The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 081: Everything Sucks & It's Time to Fix it!

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

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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. What is happening in the world of subscription, everything? What is going on? How can there be a subscription for everything? Lately, I'm basically obsessed with the mentality, the mindset of the generations coming up. Not so much my own, even though we're living through the same thing.

But there's something about the neophytes that are left to, and they're entering into this AI-driven world, this world of still war, this world of, it is a world in flux, largely. It does seem like a world in flux. Do I go to college? Do I not go to college? Do I, you know, right?

There's all these questions. Do I subscribe? Do I not subscribe? Do I use AI? Do I not use AI? Man, it's the temptation in everything. Temptation in absolute everything. Do I gamble my money? Do I gamble my money? I see a lot of people making money. Gambling money, making money. We, whatever our generation is, whatever our means, to those of you watching. People my age in their late 30s, mid to late 30s, 40s, you know, whatever. and beyond, I guess, have lived. We had a course.

You know what I mean? The thing about a course of life is that if you're inquisitive at all, you second-guess it anyway. So you do kind of always live in this. But I think having that to fall back on, having that sort of straight and narrow to fall back on, you know, fall in love, get married, go to college. get have kids have job have insurance live out the life that is safe and stable and and go to your grave and hopefully it works out because you know that is the crux of everything there's no way of setting things up in a society so that they'll work out for everybody but the generation coming up now um is leaning into some of them are leaning into this

dangerous mentality that is everything sucks dating sucks, you know, the internet is filled with artificial intelligence shit. The, you know, the, the real world is filled with insane psychotics on one side or the other, the political and cultural spectrum. And I'm stuck in the middle trying to find someone to do life with. It's a whole thing, right? Nobody wants to hire you. Nobody wants to pay you. Nobody wants to pay you. Nobody wants to hire you. You buy a thing. You can't use it unless you pay a certain amount of money per month, right? The world of subscriptions is insane and the world of, the world of impossible to customize slash modify or even maintain. Really, really, it's not even that. It really is the world of

maintenance has been pulled away from people also, right? You buy a car. Can I fix it? Can I do anything to it? No, you can bring it into the dealer and let them handle it. You can't do anything to it. You buy a phone oh the screen crack can i fix it myself no you can't fix the battery's dead can i swap it out no you can't do that so you baby world you start to feel like you're living in baby world oh no you can't fix anything you can't make anything you can't do anything you can't this anything here is the the gold in in all of this because this is the mentality of a lot of people lived experienced or not It's a mentality that the generation coming up is gravitating too, which is why they're, you know, I think a lot of people are falling even deeper into cell phones in the digital world. I think people are falling head over heels in love with big risks like online gambling, right, and finding themselves in this spot, you know, this crazy spot.

And it is hard. I mean, it's hard to imagine that, well, I guess we have. That's cigarettes and drugs, more so, cigarettes, drugs, and booze. One of the things I've been thinking about a lot is addiction. We have a generation of kids coming up and have come up to some degree who have been just accosted by addictive technologies and video games and so on. They didn't ask for it. You know what I mean? It was just like our toys weren't addictive growing up.

You could argue maybe that television was to some degree, but it wasn't designed to be. but in a way it was designed to me. It wasn't. Nobody created a cartoon so kids wouldn't watch it, spend hours in front of a television. But the difference is that went off, TV went off, shows went off, so on, you know, the doom scroll of the modern age doesn't go off.

It never goes off. It's 24-7. You could watch it until you die. Right? You could literally stay up and watch it until you're dead. So it's a different thing. And on the flip side of that, you know, that that becomes the sort of, that becomes the sort of devil and other devils don't exist and they're not as strong anymore.

You know, you do see it in sort of the latter middle school and high school with the vaping and that kind of thing. But the drinking, the drugs, even sex, not as prevalent in the youngsters as it was. Is that a good thing? question in my head always is do we do we trade one vice for another and that's just life as a human being you know what i mean and what is life without vice right i don't know but it is a it is a situation that uh these kids find themselves in today we're not but it's you see that's that's the rub it's not just kids it's everybody it's everybody so the mentality that's sort of cropping up is that everything sucks.

And how do we get to a world where everything sucks? Well, I think it's starting. When I say everything, it's facetious, of course, right? The world is beautiful. It's never been a more convenient, more comfortable, more lucrative, more, I mean, no one's ever had it as good as we have it now. But it's clear that there is an encroaching mentality to take advantage of the consumer. And that's the nature of corporations, right?

The nature of corporations, the nature of profits and more profits and more profits every year is eventually, eventually there has to become a point where you rub against the consumer in the wrong way. And we're there. We've reached that point, right? We've reached that point where lots of corporations have built themselves to a size with goals, economic goals, and profit goals each and every year that have to go up, up, up, up. And, I mean, basically, they're scraping the bottom of the barrel now

and making decisions that are going to affect them negatively in the long run. BMW's heated seats and heated steering wheel, which are hardware that are physically installed but software blocked, you have to pay $18 a month or you could pay per year for your heated seats. My oldest son told me about this the other day.

I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe. I already can't believe the cost of a vehicle, period. But then when you add to the cost of the vehicle, you add to that, this idea that, oh, you have, your car comes with heated seats and heated steering. But you got to pay a subscription fee for that. This is not made up shit. This is real life right here and now. Okay.

This is the type of stuff that makes people go, you know what I mean? and really sickened. So Mercedes acceleration and power boost in electric cars, the motor has the capability. It's installed, but it's throttled. Now, pay a subscription $1,200 a year, which was later reduced to unlock full power and faster acceleration.

Is that, that's crazy, right? That's an insane thing. T-L-T-H-C, man. we got to talk. The whole world is going to revolve around Turkey before long, I'm telling you. It's crazy. But this is the deal. You know what I mean? This is the crazy deal that we find ourselves in. It's this idea like how much? The answer is none, right? The answer is there's never enough. If the goal of a corporation is to make money year over year, is there ever enough? There's never enough. So they have to squeeze you and squeeze you and squeeze you more and more all the time.

And there was a there was a time when that squeezing a little bit and a little bit and a little bit wasn't so bad. You know what I mean? It wasn't the worst thing in the world. But now we've reached a point where it's like the economy not doing so well. The gas prices out of control. People got some financial issues. Debt's out of control both in the nation and in your own. household and the cost of living's going up and we keep electing Democrats that tell us we're going to

lower the cost of living and then they raise taxes on you so the cost of living goes up even more I think I'll vote Democrat again and see if they do it again they're not going to do it again there's no way they do it again if they do it again we're at a point now where it's it's become egregious it's become absolutely agree you buy an HP printer But the company pushes a subscription where you pay monthly based on pages printed. If you cancel, existing cartridges can stop working. Firmware often blocks or limits third-party ink, and the company has referred to non-subscribers in harsh terms. Printers now. Printers don't work.

They never work. printers work when they want to work. We've all lived in that world of printers where it's like you have to print something. Your kid comes to you or something. You're like, oh, I've got to print this thing today. And everybody knows their fingers are crossed. If you don't print regularly, you know what I mean? If you've got this dusty printer off in the corner, your fingers are crossed.

Like, just print, just print this. God, just print. Just so I can get this thing signed and send in the school and be done with. I don't want to think about it. so you don't even have a product that like we've all known that it is reliable you know it's not like a thing that you feel like is reliable

and still subscription subscription subscription subscription there's many more but I don't want to I don't want to beat you over the head with the with only the greed the iPhone will not allow you to change the battery

battery manually I found this out yesterday my oldest son showed me you get a message if you change the battery, right, yourself. If you dare maintain something yourself, which is illegal nowadays, right? Maintenance is another. Maintenance has become a thing that has been gobbled up for profit, right, by car companies and so on. It's just another one of these things. It's another one of

these things that's sitting around a big meeting table. People go, you know, we are a corporation. We must make more money next year. If we don't, we have had a bad year. I don't get my bonus. I don't get my raise. I don't get my this. So we have to figure out how to squeeze the consumer a little more. How can we squeeze them? But let's remove maintenance from the holes, you know, and charge for it. Let's remove maintenance and charge for it.

Let's make sure that no one can fix their own cell phone because that with the, what kind of money we can make then, their own car, their own house, their own everything, right? No one can fix anything. They have to, you know, pay a subscription fee to get anything. repaired or send it in for a high repair bill. You guys know the deal. I mean, everybody faces this, right? But then my ghost phone from Mark 37 popped in my head, right? My ghost phone from Mark 37 popped into my head. You use a promo code PBN over at Mark 37. You can get your own ghost phone and it also helps a prepper broadcasting network out. But the ghost phone is

not something that exists on a subscription fee. It's not something that it is not the perfect example of where the world is already, where the world will wind up, but it is an example of where the world is going, which is Google one of the biggest corporations in the world, probably one of the most evil. You're clawing this technology for, from their hands,

modifying it, manipulating it, making it what you want. It's not against the law. It's completely legal. But it's yours. You do what you want to this thing. With this thing,

to this thing, do whatever you want. Put whatever apps on there, VPNs, whatever you want. Hide your location. Do it. You know,

nobody's going to call you. Nobody's going to send you an email, send you a message and say, ooh, what you're doing over there? That's not what we agreed upon in the boardroom. And of course, this is just the beginning of where the world is actually going right now.

But it needs your help. The world needs your help. And I think that's the part that humans get hung up on right now. We're surrendering to a gigantic, corporatized, AI-driven world and assuming that only the things that we need can come from them. You need to... you need to definitely see what's going on out there in the world because people are inventing things all the time,

creating things all the time, doing new things. We will come to a point, undoubtedly will come to a point where all of a sudden, you know, everything is either being created at home or customized at home or new products are developed rapidly to fill a gap like I'm waiting for the guy to create the old car the old new car

the old new car that you can work on yourself even if it can't drive efficiently and effectively it can be in a round town car that you don't have to buy as an antique for six times the price but a cheap car that is a car of course we need to get regulation out of the way

and big car out of the way and all these kinds of things but this is the battle. Like the battle, the battle is, it's the old sort of hydrogen vehicle battle. That every, every, it's the old solar power fight. You're right. Nobody's stopping oil.

Nobody, it, this is where we're at. Those corporations were the first to be like gatekeep, you know what I mean? Now it's up to the people. the innovators, the inventors, the creatives to fix it, to say Sony no longer is going to sell video games, which is hilarious. And when I say video games, the PlayStation is they're no longer going to sell discs to go into the system. So you will only buy a video game in the digital cents. You will buy a license to play a video game. Now, back to subscriptions. If you want to play a video game on PlayStation online, you already have to pay 10 bucks a month or something along that line, 10, 15 bucks a month to play for the privilege to play online. And then now you're buying digital licenses of a game that Sony will allow you to play for as long as they allow you to play it. What if they decide to ban you for your views? Or for your crazy show called Surviving America.

What if they don't want you a part of their platform anymore? But you've spent untold thousands of dollars, right? What if they decide that the game that you love to play? Maybe it's a single player game that doesn't generate a lot of money or whatever the situation is. It's old. And you just love it. You play it all the time. And they decide, you know what?

We don't want to support that game anymore with our servers or with our, you know, our platforms. So that game's going bye-bye and you go, wait, but I spent $70 on that game when it came out. Yeah, we know. Going bye-bye. Huh? This is the next phase. This is the phase that is bringing about a real big change, which is, you know, the birth of piracy. The birth of unabashed piracy is upon us because of this.

because of this idea that these companies are going to sell you a thing and you're going to pay big money for the thing and they're going to really not give you anything. You're going to spend multitudes of dollars and they're going to give you a license to use a thing that they can take away whenever they want. And they're not going to give you a physical copy of a game. They're not going to give you a physical copy of a movie, whatever.

All of a sudden it's just you look around and you go, it's, oh, the great reset is here. The great reset can be here, but the great piracy is also here. And I want everyone to understand that. Insane subscriptions and not giving people a physical thing that they want that they're paying for, right, or a service that is always been expected, but now all of a sudden costs extra. or the ability even to maintainize a thing will destroy corporations because people are at a point now where they're first of all the workarounds are too easy the access to technologies and and the ability to make whatever you want however you want is too great we hear about artificial intelligence as a threat to jobs but these corporations better be careful because it's it's very much a threat to their existence too If you don't think in the next six months to a year that a company is going to come out with games on discs or games on cartridges that are awesome, that are independent, that are created by independent creators, small time creators who aren't looking for billions of dollars to create a game, if you don't think a system is going to come that's going to undermine the PlayStation and they're silly, silly, you know, just absolutely.

silly idea that they're not going to sell you a video game when you buy a video game. They're going to sell you an online experience until they decide you don't get to experience it anymore. Then you're out of your mind. And this leads us into that age of innovation, that the ability to fix the world, the ability to customize the world and the experience how you want it. I really do think that a lot of these big corporations, shot themselves in the heart and they're going to bleed out now.

I do think so. I think these car companies, I think, you know, you have Samsung the Frame TV. The Frame is marketed as a beautiful piece of art when turned off, right? So you got a TV that you turn it off and it basically, when it's off, it shows images, right? High quality art images. but to access thousands of high quality pieces of artwork instead of just 30 for three images, 30 free images. You need the art store subscription

that is $4.99 a month or $50 a year. So you already spent how much money on your Samsung frame TV. And another five bucks a year, if you want to get Van Gogh on there, sorry. If you want Monet, you need another five bucks a year. and uploading your own images into the frame TV is it's a real inconvenience is what reviewers say. Now, even a company like John Deere, right? John Deere has even got software subscriptions and right to repair issues, as I mentioned before, right?

The Peloton was the beginning of people. Remember the Peloton bikes? They were like those in-house bikes that you bear world order. What's up, my man? He says appliances used to last forever. Now they die in five years. Yeah, that's planned opulence, man. That's all part of it. That's part of what's driving people insane. But not only that, even when appliances used to last forever, you could get under the hood and fix the thing. Right. Now if you touch anything, oh, void warranty and whatever. But the Peloton was this bike.

It was a, it was a stationary bike that you worked out on. and it was insanely expensive. It was $2,000 for a Peloton. People bought it. And then they realized, oh, to get classes, right, to use the Peloton for something other than just pedaling and watching television,

which, why do I want a $2,000 bike that I'm just pedaling and watching television? I do that at the gym for the same amount, by the way, that they require. A $40 a month subscription. Without it, you got like a severely limited, you know, functionality. Online multiplayer fees, Adobe. Crazy.

It's wild, man. I had no idea, but there are even VIP dating tiers that you could pay for. If you're crazy enough to waste your time on Tinder, Tinder Select is only $500 a month, and you can get exclusive date dating options. The age of the subscription is a perilous thing, man. It really is. It's terrible.

But more importantly, but it takes something like this to spawn off great ideas and new things. It really does. I mean, the way that music is being handled now is different because of it, right? Because the artist was so taken advantage of. But even Spotify has their little subscription fee too, you know? What bothers me the most is that a lot of the kids coming up now were brought up in the world of free. You know, it's a very weird thing. It's a very weird journey.

There was a time kids were coming up. They were downloading all kinds of fun apps that they would play on their phone, on their iPad, whatever, for free. Everything used to be free. Let's put it free, watch an ad, boom, free. Now we're back to advertisements on all streaming services unless you pay extra, right? You're already paying, but if you've got to pay a little more so you don't have to watch ads, and you're like, oh, I'm just watching cable again. I'm watching cable again without the good stuff, right?

Remember the good stuff in cable? What was I watching? Oh, I was watching Martin last night. Martin is on Netflix. And, you know, if you've never watched Martin, I'm very sorry because it's, it might be the greatest television show ever. I mean, it, It's got to be one of the funniest television shows of all time.

I mean, it's insane. I own it all on DVD, but it was on Netflix, and I just said, you know, I'm going to watch Martin from the beginning, a few episodes before bed. And I just forgot, man, how good it was and how good it still is. It still resonates, you know what I mean? But, yeah, you know, you miss out on that kind of stuff. You miss out, like, on the old shows and the old movies.

and those kinds of things that don't usually exist on streaming. Like I said, the age of do it yourself, build it yourself, customize it yourself, maintain it yourself is here. The ghost phone by Mark 37 is just an example of the stepping stones that lead to the next thing. They've got laptops, they've got iPads, they've got all that stuff. But I had a conversation with Sean Patrick Tario, the guy who runs the thing. And he's already talking about, you know, the ability for a person to, and you can do this yourself already. But you can largely build your own smart home, your own smart home, right? A smart home that will literally serve you and is not, again, is not tangled up in some kind of subscription service, is not handled by some kind of service outside your home that can.

be hacked and, you know, all that stuff. My message to the people out there who do feel hopeless and do feel like everything sucks and everything costs too much is we're not waiting. We're not waiting for things in America to get to a point where people start innovating, right? Where people start modifying, where people start customizing. It's been here. It's been here. Do you know how I know it's been here?

When my son was about seven, we sat over here, my desk used to be over here by the windows, and we sat over here, and together we took his Nintendo DS and the pulling out of, what are they called, microSD cards, the adding of different code and software to that microSD card, putting it back into the DS, we basically, I don't know what you call it, what did we do? He always calls it the same thing, modded it. We modded it, right? Yeah, we modded the DS, and we basically put every game that exists

for the DS on the DS for free. This is three years ago, led by a seven-year-old. You know what I mean? So if you think that you're going to exist in this world where I always see like funny videos where people trying to use the toilet or the sink and their subscription run out so they can't. You know what I mean? There's two things though that we have to we have to understand. Number one is you can mod it, you can fix it, you can do without it, you can be self-reliant and independent and escape it. That is one wing of the bird, right?

and the bird must have two wings to fly. We also have to raise the expectations. We have to punish and then raise the expectation. So in other words, you have to punish these corporations if you care to have them exist. If not, whatever. Let them die on their bad decision making. But you see, when corporations get desperate, they get crazy. A corporation like Sony is going to squeeze up.

and squeeze and squeeze, I mean, God only knows where they wind up. They'll wind up in AI. They'll wind up in gambling. They'll wind up in, in, God only knows what kind of degenerate and addictive technologies are coming our way. But that's what they're wind up. If they're pressed too hard, they're not going to go quietly into that dark night. You know what I mean? But expectations are an important piece of the puzzle. And we got to get better at that, especially our community, because, you know, we're the type of people that, just give the middle finger and go, we'll just drill a well. To hell with you, we'll drill a well. Go to hell, I'm drilling a well. Because, you know, we want to solve it and we want to move on. But governments take advantage of us in the same way. And we have to have that second piece of the puzzle, that second wing of the bird, right? We can do it ourselves.

We can do it alone. We can customize it. We can modify it. We can make it our own. And that's huge. And I want to see innovation like that everywhere. I want to see a problem like this Sony PlayStation thing happen, and I want other people to go,

oh, this is a great opportunity. And not an opportunity in the way that Xbox came out and said, we're still going to sell your games looking for a pat on the back. Like, that's what you do. You don't get brownie points for doing what you do because the other guy is doing even worse. You know what I mean? That's what you're a video game company, playing company, whatever.

You know what I mean? This is what you do. Sell video games people. You know, I'm talking about a guy or a team or whatever who looks at this situation and goes, this is a great opportunity. You know what I mean? Let's put out some top-tier video games in a console of our own and, you know, GoFund me, whatever, Kickstarter, whatever situation is build our community online and give people video games that they can play,

whether they're online or not, you know, whatever. If they want to be online to play multiplayer, they can. If they don't, they don't have to. If the power's out and the internet's out, they can still plug a game in and play it. It's just the way it's supposed to be, man. It's just the way it should be, you know? And as much as I love that innovation, I also love the idea, too, that you just tell companies, this is what we want. And if you're not going to give us what we want, then you should just go off somewhere and get into another industry or try something new, do something else because it's not serving.

us, right? But it has to be, it has to be both. For us to have the maximum success, to have the brightest of futures, it has to be both, you know. For a long time, it felt like in order to deal with the changes and the problems, you just run, you know, metaphorically and literally, run away, right? I want to charge too much for water? Fine. We'll source our own. I'm going to charge too much for electricity. Fine. We'll just get off grid, you know? But there comes a time when you also have to realize, like, you're not just doing this for yourself. You're doing this for generations to come. You're doing this for people who won't get offline, whether you like that or not, right?

They won't get off grid. Well, I made it out. Screw everybody else. I don't think that's the way you should live. I don't think that's the way God wants you to live either. You know what I mean? But there's no denying it, folks. one of the reasons we

reestablish kind of how we're going to do content and charge for content and stuff like that on our new site red beaconmedia.com is because of this. It really is because of this situation right here. No more subscription. If you're a PBN member, then your subscription is going to go away and you're going to have access to the site. If you want to gain full access to the site to the PBN membership stuff and to all the Red Beacon stuff once it's up and running, it'll be a one-time fee of $100.

Right now, PBN membership is $60 a month. But I'm so sickened. Timing. I'm so sickened by it, man, by the cost to do life, by the cost of things, by what it costs a human being to walk. out of the house and go for a ride and eat a lunch and do a shopping and come back. And then you come back with things that you've got to sign up on a subscription fee for. And you're already out of your mind. You come back with a thing that you want to use, but you've got to set up a password,

a password protection, a two-factor authentication. You've got to take a selfie to prove your age, improve your height, improve your weight, improve your dignity, improve your eligibility. I'm so disgusted by all of it. that we're just going to put money where the mouth is and we're going to have very discounted a la carte content videos PDFs ebooks those kinds of things that are going to go for five bucks to a dollar

and that's it zero sum boom you want it you got it you download it if it's a member's only podcast you can get it a la carte if it's if it's uh you know a document piece of preparedness documentation or a new ebook or something that i wrote You get it, you get it for cheap and you read it and you enjoy it and you just feel good, man. You go back to buying stuff and feeling good about it. You know what I mean? You go back to buying stuff and feeling good about it and feeling excited about it.

Instead of buying an instant regret, oh, I saved up my money and now I got to pay this or now someone else has got to pay this for me. Or, you know, I mean, it's talking about from like a kid's perspective, right? It does sometimes feel like everything sucks. but it is without a doubt an opportunity to make everything way better, just way better. And to put an end to all of this, right? Maybe not put an end to all of it because that's quite the goal. And I can't say that I could pull that off. Maybe not anybody can pull that off.

But at least to figure out the process, what's this SOP? for when a corporation gets too far out of control, where they're like, we put heated seats in the car, but you got to pay five bucks a month to turn them on. Sorry. Do you know what I mean? Like,

because what's next? If you pay that fee to BMW, and they go in and they go like, man, we made, we made like millions off of our heated seat fees. Well, then some greedy bastard is going to sit up there and go, oh, well, if that worked so well, what else can we charge them for?

How about every fifth time they turn the car on, they got to pay? How about every X amount of miles they drive they got to pay? We could tie it to climate change, it'll be great. We'll tell the senators about it, pay them off, it'll be wonderful. And it'll make even more money off these silly peasants out there in the real world who are killing themselves to make it. So like I said, it is a great time of innovation. And that time is here.

We're not waiting for that rebellion to begin. That's already here. The ghost phone is one example. The age of piracy that is upon us now is another example. It's not an above-board example, but it's, you know, society's going to go a few ways. You're going to have people that say, I'm going to create a thing that's better than their thing because they've destroyed their thing. And then you're going to have a segment of society that supports that. But you're also going to have people who just say, you won't sell me of the movie.

So I'm going to download all the, I'm going to pirate all the movies I want, and I'm going to put them on a USB stick, and I'm going to plug them in the TV and watch them whatever I want. But download the MP4s? Download every damn movie there is. I'm putting on a big terabyte hard drive. You know what I mean? I got my own streaming service.

Screw you. Hey, people will be people. What did Nancy Pelosi say? Do it? Nancy Pelosi said when all of the country was on fire. fire over the great George Floyd, Nancy Pelosi said, people do what they do. People are going to do what they do in regards to the civil unrest and chaos in the streets of America.

Back in 20, people do what they do. She's right. People will do what they do. So, you know, for the individual, I guess the message of the individual is, well, it's the old tale of two cities. It's the old Dickens lying the tale of two cities It's the best of times and it's the worst of times It's the age of this and the age of that I forget it

But that's really what it is You know what I mean? If you want it, if you want to make it, you can make it If you want to make it your own, you can make it If you want to make a thing that solves the problem That you see out there, that subscription fee thing, That extra money thing, that overpriced thing If you want to solve that problem

you can solve it man you can solve it for yourself here's a quick example you go out you want to buy a a t-shirt with a with a thing on it whatever that thing is oh i like that t-shirt with that thing on it oh well that's a $40 t-shirt now huh 40 you can solve that thing i'll tell you the quickest and the easiest way you can solve that thing you can just go get the logo or get the image that that shirt has on it. You can remove the background from the image and then you can go to a place like T-Spring and you can make your own shirt that looks just like that shirt. It looks exactly like that shirt. And you just get it printed and sent to you because you can print, you can create a shirt on T-Spring and have a sample sent to you probably for about 20 bucks with shipping.

Now you have your shirt. You save 20 bucks. Just telling you. This raping of the public financially will spur great innovation. It will spur great illegal activity and all that kind of stuff. It's just part of it. I think it's important that we explore everything and we leverage everything so that we have the ability to really take advantage of this modern age of technology and access to technological things and customizable things. and access to everything, get access to everything.

If there's a thing that you're looking at and going, I can't afford it that way, there's likely a place you can buy something like it, make your own thing, do your own thing, build your own thing. Most industries, right? So you can find your own way, or, and we also have to be, we also have to learn the system of process

for pressuring these corporations when they go crazy. or we just outright boycott them and watch them burn. That's your call. I don't know. I mean, I got to play Wolverine, so I can't boycott Sony yet. I've been waiting six years for this game. I got to at least play that.

But, you know, it's one of those things. We have to do both. We have to innovate. We have to customize. We have to modify. We may even have to do a bit of pirating. We might, but we also have to. to put the expectation out there on the governments, on the corporations to let them know.

This is unacceptable and these are the repercussions, right? Because a protest is fine, but a movement without teeth gets nothing done. It goes back to the COVID days. You got to wear your mask. Oh, do I? What if I don't? No enforcement. No teeth.

You know what I mean? Oh, you have to wear your mask here. Okay. Are you going to make me? leave the store if I don't are you going to take my money anyway and give me a dirty look right it works the same way for us there has to be um there has to be teeth in the things that we do we got to be tactical about that we got to be smart about that we got to be legal with that there are ways there are ways so before i head down the uh no more income tax diatribe right it's important that i get the hell out of here

How's most sauce? How you been, my man? He's in chat. He says, I like the fashion art pieces, but pay thousands for a brand. He's made in Vietnam and finish in Italy is ridiculous. Boycott big everything. Look up open source ecology. Do you mean that open source ecology? Or do you mean open source technology? Because I don't know what open source ecology is. It sounds kind of scary. That's it. Why are a fan so cool? Why? I mean, you know what I mean? a lot of people in the Instagram chat right now. Almost none of them are talking. But the ones that speak up, the ones that I've seen, the ones that are here time and time again, they always are so cool. Appreciate you guys. All right. That's it for me for Surviving America. I got to go eat breakfast.

I do appreciate you guys. Look for Red Beacon Media.com to be up in the next few days. Check out open source ecology. I'm telling that to myself. because look, man, it is the age of rebellion and renaissance. There's no doubt about it. All right. I'm out of here.

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