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Episode Date: June 13, 2026

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Back, PBM family. Back from the coast. Back from a short vacation. Now looking to take a couple days to recover from the vacation. No, actually, I'm leaving my favorite cafe. I just got done working. On the book, the Preppers Toolkit, which will be out, probably 2027. It's coming together.

It's beautiful. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be a book that I don't think quite exists yet. It will be a hard copy only. This is not an e-book. You don't want this in e-book form because it will very much be a hands-on resource and the back of the book is going to be your personal resource for your personal information. I am close to halfway through that book working with a great publisher.

And it's coming along great. It looks, I mean, you know, it is what it is. It's going to be beautiful. Just another chink on the, you know, of the writing of many books. There is no end, I guess, the best way to put it when you're a writer. That's what it is. So, but, you know, all that, all that to say it is a dream come true and I should be a little more out in the open about the fact that this is a thing that I've been waiting for for a very long time. But I'm back, man. I'm back and I feel good.

I'm ready to get back to Red Beacon Daily News and Surviving America and the daily updates here at PBN and driving forward with this incredible network that we've created over all these years. Just yesterday I was looking at how we get on television. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's time. I think I don't know what the cost is, but there's a lot of companies out there that'll stick you right on television, give you a little app you can look up on the TV. and you get your little app up there and, you know, your Roku remote, turn the TV on and watch PBN.

We have more than enough content now to support, you know, like a channel on the television. It's not like going to be running on your regular antenna TV, but you download the app through. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. They come at me with some crazy price. It might not be worth it. Maybe we'll do a little go-fund me to get PBN up on TV. You know what I mean? Get PBN up on TV. But the hot weather has come to Virginia, man.

One of the reasons I got to recover today, I feel like there's been a lot taken from me is because I snuck up the street to the old tire which was waiting for me up there. Because yesterday, I couldn't resist. We got back in town yesterday early. But I couldn't resist, guys. It was 103 or something yesterday. And for those of you don't know, I have a real hard time not pushing myself real hard when it's in the hundreds. There's just, there's something about it.

I don't know what it is. I really can't explain it. But I just love to work out in the super hot weather. I don't know why. You know, I'm beat right now from it. I know it's from that because it was, it was, see, the problem with taking time off, if you don't know. If you work out, right, consistently, and you take a week off, and I didn't work out once, right? I didn't work out one time.

Well, your body for the first time and a long time recovers all the way. You know what I mean? You're eating and drinking and having a good time and playing games and being with family and all that kind of stuff. But you're not really stressing the muscles all that much. and all the sudden like back muscles and big slabs of leg muscle and all these muscles they heal. I don't know how else to describe it. They finally recover to max. So I already knew that, and I was right, because I've done this to be so many times in my life that I know now.

In your head, you think, oh, I haven't worked out in a week. I'm probably going to be weak, right? But the reality is, no, you're going to be excessively stronger if you work out consistently. You know what I mean? Because you're in a consistent state of recovery most of the time. So I knew I'd come back and I'd be much stronger than normal and I was that. And the only problem with that is, oh, you can flip that tire a lot more than normal. And all of a sudden, you know, you're going above and beyond.

And while, well, I got home, and every time I get home this time of the year, my wife gives me a look. She looks at me like, what do you need? You need ice, water, what do you need? You look like you're about to die. I could see the look in her eyes that it was a good workout. And it was a great one. But one of the things about working out in the insane heat is the tax as you. It really does.

I don't have any liquid IV right now. I don't want to spend the money on it. I don't know why there's something in my head. I think what's happening is I'm formulating another hydration, like a DIY hydration situation involving coconut water. That's another story for another day. But there's something in my head that's telling me don't pull the trigger on the liquid IV. But I may have to because I don't, it works.

It really works. Whatever the hell is in it. It just works, you know, the night of. You feel less fatigued the day after you feel more hydrated, less fatigue. Like right now I feel it. I can feel the devastation wrought upon me by going hard. You know, because I run to the tire and then I run home from the tire on top of the workout. And it's a lot.

It is. It's a lot. It's a workout that most people would do once and say, no. Like, why would you do that? It's one of those kind of things. But the hot weather. It's a foragers delight, PBN family. Where are my foragers out there?

Raise your hands. Where are you? Put your hands up. In fact, while I was on vacation, I peaked in on the Phoenix. And the Phoenix is harvest in black raspberry. Harvest in Dewberry. Right? Out there foraging.

Now is the time. At least here, I could tell you that. In the southeast, the blackberries are coming in full force. There's all kinds of stuff. The, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. Roots that you might wish to forage are getting to maturity, the curly dock, those kinds of things are, they're getting mature, they're getting bigger. Now is a great time to flex your muscles on the foraging. It's a good time to take a walk in the woods in the shade, even if it is a little hot.

One of the best things you can do in your local area, even if you don't forage regularly, even if foraging isn't really one of those things, you're like, yeah, I'm going to do some foraging, right? even if that's not a thing, one of the best things you can do and just set it aside is print a little map out of your area, of your park, of your woods, wherever you're at, or even hand-draw. You can hand-draw this map. It's not that big a deal. It doesn't have to be, you know, dead on. You're not navigating with it. And then just highlight some areas, circle some areas, draw some areas where the food is, right? Where the big blackberry thickets, Right? Where are the greens that you can harvest wild? Where are the good fields with the dandelion?

Where are the good fields with the violet and the dock? And the, you know, where are the cherry trees? Where the black cherry trees? Where are the, all the different things that are coming up right now? Hell, where are the honeysuckle bushes at? They're fun. Now's a great time. They won't be ready yet, but now's a great time to find those elderberries.

They're out there. Oh yeah, they're out there growing wild right now. You could find those willows. Those willows are maturing right now. I mean, you know, those kinds of things, those herbal medicines, those wild edibles, all that stuff. It's peaking, you know what I mean? Some of it you have to wait until, oh, you know, it's another great one to identify right now. It's young right now, too, which is probably better, easier to deal with, is stinging nettle.

Yeah, down by the water. And look, if you're going to forage, go to the creeks, go to the waters. There's many benefits, right? Most people don't think about it, but foraging also has to do with things in the water. Maybe not necessarily fish, but what about things like muscles and clams? Right? These guys are for, and your fresh water has crustaceans and even muscles, maybe if it's healthy, that can be, you know, they can be forged.

Easy stuff to get your hands on. So create yourself a little forging map. Goes a long way. It can be a hell of a lot of fun over summer break with the kids. Hey, let's go get mulberries. Let's go get blackberries. Let's go get this, get that. I haven't checked the raspberries in my own backyard.

I think the raspberry thick it's probably producing now, I bet, after several days of hundreds. tends to accelerate things, you know what I mean? The pawpaws are, I'm sure they're going nuts too. I think I might have lost the oregano. My oregano might have died. I had it in a pot. I had a really nice oregano a couple years old in a big pot,

and the weather was so atrociously hot while I was gone. I water deep watered before I left, but, you know, just think that might have been it. It might be it. Uh-oh, I got a little yard sale day. yard sales a great resource you know buy by used that's all i can tell you for the rest of the year you know what i mean forget about buying new you know unless you're buying optics or something like that but for the most part man try to buy used the used market for american goods is just as good if not

better in many cases tools you know what i mean uh then what you're going to buy new in other you go to a yard sale you buy some old hammers and stuff like that you're getting a product that is it's just better than what you're going to go buy at lows and you're going to get it for two dollars especially if somebody you know just wants them out of there so don't underestimate that man i'm telling you it's a serious resource you got so i don't know these are the uh the summer days are upon us you know i hope your garden's going well now's a great time also to start considering where all that is going to go, right? You got your ball jars, you got your canner, your pressure canner. You're going to go that route. You're going to do some pickling. You might want to mix up some,

you can mix up a big batch of pickle if you want to do something like that, right? Or at least make sure you got the vinegars that you want to be pickling with. Because, you know, before long, you're going to be inundated. You will be inundated with produce. You'll be giving it away, trying to... It's beautiful time. But it can be an overwerews. time if you're not prepared, right? So, you know, we're in the, what? How many days into this war are we in? I've seen the gas price go down. The further south I went, the better it got. You know, we're still living in this American system, but it is our system. Never forget that. I'm trying to tease all this out what it is to be. What it is to be American 250,000. years in and it's fun it's it's a fun thing to look back and to look at now and to look into the

future you know a 4th of july approaching it's important to understand not not what we have been that's important not even what we are but what are we going to be what are we going to be there's a big poetry contest happening and i'm going to submit a a poem to it about the 250 years and one of the things that I came through, I came about in writing lines and lines of poetry about America and, you know, scratching this and adding that and erasing this and, you know, all those kinds of things, that you do, you know, if you think you shalack 20 lines down on a piece of paper and you're done with your poem, it's a thing, man, it's just like anything else or drafts. But one of the things that was really interesting was for years I'd believed that, and many people have believed, I'm not unique in this or genius in this, that this is it for humans. This is it for mankind in terms of freedom.

In terms of the opportunity of governing ourselves. And people have believed this for a very long time, right? Long before artificial intelligence. But now, in other words, if the experiment of man governing himself becomes, is deemed a failure, right? If it's deemed a failure because the violence and the chaos and the civil war and the outbreak of this and outbreak of that, it becomes the story rather than our successes, right? Because we do live in a cynical society that likes to watch cynical videos and click on cynical things.

And, you know, advertisers like to attach themselves to these cynical pieces of content. if if if man governing himself is deemed a failure if that experiment in freedom is deemed a failure then we need worry of kings pbn family we don't have to worry about kings because we are building the greatest tyrant god of surveillance and genius and and terror in artificial intelligence. And that's exactly where we will slip if we give up on America. We're not even just America, but man's right to govern himself. And, you know, it's one of those things. But it's inevitable now. And it'll get easier and more people will opine for it as more people get paid by it to simply say, why not let the big smart computer

tell us what to do and why to do. Why are we, why? Why? On earth, are we depending on the flawed concepts and the ideas of just another man or other groups of men to come up with how our society is run? Why? When we have this brilliant piece of technology, this technological god tyrant, that'll give us all the right answers.

But of course, then I started thinking about the 4th of July. I started writing about it. I started creating a couple stanzas about the 4th and about fireworks bursting in the air over cities and over rural America. The same powder that burns over cities burns over rural America on the 4th of July eaves. And what is it that we celebrate as Americans? I started to think about that. What do you really celebrate? and I arrived at a line that I didn't write but was written for me because of what I think we really do celebrate as Americans is the next chance

the perseverance and the adversity that it is to be America I think we celebrate on the 4th of July of course the founding of the nation and all that but I think we also celebrate the fact that we get another shot We celebrate the fact that through 2026, America's made some grave errors. We've done some bad things. We've, you know, personally and as a country, we've made some mistakes.

We've done some great things and we'll celebrate those too. But I think what we really celebrate is the opportunity to form a more perfect union. That's what came into my head. I said, what do we really celebrate? We celebrate the second chance, the third chance, the fourth chance, the possibility to continue on and to form a more perfect union. Just as our founders intended, right? Just as it all started out in order to form a more perfect union. And I do think that the majority and I do think that the best people and even the majority, forget about race.

and best and quality and this and that, I do think. They understand that America, like all countries, is flawed. Like, we are people, therefore we are flawed. But the big difference is, next year we'll strive to do better. And it's evident in our world, in our nation, that we'll continue to strive to do better. And I think if we give up on that, then it's off to the tyrant, cyberpunk god of,

technology to rule humans for until we, you know, nuke the power plants or whatever, until we go Matrix, who knows, dark in the skies. I don't know, PBN family, but what I do know is it's June. It's forage time, it's garden time, it's food storage time, prepper camps a few months away. The Prepper Broadcasting Network is absolutely relentless. Red Beacon Media is but an infant, but will continue to grow.

And I, the Intrepid Commander, will be here all along the way. And I hope that you are here with me as well. Thanks for supporting us. Leave a review wherever you're listening to this podcast. It's one of the few things that will get us into new people's ears anymore. And look for us wherever you can find us. You might be surprised at where we pop up. Talk to you soon, PBN family.