The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Strange Truth Episode 71: Food & Energy Shortages are Shocking the World

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

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Welcome to episode 71 of The Strange Truth. I'm your host, Cara B. And what a week has been, huh? Hopefully you've been listening to BBN. And we're going to get straight on into our show. So here it goes. It has been a time of plans and more plans. Here in my county,

they had the gas tax plan, and that was supposed to keep gas prices down. And, of course, that didn't work, right? It was just a gimmick. You know, Mr. Biden, you know, he has the diesel cunning plan, and he also has the baby formula plan. And the China plan and the Russia plan and the inflation plan. And, you know, it just goes to show you that, you know, a lot of times they seem to just plow ahead into chaos. You know, they just plow ahead and they don't really think through the consequences.

It's amazing. You know, these are people who are supposed to be meticulous and supposed to be planners. and it just doesn't seem, it doesn't seem to be working. So we're going to talk about a lot of things today. I just want to just hit the sponsors real quick. The Preper's Medical Handbook by William Forgey MD is available over at Amazon.com to go over to Amazon and get the Pepper's Medical Handbook, how to provide medical care when you can't rely on anyone but yourself by William W. Forgey MD.

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My last show was about how America was falling apart and we're in SHTF right now as it stands. And, you know, I did a whole series on, you know, what are the signs that we're in an SHTF, right? And, you know, we were just checking all the boxes there. And, you know, and I think the last month, you know, has really emphasized just how bad these supply shortages, the gas issue is. We are most likely in a recession. I think the next time they, you know, they, what is it, the figures come out will most likely indicate that we're in a recession. I'm sure that the media is going to do what it can to hide those figures, especially since they're, protecting Mr. Biden.

But, you know, well, you know we're in a recession because you're seeing it. Regardless of what the media is telling you, you know, the mouthpiece for the American intelligence community is saying right now, you know, you're seeing it at the pump where gas is increasing at least, what, 15 to 20 cents a week? You're seeing it in your food prices. You're seeing it when you buy any item. Any item that you need is costing a lot more. And right now there are people who are definitely making the choice.

Should I get gas in the car, you know, or should I put food on the table? You know, these choices are now being made by regular Americans. I know that the people in Britain, if you're listening, we have a large, you know, overseas listenership. So if you're listening in the UK, I feel your pain. You know, New Zealand, you know, Australia, or anywhere in Europe right now, it's pretty bad because, of course, the oil and the Russian, you know, they are embargoing the Russian oil, right?

They're blocking all shipments pretty much of Russian oil or anything Russian, which is directly impacting Europe. But, you know, but that's the. the problem of, you know, not taking care of their own national energy issues. You know, you realize just how much of a national security issue is energy is, right? So, yeah, it's a huge national security problem for a lot of countries now because they don't have enough electricity to drive their industries and to keep their own people safe, you know. So I'm going to take a look at a few articles that's just going to highlight just how, you know, how big of a problem we're having

in the world. Let's see. I have one here from a zero hedge. Putin's blockade of Ukraine ports, a declaration of war. The UN warns. This was published May 23rd by Tyler Darden. It says, In a Monday virtual address before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky urged Western countries to impose maximum economic sanctions against Russia. The world is united because of threats,

the war, Russian aggression. I don't want you to lose this unity. Zelensky stated in a keynote address. Let's see. His words came simultaneous to a UN official at the WEF, stressing that Russia's continued blockade on Ukraine ports amounts to a declaration of war by Putin on Ukraine and broader humanity. Russia's blockade on Ukraine ports is a declaration of war that threatens to trigger mass migration

and a global food crisis, a United Nations official said, adding to the dire warnings on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos. You know, here, you know, it's a bunch of really incompetent people who are so in love with themselves and, you know, the whole narcissism of, you know, the whole power, you know, thing that they're involved in, you know, and they really want to be seen in a positive light by the whole world, that they don't make pragmatic decisions. And one of the decisions when the war started should have been, let's talk with Russia about what's going on. Yes. It seems, It seems, you know, it seems really short-sighted to believe that, okay, you know what, we're going to impose some sanctions in Russia and we're going to run this.

We're going to run our own disinformation and propaganda campaign against the Russians, right? And Mr. Putin. And that will solve the problem. And the problem is that people like Mr. Putin and Chairman Zee don't really care what the world thinks of them. They have a national plan that they're carrying through and they're just acting on that national plan. Mr. Z has a plan for the South China Sea area and, you know, Taiwan and and cementing China's dominance. in that area. And Mr. Putin has his own plans on, you know, creating more of a buffer between Russia and the other European countries. And, you know, and I think that both those leaders are

just carrying through on their plan and they don't really care, you know, if people use harsh words and say that they're bad people. It doesn't matter to them. they're just carrying through on their plan. And I think that they're underestimating, well, they underestimated Mr. Putin. And I think that right now, you could see they're getting really nervous about Chairman Z and his plans for Taiwan. And I think that they really believe that they can rattle the swords and they can throw out a few threats and that's going to make much of a difference. And I really doubt that. So this article, however, caught my eye because for the first time, you know, you see the filtering in of, you know, of course they're going to blame Russia for all their internal problems.

You know, Mr. Biden is already doing it here because, no, you know, it was never him and his short-sighted, really bad policies that have really landed us. here. You know, so of course, now they have to pivot. They have to try and find that scapegoat. And of course, the scapegoat that they're trying to pin all of this on is Mr. Putin. Instead of negotiating for peace and keeping the gas and the fertilizer flowing to the rest of the world, they decided to cut these, you know, to cut, well, Russia off. and now we're going to feel the effects of lower harvest.

And of course, because most of a lot of the world, you know, is experiencing all these really weird climate and weather events, right? We're having a mega drought here in the United States. There is all those floods going on down in Brazil and even in parts of China. You know, it's been a weird cycle of events, weather events. and that's going to also, you know, drive down the food, the food production. We have Iran up in flames, and, you know, if you haven't heard, they've introduced the electronic system there where you sign up for it and you can buy subsidized, you know, flour and bread, right, in Iran.

You should read up on that. You know, is one way of the government controlling, right? You know, helping to ration and control, you know, food in that country. You know, Sri Lanka is up in flames. There are other countries that are experiencing really bad upheavals right now. I think we'll see the Middle East go off first, and then you'll see it filtering into the Asian countries, the poor Asian countries.

And eventually, you know, if you want to know what it might look like here in the United States, then I think that the baby formula issue was a blueprint for how the food issue might unfold here. You know, bad decisions and not having a plan in place to supplement the food supply, just like how they close down what the biggest baby formula making plant in the United States without some plan of getting them back online as quickly as possible or without some plan of bringing online you know other means of getting baby formula for all the mothers out there that really need you know need need that item you know it's it's It's just, it's getting, it's getting really crazy and pretty frightening, I think, for the average person now, beginning to figure all this stuff out.

This is, we here at PBN, we've been watching this stuff unfold and talking about all of this and planning for it for over, well, close to a year. Um, you know, and, and here we are, uh, you know, if, if you're a regular listener, listener to people, then I'm sure that your pantry stocked. I'm sure that you have your gardens going. I'm sure at this point, you know, you have a plan in place in case you lose electricity for a period of time. And while, you know, while not everybody can be, you know, a Dave Jones or, you know, or an aide in Tate in terms of, you know, homesteading and planning, right?

those folks take it to a whole lot of level. I think Sarah Hathaway also is really deep into the homesteading thing as well. I'm not sure about that one. But, you know, there are some folks who, you know, are really, you know, well, call it what it is. They're pretty much just homesteading. So they're producing food. They have animals, they have gardens going, you know. They have root sellers.

They have alternate ways of heating their homes. Alternate ways of gathering water. You know, they've got most, if not all, of the base is pretty much covered. But not everybody can be there. Like, for example, I am not there. I am, you know, when you're working a job, you know, most days of the week, and you have young children and family. you know, those family obligations where you've got to go to meetings,

you've got to, you know, you've got to take the kids to their events and different things. And then you have family, you know, you have to go on trips and different things, you know, family outings. Then you don't have the time. You really don't have the time. And it does create some stress. And later on, I am going to talk a little bit about that. I'm going to talk about my plan for food and how I'm dealing with the whole thing myself. Okay.

But for the first time, we hear them using, you know, a declaration of war, the UN warns, right? And that's troubling because I have said that I think at some point the UN is going to get a little crazy and they're going to send troops into Ukraine and that's going to really trigger World War III. because the Russians are not going to avoid those U.S. troops or U.S. troops. You're not going to avoid if they're in an area where they have some interest, then the Russians are going to shoot. They're going to be killing those U.N. troops or those U.S. troops and vice versa. And that's going to pretty much spark a larger, a lot much larger conflict.

It's on its way there now. I think that they're getting desperate. Europe is getting desperate because the sanctions against Mr. Putin has not worked because they have stupidly not really understood that because of the sanctions that they had laid on Russia when he at first took Crimea, the Russians have pretty much isolated themselves. You know, they're now pretty much, you know, they produce all of their own food. They have pretty much all of their own natural resources. They don't really need too much from anybody else.

And of course, they got an ally in China and the different other countries around the world that are having a problem with the United States. So, you know, that's the problem of, you know, I think this is all part of the fog that the news media and the propaganda machines are creating all there. The Russians are spinning there. propaganda and of course the the west is spitting its own propaganda and it's created this fog of disinformation where where no one really knows for sure what's going on the only thing we know for sure that the russians are still there and it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere so this got

my attention uh the europe is hurting right now higher energy costs higher electrical costs higher food cost and most likely food rationing will be coming to Europe. If you live in the UK, you're going to be seeing food rationing. If you live in the European countries, food rationing is coming, as well as here in the United States. It is coming. If you live in Europe and the United States, you know, gas and diesel rationing most likely is coming. because their, their, you know, their policies, the green policies of not, not really drilling for oil, not bringing, you know, not making sure that they're energy independent, trying to, trying to replace, you know, tried and true, um, energy, uh, production with, uh, you know, uh, production with, uh, uh, with solar and wind and these new green energies won't work. The electric cars, they're not going to work either.

It's amazing to me to watch all these car companies. You see these advertisements on TV these days, and you can't blame them. They have to make the product, right? Because a lot of the, especially the blue states, are going to make laws where you won't be able to, probably buy a car that uses gasoline probably after 2030, which is just a few years away. Here in New York State, you know, that's one of the plans they've got. And I'm sure they probably have those plans out there in California and not, you know, the blue states as well.

But, you know, you need a pretty good electrical grid. and, you know, and it's going to be a huge mess, but it's just like closing down the baby formula plant not having a plan in place. It's kind of like cutting off Russian gas and cutting off Russian fertilizer and Russian goods without having a plan in place. So they act first and then they have a mess to clean up after.

It's never really thought out. It's all about virtue signaling. So, you know, they can virtue signal and say, okay, we're going to have all these lecture cars. And they'll make the laws. And because they've made the laws, then, of course, you know, those laws coming to effect. And then the public has to deal with the pain and the suffering that these really bad policies cause, these short-sighted policies, you know, these badly planned short-sighted policies cause. So, yep, they're going to get crazy, I think.

I think at some point they're going to send either U.S. troops into Piav or U.N. troops into parts of the Ukraine, and it's going to start the war. It's going to start the war in earnest. They won't be able to call it, you know, military interventions or, you know, whatever. is going to be World War III in earnest. The next cunning plan comes from the White House. The White House Mills Tapping Emergency Diesel Stockpile to address East Coast crisis. The East Coast of U.S. has some of the lowest seasonal diesel inventory and record,

and this is from Zero Hedge. This was published in Zero Hedge, so you can check it out. So it says here, the East Coast of U.S. some of the lowest seasonal diesel inventor and record retail diesel prices at the pump from the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area to New York City are well over $6 a gallon, a record high. Well, I've seen diesel here for $7 and change up in my area. Major trucking companies warn drivers of imminent shortages as the summer driving season begins later this week. Now the Biden administration is scrambling and has proposed an emergency action to drain a critical

stockpile to mitigate the massive supply crunch. A senior White House official told CNN that President Biden could soon release diesel from the northeast home heating oil reserve to arrest record high prices for diesel across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region. The senior official said President Biden is prepared to authorize the release if conditions deteriorate. Well, it's pretty bad now. adding the supply crunch has stabilized in recent days. Oh, what a joke. What's alarming is East Coast diesel inventories have fallen to the lowest level since 1990. National stocks are around a two-decade low.

The system is definitely on the strain. The senior White House official says tight fuel supplies are due to many factors. Two major ones are declining refinery capacity and increase fuel shipments to Europe. CNN notes the release would be. be limited by the relatively small size of the reserve, which only contains one million barrels of diesel, equal to about a day's worth supply in the region. It's small potatoes. It might buy a couple of weeks or even months, but it doesn't solve the underlying issues. Limited to relatives, which only contains one million barrels of oil, about a day's worth of supply

in the region. And then this guy is saying that it might buy a couple of weeks or even months. It doesn't make sense if you only have because I think what that means then is they're going to ration it. You know, if he's saying that it might buy a couple of weeks or a month, right, that means that, you know, be prepared for some serious diesel rationing across the country, especially in the northeast regions, at least for now. And that's probably coming soon. So, you know, once again, And here he is, he's rating our national reserves, right, instead of making the oil companies produce and drill. So, yes, here in my last, the last time I saw gasoline, I think I saw 490. So we will be hitting $5 a gallon here up by me here in the northeast.

I would say probably by next week, could see it this week. If the 20 cents per week continues, then I guess we could see it this week, you know, next week, early next week. So it's really interesting to me that, you know, once again, you know, you know, they don't have a plan. All they're doing is just using up, you know, supplies that should have, you know, that should be in reserve in case of a national emergency.

And that always shows, well, it's just bad planning. Just bad planning. Okay. The other story is from The Insider. And this was published May 21st by Sarah L. Asharni. And he says, a food insecurity expert predicts that there's only 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in the world as Russian invasion disrupts production. And the world has about 10 weeks of wheat supplies stored as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters this fourth month. A food insecurity expert told the UN, Sarah Menka, the CEO of Agriculture and Analytics firm Grow Intelligence, told the UN,

the UN Security Council that the Russia-Ukraine war was not the cause of a food security crisis but simply added fuel to a fire that's long burning. Ukraine is considered the world's breadbasket in Russia and Ukraine combined account for almost a third of the world's wheat exports. And it says this comes as US security of state, Anthony Blinken accused Russia of using food as a weapon.

Well, you know, Blinking also addressing the UN Security Council said that Russia was holding food hostage, not just for Ukrainians, but for millions across the world. The Russian government seems to think that using food as a weapon will help accomplish what its invasion has not to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people. Menker said droughts across the world are contributing to declining wheat's resources. Menka said global food supplies are also being used. impacted by climate change and fertilizer shortage. We currently have only have 10 weeks of global

consumption sitting in inventory around the world. Conditions today are worse than those experienced in 2007, 2008, she said. So, you know, this is not a good, this is not a good sign here. Okay. If they're saying that we only have a 10 week supply left, right? Ten weeks of wheat supplies left in the world. Then, you know, things are going to get pretty real here. We're going to be seeing all these, we're going to be seeing a lot more shortages in the stores, you know, in the next two or three months. I think that things are going to get pretty chronic. And as I said earlier in this podcast, if you saw how the baby formula thing unfolded where, you know, at first, you know, people got concerned. They weren't seeing as much as many of the items on the shelves, kind of like what's going on right now in the supermarkets,

right? With the different products, you know, people are beginning to get concerned. They're not seeing the regular products or not not seeing them at all. They notice the different things going on in the supermarkets, right, where, you know, the stock, they're being stocked differently and inventory is being moved around to, to, to, to, you know, the, the, the, the stock, the, the stocked differently. And inventory is being moved around to, you know, to make it, to make those holes in the shelves not look as bad, but, you know, if the product isn't there, the product isn't there. You know, a new poverty is coming to the United States, folks. You can have the money, but you might not have the product.

You know, so you have the money, right? You've got the money to go into the store to buy the product, but if the product cannot be made because the ingredients are not available to make those food products. And then you're just as poor as the beggar in the street, even with your useless dollars. So they're beginning, when you see stories like this beginning to break into the mainstream media, look out. We've been talking about it here for months. But when you see these articles being now, you know, published in the mainstream media, you know, it's about to get real.

Okay. So they're saying the UN is warning that, you know, Putin's blockade of Ukrainian ports means, you know, is tantamount to a declaration of war. And that's because Europe now realizes that, you know, what, their energy situation is really, but they're going to be. Their economies are going to be crashing. There's going to be riots in Europe. We're going to be riots in England. There's going to be riots in France. You know, and people can't get their can't fill up their cars to go to work.

Or, you know, they can't put food on the table for their families. There's going to be riots. They're going to be riots here in the United States, too. You know, so it's interesting to me. the baby formula issue Baby formula Shortage Biden invokes wartime powers orders air lifts from Europe to boost supplies A shortage of baby formula and this is from Euro News.

Next By Natalie Hunt Says a shortage of baby formula in the United States has become so serious. that supplies are being airlifted from Europe, and President Joe Biden has invoked decades-old wartime powers to speed production. The crisis has left desperate parents frantically searching for infant formula, which is the only recommending source of nutrition for millions of babies across the country who are breastfed. Supplies of baby formula across the U.S. have been severely curtailed in recent weeks after a safety recalled by Abbott Nutrition worsened supply chain

disruptions across the industry. This crisis has left pharmacy and supermarket shelves increasingly bare and parents struggling to find a formula for their babies with many hunting for solutions online. So, you know, it goes on why there is a shortage and everything else. But this is something that they should have jumped on a long time ago. But I think that they were afraid to touch it because it just highlights. It's just more bad news for the administration. You know, this guy has pretty much led United States into some really, really trying times.

You know, I think here in a few months, they're going to be acknowledging that there is a recession. I think that you can begin to see the first. stages of of of what might be termed hyperinflation in terms of uh you know goods uh increasing incrementally every week uh every week you're going to the store the food is a little bit more expensive your fuel is a little bit more expensive for your cars um and this is just going to ripple across every portion of the country so so just be just be aware and ready to deal with this. The last story that I'm not going to get into too much

is the whole monkey pox issue. And this is beginning to become a concern. As, you know, I do remember a couple months ago, maybe about eight months or so ago, we had some monkeys that got loose here somewhere in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. It was on one of those highways where, you know, like I think that the truck had overturned or something had happened and all these monkeys had got loose, right? Because of, you know, and these monkeys were being used, you know, they were being used in experiments. And that's how, you know, that's always stayed with me because it was just this really weird thing, you know, these monkeys, you know, just loose. And they were saying, yeah, these monkeys were being used, you know, I suppose. part of experiments in in in in labs okay and now and now here we have uh here on here we have

cases of monkeypox popping up all across the globe you know um how serious this is going to be i i guess we're going to find out um is this going to be used politically yes everything is used politically you know covid was used politically And this is going to be used politically as well. So we'll see. So getting back now, and I'll close with this, getting back to my plan for food, because I was saying, well, you know, if you are a person with a family

and you're really, really busy and there's just no way you could, you can do the animal thing or you can't do the level of five prepping, then you have to try and get, you have to have alternate, you know, plans in place. What I would suggest right now is plan for living a while without any electricity, okay? Because if anything goes off, whether it be blackouts because, you know, the grid just can't hold up because the energy issues. And I'm talking not only in this country, but I'm talking all. all over the world at this point.

If you're listening to this podcast in Europe, you know, or in Asia, wherever you might be listening, then plan for blackouts, you know, for extended blackouts, you know, could you go a week without electricity? Could you go a month or two or, you know, six months without electricity? Do you have the supplies in place right now where you could do that? If not, then you should be. be planning and working towards at least six months to a year without electricity.

Because let's face it, if there's some kind of nuclear exchange, then, you know, the grid is going to go. If there's some kind of hack, right, then, you know, the internet might go. The grid could go down as well. The electrical grid could go down for a period of time. So be prepared. if there is serious social disruption because of, you know, the energy crisis or the food issues and, you know, and people start torching big, you know, big plants and homes or, you know,

they, you know, there are instances of direct, you know, sabotage, right? You know, people start, you know, taking out the infrastructure, you know, because they're angry. and they're rioting or whatever and, you know, we have, you have blackouts because of what's going on, then you should be able to function and feed your family while all that's happening. Okay. My plan for food is, yes, I've got my freezer stocked, folks. Okay? And as long as there is electricity, you know, then I'm good with my freezers.

I also have my pantry stocked, right? which you should. I have recently made sure that I've bought up all the things that my family need for, you know, personal care like your deodorant and your toothpaste and your shampoo or, you know, anything that you use for personal care that way. I would suggest that you buy a bunch of it. You buy as much of it as you possibly can. because, you know, if things go south, you know, it's really nice knowing that you can brush your teeth in the morning, right? It's nice to know that you can use some deodorants so you're not stinking, right? As you go about working in your garden, you know, during the bad times, right? So your personal hygiene items, buy that now, buy that now while you still can get it.

you know, your deodorants, your toothpaste, your, your, um, your, um, your lotions, whatever it is you use, uh, for your own personal hygiene, get it now. Um, I would also suggest that, um, if, you know, if, you know, stuff like underwear and like, you know, um, like t-shirts and different things and gardening gloves, get him now, buy as, buy as much as you possibly can. Gardening gloves are important because you're going to be working you're going to be your hand's going to be in the dirt you know um and those gloves you can they're at multi-use you can use them for a lot of different things so my suggestion is uh you know get get get those things now while you still can you know uh get your you know get your gas now you know

um stockpile your gas now if you can and make sure that you you protect it i would get the i know it's way expensive but i would get the non-eathenal gas and stockpile as much of it as you can safely, you safely can. Now, while I, and what I am doing is, while I do have, you know, an additional 15 square feet of abovegrown gardens that I can use, I'm keeping my garden right now. I am keeping my own, personal,

I'm keeping my garden small, okay? I'm keeping it manageable because the last, thing I want is to do you know have this really large plant this really large garden and not being not able to maintain it properly because I'm busy I get in and I have an hour or so you know that I can actually do some work and then I and then in the rest of it is family time there are there are things that I need to take care of when I'm home um if I get home and if I you know have to go out and go back you know if I'm not going you know going back all the work or you know, doing something else with the family. So it's busy. So do I have a lot of time to

weed and garden, do all that stuff? Not really, but I can still, but I still have a small garden. I have two abovegrown gardens, you know, that's really close to my side porch that I have in cultivation. And if things really go south, then I have, I have the other things. three, actually four gardens that I can bring online and I have a greenhouse that I can pull out and set up if things really go south. So, you know, those are all contingency plans. Okay. So I have a small garden. It keeps me, it keeps me, you know, I get my practice growing things. And yes, I will get a good yield out of that garden as well. But it's manageable. It's not something that's going to frustrate me or use up all the water out of my well or anything like that.

You know, I have a small herb garden and, of course, the two above-grown gardens. What I've decided is that every month I'm going to buy one or two of the, you know, food buckets. The way I see it is, you know, say, you know, this, you know, say we have between, say we, we have the next six months. six to eight months clear before it really starts getting bad and before you you know maybe before you probably can't order anything like that online again because it's either so expensive or unavailable um you know i can have an extra 10 or more 10 12 buckets of of long-term storage foods food set by and i can stack it i can move it to other locations Um, one bucket will, will be able to feed my, me and my family for a really extended period of time. Um, it doesn't nest, it doesn't need while, you know, of course, that should each dog be stored in a nice, cool place. It doesn't have, you know, like if, if I lose electricity, I don't think I have to worry too much about it going bad as long as it doesn't get too hot. Okay. And, um, I don't have to can anything, right? You know, the way I see it,

I could do all of the, I could really, really do all this work and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I'd have to pull all that stuff out of my garden, and I'd have to freeze, dry it, or, uh, vacuum seal it or, you know, or, you know, or to put it away. And, yeah, I'm putting it probably in the, in the, in the refrigerator or even if I'm putting, but if I do, if I have these buckets of food, right, then it's, it's, it's, it's just, it's just, you know, it's just, but if I'm putting. this good and I'm actually getting more food and I'm doing a lot less work. I don't know if that makes sense. So, yeah, a small garden and my plan is every month I'm buying one or two buckets of long-term storage foods and I'm buying a variety so that, of course, we don't get tired of eating

the same thing if we really have to. So that's my plan. And if you've been listening to this show for a period of time, you've noticed how the plan has evolved. I've said since last year that this was going to be the year of food. And it's turning out to be. You know, the poor mothers can't get food for their babies, right? The baby formula issue, when you're going to the stores, you're seeing it yourself. Food is expensive or it's just not there, not in a way that it used to anyway.

and we're getting down to the point where, yeah, there is going to be most likely rationing and different things coming online here in a few months because the situation, they have no plan to supplement the issue. They have no solutions for it because they don't know how to solve the problem. The Biden administration, the Biden and his cronies, they have no clue. They'll just have these little gimmicks like, oh, yeah, I'll invoke the defense. to I'll

you know and it's just it's all gimmicks just so that it looks like it appears that they're doing something

but in reality nothing is being done the problem isn't getting solved and I think eventually people are going to see through all that fog

you'll see through it when for months you're not getting the food you want or the quantity of the food you want

or when you just can't afford it you will you will see through the rules you know Or if you're listening to PBN, you most likely you have already seen through the rules. And you understand that things are serious here.

Okay. So my plan is, yeah, small garden. Make sure I have enough water. Make sure that the pantry, you know, we're making sure that the pantry is stocked. You know, of course, we are the freezers. Freezers are stocked. Right. So there's different layers, right?

But, yeah, I'm making sure that, you know, once or twice a month I'm buying some long-term food because that's the other part in the equation that needs to be looked at here. And if we have to be inside and we can be outside in the garden because of whatever might be going on outside, you know, if we're going to put ourselves at risk, then it's nice knowing that we can be inside. And we don't have to worry about that. part of the issues. Okay. All right.

So I'm going to call it, I'm going to call it the night, right? My last, my last, my last podcast was about how America was falling apart. We were in SHTF and I think this one reinforces it. You know, there's just so much stuff going on in the world right now that we need to We need to really pay attention to. But it all just comes down to you making your plan. You got to make a plan and stick to it. You know, these are serious times.

And serious times require serious people. Right. Okay. So I'm going to call in the night. You know, keep listening to PBN. If you found this helpful, then please share it. Let people know the resources that we offer here. PBN, please go over to

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trying to harden people's lives so that, you know, so that, you know, people, you know, folks can you know, navigate the really challenging times that we're in and really challenging times that are to come. Okay. All right. So, you know, this weekend we have Aiden Tate coming up on Saturday. And we've got the Changing Earth podcast with Sarah Hathaway and Chin Gibson coming up on Sunday as well as Reliance, which is a little sermon.

We're a great way to start a week coming up on Sunday. and you can always just go over to PBN and scroll through our player and the speaker player that's there and all the shows if you missed any shows this week you can scroll through the player and if something catches your eye you know you can listen to it okay okay folks so thanks for uh you know um thanks for listening uh hopefully uh this was helpful uh you can you can see that we're all just in this together and we're all just trying to do the best we can here and um until next time and keep praying and and be safe folks be safe and and and keep on prepy