The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN Daily News: Praise the Preppers, Tortellini, and Bridge Collapse

Episode Date: March 26, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. You're paying back the stability. The end of March is upon us, PBN family. Can you believe another month? Can you believe another month? The gardens are going to be incredible within the PBN family this year. So many people. Even our guest last night, if you didn't hear Preppers Live, we had the People's Pharmacist Jen Vanderwooder on yesterday evening.

And I've known her for a bit. I wanted you guys to get to know her, and I think we're going to have her on more often. But even she's talking about chickens and talking about gardens and expanding and greenhouses and so on. And, you know, this movement is exploding at the moment. There's no denying it. I don't know if it's necessarily the prepper movement, but what I do know for sure is it's the movement that we have built the processes around and created the accessibility to. And I want you to be proud of that, you know.

I want you to be proud of that. You know, doing what you do, listening to us, supporting us through membership, all these things, and supporting the other preppers out there in the world. All of this has culminated into this moment where, just like in 2020, just exactly like in 2020, when the world goes, what in the hell is happening? And then they go, and what should i do about it and they turn around and there are 5 000 podcasts on the prepper broadcasting network there are millions of youtube videos on

homesteading prepping off-grid living you know so on and so forth and but i always give prepping the leg up on it all because what being a prepper does is it allows you to explore everything. Right? Like if you're a gardener, you're not going to wind up with an AR-15 on your back. You're not going to stumble into how do I zero my rifle scope, right? Which body armor should I buy? Which eye fag should I strap to it? If you're a homesteader, maybe you do that at night when the family's asleep. You know what I mean?

But preppers wear it as a badge of honor, right? We're in everything. We're pounding metal. We're raising chickens. We're raising ghosts. We're shooting steel targets. We're using our iTarget Pro, right? Promo code PREPPER for 10% off, iTargetPro.com. Get it, get it, get it.

We do all this stuff, you know, and we're taking first aid classes, tactical courses, foraging, right? When you become a prepper, you join a community of people. And I think this is what people miss when they run away from our community because of a name, which is so silly, right? When you fully embrace this thing and you surround yourself with people who are preppers and unabashed, like this is what I am, this is what I do, the world, be damned,

because it is damned, that's when you're free. That's when you can open up your eyes every day and say, what kind of crazy stuff do I want to get into? Because this is my lifestyle now. So, you know, I commend you out there. I do. I want you to never underestimate the infrastructure that you've helped build for the American people in this moment in time. Never underestimate it. The support that you've given us and people like us, the support that you've given to keep businesses up and running, it all has created this infrastructure that's amazing.

This chaos infrastructure. This calm within chaos infrastructure. Right? So people can say, everything is crazy. Let me go buy some long-term food storage. Let me get a freeze dryer. You know, whatever it is that they want to do. Now, from the heart of the preppers themselves,

we have to construct our April routine. Our April routine is going to be a members-only routine, and that just is what it is, guys. If you're out there and you're saying, I want to be a part of these routines, listen, the February routine is available at pbnfamily.com, and it was for everybody. Okay, March we did for members. April we're going to do for members also. It's just the nature of the things that we're doing. Some of them are going to be available to everybody.

Some of them aren't. The members support this network, man. They float this thing, you know. That's it. We go through ups and downs with sponsorship, you know. Sometimes we've got a ton of sponsors. Sometimes we don't got a ton of sponsors, but the members are always there. And they have to understand that they're valuable to us in that regard. I want to thank Mark for joining us in the live chat, one of our newest members, last night.

I'll get you spread all around the Element chat. Are you guys in Element? If you're listening, you need to go to prepperbroadcasting.com and go to the Live Shows tab and join the Element live chat room. We don't do as many live shows as we used to, but we still do a lot of live shows. And more importantly, Element is full of great people. I mean, it's full of people.

I don't know how many people are in there anymore, actually. It doesn't necessarily matter, does it? Like, I'm not going to give you a verifiable number where you're like, well, I would have went in there if you said that number, but since you said this number, it's a quality over quantity thing anyway. I put a poll out yesterday to the members' chat in Element to see what it is they'd like to see focused on in our routines, or in our April routine, rather.

You know, there are some non-negotiables. Fitness is a non-negotiable, right? Dry fire practice, non-negotiable. Every month, every single month this year, our routines are going to contain workouts, dry fire practice. That's just part of the deal. Because I think both are completely and 100% accessible to all. I have to assume that all have a handgun.

If not, I don't know. You need one. I can tell you that much. So all of those are accessible to all. Your physical fitness is paramount. You know, we're beyond the point of arguing that. There's no arguing. I spent the early part of my podcasting career arguing with preppers about the importance of physical fitness. Those days are over, right? It's a, it's a, just is what it is here. I am the commander. So fitness is, fitness is the thing. Um, so those two are non-negotiable, but you know, we do a bunch of things. We do about four different things per day. Um, I did notice in our early iterations that asking people to work out and then go run later

in the day is probably, probably overkill in terms of fitness. Um, maybe not for everybody, but for busy people, it's like, come on, dude, when, when am I gonna, can we keep it, keep it to at least one workout a day? So I'm going to try to do that. The only thing I'll slip in, um, is stretching because I think stretching in the evening is, it's great. It's great for you. It's a great way to calm down, tone down. It's a great way to get your body mobility up and running. People seize up, man. I'm watching it with my own eyes. I've watched it with people. You know, you will seize up. When you're a little kid, you could like bend yourself into a pretzel. You get into your 30s, 40s, you're not taking care of yourself. I see people start to seize up. They can't do things they used to be able to do.

And that's just, all you got to do is stretch. Like, it doesn't make any sense. Why would you let this thing that carries your brain around completely seize up into a little ball of tension? So, off-grid builds seems to be in the lead right now over at the poll. I have some ideas about off-grid builds and how we can build that into our April routine because they are day-to-day routines. So we're not going to be building something every single day, but I'm thinking we could do a four-week build schedule and build four off-grid projects that I think are important. Yeah, amongst other things, those are some of the things that we'll be doing in April together as a community. And we use the routine mentality, the daily five-day-a-week routine mentality. We

use that mentality on purpose. And it's to make sure that you're staying focused. You know, things don't just happen. You know what I mean? Things don't just happen. Things don't just get done. Doesn't work that way. Now, let's get into the terrible news in Baltimore. Major incident brought to you by the Gray Man Brief. Major incident. A cargo ship, Singapore flag dolly, I don't know what that means, left port in Baltimore, Maryland, and struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge,

the 695 Bridge, for those of you familiar with the area, approximately 28 minutes later. Some videos appear to show the ship losing power just prior to the strike. The bridge collapsed completely, and Jay Ferg said that seven people have been pronounced dead so far. All lanes, obviously, of I-695 are closed because there's no more bridge to get across, and the governor of Maryland has declared a state of emergency. Now, you have to understand, you got I-95, you got 895, you got tunnels, and you got bridges, right, and you got 695. And this is how you get through Baltimore. So obviously, and 695 is the largest of the sort of thoroughfares that go around the city,

sort of like a 395, 495 situation down there in D.C., right? Or a 288 here in Virginia, 150, whatever. Or 288, no, 288. This one threat, one solution, you know, I don't know. We'll see. I don't think this was malicious in any way, you know. But who knows? I don't know.

I watched a video a couple times. I didn't do deep detective work on it. I'm not even qualified to do that. What I do know is this, PBN family, for your one threat, one solution advice. We are a moving population. We are a population that travels to new locations, right? We don't stick where we used to stick. We used to stay in the town, stay in the village, stay in the city.

We grew up and have kids generationally. And we've taken a beating because we've decided to live as nomads again in a number of ways, but I don't want to get into it. What I will tell you is this. You better have some alternative routes in and out of where you live. If you have a bug-out location, if you have numerous bug-out locations, you better have alternative routes. What I have next to me is a relic. It's a Rand McNally Virginia State map.

Believe it or not, you can buy a paper map. This map actually lives in my bug-out bag. You can buy a map of your state. You can buy a map of your area, paper maps. You can buy a road atlas. of your state. You can buy a map of your area, paper maps. You can buy a road atlas, right? That would give you

routes all over the whole country. These are things that you need, man. You know what I'm saying? These are things that you have to have because if you don't have them and you... when it counts, off-grid, bridges collapsing,

all those ways that you're used to traveling, if they become a dead end, the last thing you want to do, particularly if you're trying to get somewhere fast, is abandon your vehicle and go on foot. I know we have this bug-out sort of fantasy where we're backpacking with the family to our bug-out location in the worst of worst-case scenarios, backpacking with the family to our bug out location in the worst of worst case scenarios but you know your goal is to remain at 60 plus miles per hour if there's a real problem and you're trying to get somewhere before all hell breaks loose right like you don't want to be in a situation where um you have to abandon your your plan altogether because you can't get to your bug-out location that you've outfitted with resources and so on.

And that's just the deal, folks. So if you don't have alternative routes, north, south, east, and west, for evacuation at the very least, look into that. Get yourself one of these paper maps. You can keep in your car. Get yourself a road atlas.

You could keep in your car, your spouse's car, whatever. And be prepared, you know, in the event that something like this happens and your life is disrupted at a time when you can't afford a disruption. You know, we moved my parents down with us over the weekend. And we drove through Baltimore. And if something like this had happened, I don't know, we might wait. I might say let's wait because traffic's going to be crazy in Baltimore. So, you know, it is what it is. Terrible, horrible, absolute nightmare situation. I hope they can get the bridge back up and running

and pray for the people who were doused in that, middle of the night doused in that water because that's terrible, it's cold, it's hellacious. You don't have a lot of time to survive a situation like that. And people didn't survive, you know. When the underpinnings of all our safety and things go away, it's always a reminder of how frail this world is, and our lives in particular.

Let me lift your spirits with a little spring lunch. Now that is a delicious cut of long pork. SHTF Chef PBN Family. Is it too off color, the long pork segment? People even know what it is? Probably don't even know what it is, most of them. It's funny, ha-ha. All right, have a laugh once in a while, okay?

We have a State Department that is trying to literally eliminate a candidate for president in every way that they can. And it's just completely and totally backfiring in my estimation. We'll see come election time. But, you know, there's a lot of crazy out there. You have to be able to laugh and enjoy yourself. One of the ways I like to enjoy myself this time of year is by taking advantage of the things that are great this time of the year. Asparagus, English peas. Many of you might have asparagus starting right now. I have English peas that are popping up out of the ground right now. And before long,

they'll be climbing, right? I had asparagus for a little while. It died off on me. I don't have a really great area for asparagus, so it has to be raised bed. And right now, the area I grew asparagus, I dedicated to strawberries just because. I don't know. It was, you know, experiment.

But I do like to get my hands on that asparagus, and I like to slice it up a little in its raw state. And I like to have those peas fresh or frozen, however I can get them this time of year. First time I eat this will probably be this week, and it will be frozen peas because peas ain't ready yet. You can't do canned peas with this. This is no good.

This is all about freshness. This is all about fresh spring flavor. Okay? You get yourself a good, or you make yourself a good, cheese ravioli or tortellini. Okay? Cheese ravioli, cheese tortellini,

whatever one you like. Boil salted water. As they start to float, as they're getting close to being done, add your sliced asparagus, add your sliced peas. You know, consumer it with the sort of ratio that you would like. And then, you know, give it another minute or something like that. You don't even need a full minute with asparagus, to be honest, for it to be delicious. You can, when I worked in the restaurant industry, I'd take asparagus, I'd plunge it into boiling water,

whole for a salad that we were doing, and I'd pull it almost immediately out and shock it in nice water but that's not how I do it at home I throw the asparagus and the frozen peas in with the tortellini at the very end 30 seconds whatever something like that dump it all out into a colander together because it's going to stay together it It's a party now, you know what I mean? Then in a pan, I'll start a little butter. It's low temperature. Melt the butter low temp. And all I'm doing is I'm going to toss that cheese ravioli and vegetables in that warm butter.

If I really want to get crazy, I might add a little, not a lot, you don't want too much because this is a delicate little dish, maybe a little few slices of garlic in there. But most of the time I just do butter. I toss the pasta in there, get it coated with the butter, then I put a good parmesan cheese on top, toss that a little bit onto the plate. And it's delicious. If you want to top it with some good olive oil, that's not bad. I like to top it with fresh arugula. Another, you know, baby arugula is probably one of my favorite, top three favorite things about spring. And you're eating, man. You're eating and it's great. And the sun's out and it's the blue sky and the trees are starting to bloom and you're eating your cheese tortellini with asparagus and

peas and it feels like spring, man. Oh, you know what else you can do to this dish that's kind of fun? I don't do it very often because it's a lot of richness. You can break up a little goat cheese. If you're one of these goat cheese people who can't get enough, you can break a little goat cheese up on this at the end. You know, delicately break it up, crumble it over top the dish. If you're one of those feta cheese maniacs, you can put du feta on this too. It's pretty good. I usually stick with the Parmesan and enjoy myself. You know what I mean? So, let's get into words and call it a day here all right on pbn daily news looks like there's some turbulence up ahead it's a good thing you found us

we are the prepper broadcasting network your path back to stability now i would never have imagined that we would be a motivating force here at pbn um to inspire you to a better life you know the way i started out was explaining to people how to do things to help them survive the worst of the worst. And now I find myself listening to the hosts and creating content myself that is almost completely about inspiration and pushing towards a great life. And that's because once you gather all these skills and stuff, you start to realize like, oh, I can make my life great. Like now that I realize, like, oh, I can make my life great. Like, now that I know what I'm doing, I can make my life great.

Nobody can get in the way of it. You know what I mean? I can grow tons of food out of my backyard. Nobody can get in the way of it. I can store all the water my family needs. Nobody can get in my way of it. You know what I mean? It's really become I can follow the things, my passions. Nobody can get in my way of it. You know what I mean? It's really become I can follow the things, my passions.

Nobody can get in the way of them. And, of course, you know, we have to fight to sustain that because the government wants to get in the way of everything now. We just need to call back to the Constitution. We need to throw people out of office. And we probably need, I think at this moment, and then we'll get into what I want to read you from Khalil Gibran. I think in this moment, what we truly need is a fire option. Rapid fire. That's what we need. We need the ability to boot people instantaneously,

if the representatives say so. You know, we need to vote more, fundamentally. You know, all this yakety yak from the left about democracy, we should representatives say so. We need to vote more, fundamentally. All this yakety-yak from the left about democracy, we should be voting more. We can vote on our phone. You know what I mean? It's not like we can't figure that out. And of course, everything will be contested. But I do think that we need a system of strikes or a system of voting where if you're a part of a group that puts forth something that attacks an amendment directly or attacks multiple amendments of the Constitution, strike one. Right? Right. If you're a person who votes on a on a on a budget or on a bill like the one point two billion dollar bill that just passed that had that is, you know, in all honesty, guys, we should all be outside of capital of the capital. Asking about the future of this country, asking about our children's future, their children's future, their children's children's future and how they plan on sustaining this while protecting the borders of Zimbabwe with all our tax money. You know? Or it just becomes this simple. Did you read the bill? I did not read the bill, but I signed it. Okay, strike. You get three

strikes, you're kicked out of office. It's that simple. Or the public has a vote and says, okay, strike. You get three strikes, you're kicked out of office. It's that simple. Or the public has a vote and says, well, this guy's been a part of the group that's given away over a trillion dollars to foreign nations and has added nothing to help the American people. We're going to hold a vote. Do you want him to be a representative? Yes or no? No, his term's not up i know that's like impeachment but impeachments don't work we need a more rapid ability to punish representatives who are not representing you can't be representing the people listen everybody who signs a 1.2 billion dollar bill they never read is not a representative. Do you understand?

There's no way you can claim to be a representative of your constituents if you signed away $1.2 billion of their money and don't even know what it's going to. How could you represent anyone? You know what I mean? It's impossible. So in the midst of all that, we have to find the beauty in life, the beauty in life that exists day in and day out, the beauty in life that did all this sort of high tension, high anxiety, high blood pressure, things that stuff that's happening, things, that stuff that's happening, you know, all around the world can make us miss. And Khalil Gibran, in a tear and a smile, wrote a great little, we're going to read a lot here.

We're probably going to read the truth. No, we're going to read to the end. This is his chapter called Fantasy and Truth. It's only about a page, but it's important. I'm not going to go with the intro. I'm going to go with starting with beauty because what he details in Fantasy and Truth is all the beauty that exists around us and how we hide from it to one degree or another. And he says, Beauty appears before us seated on her throne of glory, and we draw nigh. And in the name of longing do we defile her garment's hem, and wrest from her the crown of purity.

Love passes by us clothed in a robe of gentleness, and we're afraid and hide us in the dark caves, or follow her and do evil things in her name. The wise man walks in our midst, bearing his heavy yoke, yet is it softer than the breath of a flower, and gentler than the breezes of Lebanon. Wisdom stands on the street corner

and calls to us above the multitude, but we deem her a thing without worth, and despise them that follow her. Let me turn page. Nature stretches forth to us the hand of friendship and bids us take delight in her beauty. Man, is that ever true? And now is the time to recognize how true that is.

I'm reading that again. Nature stretches forth to us the hand of friendship and bids us take delight in her beauty. But we fear her stillness and take refuge in the city and tumble one upon another as a flock of sheep before the prowling wolf. Truth visits us led by the smile of a child and a lover's kiss,

and we close the door of our tenderness against her and abandon her as one unclean. Thus wise pass the nights, and we are heedless of them. The days meet us, and we fear the days and the nights. We are near to earth, yet gods are our kin. We pass by the bread of life, and hunger feeds off our strength. How sweet to us is life, and how far we are from life. Khalil Gibran, a tear and a smile. Have a good day, folks. Thank you for joining me here on PBN Daily News.

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