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Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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Pocan Valley could become a sanctuary city of a different kind. I'm proposing that the city of Spokane Valley issue of proclamation stating that our city is a Second Amendment sanctuary. Welcome to the fire. Today on Church and State, the Prepper Broadcasting Network with James Walton. Hello Christian Patriots and welcome to Church and State where we drive morality and religion over tolerance and apathy. And I'm your host, Caleb Collier, once again your favorite far-right shock jock and the show that talks about politics. religion. Jesus Christ is our referee, so it's always nice and clean. Real quick, I'm going to point you to church and state.m. So that you can fill out the registration form and get our newsletter,

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and the only man that I know that has eaten a trash panda. James, thanks for joining us on Church and State. Thanks so much for having me, Caleb. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, man. It is good. I think the audience is going to be like, wait, wait, he ate a raccoon. He did. Yeah, he was just telling me this story. Why don't you share that with the audience? Certainly wasn't my first choice, I'll tell you that much. But at the Prepper Broadcasting Network, man, we do a lot of things. We podcast, we have an audio drama over there. We do, you know, group meetings, that kind of stuff.

And we also do pretty crazy annual survival and prepping challenges. And one such challenge last year was called Ration of Ruin. Ration of Ruin was created by the Patriot Power Hour host, Future Dan. And it was essentially a month of eating survival food only and whatever you could muster from the wild. So we were allowed to eat three days out of the week. survival food, rations, MREs, that kind of stuff. And the other four days out of the week, you had to hunt, fish, trap your way to prosperity, forage, you know, that kind of thing. The vast majority of my diet, Caleb, that month, was eating mulberries down the street with my youngest son.

That was it. But one night, we did get lucky. There was a raccoon out in the coop, and we have a bunch of pit bulls, and they, got a hold of him and he was pretty much on his way out by time i got to him and i said well this is this is forging right this is it's a damn near carry on so uh you know the rest of the story was you know one of uh skinning and you know roasting basically wasn't bad to be honest it was it was oversalted i salted it overnight uh to kill as much as i could i roasted it way too long, but having been starving, I think this is about mid-month, so having been starving for

about 14 days, it was pretty delicious. I would imagine, yeah. It's funny, I've made a habit of trying to eat rare and exotic meats whenever I can. Never done a raccoon. But, I mean, probably my least favorite for wild game has been bear, and a lot of people say it depends on what they've been eating, but every time I've ever eaten bear, it's very greasy, oily. it's just not my favorite thing.

Was Raccoon better than bear? No, no. Well, I have a buddy Wynne Parkinson who cooked us some bear at Prepper Camp one year, and Wynne knows what he's doing with wildlife. And it was unbelievable. I mean, it was great. I don't know what he did to it.

He told me that year, but this is four or five years ago, and he opened up a roasting pan and put something on a plate and gave it to me and said it was bear, and I was awesome, delicious, good work. Yeah, so nowhere near as good as bear. Okay, there we go. I mean, one of my favorites is alligator. I love a good alligator.

We don't get that too much in the Pacific Northwest, but it is delicious if you haven't tried it, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, it's not too bad. I'm a little weird on the lizards and the reptiles and the amphibian eating. Frog legs, not too bad. I've had those. Yeah, that wasn't my favorite. All right, let's get into the proper broadcasting network.

and let's bring up this website for our audience, Chris. But this is a fantastic website. I've been into prepping for a considerable amount of time. In fact, I used to drive my family nuts every Christmas, every birthday. What do you want? It was some prep item. It was storable food, stuff like that. And they're like, man, you are so boring.

But I got a lot in my basement now. And I go down there sometimes and just smile to myself. So what was the idea, the catalyst? to creating an entire network dedicated to this. Yeah, well, I got to give credit where credits do. This network was created before I was behind it by a guy named Glenn Martin, who has since passed. He wrote an amazing book called Prepper's Survival Navigation for anybody who's into navigation, you know, navigating through the wilderness, using compass, using stars, using Dead Reckoning, those kinds of things.

He's the guy you want to read the navigation book by because he grew up in the mountains of, Idaho. He ran hunting parties on horseback through the mountains, the Rockies at age 16. So he was the real deal. And it's a great book. But he created the network fundamentally. And his motivation was always the sort of tagline of our network, which for many, many years was self-reliance and independence. And we still, you know, we still all live that self-reliance and independence sort of mentality. and it is a path to a great life as far as I can tell you know and it's it seems to be rewarded even more the longer we go in this thing the deeper we get into the 21st century like self-reliance and independence seems to be where all the all the honey is in my opinion you know so in 2018

he called me up and said I'm tired of running a podcast network I want to just get back in the mountains with my dog was it you know i i bought the network off of them and then we we took it from it used to be i don't know if you know of a platform called blog talk radio okay blog talk radio was an old fun platform where you used to do podcasts but you could also take callers you called into uh to do your show and you could take callers and it was it was a good time but we took it off there put it on a more traditional podcast platform and uh yeah the rest is history man 12 hosts later um we're still going strong with the core of hosts we had from 2018 till now, which is, it's hard to believe. And yeah, it's taking me

all over, man. It's been a real fun ride. And I always make the joke, if I weren't prepping right now, like 2026 America, I'd probably need an SSRI. I'd probably need an antidepressant. I don't know how people do it. I don't know how they just meander through life. Like, I sure hope tomorrow is good. You bring up an interesting point there. And this is something I've talked about on my show quite a bit, but to find your passion, all right, and to roll with that. And to move away from the engineered distractions, which take, I mean, pick your poison. There's so many out there.

But the vast majority of society, James, are they're watching the NFL, you know, if they're a man. That's how they're getting their testosterone boost. And they feel real masculine because they're watching somebody else play a game that may or may not actually be fake. There's a lot of evidence to suggest it. It might be. It's getting weird. There's a script. Or on the feminine side, you know, they're watching the Kardashians.

There's all this reality television. And to get into something like prepping to where you're actually getting your hands dirty. And you're like, you know, I've never killed and skinned a deer, right? And what does that look like? Can I do this? Watching YouTube videos or getting with somebody, a neighbor who knows a little bit more about that. You're right. There is this sense of accomplice.

And you find yourself less focused on yourself, less concerned about, do I have depression, do I have anxiety? You know, and now you're actually healing yourself through getting back to the land. Well, the real nasty thing right now, Caleb, that you don't recognize it unless you were into prepping maybe 10 years ago is I spent a lot of time on sites like, I don't even want to put them out there because you probably go to them already, your audience. probably does too, but it's just their pits of bad news. But I used to spend a lot of time on like the Shtf plan.com, the economic collapse blog.com, the end times news.com. And you go to those websites for years and you realize like they take a real toll on you when you're in your early stage prepping.

It's sort of like motivation through fear. It's like, oh, I got to stay focused on this stuff. So I'm going to read about how bad the dollar's doing. All these years later now. the dirty trick is I've I watched the news headlines and the regular news headlines now mimic the headlines of prepper websites 10 years ago. And the big difference is I knew what I was getting myself into and I was preparing for it all. The average American is just chomping down on terrible news every single day of their life. And it's no wonder they end the day absolutely blasted and feel like there's no hope and no, you know what I mean?

mean, they're taking no action to thwart all this terrible news that they get every day about war and crumbling economies and whatever side of the Trump fence they're on. You know what I mean? It's, it's a heavy, it's a heavy dose, you know what I mean? It certainly is, and that's all intentional. Fear is such a great way to control of the masses. And as you just pointed out, you know, if you've been prepping for a considerable amount of time, you got into it because you, I mean, there's a few reasons. You don't trust the government. I think that's pretty healthy, personally, on my side of things. Like, not trusting the government's a good move. But yeah, because, you know, there's a lot of the religions out there, we'll be talking about, you know,

an end-time scenario. There's all this, you know, the Palantir and AI and the dollars collapsing. There's a lot out there. We got into prepping because we wanted to be self-reliant. We didn't want to have to go to the government or our neighbors to take care of ourselves. but now the mainstream news, as you just pointed out, it's just a constant peddling of fear, and it's all designed to control the masses to get them in this state where their cortisol is going through the roof, and at that point they're looking for a savior, usher in government. There you go. Government and advertising. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, to me, it's the real overwhelming find about prepping and survival and homesteading, urban homesteading, off-grid life, those kinds of

things, has been like, it really is an answer to the struggles of the time. It is literally bettering your mental health in the world that we live in today because I know a lot of people who live on a lot of acres and do a lot of things in the prepping and off-grid world. I don't know many people who have truly sworn away daily news. You know, they take things off their phone, they don't look at their phone, you know, those kinds of things. But the truth of the matter is we all get hit to some degree by a wave of bad news every single day. And for me personally, the only thing that mitigates that is knowing, like, we'll eat. You know what I mean?

Like, no matter how bad it gets, I know that for sure, right? So it's, I think people need that. Like, I don't even think it's a desire of outlasting some kind of apocalypse or end of days anymore. I think it's just, which is why we, we, we, we. now tag our network as the path back to stability, right? Because 2020 felt like sort of an awakening and a realization of the lack of stability in society and the fact that prepping and self-reliance can give that back to you in a lot of facets of your life. Yeah, I'm so glad you brought up 2020. I have long said on this show that 2020 actually had some silver linings to it. It was a

dark period, most certainly. And I'm not trying to downplay that there were some death. from that. And, you know, I'm not going to go into the conspiracy theories with you. You probably know them. But the silver lining, I believe, was that it woke a lot of people up. A lot of people started to see government tyranny in ways that they never thought could occur in America. And it actually drove a number of individuals towards taking that red pill and starting to see that, hey, I can't rely on the government to come and help me.

if I get sick, I need some medications, I need some food. And overall, I see a benefit for a certain part of society that took that as a wake-up call. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was even bigger than we can't rely on the government. I think it was as big as maybe I can't rely on the supermarket. You know what I mean? Maybe I can't rely on this whole thing that my whole life I thought I could rely on. Maybe I can't rely on my job.

I knew a lot of people who weren't even allowed to go to work. You know? And all of that created this, this, like you said, this awakening where it was like, maybe we need more. Maybe we need different, you know? My sort of philosophy on humanity at this point

is that we like overshot the goal by a little bit. You know what I mean? Like there was a homeostasis for humans. And we overshot that a bit with technology and politics. and all that. Now, what it feels like when you get into prepping and homesteading a lot and you start doing things like you said with your hands and you start to feel like this is probably where we're supposed to be, at least to some degree. You know, I'm not the type of guy who wants to, like,

throw off hot water and HVAC and live in a cabin in Alaska, not my thing. I like the niceties of, you know, modern day society. But I also like to split wood and warm the house with firewood. You know what I mean? Like those things are essential, I think, to humanity. And I also think that's where we should be. Or we at least shouldn't lose contact with it completely, which is what we're headed towards now, right? It's losing contact with any skill, any capability that we have, you know, on our own accord. I would agree.

And I will just echo you on that. There's nothing like wood heat, ladies and gentlemen. That's how I heat my home in the wintertime. I absolutely love it. It gets into your bones. It's not like electric heat whatsoever. I'll also say this as well. I was just telling my wife, probably the two things I will miss if like we ever had some apocalyptic event would be hot showers and coffee. I've probably missed both those things pretty pretty heavily. We'll talk about that after the show. We can make that go away for you pretty easy. All right. I like that. All right. Now I also and I want to point this out because of evidence that more and more people are getting interested in the prepper mentality, you just had good pods. They did the top 62 daily news podcasts and you are now number 42 on this list, which is awesome. Ladies and gentlemen,

I just want to point out, like there's stuff from like NPR, you know, like global news. And here we have the prepper. I mean, you even have the daily beans. I'm looking at this. This thing looks like just a transgender I don't even want to look at it but you're on this list so this proves that people are interested in what you're talking about oh yeah there's no doubt about it

it's we've watched it grow since we've been in it so long we've watched it grow for years and years but this is big I mean it does feel great to rank in daily news is not easy because it's a in order to even be categorized you've got to put daily podcasts out you know what I mean or at least more consistent

than you're once a month once every two weeks podcast and then they all have to do good you know to some degree so it's it's great i mean it's wonderful to share with the audience who's been with us for a long time it's wonderful really to share with the hosts who one thing about being a prep or broadcaster podcaster is everybody's on their operational security so you don't hear from people a whole lot you know what i mean people aren't ready to jump out and say hey my name's tim and i'm from oakland and i listen to you guys all the time and you're great you know what i mean so the hosts they can get a little like anybody out there. So it's really good for

them to see that so they can get the idea that like, yeah, it's, and then when we do get emails Caleb, they're exactly what you would expect, which is crazy. You know what I mean? They're like, we started doing X, Y, and Z three years ago, and this happened and we were completely prepared for it, and it was just,

you know, it's sort of the perfect storm. And, you know, that's what it really is. That's what prepping really is there for. You know, we set out to really succeed in this latest snowstorm, ice storm, ice apocalypse that they were telling us we were going to have in Richmond, Virginia a couple weekends ago that turned out to be...

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And just, you know, having those simple practices and processes in place to know you have the water, you have the food, you have the light, you have the backup heat systems, you have the firewood, the fireplace, you know, all these kinds of things. It just, like I said, when you get used to it, you struggle to understand how people deal with it mentally otherwise. You know, we're just going to wing it. If the lights go out, we'll just bundle up, I guess, in 17 degrees. You know? Sure.

Seems like a bad plan. Yeah, and I want to go into that because a lot of people, maybe they get into prepping because they see an end-of-the-world scenario. But once you get into it, you start to realize that there's all these natural disasters that occur. that you might want to be prepared for. You know, there's tornadoes, hurricanes. Out in the west, we get a lot of forest fires out here. And so when something like that hits, you're going to be okay. You're going to be able to weather the storm.

And I want to talk to you about, I want to make this really informative for the audience. What are some simple steps that people could do if they're just listening to this and they're like, man, if something hit right now, I would have to run to the grocery store and, oh my gosh, the shelves may be bare. What's some easy steps that people can take in their preper journey? Yeah. I mean, the first thing I would do is conquer your short-term water needs, which is really not hard to do. You know, like a 40-bottle case of water is around five gallons of water. At bare minimum, you're going to want to have a gallon of water per person per day in your house, right?

So do the math and get yourself a week's worth of water, you know, and maybe split it between bottled water and one gallon containers of water, one gallon jugs of water, which you can buy, you know, pretty easily also at most supermarkets. This eliminates anything that's ever going to affect the water. And if you have a week, two weeks, there's almost no situation where you're going to run into where you won't have time to adapt from phase one, which is, oh, my God. God, the water's out, and we have no water, right? You're at least have a week to two weeks to go, oh, my God, the water's out. What do we do once all this water runs out? And the reason I say to do water bottles in one gallon jugs is because you're going to use water for things other than drinking out of, right? You're going to want to boil rice or pasta or fill a tub maybe or, you know, those kinds of things, hygiene, that kind of stuff.

So it's better to have some access. I often recommend rain barrels because we use them, but I know that's not super simple. I know there's laws in a lot of places. I never would follow a rain barrel law. I could tell you that right now. I'd have to have a conversation one-on-one with someone before I even thought about following something as silly as that.

But water is a really great one. It's because you don't think about, most people don't think about until it's too late, because we have a tap that runs forever. We have an eternal tap until it runs. Last year in Richmond, we lost water for a week. The new mayor of Richmond came in. The water system broke.

He didn't know what happened. It froze and broke on the same day. So the whole plant filled up with water and froze. And yeah, it was interesting. But when you get into a week, two weeks of preps, food, that kind of stuff, you're going to weather most inconveniences, you know. And if you get yourself to a point where you feel like you're prepared, for like three months worth of food, water, you know, those kinds of things, supplies, backup power.

You're talking about being prepared for 99.9% of things that are going to happen in your entire life. Sure. You know, like, good to have a year's worth of food storage for the great collapse. But the truth of the matter is, if you're prepared to weather three months worth of anything, like, you're going to run into almost nothing that's going to call. You can look back at disasters and, you know, all that kind of stuff. I mean, yeah, that's a great one. I do think he-

Can I just jump in here real quick? One of the things I recommend for water like you were just talking about, and I love the fact that that's the first thing you brought up because you can go a while without food, ladies and gentlemen. You can figure out ways to get warm. You can find a shelter, but water, you're going to be dead within three days if you don't have water. One of the things I recommend is if you know something's coming,

the power might go out, fill up all your bathtubs with water. At that point, you can dip in, you can flush the toilet with it. You're definitely going to want to boil it as it's just sitting there in the bathtub, but it's a great way to have at least a ready water supply for you. Yeah, that's a big one. That's a big one. And going in that direction, this is where prepping and planning is so important. Because all it takes is a short list of items to do before.

a disaster like filling up bathtubs, right? If you have a list of those things and you're not flying by the seat of your pants, right? You're checking batteries for flashlights. You're checking that maybe off-grid cooking systems work, checking that you have propane or backup fuel for those systems. And that just becomes a quick checklist, just like what we ran through with the storm that just passed so that you know there's no guesswork, you know, put your lights out, your backup lighting, your flashlights in areas that you want them to be in.

the lights go out everybody knows what's going on where to go the water goes out everybody knows where the water is the biggest flaw i'll tell you right now caleb in my house in most preppers house that i know probably every well the half the ways may be the lone exception that i know personally maybe you know funny enough the two female podcasters on our network probably have the best sort of whole house preparedness learned people, right? Which is funny. But the biggest thing that most preppers miss is making sure that everybody's on the same page. You know what I mean?

There's usually like one dominant prepper in the household. Like, oh, he'll take care of it. She'll take care of it. You know, they're the weirdo prepper. So having those lists and things written down, man, that's, it makes a world of difference. You know, come here. These are the things that we need to get done before this storm hits and it just, you know, makes it a lot easier. Sure, and I would encourage all the husbands out there, all the men that are watching this show.

You know, when your wife wants to get all those smelly candles, you know, women love that. They get all excited. Their voices go, you smell like pomegranate and vanilla. Let them get him, guys, because you know what? You're going to need those candles. And you can just raid her stockpile, you know. She's got a whole section of her closet that's just nothing but candles. That's awesome because the lights go out.

You got some candles. You're ready to go. I'll tell you what, my wife burns the, and has for many years, the sort of scented wax situation. Your software needs to be compliant to win deals, but you also need your engineers focused on building your product, not pulling SOC2 evidence. Enter a third option. Make Vanta your first security hire. Vanta uses AI and automation to get you compliant fast. simplify your audit process and unblock deals, so you can prove to your customers that you take security seriously.

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And years ago, probably five to ten now, we started, I started telling her, hey, stop dumping the wax in the trash, put it in these ball jars for me. And so now I make these, I just take the dryer lint out of the dryer and mix it with the hot wax, put it into, you know, egg carton container, fill it all out, smooth it all out. and we have created a fire starter. We probably could sell it. It works so good. But they burn like nine to 12 minutes. We've timed them. You take these little guys.

They're just literally all your trash. It's just all our trash. It's just trash. Trash dryer lint you're going to throw in the trash. Old wax, mixed together while it's warm, stuck into an egg carton container. Or you can use those little wax cups that you put ketchup in. Sure.

Stuffed them in there too. And, yeah, individually put them underneath your fire in your wood stove or in your fireplace or even in your fire pit and it'll give you 10 minutes of flame on average easy you could whip it up you know tomorrow you could buy a bar of paraffin wax and do it if your wife doesn't save wax for you like mine does you know what i mean but it's well worth it i mean you look at the price of different fire starters and things like that fire gels and all that you can make that stuff at home on mass yeah it's a good one that's a winner because i'll tell you one thing too Caleb, I learned about men.

They don't know how to start fires. Yeah. The average man doesn't really know how to start a fire and sustain a fire. I didn't know that until I started seeing people really struggle. You know what I mean? And go like, oh, you can't just pour gasoline on logs. It doesn't work. They're not going to start.

They're not going to catch on fire and stay on fire. You know? So having those little tools, I think, you know, they go a long way for the average person. That's something that's so foreign to me, James, that you wouldn't know how to start a fire. You don't know how to, you know, get the kindling and, you know, get something that's going to go up real quick and build it so it's getting the oxygen necessary. Like, it kind of boggles my mind, but I guess it makes sense when they've taken men and really feminized them in so many ways and made it to where they literally have no purpose, don't serve really anything for society.

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You've got to rip it with your teeth. I love that kind of stuff. So go check out, griddown, chow down. dot com and use the promo code church and state and also i will remind you once again to please hit the donate button for us to help keep the lights on as it does cost money to do what we're doing and even something as small as ten dollars a month can make a world of difference for us here at church and state with that let's go back to james walton the owner of the prepper broadcasting network james uh how do you feel about storable beef you like that you like that idea

Oh, yeah, man. I like the freeze-dry. I think probably one of the best things freeze-dried you can invest in is protein. Yeah. You know? It really is. That's one of the toughest things that come by. After the ration of ruin challenge, we had, you know, like an after-action report, as you can imagine. And that was one of the big takeaways we all sort of agreed on was we need to store more protein that's shelf-stable.

because in a situation like that, particularly like, you know, you think when it's hunting season or when you drive out to that hunting location that you know really well, like you're going to do well. But what about in your neighborhood in your backyard? What about in the dead of winter? What about in the month of May when you think you're going to do great and you do nothing like we did? Having the access to that, you know, shelf-stable protein was that that's a difference maker. You know, there's so many of these shows that have become popular, like naked and afraid, for example, which is honestly kind of garbage. But it can be kind of fun to watch a little bit.

But every single one of them are looking for a protein source. You can see people that are like, oh, we got some berries. But at the end of the day, I think it's like 21 days that they're out there. Protein is king. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's like chickens. One of my biggest battle cries for everybody in America is chickens. Hey, it's Cole Swindell.

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Less Chumba. No purchase necessary. VGW Group void were prohibited by law. 21 plus TNC supply. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. You can have sick. We've had chicken. I think my son was two years old, my 14 year old, when we got our first six chickens because I have a picture of them holding our first egg. And it's protein in the backyard. And it happens. You don't do anything. You feed them, you water them, you protect them. And you wake up every day, you got five to six eggs. And before long, you have more eggs than you can even manage. And it's, it is the best solution for protein. And they keep the bugs at bay, too. To some degree, yeah, I think so.

I've had seasons with them, seasons without them. I wish they ate mosquitoes a little more, I'll tell you that much. But, you know. We got wild turkeys all over. If you really want a solution for that, chickens are the way to go. And even if you're living, when I moved to Richmond, we couldn't have them. So we lobbied and we got the rules changed about zoning and that kind of thing so that we could have them. You know, I feel like Americans forget that this is a thing that you.

can do. You know what I mean? Which is funny because we watch activists do whatever they want in the streets of America, get laws change it. You couldn't even imagine. Get laws introduced it. You couldn't even imagine. And we'll sit there and go like, I hear it all the time from people. Oh, we can't have chickens here. What do you mean? You don't have a king. You know what I mean? It's just some young kid up there in City Hall. You got to go talk to. And so, you know, you can have chickens most likely. And it's well worth it. It's easy, cheap. You know, it's changed my Because I went from eating oatmeal and cereal and stuff for breakfast to eat four eggs every day. You know what I mean?

And it's just it's a better life. Like everything. 100% it is, yeah. And you bring up a great point. You know, in certain areas, you can't collect rainwater, you can't have chickens. And yet these activists can do whatever they want. It's really rather ludicrous. In my house, we have a whole bunch of wild turkeys.

They're always out there and they're just pooping everywhere. But they eat the crud out of ticks. And so I'm literally throwing them scraps. Like I'm throwing the used up vegetables out there. Like come on in turkeys. Keep the dicks at bay. Yeah. But no, I echo you.

Chickens are a phenomenal thing. And everybody I know who has chickens, they're literally giving away eggs because they have so many of them. Yeah, if I didn't eat them like I ate them, I don't, we'd give them away still. And I literally eat them like four eggs a day every morning. My whole, like at least the last five, six years of my life. And just so everybody knows on a different, I get labs every single year too. And my cholesterol is great.

I was about to bring that up, actually. You're not just eating the egg whites, James? You know, because they toast the yolks are terrible for you. They're going to increase your cholesterol. I hate science. Modern science is just ridiculous. Yeah, well, I work out a lot, too, though. So there is that balance.

I bet if I did nothing and ate four eggs a day every day, it would probably be a different look on the cholesterol pallets, too, right? maybe but I mean they've been proving like butter they told us butter was terrible for you it turns out it's the best thing for you you know the eggs I mean this whole lie of a non-fat low-fat diets it's actually terrible for you oh yeah I mean it makes sense is it we're going through a time Caleb where we have to double check triple check and you gotta hear a podcast or say it and you gotta read a study about everything that we ever knew forever you know what I mean like would your grandpa eat eggs and bacon would your would your great grandpappy eat eggs and bacon we get to this age and we're like I don't think you should eat eggs and bacon oh okay well that kind of goes against everything we know and have known for 100 years I call it I actually called the 100 year amnesia because I it really is that if you look back 100 years at what we knew the skills that we had the things that we knew about humans

and you move forward 100 years it's like we forgot everything we don't know what a plan is, we don't know what medicine is, we don't know what the trees are, we know nothing. We don't know how to start a fire. You know what I mean? It really is like an amnesia of convenience that has hit humanity. And there's people like us who like we find our way back to it and we're like, oh, check this out. Who knew? Grandpa was not drinking soy milk or almond milk.

I can guarantee you that, yeah. Yeah, none of that. Well, let's go back to the, oh, sorry, go ahead. No, go ahead. I was just going to say, let's go back to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, because I want the audience to check this out. And Chris, if you can bring up the website again, go to the shows and hosts, because this is a one-stop shop, James, for all sorts of just great information. You can see there's a lot of different shows that are included on this platform, ranging from guns and politics, conspiracies, politics, banter, gunsmithing. There's a lot of things on here for everyone to explore.

that herbal medicine for prepper show right there is a actually it's probably better than anything you could pay for to be honest judson carroll out of the appellations in north carolina is literally a professor in his own right who every week shows up he gives you a different sort of i don't know what that is but he gives you a different so there you go that'll work that that that's his book right there and his other book right there on the left. But he gives you every week a different herb, how it's used, what to do with it, what medicines to make with it, all that kind of stuff. And he's been doing it for probably three or four years on PBN now. And literally his archive is, it's invaluable. I don't know where you could get anything like it, you know? And that's a weekly show every week on PBN, and it's just one example of the firepower we have over there, you know what I mean? Well, I love that too because some people may not be aware of this, but pretty much every single pharmaceutical out there, the base where they got it from came from nature. And then they, of course, changed that, patent it because they want to make money, right?

They got to make a lot of money. Usually made it a little too powerful, right? But almost anything that ails you, you can find a solution out in nature. And so I would highly recommend that people go to that podcast and check it out. go look out in the backyard. Hey, you know those, everybody hates them, James. They sprout up in the lawn. You know, the kids like to grab them, and they like to blow the spores.

You're talking about the dandelions. They love to blow the spores, and you can literally watch the dad running towards the kids. It's almost slow motion. No, because the dandelions are going to spread all over their lawn. Hey, guys, that's actually healthier, better to collect those than, have that lawn in your front yard. Well, here's a good, I was a, before this life I was a chef, and we would make salads for $20 a plate in Philadelphia that had the same dandelion leaves, young dandelion leaves

in them that you'd pay $20 for, for a plate of salad that you would go home and spray your yard to kill. Yeah, I mean, that's how crazy to disconnect is. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's really it. And another one that grows in your front yard all the time is called play. Anticom and it looks kind of like it's a broad leaf, looks like spinach when it's young.

Kind of tastes similar when it's young. It's also great for wound healing. You can eat it or you can use it for wound healing in a poultice or in like a smashed up form. Everybody's got it in their front yard. You walk out in your front. It might be there now. It's pretty hardy. It's pretty hardy.

But you're surrounded by, like I said, man, it's the 100-year amnesia. We're surrounded by a world that we don't understand. It's almost like if you were born in the 90s. You crash landed on a planet, and you're like, what's going on here? Let's go figure it all out. What can we eat? What can we not eat? What's growing?

You know, there was just no handed down knowledge or something like that, and we just forgot everything. Well, I'm going to let other people go for the mushrooms personally. Number one, I just hate mushrooms, vile fungus. I know, I know. But I'm also slightly allergic to them as well. Oh, well, that's a different story. It's kind of the best of both worlds, for my case. I'm allergic and I hate them.

But there's a lot of mushrooms, ladies and gentlemen, that will kill you. So be careful there. If you're just going to go start exploring the planet, hey, what can we eat? Be mindful of that one. It's very fun. It's what's that? Go forth and forage. For those of you out there who are, the bookshelf is over there.

It is like the best, excuse me. It is the best book on mushroom foraging I've ever seen. And you latch. on to what's local. I mean, you're in, you're in heaven for mushroom foraging in your neck of the woods. I would call that hell, James. Hell for your state. Actually, yes. We do quite a bit of walking around looking for Chantrail mushrooms. It's a good reason to get outside and get active in the spring, summer, fall. Not so much to fall around here, but, you know. And if you hone in on just a few and you really study them, you can develop confidence in it. You know what I mean?

And be hard. And there's some that you can harvest that are so. absurd like the Morel mushroom. It's almost impossible to get it wrong. There's another one called the chicken of the woods and it's also called sulfur shelf because it's like bright yellow and orange and grows, you know, on oak trees. And you see it and you're like, oh, yeah, there's nothing else that looks like it. You know, so those are good places to start if you get into foraging that way for wild mushrooms. Okay. Well, um, Caleb's like, I'm not going to know, I'm out. Sorry. Nope That was purely for audience

Who are going I'd like to make a little wild mushroom risotto in the evening I love it Let me ask you this There might be some people in the audience That have never owned a firearm And obviously The first thing you're going to do

Is you're going to get trained on that weapon Ladies and gentlemen I'm never going to advocate Hey you know Just go buy a gun you'll be okay No you're probably going to be actually More of a threat to yourself And to your family

If you've never been trained But, James, what would be a rifle among rifles for individuals who maybe just want to get something to be a little bit prepared? I mean, the vast majority of people, I think, if they're going to buy a rifle for preparedness, you don't want to spend a lot of money, what are you going to do with it? You know, you're ideally going to use it to shoot something to eat it. more, you know, moreover, I'm not a big fan of like the post-apocalyptic firefight mentality. That's a whole other show. I'd recommend you get a 22, specifically if it's your first gun. You know what I mean?

If you're like, I want to shoot a gun, I want to learn how to shoot a gun, and I want a gun that's going to be a utility. And we're talking about across-the-board men and women. I don't know too many women who want to shoot a 12-gauge shotgun as effective as they are. You know, I don't know too many men who want to spend a lot of time shooting a 12-gate shotgun, to be honest with you. So, yeah, that would be my recommendation. It's easy, right? Insanely cheap.

The ammo's insanely cheap. So you could stockpile ammo for that weapon, you know, super simple, super cheap. And, you know, you could do all kinds of things with a 22 in terms of shooting small game. If you're a good shot, or as you progress, you could kill Deer with 22 rifle if you're a good shot. And, again, it'd be your introductory weapon. I definitely recommend that before like go get an AR-15 with a 30-round magazine that you know nothing about. It's a weapon that operates completely differently than anything you've ever used. You know what I mean?

And yeah, because then I think that lends itself to like the whole sort of egotistical, like, look at the gun that I got rather than let me learn about the gun I got type of mentality, you know? So I'd keep it simple. Go-22 rifle. Keep it simple, stupid, right? I think that's actually very, very good advice. And I will let the audience know that guns are like tattoos. Once you get one, you're going to want more. And so you'll end up with more.

But it is a 22. 22 is how I learned to shoot. Most people, they will say, hey, yeah, my dad took me out. And I had a 22, and I started shooting. And I graduated from there and, you know, 308s and 30-0-6s and whatnot. It's a great starter weapon. It is. Well, James, we're right down to the end of this.

I want to once again bring up the website, Prepper Broadcasting.com. Chris will show that to you, but I want the audience to get very familiar with this website. Go to this, subscribe, start listening to all of the different shows on here. There's a lot of them that are just wonderful. I know I'm going to start listening to these.

And, hey, there's a possibility that church and state ends up on this as well. So I'm excited to enter into that conversation with you, James. But any last words for the audience? Yeah, if you go to prepperbroadcasting.com, as we're scrolling here, you'll see all the different shows. One thing that stands out about PBN that we haven't talked about, we did briefly, is that there's also an audio drama that runs every single week. So if you're a little bit like maybe I don't want to listen to people talking about traps and herbal medicine and this and that, then you could get into the Changing Earth audio drama, and I'm dragging this a little bit because I'm trying to wait for it to pop up, but I don't think we're going to get to it in time.

No, okay. It's actually today. Today is the day it dropped, so I knew it'd be a week's worth of shows away. But it's really fun. It's a nine book series that's already, there you go, the Changing Earth Audio Drama. We're on Season 4, Episode 8, and everybody who does a show does a voice on that audio drama also. So we'll have to find a character. So it's almost like, yeah, there we go. I can be crazy. I've actually done some acting, so it could be kind of fun there. But you're talking about like old, old time. radio. Like when we used to gather around. Yeah, it's way cooler than that. Yeah, it's same mentality. Same mentality. Yeah, the author Sarah Hathaway, she wrote nine books called The Changing Earth series. She adapted it all to an audio drama, does all the music, all the audio, all the mastering is done by one of our members. It's an amazing show. It's really great. Yeah, check it out. I'm definitely going to have to check that out. I love that kind of stuff. So wonderful. Well, James, it's been a pleasure having you on the show.

I'm going to go ahead and close this out if you hold on one more minute post-production to say our goodbyes. I'd appreciate it. But once again, just love what you're doing. I love the mentality behind it, getting people prepared. And again, I thank you for your time, sir. Thank you, sir. I appreciate you having me on.

It was a blast. Absolutely. Well, we'll have to do it again sometime. Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Look, getting prepared, it's one step, all right? It's that old adage. How do you eat an elephant one bite at a time, all right? You don't need to be fearful.

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