The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN Daily News January 3rd, 2024, AMMO PRICE INCREASE

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

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Happy New Year everyone welcome to PBN Daily News your path back to stability I worth it's been a while it's been a few weeks family around a little harder to knock these things out I am coming to you bright and early bright bright and early today on Wednesday. I will be live tonight with the I Am Liberty show at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. And please join us. Please join me. I have no idea what we're going to talk about tonight, not the slightest. Usually I'm in a flame with a topic already. We'll just see. We'll see what the day presents. You know, the beautiful thing about podcasting is that sometimes you can just wait for inspiration to hit, and it will. I mean, it always does, you know. So let's get into it. I want to talk about

QCQA. QCQA, it's the new year. I know I've got a couple bags that are due, a couple things that are due, a couple processes that are due. The beginning of the year is a great time to get into quality control, right? Quality assurance. It's a great, of your preps. It's a great time to get those get home bags out, those bug out bags out, open them up, look inside, spill everything out, go, oh, yeah, I remember when I put this, uh, cliff bar in here 25 years ago. I don't know, maybe I should swap that out. Um, tons of opportunity in that realm at the beginning of each year. Uh, if you're a real stickler for this kind of stuff, I'd recommend you get our Preparedness Master Schedule. Our Preparedness Master Schedule has a whole QC section that you can utilize or you can build on. And look, if you don't quality check your bug out bag, if you don't quality check

your caches, your stockpiles, whatever, you're going to have crap in there. You're going to have crap in there that you don't use, you don't need, or doesn't work for you anymore. Do you know what I mean? It's just a matter of the – or worse than that, I'll give you a great example. Worse than that, you're not going to have the things you need. Here's a great example. My nephew got a little bow and arrow for Christmas.

Little, little, sticky, sticky bow and arrow. You know what I mean? Like the little stick to glass type of thing. Bow and arrow. And I wanted to take my bow and arrow to show him. And I was looking for my glove. I was taking the recurve, the recurve, and I have a leather glove for pulling that string back

because it's a doozy on the fingertips. This ain't a compound bow with the little thing around your wrist. It's probably a 45 45 pound draw or something like that and remember with a recurve bow 45 pound draw means you pull it back and then you hold it the whole time the whole time all the time you're holding that that weight it's not like a you know a compound where you get past that certain point and it's like ah you know i couldn't find the glove which is not uncommon for me the more i use something the more readily i lose it you know what i mean so i grabbed my hunting bag i was like let me grab the hunting bag out and see

because it's probably in there you know i've probably dropped it in there after going out and didn't take it out um and i found my my hiker pro in there i found my catadyne hiker pro water filter in there which is a staple in the get home bag that's in my truck a staple you know what i mean it's one of my favorite things it's one of those things that puts me at ease all the time particularly when i'm far out like doing fishing or hunting trips, and I know, like, okay, if something goes wrong here, we got all the filter water we need. It's an amazing filter.

It's a hand pump filter. It's tremendous. It was in my hunting bag. I didn't know it. I thought it was in my truck. This is what QA qc does right this didn't happen because i was so regimented this happened because i was just searching for something quickly but this is the deal you know what i mean so you have to take these steps you have to do these things and that's just what it is so get on your your QC, get on your QA. It's the beginning of the year,

man. Now's the time, you know? Now's the time. Knock a bunch of stuff out the beginning of the year, and you're definitely going to be better prepared for the rest of the year, right? Let's get into supply chain brief on One Threat, One Solution from our incredible friends over at the Gray Man Briefing. All right, let's get to it. Now, look, there's a lot of stuff I could have talked about today. But I'm going to focus on some of the things from the weekly briefing that came out just this morning. Give these guys a look, man.

They do a great job with Intel. I don't do a bunch of Intel service stuff. I like these guys because they don't ping me all the time. I really do love their weekly brief wrap-ups, though. I was going to do Civil Unrest because it's so expansive. I mean, it touches so many states, massive amounts of states, you know. I didn't even read this one. Following acquittal of three, okay. What I want to get into here is supply chain. If you don't know by now that civil unrest is coming to a city near you, I don't know what to tell you. You really need to figure out where the police are as far as recruitment levels. You really need to figure out politically where their heads are.

You really need to figure out politically where their heads are. If you live in a city or a large town or county or something like that, you know, with a big population, this stuff's only going to get worse. It might even be the time to start opening up communications with the sheriff of your city, town, whatever, and say, you know, we don't want the bullshit. Like, we want to see the bullshit taken care of swiftly. We don't want to see flash mobs destroying buildings and people's livelihoods. We don't want to see Palestinian flags flying up and down our streets.

We don't want to see it. We don't want to see it. Supply chain brief. But that's all aside from what I'm about to talk about now. Ammo price and availability impacted by global conflict. Panama Canal decreases traffic and threatens 6% of global trade. Suez crisis worsens. Food supply disrupted by drought and biofuel industry growth, while food prices expect to increase in 2024. Rx drugs see continued shortages. Semiconductor chip future in Taiwan remains questionable. I'm going to get into some of that.

into some of that. Semiconductor buyers shift focus from Taiwan while foreign parties invest $7.6 billion into Taiwan equities in November. 2023 debrief, we're seeing global wafers, NXP, and Texas industry shifting from the dependence on Taiwan. So this is good, right? Some companies have lost faith that Taiwan can retain a form of independence from China. We know what's coming, right? We know what's coming with that. It's not good. It's a stranglehold on semiconductor chips, and we got to get outside of that in a hurry. But since you ain't building the next semiconductor factory, let's move on, right?

We talked about this on the New Year's Eve show, but I didn't get a chance to get a word in and give you the details. So I wanted to talk about it now because it's important to understand, right? Vista Outdoor announced a 1% to 7% ammunition price increase, 10% increase in one case that coincided with a donation of 1 million rounds of ammo to ukraine brands affected a remington alliant powder cci federal you heard uh phil talking about the powder situation right heavy shot and spear nato also committed 2.58 billion in contracts for ammunition to Ukraine. Vistal Doors just sold to the Czechoslovak group, a Czech Republic ammo manufacturer.

The ammo impacted falls under the effect of the sale of the CCI Spear Remington heavy shot in federal rounds. The CEO of Ammo Inc. predicts a sharp rise in ammo costs in 2024, saying 5.56 NATO, 2.23 REM, 7.62, all your larger rifle calibers, anything related to military calibers because of the news between Israel and Hamas. U.S. consumers will see price increase almost immediately in the new year. Right now would be the best time to buy ammo if needed. Okay. If you're worried about antibiotic shortages, you're worried about access to doctors, go to the link in the show description, figure out the TWC Health relationship. All right. Get to know those people. Those are doctors that you can trust.

They sell backup antibiotics. They sell backup hydroxychloroquine. They sell backup ivermectin, all kinds of stuff, okay? Whatever you need. These guys have become allies, you know? They sponsored the network for a time, and now they've just become an indispensable thing. You know, that's why they're in the link section, because they are literal doctors that you can trust in a situation like this. Okay. So what's the one threat? The one threat is ammo. Ammo prices are going up. Do you need it? If you need it, now's the time to consider it. Or if you want to make an even bigger consideration and a bigger change in your life, it. Or if you want to make an even bigger consideration and a bigger change in your life,

now's the time to consider reloading. Just across, just within arm's reach is my Hornaday handbook of cartridge reloading. Now, I never thought I'd be the type of guy that would reload ammunition in a shed. Just so far out of my world, right? Not only is it easy, guys. Listen, reloading ammo is easy. That's what it is. You follow a recipe. You buy the proper components. You get yourself a press.

It doesn't have to be anything amazing. And you can reload ammunition. Buy the components components you can buy primers a thousand at a time you know what i mean and if you have trouble buying things online listen here's a novel idea go to the outdoor shop down the street yeah buy bullets buy casings buy primers buy, get yourself a good scale and, uh, get to it, man. Get to it. It's, it's all within, you know, everything is within your grasp. I know it seems like, wow, how are we ever going to get through all this stuff? Or how am I going

to transform into that? Listen, if I went from who I was in 2006, 2007, 2008, whatever, to what I am now in 2024, anybody can do this. You understand? I didn't even know how to throw a punch in those days. It's a whole new world, okay? You can do it. Trust me me i came to the table as a chef who could play guitar and uh i've covered a lot of ground since then you can do the same thing all right let's do shtf chef i need a i need a chop chop chop chop or something i need i need some kind of audio for our transition here. Today I want to talk about, in specific, fillers, stuffings, force meats, okay? These are things that most people have basically done away with anymore. I don't know why. I don't see it hardly anywhere, but it was a big thing in my family. It was a big thing in my culinary education.

It is and should be utilized more often in the cooking world, I mean in home cooking. From a preparedness standpoint, from a survival and prepping standpoint, in terms of food storage, you should understand the way that my mother understood when I was little, how to utilize cooked rice, um, to stretch ground beef, ground chicken, ground turkey, right? To, to use something like rice to stretch that meat. She would take ground beef and mix it with rice and stuff it into cabbage. She would stuff it into peppers and cook it in a tomato sauce. And these were, I mean, for, you know, a long time, hours. And these meals were unbelievable. It's like some of my favorite.

I will go up to visit my parents, and she'll make stuffed cabbage, and it's like, oh, God, it's still so good. I don't know if it's that it is a marker of some kind of poverty or if it's a marker of if it's carbohydrates using the rice i don't know why people don't do this stuff anymore but they don't do it and you can stretch you can stretch your beef doing that you can use literal breadcrumbs you know another thing that my mother did all the time was bread crumbs in burgers breadcrumbs in meatballs bread breadcrumbs in all kinds of dishes like that. And it makes the food great, right? Like a meatloaf.

Who eats meatloaf on a regular basis anymore, you know? These types of fillers. And another great filler that preppers have that preppers don't often know how to use is uh the the dry wheat the whole wheat the whole wheat can be uh cooked and used as as a mix within the meat as well mixed in to stretch the meat as well this is depression era cooking you know what i mean this is what it was this was we we got enough money to get a half of a pound of ground beef and we need to make a meal for four people out of it.

Now, if you don't think that where we're headed, you could be in a similar situation, or if you don't think that it would be advantageous to know how to do this to save money in a situation like that, then you're not paying close enough attention. That just is what it is, right? So the other thing is, is just straight up stuffing, just straight, not stuffing like bread stuffing, which is good too. You know, stuffing can be used in things other than a turkey. You can roll, you can cut thin slices of beef, chicken, whatever, and just roll stuffing inside of it and bake it.

And it's delicious. It's awesome. A little gravy on top, whatever, a little sauce. These stuffings, you know, they're also delicious. But I think we've lost our mind with food so much. Like, we've lost our mind with food. We lost our mind with fat for so long. Oh my god, the fat, fat, fat, fat, no fat, zero fat, low fat, right? And then we lost our mind with carbohydrates. And we're going to continue to lose our mind over diet, fads, and what you can and cannot eat. Lose your mind over physical fitness and physical calorie burning and output of effort in your life. That's what you need to lose your mind over.

That's what you need to focus on. Do you know what I mean? Rather than saying, I'm going to eat one egg for breakfast, chicken breast for lunch, and you know what I mean? Because here's the thing. Rather than worry about the types of foods that you eat, you can worry about the amount of calories that you burn. Live an active lifestyle. You live an active lifestyle with hard workouts, it improves how long you're going to live completely and totally. But I don't want to go into fitness, okay? That's for the prep or fit and health audience. If you like to eat, eat two times a day instead of three. If you love to eat and you like to just pig out, you want to eat dinner, I mean, you want to eat appetizers and entrees and desserts

and large helpings. Eat two to one times a day. You can do it. It'll take time to get used to, but you can do it. But don't deprive yourself of delicious food that's been passed down from the generations. Do you know what I mean? Just so you can possibly have the body of Adonis or whatever. Do you know what I mean? Now, if you're doing it for health reasons, that's a whole other thing. Anyhow, stuffings themselves. You know, another one of my favorite dishes my mom would make, she didn't make it all that often, but she would make it from time to time, was chicken cordon bleu. And it's nothing special anymore. Most people know what it

is. And it's completely carnivore. It's completely keto, all that kind. It's a great meal. She would just butterfly a chicken breast. In other words, slice it, you know, open it up like a book. And she would lay some Swiss cheese in there, a few slices of Swiss cheese and a few slices of a good smoky ham, close it, and bake it. And it was delicious. You know what I mean? It was absolutely delicious. Stuffing, the stuffing of meats, you know, the stuffing of these things.

What was that one we used to make? We would grind up. I think we did it. Oh, no, no, no. Here's what we used to do. In culinary school we would bone out a chicken thigh. Remove the bone out of the chicken thigh.

Then we'd create a bacon sauce, a bacon mushroom bacon mushroom and goat cheese puree. Okay? So we would just grind it all up. Grind up cooked bacon, grind up mushrooms, grind up goat cheese in a blender. And we would take, I think we did like thyme or something like that too, some herbs in there. And we would take that

and put it in a piping bag. And then would pipe it a line of it into our chicken thigh and we'd wrap that thing up and tie it you know with twine and roast those and it was so good you know it was like a little road like a little rotel almost you know what i mean a little roulade rather it was like a little roulade filled you know the chicken thigh is delicious people don't like it that much because it's dark meat um but it's a delicious thing uh and we'd roll it you could do the same thing with chicken breast too it's just like mom did cut it open like a book filling fold over, or roll it up and tie it and roast it in the oven. Another great force meat that we would do, man, another great stuffing was pureed whitefish and

scallops. Like you take a raw whitefish, a raw scallop, you could do it with shrimp too, and you can create this delicious puree that's going to cook and harden i think we'd add some egg white too yeah we'd add like a an egg white to this mix so we do i don't know maybe like a half pound of seafood ground up in a in a cuisinart right till pretty, and then we would add the egg white also. And you can do the same, you can roll a fish fillet with that inside, right? You can just pipe it, you can pipe it inside of, you know, you can get as crazy with where you put this stuff as you want, just understand it's going to cook up, it's going to harden up,

and it's going to be awesome. Put this stuff as you want. Just understand it's going to cook up. It's going to harden up. And it's going to be awesome. Stretching your meats. Stretching your proteins. Stuffing your meats.

Stuffing your proteins. There's nothing wrong with this. You know what I mean? You don't see it anymore. It's gone. It's been lost to the sautéed salmon. It's been lost to the oven-baked chicken. It's been lost to the oven-baked chicken. It's been lost to the grilled ribeye. And whatever.

You know what I mean? If that's your thing, then that's your thing. But I'm just telling you, there's a whole lot of options out there. Learning how to make force meats, learning how to make stuffings, learning how to stretch ground meat with things like rice. First of all, it's delicious. Second of all, it's only going to help you as times get tougher. Okay?

So get to know them. I often recommend, where is it? Complete Technique by Jacques Pepin right up here on my bookshelf. Complete Technique by Jacques Pepin, right up here on my bookshelf. Complete Technique. Yeah, that's a great one for cooking in general. It's a great one for cooking in general, but there's a lot about forced meats, a lot about pâtés, a lot about that kind of stuff. All right, PBN family, let's wrap this PBN Daily News up.

Oh, we've been rocking. Oh, my God. This is like a whole other podcast now. I'm reading to you today in our words section of PBN Daily News just something that I like. There's no big meaning behind it. There's no, you know, helping preppers get better prepared. None of that.

I mean, this is the sheer joy of reading something wonderful it's from the book uh a tear and a smile by khalil jabran one of the great poets of all time it's a story called or it's a essay i guess called winter and i guess the only takeaway from something like this guys is when you the way you reach for your phone for that quick good feeling that quick scroll that quick whatever you can also reach for a book like this this is why poetry is so nice you know people the poetry is lost on generations of people like the poetry is terrible it's the equivalent of like a short of a TikTok of a, right? That's what it is. It's, I don't want to read a whole book. That's how I got into poetry.

I don't want to read, I don't want to commit to a whole book, but I'll read a poem. I'll read a sonnet and look for some meaning, look for something to dazzle me in there. and you look for something to dazzle me in there. This is called Winter by Khalil Gibran. And this is the final verse in the whole thing. It's draw nigh to me. Anyway, winter, I guess I should give you context. We're just going to read one stanza.

But winter, I'm sorry, it's not winter. It's a tear and a smile. What's the name of this? The life of love is what it is. And it goes through the seasons. Spending all four seasons with someone you love, basically. And the cold of winter is the final subheading of it. And he says, Draw nigh to me, loved of my spirit,

for the fire is dying and the ashes conceal it. Embrace me, for the lamp is dimmed and darkness has conquered it. It's a pretty awesome line. me, ere slumber embrace us. Kiss me for the snows have prevailed over all, save your kiss. It's a pretty awesome line, right? It's all cold and the snows covered everything but your kiss, essentially. The warmth of your kiss, right? Ah, my beloved one, how deep is the ocean of sleep? How distant the morning in this night? That doesn't move everybody the way it moves me. I understand that. That may be a problem. I'm not sure. But what I do know is when you find authors like Khalil Gibran,

poets like Walt Whitman, poets like Dante Gabriel Rosé, like Tennyson, you can reach for their works in the same way that you reach for that phone. And you will find greater value in those pages. Okay? Remember, it's how we've done things for a very long time. We've only recently been under the siren song of the cell phone, you know? It's just very strong. It's very powerful. Thank you for joining today on PBN Daily News, folks. I do appreciate you. I'm going to keep these going. Everybody will be back to school and to work very soon, and we'll be back to our regular schedule of PBN Daily News each and every day. soon and we'll be back to our regular schedule of pbn daily news each and every day um but until about next week uh give me some grace all right i'll see you guys tonight for the i am liberty show

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