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Hello, natural medic coming at you. Another video. Hey, happy fourth. May the fourth be with y'all if you're a Star Wars nerd out there. Without further ado, let's talk about the rda Rota. I'm not sure how to say it. Sleeping Pad. This is a promo that I got in. From the company, they had contacted me and wanted me to review their product. So here I am with an unbiased review. I did get it, delivered to me, but they said, I can tell'em whatever I think. So here we go. So first off it is an uninsulated backpacking pad. It does weigh in at about two pounds. It's like just a hair over two pounds. But I believe as of this writing. It is coming in on Amazon for about 29 bucks. I will have a link in the description below for you to check that out if you so want to. Let's get started. So let's take this packaging off. Take a look at it. Green. It's a nice color and. It is pretty compact, even though it is a little bit heavier. Got a strap here that keeps it strapped down. Let's unroll it and take a look at everything we've got right here. Looks like to me, If it's plenty long, I'm not sure exactly of the dimensions on this. Plenty long. Let's see how it airs up. Okay, suppose this has a built in foot pump, so what I'm gonna try to do is put it out here for you to see me pump it up. Okay. Good. It took me a couple minutes to inflate but it looks pretty puffy and comfortable. Built-in pillow. The proof lies in the pudding, as they say. Just let me lay down on it and see what it feels like. Okay. I'm laying down on it. Make it comfortable. It actually feels pretty good. I like this. I like this. So I'm not sure of the material that it's made out of. Let's take a closer look at that. It feels pretty durable. Similar to other pads. This built-in foot pump seems to be pretty neat. You could blow it up, of course, like any other pad, but I just basically put my feet on here for a couple of minutes. And just worked my ankles back and forth, just like that and it worked. So I would say overall, as far as ease of use, I would say very nice on the ease of use. Let's see how to deflate this sucker. You just had to pull this plug and it deflates pretty easy. So I'm gonna give this two thumbs up. I would rate it so far. This is un untested in the field. I would say a four outta five right now. It is a little bit heavy, but I think it makes up for the feature that it has. With the the foot pump on there. It's a kind of a novelty feature in my opinion, but it's nice to have that as an alternative instead of having to blow it up or use an air pump. So overall, I would think This is a good a good buy for you. Again, there's a link in the description to check it out. If this was helpful to you, make sure you give a thumbs up to this video. If you have any comments, questions, make sure I leave those below. Until then, I'll see you on the trail