The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Value of Everything is Changing

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

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You're listening to PBM. You're paying back the stability here. PBM family, what is up? The relentless prepper broadcasting network is live. I'm James Walton, the Intrepid Commander. Blessed to be with you today, to be caffeinated on this day. This most beautiful Tuesday, man, it is going to be 80-some degrees here in Richmond, Virginia. Despite the fact that the mother of mayhem, Abigail Spanberger,

has decided to disarm us all. It's going to be a wonderful day. I'm going to enjoy it. We've got a big show for you today. The main topic is the value of everything is changing. This is inherently a preparedness topic and self-sufficiency topic, and that's what we do here at PBN. But it's touching everything, man.

It's touching everything in our life. and it's really wild to watch in real time. I owe you a show on breaking free of the algorithm so you can see the world better. So you can use the internet as a mode to see the world better. It's really something that has changed my perspective a lot in the last year, gave me a better idea of kind of like this thing that's happening before our very eyes, right? The value of everything is changing. And it's, we'll get into it, okay?

But before we get into it, we cover a tremendous amount of topics here at PBN. We do some hands-on stuff on a regular basis. Every month we drop a routine, a fitness, health, preparedness, Bible-based routine. For you members out there, go check element. check the Prepper Broadcasting Network website, PBNFamily.com, because our most recent post is early access to that routine for April. And it's awesome. It's awesome. It's going to be an amazing month. Give me 30 days. You know what I mean? That's all I ask with these routines. Just give me 30 days, do the workouts, do the Bible readings, do the preparedness tasks.

And I can't give you anything more. In the world today, day, I cannot give you something more valuable than that routine that is actionable for 30 days straight. You know what I mean? The things that it'll do for you, your family, and so on, I don't know. The way I look at the world, guys, the value that I see in prepping, the value that I see in craftsmanship, in forgotten skills, in understanding the edible and medicinal world beyond the window panes. You couldn't sell this stuff 10, 12, 15 years ago. You could barely sell this stuff.

I don't mean sell it for money. I mean sell the idea to the average American, right? So much has changed that it's almost insane to not be prepping. It's almost insane not to be striving for some level of self-reliance and independence in the age that we're living in. Right? Funny thing happened. We got unfettered access to the government, the politicians, the celebrities through social media. And we found out that the vast majority of them are full of shit. Funny story. Who would have thought? And you know why I think that is? I don't want to take the blame off of anybody, right? Because you don't have to be a liar. You don't have to be fake. But life is tough. You know what I mean? Life is tough and you got to bullshit sometimes to make money, I think.

And I think when you get the more money you want to make, the more bullshit you got to do. Right? You think about it. Who are the realest people? You know what I mean? Who are the realest people? I grew up in a poor neighborhood and one of the best things about the poor neighborhood was how real the people were. There was a time when you would value the fake.

sort of lingo and behavior of sort of the upper middle class or even the upper class, like this sort of fake elegance, we're better, right? There's a time when you would value that. Now, this day and age where almost everybody knows that someone they once trusted has pulled the wool over. I'm not even talking about like in personal relationship, but at large, right? You look at back at all the president, which president wasn't a liar, which president wasn't a cheat, which president wasn't uh you know you know you look at your representatives locally you look at you know what i mean people maybe that you looked up to all that kind of stuff and you just inherently inherently see that the

value has is changing just let me talk to the guy at the bar at least he knows what's going on you know what i mean i'd just i'd rather talk to the guy at the bar because he's he's being real with me right so as we get into the show we're going to talk more about the value of everything that's changing. And I want you to think about it in your own life because it's, you could be putting your money towards things that make no sense. You could be putting your time, your effort towards these things that make no sense. Inherently have no value, but for a long time, right? Look at religion, right? Anyway, before we get any further, go to pbnfamily.com. That is our membership website. We have a ton of prepping documents, videos, members-only podcasts, all available at pbnfamily.com.

If you value preparedness, homesteading, physical fitness and health, right? If you value those things, then you should be a part of our membership, right? You should be a part of our membership, look over everything that we have and consider joining. There's a lot of value there. There's a lot of that. The value of everything is changing PBM family. But think about religion. 10 years ago, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, right?

Five years ago, depending on the circles you're in, maybe still. It was a big Hollywood move to make movies that had long exaggerated speeches about the uselessness of a god. Right? George Carlton, what's name? Carlson? Carson? George Carson? Who's the guy?

I always forget his name. funny liberal comedians slick back gray hair he was always on god always attacking god there was always great speeches about you know god is forgotten you god has left you you know all these kinds of things like the the nietzsche of it all came to fruition in hollywood right god is dead it was this big thing and you saw it you saw it in the pews you saw it in the church participation in religion at large and sort of the death of religion you saw that the value was not there. Whether you believed it or not, right?

And now, and now I think it's because of the lack of truth. There are so many people turning back to God, and you find yourself watching that change in value. Right? You see people recognizing, oh, the book that I mocked my whole life has a lot of great information in it. That Bible that I mocked all my whole life has some really great words of wisdom in it.

And oh, you know what? You know what else? It might be hiding in there as I get to the latter years of my life. Perhaps my salvation. Perhaps my salvation at large. So I don't know. It's a crazy time. It's a time where sheer adaptability and willpower is vital to stay like on this rocking ship that we're on, you know?

We handle the preparedness side of it. our great Prepper Library giveaway has ended and it ended in such incredible fashion. It really ended with a miracle. It really did. It ended with an absolute miracle. There's no other way I can look at it. The final day of the giveaway, now we were giving away 10 books, okay, Preper Library, 10 books, 10 incredible books. The whole goal was to spread the word.

about a few great titles. Let's, I'll show them to you real quick, just so you know. We had the Flood Prevention Handbook by Ryan Lee Price. All right, great book to have on your prepper's shelves. And then really one of my favorite books of all-time Preppers Home Defense. Like, you got to have Preper's Home Defense. Okay, it's an amazing book. This is a new edition.

As you can see, it's got drone considerations, offensive, defensive. kind of stuff. Great books. You know what I mean? The books that I used to talk to a niche audience about and say like, just in case the whole world comes to an end, you might want to have some defense. Now it's like, you see these mobs of teens running through high schools, running through malls, running through, you know, downtown areas.

How long does that go? How long does that last until there are mobs? of teams realized like, I wonder what we could take and hold. I wonder what we could command and conquer with this many people. I wonder what kind of profit we could make with this size of a group. I wonder what it would look like for the police if we all showed up. But instead of showing up with backpacks, we showed up with glocks. That's what I see every time I see a flash mob.

You know what I mean? Every time I see a flash mob of black teenagers, I know you're not allowed to say that, right? That's like suicide to mention the skin color. You see these flash mobs. The only thing I could think to myself is like, one day they're going to realize they have numbers and they're going to bring firearms. And you do that in a small enough town.

What's the police force going to do? Not to mention they're teenagers, kids, you know what I mean? They should be treated like adults. It should be tried like adults in a situation like that. If you're breaking and entering and, you know, stealing and beating people unconscious, just probably need to nip that in the butt. And I, you know, around the country, there are a few sheriffs, notably the one in Miami. My dad told me about one in Miami.

My dad is like my undercover reporter. I don't know where he finds this stuff. But he told me about one in Miami that's kind of laying the groundwork for, you know, law and order once again, maybe. We could try that. We could try law and order. But, yeah, man, the value of that, what's the value of true speak? What's the value of true speak that, you know, comes from someone who's unafraid of the ransom that everyone holds above your head, right? You saw that ransom that everybody holds above your head finally come to light in 2020, right?

Forever, there's been a ransom. You're at work, there's a ransom. You sit in a desk, you have meetings with people who don't know you, you don't know. know them. There's a bit of a ransom, right? And that ransom is there are things you can say here and there's things you can't say here. There's opinions you can have here and there's opinions you can't have. And that's fine for a work environment. But it was kind of, at 2020, we came to realize like, ooh, there's a lot of value here. These people, and then as, let's say you were working in like nine out of ten establishments that were corporate, you were dealing with a liberal bias.

now you had that hanging over your head as well, right? It's not like you walk into your job and say, you know, something that was even remotely political or right-leaning without it being an issue, without one of your coworkers being upset going to AR, whatever, or HR. That's pretty good Freudian slip right there. Your coworker gets mad instead of going to HR, he goes to AR. That's the way.

That's not bad. that's pretty funny without intending to be funny all of a sudden people started to see the value you know like 10 years ago was it 10 20 20 no not 10 six years ago when we started our membership and this is at pbnfamily.com you can listen to all these podcasts they're for members only but you can become a member it's very affordable and highly valuable

it's called the cubicle escape plan podcast and the tagline for the cubicle escape plan podcast back then you got to understand this is like I don't know I think it was pre-COVID I think it was 2019 or maybe even yeah it was probably 2019 entrepreneurship is a survival imperative that's that was my tagline for that series which is all about getting out of the cubicle starting your own business so on and so forth right and uh Yeah, entrepreneurship is a survival imperative. And that wasn't because COVID lockdowns. That wasn't because what else happened in this country?

It was literally just the political influence flooding into jobs. And for people who are right-wing religious conservative, they had the blade of Damocles hanging over their head. I know it. I lived it. I lived it. I lived it. I worked at a great place, non-profit. And it was great. It was wonderful. But it was changing. It had changed in five years. And it was only going in one direction. And it was getting more and more liberal and more and more center-rightophobic. You know what I mean? And I don't know. I don't know if I'd have made it there. I didn't know this was coming. But I don't know if I'd have made it. there for the long term. And I would have been a much bitter person, much more bitter person, if I lost that job over my political beliefs or my overall sort of attitude and, you know, cultural mores, right? Like it would have been a real tough time for me during like the George Floyd situation.

That would have been a real rough time at that job because it would just completely. complete and total budding of ideologies, undoubtedly. I didn't leave the job because I saw the writing on the wall, though. It was maybe a little part of it, maybe. I was radicalizing for sure, radicalizing in the sense that I wanted to be free, radicalizing in the sense that I saw the value of everything changing. In 2016, I saw it. You know what I mean?

Think 2016 about you. That's when I left. And in 2016, I saw the writing on the wall. I saw the value changing. And I went for that, man. And I went for a number of reasons. You know what I mean? Not the least of which and one of the biggest reasons was my kids.

It was pretty simple. Let's hang with these kids while we got them. You know what I mean? I see a lot of these posts nowadays, too. They make me sad and they make me happy at the same time. I see a lot of people posting things like, you know, you get X amount of summers with them, you get X amount of days with them, you get X. I said, actually one yesterday got me. One I saw yesterday really got me.

And it said, could you imagine spending a full day with your child as a toddler? You know what I mean? Like one full day. What would you do for one full day with your child as a toddler? Now, there's something weird that happens, though. if you get too focused on that, right? Is you get into this point where you're like, or at least I do, right, where my kids are still here. And I'm over here daydreaming me about like hanging out with them when they were five, which is kind of weird.

It's probably not super healthy. But, you know, I think man should know every day things are dying, right? Everyday moments and opportunities and things are dying. It's not to get depressed. It's a momentum more like for the day to day. And it helps you to enjoy the day, despite the nonsense of the day. Listen to my podcast from yesterday, man. Yesterday I was in a place that I'm almost never in, right?

This sort of opposite of this situation. But you build back, you know, you get yourself back to back on your feet back into your, well, actually what saved me was the book, right? What really brought me back was the ultimate survival toolkit by James Walton. which showed up in my mailbox yesterday, and it was so sweet to see. Now, for the podcast listening audience, I'm not going to go over this thing over and over and over again,

but suffice it to say we worked really hard myself in a publishing company to create the ultimate survival toolkit, which is, I don't know, it's a great little resource. You know what I mean? I wanted to make sure that when we put something out, we put something out that had a lot of value. I think that that for the price has tremendous value. Now, that book is not for sale yet.

I don't even know if people are supposed to see it yet or not. I have no clue. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to show it to you because it's awesome. And whoever won the giveaway, I haven't checked yet. Whoever won the giveaway, you're getting a copy. You're going to get a copy before it's probably even on sale. And it's going to be signed by me and have fun with it, man. Have fun with it.

It's, yeah, it's, I haven't even really given it. It's due yet, you know, That's another thing that's changing in value in my life and should be changing in value in yours too. We value or we at least act as though we value our failures more than our successes, right? Because we mull over our failures constantly. For days, months, years, decades, we sit there and we mull over our failures, you know what I mean? And there's some, you know, that hypercritical aspect of people exist in successful people always. You know what I mean?

It's very rarely run into a hyper successful person and they're like, everything I do is great. You know what I mean? Most of the time you're a horrendous taskmaster on yourself. But there is a lot of value and you definitely should take the time to really go over your successes. Celebrate a little bit. You know what I mean? celebrate a little bit, be happy, be joyful. I found the latter parts of life, like people, they don't care as much.

You know what I'm? I'm lucky because I've got you guys. You know what I mean? I've got an audience here that is tremendous. And you guys email me and congratulate me. And then I got the host and the host of this friend group that is tremendous. And it's like, it's a different kind of cheerleader squad than the average guy has. or maybe even the average girl, you know, the average person. So make sure, you know what I mean? Make sure.

Especially if you're into certain things, right? Like if you're into writing books like me, you write books, you publish books, you show your family like, hey, dude, look at my new book, right? Your 14-year-old son's like, what's, I don't, the last thing I want to see is a book, Dad. It's the last thing I want to see, okay? I barely made it out of English alive. And I remember, you know what I mean? I absolutely remember.

So, but just another, you know, poetry, Bible, poetry, maybe even some, some literature in your life. I don't know. For me, these things, people haven't completely caught on, but I'm telling you right now, guys, there is going to be a renaissance, particularly in America, particularly around poetry and around literature. It's coming. It's coming.

It is. It's coming. You know why? Because we have to combat the apathy in our world, right? We have to combat the apathy in our world. What do I mean for those of you who are saying, what are you talking about? Like, you can't get hit with the amount of stuff that you get hit with without becoming apathetic. Whether you realize it or not.

You can't. You can't wake up and go, they're eating kids, they're raping lands, they're blowing up other countries, they're taxing me more. They're taking my guns. They're telling me I'm shit. You could get hit with that in about as quickly as I told you all of it. You can get hit with that in the morning. And the human mind can't handle it, right? You can't handle all that.

There's no way you can handle all that. What we used to do as a human being is you would get like two of those things dropped into your head. And you would be like, okay, well, let's get the spears. Let's gather the guys up. sharpen up the spears, we got to go take care of this, because this shit can't happen this way. And you'd either die in battle or you would, you know, survive in the kingdom would go on. But like, you can't handle it. So what happens is you become apathetic.

It's happening to everybody. You may not know it, but it's almost everybody. It's happened. Because it's a survival mechanism at this point. We're going to wake up every day and then parse out every little bit of news and terrible shit that's going on in the world. I go, okay, well, I get this handler and move this. I can switch my meeting around so I can think about what's happening in Iran and send an email to this representative and tell them I'm not very happy with what you're doing with the gun rights. You know what I mean?

So you developed, and I think everybody is, right? And that's not even that's not even talking about like the sheer volume of violence on TV, not violent movies, but literal violence. like be this is this is graphic be careful you know what i mean like that'll be on the regular news you see people getting punched in the head until they're unconscious and getting punched in the head while they are unconscious and their head stomped and kicked right and if you think you're going to like subject yourself to that that's going to move through you that's going to filter through you right and you're just going to be like i'm good honey pack the kids up or going to denny's let's go You know what I mean?

What's happening is switches are going off. Lights are going off inside you. We've got to turn that off. Oh, I'm scared. Turn that off. Oh, I'm really angry now. Like, I want to get violent to stop the violence. Oh, turn that off.

You're not allowed to have that, right? And all those lights are going off in us all the time every day. And we're developing in it like a serious apathy towards almost everything. You have to. There's no way you could not. Right? there's no way you could not. The guys who don't develop the apathy,

they wind up doing the stuff that makes the news. You watch them. What's guy doing? He found a guy outside the White House. He had 16 AR-15s, an axe and a grenade. Right? These are the guys who can't switch it off. But it's also not good to switch it off.

Right? Maybe there was a value in apathy for the average, you know, sort of caveman-esque guy coming up in the 20th century because he was thinking like, I would really like to smash this guy's head with a rock, but he's my wife's boss and, you know, we're in modern times. So I better not do that. There was a need for that, right? You had to tone it down a little bit.

Now you're getting hit with so much stuff that you have this forced to apathy placed on you. It's like you have to do. You got to turn it off, right? You get a kid comes home and she's like, you know, dad, today we learned about the colonizing evil white man. And, you know, I wish I was a black girl instead of a white girl. You know what I mean? They're telling me that even though I'm a girl, I probably should be a boy. That's what my art teacher says.

You got to, you know, in order to survive. So every action, equal opposite reaction. I think we have to fight the apathy, not in a way that we become violent and insane, but in a way that we breathe life back into our life. in a way that we breathe emotional reactions and, you know, real life,

feeling life again. The reason I think that the value of things like literature and poetry will go up and will change and will become much more valuable in the very near future is because when I wrote poems for men, I told you that what men needed,

I thought, the reason I wrote that book is because I thought that men needed a reminder, that everything they're suffering is been happening forever. Do you know what I mean? Like the struggles with manhood,

with fatherhood, with women, with life in general, you can look back damn near a thousand years and read writings and read poems written by people that will remind you, and I think we all need this reminder

that like many of the struggles that you're facing right now, the ones that matter, not like, how do I, manage my ex feed. You manage it by leaving it alone for a week, right? How do I meant, like the struggles with women, the struggle, you know, this whole thing.

It's just these are, these are challenges that we've faced and been facing for a long time. And not to, that's not the only reason. I think the value of something like poetry is going to change in the very near future. It's also because it stands completely in, it stands against the apathy of the day. It stands completely against the apathy of the day. And it reminds you of the things that you should be paying attention to. It reminds you that the world outside your windows is beautiful and has been beautiful and will be beautiful. And is one of the things that you can really depend on in the face of everything going to shit.

You know, like I thought when I was out fishing with my dad as a young man, like I thought I like fishing because I like catching fish. You know what I mean? But the truth is you like fishing because you like adventure and discovery and exploration. And that's what these things are all about, right? You go down to the fishing hole. What could be under the rock? What could be hiding under the tree? And then you say, oh, look at the eagle.

Look at the osprey. Look at what's happening here. Oh, there's a muskrat over on the shore, right? And you're just all of the beauty that exists in the world and existed there forever. and we've always enjoyed and indulged in it comes back to the forefront. And you realize like, ooh, maybe concretized life and life through the idiot box is not all that's out there. And those technologies weren't even remotely as addictive as the, you know, the current iteration. So tangent over on that one.

Sorry, guys. There's just a lot going on in my head right now. You got to understand. We can get to some prepper related stuff. Do you want to see something really awesome? You want to see something really awesome? Let me zoom out. I don't want to zoom my camera out because I really love our new Relentless logo.

But I do want to show you this. I will link to this in the audio podcast show notes. Okay, for you video viewers, I'm sorry. I didn't do it. I'm not going to do it. We don't get enough views on these video things. We do, actually. That's not fair.

But I wanted to show you this, okay? This is called the, I don't know what it's called, right? This was a product that I bought because it's exactly what I wanted. You understand? In other words, there was no influencer that told me, hey, you should look up this company. It's D2 steel. This just fit the bill exactly for what I wanted. I don't know how to describe that.

And I think there's value in that also. I think there's a changing value set in that. there are so many producers of products in the world now that the idea that like i'm a maxpedition guy you know what i mean i but the american made baby i buy x maxpedition stuff i mean i don't care if you're like that i care less if you have brand loyalty and that kind of stuff i hope you have some brand loyalty to a prepper broadcasting network but the truth is like as you discover what you really like about a thing and figure out what it is you want right like it's pretty damn easy to find exactly what you want now i i didn't have a fixed blade knife that was small enough to

carry and and deploy the way that this thing deployes right this is not a kershaw this is not a Spider Co. This is, it's a nothing. It's a nothing from Amazon. But what I'm getting at is the value of what I wanted superseded the value of me going to a brand and saying, well, what do you have that I might like kind of? Right. Some of them are called like claw knives, these things. You can look at claw knife and find some designs. Like I said, if you like the blade for me is exactly what I wanted. right the the the ring grip is exactly the size the small size right oh it was just perfect you know what else is perfect about it it costs $20 the value of everything is changing right this costs $20 you understand what that means there's there's knife guys in the audience

going I understand what that means you're going to cut a box open with it and it's going to be shit after that. You may be right. But look, all those things add up in my mind is like, this is something I want. This is something I'm going to get. I'm just saying everything I talk about largely is about broadening your horizon, really. It really is. It's about broadening your horizon.

It's about understanding that, like, you see my little screen. For those of you who aren't watching, like, I'm on a screen. and there's a background and then I'm within a rectangle in the background, right? There are incredible forces that want to take your rectangle and turn it into this circle, right? They want to just crunch you down, man, and crunch you down and crunch you down. That's all the ads. That's all the everything that you see every day. You know what I mean?

They want to crunch your vision down so that you can focus on their products, their ideology, whatever. You know what I mean? And yeah, I just can't tell you the value of really seeking out like what you want, what you want out of your life, what you want out of your knife, what you want out of your wife, what you want out of your strife, what you want, you know what I mean? What you want? Like, what do I want? We live in a time where you can give anything you want.

There was never a time where you could be like, I want a knife like this, but I don't want it in that color. and I want it in this shape. And you would go to like benchmaid and be like, what do they got? Okay, let's see what buck has. You know what I mean? Now there's a million people making. Nah, you know what I mean? They're everywhere.

You can get whatever you want. Even like, even if I didn't want like the tonto on this thing, I could probably reach out to this producer. And this is like not even really a tonto. It's kind of more, even more extreme, which is what I really like. You could reach out and be like, hey, can you make this for me? How much are you going to charge you? The product costs $20.

It costs $24 and then they gave me a discount. I don't even know why. So you can get what you want. If you struggle with searching, finding, you know, I can help. I can help you with that. If you really struggle at finding what you want in life, I can help you with that. Because there are things that get in the way. There's the ignorance to the product you're looking for and the dimensions and the type and that kind of stuff.

There are sponsored products to get in the way. There's an algorithm that gets in the way. So there are a lot of things that get in your way of getting what you want. Which brings me to another piece of the puzzle, which is the value of the Internet. The value of the Internet is changing. If you don't know how to operate it, if you don't know how to get around the sort of rigors, it's changing, man. I tell my kids, I don't like to tell them because they're invested. But I tell him, like, the internet, man, I don't think it's that long in the tooth.

I'm very nervous about the prospect of a completely bot-filled internet landscape. And then on top of that, not only is the interaction no longer human, but the content itself is likely to no longer be human or overwhelmingly artificially intelligent. One thing that people aren't considering about artificial intelligence is like, if it gets smarter than you, are you going to want to interact with it? Like the large language model that is a little dumber than you, but better than you at researching is perfect, right? It's fun. It's like, you know, appease me, do what I ask, you know, understand me pretty well. How many super smart people do you hang out with on a regular basis? Do you know anybody who's like exponentially smarter than you and you're like, I can't wait to talk to them?

I can't wait to read what they've written. I can't wait to watch their content. Imagine Elon Musk puts out a YouTube channel and puts videos out every day. Like, would that be something you'd be interested in? Not update videos. Like, not like, what's what we're doing on SpaceX. So there's no guarantee that one, the one thing guaranteed is that artificial intelligence. going to take over the internet it's over it's just a numbers game now it's just math it's like

how many pieces of content are they producing every single day that are artificially intelligent lead produced right and then what happens when you automate many people have automated and then what happens when i i decides well maybe i'll automate maybe we should automate in this area these things are going to happen right so the value of the internet starts to fall off right you could combat that. The value that changes on the internet scale is what? Private internet, private servers, private everything. You're carving out your version of the internet or you're building your own version of the internet for your community. This is like almost inevitable for you. For you watching me and you who have been with me for a long time in the hosts, you PBN loyal, right, the PBM family.

family. Like, it's almost inevitable that in the next five years, there'll be a PBN internet that you'll get access to as a member, right? Now, you'll probably have to be a member to get access to it, if I'm honest. Because if you're going to go through the trouble of building your own internet, which I will, if I can afford it and sustain it and maintain it, but I think it'd be well worth it, right? Build your own server, build your own internet, yada, yada, yada. and you want cool people there, right? Like the reason PBN is as great as it is because it's fundamentally all cool people.

You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't know how that worked out, but it's great. I love it. But all of this, all of this to say, PBN family, like the value of things is changing. And you need to be very aware of it. You need to be very aware of it.

You know, you look at food. I mean, food is one. That is wild. It's really wild watching the value of food change. You know? Like when I was growing up, it was, I don't know, niche, if you will, to have a garden. You know what I mean?

It's like, oh, you got a garden? Oh, that's cool, man. If you have any extra tomatoes, you know what I mean? It was like one of these weird things. It was like, if you had a garden in your backyard, you were like, Oh, you're like a, you got like a green thumb. So you got like a green thumb. You know, it wasn't something everybody did. Because of the age of information that we live in, right? Because the wool has been, you know, removed from everyone's eyes. All the sudden, everybody knows like, oh, produce got pesticides all over it.

Shit. Right? The soil is depleted of new. Nutrients. Ah. So the vegetables aren't as healthy, right? I might as well grow my own. And what's the value of that? And then you watch the prices rise.

See, that's the other thing. The price is going up creates an environment where all this stuff that maybe five years ago or something, you were like, I don't know if there's real value in this. A tremendous value in it, right? You always would joke, like you keep chicken, like raise meat birds or raise even you raise eggs like in all honesty back in the day you raising chicken eggs like we do you would be you know you would get a bag of feed bedding maybe a bag of crack corn like field corn cracked you were in for like 25 bucks maybe

30 bucks, right? Monthly. And then you're sitting there thinking to yourself, you know, and that's if everything goes right with the chickens, you don't, you know, and you're sitting there thinking to yourself, like, I've got a chicken egg bill that's 30 bucks a month right now. I eat probably four dozen eggs a month at the most, right? Back then I wasn't even eating that many, but there are two bucks a dozen. Do you know what I mean? There are two. Back, I get a dozen eggs for like two bucks or a dollar something. Cheap. Cheap.

And you were ignorant. So you didn't know any better. You're white eggs, pretty. They're white. They look clean. Well, I don't know. You were ignorant to it. So it was really a weird thing.

The value was all messed up if you did it by the numbers. If you're like, I can get a dozen eggs for $1.50. That puts me, if I buy a dozen eggs every week at the market, that puts me at $6 cost of eggs on the month. Or I can get six. chickens for $30, right, a month, and get a lot more eggs, but I mean, how many eggs do you need? How many eggs are you going to eat? And I'm in five times more money cost overhead than I was. Then you start to learn about chickens, start to learn about eggs, start to learn about, you know, all vegetarian fed birds.

And you're like, that sounds great. vegetarianism is on the rise wonderful and you realize then you learn like oh chickens eat everything they rip the heads off of living creatures and eat them alive you know what i mean they're just brutal little creatures they omnivorous and then you have one of those eggs that you raised you look at it and you're like oh okay this is a different thing the value changes the value changes why because all the sudden it's not about how much money can i save at the supermarket it's what can I do for my body for the duration of my life to power this thing, right? What can I do to power this thing effectively and take care of it?

Turns out, I fill my money, my bank account full of money from eating cheap eggs or eating cheap everything. Then I die and none of that money matters. I mean, you might get all warm and fuzzy thinking about leaving money to your family and stuff like that, But the truth of the matter is, you won't know. You wouldn't know if the day after you died, the bank caught on fire and all your money burned away, which is impossible nowadays. But, you know, you have no clue. You're dead.

You're not there. Keep your eyes on the value of things, PBN family. Keep your eyes on the value of things. Give yourself a value audit. Give the things that you spend your money on a value audit. Even if it's here, even if it's PBN, even if you're looking at PBN and going like, I got the $5 a month membership. Has value changed?

Has what James and his crew are doing become more valuable or less value? Right. And the same is, you know, in all fairness to us, the same is to be said about the value of the membership and the content available over there and the meetups and the routines and all the great things that we do over there. Like has the value changed to the point where you say, I mean, I've had people send me, literally send me emails about this. I've listened for free for years and now I'm going to become a member. I feel like I should become a member. I don't know. It's your call.

You know what I mean? It's your call 100%. But yeah, give yourself a value audit. You know what I mean? Where is the real value today? Because it's not the same as it was in the 90s. It's not even really the same as it was in the 2000s. What's valuable today is changed radically in family, in food,

in business, in work, life, I mean, just a lot has changed in value. And you want to make sure you're optimizing your time and your money, going after the things that you want to be going after. Because before long, all this stuff will be gray, right? This will all be gray, hair, beard, everything. And it'll be off into the sunset, folks, you know? Time gets us all.

Make no mistake about it. I'm out of here, PBM family. Thank you so much. for everything, truly for everything. I mean, you've made all this possible. You've made all this possible for me. You've made all this possible for the audience, the hosts, those of you who watch, those that you support us, share the podcast, all that kind of stuff. You just, you make it all possible. And visit our great sponsor for today, inertmugs.com. Go check out inertmugs.com. They are an awesome tactical drinkware company that makes the coolest tumblers on the plane.

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That's going to be an amazing show. Coming up at 3 p.m. Eastern today, it's the Prepar Broadcasting Network, man. You know the deal. We are relentless. Talk to you soon.