The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 091: Newspaper and Coffee

Episode Date: September 23, 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 trees say they're tired. They born too much fruit. Charmed all the wayside. What song? Anybody know it? Today, folks, today.

Oh my goodness. The black pumpkin out of the orange pumpkin, huh? If you're not watching, I'm showing the black pumpkin by disaster coffee. Look at that. Look at that. Pumpkin spice. Not strong either. I really like it this year.

Last year was a little much for me. I'm not a really spicy, you know, flavory drinker of coffees. But not too bad, man, not too bad. What is going on, everybody, all over? Stay Wild Wolf. What's up over at Instagram? We're over at Rumble. We're over it so on and so forth.

Look, it's been busy, man. It's been a busy month. It's been a weird month. It's been a crazy-ass month. And I just want to push everything out. that is like order and inviting a little chaos. I've been far too orderly with some things that the audience is grown, right? You guys over at Instagram, everything grows the more orderly you become.

And your soul shrinks. And the little creative monster inside of you also shrinks the more orderly you become. That's why YouTube is dying, right? So what I want to do today is I want to read the news and I want to drink coffee with you. And that's what I want to do. My wife and I painted a couple of mugs. I don't know where we got them. I forget.

Got them at like, it wasn't Michaels. What's the other one? Not Hobby Lobby, not Michaels. Whatever the other one is. I don't know. You know what I'm talking about. I'm in the epic times, for those of you who are interested. I'm telling you right now, digital news is shit.

It really is. And with the advent of artificial intelligence and the overwhelm of ads, oh, by the way, for some reason, Spreeker kicked our ads up to five, I can't even imagine how they could think this is a good idea, but they kicked our ads up to five, like five ads on, plugged into the show for monetization in a row in ad spots multiple ad spots so if you got hit by that i'm very sorry okay there's not something i planned on it's not something i put into play something happened where they were like um we're going to take your like the most ads we run in a row

are three at the end of a show but for some reason i don't know what happened they jumped us up to five and there were episodes with like multiple five ad spots in a row. I don't know who would listen to a thing like that. So I apologize. I think I went through and got them all. I kind of isolated where it started and worked my way back. The ad revenue, I mean, I'm talking ads overall. Look, it's a good thing.

You know what I mean? There is a lot of stability in the running ads on PBS. If you don't want ads on PBN, you can listen to us live, right? You can listen to us live. You can pay five bucks a month over at Spreaker to be a PBN supporter, and that kills the ads. That's the only way I can kill the ads, fundamentally. You can give you access to our Lifetime podcast, but another story for another day. the benefits of barefoot walks.

This is news. This paper, just so you know, this is blasphemy in terms of the news, but this paper I picked up off the table I hadn't really looked at is from September 2nd through the 8th. September 2nd through the 8th. That's like another century

in digital news. You know what I mean? It's literally another century. Bookseller's alarm. as AI giants shred millions of books. Remember how long ago this story was? You forgot about it. Who cares?

Right? In the age of perpetual news, who cares? I really do think there is, we've got to get back to reading. Whatever the hell you like to read, right? I just think that reading is how we should fill our time over digital news and digital arguments. As flock cameras pop up everywhere, opposition is rising.

I wonder if that's still going to go on that October 31st at Halloween. Flock off. Charlie Becker's family bookstore in Houston has been connecting people with literature for more than 30 years. Becker said the family has seen a lot of changes. Since his dad opened his store for used and rare books in 1993, when he's 12 years old, Beck, there's nothing better, by the way. there was something magic about old books and then like collections of old books are like at a thrift shop and then uh looting if you will seeking and finding that old old book man that that book that maybe you didn't even know existed you know do want me to show you some i'll show you some what the hell

Like I said, this is a show where what we get into, we'll get into. We will most certainly get into coffee. And we will most certainly get into newspaper and such. All right. What we got going here? How is everybody, man? I'm not paying any attention to chat. Honestly, I've stopped listening to some podcasts because of the ads.

Fair enough, Hunter. I get it, man. Look, here's the deal. I made with you guys and I made it with everybody on PBN before. You rally together a group of supporters, you know what I mean, to the tune of what do we need? 500, something like that. And that's it. I'll turn the ads off.

The supporter, PBN supporter group could grow to the size where monthly I don't need the ads. And then they go away. You know what I mean? I promote it, you know what I mean, and do my thing. I give you an option to get out of the ads for five bucks a month if you want to do that. It's your call. But if we were to get there, $250.250, I'll turn the ads off, honestly, which is not hard to do. But anyway, imitation of Christ.

I found this for $5 at a local thrift, man. my favorite local thrift and there's an inscription in it written by somebody who has impeccable handwriting by Thomas A. Kempis, new edition I have no idea when it's from

I think it's the 30s or something like that. Books crazy. This book is essential reading. How to live like Christ. I mean, you know, the way a fallen creature can. 1933 first edition Dante Gabriel Rosetti

and anthology It's a good anthology to have for one of my favorite poets But There's a lot of like filler in it So I don't know His having his collection in one book

Really nice, okay Or a good good bunch of it In fact that book Was the first book I read The Apple Orchard in which wound up in my book, Poems for Men. Probably legally. I don't know.

This book I lost, I have no idea where it went. The Prophet I lost by Khalil Gibran. And then I found it again. I agreed in the thrift shop. And it's just fun to go through the books and find something. I'm on this new kick now. I haven't really gotten into it yet, but I want to just read something random. I almost grabbed something yesterday from like the 50s.

Forget what it was called. It had a cool title. I don't know. I just think it's a better time. It's a better use of time than most things that I find myself doing. Do you know what I mean? The other thing, it's a really great use of your time, by the way, like, just lay down. You don't have to sleep, but like, you know what I mean?

I don't think we do enough laying. You spend like, take a mortgage out for a mattress. We barely are on the thing. Thank you, everyone, for joining me. Let's get into some news. Let's read some newspaper with our coffee today, huh? Oh, who's here? Solana, how you been?

Pinned, okay. How to raise a gentleman. I'd like to read this one about how toys shape young. minds. I think that's interesting to me. How did toys shape older minds? When my son was little, man, both of them really. But particularly my eldest, he liked toys more than my youngest. My youngest was born too far into the digital age. You know what I mean? I mean, we had our, we had our moments and everything, but Carter was into the toys. Jacob, not so much. Which, I mean, because of that, we actually did a lot of really awesome things.

Three types of mosquitoes tested were attracted to different people. Ah, I told my wife. I told my wife. How to keep the immune system from aging too quickly. The benefits of toys can give children that screens never will. Children have always played across cultures and generations, certain kinds of toys. Let's see how this resonates with my experience, okay? Mainly because, as, look, screens are a mess.

There's no doubt about it. But I have witnessed some amazing things at the hands of my own children via screens and stuff. Children have always played. Cross cultures, generations, certain kinds of toys are constant. Blocks, dolls, and puzzles that invite children to build, pretend, and experiment. That is no accident. engage many of the ways the human brain learns. Quote, you're active.

You're engaged. You make it meaningful. Not by someone else's design, but by your agency. Yeah, see, Kathy Hirsch-Passick, a psychology professor and director of infant language laboratory. Like, Kathy Hirsch-Pasick, okay, would do good to spend some time where the kids are. It's very important to spend time where the kids are. Do you know what I mean? I mean, this is probably new, so it's not her fault.

You know what I mean? But you really have to go where kids are. Because back in the day, you'd sprawled a kitchen floor out with toys. I used to have a big bucket. I dumped the big bucket. And that's it. You know what I mean? I dumped the big bucket of toys and I'd root through them and get the ones that I wanted.

Right. And that would be it. You know what I mean? Hunter, you're the man. I don't mean lay at the moment. Anyhow, you have to meet the children where they are. Because if the goal, here's the deal. If the goal is to be active, engaged and to make it meaningful by your agency,

there's a lot of that going on in the digital world, just so you know. There's a lot of that going on in the digital world. I didn't know I was going to get into this, right. I brought you a video. I watched a video collage of things happening in one of the games that my son plays in virtual reality. And the ingenuity, to break it down as simplest, let me just break it down simple. Okay? If I would spend hours looking for the right action,

figures out of this barrel I'm talking about, and finding the right weapons to go with that action figure to pretend that he was battling, you know, an enemy with firearms, usually, rockets, little rocket launchers that you depress a button and it shoots. Now you can build worlds and then fight your friends to the death in those worlds with machine guns. and that's, I mean, that's a fantasy come to life. You know what I mean? It just is what it is. I'm not, everybody knows the kids are on the screens too much. We're all on them too much, right? All I'm saying is, you know, let's not throw the whole thing out and just say,

you know what, get back to building with your wooden lead painted blocks from 1940, right? That's all. But my biggest point in all this is you have to go where the kids are at. Most parents have no idea what the kids are doing in video games. They don't have any idea what they're doing in virtual reality. They don't have any idea what they're doing on the computer. They see them doomscroll on the phone and they go, oh, great. And it's just – but then again, I don't know, guys.

I don't know. You know, one thing I've learned about kids in general is like my kids were a lot of fun. by nature. They were fun or are fun, inquisitive. They take things to a different level. You know, they think fundamentally. They think and they imagine and they have fun. And I've met a lot of kids being a parent.

Not all kids are like that. Some kids are kind of boring. You know what I mean? I don't know. It just is what it is. I started working with patients back in the mid-1990s. Sandra Whitehouse, a veteran child psychologist and associate director in the anxiety disorder. That was really pre-i-phone, pre-screens, and I've seen a real change.

Let's see the change. Now, social media, for sure, will transform your child. There's no doubt about it. Social media will transform your child. It is clearly created a greater emphasis. Well, hello there. A greater emphasis on, uh, hey, look, it's me. Just kidding.

There was a picture of a guy fly fishing. Me and the wife were out on Tuesday, Monday night. She caught a monster small mouth. It got off right before we stand in the water and fish. So sometimes you reel all the way up to you and she doesn't touch the fish. So I grabbed the fish. And she got it up to like about her shins. And it just shook loose.

It was a beautiful fish, man. We've caught some beautiful fish in the, James River this year. Really? Fish that would have like sent me into a panic attack about six, seven years ago. Hooking a small mouth that size, I would have been like on cloud nine. B-10, lunges, egg plant, a rich source of antioxidants. I could go for some eggplant parm. That sounds pretty good. I didn't grow eggplant this year.

communication skills seem different from those she had seen earlier in her career rather some had missed opportunities for play during important developmental periods what white house has watched unfold over three decades is something that development scientists have spent decades exploring the invisible work of toys every toy builds something different the best toys require the child's input blocks without a blueprint or a stuffed animal with no name or backstory until a child gives it one. These are not great examples in my purview, in my view, in my view. Really?

I don't know. The blocks and the teddy bear, I just think they're easily, like, I just think they're easily replaced. I just, like, if we're going to talk about blocks and you have to talk about Minecraft, and if you're going to talk about Minecraft, then you have to talk about, like, come on. But is there a bit of hand-eye coordination involved in stacking blocks at a young age? Okay.

Sharing maybe, something like that, you know, if you're in that kind of a setting. Building something of your own. See, now you're treading into a world where, you know, a seven-year-old with Minecraft, like, set them loose, dude. Like, set that kid loose. I watched my kid build things you couldn't even believe. One time he made a house that was a Nintendo Switch. And it was so sweet. I mean, it was just, it doesn't compare.

Do you know what I mean? It just doesn't really compare. And I don't know what kids aren't playing with blocks when they're super young, like young enough to be playing with blocks. You know what I mean? I mean, I guess nowadays there probably are two-year-olds with I, pads and stuff like that. But like, yeah, maybe, maybe.

The openness is what gives toys their power. Roberta Golenkov, a psychology professor at the University of Delaware, I already don't trust her, and director of child play, child's play, learning the development. I don't turn your, call your organization Child's Play. Come on. Have you not seen movies? Learning and Development Lab told Epic Times, toys release the imagination. If you give kids physical things, they can manipulate and they get to think about scenarios with them. They're going to use their imaginations, said Go Link Off, who with the Hirsch Passick co-authored, Einstein never used flashcards, a landmark book on child

development. Play, it's like an elixir, Hersh Passick said. It's teaching you all this stuff. Different toys invite different kinds of thinking. In my experience, raising children, I'll tell you, as usual, my honest opinions, my thoughts don't always jive with that of my community here. Like the people listening, the people watching, the people, you know, across the board, you would say things like homeschool your kid, right? That the schools are indoctrination holes and you should homeschool your kid. You have to beware of these things. Nothing is perfect. Do you know what I mean?

Nothing is perfect. What I would say, like let's say you had a highly digitized kid at a young age, which I think is like a speed bump that we've long sort of run over, right? We all kind of ran into this situation and realized, ooh, got a little crazy. I don't see generations upon generations moving forward with kids who are like glued to iPads from inception. What I do see is a rush towards homeschooling and a religious and personalized and familial curriculum that harkens back to a, you know, the way teaching used to happen in school rooms and smaller schoolhouses, things like that. However, both my kids went to public school elementary, charter, but public school elementary.

And we ran into public school stuff, public school problems, right? We ran into some wacky stuff. 2020, we had some stern conversations with administrative. if, and, and, you know, like, guys, this is part of being parents, right? You, you teach your kid some things when you elude everything, right? When you play the elusive game of there are problems over there, so we'll be over here. Something over here may come up that we don't like, so we will stay over here, right? as opposed to this is this is our this is the thing that we do and when problems come up we

grab them by the throat and we deal with them not to mention just the sheer like i don't think really if if you're grafting a child onto the world which is what parents are responsible for right if you're grafting a child onto the world and they're going to leave your care and go out and do their thing. I think you put them at a serious disadvantage if they don't get around a lot of different types of kids and a lot of different types of people. That's the world, baby. Do you know what I mean? That's the world. If you're going to hold their hand from the time they're born to the time you die, build their house for them, put it in a great community. They move from your house to their house, which is one block over and, you know, maximum control of their life.

First of all, that's going to suck for them monumentally. Oh, they'll be safe and cared for and all that kind of stuff, and you won't have to worry as much. But God bless them, they're going to hate life. So you won't find me espousing. And listen, I'm not saying homeschool is a bad thing at all. I'm just telling you, you won't find me espousing it as the one and the only option or as even the best option. Maybe for some kids, for some families, you've got a big family with a bunch of kids, fine. You know what I mean?

I know kids that are homeschooling through high school and they're at home alone. And that's their high school experience, dude. Their high school experience is home alone, talk to the tutor on the computer, get off the computer, probably play video games instead of TikTok. Right? So when you hear the words homeschool, you got to understand, right? it doesn't mean big win all around. It's not easy in case you haven't noticed, right? Raising kids ain't easy.

But I will tell you, man, you better have, you better give them something, right? I've been doing good Jorate, been doing great, in fact. Jorate from Portugal pops into chat to tell us he just had some cow intestine with white beans and chorizo all stewed together. And for the first time, Jorate mentions of food that I don't even want to try with him for the first time, right? So I don't know, guys, we're talking, we're looking at newspapers and drinking coffee and having a day. It's pouring rain outside. It's somber. It's cool.

It's an autumn day. It's beautiful in every way. That's what it is, you know? I had a little bit of a diatribe on Prepper Broadcasting Network the other day talking about my disdain for getting into the news. And what I really meant was the digital news, right? We're in life and tradition now. Looking for a spouse, a new interactive map reveals the parts of the country with the highest rates of marriage among young adults in their 20s and 30s. If you're looking to get married, the place to go might be the Provo area in Utah.

Yeah, because, you know, you can have like six and seven wives there. So, of course, people are getting married more. You can, if you're an absolute masochist, you can have six, seven wives. Both locations feature some of the highest rates of new marriages. Where is this? The map provides a number of insights into dating and marriage landscape, no pun intended. Our research at IFS shows that marriage provides a tremendous number of benefits. IFS, IFS fellow.

However, depending on where you live, young adult weddings may be either. Perfectly normal or quite rare. What do people get married for anymore? If you're trying to figure out where to move after school, wondering why dating in your city feels way too hard or just curious, what the numbers look like, well, let's see. Let's see Go Get Married website. C3.

I'll give you my two cents on that, too, if you like. C3, C3PO. It's time to declutter your kids' calendars, for real, man. Give these poor kids a break. The map offers a number of layers that users can manipulate by changing the settings. Okay. Summarizing the heart of the findings, Butcherfield said,

when reviewing the data, I was struck by the relatively high marriage rates between northwest, Alabama, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Between this area, includes the southern suburbs of Nashville, Evansville, Southwest, Indiana, Bowling. Yeah. I mean, that... Why you're struck by that?

What's striking about that? Between that and the Midwest, that would have been my choice, right? However, many parts of this marriage belt do have solid ratios of single, full-time, employed men to single women, a metric that correlates strongly with young adult marriage rates. Oh, maybe disaster coffee needs an ad in the epic times, huh? days coffee without the harshness our enzyme fermented beans reduce bitterness and acidity so your coffee is rich

smooth and satisfying less caffeine than regular come on who the hell wants that oh yeah they definitely need some disaster call I wonder what they charge for an ad over there you would eat that and also cow foot with beans and chorizo what was this account name before this survival and preparedness it was called

what do you got okay there you go so we're taking a day off of survival and preparedness okay over there at Instagram what I do have to tell you is that we have what 22 episodes of back cataloged interviews for National Preparedness Month those of you on Instagram if you'd like to watch

something more prepper related have a good time enjoy it The last taste of the summer grill, folks. You guys want to talk about marriage? You want to talk about the summer grill? I don't know. Looks good. Bite-sized skewers, stretched, juicy beef, tenderloin for a crowd.

Advanced planning turns large purchase into simple chuff. Frozen produce bridges the gap between nutrition and busy days. Well, that baked cod looks good. That's a nice looking dish. No doubt about it. Yeah, so I guess Mediterranean-inspired citrus cod, kale spinach, zucchini, julienne, tomato sliced in rounds. So what do we do?

Cod primavera, red onion, garlic, chopped basil, dill, extra virgin olive oil, one pound wild caught whitefish, cod, halibate, sea bass, or flound. It's been a long time since I've had a serious halibate filet, you know what I mean? A good hunk. One of those big doormat halibates. The kind we'd get whole at Almada, Cuba, and you'd find the tail end of it sticking out of a trash can and water downstairs. A clean trash can before it was butchered and brought back up to us on the hotline.

Turkey or chicken spinach bowlignase, man. I make that every week. Let's see how theirs is. Let's see who's bollignase is. better. Ground turkey. Extra virgin olive oil, chopped onion, garlic. I'm right there with them so far. Celery, no. Carrot, no. Spinach, no. Seed oil-free marinera sauce. No, no, no, no, no, no. Fresh basil, sea salt to taste, fresh ground black pepper. Heart of Palm pasta. What the hell? What is going on here? Heart of Palm pasta. Heart of Palm pasta.

So turkey, bolognese is amazing, okay? Brown the turkey, remove it from the pan, olive oil, 100% olive oil. There's no need to saute and sweat in extra virgin olive oil. It's a waste of time and money. But onions, garlic in the pan, sweat. You guys know how to sweat? Sweating is a cooking technique.

most people don't talk about on food networks. You probably don't know how to sweat. But it's just a lower heat where the onions and the garlic don't brown. There's no browning, okay? If you brown, you're sauteing or you're frying or you're caramelizing. It's not sweating. It's wrong. So lower heat, salt, sweat the onion becomes translucent.

The garlic becomes translucent, right? Then about a teaspoon or two of red chili flake into that whole olive oil garlic onion mix. Okay. If you want to add carrot here, you can, but you probably should have added it earlier. I don't put carrot in the tomato sauce. Just don't do it. Then you go in with your crushed tomato or your tomatoes puree, right, into the pan. Diced tomatoes, Italian style or just diced tomatoes.

tablespoon of sugar, honey, garlic powder, Italian seasoning. So you're going to season a good sauce multiple times. You're going to season the onions and the garlic. You're going to season again when you put the tomato product in there with salt, with sugar, with garlic powder, and Italian seasoning. But you're not done, right? I also put olive, good extra virgin olive oil on top of all of this before I set it off, right? At this point, you can stir in the meat again, stir in the ground meat again.

Simmer the thing for like an hour and a half, two hours. Do it early, so it's awesome. And you got something now, you know what I mean? But you're not done, right? At this point, take the lid off. Now you decide how we're going to season it at the end. So you taste. Get a knob of bread.

Maybe I baked some bread last night. It was unbelievable. You pull a knob of bread off. You know, dip it, taste, it's good. No, it's too bitter or too acidic. It needs more sugar. It's too whatever, right? It needs more salt.

What I always do at the end. Not right before serving, but, you know, get the pasta water on. go to the garden, get the fresh oregano, get the fresh basil, slice into the sauce, right? This happens at the end. If you add the fresh stuff in the beginning, it turns to nothing. You can't taste it. Layers upon layers of seasoning. It's going to be amazing.

If the sauce is too thin, oh, well, that's another thing that I do. I'll cook the sauce for like 30 minutes with the lid on because it's a little loose. It's going to bubble. It's going to gurgle. It's going to spit, right? But then after about 30 minutes, I'll take the lid off, cut the heat way down, and let it simmer open top so it'll thicken for the rest of the time. If it's not quite thick enough for you, you can add tomato paste. I don't even know if people buy tomato paste anymore, but you can buy, you can add tomato paste.

And believe me, you will have an amazing, the only thing that can make that more, the only thing that can make that bolognese better is when you have the, uh, when you have the sweated vegetables, you de-glazed the pan with red wine, quarter cup, half cup, whatever, however much you like, right? Hunter says he's sweating and browning as we speak. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Marriage is like a good cookout. There's a writing prompt.

That's pretty good. Jorate says, would take the olive oil and fry pork intestines filled with pork meat and a little flour and eat it with you, mate. You're the man, Joray. I do hope that one day before either one of us goes that we do have a Portuguese meal, either in your neck of the woods or mine. So that's how I would do the old Balagnese sauce, okay? What else we got in here? Thrift store donation etiquette.

Oh, I don't really donate to thrift stores very often. them, but I do shop at them. You're missing out. You're missing out if your pride is too much for a thrift shop. Tips for hand washing dry clean only, a savvy shopper secret to buying in bulk. It's the only way to fly, really. Just as there are layers to a great bowl of gnazy sauce, folks, there are layers to yours truly. It's pretty well done. I want to show you the surviving America a substack real quick. If you want to read, okay, it's completely free. It'll probably be free forever. I don't know, maybe not. Who knows? I can't tell the future. But if you're picking up what I'm putting down here on today's show, then I'd like you to just take a look at the,

what is it? Substack.com at slash at Surviving America, okay? And here I really kind of go off the rails in terms of writing. And there are some things on here that you'll probably like. If your ears perked up about marriage, I'd highly read, and you're a man, I'd highly read, well, maybe even women, I don't know. I wrote this from a man's perspective, but it, it's an entire series. I think I have, I only have two of them working on the third, called How to Enjoy Life is a Man on Earth.

And how to enjoy life as a man on Earth is, it's important this day and age. it really is it's an important bit of writing this day and age because well we have everything we've been given everything we've you know earned very little of it and it's very hard for people to be happy anymore it seems like this is me is a great series there's a rare picture of lady liberty you almost never see her uh this is me the darketing oh it's a good one man in fact this is about a year old almost. It's probably worth reading. What else do we got on here? Anonymous phone user. Oh, that was my ghost phone article. Forget national divorce. America needs a digital divorce. This was written in Disney, I remember. The idea came to me in Disney and then I wrote it in Disney.

Posted it in November. A Coke and a smile. Don't even remember what that one's about. For some reason, I posted it several times. New Ant, Ant, Ant, anti-anxiety drug. Oh, that's back in the days when I was talking about prepping, right? Oh, look at the chickens doing their thing. Five things Trump has done that you must prepare for. Everybody thought that was going to be a big bash on Donald Trump. The methadone of doom. Not bad, James Walton, 2004, James Walt. The 2024 model of James Walton was pretty good. The 2025 model took a bit of a hit. I'll be honest with you. Do you guys view different than mine? Hmm.

Interesting. Oh, I will do that, my man. Enjoy your day too, Jorate. I appreciate you, buddy. Have a good one. What's up, Black Links Prepper in the Instagram chat? How are you? Thanks for hopping in.

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No credit card. You don't got to fill anything out or anything like that. But this is my world, man. This is what I look at, right? This is one of the things that I do when I start my day, to be honest with you. I pull open the old Be Aware dashboard dashboard and I look and see where are we at. There are 100 power outages in the area. That's big.

but it is raining all day. We've got outages near Andercourt. We've got a number of them. Largely our area looks unaffected, so that's good. So you can look at power outages. We don't have any legitimate threats. Maybe when the nor'easter closes in, we'll have a little more.

We've got our digital shutdowns and alerts, GitHub, cloud flare as usual. Cloud flare is always got problems. We've got our, well, let's see, air quality, we've got a long way to go for that James River to become an issue. We've got our news,

we've got our crime news and such, juvenile injured in late night Richmond shooting. Profit Road Bridge closes for repairs. I mean, all these things, right? Like, what this does for me is it just, it's just better. You know what I mean? It's just a better use of time. It's a better use of your brain.

Figure out what's going on in your local area, right? You can sit here and tell me all about the geopolitical implications of Donald Trump and Iran. Then you wind up at the, what is it? The Prophet Road Bridge and it's closed. And you're like, why didn't anybody tell me? Now you're late. Donald doesn't care. Iran doesn't care. Hunter in chat says marriage is like a cookout. If it's just weaners and buns, it might be good but doesn't last and is less satisfying.

But a good two-day marinated time and effort. Not bad. I like that, Hunter. That's greeting card potential right there for sure. Marriage is like a cookout. If it's just weeners and buns, it might be good, but doesn't like last and is less satisfied. Not too bad. The PBN family always delivers. All right, folks. So you want your own? You want your own Be prepared dashboard in your area? Be prepared. Solutions.com. Check them out. Do your thing. All I can do is show you mine. Well, I could show you yours too, but you'd have to tell me where you're at. And don't worry, we'll take the be prepared dashboard on the road and see what's going on elsewhere speaking of elsewhere i am needed elsewhere there are other things i must do phone calls must be made emails replied to of the writing of many

books and blogs there is no end folks that is it that is the course of the life of mortal men on this earth i leave you with that and i implore you read uh what's it called what is it called I'm drawing a blank. Read Keats' poem on autumn today. Just type in Keats' autumn poem. For some reason, I feel like it is just titled Autumn. But read that. Read about the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

Because today's a day for that. Or at least, you know, if you're caught up in the nor'easter, the beginnings of the outer edges or the upper edges or the inner edges of the noreaster, and it's cool and that kind of thing. Yeah, read that. Enjoy it. Remember that there's that whole lane in life also. You know what I mean? Thank you all for joining me today. All of you participated in chat. You guys were great. More of these surviving Americas to come, but we got to get through National Preparedness Month, man. We have the duty to be done. It's been great. Go back, read the archives. I mean, sorry, watch and listen to the archives. All the NPMs, national preparedness months, one, through 22. Every day was amazing. I'll see you guys soon.