The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Im on my way to...Prepper Camp?

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

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family, I'm on my way to Prepper Camp. I'm months early. I'm just going to hang out and try on for a few months and just like root through the trash. Work on my hobo survival skills. I'll give them their first taste of what it's like to live in any major city around the country to have bums that, you know,

cavort around your property. And I'll spit and yell and say crazy things to the horse riding folk as they flow in. No, I'm going down to get the lay of the land today, folks. I'm going down to meet Rick Austin and Jane. The chin will be there as well. The word on the street is, and then there'll be a gentleman who's going to walk us around. And what I'm looking to do is get, you know, I want to get video the place for you.

I want to get some good video of the restaurants, the location where the actual event will be, where stages are going to go. the facility itself, maybe even some hotel rooms and get a look at what it's all going to look like. PreperCamp 2026, the new location. The best and the biggest just got bigger and better. Is that what Rick Austin says? The biggest and the best just got bigger and better, I think, is the tagline on PreperCamp 2026. So, suffice it to say, I got a long day. ahead of me of driving.

Yeah, the other thing that's happening, you know, ideally a trip like this includes a sleepover, a slumber party. Maybe a slumber party at Chin's house or a slumber party at the secret garden, right? I'd sleep in with the goats if I were at Rick, because I think I'd take the goats barn and hang out with them. They seem to be pretty lively.

But as fate would have it, I mentioned I was commissioned to write a book. It's called the Ultimate Preppers Toolkit. And it is going to be great. I'm written a lot of it already. But I have a pretty hard deadline Monday. Pretty tight deadline Monday. And unfortunately, it's going to take some weekend work to get it done.

You know, in lieu of everything going on in my life, both personal and here at PBN. Uh, yeah, she's got some more writing to be done. So this turns into a 12-hour round trip of driving, which I don't, I can't say that I've ever done. I know, I can't say that I've ever done a 12-hour round trip on the road. Uh, but it is the month of firsts, baby. Who's on the month of first schedule? Who's doing it? Who's in there?

Who's doing it? Who's enjoying it? Who's taking advantage of this opportunity? I can't wait to get down here and see the place. I can't wait to see what's what. Can't wait to see... Ooh, I made a critical error. I left my fishing rods at home.

Anyway, neither here nor there, but I can't wait. See everybody. It's going to be sweet. It's a big change, man. You know, when you really wrap your head around it, like the whole of Preper Camp has happened at this one location. This year we changed locations. I'm kind of happy about the change in location.

I think it's an easier location to access based off of the directions and the highway exit, you know. I'm looking forward to that. I may sleep in a bed this year at Preper Camp, truly. I may actually kick back, kick the boots off, lay my head down on a pillow, get under some real covers at night, and sleep. I don't know that it'll be good. you know if I get a room at Tryon I don't know that it'll be great for for how often the commander's around

you know what I mean I feel like it's really tempting like one of the reasons I'm such a social be at Prepper Camp is because nowhere to go nowhere to hide I get a I bring an A tent you know what I mean and I'm in that tent and even then in the evenings I'll stow away to the tent and do a little bit of writing or whatever video editing But to have a hotel room

Ooh man Closing up Closing up shop for the night Where is a commander at? I wonder if they have a gym on facility That would be kind of cool too But yeah It's

You know It really is kind of a wonderful day I know that sounds weird I don't know How people view driving and stuff like that there's other pieces of this puzzle that are agonizing but what is what it is but i'm telling you what um i've been on such a a perfect sort of grind really it has it has been a large degree of just this perfect kind of day-to-day grind where i do a little bit of podcasting i do a little bit of

promotion i do a little bit of writing and you know fold in the fitness and the eggs in the coffee and you know all the things right and yeah yeah I don't know. I'm not really a habitual creature, but I guess part of me is getting that way as I age. And it's like I said, it's this perfect sort of monotonous grind that just is really nice. You know what I mean? It's really nice. But I don't know.

There's something about today, something about the open road today, something about driving. having six hours open one way and six hours open the other, it really lends itself to getting some things done. It lends itself to listening to some long-form things I've been wanting to listen to books and podcasts. It lends itself to stuff that I feel like I used to do more of, maybe longer shows, different shows. God only knows what I'll record. But there's something about it's, it's an, it's an,

open day and an open road. And I don't think I've had a truly open day in a while. You know what I mean? Like truly open. Truly open where it's just me in the driver's seat. It's me metaphorically and literally in a driver's seat. You know what I mean? There's no one to drop off, no one to pick up, no event to go to, no, you know, meal times to worry about, no this, no, whatever, whatever the situation.

is, right? No one but myself to entertain fundamentally. And I don't know, like around last week, I just started to really wrap my head around that. I was like, you know what? Six hours of standing pines doesn't sound so bad. No, I-85 is a road if you've never driven it. I-85, I'm on right now. It's a road of, it's a road of trees that just, it's sort of, it reminds. It reminds. reminds me of what people mean when or what people say when they talk about driving to the Midwest. It's one of those roads that really is a reminder of what like this area used to be. Like this area of southern Virginia heading into South, into North Carolina, like truly just infested with with forest and trees. It's great to drive and fall, I'll tell you that much.

It's a nice road to drive and fall. We'll be driving it in summer, August. It's 14, 15, 16, right? Prepper camp this year in August. It's going to be hot. It's another reason why I'm considering getting a room. I've slept in hot tents in the past. Not great.

You know what I mean? You get one of them good, like, 98-degree days, and only goes down to, like, 79. Your tent will probably be right around about, I don't know. 85-90 degrees, probably. especially in the early parts of the night, the smells that might come from PreparCamp this year. I don't know. I'm just kidding.

It's going to be a great year, man. Well, it's a great year every year. I'm teaching starting to home-based business, the entrepreneurship class. I'm going to give you like between five and ten businesses you can start in a weekend. I didn't say they're going to be successful. That's up to you. But I'm going to give you about five to ten businesses you can. can start in one weekend.

Why not? Right? Why not? Rick emailed me or called me. I don't remember. I think it was an email and he said that he wanted somebody to teach that class. I think Forrest was teaching the area study class. And yeah, hello.

I'll do it. I can handle that one. That one's easy. So PBM family, in case you haven't noticed, we're still at war with Iran. What we say we need to happen doesn't seem to be happening. at all. I don't know if you've been paying attention. I don't know if you've had to get gas recently. Of course, you know, I got to take a 12-hour road trip when the gas price is $4.50 a gallon, right? Thanks, Donald. Thanks, Donald. I mean, it is a business trip, so it'll help come end of the year,

but still, right? Just the fact. I don't know what kind of truck I'm driving in front of, but it looks like it has a machine gun on the front. What is that? It's like a grain truck or something. Some kind of grain vessel. Some kind of vessel for grain? What is this? Whole. End their pothole patching.

I was wrong. Don't eat out of that thing. Pot hole patching truck, huh? Head to Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia is a labyrinth right now. It is. It's a literal labyrinth. And at the center of it is the mother of mayhem.

Abigail Spanberger, the Minotaur or so. No, everywhere you go there's a blocked road. It's amazing to me. It's incredible. Everywhere I turn a blocked road. It is. It's truly like a labyrinth. Pardon of me, folk.

I didn't really sleep last night. I took the kids to see Mortal Kombat, because that's kind of how we roll. And we had a blast. Me and the boys, watching the absolute gore fest mortal combat too curse fest and gore fest oh my god that if that you know one of the things like about mortal combat i'd say i was probably about eight years old or something when it came out i don't remember exactly seven eight and i had a genesis and uh i got the game you know

my mother got the game we went to funco land i don't if you remember funco land but we went to funco land But we went to Funco Land, which was basically the GameStop back in the day. And I bought Mortal Kombat. And since I got it, like, on release, I had got, like, a mini poster. And I got a pin from the original Mortal Kombat release. And I just remember with the blood and the fatalities, it was just such a thing. thing as a little boy it was like it was so great i mean we spent hours on mortal combat and mortal combat too i had a game informer magazine that had all the moves and all the fatalities for every

character in mortal combat too because that's how it used to work and uh i remember sitting in that game and all right let's do this fatal right let's do that fatal all right let's try this one let's try that one oh but reptile can go invisible how do you make him go invisible let's try it And last night I was reminded. Last night I'm watching the movie. I can't say that I really cringed at any of it with my kids because it's not their first time here in that kind of language or seeing that kind of gore, to be honest.

But it was more of a reminder of like, oh man, what it is to be 10, what it is to be 14, and to have something like this. Okay, what is this? A chemical weapon spray up ahead? What is this? Fog, like, the fog set in out of nowhere. Dracula's traveling through North Carolina here. Actually, I'm still in Virginia.

That whole town, it was just a whole town under fog. It's like I'm leaving it. It was there, and now it's gone. The whole town was enveloped in fog. Weird. So anyway, yeah, if you want a quick movie review, Like if you played the games, if you like the fatalities, if you like the characters, well worth going and seeing. You know, if your child has not played the games, has not been exposed to like Austin.

It's not a movie for Virgin Ears. Let's go with that. You know what I mean? It's definitely not that. It's rated R. I mean, the movie itself is rated R. You should, you know, go on with that. But the language is pretty over the top.

Funny, funny. It used in a funny way. Not too terrifying or anything like that. But the level of gore is, you know, it's Mortal Kombat gores. People getting their heads cut off, hands cut off, you know, all the stuff. Head smash with that big giant wrath hammer. You know how it goes. And we had a blast, man.

Eat popcorn laughing. Whoa, look who it is. It's freaking... B. Hahn is back from the... dead what's the guy's name why can't i think it's like my son's favorite character um noob siob sobot noob si bot yeah it was cool we had a good time but it was late you know what i mean and i got on late and i had things to do and prepare for today and i get you know got to bed and i was excited for today and i don't know around about like probably 3 30ish i i got into that rhythm

of uh rolling and thinking you know what i mean that rhythm where like you're kind of sleeping but You're more rolling around thinking about things. What do I have to do? What do I load the car? I do this. I can do that. Prepare for this. Prepare for that.

There's all those kinds of different things. That led to me here. Boom. Hour and a half in? Oh, an hour and a half in is nice. That means we're not six hours anymore. Right? Four and a half.

That's way better. Four and a half is way more manageable, man. because I do a four-hour shot up the highway to Pennsylvania and no sweat, you know what I mean? So I don't like the situation with Iran. I don't think we have control. You know, we have military assets out of our ears in Iran right now or in the area. And it just doesn't feel like we have control. You know, it feels the two things.

Number one, hear my two thoughts. Either we don't have control, and if we don't have control now, we'll never have control. That's what I think. If they have a covert, if they have such a covert sort of weapons cash, or collection of weapons caches and rocket-firing caches and drone-firing locations, that we can't stop it, then, well, you know, you remember, Vietnam? You remember Afghanistan? Right? That whole thing. If they have that sort of covert capability, which seems like to me they do, then I think we have to be realistic about the fact that

we're never going to stop these people from fighting us off in their territory, right? And that the strategy should not be whatever the hell our strategy is now, right? The strategy, Wow, the strategy should be to keep them economically as deflated as possible. Keep them as economically deflated as possible. And look, they're causing all kinds of problems all over the Middle East for all kinds of different countries. The world at large, I think, won't have a problem. Well, here's the thing, though.

Here's the thing, right? You make people desperate enough when it comes to energy. they'll do almost anything. Case in point. Europe and Russia. Europe would literally be hollering at us, telling us, you know, you're insane, you're no good,

you've got to help Ukraine more. We've got to stop Russia. Vladimir Putin is the new Hitler. This is terrible. We have to do something. You're doing nothing. Right? And then they'd be like buying oil off Russia.

They'd be like, you've got to send weapons, you got to meet with Voldemort, you've got to do all these things. We've got to stop Russia at all costs, USA. You're letting us down here at the EU, and then they hang up the phone, and they call Vladimir Putin up, and they're like, can we get, we need about a million barrels for tomorrow? Is that okay? Can we make that happen? Thank you. So when it comes to energy, people do whatever it takes, what I'm getting at. So, you know, in other words, Iran can bomb people all they want and make life a living hell all over the world. And people are still going to go, yeah, but we're out of oil. And they got oil.

So we're going to buy that Iranian oil. At least until we get our reserves filled back up because America decided to go have a war in the middle of the Strait of Ormoos. And, you know, that whole thing happened. It is weird that this is, we're living a prepper scenario right now. We literally are. We're living, we're living a scenario that I used to read and write about, you know, 10 years ago, five years ago, whatever. this was a thing. Like a straight of Hormuz blockade that would drive oil prices to $5 a gallon was a thing that we talked about as a scenario.

It's like a collapse level scenario. And we're living in. And according to Peter Zion, the oil situation is not going away for a long time. Worldwide. Globally, we've done enough damage. And the oil market has been. or the oil supply chain has been disrupted so much that, like, scarcity is going to be a thing for a long time. Here in America, I'm not sure, you know.

Because the other half of what I'm thinking, here's the other half. The other, and this is the scarier, more worrisome half that makes me, you know, will make me furious if it turns out to be this way. But if you're a president who signs an executive order that, is titled Drill Baby Drill, right? And you want American energy to thrive. You want American oil to be the, the oil on the planet, a massive success, right? What do we know about these oil fields in America?

It's the same as it is in the Middle East. There's a profit margin, right? There's a moment when the price of oil gets too low, and workers have to get sent home. right we're not probably it's hilarious but it's what they say right we're not profitable anymore we got to get the price of oil up i hope i'm wrong about this and this is total foil friday speculation but it does seem to me like one step you might want to take in bringing online the u.s. oil system at its peak is to get the american citizens accustomed to higher priced oil right this 274

$2.50 a gallon oil, $220, whatever it was, not enough money for the oil shakes here in the United States, right? The American oil shakes. So they, you know, they hit you with a $4.8, $5 a gallon gas a haul. And all of a sudden, you were thinking, you know, $3.30 ain't so bad. Okay, get the pumps online here in the United States. Drill baby drill. everybody's making money and the American hacks,

the American peons are all paying more at the pump than ever before while we were getting richer than ever before. Because we are now the world's supply of oil. That's a scary thought. Because you can't sell barrel. Well, maybe you can, I don't know. Would they use the American people as a price offset? Would they use us as a price offset for other countries around the world

so that they could afford oil as well. I don't know if that even works out with the math or anything like that, but just a thought. Nervous. A nervous consideration when you see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz, right? When you see what's happening with ceasefire and no ceasefire and this fire and that fire, and you have all this military equipment. Look, here's the deal.

If all the military equipment ain't getting it done, then it's time to send it home. It costs money. cause money, right? All the military equipment ain't getting it done. We've done what we came to do is done, right? We bombed the nuclear facilities before we even showed up with the big military. We destroyed the Air Force and the Navy. What are we doing?

Now what? See, we have this game going on now where war can last forever, which is, of course, what Northrop Grumman likes. Oh, yeah, let's do it. Let's have a Strait of Hormuz battle that is exist. And the whole entire world depends on America opening this trade of Ormuz now. And the American people, you know, when it comes time to fund it, well, they have to, right? How could they not?

This is where we're at in the war right now. And I, you know, it's time to go home. It's time to go home. It's time to go home and get in front of a camera and say, we're going to get the gas price down because we drill for all kinds of oil. and we have all kinds of oil, and that's what we're going to do. Go get it down. What's the problem? What's the problem?

Right? You got six aircraft carriers. No, I think we have three. We've got three aircraft carriers out there, all kinds of assets, right? What are we doing? We've got the most powerful military ever known to the universe that we know of. We're stymied, right? I wake up this morning and see that people are shooting at each other in the straight again.

You want to have a ceasefire that works. Get people out from in front of each other. Right? Why are American naval ships in Iranian naval ships so close to each other that they can fire on one another? Time to make some space. Time to make some space, okay? I think what the American military has to understand is

there are hard limits here. There are hard limits, and it doesn't matter what you develop, right? Unless you're willing to go into a place on foot, or until you have your robot army, unless you're willing to go in on foot and one by one find all of these criminal you know, throwbacks, then we're at a standstill here, folks. And there ain't no point at being at a standstill from a cost perspective with battleships and aircraft carriers that cost as much of money as they do to run on a daily basis. Bring them home. Bring them home. Regroup. Know that you've done tremendous damage economically on

Iran and tell them, you know, open the street. We're leaving now open the straight. You ever think part of the reason why they don't want to open the straight or why they won't open the straits because we're still there bombing targets and all that? We're not rescuing the people of Iran. And one of the reasons we're not. rescuing the people of Iran is because I don't know that the people of Iran want to be rescued. Have you ever thought about that? This is something I've had to think about lately. Not all of people are the same. You get that? Not everyone is the same. Some groups of people have no desire to be free, or at least not enough desire to die for it. You look at the Ukrainians and the

the will of the Ukrainians. For what, while I was growing up, Ukraine was basically known as the most corrupt nation on the planet. Right? It was like the butt of a joke, like Ukrainian parliament. It looked like Ukrainian parliament or something. You say Ukraine, you think corruption, right? These people have been fighting and dying to defend their land.

I even watched a military news video yesterday. I haven't confirmed it that said that they're, they're taking back land during the spring offensive of Russia. During Russia's spring offensive, the Ukrainians are actually taking back land. You've got to wrap your head around that for a second. It's amazing. If it's true, propaganda abounds, right?

But it's just one of those situations where you're like, wow, okay, this is the thing, man. Some people don't want to be free. Some people will die in the fight for freedom and the quest for freedom. You know what I mean? I think that the Iranian people will be under this Muslim rule and they will stay under this Muslim rule. I just don't see it going any other way. And that stinks, but it is what it is, you know? What can you do?

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