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Survive, thrive, stay alive.
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It's time to get repair with the Prepping Academy podcast.
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Alright, welcome everyone to the Prepping Academy.
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I'm your host for Patrick will be along here soon.
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I don't know where Patrick.
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Patrick's getting ready.
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He he's had some changes in his in his in his in his life.
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So that's that's a good thing, all good things.
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We appreciate you listening.
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And tonight, though, we're gonna be talking about preparedness expos.
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Why every prepper should cons should attend a prepper expo.
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And you're like, what kind of mess is that?
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I'm gonna convince you that you need to go to these prepper expos throughout wherever there's one around you.
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You need to go, and I'm gonna I'm gonna convince you.
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If I don't convince you, then I will.
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I will.
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We'll just do it.
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Yep.
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So when's the last time you've attended a prepper expo?
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Have you ever?
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And you're like, well, I'm not, I don't like to be around preppers, they're kind of crazy.
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Yeah, so are you.
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And we're not talking about YouTube, we're talking about online, we're talking about actually going to a show or an expo.
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You walk the vendor booths, you go, you set through some classes, talk to instructors, you meet people.
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This is the reason why you go.
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Are you kidding?
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Instructors, people, the books you read, the YouTube channels you see, the podcast you hear, you get to meet the people, ask them questions.
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They're like normal people, they don't have like bodyguards or anything.
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But if you've said never that you've never been to a purpose show, then I you've missed one of the most one of the best opportunities to learn ever.
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It's it's it's just a wealth of information, it's crazy good, and the preparedness community really takes care of everyone there.
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It's it's really awesome.
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Um, today I want to explain why I believe every prepper should, whether you're brand new or have been doing it for decades, you should make it a goal to attend at least one preparedness expo or event a year.
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I could probably make a case to do more than one.
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So you can learn more in one weekend than you can a month online.
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I'm just saying, it is a it is a fire hose of information, but it's so fun.
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We live in an incredible time.
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There are thousands of YouTube videos, millions of articles, countless podcasts, none as good as this.
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But but they're all valuable, they're all great information, but there's something the internet can't replace, and that is hands-on learning.
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Imagine reading a book and then talking to the author and asking him questions.
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Imagine, like one of the first prepper camps I went to, I literally met Dr.
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Wim Fortune that wrote the book One Second Ather.
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Probably the most preparedness book, apocalyptic book ever written, which is coming into a movie.
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We'll hear about that more.
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We're partnered with them.
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But yes, you get to see equipment that people only talk about, you get to touch it, you get to ask questions, you watch demonstrations, you meet people behind the products, behind the microphone, behind the video, and you spend the and you can spend months watching it on water filters.
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But when you see it and you do it and you hold it, and you go to a class and they show you and they demonstrate it, you can walk away with a ton, ton of knowledge.
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And you can walk all away with some of the items.
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I mean, they all always sell it, which is pretty cool.
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Buy a book, let the author sign it.
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Sometimes I know a couple shows you can just walk up right up and be on a podcast.
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That kind of learning is hard to duplicate online, it's just impossible to do online.
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So why not?
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You meet the expert.
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So I have been teaching at prepper shows and events for 15 years.
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15 years.
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One of my favorite parts is is the other instructors, and it becomes a family.
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I go to many shows.
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One of them's prepper camp here in Unite and North Carolina.
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I've been going for 15 years, I think it's 15, maybe 14 years, ever since they've had it.
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You meet all the instructors, they're my friends.
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I meet preppers, they come up and they talk.
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Kids come up and talk to me because you know, I gave them a hard time last year, which means they, you know, if you pick on little kids, they think you like them, if you know what I mean.
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And um, oh yeah, and they just come, oh Mr.
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Garvin, it's been a year.
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And so it's it's so much fun.
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Many poop people I've spent have been has spent decades developing real-world experiences.
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So they develop their classes and their product for you to come up and touch it and learn about it.
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There's authors, there's many military veterans, medical professionals.
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Matter of fact, this last expo I went to, I met a guy named Tom, and you're like, Who's Tom?
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Well, he goes by Dr.
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Prepper.
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He literally has that trademark.
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We became friends really quick.
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First time I ever met him.
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He was a vendor there, he's a speaker and a teacher there.
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We could we hung out, and then I invited him to go to New York City with me last week, and he's like, Yeah, let's go.
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And we watched the uh the reviewing of the new movie coming out one second after.
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We went up there and I'm kind of on the planning team for that.
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And PrepperNet is the official preparedness partner, and I took him up there so he could meet other people.
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Man, we had a blast up there.
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You can meet medical professionals, ham radio operators, homesteaders, gardeners, blacksmiths, security experts.
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You just don't hear them speak.
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You can go up and touch them.
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Well, don't touch them.
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You can touch the product, what they made, ask them questions, understand, and they'll stand right there and explain it to you and talk to you.
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They'll share their ideas.
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You can build relationships with them.
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It's crazy.
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That is the prepping community.
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You do that with other shows, yeah, you're not gonna get that kind of stuff.
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Some of the best conversation I've ever had was after a class, asking questions.
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Hey, when you wrote this book, let's see, Franklin Horton.
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I read this book, it takes place in Charlotte.
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When you when you wrote this, what were you thinking?
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And you can't you can just talk to them and they'll just sit there and answer your questions.
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It's pretty amazing.
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Nothing replaces hands-on experience.
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So preparedness is practical.
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You do things, you got to know how to use the tools.
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You could read about starting a fire, but until you actually start one, you don't know how to start a fire.
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You can watch someone use a water filter, or you can test it out yourself and go, okay, that I didn't die from that.
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You can read about solar generators, or you can learn how to build one or or buy one or see one.
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You can compare them in person.
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Preparedness expos give you the opportunity to touch gear, use equipment, ask dick difficult questions.
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So sometimes my typing ability is not as strong as my verbal communication ability.
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So if I am like, oh gosh, I gotta ask this question.
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It's gonna, I mean, it takes me an I you know 15 minutes to write the question I want to ask.
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But if I'm standing in front of you, I can get it right.
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So that kind of experience gives you confidence when you meet people.
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Like I've met everyone in pretty much in the industry, everyone.
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And it just like, oh yeah, remember when he was teaching this, or when yeah, it just gives you confidence, and you and you get it from doing, practicing, and seeing.
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And even even, you know, I remember going to a blacksmith's class at Heritage Life Skills.
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I don't know anything about blacksmithing, but I made me a ding knife.
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I'm like, well, it's not it's not one you want to.
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Oh, I would trust it.
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It's just not it doesn't look very good, okay.
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You can and you can save a hundreds and hundreds of dollars by making a lot of this stuff yourself.
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And you see these preppers, they a lot, most of them, some of them they sell stuff because you you you can't you can make you can find flint and steel, but uh or you can just buy it for 10 bucks.
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You know what I mean?
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You gotta go find flint.
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Okay, yeah, you there is flint in North Carolina, especially around the rural tracks, and steel is good, but still, sometimes just buying it.
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Good decision often comes with better information.
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So go and taste the food.
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You know, there's a guy, and I love him to death.
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Haven't seen him in the last couple years, but he makes his he has these feral rods that can throw sparks like five feet.
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I know he's from Florida, and he's a great guy.
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I love him and his wife.
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Hope they're doing well.
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I forgot the name of their website.
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If I remember the name, I'll I'll post it so you can go buy a feral rod from them.
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Because he's great.
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Him and his wife travel and do that.
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So you meet people too.
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Maybe the biggest benefit of all is meeting people.
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Preparedness can be lonely.
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Maybe your friends don't understand it.
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Maybe your family thinks you're a a wacko or a freak.
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Then you walk into a preparedness expo, and suddenly, suddenly, magically, you're surrounded by thousands of people that think like you do.
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You're like, whoa, is this real?
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Are you do you you do you are you concerned about this?
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I'm concerned about that.
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People believe in responsibility, self-reliant, community, faith, and freedom.
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You have conversations that simply cannot have at work or in your neighborhood.
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It just won't happen.
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Man, do you what do you think about you know EMPs?
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What do you think about CMEs?
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What do you think about you know, was COVID a hoax?
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Well, I mean, just you you bring that up at work, you might get thrown out of work.
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HR will come get you.
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I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying you can't talk about it there.
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Many lifelong friendships happen starting at preparedness group.
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Oh, many, many people I've become really good friends with at Preparedness Expos.
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Lifelong friends at this point.
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Literally over 20 years ago, I met some people and I'm still friends with them.
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That's crazy.
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Go into someone else's work or to another and and and become friends with someone and then say you're friends with them 20 years later, it's not gonna happen.
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Preparedness has always been about people.
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People try to make it about tools, they try to make it about skills, which both are important, but it is about people.
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So every expo or event is different.
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Oh boy, oh yeah.
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So we have our biker gangs.
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We we we have them people in the preparedness industry, you know.
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You know, they you know, they're a little rough on the edges, they like to be rough, uh, you know, they drink and smoke and cuss and you know, you know, rev their engines up.
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We have them people, absolutely every community has something like that.
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Maybe they're not so family friendly, but they're good people.
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They they are, they're really good people as well.
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And so, yeah, so one thing I love about events across America, no two are exactly alike, they're all different.
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You go to I went to an event in Georgia, totally different type of people.
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They were more bushcraft people.
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Went to an event in Tennessee.
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Um, that was that was a normal kind of group, a lot of white-collar workers there, which was good to see.
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Then you go to prepper camp, which is mostly blue-collar workers.
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I mean, they all camp out and they like to rough it and stuff.
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That's different than what Tennessee had.
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Tennessee, you know, over there in Nashville, it was like more white-collar people.
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So they're all different, they're all great people.
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They're all great people.
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Some emphasize homesteading and you know, a little bit of hippie in them or something.
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Still good people.
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Some focus on survival skills or bushcraft skills.
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I went up to one in Ohio.
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A lot of bushcraft skills up there, a lot of homeschool skills, a lot of, you know, and the the there was a guy teaching on how to like preserve meat, smoke meat.
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The only class I wanted to go to, and I couldn't make it.
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I every sometime, something every time his class came up that weekend, I was busy or in the middle of with a family or something.
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So, but some places they focus on communications.
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You can go to ham fest, not a prepping community, but communication is important.
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And so maybe attend one and learn about ham radio.
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Others are garden, gardening and like homesteading, like U.S.
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homesteading.
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There's some medical focus on medical, bushcraft.
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Oh, I already said that one.
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All grid living, faith, family, preparedness, uh, family preparedness.
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That's why I encourage people to attend all the events.
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Everyone you can.
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Every instructor has something unique to offer.
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Every event teaches you something new.
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One weekend may completely change how you think about preparedness.
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So we've had homesteaders come to pre prepping events and all of a sudden they become more prepper-like.
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We've had preppers go to homesteading events and they start going, Hey, I need to build a homestead.
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All good.
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There's, I mean, there's we're we're not trying to win.
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There's no war, there's no competition.
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We all want to survive, we all want skills, we all know we need you know, skills in our head and experience with our hands and equipment on our back.
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We all know that.
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We all kind of might take a different approach.
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So this is the reason why I built a website.
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I actually purchased a website, and it's called prepper showsusa.com.
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Prepper shows with an S USA.com, preppershowsusa.com.
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It lists all the events that in North America.
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Not every single one of them, but it's anyone can post their event there if it's a good major event where the public is invited.
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We don't care your motive.
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I mean, it we do monitor it, but we try to post them all, and we'll contact the people, but just know that most of these events are posted by like the event sponsor or the coordinator or the organizer, but it's at prepper showsusa.com.
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Go there, see if there's something near you.
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I know that like in North Carolina has like four more events this year, and then I we we even there's some a bunch that are already listed for 2027.
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Start pre planning and preparing for your event because some of them do cost money, some may require travel, some may you could camp out.
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I know when you go to prepper camp, you can camp out.
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And I mean they charge a little bit for the camp out spots and everything.
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But one frustration I had years ago is simply finding events near me.
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I didn't, I mean, I I found out about them after they happened.
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I would ask people, there were there was a prepper show near me.
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Oh, what?
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Didn't know about that.
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Are there any near you?
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Well, I don't know.
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So I found prepper showsusa.com and I I purchased it from the gentleman saying, Hey, I really need this.
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I'm in the space, I can I can make it work, and I do sell ads on there, and that I mean it's it's it's full.
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Most of the time it's full.
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People buying ads.
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The other gentleman, he didn't have the network I had, so he really couldn't sell the space, the ad space, but I I sell it, it it makes money for me.
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And but it's prepper shows USA.
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Simple goal: one place where you can find prepper, homesteading, survival, self-reliant, and bushcraft events across all 50 states.
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I'm gonna tell you a secret.
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We even list some overseas.
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We do list some online webinars as well, and some of them are mine, but we we list we try to list them all.
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We have a lot in UK, we have one in like Australia, one in the Netherlands.
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We'll list them.
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I mean, I know it's prepared shows USA, but hey, I I don't it doesn't cost me a dime for someone to list an event in the Netherlands.
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The site isn't well, it's got a little bit of everything.
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So if you're a promoter and you're promoting your your event, you can pay us and we'll email people owner that are have subscribed to our network about your show.
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You if you're in a vendor and you want to be at shows, you can sign up to be a vendor.
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And you can put yes, I'll travel more than 50 miles, 100 miles, a thousand miles.
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I just want to be a vendor.
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And then and then we will share that with promoters.
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So it literally is just the information we don't put on the shows, but we'll list a show.
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We'll list prepper camp.
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We'll have a list of vendors that prepper camp can call and say, hey, we're putting on this.
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We don't connect to two, they just they can see it.
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Anyone can list an event as long as it's a major event.
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If it's like 50 people, yeah, come on.
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That's that's more local.
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Use your local means, but if you're trying to make it a regional, that's where you would list it here.
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And it's literally to connect the community of organizers, people that are oh, and teachers.
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If you want to teach at a camp, you can fill out a little application, just like it's not it's like about you, and then promoters and organizers of events could possibly ask you to come and teach a class there.
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So it's like you're like your calling card.
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Hey, I can teach on ham radio.
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Oh, we need a ham radio.
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Let's let's see if this person will travel to West Virginia and teach this class.
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So whether you're looking for a one-day expo or a whole weekend or three-day homesteading, we have preparedness conferences, it's a lot of hands-on and survival, a lot of survival gatherings.
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Our goal is to make it easy to find in one place.
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We're we're the number, if you do prepping events, prepper expos, prepper bushcraft events, homesteader events, we're we come up number one.
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We we're literally the number one listing for this in the world.
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Because more people, we we help try to get more people to go to the events.
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That's kind of our underlying goal.
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Selling a few ads so we can cover our cost and do some advertising as well.
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The stronger the preparedness community becomes, the better we all are.
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And that's how we you know, we just like linking people together like that.
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And but it's prepper shows, wait, wait, what yeah, prepper showsusa.com.
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Go there at least one time, sign up for the email, and then when there's an event, you know, we'll we send them email out maybe once, no, at least once a month, maybe twice a month.
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So, but just go there and and sign up.
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You see if there's an event near you, go there often.
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So, one thing we don't have is where you sign up and you put your zip and anything near you, and then automatically send it to you.
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Maybe we should add something like that in the future.
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But right now, the responsibility is on you.
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Just go and look.
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So, anyway, so that is prepper shows USA.
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So go and look at the calendar, put your event on the calendar, you know, go with your spouse, take your children, invite your friends, you know, walk the aisles, take classes, meet the instructors, ask questions, build relationships.
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You'll leave with more information than you possibly could believe.
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It's more than a brochure or a backpack full of equipment.
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You're gonna you're gonna walk away with friends and ideas that are gonna literally change your life.
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You'll get motivated, new friends, new skills, maybe even a new direction in your preparedness journey.
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And many times we are not a dating site.
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Prepper net dot, you know, prepper net is not a dating site.
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But oh my goodness, people have met at these shows, people have gotten married at these shows.
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So, yes, I'm not saying that to encourage you, but anyway, that's just the truth of the matter.
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If you're looking for an event or your next event, go to prepper showsusa.com and see what's happening near you.
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The site list preppers, homesteading, survival, survival, um, self-reliant homesteading, or I said homesteading bushcraft events nationwide, and the new events are being added daily.
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Literally, we friend of mine wrote an AI that goes out and tries to find the shows.
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Then we try to contact the organizer and let them put it on to our website.
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That way, if they manage it, you know, it's better.
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Hey guys, that's that's it.
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I just wanted to encourage you to go to a show.
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You learn so much, you get so much information, you meet so many great people.
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It should be a part of your preparedness plan every year for you and your and almost almost all these are family friendly, they really are.
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Some of them aren't, and meaning they just have it's a different type of people, but but I we don't list a lot of them, we kind of weed them out a little bit, and and there's reasons, so we do our best to be fair.
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But anyway, guys, go purpose shows you as a check that out regularly, go to an event, take your family to an event, it will change your life, change your roadmap to preparedness.
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So, guys, thank you for joining me.
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That's it.
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Just wanted to encourage you to do that.
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Like, subscribe, give me an unbeliever review, share this out, post it on your social media all you can.
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I mean, go knock on every door in your neighborhood and say, Hey, have you listened to the prepping academy podcast today?
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If they say no, then just say, Hey, you need to go there.
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That would be awesome.
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Anyway, guys, God bless you guys.
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Y'all take care.
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We'll see you next time on the Prepping Academy podcast.
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Patrick's getting ready.
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He he's had some changes in his in his in his in his life.
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And tonight, though, we're gonna be talking about preparedness expos.
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Why every prepper should cons should attend a prepper expo.
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And you're like, what kind of mess is that?
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I'm gonna convince you that you need to go to these prepper expos throughout wherever there's one around you.
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You need to go, and I'm gonna I'm gonna convince you.
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If I don't convince you, then I will.
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I will.
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We'll just do it.
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Yep.
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So when's the last time you've attended a prepper expo?
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Have you ever?
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And you're like, well, I'm not, I don't like to be around preppers, they're kind of crazy.
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Yeah, so are you.
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And we're not talking about YouTube, we're talking about online, we're talking about actually going to a show or an expo.
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You walk the vendor booths, you go, you set through some classes, talk to instructors, you meet people.
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This is the reason why you go.
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Are you kidding?
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Instructors, people, the books you read, the YouTube channels you see, the podcast you hear, you get to meet the people, ask them questions.
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They're like normal people, they don't have like bodyguards or anything.
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But if you've said never that you've never been to a purpose show, then I you've missed one of the most one of the best opportunities to learn ever.
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It's it's it's just a wealth of information, it's crazy good, and the preparedness community really takes care of everyone there.
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It's it's really awesome.
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Um, today I want to explain why I believe every prepper should, whether you're brand new or have been doing it for decades, you should make it a goal to attend at least one preparedness expo or event a year.
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I could probably make a case to do more than one.
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So you can learn more in one weekend than you can a month online.
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I'm just saying, it is a it is a fire hose of information, but it's so fun.
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We live in an incredible time.
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There are thousands of YouTube videos, millions of articles, countless podcasts, none as good as this.
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But but they're all valuable, they're all great information, but there's something the internet can't replace, and that is hands-on learning.
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Imagine reading a book and then talking to the author and asking him questions.
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Imagine, like one of the first prepper camps I went to, I literally met Dr.
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Wim Fortune that wrote the book One Second Ather.
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Probably the most preparedness book, apocalyptic book ever written, which is coming into a movie.
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We'll hear about that more.
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We're partnered with them.
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But yes, you get to see equipment that people only talk about, you get to touch it, you get to ask questions, you watch demonstrations, you meet people behind the products, behind the microphone, behind the video, and you spend the and you can spend months watching it on water filters.
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But when you see it and you do it and you hold it, and you go to a class and they show you and they demonstrate it, you can walk away with a ton, ton of knowledge.
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And you can walk all away with some of the items.
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I mean, they all always sell it, which is pretty cool.
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Buy a book, let the author sign it.
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Sometimes I know a couple shows you can just walk up right up and be on a podcast.
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That kind of learning is hard to duplicate online, it's just impossible to do online.
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So why not?
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You meet the expert.
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So I have been teaching at prepper shows and events for 15 years.
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15 years.
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One of my favorite parts is is the other instructors, and it becomes a family.
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I go to many shows.
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One of them's prepper camp here in Unite and North Carolina.
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I've been going for 15 years, I think it's 15, maybe 14 years, ever since they've had it.
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You meet all the instructors, they're my friends.
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I meet preppers, they come up and they talk.
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Kids come up and talk to me because you know, I gave them a hard time last year, which means they, you know, if you pick on little kids, they think you like them, if you know what I mean.
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And um, oh yeah, and they just come, oh Mr.
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Garvin, it's been a year.
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And so it's it's so much fun.
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Many poop people I've spent have been has spent decades developing real-world experiences.
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So they develop their classes and their product for you to come up and touch it and learn about it.
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There's authors, there's many military veterans, medical professionals.
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Matter of fact, this last expo I went to, I met a guy named Tom, and you're like, Who's Tom?
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Well, he goes by Dr.
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Prepper.
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He literally has that trademark.
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We became friends really quick.
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First time I ever met him.
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He was a vendor there, he's a speaker and a teacher there.
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We could we hung out, and then I invited him to go to New York City with me last week, and he's like, Yeah, let's go.
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And we watched the uh the reviewing of the new movie coming out one second after.
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We went up there and I'm kind of on the planning team for that.
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And PrepperNet is the official preparedness partner, and I took him up there so he could meet other people.
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Man, we had a blast up there.
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You can meet medical professionals, ham radio operators, homesteaders, gardeners, blacksmiths, security experts.
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You just don't hear them speak.
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You can go up and touch them.
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Well, don't touch them.
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You can touch the product, what they made, ask them questions, understand, and they'll stand right there and explain it to you and talk to you.
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They'll share their ideas.
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You can build relationships with them.
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It's crazy.
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That is the prepping community.
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You do that with other shows, yeah, you're not gonna get that kind of stuff.
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Some of the best conversation I've ever had was after a class, asking questions.
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Hey, when you wrote this book, let's see, Franklin Horton.
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I read this book, it takes place in Charlotte.
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When you when you wrote this, what were you thinking?
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And you can't you can just talk to them and they'll just sit there and answer your questions.
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It's pretty amazing.
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Nothing replaces hands-on experience.
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So preparedness is practical.
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You do things, you got to know how to use the tools.
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You could read about starting a fire, but until you actually start one, you don't know how to start a fire.
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You can watch someone use a water filter, or you can test it out yourself and go, okay, that I didn't die from that.
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You can read about solar generators, or you can learn how to build one or or buy one or see one.
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You can compare them in person.
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Preparedness expos give you the opportunity to touch gear, use equipment, ask dick difficult questions.
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So sometimes my typing ability is not as strong as my verbal communication ability.
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So if I am like, oh gosh, I gotta ask this question.
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It's gonna, I mean, it takes me an I you know 15 minutes to write the question I want to ask.
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But if I'm standing in front of you, I can get it right.
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So that kind of experience gives you confidence when you meet people.
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Like I've met everyone in pretty much in the industry, everyone.
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And it just like, oh yeah, remember when he was teaching this, or when yeah, it just gives you confidence, and you and you get it from doing, practicing, and seeing.
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And even even, you know, I remember going to a blacksmith's class at Heritage Life Skills.
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I don't know anything about blacksmithing, but I made me a ding knife.
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I'm like, well, it's not it's not one you want to.
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Oh, I would trust it.
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It's just not it doesn't look very good, okay.
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You can and you can save a hundreds and hundreds of dollars by making a lot of this stuff yourself.
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And you see these preppers, they a lot, most of them, some of them they sell stuff because you you you can't you can make you can find flint and steel, but uh or you can just buy it for 10 bucks.
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You know what I mean?
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You gotta go find flint.
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Okay, yeah, you there is flint in North Carolina, especially around the rural tracks, and steel is good, but still, sometimes just buying it.
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Good decision often comes with better information.
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So go and taste the food.
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You know, there's a guy, and I love him to death.
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Haven't seen him in the last couple years, but he makes his he has these feral rods that can throw sparks like five feet.
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I know he's from Florida, and he's a great guy.
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I love him and his wife.
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Hope they're doing well.
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I forgot the name of their website.
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If I remember the name, I'll I'll post it so you can go buy a feral rod from them.
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Because he's great.
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Him and his wife travel and do that.
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So you meet people too.
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Maybe the biggest benefit of all is meeting people.
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Preparedness can be lonely.
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Maybe your friends don't understand it.
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Maybe your family thinks you're a a wacko or a freak.
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Then you walk into a preparedness expo, and suddenly, suddenly, magically, you're surrounded by thousands of people that think like you do.
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You're like, whoa, is this real?
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Are you do you you do you are you concerned about this?
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I'm concerned about that.
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People believe in responsibility, self-reliant, community, faith, and freedom.
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You have conversations that simply cannot have at work or in your neighborhood.
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It just won't happen.
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Man, do you what do you think about you know EMPs?
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What do you think about CMEs?
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What do you think about you know, was COVID a hoax?
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Well, I mean, just you you bring that up at work, you might get thrown out of work.
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HR will come get you.
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I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying you can't talk about it there.
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Many lifelong friendships happen starting at preparedness group.
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Oh, many, many people I've become really good friends with at Preparedness Expos.
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Lifelong friends at this point.
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Literally over 20 years ago, I met some people and I'm still friends with them.
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That's crazy.
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Go into someone else's work or to another and and and become friends with someone and then say you're friends with them 20 years later, it's not gonna happen.
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Preparedness has always been about people.
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People try to make it about tools, they try to make it about skills, which both are important, but it is about people.
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So every expo or event is different.
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Oh boy, oh yeah.
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So we have our biker gangs.
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We we we have them people in the preparedness industry, you know.
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You know, they you know, they're a little rough on the edges, they like to be rough, uh, you know, they drink and smoke and cuss and you know, you know, rev their engines up.
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We have them people, absolutely every community has something like that.
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Maybe they're not so family friendly, but they're good people.
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They they are, they're really good people as well.
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And so, yeah, so one thing I love about events across America, no two are exactly alike, they're all different.
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You go to I went to an event in Georgia, totally different type of people.
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They were more bushcraft people.
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Went to an event in Tennessee.
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Um, that was that was a normal kind of group, a lot of white-collar workers there, which was good to see.
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Then you go to prepper camp, which is mostly blue-collar workers.
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I mean, they all camp out and they like to rough it and stuff.
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That's different than what Tennessee had.
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Tennessee, you know, over there in Nashville, it was like more white-collar people.
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So they're all different, they're all great people.
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They're all great people.
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Some emphasize homesteading and you know, a little bit of hippie in them or something.
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Still good people.
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Some focus on survival skills or bushcraft skills.
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I went up to one in Ohio.
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A lot of bushcraft skills up there, a lot of homeschool skills, a lot of, you know, and the the there was a guy teaching on how to like preserve meat, smoke meat.
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The only class I wanted to go to, and I couldn't make it.
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I every sometime, something every time his class came up that weekend, I was busy or in the middle of with a family or something.
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So, but some places they focus on communications.
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You can go to ham fest, not a prepping community, but communication is important.
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And so maybe attend one and learn about ham radio.
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Others are garden, gardening and like homesteading, like U.S.
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homesteading.
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There's some medical focus on medical, bushcraft.
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Oh, I already said that one.
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All grid living, faith, family, preparedness, uh, family preparedness.
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That's why I encourage people to attend all the events.
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Everyone you can.
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Every instructor has something unique to offer.
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Every event teaches you something new.
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One weekend may completely change how you think about preparedness.
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So we've had homesteaders come to pre prepping events and all of a sudden they become more prepper-like.
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We've had preppers go to homesteading events and they start going, Hey, I need to build a homestead.
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All good.
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There's, I mean, there's we're we're not trying to win.
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There's no war, there's no competition.
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We all want to survive, we all want skills, we all know we need you know, skills in our head and experience with our hands and equipment on our back.
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We all know that.
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We all kind of might take a different approach.
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So this is the reason why I built a website.
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I actually purchased a website, and it's called prepper showsusa.com.
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Prepper shows with an S USA.com, preppershowsusa.com.
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It lists all the events that in North America.
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Not every single one of them, but it's anyone can post their event there if it's a good major event where the public is invited.
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We don't care your motive.
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I mean, it we do monitor it, but we try to post them all, and we'll contact the people, but just know that most of these events are posted by like the event sponsor or the coordinator or the organizer, but it's at prepper showsusa.com.
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Go there, see if there's something near you.
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I know that like in North Carolina has like four more events this year, and then I we we even there's some a bunch that are already listed for 2027.
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Start pre planning and preparing for your event because some of them do cost money, some may require travel, some may you could camp out.
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I know when you go to prepper camp, you can camp out.
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And I mean they charge a little bit for the camp out spots and everything.
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But one frustration I had years ago is simply finding events near me.
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I didn't, I mean, I I found out about them after they happened.
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I would ask people, there were there was a prepper show near me.
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Oh, what?
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Didn't know about that.
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Are there any near you?
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Well, I don't know.
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So I found prepper showsusa.com and I I purchased it from the gentleman saying, Hey, I really need this.
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I'm in the space, I can I can make it work, and I do sell ads on there, and that I mean it's it's it's full.
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Most of the time it's full.
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People buying ads.
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The other gentleman, he didn't have the network I had, so he really couldn't sell the space, the ad space, but I I sell it, it it makes money for me.
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And but it's prepper shows USA.
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Simple goal: one place where you can find prepper, homesteading, survival, self-reliant, and bushcraft events across all 50 states.
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I'm gonna tell you a secret.
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We even list some overseas.
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We do list some online webinars as well, and some of them are mine, but we we list we try to list them all.
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We have a lot in UK, we have one in like Australia, one in the Netherlands.
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We'll list them.
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I mean, I know it's prepared shows USA, but hey, I I don't it doesn't cost me a dime for someone to list an event in the Netherlands.
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The site isn't well, it's got a little bit of everything.
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So if you're a promoter and you're promoting your your event, you can pay us and we'll email people owner that are have subscribed to our network about your show.
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You if you're in a vendor and you want to be at shows, you can sign up to be a vendor.
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And you can put yes, I'll travel more than 50 miles, 100 miles, a thousand miles.
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I just want to be a vendor.
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And then and then we will share that with promoters.
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So it literally is just the information we don't put on the shows, but we'll list a show.
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We'll list prepper camp.
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We'll have a list of vendors that prepper camp can call and say, hey, we're putting on this.
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We don't connect to two, they just they can see it.
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Anyone can list an event as long as it's a major event.
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If it's like 50 people, yeah, come on.
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That's that's more local.
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Use your local means, but if you're trying to make it a regional, that's where you would list it here.
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And it's literally to connect the community of organizers, people that are oh, and teachers.
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If you want to teach at a camp, you can fill out a little application, just like it's not it's like about you, and then promoters and organizers of events could possibly ask you to come and teach a class there.
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So it's like you're like your calling card.
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Hey, I can teach on ham radio.
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Oh, we need a ham radio.
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Let's let's see if this person will travel to West Virginia and teach this class.
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So whether you're looking for a one-day expo or a whole weekend or three-day homesteading, we have preparedness conferences, it's a lot of hands-on and survival, a lot of survival gatherings.
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Our goal is to make it easy to find in one place.
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We're we're the number, if you do prepping events, prepper expos, prepper bushcraft events, homesteader events, we're we come up number one.
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We we're literally the number one listing for this in the world.
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Because more people, we we help try to get more people to go to the events.
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That's kind of our underlying goal.
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Selling a few ads so we can cover our cost and do some advertising as well.
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The stronger the preparedness community becomes, the better we all are.
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And that's how we you know, we just like linking people together like that.
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And but it's prepper shows, wait, wait, what yeah, prepper showsusa.com.
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Go there at least one time, sign up for the email, and then when there's an event, you know, we'll we send them email out maybe once, no, at least once a month, maybe twice a month.
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So, but just go there and and sign up.
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You see if there's an event near you, go there often.
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So, one thing we don't have is where you sign up and you put your zip and anything near you, and then automatically send it to you.
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Maybe we should add something like that in the future.
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But right now, the responsibility is on you.
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Just go and look.
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So, anyway, so that is prepper shows USA.
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So go and look at the calendar, put your event on the calendar, you know, go with your spouse, take your children, invite your friends, you know, walk the aisles, take classes, meet the instructors, ask questions, build relationships.
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You'll leave with more information than you possibly could believe.
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It's more than a brochure or a backpack full of equipment.
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You're gonna you're gonna walk away with friends and ideas that are gonna literally change your life.
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You'll get motivated, new friends, new skills, maybe even a new direction in your preparedness journey.
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And many times we are not a dating site.
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Prepper net dot, you know, prepper net is not a dating site.
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But oh my goodness, people have met at these shows, people have gotten married at these shows.
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So, yes, I'm not saying that to encourage you, but anyway, that's just the truth of the matter.
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If you're looking for an event or your next event, go to prepper showsusa.com and see what's happening near you.
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The site list preppers, homesteading, survival, survival, um, self-reliant homesteading, or I said homesteading bushcraft events nationwide, and the new events are being added daily.
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Literally, we friend of mine wrote an AI that goes out and tries to find the shows.
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Then we try to contact the organizer and let them put it on to our website.
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That way, if they manage it, you know, it's better.
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Hey guys, that's that's it.
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I just wanted to encourage you to go to a show.
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You learn so much, you get so much information, you meet so many great people.
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It should be a part of your preparedness plan every year for you and your and almost almost all these are family friendly, they really are.
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Some of them aren't, and meaning they just have it's a different type of people, but but I we don't list a lot of them, we kind of weed them out a little bit, and and there's reasons, so we do our best to be fair.
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But anyway, guys, go purpose shows you as a check that out regularly, go to an event, take your family to an event, it will change your life, change your roadmap to preparedness.
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So, guys, thank you for joining me.
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That's it.
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Just wanted to encourage you to do that.
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Like, subscribe, give me an unbeliever review, share this out, post it on your social media all you can.
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I mean, go knock on every door in your neighborhood and say, Hey, have you listened to the prepping academy podcast today?
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If they say no, then just say, Hey, you need to go there.
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That would be awesome.
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Anyway, guys, God bless you guys.
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Y'all take care.
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We'll see you next time on the Prepping Academy podcast.
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Bye-bye.
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