The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Reading Newspaper & Riffing

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

I am back into the Epoch Times literally reading the newspaper and I love it folks. There is something very special about reading newsprint in 2025 and I am certainly enjoying it. Today we are going to just read a newspaper and YAP about what is inside the pages and how it relates to the Course of the Life of Mortal Men in This WORLD! www.pbnfamily.comwww.limatangosurvival.comwww.faradaycontainers.com

You're listening to PBN. You're paying back the stability. It's Friday. It is a day to rift. It's Friday. It is a day to riff. It's the way I look at it. It's the way that I was looking at this. I was almost not going to come on. I was thinking, you know. If there's one thing we do, it's produce enough content to satisfy you throughout the week. I think we do that pretty well. And I said, you know what? We might as well get on and riff a little bit about the news talk newspaper. I'm saying news, I mean this news.

Something really interesting. Well, a ton of things really interesting about reading a newspaper. You really quickly start to realize that the 24. our news cycle is irrelevant and worthless, most of it, and that a newspaper marked August 13th

through the 19th. Morning, Jay Ferg. A newspaper marked August 13th through the 19th. Imagine reading a news story from the 13th. You know what I mean? Would you click on a news story from the 13th anymore?

You know, if you really wanted to find out what's going on in the world, this quest to find out what's going on in the world. But when you pick up the physical news and you read, you know, life and tradition, that's where we're at today, life and tradition. And you read that from the 13th and the 19th, and you discover that it's not, well, it's the old thing, right? It's the old quantity over quality. So we're just going to go through the pages and yak. Give me your two cents in chat if you want to.

If not, that's fine, too. Dad's launched new streaming service featuring wholesome old cartoons. One of my favorite things, right? When two fathers saw what kids were watching online, they took matters into their own hands and launched a platform parents could trust. Parents who try to control what their young children watch often meet frustration when their efforts are thwarted

by tech-savvy kids who find a work around. so what is it called he was just appointed meet Dave Harvilles Harvillises co-founder of the new Friendly okay so it's called hopscotch TV

Hobbscotch TV and what do we got on hopscotch TV David Inspector Gadget Paddington Bear Strawberry shortcake Sonic the Hedgeholic Super Mario World My kids watch some of these

growing up anyway on Netflix um his own children age seven and nine were perfect focus group says i bought dvds from old stuff like inspector gadget g. i jo and that's what i would show my kids if we had a long car trip being good friends with each other trying to do good that's interesting i like it i like it yeah i like it mark twain's wisdom on growing old rings just oh growing old rings just as true as Today, we definitely got to get to that. Mark Twain was always a big, big chunk of wisdom, right? How did we get the word husband?

Far from limiting a man, marriage calls him into a larger mission of love, stewardship, and provision. What by Walker Larson, this one is by Walker Larson, says a husband is a man who has put down roots in order that something new might grow. Husband derives from the old English Hasbonda, which in turn derives from the old Norse Husbandi, meaning master of the house or house dweller. It's a combination of Huss, house, and Bondi, J.B. Bondi,

meaning dweller. I wonder if Bondi knows that her name means dweller in, in what is it, Norse? freeholder or peasant the american heritage dictionary comments the master of the house was usually a spouse as well of course and it would seem that the main modern sense of husband arises from this overlap interesting more on bondi here i guess i'm going to have to clip this and send it to to jasmine this realization is deepened when we consider that the norse bondi is related to the word bond

which in the Middle Ages could refer to someone who was a serf, a peasant farmer bound under the feudal system to work land on the Lord's estate. The surf was linked to the land.

Interesting. Chinese vocal competition. $10,000 award. I think you got what it takes. thus being a husband is a kind of bondage like a surf the husband isn't free he isn't free to attach himself to another woman nor is he free to move from place to place independently of his family

and he could before as he could before marriage a husband is a man who has put down roots in order that something new might grow never you i mean you click on yahoo you'll never find anything remotely close to this right to husband is to use with care to keep to save to make last to conserve wendell berry humility is always rewarded that's probably i don't know if i agree with that one i don't know if i agree with that one this day and age where's mark twain at a gripping mystery with gothic flourishes

seaside in along the english coast houses a mystery that Nora Breen is determined to get to the bottom of book review. Not bad. Maybe I should reach out to the Epic Times and have them review some books. Here we go. Mark Twain's advice on growing old. In a birthday speech, Twain spoke about his habits, laughter and the necessity of savoring peace.

Ooh. His capacity for laughter often directed at himself, buoyed him up in his old age. He said, gets all his exercise, not in, it's probably in this article somewhere, but he was quoted saying, I get all my exercise by walking to the funer of my much fitter friends or something along those lines. I always thought that was funny. I don't believe a word of it. I really don't. I don't believe a word of it, but I thought it was a good lie. I think that, yeah, you will suffer

if you don't get yourself in shape. Let's see what we got. The time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity. And bringing bursts of laughter from the crowd. In that speech, there's a great deal of wisdom. She's talking about getting old, right? Getting old is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity. He's quoted saying,

I have achieved my 70 years in the usual way by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. Now, that I agree with. That I agree with wholeheartedly. That sounds like something that would actually work. You know what I mean when it comes to old age and growing old? You want to take some Mark Twain advice on that?

That, I think, makes sense. I've achieved my 70 years in the usual way by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. Twain said that evening He pointed out That in stories told by Garillus I don't even know what that word means

G-A-R-R-U-L-O-U-S Old people We always find that the habits Which have preserved them Would have decayed us And we can't reach old age By another man's road Firewolf welcome in my man

We're reading the newspaper And riffing on whatever's inside Okay You're welcome to hang we can't reach old age by another man's road wow I like that I like that and you know why that is because

you don't do what people tell you to do right you don't really do what people tell you to do even if it's good advice right you make some amalgamation of good advice and the things that you will do and can do consistently. And that really does become sort of your old age, right? Born DeBrap, newspaper makes a good fire starter, boomer news.

Yeah, you know, Born DeBrap, there's something to be said about the newspaper. The newspaper is, to open a newspaper, to read a newspaper, is to hammer a wedge between you and the, digital world in many many ways man you know in many ways it's it is an experience it sounds silly because i used to look at the newspaper i used to read the newspaper and uh eat cereal in the morning as a little young and i'd read the delco times play the you know read the comic section read about the eagles that kind of stuff and that was it you know what i mean that was it um But there's a level of solitude in this.

There's a level of choice in this, by the way, right? You really don't have a lot of choice in what's foisted upon you when you read your news online, do you? Do you actually have choice? Something I talk to my kids a lot when I see them scrolling, right? When they're going on the like the scrolling tirade. You have to tell them. You have to tell your kids. Look, what's happening right now is you're being fed.

like you're not choosing what you want to watch what is happening is you're watching whatever comes up and in a way it's weird you got to think about that right but when you read the epic times you know what you're getting right and you're you buzzed by a bunch of headlines

that aren't all necessarily designed to shoot a massive amount of adrenaline into your bloodstream. You know, like to sit here and to read about Mark Twain's advice on growing old is not Day 400 of the Ukraine war. Will Putin use nukes? Will Europe

invade Russia? Will World War III begin? Will the end of all things? Right? Or whatever. You know, the Cracker Barrel logo sucks now. Oh my God. You know what I mean? And it does suck. It's horrible. I got to tell you guys the response I got on Twitter or

what I reposted on Twitter. about the Cracker Barrel logo because it was comedy at its finest and it's the reason why we have to get away from being so petrified of

I don't even want to call it racism because it's not racism in a way it's racism but it's funny and it was devastatingly funny okay you know the Cracker Barrel you know the Cracker Barrel what's it called right the cracker barrel logo it's an old guy sitting on a rocking chair next to a barrel right and um he is

sitting there and the logos next to him well for those of you don't know cracker bow removed the man and they remove the barrel right and now they just have the words cracker barrel and sort of like the in the same like dystopian nightmarish kind of you know that that that whole drab letters and color you know what i mean clean they call it like clean clean logo it's ugly it's boring it's dystopian you see a world like that where every logo is going that way simplistic minimalistic right boring so they took the guy out they took the barrel out i don't remember the lady's name she was a black girl it was funny she said Why'd they remove the cracker and the barrel?

Look, I'm unwilling to give up on that kind of comedy. Okay, that's phenomenal. I laughed about that for a good 10 minutes before I reposted it because it was so good. The restaurant's called Cracker Barrel. It's an old dude in a barrel, an old white dude in a barrel. And she said, how did they remove the Cracker and the barrel? If you can't enjoy that, man, you're missing out on life. I don't care if you're white or black. That's fun. That's what's at risk here by us tiptoeing around race all the time in the country. You know what I mean?

Laughter is the best of vitamins. If one has, if one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble. I'm a man without a country. Wherever Livy was, that was my country. The bitter cynicism of his later years regarding the United States religion and his fellow human beings reflect those tragedies. and his dark sorrow. That's probably one of the things that kept the guy alive, too, right? Was his cynicism all those years? You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes and your barefoot. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. You know, Mark Twain, great writer.

One of the best of all times. The schools, you don't even read them, right? The Basilica of St. Augustine, Florida, beautiful, wow. In another life, maybe one day when I'm older and, you know what I mean, on to something new, if that ever happens. There is something to be said about, like, touring, like wanting to go tour the magnificent churches around the country. Just America.

You know, I know they're amazing in Europe and things like that, but let's start here you know what i mean there are there are just amazing there's one in philadelphia i had no idea until i started writing the book let your heart be light and i found out that right in my own backyard was like this magnificent church i do want to go see it one day but i'd like to see them all i mean they are marvels you know what i mean they are they are like what is it the eighth one wonder of the world, right? The seven wonders of the world, whatever it is. Like, the churches and the stained glass and the carvings and the whole thing, like, they are

wonders. Look, I said I took, uh, typically what's behind me. You don't often see it, but what's often behind me is my wife's hockey back. I took it down and I put my buddy Bigfoot up in a couple backpacks from, uh, from our great sponsor, Lima Tango Survival. So now we're going from, what was that, family and tradition, life and tradition, into home, the Epic Times home, August 13th through the 19th. Here's the lowdown on whether buying organic produce is worth the extra dollars. I think we already know that. Serapy blueberries and golden biscuits. Now we're talking.

It is about breakfast time, man. Growing the many flavors of mint. What is with that anyway? What is with them flavored mints? I've never, I never liked them. A lot of restaurants we'd use like pineapple mint. People'd be excited about it.

Orange banana chocolate mint I've tried. Apple mint I've never had. It seems too fake. It's like those grapes. You know, you get those grapes that, those grapes that taste like cotton candy. Did you ever have those? Those things are diabolical.

Like they, you eat them and they taste like, lab coats. Like, they taste like cotton candy. But you know, they've been so manipulate. Like, how do you manipulate a grape that tastes like cotton candy? I don't even want to know the beginning, and I certainly don't want to eat it. Mint is a great one, though, man. You know, one of the best things you can do with mint since we're on the subject,

whatever kind of mint you have, the best use, this time of year you got your fresh basil, you got your mint right one of the best things you can do with those two ingredients is put them right in salad not chopped like literal leaves of basil of mint mixed in with spring mix you know salad greens that kind of stuff and uh it just boom it hits you know what i mean you're like eating because you know even the most uh even like even like an arugula that's a very peppery green like even something like that doesn't have a ton of character or when you put salad dressing on it and it's coupled with a bunch of other greens. They're mostly mild, right?

They're a vehicle for your favorite salad dressing and your favorite nuts and your favorite cheeses and your meat on top. But when you throw a leaf of mint in there, right, or a couple, you know, leaves of mint into a big spoonful of salad, you get, oh, okay, this is a little different. The other thing about growing mint is, you know, you're why? up having this this perennial plant that's just never going to quit on you it's never going to quit grown for the pharaohs egyptian mint tastes similar to apple mint it is a wild mint and it's robust stem and velvety leaves help it survive in harsh conditions lavender mint can be dried and used as a soothing tea i don't know what lavender mint is but that sounds right up my alley i'll tell you that much definitely go with her lavender mint

Oh, we've got a little do-it-yourself section here. Fungal disease could be the cause of wilting leaf holes. This is in the garden section. Probably worth paying attention. Shot hole disease, also known as corneum blight, is a fungal or bacterial disease that affects plum trees and other stone fruit trees causing small circular spots on leaves. Holes appear in spring as purplish or red.

spots. After leaf drop, use low-volume sprinklers, drip irrigation, or sprinkler deflectors, and prune off the lower branches to prevent foliage getting wet from irrigation. Prune and dispose of infected plant tissue as soon as it appears. Interesting. We have a cherry plum tree with purple foliage, pink flowers in April and the small reddish fruit in July. The leaves look like something is eating at them.

There are small holes all over them. I looked for bugs but can't find any. Yeah. Something to consider the fungal disease. Hmm. How to eat organic on a budget? Grow your own food. Right?

Find people who grow food in your area. A lighter, brighter potato salad. my mother used to make the best potato salad on the planet really is the best simple not piled high with sugar wasn't sweetened at all you know what i mean secret ingredient maybe i'll tell you one day but yeah phenomenal man budget friendly summer adventures you've gone on many summer adventures we did our share we did our share of some of their adventures our Life is an adventure, large part. I know what I mean? Be a tourist of your own town.

Take a trip day. Plan a backyard camp out. They were fun. I haven't done one of those in a while. I fear my oldest son is probably out of the backyard camping trip years. I'm not sure if he'd come hang with us or not. Free museum days. One of the best things about Richmond, Virginia is the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

is free every day and open 365 days of the year it's the fact that there aren't people in it all the time is amazing to me really because this place is it's called the virginia museum of fine arts but it's really largely a natural history museum on top of it because of the artifacts and the arts that are presented inside that museum i mean it is it is It's magic, man. It's a wonderful place. When I really have reached, like, the height of cynical attitude, you know what I mean? My cynicism is, like, peaking.

Everything's going bad. You know, you feel like there's almost nothing left in this world that hasn't been ruined, you know, and you get in those kind of moods. That's the trip to the VMFA. You go to the VMFA, you walk through ancient Egypt. You start at ancient Egypt. You walk your way through the ancient dynasties in China and Japan. And, you know, you see all those artifacts. You see sort of the things that people valued back then and work your way all the way up to the modern age.

Where you see, like, my greatest enemy of all in terms of art, which is modern art, which is like a newspaper stuck to a wall with a banana peel on it. you know like what that kind of thing it's a beautiful time go retro with a drive-in you know we haven't gone to the drive-in drive-in movies are sweet that'd be a good time i went like checking the drive-in theater around our way earlier in the year and found that it was all taylor swift's concert every night who's gonna go watch that you know what I mean? But I guess, you know, it's the only thing you can do if you're not able to drop $1,000 on tickets or something for your daughter. Common social security questions. Hmm. I'll read that offline. Guide to buying sunscreens. SPF 30 or higher, that's your daily

minimum. Do you use daily sunscreen? I don't know. I mean, look, I'm the guy who gets burnt. Like seriously, severely. I don't use sunscreen on the day-to-day. Understanding loss of appetite in cats. I can't do the cats, guys. Hold on. How do we miss WD40 isn't just for the garage? How did we miss that? That'll be our wrap-up read.

Did you hear the prepper tip of the day on baking soda? another cheap impossible to deny item to have in your pantry oh here we go this is a good one we can get down with this

surprising home uses for WD40 this popular product seems to do it all from loosening bolts to taking out paint stains let's see what you didn't know if you spray WD40 on windowsills places spite of

can get in, wipe away all the excess, and that's it. It'll keep spiders and other creepy crawlies away. Who knew? Cleans greasy hands. Removes paint from leather. WD40, listen up parents of young kids, cleans up crayon marks. Whether they're on the walls of your home or your clothes dryer. WD40 works like a dream to soften crayon marks making them easy to remove free stuck dishware oh how do people have this

I've never had this I've heard of this um clean greasy ham yeah we did that remove paint from leather my idea to you and I don't know clean those doors although we need to make it clear that

had the glass become permanently etched. It's not like the WFiority fixed the problem. Dear Mary, we bought a home not long ago, and the glass shower doors were so badly stained, I actually thought the glass had become etched. Oh, and she used, I took the doors outside,

covered my picnic table, and laid the door on it. Next, I sprayed the door with WD40. Let it set a few minutes, wiped it off of the paper towel. I put a sponge, blue dawn in a

bucket, use the sponge, to soak it down, and leaned it against the fence, putting a wood block under it to keep it off the ground. I sprayed it with the water hose, a lot it to dry, and repeated the process. There you go, folks. Not too bad, right? When Jay Ferg says, I am the dishwasher in our house. That's interesting, right? WD40 for all kinds of good things so you know this used to be a thing that people did all the time just sitting hanging reading the newspaper right it was a thing that we did and we did it for a long time and you know it's one of those things that we probably need back the omni device just isn't doing what we needed to do right yeah i was never a big fan of the dishwasher i always felt like i was

washing dishes anyway you know what i mean did it ever feel like that to you like you would empty out the dishwasher and be like oh look got three quarters clean this time that's pretty good i'm more of a do it once and then be done you know that kind of thing but um we may do this regularly on fridays i hope you enjoyed it it's just one of those days you know what i mean where it felt like maybe just a little free association a little talking about the newspaper a little little breaking away from the the sort of you know

nightmare of the day to day in terms of news and i did want to drive home the point you know that like you can read old news and maybe we shouldn't even call it old news maybe something that was written on the 13th of the month is not necessarily old news even though it feels like if it wasn't written on the 22nd today

that there's no point in reading it it's already been replaced it's already been modified and so on so enjoy your weekend folks we got some great stuff coming this weekend

Friday paper day yeah you know what I mean something like that born to brat something like that you know whether you know it or not I am on a tear to work my way out of the digital world. And not that I'm, it's not me personally, you know what I mean?

I have to lead by example, though that's terribly important. So, but there's a lot of people out there and our sort of motive with what's coming with Red Beacon is just that. You know, it's the path back to the real world. You know, PBN is the path back to stability, right? It's to have that solid ground underfoot through preparedness and self-reliance. And what Red Beacon is going to become is the path back to humanity, you know? It's how these things work. Start little things, little things.

You drop a pebble in a pond, it makes ripples, right? Bruce Lee. So, I hope you enjoyed the day. Look for the, we did an amazing interview with Diane Devereaux, the Canning Diva. I knocked that out yesterday with her. She's a great guest. She's got, she's on that same path, you know. Like, people just naturally start to come together when, when things like this happen in society.

And, yeah, you're going to love that one. You're going to love the big focus on quick dinners, meal, jars. jars in meals that are effective, you know, like, it's, everything's changing in a crazy way. You know, everything's going like backwards for the better in my world, right? In my world, I look at, you think of something as silly as like a meal in a jar and you're like, and then when you really start to think about it, and you look at your options of eating out, like taking a car loan or a home equity loan out so you can go eat at a restaurant with your family, or buying a frozen meal at a, you know, supermarket or something like that.

And then you start to think like, or Sunday, you can brown a bunch of ground beef, add onions and garlic, red wine, couple cans of crushed tomato, a few cans of diced, you know, Italian-style tomatoes, sugar, salt, Italian seasoning, olive oil, simmer that for a couple hours, can it, and then now you have something that is that you made with your own hands that can be deployed in a matter of moments, right? It helps with the madness of the times, the busyness of the times, right, which we also have to say,anara. We have to go back to being bored. We have to go to slowing down. We have to go back to like sitting on the couch with a blanket in a book. Even we don't want to read it, you know, or maybe just laying on the couch looking at the roof

for 30 minutes. You remember like when you were young, you did those things? Perpetually entertained, right? It's the bread and circuses, but it's 24-7. So, anyhow, look for that. I think I'm going to put it up Saturday. Okay, it's a great show. great interview you're going to love it um and it's you know it's the weekend with pbn you know enjoy it all catch up on last week stuff does so much out there you know get get caught up on your prepper tips of the day that's our newest piece of content that uh just polished up it's been a long time coming should have done it years ago never committed to it and it's just it's an essential just makes good sense you know what i mean enjoy the rest of the day folks support the great

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