The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Riffing on The Newspaper 4.17.26

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

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Well, good day, folks. No intro. Just popping in. Just popping in, no intro. Let me go over here and get the Instagram started. Epic Times. Epic of the Times. It is the day.

I've been holding on to this thing for a few days. I read one section because there was a section about prepping and then I couldn't believe it. Pretty good. Not bad. Not bad at all. Let me get situated. here so we can do this thing can you guys hear me the mic's like a little far kind of got a crane over

here uh but i think we should be good so we're going to riff on the news a little bit we're going to read some news pepel and talk this guy is uh april 8 through the 14th just so you understand that right around the moon artemus two completes historic flyby how do you guys feel about the Artemis real fake what was it was it a real thing was it a fake thing i know it launched on uh it launched on the witsit called and everybody was like there is no way that's real victor davis hanson nato was a big loser in iran a 13 how do you guys feel about that whole alliance like step outside of the we paid for everything and they're weak and you know what i mean not really effective.

Step outside of that and think, how do you really feel about that, sort of the dissolution of Iran? What is going on on Instagram? Are we obliterated on Instagram now, too? Probably. Trump suspends Iran attacks. Agree to two-week ceasefire.

That's old news, right? This is the part of it. This is the one that I don't understand. I was talking to a buddy, and he's an interesting, guy, man. I don't want to put him on blast. He's a Muslim guy. His concerns about starting a young guy. His concerns about starting life are the same as everyone else's concerns about starting a life. Where am I going to live? What am I going to do? What am I going to drive? My situation now is sustainable and

tenable because I'm a single man. But once that's over, and all of that kind of goes back to this idea for, well, my original idea, which was, let's just get rid of taxes for a while. Get rid of taxes for a while. Why not? Why not I get rid of taxes for a few years? Decade, five years, half a decade, something. Taxes are over. Taxes are done. Trump's got tariffs.

Make that work, right? Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. Kick people out who are illegal and they're on welfare. How can you be illegal and be on welfare? Let me read that again. This doesn't make any sense to me. 59% of households headed by illegal immigrants use one or more major welfare programs. How does that work?

I mean, help me understand. The word illegal is in it. The word illegal is in it. Okay? There are senior citizens in this country who make very little money after having worked their entire lives in the country and paying into a system that said, don't worry, we got you covered. We're the federal government. We're here to help.

They can barely get food stamps. If you make too much money as a senior citizen from your social security, so you're not even like working, then you can't get food stamps. Or you get like a nominal amount that's laughable. 20 bucks, you know what I mean? But if you roll over the border illegally, see, this is the fundamental issue with America right now. This is the issue that will break America. It just is. This is how simple the American system will break.

It's not enemies within that will defeat us. It's not the tax burden, right? We know at the end of the day, you see it. Look at the equipment we send, right, to pick up two guys who flew out an airplane. 165 U.S. aircraft on a rescue mission, okay? And tell me which nation or nations are going to knock on our door and say, hey, you better pay that tax burden back, buddy. We've already made it very clear that you're going to buy oil with U.S. dollars. We've made that very clear.

I've been harping on that for years and telling you, if you're a nation and you're a leader and you want to be damaged, then just come out on TV and say, we're not going to use the US dollar anymore, and we're not going to buy oil with it either. Okay. Before long, you're going to hear those helicopters in the air. You're going to look out on yonder on your coastline and go,

when is that big thing? What are those ships coming at a rapid? pace. So if you think that some nation is going to come knocking for the debt or like we can't reset the whole currency situation, you're kidding yourself, man. It's just a joke that you're buying. I don't know what else to tell you, you know, but what will break the United States, what will break the United States, what will break the good men and women and turn them ruthless is if they see that the illegal game is better than the good game. If they see that the illegal game is better than the lawful game.

And if they see it enough, nobody will follow any laws. I promise you this. It is such a razor-thin margin that keeps the good man good. Right?

People don't understand how perilously fragile it is when you have a man who decides in a woman, you know, men and women who decide I'm going to do the right thing despite the stress despite having no money despite losing my position despite not getting the job I wanted despite being buried in college debt despite you know not being able to afford a home now not being able to afford a car now not you know what I mean all this kind of stuff we can recover from what we can't recover from is

if you're a woman fresh out of college and you go my girlfriend was raped and stabbed 50 times and the guy who did it is out on bond. Or if you're a man and you see, you know, people doing illegal things everywhere and the guys who are following the law crashing and burning. They can't get a hand. They can't get a leg up, nothing. You know, this, if this becomes endemic in the society, then the good people will go away.

The good people will say, well, it's by any means necessary. that's where we're at by any means necessary why why follow the the laws keep coming too by the way that's the funny part the funny part is the divide in america is becoming this lawless sector that goes in and out of judge courtrooms and oh no big deal just kind of put the leg bracelet on and put this on and do that and go to this rehab and go to that and these people get out and they jump on a government program that that doofuses like us pay for and it's this revolving door of chaos. Meanwhile, you are on a high wire.

I better get this bill paid on time. I better make sure that I don't. I better do everything just right. The society's depending on me. If we keep with the illegal making out and the legal crashing and burning, then your laws won't matter. No one will follow them. And that's it.

that's the whole scoop. The laws won't matter and no one will follow them. It will be the end of rule of law in the United States or people will selectively follow them. You know what I mean? They'll be like, I'm not doing that one. Not doing that one today. I don't like that one. Beijing's influence a concern and KMT chair visit. Am I dumb? Because I don't know what KMT is. opposition Qam Tang leader Chang Li Woon delivers her speech during a Kuomintang 12th national congress in Taipei oh okay Taiwan China Beijing's influence a concern in KMT chair visit oh that's right because of the meeting didn't hear much about that meeting that meeting seemed staged and just the worst time ever right The U.S. war with Iran could cost as much as $47 billion from the end of February to the end of April, according to a recent prediction from the Penn Wharton budget model. Man.

See, what a state of affairs we're in now where I see that and I think who even cares about your model? Like your predictive model, I don't care. Tell me about what it actually costs. You can't put the costs on a sheet of paper. after you've been lied to about climate change for so many years models start to make you feel like I don't care I don't care and I don't trust your model and that's the problem right

I don't care and I don't trust your model calculate it you've got artificial intelligence you can't plug in the data for what fuel spent and you know all that kind of stuff and give me the real number I don't want to model opinion You guys want to do opinion. You want to do mind and body. What do you want to do?

Pencil and paper learning versus screens. That's a no offense to Jeff Minnick, but that's an article not worth reading. We all know the answer, right? We all know the answer to that one. The quiet collapse of the American restaurant is sad. It's a lot of those things. There's a lot of those things. But at the same time, you know, you know,

You know, what is it really, right? These are wild numbers, but at the same time, it is so expensive to go out and eat. It's too expensive. You know what I mean? It doesn't have as much to do with COVID-19. I don't believe that. I don't buy that. You know, I think we rebounded from that, but the truth of the matter is, we can't afford it.

You can't afford it. Nobody can afford to go out and eat regularly, right? And even if you can afford it, you still feel stupid doing it. it. I mean, how do you not feel stupid doing it? It's crazy to go out and eat and have to spend a hundred plus dollars for a family of four. And then you go grocery shopping and you're like, wait, how did one meal cost this much at a restaurant compared to what I buy and cook at home? And, you know, buying and cooking at home is probably way better anyway. Restaurants that, you know, sort of like chain restaurants are probably going to be the low.

last bastion of the worst kind of food you can get your hands on if you think about it right if america is i think america is making a turn in terms of quality of food they bring into the house and cooking at home and that kind of stuff because we have a better understanding of how adulterated the food is but the people who are going to make that last turn away from from those highly you know bioengineered ingredients they're going to be these locations right Wendy's closing 300 locations. Pizza Hut 250. Papa John's the worst pizza in the world.

Closing 200 locations. Didn't even know Jack in the Box existed anymore, but they're closing 100 locations. Red Robin closing 70 locations. Outback, 40. Denny's 150. Red Lobster. Dozens of locations closing bankruptcy.

Noodles and company. Popeyes. Come on. You know there's a problem. if Popeyes is in bankruptcy. Like, what? They have a $20 family bucket meal job. It's amazing.

TGI Fridays, dozens of locations closing. TGI Fridays was always crap. Just is what it is. You know what I mean? These restaurants, I think, are really suffering because a lot of them, it's price point, man. There's a weird justification I learned from McDonald's. right it's a justification that i didn't realize existed but i realized that as mcdonald's prices

kept going up like it was cool to eat macdonalds when the kids were young and i would do a uh like a twenty dollar macdonald's run or less right and me and the kids could eat and we'd be you know it would be good in other words you could justify the crap ingredients and the terrible amounts of sugar and salt because it was occasional and because it was cheap and fast. You can't make that same justification once it gets expensive. We rolled up into McDonald's $40 bill or something like that not long ago, and it's like, I just put it back. Why states are right to reject AI legal personhood?

Hmm. What is AI? My dad was talking to me about this like two months ago. What is AI? When does it get a bill of rights? These are big questions in the United States, man. What is it? When does it get a bill of rights?

Does it get a bill of rights? Okay. A quiet but consequential legal movement is gathering momentum. Idaho and Utah have enacted statutes declaring that artificial intelligence systems are not. legal persons. See, this is, this is it. This is it. My dad was literally talking about this two, three months ago.

All the things that are being posted, all the things that are being, all the content being created, right? By artificial intelligence, this stuff is auto-created, auto-posted by some sort of program that doesn't have a First Amendment, right? This is the thing. I mean, this has to be reckoned with. This is a thing. Ohio's House Bill 469 proposed to declare that AI systems are non-sentient entities and bar them from acquiring any form of legal personhood. Similar bills are advancing it because we're not going to know.

It's not like we're going to wake up and go, oh, AI's people now. It's smart enough. It's a person now. No, they're going to declare it. And before they declares people are a genius. Before they declare it, they're not going to sit there and go, okay, what does it mean when we declare that AI is now sentient and it is a person? Oh, it has a certain rights. Okay.

What does that mean for us? How can we make the most profit from that? How can we make the most? How can we gain the most influence from that? How can we the most, the most, the most, the most, the most, and so on. Aristotle argued in DeAnima that all sentient creatures share a basic cognitive capacity to perceive the world, retain impressions of it, and recombine impressions into new. configurations, what he called Fantasia.

Or imagination. A dog, a crow, and a chess grandmaster possess this competency. Aristotle distinguished human beings as categorically different, possessing noose. The capacity to grasp universal abstract concepts, ideas

such as justice causation, and the good that cannot be derived from any sensory experience alone. A dog can recognize its owner, but it cannot grasp the concept of ownership. What is the distinction? Can't we simply feed an AI system the Webster's dictionary definition of fairness and let it work from there? No.

Feeding a machine, the dictionary definition only gives it more words to pattern match against. The concept is not in the words. Any child who grasped fairness can apply it correctly to a situation no definition anticipates. The moral stakes for real people. A deeper moral issue underlies all of this. personhood is not merely an administrative category. It carries normative weight. It signals that an entity is standing to make claims, to be wronged, and to bear obligations. You imagine AI starts running up the welfare when you had like subsidizing its own electric costs to government. You. You.

We have not yet secured the full benefit of legal personhood for all human beings in practice, all the displaced, stateless and structurally invisible, rushing to extend it to AI. I might think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. The specter of communism is ruling our world. Wow. Wow.

This is a lot. This is a lot. I kind of want to show it to you. Do you see the majesty of the news, though? Do you see the magic of the newspaper? How we're not watching a video that's been edited and predetermined. We're not watching. watching a short, we're not reading a blog that is infected by AI and, you know, every type of terrible ad you can imagine, right?

Ads popping out of every corner, you know what I mean? Leggings, leggings, leggings. The communist economic trap. The Epic Times here serializes an adaptation from the Chinese of how the specter of communism is ruling our world. the nine commentaries on the Communist Party Hatred and jealousy The origin of absolute egalitarianism continued Egalitarianism continued

Under the influence of absolute egalitarianism Vigorous calls ring out in the West for social justice As well as minimum wage laws Affirmative Action and other demands What lies behind these is a desire for equality of outcome Of which communist elements can take advantage From the communist perspective, it doesn't matter whether these vulnerable groups obtain equality, or if their social status improves, they are merely pawns for inciting resentment and eventually revolution. We live in a review society and largely negative review society, and it is the low point in society, in my opinion.

That's the worst thing to deal with for me, is to live in a time. like this, if you could see the things that are in this room right now, it drives the point home so much because this is like a playroom that I'm in. It's like an adultish, teenageish playroom. And the things that we have access to today, I'm always trying to drive this home with my kids because my kids are programmed just like, you know, everybody's, to attack new stuff. You know what I mean? It's back in the day, people would write restaurant reviews very rarely. You know what I mean? What was that program that came out and people could write their own reviews?

They did it on Yahoo and stuff like that. Now everyone does reviews on everything in life. And I see the pre-programming and a lot of people to find the bad thing. Find the bad thing and the great new thing. Oh, the great new thing is here. Okay, what's bad about it? It is so inherently communist that it makes me sad to see it amongst so many people. And it's so ungrateful, greater than being communists.

I mean, worse than being communist is just the sheer lack of gratitude. You know what I mean? I think the lack of gratitude also goes into the misunderstanding of the struggle to create a thing. Because we are a consumerist society, not a creationist society, not creationist, but not a, you know, we do much more consuming than we do. do creating. And I don't think people understand the war of creation. What it takes to make something. You know what I mean?

What it takes to make a movie? They don't care. They go spend 10, 12 bucks, watch the movie come home, make a YouTube video, tell you everything that sucked about the movie. This happens in real time, like in real time. My son and I watch Invincible, my oldest son and I. and we watch it on Amazon Prime

and if I don't get up and watch it early he can come home from school and tell me everything that's wrong with that episode before we've even watched it because the content creation is so built into being irate and angry and completely ungrateful that

it seeps from us now it seeps from the society It really does. Should we go into mind and body? If we got something good, we'll go into mind and body. We've got great stuff at PBN today. You have to tune into PBN. You really want to share today's show for Foyle Friday because it really speaks to PBM.

The intuition of PBN, just the AI, the large language model that is PBM, right? the it's a thing you know what i mean like we are an entity pbn is an entity there's so many hosts and shows and concepts and ideas and then there is a status quo of forward thinking that all of us share and i found the perfect example of that today for today's show and it is called vaccines viruses and versimilitudes. And it was a show hosted by Dave Jones, the NBC guy, November 20, no, yeah, November 2019. November 2019, him and Jay Ferg sat down to talk about vaccines, viruses, and, you know, vaccine stories and the things that could go wrong with vaccines and viruses.

And in two months, COVID hit. And I mean, believe what you want about what you want. You know what I mean? I look at that as a group of people, and this is what we have been for many, many years, as a group of people who are just on, just locked in and on. This is a forward thinking group, a foreshadowing group. If you listen to what they say and what I say, I'm telling you, you'll see the things happen. You'll go, oh, I guess I should have bought that.

I guess I should have planned that. I guess I should have listened to. him when he said this was going to happen. We're not always right. But we're not, we don't make predictions. That's not our goal. But where our minds are, the topics that we're exploring, we're exploring for a reason. It's not because we're like, oh, let's make a bet on the stock market.

We're just, we just get there naturally. You know what I mean? And it happens. You can watch it in the eyes of Dave Jones. You can watch it in the eyes of Jordan in real time. they see a story the they start it's a problem i don't know what the process is called but it's a process it's a process that starts to go through a roll of decks of information and go how do i respond to this how can i now respond to this because the next thing is going to happen this is the next second

third and fourth order of effects what can i do am i safe am i covered is what i'm prepped good or bad and then boom boom boom boom boom down the line amazing Right. We got a great church and state today. We've got, of course, I was a communist for the FBI. Awesome AM show. You guys get to really enjoy those AM shows. I see the stats. I'm glad you enjoy them. This vitamin may affect your bowel movements. Okay. Vitamin B1. I read vitamin B1 and I read another one. too about this stuff B1 What was the other one?

E, no, Omega's. Was it Omega's? I think it might have been Omega's. No, it was vitamin D. Was it vitamin D? I think it was vitamin D.

Yeah. Yeah, it's all out of whack. If you were a member, you should really go listen to my Dirt Cheap Nutrition and Health podcast I put out for Prepar Fit and Health Thursday, yesterday.

Yesterday, it went out in the morning. dirt cheap fitness and health there's like eight items in that podcast all cost under 20 bucks like most of them cost under five bucks it's food it's supplements that you should put in your diet you know what i forgot is the himalayan sea salt yeah that's a great one too the cheapest stuff works the cheapest stuff works that's always worked you know all those things are amazing and then if you can fight off sugar as long as possible every day. That's like a battle. I think that's worth waging.

You wake up on your intent is how long can I go without sugar in overwhelming amounts, you know? Well, folks, 71% of baby foods are ultra processed. God, get them started early. I think I'm going to wrap it up and get some breakfast. I do appreciate you. Thank you so much. If you are looking at newspapers yourself and a little nervous about the news, CitizenfoodPrep.com is our sponsor for today.

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Huge. I think that's about it. Enjoy the weekend. Oh, we got a great day on the relentless routine today. Soil test. Where is it? Soil test. 17, right?

Garden bed soil test and compost amendment plan. Ruck with tactical stops, three miles, 20 plus burpees every mile. Whoa. I don't think I'm going to do that today, but I like that. That's pretty sweet. And our Bible reading is Corinthians 216. You should be doing the routines. You should at least have the routine if you don't do it all the time.

I'll link to it in the podcast description again. We're halfway through the month. You still got time, right? Soil test is a big one. That's a big one. All right, folks. Prep on. The weekend is upon us, man.

Now is the time to make a difference, right? You got a little bit of free time. Maybe we got a little paycheck, the whole thing. I'll talk to you guys soon. No outro. Just have a good weekend. Make the most of it. Oh, we will be doing a water preparedness omnibus over the weekend.

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