The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Preppers LIVE: Food Networks with Karl B and Dave Jones

Episode Date: July 30, 2024

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We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. PBN Family A very rare Solo Prepper's Life Days of Future Past Are you familiar with it? Not the movie

The movie was all messed up Days of future past Where are the sentinels? Who are the sentinels? Who are the rogues? Who are the mutants? You know a comic book education undoubtedly helps along the mentality and the thought process and the foreshadowing of the average prepper. It really does. I mean, things that people,

things that people in the prepping community are stitching together, uh, are things that I read when I was seven, eight years old. You know what I mean? And it's funny to watch. I mean, the more I And it's funny to watch I mean the more I Watch this period in time unfold The more it looks like Days of future past Which is an X-Men series And the X-Men series is always interesting

Because it was created Around the mutants versus Humans paradigm You know what I mean? The humans oppressing the mutants versus humans paradigm. You know what I mean? The humans oppressing the mutants. And that sort of mutant X-Men group. It lends itself to whichever group in America or in the world is being oppressed at the moment.

In days of future past. It's. It's a bleak. Existence for very few mutants. Who are either captured. Killed or imprisoned. Now I never understood. Why they kept the mutants alive at all. But that was the motivation.

Of the sentinels. And master mold. So. Basically they are. That was the motivation of the Sentinels and Master Mold. So basically they are, the Sentinels reach such a level of hyper-tyranny that they're going to take over the world. And the reason the X-Men step in, even though most of them are in prison, they have to break out and they have to figure out how to stop the Sentinels, but the big reason why they do this is because they're completely out of time, and the radical tyranny of the Sentinels knows no bounds, right? The Sentinels are these gigantic, clunky, stupid-looking robots now,

but in the 90s they were sweet. They're going to Europe to take over. And Europe has said, if they come, we're nuking America completely off the map to rid the world of the Sentinels, basically. You know, if the X-Men basically have 24 hours to stop the Sentinels from their next move, which is to go to Europe, because the moment the Europeans catch wind of it, it's nuclear war. It's nuked the entire North American continent, basically.

so I find myself, you know, and humans and mutants and militiamen are all in the streets and all in jails, and everyone has to wear a certain identification number or something on their clothing, type of clothing, to tell the world who they are, right? Like the mutants have to be marked. They have to tell everyone who they are. And it's done a bunch of different ways and in different iterations of the story, but obviously there's no robots roaming the streets yet. Though, how far away are we from robot police? Really? yet though how far away are we from robot police really how much convincing will people need once ai starts to show off how much convincing will people need before the cops go away

completely and there's you know ai in the streets how much can how mean, we're already, I mean, it's already a power play is to throw a drone up in the air. That's police that they do that, right? And that's gonna, that's gonna turn fast, right? You think police are gonna walk through the front doors of drug dens anymore? You think in the next five years, five to ten, probably I say five years, in the next five years Five to ten I say five years In the next five years You think you're going to see A flesh and bone human being Kick down a door

And walk through it to receive gunfire So how far are we from Sentinels How far are we from Sentinels Oh just got the text from Dave Jones, the NBC guy. What is up, my man? He is in the chat. He is listening, but he has got the night off tonight. The chat line, the text line, let me get in the chat room over here. I don't know if anybody's in yet or not. But we're wide open for business.

We're wide open for business. Dave Jones said he's going to call in soon. Let me throw the number in here. 804-767-7171. Give us a text. Give us a call. Whatever it is you want to talk about tonight. Tonight's wide open.

We're kind of going to let it go where it goes. It's been one of them days. It's been one of them weeks. You can hear it, right? You can hear the nasal situation. Can you hear my nasal? The COVID's gone, but some kind of head cold or something it left me it left me a little post you know covid gift no big deal i feel great i worked out with lady liberty yesterday

and uh threw around the 90 pound big foot kettlebell 90 pound big foot kettlebell. 90 pound big foot kettlebell. I'm just a little guy. But that thing, that thing will get you in shape. I'm telling you right now. So, back to days of future past. Back to days of future past. Because there's more to learn from this story than just the splintered society the marked society the tyrannical robot overlords the impending nuclear

war oh dave jones is calling us right now let's get him in here let me make sure I mute him for the rest of the show. What's up, NBC guy? How you been, man? You guys buried up there. Hey. Yeah, we got a little bit of snow. It's kind of interesting. It was about six inches of snow and then an inch of crust on top.

Oh, yeah. So it's very, very hard to get rid of. Yeah. you doing oh i'm good man i'm good ain't holding me down i i'm i'm actually got my hats off to omicron it gave me way more trouble than i thought it would yeah yeah it sounded like it hats Damn, I was hoping for it. My test came back negative. Yeah. Maybe your vac's still working. No, it's not that. I don't have antibodies because I was tested for antibodies

like three weeks ago and I don't have COVID. So we don't have it. We've never gotten it. Wait, shouldn't you have antibodies if you got the vaccine though well i asked i asked the nurse that and she said no it won't show up like that so i guess they they can tell the difference between a vaccine antibody and a regular antibody i don't know what she said. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I think now that I'm this far along, I think I'm almost positive that for me, Omicron was like a vicious headache and a big, long nap. And then I think I got and then I think I got, well, no, no, no. I had a couple nights of bad fever. That must have been it. Some really, really impressive fever. Yeah. But that was it.

And now, see, I thought I had it longer than I had it, but I got some kind of sinus thing going on now that's lingering. My wife's got it. I don't know what it is.'s not a fever no fever you know i mean it's one of those things yeah it feels like somebody took sandpaper to your nasal cavity damn that's what it's like by the end of the day everything is raw but whatever it's just you know it's annoying that's all it is yeah i'll tell you something crazy that happened what so the covid affected that my taste which

was probably the worst symptom of all and oh i got a little bit of a sore throat too at one one point my wife bought liton tea by the case. She bought me some hippie tea because she knows me and she loves me. And I drank some of that chamomile, vanilla, whatever. But she bought herself the Lipton tea because she's old school southern girl. You know what I mean? Yeah. And she didn't really drink any of it, but I started drinking it.

And it was great. It was better than coffee, which was amazing, but I started drinking it. And it was great. It was better than coffee, which was amazing. But while I was sick, it just was better. I went like, I don't know how many days with no coffee. And now I'm back to coffee, but my taste isn't perfect yet. And it's not been good. It's not been good. You're not enjoying it. not i'm enjoying it but

it's not like you know my day before this covid nonsense was like all about the morning coffee it was like get up i mean like the night before dave i'm excited to get up and brew that disaster coffee and get the day going now it's's like, maybe I'll have tea. I don't know. It's weird. It's one of them weird, but I guess when my taste comes back, it'll be better. I don't know. Weird.

Well, that is weird. So, you know Tim McWelch? Oh, yeah. He had COVID. He told me all about what went on with him, and he lost his taste and his smell. about what went on with him, and he lost his taste and his smell. And the last time I talked to him, he said it came back in about six months. His taste and smell? Yes.

Jesus. He said it was a long time that he lost it for a long time, and it just started coming back. No, mine's on the way back already. Okay. That's all my comment. Yeah, mine's coming back for sure. Hey, while we're on the subject of coffee, we should ask for,

I don't know that he necessarily needs prayers, but another prepper, TJ Moores from Bear Independent over on his patreon announced that he got some covid and uh so you know give him a little love it is what it is he he put disaster coffee on the map so we're always indebted to him over there hope he gets well yeah he's a bigger guy so you know i don't know yeah i don't know if it really if if omicron really affects people that way or not but well yeah it's turning out that omicron is less

deadly than the damn shock that i saw that you said that about the children the children vaccine numbers are frightening are terrible terrible in a normal situation you would never give this vaccine to a kid okay yeah i mean there you know this emergency use authorization crap uh the more i learn about the vaccine, the mRNA vaccine, okay, the Johnson & Johnson, there's not much out there other than it started giving blood clots, okay? In younger people, they had blood clots in their lungs and stuff like that. But the stuff that I'm finding out about the mRNA vaccines, man, it's just unbelievable. And now that they said bad, bad, unbelievably bad, that this thing should never have been approved. We got approved because emergency authorization. It's it's just crazy what's going on worldwide.

Exactly. And the people are going crazy. He signed a thing, an executive order saying no mask mandate. He's leaving it up to the parents. Okay. If you send your kid to school with a mask, go ahead. If you don't, it's okay. And four counties are defying it. So are we going to get the National Guard called out to go to these schools and let kids in that don't have masks? I mean, where is this going to stop? Yeah, I have no clue. I mean, it's not going to get through in Richmond.

The Richmond board and people here in the city are going to fight the mask, fight the no mask. I don't know till when. Who knows? You know, that's just their game. No mask. I don't know till when. Who knows? You know, that's just their game.

They prefer to be afraid of things, it seems like. I was thinking about that today, Dave Jones. This is what I was thinking about. And I guess it's because it does. I don't know. It's weird that if you want to get into any school and well i don't even want to say this school security sucks but mask security in schools has to be top notch and i and i never saw more afraid parents more juiced up over keeping their children safe um than i have over this mask thing you know like how many school shootings have we seen and the parents never really to me never really seemed

this jazzed up about what happens in the school now they would get pissed off and say ban all the guns is bullshit but i'd never seen them so obsessed about what's happening in the schools and you know it's just schools i'll just leave it at this school security your kids if you send them to school like i do they're not safe at school if somebody wants to come in and do harm most schools people can come in and the type of people that usually do the harm, i.e. students and, you know, whatever, teachers, whatever, I mean, they can get in. I feel like that should be a topic. I feel like that's something that should at least get some look as well. But, you know, so it's weird weird it's weird for me to see you know

what moves people what doesn't move people yeah and the cnn came out and was was blasting our governor okay for allowing people to choose for allowing people to choose it's like yeah it's like well you know the government should be the one choosing this for your kids and it's like what the heck when did we become afraid of freedom of choice when when was that, you know? And back to your security thing, when my kids were going to school, our school district went through a big security upgrade, okay? Electric locks on the doors, you know, cameras, all that kind of stuff. But, but, do you know who's buzzing people in? The lady at the desk.

It's like there's not a professional person scrutinizing anybody that's coming in. Well, think about it this way. So it's that poor lady. Yeah. She's the first one to go. Think about it this way we're lady yeah she's the first one to go think about it this way the best that someone could have done is let someone who they may know what they look like in the school but not sure because everyone they let in the school over the last two years is at a mask on

yeah you know what i mean like you you couldn't execute good security in that situation it'd be nearly impossible already because you're looking at a camera and you're going should i let that person in i can't see anything but their eyes their hoods up it's winter you know what i mean they got everybody who comes into school's got a mask on whether they're a parent or another kid or it doesn't some guy with a backpack and guns in it he's got a mask on who knows well yeah and and one time i i did have to take deanna's backpack to her because she forgot it in the car and i didn't realize she didn't have it on her so i drove around the school went into the thing but you know buzzed the thing and i put it up to the camera i said she forgot her backpack yeah sure come on in come on in i mean

you know but uh what happened in texas just this past weekend and the FBI was afraid to call the terrorist attack. What was up with that? They've since backtracked on it. Why do they say things that don't even need to be said? Doesn't that seem like what happens all the time? They say weird shit that just doesn't. There's no need for that guy to say this has nothing to do with jews like what do you why even say it what is that what does you saying that have to do with

anything it's such a weird it was such i saw it last night that comment i saw last night while the whole thing was going down was it last night or the night before it was sunday night wasn't it yeah i think it was sunday night when that guy before? It was Sunday night, wasn't it? Yeah, I think it was Sunday night. When that guy made this statement, the FBI spokesman. Right. It's like he needs to have something to say. But then they come out and say the dumbest thing you could ever hear a person say. It has nothing to do with Jews. And then the guy turns out to be a Muslim anti-Semite.

I think you might be wrong. I mean, even if he's trying to get a member of a terrorist group that is openly for the elimination of Jews on the planet. Yeah. And you think this guy just chose the Jewish community center just by accident? Yeah, exactly. And not only that, I mean, put it on the other foot. Jewish community center just by accident? Exactly. And not only that, I mean, put it on the other foot. If it was a black Baptist church, wouldn't that be the first thing?

Oh, my God. I can't imagine that. Well, and today, in our back channel communication, the Department of Health, was it, or was it the CDC, asked hospitals, they said, you no longer have to report COVID deaths. Okay. And I wanted to say, well, wait a minute. They report flu deaths. Why would they stop reporting COVID deaths? This was an interesting conversation to me. I didn't get into it, but this was interesting.

I liked where you guys were going with this one. Yes. And what was your conclusion? There you go. And what was your conclusion? There you go. That every government agency now has been corrupted. Okay? Because the FBI, most obvious.

But I can't think of a government agency that hasn't been corrupted. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, when you can't trust the figures, okay? This is how many flu deaths we've had. This is how many, you know, measles. Oh, you don't have to report COVID. It's like, wait a minute.

Why are we picking and choosing diseases it is such a weird thing because there's you know it it makes you feel like you're dyslexic or something because you know one day they're saying hey you gotta get vaccinated you gotta get boosted but we ain't really counting the deaths i mean you know, whatever happens, happens. But you better get out there and give access. This shit's deadly. We're just not counting them anymore. I don't get it.

Hey, it looks like Carl's in the chat. Oh, snap. Carl B. Well, he was typing something. Now he disappeared. But I wanted to comment on Carl's show. He did a really great show on Quail. Yeah.

Oh, the Matter of Facts guys. Yeah. And the Matter of Facts guys, well, all the shows have been great all weekend long to include Reliance. Okay. Oh, yeah. Reliance. Thank God. You've got to hear that.

He's back. First in the year. Thank God he's back. It was awesome. So, anyway, he was talking about Quail. And I happened to mention to Maria, if you had to choose between qu. Wait until I come back in. So I come back in, and she laid out really good, you know, thoughtful reasons why she picked rabbits over quail. Rabbit over quail. And I know I would have picked quail because of the eggs.

And here's what she said. So the high protein content... Of rabbit? Well, of what you've got to feed the quail. You've got to give them game bird feed, which is higher protein. You can't feed them regular chicken feed. Really? Oh, that I did not know. protein you can't feed them regular chicken feed really oh that i did not know yeah yes if you if you are not everything will go down and they'll eventually die okay so their egg production will

grow down and she also said well if you don't have any electricity they're going to stop laying in the winter which i said yeah yeah they would because there'd be no light. They do that in nature normally. Yeah. And then she said, with the rabbits, you can feed them grass and you can cut grass and save it. You can store it over the winter. And they do better in the wintertime than quail do. And they do better in the wintertime than quail do.

And they breed all the time. And you can use the rabbit pelts and fur for other stuff. So on the scale of prepper shit and an SHTF, okay, rabbits win in her argument. I mean, I could see it. Which I thought was very i mean i could see it which i thought was very interesting i could see it i didn't know that about the quail that you might just put a damper on my whole quail experience what so what is the do you know what the main ingredient in their feed is that's so high protein do they give them some kind of like grain that's high protein no it's got to be some kind of worm meal or something oh you know now we we did that yeah we did that meal worm farm and it's very easy to do i gotta get me one of them if you're not yeah if you're not doing that you're not gonna get enough protein for these quails to survive and how are they on the mate and if you leave them together will they make their own

chicks and all that stuff or you got to separate it out like with chickens and do the whole uh yeah i have never incubation i have never yeah exactly i have never seen a quail in all the quail that we've raised i've never seen one quail go broody okay i have i have seen chickens do it and you know and we we've raised way more quail than we've raised chicken so i don't know how that works they just pop eggs out they don't make nests they just like wherever they're eating or something like that an egg comes out you know so i don't even know how how they would uh how they would be at at raising you know incubating raising them themselves that's really what i would like i would like to give them enough space maybe a couple coops or

something like that and have them be able to just pop some babies out. Take me out of the mating picture altogether. Because the only reason I would, the only reason I think I would raise quail here is to eat them. So if they don't replenish easily, I don't know, might be something I push off. But I do like it. I do like the quail idea. Yeah. You know, I like the little eggs. They're cool. I like the quail idea. Yeah. You know, I like the little eggs.

They're cool. I like the taste of quail for sure. Yeah. And the eggs are far more nutritious, of course, you know, because you've got to feed them more protein. And they are regular. I mean, they pop them out once a day, every day. Tough thing with them rabbits is they're so damn cute, right? Yeah.

Yeah, that's a tough one. Them rabbits are cute, man. Yeah. They're mammals. There's that thing. There's that weird killing of mammals every day type of thing. It's weird. No, I get it.

I think she's right i think in the in the battle of the uh proteins she's probably 100 right because they do mate on their own right all you gotta do is pull daddy out of there so we don't mess with them yeah and and really they'll eat you know leaves sticks grass you know you you don't have to get special food for rabbits. Right. And then she brought up their poop. You know, their poop is great. Right.

It's fantastic. Yep. And then when you add in the fur, you know, you can make slippers. You can make a vest out of it. You get enough fur. I mean, yeah. Trade it. So I thought thaturs. I mean, yeah. Trade it. So I thought that was interesting after Carl B's show.

And matter of fact, guys, they did a show on moving to a new location. A lot of great thought back and forth there. And, of course, Aiden did two shows this weekend. Got to hear Rick. Yeah, you got to hear Rick. Yeah, you gotta hear Rick. Yep. I didn't plan for it to be such a food-centric weekend, but for those of you who are out there planning your food plots, man,

big weekend on PBN. Yeah. Yeah, and that moving podcast, that's an important one for you guys that time is of the essence i haven't been in a position where i felt like like the way i've been feeling lately but uh i really do think that 2022 is a make or break for a lot of you out there listening i believe that and i think we we got a good, in living life the way that we live it, doing life the way that we do it, I think we got a good five years before things start to get so,

maybe not bad, but so different, probably bad, but so different, that you're going to be you're going to be struggling to find your way so i would say that you better live 2022 from the preparedness side of things anyway um as though it's as though it's the last grains of sand dropping because i think what you do this year or what you don't do this year may haunt you for you the rest of your life i'm just gonna say that when it comes to prepping okay when it comes to because i think you're going to be dealing with outlandish costs i think you're going to be dealing with restrictions to the things you can and cannot do i think you're going to be dealing

with a lot of hurdles um after 2022 if i had to guess you know so get to and i also think in a side note and probably a good note um there's gonna be a hell of a lot of preppers you know there there's no doubt that they may not call themselves preppers but there's a lot of preppers that are new and they're going to be going after the same shit you're going after it's not going to be the uh the party that we've had for the last 10 years 20 years you know what i mean where it's been like whatever whatever you need you could go get it you were you ready saved up some money you want to buy some food storage all right you can go buy it you know i think after this year man people are going to be switched on. They're going to be buying feed. They're going to be buying.

They're going to have their animals. They're going to have gardens. More people than ever before. And I think it's going to be urban, suburban, and rural. I think all of the above. It's going to be a bigger market. And look, I don't know if, because, you know, we're going in one direction with a population of people. I don't know how big it is, but a population of people who are who are, you know, really honed in on self-reliance and independence. Like this is what they want to do. They see other people doing it. They see the freedom in it.

They know that they could tell all these crazy restrictions and crazy people in office, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, they can tell them F off. people in office whether they're democrats or republicans they can tell them f off i'm doing my thing and the problem with that is the other side the supply chain side of things everything's getting limited so yeah this is what i'm telling you in a year you might not be able to get the things you're used to getting real easy so So I have my finger on the pulse of Fortitude Ranch, and the ranch manager that's in the Wisconsin location said he can't get any rice or beans that, whatever the plan was to get some more stuff stockpiled, it's just not there right now.

You see? So, yeah, yeah. more stuff stockpiled it's just not there right now you see so yeah yeah you know i'm doing that food thing yeah fortitude ranch so yeah i can't wait yeah i can't wait to get a couple of those under your belt man you know that that may be something to be honest dave jones that uh if your guy's interested that we write write a, I don't know, maybe like an e-book or something about that whole process. You feed me the info. I'll put it in the e-book form. He can keep the e-book, sell it, give it away, whatever he wants to do,

but I think that would be really cool information. You know, if you tell him exactly, in a way that you don't give it all away, but exactly sort of what you put together and how many people you plan for it to feed and that whole thing that could be that's good info i know i'll put that info in my own little personal diary that's for sure because that's a big yeah and my my my concept behind it you know they have a ranch manager and sometimes an assistant ranch manager so there's maybe two to four people at each location. So you don't want all of this livestock and food, gardens and stuff that these two to four people are going to be, you know, responsible for it. You want basic amount of stuff that can expand when needed.

So that's my whole concept behind this. a daily basis and then the plan to expand when shtf happens and 42 grant is fully activated and everybody shows up so that's that's the whole concept there yeah and that's a that's a scale thing pbn family that is exactly what um i have envisioned here at my own house this is something dave and i talked about like last year i think and it's it's something that you should put together for your own family which is a sort of a rapid protein and garden expansion plan if you if you're already producing a limited amount of stuff this is for you guys out there who already have maybe your rabbits or your chickens or whatever it is you know what i mean mean? And you're, you're, you're putting the food up, but it's, you know, it's not obviously not all of your food that you're bringing into the

home. You should definitely sit down and carve out, write down the, the, the shelters that you would need, what materials you would need to expand to have X amount of rabbits, X amount of chickens, you know, how many more garden beds could you fit, that type of thing. And, you know, the other big part of that not only is writing down the plan and all the things that you need, but also when the hell you commit to doing that. You know what I mean? So the trigger for when you commit. Yeah, that's all huge. Because for those of you out there in the urban and suburban

world you're probably dealing with some level of restrictions on what it is you can do and there's likely coming a time when you don't have to worry about those restrictions and uh you know you might you might even be rewarded for it by your by. Looks like we got Carl B. with us all of a sudden. Come on. Is that my man Carl B.? Oh, there he is. Yeah, James, can you hear me? I got you loud and clear, my man.

Great to hear you live. Hey, no problems. You got me for 20 minutes. Hey, I'll take every second hey i'll take every second so make it count well we were just giving you pats on the back for that great show friday on quail oh well you know i've been wanting to do a uh you know a show on it for a while so i'm i was happy to be able to just finally just put something together you know like look at everything that I had bought over the last couple of years and you know what worked what

didn't work you know um uh I think Dave said it uh yeah I think if it was a real shtf situation i would be tempted to go with rabbits versus quail and um and and and i think yeah quail they do need you know that high protein food you know to uh you'd have to have some kind of probably mealworm like set up to to feed them and then you'll be okay about a worm farm like a red wiggler yeah um now i know that they love mealworms because i you know i when i had quail because uh you know i i i sent all of them to freezer camp uh yeah um but when i when i had quail uh they loved mealworms um you know uh you know i was thinking uh next thing that i'm gonna try are those little bantam chickens you know uh to see if i can keep them uh and what type of eggs i would get and everything else. That's the next experiment at some point that I'm going to try. You know, I think my wife would probably prefer the bantams because, you know,

especially if they gave eggs that are almost normal size. You know, one of the things is, you know, quails, they lay a lot of eggs eggs a lot of eggs um which is great uh but at the same time you know like uh you know my wife she likes to bake and everything else and and that's kind of a precise kind of science there no doubt and you know uh yeah and you know it's you know she wants to know okay i need four eggs you know that with got a, you, you, you have to estimate, you know, uh, and she did pretty well, you know, cause she baked cakes and everything. So with, with the, uh, quail eggs and everything else, but I say like two eggs to one or three eggs, three eggs to one, or how do you make that? Yeah. Both three eggs to one is, is eggs to one is what it really comes down to.

Okay. You know, I mean, yeah, they're great birds, man. I like them, you know, but yeah, I think in an SHTF situation, you would definitely, I mean, you could buy a lot of feed and just have it by, you know, and you could probably have quail for a year or two, you know, because they eat, what, just less than their body weight and they don't weigh much, you know, so you could have, you could turn over a lot of quail and especially if you had some place to store or smoke the meat and just keep it around for a long time. So it would be a good food source, that's for sure. But, and, you know, like, if there's anybody interested in poultry, you know, maybe you want to start with quail versus chicken.

Because they're kind of, you know, for me, with all the predators around where I live, you know, it's just an easier bird to keep. You know, but I just want to drop this in there. I think this is going to be the year of food, James. The year of food. Yeah. Yeah, this is going to be the year of food, man, because with all the shortages and everything else, I mean, I meant to talk about this on on uh one of the podcasts but man i i went to the i i went to my supermarket probably about a month ago and normally i i walk around the supermarket and whatever you put in

your cart you're fine but you know i people are watching we're watching what i was putting in my cart you know and that never happened before i I wasn't conscious ever of, you know, people really paying attention. And when I went through the line, the funny thing is when I went through the line, you know, I bought a bunch of like, you know, a mixture of canned stuff and different things. And when I went through the line and they ran me through, you know, the lady was, you know, there was a woman standing right behind me and she was watching everything that, you know, like the prices, everything that was that I had on on the, you know, what do you call it on the runner there where they put all your food and they run it through, you know. When a woman told me, you know, I think my bill came up to like $140 or something like that. And, you know, the person running me through and the lady standing right behind me, she was like, $140 for all of that? You know, the thing about it, though, was that I tend to buy things pretty smart. Like I'll buy like, you know, when I buy, I tend because I'm prepping.

I tend, because I'm prepping, I tend to think in, okay, I'll buy like, you know, flour and, you know, like I buy stuff that I know can stretch, you know, that can go for a long time, you know, or stuff I can, you know, like I can put on my shelf and keep for a year or two. So I think I, you know, like I think preppers probably shop a little different than other people, you know, like most people, because they tend to just buy like three days worth of food and that's what they got. And the bill is still pretty high with what they have. But, you know, because I'm buying canned stuff and I'm, you know, and yeah, I'm looking at deals, but I'm looking for food that, you know, that can feed me and my family for a while. So it was just a kind of a different thing. And, you know, she was like, wow, $140 for all of that. You know, so the thing that really got me was, number one, this woman was watching everything that I was running through. And I noticed it in the store, and it was just so sad.

It used to be a pleasure to go shopping. I don't know if you remember those days, but, I mean, right after work, you know, it wasn't even so much of a real chore for me, like, you know, five, six years ago to go to the store after work. You know, but now it's just a sad thing. You go in there, and there is all these, you know, huge, you know, empty shelves, you you know like and and you can definitely see they're trying to move food around oh yeah you know like where they used to have like food stock yeah you know like there's even one like in in my store in my you know the store that i shop all the time there's one corner that they used to have like flour and rice and everything else. Now it's all stocked with beer. It was the oddest thing.

So that section of the store that used to have rice, beans. What an answer. Yeah, rice, beans, and, you know, like all that kind of bulk stuff. Hey, it's a carb. Now all of that is gone it you know that was happening for months where you would you come in and and you know you you couldn't really find you know like your five pound bag of rice anymore and stuff like that that's and now they just decide hey we're just gonna put beer in there it was just the oddest thing it was like seriously so you went from rice and beans and yeah and and that and you know high carbohydrates to you know to beer it's it was the

oddest thing but yeah it's all over the country everybody's talking about it man you know like um the people you know the you know the folks that um around me and, you know, like who are in this area and, you know, who are involved in prepping lifestyle, they're all buying food. Everybody's stocking because you can see where, you know, this it can go. Well, it is going bad. And I think it is going to get worse. And, you know, the thing, you know, the thing about it is because I had money. Like, I'm in the store. I had money.

There was nothing really that I wanted that I could necessarily buy. So it's a different type of poverty, that, actually. Oh, yeah, sure. You know, it's one thing to not have money and you can't get the things you want. Salivate over the states. Yeah, you know, I've got the money, but I can't get the things you want it's another thing okay so yeah you know i've got the money but i can't get the things i need you know which is a different type of poverty here you know but it's here and we got to deal with it so this is your food i i think that you know a lot of my shows you know i'm going to be doing research now on how to grow food and because i

think a lot of the listeners and and and i think we're going to get a lot of new listeners this year and i think primarily you know we're going to have to really help people to yeah make food you know whether it be you know keeping their own animals or you know gardening or you know you know you know it's it's going to be seriously important for them to be able to manage some part of their food production this year well i'll tell you one thing it's going to get a little crazy i'll tell you one thing um my seasonal roots company which is that uh i've talked about on i am liberty before that's the company that delivers groceries from farms. Seasonal Roots, it's local only.

I don't know if there's something comparable around your way, but, you know, if you're listening to the research. Yeah, we have stuff like that here. Yeah. They went offline for their two-week vacation, and they're back up and running. And let me just, you know know put it into perspective for you because this is undoubtedly a part of my personal preparedness plan and this fits into that theme

carl that i want to hit all year which is alternative everything because alternative solutions alternative everything man alternative solutions to the way you do life is you know because the big thing that you got to tell people especially who are new and easily to be overwhelmed is you don't have to do everything like you don't you don't have to have cows pigs chickens everything in the backyard because i think there's a certain type of I think the majority of people are going to be like I don't got time for that but anyway um this thing's set up on auto draft for me I could have added more to this order if I wanted um but I have it set up this way so that I don't even have to think about it and it's inexpensive for what I got they charged me 36 bucks on sunday nights i can go shop up until sunday night like go on the website pick meat add meat adds you know prepared foods add fruits

whatever but for 36 bucks i'll be getting collard greens zucchini sweet potatoes carrots organic yellow squash green bell peppers tomatoes and juicing oranges and uh like i said i don't gotta step into the supermarket for it it's all coming from well like i imagine the juicing oranges are probably not local but the vast majority of everything else is either hothouse grown or uh locally grown you know here right and again it's you can add all kinds of stuff to this order that I don't hardly ever get. But it's just another avenue. And I think you've got to open up as many of these avenues to food as you can. You've got to open up every avenue to food.

So that while I walk into the supermarket in this situation and I don't go, well, my one and only avenue for food looks like shit. So I guess we ain't eating this week. You know, I go, OK, I'll pick that up over here. I'll pick that up at this place or I'll get that through seasonal roots. It is what it is. And that's that's what 2022 is going to have to be for people is establishing their sort of alternative everything and figuring out, you know, this new way of living. Network of food. It is what it is.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I have a lot of friends around me who, you know, are in the farming community. So, you know, I mean, that's how I got my half a cow late last year. And, you know, there are people who, you know, around me that they, you know, honey, they make honey or, you know,

we have lots of, you know, upstate New York, we have lots of farms. So, you know, yeah, alternate ways, you know, you can't rely on the supermarket anymore. You know, as a matter of fact, you know, can't rely on the supermarket anymore uh you know um you know as a matter of fact you know like uh yeah you know with with things getting kind of desperate and and will

get desperate you know i think it's just a matter of time before you see start seeing stories where people are getting mugged with for their groceries and different things now you know i mean that's not far off you know uh because you could just feel it like you know like just walk it through the the supermarket and it may be so happy that i realize that hey you know what i can start my garden i you know there's there's things that i can do you're right you know um you know i can go to the farmer's market you know there's there's alternate ways. But for a lot of people, especially people just starting out, man,

the supermarket has always been their thing. And now we're going to have to start educating a lot of people as to set up their own food networks in their own communities. For sure. Yeah, go to those scratch and dent places, man. Go there. Those are good places, man. Go there. Those are good places to go. Seriously. They get the stuff that super, that's the thing.

The thing about the supermarket is the supermarket is like our society. It's like the worst parts of our society. And I learned this from the food banking. The supermarket takes the best looking stuff and puts it on the shelf but in order to do that it rejects tons of stuff tons of every type of thing you can imagine everything on those shelves it rejects a percentage of and says hey that's not pretty enough to go on the shelves and and there's a ton of places that are taking advantage of that we used to take advantage of it as the as the shelves and and there's a ton of places that are taking advantage of that we used

to take advantage of it as the as the food bank and i don't know what the hell the food banks are doing now because there are so many different markets that are bringing those things in those dented cans they're bringing in those box dry goods and there was reselling them at a discounted rate and places like the misfit market uh delivery like, what the hell was the one I used to use? I used to use another one before Seasonal Roots. And they did the same thing. They got a box and box drive that don't look good. They send it to you in a box at a discounted rate.

These are the people you want to find. These are the people you want to get on your team. Because remember, their motivation is to stay in business. You know what I mean? That's their number one motivation. And they got a stream of products that even if they come in on a shipment to your supermarket, the supermarket has standards. You know what I mean?

They can't put the denture stuff up on the shelf unless they change the standard altogether. So it is what it is, man. Just keep searching. Keep looking. well yeah i tell you what you know uh the the uh the strawberry that i get in a supermarket you know never tastes as good as that stunted strawberry that i grow in my own garden you know it's it's amazing how that works you know like yeah, it would never pass muster. But at the same time, it's grown right outside my door. I know what's in the dirt, what's going on with it. We grow a lot of broccoli.

We grow a lot of strawberries. We grow gooseberries. My wife loves gooseberries so i grow them you know last year we tried watermelons different things you know squash is always a big thing you know so uh yeah it's all about now getting your seeds you know uh you know figuring out how much garden space you're gonna need i think i going to need a little bit more garden space than I did last year because I only have two small gardens right now. But I might expand that to, you know, I might put in another two just so that I can,

you know, spread out a little bit more and grow a little bit more, you know, because, yeah, this is going to be the year of food, man. You can tell already, you know, people are getting nervous. You know, people are watching what each other, you know, they're watching what people are buying and, you know, everybody's talking about food. No matter where you go, people are talking about either growing it, what they're seeing in the supermarket now. You know, it's now popped into the national consciousness. You know, I mean, we've been talking about it for a long time, but I think people were distracted. You know, a lot of people were distracted, you know, COVID and trying to get

their lives back together, you know, especially after being locked down for, you know, almost a year, well, over a year pretty much. And I think people were distracted and now they're beginning to see what's going on, you know, in their environment, you know, again, and they don't like it. Yeah, of course they don't like it. It's terrifying. Yeah, of course they don't like it. It's terrifying. Yeah, yeah. We're living through some really serious times, man. Like, you know, we just had this terrorist attack. You know, well, call it what you want. You know, this person tried taking over that synagogue there.

I think that there's going to be more of that now, especially since we haven't been paying close attention to, you know, who's coming into the country and different things. So I think that we're going to see a resurgence with that, because that went away for a while, especially since everything was kind of locked down and things. But now, since people are up and about again, then I think that we're going to see a resurgence with that. You know, and that's going to lead into the gun argument, you know, as well. You know, we're going to have to deal with the fallout, I think, of a lot of those issues. You know, it doesn't matter, you know, who commits the crime or whatever.

They're just going to try and take the guns away from people who because right now, you know, because you all were talking about it. I think the other day, you know, all these like hotty tighty people out there in California now who are buying guns because, you know, they're and these are people who vote. I'm sure vote Democrat, you know, every single time. These are people who vote, I'm sure, vote Democrat, you know, every single time. But they're realizing that they need protection and they're arming themselves up out there in California and all these really rich places. You know, much less if you live like, you know, in some city where the crime rate is really high. And, you know, I'm so happy that I don't live in a city, man. The whole thing is crazy from the pandemic to, you know, everything that's going on, you know, it's, it's, it's nice to be outside,

you know, where, where you're not like in such a densely populated area. Because I, you know, well, when I lived in New York city, we had to get out. It was just like, we're not going to rate, you know, well, when I lived in New York City, we had to get out. It was just like, we're not going to, you know, and I'm sorry if you're in New York City. And I really love New York City. I lived in Harlem. I lived in Brooklyn. I lived, you know, I lived, yeah, I lived in Harlem and Brooklyn, you know. And I really loved New York City when I was there.

But, you know, it was my wife and i it was just like yeah it's time for us to go yeah you know uh it is time for us to get out you know and and we came we went further north i'll tell you what though if you grew up in cities if you've lived in cities you know the kind of hustle and resourcefulness you gain a certain skill man living in densely populated cities that is going to favor that is going to serve people through these tough times you know what oh yeah you learn you just inherently learn things like you know where to go get the things you need you know and if this place doesn't have the thing you need i know, where to go get the things you need. You know, and if this place doesn't have the thing you need,

I know exactly where to go to get the thing I need. And that is where we're headed, PBN family. That is exactly what you're going to be asking yourself. I went to get the thing I needed, and my store didn't have it. Now what? You know, and establishing those second and third uh places is that's just what life is gonna be yeah and you know and this is only with just with food you know i'm concerned with food because you you need food to live but you know you're talking all kinds of supplies now that's going to be like short. And, you know, and if things get worse in China, you know, with them locking things down because the Olympics and everything else and, you know, the supply thing, you know, could get a whole lot worse.

So, folks, just buy the stuff you need now if it's available. Oh, yeah. If it's available, if you see it, if it's available, just get it now because it might not be on the shelf or available through your regular outlet in the future. So just get it now. I'm really happy and I'm knocking wood. know um i'm i'm really happy and i'm knocking wood our the winter storm that just went through it dropped about probably about eight inches by me and then most of it kind of like yeah that that's nothing though for for where i live that's kind of like okay you know um but uh yeah it went through and then most of it melted. The thing about it being warmer this year is that I think that it really did help a lot of people with their bills.

They were paying a lot less for the propane than they normally would if things were a couple degrees cooler in the norm. So I don't know if i'm back in global warming or whatever this is but it don't feel like global warming in virginia man it's been a cold and snowy winter already i think last year we had uh one one snow event in the year before we had no snow and we've had like three snows already this year it's a lot for us yeah you see we normally up here like especially by me you know like we get snow pretty regular you know uh this was our first snow event up by me real snow event and usually we we've already had you know normally in the course of a year we've had like two of these already that would roll through and drop like a foot or more snow or something. You know, so yeah.

So this thing dropping, you know, like around six to eight inches up by me, that was like, eh, you know, fine. You know, just move the snow out the way and get on with life. It's not a big deal too much, you know. But yeah, you know, so I was glad that I was able to do that show on quails. You know, I completely agree with what Dave said about the rabbits. I think if it was a grid down situation, rabbits would probably be the way to go because you can feed them anything, I'm guessing. And, you know, they're almost like goats, right? You could probably feed them a lot of stuff from your own table and they would eat it and thrive. You know, quail. Yeah. You know, I was planning if the pandemic had gotten a whole lot worse, I was planning on just like really just stocking like just bags and bags of quail food, you know, which I knew I could have kept quail for a year, two, three years.

And I would have bred a lot of them. Like, you know, I would have just bred, you know, just use them as meat birds at that point. Just, you know, just fatten them up and put them in a freezer as quickly as possible. Sure. You know, for a family of four, which I have, you know, four quail, you know, for a meal is enough for a family of four. But we don't eat a lot. You know, like my appetite, you know, like I don't really, there are some people that

eat a lot of food. You know, we tend appetite, you know, like I don't really, there are some people, they eat a lot of food. You know, we tend to eat smaller meals. So we would have like four quail that could feed everyone in my family, you know, so it would all be about your needs. Well, everybody's going to cut their needs if it's that bad too, you know what I mean? You're not going to be worried about going to bed like oh i'm so full honey great work would no you know you're gonna be saying let's let's stretch these four quail maybe to uh three days worth let's heat the breast and then of course you're doing soups and different things yeah you know um but yeah i just jumped right in with the quail you know it was it was just one of those things where, you know, it was like I need something that I need a meat source.

Because I didn't have any kind of, you know, any kind of what you call it, you know, animals around. Yeah, protein around, you know. And, you know, keeping chickens i would really love chickens you know i know my wife would love chickens the problem is we have too many predators you know by you know where i live yeah things would just be coming out of the woods around my house and they they would just be snacking on those birds man i i couldn't i couldn't protect them you know and i i could have fortified i. I could have gotten a chicken coop and put all kinds of stuff. But the cool thing with the quail was I was able to keep them.

I kept them outside most of the year. And we have a real good electric fence that I wired around it. Smart. From time to time time you could hear something that would just get zapped you know uh you know i i'd be watching television and you would from time to time you could hear like you could hear the the fence go off you know something you know sniffing around you know skunks or whatever you know you but you know but it kept a lot of the the predators away from the eggs from the birds and uh yeah we were able to keep them for years and they didn't get

bothered you know i i think i could do the same thing for rabbits um couldn't do that for quail in my yard though i i would be if in a grid-down situation. Yeah, goat. I hear you guys talk about goats all the time. Yeah. You know, yeah, a couple goats, you know, for milk, you know, and goats reproduce really, really quickly, too. You know, so I'd be doing goats. If you're in the meat production game right now, probably the most value, Like if you're, I don't mean commercial. I mean like you, me, and Dave. You know what I mean?

Right, right. If you're producing eggs or chickens or whatever, probably the most, one of the most valuable skills that can bring money and other resources into your home right off the bat would be to focus on the process of mating. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Because if you've got chickens and you can mate them, how long? I guess that's the question, right? How long will it be before everybody wants chickens? Because there's only so many chickens around if people are just buying.

there's only so many chickens around if people are just buying you know because i've gone through dry spells here like you know two years ago or something like that i remember going on craigslist or calling people up that i bought chickens off in the past and they say you know we just sold them all we don't have any right now and this is you know before pandemics before people had their eyes open to how crazy this world is getting, before supermarket shelves ever went bare. So what's it going to be like to get a chicken, and what are people going to pay for a chicken, and how many of your neighbors are going to want chickens in the next year to five years? People are going to be like, hey, man, I'll give you whatever you want for a dozen chickens,

or a dozen chicks, or whatever. So I'd say be prepared and yeah and that's why you know you've gotta you've gotta at least have good books that or or or print off and keep a folder with you know a good information on how to raise your own meat you know um you know you know or or you you're you know you you talk to people that do it so that you understand how to do it in an emergency situation if you need to. You also need to know the sources around you where you can get like incubated eggs or you can buy the chicks and maintain some kind of contact with those people, you know, know where they are, right?

Because if all you know is this guy who is on Facebook or this person who is on, you know, just through the Internet, and you don't know physically their addresses and stuff, like where they're located, you know, if the Internet goes offline uh then you're you're up the creek because you know so you got to kind of know where where where your sources are you know that's important you got to know you know where the farms are you know how to get there you know um you know it would be nice if you can introduce yourself you know and you're right you know uh you know uh if you have to buy some incubated eggs and you incubate them yourself, you know, like some fertilized eggs, as I should say, and you and you, you know how to incubate those eggs yourselves and to mix your flock. You can't just, you know, you can't just use, reuse the same gene pool, you know. So it's nice if you know a couple people around and you can, you know,

get a few fresh chickens or, you know, just to freshen up your stock or, you know, or if you have a goat or sheep or whatever, you have to be able to refresh your gene pool. Yeah, for sure. So there's a lot to think about but you're bartering and stuff man hey you know um you know uh yeah you know if you if you have you know uh six dozen quail eggs you know that's you can barter you know you know or chicken eggs or or if you have extra chickens or or chicks you know and stuff yeah that's you can be the guy that sells the chickens if you can be the guy that sells the chickens to people when the time is right and i think the time is going to be right by the end of this year you know where people because what's going to happen is people are going to start saying i don't know what the rules are

about keeping chickens but i don't even care anymore. You know what I mean? And they're going to say, my neighbor does it. My other neighbor down the street's doing it. I'm doing it. Why wouldn't I? I can't even go get eggs. They don't even have the store.

So I'm going to keep some chickens. And, man, if you're the guy who can be like, yeah, come over. I got six for you it's 12 for you whatever so i'd say take i'd say do it from scratch this year if you can especially if you already have them if you already have the animals get get yourself a even if you just keep hens get yourself a rooster let nature take its course and uh just kill the kill the damn rooster and eat it when it's done. If you don't want one around.

I mean, they're atrocious to have around, I think. But yeah, but yeah, like to your point, you got to know where to get the roosters if you ain't going to keep the roosters. Exactly. Your sources are important because, you know, because, you know like i i found myself thinking about that you know um you know during the early parts of the pandemic it was like okay so i i i counted myself lucky i was still able to get online and find these sources because if we had lost the internet or something like that then i would not have been able to get my quails. I would not have been able to get the information I needed. You know, I had, I had waited pretty much my, my focus was on other things and not on that. You know, I was stocking food. I was doing, you know, I was doing that.

And then just out of the blue, it was like, you know, what if we, what if we, we really can't go to the supermarket? What if we were locked in our homes, you know, for months and you can't go to the supermarket? What if we're locked in our homes, you know, for months and you can't go to the supermarket at all or your food starts to run out, then what? You know, you have to have some kind of ability to produce your own protein, to produce your own vegetables, you know, and that got me thinking about, okay, raising my own, you know, and and and that got me thinking about raising my own, you know, food sources and and and producing producing my own my own vegetables and fruits. So but this is the year of food is going to be the year of food, folks, you know, buy those books that teach you how to grow food. Put them on your shelf. You know, if you find something interesting on the Internet, just print it off and keep it.

You know, get a binder and keep all that stuff in. You know, find people around you who know how to garden. You know, go get your seeds now. You know, start looking at your gardens now. You know, I haven't put it up but i do have a greenhouse i have a portable greenhouse i haven't put it up but i've got one you know and to me that's almost like you know also insurance policy if i ever things got really serious and then i have to extend the growing season.

I'm the just-in-case guy now. I'll tell you what, if you really want to extend the growing season, if you really have concerns about extending growing season, and this might be more relevant again by the end of this year than not, get some grow lights for in the house. Get some real ones. Get some pot growing grow lights. You know what I mean?

Yeah, hydroponics, you know. I'm telling. Well, even if you don't do hydroponics, if you have those grow lights, you can grow food in pots, in whatever, seedling trays, whatever you want to do. You could grow spinach in your house in, you know, 30 days under those lights. It's, you know, it's just what we, I got two of them from my father-in-law. I've never even really unleashed them except when I sprout seeds early, which will be happening. I mean, you know, hopefully at the end of next month, but those things, man, I'm telling you, you get the big ones, you know, hopefully at the end of next month. But those things, man, I'm telling you, you get the big ones. You know, I have to look at them to tell you exactly what they are, but they got the big long bulbs in them.

They suck power like crazy. They're going to run your power bill up. They'll probably be illegal by the climate change Nazis. But I'm telling you, if you had to, you'd be able to do it you'd be able to make some food i i've seen my father-in-law put plants in the ground that were producing fruit already from under those grow lights you know what i mean like pepper plants with peppers on them in march or in april wow and you know just from sitting under grow lights eight hours a day good soil water you know heated heated pads underneath them and uh it's doable you could

grow food in your house it's not the end of the world but those those lights are a little bit they're a little expensive but again they could be all right j. I've got to kick off, man. Hey, it was a pleasure. It's always a pleasure to talk. That was way more than 20 minutes too, by the way, but thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was happy. They're waiting for me upstairs.

I was happy. No, that's all right. I get it. But it's good to touch bases and it's good to talk, you know, and I'm sure you guys are going to carry this conversation. to talk you know um and i'm sure you guys are gonna carry this conversation and you know it's uh i think that we're gonna i think a lot of people are gonna tune into pbn because they're gonna you know they're all waking up realizing that you know the world has gotten the world's gone a little crazy and yes people have to be self-sustaining you know that's that's the key

you've you've said it a lot of times. You've got to be able to sustain yourself and your family to some degree. Self-sufficiency is going to be important this year, and food is going to be important this year. All right, James. All right, my man. It's always a pleasure. I'll talk to you soon. And thanks. Thanks for having me. Thank you, my man. It's always a pleasure. I'll talk to you soon. And thanks.

Thanks for having me. Thank you. Thank you. Carl B is with us. PBN family. Uh, I was 100% prepared to come at this thing solo. And,

uh, Hey, we good. So Vivo son, I don't know anything about these. I'm trying to find a link for the chat room um of the grow lights that i have but vivo sun has put out some grow lights dimmable diodes sun like full sun like spectrum let me throw these in the thing

i don't know how big this thing is I don't know how big this thing is These little expensive But anyway I just wanted to throw that link in the chat So people could have a look at it Yeah living on the fault I'm not talking like peppers you could harvest But I'm talking about

You know Flowered Already flowered little peppers on the plants and and leaves that you wouldn't believe leaves that looked like uh they just were so dark they were the darkest deepest dark pepper leaves i'd ever seen all underneath these grow lights crazy crazy now my my father-in-law is also a magician with the growing of food he he hasn't it's not like he was a farmer his whole life he just got into gardening like five i don't know five years ago six years ago something like that got into gardening went

super deep on soil on youtube and uh you know's just got a process, man. He's unbelievable. Food network. I really like that. Building your network of food. I like that phraseology by Carl B. That's nice. And again, not the direction I was planning on going. We can't get off the topic of food lately. So that speaks volumes to what Carl. We can't get off the topic of food lately. So that speaks volumes to what Carl was saying about this year being the year of food. Just remember, PBN family, it's not all your job. And that's what a smart prepper is going to do. A smart prepper is going to find a way to produce some food to produce some protein to take advantage don't forget about taking advantage of the rest of the world around you

you know what i mean that's a that's something that because the bang for the buck is not well that's not even true but the bang for the buck for a lot of people is not there when it comes to foraging wild foods. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be off your radar. You know what I mean? Because there are harvest times in and around your home and in and around your area that are worth talking about. You know what I mean? And there are harvest times for things like blackberries which grow everywhere you know like like everywhere that uh because we can go buy buy a pint of blackberries

we're like ah screw it i'll just you know i'll grab a blackberry off of that bush and eat it and and you know give one to my kid and enjoy the novelty and move on but there are harvest times for those things in the wild there are harvest times for those things in the wild. There are harvest times for pawpaw fruits down by the creeks and rivers if you're in the south. You know, they're down there every year waiting. There are harvest times for black walnuts in the fall. I mean, black walnuts, you know how many black walnuts? You know how many dozens of black walnuts?

You know how many dozens of black walnuts? You know how many tens of dozens of black walnuts I have walked over in my life? The amount of, we're talking about protein, right? The amount of protein that I have stepped and pressed into the mud in my life. As a kid, all the way through adulthood, just playing in the rivers and creeks you know fishing come fall come the end of summer come fall when those green uh you know those big green balls fall and hit the ground from the black walnut tree nobody picks them nobody harvests those things you know the squirrels eat them. But if you're moving into a world where alternative everything is the thought process, then why wouldn't you head down there? things right take an empty book bag down to the railroad tracks and walk for a little bit at the end of the at the end of the summer you can leave the any any common railroad track path if you walk

around there enough around some kind of creek or river or pond or lake and you're gonna find enough to fill a bag to the brim zip it closed and walk up out of those woods with with a pile of walnuts a lot of that stuff, people, preppers, not just people, but preppers don't even take advantage of, right? How much fish did you eat this year? Right? You probably went to the beach. You probably went to a lake or something along those lines. How much fish did you harvest and eat this year? There are people, there are communities of people right the asians are like this they're tremendous they uh they go down to the to the i see the mexicans doing it too

i know now i'm in trouble right why is a white guy talking about about asians and mexicans must be a racist they go down there with coolers they bring coolers full of food back you know what I mean? They fillet the fish. They freeze them. When we talk about the scarcity of food, it's important to understand all the doors that you have not even approached, let alone not opened.

I'm speaking to myself here. I fish all year. You know how many fish I keep per year? I didn't keep a single fish this year here in Virginia. I think we brought a few trout home on opening day this year. A couple, two or three, you know, cook them up, whatever. We had some trout. Yay, victory.

But I catch fish all year long. You know what I mean? Throw them back, throw them back, throw them back. So there's tons of opportunity if you put yourself out there. I mean, I guess the key is to put yourself out there in those environments, right? If you do it from a book, if you do it from YouTube, then you're so far removed from it that you're never going to do it. You're just never going to do it you're just never going to do it but if you're out there with those wild foods and you can say to yourself i know next

saturday exactly where to go to get this thing and i'm going to go get some of it you know it's it's that it's that thing um but anyway establishing that network of food is important. And something tells me that this mentality that we kind of hone in over this year will be able to apply to almost anything. Your network of food, all right, your network of people, all right, your network of goods, your network of whatever, communication, so on and so forth, right? Because it's all about that mentality of opening as many doors as possible, having as many answers as you possibly can. And I don't know what to tell you guys. It's hard to explain, but when you grow up with a lot of people, this stuff comes really naturally.

You become really good at being resourceful. And I guess it's just because, you know, you're one little piece of a much bigger thing. You know that things can be scarce. You know that time can be scarce. Attention can be scarce. And you get real good at grabbing what you need to grab.'s yours you know you get real resourceful those who can be adaptable those who can be resourceful they they always win in history so keep that in mind, I think that's about it tonight, PBN family, for Preppers Live, I do enjoy you, I do appreciate you, I got knocked off my rocker a little bit there, in the beginning of the show,

and that's okay, no big deal, glad to have Dave Jones on, glad to have Carl B on, it was wonderful, have dave jones on glad to have carl be on it was wonderful and uh i think that's about it i don't know what else anything else tomorrow night double barrel tuesday you know what it is i got no idea what i'm doing for the uh i am liberty show yet this week not the slightest not the slightest idea what we're gonna do but it'll be good i have the feeling that it's gonna be pretty kid-centric, it's gonna be something kid-related, I got kids on my heart and mind lately, um, not just my kids, but, but how kids are experiencing this world, so that's probably the way we're gonna go, I had something to tell you, you know what, i'm gonna give him a free shot anyway um i forget it i don't think promoting anything tonight it is what it is all right pbm family um i am gonna run an ad for our good man william forgie at the end but other than that it's been a joy as per usual

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