The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Oil...mageddon. Does Americca have the Stomach to Survive?

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

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PBN family, a world without gas a haul. What is happening over there in the Middle East? War, you know, war is happening. What do you mean? War. Anybody who tells you they're going to show up and do war and everything's going to go as planned, like, come on. That is just not the way it goes, folks.

F-35s go down, tanker planes go down, people die, that's war. And America's in a war. And, you know, I feel a lot of things that have started to transpire over the years. You know what I mean? Things that I have thought about, worried about, you know, the big picture here. We're going to talk about some things on today's show that have a lot to do with a guy named Peter Zion. And Peter Zion, what a name, right, this day and age. Peter Zion.

It's not spelled the same, but, you know, people won't even listen to a guy. with a name like that. But Peter Zion largely is a geopolitical analyst dude who suffers from a moderate amount of TDS. And somehow, first of all, I listen to him a lot, okay? I know. And, you know, this is just a testament to, like, the information that's out there. I talk to you about this, right, about the fact that there are people out there who oppose your political view and your belief system but have good information. and, you know, it's good to listen to him.

It's good to understand and to listen to them. So there's that. And then there is also, you know, the whole situation with what's going on. I'm sorry, there's a massive police presence here. So what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get as close as possible to it. Like I want to get as close as humanly possible to it before I go home because I just dropped my kid off. And, okay, it's a car accident.

When I see massive police presence near my child's school, I'm like, all right, it's time to go home. Just go grab and take them home. Forget it. We'll try again tomorrow. I don't have to. Capacity to sit here and worry about Antifa protests down the street from the school or whatever the hell it could be. You know what I mean? But anyway, back to Peter.

Peter does really good geopolitical land. analysis, okay? And the reason I'm bringing him up is because you're going to see a lot of news about oil and gas naturally, right? The, what is it, Rashafina, Rashefina, I don't know what it's called exactly. The Qatar natural gas was hit. Iran's oil fields obviously have been hit. The war is far from over. I don't care what anybody says. This thing is far from over. You go to Congress and you ask for $200 more billion. That's because the war is far from over. And it's not an in and out. You know what I mean? It's not the wind that we thought it was going to be. It's not the Operation Midnight Hammer.

This is not what you're getting into. You're getting into the Middle East, baby. It's the Middle East. You know, I don't know how else to say it. It's the Middle East. We fall into this whole every five or so years or whatever it seems like, five, ten years. Oh, we're back in the sand again. Shit, what do we do?

And, you know, it's not without, you know, good intentions, right? I really do think we'd love to see the world become something, you know, beautiful that is void of regimes like Iran's who, what did they do? What have they done in the face of all of this? Well, what they've done in the face of all of this is they hung a teenage wrestling champion. Yeah, just the other day. It's hung them. Yesterday, I think it was. Right?

Cool. That's a great country. That's something you really want to have on the planet. But I know you go down the whole, you know, the whole thing of the world's police and, you know, how much money do the American slaves who already pay everything in taxes and are selling their blood plasma to get along. How much do we have to pay for the security and safety of the world? Well, Donald Trump's the only president in history that I've ever heard since maybe George Washington that, you know, even remarked about changing that, right? But back to oil and gas, largely, well, the big, sort of the big philosophy of Peter Zion is that he wrote a book called The End of the World is just the beginning. Right? The End of the World is Just the Beginning. And it's a great book and it's a big-ass book and it's all about the end of globalism and how countries, how different countries are going to fare.

because what I'm getting at is you see stories like this about how gas is going problems with gas are going to affect nations. This is a short-term pinprick, but it's a peak into what the future is for a lot of these countries. Not the United States of America. The United States of America, and this, remember, Peter Zion is, he undoubtedly suffered. from a little bit of TDS.

Like he's got the Trump derangement syndrome. He says crazy stuff. That's what it is. One thing he always says, though, is America will survive and thrive in this age of de-globalization because of our self-reliance. And one of the things we are, you know, mucho self-reliant on now, particularly with Venezuela, is oil and gas. And it's going to be more apparent as time goes on.

Drill Baby Drill is not out of desire to have low gas prices. It's out of necessity for a future, right? For a really good future. You know, we have to dominate continentally on the energy front. Not because, you know, for survival. I mean, literally for survival. Because these, you know, things are crazy, man. Things are absolutely insane anymore.

And to rely on, you know, I mean, who are you going to rely on? Kier Starmer? Who are you going to ally with in this world? You know what I mean? I like the Japanese prime minister. She seems like she don't take no crap. Pretty cool.

Pretty cool little meeting between the two. The world's like all up in arms over, well not the world, but the media over Donald Trump's surprise. Pearl Harbor joke. I thought that was just, you know, it is what it is. I don't know who Donald Trump is yet? Hello. media. You don't know who Donald Trump is yet? He's only been a major media figure my whole life,

40 years probably. So what I'm getting at for you, PBN family, is that, you know, short-term gas prices could go up. Remember, gas prices are many. Gas prices, not the market price of oil or natural gas. I'm talking about what affects you right now, which is you pull up to the pump and go, geez, we're near and $4 here, Donnie, let's get something taken care of. At least that's what it looks like here in Richmond, right? So the long term, the doomsday scenario about gasoline and oil is not one that you most likely are going to have to worry about in America. Right? We're in the process and, you know, currently in the process of serious prosperity through energy.

I'm telling you this because the headlines are enough to kill you. I don't know about you, but the things that we see on a daily basis are enough to kill somebody with like a bad heart. You can't even read the headlines. I take, I intermittent fast the headlines, you know what I mean? Because it's no good for you. It's just no good for you. It is just no good for you to ingest all this bad news all the time. You know, and it's everywhere.

It's in the country, it's out of the country. It's the youth. It's the elders. It's the women. It's the men. It's the right. It's the left. It's everywhere.

Everything. It's brutal. The world has become the SHTF plan.com. All of media has become the SHTF plan.com with a side of like soft core pornography. That's, that is what you're ingesting day in and day out. And it's just too much, man. It's too much. And wear you out.

And wear your brain out or wear your soul out. You're hard out. So you got to divest. You got to, you know, seriously. Like, you got to take breaks. And you got to know the real deal. You got to know what's really going on. What your future is looking like, you know, you can, there are things, big things in your future that you can control.

Am I going to stay? Am I going to go? How are we going to eat? What are we going to do? Can I protect myself and my family? Is this area too much of a risk, you know, whatever. Whatever kind of stuff is in your bag that you shake around every day. But there are big things too, like gas and oil that you can't do anything about it.

So what I wanted to sort of articulate is this guy, Peter Zion, knows his stuff, if you want to listen to him. He's a lefty. He can't get around that. He hates Donald Trump. But he knows his stuff to some degree. And, you know, this is not one of his little one-off saying. This is part of his major thesis after sort of looking over the world, which is the continent is, self-sufficient and will remain self-sufficient in large part through the de-globalization of the world, which is happening, right? It's a thing that is happening right now. The, what are they? Not NATO. Or was it NATO? No, what's the other one? The UN. I think it was the UN. The United Nations

came out yesterday and we're begging for money. They're begging. We don't have any money. The countries don't want to pay. Ever since America backed off dumping all of your tax money, into their pockets so they could walk around in nice suits and eat at expensive restaurants you can never imagine getting into. All of a sudden they're out of money, right? Funny enough, you can't go to Portugal and Spain where everybody's just laying in hammocks half the day and ask them for more money. They tell you to piss off, sip their port, tell you to go to hell.

So, you know, the rubber's meeting the road in a lot of senses all over the world. And in my opinion, for the most part anyway, it's a good thing. It's a good thing. It's not going to be a painless thing. It may not be a comfortable thing, but it's a good thing. People need to feel it. People need to experience like, oh, I forgot. Largely around the world, people have to understand, like, this is real life without American funding and American military presence everywhere, right? And that's for the better. They need a military. You need a military. You know what I mean? America's prosperity, is what? I mean, really, America figured out the game. They figured out the game better than everybody ever did.

Nobody ever will figure out the game better than America has figured it out. They figured out we're here to help. But the reality of America is, I'm talking about global like interaction. We're here to help. We'll send you our best and our brightest. You know what I mean? We'll send you money if you need help. All these kinds. We're here. hit out. We're going to share our technology. We're going to share our commerce. We've trade the whole nine yards. But what America really figured out was, fold in modernism, folding Christianity, fold in Buddhism, folding whatever you want to fold into the system, nonprofits, you know, unbelievable empathy. Fold it all in.

Make the world a much kinder place. And what you're real. it's still the big guns that rule. It's still the big guns that rule. So America's decided, you know, we want to be able to fight a war on three fronts. We're going to build a military that is largely unstoppable. And we're going to be a military power on the face of the earth that you can't really even wrap your head around. We're just going to be benevolent on top of it. And it really, that is the game.

I mean, that's the whole game, if you ask me. You know, like how to be the baddest nation on a planet, that's how you do it. Right? If any other nation had the military might that the United States had, it would be a very different world. It would be a very different world. I mean, you know, if there was a coalition of Islamic states in the Middle East and they dominated oil production and had a military three times that of the rest of the world, what do you think?

you'd be doing right now. You'd be looking for the sun on the horizon and laying your prayer rug out is what you'd be doing. I'm just kidding. There are options. But, you know, so I wanted to get on to talk to you about that because it's a big story. It's a huge story. It's going to make you feel a certain way. And the price, gas prices are going to keep going up as long as this thing goes on. And if Donald Trump doesn't get it under control pretty quick, then it's going to affect the midterms for sure. The Democrats will come out and lie and say, you know, we're here to represent you. That's the first lie.

Then they'll say, we love America. That's the second lie. And then they'll say, we're going to get gas prices under control. We're going to get affordability under control. There's a, I mean, we could do a whole podcast on affordability. And the variety of people in politics, both left and right, who are out there saying they're going to make things more affordable, they're going to make things more affordable. And they're not making anything affordable. Nothing's more affordable.

Right? What's more affordable? Is anything more affordable? Here in Virginia, things have gotten more expensive, harder to get. Insane. Right? So it's tis the time. You know what I mean? It's the same old story, right? You have to build out the world you want. You have to, more importantly than anything, if you haven't established a base level of preparedness, a bug in, headquarters for your family. This is goal number one. Goal number one is to have enough food and water at home. Right?

What was it? The Citizens Prep? I don't have it in front of me. I can't remember it. Go back and listen to the Pace Plan episode. If you don't know how to calculate your food and your water, we may just throw this thing right up on our website or something. I don't know.

I may wind up putting it in the show notes perpetually. because it's just a nice reason. He's got to polish it up a little bit, but it's a really great resource. Calculate your food and water needs, man. Fill the house up with food and water, right? Catch rainwater, that kind of thing. Make sure your house is fortified. Make sure you have a way to leave your house and a place to go outside of your home and neighborhood.

Should that become compromised? Make sure you have a way, if nothing else, to listen into comms. Right? A way to listen. into comms is essential. Even if you can't broadcast out, right? You can use radios to listen, and you can use GMRS to listen locally. You can use, I mean, whatever.

Buy a radio this weekend and scan. Just scan. If you know nothing about radios, you can buy a Balfang, you can buy even a shortwave, right? And just scan the local area. And then mark the channels or write them down or program them into your radio that you get people talking. You know, put the N-O-A, program that into your radio, just so that you can listen to something if everything goes black.

Everything goes black. The phones are dead. Everything's dead. You at least have a radio that you can scan and, okay, I'm hearing this is going on, I'm hearing that is going on, right? I'm getting intelligence. Because look, things will be crazy. Things will happen that are crazy.

and what I think, what my mentality is, is your home is your survival headquarters. It's always been my mentality. You know what I mean? If you're dreaming up some bugout location and plan number one is to go to a place and do a thing, Dave Jones always used to say if your bug out plan is to go to a place and to go to some place and do something, you probably have a bad plan. I think unless you have a lot of money or unless you have a real, great group and have worked together to build something impressive out, the bug out is really

tough. It's really tough to do well. You know what I mean? It is really expensive to do well, really tough to do well. And again, you're leaving the creature comforts, the investments, the security, the stability, the food storage in most cases, right? You're leaving a lot of stuff behind, even if you pack most of it up and take it to a bug out location. Fortify your survival headquarters. It's not to say you shouldn't have one, but fortify your survival headquarters so that you know it's just too crazy out there right now. We're staying home, right?

We're staying home. We're not dealing with it. We're not going there. We're not doing that thing. Because what really bothers me lately is the stomach of the American. people. I mentioned this when Donald Trump got elected. I said, I don't know if America has the stomach for ice and apparently we don't have the stomach for ice. Right? And I'm looking around at what's happening with these guys that get out of jail. They had another one. Guy was arrested 30

sometimes and he's standing in a subway car with two hammers talking about he's going to kill white people. I'll say it all again from the beginning because I know it's hard to believe, but it just happened. He's a guy who was arrested 30 times, got 30 mug shots, something like that online. And a couple days ago, a video of him standing on a subway car with two hammers, little guy, you could probably take him. But whatever, it's not the point. Standing there with two hammers, like saying I'm going to kill white people in the car of the subway. Now, public transportation is going to die.

And you think the liberals would fight for security on public transportation because they're the whole, you know, green party, right? You get people out of their gas-guzzling vehicles. I don't know. It's something, you know what I mean? It's something for sure. But when I see situations like that, I wonder, does America have the stomach for the punishment that is required? Right? there is punishment that is required

you don't lock a guy up 30 times or arrest him 30 times and let him back out on those streets so you can make the same mistake that we're seeing being made it's actually costing people their lives you know what I mean yeah we don't have the stomach to lock a guy up for life and say look dude it's not working you know what I mean

it's not just not working it's not working we don't have the stomach for it I don't know that we have the stomach for it. But somehow we have the stomach to watch women get stabbed to death and raped and killed by these guys. So America's got to get its head on straight. It's got to get its balls together. You know what I mean?

It's because we're dealing with real problems that require real punishments. The other thing that's going on constantly, constantly now, is it's a really dark situation, but it's these flash mobs. These flash mobs need to be dealt with

then the way that they need to be dealt with is locking people up. But now you're talking about locking kids up or locking parents up or both. But you have to do it. We're talking about, you know, 70 to 100 kids showing up at a place, wrecking everything, stealing things, shooting guns. And what most people don't understand about this, even when it's like, oh, somebody got beat up, but they're going to be okay. or nobody got shot.

You know what I mean? Stores have insurance. Whatever kind of liberal hack-ass decision or description of the situation you want to come up with. This is what you have to understand about these situations. Something is dying when something like this happens. When this happens at a mall, when this happens at a beach, when this happens at a, right now they're planning one in an amusement park by us. There's a little bit of a battle between one of these teams. teenage groups that wants to have a, you know, just a smash and grab anarchy fest of violence and chaos on someone else's property slash business and ruin countless other people's day by they have to live through it and experience it, right?

Something does die in the face. This is murder. You need to look at it as murder and here's why. Because when these things happen, your kids, can't be kids anymore. What do I mean by that? Well, kids can't go nowhere anymore alone. Not because it's dangerous, because life is about danger. Not because it's dangerous, but because no establishment will allow it. So the murder of your children's, you know, milestones and rites of passage is happening before your very eyes. Because a group of wild teens wants to get together and go off, right? And laugh and have a good time and kick somebody while they're on the ground until they're unconscious. And the whole thing.

Fight each other, punch each other in the face, shoot guns off. And what's being sacrificed, you know, these guys, they all get away. You do a horrible job at dealing with this problem. Everybody gets away. And there's a serious victim. And it's the children of America and their right of passage. You sit here and you complain about, oh, my kid, he's 25 years old and he won't lead to house. Well, yeah, that's because the moms had to go to the mall with him all the way up until he was 18 years old.

What do you think? It is daring in this modern age to send your kids out to an amusement park alone or skating rink. You know all the things you used to do growing up. I saw a guy the other day talking, I never let my daughter go to a sleepover. She'll never go to a sleep. Jesus, buddy. Life is hard and tragedy will come for your daughter. It doesn't matter what...

What size blanket of protection you think you can cover her up in? You know what I mean? Life will have its way with us all. But we've got to look at it these things in the perspective, right? Oh, we don't want to see a young person locked up in juvenile hall for a year and lose a year of their childhood or whatever it is over a bad decision. Well, what about the kids that make all the right decisions? What about the kids who never make bad decisions?

Or, you know, rarely ever make bad decisions? And all they want to do is have a childhood. All they want to do is go hang with their friends at a mall, at an amusement park, at a whatever, at an event. On the weekend. And you've got to sit the kid down and you've got to say, look, I know you're 16-year-old. years old, right? I know you probably would have had a wife and a job and kids 400 years ago or something like that. But guess what? You're not allowed to go walk around the mall with a pretzel and a slurpy on your own anymore. That right of yours or that freedom of yours has been

taken from you. It's been stolen. It's been killed. It's been killed off by shit parents who don't discipline their children and allow them to run around like wild animals and destroy everything and it's not just glass and shoes and stuff that are being destroyed and stolen it's people's childhoods that are being taken from it's a big deal man

if you grew up being dropped off at the movies at the mall going to sporting events alone going to amusement parks with your friends if you did these things then you understand what I'm saying you understand what kind of problems you run into, fun situations, what kind of skills you develop being out there on your own. Like you, you understand the value of what it is to be a teenager on your own out there in the real world. This is part of growing up. This is a right of passage.

There are very few rights of passage in our society anymore, right? But it's been murdered. it's been murdered does America have the stomach to deal with it to fix it to fix the problem does America have the stomach to fix the problems that's that is one of the biggest questions on my mind anymore

you look at the radical Islam problem it's the same thing right you boil it down you simmer down the radical Islam problem all the way down like simmer it all down reduce it down to a fond reduce it down to a fond right

reduce it down to a what was it called a glass which is a like a serious reduction of a stock until it's like a very thick sauce you reduce it down to a glass and what you get is a very simple question you look at people who are unwilling to live amongst westerners they are unwilling to follow western rules they are completely unwilling to live happily with Christians, with Jews, with Buddhists, with anybody who's not Muslim, right? You see these radicals. You don't know who's radical and who's not. Stop pretending like you do. Oh, I know there are some Muslims who are good and some who are bad. I'm sure there are. I believe that 100%. Pick them out. Pick them out for me. I'll give you a crowd. You pick out the ones that are going to blow me up or raise a kid who's going to blow me up. and the ones who aren't, right?

But we do know that they want to build big giant cities, full of their people. You know that they want to expand Sharia law across the entire nation. You know that when things get weird in their mind, they like to show up with guns and shoot a bunch of people. Right? We know that when the numbers get to a certain point, when people get in power, things get bad. But we also know that there are a lot of Christians. There are a lot of armed freedom-loving America. in this country that'll never bow to this.

So you play it out as far as you can play it out, and you realize you'll only have two questions. You got two options, but I don't know if America has the stomach. You got deportation or you got the Templars. Right? You got deportation or crusade. What do you want? What do you want to have happen in your nation?

You can kick the can down the road and say, oh, we'll throw him in jail for a little bit. I know he loved ISIS, but we'll throw him in jail for a little bit. He's an American citizen after all. And we'll kick the can down the road until, you know, he decides, now's the time to make the nail bomb. Or you deport people. If they hate the nation, they get deported. We can't have enemies from within.

So you have deportation or you have crusade. it's up to you. Deportation, crusade. You don't want, America doesn't have the stomach for a crusade, but they don't have the stomach to deport people who want to kill you either. Right? So in the meantime, folks, you sharpen your skills up.

You sharpen yourself up, you sharpen your mind up. Sarah Hathaway did a great show last week on area study. You get to know the threats in your immediate area. you get to know. It might sound like profiling. It might sound like prejudice. But what it is is survival, you get to know where the mosques are in your neighborhood.

It doesn't take long to figure out what's going on with the mosques locally in your area. You go see what the mosques are all about. You can go into a mosque. Nobody's going to say anything. You can walk into there and listen. Just walk in there and listen. They're not going to behead you on the spot.

You can walk in and listen. You could check YouTube. is a great way to see what's going on with mosques in your area. Just go on YouTube and type the mosque name in. Everybody's a ham nowadays. They want to see themselves on camera. You can listen to what they're talking about in their sermons and stuff. You need to be aware of what's going on around you.

There's nobody in your life who cares about what's going on around you. There's nobody in life who cares about what your world's going to look like in 10 years, about what your personal life and family's life is going to look like in 10 years. years. You know, one of the things that, I can do a whole show on this, and I may, the anti-anxiety drug of having a small prepper group doesn't have to be big. Small prep. I don't even mean, it doesn't even have to be in person. But people in your life who understand what's going on in the world and are preparing for it and you could sort of lean on each other for ideas and share and barter and all that kind of stuff.

This is an invaluable thing. You know what I mean? It's an invaluable thing. It really is. It just is what it is. You know what I mean? I don't know how. I joke about it and say I'd be on an SSRI right now if I wasn't a prepper.

And I didn't fall into this incredible group of hosts and listeners. I mean, just you guys are my therapy. You guys are my, my, you stand me up in this dark world. it is what it is. I'm sure I stand you up as well, but that's the point, right? That's the point. Iron sharpens iron in these dark times. Maybe the sparks flying off the iron show us the way.

But to put together to compile something like that or to get more involved here at PBN, lasting effects, lasting effects, things that probably will carry you through your entire life, And you'll know if I have to make a big change. If I have to say, honey, put the for sale sign up, it's over. We did our best. There's nothing else we can do here. There's nothing else we can do here. You know?

The schools are rotten. The police are rotten. The government is rotten. You know what I mean? The whole thing. See, I had a Freudian slip there and said the governor because I had the mother of mayhem on my mind. If the time comes when it's all rotten and you have to. to leave. Well, then you have this great community to restart. You can restart near them. You can

restart with them. You can restart with their knowledge of what to do in a particular area or just what to do to build a property up from scratch. Get to no PBN, man. Get to know PBN a little better. Become a member. Take advantage of this group. Get into the element chat room. You know what I mean? get into the emergency comms room that's coming. These times require people, and it doesn't necessarily have to be some Avengers-style prepper group that gathers every Sunday over coffee. Nothing wrong with that if you aspire to it,

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