The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America: Episode 4

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

https://linktr.ee/pbnlinkshttps://pbnfamily.com/register/1-year-membership-save-over-20/CALL IN: 804-767-7171

This is an apparent podcast. Apparently, we are living in the year 2024. This is an apparent podcast. Apparently we are living in the year 2024. I am an apparent male. I'm also a parent. We're not going to get into the political. And we're going to try to stave off the political as much as possible But understanding that everything America is political

Now more than ever Now more than ever it seems that way The question that I have for you today on surviving America Who's your best friend? Who is your best friend? Who is your best friend? Your best bud The one you call To

Ring out the troubles of the day Do you have a best friend? This show is going to go In a number of different directions And for some reason You know I think that surviving America is essentially the American condition. That's really what I want it to be.

Later in a moment's monument in the show, towards the end of the show, I'm going to read you The Narrow Way by Anne Bront. Amazing. 29 years old, dead. Poet. 19th century. amazing, 29 years old, dead, poet, 19th century, the narrow way is one of those reminders of how long people have known how to live.

You know what I mean? I was talking to my sister last night, man, and it's not that we don't know how to live. It's not that we don't know right from wrong. It's not that we don't know how to live. It's not that we don't even know the path to success, right? It's like people know these things. I think they even know them inherently. But it all comes down to will.

You know, it's willingness. But I want to talk about friendship in the United States today. At Substack, I'm in the process of writing something about boring people. You know what I mean? Like about boring and bored people. boring and bored people. We're in an age where people are boring and bored and wrapped up in political warfare, and that's how they get their rocks off, right? It's like a pong match between scrolling in political warfare

or pornography in political warfare. That's just what it seems like to me. Stump Field in our chat yesterday, which I thought was pretty funny, over at Element, he said, anyone have exploding pagers on their bingo card? You're not supposed to laugh at that. Serious, it's war. Yeah, I know. I get it.

I get it. Talk to the Israelis. Ask them if they had plans to be this deep in a war still. So I welcome you into Surviving America. The reason I opened the show with The Apparent is because this is the buzzword for the current situation with Donald Trump's second assassination attempt. And I guess the only thing I want to say regarding that on this show is the left is going to immortalize Donald Trump. They're in the process of making another incredible and massive mistake because that's what they do.

You know, they're not a successful lot. I mean, they're really not a successful lot. If you look at what they've done, everything has gone overboard. Everything has gone over the edge. gone over the edge. And even if they steal away the election in November with a candidate that no one voted for while they point at Donald Trump and say he's a clear threat to democracy,

meanwhile, the Democrats had no Democratic election for their candidate. Like, these are fundamental things. They're simple to understand, easy. If it wasn't Donald Trump running for office, there would be no contest. If it were anyone but the most hated man of all time, there'd be no contest. If you had a Robert F. Kennedy or a Ron DeSantis sitting there as the Republican candidate, and you told the Democrats, you don't get to vote for your candidate, and one side got

to vote, the other side didn't get to vote for their candidate, I mean, that's enough right there, isn't it? Isn't that enough right there? I mean, that's enough right there, isn't it? Isn't that enough right there? Now, the fact that the media is complicit on it, the fact that no journalist came out and demanded, like all major news networks that are Democrat-dominated should have been so pissed off, they should have demanded an election. Every Democrat voter should have gathered together and demanded a Democratic election for their presidential candidate. Crickets. Nobody says anything.

Yeah, we'll take her. What? But he's the threat to democracy, I tell you. You better watch out. Well, anyway, they're going to immortalize Donald Trump. They may have done it already, by the way. It may be a wrap. and their clear desire to have the man killed and sort of the subtext of them reporting all this stuff

is to get the man taken out. I think everybody can see that pretty clearly. All this, and he may get killed still. And by the way, if he gets killed, then he'll definitely be immortal. If Donald Trump gets murdered, because he's already been president, if he gets assassinated while president or even now, he gets to go on the list with John F. Kennedy. He gets to go on the list with John F. Kennedy. He gets to go on the list with Abraham Lincoln,

right? Immortal. They're so dumb. You know, everyone needs to stop thinking in terms of 50 minutes and start thinking in terms of 50 years. That's one of our problems right now. We look at something and we analyze it and we go, how will this affect my life in 50 minutes, in the next 50 minutes? You can see the world in a totally different way and see the mistakes you're going to make or other people are going to make so much better if you just say, rather than 25 minutes, think 25 years. Rather than 50 minutes, think 50 years. What's going to happen?

What are things going to look like? Donald Trump is not going to go down in history as the worst man of all time. No matter how much ABC and NBC believes they can pull that off. But what the left is doing in the country right now is immortalizing the man. They're taking a man they hate more than anything in the world and they're turning him into an immortal figure in American history. But they're blind, you know, blind by their rage So it is what it is

There's a lot going on, folks I want to read you some headlines about friendship in America Because I think this has a lot to do with a lot I asked you at the beginning of the show Who's your best friend? I would invite you to call in to the show, 804-767-7171. That's 804-767-7171. I invite you to call in to the show and talk to me about friends.

Do you have friends? Do you not have friends? Where do you fall on the friendship scale? Do you have one good friends? Do you not have friends? Where do you fall on the friendship scale? Do you have one good friend? Do you have zero friends? You know what I mean? Do you have, is your life dominated by work, acquaintances, and such? I can tell you right now, some of the reason that we are in the boat we are in is because of this sort of radical isolation that we live in. You know, this seeking a friendship community online or an echo chamber or a group that agrees with you because you don't go out to the bar on Friday night or you don't have friends over to watch the game or you don't, you know. An article from Yahoo 13 days ago.

Americans have friends, we just never really see them. The friendship paradox. Americans reported having an average of about four or five friends, but a big hurdle is the time and effort it takes to schedule a gathering Olga Kazan says A slew of books and apps aim to help people tend to their friendships But these tools all have the same limitation They put the onus on each individual to initiate and maintain contact

So maintaining friendship in the atomized new world Might require ratcheting down expectations. It's interesting to me. I mean, I remember family. That's the other thing, right? We're a moving nation. We're a moving nation that uproots and leaves friends behind and leaves family behind.

And then we're in these, so, you know, you get a lot of like the, I married my best friend type of thing. And, you know, if you have done that, that's phenomenal. I don't think we should aspire to do that. I think you need friends. One of the problems with marriage today Is that we look to that person as You're everything You know what I mean? Like to look at a person, your spouse And be like, this person will be everything This person will be my wife

Right? And she will be my wife and everything that goes along with that She'll be the mother of my children and everything that goes along with that. She'll be the mother of my children and everything that goes along with that. She'll be my lover. And then on top of all of that, she'll be the person that I enjoy movies with, the person that I play video games with, the person that I do this and that, and everything that we do, we'll do together. And she'll be everything. That's crazy, man.

That's crazy and wasteful. There's a lot of people in the world. You know what I mean? I'm not a big fan of that mentality. The spouse will serve every purpose I need in life. They'll be my answer to everything in life. It's like that's, you're either going to wind up alone or disappointed. If you really fundamentally believe that you're going to meet a person who meets every one of your needs and you do everything together

and you're always having a good time. It's like I always look at that weirdly. I think there are couples like that for sure. But I think for the average person, you need other people. You need friends, you know. You need fishing buddies and hunting buddies and gaming buddies. You need friends. Or else you wind up in the house or with the same person all the time or you know what i mean the covid pandemic left an extra

13 million americans single why are so many people single in the united states you know why why are so many people single in the United States? You know, why are we having so much trouble linking up? What is it? Is it expectations? In my sub stack, I was writing about how we rip the heart out of, we rip the heart out of writing. Like we rip the heart out of masterworks of writing, and we nail the heart of that writing to our wall

in the form of a poster or a quote, right? Like in other words, you take a poem that was written for a reason, with pacing and build you know build up in mind and you rip out the the four lines that make the most sense to your cause and you drift on those four lines as sort of your north star and it seems to me that but now we do everything that way. Everything is Netflix and chill.

You know what I mean? There's no delayed gratification. There's no buildup in suspense. There's no, you know what I mean? So when it comes to friends, it's just another thing to work on. And I don't know that Americans want to work on things. It's clear we really enjoy it cheap and easy. But yeah, you know, that's not clear. It's clear that we choose cheap and easy, don't we? We most certainly choose cheap and easy when we can.

But then you look at depression and all that kind of stuff and you say to yourself, I don't know. It's not clear that that does for us what we need. It's just clear that that's what we choose. So I'm concerned about friendship in America. Because I think this lack of friends Pushes us into these political tribes And it's how we wind up hating Donald Trump More than Hitler

It's how we wind up hating people And despising And knowing so much about inconsequential Things and people in our life You know what I mean? The nation's fascination. The fascination with

somebody like an AOC. You know what I mean? Like the fascination with a person like AOC. A person like AOC should have been ignored and laughed at. And should still be.

Like, you could be a representative, that's fine. But you're so insane. You're so silly. This is, you know, in some ways I look at Kamala and I see the path to AOC as president. Like, I don't, in our world today, I don't think it's far-fetched at all

that she could run and win. Cortez could run and win in America today. I believe it. You know, Taylor Swift will say, yeah, let's vote for her. She's one of us. But we get wrapped up in these inconsequential things,

I think fundamentally because we're bored to death. We don't know how to satisfy our boredom. You know? We watch people when they're bored, what they do with their time. You know, if you think that Twitter is a good use of your time, if you think that Words with Friends is the best use of your time or whatever mobile game you choose to spend an hour on, I don't know. There's a reward system that is not being filled up properly. You know what I mean?

You know what I mean? Like in a 24-hour span, the average American has a reward vial. And meaningful relationships and meaningful interactions and work with your hands and creating things and fighting for something and physical duress and that type of stuff, all clearly fills that up. And that vial gets full. And when my vial's full, by the end of the day, it's lights out. I laugh at the idea of, I need a therapeutic to fall asleep.

I need a tea. I need a white noise. I need a, you know what I mean? Whatever it is, like I need help. I can't go to bed. You haven't done enough. You clearly haven't done enough. There's about 17 more things you need to do before bed then. I go to bed exhausted, folks, dead. I close my eyes. I thank God for a few things, and then I'm waking up, and it's, you know, 5 o'clock. Like, what?

But we are on a mad dash to heal the wounds of our bad decisions in life that we go over and over and over and over again. We're in a mad dash to live up to the expectation of Instagram. We're in a mad dash to make more money, do more things, right? And filling all those holes with little spritzes, trying to fill that vial with little spritzes of sensation. Oh, give me the phone. I need a sensation. Give me the video game. I need a little sensation. Give me the quickie. I need another sensation.

And we're going to bed staring at our screens, faces aglow. Trying to feel that fulfillment. It ain't happening. It ain't happening, it ain't working. And we fill all our time, and then there's no time for friends. And there's no time for relationships, and Americans are wandering around, you know, single. Or my favorite are the people who are in like relationships that are five tiers deep right like the married couple with the uh with the chick on the side who is a single mom and

it's like this whole little layering effect of people being dishonest. It's a dark, dark thing, right? It's the seven layers of hell. And again, you know, a lot of it has to do with dealing with stress. Studyfinds.org says Americans are at peak stress now. September 17, 2024, research led by Talker Research. It's only a poll of like 2,000 people or something like that, but... Comparing stress levels to previous years, 38% of survey participants believe that 2024 has been more stressful than 23.

It's been less stressful than 22. The primary source of anxiety this year include finances, economy, physical health, world issues. With cold and flu season approaching, self-care and stress management are more important than ever. Half of those surveyed believe that stress is often the main cause of them getting sick. And when asked what season is most stressful, the highest percentage of respondents, 26% said winter, How could you not be stressed out? See, how could we be the most stressed out ever?

But then you look at the television and you see Kamala Harris and you go, she says everything's going well. I guess everything's going well. Let's take a quick break. PBN family be back in a minute. EMP protection is on the minds of all preppers. And since the massive geomagnetic storm back in May that brought the Northern Lights to Texas, more and more people are paying attention. Faradaycontainers.com has some of the largest and most fortified EMP protection on the planet. 20-foot and 40-foot shipping containers built with copper beryllium gaskets for maximum protection. rillium gaskets for maximum protection. They also have five-foot workboxes that can be loaded with solar generators, solar panels, comms. Visit faradaycontainers.com. Wisconsin-built EMP

protection. Are you prepared to be the family doctor in a disaster or emergency? This is the Intrepid Commander, and I'm holding The Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Forgy, M.D. In this great book, you'll learn how to prepare for medical care off the grid. You'll learn about assessment and stabilization. You'll even deal with things like bioterrorism response, radiation, and how to build the off-grid medical kit at home. Look, 2020 taught us a lot about the limitations of our medical infrastructure in America. Get the Prepper's Medical Handbook today at Amazon.com. Again, that's the Prepper's Medical Handbook by William W. Forgy.

Maybe you know what a zombie is. When a person dies and is buried, it seems a certain voodoo priest will have the power to bring him back to life. Horrible. It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes

walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring. You mean like Democrats? It is surviving America, folks. I hope you took great joy in the previous clip. I want to thank Dave Jones for that. It's good to be with you. It's good to be with you on a rainy Wednesday morning. I don't miss the evening shows. I hope you guys don't miss the evening show.

I don't know. Life changes. You know, things change. The world's always constantly changing. I know the people in the element chat know I'm here. Surviving America is live What a great network Jeez Dave Jones by the way

Have you been listening to the tips? You gotta listen to the tips Oh my god the tips are outstanding The tips are a master class Broken up into 30 days. I'm going to tie them all together. I'm going to wrap them all up in one big bow and hand them to the members. There's a link in the show description below if you want to become a member.

We're always adding new content, always adding new things. It's, I don't know. The world itself is the greatest advertisement for the PBN membership. If you want to really take preparedness seriously, get prepared. Join us. Members, current members, listen up. There will be an email about this going out in the very near future, but might as well announce it here. We're going to do something.

We've been selling lifetime memberships to our members, our current members. You want to get in for the lifetime. It's a great deal, yada, yada, yada. You've probably heard me mention it. I understand Biden's economy and what it's done to us. I understand Biden's economy and what it's done to us. So I'm going to offer the members out there who are looking at lifetime membership and saying, I ain't got it, a half now, half later deal. So lifetime membership, you've got the email, you know the price.

If it's too much, but you really want to become a lifetime member, because you know there's savings, right? You know that you're going to support PBN as long as PBN's a thing. And you just want that. We're going to offer you a pay half now and a pay half later, okay? That way you can get that deal. You can become a lifetime member. You don't have to break the bank. I know what time of year it is, you know, but for National Preparedness Month we've decided to sell a few.

Not many. Sell a few memberships, lifetime memberships. A lot of you have taken advantage of it. We really appreciate it. You know, it's a level of commitment that is staggering. And we appreciate it okay so membership's a whole nother side of this thing folks for you out there listening who uh you know mulling it over or whatever the situation is it's like dig deep folks you know what i mean there may be never there may never

be a time like this there may never be an opportunity like this. Garda girl, good morning. JB, what is up? I'll be seeing JB in a week. God, yeah, I can't wait. I'll be seeing JB in a week and a day or something along those lines. It's going to be awesome, man. Prepper Camp 2024. Looking like it might be a little rain. Might be a little rain. Might have to bring the rain protocols and the rain gear. But we'll survive it. We'll survive it nonetheless. We'll be serving steaming hot disaster coffee. We're going to be serving Civil Unrest, our Tanzanian Maximum Caffeine.

We're going to be serving Pandemic, our six-bean espresso blend. And it's going to be phenomenal. It's going to be phenomenal. We just released, we might as well talk about Disaster. Let's talk about Disaster Coffee real quick, okay? Listen to the Disaster Coffee podcast from yesterday if you haven't. I'm not going to give you the whole story, but suffice it to say that Disaster Coffee is now owned by myself, Phil Rabelais of the Matter of Facts podcast, and Andrew Bobo of the Matter of Facts podcast as well.

We have two new releases, okay? Two new incredible coffees. We have tea on the way. We have an Ethiopian Sidama. All right? You got to understand, when I say disaster coffee, all you have to understand is this is the best coffee in the world. It's not me making things up.

It's not me promoting a business. I have nothing to do with it. It's a coffee roaster in Temecula, California, who is incredibly passionate about this stuff. They source the best coffees there are, in my opinion. I mean, that's just what it is. And when you have the Ethiopian, the F5, we've called it the F5, and the Disaster Coffee logo over at disastercoffee.com for F5, features a tornado, a big old tornado facing down a house. It's fun. It's what we do, right?

But the F5 is outrageous. Berry notes, honey notes, chocolate notes, it's a great one. And just yesterday, the day before, something along those lines, we bent the knee to pumpkin spice. But we did it our own way. So the book Strange Highways by Dean Kuntz, there's a story called The Black Pumpkin. And The Black Pumpkin is about a guy who, a family who kind of shortchanges a dude carving pumpkins, a real creepy dude carving pumpkins.

They're all there together. And the man carving the pumpkins just basically says, you know, you get what you pay for. Right? basically says, you know, you get what you pay for, right? The guy asks, the dad asks, how much money for the pumpkin and for the carved pumpkin? And he says, well, you get what you pay for. And the dad sort of takes advantage of him. The older brother kind of mocks him, and they wind up giving him next to no money. And he keeps telling him, you get what you pay for.

And that night, the black pumpkin comes to life and basically kills everyone in the house. And I always loved that story, man. It's such a great, it's just such a great story. I don't mean from an uplifting standpoint. It's a great horror story. And so when we started talking, I started saying like, yeah, this pumpkin spice thing.

The holiday, you know, I like the seasonal coffees. I told you weeks ago, like, don't fall asleep on the seasonal wonders of life. Like, when the leaves start changing, enjoy the fall season. Like, get into the fall season. These are the things that make life worth living. So I said, let's do it. Let's do the black pumpkin, the pumpkin spice medium roast from Disaster Coffee. Okay?

Go to DisasterCoffee.com. I'm done. I'll stop. I know that's a lot. Join the membership. Become a lifetime member. Buy the coffee. Buy the Faraday container.

Buy the books. Buy the... I don't feel bad. I just stop because I care about you. You know what I mean? But I don't really care about throwing all these products at you that are great. In all honesty. Because I know that aside from like the coffee, these things are necessary.

What we're doing is necessary. And if I can beat someone about the head and neck over and over again until they realize maybe I should, maybe I should get better prepared. And that's because the outcome, man. You know, like when people take the steps to get more prepared, they'll tell you. Thank you. Right? They'll tell you. There's a crazy preppers exhibition happening in Sweden. We Will Survive, it's called. If I were rich, I would fly there to see it.

I would. We will survive the prepper movement. Mudeck, Lausanne, Switzerland, from September 13th to February 9th. Here's the deal. If you have a business or a service that aligns with PBN and you want to sponsor PBN for a year, I'll personally go check this out, okay? I'll personally go. I'll write this whole trip off as a business expense and tell you all about it. And that's about the only way I'm going to get to Sweden to see it. Now, it's not in all clarity.

It's not like I really want to see it really bad. I think it's intriguing and kind of awesome that we've reached a point where in Sweden there would be a significant exhibition. It says, This is the most significant exhibition ever devoted to the complex phenomenon of preppers, people who have been preparing for the end of the world for years, blending alternative lifestyles with extreme survivalism.

I told you this is a thing. You know what I mean? This is much more than just people in food storage. Like prepping will be historic. Preppers will be historic, a historic community. It just is what it is, you know? You can't go through times like this and take on all the things that you've taken on without understanding it. The exhibition begins with a timeline presented in a long, narrow corridor

lit by flashing lights. You know, they should have got Toolman Tim to help out with this. It traces humanity's evolution through predictions, disasters, and key moments for the prepper movement. It then divides into three themed sections, starting with existential threat and risk assessment, which identifies the primary threats to human existence today. Beyond natural disasters, stretching back to prehistory and mass extinctions, the exhibition also considers modern human-made risks, terrorist attacks, biological threats, blackouts, nuclear warfare, and more.

An awareness of time becomes essential when living in a world of mortals, urging us to focus on what truly matters. Man, I think these guys might have been listening to me. The heart of the exhibition is individual prepping. Set up like a supermarket with the repurposed shelving, this section displays hundreds of everyday items, tools for dealing with emergencies across categories like water, food, heat, light, energy, shelter, hygiene, and communication.

emergencies across categories like water, food, heat, light, energy, shelter, hygiene, and communication. In this slightly unsettling space, visitors can also find tutorials on screens and leaflets offering practical advice how to start a fire, identify edible plants in urban areas, tie knots, or make a toothbrush out of a twig. It's crazy to think about, right? It's absolutely crazy to think about, right? It's absolutely crazy to think about.

So much of prepping has been ingested, digested, chewed up, the nutrients taken up by society to the point now where, well, this is all I'd ask you. What would we do if the world was the way it was and all the preppers, prepper videos, prepper infrastructure, prepper businesses didn't exist? What would people do? Do you know what I mean?

It's wild when you think about all the things that we've done to sort of, it's almost like we had to exist. It reminds me of Goku. What do I mean by that? I'm not even going to go super obscure, childish, nerdish. nerdish. In the world of Dragon Ball Z, Goku faces a succession of enemies who are just as strong as he is, or maybe even a little stronger. And if anything were to happen out of order, he would never be able to beat the people he had to beat, right? And as these enemies come, he's pushed to new heights to get better, to get stronger.

And you look at the prepping phenomenon, and it just reminds me of that. You know, like, had this happened before, had all these things that are affecting us now happened before prepping, what would we do? You know what I'm saying? It's really weird. It gives way to the Simulation thinking Right What else do we have here to do I don't think it's time for the narrow way Maybe it is time for the narrow way

It is a longer poem It is a longer poem Maybe I'll tell you about her I don't know much about her myself. I found it, I found The Narrow Way reading life, I started reading Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz. And a line from The Narrow Way was in there, and then I read the poem and I said,

this is just stuff that's round. You know what I mean? It's just crazy to me anne brant was born in thornton england in 1820 both a poet and a novelist best known for novels agnes gray and tenant of a wildfell hall or the tenant of wildfell hall um and i'm pretty sure she died at like 29. Got sick. 1846. No, no, no. Anne was educated at Hawthorne or Haworth with her brother Bronwell.

Sister Charlotte and Emily. They wrote poetry and prose. She served as a governess for the families between 1839 and 1845 And died of tuberculosis May 28th 1849 Yeah so she was 29 Shortly after the deaths of Her freaking

Brother and her sister One of her sisters and her brother That was a crazy time You know what I mean? Like, we get wrapped up in this doom and gloom of today. Like, people died all the time back in the day. Just get tuberculosis and died. You know what I mean? All this was happening before the big pandemic hit. Bill Gates came out. King Liz lizard himself stepped out of the fray to warn us all of another pandemic bill gates forecast another global pandemic likely within the next 25 years

in an ominous health warning they must be tabletop gaming the next pandemic as we speak i guess right war or another global pandemic mic CEO Bill Gates is cautioning That if the world manages to avoid the former The latter is a very real possibility A lot of unrest in today's age Could spark a major war He told CNBC's Make It If we avoid a big war then yes

There will be another pandemic Most likely in the next 25 years I'm stirring it up right now In the lab with the rest of my lizard pals. He didn't say that. After seeing the ill-preparedness of COVID-19 pandemic, Gates joined the League of Scientific Minds. Is that terrifying? The League of Scientific Minds,

who fear how the world might fare if another global health emergency were to sweep through the population. The League of Scientific Minds. Gates authored a book in 2022 on a subject called How to Prevent the Next Pandemic. I know. Tell Pfizer they'll make billions of dollars and never be held accountable for anything.

Duh. Duh. and never be held accountable for anything. Duh. I told you yesterday, and you know the message, the best message I can give you is that you have to be brave enough to write down the life that you want. And then you have to have the gusto, the energy, to make it happen.

And that's everything. Oh, JB is traveling. She's currently en route to NC. See you there. Sorry for the delayed response dropping off AV gear. Oh, man. I didn't know you were in the neighborhood already. So JB will be upon us. She's already nearing. Cool. Very cool.

It's going to be a great year. But again, what kind of life do you want to lead? Are you brave enough to ask yourself, do I want friends? Do I want this? Do I want these things? You know what I mean?

It's not easy, folks. Nothing about this life is easy. Make no mistake about it. But that has nothing to do with whether or not you should live this life to the fullest. And I'm telling you right now, even before I was a prepper, I understood that gardens and food production

and from-sc from scratch cooking and trade skills made life better, cooler. People always were excited when you told them you fly fish. Today, it's still exciting to people. Oh, I want want to learn Tie my own flies and fly fish Just one of those things See, I grew up doing these things That just were part of the path that I was put on And they were rewarding Writing and tying flies and playing music

And all these kind of things that I did day in and day out. Fly fishing, fishing on the weekends, all that kind of stuff that was just—and falling in love all the time. Not to be confused with many sexual partners. know, many sexual partners. But I'm talking about notes and passing notes and holding hands and phone calls and long calls on cordless phones that died, you know, mid-call. Talking about, you know, love. Cute. To put it like the band blindside who i love cute boring love you know what i mean that that kind that kind of stuff all the time always girlfriend always you know what i mean like doing that thing in life too that was it wasn't all of life it was part of life but it wasn't it was almost like a requisite. It was almost like a prerequisite to

life. And all those things added up to be fun. To be fun. To even to be piss poor in a terrible Having a great time. You follow me? These things that I've gotten into or gotten back into thanks to prepping, they are vehicles to improve life. You know, there's a butternut squash I can see that's about ready to be picked outside my window. And I look at that thing and I see it and I see it roasted and I can taste it and I think about like all spice on it or five spice on it. And I, you know, it's everything works together when you allow it all to work together and you get into all of it. The seasonality of life, it should all work together because it all does work together. You go outside, you forego the comforts of the home and you live in the woods for a weekend, just a camping trip. routine except me because I'm inside an office or I'm inside a house or you know what I mean? Like everybody's on the same grind or even in the wild, they're eating the same things. They're doing the same things. Oh, time to fortify for winter, time to store food up for winter, time

to, you know, we're all eating on these, the last remnants of these leaves or these bushes, collecting the acorns. And we're over here like, I'm saving money for the Bugatti. Huh? What? You know what I mean? It's really weird. It's really weird to be that far out of the loop of everything that's happening. The myriad of benefits to prepping go far beyond just a mass reduction in anxiety.

I recommend prepping to everyone who has anxiety. You got anxiety about life? Before you go therapy, before you go pills and potions, dig into prepping and homesteading. Start making soap. Go Tyler Durden. Make some soap. Grow some food. You know what I mean? Do some things.

Make a pesto. Make a sage and walnut pesto this time of the year. It is that time. Oh my God, is it sage and walnut pesto time, butternut squash ravioli time. And do these things, man. Get back to living life. Stop looking at life through your phone and television and get back to living life. We just do it under the guise of this thing we call prepping. And we want you to do it. We want you to do it.

Not only because it's fortification against chaos and emergency and disaster, but because it's permission to live a better life. Period. Right? but because it's permission to live a better life, period. Right? Let's call it a show, folks. I'm going to have Checky Brown in the background, even though this is not necessarily a Checky Brown kind of poem. But it is long, so if you're not into poetry, you can check out now.

I do appreciate you. Go get your membership, get your coffee, buy your land from your cheap land. You know the deal. But I'll try to meld the two. I'll try to turn this 19th century poem into a 21st century city spoken word. I don't know. We'll see what we can do. But I do want to start it out with, you know what, let me turn this down a little bit. Checky might be a little loud at 87.

And we'll go out with Anne Brute and The Narrow Way. Thank you so much for joining me here at Surviving America, episode four. I'm going to keep on rocking, okay? Let's put it down. Just a little bit. The Narrow Way. Anne Broughton. 1820-1849. The Narrow Way Anne Brown

1820-1849 I'll check that volume one more time before we get going. Believe not those who say the upward path is smooth, lest thou shouldst stumble in the way and faint before the truth It is the only road unto the realms of joy But he who seeks the blessed abode Must all his powers employ

Bright hopes and pure delights Upon his course may beam And there amid the sternest heights The sweetest flowerets gleam. On all her breezes born, earth yields no sense like those, but he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. Arm, arm thee for the fight, cast useless loads away. Watch through the darkest hours of night, toil through the hottest day. Crush pride into the dust, for thou must needs be slack.

And trample down rebellious lust, or it will hold thee back. Seek not thy honor here. Wave pleasure and renown. The world's dread scoff undaunted bear and face its deadliest frown. To labor and to love. To pardon and endure. To lift thy heart to God above and keep the conscience pure. Be this thy constant aim. Thy hope, thy chief delight.

What matter who should whisper blame or who should scorn or slight? What matter if thy God approve? And if within thy breast thou feel the comfort of his love, the earnest of his rest? Enjoy your Wednesday, PBN family. I'll talk to you soon.