The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Preppers LIVE: Steve from BuyPreps.com

Episode Date: November 28, 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. PBN family, why does it feel like I haven't seen you in so long? Took off Wednesday before the holiday. I was out shopping. Wednesday, before the holiday, I was out shopping. I was out scouting for this incredible black truffle-layered brie. Oh, God, my wife threw it away on me when I went to take the trash out.

Hilarious. It was at the end of the meal, so I had the most of it. But it's been a while. I mean, I stopped in Touch Base. We had some great shows, some phenomenal shows through the holiday season, thanks to those, or through the holiday itself, thanks to those hosts willing to hop on.

We got a new one from Mel Douglas Hogan tomorrow night. It's called Meatballs and Snowflakes. Not sure what that's going to be about, but I'm loving The Rising Republic. I hope you guys are enjoying it too. It's a great show. Swenson at the helm. I don't know. Not a whole lot to announce as we roll into this break between big holidays.

Roll into the holy days. We are going to be conducting some form of 30-day kettlebell challenge it was i don't know it was brought into being by the prep and patriot you guys know him and and pappy of course the war horse of fitness here at the prepper broadcasting network he uh he was talking about maybe 30 days or maybe something along those lines.

So I'll put that together for you. It may be a Prepper Fit and Health exclusive. I'm not sure, to be honest with you. I don't know. I feel like the Prepper Fit and Health crowd deserves an exclusive, to be honest. I know many of you hate that. But, you know, membership is $5 a month.

So if you're really hell-bent, I think you can scrape is five bucks a month so if if you're really hell-bent i think you can scrape together five bucks a month and join us for the kettlebell challenge tonight tonight we've got uh one of our prepper camp buddies that you never hear from you never he's even a he's even a member of PBN row as we call it there. He's next to you. I think this year he's next to Sarah Hathaway. It's Steve from buypreps.com. And, uh, if you're going to get to know Steve, you're going to get to know buypreps.com.

And, uh, you know, a taste of, of one of these guys who is, who is there year after year at Prepper Camp. And, you know, it just, we can't say enough about the event and the people at the event. And it's just, it's always a pleasure to get people like Steve on to tell his side of things, talk about his great business and the things that, he taught two classes at Prepper Camp on top of being a vendor, which, you know, it's no easy feat, man.

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These people get it. They get you, and they are the future of healthcare. Visit TWC.health slash PBN. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network.b live in chat what is up she was also at prepper camp by the way uh real quick headline before we get steve on here developing u.s banks filed to close 64 branches in a single where am i doesn't have the whole end of it there. Day, month, I don't know what it is. Big banks such as PNC Bank and JPMorgan Chase have filed to close several branch offices in multiple states amid a troubling pattern of rising branch shutdowns in recent years. Interesting, man.

Just keeps heating up. Crazy. Steve, what's up, my man? You still with us? Hey, Jim. Yeah, I'm'm still here thanks for having me on thanks for joining us tonight i appreciate it so uh was it year two for you at prepper camp last year uh second year as a vendor uh fifth year going to prepper camp. Was your first year presenting? First year presenting, yeah. So you took two slots your first year.

Yeah, I did. Dang, man. That's ballsy. Two classes a day for three days. Two classes a day for three days is no joke. I remember Dave Jones was on a two-class diet. Actually, one year he was on a three-class diet per day and running a booth. Well, I can't think of running three classes. Two is bad enough.

It's a really busy schedule. It is, man. The end of the night comes and you're like, hallelujah. Were you guys at a campsite or what? No, we were not roughing it I was with my wife And she's not much of a tent camper So we were out at the mountain lodge

Oh, nice That's cool Yeah, out in Flat Rock Yeah Nice place, by the way Pretty nice Yeah Yeah, my family i say this every year nobody ever comes i'm always a loner my family may come this year and i think i'm gonna

set them up with the same situation have them show up when they get bored have them head out they're the same way well my kids don't mind my oldest doesn't mind it so much. The younger one, he's not too big into camping. And I've never camped in the woods woods with my wife. Never once. Always a campground? No, like never camped with her, period. Never camped at all? No, I just go out solo.

I would take my oldest son. He got into it at a young age. A lot of times I go out solo. I would take my oldest son. He got into it at a young age. A lot of times I go out solo. It's creepy and nice. You ever camp solo? Like in a hammock? No. I used to have a large travel trailer that I would go out in, but not camping in a tent by myself,

no. Camping solo in a hammock, that's pretty tough. It's pretty tough, I mean, on the mind. It's actually really nice and wonderful, but you know, you wake up in the middle of the night and you're like, what am I hearing? What's creeping about? I woke up one time, Steve. I usually only camp at wildlife management areas in Virginia because there are so many. And they're vast and they're free.

You know what I mean? And it's also cool because most of the campgrounds anymore particularly if you want to do like backcountry camping you can't even make a fire so that kind of ruins things for me but these wildlife management areas you can go do essentially what you want you can wake up and go hunting if you want to which is nice but uh i don't know what happened this night. I was actually, matter of fact, we were talking largemouth bass. I was fishing, catching largemouth bass the night before, set the hammock up, fell asleep. I woke up.

This was in Amelia, Virginia. And there were so many owls hooting that it sounded like someone was running an owl, like a digital owl call from somewhere. That's hilarious. I had never heard anything like it. You know what it reminded me of? It sounded like somebody had a turntable.

Remember how DJs used to scratch records? That's exactly what it sounded like. The hoots would just hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot, hoot. And it was multitudes of owls. And I had never heard anything like that before. And I was just like, I don't know what's going on. I don't know if that's people or not. I don't know what it is because I'd never heard them like that before.

But, you know, those types of things can happen to you with the wildlife out there. Yeah, down here in Georgia, you hear a lot of different stuff. But coyotes is one of the big ones that you lay there in bed and go, oh, that's not very far away. How many and how far away? We used to have a gang of them in my neighborhood. I'd wake up early and go running, and I remember running up one of the streets of my neighborhood. It's very hilly.

And I remember a fire alarm going off. And this is like 4.35 in the morning. And the fire alarm goes off, you know, and then like it sounded like about 20 coyotes started howling with it and maybe across the highway or something like that they were pretty close and i was like wow wait that is unnerving for sure yeah well i uh i live on a little hobby farm and uh we have uh chickens so I hear the roosters a lot. Oh, yeah. Do you guys get the fox attacks, possum attacks, all that kind of stuff? Well, we've got our chickens locked up pretty tight.

One of the biggest problems is hawks. is hawks. So before I built a full enclosure, we lost a lot of hens to hawks, unfortunately. Yeah, the hawks are relentless, man. Chickens got it rough out there in the wild. They got it mind-free range, man, all day. The only time they get locked up is at night in the coop.

They run around my yard and a little bit outside my yard um most of the day and they're survivors sometimes they got like big clumps a feather missing out of them i gotta patch them up a little bit yeah they run into but the hawks are big they're they're flying around all the time. Oh, yeah. Well, we free-ranged ours for about two years out here in our homestead with no problems. Didn't lose a hen at all. And then we started, you know, a few summers ago, they just decided to come down and take a hen out. And out and i said well that was a tasty meal so a few days later they'd take another one i'm like well this is a bad trend yeah yeah i get that we go through through bouts of that from time to time we have uh we got pit bulls though so the risk to reward benefits

gotta be really high because you know if a possum or something hops the fence it could get a chicken but it also could meet its demise you know what I mean and it ain't pretty man you forget you know

the dogs always remind me that, like, you know how you see, like, a lion bite the windpipe of a zebra? I don't know why they do that. Like, they, you know, they choke the animal to death, basically. And then eat it. Yeah, and they hold them down. Yeah, and then eat it once it's dead and the dogs always remind me that like that only the cats are kind nothing else is kind they just bite at it they

just buy my older dogs play with their food my big dog he'll just bite the animal like consistently in its midsection like not to like tear it or rip it open or anything like that. He just like, it's almost like he's chewing it. It's like, and I just feel so bad for the poor thing. Cause it's just getting crunched up inside, but you know,

yeah, I got golden retrievers. They, they love all of God's creatures, even hawks. I was talking about, um, on Instagram before I jumped on here about I just bought a – I don't even remember the title of it, a Dean Kuntz book because it was on sale for Black Friday on Amazon while I was eating dinner.

I was looking for it, looking through Amazon for whatever might be a good deal. I don't know if you read him, but's always on the golden retrievers he's a big golden retriever fan his stories a lot of his stories have golden retrievers in them and and he espouses all those you know like enigmatic forces and feelings and emotions that the uh golden retrievers have i never had one i don't know i know a few i never had one. I don't know. I know a few. I never had one. They're a different kind of breed of dogs. Elaborate. They demand love. That's 100% true.

You'll be sitting there, and then all of a sudden your arm is up in the air because they put their nose under it and flipped it up onto their head or their back. My son walks two of them in the neighborhood for neighbors. And one of them is named Montana, and that's her game. She demands it. She definitely demands it. She plops down in front of you and whines and gives you her big, she's got one of those big flat heads. And that's it. That's her game.

She'll nuzzle you, all that. I've got two 60-pound lap dogs. Yeah, that's how it goes. You like them for security? Do they bark pretty good or no? They do bark. They like to bark at the deer running around or whatever wildlife runs past the fence. But most people aren't scared of a golden retriever. It does keep the deer out of the backyard.

At least the bark can alert you. It looks like JB in chat has some experience with the goldens as well. And also battling the raccoons. I didn't know the raccoons were the ones that bite the heads off. They do. I thought that was how. The chickens, not the dogs. No, it's the other way around with the dogs what's up garden girl in chat how you doing well you know we came to to be our relationship came to be because of the fact that we were kind of lined up at uh prepper together, and I got to know, and you do the Prepper Cam booth about as unique as anybody can.

And I think it's brilliant. I think it's brilliant, by the way. It must feel really good when you guys get your booth set up and you're watching everybody else hauling countless oddities and preparedness gear and stuff like that. I really like the way that you guys do it with the QR codes and all that kind of stuff. I think you might be on to something.

Did you see that somewhere else, or is that just something you came up with? We have the QR codes just on the back of the cards but yeah i've never seen anybody do do it that way oh you know what i mean i don't know i guess it's a new thing it's a freaking really good idea dude i mean in comparison to like hauling and hauling and haul i mean people haul a lot of stuff into Prepper Camp. Hopefully they sell it all. I could sell a lot of stuff, but at Prepper Camp, I'd have to drag thousands and thousands of dollars worth of stuff and stack boxes up to the roof. So we just showed a bunch of our most popular stuff and interesting things

and just direct everybody to the website. Just go ahead and buy it and we'll just ship it to you. You don't even have to take it home with you. I love it. Some people like to take it home with you. I love it. Some people like to take it home with you, but we bring the stuff so that people can just touch and feel and play with it and just see what it's like. It's hard to tell from a picture on a website unless you know what you're looking at. No, I get that there are some things you got to put hands on but something like an exothermic underbarrel flamethrower

yeah which is available at buypreps.com right now absolutely uh it's impressive it's uh shoots the flame out 25 feet. See, I'm too dumb. I don't even know what exothermic means. That's a good question. Where does the fuel get held in this thing? It actually has a fairly small tank in that, but you can get it backpack tank. So that is a tank right there. I see it. Yeah, that is a tank. But it can use either gasoline, but it's better to have a mix of gas and diesel. It does better.

Oh, it's way bigger than I thought it was. Oh my goodness. I hadn't drilled down on this thing until just now. That picture, you've got a great picture of the AR-15 with it outfitted. I had no idea it was that big. I thought this thing was tiny.

The representation on the site made me think for some reason that it was much smaller. No, it's mostly tank. Oh yeah, you've got some fuel to play with in that thing. I was picturing sight made me think for some reason that it was much smaller no it's mostly tank oh yeah you got some fuel to play with in that thing i was picturing a tank about like a quarter of the size of my cell phone or something like that no unfortunately not man that's cool yeah that thing looks fun yeah there's that one and then there and then there's one that is not under rail mount. It's actually handheld.

There are two different types of flamethrowers. But I want one for Christmas. That's what I want. That's what Santa's bringing, Steve. That'll teach them damn hawks. That would be good. Flaming hawks. Flaming death from below.

Death above your head. That's it. Yeah, you guys got a really cool mix of stuff, man. Yeah, we've got stuff for the bug out bags water purifiers a lot of concealed carry purses night vision uh satellite communicators camping equipment flamethrowers and i don't know if you were in uh went around and see the guy around the corner from us in prepper camp, the Wolverine Tough Bottles. Oh, yeah, yeah. Pete Pien knows him.

He knows Wolverine well. I am his first distributor. You can buy him on the website now. Actually, I wound up using them for the coffee operation at a certain point because one of my, and it's three years old, but one of my water cubes was leaking. And I had to retire it. And Ryan, Ryan Buford from The Next Generation has been working with Wolverine Tough Bottles for a while. I think he was the guy that got them to Prepper Cam,

probably, if I had to guess. And they had one of those big cubes. I guess it was like a 5.3-gallon, probably. That thing's great, man. They really do it well. They call them Tough Bottles for a reason. Those things, they're tough. Yeah, well, I like that they have the,

they got the, I want to say the faucet but that's not what it is um i can't think of the word but they have the spigot on them yeah and they have the bottle cap attachment and they attach all of it to a single cord that's attached to the bottle and for a guy like me that that's worth the price of admission you look you lose stuff oh yeah man you know if i had to if i had to keep a spigot and a lid for a bottle like 50 50 i don't know which one i'm gonna find it's brilliant that they have it all lined up like that those 5.3 gallon bottle of water and they in those bags let me put the link in the chat so people can see it because we got a couple

people in chat that might be interested um those 5.3 gallons man they're they are what you need if you're going to travel water from point a to point b other words, like if you're prepping, if your prepping setup includes rain barrel, you know what I mean? You want something like this to be able to move water from rain barrel into household. Way better than dealing with a five-gallon bucket. Oh, yeah, yeah.

One of the things I didn't know that he didn't have at Prepper Camp that's on my website is that you can actually get those 5.3-gallon containers in a box and stack them up in your house for an emergency supply. Oh, that's super sweet. Nice and discreet, just some cardboard boxes in a corner somewhere. That's very nice. What is this bivvy thing, man? Oh, the bivvy stick. Yeah, the ACR bivvy stick.

You know, I've got three of those for myself. Three? Three. They allow you to send texts and emails to people using the Iridium satellite network. So if the grid is down and cell phones are down, the satellites are still overhead. So you take your smartphone and you bluetooth uh connect with this bivy stick device and you can text and send emails to anybody in the world whether they have a bivy stick or not um and it can go bivy stick to bivy stick, which is the whole point for us. Cause, um, my youngest daughter

is a flight attendant and she could be anywhere in the U S or the Caribbean. So, um, I needed an off grid, um, way of communicating with her. Um, we'll say, uh, if, uh, you know, the, you know, what hits the fan. This is really cool. Yeah. They're on sale too. Um, they're usually $299. Now they're, uh, $100 off. Yeah.

They're $100 off until December 20th. Actually, it looks like you got them listed at $329.95 original. Yeah, I sell them for $299, which is – ACR does all the personal locators and stuff that you get when you have the boats and whatnot. So if you fall overboard, it's a beacon. I see it's got an SOS on the bottom. Yeah, it does that too. They will send a global rescue to come get you no matter where you are. And you can buy a policy for that because that's not cheap

but for a low monthly fee you can you can get a subscription to that is it a do you need I know a lot of sat phones and sat communications require some form of subscription

is this thing a one time or do you have to have a subscription with it too? It does require a subscription with Iridium, which is a satellite provider. But they require the first three months that you have their plus plan or better, which is $35 a month. But after that, you can change it to an annual plan, which is $15 a month. And yeah, you get various numbers of credits and a credit is like a text messages, sending a text messages as a credit, receiving a text message as a credit. is sending a text message is a credit.

Receiving a text message is a credit. And all those credits roll over to the next month. Oh, nice. You can bank them. I think I've got over 800 credits right now on mine. I can send a lot of text messages. We here at PBN are still trying to hammer down exactly what the best method for communication is going to be post collapse you know for the for the hosts and for the network at large we had you know we're messing around with uh well chin who is sort of our tech guru you met chin you know chin from prepper camp he's messing around with the lily go which send text via shortwave i'm pretty sure it is

and uh lily go the lily go it's called yeah Well, they're all part of this. Let me see what else it is. Is that what it's called? Am I calling it the wrong thing? I keep wanting to say Lilygo. Well, we can go to Meshtastic. PBN listeners, check out Meshtastic.org. listeners, check out Meshtastic.org. There are people who build these communicators

that are designed. They're radios, antennas, batteries. They're short distance, but they can be linked to repeaters, like shortwave. And you can send text through them. I don't know.

It's cool. It looks like it's more popular in Europe right now, but it's definitely an off-grid communication system. I think that's probably well, it's running off of 2 meter

or 70 centimeter communication, which is short term or short range. Short range for sure. Yeah, it's not going to do anything like an ACR bivy stick satellite.

That's everywhere. Everybody's out of signal and you have the ability to just reach everyone as long as communications with the satellites are working, right? Right. I like it, man. I mean, as I said, I said that it's, you know,

I got to be able to talk to my kids. So, you know, for, should we say an extraction plan? You're banking on it. And without some kind of communication, you're just in the dark. You don't know what's going on. You don't know where they are. It's amazing the price on the – how much some of the night vision stuff has gone down in price. Oh, we get some nice stuff.

Yeah, I mean, you guys got the good stuff. You got the Eotechs, too. The 13 grand Eotechs. But, you know, the Monocles, you can almost, I mean, they're incredibly affordable compared to what Night Vision used to be. This Bushnell is

probably awesome. The Equinox X650 digital night vision with illuminator that thing's 200 bucks it's probably awesome i'm still trying to get the chronos um uh chronos by 15 it's 173 trying to get one of those in. It's been out of stock for a while, unfortunately. But I want to get one of those to play with. I see it. This is a different one. This is the Konus Night Vision 12 5x40 photo and video.

Yeah, it's a cool tag, man. It's cool that the average person can play around with that stuff. man. It's cool that the average person can play around with that stuff. Yeah, we got stuff from about $150 up to $13,000. Oh, one of the things I'm not sure you're aware of

that is really cool. The Enotech Night Vision Optics clip-on. Have you heard of those? Clip-on? No. Clip-on have you heard of those clip-on no clip-on yeah it works with your optics on your rifle already so if you have a scope that you like really

nice scope you can take one of these night vision clip-ons and mount it to the rail on your rifle and it goes through the optics. Oh, it's the one here on the site, the EOTech night optic clip? Right. There's a couple of them. But they attach to your rifle and use your current optics with it so you don't have to buy a separate night vision scope oh i see this thing sits probably behind your optic

or in front i don't know either in front or behind and then uh when you look through your optic you get the benefit of your reticle or your magnification, and then you also get the benefit of night vision brought through this thing. Oh, that's a cool idea, man. Yeah, and you can use them as a, just like a monocular, too. You don't have to have a scope in front of it. It doesn't have to be on a rifle, yeah. Oh, that's sweet. No, I had no idea.

Yeah, if you got $9 got 9500 you can grab one yeah check it out 9500 that's the old eotech well eotech you know you're dealing with good stuff yeah they make nice stuff you know and if you ever wanted one of the binoculars that uh snap onto your uh your helmet um nice, nice, nice pieces right there. But they're not cheap, unfortunately. A good night vision is really not cheap, unfortunately. I wish it was. But people seem to love it. I don't know too many people who buy the night vision

and then are like, dang, shouldn't have bought that. Yeah, I brought one of the low-end Stealth – not Stealth Cam. Yeah, Stealth Cam night vision monoculars. It's the $164 one, 8 megapixel, 720p video. It's not bad. It has an infrared illuminator on it. It's good out to, oh, I'd say about 50 yards at most. Oh, I'd say about 50 yards at most, but I took a picture of it outside my barn and on the dark side of the barn, and you can see pretty well. It has a very narrow field of vision, though. That's the only thing.

Did you see any UFOs? I did not see any aliens peeking out from the side of the barn. No. I don't remember who it was but I remember I'm pretty sure it was somebody I know not somebody I heard. It's hard to remember. Told me that

if you looked up in the sky with night vision goggles on, you could see the aliens fighting their space war up there. You could see the... Sure that wasn't startling satellites going by? You know what that could have been, actually? That could have been George Norrie. I did quite a good bit of George Norrie listening in my younger days.

So maybe that's where I heard that from. I'll tell you what, man. My favorite thing on your site is the real Avid tools. Those pistol, yeah, those freaking gun-focused multi-tools are so sweet. And it's so cool that they put a blade on them too. You know what I mean? So you can legitimize it as a part of an EDC, in my mind anyway. I can legitimize, like, I carry the pistol tool, but it's also a knife,

so it's not just like carrying around this thing just to take care of your 1911 or your ar-15 i think they're a sweet idea i don't know who came up with them but they're they're really cool yeah i have a uh saying i don't sell food guns or knives with and i put a little asterisk by that um i don't sell normal knives um i do sell the real avid ones and i do sell the uh chow pal yeah and um that's a little cool little item too that's unfortunately it says it's sold out at the moment so the chow hopefully we'll get more of those in yeah it's a little mess kit with a fold-out knife, fork, spoon. It's also got a little wrench thing on it, a bottle opener, can opener. It's a very popular little item.

It's sturdy. Yeah. This Tonto blade. The Tonto blade on the AR-15 one. This thing's almost perfect. Titanium. Well, no, what's it got? It's got takedown punch, tap hammer, firing pin, retaining pin, pooler, bolt carrier group, scrapers, carrier scraper, firing pin scraper, stainless steel tools are easy to access and lock and play. It's just cool.

You know, it's one of those things. Get all your stuff to take care of your weapon. Yeah. Well, you know also where it would be a really great tool to have is if you, I don't know if you've ever done it, but if you build one, like when you build a lower, you don't need, I mean, I've done it with whatever, but if you've got the tools, you know, it's way easier. And if you've got them on the knife in your pocket, that's pretty sweet.

Yeah, they're cool, man. How did you get into this? How did you wind up being like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to start a website. No prepper stuff on it. Yeah, that's actually an interesting story. I don't know if you remember. Didn't you teach a class about a couple of years ago at Prepper Camp?

Yeah, the entrepreneur class. Where it said start your own business because I started a coffee business. Yeah. own business because I started a coffee business. Yeah. Yeah, it was – well, I was talking about the – I was talking about – I created BiPreps. I guess it was filed paperwork in November of 21, I guess, because I've always had a lot of problems finding stuff that I think is cool or good equipment. There's so much junk out there.

That is true. So I started prepping before Y2K, so I've been at this for a while. Oh, you're one of the Y2Kers. Well, I am a professional geek, so we won't go into that too much, but squirrel. Yeah, oh no, I get it. But I've gone through what i say are the four stages of prepping oh cool i want to hear them stage one uh i'm gonna bug out to the woods stage two i buy some farmland and try to do some farming on it and stage four is

homesteading which i'm at at this point so i've gone through camping equipment i've gone through uh all kinds of stuff and um you know skills are important and you learn that at prepper camp about you know primitive skills how to start a fire how to do things um but equipment is important as well. Sure. You need to saw wood or need an axe or a multi-tool or water filter. an industry that, um, that I'm familiar with, which is, uh, the things that preppers like and what they want. So, um, it, uh, it's been a while to get things going and, uh, getting the product lines that I wanted, but's just I put the stuff that I like On the website I guess I like that To help out other people It's like you've never seen the real avid Gun tools

No They've been around for a while They're just never gun tools. They've been around for a while. They're just never... You've just never seen them. The bivy sticks have been around for a while. Everyone's seen night vision, but I guess...

There's almost one item almost one item in every category on your site. That's a thing I've never seen. I don't doubt it. So, you know, I try to curate what we show. And, you know, the next thing to be expanded into is body armor, which a lot of people are interested in. I think we have the most body armor backpacks of any site I go to regularly, I can tell you that much.

Yeah, I can't keep those in stock, unfortunately. That is an unfortunate kind of thing in today's world. The body armor in the backpacks is geared towards children for school kids for the most part. No, I know. It sucks. But it does have Class 3a armor in the backs of them um we also sell soft uh kevlar uh body armor um in all different sizes and um if you were a lady and had come by the prepper camp booth, I would have showed you the line of concealed carry purses and the piece of body armor that was cut to fit the purse. Because it's my opinion that if your lady is going to be carrying a weapon and potentially drawing a weapon on someone, you become the next target.

So you take that purse and you can hold it up to your chest and you have some 3A body armor that may save your life. Good idea. Maybe cost $50, $60 for that piece of armor. And we custom cut to fit any purse or backpack or briefcase or anything you want. Well worth the investment, right? It saves a life. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people think about doing concealed carry and women and such.

such and all I can say is that if you are going to have a weapon that means you're potentially going to draw on someone that is armed you're going to get their attention that that's just this fact of life so you need to be able to we'll call exercise good gun control and hit your targets and be able to survive the encounter. Yeah. Bullets go both ways.

They certainly can, unfortunately. so this is so by preps comes from your just your desire to put everything you like in one place pretty much yeah and to help people out to find stuff they they haven't seen before for um and you know as i say help a brother out i guess right um i try to be very price um competitive with a certain website that shall not be named um but uh uh yeah it's uh it's an adventure. So coming back to Prepper Camp next year, are you going to look to teach again and do the same classes you did? That's up to Rick as to what he wants me to teach. to Rick as to what he wants me to teach. The two classes How Not

to be Tracked on the Internet and AI, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly were really popular. I mean, they packed out in tents. I'm sure they were. Do you have those anywhere? Did you record them or anything?

I have the slide decks that I can get to anyone who wants. Did you record them or anything? I have the slide decks. You got the slide decks? That I can get to anyone who wants. I mean, they can come over to the website and go to the contacts page and just say, Hey, Steve, send me the slide decks from Prepper Camp, and I'll do that for them. So where does that come from? That's the nerd conversation, right? As I said, I'm a professional geek.

I do software development, and I'm senior director of engineering for a medium-sized software company out of Canada. And so I've been doing that for software for a very long time, my entire career actually. how software companies and websites and everything track you. So I know how to get around it. And we've been into AI. Yeah, well, I've been into AI for a while as well.

So there's a lot of ways that websites track you. your information like Amazon and Facebook is connected to your cell phone numbers your email addresses your computer's IP address so every time you log in they know it's you they know what you buy they know what you look at the worst part is that they sell it to data consolidators, which sell to advertising companies. So say you look at black truffle dishes on Amazon, right?

And then you go over to Facebook or Instagram, and you'll see advertisements that are related to what you just looked at, whether you just bought it or not. Have you seen that? Has that happened to you? Yeah. Yeah, it happens every day. Yeah, every day. So a real quick summary of that is to break those links, you need to use separate email addresses for most every shopping site. numbers and virtual credit card numbers when you buy things to stop the consolidators from connecting the dots. So it's like links in a chain. Exactly.

I gotcha. Oh, that's a pretty cool way to look at it. Seems like a pain in the ass, but yeah, I get it. Well, you know, it's a process. You don't do it overnight. And it's hard because we are creatures of habit. And convenience. And convenience.

Yeah. We give away our information for convenience purposes. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I want to buy now, buy one click buy, have it in my lap in two hours. You can still do that, but you need to have, if you have a virtual credit card number and a virtual phone number and an email address that is only done for that particular shopping site, then you break the chain. I like it.

James the Amazon shopper. James the Walmart.com shopper. Exactly. Yeah, I get it. And the Target, and the Kohl's, and every other shopping site. When someone comes to my site and I see a ProtonMail email address, I go, yeah, we got somebody here. They've been going to my class.

They've been learning. ProtonMail. Unfortunately, too many have Gmail accounts. I'm one of them. I'm one of those guilty parties Yeah So That's cool man There are ways to reclaim your privacy

That's good I mean it does seem hopeless So it's always nice to have somebody out there Who knows the deal It's As I said It's a process and it can be painful and it takes effort. You know, it's easy to not do it. And that's how they get you. There you go.

We live on that convenience, man. We're high on convenient and comfortable times There's no doubt about it And as you said I want it tomorrow So I'm just going to click by I want the world I want the whole world

Yeah Everybody's using AI now as well And that's even better at connecting the dots Oh yeah I can only imagine what what they're gonna know about you soon and one of my um in the ai class i talked about a news article about the new little headset that uh they put on your head and can actually turn your thoughts into text. Whoa! I want to try it. You want to try it?

Yeah, sign up for that. Now, it's designed to help people that have a stroke, to give them their voice back. Because once you convert it into text, you can convert it into voice. But in the wrong hands, that technology can be bad. I'd say. Oh, my God. Nobody would listen to me if they heard my thoughts.

I can tell you that right now. This whole organization would collapse. Yeah, those are private for a reason. Yeah, and I'd like to keep it that way. Well, I think it has to be that way. Regaining your privacy as preppers, we need

to start to be very conscious about our privacy. Yeah, that's a good point. It's OPSEC. You know, OPSEC goes way beyond just the people you talk to. Now it's the internet at large.

And much, much more than that, even. You know? Much more than that. Alright, now we've terrified everyone steve they're clicking off they're tossing the contacts go to the contacts page on my website and uh say hey steve send me the slide decks from prepper camp and and i'll email it out to you i appreciate that man that's bypreps.com guys bypreps.com, guys. Buypreps.com. Go to the contact page.

Yeah. Check it out. And check all the stuff out while you're there, man. He's got all kinds of cool stuff. And if you want to get my promotional emails, and you can sign up to be on the mailing list, just asking me for the slide decks does not get you added to the contact list for the promotional email list. I send out maybe one email a month, so I'm not going to spam anybody.

That's very gracious of you. I did send out two emails this month, which is unusual for me. One of them was a typical one month, you know, hey, here's the new products. And then there was Black Friday one. Got to do that, right? Yeah, got to, you know, two emails. Holidays are here. I think they can handle two emails.

Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday, exactly. They think that the wallets just keep going. They're just like there's a portal in there that leads to another place where all the money is. It's biodynamics. Yeah, there you go. That's true.

What do they call it? Modern monetary. How come I can't use modern monetary theory in my household? That would be nice. Well, they'll come and just take all your stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I wish we could get around that. Because then I'd be putting an exothermic flamethrower in my cart right now.

Dude, I need to talk to your wife. We're going to have to work something out. Christmas is coming. You may wind up talking to my wife next year, actually. All right, Steve, I think we're going to wrap this thing up, man. Visit buypreps.com, guys. Check them out. Again, Steve is a fellow prepper camper

on an annual basis and before he was a contributor and a and a uh what do they call us vendor vendor you were uh you were a prepper camp uh attendee you attend and a vendor now so yeah yeah climb the ranks, man. Yeah, it's a great convention, conference. What would you call it? Camp? I don't know. Camp.

It's a reunion for me. I mean. Yeah, it's. Since I've been in bi-preps, I've been to several gatherings, camps, whatever, up the East Coast shows. Yeah, that's probably the best word for it. And yeah, believe me, prepper camp is the best one. Yeah, I mean, I use it to vet. It's how I vet for the audience. That's why I mentioned

it right up front. It's vetting. You know what I mean? If you make it at Prepper Camp, you're legit. That's all there is to it. That's all you need to know up front. That's the creds. You probably need badges and stuff. Well, you can get badges.

Did you know that? Oh, that's true. That's true. You can get the patches. Yeah. Several of the hosts have them. All right, PBN family. Preppers Live.

Come to a close. Buypreps.com. You're going to be hearing more about them. So you might as well go check them out now. Thanks, Steve, for an hour of your time, my man. It was a great show. Oh, sure. Thanks, Steve, for an hour of your time, my man. It was a great show. Oh, sure. Thanks, Jim.

No problem. We'll talk later. All right, folks. That's that on the Tuesday. The Rising Republic. Don't miss it. We'll talk to you soon. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network,

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