The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Unorthodox Training on I AM Liberty

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You're playing back the stability. Good day, PBN family. Good evening. James Walton here with the I Am Liberty Show Live. Whew, blew the show intro this second go-round because, well, to be honest with you, the first show went off totally wrong. I ran up to this thing, I tested the microphone, and I realized that I'd rather I didn't test the microphone. And I started talking and no audio was being captured. But thankfully, I saw it. So I didn't get, you know, 20 minutes into a show of dead air. Actually, the listening audiences, live show listening audience would have said,

yo, Commander, it's not working. So in the chamber tonight, I want to talk training. I am interested in your unorthodox training methods. But I would like to talk about some of the things that I do, some of the things that I've learned to do, and a concept that people who want to do tactical training, medical training, wilderness survival training, whatever, people who exist in these mindsets where they want to do this training, and maybe they do the training every so often, I guess my concept always is anything is better than nothing. Anything you do is better than doing nothing. If you can routine it, then it's even better, you know, no matter what it is. Who's doing their set the tones? Who's out there rocking the set the tone situation? Who's out there doing the, well, today for me it was, what was it? I mixed

the days today. I mixed my A and B days today. I pulled from both. So I guess tomorrow I'll start back at A. I got it a little confused. Well, here's what happened. I did some kettlebells. And then I got my eye target 9mm and that was one of the highlights of the day. I tested the eye target. I don't know if you guys are familiar with this little thing. You basically put a laser bullet in the chamber of your gun. And when you pull the trigger, the striker hits the little black button, basically, that turns the laser on just for a second. It's like a little black button, basically, that turns the laser on just for a second. And that laser is registered with your phone, and it registers where your gun barrel is pointing.

I was using my wife's revolver playing around with this thing. And I was like, oh, I don't know. I feel like I'm on target here. I feel like this thing might not be on target or something. I didn't feel good. My aim was not right with the revolver. And I shoot really well with that revolver in real life. So I was a little nervous about it. I couldn't quite figure it out. I was drawing double action but then again i mean i was firing double action but then again that later in the story you'll understand why but why that doesn't matter well anyway i was i was doing dry fire stuff but i also did a run a one mile run today so i pulled from day a and day b for those of you who are listening to this and going like, what is this guy even talking about? The whole year, the whole year is really going to be defined

by routines. It's going to be defined by routines on a month-to-month basis. Some, everyone will be involved with some. Only the members will be involved. But to set the tone went out to members. And it's just, there's a bunch of objectives. And I want you all to be involved in it. Next month will be a routine for everyone. I want you all to be involved in it. You are what you do every day. Do you understand?

That's what the deal is. You are what you do every day. Dan, that's what the deal is. You are what you do every day. We are doing a lot behind the scenes to spread the PBN word. I don't even know if it's sustainable. You know what I mean? But I have this feeling that getting all of this information out is vital.

That's what it feels like to me. It feels like getting all this information out is vital, and it's what I should be doing. It's what I need to be doing. So we're doing an all-hands-on-deck sort of thing. It's not going to be easy to come up with 12 fitness and prepping and training and tactics, routines. Maybe it will, though, actually. Because I do kind of already have February in the bag. So maybe it won't be as hard as I think. I guess what I should tell you and what I'm guilty of is not only is this going to be great because it's going to make the audience better, but by the time the year ends, me and every other host who gets involved in these routines are going to be much better too.

Right? Like, don't think that I'm doing this exclusively out of the kindness of my heart. What a great guy. Yeah, I'm doing them. Like, I'm doing them. Like, I'm doing the routines. You know what I mean? My legs hurt because we do the, you know, the squats and the kettlebell swings this month. It hurts. And the running. The running too. So I'll be stronger, faster, better. Let's talk about the Food Security Network Masterclass.

We are 21 days away. The Food Security Masterclass is a $60 course. I've never before opened masterclasses up to everyone. This one will be a $60 course. Whether you do it live or whether you do it after, I'm not messing with the price. We're going to go over all the aspects of food. That's what we're going to do. All the aspects of food procurement, production, inside and out, and it's all going to come from my experience. One thing that I've done with these masterclasses is we're only doing from my experience or from another person's experience.

So I didn't feel like my security experience was deep enough to do a solo master class on home security and community security. So when we did our master class, which is available at pbnfamily.com, if you want to take, you don't have to be a member, but you do have to pay for it. Members get all our master class content for free. You can go listen to that right now and fortify your home for election season in the U.S. of A. Listen, if you didn't hear my daily audio cache, I don't even know if I want to get into it. Do I want to get into it? You know, we're not going to get into it. You know what's going on in the country, right?

The left has come up to bat. They've struck out every time at bat. And we've watched it over the last several years. And the residual effects are merciless. Merciless. It doesn't matter who they hurt. are merciless. Merciless. It doesn't matter who they hurt. It doesn't matter if they yank kids out of school and replace them with illegal immigrants like they did New York. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You didn't read the story. It's the biggest story of my life.

It's the most important story of the month of January at least It's got to be the most It's not an Epstein list It's not what they're doing in Europe Going to war Sweden's coming out now and saying Ready for war Create defense groups in the country

What? It is what it is You know what's way more important to me and to America? Way more important than an Epstein list, like anybody on that list will be punished. What's way, if they put a video out of Bill Clinton and young girls, what do you think would happen?

What would happen? Do you think some kind of change of heart Is going to take place in the nation? It's to make sure That you don't realize You're losing your country That's all it is That's all all this stuff is

Bleed them Bleed them a little bit today Give them a little bit of the good blood Show them Show them something to distract them, distract them from what's happening to the children. Yeah, I did a little research on that school too, and I found out that James Madison High School is, or is it a high school? I can't remember. That James Madison is a predominantly white and Asian school. Which is pretty funny.

Sounds like DEI to me. Sounds like equitable thinking. Those whites and those Asians, they're going to be successful anyway They don't need school Said Bayer Adams While ruffling his blazer I should have done this show at 8 I really should have

I apologize I'm a little kicked in the butt right now But we're going to rock it out It's been a long day, man. Nine o'clock's late for me. I hop on the nine o'clock shows every now and again. Today, I was just kind of, it just didn't work. The eight o'clock just didn't work for a number of reasons. I don't want to go into it. And I drove myself absolutely insane on the way to this show. I got to tell you about Judson Carroll's new book.

Oh, yes. The creator of Herbal. Yeah, it is James Madison High. Oh, no, they're going to drag me in. Oh, they're going to drag me in. Let's see what the people are saying. James Madison High School shelters migrants prompts viral response. And of course, there's no response.

First... It's a video. It's a video from Newsweek, and it's a horrible video. And then they put an ad on it for heart surgery. The internet is dead. Like, if any major anything publishes an article, oh, no, what happened here? Deadly violence erupts at migrant shelter in New York.

Details on violence at makeshift shelter Randall's Island. Isn't this the one? That's kind of clever. Helter Shelter. I wish I could put this on for you. I'm going to hear what these ladies are talking about on Fox. What's going on? Oh, so that's even better.

Vivian Family. On Saturday, January 6, 2024, approximately 1927 hours, police responded to a 9-11 call. Somebody tried to cut in a line and got stabbed. So apparently before moving them into James Madison High School, what they did is they took all the kids' fields that they play, like the kids' sports fields, and they put big tents up on them and put the migrants in there the kids have paid

for the sanctuary city situation from the beginning from the moment texas said enough is enough we're not doing it uh it's been the children. It's been the hotel people didn't pay. They got paid by the government, right? It's not like they were hurting. Come on, give me some good stuff here. I mean, I have just entered into hell, okay? I'm traipsing through hell. A.K.A. X. A.K.A. Twitter. Locals in Brooklyn are protesting after James Madison High School was closed to students so migrants could set up camp in the high school. Bananas.

Doesn't even make sense. Doesn't even make sense. People out there yelling at each other with masks on. The New Yorkers never give up. The left-wing New Yorkers will never give up with the masks. I just received this footage from a mom in James Madison High School in New York City where students are learning remotely to make room for illegals to sleep there. Workers are unloading cots, food supplies for the illegals.

The mom was told not to record. I can't believe this. This I can't believe. We are going to talk about training, I promise you. Meredith over at Twitter says, I don't know who needs to see this, but the area surrounding James Madison High School voted red in the 2020 elections. I don't know if that's real, PBN family, but oh, wow. Wow.

I'm going to put this in the chat. I print screen. I mean, I screenshot it. I'm going to throw it in the live chat. I don't even know. I don't think anybody's in there, actually. I mean, I screenshot it. I'm going to throw it in the live chat. I don't think anybody's in there, actually. But it'll be in the live chat. Because if this is legitimate, it's bananas. James Madison High School, near Madison, East Midwood, Brooklyn,

south of Brooklyn College, north of Manhattan Beach. And when you look over this area, it is surrounded by blue, blue, blue. There's a little bit of blue in Sheepshead Bay, but this Midwood, Kings Highway, Ocean Avenue area, this Gravesend and Madison area is tremendously red. How do you think they chose which school to send them to? How do you think they choose which school to throw the kids out of? I need to see something, liberals. Attention, please!

All classes will be remote. Please log into your teacher's Google Classrooms. Is there a last straw? Oh, here's the extremely detailed map. We've got to look at this one. An extremely detailed map of the 2020 election. Okay, I see it all, but I don't see... Oh, there it is.

Oh, my God. That's phenomenal. That's phenomenal. That's phenomenal. We've entered the moment in history, PBN family, where. Charlie Kirk on Twitter says, interestingly enough, James Madison High School alumni include RBG, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, and Judge Judy. This is wild. See, sometimes you know something when you know something even if you don't know it yet all. Even when you don't know all the story, sometimes the story sticks to you like this.

And there's no getting around it. There's no getting away from it. Even when you want to get away from it, something draws you back to a story like this and you realize you have to dig deeper. So, no matter the motivations, no matter the motivations, because the motivations are only part of the issue here, I'd be just as mad. I might even be more angry about it if it was a minority school, a minority-dominant section in a Yorkian school. There's nothing good. It doesn't matter if it's in a Yorkian school. There's nothing good. It doesn't matter if it's white kids or black kids. There's nothing good about taking kids and saying, you go over there and learn through your computer because we have to house these migrants in your school. I don't know if I'll ever get over this thing.

You know, I don't know if I'll ever get over this thing. I don't know if I'll ever get over it. It's almost too much. I don't know what I would do if I were in a situation like that. I might burn the school down. I might be like, if I can't have you, no one will. I know you don't know what song that is, but if you do, based off of that crappy rendition, you're an amazing person. Yeah.

Judson's new book. Let's get back on target. You know, Fauci came out today also and said that he was wrong and that it was a lab leak now that everyone's life is ruined and and people like us were uh kicked off of youtube and our archives destroyed forever yeah our archives destroyed forever that's exactly what happened um Now that that's all done Fauci came out and said Eh You know what

I think I might have been wrong I think I might have been wrong I think it did come from a lab There's a very good chance it came from a lab And I think we made some mistakes in the rollout of, I don't think he mentioned the vaccine, but he was raked over the coals today and said, you know, I did a bad, I think I did, I think I messed up. And anybody who lost anything is looking around going, oh, okay. Oh, okay.

I guess I have to be good with that punishment. He gets to come out and say I'm sorry. All right, Judson Carroll, the spring foraging cookbook, PBN family. The spring foraging cookbook. We can talk about Fauci, the little, the little, what is he? What is he? He's a something or other. You know, he's like a little, like one of those trolls from that horror movie.

I don't know what he is. He's like Gargamel is what he's like. He's like a little Gargamel. So we can talk about little Gargamel, or we can talk about the doofus in New York, the mayor who can't believe that being a sanctuary city is just so damn hard. Let me call my buddies from Chicago and talk about it. We could talk about those idiots and waste our night like I have for the last 20 minutes, or we could talk about the amazing people

at the Prepper Broadcasting Network like Judson Carroll and his great new book, The Spring Foraging Cookbook, man. Wow, we just spring? All this is is spring? He's got 130 different... He may have more than 130 different vegetables listed in this book.

We got everything in its alphabetical order. Great move. I love when they do the foraging books in alphabetical order. We got everything from alfalfa to black locusts to bugleweed, bugleweed. I don't even know what that is. To caraway, to chickweed, to elder, to forsythia, to garlic mustard, one of my favorite wild edibles to forage in the spring, man. You eat garlic mustard and it feels like medicine.

Honeysuckle horseradish. Japanese maple. I don't think I knew that you could do anything with Japanese maple. I'm going to have to read that. He gave me a PDF of the whole book. I'm very happy about this. I didn't know that. I just figured this out. He sent me a picture in an email when I asked him,

what can we help promote for you? He said, well, I released a new book. And I saw the picture. There's a picture of a little baby nettle on it. It's a log and a rock and a little baby nettle. And I was like, oh, cool. He sent me a picture of the book. It's great. There's probably a little detail, a little explainer. And just now when I opened this thing and saw the table of contents and the page count, I said, oh my God, I got one. I got one. 91 pages. Salsify, River Beauty, Red Bud, Ramps, Wild Germanium, Wild Lettuce and Prickly Lettuce, Wild Onions, Winter Cress, Wisteria, Wild Onions, Winter Cress, Wisteria, Yucca.

It's a beautiful book, man. Get into foraging. We're going to, when the spring finally sprungs, we're going to be doing some foraging in our routines. So get ready for that. You're all going to want to buy a foraging bag off of Jay Fergie now that she's back. So it's available at Amazon. The Spring Foraging Cookbook by Judson Carroll.

If you want to get into it, you want to do that kind of thing, hey, it's up to you. Let me find a good one. I want to look at one. Watercress. You can't go wrong with watercress. What do I got to do? Shift-click.

Oh, no. Are these not links for real? Maybe they're not. They look to be linked. Maybe my thing's not working. Milkweed. Oh, here's a good one. Miner's lettuce. This is one that does not grow wild in my area, but it's good that I included in the garden. It's so good that I know. Miner's lettuce kept many alive in the early days of the California in the West. This plant is in the purslane family. Very good ranch-style dressing can be made using large variety of herbs. Fried rice is particularly good with mild greens like miner's lettuce. I'm not reading you everything.

You don't get to hear it all. We don't write these books so we can read them on air for free Except me, I'm the only one who does that Actually, Sarah Hathaway too, right? Sarah loves to read a book on line I mean, she does it every episode I guess you could just catalog all those episodes And have the totality of all the books.

But anyway, Judson Carroll, out now, I'm pretty sure. Let me make sure it's out. I'll just search it up. The Spring Forging Cookbook. Oh, yeah, here we go. Here's the whole The Omnivore's Guide. The Omnivore's Guide to Cooking. Paperback, January 5th, just released.

Apparently it's a two of two. I didn't even know. All of his books are great. You guys listen to him on Wednesdays. You know what the deal is. He's like the dark horse here. You know what I mean? I don't ever think he's even missed a show.

He's in every Wednesday. And if you took all of his shows and sewed them up together, it would be something you would pay hundreds of dollars for. Probably. I hope he does that. I hope he does it. Because as far as I know, he doesn't teach outside of the podcast. I could be wrong, but, you know, he lives it.

He's one of those guys that lives it. He reminds me of G-Man a little bit, to be honest. You know what I mean? He's like that mountain dude who's just content walking around the mountains, eating off the ground. He's got to know his stuff. I've envisioned the cabin like tinctures and salves and all kinds

of things in the windowsills. You know, like a warlock house or something. Alright, PBN fam. Let's actually get to the show after the break, okay? I do appreciate you guys, and I thank you for dealing with my insanity over the New York City schools. It's just blown my mind all day.

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Your garden is the resistance. Welcome back to the show, everybody. Your garden is the resistance, man. Your training is the resistance, too, by the way. Man, your training is the resistance too, by the way. Before I got on the air, Chin posted something in chat about special forces running around in 26 counties in North Carolina training. Training in North Carolina is weird to me. Because I know a lot of preppers in North Carolina. I know a lot of people who have a lot of things in North Carolina.

I know a lot of preppers in North Carolina. I know a lot of people who have a lot of things in North Carolina. There's a lot of people rooted deeply in North Carolina. You know what I mean? I love North Carolinians. I run into people who are real cool and they have that North Carolina accent. And I'll be like, are you from North Carolina? Yeah, I figured you were from North Carolina.

You were pretty cool. I don't know. I rarely run into a natural born from North Carolina. You were pretty cool. I don't know. I've rarely run into a natural born from North Carolina that's not really cool. Anything is better than nothing, PBN family. Consistency is a power all its own. I want you to understand there's a world of people out there. It's not a big one. There's a world of people out there. It's not a big one. There's a world of people out there who have the budgets and the time to train effectively at the highest levels regularly.

You know, every day, every weekend, whatever the situation. And maybe you're listening to my show and you're like, oh, I'm one of those guys. I get to do that. I shoot steel every weekend, whatever the situation. And maybe you're listening to my show and you're like, oh, I'm one of those guys. I get to do that. I shoot steel every weekend. Good on you. I want you to understand that the reason for unorthodox training methods, for me, well, it's twofold.

Number one, it's fun. Number two is to develop a level of consistency, to develop a level of consistency in training and to create a, and to build on the mindset that anything is better than nothing, right? Like there is, there is, uh, no way you're going to tell me that sitting on the couch in the evening is better than any one of my unorthodox training modalities. Right? Like there's no, you can't, there's no way. So, I mean, it's not that hard to understand, but I think the reason I think it's worth talking about is because we get hung up on sort of saving up or waiting for that perfect class, that perfect opportunity, that perfect timing to go out and do that thing.

to go out and do that thing, you know, and we can also get hung up on this idea that only training with somebody who costs a lot of money and really knows cool stuff and can show me something new and exciting. I want to learn something new and interesting, a new way to do this, a new way to put a shelter up, a new method for whatever. Those things are good. Those things are great. You know what I mean?

But I do think we should all integrate some unorthodox training methods into our lifestyle. Some of you do, I know you, that are very affordable and easy to replicate on a regular basis. You know what I'm saying? It's really just two concepts at the end of the day. Anything is better than nothing, and you are what you do every day. So even if you train with General Patton's ghost once a year. It doesn't hold a candle to what you do on a regular basis. I know this idea, like this mentality from being a part of Prepper Camp.

You know, because you go to Prepper Camp and you get a massive download of training and information. And you leave Prepper Camp inspired and all that kind of stuff. But I imagine if it's your one show per year and if it's all the training that you do, it's not enough, right? It can't be enough. It just doesn't fill out the year. The routines are a reason or a way that we're stabbing it at consistency in training. But I wanted

to talk to you about unorthodox training. I was, a lot of these I was introduced to almost accidentally. You know, my son requested that we have a party a couple years back at a paintball place, because his cousin had a party at a paintball place. And we went and played paintball before the party. And I was blown away at the physicality. I was blown away at the workout and the level of exhaustion. And that takes a lot for me. You know what I mean? It was summer and we were definitely clothed up. But I was still blown away at the level of physicality and exhaustion. And I realized that even though I'm not holding, they call, I'm holding a marker. That's what they

call them as markers. Even though I'm holding a marker and not a rifle or a handgun, there's a lot here. Like there's a lot in paintball. You have to be able to think. You have to be able to understand what you're doing and how it's applicable. But there is a lot in paintball. Paintball is probably the best way you can learn the difference between cover and concealment on the planet. on the planet. There might not be a better activity for training the difference between cover and concealment than paintball. And that's because pain can be a great teacher, right? Like, maybe not even just cover and concealment, but also how to actually take advantage of cover. You know what I mean? Like, oh, there's cover.

You know how many times that first time I played paintball, I got dinged off my face mask, the head portion of my face mask, because I thought I was covered when I wasn't tight enough in cover? This is the kind of thing that you can train consistently many times a year if you want. Not that expensive. And you get to make these kinds of mistakes a lot. If the first time you realize that you're not tight enough to cover because you took a round to the forehead, you're not going to get a chance to rectify that mistake.

That's going to be the last mistake you make if it's in real life. You know what I mean? Like I said, the gear and that kind of stuff. It's not really comparable. You know, there's no magazines, there's no reloading in that sense. So, I don't know if there's a lot to gain there. your boots, your tactical pants, the clothing that you are living your life in, you learn a lot about. You learn a lot about what you're capable of.

You learn a lot about the shoes that you're in, if they're the right ones. But most importantly, I think, above all in paintball, you learn the hard realities of your fitness level. in paintball, you learn the hard realities of your fitness level. You learn if I'm in tight, tight space running and gunning and going from place to place and staying low and squatted on my way there, it's going to catch up to me quick. And all that, all of that cardio finally pays off or not, depending on who you are, right? I think there's a serious place in, so airsoft paintball too, I'd call them unorthodox training methods. Airsoft obviously somewhat realistic from a weaponry standpoint, but not incredibly realistic.

I do have a... I bought my son an electric airsoft H&K semi-automatic. And this was the first time I ever saw this. These tiny little magazines come out of this gun that hold 16 shots. Semi-automatic. The slide is shot back by battery power. And the magazine has 16 shots. And I don't know.

So, like, you can use a 16-shot magazine in your gun and then have to, you know, swap mags. And though they're not, like, legitimate gun-sized mags, it's still a concept that you can play with. You can integrate plate carrier or i'm sorry chess rig you can integrate chess rig or war belt or whatever it is that you want to integrate and play with that stuff in airsoft in a way that you just can't in paintball you know what i mean number one you don't want to get omega-3 fish oil all of dyed omega-3 fish oils all over your all over your gear um so there's some benefits there like i said that you can strap magazines across your chest if you're into that sort of thing

and while those magazines hold like 150, 200 shots instead of 30, you get the idea, right? Both of these things are incredible. They're incredible fun. You know, they really are. I mean, they really are. We'll talk about one that's less fun now, and that is legitimate athletic training.

It's unorthodox in the prepping world. It's not something people want to do. Garden Girl, I want to give props where they do. Garden Girl's training for her half marathon right now. Cheer her on. If you see her in passing in Element, please cheer her on. Half marathon is no joke. 13 miles is no joke. Okay. Um,

in February, 2019, I ran a marathon and everything in my body was like, should have done the half. I rounded the corner for 13 miles, and I felt good. I did. I felt good. I could have stopped then and there, and it would have been, I would have felt horrible because I signed up to do the 26 miles, but it would have been a lot more comfortable to throw the white flag in at 13 miles because only five miles later, I found a doorway to hell and had no choice but to shuffle through it.

Legitimate athletic training, though, is a big deal. And the thing about athletic training is you train the skills you want to train. You can train all kinds of stuff. And it's all going to be for your benefit. Whatever kind of sport you're in or like. Another great thing is the competition of playing sports. Like my wife plays a bunch of adult league sports. And there's a level of competition and, you know, that sort of mental and physical strain that goes along with matching up against someone in your peer group who's going to be better today, right? It's a big deal.

And you could train for that stuff. You know, in other words, the reason I like this kind of stuff is because it takes me out of the mindset of prepper skills, wilderness survival, all that kind of stuff. It takes me out of that mentality and into this different mentality. You know, for me, since about 2009, I've always been pretty partial to combat sport training. I just like it. I just like the training itself. I like the skill sets. I like the way that you train the body to prepare for the skill sets. You know what I mean? I like the hardening of the knees and the elbows and the knuckles and the shins.

even though I'm not supposed to really kick with this part, I usually do with the top of the foot and the crook of the ankle, right? Like the hardening of the body is cool. And all this is backed up by running, which I also like. And then, of course, there's strength training involved and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, I can go real deep into functional types of training. You know, I guess you could call an unorthodox strength training method that I think is totally essential is to kettlebell. To kettlebell or not to kettlebell, that is the question.

I mean, it was only 2010, which I guess is a hell of a long time ago, 14 years now, when I first touched a kettlebell. My friend at the time, Antoine, told me all about these crazy things and showed me how to do a kettlebell swing. He taught me a lot of stuff. He taught me how to snatch. He taught me how to do a Turkish get-up. He taught me a lot of stuff.

I just built on that. But they're, they're weird. They sound weird. The movements are weird. If you're not familiar with them. And then on top of it, like you develop a weird kind of strength too. And you know, when people see me, I talk about working out a lot and working out for a long time and for years. I don't look really very big or anything. You know what I mean? But I'm strong from consistency. And in certain areas, too.

You know, there are also certain areas of my body where I'm pretty weak. But, you know, it's always a thing. Let's talk about virtual reality. Let's get real unorthodox. Um, this was another one of those things that kind of snuck up on me. This is another one of those things that kind of snuck up on me. This is another one of those things that was sponsored by the children. And it was a game changer. It really was a game changer.

I mean, there's no getting around it. We got this thing in 2020. And the idea of it was, you know, we're trapped to some degree, and also the idea of it was, this was probably the only gaming setup and system that I was unwilling to bring into the house yet, and I was a little scared of it, in all honesty, and I said my kids would talk about it, not a lot, but they would talk about it a little bit,'d say, yeah, let's get let's wait on that. Let's wait on that one. I was legitimately scared of how good it would be. Not, you know, not not only for them, but for me, too. And my fears were correct. We started playing all kinds of stuff off the get go.

we started playing all kinds of stuff off the get-go. But it wasn't until we stumbled into a game called Pavlov Shack. It was a free game, Pavlov Shack. My son heard about it, my older son. And he was showing me things in Pavlov Shack, and he said, you should go check out the gun range in Pavlov Shack. And I said, the gun range? What are you talking range? Talking about. Silly.

And I remember the first time I stepped into the gun range in virtual reality in Pavlov's shack. And I look behind me, and behind you is, you know, almost every weapon in existence. And what I found very quickly, I said, well, I'm going to shoot with all these weapons because it's fun. And I want to see the sights on them. And I want to see how they work because I haven't touched most weapons.

I haven't touched. You know what I mean? Like in shot. And I was really surprised, you know, at the things that you could learn about guns in virtual reality you know just even just from a reloading and racking standpoint like i picked up many guns that first time and i had no idea how to reload and rack them and i said to myself you know

probably a good idea to know how to do this. Um, and, and I don't want it to be the first time I pick one of these guns up if it's chaos, you know what I mean? If it's chaos and, and you find yourself in a situation where you get your hands on a gun you've never shot before, that's not probably not the time to go, how do I rack this thing? How do I reload this thing? And when I went through that, I started to be like, hmm, there could be something here. Around that time, I had also just started shooting, um, a red dot sight on my everyday carry pistol. And this was new to me. This was the first sight I ever had on a gun, right? So it was 2020.

Many challenges, not the least of which financial. So I wasn't running to the gun range every other weekend, you know what I mean, to put rounds down range and get used to this thing. And I came to realize that I could shoot a handgun in VR with the same sight on it. And, of course, these are different things. Shooting a firearm in real life, holding a firearm steady in real life, Shooting a firearm in real life, holding a firearm steady in real life, hitting target in real life, very different than shooting a gun in the virtual reality world.

Duh. But anything is better than nothing. Remember? Anything is better than nothing and and the other thing about the pavlov shack is that they had these really cool drills with moving targets that would run on rails down sight on the range so you could shoot at these paper targets or you could run this sort of movement-based drill where three targets would run five or 10, 15, 20, maybe something like that yards. And they would run all the way across the range and then all the way back and all the way across until you hit them all. And playing around with these sites in virtual reality, I got to turn the volume down. I don't know what the hell's going on, I'm sorry if you guys are hearing that, playing around with these sights, man, really helped me

get much more familiar with how to draw the gun and get that solid sight picture with the red dot, of course, I, you know, dry fire with it too and that kind of stuff to learn it, but I don't know, there was something about that simulation that was effective because it wasn't just, you know, pulling the firearm. It was also following a target and pulling the trigger. That's the way I look at it. And that was just the beginning. I it and that was just the beginning

that was just the beginning there have been things that have come up in VR that have blown me away completely there's a game called The Thrill of the Fight that is legitimately a part of my fitness it is a legitimate part of my fitness and training if I were to lose it, it would affect my overall fitness. And largely, it's a shadowboxing workout.

This is what's most amazing about the thrill of the fight. The thrill of the fight is you punching the air. From the outside looking in, it's you punching midair, which you have to be careful about. You can't go throwing haymakers. You can get seriously injured. But it's used shadowboxing. The difference is in the headset is an enemy combatant who is going to knock you out if you don't use your footwork,

dodge the punches, block the punches, and attack back. And this level of simulation will kill you. It will kill you. Now, if I told you to shadowbox into the point where you can't move anymore and need to lay down to catch your breath, it would be nearly impossible. You would probably be bored to death and never even get your heart rate to where you need it to be. Virtual reality and the competition therein, right, the AI therein, pushes you. It pushes you to move. It pushes you to hit. It pushes you to move. It pushes you to hit.

It pushes you to, you know, find good angles, use good footwork. I do 12-round fights. I do 8-round fights. I do 10-round fights, 3-minute rounds, and it's brutal. I mean, it is some of the most brutal endurance training that I do, and it sounds silly. I know it sounds silly. But if you do 10 rounds in Thrill of the Fight on virtual reality,

you might need a doctor. You will need a day off the next day. I can promise you that. If you're not used to it. If you don't hit a punching bag or something like that, you're going to need some time the next day to recover. I mean, it's legit in every way. It's legit. And you're rewarded.

Your good technique is rewarded. I will tell you that. If you don't know how to box, it may not be as fun or as good for you. You know what I mean? You may be training bad habits and things like that, and that's just what it is. I was never necessarily taught how to box. I was taught how to tie box

So some of that was in there But I largely taught myself And I spent as much time learning how to box As I did learning how to not make the mistakes in boxing And I'm sure I make plenty One of the things I always used to do was keep my chin up And I do that sometimes when I get tired and I get knocked out. It's something that a guy in real life used to reinforce at Muay Thai. Sometimes he'd grab a tennis ball and make me hold it under my chin while

we were doing heavy bag work because he'd say, you know, my chin would cheat up as I would hit the bag. And when I'm getting tired or when I'm feeling good and I'm landing a bunch of punches, that chin starts to cheat up and then boom, get knocked out. What else? There's a lot of survival simulation. There's a lot of survival simulation in VR that's fun too. A lot of good stuff in terms of putting yourself in really bad situations. You can simulate intensity better in virtual reality than you can at a gun range for sure. You know what I mean? You can play with firearms in virtual reality,

online against other people, and you can feel the heightened state. You can feel the heightened state and the heightened consequences, right? Like, no, I'm not going to die, but I want to win, and I'm outnumbered, and I need to figure out a way to win here.

Do you know what I mean? These things make a difference. And I'm outnumbered. And I need to figure out a way to win here. You know what I mean? These things make a difference. Only recently we've got the iTarget Pro. And I used the 9mm bullet in my CXP Sissy today. And it was nice. It was nice. I'm not going to lie.

It was way more on target than I expected. The red dot sight on my gun, because the sissy is my EDC. It's nice. It's little. It's light. It's almost impossible to even realize you're carrying. It doesn't fire a ton of rounds, and that may be something I have to fix one way or another. But I was really impressed with the accuracy right off the clip. Of course, it's my gun, you know, and that makes a difference you're way more comfortable shooting your gun but i was blown away by it i was blown away by it i see tremendous

value in it i target also sell these cubes that you can hide all over the house and shoot at as well and they shoot at you i think um there's a lot of training modalities like the boys over at Matter of Facts they always talk about the Mantis X they have similar products I don't know if these are necessarily unorthodox anymore these lend themselves to that mindset of consistency you know what I mean

that's what this is about this kind of this is about. This kind of technology is about consistency. It's about the idea of if I go to the range once a month, that's once a month I'd get to do that thing, right? But how much could I improve if I committed to dry fire practice every other day and if i use the eye target and if i use dry fire uh drills and holstering and and you know all that

drawing and holstering drills and all that kind of you build it into a routine and you add these unorthodox training methods to that routine there is no way in hell you're not going to get better. There's no way. There's no way in hell that you're not going to be a totally different person than you were in 23 if you weren't doing anything. Because anything is better than doing nothing. Anything is better than Netflix. Anything is better than scrolling Instagram. Right? They are not a sponsor. I don't know if I'll even.

Well, before the year's out. I probably will. Get on them. Oh, I got big news. There's big news I just got this from Stephen Menking Happy New Year brother At long last got a reliance for you

Back to a normal schedule from here on Please accept my apologies for the gap Like I would ever Like I would ever need an apology Stephen Menking So we'll have a reliance this Sunday If you haven't heard reliance yet Stephen is invaluable invaluable man.

He's invaluable. So a couple more and we'll call it a night. We've gone over a little. Real thinking is an unorthodox training method that is vital to preppers. Sitting down, walking through things step by step, really thinking about them. Most people don't do this in life period anymore. I always use the example of door gets kicked in 4 a.m.

You wake up. And in your head, and in most of our heads, the fantasy goes, I wake up, and then there's a rifle in my hand, and I go defend my family. Right? What I came to realize one night, not because something like this happened in our house,

but what I came to realize one night was laying in bed, I said, what actually are the steps that I would have to take? What are the steps that I would actually have to take to get up out of bed quietly, get the gun that I want to use for the situation, while also simultaneously paying attention to who's in the house and where they're at in the house and then making my way and and again where am i going to make my way now how far am i going to go to deal with people in my house i know laws. I know what I'm able to do and what I'm not able to do. And the more you sit down

and really think these things out and start to combine all this stuff, the further away you get from fantasy and bravado. The further away you get from I'm going to strap it on and go to work. You know what I mean? And this can be applied to all kinds of things. All kinds, like bug out plan. A lot of people have bug out plans, right?

You really sit down and think about it Oof Do you? Maybe you don't have a bug out plan Maybe you tell people you do Dave Jones always says If your plan is to go somewhere and do something Then you might have a bad plan.

The final one on my list for the night is combo training. And combo training is not as unorthodox. Well, maybe it is still pretty unorthodox for most people. It's just what it sounds like. It's exactly what it sounds like. It's exactly what it sounds like. You know, like, if you're going to be doing this athletic training and this fitness stuff, it's very easy to stretch out for 30 minutes to 45 minutes and listen to PBN while you do it.

Or listen to another podcast, or listen to an audiobook about foraging and wild medicine. It's very easy to pleasure yourself through the auditory while stretching. And stretching is crucial, man. Like, don't discount stretching. If you're a person who's worried about injury or who has injuries, you should be the one stretching the most. has injuries, you should be the one stretching the most.

I mean, I've been physically active for many years now, 20 years, basically. And I rarely ever get hurt. And the last time I got really injured was throwing a mattress, no, throwing a carpet rolled up carpet into a dumpster it was a it was me trying to muscle something i shouldn't have been doing and i think i might have already been injured because i was catching a variety of furniture off of a second story roof right and it was like being dropped down on top of me and I was catching it and then trying to balance it so that it wouldn't fall over and destroy anything and then hucking that into a dumpster and then

at the end of the day I took this big roll of carpet, put it up over my head, and then tried to, like, sling it forward like a, like a javelin or something, and it was bad, it was a very bad injury for a couple weeks, a couple weeks, it was bad, it was one of those weird injuries where, like, it went away, and I sneezed wrong in the bathroom, in the shower. Like, I was in the shower, hunched over, and I had a sneeze. A real sneeze, and the whole thing came right back. It was crazy. It was like, oh, man, I think I'm coming out of this thing.

It feels good. One sneeze, I was back on the couch. I mean, at its height, it was debilitating. I couldn't get off. I couldn't sit up. Immense pain in the neck and scapula. Bad. But that is so rare. I mean, I can't remember the last time I was literally debilitated by injury like that.

You know? And I don't really get little injuries very much. I attributed all the stretching. Well, I attribute it to two things. One of them you're probably not going to like. I didn't play sports growing up. No sports. I didn't do repetitive motions.

I didn't take injuries early. So by the time I was 18 years old, I had no sports injuries. The only kind of injuries I had growing up were burns and cuts. And they suck, but they don't suck as much as no knees and no back. So I attribute a lot of my health in my late 30s to that, to no preexisting injuries from getting beat up in sports when I was a kid. I attribute it to strength training,. I attribute it to strength training and I attribute it to stretching. And also knowing, you know what I mean? Knowing and not being dumb.

Like knowing. Like there's some days you get under the squat bar and you know. I can just feel it. I'm like, my head's not there. My body's not there. Today's not the day to break through to something new and impressive, right? So today's not the day to break down the walls. So you don't, you don't break down the walls. And I think in doing that kind of stuff, maybe I, maybe I am not as strong as I could be because of that. But again, if anything is better than nothing, then cutting weight out of your workout so you can get through your workout and have good reps is going to serve you way more

than muscling out a personal best and hurting yourself. And then you're off lifting weights for weeks or maybe months. You know what I mean? Combo training can also be another combo training that I've always done is plant identification and running. Running in the woods with plant identification in mind. And that takes some dedication. That takes some staring at plant pictures. That takes a good field guide. That takes, you know, looking these things over and looking these things over, pledging your memory

to some of them, and running in the woods in the summer and in the spring, and looking, looking for these things, seeking them out. You may return to a spot with your field guide to verify, but I promise you if you run with the intent on identifying trees and plants, you're going to be a much better forager when your time comes. So combo training. There's a lot out there. And what's important to talk about in all these things is

even with something like VR where there's a $500 barrier of entry for the newest model, you can get a Quest 2, an Oculus Quest 2, or a Meta Quest 2, they call it now, I think for $250, $300. So there is a barrier of entry for some of that stuff. I think the iTarget's like $150 All in. So you can use the system. Paintball. If you take one kid. You might drop 200 bucks.

Something like that. Athletic training is up to you. You can do it however you want. Real thinking is 100% free. Combo training is most of the time. 100% free. Champion your unorthodox training methods, PBN family. You know what I mean?

Like, be proud of this stuff. This is some good stuff. If you do something that works for you and you do it consistently, but it doesn't fit the norms, you should scream it from the rooftops. Because somebody will learn from it. Somebody will gain something from it. People can give me a lot of flack,

and people have given me a lot of flack for talking about things like training paintball, training virtual reality, right? Because it's not the real stuff. But look, I don't live a lifestyle where the real stuff is something I'm going to do every day. I'm not going to go out back and shoot steel targets

with my AR-15 every day. Arrested. That's what would happen to me. So within the confines of how I live I want to get in daily training I want to get in daily training the best way that I can Because I understand this above all And this is the whole lesson tonight

Anything is better than nothing And sometimes Unorthodox training methods can be better than nothing. And sometimes unorthodox training methods can be better than all kinds of things you think about or all kinds of things you invest a lot of money in. All right, PBN family.

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