Tactical Tuesday - Community Security & Gorilla Gardening w/ IC

M hmm. The Pepper broadcasting networks. We have to hit the reset button to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Good evening, folks, you're listening to the voices of Italy strung, hung and flung out the balcony, singing songs, dealing with what it is they're dealing with. Pardon me why I take a sip of green tea. I've got the most active house in the whole world at nine o'clock at night. Typically there's not a soul around, but the dogs decided to come down right at eight point fifty nine. We gotta go pee. You know how it goes. So the Italians who are in deep over there, they're singing out the balcony windows. I want to know what you're doing to try and enjoy this crazy event in history. Welcome in. This is mister Walton speaking third grade teacher, extraordinari, podcaster, writer, blogger, whatever, fogger, and glad to be with you tonight. Today I got a taste of what it is going to be like to juggle what it is I have to juggle now that I've got kids at home all the time and again mister Walton's class, good to have you. We did some multiplication today. We learned about top soil and the and the the life cycle of a plant because we did all of our seed planting and starting today indoor stuff, you know, little cups, seeds. I think we did cucumbers. What do we do? Tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet pepper's, zucchini, cantaloupe, watermelon, something to that effect. You got the kitchen all covered in dirt, you know, kids dug up some dirt. Listen. I jest, but we got a lot to talk about. Are you bored yet? I got two things for you that can keep you busy basically for the rest of lockdown, if you really need to be. But I'm glad to be back. Welcome everybody in chat. I don't think I've even signed in the chat yet. Sorry. Let me hop into the chat room and see what's going down. I know Jordan was shooting me a message early on saying, what's going on where you're at? I'm here. I made it. I made it. Glad to be live too, man, It's always good to be live. Looking good in chat, people follow filing in, Welcome in it, is anybody who comes in, just let them know. Tonight it's James, it's mister Walton's third grade class. And this could be like parent teacher conference night. If you want, you can come and I can tell you what a monster your child is and that type of thing. Good to see everybody. I'll tell you what right up front, I'm gonna tell you if you're not in the discord Chat. The discord chat has become an entirely different part of what the Prepper Broadcasting Network is. So if you're not in there yet, come check us out on Facebook because that's where I put the links to the discord server. I'll put one in there tomorrow. Yeah, be around for it. It's a whole lot of fun. It's impossible to keep up with. And I apologize for not being in there and commenting more. But it's a ball I'll tell you that one thing right up front, I want you guys to do for me. This is what I want you to do for me without naming names. There are a bunch of people in the preparedness community. Well there's not a bunch. Actually, there's a handful of people in the preparedness community that I watch on a regular basis and listen, and I've listened to them for a long time, talk about the end of the world, a SHDF, how to prepare, how to that, how to hold your gun so you look good, and all that kind of stuff. I've noticed considerable change in the face and in the demeanor of these people, and I think it's almost subconscious. I don't even know if they know that they look different and sound different and are acting different, but to me, it seems very different. What I want to know as we go along tonight, as we do some I'll be doing a Patreon or two tomorrow video. You can't really tell how this stuff is affecting you from from your own position. Right, It's like almost impossible for me to look in the mirror and say, is this really affecting me? Do I look different? Do I feel different? I'll tell you last night I was definitely in a bad state of mind for a number of reasons, and we can talk to speak to those. But I got some things taken care of today that were worrying me, and I feel a lot better. But it's really weird, you know. Watching people has been really interesting. I see a lot of people changing before my very eyes changing, you know, So I want to know if I'm changing. Am I changing? Keep an eye on me, you never know, you know. I feel like being who I am. I have an obligation to remain steadfast, right to steady the ship. But then again, you know, I'll tell you what I've spoken. I spoke to Dave today, spoke to Jordan yesterday. I haven't talked to Ryan or Dane in a while, or the Patriot Power Our team, but speaking to Jordan, speaking to Dave, those guys are rock solid rocks. I don't hear it. I don't hear any inflection in their voice whatsoever. You know, Because something really serious is happening right now. I don't know if you know about it. No, But outside of COVID's, what's really happening in the preparedness community is we've been playing a game for a real long time, right preppers have been playing a little bit. We've been kind of playing a little bit of a fantasy. Right. It's been a little bit of like a case play operation happening, where yeah, we're putting the food up, and we're shooting the guns, and we're getting ready and we're buying the things and we're you know, when that, and we're always this. You better be ready when that thing comes, when it is, if that thing comes, you better be ready. I'll be ready. And how everybody who's ever said I'll be ready it has to sit there and go, holy shit, Am I ready? And that's uh. I think that's what the upturned faces are all about. I see, I'm seeing looks on people's faces and inflections and voices that make me wonder if they're wondering whether or not they're as ready as they thought they were. I don't know if that's a good mindset, you know, I don't know if that's a good mindset to be in. I almost feel like, if you're having those thoughts, you probably want to kill them. You know, you probably want to kill those thoughts. We got some tax talk in the letting in the live chat room over at Prepperbroadcasting dot com. You can come join us over there if you wish. The focal point of tonight's show, we're gonna talk about two things in particular I'm gonna try to stay away from. I'm gonna do my best to try to stay away from COVID talk. It's just I've had it I'm good, I get it. I know where we're at. You know where we're at. We know where we're at. I'll tell you this much right up front. If you want my advice on COVID, focal local. Okay, that's it. Focal local. You're gonna hear about the big stuff, right If you really want to make a difference, pay attention what's happening local? If you really want to find out what your position really is, like, where is what am I? What am I dealing with? Like? You can look at it from a national level and hey, why is all those people at spring break? Or whatever you want to get upset about. But if you want to really be concerned about yourself, now is the time to focal local. Okay? And yes, I mean focus local. I'm just saying it that way so that in your head you'll go, oh, James said focal local and sounded funny. So maybe I'll focus on the things that are local. You understand tactics. But tonight I want to talk about two things that are but one that you can start today, one that you can do anytime. Really what No, I'm talking to preppers here. I'm going to talk to you about two things that should be should be part of your preparedness plans anyway in most cases, particularly if you're a suburban or urban prepper. And yeah, yeah, they take time, they take effort, and they could come in real handy over the next six months. Okay, one of those topics is going to be community security. And I'm just gonna give you and listen, I'm no security mastermind. I worked safety for a little while, professionally worried about security, set up cameras across the building, built a sort of a structure to deal with that strange growth of the active shooter threats at my business and or my place of business. And yeah, but I've put a lot of thought. I've done a lot of studying, a lot of reading, and I've generated a kind of game plan for how i want to handle community security. And I'd like to see you take these steps. Maybe you already have. I hope you already have. If not, we'll talk of that and we'll talk about what you can do, because obviously, you know, people are concerned, they're concerned about not having money, not having work, people around them, not getting work, not getting food, not getting money, and you know that creates a tornado of chaos that people have to deal with. So those will be our two big ones tonight, you know what I mean. Those will be our two big ones tonight. And I've got I've definitely got information for each of our four pillars of the IEM Liberty Show, strong communities, health, the Americans, dynamic lifestyle, self reliance, all of that, all of that, because it's you know, it's the IM Liberty Show. So you know, we we we're basically in this together, right, No matter how you feel about the culture, the cultural split, the cultural meltdown, the division in the nation, we've reached a point now where Americans are in this together and there ain't no getting around that. It doesn't matter how you feel about your fellow Americans. Okay, we are powerful. This nation is powerful. I do believe that the people will respond and things won't get as bad as they possibly could. That's my guess. Okay, that's my guess. I was gonna do a segment about blame culture. I don't even think I want to do that anymore. That's in my notes here, blame culture. Rather, I'd like to do Uh, let's do a couple announcements up front. Get that out of the way because we've got a lot to talk about, so we're worried about shortages. I'm gonna be straight up with you. If you're a coffee drinker, you need to go to disastercoffee dot com. Check out the bunker beans. Okay, check out the bunker beans. If you're listening to this show, you can use promo code PBN and that'll get you five percent off of your bunker beans purchase. What are bunker beans? Do you know? Raw green beans, unroasted, storm long term, five gallon buckets, one gallon milar bags, whatever you want to do. You can storm long term with oxygen absorbers and you can hang on to those green beans until they're ready to roast. Okay, once you're ready to roast them, you want to roast them outside, cast iron, skill it over a fire and roast them up. Roast them up small batch at a time, something you can manage. You know, if you burn them, they're no good, So roast them up. I didn't know this, but the caffeine doesn't become a part of the coffee bean until it's roasted, some kind of chemical reaction. So you roast your own coffee. You grind and then you make coffee when all the coffee has been gone. What do you think about that? What do you think about that? When it comes to morale, right, I always see people like put cookies away in chocolates. Man, forget about that. You want to boost morale, Hit your hit your neighbors with a cup of a warm cup of coffee after about a month of not having any, and they'll be like, Okay, we're gonna survive this thing, James. We are so bunker Beans Disastercoffee dot Com check them out. Look. Follow hollow Socks is still with us. I in all transparency. Man, Follow Hollow got a rough ride at PBN. They came in just as this thing was kind of starting and taking off. I'm not angry at anyone. I'm not upset with them. I'm not upset with you. It doesn't matter to me. It's just, you know, that's the nature of sponsorship. But I do feel like if if we had if it had been a a place, in a moment in time and when we weren't dealing with this big giant threat, that follow Hollow would have done better at PBN. So this will be sort of the end of their run at the end of this month, you won't be hearing from follow Hollow anymore, but do support them still. If you like their socks, give them a whirl. They're with us until the end of the month. They've been great, They've been absolutely perfect on our end. But I think I think they're great product typically, right, these Great Wolf socks, typically a product that preppers would just be all over. I really think they were overshadowed by the COVID and it's unfortunate. But you know, now you know about them, you know they exist, and when thing's even out, if you want to spend money on good quality socks, go right ahead. That said, that is another fascinating point about all of this COVID situation is the priorities of preppers in a situation like this, right, the priorities of preppers my the way I'm looking at certain skills and certain tools lately now that we're dealing with this lockdown and a real SHTF situation, which I mean, it's as close to it as it's going to get, right, It could get a little closer, but we're as close as we have been. Let me put it that way. And I saw I saw a graphic about making a debris shelter and how to build the frame, and you know, you could use various items to build on the outside of it. You could put a tarp over it if you want it, and all that type of stuff. And I said to myself, this is in all honesty, I said to myself, this is pointless to look at like this is pointless to look at what is going on this situation is this particular situation is so far afield of bushcraft skills and wilderness survival that it really makes you like sort of rethink where you spend your time and where you're spending your time as a preper right. As it get like, what is all this bushcrafting and all this? You know, hey, it's well worth it though, but it's just one of those ideas. Win the Dope Farm Volcano. I got a plan. I'll share it when I get it going. Man, that's as ominous as it gets. Huh, that's about as omens as it gets. Let's get some other updates from the Dope Farm podcast host Win, who's in live chat. He says he says we will be planting corn here in mid April. He says they plant potatoes here in early spring harvest in summer. Win is one of the owners of a bag of bunker beans, one of the early adopters. If you will, and I appreciate you, Win, oh Win looks like he may have invested in a invested in a harvest right or attempted to win one. I bought one. I don't know. I like it. I like that freeze dryer. Man. Freeze dryers for a situation like this are great. Well, you know, not even necessarily for a situation like this. Anytime. I was writing an article today for a Survival Life and it was about you know, this was kind of a revelation I hadn't thought about. But it's about the great strides you make when disasters aren't happening, the great strides that preppers make when the skies are blue and everything's lovely and most people are so I mean, they couldn't be further away from this idea of preparedness. Right. If you look back and when you've been, when you've prepped at your best, when you've made some real great strides, it's probably been a time when nothing was going on. It was nice, beautiful summer, right, like you, who knows, it's really weird because we want to prepare in the best times, you know, But good on you win. I like that. Man. The Harvest Right is a winner, no doubt about it. I think that's it. Check us out patreon dot com slash pbn uh. Patreon has been lovely bunches of new patrons. So great to have you, it is. It is one of the most it is one of the warmest and fuzziest of feelings to get a new patron. It really it's one of the great feelings of life for me anyway, you know, to have this little baby of mine and these wonderful hosts, and this wonderful following and these great fans and these incredible you know, this incredible founding group and then this amazing building community. I mean, when I look at the Prepper Broadcasting Network, it's just this big giant thing that keeps going and going in several different directions. And when I get a new member of the network right over a Patreon, it's like, wow, you know, it's it's the coup de gras or something to that effect. It's the it's the verification that what you're doing and what the hosts are doing, and what everyone is doing to keep this network alive and running, which is no easy feet, you know. I know we make it look easy, but it's no easy feet to be on every night, almost every night. I mean, we take some nights off, but to have a show on every night. And you know, when you get that kind of support from people, it helps, it really helps it. Well you know what it does. It verifies. It makes you say to yourself, hustle, my man, because people are paying attention. And that's what it does for me. So, look, if the lockdown lasts, right for any duration, you're gonna need to secure your neighborhood period, right. If if the lockdown lasts, what what do we have? I mean, what do we really have? I know a lot of people who have zero days that they can afford to be out of work, you know. So if something like and listen on the topic of mandatory national lockdown, I don't believe in it. Okay, there's a lot of people reporting mandatory national lockdown is coming seventy two hours, forty eight hours hours. There's no way to enforce that in most places. Okay, I don't see it happening. It doesn't seem like a move that makes sense I'm just telling you, you know, I don't feel it in the force, if you understand what I'm saying. However, even local governments shutting down things in your local area and affecting the way that people make a living is something we need to concern ourselves with. I'm also not terribly concerned about food shortages. Just In the Pilot, I don't know if he's in yet. Justin the Pilot's with us. He is. He was recruited by our very own Jordan Smith, and man, did he fit right in Jordan. You had some radar with Justin. He's a great guy. But he meant he was talking about trucking today in the EOC over or discord and talking about the fact that the trucks are moving at working overtime. Product is moving, Okay, it's just the fact that people are getting in and getting in and taking whatever they can take. Okay, Now, you can combat that, right, you know, you can combat that. All you gotta do. Get up early, be the first one in the store, right, come on, I see that. Yeah, you see a lot of pictures of empty shelves and things like that. Just get up early, be the first one in the store, and also talk to the manager in the store. Go up to the manager in the store and say, Yo, when do you guys restock? When do the trucks come in? When's the best time for me to come here? Because not everybody's gonna do that. You have to learn to exist in a world where not everybody's gonna do it. It's like hunting, right, It's like the old hunting line, like, man, it's really good if you can eat food that was hunting rather than you know, pastardized by traditional farming or whatever. Not traditional farming, but what's the word I'm looking for, factory farming, right, Yeah, it's really good when you can do that, you know. And then you have the naysayers say, not everybody's gonna get out and hunt, so it's not a viable option for everyone, and there's not a lot of there's not enough animals on the planet to feed everybody. But that's the whole point. Not everybody's gonna do it. You want to be the guy that does the things that not everybody does, or the gal that does the things that not everybody does. Right, So Friday or whenever we wind up going to the supermarket, because we will go to the supermarket again, because in my house, we're not we're not locked down completely to the world, okay, outside of the things that we want and need. Well, I don't even know if I could use the word need really outside of maintaining some minute level of normalcy. See, I have to get my wife out of the house a little bit or else she'll go crazy. But anyhow, I'll talk to people, talk to people at the bank, right, talk to people, find out what the deal is, Hey, what's going on? Not everybody will talk to those people. Be the person that talks to people, find out what's going on. Okay, you can get incredible amounts of information that you won't get on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, the EOC here at the preper Brat, you can't. You're not likely, even in the EOC, as wonderful as it is, as wonderful a group as it is, you're not likely to find out when the shipments are coming to your local supermarket in the EOC. Okay. But in all honesty, when it comes to us leaving the home, we left today, we hadn't left in the last couple of days. This is not a problem for me. You know, I'm sort of like what's that word when you can I'm like a I think a sociopath maybe? Is that what it is? What's the type of person that's kind of like I'm just highly adaptable. Let's leave it at that. Let's leave it at that, highly adaptable. Now, what is going on here? Living on the fault? Says James, I sound like Bear. You're talking Bear independent. He's a good guy. I like his stuff, no doubt about it. But anyhow, talk to the people. You'll find out a lot. Okay, so let's talk community. Let's talk community. Hold on, use time back at Walmart for ten dollars off of pickup order. Oh, good to know. Living on the fault? Use time back at Walmart for ten dollars off of pickup order. Lady Liberty and I have discussed the pickup order idea. We definitely were thinking about that. In fact, I think I think if we see a next level restriction from supermarkets, it'll probably be that, right, doesn't that make sense? It'll be orders picked and deliveries picked up at red supermarkets. That'd be my guess. That nub has arrived chat room looking wonderful. Thank you guys. All right, so let's talk about this thing. Okay, let me first go into most of what we're going to talk about when it in terms of community security is going to be pretty hypothetical because we've never had anybody attack our community before. So there's there's a definite limit to what I can to from personal experience. I can't say that I've ever had a bunch of people come driving down my street adjacent streets with an aggressive posture wanting to, you know, do harm. But that doesn't mean we can't do things right. That certainly doesn't mean we can't do things. So if the lockdown lasts a month, you have to understand that there are some people, particularly if they can't get to work. Now, what I will say, based on what I've seen today, because I've done some intel on highways and byways, not a lot of difference in terms of traffic out there in the world. Honestly, you know, it definitely wasn't a situation where, you know, like the snow or something to that you ever travel in the snow when most people are like, stay home, don't be on the roads unless you have to. If you're one of those schileps that has to be on the roads, you get out on the road at six am or five pm and you're like, WHOA, what's going on here? I didn't see that today. I definitely didn't see that today. So people are going places, people are going places going to work. If that quiets down and you don't see people going to work and business is shutting down and closing in money and not changing hands, you just want to be ahead of it. You want to be ahead of You don't want to be the community that finds out that someone was killed and robbed and all their valuables and all their food what's taken? Right. If you're in that position, that's no, why, No, that's a big problem. You definitely have a situation there where you're now in response mode. Right now, Okay, now I have to respond and I don't know, you know, I don't i'd me personally, I don't want to be in that position. So when it comes to community security, I take a preemptive stance, right. I don't gather my neighbors around and say, hey, look, let's talk security. All right, we're gonna want to detect, we're gonna run a deter and we're gonna want to defend, and we need answers for all of those, right, I mean, I'm assuming you guys are pretty familiar with the three d's right, detect, deter, defend. I mean this is something you probably thought about for your own home and that type of thing. Have the ability to detect a threat that might be cameras, that might be dogs, whatever it is. Have the ability to deter a threat. You know, if you're for me, the thing that I lean on heaviest is deterrence, right when it comes to any type of security. Give me the ability to detect. That's fine. Give me. You know, if I had like XP points, like in a video game, If if I had points to spend in a video game and I had a three pronged defense tactic would detect, detur, and defend, I would spend most of my points on deter I don't want to be in the position of defend. I really don't, you know. I'd much rather have a stronger set of deterrence and have our community or my particular home, you know, just glazed over something that people seeing on, not not that one, you know. And I'll tell you what three pit bulls helps. That's not a bad start. I'll tell you that's not a bad start. But I'm not talking about I'm not talking about home security. Okay. Home security is one thing, and you know, to be quite honest with you, it's very personal, it really is. I mean, what kind of an idiot would I be if I sat here and gave you my whole the rundown of my home security situation. But now neighborhood security, that's a different thing, and in times like these. I don't know if you heard the daily audio Cash by Dave, but it was great. Oh great example of what I talked about at the head of the show, which is people are changing. Priorities are changing. People that you uh, people that you thought were your buddies are being affected by levels of stress and situations that they're just not accustomed to. In most cases, Oh Volcanic, how you doing? So? I have Link and I have Bowser, and they're the young bloods right. Bowser is an American Staffordshire beast, monster of a dog. Beautiful he is. He'll be two years old. Link will be one. He'll be two years old in April. No, he'll be You'll be two years old this month. Link will be a year in June. And then we have my baby Lola, and she is a I mean she hangs with them. She I guess she's not necessary. Well what is she? I forget she's a Yeah, she's a bulldog and pitbull mix, an American bulldog and pit bull mix, so she's not the spunky thing that those two are. But when you you know, when you get used to looking at something that you call your princess all the time, which is what I've called her for the last eleven years, you forget that she's terrifying until people see her. You know, you look at her. Oh my god, look at my baby Lola come here, and you you forget that she's terrifying the people, even at eleven years old. But yeah, she's number three. I don't know. You know, we'll try to love on Lola as long as we got but it's the way of all flesh. Those dogs, they break your heart, there's no getting around it. So what the what the way? The way I position myself when it comes to community security here my own personal neighborhood is I want to be the guy with the quick answers and the detailed answers, right, I don't want to be I don't want to brainstorm with the with the neighbors. Do you understand. I don't want to be in that position because people take a long time to react. They take a long time to react. So if if people are frantic and all of a sudden they realize that their neighborhood could be in jeopardy or is in jeopardy, or has been put in jeopardy by a robbery, I don't want to. I don't want to go through all the steps of all right, let's meet tonight and we'll discuss options, and then we'll sit around for an hour and we'll argue. I want to bring I want to bring tangible, tangible paper layouts. Do you understand? So community security in my neighborhood has already been laid out on a map with positions, with communications with UH, even as far as directives for response to specific locations. Right, So what you would like to do, I guess if you want to, if you want to take a high level look at it, and the way that I've done it is I really love the concept that UH pastor Joe Fox mentions over at Viking Preparedness and really he kind of I guess he got it from the military, and it's kind of been the American way of waging war, right, and the way he represents it is you don't want to fight from your mailbox. Now preppers can use this to their advantage in a very big way. You don't want to fight from your mailbox, right. So, in other words, if you're if we are moving into a time where we've been in lockdown for two months and things are getting squirrely, and resources are getting low, and people aren't on the roads, and your neighbors are getting worried. If you're planning for a situation like that, you don't want to draw a circle around the three houses on your street and say, Okay, this is our defensive perimeter and we're gonna we're gonna protect these three homes. You know, you want to you want to zoom out on that Google map and you want to really look at main roads. Right. You want to build a perimeter that is far from your house. I mean, if you're look these are the benefits of being prepared. Okay, these are things that I have done. If you're going to take the time to build some sort of secure perimeter around your neighborhood or your community, you don't want your house to be on the front line of that perimeter. Right, No, you want to be buried in the in the in the middle area, right. You want to be protected. You want to be away from that perimeter because that is where that is where friction will be, if friction will be right, if there's going to be friction, that's where it'll be. Be sure you position yourself in a way where your family and yourself is safe. Okay, you can't. You can't commit to do that for everyone. In some ways, you can right by restricting travel through main roads, but that is also something that you might not be able to control. Well, it depends on how far you want to go. You might not be able to control the flow of traffic through certain roads. If your game plan is to set up a manned barricade, right Like, if you want to set up de manned position where you have a guy with a comms unit reporting back, you know, doing some sort of intelligence gathering and that type of thing, you may not be able to pull that off. Two months into a lockdown, cops might show up and say, what the hell are you doing walking around with your ar fifteen? Go home, and that's the end of that, you know, But I'll tell you what you could do hypothetically. Hypothetically you could you could create a barricade that is in an unmanned position that the police, the city may not spend the resources to remove because of the fact that people aren't on the roads anyway. Right, So every single street, every single community, every single neighborhood in America is very different. So to talk about community security and detail indeed, right, like you want to cut off access to a main road. To some people, that'll be like, that's perfect for me. To other people that will be like, I don't need to do that, or I can't do that, or I'm not worried about that, or the main road near me is an I ninety five or whatever, you know what I mean. So when I look at it, step one for me is if I have to have the conversation, the horrifying conversation of listen, neighbors, listen, neighbors, we need to secure this neighborhood because things are getting violent outside of here, right, things are getting violent outside of here. You want to come to the table with the map. You want to come to the table with like like justin the pilot says, with instructions and positions and probably, to be honest with you, probably some equipment for people who are ill prepared, you know, because at the very least, you want to have eyes on a perimeter, and you want to have comms in the hands of those eyes. That's the way I look at it. At the very least, you need a perimeter that you've committed to, and you need eyes on that perimeter, and you need communications that can alert the rest of the community if something starts to happen on that perimeter. Okay, Now, another thing that I like to do with the layout of security at the community level, which is kind of just a secret, little, quiet, little project that you hope never comes out of a folder and never has to be talked about. Right, that's like what we do. You want to be able to direct certain portions of a community to certain areas, right, So you want to identify parts of that perimeter. This is the north side, south side, east side, whatever, however you want to name a one, two, three, four, it doesn't matter. And if you have a manned communications position maybe with optics or whatever, binoculars, whatever your setup is, if you have a person on north position, then if you've got a lot of people in the community. You probably don't want the people furthest south of that position running to help the guy furthest north right. In other words, you don't want someone from the opposite side of the community running to help the person on that side of the opposite side of that community. What we've done is sort of assigned blocks and streets to certain parts of that perimeter, right, so these people can stay in touch. These people can stay in touch and say, hey, I see something up here. I don't know what's going on. It looks a little fishy. Send me a few guys to help out, and they come from the closest potential location rather than from the furthest right, Because then if you have something happening on the north side and the south side, and all your people from the south side have gone to the north, then you have nobody to send to the south. Understand. So it doesn't have to be complicated, I can tell you right now. It can be as simple as finding four roads, highlighting the roads, drawing some eyeballs at the corners of those roads that are main roads or whatever it is, and walkie talkie picture or whatever it is, and being able to speak to that picture and maybe even writing in some directions and some positions. But you go to the table, right, You go to the table and you say to yourself or you say to your community. Rather, I've got a plan, and now we can modify this plan, because you never know. I don't know you, right, I don't know everybody in my neighborhood. But if I sit down at the table and I find out that I've got a guy who's been a you know, a lifetime security professional, lifetime military man, and we're gonna look at my plan, and I want him to say, look, critique this thing and make it better, and then we'll share the changes. What you don't want to do is go in there and Jenetting I was getting insanely jealous. Jen in Chat throws out an atomic bomb on me. She says, my garden is almost five thousand square feet. So then I start thinking she needs security just for her garden, like you need a whole layer of security just for your garden itself. But she was actually one zero too many five hundred square Feet's nice, though, you guys will be eating. Are people growing food yet? People have food sprouting? Yet? I got the quick stuff sprouting already, The spinach right, the uh, the lettuces. What else do we have popping? Oh? The green peas of course, right, the English peas. I got some kale sprouting. I haven't seen anything come of the fresh herbs yet. But we'll get there. We'll get there. And like I said today, like I said today, we have we got a bunch. We got a bunch going in. Oh. That nub says, I'm planting this year's five fruit trees tomorrow. That nub has a great uh perennial and fruit well, a great perennial and tree program, if I remember, and I think, Uh, it's it's about commitment with him, and I like that a lot. It's about commitment. It's about we're gonna do this many perennials every year. We're gonna do this many trees every year. And man, that's that's just that's prepping at its finest, Isn't it? Isn't that prepping at its best? I mean, I just love that. I love the feeling because when you're when when I was younger, I didn't understand the feeling. And now I get that good feeling all the time when I look go out back or when I look through my preps you get that good feeling of like this was a matter of three years ago, five years ago, eight years ago, saying to yourself, I'm gonna do this every year, and we're gonna add to it every year, right, And that's just it just makes such a huge difference when that time comes right that nubs his plant five fruit trees or berry bushes every year. Five in five years, you will have twenty five plants that will provide food for the rest of your life. Breezy can two blueberry plants went in last year. When it says I need some fruit trees, Win got them good. Uh, Wind's got them good. Virginia. Paul Paul seeds though now I can tell you that much. He's got them, Paul Paul seeds. I hope they work out for you. Man. I'll tell you what the Paul Paul's a magical fruit. They are a magical fruit. Living on the faults, that is, fruit treats died except for two. Yeah, that happens too, man, that happens. And you know what, living on the fault. I appreciate your honesty on that. I really do. A lot of times we get in these positions where we have microphones in our faces and people reading our words. We don't like to say things like that, right, We don't like to say the things that have happened that were really bad. Like last year, I planted a bunch of sun chokes and nothing. Well, you know what happened. We had a seer Is flood, not a serious flood that was you know, would affect property, but a flood in the area where I planted them, and that was it. No sun chokes, so no big deal. You know, we'll go at that again. But those things happened too. You know, those things happened a lot. It's a lot of failures in guard. Oh oh, my asparagus. I don't think my asparagus is coming back. Playing at asparagus last year too, and my dogs got into it over winter and dug the thing out pretty bad before I found out, and that was it. I don't see you out there. I think they would be doing their thing, But now I could be wrong. But it is what it is. It tease what it is, right, Sometimes those things happen. Any any other questions on sort of conceptualizing community security, right, understand that you want to have a plan going into it. If you can have a mapped out plan. It's gonna be a huge help to your neighbors. They're going to be able to say, Okay, I see what you want done, and well how it can help. Right, And again, uh, remember that, remember that your your your goal is to detect, deter, and defend. And if you have the ability, you really want to. You really want to put all your money on deter because you're not fighting a war with your neighbors. You know what I mean, you don't. You don't want to be the type of you don't want to be in a situation where you're lined up with your neighbors over a flipped over car, exchanging fire with another group. To me, I mean, I know it sounds cool and that type of thing, but the reality is you want to avoid that at all costs. That's a tremendous failure. That means you've failed the first two right. That means you fail you didn't put yourself in a position to detect the threat, right, or you detected a threat and were unable to deter it. So now you have to defend, and you might be defending in a way that's absolutely terrible. Breezy says, what if your neighbors. What if none of your neighbors have guns. Again, again, put your chips on deter if it bothers you a lot, because you can deter with really effectively. Right, you can give zero access to a street that leads to your neighborhood, maybe one of the only streets that leads to your neighborhood. If you eliminate access with trees or barricades or cars, you know, just park three cars side by side on the street, you know, perpendicular to the way the road goes. Nobody's getting through it. I mean they can get through it on feet, but the threat of many people moving fast in a motorized vehicle. If you can isolate the streets that give access to your neighborhood that it's over, then what I would say, Breezy is uh. If it bothers you a lot, you may want to and it's a tall order, but you may want to just invest in some firearms, some cheap handguns for neighbors. You know, in the worst case scenario, again, you're talking about taking a weapon, giving it to a person who doesn't have a gun, doesn't know how to use a gun. So there's a lot of inherent risks that go along with that. But if it's one of those things that bothers you a lot, I'll tell you what I would do, Breezy, if I were you, if you're shooting already, was it? Was it Preezy you asked that question or am I wrong? Yes? So if I were you, If I were you, I would start a try to start a group of ladies shooting guns. You know, I'm sure you have women neighbors. Turn it into something fun. You know. Don't say we're the Ladies Firearms group and we're shooting to be prepared for the end of the world, but you know it might be worth saying. Look, you want to get some stress out, you want to have fun. You have a fun ladies' night out. Yeah, start shooting with gals, not bad u, that nub says. Watch the news right now, even the liberals in California. You're buying guns. Yeah, it's true. It's true. You get into that mindset. Man. That's one of the most exciting things right now is to watch people weigh their priority, right, food, toilet paper, nine millimeter ammunition firearms? Interesting? Right? Why why is that the situation? That's the situation because Prepping takes a long time. Prepping is not something that you can do overnight unless you're a millionaire billionaire maybe, But that's one of those things. Man. You know, you're watching people rush to catch up to us, and the way that they have planned to do that is by trying to buy a couple months worth of food right now, having a game plan for if we run out of food, then we're going to use these guns to get more food. That's what I see, or make sure I have. I mean, because the Ammo thing is interesting to me. You know, the Ammo thing is really interesting to me. I'm not gonna lie to you. It is one of those situations where I watch the AMMO shelves go empty, and I really do sit down and I wonder what people think is about to happen, because this is the way I look at it. And I know I have some guys in here, like Win in that nub who could help me out with chew through this thought. But think about this, If I've got bricks and bricks of Ammo that I just bought for a lockdown, potential lockdown scenario in the United States where things could get chaotic, I feel like it's gonna play out one of two ways. Right, there's gonna be a threat. You're gonna take that thread out sooner rather than later. Right, the idea that you're gonna fight some ultra tactical, high tech battle around your home or in your community. That is gonna be a knockdown, rag out gun fight that lasts several hours, and you're going to expend you know, a thousand rounds of ammunition in that fight with your nine millimeters pistol and you win. Okay, that's one outcome, but that's a really weird outcome. Right, In most cases, what's it going to be? Oh my god, there's a person on the street who's just shot my neighbor. You're gonna pull the gun out and shoot at them, and uh, you're probably gonna kill them, or they're probably gonna kill you pretty quickly, unless you're highly trained and you know you know what I mean. Unless you're highly trained and you know what you're doing. But for the most part, you're going to expend very few rounds of ammunition, either killing or dying. That's kind of the way I always looked at the rush to get ammo. Right, You're either going to expend a little bit of ammo. Compare narratively, if you have ten thousand rounds stored, right, you're going to expend a very little bit of that ammo in an actual fight, because you're either going to kill someone or get killed. So I don't know, but I understand why these people do it. I understand why the because the average person not only doesn't have a background in preparedness, they don't know exactly what they're doing, but they're being governed by this subconscious, reptilian drive of survival. All of a sudden that's been dormant, right, They've been living in this bubble. It's like, I'm safe, I'm invincible, nothing can hurt me, I'm American. No matter what happens. We've got answers. And then all of a sudden, we don't got answers. So, you know, my two cents on firearms with people who don't use firearms, You know what I'm saying? What else we got? I think I'm ready to make the jump from Well, let's talk a little bit about the four pillars. Well, we'll get into a couple of them, because I've got some good funny stories, and then we'll get into gorilla gardening, which I think is probably the biggest and most important part of the show, to be quite honest with you, because well, I'll give you a story. You might know the story, right, I'll give you the short version of it. I'll give you the short version. Soviet Union falls. Stop me if you heard this one. I'm not going to stop them. Soviet Union falls, right. North Korean allies Cuban allies. The Cubans recognize the fall of the Soviet Union, and they start planting seeds everywhere. They start planting in every place that they can plant. They're throwing seeds down, getting ready, you know what I mean, Sorry reading of that nub comment. So the Cubans, they start throwing seeds down, growing food right, smart right. Their big backer, their big communist buddy, their front runner has been put out of business, and they're worried. What's that going to do to us. We're just a little guy, right, We had weapons, we were going to have nuclear weapons pointed at the United States. So it's going to be a while before we get any help from them. They start playing food right, no matter how bad it gets, at least we got food. North Korea, on the other hand, went about their business. They went about their business. They did not take the same steps that the Cubans did. They also didn't have the environment to grow food the way Cuba does. In all fairness, but and if you look back and see what happened to the two nations, the North Korean suffered a tremendous famine in the early nineties and a lot of it had to do with that, right. So that's what brought me to this idea of gorilla gardening and just really focusing on seeds in the ground. We got to be smart about it. And there's other aspects of gorilla gardening too that I want to talk about. But anybody fattening up, let's talk about the Healthy Americans pillar of the I Am Liberty Show. All right, healthy Americans. I've been eating a lot, and not consciously. I was talking to about subconscious changes, but I've been shoveling food in my mouth. In fact, I was talking to Jordan on the phone the other morning and I was eating a powdered doughnut and I was hacking on it because I inhaled the powder. And I was joking with her and I was saying, see what happens when I try to and when I stop eating healthy. That's like my karma gets me so wondering whether or not you guys are thinking about that right, thinking about eating more and getting ready for right, getting ready for that situation. That is a situation right. More importantly on the topic of healthy Americans is not necessarily your food diet, but your media diet. You know I'm reaching I'm reaching critical mass on COVID nineteen media during the day, and in fact, before this show, after dinner, I said to myself, no, no phone, no COVID, none of it. Don't watch it, don't listen to it. You know enough, you know enough. You don't need to poison the mind with any more, no more. And we gotta be careful about this. We gotta be very conscious about this. You know what I mean. You don't need people to tell you what to do anymore. You really don't in most cases unless there's something stand out. You don't need to hear about the fact that the shelves are empty in Wisconsin or in Dover. You know what I mean. You don't need to hear it. You do not need it. What you need now it's time to think that's funny living on the faults that it was the strategy on a loan, fatten yourself up for starvation. I interviewed the winner, the second season winner, and that's exactly what he did. So he lost like sixty pounds or something like that while he was on I think it's subconscious. I think it's like from the millions of years that we've had good times and bad times. You know, it's like, oh God, look at this. We've wandered. We foraged our way into this field full of berries and ripe fruits, and there's the easy like shellfish and things to be had very easily all around us. And they eat and fatten up. The seasons, change of food goes away and then you starve, and that's you know, that's just the deal. So the media diet is important, folks. The media diet is important. A lot of people know a lot of cool stuff that they're writing in blogs. There's a lot of good information out there. There's a lot of crap information out there. There's just too much information out there, and you have to recognize, even me, even the Prepper Broadcasting Network, we don't know your situation. We don't know the situation you have with your kids, the issues your wife has, to your neighbors, your particular property and where it's seated, and the struggles that you're gonna have, or the benefits that you We don't know it. We don't know it. You know it. So the most important person to listen to right now is you. And that might mean, Honey, I'm going for a walk. I'll be back in an hour, and just go for a walk and just massage to this situation in your head. You know what I mean. Just massage this situation in your head, and you will be amazed at what comes out, at the brilliance that you have in your own head. If you just take get the phone out of your face for a minute, stop reading about the markets are crashing, and the waves are crashing, and the tsunamis are come and the martial law will be here at any second. Take a breath, sit down and think about your family. Focus on local. And I believe that you guys, everybody listening to this network, unless you're completely brand new to prepping, everybody can come up with really good solutions on how you're gonna weather this situation. So just consider that. Man, the media diet is a big one it'll wear you out. It'll absolutely wear you out. You be screaming at your kids, you be yelling at your wife, your husband, because you'll be totally roasted by the end of the day from stressing out over this stuff that you can't do anything about, that isn't even close to you. Better start talking to your allies, right, you want to talk about strong communities. Now is the time to start talking to allies. What do I mean by that. I don't mean, you know, having quiet private meetings all out of the revolutionary war in the basements of homes and things like that. I mean belthough you could if you'd like to, if you have that group of neighbors. But it's time to start talking talking to the people. You know, you have a few people in your neighborhood that you talk to. It's time to start engaging from the perspective of how many people out there are stuck with the kids all day. I don't know how many are out there that got the kids home on a surprise, But I want to give you a little something, a little resource for young kids from the dynamic lifestyle side of things. Right for those of you khw to the Iyem Liberty show. You know, just your host is a nerd, he is a seeker. I guess I just do a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff that doesn't fit in with the prepping mold. You know. If I see it and I like it, then I try it. If I like it when I try it, then I do it. And I don't put any I don't shut any doors. I don't lock any doors to myself. You know. I don't say well I am I am X so I can't do why because it doesn't fit, doesn't fit with my life, you know. And one of the things I've been doing for years is yoga. And when my first son, Carter was about three or four years old, we found this. We found this YouTube channel called Cosmic Kids Yoga, and Cosmic Kids Yoga is absolutely outstanding fun with kids. And you don't need anything but the channel. You need nothing but the YouTube channel and a device to watch it on. And Jamie, the woman behind the channel, will will walk you through some sort of a story. And she's got stories for everything. She got Pokemon, Star Wars, Minecraft, Harry Potter, Halloween, Christmas, you know, whatever story you like your kids like, She's got a story and she will narrate the story and she'll do the yoga poses that fit in with the story. Right, Like, so you're you know, then a turtle walk by, get into turtle pose and that type of thing. Your kids will love it. Your kids will love it. You will love it. You need to stretch more. Trust me. It is Uh, it is key to longevity and health and being able to be mobile. You know what I mean, if you really want mobility, which I pride second only to endurance. Really, you know, strength is good. I see a lot of big, strong guys. That's awesome, there's nothing wrong with that. But uh, when it comes to my own personal desires for physical fitness, endurance and mobility, I weigh heavier than strength, you know, because you can get strength in groups. That's one of the real that's one of the struggles I have. Right, It's like I can top out at a certain amount of weight, but all I have to do is add another human. Now, all of a sudden boom, we got substantially more strength. But when it comes to mobility, you know what I mean, Like, I will get hurt if I move in this direction, or I have a bad back, or I have a knee injury, or I have this or I have that because I haven't didn't take care of mobility. It is what it is. You know, you can't do that. You can't fix that same thing with endurance. You know, you can't add a person to endurance, like you can't just be I'm gonna I've gotta make this trip to the bug out bag, but I'm too tired. Okay, I'll just grab another person and they can finish and get to my bug out back doesn't work that way. So mobility endurance are a big deal. And if you want to have some fun with your kids, give it a try. Cosmic kids yoga. Let's talk gorilla gardening. Yeah, let's talk a really gardening. I was looking around the note, see if I missed anything. So this is a concept that has existed that I'm gonna play with a little bit. We're gonna twist a little bit. I've seen it come up in a number of different ways. One of the most interesting gorilla gardening sort of theories, or not really a theory because it was in practice practices that I've ever seen was a group of girls, predominantly who were going around and taking cuttings from apple trees, cutting the trees in their neighborhood and wrapping those cuttings. Am I saying the right thing? Cutting? I don't know if I'm saying the right thing. Help me out, chat Room. You know when you buy one of those trees and it makes like, you know, it makes like apples and pears and it puts out all kinds of fruit. What's the word I'm looking for? How do you make one of those? When you slice? You you put like the the angular cut on one tree, an angular cut on another tree. Splice the trees. We'll go at that. I don't know if that's the right word either. But they were taking they were they were running around the city and they were splicing these apples onto other trees, right, and you know, it was just their way of kind of you know, it was just kind of a fun video. I thought it was kind of cool and definitely could be a part of the game. Grafting that nub, that nub, that nub is one heck of a nub. That's the word I was looking for, So grafting, Uh, Grafting can definitely be one of those things that you start to consider in your in your gorilla toolkit, right, Jen says it's hard to pull off. Sure, I'm sure it is. Do it a lot, do a lot of it. Graft a bunch of branches from trees to other trees. Something's gonna work. The reason that I like including that in gorilla gardening is because it's one of those situations where it's kind of secret, it's kind of your own little thing, and it's also hard for the deer to destroy it. You know, the biggest downfall if we're gonna talk about gorilla grafting is or gorilla gardening rather, is when you start planting things outside of protected areas. If you're in an area where there's deer, right, if you're in an urban center, plant them seeds wherever you can find every every plant or you can find, put plant seeds in it. You know you're gonna be around business parks. People are gonna have, you know, stupid decorative plants all in their nice manicured mulchi soil there or in planters or in window boxes. If we get far enough along in this thing where you concerned about actual really eating within the next few months, rip that stuff out and start planting seeds everywhere everywhere. You know what I mean. But the idea here is just to really start considering that sort of Cuban mindset at the onset of a disaster. Right, you know where people are and where people aren't now, and maybe you don't plant seeds right in their planters, but man, you can start some I'll tell you what is great. You can start some vining or some plants like those prolific growers right, like squashes, and you can just throw those squash plants, those seedlings into places that people aren't really going to be looking for them, or into places where you might only know and that type of thing into your neighbor's yard. Do you have neighbors would like you know, they have like, uh, they've got a fenced in yard, but like the back half of the yard is like a forest. Anyway you have people like that, that's a perfect place. It's a perfect place to throw in some gorilla gardening. You know, there are medians, there are public parks, There are all kinds of places where you can seek out and be smart about what you're growing. And you know, another very interesting thing to consider when it comes to gorilla gardening is the application of a commitment very similar to that nub right, We talked about that nub and his game plan to sort of buy trees and berry bushes a certain amount every year and to get them in the ground. Now, what if you bought five trees, but you plant it two in the park nearby, or in the woods nearby, or something to that effect. You know, now you're creating obviously a little bit of a a little bit of a garden and a little bit of an orchard in your own yard. But now you know you have this little cash, this little garden cash, right, this little cash of food that you can go find if need be. Obviously an understanding of native plants is important, but we're reaching a point in time where well, you know, it's a scary. What's most scary for me, Well, not necessarily, but what I imagine what's most scary for most people is this idea that there are a few things that can go real bad and you can be in a real bad place. Right, they can go real bad and you'll be in a real bad place. And Breezy says, won't these plants die with no attention? You know that all depends on where you do it, You know what I mean? That all depends on where you plant those plants, what type of plants they are, right, If you're putting trees in the ground, they're gonna be fine. If you're planting you know, we have these giant sections of manicured lawns and things like that. These could be unkept in the next few months. You know, I don't know what that's going to look like. And if you have these grassy fields, you can definitely get away with with planting early in there as long as you're getting good sunlight, and man, that stuff's gonna stay alive. You've never had one of those? Have you ever had one of those? Like rogue pumpkins. I get these rogue pumpkins every year, usually because I throw We get stupid amounts of pumpkins for Halloween, right we're decorating people, and we get stupid amounts of these pumpkins, and they all wind up in the compost pie. We eat most of the seeds, but they all wind up composting down in the soil for the next year. And I guess, you know, sometimes all the seeds don't compost all the way, so I wind up with these rogue pumpkin seeds and plants that just grow up out of the ground, and they survive just fine. They roll into the woods to find light. They even produce pumpkins sometimes. Look, it's not ideal, right, it's not ideal, But there are options. There are most certainly options. I mean, if your neighbor has a garden and they high tail it out of here, you're not gonna let that soil sit there, you know, without food in it. Right, Volcano says, I get rogue kale out of the compost heap. Nothing wrong with that, Nothing wrong with that. I like it. Yeah. So the mindset is just you know, I know, you guys have the seeds, or at least I hope you do. I hope you have plenty of seeds, more seeds than you need. Right, I know, that's the position that most preppers are in. Right, they got the cans, they got the boxes, the bins, they got the bags. They got last year's seeds, they got this year's seeds. It's time to seed. It's time to seed things. See what works. You know. The other thing you can do in when it comes to gorilla gardening is start seeds that you know, have a super quick turnaround. You know, maybe don't go down the path of growing tomatoes in the forest. Right, But if you can do if you can do things like lettuce, if you can do things like spinach, if you can do those plants that have that quick turnaround, then you don't have to worry about caring for them, right, you don't have to worry about man. I sure hope this thing makes it sixty days, Right, you'll be eating it by then. You'll be eating already radishes, that type of stuff. You know, get it up and going. If you have if you have, I mean, if you have the means, right, it's it's easy to say things like this and that ve mentioned it in chat. He said, you know you want to you want to take care and plant more native plants that are used to your soil, used to your area. That type of thing. That stuff costs money. You know, if you don't already have it. If you don't already have it, that stuff costs money. It's just you know, either you got the money to do it or you don't. But I know you guys have seeds. I know you have seeds. Justin I'm getting just in the pilot chat being and also discord beings at the same time, Breezy cant says, if you regrow things like celery, there's still good nutrients. I don't have any idea why anything with nutrient wise would change. To be honest with you, Jen says, seeds in boxes and baskets, seed it all, seed it all. It's also a good time to talk to your neighbors about community gardening. It's a good time to talk about that plot of land that nobody uses, right and if they don't want to talk about it, that's when you go in under the cover of night and you plant some seedlings there, and you take a walk each day and you go visit your seedlings and make sure they don't get, you know, shaded out by weeds and that type of thing. That's it. Go to it. You know, if you're the type of person, this is the interesting thing about guerrilla gardening, If you're the type of person who sits around and says, I'm gonna spend one month, one day a month, or two days a month or four days a month shooting in AR fifteen at targets because I'm committing to the idea of social disorder and I want to be able to use this gun to protect myself and my family. We're preppers here. But that's some radical stuff. That is that, when you really sit down and think about it, that's the hell of a commitment. We are making serious commitments on certain aspects of our preparedness. Right, I'm gonna learn how to use this nine milimeter and I'm gonna carry it everywhere I go. Right, I'm gonna carry it on my hip everywhere I go concealed. I'm gonna get the license. I'm gonna make sure I know how to clear my garment, you know what I mean, put it on. That's a serious commitment in this modern age. Right, So when it comes to this idea of food, I would like to see the same I would like to see the same life or death stance when it comes to food. Do you understand? I think that would be a big I think that would be a big deal. Right, if we're going to be beholden and if we're going to be committed, what's wrong, Breezy, If you're if you're gonna be committed to something like that, then I would definitely say then I would definitely say we need to have that commitment with gardening, food production, food storage, YadA, YadA, YadA. Right, A big deal big deal. That's my two cents on guerrilla gardening. Get yati again. I can't give you the perfect layout for your situation. I don't know it, and I don't want to know it. I have no desire to know your situation, and I don't want to make it perfect. But I want to lay a concept on you that is, take full advantage of the dirt. Do you get it? Take full advantage of the dirt that's around you, and grow food, grow food. You know what's going on all over the nation. People are freaking out over one of three things, right, food being one of them. Don't be caught, don't be caught with your pants down. Here's the other one. And this is what we're gonna probably end on. This is for our fourth pillar of the eye, am liberty, show self reliance? All right. I live on the James River, the thunderous James River. Not necessarily on it, but I'm so close it's like being on it. It's a dream. James River is my destiny. I do believe that. I mean, I really do believe that the James River is my destiny. I was brought up fishing the Brandywine River, brought up with an ecstatic passion driven into me by my father about the superiority of the small mouth bass and it's and its fight, and it's what a fun fish to go after weekend after weekend. Right The James River has a world class small mouth population. I mean it really does, particularly the Upper James. But I've caught great fish, great great smallmouth bass right here in the city, you know. And it just feels, you know, when you wind up at a river that's named after you, or that shares your name. I always say named after me, and my wife laughs like they didn't name the river for you. It's been to James River for a long time. It's not what I mean. When you wind up with a woman like her living on a river that shares your name, chasing a fish that you've been chasing your whole life, feels like destiny, you know what I mean. So we take advantage of that. We fish the James River all summer spring, that type of thing. The other thing that's prolific in the James are blue catfish, and I don't mind eating me blue catfish. I don't know how many of you go fishing, right, but I can tell you right now if you are sitting around. This is just if you're sitting around, If you're sitting around saying to yourself, Wow, look at all these empty shelves. This is a freaky thing. I wonder if I have enough food. I wonder if I put up another. I wonder how long this thing will last. I wonder what it will be like. I wonder if I have enough. If you find yourself sitting around concerned with that, then you should definitely concern yourself with your fishing tackle situation. Really, you should really consider your fishing tackle situation. You want to talk about a prep. You want to talk about a cheap and effective prep. You can go buy a spool of a thousand yards of monofilament six pound tests or ten pound tests, something that you will never use all of never use it. The world could end right now, and you could fish for the rest of your life and your kid's life, and you probably never use that much monofilament. You know what I mean. I mean, unless you just take giant casts and snag logs with every cast and have to break off. But to be quite honest, you want to talk about a great prep, invest in some cheap rods and reels. If you don't have them. If you got rods and reels, invest in five thousand yards of monofilament, invest in cheap small hooks and maybe some sinkers maybe, and you're in. It's a done deal. You have a protein program, now right. You have a protein program. Your protein program is fish again. Even if things get terrible, only so many people are going to go down to the river and fish, go down to the pond and fish. Only so many people even know how to scale and dress those fish or filly those fish. It's time to fish, folks, it really is. It's time to fish. The volcano says, I wouldn't know what to do with a fish if I caught it. Okay, this is what we're gonna do. Then this is what we're gonna do. I can't I can't tell you when because I don't even know what the river looks like right now. But I'm gonna sneak down to the river for Patreon. I'm gonna sneak down to the river. I'm gonna catch me a decent sized catfish. I'm gonna bring it home. I'm gonna cut his head off and I'm gonna flay him, and I'll show you exactly how to fully him super easy, and then we're gonna fry them up and eat them with the kids, because listen, it's one of those things you know. People, Well, let's end with this. Let's end with this. I pitched a book to a literary agent days ago. I don't mess around with stuff like that normally, because I really do love self publishing, because I'm a control freak when it comes to my creative process. I mean, if you don't get that from the I Am Liberty Show, then you're not paying attention. But I pitched a book because my reach is limited and publisher's reach is greater. And the book that I pitched is the first ever preparedness nonfiction book that I've ever even thought about writing. I've written apocalyptic fiction and that type of thing. But and one of the chapters in that book that I proposed, and I don't know if it'll be picked up. I don't know if the literary agent will pick it up, or if it will even be sold. But I have a feeling that because of the timing and because of the situation, that the demand is there, and it's a new type of demand that not a lot of agents have can easily get their hands on, right, it's hard for a literary agent, I imagine, to say, oh, preparedness just got really popular. I sure hope I get a bunch of submissions on that. You know, it's like you're getting young adult romance and dystopian young adult hunger games stuff all the time, and that sort of thing. But uh, Anyway, one of the chapters, one of the chapters that I wrote into that book, into the line the outline, was called the one hundred Year Amnesia. And the one hundred Year Amnesia is a book in and of itself. It really is, and I will probably write it one day when I'm much older. But I want to write a book about the one hundred year Amnesia and how we went from nineteen hundred to the year two thousand and lost thousands of years worth of skills and techniques and tactics for survival, because I think it's the greatest loss of skills in the history of mankind. And fishing is one of those things, you know, the earliest peoples, the earliest settlements, we settled on water. We threw nets for fish, and we ate it because we didn't have ground meat in packages, right, conveniences of demon understand that convenience is a drug. It's a drug, and people are so terrified of the withdrawals of convenience that they're already taking drastic action. But I can tell you right now, amongst the many skills that were lost in the thousand year are the one hundred year amnesia. Rather that period of time between nineteen hundred and the year two thousand. Uh, fishing is one of the biggest because you're probably sitting around wondering protein, protein protein. I got the chicken, so I got chicken eggs. That's good. But uh, you know, I don't have goats. I'm not gonna I don't have the land to raise a cow. I don't know what I'm gonna do about protein. The great, the great one hundred year amnesia just totally broke people of that. It totally stole that sort of tool out of the toolkit. Like, not only is fish the simplest and most viable protein source around, it's literally how civilizations were built, right, They were literally built on Oh wow, there's good fishing here. Let's park. Wow, it's good. Read the Jamestown, you know, read about Jamestown and see how how prolific the York River was, and that type of thing. And you'll say, oh, okay, there's a reason people pulled the boats up and said okay, let's stay here. Because they threw the nets out and they yanked out all kinds of fish, and they said it's time to eat. We got food before we establish anything. We got food from these waters. Again, not everybody's gonna do it. Be the person that does it, be prepared for it. Fishing is super simple to prepare for. Guys. You know, if you're gardening, you got worms. You don't even need to worry about bait. You don't gotta buy bait. You don't got to buy a bunch of plastic baits. I'll tell you what I'm I've been thinking about doing is starting a meal worm farm for the chickens. And Dave Jones has done it, so I'll probably be picking his brain about that and giving it a whirl. But meal worms are tremendous bait. So if you've got a compost pile, if you've got a garden, that means you've got earthworms, you've got red worms. Right, if you start a meal worm farm for you, I'll tell you something, Right, now March eighteenth, couple warm days of weather, you go out with a bobber and a hook little one and meal worms, and you will pull bluegill in all day long. You'll be tired of it. I do with my kids almost every year this time of year, right around now March twentieth, I think we go out, we fish the ponds. The ponds are warming up, the blue gills are going crazy, getting ready to spawn, and they attack everything and you'll pull them in one after another. So it's a hell of a lot better than trying to breed chickens and butcher them and deal with rabbits and deal with goats and deal with you know what I mean. You'll go fill a bucket up a fish, you bring it home. You can salt it, you can smoke it, you can dry it, you can eat it as is, you can fry it, you can freeze it, depending on the power situation. And if you live in a place like me where you have a prolific and almost problematic catfish problem, bring them things home. Bring them things home and eat them. You're doing the watershed a service, right A thousand years or the one hundred year amnesia folks I'm telling you, it's an amazing story, and I don't I'm not doing it justice by giving it one chapter in the book, but it does deserve a full book. The things that we have forgotten, well, you guys know better than anybody the things that we have forgotten, because prepping is all about taking those things back. It's taking that knowledge back. Look, I appreciate you. You got to understand that it's it's you. I try to tell you it as regularly as possible. 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