The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Prepping IS Politics and The Ghost Phone Journey Begins

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

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PBN Family, we are roasting to a golden brown here in Richmond, Virginia today. I think it's going up to about a hundred thousand something like that today and what it'll feel like right the heat index the news is telling me stay inside whatever you do don't go outside whatever you do don't step outside the front door they're out there the heat the heat monsters are out there I mean you got to be careful you know you got to hydrate things like that but it gets pretty it's pretty crazy promo code B2 is still up promo code B2 for your annual membership your lifetime membership sign up if you're not a member we got some new

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a member, annual or lifetime. You know, if you want to buy once cry once it's the lifetime but if you want a great deal on annual we're talking about 45 bucks for the year man you know it don't get much better than that I was talking to Paul Vallone this morning he teaches a great course at Prepper Camp each year called winning against woken or something to that effect you know winning elections very political and this day and age with prepping and survival I see a lot of people who try to get around the political you know what I mean I see a lot of people who want content created

in the prepping world that resonates with all possible audiences. No politics allowed, just tell me how to purify the water. And I'd be lying if I... You know, there's a still small voice in my head that always wonders what would it have been like if we took a little more of a bipartisan... I can't even really articulate it to be honest with you. It's not who we are. But I do think about it from time to time and wonder what would it be like if PBN were less political. And talking to Paul

Vallone was a great reminder because everything is politics. Not only that, his was a reminder particularly about the Second Amendment, because he's done great things to protect our Second Amendment rights. His was a reminder that prepping is politics. You can't take the prepping out of politics. And almost every one of you out there listening has experienced something along those lines some kind of proof About that fact right so every one of you out there No has read a story about a city or a state

Has read a story about an elected official so on and so forth who is directly affected a person's ability to prep 100% right it is politics that decides what variation of your Second Amendment right you're allowed to execute upon. Unfortunately. But that's the reality, right? Politics decides what guns you can carry, what guns you can buy, what guns you can store in your state. That's what politics is. A lot of time politicians decide and lawmakers decide if you can attach a rain barrel to your house. Can you attach a rain barrel to the front of your house and store water? Right? A lot of times it's elected officials or city councils or something along those lines that gather together to decide or are pressed by the citizenry to decide

can we keep those backyard chickens? We want a half dozen backyard chickens. That's what we want. We don't want an egg factory. Nobody's going to have an egg fat. We're not going to have roosters in them in these suburbs. But a lot of times it comes down to politics and you know, the biggest political rally that I was ever a part. Well, the second biggest political rally I was ever a part of was all politics and my gun rights And in a way it started to piss me off a little bit because I started thinking you know There are a lot of content creators and a lot of people putting content out there trying to walk the fuzzy sort of

Neither warm nor hot sort of spew you out of my mouth path with preparedness right like this idea that yeah sure you can get prepared and politics has nothing to do with it lawmakers have nothing to do it your federal government has nothing to do with your preparedness and sometimes it's even a message of great hope, right? There are things that you can affect and things that you can affect. But at the end of the day, I think you should definitely understand, you can't affect the next move the US Army is going to make, but you can definitely affect elections in your

area. And elections in your area most definitely have an effect on your ability to prepare and how you prepare. Particularly if you're in a, in a densely populated area, even more particularly if you're in a, in a purplish state, do you know what I mean? So I don't know. It was just, it was really eye opening talking to him and, and you know, it's so important to be able to talk to people You live largely and you're not you know

It's not my fault, but you largely live a one-sided have a one-sided relationship with me because you listen to my podcast and the other hosts here at PBN We are very open to communication So, you know if you ever want to get down and dirty, it's fine. Just send us an email Through the contact form or At prepper broadcasting calm PBN family calm. I love to hear from you guys I got some really encouraging emails over the last few days and You know, it's just it always, when you're

doing what we do, there's no better compliment than, you know, everything is changed, or we have made great changes or great strides in our life from listening to PBN. And most of the emails, that's what they read, you know, and that's the distilled version of them. So, you know, we don't have to, we don't have to live the one-sided sort of life with each other. It's not that big a deal. I'm certainly not bogged down by work and family and incoming emails enough that I won't return your email because it is so valuable to bounce those ideas off people. You live in the normalcy bias of your cell phone and maybe your computer or something

along those lines and it really helps to hear from someone who's not only just your average person you know, because I feel like your average person plays a game where they're trying to appease you and keep you happy as much as they are trying to talk to you. You know what I mean? It's like you're my neighbor or you're my co-worker Whatever it is and I've got to make sure this relationship is okay and all that kind of stuff And so I'm gonna read you and listen and you know do the things I'm supposed to do But when you can really have a long conversation you get through all that weird stuff

Or a nice long email you get through there. there's none of that weird stuff in an email because you don't have to worry about the person's reaction in real time real time community folks community the many aspects of community they but they're powerful and they sharpen you up you know they sharpen you up there's no doubt about it. Something new is on the horizon I know there's always new on the horizon with all these new things on the horizon it's one of the other reasons why I'm gonna pair back on the video podcasting it's just the things that really make the difference aren't happening on video on YouTube. You know what I'm saying?

Like this weekend, starting Friday, right? 72 hour fast. Who's in? Who's in for the 72 hour fast? Who wants to feel what that feels like? Who wants to go down that path? Who wants to test their might, test their willpower in doing something that costs zero dollars and zero cents.

Actually you make money when you fast, funny enough. Don't believe me? Calculate the amount of food you eat and the money spent over the weekend if you don't do the fast and then consider how much money we who are not eating have made. You know what I mean? But it's not about that. It's hardly about the money. It's about health and it's about willpower and it's about you know

Really understanding your body for what it is understanding your humanity Knowing that oh if I don't eat breakfast, I'll live I Can live to lunch? Oh, I can even live past dinner. I can live past 24 hours I can live past 48 hours, you know what I mean and getting a better understanding of what it is. You're capable of The other big thing that's that's coming down the pike today is Well, it might it might happen today I've got a little cardboard box on my kitchen table right now and it was sent to me by the guys at mark 37 and It is a ghost phone and

What I want to do for you guys, this is not gonna be members only This is gonna be for everybody We're gonna do the ghost phone journey together. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna do it together You're gonna watch it. I'm gonna be 100% transparent. This is work and this ain't work and this will work. This won't work We're gonna take a very careful approach to setting this phone up putting the things on it I need to to operate my life and then won't work. We're going to take a very careful approach to setting this phone up, putting the things on it I need to operate my life and then having it become my cell phone. You know what I mean? And for those of you who don't know, a ghost phone is just basically

a phone that has been de-googled, right, or wiped of its operating system, its tracking devices that watch everything you do and record everything you do and sell everything you do and all that. It really is sort of taking full advantage of all the great technology that is, you know, the cell phone and being able to use it in a way that is way more independent of big tech, well, completely independent of tech. We'll be running an operating system called Graphene and I'll be learning about that and all those kinds of things.

What I really want to find out guys is, is this viable? Is this a thing that you can do? I'm going to use it no matter what, even if it's a hurdle to my everyday life because I already have a plan on how to take advantage of it one way or the other to make it viable but what I'm what I'm trying to figure out is are there flaming hoops to jump through and how many? What's the average person gonna do? Are they gonna take advantage of this? I kind of know the answer because it's only getting worse. It's only going to get worse. The things that Google demands and the information,

you know what I mean? And all that. So, but we're going to walk through that step by step. And I think it's going to be a great time. All right. I'm getting out of here, folks. I've got another Prepper Camp interview on the horizon here with Andrew Harrington from big pig outdoors good friend from Prepper Camp also. These are fun These are I mean, I wouldn't mind doing this every year to be honest with you just to connect with everybody before I wind up At Prepper Camp. It's kind of fun But he's a good guy I worked with him on a consultation basis years ago, he's cool him on a consultation basis years ago. He's cool. Look forward to it.

All right. The summer is here. Don't shy away from the heat. Enjoy it. Stay safe. Right. It's a good time to think about what you're going to do to stay cool in the backup power or when the power goes out.

Right. What are you doing? It's a hundred and a thousand degrees out. Um, and the power goes out. Right. You've got to start shucking and jiving you better have some USB powered fans you better have a backup power solution you're not gonna power your heat pump and your air conditioner most likely

unless you have a really big system so you're gonna have to think you know probably one of the quickest and easiest solutions especially if it's a short-term power outage like from a storm is go somewhere for the day you know what I mean you go somewhere take the kids to the theme park take the kids to the library take family to the gym whatever the situation is you know what I mean go to a place that ain't out of power go rent a cheap hotel and play in their pool whatever have a plan you know that's emergency fund stuff that's evacuation stuff doesn't have to be a

hurricane for you to execute on that evacuation plan all right folks I appreciate you don't forget promo code B2 go to PBN family comm and sign up Oh and Definitely support our great sponsors Lima tango survival Comm pack fresh USA comm get your food storage and your survival gear shored up Talk you guys soon