The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Skulking Off Grid Asynchrony

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

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You're listening to PBN. You're paying back the rational ruin. Free of the rational ruin. We enter June. The time is come. Let's see if we can go live over here on Instagram yet. Instagram seems to be asleep at the wheel for some reason. But we are live. AdEx, YouTube. Take the headphones off. Loosen up. Hope everybody's doing good today. We're talking singularity, synchronicity. After the Changing Earth podcast yesterday, hopefully you watched the Changing Earth yesterday. There was, stole my thunder a little bit for Monday.

Monday I was thinking about talking about this big solar flare situation. But to be honest, Sarah did it better anyway, really. In all honesty, she did it better. She's got sort of that educational pace. You know what I mean? I'm a little bit too frantic for all that business. But so what I wanted to talk about today

is kind of this lingering thing in my head which has to do with Okay, it says I'm live, but I can't go live over there Let me do something real quick. I want to check something. Oh, I can't change the key now Okay, I don't know It's not working. Is what it is. If we can go live on Instagram, we will go live on Instagram, but right now we can't. So when this stuff comes it gets into the news the big sort of solar flare

situation that happens more and more now that we're paying more and more attention to the Sun though we we don't give the sun its due when it comes to global warming, I don't think. We know that without the sun, we're dead. Yet we lie the full responsibility of the sun's temperature on people's activities. You know what I mean? Not volcanic activities, but people's activities, not the sun. And the idea that we understand the sun whatsoever is kind of hilarious when you think about it, right? I mean, I get it to some degree. We probably understand some things, but I don't know. So when these things come, when these things happen, when I start thinking about either the grid collapse or artificial intelligence, exponential reach and growth, my son showed me a video over the weekend about, and I thought it was real, and it was a bunch of people, it was like guys interviewing girls and saying, isn't it weird that we're

just a bunch of AI prompts? Isn't it weird that this is all an AI prompt? Isn't it weird that you and I are just an AI prompt? And it was really, really hard to tell the difference between... yeah I didn't I didn't grab the video for you look it up it's amazing it was pretty indistinguishable which you know that's kind of inevitable right it's kind of inevitable that the AI will get to that point and beyond what seems to be sort of happening is in my head anyways, where I see the appearance of a group of people, maybe a large swath of society, who are inevitably going to be

pushed in the direction of some sort of asynchronous, anti-singularity, Luddite style, off-grid movement that will protect them both from artificial intelligence and the sun. So like the idea that you look over your life for those weaknesses, those weak points, those threats, right? That's something that Preps are doing all the time. And you look over your life for that stuff and you see constantly coming back to the grid, constantly coming back to artificial intelligence, understanding that if the grid goes down, right, it's, it's worst case scenario. It's desperation. It's no resources, likely some sort of cannibalism to keep up with the need to feed people, right?

That's kind of the deal. And the other thing, of course, is the sun. The sun has the potential to just sort of smash us out, kickstart that whole process, right? And existing in this world of comfort and convenience, it's hard not to think about what's time to get off. It's time to get off the train before it comes to the end of the track.

And that is sort of the skulking or creeping movement to more of an off-grid lifestyle moving movement to more of an off-grid lifestyle that is only going to be exacerbated by when artificial intelligence stops doing things that make us all go ooh and ah and starts doing things that make us go, I'm a little petrified. I was listening to a video from Glenn Beck yesterday and he was talking about how artificial intelligence will eventually begin, if it's not already, to speak languages that language is, that only it understands. And I do think that like all bets are off after that, right? Because how do we figure out languages we don't understand now,

right? Or parts of readings or things that, you know, puzzles that we don't understand, we plug them into AI. So once AI starts speaking its own language is, who do you call on to help out? Who do you get? Who do you call in? Here's the long story short. If what I'm saying resonates with you, then it's probably a good time to start thinking about it. Thinking about what that life kind of looks like, right? Like, what does a slow, a skulking, creeping, inching off of the grid kind of look like. This is part of the bushcraft movement, this is part of the homesteading movement, this is part of the prepping movement.

All of it pushes you in that direction. Not hard stop, no more hot water, no more power, right? All solar. That seems like a like a real serious commitment that most people are not ready to make. But even something like a simple garden, a simple garden suddenly pulls you out of that sort of convenient, hyper convenient lifestyle that can all fail on you, right? At a moment's notice. At a moment's notice, masks can go on, supermarket doors can shut, and then you know, you're in trouble. It's the same way with power. It's why people have generators, why people have solar generators, right? For that reason, they understand. These things are fragile, they go away. For the most part, they go away for very short periods of time.

But what would life look like if they went away for years? Ever? Right? So, you know, the creeping part is also sort of a function of what you can do if you choose to do it. You don't have to do it. You can live life just the way you're living it. It's your call. But it does make some sense to understand and to get comfortable with the world out there, right? To get more comfortable in the real world.

To maybe understand what's out there, to understand the fauna that make up that natural world a little better. Because we don't know, we don't understand it. We have a very little grip. I was talking about it last week about you look out there and most people look at a wood's edge and see, oh, there's trees and viney things and yucky bugs. Good to know what's in there. Good to know what sustained the human race pre-grid, pre-electricity, which is really the bulk of our history. The bulk of our history is pre-electricity.

Never forget that. So the fear of if the grid goes down predominantly comes down to people and desperation because we are more than capable of playing that game out there in the dirt in the woods. So the big one, the big one that even makes me nervous is income. Income is a big consideration, right? What does it look like if all these things that I've amassed, computers, cameras, lights, microphones, clients, online audiences, and so forth, if that goes away or begins to go away. One of my biggest fears is that people are just going to stop consuming this

kind of digital media because who the hell is going to know if it's real or not? There will definitely become a time when you can type in a prompt for me, type in a prompt for this guy right here on the screen and say, let's see James Walton's prepper podcast, prepper broadcasting network in video and have him talk about X, Y, and Z topic. And then it just spits something like this out. Right? I guess you have feeds and I guess you have, you know, if you have your trust built in a person like me, then you always know it's me, right? We'll have to come up with some kind of language of our own.

Flesh and bone is what's been coming into mind lately. You know, that's kind of the theme that's been in my head lately. Is flesh and bone interaction, flesh and bone skills, flesh and bone income, flesh and bone lifestyle. Because I really do think a lot of people are going to run off this thing soon. They'll probably have, like you have, your isolated people that you'll watch, but this scrolling thing can't last. This whole scrolling to watch people and to watch people's reactions and to watch people do funny things and fall and get hurt and clown each other and all that kind of stuff. How's that going to last? Because it's not the same

thing if it's just generated. It's not the same. It won't have the same effect. It's so weird to think about it, but if you see an AI- person fall off the ladder off of their roof it's nowhere near as funny if it's just an AI this is what it is I got something good for you today that we ain't done in a little bit we got to get back to the goodies um because we we've been into the goodies lately where is it because we ain't we've been into the goodies lately where is it I don't even remember where it is did I swap out the new one I might not have swapped out the new one yet hang on hang on we're gonna get into shtf chef today I got a good one for you too I whipped it up yesterday. In fact, the picture in the background, oftentimes I get pictures from my graphic design program, Canva. But this one I took myself. I think

you understand why after our conversation, right? If you remember, I used to do all these backgrounds via artificial intelligence, all these thumbnails. The lines will be drawn, the battle will be fought, the abominable intelligence will be exterminatus. Let's get into SHTF show. It's been a bit. Let me get the background going. Boom. Sorry, I haven't heard the music in a while. I kind of wanted to rock with that for a minute.

Okay, so we got a box from, we got a great box from Seasonal Roots. I've talked about them in the past. I'm not getting into it right now. And one of the things it had in it, it had napa cabbage and it had beets in it. I don't know how you feel about them. A lot of people are like beets taste like dirt. They suck. I hate them. Fair enough. I don't. I love them. I think they're delicious and an incredible vegetable. Really good for you. Really good for blood flow. They've got that, what's it called? My live audiences is non-existent today in chat, which is weird.

Maybe the solar flare took them out. But they have, what's it called? They sell it now in like super beats. They sell it in the oxidase, no. I can't think of what it is. Long story short it helps with blood flow. Okay. I used to eat them a lot when I was younger because my mother always swore I had like low iron because I was super pale. So what we did with these is we made it basically a it's sort of a mix-up of kimchi and pickled beets. It's really what it is.

Four beets, I've been roasting them. In the restaurant world, we roasted them a lot. I don't know why. There was always sort of like this weird bias, this prejudice against boiling things, right? So we would roast them. Plus it looks really good on the menu. Roasted beets. Roasted beet salad with blue cheese, right? And horseradish vinaigrette. Anyhow, I went back to boil. I think they do better that way. I think the skin comes off easier, everything. Boiled them, peeled, halved, and sliced. You get it? So we wound up with these

half moons just like the picture shows. These sort of half moons would be good. And wow, Instagram never came to life. Strange. Instead of using like white vinegar, I worked in a diner. We do it with cucumber salad, white vinegar, pickle beets, white vinegar, right? Instead of that, I said, you know, let's use the rice wine vinegar, sort of like in a kimchi, right? Because an apple cabbage is a fundamental recipe ingredient in a kimchi recipe. When I'm doing pickle beets, I got to have onion, right? So half a minced onion. Real fine. Dice it real fine. Mince it. Whatever you can do. And then just salt and pepper. I mixed all this up in a bowl.

Sloshed it all around if you will. And you can put whatever else you want in. Like whatever else you want. Literally. So garlic. And you can put whatever else you want in. Like whatever else you want, literally. So garlic, you can do sliced garlic in there, if you like that. You can do sliced jalapeno in there. If you wanted to heat it up a little bit, would be pretty good.

Maybe a little sugar. I think if I was going to do jalapeno, I'd add a little sweet. Do a little sugar. I let it sit overnight. Herbs might be good, like a cilantro could be good, something like that. I don't know. I wouldn't add too much flavoring. And if you hate rice wine vinegar, you can do apple cider vinegar if you want to switch it up, something like that. You can get fancy, do like a champagne vinegar, white wine vinegar, something along those lines. Good. But you wind up with this, pickled beets and napa

cabbage. What you reach for in your diet is always a, that's always a thing. You know what I mean? Like what you reach for. I noticed this big time in Rationer Ruin when you're not reaching for things all the time. You consume a lot less. Like there's like pistachios in there. There's we had croissants over the weekend and all these kind of things, right? Like it becomes a thing. There's no doubt about it. So you got to be careful about what you reach for and having mixes like this you know what would probably be good too if you put like some quinoa some precooked quinoa in it it would give it a little more substance if you were looking for

like a meal. Really good for you too. Sprouts little broccoli sprout in there so you can't sit the sprouts in the vinegar too long you'd have to like take this put it in a bowl top it with the sprouts mix it up eat it the sprouts will turn to nothing mush after a while in the vinegar all right what else do i got on the docket what else oh yeah i guess we better get into. I've got to do the rigamarole. I've got to do it. I have to do the rigamarole. We have to talk about the book because the book is almost out and everybody should get it. I do think it's like a just a super easy kind of solution for Father's Day. Oh Man the fire wolf. Yeah, you know what?

Instagram was having some trouble. I think we might be excited the chat is very low Today I'm thinking maybe Maybe we're dealing with some of that sort of solar flare stuff Could be could be the situation. I Said there were cell phone outages. We I experienced nothing. I don't know if you guys experienced anything, but Virginia has like a dome of safety over it. I think People who founded Virginia were pretty smart Understatement of the year

They really I mean, it's particularly Richmond Richmond is in this location that's just phenomenal. Look, 2TO. That's so funny. If you could see that, like, what you're seeing in front of you right now has literally been the last, I don't know, however many months of my life. This book has been front and center and this electric dirt bike has been in the back of my mind for probably about six months because my son has been saving and saving and saving to get one. And now both things are achieved. That's a good feeling. That's a good feeling. The book is basically out and the the 2TO has been purchased and shipped. Oh enjoy your victories PBN family man. Come on. You know you work so hard for the damn victories in life and and the only thing you really ever ever really focus on are the failures.

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off the platform for a little while. He is out of the Prepper Broadcasting Network in the interim, but he will be back. Don't you worry about that. He will be back maybe in a different form and facet, but he will be missed, man. Carl B was something. He really was. He was an awesome player in the game. So I think I've given you enough to consider.

I've given you enough to spend your money on and spend your time on. The real takeaway today is with artificial intelligence growing at the rate that it's growing, with the sun doing the doing what they're doing. Still cold, in my opinion. I can do a whole show on baby, it's cold outside because it's not where I want it to be. With all the power grid itself, there's no real goal to fix the power grid and the grid will be a targeted war. As I always tell you, war equals off grid. Russia cannot be happy this morning. I don't know if you saw what happened to them

over the weekend, but there was a response. That attack on Kiev was not a zero sum game. There was a serious response to Russia. Russia's gonna be neutralized by time this thing's over, I can tell you that much. So because of all of that, the skulking and inevitable move off grid for those who are paying attention seems inevitable to me. And like I said, it's kind of the how do you eat a whale situation, right? Get off grid in the ways that you can.

You know, one of the funnest ways, one of the funnest ways is to build yourself an outdoor kitchen. Whatever that means, whatever that looks like to you doesn't have to be the fancy expensive rocks with the nice stainless steel propane fired grill in the middle, right? Let's start thinking about that.

Where will we sit? Where will we eat? Where will we cook? Right? How will we cook? I'd recommend wood or charcoal. Probably wood because it's renewable. I took a bunch of bricks from my brother-in-law's crawl space. He found a bunch of bricks and I took them

because we're going to make a pizza oven outside. Slowly but surely, one foot in front of the other. In the words of Dave Jones, who will be around more often, establish a position and improve upon it daily, PBN family. All right? Establish a position and improve upon it daily. I will talk to you tomorrow. We're also going to start breaking the the Prepper Camp Speaker Series podcast. They'll be coming out this weekend. You're going to get to meet a lot of people who can solve a lot of problems for you in the preparedness realm. All right. Talk to you guys soon. Thanks everybody for joining us live. Don't forget to do all the likes and subscribes and the notifications and those kind of things because we're on here all the time all right and there's no reason to miss out.