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Dec. 31, 2024 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
18:30
UnBoxings Affiliates Sat Phones And Backpacks Oh My!!!
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We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
We think too much and feel too little.
More than machinery, we need humanity.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
They're crazy.
Silence!
The great and powerful Oz knows why You've got to say, I'm a human being!
God damn it!
My life has value!
You haven't met all the primal forces of nature!
Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think, or what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder!
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men with machine minds and machine hearts.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show.
My name is Jason Bermas and I'm just asking questions.
Now, today we're going to be talking about affiliate links, merchandising.
We're going to do...
Our very first, I guess it's not an unboxing, it's an unbagging, okay, of some merch that was recently sent to me.
I guess we are going to do an unboxing, too, of the Patriot TV donor deck.
I've never put this out.
Let's just bring that up there.
It's a little bit blurry.
Here, let's bring it back to where it's in focus.
And there it is.
There's the Angel Donny T versus Jack Smith and Alan Bragg.
The donor deck.
Can't make this up.
Now, here's the deal.
I want to say this.
With my Patriot.tv show, there are commercials.
When it was AMP News, there were commercials.
From the very outset of me not only hosting that show, but just substitute hosting and becoming a guest, they flooded me.
With affiliate opportunities.
And from the very beginning, I said, I am 100% uninterested in any, and I mean any, affiliate opportunities.
Now, I have always stated that if there is a product out there that I actually use, okay, that is a product that I would be willing to promote, okay?
Now if I'm doing a show that already has commercials in it, and I'm doing a show that sometimes has people that are basically buying advertising, For an interview, all talk radio does it.
News channels do it all the time, okay?
One of the things that I would give an example of on Patriot.tv is Patriot Mobile.
Now, personally, I do not have Patriot Mobile, but it's very easy for me to To do a segment with them because I do have multiple SIM cards.
They run on every single network.
They have the dual SIM opportunity.
They have hotspots outside of the phones.
All technology that I'm very well aware of and I utilize.
And quite frankly, if Patriot Mobile came to me and said, Jason, we want to give you a free service for five years and you just have to do this, this, and this, and then gave me an affiliate link, yeah, maybe.
Maybe.
At the same time, I want Patriot.tv to survive because it is a paycheck.
Now, over the years, I have seen many alternative media operations come and go.
And unfortunately, in the vast majority of cases, affiliate links, etc., revenue sharing, that's a death knell.
All right?
That's them expecting you to basically work on commission.
Right?
And the bottom line is, I would never work for somebody else on commission.
Ever.
And I do a ton of free stuff.
You know, for instance, when I host InfoWars, there's no paycheck there.
Okay?
I just want to make that very clear.
Substitutes, those type of things.
Not a dime.
Okay?
Not a dime.
But, at the same time, I have now been given a couple of things that I think in the near future, I already probably have an affiliate code for them, I've not utilized them.
Okay?
And let's start with the unboxing, or the unbagging, if you will.
So before I do this, okay, I got this on my door.
I was hoping, not hoping, I thought at first it was a Christmas present that I hadn't gotten.
And then I saw who it was from and I was just like, oh my god, they're sending me merch.
I have no idea what I'm about to open.
But the reason that you got this video instead of another one that I was working on is I got this email while I was picking up my niece from volleyball, okay?
Okay.
Patriot TV show host Rev Share Announcement.
A friendly reminder and invitation.
Okay?
And basically, it's all the buzzwords.
I'm not trying to take a dump on these people.
I've said it before.
I'll say it again.
I'm more than willing to do live reads.
I'm more than willing to do interviews with people.
The commercials are there.
I don't want any affiliate links at all.
At all.
In fact, if you want to be In the premium tier there, I want to produce more content.
Exclusive content.
Because that's what you guys want, right?
You're kind of probably pissed right now.
You're sitting here and even...
Jason Bermas is unbagging something.
He's the unbagger.
So let's do it.
Let's, and then, and then we'll, we'll, we'll actually unbox the donor deck as well.
And then I'm going to show you a couple of things that I actually have that I probably already have an affiliate link for that I have not promoted that we are going to promote rather shortly.
No.
Okay.
All right.
We got several shirts.
Oh, this is not what I thought it was.
This is not what I thought it was.
This is my niece's volleyball gear.
That's funny.
That I thought this was something else.
Because it was a dress to me.
So, oh, good.
Alright, so there's the hooded sweatshirt I paid $70 for.
And those are the two uniform tops.
So, not affiliate gear, huh?
There's the big surprise.
Well, good.
I'm glad at least that's out of the way.
Okay?
But let's do it.
Let's take out this donor deck.
Okay?
Okay.
And show people this.
Because, look, I get it.
A lot of people out there.
It's got a nice little kind of coin thing on the front there.
In fact, I wonder.
Oh, there it is.
The coin does pop out.
I thought it would.
I'm pretty sure.
You know, and that's not, you know, everything right there is plated.
It's not like this is a gold or silver piece.
You know, it's a commemorative, like, pog, I guess.
Almost.
So, we put it in there.
A little dick-a-dick-a-doo.
Man, I thought we'd put it in there.
What if we slide that up?
Yep, that's what you do.
You slide it up.
Let's take a look at some of these bad boys.
Alright, and then we're going to get into the products that I can somewhat get behind here.
So, the backs of the cards are much like what you saw earlier with the Trumpski and Hutch.
We got a Jack Smith Joker card right there.
Again, very biblical in nature.
Ephesians.
Donald Trump with a Braveheart type deal going on.
The as above, so below Trump card.
Now look, to me these are fun.
They're fun.
I know some people are probably repulsed by this.
Here's Queen Melania.
And listen, do your own thing.
It certainly wouldn't have been like, wow, I got this for Christmas.
What I am disappointed is in that they didn't do something with the regular cards, only the face cards, right?
And those are going to...
End up getting kind of marked in the deck if you're picking.
Like, if you're actually going to play these for poker.
But, you know, the vast majority of us know that this isn't to be actually played with.
This is just for good times.
McGrady.
Alright, so there's that.
Okay?
Now I want to show another thing.
I think they're still a sponsor over at Patriot.TV. And look, I hope you contact Patriot.TV. Tell them you love the show.
You're checking it out.
5 p.m.
Eastern, five days a week.
Love that.
Love that.
I've always talked about supplements because I actually take supplementation.
Now, what these are, little cardio miracle packets.
Essentially, these are nitric oxide one-shots, nitric oxide booster.
Now, I actually have my own brand of nitric oxide.
I usually do not take it In powder form, I used to back when I was in shape and actually working out.
But this is something that if they came to me and they said, hey, you know, we want to do something personal with you on Cardio Miracle, great.
I still wouldn't be thrilled about an affiliate code.
I never am.
I mean, I look at somebody like Josh Sigurdsson, World Alternative Media, right?
Right.
Josh is fiercely independent.
We agree on a lot.
We disagree on other things.
But right now, he is in a very bad financial situation because he had an affiliate where they were selling what was the hot thing of the day, which was the dried meat.
Again, so many people approached me about that.
I've been approached about the coffee.
You can go on and on and on and on and on.
And what happened there?
Just stop paying people.
Just stop paying people.
The world's a rough place out there, right?
Even the networks that I have been on, you know, the last two networks, and listen, Ray Dietrich, great guy, loved RVM, always was honest with me.
You know, I was live on the air when I got a payment Two days before I usually did, and I knew right there that was the end.
I was recording my Patriot.TV show.
And so he had tried to call me.
I called him immediately.
I could hear it in his voice.
But was there really a heads-up on that?
No.
Okay?
TNT had been around for two-plus years.
Literally one day, they're cutting staff and telling people it's like a hiatus or I didn't believe that.
You know, I was just like, that's probably not real.
And I think it was like three to six weeks later, they had to pull the plug.
That was it.
Sad.
Patriot.tv, I hope I don't get into that situation, but you never know.
So, let's talk about two things.
I'm just going to be starkly honest about that.
You're probably in the next week or so going to see me do a whole broadcast on both of these products because they are the real deal.
They are super expensive.
I'm not here to tell you anything else.
They are super expensive.
These are high-end items for what they are.
First thing, sat phone.
Now, I know that there are people out there...
That are constantly telling you how important these are and how you need one and you need one for your family and you need one for, you know, you need multiple of these things.
I'm not telling you what to do.
What I am going to tell you is that this thing right here, you have to use it outside, will not work indoors, is on its own network, okay, outside of the major networks, and will work if they go down.
It has a regular phone number, Can call other phones on the Iridium network, okay, and regular phones as well.
So I can call my cell phone on this as long as it's up.
So this is something that's literally going to get service everywhere.
You're going to be able to make that 911 phone call.
And if you are looking for something that is a peace of mind, this is it.
I'm not here to talk about electromagnetic pulses.
I'm not here to feed on the fear of natural disasters, government shutdowns, riots, etc.
This right here is making a plan, is having a backup.
That's all I'm saying this is.
This is a tool, and it's an expensive tool.
Now, quite frankly, as cool as I think this is, and again, guys, they literally forced it.
We're like, we're giving it to you.
We don't care.
You're going to do it.
I got this in October.
First time I'm talking about it, right?
The cooler thing that they gave me, and this is actually a really cool thing, and this is probably what I'm going to focus on When it comes to that stuff, okay?
Is this backpack.
Okay, as far as I know, this backpack's actually bulletproof, okay?
I believe it or not.
Bulletproof backpack.
But what is really cool about this is that it is the ultimate Faraday cage with a multitude of Faraday cages in them.
What does that mean?
So, for instance, right here.
Okay, you see this little thing?
You hear the Velcro?
In that...
For your laptop.
Faraday cage.
Faraday cage.
Okay?
There, I think, are five Faraday compartments for phones and other electronic devices that will literally block them.
So if you're a tech dork like me, And you're hanging out at a DEF CON if you are looking for secure communications, if you're in a business meeting and you literally want to shut off all the phones and all communications just in case, you know, maybe you're a little bit even more paranoid than Jason Burmus.
That's cool.
Okay, also super expensive.
Durable as hell.
Okay?
Durable as hell.
And there is some affiliate link.
It's either Burmis or something like that.
I have no idea.
I'm not telling you to go out and buy it now.
Something you're probably going to see me talking about.
Okay?
With that being said, you guys just sat through a 15-minute video of me talking about affiliate links, sponsorships, doing an unboxing of my niece's volleyball gear, and Thinking it was totally something else.
If you do want to support the broadcast, okay, and we're going to also try to get something in late night tonight.
If we don't, what we're going to do is we're going to post my Millie Weaver interview from Patriot.tv from the last live show.
I'm not really live, but the last new show that we did before Christmas.
Really talking about the incoming administration, January 6th, etc.
You know, it was an interesting conversation with Millie.
We'll post that and we'll do a premiere on that.
So look, here's the deal.
The links are down below.
The Buy Me A Coffee, the PayPal.
We're back to the old format, right?
We're going to be doing several videos a day.
On subjects that matter, we're going to break into the drone stuff.
Adrian Dittman is back in the news.
In fact, expect a Dittman video in short order.
I got contacted this evening by Matt Baker, somebody who was like a regular on my TNT news show.
By the way, shout out to Adam Clark, who was my producer on that show and has been in the chat room since the inception of this video.
Adam, I hope that you had a great Christmas and your New Year holiday.
Guys, you know the drill.
I'm always going to be straight up honest with you.
And I just want to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to do this.
Really, since about 2018, completely independent.
Very difficult.
Was not easy.
It still is not easy.
There's been some ups and downs.
And certainly, to me, it is always better to have a steady gig with a paycheck, with somebody booking the guests and doing that type of thing.
But I have missed this a little bit.
This is going to be a little bit more off the cuff, a little bit less formal.
Back in my hooded sweatshirts, right?
I'm not sitting here rocking a suit jacket all the time.
Not that those are bad things.
I think that they gain me some credibility in certain circumstances.
But it's going to be all Burmese all the time.
You know the drill.
I'm on X. I'm on Rockfin.
I'm on Rumble.
I'm on this.
You can check me on band.video.
It's not about left or right.
It is always about right and wrong.
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