The Prepper Broadcasting Network - My Christmas List on I AM Liberty

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

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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. 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. Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad, ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head And this our life, exempt from public haunt The toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in the trees,

books in the running brooks, sermons in the stones, and good in everything. Jessica looked at him. More Bible? Crispy Jimbo reached out with his two hands and grabbed the spine of the third book down in his pile, which stood next to the Bible. In a manner as cartoonish as he could bust her, he began to pull the third book from in between the two in which it was nested. He did so in a way that made the pile threaten to topple.

The book was giant, and the pages all a mess. It seemed like there might be more edges of post-it notes coming out of the book than actual pages in the mighty volume itself. The pale face, receding hairline, slightly upturned mustache, pointed beard, and white collar of William Shakespeare in the popular Shandos portrait looked back at them. This portrait of the great writer was recognizable even to fourth graders despite the large letters that spelled out the title, the complete works and translations of William Shakespeare. The poor Duke senior who uttered the phrase was cast out by his own brother. Now that hurts. He was betrayed by his own brother, and in the story of As You Like It, he lives in a cave. His friends were exiled with him, and he built his own community. Had he allowed it, the disappointment of his life could have easily crushed him.

Life can be cruel, kids, and it's hard to see it today through this beautiful dusting of snow, Christmas carols, and warm treats. That's why you come to see it today through this beautiful dusting of snow, Christmas carols and warm treats. That's why you come to see me. Because you already know at nine years old that life can be so. Welcome into the I Am Liberty Show, PBN family. What is up? Happy holidays, huh? Ha ha ha. The war. There's a war in every word anymore

Isn't there? There's a war in every word To say happy holidays Is as offensive as it is to say Merry Christmas As offensive as it is to say I don't know, whatever else We are enjoying the holiday season

There's no doubt about that I do wish you a merry christmas and hope that two things about this holiday season in particular number one that you can find the inner child nestled within to enjoy it and also um that you know, take time to convene with the Creator. Take time to understand why this time exists. Maybe not even just for the Christian holiday, but for the many religious holidays that happen. And I pray that maybe there will come a time one day During this joyous season for religion We find our way to peace Maybe we find our way to peace

The Christians, the Jews, the Muslims alike You know, here's a thought, okay Honor God, okay? Honor God, right? We do things to honor God. We do things for our God. We do things in the name of our God. For the Muslim God, the Jewish God, the Christian God, supposed to be honoring, what would be the thing?

If there were a thing, what would be the thing? The number one, what would be the gift to leave under the tree for God? Think about it. I mean, this is wild when you think about it. If you could wrap something up in a box, if these religions truly are monotheistic, meaning they worship one God, if there was one God up there, and he had a list of his own, what would he want under the tree? What would the monotheistic God want from the people of the planet? What could we give Father God for Christmas that would make him happy, the most happy?

It's actually very simple. When I tell you the answer, you'll say, no, duh, right? And the answer is for Jew and Muslim and Christian to hold hands in peace and to have that peace reign over the land. As far as I'm concerned, what I know of God, which is not much, but what I know of God in comparison to many others, what I know of God is that if I were to slip something under the big man's tree, then it would most certainly be to see the three major religions on the planet who are supposed to be praying

in their own way to the same God, holding hands of acceptance and peace. I don't know. I don't know. Call it fantasy. Probably is fantasy. Meanwhile, things are heating up there on Washington Hill, up there in Washington Heights, up there in Capitol Hill. Hunter announces he's defying subpoena, lashes out at Trump attack machine in stunning news conference. You know, House, this is a wild one, House approves Biden impeachment inquiry. I wasn't sure it'd get that far. Lawmakers voted 221 to 212 along party lines to approve the resolution authorizing the inquiry. Earlier in the day, Hunter Biden, the president's son, who is at the center of many of the lines of inquiry, defied a GOP subpoena to appear for a deposition on Wednesday morning. Republicans leading the probe said the refusal reinforces the need for a formal vote.

We're very pleased with the vote today. I think that's it a message. I think that's it a message. These writers always screw shit up. I think that's it, a message loud and clear to the White House. I think what they needed was a comma. I think that's it, comma, a message loud and clear to the White House. We expect you to comply.

Yeah, it's interesting. President Biden ripped House Republicans for what he called baseless political stunt. Look, I think I've narrowed down what I'm enjoying most about all this. You know, what I'm enjoying most about all this is that there are important things being addressed, important issues being addressed in Washington. That's it. I mean, you know what I mean? I don't want to see silence in D.C. I don't want to see people only gathering together

to question Trump on January 6th. You know what I mean? It's nice to see people pulled in front of Congress to answer for things that aren't right. And I don't care which side it's on. I don't have a dog in the fight per se. I just want to see good people get a chance and bad people taken to task. And they can be from any walk of life.

They can be from any political side. I don't care. But if we're going to have elected representatives, man, they need to pull some people in front of the gavel. Get them on a camera and let's see what they're really all about. I mean, can you imagine Hunter Biden in front of a camera? You could be the biggest Biden voting fan of all time. You can't sit here and say, you know, I think that Hunter's a good guy. LAX's Russian mystery man, chatty chocolate-stealing passenger with no passport or ticket, the massive meteor shower that convinced people the world was ending. ticket the massive meteor shower that convinced people the world was ending everybody's telling me about the uh oh no instagram quietly i'm sorry i'm reading the drudge report over here just for

the fun of it at the opening instagram quietly rolls out misinfo feature sparking claims of stealth censorship what do you mean stealth censorship? Who in their right mind could sit around and go, what? I can't believe my opinion was banned or silenced. That's like almost 10 years ago now, that revelation. To have that revelation was something that happened 10 years ago. You know what I mean? It's nothing new. I have a question, a very eerie question. About a year ago, I'd say, I started listening to Glenn Beck again a lot. I took a little break. Actually, I took a long break. I started listening to him a lot, you know?

And today, something kind of unnerving popped into my head. This is what it was. So, Steven Crowder, the Salty Cracker, and several other content creators who do youtube russell brand they set up rumble live uh streams because they know that they're going to get kicked off of youtube and it happens all the time, right? Their videos get taken down, so on and so forth. I never hear that happen to Glenn Beck.

A lot of days I watch his 9 o'clock show if I'm not doing something, if I'm not doing my own show. It never gets taken down. I don't know if they keep hour one a little vanilla, but I've heard some pretty serious topics being discussed. It never gets taken down. I don't know if they keep hour one a little vanilla, but I've heard some pretty serious topics being discussed. I'd be lying if I didn't say his lack of banning makes me nervous. Yes.

I find your lack of censorship extremely unnerving. Right? In all honesty, what's going on there? What's going on there? Have I been hoodwinked? Have I been hoodwinked? Should I listen to Michael Savage all along? Always told me.

He called Glenn Beck the hemorrhoid. Oh, PBN family, the holidays are here. What are you up to, huh? Are you enjoying yourself a little bit? I know the news is heavy. It's wild out there. Just is what it is, you know? It's heavy. Now's the time for traditions. You know, here we go again, a new tradition in our life. A new tradition in our life. We're headed up Saturday, up the mountain to the Jones homestead, and hogging. We're hogging once again.

Now, I'm going to wind up with a half of a hog, okay, like I got last year. Same thing. I got myself a half of a hog, and I broke it down in video, and I don't think I ever gave you guys the video. I don't think I ever showed you the video, because it takes a long time. It takes a lot of editing, and I never really got into it. So this is going to be year two of the whole hog. I'll break it down yet again. Ribs, pork belly, ham, picnic, shoulder, all the good stuff. Okay? We'll break it down, and this time I'll actually get it to you, okay?

You should know how to do these things, you know? You should know how to turn an animal into meat. You should know how to turn a living, breathing animal into steak, into chops, into loins, right? This is not a prepper skill, by the way. This is a human skill. This is a decidedly human skill. This is a skill that only humans possess, right? There's no other animal on the planet that'll trim the rack of ribs out, cook them on a grill, baste them, dry rub them, what have you, right? The butchering of meat is a human skill. And these skills that are necessarily

human, I think they deserve more of our focus, guys. Don't you think? Cooking. Nobody's cooking. There's no other animals on the planet cooking yet we forfeited cooking too so we could go out and eat at restaurants have other people cook for us like zoo animals like zoo animals you know what i mean have somebody else bring my food on the zookeeper bring the food we're trapped up in the we're trapped up in the at-home office getting uber eats delivered becoming just a i don't know it's more of a cyborg by the day i read a great dean coons book not long ago and i don't want to spoil too much of it but it was there was there was a section in the book about humans and computers intertwining.

And I mean in the physical world. I don't mean like metaphorically. I mean literally physically computers and human beings intertwining into this weird, disgusting amalgamation. And, you know, it's obviously an exaggeration of what it is, but who am I to talk? Who am I to talk? I've been in front of this computer for hours today, writing and reviewing and sending and emailing and talking and planning and so on and so forth, and here I am again, 8.17 p.m. in front of the screen, humming away the brain.

in front of the screen, humming away the brain. It is the state of affairs, right? Maybe I should split wood for a living and put it all behind me. Split wood for a living, put the whole Prepper Broadcasting Network behind me. See, I'll tell you if, look look i've always made this promise to you guys and i i hope i never have to really keep it but if there comes a time where the wife and i decide that's about enough it's time to move far far away um i'm not gonna think about internet anymore and if i'm not thinking about internet anymore, then I'm probably not going to be on here anymore. Do you know what I mean? In other words, if you make a wholesale change,

something that significant, then everything changes. Everything changes, right? If it comes to that, I'm gone. And I'm not just gone from society in the physical. I'm gone from society altogether. Happy New Year. So what I thought we'd do today is... What I thought we'd do today is do a little Christmas,

do a little wish list, do a little Santa's list. I'm going to shop with you. I'm not actually going to buy anything, but I'm going to look around at things and do some window shopping, put my Santa Claus list together. This way you can get a peek into my head as a prepper on my level and see kind of the things that are offered out there in the prepping biosphere and, you know, talk about it. So let's do some commercials. I just got a call from my niece.

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I forgot all about that. I forgot all about downloading that, and it kind of took me by surprise. Choked me up a little bit hearing the little kid. and it kind of took me by surprise and choked me up a little bit here in the little kid. You know, that part of me, it's just a crazy, crazy thing. I don't understand. I understand and I don't understand. You know, I whittled this thing down to...

Can we talk tonight? I mean, I don't know. I have an idea for a show tonight. I can't guarantee it's going to happen. Do you understand? For those of you who've listened to PBN for a long time, you do understand. For those of you who are new to the network and new to my show, about a year ago, I took a turn, maybe two years now, I don't know.

I took a turn away from the show that I typically did, which was kind of all over the place, to trying to focus more on prepping DIY or prepping, you know, guidance. Because I want to help people. You know what I mean? I want people to know what the hell they need to do. This is the prepper broadcasting network. You know what I'm saying?

I find myself in this situation where it's like there's still this part of me that wants to go off the rails and why is it's because you know when your soul is gripped you can't help it right bait your hook with your heart it's very important i'm always this time of year is one of those times where, I don't know, I'm susceptible to a lot. I'm susceptible to a lot. Family is crushingly beautiful this time of year to me. Children, crushingly beautiful. Love, crushingly beautiful. Romance, crushingly beautiful. Love, crushingly beautiful. Romance, crushingly beautiful.

And I was, you know, I'm planning and writing and starting a new book, and I was kind of feeling out ideas, you know. And I arrived at three things that I think are very important to the holiday season and three things that I particularly enjoy. Themes, you know what I mean? The reclamation of love for one, right? Reclaiming love following a big fight or a tough year or whatever it is, right? It's one of those themes that fits the bright lights and the glitter and the tinsel and the gifts and the fire burning and the meals and the family. in the meals, in the family.

I think it might be the striving. It all comes down to the striving, doesn't it? In all honesty, there are just moments. There are moments that happen in life when you hear a kid reading the Bible the way that that kid was reading the Bible. A little unsure, you know. but the transference, right? Transferring that great poetry from the Bible, transferring those great ideas that have molded society forever,

transferring that relationship with God from one generation to the next by having that generation read the pages, finger the pages one at a time and read aloud the story, right, of the holy night. Another theme I think that is really at the core of Christmas is returning home, right? Returning home. Returning home, and maybe not in the best of circumstances, but returning home anyway, right? In other words, people have these homes they return to,

these parents they return to, these parents they return to, these relationships they return to that maybe aren't the greatest. Maybe they aren't the best. Maybe things have been rough in the past. Or maybe it's been a decade since you've returned home, a decade since you've had a conversation

with the people who've made you. Or maybe the people that you've returned home, a decade since you've had a conversation with the people who've made you. Or maybe the people that you've made. The guy outside in the train that's going by right now, it's clear to me that he's never played with a horn before. He's just absolutely in love with this horn. He's been blowing this horn for three minutes on the way up here. Another core theme, I think, this time of year, and I'm not talking about in story, though it is in story as well, in good story about Christmas, is the introduction of tradition. You know, the building of tradition into this time of year. Like, what are the limits?

Like, what are the upper limits of tradition? I bought a board this year. It was a beautiful red board. And at first, you know, I looked at this board. We go to this place every

year. Can I tell stories? Can we do stories and stuff tonight? I don't know if we're going to do a Christmas list or not. We go to this place every year. Can I tell stories? Can we do stories and stuff tonight? I don't know if we're going to do a Christmas list or not. We'll see. It's hard for me to talk Christmas and then be focused also. I never imagined ever going to the Outer Banks. You know, like Virginia Beach is fine. Go to the beach, spend some days in the sand, play with the kids in the water. And we went to the Outer Banks one year and stayed in a house that was just absolutely outrageous.

You know, it was early in my writing career. I wasn't making good money, and it was just one of these situations where I found myself, you know, one of the things where I found myself, you know, one of the things that's really weird for a man is you grow up thinking, especially this day and age, you grow up thinking like the things that will happen in your life will happen because of you, because you are the man and you will make the money and do the things that a man does. man and you will make the money and and do the things that a man does um because you know whether you know it or not we don't men don't it's not that we don't depend on the money that our spouse

makes but we can't you can't plan it's it's virtually impossible for a man to plan his life out on another person's dime. It's damn near suicidal, right? But I was put in one such situation. I didn't know what we were getting into. My wife told me, we're going to do this trip. It's going to be a bunch of us. We're going down to the Outer Banks. We can bring the dogs.

My brother's going to be there. My dad's coming. You can see if your family wants it. You know, whatever. And we found ourselves in this house, this freaking insane house on the sound side. And I was just sitting up there like, like in this haze, like this weird poor kid,

poor kid haze. You know what I mean? Do you ever get, it's hard because there's only so many people out there probably who can understand what I'm talking about. But there's this haze that comes over you sometimes if you grew up poor with nothing and you start to achieve things

and you find yourself in these weird situations where everything is good. Or maybe even better than good. Maybe even like unbelievable. Oh, look, another train has come to ruin my show. Thank you, freighters. I hope you're taking coal or something useful up and down the tracks.

Orange juice. Something. I hope that the train cars aren't filled with illegal aliens. But I've had this haze several times in my life. I can remember back in 2020, actually, having this haze sitting at the Caribbean Beach Resort or something like that. Which one do we go to? I think it's Caribbean.

I don't know what it's called, actually. I think that's what it is, the Caribbean Beach Resort in Disney. And I remember sitting there, and I had my laptop in my lap because I work when I go on vacation because I have to. I have to. I can't go on vacation for longer than three days. I start to go crazy. All right, honey, let's go home.

We're here for three more days. Huh? I don't know how i can't but i remember sitting there my son he found this little water slide he was little was it 2020 so he was five you know he found this little water slide there that he did for probably a total of about five hours. All told for the vacation. You know, hours at a time he would do this thing at night. Be sitting there at night, right? And you got to remember, like, I didn't leave Pennsylvania until I was probably 16.

I mean, I didn't leave the tri-state area. Let's go with that. I think I went to Jersey and then I went to Delaware, you know, because they were right there. But I didn't leave the tri-state area until I was like 16. I went on a flight with my buddy Steve to Cancun. They took my girlfriend. It's crazy, right? Like his parents took me and my girlfriend to Cancun. They were such great people. What a crazy life that was. What the hell was going on? Imagine your 16-year-old coming to you and saying, hey, look, you know Steve. You know Steve's mom, right? Like you're talking to your parents. You

know Steve. You know Steve's mom. They're going to Cancun. They asked if I could come. It's not going to cost you anything. Oh, yeah, yeah, no problem. Go have fun. That's so cool. You're going to Mexico. What do you need? You need a passport? I didn't need a passport. Yeah, my girlfriend's going to come too. What? You're going to Cancun, Mexico, 16 years old with your girlfriend? I don't think so. I don't want no grandkids coming on the flight back.

Wild. Anyway, sitting there watching my son in Florida, you know, being in Florida in and of itself is a dizzying effect to me. I know to some people, it's like, well, whatever, it's Florida. Get over it. Being in Disney is always crazy. It's always insane. It always will be insane. You know, we've gone several times. It'll always be crazy to me. I never imagined being there. You know what I mean? It just, when you grow up like I grew up, those things, you put a lot of stuff out of your head, man. You put a lot of stuff way far out of reach. And I remember that same dizzying haze is sitting there in that resort and watching people run around and have a blast. Like I'm here, like this, I'm in this crazy ass place. I'm, you know, 30 whatever years old. My family is doing this thing, this crazy life. We

are, it's so insanely blessed. It doesn't even make any sense. Moments like that really were what drove me to God because I'd have to look up and be like, what have I done? Why? Why do you keep dripping these blessings on me like this? I did nothing but doubt you forever. You know, I did nothing but doubt you for so many years. Say, yeah, well, this, this, and this, this, and this, but that don't add up. You know what I mean?

Just explain heaven to me. It doesn't make any sense. Always been that way with God. You know, it's like a father-son in their teenage years. That's what most of my life with God has been, just arguments back and forth. teenage years. That's what most of my life with God has been, just arguments back and forth. Shut up, Dad. I don't want to do it that way. Yeah, he just constantly, right, constantly with the blessings. I mean, here I am, like, do you have any idea? I don't understand. I have this understand. I have this vision of just a terrible, terrifying, absolutely painful,

torturous death that's awaiting me. Because there has to be a universal balance, right? Everything is balanced. So I wake up day after day. I come talk to you guys. The greatest audience there ever could be. All these people say, oh, I got the best audience. Oh, I got the smartest audience. No, you guys are the best. You know what I mean? There's no better people.

I meet you. I mean, even the ones that I don't meet, the ones that I talk to, I mean, you know how many, I can count on one hand the amount of people that I've ever run into, that I've ever talked to, that I've ever chatted with, that were horrendous to deal with from this audience. And remember, I snuck in here. I snuck into this prepper world. I didn't know anything. I snuck in here. Everybody was so nice, so great. So I find myself sometimes in these hazes, you know what I mean? And

I was looking at this board, right? We were talking about this plank with this sort of frayed, braided rope on it. We go to the Christmas Mouse every year in June-ish, July-ish, whatever. Down there in the Outer Banks. It's a date. It's the Lady Liberty and I's, one of our dates when we're in the Outer Banks. We go out and we walk around the Christmas, because we're both insane over Christmas. Both of us, insane. The dedication in my book, The Christmas Hook, to my wife is,

it's as good as the book itself. It really is. The dedication is, it explains all of that. And I'm looking at this thing, and I'm having one of those haze moments, right, you know, it's like the kids are growing up, and here we are, and I'm still married, and I still love her, and it's still great, and I'm looking at this thing, and this thing has 25 dots on it, 25 things to do, 25 objectives, right? So it's like a three-foot-high red-painted plank with white objectives for each day up until the 25th. And so many times in my life, guys, I don't know if you do this.

You might. I don't know. So many times in my life I see things't know if you do this you might i don't know so many times in my life i see things that are like that and i say to myself man i don't know should i get this should i really buy it wasn't that expensive like 35 bucks i think should i really buy this thing am i really gonna hang this thing up are we really gonna do the things on this and And like nine times out of 10, I leave something like that. I leave it there. And 10 times out of 10, when I leave something like that, I regret it. Right. I say to myself, I'll say this to myself. Oh, I could make something like that. You do that kind of stuff. I'll figure out, I'll do make something like that.

You never wind up doing it right so we bought it we hung it up and uh you know what really what's most interesting about it you know it's silly stuff make gingerbread cookies make a handmade gift go ice skating go look at christmas, right? Decorate the house, whatever. What's most interesting about it is it confirmed sort of all of the things that we already do. You know what I mean? And it was like, wow, we do a lot. We fit a lot into the Christmas season, don't we? The Rabelais are doing a great show called um keeping up with the joneses at christmas time and it's a good lesson in that man they're really it's a good show i it's gonna be on monday but i or sunday but i watched it already because they put their show up earlier on their

channel it's a good way to stay out of debt you You know what I mean? Um, but Christmas is our thing. Like we are the Joneses when it comes to, we are the Jones, like we're not keeping up with shit. If anybody's out there watching, they're like, Oh, I guess we, you know, I mean our across the street neighbors, God bless them. They, they have really turned it up. You know, we drive their children crazy with the decorating they they have really turned it up you know we drive their children crazy with the decorating and they've really they really stepped up man our neighborhood largely has stepped up and uh i don't know it's a good thing it's a beautiful thing i think i'm done

i'm think i'm done with the reminiscence. Where should we go first? Where should we go first? Let's talk a little bit now. Why does, you know, this is how I used to be. This really is how I used to be. It used to take me a good 40 minutes to warm up to a show topic. And people would joke about it, too. Some people would get mad about it. I don't know.

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Oh, look at that thing, too. They've got, like, you know, pictures. The red dot is nice, man. I don't know. There's something about it. I put one on the old... No, no, no, no. I bought a little sissy CXP2 with the crimson trace already on it.

And it's, you know know the handgun red dot i can't say that i love a lot more than just iron sights you know what i mean like i can't say that i can't say that aiming with it is a whole hell of a lot better um because i don't have i don't have a lot of trouble with iron sights on a handgun, finding sight picture quickly. But I'll tell you what, a red dot with a rifle is a game changer, for me personally. It's probably lack of experience, to be honest with you. It's probably lack of experience with the iron sights on the

rifle. Not to say I can't use them, just to say, you know, put a red dot on something's a lot easier. It could be the size too, right? The optic itself is much bigger on a rifle than it is, like the little crimson traits that I have is not enormous, you know what I mean? You know what's a site I'd like to go check out while we're doing some Christmas prep or Christmas window shopping? It's a site that started it all for me, which was Emergency Essentials. Save up to 40%. Save up to 40%.

Look, if you're looking for things to buy for yourself or things to ask for, check the bio on this show. I've got everybody listed there, you know. Everybody that we do business with is listed down there pretty much. Oh, look, they have their own. It's called the Grid Doctor. Grid down.

See, this is what's crazy, guys. This is what I want you to understand most people don't don't get this so they got the grid doctor 2200 solar generator system 2200 watt battery backup expandable with these fold-out solar panels which i think are crap my opinion okay now that i've played around with solar panels, I don't think I'll ever buy fold-out solar panels. I just don't think I'll ever buy them. This system right here, okay? Charging cable, 2048 watt-hour battery,

AC charging cable, 200-watt solar panel. One 200-w watt solar panel. One 200 watt solar panel. XT60 MC4 solar charging cable. I wonder how long the cable is. Well, I did upgrade my cables. Okay, so you get all this. You get four. Looks like you get four AC outlets, some USB, some...

I can't tell what those are. I think there might be two more ACs. I can't tell. But you get all that for, you know, nearly $3,000. Okay? Can you get the picture out of the way of the price? I want to look at the price here. Emergency Essentials, you guys' website's taking a beating.

Let me re... I want to get you the actual price data on this thing. $2,997. So $3,000, right? Now, we all know where that thing's coming from, right? You know where that thing's coming from. I'm going to go to kits over at pointzeroenergy.com because this is what it's all about, you know?

And I'm going to tell you right up front, like the kits are going to cost more money for sure. There's no getting around it. The Boost is a stronger unit than I have. Let's look at the Titan kit because the Boost kits are going to be more expensive. So the Rigid kits, oh, they're not actually. They're pretty comparable. They are pretty comparable.

So the Titan 500 Rigid Kit, right? So we're talking $3,000 over at Emergency Essentials for their China-made solar generator that comes with a 200-watt foldable solar panel, right? The Rigid Kit, which probably during Christmas will go on sale again, and they did 20% off last time. So what would that be? Let's see, 10, 4, so it would be almost like $1,000, right?

Am I doing that right? $10, $400, like $800 off, something like that. The Titan 500 Rigid kit, five, five 100-watt solar panels. They call it the rigid kit because they're not briefcase panels. These are the big dogs. They're not the big dogs. They're not like the 480-watt or whatever, but they're awesome. Big 100-watt panels.

Rigid panels. They come with everything you need to set them up upright if you want to set them upright somewhere. And you get the massive Titan, the American-tested, American-assembled powerhouse for $4,500. You know what I mean? $1,500 extra bucks, you get 300 more watts of solar power and a unit that is, you know, what I'm getting at is I have never seen a deal on these solar generator systems that makes me go like, Oh man, I should've got that one. You get what I'm saying? It doesn't exist. It's just, you look at them and you go like, well, yeah, I could have

saved. And look, when I got my rigid kit, I got it for 30% off. It was a 30% off deal, man. Like it was, it was not much more than $3,000 for that whole kit. That's a steal. That is an absolute steal. I don't think you'll ever even see that kind of a price again. I don't know how they survived doing that. Oh, look, emergency essential sells my medic stuff. I don't think you'll ever even see that kind of a price again. I don't know how they survived doing that. Oh, look, Emergency Essentials sells my medic stuff. I didn't know that. The Vesta. Now, this is cool. What is this? I've never seen that. I have seen these, and I never check these out anymore. What's the deal with this thing? It's the Vesta Indoor Space Heater and Cook Stove. How does this baby work?

Stay warm, fed, fueled, and prepared without power. The Vesta Self-Powered Indoor Space Heater and Stove by Instafire. Instafire six-hour canned heat. Oh, okay, so the Vesta runs on six-hour canned heat by Instafire. So what do you need? What's the deal? The automatic fan. The fan motor operates on heat and must absorb enough of it to run.

Because of that, it takes up to three minutes for the fan to begin spinning. That's pretty cool tech. I'm not going to run. Because of that, it takes up to three minutes for the fan to begin spinning. That's pretty cool tech. I'm not going to lie. This Vesta thing may be worth checking out. Heat a room and cook without power. I wonder what kind of output it is. They got BTUs?

Heat an area up to 200 square feet in size, so pretty small. What's the BTUs when this thing is rocking? All right, let's read some reviews. Roy B. from the United States says, when I saw it online, I thought it's exactly what I could use, but after receiving it, I saw it was really too small,

so I called about returning said product. Not a problem. And within days, I had my deposit and my checking. That's a five-star review, by the way. I gave you a five-star review. I didn't even keep it. Let's see. I have not yet received the item. Customer service

was great. Love my vest. I haven't used it yet. You know, the vest is interesting to me, even though I have a camp stove. The Vesta is interesting because it might be kind of nice to throw in the tent in the wintertime. It's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool deck. I like it. I'd give it a try. Lights and power gear. The Ready Hour Wireless Solar Power Bank. $90. That's a lot.

That's expensive. How much you get on that thing? Oh, it is pretty big. See these? 20,000 mAh, milliamp hour lithium ion battery three usb cable outputs that's probably not bad i'll tell you what i bought a laptop charger which i'm pretty sure is 20 000 milliamp hour it's know, if you really want to have something reliable for your cell phone, that's what you get.

You know, you buy the 20,000. You buy the laptop charger. Don't buy the phone ones. The phone ones suck. You get like one charge out of it and you're done. Not too bad. Lanterns and power bank. Medical supplies. Protection from from elements air purification

let's see what they got on water filters and purification what are they where oh so they got the alexa pures okay it's aine S4 backcountry replacement filter. What's that? What's the Aquamarine backcountry? Show me. Show me. I don't see nothing. Pressurized hydration pack.

Now you got my attention. Three liter tactical filtration pack. All I see is a book bag explain yourself is this just a book bag with a camelback in it or does the camelback itself oh the camelback itself does have a filter that's kind of nice that's kind of sweet i'm not gonna lie that is kind of cool that makes a lot of sense too. Yeah, emergency essentials is where it all began. Let's see. Let's see if they, I don't even know if they do the big buckets anymore. Do they? I think I checked last time and they don't even do them anymore. Emergency essentials food. See, they used to do something called super pails emergency essentials

and one of the first serious prep investments i ever made was a super pail of hard red wheat i've told the story a million times home run deals i like their freeze-dried stuff though it's not bad i've had a lot of their entrees ember oven by instafire here's another one what's the ember oven do oh wow this thing bakes this thing bakes by the instafire fuel that's pretty cool no electricity needed fueled by your fines from the trail toss in leaves sticks wood chips and use products like canned heat oh wow you can throw charcoal in the thing the ember can be fueled by nearly any flammable material you can find in your home out in the backyard or even along trail charcoal instafcoal, Instafire, fire starter, fuel tablets, leaves, pine cones, Instafire, canned heat plus sticks, wood chips. That's pretty neat. I might have to

look into this Instafire stuff. It's kind of cool. It looks pretty small too. I wouldn't mind having a little Instafire at Prepper Camp. I did the solar, what'd I do? I did the sun oven. Look, I'll be honest with you. The sun oven is sweet under the right conditions. The sun oven is sweet. There's two things. Conditions got to be right, numero uno. And the other thing about the sun oven that's important is if you want anything crispy or anything seared or anything like that, don't happen in the sun oven. You know what I mean? But I did things like pasta. You know, we made a really delicious bolognese sauce with some pasta. You know, it lends itself to that kind of stuff.

Slow cooking, stewing, braising. You can get away with that kind of stuff. Slow cooking, stewing, braising. You can get away with that kind of stuff. So, yeah, give me some Instafire products, Santa. Sure, I'll take them. Live Christmas show. We got going on. Our buddy's over at PrepperNet, Scott Hunt Engineer. What we got going on?

Our buddy's over at PrepperNet, Scott Hunt Engineer. Wow, okay. Sorry. I got a contact message, and it was from somebody selling SEO services. They're always so slick. Hey, what's going on I think Yeah Everybody feels like It's like time's running out

Don't they Time is running out Time is of the essence What else So we looked at some guns We looked at some Let's go to buypreps.com That's a good place

To do some window shopping Buypreps.com Man That's a good place to do some window shopping. BuyPreps.com. Man, a good friend from Prepper Camp. I am very interested in the Bivy Stick, the two-way satellite text communicator. Very cool. Wolverine Tough Bottles. I actually need some of those.

I'm going to buy some of those this year. I'm going to buy me some one gallons from the Wolverine Tough bottles. I actually need some of those. I'm going to buy some of those this year. I'm going to buy me some one gallons from the Wolverine Tough bottle. No, I don't want one gallons. I want 5.3 gallons. That's what I want. Yeah. Make that disaster coffee a success. If you've never seen the Wolverine Tough bottles, man, they're so sweet because they're thick plastic bags,

essentially. I mean, bags is the wrong thing, but they break down flat, you know what I mean? And store like magic. And the word on the street, but you know, when you fill them up, they become like a cube of water. They got the 5.3, they got the 750 mil, and they got the one gallon. They got the 5.3, they got the 750 mil, and they got the 1 gallon. And the word on the street from Steve here at buypreps.com is that they are... Oh, look. There's a review from an old host of ours, Morgan Rogue. That, you know, they got a nice little carrier.

Check that out, actually. Let's look at that. Oh, in case you're wondering, Barbra Streisand is under fire for her comments on Gaza. Who cares? Who cares? God, I can't wait till we get over this. I can't wait till we get over this sort of idolatry of...

Whatever stupid actors say we have to pay attention to. Or whatever happens to a stupid actor we have to focus on. You know what I mean? I just can't wait... Oh, wow. Oh, I'm over at wolverinetough.com now also. They've got something sweet I want to talk to you about. Holy moly. The Wolverine Tough shower head is just basically a valve shower head that goes on this Wolverine Tough bottle.

And, you know, drips all over you all right maybe it'd be an accessories right let's see maybe they didn't put it out yet maybe it's something that's coming they got a clamp tubing clamp I like the fast flow spout myself tubing spout accessory valve 3d printed swivel tether cap accessory, swivel garden hose adapter. That's pretty cool. That is kind of cool. Hmm. Interesting. Wolverine tough pump. What's this do? 85 bucks. The Wolverine tough pump connects to all tough bottles for clean transfer four feet hose anti-kink design fits electric drills wait what pump has been taking them all grease remove pump is tested at 10 minutes of pumping the pump manufacturer does not rate portable boom

i don't know how to use that just finished loading 20 gallons in a fifth wheel fresh water tank okay so i guess that's what it is you you use an electric drill to run the pump which pumps the water from a source into a tough bottle or out of a bottle into a tank or some other kind of source that's pretty cool i'd play with it. I'm going to check the clearance rack over at buypreps.com. $431 for 100-watt solar panel, briefcase style. Remember what I was telling you? The SOL Survive Outdoors Longer Solar Shower.

That's pretty cool. 20 liters. Headlamps, always good. Vet's pretty cool. 20 liters. Headlamps. Always good. Vet in a box. I love that vet in a box, man. I'm going to get me one of those. Santa, if you're paying attention, give me a vet in a box. Where's the really cool tools?

Some of the coolest things they got here are the tools. Firearms knives. They're made by a company called Real Avid. These Real Avid over at buypreps.com. 19-in-1 shooters multi-tool. You know I'm not a big fan of that, right? The real Avid amp gun tool 1911 multi-carry tool, right? AR-15 multi-Carry Tool. Real Avid Core Gun Tool AR-15 Multi-Tool Carabiner.

These are sweet, dude. They have a blade. It's like a Tanto-style blade. They have an Allen wrench set. Let's see what they have. It's tiny. Tiny knife, but, you know whatever redundancy pbm family 2.6 inch warren cliff knife blade premium titanium and black oxide finishes laser

sight trigger adjustment hex keys 028 03550, and 1 16th inch. 2.5 millimeter pin punch, tap hammer, flat carbon scraper, metal file, bottle opener pick, nut wrenches at 4 millimeters, 5 millimeters, quarter inch, and 5 16ths. Stainless steel tools are easy to access and lock in place. Sweet, right?

This is the pistol tool, right is the uh this is the pistol tool right yeah this is the pistol tool i don't know man i really like this idea i really do i'm getting one of these 19 11 19 and 1 shooters tool i'm not a big fan of this kind of stuff this is why i'm bringing it up you know like the idea of carrying a one to rule them all as they said on the matter of facts podcast survival tools it's just one of those things that's not appealing to me you know what i mean so to have a a bunch of tools that can affect your firearm that's something that makes sense right like that that's entertainment that's entertaining what do they got on the cooking side oh they got the the wonderful oh no it's sold out the coleman two burner sold out

the mr heater is not sold out, though. They're nice. The Coleman one-burner butane stove. I'll tell you what, it's sold out, too. But the butane stove, I'm not a big fan of it. I don't think it performs well in the outdoors. In the cold, in particular, in the wind. And they've never really been a big fan of it. Now, the Mr. mr heater portable buddy 12 000 btu the hunting buddy man that's a powerhouse right there wow we those little

propane you know even the little buddy isn't bad the little buddy's like the one that looks like a flashlight almost you know it's like a big giant lantern style flashlight or something cool cool stuff it's true there's a lot out there on the market there's a lot of fun stuff to be done to be had and so on I'm not paying any attention to chat I'm so sorry guys

oh they're putting in beautiful Christmas pictures. Look at them. It's not oil on the train. Biden restricted that. Good one, Patriot. I'm so sorry, guys. I'm flaked out today.

In all honesty, my niece just got an Oculus Quest 2, and she texted me midway through the show. She wants to play with me when I get home. And I don't know. You know, I'm 38 years old, 37. I'll be 38 in February. She's 22 or something like that now. I don't even remember.

I don't know. Like, I was telling you about family. I was telling you about, you know what I mean. It's important. It's nice. It's nice. It's nice. Went one time with my parents to Disney and they complained the whole trip about how expensive it was. We never went back.

Well, it is expensive as hell at Disney. There's no doubt about that. Thanks for your concept, my man. I appreciate it. Look at the beautiful tree. JB's beautiful tree. Oh, my goodness. I appreciate it. Look at the beautiful tree. JB's beautiful tree. Oh, my goodness.

Looking good. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. JB looking nice. I love it, man. I love the big snowflakes on the window, too. JB's family's nuts about Christmas, too. Wow. I appreciate you guys in chat, man.

You know, I haven't mentioned this yet. I haven't mentioned this, but one of my goals for 24 is to get more people on the phone. You know, we need callers. We do a podcast. We have a podcast network to some degree, but it's clear that like podcasting was this thing that you did with audio way back right and then podcasting morphed into this thing that became the conversation and video and for my my take is not as good I don't care about the video. The best video podcast that exists,

I never watch them. I listen to them, but I don't watch. I never sit down and watch Joe Rogan. I don't watch him. I don't watch Modern Wisdom. I listen to him. Do you know what I mean? The medium, the medium the medium

is beautiful um because it's audio not because it's pretty video i don't think we'll ever do video for that reason i did some video and you know what i've found it's just like well i'll tell you what a lot of you guys have reached out to me when I did membership videos or when I do membership videos and have been like, it's really nice to just listen. We're on the homestead doing things.

We're at work doing things. You know, talk radio on AM dial is gasping, right? It's not what it used to be. But the thing about talk radio that's beautiful is the call-in. It's the callers, you know? And I really would like to do, I really would like to have an audience that calls in in 2024. I'll make it beneficial for you guys, don't worry. in in 2024. I'll make it beneficial for you guys. Don't worry. But I'd really like to hear from you. You know, and our audience is unique in that you bring so much to the conversation. So, yeah. I think I'm about tapped, guys. I think I'm about tapped. I do appreciate you.

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