The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Self Reliance is NOT an Option

Episode Date: June 9, 2025

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You're listening to P.B.N. You're going to have back the stability here. Um Massive summer sales, uh downtown la for those of you who are For those of you who are in the business of business. Summer 2025, Trump's in power and the streets are on fire. You know how it goes, right? People are absolutely crippled by anxiety anymore. And it's pretty clear to me there is one true anti-anxiety medication in this world and it is self-reliance. I mean, listen, for 10 years me and my friends have been talking at cameras and microphones

about ways to make life better for you We didn't know at the time that we were talking about anti-anxiety We were looking at very specific threats trying to mitigate them in a and and a way of life that would be better for the common person to live Right like we'd never have shows about building your own million dollar bunker because none of us can do that, you know, and even if we could we probably wouldn't. We might just for fun like put a CQB course in it or something. Like a spot to vacate.

You know what I mean from time to time with a with a studio in it for Sarah Hathaway. But in all honesty, man, like over this last decade, it's been more than Firewolf. It's been quite literally us talking into microphones and cameras about solutions. And I've never seen it this way before. And what I mean by it is I've never seen so many medicated people. I've never seen so many people looking for answers. I've never seen so many people coming to terms with the fact that they are overburdened by anxiety.

And once again, it's just, just is what it is. You cannot live. Look at me. Okay. You cannot live in a world where you depend on someone for everything. You're not a baby. It doesn't matter if you're male, female, whatever it is, you cannot exist in a world, no matter how stable the world is, where you depend on someone for everything. And it's taken us a good hundred years to build out

maximum dependency. Every single thing that you need, that you have, every service, every you need that you have every service, every anything, you can buy it. You can buy it on this. Now you can buy it. You know what I mean? On a watch, what you're seeing every time shit kicks up, every time a little dust kicks up on a societal level, like what's happening in LA right now. Every time something kicks up, all of the sudden your anxiety meters go off the charts because you realize that the system that you depend on ain't working. And what if it gets worse?

And what? Right. And on top of all of that, you realize I went to school for economics And I don't really know how to do anything else but scroll my phone and work nine to five This is the core of every Any kind of level of anxiety in this country? I really do believe that this is at the core of it Yeah kind of level of anxiety in this country I really do believe that this is at the core of it. Never in the history of mankind has self-sufficiency been an option. Self-reliance. That doesn't mean every human heretofore has been growing

all their own food, eating all you know their own harvested animals, hunting for all their food, sourcing all their water, making all their power food eating all you know their own harvested animals hunting for all their food sourcing all their water making all their power Right, of course not But it was very rare I'm sure and maybe maybe didn't exist whatsoever That there was a person out there who just Didn't do anything for himself You might call him a king maybe but I don't even know There was hardly anybody who existed or lived for any duration and had any type of life that was worth a damn

Who just had everything brought to them had everything delivered them. Oh, bring me the food now Bring me the water. Bring me the cold air. Bring me the comfort. Bring me the blankets. Bring me the cold air bring me the comfort bring me the blankets bring me the new clothing bring right we are all kings sitting on a throne of antidepressants okay that's what we've that's the pinnacle of what we've achieved in the modern world of uh one hour delivery nothing wrong with it. Nothing wrong with all these wonderful things and fixtures of modern society. But you just have to understand, if you're sitting there and your pulse is pounding over the wars and the drones and the flying IEDs and the battle at the border and the deaths

from fentanyl and the LA riots and Donald Trump at the helm Whatever it is right that has you mortified The anxiety builds and builds and builds because you know Fundamentally if you don't have skills if you don't have any sense of self-sufficiency whatsoever if you depend 100% on the system Then you are helpless So that's why Fundamentally self-reliance is not an option and is the core of the video today The core of the podcast the core of the video the core of the whatever the hell it is. I do here every day

Hey, I got this mug Oh God look at it it's been in heavy you heavily used this weekend apparently but I got this mug at a thrift shop I don't even know how cheap it was I have no clue it's so thick it's so heavy you can't buy a mug like this anymore a mug that weighs this amount you can't buy it anymore it doesn't exist do you know that there's weighs this amount you can't buy it anymore. It doesn't exist. Do you know that? There's no way no I didn't make it I See that I can imagine the naysayers already. Did you make your self-reliant mug out of? pottery and

modeling clay no You're missing the point so I Mean look you could go out there and get it at the thrift stores that you can save some insane Well, you can really level off that anxiety about a lot of things. I Walked out of that store. I think I spent like just over 20 bucks. I had half a wardrobe new new coffee cup Guys listen, you got to do it. Okay, there's no sponsor

There's no like cool thing I can get there's no affiliate income Tacked on when people go thrift shopping, so you don't hear people talk about it a lot There's no money to be made. There's only money for you to be saved Okay, so get outside of your ego or get outside of your sort of built-in What whatever kind of blockade you have in your head over thrift shopping and get thrift shopping? Because it will only take a few trips for you to realize i'm saving so much money. It's it's I can't go back I mean every time I check out I talk to these ladies at the thrift shop and I said i'm completely addicted. There's no I'm not gonna go buy clothes somewhere else. I'm not gonna go buy coffee mug That's gonna shatter the first time I wash it

Anywhere i'm just not doing it What's up jverk Candlesticks huge. Oh my god the candles Yeah, it's a great one firewolf. You could you could light your whole house in an emergency for like Five ten bucks at a thrift shop if you buy So Firewolf says he loves candlesticks at the thrift store. I Want you guys also to know out there that I come at this topic with like next to no background aside

from cooking fishing right cooking is a big one though so I when I say I didn't have any skills coming into this it is a little bit of a misnomer because cooking is a big one light the apocalypse fancily not bad bad. I like that. No big, no big background, no military, no emergency management, no growing up like on a farm or on a hundred acres of woods running around catching weasels. You know what I mean mean like none of that none of that cool stuff just some kid from a from a oil refinery town southeast of Philly So the reason I bring all that up in a show like this is to remind you like If you think that I'm here because a lot of times people just from listening to my podcast

They'll be like they'll say things to me like look I don't have the kind of land and space that you have to do all this stuff I don't have the kind of whatever and they make these crazy assumptions that I'm some guy who lives in the middle of nowhere Because I talk about having chickens and I talk about having gardens and that kind of stuff. I Mean suburbs You know It's just a will. It's just studying and will and being relentless in your pursuit, all things that you can do. A couple good books, you know what I mean? A lot of good friends, case in point in the chat room. And it's like,

with time, these things will come What are you gonna put your time into is my question? You know what I mean? What are you gonna put your time into? We're gonna put it into something What I can tell you right now whether you realize it or not you're living in a time where you're carrying on carrying Massive levels of anxiety and it's human it's human nature but I think the big difference now is people look at the future and they look at their capabilities and they just say how am I gonna affect this I don't have any idea how to do anything right? Firewolf says in his world out of 240,000 people 6000 voted for mayor

Wow That's that's pretty amazing That's pretty amazing I'm over at the few. Let's take a look at the future danger website. So we get a and Look, this is the other part of anxiety too The part that really affects people see we used to have a choice As a society to go to websites like this

these are This is the website of the patriot power hour the incredible patriot power hour The dynamic duo over there But preppers for a long time had the Option to visit a website like this We had the option to visit a website like this and to read about headlines like war with Russia starts riots erupt National Guard activated trade severely declines like you got to be in the right headspace

To roll into a website like this. You know what I mean? There's no Scantily clad women to the right on the right bar. Notice how beautiful future danger is no hardly no ads whatsoever, right? If you're a drudge report person Get the hell off of the drudge Report. It is compromised. You wouldn't even believe it. Visit Future Danger, if you're into that sort of thing. But a lot of days, you wake up and you find that all of these news headlines wind up on regular news feeds and regular news now, is a whole nother layer

Where the news used to be dominated by like other useless information like was a celebrity relationships and Movie releases that kind of stuff, right? It's different now you're affronted You're affronted by all kinds of crazy news You know whether you whether you wish it or not. I Want to see what future Dan has put up on the riots he's got federal immigration raids face rioting National Guard and federalization Resisted California government to sue the president over deployment of National Guard to quell Los Angeles riots.

This guy's going to run for president one day. You just got to remember all this. You have to remember this man who burnt his his one of his most beautiful cities to the ground almost right without by not giving the people of LA water. Now he's going to sue the president for wanting the riots to stop the looting to stop, you know, the shopping spree downtown LA to stop. Have you seen it? Just take a look. It's beautiful. It's, you know, fires in the distance. It's a per at night. It's a perpetual like sunset or sunrise just on the horizon, but it's just the glow of flames it's crazy man los angeles war zone insurrectionist mobs attack cops set fires block the 101 freeway

here's the thing right this is the world where you wind up going insane if you have no capability to feed yourself your family if you have no capability to feed yourself your family if you have no capability of taking care of yourself handling yourself this is this is what happens you know what I mean so I don't know you you don't really have much of a choice the thumbnail to this video is it looks well I don't who knows. I don't know how you feel about these kinds of things But the thumbnail to this video is me breaking down a hog that I got with my buddy, Dave Jones and This is not like

This is not hardcore prepper skill. This is not hardcore survivalist skill This is not hardcore prepper skill. This is not hardcore survivalist skill Like knowing how to break an animal down is the way that you get meat Do you know what I mean? We just are used to plastic plastic rack packaging with meat already cut up in it Do you know I'm saying? Firewolf says, I think I read a book about this, didn't think it was an instruction manual. Don't like the military coming in because of how it was done. Well, I mean, you know, to your point, that is something to talk about, right? We do have to be careful about what we unleash on the American people.

The trouble is, when immigration is such a nightmare, we don't know what the American people is. I mean that exactly the way I said it. In other words, you see a crowd of people in LA, and they all have masks on, and some of them have Palestinian flags, Mexican flags, right? The trouble right now that we're suffering in this country thanks to Biden and subsequent, you know, administrations laying people run roughshod over the country is you don't know what American people

is. Who are you front-facing? Do you know what I mean? But to your point, it is a very dangerous line, a very slippery slope, the potential for Fourth Amendment infringement, and so on and so forth, the moment you start facing military off against civilians, which, yo, it is what it is. Born to Braps says walk towards the American flag holders. Welcome in, man.

Thanks for joining us today, I do appreciate it. So, action items, what can you do? Where can you start? I mean, you listen to us, so you're already in a good place, right? You're going to see a lot of great people doing self-reliant related things. Okay? If you want to go on a spirit walk, then buy yourself some tickets to PrepperCamp 2025, preppercamp..com and really just dip yourself

in the world of this because there's no other place like it. It's quick approaching, it's June, it'll be here in September, the end of September. PrepperCamp.com, all the information there, right? I mean, this is sort of like, if you want to plan like a real visceral, I want to use a word that's kind of inappropriate, but if you want to really plow into this thing as hard as possible, if you really want to be shaken, awakened to self-sufficiency and self-reliance, if you really want to also figure out how easy it is and what you can do right here and now in your world Not like imagining some Fantasy that will come about at some point in your life

But really what you can do in the here and now I'd highly recommend it because it is it is like a That's a spiritual undertaking in the self-reliant sense Because you go for three, you get isolated into our little cult. You sit, you're stuck with us for three days. You get inundated by 60 classes per day. You get to choose, but you know what I mean? It's impossible to not walk away.

It's impossible to walk away unchanged. If you partake, you know what I mean? It's impossible to walk away unchanged. I walk away changed if you partake you know what I mean it's impossible to walk away unchanged I walk away changed every year I walk away with like oh god I gotta reprioritize I gotta do I gotta do I gotta see I gotta say right all those things so if you're watching this and you're thinking like how do I if you're one of those types of people that needs a like a kickstart then that could be the answer you know that could be the answer aside from just our podcasts you can you can definitely go to PBN family comm and join our membership side we post new content there all the time multiple pieces per week a lot focusing on the sort of gear skills mentality that it takes

To push towards self-sufficiency Right. That's that's what it is. I mean, you know, you can scroll youtube videos and Do random projects I guess if you'd like, I don't know Do random projects I guess if you'd like I don't know I Do think that the company you keep is important, right I Do think that the that the the the media that you put in the company that you keep the internet sort of communities that you hang in Seemed to have a pretty big effect on you. They've definitely had a big effect on me over the years I can tell you that much, right?

Speaking of which oh Speaking of scrolling YouTube video how to's L to survive over at YouTube just popped into chat Highly recommend. What do you got going on? Let's take a quick break and see what what the nub has been up to over at his channel he's always doing some fun stuff a good guy to subscribe to if you're If you're thinking about making this move into self-sufficiency or bettering bettering up your current situation Let's have a look. Shall we I'm not gonna be greedy we can we can look together. I don't mean to put you on the spot nub but we're putting you on the spot. Okay. Let's see what's new.

Situation awareness arc, Thrival is fair, we got a whole class up. Oh sweet, man. Oh Yeah Cooper's color. What is it Cooper's color code? It's a game changer in situational awareness. Actually the the Cooper's color code At least it was for me This starlink vehicle mount man, this is a great video The the Cooper's color code at least it was for me This starlink vehicle mount man, this is a great video I Loved his

The old clip the old clip is another great one Don't don't go to space weather news unless you really want to have some high anxiety just kidding this is awesome man the DIY charging supply for emergencies let's see how it works I think YouTube is in big trouble with the ads the ad situation here this is really cool video hey guys last week i was watching some videos about the power outage you should have a place like that

right? you should have a also in that area should be your blackout kit with whatever else all your flashlights all your extra batteries, weird batteries that kind of stuff. You know what I mean headlamps I Mean nubs got it going on here with a variety of

different charging options Again it this is one of those situations got your your rechargeable batteries It's nice. It's nice It's nice good work a man. So go follow them. All right, go follow Mel to survive comm you're probably following a bunch of Crap that's doing you know good right which is fine. We do it. We all do it But follow some people who make a difference to Just that simple blackout kit I But it follows some people who make a difference too. Just that simple blackout kit.

Mine's like a small box with really good flashlights, headlamps, batteries, lighters, matches, those kinds of things, right? It's a little bigger than that. But it immediately gives you an answer, right? If your answer to a blackout is let's sit here Let's sit here and we'll wait till the power comes back on in the middle of the night in the middle of winter in the Middle of summer whatever it is, right? Born to prep recommends

YouTube premium no ads 100% plus you can stream content with the screen off in your pocket Hmm Text dad 86 I ain't seeing you in a while man, and that's my fault cuz we ain't been going live on rumble in a while I wonder how many people in LA are thinking about prepping now. Yeah That's what i'm saying I mean, it's all inevitable, right? It's all part of this inevitable like eventually something's gonna happen in your neighborhood and it might be mother nature and it might be you know, uh

Whatever the hell's going on there, right? Soros funded brick throwers it might you never know You never know what it'll be. And that's the point. So you have to exist in the, in a self reliant framework where you know, if things get crazy, we have plans, we have things, we have skills, we have, right? We have answers. We don't just go. Oh god, the whole thing's falling apart Let me grab the vape Grab the I don't know. Here's what it is. We're talking about PBN membership another big another big deal

It's how I was talking to my wife about that today fire wolf But anyway another big benefit is the continuity. And we'll be meeting on the 23rd. This is to my podcast listeners, primarily my members out there, our PBN membership. The 23rd of the month, we go to Chicago, not physically. we go to Chicago not physically we go to Chicago and continue this whole Terrifying terror attack series. I mean this this thing is yeah L to survive is a lifetime or fire will forge is a lifetime or in chat born to brap as a member you Look man, we don't We started this thing this membership to Basically get out of patreon and in case they just started nuking people because we were worried about that. We had gotten

Exploded off discord. We'd gotten in trouble over at YouTube and I said let's not wait till patreon kills prepper broadcasting network altogether and Over five years now, we've just built all kinds of stuff on that website on that member Well, it used to not even be its own standalone website. Then we got so much content. I said, let's just turn Let's just create a membership website all together for the members, you know, because it's We just need space. We need the room. We got too much stuff. So Continuity Monday night 23rd 9 p.m. Eastern. Okay 9 p.m. Eastern. Don't miss it. It's gonna be another great when we did New York City last month drone attacks

gunmen IEDs bomb vests I'm talking the real the real homeland attack in multiple cities, right? That's the whole thing ugly really ugly We're gonna do it in Chicago. It's happening in three cities We're gonna kick off Chicago It's happening in three cities. We're gonna kick off Chicago What else do we got sorry looking at show notes looking at show notes Looking at the show notes

You have the rest of this year to get your shit in gear, okay That's what you got You look at it that way. You know what I mean go on Craigslist. You've got nothing going on you have zero Potential for self-reliance whatsoever go on Craigslist go find somebody who's throwing all their pots away. You know, they're like planner pots They're probably sitting in an alleyway somewhere. You could go pick up like 40 planners the little plastic crappy pots Fill them with dirt plant seeds Fill them with dirt plant seeds It's great time to grow Maybe I don't know it might drop down to the 30s again

I'm not yet convinced that they haven't destroyed the the the planet with their geo engineering To save us all from climate change, right? Jay Ferg says, I see all food is toxic with the amount of recalls. It is crazy. But remember, the recalls are wild and you should be careful. But a lot of it is CYA from big companies, truly. I was in the recall food safety industry for a long time

But it shouldn't slow you down from growing and sourcing the best food you can why not You know, we know everything's changed. I had a great interview with a guy Louie de Yeager. You guys are gonna love him He was so much fun. He was the most fun I've ever had with a with a European in my whole life. I think He's a Belgian guy. He's so fun. But anyway, big conversation about that pesticides and so on and so forth. We talked about, I didn't know him, so I pressed him a little bit on climate change. I asked him this very question, what do you think about the geoengineering and the cooling

of the planet? Screwing it up to the point because this is something I really worry about Cooling the planet to the point where we can't grow enough food anymore for real and then having a real problem rather rather than like Oh, it's hot. Oh There's erosion At the beach, you know what I mean? Oh There's erosion at the beach. You know what I mean? Oh The power grid which is made up of windmills and solar panels now can't meet demand for the people of Texas when it gets Super hot and there's a billion more people moving there and they're not making any more power

I'm talking about like oh, it's July and the corn crop has failed everywhere in the country Real problems, you know what I mean? And he was right on board with it. He was right on board with it. And he has an answer to climate change that nobody will ever agree with him on because there ain't no money to be made in it. Actually there's money to be lost in it. But he's talked about repairing the planet in a way that I think you guys will really dig. I don't know when that show will be out.

I have no clue. Sometime this week. Keep your eyes peeled. That's my time in the pulpit today, folks. You have to start looking at life this way. Self-reliance is not an option. It's not an option to say, I'm going to live like the king of convenience on my throne of antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, medicines, vapes, alcohol, whatever else it

is that you use to smooth over the fact that you're kind of a useless being in a world that seems to be falling apart. That is why we are your path back to stability. We push you in that direction. We want you to be better prepared. We want you to look at the situations that are now blinking red lights and all the major news networks telling you what's wrong with the world and be able to say, okay, but we'll be all right because I can do X, Y, and Z and I have done X, Y, and Z and you know that is what it is. And above all, if

you're brand new and you're starting right here and now and you're just taking this in, no matter what you do today, you should do something, but no matter what you do today, understand you're about three years out. And you know, a lot of people will tell you, you're, you can make a huge difference in a short period of time and you can, but to really feel good about what's going on, I'm just giving you the honest truth. You're going to need a couple of years to get everything established, get good at things, have your failures and then to really feel good.

You're probably gonna need about five to ten years and the reason I tell you that is to to light a fire under your ass because It's 2025 if it takes you five years to really build out the projects the off-grid projects though the Chickens the gardens the firearms the, the training, the weapons, all of it. Well now you're at 20-30, right? If you put it off another year, now what? So, take my word for it folks, and if you have any free time, any free time and ten bucks to throw it at dad, okay? My new book, Poems for Men. It's a beauty. It's lovely. It's a collection of Victorian poets and my own work. All about manhood, fatherhood, women, good and evil, society large the experience it is to be a man. I'm gonna show you what I what I

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Thought you were accosting me for don't read your stupid book on the air That's a good one though, that's a good we'll get them on There's a lot of them. There's a lot of great tactical trainers out there for civilians to be honest with you. I don't know It's all about priority It's and you know and at the end of the day some of that stuff particularly training is about income too There's a lot of people out there scraping by like the idea of paying people for tactical trainers That's a rough one Jay Ferry's dying. I just put that whole that that whole

message on blast like Directed at me dude, don't put this on your shelf That's hilarious man, what timing I say we end on a happy note Self-reliance is not an option folks. I will see you guys later Let's put louis de jager on tonight, why don't we do that? Yeah, let's do that Tonight 9 pm. I'll make that happen Let's put it in the magic book or else it won't happen. I haven't done a Monday show in a while. I had so many guests all the time,

guests, guests, guests, guests, guests, and then we kind of slowed it down. So, all right, folks, I appreciate you. Remember, preppercamp.com or become a member here at PBN, PBNfamily.com, all right? I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. you