Im on my way to...Prepper Camp?

Mm hmmm, BBN family, I'm on my way to Prepper Camp. I'm months early. I'm just gonna hang out at try On for a few months and just like root through the trash, work on my hobo survival skills. I'll give them their first taste of what it's like to live in any major city around the country, to have bums that you know, cavort around your property. And I'll spit and yell and say crazy things to the horse riding folk as they flow in. No, I'm going down to get the lay of the land today, folks. I'm going down to meet Rick, Austin and Jane. The Chin will be there as well. The word on the street is and then there'll be a gentleman who's gonna walk us around. And what I'm looking to do is get you know, I wanna get video the place for you. I want to get get some good video, the restaurants, the location where the actual event will be, where stages are gonna go, the you know, the facility itself, maybe even some hotel rooms, and get a look at what it's all gonna look like. Prepper Camp twenty twenty six. The new location, the best and the biggest just got bigger and better? Is that what Rick Austin says? The biggest and the best just got bigger and better? I think is is the tagline on Prepper Camp twenty twenty six. So suffice it to say, I got a day ahead of me of driving. Yeah, the other thing that's happening. You know, Ideally a trip like this includes a sleepover, a slumber party, maybe a slumber party at Chin's house or a slumber party at the at the Secret Garden, Right, I'd sleep in with the Goats if I were at Rick, I think I'd take the goats barn and hang out with them. They seem to be pretty lively. But as fate would have it, I mentioned I was commissioned to write a book. It's called The Ultimate Preppers tool Kit, and it is. It's gonna be great. It's I'm written a lot of it already, but I have a pretty pretty hard deadline Monday, pretty pretty tight deadline Monday, and unfortunately it's going to take some weekend work to get it done, you know, in lieu of everything going on in my life, both personal and here at PBN. Yeah, it's got some more writing to be done. So this turns into a twelve hour round trip of driving, which I don't I can't say that I've ever done. I know, I can't say that I've ever done a twelve hour round trip on the road. But it is the month of first baby. Who's on the month of first schedule? Who's doing it, who's in there, who's doing it, who's enjoying it, who's taking advantage of this opportunity. I can't wait to get down here and see the place. I can't wait to see what's what. I can't wait to see. Uh oh, I made a critical error. I left my fishing rods at home anyway, neither here nor there. But I can't wait see everybody. It's gonna be sweet. It's it's a big change, man, you know, when you really wrap your head around it, Like the whole of Prepper Camp has happened at this one location, and this year we changed locations. I'm kind of happy about the change in location. I think it's an easier location to access based off of the directions and the highway exit. You know, I'm looking forward to that. I may sleep in a bed this year at Prepper Camp. Truly, I may actually kick back, kick the boots off, lay my head down on the pillow, get under some real covers at night and sleep. I don't know that it'll be good, you know, if I get a room at tryon, I don't know that it'll be great for for how often in commander's around, you know what I mean? I feel like it's really tempting. Like one of the reasons I'm such a social b at Prepper Camp is because nowhere to go, no where to hide. I get to I bring a a tent, you know what I mean, and I'm in that tent and even then in the evenings I'll stow a to the tent and do a little bit of writing or whatever, video editing. But to have a hotel room man closing up, closing up shop for tonight, where's a commander at? I want if to have a gym on the facility, that'd be kind of cool too. But yeah, it's uh, you know, it's it really is kind of a wonderful day. I know that sounds weird. I don't know how people view driving and stuff like that. There's other pieces of this puzzle that are agonizing, but here's what it is. But I'm telling you what I've been on such a perfect sort of grind. Really, it has been a large degree of just this perfect kind of day to day grind where I do a little bit of podcasting, I do a little bit of promotion, I do a little bit of writing, and you know, fold in the fitness and the eggs and the coffee and you know, all the things right, And I don't know there, I'm not really a habit, she will cree. But I guess part of me is getting that way as I age. And it's like I said, it's this perfect sort of monotonous grind that just is really nice, you know what I mean, It's really nice. But I don't know. There's something about today, something about the open road today, something about driving having six hours open one way and six hours open the other. It really lends itself to getting some things done. It lends itself to listening to some long form things I've been wanting to listen to, books and podcasts. It lends itself to stuff that I feel like I used to do more of, maybe longer shows, different shows. God only knows what I'll record. But there's something about it. It's an open day and an open road, and I don't think I've had a truly open day in a while. You know what I mean, LIKERU open, truly open where it's just me and a driver's seat. It's me metaphorically and literally in a driver's seat, you know what I mean. There's no one to drop off, no one to pick up, no event to go to, no you know, meal times to worry about, no this, no yet whatever the situation is, right, no no one but myself to entertain fundamentally, And uh, I don't know. Like around last week, I just started to really wrap my head around that. I was like, you know what, six hours of standing pines doesn't sound so bad. No, I eighty five is a road if you've never driven it. I eighty five I'm on right now. It's a road of it's a road of trees that just it's sort of it reminds me of what people mean when or what people say when they talk about driving to the Midwest. It's one of those roads that really is a reminder of what like this area used to be, Like this area of southern Virginia heading into North Carolina, like truly just infested with forest and trees. It's great to drive and fall. I'll tell you that much. It's it's a nice road to drive and fall. We'll be driving it in summer August fourteen, fifteen sixteen, right, Prepper Camp this year in August. It's gonna be hot. It's another reason why I'm considering getting a room. Kind of nerd. I've slept in hot tents in the past. Not great, you know what I mean. Get you get a one of them, good like ninety eight degree days and the only goes down to like seventy nine. Your tent will probably be right around about I don't know, eighty five ninety degrees, probably, especially in the early parts of the night. The smell that might come from Prepper Camp this year, I don't know. I'm just kidding. There's gonna be a great year, man. Well it's a great year every year. I'm teaching starting the home based business, the entrepreneurship class. I'm gonna give you like between five and ten businesses you can start in a weekend. I didn't say they're gonna be successful. That's up to you. But I'm gonna give you about five to ten businesses you can start in one weekend. Why not? Right? Why not? Rick emailed me, or called me. I don't remember. I think it was an email, and he said that he wanted somebody to teach that class. I think Forrest was teaching the area study class. And yeah, hello, I'll do it. I can handle that one. That one's easy. So PBM family. In case you haven't noticed, we're still at war with Iran. What we say we need to happen doesn't seem to be happening at all. I don't know if you've been paying attention. I don't know if you've had to get gas recently. Of course, you know, I got to take a twelve hour road trip when the gas price is four dollars fifty cents a gallon, right, thanks Donald, Thanks Donald. I mean it is a business trip, so it will help come end of the year. But still right, just the fact, I don't know what kind of truck I'm driving in front of it, but it looks like it has a machine gun on the front. What is that? It's like a grain truck or something. It's some kind of grain vessel, some kind of vessel for grain. What is this whole end? They're pothole patching? I was wrong. Don't eat out of that thing. Pothole patching truck. Huh, head to Richmond, Virginia. Richmond, Virginia is a labyrinth right now. It is. It's a literal labyrinth and at the center of it is the Mother of Mayhem, ib A guel Span the Minueta or so No. Everywhere you go there's a block road. It's amazing to me, it's incredible. Everywhere I turned the block road. It is truly like a labyrinth. Part of me folk coming up early. I didn't really sleep last night. I took the kids to see Mortal Kombat because that's kind of how we roll. And we had a blast, me and the boys watching the absolute gore Fest Mortal Kombat too, curse Fest and gore Fest. Oh my god. That if that, you know, one of the things like about Mortal Kombat. I'd say I was probably about eight years old or something when it came out. I don't remember exactly seven eight, and I had a Genesis and I got the game. You know, my mother got the game. We went to funk Co Land, now if you remember funk Co Land, but we went to fun Co Land, which was basically the game stop back in the day, and I bought Mortal Kombat and since I got it like on release, I had got like a mini poster and I got a pin and from Mortal the original Mortal Kombat release, and I just remember with the blood and the fatalities, it was just such a thing. As a little boy, it was like it was so great. I mean, we spent hours on Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat two. I had a game Informer magazine that had all the moves and all the fatalities for every character in Mortal Kombat too, because that's how it used to work. And I remember sitting in that game and all right, let's do this fatal a right, let's do that fatal All right, let's try this one. Let's try that one. Oh but reptile can go on visible. How do you make them go on visible? Let's try it? And last night I was reminded last night, I'm list like watching the movie. I can't say that I really cringed at any of it with my kids, because it's not their first time here in that kind of language. You're seeing that kind of gore, to be honest, But it was more of a reminder of like, oh man, what it is to be ten? What it is to be fourteen and to have something like this, Okay, what is this a chemical weapons spray up ahead? What is this fog? Like the fog set in out of nowhere, Dracula's traveling through uh North Carolina. Here, Actually I'm still in Virginia. That whole town, it was just a whole town under fog. It's like I'm leaving it. I was there and now it's gone. The whole town's was enveloped in fire. Weird. So anyway, yeah, yeah, if you want a quick movie review, like if you played the games, if you like the fatalities, if you like the characters, well worth going and seeing. You know, if your child has not played the games, has not been exposed to like Austin, It's not a movie for virgineers. Let's go with that, you know what I mean. It's definitely not that it's rated R. I mean, the movie itself is rained R, so you should, you know, go on with that. But the language is pretty over the top, funny funny used in a funny way, not too terrifying or anything like that. But the level of gores, you know, it's Mortal Kombat gores. People getting their heads cut off, hands cut off, you know, all the stuff head smashed with that big giant rathhammer, you know how it goes. And we had a blast man eat popcorn laughing. Whoa, look who it is. It's freaking be Han is back from the dead. What's the guy's name. Why can't I think it's like my son's favorite character? Shit? Uh loob saibot, loob saibot. Yeah, it was cool. We had a good time, but it was late, you know what I mean. And I got on late and I had things to do and prepare for today, and I get you know, got to bed, and I was excited for today, and I don't know, around about like probably three thirty ish, I got into that rhythm of rolling and thinking, you know what I mean, that rhythm where like you're kind of sleeping, but you're more rolling around thinking about things. What do I have to do? What do I load the car? Do this and do that, and prepare for this, prepare for that. And there's all those kinds of different things that led to me here Boom. An hour and a half in. Oh, an hour and a half in is nice. That means we're not six hours anymore, right, four and a half that way better. Four and a half is way more manageable, man, because I do a four hour shot up the highway to Pennsylvania and no sweat, you know what I mean. So I don't like the situation with Iran. I don't think we have control. You know, we have military assets out of our ears in Iran right now or in the area, and it just doesn't feel like we have control, you know, it feels the two things. Number one, here are my two thoughts. Either we don't have control, and if we don't have control now, we'll never have control. That's what I think. If they have a covert if they have such a covert sort of weapons cash or collection of weapons caches and rocket firing cases and drone firing locations that we can't stop it, then well, you know, remember Vietnam, You remember Afghanistan, Right, that's that whole thing. If they have that sort of covert capability, which seems like to me they do, then I think we have to be real realistic about the fact that we're never gonna stop these people from fighting us off in their territory, right, and that the strategy should not be whatever the hell our strategy is now, Right, The strategy, strategy. Wow, the strategy should be to keep them economically as deflated as possible, Keep them as economically deflated as possible. And look, they're causing all kinds of problems all over the Middle East, for all kinds of different countries. The world at law large, I think won't have a problem. Well here's the thing, though, here's the thing, right. You make people desperate enough when it comes to energy, they'll do almost anything. Case in point Europe and Russia. Europe would literally be hollering at us, telling us, you know you're insane, you're no good. You gotta help Ukraine more. We gotta stop Russia. Vladimir Putin is the new Hitler. This is terrible. We have to do something. You're doing nothing right. And then they'd be like buying oil off Russia. They'd be like, you gotta send weapons, you gotta meet with Voldebort, you gotta do all these things. We gotta stop Russia at all costs. Usay, you're letting us down here at the EU. And then they hang up the phone and they call Vladimir Putin up and they're like, can we get we need about a million barrels for tomorrow. Is that okay, can we make that happen? Thank you. So when it comes to energy, people do whatever it takes. What I'm getting at, So, you know, in other words, Iran can bomb people all day want and make life a living hell all over the world, and people are still gonna go. Yeah, but we're out of oil and they got oil, so we're gonna buy that Iranian oil at least till we get our reserves filled back up. Because America decided to go have a war in the middle of the Strait of Ormuz and you know, that whole thing happened. It is weird that that this is we're living a prepper scenario right now. We literally are. We're living. We're living a scenario that I used to read and write about, you know, ten years ago, five years ago, whatever. This was a thing like a Strait of Ormuz blockade that wouldn't drive oil prices to five dollars a gallon was a thing that we talked about as a scenario. It's like a collapse level scenario and we're living it. And according to Peter Zion, the oil situation is not going away for a long time. Worldwide, globally, globally, we've done enough damage and the oil market has been or the oil supply chain has been disrupted so much that scarcity is going to be a thing for a long time here in America. I'm not sure, you know, because the other half of what I'm thinking, here's the other half, the other and this is the scarier, more worrisome half. That makes me, you know, it will make me furious if it turns out to be this way. But if you're a president who assigns an executive order that is titled Drill, Baby, Drill, right, and you want American energy to thrive, you want American oil to be the oil on the planet, a massive success. Right, What do we know about these oil fields in America. It's the same as it is in the Middle East. There's a profit margin, right, there's a there there's a moment when the price of oil gets too low and workers have to get sent home. Right, we're not. It's hilarious, but it's what they say, Right, we're not profitable anymore. We got to get the price of oil up. Well, I hope I'm wrong about this and this is total foil Friday speculation, but it does seem to me, like, one step you might want to take in bringing online the US oil system at its peak is to get the American citizens accustomed to higher priced oil. Right, this two seventy five, two fifty gallon oil two twenty whatever, it was not enough money for the oil shakes here in the United States, right, the American oil shakes. So they you know, they hit you with a four eighty five dollars a gallon gas a haul, and all of a sudden you're thinking, you know, three point thirty ain't so bad. Okay, get the pumps online here in the United States. Drill, baby, drill. Everybody's making money, and the American hacks, the American peons are all paying more at the pump than ever before, while we were getting richer than ever before because we are now the world's supply of oil. That's a scary thought, because you can't sell Barrett, Well, maybe you can. I don't know. Would they use the American people as a price offset. Would they use us as a price offset for other countries around the world so that they could afford oil. Well, I don't know if that even works out with the math or anything like that, but it's just a thought. Nervous the nervous consideration when you see what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz, right, when you see what's happening with ceasefire and no ceasefire and this fire and that fire, and you have all this military equipment. Look, it's here's the deal. If the if all the military equipment ain't getting it done, and it's time send it home. Cost money, cost money. Right, all the military equipment ain't getting it done. We've done what we what we what we came to do, is done. Right. We bombed the nuclear facilities before we even showed up with the big military. We destroyed the Air Force and the Navy. What are we doing now? What? See? We have this game going on now where war can last forever, which is of course what Northrop Grumming likes. Oh yeah, let's do it. Let's have a Strait of Hormuz battle that is existential and the whole entire world depends on America opening the Strait of hor moves now, and the American people, you know, when it comes time to fund it, well they have to, right, How could they not? This is where we're at in the war right now. And I you know, it's time to go home. It's time to go home. It's time to go home and get in front of a camera and say, we're gonna get the gas price down because we drill for all kinds of oil, and we have all kinds of oil, and that's what we're gonna do. We'll get it down. What's the problem. What's the problem? Right? You got six aircraft carriers? No, I think we have three. Got three aircraft carriers out there, all kinds of assets. Right, what are we doing? We're the most powerful military ever known to the universe that we know of. We're stymied. Right. I wake up this morning and see that people are shooting at each other in the Strait Again, you want to have a ceasefire that works, get people out if from in front of each other. Right, Why are naval American naval ships in Iranian naval ships so close to each other they can fire on one another. Time to make some space, Time to make some space. Okay. I think what the American military has to understand is there are hard limits here. There are hard limits, and it doesn't matter what you develop, right unless you're willing to go into a place on foot or until you have your robot army. Unless you're willing to go in on foot and one by one find all of these criminal you know, throwbacks, then we're at a stand still here, folks. And there ain't no point of being at a standstill from a cost perspective, with battleships and aircraft carriers that cost as much money as they do to run on a daily basis. Bring them home, Bring them home, regroup, know that you've done tremendous damage economically on Iran, and tell them, you know, open the st we're leaving now, open the straight. Do you ever think part of the reason why they don't want to open the straight, or why they won't open the straight, it's because we're still there, bombing targets and all that we're not rescuing the people of Iran. And one of the reasons we're not rescuing the people of Iran is because I don't know that the people of Iran want to be rescued. Have you ever thought about that? This is something I've had to think about lately. Not all of people are the same. You get that not everyone is the Some groups of people have no desire to be free, or at least not enough desire to die for it. You look at the Ukrainians and the will of the Ukrainians for what. While I was growing up, Ukraine was basically known as the most corrupt nation on the planet. Right, it was like the butt of a joke, like Ukrainian Parliament. It looked like Ukrainian parliament or something. You say Ukraine, you think corruption, right. These people have been fighting and dying to defend their land. I even watched a military news video yesterday I have and confirmed it that said that they they're taking back land during the Spring offensive of Russia. During Russia's Spring Offensive, the Ukrainians are actually taking back land. You got to wrap your head around that for a second. It's amazing if it's true. Propaganda abounds, right, But it's just one of those situations where you're like, wow, Okay, this is the thing, man. Some people don't want to be free. Some people will die in the fight for freedom and the quest for freedom, you know what I mean. 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