Speaker 1: You're listening.
Speaker 2: By end, you will pay us back just to let
Speaker 2: a show.
Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody. Are you on here? You hear me?
Speaker 1: What microphone am I on? I wonder if we can
Speaker 1: switch mid show? I didn't realize I unplugged the that's
Speaker 1: a good mic. So you're hearing me through the OD spot.
Speaker 1: Let's see if we can make switch mid show to be.
Speaker 2: Let's see hum.
Speaker 1: Better.
Speaker 2: I think that's better. What's up, guys? I just got
Speaker 2: a half assed call? Who was that from?
Speaker 1: Sorry?
Speaker 2: Man, I've been rolling all day. I'm to be honest
Speaker 2: with you. I'm still not really one hundred percent yet,
Speaker 2: Johnny five, come find me down here. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm feel like I'm down here a little bit. Is
Speaker 2: that good? That's better? Right? Those of you don't know,
Speaker 2: we do this broadcast at the uh really at the
Speaker 2: will and the whim of a AI powered camera for
Speaker 2: many reasons, you know what I mean? Probably the biggest
Speaker 2: to be like, what is an AI camera gonna do?
Speaker 2: And it's gonna do a decent job at best. The
Speaker 2: camera's good. I can't complain. So who are the preppers? Man?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Who are preppers? Really? One of the things about prepper camp.
Speaker 2: It's not all the preppers, but it's people who are
Speaker 2: Like I'll go to prepper camp and it's people who are,
Speaker 2: you know, pretty well prepared if you ask me, based
Speaker 2: on the people I talk to, and you know, one
Speaker 2: of the things that you find is see, I always
Speaker 2: look at preppers and I think characteristics, not demographics, right
Speaker 2: or not, not, location, somewhat political, almost always faithful, Very
Speaker 2: rare that they're not in the faith to some degree.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that is if it is the
Speaker 2: faith that gets them the prepping or the prepping that
Speaker 2: gets them to faith, or if it's both. For me,
Speaker 2: it was the faith the prepping that got me to faith,
Speaker 2: probably more so than anything, right, But it's really the characteristics.
Speaker 2: You know. It is a desire to learn, undoubtedly, right.
Speaker 2: You have to have a desire to learn to be
Speaker 2: a prepper. You almost have to enjoy it, right, Like
Speaker 2: I want to learn. And it's not just about learning
Speaker 2: how to like you know, install a rain barrow, or
Speaker 2: how to package up your own food storage, or how
Speaker 2: to shoot and move and communicate. It's about, like you
Speaker 2: want to learn about the bigger picture. A lot of time,
Speaker 2: preppers are people who want to know what's really going
Speaker 2: on in this world and how's it going to affect me?
Speaker 2: And there's almost this desire to take in too much information,
Speaker 2: right And I think that has to do with I
Speaker 2: think that really has to do with you want to
Speaker 2: understand what the threat is, right Like, you want to
Speaker 2: know what the threat is. But a good prepper is
Speaker 2: also going to have not just a desire for knowledge,
Speaker 2: but they're also gonna have a will to get things
Speaker 2: done right or else you're gonna be like a prepper
Speaker 2: in name only. You're gonna be the type of person
Speaker 2: that just listens to world news, prepper related news and
Speaker 2: that kind of thing, and just that's it. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe one day I'll make some moves and do some
Speaker 2: things to get me and my family more prepared, But
Speaker 2: until then, I'm just gonna listen. And this is a
Speaker 2: real part of the deal. I mean, we can't pretend
Speaker 2: like this isn't part of the deal. There are people
Speaker 2: like this. But another characteristic of a prepper is someone
Speaker 2: who's gonna get stuff done. They appreciate the hustle, they
Speaker 2: appreciate the project, they appreciate the feeling afterword after the fact,
Speaker 2: the satisfaction that comes along with building a chicken coop,
Speaker 2: putting up a fence, knocking down some trees to make
Speaker 2: a bigger pasture or yard or whatever it is. Right Like,
Speaker 2: these things are a pain in the ass, and they
Speaker 2: but they deliver a kind of uh satisfaction that you
Speaker 2: can't get, you know, in many other ways. But there
Speaker 2: is another characteristic that I think every single prepper has,
Speaker 2: and it's one that we rarely talk about. If anyone
Speaker 2: has ever talked about it, but me, probably not. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure. I don't know. But preppers all have some
Speaker 2: ability to foreshadow and some ability to use their imagination
Speaker 2: to consider unthinkable events. Right. In other words, one of
Speaker 2: the most one of the clearest and most defining factors
Speaker 2: of being a prepper is you can take a headline,
Speaker 2: and you do take headlines and turn them into foreshadowing
Speaker 2: or use your imagination right to to really drive yourself
Speaker 2: into a sort of apocalyptic frenzy to get stuff done.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for one right now. One hour ago, the
Speaker 2: Epic Times US Strategic Petroleum Reserve at lowest level since
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two. This is from the Epic Times. This
Speaker 2: is not a CNN hit piece, Okay, not a lot
Speaker 2: of good news over at the Epic Times. By the way,
Speaker 2: looks like talks with Iran or stalemated again. Iran says
Speaker 2: straight offor moves to remain shut until US meets deal conditions.
Speaker 2: Pretty interesting. Iran plans to expand war, Trump backs North
Speaker 2: Korean peace talks. But you're able to take a headline
Speaker 2: like that, right and go oil shortage. Oil shortage means
Speaker 2: food doesn't get delivered because tractor trailers need gasoline. Right,
Speaker 2: no food on tractor trailers means and so on and
Speaker 2: so on and so forth. Right, and the dominoes fall
Speaker 2: in your head. That's enough to get frenzied. That's the foreshadowing,
Speaker 2: that's the imagination. But then, as I mentioned, preppers also
Speaker 2: have the will. You gotta have the will, you gotta
Speaker 2: have the work ethic in order to say, okay, well,
Speaker 2: because all of that could play out, I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: food up, I'm gonna buy food storage. Then I have
Speaker 2: to and sometimes people's preppers and people stop there. But
Speaker 2: if you're going to invest in some kind of long
Speaker 2: term food storage, you also have to invest in some
Speaker 2: means of preparing that long term food storage. Right. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned before, probably the biggest weakness of your year's
Speaker 2: worth of food is that you're gonna have to simmer
Speaker 2: those foods if you buy them, you know, if they're
Speaker 2: if they're freeze dried meals that you buy from a company,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to simmer those freeze dried meals for
Speaker 2: twenty minutes till they rehydrate, soften, and become what they're
Speaker 2: supposed to be. That's that those are package instructions, you know,
Speaker 2: So just do the math. Twenty forty sixty. You're burning
Speaker 2: fuel three meals a day, one hour a day, burning
Speaker 2: fuel straight. That's to simmer, not to get it to
Speaker 2: a simmer, right, So it's really more than that. So
Speaker 2: having the food storage is not enough. You also have
Speaker 2: to plan right how you're gonna fuel it, how you're
Speaker 2: gonna cook. I'm sorry, I'm like super laid back today.
Speaker 2: I'm not like done getting back to full strength yet
Speaker 2: from preppercam. I thought I took yesterday off completely and
Speaker 2: I thought i'd wake up today like yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2: But I'm still worn out. It's crazy, it's it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 2: The weekend took a lot out of me, more than
Speaker 2: I thought. But whatever, you know, it's not it's probably
Speaker 2: not gonna come hauling back. We just have to get
Speaker 2: back to life schedule and then, you know, do those things.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to get on here and talk about
Speaker 2: it because I met I met preppers from every every
Speaker 2: walk of life, every demographic, and every class and so
Speaker 2: on and so forth. You know, guys you could talk
Speaker 2: to for five minutes and no, you rich, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. And guys you could talk to for
Speaker 2: five minutes and go, you're you're right here on the
Speaker 2: ground level man, working class man. You know, For me,
Speaker 2: it's it's never a challenge to talk to any class
Speaker 2: of people. I don't know if that's a special skill
Speaker 2: or not. It's it's sort of Kipling esque, if you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. But it's just a skill probably
Speaker 2: from I feel like, I don't know, maybe it's working
Speaker 2: as a dishwasher all the way up to becoming a
Speaker 2: chef that gave me that ability, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Because when you work as a dishwasher prep cook, you're
Speaker 2: working with working class people. Sometimes working class people don't
Speaker 2: even speak your language, right, And as you work your
Speaker 2: way up and become a chef, you find yourself in
Speaker 2: the dining room talking to the polar opposite. Now you're
Speaker 2: talking to rich people who are out fine dining American
Speaker 2: rich people who are out fineding dining, and you meet
Speaker 2: them on their level with the things that they're enjoying, right,
Speaker 2: and you find out, you know, sometimes you can find
Speaker 2: out they're really nice people, really good people, you know,
Speaker 2: hidden behind the money, or you find out the money
Speaker 2: is to hide the fact that they're really nightmarish monsters.
Speaker 2: And when you have money, a lot of times you
Speaker 2: don't have to drill down very far to find out
Speaker 2: who they really are. Usually, you know it. If you're
Speaker 2: trying to make money, if you're trying to become something,
Speaker 2: then you kind of you get good at hiding your
Speaker 2: worst parts because you know you got to present your
Speaker 2: best to get ahead. But when you're rich, you know
Speaker 2: that I don't really care how this interaction goes, because
Speaker 2: I get to go home to a big old bed
Speaker 2: in a big old house and lots of money, and
Speaker 2: you know this guy is not going to take it
Speaker 2: all from me. But inside of all of that, you know,
Speaker 2: I spend a lot of time talking to a lot
Speaker 2: of people over the weekend from varying you know, strata
Speaker 2: of society, and the one thing in common was what
Speaker 2: they're at Prepper Camp. And listen, the one thing about
Speaker 2: this year's Prepper Camp is you didn't stay because it
Speaker 2: was a fun thing to do this weekend. Okay, there
Speaker 2: was a filtration system enacted on the attendees on day one,
Speaker 2: and that filtration system was one hundred plus heat indecks,
Speaker 2: which let you know and let you understand, like, okay,
Speaker 2: the people, oh who are here are here because they
Speaker 2: choose to be here. In fact, they're willing theirselves to
Speaker 2: be here. And just so you know, I saw people
Speaker 2: from all levels of society, all races, genders, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, demographic backgrounds, suffering to be a Prepper camp.
Speaker 2: So that let me know, you know, these are the people,
Speaker 2: are the real deal. They didn't you know. It wasn't
Speaker 2: like like when I went to the Kennett Square Mushroom
Speaker 2: Festival back when I was a chef. I went to
Speaker 2: the Kennet's Square Mushroom Festival back when I was a
Speaker 2: chef because well, mushrooms are one of my favorite ingredients.
Speaker 2: But it was fun. It was a thing to do.
Speaker 2: Take my young wife or girlfriend. I can't remember if
Speaker 2: we're married yet or not, to the Kennet Square Mushroom Festival.
Speaker 2: Grab a bag of hers mushroom flavored chips like back
Speaker 2: in seven eight, like before wild flavored chips, reaven out
Speaker 2: and do that sort of thing, you know, spend an hour,
Speaker 2: go home, put it on the I did it list.
Speaker 2: If it were one hundred and eleven or whatever, one
Speaker 2: hundred plus eat indecks, I wouldn't have gone to the
Speaker 2: Kennet Square Mushroom Festival, damn sure wouldn't have camped there.
Speaker 2: And I wouldn't have went back three days in a
Speaker 2: row and listened to people talk to me about mushrooms.
Speaker 2: So what that meant to me is that we were
Speaker 2: in the presence of real dedicated preppers at Prepper Camp
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, and it brought about all this in
Speaker 2: my head, you know what I mean, Like, who are
Speaker 2: the real preppers? Who are the prep.
Speaker 1: Who are the sorry my laptop is.
Speaker 2: Failing me at the moment, Who are the real preppers?
Speaker 2: What makes them? Up? Right? It's the people with the bunkers,
Speaker 2: the people with the guns. Is the people with the
Speaker 2: this and the that and the other thing. I think
Speaker 2: what it really is is Uh, it's a characteristic thing.
Speaker 2: It's a character thing, you know, it really is a
Speaker 2: character thing. I don't know if that's because there's a
Speaker 2: lot of military in the prepping world. I don't know,
Speaker 2: if that's because there's a lot of medical I don't know,
Speaker 2: if that's because there's a lot of heartache. I don't
Speaker 2: know why it's that way. I have almost none of
Speaker 2: the above, And uh, I try to be a good
Speaker 2: example there, you know what I mean. People need help,
Speaker 2: we help them. It's it's second nature. Maybe it's just.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The other thing about it is there is an overwhelming
Speaker 2: patriotism in the prepping community. Maybe it's apparent thing. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's the way you're brought up to. What I do
Speaker 2: know and what I've seen tested time and time again
Speaker 2: in the presence of many many preppers, is that that
Speaker 2: uh uh with the trustworthy buch deal with a group
Speaker 2: of people. At least there we go, I uh plugged
Speaker 2: my power back into the computer. Now you need a
Speaker 2: minion mm hmmm mm hmmm hm h moment to realize
Speaker 2: what's going on. Mm hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think we're good. I'd
Speaker 2: like your thoughts on it. Really I said, send an
Speaker 2: email out today to our mailing list about my course,
Speaker 2: my class that I did there at Prepper Camp. I
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Speaker 2: there at the course, and I've already emailed those who
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