The Prepper Broadcasting Network - How to Build Your Off Grid Medical Cache

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You will pay us back the stability. pbn family a vast array of resources at your fingertips it's uh rare that i take a walk through pbnfamily.com i should do it more often the digital walk and i was confronted by a you know there's just so much you know what i mean when you spend your time and you have you know 14 other people who spend their time building out content and resources for those who wish to be prepared man what inevitably happens is you just have so much that you forget about things. Quite frankly, you forget about things. I was scrolling through the website, pbnfamily.com.

This is our members-only site, but there's some of the hardest-hitting free stuff on this site. I mean, really. The Nuclear War Prepared, Not Scared book. I talk about it a lot. It's right here. As soon as you log in, it looks like a Target logo. Not what I want to talk about today. What I really want to focus on is one of the most impressive resources we have, which was actually given to us by a medical doctor. And as a free resource, I don't know. I don't know where you get a service like this. I've never seen a service like this.

And it's not necessarily a service, and there's still things for you to buy. There's money for you to spend. But I hope you feel the gravity of this. So I don't know when I created this page, but it was probably two or three years ago, and the page is Build Your Medical Cash. And you'll see it. It's in the nav bar up there.

You got members login. You got start your membership. You got build your medical cash, right? And build your medical cash was in, it sort of became, it came to be from an email conversation I was having. Doc Forgy, the great sponsor, the longest sponsor here at PBN now, he is our senior sponsor, William W. Forgy, MD, author of the Prepper's Medical Handbook, which is one of the

most affordable and incredible preps you can have, period. The Prepper's Medical Handbook is, you got to have it. And this page links to it. There's a picture of the cover. There's a picture of the cover on the show art as well. But what's most incredible about this man is that he, you know, after we'd done business for a few years, he sends me a list of every over-the-counter item in his books. So every over-the-counter item that is recommended to be used and instructed how to be used in the Prepper's Medical Handbook, he sends me a list. And he says, you know, I checked all of these in Amazon. They're all for sale on Amazon, every one of these things.

So now what we have at pbnfamily.com is this crazy resource where you can go buy the book, and then you can buy everything in the book. And then you have fundamentally built out your medical cash. You've built your own medical kit, and you've done it under the guidance of William W. Forgy, M.D. The man behind the Prepper's Medical Handbook. You know, first aid kits are still weird. You know what I mean? First aid kits are still weird.

I never bought a first aid kit from Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy, so I've never seen what they have, though I've heard great things. The $100 or used to be $100 survival first aid kit is the best product that I've ever purchased. But to have instruction and the list of items and to make it yourself, I just think is it's really awesome, you know, and there are some things in here that you'll never find in a first aid kit. You'll never find Lana Kane in a first aid kit. Let's see if it's still available. Oh, the Lana Kane link does not work. I had a feeling. So we'll have to replace that link.

But most of these links, they still work. The MonoMold, these things you'll never, you need to be a doctor. So they got this awesome high-quality hand pump antiseptic, you know, for washing hands and tools and that kind of stuff. Spanko bandage. These are things that you can find in other first aid kits, but spanko bandage, gauze, quick clot, coverlet, waterproof tape, SAM splints, a variety of elastic bandages, triple antibiotic ointments, ophthalmic drops, Opcon. I've never even heard of these. I don't have these. I need these. Oh, eye allergy relief. How about that? Bausch and Lomb allergy relief. Yeah,

I could definitely use some of those. Antihistamine eye drop. You know, eye care is in the Prepper's medical handbook and done really well. It's a scary sort of situation. We got sutures though in there. Where's another, oh, three milliliter syringes. This is one of those things like you're never going to get syringes in, in almost any regular run of the mill. And you, of course you got to know what you're doing with syringes. And it is kind of weird that you can buy syringes on Amazon, but it's just one of those things, you know. Scalpel, skin stapler, potable aqua, mylar blanket, triangle, steri-strips, petroleum jelly, chest seals, tegaderm, waterproof, breathable dressings. This one I don't know and I don't own.

Bicicodal tablets. Bicicodal tablets, Gericare, generic Dulcolax. Oh, okay. Well, you know what that is. So the things that show up in this book, in other words, you've got an issue in your family. You reach for the Prepper's Medical Handbook because whatever, the hospitals are packed like they were in COVID, or you're in a situation where you can't get to a hospital, whatever the situation is, right? You reach for the Prepper's Medical Handbook, you know that the medical cash that you've built

contains everything in the book that's over the counter. Now, you can get the things that are not over the counter too now. You just have to go to a place like the wellness company, Jace Medical, and you can get those antibiotics and medicines as well. You know, first aid stuff, it's one of those things like, I don't know. Hey, what's up, Nub? Lucky, Garden Girl, live in chat. What do you guys like?

What do you guys call on for your first aid kits? Do you guys do like run-of-the-mill Walmart purchased first aid kits? Do you have a brand of first aid kit that you really like? Let me know in chat because the first aid thing with preparedness is always interesting to me. You know, it's for the longest time, guys, for like probably first five years of my um prepping in general i was just stacking those hard plastic first aid kits because i didn't know what i was doing you know what i mean i had no idea what i was doing that nub says his first aid kit is scotch is that what you mean uh piecemeal put it together myself says garden girl oh well this is yeah this is the

resource for you then but you've probably already used it knowing you garden girl so yeah the like i said the the approach uh so that nub it looks like that nub prescribes exclusively to American-made medical gear, particularly those liquid medicines made by Johnny Walker in particular. I mean, I think that could serve you to some degree, that now, but you may want to go a little further than that. So I wanted to touch base with you guys on this. This is a big deal. You know, it's one of the things that I had to learn. And I had to learn both of these things simultaneously was there's a right tool for the job.

You know what I mean? What's up, mad dog? There's a right tool for the job. And when you have that tool, the job's way easier. Like that lesson I had to learn. I can remember. Well, here's a great example, okay? And this is a humbling situation. I don't know that I, I should have saved this for the Prepper's Laughs show that

we did not long ago about the fails. But when it comes to having the right tool for the job, every Christmas we cut down a Christmas tree. It's what we do. One of my favorite things. what we do one of my favorite things um and when we first started doing this if you guys think i'm making it up when i tell you that when i bought my first home my father-in-law gave me my first hammer if you think i'm making that up here's another story to kind of back that up i was who i was compared to who i am now who i was at like 1920 compared to who I am now, who I was at like 1920 compared to who I am now is, I mean, it's, it's mind bending. It's mind bending the, the change you guys are used to hearing from this guy every day. And you probably, some of you who don't know my backstory are probably like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's always had his act together with this prepping stuff.

I'm not like that. No, man. I didn't not only have my act together with prepping stuff. I didn't have my act together with physical fitness stuff. I didn't have my act together with a lot of stuff. It takes time, you know, and it takes effort. But anyway, I have this cleaver and I love this cleaver. I'll never get rid of it. I may, like, bedazzle it somehow and turn it into a Christmas decoration. And it's a cleaver I bought in Philly next to one of my favorite faux joints off Washington Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, right? But why this cleaver is special is because we cut down our tree with those, you know, they give you those beautiful saws when you go down to cut a tree.

And they work really great. You cut the tree down unbelievably quick. It's just a fresh blade and a good hand saw. I get the tree home, we put it in, and we realize, like, oh, because me and my wife, we're, what are we? We're fanatical. You know what I mean? We're absolutely fanatical about the tree.

We've had trees like Christmas vacation. You know what I mean? We don't have a big house at all. We're a very small house. And we're fanatical with our trees. And we're fanatical with our trees. So I get this thing home and I realize I don't have a saw. I cut the tree so that the stump was too long.

And the tree's like bent into the roof. And I'm like, oh, I got to cut it. It's too tall, baby. I'll take it out back. And I take it back I had a saw right and the saw was so bad I mean it was it was dead it was like a rusted old saw it was dead so I'm sawing and I'm like this isn't working and I had to take off very little you know what I mean I didn't have to take off a lot it wasn't a big deal long story short i'm out there with a cleaver because i was a chef these are the tools that i understood i'm out there with a cleaver and a hammer my hammer and i'm hitting the cleaver with the hammer

to cut off the last bit of this tree to get it into the tree stand. This is no lie. And I still have the cleaver. And I look at it and I go, it is like the penultimate relic of you need the right tool for the right job. And as I got older, I started accumulating those tools and jobs just become easy. You know, like I used to look at metal and be like, oh, how do I like, like not even heating and bending metal, but like cutting metal and that kind of stuff. I used to look at it and, like, not even heating and bending metal, but, like, cutting metal and that kind of stuff. I used to look at it and be like, well, I can't do that. That's, like, out of my wheelhouse. And then I remember I was making knives.

I made a knife for Dave Jones. Well, I put scales on a knife. And I remember getting just a metal saw blade for, like, what do they call it? A hacksaw. saw blade for like a what do they call the hacksaw and I remember cutting through the metal or the like the brass colored uh studs that were going to go through the knife handle you know to attach it and I remember sawing through the metal and just being like it's a what what amazing amazing to me what the right tool can do for the job. Moral of the story, PBN family, medical is exactly the same.

And you've probably been in this position with yourself or with your kid. You know, like if you've ever been in that situation where they got like a big scrape on the shoulder or the elbow or the knee or something like that, and you're in a place and all they got is like cloth or elastic bandages or something like that, you know, just the one inch. And you're putting like seven elastic bandages over this giant scrape, trying to figure that situation out. And then you get home and you get into your medical stash and you take the big fat daddy felt fabric bandage, clean the wound, put that over the scrape, it disappears completely. The fabric, like, those high-quality freaking Band-Aids, you don't understand how much I love them.

They'll never come off if you don't want them to. You know what I mean? They're so good. They're so good. Like, your skin will grow grow over if you're not careful especially if a little kid like you still got that band-aid on take that thing off dude the right tool for the job you know and when you have the opportunity for a doctor to pick out the right tools for the job which is what this list is at pbnfamily.com

take advantage of it okay like if i don't know where everybody's head is. In chat, that nub said National Preparedness Month, you know, is days away. Really, it's like a week away. First aid and medical kit's a good topic, a good thing to talk about. It's a good thing to do. And the thing about a medical kit, particularly this one and this cash, the majority of the stuff in here, like, it don't have to be doomsday for you to need a spanko bandage, you know. It don't have to be doomsday for you to need nitrile gloves,

forceps. Well, I use forceps when I go fishing, so maybe forceps wouldn't be as common for you. It's a good fishing hack, though. A good pair of locking forceps is phenomenal for taking hooks out of fish's mouth. But yeah, all kinds of stuff on here you could wind up using just with life, with the things that happen in life. A high-quality first aid kit,

even just high-quality band-aids, you know, and the things you need to clean and treat those wounds that happen in life. You know, I got like absolutely viciously sharp knives. You know what I mean? I still cut myself every so often. And, you know, just got to have a solution for that. That's all. So the Prepper's Medical Handbook and everything over the counter that goes in it that is mentioned in that book is available at pbnfamily.com.

Build your medical cash. It's up there in the nav bar. Remember, pbnfamily.com is largely our membership-only site. Most things are behind a paywall. It just is what it is, right? It's how we pay the bills. Everything else we do is free. All that we have, 5,000 episodes of podcasts are free, and there's a ton of free stuff here. You can roll up. You can get that Nuclear War Prepared, Not Scared e-book. All right? On the same website, you can go to the newsletter

and sign up for our newsletter if you haven't. And then you're going to get my latest book, which is the 50 must-read books to survive doomsday, right? It's just like a catalog of excellent books you should buy in hard copy for eventualities. You know what I mean? And if you're going to go through all that, you might as well take full advantage of the site, man. Let's see how much members-only content we have.

We've got to have like 50 pages or something now. Yep, 48 pages. Drills or war? Do what works. You don't need permission. That was a fun video to do for the members. Bushcraft for preppers, where to play. That's a very important video.

That is a very important video. We have several series over at pbnfamily.com that I do. One series is Bushcraft for preppers, and it's just what it sounds like. Bushcraft skills and concepts that work for preppers. And the last one I did July 8th was where to play. And that's super important, man. It is super important for you to know where to go to practice bushcraft, particularly if you're not a guy who lives, you know, like on a bunch of acreage. Because you can get to the point where you're like, well, there's only so much I can do in my backyard, dude.

What's the deal? You know? Our latest series, Family Gear, I broke out the old survival bivy. I somehow broke out the survival bivy and got it back into its ripcord bag, which is a feat unto itself, but just one of those amazing pieces of gear that I think is so important. So yeah, I mean, we've done a lot over the years, folks. This has been our commitment. This has been our commitment to the craft of prepping. What can we do? What can we build? What can we write?

What can we put out into the world to help people get more prepared? And we knew it was going to look like this 10 years ago. We knew it was going to look like this 5 years ago. We knew essentially what was going to happen with COVID from a governance standpoint before that happened. We just, it's not me. That you have to understand. I don't know shit. The only thing I'm good at, like I said yesterday, is connecting the dots. But I get all my dots from my hosts primarily and some other resources you know like the whole of covid the whole of covid

and and our response was really fundamentally built by like dave jones's background, Jay Fergie's background, a little bit from Stephen Menking as well. And, you know, we sort of mixed all that stuff up together and fell deep into it and started to develop our plan, which became your plan, to survive it. I mean, that's what the COVID cast was. The COVID cast was real-time emergency operations center on a weekly basis, touch base, see what's up, how many cases, what's going on, how the laws are changing, what we are doing. It was a magic time. And I'll probably die being proud of those COVID casts and the information that we put out.

I don't know, man. You know, it just is what it is. It's a very rewarding effort to be the intrepid commander here at PBN. I should have used my intrepid commander button. All right, guys, look. Visit pbnfamily.com. Check out the medical cash resource. Look it over.

Check out the book, all that kind of stuff. If you haven't bought it already, I know most of you own the Prepper's Medical Handbook. But do you have the medical cash? It goes along with it, built by a doctor, not by a prepper, not by me, not by some person who's done some internet research, but a real practicing medical doctor. Probably worth the effort, right? And if you're looking, well, yeah, let's go with that. I don't want to run you in too many directions.

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