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[00:00:30] Good evening, PBN family. This is Rick Austin, also known as the Survivalist Gardener,
[00:00:42] Prepper Camp Founder and Prepper Camp Senior Camp Counselor, and also according to the
[00:00:47] folks at PBN, the Godfather of Prepping. I retired from podcasting myself a few years
[00:00:54] back because I didn't have a lot of time with my farm, my YouTube channel, are publishing
[00:01:01] and book writing business and our Prepper Camp annual event. In fact, I actually knew
[00:01:06] PBN for a long time, and I knew the previous owners before James. As many listeners know,
[00:01:13] James Walden has been running PBN for years, and I was actually one of James' first interviews
[00:01:21] when he was starting out in podcasting. Over the last couple of months, James has made
[00:01:27] the decision to pursue his publishing venture the world of ready full time. So I know this
[00:01:34] comes as shock to many of you, but he is stepping away from the Prepper Broadcasting Network.
[00:01:40] As a serial entrepreneur, I could not let this valuable service go to waste. So I agreed
[00:01:47] to purchase PBN from James over the last couple of months. I know this became as a shock
[00:01:52] to most of you, but I promise you that I will continue to create the best programming
[00:01:57] in the preparedness home-steading space out there. James has carried the ball for a long
[00:02:02] time now. It's time for him to hand it off to somebody else and let them carry it forward.
[00:02:09] I've asked James to join us this evening to talk about his future plans and how they
[00:02:15] fit in with prepping for the future for all of us. So hang on, we'll be right back
[00:02:23] after this short commercial break with James Walden, the intrepid commander and former owner
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[00:03:42] Welcome back. We have with us right now James Walton, the intrepid commander and former
[00:03:49] owner of PBN. How you doing, James? What would you like to say to your loyal PBN family
[00:03:56] audience this evening? I would like my loyal PBN audience to be 100% honest tomorrow and
[00:04:06] let me know how many of you fell for this April Fool's Day trick that Rick and I just played
[00:04:12] on you. That's what I would have really liked to hear from you guys about. I don't know
[00:04:17] if any of you bought it, I think Rick sold it like a champ. I mean sales marketing or
[00:04:23] sales. What were you Rick? You were you were marketing. There you go. There you go. So we,
[00:04:31] yeah, haha. I hope you guys enjoyed it. We have a super surreal and serious show tonight and
[00:04:43] Rick came to me with a list of awesome topics to talk about which I we were talking about
[00:04:50] the juxtaposition between that and our first interview. And at this stage in my podcast
[00:04:55] and career, I get pretty excited about a list of things to talk about. Maybe that's
[00:05:00] a good thing. Maybe the nihilistic self-serving James Walton has finally got his fill of
[00:05:07] hearing himself talk. We could be headed in a good direction with that. So that's a good
[00:05:11] thing. Thanks for doing that Rick. I appreciate it man. I hope we can. I hope somebody took
[00:05:18] the bait with all that happened with Iran and stuff today. Maybe they were too off-kilter
[00:05:23] to think about it. The old April fools. I didn't get fooled. The Jane fool you. Jane had
[00:05:27] to hit you. No, we didn't do anything. We didn't we didn't do anything. No, no, this
[00:05:33] is the only April fool thing that I was involved in today. So I'm glad I could do it for you.
[00:05:39] I didn't do anything for anybody either. Nothing family traditions dying like going extinct
[00:05:46] but well, it's not like one of the greatest traditions. I mean, and we did have we did
[00:05:52] have Easter yesterday. So it's kind of burnt out. Yeah, at least it's not you know, at least
[00:06:00] it's not LBGTQ day. Can you imagine what on earth? I mean, does it ever seem like it's just
[00:06:07] like they're doing this couple of purpose now? Not on purpose. Not on purpose like an
[00:06:12] agenda. But I mean, this is throwing it in your face. This is Satan saying to Christ, here
[00:06:22] I am come get me. Yeah. Watch what we take your people away. Yeah. I definitely like that
[00:06:27] take. That's a good take. Yeah. Same thing at the border. Yeah. I know that's one of the things
[00:06:33] you wanted to get into here is illegal aliens and Chinese men with bags. Chinese men
[00:06:40] with black bags and and bolt cutters. And what's the popular one now? Not trained derailments,
[00:06:47] what are they doing now? Driving into bridges. Yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah, you know, and that is
[00:06:54] one of the things that I am I see things happening and I'm not sure everybody sees it but
[00:07:00] everybody sees that things are kind of going to hell and not really sure what's what's really
[00:07:08] happening. I think it's all connected. I think it's all the fariest. I think there's there is the,
[00:07:13] you know, world agenda to destroy the United States of America brought to you by Barack Hussein
[00:07:19] Obama and friends. And, you know, we're in we're in the middle of it here and they are trying to do
[00:07:27] everything they possibly can as fast as they can before Trump can get back if they can even let
[00:07:34] him back. So, you know, we're seeing it happen. We're seeing this illegal alien invasion of,
[00:07:41] you know, more people since Biden has been in than is in many of the states and the United
[00:07:49] States. I mean, more of a larger population. So part of that, I think, is, you know, them being able to
[00:07:55] to to steal elections in the future and also to destroy the country as we know it. And my biggest
[00:08:10] concern is the 30,000 plus Chinese military age males who have come across the border all carrying
[00:08:19] the same backpack, the same kit. They're not tired from the journey. It's like they just got off a
[00:08:26] plane in Mexico or something, you know, it was really easy. Nobody's breaking a sweat and these
[00:08:33] guys are all carrying the same stuff in their bags. And people don't really think about it but
[00:08:39] nobody no one leaves the communist country of China without China's permission. So if we get 30,000
[00:08:48] military age males out coming in this country, they're here for a reason. And I think we've all seen,
[00:08:57] you know, as you alluded to a lot of sabotage going on, infrastructure sabotage AT&T was hacked.
[00:09:04] They finally admitted today that 70,000,000 users have been affected by that attack. Their
[00:09:13] their information was lost somehow. It wasn't an outdated middle of the night. Didn't they say it was
[00:09:20] like an up middle the night update or something? They did. And they're putting together some package
[00:09:26] of software and you know, if you sign up for this protection thing, you know, you'll be all set
[00:09:33] and the fine print reads that, you know, you can't sue them if you sign up for it. So
[00:09:40] you're beautiful. Yeah, they know, they know what's going on. My biggest concern as always and has
[00:09:46] always been, you know, since the beginning of my my prepping journey, the number one most horrific
[00:09:54] thing that could happen would be somehow the electric grid going down. And you know, we've
[00:10:01] talked in the past about EMPs and we've talked about solar flares and Carrington events
[00:10:10] and all of that could happen. But I think it's a lot easier for them to destroy our electric
[00:10:15] grid and you know, sabotage that because that critical infrastructure is is totally unprotected.
[00:10:23] And we have talked about doing it for years and they haven't done it. And now we're in a situation
[00:10:30] where you know, it's I think if I was chairman she from China and I wanted to get the resources
[00:10:39] of the United States and I wanted some territory to move into and I and I had the stated goal
[00:10:45] of being the number one superpower in the world and taking down the United States without firing a
[00:10:52] shot, which they have in writing. I might think about taking down the electric grid and having some
[00:11:01] people installed in cells all over the country. I like when the do you I like to death by a
[00:11:08] thousand cuts operation they're working in our country right now. Right, they are.
[00:11:16] They are doing a pretty damn good job already. You know, railroads somehow just being destroyed,
[00:11:24] food processing plants being destroyed. I don't know if that's the Chinese or if that's the
[00:11:29] globalist that are doing it because you know, Bill Gates wants to solve to eat bugs and it's fake me.
[00:11:36] But I don't know, but it's all happening. You control if you can control food, you can control people.
[00:11:46] The whole electric grid thing was something the D of D wargamed out many many years ago and then
[00:11:52] they determined that if whether we had an EMP or there was a solar thing or somehow the electric
[00:11:58] grid that went down and it was a devastating catastrophe, you know, nationwide. The population of
[00:12:06] United States would be we'd lose 80%. So we'd be down to 20% of our population in the first two
[00:12:15] months. And that's because water wouldn't move, sewage wouldn't move, vehicles wouldn't move. There
[00:12:21] wouldn't be any food people would be killing each other over resources. And what would be left
[00:12:26] would be the preparedness people that really prepared and are in an insulated position.
[00:12:33] And the really, really bad psychopaths who have no compunction about killing somebody for what they
[00:12:41] want. And they have a bunch of people that they're working with. So I think you know if I was
[00:12:48] Xi Jinping, I might think that I'll just let United States kill itself and then we'll just walk
[00:12:55] in there with our army and mop up. And then we own everything. So that's so yeah, well I don't
[00:13:05] think it's out of the question. Oh no, no, I don't mean that way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:13:09] Couldn't happen. I mean, wild like you know putting it in your head and shaking it around and
[00:13:14] going, you know, thinking it, thinking all that through. You know, it's part of one of those
[00:13:18] questions comes up, you know, the prepping world has these questions that will never be answered
[00:13:24] until they're answered. And then we won't like the answer. That's one of them, right?
[00:13:29] Well, it'll be too late. Exactly. But another question. Go ahead. I did this. I did this thing.
[00:13:36] You know, I talked about this very subject with James Arthur and the Technicolor podcast. He's
[00:13:43] got a worldwide thing that he does on TNT radio. And I talked to him about this. Yeah. And he
[00:13:51] stopped me. He said, okay, okay. Interviews over. He says I got to go out and buy a gun.
[00:13:57] Is he in South Africa? Oh, he's in Arizona. Oh, I do a show over there called Jerem warfare.
[00:14:04] Like once every few months with Jeremy Nell on TNT and he's in South Africa. And that's
[00:14:09] a yeah, they're all over the place. A whole different world man. Yeah, they're the producer for
[00:14:14] this show is in Australia. So, you know, he's in Arizona. I'm in the Appalachian mountains and
[00:14:22] the producer during the show was in Australia. So it's pretty neat setup. But anyway, I digress.
[00:14:29] Everybody on the same page, you know, all over the world. That's the weird part. But
[00:14:34] question I have is in a grid down how many of those 80% are suicide?
[00:14:40] I don't know. I don't know. That's one of those questions we'll never know until we know. But I have to
[00:14:47] imagine it's going to be a pretty shiny option for a lot of people, particularly those who are
[00:14:54] already on the edge medicated, you know? Yeah. Well, those are going to be problem people for sure.
[00:15:03] And we don't, you know, nobody really understands how big it, how big that number of people is
[00:15:10] that are on psychotropic drugs that are on it because they're prescribed it, because there's
[00:15:16] you know, whacked out. But when those prescriptions run out, they are going to be whacked out.
[00:15:22] Oh yeah. And we are going to have, you know, walking dead out there.
[00:15:26] I but I also think they're going to be people that we know that, you know, that are just regular
[00:15:33] people that are going to be like, you know what? I think I'll take suicide over no water, no
[00:15:43] food cannibalism. You know what I mean? Like they'll start to calculate that up in their head
[00:15:47] and I get that there'll be a lot of gunshots at night that are not people shooting it one another.
[00:15:53] You know, there could be, but I think we're going to lose a lot of people right away to dehydration.
[00:15:59] And that doesn't take long, you know, three days without water if you're dead.
[00:16:03] And then a bunch more from parasites in bad water, right?
[00:16:08] Well, yeah, parasites in bad water, you know, diarrhea is going to kill a lot of people.
[00:16:12] I mean, they'll, it sounds like a joke, but it's not.
[00:16:18] And then, you know, when you do have diarrhea, you become dehydrated even more and so it's just
[00:16:24] the downward spiral. I think, no one killer of children in the world.
[00:16:29] Really? I did. No, that yeah. I didn't end up like into at least five books over the years
[00:16:35] where we're doing water preparedness. Yeah, it kills more kids than bullets.
[00:16:41] That's a shitty way to go. Oh, it's terror and a kid, you know, can you imagine?
[00:16:45] Yeah, but there's just, you know, that was that was a joke. That was a joke.
[00:16:50] Oh, that tote that went right over my head. I'm such an idiot.
[00:16:53] Oh, that went right. Oh, man. But yeah, honestly, so you got to, you know, I think there will
[00:17:04] be people that do the suicide thing, but you know, they're obviously going to have enough water
[00:17:09] to even think about that kind of stuff because I think if I remember right, it's like for a day and
[00:17:15] a half of not, not having any water, you start to sort of lose it. You know, things start to go
[00:17:23] in and out for you and two days, you're really starting to lose it. So I mean, your,
[00:17:28] your, your motor functions start to start to go to go to go to put. So how often do you mingle with
[00:17:39] the 20 to 30 year olds in below outside of Prepper Cambrick?
[00:17:49] Not much just in passing in a store and well, we'll get into this a little bit later. I think,
[00:18:00] but you know, I've been very involved in politics of late for a reason. And there's some young people
[00:18:08] there that really have their heads together, but for the most part now, yeah, for the most part now.
[00:18:14] I see some of the weakest minded and bodied people that I've ever seen in my whole
[00:18:21] not all. I mean, there's a lot, I mean, I go to the gym. So I see the strong guys too, but like
[00:18:26] yeah, the, the, the will of the average American who's about 30 and below maybe even 35 and below
[00:18:37] like I don't even like, I feel like they would quit 12 hours into not drinking water.
[00:18:44] You know, but I probably would. I mean, it's a whole different kind of human being. I mean,
[00:18:49] it's got to be so far removed because I'm, I'm a wimp compared to like growing up in the
[00:18:58] era previous. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah, no war, no none of that kind of experience or
[00:19:04] anything. No like parents who beat me half the death growing up for everything I did wrong.
[00:19:11] You know, but and this next generation is just like whoa.
[00:19:15] Yeah, it's so much time sitting in so much time doing nothing physical.
[00:19:21] Well, that's what you get for getting, you know, participation awards out.
[00:19:26] Yeah, that's true. And digitizing the, and I'm guilty of it too, but digitizing sort of
[00:19:33] the friend groups and all, you know, it also really did it Rick and I didn't know it and I don't
[00:19:39] think anybody knew it or did it on purpose is moving away, moving away from your parents moving
[00:19:46] away from where you grew up. All that kind of stuff. It really punishes the children
[00:19:53] because everybody moves away from everywhere because it's cool to move away. Right? It's like,
[00:19:57] I'm doing better than dad. I'm moving up. But then you realize like, you know, nobody's got
[00:20:04] there's no kids around because we live in bigger neighborhoods and yeah, I don't know. It's all
[00:20:08] wacky. There's no help because you're going to have to wave from all your help, dummy.
[00:20:14] You know, it's all it's a great thing. Well, you know people are moving away for jobs and then
[00:20:18] you've got the, and this was all planned out too. The two income family, the destruction and
[00:20:25] breakdown of the family unit. So a lot of that's happening and people and people don't,
[00:20:33] I mean, when I lived in Florida, I had next door neighbors. I didn't know who they were. They didn't
[00:20:37] know who I was. You know, you just, it wasn't until it wasn't until a hurricane and a crisis where
[00:20:45] the power is out that you actually talked to your neighbors because they'd say, well, it was the
[00:20:50] power out for you too. And then you could actually have a conversation that you never had before
[00:20:55] until there was this crisis. Yeah. Because then you're all in it together. You know,
[00:21:00] it's not like you're the enemy. I love that. I love that. I mean, our neighborhoods really well
[00:21:05] connected people or friends. We my street in particular, man, everybody knows everybody. And we talk
[00:21:12] you know regularly, but I do love the other, it was, I don't know, three weeks ago or something.
[00:21:17] A tree came down and blocked the road that we, the road we live on is a dead end to both ends.
[00:21:24] And you know, you got to get up out of the neighborhood through another road and that road was
[00:21:29] blocked off by a tree. And it wasn't a big deal, but at like eight in the morning, the streets were
[00:21:36] just swarming with people. And it's a tiny little neighborhood. There's not a lot of people that
[00:21:42] live there. But you know, it's, it's just great. That sense of community is so great. Yeah.
[00:21:48] That's killing people, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'll even, you know, so we would do that. You
[00:21:53] know, wouldn't there was hurricanes and Florida. You lose power for three days and people would be
[00:21:57] out with their chainsaws or, you know, in Florida, their electric chainsaw. We didn't work.
[00:22:03] But people would be out there trying to help each other and get rid of trees and that sort of stuff.
[00:22:08] And then the crisis would go away and everybody would go back to not knowing their neighbors.
[00:22:13] Sealed themselves back up in the house. Yeah. Yeah. It's weird. It's weird how that happened because
[00:22:20] it was when I was growing up, which was the 90s, you know, people came to your house just like they
[00:22:26] would just come over, you know? They would come over to the house. They would come in. You
[00:22:31] would, you would eat something or drink beers like if it was a man, the dad would drink beers with him
[00:22:38] and talk. Yeah. They'd bring kids and the kids would all play in the back now. Like it's,
[00:22:43] it's like a, like an alarm goes off if people come to your house nowadays. Yeah. Well, I grew up in
[00:22:50] the 60s and the days of leave it to beaver and Aussie and Harriet. So, you know, it's a totally
[00:22:56] different world from back then, totally different. It's weird. We're supposed to be the most
[00:23:02] inclusive ever but we don't even want people over. No, we don't. That's good.
[00:23:09] Especially our relatives. Yeah, exactly anything like that. Yeah. Well, you're doing a little bit on
[00:23:16] the side of a community to some degree and yeah. Well, you know, we had just so you know,
[00:23:24] we had oh, you heard the chin podcast, you know, the deal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that kind of goes
[00:23:31] along with it. You know, you and I talked a little bit about afterwards too and I just like, well,
[00:23:36] you know, there's a lot more to fill in on that sort of stuff. So, yeah. And that's one of
[00:23:40] the things I wanted to do tonight. You know, what? So the question comes, what happens if, what happens
[00:23:45] if all this stuff happens? What happens if, you know, we have this kind of thing. What do we have a
[00:23:50] mass, mass casualty event in your community? So knowing what I know and, you know, having a
[00:24:01] sheriff in my county who is the main, who is the number one officer of the law when it comes to
[00:24:09] the constitution, that's got that's a guy that's going to be in charge. So, you know, we have gone to
[00:24:17] visit our sheriff and talk about hey, what if this happens? You know, here's what's happened with
[00:24:25] the Chinese coming into the country. What if what happens if our grid goes down, you know, in our county,
[00:24:31] what are we going to do because you don't have enough people to cover the territory you have now
[00:24:36] never mind, you know, a mob of people or even if something goes down in a big city that is a ways
[00:24:45] away from us. Everybody's going to quote unquote move to the hills, you know, go to the hills for
[00:24:50] safety. Well, what do we do? How do we stop this, you know, this locust coming to us? You know,
[00:25:01] what do we do to protect our citizens? And so, we're working on a kind of civil defense force
[00:25:09] with my sheriff and he is all for it because he knows he doesn't have the capability to handle
[00:25:15] that kind of thing. He knows he has to rely on people, you know, on other people in the county.
[00:25:21] And so, he's a good guy and he listens to a lot of prepper stuff. So, kind of, kind of,
[00:25:27] felt him out on that. So, he's definitely in, you know, he's definitely in and he's
[00:25:33] he's an America first guy and a Trump guy. So, you know, he's he's on on our side when it comes to
[00:25:41] that. In fact, I went to a I went to a GOP county meeting and he was there and he was he was he was
[00:25:51] talking to the group just talking about what was going on in the county and that's for stuff.
[00:25:58] So, if somebody asked him a question because we're pretty rural here, you know, what happens if
[00:26:03] somebody's tried to be made by, you know, coming on my property and doing this and, you know,
[00:26:09] can I shoot him? And he said with a smirk on his face, he said, well, did you fear for your life?
[00:26:16] And the DA, the district attorney who's sitting behind me says the answer is yes.
[00:26:24] Wow. Damn. You know what? I move to the right place. I'll tell you what.
[00:26:29] Wow. That's surprising. It's, you know, that's really important that you're in the right
[00:26:34] right place. But, you know, that's why I kind of picked where we are. It's it's kind of people
[00:26:38] that are here. But, um, I hear the words that was just reenforcing.
[00:26:42] Get your shutter like a chill goes up my spine when I hear the word. Yeah.
[00:26:49] You know, that's what that's what you get when you live in a pose on Kani and, you know,
[00:26:53] the Appalachian Mountains but that's good. That's good. So, so we, you know, we're working on
[00:26:58] that in the bigger picture for the county. But, um, we've also kind of pushed down to the lower level,
[00:27:06] you know, so we're now we're now we're doing a neighborhood watch thing. And we're kind of
[00:27:11] doing it selfishly for our own protection. But we're reaching out to people around us
[00:27:17] to create this neighborhood watch. And even though we're in a rural area and we're kind of
[00:27:22] spread out, you know, people there's a lot of home invasions going on now because there's
[00:27:29] that's a much easier target than the typical convenience store which has cameras and, you know,
[00:27:35] people have guns behind the counter and that sort of stuff. So, breaking into somebody's home
[00:27:39] in a rural area, the response time for the sheriff's department is can be 20 minutes. So you've got to
[00:27:46] be your own first responder. And so we're working on neighborhood watch and literally from the
[00:27:53] mountain I'm on I'm kind of spreading out north, south, east and west and finding like-minded
[00:27:58] people who, you know, want to get together for our mutual defense and mutual protection.
[00:28:05] Whether that's just, um, you know, somebody cuts himself and the ambulance takes 20 minutes
[00:28:11] to get here too. And we've got a medic in our team. So, you know, we can take care of stuff like
[00:28:16] that or there's a home invasion going on or, you know, we the worst case scenario, the Chinese are
[00:28:23] coming. Um, yeah, I find the worst. I find the best thing is when building out the neighborhood
[00:28:32] watch is having people that you could call directly in the middle of the night when things are off.
[00:28:42] You know what I mean? Like knowing obviously it gets way bigger than that and can get way more
[00:28:48] tactical that way more responsive, right? Right. Right. But in all my years here where I live
[00:28:56] some things have gone down from time to time and what was most nothing violent or nothing bad but
[00:29:03] what was most what made things better immediately was being able to say, all right, let me call
[00:29:11] so and so because he's up here. He's going to know what's going on up there. Is this something we
[00:29:17] need to worry about? Let me call this other person who's over on this street because thereby what's
[00:29:21] going on. And just that is way better than waking up in the middle of the night going, who's going on?
[00:29:30] Yeah. You know what I mean? And I'm on my own. So I believe for us it could be you know, it could be
[00:29:36] some woman who's living by herself whose dog is getting attacked by a bear. Sure. Yeah.
[00:29:42] That happens here. So yeah, so we you know, we've got a team of people that we can all roll and get
[00:29:51] there quickly and do something about it whether that's a home invader or you know, it's it's a bear
[00:29:59] attacking some dog at night. So I mean, so so that's that's um that's one of the things we're doing
[00:30:06] and in doing that we've had to grapple with communications. You know, we're using GMRS radios
[00:30:16] and of course we got the hams and the you know, the other the other radios are out there but the GMRS
[00:30:22] ones are ones that were pushing on everybody in this community watch and we're also pushing the
[00:30:27] signal app out there because it's end to end encryption. The other one from Australia I can't
[00:30:33] remember the name of that one but unfortunately Australia has a new law in the books that you
[00:30:39] can have encryption. So I'm not really interested in in the in the five eyes see in everything that
[00:30:45] I'm doing or talking about. So, you know, we're getting all these people on signal that's pretty easy
[00:30:50] because it's a messaging app and you can send pictures and you can send video if you want to
[00:30:54] on it. But we're also getting everybody hooked up on meshtastic and that is that's kind of like
[00:31:05] the last resort you know, it's it's it's a mesh network so even if the cell towers go down so
[00:31:14] if we lose the electric grid the cell towers are going to go down after their generators run out of
[00:31:18] fuel. That's it, you know, there's no other way and you know, it's not everybody's a ham radio
[00:31:24] operator and that only works in certain ways and if we're concerned about really a foreign force
[00:31:31] coming in here to mop up then we don't want to have communications that aren't also encrypted
[00:31:38] and impossible for somebody to see. The beauty of meshtastic the app itself is you can see
[00:31:46] it's like the USGS map and the terrain and you can see the neighbor's houses and you can also see
[00:31:54] little dots for you and your group. So, you can see where everybody is, you can respond, you can see
[00:32:01] as they move and it's a great way to be able to do some sort of defensive strategy when you've got
[00:32:09] somebody who says, hey this is what's going on over here and if one of the nodes gets taken out
[00:32:13] for whatever reason whether it's as simple as the battery not being charged or somebody being taken
[00:32:19] out you still don't lose that communication. So, and you can charge these things with cheap solar
[00:32:25] panels so you can just get something from from harbor freight and they can always be charged even
[00:32:31] when there's a total grid down situation for a long term. There's a build online I'll have to send
[00:32:37] you the video I sent I sent you in the video because he got me on meshtastic and it's
[00:32:44] you may know him you may not know him. You've probably seen something like him. I actually have one
[00:32:48] back by my chicken coop these solar flood lights that are stake into the ground
[00:32:56] get home depot and lows to 20 bucks or something like that. This guy took the light out hooked up
[00:33:07] because there water proof obviously hooked up the not the T Echo itself but the board I don't know
[00:33:15] exactly which board. Yeah for the guys that like playing around with that kind of electronic stuff
[00:33:22] that's great for them but most people that's just not going to work they get to have it out of
[00:33:27] you know already enclosed in the box thing that works and just plugs in and
[00:33:32] right and you know Bluetooth to their phone and they're happy. Well he took that board and put it
[00:33:37] in there to be powered by the solar panel and to use it as a repeater and I thought it was a good idea
[00:33:43] I was like man oh yeah that's really cool and just so the PBN family understands I know I've
[00:33:48] talked about these already I haven't gone in detail and showed them even to the members
[00:33:53] but the way this system works between my wife and I's phone I'll just use that because it's easy.
[00:34:00] The the mesh testing the T Echo mesh testing
[00:34:05] I don't know transceiver receiver whatever it is I'm not good with it. It's just a radio. It's a
[00:34:09] radio yeah that radio talks to the phone no I'm sorry. It's Bluetooth. Yeah the phone talks to the
[00:34:17] radio through an app that you can put on your phone anybody can put the mesh test the cap on their
[00:34:21] phone. Yeah so the phone talks to the radio then the radio talks to whoever else has a radio
[00:34:27] and then that radio talks to their phone and none of it requires Wi-Fi none of it requires
[00:34:34] cell data now there are serious serious space limitations distance limitations rather and serious
[00:34:42] limitations with you know things in the way just like any radio but you know the beauty is
[00:34:49] the beauty is everybody's radio is also a node that will re-broadcast whatever message you have so if
[00:34:58] if you know if I'm sending a message to you and you're close enough and I can't reach you if
[00:35:07] if you know if Sarah was somewhere between us for example it would bounce that message would
[00:35:15] bounce off as Sarah's radio and to your radio without Sarah ever knowing that that
[00:35:20] message went through if it wasn't meant for her yeah so it's a great way to have those kind of
[00:35:25] you know encrypted communications one-on-one or or by group if you want to um get so yeah it's
[00:35:33] really yeah and it's it's basically it's basically military tech that's been commercialized
[00:35:40] and it's big in Europe the Europeans Germans use it like the young Germans use it to communicate
[00:35:46] so I don't know that's kind of cool I wouldn't have imagined that yeah well the you know the city
[00:35:51] of Austin is highly connected and it's it's all due to one guy who had some money and you
[00:35:56] know that's about a lived hard of places you can get and they're all doing it for you know for
[00:36:02] natural disaster sort of stuff so you know the more of those the more of those messed past and
[00:36:07] ten as you can get out there there's more the more of those little devices you can get out there
[00:36:12] um you know the the better off we're all gonna be because then everybody can kind of talk to
[00:36:16] everybody and that's one of the things that I talked to the sheriff's department about I said well
[00:36:21] what happens if we have you know the grid go down and then the cell towers go down because these
[00:36:27] guys are all using their phones sure and he said you know and they've got radios and so I
[00:36:33] shit we showed him this the the the mesh-tastic thing and how it all worked and he said well that's
[00:36:38] cool so the radio is a little I don't know it's less than four inches right to little ago and
[00:36:44] um yeah it's time so so I you know I took it out on my pocket and showed it to him and he says wow
[00:36:51] that's cool he said how much are they and I said a 65 bucks he said 65 bucks he said a radio for one
[00:36:59] of my officers is 2000 2000 yeah he said well this this is great yeah two thousand so you can
[00:37:07] and you and you can put those things up on towers with a solar panel so now you've got you know
[00:37:15] broadcasting everywhere in in ways that you can reach lots of people so that was one of the
[00:37:20] things we're pushing to is for more people to be hooked up on mesh-tastic for this civil defense
[00:37:26] thing county-wide and he's thinking now the sheriff is thinking oh yeah well we can do that for all
[00:37:32] of our emergency management stuff so not just the sheriff but the you know the EMTs the hospital
[00:37:41] the the fire departments um and so that you know that this little idea is spreading throughout
[00:37:49] the community which even if nothing happens even the Chinese don't come even there's no down
[00:37:56] electric grid it's a great way for people to be communicating who may not have been communicating
[00:38:01] before yeah that's you know government services or that's just neighbors we're selling it um easy like uh
[00:38:11] uh friends and co-workers and uh yeah that's pretty much it family friends family and co-workers
[00:38:21] bringing it bringing it to their attention because before long if you've got a close enough friend
[00:38:27] group or a large enough friend group or co-workers you get along with and family in your area
[00:38:32] that mesh sets up quick you know I mean you have a lot of people with nodes
[00:38:37] and before you know it that distance problem that you're like oh I can't get to her or I can't
[00:38:42] get to him because it's too much space between that starts to fill out with more and more nodes
[00:38:48] and then you can do some really cool stuff with no grid right all right always you can charge your
[00:38:53] phone and keep the nodes charged so that's probably the other conversation you want to have with
[00:38:58] people who are in the old fights yeah and you can do that with solar panels now small solar panels
[00:39:02] so and that's cheap stuff you could buy at harbor free if you want to so that's easy that's easy
[00:39:08] easy as long as you get some sun it's a good one man I mean to be honest with you it's the mesh
[00:39:16] testic thing I don't want to like kill the whole show on it but I do want to pat it on the back
[00:39:21] it's by far the most effective for some kind of a long-term solution
[00:39:29] that I've worked with and I've played with ham radio I've played with gmrs radio I've heard
[00:39:35] tons of people tell me that you can talk to people across the nation on ham radio I don't even
[00:39:40] know where to begin still to make that happen right but this the technology and the idea behind
[00:39:46] the technology is easy to understand you know what I mean I think that's the best part about it's
[00:39:52] like the more nodes the further you can talk and that's it there's no license there's no figure
[00:39:56] in out frequencies it's well there's a frequency part in the setup but you know they set up easy
[00:40:03] so yeah I'm glad you brought that up that's a cool thing and they're just one more little thing too
[00:40:09] they're very hard to triangulate so if someone's trying to find you it's difficult to do because
[00:40:14] they're all in the same frequency of every smart device that's in your home or everybody else is
[00:40:19] home so they're kind of hard to figure out where anything is because if they're looking for something
[00:40:26] they're seeing somebody smart TV somebody smart refrigerator somebody smart whatever so
[00:40:34] yeah I like them I like that highly recommend check them out and I'll once I get around to it for
[00:40:40] the members I'll show you guys how it works how I send a text to the box the box gets the text
[00:40:47] goes to the wife's box and goes to her phone you know and whoever else is out there on the network
[00:40:52] of nodes yeah cool man yeah I like your short and sweet next topic better get prepared
[00:41:02] yeah yeah better get prepared man so you know given all of this stuff if you're not nervous now
[00:41:09] if you're not going out buying a gun like the guy from Arizona was right you need to be
[00:41:14] how are they still pushing this is getting serious huh how are they still pushing gun control Rick
[00:41:19] I can't wrap my head around this because the Nazis determine the first well the first thing
[00:41:25] that is the the communist the Nazis first thing it is take away guns so you can't defend yourself that's
[00:41:31] you know it's amazing to me these suicidal people yep that's why Australia and had had
[00:41:37] worse lockdowns than we did oh yeah you know good luck fighting that yeah exactly it is amazing
[00:41:45] but I do see prepping in places I've never seen it before in fact I saw a four-patriots
[00:41:53] survival food commercial on TV yeah a few nights ago my wife is watching TV up in bed I was like
[00:42:00] is that four pay oh my god it's definitely changing yeah there yeah there's there's a lot more
[00:42:05] people aware of and and they know they're selling the natural disasters and sort of stuff but you look
[00:42:11] at at bannons war room you know that podcast they get yeah it's all their advertisers prepared
[00:42:16] this guy it's now I mean they're all their sponsors prepared all of them you know from the
[00:42:21] from the phones the satellite phones yeah selling gold to you know the the um all the all the
[00:42:30] prepper foods and that sort of stuff so it's a beautiful thing man it is a beautiful thing to me
[00:42:35] yeah you and I were you were I were not 17 years ago right oh my god yeah but now it's
[00:42:41] speak it's become a realization at least to me and I know to you for a long time that like this
[00:42:46] is the path even even when the world is not on fire this is the path you know what I mean like this
[00:42:52] is just the way that humans are supposed to go there's no the other way it doesn't make any sense
[00:42:57] like the I want everything delivered to me and fed to me and then I want to be read a bedtime story
[00:43:04] and fall exactly it's no kind of life that's what people are on medicines for everything yeah right
[00:43:12] but yeah so what's speaking it prepared we got prepper camp coming up September 27th 28th and 29th
[00:43:19] and um oh baby it's gonna be bigger than ever who will to think who to think of our 11th year
[00:43:26] our 11th year you know we got a lot of new classes and there's a lot of classes I mean aside from
[00:43:34] the you know the the regular proper type ones home-steady ones from making cheese to you know freeze
[00:43:43] drying and basic stuff that you would want to know um canning and that kind of stuff we're also doing
[00:43:49] a lot more technology oriented classes and how to protect yourself and also kind of what to think
[00:43:59] about and what to do um to protect yourself and your family should things really go bad so um
[00:44:08] we've got a martial law class we're doing this year we've got prepping for an EMP we've got old
[00:44:15] tools that you could use every day we've got night vision and thermal class
[00:44:21] we've got an urban break contact class oh that's a big one I just get somebody to teach guerrilla
[00:44:28] warfare who teaches that to people in different countries all over the world wow um you know
[00:44:35] preparing for civil war so firearms for women situational awareness so there's a bunch of stuff
[00:44:43] uh and and I did I mentioned we got a guy teaching about ghost phones and ghost computers too
[00:44:48] yeah they know he's been on pb yeah yeah we have to mark 37 guys on yeah yeah so they're great
[00:44:55] they're great this is the Super Bowl for us like with the listeners it's yeah this prepper camp
[00:45:02] is the Super Bowl it's like can I get there this year if I can't get there this year I'm getting
[00:45:07] there next year you know what I mean it is that yeah it is the thing because everybody talks about
[00:45:12] every host talks about it here and and said well most of those are teaching every year there so
[00:45:17] that's I mean it's it's the best man you've done something amazing and I haven't been around
[00:45:24] the block as much as I probably should and this is probably also your fault because prepper
[00:45:29] camp so damn good um but I haven't visited a lot of these other shows I know Tim Cook does a lot
[00:45:35] of them yeah but uh from what I've interviewed people who do different shows and stuff like that
[00:45:41] and they tell me sort of the layout and how they're all set up and everything but
[00:45:45] I haven't yet defined anything that holds a candle to what what goes down at prepper camp and not
[00:45:51] just classes and not just people and not just you know the but the vibe of prepper camp is
[00:45:57] yeah totally unique man it's totally unique well for me as a lifetime marketing guy it wasn't it wasn't
[00:46:04] it as important to be the biggest even though we are as it was to be the best and quality was
[00:46:12] was key and it's in its key in everything that we do you know from the classes and the
[00:46:16] guys that are teaching to the vendors to everything that we do about the event it's about having a
[00:46:21] good experience for the who come to prepper camp whether that's their you know the attendees
[00:46:28] or the vendors or the speakers everybody needs to needs to enjoy the thing because
[00:46:35] everybody that comes there from the speaking standpoint they're their experts in their fields and
[00:46:40] they come from you know as far away as Washington state and Florida and New York and Maine
[00:46:48] to teach and they do it for free you know they're coming on their own time so these guys are just
[00:46:54] are totally invested in prepper camp and totally believe in what we're trying to do so that's
[00:46:59] one of the great things about it too which is something I never I never expected to happen but
[00:47:04] it's it's taken on a life of its own and it's it's um I just kind of stood back in amazement
[00:47:11] and and go wow we did this and then I know what you got reminded no we didn't do this God did this
[00:47:19] but yeah definitely but you know what what you guys do that most other people wouldn't do
[00:47:27] you allow other people to hold the baby and to swaddle the baby like you allow people to come
[00:47:34] in to prepper camp and if they have a good idea you say well go ahead like it what comes to mind
[00:47:41] is the guy with the trumpet last year yeah you know like that was that was a powerful man
[00:47:50] like the tinfoil hat contest right you know that year you weren't like you know what I really
[00:47:55] need a prepper camp is a bunch of idiots making hats out of tinfoil we were like can we do it
[00:48:00] you know and you could have just as easily been like man I got so much it going on jave just
[00:48:04] relax do it on your own time yeah but you allow people to come in and do those things and
[00:48:09] and that adds these like layers to the whole event that just wouldn't exist otherwise you know
[00:48:16] and then the event just becomes this thing it just keeps growing and but yeah the guy with the
[00:48:21] trumpet for the I can't listen to the the national anthem anymore without crying and that was
[00:48:27] just crazy to me that thing was like wow yeah well that was that was just I mean the guy you know
[00:48:33] the story is that he just came up to me and no he didn't come up to me he sent me an email
[00:48:37] earlier in the year and just said you know I used to be in the army and I played you know for the
[00:48:46] Nash the Arlington National Cemetery and you know I just feel called to you know play in the
[00:48:56] morning maybe you know taps at night and revel in the morning or you know the national anthem or whatever
[00:49:01] whatever it was and so we just kind of talked about it and talked about the logistics of it
[00:49:05] and let's just do it before classes start like at nine nine o'clock in the morning nine nine
[00:49:11] like five minutes to nine and so we talked about it he stood up really at the highest point in
[00:49:18] prepper camp and right in front of the flag and what was amazing to me is that people were talking
[00:49:27] and they're you know they're right they're all in class ready to have the class start they're all
[00:49:31] talking about this and that and I'm excited about the day and as soon as he started playing everyone
[00:49:37] stopped and from where my perspective was you could see the entire prepper camp from one end to
[00:49:46] the other I mean acres and acres and acres of people and vendors and classes and everyone stopped
[00:49:54] and everyone turned toward the flag and everyone put their hand on their heart it was that
[00:50:02] was amazing and we did it all three days and Saturday night we recognized him and the guy
[00:50:09] was literally in tears he never expected to get you know a standing ovation but it's you know
[00:50:18] he brought something special you know something special that made it special and he's not going
[00:50:23] to get away with not doing it every year now I'm telling yeah that's how it that's what my
[00:50:28] experience with prepper camp has been man every year there's these little things that he whether
[00:50:33] or not they're part of what you've added or what people I go to visit every year of added and it just
[00:50:37] you know it because well it's become a thing Dave Jones the other day if this is what prepper
[00:50:42] camp is in our group I don't know if you know it but it becomes this thing where it's like
[00:50:47] if I have to kill a man I will make it to prepare like that was Dave Jones the NBC guy the
[00:50:54] other day he was like because he missed last year he's like I don't care what happens man I'm
[00:50:59] going this year I'm not missing it becomes this thing where it's like you know the biggest event
[00:51:05] of the year basically for a reason you know yeah yeah and we never thought it would it would do that
[00:51:12] it would just didn't you know it took on a life its own and it's not me it's it's just kind of
[00:51:19] it's just kind of God being there you can feel the presence you can feel it you just all that
[00:51:25] 10 on Saturday nights is that's a spiritual thing as I've ever been a part of yeah you know
[00:51:31] you bring Brad into from five times August yeah and he's coming back in the church is anything
[00:51:38] yeah he's coming oh well you know I'm sitting because I introduce Brad so five times
[00:51:44] August this guy who now has been all over the world literally playing for all of these events
[00:51:51] and you know he's he's a the only political protesting or we have of our time
[00:51:58] and he's amazing and he was there you know the year before and he was there last last year
[00:52:05] and last year I'm sitting in the tent just kind of waiting to get back up on stage to introduce
[00:52:11] the next person and Brad's playing and I see people all singing along to all of his songs
[00:52:21] I'm looking at Sarah and her husband and her kids and they all know the all the we were partying man
[00:52:28] yep so that was pretty amazing
[00:52:30] I'm going to move in chair too oh we also had that I don't know how much you liked it but we had
[00:52:34] that wonderful balloon fight before that to get it all kicked off that got a little out of hand
[00:52:42] especially when I got an old lady out front who's just about running into the speakers and the TV
[00:52:48] I'm going shit no no this has got to wait for you to pull a BB gun out and start taking
[00:52:55] them out mid-flight yeah well it wouldn't be a BB gun but yeah yeah man it's magic
[00:53:03] prepper camp is magic I tell people like people who don't know me super well
[00:53:09] and I'll be like yeah I go to prepper camp every year man and I always think they think it's like
[00:53:13] magic camp you know yeah until you go you just won't know so you might as well go
[00:53:22] yeah yeah for sure so you're free time you've decided to you've decided to dive into politics
[00:53:32] as crazy and that is but in a in a smart and measured way maybe fill us in on that I'm going
[00:53:37] to go fill my coffee cup up real quick it'll be two seconds if you want to let everybody know what's
[00:53:42] what sure yeah well you know the old saying is if if you don't do politics it will do you
[00:53:49] and I think we've been watching it do us for a while so um I've I wanted to get into politics
[00:53:56] a lot sooner but back in the Obama days Jane was like no you're not going to get involved in
[00:54:02] we don't need you know them them showing up at the doorstep and end up going into into some
[00:54:10] Gestapo like camp and you know FEMA camp camp Obama so we just you know she she was like adamant
[00:54:21] that I don't that it just keep my mouth shut and just do what we do and that's where stuff but now
[00:54:27] I'm convinced that this is the last possible conceivable way that we can get our country back if
[00:54:34] we don't do it in this election we will lose this country and the communist win and then
[00:54:40] it's going to be blood it's going to be their blood our blood both whatever that's what it's
[00:54:47] going to take to get the country back at that point um so I'm doing what I can politically uh
[00:54:53] been very involved in the GOP and one of the things I wanted to talk about is you know you really
[00:55:00] need to get involved just stop bitching about it stop stop sitting around talking about it
[00:55:04] screaming at the TV screaming at Biden there's something you can do where you are right now and
[00:55:11] as they say all politics is local so um you know instead of getting into a civil war maybe we can
[00:55:19] fix this thing right now um there's this thing called a precinct strategy I don't know if you're
[00:55:25] heard of it before you can go to precinct strategy dot com but basically it's way for us to change
[00:55:31] the nation nation starting with the local level and just to explain what precinct strategy is or
[00:55:39] what a precinct is it's basically where you go to vote the precinct is where you go to so it's kind
[00:55:43] of like the smallest unit um the smallest group and there's a precinct committee so that
[00:55:52] is kind of based on where you vote and where you vote like in my county things are really spread out
[00:55:57] so there's like 17 different precincts so there's 17 different precinct committees in the past what's
[00:56:04] happened is that not lots of people participate and right now maybe 50% of the precinct committee seats
[00:56:12] are filled so you go in there you go in there and um you know a quarter of the so half of them
[00:56:21] are empty um a quarter of them are filled by neo con old school Republicans that just want
[00:56:29] things the same old way and a quarter of them are filled by america first people that want some
[00:56:34] change so if we can get more people to be precinct committeemen and be there at that local level
[00:56:42] then we outnumber the old school um Republicans the the rhinos that are there and now we can start
[00:56:51] controlling what happens so the precincts make up the county GOP so now you're taking over the
[00:56:59] county and changing the direction of the county the counties control the congressional districts so
[00:57:06] there's different congressional districts so you're kind of moving up in space and now we're
[00:57:11] controlling the congressional districts and then eventually we're controlling the state party
[00:57:17] and the state parties control the RNC so the Republican National Committee um
[00:57:25] so this is a way that we can take things back and in fact in our local area we've changed our sheriff
[00:57:32] our county commissioners and school boards so that we've got people who are physically responsible
[00:57:38] and anti woke and all of that means there's less taxes for the taxpayers so just that alone is worth
[00:57:46] doing you know we're fixing the stuff instead of just sitting back and not bothering and not being
[00:57:52] involved and then complaining about stuff that happens you have a chance to make a difference
[00:57:58] and it doesn't really take much to be involved it's crazy so yeah so I mean there's a bunch of
[00:58:05] slots sitting around waiting for people just like you who's listening to the prayer
[00:58:09] broadcasting network right now to hop on that committee and rather than worrying about how am I
[00:58:15] going to get this deep Democrats seated mayor out of my city or out of my you know that you can
[00:58:22] personally have an effect because I mean it's such a great strategy because so many people are like
[00:58:28] I don't have time to run for this or run for that or you know what I mean and it gives everybody
[00:58:32] the ability to I don't know what the time commitment is on something like that it's not it's
[00:58:37] it's really not much I mean you go to you go to one county meeting a month you know and it's usually
[00:58:41] something with food and you're meeting people and you're talking to people and you're talking
[00:58:45] to people you didn't necessarily know before and suddenly you're doing stuff and you know you're
[00:58:49] helping each other out but it's it's just kind of getting the numbers there so that you can change
[00:58:56] the way things are done the way things should be done so that we can have an America first agenda
[00:59:01] not just in your precinct but also in your county also in your congressional district and in your state
[00:59:07] and um north carolina did north carolina did such a good job of this that the chairman of the
[00:59:14] north carolina GOP is now the RNC chair I mean Trump saw what he did and how he turned things around
[00:59:22] and how he got supreme court judges for the state involved so that their stuff wasn't being overturned
[00:59:28] by the democrats all the time and north carolina now has a super majority in their
[00:59:35] in their legislature in their house equivalent to a house and in their senate so even though we have
[00:59:42] a demon rat governor in north carolina we've been able to override his vetoes and get
[00:59:49] all kinds of stuff passed that are you know conservative um and and now you know Michael Wattley
[00:59:57] who was the chair is now the RNC chair so hopefully you can do some things to uh
[01:00:03] to change what's going on um nationwide with the experience he has and kind of the
[01:00:09] the in the insight he has on how to get that stuff done because again we got it we got to fix
[01:00:16] things this is gonna be the last election if we don't get the right people in yeah that's a
[01:00:21] fundamental question to ask of all the things we do as preppers and patriots
[01:00:29] the real question to ask yourself is is one meeting a month too much for for the greatest nation
[01:00:37] on the planet to continue resisting that's really what it comes down to right I mean I'm saying
[01:00:42] that to myself because I'm not in it I gotta get I gotta get in I remember you put in the slide
[01:00:46] up at prepper camp right which is almost what like year ago you know six months ago whatever
[01:00:52] and uh you know life has its way with you but that's not an excuse you gotta come down on me
[01:00:58] in september if I'm not part of that precinct strategy well it's I mean I just
[01:01:04] just look at it is this is this is our alternative to civil war because that that's
[01:01:08] that's the result if we lose that's gonna be the result there's gonna be bloodshed
[01:01:12] there's gonna have to be and um I'd like to avoid that I'd like to avoid it
[01:01:18] I'm sure when when sixty seven percent of the population in the United States think that Joe Biden
[01:01:25] is an illegitimate president that's a pretty big number of people who are and they're not happy with
[01:01:32] what's going on um they steal this election this time there's gonna be some there's gonna be a real
[01:01:40] insurrection or maybe the real insurrection is in Washington DC but you know that's that's the truth
[01:01:46] when it comes to the constitution but there's gonna be there's gonna be some bad stuff now
[01:01:52] it's gonna be I really feel for the uh maybe I shouldn't but I do feel for the people who are
[01:02:00] crossing that border expecting some checks and some hotel stays because if things go bad in the fall
[01:02:08] here in America the the attitude and I think it's gonna be the attitude from all parts towards
[01:02:14] those people is gonna be brutal yeah good thing that's I mean scapegoats scapegoats are a thing
[01:02:22] you know what I mean somebody gonna be a scapegoat and yeah have these people who are living
[01:02:26] in tents down the street from your house or in your kids school or or you're suffering and they're
[01:02:31] getting you know checks and money for groceries and because yes it's gonna be ugly man it is
[01:02:37] gonna be ugly that's that is for sure yeah but uh yeah so and what about poll observers in a election
[01:02:46] volunteers and all that I mean um if if you know part of the precinct strategy or part of part of
[01:02:55] the uh the county GOP um you know Republican Party you can ask to be a poll observer and they sort
[01:03:04] of control that so the the Democrats get a poll observer or a number of poll observers in each
[01:03:10] precinct so each voting precinct as the as the elections going on so the Democrats get one the
[01:03:16] Republicans get one and you kind of need to be there you you kind of need to see what's going on um
[01:03:23] so so we can stop the steel so you know there's there's stuff you can see and you can tell and you
[01:03:29] you get a little bit of training you know basically one session where people tell you what to look
[01:03:33] out for what what you can and can't do um so that's important um yeah you know maybe not so much in
[01:03:41] in my little county where everybody knows each other but you know I I see stuff that was going on
[01:03:48] election wise in this last election that's like you know if somebody didn't really follow the
[01:03:54] rules and they did a little differently this could turn out differently so well I think it's
[01:04:00] important also for what what I thought when we had shin on talking about this concept I told the
[01:04:06] PBN audience I said like you know it would be really nice to get a feel for what everyone saw
[01:04:13] across the nation if we could get a lot of people to do it because then even if by some
[01:04:20] steel or a miracle Donald Trump doesn't win it would be nice to have people around the
[01:04:25] who's country saying well I was at my polling place and things looked legit to me you know what I mean
[01:04:31] I mean I don't we can't be everywhere but I don't know no better to be you know you can
[01:04:37] you can also be an election volunteer so you can be one of those people at the computer that's
[01:04:42] checking somebody in and making sure that their ideas what their ideas and and that sort of stuff too
[01:04:48] and that's you know that's a good thing to volunteer for as well just just getting involved I mean
[01:04:54] again this will be our last election if we don't do something so this is the one to do it for
[01:05:02] this is the one to save your country for you know this is this is the way you can be a patriot without
[01:05:07] having to shed blood because the next the next stop is that what it's going to be if we don't win
[01:05:13] this one then there's going to be blood I guarantee it's a dark dark path we may be on but
[01:05:21] right you know it is what it is yeah Rick I think this is about the best podcast we've ever done
[01:05:27] together my man Billy sure start off with a joke yeah sometimes that's the best way to begin it right
[01:05:36] yeah no you know what it know what it is Rick that you brought to the table tonight that I always
[01:05:41] try to bring to the table but struggle to do is you explained as succinctly as possible what
[01:05:48] preppers are capable of you know what I mean from from affecting things first of all from
[01:05:56] having the vision like like preppers particularly preppers who are teaching and doing those things
[01:06:03] at prepper camp or running businesses or whatever it is making content there's a prepper vision that
[01:06:09] other groups of people don't have right it's it's the connecting of dots thing it's a little bit
[01:06:15] of conspiracy thing it's a little bit of foreshadowing thing that's a proper thing man and then you
[01:06:23] know showing people how to act on it you talked about the civil defense you talked about the
[01:06:27] neighborhood watch the emergency comms all these things all the way down to the political is
[01:06:35] I just think that preppers are going to be looked back upon as very important a very important
[01:06:40] group in American history you know I don't think they're going to be people who are on television
[01:06:46] do you know what I mean they're going to be like yeah yeah these people morphed into this group who
[01:06:51] because I already think we look that way if you look at COVID a certain way like if you look at
[01:06:55] what happened with people during COVID and they all turned to preppers not didn't turn into
[01:07:01] preppers but they all turned to preppers and said that's true what the hell is going on you guys
[01:07:06] been talking about pandemics and we made funny but what's actually happening and what should we do
[01:07:11] and it's the same way now yeah even now yeah exactly exactly you did a great job at sort of
[01:07:18] you know showing people why it is that way the wealth of information that is hiding in these
[01:07:25] crazy preppers yes yes I think that's about it man and the spirit of patriotism too so yeah they
[01:07:35] you know and so for those of you that and I can't believe people don't and don't believe that your
[01:07:41] vote doesn't count you've got to get out there and vote you got to you've got to yeah don't just sit
[01:07:48] back and say well somebody else is doing it or or my vote doesn't count anyway then you're just
[01:07:54] giving up then you're just giving up yep nothing's worse than running into the guy who pisses and
[01:08:00] moans about the country and then tells you his vote doesn't matter so he doesn't vote anyway right
[01:08:06] like I'd like to throttle you right now you know what I mean all right folks Rick Austin always
[01:08:15] awesome always a pleasure and it's onward and upward pv and family to the rest of the week
[01:08:21] the L Douglas Hogan will be back Swenson will be back this week he's got some interesting tales
[01:08:26] to tell he's been off doing some things with police that I think you guys are going to be very
[01:08:30] interested in so I think that's it man I appreciate your Rick no thanks for having me I appreciate
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