Speaker 1: PBN Family on the road again and we are we
Speaker 1: are heading Man Preppercamp twenty twenty six. I have put
Speaker 1: already put a couple hours behind me, which is hard
Speaker 1: to believe. It's really hard to believe. A couple of
Speaker 1: phone calls, a couple of podcasts, stuff like that, and
Speaker 1: already ready to roll.
Speaker 2: So we're, you know, just under four hours. I see
Speaker 2: the dial.
Speaker 1: On the thermometer going absolutely insane. This this will be
Speaker 1: a test of your heat endurance, this Prepper Camp event,
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. So I'm interested, you know,
Speaker 1: as I always say, and we always say every year,
Speaker 1: mother Nature adds her own flair, and this year, being
Speaker 1: in August, I you know, had no doubts it was
Speaker 1: gonna be hot as hell because that's what it is
Speaker 1: in August in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: So I hope people come prepared for that.
Speaker 1: If not, you know, some of the best prepper camps
Speaker 1: are some of the worst prepper camps in terms of
Speaker 1: comfort and convenience. That's true, Like truly, some of the
Speaker 1: best prepper camps are the best outcomes of prepper camp
Speaker 1: come from some of the worst prepper camps where you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I know what I need to do different next time.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, You get this sort of
Speaker 1: download of the hell that you've had to face from rain,
Speaker 1: from cold, from Probably the worst for me was the
Speaker 1: year I wore my boots, but I only brought boots,
Speaker 1: and man in having those boots, right. I woke up,
Speaker 1: put those boots on and found out after some torrential
Speaker 1: rains overnight, I found out that I was gonna be
Speaker 1: standing in a puddle. My booth was essentially a puddle,
Speaker 1: and I stood in that puddle, and basically I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like trench foot, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I was. I had wet feet the whole weekend. Like
Speaker 1: the entirety of the weekend, my feet were never once dry.
Speaker 1: They might have been dry, like for a moment in
Speaker 1: the morning after I slept with no shoes and socks on,
Speaker 1: but beyond that it was largely just a soaked event
Speaker 1: for the tutsis, you know what I mean. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. I really hope everybody can
Speaker 1: stand the heat, the uh the It's gonna be an
Speaker 1: interesting situation. I definitely look for to see how the
Speaker 1: campers are prepared for it. I'm looking to see what,
Speaker 1: you know, what the Prepper Camp goers they're going to
Speaker 1: be bringing like hand fans or mister fans or you
Speaker 1: know whatever. Dealing with the heat, folks, is a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a thing. Like I always get
Speaker 1: up this time of year for a lot of heavy
Speaker 1: working out, and I always espouse how much I really
Speaker 1: love the heat. And listen, you know, I fare in
Speaker 1: the heat pretty well compared to a lot of people.
Speaker 1: But it's a different thing when you can't escape it,
Speaker 1: right when you decide to lock arms with the heat
Speaker 1: through and through, it's a different thing, you know. Now,
Speaker 1: because we're at this new facility, and this facility is impressive,
Speaker 1: and they've got some really cool stuff in this facific
Speaker 1: and a great gym, I mean, a phenomenal gym, Like
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out am I going to work
Speaker 1: out before Prepper Camp or after Prepper Camp? Because I
Speaker 1: will be working out. They also have a great mat
Speaker 1: and heavy bag gym. And actually I haven't punched a
Speaker 1: punching bag in a month and a half. A month
Speaker 1: and a half is a long time for me. That's
Speaker 1: a long time. Actually, I haven't really thrown a punch
Speaker 1: with this right hand since tearing the finger off almost
Speaker 1: it wasn't that bad. It was pretty bad, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't That's that's making it a little mythic. But I
Speaker 1: haven't really wailed on a punching bag yet, so I'll
Speaker 1: be interested to do that. That may happen in the
Speaker 1: wee hours of the morning or in the late hours
Speaker 1: of the evening. I'm not sure, you know, it's but
Speaker 1: I am going to get into that gym because it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's extensive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, man, it's you know, this is what we're
Speaker 1: dealing with, folks, We're dealing with heat as preppers you know,
Speaker 1: or preparedness minded people. However, you figure yourself into this thing,
Speaker 1: you know, this is what you want to be. This
Speaker 1: is what you want to have going on in your head, right,
Speaker 1: you want to have this whole situation going in your mind.
Speaker 2: It's easy to dominate.
Speaker 1: Well, It's like we always talk about when we do
Speaker 1: our prepper exercises, right, everything's different when conditions are great,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But it's when conditions are
Speaker 1: awful that when you really figure things out, you really
Speaker 1: start to go like, oh, I'm gonna need to switch
Speaker 1: this and do this different and fix this. That's when
Speaker 1: you figure out, like I've got some problems, man, that
Speaker 1: I need to figure out. This is stuff we need
Speaker 1: to figure in the cold. And you know, for a
Speaker 1: long time I thought that the old I thought that
Speaker 1: the old camping stove was the answer to the cold.
Speaker 1: I found out that convection is greater than the camping stove.
Speaker 1: This year, just this year, just back in January or
Speaker 1: my son Carter and I were out. We were out
Speaker 1: actually the whole the night that we were out. We
Speaker 1: didn't sleep very much because of the cold and because
Speaker 1: he forgot something in the car and we wound up
Speaker 1: walking back to the car like twelve am or something
Speaker 1: like that, and we came back and went to sleep
Speaker 1: for maybe two or three hours, and then we were
Speaker 1: on the road before the sun came up. Why we
Speaker 1: were doing our little winter operation. The United States military
Speaker 1: was also conducting there at operation in.
Speaker 2: El Salvador.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know, it was kind of weird.
Speaker 1: It was a really weird there's a really it's a
Speaker 1: really weird way to remember that situation. But I found out,
Speaker 1: you know, I gave my son my blow up sleeping
Speaker 1: pad and I didn't pack another one, and I had
Speaker 1: a I had a emergency bivvy, a good one, and
Speaker 1: a sleeping bag. And I said, you know what, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be just fine. I'd never done that in
Speaker 1: that level of cold before. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: found out. It wasn't fine. It was not anywhere near fine.
Speaker 1: I was cold the whole night, shivering like. It was
Speaker 1: one of the first times in my life that I
Speaker 1: would fall asleep nice and cozy, right, and even with
Speaker 1: the fire going, I'd wake up shivering because my body
Speaker 1: was losing so much heat to the ground. It just
Speaker 1: couldn't catch up to the ground. I don't know if baby,
Speaker 1: if I could have preheated the tent in the ground
Speaker 1: a little longer. We got to the campsite a little
Speaker 1: late in the day, and before I got the fire going,
Speaker 1: we went to watch the sun set up on a
Speaker 1: big mountain and yeah, it was it. Don't get me wrong, Like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't change it for the world. I'd just stayed up
Speaker 1: the whole night largely, I didn't wouldn't have cared, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It was a wonderful night, just great.
Speaker 1: My son's slept soundly. The difference between this sleeping pad
Speaker 1: between him. Oh, he also had a much better, uh
Speaker 1: sleeping bag. He had a he had my uh, what's
Speaker 1: like a mummy sleeping bag for zero degrees, much better
Speaker 1: sleeping bag. He was actually getting hot. So he's getting hot.
Speaker 1: I'm in a in a low tier, low grade sleeping
Speaker 1: bag and a and an emergency BIV. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you right now, like without the camp stove blazing, it
Speaker 1: was cold. So you got to learn what those climates
Speaker 1: are all about, you know what I mean. When I
Speaker 1: started looking at the temperatures, I said to myself, how
Speaker 1: do I want this prepper camp to go? You know,
Speaker 1: never before have we had the opportunity to escape the
Speaker 1: elements of prepper camp. You know, you just it is
Speaker 1: what it is. But we're at a resort, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And I started seeing like, you know, ninety five degrees
Speaker 1: thunderstorms in the evening, and I'm thinking to myself, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five was a tough year. Freberkamp was one
Speaker 1: of the high notes, but it was a tough year.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, do I want to spread out,
Speaker 1: sprawl out into bed. In August, the air condition freshly
Speaker 1: showered the whole nine yards, get a great night's sleep,
Speaker 1: take advantage of the solitude like I rarely get. Man,
Speaker 1: I don't get solitude like I'm going to get these
Speaker 1: next four days, you know. Not a dog, not a kid,
Speaker 1: not a nothing in sight. And that's very rare for me.
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm not bitching about it. I designed my
Speaker 1: life for this, right for exactly what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: Like my life was designed for that. It was literally
Speaker 1: put in order for just that fact. I want to
Speaker 1: be with my family all the time. But there is
Speaker 1: something very special about just being you, just you. What
Speaker 1: do I want to do? What do I want to
Speaker 1: you know what I mean the whole thing. If I
Speaker 1: wasn't coffee guy, I'd be even better off because I
Speaker 1: could show up to the event even later, sleep in
Speaker 1: a little bit. Not that I sleep in, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm likely to be waking up four in the morning
Speaker 1: every day just to work out and then get down
Speaker 1: there get coffee going. Though I have a distinct feeling
Speaker 1: that the coffee sales are gonna plummet the further into
Speaker 1: eighty degrees we get which is fine, No, it's no
Speaker 1: big deal.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it'll be a test of the wheels.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the hot weather, It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a phenomenal time. No matter how you look at it,
Speaker 1: no matter how and why and where you look at it,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a phenomenal time.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to get there. I'm about what t
Speaker 2: what is it?
Speaker 1: Eleven twelve, one two, I'm about three hours out and
Speaker 1: a half, about three and a half out and set up,
Speaker 1: you know the whole thing. Go see the room. Tonight,
Speaker 1: we're playing History Draw with Dave Jones, the NBC guy,
Speaker 1: his new board game. In case you haven't been, I'm
Speaker 1: paying attention to History Draw right his new board game, phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I'm I feel like I'm about to die while recording this.
Speaker 1: I I really don't like the looks of this tractor
Speaker 1: trailer here. Whatever's going on with this tractor trailer is
Speaker 1: no good.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to speed up and pass this guy
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not sure what it is, what he's got,
Speaker 1: how the load is set in the back of his truck.
Speaker 1: But that thing is wobbling, and I don't like the
Speaker 1: looks of it at all. So we're gonna dust that guy.
Speaker 1: I don't like the speed, but I'm getting around him.
Speaker 1: I have to make it home. Don't you understand. I
Speaker 1: have to return home in one piece. I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: like I'm in the odyssey, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: On the prepping front. On the prepping front, I talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about the garden Paul Paul's. I didn't
Speaker 1: get any paup this year, No pau post seeds. I
Speaker 1: ran out of time. I didn't have enough time. I
Speaker 1: was planning for this thing all week. Still ran out
Speaker 1: of time. There's not enough time to do it all.
Speaker 1: I've got a dirty Man safe that's coming along with us, right.
Speaker 1: We're gonna promote that thing. I may give it away
Speaker 1: or sell it to be honest with you, because I
Speaker 1: think people are gonna want it. We've got a box
Speaker 1: full of great stuff from hydro Blue dot com, our
Speaker 1: great sponsor as well.
Speaker 2: Hydro Blue dot Com.
Speaker 1: We got they sent us an entire box of goodies
Speaker 1: to give out as prizes for our Tinfoil Hack contest. Amazing,
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing, So they'll get a shout out for sure.
Speaker 1: I've got a survival scripts kit that I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: give away, but I am gonna promote while I'm there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got the goods, man. I got some three D
Speaker 1: printed goodies, got books, got waters, got I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I think I have everything necessary to create at
Speaker 1: least some semblance of a cooling station for the poor
Speaker 1: people of Prepper Camp, because I know they're.
Speaker 2: Going to be suffering.
Speaker 1: All in all, man, things are looking good. Things are
Speaker 1: looking great. I'm going to fill you in on a
Speaker 1: new project that's working in the background. I was really
Speaker 1: blessed to meet some guys who are just They have
Speaker 1: taken the preppared Broadcasting Network archive and carved it and
Speaker 1: are carving it and manipulating it and molding it into
Speaker 1: something that we really what it deserves. It's really what
Speaker 1: it deserves to be. And I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1: So looking forward to the future, folks. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: in the meantime, my spidy sense is going off about water.
Speaker 1: My spidy sense is always going off about food, but
Speaker 1: I don't know something about water. Right now, guys, has
Speaker 1: really got me perked up. It's all the data center talk.
Speaker 1: It's all the road work and the pipe work in
Speaker 1: the city of Richmond right now. And I hear that
Speaker 1: this work is being done all over the country. Honestly,
Speaker 1: access to water, quality of water, all these kinds of
Speaker 1: things have really got.
Speaker 2: My head going. And yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Probably the second half of twenty twenty six or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty seven at large, we're going to expand water access
Speaker 1: on the homestead. And I don't want to talk well,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of water access on the homestead.
Speaker 2: I have a perpetual creak.
Speaker 1: So investment in the type of filtration that removes chemical
Speaker 1: that's something that I probably need to get my hands on.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of them do that, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's particularly those that you buy. You really
Speaker 1: need to to invest in a good system. But rainwater
Speaker 1: catchment we're pretty good on that, but we maybe we
Speaker 1: do I don't know, maybe we need to express. The
Speaker 1: thing about rainwater catchment is is you can always expand
Speaker 1: you can always add mortz. It's not really that tough.
Speaker 1: It's not really that hard of a thing to just
Speaker 1: keep adding. I do think that you need to give
Speaker 1: water a second look right now. I know it's one
Speaker 1: of those things, it's like silly.
Speaker 2: Right, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: But I do think that the quality of your water.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna test my water when I get back. I've
Speaker 1: got this is a prep that everyone should have. The
Speaker 1: water test strips are like twenty bucks. So water test
Speaker 1: strips are about twenty dollars, and they tell you a
Speaker 1: lot about the water, right, tell you a lot about it.
Speaker 1: And this is huge because the reason Eye bought them's
Speaker 1: for things grain, barrel water, but also for events where
Speaker 1: if you lose TV and communications, which hopefully have backups.
Speaker 1: But if you lose TV and communications because of a
Speaker 1: natural disaster and you run the tap water for a
Speaker 1: little while and it comes out brown, and then you
Speaker 1: check it the next day and it comes out clear.
Speaker 2: What you got going on? Naturally, you gotta boil.
Speaker 1: Water problem, right, So you're gonna boil the water however
Speaker 1: you can, which is fine, there's no big deal with that.
Speaker 1: But if you have these water testskit, you can learn
Speaker 1: a lot more about your water. Not only that, and
Speaker 1: now I wish I would have tested it a long
Speaker 1: time ago and wrote down the results rather than just
Speaker 1: test it. But you can test your water now right,
Speaker 1: write down the results, take a picture whatever it is.
Speaker 2: And then from there you can.
Speaker 1: Test it in the future when that data center gets
Speaker 1: done being built, you know what I mean, When that
Speaker 1: local data center is done getting built, you could test
Speaker 1: your water again and go well as you can see
Speaker 1: your honor. And I think that's important, man, I do.
Speaker 1: I think that's really important. I really wish you I
Speaker 1: would have saved my test results. Like I tested the
Speaker 1: water in the past and it was safe, and you
Speaker 1: threw it away. I really wish I would have tested
Speaker 1: the water and saved the results because I would have
Speaker 1: a different kind of insight on kind of where we're
Speaker 1: at and also where we're going. So get a twenty
Speaker 1: dollars test, get off of Amazon and test your water,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Test your water now right
Speaker 1: down the results.
Speaker 2: And then as things change, as.
Speaker 1: Access to water gets crazy, as the price of water
Speaker 1: goes up, as all these different things that are going
Speaker 1: to happen with water in the near future begin to happen,
Speaker 1: you could at least be able to look back and say,
Speaker 1: you know something about this, don't look right, don't look
Speaker 1: the way I thought it was going to look. And
Speaker 1: that could go a long way in a lot of realms. Right,
Speaker 1: you could be play a big role in getting a
Speaker 1: data center out of your neighborhood. If you don't want
Speaker 1: one or out of your town. All right, PBN family,
Speaker 1: I'm getting back to uh, back to road rage. I'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: See you, guys,