The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN Daily News: Front Yard Medicine, UK Rains, Mushashi

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

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We are your lizard overlords. Stop listening to these preppers. Eat your crickets. Fight in the streets. Own nothing. And love it. Beginning of a new week. Started rough. Contracted a bit of pink eye from my youngest and his friends over there at the elementary school. Head pounding, all that good stuff on a Monday morning. I thought the raspy commander voice was going to go away, but apparently through this allergy season or whatever is going on, it's here to stay.

So if you like raspy commander get used to them i don't know how long it's gonna be for but it is what it is members posted today uh did a little front yard the front yard, made medicine. Okay? That's in Bushcraft for Preppers. That's our latest addition to our video series, Bushcraft for Preppers. A lot of people talk about foraging and common plantain and all that kind of stuff. If you are not a member, you can take our, what is it, How to Be a Forager,

or You Are a Forager, whatever it is, down there at pbnfamily.com. You can take that course, and it focuses a lot on the concept of going full circle, you know, to be a forager, not just being able to identify plants, not being able to tell the difference between dangerous lookalikes or all that kind of stuff. But it's a full circle thing if you want to make it into a skill that you rely on. And the importance of trying these things now, guys. Oh, my God.

You don't want to find out you're deathly allergic to common plantain the moment you stick a compress in your eye. That's already affected, right, in an SHTF scenario. But that video is up there for the members. If you are interested in becoming a member, clear your schedule. There's so much freaking information at pbnfamily.com now. It is, it's outstanding. I mean, it is a, I didn't set out to create, we didn't set out to create a prepping resource that pbnfamily.com has become. But since we took our videos and our efforts away from Patreon and stuff like that, we've had to organize videos

and organize content a little better over there. And we created an entire website just for the members. That's pbnfamily.com. To listen to the podcasts, you go to prepperbroadcasting.com. But the membership became so swollen with videos and stuff that we decided, let's break it up into series. Right. So there's about five distinct series now. And then there's also a bunch of random membership content and podcast videos. Then we also have broken down into master classes and a very specific.

A very specific bug out series uh six one hour episodes six hours in total bug out start to finish if you're actually thinking about bugging out you need to listen to that it's not a it's not a verification it's not a confirmation by a series for you to listen to and go i knew i was right you know what i mean it's a It's a tough series. And it'll make you think. And it might make you wind up saying, you know what? I need a different plan. I need a better plan. Something along those lines. And there's PDF stuff up there. There's our incredible Preparedness Master Schedule if you struggle to stay on task as I do. Tons of stuff, man. I do. Tons of stuff, man. Discounts, all the goodies, all the goodies. PBNfamily.com. It's 60 bucks a year to become a member. I'd say it's probably the best deal in the prepping world

there is, truly. Five bucks a month. If you don't have $60 to put up front, we'd even do five bucks a month. Five bucks a month, tremendous amounts of content. That's not even, that's not even taking into account community, right? You get involved in PBN and in the element chat and see what's going on over there. So yeah, pbnfamily.com, check it out. Do not delay. The rains are coming. It is going to be raining today. So what else? Great shows over the weekend. Great shows in the near future. We've got some great guests coming up, by the way.

We have DJ Cooper is going to be on the 13th. I have no idea what I'm doing for Preppers Live tonight, not even the slightest. I may reach out to Dave Jones, see what he's got going on. He's been all over lately. DJ Cooper, prolific and successful Prepper author, fiction author, good friend. She'll be on the 13th. Mission Darkness CEO Ryan, EMP guy, EMP material, EMP proofing guy. On the 20th, Preppers Live.

We got something else, too. We got to get Dan on from our new sponsor, Ammo Squared. Are you kidding me? You guys signed up, right? If you haven't heard about Ammo Squared, it's it. It's it for a person. I mean, if you're an ammo geek and you're geeked out on buying ammo every month every week and you make you know whatever you never miss a beat maybe it's

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That's AmmoSquared.com slash PBN. And it's another thing. I always talk about those preps that remove anxiety, those preps that take things off your plate, those preps that make you sleep well at night. Food storage, a huge one for me. This one, I have noticed the effect. I have definitely noticed the effect. Solar generator. Solar generator. Solar generator was a convenience thing. Even though the Titan is such an awesome unit, it's not one of those serious anxiety. Now, I don't have the hugest solar array, so that could be why, too.

But it doesn't do the same thing that food storage does. It doesn't do the same thing that the guard, like the perennials returning does in terms of just a total hacking of anxiety levels over the state of the world. Ammo squared is giving me that kind of feeling. It's giving me that kind of feeling. It's like, I don't have to think about it. I don't have to be thinking, oh, I got to get out and get more ammo. Oh, how much at which ammo? How much ammo? You know, all of it gone. Anyway, I didn't, I don't know what I was going to talk about when I clicked the record button. We just fell into two, essentially two advertisements, but they all have great benefits to you. You know, one thing about our advertisers, man, they have all increased my level of preparedness. And for those of you out there who've taken advantage of them, I'm sure they've

done the same Man Brief. Farmers in the U.K. warn of pending food shortages and food price increases following, quote, extreme rainfalls. Reports say rainfall during the past 18 months. Rainfalls. Reports say rainfall during the past 18 months. Then it has over 18-month periods since record-keeping began in 1836. And because the rain hasn't stopped, many farmers have been unable to get crops such as potatoes, carrots, and wheat into the ground. One threat, one solution, you know. Potatoes, the planting season is essential.

We were worried about the wheat crop in Ukraine. We were worried about the price of wheat and that kind of thing because of being a struggle to get into the ground there. Now we're seeing similar concerns in the UK. This is all about adaptability, folks. You know, this is about how you look at at your food like how do you look at food is food a thing that comes exclusively from the supermarket it's a question is food a thing that comes exclusively from your backyard now a couple months ago we did a master class called Build Your Food Security Network. And I've got to get that up so you guys who aren't members can take that course.

If you are a member, you'll be able to just watch the whole master class for free. How to build a food security network is, I think it was something like 18 different ways to bring food into your home. That's what you want. That's exactly what you want. You want to have as many means of food as possible. It's not just about a garden, a pantry, and long-term food storage. You can focus.

You don't even have to focus much of your time and energy you can focus your time and energy and and at least take food off the concern at least be able to say you know in most cases particularly like uncharacteristic rainfall we're going to eat i feel like as a one of your goals should be when when the emergency or the crisis is something you can adapt your way out of, you do that. Right? Like as opposed to one thing has gone wrong, one hiccup in the supply chain has happened, and now we're starving. Right?

I feel like we should all be able to weather pending food shortages. Right? So that's my take on that. to all be able to weather pending food shortages, right? So that's my take on that. SHTF Chef for the day. I want to talk to you guys about, I guess we'll do another sound bite. I want to talk to you guys about knife skills. Now that is a delicious cut of long pork. It is good to be back behind the microphone, folks. It feels good.

I don't know if it's the rainy day or whatever, but it feels good. or whatever, but it feels good. So something that we rigorously practice in the early days of culinary school are knife skills, and knife skills are essential. They're not really something you can get around. Most people don't take full advantage of them, but there are things that are vital. I think being able to understand the difference between things like dicing and mincing,

you know, the French word for a very, very small dice, which is really kind of a cool thing to be able to do, is called brunoise. The way we started is we would use potatoes, and you can practice this way at home too. And we would cut the potato, peel the potatoes, then cut the potatoes into rectangles. You know, shave off each side, boom, boom, boom, flatten the ends. And from that rectangle, we'd be able to cut batons.

And batons were just about, you know, a half-inch wide rectangle baton, you know, basically like a big fat French fry. And then we would cut French fries. We would also cut potatoes up in a quarter inch, and that's what were called French fries. And then we would also cut potatoes up into an eighth inch which we referred to as the the uh julienne and the julienne is essential i mean you have to be able to julienne things like peppers and onions you know you you think you hear the word julienne and you think uh what kind of fancy dish do you make with the julienne no like i need to be able to julienne peppers and onions so that i can make a good chicken cheesesteak for my wife.

You know what I mean? That's serious. They're good. And you want to do, like, such an overlooked meal, particularly in rainy weather and in the cold, if you have a broiler, is the French onion soup. You know, French onion soup is such a powerhouse meal, right? You're taking onions, which are so full of all kinds of nutrition, and julienne of onion. You know, we would do like a 50-pound bag of julienne onion.

You had no eyes left. Your eyes look like my right eye does right now. You cook those onions down until they're soft and starting to caramelize, and then beef broth. Beef broth, you can add some rosemary, you can add some thyme, whatever kind of seasonings, cracked pepper, bay leaf, that kind of stuff. And then the beauty of a French onion soup is how the French decided, like, let's take a crouton and then some Gruyere cheese,

shred the Gruyere on top of the crouton, and broil the whole thing. I mean, it's such a nice little treat. I love a good French onion soup, man. But anyway, that's the julienne. And the mince can often be, anyway, that's the julienne. The mince can often be like confused with the small dice, like a brunoise, right? Small, small dice, but still a square. You're still going for that sort of cube. When you mince, you want a coarse sand texture, you know, and things like that are important. You know, like a minced garlic, a minced ginger,

you don't want to chew on it in a dish. You want it to just basically disappear into the sauce, that kind of thing. A minced parsley can be really good also. Minced herb mixes, fresh herbs, that kind of stuff. The mincing is an important thing. It's important to be able to mince, you know, and know the difference. They, what else? Pairing and peeling with a pairing knife, those are important skills too. Nothing can really cook properly if it's not all cut to

around the same size. You know what I mean? When we're talking about similar ingredients. Like if you take a half a potato and cook it in boiling water with a quarter-inch cube of potato, what do you think is going to be done first, right? So you've got to get it in the ballpark. And it affects things. What else? The chiffonade.

The chiffonade is a really cool knife skill for this time of year. If you are a member, you'll see the chiffonade in the plantain video I talked about at the beginning. But it's essentially when you take large flat leaves, mint, basil, those kind of things, and pile them on top of each other, herbs. And then you roll them into like a cigar. And then once they're tightly rolled, you come in and slice them very finely. And you get like a filament-thin sort of slice of herb. And it's a beautiful thing. It's the way you dress a caprese salad. It's all good. It's a beautiful thing. It's the way you dress a caprese salad.

It's all good. It's a great thing. But nice skills, PBN family. They're important. They're important. They're as important as knowing how to control the heat. You know what I mean? To no collapse.

So, for words, I want to bring you something really weird. We got a new book to read out of. This is from the Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi. When he got old, he handed off Miyamoto Musashi, 60 men plus. off Miyamoto Musashi, 60 men plus. He killed 60 plus men in sword duels, beast, monster, Japanese, devastating, two sword swordsmen. And he handed off these five scrolls when he got old and was starting to die. He retired, you know. The Ground book, the water book, the fire book, the wind book, and the book of the void. He handed those scrolls off to one of the younger folks that he was living with in this mountain retreat. Well, he was dying with. And in one section, he writes about rat's head and ox's neck. Rat's head, ox's neck means that when we are fighting with the enemy,

and both he and we have become occupied with small points in an entangled spirit, we must always think of the way of strategy as being both a rat's head and an ox's neck. Whenever we have become preoccupied with the small details, we must suddenly change into a large spirit, interchanging large with small. This is one of the essences of strategy. It's necessary that the warrior thinks in this spirit in everyday life. He must not depart from the spirit

in large-scale strategy nor in single combat. I think it's solid advice. We're going to read from the Book of Five Rings a little more on words here at the PBN Daily News. But that's about it for me, folks. I appreciate you. And I'll see you tonight for Preppers Live. I'm not sure what we're going to do yet, but we'll get into something, 9 p.m. Eastern.

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