The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The CCP Taps to Tariffs

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

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WRX for off-road over at Instagram garden girl, thanks for joining us over at Instagram to Over at Instagram garden girl. Thanks for joining us over at Instagram to Hidalgo The Phoenix is over at Instagram as well see Instagram I don't know what they do with their notifications and stuff But they hit people right off the bat and then boom they start coming into chat like boom real quick So it's Monday Monday where we are talking about the fact that the CCP has tapped to tariffs. The people layoffs and business closures and pissed off Chinese in the streets.

As we kind of thought, right, have forced the hand of the communists to say, all right, all right, all right all right all right fine fine we'll stop at least in the short term we'll stop screwing the Americans over I think my best advice though on all that is pretend like the tariffs exist pretend like they exist we're gonna feel feel the effect still cuz there's all there's this blip in shipping right so like there's like blip in shipping, right? So like there's like ship, ship, ship, ship, tariffs hit, things get a little wonky, product inventories get low, and then they'll, you know, as long as everything goes well with the talks and the agreement is, you know, inked and all that kind of stuff,

then I imagine that inventory will go up. But I think something, you know, maybe not 100%, but it might be kind of cool to live in this 50% world of maybe the tariffs really are still 125% and everything from China does also suck and cost too much money. I don't know. It's something to consider. It reminds me a lot of the mentality for ration a ruin right now in my head, right? Garden Girl in chat lets me know something wonderful. This is this is I didn't know about this but this is wonderful. The DOJ is now investigating the epic city in Texas, which is this is really good news. I mean, make no mistake about it, like we talked about the Muslim enclave that is being built a thousand person is a thousand person or a

thousand square mile, whatever it is, this giant sort of Muslim community that was being built Muslim exclusive to if I go knock up and built, Muslim exclusive too, if I go knock up and say, hey, you mind if I move in? Like that ain't gonna happen. It being built in Texas and one of our listeners is real close by. So that means people are real close by like regular Americans. But aside from like, just aside from the sheer amount of people, why did not ask for you to follow me? Why can't I talk? I did not ask for you to follow me.

Why can't I talk? I got to turn this off on this camera. You're a little overzealous, Johnny Five. Take it easy. Aside from what could happen, building a small Palestine-esque sort of place in the United States, it's hard for me to imagine a place like that if they start putting things in place like Sharia law, which I don't have all the details in front of me, so I can't go too deep into what exactly it is. But when you start thinking

about like radicalized sort of, what's the word I'm looking for? Doctritorial is not the word. Devout. Devout to the practices of radical Islam even just from the religious sense and the sort of the treatment of women. You start thinking about like an entire community, an isolated community like that in the United States, and there are probably some already but a new one right thousand people Men women children All I can think about is like inside that Community the horrors that will happen, you know what I mean?

Not that you know, America is not free of the horrors in our own right, but do we need to build more horror shows? I'm glad to hear it, Garden Girl. Yeah, it doesn't. It seems like literally like nothing good. You know what I mean? Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong. How about that? I see rockets flying out of it, to be quite honest with you. It's way too close to cities in Dallas. I just see. I mean and also in Texas, really really cool convenient spot in Texas because if you can get your ass over the border you can run right into that town and then you're kind of you know you're amongst the the crew if that's what it is. I know it's all so mean to make these assumptions brutal, right? But it is what it is. So I'm glad to hear that they're investigating it

The jiu-jitsu welcome in Let's talk about this thing though because because the CCP has tapped the tariffs it's important its preparedness related though a Celebratory as it is. I do think there's benefits to saying to yourself, maybe I continue on my life pretending the Chinese goods are either unavailable or aren't as cost economical. I think in the long term, you'd be better off. Like I said, not everything, but consider it. Some things, most things, as many things as you can. What I've noticed through ration or ruin so far for those of you who have been paying attention to ration or ruin is

And if you haven't been paying attention to ration or ruin then go listen to the subsequent Podcasts whether you're listening to this through podcast through I think on on YouTube on X on Instagram. We have Updates on ration to ruin on all those platforms right and it fundamentally is just a survival food and food in general challenge you know what I mean like a restricted eating challenge fundamentally but one of the things that I've noticed is snacking stuff it's pretty easy to just pretend like that stuff doesn't exist.

It's pretty easy to pretend that things don't exist, especially when there's benefits, like when you feel the benefits of it. So in other words, we've had this sort of restricted model of eating with foraging and things that you grow and things that you hunt and things that you fish and nothing else and then Exclusively survival food, you know what I mean? certain days of the week and What's become apparent is like How you how quickly you forget that certain things are food options just because you know

It's off the table and you're saying to yourself. can't have it so what's the point of thinking about it you know what I mean and I think you could apply the same thing to this Chinese tariff deal if if you're in that boat you know I know there's a lot of people who carry like a certain level of guilt with them I know you're out there I feel it sometimes you carry a certain level of guilt with you because you're thinking to yourself, you know, could... I just have to see who's going absolutely out of their mind on the messages that it's been the breaker of the banksters and the rationed, ruined crew. Let's put them on blast. Some good, some good updates from the rationed, ruined crew. I'm supposed to be keeping track of my weight apparently. But I don't even have a scale in my house to be honest with you.

I don't even have a weight scale. I'm not buying a weight scale just for this because I don't think anybody will use it. So let's get into the details, shall we? US and China agreed to slash reciprocal tariffs in major step toward easing trade war Where's the good stuff US tariffs on Chinese imports will be cut 30% to one from 145 All right, so Chinese imports were cutting from 145 down to 30% and and China is

Has been did to the 10% like every nation right the 10% So they're down from 125 Everything that comes into our country was They had to pay a tariff of 145%. Now it's only 30%. Everything that we sent to their country, we were paying a tariff of 125%. Now it's cut down to 10%. Or this is the deal that they are working on. Or they've agreed to a 90-day pause on most tariffs. So Where we're at right now is a 90-day pause with these 30% and 10% tariffs in play. So fundamentally, we got what we wanted, you know what I mean? We got a higher tariff on China, at least for these 90 days, and I have a feeling it'll iron out just like this. I mean, how does China

say, let's go back to riots in the streets, I think. I think we need some more riots and some more layoffs and some more economic upheavals. So yeah, Phoenix Survival in chat over at Paracord Instinct Costa Rica. You got you a welcome in. You got a lot going on in your name, dude. You literally caught my ADHD brain with that name in chat but anyway Phoenix says she'd love to see our overall results. Yeah, maybe maybe what I'll do is a weekly Way at the gym. I can hop on the scale at the gym. I

Don't know if I'm gonna lose weight or not. I don't eat way more than these guys Because of the cultivator Privilege I call it cultivator privilege because I think that's funny, but I really do have a cultivator privilege for example today They have the mountain house, which isn't bad I mean mountain house is probably the second best option we have We've got some MREs to come and then we've got some Jones Homestead food to eat for the fourth week but today they're essentially eating Mountain House foods on the days that they're allowed to eat without foraging and

Since I they're in the cash bound division. I'm in the cultivator division. I have Incredible food to eat today. I have incredible food to eat today I have amazing I mean giant brown eggs that are so I haven't eaten eggs my own eggs in four days which is really long time for me I eat those things every day so I'm looking forward to that I'm also looking forward to breaking in the gooseberries already out there I don't know if you guys had those. They're a really cool little easy to grow perennial food, the gooseberry. The gooseberry is a thorny perennial bush that puts off a kind of like a blueberry sized green grape looking thing, right? It's a little fruit. It's a little perfectly spherical fruit

Kind of swedish sour It's good. They're good. You know, i've never made a gooseberry jam and I don't know if I ever will because Right now I don't have enough gooseberries not to chew through them all like I just like to eat them Um, maybe if we expand on that Which we could really good perimeter fruit producer like if you're looking to build perimeter thorny kind of pain in the ass perimeter They wouldn't be a bad option because they're a little thorny and

Food producer right now. I don't know how the deer would do with them. The deer might eat them down to nothing They definitely would eat the fruit. I could promise you that but anyhow 90-day pause on the tariffs us down to 10% and China down to 30% Announcement comes after the two countries met in Geneva, Switzerland, you know, I don't think this is the biggest news It's gonna happen today though

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You know, it's come to light, the blackout last week. It was the last week of the week before the Spain blackout was like, and, and I got the final breakdown from Peter Zion, who is, you know, super pro solar and green tech and all that kind of stuff. So I want you to know that because, and I want you to know that there's serious value in listening to people who say things you don't agree with all the time. So this guy, if you never heard of him, he wrote a good book. It's that white one right here. It's kind of out of place. But it's called The End of the World is Just the Beginning and I thought it was really good book. Sort of about a lot of things. A brief history of

the US's, you know, responsibility to the world, followed by kind of what is happening in the world with demographics and economies and nations and you know, all that kids, good, good read. But he hates Trump. There's no getting around it. He's a little lefty from my taste on a lot of things, but he's smart and he knows, he knows some stuff. So I listen to the guy a lot. And why all that's viable is because when you take an issue that can be immediately divisive, like what happened with the Spain and Portugal power outage, immediate divisive political, what really happened?

Was it the coal? Was it the solar? Was it the wind? What? I don't even know if they have wind. What, what was it? The sun? Was it, you know Was it the wind? I don't even know if they have wind. What was it? The Sun? was it you know, what was and

he fundamentally said that their connection to fossil fuel power generation is Wasn't strong enough to support the switch over that needed to happen when the power was disrupted In other words, they're running on the sunny wonderful, you know sun over there Solar power over there and and then they find out that they don't have enough to get it done You need a large amount of power to switch over back to the fossil fuel power generation that didn't happen. So the lights went out So whatever the disruption was, you know the atmospheric anomaly The UFOs the aliens struck down.

They couldn't switch over. So I started thinking about it and also the concerns overall about solar power and solar generation and the continued sort of yuck that goes along with solar power. You know what I mean? Like that continued sort of like, in other words, the thing about solar power that is funny to me is you can put solar panels out in your yard and get power from them from the sun for nothing. They're expensive, you know, but you even get a tax write-off for it. Yet so many people are kind of like, eh, right? Like, eh. And I started thinking about it. I'm like, why? What is the deal? And how would you get the

public to be much more supportive of something like solar power? Now for me personally, I'll tell you, I've been looking at solar power as an investment, like not as an investment, but I've been looking at what it means to invest in solar power for our own house. Does it make sense? Does it not make sense? One of the things that always bothers me about investing in solar which I think Would be a great business model. Hello. If you're out there is I don't trust the pace of technology

Enough to invest big money in in solar panels. So in other words, it's like If ten years ago when I first got into this stuff if I spent money on those solar But you know how much they would suck right now compared to the ones that are out now So now imagine I invest in today and put a bunch of solar panels out in ten more years They're gonna be like paper thin. They'll probably be built into the into the roofing tiles You know what? I mean, which is what somebody needs to figure out just build the solar into the roofing tile But it was more than that, you know what I mean what somebody needs to figure out. Just build the solar into the roofing tile. But it was more than that. You know what I mean? There's more than that to it and here's what the real thing is. The real reason right? Solar power isn't gaining

massive support amongst everybody because it's free. It's free. Free! I mean like you can go fill your car for free. You know I mean people if it was done right, if it was done well, if it was possible, people would love it. How much is your energy bill? How much has your energy bill changed in the last 10 years? I think this is the underlying thing that makes people sick when they hear solar power. Because the amount of solar power, let's see it by thousands of gigawatt hours, actually I'll share this with you. Let's see. What's up L2 Survive? We got a we got a really cool

announcement from L2 Survive or a cool sort of video wrap up of a great event. Yeah, just look at that. US and solar wind power. You guys got that right? Yeah. US solar and wind power. Thousands of gigawatt hours from 2015 to 2024. See the, see the rise.

This is what makes a lot of people sick, I think, about it. We keep hearing about this city, this state is running X amount percentage on solar now. Let's have a round of applause. And we've gone up from what? Way less a hundred gigawatts per hour of solar power in 2015 to almost 300 gigawatts of solar power gigawatt hours of solar powers in 2024 and what really bothers everyone is they look at that power bill and they go Oh something's amiss. Seems something isn't changing. In fact, it's only getting worse. So when the government tells you that everything is good,

Lord Fairfax Prep, how you been my man? Welcome in. Everything's going well. We're generating tons of solar energy. We're generating exponentially more solar energy than we have in a decade past. Power companies are making all kinds of advances in solar power and generating a lot of your good percentage of your power is coming from the sun. And you say, why is my power bill cost the same or more than it did 10 years ago? Because my house is filled with energy efficient appliances now in comparison to what it was 10 years ago.

So I've got energy efficient appliances. I've got a power company that's producing more free energy than ever before. And I get the power bill. What's going on here? Meanwhile, the overhead for places like Walmart and the overhead for a bunch of these larger square footage, you know, big box retailers are putting all kinds of solar

panels on their roof. So their power costs should go down, which means their overall cost should go down, right? The power company's cost to them should go down too. And then the prices go down. There's something missing. There's a wire cut, if we're going to stick with our electric sort of metaphor here. There's a wire cut and something doesn't seem to be adding up.

You follow me? Now, I think if you cut the power bills of the average American and said, well, this is because all the solar power, then I think the average person would be able to make the connection and go, solar is pretty sweet. I got a hundred more dollars in my pocket a month thanks to the Sun. But when nothing changes for the middle-class working man, you know and woman it's just like Cool. We love hearing about your great project where you save a bunch of money and none of it gets filtered down to the people paying the bill. Really cool. Save the planet more. I don't know just my thoughts Because it seems like an easy thing

It seems like a very easy. Well, we have L to survive in the chat folks in the YouTube chat and He's got a great video It's the Thrivalous fair from this year So there's like a bunch of cool events that happen every year for preppers and homesteaders and such. And in Addy, Washington, the video went up about four days ago. And it's a really great overview of what some of these outdoor shows look like, you know. So go to his YouTube channel, L2Survive. L, the number two, survive.

And check out the Thriveless Fair video. You may be seeing a little more of it here on PBN but check it out because these these are great options and opportunities for you guys. Seriously sir particularly the outdoor ones. I've done survival and prepping events indoors and outdoors. It really lends itself to the outdoor thing. Nice time of the year, nice for travel, right? And it's great. L2Survives has so far this year I've used 7,000 kilowatts at my house for the whole year. Dang. Dang. I remember L2Survives doing some upgrades. We'll leave it at that. But yeah, it's a good time, it's a

good time of year to check out the sort of running list of Prepper and Survivalist and Homesteading and Self-Reliance events around the country. They are kind of growing. You know, here at PBN it's all Prepper Camp all the time. That's the one. You know what I mean? I really think like I Think it helps to see Prepper camp and then explore out to the other events Because it helps to see like what's really possible at an event like that. That's on full horsepower 65 classes per day, you know what I mean?

65 classes per day a great know what I mean? 65 classes per day, a great vendor area, awesome products and services, and then of course the brother and sisterhood of camping out together. Multiple campsites, it's in a gigantic campsite. It's very common to see myself out in the canoe with the fishing rod between serving coffee and classes because there's a nice lake right there with some nice bass in it. And yeah, it's really kind of kids are like a, they're just easy there. There's places to swim, there's places to play, there's open fields, it's a great time. But I've never went to a Prepper or a survivalist event and not come away with

something amazing, you know, and I don't even mean a purchase. I'm talking about, you know, purchases are purchases. I don't weigh a purchase as... I don't often weigh purchases as something really incredible that I make it a show, you know what I mean? But I've almost always come away with information that is just change life-changing Literally life-changing. I mean the show I did in Dozwell, Virginia. I came away with Dave Jones the NBC guy How do you weigh that? How do you cost that? What's the cost? benefit analysis on that?

Right. So, um, check them out. Even if you're kind of fringy, even if you're kind of like looking at this prepping thing from afar, you know what I mean? You should definitely consider checking out the, the nearest prepper and survivalist show to you. Right. I need to go over the people I met in Ohio. Yeah definitely Phoenix. Phoenix what's the name of that show?

Tell us what the name of that one is. I can't keep up. Is that the old survival school, old school survivalist camp or what's it called? There's a ton man. I think what's happening right now for me in the background is a bunch of hosts and people who listen are going to these shows and I'd say probably within the next three to four years. I'll be doing more of these shows I was kind of Happily anchored. You know what I mean here at home with the kids and everything and it's nice But I think yeah

Now that we've run a bunch of them the heartland of self-reliance Conference happened in Ohio and Jay Fergie was there Phoenix survival doing her fibers thing so Kind of filtering out what's good and what's bad There's a lot of people out there seeing which ones to go to which ones are kind of a pain to get to or audience ain't there whatever the situation is and then we'll Will devise a little tour I think it would be kind of fun. You know what I mean? I think that's about it folks. I'm getting hungry you guys have been great phenomenal don't forget to support

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We could do a hardcover, too I guess if sales start going really well, we'll do hardcovers for both Maybe when we get to a three book series, we'll do a do a hardcover The next book is going to be great. I already got it got it worked out in my head. So The next book is going to be great. I already got it got it worked out in my head. So Yeah, enjoy the ride man hitch the wagon to one pbn one prep or broadcasting network be it through Whatever you're watching us on or listening to Make sure you subscribe because we do this stuff every day. We're here. Sometimes it's me. Sometimes it's not

but This is the world that we're pushing forward. This is the world that we're trying to give, you know, give life to. No, I'll to survive. It won't be a leatherback hardcover, not for a children's book. It'll be like a cardboard wrapped in something or other that Amazon does. I don't know, you know, until we open the Red Beacon Media Publishing House, it can do things our own way. We are self publishers to the max. All right. Until we open the red beacon media publishing house, it can do things our own way We are self publishers to the max. All right

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