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[00:00:00] Hi, Mark Walters, host of Armored American Radio.

[00:00:03] Imagine this if you will, a complete collapse has occurred and martial law has been declared.

[00:00:07] Introducing the good game, you must escape the city and get back to your cabin so pack

[00:00:10] your gear and grab your gun.

[00:00:11] It's time to get out of Dodge.

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[00:00:15] the obstacles you encounter on your way to safety.

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[00:00:19] You decide.

[00:00:20] Bad weather, hungry animals and bad guys are going to get in your way.

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[00:01:24] Vanity of vanities.

[00:01:52] All is vanity.

[00:01:54] I'm Ecclesiastes tonight.

[00:01:58] I'm the 2000 year old king tonight, maybe older.

[00:02:02] What the 2500 year old Ecclesiastes who had this whole thing figured out.

[00:02:08] Look at the news.

[00:02:10] There's nothing new under the sun.

[00:02:14] Vanity of vanities.

[00:02:17] All is vanity.

[00:02:20] That's kind of where my head is today.

[00:02:23] You've got topics on this show tonight and we're going to try to fit two shows into one

[00:02:28] because I put a month together without considering vacation.

[00:02:35] This is a very important month.

[00:02:36] The theme of this month is urban survival.

[00:02:39] When you really carve out the prepper pie, urban survival is a big one.

[00:02:45] Lucky for you, I spend about 75% of my show meandering in my own subconscious.

[00:02:52] We can cut a little bit of that and plug in some of the conversation we should have had

[00:02:57] last week.

[00:02:58] I was in Disney and I've been accustomed over the last couple years to taking pseudo

[00:03:05] vacations where I work during vacation at least to some extent because I'm a one man

[00:03:13] army.

[00:03:14] You know what I mean?

[00:03:15] I don't have anybody.

[00:03:17] There's no employees.

[00:03:18] There's nobody I can call and be like, hey, I'm going to be out next week so jump

[00:03:22] on that client work and that podcast and send those emails out to advertisers and maybe,

[00:03:30] well I think about it.

[00:03:34] I do think of myself, do I need an employee?

[00:03:37] Is an employee something I would want?

[00:03:38] Do I want allies in this thing?

[00:03:40] I'm going to be honest with you man and it might just be me.

[00:03:45] It might just be the type of guy that I am.

[00:03:48] There is something absolutely wonderful.

[00:03:51] It's coming from the guy who wrote a book about community too which is really funny.

[00:03:55] But professionally speaking, even though it's a burden when it comes to that one or two

[00:04:01] weeks out of the year that I vacation, there is something about those 50 other weeks that

[00:04:09] I don't have to worry about anybody calling out.

[00:04:11] I don't have to worry about anybody not coming in.

[00:04:13] I don't have to worry about anybody questioning me on how I do what I do or why I do

[00:04:17] what I do.

[00:04:20] And man, that might be worth getting up at four o'clock in the morning when you're on

[00:04:25] vacation and working for an hour or two and then doing the family thing.

[00:04:31] That just, for a guy like me, that just might be worth it.

[00:04:35] You know I was thinking about that over the week.

[00:04:38] I had a lot of fun.

[00:04:40] You know I'm the type of prepper that I'm not going to isolate myself and my

[00:04:44] family away from the real world.

[00:04:47] You know if we go down swinging in the real world, having a good time, so be it.

[00:04:52] But we're not going to isolate ourselves because there's a lot of life out there to live.

[00:04:59] So we've got a big show packed.

[00:05:02] Packed.

[00:05:03] We're going to talk about the two big categories that we're going to talk about is sort

[00:05:10] of the readiness lifestyle at work.

[00:05:15] Big number one, that was the topic that was supposed to be on hand and prioritized last

[00:05:23] Wednesday.

[00:05:24] Right?

[00:05:25] Nine o'clock last night.

[00:05:26] I actually sent G-man an email.

[00:05:28] I said look the kids fall asleep before nine.

[00:05:30] This is around like seven.

[00:05:32] I'm standing in line for a ride at Hollywood Studios.

[00:05:36] I'm texting him or emailing him.

[00:05:39] And I said the kids fall asleep before nine.

[00:05:41] Man I'll jump in and we'll do the show.

[00:05:44] And when I got home back to the hotel, I was so exhausted because I don't know if you know

[00:05:50] it but Disney with two kids is like the end.

[00:05:55] It's just the opposite of an actual vacation.

[00:05:59] It's just the complete and total opposite of when you say the word vacation, certain

[00:06:04] things come to mind.

[00:06:07] Disney is not those things.

[00:06:08] There's no sandy beach.

[00:06:11] You know, I'm also, as a young father I'm also starting to understand that vacation is

[00:06:16] kind of gone now also in general.

[00:06:20] You know, I mean, I remember when Lady Liberty and I were young and we'd go to the beach

[00:06:24] and I would hide, I'm Irish and pale so I would hide under whatever shade I could

[00:06:29] find and read a book on the beach while she would lay out in the sun and look beautiful

[00:06:35] and gorgeous.

[00:06:36] So those were vacations.

[00:06:40] You know, we might lay there for a few hours.

[00:06:42] I might meander up to the boardwalk, get something to eat, drink, bring her back some food, whatever

[00:06:47] and then go back to reading for another few hours.

[00:06:51] Right then go home, get in the shower, wash the sand off.

[00:06:55] The whole thing is relaxing.

[00:06:59] Disney is like put a kid on your shoulders, carry another kid.

[00:07:03] It's sort of like, you know what it's akin to?

[00:07:05] This is what I was thinking about.

[00:07:07] It's akin to the Go Ruck Challenge.

[00:07:10] You know what the Go Ruck Challenge is?

[00:07:12] It's like an eight hour Ruck Challenge.

[00:07:15] That's what it's kind of like for me because I don't do the stroller thing.

[00:07:19] We don't do the stroller thing.

[00:07:20] We get our kids out of strollers like ASAP.

[00:07:25] So that was my deal, get them out of the strollers but of course that means when

[00:07:30] you're on vacation and you're going to go into a place where you're going to

[00:07:32] walk a few miles.

[00:07:35] The three year old is going to be getting carried a lot.

[00:07:39] So it's one of the little good grease, you know, it wears you down.

[00:07:45] Anyhow, readiness lifestyle at work is our first topic at hand.

[00:07:53] That was that's to sort of fill up what we missed out on last week and then

[00:07:57] we're also going to talk about preparing the urban neighborhood.

[00:08:00] Right?

[00:08:01] And that's kind of really up my wheelhouse.

[00:08:03] Really in my wheelhouse, that's something that I've been thinking about quite a lot

[00:08:08] because it's my living situation.

[00:08:11] You know, I live in the city limits of a smaller city in America.

[00:08:22] And it's a unique situation because I live in a place where there's a lot of

[00:08:25] space between neighbors and like I said, it's right on the cusp of sort of an

[00:08:30] urban area.

[00:08:35] And I've really grown to like my position aside from being kind of low

[00:08:40] elevation, I really like my position and I like it because of the ability to have

[00:08:48] a defensible community.

[00:08:51] And that's something that I pride our sort of our house choosing in because

[00:08:57] it wasn't really prepping was not in our mind.

[00:09:00] It wasn't even something we thought about when we bought this house.

[00:09:03] We just got lucky.

[00:09:07] Now let's go over what are we talking about this month?

[00:09:10] This urban survival thing.

[00:09:11] I've got several things that I want to bring up to you.

[00:09:16] There are various, well, we could talk about urban survival, must-haves,

[00:09:20] later gear books, that type of thing.

[00:09:22] That might be something we integrate into the show through Disney.

[00:09:28] And every day.

[00:09:29] So I purchased a backpack through a company called 3Vgear.

[00:09:34] You might have heard me talk about them before.

[00:09:36] Listen, they are a company that I like, a company that I use,

[00:09:39] a company that I support.

[00:09:40] I'm a brand ambassador for that company and lucky for you.

[00:09:45] If you go to 3Vgear.com and use the coupon code IAMLiberty,

[00:09:51] you'll get 10% off your order.

[00:09:53] And right before I left, my get home bag is a VLocks 2x3Vgear.

[00:10:00] It's in my trunk as we speak.

[00:10:02] And I ordered a sling bag by them.

[00:10:05] It's called the Outlaw Sling Pack specifically for EDC and this trip

[00:10:11] to Disney because I wanted to have something smaller but effective

[00:10:16] for this sort of traveling preparedness that I was undertaking.

[00:10:23] And don't worry, I'm not going to talk about theme park and airline preparedness

[00:10:29] this month but what I am working on is a big article, a big breakdown.

[00:10:36] Basically a sort of like a Disney survival guide for the prepper.

[00:10:43] You know what I mean?

[00:10:44] And not just about the parks, not just about kids, not just about that

[00:10:49] but from the start to the finish.

[00:10:52] Right? Checking a bag, what do you put in your check bag,

[00:10:54] what do you put in your carry on bag, all the things that you do in between that.

[00:10:59] Do you bring a gun, do you not bring a gun

[00:11:05] and what goes into bringing a gun in a check bag which I'll be honest with you

[00:11:09] turned out to be way worth it and very simple.

[00:11:15] So it's just one of those things.

[00:11:17] It's just one of those things and I really want to give you a real sort of deep dive.

[00:11:26] Right? Sort of a deep dive on what it takes to travel prepared

[00:11:32] but it's just not something we're going to fit into this month with us having what?

[00:11:37] What do we have?

[00:11:38] We have three more shows left and that's if I decide to do a show on the 31st

[00:11:42] which is Halloween, at best I can tell you're going to get a pre-record on Halloween

[00:11:47] because I'm not rushing the kids in to bed on Halloween night.

[00:11:53] I love you guys but I don't love you that much.

[00:11:58] Halloween's a big deal in my household and you know, you probably won't even want to deal with me.

[00:12:05] I'll probably have like face paint half smeared on my face.

[00:12:08] I'll probably all jacked up from eating my kids' can.

[00:12:10] You won't want anything to do with me on Halloween night anyway

[00:12:13] but I'll probably put together some sort of a pre-record and we'll do our thing on Halloween night.

[00:12:21] But the 24th, the 24th will be a big show.

[00:12:23] We're going to discuss big piece of urban prepping is the bug out.

[00:12:29] Right? It's built for the urban prepper.

[00:12:32] It's built for the person that has to say I've got to get away from this.

[00:12:37] This is ugly.

[00:12:39] But one of the biggest things that's missing in most people's plans is when to bug out.

[00:12:44] Right?

[00:12:46] When do I actually pull the trigger? When do I execute?

[00:12:50] And that's what next week's show is going to be about.

[00:12:52] So we're going to go through an acronym called Red Out

[00:12:56] and we're going to just really get into this idea of

[00:13:00] not just understanding Red Out but even further defining it to your own personal life

[00:13:07] so that you know without a doubt this situation is happening outside.

[00:13:12] That means that we got to go.

[00:13:14] Because you have to have that.

[00:13:16] Otherwise you're in the mirth.

[00:13:17] Otherwise you have no idea when to execute.

[00:13:20] You could have a great plan.

[00:13:21] Your bags can be packed.

[00:13:23] Your location can be stocked.

[00:13:25] But if you don't know when to pull the trigger, you might wait too long

[00:13:29] or you might leave too early.

[00:13:31] Who knows?

[00:13:33] So look for that next week.

[00:13:35] What do we got?

[00:13:37] Right?

[00:13:38] So I am liberty over at 3V gear.

[00:13:40] If you're interested in that kind of gear, like I said, it's much more affordable than most.

[00:13:44] I have been carrying it for almost a year now and it's all working fine.

[00:13:51] It's all working fine for me.

[00:13:55] Let's see what else.

[00:13:57] Giveaway this month.

[00:13:59] Let's talk about giveaway.

[00:14:01] What is with giveaways?

[00:14:03] Giveaways are just everywhere now.

[00:14:05] It seems like everybody I listen to or talk to is doing a giveaway of some kind.

[00:14:09] The world of the giveaway.

[00:14:11] So I wanted to put together sort of an urban survival-ish pack.

[00:14:19] And Ape Survival makes something called an assault pack or something along those lines.

[00:14:26] Everybody's gotten assault pack anymore.

[00:14:28] But it's a tan backpack.

[00:14:30] Decent.

[00:14:31] I'm not going to tell you, it's one of the best bags in the market.

[00:14:34] It's not that but it's a cool little tan backpack.

[00:14:38] We're going to stuff it with a tack light which is sort of a self-defense flashlight

[00:14:43] and a tactical pen called the strike pen which features a lot of different things.

[00:14:48] There's a flashlight on one end.

[00:14:51] Decent LED.

[00:14:54] Very low lumen.

[00:14:56] There's a knife.

[00:14:58] There's a multi-tool in that thing.

[00:15:00] So we're going to throw all that stuff together and that's going to go to this month's winner.

[00:15:06] Now knowing the I Am Liberty show,

[00:15:11] I make it a challenge all the time for my listeners to get involved in these giveaways

[00:15:19] because I've done giveaways before in the past that were incumbent on people calling in

[00:15:27] or doing something during the show.

[00:15:30] And you know what?

[00:15:31] I don't like it personally.

[00:15:32] I'm not a big fan of it.

[00:15:34] I don't like it.

[00:15:35] I don't even want to think about the giveaway during the show.

[00:15:38] I don't want to do that.

[00:15:39] I don't want to get names and dates and whatever else.

[00:15:44] So we try to do things a little better, do things a little more interesting,

[00:15:49] a little geared towards the month.

[00:15:52] So what I decided this month, and to be honest with you,

[00:15:55] I kind of stole it from ITS Tactical.

[00:15:57] I don't know if you're fans of those guys, but ITS Tactical, it's an awesome website.

[00:16:02] They do a great job over there.

[00:16:05] Guys who are just smitten with the idea of, you know, E&E and tactical equipment and processes,

[00:16:15] EDC and just a great bunch of guys over there running a great website.

[00:16:21] They sell great products as well.

[00:16:23] ITS Tactical, every year they do a pumpkin carving contest.

[00:16:28] So I decided, you know what?

[00:16:29] I'm going to steal that.

[00:16:30] Because it's Halloween.

[00:16:31] And I'm hoping that the vast majority of you out there still have enough of the inner child left.

[00:16:39] Pumpkins is here too.

[00:16:40] If not, just go buy one.

[00:16:44] Just go buy one.

[00:16:46] So that's the deal.

[00:16:48] You guys are going to have to send me via social media via I am Liberty Shack.

[00:16:54] That's the deal.

[00:16:55] You guys are going to have to send me via social media via I am Liberty Show at gmail.com via the website.

[00:17:03] A snippet, a picture of your carved pumpkin.

[00:17:09] Carve anything you want.

[00:17:10] I don't care.

[00:17:11] It doesn't matter.

[00:17:14] It doesn't have to be like patriotic.

[00:17:17] It doesn't have to be scary.

[00:17:18] It doesn't have to be tactical.

[00:17:20] It doesn't have to be a big giant Liberty Bell.

[00:17:23] I'm going to look at a bunch of entries and whichever one sticks out to me.

[00:17:30] And it can stick out to me for a number of different reasons.

[00:17:33] I don't know what to tell you.

[00:17:35] I can't give you any tips and hints.

[00:17:37] Carve with your soul.

[00:17:39] Read up on Rodin and then carve yourself a pumpkin and send me a picture if you're interested.

[00:17:46] And we'll get you that great pack of urban survival gear shipped off to you.

[00:17:52] And that'll be the giveaway for the month.

[00:17:54] I want to do a giveaway each month that's pertinent to what it is we're talking about, what it is we're doing.

[00:18:02] Alright so EDC at work.

[00:18:04] Part of that readiness lifestyle.

[00:18:07] We're going to talk about works, emergency response plan and how that can fit into your work, you know, your readiness lifestyle at work.

[00:18:16] And to be honest with you, you're going to have to take a role.

[00:18:23] You're going to have to do some work if you really want to have the readiness lifestyle follow you from home to work.

[00:18:31] It's not an easy thing.

[00:18:33] But for many of you who know me from way back, you know that I handled safety and security at my job for many years.

[00:18:45] Before I made the jump to freelance writing.

[00:18:49] So I want to talk to you about that and the things that I learned doing that and how that affects the average person's workplace readiness.

[00:18:56] You know what I mean?

[00:18:57] I mean it's a big deal.

[00:19:00] Because G-Man says thoughts on a round table Christmas special.

[00:19:08] Man that would be awesome.

[00:19:10] That would be awesome.

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[00:19:16] 919, what are we looking at here?

[00:19:20] Do we want to jump to a break?

[00:19:22] Let's jump to a break in it out of the way and then we'll come right back and we'll get into these topics.

[00:19:28] Because we've got a lot to cover tonight no doubt about it.

[00:19:32] Who do we want to hear from?

[00:19:33] Let's hear from Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy to get this commercial break started.

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[00:22:48] to sort of review. I don't know how many of you guys are excited about this thing.

[00:22:53] I'm sure quite a few and there's probably quite a few of you are excited but

[00:22:56] don't really feel like hearing about it right now because it's still pre-Halloween.

[00:23:03] But I think we're gonna have to start talking about it because I just wrapped

[00:23:09] up a great interview at the Ever Vigilant podcast last night about the

[00:23:14] book. It's not gonna air until after November 7th. The book will be out

[00:23:18] November 7th and the more you do these interviews when you're putting something

[00:23:24] out like this, the more you start to really craft a solid message about exactly

[00:23:29] what the hell it is you're putting out. And one of the things that stood out to

[00:23:35] me in doing this interview was the fact that, and this is something that I fail

[00:23:40] at all the time. So if you want to get your head wrapped around, I mean I'm

[00:23:46] sure just by listening to the show you probably come up with a handful of things

[00:23:49] that James could fail at on a regular basis. But I'm way inside my own head

[00:23:57] man, too much. And the Joe Prim over at EverVigilant, thevigilantwolf.com, he

[00:24:07] told me he loved the idea of the book. He read the book and he loved it

[00:24:11] and he told me that he had no idea what the book was gonna be about. He's

[00:24:15] heard me talking about it but he had no idea what it was gonna be about.

[00:24:19] Listen, where this thing really hits home and why this book is most important

[00:24:29] is because when I started writing it I wanted it to fill up a spot in my

[00:24:34] shelf in my personal bookshelf. Because we have a bookshelf upstairs of

[00:24:41] kids books and there's a tiny little shelf that is specifically for books we

[00:24:45] only read during the holidays. Together, right? Together. And that's what the

[00:24:53] Christmas hook is about. If you have kids, I mean you can read the book on

[00:24:56] your own. It's a book that's gonna entertain all ages because we were

[00:25:02] all kids and these kids are bad kids because they're kids, right? It's

[00:25:08] about three nine-year-olds on their Christmas break in the row homes of a

[00:25:14] town called Marcus Silk which is, it is the town that I grew up in. Right? And

[00:25:21] it's a fictionalized group of characters of course and a fictionalized

[00:25:26] version of Marcus Silk because I'm not allowed to be because lawyers. How

[00:25:30] about that? Because lawyers, because lawyers, because lawyers have

[00:25:34] ruined everything in America. That's why it's a fictionalized account. But

[00:25:39] anyway, this fictionalized group of kids, they're bad. They're going through

[00:25:46] stuff. Life is hard. You know one is terrified of everything. One just

[00:25:53] lost her father and their kids. Their kids living in the row homes in

[00:25:58] the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They're broke. Their

[00:26:01] parents are broke. They're living in a neighborhood that sort of scoffed that

[00:26:05] by the rest of the counties and the cities around them. And what I

[00:26:11] really wanted to capture in the Christmas Hook setting wise is what

[00:26:17] Christmas is like in these row homes, what it's like for the kids, the

[00:26:22] magic that Christmas is for these kids and the struggle that Christmas

[00:26:29] is for their parents who don't have much money to make it happen but

[00:26:33] still make it happen anyway. And the whole crux of the story is about

[00:26:38] this strange hook that they find one day in a place where they're not

[00:26:41] supposed to be because they're kids. So there's an area called the

[00:26:45] process and they go to the process but their parents don't want them

[00:26:50] there. And while they're there, they find this strange hook and

[00:26:56] they look it and they're not sure what it is. And being nine year olds,

[00:26:59] they come up with all sorts of sensational ideas of what it might

[00:27:02] be. And one of them takes the hook home to find out more about it.

[00:27:08] And that's when things start to get a little spooky. That's when

[00:27:12] the hook starts to sort of sort of, well, it starts to

[00:27:18] interject a bit on their lives in some very spooky ways.

[00:27:24] And I could tell you it's a very short read and I think you guys

[00:27:30] are going to love it. But the first copy is going to be here soon.

[00:27:34] And listen, you're going to have a ball with it. If you have a

[00:27:38] family, if you have young kids, you have to buy it. You have to

[00:27:42] buy it because we don't have many reasons to sit around and

[00:27:46] read together. And this story is all about the trials and

[00:27:51] tribulations that kids face. And I can think of no better way to

[00:27:57] bring these topics up and bring them out and talk to them with

[00:28:00] your children than to have this book and to read it during the

[00:28:03] Christmas season. Look, I'm going to be completely honest with

[00:28:06] you. I don't have the marketing power to make something like

[00:28:10] this happen. But I want to tell you what my heady goal is.

[00:28:15] Right? I'm going to tell you what my heady goal is.

[00:28:18] I want the Christmas hook to be a new Christmas classic. That's

[00:28:22] what the big goal is. And I know it's not going to happen the

[00:28:25] first year it comes out because I don't have a publishing house

[00:28:28] behind me, you know. And I am who I am, which is already like a

[00:28:33] public enemy when it comes to the main sort of channels to

[00:28:37] which books make their way and get popular. But I also know

[00:28:43] the power of the community that listens to this show. I know the

[00:28:46] power of the communities that I'm involved in outside of this

[00:28:50] show. So I have a feeling that this thing will get its hooks into

[00:28:54] people and it will build year over year. And maybe even if

[00:28:58] it's beyond my own lifespan, I want the Christmas hook to be

[00:29:05] a Christmas classic. Because never forget, even though I do a

[00:29:10] prepper show, I am a writer. But that's how I make a living.

[00:29:13] I've been writing way longer than I've ever been podcasting,

[00:29:17] prepping anything like that. And the idea of writing a

[00:29:22] Christmas book never crossed my mind until the first day in

[00:29:25] May when I decided I'm going to write a Christmas book. And I

[00:29:28] think... Yeah, I think I got something. So any help that you

[00:29:35] guys can have or give rather as much appreciated, we're

[00:29:39] going to have it available via ebook. We're going to have it

[00:29:41] available paperback. And if you really want to make it something

[00:29:47] special and part of your Christmas tradition, we're going

[00:29:52] to even do a hardback book. And I'm going to try to do that

[00:29:55] hardback book as minimally and as cheap as possible without

[00:30:02] it being garbage so that you guys can afford the thing

[00:30:05] no matter where you fall. Because the paperback books are

[00:30:11] good and I have published a lot in my day, but when it comes to

[00:30:15] Christmas, when it comes to these traditions... Listen, there's

[00:30:20] something about pulling out that hardback book at lulu.com

[00:30:23] for those aspiring authors out there. Or one of the only

[00:30:27] websites out there that will publish a hardcover book

[00:30:30] for you. I think I can get this book done because its word

[00:30:33] count is so small. I think I can get this book done hardback

[00:30:37] hardcover under 20 bucks. If I can do that, man, I'm going to

[00:30:43] be really happy. If I can get it 15 bucks hardback to you

[00:30:46] guys and you can spend $15 to have this new Christmas

[00:30:51] classic on your bookshelf, I'm going to be very happy.

[00:30:55] You know, I'm going to feel like I can offer you something

[00:30:58] that's worth it. Guys, thank you very much in the chat room

[00:31:03] for dealing with this. I'm going to be honest with you,

[00:31:08] audience, on a whole, for those of you who haven't turned

[00:31:11] the show off, thank you for dealing with this. Because

[00:31:15] it's October, man. I get it. You know, I completely get

[00:31:20] it. But what I bring to you every week is what's

[00:31:24] in my heart and what's driving me. And this is a big

[00:31:29] part of my day. I wake up every day and I send an email

[00:31:32] out to somebody who I need to review the book or somebody

[00:31:35] who I want to go on their show. Because when you're

[00:31:38] self-publishing, author, man, listen, you have to

[00:31:42] do everything. You got to write the book. You got to

[00:31:45] find an editor. You got to do all the corrections.

[00:31:47] Then once the book's done and it looks good and it

[00:31:50] reads good and you feel like it's okay we got

[00:31:52] something here. Then you just have to, it's not like

[00:31:55] I'm going to sit back now and I'll talk about it on

[00:31:58] the show and it'll be good. No, now then you turn

[00:32:01] into marketing man. Okay, now I'm a marketing man

[00:32:04] in publishing company. It's a grind. But I'd be

[00:32:09] lying if I said I didn't love it. So having an

[00:32:12] audience who can deal with it just for the next

[00:32:16] few months. We're getting in November. I'm going

[00:32:18] to be at death with it. But I'll keep it, I'll keep

[00:32:23] it laxed in October. That's all we're going to

[00:32:26] talk about as far as the Christmas hook. I will tell

[00:32:29] you this much. Nature's Magic in the chat room

[00:32:34] says love hard, hardback books. I'll add it to

[00:32:37] my collection. Have lots from the 30s and 40s.

[00:32:40] One of the things that I went for Nature's

[00:32:43] Magic and I don't know if you follow me on

[00:32:45] Instagram or not. Or any of my social media. But

[00:32:48] one of the things I was going for with the cover

[00:32:51] of this book and unfortunately I can't translate

[00:32:53] that cover into hardback but I can on paperback.

[00:32:56] I wanted that old classic Christmas look.

[00:33:01] You know, I wanted that red and gold or green

[00:33:05] and gold simple cover. You know what I mean?

[00:33:09] I have this nasty and gnarly hook that I

[00:33:13] actually purchased for writing this book. It's such a

[00:33:16] sweet hook. It's mystical looking. You know what I

[00:33:22] mean? And I wanted the physical hook next to me

[00:33:25] while I was writing the book because I thought it

[00:33:27] would help a lot with description. And everything

[00:33:30] in my sort of marketing brain was telling me,

[00:33:33] Jim you got to put the hook on the cover.

[00:33:36] You got to have the hook on the cover. And I

[00:33:39] just said forget it. I said forget the hook on

[00:33:42] the cover. I'll put it in the book somewhere.

[00:33:46] I want this thing to look like a book you would

[00:33:48] find in a dresser drawer of a home that was

[00:33:52] abandoned. You know what I mean? You pull this

[00:33:55] old book out and it's got that old maroon cover,

[00:33:58] gold. What's that sort of writing that we're

[00:34:03] all forgetting because we...what was called

[00:34:06] handwriting? You know cursive writing? The

[00:34:08] title is in cursive. Big looping cursive.

[00:34:13] I'm very happy with it. You guys are going to be

[00:34:17] very happy with it and I'm looking forward to

[00:34:19] it. Now I know the show's about urban survival

[00:34:21] so we're going to get back to topic but I had

[00:34:24] to tell you about it. And if you want to

[00:34:26] hear more and more and more about the book

[00:34:28] when these interviews come up because I have

[00:34:30] a lot of interviews lined up, I'll post them

[00:34:35] up on the website if you want to hear them.

[00:34:37] Alright, if you're out there listening, you have

[00:34:39] a podcast, you have a blog, you want to get me

[00:34:42] on to talk about the book or talk about

[00:34:45] survival prepping, whatever community and me

[00:34:48] and or into the book, feel free. Shoot me

[00:34:52] an email. I'm libertyshowatgmail.com

[00:34:55] or follow me over at Instagram. Listen,

[00:34:59] Instagram was made for a nutcase like

[00:35:03] me. You guys have to understand like,

[00:35:08] I don't know. I don't know why I've been

[00:35:11] playing with Facebook and Twitter so long.

[00:35:13] I got a group of guys who told me, Jim, you

[00:35:15] gotta go on Instagram. It's way better.

[00:35:17] And I was like, I don't know man, pictures

[00:35:19] and face, the manipulation and all that

[00:35:22] stuff. I don't know. But once I got into

[00:35:25] it now, I've been into it for a couple

[00:35:27] weeks. It's so much fun. It was made,

[00:35:31] it's like designed for an airhead, artsy

[00:35:34] goofball like me. Having fun over at

[00:35:39] Instagram. Go follow me over at Instagram.

[00:35:41] I think you're, it's the closest thing

[00:35:45] I can do through social media that gives

[00:35:48] you the flavor of the show. You know,

[00:35:52] the website and the show, they gel a

[00:35:56] little bit. My, what's it called?

[00:36:00] My social media and the show are very

[00:36:06] weird. You know, and I'm really trying to

[00:36:08] sort of create a social media account

[00:36:10] that really gives you an idea of the

[00:36:13] fact that when you show up to the I Am

[00:36:15] Liberty show, you're going to hear about

[00:36:17] the topics we're discussing. But you're

[00:36:19] also going to hear, you know, a diatribe

[00:36:21] about how I'm feeling and what I'm

[00:36:23] feeling and why I'm feeling and who

[00:36:25] I'm feeling. Maybe not the last

[00:36:29] part. I usually keep that stuff pretty

[00:36:31] private, but anyway, there's a lot of

[00:36:35] wackiness. One of the fun things, or one

[00:36:37] of the things that I'm enjoying most

[00:36:39] over at Instagram, and I swear we'll

[00:36:41] talk about Urban Survival after this,

[00:36:43] but I want to tell you about this,

[00:36:44] because this is so much fun. One of

[00:36:47] the things I've been doing over at

[00:36:48] Instagram is, if Jay Fergie said it

[00:36:51] first, Mission Impossible. So I've

[00:36:53] found this cool little app that allows

[00:36:55] you to superimpose your face onto

[00:36:59] the face of various movie posters. So

[00:37:02] every Wednesday, when I announce the

[00:37:05] fact that we're going to be live and

[00:37:07] do my little thing, I usually send

[00:37:10] out social media that says, you know,

[00:37:12] we're going to be live 9 p.m. Eastern

[00:37:14] Standard Time. We're talking about

[00:37:16] this. Here's where we're talking about

[00:37:17] it. Come join the chat.

[00:37:21] I also post one of these movie

[00:37:22] posters, one of these well-known

[00:37:24] movie posters with my face superimposed

[00:37:27] over the star actor. And tonight, we

[00:37:30] have Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol.

[00:37:35] And I am the face of Tom Cruise. Nature's

[00:37:40] Magic, you can find me at I Am Liberty

[00:37:43] Show. That's everything. You go

[00:37:46] anywhere and you've put I Am Liberty

[00:37:49] Show, you'll get me a Facebook, you

[00:37:51] get me a Twitter, you'll get me on.

[00:37:53] And last week I was out, last week

[00:37:56] I was out and I put up a great picture

[00:38:01] of me as the mad hatter, which was

[00:38:04] an astounding picture. But this app

[00:38:09] that I have does a great job and

[00:38:11] Instagram really lends itself to

[00:38:14] this kind of silliness. Okay? And listen,

[00:38:18] I write about the end of the world for

[00:38:20] living folks. Like, that's what I do

[00:38:24] for a living. I write about the end of

[00:38:26] the world and how to avoid it and how

[00:38:27] to stop it and how to mitigate it. So

[00:38:31] there's got to be a lot of silliness

[00:38:32] to counterbalance that. I'm sorry. There's

[00:38:35] got to be a lot of art, there's got

[00:38:36] to be a lot of poetry, there's got

[00:38:37] to be a lot of literature and a lot

[00:38:39] of other things so that I don't

[00:38:43] wind up, you know, living up in the

[00:38:46] attic of my home peeing in jars

[00:38:48] like Allah Howard Hughes style, you

[00:38:52] know what I mean? When you stare at the

[00:38:55] impending doom in the face for eight

[00:38:57] hours a day, I'm going to tell you,

[00:39:02] without some counterbalance it can

[00:39:04] get ugly. So let's get on to this

[00:39:07] topic of readiness in the workplace.

[00:39:11] What are some of the things guys in

[00:39:13] the chat room that you struggle with

[00:39:16] when it comes to readiness in the

[00:39:18] workplace? Because we have, let's lay

[00:39:20] the groundwork sort of. That nub I

[00:39:24] would definitely do a show on how to

[00:39:26] write a prepper novel, but I got to

[00:39:28] write one first. I've actually never

[00:39:33] written an actual book about prepper,

[00:39:36] but that's coming, definitely. So let's

[00:39:44] lay the groundwork first and foremost

[00:39:46] about why I wanted to do the readiness

[00:39:50] lifestyle and how it converts to work

[00:39:54] because there's one thing that happens

[00:39:56] to everyone, most people when they

[00:39:59] step through the doors of their job

[00:40:02] at home they've built a base. Right?

[00:40:05] They've built a base and they're

[00:40:09] very comfortable with the security,

[00:40:12] with the resources, with what they

[00:40:17] have at home in their fortress.

[00:40:19] There's nothing like home. When I got

[00:40:21] back from Disney it was like, you know,

[00:40:24] Disney is amazing and it's fun and

[00:40:26] it's incredible and it's crazy.

[00:40:30] And I got home my house here in

[00:40:32] Richmond, my little house, my little

[00:40:34] three bedroom house and I'm like,

[00:40:37] oh jeez it's so good to be here

[00:40:40] instead of there. So we live that

[00:40:46] life and as preppers I feel like we

[00:40:48] put even more into our homes, right?

[00:40:50] Because of what we do. And then

[00:40:53] every day around the same time you're

[00:40:56] forced to leave it all behind. Most

[00:40:58] people leave it all behind, go to a

[00:41:01] place hopefully that you can stand to

[00:41:04] some degree and then your preparedness

[00:41:12] and your readiness takes a tremendous

[00:41:14] hit. Either when you leave the home or

[00:41:17] when you walk through those doors at

[00:41:18] work and one of the biggest reasons

[00:41:20] right off the top is the fact that

[00:41:22] you can't bring a gun in most workplaces

[00:41:24] and some workplaces you can't even

[00:41:26] bring a knife. I mean no weapons,

[00:41:29] period. Nature's Magic says working in

[00:41:34] law enforcement you'd think we would be

[00:41:36] ready but in reality there's only what's

[00:41:38] on hand for prisoners so need a ready

[00:41:42] bed to keep, I think you got some typos

[00:41:45] in there man, but I get where you're

[00:41:49] going. A ready bag in your car and

[00:41:53] that's kind of one of the best things

[00:41:55] that you can do right? It's outfit the

[00:41:57] vehicle but I just want to sort of lay

[00:42:00] the groundwork there because that's

[00:42:02] what many people face. I've talked to

[00:42:05] Jay Ferg about it before about going

[00:42:08] into a workplace and you know going in

[00:42:10] unprepared and it's one of those things

[00:42:12] we all have to deal with it. You know

[00:42:17] those of us who are wrapped up in the

[00:42:19] preparedness lifestyle we take that hit

[00:42:21] when we go to work every day and if

[00:42:23] something happens at work we have to

[00:42:25] get out of the car and it's rough man.

[00:42:28] You know there's no getting around it.

[00:42:30] It's one of those things that's kind of

[00:42:33] rough. Me Gray says that there's a

[00:42:38] 60 mile gap between he and home and

[00:42:44] that is nothing to shake a foot at man

[00:42:46] 60 miles that's a beast. That's a beast.

[00:42:54] Jay Ferg says she's got about a day walk.

[00:42:58] Yeah that get home bag is a big deal.

[00:43:01] That get home bag is most certainly a big deal

[00:43:04] and what I'm finding is one of the toughest

[00:43:07] things and I haven't really sat down

[00:43:11] and isolated how to fix this problem

[00:43:13] but when you really start digging into

[00:43:15] prepping you start pulling out all these

[00:43:17] crazy problems and one of the problems

[00:43:19] in prepping that always comes up no

[00:43:21] matter we're talking urban wilderness

[00:43:23] is the time when you make the decisions

[00:43:28] it's the execution period sort of like

[00:43:32] we're talking about doing red out next

[00:43:34] week and when to bug out. You know you

[00:43:38] have serious civil unrest outbreak in

[00:43:43] your area near your home near your

[00:43:45] workplace and when you're standing at

[00:43:47] that vehicle you have to make a

[00:43:49] decision and the decision is how can I

[00:43:53] better get home. Can I better get home in

[00:43:55] a vehicle or can I better get home on foot

[00:43:57] and that's one of those one of those

[00:43:59] decisions you really need to consider

[00:44:01] ahead of time. You know think about your

[00:44:04] routes and think about how it because

[00:44:07] you don't know what you're going to

[00:44:09] drive into and if you drive into a

[00:44:11] riot you've got serious problems.

[00:44:14] You know what I mean you've got

[00:44:16] serious problems. You might be able to

[00:44:20] avoid something like that on foot you

[00:44:22] know you think that a car it's fast it'll

[00:44:24] get me home quicker you think it's the

[00:44:26] best mode right and in most cases it is

[00:44:28] but if you find yourself in a situation

[00:44:31] where all sorts of roads are closed you

[00:44:33] find yourself in a situation where

[00:44:35] there's just a mass of upheaval in the

[00:44:37] nation and listen that's coming I mean

[00:44:41] what do you think is going to happen

[00:44:44] if Donald Trump is reelected?

[00:44:48] I mean can you imagine?

[00:44:52] Now think about this all it would take

[00:44:54] first of all imagine Donald Trump

[00:44:58] reelected second imagine anything

[00:45:02] anything sort of shady that could

[00:45:07] happen to affect that maybe not even

[00:45:09] affected but to appear as though it

[00:45:12] affected the election right so let's

[00:45:16] just say that whispers of some sort of

[00:45:20] ill attempt at manipulating the election

[00:45:23] go around you know we already we already

[00:45:25] tried it with Russia a lot of people

[00:45:27] got upset but who knows what could

[00:45:30] happen but if you have a charged up

[00:45:33] left wing as charged up as they are now

[00:45:36] and listen I don't even know in history

[00:45:39] if we've ever seen the left wing as

[00:45:41] charged up as they are you could be

[00:45:45] walking in any major city in any small

[00:45:48] city in any neighborhood you could be

[00:45:50] walking through vitriol like you've

[00:45:53] never known like you've never known

[00:45:56] and the thing about this while we're

[00:46:00] on the subject of the left something's

[00:46:02] been bouncing around in my head and I

[00:46:04] want to say it on the air because

[00:46:06] it's important and it doesn't have a

[00:46:13] lot to do with urban survival but it has

[00:46:15] a lot to do with what could come in

[00:46:17] effect an urban survival situation when

[00:46:21] I run even if I'm listening to a

[00:46:23] podcast when I do any any bit of

[00:46:25] running it really it really helps me

[00:46:28] think about things you know I can

[00:46:32] really dig into things and thinking

[00:46:34] about this left wing lunacy which is all

[00:46:40] it is right it's so over the top this

[00:46:42] progressive sort of a jacuz that is going

[00:46:47] around all of the French Revolution was

[00:46:49] kind of what was bouncing around in my

[00:46:51] head and I said to myself man they're

[00:46:53] trying to use anything they can right

[00:46:56] to get their message across sort of

[00:46:58] or maybe it's not even a message I know

[00:47:00] when to be really even knows what

[00:47:01] their message is right there's too many

[00:47:03] people there's too many men there's too

[00:47:05] many there's too much dominance there's

[00:47:07] two others not fair enough needs to be

[00:47:09] more fair there needs to be free stuff

[00:47:11] we need more free we need free

[00:47:13] education we need free health care we

[00:47:15] need free everything we need to make

[00:47:17] sure everybody makes the same amount of

[00:47:19] money and we got to make sure that

[00:47:21] nobody calls anyone any names and

[00:47:23] the only people you can call names or

[00:47:25] white people because they deserve it

[00:47:27] see you know you start to like go

[00:47:31] over all that in your head while you're

[00:47:33] running and I said man they're using a

[00:47:35] lot of tools so a lot of tools at play

[00:47:37] here they're not really working well

[00:47:39] you know I mean none of them are

[00:47:41] really working well and then

[00:47:43] something terrifying came to mind

[00:47:47] because I said Jacuz and I said the

[00:47:51] French Revolution and I'm not the first

[00:47:53] guy to compare what's happening with

[00:47:55] the me too movement and with you know

[00:47:57] just to the absolutely criminal

[00:48:00] way that they have been levying justice

[00:48:04] or their version of justice you know I

[00:48:08] started thinking man these progressives

[00:48:10] are looking for something and then I got

[00:48:14] scared because I realized what they're

[00:48:16] looking for they're looking for their

[00:48:18] guillotine the progressive left wing

[00:48:21] is rifling through all sorts of tools

[00:48:25] and all sorts of effects to try to

[00:48:28] kill people to try to off people right

[00:48:30] maybe not in the same physical manner

[00:48:34] as they they did in the French Revolution

[00:48:37] right comma yet period but

[00:48:42] maybe they're trying to find their guillotine

[00:48:48] they just haven't yet right so the

[00:48:51] guillotine they thought that maybe

[00:48:53] racism would be their guillotine

[00:48:55] right okay this is it right say racism

[00:48:58] you call racist and that's the end of

[00:49:00] that person they can't recover from that

[00:49:02] right they found out maybe there's not

[00:49:05] enough racist Republicans or racist

[00:49:07] Americans or race right wingers that

[00:49:09] we can have the effect we want to have

[00:49:11] okay racist don't work that's not our

[00:49:14] guillotine

[00:49:16] oh I get it we can just do it with

[00:49:19] men in general there's way more men

[00:49:22] I would just do men men yeah men evil

[00:49:25] patriarchy what is toxic masculinity

[00:49:29] yay we can do that and any man who's

[00:49:32] ever you know whose breath has ever

[00:49:35] touched a woman we could we can call

[00:49:39] them up on charges we can jack use

[00:49:42] and maybe that can be our guillotine

[00:49:45] but they took that even that too far

[00:49:48] right they took that so far that now

[00:49:51] I think it's just really hurting women

[00:49:53] more than anything else now that now

[00:49:56] brings up a good one right the Nazi one

[00:49:58] punch in Nazi right yeah okay all right

[00:50:01] cool yeah so if anybody steps out of

[00:50:03] line particularly with a paler shade of

[00:50:06] skin we can just call them a Nazi

[00:50:09] right that's a great guillotine that

[00:50:11] works until you you know someone gets

[00:50:13] approached and says hey are you a

[00:50:15] Nazi no not a Nazi I don't like Nazis

[00:50:17] there's nothing Nazi about me in fact

[00:50:19] I'm Jewish fool and that's the end of

[00:50:22] that so that guillotine didn't work so

[00:50:25] things are heating up right violence is

[00:50:30] becoming part of the game plan and I can

[00:50:34] tell you this much I can tell you this

[00:50:39] much there's they're going to find their

[00:50:41] guillotine they're going to find their

[00:50:44] guillotine and I don't know what that

[00:50:46] means but it scares me either they're

[00:50:51] going to find their version of the guillotine

[00:50:53] that is actually a killing device or

[00:50:56] they're going to find it their guillotine

[00:50:58] that that eliminates people from

[00:51:03] relevancy all together right what is it

[00:51:06] that we can do what is it that we can

[00:51:10] do to eliminate a person completely

[00:51:12] because it used to be there with the

[00:51:13] racism thing right you could call

[00:51:15] someone a racist and you know now I got

[00:51:17] to step down and now I got to do this

[00:51:19] now I got to do that

[00:51:22] they're looking for their guillotine and

[00:51:24] I just want you to be aware of that

[00:51:26] because I think it could be

[00:51:30] I think it could be the trigger

[00:51:33] that drives one side or the other

[00:51:35] over the cliff you know what I mean

[00:51:38] when they find that guillotine

[00:51:41] it's a spooky thing but I take you

[00:51:43] down this route because I want you to

[00:51:45] understand that's how urban survival

[00:51:47] becomes a seriously big deal overnight

[00:51:50] right a botched election with a guy that

[00:51:52] everyone hates already and you know

[00:51:57] that then you wind up walking down main

[00:51:59] street and see a bunch of people hanging

[00:52:01] from light poles and all of a sudden

[00:52:04] you realize I got to get home but do I

[00:52:06] want to drive through this big crowd

[00:52:08] of people or do I want to slink and

[00:52:11] slunk and slank through the back

[00:52:14] alleys where it's much safer for a

[00:52:18] person like me

[00:52:22] that nub says drive through them real fast

[00:52:25] he doesn't mean that by the way lawyer

[00:52:30] gotta be careful man there's lawyers

[00:52:32] everywhere that guy who drove someone

[00:52:35] over what was his name the idiot who

[00:52:38] white supremacist guy who hit someone

[00:52:40] in Charlottesville they'll be contacting

[00:52:44] you trying to pin you for that

[00:52:47] well it was it was that nubs you know

[00:52:50] his influence even though it happened a

[00:52:52] year after the incident you know his

[00:52:55] his thought crime that came much later

[00:52:59] gotta be careful out there things are

[00:53:03] very different than they ever have been

[00:53:06] in my lifetime but anyhow one way that

[00:53:13] we can sort of integrate readiness into

[00:53:16] our lifestyle is with a well thought out

[00:53:19] a well thought out everyday carry

[00:53:25] right what types of things can you bring

[00:53:28] into the job you know and I don't want

[00:53:30] to be around the bush because I'm

[00:53:32] getting tired of beating around bushes

[00:53:34] I'm just gonna start cutting the bushes

[00:53:36] down there is always the option could

[00:53:41] cost you your job so I'm not saying that

[00:53:43] you should do it but I'm saying that

[00:53:47] there is always the option that you

[00:53:50] bring a gun or you bring a knife to work

[00:53:52] everyday right now don't do it because

[00:53:56] I said it's an option again it could

[00:53:58] cost you a job and that's a big deal

[00:54:01] but it's all a measurement in your mind

[00:54:04] of what length you want to go to

[00:54:07] you know if you're a responsible gun

[00:54:09] holder a concealed carry weapons permit

[00:54:14] holder when you practice with your

[00:54:17] firearm and you know when you slide

[00:54:19] that thing into its kydex holster and

[00:54:22] it goes in your EDC bag or it goes

[00:54:24] in you know somewhere you know it's

[00:54:27] safe you know it's safe and if you

[00:54:31] understand firearms then you'll

[00:54:34] understand that there's no way in the

[00:54:36] world that this thing is going to jump

[00:54:39] out of your bag shoot people multiple

[00:54:43] people and jump back in the bags it's

[00:54:46] not possible but again in this in this

[00:54:50] climate I have to imagine in a climate

[00:54:53] like this depending on where you work

[00:54:55] if you were to stop an active shooter

[00:54:59] with a gun that you had in your bag

[00:55:01] illegally against work policy they'd

[00:55:03] probably still fire you they probably

[00:55:06] still fire you because the brainwashing

[00:55:09] is so deep it runs so deep that it's

[00:55:13] terrifying but what you carry to work

[00:55:17] everyday is important because there's

[00:55:19] a lot that you can carry and I'll

[00:55:21] tell you what the strike pen the

[00:55:23] strike pen if you're in one of these

[00:55:25] really tight places the strike pen the

[00:55:27] tactical pen with the blade with the

[00:55:29] flashlight listen the blades about an

[00:55:33] inch and a half long but I can tell you

[00:55:36] right now it's a lot better than nothing

[00:55:38] you know it's a whole heck of a lot

[00:55:41] better than nothing what I've been

[00:55:42] thinking about lately is just how gnarly

[00:55:49] you can get with a flashlight you

[00:55:51] know so if I'm working at a place where

[00:55:54] they they're not going to let me bring a

[00:55:56] gun in or a knife then I might get

[00:56:00] myself the biggest baddest flashlight

[00:56:02] that I can that I can swing like a

[00:56:05] baton you know sort of like police carry

[00:56:07] and that's gonna be part of my EDC if

[00:56:11] you're in a situation where your job

[00:56:14] is severe right if you're if you're

[00:56:20] working in an area where the restrictions

[00:56:22] are severe one of the things I would

[00:56:25] recommend is definitely looking at an

[00:56:27] EDC bag because what you carry in your

[00:56:31] pockets and what you can bring into a

[00:56:33] workplace is very limited if you don't

[00:56:36] have a backpack and I'm not saying for

[00:56:39] smuggling in things you're not supposed

[00:56:40] to have but I'm saying for carrying

[00:56:42] the things that you need to have

[00:56:43] around for example if you're one of

[00:56:45] these sorry my eyes itching right now

[00:56:49] I'm sure I'm bouncing around in volume

[00:56:52] if you're working in one of these places

[00:56:55] where they they proudly proclaim that

[00:56:58] it's a gun free zone outside and you

[00:57:01] know you just have to go with the flow

[00:57:04] one of the things that I would want

[00:57:06] to bring to work every day would be a

[00:57:08] trauma kit for sure that's just one

[00:57:14] of the things I would think would be

[00:57:15] a no-brainer that's part of would be

[00:57:17] part of my EDC let's make sure I've got

[00:57:19] something in here that I can mitigate

[00:57:21] this damage with and I'd also talk to HR

[00:57:23] about you know this is where we're going

[00:57:25] to get into this is we're going to get

[00:57:28] into what the job is responsible for

[00:57:30] also because listen a lot of jobs a lot

[00:57:41] of employers out there and I'm not

[00:57:43] trying to get employers in trouble

[00:57:44] with this let me start by that I'm just

[00:57:49] being honest and I'm giving the

[00:57:51] listening audience to the IM Liberty show

[00:57:53] the tools they need to be safe and be

[00:57:56] ready at work but a lot a lot I don't

[00:58:01] know the percentage a lot of businesses

[00:58:04] out there are not operating effectively

[00:58:09] when it comes to their emergency

[00:58:10] response right they're not putting

[00:58:13] in a lot of it has to do with this fact

[00:58:15] right here there's nobody taking ownership

[00:58:17] of it and they don't want to pay anybody

[00:58:19] to take ownership of it because it's a

[00:58:21] struggle it's a struggle right and it's

[00:58:31] also a huge cost but it's also an OSHA

[00:58:35] requirement it's an OSHA requirement

[00:58:38] that you have an emergency response

[00:58:40] plan and that every employee knows where

[00:58:44] it is and can read it when they want

[00:58:48] does anyone in the chat room or anyone

[00:58:51] want to call in and tell me that they

[00:58:53] know where to get their emergency

[00:58:55] response plan and that they've read it

[00:58:57] in the last year if you have I applaud

[00:59:01] you for the most case people don't even

[00:59:05] know where it is or how to get it

[00:59:07] right now if you're a small enough

[00:59:09] business you don't necessarily need one

[00:59:11] but I'm telling you right now all in

[00:59:14] what you believe in what you want to fight

[00:59:16] for because here's the here's the

[00:59:18] double-edged sword here's the double-edged

[00:59:21] sword you take this knowledge that I

[00:59:25] have bequeath unto you and you go to

[00:59:29] HR and you say listen I listen to this

[00:59:33] crackpot guy every Wednesday talk for

[00:59:36] two hours and he hardly says anything

[00:59:39] important but he did tell me that we

[00:59:45] need to have an emergency response plan

[00:59:47] and has to be available to employees

[00:59:50] and we also have to run drills right

[00:59:54] we also have to run drills nature's

[01:00:00] magic touches on something that we

[01:00:02] should talk about nature's magic I don't

[01:00:06] know if you're here she so I don't mean

[01:00:08] to offend cameras everywhere now you're

[01:00:11] so right about employers OSHA has

[01:00:13] requirements but don't enforce it and

[01:00:16] listen you're a hundred percent right this

[01:00:20] is the deal with OSHA you can use

[01:00:24] OSHA to leverage your company and

[01:00:27] you're not doing it in a bad way or

[01:00:29] in a facetious way because OSHA's like

[01:00:32] Beetlejuice right they don't come around

[01:00:35] most of the time unless they're called

[01:00:37] right they don't they just don't that's

[01:00:40] a hell of a Halloween reference to by

[01:00:42] the way I sometimes I just knock them

[01:00:45] out of the park but they don't come

[01:00:48] around unless they're called if

[01:00:52] something bad happens they come around

[01:00:56] right if something bad have you get you

[01:00:59] have a death in your warehouse OSHA's

[01:01:01] gonna show up or if an employee calls

[01:01:05] so in other words there's no harm but it

[01:01:10] is a double-edged sword and going into

[01:01:12] HR and saying you know I'd like to see

[01:01:14] a little more on is put on emergency

[01:01:16] response I don't know what to do if

[01:01:18] an active shooter comes in I don't

[01:01:20] know what to do if we're in any

[01:01:22] situation other than the fact that

[01:01:26] I gray man take it easy appreciate it

[01:01:29] have a good night chat remember leaving

[01:01:34] there's nothing wrong with going in and

[01:01:36] telling them that you don't know what to

[01:01:38] do and you feel like you should know

[01:01:40] what to do because you certainly should

[01:01:42] know what to do when you were getting

[01:01:44] to walk into your job you should be

[01:01:46] able to say well we shelter in place

[01:01:49] here well if an active shooter comes

[01:01:53] in I'm gonna go to this room and shut

[01:01:55] the door you know if there's a whatever

[01:01:59] whatever the situation whatever the

[01:02:03] situation is you should have an answer

[01:02:05] and that answer should either be in your

[01:02:07] head or you should have a document that

[01:02:09] you can read find it out but it's a

[01:02:12] very slippery slope man it's a very

[01:02:15] slippery slope because you go into HR

[01:02:17] and you raise these questions some

[01:02:20] companies are gonna say yeah that

[01:02:25] Jordan Ferguson

[01:02:29] she's a troublemaker I don't know about

[01:02:31] her she's stirring the pot here and

[01:02:34] that's one of those things you got

[01:02:35] to understand but I'm gonna tell you

[01:02:37] how to get around that too

[01:02:42] I'm gonna tell you how to get around

[01:02:44] that also right you maybe you go in

[01:02:46] there and they say look we're trying

[01:02:47] to do it we're really doing our best but

[01:02:49] we can't get it done

[01:02:55] there's one answer that will take care

[01:02:57] of everything but there's a catch 22

[01:03:03] it comes down to if you want to own it

[01:03:07] do you want to own it or not you are

[01:03:10] the right person to own it and when it

[01:03:13] comes to and I don't want to say it's

[01:03:16] personal responsibility right because

[01:03:20] it's not that it's beyond that it's

[01:03:22] above and beyond that right I'm saying

[01:03:26] you go in and you tell them that there's

[01:03:28] an issue and then you tell them that

[01:03:32] you want to fix it and if you're

[01:03:34] really into workplace preparedness

[01:03:36] and being ready personally

[01:03:38] and then you tell them that you

[01:03:40] want to fix it and if you're really

[01:03:42] into workplace preparedness and being

[01:03:44] ready then you take it on right then

[01:03:49] you take it on and you say I'm gonna

[01:03:52] own it tell me where the document is

[01:03:54] I'm gonna update it and again it's not

[01:03:57] like you're going out on a limb just

[01:04:00] for your your employer it's not like

[01:04:02] you're taking on extra work just for

[01:04:04] your employer this is so that you know

[01:04:06] the deal because once you take ownership

[01:04:08] of your workplace emergency response

[01:04:11] plan then you become an expert then you

[01:04:16] become an expert now the sudden you know

[01:04:18] what to do no matter what happens you

[01:04:22] get to take the driver's seat in

[01:04:24] training so you get to teach people what

[01:04:26] they should know and be honest with

[01:04:28] yourself who's better for that than

[01:04:32] you I mean here you are listening to

[01:04:35] a prepper show listen it's more work but

[01:04:43] you're the person to do it it's just a

[01:04:47] matter of whether you want to do it or

[01:04:49] not and I don't know what that is

[01:04:51] because it's definitely not there are two

[01:04:54] things in this life I'm noticing about

[01:04:57] people and responsibilities right there

[01:05:00] are definitely personal responsibilities

[01:05:02] that you have to do that you have to take

[01:05:05] on or else you're you're not a good person

[01:05:08] right take care of children take care

[01:05:10] of spouse you know upkeep the house and

[01:05:13] then in the area around the house so that

[01:05:15] people don't drive by your house and

[01:05:17] look at it like it's an eyesore you know

[01:05:19] keeping up with family all that stuff

[01:05:21] these personal responsibilities that

[01:05:23] most people do undertake and do a

[01:05:26] good job at you know that's taking

[01:05:30] ownership of yourself your life your

[01:05:32] responsibility outie outie out right a

[01:05:34] lot of people struggle with it we're

[01:05:36] dealing with a lot of people who don't

[01:05:38] take personal responsibility and that's

[01:05:40] why they're out in the streets with

[01:05:42] signs but there's another layer there's

[01:05:47] another layer and maybe I'm just seeing

[01:05:51] it now because I'm surrounding myself

[01:05:53] with people who only exist on that

[01:05:57] other layer you know I'm married to

[01:05:59] a person who only exists on that upper

[01:06:01] layer right where there's the personal

[01:06:05] responsibility layer and then there's a

[01:06:07] layer above that and that's just a

[01:06:12] layer where you do it because it's the

[01:06:14] right thing to do and you have to you

[01:06:18] have to really fight resentment when

[01:06:20] you do things like that and you have

[01:06:23] to really fight the urge to point

[01:06:25] fingers of people who aren't doing

[01:06:27] things the way you do them or people

[01:06:30] who aren't putting in the effort you put

[01:06:32] into but I'm gonna tell you something

[01:06:35] it's a quote that I say all the time

[01:06:38] what one can do one must do and it's

[01:06:43] not what one can do one must do because

[01:06:46] it's better for the world only or

[01:06:50] because the world needs you to do it

[01:06:53] it's because once the seed is sewn in

[01:06:56] your head you will feel less than if

[01:06:58] you don't do it and it will eat you up

[01:07:02] I'm speaking to me as much as I'm

[01:07:04] speaking to you right now what one can

[01:07:07] do one must do so if you're thinking

[01:07:11] about this like maybe I should be the

[01:07:14] person that heads up emergency response

[01:07:16] at my job yeah you are the person

[01:07:21] it's just a matter of whether or not

[01:07:24] you want to commit the time to it or

[01:07:26] the effort to it and you know again

[01:07:31] you know if you're the type of person

[01:07:33] that what one can do one must do effects

[01:07:35] you lie awake at night and you think

[01:07:38] about the things you should be doing

[01:07:40] the above and beyond things the extra

[01:07:42] for all this false for all this

[01:07:50] false I used to listen to Steve Harvey's

[01:07:52] radio show long before I ever even

[01:07:54] imagine sitting in front of a mic and

[01:07:56] doing a podcast and he always said

[01:07:58] something he said something every show

[01:08:00] that really blew me away and it really

[01:08:03] makes me feel like I'm doing the right

[01:08:05] thing when I'm doing extra and he

[01:08:08] said to me if you want to wait

[01:08:10] we said to everybody but I was when

[01:08:12] I was listening he would say almost on

[01:08:14] every show almost if you want to be

[01:08:17] extraordinary then you have to do

[01:08:20] extra and I'm telling you one of the

[01:08:23] most dangerous things you can do with

[01:08:25] your life if you want to have a have an

[01:08:27] astounding life what you can have you

[01:08:30] can have you can have a life that's

[01:08:32] astounding but you have to do extra

[01:08:36] and you know it's not an easy thing

[01:08:41] all the time but one of the most

[01:08:43] dangerous things you can do is to

[01:08:45] compare the extra that you do with

[01:08:49] the things that people don't do you start

[01:08:53] to question your if you start to

[01:08:56] question why am I doing all this if

[01:08:58] that person only does that that's a

[01:09:03] very very toxic train of thought man

[01:09:08] that takes greatness and it sets it on

[01:09:11] fire honestly because the first thing

[01:09:15] you're gonna think if you do this

[01:09:17] and if you start to take on emergency

[01:09:19] response at your job and of course that's

[01:09:22] assuming they say that's a good idea yes

[01:09:24] we want you to do it the first thing

[01:09:26] you're gonna instinctually want to do

[01:09:28] is well I do my job and I do it

[01:09:32] better than most people and on top of

[01:09:34] that now I'm handling emergency

[01:09:37] response to it's not fair I don't want

[01:09:41] to do that why should I have to do it

[01:09:43] I need to be paid more for doing it

[01:09:46] now that's a conversation worth having

[01:09:48] maybe later down the line once you prove

[01:09:50] yourself people ask me things like that

[01:09:54] a lot people ask me that question a lot

[01:09:59] they say why do you do this why do you

[01:10:05] do that that way it seems harder or

[01:10:09] people don't do it that way people

[01:10:12] don't do you know whatever it is

[01:10:16] why do you write books why do you live

[01:10:19] four hours from your family that you

[01:10:21] grew up in the town you grew up with and

[01:10:23] travel back and forth kids and everything

[01:10:28] what one can do one must do I have to

[01:10:32] do it I have to do it to be me the

[01:10:36] moment I start to say I don't feel

[01:10:39] like doing that I don't want to do that

[01:10:41] I don't need to do that you know I'm

[01:10:43] going to be honest with you I don't get

[01:10:45] many visitors here from up north you know

[01:10:49] people don't come down and see me in my

[01:10:51] house very often but I go up pretty often

[01:10:55] and if I were to sit there on the

[01:10:58] edge of my bed and get all upset about

[01:11:00] that fact right why doesn't anybody

[01:11:02] come down see me what the what the

[01:11:04] hell is going on that would be toxic

[01:11:06] that would you understand what I'm

[01:11:09] saying yet that affects what you're

[01:11:12] capable of that affects what you're

[01:11:16] capable of because you start to lower

[01:11:19] your level you can't lower your level

[01:11:23] you can't do it

[01:11:28] you can't do it don't let anyone do it

[01:11:30] to you they do minimum I should do

[01:11:34] minimum too right no no no no you're

[01:11:38] you you're you and you know what gives

[01:11:41] you satisfaction what gives you

[01:11:43] satisfaction is doing the right thing

[01:11:45] despite the cost fight the resentment

[01:11:49] and whatever goes along with it because

[01:11:53] at the end of the day when you lay down

[01:11:55] in bed you'll be able to fall asleep

[01:11:57] with a clear head let's move on

[01:12:00] whoa I definitely didn't mean to go on

[01:12:04] that kind of a diatribe over that but

[01:12:06] it just fit it fit too good right so on

[01:12:10] the low level of work life readiness

[01:12:14] you've got EDC if you've got a lot of

[01:12:16] stipulations if you've got a lot of

[01:12:18] concerns you need to take an EDC bag

[01:12:20] into work I don't want to push this

[01:12:22] bag on you but I'm just telling you

[01:12:25] the outlaw slinger from 3vgear fits

[01:12:28] a laptop and everything you could

[01:12:31] possibly want to bring into work

[01:12:33] it's a giant bag it's a sling bag

[01:12:36] it fits the body armor that 3vgear

[01:12:38] sells also which could be something

[01:12:40] you might be interested in and again

[01:12:42] if that's something that you're excited

[01:12:44] about listen I don't have an affiliate

[01:12:46] link yet I would love to make some

[01:12:48] money off of pushing you towards 3vgear

[01:12:50] all I got is a promo code that'll

[01:12:52] get you 10% off and that's I am Liberty

[01:12:54] if you're interested

[01:12:56] alright feel free to press your job

[01:12:59] on their emergency response plan I want

[01:13:01] to read it I want to see it and I want

[01:13:04] to know where to find it ask them about

[01:13:07] drills why aren't we doing drills

[01:13:09] and if you can do that in a way

[01:13:13] that doesn't turn their nose up at you

[01:13:15] you may want to look at taking a leadership

[01:13:17] role in you know that that's part of

[01:13:20] the deal

[01:13:23] that's most certainly part of the deal

[01:13:25] let's take a let's take a moment to

[01:13:28] get off the main topics

[01:13:31] because I do want to tell you about

[01:13:33] what I want to do a client highlight

[01:13:35] is what I want to do

[01:13:39] I'd love to hear it

[01:13:41] I'd love to hear about it if you guys

[01:13:43] go the route of I'm taking the leadership role

[01:13:45] but what I want to talk about right now

[01:13:47] I'm gonna throw a link in the chat room

[01:13:49] this may be something that you guys like

[01:13:51] and I haven't talked I've talked about it

[01:13:53] briefly but I haven't really gone into it

[01:13:56] in a big way because the channel itself

[01:13:59] was new

[01:14:01] and there wasn't a whole lot of content

[01:14:03] up there

[01:14:05] but the SHTF preparedness

[01:14:11] my client over at SHTF preparedness

[01:14:13] does a great job first of all

[01:14:15] they're one of my best clients

[01:14:17] it's a great guy who runs the company

[01:14:19] and he tapped me not long ago

[01:14:22] to start producing videos

[01:14:24] review videos

[01:14:26] right and I'll be upfront with you

[01:14:29] you know what I mean there's no secrets

[01:14:31] about what's going on here

[01:14:33] he's not like James I love you

[01:14:35] I want you to produce videos so more people

[01:14:37] can see your beautiful face

[01:14:39] he's got products, he's got companies

[01:14:41] he's got connections and he wants people

[01:14:43] to watch these videos

[01:14:45] get excited

[01:14:47] use the affiliate link so he can make income off of it

[01:14:49] that's the reality of what's going on there

[01:14:51] that's it

[01:14:53] the YouTube videos are strictly for entertainment

[01:14:55] I mean nobody makes you click the affiliate link

[01:14:58] but what's cool about them is

[01:15:00] if you're into me and if you're into the I am Liberty show

[01:15:05] they're all videos of

[01:15:07] varying degrees of

[01:15:10] tools

[01:15:12] and survival products that

[01:15:14] were reviewed and recorded by me

[01:15:17] you know and it's not

[01:15:19] super HD 4k

[01:15:23] but it's me and it's

[01:15:25] it might be something you like I don't know

[01:15:27] it's a client highlight they do a great job

[01:15:29] over at shgprepareness.com

[01:15:32] and some of the products are pretty decent man

[01:15:34] I'm not gonna lie some of these products that were reviewed

[01:15:39] on this channel

[01:15:41] have wound up

[01:15:43] you know

[01:15:45] they've wound up as parts

[01:15:47] of my load up

[01:15:49] you know the Paradis is on there that's

[01:15:51] my bug out bag by 3 v gear

[01:15:53] that's reviewed there there's a

[01:15:55] there's a connex tactical

[01:15:57] shovel

[01:15:59] I don't know it's tactical shovel but there's a connex

[01:16:01] foldable shovel that I really like

[01:16:03] and after I reviewed that thing man

[01:16:05] I said

[01:16:07] okay I've got a couple options I can keep this thing

[01:16:09] or I can give it away to the audience

[01:16:11] or

[01:16:13] and I said you know what I don't have a great

[01:16:15] I don't have a great shovel in my bag

[01:16:17] and this is a great shovel

[01:16:19] but anyway

[01:16:21] links in the chat room

[01:16:23] if you're not in the chat room tonight you can just go

[01:16:25] search

[01:16:27] shtf preparedness gear reviews

[01:16:29] and you'll find it

[01:16:31] you'll find the reviews of the Paradis

[01:16:33] the reviews of the

[01:16:35] the old light headlamp

[01:16:37] that I did

[01:16:39] there's an off-grid tools review that I wasn't

[01:16:41] super overwhelmed with

[01:16:43] a bunch of reviews coming up

[01:16:45] there's some really good ones coming up

[01:16:47] the one that I want you guys to see most is

[01:16:49] the Jerry can

[01:16:51] the pressurized Jerry can by Hydro Blue

[01:16:55] Hydro Blue is an amazing company

[01:16:57] that I'm actually trying to get to sponsor the show

[01:17:01] they were water solutions

[01:17:03] water purific or water sanitization

[01:17:05] solutions and filtering

[01:17:07] solutions and they

[01:17:09] they do it in their own by 3 v

[01:17:11] gear or they have the same owner or something to that

[01:17:13] effect which is another reason I really

[01:17:15] like them

[01:17:17] but they've got it man

[01:17:19] they've got the stuff

[01:17:21] like the screw on Sawyer style water filters

[01:17:23] they got them the life straw style

[01:17:25] filters they got them

[01:17:27] it's awesome

[01:17:29] but this pressurized Jerry can is unbelievable

[01:17:35] somebody asked if I have an amazon shop

[01:17:37] yet I don't

[01:17:39] I'm bad with affiliate stuff

[01:17:41] me gray asks

[01:17:43] pressurized why

[01:17:45] so it comes with

[01:17:47] it comes with essentially like a

[01:17:49] sink sprayer attachment

[01:17:51] you don't have to attach it

[01:17:53] but you can attach it

[01:17:55] and the pressure you know you're not gonna

[01:17:57] you're not gonna like

[01:17:59] clean dishes with the pressure

[01:18:01] but I'll tell you what it wouldn't be a bad shower

[01:18:05] it wouldn't be a bad shower and it

[01:18:07] would have a lot of pressure out

[01:18:09] so the way it works is you fill it up

[01:18:11] with dirty water

[01:18:13] and it the filter itself

[01:18:15] comes with an antiviral

[01:18:19] and it also comes with a charcoal

[01:18:21] and you can drink the stuff right out of there

[01:18:23] I mean I live

[01:18:25] pretty close to a highway

[01:18:27] pretty close

[01:18:29] and

[01:18:31] I filtered water by a creek

[01:18:33] that was right near that highway

[01:18:35] I mean it's not something I would drink a lot of

[01:18:37] but I drank that

[01:18:39] water that was filtered from there and it was

[01:18:41] tasted fine, no effect

[01:18:43] whatsoever

[01:18:45] I was very impressed with it man

[01:18:47] when you

[01:18:49] I think it's something like 10,000 gallons

[01:18:51] of water that that antiviral filter

[01:18:53] will run through it to it's an insane

[01:18:55] number like you

[01:18:57] you get this jerry can I think it takes

[01:18:59] about three and a half four gallons of water

[01:19:01] and you

[01:19:03] stock up on some of these filters man

[01:19:05] and you can really if you've got a local

[01:19:07] water source you can stop thinking

[01:19:09] about prepping water

[01:19:11] you can just stop

[01:19:13] thinking about it

[01:19:15] you know if you have several water sources around

[01:19:17] you run this

[01:19:19] even in the worst situation

[01:19:21] you run this thing through your filter

[01:19:23] and boil it just as a backup

[01:19:25] I mean you're gonna have water

[01:19:27] but anyhow

[01:19:29] there's a lot of this cool stuff out there

[01:19:31] if this doesn't work out

[01:19:33] if it turns out that this

[01:19:35] SHGF preparedness thing

[01:19:37] doesn't work out and people don't want to buy the products

[01:19:39] no big deal

[01:19:41] I think I'm gonna continue the reviews though

[01:19:43] because I kind of like filming the reviews

[01:19:45] it's fun you know it'd be even more fun

[01:19:47] if I could do it the way

[01:19:49] that I want to do it well you

[01:19:51] I don't know I probably wouldn't do it very different now

[01:19:53] that I think about I get a lot of freedom to do it the way I want to

[01:19:55] but anyhow

[01:19:57] client highlight

[01:19:59] I like to do a client highlight each week

[01:20:01] again I'm a freelance

[01:20:03] writer

[01:20:05] and I'm not a freelance writer

[01:20:07] and a guy who works at IKEA

[01:20:09] or a freelance writer and a guy who runs

[01:20:11] whatever business like

[01:20:13] when I have good

[01:20:15] months

[01:20:17] and I'm a freelance writer it's awesome

[01:20:19] and when I have bad months

[01:20:21] and I just get the bills paid it's still awesome

[01:20:23] but that's all I do

[01:20:25] and any income that comes from the show

[01:20:27] which I don't generate a ton of

[01:20:31] so you have to understand that my clients man

[01:20:33] they mean the world to me

[01:20:37] they mean the world to me because they allow me to live a lifestyle

[01:20:39] that not a lot of people get to live

[01:20:43] you know it's a combination of

[01:20:45] managing costs

[01:20:47] right managing personal costs

[01:20:49] and having great clients

[01:20:51] that allows me to basically

[01:20:53] hang out with my kids all the time

[01:20:55] right I'm not hanging out

[01:20:57] building Lincoln log houses with them every day

[01:20:59] because I have to get work done but

[01:21:01] I'm here

[01:21:03] when they need me I'm here

[01:21:05] it's a big deal

[01:21:07] okay what are we doing next

[01:21:09] we're almost out of time

[01:21:11] when I hit the pillow

[01:21:13] it's gonna be like

[01:21:15] getting punched

[01:21:17] it's gonna be like getting a left hook from Joe Fray

[01:21:19] when I hit that pillow you have no idea

[01:21:21] I ran five miles earlier today

[01:21:23] and by earlier I mean like

[01:21:25] I don't know four hours ago

[01:21:27] five hours ago

[01:21:29] and I'm getting better at it

[01:21:31] but man it's still running five miles

[01:21:33] there's no picnic

[01:21:35] and when 1030 rolls around

[01:21:37] you're like oh pretty I can feel it now

[01:21:41] alright book release on the 7th

[01:21:43] we're gonna do a pre-order on the ebook

[01:21:45] on the 24th don't worry the day

[01:21:47] the release date

[01:21:49] the pre-order date if you're listening to the show

[01:21:51] you'll get a reminder because I'm releasing the book

[01:21:53] on the 7th which is

[01:21:55] on a Wednesday live show

[01:21:57] the pre-order the 24th

[01:21:59] next week

[01:22:01] live show so don't fret

[01:22:03] you'll know when the books out and when you can get your hands on it

[01:22:05] and that sort of thing

[01:22:07] I'm going through this list here to see what I haven't covered

[01:22:09] and I think

[01:22:11] all we're gonna do with the rest of this show

[01:22:13] is talk about preparing the urban neighborhood

[01:22:15] and to what degree

[01:22:17] right because there are a lot of things

[01:22:19] to talk about when you talk about

[01:22:21] preparing the urban neighborhood

[01:22:23] the first thing you need to do listen

[01:22:25] if

[01:22:27] shameless plug or not

[01:22:29] right shameless plug or not

[01:22:31] that nub asks if I'm signing copies

[01:22:33] of the book

[01:22:35] you know I've never done that

[01:22:37] I've never done that

[01:22:39] I've never done that

[01:22:41] I've never done that

[01:22:43] I've never done that

[01:22:45] and

[01:22:47] I don't even think I would like to do that

[01:22:49] listen if anybody really wants to sign copy of the book

[01:22:51] I would gladly get you a signed copy of the book

[01:22:53] but if you order it off of Amazon

[01:22:55] I can't sign it before they ship it

[01:22:57] so just let me know

[01:22:59] I mean listen

[01:23:01] I'm a nobody

[01:23:03] and I want to be a nobody

[01:23:05] because it allows me to be who I want to be

[01:23:07] because it allows me to be who I want to be

[01:23:09] because it allows me to be who I want to be

[01:23:11] the idea that my signature is

[01:23:13] in any way

[01:23:15] first of all my handwriting is absolute garbage

[01:23:17] second of all

[01:23:19] the idea that my handwriting and my signature

[01:23:21] may one day be worth anything

[01:23:25] is kind of laughable

[01:23:27] but

[01:23:29] you want to sign copy I'll write you a little note

[01:23:31] I don't mind you guys I'll give you guys whatever you want

[01:23:33] you know what I mean

[01:23:35] you guys have done incredible things

[01:23:37] for me so I don't have a problem with that at all

[01:23:39] that said

[01:23:43] let's talk about this urban survival

[01:23:45] in the community

[01:23:51] alright that

[01:23:53] no then I'll make sure you get one with a signature

[01:23:55] I don't have a problem with that

[01:23:57] listen

[01:23:59] the book is probably going to sell for about 6 bucks

[01:24:01] yeah

[01:24:03] it's not hurting me you guys have

[01:24:05] everyone in this chat room

[01:24:07] should get a free book

[01:24:09] like there's no reason why not

[01:24:11] if you want to email me

[01:24:13] I have no problem sending everyone in the chat room

[01:24:15] a free book

[01:24:17] because

[01:24:19] at the end of the day what's 6 dollars

[01:24:21] you guys have definitely

[01:24:23] what we got we got

[01:24:25] if we have 10 people in the chat room

[01:24:27] you definitely may be more than 60 dollars

[01:24:31] and like I said the way

[01:24:33] that something like this becomes a Christmas classic

[01:24:35] in this day and age is people have to read it

[01:24:37] and people have to talk about it

[01:24:43] you don't want to drive all the way to my house that nub

[01:24:45] because if you're in the west

[01:24:47] during part of the nation

[01:24:49] that's one of those things

[01:24:51] but anyway

[01:24:53] let's talk about this because we're running out of time

[01:24:55] an urban

[01:24:57] month is coming to a close

[01:24:59] and we still got

[01:25:01] some important topics to touch on

[01:25:03] I fell behind a little bit because I decided

[01:25:05] just to up and take a damn vacation on you guys

[01:25:07] not even give you a heads up

[01:25:09] it crept up on me

[01:25:11] you know I don't have a Disney budget

[01:25:13] so I was kind of like

[01:25:15] hiding myself from this Disney vacation

[01:25:17] coming up because I didn't want to be

[01:25:19] I didn't want to well you know

[01:25:21] you go to a place like that you know

[01:25:23] you're going to spend more money than you're supposed to

[01:25:25] it's just the way it goes

[01:25:27] anyway

[01:25:29] if you're in an urban neighborhood

[01:25:31] if you're in an urban situation

[01:25:33] if you spend time in an urban neighborhood

[01:25:35] maybe because of work

[01:25:39] there's one resource I have to point you to

[01:25:41] and it might be silly and it might be

[01:25:43] narcissistic but I don't know

[01:25:45] of any resource out there

[01:25:47] which is why I wrote it

[01:25:49] there's no other

[01:25:51] resource out there

[01:25:53] that tackles

[01:25:55] laying the base for a prepared community

[01:25:57] the way my book does

[01:25:59] community community

[01:26:01] which is available at Amazon now

[01:26:03] I don't even know how much it costs to be honest

[01:26:05] but if you really want to

[01:26:07] get into community preparedness

[01:26:09] you need the book

[01:26:11] period

[01:26:13] you need the book

[01:26:15] it is the blueprint

[01:26:17] you do the things in that book

[01:26:19] and you put the work in and the key is

[01:26:21] putting the work in

[01:26:23] because there's no book out there

[01:26:25] that can do anything for you if you don't put the work in

[01:26:27] and this book requires a lot

[01:26:29] it requires a lot

[01:26:31] but that's the starting point for any

[01:26:33] and all urban

[01:26:35] survival preparedness

[01:26:37] community endeavors

[01:26:39] or goals that you might have

[01:26:41] right

[01:26:43] I just talked about

[01:26:45] dropping $60 in books to these

[01:26:47] great people in the chat room because they're here every week

[01:26:49] and it wouldn't even

[01:26:51] there wouldn't be a shred of regret

[01:26:53] in that

[01:26:55] because you guys are worth way more than that

[01:26:59] the same should be how you look at that book

[01:27:01] because that book

[01:27:03] is going to cost you $6

[01:27:05] whatever it is I don't even know how much it costs

[01:27:07] might be $10 I don't know

[01:27:09] one thing I don't do is go back

[01:27:11] and look at books very often that are

[01:27:13] pre-published up on my author page

[01:27:15] and maybe I should I don't know

[01:27:17] but anyhow

[01:27:19] it's an investment that will pay for itself

[01:27:21] in about the first

[01:27:23] conversation that you have

[01:27:25] with a neighbor and the first steps that you take

[01:27:27] $9.99

[01:27:29] in paperback there you go

[01:27:31] that's an expensive book Mr. Walton

[01:27:33] I think we need to cut the price on that thing

[01:27:35] $9.99

[01:27:37] it is a nearly 300 page book

[01:27:39] but anyhow

[01:27:41] I'll start there

[01:27:43] right that's one of the big things that you can do

[01:27:45] in an urban survival situation

[01:27:47] in a community to get the community

[01:27:49] more prepared

[01:27:51] alright now

[01:27:53] one of the things I talk about in that book

[01:27:55] is the fact that not everyone

[01:27:57] is going to want to take a leading role

[01:27:59] in developing

[01:28:01] that sort of

[01:28:03] that sort of

[01:28:05] cohesive community is what I call

[01:28:07] it

[01:28:09] and when I say cohesive community

[01:28:11] I just mean groups of neighbors

[01:28:13] that talk and that communicate

[01:28:15] regularly

[01:28:17] right both in person

[01:28:19] and through some sort of

[01:28:21] internet communication

[01:28:23] or phone line communication

[01:28:27] right that's the basis

[01:28:29] of that book in the vast majority

[01:28:31] there's also a lot in that book about

[01:28:33] the things that divide us and now we need to look at them

[01:28:35] but there are things outside

[01:28:37] of that book also that you can do

[01:28:39] there are things that you can do on your own

[01:28:43] and one of the most effective

[01:28:45] is to sit down with google maps

[01:28:47] look at your neighborhood

[01:28:49] and create a proposed

[01:28:51] base defense for your neighborhood

[01:28:53] this is a very

[01:28:55] it's a very cool

[01:28:57] and very fun exercise

[01:28:59] I'm sorry

[01:29:01] just hit the microphone

[01:29:03] and knock the pop filter down

[01:29:07] stay

[01:29:11] so creating a base defense

[01:29:13] maybe is something that I need to post on the website

[01:29:19] you know

[01:29:21] I thought about an audio book

[01:29:23] for community community

[01:29:25] that's a good call

[01:29:27] maybe I need to write that in my show notes

[01:29:29] it's probably not a bad idea

[01:29:31] maybe next year

[01:29:33] look for it next year

[01:29:37] an audio book is probably right on the money

[01:29:39] that might be a great recommendation

[01:29:41] because unless you're smitten

[01:29:43] with this community building idea

[01:29:45] it's going to be hard for you to sit down

[01:29:47] and really get into a book like that

[01:29:49] I think it is about 280 pages

[01:29:53] but anyhow

[01:29:57] building a base defense

[01:29:59] and I wrote an article about this

[01:30:01] and I probably posted it up here before

[01:30:03] but I think I'm going to link to it

[01:30:05] put that article up on my website tomorrow

[01:30:07] it's something that I actually

[01:30:09] learned from a client who put together

[01:30:11] a great book that I helped him finish

[01:30:13] he was a former military guy

[01:30:17] and I'm really sorry that I don't have the book here

[01:30:19] if you are interested in the book

[01:30:21] it's a good book

[01:30:23] and it's a lot about building prepper groups

[01:30:25] and that type of thing

[01:30:27] it's a much more militaristic look at it

[01:30:29] it's about feeding the group

[01:30:31] it's about caring for the...it's a good book

[01:30:33] but in it

[01:30:35] he discussed a concept called base defense

[01:30:37] that I'm not familiar with because look

[01:30:41] I'm just, you know

[01:30:43] I'm just not that guy

[01:30:45] I didn't go to the military

[01:30:47] I'm not a veteran, I don't know much about war

[01:30:49] except what I read of SunZoo

[01:30:51] uh, Night Virg

[01:30:53] so

[01:30:55] anyhow

[01:30:57] creating a base defense

[01:30:59] around your neighborhood

[01:31:01] is one of those incredible things

[01:31:03] that you're going to be able to do

[01:31:05] completely by yourself

[01:31:09] and it's the process of sorting

[01:31:11] sort of uh

[01:31:13] outlining your neighborhood

[01:31:15] and figuring out

[01:31:17] how you can defend

[01:31:19] either a set of houses, the whole neighborhood

[01:31:21] whatever it is

[01:31:23] you want to outline, you know

[01:31:25] you start with sort of an overhead google maps

[01:31:27] look at the neighborhood

[01:31:29] right, you look for high points

[01:31:31] you look for low points

[01:31:33] you look for low points

[01:31:35] and then you get into the neighborhood

[01:31:37] you want to control

[01:31:39] people's ability naturally

[01:31:41] to get into the neighborhood

[01:31:43] particularly via car on roads

[01:31:45] and there's a slew of other things

[01:31:47] to include in your base defense

[01:31:49] too, like where communications

[01:31:51] are going to originate

[01:31:53] places where

[01:31:55] medical help will be levied

[01:31:57] in a situation where it's needed

[01:31:59] and one thing that a lot of people forget

[01:32:01] when creating a base defense plan

[01:32:03] for your neighborhood is

[01:32:05] your exit strategy

[01:32:07] your retreat

[01:32:09] you know, you have to

[01:32:11] you obviously want to win the day

[01:32:13] you want to keep your neighborhood safe

[01:32:15] and the people in it

[01:32:17] but you could come up against overwhelming force

[01:32:19] I mean it's possible

[01:32:21] you know what I mean

[01:32:23] it's very possible

[01:32:25] and when that overwhelming force comes

[01:32:27] you have to be able to retreat so that people won't die

[01:32:29] and remember, you're dealing with neighbors

[01:32:33] that's the one thing about prepping

[01:32:35] that you have to always remember

[01:32:37] you're not dealing with

[01:32:39] soldiers

[01:32:41] as Dave Jones said

[01:32:43] there are no acceptable casualties

[01:32:45] in your neighborhood

[01:32:47] so you've got to act smart

[01:32:49] but building that base defense

[01:32:51] is crucial

[01:32:55] I'm going to put the

[01:32:57] I don't really want to go into it step by step

[01:32:59] because it's kind of something

[01:33:01] you've got to see

[01:33:03] you know and it's like

[01:33:05] I could spend the next 30 minutes

[01:33:07] going step by step and you get a vision for it

[01:33:09] if I link to the article

[01:33:11] and throw it up on my website tomorrow morning

[01:33:13] then you'll be able to go there

[01:33:15] and see it and it'll be like oh yeah okay

[01:33:17] I see the dimension or I see the triangle

[01:33:19] border

[01:33:21] and I see all the different places where I should

[01:33:23] include things

[01:33:25] and what should be included

[01:33:27] what I will tell you about is

[01:33:29] sort of the post preparation

[01:33:33] yeah the post preparation

[01:33:35] I'm going to put the link to my article

[01:33:39] from the prepper journal

[01:33:41] into the chat room

[01:33:43] if anybody wants it

[01:33:45] there

[01:33:47] oh why didn't I put base defense

[01:33:51] the prepper journal

[01:33:53] great website also

[01:33:57] but anyhow

[01:33:59] one of the things that you want to do

[01:34:01] after you've prepared

[01:34:03] your base defense

[01:34:05] is you want to print copies

[01:34:07] you want to have print copies

[01:34:09] and you want to be able to give those print copies

[01:34:11] out to people

[01:34:13] right because once you give

[01:34:15] those print copies out to people in times

[01:34:17] of disaster again

[01:34:19] they're going to be able to say oh okay now I get

[01:34:21] it

[01:34:23] now I get it

[01:34:27] nature is magic

[01:34:29] you would like to do a Halloween show for me

[01:34:31] I wouldn't mind you sitting in if you want to

[01:34:33] we should probably have this conversation

[01:34:35] off air though

[01:34:39] but uh

[01:34:41] yeah theprepperjournal.com

[01:34:43] good website

[01:34:45] most importantly

[01:34:47] if you're going to go through the rigamarole

[01:34:49] and you're creating a base defense

[01:34:51] the most important thing you got to remember

[01:34:53] is how can I communicate it quickly

[01:34:55] and effectively to neighbors

[01:34:57] in times of disaster right

[01:34:59] so we get smashed by a hurricane

[01:35:01] and neighborhoods around us

[01:35:03] are being looted

[01:35:05] okay how do I take

[01:35:07] 20 neighbors

[01:35:09] and explain to them

[01:35:11] A what a base defense is

[01:35:13] B what our base defense is

[01:35:15] and C what roles you should play in that

[01:35:17] oh it's laying from a prepper's

[01:35:19] path I didn't know that I'm sorry

[01:35:21] I had no idea

[01:35:23] nature is magic

[01:35:25] you just never know these things

[01:35:33] you never know these things

[01:35:35] the way that I go

[01:35:37] about

[01:35:39] the way I go about dealing with this

[01:35:41] is it goes back to that sort of

[01:35:43] prepper binder that sort of preparedness

[01:35:45] binder that I've been telling you about

[01:35:47] and one of these days I'm going to

[01:35:49] do a webinar or something

[01:35:51] on this preparedness binder because it's very important

[01:35:53] but one of the things to include

[01:35:55] are printed copies of that base defense

[01:35:57] right and not just the map itself

[01:35:59] but you want to map with a key

[01:36:03] you know so you want to map that shows

[01:36:05] exactly what's on there

[01:36:07] and then why it's on there

[01:36:11] you know so in other words if you have a little

[01:36:13] if you have a little red plus sign

[01:36:15] or a little medical sign you want to have it on the

[01:36:17] key as well that says look

[01:36:19] this is the key

[01:36:21] this is what this means this is where we're going to take

[01:36:23] people who need medical help you're going to bring them to

[01:36:25] my house because I have a ton

[01:36:27] of medical supplies

[01:36:29] all right communications are going to come

[01:36:31] from this house because it's the highest

[01:36:33] point in the neighborhood and they're going to be

[01:36:35] set up there with optics

[01:36:37] and they're going to be checking out who's coming into

[01:36:39] the neighborhood who's approaching from what

[01:36:41] direction yada yada yada

[01:36:45] okay so look into

[01:36:47] creating a base defense

[01:36:49] for your neighborhood it's

[01:36:51] super effective way

[01:36:53] to deal with threats

[01:36:55] that can come from a complete

[01:36:57] collapse of society

[01:36:59] or

[01:37:01] just a bad natural disaster we see

[01:37:03] it every time

[01:37:07] every time we see the same thing

[01:37:09] right soon as the opportunity

[01:37:11] is there for people to

[01:37:13] loot they loot

[01:37:17] and you always want to have

[01:37:19] numbers even if you don't

[01:37:21] have superior weapons numbers is

[01:37:23] such a big deal you know you need

[01:37:25] the numbers game is a big one

[01:37:31] what else for urban community

[01:37:33] survive what else do we want to talk about here

[01:37:35] let's bring up the show

[01:37:37] notes I think I might be coming to a

[01:37:39] close here folks

[01:37:41] it's a lot of yacking

[01:37:43] it's just a heck of a lot of yacking

[01:37:45] in two hours

[01:37:47] I don't know how you guys can put up with it but I

[01:37:49] appreciate it

[01:37:55] all right urban neighborhood

[01:37:57] so you got your base defense

[01:37:59] you got your community community

[01:38:01] book so you have the

[01:38:03] ability to sort of build those relationships

[01:38:05] first and foremost

[01:38:09] the only other big thing

[01:38:11] that I can think of when it comes to urban neighborhood

[01:38:13] preparedness

[01:38:15] is

[01:38:17] ownership

[01:38:21] and I talk about that in my book also but that's

[01:38:23] something that has to happen

[01:38:25] you know ownership

[01:38:27] has to be a part of the thing

[01:38:29] you have to be all in for your community

[01:38:31] and your community members

[01:38:33] and a lot of that comes with things like

[01:38:35] your communications method and how often

[01:38:37] you're talking to one another

[01:38:39] and a lot of it does come from

[01:38:41] whether or not you decide to do a community

[01:38:43] watch a neighborhood watch

[01:38:45] you know because that builds ownership

[01:38:47] also

[01:38:49] these are crucial pieces of the puzzle

[01:38:53] if you want to have

[01:38:55] a prepared community and I don't mean a

[01:38:57] prepared community that you go out and you

[01:38:59] find people who have a specific skill

[01:39:01] set to I'm not a fan of that

[01:39:05] you want the people around you to be your allies

[01:39:07] if you don't have community in an urban

[01:39:09] neighborhood everyone will be your enemy

[01:39:13] period there's going to come a time

[01:39:15] if the disaster is bad enough where

[01:39:17] everyone will become your enemy because they'll be desperate

[01:39:21] so plan today

[01:39:23] if you really want to get into it

[01:39:25] and you really want to start

[01:39:27] pushing the pace on a topic like this

[01:39:31] setting goals for something like this and listen

[01:39:33] the book is the way to go

[01:39:35] I'm not pushing a book on you

[01:39:37] I'm just telling you

[01:39:39] there's one book out there that

[01:39:41] does community readiness

[01:39:43] and building community relationships

[01:39:45] better than anyone else and I

[01:39:47] can say that it's my book

[01:39:49] it's not a best seller

[01:39:51] it's not a book that people know about

[01:39:53] even hardly

[01:39:55] but this is my little cup of tea

[01:39:57] and I put a lot of work into that book

[01:39:59] and I can tell you if you follow the things

[01:40:01] that are written in that book

[01:40:03] you'll have success

[01:40:05] you'll have to do a lot of work but you'll have success

[01:40:07] and it's not going to turn around

[01:40:09] in a year, 5-10 years down the road

[01:40:11] you're going to look back and say

[01:40:13] we're in a hell of a better place than we were

[01:40:17] so what else

[01:40:21] what else? I don't want to get in the news

[01:40:23] I'm bored of news

[01:40:25] again, I told you tonight I'm Ecclesiastes

[01:40:27] to me all is vanity

[01:40:29] to me there's nothing new under the sun

[01:40:31] and much rather talk about

[01:40:33] prepping and writing books

[01:40:35] right? and you know what else Ecclesiastes said

[01:40:37] of the writing of many books

[01:40:39] there is no nth

[01:40:41] and if you're a writer man

[01:40:43] that's God, that's the truth

[01:40:45] that's the truth

[01:40:47] I've got a document in my drive

[01:40:49] my Google drive that is

[01:40:51] it's just an ever growing list of books

[01:40:53] that I want to write

[01:40:55] before I started writing this Christmas

[01:40:57] book, I was actually getting ready to put out

[01:40:59] a book called Darker Trails

[01:41:01] which is a collection

[01:41:03] of survival and prepping

[01:41:05] short stories that you guys are going to love

[01:41:07] you're going to love them

[01:41:09] they're all awesome

[01:41:11] I was about halfway finished

[01:41:13] that book

[01:41:17] and then this Christmas bug bit me man

[01:41:19] just went all in

[01:41:21] but that book has a lot of interesting stories

[01:41:23] that book also has

[01:41:25] two very interesting

[01:41:27] dreams that I had

[01:41:29] that will

[01:41:31] knock your socks off

[01:41:33] one of the things that I like to do

[01:41:35] when I have really meaty dreams

[01:41:37] is I do like to write them down

[01:41:39] and it comes from

[01:41:41] West Craven actually

[01:41:43] because West Craven

[01:41:45] created

[01:41:47] a horror icon Freddy Krueger

[01:41:49] from one of his own dreams

[01:41:53] and it is Halloween

[01:41:55] so we can talk about Freddy right

[01:41:57] listen we're crazy about holidays

[01:41:59] that's all there is to it

[01:42:01] the Liberty household

[01:42:03] Casa de Liberty

[01:42:05] is sick with traditions

[01:42:07] we're sick with

[01:42:09] the holidays in general

[01:42:11] now none of them

[01:42:13] measure up to Christmas

[01:42:15] right Christmas for us

[01:42:17] it's sickening

[01:42:19] you know what I mean

[01:42:21] it would be like

[01:42:23] it's almost Hallmark-esque

[01:42:25] you know what I mean

[01:42:27] it's all the beauty of Christmas in our house

[01:42:29] it's all the ugly of Christmas

[01:42:31] in our house

[01:42:33] but God

[01:42:35] do we

[01:42:37] do it

[01:42:39] we do every bit of it man

[01:42:41] the cutting of the tree

[01:42:43] we do that everyone should do

[01:42:45] one thing

[01:42:47] now's the time to tell you about it too

[01:42:49] cause you might need to save some money to do it

[01:42:51] but there's a company out there

[01:42:53] and they're called

[01:42:55] Silver Town

[01:42:57] you probably heard of them if you're into Silver at all

[01:42:59] Numismatics anything like that

[01:43:01] and every year Silver Town

[01:43:03] puts out a collection

[01:43:05] of beautiful Christmas coins

[01:43:07] right and you can get the coins like

[01:43:09] I don't know

[01:43:11] you get them a little bit above spot

[01:43:13] price

[01:43:15] you know so you usually spend

[01:43:17] 25 bucks per coin something like that

[01:43:19] it's not a huge investment

[01:43:21] but one of the things that I like do

[01:43:23] every year is to get one of those coins

[01:43:25] for each of my kids

[01:43:27] and I pay a little extra money

[01:43:29] I think it's like three extra dollars

[01:43:31] and they inscribe the child's name on the coin

[01:43:33] on the back

[01:43:35] and then they send you

[01:43:37] this awesome little plastic case

[01:43:39] with

[01:43:41] an ornament holder on it

[01:43:43] I mean you can hang these

[01:43:45] beautiful silver coins on your tree

[01:43:47] and I'm telling you man

[01:43:49] it's

[01:43:51] something special

[01:43:53] and this has become

[01:43:55] yet another

[01:43:57] layer of tradition in the Liberty House

[01:44:01] and at the end of the day man

[01:44:03] there's a line in the book

[01:44:05] I can't really start

[01:44:07] reading you this book because there's so many

[01:44:09] important lines in it about life

[01:44:11] in general that just

[01:44:13] they find themselves affixed

[01:44:15] to this Christmas holiday because Christmas is

[01:44:17] so all-encompassing you know

[01:44:19] but there's a line in there about

[01:44:21] the fact that you think as a child

[01:44:23] you think that Christmas is just going to be there

[01:44:25] all the time and it's going to happen the same way

[01:44:29] you think that mom's going to cook a meal

[01:44:31] you think that dad's going to haul in a tree

[01:44:33] and you think that you're going to

[01:44:35] wake up in your parents house

[01:44:37] and go downstairs and open presents

[01:44:39] it's just going to be that way when you're a child

[01:44:41] you think that way right

[01:44:43] it's one of those things

[01:44:47] and you have to cherish those moments

[01:44:49] man I look at my little boys

[01:44:53] I look at my little boys and I have taken

[01:44:55] every

[01:44:57] I mean I've taken

[01:44:59] every avenue I

[01:45:01] can take to spend as much time with them

[01:45:03] as I can

[01:45:05] and I can't

[01:45:07] help but look at Jacob man when he

[01:45:09] comes down the steps

[01:45:11] in the morning

[01:45:13] three years old now

[01:45:15] three years old he comes walking down the steps

[01:45:17] first thing he wants to do is come sit with dad

[01:45:19] and I look at him

[01:45:21] and I know

[01:45:23] that these are the best days of my whole life

[01:45:27] and I know that they're going to go away

[01:45:29] and I know

[01:45:31] that I'm going to want them back

[01:45:33] man

[01:45:35] and even knowing that

[01:45:37] you know I'm blessed to know that

[01:45:39] and I'm blessed to have made the decisions that I've made

[01:45:41] to take advantage of it but

[01:45:43] it still wrenches your heart

[01:45:45] it still rips your heart out

[01:45:47] it still rips your heart out

[01:45:49] I look at the boys sitting on the couch

[01:45:51] playing together and it's like

[01:45:53] this is so temporary dude

[01:45:55] this is

[01:45:57] this is the peak

[01:45:59] of all life

[01:46:01] right is to sit there

[01:46:03] and to watch these kids grow up

[01:46:05] and to live in that moment

[01:46:07] where all they want is you

[01:46:09] they look to you for everything

[01:46:11] you know what I mean and a lot of times

[01:46:13] you catch yourself

[01:46:15] you catch yourself losing your mind

[01:46:17] you know what I mean

[01:46:19] you know what I mean

[01:46:21] you know what I mean

[01:46:23] you know what I mean

[01:46:25] and right

[01:46:27] because life is there

[01:46:29] and life is a pain in the ass

[01:46:31] and life gets you frustrated

[01:46:33] and then kids get you frustrated

[01:46:35] and wives get you frustrated

[01:46:37] and you got to pump

[01:46:39] the brakes

[01:46:41] and look at those kids man

[01:46:43] I'm telling you I can get teary-eyed

[01:46:45] if I'm not careful

[01:46:47] and my kids are babies

[01:46:49] seven and three

[01:46:51] I've got so much time with them

[01:46:53] see the impending moment when they leave.

[01:47:01] When they leave and they go away

[01:47:03] and they live their life separate of mine.

[01:47:07] You know, when there's nobody at the top of the steps

[01:47:11] calling me, calling my name, you know what I mean?

[01:47:15] There's nobody at the top of the steps

[01:47:16] calling down dad.

[01:47:18] You gotta cherish that man.

[01:47:20] You really do.

[01:47:23] It's one of those things that many people,

[01:47:26] many people just, they just,

[01:47:30] they just walk through it like it's a mist.

[01:47:35] You know, they just turn their blinders on

[01:47:37] and they just go through life like a drone

[01:47:40] and before you know it, the kids are growing up

[01:47:42] and going on and you just have no idea

[01:47:45] what's going on and you just have no idea

[01:47:48] what kind of a gem you had.

[01:47:52] And maybe it's not possible that you can get enough

[01:47:54] of your kids before they leave, I don't know.

[01:47:59] But I'm gonna do my best, man.

[01:48:02] So, Jayman says, James off the current line of thought,

[01:48:06] but what about kids in urban areas

[01:48:07] and a plan to get home from school?

[01:48:09] I think people forget that.

[01:48:11] I grew up doing the Cuban missile crisis

[01:48:13] and we had a plan to get home.

[01:48:17] Well, G-Man, you were an exceptional kid

[01:48:20] and anybody who's read your book knows that.

[01:48:22] You had some skills at a very young age

[01:48:25] that kids nowadays, probably if kids nowadays

[01:48:30] knew what G-Man was capable of when he was a kid

[01:48:32] and I only know it from reading your book,

[01:48:34] they'd think you were like a superhero.

[01:48:37] You'd be like a superhero kid to them.

[01:48:41] And I'm not gonna give away all those skills

[01:48:43] because I want people to buy your book.

[01:48:45] But listen, I always tell G-Man

[01:48:48] and I tell everyone who's into prepping

[01:48:50] that that book is a book to have.

[01:48:53] Like there's no getting around it.

[01:48:56] There's no getting around it.

[01:48:58] It's a book to have.

[01:49:01] But as far as getting your kids home from school

[01:49:03] in a crisis, unfortunately, G-Man, things have changed

[01:49:07] and they've changed in a very big way.

[01:49:09] And if disaster strikes while your kids are at school,

[01:49:14] like you can't even go and get them

[01:49:17] unless you wanna face force.

[01:49:20] That's a very big deal nowadays.

[01:49:26] There's bomb threats at schools,

[01:49:27] the kids get put on buses and shipped to another school

[01:49:29] and they're not gonna let you pick them up

[01:49:32] until they're ready to let you pick them up.

[01:49:35] That's the reality of it.

[01:49:38] It's not as easy.

[01:49:39] I mean, you can always talk to your child.

[01:49:44] It depends on the kid, you know?

[01:49:47] Let me give you an example of me.

[01:49:50] You know, there are kids who are gonna conform

[01:49:53] no matter what and there are kids who don't have

[01:49:56] the maybe the brains to get home safely.

[01:50:01] But I can tell you right now,

[01:50:03] if little James Walton was sitting in middle school

[01:50:06] or high school and he found out that something went down

[01:50:09] I'd slip out of back door so fast

[01:50:11] you wouldn't even believe it.

[01:50:13] I'd be gone, I'd be like a ninja.

[01:50:16] I'd throw a smoke bomb and disappear out of that building

[01:50:19] so fast the last place I'd wanna be as a kid

[01:50:21] is surrounded by stupid kids I was going to school with

[01:50:24] and my stupid teachers.

[01:50:27] So you gotta have that conversation with your kids

[01:50:30] and if it makes sense

[01:50:31] and if you feel confident in the situation

[01:50:33] then you tell your kid, you know,

[01:50:35] and if they're close enough to home

[01:50:37] that it makes sense, you tell them look

[01:50:40] this is what's gonna happen.

[01:50:42] The school's gonna keep you in school.

[01:50:44] That's what they're gonna want to do.

[01:50:47] But nobody can keep you in school

[01:50:50] if you don't wanna be in school, you know what I mean?

[01:50:52] For the moment, obviously I have to go to school by law

[01:50:55] but I'm saying in the moment.

[01:50:57] So that's a conversation you gotta have

[01:51:00] with the kids nowadays

[01:51:01] because they will get locked down in the gym.

[01:51:03] They will, I mean I've seen my niece go through it

[01:51:05] I've seen my sister go through nightmares

[01:51:08] trying to get her after simple things like

[01:51:11] you know, phony bomb threats being called in.

[01:51:16] For me, I'd probably prefer to tell my kid

[01:51:20] look slip out the door when they're at the right age.

[01:51:22] You know, right now my son's in second grade.

[01:51:25] He doesn't live far, he's not far from home

[01:51:27] but I'm not telling my seven year old

[01:51:30] to slip out the back door and come home.

[01:51:33] It's too dangerous.

[01:51:35] But that's what I tell you, G-man,

[01:51:36] that'd be my advice.

[01:51:37] I mean just watching the world turn

[01:51:39] and seeing how schools work today

[01:51:42] that's kind of the deal.

[01:51:43] You know, if they're old enough to make it home,

[01:51:46] I'd say get the hell out of the school

[01:51:47] and come home where it's safe

[01:51:50] because nobody's really safe in a school.

[01:51:53] You know, let's say they throw you in the gym

[01:51:54] and you sit there until things get worse, worse, worse.

[01:51:59] Well, I don't know.

[01:52:02] Who's in a school that's gonna protect your kid

[01:52:04] from worse, worse, worse, worse?

[01:52:07] You know, nobody, that's the question.

[01:52:09] So get them home in my opinion.

[01:52:11] Look, folks, I'm done.

[01:52:15] Bit about all I can spat

[01:52:18] and I've spat about all I can spit.

[01:52:20] So we're gonna call the night here on the I'm Liberty Show.

[01:52:23] Listen, it was so good to be back, man.

[01:52:26] Thank you so much everybody in the chat room,

[01:52:28] everyone who stuck around for the full two hours,

[01:52:30] everybody who came for the first hour, who cares?

[01:52:34] It's all a big deal.

[01:52:35] I thank you so much guys for enduring

[01:52:39] this Christmas hook journey with me.

[01:52:41] I know it's not prepping related.

[01:52:43] I know it's early.

[01:52:46] I can only hope that it helps you, right?

[01:52:51] I can only hope that you enjoy the book

[01:52:53] and I can only hope that maybe in some little way

[01:52:56] the book turns into a piece of literature

[01:53:01] that reinforces what American culture is all about

[01:53:04] because the sensationalized version

[01:53:07] of American Christmas is so uniquely American culture

[01:53:12] and in a world and in a time where everyone

[01:53:16] is attacking American culture, listen to me.

[01:53:20] We need that kind of backing.

[01:53:22] We need that kind of reminder.

[01:53:25] All right?

[01:53:27] Listen folks, next week we're talking read out.

[01:53:31] Be there.

[01:53:31] We're gonna have our friends from Bunker Days on as well.

[01:53:34] So don't miss that one.

[01:53:35] It's James Walton with the I'm Liberty Show.

[01:53:36] Oh yeah, carve them pumpkins and get them to me.

[01:53:41] I can't wait to see what you got.

[01:53:42] All right?

[01:53:43] Talk to you next time.

[01:53:44] It's James Walton with the I'm Liberty Show.

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