Is this

Is this light still working? Is this thing still working?

Nothing like a little bit of rain to screw with your electronics.
(00:42)

I think I got an LED on there.

Yeah

This is ah, Independent Librarian Dynamic Sean Kennedy the 6th.

Episode number 732.653.663.398.36.3

And ah, yours truly is now involved in a pirate radio broadcast

In Queens English sometime after now.
(01:14)

And I'm currently inside this handy-dandy car trying to make sure I can get all my body
covered where the rain got me.
(01:25)

'Cause like an idiot I got outside to far from cover, my brelle didn't stand up to it so I got to
make sure

that I get all this moisture off of me

before it turns into a rash.
(01:41)

As for you

It's a, if you're listening to this you should be aware that you're ah, violating your ah, listener's
license agreement.

So you stand a risk of losing it if ah, well, even if you listen.
(01:58)

But if you turn this you're vitally important that this reach you because ah, you're the one who
needs it most.

So while I get myself sorted out here, maybe you can light a few candles

Maybe server can protect us.
(02:17)

Yeah,

I think I got some

Rain in my mouth

Its hard

Yeah you wouldn't believe what just happened to me.
(02:37)

Right now I am a ways out, I'm pretty far out on the fringe.

I'm almost in the wasteland.
(02:45)

I'm not in Trash Town anymore, I'm

Moved a little bit further East

Whooo' hah

This region here isn't even a neighborhood.
(02:59)

I was just walking thinking about other things and the rain came up.

Storm cloud

I had my brelle, ah my umbrella, with me. You always keep an umbrella with you out here
because of rain, with the fallout and all carcinogens in the rain,

It'll ah,
(03:21)

Well you got to be careful 'cause it's just not rain anymore.
(03:26)

So the rain just came on hard and fast I don't know where it came from and

I threw up my brelle but ah, I don't know, my brelle has had so many holes burned in it.

It started to leak and then just, I could watch the fabric rot away
(03:47)

This is a bad storm

With all the fallout from the bombs and what not

And all the pollution as well

Well its long since been toast since

Nobody cares about the outside.

Rain is like a major killer out here

Its not so bad when it hits you but

After a while, if ya

Some, Sometimes in a bad section it's like a

You get a bad section of black rain it just ah
(04:13)

You can feel it burning on your skin

That's why everybody's clothing here has got patches all over it, its from the freaking rain
(04:26)

Stupid rain

It's almost like a battery acid

That's probably the best way to describe it, like a weak battery acid
(04:35)

Burns holes in everything it touches

I fell asleep once in a car that had a leak in it and I didn't know it was there it started raining in
the night and I woke up in the morning and I had a wicked rash
(04:45)

It fell and landed on the inside of my leg

The hole inside my leg was just rash and it ended bleeding and bled for almost a week.
(04:55)

Oh man

Luckily the good people at Waste Tech have ah,

set up enough of vending machines with decontamination mitts in them

It's a, looks like a foil bag and you tear the top off
(05:16)

Inside is this mit covered with powered

And you slap your hand inside it

Pat your face, and your hair, your head and

It's like this really, really super fine dust

And ah it, neutralizes any of the toxins
(05:33)

It's like an acid based thing, I don't know how it works, but

Stinks like hell
(05:40)

Sometimes they call them corpse gloves

Cause you smell and look like a dead guy after its all done, Its sickly gray
(05:50)

You gotta watch the weather here 'cause if you get caught out in the rain, it'll kill ya.

Especially if you're ah, if you're out in the wasteland and you don't have cover

Man you get caught in a rainstorm it will soak you right to the skin, and rot all your gear off and
you'll die
(06:07)

Without any gear you're toast

There's no second chances here.

Sometimes if ah,

there's a community and the' strangers and it starts to rain, we'll, we'll, the community'll get the
strangers inside you know

'Cause they know how bad it is.

It's a nice way to break the ice.

Unless of course they're corp cops or shock troops in which case we like it when it rains
because well, they don't stick around to much
(06:40)

Out here on the fringe there's

In some ways its less tough than the Inner City and

And in a lot of ways it's worse.

In the inner city you've got to worry about

Well everybody trying to kill ya

And out here you gotta worry about the elements and the environment to try and kill ya
(07:05)

So it's a trade off

In both places you need

Some kind of community or gang or group to keep you safe

And out here you need your kit

'specially if you are a war hawk like me that runs around in the wastelands all the time.
(07:24)

Well as I ah, lay my gear out here I 'spose I should

Kinda go over what I got.

In case any of you want to, I don't know

If there's no way to stop it, maybe you can prepare for it you know
(07:46)

Man listen to that rain

Metal on this roof is getting pretty thin.
(07:57)

I don't see any kinda drops

I think it'll be ok

Yeah looks all right

I'll have to keep an eye on that
(08:16)

Going over a kit here, ya

Number one thing you have to look after is ya have ta

get your hands on some body armor.

Body armor is ah, allows ya to get hit

Being able to take a hit is being able, is more important than being able to give a hit
(08:42)

That's the first rule

If you can hit hard that's great, but if you can't get hit well you're done
(08:50)

That reminds me of something but I can't remember what

Oh well

Ballistic armor is expensive, more than that everyone wants it so

Most of out here we, keep our vitals protected with sports armor.

While the Great Plague was happening and the war was raging they ah

They really cranked up sports and they

Even invented sports

All highly contact stuff, combative stuff
(09:25)

Give them circus ad give them bread.

Trying to distract us from what's going on

That's the name of the game, distract 'em keep them busy

So sports gear was just everywhere, everyone was involved in sports and it was like a

It's crazy, it's like the world went sports crazy
(09:52)

So at the lowest level on your skin you'll usually have a, oh like an old t-shirt or some cloth
wrapped around ya and then you'll throw your armor on

In the summer a lot of people don't even wear, they just, make sure the armor has enough holes
in the it

Small holes anyways to stop the

It make the mostly stop blunt force trauma, bats. I mean if you get shot you're done right
(10:20)

depending on how

And then you dress for the occasion right, Like if you are going somewhere and you think it's
going to be bad well you might want to keep up
(10:28)

For guys like me always on the move you pack light

Some shoulder guards, chest plates, stomach protection

I found some old cycle gear, Spine protection
(10:43)

Sewed it all into a vest, threw some hooks on it

I've had this for awhile

it's kept out ok
(10:55)

Everything's loose and in layers

Loose and in layers that's the name of the game

I've had some baggy old black combats that I put together

I don't know what they make these combat pants out of but man they are tough
(11:15)

I guess they were black at some point now they are like a gray mottled white I mean the rain
has been on them sucked all the color out of them.

Spots it's like this, oh I don't know

Pretty, pretty ratty

I like them though they're comfy
(11:39)

And then I, got a cloak I wear over the top, I usually keep it cinched up at the waist. And ah,

The base of it, has like a draw string that uh,

I tie it around like a belt over top the armor and everything and that's for the sunscreen right
because well
(12:05)

If the rain doesn't get it, then the sun defiantly will

See the, my robe is actually made of sunscreen.

I've got a scarf made of it to which I keep around my head

The scarf's combat more and the cloak is made from stuff they took from the cities

I get a cloak out of all it though a lot of people don't know what sunscreen is though it's so dirty
and mottled but uh, works out ok
(12:35)

It's kinda hard ta, hard to describe but

whenever you're out here you want to have loose and in layers and make sure you got head
protection
(12:44)

You know

Of course
(12:50)

nothing beats a good pair of shades.

Mirror shades are the best. Everyone's got mirror shades

Just to keep the light out

I mean your eyes will burn in no time. If you're outside and you haven't got a, any kind of light
protection for your eyes you're cooked
(13:04)

I mean there's all sorts of blind people wandering around here, they don't live very long

I mean scag gangs take them when ever they want them, burn booth somewhere, jack

Being bad, blind is a pretty bad state of affairs when everyone is out for your head.
(13:20)

One of my best treasures is most, is my boots.

I got a set of tanker boots

They use zippers to get them on and off

You'd be very fast
(13:43)

See, 'cause whenever you sleep you've got ta strip all this gear off, right

You never sleep in your clothes, it's a bad idea
(13:50)

Any toxins you have, your body will try to sweat out and you'd sweat in your clothes

It's hard to wash you see

Most of the time what we do is just use the same de, decontamination mits and we pat down
the inside of our clothes like, like a talcum powered

It works like a cleaning
(14:06)

Keeps the germs from building up

That powder is good stuff

After you use ah, a glove you

Any powder that's left in the bag you try and get some kind of container and

Store the remnan, remaining powder that's in the bag in that container so you got some for you
know, powder bathing your clothes and stuff

Works out good
(14:29)

These old tanker boots here they just never die.

I don't really think about them

They got some writing on the side here I can't read

Lettering is really blocky

Like a Hebrew I don't really know
(14:44)

They come up to my knee

Zippers on the side and they got this

Nice, ah some kind of a alloy plating that comes along the front, breaks up into a kneepad here

When you're out here on the fringes

Especially if you're in the wastelands and you're doing any kind a scooping out here you want
to make sure you got your legs plenty of protection. Especially if you're running
(15:12)

If you never know if you hit wire or fences or steel or whatever and

Especially if you run into any hostiles

I mean you run into hostiles out here

First thing they do is they take out your legs
(15:25)

You don't got legs, you can't run

And then I got, of course I've got some riot gloves

I always keep a small satchel on my webbing of ah, rubber gloves

There're everywhere, you can get them from any wai, any vending machine

But ah
(15:47)

The rubber gloves you see you keep handy

With the finger-less weighted gloves, the riot gloves, they got

About 8 ounces of steel shot sewn into the knuckles of the gloves

But no fingers on them so you put on the rubber gloves
(16:02)

If you're going to be in an area where you're touching stuff and you're not sure whether or not
it's safe

You throw the rubber gloves on and you put the weighted gloves over top

That way it serves as kinda an additional barrier and keeps the rubber intact
(16:15)

And ah, also gives you a little bit more of a hit in case you need it.

I mean, I can't tell how many times that has saved me.

What else here
(16:33)

I guess that's pretty much it for what's

That's like your underwear, that's, that's what's always with you

And the next layer
(16:42)

Which I have always got with me. You can always tell the outlanders, man the wastelanders,
the guys on the fringe, they never ever drop their vests

Soldiers have their webbing, its kinda like our very own webbing

I'm mean mines kinda integrated with my armor, that's how much I wear it, I mean

You know as long as I got my armor I got, I got my gear
(17:02)

Just hooks, satchels, places I put stuff on me, you know I kinda customize, everybody's
different everybody has got their own, kinda configuration
(17:09)

But ah, you know, you talk to 10 different guys they'll give you 10 different explanations
(17:17)

Man

Ah I hope I didn't drink any of that rain, if that gets into my throat I am going to have a sore
throat for weeks

It's gonna suck
(17:28)

I hope that doesn't burn through the roof
(17:34)

Where was I?

Oh yeah the webbing

Yeah mine, I mean, you talk to 10 different guys you'll get ten different explanations on what's
good, right

You gotta, kinda do what's right for you depending on, again on what you mostly do
(17:53)

Me I'm, I'm a wastelander/fringer I always meeting people so it s beneficial for me to be fighting
light, light weight and you know and

Pretty much light fighting mode all the time that's what I need to be
(18:06)

So that's where usually you want to have a good fighting knife, cause you may have to use it

Now a fighting knife by itself is pretty good, but when you cross that with those weighted gloves
you've got a much more impact weapon

Those 8 ounces of steel shot, cross that with my kukri
(18:26)

I tell you that's a good chop

18 inches of pain.
(18:32)

Intimidation value is pretty high
(18:35)

Of course if bad guys don't get you, you still gotta watch out for water and food

If you can't get the water bags, water from the vending machines, they sell it in these plastic
bags

Looks like a medical bag but
(18:53)

If you can't get those you need to make sure you got a good bunch of straw filters

They um,

It's like a thick tube maybe half-an-inch thick 10, 12 inches long I guess

You can find a pool somewhere you can stick a straw in one end and try and suck on it

Takes a while to get the water up through it but you can stay alive with it
(19:18)

Works out fine
(19:21)

Of course running around in the day time is a bad idea

To much of a priority target, everyone can see ya, especially if you're again,
(19:31)

In the wastelands so you try moving around at night,

And everybody else is going to be moving around at night to.

(19:42)
It's not that you're hiding, it's just that you want to keep a low profile, you never want to be
showy or flashy in any way shape or form, eh

If you make yourself for a mark.

Everything is low profile, unless you can back it up
(19:57)

If you can back it up, Hey be as showy as you want.

Doesn't bug me
(20:03)

But ah, Ideally if you've got any night vision gear that's, that's the bomb

You'll see some of the wastelanders, they, they'll have, like you know blocking things around
their necks

You know, usually covered up with their scarves, they wear it loose so it covers the NVGs but

Their in high demand
(20:28)

Most of us use LED flashlights

Then again the wastelanders use red ones

Red light is harder to see in the dark at distance, and

A white light you can see for miles, a red light fades to fast, so

If you're out in a area where you know there might be hostiles you always use your red light
(20:47)

The LEDs are better than bulbs. They don't burn out and they burn longer

Stack of battery will, keep LED's going for days
(20:58)

Guys have fallen asleep with their LEDs on and they are still fine for another couple of days,
works fine
(21:04)

Again its, just about everyone carries the gigahertz radios. It's little radios that ah

It like a walkie-talkie but they broadcast and receive for like 5 kilometers, just a tiny thing.
They've been around forever
(21:29)

But ah, they're calibrated to different settings and depending on what community you're in
they'll have like, local 5 kilometer little radio stations that people broadcast on, or maybe they
re-broadcast news or there'll be like a help channel in case someone has got a problem they'll
just do a call out and whoever's got their radio on will respond, if they know you know, they
got community landmarks and stuff. So if they got a problem they will know where they are.
(21:53)

I keep mine with me, but I don't, I move around so much that I don't know the, I don't know
the, the local call signs or the

I mean I know some communities but not as many as I'd like
(22:07)

So on the back of my armor I managed to get my hands on a scanner

Well what happens is I run the ear mic from the gigahertz set and the ear mic from the scanner
to this little mixing pod, made up kinda one overlays the other
(22:28)

The scanners louder I got a little dial that I can adjust it but

This way I just have my clear phones. I put one clear phone over one ear and I'm good to go
(22:37)

Clear phones are, ah that's a military thing, they used to give them to soldiers

But they were popular in the civilian market

Its ah, oh man

It's, It's like a headphone only the ah, the back of the headphone that covers your, that would
normally cover your ears is, is like a mesh

See through, you can see through it
(22:58)

And ah, you can hear what's going on outside as well

And no one else can hear what's ah,

coming through the clear phone. So it looks likes you're kinda like wearing this rubber thingy
like a, some kind of strainer over the side of your head. Small one you know
(23:16)

I mean it just hooks on to your helmet or you can ah, wear it underneath your scarf
(23:23)

I uh,

I got a helmet
(23:32)

I don't usually wear it unless I am out in the wastelands, but I got a little

I think it's a rappelling helmet I don't know what it is, it's really tight fitting

And ah

I got an a__ault mask I keep as well.
(23:45)

For most of the times when I'm ledding I've got head mounted lights, LEDs, twin LED lights,
with a red filter 'em, I put on either side of the helmet. They just snap on and

If I am going in to the wastelands and I'm worried about
(23:58)

Its hard to explain um, like ok,

If I'm in the inner city I will generally just have my scarf around my head, right

But uh

If I am out in the wastelands and I'm doing some scooping, I've got the helmet tight, I've got
the face mask on and ah, I got the goggles over top of that

And then at night you just hit the LEDs and it gives you like these two red lights
(24:27)

I mean it looks pretty bad a__ to, and again that keeps them back. If you look like you're not
an easy mark than they stay away from you.
(24:35)

Plus with the long robes and everything, I s'pose, it probably keeps them back

But

Yeah the long robes they get tied up pretty good, when I'm in
(24:48)

When, Again when you're in the city, you tie them up, and when

Well when you're in the city in the day time you let 'em down, but

If you think you need to move fast or whatever I mean, I might even just take it off, take off the,
the cape and throw it in my pack, you know

There's no hard and fast rule, its kinda more so, it's like an art you gotta learn how to use it.

Anyway
(25:15)

Fact is that you gotta make sure you got your lighting

So those clear phones

With the scanner

Where was I, scanner? Yeah scanner you see 'cause
(25:34)

Quite often there'll be a, especially out in the wasteland there'll be frequencies broadcasted out
or there'll be ghost frequencies, frequencies just bounce around or old military you know,

downed choppers frequencies or distress calls that are automated from gear that's crashed and
people just go out and try to find the strength of frequency and try and home in on it so they can
get the salvage right
(25:56)

Lot of valuable stuff, especially on

Downed military craft
(26:00)

Works out well

Ah that thunder crash was a little close.

Lightning here is scary

If you get a lighting strike on one of these car condos man

I mean it'll cook a lot of people and fry even more equipment
(26:24)

This is a good one we have going on here, I tell you.

Well if I cut out of all of a sudden you will know what happened to me
(26:32)

Oooo, See if I had'a been smart, I'd use the other thing I keep on my webbing here, I keep my
spy glass thing, scopeing
(26:46)

Everybody's got bino's or a, a decent rifle scope that they keep handy just to get a distant look
at things
(26:53)

I mean if you just see like a downed chopper in the middle of the desert I mean, chances are it's
a trap.

You know its, you gotta scope things from all angles

I usually do a pretty wide circle
(27:05)

Quarter mile maybe, round anything I see on the wastelands and I scope it for a long time
before I move in
(27:13)

I've seen all kinds of guys moving in on stuff and I thought, ah, should I move in there. And
before you know it, you know they get taken down or you know
(27:23)

Teams that lay in wait in the wastelands are, you know they got a weird cult or something, I
mean, you don't know what's in the wastelands

I means it's anybodies ruling in the wastelands.
(27:33)

Nobody knows what's out here, I mean there's lots of
(27:37)

There's soldiers and cults and chem weapons and all sorts of c___ just floating around out here

That's why you got keep your shooters with you. Shooters are the auto injectors. I always got
some right on my chest in case I need to get 'em in a hurry.

They are like an anti chem. Weapon stuff

Atropine adrenaline

If you've got a problem and you think you, you start feeling tingly, things are going wrong, you
jack yourself and run like hell.
(28:07)

Get out of the area

In the inside of my ah, visor, on my helmet here

I got a canary vent

Canary vents are ah

It's maybe about the size of a small coin

A piece of plastic with air vents on it.

Little yellow LED
(28:35)

It ah

I guess it just looks for any kind of carcinogenic gas or

Chem. Weapons, All I know is

I am out on the inside, see its in kinda up near my top field view but if

That LED goes off, I mean like, you can't miss it, it's really bright, you know because it shines
practically in my eye
(28:59)

That's important you see, because ah, if that goes off that means the air is toxic and I gotta get
out of there.

You know in the cities it's not that big of a deal, even on the fringes

But if you're a wastelander running around like me, you never know what's floating around in
the air man

All sorts of particulates

Some times in the inner city they'll go off when the pollution gets heavy

When you know, smog comes in
(29:25)

When the smog comes in, of course the air vent is going to go off but
(29:30)

I've got a pretty nice hook up here now, Normally in, in bags and on your webbing you got
some rope, but what I done, is I got a

I found this heavy fishing reel you know, I don't know what they use to rule with this thing but
it's oh maybe ten inches across

I hooked it up in the middle of my back

With a 'biner on it
(29:54)

And you can change this dial, I guess for how heavy you want the pull to be so it will let line out
really slowly based on pu, pull I guess if you were catching like some thousand pound fish, you,
you'd have it so that it just wouldn't you know make the fish tired or whatever

I've never been fishing, whatever but
(30:11)

Anyway I've got this heavy reel and I attached it, with no small amount of effort I might add, to
the back of my armor vest here.

With the 'biner if I've got to get down in to a chasm or if there is like a, a pit or something I just
hook on to the top
(30:28)

And ah, I've got it set for my own body weight so that it just lowers me down

I don't' bother trying to reel it back up I just cut it

Get another 'biner
(30:37)

'biners are the little aluminum clamps you can make 'em

ah, its just a steel hook with a spring on it so it closes the hook or you just get a, make your
own steel hook I mean
(30:49)

Kits a lot of time makes 'biners, hooks are always just handy to have
(30:53)

But, I mean if you gotta climb up you can't beat rope or anything so

I only carry about 50 feet of rope if that

Most of the time it's spider line down, You, you don't go down into a hole unless you know
there's a way out of it that you don't have to come back up, otherwise that might as well be
your grave
(31:15)

And my Zippo

I can't remember where I got this Zippo

Zippos are still around

Nice thing about the new Zippos is that they'll burn just about anything

If its got a fuel it'll burn alcohol, ethanol, acetone, whatever, if it burns the Zippo will burn it
(31:40)

It's handy

Its good for emergency lighting
(31:44)

Just it's always good to have fire and of course on the Global Positioning System, so you have
some idea so you can mark stuff

Especially if you're out on the wastelands and you find something, in the middle of the day and
you're being hunted or whatever, you can't stick around you just mark it and keep going
(32:03)

Its all about how fast you can go.

Now aside from all the webbing I have a small pack

And I do mean a small pack 'cause you gotta pack light
(32:22)

You're running around out here, I mean you never carry more than 15 percent of your own
body weight anyway otherwise you will just, you'll kill yourself

Couple, Some soldiers were altered to be able to carry more but even still, I mean You gotta
pack light man, you gotta

Listen to that coming down
(32:43)

My pack I keep a

I keep a very large blanket

This one's like a thick towel, wool. I don't know what it is.

It's like a, it's like a towel that's made of wool

If it gets wet it's still warm
(33:06)

I mean if this gets wet I can't use it, but that's one of the nice things about wool

But it's absorbent, eh

So I mean it can dry me off
(33:16)

Some people have like a very thin sleeping bags but I mean you don't wanna sleeping bag, I
mean it will be a body bag if you can't move and you get jumped in the middle of the night,
you're done
(33:27)

To put all this webbing together I keep a sewing kit

Nail needles, you take a, a nail and you bend the end and you kinda pound it flat. Kids make
them, they are just for like a

Well working with armor, stitching stuff, in case you need ta

Works like a, it does the job a needle can't do
(33:53)

Spider line is the a, the thread of choice

It's like the world's toughest fishing line, works pretty good
(34:04)

Any of the scrap packs you get, from the vending machine, of course they are loaded with
advertising

Cause they gotta, I mean, you know

Half of the people put in samples

Scrap bags are just, they got like one decent meal
(34:19)

Well, some that's a half decent portion, and then everything else is a bunch of little things

It just advertises a product, you know, like one tenth of a chocolate bar or something
(34:31)

So the trick is when you get that scrap bag you tear it open and you break it down so that you
can carry it more easily
(34:37)

Most of the stuff that's in there is c___, I mean you need the chocolate bars that's useful, you,
you leave anything that you know, you're not going to be able to, to keep
(34:47)

Usually you got some kind of instant coffee or some kind of a speed in there

That comes with, you need that

And of course you take whatever, you know, solid food they got in there and if it is a fluid of
any type that's coming along. Sometimes you get lucky and you have scrap bags, and its like a,
you'll get like, synthetic juices and sometimes you'll get water, its pretty nice when you get
water
(35:15)

I remember kids seeing them, you know they all go get their scrap pack and then they trade
back and forth
(35:26)

Its always good to have a couple of crack sticks in there

CPU stacks over clocked with a connection on it so that, you know, you got a chance to cut
through some encryption
(35:42)

Any of the military stuff out here that might be crashed might be a little bit older

Couple of crack sticks might be able to break the codes
(35:48)

Their always handy to have. Again wastelander tool. You don't even think about carrying stuff
like that near the archs

They bust you with crack sticks you're gone
(35:56)

I've got a pump burner

A pump burner's a

It's like a butane torch, but like the Zippo it's made to run on just about anything that'll burn

You, you fill it up and then, and it's got a little pump built into it, so you, you know, you pump it
until you can't pump it any more and then

You light using usually a Zippo and
(36:18)

Gives you a hot blue flame

Some guys are artists with these things man, they can solder with them, they can do whatever,
it's pretty handy

But it's good to, in a tight place you gotta heat up some metal or well you'd be surprised, it's
always good to just have that kind of heat

Usually a tin of some kind of fuel if you can get it
(36:37)

And your tools, some guys keep their tools on their webbing

I kinda drift back and forth, if I am going wastelanding, then yeah I will switch them to my
webbing but if I'm inner city or running around in just the fringe I,

I'll keep 'em in my bag
(36:57)

My essentials, I mean everyone's got different sets of tools they want to use but mine are the
wire cutters
(37:03)

A set of vise grippers

Wire cutters are good because you know, I mean, you can cut anything with it

I mean you can break in to old rocket pods or whatever, get some valuable wiring it's just like
you're all purpose scissors baby

The vise grippers of course cause, well gotta buckle on to something
(37:22)

You gotta pry, I mean you're hands get tired,

Especially if you've been humping all day the vise grippers are the bomb

You can do first aid with them to, they work like a clamp, in case you gotta tie something off
(37:37)

That's pretty, pretty desperate

Adjustable wrenches always got one, decent size

See you can't carry to much, you gotta remember it's only one wire cutter, one vise grip, or one
adjustable wrench

You know, multi-bit screwers, so you got, you know whatever you need to get into any kinda
electronics you find

I'm very lucky, I've got a t__anium pry bar

Light weight t__anium, this thing if I threw it in a burn booth I'd probably get 50 bucks for it.
(38:10)

But I wouldn't part with this thing for the world

It's a makeshift weapon in emergency you can't go wrong with a crowbar man, these things
rule.

'Course on my quick draw I used to have my 'brelle

Nice big a__ umbrella

Everyone packs umbrellas here, you don't go outside, you don't go anywhere without an
umbrella

Umbrellas save your life
(38:45)

Man you even think there's going to be rain you drop the umbrella up

Lots of guys on rain watch here. And they'll start hitting alarms and that if they think that

Some guys are good and they can really tell, like from a crows nest position

They'll start banging on these big metal gongs they made to warn the rains coming and people
just take cover
(39:05)

Surprising what some people can tell just from looking at the sky through a pair of spyglasses, I
can't, I'm never very good at that

But it works them ok
(38:16)

Gotta have your 'brella

I guess that's about it, I mean

I try to keep it as light as I can

You know

I usually try to, keep some extra goods for trading you know
(39:42)

Flask of booze, some bog weed, that's always healthy with the server monks and frankincense,
that always goes over good

I, I mean it's kinda of a personality of what you know

And of course with me, I always keep data
(39:58)

Cause that's my job right?

Got my tablet, that goes without saying

Tablet goes, well on my webbing

That's, that's always with me
(40:11)

I keep it in a light sheath

Actually got a hard pack case for it, that where I keep all my

I've got a stockpile of, where I keep my actual physical books

But I would never carry that around with me, I mean they're to big so I've got a trusted place I
leave it
(40:28)

Scan all the data and then, carry it around with me on my tablet, issue it out to people as they
need it, you know

Technical manuals just transfer it to the tablet

Some of the books I got, had to be destroyed

I mean a lot of them come from these irradiated libraries, people bring me this stuff and the
micro amp readings just got threw the roof, eh

You sit there and you
(40:55)

I was just looking at this

I remember I got this one book

It was some kind of Soviet manual, on some kind of monitoring equipment, I've

It was related with the old school echelon stuff before they went to the next gen but

I mean I just looked at this thing and my canary vents started to go nuts you know
(41:20)

Canary vents do the radiation to, I, I don't know if I mentioned that, they

You always want to keep 5 or 6 of those things going

But I mean a book that would kill you, but again to, I guess if you didn't have the knowledge it
would kill you

So I threw on as much shielding as I could and, scanned it and then destroyed it
(41:41)

What you going to do?

Can't let the knowledge die

Some librarians that's all they do, they just work with toxic books

It's amazing

Supreme sense of sacrifice they have

I want to help people, don't get me wrong but

Depending on my mood

Depends on how, how much danger I will put myself in
(42:11)

This is quite a storm

(42:23)
I hope Carcass is ok out in that

Well that's a funny story, I should tell you that story

See I wander out in the wastelands to a

Well find scrap and more than that I am trying to find books, get data, information, anything I
can extract

That's why I carry the crack sticks, in case I come across, well

Once in a while I might come across a like a down spy craft or a intelligence gatherer equipment
so I gotta get into it and see what information's there
(43:00)

Cause, quite often they will have intel from a certain time

And from that we can try and keep accurate records

There is a network of librarians we do share information between each other but

I ain't telling you nothing about that
(43:16)

But we're not going to let the history die.

We're working on it, don't you worry.
(43:22)

Anyway

This one time I'm out

And I was in this

I was , um

City I guess a smaller town, I mean but still there was lots of concrete and arcades and stuff

Cars everywhere
(43:42)

I mean there's lots of waste zombies in these regions

When you're in the wastelands, I was pretty far out

I've got the mark somewhere but I won't tell you where it is, but

It a

Waste zombies are folks who have just been hit with the fallout

And brain damage, a lot of the toxins and germ warfare and what not, its, it's like a neurotoxin

So the plague also, I mean, You don't really know, you just see these people who

I don't know, maybe its like their genetically malformed or something
(44:19)

It's almost like they, their, they've got some kind of weird disease

And then they don't speak properly they just slur and they run around and go insane and they,
they

Oh it's bizarre, it's twisted, it's like bag people or something. I don't know what to call them
but their

Their very dangerous, they usually carry all kinds of disease you don't get near them
(44:42)

Zombies are just a term for them their not actually you know, dead people walking around but
they may as well be
(44:50)

Anyway Their a threat when you're in, out in the wastelands, I mean you'll go across the
wastelands it's a void, desert, nothing, dunes, burned out highways, what ever
(44:59)

And a, this is, this is away from the autobahns now right, the plas-steel autobahns that you,

This is on the old streets
(45:07)

And you can tell from, the old street lights and stuff you be getting close and you'll see this

City, this town you know
(45:16)

So anyway I'd been humping for a couple of days

And ah

I'd been moving pretty good for the better part of the night

And ah
(45:34)

Well I hunkered down, it was a cloudy day

I couldn't sleep

'Sides I didn't have enough cover so I was going to move into the city to get a better rest during
the day
(45:48)

But it's kinda precarious 'cause now you know there is people around right so now you gotta
be careful where you crash especially in the wastelands so
(45:54)

I popped a couple boosters and figured I'd keep going

Cloud cover was good

So I got up and headed in
(46:07)

City was pretty run down, lots of collapsed walls, looked like the place had been shelled

You know
(46:14)

Something had happened here, there had been some kind of an incident probably one of the
terrorist movements or what ever but
(46:20)

I mean there was obviously some kind of old battle here nothing fresh
(46:27)

I was hoping maybe I could find some, if I was lucky I might find some guns but, that was pretty
unlikely, so maybe some burned out equipment
(46:37)

So the place was kinda devoid there was, there was no zombies walking around, and, nothing
you know, I mean there's

That's even worse sometimes, It's better when you see the zombies because that way you
know that there's you know, there's life there's movement even thought it's you know diseased
and sick I mean at least there's something, but when there's nothing there, it feels, nothing feels
more like a trap than walking into a dead zone
(47:04)

There was a light breeze picking up the smell of the, the dust, the concrete dust, walking in

You know walking through a

Abandoned towns like that you gotta, that's why I'm glad I've got these tanker boots because,
they've, they got a softer sole on them

And ah, everything echoes you know, as you're walking along, and you're not careful you're
movement over steel, I mean, anybody's who, you're might as well just setting off a flare, I
mean because it just echoes, and echoes, and echoes, and echoes and
(47:46)

So the wind was blowing along and I noticed one of the buildings was pretty heavily damaged,
eh
(47:55)

And I saw a tail fin sticking up and I figured, Ah yeah, ok

It's a downed plane, So I thought hey cool

But it was burned so I had no idea what it was exactly but I got closer it looked like a military
craft and sure enough it was

And I was like, pay dirt
(48:15)

Cause of the, the way the tail was I knew it was a transporter aircraft, which means that if it's
transporting, it might be transporting goods

If it's transporting goods, that means, there might still be some goods there
(48:28)

So as carefully as I could I made my way in

Almost everything was burned, There had been a fire and everything was toast, I mean I'm
walking around in jet black and everything's covered in ash, You

You know I'm sweeping back and forth there's no light and it's dark everywhere and I've got,
just got my LED's on, right. So I'm sweeping back and forth, back and forth, and I mean
everything is just this red shade of black.
(48:54)

So

I'm going along and I see this barrel

I mean it was the only discernable shape as a barrel so I thought I'd go check it out

And I thought, you know, it'd be an oil keg drum or some fuel or something like that and ah

I didn't know what it was
(49:10)

And it's, it's like the size of an oil barrel but it was full

There's something in you know

And there was a seal

And a mica, it wasn't a metal seal there wasn't like a puncture like you hook a hose up to it

It was something that was meant to be cracked so
(49:30)

I was looking at

Of course all the instructions are burned off there's just a,

There's one, when I rolled it, there's one area that was faced down that didn't get burned and
the lettering was still on there. It was all drab so you know, I mean, military again

Since it was military I knew it had value so I stood the barrel up
(49:54)

Scraped off an area, you know

There's a pin on the side to deploy it. And when I stood the barrel up you know, all in drab
there was some lettering there
(50:05)

C 4 R and then dash C dot A dot S dot in bright yellow stencil and

But of course no explanation of what that was because everything else was burned
(50:18)

So I thought maybe it was some kid of explosive or something, you know

If so, Great, I mean, that's a, that's valuable if you can find it

So there was a rapid deployment lever on the top of the barrel, I had no idea what it was but it
was meant for people to deploy, I mean it wasn't a bomb so I pulled the level you know

What does this level do? Click
(50:41)

Well I pulled it
(50:46)

And ah, off comes the lid no problem

I look inside and there's

It looks like a plastic bag, but it's got this,

You know another handle in the middle of the plastic bag and the plastic bag is attached to the
insides of the barrel, like another lid
(51:09)

You know what I mean?

And it just again had a big lettering you know on it

To activate C 4 R dash C dot A dot S dot, you know pull level stand back
(51:27)

And I stood there for a long time trying to figure out what was going on, it was just a clear fluid
in a bag, I had no idea what it was
(51:35)

You know, I looked at it, it didn't look like a bomb, I had no idea what this thing was
(51:39)

And there's no way I can carry it right

So what do you do?

You know

So

Like an idiot
(51:53)

I pull it, you know, I pull on this handle and all it was, was a, it was like a tearing mechanism
That gripped the fluid in the bag and allowed it to dump on whatever was underneath it
(52:05)

So it was like a, a combined mixture thing. I thought it some kind of, you know maybe it was
decontamination thing or something, I had no idea
(52:13)

But I pulled it and the minute I did there was this steam you know

Started coming out of, out of the barrel, so I stand back, you know I, way back now. I
seeking, I seek cover now

And I'm looking at my , my vent LED now and I'm waiting for the toxin light to go off and
nothing happened you know
(52:32)

And I'm just straining and you know, you hear the hiss and the echo of it
(52:36)

And ah

After I waited a while I was gonna get up and come closer

And I heard this sound

I will never forget that sound

It was, it sounded like this baby's cry mixed with a howl. It was just
(52:58)

This twisted noise

Rending flesh, it was an unreal sound
(53:06)

And the barrel moved and knocked over on its side

Well that was it for me, I'm out of there

I turned tail and I started to haul, but the thing is when you're scared you gotta be careful,
especially when you are running in a burned out building

You wind up hooking yourself on some rebar, getting injured
(53:24)

So I started to run

And the shadows were there

The wind had picked up, but ah it was a dark day

The minute I got outside I took to the streets. I was expecting, you know, I didn't know what
to see if there had been a zombie out I'd would of been happy but there was nothing, I just
started to go
(53:42)

Hauling down this street, you know

With the dust

I was breathing hard

I was glad that vent wasn't, that light wasn't going off 'cause if there'd been anything toxin in
that air man was I hauling
(53:57)

I got maybe two three hundred feet away and then I heard any echoing through the sounds, I
heard the sound of that barrel being moved

And then the most unreal sound of something big moving very, very fast
(54:17)

I mean very fast

Sounded

Unmistakable sound of nails hitting concrete

Whatever it was that was inside of that barrel

Got alive and ah, heh, it was coming after me
(54:37)

And it was moving, it was flanking me, it was moving off to an angle, I couldn't see it and I
wasn't trying hard to look. So I ducked down an alley, I don't know this city
(54:46)

I get down to the end of the alley way you know

And I was breathing hard

Straining to hear and I could hear the ah, the sounds of those nails, you know, shifting

So I stopped

Pulled my blade and got ready to deal with whatever might come down the alley

I could go back out the front but I mean, if it didn't know that I had ducked down here I would
have just given away my position right

So I hunkered down
(55:17)

Dropped my bag and got ready to get it on

I don't know what was going to come down that ally way but whatever it was, was going to get
some
(55:25)

That was until it came into the alley way and then I thought, well this is how I die
(55:32)

It was the first time I ever saw any animal that size

It was a dog, sort of

Massive thing

Not so much tall, just

Wide stocky maybe, it was only about 3 feet to the shoulder but it looked like 2 feet thick

It's like a

Just this huge gaping mouth

I can't remember what kind of dog I'd ever seen that looked like that, but it was just muscle,
mutated
(56:12)

With this thick coarse hair, short, but it was coarse

And it starts coming down the ally way you know, looking at me

And I can see that one of its eyes have been augmented some how its hooking into, he's got a
streamlined tubing that going down into his neck and that ay, I mean it's obviously some kind of
combat unit
(56:37)

I'd heard of them, you know, borg dogs or what ever. You see during the times of the war
robots were expensive and since

You know animals had no rights they started doing augmentation testing where they took
animals and instead of making a robot from scratch they'd use one of nature's creatures and
turn it into a combat creature, so they started breeding these dogs
(57:03)

Canine a__ault System, that's when I figured out what it was

C 4 R was the designation of the type and C A S was the Canine a__ault System

So I'm like, Great
(57:15)

They stopped using them because, well I mean the cost was high and

I couldn't even tell you why they stopped

This thing was kind of a terror in front of me

Looked right at me
(57:32)

And then it ah, we must have stood there for about a lifetime

Me looking at this ah, looking as this robot monstrous dog

Its hair looked like needles

And ah, him looking at me
(57:58)

So I said the only thing I could think to say which at the time was good dog and he started to
wag his tail

And that's when I started to put it together

I didn't know it but I confirmed it later, but see when I activated it

Whatever, you know
(58:23)

Activates one of these dogs, and when I say activates see what they would do is they would
take these dogs, they genetically breed them, they augment them
(58:31)

I found out later some research on them, but they breed the dogs, and then they would augment
them with biometrics, and cybernetics, or whatever they enhance the dogs capabilities
(58:43)

The dogs only live 4 years anyway but on the battle field they have a lifespan of, you know,
about 35 40 minutes depending on combat scenarios

But whoever activates the dog, what'cha supposed to do is, is you're supposed to stick your
head over top of the barrel you see, and the first person that the dogs sees, becomes identified
with master. See they, they take the dogs and they like freeze dry them or something, I don't
know what they do, they genetically treat them so that the dog is like in stasis inside these
barrels, because if the dog only lives like 4 years you gotta ship it and you don't need to feed it
so you put it in this weird stasis system. You rip this bag, this bag falls on it, breaks the dog out
of stasis I guess, or whatever, I don't know the chemistry behind it, it was all top secret and the
dogs activated and the thing's almost more machine than animal
(59:34)

The first person it sees it calls master and that's it

Everything after that is all preprogrammed, I mean, all the, the, the sit stay commands, attack,
kill, all that good stuff
(59:46)

Course I didn't know that

So at the time I just wanted to get out of that alley way alive so I

I said sit
(60:00)

Which it did

And then I slowly as wide as I could moved around that creature

Got a good look at 'em

Realized this was not the animal I wanted to mess with and I took off running
(60:18)

I don't think I've ever run so hard in my life

I was running really hard
(60:29)

Stupidly hard, I, I mean I was so scared at the time

I'd forgotten the bag, my bag. I left that in the alley
(60:40)

Kukri in hand and I was just hauling

Made it a little bit further

I don't know how many blocks I went

I heard another sound so I ducked off to the side, eh
(61:00)

But I ducked the wrong way

Building, I figured if I went into a building I have a bit better chance but the city wasn't
uninhabited

Probably had been some kind of bank at some point

Banks are good structures to try and hide in or setup shop because they usually got thick walls,
concrete
(61:19)

Especially if they were built during the times of the riots, and that, I mean they really built banks
like they were Fort Knox

So I run into this bank

So I was wondering where all the zombies had got to and

Mad dog as an English man standing in the noon day sun, the zombies weren't that fried. They
didn't know, they knew to get out of, the daytime time. So they were just setting up to take
refuge inside of this bank

There was twelve of them, maybe three girls
(61:52)

And they were some twisted these ones
(61:58)

They'd had some body augmentation done

They weren't spiders by any stretch but they had limb extensions and

You know, you're typical wasteland gang

All gangly and hair rotting out of their heads and teeth falling out and open sores and long rag-
wrapped pieces of steel
(62:23)

In come me in my prime pristine gear. Every inch of me glistening with equipment they want.
And they've got nothing to lose and everything to gain

I must have looked like a gift from god

And I've got twelve of these desperate people looking at me

And I was in trouble, I mean I was in bad, bad trouble
(62:47)

I mean, they were probably just as surprised to see me as I was to see them

My immediate thought was just to get the heck out of there but I turned around and of course
there is two more blocking the door so now I've got fourteen

They were the guard sentry who was no doubt not doing their job when I charged in
(63:09)

And they started making the circle

I'm thinking to myself that I am not having a very good day

With the kukri in one hand I reached back and pulled out my secondary blade

It's like a long ice pick thing

I got that in a dagger grip and the kukri in the other hand

Swaying back and forth
(63:36)

I said something, I don't remember what I said, I said I just wanted to get out of here, but they
don't want to, you know they're gonna,

They're gonna kill me, they're probably going to eat most of my flesh, take all my kit, split it
amongst themselves

You know for people who got open sores and very

Primitive weapons

And they looked 90 percent dead they can move really fast
(64:09)

This one woman, I looked at her, one second she was like ten feet away

I glanced at the rest of the group and she was on me in a second man, like it, it was a wink of an
eye
(64:22)

She came out of nowhere

I mean her only job was to knock me down, she came in low and hit me on the side of my
knees

I topple and after that its all about pop the dog pile you know

I felt the first blade cut me, just in my leg, but the hard pack case and my tablet stopped it. You
know I just felt the hit and felt like a hammer blow
(64:48)

Somebody tried to make a really good hack for that leg

Legs are the first to go

Second one came in over the top but I had the helmet on of course so it took the hit

And I was in trouble
(65:00)

And there was no sound

There was a pause

This desperate pause

And the weight that was on top of me,

The zombies on top of me were gone
(65:18)

Just gone

That was it

That dog I'd been so afraid of

He went right over top of me and took two of them off of me just like that. It was nothing
(65:35)

He put that big jaw of his around that woman's hips, snapped them. She fell apart like a starfish

Screaming her blood was deep crimson, almost black, squirting out of her, she almost looked
like a well

They tried to move in on the dog

One of the guys they swung this huge pipe looking thing, it was like a pole, with a piece of metal
tied to the end and wire and fabric

Dog just caught it in his mouth and snapped it and twisted it

I mean
(66:12)

That guy, I, I don't even know what happened, the guy was just down

The dog was using everything its abili', its, the dog was a killing machine, it was, it's a
biologically designed killing machine

By the time I'd, got my head straight from that blow, I mean there's

Fourteen dead zombies around me and this dog is just covered in a

You know the c___ that these guys bleed and um, I'm staring at the dog wondering what the hell
is going to go on cause I still don't know that it's, you know I don't put it together
(66:43)

And it's looking at me and it's looking around

And it wasn't looking at me to make sure that, you know, to, to eat me, it was looking at me to
make sure I'm ok, and then its looking for other targets
(66:56)

So it worked before so I said sit, you know, being me, being slow to learn

Of course it sits

Still looking around

And I try to make my way back out the door but, when I did
(67:13)

That's when I saw the ah

That's when I saw the bag

He'd picked up the, the bag at the ally way and dragged it along with me cause he knew it was
my kit
(67:27)

That's when it came into play, Wow why would this dog bring my gear?

And I figured it out

I gave him a few commands, he responded and we decided it would be a good idea for me to
get out of there

I made sure my kit was ok and he drank as much of the blood as he could. He had been
biometrically altered, I mean that's like water to him. So he drinks as much of it as he can and
still dripping from the c___ we took off out of there
(67:56)

I don't know how big it was but I never went back

See, I always thought that glyph, you know in the server monk glyph, C four R C A S, looks
like the word carcass. So that where I got his name
(68:15)

And he stays with me. I can't make him come inside the car

I mean, sometimes I think he doesn't listen to me to much anymore

See when it rains, he's been altered, he can handle the rain, he can handle the fall out, he can
handle anything, that dog can breath anything
(68:33)

Something in the machine side of him

He's my dog, I mean I ah

I, I care about it, you know, but ah

I can't forget it's a weapon

It's a biologically engineered killing machine, you know
(68:52)

Sometimes I get terrified of it

He only makes noise when ah

If we are, if I go indoors, and ah, he's with me

He'll watch and if someone is doing something he may only softly growl but I have never really
heard him bark. The only ever sound I ever hear him make is a soft growl which is pretty low
and you can hear it, you almost feel it before you hear it
(69:15)

And if ah

You know he's real sensitive to my voice, if I, if I'm getting, agitated or whatever and he's
nearby he may growl a little bit but never barks. And if he's going to attack he never makes a
sound not one sound, no barking, no growling, no snarling, if he's gonna go kill, he's just

You know
(69:39)

He's a mass of steel and flesh

No doubt he's outside watching this car

Making sure no one comes near it

Sounds like the rain slowed down

Yeah
(70:02)

Yeah the rain's slowing down. That's good

I should keep moving

Listen if you can't change what's happening, if I'm not telling you anything, get ready for the
future, OK. Get ready for this
(70:20)

Remember what I'm telling you, you might be able to use it

And tell other people you know about it

Ok

I've seen way to many waste zombies out here, I've seen way to many people just get eaten
(70:34)

You gotta be ready or you're just more meat

This is independent librarian dynamic Sean Kennedy the 6th, broadcasting from this car which I
took refuge in

Hopefully all of my electronics still work, which I still haven't checked, but listen, please
(70:59)

I don't know what time this got to but, get ready for the future

Help yourselves

Help Me.
(71:17)

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