The Prepper Broadcasting Network - On Reading a Newspaper

Episode Date: August 10, 2025

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Hello, welcome to the podcast. Present your vaccine passport. Enter your social credit score, and be sure you have enough remaining carbon credits to enjoy today's show. Mimi and family, your garden is the resistance. How close were we to that intro being reality? Can you imagine an age like that under? Oh my God. We were close.

We were close to carbon credits and, you know, the whole thing. Remember they were shutting people's air conditioners down in Colorado because it was too hot? Look, I'm going to be honest with you. I really do think they screwed the planet up. For a long time, I was worried about it. I really think that while we're sitting down here, like fighting each other on over climate change. There's a fire in my front

in front of me right now. In my fire pit, my beautiful American carved out American flag fire pit and it's August. It's August, what, 11th, 10th? Dude, it should be sweltering

right now. It should be sweltering. I think things happened in the background with climate change and then big money. and I really do think in the same way that we like screw up environments all the time by trying to make them better trying to reintroduce the native species

because we're humans and we're God I think that I think we may have done some irreparable damage to the atmosphere and the sun's ability to warm the planet and in 10 years if I'm out here doing a podcast in a being in August in Virginia, I wouldn't be that surprised. That's just my, you know, I have very little evidence to back any of that up.

But the moment I saw that they were putting balloons up in the sky and spraying aerosols up there to block out the sun, I started thinking, how long have we known, or how long have we thought that we were heating up the planet? It's pretty even been a long time. Al Gore put that terrible movie out When I was in high school You want to wrap your head around that 2004 or 2003 something like that An inconvenient

Two hours of my life gone Watching that movie So I'm out here with the fire And just wondering to myself Why I'm out here with a fire Longsleeved t-shirt on shorts Now, I'm not kidding, like, you walk out on the porch, August, Virginia.

And it is so lovely and hot. It's just, if you're into that kind of thing. So, yeah, who knows? You know, we'll see. We'll see. I'd hate to say start prepping for the ice age. You don't have to, you know, the fundamentals of prepping. You don't have to prep for anything, really, right?

Isn't that kind of the trick? once you get to a certain point. Like you get into prepping by being like, oh, EMP, I got a prep for that. Yada, yada, yada, I got to prep for that. But fundamentally, you know, you wind up in a place where it's self-reliance and independence is the goal. And that's what you're prepping for. And be able to stand on your own two feet, right? You want to grow enough food that you like with enough methods that work for you.

That you can affect the amount of calories that go into your body. It's just amazing to me to watch the world change so much in such a short period of time. And to be sitting here in this position, you know, to be like doing the growing of the food, the raising of the eggs and the chickens and the doing the things that I started doing because I was worried about there being no more food. And now, not only are there people worried about there being no more food, they're worried about the food at the supermarket. You know, the appeal technology by King Lizard himself over at Microsoft,

like, he has got the appeal approved by the USDA. And if you haven't looked into what appeal is, all you need to know about appeal it's pretty straightforward right all you need to know about appeal is if you put it on the outside of food it lasts for like weeks longer than normal and there's probably some people out there going like

oh that's phenomenal first of all we already do that right you eat an apple from the supermarket and then if you ever go pick apples or if you have an apple tree you immediately go like what the hell there's no there's no there's no

these apples not as smooth as the ones I buy the supermarket, right? We already coat everything, or I don't know about everything, but we already coat apples and those kinds of fruits in wax, I think it is. So, you know, the rich get richer, the poor get poor. It's the same old story. It's been the same old way for forever. For forever. You know what I mean? I'm just a guy out in his back patio with the fire going sitting here getting ready to tell his audience about how how he read a newspaper yesterday. That's it. That's, yeah.

That's one of the big reasons I'm here with you on a Sunday morning. Besides trying to inspire you to get out and enjoy the flesh and blood world because that's all that's left, you know what I mean? The flesh and blood world. If you're having problems and you're not in the flesh and blood world or you haven't been in the flesh and blood world in a long time, I'm telling you. and the world behind the screen is, it's okay. There's nothing wrong with it.

But take this podcast. This is why the podcast is the superior format to everything. This is why talk radio is the superior, uh, entertainment. Because you can take a podcast you can put it in your pocket. And you can go walk in the woods, right? You can't, you can't put a DIY video. in your pocket and go walk in the woods and learn how to do it right you can't put some kind of image or video driven entertainment in your pocket and enjoy it not that you need it you know the

best thing you can do for yourself is go take a quiet walk in the woods if you're feeling down or whatever but uh yeah there's something to be said about what we choose to do with our time and what we choose as entertainment what we choose as news news I was speaking to a young man from CNN on Friday he was so young

it like choked me like we were on a Zoom call and the guy was so young I like you know what I mean it's a great seemingly a great guy you know we only spent 30 40 minutes together

but seemingly a great guy got his head on straight um and i'm gonna do something for him because i really well it's not yeah whatever so uh get on the horn i'm looking the kid in the eyes and talk to him talking about the news and i told him because he's a newsmaker you know he works for cnn he's an intern but um and i told him i told him my theory about the news. I wasn't really, you know, my theory about the news doesn't have as much to do with CNN and fake news as it does about the headlines and about the fact that the news feed that people listen to nowadays is the news feed that I used to listen to and read back in 2012 when

I was trying to scare myself into being a prepper. It's very similar news. You know what I mean? But the one fundamental difference is they're not. prepping. You know, I was reading news about the dollar dying and, you know, viruses and labs and economic collapse and EMP and people eating each other and a whole nine yards. And I was putting food up. I was learning how to shoot. I was doing all these things. You know what I mean? And now it's like I feel for these humans out here who are, uh,

stuck with that same kind of newsfeed but nothing, there's nothing doing for them. They just absorb it. You know, it's like radiation. It's like a toxic radiation that they have to absorb every day. You know, to find out what's going on in the world. Do you think Russians,

Russian Trump and Putin are going to figure this thing out? They're going to get something worked out. Or you think it's going to go on and on and on. Somebody's going to make a hiccup and we're going to nuke everything into oblivion. What do you think? I mean, really? Like, how's this play out?

Zelensky, I think the one that I trust the least is Zelensky. And when I say trust, I don't mean trust in, I think, in his bravado. You know, I think Putin is willing to suffer and willing to make his people suffer much more. It does seem like Zelensky comes to the bargaining table and does what needs to get done, even though he does, you know, several interviews where he says, no. We won't be doing that. No, we won't. You know, he seems like that kind of character. Which, I mean, God bless him.

You know, you've been fighting for years. Probably want to have a Ukraine eventually again, right? I don't know that you have a Ukraine anymore, but you probably want one eventually. I don't know what he wants a guy like that, to be honest. No clue. He seems like a guy who would be onto something totally different in five years. You know, you have a TV show or something like that, five years. But I picked up the news, you know.

I picked up the newspaper, the newsprint. My first epic times newspaper showed up in the mail. Yesterday morning, of all things. Saturday morning, really funny to see it on a Saturday morning. I'm sitting there peeling the pages apart, you know what I mean, feeling that sort of old nostalgia. because I used to read the paper even as a kid. You know, like eating cereal, reading the Delco Times. And there are few things that struck me, P.B.N. Family, that I wanted to talk to you about.

Not because I was necessarily trying to persuade you to buy a newspaper, but this is what I do. I sit my coffee and I tell you about the good and bad decisions I've made. Here's the things that struck me right off the bat. Paragraphs Paragraphs Everything's written in paragraphs With proper punctuation You know like paragraph reading

If you read a lot of blogs You might have forgotten about the paragraph If you read a lot of newsletters Stuff like that You might have forgotten the paragraph exists As a writer coming up In the SEO world All the people I would work for would say

You know like two to three lines max You don't need to eat indent your space oh okay whatever you say man you know so one of the things that you know you're reading a news story but it's not a news story with six advertisements underneath it's every fifth line you know what i mean and it's like oh i could just keep on reading the most the most standout thing about reading these articles uh in the newspaper in the epic times was that there was an author and a picture of the author and they stared at you the whole time you read their article

you know and if you're loopy like me you see them staring at you almost like like are they seeking my approval or am I seeking their approval or what's going on here with this picture one thing was was certain right they it was a person it was a person you get what I'm saying

there was no doubt you read the article and there was no doubt because the person was right there and the name was right there and they were on staff or they were commissioned so you were like

this is not an AI generated story and there was something about that that was just warm and fuzzy like I didn't know any of the authors I wasn't like oh I love reading this guy actually the authors that really blew me away

were all female except one guy but some of my favorite articles from that newspaper were most of them were female really well done stuff and yeah something about the

seeing the face of the author and the name something that little you know what I mean was such a serious thing this day and age or you see a video and you don't know if it's real you read an article you think like I don't know but then again you know

The other thing about the newspaper, too, was, who's reading articles? I read more articles to you than I read. Do you know that? Because whether you realize it or not, we've fallen into a trap that is the reading of headlines. And for some reason, it feels like the reading of a headline is the same as the reading of an article. We know it's not. But it's just real easy to look over the Internet and see, oh, it's a lot. a big shiny headline with a picture and maybe a few lines of text underneath it.

And I know something. Someone in the media on a podcast, I think it was the guy from, what's the, I can't think of what the group is called. It's a woman and a man. The man is Indian, I think. Her name is Crystal Ball, I'm pretty sure. They do a good news show. You might know them. I don't know.

but he quoted a newsman from back in the day and what the newsman's quote was something along the lines about people don't want to people want to feel informed they don't necessarily want to be informed right so they want to have something have enough of a story that they can talk about it and feel like they know what the hell they're talking about and so on right and i kind of dug that i thought that was pretty i think that was pretty on point pretty on on target you know for the average person right the average person right the average person doesn't want to become the expert in artificial intelligence, but they want to know enough about it to say, you know, around the cooler at work, like, this is what's going on. And this is how I feel about it. So, we've kind of taken that to the wildest level, right? We've taken that a little too far, if you ask me. We've taken that to the point where we just, whatever kind of flipping title someone throws on a news.

blog we read the title and then we report on it right and uh you know i guess that's a short-term screw-up basically that's the best you're going to get out of something like that it's a short-term mess up the internet happens so fast computers happen so fast that it's just natural right it's like you're probably taking a peek at a news story real quick between doing what you're supposed to be doing at work or you know a short period of time that you hop on the computer between tasks whatever it is the thing about a newspaper is like it's you in a newspaper now like it's you in the newspaper it's you in the headline and then it's you in the story and you're much more compelled to sit there and read the story at least i was i was much more compelled

to read deeper into the story than I ever am when I'm hit with the limitless void of headlines on the internet. That's the other thing too. There's no value in the internet news because there's so much. You read it and it's like, you're like, okay. You know what I mean? You get on your phone and you're just completely mentally assaulted by 100 headlines. You know what I mean

None of them you care about Maybe one you care about Come back to life, fire Come back to life and warm me There she is There's a finite amount of stories In your newspaper You know, it's a finite amount

You read the things that you like And you don't read the things That you don't care about reading at the moment PBM family It was very interesting It wasn't new It was an old thing That I'd done when I was a kid

But just Getting back to it And feeling that feeling Being like, whoa Like this is a thing This is a thing we gave up Because we thought we did the same thing On the phone

You know, we thought we were doing the same thing In the digital world You're never doing the same thing In the digital world Never I don't know if you could name me Anything that we substitute with the digital world

that's the same as the real world be a very interesting experiment feel free to send me your thoughts on that there's some decent substitutions right something's better than nothing

I will stand behind that but the reality of it is when you get back to the real thing ain't nothing like the real thing ain't nothing like the real thing thing baby? Baby. And yeah, that's it. So that's the story today, PBM family. I read a newspaper yesterday. You know, sometimes the things that happen in your day-to-day life that have to do with prepping or self-reliance, they have nothing to do with prepping or self-reliance

and they change the whole game, which then changes the prepping and self-reliance game. You know what I mean? So, let's talk about, uh, what do we have here? I'm going to give you the quick, quick recipe for Bigfoot Fur and then I'm going to go on my way. Because I'm out here with the fire and getting the fire started is,

uh, always very easy when you have the ultimate fire starter that can be made at home the old and if you melt wax if you own paraffin wax if you burn that scented wax stuff you are so in the money it's unbelievable we have the scented wax all in different parts in our house and i told my wife many years ago hey put that in mason jars for me okay don't throw it out so we have mason jars of wax right all over and uh i mean it's a no-brainer right like you understand why for numerous reasons in fact i just bought a pack of i just bought a pack of i think it was a hundred and fifty six inch cotton wicks four inch cotton wicks uh it was like four bucks or something

think about that 150 cotton wicks four inches you could go to any thrift shop that sells like knickknacks and stuff and get any number of containers right to make your own candles if you have wax if wax in some ways a part of your preps which i think it should be right the other thing that's important about wax is coating cheese right you coat cheese with wax and that's stuff lasts virtually forever. I mean, if it's an airtight thing, you make your own cheese, coated in wax, put it in the root cellar or under the house, somewhere safe, the animals aren't going to get it, but, you know, cold, cool. But we have this wax,

you know, and years ago I found out that actually it was, hmm, I'm drawing a blank. One of our great audience members sent me and J. Ferg, I think, a box of prepping and homesteading-ish projects for our kids to do. I want to say, it was Melinda Lee is who it was. Yep, it was Melinda Lee. I can't believe I remember that. Thank God. Melinda Lee, I ain't heard from you in a while. I hope all is well.

And one of the projects in there were these, she sent us some wax. She sent us some newspaper. No, no, no. She sent us some crayons. She sent us some newspaper. shredded and and she sent us what did we put them in wax cups yeah she sent us the wax cups and i remember we melted the crayons in the fireplace my son and i and we stirred the newsprint into the wax paper cups or the wax rather the melted crayons and then we dumped it all into the paper cups and we made those little fire starters together and we burnt them in the fireplace place that day, one of them once they dried, and we timed it, and they burnt for like 10 minutes or something straight. It was really, really great. And I took that whole concept and kind of

modified it a bit because we didn't have newspaper. We have newspaper now, interestingly enough, but nothing like we have dryer lint. At the time, I was bringing dryer lint in Ziploc bags on camping trips, stuff like that, storing it in bugout bags, because of just easy way to start fire. But then I decided, you know what, we can do the crayon thing with all this wax that we have. And we can mix the dryer linen into it. We stuffed that into wax paper cups, my son and I. And it's hideous looking.

It's hideous. You know, it looks absolutely hit. There's nothing beautiful about them. And we're looking at them and my son goes, they look like Bigfoot, fur. I don't know he's probably five or six of the time, something like that. And the name stuck and they became Bigfoot fur. And now we make, you know, Folgers coffee cans worth of Bigfoot fur. We make them in little cups and store them in Ziploc bags. And, you know, most of the time when we start a fire, we get the Bigfoot fur, you know, unless we're practicing with ferro rods

and stuff like that. Because you light the Bigfoot fur and it catches and it burns for, you know, 15 minutes, something like that. I come out here this morning. It's one of the first things I see sitting over there. I keep a... Actually, one of the... The last time I made it, I took an 18-count egg carton, right? An 18-count egg carton and filled the whole thing with dryer lint.

And then just dumped the hot wax over top of that. And boom. You know? I had this big old, just this big old chunk of the... You know, because the drierlint will absorb some of the wax before it dries. And then you just got this big sheet of big foot fur and you cut a piece off with the knife and off you go. Nobody really, I don't know. The most important advice, the greatest prepping tip any person can ever give you folks is, you know, do this stuff.

Learn the base and then do this stuff your way. and do this stuff in a way that makes life more fun do this stuff in a way that makes life, you know, amazing because that's what it's supposed to be, right? It's supposed to be having fun here on this planet. I will talk to you all soon. I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday and I hope Sunday treats you well.

It is the weekend. We work hard, we're Americans, we struggle. We should enjoy our weekends, and I encourage you to enjoy yours. Talk to you soon, folks.