The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Hidden Preps Omnibus

Episode Date: March 28, 2026

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Self-r-line is a bit-penter-dance. The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Generation Show, where we delve deeper into the little things in life. Here we explore the lost art of fatherhood, parenthood, and fundamental preparedness for the world today.

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caches and some of the connections that you can build by having these kinds of things set up. I can tell you that I am starting to run out of room at my place along with several other preppers out there. I know there's some of you out there who are right there with me. And some of the reasons why we're running out of room is because we're doing everything we can to stock up on food supplies and things that are components of supply chain issues that are looming in the future, right? we're watching this closely.

We're seeing prices escalate. We're seeing materials no longer on the shelves, or if they are, they're hard to come by. Right now in the news, the baby formula shortage is going all over everywhere, you know, social media and news outlets and everywhere, all the way up to the top. And you wouldn't think that baby formula would be such a massive concern, with the exception of the fact that,

you know a lot of people who need that can't physically get it because it's and it's no longer on the shelves the manufacturers can't get it to people or are unable to get it out to the market or whatever might be and this is for one segment of the population what if you know all of a sudden it's something else that they say is no you can't you can't produce this or it's unavailable or you know something like that some other kind of food product we see it in the past when it comes to like meats and food processing places. We talked about this a little bit last time in the last episode, but, you know, it kind of brings to light what happens as you start to compile some of these things.

Shy of being a hoarder, you still want to be able to have access to your materials, you want to be able to rotate your foods properly, you want to be able to use what you have. But there are some of us who have kind of calm, compounding complications, really, when it comes to that. Like, in the event of a fire, a house fire, a wildfire, or maybe even a flood, a hurricane, tornado. You know, these things are happening all around, and if you, if your food preps are caught up in some level of destruction, or you need to have some sort of something to get you by, this is where having a survival cache really starts to make sense. having something somewhere else.

There was a scene from a movie that I watched recently with my wife. It was actually a series, I believe, on Netflix. And it was based on the clearing of Richard Jewel, who was known as the Olympic Park Bomber, until he was cleared eventually when they found the real guy, the guy by the name of Eric Rudolph. There was a scene from that movie that really took hold with me, as a prepper especially on how this guy was able to survive in the woods on his own as the feds were

kind of tracking him down in the Appalachians and they were coming across his campsites and realizing that this was a long-term survival scenario that this guy had planned for for a long time. Hey, Gibber good to see you in chat. So anyways, this guy had these campgrounds that were set up. And the reason I'm thinking about this particular scene is because I've been seeing folks on social media really looking into their bugout locations, right? To go back to those, find out what they need to get there. You know, is the fuel going to be there when they need it? Is the food already on site or they're going to have to bring it with them?

And there was one particular scene where they had in this movie, this Richard Jewel, documentary where they had barrels. This guy had barrels strung up in a tree. And I knew exactly what they were. And what, I mean, a few minutes after I saw them, they started talking about it, like that, oh yeah, it's some kind of a food stores or survival cash or something like that. And it really got me to thinking, like, what, what do we have in store outside of where we live? Like, if we have, to evacuate. Of course, this guy was escaping the law. He was trying to get away. He was a fugitive, and he had obviously done some horrible things. So he knew things were going to happen to him as a result of his own actions. I'm talking more along the lines of things that are potentially

capable of happening to us outside of our own control. Things like massive shortages of products that we have to have. And or, you know, maybe even on the way to a location, making sure that you have access to materials and supplies along the way in case you are unable to get them on the way there, right? So this is where when it comes to preparedness, a lot of us, you know, while we're stockpiling food or whatever for pending shortages, or even in general just to get ahead of like inflationary costs of some of these things to food prices and fuel and whatever else it may be,

there are still ways to be ready for those things and to even go a step further and be ready for others, people in your extended family, friends, neighbors, etc. By going a little bit big with barrel storage and using barrels to your advantage, packing them with what you need just like you would a bugout bag, but with the potential for a much larger timeline. This week we're going to explore how and why

knowing when to dispense and disperse your preps and how to do it to more than one location. But first, before we get on with today's show, Colin, would you like to share your fun fact of the week? What it do, everybody? My name's Colin. I'm the co-host here at the next generation show. Before I go any further, I just want to make sure I'm not muted. Yep, you're loud and clear, buddy. Perfect.

Okay. So, yeah, today's crafty Colin, fun fact of the week is the Australian Brush Turkey builds communal compost, builds a communal compost pile to incubate its eggs. It basically just collects a bunch of decaying material and then it builds up a mound and then the compost heats up. That's what compost does. It's how it breaks down. And then the bird can incubate more eggs than it would traditionally be able to sit on. And then it doesn't just leave it. It actually comes back frequently to check the temperature with its beak and if it's too hot, it'll, you know, you know, take some off.

And then if it's too cold, it'll put some on. Yeah. This is a neat? No, Australia? Yeah, it's called an Australian brush turkey. Huh. That's pretty smart. I mean, it's kind of genius, yeah.

Because, and I mean, really, like, if you, like, our chickens are brooding right now, I got one that's definitely covering at least a dozen eggs and then another one that's in a broody mood, so to speak. She's not actually on any eggs, but she's trying. and it's kind of weird because they have to be there and they won't eat they won't eat they won't drink they'll just stay there they might pop out for a second or two but they'll go right back to those eggs and i'd imagine if you were a brush turkey with all the predators out there and whatever else you probably just be happy as a clam to be able to to go out and just survive on your own and

come back and check on your eggs every so often yeah it seems a lot more productive when you don't have to do anything oh yeah when you can actually go out and do stuff for yourself Yeah, that's way cool. Well, awesome, buddy. It's a neat little bit of evolution for sure. Yeah, for sure. Well, that's awesome. So let's get on with today's show.

So let's talk a little bit about prep diversification and what that all means. So when you get into something like the idea of having a cache, a lot of people think of cash as maybe a small stash, maybe something in a small container that you hide somewhere, or maybe a little bit at work, a small, something here and there. But at what point do you expand outward with your preps and diversify elsewhere? Just like an investment portfolio and putting all of your eggs in one basket, right? You don't want to necessarily do that if you have the ability. Looks like I lost calling, but I'm still live, so we'll try and call him back. you don't necessarily want to

to lose out on everything if your stuff gets lost I might well looks like calling his out we might have him call me back anyhow sorry about that folks nothing like a live show where Skype decides to just

poop out on us think we got him back his internet connection is about as good as mine so anyway so at what point do you step outside and realize, hey, I think I'm good. And this little nest egg of supplies and gear

is adequate for me. But what if I have to evacuate, like say from a wildfire? I'm not going to have time to put all this stuff into a container and take it with me. It's all going to have to stay. And whether it's here or not when I get back is up to God and

whatever else. What if there's a hurricane or tornado? You know, you won't necessarily have the time or the ability to extract everything that you've prepped for and take it elsewhere. But that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be without, right? So this is where, you know, you can diversify your preps to other locations and really take advantage of the idea of having stockpiles elsewhere. And those stockpiles, we'll get into this a little bit, but they don't necessarily need

to be, you know, hidden in the forest or in the desert somewhere, right? There are ways to be able to put these elsewhere and keep them discreet, but also make sure that they're accessible. The other thing about this is, you know, there is a certain form of discretion when it comes to barrel storage. Five-gallon bucket storage is one way to go, but not many people have a whole lot of space to be able to put five-gallon buckets in. As weird as you may think it is, a 55-gallon drum, holds 11 times as much as a 5-gallon bucket, but in about the same space as, let's see, probably 6 to 9 5-gallon buckets, so you can get a little bit more volume condensed into a smaller package within a 5-gallon bucket,

which for an apartment prepper is something that you can put all your stuff in there, that you need to break out if things get rid. really bad and you have to hold up in your apartment, for example, and stick it in the closet. Nobody does any of the wiser, you know, it takes up almost no room by comparison. And, you know, if you wanted to, you could even make it discreet and put a little, you know, what do you call it, like a tablecloth around it and turn it into like a table. You know what I mean? Something that is just hidden in plain sight.

So there are ways to do this, and that's kind of what we're going to get into a little bit. But the reasons why we really want to tackle this concept is that potential. The potential for evacuation, if it's along the path to a bugout location, for example. The other side of this is one that I think is really valuable that not many people or not many preppers really consider. And it's not, I don't mean this in a bad way, but I think a lot of preppers consider themselves and their families to be the ones that need to be taken care of. first and that's 100% correct but beyond that is where you really start getting to some power and when you're able to provide aid to others at that point you've not only diversified your preps but you've engaged other people in that same concept so for example um i might take a 55 gallon drum of food

and supplies etc and park it at my parents house or my brother house or my neighbor's house or a co-worker's house. Whether they know what's inside of it or not, doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot, but if you are able to engage them, you know, after a while, they're like, hey, what's in this barrel? I need to get rid of it. Can you come get it? It's a doorway for you to be able to talk about it, but also, you know, have that stash available. So if something should happen to you, you've got to go couch surfing sometime.

you got to go stay with a family member if their food supplies are low you've got everybody covered regardless of you know the the conditions of things at the time right if the stores are closed cash isn't accepted there's no baby formula whatever it might be whatever the next quote-unquote baby formula is going to be on the the planned schedule of product elimination, you know, at least that way you'll have something, the bare essentials to get by. And then again, just that low profile component, just having stores in plain sight that can be, you know, buried, set aside, shoved in a closet, stuck in a storage shed, or potentially even transported. This is another powerful tool where you can, I may not be able to load up everything

that's in my pantry, but if I've got a 55-gallon drum and it's ready to go for a 60 to 90-day supply of everything, not just food, but cooking supplies, utensils, sanitation, water collection, everything, I can roll that to my truck, endo it into the back, pack anything else in I need, and I'm good to go. Regardless of what happens to my house or anything of that nature, I can still get by on what I have in the back of the truck. And they do make smaller ones like a 35-gallon one that would be ideal for a small vehicle, small car or hatchback of something of that nature. So Colin was able to develop or to pick through a couple of products,

things that might be useful inside one of these drum setups. And while we go through some of these, for the folks in chat, why don't you go ahead and drop in some ideas of maybe things that you might include in a 55-gallon drum barrel or cash system and maybe some of the things that you might consider or some of the ways you might consider either transporting it or where you would put it like I mean are you going to be putting it underwater at the lake where you go boating all the time are you going to be you know is it a place where you go hiking all the time that kind of stuff right but okay yeah I mean this is this is definitely very much one of those episodes

where what we're talking about is going to be exclusive to your intent, like what your purpose is. I mean, it's going to vary for everyone. So that's going to, these products, I only have four. And a couple of them might have been a little bit of a plug, but in all honesty, I think you could find really good use out of a couple of them. Just for this year, like versatility of the product itself. So the first one I have is a neat foldable ripstop backpack.

And I never really thought about making a backpack collapse because you put stuff inside of a backpack. The backpack is the thing that you hold all the collapsed things. You know, your water bottle, you're this and you're that. But there's this really neat collapsible ripstop backpack that. that's like lightweight for for hiking so it has the durability that you might need for hiking but the thought process behind having something like this inside of it is you have a very large cash right with a wide range of things that you might need for a long period of time but if you ever need to stray away from that cash if you ever need to stray away from that cash if you ever need to

you know, kind of pick through it and take things you need to go from one place to another temporarily, then you can kind of, you can mooch off your own cash and then put it within this bag so you don't have to carry a bag with you. And you also don't have to carry around the whole drum with you because you only need the select few items. So I'll put this in chat, but it's made by a brand called VenturePow. I believe that's how you say that, venture pile. But yeah, it's really neat. Like I said, it's made out of this ripstop material. I believe it's 30 liters, which is a fairly large.

That's a pretty good-sized bag. Yeah, that's a good-sized backpack. It has a couple exterior pockets and some inside organizers. And the reviews are predominantly good. I mean, four and a half stars. A couple of them said that it ripped, but it is ever, you know, started to show signs of where. but it's not like a it's not meant to be used every day heavily yeah it's it's meant to kind of deploy and then fill up real quick i mean that's how i think i would use it and that's exactly what you're

where we're going with this whole idea i mean you want stuff that is deployable things where you can park it some park the container somewhere and keep everything in there in good shape so that it's as in good a shape is when you put it in right even if it sits there for five years or however long whatever's in there is capable of withstanding heat cold rain snow uh high winds whatever bear attacks you know all that kind of stuff mice the the concept here is that as long as the container is there nobody's going to be messing with it you know and and if they are it's going to be hard for them to to just up and take it right they either have to dig it out or find it, you know, or know what's in it to be able to find any value in it.

But if you know what the value is, that's where, you know, you can really take advantage of what that is. So, for example, some of the things I, and call it, I mean, you feel free to jump in at any point. Yeah. You know, just your thoughts on this whole concept and where it might be valuable. But the idea would be that you would want general purpose supplies, in my opinion, to hold up for 30 to 90 days wherever you might have to go in that location, right?

So if you don't necessarily have a bugout location, but you know that it's going to take you some time to get there or it's going to take you some time to set up the bugout location or even to get food going. I mean, if you go and set up a cache at your bugout location in the springtime and you've got seeds and stuff ready to go inside that container, you don't have to worry about packing anything it's already there right uh or if you if you have established something where it's at someone else's house for example and you physically can't get there

because of whatever reasons road blockages storms whatever and they're running out of stuff they don't have to suffer you can tell them hey look go to the garage where i put that old barrel take whatever's that you put on top of it, get rid of it, and then get inside there. There's a food supply. There's, you know, a small cook stove in there. There's water collection materials, tarps, food, you know, cleaning supplies. The concept here is that you can have a deployable campsite inside a cash. The bare minimums of what you would need to go camping or to get by,

in a situation where you don't have access to stuff on kind of like a how would you see that would be kind of like a broad spectrum scope if you want to be more specific of course you could have you know just you know

one type of thing in one barrel and another type of thing in another barrel or if you've got a 300 mile journey from point A to point B then you might want enough supplies to where you can you know go stay there for a little bit heal or rest and then pack some of that stuff to the next location right just enough to get you another 20 or 30 miles right and you know compartmentalize a

trip if you have to take a trip some of the things go ahead oh i just i was just going to say i think that the whole i i think a cash is very uh or i mean at least a large bug out a system i guess was kind of what this is but i think the whole to me the most valuable and the coolest thing about this is the the idea of a pop-up camp even though it's not the most compact and you know I guess mobile portable system it's still

you can make it as as useful as you need it to be to survive off and that's what's cool because if you can pack it up and you can get it to where you need it and then store it somewhere where you think you might be able to get access to it later on down the road or you know find a load you know you get

to a location and then deploy it. That idea of being able to basically just pop up, like a pop-up camp, like a pop-up living quarters is really cool. And it makes, I mean, it expands your capabilities of survival by a lot because not everyone can just, you know, throw an entire house in the back of their truck or the back of their car. and, you know, sustainably live for a period of time. Yeah.

So that's, to me, the idea of being able to, that's where I see the most value in this, the whole 55-yard cash. Yeah, and it's pretty cool. I mean, it's not, it's not so much like, you know, like something that would be, it's not something you're going to do every day. This isn't what you're putting, this isn't your 72-hour bag. This isn't a bugout location. but it provides supplies for what you need it for.

And if you know what those supplies are, where they are, when you would need them, once they're there, that peace of mind is set, right? If I've got five different caches in five different locations surrounding my current home, for example, I've got one that's maybe 100 miles north, one that's maybe 20 miles east, one that's maybe 100 miles west, and a couple of different ones that are a little bit farther south. I have the ability to move in any direction and go to a specific location if I need to based on what's happening around me. And I say this with purpose because, for example, I live in an area that is, upwind of a nuclear power plant, which means that my home is within the cloud.

If that nuclear power plant were to go down, or if there were some sort of explosion or eruption, some sort of nuclear fallout from that location, I have the ability, based on the air movement and the flow of the potential cloud to move in more than one direction. I can actually go south and avoid the cloud. I can go due west and avoid the cloud. And if something should happen up north, once the cloud settles, if I needed to go up that way or if I know people up that way, they could have access to that particular cache, right?

or if something should happen to someone else. Someone in my prepper community, hey look, you know, I'm stranded, I got nothing, I'm stuck on the side of the road, can you come help me? Well, if I can't, you know, I could at least point him to my own cache.

Say, here, look, you know, there's a pop up right here, here's the coordinates, here's this, or whatever. You know, go to town, take what you need, right? That's like next level preparedness is being prepared for someone. else right um let's let's take a quick break uh looks like prepping patriot dropped in welcome hey sorry we miss you um tell tell the misses we said thanks for letting you pop in and uh hopefully she can join us

next time uh when we uh when we come back from this break we'll talk a little bit more about some of the specific things that i might throw in we'll drop a couple more links of the supplies that calling came in mind and uh i don't know maybe we'll uh we'll uh we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll We'll put a challenge out to the folks in chat or who are listening to come up with your own project on what you would put in your own survival share. Shet. Cash. There we go. Say it front ones and send it backwards.

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I always like to make sure that folks get a good leg up on their own small business ventures here. So we've been talking about building a survival cache and focusing that conversation around barrels and using a 55 gallon barrel or a 35 gallon barrel or even a 15 gallon barrel to be able to make sure that you have the ability to either load something up quickly in the case of an evacuation or have something on standby at any particular location that you might need to get to in any direction along your path of travel. We've already talked about some of the values that these types of things can have. And there's one thing that was dropped into chat over break that I want to shout out. So Gipper drops this when he says, they say, I think options are extensive.

The first thing I believe you need to determine is which situation would necessitate, utilizing a cash, right? What in your life is going to be making the decision for you to have to tap into that thing, right? To have to open that barrel that you've had sealed up, right? And then how long do you think you'll be there? Is it going to be, you know, a short trip? Is it, you know, oh, no, I don't have, you know, I need a weekend somewhere or I need to

be ready for a two weeks day or a 30 day. situation or are we talking you know significant uh significant uh significant duration away from home are they on route to a specific location or are they something uh that is going to be basically a one-off deal you could do the same thing with a five-gallon bucket but the concept here is to really have like constant like colin mentioned earlier in the first portion of the show is the potential for you to have essentially a pop-up survival location where you don't need to pack a bag you don't need to pack any sort of supplies you don't need to pack your tent or anything basically you have the ability to deploy what is in this container

plus you can use the container i mean a 55 gallon drum is an excellent source of water you can use it for collecting uh you know other stuff you know if you're putting food in there or you know whatever it might be. And some of the things that I had on my list, we'll get into Colin. We're going to have Colin drop in some specific products that he kind of sussed out to be able to throw in one of these kind of survival caches. But some of the things that I included or would include in something for an extended

trip would be things like basics for water collection. Rubber tubing, both rubber and, what do you call it? Surgical tubing because both can be useful. Any kind of tools that you might need, small tools, maybe like some drill bits

or a hammer, maybe a saw that can be contained within that. TARPs, food, because you can pack your five-gallon food bucket with mylar bags, take those bags out

and double, triple, quadruple. I mean, you could even put 10 times as much food in one of these barrels and park it somewhere if that's the majority of the concern that you have is food. So, for example, if you have a family member or something who does not prep, you could potentially have this food supply, this food source locally available to them. They just have to get to it, right? cooking materials and utensils like that you know having a small camp stove and whatever you need for

building fires or candles or whatever cleaning supplies because whenever you go out camping that's usually and if any of you have ever listened to our show for any length of time you know that's that's the first thing that we realized that we messed up on is having adequate cleaning supplies and how much water or material is required to reuse the utensils that you have right um maybe some spare clothes, maybe a blanket, survival blankets, stuff like that. One thing I put in here was like a sham wow or some kind of a synthetic shammy. The reason is because I have found these to be extremely effective in drying off, whether you're drying off your equipment, your dishes, yourself, because they're very effective at soaking up water and getting rid of it. You can also use

these for water collections. So you take that same thing, stick it in a water, body and then you can squeeze it and drain it into some sort of container right especially if that water body is a mud puddle for example if you don't want to get your container all muddy or dirty or whatever then at least you have the ability to do that and then filter some or at least squeeze some of the moisture out of it rope and cordage and poly sheeting was another thing I had the last thing but probably the most important thing is something like a tile Let me see if I can look one of these up.

So a tile is a GPS, and Mac has one of these two Apple products, have these. Drop one, a link for one in the chat. Because at this point, even if you forget where your survival cache is, and this is something that could have saved the Dahmer Party that were crossing into California. Dommer party? Donner. Donner party. Not that, not that Dommer. that was a different number anyway so the donor party you know they were right near a survival

cache but it was buried under snow and they were just a few feet away and they actually wound up cannibalizing each other to survive when all the supplies that they needed were just right you know within a stone's throw from where they were we've advanced a little bit since then and i think it's safe to say that we have the technology to be able to mark our locations and if someone should get a hold of your survival cache and move with it, you could at least find out where it wound up and who took it or track it down if you needed to. A tile is basically a tracking device and you can get them in multiple, you know, however, little squares or whatever.

Max have a similar thing, like Apple products have a similar one. I can't remember what it's called like an Apple coin or whatever it is. anyway so you take this device and you basically just throw it in with your cache that way you have a GPS location that you can use to track that material you can track it to make sure that you can get back to it what if you forgot where you put it i know that i've done that before where i've hidden things in places and then three or four years go by and if i don't stumble across it but i'm looking for it i don't know where it is even in my own house. So how am I expected to be able to track down a barrel that I set aside in the middle of nowhere for no one to find, including myself, right? So this is kind of where it's valuable to make sure that you know where the heck you put that stuff

so that it doesn't go to waste. And if you wind up putting it somewhere safe, that you know that it's still there. And you can check digitally to make sure, hey, look, yeah, this is still at this. location, it has not moved, and I can rely on this as being a source of food or survival or shelter or whatever it might be. So the tile component, I think, is probably one of the number one things that I would say to put within your survival cache so that you know where to get it. What kind of other things did you come up with, buddy?

Well, I found, I think I found, so I did have the tile on my list. I did have that on the tile website, they have the tile pro. I think that's their most advanced option. But some of the features of this particular one is a, I think it said, 400 feet, which isn't going to get you very far. But if you do know the vicinity of your deal, then you can tap into the tile pretty darn easy and get a very specific location. I mean, if you have like a, a,

monument or something or um i don't know i don't know some type of geographical location that you can remember or you can describe to someone else uh your capabilities are expanded with this the tile thing because you know you it's also a security thing i mean you don't have to put the exact location unless you have the ability to tap into this tile um but yeah i mean with a range of 400 feet I mean, that's a fair range. Oh, yeah, that's decent. Yeah, I mean, you can place the cash somewhere else, or what I was also thinking. You called it a barrel earlier.

You called the 55-gallon drum a barrel. And it started making me think about, like, you know, like the tea barrels and stuff, with the Boston Tea Party and what have you. And I didn't even think about it, but a lot of these 55-gallon drums have screw-on tops. and a rubber seal. So they're watertight. So I was thinking if you filled it up and then wade it down with something, then everything inside would hopefully stay dry.

I mean, if nothing else, you can find a way to keep it dry. But, and then from there, I mean, you can pretty much keep it anywhere underwater. And that might be also kind of a cool option as well. Yeah, and the thing is, so, locating them is important. I mean, because your geographic markers are going to be key. But what happens sometimes is geography changes, and people don't realize this.

If you're lost, if you're out in the woods, if you're circling something, or even if you're in an area that you haven't been to in a number of years, you might forget landmarks. You might forget exactly where something is or maybe not remember it the way you remember. Or the type of weather that you're encountering at that location might be different.

There's one guy that I used to work with, and he would go hunting all the time, but he would also go snowmobiling in the same locations. And there would be so much snow on the ground during winter that they would be driving over the top of their hunting cabins. Whereas when it was hunting season, you know, early fall or maybe late winter, the hunting cabin is there as a form of shelter and it's accessible. So if you are, you know, if you have to dig down six or eight feet to get to your container just to get through the snow, that could change things a little bit. So if, and your geography is going to be completely different because you're going to see. The trees that are buried six or eight feet up.

So your landmarks are going to be totally different. If you say, oh, it's at this rock by this tree, that rock and that tree might be completely different by comparison to what it was when you saw it or when you set it up. So that's where this location component is huge. The other side is, like you mentioned, is the water. I mean, the reason for the barrel is that the ones that I like are the twist top barrels. It's basically got a screw-down lid with a single bung on the top that also screws down. Those actually have a rubber gasket on them that will keep them airtight and watertight.

There's pros and cons to this. You have to make sure that you don't take on water because if you have water inside these containers and it freezes, it can destroy everything within. So you want to keep it dry and you want to keep it contained. Okay, sorry, buddy. Go ahead. I mean, you could also just put it in a giant potato gun and launch it. But anyway, the next thing, other than the tile and the ripstop backpack that I put in the chat earlier,

was actually a blanket from Architeuris. And I did it not only because you can get 15% off if you use the promo code, Survival 15. But also, this is a particularly cool and new blanket from them. And, I mean, like that said, we like their stuff. It's good stuff. And for a reasonable price, too, I mean, a really reasonable price. But this particular blanket, sometimes it can be kind of hard to find trusted survival blankets out there. Because the survival blankets are made from, depending on what kind you're talking about.

if you're talking about the kinds that are like tarps or the kinds that are down the down ones are made of synthetic materials that feel and I mean in some cases they are really cheap but um this blanket from them uh the base camp insulated blanket is a new one it's seven and a half feet by seven and a half feet I believe um I had the dimensions up here earlier um yeah seven and a half feet but this one's really neat because it is a down insular blanket and it also has little notches on the side so you can fold it up it's got a couple different pockets and uh typically this will be material is lightweight and uh you're able to break it down and and compact it quite a bit you've got two sides too i do yeah yeah put that bad boy in the chat room we go um so yeah let's see you check check and check that one out and see all the stats and statistics and stuff. But the tie downs are kind of a nice feature because there's one side that is water resistant.

So if you wanted to cut your tarp out of the equation or one of your other survival blankets out of the equation and a safe space for other things, this would be a decent option. So, I mean, this kind of brings up a good point, too. I mean, what if you were just out skiing or snow? mobileing with friends or family, you know, having a survival cache filled up with nothing but wool blankets and some sort of a heat device. I mean, that, yeah, it could save your life. I mean, if you are, if you are big into snowmobiling, if you are big into, I don't know,

like you don't necessarily have to be going out camping, but if you're going out having fun. You could be into like hiking. of climbing mountain and stuff. Like if like for me, I'm thinking, okay, summertime's coming around the corner. We're going to get on the boat. We're going to get on the kayak. We're going to get on the paddle boards. We're going to be out on the water.

And if something should happen where, well, where we run aground or something's not quite right or heck, we just want to, you know, pull over and not do anything. Maybe we want to camp out for a little bit. We don't have to take all that stuff with us because it's already there. Right? We just go to the location where we've already stockpiled our stuff that nobody else can get to. Nobody else knows where it is. That would be so cool. Yeah, we just open up and have, you know, a great meal and be able to enjoy ourselves outside of survival.

This is a practice, you know. Yeah, or even keeping it, like, on the boat. I mean, it doesn't, I mean, it does take up probably the amount of space as a person would. but if you cut maybe if you cut it down to like a 33 gallon one then every time we went out we would have what we needed whether we use it

regularly or not I mean it would kind of be kind of nice to just be able to hey we're going to go on the boat and we're not going to pack all this stuff up we're going to have dry towels and we're going to have snacks and we're going to have all this stuff and it kind of has multi-purpose it makes it makes leisure more convenient

and less work but it also it's a little bit of peace of mind that comes along with it knowing that you could just up and go. I mean, you can literally just up and go at the boat. Hook up to the trailer and drive off and you're ready to go. Right. So,

well, cool, dude. Did you have any more products that you wanted to drop in or come in? I had one single other product. Okay, what are you got? From Wolverine Tuff. We know them. We love them. Wolverine Tuff. Those guys, I was actually, I didn't mention anything about that.

I think I put water collection. Yeah, I put water collection in there. Yeah. But I had those guys in mind. Yeah, I mean, I dropped a link to the camera package, but you can just, I mean, click your way through their website. The camper package is kind of neat because it comes with a couple different sizes, a couple different nozzles. And, I mean, by nozzles, it has a threaded, like a mouthpiece to it. It's like an inch and a half, two inches, something like that. mouthpiece that you can thread on different attachments for different water.

Like, I don't know, deployment he says. So, like, I mean, there's a, there's a 750 milliliter water bottle that you can take with you. I mean, pack on your person. And then, well, you can pack all of these on your person if there's no water on. That's why I picked them because they're particularly not. neat for water collection but it doesn't take up a whole lot of space

I mean there are plenty of options out there there are water you know there are waterproof bags like you can use a dry bag or you can use they make like survival bags but this also has the added durability factor to it so I mean you're not you don't have to worry about that

definitely worth while definitely worth looking into hopefully we'll bring some of those with us Preper Camp this year. I'd really like to be able to help those guys out. Right there in North Carolina actually is where those are made. So that's pretty cool. So let's switch gears a little bit into the Pined Size Prepper Project. This is actually a project that isn't really a project, but it is more of a skill. So the skill, I don't even know if this is going to be tough because I'm going to be describing this. I don't know if there's a like a term for this or if there's an image that I can use.

But basically it's a method for lifting a barrel with another person. So I used to work in an environment where we would fill barrels all the way to the top. Steel drums, steel drum barrels all the way to the top. And they'd be about three or 400 pounds. Okay. and I remember I was working with a crew and we had to get all of these barrels up a flight of stairs and I was like we had no dolly we had no ramp and I was like there's no way and me I'm a buck 50 wet the other guys that I was with you know there might have been one big guy and one one

little guy or one medium sized guy or whatever and uh I I was like, there's no way. This cannot happen. Like, how do you get, how do you move a barrel from point A to point B without a dolly? It just doesn't happen. You can roll them on the edge, sure. That's great until you have to go up a flight of stairs, you know, with 300 pounds plus, I mean, could be up to 500 pounds or more.

And so this is a specific method for carrying a barrel. This method can also be used to carrying a barrel. to excuse me can be used to carry a person like someone who might be injured or maybe someone who is paralyzed or something like that who can't use their legs so here's what you do it takes two people okay and there's two people don't have to have an intense amount of strength i mean Colin and i can do this uh together uh and neither of us i don't know what Colin weighs he probably what do you wait like 120 130 uh Yeah, but 140.

140. So we weigh about the same. And we could easily lift a three or 400 pound barrel into the back of a pickup, for example. Here's how you do it. The first step is you take the barrel and you tip it back enough to where the majority of the weight is sitting on the rim on the bottom. So it's usually about a 25 to 30 degree tilt. okay when you do that so you have a person standing on either side of the barrel you grab uh the forearm of the other person behind the barrel to cradle it as it rests down right so it rests down on

your forearm uh at that 30 degree near the top you kind of not all the way near the top you kind of need it like halfway to three quarters up and what that does is it allows that barrel to stay stable while you grab the bottom and what you do is instead of grabbing the bottom of the barrel you reach under the barrel and you grab the other person's forearm so what happens is you have your right arm for example holding the other person's forearm with the barrel tilted back against it. And you kneel down. So you're bending with your knees, you're bending at your knees, you know, back is straight. You're hugging the barrel, basically. And your left arm is reaching underneath the barrel, grabbing the forearm of the other person. What happens is you create a lock

between the two people. And if you lift at the same time, you know, count, one, two, three, lift, you can lift that barrel up and walk with it and i guarantee you that this will work because i've done it before hundreds if well dozens if not hundreds of times and i have also used this same method to pick someone up and walk with them with another person uh it's extremely effective and it's uh it's a skill set that not many people know or have if you're dealing with heavy objects Your ability to manipulate those objects is amplified if you have someone who knows what to do. Now, if you were to do the same thing and grab someone else's hand, it wouldn't work as well. You lose strength.

It just doesn't work. But if you grab them around the wrist or at the forearm, you will realize how much power you gain by being able to do that and carry that object elsewhere. You can climb stairs with it. You can walk distances. You can lift it up, even if all you're doing is lifting it up onto a tailgate. And from there, you're just rolling it in. Okay. So it doesn't take a ton of strength, and anybody can do that.

Did you want to chime in on that, buddy? No, I was just going to say, we've done this before with a barrel of wine. And, I mean, it wasn't light, but it made it a whole lot easier. And that was an oak barrel of wine. yeah, we had to lift it up and carry it up a couple stairs. And I remember it wasn't that difficult. I remember it went quite. I was like, well, it wasn't that mad because, I mean, you're just cradling the barrel between two people at like that 30 degree angle.

And it's not that dress, really not too bad. Yeah. It's surprising how effective this is. And if you have three people, if you want to try this concept, I encourage you to do it. you know, if it's your, you know, your daughter or your kids, you know, they can potentially lift you up. And it's a good exercise for them to understand how effective they can be as a team to be to be able to pick something up, maybe someone who's injured or someone who's fallen or whatever

it might be. Maybe someone who needs to be transported from point A to point B. And as a skill, that is. is one skill that I would have never known if I had never worked with barrels and as something that I had never thought would be useful until I realized the power of leverage and making sure that you have a team that can actually work with each other and move heavy objects. I mean, moving something heavy as cavemanish as that sounds is a big part of making sure that you have the ability to survive, right?

Because you don't always necessarily have the power to do it yourself. But if you do it right, you have the ability to lift a two or 300 pound person with two people where one person would almost always fail. Hey, we like to keep these types of projects coming. If you'd like to see more of this kind of stuff and support our work directly at the next generation show, head on over to Amazon and type in my name or Colin's name or just pint-sized pepper project and our book should pop right up. We also have a link for that on our show page where you can download a copy for

yourselves. There's 28 other projects similar to this one that you can do with your family, and we encourage you to try these kind of things out. For the final takeaway today, survival caches are a strange component of preparedness, and something that has kind of gone by the waist. side, but in reality, as preppers, we really need to circle back on that component to recognize the power of our survival cache, if not for ourselves, then for the people around us. It's really important that we consider in preparedness not only our own survival, but the

survival of the people that we live with, whether it's our community members, our family, our extended family, our friends, whether they're across the border, in the county across the way, in the next town over, sometimes being prepared is more than just taking care of yourself. Sure, it is about taking care of yourself in times of need. But more and more we realize that preparedness has more to do with how prepared other people are and making sure that they have what they need, in addition to making sure that you have what you need.

If you are in a position where you can assist someone else in their own path toward preparedness, take advantage of that. That is powerful. And it is like having someone there to lift that heavy burden and move it to the next stage so that they can get through whatever kind of challenge that they're dealing with. I remember as a kid, we were separated from my dad for quite a while. And he was dealing with an ice storm that lasted for weeks, if not months. And it was one for the ages.

I think it was ice storm in 92 or 93. All you got to do is look it up. Train tracks in the road, basically, of the cars that were going by. Ice that was destroying power lines left and right. people without power in the middle of winter. Can you imagine the value of having something or having something that you could take to people who were in need on the spot? To be able to build a 60-day supply, 90-day supply, and transport it to someone else in need. There's power in that.

Be even cooler is to have a whole warehouse filled with them. Oh, yeah. Maybe not a warehouse, maybe just a couple. But, I mean, it would still be pretty darn cool. Yeah. I mean, can you imagine that on the outskirts of a humanitarian aid effort, a hurricane effort kind of thing, where you've got, you know, an area that is never affected by hurricanes, and you just have barrels of supplies? I mean, you'd be a hero. Oh, yeah.

In an instant. Anyway, I want to hear. I'm going to batten on this. Yeah. Absolutely. Anyway, you know, it's just things to think about. And lastly, in case you missed it on last week's show, we did a fireside chat with Colin where we talked about, you know, what happens around the fire pit and why having those

conversations and keeping that open line of communication is important among all generations. You know, it spans across every age and culture and creed and type of individual out there. Doesn't matter what skin color you are, doesn't matter what religion you are, being around a fire and sharing stories and communicating face to face with other people, the importance of what that is and how that impacts us as people. Remember, if you missed out, you can always check out our previous episodes on the show page or on your favorite streaming service. And while you're there, be sure to leave us a five-star review. It helps us to boost our presence and it allows us to share this message with others. Next week, we'll see what we're working on. We might dive into one or two other things.

We're kind of working on the garden. Hopefully we'll get past the freezing cold snaps up here to where we can harden up what we have growing inside. Maybe we can do our token garden show for the year. But we'll see what happens from now to then. Who knows? Because every day is a new turn. But that's going to be it for today, everyone.

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Tonight, oh man, tonight, yeah. One of the things I really like most about the intro for Preper Broadcasting Network is it says the views, expressed are strictly those of the host or their guests. I just, I love that. I really like that because, because it flat out says that I may not agree with this guy, but I'm still going to let him say what he thinks.

You know, I like that. I really like that. That's very, very cool. All right. Let's see here. Okay. So tonight, tonight, team gunmetal. Hopefully everyone here is having a good evening so far.

Tonight on the Gunmetal Armory, we're going to be talking, we're going to talk a little bit more about caches. We're going to talk about microcaches. We're also going to talk more about stockpiling the items that, the stockpiling the items that might get banned or possibly, you know, things that might get nixed during any kind of laws or, you know, anything that the lawmakers may want to screw with us on. We're going to talk about stockpiling those items and what, what, what, types of items I think we might want to grab a few of and set aside. Okay. We're going to talk about all that different types of stuff and, you know, how to how to basically beat the legislation, you know, to the punch by getting this stuff because the bottom line is it's very unlikely that they'll be able to, that they'll be able to not grandfather all this stuff in. They kind of need

to grandfather at all in because there's just too many. Can you guys imagine what a countrywide confiscation would look like if it was just for AR-15s? I mean, can you imagine that? It would be ridiculous. There would be no way for them to get all those AR-15s. It's impossible. I mean, especially with the laws like we have in Arizona where a face-to-face sale is perfectly legal with a bill of sale.

all of your guns could be sold to someone else and then all their guns sold to you and then all those guns again sold to another person and you know you happen to lose the bill of sale in a fire or you were on a boat and the boat capsized and your bill of sale was in your pocket folded up I mean there's a million reasons why those things can go terribly wrong or you can lose those things you know it's just one of those things that you know it's very easy for all. that stuff to to not be able to be confiscated by the government and it's just a way it is but you know I have no problem with the government I want to say that for the record I love you guys you guys do what you do I'll do what I do we'll both

stay on our sides of the fence here but anyways let's see here let's talk about let's talk about the product pick of the week everybody want to talk about the product pick of the week okay let's see here

This week, the product pick of the week actually comes to us from L.A. Police Gear. It's actually their tactical bailout gear bag. They sent me one of these in the mail to play with. And the one that they sent me is actually Coyote Tan. But they make them in black, OD green, brown foliage, which I guess is kind of a greenish gray color. They make a regular gray one, maroon, red, and if you want to spend the extra money for another $16, you can also get it in multicam, which I know a lot of you guys love, you know, the multicam camouflage. I know I do. Anyways, these are actually really, really well made. They're seriously well made, and this is actually a well-thought-out design. I'm actually truly impressed with this bag.

It's one of those, it's like a range bag. I don't know if you guys have ever seen this bag before or seen what a range bag is, but it's kind of like a small duffel bag, basically, okay? To give you guys a general idea of what you're looking at. But the features, I'm going to read the features off here real quick, and these features actually come directly from the LAPG website. I'm actually going to read them. I made a few changes, but I'm going to read them directly from the website.

because I really believe that they can describe their pack the best. The bailout gear bag was originally designed for law enforcement, LAPD, because L.A. Police gear is in L.A. So L.A. Police Department would probably be the ones to test out this gear first. It was designed for law enforcement, LAPD, and the U.S. military. The earlier LAPG bailout bags are still in heavy use with the L.A. Police Department, San Jose Police Department, Santa Clara Police Department, or Sheriff's Office, San Francisco Police Department, and multiple individual officers across the country. They were designed from the ground up to be the ultimate personal gear slash carry bag slash last resort bag, or last resort bailout bag. but they will also work great as a bugout bag, E&E bag, and a get-home bag.

For those of you that don't know, an E&E bag means escape and evasion. Some people also call it SEAR, which stands for a survival evasion resistance escape. Okay? So the features include, let's see here, it's made of 600 denier nylon, and the multicam bags are made from 500. denier nylon. Let's see here. The polyester lining is in there to protect your delicate items from scratching.

High-quality zippers to reduce the possibility of corrosion caused by a working environment that might lend itself to corrosion, I guess like salt water, things like that. Wider, more comfortable, removable shoulder strap. Main compartment to fit your iPad or other tablets or small laptops. and the old five-cell flashlight pocket has been replaced with a tubular pocket to hold irregular items,

even your emergency shaving kit or toothbrush, or possibly this is what I added, or possibly a suppressor or the tooling for your suppressor. The bailout bag also has these important features. It has only quality brand zippers and real hook and loop closure used through. throughout. A hidden full-size gun pocket with hook and loop, which is awesome. I love those hidden gun pockets. Let's see. Two adjustable side pockets for radios. Large main pocket that has a removable stiffener slash divider system with a loop texture to help organize gear. A stinger slash surefire pocket. Two pin pockets. A tachers. A tachers. A tachers. A tachir-fire pocket.

two pin pockets, a tactical illuminator pocket, four accessory pockets for gun magazines, et cetera, with adjustable hook and loop closures, large side zippered pocket for wallet, passport, keys, and other valuables. The bag measures approximately 16 inch by 11 inch by 6.5 inch externally, and 15 by 10.5 by 6 internally. It's got a padded and remove, shoulder strap that's included.

Carry handles of heavy nylon webbing running the entire length and across the bottom for extra support. Large, again, quality zippers with paracord poles. It's for when your fine motor skills are shutting down or when it's just cold. And, of course,

hook and loop patch on the side pocket to attach a nameplate, a flight suit tag, or a unit patch. Okay? I believe they just put up a link to it in the chat room. Now, guys in the chat room, thank you Flying Dutchman for putting that up. There are a couple of different bailout bags.

I'm not sure if you got the right one, but you might have, okay? The tactical, the LAPG tactical bailout gear bag retails for $2399. So you can easily get one for you and your friend or you and your wife or whomever you really want to. And of course, all you have to do is go to www.lapolicegear.com. Very, very easy way, very easy place to find it. These bags, I've got to say, guys, these bags are super, super nice. I'm seriously impressed. It's also worth mentioning that LAPG has sold over 130,000 of these bags.

So I would tend to say they're pretty darn nice, you know, and I'm not the only one that thinks that. At least 130,000 people also seem to think so, too. Although I am curious what color sells the most. I may have to ask them about that one of these days. You also might be interested to know that we're going to be giving away one of these bags in the near future people. Yes, we are going to be giving away one of these bags, okay? A heads up to any of my listeners.

17. Any of my listeners or any of the people who listen after the podcast is over or don't listen live, they can only listen through download. A heads up to you guys, too. We're going to be giving away one of these LA Police Gear bailout bags. I apologize for my laugh outburst there. One of our regulars in the chat room always answers 17 to our contest questions, and he did it again.

He gets me every time, man. Okay. So anyways, like I said, we're going to be giving away one of these bags. I currently have the bag now. It is a coyote tan bag. So we'll probably be doing this one, the next newsletter that comes out. G-man, I don't know when the next newsletter comes out, but that is probably when we'll advertise that, okay?

Let's see here. We're also, tonight, we're going to be giving away another can of phermethrin premium insect repellent, and also we're going to be giving away a baseball cap from my newest sponsor, Double-Tap Life. Double-tapped Life is a high-end clothing company that also works in gun parts, accessories, and they're soon to be dealing in guns. They have some really seriously awesome t-shirts and hats. I know this because I'm actually kicking back in one of their t-shirts and hats right now.

Oh, wait, never mind, the hat fell off. Okay, I don't have the hat on, but I have the shirt on right now. The shirt of theirs that I'm actually wearing says, My Second protects your first. In other words, my Second Amendment protects your First Amendment, which is one of those things that most people on the left don't want to believe, but it's true. Anyways, it actually, it's a very, very nice shirt. It has the double-tap Life Skoll logo on the left arm and the American flag on the right arm. One of these, this is one of those shirts that, you know, for me, it says, it says it all. It's one of their shirts that

truth be told, you know, I'm a little bit picky about what I wear and what it says because of who I am and because of what I do. Not the podcast, but the fact that I'm a gunsmith and that I'm a Second Amendment supporter. And I'm a constitutionalist. I'm an originalist. So I am rather picky about what I wear and who I support. Because, you know, let's face it, guys,

it says a lot about who I am and a lot about who we are as people, no matter what you're wearing or what you're not wearing, I guess, in the case maybe. And I'm also very, very careful about the companies that I choose to endorse or let endorse me. Anyways, so with that said, I choose to endorse double-tap life clothing, okay? I like their gear. I like their clothing. I love their hats. And that's why I'm giving away one of their hats tonight. Okay. If you guys want to check them out, you could check them out at www.

www. www. dot-tap-l-l-l-E-L-E-T-A-P-L-I-F-E dot com. Double tap life. Okay? If you guys also, if you guys want to get yourself some of this really great insect repellent for your gear or your clothing, the Sawyer-Permetherin is an ideal solution, guys. I've given away a whole bunch of this stuff to a lot of you guys out there. And this stuff works great, man.

You can treat your clothing with it, treat your tent with it. From what I hear, you can even treat your dog with it. Don't put it directly on your skin because it's not made for that. It's made for gear. It's made for clothing. It's made for that type of stuff. Okay? And there are directions on the packaging.

Okay? So you guys can check that out. It is definitely an ideal solution when it comes to making gear, you know, bugproof or having good insect repellent on your gear. It's perfect for that. But if you do need an insect repellent for your body, they also make the Picardin motion. That's the other stuff that goes hand in hand with a permethrine. The Picard and stuff works for hours and can be applied directly to the skin.

Check these out. You'll like them. If you want some of these repellents for yourselves and you don't happen to win the contest, you can always go to www.soyre.com. That's S-A-W-Y-E-R. Sawyer.com. Okay. Let's see here.

Oh, thank you, Flying Dutchman. Flying Dutchman just put a link. to double-tappedlife.com in the chat room. Thank you, Mr. Dutch. I really appreciate it. Okay, let's check this out here. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We are about to do a chat room,

or not a chat room giveaway, but a giveaway. And I think this time for the giveaway, I'm going to have you guys email me the answer. Is everyone okay with that? Well, I guess I really can't get everyone to answer. me but we are going to do a giveaway and I'm going to have you guys email me the answer okay is everyone ready because I'm about to read the question all right you know you at a specific time like on Sunday like you did the last time no I'm going to have them

email me as quickly as it can as quickly as you can this this this giveaway is for the double-tapped life hat. I have a double-tap-life baseball cap. I have a Sawyer-Permetherin insect repellent can, a Sawyer-Picaritan sample of the lotion, and I have a double-tap ammunition hat that I'm giving away. Okay? I'm giving away all four of those items in this giveaway, okay? Two baseball caps and two things of Sawyer insect repellent. baseball cap from double tap life, one baseball cap from double tap ammunition. All right, guys? Okay, so the email address that you need to email me at to answer this question. I doubt anyone's going to know this off the top of their head, but someone might.

If you do, don't answer in the chat room. Just email me, okay? The email address is, what's my email address? It is gunmetal armory at gmail.com. Thank you, Highlander, by the way. I literally blanked on that for a second there. I appreciate that. It's gunmetal armory at gmail.com.

G-U-N-M-E, T-A-L, A-R-M-O-R-Y at g-mail.com. Okay? So get your emails ready to rock. Here comes the question. here we go guys what round was specifically developed for the AR-15 to use at vehicle checkpoints and what is the name of the designer of that round what round was specifically designed for vehicle checkpoints and was designed to be used in the AR-15 and what is the name of that designer.

Email me the answers. Okay? Email me the answers. All right. Whoever gets that to me first will win the prize. Okay? And don't worry, guys, there are lots and lots more prizes to come. All right?

Okay, here. Let's see. Let's check the chat room here. Okay. They're asking me to put in my email. address here. So I'm going to put my email address into the chat room here real quick. Just so they have it. I know I'm a flying deskman already did, but I'm going to put that in there anyway. Guys, feel free to email me the answer. If you know it, if you don't, it's okay.

Look it around. Look around. It's around a circle. Ah, that's a good joke. Okay. So, I think what I'm going to... Holy mother of... chickens. Guys, we just had a winner. We just had a winner, I think. Let me take a look at my email. Well, I'll be damn. That nub won.

All right, guys. That nub takes the W. All right. The answer is 17? No, the answer was not 17. Surprisingly enough. The answer was not 17. Yes, sir.

That nub got it correct. Good job, man. Are you going to tell the rest of the class? All right, so, what? Are you going to share it with the rest of the class, what the answer was? All right, guys. The answer is, and for those of you in the chat room, you've already seen the answer, but the answer is the 50 Beowulf was developed for use at vehicle checkpoints,

and it was developed to be used in the AR-15 platform. Although you do have to switch out the upper, obviously, because you can't use a 50 caliber round in a 223 barrel. But it was developed to be used in the AR-15 by changing out the upper. And they were developing it to be used at vehicle checkpoints because they had

vehicles that would run the checkpoints in Iraq and places like that. And they needed a way to stop the vehicle or stop the person driving it. And the second part of the question, he got right also. The designer of the round was Bill Alexander from Alexander Arms.

So, you know, a little plug for Alexander Arms. If you guys want to get yourself a 50 Beowulf upper for your AR-15, go to Alexanderarms.com and get yourself a 50 bail wolf upper. A nice little piece of information about the 50 Beowulf, the rounds actually fit in a standard AR-15 magazine. For those of you that don't know that. You can only fit like seven or eight of them or something in a 30-round mag. They're gigantic, but they do work.

So that's something good to know for anyone and everyone out there who's curious about that. All right, before I move on to the subject matter tonight, I'm going to take a quick break here, and I will be right back, ladies and gentlemen. And congratulations again to that nub. Don't worry, guys, we have more contests. We're always going to have more. I still have literally a box, a box full of stuff to give away. The box is like 18 inch by 18 inch by 24 inches tall.

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The giveaway was a double-tap life baseball cap, a double-tap ammunition baseball cap, a Sawyer-Permetherin can of insect repellent, and a small sample of the Sawyer-Piccaridin insect repellent lotion. Okay? So there is a little bit of Sawyer product in the giveaway as well. Well, there's product from both companies in there, okay? All right, guys. Let's check this out real quick. All right, so let's get on to the subject matter at hand tonight.

I also want to remind any of the listeners out there if you have any questions for me. There are a few questions that are backed up for Astane, but some of them I don't always have time to answer right away. and some of them I want to answer on air on like a special show. I just need to get that show together, but I will do that. We're also planning a show at some point that is going to be, it's going to have a lot to do with gunsmithing. I think I may do a show that maybe describes you guys how to tighten the rails on a 1911. Maybe do one that tells you guys which parts.

of the AR-15 to stock trigger on an AR-15 to polish to make the trigger pull a lot more smooth? Or what parts of the trigger system to polish on an AK-47 to make the trigger pull a lot more smooth? You know, just different little things like that. I think I may end up describing that for you guys. And for you guys that aren't in the chat room, I will be, when I do those shows, I will be putting up pictures that have diagrams showing exactly what I'm. talking about what parts of the trigger system to polish, exactly how to tighten the rails, a pictorial or a pictographic or something of how to infograph, rather, of how to do these

things, okay? But that kind of show takes a lot of preparation to do correctly so everyone actually can digest the information, okay? So at some point we will be doing that, okay? Anyways, I want to remind the listeners out there, if you have any questions for me, feel free to email me at gunmetal armory at gmail.com, okay? Gunmetal armory at gmail.com. Also, if you guys have any show suggestions, feel free to email them to me. I get show suggestions from you guys all the time. Email them over, put them in the chat room, anybody and everybody. I got no problem.

Send them over. I'm all about it, okay? And for those of you ladies out there, or those of you guys that are fans of Mr. Somettle, if you have any suggestions on shows that you would like to see me and the wife tackle together, like we did with the Second Amendment or with the single mom versus a guy who has way too much time on his hands and their bugout bags. If you want to see us tackle a show like that as a team, we can do that. Just give us a suggestion and we'll see about tackling it as a team. Can't we, babe?

Yes. Okay. All right, let's see here. Also, if you're a company that wants to sponsor the Gunmetal Armory, or if you want to sponsor Prepper Broadcasting Network, you can email me at Gunmetal Armory at gmail.com, or you can get on Prepper Broadcasting.com and email Glenn and ask him about sponsorship also.

Or you can email me, and I will direct you to Glenn. It is not hard to get a hold of him. him, he's a great guy. Okay? All right, let's move on to the subject matter at hand tonight. Okay. Okay, here we go. We just got a couple of suggestions for shows inside the chat room as we speak. There is a suggestion that they're curious how to increase the rate of fire on a rifle without, you know, without making it not semi-auto. You know, of course, can you make the semi-automatic version of it fire faster? Or you could, quote, unquote, make it an assault weapon. I think they were making a joke about that.

But anyways, okay. Also, a good suggestion from that nub. Do a show on a parts list on how to, you know, what parts you would need to build a suite AR for the amount of money. That's a really good idea of that. I think I will do that, okay? and then who knows maybe later on just like in fact what was uh what was it prepping up the joneses dave he suggested that i do a um an open class video where people could register and come in live

and learn how to build the ar right there with me and pay a fee and we'll just go through and build the ar right there um so i may end up doing that as well okay oh okay okay i got you all right see here so onto the product pick of the no wait I already did that on to the on to the subject matter hand guys we're going to go a little bit deeper into the world of caches okay more to the point we're gonna be looking at microcaches they're just like they're larger brothers but microcaches of course consists of just a couple of items instead of a whole bunch of items okay they're mainly set up to help you survive in a worst-case scenario just like we talked

about before. But, you know, just like any cachet, microcaches are also good for resupplying ammo or maybe leaving directions for other family members or a whole host of other different possibilities that you may need just a tiny little bit of room for, okay? There's actually a game out there that people play called geocaching. I'm sure a lot of you people have heard about geocaching, okay? It can be a great way to hone your skills for cashing items for your family or

your survival group, okay? The way this game is played is defined on Wikipedia as an outdoor recreational activity in which people use a GPS receiver or mobile device and other nav techniques to

hide and seek containers called geocaches or caches at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. Okay? So people basically leave behind, you know, little trinkets, little items, little tiny, you know, this and that, directions to, you know, the next clue or, you know, directions to the thing that they're leaving, or, you know, there's just all kinds of little stuff that you can find. Um, And, of course, you can play the game if you choose to. Let's see.

You know, people leave behind the little trinkets and the items, you know, things like that, they'll put a set of directions online that correct you to the stash that they left behind for someone to find. So, caching is similar to this in a lot of ways, but it's obviously not the same in other ways. Because we're doing it because of life and death. We're doing it for survival. We're doing it for all sorts of reasons. but we're not doing it for fun. However, like I said before,

this can be a great way to hone your skills for cashing or for cashing or however you want to pronounce it. I don't know. Maybe it's French. Who knows? Anyways, just like we talked about the week before, or rather the week before last,

last week was our Second Amendment show, right? Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, it was the week before last that I talked about caches. They're normally set up as a resupport. ply point for bugging out, for traveling to your retreat, for operational support, if you're in a military group or a operational group or something like that, or anything else that you might need that cash for, okay? Something we didn't talk about last time is using a cachet for retaking

a bug out location. I'm sure there's lots of you guys out there that have your own bugout locations or that have somewhere you might go in an emergency. That is something that you have to consider. If your treat gets overrun or your bugout location gets overrun by hostels of any sort, you may need multiple cachets stashed around the intermediate or the immediate perimeter of your property. Okay. let's say your property is, you know, a few acres around, you know, two acres by two acres, you're going to want to stash some stuff at the outer perimeter, okay? Depending on the size of your bugout location, you may need to stash some gear around the even further outside the perimeter of the retreat location.

Like I said, if your retreat is two acres by two acres, you may want to stash some stuff, you know, three acres out. or maybe a little bit closer. Maybe you want to stash it five acres out. I don't know. But you definitely want to have some of this stuff stored around the perimeter of your property. Let's see here. Like I said, depending on the size of the property, you know, you may want to do this. This is basically so you'll be able to reacquire your HQ that has everything already stocked on the inside of it.

Okay. That is something that's that's probably paramount to a lot of our survival. Most of us out there, and, you know, like it or not, I don't want, you know, the bad people out there, the marauders and people like that to hear this. But most people, like it or not, are planning to bug in. You know, they have a lot of stuff stored there at their house. they know their house very well and they're probably going to bug in. But before you marauders out there get any funny ideas, you may not want to go after those people that are prepared because they don't call them preppers for nothing. Most of these people that are going to bug in are prepared for you too.

You know, I'm talking to you marauders. I'm talking to you bad people out there, you know, gang members, people like that that would try to take stuff away from people who earned it, okay, who fought hard for it, okay, who worked every day of their life to get these things. They are prepared for you. So unless you want to get hurt in a post-apocalyptic world, I would definitely stay away from those type of people. But I digress. Anyways, we'll eventually have to do a show on just fortifying your bugout location.

There's a lot we could go into for fortifying your bugout location. But we'll eventually have to do a segment on fortifying them so you won't have to fight so hard to keep them. That is another thing, too. We can do a whole show on the fortification and then the subsequent retaking of that HQ. I think that is one of those things that would be a good idea. Anyways, let's see here. One thing you definitely want to do when you have any kind of bug out location, or retreat is to make sure that you have ample supplies inside.

But, of course, you're going to have to have them inside. And the one thing that you really want to make sure you have a lot of supplies at is the outside of the compound. Most people either don't think about the outside of their retreat or they'll elect to do it as the last thing on their to-do list. This is going back to doing these microcaches or even a larger, cache around the outside of your property, okay? Or if you have a shed on the property, put some preps in there too, put some gear in there

too, a well house, anything like that, put some stuff in there, okay? It's definitely something you need to do, all right? Let's see here. It's very easy to forget about the outside of your property and the outside of your house, especially if you're bugging in. You think everything's in there. you can defend it, no problem, right? But you need to think about the outside as well, okay?

Don't forget to do cachets in the outside of your retreat as well, wherever you're going to bug out to, okay? You know, just don't forget about it because if you're in the middle of fortifying your HQ, you don't want to think about it right then and go, oh, crap, I didn't put anything outside here to use if I need it. if I was going to resupply or cash a some gear or weaponry outside of my retreat location, I would probably cash a mostly ammunition and at least two or more firearms. Possibly a bow and a bunch of broad-tipped arrows.

Definitely some food, some water, definitely some sort of shelter, and of course, you know, a way to make fire, you know, the normal needs that you would, that you would have. Even if those supplies aren't enough to reacquire your retreat, assuming that it gets taken, the supplies could still be used as you're leaving the area. Now, if you have to leave your retreat or your bug-in location, you can grab those supplies on your way out. There's nothing wrong with that, okay?

That's assuming you're forced to leave at some point, okay? If you're not forced to leave, you've still got those things in your leave. little, you know, survival savings account, I guess you could call it, okay? For example, if there's a huge fire bearing down in your retreat location, as soon as you see the smoke in the distance, or even smell it on the wind, you can go around all your cachets, grab everything that's in them, and get to safety, okay? All right, let's take a quick look at the chat room here. they're talking about basically

they're talking about geocaching they're talking about bugging is the safest thing to do at first which is a medicine man mentions that it's a great topic to discuss bugging in and you know I actually I agree with him I agree with them 100%

when you don't know what the situation is now if it's a fire that's sweeping through the area and you live in the forest of course common sense tells you bugging out is the only option because the fire is going to overtake your house. But if it's an SHTF situation, a post-apocalyptic world, if there's no rule of law, bugging in and creating as little signature as possible is indeed the safest thing to do. I agree with Medicine Man 100% on this. You can defend your own property better.

All your preps are there. and if you create a small enough footprint, no one's going to know you're there for quite a while, especially if you can make the place look abandoned. So that is a really, really good one, medicine man. Thank you. That is something we will definitely do a show on. Okay?

Let's see here. They were also talking about, that dub was talking about digging a few foxholes on the property, at least on his property, at least. and he said you can use the sand to fill sandbags you know make yourself a couple of little what do they call those pill boxes I think right yeah pill boxes okay

that's something that you can definitely definitely do you know create yourself a little safe area to shoot that is that is definitely a problem for some different states out there because some states you get into the water the second you start digging down but it depends on where you live

Here in Arizona, there's, I don't know where the water is here in Arizona. If you're looking for digging a well or something like that, I have no idea where the water is here. Do you? Hundreds of thousands of feet down. Hundreds or thousands of feet down? Oh, my gosh. Okay. Let's see here.

Oh, yeah, we are up pretty high here, aren't we? Okay. Anyways, they're just talking about wells and different stuff like that in the chat room. For those of you that aren't here, you guys should definitely come into the chat room and check it out. at Prepper Broadcasting.com. You scroll down the page a little bit. You see a chat room thing where you can enter your name, enter your name in there, and press go,

and you will come into the chat room, and you can talk to us and see the rest of the show, okay? Okay, let's see here. Actually, they're talking about wells and what type of pumps to use and all that stuff. This is good information, guys. Okay, anyways, back to the subject at hand. Before, let's see here.

As I was saying, the things that I would probably put in a microcache are the simple items, like I said, the exact things that I mentioned before. However, you'll want to be sure that you have enough of these things to retake your retreat if that's the case. Keep in mind, you could always leave this stuff behind if you don't need it, if you do have to bug out. if you're cashing a bunch of ammo out there around your property and a fire does sweep through the area, I feel really sorry for anyone who's caught out there while all that ammo's going off. But, you know, keep in mind, if you throw a bullet into a fire, I mean, yeah, it's going to hurt if it hits something or whatever. But you've got to consider equal and opposite reaction. The reason a bullet works so well is because it's in a chamber and it's held in there.

and the bullet pushes against that. But if the bullet pushes one way and the cane pushes the other way, it doesn't have anywhere near the same force as it would if it was cooped up inside a chamber of a barrel. Just something, little side note there.

Sorry. Anyway, okay. We talked about the items that you would do. I'm not sure how much ammunition you think you would need to reacquire your retreat that probably depends on how big the retreat is. I'd also think it would depend on how much firepower you're facing.

How many people or marauders or, you know, desperadoes or whatever that you're facing, how many bad people are out there or how many bad people have taken your retreat. You know, I'm just not sure how much ammunition you think you would need to reacquire your retreat. you'll also want to keep in mind that you'll need some amending and supplies for later on after the battle is over, okay? And for holding down the fort afterwards, okay? You know, you're still going to need to hunt. You know, you're still going to need to defend yourself. You're still going to have to resupply all those caches, you know, and so on.

You're going to have to do all that stuff. It's definitely an important part, okay? I would probably look at stashing a small cachet in the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest, or if you prefer, you can stash them in the north, southeast, and west. At that point, it's really all personal preference. I would probably stash gear that specifically applies to that area, okay? One second here. I need to take a drink.

Just give me one second. Okay, here we are. All right. Like I said, I would probably stash gear that applies to that specific location. Okay? For example, I would probably stash my Noreenco AK-47 and some ammo in my stash in the north, right? North Noreenco. My shelter options.

I would probably stash in a southern cachet, right? The water purification gear, I'd probably stash in the west, west water, and so on. You know, I prefer to build stashes that make sense to me, the cachet, you know, something that makes sense. And that would make sense to anyone else in my party or in my family especially. Like my wife, you know, she might ask, you know, where on the outside perimeter would Dane have stashed his Noreenco A.K? You know, knowing me, she might look or she might think Noreenko sounds like north. I'll look in that direction. I'll look north.

That makes a lot of sense, okay? So she might look in that area, okay? You can also look at leaving multiple microcaches directing your group to your bugout location. You know, let's say you drive to go meet your friend, you know, like we live in Prescott, okay? it's about, I don't know, I'm just going to say, an hour and a half drive down to Phoenix. If you've got family down in Phoenix or you've got friends down in Phoenix, you could potentially leave them a bunch of little microcaches

directing them to where your bugout location is. Let's say it was in Chino Valley, which is a little ways away from Prescott. You would leave your bugout location, your little cachets directing them to your bugger. out location, directing them each step of the way. Okay? You'd have the first one somewhere outside of Phoenix, you know, that they would know about,

and then that one would have directions to the next one that would be somewhere, let's say, you know, in Deer Valley, up I-17, and then the next one would direct them to, like, let's say, anthem or something like that. And then the next one might direct them to Black Canyon City or someplace like that. or someplace like that. The next one might direct them to Dewey, and then the next one might direct them to Prescott Valley, and then on to Prescott, and then on to Chino Valley,

and then possibly to the final place. Okay? So that's just one example of how those microcaches could work, because all it has to be is a little rolled-up coated piece of paper directing them to the next one. And make no mistake, people. You definitely want this thing to be coded. You don't want everybody knowing where you're going.

Okay? I hope that goes about saying, but you know, you never know. All right? Okay, let's see here. Yeah, they mentioned in the chat room that you could also stash yourself some scotch. That's definitely one that you could go with.

I have no problem with scotch. Okay, let's see here. if I was traveling to Oklahoma my wife might leave me a bunch of little caches to find along the way you know like I said before each one leading me to the next but of course

you know she need to leave clues that a dim-witted primate like me could find otherwise you know I might get lost you know what do you think babe you think you would you would leave caches that I could find

do you think you would leave clues or caches or you tie us snack bar in a tree or something or maybe leave a trail of homemade salsa, something like that? What would you leave for me to find? Maybe a trail of fruit snacks. A trail of fruit snacks?

Yeah. Maybe some homemade bread, breadcrumbs from homemade bread? Maybe. Maybe. All right, guys, you heard it here first. Fruit snacks and a trail of homemade bread. By the way, guys, for those of you out there don't know me, I'm a huge fan of homemade salsa

and homemade bread. And fruit snacks. Yes, thank you, sweetie. And fruit snacks. A big guy. Big on fruit snacks. Okay. My favorite are the Welch's strawberry, yogurt-covered welches, strawberry fruit snacks.

But they have to be the yogurt-covered ones. They come in a red box. I love those things. Anyways, okay. So I don't know why I told you guys that, but I did. Okay. You also want to draw a map of your bugout location or a map of the cachets rather. for your family, but just for them, okay?

Show them, you'll want to show them so they can hopefully memorize them, all right? But if not, they'll at least have a clue where to start looking if you're not there anymore or if they need the perimeter cachease for something. You know, the microcaches can be stashed in some of the smallest containers out there. So, of course, the size of the container is dependent on what you're stashing. If you need to stash ammo, you'll need an ammo can or something larger. You'll need to use the techniques we talked about a couple of weeks ago. If you're stashing paper money or information directions,

you can use something as small as a pen or a pill fob or something like that. The only limit is your imagination when it comes to that stuff. You can also build like false sprinklers on your yard, buy those fake rocks they use to store keys in, which don't work on anyone. you can build a fake log or fake rocks. Hell, if you've got a property full of building materials, you can even build like a fake two by four and put it out with all the other two by fours.

And only your family knows which one has, you know, I don't know, your family crest stamped on it or something. They will know that that's the one. You see what I'm saying? Okay, let's see here. You know, things of that nature. You know, you can use existing trash to camouflage your caches and stuff like that. Just keep this techniques and, you know, these different things in mind when you're doing, okay?

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but especially military and NATO calibers. Have, for example, 556 NATO, 9mm NATO, 762 by 51 NATO ammo, things of that nature, okay? We also talked about stocking up on AR-15s, AKs, and other military rifles. That is going to be a

big one. You know, they've wanted to ban those for a long time, and this could be the time when they do it, all right? I would hope not under Trump, but, But who knows, right? Okay. But the one thing you need to stockpile no matter what, you need to stockpile ammunition in proportion to your guns, okay?

Because without ammo, the guns are basically just a big ass fancy club. Okay, without the ammo, it's just a big club, right? We also talked about getting yourself some AR-15 receivers if you can't afford the entire rifle. right? Let's see here. AR-15 receivers are a whole lot cheaper than getting an entire AR-15. And when I say receiver, I mean the lower receiver, not the upper part of the receiver. You just need the lower part. That is technically considered a firearm. So you will need to go through the 44-73 background check to get it. If you can't afford a lower receiver, even further than that, you can just get yourself

an 80% AR lower if you can't afford a full AR lower It should be cheaper than the fully cast and machined AR lower But the advantage of the 80% Is that it's not technically A firearm yet I believe banning these will be

Exceedingly hard, but not Impossible As you all know, if they can't ban the gun or the parts to build the guns Then they'll just tax it into oblivion or try to tax or ban any of the tooling or anything else, okay? As I was saying, the items that you'll want to stock up on are the 80% lower or the AR-15 lower, or you need to stock up on the tools that are used to build AR-15s and-a-Ks.

The types of specialized tools that the left may decide need to be banned, or have a tax put on them. You probably want to look at getting some of these jigs and the tooling you used to complete the 80% lower also. The tools and the jigs and all that stuff that you need to mill out and drill out the rest of the 80% lower. Those will likely be on the list if they are going to go after that type of shit.

All right? Let's see here. 80% lowers are scary to people who dislike ARs and military hardware in the hands of civilians because like I said they're not firearms yet but once machine they're technically a firearm however if you're able to own a gun you are able to buy and complete an 80% lower

80% lowers have no serial members I repeat no serial number so if you know how to machine them and you if you know how to machine them you can make yourself a firearm that doesn't have a serial number of any sort. These platforms or these are ideal for a world like Red Dawn.

You know, you remember in Red Dawn, the occupying army or the opposing force, used all the 4473s in town to find the people that owned guns. In our times, it would be using computer records to go around and find every gun, every gun owner, and start confiscating their firearms, their ammunition, things of that nature, mags, and of course, reloading supplies and any other gear that they deem useful.

But 80% lowers are not going to be on those lifts. They'll never be run through a 4473 unless you engrave a serial member into them. But they're not technically a firearm, okay? But you can build them to your spec and you can build them to exactly how you want them. If you don't have machining experience, I would suggest you go get a qualified. machinist to finish the 80% build for you with the proper spec. It's not hard to do. You just need to know how to do it and how to finish it up.

You can also look up on YouTube and find out how to do it on YouTube as well, but be careful which videos you watch because there are some idiots out there and some charlatans that truly literally do not know what they're doing and really should not be telling anyone else how to machine a gun, okay, or how to machine a receiver. all right let's see in the let's see here

what was next oh yeah and in the chat room they're also talking about muzzle loaders muzzle loaders don't need to be don't need to be registered either that is something else to take a look at you can do muzzle loaders

that is something to look at okay they also have 80% Glock lowers and a whole bunch of other different types of lowers now for all sorts of firearms out there. It's really, really nice. They're really, really going up to, you know,

really coming up to a whole bunch of different firearms available. Let's see here. We also talked about stocking up on high capacity or rather normal capacity magazines. You need reloading gear, components for reloading, like bullets, brass, reloading presses, reloading dyes for each caliber, various types of gunpowders, and especially primers. Okay, guys, 80% lowers, primers, and high cap max.

Get them all, all right? I hope this all made sense to you guys. I've run out of time. Sorry. I hope I've given you guys some additional thoughts on cash hang and stockpiling. Thanks for hanging with me tonight, guys. I'll be on next week to talk with you about next week's subject. We'll do a giveaway as usual, and maybe there'll be a surprise or two.

All right. We'll see. Thanks for being with us tonight. Join us next week as we kick open the door to another room inside the gun metal armory. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you next time on the gunmetal armory. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, archive programs, and more at Prepper Broadcasting.com.

Thanks for listening. A person who advocates and practices preparedness. One ready for any event that would disrupt their daily routine. That is a prepper. What is up? James Walton here. It is the I Am Liberty Show. We are not live.

What do you want me to say? What do you want me to do? Tonight, I mean, it's hard not to take notice to a couple things in the nation. It's hard not to take notice to the RNC, right? I didn't watch it. I heard about it. I can't really watch that stuff. I wouldn't make it through it.

It sounds like they put together a good... They strung together a good bunch of acts in order to get your vote. It sounded like a damn good infomercial as far as I hear. So good on them. We obviously... There's a lot riding on that, right? what Melania wants Melania gets is the line I keep hearing. You know, they put that out there like that means something.

Like, it's no different in your household. Look, I have to laugh. If I don't laugh, then I don't really know what I'm doing here anymore. Because behind this mic, the world from behind this mic, is enough to make you want to leap off something high. Okay? The Kenosha, Genosia? Genosha

Look up Genosia I'm calling it Genosia Genosia I think is it just the beginning of the terror right for what they're going to deal with for you comic book nuts you'll know what Janosia is

and you'll understand the reference Genosia is I wake up today and everybody is he guilty is he not guilty I think of a self-defense I don't know it looked like self-defense to me

Oh, this is a wholesale failure. This is a wholesale failure in many ways. And it's terrifying and terrible, but highly expected. Highly expected, there's much more to come, folks. This is, you know, this is what it is. Right? How can it go any other way? how can we go any other way as a nation than the way it's going right now people lining up to protect their towns from riots okay well that didn't use to have to happen because police would show up and deal with riots appropriately listen i said it before and i'll say it again i don't want to see any americans die but i think if these these early riots were met with real force there may be

some deaths. There may have been some deaths. But it would pale in comparison to the deaths that we're going to see. The deaths that are racking up already. I mean, really, you take the deaths in the inner cities now because of the movement of defund police, because of the fact that the police have been chained.

You take those deaths, you combine them with the deaths that have happened in the protests and will happen. From now, until election and beyond, because this thing ain't going away. It can't go away. There is no way this can stop right now. Don't you understand that? Why? They want better police or no police. No police means total anarchy and chaos. There's no getting around it, right? That's what no police means. Or no police means neighbors killing each other. Because you can't just pluck a person off the street and give them that kind of power. You can't even really pluck a person off the street and make them a cop the way we do it.

Sure, a lot of them do a great job. But what do police need? What do the police need, really? I mean, if you were the master of policing, what would you say? You would say, I know what you would say. You would say the same thing I say. More training. simulation training on a regular basis weekly.

When you watch what happened in Genosha, when you watch what happened in Genosha, you will see a training scenario playing out before your very eyes. You see three guys who have no idea what to do with the perp, if you will. They have no idea. The best courts of action is to follow that man around until he bends down in his gun and then the next bends down in his car rather and then the next course of action is to pull your gun and shoot him seven times there's no in-between how can there be

no in-between because there's no training don't you understand these guys don't know what they're doing they don't know what they're supposed to do in a situation like that that's what that video is to me 100 percent it's three cops that have no idea what to do in that situation and they should know exactly what to do in that situation. And I'm not blaming the cops. I'm not blaming those three guys. I'm saying much more attention, much more funding, and much more training needs to go into police officers if we are going to agree as a society that we want police officers, which is the first step. The first step in this whole thing is, and we should be voting, we should always be voting. Don't you understand?

We should be voting in this. This nation is so complex at this moment in time and probably going forward that we should be voting all of the time. You should not just be doing popularity contest votes for president and local officials. We should be voting all the time. Hey, there's a group of idiots that want to make sure nobody has guns in your state. state. Bring it to a vote. Let's see what the people think. Okay. Oh, you know what? They want to defund the police in this city. They want to defund this police in this state. They want to

defund the police in general. Okay. Wheel the ballots out. Let's wheel out the ballots and the machines and let's have a vote. I can think of about five, six things in Richmond City that we could vote on right now, that we should be voting on right now, right? We need to vote more in this nation. The people's voice needs to be heard more in this nation. There's so many people here. We can't just imagine and pretend that this thing's going to work the way it's working. It isn't working.

And it will never stop so long as we keep whittling away at the police and allowing the rioters to do what they want. It's not going to stop. And soon, like I said, it's going to be police between groups of people who are firing bullets at each other. David Jones texted me, the NBC guy, and he said, you know, James, something like 5 million new gun owners over the last 6 months. 5 million or 50 million? I got to check it. Hang on. Yeah, 5 million new gun owners in the last 6 months. 50 million sounded like too much.

How many of them are in protests? A lot more people carrying guns of protests lately. You think they're going to just stay quiet? Remember a few months ago I told you, I know guns at these protests. It's a grace period. How long do you think that's going to last? A couple months go by, all of a sudden people got rifles, AK-47s.

All of a sudden people got guns. Okay, now the next question comes. How long until they start shooting the guns at people? Well, we're to grace period yet again here. Not quite firefights in the streets of America yet. Between Americans yet, comma, yet. Oh, but it's coming. Oh, it's coming.

Don't you worry. Don't you worry your little heart. Both sides are preparing. You have to understand. You'd be foolish not to think otherwise. You'd be foolish not to assume that the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. People of these cities and towns are not sitting around going, watching all this happen in other cities and towns going, oh, I know just what the hell I'm going to do if the rioters show up in my town. And the rioters across the nation are also watching these things going, oh, I know what to bring.

I know what to do if these guys or the guns show up. It's only a matter of time. This is not, we don't have to sit here and be nostridomic about it all. we need to drop a hammer on these things. We need someone to come out and say, the police are going to be better funded. It's not a question anymore. They're going to be better funded.

They're going to be better trained. And they're going to be therapistsized when they need to be therapies and evaluated after they shoot at people or people shoot at them. These are the things that cops need It's not a guessing game If you don't know what the cops need You just ask the soldiers You were in war

What did you need I heard Jocka Willing talk about this month's ago It made so much sense It made so much sense We're over it I don't know what to do The city's falling apart The country is in civil war

Nobody knows what to do I don't know what to do. I hope Donald Trump knows what to do. Oh my God. The problem is people don't want to listen. That's the problem. So I don't know. That's where I don't know what to do.

You know, in common sense things like dummy, governor, wake up. The police need to be better trained. I don't care what it costs. What the hell do you mean you don't have the money? How do you not have the money? If you don't have the money, then I can tell you this much. you don't have a city anymore. There's no more city then. Everyone's going to leave and you're going to have no money and you're still going to have to shell out money for welfare.

So what are you going to do? Find the money, idiots. Find the money. Train the police. Tell the public all about the training. If the problem is police brutality against African Americans, blacks, whatever you want, I don't even know what I'm allowed to call people anymore. But if that's the problem, we can train ourselves out of that problem. We can train the police out of that problem. If you watch these things, they're almost all training issues.

Don't you get that? They're almost all training issues. I can't, I mean, I can't really think of one where if the police weren't put in these high intensity, high stress, training situations on a regular basis where they wouldn't have made a better decision. Plus, when you put people through these trainings, you get to see what the deal is. You get to say, you know, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, why'd you pull trigger so fast? Why'd you, you know, whatever, whatever it is. You learn about the police that are there.

You'll find out that Tom, Tom just shoots everybody. Maybe we put Tom on something else. Give him a different beat because every time something happens, Tom's shooting it. This is not going away, folks. This situation in Genosha? Not going away. It's going to keep happening. It's going to, well, it's going to keep happening forever unless you do exactly as I say.

Do exactly as I say. Every police station across the nation needs to be given money for training. Fund the police. Fund the police. fund the police. They need to be trained. They need to be evaluated. We need to take care of the police officers. They need to be trained. They need to walk up on cars with people with guns in them. How do you deal with this? There's a guy in the car. Maybe he has a gun. Maybe not. And you walk up on that car on a weekly basis and they jump for something or what? You know what I mean? I don't know

how to put it all together, but I can tell you this much. They're not trained well enough, period. They're not trained well enough. You see a situation like that in Genotia, and you see three guys, they don't have any idea what to do. What should we do? I don't know. Let's follow him. Okay.

Sir, please, sir, sir, sir, please, sir, please, sir, please, sir, please, sir, please, sir, please. Okay, shoot him to death. I think there's some gaps there. I see some gaps. Jesus. And then the whole city erupts and the first thing they do is okay. Well, someone was shot. Like hops are at it again. Let's go burn the courthouse down. Wait, what? Where's the connection? Let's go burn the courthouse down. Look at me, 15 minutes into a show about alternate locations for your preps. And all I'm screaming about is riots and violence in the streets of the United States of America.

Oh, again. Do we want to be? fix anything? I mean, I wish I could just understand what people want. You know, I'm prepared to whichever direction they want to go. I just want to know what direction they want to go. What is the direction here? Please give me the opportunity to orient, okay? Because I'm having trouble. I know. I know you know. I get all worked up, but I know you know. This is the Prepar Broadcasting Network. You know, you guys know the deal. You know. You guys know the deal. You You guys are prepared for the deal. You've been carrying firearms on your person every day, probably for a decade at least, right?

Because you know when you walk outside the house, there's lunatics. You know that it's only a matter of time before these things happen in cities all around America. And who knows what else? Listen, Texas and Louisiana are about to get it. They are about to get it. They're talking category five at landfall. I am very nervous for our listeners in Texas and Louisiana, man. You guys be safe.

Get the hell out of there. I mean, if you're in the path of the storm, just get out of there. Now is the time to put that evacuation plan into process. I mean, into play, rather. Now is the time to put that baby into play quickly. Evac. Evac. Get out.

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Hey, look it. Oh, it's good. It's good, folks. We've got a good show tonight. We've got a good topic tonight, really. Alternate locations. for your preps, we're going to talk about it in a number of different ways, okay? There are some revelations that I'm having lately.

I want to talk to you about my thoughts on gardening. My thoughts on gardening are changing. It's not the same old, same old, you know, put the seeds in the ground and hope for the best. The successes that I've had on my little property are, they're changing the way I think about food production here. between the successes I've had here and resources outside of my own property. These things affect me and they affect kind of the way I'm looking at using my property. And it's all interesting, but it all comes back to understanding what you're good at in preparedness. You know, understanding what makes sense and how to best use your resources.

one thing's for sure as we move further down this path barter that type of thing I'm going to be outfitted for that that you can guarantee are you are you prepared to move into a barter economy are you prepared to move into a barter economy just think this through for a minute

okay you see genotia what's happening there How long before these protests get so big that they decide we need more help from the public? I think it was a couple nights ago in Richmond. The shouts were not Black Lives Matter. The shouts were come out of your house and into the streets or something to that effect. And then there were groups across the nation, I think in Genosia actually, that were harassing diners telling us. them to come out and they need to come walk and see. You don't have a right to not support the cause.

You don't have a right not to support the fires and the burning and the looting. It's your duty. You have to go. You have to get out there and you have to do it. It's written into your state constitution. Just kidding. Speaking of state constitutions, my state constitution has been raped, raped and nothing is being done about it. Those are the things that I can't take. Riots in the streets, I understand that. But can we get around a table and say, hey, how can we stop it? And if people listen and action is taken, I can remain in stasis.

But when the very tip-top of leadership is crushing the Constitution, the state constitution, It's very tough to bear. It's hard to bear. And I don't know which way it goes. And the great news is that in all this chaos, there is a home, right? The Prepper Broadcasting Network is a home for the misfits of society who will be prepared for the chaos in whichever way it rears its head. Today for members I put a video out about abandonment About the preppers

Bad habit of abandoning things You know abandoning people Abandoning places In the in the face of survival When you see chaos in the streets You naturally you want to get away You know Either you want to get away you want to get involved

It's one or the other right You know how far can it go before the average Joe gets involved How far can it go before the average Joe gets involved? You can only burn so much down before people start losing their jobs in mass. And, you know, they're not really following insurgency tactics very well. They should at least be handing out food or something to get the people's hearts and minds on their side. You can't burn down all the commerce and expect the, population to be happy with you, you know? The problem is when the population comes out to take a

stand and protesters butt heads with people trying to protect the city because the federal and local governments are unable to protect the city, the 17-year-old winds up with first-degree murder charge. That's a problem. That's a serious problem because that guy should never been out there to begin with. You didn't know there was going to be some riots around? That kid should have never been out there to begin with, don't you understand? Our nation shouldn't be at this point where every night it's a riot. We shouldn't be here.

You know, this thing needs to be taken care of, but it's not being taken care of. Nothing's being taken care of at the moment, only exacerbated by lunatics. And I don't know how long this phase goes, you know, here at the network, it's been dubbed the fourth turning. It's been dubbed the winter season, right? And it will go on. And it could go on for years, folks. You know, you need to think about that.

When you see the L.A. riots in 92, you're like, good, grief. Look at all the damage. But they ended. And that was it. There were no more riots for a while, long time. What happens if rioting just becomes the thing that happens every night. It's been pretty consistent here in Richmond. Destruction, no, but the police here are not playing games. That's the big difference.

You know, there's not a lot of game playing here in Richmond. There's a lot of mouthing from the rioters, but not a lot of games played by the police. They follow them close. They come in mass, and they shut it down, and they throw people in jail. I don't know. I don't know, folks. what I can tell you is when you're dealing with a pandemic, when you're dealing with a lunatic government that wants to shut everything down, destroy commerce, destroy employment numbers,

you know what I mean? When you're dealing with people like that, and they want to take guns away too on top of it, and they want to, you know, the whole thing. When you're dealing with that kind of a situation, and on top of it, tremendous unrest, A polarized nation.

You don't have a lot of options. The one option you always have is prepping. You always have the option to prepare. Prepare for the worst. Get yourself together. Understand what the next steps are. If you're a prepper who's been at the base level or beyond, you know, if you've been doing the things for a while,

then, yeah, it's time to take it to the next level. The one mistake I've made, guys, and then we're going to move on to the topic of the night. The one mistake I've made, and you might be making it too, is treating this November as though it's an end. I've been treating this November as though it's some sort of a finish line or a checkpoint. Right? Like, if this happens, it will be crazy. And we need to be ready for the crazy in two months. but the reality is we're probably a decade of crazy.

I know you don't want to hear it, but we're probably in for about a decade of crazy in this nation. Have you seen the businesses closed up? This is the most depressing podcast ever. The second half I recorded out in the woods, and I recorded it on a beautiful day, earlier today, right before I knocked out, right after I knocked out a review of the new 3V gear surge from their red line, their red line,

awesome bag, by the way. But I was in a much better spirit. So now that I've kicked you in the ribs enough, let's talk about alternate locations for preps, okay, and prepping from a position of power. So where do you store the bulk of your preps? That's the question. And are you happy with it? Are you running out of space? You know, what's the situation with where you store your preps? You know, at the very least, they shouldn't be all in one room, right?

I mean, I think at the very least, we can all agree you shouldn't have all of your preps in one room. They're all in the crawl space. You know what I mean? You know, that's kind of the extreme, the extremely, that's like level zero. You know what I mean? I have all my preps in one room in one place. You know, people are used to storing your food in a pantry and in a kitchen, but there's no reason why you can't store food all over your house.

as long as you've got a pest control plan, right? If you've got a pest control plan, then yeah, you can store food in closets all over, and why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? So get away from the idea of I'm out of room because my pantry's full, or I'm out of room because the laundry room is full, or I'm out of room because I don't have any other climate-controlled spaces. You know, the reality is you can store things all over the house. And we've got a number of great shows. I think Michael Klein did one.

I know D.D. did one about hiding preps and things like that. But that's not really what I want to talk about on this show. Also, I want to thank you because I'm just hiking, walking really, not even hiking, But I'm just walking with the backpack on through the woods that I typically run. And it's so nice. It's so nice just to walk through this path. There's a big tree down too on the main path, so the bikers are at bay a little. The god-forsaken mountain bikers are at bay.

There's something in that mountain biking and street biking culture, man. I don't know what it is. It rubs me the wrong way a lot of the time, though. I'm going to be honest with you. You know, you get them off the bike and you talk to them for a little bit, and they're pretty decent most of them, but they're at bay for the moment. But it's nice. It's midday.

There's a bunch of people, or a bunch of sun, rather, coming through the canopy. It looks good. It looks good out here. I'm not sweating profusely, I'm not heaving, just walking and enjoying. Yeah, you need it all. You need it all in life, you really do. You know, I imagine if I walk this thing every day or rocked it, the rucking crowd. Everybody rucks.

I rocked for five miles today. I guess there's nothing wrong with it. Fitness is fitness, right? There's no point in getting upset or silly about it. God, look at this pretty dog. Hang on a second. Sorry, dog alert. Breakdown. Break down in my focus.

I'm like dogs with squirrels are like me with dogs. Something along those lines. Pretty pup, though. But yeah, fitness is fitness. I'm not going to get down on the rucking crowd. It's good. You know, it's not an easy thing. You put a nice heavy rucksack on and go through the motions.

It's definitely a good way to test your might, right? See what you got. see if you're up for what's what's ahead good way to see what the bug out's got for you got what the bug out has planned for you so not so much concerned about in-home storage of preps right you probably got that sewed up you probably know where you can and where you can and those types of things that's kind of the easy part what i want to talk about in this show is where else? Where else can you store them? You know, alternate locations for preparedness in general. Because in doing this bugout series, first and foremost, that we're doing for members only and have been doing for patrons. And for you new members, I'm going to migrate those

I'm going to migrate those over. And I'm also going to create a blog post. of this podcast series where I will link to all the podcasts on the bugout. Because we did probably, I think we're at number eight now for the series. Massive topic. And I think I've come to some conclusions. We'll probably do a whole podcast on the conclusions that I've come to just through this bugout session. One of the biggest conclusions is having, one dedicated bugout location is fantasy for most.

And it's another one of those all the eggs in one basket kind of situation too. You know, and the more I look at it and the more I look at my personal situation, the more merit I'm putting and the more time I'm putting into multiple locations in and around where I live. for worst case scenarios. Now, you guys know in most scenarios, I am, I'm staying exactly where the hell I'm at. You know, we've got people and we've got plans. And that's where we want to be.

You know, you can't beat that vested interest in your life. That's what neighbors represent. You know, your survival group is good. Don't get me wrong. It's better than nothing. But there are people who live right beside you who have a vested interest in the safety and security of your personal neighborhood, maybe even your street, maybe even your home. Right? You've got to leverage that.

That's a big one. So we're talking alternate locations for preps. And that's just my two cents on bugout location in general, you know. Maybe not putting all of it in one spot. Maybe having a few little spots are surrounding you. And that's all I want to talk about in that vein. Hmm. Tornado.

Or the end of the workday, one or the other. They are tearing up all the land around my area to put new houses in. luckily the park is protected but they've done the damage so understanding relatives are going to be your first and most effective situation to be in okay you've got relatives around you who can say yeah put some food in my house you know we've got hosts here on the prepper broadcasting network that subscribe to that kind of thing too. What's going on up here? New trees down.

But anyway, alternate locations with family or friends. You can do a lot there. And also remember that it's not just about the food you place there or the ammo you place there or the guns you place there. One unique situation for me is I look and, nurture things in the people around me, particularly when they're going to benefit me. So my father-in-law got insanely into gardening some three, four years ago or something like that, maybe five even.

And I nurtured the hell out of that in those conversations. And that turned into an incredible garden that I have very little to do with. But that turned into a food supply for my family. I mean, so much so that it's, you know, this time of year, we don't really buy much. Produce. We don't really buy that much produce. This year, I didn't even really grow that much food. Really?

I didn't even really grow that much food between that garden, our community garden. We also started a small garden between neighbors, my next-door neighbors and I, and what little stuff I grew out back and the food that. already grew up back without any attention whatsoever, you know, we were in really good situation. You know, we're looking at multiple, multiple locations where food is being produced. And that's what you want. That in its essence is what I mean when I talk about prepping from a position of power, right, where you have multiple layers, multiple layers and multiple answers. Because my whole backyard flooded last weekend. I mean gone, flooded dead. I mean, it looks

pristine now. Everything that was on the ground in the yard has been washed downstream. The whole back yard flooded up to my house. Gone. So you just have to be real about those things they can happen. You know, if you know that where you live gets flooded sometimes, you can't exist on a premise that you're going to have a garden every year that's going to feed your family. You know, you better bulk up on dry food. storage, which we do. And you better put it in high places. In alternate places, you know, if you find yourself in a situation of overwhelming force at your home that you didn't predict, and we have to be honest about that, you know, that's one of the great prepper downfalls. It's this idea that no matter who shows up at my house, I'm going to fight them off. Come on, let's be real.

Let's be real. If you, if that plan goes to, south and you realize that oh you know what I'm not going to fight these people off and we've got to run What do you think they're going to do with all that food? All that food that you lovingly stored up for them and my lar bagged up for them and dated and labeled and They're gonna live high on the hog off of all your hard work Which goes back to also the idea of not storing it all in one place in your house Friends and family are an option. It's got to be true trust there, of course, but it's an option. And beyond that, there is caching.

There is caching. And what I want you to understand about caching is a conclusion that I've come to lately. Caching is not about driving, for me anyway. This is my personal conclusion that I've come to through doing this stuff. Cashing is not about driving 10 miles away. to bury something. Now, in terms of the bug out, if you know you're going to be on foot

and you're going to be traveling tens of miles and you want to cash supplies and clothes and soap and food and water or whatever else, yeah, sure. That stuff's going to have to go out far to follow you, to follow along with you.

But if we're talking about survival caches for a situation where you want to have food and supply, lies in multiple locations so that if something happens to home base, you've got other options. These things should be close. There's nothing wrong with caches in the yard. There's nothing wrong with caches in the woods behind the house, in front of the house, down the street from the house, in walking distance.

You know, caches on your own property are great because they give you the ability. to access them easily, and they give you the ability to bury them in secrecy. Right? And you also don't have to worry about anybody finding them. But what they do for you is, in a situation where you go through all your food, people keep hounding you for food,

people try to take all your food. You're never out just because your home looks like it's out. You know, you've got all the options. you've got all the options. Now, if you start cashing food at alternate locations like family, then you're really in. Then you're really in good. Because now you've got make-believe food there as well as, you know,

food that's there and that people can take. You've also got buried food. Got buried resources, ammo, medical, maybe even comms, maybe even firearms themselves. You know, the cashing of firearms, the cashing of firearms is starting to sound very appealing in a lot of states around the country. Even though we're busy buying, I think Dave Jones texted me today and said we spent about something to the tune of, sorry, I just ripped some sassafras off.

And I love that smell. That carcinogenic. Something to the tune of like 5 million new gun owners. Guns are bad. They'll kill everyone. Just in buying them. Five million new gun owners is a statistic, baby. That's a number.

That is a number. Once I get to the top of this thing, I'm going to sit down and have a sip. But we're up here. We're home. This little patch of grass. Well, this little patch of dry leaves and rock. warm water never tasted so good you know when you're in an air-condition building all the time drink warm water you're like

this is vomit you get out here and you stand in the sun for a couple hours film of review walk up some steep inclines and you drink that lukewarm water and it's just like that's a gift from god so the other thing to consider also is gorilla gardening And the act of guerrilla gardening is pretty simple. It's the idea that you're going to go to places in and around your area, in and around your home, and you're going to start growing things there.

Now, my recommendation, guerrilla gardening can be cool. Throw some tomato plants in in a place where only you know. That's cool, that's fun, that's kind of gimmicky. If you want to do it for real, though, if you want to do it for real, there's two things you should. should do. And don't think for a second that guerrilla gardening can't become an alternate food source for you and your family if you're smart about it. Nurture everything. Nurture everything that is a native inhabitant. Right? So if it produces food and it's native, you may not have to plant anything. You just need to make sure there's very little competition. Okay, we've done this with several

types of plants on our property. The beauty of this is nothing on the landscape changes into the untrained eye. There's no food here. Right? To the untrained eye, it is what it is. This can be hazelnut trees. This can be blackberry thickets. This can be pawpaw trees. This can be persimmons. I mean, these things all grow. I've come across all of these things in nature and just been like, oh, well, let's sit down and have a snack. You will need to do some trimming of hazelnut bushes and trees because they, I don't really know what they are at their bush or tree. Because if they get too crazy, the hazelnuts will just be tiny. I mean, it's still protein.

It's not going to be as good as you're used to. So, number one is really stroke the native plants, really give them their room. Really make sure that they're going to produce for you, man. And they'll go the distance. The other piece of the puzzle is plant perennials. Plant perennials. Okay? Yeah, we all like our peppers and stuff every year.

And that's good, you know, but that's backyard stuff. I'm really becoming a proponent, as cool as it is and as convenient as it is, to have a nice big garden on your property. I'm really considering turning the back area in the backyard into an orchard. I'm really considering a bunch of fruit and nut trees and gardening becoming a much smaller part of what I do. Honestly, you know, I get it. I get the idea of tomatoes and canning and that type of thing. I get a lot of tomatoes from other people. I get squash from neighbors, you know, I get a lot of stuff from a lot of people.

gardening is good it's fun you know and i'll never not have a little garden i'll always have at least some little garden but the big big gated protected weeded fertilized fucking everything else that you got to do to have that garden and then to have it fail because that's like what happens in gardening a lot of times I mean, you have to garden a lot to understand what I'm saying. For many years, you know, you have to have great seasons and shit seasons. But to have it all failed, too, you know, it's a good hobby. Don't get me wrong. And like I said, I'll always have some derivation of garden.

But you know, it's way cooler. Is every year there are perennials in my backyard that are expanding and growing and new ones coming up. And I don't do anything. And they drop food all over the floor. and it's just it's a better system man that's all there is to it you know so while most people are thinking that the idea is to expand expand expand this garden and you know i've been in that mindset for many years and i've not had great luck you know i've had good years i've produced a lot of food and that kind of stuff but it's been a heck of a lot of work things have failed i mean i've

had at least a failure every year. But there are things that work year in and year out, and those are the things I'll probably stick with. But I think to better use my land in particular, it's going to be towards fruits and nuts and those types of things. We're definitely going to be heading the permaculture direction. I don't think we're going to do it up exactly the way they tell you to. But we'll have trees and we'll have vining plants on those trees, and maybe even bushes, maybe even fruit-producing bushes. That's just what makes sense to me. And this process can be done anywhere.

This process can be done everywhere in alternate locations as well. You know, if you go out to the woods and you plan a bunch of stuff, you're probably going to be planning a bunch of food for rabbits, deer. You know, you might get a few months before they find them. You might grow some cherry tomatoes and that type of thing, but it doesn't become very reliable because before you know it, you're going to come out there and you're going to be expecting a nice big gorilla garden unless you're smart about it and you know,

and you could do it in a place where the deer aren't, whatever. But in most cases you're going to go there one day and it's going to be eaten down to the root. And you're going to be saying, Oh, plan B. Plan B. So, should we do some announcements? Yeah, why not?

We'll do some announcements. We'll wrap this thing up. It's the I'm Liberty Show, folks. I hope you've enjoyed it. I really enjoyed Ryan's show last night on chickens. Chickens are a must while we're on the subject. If you're going to put anything in your backyard, it's chickens, to be honest. If I did it all over again, I'd have chickens

first before any gardens. Because it's food right off the bat. You know, it's food right off the bat. Food every day, protein every day. Eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs, eggs. Perfect. They're an amazing little creature. They really are.

People always tell me guineas. People always tell me quail and this type of thing. Maybe. I don't know. What I do know is hens. I know hens and I know they're phenomenal. You know, and when you don't have a flock of a thousand, They're really easy to manage. And I can't imagine a time when I don't have apocalypse or not.

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You know, it's not just the great collapse with several different characters and different, you know, there's just a bunch of great stories, some poems, and a one added element in darker trails that I think everyone's going to really enjoy. What else? Prepper Camp is sold out, unfortunately. If you're not flying with us, then you're not flying with us, and that's okay. But you're going to miss out on a lot. I'll get you some video from there. We're going to have a tinfoil hat contest.

Yes, a tinfoil hat contest, which is going to be astounding. We're going to burn an effigy there for the continuity. I'm not sure what we're going to make yet. We're going to make some kind of silly effigy and burn it on the campfire for the continuity. And, of course, we're going to attend great classes and give great lectures and do the things that we do in this prepping community. man. It's a ball. It's a blast. You know, this whole thing is a blast. It's a ride, a joy ride. It really is. And it's all you guys. You know, it's all this little prepper broadcasting network community that makes it possible. And we love you for it. Really. I've got a couple new shirts up in the

store. If you want to go hop in the store, buy some t-shirts, whatever. Completely up to you. the bookstore I didn't realize was in so bad shape so I'm going to throw books by books by the host up into the new library and we're going to get that thing updated oh one final announcement and a very important one at that I don't know exactly the demographic of who listens to PBN or who listens to the IM Liberty Show

I mean I know most of it but I don't know how much money you guys make and that type of thing but if you're balling or if you're if you've got an extra chunk of change and you're ready to make a big prepping move or if you've got a group that's ready to make a big prepping move i am going to send out tomorrow in the mailing list a survival retreat property that is in the heart of texas and there's six residents on property there's electricity on property there's wells on property and there's a lot of 60 plus acres of land. Six residents is already built.

And it was built purposefully to be a survival retreat. I had a conversation with the guy on the phone. And it's an opportunity. You know, it's not an opportunity I can take advantage of because it's over $800,000. But it's an opportunity. And it may be the one you're after. So consider that. If you're not on the mailing list, just give me a contact.

That's all. Let me know. I'm interested in that. and I'll get you all the information on that property. It's basically a dream. It's basically a dream. I mean, you look at the property, it's expansive, it's cleared, it's Texas, in the heart of Texas, away from the cities.

You know, when I look at it, I see gigantic chicken coops and greenhouses and that whole thing shooting ranges and just really a place to become something amazing. I think that's it. I think that's it for announcements. That's all we need to talk about. So alternate locations, folks, consider it. You know, now is the time to build on what you have and to really kind of consider what I always talk about,

which is prepping from a position of power. And what I mean when I say that, prepping from a position of power is it's not about having all the ammo, all the guns and all the food, but it's about having all the options. Right? It's about having all the options. And most of prepping from a position of power comes from planning, to be quite honest.

It comes from this, this comes from planning. It comes from understanding that this system is broken down. We have another system. This plan is broken down. We have another plan. This guy is out. We have another guy. Right? So it's, you know, it is the old Murphy's law. thing, really.

I haven't really figured out the best way to articulate it yet. Prepping from a position of power. One day, prepping from a position of power will likely be a book. And I'll explain kind of how I've got to where I am mentally and physically in terms of preparedness with not all the resources in the world. You know, we are not stocked up to the gills here at Casa Liberty. It's just not our position. But we are in a very good position to weather the storm.

And as far as I can tell, that's prepping from a position of power. Allies, affiliates, friends, neighbors, right? Area studies, knowing where resources are in and around your area. You don't have to have everything right now. You don't have to hold everything right now. You do have to know where to get things, though. You do have to have people you can trust who can hold things and who have their own things. Things.

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Okay, luckily I recorded most of the interview on Skype, so we have that audio. Backup. You know we've been working with Steve over at Fortitude Ranch and survival housing.net. And he's been promoting us. He put us up on Tim Poole. He's been promoting us on his other interviews.

You know, we're basically working in tandem. One of the things that he talked about was this incredible spreadsheet that they used to calculate food, stored food, food on the hoof. You know, livestock, livestock needs the whole nine yards. This fortitude ranch spreadsheet that they basically, basically, basically have built their own survival community using this spreadsheet, well, to at least build their own communities, food needs with this spreadsheet, right? So how do we accumulate all the food we need? We do it through these measures.

We have this amount of people. The spreadsheet is like five pages long. I haven't even looked it all over yet. It's so awesome. If you're a member, then you're going to get access to the spreadsheet. Okay, you can do what you want with it. I asked permission. Steve said it's fine.

He erased all the information that was sort of obsequy. And I'm going to put it in your hands. Okay? This is a seriously powerful tool, PBN family. I mean, this is a powerful tool, depending on how you use it. And I will give you members my take on the spreadsheet and how I will use it, because I am going to use it. It's power. It's power in Massachusetts.

Mathematics, you're going to love it. And special thanks to Steve. Go check out survival housing.net. Obviously check out Fortitude Ranch. Listen, man, this is a big deal. Okay? It's a really big deal. So, yeah, coming your way.

Members, listen, if you're not a member, you're nuts. Five bucks a month. If you're not a member, you're nuts. Just whatever you can do, you know? If you're not totally in debt, up to your ears. If you're looking around at the world and telling yourself things aren't going well, I need a game plan.

You have to become a member, PBN family. I mean, you just, you got to do it, okay? I don't, this is what I really don't want. I don't want you to look back and say to yourself, I missed out on the master classes, I missed out on the video content, I missed out on the podcast content, there were all these things that I could have done in 2002 to prepare, myself and my family for what's happening, and I decided not to do it. So that's what I worry about

PBM family. Do yourself a favor, all right? But let's get to this interview, man. Steve, I mean, Rick Austin, you're going to love it. All right? Here he is. He's talking about his hidden food. To, you know, bloom or spread out, you know, you're not going to see anything. So, you know, we've had people come at different times of the year, and, you know, you're seeing just a fruit. that's ripe at that time. And these guys, you know, they came multiple times and they didn't just come to look at the garden, you know, the secret garden of survival. But they also, you know, looked at the greenhouse and, you know, looked at our livestock.

And because they documented things over a year and a half, you are now, you know, you're seeing our hog operation when it first started. and you're seeing also, you know, the hogs that we ended up, you know, butchering that we, that we raised from babies and butchered. So, you know, it's, you had a chance to see that kind of progression that you never do with anything else. And I, and I will tell you that, you know, these guys did probably the best job, no, not probably, certainly the best job that anyone has ever done, bar anyone, You know, we've had people here from all over the world who have come to, you know, kind of see what we're doing and take video back home, you know, whether that's in Germany or Australia or, you know, Netherlands or whatever. And, you know, just because we're such an anomaly in terms of what we're doing here.

And, you know, as well as the, you know, the international and national networks like National Geographic and those people. but these guys have done you know did a better job telling our story than you know anyone has ever done and they really did a good job with the editing and the thing flows and it's it's like that thing you hated

when I first interviewed with you it starts and you know goes through a story and a timeline and point by point and how we got to where we were and you know you get to understand what pushed us to get off the grid and, you know, the things that happened in our lifetimes that, you know, or happened to a lot of other people right now. And, you know, maybe they're going to get pushed too. But, you know, hopefully this is, this is helping a lot. And, you know, there's

already like 400,000 views in a week. And they've got over a thousand comments. And I've, you know, kind of scrolled through and responded to some and you know people are inspired and they said well I didn't realize that she didn't even know how to cook before she started this well maybe I can too you know that kind of thing yeah I think a lot of people are seeing the writing on the wall right oh yeah they know it's time they know the food shortage thing is uh made it its way all the way up to the highest places and uh you know people want to do something about about it. You know, it's hot, I mean, I know you've been at it forever. Well, I've been, yeah, like I told you before the show started, you know, I've been standing

on my soapbox for, you know, the last 14 years telling people they better, they damn well better be growing their own food because, you know, these people that are the, you know, the purchase preppers that, you know, go out there and buy, you know, food storage and think that they're going to be okay. Well, maybe they'll be okay for a short period of time. But if we go into this this world wide crisis and this thing lasts for more than a year they better have some way to be able to grow their own food and replenish themselves because if they're not self-sufficient sustainable then they're going to be you know either dead or be slaves um and uh you know i don't want to be either of those i think that's a pretty good goal yeah that's a pretty good goal i you know

I guess my concern in it all is I still say and I don't know everybody's private intentions and things along that nature but I do still see a lot of people because I live I live and I travel I live in Virginia

and I travel to Philly a few times a year Delaware, Wilmington that kind of area and you know I just see throngs of people who are completely unaware which is incredible to me. You know?

Not just unaware of like, you know, some of the food factory fires or the, you know, the potential for coming food shortage. But, you know, people who are like hardly aware of what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. Right. And that kind of blows my mind, man. This day, you know, particularly with phones. Go ahead. Well, it's, you know, it's normalcy bias. Well, okay, gas prices are going up.

Oh, yeah, food prices are going up. Oh, well. You know, well, we'll get through. But they just either don't care or don't want to know or they're too, you know, they're too sidetracked by, you know, the next shiny object or, you know, yeah, they have the phones. They're playing games on them. Or they're too busy, you know, doing social media crap instead of.

of seeing what's really going on out there or they're watching the wrong things and the wrong networks and the wrong fake news. Frankly, those people are going to be dead. There's not going to be any remorse or sorrow from people. And there's, you know, if we really fall into this situation,

which I think we are headed toward because the globalists want us to go there, they are trying to get rid of 95% of the world population because we're easy to control that way. You know, if it starts going there and starts going on that direction, the same thing's going to happen that I warned about when, you know, when we have a major natural disaster. You know, it doesn't take long for civil unrest to set into place. when the delivery system stop and the food stops and there's no electricity and people are hungry and starving.

You know, those of us that can remember Hurricane Katrina, it only took three days before it was total anarchy. And, you know, people were getting killed and, you know, they're fighting over food. It doesn't take that long. And in a major problem, let's say the worst case in areas we have, an EMP whether that's manmade or you know a solar flare you know the power goes out everything goes out delivery system stop just in time delivery is no longer every computer chip in the country has been fried you know trucks don't move uh pump gas pumps don't pump you know every every single computer chip um you know the every system that we rely on from the grid

electrical grid to, you know, all of the computers and internet interfaced and interactive things for, you know, for our distribution system, that's all going to be out the window. And how quickly would that be fixed? It won't be for a long time. So you're looking at, you know, transportation stopping. You're looking at grocery stores, not being able to get new food because it's just in time delivery and with no transportation, there's nothing. air and you know the Department of Defense the war game this whole thing out and in two months 80% of the population would be dead they either died of disease starvation infection or you know they got killed and it's only going to be the people like you and i that are prepared and insulated or in a place that is harder to get to and then the really really really bad psychopathic vermin that will be left, you know, the ones that are preyed on everybody else.

So that's, those are the two types of people that will be left. Sounds like a wonderful world. Yeah. What do you think, go ahead. No, I'm just saying that that's, you know, like I said, the Department of Defense has war gained this thing out. 80% of the population is going to be dead within the first two months. So, you know, this.

is the this is where we're headed and uh it may sound like gloom and doom and too hard to believe but uh do a little do a little research on the uh the great reset and the world economic forum that's what they want that's what they want and uh you know they're doing everything they can to push us there and and it's not too obvious to people all the stuff that's happening but i mean there's no absolutely no reason other than the the pretense of trying to, you know, save the world from some global warming catastrophe or something like that. There's absolutely no reason for us not to be, you know, an energy producer like we were just 18 months ago. And yet, here we are bitching about Russia invading Ukraine, and we're still, we're paying Russia for oil.

Yeah. What's wrong with that picture? So are we paying them in roubles? I guess we must be. I don't know. You know, we can't pay them in gold because we don't have any. So, you know, it's long and long and short story is you got to be in a position where you're, you know, you're insulated and you can grow your own food and take care of yourself or you got to get the hell out of dodge and find and have a place to go. because if you're in any sort of population center, you know, people do really, really bad things.

People who were, you know, previously, you know, moral and, you know, ethical. When their kids crying because they're starved and they're starving, everything goes out of the window and we've got total anarchy. Yeah. And if you find yourself in a position where you are prepared, which means, many of you out there listening are, I think now's the time to start to start stocking up for others. You know what I mean? And storing extra because you're always going to use it. You know, it's there. If you're storing food or if you're building food infrastructure outside, start looking at what you're producing as, you know, this is what we need. But we can still

add more and have extra. You know, just having extra is always going to help you. And if there are people in your neighborhood or community, probably the best way. Well, I always think the best way to keep if for those who stay, you know, I think personally

there'll be probably a gigantic exodus out of cities if it gets to be anything that people realize we're not going to be able to eat here anymore. Well, the exodus may be tempered by the fact that, you know, if there's no food, no gas, I mean, there's no gasoline and none of the cars are running

because there was an EMP and, you know, everything's fried. There's going to be a lot of people walking. Yeah, definitely. You know, you're going to have, you're going to have locusts, literally, like, locusts, you know, consuming everything in their path. Yeah. So. No, I agree with that.

I think there'll definitely be serious migration in an event like that, right? Bunches of people moving from a, moving from one place to a place they have. hope has more resources or moving to a place that some government message is telling them where the resources are. You know, in our case, it's likely going to be north towards D.C., I guess. That is if they can hold D.C. together in a chaotic state. That ain't going to happen. I don't think so either. I don't eat each other. Yeah, probably. You know, even if you're not, even if you don't believe this stuff, even if you don't want to believe this stuff, just look it in

inflation and look at the prices of food. You know, I mean, if just just the smart money is on, okay, instead of wasting your money on something else, why don't you, every time you go to the grocery store, you know, buy another flat of vegetables. I mean, even if it's, you know, green beans or corn or carrots, you know, just canned vegetables, buy a flat of that stuff. I don't know, just the 12 to a case or something like that. Because those prices are going up and they're going to continue to go up. And part of that's, you know, this government, one world government thing happening

and the shortages and supply shortages. And, you know, the corporateocracy is involved in all this stuff too. You know, their profits are going up. You know, if the prices keep going up and they don't have to sell as much. much product so they sell it for more than they're making more money and they're more profitable. Don't think them CEOs don't want big bonuses at the end of the year for making more revenue. And trustee, when those direct deposits hit their savings, they don't go, I guess maybe we should try to slash prices next year. Yeah.

Well, the can of corn for 35 cents today that's a dollar a year from now, it's still there's still. selling one can of corn. You know, it's just that the profit margin is that much bigger. So, you know, there's a lot of greed involved in this thing. And then there's obviously a power play happening too. Yeah, this self-reliance thing is a weapon, man. That's the way the patriots out there listening need to look at it. You know, I think the sort of the militia groups, the patriots out there who tend to lean

heavy tactical have to understand that, you know, obviously you want to know how to use your firearms and you want to have firearms, you want to have ammo for those firearms. But if you want to affect change now, right now, in this revolution that's happening, you have to weaponize your self-reliance and independence. And that comes a big way that you can do that is through what's happening in your backyard or your back acreage as far as food production is concerned, right? Because, I mean, you've done that. You've weaponized food production in a way that you use it to take yourself completely off supermarkets, but you also use it. It's viral, right?

Because you can spread what you're doing to other people and then arm them with the same information, the same knowledge, so they can webinize their own backyard, you know, against this. Exactly. Because food choices, you know, go ahead. And if we get to a situation where things level out and, you know, the 20% of us that are left are now looking at, you know, a new agrarian society. You know, Jane and I were on a television series on Amazon Prime video,

which was, you know, the beast that is this global economy. And, you know, the whole thing that they came to talk to us about is, you know, they were talking about currency. And I said, well, everything I have in my garden and my livestock is my currency. You know, food and water are going to be the only thing's worth anything when everybody else's assets are worth nothing. And, you know, short term, you have a giant global calamity, catastrophe, you know, man-made or otherwise. Nobody's going to be eaten gold or silver. You know, it's just not going to happen.

So, you know, they need to eat. So the fact that I've got, you know, both chickens and ducks that produce eggs, you know, that's food. And a human being can live on that. And many people have just on just on eggs alone. I do almost. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, no, it's an amazing thing when you have the, when you had the power of food production in the backyard, it also kind, well, we were having a conversation a little bit about.

anxiety beforehand, but it still calms the anxiety. If you're on the fence about the post-apocalyptic world, or you think that it's, you're in that sort of bias mentality, you've got to understand

that your food choices are currently being affected and policies being created to affect your future food choices. Which really blows my mind, man, because we live through such a magnificent boom of star chefs, which spawned this massive group of food-loving, foody people within the population,

and the quality of, like, the quality of cooking that's happening in the average house, I think is way up compared to years ago, probably just 20 years ago. You know what I mean? The understanding of how to cook and all that kind of stuff. And I'm going to tell you something that blew me away, Rick, and you probably don't even know this. And I didn't know this until I read it from the magazine. I don't even know how I started getting the magazine. I used to subscribe to it years and years ago, but when I was in the restaurant industry, you know the restaurant, the, not the restaurant, the magazine Bon Appetite.

Mm-hmm. So Bon Appetit doesn't do beef recipes in their magazine anymore. they won't do any beef recipes because they don't they think that beef is uh you know the globalist sort of mantra it's it's a it's a it's a meat that's not good for the planet and i'm telling you guys if they get their way that's how you're going to eat whether you like it or not it's going to be it's going to be factory grown you know factory manufactured meat meat uh meat product or something 3D printed. Yeah, exactly.

Yep, exactly. Yep. And, you know, oh, by the way, Bill Gates is well invested in that. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And, you know, the other thing that I think's coming, Rick, with food, as far as the future of food is concerned. I see two products.

I don't know if you've ever seen these products, but I see these two products that have got me really thinking lately. One is called Kachava. And the other one is called Hewool. and the hule looks like a mountain house but worse you know what i mean not that i have anything against mountain house but you know it's not it's not how i eat at night um and i'm sure it's not how you eat dinner at night right it looks like a mountain house except um if they did indian food or something like that it's it's all built to be the most nutrient dense vegan sustainable safe, incredible meal that you could ever have

that if you eat it, you'll live to be a thousand, right? And it looks like a bowl of, you know, crap. And it's, for some reason, the commercials are popping up all the time when I watch YouTube. It's all the time. And the other one is this kachava stuff. And this kachava is basically a bag of powder.

It's a bag of powder that you mix with water and drink. And in the commercial, they are telling you, that look, this is what you eat. This is what I eat every day. These are my meals. I drink this sawdust water mixture, and I'm good to go. And, you know, I think that's the future. I think that's kind of what they're going to sell.

You will eat bugs and be happy. Yeah, I think it's going to be a powdered, freeze-dried existence for your main course, whether you're a prepper or not. You know, interesting, just yesterday, I saw a video by a guy who was, who was a trucker for Walmart, and he's talking about, you know, the stores and what they're doing. And he said, you know, it used to be, you know, people aren't seeing a lot of these stores. People are not seeing that there's a shortage. And how can you not know there's a shortage?

I mean, then there's other stores that just, you know, there's. bare shelves and he just said they're moving stuff around he said you know it used to be that flour and sugar had you know five shelves that were you know six eight feet long uh with flour and sugar well now it's just one shelf they've kind of compacted everything so you don't notice that there's not as much anymore but that's what they're doing with a shortage and he says you know these people are looking at this this food and saying, wait a minute, you know,

I used to buy this and it had a two year, you know, sell by date. And now it's only one year. And he said, that's because the thing has been sitting out on a boat for the last year, you know, waiting to get unloaded in the harbor.

And there's no, you know, you look at, you know, that province in China where they're totally locked down. Well, they're producing a lot of this stuff. Yeah, Shanghai.

They're producing a lot of this stuff. And guess what? They're all locked down. So nobody's producing anything to fill the pipeline. So it's coming. You know, at some point, there will be no more. So, again, you know, people need to wake up. They just need to wake up.

It's kind of like, I keep feeling like that, can you hear me now commercial? Because I've been standing on this soapbox for 14 years. and you know now people are starting like wait a minute we need to start growing our own food i guess maybe we do yeah you're like morphius man that's who you're like you're like come on take the damn pill exactly and they're like no i'm good i want another fake steak yeah yeah time does feel i i have never rick and and you can check the backlogs i've been recorded for 10 years now on this stuff And I've never, I've heard a lot of people say it. I've heard a lot of people say it with legitimate concern in their voice and hearts.

And I'm not knocking them for saying it. And I've heard people say it for years and years and years to make a lot of money. And that is, time is short. And man, this is like the first time that I've ever actually felt that time does actually feel like it's running out. Like it feels like what you do between now and August, you'll look back on and be like, thank God, I got all that done because that's going to float me now. That's what that's what's going to float me. You know what I mean? Or if you hadn't prepped up until now. It really feels like when this fall season hits, it's going to get rocky out there. Jane is, you know, Survivor Jane, my wife is in, is in, I can't say panic mode, but she's in, you know, she's in full gear right now because she sees this thing coming and she sees time running out. And regardless of the fact that, you know, we've got this, you know, ongoing food, you know, system of livestock and, you know, the farm and the orchard vineyard berry, farm, you know, food forest that is producing for us all the time year after year after year,

and it produces more every year because every, you know, the trees get bigger and they get able to hold more. But, you know, she's kind of in this, in this mode where she feels the pinch and we have got to get more of our stuff preserved in such a way that we don't need electricity. and, you know, she, we got ourselves a freeze dryer and, you know, we're starting to look at doing things like meat. And, in fact, the last couple of days, she spent these last couple days pressure canning, you know, meat from our hogs. So instead of storing it, you know, in a freezer where if we lose power, we lose everything, you know, she's looking at ways that we can literally, you know, if we needed to, because it's because of being pressure canned, it's actually cooking when it's being pressure canned.

So worst case scenario, we open the lid and eat it out of the, eat it out of the can without having to worry about, you know, botulism or anything like that. So she's, you know, full speed ahead on getting all this stuff done because she's starting to feel a little nervous about time frame. Yeah, that makes me nervous. Look, listen, guys, if Jane Austen is concerned about time and concerned about the state of affairs and her in Rick's position and situation, you better step it up. That's all I can tell you.

You better step your game up because you're not where they are. Trust me. You're not where they are. And, man. And many of you, I. out there and this is not a dig on you or anything like that. Many of you are, you're not on an, you're not even on enough land to pull off what they're pulling off probably or you may have land, but neighbors in the way of making something like that happen. But I do want to remind you guys,

I know I said this, I don't know, maybe a month or two ago, but I'm going to reiterate this as the clock winds down to this fall season. Sam Biggers, writer friend of mine from backdoor survival, from we work together now at mirror safety. Long time ago we had her on and we were talking about chickens and we were talking about hens in cities

and we were talking about roosters in cities and she said something profound, PBN family and I want you to think it over. She said that animal complaints and animal you know when you break the law

and zoning laws and that kind of stuff, All that stuff originates from neighbors. And that was true back then. It's probably much truer today because enforcement of everything is lighter now. Every kind of enforcement except maybe, you know, on social media, is lesser. So I'm not going to tell you to break your laws, but I'm going to tell you that if you want to have food in your backyard, and you can talk it over with your neighbors, and you can have extra, because you've talked it over with your neighbors, and hey, we'll get you some milk,

we'll get you some eggs, whatever it is. I can tell you right now they're not going to care, and the government is never going to come around with drones to find out if you got, especially if we reach a point where there's food shortages. You know what I mean? So I would definitely consider thinking outside of the box in terms of what you think you can do. do in your backyard or in your back acreage or whatever, even if, even if they're not so happy about you doing it, because again, it's sort of like the victory garden mentality. You know what I mean?

It's going to be, if people are eating, then they're not setting things on fire and they're going to be happy with people eating no matter how they're eating. So. Right. And you know, the secret, the secret gardener survival, I've been told, you know, so many times people have come up to me after I've done a presentation and said, wow, this is the solution to my problem. I live in an HOA and they won't let us have a garden because they think it looks bad. And, you know, it's, you really are hiding your food in plain sight. And it just looks like you've got, oh, some ornamental trees that happen to bear fruit. And, you know, you get some shrubs and, you know, blueberries, they might bear a little bit of fruit or something.

But it's not something that's going to stand out like a row garden. And, you know, that's good for you. And it's good if you're in that kind of. a homeowners association situation, not that I encourage anybody to be there, but, you know, at least it's a way to grow some food. And, you know, if you take my little ecosystem approach where you've got, you know, a fruit tree, you know, and outside of that, you've got full sun, and then you've got your berry bushes, and then you get outside of that, you've got your herb layer, so you've got these kind of concentric circles.

All of that stuff is a little mini ecosystem that all does better together than they do by themselves. And it just kind of hides your food in plain sight. So no one really knows that you're growing anything there. So that is an opportunity for you guys that feel like you're stuck where you are. But again, you know, time is running out. So it's time to get stuff in the ground. you're going to get anything in the ground, get stuff planted, you know, get this system in place. And, you know, hopefully you can get the hell out of Dodge and go someplace else and start this.

Because cities and suburbs are not going to be safe places to be. I think you're right. I think you're right. And this process, guys, is, you know, I'll be taking, it's only about a year old, man. And I've got a little tiny, and many of you seen it, because I showed you how to plant the bear root elderberry. Put that thing in a pot a year later, it's gone absolutely nuts. And, you know, I could leave it in a pot, sit it in the sun and get a little, you know, bit of elderberries every year. But that thing's going to go back into the woods behind, into the food forest.

And like Rick's saying, essentially to the average person, it's going to disappear. You know, it's going to disappear. It's going to flower white like they do, and maybe people will notice that. But if they don't know what they're looking for, they're not going to know what they're looking at anyway. And, you know, this will be the third integration into that food forest that we've done on our little property. And it's just easy. I mean, we're not doing it exactly the way that Rick does it. but, you know, mostly I bring in different perennials year over year.

The ones that do well and do well in our environment are the ones that we move back behind the fence and into that forest back there. And then they propagate. And, you know, we have a garden. And from looking from the street down, you could see the garden, you could see the chickens. But you'd never know what's going on back behind the gate. And for what I can, for what I've done so far, probably over the last four or five years.

It's really not that difficult. I guess if you were to start from scratch, it would probably be kind of difficult. We were also very lucky in that we inherited a natural sort of orchard of pawpaw fruits that were just there. They were there. They're natural to the land. So that was really cool.

We just built on that. We also had hazelnut growing back there. But, you know, again, I'm only as lucky as I am, you know, able to notice what I got going on. You know, you probably have some benefits that are going on in your area of operation that you don't even know, you know. And the only reason I found out about pawpaws and hazelnuts growing in the backyard is because I started learning about forging. or else you're just looking at a big splatter of trees and bushes and you have no idea what they are or what they can do for you. So, you know, it's a lot. If you're brand new to this thing, I'm telling you, it's a tall order.

And you probably should start with your base level preparedness first, but I definitely would consider focusing on food. And if you can get your hands on, well, you can definitely get your hands on Rick's books. and again, go bananas. Oh, what I was going to say earlier was, at the very least, get yourself some light infrastructure for animals. Build it, whatever you want to do, but, you know, even if you don't have chickens yet, pull the trigger on the coop,

build a little barn, even if you think, you know what, I'm never going to get goats. Just build a little barn you can store firewood in it or something like that, or your lawnmower, but if you have those larger pieces of infrastructure on your property already, then all you got to do is get animals. You know what I mean? And from what I can tell, I was really nervous about chickens because I don't breed chickens. I was really nervous about chickens this year.

I thought they were going to be way harder to get than they are. And it may be harder to get next spring. Goats look like there's a lot of goats around too, around my neck. the woods here in Virginia, but I don't know when that dries up. That could dry up. What do you think about that, Rick, as far as livestock availability for preppers? Because you guys, you guys reproduce, so you don't worry too much about that, right? Yeah. Well, with the goats in particular, you know, the facts of life are that, you know, a mama goat has to get pregnant and then give birth before she makes milk. So, you know, they eventually, after a year and a half or so, they pretty much run out of

milk, even though they don't have babies anymore, you take the babies away a couple weeks later, and then you're feeding them, your hand feeding them until they're weaned at 10 weeks, and then they're done. But, you know, in the meantime, for the next year and a half, you're getting milk out of them. So for goats, anybody that's running an active farm and, you know, using the dairy milk. You know, we all can't keep all the goats that we have. So there's got to be an ongoing availability for those. And that's part of our barter plan too when, you know, the shit hits the fan. It's, you know, we've got animals that we can barter with. And, you know, likewise, the chickens are always producing eggs and the ducks are always producing eggs. And if

you want to you can incubate those and you know you'll get baby chicks and baby ducks that you can then you know trade with other people um but uh you know my number one recommendation for livestock and it isn't my secret livestock of survival book is uh is rabbits because they don't make a lot of noise they don't take up a lot of space they don't eat a lot of food and rabbits do what they do and And three girls and one boy in a year's time will make 90-90 adult rabbits in a year. And those rabbits I have are champagne d'arjean rabbits. They're a French silver rabbit. They grow to over 12 pounds.

They dress out to about 10 pounds. So if you do the math, 90 times 10, that's 900. pounds of meat for you and your family at substantially less infrastructure, cost, and pricing than raising a side of beef, which requires at least two to five acres of pasture or 40 pounds of feet a day. So do the economics and do the math. The return on investment for rabbits is a whole lot better, and you can raise them in your garage if you want to. And they will be out of sight, out of mind. And, you know, they just don't require a lot of work and don't require a lot of food.

So, you know, and you can feed them naturally too. You know, we're now not even using cages. You know, we've kind of moved to a whole colony approach because I get tired of being a chaperone and, you know, doing the date thing for the, for the girls and the boys. And now they do their own thing. and, you know, we went from a new set of four rabbits to in less than a year. I think we've got like 50 in that area now. And they're all just continuing to do what they do.

In fact, we're expanding the area that we've got, and we're doing an outside run about twice the size of the colony itself, which is an enclosed area that they go into at night, where, you know, they're safe from predators because that's when the predators come out here. So it's a, I cannot stress enough how, you know, rabbits are really the perfect protein, highest protein to fat ratio, highest protein to bone, you know, meat to bone ratio. And, you know, it doesn't take long for them to be a full-sized rabbit. And then, oh, I'm sorry, you do have to butcher the things. You do have to dress them.

You do have to do all that stuff. But, you know, you want to starve. You want to eat. Yeah. And the peltz are no joke. Learn how to do that, right? Learn how to do something with those. I don't know how to do anything.

Well, I'm sure I could figure it out pretty easy. But, and I'm sure you could too, man. You know, all these skills, you know, the funny thing about all this stuff, I was putting an axe head on an axe hand or a half. hatchet head on a hatchet handle the other day. And, you know, everything seems like magic until you watch a video on it and then do it once. You know what I mean? And then it's like, oh, you know what I mean? Once you see somebody good, do it one time and then you go out and do it, it kind of takes the magic out of it all. But then you come to realize after you do that enough

times like where you're sitting right now you might think to yourself there's no way i can do the stuff that these guys are talking about but you know you just start doing and then years go by and all a sudden you're a changed person i mean i've told my story on here endless amounts of times i was anything but the type of person that i am right now i mean i was so piss poorly prepared for anything in life 10 years ago. It was just hilarious. So it's just a matter of what you do every day. So the question I had, Rick, listening to you that I've never asked and never even occurred to me till now is because it's something I can, I struggle with if I'm not careful, are predators and deer. How do you deal with predators and deer?

Predators, well, let's just talk about predators. Because we live in an area on a mountain in the Appalachian Mountains where we, every predator that is in our region is on our property. So, you know, I have seen, you know, we've got coyotes. I saw a wolf one day. You know, they got like a 50-mile radius that they roam in. So I saw a gray wolf. We've got black bear that have knocked over my beehives.

You know, I had, we have wild pigs here. And my, you know, 50-pound dogs, two of them stood off a 600-pound wild boar. So, you know, they, I got to say, they just were ferocious. And they weren't going to let that pig on the property. You know, we've got, you know, snakes that will eat eggs. You know, so you got to be concerned about them. But most of the, you know, and then there's raccoons, and they pretty much come out at night. Fox is pretty much nocturnal.

You know, the owls are nocturnal. The hawks are out during the day. So there are birds of prey, so you've got to be a little bit concerned. Like, for example, my new rabbit run, well, it's got screening over the top, and it's got grapevines that are running on top of that screening. So it gives them shade. It kind of hides them a little bit more from view. If a hawk did want to swoop down and take one of them, it would run into that screen fence. You know, that welded wire fence I have on the top.

So it's not going there. I might be eating hawk for lunch. Who knows. But, you know, and it serves that other purpose. It's literally has live grape vines on it. So, you know, it's going to produce grapes too right there. But in terms of predators, most of the predators come out at night. So I have to get everybody in before dark.

You know, that's pretty much everybody's locked up before dark, except for my 900-pound hogs that, you know, nothing's going to touch them. So you've got a lockdown program. I mean, literally my ducks line up before dark at the gate. that they can go in their enclosure. You know, they're kind of trained to that. And, you know, I did that by basically having some food in their little enclosure. And it's like musical chairs.

There's only enough for, you know, everybody but one. So they all, you know, they all have to get in there and try to eat. So, you know, it's just kind of almost like a treat for them. But, you know, they're in, they're locked in at night, and, you know, it's a process we do every night. Just get everybody locked up. And then the morning comes and the sun's out. Then, you know, we get everybody out to, not to pasture per se, but basically out there to get to work and, you know, do their jobs, whether whatever that happens to be, you know, whether it's the goats making milk or it's the, you know, the ducks that are eating the bugs and slugs and snails in my garden that I don't want on my plants and turning all that stuff. into protein.

And the deer, you know, as far as the garden goes, we ended up, you know, when we first started the whole thing, we put up deer netting. And because they're, I'm not sure if it's near-sighted or far-sided, but they can't see anything really close. And they're usually walking around in the dark. And when they bump into something, it spooks them. So they kind of take off. You know, that's just plastic netting that's.

eight feet tall. Eventually we put welded wire fence around the garden and then we ran a string of you know, solar powered charger electric fence around the top because most of these guys like, you know, look at a fence. Let's say raccoons, I look at a fence and just think that's a ladder. So they get zapped, you know, morning, noon, or night for trying to go over the fence. And also we have a, uh, elect one strand of electric wire around the outside of the fence as well. And, you know, we live in the mountains and, you know, we had, uh, deer that had a natural path that actually kind of went through the garden. And, and one year when we first were planting, you know, we had sweet potatoes planted. And I walked out there one day and like all the tops were eating off the sweet

potatoes. Yeah. Which are actually good for you to eat. I didn't realize it until then. And then there's deer prints everywhere. So, we train. the deer not to go in there. You know, we had this one strand of electric wire and I put aluminum foil over that wire, just, you know, little pieces here and there. Little squares of aluminum foil are all the way around the fence and I put peanut butter on each one. And deer like peanut butter. And after they tasted the first, first one, they found another path around the garden. So after they get shocked from touching the electric fence, that was the end of going there. So the electric fence and the lockdown procedures keep the animals safe.

Pretty much. That's a big piece. Yeah. And you've got to be prepared to take out those predators that are either sick or desperate, and they're out during the daytime. And I had a situation where literally had a red fox that grabbed a couple of my heads in the middle of the day. So, you know, I'm always walking around because I have learned the hard way that it takes too long to go back into the house to get a firearm to dispatch something. I'm always carrying just because you never know.

I mean, whether it's a rattlesnake in the goat pen or, you know, copperhead that is about to bite my dog, or, you know, you've got a fox that obviously is not well and, you know, is trying to take your chickens. You've got to be ready to do something. So, you know, I'm carrying all the time. I've always wondered about that, though, with the predators, because you've got a lot of stuff. going on there and I always imagine the deer are like man if we could just get in to that honeyhole there we'd be living especially with the fruit and you know I've got two Australian shepherds though they're livestock guardian dogs that's what they do and you know they're always on watch during the day when when everybody's out and I do this thing around the you know this welded

wire fence was just a cheap the cheapest fence you can get it at you know, at lows. It's, you know, five to six feet tall. And, you know, I run it around the areas where I've got livestock just to keep them safe and keep them where they're supposed to be. And I, you know, I run that one strand of wire around, you know, the top and one strand on, you know, down lower. And I also take those craggly branches that fall off trees in the wind and, you know, stuff that's just trimmings from, you know, doing wood and just, you know, basically a bunch of different branches that, that, you know, I throw around the bottom of the outside of the fence. And we call that tangle foot because if you kind of pile it all on top of each other,

a predator is going to get their foot in there, whether that's a four-legged or a two-legged predator. You know, when they, you know, those bows break when, when you hear those things crack, or you hear leaves rustling, you know, the dogs are alerted. So, you know, they're in, they, their spidey sense goes up, so to speak. And, you know, then they start barking. And then, you know, that alerts the other animals like the goats, for example. And if my dog start barking ferociously, the goats make a beeline, you know, bolt back to the barn where they know it's safe. So that's good. You know, they're kind of trained to know, hey, that's danger.

I better get, we better get in. And as soon as one of them starts running, the rest of them do. So it's kind of funny to watch. But, you know, they're inside where they know it's safe. And, you know, I can go out and find out what's going on. And if necessary, you know, I can dispatch whatever the, the danger is. All right, I got a tough one for you, man, to round this thing out.

Because you have such a well-established system, and you got, you know, I wanted to see what your take would be, or what your answer would be to someone who would say, all right, I've got some land. I might be able to pull some stuff off on. I want to go out this weekend and get some things. what should I get to get started? You know, one shopping trip, simple stuff, not all preps.

I'm just saying to start down the path of producing food in the backyard, in the back acreage. I'd say the first thing they need to get is my secret gardener survival book. Bingo. No, no, that's great. No, I mean, you know, really, just that tells you what you need to get and when and what to do in what order. So, yeah, I mean, you really, it's the, it's the infrastructure and getting that in place first that, you know, so that it is never work again. You know, it's, I mean, I did this after, you know, owning apple orchards and, you know, in the northeast and, and, you know, having citrus in the south and, you know, doing all the conventional things you're supposed to do. And then having gardens that, you know, we're in straight rows and, you know, it's too, they're too wet or there's too much rain so everything dies or too little rain so everything dies or, you know, having to plant three things and then pull out two and keep one.

I mean, it's just it made, it was just insanity and, you know, then using fertilizer and then killing bugs and weed killer and all that of the sort of stuff. the beauty of doing things like we're done in the Garden of Eden is you just let nature do what nature intends to do and you just put the infrastructure in place the right way so that you've got these little ecosystems and then you just let it go you just let it grow and do it stuff and all all I do the all the the only work I have is picking during when everything's, you know, is, is, uh, is ripe. And the beauty of this whole system is, you know, the strawberries are ripe right now. We're out picking strawberries because they're the first thing this season. And, you know, they'll be followed by, uh, raspberries and black raspberries and eventually blueberries and, you know, then peaches. And so I'm only worried about picking stuff that's that's ripe when it is ripe. And, you know, if, you know, If I had to pick everything all at once, it would be impossible task for two people.

You just couldn't do it because of the production. But the beauty of it all coming in kind of waves is that from now till late in the fall, where the last stuff that we harvest is scuppernog grapes and figs and everything else. Then that's the end of it, really. That's the beauty of it. We just go out there, you know, half an hour to 45 minutes a day and just walk through the garden, pick what's ripe, leave what isn't for the next day. And the next day, the stuff that was almost ripe will be ripe that day. And you pick that.

And then, you know, the work is in preserving it. And that's where my wife, Jane, gets, you know, toward the middle of the sun. summer, I just can't do anymore. But hopefully now that we've got this, this freeze dryer, we'll be putting that to work too while there's still electricity to preserve some of the stuff that way as well. I love it, man. It's, you give us an ideal to strive for, Rick. There's no doubt about it. You know what I mean? And you're also proof that you can go out and do this thing and be as prepared as potentially possible, you know, from a food standpoint at the very least. You just got to start thinking about you and your family and surviving.

And, you know, you're right. It is time to get nervous. It really is. It's time to get moving because who knows what the time table is, but I can tell you, it's short. So, do something. Yeah, best case scenario. guys, you know, you're, there's going to be a food shortage, you know, that's best case scenario. And who knows what the cost of that food is going to be when it's around.

Right. We're talking best case scenario. We're talking people don't start having rides in the streets over food prices, gas prices, you know, availability and so on. So, yeah, now's the time. Hopefully you've been at it for a long time. hopefully you're just settling into what you're doing. But if you're not, there's work to be done.

Get the book. Get all three books. Rick's got three great books for you. And, you know, you can have animals. Like I said, I don't want to promote the breaking of any laws, and I don't want you to get in trouble for doing something you're legally not supposed to do. But I do want you to understand that just like I told you during COVID, man, everything comes down to enforcement and the capability of people to enforce the rules that they put forth.

And if people are riding in the streets over food, enforcement on livestock in your backyard is going to be nil. So I'll just leave it at that. And you do it that what you will. But I appreciate it. Rick, thanks so much for joining us tonight, man. Hey, glad to be here. Thanks for any time. No problem.

No problem. Well, BBN family, that's a wrap tonight for Preppers Live. Another great one with Rick Austin. And get your food right, man. Time is running out. All right, we'll talk soon. That's that, Rick. I get a question for you.

Prepper's almost live. Yeah, Preper's kind of live-ish, I guess. Yeah, man, that's rare. But I do have a question for you that popped into mind. At our website, we have the guys. the guy who wrote the Preppers Medical Handbook is a sponsor of ours.

I don't know if you've ever seen that book or anything. Who wrote it? It's a really good book. His name's Dr. William M. Forgey. No. I don't know. It's a good book. He was a doctor in Haiti

and he's got a lot of experience in austere situations. But anyway... I would imagine. We put a little section up there called Build Your Medical Cash on our website. And he actually came up with this thing and sent it to me. And right up top, I got his book, a picture of his book.

You know, when you click this page, I'll send a link to you direct so you don't have to search for it. Anyway, what I was thinking, okay, well, let me tell you why he did, well, I think he did this anyway. Well, there was two reasons why he did it. He's a smart guy. he sent this list, this Excel spreadsheet of everything in his book linked in Amazon. So, you know, Spanko bandages, quick clot, everything that's listed in that book that you would need. And we coupled that with the book and then, you know, we put it under a page like Build Your Medical Cash. and anybody who goes there can buy his book

and then they have the opportunity to go buy anything that might show up in that book. Right. And I was thinking it might be cool if I did that with the Secret Garden of Survival. I don't know how you would feel about it, but I would set the page up this way. Let me send you the thing.

What's the chat? I'm open chat and the whole thing's going to close. Microsoft Teams. What is that? Okay, there you go. So I could put like, you know, start your secret garden of survival. We could put your book there in the same way, and then I can go through your book. And I can link through my Amazon affiliate to all sort of the hardware and stuff that can be purchased through Amazon to set their secret garden of survival up.

And, you know, then we can promote your book, sales go to your book. and then also I make some affiliate money with that list underneath your book. Yeah, I'm fine with that. Most of it's going to be plants, I mean, but they're going to have to get sourced those locally. But yeah, there's and everything from, you know, shovels to, you know, sieves to, you know, just there's a lot of tools and stuff like that. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. Fencing. And then, you know, something like a solar.

electric charger, you know, there's really only one company making that stuff, and that's Gallagher and they're in New Zealand, but, you know, they manufacture stuff for other people, so there's off-brand stuff that they manufacture. So like, you know, tractor supply, their stuff is made by them. You know, you just have to go kind of look at the tractor supply, you know, electric fence charge or solar electric fence charges. They're made by Gallagher in New Zealand. And, you know, there you could find them online in Amazon too. I'm sure I could find a comparable thing even if I can't find the thing. Yeah.

Exactly. And I'm not looking to have a gigantic list. But I think it's a kind of a really cool way to help everybody out, even the buy. You know what I mean? Like we can promote your book, obviously. Yep. Make some affiliate money off your book sales and off of the sales of the products in the book. And then the, you know, the buyer gets to say, all right, I got the book.

And I got this kind of cheat sheet so I can go grab some of this stuff right off the bat that I know I'm going to need to execute on what's in the book. I don't know. It worked really well for the medical handbook. I'd be open to it as long as I don't have to do anything. No, no, no. No, definitely not. He just opened my eyes to this sort of method, and I might do it with some of my favorite books because it's...

Yeah, I'm not sure what Amazon's paying now for, you know, commissions on affiliate stuff. I think they've, you know, cut back on a lot of that stuff. But, yeah, it's not great. It's 7, 8%, something like that. But I don't do anything once I set it up, you know, so it's a win for me. It's a weekend. set it up, make it look nice, and then, you know, from then on, it's just promote it.

That's like selling insurance, just those residuals year after year after year. Yeah, that's my wife's line of work. But, okay, man, well, I appreciate it. I won't hold you up. I'll definitely send that email out to Forrest tomorrow. Okay, good. Forest is the bear guy. And then hopefully he'll come, man.

I'd love to have him there. It'd be awesome. So I got the question. for you. Yeah, go ahead. If you don't see it, there's a bear shit in the forest? I'll ask him. I don't know the answer, though.

Oh, it just couldn't resist that one. Yeah, that's the question to ask him when he shows up. Yeah, he'd be a great ally for sure. He's a good guy, man. but like I said, I think he's I think he's busy and happy like the rest of us you know, so it's one of those things. Which is fine. I'm fine with that, you know.

Like I said, I just don't do it anymore. But, you know, there's a lot of people. I just, it never seems to amaze me the people that come to speak for, you know, for no compensation and on their own dime come for Preper Camp just because of, you know, what Preper Camp is.

and what they get out of it personally. So that might be hard to describe to somebody like Bear, which is okay. I'm fine with it. You know, we got, there's always, always somebody and,

you know, we're in the enviable position to be able to say, well, you know what? We need to do a class on something new this year. And, you know, the real hot button right now is people,

you know, be able to defend their home or, you know, whatever it happens to be. So we still try to get 20 new classes a year out of the 64. So, you know, there's always something new for somebody to see who's been there, you know, who was there last year. I'll tell you what would be a really good class for him to teach would be the how to move out of the suburbs.

Because that was kind of his big thing. He moved from, I think he was in like North Texas or something in a suburb. and then he moved way out to Oklahoma and that'd be kind of a cool class you know how he did it and that type of thing because I don't know but even then you know the market's crazy right now

the market is so insane yeah it is insane and then you know it's people I mean a lot of the comments that I got on this this video that we were in or that featured us you know it's interesting a lot of people saying well you know

I really wish I could do that, but I just don't have any money. Well, you know, Jane specifically says, you know, we cashed in everything we had, sold what we had, and we didn't have a lot of money to work with. You know, we just had to do what we could with what we had. And it's also, you know, I know that we were planning on doing this like 10 years later, but we were kind of pushed into it because because the stock market was collapsing, because, you know, she was carjacked and we just said, that's it, we're done, we're out of here. You know, we basically, you know, we jumped off that cliff because we were kind of pushed to do that.

You know, a lot of people are just not going to move unless something bad happens. And sometimes when that bad thing happens, it's too late. Yeah. I mean, you're 100% on that. I think it's probably already too late if you're not where you want to be. It could be. It could be. But then again, the housing market is where it is.

So sell now. Buy yourself some land. Yeah. Put up a shack and you'll be safer. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. You don't have to live in a shack forever. Nope.

And you can use the money that you've made from, you know, the equity that you're, you're you've sold in your home and and uh you know that's a good way to to start you know one step at a time building something up yeah you make some money you sell today no doubt about it all right man well i gotta go make sure the kids are in bed pleasure as always my friend it's always a pleasure talk to you soon all right bye yeah are you prepared to be the family doctor in a disaster or emergency. This is the Intrepid Commander, and I'm holding the Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Forgey MD.

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This is one of those preps if you know, you know, right? It's one of those kind of things. but military surplus is military surplus is pretty excellent and if you have a place local to you there are a lot of things that you can pick up I remember a few years back at Prepper Camp

Jay Ferg from Phoenix Survival picked up these wool 100% wool sleeping bags with holes zip rip cord holes at the bottom for your boots to stick out and this is the grumpy old um grumpy old serp i can't remember the guy's name unfortunately at the moment

but these military surplus locations man they can they can afford you some really cool stuff there can be some serious hidden you know what you do in these places like green tips surplus dot com you solve problems right with like the universal utility belt or the two point tactical sling for that rifle you haven't put a sling on yet you wind up face to face with things that you probably need but you just don't wind up um you know you don't wind up shopping for them all that often or you can add things

to bug out bags and get home bags and so on it's it's uh you know there's a lot so I'm perusing over here now. Now I'm perusing for my own good at greentipsurplus.com. We got some night vision. We got some expensive night vision. I don't know if you've ever shoped night vision, but

here's a good idea of what kind of money you could wind up spending. Now the guys with the Matter of Facts podcast always have a great take on night vision. They do a real good job. with it. They do a real good job with Night Vision on a budget. We got the, what are these, the IR lasers here?

Dual beam. Cool stuff. Cool stuff for sure. One thief surplus. One thief surplus. Genuine surplus, tactical military gear and accessories. Oh yeah, pouches, man. Greentipsurplus.com. Pouches. You can never have enough pouches. There's always things to go in a pouch. Shock cord, modular 3 magazine carrier. I know it's right after Christmas. What am I doing? Right.

What are we? Woodland Bivvy cover sack. Not bad. It's a nice backpack. This OCP multi-cam mall two rucksack. I like the USGI Web Belt. Nice. Nice.

I don't know about that plastic clip, but other than that, I like it. Do you guys run those seat belt belts, or do you do the old leather thing? Sternum strap for the rucksack. This is a big difference maker, man. Oh, these are sold out. The sternum straps are sold out. It looks like green tip surplus is selling some mirror safety gear for those. interested in filtering

filtering the air out the MD1 children's mask very cool 200 bucks pretty affordable the uh there are a lot of options at mira i wrote for mir for for a short period of time about a year something like that yeah old grouch isn't that what it was called j firk i can't remember right now i'm on uh green tip surplus com. Thanks for joining me this morning, though, in the chat room.

So what else, man? What, you know, where else do you find your gems? Because there are places. I am one of these guys who's always talking thrift shops, thrift stores. I just picked up the, I don't know, two weeks ago, the SAS Survival Guide, a copy of it for $2.00. you know, having that, it doesn't matter. There you go. Tim in Clyde, North Carolina, old grouch. If you want to support somebody who lived or survived Helene and lived to tell about it and still in business up there in Clyde. He's a great guy.

Great, great gear, too. But there's a good chance that you've got one of these military surplus locations closed by. or you may have flea markets close by, right? You definitely got thrift shops around. And then, of course, you have marketplaces. You've got like these online marketplaces. You have the Facebook marketplace. I don't play around on the Facebook marketplace.

My wife handles that. I'm an old decrepit Craigslist user. I'm telling you, Craigslist is so full of good stuff, man. it's still to this day filled with great stuff and uh you know sometimes you can even get it free let's see what's free on craigslist this morning real quick since we're talking prepper gems and hidden gems and hidden preps and hidden treasures you know um large wooden wheel commercial cable Chevy truck fuel filter what will we got free shopping carts I don't know Get creative. Water transport, something like that.

Not too much. A lot of furniture. Not too much by way of preps. But a lot of time you come across things like lumber and sometimes electronics. Sometimes a lot of firewood if you're willing to go grab it and cut it up. People call things firewood. And really it's just like trees. They want you to take out of there. Take out of there.

But, you know, not. 99% of the chickens I get, the quail that I just got, all that stuff comes off of Craigslist. I find people on Craigslist who are selling. Just one of those things, man. Just works. Where was this guy? 27 days ago, I know this ain't working. But look, look, this is what I just found.

This didn't turn up in, oh, this did turn up in free. How did I miss this? I have to rehome my chickens and ducks. I have Jersey giants, bantoms, assorted ducks young and old. I also have a coop in supplies that I would sell if someone was interested. Birds are free to someone with the property to raise them free range, since that's what they're used to. Call, text.

Just sitting here. Just sitting here waiting for somebody. There's probably some prepper right now or somebody out there who is sitting there thinking to himself, I would really love to get my hands on some chickens, but I don't have the money, right? I'm telling you, man. Oh, I'm not, sorry, J. Ferg. I'm not putting the, I'm not putting the Craigslist up there. I was just looking over it personally.

You know, the other aspect of sort of seeking out these hidden gems in the prepping world, well, let's be clear about it, right? prepping has become a business it's become a very valuable business billion dollar industry right something along those lines it's got to be close and uh disaster preparedness survival all that kind of stuff

and what happens is you wind up with a bunch of companies selling things but you don't always know what you know who's got what one of the things i'm looking to do for you guys this year is get into gear a little more for you. It is like an area that I just never really, I always neglect to show you guys, talk to you guys about gear.

And maybe it's because so many people do it. Maybe it's because so many people kind of shill it a little bit. You know what I mean? And I always had that kind of like, let me just not even go there. You know what I mean? because for me it was important to build and is always important to build credibility i want you guys

to hear what i say more than anything and and you know take value in it because i think about it a lot and i have a lot of experience in this preparedness stuff now and it's you know i believe in it i want you to believe in it but i think 2025 is the year we we get down and dirty and talk about gear and talk about real gear that I use and also talk about real gear that I find that's, you know, all kinds of stuff is sent to me or people want to send stuff to me because of the podcast. A lot of times I say no, to be honest. And I say no because I don't know what they're working with. They send something to you. They want you to do a review. They want you to talk about it. And the last thing I want to do is get a bag full of junk and tell the Prepper Broadcasting Network that the guy who sent me the bag full of junk sent me a bag full of junk, don't waste your money on it, you know, that kind of thing.

So what I've gotten good at is kind of finding the good stuff. You know what I mean? Finding the good stuff. Finding the people who are, there's a million people who are doing like backpacks. you know what i mean like survival bags um pre-made and understand like there are some seriously tough uh limitations that somebody who is running a backpack company what they have to deal with you know what i mean like like in terms of cost and overhead and making some money while still providing you with a bag that works it's not like you can say i want to sell a survival

bag for $200. I want the person to get the bag completely packed with the, you know, highest level gear, top quality tents and, you know, Gerber this and Smith and West and that and, you know, all the best stuff. They won't make any money, you know? So there's that balance. That's their business, not mine. I don't sell survival bags, right?

But what I want to direct you to is a place where you can buy a bag. that works. Because sometimes a bag solves the problem, right? Sometimes a bag really can solve the problem, particularly with, like, kids or family. You know what I mean? I've been hanging with Bill over at Lima Tango survival, and Bill does a great job, man. He has struck that balance, and one of the ways he struck that balance is through experience. So, in other words, he's through experience in the U.S. military, Air Force, rather, he's figured out what things can go into these bags that make sense and are effective.

The other thing that they do at Lima Tango's survival that I really like, what I'm getting at is the overview. There are a bunch of people who make bags in the world with stuff in them. the hidden gems are the ones that actually work, right? Are the ones that are actually worth the money, the ones that are actually going to make a difference in your life. Now, I'm holding on to a bag of his now, and I've already gone over it and gone through it and everything. Check out this homestead real quick.

And the bag is great. The bag is definitely something I would send to a family member or throw into a truck for a family member as a sort of, you know, quick go-to a bug-out bag, get-home bag, something along those lines. I mean, even a camping bag, really.

But I like this because this is just insane and fun. So this is a four-man 72-hour survival crate called the Homestead. I don't know, man. These are fun. Look at the big giant crate. You get two backpacks of gear. Coms options.

Light options. Look at the headlamps. You see, you almost automatically get me if you got headlamps in your kit. Look at the Mountain House foods, right? Look at the food rations. Water rations. Mess kit. This is a rare.

Look at the mess kit. It's a rare thing to see. and the cook top there you see that little cooktop that goes on top of a butane man like i have had that same cooktop right there my whole prepping career literally my whole prepping career i've had that thing it's just awesome it's just one of the you know it's been through hell it still works hand pump water filter essential i got this i fax survival edc here I got one of these in my bag. It's loaded with stuff.

I don't know that it's loaded with the best medical gear. Like my medical bags are set up different. I don't have an overhead. But this thing's a cool little pouch. It's a cool pouch. Here's another focal point that I really appreciate. Gloves, goggles. Look at them.

Real gloves. Real goggles that are going to be affected. It's the details, PBN family. You know, the other thing that really got me with Lima Tango is their focus on outer wear. I was out in the snow yesterday, playing with the kids. We were doing sledding, you know, all that kind of thing. And I'm telling you right now, man, it's like, it's one of those things where you just, you get good at not getting cold.

and it becomes a vital thing, you know? So the solo here, the one man 24-hour survival kit, the solo black ops, this is what I'm going to show you guys, okay? This is going to go on family gear. We're going to do a full review of this on family gear. You can get it in all kinds of patterns, too, by the way. This bag, it's one of those bags where I love it the way that it is. I love it the way that it's packed.

up right here and now. Got the gloves, got the life straw. I'm not tremendous. My one thing with this bag that I don't love is the life straw as my water option. No, there are aquatabs so we can use the aqua tabs. But I would want, I would want, if I were to really call this kit my own and do something with it, I would want another water filtration option, especially if it's good. going to be strenuous.

But a lot of cool little gear. I tested the knife out. It's nice. You know, this shovel is something that I think is a good move. This was surprising. This was something that really surprised me about this kit. Is the sewing kit, included sewing kit.

Really cool. Survival rations. The whole nine yards. You know, just is what it is. I'm trapped. So who are your go-to companies? You know what I mean?

Who are your companies, that you go to that you know they're putting stuff out all the time and uh and you love it you use it you know that kind of thing because there's just so much i mean i don't know if you understand the amount of companies that are out there i'll tell you another one that i love is my survive drive

my survive drive is a tremendous company that gives you the ability to put like you know, they give you the ability to put all kinds of digital information onto a survival bracelet, a small little survival bracelet zip. I'm sorry, like a USB, like a micro USB, compatible for your phone, plug your survive drive bracelet right into your phone, right into your iPhone. And you can have every important document you need on that thing. You can have every prepping podcast you want to listen to, every audio book, what, you know, whatever the situation is, every document, every survival plan, any amount of, like, written information.

And it's just, I don't, it's one of those things. You know, you didn't really think about it. You had a thumb drive or whatever the situation is. But I dig it, man. I dig pre-made maps. You know, if you're going on like some kind of backwoods adventure, you could have all kinds of pre-made maps. and stuff ready to go. It's just a really cool product.

I guess I could scroll. I could scroll a little for you. And we could really get into it. I don't know. I'll tell you this much. I can't do the revelation news day in and day out. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just so over this,

this like i'm so over the what's the headline today what amazing thing what am i supposed to get excited about and oh my god x locks out reporter holy me you won't believe what happened folks trudeau knocked out

unbelievable suck up meta ends fact checking on facebook insta in free speech pitch does that mean i can post guns on instagram now that actually is exciting That actually is kind of... No, but you know what I mean?

This last... I don't know how this is going to sound. I'm just going to talk to you. Garden girl, what is up? Happy holidays. I hope the holidays were wonderful. I'm just going to tell you, like, my true feelings on this thing to close out the show.

The Tesla bomber guy, anti-gravity drone. China holding a mountain over top of the White House and dropping it. That's my own addition. This revelation and this guy might not even be the guy and he might not be dead. Like all these revelations about corrupt government and secrets that the government are keeping. It really is kind of boring. that's just the way I feel about it.

It just feels kind of boring to me. And you know why that is? It's because I'm jaded by no punishment. That's why. I've become jaded because I feel like a revelation could come out tomorrow that, whatever, you know what I mean? What else could they say? They've already poisoned this with a gain of function virus.

Then they poisoned this with a vaccine. and they right you know what i mean like what what the hell else could they do and i ain't seen anybody hauled away into prison yet you know what i mean i see people sit there and take tough questions oh we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna pepper them with tough questions so when i see these revelations trying to get anti-gravity drones it could do anything and be anything and be everywhere and be anywhere and do any hey i don't know what am i supposed to do oh no you know what i mean so the revelation stuff is just lost its muster for me and in 2025 um it's just going to be different you know what i mean in terms of how much we focus on that kind of

stuff particularly when i'm behind the microphone not to say that the other hosts won't talk about it and power to them you know you go where your passion is if you're passionate about it that's great but listen to me i'm a hundred times more than excited about the Warhammer releases in 2025 than I am about the mystery man who blew himself up in a car and got shot in the head with a 50 caliber and tested DNA and we don't know if it's his really his son or not and we don't know if that's really was even him and maybe he's disappeared somewhere and fake I mean listen if I were that guy to fake my own death I'll tell you that right now and I'd have done it in a way that people go oh he's dead

You know what I mean? Oh, he's definitely dead. I've seen it. But then it, you know, then it stands. The next level of that thinking goes, okay, well, if he faked his death, who's the poor sap that was in the cyber truck who got burnt to a crisp, right? So, you know, it is what it is. It bait the hook with your heart and, you know, you know the old saying, right? I'm a fisherman, so I always go by that. But we're going to get into a little more gear in 2025. We're going to get into some more cooking in 2025. A lot of preparedness. We had a bunch of things go wrong yesterday. We're still living through some water restrictions right now here in Richmond.

And it's just one of those situations, you know, it's like, this is life. This is what it is. We're prepared for it. That's where I want you to be, you know? Go down in the show description. get your hands on Green Tip surpluss.com website link. Go check them guys out.

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