The Prepper Broadcasting Network - I AM Liberty: My Survive Drive

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You're playing back the stability here. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Forbid it, almighty God. I know not what course others may take. As for me, give me liberty or give me death. The drive to survive, BBN family.

What gives you the drive to survive? Why do you do all this crazy stuff? What's the deal? Kids? Wife? What is it? Sacrifice? Fear? What do they used to call this?

Paranoia? Paranoid, right? Preppers were paranoid. What is your survival drive? You know, what is your survive drive? We have a big show tonight. We're going to talk about drive and inspiration, those kinds of things. Keep you going. How do you keep going? When you look

at the world and you see nothing but liars and lizards. What drives you? Maybe I should have named the show, What is Your Maria? To Dave Jones, in honor of Dave Jones and Maria. What is your Maria? T-shirt. We have a guest on at the second half of the show, 9.30. We're going to hit an ad break right around 9.30, and we're going to bring a Prepper innovator on the show tonight. And James, the creator of the Survive Drive, not James Walton, the Intrepid Commander, is going to tell us all about this cool little gadget. I think it's sweet. It's a little, it's almost sort of like Prepper meets 007. That's what it reminds me of. And I think there's some serious viability in it.

It might be just the thing you're looking for. Might be. So, you know, it takes a lot to start a business. You know what I mean? It takes a lot to run a business. It takes a lot to start a business you know what i mean it takes a lot to run a business takes a lot to make a business successful and one of the funniest things about being a business owner is everybody thinks you're rolling in the dough baby you know so i've taken a liking lately to pushing um not just what's going on here with the Survive Drive, but several other things, particularly over on Twitter,

pushing small business guys, podcasters that I think are cool, and just giving them some love to our larger community. You know what I mean? Because I know the struggle is real. The struggle is real. We've got to talk about tomorrow night. Okay, tomorrow night is a special. We have a special event kicking off 8.45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

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One usually for promotional purposes and one for our weekly stuff. But you know it just is what it is. It's the nature of the business that we're doing. It's the nature of the things that we're doing as a podcast network with our sponsors and with our resources and with everything that we do because, you know, we have a lot to offer.

The Vrapper Broadcasting Network has a lot to offer. There's no getting around it, you know, Whether it be our hosts, whether it be our whatever. I don't need to do the litany thing. Fundamentally, what you need to know, Thursday night 8.45 p.m. Eastern Standard

Time, Jordan, myself, Ben the Breaker of the Banksters, and Dave Jones, the NBC guy, will be gathering for the pregame of CNN's presidential debate. We will be running the audio of CNN's presidential debate in the background of the podcast. We will collectively be listening in some sort of a, almost like an audio version of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which that's what Future Dan called it. Future Dan will be on the text lines for as long as he can stand it. And we're going to watch the debate and yap about it fundamentally.

So from 9 to 10 or, you know, whatever, however long Joe can go, we're going to listen to the debate and listen to the debate and talk about it. So words of advice, if this debate is a big deal to you, put it on TV. Put the PBN hosts on and be able to mute us at a moment's notice because we'll likely talk over things. We'll likely talk over the debate. That's kind of the game plan, you know. I'm sure at the end we'll do a wrap-up, discuss our feelings on it and so on. The Element chat will be open. We will be live and we're looking to have a good time. That's all. We're looking to get together to have a good time that's all we're looking to get together have a good time be together as hosts and with you guys if you're willing to be together um it might be the perfect way for you to hear the debate it might turn out that this is the best way to listen to the debate

because you're not really too into it anyway and uh this will give you a way to enjoy it. So, I don't know. Your call. 8.45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow night live. CNN debate kicks off at 9. And we'll be yapping over top of all the mic muting and those things that are going on. For our members, today I published but did not post. It'll be probably posted tomorrow, judging by the sort of Salvador Dali-esque

crutches holding my eyes open right now. It's been a great, listen, it's been a great day, It's been a great, listen, it's been a great day, okay? It's been an absolutely wonderful day. I have no complaints. I rarely have complaints anyway, right? But it has. It's been a great day. You know, business has been great.

All the things, work, you know, preps coming up, roses. The raspberries are exploding. You know what I mean? I mean, it's all good. It's all good. We are where we want to be. Kids are off. Spending time with them. It's good.

Great day. The day gave way into late afternoon, which turned into workout, which turned into a, uh, it was like 102 today, turned into a, about a 30 minute run, 30 minute run with two dogs. Just beautiful. Just wonderful. Really like if you can find, if you can muster within yourself the ability to get over the discomfort of the heat oh god i i there's just nothing like it there's nothing like the heat and the sweat there's nothing like it there's nothing like strenuous workouts. And you know what's great, too? This is what's great about strenuous workouts in the heat. You want to talk about what drives me, my survival drive, right?

You work out in the heat. You sweat. You struggle. You know, I mean, there's a good chance that I put myself in real danger through the summer with working out in the heat. But, you know, life must be an adventure, PBN family. Do you understand? Like, we cannot give our lives over to safety and security.

This is hard for preppers to understand, you know, because like step one for a lot of people when they get into prepping and homesteading and stuff, it's like move far away from danger. You know, if that's your motive, then whatever, you know. But you can't suck the adventure out of life. A lot of times people move far away and they build a homestead up from nothing and that's one hell of an adventure in and of itself. and that's one hell of an adventure in and of itself. All that said, there's nothing like the sort of spiritual cleansing that goes along with sweating yourself, wringing yourself out. You know, I got home and the dogs were so hot that they were like rolling on the tile floor.

They were like turning themselves like, like the opposite of cooking. You know what I mean? They were cooling one side of themselves and rolling. Tongues were red. And then they're happy. Right? Everything is happier after it works out. Everything. Yeah, I mean, it just, it's so good, but in the heat, it's so good. If you can, if really there's a level of discomfort in the heat, I can see it on people so clearly now because I don't get uncomfortable in the heat, you know, like there is not a heat that exists that makes me uncomfortable just being in the heat. And that's because I work out to near exhaustion in the heat. So me standing around or me even doing like moderate activity is whatever in the hot.

But I see people breaking in the heat. I see them break down. And some people break down, like they start to break down immediately entering the heat, like the immediate discomfort of the heat. I was running, and I was thinking about the discomfort. And I was thinking about how, and this really is what drives me in all this prepping stuff, all this family stuff, everything that I do, these creative endeavors, so on and so forth, the writing of books, the making of podcasts. I was running, and I was at the end, and I was sort of going over my day, telling myself what's left and how much time is left and how do I fit it in,

and then I got to show, all this kind of stuff. And I got to the point where I was thinking about, you know, like, and we're going to go deep here, PBEd family, so bear with me. You know, because when you run in the woods, everything is up for debate. Everything is out to question. Everything is for examination when you run in the woods because you see wildlife, you see trees, you see, you know, wild edibles that you're familiar with, rocks that have been there forever. You know what I mean? You see the world for what it is, not the world that you, you know, not the sort of silicone world that you look into all day

or the comfy cushioned world that you sit in all day or the air-conditioned world that we live in all day and i was running and getting tired and hot and i see the dogs are getting tired and slowing down and i started thinking about you know like where where does humanity lie like what what is it really humanity like where does humanity lie? Like, what is it, really, humanity? Like, where does your humanity exist? Because we're running, and we're running with squirrels, and the squirrels were out, 100 degrees, they were out, you know, driving my dogs crazy.

There was a dog running loose and a lady trying to find it, and, you know, watching the world go by, looking at the wildlife, looking at the birds, and asking myself, where does humanity fit? You know, like, where do we stand out? Where does the consciousness, the human consciousness come into play? And I started thinking, because I was wanting to quit myself, I started thinking like, at the end of comfort is where your humanity begins. Do you understand?

On the other side of that comfort is where your humanity really is, is where it really matters. To be human, where you can really exercise your humanity. Because to sort of be comfortable and be, you know, going through the day to day and sort of autopiloting, it's a lot like what you see in animals. You know, you watch a squirrel, you watch a fish in the water, you watch an animal do its thing and it does its thing. And that's the thing that it does because it's that animal. What sets humans apart is, you know, free choice and the desires and the ability to chase different goals and those kinds of things. But fundamentally, you really get into the depths of humanity as soon as you become uncomfortable. As soon as you reach a point where you can't do it anymore, you reach a point where you're no longer, you no longer have the patience to deal with what you have to

deal with. Then you decide, I'm going to go take six deep breaths and find the will and find the patience to do what I need to do. Right? Like, from that moment on, you're existing in the higher plane consciousness of humanity. Like, that's where you're at. I'm too tired to go on. I need to lay down. I need to stop. Okay, well, what if I don't? What if I keep going? What if my goal is to run 10 miles and I'm done at eight? That's when you dig into that bag of tricks. That's when you become a human being. That's really where you find humanity, on the other side of that comfort. Once you reach discomfort, once you reach, I don't have enough time, panic, panic, panic. I don't want to do it. I really don't want to do it. And you do it.

That really is it. Once you hit the wall and go through it consciously, you sit down and have that conscious conversation with yourself. You know, because an animal, when it gets tired, it stops and lays down, you know, unless it's running for its life. Right? Only humans push themselves beyond comfort when they don't have to, consciously. It's a different thing if you have to, like you got to wake up and go to work or you're going to lose your house, you're going to lose your car, you know, that's different. But when you get to a point where life can be made better, life can be made exceptional, but you have to find the will to do it. Even though your body's saying you're too tired,

you're hungry, you should eat, you're too hot, you should rest. You know what I mean? Whatever it is. You don't have enough time to pull this thing off. Well, you should figure out how to be more efficient and pull it off anyway. When you drive yourself, man, everything up until that moment is just animal. But when you cross over to that higher plane, that's when you really start becoming. That's when you start to understand the power of being human. Right? It all rests within the will. It really does.

It rests within the will. And it's that understanding. That understanding is one of the things that drives me in preparedness for sure. It's one of the reasons that I have always opined the benefits of physical fitness because all of that's developed through physical fitness. And it's so important for you guys to understand. Physical fitness itself is probably the best way to build willpower because the truth about physical fitness, the truth about getting in really good shape

is you don't need anything. You don't need anything. You really don't need a single thing. Like the fitness industry has convinced people that they need things. Like you gotta buy the Peloton. You gotta get the gym membership. You gotta buy, at least gotta have some dumbbells. You know what I mean?

You gotta at least have some dumbbells. You don't need to buy anything. Literally. Nothing. Sit-ups, jump squats, plank, Russian twists, push-ups, jump squats, plank, Russian twists, push-ups, pike push-ups for your shoulders.

I mean, you can work out everything. And if you really wanted to get in good shape, you could drive how far? How far away is your nearest school or park And do pull ups there And pull ups for shoulders Pull ups for biceps Pull ups for triceps Pull ups for back All that kind of stuff

Yoga completely free All you need is YouTube You don't even need a mat You can not use a towel Do you understand? Like this idea That we need A bunch of stuff

In order for us to You know In order for us to be able to get in shape We need kettlebells James says we need kettlebells We James says we need kettlebells. We need this. We need that. We need a bicycle.

Got to have a whatever. It's like, I mean, if you could have the, it's not easy. I'm not saying it's easy. It's very hard to tell yourself, I'm going to do a calisthenic workout exclusively five days a week. And the monotony of push-ups and sit-ups and, you know what I'm saying? It is boring and it is hard. But the truth about prep or fit and health is you don't need nothing. And the more, and see, here's the biggest part about all that.

The more that you do that kind of boring workout, the more willpower you build. But it's hard, so you got to find what drives you. You got to find what moves you. You got to understand it. You know, sometimes what moves me is being alone at the top of the pyramid. Do you know what I mean?

Sometimes that's all the drive I need is this sort of if I can't, who will mentality. Sometimes that just gives me so much fire. It's unbelievable, right? You know, like just give me the laundry list and let me get fired up about it, right? Give me the list of to-dos and then I'm going to go run three miles and I'm going to just think about that list and think about the fact that these things need to get done. And when they're done, then there's a whole bunch of other things that have to be done in order for me to be the kind of man I want to be, the kind of dad I want to be, the kind of husband I want to be.

Sometimes that, just being alone, just knowing, you know, there's no other guy who's going to do this work for me. There's no person on the planet who can do this workout for me. Nobody can write this email. Nobody can finish this article. Nobody can do this podcast for me. There's no person on the planet who can do this workout for me. Nobody can write this email. Nobody can finish this article. Nobody can do this podcast for me. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know what it is, but it's that sense of fundamentally being alone, not in a negative way, but in a way that, you know, you're the man in the arena. But that just gives me so much drive sometimes, man. Sometimes it's all I need. I can go the whole day on that.

So I ask you, what drives you? What is your survival drive? What is your survive drive? What really moves you? What is your survive drive? What really moves you? You know, what is it that makes you wake up day in and day out and do this stuff? What has made you a prepper all these years?

Or what has pushed you to become a prepper now all of the sudden? No matter what camp you're in, you know, there is some level of drive that has brought you here. And the reason it's so important to know is because you have to go back to the well from time to time. You know? You have to go back to the well from time to time. Or you can get shoved off of the prepping path and then just say whatever, whatever. It's been good up until now. It will always be good. Or, you know, prep starts to slip.

Quality of things, skills start to slip. We took dry fire off the routine for this month. We were working on the Freedom March exclusively, and my dry fire skill set has suffered. I haven't dry fired half as much as I've been doing in the months past when we had them on our routines. And it's that simple. If we don't address a problem like that, guess what? It'll be this time next year, and I'll be saying,

you know what, I better bring the iTarget Pro out and practice a little. Because that's how things go. That's how life goes. You know, it's why I sent out the email a couple days ago about the Preparedness Master Schedule. That gives you something to touch every week. The end of every week. Do it on a Friday.

Do it on a Saturday morning. Do it on a Sunday evening. Whatever. Touch the Preparedness Master schedule once a week. And you'll be able to say to yourself, oh, okay. Yeah, I got to kick that into high gear. I didn't do that this week at all. You know?

And this is what it comes down to, PBN fam. This is fundamentally, you know, what it comes down to. I think our guest should be coming on soon. I'm going to send a quick message to him and see if he's... It looks to me like... He is with us. I'd like to get a reply. So what we'll do, PBN family here, is...

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with us from MySurviveDrive.com. What up my friend sorry i didn't get i i tried to juke james out of the interview by not telling him what time zone we were in it's all right james i'm glad to be here man thanks for the invite oh no problem man we're glad to have you i gave the uh the audience sort of a little brief we played around the first half of the show with the survive drive as a concept. Um, you know,

like sort of like what drives you in survival, knowing that you were going to come on and tell us about the, the survive drive. Um, what, what drives you, man? I see you've got all kinds of gear in the background.

You, you, you gotta be driven by something here. Um, man, honestly, um, a big wake up call was a freeze that we had here a few years back and everything shut down i'm from south texas so uh when we had that freeze

literally everything shut down and we couldn't get anywhere and it was a you know a big wake-up call um yeah i'm a bit of an outdoorsman what go ahead j ahead, James. I said Snowmageddon. Isn't that what they called it? Oh, man. Oh, yeah. I mean, you say what you will about Texas, man. But that man that screwed us over bad. It was a big wake-up call, and ever since then, you know, just it kind of planted the seed. I mean, I'm a bit of an outdoorsman anyway to an extent, but that was really what started opening my eyes to, you know, what could be coming around the bend. You a hunter, or what do you do out in the outdoors? I mean, I like to go hiking. I used to hunt with my dad all the time down here. We had a lease here texas but he is uh he's passed and so since

his passing another reason i came up with the drive um my mom being elderly you know i started thinking how uh you know something like this was to happen and i wasn't in town i was away on business or something was going on how well would she fare um you know if something was to come about so that was almost the seed that started survive drive is mainly for for my family and uh and then i just started searching to see if there was anything out there like survive drive and believe it or not man there's as you know nothing nothing out there that you can connect while the internet is off that would give you just a heads up on on how to get started yeah i mean i guess now that's the perfect segue into

giving us the sort of heads up on what the survive drive is so why don't you give everybody kind of a breakdown of what what it is you you've created because it's very cool well thanks man um it started last year uh i have another business where you you know, we do consulting for schools and safety. You know, a buddy of mine is a Green Beret, and we started a company that basically we do safety audits and these types of things for schools. They're required every three years. And him and I were chatting about this, and I'm the one that kind of came up with it. I was like, man, there's got to be just something out there that you can connect to your phone just because every soccer mom, soccer dad out there, you know, they've got a phone in their pocket. And there's got to be something out there that if the internet and power goes down and you don't have your survival books right there next to you or your

maps right there next to you or whatever the case may be um there's got to be something you can connect and lo and behold man i couldn't find anything so the idea was just to build one for myself and i just started kind i'm a designer by trade i'm a graphic designer by trade right now i'm kind of you know in a different part of life i'm a supervisor at one of the big home improvement stores here in san antonio but but I am a graphic designer by trade and I started just fiddling with some things. And I was able to come up with basically a survival bracelet that you can save any type of survival info, any info for that matter on there. And the added bonus is that I I've added a library that comes preloaded to

the survival bracelet. I'll also be doing free updates for anyone who buys it twice a month. And it's just basically a jump off point. You know, a lot of people that don't have any clue what to do in a survival situation or a disaster situation, it's a jump off point for them. And you can also save anything and everything you want into that drive as well to better your own knowledge and your skill set when it comes to surviving. It's a great idea, man. The man who started the Prepper Broadcasting Network, Glenn Martin, G-man, most people know him as, a few years before he died, he wrote this book called Prepper Survival Navigation.

And for all of you out there listening, you have to have Prepper Survival Navigation. And for all of you out there listening, you have to have Prepper Survival Navigation. But I love the book. Orienteering and navigation when it comes to the specs, you know what I mean, and the tactics and the techniques or whatever. Not my strong suit, you know what I mean? I've spent a lot of time in the woods, so I guess natural navigation i'm pretty good at you know sun and that and that kind of stuff um right but i slipped the book is small

the reason the some books i love because they of their size almost more than anything and the book is small and i slipped it into my backpack my bug out bag well actually it was my get home bag at the time and uh i realized the value of these references you know i saw through like this idea of because i think as preppers and survivalists man especially if we're like militant to some degree or or maybe from the military even i think that we get like in our head this idea that I know all the stuff I need to know. You know what I mean? Exactly. I don't need the SAS survival book.

I don't need it because I know all of it. And what I found, man, was sitting around the fire, like at camping or after hiking or fishing or something like that, I'd open that book up and look at it, and I'd learn stuff. Right. And when I read about the Survive Drive, I'd open that book up and look at it and I'd learn stuff. Right. And when I read about the survive drive, I said, this, this is prepper survival navigation times a thousand. This is being able to look at any reference. You know,

if you haven't set up the way that I imagine you do, you know, shelter, water, fire, all that kind of stuff I imagine is in there, right. In your survival library. Hey James, yours is in the mail, man. Sweet. That's great. Yeah. So having that reference, man, I think people, I hope that people understand the value of that. You know what I mean? Of being able to say, oh God, I'm in an emergency right now. And even though I know how to do this thing it's not working or why is it not working or maybe i don't know how to do it i thought i did right or you're in a panic you know yeah your

your adrenaline's up you can't think straight and maybe some of those skills that you thought you knew you just can't access them or yeah you're right maybe it's just not working maybe it's too wet outside to start a fire maybe you know whatever the case may be and as long as your phone has battery you can connect this in there it's basic pdfs i try to make it as accessible for everyone as possible even on the price it's 25 bucks i wanted the average american you know i'm not you know i'm blue collar i'm not trying to you know be a millionaire off this it's basically trying to give every american a chance out there, you know, to bridge that gap between the professional prepper and the nine to fiver that maybe used

to know a little bit or doesn't know anything. So absolutely, man, the value, uh, that's something that I try to build into it. And, uh, you know, whenever I was initially putting the survive drive together. Yeah, man. I mean, cause the reason it's such a cool resource is because you talk about when your phone is offline. Now, it seems like, I don't know if it's like this in Texas, but it seems like I can go further now than I used to be able to go and get signal, but there's still places, you know? I don't know if you noticed that. Are there places you go in Texas where it's like, I didn't used to be able to get signal here, but now I can? Right. But there are certainly places out there. Yeah. Are there places you go in Texas where it's like, I used to be able to get signal here, but now I can't. But there are certainly places out there.

Yeah, no, I agree, James. Same here, man. You know, when I'll go out and about, there's some places that I used to go out pretty rural and I wouldn't get, you know, any type of signal. I don't know if maybe the signal, you know, they got better. You know, I use T-Mobile myself and it seems like i get pretty good signal but yeah you know as you know if something is to happen that's not gonna matter anyway so right exactly i was talking from uh talking to darius from uh prepared mentality i don't know if you ever heard of them they're on instagram too probably worth talking to Darius. Um, but he, uh, he was talking about, you know, those, those documents and those references and, you know, those things that we need to have access

to in an emergency. And, you know, of course it's better to have the real paper document itself, but, you know, I guess the survive drive would be a good solution for that too, right on the digital side. Right. You can literally save anything you want on there from photos to JPEGs. You get eight gigs, right? And I know in this day and age, people are like, well, eight gigs isn't much. When it comes to PDFs and photos, you can save encyclopedias worth of information with eight gigs. So yeah, I mean, in some of the videos that i've made you'll see i make it a point to like call out titles and deeds of course i'm trying to you know name the more important things that we have in our in our safes and these types of things wills titles deeds that way if the original for whatever reason gets destroyed you have some sort of backup

a buddy of mine at work actually mentioned he uh he's like man i love it i'm going down to mexico my wife and i are going to be going down there and I'm going to take pictures of our passports and our IDs just in case something happens to them. We got them there. I was like, man, that's a great idea. can do it now. Any page on the internet, if you go up to the print button, you've hit print, and instead of printing it to your Hewlett-Packard or your Epson or whatever, you print to PDF or save to PDF. That's all you have to do to save that page. So that's what you would do with the Survive Drive. You go up to that page, whether it's maps of your area, whether it's the phone numbers and addresses of your loved ones, whatever the case may be. Just go up there, hit file, print, save to PDF, and then just save it to your drive, and then it's there forever.

Sweet, man. MySurvivedDrive.com, right? Yeah, MySurvivedDrive.com. As you know, we're running a little Indiegogo campaign, a Kickstarter-type campaign there, and you save $10 if you go to the Indiegogo and just help support us and get the word out. $10 off of $25? Yeah, man. That's a great deal. I'm just trying to get that name out there.

That's a great deal, man. For those of you listening, the Indiegogo is linked at the website. You go to MySurvivedDrive.com, you'll see the Indiegogo campaign there. It's a no-brainer. $10 off the price. Support what's coming up here with the Survived Drive. And you guys have a button compass on there too, I thought I saw. Yeah.

Basically, it's got a durable compass on there. You get eight feet of the 550 paracord with it. So it's just a standard survival bracelet, you know, figured a lot of outdoors guys would be into that. Because I was thinking of maybe doing a neck type memory drive, which you might do down the road or whatever. But I was thinking the most universal bit of kit would be a nice survival bracelet, you know, sturdy. So yeah, you do get the compass on there you get the eight gig drive um as well as the uh the paracord and the eight gig drive is hidden in the buckle correct so it's not completely you can't submerge it as of yet eventually i'm thinking we'll we'll get there where we can submerge it but it is water resistant and it is in the buckle so

rain you know water all that type any you know anything but swimming uh the drive can handle it's sweet man it's a little 007 i said at the intro of the show it's a little 007 for the average prepper pretty cool there you go man yeah and uh compatibility for android and iphone right you could get one or the other right so whatever phone you're carrying exactly exactly same price no difference um same thing if you go to the indiegogo there's a few different perk options there one for the ios and android and uh yeah yeah they're both been tested work great you know very simple to use just plug it in open your files look for the survive drive file there's a little welcome letter

in there kind of explaining how to use it one thing that we didn't touch on james is the uh the medical aspect of it you know there is a uh basically a medical sheet that you fill out with your blood type any medical conditions or allergies that you may have that way if you get into trouble something happens first responder can plug that into their into their phone and and it has all the all the information there you know your again your blood type anything really you want to put on there, but medical conditions, allergies, et cetera. Medications, yeah. Oh, that's cool, man.

That's real cool. That's a great idea. I thought the old AB patch was a good idea you put on like the IFAC. That's way better. You can give them a whole medical profile of your situation, emergency contact information. That's way better. You can give them a whole medical profile of your situation, emergency contact information. That's cool. Yeah.

That's almost like a hike you must have. Yeah, it's the first option that comes up when you open up the file, so that way they're not digging in through your files. It's literally the first thing that they'll see. It's the first thing you'll see as well whenever you plug in the drive. Oh, man. That was a great call. That was a great call. That was a great call.

And from the medical standpoint, like, that's where we're all lacking. You know what I mean? Like, from a rep's perspective. You know what I mean? Like, most of us know the basics of first aid and maybe some stuff above and beyond that. But, like, the physical reps, that's where you're going to want to be able to look at a reference and go like, I think this person's in shock. What should I do? You know, and get the, get the details, you know, all the nitty gritty. I love it, man. I think you've come up with something really cool. Thank you, brother. I really appreciate the support, James.

I mean, seriously, dude, it's, uh, you know, you, you caught on as soon as I launched it and, uh, it's meant a lot, man, that, you know, someone with your network and the backing that you have there thinks it's a good idea. Thanks, brother. Appreciate it. Hey, well, no problem. You followed me. All I did was go, oh, look, my Survive Drive started following me. Let me check. You know what I mean? You get caught up in like the whirlwind of following and things like that and people following you all the time. And what I've been having a lot of fun doing lately, man,

is when somebody follows that's not just their name or some stupid witty thing or just a collection of letters and numbers, I look at them. You know what I mean? I was talking to a guy today from, what the hell was the name of his operation? I'll give him a shout out while I'm at it. Because I could tell he knows his stuff. Vertex Point.

I don't know. I don't have the whole name in front of me. You'll probably hear from a PBN audience. Don't worry. But, you know, just another guy who followed me. And I just said, well, all right, well, that sounds cool. What's he doing? And it's way better use of your time than, what's biden doing what's trump doing you know

what i mean it's a way better time absolutely yeah i completely agree man there's a lot of cool people out there that are like under the thumb and it's us it's our network too like under the thumb and it's us, it's our network too. Like under the thumb of serious advertising dollars that we'll never get on top of. And the only way, the only way we will have success is if we support each other, you know, that's it. A hundred percent, man. Be the, you know, be the individual that supports the other individual, man. You know, don't, you know, all that stuff for the masses. It's not it's not healthy man yeah man and it's like i said it's

there's there are advertising budgets that little guys like us will just never get up there and maybe that's for the better you know what i mean because it's cooler down on the ground level anyway you meet cooler people hey man i agree man i agree you know you're having a conversation on a wednesday night with a texan with some looks like some whiskey and the American flag hung up behind him. I mean, that's pretty sweet. There you go, man. And a short barrel rifle. It's a good deal. Yeah, man. Thank you, brother.

It's a nice looking weapon. Anything else, man, before we cut our ways? I think that's about it, James. Again, thanks again, man, for the shout-out and for the spot here on the podcast. I appreciate everything that you've been doing for me and all the communication. If anyone out there has any more questions or anything like that, feel free to DM me there on Instagram. That's usually where I spend most of my time is on Instagram, not so much on Facebook. to DM me there on Instagram.

That's usually where I spend most of my time is on Instagram, not so much on Facebook. Again, if you want to save $10, Indiegogo, it's $15 plus a $5 shipping fee, so it'll come out to $20. And I'm shipping them now. I couldn't ship them until this week, really, so they're shipping now. So I've got plenty in stock, and, yeah, that's about it. Right on, man. MySurvivedDrive.com, and go to the Indiegogo for $10 off.

Support this guy. He's got a cool product. All right, Jim. I'll talk to you soon, man. We'll be in touch. All right, brother. We'll be in touch, man. Cool.

Have a good night, man. See you. See you, man. Bye. All right, PBN family. That is the survive drive. Pretty cool. I love that medical feature, man.

Slap all your medical information right up on the front. That's a good deal. That's a damn good deal. You get rescued, man, and there's no one to speak for you. And God, who could speak for you on the medical level with some of those things you know do you do you even know your blood type let alone does your wife do your kids you know so uh that's pretty good now whether or not they'll be able to tell you know that this is uh that that's lurking in your bracelet. I don't know, but who knows?

You don't know how common the old survive drive can get. I can't impress upon you guys enough. We talked about alternative everything, and this is a concept that is real. And what is very real about Alternative Everything is that many of these alternatives, they'll never make it to Amazon in an ad or in the capacity of sales that puts it front and center in your face.

You know what I mean? Like these are the types of products that people are innovating all the time. You know? They're innovating all the time and they're being crushed by the biggest players. And it's just, you know, that is what it is. I mean, there are tons of great ideas,

just like James' Survive Drive, that are just launching. You know, and I don't know. For me, it's fun to seek these guys out and see what's up. You know what I mean? See what they're working on. See what they got going. See what kind of people they are. Here's the real nitty gritty.

Here's the real secret in it all. They're awesome people. We get to pick who we want to spend our time with, believe it or not. Most of us. We get to choose. Well, we all get to choose. Now, it might radically change your life

if you decide the people you spend your life with now aren't the people you want to spend it with be it work or home or whatever but you still have that choice you know i'm a guy who is online for business you know what i mean and i I have a tremendous degree of choice With how and who I want to spend that time with I've come to realize that these small businessmen In the prepping and survival world Are all awesome They're all awesome people

These guys that are up and coming Doing prepping podcasts Doing doing prepping courses, prepping consultations, prepping innovations. You know, you wind up talking to real Americans. You know? Real Americans. Real Americans who are working their asses off, raising families, doing the hard things. And then what sets them apart to an even greater degree and why I can rub elbows with these people and feel kin with them, a kinship rather, is because I've been here for so long.

I've been here for so long. I've been in that work your ass off all day and then work a little more at night and then, you know, do the family things and do the dad things and do the friend things and do all the things. I mean, it is fundamentally, I know you're going to be like, some of you out there are going to applaud And some of you are going to be like Yeah, yeah, yeah But it is the way And I don't mean the way You know, the reason this is the way From the Mandalorian is so cool

Is because they ripped it off from Jesus They ripped it off from Jesus Jesus is the light in the way Like he is the way. So what does that mean? That means sacrifice is the way. Right? Not sacrifice that you're forced to make, but it's chosen sacrifice. Chosen sacrifice is the way. And when you get around people who understand that, Christian people, people who follow the way, you just feel it, man. You look at it. They have a look to them. It's a thing. People who shoulder their cross and sacrifice everything for a chance at an adventure,

for their integrity, for the people they love, those type of people give off a certain energy. They're a selfless people. They're the type of people that Pick up the things that you drop They're the type of people that knock heads with you Because you both dive after the The item that fell out of your pocket, right? Not because one wants to steal it

But because one wants to pick it up and help you out Before you even have to help yourself These are people of the way And they don't even have to help yourself. These are people of the way. And they don't even have to be religious. It's not like they have to wear a cross and say they're a Christian. I know nothing about James' religion.

But I don't have to know anything about his religion to know he's living the way. He's following the way. That's the unbelievable thing about it. You know, this Christian moniker that we come to carry around, I mean, it has little to do with With what it actually is You know It was actually a name given Given to us by the Romans

You know it was given to people who worship Christ It wasn't like They didn't come Out of the woodwork and say we are Christian We are Christian that is our name They were followers of Christ And the Romans called them Christian. Because of that, Christians.

You follow the way whether you know it or not. I followed the way for years, not knowing it. And wondering whether or not I was allowed to be Christian. I was looking for permission from the Romans when I had been following the way for a very long time. And you can taste it, you can smell it, you can feel it. It radiates off people. And I'm telling you,

you don't have to spend more time around Christians per se. But it definitely feels really good to spend time with people who understand the way. All right, PBN family. I will talk to you tomorrow night and probably tomorrow morning as well. Yeah, that's it. That's it. Members, I recorded a video for you today about doing what works. And it's up on Rumble. I didn't get it published yet on the Prepper Broadcasting Network website. It will be up tomorrow or tonight. Broadcasting Network website. It will be up tomorrow or tonight, and the link will be in PBN Daily News tomorrow. All right? I appreciate every one of you. Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to the I Am Liberty show and supporting the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

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