The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN DAILY NEWS: CYBER RANT

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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You're listening to P.B.N. Your path back to stability. pbn daily news what is up folks james walton here with you the intrepid commander of these prepper broadcasting network starships i still have thehips. I still have the border cough du jour in my chest. The border cold du jour has made its way into my chest and sore throat and the whole nine yards. I thought I was through with it about three days ago, and then she reeled up on me. Worked out a little too hard. I didn't pan out the way I thought, but neither here nor there. It is the situation in which we live. Welcome in, PBN family. Get yourself a membership, huh? If you're not part of the squad yet,

it's time. It's time to go to pbnfamily.com and sign up. So the way, you know, it's that weird juxtaposition of a world where probably you looking through your pantry and looking out your window just like me. You're in a situation where it's like, man, things are really good. And then you accidentally bring up the news, right? The news has the potential to just devastate you each and every day. And I think by about 10, 11 o'clock a.m. Eastern Time, a large swath of the population of the United States of America is completely hollowed out by their reality,

or at least the reality of what's fed to them by the news. It's so weird to be in a position where we used to talk about the threats. Right? Our job as prepper podcasters was to bring to the forefront certain threats and why you should prepare for them. This is what we did for a very long time. And then the wild thing that happened is after 2020, the news started to just, well, they opened up a valve of threat and anxiety inducing news that is just never turned off now. It's just, it's ever feeding the population. And for those who are trapped

in cubicles for eight hours a day, literally forced to sit and be inactive in their own preparedness, I'm sure it's very tough. I'm sure it's very anxiety-inducing. You have to feel for the people in this country who are watching everything change before their very eyes. And I'm talking about the working class people who care and have to drop their kids off at a school they're not sure about, go to a job they're not sure about, talk to people at their job that they think might hate them and probably want them out of there. It's just so much seems uncertain. Yeah, only through action can you find that certainty. I say it all the time, you know, only through action can you find that certainty. And a concept I think I'm going to talk about on Instagram this morning, if I hop on, I'm running out of time, is a review of that

concept of alternative everything. You know, if you are sort of anxiety ridden or if you do feel like, God almighty, it's getting worse and worse every day. You know, when you're a prepper, it's weird because it's not getting worse every day. It's usually getting better every day, right? It's usually getting better every day. I don't know. I have no desire to talk about the traitor in Congress, the speaker traitor. I don't have any desire to talk about the court cases that aren't cases. I don't know. U.S. quietly holds up some arms to Israel. What's going on with that? Why are we holding up the arms to Israel? Is that an appeasement tactic to the terrorists in university sweaters over there? Is that what we're trying to pull?

We're trying to appease the... We still haven't wrapped our head around, or the idiots anyway, haven't wrapped their head around this idea that this is an outside agitator game that's being played by our opponents and our enemies. And the last thing we should be doing is—well, let's take a closer look at this thing based on what Hamas is saying in America, right? They say Haley's pulling 22% of Republican votes in Indiana. I don't know how that's going to go over. Anyway, that world is a world that's really boring. You know, I have been, and I would recommend the same,

I have been paying closer attention to local politics. Excuse me. I'm not out of the woods yet. I may take this show off tonight because talking for an hour, it's going to be coughing for just as much. I haven't paid closer attention to what's happening locally, and I'd recommend you do the same. You know, those are the things that affect your day-to-day. Truly, truly, those are the things that affect your day-to-day.

I keep watching the world and I keep thinking, you know, are we long for internet? Are we long for power grids? Are we long for this digital mayhem? I don't know. I really don't know. It really looks to me that we're at the beginning stages of a trend away from technology. I know that seems almost impossible. But I mentioned this, and it's already become this way. I mentioned this probably a year ago, maybe even more. There was a time when you'd hop on the Internet. You'd hop on social media.

You'd see some astounding things, and you would go, oh, cool. Or you would hop on. One of the things that I always loved was announcements. I'm a sucker for announcements. You know what I mean? Like, oh, this new movie's coming. Oh, that new video game's coming. Oh, this new comic book series is coming.

I'm a sucker for that stuff, you know? What's happening already? It's almost sort of like it might make itself... It might make itself... It might commit suicide, AI. Hear me out. There's already a feeling in my world where I look at things and go, eh, or I read things or hear things or see things and go, eh, I think that's AI. And I don't know how best to explain

it, but I can tell you that the more artificially intelligent generated content takes up the internet, the less appealing it's going to be, period. The less appealing these things are going to be, particularly like, and it's probably a blessing in all honesty, but particularly things like YouTube shorts and TikTok style content. Even if it's just trying to be funny, even if it's just trying to be out there and outlandish, when the human element and the risk of humanity,

the risk of a human in the endeavor goes away and you realize it's just artificially generated, it takes something. Something disappears out of it. It's not what it was. It takes something. Something disappears out of it. It's not what it was. It's not what it's supposed to be. It doesn't hit the same. It doesn't give the same juice for the squeeze.

Because there is a percentage. You know what I mean? There is undoubtedly a percentage. Like, you go on YouTube. You go on whatever you go on. This thing about PBN, right? If you went on PBN and PBN was like, well, listen, if I came on and said, listen, we're going to do an AI podcast on prepping just for the fun of it. You'd be like, well, that's kind of stupid, but I'll listen to it. It's probably going to be funny. you'd be like, well, that's kind of stupid, but I'll listen to it.

It's probably going to be funny. If I came on and said, all right, Monday through Wednesday is AI content, and the rest of the week is us live, you'd be like, I don't know about PBN. If I came to you and I said, all right, five days a week we're doing AI-generated content from our archives, so it's our hosts' voices scrambled, applied to survival and prep content in new ways, and AI generated. And then the weekends is us. It's real people on the weekends. We'd lose almost all of our listeners.

The same thing is going to happen. The same thing is going to happen to content, you know. You want to you want to be a social network you want to be a valuable content creator or a content creation platform zero ai you know no ai that's the way to do it you want to create a platform for video and and written word and all that kind of stuff zero Zero AI. I'm talking about the public, right? Like, instead of giving out warnings about, like, hey, you said something about vaccines we get uncomfortable about.

Instead of giving out that warning, you give out warnings that say, look, we detected AI in your video, so, you know, keep it up and three checks and you're gone. We don't do ai here excuse me that's a profound effect folks whether you feel it or know it or not you know the inherent risk the risk reward ratio of producing content disappears once it's some ai guy you know what i mean it's just not the. You know what I mean? It's just not the same thing,

and you don't value it the same, and I'm seeing it already. I'm also seeing Gen Z and Gen A, which are my kids, sort of figuring out, like, this ain't good enough. See, and I took a little bit of a risk with my own children. But I figured that a time like this would come either personally or totally. And I think it's a total.

I think it's a totality. We're just ahead of the game. I think you'll see it as time goes on. I think you'll see this movement out of the digital world. I think you'll see. This movement. Out of the digital world. I think it's coming. If you don't pay attention to it. Why would you?

Unless you're into video games. The big epic studio produced video games. Are going away. You know. There's very few. That are successful. The workers cried. They gave up their artistic devotion in place of higher salary. So they would say, you know, we work day and night on this project and we're not compensated well enough. And, you know, they're probably right to some degree on that. But then again, you know, there is something to be said about creating something amazing so the studios the gaming studios are pressed into this box of like okay well if we want to make a big time game then we got to make it and it's going to cost x amount

of millions of dollars to make and then we got to sell it for x amount and we got to do this we got to do that and there are parts of video games that people are just totally disenfranchised with like in-game purchases excuse me so you buy a video game and you might want spider-man to look a certain way but you got to pay for that certain suit that you want spider-man to wear this is one example i don't know if it's even a real example i haven't played the spider- games. All of this is creating what used to be a really good time for people and turning it into whatever. You know, whatever. And it wouldn't be, maybe on its own it wouldn't be an issue.

But on top of that, adults and children are hearing constantly, constantly, constantly the effects of screens, the effects of screens. Get outside, the sunlight, the effects of screens, too much social media, too much video games, too much social, too much, you know what I mean? And on top of all of that, you know, there is the undeniable power of the human connection that still exists in the world and will, I think, always exist. I do think that the digital world is, it may have peaked. It may have peaked. That might seem insane in your household right now. You may have a spouse or a family that is super online.

And I'm telling you, it's, when things peak, it doesn't mean they drop off. It doesn't mean they flatline. You know what I mean? But it's hard for me to imagine what comes along that captivates people beyond what's happening now. You know what I mean? I see because the reason I did not mean for this show to be just a total bitch session or or or no stradomic preview of the digital world so i hope you're enjoying it what i didn't see happening was this the the the absolute standing against vr the way that see it. So I thought virtual reality would be an automatic adoption, easy, no problem, no questions. I thought society would say, oh, I'm definitely

getting a VR headset. That's sweet. Because when I put a VR headset on and played it for the first time, I was like, I don't know if i'm gonna play video games anymore like the idea of that i'm physically active you know what i mean so like button combinations to stab someone in the liver is not nearly as fun as just left hand to liver with a dagger in it you know what i I mean? It's a different thing. Fatigue. So on and so forth. One of the best pieces of news that I got.

From the digital entertainment world this week. And I didn't even believe it. I thought it was fake. So here you go. My son. My oldest son said. Look there's a new Arkham game coming out. And it's coming out on the Quest 3. It's called Arkham Shadow.

And he showed me a preview. And I said, I don't know, man. That looks fake. And he was like, it's not fake. And I said, okay. And I looked it over. And, you know, everybody took off about it in the communities. And the most standout thing about this new Arkham game that's coming out for Quest 3, which, by the way,

we may have a PBN hiatus when this game hits. I don't know. There's some things in life. Wolverine, Batman, there's some things. Virtual reality, they can pull me deep down into a hole. I'm just kidding. You know I'll be here. I've been doing this for what now?

12 years? 12 years I missed maybe 10 shows total. I don't know. I know I ain't missed 12 in 12 years. I can tell you that much. Anyway. The biggest problem that the community had was that this was an exclusive Quest 3 VR game. The Arkham Gaming community was pissed off that it wasn't a regular video game.

They want a regular video game. They want to button press Batman through his engineered world. They don't want to play as Batman in a VR headset and have to move around. So there's a clear division here and uh sort of in the same way that the left is sort of splintering out and losing power excuse me i think the same thing is happening um the same thing is happening in the digital world, you know? So we're going to save the news for tonight's show. I'll do some honey.

I'll do some vinegar. I'll do some lime, whatever I need to do. And we'll do the I Am Liberty show tonight. We'll do some news. We'll do some reviews, that kind of stuff, okay? But for now, there's a bunch of stuff that I get to take care of before, all right? I'll see you live 9 p.m. Eastern, barring anything cataclysmic. Don't worry, I'm not even remotely sick. I sound like shit, but I'm not even remotely sick. I'll probably run

today, to be honest with you, and I think that'll clear up some of this nonsense. But I feel great. It's just coughing and throat and soreness, that kind of stuff. All right? Definitely not what I expected to bring you today on PBN Daily News. We'll get back to the normal format maybe tomorrow, okay? Appreciate you guys. Hey, support our sponsors, man. They are absolutely incredible.

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