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This is James from Survivalpunk.com. Back, finally, back. Hello, So we’re gonna try something new, obviously, something new because you haven’t heard from me in like, two years. If you will, excuse me for a moment. I am backing up in my car trying not to hit couch potato Mike’s car. So yeah, you haven’t heard from me in a while, and that’s gonna change.

My plan is to try to add a lot more content. This should be coming out on the first Monday of September. I’m banking that right now it is like August 18 or something.

I’m gonna put out a podcast Monday through Friday, every day for the month of September, and hopefully for the month after that. Someone asked me recently, they’re like, so Is survival punk dead or what? And it’s not. Survival punk was taken to sleep. We’re back. I have goals that I’d like to achieve, and that’s I see no reason why my full-time job can’t give you guys the great content that you love, and that you deserve. I expect to be picking up some new listeners the way things are going. There are probably more people interested in survival and preparedness now than when I started this, although I think I started Survival Punk in 2012, probably after the world was supposed to end. Maybe I don’t remember.

Yeah, it would be, yeah,

I really need to put out a shirt one day, like a checkmark list of all of the apocalypses that we’ve survived. You know, how many? You know, 2012 was supposed to end because of my calendar, y2k, the world’s supposed to end because the computers, we’ve survived a lot of apocalypses, and I think it’d make a pretty good shirt. So I have a goal. I want to hit Survival Punk hard. Build this audience, build the membership. There is a Survival Punk membership. You should be able to go check out five memberships. There’s a Patreon, which is easier, maybe to get to for some people. There are ways to support the show. I want to I want to take this to where it should be. Survival Punk should be a full-time gig, that’s what I should be doing. So I have a goal I want to hit, to take some full time within six months, and it should be really doable. I have a lot of things to talk about.

I have a new format that we’ll be doing for the foreseeable future, and that is, I’m going to record this on my way to work. A LA, hey, there’s a deer up the road. A LA, like 2008 Jack Spirko.

I’m up driving to work at 331 in the morning.

I’m just gonna knock out podcasts. So that’s the goal. There have been a lot of things that have happened since the last time I got this mic and talked to you guys. I don’t, I don’t see the world getting better anytime soon. So, you know, it’s there’s too much to talk about. I need to get back on the mic and talk about it. Basically, I was gone for most of covid. Now the world is flirting with World War Three. The US is on the brink of civil war. The stupid World Health Organization is flirting with another lockdown, things are getting rough guys, not to mention the whole inflation.

Things are so expensive. But those of us who are prepared, and have been prepared, or getting prepared, weather this much better than the people that are like, I feel like the last couple years have really done a lot to wake people up,

But there are still people that are no clue. You know, after the lockdown madness and after the riots, most mostly peaceful riots, after everything is going on, I feel like more people are waking up and being like, you know, it probably makes sense to be a little prepared.

But there’s still, like, it’s just scratching the surface. There’s, there’s only so many people that that are prepared and good on you guys. Good on us. I know today’s episode is gonna be a little weird. It’s mostly me just talking about, I’m coming back.

I don’t have, I don’t have a blueprint. It’s hard to, so before the old format was I would write down like 10 things to talk about, kind of the list, go over it and pull up articles. Not this time.

Also, I’ve kicked around. I don’t have the best internet at home, and that’s, that’s one of the reasons why I haven’t really done interviews and I don’t do live streams at home. I mean, the times that I could do live streams. My house is tiny. I have an almost five year old daughter. It’s, it’s hard in a tiny house, and I did do some out in the yard, but now the internet’s even worse.

Until we get better internet. I could, I could wake up, get dressed, and go somewhere with my cell phone and do live streams? Would anyone remotely watch, like, a three talk in the morning live stream? I don’t. There are some people that work second shifts, some people that are, I don’t know, but that’s, the main reason why I don’t do live streams is my day job, my work schedule is crazy, and it’s hard to it’s hard to do it at home, with the bad internet. I’ve done some live streams at home. The quality is horrible, so I don’t even know if it’s watchable, to be honest, and not worth bothering with until the internet is much better. So if, if you were one of the people that would watch a three o’clock in the morning live stream, and I guess there’s, there’s repeats, I guess you could watch it on repeat. I don’t know. So go to hit Survival Punk hard.

There’s gonna be a lot of real good topics coming out this month. There’s gonna be, obviously, September is National Preparedness Month. There’s a lot of things to cover with that. We’ve talked about that before. Talk about them again. There’s a lot of things. And September is when I really start thinking about, like, oh, winter is coming here in Tennessee, it’s like yesterday was 104 and it’s 104 in August, it was miserable outside, and we went to a honeybee festival. So we were outside in the heat, getting pounded on.

So, you know, like, and I planted,

I planted some watermelon seeds yesterday. And yes, the watermelons take 80 days, which puts harvest to be somewhere in October, which is a little like I asked my wife. I was like, Will you eat watermelon in October? And she said, Yes, but there’s, there’s some times where we don’t have our first frost in Tennessee until the middle, end of October. So by then, the watermelon should be fairly well established. I can just, I can just protect it a little bit until harvest time. So, yes, it is, and September is obviously sometimes, like the worst heat of the of the year, like you start getting some polar days in September. But it’s like, it’s like that meme where, like you, you wake up in the morning and you’re wearing a hoodie, and then by afternoons, you’re wearing a short like,

Tennessee is crazy. Some good topics there. I want to get in some more interviews. I don’t I don’t know how to work that out yet, but I haven’t really done a lot of interviews the last couple years. The software I used to use, hoped itself Skype is no longer good for interviews. But I know I have some people that want to get back on here, and I will absolutely find a way to make it happen, even if it’s, I don’t know if you want to get recorded on a podcast like three in the morning. Come on. We’ll try that.

So I don’t know.

There was some there. There’s a lot of things I know this is a little weird. Has anyone ever listened to the first episode? It was so bad. It’s before me and Mike really found the format for the show. We just kind of tried to talk because we were like, Oh, we have great conversations together, surely we can just bang out a podcast. That’s not true, and we were both me, me especially was very nervous, awkward on the mic for a long time.

As it went I got more comfortable.

But those early like, if I think on the website, I have a list of the appearances I’ve been on, and maybe it needs to be updated, because there’s a few more, but then shows come and go. So like, there’s appearances I got it went away, and some of them I tried to self host. So usually I’m on a show, I’ll download it and keep it as a backup, in case something ever happens to that podcast.

One of the other things I was kicking around was to if you look at the podcast apps and players, they usually limit the number of ones that shows, like the top 30. So there’s years of podcasts that I put out that are hard to find or not as easy to find. So I might start rolling out some reruns, just so that they show up in the feed. There’s really good content I put out over the years that you have probably never heard of unless you specifically, go back through the website, through the catalog, and find those old episodes so and at one point, I was doing quite a few interviews, and those are really great, and I haven’t done an interview in quite a while, like early on, I got some really good people. So obviously, if you’re looking at this and you scroll back on the website, or you’re on the player and you look at the previous episode from, like, maybe two years ago, it was Rob Wolf, which was the dream interview, the biggest one I’ve ever wanted.

So I kind of hit that, and I need to get back to interviews. So all that to say we’re gonna have some interesting content coming out. So you want to make sure you subscribe. I don’t know what apps are popular anymore. Obviously, you can go to survivalpunk.com to find everything that I do, everything that gets put out. It’s all there. So there’s that. I don’t know what the best podcast players are anymore. My phone just has a player that comes with the Android. I don’t, I don’t even know what it’s called. I think it’s just called Podcast Player or something.

But yeah, Survival Punk is back, we are back hard. That’s the goal, is I want to get this to full time. I want to provide you guys with the best information, with good, with good information, with, I want to keep Survival Punk down to Earth. I don’t want to do anything crazy. I don’t want to make these like hour long, I don’t want to make hour long podcasts. So many podcasts, they run for, like, two hours long, or they’ll take like a one hour podcast, and then they have to spend 20 minutes selling you their courses, or they, like, this episode is sponsored by so and so. Like, the first 10 minutes of the podcast, there’s no content. So I don’t want to do that.

If I start taking on ads, or sponsors, or anything, we’ll roll it at the end, or, like, obviously, the Patreon, the Survival Punk membership, you can go there and you can sign up to support the show. I’ll link it all at the end. We’ll talk about at the end, maybe. But I want to keep the content, content focused. No fluff, straight to the point.

I hate the, the, like I said, I don’t, I don’t listen to a lot of podcasts anymore. But when I do, if they, if they’re wasting 20 minutes of my time talking about ads, it’s very frustrating, and I skip through and miss part of the podcast, I want to keep it down to Earth, I want to keep it very realistic and helpful to you guys. We’re not going to do crazy prepper stuff. I used to call this, like, anti-prepper, like, we’re, we’re prepared for whatever might come our way, and that’s the goal.

But I don’t want to, I’m not a big fan of the military jargon, like, some of the shows do. You know, I feel like some of these people are LARPing, that, like they’re prepping for, like, they’re prepping for something that, you know, like, they’re on a video game or something, but, you know, like, so this morning, it was 3:30 in the morning, and Im driving to work.

Now, if you’ve got time to be LARPing, then good on you, I’m proud of you, good on you. But I just want to get some good content out. So with that, I’m going to stop and get into work. But for you, I want you to make sure you subscribe and hit up survivalpunk.com. Sign up for the email. If you are not getting updates, if you missed this, and then all of a sudden you’re like, oh, wow, I’m glad that James is back. Then go to the website, sign up for the email list. I don’t spam you, I never spam you. I have other people sign up for the membership. You can support the show, you get extra content. I don’t know what that extra content is yet. It’s been so long since I’ve done it, but we’re gonna start, it’s gonna start trickling back out.

So yeah, let me get into work and have a great day, guys.

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