The Prepper Broadcasting Network - I AM Liberty: What of this nation?

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You're going to have back the stability. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Forbid it, almighty God. I know not what course others may take. As for me, give me liberty or give me death. guitar solo I've carried three decades in my pack for the last eight years. Through and over the concrete and the asphalt poured by man

Into the dirt, rock, and trees What of those trees? Knelt along a running path desperately trying to find my breath I look up at once knelt along a running path desperately trying to find my breath. I look up at once. They were all staring down at me, their eyes in knots, well-coiffed summer foliage. We'll always be here. In the fall, winter, and into the next summer, we will be here for years to come. I get up to my feet, gaze up, a young curious boy

again. We'll be here when you worm food, but when you already know that, you are the one who knows. You are one of the ones who knows. You're one who feels the breeze whip by you stealing second by second. Your human world moves ever fast, but we stand here as we have all these years. We watch your kind, for what else have we to do anchored to the earth? A human is the only creature that can enter our forest and leave it without seeing a single tree, without chasing for fun or for food one creature or another. However, there are still those of you who pick up our leaves, study our bark, marvel at our forests we simply stand

as humans you're given much agency we've watched you forever you're an immensely powerful race easily distracted still we've seen much worse from you. You're merely lamenting a speed bump in

history. We've stood and watched you dig into our earth deeper than our roots could dream to bore. You've extracted instruments of death, and now instruments of your own slavery. But your

kind will return. You always do. The medicine is here. It's in the sky, in the air. It's in the leaves and the roots. It's in the flesh of wild things. No matter the damage, the medicine is always here. the medicine is always here. The sweat rolled down my face, and the forest was silent once again. Back to running. Running for health.

Running from death. The whole run home. They simply stand. They simply stand. They simply stand. Looks like there's some turbulence up ahead. It's a good thing you found us. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Your path, act of stability. Welcome into the I Am Liberty show folks. It's been a while since I did a morning edition. Get used to it. This may take the place of the Wednesday PBN daily news. I get to sip disaster coffee and talk to you on a Wednesday morning rather than crawl to the microphone on a Wednesday night. I've always lamented the nighttime podcasts.

Some nights better than others, but for the most part, by 9 o'clock p.m., I'm really waning. You know what I mean? There's no doubt about it. But welcome, everyone. Thank you. I appreciate the support. There's a lot to talk about today. We're going to be all over the place fundamentally, okay? That's the deal. We'll be all over the place in today's show fundamentally. What you just heard was a... I mean, this thing is fresh. This is like a week-old poem, something like that. Not refined, very raw, all part of an anthology that I've been putting together probably over the last six months called Poems for Men.

And that's exactly what the book is. I don't know when that'll—that's not an ETA. I don't have an ETA. This is merely a—it's a cast'll, that's not an ETA. I don't have an ETA. This is merely a, it's a cast net, if you will, for my thoughts. And, you know, the world is, this moment in history and it happening at this moment in my life, there's just so much, you know, to think about and to talk about and to write about. I've been considering even a sub stack.

Seeing all these people doing sub stack, I think to myself, man, I have been a writer for some time. But what can I expect of my fan base? You know what I mean? That's my whole issue. It's like how many things can a man do and expect people to follow him and to watch him

the whole time? You know what I mean? It's like pod five, I do like five podcasts a week now, five podcasts a week, two to three Instagrams a week, you know, membership content. I write books, I make videos. Now I'm going to do a sub stack and tell you to come over there and read that too. I have newsletter, the whole thing. It gets to the point where I start thinking the only people who can really keep up with me are the people who only listen to what we do here. So, you know, I've got to have some sympathy for the audience. You know what I mean? you know, I've got to have some sympathy for the audience. You know what I mean?

All that said, lots to cover. Lots to cover tonight. I grabbed a bunch of things, you know? I grabbed a bunch of things because I thought to talk about the nation, we have to talk about numerous things, right? One thing that's really got me sort of confused, if nothing else, is, well, I mean, this is a symptom of a much larger problem, and it is the narrative of the nation right now, which is why I titled this one, What of a Nation Like This? What of a nation like ours? What of a nation like this? nation like ours? What of a nation like this? The media would have you believe right now one of the most interesting stories, not that the story itself is interesting, it's war, but the delivery, right? We're hearing everywhere about Ukraine's daring invasion. And the way that the news has presented this, you would assume that, you know, the Ukrainians have, though they were unable, completely and totally unable to protect their own nation from Russia's invasion,

and Russia has swallowed up great swaths of land. I just in the live chat, if you're with us in the live chat, I'm going to put this link to the article I'm looking at. And I guess I'll bring up Drudge real quick, which is a compromised website. I mean, I remember when it was becoming a compromised website, but now it is completely a compromised website. It's broken, and it serves only as a place to go see broken things. Where's our buddies in Ukraine who have turned the tide of the war and are now moments, just days away from taking Moscow? I mean, look, maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just how I read the headlines, but I'm telling you right now, I read these headlines.

Ukraine pounds Russia with drones and says it is advancing deeper. Blow up air bases. They seize more land in a week than Putin managed in eight months. They seize more land in a week than Putin managed in eight months. You read a headline like that, which is incredibly misleading. And you say to yourself, what's going on? The Ukrainian blitz has lasted just a week, but already they've taken over dozens of villages and a huge slice of territory. As much as 400,000 square miles.

You know, the thing that I read this morning that made me most nervous was the following Vlad pulls soldiers out in humiliating retreat Now, I don't know about you But the pulling out of soldiers in the middle of a war And that being Russia Doesn't sound like a retreat to me in the middle of a war, and that being Russia, doesn't sound like a retreat to me. In fact, it makes me very scared that he's pulling those soldiers out to do something much worse.

In other words, you can't shoot tactical nuclear weapons into a place where your soldiers are. I mean, you can, but pretty rough. Anyway, you get a look at this map, and you see that the landmass, the zoomed-out landmass, including Crimea and the massive swath of the eastern portion of Ukraine that has been militarily controlled by Russia,

is exponentially larger than this little grain of sand that Ukraine has spent I don't know how much resources on. And it's northeast of everything that's happening, northeast of all the, you know, controlled land that I imagine should be the priority to get back if we're fighting a war to get this land back from Russia. I don't know. This is one example. You have to look at the link. If you don't have the link, sorry. I don't know what to tell you. But the reason the link is so important is because the map is so important. This is not a matter of rooting for Russia. Do you know what I mean?

It's a matter of looking at what the American people are being told is happening before their very eyes and going, is this real? Like, what is actually happening? Is the tide really turning or not? Hell no, it's not turning. There's no tide. What it looks like, this is what the map looks like. I'll give you this. Let me see. Okay, here we go. Yeah, let's feel this one out. Okay. out. Okay. It works, but it almost doesn't work. I'm trying to think of a small town or city. Imagine that Russia took over the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. Okay? Imagine that. Imagine Russia took over the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. Okay? And we sent forces to Russia, and we took over a piece of land the size of Rhode

Island. This is what's happened. This is sort of of the the you know what we're talking about it's it's dire so what am i i mean you know what am i getting the news media is no good breaking news from james on i am liberty way to go buddy like we didn't know that but it's everywhere it's pervasive it's in everything now it's so pervasive it's you can't even believe it i mean it's reached a point of absurdity and what do people do about that you know the gateway pundit yesterday um carl b sent me an article and then all the hosts in the back channel about from the gateway pundits says no one is fooled even the china russia iran alliance nation see how horribly biased and dishonest the u.s media is

today and it has this crazy image man um that shows i don't know how many outlets uh it's hard. Let's see. It looks like three across one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Twenty four news outlets just demolishing nothing good. Not not one good comment. Trump rambles slurs his way through Elon Musk interview USA Today Fox News. Kamala Harris campaign criticizes Trump for serving self-obsessed rich guys in an interview with Elon Musk. Newsweek, Donald Trump's lisp during the Elon Musk interview raises questions. Reuters, rambling Trump-Musk interview. I mean, 24 different news outlets skewering or talking about someone skewering. The A, Garden Girl in the live chat, what's up?

Thanks for joining me. Yeah, skewering Donald Trump in one way or another and Elon Musk. Even the BRICS nations take notice. This is one of those rare times when our enemies come out and say, you know, they say, look at this mess that America has become, at least the American media. For a long time, we've said, thanks to Joe Biden, our enemies are watching. We've said it. You know what I mean? Our enemies are watching. Our enemies are paying attention. Of course, people say, well, no, they're not. Joe Biden's more than sufficient to run the nation. Yeah, sure, sure, whatever. You know, I'm going to start selling magic beans, and maybe they'll sell.

But we find ourselves in this situation where the media is a laughingstock, but a bunch of people still get their news from there, and we're all waiting here with bated breath to figure out what if Kamala Harris actually wins the election because of the fact that the media is 100% biased against Donald Trump. There's not even a 1%. There's not even a 0.5%. You've never seen anything like this. Everyone, including the left wing, should be writing these people and telling them they're doing a horrible job at coverage. Just Donald Trump's talk about border security is enough that the average American should say, well, at least if nothing else, if nothing else a news network could say, Donald Trump has a plan to fix things at the border and to deport people who would like to rape and kill your daughter under a bridge.

We can't even admit that? See, I guess what's most important and what makes me most nervous about all of this is these are our threat indicators. Do you know what I mean? Like a lot of times we use the media to understand how things are going. Like what's my neighborhood like? What's my town like? What's my city like? What's it all about? I got to give credit where credit's due. I was listening to WRVA this morning, and I was listening to a young man talk. I don't know who he was, and I'm not going to find his name. I'm sure he doesn't care as much as long as I give you the website. It's called newtolerance.org, and newtolerance.org has something very interesting

that you probably won't find anywhere else, but I'd highly recommend you take a look at it. NewTolerance.org has a hate map. Yeah, it's called a hate map. The New Tolerance Campaign, except what it does is it tracks hate and hard left extremism in the United States. It says our work is designed to be used as a resource to the media, civil servants, and the general public. There are 189 organizations slash individuals currently listed on this map, and I assure you, if you find your city or state, you're going to learn something about it.

Why are you going to learn something about it. Why are you going to learn something about it? Because these things don't get reported, or they get reported in and out, or they get reported partially. So, you know, let's see. Where should we go? Tennessee? Mississippi, Texas?

Well, let's go to Texas since Garden Girl is with us. So the hate map lists Dallas, Texas, Imam Omar Suleiman, the head of the Texas chapter of American Muslims for Palestine. Suleiman is known for his long history of anti-Semitic comments, his support of the Muslim Brotherhood. He's denied that Hamas uses civilians as human shields during a 2012 election, prayed for the humiliation of Israel and the Jews who support it, stating, we ask Allah to humiliate this Israel and the way that Allah humiliated Benny Israel.

We ask Allah to humiliate those who occupy the land of the Philistine or the Palestinian. And after the October 7th terror attack, Suleiman equated the phrase, I stand with Israel with a blank check for genocide. So this is one example of an individual that shows up on the new tolerance.org hate map. There's a lot. The West Coast is dominated by it. Here's a really interesting one, okay? I heard nothing of this Never There's a dot on Richmond, Virginia Where I live

A trans activist, Noah Cleveland Was arrested after attending a March for Life Rally in Richmond, Virginia Where he charged into a group of students I heard nothing about this I heard nothing And I don't even know I heard nothing about this. I heard nothing. And I don't even know.

You know, I didn't do any, I didn't actually look it up to see if there was a news story about it. Yeah, and I don't know. There's one story from the New York Post. I don't see anything from my own state. This is the issue that we have, right? Look out for the dangerous right wing in the UK who have ruined everything. Be very careful of MAGA. MAGA is going to, you know, they're the most racist.

They're going to put people in camps. They're going to just come out and start shooting people. And we never really get this full story. You look at this list underneath the map and it's tremendous. There are so many American Muslims for Palestine groups. I don't know where they all came from. You've got American Muslims for Palestine, Bay Area, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Minnesota, Minneapolis, I mean, New Haven, North Bergen, New Jersey, St. Louis. It's a lot. Okay, we've got multiple Antifas, D.C., Asheville, Southern California, the Antifa Coalition themselves. You ever heard of the Animal Rights Militia?

The Animal Rights Militia. That's very interesting. Here's one of my favorite groups of all time, and they still exist. BAM. Detroit, BAM, Los Angeles. I've been telling you about BAM for years and years and years. Now, by any means necessary, you're seeing by any means necessary take place in all aspects of Hollywood, media, college, campuses around the country. You could even probably say that schools, the schools, the very schools you send your kids to. schools, the schools that, the very schools you send your kids to.

Firearms book co-op, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Human Rights Campaign, if not now, Independent Media Center, Imam Omar Suleiman, we talked about him, Imam Assad Zaman, the Islamic Society of North America, Jane's Revenge. They don't ever get as much. What's really nerve-wracking, too, is I know a lot of these organizations already. But a lot of them have changed. The majority of individuals are radical LGBTQ activists in groups. You have to look at the list to see it. I mean, R-Rights DC, radical LGBTQ activists.

Noah Cleveland, radical LGBT. Noah Buchanan, radical LGBTQ. Palabras Brooks, radical LGBTQ. Palabras Brooks, radical LGBTQ. There's a lot of them. Radical professors are listed here as well. It's just a good take on a topic that's very important to the United States as a whole. And rarely gets any, you know,, rarely gets any say in the news. There's no news.

There's no news about it. Tara Jay, you know, just doing his or her thing. I don't know what Tara Jay is. A prominent transgender TikToker who made headlines for threatening to kill anyone who opposed all access bathrooms. gendered TikToker who made headlines for threatening to kill anyone who opposed all-access bathrooms. In other statements, Jay encouraged transgender individuals to arm up in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Can you imagine? Can you imagine if I did a podcast called Arm Up and then later on TikTok said that I'd kill somebody for not doing what I want them to do. The FBI is already halfway here just for me even making a joke about it. They're halfway to my house already. Garden Girl says we have a big Jewish and Muslim population in North Texas. Yeah. Yeah.

Wouldn't it be great if we could figure out how to get the hell along in America and the world? Wouldn't it be great if we could figure out how to get along once in a while? It's not happening as of late. In the show notes below, here's a cool little announcement. I have finally bent at the knee to a lot of people's recommendations to, I don't know, it's not an Amazon store per se, but it's like a shop with curated products. There's a link down there. If you want to see the things that I use, buy the things that I use in prepping and camping and homesteading and all that kind of stuff.

It's a cool functionality because what this little storefront thing does is allows you to take things that you've ordered and share them with people. So there's a link in there. It's survival and preparedness. And it's just a bunch of stuff that I've bought and used. This is a part of me that I'd never really shared all that much and probably dumb of me not to. But for years and years and years, people have been like, what's your Amazon store? What's your Amazon store? What's your Amazon store? And I was just always like, I don't know, man, I don't want to do it. But I finally decided to sit down and do it. So it is, I don't know what there is right now, 15, 30, 41 items, something like that up there. You can, you can page through if you want to. Um, like I said, it's in the show

description down there. Give it a look. What I can tell you is the things that I put up are the things that I use and the things that work. They may not work for you. I don't know. But I'm going to continue to build on it. I'll break it down into water, food, shelter, first aid, all that kind of stuff because we have a lot of good resources.

We've been at this thing a long time, you know, 10 years now prepping more. Trust me. I have 40-some items up there that you can shop right now. I probably have just as many that I would never post because they were total failures. It's a lot of failing. What else do we have on the docket? Oh, who's fasting? Who's fasting Friday?

Friday night. You eat your dinner Friday evening, and that's it till Monday. Can you dig it? I don't know if you can swing it. I don't know. It's not for the faint of heart. Oh, it looks like...

It looks like a 61-year-old Brit got 18 months in prison for being the dangerous extremist that he is. Harris campaign busted for spoofing news. I'm just reading you news literally from the back channel. Actually, primarily, I'm reading you news that has been sent to me by Carl B. He's probably going to have a great podcast this week, I imagine. Harris' campaign busted spoofing news outlets in headline-altering ad scheme. Upon hearing the news, The Guardian lost their— Despite corporate media's unabashed U-turn to support Kamala Harris,

her campaign has been busted, creating made-up headlines next to the names of real news outlets to trick people into thinking they've stumbled upon the real thing. I need to see this up close. APN News, VP Harris, economic vision, lower costs, and higher wages. Sponsored by Harris for president. Tim Waltz, military service, 24 years in the National Guard by USA Today, sponsored by, it's a great list of all these articles that came out. They were all sponsored by her campaign.

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I'll take it. I'll take it. Let's get into some CDC. Teen mental health. Teen mental health. No joke. The age of mental health. The overthinking of thinking. The overthinking of overthinking and the underthinking of everything.

Teen mental health improving, CDC reports. But the kids are far from all right. What is with this with the obsession with the children? The obsession with the children. Like no generation of children has ever faced this struggle, right? The data released last week showed a 2% decrease from 21 to 23 in high school students reporting they felt sad or hopeless. The total dropped from 42% to 40% of students who reported having feelings, marking, having these feelings, marking the first time. The annual youth risk behavior survey didn't report an increase in over a decade.

But mental health and behavioral health experts aren't celebrating the victory just yet. This is because reported rates of kids feeling sad or hopeless remains high. Sad or hopeless? Do you feel sad? How did you feel as a kid? I felt sad every morning because I had to go to school. It's fucking the worst. I mean, you want to talk about depression. Like waking up at 6.30 or whatever it was, I had to get up and being like, oh, I got to go sit on this bus with these idiots. I got to go sit in a school with these idiots.

There's like five people in the school I really want to see. I think a lot of this, to be honest, my honest take, people need to get in little fun note-passing, hand-holding, kissing relationships. I'm serious. I think a lot of it has to do with that. I don't know what the numbers are.

I'd love to know, like, the stats on middle school and high school kids, like, having fun dating. Not like dating, you know what I mean? But remember, like, what going out used to be like? You didn't really go anywhere. You didn't even hardly see people outside of school but you passed like love letters and you you know saw you kissed each other in like between classes it was dumb but it was fun and it it i don't know if you have not nothing and then you had friends and you went out and you went to the malls, and you did things, and you like, I'd spend the whole week daydreaming about a t-shirt, you know what I mean, work, go to school, go to work, 13 years old, I was working, I'd go to school, I'd go to work,

I'd be washing dishes, I'd be thinking about a t-shirt, like, oh, I'm gonna get that t-shirt from Hot Topic, it's gonna be the shit, and that would like, that would dominate it like all the sort of mental health now again i wasn't staring into the mirror mirror on the wall 24 7 watching people do things that that i don't even remotely care about you know that's the weird thing about the tiktok and the and the youtube shorts like the fundamental weirdest thing about those is for the first time in human history, we're willingly watching things that other people or that a program,

we're watching things that we don't even agree to watch. Like when you watch your kid watch TikTok or watch like a YouTube short scroll session, you realize for the first time ever, you're watching things that a program wants you to watch. In other words, you're not, you don't search for something when you get into one of these scroll sessions. You know what I mean? Like you're not, you're not not like i want to just watch everything i can about 9-11 and what happened and behind the scenes and go deep i want to watch this band i want to watch how to look like it's literally just curated right it's like it for you for you stuff and it's so crazy and so weird to live in that sort of world and to exist in a frame where this stuff is put in front of you for various reasons.

And that's a way that people spend their time. You know what I mean? I could just scroll through. Okay. Okay. All right. I guess that has something to do with it. What do I want to watch today, YouTube? Tell me.

I don't know if that's fundamentally it. I think it's probably much more damaging to young kids to spend a lot of time looking at people who are seriously advanced and successful because they are decades older. Do you know what I mean? I think that's a thing. I think it's a thing for young boys that watch, you know, like the Lamborghinis and the big houses and the helicopters and the yachts and all that kind of stuff.

And you're 15 years old or whatever. And you think to yourself, like, there's no way I'm going to get there. You know, like most 30 year olds feel that way, by the way. There's no way I'm going to get there. Most people don't get there, by the way. But it's just, you know, and for the girls, it's probably worse. But it's just, you know, and for the girls it's probably worse. It's probably much worse because it's just a consistent stream of, you know,

because you can take a pretty girl and have her look at another pretty girl and she'll feel ugly. It's weird. I mean, I'm not saying that for all girls, but I'm just saying from personal experience. You can see that happen. You can watch that happen on their face. You can ask them about it and hear crazy things. I've told this story before. A girl, I dated a girl in high school who was a pretty girl. And she told me she'd look in the mirror sometimes and just cry. So now imagine instead of looking at a mirror of you, you're looking at a black mirror of just an unending stream of girls who have spent the last hour spray painting and spray tanning. You know, some of these girls with the makeup are legitimate artists, like legitimately artistic in the blending.

It's a skill. It's a skill set. It's a legitimate skill set. Like I wouldn't mind seeing them spend as much time with a paintbrush and canvas as they do on their face. Probably got some really, really great artwork in them. But to sit there and look at that and a constant comparison, comparison, comparison. Me, look at my eyes compared to her eyes. Look at my lips compared

to her lips. You know what I mean? Of course, of course that's going to drive you crazy. But what's the reality? You know, let's get back to the reality of it. The reality of the situation is you ain't taking that shit away from the kids. I mean, you could take it away from the kids. You can be that parent and say, you know, you're not allowed to watch X anymore. Not the platform, but whatever. You're not allowed to be on this app anymore. You're not allowed to be on that.

But they're going to get on it eventually anyway. They're going to find their way to it. You're not going to put a wall up unless you do, like, something dramatic. You know, like if it's really a thing that bothers you, technology and the sort of depressive behaviors that leads to the sort of time-wasting distraction that it is, in large part, the only real answer is to like move to Alaska and no Wi-Fi. You know what I mean? is to move to Alaska and no Wi-Fi.

You know what I mean? But the reality, and I think the reality that most parents have to understand is your kids are moving into a time where everything is going. It's either going to be lights out, off-grid for everyone, or it's going to be flirting with the end of humanity as we know it. Not in a doomsday sense, but in a synchronicity sense. Like your child's life, if you're raising a 10-year-old or somewhere around that, their life, probably some of their most interesting times in life, 20s, 30s, maybe even late teens, will be dominated by serious decisions

about how technology will interact with their life. You know what I mean? Dominated. Like right now, we're like, should I drive the gas car or should I drive the electric car? You know what I mean? Their generation will be the generation that says, should I implant into my brain or not? You get that, right? Like if you have a little bundle of joy that's newborn if you have a five-year-old if you have a 10-year-old whatever and that's what they'll have to grab you're gonna

this is gonna be the generation that is gonna say should i marry a real girl or should I marry a robot girl who is completely and perfectly crafted to make life as comfortable for me and be 100% devoted to me and my wants and desires? It's not the next generation and it's not us, right? Our generation is pretty much through. It will be that generation. Your kid will probably know a kid who marries a robot. Think about that. That's the storm of technology that they're facing. So I'm not a big fan, that they're facing. So I'm not a big fan, despite the risks, I'm not a big fan of teetotaling your kids on tech.

I don't like the idea of taking a kid and throwing them out into, because this is the age that they're running into. There's no stopping it, right? We have AI on our phones. We have AI on our, whatever. Your kid's whole house is going to be probably run by AI to some degree or another. Their job most definitely. That could be that their life in general is tailored by some sort of AI buddy.

You know what I mean? So that every decision that they make is somewhat influenced. you that every decision that they make is somewhat influenced. So I think it's good for them to get a taste of the venom. Now, a lot of good has come from it, too. It's not like you could sit here and say it's all bad. You're bullshitting yourself. You're listening to a guy who's talking to you over hyper technology all across the world to people.

But I think that, you know, this discussion about social media and kids and feeling sad and hopeless, I don't know. You know, a lot of the sad and hopeless comes from not doing anything, not striving for anything as a kid. You know, a lot of times you, as a parent, you can allow your kid to say no to you all the time. Do you want to do this? No. You want to do that? This?

No. You want to eat? No. You want to do this? No, no, no, no, no. I don't want to do anything but stare at my phone. And that's where you make the in-routes. That's where you help your child most, right?

make the in-routes, that's where you help your child most, right? Is when you let them chase the passions outside of the digital world and give them that time to reflect and go like, oh, there's a big world out there. It's not all just likes and follows. So yeah, as I mentioned, a lot to mentioned, a lot to cover. A lot to cover. Do we want to do economiccollapseblog.com? What is it, 1040? Good God almighty, it's 1040.

I haven't even eaten breakfast yet. What's going on? 44 minutes in. Let's do it real quick. It's an interesting one. You're seeing news right now. Again, it's the news. What's this?

Drone footage shows pro-Palestinian protesters blocking the LA freeway. Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. We're doing this for the children. Yes, we're doing this for the children. I can't thank Michael Snyder enough over at the Economic Collapse blog. He's always doing great work. 2.9% inflation. Cooling July inflation set stage for Fed September rate cut. There's a – how the hell did Elon Omar – I don't even want to get into it. I don't even want to get into it.

The economy is doing great, and it's all thanks to Kamala Harris. All right, let's start with that. Thousands of businesses are going bankrupt, but the economy is fine is the headline by Michael Snyder. is the headline by Michael Snyder. Personal and business bankruptcy filings rose 16% in 12-month period ending June 30, 2024 compared with the previous year. According to statistics released

by Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, annual bankruptcy filings totaled nearly 500,000 ending in June. Business filings rose 40% from 15,000 to 22,000. Non-business bankruptcy filings rose 15% to 464 compared with 403,000 the previous year. Business bankruptcy filings were up more than 40% in just one year. Okay?

This is a thing. This is not something we can just gloss over. Jim Chain Blink Fitness announced Monday that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. That filing is meant to help the Equinox Group own chain, execute an efficient and value-maximizing sale process, optimize its footprint, and position the business for long-term success, according to a news release. Blink said it will keep its gyms open. In the meantime, it has more than 100 locations

spread across seven states. These types of filings are happening all over. Rite Aid filing for bankruptcy. Same Chapter 11 protection in October. Shutting 154 stores that are underperforming in dozens of states. The world is changing, PBN family. What else do we got? Paramount laying people off. The CEO says we're going to turn it around, maybe. We expect 90% of these actions to be complete by the end of September. But like I said, the economy is just fine. Everything's fine. Everything's going to be fine as long as you continue to pay your taxes, right? That's it.

That's all there is to it. Jay Ferg in chat says you weren't on Rumble. Yeah, I haven't been rumbling this week very well. Apologize. Maybe next week. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. All right, folks.

As always, what it is you do defines all of this stuff and how it affects your life. That's it. That's the end of it. You know what I mean? It all comes down to what you are doing and what you have done and what you will do in the future. I've mentioned in the past, and I'll end the show with this, if you have nothing else to lean on, if you have no other goals in life, do me the favor of simply creating a three-month par level for yourself and your family.

Three months worth of food, water, three months worth of backup power, three months worth of fuel, three months worth of first aid. If you can do this, and you can do this quickly, man. You can do three months worth of food. Maybe I need to put that into an article or into something. You can do three months worth of food. Maybe I need to put that into an article or into something. You could do three months worth of food. It's not going to be the most diverse and delicious, but you can do it pretty quick in a big box retailer. You know what I mean? In a, what are they called? Warehouse stores? What are they called? Like a Sam's Club or Costco. You can knock it out, you know? As long as you know how to cook rice and make bread. Maybe make pasta. Ah, forget about making pasta. Store three months' worth of dry pasta.

As I mentioned, that great list from newtolerance.org should be a reminder to you of exactly who's going to come to play this fall. You look at that threat map, you look at that hate map, and you'll be able to look at the whole United States and say, this is where these people are located and this is where things are going to get real wild in the fall. And if Donald Trump wins, that three months par level is going to be incredibly important to you and your family. Okay? So get prepared. Listen to the Prepper Broadcasting Network hosts. I'd highly recommend you join us on the membership side, pbnfamily.com. All I can do is sound the alarm. All I can do is flip on the red beacon, Jay Ferg. That's all I can

do. All right, folks. Enjoy the rest of your day. I'm going to go eat. I'll talk to you all soon. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at prepperbroadcasting.com.