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Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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You're listening to PBN,, on the heels of a meteoric weekend into Monday. Monday, which will be something, man. There's a lot of things lining up. Yesterday, we spent a lot of time talking about the potential for Monday in a terrifying way. Friday, going into the weekend, I wanted to pump the brakes. I wanted to take a breath. breaks i wanted to take a breath we have plenty of content for you about preparedness and you're going to hear a lot this weekend about all kinds of stuff you're going to hear a lot monday you know all these next days and then days to come and i really do think that uh as i mentioned yesterday

2025 will be one of these years of conflict you know what i mean we'll we'll see conflict in in a lot of different places it could stutter it could sputter out as the year goes on i mean big things are happening already ceasefire talks in the middle east i just uh the ceasefire talks seem like, it seems like Israel has a cancer to cut out around them and they never quite get it completely, you know, burnt out. And I just, you know, maybe that's life for them. Maybe that is literally life for them is slash and burn, lower the numbers of the radicals around them that want to kill them and obliterate them and lose the youth in their own military to do it and sacrifice and all that. And then try to go back to life as normal and wait i mean it always feels like this waiting for the next bit of chaos and the next war when the wolves get too close morning jay firk thanks for joining us do appreciate it looking

forward to the show tomorrow morning. Phoenix Survival, guys. Don't miss it. So, yeah, we got... I wanted to take time today to read from The Greats. You know, there is a... I think a lot of people don't go back to The Greats enough.

And that might... It might sound silly like the greats and i'm talking poets and i'm talking writers uh and we could even talk artists but i don't want to get into art today but there's a reason why these books and these paintings and these museums and these libraries exist and And it's for moments like these. It's for moments when, like just what we talked about yesterday with people feeling the weight of the time, right? People feeling the weight of the time. Those are the moments when we return back to the greats, right? A lot of people return to the Bible in these times.

And you read people like Shakespeare, and you see a lot of echoes of the Bible within. I mean, that makes sense. 1500s, right? Wasn't a whole lot of great reading going on outside of the Bible, and the Bible being very poetic in and of itself. on outside of the Bible and the Bible being very poetic in and of itself. So I thought there's preparedness stuff to talk about. There's a story about Iran wanting to help with the wildfire recovery that we'll look at. There are some things I want to tell you about and so forth, but it's Friday. We're going into a heavy weekend into a heavier week not only will be will much of the nation be tested like through this political

onboarding of donald trump on martin luther king jr's birthday on uh monday on Monday. On top of all that, it's like we're going into a polar vortex and very, very far south. Very interesting situation. I've heard even that maybe even Phil Rabelais of the Matter of Facts podcast could have snow down in Louisiana. That's, well, probably fun, to be honest. Probably pretty fun if they get something worth playing in but it's heavy stuff it's a heavy time and uh one of the things that i love about reading

old works and what i think people miss about reading old works like there's great poetry well i can't say that i don't know i don't read new poets at all i don't have no i maybe maya angelo you know what i mean it's about all i could attest to modern hunter sf in chat says i'm gonna have to call elon and ask why my notifications aren't working yeah that's a weird one give him a ring see if he'll he'll front us a couple million dollars while you're at it for preparedness national preparedness um for me it's always a reminder of just how we've all been suffering the same things forever. Because it's easy to feel like, why was I born in this time with these troubles and these problems? And why do I have to deal with this?

And why is it that I have to face this down and all that kind of stuff? And then you read something like Hamlet, and you realize that if you know what you're reading, and I think Hamletlet the to be or not to be requires like very minimal picking apart a poetic language to understand but to me it is just this it's this great passage that is a reminder that from the time it was written in the 1500s how little humans have changed the human condition has changed the human struggles have changed and when you're feeling overburdened like that like many people are right now it's very valuable to know like

we've been on this path a long time. Many people have survived things like this and much worse. The value of the greats in poetry in particular is their ability to, in sort of a distilled way, show you these things. So in other words, you read the Russian the russian greats right and those books are hard to read i've never completed one of those books you know crime and punishment the things that like smart people tell you all the time you should read and that's such amazing writing in every sentences of like yeah that's fine but to me it's not very gripping stuff. And you get through a book like that. It takes a lot of time. What poets do, why poets are sometimes better than, you know, novelists is because they distill it in things that are short and easy to understand. They have the ability to distill something like that. Right.

to understand they have the ability to distill something like that, right? Some of you know maybe this whole passage, and many of you don't, and some of you will recognize things from it, but this is from Hamlet, to be or not to be. Now, almost everyone knows to be or not to be. That's the question. You know what? Let's put it up. Let's put it up onto the video. For those of you listening, we're going to be or not to be. That's the question. You know what? Let's put it up. Let's put it up onto the video.

For those of you listening, we're going to take the whole thing and put it up on the screen because the word itself is good to follow along with. So to be or not to be, that's the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. There's a lot there, man. Right. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune has become what everybody who's on social media deals with. It's not outrageous fortune anymore. It's outrageous. It's outrageous fame or notoriety right it's to put your opinion out there to put yourself out there and understand

that now you're a target for all it's the comment section the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is basically the modern version of that today is the comments it's what it's what people have to deal with in the comment section um so is it nobler to deal with that or is it nobler to uh take on take arms against the sea of troubles and by opposing end them right to the great battle right the great battle of day-to-day life, the great sea of troubles that we all face day in and day out. To die, to sleep, no more, and by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished, to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream.

Ah, there's the rub. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we're shuffled off this mortal coil." Now when he talks about death, man, this is the section where everybody can sort of understand, right? Must give pause, There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life, right? Long life is crazy with battles and wars and so forth, right? For who would bear the whips and scorns of time? The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, the law's delay, the insolence of office. All of that is all of that right there is everything that political talkers talk about every single day. Right. The oppressor is wrong.

The proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love. I forgot that the laws delay. Right. The laws delay is is the Biden administration. It's what it is. The laws delay. When is someone going to be punished for all the wrong that's been done? The insolence of office, right? And the spurns that patient merit of unworthy takes. When he himself might in his quietest make with a bare bodkin. Who would fartles bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life?

Like, who would do it? Who would face this thing that is life? A weary and long life, full of all the struggles that we deal with, right? But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovereded country from who's born no man returns epic line by shakespeare man absolutely epic the undiscovered country from who's born no traveler returns right when you're born in death when you arrive in death nobody comes back to talk about it no travel returns puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others we know not of a country singer distilled it said everybody wants to go to heaven

nobody wants to go now right same same line same thing thus conscience doth make cowards of us all and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought and the enterprises of great pith and moment with the regard with this regard their currents turn awry and lose the name of action so even even back then uh as hard as life could be it was it was the unknown the unknown side of death that we feared, right? And the fact that we always have feared our mortality. And better to grunt and, what does he say? To grunt and sweat under a weary life, right?

right bear bodkin and unsheathed dagger such violence very good hunter yeah there's a like I said there's an immense value in this stuff guys it's a reminder that the the ills that we suffer right it's just life it's a reminder that the ills that we suffer, right, it's just life.

It's been that way forever, at least for 500 years. I want to take a look at this article, and we'll get back to it. I'm going to read you some Tennyson. I'm going to read you some other greats. We may do some Khalil Gibran today. I don't know. He's a lot. Khalil's a lot. I mean, do some Khalil Gibran today. I don't know. He's a lot. Khalil's a lot. I mean, I love Khalil Gibran, don't get me wrong, but he's got that weird... He was sort of the beginning, in my opinion, of some of the craziest lefty thought.

You know, like nobody's evil and nobody's bad. And that's what always turns me off about him. I read this this morning and I got it from Are You Feeling Lucky in our chat room. So, Lucky, thank you very much. In the Element chat, the sort of undercover, covert chat room that we have that very few know about and very few participate in, you know, in comparison to all the people that watch the show.

You can join the Element chat at prepperbroadcasting.com but it's uh you know it is what it is iran announces readiness to help victims of la wildfires huh this is from a website i've never been to before the tehran times like yesterday that the president of iran was like we are not trying to assassinate trump and then this this comes out this actually came out on the 11th iran announces readiness to help victims of the la wildfires they must be trying to get some billions in cash that's all i can think in a message to cliff holtz the ceo of the american red cross colovan offered condolences and expressed sympathy saying widespread fires in los angeles

which demolished houses threatened lives and turned the scenic landscape into ashes has affected the whole world particularly responsible and sympathetic people like like the iranian regime so what are they going to do? What's their plan? I can't think of a better way to smuggle in more terrorists than to bring the humanitarian aid force into the country from Iran. We're sure that by collaborating and sharing experiences, we can bring a brighter future to the people who are caught in the merciless flames of fire and terminate this crisis yeah i don't know man it's weird what's their their organization is hilarious too it's called the iranian red crescent society the iranian red crescent society The Iranian Red Crescent Society. What is up?

I don't know about that one, man. Hunter says this is the only English class I didn't have trouble with. That was terrible in English, dude. Terrible. Absolutely terrible. There's something about there's a disconnect there and what it is is um it's a weird one because the teachers like the material i think the majority of teachers like and appreciate the material they don't focus on the material that much and they teach things that are like predetermined

you know what i mean and then the focus on sentence structure so i think i i don't know there's a better way to do english i'll tell you that much there's definitely a better way to do it um i don't know if they know how i don't know if i know how but i know that english for a guy like me should have been fun because in eighth grade i took this book out of the library in eighth grade. This is actually another copy. My original copy is, I don't even know if I have it anymore. It got eaten by my pet chinchilla in high school. But this book changed the trajectory of my life. And I took it out for a number of reasons. You know what I mean? Being an eighth grader who was not particularly athletic,

of reasons you know what i mean being an eighth grader who was not particularly athletic i was trying to figure out what i could do that is unique this book was big uh poetry was becoming a thing and writing and i felt like i had something here that was notable you know what i mean like oh look at me i have this big black book with with sonnets in it you know like i'm something you've never seen before you know you know how it is um we're gonna read from this but you know what let's do inside the cash first because i got something fun i got something fun i want to show you for inside the cash and uh it's from a new company that you're going to be hearing from i've talked about them this week we're linking to this product in the description and it's kind of cool it's kind of fun there's serious utility to it but i want to do something that wasn't incredibly heavy

on today because it is friday and it's been a long week and i think we're headed into one hell of a week to come, right? It's hard to describe the home security superstore. The home security superstore is a cool little place, and they got a lot of weird stuff. You know what I mean? They got a lot of weird stuff. This little shiny little pen you can get in a number of colors. Everybody should have a pen they can rely on.

You know what I mean? And a pen that is worth its weight. See, for me, I keep a checklist. There's a checklist right here next to me. And I have to have my checklist. And I have to have my pen that can mark off my checklist. What's unique about this pen in particular is when you close the pen and go to change the ink cartridge, you gain access to, I mean, it's hard for me to call it anything but like a shiv, a shank, right? It's a tiny one-sided blade.

It's not very big. It's probably about two and a half to three inches. It's definitely super sharp and has a great point on it. I wondered when I got a product like this, how come these aren't standard issue in our schools? You know what I mean? Standard issue in the schools, or at least just have a few of them or have a box of them for when lockdown comes. We keep our gold and our silver and our dollars behind armed trucks and armed men. We keep our politicians behind armed men. But if your kid brought in something like this into school and got found out,

it'd be a very big problem, even though they have no plan to protect the children whatsoever. Their plan to protect the children is to outlaw AR-15s, assuming that someone who wants to shoot up a school is always going to use an AR-15 or will be unable to get their hands on an AR-15. So this thing's cool, right? A lot of capability. A lot of people can't bring weapons and stuff into the office, feel disarmed. And this little pen provides you, like I said, a very sharp self-defense weapon.

Cool. Very cool. And it's cheap. It's like $9 or something. You know what I mean? The one thing about the Home Security Superstore is they're not breaking the bank. They got really cool stuff. I'm going to tell you about this Barbarian next week. You see this thing?

This is what you need in your car, okay? And I'll show you all the features on that thing. It's wild. L2Survive in chat. What is going on, man? We're doing English class today. I'm showing off my poet's pen here. If you want to be sharp with the English language, this is the way to go.

So the link's in the is the way to go. So the link's in the description, like I said. They've got a lot of cool solutions over there at the Home Security Superstore, and they do a good job, man. Making things that don't break the bank. While we got them here and while we brought it up, for those of you who are looking to move out into the world, meet other preppers, meet other survivalists, people with your mind frame. L2 Survive at YouTube has a great video out right now highlighting the website Prepper Shows USA. All right. That's L2 Survive over at YouTube.

And he's longtime listener member of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Great guy. Unbelievable collection of videos and gear over there at YouTube. But what's out now and what I think everybody should take a look at is Prepper Shows USA. His video on Prepper Shows USA. It's an old website. You know what I mean? You may know about it, but if you don't know about it, you should really check it out. You'll be surprised at what's being offered and what's going on in your neck of the woods. You know what I mean? You may know about it, but if you don't know about it, you should really check it out. You'll be surprised at what's being offered and what's going on in your neck of the woods. What I'm supposed to do when I do inside the cash is blow my camera up so you can actually see what it is I'm showing you. And I didn't do it again. I get wrapped up and excited to show you. And I forget about that piece of the puzzle.

Did we promo enough stuff? Can we get into the book? Can we get into the doctor feel good? So this thing is. I don't know when it was written. I have no clue. But it's followed me throughout my life. This book, Tennyson Browning, Arnold Meredith, the guy that I fell in love with, Danteina rossetti i haven't read much i'm a big

browning guy big arnold guy big tennyson guy and dante has always been my favorite but throughout the years man i have uh you know i've marked things in here robert browning's abbott vogler Robert Browning's Abbott Vogler. He has some great, he has a great take on failure in here. You know, and this is another one of those things like that we exist in as people all the time, right?

Success and failure, the, the short celebration of success. And then like the long and dark road of failure, right? Things go well. It's like, well, things went well time to move on right things go bad it's like i'm gonna i'm gonna beat myself up about this for about six months and in abbott vogler uh what is this stanza 11 he says and what is our failure here but a triumphs evidence for the fullness of the days have we withered or agonized why else has the pause prolonged but that singing

might issue thence why rush the discords in but that harmony should be prized be prized sorrow is hard to bear and doubt is slow to clear each shuffler says his say his scheme of the wheel and woe but god has a few of us whom he whispers in the ear the rest may reason and welcome tis we musicians know that's a good one man that's a good one, man. That's a good one. And there's another, I think it's in this one, about the prolonged chords. The song prolongs. Is that this one?

That might not even be Browning. That might be Tennyson. But it's a great line about how we are all poets in our youth. And for a few of us, the cord is struck and prolongs. It's something you choose to give up. It's something a lot of people never even... Oh, you know what that is? That's the Lotus Eaters, isn't it?

I think that's in the Lotus Eaters. I may not have that page marked anymore. I mark pages in books like my father with pictures. It's a cool little thing he's done. I don't know if he did it on purpose or by accident, but he's got all these old fishing books that are marked with pictures of us throughout the years. Where's the lotus eaters at? Anyway.

The faded leaves. I don't know why this one is marked, to be honest. This must be something new I'm on. Oh, Urania is great. I've suffered. I too have suffered. Yet I know she's not cold, though she seems so. She is not cold.

She is not light. But our ignoble souls lack might. She smiles and smiles and will not sigh. While we for hopeless passion die. Yet she could love, those eyes declare. Were but men nobler than they are. Eagerly once her gracious Ken was turned upon the sons of men. But light the serious visage grew, she looked and smiled and saw them through. I love the line about Urania, about her being able to love if men were more noble.

I don't know. It reminds me of like, not modern women per se, but there are women out there looking. You know what I mean? With that in mind, walking this earth lonely, looking for the right guy. And in a time like this, it's not easy, right?

It's not easy to find. So should we keep going? What the hell? Let's keep going. We have to read Rugby Chapel because Rugby Chapel is is so epic. It's it's one of those things you wish you could do, and most people never get there in terms of writing an amazing poem. And this one is about his father.

And it's so wild. I'm going to read you the opening because the opening is great, but the stanza about what is the course of life of mortal men is it's so good i mean it's so good i think i know it by heart i probably don't even need to read it but regarding a man regarding a father in 1857, right? Coldly, sadly descends the autumn evening. The field strewn with its dank yellow drifts. Of withered leaves and the elms fade into dimness apace, silent.

Hardly a shout. From a few boys late at their play, the lights come out in the street. In the schoolroom windows, but cold, solemn, unlighted, austere. Through the gathering darkness arise the chapel walls, in whose bound thou, my father, art laid. So his father's in the chapel, dead. There thou dost lie in the gloom of the autumn evening. That word gloom to mind,

there goes my mark, brings thee back in the light of thy radiant vigor again. This is where it gets so good. In the gloom of November we pass, days not dark at thy side, seasons impaired, not the ray of the buoyant cheerfulness clear. Such thou wast, and I stand in the autumn evening, and think of the bygone autumns with thee. Right, so the autumns with my father, I'm sitting here thinking about him. Fifteen years have gone round since thou rosest to tread in the summer morning, the road of death, at a call unforeseen sudden for 15 years we who till then in thy shade rested as under the boughs of a mighty oak have endured the sunshine and rain as we might bear unshaded alone lacking the shelter of thee that is that is one of the best lines about a dad. In other words, he's saying, like, and while you were alive, we didn't bear the unrelenting sunshine and rain because you were like a mighty oak that stood over us. Right. And protected us with the shade and the.

Yeah. That's powerful, man. and the yeah that's powerful man and the poem goes on and sort of gravitates away from dad and into sort of the more you know what it is to be a man in general and says what is the course of the life of mortal men on the earth right so just a simple question what is the course of the life of mortal men on earth most men eddie about here and there eat and drink chatter and love and hate gather and squander are raised aloft and hurled in the dust striving blindly achieving. And then they die. Perish. And no one asks who or what they have been.

More than he asks what waves in the moonlit solitudes mild of the midmost ocean have swelled, foamed for a moment and gone. That's life, baby. That is the course of life for mortal men myself included right what he's saying there is like you're gonna live a you're gonna live a life most people are gonna live a life where it's like he compares the average man's life to a wave in the middle of the ocean. Sort of like if a tree falls and no one's there to hear it, does it make a sound? You know, that old concept. He compares the average man's life to that.

Just a wave in the middle of the ocean that rises, foams, and disappears. And no one knows it happened. No one cares that it happened. You know what I mean? And he goes on after that to talk about the precious few who are driven to leave legacy fundamentally. And it's really good, man. It's really good. I'm going on and on today.

I have some things to tell you about I'm supposed to tell you about Actually we'll just do this on the outro We'll do this on the outro Because I'm not in a mood for promotion today What so ever And that's just what it is That's just what it is

So we'll do this Sort of like an Outro promo you know Pardon me Hunter SF says I remember being the only one in class Chuckling in the back when no one was No one was embarrassing I'm not sure I know what that means Hunter

Go back to the I'm not sure I know what that means, Hunter. Go back to the greats, folks, or go to the greats to begin with. And if you want me to write something up to sort of guide you through that kind of thing, let me know. I can push you in the direction of things that I think you will like. It's hard. You get a book like the one I just showed you. It's like, what am I supposed to read? Where do I start?

You know what I mean? I could put a list. If you're really interested in it, if you're really interested in understanding and getting back to that, this is like a piece of what it is. You can't draw the circle of human life and take out art and poetry and writing. I mean, you can, but there's a hole now you know what i mean there's a hole in the track and you'll miss it you know until you find it um i want to tell you guys about our this is really like research and development right now but i think it's very cool hell to survive says that most of the poetry i know starts with

either there once was a man from nantucket or roses are red and violets are blue i'm telling look i could put you on to some stuff you know it's not it's this day and age there's so much distraction and there's so much easy pleasure that it's hard to sit down and read. It's hard to sit down and read through something and scour it for things that are, well, see, you scour it for things that really resonate with you, but you also read it for, like I said, that connection what the fact that we are the same primarily and you get this you get strength from that but i want to tell you about factor x again today um this is a very cool emp proof backpack with ccw capability that is in production basically in the r&d phase right now and uh i met i met ornan

from factor x on x funny enough and he's a good guy and he's taking a lot of technology from a variety of of emp proofing rfid security protection kind of stuff. A lot of those ideas and refining them to create a really high level backpack. And what he's doing for us, he's created a homepage. Let me get it right. Factorexequipment.com slash PBN. Factorexequipment.com slash PBN. And what he's got going on is the ability to register to get uh more information about the bag as it goes on and you know here's the thing i'm learning this is where the real benefits come in to getting involved with somebody like this what i'm learning about these smaller businesses you know this is not like this is not like uh i can't think of the the brand now 511 gear right like you email 511 gear and say i really like the new bag you're putting out what i would do is blank and they're gonna go

great delete you know what i mean what i'm realizing is there's a lot of entrepreneurial uh there's a lot of entrepreneurs out there who are doing things like this who are not only looking to build an audience for a product that will be launched, which is what's going on here. They're also looking for input. So if you're out there watching this, listening to this, and you're saying to yourself what what would i do if i were creating a bag like this i guarantee you if you reach out with comments to ornan he's gonna he's gonna you know he's the guy it's it's a one-man operation at the moment well maybe not a one-man operation but you know he's making the decisions and he'll have the ability to say this is something i would do and i like this idea or maybe I don't like the idea.

But you will have a voice, you know what I mean? And that goes a long way. I hope you know that that goes a long way. So check it out, factorexequipment.com slash PBN. And like I said, just register. If you're interested in the bag, go to the website. You'll see all kinds of stuff about the bag, what it has going on, comfort ergonomics, easy access, signal blocking capabilities, aesthetics, discrete use. It's good stuff. see it i'll show you one last time and then i gotta get out of here we hanging out too long all right so it doesn't have the it's got more of the gray man look it's not all tactical

which is always good if it's your thing you know so if you're into that kind of stuff it's something that uh i have some slnt products that i'm really into i do not have a full-scale faraday backpack i think as technology increases it probably will be a thing that most people will have right just from the sheer like hackability of everything so yeah check them out i hope you enjoyed the show today folks it was definitely off the beaten path um but sometimes you got to slow down man sometimes you got to slow it down you got to be like okay well take a breath what's going on what are my you know and i could have done the whole show on the bible we could have done the bible show on the Bible. We could have done the Bible. And if the Bible is your poetry of choice, then that's fine too.

But I bring a little piece of me that you don't often see to the show today as an option for you to go into these places maybe you haven't gone or don't go or never have gone. I never assumed you would go and find some relief from everything, find something beautiful for a little while. Because life's all about going places you've never gone, I'm telling you right now. Passion. So I think that's it. I'm out of here, folks. I do appreciate you. I have a feeling we'll be around on the weekends with a variety of things.

Jay Ferg will be live Saturday morning. Carl B. will be on air in two hours. We've got a great comms prepper tip of the day coming up from Chin. Look out for that. I may release that today, see how the day goes. But, yeah, man, it's a lot going on. It's a heavy time. Make sure you get your head together.

You can lose your way in moments like these. And we are just getting started. All right. I'll talk to you guys soon. See you. You're listening to PBN. You're paying back the stability. Thank you.