Speaker 1: PBM family.
Speaker 2: The day has come. It is Prepper Camp eve, and
Speaker 2: the Intrepid Commander is nearly ready, nearly few things left
Speaker 2: to do, but pretty damn close and looking forward to
Speaker 2: the new location. Man, looking forward to Well, I'll give
Speaker 2: you a little I'll give you a little tea. How's
Speaker 2: that sound you want a little? A little surprised that
Speaker 2: no one else really knows as of yet, there will
Speaker 2: be no disaster coffee at Prepper Camp twenty six. Yeah,
Speaker 2: something happened with the disaster coffee order. We will have coffee.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get to taste something that is actually even
Speaker 2: rarer than disaster coffee.
Speaker 1: Which is kind of cool. It's even rare. It's called
Speaker 1: the Morning Bugle.
Speaker 2: It's Richmond, a Richmond roaster. That is the only coffee.
Speaker 2: I actually have it right here next to me, the
Speaker 2: only coffee that I really truly love.
Speaker 1: As much as disaster coffee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's an amazing I started going to this
Speaker 2: cafe years ago, I've talked about it on the show before,
Speaker 2: and just fell in love with their coffee.
Speaker 1: Man, And.
Speaker 2: I said, I was, I was freaking out as I
Speaker 2: saw something happened. The coffee had not left California, and
Speaker 2: I'm saying to myself, oh, this is not looking good.
Speaker 2: And lo and behold the beginning of the next week
Speaker 2: still hadn't and I said, oh, yeah, this is not
Speaker 2: gonna happen.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna have it.
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I said to myself,
Speaker 2: you know, okay, this is kind of you know, worst
Speaker 2: case scenario.
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? How do we make.
Speaker 2: How do we replace disaster coffee?
Speaker 1: It's impossible?
Speaker 2: And I said, the only guy I can call on,
Speaker 2: the only backup QB I got that can get it done,
Speaker 2: is my morning brew from the bakery, you know. And
Speaker 2: luckily they had I got everything, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And luckily they had it there and it's being ground
Speaker 2: up now. I'm gonna go back and pick it up.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna get a chance to have James's second
Speaker 2: favorite coffee this weekend if you're coming to Prever Camp,
Speaker 2: and you'll you know, it's like I said, it's a
Speaker 2: local roaster, so it's not something that really a lot
Speaker 2: of people have ever had or likely will have again.
Speaker 2: But it's an amazing coffee. You're gonna love it. The
Speaker 2: booth is gonna look pretty PBN outfitted as well, so
Speaker 2: it'll it's not the end of the world. I think
Speaker 2: that we don't have disaster coffee because we have a
Speaker 2: big but I got a big PBN banner printed and
Speaker 2: we're gonna be We're gonna be doing a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: Man. But on the road tomorrow, the long haul. The long.
Speaker 2: Really the greatest amount of time that I spend away
Speaker 2: from my family at large, you know, happens during prepper camp,
Speaker 2: though not in August typically. Though I am a little
Speaker 2: excited because with August being Prepper Camp, I have foregone
Speaker 2: something that I've always loved to do with my wife,
Speaker 2: which was the State Fair. And since twenty nineteen, I
Speaker 2: think it was two yeah, twenty nineteen, I have foregone
Speaker 2: the State Fair. So you know me, I'm not big
Speaker 2: on missing things with family, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It's actually one of my worst I hate it. But
Speaker 2: the State Fair for my family has long been my
Speaker 2: wife and the two kids, sometimes a brother in law
Speaker 2: sometimes you know what I mean, tag along, but not
Speaker 2: very often. So now with Prepper Camp having moved, oh Man,
Speaker 2: Dad gets to return to the Virginia State Fair for
Speaker 2: one of those incredible barbecue par fays, some of those
Speaker 2: incredible donut cheeseburgers, oh Man, deep fried oreos, all that
Speaker 2: good stuff. You know, the State Fair takes at least
Speaker 2: three months off my life, you know, at least three
Speaker 2: months off the life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Man Prepper Camp twenty twenty six at the try On, Well,
Speaker 2: he probably eat better than we ever had have.
Speaker 1: I tapped out.
Speaker 2: I got a book, I got a hotel room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I just did.
Speaker 2: I just I figured it's here, it's year one. Might
Speaker 2: as well experience.
Speaker 1: The whole thing. It's gonna be hot as all hell.
Speaker 2: We got the we got the memo from Chin it's
Speaker 2: gonna be super hot, So plan accordingly. And uh that's
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, that's the deal. That's the other
Speaker 2: thing I didn't like is the thunderstorms in the PM.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: summer thunderstorms. You just don't You don't know, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, what are you gonna be dealing with?
Speaker 2: Are you gonna be sleeping in a tent that's blowing
Speaker 2: sideways with rain.
Speaker 1: Coming in the whole night, or what you know I'm
Speaker 1: not that. I do know I will not be.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man packed up and got all the goods
Speaker 2: a few missing pieces. That we're heading out on the road.
Speaker 2: I'll be podcasting from the road, of course, like normal.
Speaker 2: I don't think one of the cool things about August.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're gonna have a whole lot of
Speaker 2: coffee sales after a certain point because of the heat.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna try to get around and do a
Speaker 2: lot more video and stuff like he's always say I'm
Speaker 2: always going to do. We're playing Dave Jones trivia game.
Speaker 2: It's called it's called Trivia Draw. If I'm trip no
Speaker 2: History Draw, I'm sorry. Dave Jones history game called History Draw.
Speaker 2: We're testing that game out, that board game that he's
Speaker 2: created out. You know, mister Jones, the history teacher, has
Speaker 2: created a board game. It's probably gonna be phenomenal. I
Speaker 2: can't wait for that. We're gonna be playing with the Hathaways,
Speaker 2: so I know that's gonna be a fun team effort.
Speaker 2: They're very competitive. We always have a great time when
Speaker 2: we do that kind of stuff. I can't wait. Family reunion,
Speaker 2: good food, good sleep, good good people, good company, super
Speaker 2: high if you're coming to the event and you get
Speaker 2: really hot, come over to my booth, come over to
Speaker 2: the Prepper Broadcasting Network, you know, portion of the stretch,
Speaker 2: because we're always all bunched up together. But one thing
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna bring is a cooling station. Doesn't sound
Speaker 2: to me like there's gonna be cooling stations, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure about that, but I'm gonna bring a I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have a cooler full ice. I'm gonna bring, you know,
Speaker 2: one of those vaporizer vans, and we're gonna plug that
Speaker 2: and a box fan up to create a little bit
Speaker 2: of a cooling station for those who are, you know,
Speaker 2: desperately trying to survive. And by the midday when it
Speaker 2: hits ninety, you know, because it's it's gonna be a scorcher.
Speaker 2: There's no getting around. It's August. It's August in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: But that's okay, we'll come, you know, we're preppers, come prepared.
Speaker 2: I talked to Jordan fully, she's fully prepared to work
Speaker 2: her backstroke in the creek behind us, just to make
Speaker 2: sure that she stays cool. And yeah, I think that'll
Speaker 2: be likely to be a common thread. There is always
Speaker 2: a little something you learn from prepper Camp on top
Speaker 2: of prepper camp itself. Right, that's the one thing about
Speaker 2: the event that makes it stand out from like I'm
Speaker 2: at a hotel and I'm going into a convention center
Speaker 2: and then going to this thing. Right, the thing about
Speaker 2: prepper camp is you come for the classes, and you
Speaker 2: come for the people selling their wares, and you come
Speaker 2: for the community and the camaraderie. And then you also
Speaker 2: get some curveballs, you know, some wonderful curveballs from mother Nature,
Speaker 2: or some things you've forgot to pack, or some things
Speaker 2: you thought you needed, And before you know it, man,
Speaker 2: you're testing. You're writing lists about things that you need
Speaker 2: to add to your system, steps you need to take
Speaker 2: to fortify your tent or fortify your sleeping bag or
Speaker 2: improve or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: There won't be many sleeping bags.
Speaker 2: Needed, but yeah, it's just a lot of people are
Speaker 2: gonna a lot of people this year are gonna come
Speaker 2: away with you know, how we need to prepare for
Speaker 2: bugging out in the summer better. That's that's that kind
Speaker 2: of thing, right, How do we survive in a tent
Speaker 2: in the middle of summer and stay cool? And one
Speaker 2: of the ways that's gonna happen. Well, you know, it
Speaker 2: all depends on which route you take. Jordan has come
Speaker 2: fully prepared to weather the sort of heat that we
Speaker 2: could be dealing with, you know, and I think that's
Speaker 2: a good thing. I've heard words and whispers of battery
Speaker 2: powered fans, intense possibly misting fans. Right, one thing's for sure.
Speaker 2: The classes are gonna be phenomenal. The event's gonna be phenomenal.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. I can't wait. I'm gonna be selling
Speaker 2: some awesome stuff, some really cool preps, selling coffee. My
Speaker 2: talk is all polished up. I mean polished, like we've
Speaker 2: added things. If you took my class two years ago
Speaker 2: or three years ago, whenever that was. This is gonna
Speaker 2: be a very different one. But it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: good one. And I could tell you right now, we're
Speaker 2: gonna spend I get forty five minutes, We're gonna spend
Speaker 2: at least ten, if not more, on artificial intelligence. Because
Speaker 2: if I have people in front of me who are
Speaker 2: literally considering starting a home based business, right like this
Speaker 2: is their thing, Like I want to start a home
Speaker 2: based business.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, if.
Speaker 2: You want to start at home based business, PBM family,
Speaker 2: Here's a question that you have to answer to AI
Speaker 2: or not to AI. That is the question, to AI
Speaker 2: or not to AI? Is it nobler to query chat
Speaker 2: GPT or to do it all by hand?
Speaker 1: Right? For who would bear the whips and scorns of time? Ah?
Speaker 2: But we will, we will have a discussion on AI
Speaker 2: in my class.
Speaker 1: Uh and the and both sides, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Who's in for it, who's out of it all together
Speaker 2: and want nothing to do with it, Who's never even
Speaker 2: thought about it? Who's planning to use it? And then
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk about answering that big question now before
Speaker 2: you come down the line. And then, you know, I
Speaker 2: feel like you find yourself in a bad situation. You
Speaker 2: find yourself in an ugly situation if you don't answer
Speaker 2: that question at the inception of your business. This is
Speaker 2: a new thing. This is new business.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: This has never been a thing. You never were like,
Speaker 2: h Am I gonna use AI or not?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: And I'm not talking about logo AI, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I'm not talking about I.
Speaker 1: Mean that too.
Speaker 2: But you have to figure out if you're a new
Speaker 2: business owner, you're gonna start a new business. You really
Speaker 2: have to have this discussion with yourself, just so everybody knows.
Speaker 2: I don't care, it's your life, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: do what you want. I don't exclusively not use AI,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's like it's not a thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna talk about what I do use AI
Speaker 2: for in the class, and I'm also gonna talk about
Speaker 2: the things I do not use AI for in the class.
Speaker 2: And because one of the things that can happen if
Speaker 2: you're rushing, right is you lose a bit of the
Speaker 2: joy of like branding and creating your own brand. If
Speaker 2: you're into those kinds of thing.
Speaker 1: Whatever you're into creating, you.
Speaker 2: Don't want to sub out with AI, right, Like, if
Speaker 2: you really love writing about your line of business, the
Speaker 2: last thing you want to do is be like, you
Speaker 2: know what, I'm gonna let AI tell our story, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. I'm a creative guy, so like
Speaker 2: all the creative aspects of what I do, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to hand over to AI.
Speaker 2: There was a time I did a lot of prompting
Speaker 2: of AI for thumbnails and stuff like that because they
Speaker 2: were really funny and fun.
Speaker 1: But I don't know they didn't. They didn't. Really, they
Speaker 1: didn't yield the way I thought they would.
Speaker 2: I we used to do lizard people all the time.
Speaker 1: I used to have fun with it. I really did.
Speaker 2: But the thumbnail game, the battle of the thumbnail, like
Speaker 2: is a prison. I don't know if you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. You probably don't know what I mean. But like,
Speaker 2: there is a model thumbnail that YouTube almost require. And
Speaker 2: the reason I think they require it is for the algorithm.
Speaker 2: And the reason I believe that is because even people
Speaker 2: like Glenn Beck do this thumbnail and the thumbnail to
Speaker 2: the video. If you've seen a video, you know the thumbnail, right,
Speaker 2: almost everyone does it. You take a big goofy surprise face.
Speaker 2: Whoever's making the video, right, whoever the content creator is,
Speaker 2: has a big goofy face off to the left side.
Speaker 2: And then on the right side of goofy face, you
Speaker 2: have a title and then a thought provoking image. Thought
Speaker 2: provoking title, thought provoking image. And if you peruse YouTube like,
Speaker 2: you'll see this used everywhere. And I think to myself,
Speaker 2: you know, like, if I go through the process of
Speaker 2: creating a piece of content that I really love, the
Speaker 2: last thing I want to do to appease an algorithm
Speaker 2: is create some kind of run of the mill thumbnail
Speaker 2: that everybody uses.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm the type of guy I can die in the
Speaker 2: creation of something like a thumbnail.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I could literally die.
Speaker 2: I could just look up from from the whatever the
Speaker 2: work of the thumbnail, and find that three and a
Speaker 2: half hours have gone by, and I'm tweaking and turning
Speaker 2: and let me add a splash here, and a let
Speaker 2: me add a background light here, and let me add
Speaker 2: a blur here, and let me add this, and let
Speaker 2: me use this font for the main title, in this
Speaker 2: font for the subheading. And I love that stuff.
Speaker 1: I love if. To me, there's almost.
Speaker 2: Nothing better than like pulling back from a creative pursuit
Speaker 2: like that and going, oh man. When I created the
Speaker 2: cover for Poems for Men, it really it really blew
Speaker 2: me away.
Speaker 1: Man. I was just like, dude, you did it, like.
Speaker 2: You took this thing and you put the perfect cover
Speaker 2: on it. It's perfect.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna have to have that discussion, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about that a lot during the home based
Speaker 2: Business class. We're gonna talk about five businesses you can
Speaker 2: start in a weekend. We're gonna talk about networking, and
Speaker 2: we're gonna we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff. Man,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be you're gonna come away with that. If
Speaker 2: you take my class it's one thirty PM, you're gonna
Speaker 2: come away with some some serious understanding. So I'll be
Speaker 2: on the road, Maniana, I'm gonna try not to turn
Speaker 2: this whole operation into just an ugly prepper Camp loop,
Speaker 2: because I know everybody else is gonna be talking prepper
Speaker 2: camp on their shows too and on their check ins.
Speaker 2: But I'll be flying solo as usual, and uh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gonna be an awesome time.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: Those of you who can make it, I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see you. Those of you who can't, you'll have
Speaker 2: plenty stories and all that kind of stuff. Take advantage.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you a tip real quick. It's been
Speaker 2: working really good for me. Take advantage of.
Speaker 1: All this rain.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm finding that there are things you can
Speaker 2: do with grass, with a garden, with shrubbery, all the
Speaker 2: whole nine yards that really make a difference if you
Speaker 2: get the timing right. And what I mean by that is,
Speaker 2: and I was in a unique position. I told you
Speaker 2: my garden was kind of being blocked out by a
Speaker 2: giant tree, and we had that tree removed, and since then,
Speaker 2: we're building back the garden. And what's happening is we're
Speaker 2: getting hit with rain, like almost every night, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like almost every night of the week,
Speaker 2: we're getting hit with a downpour. So I've seated all
Speaker 2: kinds of pots and all kinds of plants in the ground,
Speaker 2: and the garden is exploding. I mean, I have I
Speaker 2: have growth on plants in my garden. This is I mean,
Speaker 2: this has really got me thinking, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I have growth on plants in my garden that typically
Speaker 2: take me around a month to get a month to
Speaker 2: see this kind of growth, and that's like after sprouting.
Speaker 2: I'm seeing crazy amounts of growth in these plants, some
Speaker 2: coming from the ground, some coming from potted soil that
Speaker 2: you know, I know is really rich. But I don't
Speaker 2: think it has much of anything to do with that.
Speaker 2: I really think it has to do with sunlight. I
Speaker 2: think it has to do with heat, and I think
Speaker 2: it has to do with lots and lots of rain.
Speaker 2: Because I've watched this year over year over year you
Speaker 2: can soak plants with the hose, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't work. Or rain water, right, the rainwater
Speaker 2: comes in every single year. My garden gets this boost
Speaker 2: when you get like a real soaking rain in the
Speaker 2: early parts of like May, right or latter April, and
Speaker 2: you see.
Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, the peas just sto.
Speaker 2: The radish is just took off rite whatever spring it is,
Speaker 2: it just took off. Man, that thing really took off
Speaker 2: like crazy. And I'm telling you right now, like I
Speaker 2: will be paying attention to the rain patterns in years
Speaker 2: to come with gardening because I think there's something to
Speaker 2: this and I think I think there's something to the
Speaker 2: rainfall and the heat, and I think you might be
Speaker 2: able to I don't know. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: total outcome is, but I know there's a benefit and
Speaker 2: I am I'm definitely gonna test it. Talk to you soon,
Speaker 2: PBN family, Thanks for everything.
Speaker 1: See