Prepper Camp has Changed!

Hello, Welcome to the podcast. What is that your vaccine Passport? And to use social credit score and be sure you have enough remaining carbon credits to enjoy today's Showman Family. Your garden is the Resistance BBM Family. Don't say I didn't warn you. It's ten pm now. I think I spoke to you about ten am. I'm still driving. You know, I don't think I've ever done a twelve hour round trip in one day. Twelve hours driving. I spent about four hours to try on International aka the new Prepper Camp. I just want to say I feel good. I mean really like good. There's no reason for me to feel as good as I feel right now. You know, by this point I should be keeled over this steering wheel. You know, it's it's tap out time. You know I've been up. I didn't sleep very good. I was kind of excited. I was a little nervous. You know, it's a long ride, and I wanted to you know, I didn't know what I was getting into, but I wanted to get good footage and good audio, create something nice for Prepper Camp twenty twenty six in the new location, you know what I mean. So I didn't really sleep very well. I was up and out of the house by six six hours down and I don't know, five hours forty five back now I'll be home, you know before long. Real close. Try On International is an organization of a different dimension. If you know the show, it really is and you know, talking to Rick about it, what I'm really going to try to convey with this video footage I took is the scope of prepper Camp. Now, you know, prepper Camp is a different thing now it's it is bigger and it is better. And I don't just mean because we got restaurants and shops. I started with a gentleman who was showing us around. I started down at the New Lake, right, so prepper Camp always takes place around the lake, and we started down at the New Lake. It's a bigger lake, it's a prettier lake. It's you know, it's a manicured This is a this is a manicured location. Try On International. This is a location that is it's sort of like a it's sort of something like a a resort in the making. You know, it's like a resort in the making that doesn't yet have the housing or the lodging compatible to really do what it can do. It's a massive property, massive and I start down at the far end of the property. I drove through the whole thing. Saw the tram cars are. You're gonna be trammed depending on where you park, but you'll be tramcard down to the event, which I think you're gonna love that. The lake itself is gorgeous. I got a sort of a breakdown from Rick astin where the tents are gonna be, where the parking vendor location is gonna be, and you know, the whole layout of what's going on. The food situation is gonna be absolutely outrageous because we're gonna be doing largely the largely the place is gonna be catering. Okay, I mean that's truly what it's gonna be. It's gonna be catering, and I can't wait. So there'll be four separate restaurants providing food underneath of a tent on a giant concrete slab, breakfast, lunch, dinner, I'm pretty sure. Don't quote me on that, but they're definitely gonna be there. The restaurants will be a bit for breakfast, lunch, dinner. You know, you're I think what you need to understand is you're gonna be resort camping at Prepper Camp with amenities like you can't even wrap your head around. But it all will happen. The Prepper Camp event itself will most will all happen. Really at this lake where we started our adventure. And yeah, I saw the catering area where they're gonna be running demos with the dogs and that kind of stuff. And again, what's good. It's an upgrade that it's a bigger lake. It's not as accessible that the one thing about it that you know, some of you might not like, I will miss, I'm sure, is that you can't hop in a canoe and go right. I don't even know if there's fish in this place because it really is sort of a visual experience. But then we took a ride, which is I mean this place tent City. Tent City may have gotten the biggest upgrade out of the entire operation, right like like Prepper Camp got some upgrades. There's no denying that. But I'm telling you right now, the biggest, the biggest upgrade of all I think is tense City. We pull in the Tent City, parked the vehicles. We didn't even really need to drive over there. It's right next to the event, which is great, like right next to the event, kind of beautiful, kind of wonderful. I really like the way they set that up, man, I think that's genius. People are gonna love it. So I get into ten City and I'm like, oh, Mike, I look at this right, like, look at this. It's it's long, rolling hills, it's a long expanse, lots of room. Right. I think there's gonna be parking within the tense city operation. It's a picturesque. There's a there's a a babbling creek, not babbling necessarily, he says, it gets up to like three feet deep in some place. I mean, there's a legitimate creek river not it's not river sites a creek, but it's a big creek and it's along the left side of ten City, and it's it's a picturesque. It's picturesque. And it's just like I said, a short walk from the event itself. Like you can roll out of better ten City and you don't have to walk down across streets and walk through the RV area and up a hill and down a hill to the you'd be right there, like it's it's tempting. You know, your trampic commander might wind up in ten City this year. I don't know. I got to think about it. But we saw the facilities. When went and saw some of the parking, lot of parking available, and like I said, the parking, uh, as you get sort of further away from everything, you will be you'll be trammed down. It's gonna be nice. The tram cars are really nice. I got video of that. You'll be able to see them. They're they're like vintage in Disney World. You know, it's pretty cool. Then we went up, you know, and all that was great. All seeing all that was great. Seeing all that was like, wow, this is you know, this is be a thing. Man, this is cool. I think it's a serious upgrade. You can see it. Seeing it all is great. But I hadn't quite I didn't still even pulling into the place, being there doing all those kind of things, I still didn't quite understand this try on International. I didn't quite understand what this place is, right because everything spread out. The scope is what's different. And I think that's the word. And Rick used that word. He said, it's the scope of the place. It's hard to explain. And then he's exactly right. He's one hundred percent right. It is the scope of this place. We get up to the top of the hill where we parked, up to the main sort of lodging area and all the events and the horse pen what they call it, wherever they ride the horses around, and all that kind of stuff. They got several different areas, but the one main out door one, and we start working our way through the facilities. Man, and you know, they got a really nice general store with a coffee shop and baked goods and food and wine and all kinds of stuff they got. I mean a general store where like nothing like Orchard Lake, like not even it makes Orchard Lake look like some guy pop his trunk and he's selling out of the trunk, you know what I mean, Like a real legitimate kind of place that is gonna have almost everything you want, even up into like raw ingredients like eggs and milk and these kinds of things. Right, And I don't know if that is alone kind of blew me away. That was like, oh man, camping will be nice. You know. It's one of those things you like, if you want to you want a hot cheeto at the campsite. You'll be able to get it. You know, everything you want a fresh croissant, you can go get it. Blew me away. That's just one. We leave the we leave the general store, we go into a restaurant. Beautiful, beautiful. I think we went into two restaurants. No, we went to one. We went into the outside place. The bar joined nice great skull, you know, open open walls and stuff. Pretty pretty nice place to go in and you know, probably barfair. That kind of thing was called the Silver Spoon Bar. And then uh, Drink and Jade had been talking about this arcade area slash gym slash entertainment area, like since I showed up, they were really psyched to show me. And for good damn reason. I mean, you get it. This place, this place Warrens a visit in and of itself. I mean truly, this place, Warren's a visit like a day in and of itself. There's these crazy rich people car racing games. I don't know how else to describe them. I've got into a lot of arcades. My youngest went through an arcade face where we traveled all over the East Coast going to arcades, you know what I mean. And I don't know. It's just his thing for a little while, right, And I never seen these. They sit on the ground like. They got the legitimate like rails, Like the seat itself is set on rails, just like a real car so you can back, you know, fit The steering wheel on the thing looks like an Xbox controller drawing out. It's wild. They got a giant shuffleboard table in there. They got duck pin bowling in there. They got like six they got like six stalls for ax throwing. They got a digital gaming projector. I don't know if you've ever played with one of those, but they're pretty fun. You can do all kinds of stuff, shoot archery, hit golf balls, throw baseballs, throw footballs, you dodgeball, shoot stuff with laser guns. Awesome. And you know, we're looking at all list and I'm like, man, this is really cool. Oh that's the jiu jitsu gym and our CrossFit gym and our regular gym. And you go back there and everything's loaded. Look at this place. So at this point I'm like, I'm blown away, but I'm also realizing I haven't seen anything yet, not in like a negative way. And like, there's so much more here. So we head on over to another restaurant of state nice really sit down joint. Run into the food and bev manager, talk to him for a little while. Head out of that place, go into this try to get into the sushi joint that's not open, right, but suffice it to say, they got a sushi a noodle joint right next to the steakhouse. We leave out of there. We go to a place called the Bougie Bowl, which is like a little walk in type joint. They showed me this, this stretch of shops that runs all the way down the length of the area where the horses do their training, or the horse riders and horses do their training. And at this point I'm kind of like, okay, like I get it. I see it now for what it is. I see what's going on here, Like this Prepper Camp is happening at this place, but this place is also happening, and this place is a function of the event that is Prepper Camp. Now this is it's a part of the deal, and it's not a small part. All I can think about. I'm sitting at the diner. We go to this place called Rudy's Rogers Diner. Right, we go stopping at Rogers Diner, and Rick bought Jane and I lunch throughout dinner. It was kind of like my dinner, so I had to get you know, I had to get the Rogers Burger, see what that's all about. And We're sitting there and you know, I'm asking them questions. They're micd up a little bit. We're doing a little bit of podcast stuff all the way for the food and the call to arrive, of course, and all of a sudden, I just start thinking of everybody at Prepper Camp. I start thinking about the Hathaways in that arcade, you know what I mean. I start thinking about the Hathaways literally all each one of them having their own act station throwing access. And I realized, like, Prepper Camp may have to become a longer event, like a three day event at Prepper Camp at Orchard Lay Campgrounds enough time to do what you want to do. But I don't know if a three day event is enough to experience prepper Camp. And this is kind of the connection that I'm making in my head. Right, Prepper Camp used to be the events at Prepper Camp, and maybe a little one off camp ground fund and of course you know the extra curriculars. Now Prepper Camp is it is tied into this massive resort. And look, if you're if you're camping, there's nothing saying you have to like go see all this stuff you don't want to, you don't have. You can leave Prepper Camp and go, you know, right to your RV, right to your hotel room, right to your camp site, whatever you choose to do. But now what I want to convey to you, and it'll be easier to do with the video. But I thought I just talked you about it now I'm on my ride home, is that Prepper Camps has to call it bigger and better is accurate, but it doesn't explain it. It doesn't explain how you're going to have access to things that you never really wrapped your head around having access to, Like you're going to have access to what is the highest of level gyms that I've ever been into at a resort, you know, like the highest left CrossFit gym. You know, nice big free weights, cardio, jiu jitsu, mats, heavy bags, kettlebells, everything that could be how you're mourning at Prepper Camps. So if you're a lunatic like me, right, And by the way, we'll talk about this later, but you may see me in that gym in the morning. But suffice it to say, man, like, that's a part of it. And not only is that a part of it, but like the waking up in a in a bed, in a lodge, in a you know, more of a comfortable situation than you're used to, that's a part of it. And saying to yourself, like which one of these restaurants is serving breakfast? And how many different ones are serving breakfast? And do we want to go buy breakfast or do we want to just go down to the lake and get breakfast down there, because they're gonna have food down there too. They're gonna have like a pool in Starbucks joint down there. So it's just it really is a scope thing. It's an expansion of there of prepper camp amenities. You know, I guess that's really what it is. And when I got through looking at all the amenities, you know, there was nothing in any of this stuff that made me feel like, oh this might not work. Everything was just like I'm not gonna have enough time, Like this is gonna be sweet it's it's really cool, man, It's it's really cool. But it's really different. And once you see it all, you'll see, you know what I mean. If there's no way, there's there's no way not you can't not call it different. The access to amenities is so vast and so different you just have to wrap your head. And I don't even know it all. Like they were talking, the guy who runs the place was talking about, we got mountain bike trails and running trails and dirt bike trails and all kinds of stuff that I didn't get to see that is hidden around there. And it's just take prepper camp and drop it into a resort and and let everybody have access to the resort. And also understand that the resort is gonna be open just to us. It's like a private event for us. So it's we can make it a time, man. You know, I'm gonna have to bring some prizes so we can do some acts throwing competitions and some dart throwing competitions. And there's just a lot of fun to be had. Man. It's like I said, there's so much fun to be had. There's so much to experience that I mean, yeah, it's it's gonna be a bleast. It's gonna be an absolute blest. Like if you take full advantage of what they got going on, it's gonna be it's gonna be a different thing. Prepper Camp is still gonna happen, and it's gonna be bigger, and it's gonna be more beautiful. I think that the event itself is gonna be awesome. It's everything's gonna be closer together, which I think is kind of cool from the Prepper Camp standpoint, like from the event itself, and I like that a lot. I think that's sweet. But in your free time, man, it's a whole new ball game, you know what I mean. Maybe for breakfast, maybe after you do your morning class, you take a lunch off, and you go, I don't know, you know what I mean. But what I do know is there's a lot of fun stuff to do, a lot of fun stuff to do. So more to come on that, guys. I wanted to give you sort of my breakdown on what I saw first person, right, the sort of the overview, right, It's just a much larger footprint, a much grander scope, and some really awesome amenities. If you want to get into that kind of thing, you know what I mean. There's also like a food truck there, Like it doesn't seem to be a situation where everything is going to be you know, a sit down steak dinner or anything like that. Because it is a place for people with low loads of money on a regular basis, it looks like you'll still be able to take advantage of a lot of this stuff on a budget, you know what I mean. But it's gonna be phenomenal. I can tell you that much. It's gonna be phenomenal. What I do think is this is going to see This facility will allow Prepper Camp to grow. It will allow Prepper Camp to grow and become something much bigger because people will be able to bring their families and maybe even their friends and their families, you know what I mean. And that's great news for us. You know, there's only so many people. There's a reason you've never seen Lady Liberty at Prepper Camp, right, Like, she's not too interested in spending her whole day or four days of her life at a campground. It's not her style. She's a get up and go get them type of lady, you know what I mean. This is a much better chance, and also for people who don't want to do like heroic camping on the side of a lake, it's an opportunity to be able to stay in a lodge, stay in a hotel room, you know what I mean, a really nice one. So times they are changing, PBN Family Prepper Camp has certainly got itself an upgrade and I look forward to seeing you there. Talk to you soon. Stay tuned for the video