The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 034: The Gulag is Digital

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

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Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. you........ You have got to be kidding me. There is something that happens, folks When I pull out that the poems it's like the universe is telling me dude shut up. Don't read Constantly the situation, you know what I mean constantly. I don't know what it is Here's what we're gonna do we're going to I think we're gonna take it from the top about dude, how about we do that? Here I thought Mikey and Instagram was I Thought Mikey and Instagram was was giving me a compliment on the book

He was just basically saying dude, we can't hear a word you're saying Let's get into it again. Let's start it over whatever I can always modify the audio over there at Spreaker. So nobody will even know. I don't know. It's such a great intro to the show though. But I can, I could fix it. The magic of editing. You know what? I can't find it. It is what it is. Let's get the show going as is. Firewolf Forge says, five by five in chat. I'm not sure if you're talking about my workout or what. But he requests a back from the top.

Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. You're right. You're right. Push on through. It's a Wednesday. We're reading Luddite from Darker Trails. To set the stage for the Gulag as digital and the Gulag,

the digital Gulag had me trapped there for a second, right? Technology is not the enemy. Many would beg to differ. I believe it is instead the test to leverage its capabilities before it lulls us to sleep. Are we lulled to sleep yet, you think? Its infancy is all we know, a waking giant. Our minds cry out for balance. We are creatures of the dirt, not the diode. Those elements that sustain us. Within the palm of a fiber optic hand, opportunity awaits.

Look too deep and you could be snared by copper digits with charged lithium nails. Grab a hold of the rocks and weeds. Even the stinging nettle will be a welcome sensation. Anything to tear you away from the monochromatic screen, find your balance in the creeks and the streams and those elements that sustain us Darker trails ladies and gentlemen, this is a fun one. This was a fun one This was fun because it was not it was my first time ever playing around with book illustration You know what? I mean, probably no idea what the hell that's supposed to be You really got to look at this one to kind of see what it is and read the book and read the story that goes along

with it. But it was a fun it was a fun endeavor man it was fun to take on. This is a monster from my childhood right here. This guy it's the Raven Head man. The Raven Head man was real. Oh my goodness. The Raven Head man from 24 chestnut Street, Marcus of, Pennsylvania who lived atop a big brick building that sat behind the train tracks and at night we'd swim in the pool in the little three-foot pool in our row home in Marcus of, Pennsylvania and we'd swim in that pool at night and My sister would talk about the Ravenhead man who lives up on the... Oh, so cool. Such a good time.

Such a good time, man, you know. Technology articulates everything, and that really is. There's, you know. The articulation of everything through AI now and through, well, technology in general, right, graphics and all that kind of stuff. It takes sort of the mystery out of it Like I'll never know what the what the Ravenhead man really looked like or looks like Because it was completely fabricated by my sister, but it was awesome. It could have been fabricated by my older cousin I don't know exactly where it started

It could have been fabricated by my older cousin. I don't know exactly where it started. But we'll never know. That's my interpretation. She has her interpretation. And that kind of is, you know, it's almost sort of like the constellations. The constellations are magic like that. You look up, you see Orion.

Everybody shows their kids Orion, I imagine, right? You show your kids Orion and you tell them about the hunter and the bow and the belt. And, you know, they see hunter and the bow and the belt and you know they see something and they kind of see it and you see something and you see it but you know not everything in the world must be perfectly explained you know. Gargoyles are sweet. I used to work for a guy who had gargoyles all over his house. Little ones. Little kind of cutesy ones

Not like cutesy just kind of ugly but little and fat and they were on like a regular house like a nice house But a regular house It was cool. They were cool. They were like built into his Seamen or whatever the hell is brick kind of bricks his house was made out of cool Thanks everybody for hanging on. I appreciate it. I started the show with a muted mic. That's always good. Amateur hour. It's only like my thousand, two, three thousandth podcast or something like that. It's not like I have much experience at broadcasting or podcasting or whatever the hell this is. But we're doing the

Gulag is digital today. The Gulag is digital. We're gonna do, we're gonna read an article from Michael Snyder's the economiccollapseblog.com talking about brain implants. Talking about AR goggles and how they're going to change the world and change your brain and probably destroy your brain from if you look at it from my perspective. AR is an amazing technology. I've said this for years. Virtual reality is a lot of fun, a lot of fun. I could show you an example of some of the fun

that I have on virtual reality today if you'd like. Augmented reality is that, but sometimes even kind of cooler. You know, it's even kind of, it's like taking taking the video game world and plopping it right in your living room and there's something really cool about it. But Meta's augmented reality glasses are... I really think they're going to destroy your brain brain and I'll explain why later in the show But I mean it all plays back to this crazy balance that we have to undertake now as human beings Which is what I talked about in that poem Luddite. It's that's

Your battle. It's my but it's not What what people like you and me have to understand people in our 30s 40s 50s 60s? Whatever have to understand is this is not the kids battle I see this all the time people are always talking about the kids are always on the phones and screens and the damn And they do that while like their phone is in their hand The technology is so alluring and so dastardly that You don't even realize you're addicted to it, right? You don't dare look at your screen time.

You don't dare make a commitment to yourself and say, you know what, I'm going to cut my screen time down by 50%. But I will tell you this from experience. No, you don't need to see my phone for me to convey the point. If you put your phone in an inconvenient place after work or whenever it doesn't need to be at arm's length, I particularly like when everybody's home, I'm good. Everybody's home or everybody's in a place that's safe. That's when I'm like, and I put the phone somewhere and just forget it exists.

And it's really not that tough. You know what I mean? I think it's tough for people who have nothing. The creative endeavor is the penultimate sort of like destruction of the overwhelming digital gulag. The hands and fingers sort of creative endeavor, the mental undertaking, really is the antithesis of the technological drone that we get stuck in. It is.

It's a world for bored people. That's what it is. It's a world for bored people. It's a world for bored people. That's what it is. It's a world for bored people. It's a world for hurting people. It's a world for people who need a distraction, who need to burn time, who need to be distracted, who maybe have a hard thing that they have to do and don't want to undertake it. So give me 10 more minutes on this Instagram feed and I'll just, and I'll do it. I know. I live in the same world as you. I never want to come off as a guy that's like, I got it all figured out. Listen to me.

I'm a subject matter expert, OK? I know. Don't like it. Never a big fan of that kind of talk. Do what I say, because I know everything and you don't know shit. All right? I'm never a big fan of it.

I go through it. I go through the same stuff. You know what I mean? I Right there So But what I find is that? I'm a guy with like multitudes of hobbies. You know what I mean multitudes of hot. I'm never bored There is never bored. I have to I have to like take a deep breath and find

The will to be bored or to sit still and I think that's a you know That's a thing in and of itself, right? Fire wolf fire wolf says, you know commander you don't have to come after me publicly Take it is what it is So We all struggle with this. I think you can use it. You can use your social media use. You can use your cell phone use.

You can use your screen time as a very real indicator to yourself of what the hell is going on in your life. You know what I mean? It's pretty simple If you see someone who's going through shit nowadays, they're in that phone You know what I mean? They're in that phone and the kids are in that phone all the time because Do you not remember middle school high school like I Do you not remember middle school, high school? I start sweating just thinking about it, and I had a blast most of the time. The level of anxiety and the, oh my goodness, it's a war going to school if you went to public school and stuff.

I'm not even talking about bullying. I'm just talking about the sheer like Look good. I got them. How's the hair and everything? I go like, okay, but backpack. What's a backpack? Do I got a stain do I got a this I'm going to get a walk into the class and sit down and there's people you know, they Glowering at you. Your friends are there. The girl you like is looking, you got to go up and give a presentation, and it's insane. And on top of all of that, you've got these people at home that you have to please. You're like, oh, I got to do good here also, I got to get good grades, and then if I don't get good

grades, and what the hell, what am I going to wind up doing with my life? And then you have that looming over your head too, right? You have that thing like, what I gonna be when I grow up? I don't want to be a loser It's a crazy time Then you get you're getting massive injections of testosterone and you know crazy stuff That's happening to you through puberty and all that Yeah, it's so what I see when I look at people who are like I just see somebody's like like they're going through it and I've go through the same thing You know what? I mean when you're going through it, you're like I need I needed me like a good distraction

The problem is we've passed the point of Is the cell phone addictive or is it a habit forming? Addiction and habit. What's your take on addiction and habit? You could definitely say I'm addicted to biting my fingernails, but that's just a habit. But I love to bite my fingernails with my nervous energy. With my nervous energy, you know what I mean? So what is it is the phone an addiction or is it a my based on my experience I could leave the phone right here on the windowsill and There's no like

What's it called? There's no repercussions. There's no Withdrawals, you know what? I mean, I don't have any kind of withdrawals from a phone. I don't know if other people have that kind of thing. But when I think of addiction, I think of withdrawals. I think of, you know what I mean, serious consequences when you stop a thing. For me, you put the phone down. I even see it with my oldest son now.

My oldest son, he's walking around the house bored, which is phenomenal. I try to do very little about it. He walking around the house bored, which is phenomenal. I try to do very little about it he walks around the house bored he's dribbling an indoor basketball and Just you know Just he's reached the point where the technology is bored. It's boredom There's nothing in it anymore for him really for the most part, you know, his friends get on he plays a little bit gets off So you see it you see kind of like how it dissolves away

But the question is of course is it addiction or is it habit? Phoenix survival is in the chat Phoenix. I got to thank you and I want to give a shout out hang on. I Want to thank the Phoenix? I don't know if you sent it to me or if I got it in my feed you might have sent it to me but the reason I watched the video was purely because of you let me get in my feet real quick Instagram Instagram Instagram I want to say and nobody cares about what I'm about to say except for Phoenix Probably like this is so dumb. It's it's to the average person. It's very cool to me Actually, I think it's probably one of the coolest things I follow

Following What I just followed them yesterday Okay, I don't know I can't find it now the Phoenix I Saw that she was following an incredible lady. I think it's called verse and sip on Instagram and What this lady does is? Something that I think is absolutely incredible

Dude, what the hell is going on? I? Watched like three of her videos today already all she does is Write handwritten letters and seal them with wax. I Can't I can't believe that stupid ass thing The other thing is these things aren't functional like they used to be anymore You know what I mean? Look it my Instagram feed right now is a ton of things. I'm not

subscribed to You know what? I mean, this happens to me on all kinds of social networks EDC patches don't care happens to me on all kinds of social networks. EDC patches don't care. It's just a bunch of crap. What is this? Tom and Lauren Health. What is that? I only have like a hunt.

I only follow like a hundred, almost under two hundred people. And one of them is this lady. But I want to thank the Phoenix because the Phoenix, I saw your little like on her thing. I don't know if you sent me the video. You may have sent me the video. Let's double check that real quick. We're in the Gulag. We might as well be in the Gulag because we're in the Gulag. No, because I was surprised you didn't send it to me. Holy shit. I sent her a message last night. Verse sip. I want to see we could get her on the podcast Verse and sip man verse and sip. This is what I mean if you if you are wrapped up in the digital gulag already and

You're feeling like I don't know what to do with my time You got you got a slide was tell you got to slow down But verse and sip I happened upon it. I saw the lady with the wax seal thing, which I love. And then I started thinking to myself, let me watch. And then I saw the little up here in the corner, I saw the Phoenix was following her already. And I said, all right, I'm definitely watching Look It's the stupidest thing To 99% of the world I had like the idea of sitting down and handwriting a letter and wax ceiling it and sending it

To someone's probably like dude. Shut up. Just shut up But I don't know I love it I think it's amazing I Have wax seals up there. I don't know if you can see them. You can't see them. You might be able to see the wax itself. But I have wax seals up. I have wax in the seals. I even have a special seal for my wife that no one else gets. Because this is life, baby.

It's happening in the flesh and blood world. And I really do think that one of the best things that can happen to a person nowadays in the world of like AI generated everything, particularly like how many emails you think you're gonna get written in the in the coming future that are actually written by a person? You know what I mean? Like not just gonna go like, can you generate an email to my wife real quick telling her how much I love her and make it Shakespearean in nature or something all in those lines?

A handwritten letter, right? With ink on paper, sealed with a wax seal. You can't buy it. You can't get it. These are the things that are of such high value now are the things you can't buy it. You can't get it. These are the things that are of such high value now are the things you can't buy and you can't get it's why fitness is so amazing fitness and lifting weights and all that kind of stuff. Like there's not an AI on the planet that can do that for you. There's not a machine that can do it for you. There's nothing that can do the pull-ups for you. There's nothing that can run the miles for you. There's nothing that can do the pull-ups for you. There's nothing that can run the miles for you.

So when you dedicate yourself to something like that, it's impervious to the digital gulag, it's impervious to technology. It's something that you can say, there's no doubt I've done this and there's no one who can deny it, you know what I mean? Because there's not a machine or a cheat or a hack on the planet that can do this for me Verse and sip Jay Fergie Thank you so much for freaking liking that because I would have probably never watched the full thing if you didn't have your like up there on it or your follow up there on it and and if you didn't have your like up there on it or your follow up there on it. And now I'm hooked.

I almost joined her letter club last night. I almost was like, I don't mind being a part of that. Yeah, she'll write letters and send them off. They got poems in them and a bag of tea. Dude, like, I don't know. You have to understand, I come from a place. I dodged all the masculine things growing up as a kid and went to reading poetry and and charming girls, you know what I mean? That was like my, that was my thing. It was, that was what I was into. And into music, into being a musician and that kind of stuff and all those to get this, I don't know, it's just those things, you know things you know what I mean those those I don't know what to call them artisanal I don't know what it is you know what I mean but they they're just the things that I like

and the other thing if I could give you anything you know what I mean to traverse this world with is you have to you have to play the game by your rules. You understand? This is the most important thing in life if you want to live a happy life. I mean, if you really want to live a happy life where you are like, my life is just doing the stuff I want to do. Like most of the time. Except for maybe some degree of responsibility that we all have and cannot avoid anyway, right? There's always gonna be some of that. But I know there are people and I

know the people personally who traverse a world that is...well Thoreau said it best. It's a life of quiet desperation. That's what it is. You don't want to find yourself trapped in Thoreau's, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. He said the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, but now, you know, you look back and you can see it's everyone. The mass of men, the mass of women, the mass of children live lead lives of quiet desperation Don't fall into that hole man and and and the biggest way to get out of that hole is You have to live life by your rules and it doesn't mean like I'm not fucking paying the mortgage because these are my rules

You know what? I mean, you can't do that. But what I'm saying is when you like something and when you really enjoy doing that thing, whatever it is, so long as it's not destroying the people in your life, right? You've got to just go all in on it. Why is this mic pointed at my nose? You've got to go all in on it. You know what I mean? There are so many things in my life. Like I do a prepper show, run a prepper network, right? And there are so many things in my life that would make a bunch of the people who probably like listen or whatever, or like PBN or maybe don't listen to me, but like other hosts on PPN. Just like so

disappointed. Just utter disappointment in the commander for the things that he wastes his time on. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Those like another person's disappointment in you is I can't even tell you how pointless it is to even think about it it's absolutely pointless to consider you know what I mean what is up Jore unless it's Jore you never want Jore to be disappointed in you especially not in what you're eating Yeah, it just is what it is. Right? There's about 40 little miniature toy aliens and spacemen over here on this table. It is the most dorkiest and embarrassing thing in the world to be painting Warhammer figurines

and playing Warhammer with your neighbor. But I love it. You know what I mean? And for so many years, thanks to coming up the way I came up, like I mentioned earlier, I just, whatever. Live life by your rules, people. There are things that you like. You know what I mean? Don't bury them and start golfing because your dad said you should golf. You know what I mean? Because the longer you do it, the longer you get in the habit of doing the things that you love

and the more consistent you are with doing the things that you love and all that kind of stuff, you will see all the baritone men who have told you what it is you're supposed to do and how you're supposed to do it. They will all shrivel and and like they crack and just disappear and blow into the dust and become shells of themselves. You know what I mean? It I've watched it in real life. I mean, I've listened when you're a guy like me, everybody's got something to say. You know what I mean? I've watched it in real life. I mean, I've listened.

When you're a guy like me, everybody's got something to say. You know what I mean? There's always people who have something to say about what you're doing or what they do in a passive aggressive way saying that what you're doing is not the right thing or you should do this or do, you know what I mean? And you get to the point where you spend time, you know, two decades with a person and you watch them just... Right? They just like become...

I don't know what it is. They begin to lead the life of quiet desperation. So follow your heart, PPN family. And it will lead you away from this digital gulag. Because this world is created for the life of quiet desperation. That's what it's been created for. There is nothing better than social media for a man living the life of quiet desperation. It's like, oh my god, I hate my job,

I hate my home, I hate my, you know what I mean? My commute. I hate it all. So I'm gonna go get into an absolute war on Twitter and tell someone what an idiot they are and how Donald Trump is either great or terrible and that's gonna be my afternoon baby. Death helps you know death is death death really helps death helps in in all facets of life. If you can consistently be reminded that you're gonna die it really helps you with your it really helps you with your dependency on the digital gulag. Really, it'll help. Because I always have the deathbed mentality.

Have the deathbed mentality. It'll always help. Think to yourself, when I'm in my bed pissing on myself in my last hours, will I look back and say, I'm sure glad I did what that guy told me to do instead of what I wanted to do. I'm sure glad I let my pride get in the way instead of taking care of the people that I really love. You know what I mean?

In the ways that they wanted to be taken care of. Whatever. The deathbed mentality, it helps. So today is day... what is it? What is it? We're gonna talk, Jor-8. Give me a second. Today is day... one, two, three, no. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven of ration or ruin day 11 ration or ruin Jor-8 asks me what I've had for breakfast now remember we're not eating like we're normally eating because we're on this ration or ruin survivor chat survival challenge for the month of May okay and it's been fun that's I mean

it's it's a huge eye-opener. You know what I mean? It really is. Rash in a Ruin, I haven't been a hundred percent, like, faithful to the challenge. I've done some eating here and there when I shouldn't have. And largely because the one thing I didn't expect from Rash in a Ruin is for my family to be so like in protest of it. Which is something to consider in and of itself. We may talk about that in detail on the Ration A Ruin report on Friday, but suffice it to say kind of interesting really. Um, but today Jor-8 will probably be a four egg breakfast.

Yeah, it'll probably be a four egg breakfast for me. I am a cultivator in the Ration of Ruin Challenge. So that means I get to, I don't have to just eat survival's food. My compatriots over there at the Patriot Power Hour, great show last night, by the way. Um, they're stuck eating mountain house food Monday, Wednesday, and Friday this week. Somehow I wound up with like two packs of Mountain House for the week. I got like, I got like a thousand calories for the week, which I don't think is going to be much of a problem. I've been living now for these last 11 days in a caloric deficit, undeniably like a caloric deficit.

And it's clear my body's adapted. I never stopped working out. That brutal day of workouts yesterday. And I don't feel bad. Do you know what I'm saying? I don't feel bad. I don't feel that different. I looked at my body looks different, but I don't feel that different. I looked at my body looks different but I don't feel that different.

What I have learned though, and I don't know if I've learned it, it's just been more of a verification, but Firewolf Forge is also taking part in the chat. Well many of the Prepper Broadcasting Network listeners, you guys out there, are taking part in the challenge. Some of you have just modified it or Oh, Joray, you know, I had coffee, dude. There is no way there is no look. I wouldn't do this normally. Maybe I should do it more often. I mean, it is my business.

It is how I pay the bills. But yeah, yeah, we had a little bit of the old. How do we get this to work? God in heaven, the light. We had a little bit of the old... how do we get this to work? God in heaven, the light. We had a little bit of the old pandemic. Oh, the closer the better. I guess it's not mirrored, but that's our six bean espresso blend. Disastercoffee.com. Disastercoffee.com. Disastercoffee.com. That's my six bean espresso blend. That is by far the most popular coffee that we offer

at DisasterCoffee.com. It tastes better when you drink it in a stitch cup. You see me with a lot of stitch stuff on because I have a little half pug, half French bulldog that lives amongst pit bulls exclusively and she's an absolute menace. She is 6'2", you know what I mean? She's an absolute menace. She's awesome. But yeah, that was part of the compromise for sure. We're not giving up coffee. We're not giving up coffee. We're not giving up supplements. We're not giving up workouts. And as long as we can handle all that, I'll be in the challenge. You know what I mean? I'll be in the challenge.

But you know the other thing that I really struggle giving up with Ration of Ruin is life. Life meals. You know what I mean? Like, oh it's an opportunity to sit down at a restaurant and eat with the family. Like, hmm. These moments are too precious, you know? You got to understand what's precious and valuable in your life. You gotta understand, again, it's back to the deathbed mentality. You know what I mean? It's back to understanding. The clock is ticking, baby. The clock is ticking. You're gonna run out of time. We all run out of time. But not only is the clock ticking, the very age that you are has value and holds value.

You know, I'm sitting at a restaurant with my sons looking at them and in my head I'm going Carter's 13 Jacob's 9 how many more of these meals do you get with your 13 year old and your 9 year old and maybe it's not that big a deal to people that next year they'll be 14 and 10 who cares what's the difference oh there's a there's fuck a huge difference you know what I mean there's a huge difference in my opinion anyhow In terms of survival food guys, and we'll talk about today's sponsor

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Put them up. If you don't know how to use them, you better learn to use them or better get somebody in your life that knows how to use them. Jorite says,or-rate says supplements. Yeah, you know, supplements. No, there's just things that I don't want to give up through this challenge when I'm on a caloric deficit, like multivitamin. I want to make sure my body has what it needs.

Omega-3, which I supplement with every day anyway. Creatine, which I've been supplementing with for... Actually, I owe you guys. I owe the members of Commander Creatine, don't I? Yeah, definitely. These things that I just supplement with on a regular basis because I think it's good. I think it's essential. I think it's essential. I think they fill gaps in your diet that are important. And yeah, so those are, I didn't want to give those up in other words.

And, and Ben, the breaker, the banksters was in the same and future Dan, he was in the same sort of head space with all of that. I'll like, I'll be at the beach in June you know what I mean? I don't want to... I was sick last last vacation. I'm not too interested in being sick again from literally putting myself in caloric deficit stress to suffer through that. So that's that okay? That's that. Okay. That's that. Let's do let's talk about this crazy ass article. What are we at 38 minutes?

I don't know if I have a hard stop today or anything like that. Let's just yak. Let's just yap it up together. Have fun. We got our great Instagram audience. We got our great YouTube crew over there. Nobody ever says anything on X. I don't know what the hell the deal is with X.

They watch. They don't say anything. If you're on X, say something. Hey, how you doing? Hey, thanks for the show. Anything. Say something. So over at theeconomacollapsedblog.com,

we have a really cool article. Actually, let me share it with you. I got this technology. I might as well put it up here. Stop staring at my big face share screen and right away we get an ad implantable brain computer interfaces are here the gulag is digital and they are a giant step toward the dystopian digital prison society the elite have planned for. So you see why these two concepts work so well together, right?

I want to talk to you about this Synchron. This Synchron is interesting and the name is interesting because I wrote a couple, I don't know, tens of thousands of words not books on that the Separation of human and cyborg in society and what that will look like, you know what I mean and It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. But the the organization in there was called synthesis So it's kind of interesting to see this organization come out and be called Synchron. Raised my eyebrows a little bit.

Imagine controlling an iPhone or a MacBook with nothing but thoughts. It may sound far-fetched, but Apple's latest partnership suggests it could be closer than we think. The tech giant has teamed up with neurotechnology firm Synchron, developing a brain implant that allows users to operate digital devices by thinking, no typing, tapping or swiping required. Interestingly, it's being reported that Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates are both involved with Synchron. Of course Bezos wants you to think your ass into an Amazon purchase like forget about looking

swiping and anything just like Re up the toilet paper and boom there it is According to the Wall Street Journal Apple is partnering with Synchron a privately held New York City based company backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates Bill Gates always has our best intentions. So, you know, you can be you can be rest assured that the King lizard himself Yeah, you know It's one of those things. He's always looking out for us, right? Well, thank you. Jory for watching on X Jay Ferg the Phoenix in chat and over an Instagram says so over AI and lazy shit

That's so well put because that is what it is, isn't it? My kids are so sick of AI. They don't like anything AI even if it looks like it's AI they're like, I don't You know, it has no value to them whatsoever I don't know if your kids are that way or not or if all kids are that way or not But my kids are little AI detectors You want to devalue something. It's one of the reasons I stopped doing the AI thumbnails, to be honest with you. My son, who sometimes sits behind me during the day, I'll be working in Canva, you know what I mean,

putting something together. He'll turn his little nine-year-old head and see the Canva thing and he goes AI and turns his head back Okay, sometimes they know The brain computer interface or BCI Industry is projected to grow significantly over the coming decades Perhaps the best-known player in the space is Elon Musk's neural link Which as of January has successfully implanted its devices in three people already. The Avengers. So here's where Synchron differentiates itself from Neuralink. And actually in Darker Trails, this is kind of cool. This was really fun to write. But in Darker Trails, I have a story called. This was really fun to write, but in Darker Trails, I have a

Story called Neuralink. Don't worry. I won't read it to you But it's at the end of the book Where is it? It's around that Luddite section No, maybe not. I don't know where it is, but it's in the book and it's it's a conversation between a dad and a son page 80 and It's all about the kid and the and the dad having their conversation and they're basically saying he's basically saying like yo dad Like I gotta get Neuralink. I have to get it. Everybody's got it. It's how you get in the college It's how you start relationships. It's this is, you know, this is how you do things now.

And the dad's like, you might not want to do it. I don't know. It doesn't sound good to me. You know what I mean? And it's a fun story. It was fun to write. You know, it was very personal. It was very like my kids.

That book came out, I think, two or three years ago now. So it was very like looking at my little boys and saying like this could be a conversation we have one day. What's up, Barik? Outdoor gear. Thanks for joining. Rob, Gan, Nitro, Poel, and a bunch of others over there on Instagram. Thanks for popping in. I appreciate you guys. Let's get back to the story, shall we? Unlike Neuralink's N1 implant, Synchron's stent-like device called the stentrode. The stentrode sounds like something you fight in a video game, right?

Sounds like a boss or like a... maybe not a boss, but it's like one of those mid-range, mid-tier enemies that you have to take out in a video game. Oh no, it's a swarm of stentrode. It's implanted on the top of the brain, not inside of it, which allows users to avoid an invasive open brain implant procedure like Neuralink. Once placed, the stentrode works by using its electrodes to read brain signals and translate them

into an on-screen navigation and icon selection. Whew. This is what Michael Snyder says. The way they get Synchron's device on top of the brain is by implanting it into the jugular vein and then navigating the device into the blood vessels near the brain's motor cortex.

At the core of this breakthrough is technology known as BCI, the brain computer interface. I thought they talked about the synchrons device called the stentrote is implanted via the jaw. No, that's not it. This is transformative. Yeah, this is it. We use the blood vessels as a natural highway into the brain, lacing them with electrodes that record activity, that platform becomes like Bluetooth for your brain.

It's like Bluetooth for your brain, letting you control a device without needing a keyboard or mouse. Michael Snyder goes on to say the goal is to create a dystopian digital prison society in which as many people as possible are connected to the internet for as long as possible. Even if you choose not to participate, you's pretty invasive and sounds very dangerous. But now I want you guys to consider a technology that I will undoubtedly try. Undoubtedly will try. There's just no guesswork in it. I'll give it a whirl.

The real revolution, who said this? This is a quote from someone. There's just no guesswork in it. I'll give it a whirl. The real revolution, who said this? This is a quote from someone. We are being told that soon millions of people with AI glass will be constantly gathering information. I don't know who anybody pointed at. I don't know if Michael Snyder wrote this or if this is a quote from somebody.

But this is legit this is what I was talking about with the brain degeneration the real revolution and the real threat lies and what comes next met as AI glasses sunglasses spectacles whatever you want to call them they look like something out of a sci-fi flick actually they look kind of dumb we can look at them if you want very soon millions or perhaps tens of millions of people will be walking around with them on. Let's talk about what they do.

They comprise a camera, microphone, an AI interface, and internet access all embedded discreetly in eyewear. They are capable of recognizing faces, interpreting language, overlaying information in real time, and collecting vast swaths of data as their owners simply walk down the street. They can whisper comprehensive summaries about the stranger across the subway, translate foreign speech in real time, suggest pick-up lines, record interactions without consent

and overlay reviews of a restaurant before you've even looked at the menu. The reason I missed out on the love of my life is because meta fed me the wrong AI generated pickup lines. All this is done without lifting a phone or typing a word. So this is probably the most terrifying of them all to me because it's less invasive than like cut my skull open less expensive than say cut my skull open and put a stentrode stentrode on top of it or I'm sorry cut my jugular vein open please and then fire that baby up there it's yeah I don't know man you know what I'm saying? This one seems like, oh they're just glasses. I just put the glasses on and oh look it tells me that's a coffee mug and that's

a woman and that's a man. Well, hold on. Maybe not. It's calibrating and calculating. Right? So what's really terrifying about it to me is the thing, your brain does that stuff already. You walk into a room, your brain's doing stuff you don't realize. What's that terrifying about it to me is The thing your brain does that stuff already you walk into a room your brains doing stuff. You don't realize What's that the lighting the bomb of us out of thread? Is that a thing? Is that a food? Is that a this what can I walk into that? Can I trip over that right your brain does this stuff already? What happens to your mind if you wear these glasses every day and and all of a sudden your brain just like your muscles Goes we don't really need to do that shit anymore like these glasses do it like he's got this thing on his face That does some of our work for us What do you think's gonna happen when you take the glasses off? What do you think's gonna? It's atrophy, baby. It's it's

It's attrition, you know, I, it's, it's, it's attrition. You know what I mean? It's always happening. It's always happening. This is why you run into men who are like superstar college athletes in their twenties. You run into them by the time they hit 32, their fat, overweight, can't go up the steps, right?

It's atrophy. These things deteriorate with time. Your brain's the same thing, dude. It's the same situation. You stick these, I guarantee you. I mean, this is utterly the dumbing, like this is the direct, the like physical embodiment of the dumbing down of the mind. To take your brain's duties and put them on autopilot so that the meta glasses can do them some of them for the brain. It's never gonna be good. It can't be good. You know it just can't be good. And like I said the reason it's most terrifying more terrifying than brain surgery and

all that is because most people aren't going to do that crazy stuff. Most people aren't going to say, yeah, I'm going in to get the jugular cut. They're going to put the hair net up in my brain with the electrodes on it. And then I'll be able to scroll Instagram without my hands. People aren't going to do that in mass. What people will do in mass is put a pair of glasses on. Put a pair of glasses on them that interprets everything around them and makes life

easier. Tells them where they should go eat, where they shouldn't go eat, what they should and shouldn't do. Ooh, the gulag is digital. You know what I mean? I'm just telling you, it is what it is. It is what it is. Guard, guard yourself PBN family, you know. Seriously, guard your freedom. Guard your freedom at all costs because it's wild out there. It's wild out there. It's like I mentioned at the beginning of the show when the microphone was muted. No, but really that's what that poem I read at the beginning of the show is all about. It's all about that. It's all about this balance in technology. And it's going to get better and better and more alluring. And you know what I mean? And you have to understand the deeper you sink into this stuff, the harder it becomes to get out of that digital

gulag and the more control anyone can exact over you You ever saw the movie her watch the movie her. You know what? I mean, it's it's That's gonna happen Probably has happened already, you know the all these things I Was listening to someone This is an important one too, we talked about fitness, we talked about handcrafted letters, right?

And how these things are, all of a sudden there's this value in the world outside of technology, right? Like it used to be there were things that you could make on the internet and they were unique, one of a kind, no one else has this thing you know what I mean and now Anything that comes off the internet is it because because of AI and the copying and all that kind of stuff it seems Yeah, you know Like it was peak and then it felt One of the things I was listening to was a woman talking about massage and and the epidemic of the lack of physical touch in

our society, undoubtedly due to exactly what we've been talking about this whole damn show, right? Isolation, digital dependency, digital gulag, and people being weird. And one of the things that was interesting about what she was saying was that it's another thing that can't be replicated. Right. Yeah, you can have like a you can have a robot with skin ish material that has the ability to caress your skin with its skin ish material in a way that might feel kind of okay.

But at the end of the day, your brain is going to be like, that's a robot. That's not a real person. That thing doesn't even have agency, right? Because the thing about physical touch is The thing about physical touch is, it has to, there has to be that agency. The desire to, right, has to be there. It can't be, it's not the same if it's dictated, right? So again, you put that in that column of things that are uniquely human. And that, that column of things that are uniquely human is going gonna become more and more valuable. Trust me. Believe me Lean into it The key is to be able to straddle both worlds I think that's how you have the most fun, right?

But you got to know when you're getting in too deep. You got to have help. You got to stay up to date You got to read you got to teach you got to tell you got to learn You got to read, you got to teach, you got to tell, you got to learn. You got to make sure that. Well, we'll see. That's part of the fun too. You know, where's the commander gone? Oh, he disappeared. How, why, what happened to him?

Well, they made it. They made a war hammer game. That was too good. No. So the, the Gulag is digital folks. It's my final warning. All right. Firewall Fort says, or you fall in love. Yeah, exactly.

This is happening already. Well, kind of. You know what I mean? Kind of. If you mean by falling in love with like an AI generated woman slash voice. You know what I mean? This will happen. I told, I tell my kids all the

time like you're probably gonna have buddies that are married to robot girls so just wrap your head around that now don't let it shock you you probably have to talk them out of a bad decision they're gonna be driving around in the car with a robot girl on the side in the passenger seat telling them everything they want to hear you know what I mean but I think just like AI, when AI came around into the creative world, into the writing world, into the images and that kind of stuff,

like there's no soul there. And you can feel it. Can't you? I know people can feel it. I know my kids can see it. I know people can feel it. I know my kids can see it. I know people can feel it. You see an image and you almost know like There's no soul in there You read something that's AI generated. You can really tell you can really go

You know what? I mean? It's a masquerade at best sometimes it gets over but and maybe it'll get better. Maybe it'll become more and more unrecognizable and maybe Maybe the the pinnacle for AI in the creative sense is to just be able to hide better all the time But it's like I've always said, you know If you're not born with these nerves if you're not born with these nerves, if you're not born into this world screaming, if you don't suffer what it is to be human, if you don't feel and touch and smell and live and have the joys and experience the world and the natural world, the digital world, the combination of it all, the fights, the wins, the losses, the failures, everything that it is on a daily base to be human. You can't just take what humans write about.

You can't just build on it and then all of a sudden you're human. Or all of a sudden you can do something even better than humans do. I mean you're going to be able to do a lot of things better than humans can do as AI, but the human experience is... It'll never be able to be replicated by something. Until, unless AI can manufacture some sort of thing that can go through the world the way that a human goes through it, and then generations have to pass of living out the full thing, right? Like you have to live out the full thing. We are products of all kinds of generations

of people who have lived and gone through childhood, gone through adulthood, gone through old age and died, passed on the lessons therein. Boom, another, and then another, and then wars, and then famines, and everything. And it's the soul of the human, folks. All right. I've droned on long enough. The Gulag is digital. I thank you guys so much for joining me today. Visit pbnfamily.com.

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