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This Patriot says he wants to stay under the radar.  No problem, brother.  I will tell you this: I know the guy and he’s helping get the word out in a big way.  Thanks, man.

The other sticker is the Survival Podcast logo.  It’s an honor to be in such good company on this man’s back window.

I got to talk with Chaz on the Road Gunner Podcast.  (There aren’t a lot of truckers named “Chaz,” but Chaz isn’t your normal trucker.)  Here’s the link to the episode (my interview starts at 21:47).

He’s a great interviewer and host.  For a podcast about guns and a whole lot of other interesting things, consider subscribing to the Road Gunner Podcast.

Hey, we Patriots like to kick back, too.  This pic comes from Phil and the sandy beaches of Florida.

Come to think of it, 299 Days books are the perfect summer read.  Don’t go on vacation without them.

A great review of Book Four by Wild Child.  Check it out.  If you like listening to a review, as opposed to reading it, then click on this link and listen to the Youtube review.

This avid reader works for the TSP Gear Shop where he fills lots of orders for 299 Days stickers and other cool things relating to the Survival Podcast.  Right on!

Glad to see one of the tens of thousands of living rooms where someone is kicking back with one of the 299 Days books.  Every single person who spends their time diving into my deepest thoughts – it’s an honor.  I still appreciate every single person who reads these books.  I can’t believe all of this is happening.

Bob Mayne had me on Episode 211 of Today’s Survival Show podcast.  It’s a good one.  We talk about the Boston bombing and how some (a tiny percentage) of my liberty-minded friends overreacted (in my opinion).

This Prepper Recon interview is one of the best interviews ever.  We focus on the economic and political reasons for the coming collapse.  The interview just flows.  I highly recommend it.

Here’s a very good review of Books One through Five on Youtube by KentuckyLake Prepper.  He seems like a guy I’d like to have a beer with, and his review is the kind of thing you’d hear if you’re talking to a guy over a beer.  He got what the book was all about and tells you about it.

He says he likes 299 Days as much as Lights Out.  That means a lot to me because I have a ton of respect for that book.

Thanks, KentuckyLake Prepper.  I appreciate you taking the time to review the book.

Here’s part of the review: “I said before that this is the best series ever in the prepper genre and that was after only the first book. After tearing through the second I feel more strongly than before. If you are a prepper/ survivalist and are not reading this series then you are wrong.”

Wow.

Here is the whole review.

I plan on attending the Northwest Patriot and Preparedness Rally in Athol, ID.

Stuart Rhodes (Oath Keepers) and Chuck Baldwin (presidential candidate for Constitution Party) will be there.  Should be a hoot!

I’d love to meet you.

Here’s some info on it: https://www.facebook.com/events/437615886328833/

God bless the United States Marine Corps!

From left  Cpl Garcia, Nicolas; LCpl Chavez, Luis; Cpl Chicaiza, Alan; SSgt Barnes,
Peter; SSgt Milbin, Harry; Cpl Fajardo, Moises; LCpl Althouse, Chirstopher
II MEF Marine LNO, Manas Kyrgyz Republic

Prepper Press was awesome enough to donate some books to the Marines.  Gotta love a publisher who does that.

A TV news reporter is a fan!  She’ll probably get fired now.

MakingAHomestead has some very nice things to say about Book Two – so nice that I am compelled to quote:

This book is a short, but power packed follow-up to 299 Days: The Preparation.  I must warn the reader though, it will definitely make you want more. The story is addicting and all too real. Glen Tate’s eye for detail will satisfy the most detail-minded prepper without losing the casual reader. His character’s are painted as real as if they stood before you. Their anguish becomes yours, as does their frustration. This series just keeps getting better and better, as the reader moves ever closer to the end of their seat.

God bless America.

44 million is too big a number for most people to understand, including me.  The numbers mean this is 14,000 food stamp recipients for each of the 3,500 Walmarts in America.  That’s still hard for most people to visualize.

This amazing article shows with easy to understand computer-generated pictures what 14,000 people at a Walmart would look like:

We all know the EBT cards will be cut off soon; there isn’t enough money (in the world) to sustain them.  You know that or you wouldn’t be a reader of the 299 Days series.

Think of a Walmart in your area.  Think what it looks like, where it is in your town, and remember the last time you went there.  Now imagine 14,000 hungry, scared, and angry people at that Walmart.

Now imagine this is going on at all of the 3,500 Walmarts in the country.  You think your local police – let alone the Department of Homeland Security – have enough officers to keep order at your local Walmart?  Now imagine this happening at all 3,500 Walmarts.  This is why I don’t think the authorities can pull off much.  They’ll have 14,000 people per Walmart to deal with.

A wave of 14,000 people per Walmart is something you need to plan for.  I’m not afraid of aliens or meteors or an evil scientist’s plague. I’m afraid of 14,000 hungry, scared, and angry people going to the Walmart in my town.

I’ve spent years and lots of money, and endured conflict in my marriage, to have a plan to deal with this situation.  I won’t be in town where the Walmart is and I have the things my family needs so I won’t need to go anywhere near a Walmart.  I also have the means to fend off some of those 14,000 who realize there’s nothing at Walmart and now are coming out to the country.

You should do the same.

(Thanks to a 299 Days reader, Tammy Milasmom, for sending me this article.)

Now THIS is living…

Thanks to Mick for this.

One of the themes in 299 Days is that many police officers are Patriots.  This letter is from the NY State Police union.  If the police loved the gun ban, they wouldn’t be doing this.

Now, I’ll be the first to say I wish the police did more than this, but I understand how things work.  This unfair labor practice over the gun ban is a good sign.  If all the police were just drooling over the opportunity to bust down doors and take people’s guns, they wouldn’t do what the NY State Police union is doing.

The Survival Punk blog wrote a really nice review of Book One of 299 Days.

Here’s a good summary of it: “[Y]ou need to be reading this series. As far as I’m concerned this is the best prepper book I’ve read to date. Go grab it and start reading now if for nothing other than the motivation this book gives you.”

BTW, the review says that a few things like Lisa holding her hands over her ears was not 100% believable.  She actually did that.  It was in our laundry room.  I remember it vividly.

A father-son Scouting camping trip…

Warms your heart, doesn’t it?

Whoa.  Reading 299 Days on your honeymoon!  This reader – we’ll call him “Nick” – is awesome.  That’s a marriage that is starting off right.

Seth sends in this pic.  Fabulous!

I needed a truck gun.  Something I could store in the cab of my truck and then quickly strap on and go on foot.  Like if the roads were jammed and I needed to get home.

Here’s my system, which includes a holster and mag holder from Concealment Solutions and a sling from SKT Industries:

That’s an AR pistol on a sling and a CZ-75 on a belt.  I can put a jacket over this and walk around completely concealed and totally undetected.  And it’s perfectly legal because both weapons are pistols and I have a concealed pistol license.  (Not that I stroll around with these two guns; this is for when SHTF and I’m stuck in traffic and need to hoof it.)

The holster is a custom Kydex one from Concealment Solutions.  It’s fabulous.  Fits perfectly.  The finish and workmanship is superb.  It was very fairly priced for a custom Kydex holster; not much more than a holster off the shelf.

The mag holders are also from Concealment Solutions.  Same as the holster: perfect fit and superb workmanship.

(Do those mag holders make my butt look big?  Ha!)

Concealment Solutions just started making mag holders.  In fact, mine were the first ones they did.

In addition to the AR mag holders, I have standard pistol mag holders that I bought off the shelf somewhere.  This way I throw on the belt and have two extra mags for the AR and two for the CZ.

I didn’t get a good close-up of the SKT sling.  It’s a two-point that allows you to go from slung close to your chest to fully deployed at the pull of a strap.  Very nice.  Here’s what it is from the SKT web site.

I like ordering from Concealment Solutions and SKT because they’re both run by solid Patriots who make things in the US.  Give ‘em a try.

This is a hilarious interview on the Gun Dudes podcast.  (I come on at 27:00.)  Among other things, I tell the story about how I broke it to my wife that I got ten book published and she’s in them… and that she doesn’t come across looking too well in the first two books.  It’s a true story and offers you insight into the real “Dr. Foxy.”

PS: Listen to the very end of the podcast for an outtake.  We are making fun of Stan, a co-host of the show who was absent for this episode.  Stan is the oldest one of the co-hosts so we make fun of him.  It’s funny stuff.

Had a great interview on the Politics and Guns Podcast.  It starts at 16:16.  We talked about Book Five, building a prepper network, and (my favorite) the Constitution.

Not all Patriots are in the military or law enforcement.  Growing your own food is patriotic.  The Loyalists can’t control you if you can eat without their help.

Oh, and drinking beer is patriotic.  Not sure why.  It just is.

Jack and I talk like we’ve known each other for a while… because we have.  This interview is a great overview of current events and what they mean for you.

My favorite part of this interview is my announcement that I’ll be adding a new book’s worth of content – 43 more chapters, each one chronicling one of the 43 Colonels – in the ten-book series.  We will move some of the existing chapters to fill up the first nine books, and I’ll write the tenth book, which will be the 43 Colonels.  We want to give people more to read for their money.

And, bonus of bonuses, David Crawford, the author of the great prepper novel “Lights Out,” is on the show too.  It’s awesome to be on the same show with a guy like him.

PS: I made a mistake (two, really) when I talked about Chicago having a $100 “million” current pension unfunded liability.  It’s $100 “billion” and it’s Illinois instead of just Chicago.  My bad.  But the point is still the same: there is no way taxpayers can pay these unfunded liabilities, and the people expecting this money, like Illinois state worker retirees, will go ape shit when they don’t get their money.

This dude is why the 299 Days series was written:

I was prepping in secret when I wrote the book.  My wife was extremely hostile to the whole idea of prepping.  I had stuff hidden in a storage unit.  When the Collapse hit, I had to have an explanation for why all the food, guns, and ammo that I had been hiding suddenly materialized in the garage.

I had two choices: (1) I could say, “I told you this would happen and I’m way smarter than you and figured out we would need this stuff,” or (2) “The Easter Bunny brought this stuff.”  Choice one would alienate her at the very time that I needed her on my side the most.  Choice two would let her keep her pride and let us get onto the task at: protecting our family and making it through a very dangerous time.  The choice was easy.

So I started working on my explanation, which I called the “Easter Bunny speech.”  I would describe why I started prepping, what I did to prepare, and how we  would get through the coming difficulties.  This was the most important speech I’d ever give – my family staying intact during a life-or-death time was at stake – so I decided to work hard at getting this speech right.

I started a little outline of the key points of the Easter Bunny speech on a Post-it note.  I kept adding items to it until it was a sheet of paper.  Then two.  Then more.

The outline was the perfect explanation of how the Collapse developed, what signs there were of it coming, what a person could do to prepare, and how the preps would be used.  I looked at the outline and realized it would be very helpful for other people who were prepping or thinking about starting to prep.

I decided to turn the Easter Bunny speech into a short story and put it on my favorite forum, the Survival Podcast Forum.  Then the story got longer and longer.  After two and half years of getting up at 3:30 a.m., the Easter Bunny speech was a 3,200-page story.  That’s how long it took to fully explain what’s coming and why, and what people would do in the situations I foresee coming.

Then I contacted a publisher out of the blue.  They signed me for a ten-book deal.  It was the only publisher I ever called.  And I’d never written fiction before.  The odds of this happening are astronomical.

Now, tell me this whole thing – a speech to my wife turning into a very popular published ten-book series – is normal.  It ain’t.  A higher power wants this Easter Bunny speech to get out to as many people as possible.  And I’m humbled to be a part of the process.

The publisher of 299 Days, Prepper Press, isn’t just a book publisher.  They’re Patriots.  That’s why it’s so nice having them publish the books.

A soldier in Afghanistan asked if I could get some copies of 299 Days to the USO library at his base.  I asked Prepper Press and they said, “Hell yes.”  They donated some books and shipped them off.  Now the books are being read by soldiers doing a very tough job in a very crappy place.  Here are some pictures sent in by “Dirk,” a reader and a sheepdog Patriot.  These pictures make me smile.

A friend of ours is a medic at a special operations unit at Ft. Lewis.  He gets to give the military’s Tactical Combat Casualty Care course to some civilians.  Guess who snapped that offer up?

Here is the instructor, who we’ll call “McLovin’”:

Here is the Team studying hard:

And another shot of “McLovin’” talking about a nasty, nasty wound:

We learned a ton of stuff… that we hope we never need to do.  This was the classroom phase.  We have two more phases out in the field.  Extremely cool stuff.

The Powerpoint for the course is available from the military here.