The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN Daily News: Spoiled, Grid Attack Thwarted, and Animal Fat

Episode Date: July 30, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. Your path back to stability. Come one, come all, those of you who are dedicated to the sufficiency of audio entertainment. Video is king, they tell me. The video shorts, the YouTube shorts, the heroine of entertainment is king, they tell me. The video shorts, the YouTube shorts, the heroine of entertainment is king. But I invite you to the audio world, the world of the working class, the world where staring at the phone

is not always an option. The world in which we all believe in the sufficiency of audio entertainment, slip the phone in the pocket, tow the line, lift the weights, run the miles, weed the garden. We don't have time to stare at the phone all the time to watch the video. So instead, to watch the video. So instead, the AM radio took us into the podcast age, and the podcast age has been phenomenal. And, you know, it is a blessing to be, as I always say,

steering the mast of this great ship called the Prepper Broadcasting Network. It is I, the Intrepid Commander, coming to you today live. Feeling kind of silly. Feeling kind of silly, feeling happy to be here and wanting to talk to you about the majesty of America and all that we take for granted. I'm going to tell you a business story that is important for all Americans to hear. Now, amid the chaos that is happening all over the nation, all over the world, I do encourage you to look out your window and see that, you know, there's likely a soft breeze hitting the tree leaves or the tree line or maybe just a little dandelion in your yard, whatever your situation is. I'm always reminded as I broadcast about chaos and so on and so forth that, you know,

life goes on. Life goes on and for the prepared, life is usually pretty damn good, you know, life goes on. Life goes on, and for the prepared, life is usually pretty damn good. You know, we get to level off the anxiety and things like that, knowing that, you know, we've taken the steps to be ready. We live in the greatest nation on Earth, despite the fact that the government has turned tyrannical, despite the fact that the lizard overlords want to control us. They hate Americans probably more than anything because we have guns. We can protect our rights.

We have documentation. We have tiers of government designed to protect. We have the litigation. What a pain in the ass Americans are to a group of people who would like to control the world can you imagine a greater thorn in their side than an armed population of rebellious adventurous risk takers who just you know they're not gonna play nice they're not gonna play nice with the bug eating and the no cars by 2025. No flying, no kids, don't make any babies, don't have a dog, no steak, no beer. No, you're right. And these damn Americans are

just, they're just giving us just an enormous national flag-draped middle finger To all our great plans That's That's America baby I mean that's us You know I don't want to go too far off In a tangent Because this is one of those topics

I can Really wax on And wax off But I I am The illustrator The main illustrator Of the of Ready. For those of you who don't know, The World of Ready is my children's book, and there's no other children's book like it. Let's just make it quick and easy. The World of Ready, available on Amazon, is a book about

prepping, talking to your kids about preparedness in a magical world with magical everything, buy it. If you're sitting at work or if you're sitting on your cell phone and you're thinking to yourself, I want to make the in-routes with my kids on prepping, but every time I bring my bug out bag out or something like that, they go, can I play on the iPad? Can I play on the Nintendo Switch? You know what I mean? And you got young kids who are into colorful and magical things. This is the book. That's why the book was made this way. This is exactly what I wanted. And I was lucky enough to meet an illustrator from Bangladesh who, just luckily,

through Fiverr, just trying to get the project up and running. I've been working with another illustrator. And as great as she is, she's living a full life. Things don't get done quick enough, that whole thing, you know what I mean? And I wanted to get this ball rolling because generational preparedness is important to me. So I find this amazing artist in Bangladesh and, you know, she's both passionate about the project and passionate about learning the skills of digital art, the whole thing. And she took my ideas and what's

really hard to do, folks, is to take a person's ideas and make them better. Take a person's sparse texts and sparse conversations and turn them into a world that's even better than they imagined. And that's exactly what Alicia did. She's amazing. She is the person for the job. Now, I had been getting messages, strange messages from Fiverr about internet issues and things like that affecting our ability to communicate.

I had no idea because, you know, there's enough world events going on. In Bangladesh, it's so wild. Because this happens, you don't even realize it, right? In Bangladesh, there were massive protests, government overthrow almost in the streets. What's even more crazy was college kids, student protesters. But the whole of the country was put on sort of this kind of crazy chaos. After weeks of peaceful protests by students looking to change the system, which reserved 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans and those who were raped during the war of independence against Pakistan in 1971.

So the way it worked is, you know how I found this out, actually? Peter Zion. Peter Zion, I've been watching him a little lately on YouTube. He's good. You should find him on YouTube. I told you about him a couple years ago, and his book is on the shelf. It's called The End of the World is Just the Beginning. For all of you China fights, for all of you people who swear up and down China's going to take over the world, you need to read The End of the World

is Just the Beginning to understand how blessed you are to be in America, first of all. But anyway, after this brutal war for independence against Pakistan in 1971, the government basically said we're going to reserve a set of government jobs for the veterans who fought in the revolution and apparently people who were raped during the war also. I didn't know that. But anyhow, people who were, you know, veterans of the effort. The government said we're going to be, you know, 30 percent of the jobs are going to be for you guys. On July 15th, activists of a student wing of the ruling party attacked demonstrators. Security officials opened fire using tear gas, rubber bullets to quell the violence. You know, this was a protest, and this was what a protest looks like not in America, by the way. The quota protest posed the most serious challenge to Bangladesh government since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won a fourth consecutive term in the January elections. The ruling Awami League Party and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have often accused each other of fueling political chaos.

You notice anything that sounds familiar there? You got one side that's been in power for four consecutive terms. I don't know what their rules are. And then you got a nationalist branch. Government officials, including those at the Bangladesh Secretary at the top office, contain most of the country's ministers and bureaucrats, wore black badges Tuesday to mourn 200 students.

211 people were killed since July 16th. Thousands of others injured. So, you know, when something like that happens in a place like Bangladesh, things get turned upside down. They get turned upside down real fast.

And it's just bonkers that these things happen in countries the same – I mean nearly fighting very similar battles to the battles that we're fighting, that other nations are fighting right now. And you hear nothing about it. But what this did is brought her ability to make a living to a screeching halt for a short while. And it's just a reminder of, you know, living in a gigantic place like America, having the capability to move having the capability to move up in society make a living make multiple livings shield yourself from chaos you know live in in a place where you can not only like avoid chaos but then also quite literally arm yourself and defend yourself in chaos we take all this shit for granted you know most americans take all this shit for granted. You know. Most Americans take all of this for granted.

They go. This car in front of me. Is not going fast enough. And I'm mad now. And this is a bad day. And I went to get gas. And all the pumps were full. And this is a bad day.

I hate this damn country. We need socialism. This is just a reminder. This is a PSA, okay? It's a PSA because, I mean, in all honesty, I don't know what this is going to do. Our goal was to have the second book out by the end of summer or in summer and nearing the end of summer. We have a month. I don't know if it'll make it. We'll have to see. The least of worries, right? 200 people dead. Nobody should be worried about, oh God, well, now we're not going to get the next world of red. It's going to be a great book. But what's more important is the reminder that, like, you know, just like that. Just like that and another. There's a lot of people moving abroad. There's a lot of people moving abroad, running from America. You don't know it, but it's going to be a big, huge story probably in another year. It's not the worst thing, but there's a lot of people leaving. I know this because I know a guy who runs a community of people who are leaving. You know what I mean? He does a podcast

and he runs a community of people who are all coming to him and going like, thanks for the podcast. I'm moving in this time. Consult me. I want to move here. What should I do? People are heading out the cost of all the various reasons they're leaving. And I think they're leaving with a full head of American steam and arriving in a nation they don't understand politically and from a threat perspective perspective because we're all failed when it comes to that. And they're hoping to live an isolated life, an isolated life where things are cheap and pleasure is cheap. It's just, you know, this Bangladesh story was a reminder to me. Situation is more than a story.

It's a situation personally. situation personally. It's just a reminder of like how quick smaller nations can be, not just smaller, but how quick other nations can be flipped on their head and how much harder it is to flip America on its head for real. Okay, speak my piece. One threat, one solution. Let's get into it. So I got a story for you, but I also got instincts. You know what I mean? I got a story and I got instincts. I want to read it to you because it conveys a point. It's from the Gray Man Briefing. But I also want you to understand that some of it doesn't sound right to me.

Now, for a long time, how many years? We're talking years now. We've been talking about border crossings. We've been talking about people. We've been talking about infrastructure attacks. Carl B., Dave Jones, Jay Ferg, all people who have been saying something doesn't look right with all this infrastructure, with these derailments, with these boats, with, you know. And we know there are enemies coming through at the South. In New Jersey, a man, Andrew Takistov, was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport after law enforcement say he plotted to target the electrical grid in the state. Authorities report that he was also planning to travel to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, a paramilitary group. The suspect is accused of soliciting another individual to destroy the electrical substation of Public Service Enterprise Group.

The criminal complaint, quote, alleges that the defendant's posts referenced Adolf Hitler encouraged violence against black and Jewish communities, praised mass shooters, and discussed causing death and destruction on a large scale. See, this is where things get weird to me. According to court documents, he discussed using Mylar balloons and Molotov cocktails for attacks and directed his accomplice, an undercover law enforcement agent, to take photos of the substations for further planning. So, you know, this, the overarching theme here is, the overarching theme in all these threats is war equals off-grid.

I know it's so hard for people who woke up every day of their life and flicked their light switch on and said, oh, the lights come on every time I hit the switch, the lights come on like lab rats. You know what I mean? We hit the switch, the light comes on. We hit the switch, the light comes on. We hit the switch, the light comes on. That's the way life is. The grid's in trouble.

The grid is in trouble. The nation is large, though. So it's a bit of a lottery, I think. You know, I used to call it state-level collapse. Look around. What do you see? I used to call it state-level collapse. I used to say, I don't know about this giant American collapse anytime soon, but I would look out for state-level collapse. I would look out for... And all I was looking at and saying was was there are states that are run like shit. There are states where crime is allowed to absolutely fester. Anything goes, right?

Law and order is kind of a – maybe. And I figured – and budgets were run up to death in Chicago, California. You name them. And I thought to myself, this is what collapse will look like. Collapse will look like state-level, states going off the rails, maybe even city-level stuff that is absolutely unbelievable. Now, I think the same thing is true about the power grids. I think in those state-level collapsed situations, areas, cities, states, those are the places where we have to be careful about the grid, the substations, where there are more people and more threats, right? It's kind of a no-brainer.

This guy was into a lot. Youiner. This guy was into a lot. You know, this guy was into a lot. The thing that doesn't make any sense about Andrew Takestov, just in this short couple paragraphs, is... He wanted to attack the grid. Then he wanted to travel to Russia to join the Volunteer Corps paramilitary group. Travel to Ukraine, rather.

Which doesn't make any sense because the reason Russia showed up in Ukraine was to fight back the Nazi presence, or at least that was part of the reason they said in the beginning. And then on top of all that, it turns out he also hates blacks, hates Jews, loves mass shooters, and any other list of things that would make Americans go he's also hates blacks, hates Jews, loves mass shooters, and any other list of things that would make Americans go get rid of him or whatever. And of course, then there's that weird part about an undercover law enforcement agent became his accomplice. We've seen a lot of

that lately. Maybe that's just good work. Maybe that's just good police work, good work by the FBI, whatever, in terms of the Michigan situation. I just think it's interesting. I think it's a very interesting story. You get down to the details, who knows what the hell is going on. The reason I bring it up on One Threat, One Solution is because grid. It's because options outside of grid need to be on your radar. And look, I know some of them are expensive. Some of them are not expensive, though. You know, at the very least, at the very least,

grid goes down. You're worried about electronics. At the very least, as much as you hate your cell phone, you should be able to charge your cell phone to full multiple times with no electricity. They sell laptop batteries. They sell tiny little battery packs that are like $80, $100. That'll charge your cell phone multiple times. Because your cell phone is, this is what your cell phone really is, okay? For 90% of people, maybe more, 95% of people listening, maybe 99.

Your cell phone is your primary communications method. That's what it is. Incoming, outgoing comms, primary. Your cell phone is your primary navigation tool. You are an expert at using that phone more than anybody, any compass you own. You know how to navigate with that phone more than any... It's also, despite a nice library and so on,

it's also your primary reference tool. You have a problem, you need an answer, you need whatever it is, where do you go? You don't go, well, let's go consult the dictionary. Let's go look at the Encyclopedia Britannica for the answer. No, you pick up your phone and go, what should I do next? So it's important we don't discredit the cell phones because we, you know, for the most part, we use them to scroll videos and pictures and stuff. But it's important we don't discredit the phones and we understand,

look, this is the deal, man. You know, this is an important part of our life And gives us a lot of capabilities And if nothing else We got food stored We got extra water for if the power And the water go out If nothing else you should be able to Power up that cell phone

Because again it is It is your primary tool For a number of Life Critical things Alright It is your primary tool for a number of life-critical things. All right? I know. Sounds silly, but it is what it is. I had a discussion yesterday on Instagram about meat and fat,

and that's what I want to get into today. We're going to discuss the power of meat mixed with fat on today's SHTF Chef. Let's do it. Now that is a delicious cut of long pork. All right. So we had a question about rabbits, cooking rabbits yesterday. And I thought we'd discuss the concept of animal fat and why you should have it. Probably one of the most overlooked preps of all is fat. Truly. And in our society, everybody's running from fat, right? They're

like sticking themselves with those Zempik needles. I'm going to be skinny and thin and cute, right? All that kind of stuff. But the truth of the matter is, man, fat is so important. And here's actually my recommendation. One is unbelievable. The other is equally unbelievable but for a different reason. You know, butter, delicious. Love it. They make a great canned butter that I think I might stockpile as well. What's it called?

It's not Yoder's. That's bacon. I forget. Look it up. Canned butter. They make it. You can go to safecastle.com and get it. I'll. Look it up. Canned butter. They make it. You can go to safecastle.com and get it.

I'll give them a little freebie. But butter's great. You know, most oils suck. Like most of the oils out there suck. Coconut oil's a great one. I prefer things that last a long time and are mostly solid at room temperature or just below. These things give you the most utility. The top of the heap is like beef fat tallow because it's so thick. I don't know if that's the right word. It hardens so well at room temp, that kind of thing.

In the fridge, it's like almost impossible to dig through. It gets so hard when it's chilled. So you know that in a root cellar situation, you've got something, right? And you can cook with beef tallow. The reason I like these solid fats also is because you can bake with them really well. Like you can cream sugar. For those of you who don't know you, the cream sugar, mix sugar with fat vigorously until it gets pale. Add eggs and then begin to add dry ingredients to create all kinds of different things. That's just the process of creating most delicious baked goods, cakes, cookies, that kind of stuff. Cream sugar, right?

You take regular old white sugar or brown sugar or both, and then you vigorously mix that into some kind of a fat that is softened. Usually it's butter. Recently I've been using lard because it's superior in my opinion. Beef tallow can be used also, right? So another reason I like to have that solid fat is for that reason. Otherwise, you're taking olive oil, which is too powerful a flavor to add to a lot of baked goods, or some other suck oil that doesn't work.

You know what I mean? Because you can't really cream the stuff up very well. Fat also for cooking. You know, whatever you cook your food in, you're going to eat some of it. So if it's canola oil, you know, you're drinking a little canola oil, and that stuff's terrible for you. Great for inflammation. Great for bad knees and bad backs. You know, you can really put yourself into some pain if you're eating cheap oils. Still, I do, in all transparency, I do, I most certainly store vegetable oil in mass because if nothing else, you know,

I still got something to cook with. Now, animal fat is expensive. You know what I mean? It is. It's expensive. If you render it yourself, it's better. But you buy grass-fed lard, grass-fed beef tallow, it's expensive. It's going to cost you, but it'll be around a while, so it's worth it.

If you got a root cellar somewhere to store it safely out of refrigeration, then you're really doing something good. However, and it's not great for you, it's really bad for you actually, but it's worth mentioning because of the utility. Again, some things in our stockpile we're not going to dig into until the very worst case scenario. And nothing is worse than having no fat to cook food in, particularly if you're raising animals. Well, no, because even if you're raising chickens or if you're raising poultry, animals with little fat on them, you're not going to be able to render enough to meet your needs. It's just that simple. You need some pigs. You need some cows to really render enough fat. But anyway, Crisco. I don't even know what it is. It's like plastic. It's like plastic fat.

But at the end of the day, it lasts. It'll last forever. I don't even know. You know, it's full of triglycerides. It'll probably pop your heart like a water balloon. But, you know, we go back to pace. We go to primary, alternate, contingency, emergency. Crisco is an emergency fat. It's an emergency fat. It can be used as a candle.

It can be used to help with burns. You know, it is not good for you. It's not something you want to be eating on a day-to-day basis right here and now. But you don't want to be simmering and boiling everything you eat, right? And you might want to whip up some cookies one Christmas during the collapse. Who knows? Who knows? When you mix fat with tender meat, slow-cooked meat, mix it with fat, melt some fat down, stuff all your—it's called the rillette. It's called the confit in French. It's the process of really integrating meat with fat. Really, it's more rillette than anything else. But when you mix fat and meat together, tender meat with fat,

mix together, stuff that into a mylar, not in a mylar, a mason jar. Stuff that into a mason jar and then melt more fat. Pour it over top as almost like a lid to that jar, just below the lid line. Then you put your lid on, you know, once it all hardens up and cools down. Then you have the protection of the fat. The fat will protect from oxidization of the meat and will preserve it. And if you have a root cellar or if you can bury it in a cache or if you can put it underneath the house somewhere where it stays cool, you have an off-grid protein container, protein source that is also delicious. You know, you can put all kinds of

salt in it for preservation. You could put, I wouldn't put too much else in it because that stuff could go bad. You start chopping fresh herbs and putting it in there, it could go bad. Save that for when you're ready to serve it up. Put a little of booze in it for preservation also and flavor, a little bourbon. All of that goes into the jar. The fat cap is what it's called on top. That basically is your lid, then another lid for another layer of protection, you know, the actual metal lid. And you've got something,

man. You've got something. This is a, the fat cap is a practice that we use in the restaurant world all the time. We allow a fat cap to form over our stocks naturally when we make, you know, beef stock and things like that, and it preserves the stock for a longer time. Don't sleep on your fat, PBN family. Don't be scared to acquire high-quality fats. Animal fats are the best, in my opinion. An emergency affordable – it's not as affordable as it used to be, but an emergency affordable fat source is Crisco. It just is what it is. You know what it is, the pros and cons, but anything's better than

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