The Prepper Broadcasting Network - DAC - The Walk Has Ended!!! Lol

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

Music To oppose tyranny and fight for the rights of creative estodas in the United States Constitution We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Hello, hello, hello everyone out there in Internet Radioland. This is Dave Jones, the NBC guy, and I have two wayward travelers right here in the office with me. The Intrepid Commander! What is up, PVF family? Good morning. And Ben, the Breaker of Banksters. We survived, baby. We thrived.

They are sitting here right now eating some watermelon. I gave them an OIT. You put a little dash of salt on the watermelon. Man, does it make the flavor better and it rehydrates you. Absolutely. It's the best watermelon I had all year so far. I can tell you that by a long shot. Damn good. So tell us about your little hike. That's the best watermelon I had all year so far. I can tell you that by a long shot.

So tell us about your little hike. Yeah, we got, in all honesty, we got rolling and we didn't stop rolling until we wound up here in the middle of the night. We were cooking, man. No issues, no... You know, probably the biggest issue that we had was the fact that we were carrying about 25, 30 pounds of extra gear we didn't need for the whole thing. You know, like if we had to really shave something off that would have made us faster and more efficient. So you kind of found out that your go bag was a little more extra stuff that you were

never going to use? Way more. Huh. Way more. I mean we really I don't know. The water was key. We used the water. We used the emergency water. Absolutely. There were a lot of things we did use but a lot of things the way I look at it is if we were out there for 48 or 72 hours we would have used a lot more. Oh definitely just 24 hours or less, it's like, we don't need to boil water, we didn't need to do, there's a few pieces of equipment we didn't use that we could have used or would have been

coming handy if we really needed it. We'd be damn glad to have it. Light being the biggest. It was a huge one. Light being the biggest. I had brought that headlamp for Justin Case, and we got into the woods and I clicked that headlamp on he clicked his phone light on and we were just getting it after that There was a whole lot of dark trail marching. Yeah We'll look up and see when the moonrise was but I was waiting for a clock

And it was bright as heck out. Yeah, it was it was full I think I think once we got out from that under, out of that valley we might have been able to go without light. But I think if we really went without light we would have probably not been done. We would have gone way slower. We would have not been done to probably four. That's probably the reason future Dan and I took a little bit longer. Oh definitely. First off we took the wrong turn, my fault. A couple years ago for Dark Trail March, if y'all remember that. But we went low light or essentially no light

almost the whole time and you gotta go slow if you do that because there's all types of roots hanging out, trip on and slippery rocks. But we had full lights so we were going fast as hell but in a good way. Yeah, we rolled. We rolled. But we felt it.

I mean, it was, I guess it really was sort of the road out there that was really the last hump where it was like, and I don't know if it was mental. It's uphill. You know what I mean? But... No let, no, you know, no change. Only up at the same incline. Over and over and over.

I've driven up this many times. I'm like, it's way further than I wish it was right now. You're like, ah, no. The mistake could tell me you burned 4,000 calories you didn't have. So I was nervous. I was like, oh God, I hope nothing happens to him while we really eat. I didn't really have any problems fasting, but I did because I didn't eat for at least 24 hours before we started or really I ate a little bit of MRE and now this watermelon which is great this

morning. The energy didn't really hit me bad. My legs were a little like lack of oomph to them. I don't know what that was. It could be lack of food maybe a little bit. Water though. I brought a lot of extra water and I drink every ounce and I still was like man I wish I had more. Anywhere through the emergency. And the emergency. Yeah, oh yeah. And I used liquid IVs. A couple of those. Oh yeah, I knew that was going down on 12 mile like I was like in that way I mean we were soaked we were literally zero mile an hour wind and just we were you may just sitting on top of a forest canopy but my arms were just so how much about how much did your packs weigh you know we didn't weigh him we're gonna weigh him. We're hoping we need to my guess though

So I usually train or just walk my dog with my dogs like a 30 pound pack on and I think this was things was 25 that's what it felt like baby 25 something like that yeah, but it was just that was that was a. Like I said, if we played it by the... if we played it by the bag only and camped, then there would have been no getting around needing that bag. And if we were eating too. We kind of got into this groove and we didn't even stop and eat or anything like that. We were just like, just keep going. We don't need the calories, we need the water.

So if we'd done all that, if we legitimately camped, I think that bag would have been essential. Right. Yeah, because how would you have, there was a tent in it? Yeah, there's this little, well, we wanna open that up today and look at it because it's a tent that I've never seen before.

What it looks like is, what I'm pretty sure it is, is a almost, what is that called? It's almost kind of like built like a debris hut or open-ended tube tent at one end enclosed at the other. Hmm, is what it looks like. So and I think we might have been a little too hot and sweaty to climb into that thing together last night. That would have been disgusting. Well Ben had, when I met him this morning, he was out back here and he had the emergency blanket

and it was ripped up because it's very thin. It's super thin, so he's a tear. And he didn't have a shirt on, and he's like just pants soaked with sweat. He had this thing on. So I'm like, eh, that's probably, probably... The whole time I'm in my car, right, I slept in the back of my car, and the whole time, my legs, I can only stretch out so much, right? And the whole time I'm thinking like, man, Ben's on that couch back there just stretched out. He must be feeling real good. And then he wakes up and goes, they didn't have no couch back there.

Then he realized they remodeled and there's no couch. There's no couch anymore. And I was like, huh. You know, you could have laid down on the deck. It was kind of like wet. Oh yeah, yeah the dew. You could have laid on top of that tent thing in the bed of the truck. I think opened up the bed of the truck would have been better. That's actually a good point. It didn't cross my mind at all about you because I thought you were straight. I thought you were like on you like, gone. I figured. I wasn't, let's just say,

as out of it as I've been on a couple other Ozzer Highlands, but I was only a level or two better than that. You were good, man. So by the time I was up there, I was like, I ain't going back. I'm just going to lay here on the tripod for an hour or two. I was really impressed with you, Ben. Oh, thank you. Because I did not let up. I was really impressed with you Ben. Because I did not let up. I was, I walked fast. And I was walking fast the whole night. Oh God, maybe I should have went with you to slow you down a little bit.

Ben was right there dude the whole time. Like, there were points where I was like checking myself and I'd be like, alright dude, you got to get up here. It's getting late and we've been going for a long time. And Ben's right there behind me and he's like, nah, keep dude, you got to get this up here. It's getting late, and we've been going for a long time. And Ben's right there behind me. He's like, nah, keep going. We're going to get it done. We're going to do it. No one left behind, especially my own self.

Yeah. I'll say at the very end, we were pretty much like a mile straight up, not the craziest incline, but not insignificant. Yeah, you were digging it. You were getting a couple paces ahead of me, and I was I heard you back there. You were whispering incantations to get back in here. Expletives and incantations at the tail end. This watermelon was one of the motivations though. Watermelon I'm gonna make it. Watermelon, water hose. You gotta have those mental tricks to keep yourself going. Yeah it's true. It's true. And we definitely, we got on there and we kinda downplayed the 12 mile hike and then

as we were talking about it on last night's show, I was kinda like, you know, feeling like we shouldn't downplay it as much because it was tough, you know what I mean? And they tell people, give people the real story and tell them, you know, if you try to do it, it's going to be tough because it won't be tough. Well, and at night... Yeah, that too. And you had a trail. Think about if you didn't have a trail and had to use a compass and did the same thing at night through the woods. I mean people underestimate. You'd be going easily less than a mile an hour. You'd be going half a mile an hour at best and you'd be getting beat up. Constantly.

You'd be like you could easily hurt yourself. Every mile you would feel. Yeah that's right. Twelve miles of pain and suffering. I would say of the 12 miles only like a mile and a half is flat. The rest of it is either all up or all down. Like Mary, mountainous, and there's almost no like flat ground or even on the trail when you're going up and down. It's very rocky. You didn't cross too many creeks but one or two where you definitely got to watch your feet. Yeah that one they covered up I think. That one you drank out of last night when you guys did the lice draw. I think they covered it all with wood. I'm guessing it got super high from all the rain maybe. Had boards over it. But yeah it was success. I told Ben I'll probably never see another stretch of

the Appalachian Trail like this much in one sitting and I didn't see it anyway. You're looking down your feet make sure you don't fall. But it was really one of those things like my wife and I we would talk about like maybe we'll hike the Appalachian Trail when we get older and the kids are gone and all that kind of stuff and then walking on it I was just kind of like we're not doing that. Why would we do that? Dude, I had an uncle and an aunt that did the whole shebang. The whole shebang.

And not once, but a few times. Oh, they did it more? Holy... Dude, and this is when they're my age. When they did this. We came back anymore James, we didn't do nothing. So Dave's got genetics on top of good looks and brains folks. I hope so.

I describe them as like the last of the pioneer stocks. I got it. Well yeah, shit. You know, 12 kids in like a cabin. Oh wow. Up in the hills. When I say I came from the Beverly Ooblies, I'm not kidding. Some of the stuff isn't funny to us.

Twelve kids in a cabin and then when they finally get rid of the kids they go, hey, why don't we walk from Georgia to Maine back and forth three times? That's incredible, man. Yeah, he retired. He was a house painter and she did several different things. He got on it first and he would take people and he would do the whole thing. Cause he goes through PA, yeah. And probably right where you guys were at. Yep. And then when my aunt said, hey, sometime I would like to go with you and he says okay and they just

never stopped. Wow. Yeah. Yeah it's something. We were talking a little bit about like that pioneer stock or like can you imagine people landing in Virginia in the late 1600s or Lewis and Clark and all that crap. Yeah. Like none of you worry about elements where the hell you that crap. Yeah. Like, none of you were worried about the elements, where the hell you are. Indians. Everything. Yeah, we saw a big ass olive-growth tree and we were like, were all the trees like this? They probably were, right?

Yeah. You know that most of the United States was originally like Virginia. Cover, yeah. Yeah, and the reason that it's not is because the Native Americans burn it down to bring in the buffalo. Oh, that's the... Oh, okay. I thought we did it.

I'm so used to blaming us for everything. We cut all the trees down and fucked that up. Yeah, the buffalo is their whole thing. They would migrate. Yeah, they had to stick whole thing. They would migrate. Yeah, they had to stick with them. That is an amazing survival set that they had. We're going to eat and live in and wear and everything. Make tools from. This Buffalo is king. That's crazy, that's true. Yeah, that is wild. And I guess that was their only option too, right out there in the plains.

It wasn't like... Well, and those guys like you said, Lewis and Clark, holy cow. Do you know they made a law in Virginia to not burn your house down? And you're like, why would they do that? People would come set up a farm, two or three seasons, the soil was played out, they burned their house down to get the nails and all the hardware out because they could get more wood. Throw it in a box.

Throw it in a box? Move west. That was the home depot. And so they had to make a law. You know, a lot of people will say, uh, oh that never happened. But why did they make a law? To burn your own house down. Wow. Yeah, it's not like Geico was coming and giving you a check for it

back then, right? They weren't showing up with checks. Yeah, man. Yeah, there is something about Virginia. There is something in the woods and the waters of Virginia that That is like I don't know It just feels different You know, it feels so different even when you're in like Richmond

Compared to being in other states and I mean I've walked through City Hall and all that in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia And a lot of you know, even Valley Forge, but there's just Virginia's just is ever it's like in the soil It's in the air. You can feel it. You're like, oh man, it's a virgin Well, yeah, yeah something happened here historic like if you didn't know I always wonder what you feel like if you didn't know And you came to Virginia if you'd be like this is an important place Number one export for Virginia tobacco wood. would oh what what no i think today uh... to hope that number two is why that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that

i believe i saw that you would be coolest thing man it was one of those things that were in my neck of the woods you never see actually anywhere i grew up you rarely ever see but i took that road, I don't want to talk about roads too much, but I took a road that I don't normally take to get here. On that road there was a flower box and there was bouquets in this flower box and nobody was manning it. It was like a honor system. You put the money in, take a bou of flowers I was blown away by that is there a lot of those oh my gosh yes wow gonna put one down here for all our leftover vegetables yeah yeah that's

really cool that's really cool man yeah there's so many of them that the local shed guy, he has a stand that you can buy and just poof, you don't have to build it. He's got an honor system model. Yeah, that is wild. Yeah so we... So what's next? Are you going to go down and explore? Or are you going to open up the stuff here in the yard?

Yeah, I think we're gonna go get coffee at Sheetz. Yeah. And then maybe, yeah, we'll probably lay everything out, maybe in that parking area right there, if that's okay. Yeah, we should lay everything out, that'd be good. Cause there's obviously two backpacks part of this, so two hour thing. It's the Grey Man bag.

The Grey Man kit by Lima tango Yeah, and then you can get to that video Yeah, that's what some pictures and two bags are relatively a lot of things are in both bags But I think there's several items that are in one bag only not the other Yeah, for example it is set up so we should definitely make sure we didn't miss any nooks and crannies of some And future Dan is planted to come out To shoot the body armor. Yeah, bring you some I know But yeah, that would be cool

I'd definitely like to see the reason up some cooking up something right now, so nice man Watermelon is just the So I don't eat any more. I don't don't don't you be doing this Okay, stick your finger down your throat so you can get it out. Yeah, good stuff is too much Good stuff is good stuff. I already ate too much MREs, unfortunately. Did you? Yeah.

It's all right. I didn't eat nothing. I didn't even feel hungry last night or this morning. I didn't either. You ate that vitamin bar, though, didn't you? Yeah. Well, what was that like? Yeah, what was that like?

It's actually pretty good. Because that is a pretty interesting little thing. Did it have a flavor to it? Mm. I don't know how to describe it, but I've tasted it before. It's indescribable. But it's a lot of like really compressed wheat, but it's not dry like a cracker. Actually, I got some more of that if you guys want a little bit of each.

Okay. I've never seen those before. That was the first time I- Oh, you just made me think of something. So we used to get these meals, and they were the first freeze-dried meals that were in the Army. They were called Lerps in the Lerps that sounds they would have a long-range patrol meal something like that okay they would have what was called and it was written right on their cornflake bar okay and it was like compressed mashed up flakes of wheat.

Cornflakes. Okay. Oh corn. And it was flavored with orangey. But you break this thing off, mmm, mmm, mmm. It was like it got better as you chewed it. But it was like, looked like sawdust compressed. Okay.

But it was corn flakes. And there was supposed to be some kind of nutrition in that. Maybe that was the inspiration for this bar. Very possible. I looked on the back and it's almost all wheat, sugar, and vegetable oil. But it has a bunch of vitamins added to it. Yeah, that's what really made it stand out. It tastes almost a little bit, gosh, I don't know.

I've had like Chinese or like Hispanic candy that sort of tasted like this, but I don't know, I've had like Chinese or like Hispanic candy that sort of tasted like this but I don't know what to call it. It's more like, it's not hard. It looks like a very compressed, like you're going to break your teeth when you eat it but it's real soft, crumbles and like you said, the more you chew it, it tastes better. Almost like a cake a little bit. Yeah, okay. So it's probably like that.

That's exactly the way I described that cornflake It probably is that they both sound a lot like that like if you got an orange flavored Mayday Ration then big ration breads that are like flour. I always call them like flour sugar oil because that's what they are But yeah, that that's similar Vitamins made in in China by the way Yeah, but they're a good idea they're a good idea They came with a full MRE as well, which is very similar to the ration of ruin one Was it so I ate a cragger with some jelly on it and the roasted kernels or like, you know, the corn. Yeah, yeah. And I didn't eat the actual meal part yet or the oatmeal cookie. So anyway, that was cool that it had, you know, a full MRE. A full MRE as well as the

just a little snack bar that was small. I'd say it was like, I don't know, almost like a five or a was like, I don't know, almost like a five, or a, what are those like, car, my brain is starting to falter, like a five by seven, no card, it's about that size. Oh, I gotcha. So, a full MRE, Future Dan, correct me if I'm wrong, but they're like 2,000 calories. Oh, just one MRE? So, if you get three of those a day, you're eating 6,000 calories. That's what they figure you need for combat. Wow. That's very generous. I believe it because at least according to the app, I'd burn 5,000 calories just marching. That was just only

six hours. So if you're literally in the rough side 25 8000 calories burn today. Yeah, and we weren't carrying rifles or ammunition great boy or digging foxhole If you I'm not sure which was worse Defensive positions, you know if you were in the defense or if you were the attacker You know because they were they both had they if you were the attacker, you know, because they both had, they hurt you in different ways. Right. Yeah, we were talking, we were talking about the Civil War and how we were probably about eight miles in or something like that and I was telling Future Deck, you imagine like you wake up

here and they're like, well the battle's changed, we're headed to Richmond on foot. Oh, the Gettysburg battle, there was a unit that marched from right outside Washington, D.C. to Gettysburg and went right into the fighting. That is bananas. I mean, it was like they marched 60 miles and then went right into fighting. And I can't remember the unit they came up from the south. It was a Union Army.

And shit. I couldn't even imagine trying to sell that to the troops. Exactly. At the end of this, we're going to go right into the fight. Ain't no damn watermelon coming. You're going to go into the fight! Ain't no damn watermelon coming, okay? You're gonna go into the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Head first.

I think most of the guys today would say, screw it, I'll wait till they get here. I'll fight them when they get here. Walk slow. Yeah. It's not going well. Barely like leather shoes. I had, essentially, Marine combat boots is what I was wearing.

They were great, actually, by the way. But have a little leather shoes that were were great actually, by the way. But having little leather shoes that were half rotten by the time you get there. Yeah, no socks. The socks were probably long gone. Socks were pretty awful. Like I told you in that DAC, the boots weren't right and left. Your feet made them right and left.

Oh, God. They made the boots like this and as you wore them they turned they came Yeah Yeah, man. It was a different breed of human being man Cuz that is insane to think about yeah I Guess it would yeah. That's why we at least gotta try not to be too weak in this Yeah, we talked about that. lot. That's why we do these things.

We talked about that a lot too. We talked about doing something hard and crazy and, you know, just because. Just because it's rare nowadays, you know. Yeah. I love it. At least once a year gotta do this. I'm down to do it a couple times a year. Not necessarily this hike, although I'm gonna to come do this occasionally, maybe even ride

my bike. Not on the trail, but there's another kind of side route I can do. See if you can do it. Just a few hours. Or I can ride my bike like six of the miles, stash it in the forest, do the last four miles here. So anyway, I love that fact. But I don't know.

I like challenging myself, but not so much you get hurt too much like there's a risk of doing this. Yeah I wonder. We could easily bust our ass and break our legs and stuff. I wonder if we had to what we could have done because you look like you're doing fine I feel good this morning so we definitely could have done more. Well I feel like my legs are pretty cashed out right now. Well maybe alright let's say if you had been eating.

You know what I mean? We'd probably need just a little potassium or something. Yeah, we- Get things back up. If you could have seen- if you could have seen- I'll show you the picture. I don't know how well the photo was. I'm gleaned up against the wheel well Drinking he's laid on the on the thing and we're also trying to be real quiet because Clovers bark and we don't want to wake you guys He got up and there was a sweat lake, oh, yeah

And we're just we're just drinking liquid I oh and the liquid IV was great This one's gone long, but whatever it's fine didn't i ordered lemon lime state they prompted me to get what the hell is the bomb pop flavored at all i have yet to go yet they prompted me to get back as it was like a prime deal you know that long you know i'm getting prime deal so i've got some of them and i could have swore i click lemon lime and I'd get into them. We got Popsicle flavor. We didn't care at the time.

We were so thirsty. It didn't matter. Who cares? Yeah, that was the other thing we were laughing about was the water. I was telling them I filled my... The water container that I used was basically the Pax water container. Yeah. And we said it was probably about 24 ounces and I filled it up with tap water from Richmond before I left.

And I sipped it and I was like, oh God, this is rough. And by the time we got to our first water break, or maybe our second or third or something, when it started to really get hot, it was like, it's the best damn water I've ever had in my whole life. All perspective. Whether you're fasting or you know really thirsty all of a sudden yeah. Laying on the high and fancy edge. You know, just laying on the crackers from that fridge on freaking tap water. We laid flat on that driveway out there and it was like a sort of mattress. Oh god, I don't know if we'll be able to get up now. Hey, well I'm going to load this up.

I'm going to call it the walk has ended. Yeah, that works. And you guys go do your thing. I'll go up and see the wood. That works for me, yeah. Okay, PBN Family, take care and stay tuned.