The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Terrifying Tale of the US Economy

Episode Date: October 31, 2025

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Happy Halloween P.D.N. FAPR. I want to tell you a terrifying story. A story about the American economy A story about stability Probably the most terrifying thing to me lately Folks is not the Well it's the overall stability Of society

And how it seems to be rocking to and fro Most people are hyper-focused on tomorrow November 1st right Snap benefits end EBT benefits and what's going to happen. One thing is certainly going to happen. The retailers are going to suffer, right?

The retailers are going to suffer because the people who show up on the first and do a bunch of buying are not going to show up on the first and do a bunch of buying. That's for certain. Now, there will also be lunatics who show up and decide that they're going to take food. But for me, potentially, in my head, the potential for the, the, the one, the why, Wildest activity will not be on the first, but will be on probably the seventh or the fifth or the 10th or somewhere along those lines, right? The moment this has time to settle in, I could be completely wrong. We could wake up tomorrow to utter chaos cross the nation. You should be prepared either way.

Right? You should be prepared either way. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is, you know, Be able to stay home. This is why when we say things like three weeks of water, three months of food, whatever those things are, it sounds crazy till it gets crazy. Right? Everything sounds crazy till it gets crazy.

And then it sounds like, oh, thank God I have all that water. Oh, thank God we have tons of food stored in the freezer, in the pantry, and so on. Right? At the end of the day, you can always lean on staying home. It's a prep that never fails, right? Establishing your survival headquarters, fortifying your survival headquarters never really fails. Your bugout bag is likely not to do you any good in the short term of this snap and EBT situation, but we will do you damn good as being able to sit right at home, as being able to say, let's not brave the supermarket this weekend, huh?

Now, to me, like I said, if this is a short term, situation, it's, in my estimation, not going to be much of a situation. Could be, I'm wrong. Could be people come out in droves and want to get thrown in jail. But I have a hard time believing that, come tomorrow, everyone's going to be out of food and panicking. I could be underestimating the failures of people, the people around me. But out of the 40 million, right?

And also, what no one's really mentioning, and I don't know what this is going to look like, because, look, the government can fail you in such momentous ways. You can't even believe it. But people are going to get partial payments, right? The letter itself says that you will not get full snap benefits. It doesn't say $0.0.0 for everyone. States have stepped up to help, yada, yada, yada. so not everyone's going to wake up with zero dollars and zero options tomorrow

I'm just giving you the realities of what I've read and you know all that kind of stuff that's the that's the situation what has me much more unnerved and what happens without us knowing and what happens without anyone's saying it right we've had three weeks or two weeks or whatever to wrap our head around this situation Snap EBT running out, but, but, but partial benefits. Look, I know people who get $20 in SNAP benefits who've worked in the United States their entire life, right? It's insane. It's insane what they do, particularly to seniors in this country.

Like, oh, man, you're already receiving a rap. A mind-numbing social security check, right? We can't go crazy here. divvian out these snap benefits to you, too, all right? But, I mean, this is no new idea, right? Your dependency on the government will set you up for failure, time and time again, period. It's not a long-term plan. It's not a great relationship.

It's not something you should depend on at all. But we've had lead time. What's much more devious, what's happening right now underneath your nose, what's happening right now underneath your it's absolutely unbelievable

and I think it's because of the pace and I think it's only going to get faster and more terrifying is the effect that artificial intelligence is having on the workforce which has little or nothing to do with government but I do wonder

what the government is actually thinking about talking about saying. Now, the conspiracy theorist in me says you kick everybody off SNAP because what you're about to unroll out is UBI in order to deal with the fact that AI is going to take everything. And one of the scariest things about AI taking all these jobs and eating all these jobs up in big executives up there getting fatter and richer. Because we know their salaries are insane. everybody opines for it for some reason, right?

The poor will always opine, or the middle class will always opine for the executive. You know what I mean? They work 80, 90 hours, 120 hours a week, whatever it is. Okay. Okay. You still have to have humanity, right? Like, in other words, it doesn't matter how what you have this amazing work ethic and this amazing innovative mindset.

You still have to have decency and humanity and, right? morality like should we let should we let let let let me give you a number real quick do you think we should probably let 48,000 people go from the UPS right before the holidays think about that for a minute thousands of stores have been closing

all over the nation this is from the economic collapse blog.com The cost of just about everything keeps going up and shocking mass layoffs are being conducted from coast to coast. The economy is booming. Delivery companies are usually thriving and hiring lots of new people. So it's a really bad sign that the UPS has chosen to eliminate 48,000 management and operations positions. Of these roles, 14,000 were management positions and 34,000 were jobs and operations. The reductions came through layoffs and buyouts, the company said. 14,000 Amazon employees have been let go in the quote-unquote first wave of mass layoffs that are ultimately expected to reduce the number of workers by 30,000, right? Now, this from, who's the, who said it? Is this from Amazon?

On Tuesday, Amazon confirmed plans to cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence. You see what I mean? These things are happening. They're not, you have to get your mind, PBN family. Listen to me. You have to get your mind out of one day AI is going to be a problem. One day AI is going to eliminate jobs, right? AI is going to eliminate jobs in the future.

We are living it. We are living it in the here and now. Okay? This is currently happening. Target's cutting 1,000 corporate positions and eliminating 800 open roles in an effort to speed up business decision making. What do you think that is code for? That sounds like code for something, if you ask me, right? We need to speed up decision making and drive growth under its new chief executive Michael Fiddick.

Fiddlek? Turning the company into a leaner, faster organization to drive innovation. Everyone is doing this. This is what you're going to see a lot of. Leaner, faster, faster decision-making, eliminating layers of management. All that is code for getting rid of people because AI can do what they do better, faster, more efficient. Chegg has fallen on really hard times. Chegg Incorporated a Santa Clara-based online learning platform said Monday it will cut 45% of its workforce, roughly 388 employees as it confronts what it calls the new realities of AI and reduce traffic from Google to content publishers.

This I've experienced personally for the whole year of 2025. Many of my clients have come to me and said the traffic reduction from Google is unbelievable. Our traffic has gone down exponentially. More than one writing client of mine has come to me and said that. Job cuts at Nestle, $16,000. The job cuts being cut represent 5.8 of Nestle's around 227,000 employees. Navaradil said Nestle had raised its cost savings target by 3 billion Swiss friends. francs from 2.5 billion francs at the end of 2027.

Westminster Mall, the second highest grossing retail site in the U.S. is being shut down forever. I mean, that's, you know, that's hard to believe, but not necessarily, right? So we're looking at these kind of situations. What we're going to see a lot of is consolidation of, businesses and industries and retailers and corporations right we have been we have been and for a long time lots of people have been talking about like how big do we let these conglomerates get we got rules on the books for this we got laws on the books for this right but it's very clear to me

we are in the maelstrom pb and family of an economy that is being uh well it's being infected with the quote-unquote efficiency of artificial intelligence and people are losing their jobs over it and it's not and this is what makes it the most devious is it's not automation affecting boots on the ground as many people assumed right many people assumed the robots were coming the aIs coming the guys delivering your the trucks pulling up to your house delivering your amazon packages are going to go away and it's going to be drones turns out it's management middle management. Turns out it's people who do semi-important

type work day-to-day that are being replaced by artificial intelligence. And what makes that tough is those jobs are harder to replace. You know, in many ways, AI is going to like call forth some great equality, almost like some kind of nightmarish equality of outcome that we all avoided and try

to avoid through Marxist policies, right? Like, keep the Marxists at bay, keep the socialist's base, so we don't wind up with this terrible economy of equality of outcome where everybody just winds up basically doing poorly, except for a few. And it seems like based on the quote-unquote efficiency,

like, that's going to be a thing anyway, with AI. It is going to be, competitive out there. It is, it, it, it was competitive already, you know what I mean? Not 10 years ago, I told you from a business perspective, start an online business. Something along those lines. Now to me it feels, it feels like a good idea to have an online business and then also have a flesh and blood business. Something simple, something easy, something you could do in your spare time, free time, creative, right?

get the uh get the things that make things easy but really look impressive if you're following me right there are things in the world 3D printers there are things in the world laser engravers wood what are they called wood wood engravers woodcutters laser woodcutter that kind of stuff things that you can engrave and personalize

things that you can cut and create custom things you know customization and personalization is huge for people in the world that we live in this stuff is huge because um going to a store and seeing all the trending stuff is kind of getting boring to people i think and people want something unique people want something to talk about same old thing right we've lived and we are living in the age of personalization customization customization and elitism right even for the common person right i want to have this thing that is unique to me and customized to me and you could do that with 3d printers you could do that with uh laser engravers you could do that with you know woodworking blacksmithing um crocheting all these kinds of

things you can do those things and it's not that hard do you know what i mean blacksmithing is hard but to create a unique shape, a unique heart and engrave two people's names in it and their anniversary date and that's your product and that's what you sell and you sell it on Etsy and eBay and sell it to all the people around you. You know, and maybe you put three unique dates on it or places or pictures or what items, right?

Three items that are like, you know, part of a inside joke between the couple or the, you know, whatever. very quickly you can create something that is unique that won't be available on Amazon that won't be available at Walmart but won't be available at these places that are going to thrive and are also going to become sort of the omnipotential

or the sort of like the omni location for you to buy stuff if you think these like beautiful little wonderful mom and pop location retail locations that you roll into and hang out at are going to survive stuff like this particularly if they sell items that sit on the shelves all over the country these places are going to struggle

They're going to struggle big time I apologize The Chin and Sarah Are having a conversation In the background there So the scariest story for me This Halloween is Is not even the Trump and Mago resistance

It's not even the It's not even the November 1st Which happens to be my wedding anniversary By the way And it's always Always right around We didn't know it at the time when we got married We had no idea

Liberty and I, that we would be celebrating our anniversary around these wild times in the country. Maybe it adds to what, you know, what it is that I do here at PBN, but there's always something, right? I was in Jamaica on my honeymoon when Barack Obama was announced the winner of the presidency. Bum, bum, bum, am I going to be able to get back in the country? What's going on? Am I a permanent resident of Jamaica now? you know and every year henceforth right every every four years and there's always a vote and there's always a thing around this time of the year just always around our anniversary there's a thing

and it's interesting you know but it also you know it also keeps you kind of locked in a little bit because you're like all right well if we want to go out for drinks are we going to wind up getting back home or not not that we go out for drinks but um you're new york times four hours ago published an article and you know this is sort of on the periphery right when you talk about the economy and you talk about artificial intelligence you have to also talk about disruption because disruption is is something that is going to take hold and has taken hold in some places and we're going to see a really a really sort of nice

demonstration of what disruption can look like because remember this november first situation can be utilized by the Trump resistance. It doesn't have to just appear because anybody who walks in with a cart and fills it up with stuff and walks out and gets in an altercation creates a problem. The resistance, the Trump resistance,

the no kings and so on and so forth have been talking a lot about I always forget the word because I don't participate hardly ever. What's the word? when you don't go shop somewhere or you don't spend any money at a certain location.

You know what I'm talking about. They've been calling for that. They've been calling for for using their economic power, strikes, that kind of stuff, right? Well, this is a way that they can do it kind of under wraps. The New York Times today,

and I can't read it because I'm not going to pay them a penny, oh, that's exactly what I'm talking about. That's the word I'm looking for right now. I keep wanting to say barter, but I know that's not it, of course. But yeah, like New York, the way I feel like about New York Times, right? I'll never pay them anything because they publish articles like this, a massive publication. Resistance to Trump isn't enough, right? Where does an article like that go?

Now, I could find it. I could read it. It wouldn't be that hard. but at the same time, you know, it's just one of those things. The resistance reaches into Trump country. And the resistance against Trump reaching critical, is the resistance against Trump reaching critical mass, Yahoo. Former DHS office launches new web tool to plan protests.

This is another insane one here. And if you think this is to plan protests, you're out of your mind. You know what I mean? This guy should be arrested. immediately Miles Taylor a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security

is leading a group of dozens of former national security officials whistleblowers and bipartisan group of former elected officials to create a website called defiance.org

and defiance.org is basically just that, right? It's the place to go post your protests and it's going to become a place to do a lot worse than that. And now, the reason I bring up defiance.org is because I think it is sort of the hard and soul of what I want to talk about in terms of the U.S. economy. I don't see how we don't wind up in a nation where things, where instability affects the economy because of protests and riots and things in stores, really that affect how often people go out,

how often people spend money. Now, there's always delivery. There's always delivery. There's always pick up and that kind of stuff. And, you know, that could be the way of the future. Well, basically is probably the way of the future. But this kind of instability is going to affect things. Everybody's going to, you know,

there are going to be all kinds of interesting ways to make you uncomfortable. This is guerrilla warfare, by the way. Just not quite there yet. But the mentality is the same. You know what I mean? It's making sort of the people you don't agree with or the people you look at as the enemy real uncomfortable with the situation they're in. Now, they're going to turn that mentality towards the general population, right? They're going to look at the general population as people who need to be moved and made uncomfortable.

And that might be stopping the gasoline trucks from getting off the highway, right? That may be stopping the trucks from refilling the grocery stores. Who knows what that may be? This is why PBN's tagline is your path back to stability. Hang on one second. Let me enjoy this. Let me enjoy this. A rush of wind.

A massive breeze from the south just hit my backyard and the leaves are falling. the pumpkin leaves are dancing in the breeze it's god's reminder to me pbn family that this world is a beautiful thing and that i shouldn't spend all my time moping about people moping about what could be right it was very timely lord i see you i see you up there see my neighborhood is trees trees on trees

so in the fall season it's like living in a storybook you know what i mean i mean that's just what it is it's old oldish trees like teenage middle-aged trees you know what i mean they all have so much to give this time of year they give color they give the you know the dripping and the falling the dancing in the breeze and uh that was a big one man that was a big one yeah that was nice so the resistance The defiance, the instability, the artificial intelligence really does shade this whole story. This whole horror story of Halloween 2025 into what exactly I'm telling you. It is the morphing of the U.S. economy.

It is the falling of the U.S. or the changing and the dipping of the U.S. economy. It is the struggle for the average person to figure out where they fit in the U.S. economy, right? And this is a big deal. This is the biggest deal, fundamentally. Because the defiance to Trump is not going to go away. The resistance to Trump is not going to go away. The struggles of the average American citizen and their dependence on the U.S. government is not going to go away. right if you lose your job to AI and your wife loses her job to AI or your husband loses you know what I mean like it doesn't take many weeks for the average person to wind up going all right well let's just get some welfare for a short period of time before we get on our feet this is the point of the program you know you shouldn't look at it as shameful if you've been on it for 20 years and you have seven kids shameful right but different thing but it doesn't take a lot for people to get there

You know, it really doesn't take a lot these days because there's people out there with $700 car payments, $900 car payments, $3,000, $4,000 house payments. You know what I mean? What you got? You know what I mean? I mean, like maybe even you got some savings. But you start doing the math and real quick a month, two months, three months, you know, you're into the tens of thousands of dollars that you need to come up with. so take note take note take note take note and most importantly fortify that survival headquarters of yours your home your most valuable prep in your entire arsenal your home how long can you stay in your home

2020 we had a dry run how long did you make it you know what i mean i hope that you added things to your home to make it more livable for longer one thing you should add right off the bat is protein if you don't have it you can do a lot of things for a long time if you got protein at home can add it in a variety of ways freeze dried frozen powdered you could do a lot of things right six chickens in the backyard protein protein that that is reoccurring so you know this is this is what it is we're dealing with folks this is what it is we're dealing with. There's a lot of running narratives that everybody's testing nuclear weapons and Donald Trump's meeting with this one and that one and Ukraine's doing that and Israel's doing

that. What's happening here on the ground floor is AI has moved in. It is affecting businesses all over the country. It will only continue to affect businesses and jobs all over the country. Make sure that you're in a business or industry that will not be affected or in a position that will not be affected and don't think you have immunity okay on top of all of that we're going to see we're seeing people with power getting involved in defiance to the sitting president of the United States and remember there's nothing Donald Trump can do except step down that will stop this you know what I mean so in if in your head you're thinking how do we appease the resistance types.

There's two options, right? You weight them out and let them burn themselves out. From what I've seen, the groups don't have a tremendous amount of endurance. But never think for a moment that you can appease them by doing anything short of having Donald Trump set step down and be thrown into prison or murdered. Only then will you see sort of a short-term explosion of celebration on Twitter and TikTok. and blue sky of people celebrating the death of Donald Trump and trying to get it made into a national holiday.

Know the ends of your enemy. What do they really want? You know what I mean? What do they really want? Because remember what they don't know what they want. Because if Trump steps down from office, then you got J.D. Vance. And they're going to want him out as quickly as they want Trump out.

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sorry, the craziest thing just happened. A, pick, uh, a, a, a tow truck started to back down my driveway, but they were turning around. I thought this, I thought this, I thought this whole day was about to take a radically different turn. It wouldn't have made any sense to me because, well, you don't need to know our financial situation, but it was just very interesting.

I'm saying to myself, well, one car is paid off. That I know for sure. And the other one is too new to be even behind in payment. Very weird. But, okay, so, PBN family. prep on. Enjoy your Halloween. Get out there. Give some candy out the kids, do some trick or treat and whatever is that you do, and bring on the holiday season, because we have to live. Although this is all happening in real time, we also have to live. Talk to you soon, folks.

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Following orders Not knowing what they do, not caring You mean like Democrats? Thank you.