The Prepper Broadcasting Network - DAC - Way Better Than Yesterday!

Episode Date: December 3, 2023

Music A person who advocates and practices preparedness. One ready for any event that would disrupt their daily routine. That is a prepper. Hello everyone out there in internet radio land. This is Dave Jones, the NBC guy. And I'm sorry if you saw me in the queue and you said, Oh, I'll listen to that first thing Monday.

I went and deleted it. I went and deleted it. I don't know. I was tired. We had just butchered chickens and ducks and I was frustrated. I was looking for a set of goggles for my 11-year-old. He wanted to scuba dive in the bathtub, I think. I'm not sure. Which I never found the goggles. So the daily audio cache was kind of sour grapes.

And after sleeping on it, I said, you know what? I should delete that. And just cover the points that I wanted to make. So if you didn't get a chance to hear it and you were looking forward to it, here's the Reader's Digest version without the sour grapes that were in there. And if you listen to it, then you know what I'm talking about. that were in there. And if you listen to it, then you know what I'm talking about. So there's some things that I've changed in my daily life and I haven't mentioned them because

they're just little things that you do. For instance, and this all stems from when Biden was elected, and I've been doing it for two years and not really thinking much of it. I've been keeping my fuel tank full. Back when he got elected, you couldn't tell week to week when gas prices were going to be cheaper, and that seemed like a good idea to keep topping off. When it got to half a tank, this is something you do as a course of action in the colder climates.

I used to do this in Alaska. I lived for eight years in Alaska. And in the wintertime, you just kept your tank full. You know, when it got to half a tank, you went and filled it up. And that was to help to keep the moisture out of the tank and your lines from freezing up. But in this case, you didn't know when gas prices were going to go crazy again

and you kicked yourself in the butt for not filling up when it was five, ten cents cheaper per gallon. So that's one thing I was doing. Another thing, I'm keeping all my two batteries fully charged. Now, they claim that they'll keep 80% of their charge for up to 10 years. So, that's why I've been keeping all the batteries charged because you never know when you're going to have to

use these batteries. And I have a number of different hookups to use them other than the power tools. So I have things, USB things and I have fans, lights things other than power tools. Of course you keep them charged to be able to cut things and do things, you know, power tool wise, but they're versatile, they're standardized,

and I keep them charged, you know, because if I have to go to them, I want a full bank of charged batteries. So that was the highlights. That was pretty much the highlights of the daily audio cache now i have a question for the intrepid commander what the heck happened to the speaker feed it it exploded it exploded but there are some amazing episodes on there from the past. You will get the first time I'm talking about the COVID virus and how it moved into Iran and Italy. And wow, what a historical archive. The commander just spewed out.

I don't know how this happened, but there must be, oh, jeez, 200 episodes or better that just go back to like 2019. that just go back to like 2019. And I introduce in the daily audio cache, Doc Bones and Nurse Amy. And if you look back on that, that was when we were doing Medical Mondays. And that was the first mention of the coronavirus on PBN. So that's pretty amazing.

Yep. Anyway, tons of great episodes. Some of them are two-parters, like the gunsmithing for 1911. And, oh my gosh, you got a reality check some of the great shows I mean

Michael Klein was a phenomenal creator of content and he got away from it but his shows live forever. I mean, they're so timely and information-packed, you just got to listen to them.

So have fun, PBN family. It's almost like Christmas. You don't know what you're going to get. The rapper is the title, and you open it up and see what it is. It's just, it's impressive. Anyway, and I'm proud to be a part of it. Yep, yep, definitely. So PBN family, we butchered yesterday.

We have no more ducks. The ducks are all in freezer camp. And we helped our neighbor since we already had our system set up for scalding and plucking and butchering. We just said bring your chickens over here and we'll show you how it's done and we'll help you. And we did. And now our back's hurting. But not to fear.

I'm pretty sure our neighbors may never do this again. They had some really nice looking birds. All roosters. Big old birds. And the time we did the 47, one day, one Saturday, we did 47 chickens without an electric plucker. Okay, my plucker was Maria. And wow, that was quite the day. I was the support person.

She was in charge, and I kept the water going, the chickens going, and we did a killing cone back then, which you should look into if you're not too sure you can chop the heads off. A killing cone is a metal galvanized steel cone that you put the chicken in upside down, and then you pull his head out the bottom

and then you just nick his jugular with a very sharp knife or scissors, and he'll bleed to death. Now he'll jerk when you first nick him, but they usually just calmly expire, fall asleep, and bleed to death. So you don't get that panicking, flopping, and carrying on. But if you're into the chop, okay, we've developed a technique here where we take a five-gallon bucket with a lid, and we do the chop,

and before the chicken starts flopping, we put them in the bucket, put the lid on, maybe put a cinder block on top of it, and they stay in the bucket until they're done flopping. Just a technique, just a suggestion. There you go. But a five-gallon Home Depot bucket with a lid, and then you just drop them in there, put a cinder block on top.

And you can do two or three at a time and then start the process of boiling water. And so when we did those 47, we actually kept track of how much it cost with the feed and everything. And now, keep in mind, these were mostly organic fed. I'm not sure if we did total organic on them or not, but they were definitely free-range chickens and mostly organic. mostly organic. So they were $6.27 a bird.

So now think about that. At the time, an organic free-range chicken was going for like $20. And we got $6.27 to include everything. The chick itself, the raising up, the food, whatever we fed them, the flakes, to include everything. So that was quite a huge savings.

And I think we said we could have two chickens a week for six months. And, you know, that's pretty good. Talk about securing your protein. Anyway, I digress. But just to let you know, if you put the time and effort in, it is definitely monetarily worthwhile. Okay?

You just got to put the time and effort in. And I'm not too sure our neighbors will do this again. They said it was pretty hard. I chuckled because we did, what did she have, 14? I think she had 14 roosters that we did. Yeah. Anyway, PBN family, those are the tips from the Jones homestead. And I'm sorry I had to delete that daily audio cache, but if you didn't get it, this is a way better

version with more information. So there you go. Take care and prep on.