Speaker 1: Prepper Camp always provides for the preppers. It always tests
Speaker 1: the preppers, and I mean both the vendors and the
Speaker 1: well first starting with the Prepper Camp staff, then the vendors,
Speaker 1: then the attendees, and twenty twenty six was no different.
Speaker 1: Through twenty twenty six, I was reminded of years like
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen with torrential reigns, a very different kind of threat,
Speaker 1: a very different kind of weather situation that if you
Speaker 1: were paying attention and if you were taking notes, and
Speaker 1: if you were you know, driven enough to make some
Speaker 1: changes upon your return home. You learned about your gear
Speaker 1: that year, You learned about what worked and what didn't work.
Speaker 1: You learned about what you needed to fix, You learned
Speaker 1: about what you needed to add. You learned about what
Speaker 1: you needed to take away. Probably no greater year of
Speaker 1: learning like the year that I missed, the year of Helene, right,
Speaker 1: that was a real test. That was Prepper Camp now
Speaker 1: turns into an actual SHTF scenario, and good luck getting
Speaker 1: home in it, good luck surviving, and good luck getting
Speaker 1: home in it. But you know, even even changes in temperature,
Speaker 1: there's just always seems to be some kind of little
Speaker 1: thing that you're you're pressed with when it comes to
Speaker 1: prepper camp, and you said, this is why I always
Speaker 1: tell you, like, the three day campout is so important.
Speaker 1: You know, the three day camp out and you know
Speaker 1: all transparency. I camped out in a motel this year,
Speaker 1: But the three day campout is so important, man, because
Speaker 1: you learn everything, and then you know, not only do
Speaker 1: you learn everything, but you can rectify problems the next day.
Speaker 1: Lucky enough, you're at prepper camp. So if you go
Speaker 1: to bed, if you go to bed and you wake
Speaker 1: up and go, oh, man, well I really need one
Speaker 1: of these because one of these would just make everything better. Well,
Speaker 1: the good thing is just probably a booth with the
Speaker 1: one of these in it, Right, I need a need.
Speaker 1: You're going to find a booth with one of those
Speaker 1: in it, man. So first and foremost, man, I got
Speaker 1: home safe and sound, no problems, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: easy ride home. I was happy got back. And you
Speaker 1: know when you play a video game and you're stammin
Speaker 1: the bar gets low, you know that feeling of like
Speaker 1: you can only you can only sprint so far, like
Speaker 1: if you're if your full health and full stamina, you
Speaker 1: can just let it rip. Man, you can really go.
Speaker 1: But as the game goes on, or as the taxing
Speaker 1: scenario you're in goes on, sort of that stamina bar
Speaker 1: starts to go down. Maybe play a little boxing, or
Speaker 1: play a little UFC fighting or something like that. Like me,
Speaker 1: the stamina bar works down over time. That's exactly how
Speaker 1: I feel today. It's exactly the way that I feel today.
Speaker 1: And that's a big deal. Okay, that's a big deal
Speaker 1: because it's a very rare feeling for me, you know,
Speaker 1: very rare. Like it takes. It takes a lot, because look,
Speaker 1: this year was a lot. You know, this year was
Speaker 1: about attrition and endurance. I mean that's really what it was. Well,
Speaker 1: it really was all about hydration. But you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, right, it was day one, day one of
Speaker 1: a day that you really needed to relax after, you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm not even talking about setup. I'm talking let's
Speaker 1: just talk Friday, the event. Friday, the event was enough
Speaker 1: of a hot day. Everybody there did enough sweating and
Speaker 1: enough you know, dealing with the heat just through your
Speaker 1: own body that it warranted probably a full day's rest after.
Speaker 1: But instead we were two days left. And I really
Speaker 1: want to give my shout outs to the attendees. Really
Speaker 1: not to say that I don't appreciate the vendors for
Speaker 1: being there or the Prepper Camp staff for being there
Speaker 1: even longer than everybody else, right, but man, I was
Speaker 1: almost positive that those attendees would be gone after Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, you got there Sunday. I mean, you were
Speaker 1: there Friday, you were there Saturday. What else is there
Speaker 1: to see? You know what I mean? And I guess
Speaker 1: it's speaks volumes to the classes, is what it really does.
Speaker 1: What it really does is speaks volumes to the quality
Speaker 1: of classes at Prepper Camp, because that's why they come,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, and they come for us,
Speaker 1: I mean they do stop, buy and talk. But in
Speaker 1: a situation like Sunday, the third day of Prepper Camp,
Speaker 1: that was going to be heat in decks, I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was above one hundred easy, if not above one
Speaker 1: hundred and five, right the third day of suffering that
Speaker 1: some people were you know, camping in that which that's
Speaker 1: that is warrior class. Seriously, I mean that's not well
Speaker 1: you I mean, talk to guys in Iraq, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. These are the things they talk about.
Speaker 1: So it and we're not dealing with soldiers here, right,
Speaker 1: We're not dealing with people who are trained for this.
Speaker 1: We're dealing with people who like, got off work Thursday
Speaker 1: and we're like, all right, honey, let's do Prepper Camp
Speaker 1: this year. I can't wait. You know, we've seen people
Speaker 1: in their eighties out there, so absolute warrior stock. To
Speaker 1: be out there three days in a row, sweating like
Speaker 1: you can't even understand hot, like you can't even understand
Speaker 1: no escape, you know what I mean, from the heat
Speaker 1: whatsoever down there by the lake, and to just gut
Speaker 1: it out for all three days. Man, it's really impressed
Speaker 1: by you guys. So if you're listening, I hand it
Speaker 1: out probably I don't know, two hundred business cards to
Speaker 1: people with the Prepper Broadcasting Network website on it to
Speaker 1: tell them about our podcast. So I'm sure there'll be
Speaker 1: new people listening. And I just wanted to start by
Speaker 1: telling you, like, and you know, for all of you
Speaker 1: are there year over year too, it's always you know,
Speaker 1: those faces that crop up. God bless you man. Really
Speaker 1: you made the event. You know, if everybody said after
Speaker 1: day one, if everybody said that's too damn hot, I'm
Speaker 1: not doing it, went home, you know, it would have
Speaker 1: been a lot of tough conversations being had all throughout
Speaker 1: Prepper Camp. So yeah, you guys made the event. You know,
Speaker 1: we kept the gears working, the speakers, the vendors of course,
Speaker 1: the crew that puts it all together. God bless them all.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah for you guys to I hope you
Speaker 1: learned something from it, you know, I hope, I hope
Speaker 1: you were either dialed in and had recovery down PAT already,
Speaker 1: or I hope you came away not only saying like
Speaker 1: this class was good. That class was good, but Mom
Speaker 1: Nature's class was good too, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like Mother Nature put on a show for us all too,
Speaker 1: and a little class for us to learn from, I
Speaker 1: will say, And I do want to mention this. I
Speaker 1: want to mention Natalia from X thirty nine from Life Wave.
Speaker 1: She's a vendor at Prepper Camp pretty often, I don't know,
Speaker 1: four or five years probably something like that. And Natalia
Speaker 1: has been there, and yeah, I'm just gonna be completely
Speaker 1: transparent with you can listen to her podcast. I posted
Speaker 1: it yet two days ago. There's a lot of these
Speaker 1: sort of health and regent, juveniation, regeneration, all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Products out there. I'm just gonna give you
Speaker 1: my complete transparency. I don't you guys know what I take.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I take Omega three's, vitamin C, creatine.
Speaker 1: These are the things that I take, sometimes a multi vitamin.
Speaker 1: I probably should have took a multi vitamin this morning.
Speaker 1: I don't take a ton of supplements. I do liquid
Speaker 1: IV when it's super hot, you know. But I was out.
Speaker 1: That's all it was. I was out, or I would
Speaker 1: have had a whole pouch with me over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I just ran out of time. You know how it goes.
Speaker 1: So that's the that's the full account of the kind
Speaker 1: of stuff that I use in terms of launch. I have.
Speaker 1: Everything else that goes into my health and wellness is food.
Speaker 1: It's all food, right, It's what foods I eat, what season,
Speaker 1: you know, what type of salt, I you all those
Speaker 1: kinds of things I would go into my health. I
Speaker 1: try to keep it as whole foods as possible when
Speaker 1: I can. Oh, I also heard this today. I didn't
Speaker 1: fact check it though, but it's probably worth fact checking.
Speaker 1: You know, Avocados tremendous for you, Omega threes and tomatoes
Speaker 1: tremendous for you. High like a bean cancer fighting capabilities.
Speaker 1: If you eat tomatoes with avocados, the cancer fighting like
Speaker 1: a bean, absorption goes up four hundred percent. Just a thought,
Speaker 1: next time you make guacamole, put some but either put
Speaker 1: some dice tomatoes in it, or have a little sherry
Speaker 1: tomato raw plate with it, or whatever something along that
Speaker 1: we make a little salsa fresco. What do they call
Speaker 1: that their pico? What is piko degaiyo with it? You
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Because it's a thing, man, that's
Speaker 1: a real thing, and I kind of dig it. I
Speaker 1: like that little statistic. So something to consider. But mother
Speaker 1: nature taught us a lot this year. Man whipped our asses,
Speaker 1: all of us. If you really shine, to reach out
Speaker 1: and let us know your process. Because as far as
Speaker 1: I could tell, nobody was really truly shining. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? We were surviving by day two. Day two,
Speaker 1: we were largely surviving. After day one, I spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in bed, because mainly I wanted to
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time in bed, whether the situation
Speaker 1: was good or bad. Day two, I get over to
Speaker 1: Natalia's booth to interview her. She puts the ice wave
Speaker 1: patches on my feet, on the balls of my feet
Speaker 1: right these ice wave it was like in the middle
Speaker 1: of my it was like below and in the middle
Speaker 1: right wherever the liver is, you know how people who
Speaker 1: know the pressure points and acupressure all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: Wherever the liver is is where she put them. And
Speaker 1: then she gave me I can't remember it. It's a
Speaker 1: cellular powder. Because life Wave is all about your cellular
Speaker 1: health and giving yourselves like lots of resources to do
Speaker 1: what they need to do to be healthy. She gave
Speaker 1: me a drink. It was a powder. It was called
Speaker 1: cellular something. And what I'm going to tell you about
Speaker 1: day two, Okay, around twelve thirty, so an hour before
Speaker 1: my class, I just pop up like I just feel
Speaker 1: like whoa. And it's probably like an hour after I
Speaker 1: drank her drink and got the patches right. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't like an energy whoe. It was like a well,
Speaker 1: it really was like a rehydration woe is what it
Speaker 1: was like, you know. It was. It was like you're
Speaker 1: in a D That's what it really reminded me of most.
Speaker 1: It was like you're in a d dehydrated state or
Speaker 1: an exhaustion state and then all of a sudden you're
Speaker 1: no longer in that state, but you're not pushed there
Speaker 1: by chemical right, Like I definitely wasn't pushed there by
Speaker 1: like caffeine or energy drink or something like that, because
Speaker 1: there was no shakiness. It was strength, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It felt like it felt like strength. It
Speaker 1: felt like someone summoned Chenron and was like, get James
Speaker 1: back to full by one wish, get James back to
Speaker 1: full power. Like that's what it really was. Like. If
Speaker 1: you watch the end of the Boo saga in Dragon
Speaker 1: Ball Z, you know what I'm talking about. But if
Speaker 1: you're a normal human being, you have no idea what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But anyway, so I was sold. Man.
Speaker 1: I was like, this stuff, something in this in this
Speaker 1: trifecta worked, you know what I mean. There's no there
Speaker 1: was no denying it beyond that. It was like something
Speaker 1: here worked. And that's important, man, That's important because like
Speaker 1: I said, there's all kinds of companies like Schulse showed
Speaker 1: me this amazing tests you can do with your blood.
Speaker 1: It's a blood draw test. They give you like a
Speaker 1: sixty page report on all the markers, all the things
Speaker 1: in your genes that could cause problems in the future,
Speaker 1: address any kind of problems that you had not fixed things,
Speaker 1: but tell you, hey, look, this is what you're predisposed for.
Speaker 1: This could be coming in the future. Here's what you
Speaker 1: can do to negate it. Really blew me away. There
Speaker 1: were some vendors this year that really blew me away,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about all of them. I
Speaker 1: tried to get as many of them as I could
Speaker 1: in a short sort of five to ten minute podcast
Speaker 1: that would serve you guys, and would serve them. You know.
Speaker 1: I was looking to like make sure everybody got served
Speaker 1: to some degree. I didn't want to sit down thirty
Speaker 1: minutes with everybody because I didn't have the time. Plus
Speaker 1: i'd probably die, you know what I mean, from the heat.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to make sure that I just did
Speaker 1: a quick five to ten minute in and out with
Speaker 1: a lot of great vendors and gave them a chance
Speaker 1: to make their case and it. You know, but we
Speaker 1: will have some of them on again so that they
Speaker 1: can really break it all down for you and really
Speaker 1: show you what's up. Because I was really blown away.
Speaker 1: You know, some of these guys really blew me away.
Speaker 1: Doctor Prepper. Really his system really blew me away, like
Speaker 1: big time. I was like, Wow, this is something here.
Speaker 1: You'll hear from him in a shorter podcast in the
Speaker 1: very near future, you know, could be today, actually might
Speaker 1: be later today. But we all walked away with our
Speaker 1: you know, our flashlights and our Ammo cans, and our
Speaker 1: notes from our classes under our belt and classes that
Speaker 1: we took. You know, I'm talking in the in the
Speaker 1: attendee sense. Now. We walked away with our tinctures and
Speaker 1: our you know, all of our things that we purchased
Speaker 1: from Prepper Camp and our memories. But we also walked
Speaker 1: away with this new imperative, right, we walked away with
Speaker 1: this new idea, this new improvement. It's like, if I'm
Speaker 1: bugging out in August, then we gotta think about cooling.
Speaker 1: We gotta think about hydration, you know, we gotta. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things where like if you were in
Speaker 1: a bug out situation through through August, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to follow a creek. This is probably your only up.
Speaker 1: You're either gonna have to follow a creek or follow
Speaker 1: a creek far enough off that you can you know,
Speaker 1: you can hit that creek when you need to because
Speaker 1: you're gonna constantly need to. I mean we talked. Look,
Speaker 1: I talked about this if you paid attention back when
Speaker 1: we did the Appalachian Operation, right when we did the
Speaker 1: twelve mile hike in August at night through the Appalachian Trail, Bend,
Speaker 1: the Breaker, the banksters and I. It was all hinged
Speaker 1: on it all hints on hydration powder, Like we had
Speaker 1: a hydration We had several different hydration powders, and they
Speaker 1: turned that night into a a mission accomplished because it
Speaker 1: definitely could have been an absolute nightmare, right especially towards
Speaker 1: the end of the twelve miles. And that was you know,
Speaker 1: that was a lesson learned back in those days. But
Speaker 1: I hope a lot of people took that, took that
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Speaker 1: the most water for the effort. Right, So that's always
Speaker 1: been my thing. I want to have at least one
Speaker 1: of those on my person, especially when water becomes you know,
Speaker 1: front and center, and it doesn't take much exertion before
Speaker 1: water does become front and center. Right, Jordan is going
Speaker 1: to do a full podcast on hydration. Right, maybe we
Speaker 1: call Prepper Camp twenty twenty six Operation Perspiration. Huh, probably
Speaker 1: about right. Operation Perspiration is in the bag, It's in
Speaker 1: the books. It was a great time, man, I got
Speaker 1: a lot to tell you about it. We're not going
Speaker 1: to do it all in this show, but I got
Speaker 1: a lot to tell you about it. You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: from a lot of the great vendors. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear from Dave Jones, the NBC guy, Sarah hath
Speaker 1: the way Jordan all about their experience and how it went,
Speaker 1: because you know, it was prepper camp, but on on
Speaker 1: the heat right, prepper camp at one hundred degrees each day.
Speaker 1: And we still did it. We still pulled it off.
Speaker 1: We still pulled Saturday Night off. Saturday Night was incredible.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about Saturday Night and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get out of here. So Saturday I get it revealed
Speaker 1: to me that Christian Sarah Hathaway's Sun has created a
Speaker 1: tinfoil get up, a very interesting tinfoil get up, and
Speaker 1: I'm in love with it. I'm like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. This is how we're gonna announce tinfoil
Speaker 1: hat winner this year. It's gonna be great. We only
Speaker 1: had a couple, one couple that showed up with the
Speaker 1: tinfoil hats, and I said, you know what, Hey, fine,
Speaker 1: let's do it. So they won. Obviously. I got up
Speaker 1: on the stage. Every year, I get up on the
Speaker 1: stage to announce the winner, and I introduce the President
Speaker 1: of the United States. We had a tinfoil Trump. Christian
Speaker 1: took a Donald Trump hair sort of like a latex
Speaker 1: Donald Trump hare put it over his head, covered his
Speaker 1: hair in foil. Then he took a red tie and
Speaker 1: covered that in foil, and we had ourselves at Donald
Speaker 1: tru and he also had a great T shirt on.
Speaker 1: To do this all in he said like a strong
Speaker 1: text in strong text, and I think his shirt said
Speaker 1: it was great man. He did a little bit up
Speaker 1: there with his hands and his Trump impression, and he
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. And I think Rick really enjoyed it. Rick
Speaker 1: even through the YMCA on afterwards so that he could
Speaker 1: get the Trump dance of Christian. It was great, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? It was. It was It was
Speaker 1: just all the fun that it always is just a
Speaker 1: little hotter. And uh, I'll be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it again. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do August again because you know, it's it affects the event.
Speaker 1: So I hope Rick gets it, gets the chance to Uh.
Speaker 1: He said he was gonna try to move it around
Speaker 1: different date next year. It takes its toll on, It
Speaker 1: takes its toll on the attendees. What I would really
Speaker 1: like for the attendees to know is like we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it we're gonna do it in that location, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it when it's not one hundred degrees.
Speaker 1: But aside from that, man, it was a great time
Speaker 1: and that's all I'm going to talk about today. Folks.
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