The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Reading a Newspaper and Riffing 10-10-2025

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

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Good a day is any to read some news, huh? Good a day as any to read some news, PayPal, some Papel. It's Friday, folks. Look, scan the QR code up in the corner there. Join the Prepper Broadcasting Network, become a member today. Five bucks a month. month, $60 for the year, $250 for a lifetime membership, and you get access to, well, you get access to the full path back to stability is what you get, you know?

What do you want? Seriously, it's Friday, it's payday, join. It's a group of people, I mean, you know, we have guests on. They tell you what we're all about, right? We just had Diane, the Canning Devon. She spent three days with us, basically camped with us for three days straight. and I don't know what's a better testament than that you know turns out prepping is much more about peace of mind than I thought much more about surviving America maybe not so much

much the end of the world as we know it what I want to do we're getting a September isn't too early to shop smart and save money I don't know if I'm ready for home yet who's got a newspaper raise your hand who out in the world reads the newspaper anymore is it a dead art i'm telling you right now the newspaper is the way to go the wild world war two adventure of a down p 51 fighter pilot the 20 year old fighter pilot stood in an open field whatever camouflage his green flight suit would have given him was negated by his flapping parachute Even so, everyone on the ground had witnessed his harrowing ejection from his P-51 Mustang, which was now a smoldering heap in the distance.

20 years old. You forget that about these guys, right? April 10, 1945, and a downed American fighter pilot in the heart of Germany could expect little mercy. Retired Colonel Joseph Peter Burst was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Went to Catholic school, got his ass beat there, toughened him up. that's not in the story for those of you don't know i'm reading the epic times okay the epic times is an amazing newspaper i'd highly recommend it um yeah wild let's let's get it let's get it let's read about pete this pete right joseph peter peters

alexander hamilton u.s custom house it's amazing that things that we built. Fighting the Soviet giant in the Russo-Finish War. Grit, courage, guerrilla tactics held off the enemy. This portion, yeah, this portion right here. Whoa. That's an interesting name. This Finnish Russo War during the Soviet era gave,

gave us the book Total Resistance which if you're into prepping if you're into survival that kind of stuff you should have total resistance that should be a book in your library total resistance is phenomenal well it's the blueprint

for an invading force is taken over and you know how do you deal with that how do you build guerrilla factions how do you put those guerrilla factions into work to working order and the things that you can do, how to recognize what's happening. One of the most important things about total resistance by Von Doc

is the recognition of the fact that things are getting out of hand. It's a really good breakdown of that. Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his book David and Goliath, underdogs misfits in the art of battling giants during the russian civil war anti-communist forces known as whites fought against the reds the bolsheviks who had seized power in the russian revolution of nineteen seventeen

as winter war historian william trotter explained in a frozen hell a frozen hell the rousseau finished winter war of nineteen thirty nine to nineteen forty Can you imagine this is going on at the same time as World War II? The Karelian Isthmus, partly controlled by Finland, was a highly strategic land bridge between Russian Scandinavian Peninsula, formed a doorway to the west. It led to Leningrad, formerly St. Petersburg, just over the Russian border making, this important Russian city and birthplace of the communist revolution, highly vulnerable to invading army coming over the Isthmus. As Trada wrote in the spring of 1939, the Finnish Army did not possess a single working anti-tank gun while they received a small supplier from Sweden by the start of the war.

They had only a dozen modern fighter planes in their small air force, which was mostly composed of outdated craft. A heroic and clever resistance. What's up, Borda Brab? How you doing, man? Yeah, I didn't even check the time today. I just got to it. Whatever. Let's just, let's just enjoy Friday. Do you guys remember like, let's pause for a moment. We're here to enjoy this ride. That is life. That's what we're here for. It's Friday. It's 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. It's the last day of the work week. God only knows what the weekend has planned for you.

There are all kinds of things. There are all kinds of things that went right this week. All kinds of things that went wrong this week in your life. There are all kinds of battles to be fought and won and lost. There are all kinds of things in the back of your mind that need to get done, that have to get fixed, that, you know, humans that have to be repaired, schedules that have to be repaired, windows that have to be repaired. And what I want to remind you of, and this is not from me, by the way, this is this is an answer from this cross on my chest. What I want to remind you is that, you know, you weren't put on this earth for fight or flight mode 24-7, okay? Enjoy the day a little bit, will you? Seriously, enjoy your life, the good things. If you live in America, you're surrounded by all kinds of good things.

It's all kinds of nice and wonderful things in your life. And you overlook them because you're thinking about money, a bill, arguments. the deal or whatever it is you know and at the end of the day it's like maybe maybe maybe better take a couple deep breaths you know six deep breaths will lower your blood pressure immediately six deep breaths morning j ferg how you doing six deep breaths hard to do in this tictock age takes six deep breaths in a row but if you take six deep breaths according to the japanese an american soldier dies i'm kidding if you take six deep breaths Sorry, I'm reading 1940s news, okay?

60 breaths and your blood pressure goes down. Maybe not mine, because I've drank enough coffee to kill a wild boar this morning, but it works. The Russian battle plan was to use conventional frontal assault with heavy firepower and tanks, somewhat an imitation of Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactic. Finland was a tapestry of icy lakes, more than 200,000 of them. sprawling marshes, thick and endless forests, and criss-crossing rivers. The Finnis strategy was one used by so many underdog armies throughout history. Guerrilla warfare.

Guerrilla forces are, of course, unconventional troops who refuse to fight fair, so to speak. Since they know they can't win a conventional pitch battle, they use a hit-and-run tactic and rely on sabotage and subterfuge to keep the fight going and minimize casualties. They take advantage of their knowledge of their native terrain. Think about that. Think about that. One of the key elements of success in guerrilla warfare is your superior knowledge over your terrain compared to the enemy. Now, think of the modern human.

What does the modern human know about how to navigate their local terrain, about their local terrain? How many footfalls have they had on local terrain? You know, this is what you did. You walked all over your town or community as a young kid back in the day, but nowadays I wonder, you know, I wonder if guerrilla fighters in the United States would have the edge of expertise over their native terrain, right? And the element is surprised to terrorize and confuse their enemy with the hope that even if they can't defeat the more powerful enemy, they can make life so uncertain and miserable that the attacker's morale collapses and they decide. it's not worth it to continue the fight. According to Max Boot, who compiled the database of conflicts involving guerrilla warfare for his book, Invisible Armies, Never Read It, Probably Worth Reading, Folks.

Invisible Armies by Max Boot. Insurgent forces succeed in surprising 25.5% to 40% of conflicts, despite being, as a rule, greatly overmatched. As the massive cumbersome columns of Soviet men, trucks, tanks, and equipment wound their way through the frosty landscapes of Finland on primitive roads they became easy targets for highly mobile Finnish squadrons Walker Larson wrote this story very good Walker I love these stories man but it is something to think about right it is something to think about guerrilla warfare is one of those weird things that makes you think that war is not

kind of know that war is not the answer but if you look back through history war it tends to be the default of humanity right it's one of these things that we always wind up doing we always wind up back at this at the gun at the arrow at the sword at each other's throats right we're trying to get there in america right now doing giving it our given it our best effort to get there in america but um the the guerrillas are those that say you know even with the big army even with the monstrous tanks and weapons, like, well, you know, look at most modern wars. Palestinians haven't done very good with guerrilla warfare. I don't know what that's about, right? The, what are they called? My brain is so tired of nonsense, the repetitive news. I can't even remember who the palace, Hamas. Hamas is not done very, done very.

good in the guerrilla warfare front you notice the hidden gift of boredom somebody's somebody's been listening to oh this is walker larsen also boredom is an opportunity for growth creativity and self-discovery for those willing to embrace it yeah boredom man a thing of the past a thing of the past a thing many young children hardly know how to manage anymore a thing many adults hardly know how to manage anymore a thing that the intrepid commander prays for oh to be bored boredom is good for the brain a number of thinkers and researchers argue that we should not period what's that mean a number of thinkers and researchers argue that we should not i think that might have been a typo boredom actually plays an integral role in healthy human

psychology. Oh, you know what? Bortem is good. It was a subtitle, but it pulled from this second. Truthfully, I'll read you the whole thing to give you context. Truthfully, many of us spend our days running from boredom. The cell phone seems to have been designed with this great escape in mind. We have at our fingertips, endless digital expanses of headlines, movies, podcasts, articles, games, social media, text messages, and so on. Seventy-four percent of Americans feel uncomfortable leaving their cell phones at home. And there goes my cell phone. Like it heard the word boredom.

You see that? Like it hears the word boredom. And most of us, when we feel a twinge of boredom, throw ourselves immediately into the consoling arms of our little digital companion. But should we? A number of thinkers and researchers argue we should not. Bortem actually plays an integral role in healthy human, psychology in human life itself.

Yet boredom, this is why walks are so valuable without phone. This is why in this modern age, it's funny because today you can do next to nothing and get incredible benefits from it. I mean, literally, you can do next to nothing. But we're so hijacked that you get these massive benefits from it. something is so silly and so simple as walking without a device with nothing with just your thoughts gives you time to what's the word i'm looking for don't start following me now but um it gives you the ability to filter through no what do i want to do here i want to do this number hello it gives

you the ability to help your mind filter all the sort of, you know, crazy stuff that it's seen over the last 24, 48, 72 hours, whatever. All the great ideas come if you walk or run without headphones. See, that's the thing, though. You've got to do it without headphones. You've got to take a walk. I think a walk is the best because running I love, don't get me wrong. But the walk is no stress now. Now you're not. not tricking your brain with stress. It's easy to trick the brain with stress and get some more chemicals flowing, right? That's what it's all about this modern age, by the way. It's chemicals. Everything is chemicals. I'm stealing this from Sad Guru, by the way. But everything is chemicals.

We need chemicals for everything we do. Every step of our day, every moment of our day, we need chemicals. We need chemicals to wake up. We need chemicals to fall asleep. This is a direct thing. This is direct theft. What's up? We need chemicals to wake up. Coffee. We need chemicals to fall asleep. We need chemicals to get excited.

We need chemicals to calm down. We need chemicals to make love. We need everything. We're always putting chemicals in the body. We live awash in these chemicals. And don't forget, this is a chemical factory, too, in and of itself. It is the chemical factory. But when you go for a wall,

just a walk and you're bored and you're just letting your mind sort of tit to tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick over the things and it starts to go over the things it starts to go all the stuff that you forced into your subconscious mind or deep behind everything else that you're worried about concerned about unnerved about all that stuff you start to work on it you give your brain a chance to work on it you know so that it doesn't become a tidal wave so that it doesn't become a tidal wave so that you don't wind up taking that nice big TV on your wall, taking it off the bearings or off the hanging, whatever the thing is, right, the support, and throwing it through the front window. That's how you get there, by the way. When the television is hurtling through the air

towards the window, and you're going, how did I get here? Because you haven't been bored in five years you've been stressed out of your mind angry emotional sad hurt everything and you've given your body no way to deal with it all the only thing you've done is put a screen in front of your face to push it down deeper and push it down and push it down and back it up and back it up until you're nuts but when you go for that walk when you give your brain that break man i'm telling you right now and that's what this this day and age is all about this day and age is all about how can I become a billionaire trillionaire tomorrow when really you just need to go for a walk like to enjoy your life probably not the stresses and the nightmares of being a billionaire

trillionaire right probably more than likely you just need to go for about an hour walk go for an hour walk and I see everybody out there nobody's got time for anything right you got a full-time job somebody got a full-time job you work eight hours a day or 10 hours a day I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but you have no time for anything. I don't understand that, right? You sleep for eight hours, okay? So what's that leave you with in a 24-hour day? And most people don't even sleep eight hours, six hours. What's that leave you with? Hell of a lot of time. 30 minutes, hour walk, no iPod. Leave the iPod at home. No, remember we used to have the little arm band with the iPod in it. Life was so much simpler. No iPhone, no Android, no headphones,

walk quietly and just think. Whatever, whatever comes up is whatever. Why you should grow and cook with sprouted grains. Every seed holds the promise of new life, Jennifer McGruther, lying dormant until the right condition allows it to grow. Consider a jar of wheat, Barry sitting on the counter. At first he seemed unremarkable. With fresh water and a little care, those kernels swell before splitting ever so slightly to reveal the tiniest of white shoots. It's an ordinary sort of miracle.

Fire will forge in chat says, But how will I listen to PBN if I go for a walk, an hour a day? I know you're being facetious. But to be honest with you, we'll figure it out, right? we'll figure it out if the choice is between PBN and your life sprouted grains are simply cereal grains such as wheat, rice, spelt, and even rice

that have just started to germinate. Sprouted grains are harvested and prepared early when the root tip barely emerges. So what do you get out of them? I'm into all this. I'm definitely into the sprouting of grain, but um what really gets me going when it comes to foods i'll eat anything if the health benefits are good enough i mean you you laugh but it's the truth right what do we get what do we

get brewing and artisan baking cereal grains such as wheat rye ein corn spelt rice sprout easily subtle sweet flavor I got a bunch of recipes what do I get out of it I need to understand the benefits here sprouted grains highlight the simple nourishing qualities in natural foods

this bowl of quinoa oatmeal looks delicious excuse me uh what begins in a small kitchen project here we go here I see the M word now I'm excited I see the M word.

What begins is a small kitchen product carries remarkable nutritional benefits. You have James Walton's attention now. Now all of a sudden I'm like, huh, huh, give me the sprouts. I'll sprout it. I'll grow it. Whatever you want me to do, I'll eat it. Sprouting activates enzymes to help break down starches and proteins, which may make them easier to digest for some people who struggle.

No struggle here. Sprouting also increases B vitamins and vitamin C. Now I'm happy. And improves the bioavailability. of minerals such as iron. Yes. Zinc. Yes. Magnesium. More of it. Moreover, sprouted grains tend to sit low on the glycemic index and may help support better blood sugar. Balance than refined grains. Hmm. I don't know. Sounds like it's worth giving a try. Magnesium, zinc, iron, huge. lichens aren't a problem but fungus gnats are

I don't know if I can go there oh here's a good one is a real good one I gotta get out here and do this myself so let's read about the gardener's guide to fall pruning let's get into that be patient uh careful pruning and encourages new growth and helps plants thrive.

I've got some apple trees that need pruning severely. Vining berries, no. Glorious grapes, passionate cuts. What, where's PIP planning? Apple, pears, crab apples, quince, Japanese pairs and other members of the PIP family are generally pruned in late winter when the coldest weather has passed,

but the trees are still firmly dormant. The idea is to control the tree shape and growth without subjecting any new growth to the danger of icing. This is the time to trim for height so the fruit isn't growing out of reach and to open the canopy for good airflow to lessen the chance of disease, trim off dead, damage and disease growth as well as crossing branches and any other excess branching to encourage good limb structure, enhance fruit production, increase overall good health.

The idea is to allow the tree to put this year's energy into production and encouraging new limbs that will fruit in their second season. Promegranates are the PIP exception. They don't need to be pruned. Hmm, how about that? You know, down the street from my kid's school, there's a pomegranate tree. It's really crazy to walk by this time of year. They don't need to be pruned annually, though a quick trim will help enhance fruit production.

Also, they're best pruned in autumn after fruiting and before the vegetative rest. On the whole, stone fruits are never. pruned before February and can be pruned as late as March, April. Uh-oh. A busy, busy moan. Pruning.

Pruning the grapes. Pruiting, I don't need bushberries. Vining berries. I just chopped everything down for the raspberries. The raspberries took a beating. They really did. I mean, they took a total beating. I just chopped everything down

because I know it'll come back. Every year they come back with a vengeance, right? One bowl, endless options. Southwest tofu bowl with cilantro, rice, and black bean salsa. You know, like, the caricature of me is supposed to say, I'd put steak in that, right? But the truth of the matter is, like, I don't mind tofu when it's prepared.

prepared really well. I'm going to be honest with you. I love like deep fried crispy tofu. You get it like Thai restaurants. Awesome. I like Sejuan tofu. I really do. I don't know. I always have. Firewolf says we just got a fig and two elderberry. Oh man. Figs are awesome. If you get it the sunlight that it needs and you know that kind of thing, it they produce so many. I got so many figs this year. They were wonderful. I dried a lot of them. My problem with drying fruit as I eat it all. Start holiday shopping now to save money. We always say this on PBN, right?

Buy your turkey early, buy your presents early. Forget about it. Forget about it. We are going to consider an analog Christmas this year, though. Okay? That's going to happen here in my household. We're going back to analog. Yeah, we are.

I mean, we'll still keep, probably keep the digital TVs and that kind of stuff. But what I really want to find my kids, I really want to find my kids analog television with built in VCR that's one of the things cassette players you know what I mean

we just abandon that world we just like abandon it for digital everything my whole thing is back take a few steps back you know what I mean

let's take a few steps back we might have to build that into the PBN membership too you know walk it back analog life whatever I don't know. We'll have to figure it out. Thrift shopping for stereos and tape recorders and televisions and VCRs. Why not? You go to thrift shops. You can get all kinds of VHS tapes. Actually, if you went to a thrift shop and said, I'll give you five bucks for every VHS tape you have here. You probably could get every VHS tape they have there.

They're probably sitting there with like a timer on them, right? They're like, well, if nobody buys a VHS in the next week, we'll throw them all out. we're getting too many anyway. How to reduce microplastics in the bathroom. No thanks. Anybody else feel like microplastics is just one of those problems that, like, really? Everything in your life can be like overshadowed by microplastics now. Everything. I'm talking into this thing.

It's microplastic-y. There's water. water in my glass there's microplastics in it there's microplastics in the air there's microplastics in my brain there's microplastics in my balls there's microplastics everywhere i don't have i literally don't have the bandwidth to conquer that mountain you know what i mean i don't have the i can't do it i can't do it i can't figure out how to win that battle there's no winning that battle now i'm going to say something youtube that's going to get your panties all in a bunch okay might get me taken down or checkmarked or whatever but i'm just reading the headline

researchers found unvaccinated children healthier than vaccinated then they didn't publish the findings no big deal henry ford health system researchers carried out the study dr mark zervos an infectious disease specialist at henry for let's give zachary stiber the credit for this article, Zachary Steiber. Dr. Marcus Zervos, an infectious disease specialist at Henry Ford Health and colleagues, studied 18,000 children, born between 2000, 2016, who were enrolled in health systems insurance plan, drawing data from the medical clinical and payer records supplementing with its information from Michigan's immunization registry.

After 10 years, 50% of the 20, this was 2000 to 2016. After 10 years, 57% of the vaccinated children had chronic health conditions such as asthma compared with 17% of the unvaccinated children. Dude. After 10 years, 57% of the vaccinated children had a chronic health conditions such as asthma compared to just 17% of the vaccinated children. compared to just 17% of the unvaccinated children. Oh, does it say which vaccines? What qualifies a child as unvaccinated, by the way? Autoimmune and neurological issues, 2.5-fold higher risk of chronic health.

I'm sorry, guys. Health conditions, mainly asthma, eczema, a topic and autoimmune diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders. It does feel like vaccination is like the first. hurdle that your child has to face in his struggle to survive, to endure the sort of survival of the fittest thing, right? The study found that exposure to vaccination was independently associated with an overall two-fold increase in likelihood of developing chronic health conditions. The only real problem, so when did they, when did they say, you know what, we're not going to publish this?

however according to zervos and other researchers even after unvaccinated children whose parents never took them to the doctor following birth were excluded the vaccinated group still had an increased risk of developing chronic health conditions therefore our findings do not appear to be due to differential use of health resources they wrote the researchers added that their findings cannot prove causality and warrant future investigations That's a lot of kids, man. That's a big number. That's not a 1,000 person study. You know what I mean? That's a lot of kids. That's 18,000, almost 19,000 kids, the pool that they were, you know, pulling from. Wow.

Mastering metabolic health. Fast. You want your metabolism to go up fast. How high blood pressure is linked to Alzheimer's disease. five ways to boost fertility in a world of declining birth rates there's three the one woman's pregnant two women holding babies the national institutes of health reported uh on a study in singapore that found exposure to pfas may decrease fertility in women by as much as 40 percent

plastic plastic it's not easy i could sit here and say some dumb stuff and be like yeah getting pregnant's real easy it's not easy for everybody oh look we got a kettlebell exercise breakdown the five swinging and pendulum exercises to maximize whole body movement uh what's just the kettlebell swing but the big foot 90 pounds 90 pound 90 pound big foot big foot monster kettlebell swings dead lifts a couple overhead presses with two hands it's a great little monster it is how stress leaves hidden marks on the body raising cancer risk i don't like articles like this i don't like articles about stress because when you talk about stress you get stressed

i can't be so stressed out i'm stressing out about stressing out folks it's been fun it's a busy day it's an important day i'm going to go enjoy this day i encourage you to do the same whether you're at work or whatever the situation is man enjoy your life okay seriously enjoy it enjoy the good parts to hell with the bad parts that's it's the best advice i can give you other than go to pbnfamily dot com and sign up to become a member do that now do that right now before i drowned myself