The Prepper Broadcasting Network - How You Can Attack the Economic Engine of the CCP

Episode Date: July 18, 2025

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War. Rumors of war. A time for war. A time for peace. Where are our friends? Where are our enemies? Where are our enemies? Where are our enemies?

Where are our enemies? A time for war. A time for peace. Where are we on that graph, PVM fans? I ask myself today which generations will fall back into the hell that is war we've done enough and we prepared enough I know now without a shadow of a doubt that you know to be peaceful and compliant to those around you is it doesn't create peace. To be peaceful with monsters doesn't create peace. It simply doesn't work.

You know, you can talk about Gandhi's and you can talk, you know, that kind of thing, but... It seems to me that without exception, strength is it. Strength is it. Strength is it. To rely on others to do right by you, either in the sense of your nation or yourself. Well, you gotta take a real liking to the rolling of the dice if that's your game plan. But the arming of the world is an alarming thing.

The arming is alarming. And there's no getting around it. You know, there's no getting around it. This is something that's happening now. Now, does it mean that the posturing in the building, in the training, in the army, simply works to stiffen the backs of nations in which pushes them to the bargaining table so that in China in all its strength, Russia in all its strength, America in all its strength, might sit down and work their way, you know, in other words, stare at each other across the table in almost some sort of a Japanese animation style standoff

where it's agreed upon not out loud but within each nation that they're far too strong and there is far too little to gain by blowing each other up by blowing each other up. The coffee's good today, PBN Family. I'll tell you that much. The coffee is good today. It was either that or I touched the book Walden and other writings by Henry David Thoreau.

Listen, I do want to talk about this right up front because today we've got a variety of things to talk about but right up front I do want to address this issue with the American people and their their battle the battle that is You know really laid before you the one that that you start today, the war that you can start today.

And I do think it's inessential. I do. I happened upon this a few weeks ago and I get, you know, for me guys, I don't know what it is. I don't know if it's God or not. But I start things and then all of a sudden they flow into something bigger. Into a bigger idea, into a bigger project, you know what I mean? But I do want to talk about your power, particularly in the pressure that can be put on China. Because it's one of the rare situations at war where our relationship is so damned economic that the American people can begin to pressure the Chinese right here and now. And I know you might consider the Chinese families maybe some of the more empathetic of you

But I'd like you to know that yesterday I read that private companies as if there is such a thing but private companies are now Being allowed to hack the United States It's no longer a CCP solely objective, right? Oh my god, did you guys see this video with the CEO getting caught with his? With his head of HR we might have to touch on that. I'm gonna bring that up different story China's been waging some sort of what they call it asymmetric war with the United States for a very long time We've likely been doing the same

But I do challenge you okay, I do challenge you to wrap your head around this concept Probably year two years ago something like that. I started with all this thrift shopping I told you about the thrift do the thrift gotta go thrift. You gotta go get thrift Thrift shopping thrift shop just the other day. I had another thrift shopping revelation I told you about the thrift. Dude, the thrift. Gotta go thrift. Gotta go get thrift. Thrift shopping. Thrift shopping. Just the other day I had another thrift shopping revelation. I'm running. Yesterday. I'm running. I've changed shirts like three times and I'm thinking to myself, I don't know, this is not optimal. Because I was going to play basketball with my son later. We wound up doing something else but I was thinking, alright I worked. I woke up in a shirt, put it in a hamper. I worked out like a maniac, literally maniac yesterday, and it was...

Oh, the tire, PBN family. There's nothing like the 90 degree tire, the running, the... oh, it's so good. But anyway, so I get back. I'm literally cut. They cut the grass in the field where I work out. And there's grass all over me, sweat. There's no getting around it. Got to change again. And I'm thinking, oh, I'm going to play basketball tonight.

It'll probably be 88 degrees. My son's starting basketball up again Sunday. And so here we go, right? Another outfit on top of that these are not like you know these are necessary chill like you can't go out in public you can't go to bed after you play basketball you know for an hour outside in July in Virginia I started thinking I need to buy t-shirts from The Thrift. I don't ever buy t-shirts from The Thrift, really.

If there's something cool, I'll buy a t-shirt from them. Usually my kids bring me shirts from The Thrift. But I'm thinking, yeah, I need to get some of those worn-down t-shirts from The Thrift. And what I'm getting at, right? The real thing that powers the Chinese economy is the American wallet. That's it. It's really that simple.

Now, the old standard and the old big problem used to be what? What was the old big problem when you, we got to stop buying from China. What was the big problem for normal people like us? We got to stop buying from China. What was the big problem for normal people like us for normal people like us the big problem is Fine, but who the hell is gonna buy me all this made in American stuff all this made in America t-shirts and jeans and Everything I need to get through my day-to-day life. That's made in America. They cost $100 more than what's made in China Right there was a there was very clear budgetary problems with that. Enter the thrift shop. Enter the thrift shop, right? Now all of a sudden we have a new resource. And I'm telling you right now, you've got to get into these thrift shops in your area.

You got to find the ones that are worth it, the ones that are no good, the ones that, you know, really are like, the clothing look like fish netting. But there's a gem in your world. I'll give you a hint. You go to the ones where people live that have a lot of money, right? You go to a Goodwill in a rich neighborhood and you'll be like, what the hell is going on in here? And this is the deal. So now all of a sudden, for example, my son came up to me,

wants a microwave so bad. We don't have microwaves in our house. He wants one so bad. And he doesn't want things. My kids, they're not really wanting kids. So, I'm thinking, I'm looking at the prices, right? Every microwave on Amazon is like a hundred bucks. And I'm thinking to myself, well, there you go. This is the trap, right? You fall into this trap. If I can get it from Amazon, I can get it real fast and Has more money off to China right more money off to the Chinese. I'm gonna Or

You go check out your favorite thrift get one for about 20 25 bucks go to a yard sale Whatever the situation is look bottom line. I don't want to I don't want to be leaguer the point We got so much crap in the United States of America leaguer the point. We got so much crap in the United States of America. We have so much Chinese crap in the United States of America. If you really want to make a difference, if you think that China is building a military and a plan to take Taiwan to ruin the United States of America and so on and so forth, and you really want to have an effect. Take the middle purchase out of your life. Really build in, and it doesn't have to be just thrift shops, it can be join the buy nothing communities, go to the yard sales, talk to your neighbors. Oh I was looking at the price of a freaking microwave man and it was a hundred dollars

for a damn microwave. Oh yeah, we got one in the basement. We don't even use it. Really? Yeah, you want it? Sure. No more money. No more new money. We don't need to send new money over to China for every decision that we make for a purchase is what I'm getting at. So if you really want to attack the Chinese Communist Party, if you really want to attack the Chinese Communist Party, if you really want to affect their economy, this is one of those rare situations where the

American people can have a tremendous effect if enough of us do it. If enough of us start saying, hey, I wonder what's in my neighbor's garage, hey, I wonder what is sitting in a thrift shop rack that I could use, not mention you'll still save even more money than buying from China. And then when it comes to the stuff that you really need, well then you save up some money and you buy American, you save up some money and you buy you know from a nation that isn't China. And in doing this guys you will have an effect and if you convince enough people to do this you will have an effect. And look listen the beauty here is this is a minimalist good for the environment yada yada yada all the fun talking points system that not only

you could take advantage of but you can explain to people and the people around you will go I like that idea yeah do I really need to buy five more t-shirts that were, you know, whatever, base materials made in Bangladesh, whatever the situation is? Probably not, right? Probably not. Probably not. You want, and then you get a good pair of socks. You get the outfit from the thrift shop,

and you get the underwear and the socks made in America. And you're, you know what I mean? You're taking care of you then. You know what I mean? Then you're like, oh, this is nice. I'm feeling good. The world is changing folks, you know, the world is changing. We can either opt in for power or opt out for servitude. That's it. power or opt out for servitude. That's it. The world is changing and we can opt in for power and opt out for servitude. We can rah rah for technology. We can rah rah for humanity. It's very clear to me now, watching humans. It's very clear to me now and it's always been just on the fringe.

I don't know if I could pull it off, but we're going to try to pull it off. But it's finally clear to me what Red Beacon Media should be about and should always have been about. And those of you who are long time listeners, you know the Red Beacon Media. And it is what it is and we'll talk about it more probably at the end of the year. There was just something always missing and now humanity. Humanity is what's been missing from it. And I'll explain more in the time to come but suffice it to say that real human interaction is the future. That's it. It can only be one future. It's not to say that other things

won't matter but real human interaction is gonna it's gonna be the most valuable thing. It really is. It's gonna be the most valuable thing. It really is. It's gonna be the most valuable thing. It was so cray yesterday. I wish I could play it for you. There's so many F bombs in it. Maybe I'll share it in the back channel or share it to the element chat if you guys want to watch it.

But I was listening to Quentin Tarantino talk about the death of the movies, the death of the big film in comparison to plays. How special a film used to be compared to what a play represents today. And I'm telling you PBN family in every way that you can think about it, this is the direction that a certain type of human is going to head as AI starts to take everything over. And in some ways, you can look at artificial intelligence. You could say, oh my god, it's going to steal the jobs. It's going to do this. It's going to do that.

It's going to do the other thing. But what we can leverage if we're smart is we can look back and say what artificial intelligence did Was took us out of these siloed lifestyles where we created our own little echo chambers online and never left the corner of our dining room to Artificial intelligence appeared and It really pushed humanity back together. It really brought real life flesh and blood people

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Yeah Yeah, it's PBN. You know we do these We do these things here at the prepper broadcasting network, but I've been inundated by this China war news About G about Variety of people talking about you know doing sound bites and clips you know everything In many ways, I'm I'm happy to still be on the outside PBN family I'm happy to be sitting at that table in the lunch room that I always sat in where, you know, none of the popular kids go. Dare venture. I'm always...

Well, because, you know, clips and YouTubes and all this kind of stuff, it all just feels like a game of popularity. And more and more all the time with the like the constant struggle to appease the SEO and appease the algorithm. It's this weird thing where you start, as somebody who's been writing and creating most of my life, all of my life really, it's one of these things where you start to feel like there is a balance here. There is a balance between authenticity and algoticity. Right? You know what I mean?

Like, I want to say what the fuck I want to say. I don't want to sit there and go, well, what's the trending keywords on the day? I've never been good at that. I might explain a lot. I've never been good at that and might explain a lot I don't know but I can assure you I'll always bring you this situation here and this situation here is what's on top of mind. Yesterday I saw a bunch of different colonels and generals and this one and that one talking about China. Is the US ready for war

with China? Is China going to take Taiwan? Well, you know, Xi Jinping is on the limit of time. He said 2027, he said, you know, all this kind of stuff. And yeah, it's in my head. It's in war is in my head this morning. Air raid drills across Taiwan as island practices for a war with China. It hopes will never happen. One day ago, CNN, the strange goings on with Australia, they seem to be curling up to China, right? China says it's successful, US trade talks make return to a tariff war unnecessary. And then of course there's Business Insider over here saying that the US is never prepared for war we're never ready the US Navy needs a big fix to get ready for war with China

isn't it weird that our major news networks are writing things like this now so crazy to me it's so crazy how close are we to World War three the question now looms larger than ever China moves to tame a rational competition as Evie Price war persists whoo man it is wild China hails strategically valuable Russian relations. What will it all come to be, PBN family? What will it all come to be? And does it matter? Of course it matters. It has to matter. You know, but you know, I was listening to old AM radio yesterday

and it was funny how in those days there used to be news anchors that had listening to old AM radio yesterday. And it was funny how in those days there used to be news anchors that had sway and people to hate. And now it just feels like this gargantuan machine. It feels like the machines in the Matrix. You know what I mean? That's what the media feels like. It feels like the machines and the machines just craft these articles and pump them out, you know?

Companies are passing tariff hikes to customers. Well, of course. What do you think they're going to do? What do you think they're going to do? Man with metal neck chain gets sucked into MRI. It's a rough day. That's a rough afternoon. Yeah, so, oh wow. Oh no, I can't even go down there. Tehran's moving to rearm its militias. You know, never forget in the face of all of this, and Russian dominance over there, and China's sort of pissy actions,

and straight-up attacks on the United States and its people. And of course, Iran. You have to always remember, like, everything that's in the illegal alien situation, you have to remember all of this is merely cleanup. It's like taking over a business and there's all this stuff wrong with the business and you have to fix it. That is where this administration is right now. Nobody wanted to do the hard stuff and now the hard stuff has to get done and it's worse. Right? It's way worse.

So, it is what it is. We have to be real about it. We have to understand this situation. You know? At the end of the day, it all comes down to you. All comes down to you. Get prepared. Stick with PBN. All right?

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