The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

Go Forth and Forage https://amzn.to/4kvvQlIMushroom Foraging

Before you enjoy the show today PBN family. I have to make one embarrassing announcement Whitney Johnson will not be on the show tonight. She will be on the 24th of the month, so don't miss it I was 100% in Belief that she was coming on the 17th. Maybe I got a little excited. I don't know I picked the book up It's an amazing book. I was looking over my copy and thinking what a great St. Patrick's Day it would be to have Whitney Johnson on tonight and well just not the case. So enjoy the show, get the book, links in the description and yeah happy St. Patrick's Day folks.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks. Being certain that they and I but lived where motley is worn. All change changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born welcome in folks it's gonna be a lot of that business it's gonna be a lot of that business today happy st. Patrick's Day we're back on YouTube today for whatever that's worth for as long and short as that fundamentally like We're on YouTube for my dad, I think that's about it I mean, you know anybody else that comes along and click subscribe and all that kind of stuff cool but I Think if I if he weren't watching I don't even know that

I'd broadcast over there Or maybe I don't know there's also like a sort of rebellious thing in me that makes me want to just perpetually You know one new channel after another after every slap on the wrist and just keep going and going and going You know, how many different iterations can we come up with for PBN, Prepper Broadcasting Network, Prepper Talk, Prepper Radio, Preppers Online, Preppers Live, whatever. With the help of the audience, we can do infinite them. There's really no way they can stop us from constantly broadcasting up there. stop us from constantly broadcasting up there.

And we don't even do anything. That's the crazy part. You know what I mean? We don't even we're not even radicalized in any way. Really crazy. But we'll be back on Instagram tomorrow. We're going to shake it up as the weeks go. You know what I mean? So we'll be on Instagram some days YouTube a couple days a week at the most we'll always be on X will always be on Rumble

really to get the full sort of scale show I'd recommend Rumble because it'll be there it'll be there every day you know show description discounts sponsors discounts, sponsors, memberships, whatever. Today's show, by the way, this is a good one, man. This is a good one because it's our guest for tonight. It is Whitney Johnson, Go Forth and Forage. Go Forth and Forage is hands down the best mushroom foraging book I have ever seen. There's a link in the description or you can just go look it up on Amazon. It's available. It's out today or maybe was out yesterday. I don't remember. But this is it. You know if this is in your thing, like if you're into foraging at all, if you... she's also a lot of fun Appalachian Tennessee Arkansas something like that

Like the real deal The real deal from the holler if you know what that means, then you know what that means, right? But that's gonna be a fun show tonight, but look go forth and forage Whitney Johnson out now is all that matters and you know let me show I just want to show you one thing in the book that makes the book. There's a bunch of things that make it make it an exceptional book, but when you're really learning to forge something be it plant or mushroom there is something that you need pictures of and information on and that's this section on mushroom anatomy. My lighting is so bad

for showing off this book right now. I apologize. I should have put the big light on. This right here, you got to know this. It's like old science biology from middle school, high school. But if you're going to forge anything, you got to know that you got to know what's that? What's the part at the bottom? What's the stem? What's the mycelial threat? Well, really what you got to know probably most is things

like striations things like gills things like teeth, right? Ring skirt. Because a lot of times it's down to the gills a lot of times it's down to the teeth whether or not you know a mushroom has teeth or not teeth gills or not gills tells you a lot about it but you know I don't know if that's your thing or not doesn't really matter it's our thing and wouldn't you be on tonight 9 p.m. Eastern. It'd be an awesome show I'm sure we'll get deep into the book in the foraging aspect of things. We'll probably get into some I Don't know for sure. We didn't pre discuss anything, but I have to imagine we'll get into some recipe

We'll get into some mushroom cookery. I'm sure before before long Yeah, so a bunch on today We might as well get right into the sort of the Houthi situation. Yeah, let's get into that because we're seeing sort of the what looks to me to be the early stages of Iranian war. Now we always say that, I feel like we're always saying that right? War with Iran is on the horizon like the last 20 years. But this interesting little fold blowing up the Houthis. And next, that's the question, right? We get airstrikes and demolishing things.

Trump said the Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important waterways of the world, grinding vast swaths of global commerce to a halt. And his answer fundamentally was to bomb the shit out of them from the USS Truman aircraft carrier and that's a beautiful thing That is a beautiful thing They responded They responded With the help of God Almighty, by the way with the help of Allah They responded and they shot

Some ballistic missiles that didn't even make it remotely in range to the aircraft carrier. You know, they have ballistic missiles and they're not very good with them. So I'm trying to wonder like, what's the point? The Houthis claimed on Sunday have fired 18 ballistic missiles. That's a lot. And a drone. And a drone. And a drone?

One drone? That has to be wrong. That's ABC News. 18 ballistic missiles and a drone. Sounds like it should be flip-flopped, right? 18 drones and a ballistic missile. In two separate attacks over the previous 24 hours, the strike, the group said, succeeded in thwarting a hostile attack the enemy was preparing to launch against our country. Highly doubtable.

Highly doubted. Officials say all drones were downed by fighters, 10 shot down by Air Force planes and one by Navy planes while the ballistic missile was not intercepted because it fell far short of the vessel. So that's what it is. They got it mixed up. It was 18 drones and one ballistic missile. And the ballistic missile, like I said, fell far short of the absolute destruction ship that is the USS Truman. I love... I hope... I hear a lot of people talking about like the end of the naval power the end of the aircraft

Carrier and stuff like that. I Don't know doesn't look like it to me. You know what I mean? The only fire wolf. What's up? Good morning, man Doesn't look like the end to me You know, I don't see any signs everybody's talking about your swarms of drones and that kind of thing You know the end of the aircraft carrier. I Think still pretty pretty badass. Yes me throw it rolling in there and just smashing Air Force Naval

Naval air presence and that's not even like the firepower that is inside of the ship itself They're awesome. They're awesome The US military is awesome. It's sweet. It's just you know So the title of the show The title of the show is from a Nobel Prize winning Irish playwright and author named Samuel Buckman. I Can't say I'm like well-read, but I do like it. I do like it a lot. Ever tried, ever failed.

What is it? I can't see behind myself. Let me. Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again. Fail better is the one that's missing fail better no matter try again and fail better dude it's life if that ain't life I don't know for the average person Jay Fergie and chat just because tech advances

doesn't mean it's the best call Sometimes an oldie is a goodie Yeah, I mean, it's just you know, it's just horsepower on those things firepower horsepower And now they got the drone lasers Yeah Be very happy be very happy about US military might. The Iran-backed terrorist group said at least 31 people were killed and 101 wounded, mostly women and children of course. How predictable is that? There's only women and children out in

the streets. 31 people were killed, 101 wounded, mostly women and children. Though the claims could not be independently verified yet. The wave of strikes follows Donald Trump's decision to launch a large-scale military campaign against the Houthis. We're supposed to feel bad for the Houthis. They won't let the ships come through. They are attacking American vessels. What do you think is going to happen?

Do you know what I mean? What do you think is going to happen? I mean know what I mean? What do you think is going to happen? I mean, even Joe Biden blew him up a little bit. You know, he didn't do a great job, but even he did it, right? What we witnessed on Sunday was quite dramatic, and Mike Walz is claiming that the airstrikes took out multiple Houthi leaders. Yeah, they did. They definitely did.

Yemen's Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman, as well as several American warships in the Red Sea. The terror group said without offering evidence that they attacked the Truman and its warships with ballistic missiles and drones. This is the same ABC news and it was regurgitated, uh, wrong. Yeah, they're in trouble. The question though is, is it going to lead to the Iranian conflict? And what's the deal? My question is not so much when or will it be a war, whatever it is, but what's way more

interesting to me is what's the deal? What's the plan in other words? What's the game plan? What what's the end of a war with Iran supposed to look like? What are we after what are we trying to do because? It's been far too long for me to believe that we're really concerned about their nuclear program and we want to stop it. I just feel like we could have stopped it. We should have stopped it. We would have stopped it.

It doesn't seem like viable to me. I don't see it. We've conquered much bigger things, done much bigger, greater problems and so on. I've got Easter 1916 up here by William Butler Yeats. You guys know Yeats, right? You have to know Yeats on a day like today. There is a quote that's actually on my desktop wallpaper that is particularly important, I think, to men men but probably to both.

I think men are going through a time this day and age where this quote rings true and It is from Anne Bronte Anne Bronte, I don't know how to pronounce her last name Irish lass It's part of a really good poem maybe we should read that poem. That's a really good one. The quote itself is, but he that dares not grasp the the thorn should never crave the rose. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. It's just so important for what it says to me right right off the bat is like the approach of a woman.

You know what I mean? The most petrifying and terrifying aspect of normal life for a man, which is approaching a woman. And that just says it all. That says it all to me. That shows up in different things, in different places in life. in life, you know, you could see it professionally You can see it in that in everything trying something new doing something scary, right? but to me and it's weird that it's written by a woman or maybe it's not weird that it's written by a woman but

But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose, right? Like if you're afraid to get poked then you might as well not even crave the rose i don't know i always dug that it it started to ring true to certain things in my own life um so i smacked it on there with a bloody rose there's like a rose and a pool of blood what does the background even look like this is what i see every day when I log in. It's yeah it's a wooden table, a couple beautiful roses, some blood all over the table like an up close of two roses and that quote you know because it's easy you know it's easy to fall into the comfort. That's all about that.

All that is, is about comfort, right? That's what that whole thing is about. It's all about comfort. You could get real comfortable, never feeling pain, never doing anything. The narrow way. Such an awesome name for a poem too, the narrow way. It reminds me of Miyamoto Musashi, right? The narrow way. My son always gets on me because in my phone

he is Carter Musashi. That's why I call him Carter Musashi because of the quote, once you understand the way broadly you see it in all things. And Carter, he understands the way broadly. He just really does. He's one of those people. He understands the way broadly and he sees it all things in all things. It showed up to me pretty early on with him because I would watch him play different video games, some on the phone, some on TV, whatever. I'd

watch him and I and then I'd watch him play with kids and it you know his thing is like how to win you know what I mean it's like the parameters he quickly will understand the parameters and quickly understand that idea and so you know once you understand the way broadly see it in all things Miyamoto Musashi they say that his book the book of five rings is like essential to strategy I haven't read it all but I've read a lot of it I don't know I think it's good there's a lot you can glean from it I wouldn't recommend reading it if you don't want to read about sword fighting though and like how to hit people with swords and which swords to use and there's a lot you can glean from it. I wouldn't recommend reading it if you don't want to read about sword fighting though

And like how to hit people with swords and which swords to use and there's a lot of that in there naturally the greatest swordsman in history, but That that you know reminds me of the narrow way Believe not those who say the upward path is smooth Lest thou should stumble in the way and faint before the truth. Yeah, that's me. That's my lie to you guys all the time.

You know what I mean? That is my lie to you guys. Believe not those who say the upward path is smooth. It is not smooth. You smooth it out over time, right? But it's definitely not smooth. You smooth it out over time, right? But it's definitely not smooth. The upward path is a pain in the ass, even to somebody who's been at it a long time. Right?

Firewolf Force has proper tool, proper job. I guess you're talking Samurai Sword still, which for a blacksmith that makes perfect sense. I'm sorry, I'm nursing this coffee over here. sword still, which for a blacksmith that makes perfect sense. I'm sorry I'm nursing this coffee over here. Lady Liberty came down and made a fresh pot of coffee just before I was ready to go on air and I said, you know what? I think it's a fair trade.

Go on late for a fresh cup of coffee, I'll take it. But the Narrow Way ways a great poem and Anne Bronte was was she not even Irish I could have swore she was Irish born in Thornton England in 1820 both a poet novelist best known for a novels Agnes Grey the tenant of wild she is she's Irish born in England. That's all It's only the road Sorry, it is the only road unto the realms of joy But he who seeks the blessed abode must all his powers employ. This is

Like I don't know how old she was when she wrote this But these think the first two stanzas of this thing are you could do everything off the first two stanzas literally. Your whole life can be built off the first two stanzas. Oh garden girl in chat drinking coffee living the life. So believe not those who say the upward path is smooth lest thou should stumble in the way and faint before the truth, right and that's true That's like the other thing that is is like going to the gym You know you you everybody's either been there and know somebody who's been there. They start a new fitness routine and They're doing real good

And then they kind of get burnt out and they think before the truth like then the truth is this is hard And you got to just get used to it, right? It's the so so saying all that the up the upward path is not smooth The problem with life and the problem that most people have with life is it's it is the only road unto the realms of joy. I most people have with life is it's it is the only road unto the realms of joy. I don't know. Nothing truer exists in my life than that. You know what I mean?

The struggle, the struggle. Because I like downtime. I like the relaxing time. I really do like the comfortable time. But it doesn't pay the same. And I don't mean monetarily, you know what I mean? I don't mean monetarily whatsoever. It doesn't pay the same.

It doesn't pay the same dividends, right? I wasn't planning on reading this whole thing, but it's so good. Bright hopes impure the lights upon his course may beam, And there amid the sternest heights the sweetest flower its gleam same concept right and here's sort of the the culmination of it the whole the whole of the poem is built around the line that I have on my wallpaper on all our breezes born earth yields no scent like those But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose

That's awesome, that's an awesome line that's a whole awesome stanza all together On all her breezes born earth yields no scent like those she's talking about the smell of a rose But either dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose And that's it man. That's it I mean I see that in people all the time everywhere you like you've got one of those people in your life who complains if you Got a complainer, you know what I mean? You know They're not

It's it's almost universal If you got a person in life, nothing's going right for him. It's always a struggle It's you know, I mean it almost always comes down to that they want the good life, but they don't want to take the damage and unfortunately, there's the damage. And unfortunately, there's sometimes there's damage, you know, sometimes there's emotional and mental and even physical damage to get and maintain the life that you want. Shit, you got to work through, you got to grind through, you know, tough tough tough chapters of life where things aren't going well between people that you care about or You and someone you care, you know, it's yeah, it is what it is. I know it's just a tough one

I mean look at look at donald trump for example, you know what I mean? What's up l2 Survive in the chat all you folks over there at YouTube I can send you back to L2 Survives YouTube channel now we've been allowed to come back nub where we're allowed back on the powers that be over there at YouTube who in all their vigilance silenced the dangerous and radical Judson Carroll. The threat to national security that is Judson Carroll. Judson Carroll has done more for the overall health of the listenership here in this audience

than probably anybody else. Every week he shows up with a different plant or plants, tree or trees, breaks it all down, how to use it, what to use it for. I mean, it's an absolute weekly master class on herbal medicine for preppers. If you watch us exclusively on video, then you have to watch herbal medicine for preppers. It's phenomenal or listen to it rather but Yeah, that's what that's what he got silenced for talking about pine and probably said something about cove it he wasn't supposed to say I don't care. I Can't tell you how little I care because when I get a host and they say they want to do a show on PBN

I tell them number one you could find yourself in more trouble than it's worth That's number one And if they're okay with that hurdle then the other thing I tell them is but I want you to say whatever you want to say the way you want to say it. And it's amazing to me that that can rub people the wrong way this day and age. Yeah, Firewolf, it was pine needle tea. It was probably some comments about, whoa, got a little bigger. It was probably some comments on, um, you know, boosting your immunity instead of taking, uh, the vaccine and that kind of thing.

Look, I'm going to wind up getting this kicked off again, just today, just by recapping, I can't buy you said the V word. I don't care. I do, but I really don't, couldn't care less. Uh, I know the audience is tremendous. You don't couldn't care less. I know the audience is tremendous you guys the ever faithful PBN family and You know, we're do our podcast and everything else that we do you guys will find us again I really have been thinking about like YouTube in perpetuity like succession channels over and over again and just saying, you know, whatever I'm not gonna go there five days a week we're not I'm not investing any effort and trying to figure out algorithms and

all that kind of stuff. We just too free for them over there. That's all. We're just a bit too free for them over there. You guys want to see the googly eyes? Well it's the least I can do for the nub let's see this should work I use my phone camera you want to say hi to Johnny five is it all right everyone here he is without further ado the man oh I gotta keep my head here cuz he's turning away he's shy he's a little shy the man the myth the legend The one and only wow, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be Can you see him

The man the myth though, so right now for the podcast audience I'm trying to show Johnny's googly eyes not too easy though let me see him there you go he's being crazy what a cool camera hmm what a cool camera what a cool little device I was gonna get like a traditional This job, you know what I mean, and I probably I don't know maybe I should have I don't who knows But thanks to you guys you've you've turned the thing that films me every day into an entity all its own and that is way More fun than just having a good camera. You know what I mean or having like the best camera or whatever Yeah Let's move on shall we? What else are we talking about today? I don't even know. You want to talk about food a little bit? And and and un

uh I would like to talk about Easter 1916. Easter 1916 by Yeats was an uprising. It was a poem about an uprising. This is why people should read it this day and uprising. It was a poem about an uprising is why people should read it this day and age It's a poem about an uprising in Ireland Against you know who our buddies the English and You know, it's his take on it Which is what we pay these guys for you know It's like what we would what you want out of a poet and a writer is their take you know what I mean if it's nonfiction you want their take if it's fiction you want them to take you somewhere that you've never

thought to go before that's pretty good but what he talks about in this poem which is little lengthy is his feelings good and bad on the uprising and if you remember like January 6th if you remember you know the the statues coming down across the country here in the United States in 2020 you remember sort of that swell of emotion and It's not that was a good thing that was a bad thing You know what? I mean, there's more there's more to it all in that and it's just cool to to sort of see his Take on there's line at the end of three of the four stanzas That he repeats

Where's the good one? The last two lines in in every stanza but one is transformed utterly, a terrible beauty is born. So in other words like you know You know, though the poem itself is good, those last two lines are probably what was in his head the most. He probably built that whole poem off of those two lines, right? He's looking over his country, looking over the situation, the uprising, the violence, the revolution, imagining Ireland being free and saying, in this moment, things have transformed utterly and a terrible beauty is born. A terrible beauty.

Because to get to freedom, it took a while. Some terrible things had to happen. If you are too young to remember the IRA, just check that out. Now and in time to be wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born. Did you guys know that St. Patrick was a slave? Hey, Linky. What's going on? You should have some green on man my little puppy well not my little puppy but my one of my pit bulls link has come to play maybe I'll

put this tie on him I was gonna wear this tie today decided against it I wore the marathon shirt instead the shamrock was it called shamrock Those it the shamrock marathon I've had a better name than that So, yeah, man I'm gonna put the L to survive comment up because I want you guys to go to his YouTube channel You see it L to survive right there He does awesome preparedness reviews he does garden tours over there, Eat Back to Eden garden tours, really good stuff. He's got a lot of like gems hidden in there. Scroll through there, he's a he's a certifiable uh pbn listener and and supporter really just

someone you should watch. You know if you listen to us and you like where your mind is when you're done listening to us like he's in the pocket too but yes st patrick he was uh stolen away from england stolen away from england by irish pirates about 16 years old, enslaved. I think he, I don't remember exactly how long he worked, but he eventually returned home to England. I think we need to stop the follow job. He was eventually returned home to England. And what was the craziest part of his story, of course,

is that he decides, like, these people who captured me and enslaved me, I'm going to return and bring the Word of God. And he wasn't like Anglican or Catholic in those days. I mean, he really was kind of like, it surprises me that this holiday isn't more Celebrated by Christians, you know L2 survives says he heard that st. Patrick resurrected over 600 people. I never heard that until this moment Never But it could be you never know

You know, it's actually behind he's behind me. This is one of his But no, I never heard that one But it is wild because you know, it was probably not a good time You would think most people in those days would say I You would think most people in those days would say, I made it back to mother England, I'm gonna stay here, this is gonna be, you know, I never wanna go to Ireland again, that was hell. 16 year old forced labor. He returned with the word of God and in something that it is like,

it's a highly Christian thing to do right these people they Stole me away from my family. They put me into forced captivity and I'm gonna return with the message of Jesus and Chase away the snakes as they say right become the patron saint of Ireland It's weird that More people don't celebrate that aspect of it, you know what I mean? Christians, I mean. It's one of those holidays I know that can sort of like get taken away, sort of get like all built into green beer and green lakes and drunk people.

But understanding what you went through and, you know, applying it to today, you know, it'd be, it'd be sort of like, you know, and I mean, it probably happens, but it'd be like rabbis from Israel preaching to the Palestinians. You know what I mean? A guy who was taken down into the tunnels, survived, gets out, comes back to Israel and decides, I'm gonna go back to the Palestinian people and try to chase away their snakes, try to help them battle the forces of Hamas. Of course, the difference is, you know, you step foot over there, you run the risk of catching the 7-6-2 in the teeth and then no patron saint right?

Alright folks, I think we've done it. I think we've done it today Don't forget link in the description down below go forth and forge great show tonight. We're gonna have a blast with Whitney tonight Okay, go forth and forge great show tonight. We're gonna have a blast with Whitney tonight Okay, go forth and forage Trying to get you a better view. Tell me we'll put it up close Really in all honesty, I mean I've read some field guides some Peterson field guides stuff like that This is it, you know, this is the top of the top of the heap in terms of mushroom foraging This is it. You know, this is the top of the top of the heap in terms of mushroom foraging If you're gonna get into it it's risky business to some degree But if you're going to get into it, you need the most information possible and that book does it better than anybody else

So check it out the link in the description down below go buy the book She's good people man. You'll see tonight and these are the people you want to support, right? I think it's 22 bucks something like that 22 bucks hardback Yeah, you know paperback whatever full color beautiful and Yeah, enjoy it. I'll see you guys at 9 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It's gonna be a good one. Enjoy your day, man.