The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Oil Tankers for Christmas!

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

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You're listening to PABN. You're pay off back to stability here. The oil that has been seized. The United States seized 1.9 million barrels of oil on December 10th. We're to keep it. Where is it good? Are we going to sell it or put it in this strategic? Maybe we'll sell it, maybe we'll keep it.

Maybe we'll use it in the strategic reserves. We're keeping it. We're keeping the ship's also. Oh, we got ourselves an early Christmas gift, huh? Oil tankers and oil from Venezuela. I don't know about you. I'm not losing sleepover. What do you think, PBN family, welcome in.

It is the eve of the eve of. Christmas Eve. Glad I could be with you today. A little late in the day, a little 149-ish, not usually my podcasting time, but I thought I'd hop on with you, and we would talk the world, the holiday, the celebration. I got a message from Dave Jones, the NBC guy yesterday. Dave Jones, the NBC guy, the one and only, actually messages in the Azure Force, are sort of Virginia, I don't know, prepper, group, contingent, suffering, training, practicing, arguing, crying, whining, fit, fest over there on Signal. And he asked me, said, you know, sorry, I have this show in the background, I forgot to turn it off, it's Kevin Costner doing the first day of, the first Christmas, rather. sounds pretty good it was pretty low key until i hit record on the podcast and all of a sudden i guess

god has literally come out of the heavens and everyone's screaming so if you hear something in the background don't worry it's just uh the birth of the the one true lord so nothing to fret about anyway he uh he proposed a question that i think i'd like to propose to you which is what is your 2026 prepper resolution or resolution or resolution Right? What are you looking out upon the world and seeing thinking? What are the areas that you want to improve? What are the things that you want to do more of? Where do you want to, you know, see the greatest gains in 2026? I don't know about you. 2025 was an interesting year for me. It really was. But in reflection, there's not a whole lot of stuff that I look at in my own prep or sphere and say, well that's new i want to get better at that it's almost like an increase upon things that you already have or skills that you already have there is some legacy going on in the back of my head there's definitely some of that there's certainly some legacy training that's in my head right

my boys are both getting to the age where uh i don't know you start you start to understand what they have and have not learned at your hand will eventually that time frame, that little training time frame comes to an end. It is weird when you think about it, right? It's a very weird thing, you know? And, of course, I always tell you everything in life is reps. So I know the teacher child something wants for what, you know, what's the point? so reps you know reps is a big thing family adventure and family adventure reps it's a big piece of

the puzzle um and it's it's because not because i think that we'll find ourselves in a wilderness survival situation in the year 2026 right running from thermal drones with with emergency blankets to cover ourselves from the kind of cover our heat signature right but you never know uh but anyhow What I think is just as important as the, you know, learning the appropriate fire lays or building a tender bundle from nothing, you know, striking a fair roll, these are skills that are pretty basic. But one of the things that comes with all this stuff is a confidence in the woods, right? It's a confidence in the wild places.

And if you're an American, like, you should be in the wild places. Make no mistake about it. This isn't the way it works in a lot of countries around the world. A lot of places around the world, especially European, there aren't swathes of wild places, right? It's not like the United States where they're just like, well, we'll take these 10,000 acres, and you can just go on there and hunt and camp and fish and sleep

and walk and hike and bird watch and whatever. whatever else you want to do. You probably won't even see another person, but you can do it to your heart's content. What keeps people out of those beautiful areas is the fear. It's the fear that I'll get turned around. I'll get lost. I don't know what berries I can eat and can eat.

I don't know how to signal for help. I don't know how to build a shelter. I definitely don't know how to make a fire. So terrifying, right? Terrifying. I don't know. I'm scared. But beyond all of that,

especially with this digital mayhem that is you know running a muck all over us all the great balance is the wild you could feel it i mean you spend you know six hours without your phone in the woods fishing in the wild places hiking whatever and you'll you'll feel it immediately instantly you'll feel a decompression of your soul Building that into your system is important. I have gathered together a bunch of old Bushcraft for Preppers videos that I'm bringing back to life. For those of you who are interested, right? PBNFamily.com is the website.

Go over there. Sign up for membership and you can watch the Bushcraft for Preper series. If you want to, you know, see what skills I think are most important for Preppers in the woods. I don't believe in all of them. I don't believe that every bush crafting skill is an essential if you're just prepping. But I do think that some are critical. And I might as well show you how. So that's what we've done over there at bushcraft of preppers.

Again, it's all reps. You know what I mean? It's all reps. But I do want to go back to Donald Trump. Something about it. I'm not even a big huge fan of what's happening with the Venezuelan situation. right i'm not a big fan of regime change it doesn't seem to work really well for us when we do it you figure we put our guy in over there in syria and we're already bombing isis in syria right

it's like six months a year something like that um that wild you know what i mean just it is it is really what it comes down to in all these nations is the people have to run the nations democratically or it's just war forever you know but of course the bigger question there is well why not war forever why not war forever there's so much money to be made in drones and rockets and you know

bloodshed and death and misery and until that's a less valuable thing in the world then you know just we'll see a lot of it so what I do like is in America with teeth

and I know that everybody understands it oh we understand military America has this big bad military and you know if it comes to your town it's going to be a real bad day but I think we don't truly appreciate the times

that we're living in in terms of how important the decisions we make are and the posture we have on the geopolitical side of things is and what we're doing when we're seizing oil tankers and keeping it as Trump said, we're keeping it.

We're keeping it. It's funny. The way he said it is funny. What we're doing is we're stemming the tide of either debts being paid by oil to Russia and China or oil itself going to... And remember, debts being paid to Russia and China via oil. This is a big part of Venezuelan loans that they get from China and Russia. I mentioned this all in a podcast months ago, when I tried to tell everybody this is what's going on.

This is why we're after Venezuela. Maybe the drugs has something to do with it too, but it definitely has to do with the fact that they take out big loans. One of their biggest oil companies is partially owned by Russia, by the way. And the only way to stop the Russians bombing Ukraine into forever is the flow of oil. And Trump's already up against it because he's got the Europeans, are still buying oil off them.

They're like turning a blind eye, you know what I mean, and buy oil off. They're like, just tell me a story and I'll buy it. It's sort of like when you're buying something that you think is American, but you know in your heart it's actually made in China, but like the, you know, they tell you like some of the ingredients,

some of the materials were sourced here in the United States. And you know it's not a made in America product, but you turn a blind eye to it because you want it. It's cheap, whatever. That's what Europe's been doing with Russian oil the whole time. Wagging their finger at Trump. When's Trump going to stop this war?

This is terrible. We need the Americans help over here. We can't. Russia's coming. Russia's coming into Poland. They're going to take Poland. Putin is a Soviet. You know, any bit of that could be true.

Who knows? But the one thing that's definitely true is you can't be buying oil oil. You can't be feeding the war machine, right? You can't be feeding the same war machine that's, you're, you're terrified is about to take over. So Trump said, okay, I can get a piece of the action. I can get a piece of the action. These tankers that are coming and going in this shadow fleet,

coming and going to China and to Russia, we'll just take them. And I like that we're keeping them. And I like that we're keeping the ships. Because, listen, it's like I always said, I'd rather him go through Congress. I'd rather do war the right way. We can't control whether.

or our nation goes to war or not. I'm telling you that right now. But if you think that the problem with Russia, China, and Venezuela and Hamas, they're all included down there, and the drug cartels, it's bad enough that we should execute on some military actions. Then let's just do it right. You know, let's do military right. Let's do conquer, command and conquer appropriately.

You follow me? It's been my problem with the Middle East for years For a decade I've said you take it Take Iraq Do you know what I mean You don't need soldiers anymore We have drones now

We don't have to have soldiers walking around Iraq Iran or whatever Syria whatever Whatever one of these Afghanistan The whole entire drone patrols To walk around and fly around with bombs on them Guys get out of line Boom

I know it's dark and it's terrible And it's so anti-Christian two days before, right, Jesus himself is born. But at the end of the day, I'm not a big fan of this, like, I'm just really not a big fan of wounding evil and letting it recover. You know what I mean? I'm not a big fan of wounding and letting it recover. You know, it makes me feel like I'm on the same page as these idiot judges, these absolute rotten judges who should be, they should be thrown in jail themselves. I mean, we should create an entire jail system for the judges and the DAs. You know what I mean? Like a litigation jail where if we find

out that you've put, if you've put a guy in jail, right, actually, I just had a better idea. This is how you solve the judge problem and the DA problem in the United States. You ready? This is how you solve it. I could solve it overnight. This is what you do. It's still happening, by the way. I didn't read this story, but I saw a headline on the way to starting this show. And it was, you know, X, Y, and Z guy, you know, arrested 15 times, booked 40 times, whatever. And he's out, and he did something terrible and horrible. And, oh, my God, I can't believe it's happened again, right?

I'd solve it. I'd solve it. You know how I'd solve it? I'd tell you what I'd do. What I would do is, I would tell the judges in the DAs, if we find... that you have brought a guy up on charges 40 times, 10 times, 12 times, and he gets out and kills somebody, he's going to go to jail for the rest of his life, and you're going to be in the same cell with him.

He's going to go to jail, you're going to go to jail, and you're going to live your term out together in the same cell. So you better be damn sure that this guy who you're going to let off for the 15th time, is really decided to get himself together, right? It's all I could say. It's all I could say. You know what I mean? So what are you doing?

What's happening in your world, Peeb and family? I know we got just a couple days till the big morning fest of opening presents and tearing, rapping, and throwing, and looking and filming in pictures, and Santa's come down the chimney and done his thing. the kids are smiling and you know I don't know how yours it goes but you know I don't travel much for Christmas and it's lovely but I know many of you know you got to wrap the kids up in clothes and coats and leave all the toys behind to go see family members I remember those days it never really made much sense to me but we tried to stay pretty much you know wrapped up tight for

the holiday season and it's nice it's nice to do it's a wonderful thing To be at home, fireplace on. I don't know what we're making for dinner yet. I haven't figured it out. But it'll be something delicious and wonderful and in an oven all day and maybe some stuffing or maybe some baked root vegetable. I don't know what it's going to be. A duck, a chicken, a turkey.

Who knows? I will be out tomorrow. There is something about the hustle and bustle of the 24th that I don't mind. It's kind of fun. You know what I mean? I won't be out today. The morning was spent, Lady Liberty and I We binge watched the Disney show

The Santa Claus's And the Santa Claus's was I don't know if it was unintentional It may have been intentional If it was intentional, it was brilliant On the part of Disney If it was unintentional Then it's even more funny

But I'm watching the Santa Claus's And I keep trying to figure out Which race and gender They're going to turn Santa into and i won't spoil it for you whether or not you decide to watch it but it was just one of those things where i'm sitting you're watching my you know when me and my wife watch something we're we're both very cynical and we have a lot of fun and you know because we're just so used we've been so we grew up when tv was normal

we watch DEI and and you know everything else diversity inclusion and equality sort of hit the entertainment world like a title wave and we watch this kind of stuff and you know we look at each and we kind of know what each other's thinking already like oh here we go right this is about i can see where this is going well the whole show is set up like i can see where this is going and it's kind of fun to watch it all play out the santa clauses on disney plus don't ask me why it wasn't something we were looking forward to it was like i woke up a little late because i stayed up all hours of the watching Christmas vacation with my kids and I woke up late and came down and made a coffee she's watching it so I can sit down you know seven in the morning whatever eight seven 30

and start watching it and before you know it's midday oh my god what do we do we done and my wife you know she can't stay put she's out the door immediately immediately shows over she's got to go pick this up and do this and something the other but it was a good time it's fun I'll be honest It was pretty fun. So I don't know how you're spending your holiday season, PBM family. I hope you're not seeing too many people. I find a limited engagement. Limited engagements are sort of the best on Christmas.

Enjoy your gifts, enjoy your time, enjoy the fun you can have with your family. You know what I mean? I'll be on. I've got a lot, okay? I'm going to record another podcast right after this one that is all about your Christmas gift from the Intrepid Commander, 100% free, something I set aside, just for you folks, okay? Just for you folks. And it is very special.

I was up late last night, putting it together, finishing it off, and it will be in your inbox tomorrow. So make sure you sign up for the newsletter, right? I'll put a link down below. There will be a Christmas message, a decidedly more religious, more God-driven Christmas message. It may contain any variety of things. I haven't really written it yet. I'm going to write it out in the peace and quiet that I thought I was going to get this morning,

but I gave that over to Disney. And, yeah, things to look forward to. I want to thank everybody over at, who's watching over at Overcast. I don't know if this is a fluke. I'm not sure what it is, but I want to thank you guys over there watching on the Overcast app. I don't know what the Overcast app is, okay?

But it's new. And not only is it new, it has spiked the download numbers like crazy. I mean, it really has. And in doing so, has also spiked my confidence, I can tell you that much. It was getting a little, you know, 2025, we saw a pretty big drop in listenership. I don't know if it was listenership or I don't know. But we, we, the last few days, I don't know what's going. I thought I did something wrong.

I thought I looked at the numbers. I said, what's going on here? So if you're new, we thank you. Stay tuned. Spread the word. We do appreciate you all. And look for that gift. Okay.

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