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Episode Date: April 18, 2025

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off-grid communications guys listen I said it when I first saw it thank you chin for pushing me in the direction of mesh-tastic what I saw was a problem being solved you know what I mean and when I say a problem being solved I mean for regular people you know if you're out there and you're hammed up and GMRS'd up and got the backpack with the with the you know base station got the base stations at home and got your group of people that you're talking to or if you want to get there then get there man you know get there you can do it but this mesh mesh-tastic thing, it's I

Just see I can see where it's going I can see how easy it's going to be for people in the very near future this morning I was watching ZMB industries on Instagram I Don't think that they sell on coms depot comm yet But I was it doesn't matter. But I want you to understand it. You can go and just fill your brain and your cart with the TerraNode mesh-tastic systems, these beautiful little made in Britain systems. They're gorgeous little radios. I mean, it

looks so fun. They got Laura radios over there. They got all the stuff. You know what I mean, it looks so fun. They got Laura radios over there. They got they got all the stuff. You know what I mean? The Rook. The Rook I never heard of. But anyway, these are fully outfitted, right? Fully outfitted, ready to rock. Meshtastic radios, if you will, but you know the radio acts as a note. I'm not getting into the the makeup of the Meshtastic. I'll get lost in the sauce and then we'll wind up wasting 10 minutes. Suffice it to say, I was watching ZMB2, I think it is, on Instagram, and he created a magnetized, solar-powered, gooseneck-antennaed node for mesh-tastic. You know, and what you need to understand about that if you're coming from zero, Gooseneck Antenna node for meshtastic.

You know, and what you need to understand about that if you're coming from zero, which a lot of you aren't that listen to us, but... If you can't reach another node or slash radio in your vicinity, then you can, you know, basically use these nodes as repeaters, fundamentally, right? To expand your mesh network So maybe you don't need it to text the person down the street But maybe there's a person you know at the other side of the neighborhood or in a neighborhood next door That you want to communicate with look all I'm saying is this This thing's mad. It's so beautiful by the way, but it's just the beginning

This is what this is how my brain works and a lot of you guys know it. I see these things that are amazing and I see the future. I'm like, oh, these things are going to be everywhere. I'm going to give you a tip now because it's what popped into my head. Somewhere in my neighborhood is a guardrail. And when I saw this thing, I said, you know what a good place for a starter might not stay there forever, but a good place for a starter node in my community would be magnetized to this guardrail. It could even be the cool thing about it is it could even be pretty covert if you're smart about where you place it. Right. because what I'm thinking is that internal portion of the guardrail, assuming that I can get good sun, right, for the solar powering portion. But the guardrails are everywhere. That's what I liked about the idea that popped into my head.

I said, ooh, everybody can play with a guardrail if you've got a magnetized node that's solar powered. And with the Gooseneck Antenna, it gives you the ability to maneuver the antenna in a way that, you know, the best way that you can. To be honest, I don't know how effective like, I'm sure if your antenna is pressed into the guardrail, it's going to be a lot worse than if it's not, you know, if it's pointing in the opposite direction. Long story short, folks, comsdepot.com, check them out. Great sponsor, great great partner in crime here at PBN. And fundamentally wrap your head around this Mechtastic system, the ability to text in an emergency. Because look, this is going to get easier and easier. There are amazing dudes on the job. Two guys in particular, my buddy from Mad Gear.

See there are things that line up in life. If you've got a guy at peak passion and then they're working on something that they understand and they do really well amazing things are going to happen it's that simple you know yeah not a lot of people can sustain that sort of like peak passion but doesn't even matter what matters is that there are these guys who are at peak passion and they are at peak production at the same time and they're getting popular and they're making money and it's just gonna get easier for us It's gonna get easier more affordable to the point where mesh tastic is gonna be the thing, you know What I mean, you're gonna be like

There was a time kids when we didn't know how we would talk to people without the internet and without cell phone service and Then mesh test that came along now. You you can't talk on it and all that stuff yet without the internet and without cell phone service and then Mesh-tastic came along. Now you can't talk on it and all that stuff yet. I mean we'll see. We'll see what these guys come up with. See I also I also believe in the unbelievable. Particularly when people are at their peak passion. You know what I mean? I believe in the unbelievable. I believe somebody will sit around and go like, oh yeah we we can figure that out. So, you know, brace yourself folks. We're entering into a time of mass self-sufficiency.

Like, seriously, the markets for self-reliance and independence are way beyond the prepping world now. It's way bigger than just, you know, uh, the traditional wood and steel homestead, right? They like things are different, man, and they're better and they're cooler and it's awesome. It's just an awesome time to be alive in this world. This is a heavy show. Okay. I'm going to hit you with stuff. A lot of stuff.

It is a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot. And it just is what it is, you know what I mean? So buckle up and try to keep up. You know what I mean? It's just, there's a ton of stuff. Ton of new stuff I gotta tell you about. Ton of stuff I need your help on. It's just a lot. Sorry, it's a Friday. I wish I could. We're going to get into a great sword. Not like SWORD, but we're going to get into something we haven't gotten into in a while, which is the Grey Man Brief, right? A summary of recent developments. Just some important stuff. We've got an Olight clip ultra link for you down below. A review from our buddy L2Survive.

Very cool little light. I mean, really cool little light. Olight is... I haven't been in the market for flashlights in a while. And really the only updates on flashlights I get are from L2Survive over at YouTube. Great listener member, the whole nine. Great dude. They're up to no good, man.

O-Lite's doing all kinds of innovative stuff. I'm kind of impressed, because they've clearly adapted. They've clearly adapted out of the tactical only micro-EDC sort of concept and are doing some cool innovative stuff. We've got to talk about it. The World of Ready 2, PPM Family, is available now. No, it is, truly. It's an amazing thing.

The World of Ready 2 is up for pre-order. We're releasing the book on Mother's Day based on Chin's recommendations, based on an 18 second message from Chin driving down the street. He messaged me, he said, what about releasing it on Mother's Day? Fine with me. I don't know. It was great. It was great to have an executive decision handled and I didn't have to think about it. So May 11th, the world of Ready. Until then you can pre-order the audiobook. Just go to Amazon and search the world of Ready. You might have to put my name into the world of Ready, James Walton. And we're officially a series, people. Officially a series, okay? It's official. The world of Ready 2, the world of Ready, Book 1, Book 2, Book book threes coming I don't know when

will stop we may never stop who knows we're gonna keep rocking but what would really be great but well you can help me in two ways okay there are gonna be two things number one obviously pre-order the book that would be huge number two if you don't if you can't pre-order the book don't want to pre-order the book You know, whatever I understand What you can do is wait until we give the book away for free, which will probably be the second week. It's out and Then we're gonna we're gonna give the ebook away Skyrocketed up to number one and if you can help me with that share

that around you know the other thing you could do too is share the pre-order share the pre-order with your kids teachers share the pre-order with people in your neighborhood and so on there's nothing remotely political or divisive about anything in the world of ready you know so there's really nobody out there who should look at the book and go oh I don't know about this yeah and you know that it's something beautiful about it right so the world ready to out now out now for pre-order get your hands on it it'll be out in a month and yeah it's gonna be awesome it is awesome it's an awesome read you get to meet a new

character named craft craft is the wilderness survival expert on the world of ready and Yeah, you know, we're just gonna keep putting these characters out there and Every book will have a new character and you know, everybody's fallen in love with Uda. I Really like Uda man Like I've been on the fence about reworking Uda because he looks weird. He looks kind of different, you know what I mean? And I realize, you know, these are the things that make great stories. These are the things that make great, you know,

like you have to have that thing that's different that thing that's a little weird a little off because it's uh you know it's that's what makes a new thing exciting anyhow check it out in your time folks but I could I would appreciate the help I really would because it's uh this is my heart man or it's one piece of it anyway. Let me tell you a funny story about this sound bite. We're gonna do our summary of recent developments from the Greyman Brief. I was looking for this thing. It's the old one threat one solution. And I couldn't find it.

And I said, you know what, that's fine. I don't know what I did with the sound bite. It is what it is. And I'm searching through audio and I just see, I said, you know, whatever. We'll put, we'll put something else up as an intro to this news. And I saw Sunset Rider and I said, oh, Sunset Rider sounds cool. Let me check that out. And it was literally that song.

I pulled it out of downloads long past, and it turned out to be the exact song. So let's get into the summary of recent developments. China has imposed new export licensing restrictions on seven rare earth minerals crucial for US weapon manufacturing, including components in the F-35 jets and Tomahawk missiles. The move threatens to disrupt US defense supply chains and shift strategic leverage to China. The Cyber

Security and Infrastructure Security Agency warned of disruption and a UK-based think tank agreed. Ultimately, quote, ultimately this could give Beijing a crucial strategic advantage in long-term US-China competition for military and technological supremacy. I disagree with the UK-based think tank to be honest with you. No, really I do. I disagree wholeheartedly. We are under new management, okay, and it's the kind of management that I don't think people really can understand the pace at which things are happening. We're under actual management.

Things get done and they get done fast. I don't look at the US government right now, the federal government, particularly at the executive level. That's this thing that's like good ideas and things are going to get stuck in bureaucratic web. Maybe they do, right? Maybe they do. Maybe some will. This will not. This will not be one of those things. You know, the minerals and the rare earths and all that kind of we have them here, too. Here's the secret to the rare earth conversation

We've got everything but the problem is Our dependence on rare earth minerals and electronics is filthy and Terrible and bad for human health and bad for the health of the planet It's very polluted and the process sucks to get them out of the earth. You know, there's chemicals used and all kinds of stuff, right? We want other people to do it. That's all. That's all it is. All it is is we don't want those disgusting disgusting putrid minds

messing up our beautiful country. So we've farmed it out to China because they don't care about their country. I mean you look at what the you know they do with pollutants, you look at waterways, you look at you know they don't care. I mean the hard truth is that's what it is. We don't want to do that to our beautiful lands. We want to find another nation to do it. And that's it. And we will. This is one that I am a little nervous about with Trump. The Trump administration is considering tariffs on pharmaceutical imports raising concerns about disruptions to the generic drug supply. Now tariffs on pharmaceutical imports raising concerns about disruptions to the generic drug supply now 90% of US prescriptions are generic and mostly sourced overseas industry experts warn of possible shortages in price hikes this one makes me nervous you know the Department of Commerce issued a notice to assess with a main 8th deadline an analyst

says it likely to result in recommendation to present that he impose significant tariffs on imports pharmaceuticals. I get it. It seems we have to make it impossible for these companies to make money unless they make stuff here. That's the whole idea, particularly with this. And look, we need to make our own medicine. Like, that's a must. We have to make our own medicine. You can't a must. We have to make our own medicine.

You can't have the country you're most likely to go to war with making your medicine and your weapons and your electronics and the most important elements of your power grid. Right? Can't do it. We can't live that way anymore. It's like an abusive relationship. You know what I mean? We're like a beaten wife that just keeps going back to the husband, you know, he helps

pay the bills so Something you got to do. Just got to do it all that said This is one of those issues where you can't be like cut it all off Because people die in weeks you know if you run short on medicine or if you put yourself in a position where you're close and then something crazy happens and listen

everything in the world is positioned for something crazy to happen, right? China itself has not done anything crazy like they're getting pushed into a corner like you wouldn't believe. Russia they seem to be wanting to come to the table we'll see how that goes you never know with them they do crazy stuff they'll be like we want peace and then they'll unleash the largest bombing you've ever seen so if you if you dwindle your access to these things and then all of sudden something, something crazy happens. You got problems, right?

April 15th, White House fact sheet. China faces up to 245% tariff on imports to the United States as a result of its retaliatory actions. Yeah, that sucks to some degree. But at the same time like the it's good that we did that it's good that you stood strong it's good that China said oh yeah well we're gonna give you retaliatory actions and then we said OK 245 has its sound sound good

is everybody gonna have a bowl of rice in China now G top of that guy anyway there's talk about the lawsuit in Maine yeah the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Maine for refusing to enforce President Trump's executive order that bans males identifying as females from participating in girls sports look the long and short of it in high school, guys, is you're stealing opportunity. That's it. It's the end of it. You're potentially injuring people, and you're stealing away literal money, opportunity, and the future of these girls. And that's all. You know what I mean?

There doesn't have to be anything else Like that's the deal That's the way I look at it anyway Yeah, people could get injured and and you screw up the record books and that kind of stuff and that's bad You know and it's really bad when it goes really bad But to me the saddest thing is is that there's a girl who has been playing her whole life on a sport and she excels at it and you know there could be more than one girl depending on the school. And this is how they're going to get to college.

You know the mommy and daddy ain't rich. You know they're looking at I want to go to college for this thing and that's what I want my life to be built on. We're talking about building your life to be built on. We're talking about building your life on something like this. You know what I mean? And they're going to do it through their athletic acumen and obviously the hard work with their grades.

And then along comes some dude who just jumps right into first place and I'm sorry man. If you can put a stop to that why wouldn't you and it absolutely blows my mind that the country is not united on this issue you can be united on this issue right we can be united on this issue and just say hey look I get that you're going through some kind of existential gender crisis at the moment, but people got plans. You know what I'm saying? Like you can't just jump in front of people in line, doesn't work that way. You can't just pretend.

You don't get to play pretend while a little girl's life goes into the toilet. Can't do it. Sorry. And that's the end of it. And that's the end of it, folks. It's really that simple an issue. So that's the sword from the Grey Man Brief. There's a few other things in there, but I'm not really planning on going on and on and on. Oh, I got a very special thing for you see this too much today A very special offer for you out there those of you who hear me talk about the pbn membership Those of you who hear me say members do this members get this members get that um

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Understand it's a two-sided coin I I don't want you guys I don't want to come off as some dude who you like I don't know everybody seems so charitable and loving you know what I mean particularly in the prepping world or when you're in a sort of world like ours where we're offering up like secret knowledge or something like that to help people we're're helping people. It's a business at the end of the day. It is. It just is what it is. It's a business. I'm tasked with keeping it alive. And this is part strategy also. So understand that. Share it around. Even if you are a member, share it around.

See if we can hook some new members. I just want to tell you the truth I don't want you to like you know I don't want to put something out here that's on a false pretense it's it like I said it's a two-sided coin it is very true that there are a bunch of people who I know have left membership cut back on on membership then or emailed me about getting into membership some way without the big investment up front, all this kind of stuff. And yeah, I do want to help. You know what I mean?

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getting more members You know, I mean that's what I'm up to so I think that's enough. We just ran through emergency communications Children children's preparedness with the world of ready, the free trial, some news, the Olight review from L2 Survive. You got to check that thing out. That's phenomenal. Oh, I'll give you one little personal tip. One little personal tip, one thing that I've done. I haven't figured it out completely but when I open my

what do you see when you open your web browser when I would open my web browser I'd get sent to MSN News and I'd look at it and you know what when you look at the MSN News you see one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 headlines just like that boom don't even scroll right you don't have to scroll nothing 9 headlines and some of them change and I realize it's not these are the things that are a problem these sort of news vomits are the things that are a problem.

It's not going and getting the news that you want that's the problem. People have done that forever. It's when you get hit with the news seizure. So what I did is I found the site and it's called Light for the Day. And I made my home page Light for the Day. And what Light for the day is, is just a daily Bible verse. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst.

John 6 35, it's a beautiful photograph with the words overlaid on it. And that's it. You know what I mean? That's the deal. So now instead of getting molested by nine news stories when I open up my computer for the day, I can just look at that and I can reflect on that for a minute and boom. I don't know, little tip for those of you who are feeling the overwhelm, feeling the brain sort of like For those of you who are feeling the overwhelm, feeling the brain sort of like puttering out by 5 p.m. It's because you're getting you're getting puked on by news sources, right? All right, folks, I do appreciate you guys. Support the great sponsors, you know, visit PBN Family, get caught up on that membership content, and if you're not a member,

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