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Episode Date: July 23, 2026

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Daily News, July 23rd, 2026. The year is half gone, folks. It's hard to believe. Today's episode is brought you by red beaconmedia.com. Our new headquarters, go check it out. And consider joining the Lightkeeper's Quarters. Okay, you'll have access to blogs. My personal blog, my personal blog.

My personal blog. this blog remains insane. I think you're going to dig that. All our preparedness contents migrating over there. We've got all kinds of great stuff. The SHTF Chef cooking school will be over there as well. So consider it. It's not a membership.

It's a one-time payment. We're not doing memberships. We're doing cheap content and one-time payments because, frankly, I'm sick of the membership system. Just leading everything. everyone I know dry. You know what I mean? Oil jumps. As Houthis claim strikes on Saudi tankers in Red Sea.

Houtis strike Saudi tankers. The plot thickens. And so, too, does the price of gas. This is terrible news, folks. Threats to shipping do the two major Middle Eastern waterways deepened concerns about disruptions to global energy supplies. I really don't know, folks, what the implications of this war are anymore on the world at large. You know, it's bad enough on you in your limited budgets or your plans or whatever your situation is with gasoline. But we've reached a point where the effects on the wider world are going to be staggering here sooner than later. Oil prices rose to their highest levels in more than a month on July 23rd today after Yemen's Iran aligned Houthis attacks on two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, opening a second front in a conflict that has already disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and now seems to poise to spread more widely.

Brent Trude Futures rose $3.80. or 4% to 9787 a barrel. How high will it go? How high we're going to go? 150, 200? The immediate outlook for crude oil remains supportive as markets' price a worrying probability of supply interruptions

in a second choke point. Pepperstone reached a research strategist, Ahmad Asiri said, See, the Houthis recently have created a blockade on Saudi Arabia. This is a big deal, folks. You know what I mean? This is becoming sort of like

a clogged up artery all throughout the Middle East major waterways, the Red Sea now being affected. Critical Maritime Trade choke points. The Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal,

the Panama Canal, the Turkish Straits, and the Strait of Bob Elman Leb. Yeah. The UK maritime trade operation said a tanker caught fire

off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast after being struck by an unknown projectile leaving his crew fighting to blaze. The incident was reported around the same time as the Houthi announcement. So the war thickens, the plot thickens. This is where we stand, folks. This is where we stand.

I want to tell you about some prepper tech today. Timely. timely easy transition i'm going to show this off over at prepperbroadcasting.com as well but i want you go to prepfinder.com prep findr dot com not er prep f i and dr dot com the owner over there has been kind enough to uh promote sarahathaway's book or audio drama rather and they've also put some of our rumble videos up over at uh prep finder f-indr.com as well and the site is powerful the site's powerful there are products for sale there

there are training courses from all over the country listed for sale there there are a bunch of free guides man awesome stuff awesome free guides trauma medicine series common sports injuries medicine in the wild. A lot of medical. A lot of medical at Prep Finder right now. Like I said, a lot of great prepping videos from us, the Prep medic, the city prepping, they're independent. They're all there. Homesteading channels are there. Subreddit stuff, sustainability. Go check it out. PrepFinder.com. P-R-E-P-F-I-N-D-R.com. And, you know, if you want to, just let them know. You came here because they're supporting P-B-N and, uh, Sarah Hathaway's Changing Earth,

season one episode one audio drama up here. That's kind of cool, man. So yeah, you know, the prepping never ends. You know that, right? You've figured that out by now. It's just one of these things. It's an Evan Flo's situation, but we're in living,

in, currently living, in a situation that we only used to bandy about in the prepping forums back in the days. We used to talk about $5 a gallon gasoline and the end of all things and peak oil and oil and oil and oil and oil. And this, you know, my mind goes a million directions with all this, but I can't quite figure out how we've not come to end this situation yet. I feel like there's simply too much to gain and people are making a killing off of yours and eyes discomfort. There's a piece of me that really believes that.

Now, let's get into some good news, okay? Let's get into some good news, because this story is basically the antithesis of the oil story, right? The oil story, the oil situation, it's like, despite the fact that everybody tells you America produces all the oil. Why is it a price going up then? Despite that, right? And why don't we have an executive order? that's how you know how powerful big oil is, right? Shouldn't Donald Trump be on the evening news going,

here's an executive order, the price of gas ain't going up no more, period. I don't care what Exxon says. I don't care what any of them said, right? Price of gas ain't going up no more. It's it. We're not going over $4 in Virginia. We're not going over X amount of dollars

in this place or that place, you know? Oh, and also state taxes coming off the oil. People are in crisis here, folks. Let's do something. So the illusion is that that's a problem. that's far across the world and we can do nothing except spend money to fix it, right? We can do nothing about the gas price but spend more of our hard-earned money. So I want to bring you to a good news story from the Epic Times that puts a problem that you can solve in your very own backyard.

Behind America's Growing Food Freedom Movement. Who wrote this wonderful article? I don't see any credit for author. Jeff Loderback. Well done, Jeff. This posted today over at the greatest news source in America, the Epic Times, behind America's growing food freedom movement. For every dollar spent on food in the United States,

farmers' pocket just 5.8 cents. In the mid-20th century, that figure was 40 cents. To give you a little idea of that, but this is way beyond. This story is one of holistic approaches to food. It really is. Joel Salatin from Polyface Farms is interviewed here This always cracks me up Because when I was a chef

Long before Joel Salatin was a fighter for food Like for the average person He was a guy doing the best chicken in the country And all the chefs wanted his Polyface Farms chicken You know what I mean? That's who he was And I knew of him back then And it was really cool And it's really awesome all these years later

To see him still at the forefront and really pushing, what he's pushing right now is the concept of a food emancipation proclamation, right? Through what he envisions as a federal declaration consenting adults would be allowed to buy and sell homemade and farmstead food directly without the costly commercial infrastructure and cumbersome government regulation in place. All this to, uh, I mean, look, the guy wants, wants farmers to be successful. I want to break it down for you the way he breaks it down talking about birds versus chicken pot pies in stock, right? On a couple acres, a farmer might raise 1,200 pastured chickens, selling them as whole birds or cut up parts at an average of $30 per bird. Now, I don't think, to be, listen, nobody's winning here, right? The farmer's coming away with gross income of $36,000 on his chickens, which a gross income on $36,000 to raise 1,200-pastured chickens.

Just talk to Dave Jones about the money on food and, you know, just food alone, subtracted from that number. And then what you get on the other end is a chicken that costs $30. And I'm sorry, it's too much money, right? Whole birds are cut up parts that is selling at an average of $30 per person. birds to, you know, the cost of a whole chicken that's raised normally, the way normal chicken should be raised normally, it's insane, even if it's not $30, right? If that same farmer could legally turn those birds into homemade chicken pot pies, free of dyes, seed oils, and industrial additives, and market them as high-quality convenience food, the average

value per bird could jump to around $200. he explained, turning the same flock into a $240,000 revenue on the same land. If I could pull in $2,000, $240,000, let's off a couple acres. All of a sudden, why not be a farmer? Like, you want to expand farming in the United States and expand access to good quality food? You could tell someone coming up right now, you know, like I could take my 15-year-old or 14-year-old and tell him, look, dude, You get yourself a couple acres, 1,200 chickens. You already know chickens.

You grew up with raising chickens, feeding chickens, holding chickens, all that. You grew up with that. 1,200 pasture chickens. I'll give you the free pot pie recipe, right? Or the pot pie recipe, that's easy. I'll give you something delicious. We'll come up with it. We'll prototype it.

We'll work it together. And now you've got a $240,000 year revenue source and taking care of birds. Huh? What? See, like, now food safety has to be a thing. You have to have those kinds of regulations. You can't produce pot pies on a dirty bench and sell them to the public and have, you know, food outbreaks. But we've long known, in this community especially, we've long known FBI, all kinds of crazy takedowns of farms selling, what is it?

Raw milk. You know what I mean? Once a farmer moves from raw ingredients to prepared foods, the regulatory threshold explodes, going from a home kitchen with existing equipment to what he described as a half a million dollar requirement to sell one chicken pot pie. And that's the problem.

And why is that the problem? Tell me why that is the problem. That's the problem because giant companies make frozen chicken pot pies. And there's no way. And convenience foods at large are a massive industry. And when they all started to come together, they all started to pool together and everybody saw the conglomerations and used to post the graphics up on Facebook and say, can you believe that this one company owns boop, boop, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo.

Well, now all of a sudden, you being you, can't step in on that, right? You can't do that. You can't step in on that. So this is a huge article, man. It's an amazing article. Around 90% of the business is now online. I'm going to talk about this more over at PBN today. because it's a massive story and a massive article and it deserves our attention

and it's not the end of the world as we know it so that's pretty nice too that is pretty nice too I don't have no AI news screw AI I thought I'd read you guys my poem today one of my poems

I've noticed the Odyssey is getting real big and it's getting a lot of attention because the movie's out and I wrote a poem When did this come out? Two years ago. Poems for Men released in 2025. Last year, poems for men.

What a year. What a year. So last year I wrote a book, it's a short collection of poetry. I think it's like 100 pages or something. What is it? It's not even 100 pages. It's a great little starter for you folks out there

who want to get into poetry and, you know, you don't want to read Shakespeare. I mean, Shakespeare's in here. Shakespeare's in there. A lot of great. A lot of the greats. It's probably, it's less than well, Matthew Arnold is in here.

Yates is in here. Oh, Matthew Arnold's in here twice. Urania. My favorite, Dante Gabriel Rosetti is in here a couple of times. Anne Brant made it in as the only female contribution to poems from men. William Blake, of course. There's a great poem in here from,

like the sixth century or something, sixth century Japan. It's, the reason for putting the old poems in the poems from Menn book was to remind men like, I know you're battling, because I know you're battling.

We're all battling. But we've been battling. You know, that's what this existence is. And, you know, that's all the advice I want to give on that at the moment because this is Red Beacon Daily News. But suffice it to say, I wrote a poem for this book specifically called Sirens. And it is about the modern day sirens.

And I just, it's in the women's section. There's a section all about women. Because you better have a section about women if you're going to write a poem book for men, right? And it's good. It's great. It's next to the Orchard Pit by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which is, I love that little poem. That's a cool poem, man. Great concept.

But I thought I'd read you some Walton today to end it all. Sirens. I've seen her feathers, the scales she hides, shifting shapes through decades. We all know her songs. When first discovered by Odysseus on the flowery island, there were only two. Now they cling to the very walls of our minds,

emerging from screams, buds blooming, their song in our ears. Tie me to the mast, he yells. I'm obsessed. The wax in your ears will do no good. The sirens are off the island. They are singing Christmas songs in December. Discipline is your liar.

Find your ever. Ephrodite. Keep sheathed your prideful sword. That is from the book, Homes for Men available at Amazon, if you want your own copy. Thank you so much, folks, for joining us. It has been Red Beacon Daily News. Okay. If you've been hurled aloft into the black sea, then seek out the Red Beacon in Red Beacon.com.