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didn't go through the list.

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Because everyone goes through

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self sustaining, and it's

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give them all my money. That's

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will help us a great. Hey, the

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reason we're here tonight,

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though, or the day is I've got a

4:54

special guest for you guys. So

4:54

prepper net every year we pick a

4:58

couple events, and we make them

4:58

like our event in a sense, we

5:03

kind of just, I won't say we

5:03

take over but we just go and

5:07

show up in a large in a large

5:07

way. And this year, we're

5:12

switching venues we used to go

5:12

to head his life skills and

5:16

Waynesville, North Carolina, but

5:16

now there's a brand new and they

5:19

canceled so they're no longer

5:19

doing their heritage life

5:22

skills. So we switched to a new

5:22

vet event in the spring. And

5:26

this one is called Mountain

5:26

readiness and I have I'm the

5:30

founder and creator and the

5:30

break well, this well, there's

5:36

his wife, so I gotta give her

5:36

some credit. But he is the

5:39

brains behind this. And his name

5:39

is we go by the name tea with

5:43

him. Tea Are you there this

5:43

evening?

5:46

I am T. I am and just and

5:46

just for the record. It Amber is

5:51

is the brains, I'm more of the

5:51

wrong type of guy, right? We all

5:57

have

5:57

these Asterix

5:57

when we talk about our life, you

5:59

know what I mean?

6:00

I'm the brawn. You know, I'm

6:00

more of the forceful the

6:04

forceful part of the of the

6:04

twosome here. So she is

6:08

definitely the brains, the

6:08

brains behind a lot of this, but

6:12

not all actuality. You know, it

6:12

was a, it was a mutual thing,

6:15

you know, both of us just

6:15

putting our heads together. And

6:17

this is where we're at.

6:18

And it's awesome. So I'm looking at the gas, I'm looking at your

6:20

classes. And I would dare say,

6:24

this may be the best event of

6:24

the year that I've seen. And now

6:29

it's hard for me to say I've

6:29

been going to prepper. Net for

6:32

11 years putting up prepper. Net

6:32

prepper camp, it's good, but

6:36

I'll be honest with yours, your

6:36

speakers are a little bit higher

6:40

knots. And some of them, I'm

6:40

just saying that you've got a

6:44

great cast of people that's

6:44

going to be there.

6:47

Yes, for sure. I mean, our

6:47

venue that we've got, and I and

6:51

I'm gonna jump, I'm just gonna

6:51

say it, it is, it's the best,

6:55

it's, it's gonna be the best.

6:55

And in the years to come, we're

6:59

gonna keep fighting to be better

6:59

and better ever every year. But

7:03

this, the educators that we've

7:03

got this venue here, even even

7:08

from the educators that are a

7:08

lot of the local, carry the all

7:15

of these educators are just

7:15

phenomenal. We've we've done a

7:18

lot of work with trying to just

7:18

bring in the best talent we

7:22

possibly can. small and big. And

7:22

thus far, we really just have a

7:27

phenomenal, phenomenal crew that

7:27

are going to be teaching here.

7:32

You really

7:32

do. And so I

7:32

remember we first talked last

7:35

year sometime and I'm like, I

7:35

was talking to bath the queen of

7:39

prep anatomy bath. I don't know,

7:39

these guys, they've never done

7:43

this, it's in a new area, I'm

7:43

not sure. Let's see what they

7:48

do. And so we waited a few

7:48

months. And then we talked again

7:52

on the phone and you're getting

7:52

some names. And I'm like Beth

7:55

and I talked offline link path,

7:55

man, they're getting some names,

7:58

they're working this. And now oh

7:58

my gosh, the list is just

8:03

unbelievable, but we were

8:03

unsure. But you've guys have

8:06

worked this and have been I

8:06

mean, you've been working your

8:09

hands off, I can tell because

8:09

you got a lot of good names. And

8:13

a lot of these people I'm

8:13

connected to which is even more

8:17

meaningful to me and I'm sure

8:17

our audience will be connected

8:20

to as we go through some of the

8:20

names as well.

8:23

Oh, yeah, for sure. For sure.

8:23

Yeah, we you know, this is this

8:27

is one of them things yes, it's

8:27

the first it is a lot of work

8:31

and you know yourself been in

8:31

this for as many years as you

8:34

have that, um, you know, these

8:34

things take time they take a lot

8:38

of work they take a lot just the

8:38

social media side of this is

8:41

just it's it's a full time job

8:41

on that that spectrum. You know,

8:47

we we probably spend you know,

8:47

we have day jobs just like

8:50

everybody else and then we

8:50

probably spend another six to

8:53

eight hours a day just

8:53

networking on the phone emails.

8:57

But you know, all good things

8:57

that they take work and so thus

9:02

far, we're very happy with where

9:02

we've, we've we've got to this

9:06

point, and and we're still even

9:06

though we put out our schedule,

9:11

the tentative schedule for the

9:11

upcoming event, we still have

9:15

some educators and vendors

9:15

coming in so we're not done yet

9:21

folks. We may be adding adding

9:21

some more names and a few of

9:24

them are some pretty good size

9:24

names in the business. So not

9:28

going to name drop anybody else

9:28

but but if it if it happens,

9:32

it's going to be it's going to be awesome.

9:34

Oh yeah, I'm going to name drop you don't mind if I named drop, do you?

9:35

Oh, no, not okay. So, so they

9:40

got classes. So what I'm seeing

9:40

you have like for over 40

9:44

experts, educators, and like 80

9:44

classes a day and this is on a

9:48

big old campground. A lot of

9:48

times we go to campgrounds and

9:52

we're kind of restricted by the

9:52

size of the campground and

9:55

experiences. I don't think you

9:55

guys have any limitations on

9:58

this place. Do you

10:00

know no 166 acres and we have

10:00

pretty much full use of the

10:05

entire facility sets right off i

10:05

77. So I mean, it's super

10:10

convenient, easy to get 206

10:10

acres, you know, we can pack

10:15

upwards of 10,000 people into

10:15

this place and that's that's

10:19

kind of the goal you know, as we

10:19

move along, but yeah, phenomenal

10:23

place. It has the primitive

10:23

camping the full hookups. You

10:29

know, Oh and then the printer

10:29

primitive camping yeah there's a

10:32

stream that goes through the

10:32

backside of this woods all the

10:36

way around makes it really nice

10:36

for a lot of the venues that

10:39

we're going to be doing with you

10:39

know wild edible classes and and

10:44

packs you know doing your your

10:44

bug out bags and going for a

10:48

ruck march and stuff like that.

10:48

So perfect spot for this type of

10:52

how far is my

10:52

hotel

10:57

I'm 20 minutes 20 minutes

10:57

down the road forest. route you

11:01

want to go

11:02

I know you can

11:02

I'm camping out myself it but

11:06

the event just to let you guys

11:06

know just saying I mean, it is

11:09

May 5 through May 7, and they

11:09

had still got tons of room for

11:13

you to come join and camp. But

11:13

that's may 5 and may 7. So

11:17

that's month away. And it said

11:17

harmony North Carolina, which if

11:22

you look that up, it's right

11:22

off. 77 is easy access no matter

11:26

where you're coming from. You

11:26

just got to get on the it's

11:28

right off the interstate. I

11:28

mean, when I say right off, I

11:31

don't mean you exit and you're

11:31

at the campground, but it is it

11:35

is with miles from the

11:35

interstate. But

11:38

go ahead. Yeah, it's pretty

11:38

close. It's pretty close, like

11:41

liquid exit you you kind of go

11:41

around the corner, turn right on

11:46

the campgrounds on the left, and

11:46

it sets back on that 106 acre

11:49

facility. So

11:51

every year, we

11:51

lose some people and that's just

11:54

the way it is they get lost in

11:54

the woods and we never find

11:56

them. So maybe you could be that

11:56

person.

12:00

Right? If you know it comes

12:00

with the territory, sometimes

12:04

people get lost, right? So

12:04

that's the whole point of this

12:07

event right is to teach you when

12:07

you get lost what to do so

12:11

right oh yeah,

12:11

there's gonna be some awesome

12:13

I'm just telling you, if you go

12:13

to an event this needs to be

12:16

your event this year,

12:16

absolutely. Bar none. And I

12:19

teach at many events, this the

12:19

names and the people I'm going

12:23

to tell you I'm going to share

12:23

with you guys who's going to be

12:27

there and then I'm going to tell

12:27

you kind of the relationship

12:30

some of them so first of all,

12:30

I'm going to mention a couple

12:32

guys that I know that they and

12:32

you may have more now I'm just

12:36

going to mention T the one the

12:36

people I know and if someone

12:40

complements them go ahead if you

12:40

want to but two friends of mine

12:44

is quit Chris weathermen and

12:44

Alan Kay they were both only

12:48

alone show. Alan Kay one the

12:48

very first show and Chris

12:53

actually lost his. His rod is

12:53

ferro rod, a Faraday rod and not

12:58

Faraday rod. What's the thing

12:58

called I can't think of right

13:02

now. Yeah,

13:03

well, and he was the wolves.

13:03

Yeah. You know, he's got a thing

13:07

with the wolf. The problem with

13:09

wolves, what's

13:09

wrong with them? But they've

13:12

also already been they've been

13:12

on my podcast. They've been on

13:15

the prepping Academy podcast

13:15

both them separate times. I

13:18

think Alan's I think they've

13:18

been on twice each in the past.

13:22

But great guys, people that

13:22

really understand like going out

13:26

woods and being alone and

13:26

surviving. Yeah, you know,

13:29

Chris. Chris weathermen. Of

13:29

course you know not. I mean,

13:32

aside from his books, he's been

13:32

in the the survival gig for

13:37

years and years. vast array of

13:37

knowledge. And then you know,

13:41

Alan Kay, look, let's be honest,

13:41

I'm, I'm not a small framed

13:46

individual. He's a big guy. I

13:46

can go out in the woods. And if

13:51

you give me some water, and I

13:51

make it two or three weeks, all

13:54

I got to do is hibernate. I

13:54

mean, it's not fly. But Alan Kay

13:58

56 days. Yeah, by his self, that

13:58

that's a game changer that you

14:06

can't get to that point. Unless

14:06

you know what you're doing.

14:09

Exactly. Yep.

14:09

And then another guy this is you

14:13

know, I got weird connections to

14:13

all these people. Stoney Ridge

14:18

farmer, he is a co y'all know

14:18

that. I'm a co owner, son of and

14:23

he's he's one of our biggest

14:23

Risa. I mean, he loves the Sun

14:27

Oven. So I have never talked to

14:27

him personally because I don't

14:31

really manage anything when it

14:31

comes to Sun Oven anymore. But

14:34

he's, I mean, he's a big partner

14:34

of Sun Oven, so I can't wait to

14:39

meet him he's gonna be there on

14:39

Saturday him his wife Correct?

14:42

Yes, yes. Saturday. Stoney

14:42

and his wife they're gonna be

14:46

both there. They're gonna do you

14:46

know as a keynote speaker and

14:50

then they're gonna just gonna be

14:50

roaming around meeting everyone

14:52

you know, folks so you want to

14:52

meet Stoney Ridge he's gonna be

14:56

there all day networking with

14:56

you with with everybody at the

14:59

event. You know, signing

14:59

autographs taking pictures. And

15:03

let's be honest, I mean, Stoney

15:03

ridge that guy I'm actually

15:06

super jealous of him because he

15:06

has some of the coolest

15:09

equipment though. Like you want

15:09

you to that guy's got

15:12

everything. I thought I had

15:12

everything back guys. Everything

15:16

so the cool

15:16

thing with that I I've never met

15:19

him and I'm not sure if my

15:19

partner trip has but trip I

15:22

think has already contacted him.

15:22

So our I don't know if you guys

15:25

know but Sullivan's

15:25

international headquarters is

15:29

literally four He minutes away

15:29

from where this campground is.

15:33

So someone is going to be there

15:33

and my partner trips gonna be

15:35

there teaching but so I think

15:35

we've invited him and his wife

15:41

to come by the headquarters and

15:41

see where we actually make the

15:44

sun ovens either early I don't

15:44

know when I'm not even involved

15:47

in that. So he's gonna be there.

15:47

Another friend of mine is

15:52

Hakeem. And this dude is a he's

15:52

like a ninja guy. Literally.

15:59

Yes. And he wasn't the only was

15:59

it Naked and Afraid. Ah, naked,

16:04

afraid neck and afraid

16:04

exhale. Now he's on the show

16:07

that just come out of what was

16:07

it a race for Alaska? Yes,

16:12

that's right. Yep.

16:13

He's on that right now.

16:15

Yep. So it came

16:15

he's great. I'm sure he's

16:18

probably gonna do some kind of

16:18

stick defense or something.

16:21

We've got him doing for that

16:21

for the actual weapons part of

16:25

it. He's going to do the the tomahawk

16:28

Tomahawk suite

16:28

is nothing better than throwing

16:30

an axe that's just

16:31

and I'll let you know

16:31

Tomahawk that's my go to. That's

16:34

my goatee right there.

16:35

And then some

16:35

good new friends of mine. And in

16:40

I don't know what they're teaching they're just going to have a booth booth there but

16:42

these guys are awesome. There's

16:45

Dunkin guns and knives from from

16:45

up where my my son oven is right

16:50

there in Wilkes County and

16:50

Wilkesboro They're great guys. I

16:53

went in there the other day and spent like an hour and a half talking to them about knives and

16:55

stuff. But they're gonna have a

17:28

booth there. Right?

17:29

Um, they actually have an

17:29

event going on, but they are. I

17:34

don't know. They're trying to

17:34

get Yeah, they did sponsor

17:37

sponsor. I tell you Kevin's

17:37

game, Kevin Kane, the owner of a

17:41

Duncan's gun and blade and Ridge

17:41

runner blades. Awesome guy

17:46

entrepreneur has been been

17:46

rolling there for quite a few

17:50

years now. They if they don't

17:50

have it, you probably ain't

17:53

supposed to have it. I mean, it is

17:57

a week and a half ago about Tannerite because we were going to go blow my

17:59

partner said hey, come up. Let's

18:01

have a company meeting. Let's

18:01

blow some stuff up. I'm like,

18:04

Okay, that sounds like a party

18:04

to me. Yeah. Two hours because

18:09

I'm in Charlotte. And yeah, you

18:09

know,

18:11

on Dad wall was great. You

18:11

know, North Carolina is has tons

18:18

of bladesmith. And it was really

18:18

neat that you know, Kevin got

18:25

with Daniel Winkler, who was who

18:25

was a local just, you know, not

18:29

too far outside. Right outside

18:29

of Boone. You know, Daniel

18:34

Winkler Man, that guy has been

18:34

in the business for forever and

18:36

a day and, and

18:39

seeds. Amazing.

18:39

Oh, yeah. Not to mention

18:43

his blades have been in you

18:43

know, all kinds of movies. You

18:46

know. What was it the one that

18:46

was filmed in Chimney Rock State

18:51

Park last Mohicans. You did the

18:51

designs of those blades. But

18:55

Kevin actually got us. Three

18:55

knives and two of those are

19:00

autographed by Daniel Winkler.

19:00

And we we are going to be given

19:06

those away at Mountain readiness

19:06

as well. If you buy a ticket,

19:09

you're automatically entered for

19:09

one, one entry to win those

19:12

knives we're going to actually

19:12

get to, we've got a whole bunch

19:15

of stuff we're going to be doing

19:15

with giveaways like that for the

19:17

event. We're going to draw

19:17

everything I think on Sunday at

19:21

noon. So that's

19:22

the Winkler

19:22

knives as well. If I remember,

19:25

right, a lot of tier one

19:25

operators carry them. I mean,

19:29

they're just Oh, yeah.

19:31

Yeah, the tomahawks and the

19:31

blades. Yeah, over and up, you

19:34

know, in the Middle East

19:34

Afghanistan, or Iraq, Kuwait. A

19:37

lot of the operators that was

19:37

there go to we're doing we're

19:41

doing the same thing with Kyle

19:41

Geoghegan of Geoghegan arms,

19:44

which he's going to be there at

19:44

the event as well. Kyle and I

19:48

are good friends. And of course

19:48

Kyle, Army Ranger, decorated

19:53

multiple deployments. Runs

19:53

Geoghegan arms. He also runs

19:58

resilience Forge, which is a

19:58

nonprofit for helping veterans

20:03

you know, awesome guy. He's

20:03

going to also we've got some

20:07

blades of his that we're going

20:07

to be given away. I mean, we

20:09

just we just given everything away for

20:13

him mentioned

20:13

okay. Oh, possibly not confirmed

20:17

yet. But I gotta give a shout

20:17

out to one of my good friends,

20:21

which is Mike Shelby, he runs

20:21

Ford observer. You still working

20:25

out the details there. But Mike

20:25

isn't everybody. I mean,

20:29

everyone in President knows Mike

20:29

because he's been on my podcast,

20:32

and I've had him live so many

20:32

times. He's actually an expert

20:36

panel. So let me go through

20:36

that. So my expert panel

20:39

members, these are people that

20:39

help me with prepper. Net is Dr.

20:44

Bones and nurse Amy. Mike

20:44

Shelby, who else we got a trip

20:49

from Sun ovens going to be

20:49

there. I thought there was

20:52

another one mo nope, that's it.

20:52

So So there's these are people

20:56

that earn kind of on my expert

20:56

panel that helped prepper net.

21:01

Yeah. Mike Shelby teaches he's a

21:01

he was a intelligence NCO and,

21:07

and he's very smart kid, as a

21:07

kid, because he's young. And

21:11

he's, I don't know, he just

21:11

seemed like a kid. First time I

21:14

met him, we didn't get along.

21:14

But since man we we've been, we

21:18

talk almost, I won't say weekly,

21:18

bi weekly, but he's getting

21:22

ready to release a book, I

21:22

released a book and we've been

21:25

talking but love for observer

21:25

and everything that they do, but

21:29

hopefully, he'll be there. And

21:29

you guys can work out the

21:31

details from other people. Let's

21:31

go just through some names here.

21:35

These are now I'm going to I'm

21:35

gonna go through a list of

21:38

prepper net members. Now, and

21:38

I'm just doing that because I'm

21:43

prepping it you know what I

21:43

mean? In the prepping Academy's

21:46

part of prepper. Net. Say, one,

21:49

I said it's one of those close to home things, you know.

21:53

So these are

21:53

people in my organization that's

21:56

going to be teaching. And these

21:56

are outstanding people. I'm

21:59

telling you, they're part of the

21:59

40 experts, so I'm going to just

22:02

name them and then we'll someone

22:02

will talk about someone we

22:05

won't. Larry and Rhonda. Right.

22:05

Ramin, which is the kilted

22:10

prepper he was a city leader for

22:10

me, Dr. Bones and nurse Amy, I

22:15

told you there on my expert

22:15

panel, Susan shires, Mother

22:19

Goose, which is our yak and

22:19

Valley City Leader. Pork Chop.

22:24

He was on offer Ice Road

22:24

Truckers. He was the seeded

22:29

leader for me in Columbia, South

22:29

Carolina. David grassy. He's

22:34

teach and got all kinds of

22:34

videos he's done for. He didn't

22:38

like a lot of I think wild

22:38

edibles. And then Jonathan there

22:42

Colloidal Silver guy I forgot

22:42

his last name, Jonathan glass or

22:45

something. Placer. Yes, yeah.

22:45

And then trip from Sun Oven. And

22:49

Mike Shelby. I mean, all them

22:49

guys are a part of prep for

22:52

that, which is exciting. They

22:52

come out but let me let me talk

22:55

about Raman the kilted prepper

22:55

he's actually going to be by the

23:00

time you guys hear this, you

23:00

won't be able to, but Raymond

23:03

tonight the kill. The kilted

23:03

preppers is going to be on my

23:07

Monday Night Live show I got I

23:07

told you guys about. He's co

23:10

hosting with me later tonight.

23:10

And we're recording this. And so

23:14

you can watch and go to prepper

23:14

net.com. And watch and watch it

23:18

because it's not. That's not put

23:18

in a podcast format, but he's my

23:22

co host. So but I'm Dr. Bones

23:22

and nurse Amy. I love them.

23:26

We've already talked about we're

23:26

getting together. We're going

23:29

out to eat, I think on Friday

23:29

night and then Saturday night

23:32

that are coming by the prepper.

23:32

Net tent, and we're going to do

23:35

a big cookout and they're going

23:35

to be a part of that. Mother

23:39

Goose like I said she is my

23:39

she's a city leader. yakking

23:44

Valley City Leader which is not

23:44

too far from there. I don't

23:47

think isn't that well? No,

23:48

it's not and and on that

23:48

Mother Goose it appears is going

23:52

to be our neighbor. We live out

23:52

here off the parkway and she

23:56

actually has bought some

23:56

property back behind us. Wow. So

24:00

yeah, she's literally gonna be

24:00

hop skip jump on the backside of

24:04

the of the hill. Us.

24:06

She is one of

24:06

the most prepared people and

24:09

knowledgeable people I've ever

24:09

met. I'll just say that.

24:12

Awesome. So then there's pork

24:12

chop Ice Road Truckers. You can

24:16

catch him on that but he's a

24:16

good guy is probably going to do

24:19

something cooking because he's a

24:19

cook.

24:21

Oh, he is and I have not had

24:21

the chance to eat anything of

24:26

his been. I hear he's

24:26

phenomenal. Everybody says the

24:30

same thing.

24:31

And David Grassi

24:31

he was on the show Dillard

24:33

deliverance, or no, I'm kidding.

24:33

He's a great guy. He's a he's a

24:38

friend. He's he he he's a good

24:38

friend and we we get along for

24:43

man. He is from the hollers or

24:43

Appalachian last week.

24:48

We went out to do we did a

24:48

video for YouTube there with

24:51

David. I'm gonna tell you right

24:51

now there's two things one, you

24:56

need a four wheel drive to get

24:56

to David's house to move quickly

25:04

around that German shepherd he

25:04

has that dog means business. I

25:08

kid you not that thing is a it's

25:08

a freaking beast. Yeah.

25:13

If I remember I

25:13

think he's a former Air Force. I

25:15

think he retired from the Air

25:15

Force. Yes. Yeah.

25:17

retired from the Air Force.

25:17

And yeah, and he'll be doing

25:20

he's gonna be doing wild edibles

25:20

and some land nav classes. We

25:27

actually did a little wild

25:27

edibles with him right there at

25:30

at his home. Really, really cool

25:30

guy, great guy. And man, he

25:35

knows his stuff.

25:36

Oh, yeah, he

25:36

does. And then Jonathan

25:38

Colloidal Silver. Everyone knows

25:38

what Colloidal Silver is. He is

25:41

the expert of that. He's

25:41

amazing. Trip my partner from

25:45

Sun ovens can be teaching some

25:45

kind of Southern cooking with

25:48

solar. He's going to show you

25:48

how to make a solar oven. How to

25:51

use the Sun Oven. I think we'll

25:51

have some food out there for

25:55

people to sample I think. I

25:55

don't know. I haven't confirmed

25:57

I told you we'd give one away.

25:57

Bye bye. Last trip, but I think

26:01

we're, I think you will do with

26:01

that. And then and then I'm

26:04

going to be teaching just a

26:04

basic class on survival groups.

26:08

And remember survival groups is

26:08

your most important prep. Well,

26:13

I'd rather be the dumbest person

26:13

in a group of like Navy SEALs,

26:18

yet well, yeah, you and me

26:18

both. People expect a lot less

26:23

out of you that way too.

26:26

So being in a

26:26

group is like, I think, and I

26:28

preach is the most important

26:28

prep is been in group because

26:32

you can't do it alone.

26:34

Now, you know, and it's

26:34

funny, you should say that, you

26:37

know, that's, that's kind of the

26:37

concept behind mountain

26:39

readiness of amber and AI is,

26:39

is, you know, the whole the

26:44

whole lone wolf concept. I mean,

26:44

it's, it's, it's appealing,

26:49

right? You know, you know, one

26:49

man and and fighting off against

26:54

the force to evil single

26:54

handedly fighting the hordes. It

26:58

makes a great movie. And that's

26:58

about it. Right? Folks, you

27:04

can't do it on your own. You

27:04

can't be the security you can't

27:07

be the food bank, the blacksmith

27:07

the leather maker carpenter by

27:11

yourself. It's not happening.

27:11

This is about networking. It's

27:14

about building your tribe. It's

27:14

about community and that's where

27:19

we're going with mountain

27:19

readiness is is is it's building

27:22

community.

27:23

Yes, and I

27:23

promise you guys you guys come I

27:27

promise you that Dr. bones in

27:27

our Samy they're going to be

27:31

eating with us a lot of the all

27:31

the pertinent people will be

27:34

hanging out with us that

27:34

evening. I think it's Saturday

27:37

night. There will be a I think

27:37

there's gonna be a hike going on

27:41

that night as well. And a lot of

27:41

my people going hey, we'd rather

27:43

go on a hike I'm like fine, I

27:43

think is Chris weathermen Lee

27:46

leading that

27:48

you know, we were working out

27:48

the details steel, but we may

27:51

just make it a star studded

27:51

event and it may be Alan Chris

27:56

porkchop. And a bunch of people

27:56

just throw in their packs, test

28:00

testing gear and go on for a

28:00

hike, you know, work up work up

28:04

an appetite. That sounds

28:05

cool. So we're

28:05

all gonna be hanging out there.

28:08

I mean, when you go to an event

28:08

like this, I mean you can walk

28:12

up to any of these people

28:12

anytime except when they're

28:15

teaching a class ask them

28:15

questions that's what they're

28:17

there for. I mean, the training

28:17

Dr. Bones and our Samy are is

28:22

just amazing. Alan Kay, he tells

28:22

his story about living in a box

28:27

and it's amazing then you he'll

28:27

bring his bug out bag and when

28:31

you see his bug out bag, you're

28:31

gonna go okay, I have no skills.

28:36

Right his bug out bag weighs

28:36

about eight pounds and

28:42

Chris Wilder was the same way

28:42

with the bug out bags. I liked

28:44

watching you know he was on with

28:44

of course course Brad was real

28:48

good good friends with Carl with

28:48

tactical rifleman

28:54

Oh yes. Yes.

28:55

They did a big bug out bag

28:55

thing and they do a lot of that

28:59

stuff with the bug out bags and

28:59

and speaking of tactical rifle

29:02

and we're also we've got one of

29:02

his instructors Good grief mind

29:08

went blank right here. Whereas

29:08

Emery Morgenstern, which is the

29:15

Israeli combat instructor for

29:15

tactical rifleman. So, that's

29:20

another big name. If you if you

29:20

watch you tube, if you like

29:23

tactical riflemen, I mean that

29:23

guy is a mountain of a man and

29:28

has a has a resume about 15

29:28

pages long.

29:33

Yep, it's Star

29:33

it's, you have a bunch of stars

29:37

you do and then people like

29:37

David, no one knows David, but

29:40

not many people have the

29:40

knowledge this guy has as well.

29:43

I mean, some of these guys are

29:43

crazy. Yeah,

29:47

so bother. You know, we've

29:47

got one of our neighbors just

29:50

right around the corner here.

29:50

Chuck Lewis with Sheridan Park

29:54

Farms is big into regenerative

29:54

farming. He's actually going to

30:00

be doing raising poultry and

30:00

then actual hands on poultry

30:04

processing. The guy is just

30:04

phenomenal. I mean, he's got his

30:09

own cult following as well. And,

30:09

and when it comes to the farm

30:14

and, and and just raising

30:14

livestock and butchering he,

30:20

he's the man Chuck was actually

30:20

one of the first educators to to

30:24

sign up with us, great guy. He's

30:24

gonna be there Friday for the

30:29

class, the intro to poultry,

30:29

raising poultry and then of

30:33

course, Sunday is going to win

30:33

when he's going to actually do

30:36

the live hands on butchering but

30:36

we've got Shawn Tom Mullins and

30:41

her husband with farm and forge

30:41

Sean tall is just she's a young

30:46

girl but what a powerhouse when

30:46

it comes to the organic

30:51

gardening. The heirloom seed non

30:51

GMO. This girl is growing a

30:59

garden And she's been going for

30:59

years, she don't water it. I

31:04

said, What do you mean, you

31:04

don't water your garden, she

31:06

says, if you do it correctly,

31:06

you don't have to water and I

31:08

said, You need to come out and

31:08

show us. So she actually come

31:12

out to our place, we put a

31:12

garden in, she said, if it's

31:16

done like this, I mean, time is

31:16

money. And if I can not water my

31:21

garden and still pull out all

31:21

that produce, I mean, it's a win

31:25

win as far as I'm concerned.

31:25

Right? Yep. Yep. So tons of

31:29

names, you know, we've got a lot

31:29

of the locals, as well as the

31:34

big names across the board. And,

31:34

you know, our focus is to is to

31:37

bring all these educators

31:37

together. And for the people to

31:42

keep keep building out that

31:42

toolbox of self reliance and

31:48

that skill set that you're going

31:48

to need for, I truly believe

31:52

days coming in on the horizon,

31:52

you know, this is, you know,

31:56

it's a life or death thing, when

31:56

it all comes down to it, I

31:58

believe,

31:58

yeah. And it comes down to knowledge. I mean, I mean, your tools can break,

32:00

you can lose your tools. And

32:03

this, this is how you get the

32:03

knowledge they teach you, then

32:06

you go home, and you put it in

32:06

practice, and you learn it, and

32:10

that's how it becomes helpful

32:10

and knowledgeable. And that's, I

32:14

mean, it's a bunch, well, we're

32:18

here, we're pushing to, we're

32:18

pushing to have, you know, come

32:23

to the expo, learn all you can

32:23

buy the books, do what you know,

32:28

go to all these different

32:28

classes, you know, at the end of

32:31

it, when you when you go home,

32:31

and your brain is just

32:33

completely full of all this, the

32:33

what you've been seeing, and you

32:37

settle back into life, we want

32:37

to give everyone something after

32:43

the fact you know, all these

32:43

educators that we have here,

32:47

have classes that they do

32:47

throughout the year, more in

32:51

depth, you know, more hands on,

32:51

you know, so don't just stop

32:54

here with the expo, we want

32:54

everyone to continue that growth

33:00

and that journey and self self

33:00

sufficiency and self reliance.

33:04

And, and reach out to these

33:04

people reach out to these

33:07

educators, they're all about it,

33:07

this is what they do. Bringing

33:11

you to their, their farms to

33:11

their areas, you know, teaching

33:14

you the gardening, teaching you

33:14

the processing, you know,

33:19

whatever it may be, you know, we

33:19

want we want everybody to have

33:22

something year round, you know,

33:22

keep keep working on that

33:26

journey.

33:27

Yes. And so I

33:27

will give everybody that I know

33:29

you guys are probably and this

33:29

is my mistake, but everybody's

33:33

like, what, okay, what's the

33:33

what's the what's the address?

33:35

Where do we go? It's mountain

33:35

readiness.com. And that spelled

33:40

mountain? And readiness.com. I

33:40

mean,

33:44

pretty basic, right? Yeah,

33:44

pretty basic. Just just for some

33:49

of those who struggle, which I

33:49

am one of those. It's mountain

33:52

then it's r, r e a d i in

33:52

ess.com, readiness, mountain

33:58

readiness. It's kind of like

33:58

tea, you can't mess it up. It's

34:02

pretty basic.

34:03

In the sweet tea

34:03

or unsweet. D.

34:06

I'm horrible on sweet tea.

34:06

But I hate to say that

34:08

especially in this area, you know, you get

34:13

so and then

34:13

again, this is May 5 through

34:15

seventh, which is a month away.

34:15

And we're going to push this out

34:18

in our podcast and hey, just you

34:18

don't even just go to mountain

34:22

readiness. And like you said as

34:22

it is our e a d i n e. S s.com.

34:28

And if you go to prepper. Net,

34:28

we have it posted all over if

34:31

you go on our Facebook page,

34:31

Amber has been posting across

34:35

the nation about this thing, and

34:35

that's why it's gonna be so

34:39

incredible.

34:41

But yeah, we also

34:41

advertisement come out today in

34:45

grit magazine, which no

34:45

affiliation of Mother Earth

34:49

News, you get on there on grit

34:49

forest, you're in that you might

34:54

you're a star, you know, you're

34:54

even a bigger star. Check it

34:56

out. Okay, Lauren, you are so

34:56

good on grip magazine, that

35:00

advertisement for mountain

35:00

readiness is on there. We put it

35:04

together. It's kind of a post

35:04

apocalyptic twist on it. I mean,

35:09

we like it, we like it. I think

35:09

it was pretty cool. And it was

35:12

just kind of a tribute to as

35:12

many of the educators that are

35:16

going to be here that we could

35:16

possibly fit into three minutes.

35:20

So so check that out as well.

35:20

We're going to be pushing that

35:23

out. And, and if you can share

35:23

it to for us, check it out, push

35:27

it down. And then hopefully, if

35:27

it gets enough likes and shares,

35:33

grit magazine, it will then go

35:33

to Mother Earth News and they

35:37

are going to put it on their

35:37

platform

35:40

and they have a

35:40

couple of 1000 or 100,000

35:43

members or so. Millions were

35:43

million Okay. Gosh, I knew they

35:47

were big. Yeah,

35:48

yeah, they're huge. I mean,

35:48

you know, so so you know if if

35:52

check it out on grit, get it

35:52

same thing with with prepper

35:56

net, you know, here like it

35:56

share it you know, the more

35:59

times it gets shared and liked,

35:59

the better it is, the more

36:02

movement it gets, we can push it

36:02

to the Mother Earth News

36:05

platform, get it out there. So

36:05

more and more people can see

36:08

this. And at the end of the day,

36:08

you know, maybe we can just just

36:13

pack this place out.

36:14

So and let me

36:14

tell everyone, if you've never

36:16

been to a show like this, it is,

36:16

it is crazy, awesome. You get to

36:20

meet meet people from all over

36:20

the United States. And then you

36:25

actually can become their

36:25

friends. I mean, you meet new

36:27

friends, I've got friends, all

36:27

across America, because I've

36:31

been going to some of these

36:31

conferences, and you meet

36:34

people, and then you also meet

36:34

the teachers, and all of a

36:37

sudden, you become a part of the

36:37

community. And all of a sudden,

36:41

believe it or not, one day, you

36:41

may be asked to teach, or you

36:44

may be invited to come teach

36:44

some of your skills because, you

36:48

know, you know, that's just kind

36:48

of the way it works, I went to

36:51

the first prepper. Net, just as

36:51

a as a student, I mean, to the

36:55

prepper camp, and as a student,

36:55

and all of a sudden, I've taught

36:58

there every year, and created my

36:58

organization, you know, prepper

37:02

net, and it's, and now

37:02

literally, I know about 80% of

37:06

all these people that I could

37:06

literally email them and they

37:09

email me back. And that can

37:09

happen either. I'm not that I'm

37:12

nothing special. I'm just

37:12

saying, Come and meet these

37:14

people. These are experts in

37:14

their field. And you'll meet

37:18

people, you know, throughout the

37:18

United States. And people always

37:21

say this, why do I want to meet

37:21

people in other states? Well,

37:25

you might have grandmothers,

37:25

brothers, uncles and other

37:27

states that might need some

37:27

knowledge or some encouragement.

37:32

A lot of these times these

37:32

people can come in handy for

37:34

you. Oh, for

37:35

sure. For sure. For us. No,

37:35

you, you nailed it. I mean, and

37:38

that's what this is about. It's

37:38

about networking. You know,

37:42

that's, that's what it is. It's

37:42

about going out, meeting people

37:45

of like mine, and sharing

37:45

knowledge and, and learning. You

37:50

know, just being around these

37:50

like minded people, man, you,

37:53

there's so much that all these

37:53

these different people have to

37:56

offer, you're gonna take a lot

37:56

away from this no matter what

38:00

walk of life that you, you, you

38:00

or your work. And you know, and

38:03

the same thing to like you said,

38:03

we're all we're all just people.

38:07

We're all on the same journey.

38:07

Yes, yes, we're at different

38:10

stages on the road. So this is

38:10

this is where you go if you want

38:17

to keep further and and look

38:17

what is, you know, what is the

38:21

goal of stuff like this, it's

38:21

not just go and, you know, do a

38:25

couple cool things go home.

38:25

It's, um, it's, this is self

38:30

sufficiency is freedom, right?

38:30

Absolutely. Freedom people.

38:35

People really don't understand

38:35

they're, they're enslaved to

38:39

what what this world has as done

38:39

and I'm not dogging the, the,

38:44

you know, electricity and

38:44

running water and all these

38:46

modern conveniences, but at the

38:46

same time, you know, our

38:50

ancestors, the things that they

38:50

did, the knowledge they possess,

38:54

we no longer have that the world

38:54

has dumbed us down and made us

38:59

slaves to a society. Yeah. And,

38:59

and this is how you awaken

39:05

yourself. Yeah, this is what you

39:05

use to free your mind free your

39:10

body and become self sufficient,

39:10

you know, ungovernable. And

39:14

that's exactly

39:15

the reason I wrote my last book. It's called entrepreneurialship. for

39:17

survival. It's like, get out of

39:21

the rat race, and I help you,

39:21

maybe start a home based

39:26

business, start doing some

39:26

things that you can control your

39:29

paycheck, and you can control

39:29

your future, instead of your

39:32

employer or the government,

39:32

whoever controlling it, you

39:36

control it. That's truly being

39:36

self sufficient. When you can

39:39

control your your funds your

39:39

food, and your family and your

39:43

freedom.

39:44

And that is that is a you

39:44

know, becoming ungovernable,

39:47

that is true freedom. And, you

39:47

know, we have been enslaved for

39:52

so long. Our minds have been

39:52

enslaved for so long. We don't

39:56

even realize what where we're at

39:56

in life right down to start with

40:02

something simple. It's a little

40:02

bitty tin pit at a bit at a

40:06

time. You know, start your

40:06

gardening start your you know,

40:11

going into business for

40:11

yourself, get you know, being

40:14

your own boss, whatever it may

40:14

be, it's it's it steps take

40:17

small steps. And and before

40:17

long, you know, you'll you'll

40:21

bring yourself to that, that

40:21

enlightened place that people

40:24

don't even realize is out there.

40:27

That is awesome.

40:27

That is good stuff. So everyone,

40:30

make sure you go to mountain

40:30

readiness.com sign up, get all

40:34

the details. You can look at my

40:34

ugly mug shot on there. You can

40:38

see all the speakers I think

40:38

they have like a tentative

40:42

schedule printed out already.

40:42

I'm sure it's gonna change

40:45

because things are changing. I

40:45

mean, and but hey, go again,

40:50

mountain readiness. It's May 5

40:50

through the seventh and you will

40:55

need to make reservations to the

40:55

there's two things you got to

40:58

do. You got to buy a ticket to

40:58

the US And then you got to find

41:01

a place to stay if you don't

41:01

stay at Vannoy farms and harmony

41:06

you can find a hotel, but they

41:06

do have camping and they I guess

41:11

they got camping. They got tent

41:11

camping they've got, yes.

41:16

Everything you can think of and

41:16

including hookups for an RV.

41:21

Yes. So mountain

41:21

readiness.com. We're on

41:24

Facebook, Instagram, we just

41:24

started a podcast where if you

41:28

want to hear me run my mouth a

41:28

little bit more than what we

41:32

already do. The Van Hoy camp

41:32

grounds is right, they're off by

41:37

77 on our website, mountain

41:37

readiness.com. It gives the

41:41

campground phone number, you

41:41

have primitive camping and full

41:45

hookup camping, if you want to

41:45

stay at the facility, if you do

41:50

not and you want some of those

41:50

more modern conveniences, if you

41:54

know you're that type, and you

41:54

just don't want to rough it and

41:56

be tough like all of us, because

41:56

we will be staying there course

41:59

right for us. Yeah, right around

41:59

the corner. 20 minutes down the

42:03

road is all kinds of available

42:03

hotels right there in

42:06

Statesville, literally 20

42:06

minutes down the road, you're

42:09

right around the corner, it's a

42:09

straight shot, you don't have to

42:13

jet off too far, you get you in

42:13

a hotel, and then be right back

42:16

at the campground, you know, in

42:16

20 minutes the next day, so, so

42:21

Van Hoy camp grounds, mountain

42:21

riding stock calm and all the

42:26

informations on there to

42:26

purchase your tickets in

42:29

advance. For the camping and all

42:29

the educators are on there, we

42:33

have a PDF, I believe that's on

42:33

the website now to attend to

42:37

DivX it is evolving. We're going

42:37

to be adding some people you

42:41

know, we're just going to keep

42:41

bringing as much, much as we can

42:44

to this. But right there Mount

42:44

readiness.com

42:48

That is awesome.

42:48

That's amazing that we covered

42:50

it all t thank you for coming on

42:50

and sharing and I can't I mean

42:55

I'm we're looking forward to it. So

42:57

same here for us. Hey,

42:57

appreciate you having us on and

43:01

looking forward to to that may 5

43:01

sixth and seventh seeing you

43:05

guys all there.

43:06

Yep. Hey,

43:06

everyone. Thank you for

43:08

listening. Make sure subscribe.

43:08

We'll see you guys at Mountain

43:12

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43:12

that means that you didn't come

43:17

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43:20

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43:20

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43:22

not gonna make

43:22

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43:26

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43:26

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