The Prepper Broadcasting Network - State of the Union on I AM Liberty

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

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You're listening to PBN. Your path back to stability. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God. I know not what course others may take. As for me, give me liberty or give me death. been a while.

Been a while since we walked the city with Jackie Brown. Hello, America. I come to you from behind this particle board desk I ordered from Amazon. I'm looking at the pictures on the wall. There's a guitar hanging. You know, I have a picture of George Washington on my wall as well. The sun set on Joe Biden tonight and fundamentally rised on America. We'll see how long that lasts.

We are going to have a state of a union of the union tonight and that'll be both the American Union and the PBN family as well. Let's tune this one just for a minute. I haven't heard this song in a while. I want to feel it right now.

I want to feel it. I want to feel how it used to feel to kick the back door open in Amadei, Cuba. Sit down and wish that I smoked even though I didn't smoke because if I smoked, then maybe a drag off a cigarette would make me feel a little better. Maybe that a drag off

of that cigarette would give me the energy to finish this, whatever it was, 16 hour day. And I remember seeing such like such level of exhaustion that I would sit there on the curb and I would breathe and the street would breathe with me. And I would stare such level of exhaustion that I would sit there on the curb and I would breathe. And the street would breathe with me. And I would stare at the street and I would watch the blacktop inhale and rise and exhale. And sink. And it would happen all the time. And I don't know what it was to this day.

I know it was my brain playing tricks on me but it was so real lifetime ago 18 years ago damn near it's hard to believe i still dream about it still dream about the dinner rush at amadei cuba it occurred to me watching the uh the thousands of people who don't have to work on a Wednesday traipse through Washington, D.C. today. I'm watching all these people. My wife remarked on it. She said there's so many people.

And there was. There's a lot of people there. We may talk about that a little later. But, you know, what was most –my kids, they both work, okay? Nothing severe. You know what I mean? But they both have a responsibility. This is not a chore.

They have a responsibility outside of the house to neighbors, and they make money from it. and they make money from it. And you already recognize the vast difference in people who work and people who've never worked. And what's really scary, look out onto all those people in the crowd. Look at the sort of problems with the youth in America and the struggles they're having. And I am ever grateful for being in the hospitality industry and really working hard. Really working to please another person. You know what I mean?

I mean the customer in the dining room. Because I can see what happens when people don't. And look, I mean, you're going to do a State of the Union, you have to talk about the people. That's an essential. You're going to do a State of the Union, you have to talk about what's going on in the country and the people. You have to talk about the demographics a bit, right? in the country and the people. You have to talk about the demographics a bit, right?

You have to get into all manners of these United States. Just is what it is. It's all a part of the whole. We can make believe that, we can make believe that, you know, this other half of the nation that voted for Joe Biden doesn't exist. We'll see how serious they are about leaving the nation. Who knows?

But, you know, it is what it is. What I do know for sure is I'm happy that Joe Biden made it a quick and easy out. He did have a part of the speech that I may replay for you tonight. He addressed the nation tonight, if you're unawares, you're probably better for it, and basically did his exit speech. And he emphasized the fact that he was in the Oval Office. And when he said that, that made me think, you might not be in the Oval Office. I don't know what that means.

But, I mean, it was really weird. You watch the video and you go like, here I sit in the Oval Office behind the Resolute desk and I see various pictures in front of me and I thought, you know, the best way for this guy to go out would be to be in front of a green screen and to be lying about where he is. I mean, that probably will be the conspiracy of tomorrow, right? So, Stumpfield and Sloan, I see mulling around in the chat back there. What's up, everybody? It is so good to be with you Wednesday night in the I Am Liberty iteration.

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and God only knows what else. Stay fit, stay balanced. Wow. Stay prepared. Stay fit, stay balanced, stay prepared. Back in 2014. That's interesting. There's tough roads ahead. Let's traverse them together on I Am Liberty. I had no idea. Oh, look at this. This is when I was writing my web series, which turned into a book called Tom Locke. Tom Locke, October 30th. God, it's been fun. The cliffside of killers and recruiters. Tom Locke could wait no longer. He pulled the door handle open with incredible force. This shocked the two guards. The small bit of mace he released into both their faces was even more shocking.

As they reached out, both in anger and desperation, Nagier met the man with the chain balled around his fists. That was a typo. The screaming wiping of the eyes came to a screeching halt as their two bodies crumbled to the ground. Najir wrapped them right along the temple and turned their world upside down in a hurry. Tom felt better about his partner already. Still, AK-47s would be a little harder to stop with just a chain and a pen. These two were taken by surprise.

Hmm. It was a really cool book. It was a really cool book because one of the standouts, whenever I write a book, I never feel like it's enough. I never feel like the book itself is enough. You know what I mean? So I always feel like I have to add bonuses. Like I read through the book and I'm like,

oh, it's pretty good, but I need to add bonuses. And one of the bonuses I added to this, which was a web series, then like a written web series turned into a book, was I went through the Quran and I went through the Bible. And I tried to find messages that were similar. And I did that. Then throughout all of Tom Locke,

I think it's still available on Amazon, just search James Walton and look up my author profile. You can see them. You can see those. So, you know, to me it reminds me of like Crossy Road. You ever play Crossy Road? Crossy Road is the newer version of Frogger. I'm sure many of you remember Frogger. To me, the state of the union right now seems a lot like Frogger.

It seems like we're jumping from one mad, mad, mad world to the next. You know, from the moment, you could argue it was before this too, but from the moment the bullet cried out in the evening in Butler, Pennsylvania, we have been going from, you know, succession, a succession of just crazy things. from you know succession a succession of just crazy things you know you went from that the assassination to almost immediately the self-assassination of biden that came like pretty quick after right oh he's sick he's gone he's in hiding where'd he go was he the second shooter what happened um to the realization that oh my god it's going to be Trump versus Harris, I think. And based on the donations that she's received, 230-some million, I have to imagine that the Democratic Convention is going to affirm that. And here in the United States, it just seems like, you know, boom, boom, boom.

It seems like we're in an asteroid field and we just keep getting hit. Not that it's all bad, but, you know, it, boom, boom. It seems like we're in an asteroid field and we just keep getting hit. Not that it's all bad, but you know, it's just these things, bang, bang, bang. And I always, whenever we're in a, in a tumultuous time like this, I read this stuff when I wake up and I talk about it and whatever. I try to think about the, the regular people. I try to think about the regular people. I try to think about the average American, you know, and what are they capable of absorbing? Because here in this country, one of the things about the state of the United States that we have to understand is that we, many people in this country, pay so much in taxes that it's reached levels that are kind of unbearable. And what makes it even more unbearable is how the tax money is being used.

And for a guy like me, I piss and moan about it, but I shouldn't. Because I don't bear the brunt of the sacrifice. I'm a dad who gets to hang with his kids all day. It's summer break. You know what I mean? I get to hang with my kids all day. And even my wife, who works very hard, is in a position where she's even capable of working from home. She's capable of manipulating her time in a way that her life can be fulfilling. In a way that, you know, people in high-profile jobs and even just like retail can't. You know what I mean? and even just like retail can't, you know what I mean? So I don't even really feel the brunt of what it must be like, but I'm a very empathetic guy and I feel, I try to put myself in the shoes

of an American who works 80 hours a week, 70, 60 hours a week, sees his wife and his children in passing, you know what I mean? Touches base with his kids long enough to, you know, get a handful of things to enjoy and a reason to go on and then, you know, a laundry list of things to worry about and also to know, like, I hope I have enough time this weekend to have quality time with these people in my life to deal with these things, to get my daughter on the right path and tell my son he's great and try to bump his confidence, you know what I mean?

All the while knowing I got to go back to work tomorrow early and I won't get home until after After six. And then, you know, in that post-dinner catching of my breath is my life. And the taxes that they take away from me would make a huge difference. But instead we're using them to fight Russia and fight Palestine and give people money in America who do absolutely nothing. I mean, literally, you know, there's several states and cities around the country that are giving money to people just to try out. Just try out. What would it be like if Americans got $500 a month? Let's see what universal basic income would look like. Don't mind the fact that we're taking it out of your pocket. And I'm telling you right now, you know, if anyone in government cared even remotely about people, real people and their struggles, they would say we're going to get this inflation thing taken care of. And in the meantime, we're going to get this inflation thing taken care of. And in the meantime, we're going to cut taxes so that you don't have to feel it.

We're going to feel it. It's true. Government workers might feel it. They might have to get private jobs. We may have to have layoffs here in the government. We may have to have layoffs. We may have to shoulder a greater burden. But we're going to, you know, let some steam off because we know you need the money.

But fundamentally, PBN family, here's the darkest part of it all in terms of the American condition. in terms of the American condition. Years ago, I had this realization driving home from work, listening to stories about the border, of all things, listening to stories about the border, and being a young dad and thinking about the future and saying to myself, I feel like a lab rat.

I feel like this border thing is an experiment And I have no control over it And I'm just a part of the experiment What happens when you let X amount of people in a country That don't speak the language and don't have any skills And amidst them are You know, drug dealers and monsters. What happens to America?

What happens to the American people? And you come to the realization that watching our representatives, which no longer represent us, watching our representatives do their thing, you realize, like, the way the government's run now is one great big experiment involving the American people. And I know it is called an experiment in freedom, but it's not that kind of experiment. It's the kind of experiment where you do crazy shit

and the people will see what happens to them. We'll just have to wait around and see what happens. You want to keep punching Vladimir Putin in the nose? Keep punching him. Let's see what happens. Let's see how the American people react to mushroom clouds in the horizon, on the horizon. horizon. You want to charge up the radical Muslim base rather than completely extinguish it in the United States? No, we'll just keep it up. We'll keep allowing them to do crazy things. We'll allow them to do traipse all over Washington, D.C. like they did today. And fundamentally, you wake up

and you're 38 years old and you say to yourself, I'm just in one big experiment now. And then you thank God you've been prepping for 10 years and say to yourself, well, at least I have agency. How many people don't? How many people don't even own a gun? How many people realized long before it was too late or after it was too late that they married a person who would never let them have a gun imagine that conundrum right imagine you got married 10 years ago or whatever before the political and the chaotic really took over and you wake up in 2024 And you realize oh god At the very least I need a 20 gauge under the bed Right

Something And uh And you realize that ain't never happening dude Never Unless you want to be single Unless you want to be divorced Unless you want to lose the kids Not bringing a gun into my house

Crazy I know girls like that Not bringing a gun into my house. Crazy. I know girls like that. You're not bringing a gun into my house. What if someone breaks in? What if multiple people break in? What if they rape you? So be it, I guess. I don't know. I don't know how they answer that question. So, you know, just wrapping with you on the state of the American condition. You know, being a state of the union, that's kind of what the deal is. To touch base on the things that are affecting Americans today. The political sort of situation that we all face.

And, you know, how does it all turn around? I don't know. I'm not concerned with that. We're going to do our best to elect people and put people in place all over the country. The PBN family does their part. There's no doubt about it. And see what we can do, you know. I do feel like the tide has turned a bit in this country. It's hard to feel that way after you see how many thousands of people showed up to burn effigies of Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C. And you see how deadly brainwashed the women are who got up on stage. I'm going to give you my honest review of the speakers I spent about 10-15 minutes watching some of the speakers

The allies of Palestine The Palestinian saviors here in America The ones who are supposed to change the minds of the politicians First of all They did nothing to stop Netanyahu showing up at the Capitol and doing his thing. Yes, they showed up in great numbers and so on, but, you know, Congress did their thing. Israel's going to get more money. They're going to get more wealth.

Just stop. You know, what do you think you're going to do outside with your raising the Palestinian flag? You think you're going to win the American people over by raising the Palestinian flag in the nation's capital? What was most unnerving and almost comical was, and also very sad, was the delusional people out there today in DC. They were so delusional. And listening to them and listening to the weak women talk on the microphone and say things that were, I don't know, just old and tired adages wrapped up with Palestinian buzzwords and such,

what I really felt deeply, I don't always feel like the rah-rah conservative right-wing thing. You know, a lot of times my intuition or my gut or whatever it is feels something altogether different from the popular feeling or whatever. And what I felt was empathy for the Palestinian people because I realized that if this is their fighting force, if this is their representation here in the United States, then they're doomed. Now, I didn't feel empathy for them allowing evil to live amongst them. There are repercussions for that. It's biblical.

Them allowing evil to live amongst them. You know, there are repercussions for that. It's biblical. You know, you can't willingly allow evil to traipse around the streets of your town, neighborhood, and not expect bad things to happen. Right? You can't allow demons to take up root in your neighborhood and not expect awful things to happen. You can't allow Hamas to put bombs underneath schools and expect it to go well for you. But I did feel bad because I realized that this group of losers believes they're going to change something for the Palestinian people.

And if the Palestinian people look to America for hope, then I'm sure they gravitate towards this group of sort of feminist trans lunatics who are also pro-Palestinian somehow. who are also pro-Palestinian somehow. At one point, I was even listening to the Palestinian Feminist Collective, which I thought was just adorable. It was actually comedic. When they came up with their banner and masks on, of course they had COVID masks on, right? Nothing says empowerment like cover your mouth and don't breathe. But nothing says freedom like a COVID mask on a woman, right?

I heard this speaker and then a speaker after her, also a woman from the Bronx, explain to the crowd that, and this is bonkers to me, but this is simultaneously terrifying. Because on one hand, it's like, God, the Palestinian people are screwed. This is their representation. These people are as feckless and ineffective as about any group I've ever seen. as about any group I've ever seen. But then, they are also so mightily brainwashed that it is fundamentally, in a zombie-type way,

terrifying because you see the numbers. Because both speakers told the audience the reason that Joe Biden is stepping down is because of you. Now, I'll gather the clip for you if you want to hear it, because it is mind-boggling. And this is to thunderous applaud now. You know, it wasn't like people looked at each other and went,

no, no, no, that's not why he's doing this. Even he got on the air today and said, he didn't say anything about the, I'm stepping down because of the immense success of the pro-Palestinian movement. But to thunderous applause, the thousands of people there cheered on the fact that they had so affected the American political system that the president was stepping down. affected the American political system that the president was stepping down. However, Benjamin Netanyahu was in the Capitol and undoubtedly will receive more money and more weapons.

So where exists the common sense in all of that? It was a tough one. It was a tough one to swallow, but it was amazing. It was equally amazing. Let's run a quick commercial. We'll come back. We'll get into the PBN State of the Union. Hope you're enjoying yourself. Okay, right back in a second. What if I told you you could own land for $200 down and highly affordable monthly payments. Yourcheapland.com is your answer to bug out land, hunting, recreation, and whatever else your prep or mind can dream up. Yourcheapland.com has properties in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah. Go to yourcheapland.com, check out the properties, use the promo code PBN, and get $100 off your purchase.

Looks like there's some turbulence up ahead. It's a good thing you found us. We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Your path to stability. All right, PBN family, we're back to it right now. I'm going to see if I can find this crazy lady. The attempt for Palestinian liberation has been unavoidable. We have forced the world to reckon with its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people. second with its role in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

We have taken to the streets, and we have mobilized to incite a crisis for the imperialist powers of the world. We have witnessed the green light of the slaughter of our people, and today we stand here in our red rage, our steadfastness, and our commitment to liberation. We embody that crisis as the red line that says no to imperialism, no to Zionism, and no to Netanyahu on our streets. They didn't say anything about Xi Jinping on our streets. As Palestinian feminists, we reject the weaponization of women's rights to justify another imperialist war. Palestinian feminists is the sweetest, man. I'm trying to bring it up.

Today's mobilization. Give it up for Leigh-Anne Phelan from the People's Forum. The People's Forum. This is not her. The People's Forum. The People's Forum. This is not her. Our only alliance is with the Zionist project in your own capitalist interests. While your latest genocidal mouthpieces falter and stumble,

our dedication to liberation is only fortified. As a people united, we say to the war criminal Netanyahu... i just want to see her say that it's them who've done it it's so good let me get let me zoom through her as revolutionaries oh they're revolutionaries also. Drones up in the sky. They got drones for this. How come they didn't have drones at Trump's... My dad asked me that. He said, where's the drones at during the Trump event? Come on, come on, come on.

Stop arming Israel. Here they come, here they come. Are we tired? This is the hope of the Palestinian people. I don't want to linger on this, I really don't, but I want to hear her tell the people that they kicked Biden. For the past 10 months, the movement for Palestinian liberation has been unavoidable.

We have forced the world to reckon with its role in the genocide of the palestinian people we have taken to the streets oh we heard this already shut up No to imperialism. No to Zionism. As Palestinian feminists. Feminists in Congress. I love it. That's Palestinian feminists. We ask what kind of feminist stands by as generations of oppressed people, of Palestinian oppressed people are murdered, tortured, and sexually assaulted in the prisons that you fund.

There's no women's freedom without the liberation of us, and we will never serve you in your own capitalist interests. Oh my God, it's so brutal. As a people united, we say to the war criminal Netanyahu. Netanyahu. Oh my god, it's so brutal. Netanyahu! This is the greatest act of distractivism to date. Come on, girl. Get to that point.

Maybe this is it. Honor our martyrs. Oh, there it is. The martyr... What the fu... Okay. I missed hers. This next girl that comes up from the Bronx says it right off the bat. Give it up for Linda Sarsour.

Linda Sarsour. Linda Sarsour from the Bronx. With the sunglasses on and it's cloudy. May peace and blessings be upon you all. I have one very simple message for all of you today. Beware of those. Beware the government media complex. Nothing that you have done matters.

The reason that Joe Biden is not at the top of the nomination of the Democratic Party is because of you, my friends. That's all. That's all. That's all. That's all you need to hear. That's insanity. That's such insanity. Garden Girl says they sound so stupid. It is brutal.

It is brutal to hear. There's no doubt about it. I mean, it's, again, it was so bad that I was thinking to myself, the Palestinian people are doomed. If this is their representation in America, it's a wrap. You know what I mean? You got things like that you have to hear with your own ears because it doesn't make it so makes so little sense that you have to hear the woman say to thousands of people. The reason Joe Biden stepped down is because you are hoisting Palestinian flags all over the country. Now, what you could say is the reason Donald Trump's going to win in the fall is because of you that might work but the idea that this guy who can't even he struggled to string together sentences in his outgoing speech he made a mistake and they hear the crowd roar in agreement bananas pbn family bananas so whenever i do a state of the union you you know, I kind of break it

into two parts because it's like my life. You know what I mean? I have this one column of things that is the nation and my life has to exist within this nation. I want the best for it. I want the best for all of its people, fundamentally. Even these idiots. When I see these idiots on stage i don't have contempt you gotta understand they have contempt for me and you i'm sure i don't have contempt like i see a girl up there like that hollering sunglasses on the middle of the day cloudy covering faces up you know trying to pretend like i want a good life for that person. I want that person to have a spouse and kids and something to really go to bat for. Something that they can really, I mean, really give effort at. Not a bout of distractivism to go home and post pictures and say you did a thing and you helped stop the genocide and help shit, right?

Everybody at that protest fundamentally failed today. Netanyahu was not run out of town. As far as I know, I haven't checked on the headlines in a while. D.C. could be on fire right now. rather see them all happily married with children and you know what i mean wanting the best for the country that they live in and the future of their children maybe not the indoctrination that would probably come with them being parents but i don't know man you know i'd love for them to be able to take on their own pursuit of happiness and then that's it. Be done with it. I don't look at them and say they need to be shipped off to another country. Not all of them. I mean, I'm sure there were some in the crowd that could use a shipping off.

There's no doubt about it. But I have to exist in that world. That's part of the deal. And the world that I've created is the world that I use to deal with that world. That's part of the deal. And the world that I've created is the world that I use to deal with that world. This world on the Prepper Broadcasting Network is my universe that, I can't say I created it because G-Man created it, but it's the universe that I've, It's the universe that I've, I guess, you know, tended to and manipulated to be a bit of therapy and a world that is much more comfortable and more effective to live in and more rewarding to live in than the one that exists out there where, you know, the microphone fundamentally has been handed off to the lunatics within the asylum. That's the best way to put it.

So the left column is often crap, while the right column is often awesome. And that's exactly what we have to report on tonight. You know, for those of you out there listening, something I'm very proud of. I mean, very happy with how it turned out. Very happy with the exchange of knowledge that I have to offer for free to anyone. Our 50 must-read books, it's out. It's out for everyone. 50 must-read books to survive doomsday. I know it's an inflammatory title, but I am a prepper. This is the Prepper

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It's an update. It's worth talking about. I meant to check this out before the show and i didn't we have two new shows at pbn we're taking advantage of a couple things okay um one is the archives we have 5 727 episodes that's bananas That's bananas. That's bananas. But that's what we got. So we created, it came from the archives.

It came from the archives one morning, sipping coffee, sitting here in this chair thinking to myself, you know, I don't know, I don't know how. There was a little bit of Dave Jones-y, a little bit of retro, a little bit of different things, and I just got this weird, it came from the archives, you know, that it came from beyond sort of thing, and I said, you know what, this is how we will represent our archives from here on out. It's fun, you know, and that's what it is. PBN is pretty fun, you know what I mean? And it's a fun way to bring stuff back from the dead. And I'll throw them in there. Fundamentally, what it's going to be, it's not going to have a time or a date. It's going to be a show that fits in when there aren't other shows or on a day where I think we should do an archive show. So it'll be a little bit of a bonus treat that pops up from time to time. That's what both of these shows are going to be. Now, today I was creating the artwork, the episode artwork for our newest show,

which is going to air tomorrow. And this is a show that I really would love other hosts to jump on here at PBN. And I'd even love some of you to do an episode if you feel so inclined. This is a show that has nothing to do with prepping and nothing to do with survival. It's a show I've been talking about for a while on the back channel with the hosts. It's a show I call Anything But Doom. And Anything But Doom is when you need a break from politics and prepping. Okay? Like when you need a break from food storage and gardening and shooting and tactical training and TACMED, when you need a break from politics and nonsense, the whole thing, that's when you listen to Anything But Doom.

And what Anything But Doom is, is other topics and no particular topic. topics and no particular topic. I'd love to hear from our hosts the wonderful things that they've been into, done in their life, get excited about, are passionate about that have nothing to do with prepping and politics. Again, it's not going to be the show you listen to if you're thinking, I'm going to get started this weekend and really get prepping. You know? I recorded the first Anything But Doom way back. When did I record this thing? Properties. Let's look.

I recorded this first episode all the way back in May 29th, okay? And it's all about the Crow remake and the Crow in general. Because film is huge. Movies were my life growing up. Like, you have to understand that. The way that you look at your child right now, like, you look at your child, if you're a parent, when they're on an iPad or on their cell phone or on a computer or on some device, like you watch them and you're like, how many, how long can he sit in front of that thing and be totally distracted? That was me. Like that was me with movies. Not only would I watch movies back to back, I'd watch the same movies over and over and over again every day. I don't know how my mother dealt with it.

I don't know how she dealt with walking into the room and like he's watching. God help me. You know what I mean? I'd watch this hours. Hours. Two, four, six hours watching movies. So, you know, I'm. I got a lot of insight when it comes to movies and some movies really truly

affected my life and some movies were were just such a big deal to me man you didn't realize i didn't realize until later but they really really really defined me you know and the crow's a great one i won't tell you the whole story because i want you to listen to it but the story behind how i wound up watching the crow in the movie theaters with my mother in 1993 which means i would which means i would have been like seven i think i was seven years old i don't know if you ever saw the original crow i don't know if you know anything about it it's horrendous it's maybe the most tragic story ever written about a couple just i mean terrible but they market it as like well i'll let you

listen to it tomorrow and you can you can figure out how the hell I wound up in a movie theater in a rated R flick like The Crow sitting next to my mother, seven years old. I mean, I just, I would give almost anything I own to be in my mother's head as that movie played in the movie theaters. Wild flick. And now they're remaking it and uh there's a lot i got a lot of thoughts about that okay i got a lot of thoughts about a lot of things that i never talk about and a lot of our hosts are amazing people who have a lot of you know data built into them stories history day i mean we could we could do a Dave Jones history show that would be great to listen to. You know what I mean? But all of them, you know, everyone has lived a life and an interesting life at that.

So anything but Doom is the new show that we're going to put out for when you need, like, I just need a break i need a break from the nonsense i don't want to listen to ben shapiro i don't want to listen to any of them i just want to listen to something completely out of the ever do that i do that from time to time i don't know if people do that but i do that from time to time like i want to listen to something that has nothing to do with nothing. I'm not interested in it. I don't know what it is. Just tell me about something that isn't the end of the world. I have a feeling you guys will benefit from it. What else? What else is happening in the

PBN world? Should we take a break and do Preppers in the News? I really do want to get to this Preppers in the News article. Yeah, let's do it. What the heck? I don't have a Preppers in the News soundbite anymore. I do, but it's not on my soundboard at the moment. What is this? What is this? I'm scared to press play. Let's see what it is. I'm scared to press play. Let's see what it is. Why do I have this on here? This is going to be Preppers in the News now.

This is the Gotham Get Out music. It's so good. All right, PBN family family let's do it preppers in the news yeah that's sweet that's sweet Gotham Get Out was so much fun oh my god thank you Future Dan and thank you Ben the Breaker of Banksters and thank you

Jones family I mean the Jones family really did hook it up for Gotham Get Out. Anyhow, the Idaho State Journal, written by a guest columnist July 6th. His name is Trent Clark. If this is him, Trent, you're doing it, dude. Opinion piece. Patriots are prepared, not preppers. This is, I mean, look, it's weird, right?

It feels, the headline hits me in the solar plexus because I love preppers. Most, you hear what I'm about to tell you? Most of my favorite people are preppers. That's my life. You know what I mean? Like most, most of my favorite people are preppers. The people that I interact with most are preppers to some degree or another. Like that's how much my life has changed. So when I see a guy like Trent, I get a little nervous. I don't want to hate you, Trent. You got a nice bookshelf behind you.

You got the old guy, one eye bigger than the other look going. And I don't know. Let's see what Trent has to say. Having just celebrated the birth of America, we cannot ignore how many Americans are now actively anticipate, invest, and vote, assuming its impending destruction. It's a great first line. It's a little run-on-y, but it's good. The idea is good. Having just celebrated the birth of America, we cannot ignore how many Americans now actively anticipate, invest, and vote,

now actively anticipate, invest, and vote, assuming its impending destruction. Then he goes into a Finder survey and talks about how much prepping, doomsday prepping has increased. It's estimated to be $11 billion a year national consumer market, one that I can't seem to tap for some reason. Just kidding.

I see so many people making so much money off prepping. I get crazy in the head. What the hell am I doing wrong? Anyway, and the segment of society most likely to be preppers, Gen Z, nearly 40% of Americans born 1997 to 2012, respond that they're active. That's not true. Most likely to be preppers?

The prepper demographic has always been like 35 to 65. That's not Gen Z, right? Anyway, 1997 to 2012 respond that they're actively bracing for a doomsday event or disaster that wins society as it is currently structured. Well, that happened. Fundamentally. 2020 was that, right? The structure of society hasn't changed from 2020 till now. What is wrong with being prepared in case the grid goes down? In case the Federal Reserve stops moving money and in case the Federal Emergency Management Administration doesn't

show up for days, weeks, or even months after a disaster. Hey, Trent, they're not going to show up at all. Do you know how many FEMA workers there are in a major disaster that affects the entire nation? No FEMA is coming to most people. And what are they going to do when they get there? Oh, the water and the power's off? We don't have enough water for the whole nation. Sorry. Don't eat me.

Nothing. Period. Sophisticated and highly technology-driven national and international supply chains and risk management systems can fail. COVID-19 taught us that. But there's an attitudinal world of difference between being prepared for societal upheaval and actively making such failure of our constitutional system the default assumption. Here are three reasons preparing is better than prepping. Preparing is better than prepping. First, preppers often make the mistake that survival will become an individual responsibility. The wiser preppers modify this assumption to add survival of the family as the goal, but humankind's collective experience with disaster suggests that community survival is what matters most. It's a good point. It's one I've been making for a decade. Second, preppers emphasize personal defense.

The idea is that one's own stockpile of food and survival essentials will, in the face of a societal collapse, be vulnerable to looting. The well-armed can defend their stash. This logic survives only as long as the stash survives. After that, production of survival needs becomes a bigger challenge in defense of wealth. The American experience is that open, free markets with plenty of opportunities specialize in villainous demands. It's a more robust, reliable, cost- with plenty of opportunities to specialize and fill in each demands. It's a more robust, reliable, cost-effective system for generating the goods and services needed. Yeah, I can get with that.

I can get with that, Trent. That's self-reliance. That's self-reliance, right? So here's the question. Because I don't see this in the ranks of preppers, but maybe I'm mistaken. People who look at preppers from the outside tend to see people who stockpile and that's it. Do the vast majority of preppers stockpile and that's it?

Because the preppers that I know, almost all of them are producing something. Right? Even if it's a small garden, they're producing something. I mean, we got Jay Ferg in South Carolina, essentially in like a condo with chickens. You know what I mean? So, first of all, don't say you can't because that's bullshit. And second of all, most preppers that I know are producing.

And third, the system our founders created back in the 18th century was highly dependent on a shared attitude, the hope that humans can govern themselves. In many ways, it was a gamble, a shot in the dark, based on the premise that while never tried before, the very value of self-government to each individual would sustain it in perpetuity. Preppers who plan to abandon the Constitution are cowards. They've given up on the very fight that is worth fighting. There's something to that.

There is something to that. It's the idea of self-governance abandoned because we believe that everything will fall into chaos i don't know i can see like a bunch of uh hosts getting on me about that right now and saying don't don't buy into the hopium but still uh there is something to that to to trend's third point i'll give you that you i had to get down to number three, but number three, I think you're right. There are some things, you know what I mean, the collapse of society, the fantastical idea of the collapse of society and how it stands against the idea that people can get along and self-govern.

I am blown away. That's fundamentally the article. Just last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a series of decisions reversing a failed habit of relinquishing power to a caretaker government in difficult times, restoring individual responsibility. Bullets weren't what succeeded. Persuasion and logic are what prevailed. Is the fight for a free society over? No. It is lost.

Also no. It's at times like these we do not need more preppers. What we need are more patriots capable of defending the principles upon which America was founded. Not with bullets, but with superior problem-solving ideas. That's how he ends the article. I think he made a decent point on number three. However, here's what you need to be a patriot. If you want to be a patriot who stands against true tyranny and is even remotely capable of defending the principles upon which America was founded, you better have a base level of preparedness. You better have some level of self-sufficiency.

You better have an emergency fund, right? self-sufficiency you better have an emergency fund right you better have some silver or something along those lines because we have seen people lose their job over political mores we have seen people defending the principles upon which i mean look at the first amendment literally standing for the first amendment can get you demonetized if you're an internet guy. It can get you fired if you say the wrong things at work. It doesn't matter if it has anything to do with First Amendment, right? So, you know, being a quote-unquote patriot costs. You know, there's a cost attributed to that.

Standing up for your Second Amendment rights, yeah, there's a cost to that. There's a cost attributed to that. Standing up for your Second Amendment rights, yeah, there's a cost to that. There's a definite cost to that. What are you going to do? Are you going to go into work and tell your boss I'm carrying my firearm in work now because of the Second Amendment? You know what I mean?

So, and I know that there's that whole public-private thing, but look. All I'm saying is in the America of today, just like in the America of yesteryear, you better have a base level preparedness. You better have the capability and the knowledge to be self-sufficient this day and age because how else are you going to sustain? If you think that standing up and defending the principles of America, the founding principles of America, is a duty that will come without consequence, not true. No.

You're going to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, as Shakespeare said. So that is what it is. You know, if you're— Yeah, I made my point. Not bad, Trent. Not bad. We're in this thing together, though, buddy. That's all I'd tell you. We're in this thing together.

There's no point in dividing the preppers from patriots. Soda Springs. President and CEO of Custom Malting Incorporated Thanks for the article man It was a good look I enjoyed it PBN Family Listen to me

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I think that's fundamentally it. I think that's basically it. I got this overwhelming desire, but I'm so unprepared. I can't do it. I want to read something. I want to read you something good. I feel I am liberty-ish. You know what I mean?

I did the Checky Brown. I did the Preppers in the News. I did the Free Association. And now I'm just sitting here like the way I used to do it. Matthew Arnold. No, I read that one to death. Though I love that picture of my son, man. Rugby Chapel is highlighted by a basketball card. We could do Urania.

Urania's good. What am I doing? Why do I do this stuff in my head? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is good. I act like there's some boss out there who's going to get mad at me if I do things the way I want to do them, just on a whim. I also act like you can't just turn the show off, right? And go, okay, he's doing this dumb stuff. I'm going. I got what I needed out of this episode. I'm leaving.

You guys can do whatever you want. And I'm going to do whatever I want. Andrea Del Sarto by Robert Browning. Where do we want to start? His hue mistaken. What of that or else? Rightly traced and well ordered. What of that?

Speak as they please. What does the mountain care? Now listen, PBN family. This is powerful. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? All is silver gray, placid and perfect with my art. The worse. I know both what I want and what might gain. And yet how profitless to know, to sigh. Had I been to another in myself, our head would have overlooked the world, no doubt. Yonder's a work now of that famous youth.

The urban aid who died five years ago. Well, I can fancy how he did it all. Pouring his soul with kings and popes to see. Reaching that heaven might so replenish him. Above and through his art. For it gives way. That arm is wrongly put, and there again, a fault to pardon in the drawing's lines. Its body, so to speak, its soul is right. He means right,

that a child may understand. Still, what an arm. I could alter it, but all the play, the insight, and the stretch, out of me, out of me, and wherefore out? Had you enjoined them on me? Given me soul, we might have risen to Raphael, I and you. Nay, love you did give all I asked. I think more than I merit, yes, by many times. But had you, oh, with that same perfect brow and perfect eyes and more perfect mouth and low voice my soul hears as a bird. The fowler's pipe and follows to the snare. Had you with these same but broad a mind.

Some women do so. Had the mouth their urge. God in glory. Never care for gain. The present by the future. What is that? Live for fame. Side by side with Agnolo.

In this world, who can do a thing? Will not, and who would do it cannot, I perceive. Yet the will's somewhat, somewhat to the power. And thus we half-men struggle. At the end, God, I conclude Compensates, punishes It is safer for me if the award be strict I could go on

This is a great one This is a great one It's marked actually by a piece of toilet paper Rather than a bookmark, which is kind of funny I just want to read you this line again Because it's so good A piece of toilet paper rather than a bookmark, which is kind of funny. Ah, but I just want to read you this line again because it's so good. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Huh?

A man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? Good night, PBN family. Read your poetry. It gives you hope in times that are crazy like these. It gives you hope to understand what beauty is therein and also what struggles we've faced in the past and overcome. Talk soon, folks. See ya. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network,

where we promote self-reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at prepperbroadcasting.com. you