The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Preppers LIVE: Jason Carley of FAILSTATE

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

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You're listening to PBM. You're playing back the stability here. Half algorithm, half deity. What is up, PBN family? You may not get the reference, and that is not my concern. Welcome in. Fail state on later tonight. Around about the 10-minute mark, we're going to have Jason Carley on from Fail State. You'll get to know those guys.

Cool operation over there. Top-notch. Sort of like super clean, super chiseled kind of emergency preparedness course structure. Good, experienced instructors, that kind of stuff. We'll talk about it in a few. He's a good dude. He's a good dude, and I think he's running something that is accessible if the people are ready to access it.

You know? That's always sort of been my thing with prepping and preppers and the common man and his entryway into prepping it's like watching it happen all these years it's just been like there's a varying degree of there's a varying degree of oh cuss that has to happen to the average person before they decide, you know what, I think it's time for me to start prepping. And now it's more than ever, you know, it's maximal preparedness, you know, is happening all over the country. And that's good. It's a beautiful thing. Again, it's a step in the right direction, you know. Here at PBN, we do often say always forward.

We say, you know, establish a position and prove upon it daily. That's a Dave Jones adage. But societally speaking, we probably are due a few steps backward. We definitely overshot comfort and convenience by quite a bit. we definitely overshot comfort and convenience by quite a bit. I almost neglect to tell you about what I'm looking at right now, but I guess I wouldn't be who I am if I kept things from you. Over at TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com,

I wouldn't recommend TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com if you're on any medications, particularly mental health. In all honesty, Michael Snyder over there has done such an amazing job all these years. I opened it up today to see what was going on, and there's an article up there saying that the sun is doing something that it's not supposed to do and could mean big trouble in the months ahead. To make a long story short, folks, there were 196.5 sunspots observed on our sun, right? Since July. And the average number of sunspots reached in August was 215. And it's not supposed to be that high. Experts have predicted that August would only see half as many sunspots,

indicating that the solar maximum is imminent. And it may be more active than anticipated, possibly bringing intense solar flares and coronal mass ejections. The number of sunspots has been increasing at an exponential rate for the past couple of months. Hopefully we get a reprieve here in September, because if we don't, we could see severe geomagnetic storms like we did in May. In May, yeah, that's the one where we saw the aurora borealis in Mexico, right? And if you listen to Sarah Hathaway, you know that wasn't because that was such a—I mean, it was a big geomagnetic storm, but it was also the fact that the Earth's magnetic field is a mess at the moment. of Double R Farms said back in May when the G5 extreme solar magnetic levels occurred,

he was out spraying his cotton field when his equipment started acting up. I didn't know what was wrong with it. All I knew it was, and you could get it straightened up and go for a few minutes and it might go 20, 30 minutes and whatever. Minutes from then, all of a sudden you'd be going through the field and it might just take a left. Rabin said the biggest problem with solar flares is preventing his sprayers from being accurate. His GPS uses precise alignments for spraying and when knocked out of its track, it could overspray his crop and kill it.

I guess we've got to get Ronald Rabin on the phone and tell him to go to FaradayContainers.com, huh? Ronald Rabin and you farmers out there listening, we can store, I mean, I guess you couldn't store sprayers in there. Maybe you could in the off-season, though. FaradayContainers.com pushes some amazing stuff out there into the world for this kind of preparedness. The 5-foot workbox, the 20-foot EMP-proof shipping container, the 40-foot EMP-proof shipping container. These are big investments.

But if I were a farmer, I'd put some important stuff in one of those big guys, right? Interesting times, folks. You know the deal. Wouldn't it be funny? Okay, it would not be funny. I was going to say, wouldn't it be funny if I was muted right now? I got to see if anybody's in Element. What's going on in Element?

Yeah, but the economiccollapseblog.com is some great stuff. Preparing for a crash. Warren Buffett has been selling off hundreds of millions of shares. I really like the look of this one here because this really hits home for me. I've told you the great hack already, and I want to tell you again. I was out shopping over the weekend. I'd taken a long hiatus off of shopping. I don't do a lot of shopping. Okay. I exclusively shop thrift shops now, thrift markets exclusively. I talked to the members about boots and pants, but outside

of that, um, it's thrift shops all the way man i'm telling you right now that people have so much good stuff that they like literally throw it all to the thrift shops i mean i got this i never even heard of the brand before it was so nice actually if you were on instagram you you saw it. I was wearing it today. It's like a little, you know, pullover, zip-up pullover type deal. It's so nice, man. It was like six bucks. It felt like it had never been worn once.

What's available out there at thrift shops nowadays, it's a whole other ballgame. You know, people just spending money on nonsense day in and day out. And, oh, my God, look at all the nonsense I've accrued. And then it goes to a thrift shop. You know, they spent $70 on it and you spent $7. I'm telling you. See, the survival skill no one ever talks about is adaptability. Right?

In good times when the economy is, like you can be well-dressed in good times and in bad times. You can eat well in good times and in bad times. You can live well in good times and in bad times, so long as you're adaptable. And having some skills helps too, you know. Having some skills helps too. You know, having some skills helps too. The death of the consumer. This one's got my attention. Because this is America, you know.

This has been America for a long time. About 37% of American adults are in households that found it somewhat or very difficult to pay for typical expenses between late June and late July, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the same survey, consumers are particularly struggling in poor states such as Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, have the highest percentage of adults who say they're having trouble affording basic needs. percentage of adults who say they're having trouble affording basic needs. Well, it sounds like our guest is with us. I'm going to run a quick ad, guys. Are you prepared to be the family doctor in a disaster or emergency? This is the Intrepid Commander, and I'm holding The Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Forgy, MD. In this great book, you'll learn how

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Gotta love that Doc Forgy, man But, alright We've got Jason Carley with us of Fail State I prefaced the group, Jason I let them know you were going to be on today in our intro And I appreciate you joining us, man How are you this evening? Yeah, no problem. No problem.

It's a bold mission that you've undertaken, my friend. I like it. I like that you've taken sort of the— what I said at the intro of the show is that it's as chiseled and as clean and as well presented as any bit of preparedness core stuff that I've ever seen. That's what Fail State really, when I first saw it, that's what it really stuck out to me as. Thank you. Yeah, it's very... I don't want to say it's inviting. You know what your website is, man? It's comforting.

You know what I mean? You go there, and it's kind of like... comforting. You know what I mean? Like you go there and it's kind of like. Thank you. get behind and i believe in the ethos i I believe in the mission. I want to be part of this. And then there's also a lot of brands that I think in my opinion go too far to the extreme of just creating fear without offering solutions. And so we want sales space to be a brand that's somewhere right in the middle of that. It's as credible as a government site would be. It's not something that's over the top and here to scare you. It's here to offer solutions, but at the same time, it has branding that is cool and that people would want to be associated with it.

Yeah, I like it. I would like to know when you guys were all sitting around, if it was a you guys all sitting around kind of situation um how you settled on the name it's a great name and it and it's sort of something that we all get in the preparedness community like you say fail state and everybody listening to my show at the very least is like yep that's what i'm here for you you know this from your experience, trying to name a company. I've tried to name several companies over the past decade. It's like you come up with a perfect name, and then you find out the website domain is taken, the trademark is taken.

There's always something when you come up with a perfect name. This one, we talked around a lot of different names. And then I think one day I texted my business partner partner and I said, hey, what about Fail State? And we just thought there's no way that's going to be available. And we were able to get the dot com. We were able to get the trademark. It just felt meant to be. We definitely lucked out on that one.

Yeah, it sounds like a video game. I would have expected it to be like a video game out there named Fail State. You would think so. I think there is a movie named Fail State, an older movie if I'm not mistaken, but thankfully that didn't affect us on the trademark. I think Fail State, it's not a real word, but it gives a very clear idea of what we mean when we say that. It's the idea that everything ultimately breaks down.

It's a little bit of Murphy's Law. But it's these situations where you find yourself in a crisis where, you know, the grid goes down and all the supply chain fails. And, you know, that's one fail state. Or it could be that you are at the scene of an accident or a violent encounter and law enforcement's not there or first responders, EMS is not there right away, and it's on you to be the solution in that moment. And so that's really the whole emphasis of fail state is to help responsible citizens to be more ready for these different crisis scenarios. Could be everyday life. It could be something that happens when you're out driving with your kids. Or it could be something that's more widespread, like a grid-down scenario, where we have just

found, and I have found over the past eight years or so that I've kind of been into this personally, there's a lot of people who I think are looking for answers out there. I think there's a lot of people who I think are looking for answers out there. I think there's a lot of people who are concerned. They haven't always had the right places to go find that information. For people like you and myself and probably a lot of your viewers, you can get online and you can research. You can go take in-person courses. I felt like I had this huge advantage because I had a handful of friends

and some mentors who were military or former military who kind of guided me and said, hey, here's kind of filtering out. Here's what you should be paying attention to and learning, and here's what maybe isn't so important. And so that's part of what we're trying to do. And if you go look at the courses we have up right now, it's really fun, incredible expert instructors who you probably wouldn't ever get the chance to go talk to in person and we're connecting them directly with people who like i said it could

be my mom who's never going to go talk to a former field team six guy but now she can go take that course and get that information yeah you're entering into that world that I've been in for a while now, which is trying to figure out, I don't even know if it's a figure out, it's more of like coming to an understanding that there are variables in every person for when they'll decide, now I i'm gonna take this preparedness stuff seriously you know like we saw that way in the past since covid yeah exactly that's what i was about to say exactly since covid a lot of that has changed but there's still a lot of hangers on and i still run into people regularly i was doing an instagram live today and there was a guy from Long Island who was like, this is the moment I start to take preparedness seriously, were literally his words.

And, you know, it's always interesting to me what gets people on that path. For me, it was having my first child. Same. was having my first child. Same. It was in 2018. We had our first son. And I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy,

which I think is probably the best prepper book ever. And I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan of all his Western novels. But that one just is so haunting. And I read that right before we had our first son. And then we moved from Texas to the Pacific Northwest. and all of a sudden i was i'm from texas we don't really have uh earthquake risks here and tsunamis and all that and all of a sudden i'm living on an island off the coast of seattle and i start realizing and researching holy crap there's a there is a massive ticking time bomb here this cascadia seduction zone and uh and which will be the worst natural disaster ever in modern,

I mean, in the entire American history when that happens. And so it was kind of a confluence of different events that got me thinking, okay, if something happened, I'm not ready to sustain my family through it. Like, I truly wasn't. And so that kind of set me off on that path before COVID, before the riot to 2020. None of that had happened yet. So it is interesting when I feel like people have that moment of something sparks in them. For a lot of people, I know it was COVID and the supply chain issues.

For some people, it was civil unrest. Some people still, I think some people realize it, and then everything goes back to normal, and they kind of want to think, okay, maybe that's not going to happen again. And who knows what it will take for those people to be convinced. Well, there's also the element of, I'm not dealing with that right now. You know, I think that's like the most common. Daily life is a struggle in itself.

A lot of people don't have time to think about this. And that's why I always say it's really crisis readiness or preparedness, whatever you want to call it. It's a form of insurance. Just because you have house insurance doesn't mean you think your house is going to get totaled tomorrow, but you have to have it

because if something bad does happen, you can't afford to not have it. The same with health insurance, car insurance, life insurance. And crisis readiness, to me, is just another form. I don't think the world's going to end tomorrow. Something really bad could happen tomorrow. I want to make sure if it does happen that my family's going to be okay. As much as I can within my own means and my abilities, I want to make sure that they will

be okay. Well, there's that too. You know, that's a good point, that when you open the Pandora's box to those concerns and you commit, when you were sitting there in the Pacific Northwest and you had to commit to this idea that if there's an earthquake here, we're going to drown from the tsunami or worse. You know what I mean?

Once you admit that stuff to yourself, then you have to act. And you don't know how much that could cost. You don't know what that could—you know what I mean? You have no idea what you're getting yourself into most people when they say, I'm going to start prepping tomorrow. So you guys do a good job. We'll figure it out. I think you guys do a good job. We'll figure it out. I think you guys do.

Sorry, go ahead. No, that's my hope. That's part of, you know, when I've tried to get people to take it seriously, just friends and family members even, it's very overwhelming for people to know where to start. For people like yourself, you've been thinking about this so long, it's kind of obvious. Like, okay, I know I need to have water-covered food in storage for at least, you know, X number of weeks or months, security. You think through all these scenarios,

but that takes years to really think through that. And I'm sure you've spent time and money on stuff that you look back on and think, and think that really was maybe not the best use of resources but you figure it out the hard way and my hope is with fail state with the initial courses that we have it's a guide to help save you all that time and energy for people who truly are just starting out it's a great place to start our first course that I would encourage people to take when they're getting into preparedness is essentially a guide for getting started, a guide to disaster readiness.

It's just talking through a list of threats that could be on your radar, but it really depends on where you live. You don't need to be preparing for everything that could possibly happen on the planet. Let's do a threat assessment and look at, hey, for your area, what are the most realistic things that could go wrong?

And let's make a plan for that. And then you can start to scale that. I really believe in covering the basics first, things that are the most likely, and then start looking at things that are unlikely but would have very high consequences if they did happen and plan for that as well. So hopefully with the three courses that are kind of, I see as kind of a trilogy, not to make it sound more grand than it is, but there's a course on basically looking at your threats and figuring out, okay, and basic preparedness around food and water. Then there's a course on securing your grid down home. If the grid goes down, things might get ugly. So what can you do, even for somebody who doesn't want to own a firearm,

what are steps you can take to secure your home and also to make your home livable without utilities and power and all the things we need, you know, cooking on your stove. What are you going to do without all that stuff? And then there's a third course that's emergency evacuation, which personally I think is one of the most overlooked elements of family preparedness because there are many scenarios that can happen from civil unrest to a chemical accident. You know, look at what happened a couple years ago in East Palestine, wildfires, where you might have to just leave in the middle of the night with your family, literally, and have minutes to get out. So what are you taking with you? Where are you

going? How are you going to get there? What if the roads are blocked? A lot of things, the things that literally could save your life and save your family's life. So that's, I think, a great starting point for people that are trying to figure out how can I just insulate my family from these threats. And we're not talking about a nuclear war. We're talking about things that are happening all the time. I mean, look around the country, look around the world, these things are happening all the time. So it's not unrealistic to prepare for them. them and you guys have uh instructor duane liptak jr u.s marine corps major f-18 pilot 112 combat missions in operation iraqi freedom you've got is he the main instructor for all of these things no he's not but each course has its own instructor. Dwayne Liptack Jr. is an awesome individual and patriot. He was an F-18 pilot. He also was a plank holder in Marine Special Operations Command and did stuff on the ground during the War on Terror. got him in the 15 that had dual engine failures and had a pretty bad back injury from that. He retired, and he's actually now the executive vice president of Magpul,

the firearms accessory company. Oh, Magpul, nice. Very, very, yes. That's not on his list here. He's a human being. Yeah. Well, and that's somewhat intentional because, as I said, the target audience that we're really interested in trying to serve right now, and I think it will evolve over time and expand, are people who don't necessarily consider themselves or want to think of themselves as preppers.

I'm a prepper. I don't think there is a negative stigma to that for me. I mean, even I know hardcore preppers who don't want to say they're preppers. It's just a word that people, some people don't have come to just associate with silly nonsense from the History Channel show. But I also know there's a lot of people who, there's a lot of people out there who maybe don't like guns or aren't interested in guns. And I, you know, I don't feel that way personally. However, I think that you don't necessarily have to own a firearm to,

to be a prepared responsible citizen. I think, I think if you can, you should, but if you're not comfortable with it or for whatever reason, you can't, you don't need to be in firearms. So that was intentional that we don don't talk about uh magpul and also it's just it's not necessarily pertinent to the course and the information uh of what what joanne is teaching in that course but it is a it is a very cool fact about him and he's a he's an awesome guy so that that he is the instructor for that guide to readiness uh course that I would say would be the entryway for people to take that course and really get squared away on all the basics in one place. How else do you gather these guys, these instructors that do this stuff for you?

It's a standout feature. You know what I mean? It's not like you're reading yeah we have right and that's that's a huge part of our value proposition is it's not some random guy in this basement who may or may not know what he's talking about sometimes they do sometimes they don't it's hard for somebody who's not already into this to to really vet those people for themselves so if you go on failstate.com, we have four instructors that are live right now on the site,

and they are all, I mean, Dwayne, we have a retired Marine Corps colonel. We have a guy who was SEAL Team 6 and a CIA contractor. And then we have medical courses from Dark Angel Medical founder, medical courses from Dark Angel Medical founder, Kerry Davis, who was a flight medic in the military and also went into the civilian world.

He's been teaching trauma response around the country for probably 20 years now. It's really important to us to have people who are highly credible experts in their fields who are not making stuff up or giving opinions. We want people to be able

to trust it and not have to be going on YouTube and watching 20 videos and trying to piece it together. We want to give people highly credible instructors so you watch that course and you don't have to go vet it and question it later. What's that good information?

Yeah, it's a standout feature of Fail State right I'm trying to think if there's somewhere comparable that has so much you know without that sort of like Fieldcraft survival those guys who run the show are kind of

the majority of them are military I think they're all very squared away, and Mike Lover seems like an awesome guy. I have not met him in person. I love what they're doing. Fieldcraft Survival, the difference where I see in the market, and I don't see us as a competitor to Fieldcraft Survival, is that they focus heavily, part of their business is on tactical training. There's already great companies like Fieldcraft Survival teaching people how to run a gun and do tactical stuff.

And we don't need to be another tactical company. It's kind of a coincidence in some ways that our first four instructors on the platform are military, are military, but that's kind of the network that I have. And I do think that, you know, the government invest hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars into these individuals to train them and teach them things. And so we can share that with the public and obviously things that are not classified,

but the public gets to learn what they have learned through their training. That's a great value add for our customers. Yeah. So where are you guys planning on showing up to sort of push the fail state message? Like, do you have a platform you're going to spend most of your time on? Is there a social network you spend time on? What is the marketing plan to reach this group?

That's a great question, and we're figuring that out as we go. We did a soft launch a couple months back and just started doing some initial advertising and marketing testing. As you know with your business, it's a very difficult space because of all the tech censorship and just what you're allowed to say. And it's kind of shocking what you're not allowed to say when we have nothing firearms related. As you know, that's a huge red flag for any of the major, you know, Meta and Google.

for any of the major, you know, meta and Google. But with a lot of the new ad policies, you can't even address a bad scenario or imply that somebody might be at risk unless you're an insurance company. For some reason, if you're an insurance company, you can say whatever you want. You know the reason. Money!

Even on a platform like Reddit, we have had trouble running test advertisements. With very, I think, very safe ad creative where we feel like we have a pretty receptive market just in terms of our ad testing and some of the demographics there. And Rumble is pretty open to this kind of content. So we're looking at places like that to start to roll out ads in the very near future. I think you know from the last time we talked recently, but we're just right now in the process of launching our full site. So this is very new. We had one course up earlier this year when we did that soft launch. So this is a really exciting time for Trail State. We're just at the point where the courses are live, everything's up on the site,

and we're now going to be able to push forward and start to really put that time and energy into the advertising and marketing well i love what you guys are doing man and i like that you're keeping it affordable you know it's online it's affordable we can't deny the fact that people are freaking shut-ins now and with this kind of stuff you know you're almost it's almost better if you're a shut-in with some of this stuff. You know, it's – well, maybe not better, but it just makes it a lot more accessible when you can take an online course that's affordable at your leisure. And it's kind of personal. You know, like how – I don't need to sit in a room with a bunch of people and talk about how i'm going to secure my house you know it seems weird but uh i think it really it depends on the subject matter there's something it's like you know we have a trauma course stop the bleed

course that carrie teaches on the south state site and i've done in-person stop the bleed i used to do search and rescue in washington state so i've had in-person stop the bleed I used to do searching rescue in Washington state so I've had in-person training but I will say you would be surprised how effective a good instructor can be at getting you very close to all the way there just through video because we're able to show details you know there's close-up shots there's a lot of ways with good video production and really good instructor that you can get pretty close and then go practice at home. Go put a tourniquet on. It's not rocket science.

Are there some things that you should do in person? I think everyone should go take a spotting course in person. Terry Davis teaches spotting them all over the country. If you want to go learn small unit tactics or CQB, yeah, you should go do that in person because watching a video about it and doing that in your bedroom is one thing, but going and taking a class with some military guys or law enforcement, it's going to be a very different experience. So I think that it really depends on the subject matter, but with what we're really

trying to get out there to people, I think it absolutely is effective online. And like you said, it's convenient, it's affordable, and you really don't need to leave your home to people. I think it absolutely is effective online. And like you said, it's convenient, it's affordable, and you really don't need to leave your home to learn a lot of this stuff. You just need a credible instructor to know you're getting good information. No doubt about it, man. Failstate.com, PBN family, go and check them out. Anything else you want to let us know, Jason, before we head our separate ways? Thank you. I appreciate it. And thank you to your audience for listening in.

And I look forward to speaking with you guys more in the future and hopefully doing some more collaboration with you. Yeah, keep us up to date. Let us know when new stuff drops, and we'll spread the word for you. Have a good evening. You too, sir. Thanks. See you. the word for you have a good evening you too sir thanks see ya all right pbn family failstate.com check them out cool cool dudes good people you know what i mean they want to get uh they want to get people ready just like we do same deal so whole operation you know what I mean, of brilliant instructors with good information teaching you.

You know, it's my experience and the way that I do research and the way that I do learning at large. You know, I'm not a one training type of guy. I'm a mass absorber. You know what I mean? Like if I'm learning a new thing well I could talk to you about Warhammer because it's my biggest dork hobby right now

I don't listen to one I don't like watch one video on how to play Warhammer or the Warhammer lore over and over and over and over again you know what I mean I pull that stuff from everywhere I find I'll take the Warhammer lore over and over and over and over again. You know what I mean? I pull that stuff from everywhere.

I find, I'll take, and I think you should do this with almost anything. It just works, you know? It's like you throw a bunch of information from a bunch of sources at the wall, see what sticks, see what five stick, ten stick, and then dig into those and see where the best is. And I usually, I mean, in all honesty, like three to five. Three to five is really my golden number set, right? I was thinking about three today, three, something about three that works just perfectly for me.

But about three to five sources is what I do, you know, on anything. When I was first learning about bow hunting, I listened to about three podcasts about hunting. The traditional archery podcast, I listened to I Am Turkey Hunting, and I listened to one other one, I don't remember what it was. And that's how I roll, man. And I take that information in from different people and really just... I don't know, there's something about it to me. You might be the type of person...

And look, the Fail State site is set up for convenience. And like I said, the courses are like between $15 and $50, so it's a pretty good price. They're comparable to ours. But for you members, don't forget, our courses are 100% free, man. If you're a member and you haven't taken our incredible courses for free, you're out of your mind.

I just had a brilliant idea that will have to go on the back burner about how to really take course-type learning to a different level. But that's neither here nor there, folks. What else? Oh, disastercoffee.com. Go check it out, disastercoffee.com. Let's see. Real quick, we'll do a little peek behind the scenes because I'm waiting for some approval. I'm waiting for some approval. I'm supposed to have a podcast up for you from Disaster. That's going to go up tomorrow. No way I'm getting that done today. It's 9.30 at night.

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Cinnamon My father-in-law before he passed Years before he passed He had an issue with diabetes Like he was pre-diabetic And he used cinnamon to regulate his sugar Diet and cinnamon So we threw our hat in the pumpkin spice ring and he used cinnamon to regulate his sugar diet and cinnamon.

So we threw our hat in the pumpkin spice ring. I was feeling really fall, really Halloween this year, and I like our seasonal coffees. I really love our seasonal coffees. I love when November hits, and I can order that first bag of the Christmas hook. The Christmas hook coffee is, there's nothing like it. The coffee itself is astounding, but what's amazing about the Christmas hook coffee, the label design is a label. It's a gift tag and it has to and from on it. So you can buy

the Christmas hook coffee, man, and put, you know, to and from, give it away. Buy the Christmas hook coffee, man, and put to and from. Give it away. I don't want to go all crazy with disaster coffee because we got a great show here. We're relatively on target. I don't want to go crazy. We called it the black pumpkin. Why did we call it the black pumpkin?

Let me close all these windows out so I can just talk to you. We called it the Black Pumpkin because, you know, one of the things that got me through school was Dean Kuntz. There's no doubt about it. It got me through school. I don't know that I would have made it without Dean. My mother was a huge Dean Kuntz fan. She fed me Dean Kuntz books.

I don't know why. Totally inappropriate. But she fed them to me. Maybe because she knew I loved them and she knew I hated school. But one book I got my hands on is called Strange Highways. And I've talked about Strange Highways before on the network. Strange Highways was my motivation to write Darker Trails. It really was. It was his collection of sort of shorter stories,

shorter horror stories. And one of my favorites, maybe not my favorite, but probably my favorite, actually. When I was younger, I'd read the shortest ones, which didn't make much sense to me because I'd read his bigger books. But for some reason, Strange Highways, the stories that were long seemed like they weren't going to be as good

as a full book because they weren't a full book. And the ones that were shorter seemed like they'd pay off with some spooky stuff. So vividly, I remember reading the tale of the black pumpkin. I remember reading the story, The Black Pumpkin, which is one of the first stories in the book. I think it's Strange Highways is the first one. And then The Black Pumpkin is story two. And I remember reading that story, man. And, you know, it centers all around this creepy old pumpkin carver who tells this cheapskate dad who's there with his family, you know, it centers all around this creepy old pumpkin carver who tells this cheapskate dad who's there with his family, you know,

how much is the pumpkin, the dad says, and he says, you get what you pay for. And the guy says, well, so I can give you whatever I have in my pocket. And he says, you get what you pay for. And they wind up giving him, like, I don't remember how much money they wind up giving him, but it's next to nothing. And on the ride home, you know, they're making fun of the guy like, yeah, we got over on him. And that night, the black pumpkin comes to life. The black pumpkin sitting on the dining room table starts to sprout viney legs and rotting you know stems and things of that nature and this putrid pumpkin starts to work its way through the household and up the steps and into different

people's rooms and starts killing off the little boy the little there's one singular character one main little character little guy who did the right thing and told his dad you know told his brother stop making fun of the guy and we should have paid him more and that little boy sits in his bed and i could so when i was that age man i was so scared of everything that i could i just pictured myself in my bed in this pumpkin sneaking and skulking around the house killing my sister and my dad and my mom, and then me sitting there waiting for my turn. And it was just so awesome. You know what I mean?

It was just an epic story. And I don't know. Look, if you're going to build businesses and you're going to build a life, there should be some intersectionality. You know what I mean? Have a little intersectionality. Long story short, the black pumpkin will be out soon. DisasterCoffee.com. But we're live.

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