The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN Daily News: Dystopia Outsourced

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

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You're listening to PBM. You're a path back to stability. Thank you. The mark of my success as a father is the increase in distance between us. You crawled off to explore. You ran with book bag on to school. You disappeared beyond a closed door to a sleepover. Never take time for granted, my son. When in the arms of your father or as a father yourself, with arms full of children.

Know that these moments are more. Of all a man can do and can achieve, these fleeting moments are more. Feel every moment. Stop and observe the majesty, the oddity of life. Days passing like weary desert journeys, burning sand underfoot. Years like the crisp waters of a draining oasis. We run.

We run together to that great crosswalk of adulthood. I love and loathe that damned crosswalk where I shall let you go. Where I, your father, will watch this necessary distance grow between us. Though your mother and I will carry on in our love and our life, I will always be waiting at that crosswalk. More fortunate than any man in history. Should you return through the mist, if only for a few hours, to tell me of your adventures. The Distance, PBN family.

The Distance is a poem that you'll only ever hear parts of. Because it's not yours. It's my son's birthday today. And this is a poem I actually wrote for both of them. I don't know when. Two years ago, maybe? Something like that. The reason I read it to you,

not only to celebrate the birthday, but the fact that the modified, created October 25th, 2021. Check that out. I should date my work rather than depend on other apparatuses to date it. my work rather than depend on other apparatuses to date it. You know, Debbie is knocking on my door, and it's just one of those weird things to be sitting here, Carter's birthday, tropical storm inbound, which is not that uncommon for August. But it is a reminder of how I came to be in this world, because it was.

I mean, if you're ever sitting around wondering, it is the responsibility of Hurricane Irene and my firstborn child that pushed me into prioritizing prepping in 2011, prioritizing it and saying, this is something that's got to go up the totem because I'm not prepared. I'm not the guy I want to be, you know. And I had to do massive things to change, you know. And you're looking at a, or listening to, rather, a work in progress that has been going now for, what, 10, 13 years. I found my way to the Prepper Podcast Radio Network, PPRN. I started doing my own pre-recorded podcast over there, feeling my way into this

community and learning from the people who listened, the few people who listened. And the rest is history, as they say, folks. Now I'm sitting with you, huh? I'm sitting with you. I'm sitting with you, this momentous audience, right? I mean, it's really hard to believe, actually. I remember I used to bring up, I used to bring up, like, podcast stats, you know? And I'd look at them and I'd say, I don't know, 40 listens total, something like that, 30, sometimes less. I mean, there were podcasts I did with 12 downloads.

All that has changed so radically, thanks to you out there, the listening audience. But the story I want to tell you today is not the one of me. You know, it's not my story. It is the overwhelming sort of inspiration I derive from life in general and watching my kids. You know, the things I learn from watching my kids are crazy. This whole concept, this whole sort of situation that I'm explaining to you, the lead up to the title, Dystopia Outsourced of today's PBN Daily News, has everything to do with me looking at my kids' toy handcuffs. I was looking at Jake's toy handcuffs in the

car this morning when we were headed off to school and he was playing with them. And I had two thoughts. The first thought was what it would be like, what kind of questions would be asked if a cop pulled up and saw a handcuffed kid in my passenger's side door or seat rather. or seat rather. And the second one was how thin the metal that makes up those handcuffs is compared to when I was little, how light they are, how the alloys have changed. And I looked at my son and I looked at his world. This is his world, you know.

What you're living in is your child's world, you know. It's just a, they'll hold on to this much longer than you. You're merely a preservation element at the moment. And I'm looking at him and thinking about his world and thinking about the thinning, the thinning of everything, the thinning of the metal, the thinning in the new growth wood as opposed to the dense, heavy, old growth wood that we used to construct everything with. The thinning of cereal boxes, the thinning of the quantities of food or the packages, the deception of a dystopia outsourced fundamentally. The deception of a dystopia outsourced is what we're living through. Costs are going up. The amount you get for your money is going down. The quality of things is suffering, mostly, mostly.

It is the dystopia of the outsourcing and sort of the lazy. Do you know what I'm saying? And this is the beauty of our current dystopia now it is dark and it is grim and it is exceptionally soul soul burning because of the fact that we're being told everything's good everything's still very colorful and multiolored and hooray and hurrah and new products dropping all the time and new things changing and new events and this and that and the other. The digital world has largely saved us from closely inspecting the material world

and how radically it's changed and how radically the challenge is. But we're being told that it's not dystopian when you watch the thinning take place before your very eyes, the thinning, the thinning of everything. You know, and you could argue that the Great Depression, for as bad as it was, would be much worse if it were a hat worn by us. Because for our generation and the generations after us, we've only known the life of the fatty calf.

That's all we've ever known. We never knew anything different. Most of us. I mean, maybe you knew it for periods of time, but you always had the hope and the dream to cleave on to, right? You always had the idea that even if I'm growing up in a poor family, look at. I'm surrounded by this machine of great, you know, excess and access. To see all that collapse, you know, that's a lot. That's a lot because you've seen the kingdom.

You know the potential. that's a lot because you've seen the kingdom. You know the potential. But the reason I call it a dystopia of the outsourced or dystopia outsourced or an outsourced dystopia is because of that fact, man. The moment you pull up out of the clouds of this situation is when you start doing things yourself again. And it really all kind of makes sense.

Now, you can't stop a lot of things that are happening around the world. But if you go to the store and you say to yourself, these eggs suck, I can't believe that these eggs are so bad, you can affect that. If you buy a piece of furniture. And it's trash. You can affect that. Right. You buy a Adirondack chair.

And sit out on it with your wife. And it breaks. Or the arm is you know. Whatever. You can affect that. You are not powerless. In the dystopia that is outsourced, right? You are far more capable of affecting this world

if what we are suffering from, at least from a materialistic standpoint, is an outsourced dystopia, then yeah. The next best course of action is for you to get hands-on again. It is to become the source, right? It is to become the creator again. Again.

See, that's the key word in all this. It's the again. Because the again, become the creator again, is a reminder of the fact that, guess what? Become the creator again is a reminder of the fact that, guess what? Not only are you capable of growing food, building furniture, blacksmithing fixtures for your own home, getting into the drywall and fixing things, patching things, building things, repairing things, creating things. Not only are you capable of all that, this is who and what you are.

This is what you've come from. You've always come from this. There's generations upon generations upon generations of people who have done exactly that. They didn't have an option. There was no option otherwise. So we find ourselves in this weird outsourced dystopia where we look around and the biggest, you know, the biggest problem of all is that we think ourselves powerless. You know, I go to this, I don't get enough, as much food as I used to from the, oh, it's so terrible. I don't know what to do, I can't figure out what to do, all this stuff, right? But the truth of the matter is, man, you have so much power. You just have to get back to it.

You just have to get back to doing the things that matter. And look, I understand, like, you're talking to a guy who understands time to disconnect. I'm not out at the anvil every day. You know, I've been so sparsely out at the anvil playing with metal this year, it's unbelievable. But, you know, a lot of that has to do, the amount of blacksmithing that I do, a lot of that has to do with the fact that I've achieved things on the anvil and felt to myself, you know, I fixed things, I've done things, I've made things, and I established a sort of base understanding of what it takes to heat metal and bend it into

shape and cut it and those kinds of things. There's comfort in that, man. You know what I mean? So there's no denying that we're living through an outsourced dystopia. It's one that we've created. It's one that we can get out of because of the fact that we can get back into the creation of things. All we did fundamentally was outsource everything about our lives to other companies, and then they became these things called corporations that decided we want to grow forever. And the corporation organism decided it wanted to grow forever. And the corporation organism decided it wanted to grow forever. And in order to grow forever, it had to build marketing arms and this arm and that arm and, you know, branches within the corporate.

And all of it requires funding. It's sort of the same idea as watching your government grow out of control because every one of these things that they add on to their corporation has to be paid for, and then a lot of these corporations never saw the government getting in there. They never in a million years probably fathomed the government would get in there and tell them what to pay their employees on top of it. So now you have this idea of forever growth. We want to get bigger every year. We want

our bonuses bigger every year. We want our salaries bigger every year. You're the consumer. You're outside of all this conversation. And you're watching your products, whatever they are, your t-shirts, your whatever it is, you're watching all of your products change significantly before your very eyes, and they're telling you inflation, and they're telling you this thing and that thing, and they're telling you this is the reason, oh, that's the reason. And you realize, oh, we're just deeply entrenched in an outsourced dystopia Where the cereal boxes are thinner And the steaks aren't right

And the chicken looks strange And the eggs are pale and sad And everything is weird Nothing seems like it's worth what you pay for it And the things that do The things that are cheap and affordable, they're even worse. And I really do think it has everything to do with taking back as much as you can and making as much as you can. Now, of course, the catch-22 to you guys, a lot of you guys out there listening, is

one of the tricky things that happened, and I don't think it was on purpose, it's just one of the tricky things. As we began to outsource our entire life to mass production, China, corporations, so on, as we started to do that, China corporations, so on. As we started to do that, we also started to invest our greatest asset of all. We started to invest our time. And once you invest enough of your time into another man's business, then you don't have time. You're trapped outsourcing your life.

You're trapped outsourcing everything that you need because you've created this life now where whatever the circumstances are, we got to work. We got to dedicate 8 to 10 hours a day to that. That has to happen. We got bills, we got debts, we got things. And now we find ourselves in a situation where it's much harder to start talking about i'm gonna make the bread and the eggs and the pasta

and i'm gonna make the pies and i'm gonna make the soap and i'm gonna hammer you know make my own nails and i'm right you get to that point where it's like, how? And then add, you know, fold in the distractions. You fold in the Instagrams and the Pinterests and the YouTubes and the prepper broadcasting networks, and you fold all these distractions into your life, and you go, oh, my God, you know, I have an hour a day. I have an hour a day fundamentally to catch my breath and think about what a failure I am for not doing all these things myself.

So it's almost unfair, you know. And it may call for a reworking of your life. It may call for a rescheduling of things in your life. But, you know, I'm not looking to solve this for you right now. I'm just looking to tell you that we're undeniably living through an age that is an outsourced dystopia. We've handed everything, all the creativity, we've handled everything, handed everything over to other people. And we're not happy with the results, fundamentally. And while that is terrifying and annoying and scary and all that, well, it's also great news. It's great news

because it means you can figure out how to get it back. You can figure out how to get it back. You can figure out how to change your life, maybe do it collectively with some people, maybe collectively with your family, whatever, and build the life that you want. Now, that's where people get overwhelmed and they start saying, I don't have time for that. Well, you've got time for one thing. You've got time for one simple thing this week, whatever that is. You've got time to sit down this weekend and mix together some essential oils with some salt water and some baking soda and create the homemade mouthwash. You've got time to do that. I've done that many times. Make your own mouthwash.

It's one thing that you can do to say to yourself, oh, by doing this, because I already have baking soda, I already have water, I already have essential oils. Most of you do. Salt. I don't know if that's everything. I might be missing an ingredient. How much money did you just save? You know what I mean? How much money did you just save? You know what I mean? How much money did you just save?

What's it go for? My family, we don't make our own mouthwash. I've done it in the past and used it out of sheer convenience. Let's just see what it costs. It's not a thing I go out and buy. Now that would be wild. Holy. Well, here's an example, right? This TheraBreath oral rinse is what my wife often buys.

473 milliliters, so it's a big bottle, $53. TheraBreath. Let's see what a little bottle costs. $11, $12 two pack for $25 you know so you can see how things add up and you can see the power

in your two hands the power in your two hands you can make the bread this weekend bread and things like that are those ones where you say it's just cheaper to do it to to buy it. It might even be better. And for a while, it probably will be better. For a while, your bread might suck compared to the cheaper, easier thing you can buy at the store. But see, when you learn to make bread, you're not just learning to make bread. That's what you have to

understand. Like if you're thinking like, I can just buy sandwich bread for $2.49, cheap, you know, whatever. You're not just learning to make bread. You're learning to work with yeast risen dough that can be manipulated any number of ways to create a ton of different things, right? Your yeast risen dough can be bread. Your yeast risen dough can be added tons of olive oil to and become pizza dough, right? Your yeast risen bread can be, you can add more sugar to it and you can turn it into cinnamon rolls. You can braid it, not to mention like the variety of breads you can make. You can braid it. You can roll it into baguettes. You can build it into like a bowl-style loaf. You could do all kinds of stuff, man.

style loaf. You could do all kinds of stuff, man. And here's the finale, okay? Here's the finale, for those of you out there listening in this condition. The finale is you're sitting around feeling the burdens of life, particularly, you know, if you're struggling. You're feeling the burdens of life. You're feeling the lack of meaning in life. You're feeling the lack of satisfaction in a variety of things that you do. You know, one thing about the digital stuff that I've learned over the years in it myself, watching children in it, watching my wife, watching my wife participate in a lot of that kind of stuff, it wears off. It's one of the first things to wear off, the joyousness of the digital stimulation,

be it video games or YouTube video, whatever it is, right? Whatever it is that you're into and spending a lot of your Pinterest, Instagram, all that kind of stuff. At first, it's great. It's exciting. It's wonderful, you know? But in a very short period of time, you just get completely bored of everything. And you see everything. That's the crazy part. Like, you see so much. Like Like you can get excited about a thing and just see. I put YouTube on my phone sometimes and I don't want to listen to anybody talk. I turn it off. I put BBN on. I'm serious. It's so, I get to that point. So if we're searching for digital satisfaction and not finding it, the real true satisfaction is almost always waiting in your fingertips.

It's almost always waiting in your hands to create, to go out into the world, to explore, to go out and to lift and to carry and to struggle and to work. These things, they're a different reward system. I have no doubt about it. I don't know the science, but I'm telling you right now. You make bread, and it's a very different reward system than winning a round of Call of Duty. You know? You build a greenhouse out in your backyard from scratch.

It's a very different reward system than winning a video game or finding a cool video or listening to political commentary that's funny. And that's a zinger. I want to thank Jacob for showing me what he showed me this morning without even meaning to show it to me. Because we are living in outsourced dystopia, folks. And it's veiled. But the truth of the matter is you can work your way out of it.

We all can. That's why I've been telling you for years without even knowing the full extent of what I've been telling you. That the path to self-reliance and independence, PBN, your path back to stability, is the way. It's Thursday night, folks. Toolman, don't miss him. We may not hear from Dane D. He's a very busy man these days. But the Toolman will be on. Enjoy the shows, folks.

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