it's all about where do you want to, where do you draw your line? Where do you think things are going to happen? How far do you think things will go? And I always like to just have and not need. You know, somebody told me a long time ago, you know, they were like, I rather have a condom than not have one. So she said. So I got, I was like, why, why do you carry this with you? I'd rather have it not and never need it. Yeah.
0:40:18 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I was like, okay. Yeah, I guess it makes sense. It's just, there's just certain things that are just peace of mind. Yeah.
0:40:25 - (Colin Johnson): And you gotta sell all the gear, right?
0:40:27 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, we sell everything.
0:40:28 - (Colin Johnson): That's cool.
0:40:28 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. No clothes, like I said, because we get calls all the time. Oh. You know, for uniform pants, this, that, the other. I go, we don't do anything with clothes. Clothes is just another can of worm. Could we do it eventually? Yeah, we can do it, but there's just too many waist sizes, length sizes.
0:40:43 - (Colin Johnson): I like that.
0:40:43 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I make one pouch. It fits anybody. Like, we're good to go. It doesn't matter.
0:40:47 - (Colin Johnson): That's cool. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Who are some of the people who've influenced you? I know you said your dad early on told you to get into the medical, but some of the other people that have made gotten you where you are today.
0:41:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, I mean, my dad definitely started me on the, on the medical aspect of it. And I would have become, you know, a doctor. I, I, I never wanted to become a doctor. I, I wanted to probably be more surgeon. And I was actually looking to plastic surgery just because I, again, I love creating.
0:41:16 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:41:16 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I thought, hey, I mean, there's no more perfect and beautiful thing than creating, you know, either fixing somebody's face who accident or something to just recreate.
0:41:25 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:41:26 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You know, what was already perfect. So that was a cool thing. And then, you know, again, not to delve too deep or anything in psychology of everything, but, you know, I saw how often my dad was just so many hours working that, you know, causing the family friction of not the dad not being around so often we would go on vacations without that. So I was like, you know what? Medical at that level is probably not for me, you know, because I was more important.
0:41:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. It's funny because I never thought about family until only a couple of years ago where I met my wife and then we had the children. Because I always thought, again, like we talked about earlier, I'm the lone, I'm.
0:42:02 - (Colin Johnson): The lone guy, the lone coyote.
0:42:04 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I'm. And when, again, when we would go to, to Spain, across we would see there's a beautiful valley. And across, on the other peak, there was just one house there. And I'd always look And I. And I remember asking one time, like, oh, wow, like, what. What a cool house. Like, beautiful. It's just all by himself. And they're like, that is like a second cousin of ours. So it was. It was a relative.
0:42:22 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, that's cool.
0:42:23 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And I never got to meet him, but apparently he was a hermit. He's never been married, has no kids, no nothing. He just lives by himself out there. Who knows if he's even alive? He may have died 10 years ago. You're not even gone with her. Nobody goes there.
0:42:37 - (Colin Johnson): You could have that house. Maybe I claim it as a family member. I'm the only one.
0:42:41 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So. Yeah, so I never thought about that whole family thing, but I. I saw how that. That field was just so overwhelming and it just took too much time. So then that's why, you know, I just gravitated to other things. But, yeah, he's definitely a big inspiration. Just because he's just. He's just so darn smart. Like, he. And he. He knows everything about everything. There's not a single thing except for computers. Somehow older people, they. They don't do well with computers.
0:43:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But anything else. Fixing a car, he can fix any car. Yeah, anything with guns. We build guns from. From scratch. Reloading. He can reload any round from scratch. Make precision round.
0:43:17 - (Colin Johnson): Isn't that amazing?
0:43:18 - (Jesus Rodriguez): He knows it. Everything. Electricity, plumbing, those. There's just a lot of things that are lost. Skills.
0:43:23 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:43:23 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And then it's funny. Then there's skills to us that are just, okay, I knew this since I was a baby and you don't know how to do this. Like, it's, It's. There's an interesting inversion there when it comes to technology. But, yeah, he's definitely a massive influence, you know, for sure. You're my. My mother. Family. If you're going to talk about one, you have to talk about the other. She's always. She works for me as well, so I have my brother and my mother who work for me.
0:43:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And so my mother is just kind of like the cheerleader, I guess you would say. Like, it doesn't matter what it is. She's like, yeah, you got it. Like, and you're. You're going to do great. And we're, you know, I'm going to. I'm going to help you, whatever. And if it's just there, she just mostly comes. I don't even think she. She needs the money or she needs anything. Like, she says, she's like, I just come just to hang out with you guys.
0:44:06 - (Colin Johnson): It's most Fun.
0:44:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You want to hang out? I mean, she. She moved from Florida, you know, with us just to like, you know, to be with us and to. To continue working, so.
0:44:15 - (Colin Johnson): And that's still in Florida as far up. Dad's still in Florida.
0:44:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, he's. He. He stayed in Florida. He's. His wife didn't want to come up here. She's like a. A big thing down there. One of the, like, nursing schools and stuff like that. Like, she's like the whole director, so she can' so. And because I was telling him, I was like, this is. This is the place to come. I mean, he. He had to retire recently because, I mean, we're not going to get into Covid shots or anything else, but he had a bad side effect to the COVID shot, had a stroke, but he had. He has a perfect. He made a perfect recovery. That's good. And, yeah, it was. This is a complete sidetrack from what we were just talking about, but the guy who did brain surgery on him was his first ever case alone.
0:44:54 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, wow.
0:44:55 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. So I was just like, yeah, this isn't bode well, but he made it out perfectly fine. And we. Which we didn't think was going to happen because he was. The doctors were like, look, he's messed up. Like, it's not going to. It's not going to happen. And then he ended up actually having a stroke a couple months later on because I guess when the guy did the surgery and put the shunt in, didn't do it correctly. So he was having a very slight bleed that just built up over time and then caused another stroke. Oh, my God. And then he was even worse that time.
0:45:20 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But then he. He just. He's perfect. You can. You can never tell that anything happened to him. His medical knowledge is there. Everything is there.
0:45:27 - (Colin Johnson): That's fantastic.
0:45:27 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Only thing he can do is that his. His computer stuff that suffered. Like, he doesn't understand if I'm clicking on this or ordering this. Like, where does this page go?
0:45:38 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, okay.
0:45:38 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Like, I guess like a. It's weird. It's really odd. But everything else is perfectly fine with. And everybody's like, yeah, your dad is supposed to be here, you know, for some reason. Yeah. Because there's no way that these two massive strokes that he had.
0:45:50 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:45:51 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And to have no gait impairment, no facial stuff, remembers all of his medical knowledge, everything. I go, nah, there's something else going on there. But anyways, everyone's got a plan.
0:46:01 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:46:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Like I said, completely sidetracked. But yeah, my mom, my dad. And then I really only got started in this because I started seeing just like, I guess we call now influencers. You know, they started popping up on the scene where there was this one guy, I can't even remember his name right now, but everybody calls him Doc, and he's like a Navy corpsman, if I remember correctly. And he was the one that would travel around and he was the one kind of. I think he was really the only one at that time. And I mean, he may still be that, you know, was. Was really teaching people the medical side of it, more of that triple C, getting it out into the civilians market, because that was only really a military or law enforcement thing.
0:46:39 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So I saw him and he's what inspired me to then, okay, like, I, I see what this guy's doing. He's got a bag that I don't, I don't know if they designed or anything, but I, I see what he was working with and I said, I can, I can do this and I can be that guy, you know, but once I started manufacturing, I go, yeah, I can't be that guy that travels around and teaches, like, manufacturer and run. I. Not only that, but I don't have that military experience that he has. So I would just be, you know, I would be posing and.
0:47:04 - (Colin Johnson): Have you linked up and partnered with guys like that?
0:47:07 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, I've, I've partnered with a lot of people, but it's hard to partner with people in this industry because, let me tell you, there's. There's a lot of untrustworthy people that they seem fine, but they'll use you or they'll, or they'll just, they'll take your designs and your ideas or they'll claim that something that you did is theirs. And then they start creating conflict and, and, and friction in the industry. So then they. And it's. And it's funny. So since they have their own click, their own team, people that follow them, okay, These people have never done a single ounce of research.
0:47:38 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Then those people hate you and don't want to follow you or support you. Then they unfollow. So it's like there's, it's such a click.
0:47:45 - (Colin Johnson): There's a lot of drama.
0:47:46 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's just drama galore, you know, so. But you can't escape that. That happens in, in literally everywhere.
0:47:52 - (Colin Johnson): Very political.
0:47:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It sounds like, you know, yeah, everybody's, Everybody's trying to do their own thing. People don't realize that the, the pie is so massive that there's more than enough here that right the government is pissing away money by the trillions, you know, paying $400 for a toilet seat, paying $9,000 for a bag of washers. There's more than enough government money that they're pissing away for you to eat, for everybody else to eat.
0:48:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But people, when they see others entering into the same space, they, they will find whatever reason to like, like trash talk you, to bring you down, to prevent you from growing. Because they see it as like, hey, this is going to take, this is market, this is market share that I could possibly lose. And so yeah, it's, it's very hard to find those people that you, you work with there, there's a couple people that I work with now where, you know, they, we've created like a symbiotic relationship where you allow me to do my thing, grow, design and build your product and you, and then, you know, it's like, and you, you grow, you sell a great product.
0:48:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You then order for me because we, I make, I make it, I produce it, I designed it and I'm just able to, to kind of like flex my brain juices.
0:49:00 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:49:01 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Like I don't have a good partnership. That's what I love. I, I like, I'm working on this product now, which is, everybody talks about it, especially in this industry. Oh, especially now I'm leading into Shot show, which is January, I want to say 19th every January. There's like the biggest military trade industry in the world. I don't know if you ever heard of it. Las Vegas. Yes. Yeah, Las Vegas. There's over, probably over 70,000 people that go to Shot show. And it's just, you've got missile systems, everything you could possibly think of. Like.
0:49:27 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah, it's wild.
0:49:29 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:49:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it's, but it's not open to the public. It's open to our industry. And then industry kind of affiliates, like retailers, distributors every year and yeah, and it's a great time. And so everybody always says, especially leading to this time, we have whatever a product coming out that's game changing, it's revolutionary. Look, it's very hard to game change or do anything else. Like a lot has already been done.
0:49:50 - (Jesus Rodriguez): But what we're doing right now and, and I created, I think is something that is so unique and so interesting that the guy that I'm making it for, I mean this again, this is what I love. I love designing. I wish, I wish I could just design and not have to do business. Yeah. Because I, that's just my passion. Yeah. He came up to me with Just a design with an idea. And he's just like, yeah, it's got to do this. That's it. That's the only point I had. It has to do this.
0:50:18 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And I go, I already know by looking at this exactly what it's going, how I'm going to accomplish this.
0:50:24 - (Colin Johnson): That's cool.
0:50:24 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I could just see it in my, in my head. And I already know. And sometimes I. When I sleep, and this is probably just OCD or something, when I sleep, my brain is constantly designing it.
0:50:35 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, yeah.
0:50:35 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I'm stitching it or I'm creating it in 3D. I'm disassembling it. And I already know I've already made it probably 20, 30 times before I ever make it 100. So I've already skipped all the other process where I know it's going to fail and I just go straight to it. And I'm so close to the finish. I'm probably saying I'm like 98% there with this product. But I already said it. I was like, look, man, I was like, this is a revolutionary product.
0:50:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Nothing is out there. I go, you have to patent this, like right now, at least get it into the pending status. So you have to go to Shot show and you have to use this product there. And it is. You're going to get so much media attention, it's going to like blow your mind. It's going to blow your company up.
0:51:14 - (Colin Johnson): Oh, that's cool.
0:51:15 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You have to do this.
0:51:16 - (Colin Johnson): Wow.
0:51:16 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So, yeah, we might have to have.
0:51:17 - (Colin Johnson): You on next year and talk about it.
0:51:19 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. So at least I can show it off. That's right. Yeah. When it's actually like people, it's out there in the market because it's so cool. So that's what, that's what I enjoy.
0:51:26 - (Colin Johnson): That's super cool. That's super cool. How do our listeners connect with you online? How do they find you?
0:51:32 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So website coyote tacticalsolutions.com I would love to recommend people to follow me on Facebook or Instagram, but that is a. It's something that is probably just dead nowadays, especially for people in our industry. We, we were allowed to just organically grow when, when the whole kind of social media started. And now they have this very strict. And it's. And it's odd because it's a. You know, like in 1984, there's doublethink and Double speak.
0:52:02 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Their. Their Terms of service specifically says, I have it screenshotted and I've shared it with their, with their team. When I try to talk to A support person. It is very specific. It says firearms, ammunition, whatever. You know, it goes into other things in the industry are allowed to be posted on our platform, but not for sale on our platform.
0:52:22 - (Colin Johnson): Right.
0:52:22 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It says you can sell it off site on your platform and you can use us as a vector to sell. I said, that's great. However, anytime I post something immediately it gets flagged for content violation or community guideline violation. I go, how is this a community guideline violation when your terms of service, which just came out like a week ago that I just agreed to and I took the picture of. Right. Says that my business is okay. And again, I don't sell firearms, I don't sell ammunition. Yeah, I just, it just so happens.
0:52:49 - (Colin Johnson): Sell tactical gear that contains.
0:52:51 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Just in my picture. In my pictures. It just so happens that people have their sidearm, their rifle, whatever. Nope. Automatically you get, you get flagged. And the thing is that when you get flagged, your account is not allowed to have people follow you. You can't monetize, you can't do all these different things that you could do normally. So, so I'm talking to the agent, I go, okay, here it's saying that I can do it in your terms of service.
0:53:14 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Here I am constantly getting flags, so I can never grow. For four years, I'm not getting one single follower because I'm also on a hard algorithm. And I, I, I, I'm always collecting data and I showed it to them. I go, look, look, I can gain 2,000 followers in a day and the algorithm will automatically click 2,100. So every time I post, I actually lose followers. So it doesn't behoove me to post anymore. Like, so it's, it's a, it's a hard area where it's like, okay, not posting only helps them, you know, because if I post, I lose followers. But if I don't post, then it helps them. Because now nobody is like, now more gun content is not being proliferated, which is their goal. They don't want, want gun content, which again, it falls into the double thing and double speak.
0:53:54 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Again. It's, it's perfectly fine in the terms of service, but yet there's an option to report a picture for having prohibited goods of firearms and ammunition. So I go, how could there be an option to report? Yeah, well, the terms of service says that it's perfectly fine.
0:54:07 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:54:08 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So it's hard for me.
0:54:09 - (Colin Johnson): Maybe Canada runs all that. I don't know.
0:54:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No. If any tech support I've ever spoken to is always in India. So I go, I go, I don't understand how, how these things are content, moderation, everything else is always handled by some foreign country. Right? So, yeah, and they go, and I'm specifically telling the guy, look at all the pictures that I'm sending you. I am flagged. Nope, your account is good. How is it good? I'm looking at my account status. It says that I can't monetize. I have all the red checks like, ding, ding, ding. You can't monetize, you can't grow, you can't be seen by non farmer.
0:54:36 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No, not everything's good here. Everything's good. So it's like, okay, so yeah, you.
0:54:39 - (Colin Johnson): Almost have to have an advocate.
0:54:41 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And you can't, you can't sue them because it's in their own agreement that once you click agree, you can't sue them. You can't do class action, you can't do anything else. I go, okay, so what remedy is there? You know, people think that, oh, there's going to be some remedy with the new administration coming in. There are so many more problems on this plate right now that trust me, that is going to be the least of any.
0:55:00 - (Colin Johnson): Right, right. Except for censorship, maybe. They might be interested in that.
0:55:04 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. So that's, that's where it falls into censorship because you are just not allowed to grow, which is, you know, I don't know how much more time we have is a couple minutes. But I go, it's when it comes into censorship, okay, you censor all of our content. And it's not just me, you know, that's suffering through this. A lot of people in the industry. But it's interesting how it's kind of selective as well, because other people in the industry, they're posting the same stuff perfectly fine. They're allowed to grow exponentially. So I go, what happened here?
0:55:29 - (Colin Johnson): Part of some sort, probably for me.
0:55:31 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I know what happened for me since I was a nurse, you know, I know what triggered my, my attack on my account. Since I'm a nurse. You know, I made, I made a post during COVID about just, you know, the numbers. I go, look, these are the numbers. Or, you know, even according to cnn, these are the numbers of infections, These are numbers of deaths. It's a simple division problem. You get your IFR, which is your infection fatality rate.
0:55:49 - (Jesus Rodriguez): It's 2% or less. So I go, guys, people are like, are scared that it was like 50%. Like if I got it like 100%, I'm dead. Yeah. I go, no, it's like 2%.
0:55:58 - (Colin Johnson): There was a huge fair play.
0:56:00 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Like you gotta, you gotta calm down, like it's fine. Like you're gonna be okay. We knew, you know, comorbidities. We knew about a lot of things. We knew that everybody, you know, most people that were dying. Okay. Yeah. Obese. Yeah.
0:56:11 - (Colin Johnson): So.
0:56:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So yeah, I just made very simple posts, like on my story or whatever else saying, hey, these are the numbers. Like, like, like it's okay. Like, don't be scared. Don't be scared. I was just trying to tell people, don't be scared. Be helpful. You know, which, which I think that's a more ethical thing. Keep people calm. In any crisis that you're in, it could be the plane going down, it could be any. Keep people calm because fearful people do irrational things, you know, and sometimes those people you're trying to protect can become a hindrance in irrational position. So you need to keep people calm.
0:56:40 - (Jesus Rodriguez): So.
0:56:41 - (Colin Johnson): But you're trying to leverage fear. They wanted fear so they can.
0:56:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): For a whole bunch of things. So whole bunch of things. So once I did that post, Facebook, it was Instagram. I got it said, you have received a medical misinformation strike. And I go, what? I've never even heard this. I got a medical misinformation strike. The moment that strike happened, my account is essentially has been shut off like the spigot. You cannot gain it. So four years again, like I said, not a single follower. I lose followers for posting. I can't monetize, I can't do anything else. All because of that one time. Because before that I was growing, I was raking in the followers. I was doing everything else but that one post. And my wife said, don't do it.
0:57:22 - (Jesus Rodriguez): She. I don't want to admit that she's right, but anyways. But she was always are. She's like, she was like, don't do it. She's like, because of this. This that I go, the problem is that if I don't do it, nobody else is going to do it. And this is the problem where you're kind of caught in this catch 22. I know. And I told her, I go, I know you're right. But I know that what I. The information that I have and everything else is just true.
0:57:45 - (Jesus Rodriguez): If we don't speak, then that truth never gets out. And we only just help the system by never. So we are.
0:57:52 - (Colin Johnson): Ana didn't do that. Anyway, they flagged it, right?
0:57:54 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. So we're selling, we're self censoring ourselves. We're aiding this we are.
0:57:57 - (Colin Johnson): We're living in fear.
0:57:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): We're aiding this system. We are. Then again, we're not. Okay, I'm not living in the fear of COVID but I'm. Now I'm living in the fear of getting my. My whole. My business life destroyed. Exactly. Which. It's taken a massive toll. Just my CPA asked me, you know, it was later on that year when we were filing taxes. She goes, what the heck happened this. This year? And I go, yeah, you want to know what happened? I went into the whole story of the censorship. She goes, yeah. She goes, look, in this amount of months, you've lost $1.7
0:58:22 - (Jesus Rodriguez): million. And I go, oh, trust me, I know that. I've lost 1.7 million just because of. That's it. The spigot was turned off. You are not allowed to be seen.
0:58:30 - (Colin Johnson): Isn't that amazing?
0:58:31 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Grow anything else crazy since those four years? I'd probably say I've probably lost maybe 10, 12 million. Good grief. So just because of you, you're just not allowed to gain. To gain money. So it's like, so it's an interesting thing, and I'm hoping that, hey, some things can hopefully get a little bit better when it comes to censorship like we were talking about, because it's. It's a wild, wild thing of what they're able to do and what agendas they're able to push. Because.
0:58:58 - (Jesus Rodriguez): And I'll end it with this. Guns are bad. Yet all over the platform, pornography is everywhere. If you report the port, it's a pornographic image. It clearly has the woman's breast out and exposed, and she's using it as a sales vector to go to her only fans or whatever it is. You report that, there's an option that says, report nudity and pornography. You click that. Okay. Eventually, you know, you get back a thing saying, hey, the account you reported was. Or the photo that you reported was not taken down because it does not violate community guidelines.
0:59:32 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I go, hold on a second. Yeah, so my stuff gets community guideline violated, even though I'm not allowed in the terms of service. But yet pornography and nudity doesn't get. Doesn't get flagged because again, it's. They want that stuff to proliferate. They want to infect, you know, the minds of young people. They want to get more people into this. This. This pornographic thing. This. Destabilize families. It's a whole massive agenda.
0:59:55 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah.
0:59:55 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Where it's like, okay, now guys aren't talking to women because they're. They're fearful or they all get sucked into these. These online virtual girlfriends or whatever the heck it is. So it's like, okay, so that's. That. That's okay then. It's funny because if you repost that thing saying, hey, it does not violate guidelines. You repost it, you get violated. My friend has reposted that because it's like, hey, dude, this is clearly. We don't want to see this crap.
1:00:21 - (Jesus Rodriguez): He reposts it and he then gets reported and his account gets taken down because he's posting nudity and pornography. And I didn't post the nudity and pornography. I posted your response to it. It with a tiny, tiny picture.
1:00:35 - (Colin Johnson): So it's just like.
1:00:36 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Hold on. So the original picture in full quality doesn't violate guidelines. Yet me showing you saying that it does not violate guidelines violates guidelines against nudity and pornography. So it's. It's meant double standard. There's a. It's not even double standard. There's an agenda, man. Yeah.
1:00:50 - (Colin Johnson): Like it's 100.
1:00:52 - (Jesus Rodriguez): We'll leave it at that. Yeah.
1:00:53 - (Colin Johnson): Well, I was getting ready to ask you where it gets fired up, but I know what's firing you up.
1:00:56 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh, yeah.
1:00:57 - (Colin Johnson): Fired up about. Yeah, Just the state of our digital world and where it's headed and how.
1:01:03 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh, yeah. It's not headed to a good place. Before we started this, we were talking about AI and everything. Yeah. It's not going to a great place.
1:01:08 - (Colin Johnson): No. It's scary. That's scary. Well, anything I forgot to ask you, you'd like to share?
1:01:13 - (Jesus Rodriguez): No, I think we made it. We covered a lot of.
1:01:15 - (Colin Johnson): Thanks for coming on the podcast. It's been fun to get to know you. It's been fun to. Hopefully our listeners enjoyed it. Check out Coyote Tactical Solutions. Get a med kit, have it in your car. It's probably just a really sage advice just to have.
1:01:29 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah.
1:01:30 - (Colin Johnson): Be able to protect your family and in another way, you know, to take care of them because crazy stuff does happen all the time.
1:01:35 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Yeah. You're not in most. In most cases, 99.9 cases, you're not going to use your firearm, but you will probably end up using a medical kit more than you will ever use anything else.
1:01:43 - (Colin Johnson): Yeah. So that'd be a good Christmas present if it's a little late this year, but maybe next year or month, if.
1:01:49 - (Jesus Rodriguez): You order, we can still get into. We ship same day, so.
1:01:52 - (Colin Johnson): Hey, look at that. So order up.
1:01:53 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Order up.
1:01:54 - (Colin Johnson): We'll have a link in the show notes to your. Your site.
1:01:56 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Perfect.
1:01:56 - (Colin Johnson): So, yeah, hopefully we're on get flagged because of it.
1:01:59 - (Jesus Rodriguez): Oh, be careful. You'll be guilty by association.
1:02:01 - (Colin Johnson): I probably will, yeah. It was good talking to you all. This was our last podcast.
1:02:05 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I'm just kidding.
1:02:07 - (Colin Johnson): But yeah. Thank you again for coming in. And until next time, I'm Colin Johnson with the Colin Carley Group.
1:02:11 - (Jesus Rodriguez): I hope you have a very merry Christmas.
1:02:13 - (Colin Johnson): If you want to move here, become a neighbor with Jesus and his family. We'd love to help you move to Johnsboro, where I grew up, or Kingsport or Bristol or anywhere in the Tri Cities. We love our area, and we want to bring as many people here who are like, you know, just want to. Want to have great four seasons, love the mountains, love just people. I mean, it's just a great place to live. So thank you so much, and thanks again for listening.