The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #264

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Each week on Patriot Power Hour, Ben ‘The Breaker of Banksters’ and Future Dan explore the latest Liberty, Security, Economic & Natural news, providing the situational awareness needed to execute your preparedness plans. Questions, Feedback, News Tips, or want to be a Guest? Reach out!Ben “The Breaker of Banksters” @BanksterBreaker on Twitter; [e-mail] Future Dan@FutureDanger6 on Twitter

Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are. And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to. And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to.

This is the last stand on Earth. This is the last stand on Earth. The last stand on earth. SILENT FIRE © transcript Emily Beynon You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour, we're live, episode 264. May 29th, 2024, Ben the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. Wow, Ben, what's going on in the news tonight?

Dan. Wow, Ben, what's going on in the news tonight? With bated breath, everyone's looking what's going on with this Trump New York trial countdown. Nothing came through today, but potentially a verdict tomorrow or Friday, potentially a hung jury. Who knows? People are watching that, so that's the topic du jour. But we've got a lot to go through on the news splits, at least more than last week. What about you? What have you been focusing on? So Trump's speaking louder and louder about using Bitcoin to solve national debt issues. I shot that over to you earlier this week. You're using the word pandering and I'm

just wondering what candidate could say what, where it doesn't fall into that. May I say somewhat jaded category for you? Cause he would never actually do it in a meaningful way. If he's going to change the reserve currency of the United States to Bitcoin, then we're talking. He ain't going to do that. If he was going to put 10% of all assets, of American assets, into that. Oh, wait, we don't have assets. All we have is debt.

He's impotent to use Bitcoin to solve the national debt. I'm not saying having a friendly Bitcoin and really just overall business atmosphere isn't great and would help mitigate some of the damage of national debt for sure but two years ago trump said he's king dollar he's all about the dollar cryptos and bitcoin he wasn't trashing them i wouldn't say like a warren buffett Jamie diamond or some, uh, you know, IMF type folk, but he was also like, ah,

no, it's all about King dollar, dollar, dollar, dollar. And the Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the antithesis of the dollar. So one of those has to break.

Do I believe him? Or is it, I think he's just saying that cause he's at the libertarian convention and said it a couple of days later, maybe he has had a come to Bitcoin Jesus moment and he thinks it is a legitimate way to diversify America's assets.

And if so, that's awesome. It's easy to say. I haven't seen any evidence he'd actually do it, but maybe I need to look into it more. I think what we need to look into is could he do it? And how could he do it? Tax revenue is an asset, right?

So if you're a private entity and you're looking at an asset balance sheet, help me out here, master's degree in finance. Income is maybe not technically an asset, but could he take tax revenue? Could he order the Treasury with the balance of tax revenues to purchase Bitcoin? I don't know the law. Sounds to me like something Congress would probably have to pass a law, right? And now we're talking, can he flip the Senate and the House and have a unified government that could do this anyways,

right? Or maybe there's laws on the books that were passed a long time ago that he just simply reinterprets and makes purchases. Congress delegated a lot of that to the presidency over many, many generations. So he may know that he can make purchases, large purchases, and he might be thinking that in order to save King Dollar, he'd do something like that. Try to do what El Salvador did. I don't know if he'd be able to, but I also think you truly have to declare the country bankrupt and start from scratch financially, and then he could do it.

So will he? Because, I mean, our expenditures are at least twice as much as our revenue. So you can't save anything if you're spending twice as much as you take in, unless you say, hey, people that we owe, we're actually going to pay even less or not even pay at all. And I like that. Trump says, hey, because we are bankrupt folks, obviously. So if he says, hey, you know, China and some of these other creditors, you're at the very bottom of this list,

and maybe you won't get every penny scrubbed, but you're only going to get 20 cents on the dollar on your debt. And then that would balance the books, and then from there maybe we could invest a little bit in some gold and some Bitcoin. I like that. Is he going to do that? Maybe. Well, set aside the debt for a moment. You could order an intelligence agency, questionable whether they'd obey him, but he could order an intelligence agency to just use its funding to make massive purchases

in Bitcoin to manipulate that market in the event that that somehow buoyed the dollar. No? If he felt like, and I think there might be some to this, if by the U S acquiring a whole bunch of Bitcoin, a bunch of other countries and businesses jumped on board as well. And then the U S because they were the first mover, or let's just say they were an early mover, you know,

instead of having 50 billion in Bitcoin, now we got 500 billion worth of u.s assets that's great but that's still 500 billion compared to multiple hundreds of trillions in liabilities so it's kind of a perpetual motion machine at some point like okay we can put all of our money into bitcoin and the price would go up a lot but that isn't going to solve the thing. But as part of an approach to make the markets free again, how about that? Make the markets free again. Bitcoin, gold, even the freaking capital markets. That's great.

And if he is on board with making Bitcoin part of that as well, which he's saying it, but is he just pandering? My intuition is he's just saying that to get votes, but maybe he means it. Maybe he means it. Make markets free again. That's a good one, Ben. That's an original view. There we go.

Episode 264, 708 Eastern. I'm going to write that one down. So that's what it would take to make you a solid Trump voter and potential donor to be who became convinced that make markets free again

was the agenda. That is that and not having World War III are the two most important to me. And I think he's relatively anti-war, which is great. The markets, though, not so much. Maybe he's making a big turn.

Maybe he's gotten educated in the last few years on stuff. And I know he's definitely gave a lot of crap for all the debt spending and how we got in this position. But he also says he wants you know zero percent interest rates and you know he's friendly with the fed if the fed does what he says otherwise it's just like it's still within the system but hey i guess proof's in the pudding it's moving in the right direction saying the right things can or will he actually do it maybe i'll look into that a little more and report back here in a few weeks how about that yeah that's awesome it sounds like

though there's there could be no president under current conditions that would ever challenge the just jim missy of the fed uh i mean to, while they're trying to get elected. But Trump's a one-termer. He might see that reform's necessary. And, you know, Lord knows he could pivot on issues if he decides he needs to. So we'll see. Yeah, we will. They won't let him, of course, they, the banksters or whomever.

But if and when, more like when, their system collapses, instead of them rebuilding it in their ideal dystopian view, if Trump and others, I mean, even in best case scenario, Trump will only be around as a president for four years and maybe a few more years after as like, you know, an advisor or whatever. But hell, 10 years from now, Trump ain't going to be around. So we need to find other leaders too. So yeah, make markets free again.

That's huge. Well, they can't stop Congress and a presidency. In fact, Congress and a presidency can abolish the Fed, audit the Fed, entirely reform the Fed, can audit and reform every agency, right?

A unified government that was directed against this apparatus, this apparatus, explain to me where its power comes from. You know, it's authorized by law. Laws can be changed. But if people that can't change those laws or would change those laws can't

because they're not in the positions of power, then there you go and it would it would take far more than just a slim republican majority we know this it would take a massive influx of new blood into into congress that was not beholden to those interests but i don't discount that it can't all be flipped. And in crisis conditions, that kind of election, 2026, 2028, 2030, one of these years when it all goes unstable, that's the correction mechanism. It is possible.

Be severe austerity, right? That's what the Europeans call it. You know, a government that forced into power to impose austerity, right? That's what the Europeans call it. A government that had forced into power to impose austerity on a system that has gone out of control. But this would be the biggest example of that in world history if it happens. Here's a great idea. This actually brings together, I had a long commute today and was listening i think it's kevin kevin o'leary the billionaire wrote we need to have a petroleum or oil national fund like norway did we have huge oil reserve up in alaska if we fully explore explored and pumped and sold that both domestically

and internationally and put half or all of it into gold and bitcoin that is a way to fund it anyway all these things need to be taken at once kind of in parallel so it's a huge a huge uh huge project but you got to do a little bit of it all at once because doing all of it at any one time is tough without the other pieces also falling in place. So it's kind of like it's a wide front to fight, if that makes sense. Yeah, well. I'm positive. I think we can do it.

Here, what we can't do is recover from World War III nuclear war. But we can recover from economic collapse. It'll just take a few years. And, you know, if you think you got a million dollars in your 401k, that might turn into $150,000. But you'll still have money. And you won't be dead. So, like, we can recover. And you call yourself a host on the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

Of course we can recover from nuclear war. Wouldn't be pretty. Well, the one and only NBC guy who I happened to be able to see recently in person, he had a whole master class on surviving nuclear war, and he's talked about it on the show, and he has other material out there. So you members out there, if you haven't, go search some of the archives. But it is survivable, but probably not if you're within a few-mile radius of the fireball. But that's where prep is, strategic relocation, if possible,

if it's in your budget and wherewithal, is definitely something to do, and that's what Prepper Broadcasting Network is here to help with. Find alternatives if hedging your financial bets is the least of your worries. At least you've got something else to fall back on. your financial bets is the least of your worries. At least you've got something else to fall back on. I think your we, though, also meant the financial regime in place now. That wouldn't survive that scenario.

But by that time, the people who were formerly over-focused on the money wouldn't be. National security would be the focus. But in today's events, if you look at Trump, if, you know, I think you asked me last week whether, you know, accused suffering trial by predisposed jury should be triggered. What I would say tonight is I'm glad I didn't add any of these headlines to that category because the jury might hang. And in which case, did he suffer a trial by predisposed jury? Obviously not. So we'll see if that happens. I believe late this afternoon the jury requested its instructions again. Because the jury at this point can communicate only with the

judge. So by this time next week, though, we could have, you know, jailed political opposition for the highest office in the land as a matter of fact. Well, that's why we're here every single week. Good, bad, and ugly. Today we're going to... No scientific bearing. I do find it interesting.

Verdict in Trump's first criminal case. 39% say no. 38% say no. Missed trial. Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are.

And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to. And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. I don't bet it. Guys, we're going to break. Coming back with the news blitz.

This is the last stand on Earth. The last stand on earth. The last stand on earth. SILENT PRAGUE © BF-WATCH TV 2021 You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Folks, it's time for the News Blitz, episode 264 of Patriot Power Hour, May 29th, 2024. Let's go with it. Starting with natural news and health.

Pretty quiet. It's late May. A little bit of rumblings of avian flu and all this, but nothing's come out strongly. We do have bioengineering. Nature being re-engineered. Cows bioengineered to squirt insulin from their teats. Insulin. Insulin is very rare and expensive.

Now cows are being bioengineered to produce insulin and milked for it. This is real. Economically, food inflation fears rekindled as crop index erases 2024 loss. Wheat jumps to nine-month high on fears of dwindling global stockpiles. And don't forget, nine months ago,

it was not cheap at all. It's been quite high for quite some time, but it's surpassing the recent highs. Global stockpiles decreasing. Got to wonder Ukraine was a breadbasket of Europe. Probably not anymore. New home sales tumble in April amid further downward revisions.

Home sales tumble in April amid further downward revisions. And a lot of Americans, they feel comfortable in their retirement. There's actually $38 trillion in retirement assets out there. But actually, if you do the math, that's nowhere near enough for all the folks that are looking to retire in the next 5 10 20 years many people are way behind some don't have anything saved geopolitically white house moves toward lifting ban on ukraine striking targets deep inside r with U.S. weapons. Trevor Commander talked about that today. Poland agreeing with NATO and other NATO countries really pushing to target where the supplies and troops are coming from in Russia

because they are losing the battle in Ukraine now. U.S. Special Forces operator kills undocumented Chechen outside his home in a possible spy incident. Again, Spec Ops, U.S. Special Forces operator actually killed an undocumented

Chechen outside his home. POTUS-45 warns enemies are building an army for attacks from within America. NBC guy Dave Jones and I were talking a little bit about asymmetrical attacks domestically too. Prep on. Russia has launched suspected space weapon. We've covered that topic a few times recently. They're accelerating their space weapons, or at least showing what they got more.

Former CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for the Chinese. China warns of Taiwan war as military drills encircle islands. Something I've said for many years is there will be a hard blockade that will kind of ramp up from a soft blockade to a hard blockade and then the invasion if it happens. And this is definitely a notch higher in the escalation of surrounding Taiwan for multiple days

with massive military pretty much being like, look, we could choke you off if we wanted to. And here we go. We'll bring future Dan on this to talk about this article because I know Cloward and Piven's big. Behind the Cloward and Piven downfall of America, future Dan, that's the news blitz. Can you talk a little bit about Cloward and Piven downfall of America, future Dan, that's the News Blitz. Can you talk a little bit about Cloward and Piven

and what's going on with America sociologically and from a historical perspective, what this means? Well, Cloward and Piven is an intentional social welfare state growth until it collapses the entire system, right, in a nutshell. And the article just explains where we're at with the Cloward-Piven strategy advancing. Nothing that can't be stopped, I will tell you, during austerity. Part of austerity would be to check the advance of the Cloward-Piven strategy, but it's growing right now.

It's definitely succeeding and peaking right now. Here's one thing. I won't get deep into it, but I have a side business, side hustle. Not profitable, but have a good time with it. Hopefully it will be profitable someday. I work with a lot of – I'm 30 in my late 30s and i work and i work with a lot of early to mid 20s so pretty much generation behind me and i've worked them a lot many many hours and i feel like a lot of them still have really high work ethic and want to be successful, but their priorities and their risk-reward calculations are off big time.

So everyone will hustle to be a gamer or a YouTube guy or TikTok, and they will work 50, 60, 70 hours, like just as hard as any of our forefathers worked to build this country, but they're working on freaking tiktok or a video game and hey man some of them are very successful and make more money than me a lot of them don't and are pissing their life away and don't get educated or care about important things and not a lot of them are you know they do do the right things but point is i think the work ethic is there but people aren't working for the right things. We need to kind of reestablish what's important to work for. And unfortunately, when society collapses, you either got one of two options to get your stuff together and pull yourself up by your bootstraps and all that,

or go to the welfare line and then you become more demotivated than ever. I'm not saying everybody who gets welfare is demotivated, et cetera. But, yeah, that's kind of the cloward pivot, and the youth are being funneled into that. But I still think they have a chance to get it back together, but I don't know. We'll see. I'm not sure working on things that are unproductive

counts in the concept of work ethics. Well, if and when they can't get food anymore without busting their butt and working, I think they'll do it. Whereas other societies, let's just say late Soviet Union, I feel like those people wouldn't even work for food hardly. They were so dejected and demoralized. I don't think we're that far down the road.

I still feel like people want to hustle and want to make money and do the things America is great at, but instead of building a real business, manufacturing, or something that contributes to society, a lot of that's misdirected these days. And that's because, in my opinion, the 0% interest rates and all the malfeasance from top to bottom in society just screwed up the perception of what's important and what to work for. All you got to do is make markets free again. It'll all come back.

Hey, and that's Trump and Congress and all of them just kind of need to make if you build it, they will come. If you just make room for it and set some basic guidelines and defenses against predators that want to come and take advantage of the system.

Basic regulations, not 5,000-page ones that are passed overnight. Make that market free again, and transparency and simplicity of operation is a big part of that. So we need that. I'd say a reform should strip away tens of thousands of pages of regulations, shall we say, overnight, and maybe err on the side of under-regulating for some amount of time. Let's actually test to see if there's any consequence or negative result from returning to before the New Deal in many, many industries. Just free it the hell up. It'll be freer than anywhere else in the world if you try.

The Heritage Foundation has the Economic Freedom Index. It's been published for decades now. You know, bringing the United States to the top of that list could solve a lot of our problems really fast. Absolutely. It can be done. How bad do we want it? We're going to have to go through some pain as well. It won't be just magic.

It's not going to be easy because we've financially sinned. We must repent, but I think we could be forgiven and move on. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Regenerative AI, large language models, being at the absolute forefront, not just in the R&D of it, but the practical application to it, to business, plus what you were speaking about earlier about uses of strategic energy like oil. No, I don't think it's inevitable.

I think everything that has happened since the establishment of the Federal Reserve, to include tonight the $34.6 trillion federal government debt, that's not a black hole you climb out of it we take it would take popular branches of government firmly in control devoted to those ideas yes that's something i wanted to touch on before we maybe hit on some other articles uh here at about the halfway point of the show is i don't want to copy china and then invent it but i kind of do with regard to a five-year plan or multiple year plans where we got to stick to it because if we make these changes the first few months will be painful and if we just bail at the first sign of our 401k is

going down while we're trying to get things back on track that ain't gonna work if we're gonna bail because quarterly earnings weren't weren't the greatest for a couple quarters that ain't gonna work you gotta look at it three five ten years down the road does anyone have the wherewithal for that let alone politicians i i think that we get together a bit. We'll see. Not the current set. It would be very unsafe to attempt what you're talking about. The best you get with this Constitution is a four-year plan. And we need Congress to get a two-year plan. We need to string together a few of them.

With each senator, you get a six-year plan and string together a few of them with each senator you get a six-year plan so they they have the longevity to bring about these kinds of changes but not under this constitution are you going to get a five or ten it's not there it's not there it's not designed for that we're not an official agreement that for five or ten more of a this is what we're doing. We can change it anytime, but we better not change. We better stick to the plan if we can. Yeah. All right.

It's already breaking down. Well, the Democrats have Democrats have a 40 year plan for you. If they get an electoral majority that they can count on for 10 straight elections. Doesn't matter who, right? You'll get, you'll get the results of that plan, right? But, but the constitution is designed for four, two, and six year plans by different people staggered to really prevent any one. Like if you're going to have one outstanding unified consensus plan you better have the people at the polls to want it year after year after year after year

so i don't know if trump has or will release like very a very detailed or hell just bullet points on his economic reforms and plan i'm going to be really interested to see what he says. Drill, drill, drill is a big part of it. He'll do the same thing as last time. He'll just return to everything he had before, and it was booming the economy, and it wasn't some genius or some miraculous government management. He came in after Obama and just lifted the boot off the neck of our economy. It's all he has to do again.

Alright. Well, make markets free again. He'll probably overheat some that are broken though. It's like jumping in an old race car. Some parts might start blowing out. And that's where Trump getting hoovered one last time could be his opponent's final revenge if

they can't lock him in a cage between now and then. True. If they knew everything was going to go down 50%, but they were able to make it go down 70% or 80%, just really cause super chaos and fear. It's the second great depression. Right. just really caused super chaos and fear. And it kind of overshoots.

It was the Second Great Depression. Right. I still think that would. It would be the Second Great Depression of our country's history. And instead of fighting against it, they would be pushing it to take out Trump or any ideas that he espoused as well. Well, FDR obliterated his political opposition for many, many, many consecutive Congresses

were just all Democrat. He went through eight Congresses in four terms and dominated most of them. That sure didn't help get us where we're at. Time's flying. I know you got to get out of here. Maybe 10 minutes, sir. So I really want to hit a couple of these articles. Let's hit it.

Former CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for the Chinese regime. Mr. Ma worked for the CIA from 1982 to 89, conspired with his blood relative, also a former CIA officer, to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Chinese regime. Future Dan, what's the status of espionage and even sabotage between China and America right now?

I think it's rampant. And this is just a small sliver of light, of truth into what is completely cold from us. But it has to be rampant right now. Yes, they're talking about stuff from the 80s. What could be going on now that they know about or don't know about yet? This was actually kind of sussed out in 2019. So, the FBI undercover agents,

so FBI versus CIA turncoat they believed it to be a Chinese intelligence officer but it was actually FBI agent accepted $2,000 in cash as a small token of appreciation so I want to know who's giving the

$2 billion bribe it's not the $2 billion bribes, not the $2,000 bribes of Future Dan, because this goes from top to bottom and all of it's criminal, but there's a bigger fish to bust than this guy, I think. Yeah, down in North Carolina, Special Forces Colonel gets into a gunfight, kills a Chechen, scoping out his house. So Joint Special Operations Command, all of U.S. Special Operations Command,

all those forces, all those service members, all those family members, they've got to be on high alert right now about who's figuring out who they are and where they are. The entire establishment, you don't get like a fake name when you join the military and go move around and have an apartment, you have your family, you're away on deployment long periods of time. I mean, that's what it's going to be coming to. I mean, just in the military, you're going to have to hide your identity. And, you know, back in the day, most troops lived on post.

That might be coming back. You might not be able to live adjacent to the military installation to be safe. You're going to have to be inside the gate. You'll live adjacent to the military installation to be safe. You're going to have to be inside the gate. That's serious degradation in our internal military situation. Yes. All right.

Speaking of China, Taiwan's defense ministry said a total of 62 Chinese aircraft were detected around the island, as well as 27 naval and Coast Guard ships. So this is the largest number of aircraft and ships in a 24-hour window pretty much ever. And they were circling it. Very obvious what they were trying to show there. If things escalate to the next level in Ukraine, whatever that might be, maybe you can even let us know what you think a next level escalation would look like.

It would be Kiev being taken as an example or NATO just straight up fighting. If something like that happens, as an example, or NATO just straight up fighting. If something like that happens, do you think that makes China more likely to move on Taiwan? Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. If other places go far more unstable, that risk grows and grows on the Taiwan Strait. Just curious what super weapons have been invented. What is out there in our

arsenal that would make a Taiwan invasion absolutely infeasible? And I'm thinking it's there. It's probably in space. And, you know, look at what we got in Ukraine, right? The Russian armies right on the border of NATO being beat back by the ISR capability. So invading an island, not an easy task. It never was, right? Because mainland China would have seized it if it ever could have, you know, in the 50s and 60s. Just couldn't do it. So I see that as relatively stable the way it is. But you're right.

If other places degraded badly, you know, that's where the dominoes come in. And it goes for the Koreas. It goes, you know, wild on all other kind of borders. Africa, South America, other places, India, Pakistan. If there's a world war, it'll be different really from previous world wars. It could be described as a multi-pole world war with no real necessary alignment between belligerence, right? If, if, if, if, if Pax Americana were taken away. So yeah, if, you know, Pax Britannica,

then we had world war one, it resumed with the French and the British, you know, stabilizing most of the world. And then there was World War II, and then it was us. And it really needs to continue to be Pax Americana, unless you're hoping for collapse. Well, I'm hoping for collapse so we can rebuild quickly. The longer you wait for collapse, the worse it's going to get. But it depends how Mad Max you want to get. As we've said, I don't want it to collapse

so hard that we can't recover or that the Cloward and Piven people are successful in brainwashing and totally breaking America forever. So yeah, I don't want it to collapse that bad. There's financial collapse, but then there's total collapse yeah i

don't think anybody wants that second one no no uh that that's what you try to prep for to some degree but again how mad max how many years would it go um oh one more thing real quick. Taiwan states that they're able to pretty much enact kill switches on their key semiconductor manufacturing and all types of important computer technology and artificial intelligence, etc., etc. They say if China invades them, they're going to hit the kill switch, whatever that means. They're trying to hold that ransom at least. Yeah, in the scheme of things, that would make sense for somebody on Wall Street

to think that that's a strategic analysis. I'm not sure the Pentagon would consider that anything more than a token demonstration of force in a kind of way. We have the ability to do this, so we're holding you at risk if you think that you can loot

Taiwan. In the scheme of things, that's... It's not a very good way. I get what you mean it doesn't it's like scuttling the ship that doesn't mean you won because you had to scuttle your ship yeah but you know in an invasion of taiwan scenario ships matter factories for non you know war product i mean we we we don't we're not we're we don't have this you know the the know, how am I trying to say this?

Our military can procure what it needs without Taiwan, right? There's no way that ships that are made in Taiwan are exclusively available there. We make them at a very high cost in a very secure manner elsewhere. But in a wartime scenario, losing your factories, losing your actual

military that's fighting, one's obviously more important. Great point. Alright, I know you've got to roll out of here. Is there any other articles you really wanted to touch on or any topics you wanted to hit on? No, I'm looking forward to the commercial

and some thoughts from the Bankster Breaker. Heck, yeah. All right, folks, stick with us. We will go to a quick commercial feature. Dan, another great show. I'll be back with a few minutes. I got a couple things to talk about. Nothing too crazy, but another good show, man.

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And of course, the Prepper's Medical Handbook. I have that on my shelf. I've read through it a couple times. It's been at least a year since I've looked through it, though. So I probably need to brush up on it. I think physical books and even laminated instructions, three-ring binders that you created, et cetera,

for other SOPs and preps and how to build stuff and tips and tricks. And hell, just entertainment. I have some Dilbert comics. Books or collections of Dilbert. And a couple other comics and funny things that if stuff hits the fan and I don't have power for a month or something or worse at least i'll be able to like read a little bit and in the apocalypse you know i'm telling you the boredom will be a problem of course the pure fear and hunger will also

suck when stuff hits the fan but you're to want something to entertain you a little bit. So anyway, that's not as important as a medical handbook, though, when you really need to know, hey, I forgot. How do I treat that with ice or with heat? Do I take this type of medicine for this ailment or that one? I thought I remember, but oh, thank God I got this book. I'm telling you, I've already used it a few times just to see. Obviously, we have the internet right now, folks.

You can find most things that you can find in the medical handbook on the internet. You can find YouTube videos about it i'm telling you if the internet's censored or offline and definitely if power's off you're gonna want a medical handbook you're gonna want all types of things in writing not on necessarily on a tablet or computer even if you have batteries and stuff right so anyway prepper's medical handbook and well what else can i say about ammo squared.com slash pbn get your 75 rounds of nine millimeter um you can't have enough ammo i in fact have stocked a lot, but am in the process of getting some more myself. Ammo Squared looks like the right way to do it.

It's kind of like, hey, every paycheck I want, $15 to be funneled into this account. You can choose from, of course, however much money you want, even a dollar. You won't get as much with a dollar, of course, but, you know, over time it adds up in 60 different types of calibers. So you want hunting ammo, you want pistol ammo, you want everything in between. 9mm to, I don't know if they have.50 BMG. Maybe they do. I kind of want to go look there. Maybe they do.

I kind of want to go look now. Anyway, Ammo Squared. Supporting PBN. 40,000 customers with more than 18 million rounds shipped. Pretty cool, man. All right. About 10 minutes to go in the show. Not much going on from an economic standpoint in the markets at least silver's pretty flat over the last week 32 bucks but again that's up 40 percent in the last

three months or so so even though silver and gold with gold's8. But again, it was about $1,800 to start the year, somewhere around there. But they've been flat last week or two. Even gone down a little. Gold was above $2,400. Maybe now's the time to buy, folks. You know, I always buy a little bit. pretty much no matter what the price is when silver was 16 bucks an ounce i was buying some when it was 20 i was buying some when it was 25 i was buying some it's hard to time the market now when it was lower, I bought a little bit more usually. But that's that dollar cost average or daily cost average.

Really, DCA is dollar cost average. Do that with your gold, your silver, your ammo. As much as you can. Oil, pretty flat as well in the last week. I mean, it was Memorial Day. From here on out through the summer, market trading is pretty benign. Not saying there may not be a major financial event this summer, but I would expect it more in September, October,

even without the election, but with the election, extra as much. But yeah, oil's pretty flat. The Dow was down a percent today, 400 points. But still, it's pretty close to its all-time high. The volatility index is up a fair amount but not you know it's all relative folks the funny money's still flowing the deficit spending continues they continue to spike the punch bowl even though we're suffering from massive alcohol poisoning. We're continuing to drink. Somehow we're still alive. Yeah. But our liver is failing.

One last economic item I wanted to touch on. Food inflation fears. This is from the News Blitz. But food inflation fears rekindled as crop index races 2024 loss. Hey, dollar cost average your food as well. I do this every time I go to the grocery store. Let's just say I spend $200 a week. It's a little less than that probably.

But I could spend $150 and just get what I'm probably going to use in the next week or two. Or I could spend $200 or $50 more and stack away $50 worth of extra food or even things that are on sale that might be useful. Just random stuff. You know, supermarkets these days've got all types of random crap most of it you don't need but occasionally you'll find something like clearance like hey that's actually a a good kitchen knife 80 off i might be able to use that right there's some decent preps out there. You can find them occasionally, but most of us are focused on food here.

So, a few cans of beans, a few cans of, I really like canned fish. And cod liver, wild caught salmon. Oysters. Not because I love the taste of all those, especially the canned ones. I'm not a huge fan. Well, cod liver and cod liver oil is not that bad. Cod liver is actually pretty good.

The point is, super healthy for you. It has all the omega-3s, all types of fat-soluble vitamins that are so key, especially when stuff hits the fan and you think you're gonna be healthy and doing well in the post-apocalyptic scenario if you're eating a cup of rice and a cup of beans and that's it every day it's gonna screw up your guts even that storable food and trust me i got storable food but and trust me, I got storable food, but if I ate that 2,500 calories of that every day for a month, oh my God, I don't even know what would happen to my insides. I would survive better than not eating.

The point is, think of some of these long-term food preps and have some of that dollar cost averaging, like with gold, with all the different items I was talking about before. Because food is only going up. Food inflation fear is rekindled. Crop index is bounced back. Pretty much the last couple months, the world thought,

hey, maybe food inflation is actually going to go down. Maybe we're not going to have massive starvation with millions of people in the world this year. Now they realized, actually, never mind. The stockpiles are going down. We're having a lot of issues with growing conditions and storms and a lot of problems worldwide that have added up to harvest being down and uh prices going up so buy your food now as much as you can but don't forget you need some healthy additions to your

diet the canned fish can and cod liver and all the oysters sardines like i said super healthy for you super hard to get those type of vitamins and omega-3s and the stuff hits the fan situation can't go get your supplements you're gonna be really needing vitamin d you're gonna really be needing vitamin a you're going to be really needing vitamin D you're going to really be needing vitamin A you're going to really be needing the omega 3's the selenium, the zinc that shit is kind of hard to find

it's not in rice and beans, let me tell you that so right now you might be eating ribeyes and all types of healthy good food but it ain't going to be like that if prices go up by two three five x that alone you'll be eating cheaper not eating as good as stuff more than likely right but i mean you know if this just in time system supply chain we have collapses getting any food could be tough

at some point we in amer America are lucky, though. We have a lot of growing room, a lot of good soil and good weather across this country. But depending on the region you're in, and especially if you're in a city or suburb, man, you are very vulnerable. So stack away food. And, well, of course, water water filters is prime like if i had someone said hey i got a i'm a brand new prepper i got a thousand bucks what should i do i wouldn't tell him to put any money in gold and silver i wouldn't tell him to put any money into bitcoin i would say put about $300 into water filtration.

Okay, so that's about six to eight high-quality filters. That'll last you a few years worth of water filters. At least you got water for a couple years for one person. Put a few hundred dollars into that. A few hundred dollars into food. It would mostly be the rice and beans but i would be like you know put at least 50 bucks into some of these fish as well canned fish even if you hate it you're gonna need it and uh and you know next few hundred dollars

probably ammo and a pistol and that's where folks you folks, you can go to ammosquared.com slash PBN. Full circle. You need some security. You need water. You need food. If you only have $1,000 to spend, water, food, and a little bit of security.

And then you know it's relatively free that you can still do now. Try to get your ass in shape. I've been really busting my butt the last, well, over the last few years, I've transformed and done more and more. But definitely the last two months, I've been eating healthier. And instead of going running or hiking once or twice a week,

I'm going three times a week, even four. I don't want to go more than four because I feel like I'll injure myself because you've got to recover. You don't want to go more than four because i feel like i'll injure myself because you gotta recover don't over train point is i want to use this time now to get in shape so that when stuff hits the fan and i need to be hiking my ass out of somewhere i can do it don't want to lose too much weight though gotta have a little bit of fat a little extra calories on you but more hiking eating healthier and i've almost gotten rid of all processed carbs and that allows you to quickly switch your energy source from carbohydrates and

glucose over to ketones you might have heard of the ketone diet and if you eat a lot of carbs you eat many times a day it's really hard for you to switch over to fat burning so at least for a couple days when you don't have much food you're going to be feeling pretty crappy but if you get your body tuned like it was for our ancestors to going 24, 36, 48, 72 hours without any food on a semi-regular basis, and also you're eating pretty much vegetables, some fruit, and a lot of meat and eggs, very, very, very little sugar, then your body is going to be used to that. And I'm telling you, you'll be able to ride out that starvation scenario a little bit easier. So, yeah. Final tip from Ben the Breaker of Banksters.

Cut out as many carbs as you can. Maybe even look into that ketogenic diet. It allows you to use the hundreds of thousands of calories in your body. Use the hundreds of thousands of calories in your body. A lean person that's 160 pounds has more than 100,000 calories of body fat. So you can go multiple weeks without eating and just use your body fat. Except for a lack of minerals and vitamins. And this is where that fish oil comes into that I was talking about.

It can help with a lot of that. You can go many, many weeks without eating. Again, got to get your electrolytes. Aha, that's the final tip. Make sure you get your electrolytes, people. Stock up on some freaking electrolytes. Spend $10 of that $1,000 budget Because you're going to need salt and potassium and magnesium. And a couple other trace electrolytes when you're just eating your rice and beans.

You're going to need those electrolytes. Especially, man, go on a 10 or 15 mile hike with your bug out bag. And let me know if you get some cramps or not. You're going to be all jacked up. Especially if you're not used to it. You're going to need electrolytes. Electrolytes. Electrolytes. Electrolytes.

All right, folks. That was my rant for the last 10 minutes of this episode. Hopefully you got something out of it. Episode 264 is in the books. It'll be June 2024. Next time, future Dan and I come at you next week. We're out of here. Have a good one Thank you.