The Prepper Broadcasting Network - MLK Day Special: Character, Non-Violence, and God

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You're a path back to stability. It is called the white backlash, but the white backlash is nothing new. It is a surfacing of old prejudices, hostilities, and ambivalences that have always been there. It was caused neither by the cry of black power nor by the unfortunate recent wave of riots in our cities. The white backlash of today is rooted in the same problem that has characterized America ever since the black man landed in chains on the shores of this nation. This does not imply that all white Americans are racist. Far from it. Many white people have, through a deep moral compulsion, fought long and hard for racial justice.

Nor does it mean that America has made no progress in her attempt to cure the body politic of the disease of racism, or that the dogma of racism has not been considerably modified in recent years. However, for the good of America, it is necessary to refute the idea that the dominant ideology in our country even today is freedom and equality, while racism is just an occasional departure from the norm on the part of a few bigoted extremists. Racism can well be that corrosive evil that will bring down the curtain on Western civilization. Arnold Thornby has said that some 26 civilizations have risen upon the face of the earth. Almost all of them have descended into the junk heaps of destruction. The decline and fall of these civilizations, according to Thornby, was not caused by external

invasions, but by internal decay. They failed to respond creatively to the challenges impinging upon them. If America does not respond creatively to the challenge to banish racism, some future historian will have to say that a great civilization died because it lacked the soul and commitment to make justice a reality for all men. The second aspect of our afflicted society is extreme materialism. An Asian writer has portrayed our dilemma in candid terms. He says, you call your thousand material devices labor-saving machinery. Yet you are forever busy with the multiplying of your machinery. You grow increasingly fatigued, anxious, nervous, dissatisfied.

Whatever you have, you want more. And wherever you are, you want to go somewhere else. Your devices are neither time-saving nor soul-saving machinery. There are so many sharp spurs which urge you on to invent more machinery and to do more business. This tells us something about our civilization that cannot be cast aside as a prejudice charge by an Eastern thinker who is jealous of Western prosperity. We cannot escape the indictment. This does not mean that we must turn back the clock

of scientific progress. No one can overlook the wonders that science has wrought for our lives. The automobile will not abdicate in favor of the horse and buggy, or the train in favor of the stagecoach, or the tractor in favor of the hand plow, or the scientific method in favor of ignorance and superstition. But our moral lag must be redeemed. When scientific power outruns moral power,

we end up with guided missiles and misguided men. PBN family. Happy MLK Day. pbn family happy mlk day that was a man there that was a man who was tethered into another plane of thinking another plane of seeing have we not ended up with guided missiles and misguided men? Wow. Unbelievable, man. Do you know how old that speech is? You're talking about a speech that is, what, 60?

Is 60 years old? Could be. And imagine that the man used the word. This is what stands out to me. There's a lot of things in that. I mean, there's a lot in that. One of the biggest things. And I'd love to ask. MLK, I'd love to ask him a lot of things. But one of the things is, could you ever imagine being in a situation where we would make an attempt at killing racism with more racism? situation where we would make an attempt at killing racism with more racism.

Would you ever imagine a time where our nation, as smart as it is and as advanced as it is, would make a shot, take a shot at destroying racism with racism? I can see him shake his head, you know, in confusion. But one of the things that sticks out is the use of the word device. He talks about devices when he talks about technology or time-saving devices. Devices, devices. And what do we call them today? Devices.

The phones. The iPads. Right? The devices. The devices. It's divisive. The divisive devices. Interesting. Hmm.

How much of this whole story is linked together? More than we understand, you know? How do these great leaders buoy up out of the ocean of the common man and then appear before us with with these words of such power that they resonate for you know almost a century at a time sometimes even longer than centuries are they given to us by god to keep us on course and why in this timeline have they be given us given to us by god to keep us on course? And why in this timeline have they been given to us by God to keep us on course? Why? I always hear people talk about the fall of empires and we're going

the same way of Rome and so on and so forth. If we're talking about God, you know, today's, the title for today's show is Nonviolence, Character, and God. Because those are the things that pop into mind when I think of MLK. You know what I mean? Those guiding principles there. But when you talk about God, is there a nation that has ever existed with God at the core and God as the foundation, the way the United States has? In other words, yeah, Rome and the United States and debt and barbarians at the gates and political corruption and all that kind of stuff. I get all the similarities, right?

But, you know, the Romans had 50 gods, right? They had a god for everything. It is very interesting, and perhaps the deciding factor in the outcome, maybe the deciding factor in the endurance of the United States of America, is God, and is the fact that our Creator, the Creators of this nation, the Founding Fathers, understood that, well, it's your duty to protect the rights given to you by God. There are rights given to you by God, and as a nation, we'll spread that idea,

and we'll also protect those rights. Now, there's not many people protecting them right now. In fact, it's dark, right? It's pretty dark out there, because there's many more. Anyway, it feels like there's much more focus on destroying those rights. I wonder what a man like MLK would face today. I wonder what a man like MLK would face today.

He said very clearly in his speech, not all white people are racist. Well, there's a hell of a lot of people out there that don't believe that's the truth. They believe that white people are incapable. They're incapable of not being racist. Can't help it. You know? They're aloft in their racism. Like a great sea that pushes them to and fro,

only with racist remarks and thoughts on their hearts. I want to talk about nonviolence, but I want to talk about violence. I want to read the words of the great man, Martin Luther King Jr. I know you can find something wrong with anybody, right? Don't tell me about it. You can find something wrong with everyone. I know the allegations, and I know. But come on.

These are great guides of our time. These are great guides throughout history. They pop up. You know what I mean? They pop up. They stand high above the rest, and they challenge the norm, and they change everything.

You know what I mean? So I say to you, seek God and discover him and make him a power in your life. Without him, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sun rises into darkest nights. Without him, life is meaningless drama and the decisive scenes missing, with the decisive scenes missing.

It's very interesting. Some of these quotes I have highlighted with words above them because they still act as um they still act as important reminders and guides in these days in in the very situations that we find ourselves in today, unique to today, but somehow the timeless words of Martin Luther King Jr. address these issues, right? Just unbelievably. I'll give you one quick example. Okay, I want you to think of the universities of the United States.

Okay? Think hard about the things that we've seen take place on the campuses of the most prestigious, higher learning facilities in the United States of America, okay? Martin Luther King said, intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education. Intelligence plus character. That is the goal of true education. Now think about the person who was just thrown out of Penn.

It was Penn, right? Gay? What was her name? I don't know. It's unimportant. Everyone will forget her, and she'll be not even a footnote in history. We can't even reference her because all her work was stolen anyway. But intelligence plus character, you know, to plagiarize things has nothing to do with character. To use complete and utter racism on the campus and approve of it and not stop it in its tracks. There's no character in that, right? Intelligence plus character, that's the goal of a true education.

This was said how long ago? Could he have seen the colleges? Could he have seen the conditions of schools, public schools? Could he have seen these things? I don't know. Could God have shown him these things? I really don't know. What you find, PBN family, the more you look into history, is that everything is the same

thing. The enemy is always the same. The enemy never changes. There's nothing unique or interesting or enduring about the evil. The same ideology that he was facing, the same mentality that he was facing, the same mentality that he was facing, is the exact same mentality that's pervading today.

It's the exact same. Only difference is you take groups and races and individual, I'm sorry, and ideologies out of it and mix them up and spit them back out on the board. You look at almost any atrocity in history. You look at any dark time. You look at any war almost, and you see it's all born out of the same game. It's all born out of the same game with the same techniques, with the same, right? It's the same evil time and time again. The same evil that he was facing, right?

It used to be housed in the heads of Caucasians. We would look at the Caucasian and say, the white people are oppressing the blacks in the United States, and they've been doing it for X, Y, Z, and this is the way that they want things and and they're hating people because of their skin color or because of this reason or that whatever there's an ignorance there that is abundant there is an indoctrination there that is an abundant there is a desire to silence

that is abundant in all of these scenarios. It's always the same thing. All of these things, man. And we flash forward to modern day, and you have that same mentality, that same idea to find a group and to hate them, to demonize them, to silence them, right? It's not black and white right now. It's different, right? It's freedom and tyranny. That's what it is right now in this country. There are groups of people who want to silence other groups of people

and not give them the right to speak their truth or the truth. I'd say as we go along, though, the only big difference in this is the power. The power, the tools used to silence people are becoming greater and more effective. The devices, right, that MLK warned us about are not only making us aggravated and we want more and we're never happy, but now they're being used against us. Let's take a quick break. We'll come back and we'll talk about nonviolence and character and God as we celebrate a great man, a great American man who changed everything. All right, right after this.

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Your garden is the resistance. I have decided to stick to love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. This was a reoccurring theme in MLK's whole motive. I mean, it was Jesus-born, right? But I think he also saw it. What made it different is he didn't read it and say it. He read it. He read it. He lived it.

He saw what could happen and how it could change people, and then he made it a part of his everything. Right? It's hard not to talk about MLK without getting into the concept of nonviolence. And for people who store—look, let's just be straight. For people who train with firearms, have plate carriers, have chest rigs, have AR-15s, probably more than one, reload ammunition, store ammunition, right? Listen to the gunmetal armor. Shout out to Dane D. For people like us, for people who idolize the revolutionaries and so on, the idea of nonviolence, well, it has to have a beginning and an end.

And also for people who study history at large, right? The idea of nonviolence has to have a beginning and an end. It cannot be just that you're nonviolent all the whole way. I mean, you see, unless your game plan's very short, unless you have a short game plan, like I'm going to get out everything I can get out in a loving way, and then I'm going to be beat to death on the street, or, you know, loaded into a cattle truck, cattle car, whatever.

I think it all comes down—I mean, really, I've thought a lot about this outside of Martin Luther King Jr. My dork version of all this goes back to—I look at comic book characters. You know what I mean? That's where I devise—not Gandhi. You know what I mean? That's where I devise, not Gandhi, I devise all my thinking over violence and nonviolence and death. You know, all of it is derived through reading and understanding sort of the core elements of comic book characters, man. It's just what it is. I mean, and you could glean a lot. You can glean a lot listening to comic book writers sort of try to figure their way through the idea of why Batman doesn't kill, why Wolverine has no problem massacring, but he does have a problem massacring, right? How his berserker rage can drive him to kill hundreds of people at a time,

and then he has to live with it. And what the effect of living with it is, right? How Superman will do anything to avoid killing. But even then he faces some threats that are so evil that he makes exception. That someone like the Punisher who is driven to a point

where he decides that for some reason he becomes judge, jury, and jailer. He gets to decide who lives and who dies. And, you know, the importance of having a character around like the Punisher is such a big deal. I can't believe that Marvel shredded him and turned him into a new guy who basically, you know,

is on the leash of a woman boss just to fit the times. It's amazing to me that the people who, the side that's supposed to be in love with art and understand art, you know, are so hollow with art. I mean, I just don't get it. Their interpretations of things, You know, are so hollow with our, I mean, I just don't get it. Their interpretations of things.

Strange, right? What am I looking at here? I don't even know what I'm looking at. One of our hosts just threw something in the chat room. I can't tell what it is. Is it snow, possibly? Oh, it is snow. Okay.

Texas is getting snow. We're getting some snow later today. And I think it's because they don't give us the due that we deserve, right? In other words, they don't give the—the left thinks themselves so thoughtful and smart, and the right so dense and so sort of focused on one sort of means of living or whatever. You know, hardly nuanced at all. Simple, if you will. That we can't pick apart a story like that. We can't pick, we can't figure out a character like the Punisher. We can't enjoy a character like the Punisher. We can't appreciate the ins and outs of that character.

In other words, if a right-winger likes the Punisher, then he just wants to go kill people that he thinks should die. And that's a very dangerous thing, right? Or if the police like the Punisher, well, that just means they want to go and shoot everybody. They think we're incapable of understanding the nuance of the story, which is a man whose family was killed, who was betrayed, and who goes on a journey

to sort of understand who and what he is. And then comes the terms with what he is. And it ain't pretty. The stories that most jar me are of Martin Luther King Jr. being hit in the face with rocks. Something about those tails that always are like, wow.

It's amazing how effective you can be through competence and self-restraint and discipline. Of course, the problem with nonviolence is that it gets misrepresented, I think. And I think people also turn it into a lifestyle choice, right? Now, we don't have an issue with nonviolence in the United States right now, I don't think. I think both sides are ready to get nice and violent. But we make believe that we're not. We make believe that we're something we're not,

that we are a peaceful society, a peaceful people, when history would tell us, I don't necessarily know if I agree with that. The common man is made to hide in his home, right? Hide his home, fill out his registration papers, kowtow to the gun control lunatics, make sure the firearms are locked up safely in a way so that they cannot magically hurt someone. And also so that when the criminals with the illegal guns kick in your door, you have to fumble around with keys and figure out how you're going to protect yourself and your family because the misguided men. The guided missiles and the misguided men. Men. The guided missiles and the misguided men. I'll just tell you like it is, you need to have a capacity for violence.

How do I know this? How am I so sure of the fact that you need to have a capacity for violence? Number one, the world will take advantage of you at every turn, even the people you love and that love you. I know that's crazy. I don't think—in some cases it's not even on purpose. And it's not to say that you would use violence against people who love you or the people that you love. But it's understanding that your capacity for violence and aggression and your ability to stand up for yourself and so on and so forth, it's all intertwined. You can't be a guy who weighs 95 pounds and doesn't know how to throw a punch and somehow

stand up for yourself and have it work against, you know, anybody formidable who really wants what you have. It doesn't work. Maybe if you have a gang of people with you, and television cameras on you, or something like that, maybe. But the reality of the life that we live, the reality of the life that we live, the reality of evil, is you need the capacity for violence.

And I think a lot of why we are where we are today comes from this motive that our society had towards peace, because we didn't understand peace, right? We thought peace meant drive out anything masculine or violent or gun-related or strong, strength-derived, anything. Drive it all out of the society. And that happened. You know, and that slowly started to happen to the point where, you know, kids who go to school and play in playgrounds, a lot of them aren't allowed to make finger guns.

Like, you're not allowed to make a finger gun. This is sort of my favorite example of this, right? Like, you can't make a finger gun. Why? Why can't you make a finger gun? Well, because it's almost like a real gun. Okay. Elaborate. We don't want our kids having a relationship with firearms. Can't have that. That immediately denatures a person's ability to protect himself. I mean, it's that easy. It's that simple. It's that quick. It happens like that.

You grow up in a school where you make a finger gun playing cops and robbers or war or whatever kids have played, boys in particular, forever. And the teacher tells you, no, you can't do that. That's bad. Oh, I didn't know that. I had no idea. Why would you automatically assume that? Nobody would automatically assume that, right? But they automatically assume it. And then you grow up with this idea that I better be very careful about guns and gun ownership.

I better make sure that it's very important. It's a necessity damn near because it's bad. Well, the problem is cultures and groups and gangs outside of this thought process have very little problem with guns. Raise children with guns, you know what I mean? And you wind up in a situation where the capacity for violence is limited. But the enemy's capacity for violence is heightened. What are you supposed to do? I have a lot of...

I've made this transition to myself. That's why I like to talk about this topic all the time. Because I made this transition from weak and helpless to having a very real capacity for violence. Trained, you know what I mean? Not like, I get so mad, I just turn into the Hulk. Because that don't work. to the Hulk, because that don't work. But training, you know, how to use firearms to be deadly, right? How to care for your body in a way that you have the endurance and the physical strength to do damage. Learning how to do damage with your eight limbs, right? The art of eight limbs, Muay Thai, and other martial arts, and boxing, and so on. Developing the knowledge and the capacity for violence is essential. And look, here I am, father of two, husband. I've never once needed to, wanted to, exact that capacity for violence on a single person in my life,

particularly since I have really honed it. It's never happened. In fact, your capacity for violence and the confidence in your capacity for violence can oftentimes take a situation that could potentially be violent and make it go away because you don't appear as a victim. I'm going to give you a little exercise that you can do that the crazy intrepid commander does.

There are times where we have work trucks in the neighborhood, trimming trees, you know, doing road work, whatever the situation is. And a lot of times I will see these guys, good guys, the most important men of a society. That's what they are. The men who fix the pipes and fix the roads and trim the trees and fix the power lines. They're the most important. They're royalty, truly.

I mean, in a society that made sense, these would be the men of royalty. Because without them, you have nothing. I take what they're doing and the reality of what they're doing out of the picture, and I start to play fiction with them. I start to play with the idea of them in my neighborhood, and instead of them being there to do the most important job, I imagine what it would be like if there were men with multiple trucks, job. I imagine what it would be like if there were men with multiple trucks and instead of vests,

you know, yellow vests, maybe they had plate carriers on. Big trucks, plate carriers, many men, a force of men. And it's important for you to put yourself in that position from time to time because it's a good measure, you know? If you looked outside, and at the end of your street, there were two large trucks, and there were about six to ten men, armed, willing to do terrible things to you and your family, what do you do? In a nonviolent society, you do nothing. If you are dedicated to nonviolence—and listen, I know Martin Luther King was dedicated to nonviolence in his marches,

and that actually is the way that a march should go. That is the way that a protest should go, right? Nonviolence is the way that they have no capacity for violence. There is nothing to worry about, right? They're like sloths. You just go and just take them and do what you please with them. They're too slow to get away. They are, you know, incapable of even defending themselves. But it is a very interesting thought experiment when you get yourself, you know, in a situation where it's like,

hmm, wow, so, here I am. Here I am in this iteration of life, but instead of these men over here doing God's, I mean, the life-saving work of keeping the power on or whatever, they're here to do harm. And they've got two big trucks for cover and transport. There's six to ten of them. They're all armed. They're all armored.

What's next? What do you do next? Do you know? what's next? What do you do next? Do you know? For me, this is an instance where intelligence is numero uno. Right?

The first thing you would want to figure out is what's going on, why are they here? And there are numerous ways you could do that without walking up to them, making a scene. But that's something to consider. What's going on? Why are they here? What's the intent, right? And obviously communication follows intelligence.

All right, we know why they're here. We know what they're doing at the end of the street. They're heavily armed. Now it's time that we have to say, you know, whatever, if you're providing us with security, we're fine. If you're here to impose some kind of will, some kind of bad will or whatever the situation is, we need you to leave, right? And you don't even have to communicate that in person. But having a means of communication is essential.

You know, I think if you were going to communicate with a violent group that was trying to take over your community or neighborhood, a great way to do it would be through their own radio comms, right? You would also learn a lot about them that way. that way. In other words, if you could scan your radio dials, whether they were two-way or, you know, ham radio or GMRS, whatever, if you could scan your radio dials and scan your frequencies and find their channel, and you could do that with a little bit of, you know, if you could see them in particular, like if they're in your field of view, it would help. That would be really cool. That would be a really good—and most people, I'm sure, aren't even going to consider encrypted radio communications. And if you are up against a group like that, then that would be valuable intel. But a very effective way, and maybe even a little intimidating, would be to communicate with them through their own radio frequency.

You know, and maybe let them know we see you. We understand what you're after, and we need you to leave. And the final piece of that puzzle is to bring forth such agony that they're forced to leave if they choose not to leave, and they have vehicles and, you know, weapons, then you have to be—you have to have an understanding of violence, techniques, pain and suffering. In order to exact that on people. I can tell you right now, in a situation like this, you should never underestimate. I know that there's armor-piercing rounds. I know that you're a really good shot.

I know that you know how to flank an enemy. I know that you have people. I know that you have a bunch of excuses and ideas about how you would deal with a group of guys like this standing around outside of their trucks trying to intimidate your community. But I would tell you, please do not underestimate the efficacy of fire-borne munitions or fire in general. Truly, truly, the effect that you can have with fire in a situation like this should never be underestimated. You can bring forth fire very easily. You probably have everything in your house right now to bring forth fiery hell on a small group of men who are there to do bad things and there to do violence. And if they weren't on your property, if they were, you know, in a

collapse situation, they were sort of like in between a few roads to sort of block entry and exit. Yeah, you could rain down literal hell with fire. So don't take that out of the tool belt in lieu of, you know, thousands of feet per second, whatever, firearms. Or, yeah, the use of firearms. Let's just leave it at that. So I wanted to talk about character. I wanted to talk about God. I wanted to talk about nonviolence, and in thinking about nonviolence, I was driven to this conversation about the importance of violence, how to effectively use violence on an occupying force, right, or how to sort of address it, right, how you would want to address it,

because every prepper has that little, you know, they want to know that. I mean, character, we've talked God, we've talked nonviolence, we've talked character somewhat. I want to read you now some of Martin Luther King's messages to people. some of Martin Luther King's messages to people. I want to read you these messages to people from a time long gone, and maybe that's how we'll end the show. You know, to the left wing and their hatred towards Trump, which that is what it is.

I said this one already, but I think it's important to say again, and I highlighted this with the words Trump in capitals. I have decided to stick to love because hate is too great a burden to bear. And if you've watched the hateful left wing attacking Trump, I think it's very clear that the burden is too heavy. I think it's clear that the burden of hatred wears you out much more than it ever wears out the person you hate. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. There's a reason all these hosts do a podcast week after week after week after week after week after week.

One of the reasons is you. One of the reasons is that we run a successful podcast network. The majority of podcasts are done after about five episodes. They have very little following. The Prepper Broadcasting Network is a very different beast, and I am ever grateful for you know. The Prepper Broadcasting Network is a very different beast, and I am ever grateful for you guys, you know. Thousands of people listen on a week-to-week basis, and it's, you know, it's an honor. I've been talking about forgiveness on the conservative side for a long time, because I don't know if we're there yet, but there will very,

very soon will come a time, I think, where forgiveness is, and it may be actually happening right here and now, where forgiveness is asked of us more than anything else. Well, just look at the COVID issue. From a prepper standpoint, we live in forgiveness, right? We live here. Like, we are always in the act of forgiveness, or else we'd be resentful and we'd hate regular people, right? We live here. We are always in the act of forgiveness. Or else we'd be resentful and we'd hate regular people. But when COVID came along, we'd spent years being laughed at. You think a pandemic is going to come and end the world? Ha ha ha.

Paranoid. You're scared. You're afraid of everything. Why are you so afraid? Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a constant attitude. And you could see this in your daily life. You could see this with your family, your spouse, your kids, whatever the situation is, your boss. But what we have to deal, we have to also adopt this as a society. We have to adopt forgiveness as an attribute of our society. Again, capacity of violence, right? Capacity of violence is important because you can defend yourself. And in that state, forgiveness is a lot easier. It's easier to forgive somebody who's screwed up if you don't have to say,

well, thanks to you, you screwed up. Now the whole world's coming to an end and there's nothing I can do about it. But we have to remember on our side of things, people are making the wrong decisions going down the darkest paths that you could possibly go down. that you could possibly go down. And I think there will come a time where forgiveness is all they're after. You're seeing it already. Like I said, Fauci comes out and says, yeah, I think it was a lab leak. And we kind of just made that shit up

with the six feet apart. I don't know what that was going to do. We made it up. There's going to come a time where people say, you know what, the vaccine was kind of a wreck. I'm sorry. It was a mess. It didn't really, you know. And for people like us who lost things, you see, I lost things. I lost an entire YouTube channel filled with not only videos of me talking and the people I care about talking, but there were personal videos on there. You know what I mean? That was my original, like one of my original YouTube channels. There were videos of my son and me in there playing

video games and having fun. And there were videos that there were things in there that I lost for two reasons, fundamentally. Number one, we dare question the 2020 election, and number two, we dared question the response to COVID. Now, I lost a YouTube channel. That's laughable. Some people lost their business. Some people lost their livelihood, okay? Some people have been taken to the bottom rung of the ladder

and have had to start all over. They lost their job. They lost their career. They lost family members. They probably lost relationships, right? Because they dared question, what's up with six feet? This could be a lab leak. Don't you think we should figure it out? No, no, no. So in a situation like that, when you're right, and you were always right, you can only do one of two things. You can wag

it in the face of those who are wrong. You idiot, I told you. Why didn't you listen to me, you moron? What's wrong with you? Or you can choose forgiveness. Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a constant attitude. Because believe me, the people you will forgive, they will suffer enough in their ignorance. They will.

They will suffer enough in their ignorance, particularly along the lines of COVID, right? They'll look back and say, how was I such an idiot? How was I taken advantage of so thoroughly? And that'll be their cross to bear, PBN family, and that's enough. I want to speak to modern depression in the words of Martin Luther King Jr. Because this is a big one. And I got a secondary one for this too.

So we look around the nation, many people depressed, suicide, out of control. MLK said, those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it. Because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. When you're on your phone scrolling for a little dopamine hit, you're not doing it for anybody, right? The focus on money-making, for the ends of money-making. What are you doing? You know, what are you doing? We are a very selfish society. Let's not forget that we're also out advocating for something

almost all the time time it seems like. In order to be happy I need this thing. In order to be happy I need that thing. I listened to a Indian mystic. Called Sadguru. I've mentioned him many times. And he always talks about chemicals. And he says as a society we need chemicals for everything.

We need chemicals to grow food that we eat. We need chemicals to make us well. We need chemicals to be happy. We need chemicals to fall asleep. We need chemicals to make love. Everything we do, every aspect of our life, we need chemicals. And I think a lot of that has to do with that as well. You know,

those who are not looking for happiness are most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to happiness is to seek happiness for others.

He also said, everybody can be great. Now listen to this. Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

PBN family, I hope you enjoyed today's show. I sure enjoyed it. I'm going to leave you with one final quote, and I'm going to get back to my day, okay? And this is it. This is everything. This is 2024 in a nutshell. There's nothing else, okay? We must live together as brothers Or perish together as fools That's the choice we have From Martin Luther King Jr. That's the choice of 2024 In this country

In this election year Will we live together as brothers Or will we perish together as fools? Talk soon, PBN family. 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.