The Prepper Broadcasting Network - 5 Months with a SPOOKY Ghost Phone from MARK37

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

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Thank you. You all get a little ghosty for the ghost phone show. By the way, the power, the absolute power of 3D printing. Can you believe that? That was a project for my son that wound up just, you know, not being what he wanted. But how crazy is that? I think it took like nine hours or something. Really well done.

Amazing. amazing what those machines are capable of it's amazing what you are capable of to be honest you have almost no idea the capability that you have in this day and age it's almost unstoppable it really so i want to talk about ghost ghost phones today being that we are here in the eve of halloween look at my dirty vampire he's where he's prepared

filled to the brim with disaster coffee but I wanted to talk about ghost phones today I thought it a spooky-esque topic thought it'd be fun I was driven here though I'm sorry I missed yesterday

just had appointments and stuff in the morning didn't work out sometimes it don't work out you know what I mean? Sometimes you don't work out no big deal I do want to thank you thank all of the listeners here at PBN, all of the members. I want to thank this new wave of, I'm not really sure where you're coming from,

but I want to thank this new wave of newsletter folks who have signed up for the newsletter. I don't know what's going on over there. Something is driving people, must be driving people to the membership website. I don't know if it's, I did, I do like lots of posts about our giveaway book over at PBNFamily.com. So you can get the 50 must read books to survive Doomsday, Scott free. You just go to PBNFamily.com and sign up for the newsletter. But it's been a wave of people. So thank everybody.

Everybody who makes this thing what it is. You know what I mean? Because it's, you know, it takes all kinds of kinds to do the prepper broadcasting network. So what in the hell are we doing with ghost phones? what is a ghost phone why a ghost phone sorry i have to tweet that just just and just why a ghost phone what's the motivation what's the point why do it what's wrong with the perpetual new phone system how did i arrive at this idea that we could talk about favorite trick-or-treat candies and movies and i said i was going to do a movies show and that would have been fun how did i arrive at this

moment where here I am sort of, you know, holding this Google. I'm going to open this show up with this. This is one of the most important. There's too much. There's a lot of takeaways that came from getting a ghost phone that really sort of, I didn't see coming. I met Sean Patrick Tario years ago, probably two, three years ago or something like that on a podcast. here on pvn uh god bless you sean sean is one of these guys who understood james right off the bat and he understood that in order for me to um if it's not at the forefront if it's not the

hyper focus if it's out there in the ether for for me i got to have people press me you have to press me on it the problem is and this is a serious problem okay The problem is, I'm a nice guy, right? And I don't know, maybe I'm a cool guy too, I guess. But people don't like to upset me. And people so rarely press me. You know what I mean? The Phoenix, who is in chat every day, God bless her,

is one of the few people who have started to figure this out. But now the podcast hosts and some of the members are starting to figure out that if you really want James to get through a thing, right you got to you got to press him you got to press him you got to tell him dude get this done we need this done it's nothing wrong with it i need it okay but my whole life's been that way just so you know my whole life has been man i really like james let's not bother him too much you know what i mean like my whole life has been that way in every job you know what i mean but i need people the nub understands the nub is getting it in chat welcome in my man um

You got to press me. Sean right off the bat pressed me hard. He pressed me hard to get a ghost phone from Mark 37. By the way, if you like what we're talking about, there's a QR code up in here. There is a link in the description below if you want to jump onto the midnight meet train with me and get yourself a ghost phone. But anyway, yeah. So he pressed me and pressed me over about a year's period of time. I had another interview with him about five months ago. And finally he said, look, I'm going to send you one, set up an affiliate with us, try it out. As long as you promote it and that kind of thing, you know, it'll work out. The Phoenix says, no, you are very nice, J. Ferg. You just have mastered both sides. That's all.

You know what I mean? You are very nice. You are incredibly nice person. I mean, really, but you've mastered both sides. You've mastered dealing with me, which is good. You know what I mean? so anyhow i get the ghost phone the ghost phone is like i'm sure the what what you're thinking and by the way to set it off to this day and this is a huge point to this day i have no idea what

phone this is okay i'm pretty sure it's at google 6a pretty sure i could be totally wrong i don't even want to know i don't care it doesn't matter You think it matters. It really doesn't matter. When you stop and think about it, like, it really doesn't matter. Why does it matter if your phone is a Google 6, Google 7, Google 8, Google A, Google Pro, iPhone, F-U-C-K, right? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We've been programmed to assume that it matters. I pick this thing up sometimes like, I wonder what kind of, it doesn't matter. It does what I need it to do. And by the way, if this is a Google 6, it's phenomenal for camera, you know, everything that it does. I record shows for PBN. I record membership content.

I record videos that I sell. All kinds of stuff, right? Fine. Perfect. Does everything I needed to do. Moreover, you could buy in the back market if you wanted to buy a phone flat, maybe locked, maybe even unlocked. you could buy a Google 6 for like 200 bucks or you could buy a brand new Google Pixel what have you right for like a thousand or whatever they call I have no idea I have no idea

if you're if you're like I was kind of like what kind of phone what kind of phone what kind of phone you got to realize you're locked in a loop all of these loops we're going to talk about today by the way we're going to talk about the technology We're going to talk about what's on the ghost phone, what you can put on it, can put on it, all kinds of stuff. But there are a lot of these weird loops that you get stuck into with the cell phone thing that we've created, like the cell phone monster that we've created. Okay. It's a wild one. You know what I mean?

It's a wild, wild world out there. And it all just happened, you know, like years ago. They're not even that long ago. What? 2014, something like that? 2013. It's hard to believe. Ten years' time.

And we're all in a whirlwind. It's because it's a highly addictive device, if we're honest. Anyhow, so I get this thing and I look it over. It runs on what's called, you know what, let's restart it and I'll show you. Hopefully, I don't know a ton about what you're going to see at the head of this thing. But hopefully, none of it is personal information. But then again, it's my cell phone. And it doesn't even know it's my cell phone.

So when you start this thing, it goes like this. Your device is loading a different operating system. And then the unnerving part is it says Google right after that. So you're like, I thought we were. And then we get the graphene operating system. And basically, the way the guys at Mark 37 set these up, correct me if I'm wrong, Sean. But everything on this phone outside of the hardware itself that, is capable of spying on you listening to you following you is void right it's void and the graphene

operating system is an entirely different operating system than uh than google and there's a million things no not really there's a handful of things that you run into um that remind you that the phone itself is set up with privacy in mind also so it's sort of like every action you take and this is important and why this is important is because you've got to understand like this is the world we live in this is what we give away so every action that you take like say i hop onto the internet right i hop on the mark 37 and their website wants me to sign in or wants me to do a thing right every action that the phone wants you to do that's intrusive or that the internet wants you to do or that an app wants you to do that's intrusive

is going to ask permission it's going to ask um it's going to strongly like it's going to strongly suggest you don't do it now we don't like that because it takes time and that's one of the key things with the ghost phone is things start to take more time well actually one of two things happens another hidden benefit apps either take more time to get into and don't work exactly as you'd like them to work in terms of well in terms of how you manage the interaction with like a website like x for example so for me x is a browser experience and we'll talk about that. X is a browser experience and that's because I don't want to put the X on the phone directly. Why? Because the hidden benefit of the ghost phone outside

of no tracking, right? No Google is you start to realize you don't need to put every application on your phone. You will survive. This is my testament five months in. You will survive, no problem, without X on your phone, the app, without Instagram, the app on your phone, right? Without these apps that you click on every day and you go like, thank God I have this app on my phone, this is necessary. It doesn't even take that long. Pretty quickly you start to realize, like, I never needed to spend the amount of time on that thing I spend on it. I never even needed it on my phone. Do you know what I mean?

Now, in all transparency, for Instagram, because I have such a large following over at Instagram and some of these incredible people in chat come to my lives, I do have my old phone with Instagram on it. It doesn't have a SIM card in it. It's no longer viable as a phone in terms of SIM card and things like that. But I use that to go live on Instagram because tricky Instagram, and listen, if I didn't have as many followers over there,

I would just get out of there altogether. But we also have our disaster coffee, Instagram over there. So what's one of those things? But you can do most things in the browser. I do more in the browser on Instagram now on my computer, things I thought I had to do or used to do on the phone. You know what I mean? So one of the biggest benefits for me outside of the ghost phone sales pitch, right,

which is, you know, your privacy. see your uh if you've ever gotten a google report i don't know if you've ever gotten one of those google travel reports but they're absolutely terrifying that was what like probably the first stone that shook off like the pillar when i knew that like i was going to make the jump you get a report from google and it tells you everywhere you went for the month whether you get it or not, it collects the information. If you drive your kids to school, like I do, then Google gives you a reminder of the places that you go to most.

Where do you go every day? Right? So all that information to me was like, hmm, that don't, you know, where do you like to eat the most? Where at which restaurant do you go to the most? All this kind of weird stuff you'd never ask Google to do. Who would ask for that? Who would ask for something like that?

that was the kindest way that they could be transparent about following you everywhere you go right unnerving man to say the least so to me that was like an understanding that this stuff is going to go away but outside of the privacy security there are these weird benefits about time on cell phone spent you know what i mean time on cell phone spent and that doesn't mean look here's the big here's the big thing all right i'm going to show you the big thing right here and now you see that thing that looks like the google store so when you get a a ghost phone you're going to have all these weird apps

loaded on it okay new pipe down there one of the craziest apps i don't know how it can exist but new pipe is just youtube you don't log in it gives you whatever's trending on youtube that's what you get and you can search whatever you want i'm going to tell you and it i don't know maybe it'll screw things up for new pipe i have no idea but any one of these videos on new pipe that i watch i can also download yeah you know like almost like i was using a youtube uh tv sort of benefit package i don't know i don't know if that's allowed i don't know how they get away with it i don't really care but that's that's new pipe new pipe pretty interesting there's a bunch of weird apps on

here a lot of them are about kind of spoofing location and and VPN and that kind of stuff and false GPS all kinds of stuff but this one up here but my index finger is called the aurora store okay now the thing about getting a ghost phone that most people don't understand is they think oh I can't get anything on the ghost phone like I can't get any apps out of the Google store I can't do any of that if it's in the Aurora store you can put it on your phone that doesn't mean that it'll protect your privacy

right because now all of a sudden you're linked to this phone so the idea is not to throw all your old apps on the phone and log in and have apps you know because a lot of apps they want to hook into Google Maps when we were in Disney I had the Disney app on this phone and it wouldn't give me an up-to-date map

because it wanted to log into Google Maps and if you don't have Google Play services then you can't use the app and that really helps you understand where the line is right but when you look at all the top apps you get the TikToks and the Snapchats and the whatever else is

the PolyBuzz the Spotify the X you know what I mean you could put it on there all of it might not work but you can put it hey you can even put Sam's Club app on there that might actually wind up on mine um so this is one of the things that i didn't think existed you know what i mean i thought when i got the ghost phone that it was like oh i'm i'm going to have this phone but i'm not really going to be able to put anything on it so it's going to be this new kind of desert technology right sort of lost in desert technology um not even in the least

you know what i mean not even in the least um so on top of all that you you you you you you need a plan right you definitely need a plan when you get into this thing because you have to understand you're leaving a world of total connection and zero privacy that's the world you're leaving you're leaving a world of total connection and zero privacy and you're entering into a new world right it's a diet it's a changing of the digital diet largely right the things that you used to take in the things that you used to enjoy about having a cell phone, very different. They're going to be very different.

Only better, by the way. Only better. There are very few things, few situations I've been in yet where it's been like, oh, that stinks. And by the way, you can have a phone that links to Wi-Fi if you want to do all the sort of Babylonian stuff,

as many would call it. right um and i still do a lot of that stuff on this phone what we all forgot and this is a huge reminder with the ghost phone you can use a browser like brave and access all kinds of stuff access your facebook access your x access you know all that stuff when you start putting apps on your phone and putting everything through google play services then uh that's when you get in trouble right that's when you get in trouble right that's when you you wind up in a situation why everybody's watching everything that you do. The other thing that this really helped with is getting more involved in proton mail and proton drive.

I didn't even know there was a proton drive, right? So in other words, your G drive or your Google drive that everybody uses, that's a thing. But proton has its own drive as well. Now, who do you want to give your money to? Right. Who do you want to give your money to? I have a feeling that this app in particular was loaded up by the guys at Mark 37. It's called The Life.

You see the Life? I'll show you the Life. The Life is a great app. You spend a little bit of time in the life instead of spending so much time in the X. And things get a lot better for you in a hurry. Read your Bible. Read your Bible regularly. someone read the Bible to you, right? Or something along those lines. Because I can tell you,

it makes a huge difference. Now, for someone who is more tech savvy than me, there's probably a lot of cool stuff on this ghost phone that you know how to use in more sneaky ways than I do, right? There's one app in particular called fake GPS. Fake GPS. I don't know. No idea what you do. I mean, I have ideas about what you can do. that but as you can see i've got my element on here in fact element uh if you go into info one of the crazy things for us pbn specificers if you go into that graphene info because of the nature of matrix which is element it's already in there you see and it's it's uh it's the matrix graphing community so you can go in there and learn a whole bunch of stuff about graphing but

you're basically signing into element to get there, which is where we have our chat, funny enough. What spurred this today, I think, is important, you know? Let's look at Mark 37's website so you can see where these things come from, just in case you want one of your own. I do believe this is the way of the future. So, I mean, like, you could push it off if you want. But at the end of the day, you're going to have a choice to make. You know what I mean? I just think at the end of the day, you're going to have a choice to make. And that is what it is, right?

So you can go Bark37.com. If you use the link down below, then PVN gets a kickback. If you use the QR code in the corner, then we get a kickback. So kickback. Okay. Here's the deal. And I would like to show you side by side, but I'm not going to. to do that. So one of the things that happens, maybe you use new pipe, maybe you use a browser

version of YouTube, maybe you use Rumble, whatever. I do all three of those things. I'd really do. I do all three of those things. For a long time, all right, the algorithm sucks for everyone. You have to know that. I know that now for sure. because I've been anonymous on the internet long enough. You know the algorithm? The algorithm that they make you believe is important. The algorithm that they make you believe is like, what we're doing here is we're going to make sure that we deliver you the best content on the internet,

the highest quality content that you want to see based on your searches. That shit is false. And I'm not talking about it from like, yeah, no, duh, I read an article, yeah, no, duh, I saw a report. I'm talking first person. And I have one example that really trumps everything. For me, I'm a big fan of vintage Michael Savage, okay? Big fan. Having a bad day.

It's so good to turn on angry Michael Savage, circa 2010. You know what I mean? railing about Obama, talking about the Bible, cynically talking about going to Starbucks, whatever. And to find clips of that guy on my old phone was like pulling teeth. I had to go Michael Savage clips. I had to go into the drop downs and I had to filter and I could find some things. right now one of my favorite favorite favorite bits from him is his talks about the bible i've always loved

them i've always loved his take on the bible whether it's being cynical or being straightforward or whatever the situation just like love this takes on the bible so i go into my you know my typical youtube account and search you know my my bn youtube account and search michael savage bible all kinds of crap comes up like just absolute crap like you might get one of his videos and then the rest of it nonsense right i'm going to show you i'm going to show you what blew my mind away today and what literally made me do this video today so in other words i search michael savage bible Michael Savage Clips, that kind of stuff. And the algorithm, my personal special crafted Google YouTube algorithm,

delivers me a bunch of nonsense that I don't want, you know? Now, this is funny. Because now it's not giving me what I want already. What did I type? What was my, what was the context? you see this is i feel like this takes hold so fast i could have swore it was just michael savage bible i got to look through i don't know if i can get my history

because i don't know if i was on this one or not let's see michael savage biblet bible michael savage there we go Wow, it's changed already. What is going on on YouTube? It's so crazy. Now nothing is good as coming up again. I know that's why I searched. I just looked at the search history.

Let me see if there was something else. Everything. Oh, here we go. Here we go. I don't know. Terrible. Anyhow, I was very excited because some of my favorite videos of his came up. Where can I show you the? Can I show you the browsing history? Because I'm not signed in. I never sign in on the browser because everything goes stupid then. you start getting a million different things you don't want it's it's already crazy it's a flawed

it's a flawed uh it's a flawed uh system now guys that's all there is to it with youtube you can't get what you want you can't get what you want even with a ghost phone but somehow i don't know what i did i searched this up it's not working anymore it was clear that like because of brave or because of YouTube probably because of brave there was no collecting of my data happening on YouTube and something had erased because every you know even if you watch in a browser as a guest before long recommendations start happening right but it was clear that over the last two or three days something had happened there was an erasure because I would go on and I was getting like videos that were titled in the

Indian language. You know what I mean? And that actually, that could have been, that could have been because my kid was playing with the fake GPS baby. I don't know. But then again, that wouldn't make sense because it's a ghost phone. They're not watching anyway. But maybe they, I don't know.

Anyway, I'm not signed in. What I do know for sure is, I was blown away by the fact. And this never happens on my other cell phone that I searched Bible Michael Savage and boom pops up the, uh, literally the top two where my top. two favorite videos of him talking about the bible and i wish i could show them to you now in the search i don't know what i did and now they're gone altogether if i could show you one no clue guys anyhow let's not get hung up on this what i can tell you is that uh your searches are more important than much more important than the algorithm or any kind of crap they're

telling you about the algorithm do you know what i mean the algorithm is designed for a number of things i don't think any any of it has to do with you getting what you want or getting to see the videos that you want based on my experience anyway you know and uh maybe successive searches i'm not Sure. I'm not sure how it got there. And I'm really upset that I can't reproduce it right now, to be honest with you, because those are gold. Those videos are phenomenal, man. They're old. They're old videos. They're great ones, right? Him talking about sort of the punishment that's coming. You know what I mean? Because of, well, it was the biblical punishment to the Israelites who, you know, were gifted the land of milk and honey and turned into. Americans, largely, right? But anyway, let's look at Mark 37, so you guys understand how and where to get these things. And what it is that they're capable of for you. And also, you know, probably the biggest story here is that we're going to have to make a decision here sooner or later, right?

Like, sooner or later, we're going to have to, the mockery of the iPhone, what just came out, 17, 16, something like that? The mockery of the iPhone 16 is so intense, right, that how long is that going to go? How much deeper, how much better is a cell phone going to get? Do you know what I mean? Like, and how much more intrusive? Because the only thing that can happen now is artificial intelligence. And of course, the intertwining of. artificial intelligence in your algorithm right and sort of that and then creating the only thing that

will come from that is is the next drug right the next drug the even more addictive drug of artificial intelligence artificial intelligence on your device is what's what's happening right now it's already happening but it's getting dialed in it's going to be ultimately dialed in it's going to be probably the death of relationships and families and the whole nine yards because before long you're going to have this super cool person on the phone who you know knows just how to massage all your weak parts both literally and physically or i mean metaphorically and literally um and you know takes full advantage of you and you pay for it you pay for it it's like i told you man we're building uh we're building our next legion of slaves unfortunately

as scary as that is thousands of free and open source applications you never knew existed that's kind of cool that is kind of cool right that is pretty cool let's talk about this line simply swap your sim card to retain your current number and service provider because that's an important piece you know what i mean an important piece is i have a phone here and i have a phone here how does this phone become a ghost phone i did two things that are detailed here on this site right which is why i recommend mark 37 in this process first of all they're pretty easy to get a hold of second of all um they have this resource section right and you go to the resource section you go down to set up and migration ghost phone set up

And it has all your information about phone logs, contacts, text, pictures, files, and SIM cards, right? Shows you everything. Because this is what you're going to, these are the things on your old phone that you're going to want on your, possibly want on your ghost phone, right? And this process is pretty simple. I put an app on my phone recommended by them. Let's see what it was called. I think it was migrating contacts, right? Was that it?

No, they recommended an app that I used. And I think that was it right there. SMS backup and restore. That was it for messages. SMS backup and restore was well worth it because you get all your contacts and also all your old conversations and text. and they're valuable you know what i mean they're very valuable to me he took about an hour

or something like that but i probably have a lot of texts maybe compared to the average person uh that nub can attest i'm not a big fan of deleting things so i'm a i'm a digital hoarder when it comes to things right um but that process was simple and once i migrated contacts I did not migrate photos. I started fresh. Once I migrated contacts, messages, that's all I did. Pop this SIM card out of the old phone, slipped it into the new phone.

Boom, you have your phone service. Your service provider is here, and that's it. Do you know what I mean? Then you're good to go. You're there. And I'm telling you right now, I was staring at it after I made the switch was interesting because it was like, oh, I'm done already. Like, this is it.

And after that became the process that I'm, and I'll be honest with you, I'm largely still in this process of migration. And I think you should take your time with what your old phone looked like and your old phone experience looked like and what you want this new phone experience to look like. like there are things on the work phone if you want to call it that the Wi-Fi work phone and look the work phone thing was really great truly like there are pieces on that phone that are strictly work related PBN related that I want to stay on that phone exclusively because it's Wi-Fi connected because it can be left here in this house and I can go live my life without you know do you understand stand this is another one of those like i talked about the the newest device loop right the loop

that you get caught in oh my phone died i need the new phone you go to the phone store they say we don't have any old phones imagine that all we got are these new ones that cost double what yours cost but they're really great and they have an a i generated human who you can change the voice and the look and the mint and the tempo and the slang and it'll be really fun it'll cost you a lot of money and you'll get you're really dependent on us so that loop the other loop is this weird idea that we have to be connected all the time like i really want to get away from that i really want to get back to circa 2000 you know i really want to get back to like circa 2000 i want to get back and i know like one of the biggest arguments is no pay phones anymore right you get in trouble

you have an issue you're going to pool the phone i can't call where you're going to go bank a phone call everybody has a phone use this to your advantage everybody has a phone if you're on the side of a mountain and something happens your phone ain't going to do any good anyway probably be better off like a GPS watch or something like that but everybody has a phone your car breaks down in most cases in most places right are you going to whatever should i do there's There's a Walmart over here. There's an Exxon mobile here. There's whatever shall I do.

How will I ever communicate to the people I love that I've had a problem? This is like a mental fog. So I really would like to get back to the point where I could walk out of the house for hours at a time without a cell phone. You know what I mean? Not from a like capability. I can do it. But to the point where it becomes normalized within the home, normalized within society. Because I really miss going fishing.

I just long for those times where you would go fishing. I would go fishing for six to eight hours. And it's not the fact that it was about disappearing. It's the fact that it was not an issue. It was not an issue for my mother. It was not an issue for my girlfriend at the time. It was not an issue for my kids who didn't exist. It was just an unissue.

It was the way things were. It's the way things have always been. Things have always been. I got to go out and do a thing. I'll be back when I'm done. Okay. Love you. And you're gone.

And then you come back. Oh, they're back. They went out and they came back. They didn't go, I'm at the first red light at the corner. I'm at the next red light. I'm at the store. What do we need for the store? I got everything we need.

Is that everything? Do you think of anything else? Okay, I'm on the way back. I'm almost there. I'm in the neighborhood. You know what I mean? Like, it was just, you just left and came back. I know the many of you who are older and watching, you're like, no, duh. But you have to understand, like, this is, my kids don't understand that.

My kids do not know a time where people leave without a cell phone and just you can't get a hold of them. Holy shit, you can't get a hold of them. What happens if I can't get a whole of them? Nothing happens. They go out and they come back. So I think having the ability to do that, again, people got to work towards that, right? And this is sort of the mid-mile marker, you know what I mean?

Like this is the mid-range, this is the half marathon right here, is you get to this point where you carry around a device that doesn't necessarily require you stay up to date with every single thing at every single second, right? You don't return every text five seconds. after it pops up on some device somewhere you know what i mean and by the way like when's the last time you were hit with something that was time sensitive within the next four hours right now to survive in chat says i get not the leading email but he doesn't even open them some of them some of them the good ones i open no i'm kidding yeah yeah i've got a weird

relationship with tech man at the time you got to understand i've got a weird weird relationship with it at all because fundamentally i you know i don't know it looks worse and worse by the day the ghost phone is amazing because of the privacy aspect because of the fact that it takes you off of google which as the folks at um mark 37 always tell you like they're not in it for you And I think you have to understand that. And I know, like, to go down that path is a deep and dark path, like to go down the path of understanding that not only is Google not in it for you, but there are all kinds of companies out there that are really just working against you or using your information and your attention as a product that they're making billions of dollars off of and not giving you anything in return, but like a free email. you know what I mean and understanding that there's Google and then there's a bunch of other companies doing the same thing well to be honest is overwhelmed it's probably similar to the overwhelm that people face when they get into prepping and they're like there's so many problems there's so many things that I have to do I can't even imagine doing all this stuff and fixing the water situation and getting chickens and getting food storage and buying guns and learn how to use them and learn how to how to trap or how to how to navigate in the wood like where do i even start that's the way it feels

with the ghost phone too it's like how do i peel away from this highly addictive dependent technology i've been on all these years and i've created this life quote unquote that you know is it hindering me is it helping me am i more connected am i less connected you start to look at this stuff as villainous man you get closer with god too and you start to look at a lot of this stuff as villainous as well and you start wondering like what am i doing here what are doing here you calculate i'll tell you the calculation to make screen time is another distraction not the screen time itself but some devices will do this real great service for you and they'll tell you you've spent four hours on your phone today six hours on your phone

today 12 hours on your phone today right and they'll do you this great service and that's alarming right it's alarming to be like oh god Jesus been eight hours on the phone today most of it on YouTube um that's an alarming thing and they do that to try to like it's okay let's just shave some hours off don't put the phone down completely now we can't have you do that but let's shave some hours off screen time is irrelevant what's important to you time is everything that's the number to track okay the number to track is not how many hours i spend on an app the number to track is how many hours did we spend together as a family How many hours did I spend together with my spouse uninterrupted having fun this week, right?

How many hours in a week? Anybody know in chat off top? How many hours are in a week? I forget the number. 168 hours, okay? So you got 168 hours. Now, you can sit there and go out of 168 hours. I spent eight of those hours on my phone yesterday.

Not good, right? Or you can sit there at the end of the week and go, well, we sat down and we watched a movie together as a family and ate popcorn. And out of those 168 hours, we spent two. What do you think means more or less? Or if you improve upon one of those metrics, right? Because it's not a guarantee that just because you eliminate screen time, you're going to have good time, right? So I really think that maybe it wasn't created that way, screen time monitoring and all that. Maybe it wasn't created that way. But to me, it definitely looks like, out of 168 hours in a week, why do I care so much about how much time I'm on the phone, but I don't calculate how much time I hung out with my kid, you know, like really hung out with my kid, not like default hangout, like hop in the car, we got to drive from here to here. but like did something together like out of 168 hours how many hours did you sit down and do something sweet

with a person you love you know what i mean how many hours did you dedicate to your own physical well-being your fitness right these are the hours to calculate i didn't really think about that until i started playing with this right because all the sudden this goes down when this isn't loaded up with applications and all kinds of like I said you can see my apps you know what I mean you can see what I have don't have you probably don't even recognize half of it I don't even recognize half of it I don't know what the hell half of it does look I just clicked on this thing fastest free server net shield VPN don't know no idea what it does it's a lot of learning there's a lot of learning to do but like I said I'm I'm not taking full advantage of the tech

in that way. There's all kinds of resources on Mark37.com. Like unbelievable resources. Let me bring it back up. I'll show you. I'll show you a really awesome app. A game changer app that probably like was an afterthought.

They do have a podcast app called Antenapod. Antenapod is cool. You can get PBN on antenna pod right off the... Come on, dude. See, I've been talking bad about technology and johnny five my camera's getting all upset with me saying hey hey i'm doing the best i can see you can get pbn you can get pbn on an antenna pod that's not the one i want to show you where is my radio app the radio app is cool man did i delete it by accident what's it called It's not the Aegis.

Did I really delete this thing? Music player. Radio droid. Okay, there you go. It's a little head. There you go. It's a little globe with headphones. Radio droid is awesome.

You can basically search type of music or location. and it taps you into literal radio stations like classic vinyl HD New York, New York, 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s. Beautiful music. We get like totally taken down from every platform. Yeah, it's direct to radio basically.

Pretty cool. It's way better, could I tell you? Like, rather than listening, to the full gaggle of Donald Trump talking to the media, which I do love to do from time to time. I think, like, he is probably better at telling me what's going on

than Levitt or Leavitt, whatever name is. It's way better to, like, put whatever that is, classic vinyl HD after the ball by Gaslight Orchestra while you make dinner or clean up

or whatever it is you're doing around the house, than it is to listen to some guy. You won't believe. what's happening in Prussia right now. It's like me, some idiot like me. Turn me off, put on the radio in New York, New York, and listen to some good jazz or something. Whatever you like, you know what I mean?

Whatever you like to listen. Whatever calms things down in the home, because that's what we need, you know. So let's take a look at the resources, man, again. And on top of phones, they have laptops, they have tablets. Here you go, a complete list of installed applications. See, I could have read this at the beginning if I were a smart person and known exactly what everything does, right? They have Bray F-Droid.

See, the whole breakdown. Calabra Office, a free open-source office app that allows you to edit and manage documents directly from your phone. Sweet, didn't know that. That's cool. Calendar's photos. The Futo keyboard. I have no clue what that's supposed to. No, the Futo keyboard.

The Futo voice. the best free and open source keyboard with swipe text feature and add voice to text app available joplin's really cool note taking yeah there's all kinds of stuff i need to i want to simultaneously like oh here's new pipe an alternative to youtube allows you to watch and listen to youtube videos ad free without youtube google tracking there's no ads on new pipe by the way pretty cool you can watch pbn no ads on youtube yeah the weather app i'm not a fan of i don't think it works very well it's like partly cloudy all the time but whatever look tons of opportunity okay tons of opportunity it's your call man all i wanted to do is tell you five months into this thing the overall is pretty straightforward right it is a reminder maybe the biggest benefit outside of the whole not having Google like worming its way into every aspect of your life

is a very quick understanding, a change of your digital diet and an understanding like what do you really need a cell phone for? You know what I mean? And how much of this cell phone needs to be in your life? And how dependent do you have to be on? And how much do you do on a day-to-day basis that really requires this cell phone? Because we all have some bit of anxiety. We when we leave the house and, oh, do I have my phone? Oh, do I buy my phone? I didn't bring my phone, right? And that's all fake.

It's all made up. It's all this weird thing that, like, you have to have this and you have me. You must carry us with you, wherever you go, right? It's all fake. But there are also these just tons of incredible benefits that as you go along, you'll start to see. As you'll go along, you'll start to see. I don't need to spend my time doing that.

I don't need that. I don't need this. I don't need that. Now, I'm in this weird mid-phase right now where I haven't quite filled the new time up. And maybe it's not a bad thing, right? Maybe it's not a bad thing to watch hocus pocus on the couch instead of scrolling Instagram, right? But it's one of those things where I haven't quite filled that time up yet, and it's, that's a little weird too, right? So in other words, brace yourself. You know what I mean? Brace yourself because once you get into of this thing, you're going to start to get all kinds of life back. You're going to have that feeling of sort of sovereignty. You're going to have all these epiphanies about what a cell phone is and what it means to you and your family. You know what I mean? And it's a

beautiful thing. Now, the timing was perfect for me also because I was already thinking flip phone, right? I was already kind of like, okay, I'm going to be a flip phone because I was getting tired of it to begin with. Let's look at the prices. Why don't we look at the prices? it's not like I got to hide from you right I'll tell them to go check it out and they'll go shop and they'll find out how much they really cost they're obscenely lower price than most

so these are the most recent phones right the pixels and they only do Android you can only get graphene on Android so if you're an iPhone person either got to make a change or move on pixel 7's 540

Pixel 6 Pro 495 and if you even want a ghost flip phone you can go that route they got the ghost flip phone and if you want a nine or ten they can do that too I have no clue right no idea but that's the price point if you want to jump into the lane of freedom you know if you want to jump into the lane of freedom get a lot of this stuff out of your life

and start really living you know outside of the sort of weird perpetuated cell phone and newest and greatest thing mentality because it it overflows into everything else right they've used the sort of the newest and the latest and the greatest to convince you to buy all kinds of stuff now that you don't need to replace right it's it's like the heart of consumerism is the phone right the idea that this thing's gone out of date you're new phone you know you just can't do all the things you want to do you can't keep up with everybody else you don't have a new phone so I'm interested to hang on to this ghost phone and, you know, see how long it really takes before I

find myself in a position where I can't do through some things that are necessary, right? You will have a choice to make. There's no doubt about it. The choice is more intrusive, less intrusive. The choice is get into the fast lane of technology and try to keep up. In a world that you already know, you can't keep up in, right? AI is here. You'll never be as fast as AI. The only thing you can do is meld with AI. Is that the path you want to go on?

Or do you want to get into the slow lane of technology? Pump the brakes, right? Pump the brakes. Take a look around at the scenery a bit. Get on the skyline drive of technology, if you will, and enjoy the view, right? Have some fun with it rather than being in. this sort of this hamster wheel mentality when it comes to cell phones and computer the whole thing right and knowing for a fact that google's breathing down your neck watching every keystroke

sending you ads turning your algorithm into some big lie and right now while we speak what's also happening is they're just building your little AI buddy who's going to be who's the AI buddy who's the AI buddy who's going to at first first be your slave and then very quickly without you knowing it become your slave master right what is up common sense practical prepper man follow him over at x follow him over at x if you're watching us did a great write-up yesterday man on uh what the hell was that write up on it was awesome you did an amazing job it's a snap situation right yeah that was it well done sorry i see a lot of stuff every day man every day too much stuff goes

in the brain, which is why we're talking about what we're talking about, right, limiting the diet. All right, folks, I do want to mention a couple things real quick before we go. Number one, it's easy for people like us, and maybe I should have done this at the head of the show. Maybe I'll talk about it tomorrow. The snap thing's still going. We'll talk about it more. I didn't want to disrupt the ghost phone show with different topics. I tried to stay on focus today.

It took about a whole, you know, like 12 cups of coffee to stay focused, fundamentally. A lot of people are going to go through interesting times here if the Snap thing doesn't get worked out. The EBT thing doesn't get worked out, right? I don't know where I saw it. I think I saw it on Instagram, but the good timing, by the way, common sense. Ready wise. You know ready wise, right? producers of, you know, ready-made meals and food storage and all that kind of stuff.

They're introducing institutional pricing. I don't, this is not a money-making thing for PBN. I don't really even affiliate with ReadyWise. I just thought this was a cool gesture. They're cutting their prices to institutional pricing for people who are struggling with food. And that's good, man. you know what I mean that's a good thing and we got to look at those good things and I really appreciate a business being able to do that I thought about it with disaster coffee and then I said

our coffee's too expensive anyway what's the point right and in other words like if you're low on money you're not going to be like what I really got to make sure we get for me and the kids is some pandemic from disaster coffee.com so we can't really do it the way that I'd like to do it but the way that ready wise is doing it is it makes sense you know it makes sense they're not giving things away they're not you know what i mean they're there's operating their business in a way that it's going to affect their bottom line for sure because they're not getting the regular retail price for things but they're cutting the price to help people out uh yeah i don't know i don't know how you feel about i don't know how you look at it but i saw it and i thought it was worth mentioning

on the air for a number of reasons excuse me number one maybe somebody out there says I'll go check that out and put some shelf stable stuff on the shelf, right? Or buy some of those meals. They got all kinds of stuff now. Readywise even has like a mountain house style meal. But also as a reminder, I thought it was a good reminder to the rest of us like it's easy to fall into the trap of, you know, snap people, bad robbers, shutting down retail. locations with violence entitled, right? It's easy to fall into that mentality, you know, and draw that sort of battle line.

But just remember, man, you know, this is going to be hard on the American people at large. This is going to be hard. And also remember that the Democrats could end this if they would just decide not to give all of our money away for medical care for illegal aliens. Remember that, too. Remember, that's what's holding this whole thing up. right they want to be able to pay their voter base with the free hospital visits and it's really bothering them that they can't get the ranks of the illegal aliens into the voting boots but all that aside you know scary the people scared right now that's one of the things i hate you know what

i mean i really do hate and i've got i've got a i've got a course correct from time to time because i fall into the same traps as everybody else where it's like oh great this is going to be an inconvenience to me because of these crazy people who feel entitled to this money are going to be going into Walmart and robbing the place. It's also important to remember that a lot of these people are also looking at what is two days away and going, how am I going to make this work? And we're going into Thanksgiving and we're going into the holiday season. And, you know, this is how we've survived this last couple months because I lost my job.

or because my spouse lost their job and now it's gone right think about that man pray on that those things make a difference prayer can change things there's no doubt about it right finally let's give a big round of applause everybody for a matter of fact i may be able to give a round of applause let's see real quick i want to give a big round of applause to uh i don't have applause. Are you kidding me? There we go. Intense applause. That's what we need. I want to give a big round of applause to FutureDanger.com. FutureDanger.com. The birthplace of the Patriot Power Hour, which is one of the most amazing shows on PBN. 10-year anniversary. Ben the breaker of banksters for putting that thing. Well, Future Dan for putting that thing together.

Ben the breaker of the banksters for coming together with Future Dan. and creating an amazing show slash a website that, you know, it's phenomenal. It's a phenomenal creation. It's probably something we, one day, when we're rolling in our billions of dollars for being a successful prepping podcast network, we need to fund lots of money to promoting that, you know what I mean, making that a really viable news option because a lot of these news options out there nowadays are trekk. Even the drudge report has fallen.

You know? All right, folks. I do appreciate you. Link down below. QR code in the corner. If you want to go the ghost go the way of the ghost phone, I do think it is

a decision I'll have to make either sooner or later, whether or not to disconnect from Google or Apple or whatever. Because they're going to keep prying. Even Gates came out. Even Gates came out and was like, maybe this climate thing's not such a big problem we probably need to get more power generation up and running for my a i's right so a i is is the north star man it is the north star it's going to be in your video games

your movies your phones your you know your your your hearing aids every it's going to be everywhere it's going to be everywhere watching and then it's going to be helping you and then you're going to be helping it and then before long it's screen slavery all right i'll talk to you guys soon man Hey, visit PBNFamily.com and become a member today if you are not a member. Five bucks a month. Crazy. Crazy deal. That five bucks a month, man, it keeps getting smaller, too, by the way, right?

What you can do with five bucks a month keeps getting smaller. Oh, I want to tell you about what we're going to do over there on the membership side right now, but I can't because the show's too long and brains have limitations, right? I didn't even talk about the fast. Oh, well, this is what it is. I'll talk to you guys soon. I don't know.