The Prepper Broadcasting Network - A Prepper's Guide to Going Green on I AM Liberty

Episode Date: March 7, 2024

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Cambridge, October 25th, 2021. Prices of fossil fuels increased sharply in October. European prices for natural gas hit record peak. Although these high prices partly reflect country-specific factors, there must be some more fundamental cause. But what are the environmental implications of elevated fossil fuel prices, specifically with respect to the fight against climate change? The question is particularly salient,

as the officials from over 200 countries prepare to gather in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, the COP26, where they're expected to declare their intention to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. But today's higher fossil fuel prices have so far provided a weaker-than-expected stimulus to private investment in the sector. This suggests that firms may have reached a tipping point in how seriously they take the need to combat global warming.

suggestive firms may have reached a tipping point in how seriously they take the need to combat global warming. True, the effective regulation of greenhouse gas emissions, such as through a carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme, can generate strong political resistance anywhere. Lawmakers may balk at imposing an extra operating cost on U.S. manufacturers, if so-called carbon leakage or relocation of carbon-intensive activities to the countries with lower carbon price, but put these firms at a competitive disadvantage. What's up, everybody, before we get going? How's everybody doing?

How's everybody doing out there? This idea of limiting fossil fuels. As the northern winter draws closer, surging fossil fuel prices have left many consumers worried. But there may be a silver lining in the form of more effective U.S. efforts to tackle climate change, provided the political will for such measures exists. The fossil fuels make the carbon. So if we get rid of the fossil fuels, then we don't have any more carbon issues, right? to the fossil fuels, then we don't have any more carbon issues, right? This is as far as these people thought about the whole climate change issue.

It's tremendous. I wanted to do a show tonight, a prepper's guide to going green. You know, because all over this country, there are preppers, there are homesteaders who are living off-grid, partially off-grid, whatever, who have long been going green. They didn't need the Paris Climate Accord to help them. They didn't need some doofus from Harvard to tell them

that it'd be a good idea if the fossil fuels were more expensive because then climate change would be stymied. What happens, PBN family, when fossil fuels are more expensive? Anybody? Anybody? If you think one step at a time, then you would say people will buy less gas, therefore less carbon emissions going up into the...

If you think about it on a global scale, if you think about it not from, oh, maybe my neighbor won't fuel up his private jet this weekend. fuel up his private jet this weekend. If you think about it from the standpoint of people who, like me, growing up, watched their parents sit at the kitchen table and dig their fingernails into the wood and talk about how they would get half a tank of oil this winter to keep it warm. When the gas prices go up, when the oil prices go up, the impoverished are affected the most

because cheap energy makes everything better. because cheap energy makes everything better. Cheap, particularly oil, cheap oil makes everything better. I mean, it's just what it is. When you take a population that doesn't have cheap fossil fuels or access to natural gas, well, they'll still be warm and they'll still cook food. And what they'll do is they'll burn cow patties or wood or coal, which is way worse for the environment than just letting them have the natural gas, the electric, the oil.

You know what I mean? This is lost on these people. So much is lost on these people. I was talking about the fact that, you know, we created some. We created some I don't know how we created it But we created a very interesting little pathway For idiots to get really high up in society And look

I'm not the guy to plan Climate change policy either But it just looks very short-sighted to me How short-sighted to me. How short-sighted, you say? Well, there was a study that came out in 2022. It was published by a missions data firm called Emission Analytics. It came out in 2022, and you never heard anything about it, even though it was published in the Wall Street Journal.

No, I'm sorry. The study got sort of a head nod in the Wall Street Journal last Sunday. Now, mind you, this study came out in 2022. Now, everywhere you go, you're seeing charging stations pop up. You're seeing what is probably the most annoying thing of all. I don't even park close to buildings. I park far away from buildings. But it really annoys me that Tesla drivers get their own spots closer to the buildings.

Why would they do that? Why would we favor them? Raise your hand. Why would we favor the electric car drivers and say, you know what, you guys should park closer. We're going to give you a little something for being what? What are they getting a little extra for? For being responsible.

Huh? You're not burning that filthy gasoline. It's destroying the planet. You're being responsible with your transportation choices. Okay. Okay. So they get the close spots. They get to charge while they're sitting in the store or whatever situation.

Funny thing about these electric vehicles, though. The funny thing about these electric vehicles, though, apparently they release more toxic emissions and are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars. Hold on, what? Did he just say what I think he said? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. yeah exactly exactly now listen if it were a little thing here and there a little something something it wouldn't be that big a deal right the most popular ev in the u.s tesla's y model y boasts a lithium ion battery that weighs in at a hefty 1,836 pounds. Now, the issue is, because EVs are on average 30% heavier than regular cars, brakes and tires on the battery-powered cars wear out faster than on standard cars. And emissions analytics found that tire wear emissions on half a metric ton of battery weight in an EV are more than 400 times as great as direct exhaust particulate emissions.

Do you want me to say that again? the tires wearing down faster because the EVs are so much heavier, you know, 30% heavier in some cases, the brakes and tires, the brake dust and the tire filth that comes off of your car comes off so much more in these EVs that it creates more than 400 times as much particulate emission as your tailpipe, your disgusting, racist tailpipe. The study throws doubt on the practicality of the Biden administration's EV mandates, which tout electric cars as zero

emission vehicles. You see, Joe Biden had a game plan. A lot of them, a lot of lizards had a game plan for 2050, and they were getting to zero emissions through the Green New Deal. You remember? They were going to get to zero emissions by 2050. You know what occurred to me? That the emissions lunatics are just like the vegans. They're the same. They have the same makeup. You know? The vegans believe that eating the pita bread makes them way better than you for eating the pita bread with the lamb on it.

Because, oh my God, the lamb got killed, right? Now, again, they're just limited thinkers. They go to one step. They move one step ahead at a time. They're like lemmings. They get behind each other. step ahead at a time. They're like lemmings. They get behind each other. They don't think back to when that wheat that was used to create the pita was a seed and how the fields had to be, you know, tilled and everything that ever lived in that field had to be killed

or moved or sprayed. And then all through the life cycle of that wheat, deer had to be shot to protect it, right? Animals had to be killed, pesticides used. And then the combine comes through and basically chews everything up in its way. And while you're eating your pita, looking down at me eating my lamb spanakopita, saying how much better you are than me, you have to remember, you know, no matter what you do, life takes life. And no matter what you do, Joe Biden, life takes energy. A good life requires energy,

and people will find their way to that energy. Don't you understand? You're not going to stop them. They're just going to burn the neighbor's house down to stay warm. So now that I kicked them around a little bit, let's run some ads. We're going to come back and we're going to talk about a prepper's guide to going green.

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And be sure you have enough remaining carbon credits to enjoy today's show. Be me and family. Your garden is the resistance. So truth be told, we've been long at this thing, at this greening thing. They don't really call it going green anymore. Remember, it used to be green, the green movement, the Green New Deal, and so on and so forth. See, going green was when they had hope attached. Now it's just climate change and everyone's going to die.

And it's fundamentally affecting people, you know. And it's fundamentally affecting people, you know. I mean, it's so baked into the zeitgeist now that people are making life decisions over the fact that the lizards have lied to them and told them that they're, you know, there's really no hope. I mean, it is what it is. It's over. We had a good run. We had a good run. We burned too much oil.

And we're all going to die. We're not good run. We burned too much oil. We're all going to die. We're not sure when. Al Gore said 2012. What did Al Gore say? I don't know. I can't remember. Who cares? It's all bullshit.

Hello, wake up. Hello, wake up. Get into the real world Preppers flock to Off-grid power Right, backup power solutions We love it We love it Solar power, let's do it

Solar power, let's cut the amount of money We pay to the government Let's cut all of that, right Let's cut the amount of money We pay to the government. Let's cut all of that, right? Let's cut the amount of money we pay the energy companies. Let's cut it. Let's cut, cut, cut. Because the preppers have always been going green. All you have to do is push to self-sufficiency and get away from dependence.

is push to self-sufficiency and get away from dependence. If I were in charge, then we would be pushing a preparedness and self-sufficiency agenda at the nation rather than a the world is coming to an end and there's nothing you can do to stop it. So just let the criminals run roughshod over the society, kill all the police off, and let's party like it's 1999. When I first started gardening where I live now, my home, I was blown away come fall at the amount of leaves that we would have. There's a lot of trees in our neighborhood. And I said to myself, we have enough leaves and we cut enough grass

that I should be able to compost this stuff and be able to top off my raised beds, fill buckets with good compost every year. There's no excuse. We have a ton of this kind of material. And we've been able to do that. And when you talk about food, when you talk about going green,

the idea of food production as being sort of this on-property cyclical process is it should be everybody's goal. I mean, do you know how many people put tons of bags of leaves up the street and wait for people to come pick them up and take them away? Take these things away! You know, at the very least,

and I've done this before, it's not the best way to do it, but at the very least, you could rake the leaves onto your garden beds and cover them over the winter. It's not going to be magical soil the next year when you take the tarps off, but you know, they'll eventually integrate. Now, leaves are acidic. As they break down, they can add acid to your soil, which might be something you don't want, but it just is what it is. This is a solution, right? This is a solution. When you talk about giving people the power To stand on their own two feet I mean that empowerment is what's missing from the climate change talk And many of you already know this so it's no big deal

But this is about control of course Because what are they doing to teach you and help you Become more self-sufficient so it's no big deal, but this is about control, of course, because what are they doing to teach you and help you become more self-sufficient? What are they doing? Are they doing anything? There's nothing being done. It's all about give us the keys, and we'll make sure that we take care of everything.

World governments. What was the worst, one of the worst things Donald Trump did? Remember? The first, probably the worst thing he did, which is hilarious when you look back at it, is say, I'm going to build a wall with Mexico. And they're going to pay for it. Right? Like building the wall was the most xenophobic, racist thing

you could have ever imagined. The only thing that sort of, like, was remotely in the same vein was leaving the Paris Climate Accords. Remember how upset people were over the Paris Climate Accords? It was a big deal. It was between that and the wall for the, like, max hatred. Why such a big deal? You know who wasn't a part of that was China.

And since they do double the polluting that we do from an emissions standpoint, the polluting that we do from an emissions standpoint. I'm pretty sure if we fold our numbers in with Europe, we still don't touch what China does, like 27, almost 30% of the world's emissions. But we had to be on that team. We had to be in them climate accords. Vital. It was so important, by the way. But we had to be on that team We had to be in them climate accords Vital It was so important by the way

When Joe came in he did it immediately Immediately right back in Everybody breathe a sigh of relief We're right back in But don't get too comfortable We're all gonna die anyway You know you can join every group and have every general guideline and rule written into place. But I guess these people still go to bed at night and they know the truth about electric vehicles being 400 times more polluting than gas-powered, good old combustion engines.

The good old modern combustion engines. How long did they know about the brake dust and how long did they know about the tires? You know what I mean? In other words, you come out and you give like a superhero speech about about, you know, saving the world, saving the planet with our EVs. How life if this emissions analytics study came out in 2022, how many speeches between 2022 and now have people came out and said the answer is the zero emissions electric vehicle. answer is the zero emissions electric vehicle. And then they have to go home at night and be like, I just, just lie. I just lied. So you got to leave it in more capable hands.

And then that's not a collection of presidents and leaders and rulers. It's people. That's what we do. It's what all of us strive to do. The disconnect from the main water grid, the main power grid, right? These are like prep or aspirations. How far off can we get from that dependence? So that should something go wrong, should the big hack finally come?

Not even that. Did you guys see? Where was it? I got to find the article now. I remember I told you like a year or two ago That the power grid will be destroyed internally I think I don't even think it'll be a hack I don't think it'll be a magic EMP Corona mass ejection from the sun

What was it? I want to say it was Oregon Climate Fire Tesla Factory. Was it a Tesla factory? That's what it was, yeah. Musk attacks D'Amico terrorists over

Tesla fire. I'm not at all interested in what he had to say about it. I was in Berlin at Tesla's Berlin factory. But I'm pretty sure that they hit a high-voltage tower. An electricity pylon close to the plant caught fire causing... What do you mean caught fire? Caught fire causing power outages in the factory

in nearby towns. Tesla said the workers had been sent home, but its building was safe. The fire did not reach the electric car maker's factory. These are either the dumbest eco-terrorists on the earth or they're puppets of those who don't have good environmental goals. So literally, I mean, you're

talking about the you know, the giant concrete and steel pillars that hold up the high voltage towers. They call it the pylons. Or the high voltage wires, rather. I mean, how long till they figure out like uh the best way that we can deal with climate change is to cut the electricity off forever

somebody's gonna figure it out somebody's gonna figure out that the electricity is a thing of the past, I'm telling you. It might be people who don't like the idea of tethering your mind to a wire, i.e. Neuralink. It might be people who are tired of the government spying on them through their cell phone and through their computer and through their smart TV and through their smart lock and their smart watch, right? I really do believe that the American power, the U.S. power grid will come to a stop here eventually. And I don't necessarily think it's going to be from the pro-Palestinian crowd. I think it's going to be from some crazy Americans who decide one way or another the best thing for society is to cut the power. Now we know, again, because we know. The one thing that preppers do better than most people is know. Why do we know the things that we know? is no. Why do we know the things that we know? And I think it has to do with the fact that we read and do the things that other people don't want to read and do, right? Because in a way,

we're very brave. We face the things that most people would rather not waste their time facing. Well, at least in their mind, it's like a waste of time, right? I'm not going to read that terrifying article about the big picture. I'd much rather watch a short YouTube video about it, or I'd rather ignore it altogether. ignore it altogether. Maybe the only thing better than my cyclical sort of game plan, maybe the only thing more green is the permaculture perspective, the perennial plant

sort of dedication or the dedication to these perennial plants, a reimagining of what the average backyard is capable of. You know, the average backyard is capable of a lot. You get Rick Austin's book, who is the godfather of prepping, in my opinion. Well, not just my opinion anymore. It's a name that I gave him, and now tons of people refer to him as that.

But his book, The Secret Garden of Survival, I think he said to me they work on about two acres of land, and they produce way more food than you would ever want. You wouldn't even want the amount of food that Rick Austin produces on two acres. So that leads me to believe, and based on what I'm capable of doing and what Dave Jones does and what other people do in small areas, you can do a lot. And remember, perennials, very little input. Fertilizing optional, you know. I do fertilize my perennials, but I do it with fish emulsion.

I've told you that before. I do it with compost tea. I do it with compost, I guess you could argue. But again, now we're talking about a food system that can be, and not long ago, three, four weeks ago, everybody was irate, myself included, about the fact that how they told, they wrote that bogus story again about, oh, the emissions from a backyard, growing backyard vegetables are tremendous compared to the emissions of growing food in the regular way in agriculture who read that and was like that makes

sense i think that's real crazy absolutely insane but fun i'm. I did a podcast earlier this week. I said, you know, one day you're going to miss this. I believe that. One day, all of these fleas in Congress are going to be shook loose. All of these fleas at the local level are going to be shook loose because people are going to say You know what? Things have gotten bad enough I think we need to get the idiots out That's what I mean We're rapidly approaching it, right? All I have to do is open up the news This is from Fox News San Francisco can no longer be called

Progressive City After the law and order measures pass What's that mean? law and order measures pass. What's that mean? Law and order measures? Hmm. What do you know? The first of two ballot measures, Position F, requires drug screening for people receiving public benefits and would force drug addicts to go into treatment if they want to continue

receiving those benefits. Oh, imagine that. What a crime. Proposition E would give law enforcement better surveillance tools and reign and oversight over the force, allowing looser restrictions on car chases, for example. Now you could say to yourself, San Francisco, you know, it's a one-off, right? Well, this story comes out the same day as another story that's very important, but seems to have disappeared from where I was reading it all day. But I don't necessarily need to read it. New York City has said,

where's putting state police and the National Guard in the subway? That's what they said. That's what they're doing. It took the sacrifice of a freedom-loving Marine, right? Hopefully he gets off. But it really took that sort of a breaking point in order for them to go. And you know, it's not gotten any better down there. National Guard to cheer you go. Government hokal did something, did the first thing of her entire Imagine that. National Guard. Is that a real picture?

Oh, my God. Look how wonderful. Look how wonderful it looks. You want to talk about diversity inclusion? Look at this beautiful photograph from the New York Post. We have a black woman. I'm pretty sure that might be a black man. No, that's a black lady.

A National Guard member stands watch as the MTA police conduct a random bag check at the entrance to the 7 train at Grand Central Station. She's got a beautiful AR-15. Nice optic on the thing, too. Let's zoom in on there. Hey, that looks like a 30-plus round magazine, lady. What the hell? Sharp. U. the hell? Sharp. U.S. Army sharp.

And she looks sharp, man. She looks like a soldier. She's got a little... It's good to see. The state police checking the bag is an Asian woman. Geared up, ready to do work. There's another couple cops there Geared up ready to do work

I mean look at it This is not what you want For the people of New York For the long term Like you don't want to walk down Into the subway and see Armed battalions of Soldiers

But you know what? There are people, and I know this because I took the subway in Philly, there are people walking down those flights who have been dealing with hell for years. They've been dealing with hell for years, and they walk down those, where they come down that escalator to the subway, and they see a line of people in BDUs with automatic weapons that are there to protect them.

They see police in droves that are there to protect them. And I'm telling you right now, there's a lot of liberal idiots that are going to be like, this is like a police state, and you've got people with machine guns. I just don't understand listen there's a bunch of people in new york who are seeing this stuff and going oh my god okay now i can focus on my job and how much i hate that because at least i don't have to worry about this that's a beautiful thing i mean to me it's a beautiful thing not because i want

to see state police mta police geared up gunned up the whole nine yards and soldiers with ar-15s in hand forever in the new york subway but it's a beautiful thing because you get to say like holy shit they're doing something about the problem. Can you believe they're doing something about a problem? It's hard to believe. So things are going to change. Things are going to change. It's like people are going to create that change because things have gotten so bad that it has to change.

Now the question is, can they make the connections between the moronic DAs that created the mess in New York and the attack on the police that created the mess in New York, can they make the connection between those people and realize that they're the same people that are saying, don't eat beef, get rid of your gas guzzling vehicle, which we now know they were 100% wrong about. And they've been wrong about it for two years, and they've still been talking about it as though it's the best thing you could do, the most amazing. Eat vegan and get rid of your gas guzzling car, and you will just be precious in the eyes of the lizard kings. Wonderful.

Wonderful. The answers come from us. The answers come from the PBN family. They come from the preppers. They come from the homesteaders. They come from the people who have long been green. Right? Oh, we really, you know, it takes so much energy to clean the water It takes so much energy to do this Look, we're never going to be separated from energy We're never going to be separated from fossil fuels My father used to say That we're never going to stop creating gasoline

Until there ain't no more gasoline left. He always would tell me that. They would talk about different kind of cars. They would talk about oil prices. They would talk about this and that. And my dad would always say, Jim, as long as there's something to pump out of the earth, we're going to be using gasoline. And no sooner than the gasoline running out will we ever stop using it. That's the reality, folks. So what needs to happen around the world if you really want to affect the planet, if you really care about emissions,

is you have to make fuel as cheap as you can make it. That's it. You have to figure out how to make it as cheap as you can make it and get it to everybody. You get it to everyone because what preppers do is contagious as well. People want to live this way. You see it now. Now that people understand what it is, they realize that they want to live this way. I need to push my message even stronger. Many of you out there listening probably assume I live somewhere in Virginia where it's very rural. I'm in Richmond City. My backyard is probably a half acre at best. You know what I mean?

At best. And it's probably less. It's probably closer to a quarter acre. And we've been able to do all kinds of... There's solar panels out there right now. There's chickens out there. Chicken coops, gardens, perennials, fruit producing trees, a creek. The creek we didn't do. But still, you get the point.

Like this idea that you can't go green prepper style, selffficiency style Because you have a small backyard You're not trying hard enough You need to America harder Right You need to America harder I mean really You're not Americaying hard enough You're not being innovative

Your pursuit of happiness Is not strong enough You got more in you. So we discuss emissions, we discuss backup power. The desire for preppers to be off grid is a natural thing. The desire to catch rainwater is a natural thing. You know, the things that I have learned about emergency water, I wouldn't even need to be on the public water system. And, you know, maybe one day we won't be. I don't know.

Maybe one day we won't be. We certainly wouldn't need to be. I can assure you that. Between the resources that we have in our lives, and I'll just leave that at that for OPSEC's perspective, the resources that we have in our lives and the things that I have learned over the last 10 years about filtration and about water storage and about water catchment,

it's just, we could do it. We could do it. We are, I myself, I'm just making the decision with water that is, you know, the same decision that you make with a lot of things in your life and I make with a lot of things of mine that is comfort and convenience. Right. But there's no reason not to set up. The SHTF infrastructure now. It's pretty easy.

To run. You know. To daisy chain. If you will. Through PVC pipe, five 55-gallon drums on a wooden frame that sits up off the ground, and then run your downspouts through them and have an overflow on the other side. Or maybe have your overflow be a drip irrigation system that runs to your garden. That's all the water you're going to need.

You know what I mean? I mean if you're at a place that has regular precipitation. Five 55-gallon rain barrels filled is tremendous water. How much water is 500? Let's get right down to it for the family of four. Let's get right down to it because I want to know. I can't off the top of my head. It's too late. Let's say 55 times 5, 275 gallons. We're talking 3, 6, 9, 12 gallons a day. If you're doing 3 gallons per person for 4 people. If you do 3 gallons a person, that's 23 days worth of water at 3 gallons a day per person.

12 gallons a day total. That's so much water, man. And that's just one solution. You know what I mean? Recently, I've been learning about bio-sand filters, bio-sand filtration. Very interesting, man. Really, really incredible stuff that you can do with rainwater and a biosand filter. I don't know what the future holds for me in terms of water. I feel very comfortable about where we're at right now, but I could go that direction. The truth is, anybody can go that direction. You know, you can have a 55-gallon drum, collect water, and then run that water through a water line or a diverter that would slowly

push that water through a biosand filter. And what comes out the other end of a biosand filter is the safest water that you can drink. You know? It's got to be way better than tap water. And you could do that with two 55-gallon drums and somewhat of an investment in sand, gravel sand. The bio-sand filter works off of a, what's it called? It's a microbial layer. It's called a biofilm, I'm pretty sure.

And the biofilm just naturally occurs. You run water through it for a couple weeks, and the water on the top layer of the biosand filter starts to create this biofilm of microbiology. And what this microbiology learns to do is to eat all the parasites and bacteria that are bad in the water that's coming through. So you basically create an army of microbiology that likes to eat all the types of pathogens

that would make you sick otherwise. And that biofilm is what your water goes through. Your water slowly works its way through that biofilm layer, through the fine sand, through the coarse sand, through the gravel, and then out. It's pretty impressive technology. And when you start to wrap your head around that kind of technology, you say to yourself, wow, so what could we do?

Now I'm going to blow your mind, okay? In a lot of places, you're not allowed to store rain in rain barrels because of drought. The climate change lunatics tell us that the sea levels are going to rise and we're all going to die and drown. Why then do we not store more of our water in rain barrels instead of lakes and streams in areas that we're concerned about? In other words, I'm not going to make a lot of difference at 275 gallons, right?

If I'm storing 275 gallons, not that big a deal, right? If I live in a small city of 200,000 people, that's 55 million gallons of water. And that 55 million gallons of water now is not knocking on my back door because of climate change, if that's even a thing. It's stored up in my neighbor's rain barrels. This is the prepper's guide to going green. I'm not talking to you about anything that should be blowing your mind or revolutionizing, going green or prepping. I'm merely telling you, look, this is it. We're already doing it.

We've been doing it. Make more stuff. Grow more stuff. Make some of your own energy. Grow lots of your own food. Grow lots of your own food. Raise lots of your own food. You can do that on 20 acres or a quarter acre. You just can. It's whether or not the people choose to. Now, if we would embrace this concept over embracing gluing our hands to the street. Imagine how far we could get. You see, we've been at it. Dehydration, freeze drying, salt curing, all of these things are

processes that extend the shelf life of the food that we are either buying or growing. This goes a long way. This eliminates food waste, right? I mean, almost every carbon emission situation that's out there that people cry about can be remedied or replaced in the prepping world. It's just the reality of it, man. We've been at it a while. That's because the goal of self-sufficiency works for a lot of causes, you know?

Going green being one of them. of causes, you know, going green being one of them. You have to understand this is weighing on people. It's wearing people out. It's wearing people down. Life is tough, you know, but the existential dread of climate change is a big deal. February 7, 2023, how does climate change affect mental health? Decades of research highlight the immediate and longer-term mental health challenges caused by rising temperatures and extreme weather events. See, that's not what, I don't think that's what's affecting people. Including anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide, aggression, gender-based violence. Oh, I don't think that's what's affecting people, including anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide, aggression, gender-based violence. I don't know about that.

You see, I don't think looking at wildfires is what makes people depressed. I think it's looking at wildfires and floods and hurricanes and then having your elected officials blame it on you is what affects people. Truly. Higher temperature can lead to more aggressive behaviors. Listen to this. A 2021 study found that violent crime in Los Angeles increased by 5.7% on days when temperatures rose above 85 compared with cooler days.

What this leads to, guys, is a generation of people who are like, I'm not having kids. You know what I mean? A generation of people who are like, I'm not going to have kids. It's too terrible a world to bring children into this life. So I want to end tonight's show with a story. I want to introduce you to a man. Introduce you to a man who was born April 7th, 1934. His name was Richard Kimball.

Born 1934. Benton in 1934 was like, it was it. Hitler had just come into power. The United States was in the throes of the Great Depression. the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression. There was a massive slum clearance in New York because so many people had lost their homes. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lose their homes and have no other option than to live in slums.

Franklin D. shows up in his great government intervention. and his great government intervention. This man comes into the world after the nightmare of the First World War. 1917, we declare war on Germany. By the time he's seven years old, Rich. By the time he's seven years old, Rich is watching, or eight, I'm sorry. No, seven. By the time he's seven years old, he's watching the headlines about Pearl Harbor.

And he's realizing that World War II is now. Is nigh. Right? And he probably had a slew of people who went in his neighborhood. Went off to war. So Rich Kimball grows up not in the threat of a world war

but his childhood he grows up the next four years of his life are dictated by world war. His earliest days would have been growing out, growing up, out, growing out of a Great Depression in the United States, growing into a world war. that of course would culminate in something that we can't even wrap our head around, which is the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, right? Like you have to, in order to understand, he would have now been what,, 11 years old so he's Rich Kimball's 11 years old

alright and at 11 years old he's seeing something happen that nobody's seen happen on the planet ever before we don't have anything like that there's nothing beyond the nuclear bomb that we could see

that we know of but at 11 years old There's nothing beyond the nuclear bomb that we could see, that we know of. But at 11 years old, he's watching Japan get nuked, probably on the headlines of the newspaper and hearing it over the radio, and going, wow, 200,000 people, gone. This is his world. I don't know what they're teaching him in school about history and the history of America, you know, and the history of Europe and places like that.

But what he knows for sure is his life has been Great Depression, World War II, atomic bombs. And by 1950, the U.S. intervenes in the Korean War in which he joins the Air Force and the fight in Korea. Okay. Now, by 1955, the United States enters the Vietnam War, and I'm pretty sure Richard Kimball has his first daughter. And this is

a serious, serious moment. But if it's not 1955 then it's no later than 1956 because he has his second daughter by 1958. And I know that about his second daughter like I know the back of my hand because his daughter that he gave birth to in 1958 was my mother.

I'm talking about my grandfather, Richard Kimball, who was born in a time when you couldn't even fathom having children during a Great Depression. during a Great Depression. And he was a man who had a massive family. He had something like 11, no, 14 grandchildren, 11 great-grandkids. And he grew up in a world where the United States had tanked the United States economy. It wasn't, oh my God, an economic collapse is coming, could be coming, might be coming.

A recession is on the horizon. No, the economy of the United States collapsed and people were hanging themselves, living in slums in New York, losing their homes, the whole thing. He sees the attack on Pearl Harbor when he's seven years old. He watches the world go into a true world war, not what if and maybe and might and what if and oh no and hoey ho. And seeing, and then he sees, of course, the unbelievable reality of the atomic weapon. Can you imagine seeing two atomic bombs go off

and five years later you join the military? I'm coming, Korea. You come home and promptly start to have a family. In other words, you live through utter horrors Of war and depression And the moment you get a time to take a breath You marry Doris and you have a family So to those of you out there who have children,

or maybe are children or young adults, who are saying to yourself, I can't even imagine bringing kids into this messed up world. I want you to remember the story of Richard Kimball, my grandfather. Born April 7th, 1934 in the midst of Richard Kimball, my grandfather, born April 7th, 1934, in the midst of the Great Depression, having basically grown up in war, then joining war and going and seeing war, and coming home to promptly have a family. And that family would go on to live through some of the most amazing times in American history.

would go on to live through some of the most amazing times in American history. Have a good night, PBN family. You're on the right path, man. You're with the right people. You found the right place to hang out. You found the right community. Keep prepping. Keep focusing on self-reliance and independence.

This is the way. There's really nothing else left for me to say. Talk soon. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at prepperbroadcasting.com.