The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Preppers LIVE: Steven Menking (REPLAY)

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. ["Prepers Live!" by The Bunch of Pets plays in background.] Welcome to Preppers Live, PBN family. I spent a better part of the afternoon out staring across the backyard, looking for the perennials. I don't know if any of you have the perennial anxiety over perennials. The anxiety of perennials, the perennial perennial anxiety. You know, for years I've told you guys maybe like two to five perennials each year into the garden
Starting point is 00:01:08 I think that nub or the Flying Dutchman taught me that and We've been at it man. We've been at it Adding those perennial plants those perennial food producing plants to the garden year over year some trees, you know that kind of stuff and Usually around this time of year beginning of March it's a little late now but usually around this time of year is when I get my perennial anxiety over perennials because there's this moment where like you're not sure if they're all gonna come back or not it's really I don't know if anybody else has this large section of perennials in their garden or mixed in into their garden, but
Starting point is 00:01:47 every year it's like is it all gonna come back to life? And then it's great when it does, you know what I mean? I planted some flowers in the garden last year, some perennials, and they came back this year too. So quick tip at the head of the show, commit to about five Commit to about five perennials is a good number each year because, well, unless you're a super garden stud, which I am not, they die. I've killed countless asparagus plants, so you just have no idea. I don't even try it anymore. But there's nothing better than knowing. There's nothing better than knowing,
Starting point is 00:02:26 you know, at the end of the starving spring, the perennials will come lurching up out of the ground and you'll be, oh look, here they all are again. The raspberries are leafing, the kiwis are, you know, the whole thing. So, just a quick heads up. Tonight guys, I'm gonna be brief, because my man Stephen Menking is with us and to be honest with you I haven't talked to him a lot We just talked for about five minutes and I haven't talked to him a lot At all So this is gonna be very conversational and I don't I wish I could tell you what we're gonna talk about. I have no idea
Starting point is 00:03:01 No clue nor am I at the least bit concerned um No clue, nor am I at the least bit concerned. But before we get rolling with Steven, I want to tell you guys about, I want to give you a preview for what's coming Wednesday. I'm going to do a very unique show Wednesday. Not often do I get these kinds of opportunities, but I'm getting them more lately. There's a series of books called the conserva kids The conserva kids comm is the website the links in the show notes if you're listening to this after the live show
Starting point is 00:03:34 And what they are is a collection of books. There's three books in total. What's up silver streak? There's three books in total and They're all basically illustrated books based around American values. Illustrated books for you to read to your young kids, all on American values. And they have a book called The Land of Opportunity, which I think is, you know, it's lemonade, standish, it's capitalist, it's, you know, conservat kids are this group of children and in this book they get in a situation where they have to make money by themselves to replace something right and I don't know it. I Don't know what you guys read to your kids. I read a wide range of stuff to my kids mostly at night
Starting point is 00:04:21 I have been reading with my younger son a lot lately and so has my wife. We are not really thrilled with where he was at sort of at the halfway point of kindergarten and I don't know how much reading they do you know I know they do reading to the kids but I don't know how much time they have to do one-on-one so you know we're just doing that to get him up to speed, which he's a smart kid, so it's no big deal. But these books give you the opportunity to talk history, to talk American values, to talk values in general.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Just the conversation of values in general with kids, particularly young kids, it's pretty hard to do to keep their interests. I tend to, here's my, my model. I like to read to them at night and then, you know, I'm lucky enough that I get to take them to school in the morning so I can read to them at night and I can reflect in the morning and, uh, it works. You know, we can go deeper into certain topics or talk about things that maybe they had questions about or all that kind of stuff what we're gonna
Starting point is 00:05:33 do Wednesday which is gonna be really fun there are two authors who have written the conserva kids books there's three books in total we're gonna have them on to talk about the motivations. I've already talked to these guys, we talked for about an hour, they're right up our alley. I mean that's just what it is, they're right up our alley. They are a sponsor and I'll just be completely clear with you guys, they are a sponsor and they're coming on for a sponsored interview To make you familiar with the conserva kids comm in the books But you know, there's no reason why these relationships can't be mutually beneficial, right?
Starting point is 00:06:14 It's like I'm not gonna sell you toothpaste or toothbrushes or whatever whatever and I've told you that over the years But when I come across the product like this, it's like told you that over the years but when I come across the product like this it's like yeah why not why not introduce the prepper broadcasting network audience to this great three-book set you can buy them individually buy them you know whatever and most importantly meet the guys who wrote right so they're not books about America that were written by who got who knows who you know what I mean these guys are well you'll find out Wednesday okay so don't miss the show man it's rare that we get an opportunity to sit down with our kids and talk American history and
Starting point is 00:06:59 American values you know I'll tell you what I do I talk about the bloody battles with my kids when I want to talk about American history I do I do Little savage little boys. They like to talk about violence You can rope them in and then you can you know start to slather on the cream about Liberty and freedom and tyranny and before you know it you're trying to explain communism to him. But anyhow, without further ado, let me make sure I get him off mute before we bring him
Starting point is 00:07:35 on. And let's get Stephen Mendking on with us. How are you, sir? How have you been? The intrepid commander himself. It is a pleasure to be back with you, James. It's a pleasure. I've been fantastic working on the parenting and my own personal tutoring ventures and
Starting point is 00:07:55 other things like that. I had to take a step back from the On the Objective podcast I was running to focus on my family after getting word from the ward at the beginning of last year. So, been really trying to target that. Now my youngest, my son is almost one. He'll be one in a couple months here. So, we're kind of coming out of a bit of a maelstrom.
Starting point is 00:08:22 So, have some routines in order, have some other things to get done, trying to figure out what life looks like with two little ones running around. And it's a lot of balancing and the rest of it. But I tell you what, those books sure do sound useful, that's for sure. Oh yeah, man. This day and age for sure. Yeah, for the PBN family, this man, for those of you who don't know, was the man who introduced the concept of the intrepid commander. He hit the nail on the head. He fundamentally, I think it was for Interview Four on the objective, right? Weren't you like, how should I? I think it was something like that. Yeah, we were talking pre-show and I was like, well, what should I actually refer to you as this is right when you had when you had picked up the network
Starting point is 00:09:09 and so if that if that moniker sticks then you get the credit for it by for for acknowledging such a genius contribution to The branding, you know, you've got to be kidding. You couldn't have pegged more of a perfect name for a more of a perfect name for a person like me. It's just silly enough for me to be able to deal with people addressing me a certain way which is like totally uncomfortable to begin with you know. It's like let me just let me just do my thing and forget about these titles but when you're the intrepid commander you know either you either you run into people who are like this guy can't be serious Or they know me and they're like, oh, he's not serious. Okay yeah, so what so I
Starting point is 00:09:52 get I asked permission for this prior to the show, but I Just out of sheer curiosity my own personal sheer curiosity. I want to hear about the children man Yeah, it's so happy for you man, it's just I love when I got have kids I Got my hands full of them and I appreciate the the compliment here What what's really astounded me and you know, maybe when we circle back and catch up a little bit more offline We can really try to unpack this because I'm sure there's some wisdom involved. What's really cool for me is seeing the way that they change and grow and the extent to which the choices that I make sort of directly influence like the most important developmental
Starting point is 00:10:39 components of their lives and just trying to be strategic about everything without driving yourself insane. It's really helped me because I always, you know, James like to focus on the process of decision making, whether it comes to the financial side, which is where my real expertise is, whether it's in the teaching side, which is where my calling is, whether it's on the spiritual side or in anything. I really like to hone in on the decisions that get made. And for me, it's a brand new test of patience that provides some of the most concrete and
Starting point is 00:11:19 immediate wonderful kind of moments and rewards, but also a different kind of test. But I am truly grateful to God that I'm in the position that I'm at where I can work from home and that as a tutor, my schedule allows me to spend time with the kids every day because I ran the numbers on this sort of back of the envelope. And before my daughter turned two, I probably spent more face-to-face time with her than my dad got to spend with me before I was either five or six or running the numbers on something like that because both my parents commuted into New York City every day when we were growing up and you know, we spent a lot of time with with the grandparents and
Starting point is 00:12:09 you know, we went to daycare programs and other things like that and you know, I Have no I have no qualms and throwing no shade at the way that I was raised. That's for sure, but it's a unique tremendous blessing not to that's for sure, but it's a unique, tremendous blessing not to just feel like you lose weeks and days and weeks turn into months. At this stage, they're a whole different people by the time you pick your head up and you look around and it's another couple months down the line. I can't believe we're almost to the end of March of this year because it feels like it Just started because I'm just in the in the trenches day to day
Starting point is 00:12:49 but you know, it's it's great because it allows my my wife and I to go through a unique set of a unique set of challenges which allows me to to try and grow and improve and gain in maturity in ways that I have to believe will continue to pay dividends. So life is a tremendous blessing and I know when we look around at the general scenario, we don't want to take anything for granted and so I'm trying to make the most of each day to really see the beauty of God's creation and what the miracle of life is really all about.
Starting point is 00:13:31 And for me, it gets channeled not only through this just ultimate expression of love that's essentially impossible to really put into words, as you know, James, but also this kind of new test, this new challenge of really trying to hone the decision-making process growing in different ways being pulled and stretched in different ways but I'm really fortunate that my my daughter who is almost almost two and a half she's a lot like me and that she's extremely shy I know you might not might not have me pegged for that but very, very shy growing up. But you know, she has an absolute steel trap of a mind. So we're working on, you know, she's just blew past all the colors and the numbers
Starting point is 00:14:18 and the shapes and we're onto the capitals now. And it's just it's just wild because she is so engaging and she loves to pretend and she will have you go through scenarios and my little boy, he's a boy, he's just so different. My daughter at around this age, she would notice that she's at the edge of something and she would actively pull back from the edge. If I weren't watching my son, he would throw himself off of anything. Like he's just completely oblivious to that kind of danger.
Starting point is 00:14:52 And he is much more sociable, much more like my wife in that regard in terms of being extroverted. And it's just so cool because they're very similar in many ways, but they're both incredibly unique. And so when I look around at the obligations that I have from a spiritual perspective, when I'm trying to keep up with what's going on in the financial sphere, in the geopolitical
Starting point is 00:15:19 sphere and all those sorts of things, I have this sort of central motivation, the central responsibility that I'm kind of growing into. I just turned 34 and I'm a dad of two and we're looking at this and I'm like, wow, yeah, life is kind of real. Got to deal with it. So, you know, it's a day by day sort of thing because the unique challenge is presented all the time, but it's a blessed responsibility that my wife and I have and we remind ourselves of that often because we need to remind ourselves of that frequently to make sure that we keep the right kind of perspective.
Starting point is 00:16:04 But with God's grace, I'll be able to continue to be that frequently to make sure that we keep the right kind of perspective. But you know, with God's grace, I'll be able to continue to be in the right place in the right time for my kids and I'll continue to have the right things to say to them. And you know, hopefully I can follow the scriptural tenets of fatherhood in an appropriate way. I'm trying, you know, it's the same old tale as old as time, James, trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, trying to raise your kids up in the way that you should go, trying to balance everything. It's life, it's parenting, but it's a joy that I wouldn't trade for anything else. We have it so, so good good not because of anything that we do
Starting point is 00:16:46 or we deserve but you know so many people are dealing with significant strains, chronic health issues, all sorts of other things that are you know that lead to the kind of sleepless nights that will tear down your own body if you if you can't get on top of it and so we just give all the glory to God for what he's doing with our family, and we pray that through whatever comes, we would maintain the resilience to, you know, as our broadcast says, to rely really on God to carry us through in all circumstances. So long story short, James, it's great. It's challenging, but it's great. It's the right kind of challenge for my life at this time.
Starting point is 00:17:28 That's great news, man. It puts one of those smiles on my face that I can't stop. You know, those kind of smiles where it's like you can't stop the smiling. You don't understand how important it is for, to me, for good people to have children. Because one of the stories and one of the topics that I never hear talked about, and I don't know if people even think about it because we're such a cynical people and the fringe makes the headlines and that whole thing, is like, not all parents are doing their best of course but we probably have a roster of the best possible parents ever at work right now you know what I mean because of like you mentioned the mistakes of the past like we there's there's a group of parents that aren't like a part of a demographic or a part of
Starting point is 00:18:27 a group or anything like that. It's just this collection of parents who have the opportunities, they've set their life up, they probably had some tough interactions with their own parents and that kind of thing. And you know, we don't know how good a kid can turn out. Right? Right. And we're at that point where I think there are some parents out there that are playing this game, this parenting thing, at a level that no one has ever really done before. You know, because it just wasn't possible before. You know, with the addition of technology, with the ability to work from home. I don't know, man. Do you ever hear anyone say anything about the possibility of amazing
Starting point is 00:19:09 parenting and amazing kids that could be like nothing the world has ever known? Well, maybe I'm not in this literature to follow it closely enough, but I do share your assessment here, James, in that now more than ever, there are people who are questioning sort of the default assumptions and who have that as a sort of motor of operation. And there are a variety of different complaints about the millennial generation overall. But one of the things that has come out of that to the point that you made when we were talking offline is that there is a general ethos of kindness at the very least
Starting point is 00:19:52 as a baseline. But with the opportunities that are available for technology and the flexibility that that covers, then there are more people than ever who are more comfortable than ever sort of breaking out of the mold in of tradition but in the right kind of way. There's an approach that is anti-traditional that just says that you know the past was by definition evil or ignorant or other things and that's certainly not the ideology that that I would espouse. I think I think that that is actually fatally flawed and of course biased itself. But at the end of the day, there is something to be said for saying the structures and the hierarchies that were built up to serve and that are our
Starting point is 00:20:36 parents and their parents that those generations lived under that they had significant restrictions to them that in many situations would prevent the kind of enrichment from taking place that is possible now. And so there are any number of different educational tools of perspectives and everything else. But the most important thing that's there is the presence of parents and the willingness to do things in a balanced and kind of appropriate way. It's almost as if people who are alive and in their 30s and and 40s and raising children, they would have had a
Starting point is 00:21:19 chance to see and this is kind of stereotypical but a generation that was too disciplinary and rigid, and then another generation that was too lackadaisical and sort of self serving and free flowing. And so if you can learn from those experiences and say, there is a role for structure, it's an important role, it is non negotiable, but it has to be counterbalanced with the empathetic side that really all of the complaints that people have sort of lobbying attacks at one another on various sides of the sort of traditional versus progressive that they're really at the extremes, like trying to avoid like falling off of a steep cliff road on either side, like
Starting point is 00:22:11 there's pitfalls. There's pitfalls everywhere you go and the balance of making sure that there's this quote unquote holistic approach like you don't you're not inevitably sucked and drawn into this sort of, you know, this sort of, you know, that there's this quote unquote holistic approach like you don't you're not inevitably sucked and drawn into this sort of you know touchy feely new age kind of approach when you say like let's actually look at the benefit for a child along a variety of different lines and let's try and do what we can within limits to make sure that the right kind of nurturing is there. Like you don't and and for me, I see a lot of this in the families that
Starting point is 00:22:51 I that I work with, that I see enough kind of mistakes. But they're mistakes that are caused by a mindset that is stuck in the standard approaches to things. And the primary way that I see this, just because of where I'm positioned and who I'm talking to and what I'm looking at, is the standpoint of college admissions. And so you have students who are trying to be
Starting point is 00:23:16 extraordinarily competitive in this incredibly detailed kind of landscape where in many markets you're looking at kids starting to think about the college implications of their decisions, you know, before they even turn 10 years old and stuff like that, to different kind of degrees. Most people are not off the charts with respect to that. But there's definitely this idea that people are going to foist upon their children this benchmark. And you see part of this with the SAT cheating scandals and other things like that.
Starting point is 00:23:50 I feel bad for the kids in these situations because they do more work than I do as a parent and as an adult. They're so in many cases overburdened, overscheduled. And the question is well what is this for is this for the genuine enrichment of the child or is it for a resume to take them to someplace that is not going to provide the same value that it once did absent some very specific technical and professional training but you really do need need specific years dedicated to higher education or to serve whether
Starting point is 00:24:28 you're talking about lawyer, doctor, those sorts of things. But, you know, I we can hopefully, with the information that's available to us and with a mindset towards serving others, particularly our own children at the you know, at the very least, goodness gracious, we should really be focused on that like even in a narrow selfish context we should want what's we should want what's best for our kids unless we're psychopathic in a very meaningful like clinical sense and so there is now to your point more information more perspective more balance where if you
Starting point is 00:25:03 really want to all of the tools and all the information all of the sort of right kind of modalities of thinking are there for your enrichment for the sake of the enrichment of of kids and to your to your question about where what is the upper bound of that process like we don't know we can kind of see what the upper bound of the process looks like, we don't know, we can kind of see what the upper bound of the process looks like, with respect to individual prodigies in individual in individual places. But what is the really upper bound when we
Starting point is 00:25:34 talk about a whole person, someone who is comfortable, who knows how to make decisions, who can deal with the obstacles of life. And if we have a million of those people, and if we can somehow find our way into a semblance of a stable non corrupt society, you don't need that many of those type of people to say, well, let's come up with some ideas, let's come up with a way to make things better. And then if if there isn't this overriding corruption, then things will get better because the resources will
Starting point is 00:26:08 funnel into the hands of those people who can be the most productive with them. And if we raise a generation of kids who are properly adjusted, and who really can take take on what the what the next generation is going to face, then if we can deal with at least in some in some semblance, the like overriding macro issues that would threaten threaten our lives and livelihoods, like I know it's a it's a huge if but if we can, then the potential there is I would, I would say
Starting point is 00:26:43 that it's unlimited because I don't know what strictly speaking it would be limited by and This is a thesis I've had in the back of my mind as we think about the economic stuff for Several years where I've thought well, you know, what could the world look like like what happens if you actually establish a proper Financial scheme that will allocate resources appropriately, rather than skimming a little bit off the top of every transaction to funnel it towards the corrupt central banking class? What would actually happen if human liberty and human freedom were unleashed? I don't think we can even picture. Because the pictures that we have of
Starting point is 00:27:28 utopia are all these tyrannical, like really dystopian kind of things, the type that you've all know, a horary, the author of sapiens, and like these folks at these various globalist forums would like to would like to portray, like, there's a there's a different way towards progress and You know, we're always going to be dealing with challenges and I'm sort of talking past the the issue here but if we can solve our problems and it's important to have a vision of the Victorious side of things if we can solve the problems if we can deal with the corruption many people would say well
Starting point is 00:28:03 It's just not possible. And if you're in that, that kind of black pill mindset, like I understand, everybody sort of goes through those times where things just look impossible to deal with. But if you look, if you look at the future, you do need to have something that's worth fighting for. And I think that if there is, by some way by some miracle that we can throw off the corruption and the just wanton self destructive nature of people who are predators, quite frankly, and that's I'm going to be that's sort of
Starting point is 00:28:42 a sanitized, generous way of putting it on People who are evil predators who would who would seek to do harm to everyone else if if that were Were not the kind of parasite that it is on human society as we've allowed these people to get into positions of influence and power then we could learn from the past number one because we know what the past sort of constitutes and this there is tremendous innovation potential that's still yet to be yet to be unleashed and you know my hope my prayer for my kids and for their generation that number one they would grow up in a in a free country and we need need to, you know, we're, we're not at that stage where I could say, Yeah, we're in it, we're in a free country, and I feel comfortable with it. But there are two, at the end of the day, James, more and more people
Starting point is 00:29:34 who are going to say, the way that things have been designed, for me, I don't want to fit into that mold. And I'm more and more comfortable, not bowing to the pressure of what other people have to say because you know as for me as soon as my daughter was born the perspectives and opinions and approaches of literally every other person like those needs got devalued instantly they just took a huge step down the hierarchy and whether it's my friends or even my extended family or or anyone else for that matter. It's just like the deck got the deck got reshuffled
Starting point is 00:30:12 and the kids come to the to the top of the list. And so for me, you know, it's about having your priorities in line. First for me is the Lord Jesus Christ. Second is my wonderful wife and third is my kids and then everything else is kind of like, for me, is the Lord Jesus Christ. Second is my wonderful wife, and third is my kids, and then everything else is kind of like, you know, in service of those. But then there's, you know, it's the broader, it's a broader group. But at the end of the day, I'm right there with you. And I think we do need to have a vision of what is possible. And for me, it's boundless in the positive direction. But to really take those shackles off, we need to
Starting point is 00:30:48 be we need to be active in seeking to transform society into a freer and non corrupt place because that is not what we have right now. And it doesn't take you know, someone who's watching the headlines 24 seven to come up with that assessment. Well, I think we're reaching a point where the...and this sounds...this is one of those things that I'm going to say that is going to sound crazy to a lot of you listeners out there but just give it time. We're reaching a point where thanks to the overwhelming and the overwhelmingly public game plan of the World Economic
Starting point is 00:31:33 Forum and how it's taking root before us already, I really do think that though we'll have our partisan battles here in the United States, probably forever to some degree. It does seem like there will come a time in the very near future where, I don't know what to call them, but we'll just say left and right for the sake of the show and the sake of time, are going to come together on a lot of issues you know and and I say that out of the experience of doing things on the side of PBN and seeing who has been joining groups getting involved in things you know I launched this little Facebook page about American energy now because we were looking to build a group to go to Washington protests you know that kind of thing
Starting point is 00:32:31 drill for oil you moron so we don't have gas prices that are gonna crush the whole entire world economy maybe so what I'm seeing is that there's a level of comfort that Americans are willing to deal with discomfort. And then below that is where I think we're all going to meet. I think it's where we're all going to meet and we're all going to say, you know, we've got to brush aside these silly issues that we thought meant the world to us, but that was just because we had comfy couches and air condition and you know, whatever, cheap gas, cheap meat, everything was convenient and wonderful and that just doesn't seem to
Starting point is 00:33:18 be the overall goal of the people who have the power. You know I put a video out the other day for our member Stephen Manking and it was it was titled what happened to Putin will happen to you and it was not a taking of sides thing in the Russia Ukraine order of effects but it was it was trying to explain to the the audience on a whole that all the this this sort of giant monocular lens of attack that is being coordinated by I don't even know how it's being coordinated it's so big and massive it's unbelievable to me you know it's it's almost conspiratorial but every every force that is known to mankind or at least to the Western world as being shined on Putin and Russia right now and it is
Starting point is 00:34:13 it's a weapon of mass destruction and I think that is I think what we're witnessing the power of quote-unquote NATO or whatever like they're calling it is sort of the tool in the kit that will be used for the centers all over the world as we start to sort of build back better or build our brave new world or however you want to put it and I am very hopeful and I think that I think that it's it's a real possibility that we're gonna see different lines of communication and different allies at the elbow thrashing level of humanity than we're used to see. What are your thoughts? where do we begin with this? I think you're absolutely right. And one of the interesting things that I remember talking about on
Starting point is 00:35:06 some of our PBN broadcasts and in my own podcast prior to the 2020 election, when people were concerned about, you know, fraud and other things like that, and even at even after the election is those as those concerns persisted, was I said something like, you know, this is either going to be like the biggest red pill kind of moment or the biggest black pill kind of moment. And I think I wasn't nuanced enough in that
Starting point is 00:35:31 because it's kind of both. And depending on who you are, there's just such a huge level of cynicism right now. But maybe I'm just optimistic by by design, by by nature, but I have a I have a tendency to agree with you in sort of the sense, I think it's, I think it's a Churchill quote that Americans, you know, try, try all of the all the worst options, like, we do everything wrong until
Starting point is 00:36:01 there's no, there's no remaining option other than to do the right thing. And it feels like we're kind of getting closer to that kind of level. But you're right. There are very small levers of power that can be used from a propagandistic kind of kind of structure in order to manipulate manipulate opinion and you know we are in a hearts and minds battle first and first and foremost but what people have to understand in terms of like dealing with headlines and everything else like that trying to figure
Starting point is 00:36:46 out where things are going to go is that we are in 21st century warfare, which is like 1984, to the extent that everyone is always at war with everyone else in at war in quotes, all the time, everyone is at war because the tools of modern warfare are psychological they are informational they're asymmetrical they are technological and it's it's rare to see the kind of kinetic kinetic force that is at play in in Ukraine right now and what you'll notice is that depending on who you're listening to the fog of war despite the ability to look at you know primary primary sources on the ground you know videos everything else like we would be really foolish to make any
Starting point is 00:37:42 claims to say I know exactly what's going on. I know who is involved. I know who is doing what. I know what their motivations are. And you know, I can, I can route, you know, I can make my decisions based clearly off this information, like the fog of war, regardless of the ability to document different things is still so thick that essentially my my approach is to view everything as propaganda and then you have to do like the secondary evaluation like what is the it's a it's a tougher thing to do. You can't just take things at face value but that also doesn't mean that there's this sort of universal nihilism or permanent skepticism. You have
Starting point is 00:38:27 to do the analysis. You have to say, okay, if as this is propaganda, like who benefits like there's, we know that the the, the state run, the state run news, like, and the mainstream media, it's, it's all one in the same to the extent that people are just putting out intelligence agency talking points. It's all for the purpose of political manipulation and everything else like this like the Wall Street Journal had an op-ed about the the bio labs in in Ukraine and It's just entered into a semantic game. So it's gone from
Starting point is 00:39:06 in Ukraine. And it's just entered into a semantic game. So it's gone from, you know, there's no such like anybody who says that there are any sort of bio labs or involvement is, is a crazy lunatic conspiracy theorist to saying, oh, there are these bio labs, but they've been in place for, for several decades, and they're just being used to provide the Ukrainians with the resources to dispose of old Soviet-era biological and chemical warfare warfare agents and you know the question is who do you believe or do you take those things at face value and and the answer is everything should be taken taken with a grain with a grain assault and It's it's difficult because, you
Starting point is 00:39:46 know, what do we know, you know, as a result of all of this, it's really difficult to get to the bottom of intention, or like what's really going on at at a facility like that, like we don't have eyes to, to figure out all that, but we do know that there are like our base level data point is that there are facilities there in Ukraine that have been set up in part with US funding with a stated aim of, you know, essentially defending and disposing of these pathogens that were recovered in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union. But you know, that's, that's pretty much it. We don't even from that, we just don't know
Starting point is 00:40:27 what the reality is actually on the ground. And you know, the same the same thing is true. So instead of trying to get to the bottom of it, like really, really to try and figure it out what I'm what I've been doing is I've been trying to be patient figure it out, like, who is actually doing doing all this stuff is it is it the Russians is it the as of battalion like these these real genuine fascist neo-nazi groups like what's going on in the ground and you know trying to pull things together because again depending on who you ask it's either like, you know, Putin is an evil, Hitlerian psychopath who just
Starting point is 00:41:08 wants to conquer the entire world and reestablish the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire. And everything inside of Ukraine is just like this totally innocent area. Or on the other side, you have people saying that Putin is actually you know taking down this this global this global deep state cabal and it's there's it's so far it's so far afield that you know it's just all it's all underneath this this fog of war but when I when I think I think about how you run these evaluations and where things could go and what things could be, I'm just trying to be as consistent as possible with gathering information, with not jumping to conclusions, and with trying to read things in a second in a second order kind of capacity like we we have to understand that
Starting point is 00:42:10 That propaganda is not the exception. It's the rule and it's the rule from everyone because you know if you're if you're a government and you can establish like control over over over media messages, then you would be foolish not to because of the the power that that wields and your own interest in maintaining your power. So, you know, there there, there's gamesmanship and other things that are, you know, costing that are costing people's lives in kinetic warfare. And so it's more it's more
Starting point is 00:42:45 visible. But you know, we can see through the COVID crisis and through through everything else that these same kind of asymmetric 21st century modern warfare power games have been being played on all sorts of different fronts and have been, you know, a huge part of our lives. And so what does this mean to all of us? What do we do about it? How can we free ourselves from the grip of the sort of maddening circus of these sorts of narratives? And at the end of the day, we have to remain focused on our own sphere of influence.
Starting point is 00:43:27 We do have to try to inform ourselves and to get involved. But I don't know. You tell me, James, how do we find our way through this? How do we navigate the territory? At least for me, I'm trying to and remain neutral is not not the right word. I'm trying to still evaluate these different these different situations because there are clear sides but you can't just say, alright, because someone I someone I disagree
Starting point is 00:44:01 with or someone who I think is evil, like just because they say something doesn't mean it's the opposite. Because you can always find someone to espouse a particular opinion. So then you you take the opposite of that. It's, it's a little bit tricky. And so the methodologies that we use for trying to sort out the situation can't be totally can't be perpetually cynical. But you will we also can't be naive either. And so it's finding a balance in this kind of
Starting point is 00:44:27 situation that will hopefully lead more and more people to to your original point to saying, you know, regardless of where I was before in terms of in terms of these things, like, something is not right, something's not right here, like, do we have to be doing this? Like, and the more people who stop and raise those sorts of questions, and you know, COVID was a huge, huge part of this, in terms of getting people to say, alright, we're, we're actually like, this is coming home to roost. And
Starting point is 00:45:00 we've always said, like, you have to hit people in their, in their wallets before they'll actually like stand up and do stuff. And that's part of what's going on here. But there is, I think, greater potential for unification than we would think. And so I remain optimistic about that kind of prospect just because I don't know whether it's unbridled, unbridled and unwarranted optimism, whether it's whether it's a reflection of the faith
Starting point is 00:45:31 that I have in in the Lord, whether it's whether it's my read of the situation or whether I'm dead wrong. That's just how I'm looking at it. I don't think or I refuse to believe that there is no way for for evil to be overcome. I don't think that that is the right approach and I don't think it's a representation of the factual reality. I think we're in for difficult times but if we are going to get rid of corruption like systemic corruption times are going to get rid of corruption, like systemic corruption, times are going
Starting point is 00:46:06 to be difficult because there's going to be a disruption of what has taken place. We're seeing this in different ways right now. Everyone will have their own take. Everyone will have their own read on things. As for me, my perennial advice has been to focus first and foremost on the Lord to stay calm in your decision making and to take prudent steps that are within reach so that you can make yourself more robust. And I know that's one of the core tenants of PBN, which is why I so appreciate the opportunity
Starting point is 00:46:43 to be here on on the platform in in all these different capacities. So I think you're I think you're right, James, I think the prospect of unity is really there. And I think people would be surprised at just how quickly sentiment can change like there could there can just be this tipping point moment that just catalyzes things. And we can see this in various places throughout throughout history, unfortunately, you know, looking back on it with the guise of, you know, the potential for manipulation and other things
Starting point is 00:47:16 like that. But there is there's a chance for a real bonafide, essentially, peaceful and intent revolution to go on. And if we really do just simply refuse to give way to the attempts to propagandize, to corrupt and everything else like that, then we can come together. We have to do it tactically and appropriately and peacefully and everything else like that. But that door has not closed. That window has not shut.
Starting point is 00:47:53 We still have that opportunity. And we would do ourselves a disservice by falling into this sort of mine field laden with all sorts of traps, emotional, psychological, informational that that people fall into all the time. And so we have to be extremely wise and ultimately that takes spiritual discernment because we just don't have enough cognitive firepower to deal with to deal with the entire landscape to untangle this sort
Starting point is 00:48:22 of Gordian knot that you know, it's just too complex. It's too complicated. But we can through that, even with an understanding that we're not going to get to the bottom of it, like from a purely rationalistic standpoint, in terms of understanding the ins and the outs of everyone's motivations and what's and what's going to happen, We can persist with the right attitude that says that at bottom, there is more that is capable of uniting people than division because the division is ultimately artificial. It's
Starting point is 00:48:57 powerful. It's in large part supernatural. It is not an easy thing to throw off. but it is artificial. It is created for the purpose of control and enslavement, frankly, financially and otherwise. But I would agree with you wholeheartedly that the right attitude to take is one of seeing the potential for optimism and unity. And there's no telling like what's gonna actually flip the switch. It's like on the econ front like nobody knows what the last domino to fall is in terms of the dollar's hegemony but we know that de-dollarization is happening now. We can see all
Starting point is 00:49:40 of these things and we've seen them for you know a decade now at an accelerating pace and we can see all of these things and we've seen them for you know a decade now at an accelerating pace and we can you know we're starting to feel the inflation other things so we just need to do do what we have to do and maintain the right attitude because that's that's the only way to go about doing it and to keep our to keep our sanity and to and to fight the good fight of faith unity Unity is capable of arriving, and it can happen very quickly. And it's frustrating to not see more of it, but again, part of the reason why we're not seeing more of it quote unquote is because if everyone in the country
Starting point is 00:50:17 came together and unified over something, but it wasn't in the interest of the propagandists, then we wouldn't see it. We just, we wouldn't see it reported. You know, there's now more avenues than ever for actually getting the propagandists, then we wouldn't see it. We just wouldn't see it reported. There's now more avenues than ever for actually getting the word out there. But as far as the quote unquote official narrative, it just wouldn't show up.
Starting point is 00:50:33 And we can see this when we do our digging. So unity can happen, and it might have to happen behind the scenes. The revolution may not be televised in this. Stephen Menking ladies and gentlemen let me quote you real quick before you go Stephen because you probably don't even remember this but I thought it was so and it fits with what's happening across the pond right now so well from an economic report an econ report back in December to I this was so good I posted it on my Instagram it was unbelievable December 2nd 2020 if this doesn't fit
Starting point is 00:51:14 with modern warfare which it would have been back then I don't know what does but you were you were quoted saying this is a dynamic cyber and Psychological battle that is playing out and ultimately the information and tactics are going to remain Invisible to anyone who isn't familiar with how this kind of preparation of the battlefield is being conducted a General could have wrote that dude that is no joke that yeah, that's really well put I must be out of practice Sorry to sorry to turn in a performance it's not up to that kind of caliber that's a good word smithing there that I was listening to that econ report and I was like pausing and rewinded and pause and rewind and I was like I'm capturing this because when you look out across what's going on with
Starting point is 00:52:02 Russia and Ukraine man that is it right there. And this was a comment about China, by the way. This wasn't even talking. You know, this was 2020, whole different ball field. Same battlefield. But you got to hit the road, right, man? Same battle, same battle, different front. That's it?
Starting point is 00:52:20 Yeah, I do. I do. But I will say again how grateful I am for the opportunity to come here and speak with you and to the wonderful audience at PBN. And I've really appreciated the opportunity to continue to record for Reliance even as my own individual podcasting has taken a step back. And so that's continued to be a really valuable thing for me. It's been edifying for me and I hope that it's been edifying for others as well as we continue to try to walk out our faith in these times.
Starting point is 00:52:59 And I'd love to figure out a way to do more now that I'm trying to get a handle on my life with the kids and everything else like that. But always a pleasure, always a blessing to be here with you, James. And maybe next time I'll be able to cook up one of those super, super good quotes. Oh, I'm sure they're in here. I'm sure they're already in here. We love you, man. We love you. We respect you and we appreciate
Starting point is 00:53:27 Those reliance those those reliance episodes come at the end of the week when we beat the audience to death with Prepping and the realities of what's happening around them and they're just they're perfect man. Really? Well, I'm I'm really glad to hear that and I'll keep on doing my best. They're going to get another one in the can here for you in the next couple days and we'll see. We'll see how all this stuff turns out, my man. But we're going to make it through. We're going to do what needs to be done for, even if it's not for our sake, for the
Starting point is 00:54:07 sake of our children. We can do it. There's room for optimism at the end of the day, not even because of what we know we can do, but because of what we know God can do. do and it I just refuse to I refuse to believe that we're just just going down going down the proverbial the proverbial hand basket you know just going going straight to straight to bad places like tyranny is not going to be established like people are just not going to go quietly into the into the good night here. It's just it's not going to be the case. There's all sorts of agendas and everything
Starting point is 00:54:50 else that's there. But it's a it's a bluff. It's posturing at the end of the day, if the levers of the levers of power that would seek to harm and destroy even even our entire species through whatever manipulations and machinations they can when when the light of day is shown on that and people are given a fair chance to to respond, then the unity will happen and ultimately I've been praying for years that the Lord wouldn't let us just slide all the way into the kind of evil that can't be remedied without
Starting point is 00:55:30 giving people a moment of clarity that they can make an honest decision to say, Are we going to choose this day whom whom we will serve? Will we serve evil? Will we serve will we serve corruption? Or or will we serve righteousness and will we serve the God of the Bible? And this is the perennial question. It doesn't even have to be necessarily a Christian one. But if we can unify around not wanting to be beholden to corruption and the kind of evil that we can't really even speak about because it's just unspeakable evil. I will
Starting point is 00:56:11 refuse to my last breath to be enslaved to something like that. And I know that there's more people who if they if I realize the stakes that we were playing for more people who would who would be on that side, then then who would fold at least enough people to to make it to make it worth it because you don't need you don't need everybody to be to be awake to what's going on to to make it to make a difference. There's an adoption curve to everything. And whether you're at the lonely leading edge or whether you're right smack dab
Starting point is 00:56:45 in the middle, I welcome any and all people to the fight against evil. And even if we don't know exactly the contours that are that it's going to play out along, we know that we serve a good God and that his will is that all should be saved and not that we should you know torpedo headlong into this like endless dystopia of social credit score tracking systems and just Nightmarish things of calling evil good and good evil. So the there there are costs to be paid But these these costs are worth it. So let's stay the course. Let's stay on top of things and let's stay in touch. Yeah, most definitely.
Starting point is 00:57:30 Let's stay in touch. I'm going to go on, Stephen Menking. I'm going to march on into the nine o'clock hour. So enjoy your evening, sir. It's been a pleasure, as always. Be well, James. I'll talk to you soon, okay? All right, man.
Starting point is 00:57:44 God bless. Take care. to you soon, okay? James Reilly All right, man. Mad Fientist 2 God bless. James Reilly See you. Mad Fientist 2 Take care. James Reilly You too. PBN Family Steven Manking. For many of you who are new to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, maybe you've caught him on the Reliance program. You can go back.
Starting point is 00:58:01 You can listen to him on his economic reports. You can listen to those old econ reports I think they're under. Maybe I'll put together a little Stephen Menking compilation for you guys because... Man, it's a good dude right there. He knows his stuff. He did some homesteading roundtables, I'll link to those too. I'll put together a little post for everybody on Stephen Menking. Where's my to-do list? So I wanted to talk about, before we call it a night, because we're on this subject of unity,
Starting point is 00:58:32 like I told you, I had no plans for this show. None. This show was about several things. I wanted to make my joke about perennials, because I really do have perennial anxiety over whether or not the plants are going to come back every year and when they do it's like hoorah. I wanted to mention the conservakids.com and I wanted to have a conversation with my friend Steven you know I mean this guy you gotta when we first started talking talking he brought me on on the objective I brought him onto the prepper broadcasting network and we just kind of clicked really easily and before he even gave me the intrepid commander moniker
Starting point is 00:59:18 which is just just as perfect for me for those of you who know me you know why he was a guy I went to literally a guy I went to one of two men I have ever gone to to intimately discuss my faith Jesus and God okay like my life has not been one where I've had priests and confidants My father was a fallen Catholic who went to Catholic school his whole life. I mean he had you know Him and a guy Fallen you know Fallen Eno, Flying Eagle Podcast. I can't, unfortunately it's too late. I can't remember the gentleman's name, but it was two men, both of them aligned, both
Starting point is 01:00:11 of them knew each other. Stephen Menken, actually I think I met Stephen through this guy, but I can't remember his name, I apologize. The two men in my life in totality that I've ever gone to and and had like a real sit-down and I have questions about this and I was 30 some years old when I did this with these guys right and Stephen just took his time with me man and he really helped me understand I don't think friend to friend I don't think I have the relationship with God that Stephen would wish I had but man he helped me along a lot he really
Starting point is 01:00:55 did you know and he's always been there to sort of like number one to guide me with that but also in a way that he's not like, you know, I don't have to listen to a bunch of crap. He's willing to feed me with the information and answer the questions I have and then, you know, say, you know, you're your own man, figure it out. And that's been huge for me. So when you hear me mention Stephen Menking, this is, these are the things that I am mentioning, you know what I mean? It's, it's not a guy who's podcast I went on and he comes on mine sometimes. You know, there's, there's a lot there, man.
Starting point is 01:01:37 It's these weird internet relationships where I've never seen the guy face to face. I maybe, I never will. I don't know. I hope that we find a way to make that happen one day, but these some there it's weird when you have these intimate relationships, digital relationships with people that are in many ways deeper and more rewarding than a lot of the physical relationships you have
Starting point is 01:02:04 with people, you know what I mean day-to-day But I wanted to talk about this unity thing because there's a couple takeaways if we're gonna get on the subject That are worth mentioning before we close the show out number one is the trial of Number one is the trial of isolation. And I've mentioned this before in terms of preppers, because a lot of preppers have an incredible plan to avoid chaos. And that is about as common sense as it gets. If there shall be chaos, I shall not be present. And I dig it. It makes perfect sense. Move away from the chaos.
Starting point is 01:02:57 Move away from the chaos. Get the kids out of public school, so on and so forth. I haven't figured out if this is by, in other words, I haven't figured out if the enemies of freedom and liberty are happy about this plan or not, because there is a level of isolation that occurs when you move away from everybody and you take your kids away from everybody that breeds the divide and if you're in the business of the divide which I mean you know the bad guys are in the business of the divide it goes all the way back it goes as far back as I've ever seen a person talk
Starting point is 01:03:43 about communism or any anything along those lines the divide How can we set white against black man against woman right left against right? isolation Does that it can if you're not careful and if you don't manage it then it can create that it's just what it is You know, there's no kidding around it You're the guy who runs the show here, right? James Walton the intrepid commander. I
Starting point is 01:04:14 Am a product of intense immersion in Society in in diverse society You know what? I mean, I mean that's what I am. I'm an experiment in societal immersion. I grew up around lots of different people. My profession of choice thrust me deeper into more diverse groups of people and then my hobbies outside of that thrust me even further into more diverse
Starting point is 01:04:47 groups of people man i'm talking just immersed immersed the restaurant business growing up in a big city and around a big city there is no isolation there's barely any privacy isolation there's barely any privacy and what you learn to do and what I've always been really good at is you get along you get along and you start to understand that you can get along with people that you don't agree with 100 percent of the time and sometimes the best way to do that is To be as close to those people as possible You know growing up in Viscose Village growing up in the village in Marcus, Pennsylvania puts you Next to people in a way that most of you out there listening can't even understand
Starting point is 01:05:46 You know, I'm talking about You go out front and look at the width of your home Most likely the front face of your home was three to four homes Where I grew up row homes, you know what I mean? just connected where I grew up. Row homes. You know what I mean? Just connected, stacked sideways basically on one another. Like you come out on your front, if you come out on your front porch and they come out on their front porch, they're on your front porch basically. You know what I'm saying? If you're in your front yard and they're in their front yard, they're in your your front yard there's just a little gate in the way but you're so close with everybody you can't be mad at
Starting point is 01:06:29 everybody because they disagree with you right on something or another but you also can't be it also can't be paradise in a neighborhood like that that's impossible too so you learn to survive You learn to get along enough. You talk shit about people behind their back. That was the village, right? That's what it was. And it's just, from there it built. From there it went on and on and on and on and still to this day. I'm telling you PBN family Immersing yourself in society has a lot of benefits Immersing yourself in society. We want people to do this
Starting point is 01:07:18 Right. We want people to do this Because you start to realize that a person is way more than you think. When you look at it when you listen to a guy or a girl tell you that the country screwed because the left wing is crazy right and you could see somebody say it on the other side too right that's when you have to get as granular as possible that's what the deal is the the deal is granularity individuality and and thinking locally because when you break you take the left right just think and think about it in your head the left who the enemy the left then you break it down okay who's the left where do the left, ooh, the enemy, the left.
Starting point is 01:08:05 Then you break it down, okay, who's the left? Where do the left live? What do the left do? Right? Then you start to break it down even further. What states do the left live in? They live in California, they live in, you know what I mean? They're everywhere, but just for the sake of sort of big buckets, right, which is where
Starting point is 01:08:23 we're at. Painting with a broad brush, right? That's the problem with the country right now. Who is the left? Sometimes people are the left and you've decided it for them, right? Sometimes you drive behind a person on the road and they've got a bumper sticker on and you go, look at this left-wing idiot. Oh, and now they're going to cut me off. and you go look at this left-wing idiot oh and now
Starting point is 01:08:45 they're gonna cut me off of course because they're left-wing idiots you know how i recognize this behavior so much pb and family because i did it with dallas cowboys fans growing up i mean it sounds stupid and it sounds simple but that's exactly how we dealt with Cowboys fans growing up around Philly Because we hated nothing more than the Cowboys because when I grew up the Cowboys were great The Eagles sucked and I had to watch Emmett Smith run for touchdowns Deon Sanders run for touchdown, right? Troy Aikman throw up and it was nightmare and When you saw a guy driving around or walking around with a Dallas Cowboys shirt on or a Cowboys sticker on, you would say, oh, look at this moron.
Starting point is 01:09:31 Look at what he did. Oh, look, he's an idiot. He's a Dallas Cowboys fan. Of course. What? What do you expect? It's the same. I see the same behavior, you know, on, you know, the left accusing the right, the right
Starting point is 01:09:42 accusing the left. Same thing. So, so what I find myself personally doing is immersing myself in communities of people around me. One of the best places to do it is at my kid's school, you know. They roll up into the schoolyard, roll up into the schoolhouse at the end of the day to pick the kids up. There's a bunch of people there. There's a bunch of people there wearing things, doing things, saying things that I'm supposed to say. You're a left-wing lunatic. Okay. But what else?
Starting point is 01:10:27 Doesn't matter. You're a left- You're a left- I remember eating- I used to work at a restaurant called Alma de Cuba on Chestnut Street. Walnut Street. And
Starting point is 01:10:42 I worked next to an Albanian Muslim. White guy. Right? But devout Albanian Muslim, right? He didn't play no games, which I thought was kind of funny because he was a chef at a Cuban joint. High-end Cuban joint, but for those of you who are not familiar with Cuban cuisine, they like it a pig. they eat some pork okay and I would eat the pork in front of uh in front of what was my man's and I am horrible on names tonight he had a name that was spelled a certain way like it looked like George but it was Jorge but that's not what his name was hmm I can't remember but anyway I can't remember, but anyway, Albanian guy. And you know, we worked saute together some nights.
Starting point is 01:11:31 He worked saute protein, I worked saute veg, and you have to work together. You're at work now. You know what I mean? You're going to have 400 covers tonight. It's going to be brutal. You're going to be sweating. The chef's going to be screaming you and and you got to turn this food out and it's got to be beautiful It's got to be perfect because this is one of the most popular seats in the city and that's your job, right? But we would still have those moments, you know eating family meal before before the shift started and you know
Starting point is 01:12:02 I'd eat the I'd eat pork. And he would look at me and he would say, they eat their babies. How can you eat an animal that eats its babies? He would try to hit me with a little Muslim rhetoric. And I'd be an asshole and I'd say, but they're so tasty, man, what do you want me to do? And he wouldn't like that as much as I'd say I but they're so tasty man. What do you want me to do?
Starting point is 01:12:30 And he wouldn't like that as much as I didn't like him getting on me about it, but at the end of the day We had a shared mission, right? You fire the damn tuna. I'll fire the rice for the tuna. Let's get this thing out the door to the person who ordered it And we've got to get back to that pvm family You know, we've got to get back to that. We got bored with life, you know, that's a lot of what it is. I'll break it down for you in all honesty you're bored You're bored your jobs monotonous. It sucks. You hate it probably hate your boss. It's a whole lot more fun to target people build up the righteous indignation
Starting point is 01:13:04 target people, build up the righteous indignation, foist the problems, you know, sort of a a Nazi-esque motivation to foist the problems of the day on a group of people, right? The damn left has flushed the country down the toilet. You gotta get granular, PBN family. You gotta get immersed Okay, and if you're isolated if you're out on a bug out property already Nothing wrong with it. You got a solid plan if it all goes down tomorrow. You're gonna be the guy who's safest, right? But we just came out of a We just came out of we're not even really fully out of but we're making our way out of a world where safety became the number one priority, right?
Starting point is 01:13:49 That's what COVID was. COVID was safety is the number one priority. Shut everything down, chain it shut, weld it shut, don't come outside, don't breathe, don't look at each other. Sometimes safety can be detrimental and we just got to be aware of that. So my advice to you get granular look at people as individuals have conversations with people particularly those who don't agree with you go places that make you uncomfortable man I would walk into taco joints when I was like in my teens and early 20s but they didn't even speak English and I didn't speak Spanish but I didn't care because my buddy would say hey the best tacos
Starting point is 01:14:34 you can get are over here at this place and we'd work it out we'd figure it out I drive the Washington Street down there in little Vietnam in Philadelphia and eat the best bowl of fur in the world right and it didn't matter you know it was it was on I'd go into the Asian grocers down there in Philly and you know they look at you and what the hell is this place they're selling all kinds of crazy shit in here what's a 1,000 year egg you You know, I should talk to you guys about the 1,000 year eggs. It's a pretty cool preservation method. But anyway, all that stuff, man, gave me the ability to look at people in a granular manner, and it gives me
Starting point is 01:15:17 the ability to coexist with the humans around me and enjoy life. And I can tell you right now, if we're going to find our way back from this sort of left verse right paradigm, this red verse blue sort of childish, pinny wearing gym class paradigm that we're in right now, then it's going to come from discomfort. It's going to come from being wrong. It's going to come from putting yourself in positions where you're uncomfortable and, you know, being human again. Being human amongst humans again. That's my two cents, PBN family. It's far, it's well within our reach and I think as the great reset
Starting point is 01:16:06 drills on into our lives that unity is gonna come. Most importantly the prepping community is an outpost for unity. It is. Particularly what we do here at PBN. And this has happened on its own. This has been an evolution on its all its own. You know, I never once sat down and said, Hey, let's get a little more, let's get a little more middle of the road. Right? But as I scroll through the website over at PrepperBroadcasting.com, I realize that the
Starting point is 01:16:51 problems of the day and the solutions of the day that are coming from the mouths of Preppers have very little to do with partisan issues. You go to the website, you can find nothing that is related to the left versus the right and there's something special there man. I told you back in 2018, I think that prepping and preppers and homesteading and survivalism and the fortification of the human through these old ways and new ways, is going to become a great historical outpost for the unity of people. I still believe that being a prepper, prepping in general, is not fodder for people who watch Nat Geo. It's not a laugh line. It's big. It's big. It's a class, a growing class of people who have decided to fortify
Starting point is 01:17:50 themselves to be able to weather the storms of life, weather the storms that history has shown us, always come. And as we get closer to those storms the waves as the waves rise higher and Crest more people are finding their way to these places more people are finding their way to us You know, and we're not here shooing them away. No, this is for the right wing. No, this is only for the Christians No, this is right We're just here putting information out every week. You're worried about being hungry? This is what I do. You're worried about running out of money? This is what I
Starting point is 01:18:30 do. You're worried about the lights going out? This is what you should do. And I'm telling you there's something happening. There's something happening. History will smile on the preppers. History will not look back on preppers and say, Yeah, they were those crazy ass gas mask wearing bunker building people. It's hard to understand that as it happens. I know that. I know that you'll hear me say these things. You heard me say these things in 2018 and you were probably like, I don't think so James. I think we're always gonna be this laughing stock for the regular people to sort of poke at. But I'm telling you right now, we're at the beginning of this thing. More people,
Starting point is 01:19:19 people are going to take advantage of this infrastructure that Preppers have built over all these years. And I can tell you right now, your kids, your grandkids, they're gonna look back and go, how did they know? How did they know? And how did they do all of that? Because as a community, Preppers have done amazing things. And that's why I'll never shy away from the name Prepper. You call me a Prepper. I don't hide. It's not, it's not, it's something I worry about, but that's because I can foreshadow the way it will be seen in the future.
Starting point is 01:19:57 I know we'll be looked back on. Probably the Prepper Broadcasting Network itself will be looked back on as an incredible resource that was there when the world started to go back into that phase of calamity right as the world turned back and turned hard into a new phase of calamity rather than it you know an economic collapse or rather than whatever there was this new thing it was this new thing it was this new system, there were plans, there were skills, it was all written out and recorded and there were things to buy that you needed and the preppers
Starting point is 01:20:35 built it all. Thank God for them. That's what I see anyway. But I'm gonna call it a night PBN family. I thank you. Don't miss my show Wednesday. It's gonna be a big one. Okay? I'm glad we started the week on kids because we're gonna talk kids Wednesday also. I've been wanting to talk more lately. I uh, I feel like me old self all of a sudden. I don't know if you guys noticed but for a while I
Starting point is 01:21:04 was kind of liking being quiet. I don't know if you guys noticed, but for a while, I was kinda liking being quiet. I don't know. For years and years and years, I could never say enough. I did a two hour show, all that kind of stuff. And then over the last six months or so, I don't know, I just... It would take a lot for me to record a podcast, it would take a lot for me to record a video, but all of a sudden, I don't know, just recently, a couple days, a few days, weekend maybe, I felt something, life, oh it's life building up inside you, it's good. You know what movie that's from? We'll talk soon, PBN family. Thank you for listening to the Prepper broadcasting network where we promote self-reliance and independence
Starting point is 01:22:17 Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at prepper broadcasting calm th

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