The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Readiness Lifestyle at Work I AM Liberty REPLAY

Episode Date: April 18, 2024

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Let's put aside terrorism. Let's talk only about our own homegrown animals that are patrolling America right now. So it goes down to the simplest thing. Be prepared. Be vigilant. prepared, be vigilant. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. I'm Ecclesiastes tonight.

I'm the 2,000-year-old king tonight. Maybe older. What, the 2,500-year-old Ecclesiastes who had this whole thing figured out. You look at the news and there's nothing new under the sun. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. That's kind of where my head is today. We've got topics on this show tonight, and we're going to try to fit two shows into one, because I put a month together without considering vacation. And this is a very important month. The theme of this month is urban survival. I mean, when you really carve out the prepper pie, urban survival is a big one.

carve out the prepper pie. Urban survival is a big one. Now, lucky for you, I spend about 75% of my show meandering in my own subconscious. So we can cut a little bit of that and plug in some of the conversation we should have had last week. But I was in Disney. And I usually, I've been accustomed over the last couple of years to taking pseudo vacations where I work during vacation, at least to some extent. Because I'm a one man army, you know what I mean? I don't have anybody. There's no employees. There's nobody I can call and be like, hey, I'm going to be out next week. So jump on that client work and that podcast

and send those emails out to advertisers and maybe, well, I think about it. I do think about it. I think to myself, do I need an employee? Is an employee something I would want? Do I want allies in this thing? And I'm going to be honest with you, man, and it might just be me. It might just be the type of guy that I am. There is something absolutely wonderful. This is coming from the guy who wrote

a book about community too, which is really funny. But professionally speaking, even though it's a burden when it comes to that one or two weeks out of the year that I vacation. There is something about those 50 other weeks that I don't have to worry about anybody calling out. I don't have to worry about anybody not coming in. I don't have to worry about anybody questioning me on how I do what I do or why I do what I do. And man, that might be worth getting up at four o'clock in the morning when you're on vacation and working for an hour or two. And then doing the family thing. That just, for a guy like me, that just might be worth it.

You know, I was thinking about that over the week. I had a lot of fun. You know, I'm the type of prepper that I'm not going to isolate myself and my family away from the real world. You know, if we go down swinging in the real world, having a good time, so be it. But we're not going to isolate ourselves. Because there's a lot of life out there to live. So, we've got a big show packed, packed. We've got a big show packed, packed.

We're going to talk about the two big categories that we're going to talk about is sort of the readiness lifestyle at work. Topic number one, that was a topic that was supposed to be on hand and prioritized last Wednesday, right? 9 o'clock last week. I actually sent G-Man an email. I said, look, if the kids fall asleep before 9, this is around like 7. I'm standing in line for a ride at Hollywood Studios. I'm texting him or emailing him. And I said, if the kids fall asleep before 9, man, I'll jump in and we'll do the show.

And when I got home back to the hotel i was so exhausted because i don't know if you know it but disney with two kids is like the end i mean it's just the opposite of an actual vacation it was just the complete and total opposite of when you say the word vacation, certain things come to mind. Disney is not those things. There's no sandy beach. You know, I'm also, as a young father, I'm also starting to understand that vacation is kind of gone now also, in general. You know what I mean? I remember when Lady Liberty and I were young and we'd go to the beach and I would hide.

I'm Irish and pale, so I would hide under whatever shade I could find and read a book on the beach while she would lay out in the sun, look beautiful and gorgeous. So those were vacations. You know, we might lay there for a few hours. I might meander up to the boardwalk, get something to eat, drink, bring her back some food, whatever. And then go back to reading for another few hours. Right? And then go home, get in the shower, wash the sand off. The whole thing is relaxing.

Disney is like, put a kid on your shoulders, carry another kid. It's sort of like, you know what it's akin to? This is what I was thinking about. It's akin to the Go Ruck Challenge. You know what the Go Ruck Challenge is? It's like an eight-hour ruck challenge. That's what it's kind of like for me because I don't do the stroller thing. We don't do the stroller thing.

We get our kids out of strollers like ASAP. So that was my deal. Get them out of the strollers. But of course that means when you're on vacation and you're going to a place where you're going to walk a few miles, the three-year-old is going to be getting carried a lot. So it's one of those little good grease, you know, it wears you down. Oh, good grease. You know, it wears you down. Anyhow, readiness lifestyle at work is our first topic at hand. That's to sort of fill up what we missed out on last week.

And then we're also going to talk about preparing the urban neighborhood. Right? And that's kind of really up my wheelhouse. That's really in my wheelhouse. That's something that I've been thinking about quite a lot because it's a unique situation because I live in a place where there's a lot of space between neighbors. And like I said, it's right on the cusp of sort of an urban area. And I've really grown to like my position. Aside from being kind of low elevation, I really like my position, and I like it because of the ability

to have a defensible community. And that's something that I pride our house choosing in. Because it wasn't really... Prepping was not in our mind. It wasn't even something we thought about when we bought this house. We just got lucky.

Now let's go over, what are we talking about this month, this urban survival thing? I've got several things that I want to bring up to you. There are various, well, we could talk about urban survival, must-haves later, gear, books, that type of thing. That might be something we integrate into the show uh through disney and every day so i purchased a a backpack through three a company called 3v gear you might have heard me talk about them before listen they they are a company that i like a company that i use a company that i support i'm a brand ambassador for that company, and lucky for you, if you go to 3vgear.com and use the coupon code IAMLIBERTY, you'll get 10% off your order. gear. It's in my trunk as we speak. And I ordered a sling bag by them. It's called the Outlaw, the Outlaw Sling Pack, specifically for EDC and this trip to Disney because I wanted to,

I wanted to have something smaller, but effective for this sort of traveling preparedness that I was undertaking. And don't worry, I'm not going to talk about theme park and airline preparedness this month. But what I am working on is a big article, a big breakdown. Basically a sort of like a Disney survival guide for the prepper. You know what I mean? And not just about the parks, and not just about kids, and not just about that,

but from the start to the finish. Right? Checking a bag, what do you put in your check bag, what do you put in your carry-on bag, all the things that you do in between that. Do you bring a gun? Do you not bring a gun,

and what goes into bringing a gun in a checked bag, which I'll be honest with you, turned out to be way worth it and very simple. So it's just one of those things. It's just one of those things, and I really want to give you a real sort of deep dive, right? Sort of a deep dive on what it takes to travel prepared. But it's just not something we're going to fit into this month with us having what? What do we have? We have three more shows left and that's if I decide to do a show on the 31st, which is Halloween, at best

I can tell you're going to get a pre-record on Halloween because I'm not rushing the kids in to bed on Halloween night. I love you guys, but I don't love you that much. Halloween's a big deal in my household and you probably won't even want to deal with me. I'll probably have face paint half smeared on my face. I'll be all jacked up from eating my kid's candy. You won't want anything to do with me on Halloween night anyway. But I'll probably put together some sort of a pre-record and we'll do our thing on Halloween night.

But the 24th will be a big show. We're going to discuss... A big piece of urban prepping is the bug out. It's built for the urban prepper. It's built for the person that has to say, I've got to get away from this. This is ugly. But one of the biggest things that's missing in most people's plans is when to bug out. When do I actually pull the trigger? When do I execute? But one of the biggest things that's missing in most people's plans is when to bug out. Right? When do I actually pull the trigger?

When do I execute? And that's what next week's show is going to be about. So we're going to go through an acronym called REDOUT. And we're going to just really get into this idea of not just understanding REDOUT, but even further defining it to your own personal life. So that you know without a doubt, this situation is happening outside. That means that we gotta go. Because you have to have that. Otherwise, you're in the mirth.

Otherwise, you have no idea when to execute. You could have a great plan. Your bags could be packed. Your location could be stocked. But if you don't know when to pull the trigger, you might wait too long. Or you might leave too early. Who knows? So look for that next

week. So we got... I am Liberty over at 3V Gear. If you're interested in that kind of gear, like I said, it's much more affordable than most. I have been carrying it for almost a year now and it's all working fine. It's all working fine for me. Let's see, what else? We've got a giveaway this month. Let's talk about giveaway. What is with giveaways? Giveaways are just everywhere now. It seems like everybody I listen to or talk to is doing a giveaway of some kind.

The world of the giveaway. So, I wanted to put together sort of an urban survival-ish pack. And Ape Survival makes something called the... I think it's called an assault pack or something along those lines. Everybody's got an assault pack anymore, but it's a tan backpack. Decent. I'm not going to tell you it's one of the best bags on the market. It's not that, but it's a cool little tan backpack. We're going to stuff it with a TacLite, which is sort of a self-defense flashlight,

and a tactical pen called the Strike Pen, which features a lot of different things, right? There's a flashlight on one end, decent LED, very low lumen. There's a knife. There's a multi-tool in that thing. So we're going to throw all that stuff together, and that's going to go to this month's winner. Now, knowing the I Am Liberty show, I make it a challenge all the time for my listeners to get involved in these giveaways because I've done giveaways before in the past that were incumbent on people calling in or doing something during the show. And you know what? I don't like it, personally. I'm not a big fan of it. I don't like it. I don't even want to think about the giveaway during the show. I don't want to do that. I don't want to get names and dates and whatever else.

I don't want to get names and dates and whatever else. So we try to do things a little better, do things a little more interesting, a little geared towards the month. So what I decided this month, and to be honest with you, I kind of stole it from ITS Tactical. I don't know if you're fans of those guys, but ITS Tactical, it's an awesome website. They do a great job over there. ITS Tactical, it's an awesome website. They do a great job over there. Guys who are just smitten with the idea of, you know, E&E and tactical equipment and processes and EDC. Just a great bunch of guys over there running a great website.

They sell great products as well. IPS Tactical. Every year they do a pumpkin carving contest, so I decided, you know what? I'm going to steal that. I'm going to steal that. Because it's Halloween. And I'm hoping that the vast majority of you out there are still

still have enough of the inner child left? Pumpkins this year, too. If not, just go buy one. Just go buy one. So, that's the deal. You guys are going to have to send me,

via social media, via IamLibertyShow at gmail.com, via the website, a snippet, a picture of your carved pumpkin. Carve anything you want. I don't care. It doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be like patriotic. It doesn't have to be scary. It doesn't have to be tactical.

It doesn't have to be a big giant Liberty Bell. I'm going to look at a bunch of them. I'm going to look at a bunch of them. I'm going to look at a bunch of entries and whichever one sticks out to me. And it can stick out to me for a number of different reasons. I don't know what to tell you. I can't give you any tips and hints.

Carve with your soul. Read up on Rodan and then carve yourself a pumpkin and send me a picture. If you're interested. And we'll get you that great pack of Urban Survival gear shipped off to you. And that'll be the giveaway for the month. I want to do a giveaway each month that's pertinent to what it is we're talking about, what it is we're doing.

All right, so EDC at work. Part of that readiness lifestyle. We're going to talk about works, emergency response plan, and how that can fit into your work, you know, your readiness lifestyle at work. To be honest with you, you're going to have to take a role. Two, you're going to have to take a role. You're going to have to do some work if you really want to have the readiness lifestyle follow you from home to work. It's not an easy thing. But for many of you who know me from way back, you know that I handled safety and security at my job for many years before I made the jump to freelance writing. So I want to talk to you about that and the things that I learned doing that and how that affects the average person's workplace readiness.

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because it's still pre-Halloween. But I think we're going to have to start talking about it because I just wrapped up a great interview at the Ever Vigilant podcast last night about the book. It's not going to air until after November 7th. The book will be out November 7th. And the more you do these interviews when you're putting something out like this,

the more you start to really craft a solid message about exactly what the hell it is you're putting out. And one of the things that stood out to me in doing this interview was the fact that, and this is something that I fail at all the time. So if you want to get your head wrapped around, I mean, I'm sure just by listening to the show, you probably come up with a handful of things that James could fail at on a regular basis. But I'm way inside my own head, man, too much. And Joe Prim over at TheVigilantWolf.com He told me he loved the idea of the book. He read the book

and he loved it. And he told me that he had no idea what the book was going to be about. He's heard me talking about it, but he had no idea what it was going to be about. Listen. Where this thing really hits home and why this book is most important is because when I started writing it, I wanted it to fill a spot in my shelf, in my personal bookshelf.

Because we have a bookshelf upstairs of kids' books, and there's a tiny little shelf that is specifically for books we only read during the holidays together right together and that's what the christmas hook is about if you have kids i mean you can read the book on your own it's it's and it's a book that's going to entertain all ages because we were all kids And these kids are bad kids because they're kids, right? It's about three nine-year-olds on their Christmas break in the row homes of a town called Marcus Sook, which is, it is the town that I grew up in, right? right and it's a it's a a fictionalized group of characters of course and a fictionalized version of marcus sook because i'm not allowed to because lawyers how about that because lawyers because lawyers because lawyers have ruined everything in america that's why it's a fictionalized account but anyway this fictionalized group of kids, they're bad.

They're going through stuff. Life is hard. You know, one is terrified of everything. One just lost her father. And they're kids. They're kids living in the row homes in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They're broke. Their parents are broke. They're living in a neighborhood that's sort of scoffed at by the rest of the counties and the cities around them.

And what I really wanted to capture in the Christmas hook, setting-wise, is what Christmas is like in these row homes. What it's like for the kids. the magic that Christmas is for these kids, and the struggle that Christmas is for their parents, who don't have much money to make it happen, but still make it happen anyway. And the whole crux of the story is about this strange hook that they find one day in a place where they're not supposed to be because they're kids. So there's an area called the process. And they go to the process, but their parents don't want them there.

And while they're there, they find this strange hook. And they look at it and they're not sure what it is. And being nine-year-olds, they come up with all sorts of sensational ideas of what it might be. And one of them takes the hook home to find out more about it. And that's when things start to get a little spooky. That's when the hook starts to sort of, well, it starts to interject a bit

on their lives in some very spooky ways. And I can tell you. It's a very short read. And I think you guys are going to love it. But the first copy is going to be here soon. And listen. You're going to have a ball with it. If you have a family.

If you have young kids. You have to buy it. You have to buy it. Because we don't have many reasons to sit around and read together. And this story is all about the trials and tribulations that kids face. And I can think of no better way to bring these topics up and bring them out and talk to them with your children than to have this book and to read it during the Christmas season. Look, I'm going to be completely honest with you. I don't have the marketing power to make something like this happen, but I want to tell you what my heady goal is.

Right? I'm going to tell you what my heady goal is. I want the Christmas hook to be a new Christmas classic. That's what the big goal is. Christmas hook to be a new Christmas classic. That's what the big goal is. And I know it's not going to happen the first year it comes out because I don't have a publishing house behind me to, you know, and I am who I am, which is already like a public enemy when it comes to the main sort of channels to which books make their way and get popular. But I also know the power of the community that listens to this show. I know the power of the community that listens to this show

I know the power of the communities that I'm involved in outside of this show so I have a feeling that this thing will get its hooks into people and it will build year over year and maybe even if it's beyond my own lifespan I want the Christmas hook to be a Christmas classic. Because never forget, even though I do a prep or show,

I am a writer. That's how I make a living. I've been writing way longer than I've ever been podcasting, prepping, anything like that. And the idea of writing a Christmas book never crossed my mind until the first day in May when I decided I'm going to write a Christmas book,

and I think I got something. So any help that you guys can have, or give rather, is much appreciated. We're going to have it available via e-book. We're going to have it available paperback, We're going to have it available via e-book. We're going to have it available paperback. And if you really want to make it something special and part of your Christmas tradition, we're going to even do a hardback book. And I'm going to try to do that hardback book as minimally and as cheap as possible

without it being garbage so that you guys can afford the thing no matter where you fall. Because, you know, the paperback books are good and I've published a lot in my day, but when it comes to Christmas, when it comes to these traditions, listen, there's something about pulling out that hardback book. And Lulu.com, for those aspiring authors out there, are one of the only websites out there that will publish a hardcover book for you. I think I can get this book done because its word count is so small. I think I can get this book done hardback, hardcover, under $20.

If I can do that, man, I'm going to be really happy. If I can get it $15 hardback to you guys, and you can spend $15 to have this new Christmas classic on your bookshelf, I'm going to be very happy. I'm going to feel like I can offer you something that's worth it. Guys, thank you very much in the chat room for dealing with this. I'm going to be honest with you. Audience, on a whole, for those of you who haven't turned the show off, thank you for dealing with this. Because it's October, man. I get it. You know, I completely get it.

But what I bring to you every week is what's in my heart and what's driving me. And this is a big part of my day. I wake up every day and I send an email out to somebody who I need to review the book or somebody who I want to go on their show. Because when you're a self-publishing author, man, listen, you have to – you're everything. You've got to write the book. You've got to find an editor. editor you got to do all the corrections then once once the book's done and it looks good and it reads good and you feel like it's okay we got something here then you just have to it's not like i'm gonna sit back now and i'll talk about it on the show and it'll be good no now then you turn into

marketing man okay now i'm a marketing man in a publishing company. It's a grind. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't love it. So having an audience who can deal with it just for the next few months. When we get into November, I'm going to beat you to death with it. But I'll keep it laxed in October. That's all we're going to talk about as far as the Christmas hook. I will tell you this much.

Nature's Magic in the chatroom says, Love hardback books. I'll add it to my collection. Have lots from the 30s and 40s. One of the things that I went for, Nature's Magic, and I don't know if you follow me on Instagram or not, or any of my social media, but one of the things I was going for with the cover of this book, and unfortunately I can't translate that cover into hardback,

but I can on paperback, I wanted that old classic Christmas look. You know, I wanted that red and gold or green and gold simple cover. You know what I mean? I have this nasty and gnarly hook that I actually purchased for writing this book. It's such a sweet hook. It's mystical looking. You know what I mean? And I wanted the physical hook next to me while I was writing the book because I thought it would help a lot with description. And everything in my sort of marketing brain was telling me, Jim, you've got to put the hook on the cover. You've got to have the hook on the cover.

And I just said, forget it. I said, forget the hook on the cover. I'll put it in the book somewhere. I want this thing to look like a book you would find in a dresser drawer of a home that was abandoned. You know what I mean? You pull this old book out and it's got that old maroon cover, gold. What's that sort of writing that we're all forgetting? What was called handwriting? You know, cursive writing? what's that sort of writing that we're all forgetting because we,

what was called handwriting, you know, cursive writing. The title is in cursive, big, big looping cursive. I'm very happy with it. You guys are going to be very happy with it and I'm looking forward to it. Now I know the show is about urban survival, so we're going to get back to topic, but I had to tell you about it. And if you want to hear more and more and is about urban survival, so we're going to get back to topic. But I had to tell you about it. And if you want to hear more and more and more about the book, when these interviews come up, because I have a lot of interviews lined up, I'll post them up on the website if you want to hear them. All right? You have a blog, you want to get me on to talk about the book or talk about survival prepping, whatever, community, and meander into the book, feel free.

Shoot me an email. IamLibertyShow at gmail.com. Or follow me over at Instagram. Listen, Instagram was made for a nutcase like me. You guys have to understand, like, I don't know. I don't know why I've been playing with Facebook and Twitter so long. I got a group of guys who told me, Jim, you got to go on Instagram. It's way better.

And I was like, I don't know, man. Pictures and face, the manipulation and all that stuff. I don't know. Once I got into it, now I've been into it for a couple weeks, it's so much fun. It was made, it's like designed for an airhead, artsy goofball like me. Having fun over at Instagram. Go follow me over at Instagram.

I think you'll, it's the closest thing I can do through social media that gives you the flavor of the show. You know, the website and the show, they gel a little bit. But my, what's it called? My social media and the show are very weird, you know, and I'm really trying to sort of create a social media account that really gives you an idea of the fact that when you show up to the I Am Liberty show, you're going to hear about the topics we're discussing, but you're also going to hear, you know, a diatribe about how I'm feeling

and what I'm feeling and why I'm feeling and who I'm feeling. Maybe not the last part. I usually keep that stuff pretty private. But anyway, there's a lot of wackiness. One of the fun things or one of the things that I'm enjoying most over at Instagram, and I swear we'll talk about urban survival after this, but I want to tell you about this because this is so much fun. One of the things I've been doing over at Instagram is Jay Fergie said it first,

Mission Impossible. So I found this cool little app that allows you to super impose your face onto the face of various movie posters. So every Wednesday when I announce the fact that we're going to be live, you know, and do my little thing, I usually send out social media that says, you know, we're going to be live 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

We're talking about this. Here's what we're talking about. Come join the chat. I also post one of these movie posters, one of these well-known movie posters with my face superimposed over the star actor. And tonight, we have Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. And I am the face of Tom Cruise. Nature's Magic, you can find me at IamLibertyShow. That's my uh that's everything

you go anywhere and you you've put i i am liberty show you'll get me at facebook you get me at twitter you'll get me on yeah and last week i was out last week i was out and uh i put up a great picture of me as the mad hatter, which was, it's an astounding picture, but this, this app that I have does a great job, and Instagram really lends itself to this kind of silliness, okay, and listen, I write about the end of the world for a living, folks, like, that's what I do for a living, I write about the end of the world for a living, folks. Like, that's what I do for a living. I write about the end of the world and how to avoid it and how to stop it and how to mitigate it. So there's got to be a lot of silliness to counterbalance that. I'm sorry. There's

got to be a lot of art. There's got to be a lot of poetry. There's got to be a lot of literature and a lot of other things so that I don't wind up, you know, living up in the attic of my home, peeing in jars, like a la Howard Hughes style, you know what I mean? When you stare the impending doom in the face for eight hours a day, I'm going to tell you, without some counterbalance, it can get ugly. So let's get on to this topic of readiness in the workplace. What are some of the things, guys, in the chat room that you struggle with when it comes to readiness in the workplace? Because we have, let's lay the groundwork, sort of.

That nub, I would definitely do a show on how to write a prepper novel. But I gotta write one first. I've actually never written an actual book about a prepper. But that's coming. Definitely. Definitely. So, let's lay the groundwork first and foremost about why I wanted to do the readiness lifestyle and how it converts to work. Because there's one thing that happens to everyone, or most people, when they step through the doors of their job.

At home, they've built a base, right, they've built a base, and they're very comfortable with the security, with the resources, with the, you know, with what they have at home in their fortress, right, there's nothing like home, when I got back from Disney, it was like, you know, Disney's amazing, and it's fun, and it's incredible, and it's crazy. And I got home, my house here in Richmond, my little house, my little three-bedroom house, and I'm like, oh, geez, it's so good to be here instead of there. here instead of there. So we live that life. And as preppers, I feel like we put even more into our homes, right? Because of what we do. And then every day around the same time, you're forced to leave it all behind. Most people leave it all behind, Go to a place, hopefully, that you can stand to some degree. And then your preparedness and your readiness takes a tremendous hit, either when you leave the home or when you walk through those doors at work. And one of the biggest reasons, right off the top, is the fact that you can't bring a gun in most workplaces.

In some workplaces, you can't even bring a knife i mean no weapons period nature's magic says working in law enforcement you'd think we would be ready but in reality there's only what's on hand for prisoners so need a ready bed to keep i think you got some typos in there, man. But I get where you're going. A ready bag in your car. And that's kind of one face. I've talked to Jay Ferg about it before, about going into a workplace and going in unprepared. And it's one of those things, we all have to deal with it. Those of us who are wrapped up in the preparedness lifestyle, we take that hit when we go to work every day. And if something happens at work, we have to find a way to get home. And it's rough, man. You know, there's no getting around it.

It's one of those things that's kind of rough. Me Gray says that there's a 60-mile gap between he and home. And that is nothing to shake a foot at, man. 60 miles is a... That's a beast. That's a beast. Jay Ferg says she's got about a day walk.

Yeah, that get-home bag is a big deal. That get-home bag is most certainly a big deal. And what I'm finding is one of the toughest things, and I haven't really sat down and isolated how to fix this problem, but when you really start digging into prepping, you start pulling out all these crazy problems. And one of the problems in prepping that always comes up, no matter, we're talking urban, wilderness, whatever. It's the time when you make the decisions. It's the execution period, sort of like we're talking about doing Red Out next week and when to bug out. You know, you have serious civil unrest outbreak in your area, near your home, near your workplace. And when you're standing at that vehicle, you have to make a decision. And the decision is, how can I better get home?

Can I better get home in a vehicle or can I better get home on foot? And that's one of those decisions you really need to consider ahead of time. You know, think about your routes and think about how it, because you don't know what you're going to drive into. And if you drive into a riot, you've got serious problems. You know what I mean? You've got, you've got serious problems. You might be able to avoid something like that on foot. You know, you think that a car, it's fast, it'll get me home quicker. You think it's the best mode, right? And in most cases, it is. But if you find yourself in a situation where all sorts of roads are closed, you find yourself in a situation where there's just a mass of upheaval in the nation, and listen, that's coming. That's coming. I mean, what do you think is going to happen if Donald Trump is re-elected? I mean, can you imagine? Now think about this. This is all it would take.

First of all, imagine Donald Trump re-elected. imagine anything, anything sort of shady that could happen to affect that, maybe not even affect it, but to appear as though it affected the election. Right? So let's just say that whispers of some sort of ill attempt at manipulating the election go around. You know, we already tried it with Russia. A lot of people got upset. But who knows what could happen. But if you have a charged up left wing, as charged up as they are now, and listen, I don't even know in history if we've ever seen the left wing as charged up as they are. if we've ever seen the left wing as charged up as they are. You could be walking in any major city,

in any small city, in any neighborhood, you could be walking through vitriol like you've never known. Like you've never known. And the thing about this, while we're on the subject of the left, something's been bouncing around in my head, and I want to say it on the air because it's important. And it doesn't have a lot to do with urban survival, but it has a lot to do with what could come and affect an urban survival situation. when I run, even if I'm listening to a podcast, when I do any bit of running,

it really helps me think about things. You know, I can really dig into things. And thinking about this left wing lunacy, which is all it is, right? It's so over the top, this progressive sort of j'accuse that is going around, a la the French Revolution, was kind of what was bouncing around in my head. And I said to myself, man, they're trying to use anything they can to get their message across. Or maybe it's not even a message. No one really even knows what their message is, right? There's too many rich people. There's too many men. There's too much dominance. There's not fair enough. It needs to be more fair.

There needs to be free stuff. We need more free. We need free education. We need free health care. We need free everything. We need to make sure everybody makes the same amount of money, and we've got to make sure that nobody calls anyone any names, and the only people you can call names are white people because they deserve it.

So, you know, you start to, like, go over all that in your head while you're running. And I said, man, they're using a lot of tools. There's a lot of tools at play here. They're not really working well. You know what I mean? None of them are really working well.

And then something terrifying came to mind. Because I said Jacques Hughes and I said the French Revolution, and I'm not the first guy to compare what's happening with the Me Too movement and with, you know, just the absolutely criminal way that they have been levying justice or their version of justice. You know, I started thinking, man, these progressives are looking for something. And then I got scared because I realized what they're looking for. They're looking for their guillotine. The progressive left wing is rifling through all sorts of tools and all sorts of effects to try to kill people, to try to off people, right? Maybe not in the same physical manner as they did in the French Revolution, right?

Comma, yet, period. But maybe they're trying to find their guillotine. They just haven't yet. Right. So the guillotine, they thought that maybe racism would be their guillotine. OK, this is it. Right. You say racism, you call racist. And that's the end of that person. They can't recover from that. And that's the end of that person. They can't recover from that. Right? They found out maybe there's not enough racist Republicans or racist Americans or racist right-wingers that we can have the effect we want to have. Okay.

Racists don't work. That's not our guillotine. Oh, I get it. We can just do it with men in general. There's way more men. Right? We'll just do men. Men.

Yeah, men. Men. Evil patriarchy. What is right? We'll just do men. Men, yeah, men. Evil patriarchy. What is it? Toxic masculinity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We could do that. And any man whose breath has ever touched a woman, we can call them up on charges. We can j'accuse.

And maybe that can be our guillotine. But they took that, even that, too far. They took that so far that now I think it's just really hurting women more than anything else. That now brings up a good one, right? The Nazi one. Punch a Nazi. Right? Yeah, okay, alright, cool.

Yeah. So if anybody steps out of line, particularly with a paler shade of skin, we can just call them a Nazi, right? That's a great guillotine, that works. Until, you know, someone gets approached and says, hey, are you a Nazi? No, I'm not a Nazi, I don't like Nazis, there's nothing Nazi about me, in fact, I'm Jewish, fool. And that's the end of that. So that guillotine didn't work. So things are heating up. Right? Violence is becoming part of the game plan. And I can tell you this much. I can tell you this much. They're going to find their guillotine. They're going to find their guillotine. They're going to find their guillotine.

And I don't know what that means. But it scares me. Either they're going to find their version of the guillotine that is actually a killing device. Or they're going to find their guillotine that eliminates people from relevancy altogether. What is it that we can do? What is it that we can do to eliminate a person completely? Because it used to be the racism thing, right? You could call someone a racist and, you know, now I got to step down and now I got to do this, now I got to do that.

They're looking for their guillotine. And I just want you to be aware of that. Because I think it could be, I think it could be the trigger that drives one side or the other over the cliff. You know what I mean? When they find that guillotine. It's a spooky thing. But I take you down this route because I want you to understand that's how urban survival becomes a seriously big deal

overnight a botched election with a guy that everyone hates already and then you wind up walking down main street and see a bunch of people hanging from light poles and all of a sudden you realize I gotta get home but do I want to drive through this big crowd of people hanging from light poles. And all of a sudden you realize I gotta get home.

But do I want to drive through this big crowd of people? Or do I want to slink and slunk and slank through the back alleys where it's much safer for a person like me? That nub says drive through them real fast. He doesn't mean that, by the way, lawyer. You gotta be careful, man. There's lawyers everywhere. That guy who drove someone over, what was his name, the idiot, white supremacist guy who hit someone in Charlottesville? hit someone in Charlottesville, they'll be contacting you, trying to pin you for that.

Well, it was that nub's, you know, his influence, even though it happened a year after the incident. You know, his thought crime that came much later. Gotta be careful out there. Things are very different than they ever have been in my lifetime. But anyhow, one way that we can sort of integrate readiness into our lifestyle is with a well-thought-out everyday carry. What types of things can you bring into the job? I don't want to beat around the bush because I'm getting tired of beating around bushes. I'm just going to start cutting the bushes down.

There is always the option. It could cost you your job, so I'm not saying that you should do it. But I'm saying that there is always the option. Could cost you your job, so I'm not saying that you should do it. But I'm saying that there is always the option that you bring a gun or you bring a knife to work every day. Right now, don't do it because I said it's an option. Again, it could cost you your job and that's a big deal. But it's all a measurement in your mind of what length you want to go to. You know, if you're a responsible gun holder, a concealed carry weapons permit holder, when you practice with your firearm and you know when you slide that thing into its kydex holster and it goes in your EDC bag or it goes in, you know, somewhere,

you know it's safe. You know it's safe. And if you understand firearms, then you understand that there's no way in the world that this thing is going to jump out of your bag, shoot people, multiple people, and jump back in the bag. It's not possible. But again, in this climate, I have to imagine, in a climate like this, depending on where you work, if you were to stop an active shooter with a gun that you had in your bag illegally against work policy, they'd probably still fire you. They'd probably still fire you because the brainwashing is so deep, it runs so deep, that it's terrifying. But what you carry to work every day is important, because there's a lot that you can carry.

And I'll tell you what, the strike pen, the strike pen, if you're in one of these really tight places, the strike pen, the tactical pen with the blade, with the flashlight, listen, the blade's about an inch and a half long, but I can tell you right now, it's a lot better than nothing, you know, it's a whole heck of a lot better than nothing, You know, it's a whole heck of a lot better than nothing. What I've been thinking about lately is just how gnarly you can get with a flashlight. You know, so if I'm working at a place where they're not going to let me bring a gun in or a knife, then I might get myself the biggest, baddest flashlight that I can. That I can swing like a baton, you know, sort of like police carry.

And that's going to be part of my EDC. If you're in a situation where your job is severe, right, if you're working in an area where the restrictions are severe, one of the things I would recommend is definitely looking at an EDC bag. Because what you carry in your pockets and what you can bring into a workplace is very limited if you don't have a backpack. And I'm not saying for smuggling in things you're not supposed to have, but I'm saying for carrying the things that you need to have around. For example, if you're one of these... Sorry, my eye is itching right now. I'm sure I'm bouncing around in volume. If you're working in one of these places where they proudly proclaim that it's a gun-free zone outside and you just have to go with the flow one of the things that i would want

to bring to work every day would be a trauma kit for sure that's just one of the things i would think would be a no-brainer that's part of would be part of my edc let's make sure i've got something in here that i can mitigate this damage with. And I'd also talk to HR about, you know, this is where we're going to get into, this is where we're going to get into what the job is responsible for also. Because listen, a lot of jobs, a lot of employers out there, and I'm not trying to get employers in trouble with this. Let me start by that. I'm just being honest.

And I'm giving the listening audience to the I Am Liberty show the tools they need to be safe and be ready at work. But a lot, a lot, I don't know the percentage, A lot of businesses out there are not operating effectively when it comes to their emergency response. Right? They're not putting in... And a lot of it has to do with this fact right here. Because nobody's taking ownership of it, and they don't want to pay anybody to take ownership of it because it's a struggle. It's a struggle. It's a struggle. Right? And it's also a huge cost. But it's also an OSHA requirement. It's an OSHA requirement that you have an emergency response plan and that every employee knows where it is and can read it when they want? Does anyone in the chat room or anyone want to call in and tell me that they know where to get their emergency response plan and that they've read it in the last year?

If you have, I applaud you. But for the most case, people don't even know where it is or how to get it. Right? Now, if you're a small enough business, you don't necessarily need one. But I'm telling you right now, all in what you believe and what you want to fight for. Because here's the double-edged sword. Here's the double-edged sword. You take this knowledge that I have bequeathed unto you,

and you go to HR and you say, listen, I listen to this crackpot guy every Wednesday talk for two hours, and he hardly says anything important, but he did tell me that we need to have an emergency response plan and it has to be available to employees. And we also have to run drills, right? We also have to run drills. Nature's magic touches on something that we should talk about. Nature's magic, I don't know if you're a he or she, so I don't mean to offend. Cameras everywhere now. You're so right about employers. OSHA has You can use OSHA to leverage your company. And you're not doing it in a bad way or in a facetious way.

Because OSHAs like Beetlejuice, right? They don't come around most of the time unless they're called. Right? They just don't. That's a hell of a Halloween reference too, by the way. Sometimes I just knock them out of the park. But they don't come around unless they're called. If something bad happens, they come around. Right?

If something bad happens. You have a death in your warehouse. OSHA's going to show up. Or if an employee calls. So in other words, there's no harm, but it is a double-edged sword in going into HR and saying, you know, I'd like to see a little more onus put on emergency response. I don't know what to do if an active shooter comes in. I don't know what to do if we're in any situation other than the fact that, all right, gray man, take it easy. Appreciate it.

Have a good night. Chat room member leaving. There's nothing wrong with going in and telling them that you don't know what to do and you feel like you should know what to do because you certainly should know what to do. You should know what to do. Because you certainly should know what to do. When you walk into your job, you should be able to say, well, we shelter in place here. Well, if an active shooter comes in, I'm going to go to this room and shut the door. You know, if there's a, whatever, whatever the situation.

Whatever the situation is, you should have an answer, and that answer should either be in your head or you should have a document that you can read to find it out. But it's a very slippery slope, man. It's a very slippery slope because you go into HR and you raise these questions. Some companies are going to say, yeah, that Jordan Ferguson, she's a troublemaker. I don't know about her. She's stirring the pot here. And that's one of those things you've got to understand. But I'm going to tell you how to get around that too. I'm going to tell you how to get around that also.

Maybe you go in there and they say, look, we're trying to do it. We're really doing our best, but we can't get it done. I'm going to tell you how to get around that also. Maybe you go in there and they say, look, we're trying to do it. We're really doing our best, but we can't get it done. There's one answer that will take care of everything. But there's a catch-22. It comes down to if you want to own it. Do you want to own it or not? You are the right person to own it. And when it comes to...

I don't want to say it's... I don't want to say it's... personal responsibility. Right? Because it's not that. It's beyond that. It's above and beyond that, right? I'm saying you go in and you tell them that there's an issue, and then you tell them that you want to fix it.

And if you're really into workplace preparedness and being ready personally, then you take it on, right? Then you take it on and you say, I'm going to own it. Tell me where the document is. I'm going to update it. And again, it's not like you're going out on a limb just for your employer. It's not like you're taking on extra work just for your employer. This is not like you're taking on extra work just for your employer. This is so that you know the deal. Because once you take ownership of your workplace emergency response plan,

then you become an expert. Then you become an expert. Now all of a sudden, you know what to do no matter what happens. You get to take the driver's seat in training. You get to teach people what they should know. And be honest with yourself.

Who's better for that than you? I mean, here you are listening to a prepper show. Listen, it's more work. But you're the person to do it. It's just a matter of whether you want to do it or not. And I don't know what that is, because it's definitely not. There are two things in this life I'm noticing about people and responsibilities, right? There are definitely personal responsibilities that you have to do, that you have to take on or else you're not a good person.

Take care of children, take care of spouse, upkeep the house and the area around the house so that people don't drive by your house and look at it like it's an eyesore, keeping up with family, all that stuff. These personal responsibilities that most people do undertake and do a good job at. You know, that's taking ownership of yourself, your life, your responsibility, yada, yada, yada, right? A lot of people struggle with it. We're dealing with a lot of people who don't take personal responsibility, and that's why they're out in the streets with signs. But there's another layer. There's another layer. And maybe I'm just seeing it now because I'm surrounding myself with people who only exist on that other layer. You know, I'm married to a person who only exists on that upper layer. Right?

Where there's the personal responsibility layer and then there's a layer above that. And that's just the layer where you do it because it's the right thing to do. And you have to really fight resentment when you do things like that. And you have to really fight the urge to point fingers at people who aren't doing things the way you do them or people who aren't putting in the effort you put into. But I'm going to tell you something. It's a quote that I say all the time.

What one can do, one must do. And it's not what one can do, one must do because it's better for the world only or because the world needs you to do it. It's because once the seed is sown in your head, you will feel less than if you don't do it. And it will eat you up. and it will eat you up. I'm speaking to me as much as I'm speaking to you right now. What one can do, one must do. So if you're thinking about this like, maybe I should be the person that heads up emergency response at my job, yeah, you are the person.

It's just a matter of whether or not you want to commit the time to it or the effort to it. And, you know, again, you know if you're the type of person that what one can do, one must do affects. You lie awake at night and you think about the things you should be doing. The above and beyond things. The extra. For all his faults, I used to listen to Steve Harvey's radio show long before I ever even imagined sitting in front of a mic and doing a podcast. And he always said something. He said something every show that really blew me away. And it really makes me feel like I'm doing the right thing when

I'm doing extra and he said to me if you want to wait we said to everybody but I was when I was listening he would say almost on every show almost if you want to be extraordinary then you have to do extra and I'm telling you one of the most dangerous things you can do with your life, if you want to have an astounding life, which you can have, you can have a life that's astounding, but you have to do extra. And, you know, it's not an easy thing all the time, but one of the most dangerous things you can do is to compare the extra that you do with the things that people don't do. If you start to question why am I doing all this if that person only does that? That's a very, very toxic train of thought, man. That takes greatness

and it sets it on fire. Honestly. Because the first thing you're going to think if you do this and if you start to take on emergency response at your job, and of course that's assuming they say that's a good idea, Yes, we want you to do it. The first thing you're going to instinctually want to do is, well, I do my job and I do it better than most people. And on top of that, now I'm handling emergency response too. It's not fair. I don't want to do that. Why should I have to do it? I need to be paid more for doing it. Now that's a conversation worth having, maybe later down the line once you prove yourself.

People ask me things like that a lot. People ask me that question a lot. They say, why do you do this? Why do you do that? That way. It seems harder. Or people don't do it that way. People don't do, you know, whatever it is.

Why do you write books? Why do you live four hours from your family that you grew up in, the town you grew up with, and travel back and forth, kids and everything. What one can do, one must do. I have to do it. I have to do it to be me. The moment I start to say, I don't feel like doing that, I don't want to do that, I don't need to do that. You know, I'm going to be honest with you. I don't get many visitors here from up north. You know, people don't come down and see me in my house very often. But I go up pretty often. And if I were to

sit there on the edge of my bed and get all upset about that fact, right, why doesn't anybody come down and see me? What the hell is going on? That would be toxic. That would, you understand what I'm getting at? That affects what you're capable of. That affects what you're capable of. Because you start to lower your level. You can't lower your level. You can't do it. You can't do it. Don't let anyone do it to you. They do minimum. I should do minimum too.

Right? No, no, no, no, no. You're not. You're you. You're you and you know what gives you satisfaction. What gives you satisfaction is doing the right thing despite the cost. Fight the resentment and whatever goes along with it. Because at the end of the day, when you lay down in bed, you'll be able to fall asleep with a clear head. Let's move on.

Whoa. I definitely didn't mean to go on that kind of a diatribe over that, but it just fit. It fit too good, right? So on the low level of work-life readiness, you've got EDC. If you've got a lot of stipulations, if you've got a lot of concerns, you need to take an EDC bag into work. I don't want to push this bag on you, but I'm just telling you the Outlaw Slinger from 3V Gear fits a laptop and everything you could possibly want to bring into work. And it's not a giant bag. It's a sling bag. It fits the body armor that 3V Gear sells also, which could be something you might be interested in. And again, if that's something that you're excited about,

listen, I don't have an affiliate link yet. I would love to make some money off of pushing you towards 3VGear. All I got is a promo code that'll get you 10% off, and that's IAMLIBERTY, if you're interested. All right, feel free to press your job on their emergency response plan. I want to read it, I want to see it, and I want to know where to find it. Ask them about drills. Why aren't we doing drills? And if you can do that in a way that doesn't turn their nose up at you, you may want to look at taking a leadership role, man. You know, that's part of the deal. That's most certainly part of the deal.

Let's take a moment to come off the main topics. Because I do want to tell you about, I want to do a client highlight is what I want to do. I'd love to hear it. I'd love to hear about it if you guys go the route of I'm taking the leadership role. But what I want to talk about right now, I'm going to throw a link in the chat room. This may be something that you guys like, and I've talked about it briefly, but I haven't really gone into it in a big way because the channel itself was new, and there wasn't a whole lot of content up there. But the SHTF Preparedness,

my client over at SHTF Preparedness does a great job, first of all. They're one of my best clients. It's a great guy who runs the company. And he tapped me not long ago to start producing videos, review videos, right? And I'll be up front with you. You know what I mean? There's no secrets about what's going on here. He's not like, James, I love you. I want you to produce videos so more people can see your beautiful face.

He's got products. He's got companies. He's got connections, and he wants people to watch these videos, get excited, use the affiliate link so he can make income off of them. That's the reality of what's going on there. That said, the YouTube videos are strictly for entertainment. I mean, nobody makes you click the affiliate link. The cool about them is, if you're into me and if you're into the I Am Liberty show, they're all videos of varying degrees of tools and survival products that were reviewed and recorded by me. And it's not super HD 4K, but it's, and it might be something you like.

I don't know. It's a client highlight. They do a great job over at shgfpreparedness.com. And some of the products are pretty decent, man. I'm not going to lie. Some of these products that were reviewed on this channel have wound up, you know, they've wound up as parts of my loadout. You know, the Paradis is on there. That's my bug out bag by 3V Gear. That's reviewed there. There's a Connex tactical shovel. I don't know if it's a tactical shovel, but there's a Connex foldable shovel that I really like. And after I reviewed that thing, man, I said, okay, I've got a couple options. I can keep this thing, or I can give it away to the audience. And I said, you know what, I don't have a great shovel in my bag, and this is a great shovel.

But anyway, links in the chat room. If you're not in the chat room tonight, you can just go search SHTF Preparedness Gear Reviews, and you'll find it. You'll find the reviews of the Paradis, the reviews of the Olight headlamp that I did. There's an off-grid tools review that I wasn't super overwhelmed with. And there's a bunch of reviews coming up. There's some really good ones coming up. The one that I want you guys to see most is the Jerry Can, the Pressurized Jerry Can by Hydro Blue.

Hydro Blue is an amazing company that I'm actually trying to get to sponsor the show. They were water solutions, water purification, or water sanitization solutions, and filtering solutions, and they, they do it in, they're owned by 3V Gear, or they have the same owner, or something to that effect, which is another reason I really like them, but they've got it, man, they've got the stuff, like the screw-on Sawyer-style water filters, of stuff like the screw on Sawyer style water filters. They got them. The LifeStraw style filters. They got them. It's awesome. But this pressurized jerry can is unbelievable. Somebody asked if I have an Amazon shop yet. I don't. I'm bad with affiliate stuff. with affiliate stuff. MeGray asks, pressurized, why? So it comes with a, it comes with essentially like a sink sprayer attachment. You don't have to attach it, but you can attach it.

And the pressure, you know, you're not going to, you're not going to like clean dishes with the pressure, but I'll tell you what, it wouldn't be a bad shower. It wouldn't be a bad shower and it puts some pressure out. So the way it works is you fill it up with dirty water and the filter itself comes with an antiviral and it also comes with a charcoal and you can drink the stuff right out of there. I mean, I live pretty close to a highway. Pretty close. And I filtered water by a creek that was right near that highway. I mean, it's not something I would drink a lot of.

But I drank that water that was filtered from there and it was tasted fine. No effect whatsoever. I was very impressed with it man when you i think it's something like 10 000 gallons of water that that antiviral filter will run through it too it's an insane number like you you you get this jerry can i think it takes about three and a half four gallons of water and you stock up on some of these filters, man, and you can really, if you've got a local water source, you can stop thinking about prepping water. You can just stop thinking about it. You know, if you have several water sources around, you run this, even in the worst situation,

you run this thing through your filter and boil it just as a backup, I mean, you're going to have water. But anyhow, there's a lot of this cool stuff out there. If this doesn't work out, if it turns out that this SHTF preparedness thing doesn't work out and people don't want to buy the products, no big deal. I think I'm going to continue the reviews though, because I kind of like filming the reviews. It's fun. You know, it'd be even more fun if I could do it the way that I want to do it. Well, I don't know. I probably wouldn't do it very different now that I think about it. I get a lot of freedom to do it the way I want to. But anyhow, client highlight. I like to do a client

highlight each week. Again, I'm a freelance writer and i'm not a freelance writer and a a guy who works at ikea or a freelance writer and a guy who runs a whatever business like when i have good months and i'm a freelance writer it's awesome and when i have bad months and i just get the bills paid it's still awesome but But that's all I do. And any income that comes from the show, which I don't generate a ton of. So you have to understand that my clients, man, they mean the world to me. They mean the world to me because they allow me to live a lifestyle that not a lot of people get to live. You know, it's a combination of managing costs, right? Managing personal costs and having great clients that allows me to basically

hang out with my kids all the time, right? I'm not hanging out building Lincoln log houses with them every day because I have to get work done, But I'm here. When they need me, I'm here. And it's a big deal. Okay, what are we doing next? We're almost out of time. When I hit the pillow, it's going to be like getting punched. It's going to be like getting a left hook from Joe Frazier when I hit that pillow. You have no idea.

I ran five miles earlier today. And by earlier, I mean like, I don't know, four hours ago, five hours ago. And I'm getting better at it. But man, it's still running five miles. It's no picnic. And when 1030 rolls around, you're like, oh, I can feel it now. All right, book release on the 7th. We're going to do a pre-order on right, book release on the 7th. We're going to do a pre-order on the e-book on the 24th. Don't worry that the release date, the pre-order date, if you're listening to the show, you'll get a reminder because I'm releasing the book on the 7th, which is on a Wednesday, live show.

The pre-order, the 24th, next week, live show. So don't fret. You'll know when the book's out and when you can get your hands on it and that sort of thing. I'm going through this list here to see what I haven't covered. And I think all we're going to do

with the rest of this show is talk about preparing the urban neighborhood. And to what degree, right? Because there are a lot of things to talk about when you talk about preparing the urban neighborhood. The first thing you need to do, listen, shameless plug or not, right? Shameless plug or not, that nub asks if I'm signing copies of the book. You know, I've never done that.

And I don't even think I would like to do that. Listen, if anybody really wants a signed copy of the book, I would gladly get you a signed copy of the book. But if you order it off of Amazon, I can't sign it before they ship it. So just let me know. I mean, listen. I'm a nobody. And I want to be a nobody. Because it allows me to be who I'm a nobody. And I want to be a nobody because it allows me to be who I want to be. So the idea that my signature is in any way, first of all, my handwriting is absolute garbage.

Second of all, the idea that my handwriting and my signature may one day be worth anything is kind of laughable. But you want to sign copy, I'll write you a little note. I don't mind. I'll give you guys whatever you want. You know what I mean? You guys have done incredible things for me, so I don't have a problem with that at all. That said, let's talk about this urban survival in the community. All right, then I'll make sure you get one with a signature. I don't have a problem with that. Listen, the book's probably going to sell for about six bucks. Yeah, it's not hurting me. You guys have, everyone in this chat room

should get a free book like there's no reason why not if you want to email me i have no problem sending everyone in the chat room a free book because at the end of the day what six dollars you guys have definitely what we got we got If we have 10 people in the chat room, you've definitely made me more than $60. And like I said, the way that something like this becomes a Christmas classic in this day and age is people have to read it

and people have to talk about it. You don't want to drive all the way to my house, that nub. Because if you're in the western part of the nation, that's one of those things. But anyway, let's talk about this because we're running out of time. And Urban Month is coming to a close. And we've still got some important topics to touch on. And I fell behind a little bit because I decided just to up and take a damn vacation on you guys,

not even give you a heads up. It crept up on me. I don't have a Disney budget, so I was kind of like hiding myself from this Disney vacation coming up because I didn't want to be, I didn't want to, well, you know, you go to a place like that, you know you're going to spend more money than you're supposed to. It's just the way it goes. Anyway, if you're in an urban neighborhood, if you're in an urban situation, if you spend time in an urban neighborhood, maybe because of work, there's one resource I have to point you to. And it might be silly

and it might be narcissistic, but I don't know of any resource out there, which is why I wrote it. There's no other resource out there that tackles laying the base for a prepared community the way my book does, right? ComeUnity Community, which is available at Amazon now,

and I don't even know how much it costs, to be honest. But if you really want to get into community preparedness, you need the book. Period. You need the book. It is the blueprint.

You do the things in that book, and you put the work in, and the key is putting the work in. Because there's no book out there that can do anything for you if you don't put the work in and this book requires a lot it requires a lot but that's the starting point for any and all urban survival preparedness community endeavors or goals that you might have right i would i just talked about $60 in books to these great people in the chat room because they're here every week and there wouldn't be a shred of regret in that

because you guys are worth way more than that. The same should be how you look at that book because that book is going to cost you six bucks or whatever it is. I don't even know how much it costs. It might be ten. I don't know. One thing I don't do is go back and look at books very often that are pre-published up on my author page. And maybe I should. I don't know.

But anyhow, it's an investment that will pay for itself in about, you know, the first conversation that you have with a neighbor and the first steps that you take. $9.99 in paperback. There you go. That's an expensive book, Mr. Walton.

I think we need to cut the price on that thing. $9.99. It is a nearly 300-page book, but anyhow, start there, right? That's one of the big things that you can do in an urban survival situation in a community to get the community more prepared. Now, one of the things I talk about in that book is the fact that not everyone is going to want to take a leading role in developing that sort of cohesive community is what I call it. And when I say cohesive community, I just mean groups of neighbors that talk and that communicate regularly, right? Both in person and through some sort of internet communication or phone line communication.

That's the basis of that book in the vast majority. There's also a lot in that book about the things that divide us, and now we need to look at them. But there are things outside of that book also that you can do. There are things that you can do on your own. There are things that you can do on your own. And one of the most effective is to sit down with Google Maps, look at your neighborhood, and create a proposed base defense for your neighborhood. This is a very cool and very fun exercise. I'm sorry.

I just hit the microphone and knocked the pop filter down. Stay. So creating a base defense maybe is something that I need to post on the website. You know, I've thought about an audio book for community. That's a good call. Maybe I need to write that in my show notes. It's probably not a bad idea. Maybe next year. Look for it next year.

An audio book is probably right on the money. That might be a great recommendation. Because unless you're smitten with this community building idea, it's going to be hard for you to sit down and really get into a book like that. I think it is about 280 pages. But anyhow, building a base defense, and I wrote an article about this and I probably posted it up here before, but I think I'm going to link to it, about this and I probably posted it up here before, but I think I'm going to link to it. Put that article up on my website tomorrow. It's something that I actually learned from a client who put together a great book that I helped him finish. He was a former military guy. And I'm really sorry that I don't have the book here. If you are interested in the

book, it's a good book. And it's a lot about building prepper groups and that type of thing. It's a much more militaristic look at it. It's about feeding the group. It's about caring for the... It's a good book. But in it, he discussed a concept called base defense that I'm not familiar with because, look, I'm just, you know, I'm just not that guy. I didn't go to the military. I'm not, you know, I'm just not that guy. I didn't go to the military. I'm not a veteran.

I don't know much about war except what I read of Sun Tzu. Night, Ferg. So, anyhow, creating a base defense around your neighborhood is one of those incredible things that you're going to be able to do completely by yourself. And it's the process of sort of outlining your neighborhood and figuring out how you can defend either a set of houses, the whole neighborhood, whatever it is you want to outline.

You know, you start with sort of an overhead Google Maps look at the neighborhood, right? You look for high points, you look for low points, you look for entranceways into the neighborhood. You want to control people's ability naturally to get into the neighborhood, particularly by a car on roads. And there's a slew of other things to include in your base defense too, like where communications are going to originate, places where medical help will be levied in a situation where it's needed.

And one thing that a lot of people forget about when creating a base defense plan for your neighborhood is your exit strategy, your retreat. You know, you have to, you obviously want to win the day. You want to keep your neighborhood safe and the people in it. But you could come up against overwhelming force. I mean, it's possible. You know what I mean?

It's very possible. And when that overwhelming force comes, you have to be able to retreat so that people don't die. Remember, you're dealing with neighbors. That's the one thing about prepping that you have to always remember. You're not dealing with soldiers. As Dave Jones said, there are no acceptable casualties in your neighborhood. So you've got to act smart, but building that base defense is crucial. I don't really want to go into it step by step because it's kind of something you've got to see.

It's like I could spend the next 30 minutes going step by step, and you'd get a vision for it. If I link to the article and throw it up on my website tomorrow morning, then you'll be able to go there and see it, and it'll be like, oh, yeah, okay. I see the triangle border, and I see all the different places where I should include things and what should be included. What I will tell you about is sort of the post-preparation. Yeah, the post-preparation. I'm going to put the link to my article from the Prepper Journal into the chat room if anybody wants it there.

Oh, why didn't I put base defense? The Prepper Journal is a great website also. But anyhow, one of the things that you want to do after you've prepared your base defense is you want to print copies. You want to have print copies and you want to be able to give those print copies out to people. Right? Because once you give those print copies out to people in times of disaster, again, they're going to be able to say, oh, okay, now I get it. Now I get it. Nature's magic, you would like to do a Halloween show for me. I wouldn't mind you sitting in if you want to. We should probably have this conversation off air, though. But yeah, theprepperjournal.com, good website.

But, yeah, theprepperjournal.com, good website. Most importantly, if you're going to go through the rigmarole of creating a base defense, the most important thing you've got to remember is how can I communicate it quickly and effectively to neighbors in times of disaster, right? So we get smashed by a hurricane, and neighborhoods around us are being looted. Okay, how do I take 20 neighbors and explain to them, A, what a base defense is, B, what our base defense is, and C, what roles you should play in that? Oh, it's Lynn from A Prepper's Path. I didn't know that. I'm sorry. I had no idea. Nature's magic. You just never know these things. You never know these things. I go about dealing with this is it goes back to that sort of prepper binder, that sort of preparedness binder that I've been telling you about. And one of these days I'm going to do a

webinar or something on this preparedness binder because it's very important. But one of the things to include are printed copies of that base defense, right? And not just the map itself, but you want a map with a key, You know, so you want a map that shows exactly what's on there and then why it's on there. You know, so in other words, if you have a little, if you have a little red plus sign or a little medical sign, you want to have it on the key as well that says, look, this is the key. This is what this means. This is where we're going to take people who need medical help. You're going to bring them to my house because I have a ton of medical supplies. All right. Communications are going to come from this house because it's the highest point

in the neighborhood and they're going to be set up there with optics and they're going to be checking out who's coming into the neighborhood, who's approaching from what direction? Yada, yada, yada. Okay? So look into creating a base defense for your neighborhood. It's a super effective way to deal with threats that can come from a complete collapse of society or just a bad natural disaster. We see it every time. Every time we see the same thing happen, right? As soon as the opportunity's there for people to loot, they loot.

And you always want to have numbers. Even if you don't have superior weapons, numbers is such a big deal. You know, the numbers game is a big one. What else for urban community survival? What else do we want to talk about here? Let's bring up the show notes. I think I might be coming to a close here, folks.

It's a lot of yakking. It's just a heck of a lot of yakking in two hours. I don't know how you guys can put up with it, but I appreciate it. All right, urban neighborhood. So you got your base defense, you got your community community book. So you have the ability to sort of build those relationships first and foremost. The only other big thing that I can think of when it comes to urban neighborhood preparedness

is ownership. And I talk about that in my book also, but that's something that has to happen. You know, ownership has to be a part of the thing. You have to be all in for your community and your community members. And a lot of that comes with things like your communications method and how often you're talking to one another. And a lot of it does come from whether or not you decide to do a community watch, a neighborhood watch. You know, because that builds ownership also.

But these are crucial pieces of the puzzle. If you want to have a prepared community, and I don't mean a prepared community that you go out and you find people who have a specific skill set. I'm not a fan of that. You want the people around you to be your allies. If you don't have community in an urban neighborhood, everyone will be your enemy. Period. There's going to come a time, if the disaster is bad enough, where everyone will become your enemy because they'll be desperate. So plan today. if you really want to get into it, and you really want to start pushing the pace on a topic like this, setting goals for something like this, and listen, the book is the way to go, I'm not pushing a book on you, I'm just telling you,

there's one book out there that does community readiness and building community relationships better than anyone else. And I can say that it's my book. It's not a bestseller. It's not a book that people know about even hardly. But this is my little cup of tea. And I put a lot of work into that book. And I can tell you, if you follow the things that are written in that book, You'll have success. You'll have to do a lot of work, but you'll have success. And it's not going to turn around in a year. You know, five, ten years down the road, you're going to look back and say,

We're in a hell of a better place than we were. So what else? What else? I don't want to get into news. I'm bored of news. Again, I told you, tonight I'm Ecclesiastes. To me, all is vanity. To me, there's nothing new under the sun.

I'd much rather talk about prepping and writing books. Right? And you know what else Ecclesiastes said? Of the writing of many books, there is no end. And if you're a writer, man, that's, God, that's the truth. That's the truth. I've got a document in my drive, my Google Drive that is, it's just an ever-growing list of books that I want to write. Before I started writing this Christmas book, I was actually getting ready to put out a book called Darker Trails,

which is a collection of survival and prepping short stories that you guys are going to love. You're going to love them. They're all awesome. I was about halfway finished that book, and then this Christmas bug bit me, man, and I just went all in. But that book has a lot of interesting stories. That book also has two very interesting dreams that I had that will knock your socks off. One of the things that I like to do when I have really meaty dreams is I do like to write them down. And it comes from Wes Craven, actually. Because Wes Craven created the horror icon Freddy Krueger from one of his own dreams. And it is Halloween, so we can talk about Freddy, right? Listen, we're crazy about holidays. That's all there is to it.

The Liberty household, Casa de Liberty is sick with traditions. We're sick with the holidays in general. Now, none of them measure up to Christmas. Christmas for us, it's sickening. You know what I mean? It would be like, it's almost Hallmark-esque. You know what I mean? It's all the beauty of Christmas in our house. It's all the ugly of Christmas in our house. But God, do we do it? We do it. We do every bit of it, man. The cutting of the tree. I'll tell you what we do that everyone should do one thing and now's the time to tell you about it too because you might need to save some money to do it but there's a company out there and they're they're called silver town you probably heard of

them if you're into silver at all numismatics anything like that and every year silver town puts out a collection of beautiful Christmas coins, right? And you can get the coins like, I don't know, you know, you get them a little bit above spot price, you know, so you usually spend 25 bucks per coin, something like that. It's not a huge investment. But one of the things that I like to do every year is to get one of those coins for each of my kids. And I pay a little extra money. I think it's like three extra dollars and they inscribe the child's name on the coin on the back. And then they send you this awesome little plastic case with an ornament holder on it. I mean, you can hang these beautiful silver coins on your tree.

And I'm telling you, man, it's something special. And this has become yet another layer of tradition in the Liberty House. And at the end of the day, man, there's a line in the book. I can't wait to start reading you this book because there's so many important lines in it about life in general that just they find themselves affixed to this Christmas holiday because Christmas is so all encompassing, you know. But there's a line in there about the fact that you think as a child, you think that Christmas is just going to be there all the time and it's going to happen the same way.

You think that mom's going to cook a meal, you think that dad's going to haul in a tree, and you think that you're going to wake up in your parents' house and go downstairs and open presents. It's just going to be that way. When you're a child, you think that way, right? It's one of those things. And you have to cherish those moments, man. I look at my little boys. I look at my little boys and I have taken every, I mean, I've taken every avenue I can take to spend as much time with them as I can. And I can't help but look at Jacob, man, when he comes down the steps in the morning.

Three years old now. Three years old, he comes walking down the steps. The first thing he wants to do is come sit with Dad. And I look at him, and I know that these are the best days of my whole life. And I know that they're going to go away. And I know that I'm going to want them back, man. And even knowing that, even knowing that now, you know, I'm blessed to know that and I'm blessed to have made decisions that I've made to take advantage of it. But it still wrenches your heart. It

still rips your heart out. It still rips your heart out. I look at the boys sitting on the couch playing together and it's like, this is so temporary, dude. This is so temporary. this is the peak of all life, right? Is to sit there and to watch these kids grow up and to live in that moment where all they want is you. They look to you for everything. You know what I mean? And a lot of times you catch yourself, you catch yourself losing your mind.

Because life is there and life is a pain in the ass and life gets you frustrated and then kids get you frustrated and wives get you frustrated. And you've got to pump the brakes and look at those kids, man. Because I'm telling you, I can get teary-eyed if I'm not careful. And my kids are babies. Seven and three. I've got so much time with them. But I can already see the impending moment when they leave. When they leave.

And they go away and they live their life. Separate of mine. You know, and there's nobody at the top of the steps calling my name. You know what I mean? There's nobody at the top of the steps calling down, and da-da. You got to cherish that, man. You really do

it's one of those things that many people many people just they just they just walk through it like it's a mist you know

they just turn their blinders on and they just go through life like a drone and before you know it the kids are growing up and gone and you just have no idea what kind of a gem you had and maybe it's not possible that you can get enough of your kids before they leave i don't know but i'm gonna do my best man so jay man says james off the current line of thought, but what about kids in urban areas and a plan to get home from school? I think people forget that. I grew up doing the Cuban Missile Crisis and we had a plan to get home. Well, G-Man, you were an exceptional

kid. And anybody who's read your book knows that you had some skills at a very young age that kids nowadays, probably if kids nowadays knew what G-Man was capable of when he was a kid, and I only know it from reading your book, they'd think you were like a superhero. You'd be like a superhero kid to them. And I'm not going to give away all those skills because I want people to buy your book, but listen, I always tell G-Man, and I tell everyone who's into prepping, that that book is a book to have. Like, there's no getting around it. There's no getting around it. It's a book to have. But as far as getting your kids home from school in a crisis,

unfortunately, G-Man, things have changed, and they've changed in a very big way, and if disaster strikes while your kids are at school, they're at school. Like, you can't even come and get them unless you want to face force. That's a very big deal nowadays. You know, there's bomb threats at schools.

The kids get put on buses and shipped to another school. They're not going to let you pick them up until they're ready to let you pick them up. That's the reality of it. It's not as easy. You can always talk to your child. It depends on the kid. Let me give you an example of me. You know, there are kids who are going to conform no matter what. And there are kids who don't have the, maybe the brains to get home safely. But I can tell you right now,

if little James Walton was sitting in middle school or high school and he found out that something went down, I'd slip out a back door so fast you wouldn't even believe it. I'd be gone. I'd be like a ninja. I'd throw a smoke bomb and disappear out of that building so fast. The last place I'd want to be as a kid is surrounded by stupid kids I was going to school with and my stupid teachers. So you got to have that conversation with your kids. And if it makes sense and if you feel confident in the situation, then you tell your kid, you know, and if they're close enough to home that it makes sense, you tell them, look, this is what's going to happen. The school is going to keep you in school.

That's what they're going to want to do. But nobody can keep you in school if you don't want to be in school. You know what I mean? For the moment. Obviously, you have to go to school by law, but I'm saying in the moment. with the kids nowadays because they will get locked down in the gym. I mean, I've seen my niece go through it. I've seen my sister go through nightmares trying to get her after simple things like, you know, phony bomb threats being called in. For me, I'd probably prefer to tell my kid, look, slip out the door, when they're at the right age. You know, right now my son's in second grade. He doesn't live far from, he's not far from home but i'm not telling my my seven-year-old slip out the back door and come home it's too dangerous but that's what i tell you g-man that'd

be my advice i mean just watching the world turn and seeing how schools work today that's kind of the deal you know if they're old enough to make it home, I'd say get the hell out of the school and come home where it's safe. Because nobody's really safe in a school. You know, let's say they throw you in the gym and you sit there until things get worse, worse, worse, worse. Well, I don't know. Who's in a school that's going to protect your kid from worse, worse, worse, worse, worse? You know, nobody. That's the question. So get them home, in my opinion. so we're going to call it a night here on the I Am Liberty Show. Listen, it was so good to be back, man. Thank you so much, everybody in the chat room,

everyone who stuck around for the full two hours, everybody who came for the first hour. Who cares? It's all a big deal. I thank you so much, guys, for enduring this Christmas hook journey with me. I know it's not prepping related. I know it's early. I related. I know it's early. I can only hope that it helps you.

Right? I can only hope that you enjoy the book and I can only hope that maybe in some little way the book turns into a piece of literature that reinforces what American culture is all about because the sensationalized version of American Christmas

is so uniquely American culture. And in a world and in a time where everyone is attacking American culture, listen to me. We need that kind of backing. We need that kind of reminder. All right? Listen, folks, next week we're talking Red Out. Be there.

We're going to have our friends from Bunker Days on as well, so don't miss that one. It's James Walton with the I Am Liberty Show. Oh, yeah, carve them pumpkins and get them to me. I can't wait to see what you got. All right? Talk to you next time. It's James Walton with the I Am Liberty Show. Today's broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

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