THROWBACK THURSDAY: Skill Work and Survival Packs on I AM Liberty

M h. You've just joined the Pepper Broadcasting Network where we promote self deliance and did the pemberance the rules and the fians expressed ours thick through those of the host or their guests, those of us in the hyperactive chat room at pepper broadcasting dot com. The b A. Thesman Ledge Dominate protect you to excellent Repedia, the. Ability of our average working Americans act that they should. Have been able to now be underlive back that lower and middle clo income will not. Right, Let's go take this seriss and on the town two mean you've been time on. Its side. Terrorist. Let's talk a little about our own home control now. So it goes down to the simplest thing, be prepared the Trumps. Who let's kick our shoes off and take a break from the news of the day and the days that have passed. Because I don't know about you, but I am so tired of hearing about stars and starlets and Harlot's and Kanye West, and to be honest, I'm tired of hearing about politics altogether. I'm tired of hearing about Trump scandals and what he did do and didn't do. And it's just bored me to death. So I thought that we should do a show, a real survival show, a real wilderness survival show. And I don't even know if I want to call it survival. It's more of a well, it's a show about skill work. It's a show about skills. It's a show about maybe maybe more bushcraft skills. You want to call the show about survival, but it's not really that, you know, because we're going to talk about some time that I spent out way out in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, and you know, you want to call them survival skills, but and maybe they are. But at the same time, you know, you're never at least I was never in any situation where I was at risk and I was truly trying to survive. You know, they're at the end of the day, it's basically just primitive camping skills. I guess that the appropriate name for the things that I did and the things that I worked on while I was out there, you know, just very primitive camping, camping skills that would all lend himselves to a survival situation and things like that. Uh, that's what I want to get into tonight. That's really what I want to do. I've got a few things picked out, a few articles. May is going to be a wild month. I mean, it really is. It's going to be a flash in the pan personally, professionally, as far as the I AM Liberty Shows concerned. We've got some great guests this month. The second half of this month, we are definitely going to UH, We're going to really tighten down on social media and privacy if you're into those, which you should be into those, because that's the thing like that is the thing that is going to It's going to be the biggest topic probably of the next twenty years, what to do with privacy. I guess the two biggest things that we'll have to figure out as a civilization over the next twenty years is going to be what do we do about privacy? And what do we do about work? For the people who are replaced by the much more efficient and the much less UH and the much less snotty workers that are going to be replaced by automation. Those are the two defining issues in civilization. I think that are coming. How did I get there? I don't even remember. I'm reading the chat room. I kind of lost my smart lost my train of thought. I don't want to get into those topics. I don't want to get into those big topics. Tonight, out prepping, our preparing, the host of our money day show called Behind the Headlines, Al says, enjoy the Outdoors show. We're going to have an enjoy the Outdoor show. I like that. That's exactly what it was. You hit the nail on the head, Al, That's exactly what it was. It was. It was supposed to be a day and night enjoying the outdoors, and it just turned out to be a day in an evening. And we can get into that if you want to. I mean, it's, you know, not a real big story and a real exciting story. But yeah, that's what it was, was enjoying the outdoors, and I want to talk about it. I want to talk about the things that I did while I was enjoying the outdoors, the tools that I used, the skills that I used while I was out there. You know, we're talking about twelve hours. It's not a two week long trek through the woods where I had to use every bit of my wit. But what I'll tell you is it is a phenomenal opportunity to get out with your pack and figure out what works and what doesn't, and also to put yourself to the test, you know, and to figure out what do I need to work on? More than anything else, what do I need to work on? It's an important, important thing to do. It's measuring, you know. I always talk about measuring. Measuring yourself is crucial to a good life. That's what I've come to find out. No matter what it is you're doing, measuring yourself is critical. Al if you check, if you look in the show description, you'll see some of the pictures that I took. Actually, there's a few of them in there. There's a big fat brown trout that I caught. You can see where I set my camp up and the mountains off in the distance. And then there's a just another picture of a fire getting started. I've got more than that, but I haven't figured out what I want to do with it. I've got a bunch of footage. I've got a bunch of uh pictures, and some video and stuff. But I don't know, if I really I don't know. We'll see Editing video takes so much time, you know what I mean. It's just a whole different world than podcasting, especially for me because I get crazy about it. You know, I have to have music. It's gotta be the right m's. It's a thing. It's a whole thing, you know what I mean. Uh, But Yeah, we've got some stuff coming in May, and the last two weeks of May. One is gonna be with Stephen Menking. You might remember Stephen Menking for on the Objective, and we're gonna be talking about social media there. And then we're gonna have the guys on from Bunker Days who have a prepper based social media, which is pretty cool, you know what I mean. It's not bad. I enjoyed. I've done business with the gentlemen and they're a good group of guys. There's definitely nothing wrong with them. They'll be on and we're gonna talk about what I might get into in this show. I have a Gateway Pundit article that is kind of terrifying about just the absolute crushing that Zuckerberg has put on conservative voices on Facebook. And while the article itself is not very interesting, I'll tell you that the statistics on various conservative hosts and their followings, when you look at it's filled with a bunch of graphs and a bunch of hosts, and a bunch of notable names in the conservative movement, and you just see how their engagements have fallen off heavily. And that's a scary thing. And that's a thing that you know, all terrified about this. You know, we're not all at the mercy of this. I think I have something like one hundred people, one hundred and sixty people who follow me on Facebook. I mean, it's not my bread and butter, you know, to these guys it is, though, these bigger names, it's a big deal, and it hurts. You know. I'm always on the fence on this stuff. When it comes to these social media things. I'm always on the fence about YouTube. Do I really want to be a part of that? I don't know, you know, Twitter, the whole thing. None of it's really none of it's really incredible for me personally, you know, none of it's make or break. I think I've got like almost a thousand followers on Twitter or something like that, and I'm not a big player in the social media game. So and then part of me, part of me gets to the point where I'm saying, how much effort do I want to put into this thing? You know, how much do I want to put into this thing if it might get yanked out from underneath me anyway? And my business is done well enough without it, and my podcast has done well enough without it, you know what I mean. So I don't know. I don't know one thing I do like about Facebook, and I will say I do like and I don't use it enough. But you can run targeted ads on Facebook, and I think that's pretty cool. I think that's pretty cool. That's a that's a big deal. Uh, let's see what are we dealing with else here? You can't be dropping bombs like that on us Man Dutchman, big time condolences. Man, you're not You knock me right off the horse with that one. I'm so I'm so tired of hearing about the sea word. The sea word is just taking everything, you know, The sea word is taking everything from everyone lately. It's a it's a tough thing to deal with. Hang on, one second is a wasp. It's threatening life. It's the end of that. Yeah, cancer's out of control. Dry It's been some I remember my friend Mike, who was a businessman himself now and all growing up. He worried about cancer all growing up. His whole life was worry of cancer. I'm talking fifteen, fourteen years old. And you know, he was just ahead of the curve. He was just ahead of the curve. It's a brutal thing. It affects me in such a big way. You know, don't apologize, Dutchman. It's no big deal. And it's good. It's good talk for the show because it's it's huge. You know, it's huge. It's everywhere. Everything I eat, I think about it. You have no idea. I made a pizza tonight for the boys. Lady Liberty's out own business, and I made it a pizza for the boys tonight and I ate a lot good. The dough I made was perfect. And you know when I eat like that, and you know, when I drink soda or something, which I don't do very often, that's all I think about. That's all I think about. I think about my kids. We just lost our dog to cancer. We lost our mother in law to cancer. You know what I mean. I think about my boys and I say to myself, God, dude, you cannot get cancer. You get cancer and die. It's it's one of the great villains of our time. That's it. It's one of the great villains of our time. Dutchman. We love you. You're in our prayers. Man. It's an ugly thing. It really is no fun. It's no fun, you know, when it comes to death. The only thing I like to do when I think about those who I've lost is just sort of compare the pain, you know, Compare the pain in days and hours or weeks and months to the pleasure. You know, That's what I find comfort in. You know, you watch people's suffer, you watch animals suffer that you love, and you have to realize it. You know, they spend a lot hopefully hopefully, No, I don't know everyone's situation, but hopefully they spend a lot more time in joy than they have in pain. And on that note, I think we'll just end the show. Oh it's a terrible thing, it really is. So can we jump? Can I do sort of a stop set and jump from one topic to another? I don't have a bridge for that. I'm sorry. I mean, I guess I could if I thought it over. But what it brings to mind, and I guess I could pull it off for sure. What it brings to mind. Is this right? The same thing that it brings to mind when I think of people that I've lost. You have to do the things you like, period. You have to modify your life to be able to do the things that you like, because before you know it, I'm thirty years old and I worry about it, but before you know it, it's over. And what I want to make sure is that I don't have a bunch of things on my plate, a bunch of things on my to do list when it's over, when the dead man comes knocking. You know, I don't want a bunch of things on my plate. So you have to make time for that. And that's what this trip was for me. You get the itch man. One of the things I love about my state is that I have the ability to get out there into the mountains and fish innumerable streams and creeks for a mountain trout. And I'll tell you that that was about I don't know, fifty percent of this trip. You know, fifty percent of this trip was to fish the Bull Pasture River. And say, is this a place I want to bring my kids? Is this a place I want to drive three hours to fish another day? And yes, that's a winner. Now. I fished other spots in Virginia and the Virginia Mountains that I didn't think was really a winner or that I didn't think were winners. You know, that were places that I visited once and I said, you know, pretty cool. Maybe visited again sometime, but definitely not the place to bring kids. For those of you who don't know, the array of mountain trout fishing is wide. I mean it's very wide. And the reason it's so wide, Yeah, I seen that. Al it's coming. When is it? Al preparing says, speaking of Virginia Gun Show and Die as well, that this is not this weekend? Is it? I may run up to that thing. I am still looking to outfit the Uh. I'm still in the middle of a rifle build and it's been halted because of many other things that are pulling cash from me. But anyhow, mountain trout fishing in Virginia is an interesting thing because you can attack many species and different different versions of that species. You know. So for example, the Bull Pasture River where I fish was basically a put and take river. You know what that means is the state puts trout in, they stock them and then you go catch them and you take them out of there and you eat them. In most cases. Now there's something called holdover fish, and those holdover fish they stay there, you know, throughout the year, and they say that gets is about cold enough that some can live. But they stock rainbow trout. They stock brown trout like the one you see on the show description. And they stock brook trout. Now, these are trout. You know, they are the same species as what I'm about to talk about next, but they're very different. Okay, they grew up in a hatchery, you know, they didn't grow up in the wild, and it's a very different creature, as you can imagine. Right, you take a guy who was grown up in the mountains of Virginia and you stick them in Manhattan. You know, it's different, same species, very different beast. Now you give further up in the mountains and you wind up finding native brook trout in tiny mountain streams, bow pasture, river, deep running waters, lots of room to cast the fly rod. I used fly rout in the spinning rod. There there was a good time or the spinning out. It lots of room to cast. Nice big river, you know, not not river, but it was a big creek, a big, big creek, deep limestone, nice. It was beautiful place. You get into the mountain trout and you realize that you're up against a foe that is going to take everything that I mean. To catch those fish takes everything I have. And I'm a guy who's been fly fishing since I'm twelve years old, you know what I mean, twenty years, twenty years of casting experience, and I didn't fly fish ponds, you know what I mean. I've been fly fishing small creeks for most of my life, and these fish are tough. Man, It's a whole different ballgame. You're catching stock trout. You know. You can run spinner baits through the river. You can run big giant minnows like the one I was using to catch that brown trout. That thing hit the water and look like someone threw a rock in it. You know what I mean. When you get into fishing for wild native brook trout who have been in these mountains for I don't know, thousands of years. You know, these are generational fish. They've been there forever. They know everything. They know what your footfall sounds like, they know what you're when you're rod makes a shadow on the river or on the creek. Rather, they know what your line is. They know in your life your line hits the water too hard. They go, no, no, no, we know what that is. That's fishermen. They're tough. And some days when you have a lot of time and you have a lot of patients, going after those those river trout are incredible, you know, going or going after this creek, those mountain trout rather Flying Dutchman says, best docking is when they do it weeks or better months for a fishing season. Yeah, you don't see that much anymore, or at least not in Virginia and Pennsylvania. You know, you don't see that a whole lot. The fish get bunched up, and you know, people show up and they smash them. I actually got to the Bulpasture River a little late because I had a three hour ride, so I got there around nine forty five, ten o'clock something like that, and I ran into a father daughter who were leaving, and I just it was great to see. It was one of those great things that you get to see in life. A father daughter combo leaving with fishing poles to a lifelong fisherman like myself. It warms the heart. You have no idea what happens during those fishing trips. You know, the bonds that are created, the conversations that are had, these are critical. So as I said, about ninety now probably about fifty percent, like I said, of the reason that I went up to the mountains last Saturday was to do that was to explore yet another river to put in my fishing journal and say, and the bull pasture is a winner. You know, the bull pasture is a winner. It's near the Highland Wildlife Management Area, which is a giant wildlife management area. Good turkey hunting, bear deer hunting up there is what they say. Anyway, But great camping spot way out there, like right on the border of West Virginia. You don't run into many people. And it's a great little camping spot too. There's a lot of spots to camp in that wildlife management area. Ideal for you know, six year olds. Ideal for a kid that I can take down there with a bobber with some minnows, or maybe we can catch minnows while we're down there and we can have fun. You know, we can catch trout all day we can catch long day, we can cook them up right there on the creek side. And there's something about that, you know, there is just something about that those adventures. It's weird because you have those adventures and you sick. Man, there are unforgettable moments. If I think hard enough, I can almost remember all of my fishing trips with my dad, because there every fishing trip is a unique story. But anyway, let's move on, because that was only fifty percent of the trip. And while it was lovely, the weather was beautiful, the wind was a little much for the fly rod. That's why I wound up switching. I was having some trouble with my rod, and it was a little windy because there was seventy degrees and it was supposed to go down to thirty five degrees that night. I don't know how cold it got because I wound up leaving, but it was supposed to get pretty cold. Now, I wasn't worried about the cold very much because, you know, thirty five degrees kind of is what it is. And I had all kinds of clothes, hats, gloves, you know, nice warm pants for sleeping. I had. I've got a great you know, zero to thirty degree fleece lined mummy style sleeping bag that I imagine I probably would have been. I probably would have been sweating it. Me Gray says something that I was definitely trying to do and I just did not come up or come into it. And I think it was a little early, to be honest with you. Me Gray says, seasonal foods form of synergy, spring trout, moral mushrooms, ramps, and fiddle heads. That's a plateful. Now. My initial plan, Gray, this is my initial plan was to dress this trout, you know, just to dress it, cut the head off, tail off, cut the insides out, and my game plan was to do something similar. Ramps, which are baby leaks, fiddleheads. I actually saw something. I didn't sit down and pick a bunch. But yeah, more interested in the morels. But I don't think it's morel time in Virginia yet. You know, it has to the ground temperature has to be fifty degrees pretty steadily before the morels start popping up. I've actually gone morel hunting. It's awesome, you know, it really is awesome. So much of being a chef lends itself to this outdoor and survival world. We'll talk about that a little later too, because that's another observation that I made out there. But yeah, I've gone the morel hunting. Found the good oh man, those beautiful things. Got to know a look alike called the verpa or the verpie. What's you called the verp? I think the verpa mushroom, which I mean, if you don't know about morels, I knew a lot about morel's I've been handling from years and years and years before I went hunting, because they are They're a rare and expensive mushroom to put on a dinner plate, you know, and they're exciting, and I think they're one of the best mushrooms to eat. The beautiful thing about a morell, when you look at it and when you think about what it does, is it holds sauce so well. Right, So a morell kind of looks like a brain a little bit, and it's got a lot of these little cavities and nose on the outside of it, honeycomb looking almost right, and it just holds that. When you have a sauce with morels in it, or you have morels that you're putting a sauce on, they hold that sauce very well from a chef's perspective, but they also taste delicious, and the rarity it was always exciting, you know something. I mean, I don't know what they go for nowadays, but when I was in the business, you know, you would spend about thirty eight forty dollars a pound on morel mushrooms. That was always exciting. Dakota says, I grew up in Maine. That's kind of funny. I grew up in Maine and we went fishing with fother He fished and I picked fiddle heads. Back then we could drink the river water. Yeah, those were the days. I imagine that those were the days. I would have loved that, though gray, I would have loved to take that. That was my game plan. That really was my even brought some a few sheets of aluminum foil I folded up small and slipped into my pack just for that. I wanted to take those ramps. I wanted to take some morels, possibly some fiddleheads, slide them into the inside of that trout, wrap him tightly in that foil. I even brought some coconut oil I was gonna throw into that pack. Salt I always carry salt in my pack. Season that thing up and throw them right in the coals and let that baby cook. And man a ramp. Dakota asks, what's a ramp. It's a baby leak. It's a baby wild leak. And those guys have like this great oniony smell and impart. They're super delicate, you know what I mean, super delicate, and they impart this great flavor, which would have gone awesome with that brown trout. It would have been awesome, but it didn't happen like that exactly, Melinda Lee, that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. Yeah, Gray hits it on the head. It is a little garlicky too. Yeah, it would have been perfect. Didn't work out though, didn't work out. And one of the big reasons it didn't work out that way for me is because I had planned on camping just outside of that Bull Pasture river and something hilarious happened. And I want you guys to hold on. I'll tell you about what it was. It kind of blew my mind, but I had to recover from it, and I did recover from it, but it just it cut into my fish feast and it kind of threw things a little wry, but I want to get our first break out of the way. We've got plenty of show to talk about. We're gonna talk about packs, We're gonna talk about minimalist kits. I'd like to know what kind of minimalist kits you guys were taking into the woods. We're gonna talk about several different types of skills and outdoor skills that I practiced out there. Yeah, we've got a big show. We've got a big show, so hang in there. We'll get right back and we'll talk about why my camping schedule got all crooked. All right, So hang in there more. I'm Liberty Show still to come. Look, I guess I should announce that, Yes, and we are back to life here on the IEM Liberty Show. Hump day. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, so much success in this beginning part of twenty eighteen. It's hard to really, you know, express my gratitude on it all. What I want to say, though, is, yes, if you listen to the new show that went up on my website, we are talking about some of the same things that went down on that show. But my live listening audience and my audience here in the chat room. We're talking about things that I posted on a podcast earlier today. But here's the deal. This is an interactive show and I my friends are here. I mean, it's a weird thing to say, and it's a weird way to look at you guys in the chat room. But whatever it is, what it is, it's a sign of the times. It's a different time. We talked about this on the show before, you know what I mean, this is this is my group, these are my fellows, and you know that's all. That's all. So we've got a lot to talk about, though we're not just going to touch on those things. Gray says, this is maybe the first time I've talked about fishing. You know. It's one of those weird things. Gray, So much of my life has been about fishing. It's hard to believe. And it's one of those things that doesn't come up on the show very often, you know, And the reason is because I don't want to do a how to fishing show because that's tremendously boring. You know, so much of that can just drive you crazy. It's just woven into me, you know, it's part of everything that I think about and everything that I do. I mean, it's part of every season that I think about. Every season has a fish, you know. It's like every season is defined for me as a fish. That sounds crazy as hell, but that's the truth. You know. We're rolling into a Virginia summer. The spring is here right now. The only thing right the only thing that I can think about, our giant largemouth bass sitting on beds. It's it. It's very hard. It's very hard to think about anything but a big fat mama bass on the bed right now, because I know they are. It's been eight it was eighty yesterday, eighty today. That water temperature is rising. Once it gets in the mid fifth these you know sixties, those bass turn into maniacs. And you get out there and you can catch a monster. You can get you can catch a life changing fish if you're a person like me, you know what I mean. My dad, he caught up monster, large mouth bass. It's still sitting on the wall. It's it's one of those things in my family. And then you think about summer, right and a lot of people do better fishing small mouth in the fall and in the winter and even in the early spring, but not for me. For me, the summer. The summer season is about the small mouth bass. It's about wading the James River catching small mouth bass. You know, when the fall breaks, then it's about trout. It's about fishing trout when the winter breaks. The same deal, right, Those mountain trout are fun the whole the whole day, I mean the whole the whole year is defined by fishing. Springtime comes early spring, that Eastern time. I'm thinking about shad fishing in what's it called American outdoors. Let me go grab that real quick. Hang on one second, maybe throw on a Let me throw on a quick ad for you guys while I go grab something we have to do. We have anything quick? That kill switch bunker game looks pretty cool to get out of. Dodge game awesome that. Uh, let's just say I've got a little game in the worst that I think you guys are gonna love too. But it's probably about a year or two out, i'd say, at least at least, so what I got in front of me. You know, there's a part of me that you guys know very well, and there's a part of me that you don't you know, And I know, I talk about freelance writing sometimes in the show, and that's how I make my living and that type of thing, and writing in general, you know, selling books, that type of deal. There's a magazine called American Outdoors Magazine and it's regional. It hits Texas, Pennsylvania, it hits a handful of states. I don't know. It's actually a free publication and it's probably one of the coolest free publications I've ever seen. But in the spring twenty eighteen edition, they have some great stuff. They have backcountry essential for survival. They have tips for family hunting adventures, mountain lion hunting. I don't know if I'd get in the mountain lion hunting. But what do you do with a mountain lion? Once you kill it? Do you eat it? Eating cat seems weird to me, you know, that's one of the weird things about killing animals that you don't eat. But I guess there are some people who just eat anything. It is what it is. Cats, dogs, horses, you know, those that bit of fauna that we like to have as pets rather than as you know, on our plates. So anyway, in American Outdoors, while we're on the subject of shad fishing on page thirteen. In here, it goes as follows. In the quiet calm of my office, I wrap black thread over a size ten hook. My eyes are heavy, and I have a podcast resounding quietly from my telephone. It's late with a young family. I'm rarely afforded quiet time. Fly tying seems best done by moonlight these days. And this session in particular is an annual event. And that is an absolutely beautiful intro written by yours truly in American Outdoors magazine, and I did a whole article for these guys. I think it's like a three or four page article on just that fishing for shad in the springtime. No, so it's the fishing thing is a big part of me. But I also have a great little fly that I use every year. That's a little shar truce waited shartruse fly with rubber leg tail for the fly fisherman out there. That might sound like total garbily good for people who don't tie flies, but it's a shar truce fly I called the green lantern because it does it's like that, you know what I mean. So fishing is a big deal it's a big piece of me, and it gives me an edge. I'm not gonna lie. It gives you an edge out there when you go to enjoy the outdoors. And you know, in most cases you can get protein from the water. You know, it all sounds good in survival articles and stuff like that, It all sounds good. Right coming, I'm gonna wrap this line around this coke can, and I've got a hook, and I'm gonna put some pemmican on the hook. I'm gonna dig up some worms. I'm gonna throw that lying in the world, and I'm gonna catch me some dinner. And you know, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. I'll tell you this much about fishing. It is the easiest protein you can get in a survival situation, aside from eating bugs. That said you will fail sometimes you know that will happen. You will fail sometimes. I mean I get out there with all my experience, with the best gear that there is to buy, and fail. I mean, it happens. You get out there and you catch nothing, You make some bad casts, you you know, wade into a pool that's filled with fish and you scare them all. It happens. So it's just something to consider, you know what I mean. But I feel like there's a tremendous edge there in the survival world. So what else the butchery right, So it's one thing to catch the fish. The thing you have to do out there with the fish is butcher it right. You've got to you've got to break it down, and you've got to be smart about that. And that was one of the things that I did out there on the side of the Bulpasture River was break the fish down. I delayed it, uh, salted the filets and wrapped them in that in that aluminum foil. And the reason I had to do that is because I had planned to camp right there. I had planned to camp right on the creek. And the first thing that happened to me is the day opened up. The very first thing I pull into the spot, I look at the uh you know the board that has all the Wildlife Management Area rules on it, and in big bold letters it says no camping. And above the footbridge is another sign that says no camping. Brutal. Put them brutal just sent my whole world flipped on its head. You know, there's a lot of planning that goes into these trips, especially if you're overnighting, Especially if you're overnighting. Right, if you're overnighting, You've got to know where am I gonna be so I can tell my family where I'm gonna be. So where am I gonna be? Where am I gonna be? If I get eaten or half eaten, or if I fall and have some sort of mechanical injury that I really need rescuing from, I have to tell the wife where I'm gonna be at. You have to tell someone when you go somewhere like that. I mean, that's that's basic. But I'm sure some people don't do it because they think they're superman. I know better. I've been hurt in the woods. It's a scary thing, that said when you when you watch the bars drain off your cell phone, and that's something that I enjoy. Right, I was listening to Jordan Peterson talk the whole way and then all of a sudden, Jordan Peterson shut up. Then a big smile came on my face because I was tired of listening to him, but because I realized that the cell phone was dead. Now there was no way to get a hold of me. Now there's something about that, you know, that used to be my life all the time, every time, And everybody in the chat room remembers that when you used to leave your house, you would go out into the ether and disappear. And everyone was okay with that. Everyone was completely fine with the fact that dad's leaving, Mom's leaving, your son's leaving, and he doesn't have a cell phone, and you're not gonna know where he's at for how long he's gonna be there, when he's gonna come home, whatever, but he's gonna come back. Nowadays, it's madness, right ten oh one, honey, I'll be home at ten ten oh one? Everything, okay, are you good? Are you good? Like what's going on? So when you watch the bars draw, tret drain off of that cell phone, it's the shack was it's freedom. It's freedom because and it's also freedom because you know, you can't go into the thing either. So they only can't check face Perk and I can't go check the Drudge Report and see, No, you can't. You have to enjoy where you're at and what you're doing. So I really enjoyed that. That's one of my favorite parts. As you get out there and you watch that stuff drain off. But of course the other part of that is when you pull up to the place where you think you're camping and you see that there's no camping now, even though that the Department of Game and Wildlife website was very clear about the fact that you could camp there, Yeah, you realize you've either got to go home, you've got to camp somewhere else. And if you do decide to camp somewhere else and something happens to you and that somewhere else, well you're not gonna come home and your wife's gonna tell the people that go looking for you. Well, he told me to be right here on this mountain range. He said that he'd be between these two points. That's where we can find them. So then they're gonna exhaust all their resources looking for you in that low and you're going to be bleeding out or dying or whatever else, you know, miles away in another camp's campsite. That's what happens, Department of Game and Wildlife. When you do things like that and say, yes, primitive camping is fine, and we pull up and find out that it's not fine. But the butchering of fish. The fileying of fish was something that I practiced that I did that a lot growing up, and I also did it a lot being a chef. Now it's rare that you're going to filly a rainbow trout when you're a chef. In fact, if you're fillying rainbow trout as a chef, you're probably wasting your time. There are very weird There are very weird things in the cooking and in bushcraft slash survivalist world that have these little bridges between them. It's a very weird thing. And I take get for granted because I think everyone has the skills that I came to the table with when I got into prepping and survivalists mentality. You know, you forget that being a chef lends you a bunch of these skills. You know, for one thing, cutting up fish right, understanding how to skin fish and stuff like that, understanding how to get the bones out of meat and all that. But also two major things is just the comfort level that you have with fire and the comfort level that you have with a blade. You know, when you were a chef, you cut every day, you cut things for hours, hours at a time. I was working in a restaurant called Alma de Cuba in Center City, Philadelphia while I was in college, and the prep was insane, the food was insane. It was insanely good. It was it was. It was called Nuevo Latino cuisine, and the emphasis was on fresh. I mean, just like you wouldn't believe herbs cut fresh. Every day. We would make chimmy churry fresh every day. We had we had a whole set of latinas downstairs that just juiced oranges and limes and they did this for hours. You know. We'd have court containers of fresh lime juice that was squeezed every day. So I can imagine if you're working with product that that's that's fresh, you know. I mean we're throwing it away. Almost every other day. All you did was cut. I'd get in there at twelve o'clock. I'd cut till four point thirty, you know, making various items, cooking and cutting the whole time. And that's your life as a chef. Well, that's your life, is a lime cook. And if you're lucky, that's your life, is a chef. If you're not lucky, you wind up being one of these chefs who winds up in an office, you know, looking at in inventory and looking at cost per meal and that kind of ugly stuff. It's a boring existence, but you get man, you get so comfortable, you know, you get so comfortable with having a blade in your hand and how to how to manipulate that blade and how to you know good A good example is making feather sticks. You know, is everybody familiar with with the feather stick? I learned it from watching Uh guy's name can Dave Canterbury. These feather sticks that are made from you know, processed wood that's cut down and you kind of got to use a little finesse and some good knife work to cut little strips down to the edge of the wood that sort of curl And once you get a stick full of these curls, then you have something that can catch fire real easy. And uh, you know, the ease at which I can sort of shaved that wood is not because I'm good at woodworking. I mean, if you said James Waldon and woodworking in the same sentence, I'm sure you get a laugh from most of the people who know me. But I'm just proficient with with a blade, you know. From that, and then again not being afraid of fire, or you'll be overwhelmed when you see how many people are terrified of fire. And I'm not talking about people who aren't planning on starting fires survival I'm talking about people who are planning on going out into the woods or going someplace and starting a big fire to keep themselves warm, that are petrified of the embers and of the flames, and of the kindling that's caught on fire and it rolled out of the fire. It's one of those things. It's one of those things. So again, these skills lend themselves, you know, they lend themselves to that sort of bridge that is between being a chef or a cook and a survivalist or an outdoorsman or a woodsman or whatever you want to call it. What is the difference between it all? Anyway? What is a survivalist to a well, I guess a woodsman really is somebody who isn't concerned about the end of the world but can live off the land pretty well. So what are the skills? You know what, let's break from the skills for a minute. I took some I took a pretty decent amount of gear into the woods. You know, a pretty decent amount of gear. I wanted to have a good change of clothes because it was getting so cold that night. I had a one man tent. I had a pack. I always take my full pack because you know, it's training, right. You don't want to break a bug out back down because you don't need certain items because you want to know what it feels like on your back. And it was fine. You know, it's fine for me to carry all day. I don't have any problems with that low but it got me thinking about minimalist pack. You know. So let's say let's say we want to do an overnighter just like that same setup Bull Pasture River overnighter in the Wildlife Management Area, and let's say we're not worried about thirty degree weather. I mean, what what does a minimalist pack look like to you? I've got some questions tonight, and this is one of them. I wanted to kind of get your guys take on that minimalist backpack because I think that's an interesting topic. You know, what what are the bare minimum? And it's not one of those goofy questions like if you had to go in the woods with five items, what would they be? Because I think they're well, they're silly and useless, right. I've always felt like those questions are still you're cod trapped on a on a island and you can only bring three things? What do you you know what I mean, it's dumb, It's pretty dumb. But you know, let's say you're packing a minimalist kit for an overnight trip. I mean, do you need a tent? Do you really? I mean don't really need a tent. You know, if you know anything about shelter making, you know that a good tarp, high quality space blanket, anything like that is gonna do you for one night. Gray says, spare clothes, shelter, fire materials, water materials, knife, first aid kit. Each is scalable to the situation and your skills. Al says, for shelter, how about a tarp and attack bivvy man them biby's, They are no joke. I remember, uh, I remember one night when I was meeting a friend up to camp. He was late, super late, and it was getting cold, and I said, okay, cool, this is the first time I ever used my vvy. Actually, I said, okay, cool, I'm gonna pull the bivvy out sleep in the back seat of the car. Either he's gonna show up or he's not gonna show up. But I know I need to stay warmer than this. I was in the bivy for it fifteen to twenty minutes, and I mean sweating, sweating. Those things are for real. I mean that is definitely something you want to have around. I am a big fan of the bivvy. That can change the game. That can definitely change the game. Gray says, I can make it with a tarp for shelter. My brother needs a four room tent. One of those guys. One of those guys. Huh, Well, it's not look to each his own. That's the way I look at it. To each his own's. It should be enjoyable, right. Nobody goes into a camping trip to say, man, I really want this to suck. I want to get bit up by bugs. I want to have a horrible time. That's the way I look at it. You know, your comments on it being scalable is very important. Really, I found that this is what I found on this trip, or in particular when it comes to gear, I found that I think living on the fringes is what I like. That's what I think when it comes to gear and skills, I want the fringe of either side, right, So, in other words, I want to depend on the highest technology, you know. Yeah, I want to depend on the best technology possible that I can have, the most efficient and effective tech that I can get my hands on. That's what I want to have. That's the first line of defense. But I also want to know the most the most sparse, and the most h what's the word I'm looking for. I want to know how to take care of what I'm trying to take care of with the with nature as well, you know. So I want to know that I have a piece of gear that's really one of the best on the market of what I needed to do. And if I don't have that gear, or if I don't want to use that gear, then I want to have the skill that can back it up. You know that. That's really what I started thinking about out there. I said, for example, the kit that I use for fire, Right, I have a fire kit that I pack and it has a bunch of cool stuff to play with, you know, flint and steels and magnesium strips and feral rods and all that stuff. And of course the lighter and of course, a bunch of dryer lint. Does anybody else save their dryer lint? It's my favorite, It's my absolute favorite thing. I pack it in everything. The dryland is phenomenal. I mean, all you need is Pharaoh rod in dryer lint and you're going. You're going. Jfer says her husband throws away her dryer lint. My wife would do it. I could see her doing it. She doesn't. She has mercy on my twisted soul. That nub says. Cotton balls dunked in wax, super superstar right there. That's an awesome one. What I haven't done is the lint in the petroleum jelly, which I hear is great. I hear that's a phenomenal one too. That's coming. Well. Actually, what I want to do next with it with their dryer lint. Are we gonna have a five minute discussion on dryer lint? Hey? Why not? What the hell? What I want to do next with the dryer lint is start compressing it. I mean, this is a resource that people pull out and throw in the trash all the time. What I really want to do is I want to take the dry lint. I want to press it press it, press it pressed, press. I have a cool little square glass container. No it's not glass. It's like I guess it's a composite or something like that. And I can press it down, press it down, press, then soak it, let it dry in the sun, and I think, what we'll have there is something phenomenal. Gray says she has a belly button full of lint. Great if anybody wants to help. So that's my philosophy, guys, lint bricks perfect. I like the name for lint bricks is what I'm after. I am really I have no shame in that game. There is no shame in those lint bricks burning in my fire. You know, it's fun to start a fire from very little. And I actually struggled with that, you know. I dug the inside of a pine out that looked like it was as much fat wood as I could find, and I tried to use that as a starter, and it was just a little too wet and I had to attack with my dryer lint networked. But that's, like I said, that's my philosophy. I want to have a high quality water filter, and I want to know how to make a water filter from my charcoal and my surrounding, you know what I mean, And these are important things to me. I'd like to live on that fringe, don't. I don't. What I'm getting at is, I don't think I'm ever going to be the type of person that wants to have just the skills to live off or wants to just rely on butcher craft in particular. You know what I mean, nothing wrong with it, nothing wrong with going out there and doing it and having a fun day doing it. But at the end of the day, man, I want my my hiker Pro water filter out there with me so I can fill up, you know, ten water bottles in five minutes, you know, and I want the water that comes out of that thing is just beautiful. Christine now preparing says we could use pencil shavings to start af others so many damn things out there in the woods to start a fire with. You know, the tender is not. I mean, what is there? Really? What do you worry about most in the fire? I'll tell you what I worry about most in the fire. A lot of people make videos about tender, right, A lot of people make videos about tender and bird nests and getting the right tender bundle and having the right you know, amount of materials. I don't worry about that, not something I worry about. Tender. You know, you can work on tinder all day long, work on tinder while you're fishing. You know, I'm soaking, soaking something in the water, gotta you know. I can rip a bark and play with that stuff all day long, keep it in my pocket, getting nice and dry. And then people concern themselves with ember a lot too, right, Okay, so how do I get an ember? How do I get a spark? I feel like you have a faro cereum rod, A good one, a big one. What do you worry about? You know what? Do you really worried? But you don't even need a good pharaoh rod? Really, let's be honest. I mean I use the magnesium pharaoh combo. I love it. That's what I use, You know what I mean, That's what I use more than anything. A shower of sparks. It hits that magnesium boom. You got your ember. But those are the things people concern themselves with, right, Can I use a magnifying glass? Can I use a I worry about two things more than anything. When I'm dealing with fire. The first is getting the fire off the ground. Not off the ground physically, but getting the fire to the point where it's self sustaining. Because that's the area where I've struggled. That's the area where I've struggled in firecraft. Is not oh I've got a number, let's blow it to life like we're magicians, or I've got to find tinder. I've got to find a way to start a fire. Getting the fire started for me has never been an issue. It's that initial burst of flame and having the right materials and laying them properly and not smothering that initial flame. That's where I get nervous every time when I'm throwing those little sticks on top of that blaze and I say, oh god, I see the fires start to wane. That's what's nerve wracking. That's where I get nervous when it comes to fire, is actually getting it to a sustaining point. You know What I mean? Also is fuel. Fuel is always a concern. You know, Fuel is like a one sentence or two sentence or in survival books, it's like make sure you have enough fuel. If you think you have enough fuel to get two times extra three times more. I'd be cool. On paper. That's awesome, right on paper, that's awesome. Have you've been hiking all day, or if you have like a mechanical injury and you're in a real survival situation, Gathering firewood can be a pain, and finding the right firewood is not easy. Right. It's not like you show up with a chainsaw, and it's not like the trees in the woods are ideal, you understand. I can cut down some new wood. I can pick up some dead wood, you know. It's not like the seasoned wood out in the backyard that you cut last year and it's ready to go. So for me, that's where I concern myself with fire. I've got enough tools and enough methods to start a fire. I've got enough skills to make tender to, you know, to create a nice little home for an ember to come to life. By bringing that fire to a self sustaining situation where I can comfortably say I got fire for the night, I'm good. I can leave it alone. I can add big pieces of you know, a fuel to that fire now, and it's just gonna eat it up and keep burning. That's when I stop breathing. Heavy, and then of course making sure I have enough fuel for that fire. Ah what else? Oh we got let's do some announcements here right where we at ten o'clock. It's ten o'clock already. That enough asks, how can you dance around us? Small fire? I just wanted to put that out there. I thought that was kind of interesting comment. Coga Silver, sponsor of the I Am Liberty Show. Great brand, great company. I'm actually talking to them in the next couple of days and we'll find out just how effective we've been. Now. I know through the website it's been very effective, so I'm excited to see how that's going. But if you haven't seen their Prepper Silver yet, check it out. Go to Coga dot com. Awesome, all right, awesome stuff. I'm waiting for mine to get here, patiently losing patients, but waiting. Great stuff. Great for the barter breaks apart five ounce bars, they break to a quarter ounce, they break to a half ounce, and they break to one ounce pieces. Listen. I don't know what to tell you. 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I've been wearing it like not folded up like a hat, but with the with the what are they called what are the strings that come off of the thing called the strings pulled tight like a hat, and then it's just yanked right down over my head and it leaves a good bit of cap behind the head. I like that. That's impressive. Lady Liberty is ecstatic because she can put her ponytail through the top of this head warmer. It's the only time in my life that I've ever said, God, here comes summer. And I'm a little down about it, because I mean, you go, ne need to pack these things up and wait till the weather breaks for them. But it's been cold in the morning, so I've been throwing that thing on cold in the morning. I've fallen in love with these face masks by Alpha Defense, and Jay Fergie definitely won up them with this thing. Whish I had it last weekend that I think. That's all my announcement. I don't have a whole lot to announce lately, right, Coga Silver, thank you Jay Fergie for the gift. There's a little something coming your way. We already covered chef as a survivalist. Let's get down on the hand. So on the trail. I've got this old cheap pack that I bought every I mean, how long ago, jeez, how long ago? Six seven years? This pack is right, and it's not a superstar pack. It was something I bought cheaply to fill up to have a good bug out bag, and it served me. Man, that thing has been through hell and back and it served me well. I don't even know what the name of it is, but the zippers are breaking. Man, the thing is wearing out on me. So it puts me in a position where now I have to think about a survivor pack. And I'll tell you right now, I'm gonna be honest about what I do with my packs. I don't have seventeen bags. You know. My bugout bag goes into my trunk and that's my get home back. That's it. You know, I'm not I don't build these this bag for this, this bag for that. At most, I'll modify bags by pulling packs. Right. Listen, guys in the chat room anywhere else, who's interested in these these things that Jay Fergie makes. They are awesome, They are multifunctional, they are beautiful, right, I'm talking beautiful, soft warm. I wish I had mine all year. I wish I had that thing from after the terrifying winner that we just went through, just as a scarf itself. You know where the where the Alpha defense masks really fail is that they're they're just cheap. They're like pantyhose around your neck and they keep you warm. Though this thing is a legit scar. If you pull it down over your face, put it around your neck's a legit scar. Uh. For you do them in wool, I'll buy them. I'll buy them for everybody in my family. I can promise you that right now. Have them one of those things for the cold camping situation with wool would be unbelievable. Talk to her telling you things are awesome. Pretty soon, you're gonna give me a picture. We're gonna blast that picture out and how you can buy them? Oh, that nub, that nub got me that nub you were on tonight, Dude, you're like on open Mic night in the chat room tonight, just one after another, Zingers, Zingers, just fly, just zigging them tonight. Can Prepper Broadcasting put them in the store and sell them? Oh, word up, that's a good call out, prepping, that's a good call out. That's exactly what we should do. We should definitely have a link on preper Broadcasting for that. Why not do it? Listen, Survival whatever you guys come up with the name, talk amongst yourselves, come up with the name survival, face, neck and ear and mask. I'll take some pictures with mine and my kershaw siege and then you can sell them, make all the money you want. Tactical Snoodle the dopest name of all time. I don't even know if snoodle is the right thing, but that's perfect. That's perfect, the tactical Snoodle. I'm calling it that from now on. J fergu I don't know what you're gonna call, but that's the name in my household. That's the name and cost of liberty. Let's talk about the Kershaw Siege. Do you guys want to talk about that? Everybody familiar with the Kershaw Siege. Look, I buy a lot of kersh All stuff. I do. I'm a big fan, and I like them because they're affordable. And I think that's gonna be kind of my mantra going forward when it comes to year you're a hat kid. The Kershaw siege is a beauty to me. It's not. I mean, if Highlander were in here, he would laugh at me. Is Highlander in here? I don't think he's in here tonight. If Highlanderer we're in here, he'd laugh at me, right, Because it's not a legit tomahawk, and Highlander is a legit collector of the bladed kind. It's a fighting weapon, no doubt. It's definitely a defensive weapon, an offensive weapon. There's a little pride bar on the back of it that. Ah, I don't know how well that would hold up. I'll be honest with you. I've never pried into anything with it. Really. That took a lot of effort. I've used it to take nails out and stuff like that. That works. Oh my god, discontinued. Holy good god, they discontinued this. That's a heartbreaker. I better take good care of mine. Well. The good news is, listen, mine's about five years old and the blade on the thing is still great. What I was surprised when I took it out is that, like the first time I used it. The first time I used it, I thought, okay, let's just see. I wanted to cut down some saplings in an area because I wanted to put a tent there, and I said to myself, let's just clear these out. I'll use the kersh. I'll see what it has. The thing is awesome. I mean I dispatched a whole pine tree with it on the last trip out. And you know, it didn't take a lot of effort, really didn't, right, you know, it has definitely got some tactic cool about it. It definitely does. You know, it looks scary, it's black, it looks kind of cool, you know, whatever tactic cool I guess you would call it. But look, it's a full tang axe with a really great blade on the back. If I if I had to do battle with it, you know, it wouldn't be a fun time for the opposing force. I can tell you that much. And it's also great in the woods. You know. It slips right down into the side of my bag and it carries well. And that's it. You know, that's it. And I guess you can't get one. I guess you can't get one because discontinued. And that's a heartbreaker. So I'll just go on and tell you how great mine is, so that you can't great. Fox said, how much should you pay for it? I can tell you one thing. I definitely didn't pay eighty bucks for it. I know that for a fact. I'd never bought it. I'd never bought something like that for eighty bucks. That's just me. You know, you might buy tomahawks for one hundred and eighty bucks. I'm not that guy. I'm sure it was in a forty dollars range. When I bought mine, I bought it online. I know that. But there's Highlander. Highlander. I was just someone say, knife tax rap man. I don't know how I liked the tax noodle. That's a sweet name. Yeah, Highlander. I didn't know if you were out there listening or not. I was showing everybody my Kershaw stage and I was saying, if Highlander were here, he'd probably be laughing at me. He'd probably be saying, get out of here with that garbage. But this is one of the tools that I carry, man, I carry it a lot. It's great. I love it. It's super light too. What's this thing way? I don't know. It weighs nothing. Let's see. If I had to guess, i'd say a pound and a half to two pounds max. Let me see in technical specs it says weight thirty one point eight ounces thirty five point five with the sheath. I was pretty close. I was kind of right on the money. Yeah, I don't know what it is, Islander. I like, I'm weird about brands like that. I get into a brand and then I get into it. I don't know what to tell you, but I am liking this idea of affordable gear. Oh, you bring up a good point out, preparing snoodle could be copyright, Gray says, start the patent paperwork. Well, we could always do snoodle like with a different spelling, right, S N U D D L E or something like that, or as whatever. But what I here you go? You got a ferg now. So we were talking about packs, and that's how we wound up talking about this. I like that NUBS version better s N twenty five os dl E patent dat. We're talking about packs. We talked about the Kershaw siege, and I'm telling you that I like Kershaw for many reasons, but one big reason is stuff is affordable. Right, our preparing is a dude unbroke dot com. I don't know what that is, but I'll check it out unless you're making a joke. But you bring up a good point here. I know who my listening audience is, right, Oh duh, the Fergie. That's perfect. We're gonna stop the whole show and we're just going to talk about these things that Fergie made and U and that's it. So I made the decision. I come home from the trip and I'm looking at my pack and I, you know, one single tear is falling because I know she's gone. I know there's no there's no time left. Right. One of the two of the zippers broke on that trip, and luckily they're dual zipper pockets, so it wasn't the end of the world. But of course the problem is the problem is there are so many options when it comes to survival packs, when it comes to backpacks, when it comes to EDC bags, when it comes to what is it that I want to put the bulk of my items in and carry? You know, so you get to have that awesome time where now you get to go to Tacticaldistributors dot Com, you get to go to s OG, you get to go to max Pedition and look around. And I really had a good time doing all that. Highlanders says condor great products, no doubt about it. Great products. So I'm looking around at bags and I'll be honest with you, the one that I liked the most was the SOOG profit and I'm you know, maybe I would have gotten it, Maybe I would have gotten it. But I looked it over and I said to myself, maybe my philosophy on gear, maybe my philosophy on gear is a little wacky because I'm I want to be able to have this. This is what the motivation is. Okay, let me just get right to it. I want to have gear that I can play with and I can recommend to the listening audience and they can buy it and afford it. You follow me. In other words, if I'm if I'm carrying around an Arctics backpack for three hundred and seventy five dollars, and I get up on my show and I say, you, guys, I got the Arctics mock seven Mark twelve and it's so awesome and it's so great, and it costs four hundred dollars and you know it's insane purchase for almost everybody. Right then it's like, yeah, what am I doing? Who am I helping? Who am I helping? So my theory has become Look, I'm gonna try to find affordable gear that most people can afford, especially those who listen to my show. That's what I want, and what I'm gonna play with is the Paratus by three V gear. I think that's what I'm gonna get. I think I'm gonna get the three day pack from three V gear. I really like that thing. It breaks apart. You can take you know, packs off on the side and back. And I think the pack itself is like one of the most expensive packs they have, and I think it goes about seventy seventy five bucks or something like that. It's a beast, I mean it's it doesn't have a ton of compartments in it, but the way that I pack, I use a I use you know, color code of bag systems, so it doesn't really affect the Uh, the compartments don't say make or break the deal from me, But I think that's what I want to do with gear. I want to keep gear in the affordable but effective sort of market, you know. I really I don't see the point for a guy like me who does what I do to build a repertoire of highly expensive gear, you know me. Gray says LLBAN day packs are probably worth looking into. LLB makes good products, But uh, those are my thoughts on that. Okay, those are my thoughts on the gear situation and on the survival pack situation. Is anybody carrying a pack that is just perfect? Now? I Highlander gave us a recommendation on Condor and I've seen their products. They got good stuff. I bring up Condor Condor and I get Condor flights. I just wanted to go look at I just wanted to go look at packs. Condoroutdoor dot com got dudes carrying guns right at the front of the website. Just a dude in a full army gear plate carrier on in the whole nine yards. Welcome to Condor Outdoor. Let's check out bags and packs. Well, the Titan Assault packs pretty nice. These are wholesale products only, What's going on? What is going on? Do these guys only do wholesale? That tight in a sawt pack is pretty fancy. The slings, how do you guys feel about these slings? These slings are very popular. There's something about a sling I don't like. I don't know what to tell you. Tack vests, tack slings, modular pouches. I love a good modular pouch. There's no pouches are great, man. I hate to see a bug out bag or a pack with just junk piled into it and you gotta dump the whole thing out to find anything. Gray Fox has a few slings. Scotty vest was neat on my show. Yeah, the Scotty vest was cool until the guy you know came out and said that everyone's an idiot who uses it? Do you remember that guy? That dude showed up. He's like, Oh, I'm so oh my, I'm so so happy because I'm making all kinds of money selling my vests to idiots. I was like, oh god, what is that about. That's brutal. Redrockoutdoor Gear dot Com. Let's have a look. We're gonna do some bag shopping here on the IEM Liberty Show tonight. If you don't mind, I don't mind. Oh so we got we got some competition up here at Red Rock Outdoor Gear. Fergie. Let's see here, Camo netting. I think I need some big game field series Camo netting. I'm not kidding. Sounds like something I would really want. Twenty four ninety nine not bad? What's the size on that? Bad boy? Choose options, tell me something good. Okay, here we go. I want the biggest seven for a ten inch by nineteen eight seventy five bucks. Not too bad. That's a big boy, though, twenty feet. You can get a three foot by ten for twenty five. Oh, I've got out of the Lincoln didn't even look at the backpacks. Let's see, we are tactical slings camping in survival packs. There you go. Let's see the ambush pack is nice. Oh, good prices. Yeah, see, these are the prices I'm talking about. I have no idea what the quality on these things are, and I'm not recommending them, but I'm just saying, ambush pack fifty four to ninety nine, right, it's reasonable. That's a purchase. People can look forward to large Assault pack sixty nine, large Rebel assault pack. Now why would I want the assault pack when you sell a rebel assault pack? And why is the rebel Okay, there's a lot of good stuff here, definitely Red Rock outdoor Gear. No, they're not a client of mine. No, they don't pay me. They were recommended by Jay ferg in the chat room. Good stuff. I like this. Austin Bag's like ADC bag. Nice. Oh. Packs is a rabbit hole, man, god, it is. When you get into backpacks. It's such a rabbit hole. You can spend like four or five hours just looking at backpacks, and it's one of those endeavors that when you finish looking at backpacks, you realize I still have no idea what I want. I still have absolutely no idea what I want. Let's move on. Do we want to do any more skilled talk? I don't know. I did some wood processing there, fire camp set up. I layered some leaves underneath my single man sleeping bag so I wouldn't be getting taken out by the cold ground beneath me. Why don't we get into some article, some article time I got. I got two good ones, and I think that this Gateway Pundit is worth talking about. I really do. Why because this is the future, you know, this is what is coming, and we have to pay attention to these things because they're gonna Well, how can it not affect the next election? I gotta go to the Gateway Pundit, right, that's where this article is. And this is they have these around the web tabs on the right side, and they are these these tabs that they make money off of. It's like selling your soul. Now, listen, you want to throw an ad in the middle here, the butcher box Google ad Sense ads cool, right, They're tailored to me. I've been looking at buying the butcher box to get quality meat. I'm good with it. Throw it in there. What I don't want to read is on the right side. In around the web, dads are getting super ripped on this stuff. And then I got this dude with gray hair who looks like he's in pretty good shape. Well, he looks like he's on pretty good steroids, and there's some woman clinging to them, and he's actually taking a picture with a cell phone of himself and his girl. Guys getting ripped on this in weeks shred fat and build muscle. You know, you don't need pills for any of that. Shredding fat and building. You need zero pills for that. M I'm going to take a multi vitamin, but I want to make I would like to make funny hats about these right, Stop feeding your face with burgers and you'll look fine. So anyway, Top conservative voices have been decimated since the twenty sixteen election, the Gateway Pundit has. According to Harvard and Columbia Journalism Review, the Gateway Pundit was the fourth most influential conservative news source during the twenty sixteen elections. In twenty sixteen, Facebook account for thirty three percent of website traffic. In January twenty eighteen, Facebook traffic was cut by fifty four percent in March twenty eighteen, Facebook traffic down to three percent of total website traffic, despite seeing organic traffic growth for months now. The Gateway Pundit is no slash. They spent seventy thousand dollars in Facebook advertising. Today our story is hidden from our readers and supporters on Facebook. Let me throw this link in the chatroom because you got to see these Uh you got to see these declines. Man, They're insane. You're talking about a company here that paid seventy grand to advertise, massive, massive amount of money. Where are we at here? I lost my article, I clicked Skype. My whole computer is going to die on me. The Donald Trump Facebook page. Let's see what are we dealing with here. We've seen a drop from four million engagements to two and a half million, or nearly five million engagements, really rounding down to two and a half nearly two and a half million engagements around that same time period that we talk about with the Gateway Pundit. I mean, this is what's happening. This is what's happening on Facebook, and it's it's the thing that makes this article important to look at is that it's all hearsay, right when you see people on TV. So I was in conservative voices on social media. If you think of the gay guy conservative, what's his name? Milo? You think of Milo? Okay, Milo got got banned on Twitter. I'm not that hurt over that. But this is the data. Young cons dot com is a leading conservative voice and has one million Facebook fans. Young Cons had a combined Facebook and website traffic of thirty point six million in twenty sixteen. Facebook has since blacklisted the site. Today, Young Cons continually changes its landing page. You were all to remain relevant. Facebook began blocking their stories in late twenty seventeen. They were also an advertiser, so they were seeing six million, nearly six million visits in September of twenty seventeen and by February of twenty eighteen. I mean they're not even doesn't even look like they're breaking a million. Now you understand the value of that, You understand what difference that makes to a business. You know, this is young cons dot com, which is not one guy in his dining room doing a podcast. You know, it's a different beast when you have multiple employees to pay and you have all sorts of things to consider and budgets for this and budgets for that. And you're making money from six million daily Facebook views, which I'm sure they were, and that goes away. It's a big deal. So Alan B. West also took a hit. Alan West. You remember Alan West. In twenty sixteen, he had more than two million followers and was ranked one three hundred and thirty one on Alexa. He's fallen completely off the map. By February twenty eighteen, he dropped off the Alexa ranking altogether and his Facebook traffic is gone on. It's amazing. It's a terrifying thing to watch. What else? Chicks on the right? Who else? Western journalism? The Conservative Tribune. Since twenty sixteen election, Conservative Tribune has been shadow band and blacklisted. Today, Conservative Tribune is a skeleton of itself. The site lost seventy five percent of its traffic thanks to Facebook. What else? What else? Breitbart, even the powerhouse of Breitbart, has lost twenty five percent of its Facebook audian since January after the algorithm changes. Oh, natural news got blacklisted by YouTube. Get out of here. Natural News is great, I'm crazy, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Of course, Robert Spencer. He's freaking isn't that the uh? Isn't he like a klu klux Klan guy? Yeah? Blacklist? What the hell do we want to hear from him for? I'm good with that diamond and stick, right, Highlander says, diamond silk they got, they got their wings clipped as well. This is right up Al's Ali here, man, This is right up our Monday host Sally. If you're into this kind of stuff, you need to listen to his show on Monday nights. I'm telling you behind the headlines, this is the deal. This is the deal recrafting history, right. Why is it a big deal? Because there's a lesson to be learned in it. There's a lesson to be learned in it, and it's one that I can harp on because I'm a small business guy and I don't have to put myself in the situation that they put their themselves in. You have to be worried about what you get involved in. You have to be worry about where your income sources come from and the longevity of that. You know, that's a big deal. That's a big deal. You know, I can tell you with one hundred percent honesty and one hundred percent assurance that I have lost lots of money because of my decision to do what I do for a living and say what I say on this podcast. It's a guarantee. That's a guarantee that people see what I'm all about and they say, no way, take it easy, Gray, That's a guarantee. It's a guarantee. I know of one company in particular that is literally putting themselves at risk by not taking me up on an offer I send to them. And I know why, and I know a lot of it has to do with the Iron Liberty Show. A lot of it has to do with me coming on here and bashing white privilege. A lot of it has to do with me coming on here and saying that it's, you know, the racism towards white people's crazy. A lot of me is a lot of it is from me being a conservative man and you know, not being afraid to talk about it. That Nub said he struggled with uh money from YouTube being cut in half. Hey, it's ugly. It's a very ugly thing, you know what I mean. But again, you have to look at what you're depending on for money. The people I depend on for money? Are me and you? That's what they are. There are people just like me and you. There are people who I can say, hey, I'd love to do some work for you. What do you need done? Da? Da da da? And I can also say, uh, you know, let's talk about guns for the collapse. And they're not gonna go ooh, oh, my goodness, you're scaring me? Are you a radical alternative right winger? What are you all about? You don't have to worry about that stuff. I don't have to worry about that stuff. But you got to make that decision in life, right, You've got to make the decision about do I want to be silenced? Do I want to give anyone the power to silence me? And I know, listen, it's ugly. It's not an easy thing to do. When you're sitting in the driver's seat, it's easy to tell someone that you need to do it this way. Highlanders says, I identify as a billionaire. I like that. You know, I think you deserve compensation, Highland, Or I think your state should pay you money. Well, actually no, your state shouldn't pay you money because that means I would have to pay you. But you do deserve compensation, probably from the federal government. Probably from the federal government, and most likely from the President of the United States. I think that makes sense, right, he's a privileged white man. He should pay you something. He should just pay you. He has a lot of money, right, And the common law nowadays, if you have a lot of money, you shouldn't have a lot of money. Therefore you should give it away to someone else who doesn't want to work. You want to hear a funny headline on the subject of conservation to a man who has spent a lot of money in my lifetime on conservation, you know, you can say what you want about my opinions on what actions we should take for climate change, and how I used to make fun of global warming when they called it global warming, because that was always a funny thing to me. But I'm a guy who spent a lot of money on conservation, all right. That's it. Fishing licenses, hunting licenses, supporting local conservationist groups in Pennsylvania, now in Virginia. You know, I know that money to them is money well spent. Well. The antithesis to that are these climate change groups. One such climate change group wants to raise five hundred thousand dollars to carve Trump's face into a glacier and watch it melt. Let me say it again. Climate change group wants five hundred thousand dollars half a mill to carve Trump's face into a glacier to watch it melt. And they wonder why these people get no traction, right, They wonder why these people get laughed off of social media, the finger wagging, finger pointing jokers who want to raise five hundred thousand dollars to carve a glacier. Where is the sense? That's the difference. I mean that there's so much to that that I could pick it apart for a whole nother hour. Right, that is the whole story of life right there? Right? You have Well, it's the uh protest is too much from Shakespeare? Right? Outputs it very eloquently. Climate change is a communist tool to retard industrial development. I think that's right. I think you've got it right on the head. And the core soldiers of that communist movement are people who are using all the tools of that industrial development. That nub says the sun is setting here and it's getting cooler. Is that climate change actually that's not that's weather change anyhow. Listen, this story is important not just because it's funny, not just because it's laughable, and not just because my six year old son could do a better job with conservation than that. It's funny because and it's interesting because it's the whole of life. It's the whole story of life wrapped up in one headline. Because in life there are people who do and there are people who say. The whole of life is based around these two types of people. In my opinion, the people who do and the people who say right, and the people who say are often miserable. They're often the finger wagging type right, the type to get in your face and tell you either. They're the sayers. They're the people who say, and then they're the people who do. And most often the people who do do so in silence. It's very rare that you meet a person who does and all he does is talk about what he does. Right, So when you think about yourself, don't be a sayer, Please be a doer. I don't. I don't want to be associated with the sayers anymore. I don't want to be associated with the people who are out to take five hundred thousand dollars worth of Now they're raising this money, by the way, they want to raise five hundred grand. They want to fronnel five hundred thousand dollars to one of their artist friends, who's going to go sculpt Trump's face out of a glacier and watch it melt. To prove a point, to prove a point that probably won't raise a dime, to prove a point that won't get the president do anything different. What are we doing here? But that's what a say. That's the path that a sayer takes, someone who who lives off of the mouth and the reaction that's what That's what path they take. It's a frustrating and terrifying thing. Highlanders is kind of like all the protests. Well exactly, you hit the nail on the head. What are they They're sayers, They're not doers. Protesting is not doing. What has it done? What has it accomplished? What is he accomplished? What is it accomplishing to get out there and to throw rocks? You've seen the people in Europe from May Day right. France is so out of control it's unbelievable. The protests over communist may Day were so out of control. I mean, just read about it. You won't even believe it. The sayers, they come out and they tell you what you're doing wrong. They tell white people what they're doing wrong. They tell rich people what they are doing wrong. And here's the caveat. They don't look in the mirror and ask themselves the fundamental question that any successful person asks himself every day. What am I doing wrong? What could I do better? I mean, you talk to anybody who owns a business, anybody who has reached any point of success in their life. That is one of the biggest things that they do on a daily basis. I know many people like this, What can I do better? What can I How can I be more efficient? How can I be a better person? How can I be a better business owner? What can I do better? No, these people wake up in the morning and their first thing that they say to themselves is first they say life sucks. And then they say life sucks because blank you fill it in. Life sucks because dad was bad to me. If life sucks because mom was mean to me, life sucks because this patriarchal curriculum, and this European curriculum at my college has got me down and I can't wrap my head around it. Life sucks because of someone else. Hey, life sucks because of you. First. Remember that that's the way it goes. Life sucks because of you before anything else. If you could take you out of the picture, you'll find a way to get around the rest of the hindrances. If you can get out of your own way, you will most certainly find a way around the other hindrances. That's a guarantee. That's an absolute guarantee. Because if you can look yourself in the mirror and say everything's perfect, then you know you have an issue. He's look in the mirror and you say yourself, or you sit down and you write what you're doing with all your time, or what you're doing with all your effort, or what you want to do and why it's not working. Pretty quickly you'll populate a list of things that'll tell you exactly what you need to do and why you need to do it, and why you're face. I mean, things happened to me. They happened to me a lot. You know, I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you that it's an easy thing, and I'm not telling you things that I haven't been through. That's it. You know, you have those moments. I've had those moments in business where it's like, what the hell am I doing wrong? This is an ugly month? What is going on? How am I going to turn it around? I'm not out there going I mean, why can't Why didn't these these I get it? These people didn't hire me because of this, because of that, because of you know, Al says with liberty becomes responsibility. Communism is the system designed to avoid responsibility and accountability. Yeah, we can't live with what, we can't live without it. That's the problem. That's the fundamental problem of it all. You know, it's not that obviously it's scary because there's no food in communism, right, There's no medicine, there's no anything. The utopia that they build, it seems to always run out of food and medicine, and then the only thing it has a surplus of is dead bodies. That's the communist way. But what we know about human beings now is it starves people of the right to responsibility and accountability. It literally starves people of their right to responsibility and accountability, and there is incredible rewarding those two things. You grow up and you hear the word responsibility and you cringe, and accountability you cringe. I can get in trouble, I can be told what I'm doing wrong, but you realize that that's where all the fun comes from. That's where all the joy comes from. Right, thing about the things you're accountable and responsible for. There's probably the greatest things in your life, your children and your family, only your profession, your vehicle, your home. What do you mean responsibility is a bad thing? Accountability? You have to have these things. You have to have these things as a human animal. You have to have them. And you're right. Al's one hundred percent right. Man. They steal them away from you. They steal them away from you only if you let them. Remember that, only if you let them. Folks, listen, the hour is fast approaching. Did I take a second break? Well? I did an extra commercial in there. I guess that counts, right, I guess that counts. You know, if we took if the im Liberty Show took actual breaks like on AM radio, it will be like a four hour show. Because I listened to Michael Savage without breaks, and his show is an hour and a half without commercials. Normally it's a three hour show, something that we'd be looking at a four hour show if we did legitimate AM style radio breaks. It's a lot of yackin and maybe too much yacking. But that's where we're gonna have guests on. Don't worry. Next week, no guests, but the rest of the month we're gonna pretty much be booked out. I don't think we have a guest next week. I know we've got maybe we do. We might have our security man on next week. I might be falling asleep at the wheel on that one. Let's have a look. Let's have a look at the old itinerary, and everything slows down and dies. It's also time for a new computer. I can tell you that new pack new computer a twenty third of May. I think it's double book. It looks like no. No, we're good. We're good. Deep breath, everything's fine. So we've got a lot coming. Okay, we've got a lot coming. I appreciate everything. This night has gone on far too long. Great crowd tonight in the chatroom, guys, thanks so much for everything. Always good conversy. You guys bail me out half the time. Half the time. I hit a wall around ten o'clock and I just look at what the chat room talking about, and they bail me out here in trouble. Listen, we're growing. Prepper broadcasting is growing, I am, liberty is growing. Business is growing. I used to think it was because the end of the world was coming. Now I just think it's because quality, quality defines it all. That's my guess. You tell me listen now, I don't know. I don't know that I'm gonna make it up to the Uh oh, Jay Ferg, what are you talking about of the snoodle? You want me to put a picture of my tactical snoodle on Facebook? Most definitely. You give me the link to your design page and I'll put that thing everywhere. I'll put it on my hootsuit and hootsuit basically blasted out to Twitter, Facebook, and uh what else? Google Plus, whatever that is. I don't even use that thing that nub sets. I think a revolution or civil war is coming. Oh we're calling it the ferg Okay, I'll do that, Deferg. I will definitely put a picture of me and my ferg all on social media without a doubt. I don't know if I'm gonna make it up to the Guns Show in Dozwell this weekend for a number of re since Prepper Cohn is on the horizon and I'm definitely saving money for that. Right that's coming in May. Watch May the nineteenth and the twentieth. I think it is eighteenth nineteenth. That's Friday and Saturday. That's when you want to pay attention to social media with diand Liberty. Pay attention to YouTube, Pay attention to Twitter, because I'll be broadcasting live from Prepper Cohn a lot. I'm gonna be hanging with the Bunker days, guys. I'm gonna be hanging with Dave Jones from the Friday Live Show. Keep prepping up with the Joneses. That's the deal, man, you know, these are the things that are possible. Gun Metal Armory tomorrow night, my man, Dane God. We got a great bunch of hosts. We got a great bunch of hosts. That's all there is to it. I'm signing off, folks. You guys have been great. I can't wait till next week. I don't have any idea what we're gonna talk about, but it's gonna be fun, all right. Until next time, James wilt but thee I'm Liberty Show. Don't forget to visit the website, guys, I'mlibertyshow dot com. We got podcasts, we got articles, we got free stuff up there, all kinds of stuff. All right, I'mlibertyshow dot Com. I'll get some sleep. Damn it, it's too late. What Knows Broadcast has come to you through the courtesy of the Pepper Broadcasting Network. See our hosts, show schedules, and archived programs are or at Prepper broadcasting dot com. Thanks for listening.