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Episode Date: March 12, 2026

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Self-r-r-Ly! The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what cause others may take

As for me With me liberty Or give me death Nobler in the mind To suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them

To die To sleep no more And by a sleep to say we end The heartache And the thousand natural shocks that the flesh is heir to. Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream, ah, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Must give us pause, there's the respect that makes

calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time? The oppressor is wrong, the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, pay attention, the insolence of office, and the spurns of the patient merit of unworthiest takes, when he himself might his quietest make with a bark bodkin who would fardles bear to grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country, From who's born, no travel returns, puzzles a will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of.

I mean, welcome to the I Am Liberty Show, PBN family. I, you... When you have such access to greatness, right? It's easy to get bored of greatness. My body is dimpled right now, and I've read this passage so many times, to be or not to be, that is the question for those of you who don't recognize it, right? It is the great William Shakespeare, and it's unbelievable. We're talking 1500s right now, right?

Just think about it. The more things change, the more they stay the same, everything and nothing, right? The calamity of so long life. You know, one of the most important things about Shakespeare to me, we're not doing a show about Shakespeare, but one of the most important things about Shakespeare to me is he is a reminder of what we are. He is a reminder of how much things have not changed in so very long, right?

the oppressors wrong the proud bands contumely the pangs of despised love the laws delay the insolence of office it's wild to grunt and sweat under a weary weary life this is so timeless man to grunt and sweat under a weary life but that the dread of something after death the undiscovered country from whose born no travel returns puzzles the will In other words, life can be such a grind and such a monster. But for the vast majority of us with our heads on straight, we'd rather endure it for the fear of what may come after. You know, and that idea, I think, is not because of hell, right? I don't think that idea is because of hell. In other words, I don't think suicide is born out of a fear of hell, you know, or lack of, right, the...

Decision not to commit suicide, right? Life can be hell-lacious. And I don't think it comes out of that. So, yeah, I'm late. Yeah, I'm four and a half hours late tonight. Sorry. It was a busy week. What do you want me to do?

I'd work to catch up on. Got all caught up, fell asleep, hung out with my wife a little bit, and I said, you know what, let's get up and do a show, shall we? Because I've had a show in the, the chamber for two weeks now. I just didn't get to it. But I wanted to open the show up with great. Why? Because there's so much trouble in the world. There's so much trouble in the world and everybody knows it's coming to an end now. It's all over. We're all going to die.

I thought I'd read some Shakespeare to you so you can remember what the human is capable of. Just remember what the human is capable of. That's all, you know. Because for some reason, And I think it's probably our propensity to forever and forever and forever improve. We have this weird thing built into us as humans where we just forget about the greatness of humanity. We just forget. You know, we forget about stuff. We forget. I remember when I got into prepping, everybody was worried about peak oil.

Peak oil, peak, peak, peak, peak, peak, peak, peak, peak. Peak oil's coming. It's coming for everyone. And before you know it, the oil will be out, and the goods won't be able to get across the ocean. Didn't take peak oil. But anyway, and you know what? Some maniac did, some genius?

He said, you know what? Let's stick a big-ass drill in the ground and squirt some sand in between this shale, and then it'll release natural gas. It'll release natural gas and we'll collect that natural gas. Man, listen. Nobody, not George Orwell, nobody saw fracking coming. Nobody saw a natural gas coming.

Nobody saw it, you know? And you got to remember that about the human. The human animal is something, man. I'm telling you right now. There is no other creature in this universe that will throw you a curveball like that. where you think the end is nigh. Because that's the story of all humanity, right? The story of all humanity is like my day-to-day struggle is a nightmare

and I'm not happy with this and that. I'm working myself to the bone and life is a grind and it's tough. And, you know, the kids don't listen. I beat them and they don't listen. And, you know, all of the above. And still over top of my head is this exist, threat of apocalypse. I mean, do you know how old the existential threat of apocalypse is?

The oldest stories in the world are about apocalypse. The oldest stories in the world are about monsters that are going to end the world, rains that are going to end the world. Going to the world. It's been a long week, guys. Apparently on the Daily Audio Cash today, I said my chickens are stacked. Now, I don't know if I said it, my wood is fed and my chickens are stacked. but my chickens are kind of stacked, to be honest.

They're huge. They might be jacked more than stacked. Well, no, they are actually kind of stacked if we want to really talk about the word, the way it's kind of met, you know, in the common parlance. They are hens, right? So what do we want to do tonight on the I Am Liberty show? There's a couple of things. Okay, there's a couple of highlights.

What I want to do, I kind of just want to talk. But we're going to do other. The Preppers Guide. Oh, that's it. I've got a Liberty Review for you. I've got a Preppers in the news for you. I'm not going to be on here for two hours tonight. It's just not going to be one of those things.

I got member videos to me. It's been like four days, I think. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Today will be the fifth day that I haven't posted anything from our wonderful members. So that's got to change. So I'll probably batch some content for members after this. Right? If you're considering membership, I would highly recommend it.

We don't take five days off, four day, whatever it is. That doesn't normally happen. Usually the weekends, we don't do any membership content, but, you know, bushcrafting for preppers, hammer talk, prepper fit and health, yada, yada, yada, videos about prepping and preparedness. Discounts, the Cubicle Escape Plan podcast, other one-off prepper podcasts. Actually, I'm due to throw up. That's what I'm going to throw up tonight, PBN family. You wonderful members. This episode is brought to you by Spreker.

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That's what we'll do. We're bringing the bug out series back from Patreon, putting that up for the members. Just so you know what the bug out series is, for those of you who are sitting around thinking, maybe we should bug out. What do you think, honey? Should we bug out? Should we bug out to the woods? It took me seven episodes of at least an hour each to scratch, well, not to scratch the surface,

because we did more than that, but seven episodes to really talk through the bug out, start to finish. You know, episode number one being, can you bug out? Like, let's start right from the top. Can you even do it? Is it something that you, because not everybody can do it. And I don't mean that from a physical standpoint. I mean, and I, well, I do and I don't, right? That's one thing to consider.

So, it's a big deal to bug out. You know, I hear people say it willy-nilly, right? Bug out. We got a bug out. Have you really thought this thing through? And I'm not saying this from the standpoint of like, you're going to go to the woods and you're going to freeze the death in the winter. I'm not even talking about that.

I'm talking about really following this whole process through. And we've been working on that on the membership side. So look, come join us, man. It's highly affordable. We got 14 hosts. I know I say it all the time, but you've got to say some things all the time or nobody listens. We've got 14 hosts. We'll take care of you.

We had a member that joined us last week or a week before. I don't even know how this happened. I wish I could say I did this. But we got a member who joined like a week ago, two weeks at the most. She comes to me, and I'm assuming it's a she, I don't know, actually. The member comes to me and says, I've got a question about a certain thing, right? And in a matter of literally days, one of the hosts stepped up and did a whole show on stuff. You know what I mean?

That's what it is here. You're not dependent on me. God, help you if you were dependent on me only. You're not dependent on me. When you bring a problem to us, when you bring an issue to us, when you become a member, right, a supporter of the Prepper Broadcasting Network, I will unleash everything on you. Just understand that. I will unleash upon you. While I have your attention, Toolman Tim is coming on Monday.

I know you probably don't know who Toolman Tim is. Well, maybe you do actually because it was, sorry, let me take my Ferg off. Jay Fergie, if you're out there listening, I had the Ferg on today. It was a little chilly. One of my favorite articles. So, Pappy, Pappy Canoli of PBM fame back in a day, live chat back in the day fame, sent me a link to this guy, Toolman, Tim. And he was talking about different tools to have for the apocalypse.

I don't remember exactly what the video was, but he's a tool guy. He's a fixed guy. He's a home repair guy. and I said to him, hey man, you should come on Preppers Live and talk to us about building toolkits, okay, building toolkits to help us in a collapse. You know, like, what would I need to put together to be able to patch the roof up? These kinds of things. So Toolman Tim will be on Monday night, join us, Preppers Live.

I know it's Wednesday evening and it seems like it's forever away, but put it a on your calendar because this is going to be a good one this is going to be an angle that nobody's taken i think on our network yet um because home repair listen again with the bug out people get wrapped up in this idea i need a cabin i need a tiny house i need another shelter i need a shelter out in the wood somewhere but the reality is you're living in one of the most advanced survival shelters in the world and you've invested more money in this survival shelter than you you you have invested in probably anything else in your life so invest in keeping you it up. We're going to talk questions today. Really tough pain in the ass questions.

Okay. Last week I did a show really tough, not really tough, but just straight to the point preps, okay? I wanted that to be shared around. This is not going to be such a politically correct and nice and nice. Welcome to the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Him, his, or... By the way, speaking of pronouns, the guy who played Poe in Star Wars, was in a show that came out on HBO with Jessica Chastain and it was called portraits, pictures from within a marriage,

portraits within a marriage, something along those lines. And listen, I love these shows. Intimate, intimate, um, conversations,

problems, issues, happiness within a marriage. I love these. That, that movie with Scarlet Johansson and out of, driver was so good was so good it was about a they're getting divorced and all the shit that goes

along with that and it was such a good movie man and i thought this was going to be that not that number two and i was so excited and i was like all right sit down and watch this turn it on intro was cool right it was like behind the scenes jessica chastain getting ready to go on and boom the camera pans out she's talking to some lady i'm assuming is like a marriage counselor so okay it's going to start out rockiness in the relationship nope duh right they open up and the lady on the couch you know about my work right yes yes yes yes okay and your name is and he gives her her name and your pronouns him he or some shit i don't know how to do it right and then the woman looks at it and she doesn't know what to say she doesn't know the pronoun she gives her name she doesn't and he does the pronouns for

her her and she what i don't know whatever she does that thing i turned the show off immediately i turned the show off instantly i couldn't i couldn't go any further i felt i don't know it made me feel strange to do it because i listen i i am an intake for a lot of different types of content okay i listen to a lot of people, wide range of people. You know, I don't just go put the AM radio on at 8 and leave it on until 6. You know what I mean? I take in a lot of different stuff. So, I just got one of the greatest, uh, I just got one of the greatest knocks of my whole entire career. Living on the fault in the live chat, thank you for joining us tonight. He just told me I sound like Mark Levine. I don't know if that means my stuffy.

Is my nose like pinched? What do you mean I sound? I sound like Mark Levin. Mark Levin might have the worst voice in radio, I think. Well, no, Ben Shapiro has the worst voice in talk radio, but Mark, I don't know. That's a pretty good toss-up. I don't know who's worse for talk radio. Not, look, they're both brilliant.

They're both geniuses. I get it. But they're in a business that is literally all about their voice. and they both sound like this. They both talk just like this. I'll tell you what. We're going to save this Republic. This is what we have to do.

I'm sorry, I don't mean to make fun of them. They're probably great guys. I mean, they are great guys from what I know about them. I guess. I don't know. I don't know them at all. What the hell am I talking about? Don't know them very well.

So it is what it is. I hope you meant the context of what I was saying, living on the fault, and not exactly the same. sound of my voice because if I sound like Mark Levin, then I'm not doing you guys any good. But anyhow, moving on. So, really excited about that show, but I couldn't get past the pronoun set up, you know? Maybe it's great. I don't know. But I can't fall into, I can't get invested when there's those types of pitfalls around. You understand? I'm busy, man. To invest in two

hours and I think this was a show so now we're talking about investing like I don't know five to 10 hours maybe of my life into that if I'm going to sit down and invest like that I've got to I've got to be all in and in the first few minutes of that show I was already like I don't know if like what else are they going to throw at me I'm going to get invested in these characters and then they're going to throw another curveball at me that's going to break me so I said forget it we'll move on on. We'll move on. This is what it is. Nothing can be perfect. So, so listen, listen, listen. You wake up, this is, this is one question. These questions are straight to the point and are designed to affect you emotionally and, and most importantly, to make you think and take action.

You wake up and silhouetted in your doorway stands a man. Okay? Big guy. What's the next step? Groggy-eyed, pitch dark in the room, spouse in bed next to you. You wake up, there's the silhouette of a big man standing in the doorway of your bedroom. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading...

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meaning your podcast might someday pay for, well, more microphones. Start your show today at spreeker.com. Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. What is the next step? What are you going to do next? Is your next step get by him, get down the hallway, get to the gun safe,

open the gun safe get the gun out you see where we have problems already right maybe this never happens this likely never happens a lot of these are this likely never happens but these are the types of questions I want to throw into your head tonight

so that you can say to yourself you can well you don't even have to say to yourself you can drop yourself into that scenario and say am I prepared for that because unless there's a firearm in your room or unless you're capable of doing battle with a big man silhouetted in your doorway in the middle of the night

when you have no idea what he's carrying or bringing to the table, this is a question that you need to answer yourself and likely something you need to clear up. You wake up, middle of the night, the first thing you see is the sparse light filtering in from the hallway. And there's a silhouette of a man

standing in your doorway. You didn't hear a window break. You didn't hear any of that. You slept through it all. And then you woke up to find a man converging on your bedroom. What's the next step? I'm not giving you the answers. And that's not what this shows about.

This is about put yourself in that position. Go lay down in your bed. Go lay in your bed. Look at the hallway. Think about the space between you and the door. And say to yourself, Am I fantasizing about being ready for something like that? Or can I handle something like that?

Okay? This is what I want to do tonight. This is another step on the prepping ladder. All right? This is not prepping 101 like we did last week. If you're new and you listen to the I Am Liberty show last week for the first time, there's a good chance you'll be offended or upset about things that I've already said or may say later on. Sorry, it is what it is

You don't have to stick around for me But I highly would recommend I would highly recommend you stick around For the other hosts There's 14 of us I'm sure there's at least one You'll be able to deal with Welcome in

You open your last bucket of food storage Question two Last one I don't care how many you have I don't care if you have a billion I don't care if you have a billion because you're probably not going to run out before you die. Also, how are you storing them?

PM me, let me know how you're storing them in the EOC. But no, families gathered around in the kitchen. Things have been rough. I mean, things have been rough, right? Everybody's looking rough. Life is a nightmare at this point in pretty much every way it can be. And you are looking at your way. your children or your wife or your grandchildren or whomever is surrounded by you and you pop

that last thing okay you pop that last lid on your food storage what happens what's the game plan next is there anything working do you have anything in the works is there anything going on do you have any plan for that moment on because this is a big deal now right this is a big deal now now you find yourself in a situation where something has to be done it's a big one that i knew this was going to be an issue oh no hatter's kidding i got to read this on the air i don't know if this is from you hatter but this is great this is great this actually speaks to In our EOC in the Open just for the fun of it tab, chat room, room, side room, side hustle. I don't know what the hell these things are.

We created Element. We did not create Element. I'm sorry. We utilize the Element software at Element.io to house our community. And we house our community here because you can't just come sign up. Okay? It's exclusive. No, it's not exclusive.

It's a pain in the ass. To be quite honest, and I had a lot of reservations about it. Chin showed it to me. Chins up on Sunday nights showed it to me, and I said, yeah, you know, I like it, but I don't know how much I love it. It's really a lot of hoops to jump through for the average person. Now I love it. Now I love it.

I love everyone on here aside from Are You Feeling Lucky? I'm just kidding, dude. You know he loves it. He likes to stir the pot here. in the EOC. No, but honestly, those hoops make this an incredible group of people over at the EOC, and I'd highly recommend you go to element.io. You get yourself a screen name and you join us here.

So Hatter posts first complain about PBN. And this mainly goes to the Intrepid Commander. I love all the shows, so could you not add any more hosts? It's getting very hard to listen to everyone's show. Any more hosts, and I'll have to pick the shows I can listen to because I'll be out of time. all kidding aside low thank you to every host here i really appreciate all that you guys do sometimes a show is so good i'll listen to it again and write things down for future reference jeez it's great to hear people talk about what they love and especially when they do it to help others

keep up the great work everyone and prep on in the words of dave jones he edited that last sentence so i don't know what he really was going to say but he edited something bad out i'm just kidding Hey man, listen, I mean, that's a great post and that's hilarious. But that was literally, before we added matter of facts, before we added Sarah Hathaway, that was literally my biggest concern about PBA. In the morning, sipping disaster coffee, sitting at the table, thinking to myself, where's this thing going? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? You know, literally asking myself this one question, do we have too much content?

do we have too much damn content who's got the time to listen to all this because i would struggle to listen to everybody's show and uh so so the way i the way i remedied that is i sorry let's add two more shows and a series oh yeah you guys are getting a series too now to listen to don't forget for those of you who don't know or haven't been paying attention or maybe i only told the members i don't know it's hard to keep up with it all now that Sarah Hathaway is part of the gang. That means we're going to get access to the Changing Earth series, which is the first fiction addition to the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

It's a big deal. It's a very big deal. Number one, it's an incredible story. It's an incredible story with depth that is kind of unparalleled. No, it is unparalleled, I think, in the prepping world. The depth of the Changing Earth series. is unparalleled. Probably unparalleled.

To be honest, I mean, I listen to some audio dramas, but I don't listen to a lot of audio dramas. I really stay focused on superheroes. I'm a dork. That's all I can tell you. But anyway, since I stay focused on that stuff, I don't know a whole lot about a whole lot. You know what?

Let's do a commercial real quick, and we'll talk about this, because I get the wife call, and I'm not sure what that means. This episode is brought to you by Spreker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio.

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My character's name is Tim Monroe. And Tim Monroe is really coming to life in his section of the story right now. but the beautiful thing about the changing earth series for you, the listeners, it couldn't. Really, I don't know outside of people who really love the books, if there's a better audience for the Changing Earth series than PBN. And the reason is, all the hosts are in it. All the host, even the matter of facts guys are in. Actually, I don't think, no, I think Bobo is in it too.

Yeah. So, all the hosts are in it. Actually, Phil is my kind of head honcho. He's like my head honcho His character Verges is kind of my boss Ish and it's weird right It's great though It's absolutely astounding

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and that's just, it's amazing. So, thank you for everything. Oh, don't forget to get your hands on William Forge. We did his Preper's Medical Handbook ad, but don't forget about the Preppers guide to pandemics. bioterrorism and infectious disease Listen It's an amazing book

You've got to get your hands on it If you have the Preper's Medical Handbook This is like This is the must have part two Particularly for where we're at right now Okay Your home And all your preps

Are destroyed in a disaster Now what? That could never happen you could never be fleeing your property at a moment's notice and simply no matter how good your preparedness and your planning is not have the time to grab all your preps flood whatever it is tornado right washed away destroyed your home is totally destroyed and then you find yourself in a situation where now you're starting over

what's the game plan what's the game plan pbn family these are the questions that i want you to knock around your head don't drive yourself crazy don't try to don't try to fix big problems like the well some of them are big some of them aren't don't try to fix like you wake up in a silhouetted man in the doorway that's not a huge problem to fix right unless of course you're a completely unarmed person but then you've got bigger problems than the hypothetical man in the doorway your home and all your preps are destroyed so You can't even recover the food. The food is washed downstream.

It's gone. The buckets floated off. You're standing here in disaster recovery mode. What's the game plan? You know, J. Ferg was a big proponent of multiple storage locations for food storage. I always thought that was a great idea. I always looked at that as something that I would do, that I wanted to do, right? I always said, having all this food in one spot's a bad move.

And it is. Your home and all your preps are destroyed in a disaster. Now what? Okay. I think it's time for a Liberty Review. The new bulletin. Tonight we give you something entirely new and different. So PBM family in fifth grade.

Imagine me in fifth grade. Tomogachi on the hip. Philadelphia Flyers folder. Biting my fingernails incessantly. and the skin around them incessantly because my household was insane. Okay? It was insane. My sister wouldn't get up and go to school and my mother would, fuck.

They would battle all the time in the morning, you know, before I was even up, be screaming, fighting. And I don't know what else was going on. You know what I mean? I don't want to give you my whole backstory, but I was stressed out. I was new in the middle school, all that kind of stuff. I can't even imagine what I looked like. I was trying to grow my hair out and be cool, like my cousin Danny, skateboarding, trying to like, I didn't want to fit in.

I wanted to be, you know, like I had a corn shirt. I was really happy about that I got in fourth grade. I was like, this is my path. This sums up kind of how I must have appeared. This sums up how I must have appeared. Alana, this wonderful creature named Alana that I went to school. She was a nightmare of a girl. Just vicious.

The girls from where I was from were way more terrifying than the boys. Just terrifying. I remember as a young man saying to myself, who will I ever marry in this area? This area is filled with vipers for women. And this was one such viper. And she, we were doing like a group thing. Because I was keep to myself in fifth grade.

I had a few friends who liked hockey. We'd talk about hockey in my class. But other than that, I just wanted to be pretty much left alone to get through school and get home. But we were, you know, subjected to one of these group learning things, group team up and do a project together. And Alana was in a group adjacent to me, and I don't know, I must have looked disheveled as usual. And she asked me a question that was so far ahead of its time. When I think about it now, it's kind of funny. but at the time it was yeah it was just absolutely demoralizing she looked over at me she said

do you get beat you know not like in a like concerned face but like in a disgusted face like how can how can you look this way so this is me right this is me in fifth grade huddled up my my in fifth grade was flipping through the pages of Dean Coons books, flipping through the fun house, flipping through whispers, crazy books I probably shouldn't have been reading at that age, all the way up through the end of high school even. So much so that I wrote a book called Danvers Lights, it's not even published anymore.

I don't even know if I could find it to publish it. So much so that I wrote a whole novel called Danvers Lights that was just his style of writing. I was just so wrapped up in that guy and his storytelling and the whole nine yards. And then he did an Odd Thomas series that most people know him for. I mean, he wrote tremendous books before that. Just way better than Odd Thomas. Odd Thomas wasn't bad, but just astounding books.

The taking, the face, the corner of the eye, what was another great one there's a ton night chills unbelievable night chills yeah i could list them it's not that's not important that's not part of the review but dean coons has always been a hero of mine forever been a hero in fact the book i'm writing right now that i can't seem to finish um is modeled off of one of his books that's it i even mentioned in the introduction darker trails is really sort of my ode to his book of short stories which he called strange highways and it was a Unbelievable book full of short stories. But anyway, it's been a long time since I read a good Dean Coon's book.

He started another series called Jane Hawk. I don't want to read him. I don't know what to say about it other than that. I don't want to read a long, drawn-out series about a heroine. I just don't. I don't know. Call it what it is. I don't mind reading a one-time book.

which many of his are about a heroin main character. But I'm a man. I like to read about men heroes, right? I don't know. You're not allowed to say stuff like that anymore. That's troublesome. People hear that and they go, hmm, sounds like he's got a touch of sexist in them.

No, it's just not my taste, okay? Yes, it is discriminatory. It is. I discriminate. I don't want to read a five-book series about a female lead. Sorry, I just don't. So I didn't. So I stepped away.

from him for a long time. I read a book called The City by his that I thought was a great story, but it was, it missed some of the core elements of what I love about Dean Coons, namely romance. Well, there was a little bit of romance in that book, but not as good. And then I happened upon the other Emily. And the other Emily is such a good book. It is so Dean Coons, man it is vintage coomts and uh i got to be careful i don't know how many of you might read it but i don't want to spoil it for you but i want you to understand the premise i can tell you the premise for sure i can tell you the premise because the premise is in the beginning dust cover anyway a man makes a terrible mistake one fateful night his wife well no not even is what they're

married yeah they think they're married yeah i swear i love it i don't even know if the main couple's married but anyway emily is stranded on the side of a highway okay she's stranded on the side of a highway in the rain and car breaks down and she's never seen or heard from again and these people are deeply in love you know what i mean never seen or heard from again i'm not ready yet so what what am i doing i'm doing a show. I'll be done soon. Go downstairs. Soon. Go downstairs, buddy. PBN family. You're about to witness a grounding of a child who doesn't want to listen. So anyway, she goes missing. Ten years gone, dead. He assumes the worst, right? And then David Thorne, the main character, 10 years later, is in a restaurant, drinking at the bar. You know, not like dishevel drinking. He's a writer.

I think he's having like a glass of red wine or something like that. And this woman comes in the bar and sits near him. Our name is Madison. And in every single way that he can remember, she's exactly like Emily. Every single way from the talk, the walk, the hair, the eyes, the look, the, every single thing about this girl is Emily. So much so that he questions her about it. You know what I mean? Like, are you, your real name, Emily?

You playing with me? I mean, he thinks 100% that he's being gamed up. Like, she went away and this is her way of coming back. He totally, totally confused. So the love of his life disappears 10 years ago, and then a woman named Madison reappears, or appears, and she's Emily in every way. She is the other Emily.

and this man's adventure to figure out what the hell is going on is just picture perfect Dean Coons and I read this book man in years I haven't felt this way but in year I read this book and I was like whoa this is this is my man at his finest so that's the Liberty Review The Other Emily by Dean Coons check it out I'm telling you PBM fan particularly if you're into sci-fi and horror

and that kind of stuff because he does it so good. Well, not like... See, the beautiful thing about Dean Coons is he doesn't write sci-fi. You know what I mean? But his premises have a lot of that tied into it. The stories are very much character-driven. It's a lovely book. Just check it out.

Question. The water is cut off for a week because of contamination. Where are you getting your water from? Simple. You wake up tomorrow, you go downstairs. Turn the tap on to make coffee. No water. You go, what the hell is going on?

You check Twitter, you check the news, whatever you do. You find out that your city water has been contaminated, heinously contaminated, and it's going to be at least a week until the water's back on. And you can drink it. No boil water. Notice, none of that. Maybe it's radiological or something. You can't drink out the tap, you can't bathe out the tap, nothing, can't cook out of the tap for a week.

Where are you getting your water from? Because if your game plan is jump in the car and go buy water, that's fine with me. Like I said, I don't really care what your answers are. I want you to figure it out. But if that's your game plan, then you better get right, you better not have to say to yourself, I don't have time to go get water, I got to be to work, I got to drop the kids off and then I got to get to work. I don't have time to stop and get water. because if that's the situation by time you get out of work or even by lunchtime

all the water is going to be bought and then you got problems right so the water's cut off for a week because of some contamination where are you getting your water from think about it think about it two cheers for preppers the spectator world this episode is brought to you by spreeker the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster. The good news is Sprinker makes the whole process simple. You record your show, upload it once, and Sprinker distributes

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Preppers in the news. And I didn't even do the music. So you don't often see articles like this. Science and Tech section of Spectator World. I'm pretty sure it's like Wine Spectator. Same deal. I don't know. As the Facebook outrage portends,

sometimes it's good to be prepared. October 7, 2021. Two cheers for preppers. By Ben Sixth Smith. What a great last name, by the way. Ben Sixth Smith, spelled just like it sounds. No, you don't. did not are you kidding me let's see if i can remember this sixth myth is from poland but it looks as though

uh since i read what the internet is so crazy the media is so dead the model for reading things online is so broken i read this article today when i was choosing my article right you have hit your limit of free articles but you could subscribe to the spectator for free for unleashed limited access, try a month of the spectator, absolutely free. Go to hell. How's that sound? But anyway, Ben Sixth is a contributing writer based in Poland, and he wrote this article, Two Cheers for Preppers, as the Facebook Outrage Portends. Sometimes it's good to be prepared. And, you know, that's a lot about what it was. It was a lot about the emergence of a new attitude towards prepping that is taking control of the psyche, right?

Because people are seeing, not only seeing potential threats now, but feeling the effects of these things. And the reason I wanted to talk about that article on preppers in the news is because these things are changing. If you go back and listen to preppers in the news from like a year ago, they were all like wild stories, right? They were like inside the $500,000 bunker in Arizona that is built to survive the apocalypse. And you'd read it, right?

And they would throw backhanded remarks at preppers. By the way, the insider contacted me today. Can we interview you about shortages? We want to interview people from the prepping community and find out how you're faring through the shortages. No, thank you. No, thank you. Hosts, if you're out there listening, if you're out there listening hosts,

and you would like to be interviewed, and I'll message you guys, you know the way I do it normally. But if you're out there and you want to be interviewed by the insider, let me know. I'll send her your way. But I've made a decision. I really like the stance that Rick and Jane Austen took for Prepper Camp.

They said, No press. No press. Why do they say no press? Because they know what the press is going to do. And I really like that. And plus I really like fodder for the press. The press does us no favors.

They do us no favors. The press plays you. These guys that interview you, they play you. That's what they do. They play us. They play us every time. Hey, how are you? Tell us about that.

Oh, yeah, that's probably a pretty good idea. And then they write some shit that you won't even believe. You'll read it and you'll be like, what? How'd you get that from that? And then you'll talk to him about it and they'll say, well, my editor told me I had to fix this, this, and they, okay, so then go to hell you and your editor. How about that?

How's that sound? No thanks. I got a call up. I got to waste an hour on the phone, chit-chatting with somebody from insider about being a prepper. And one of the questions they're going to ask me is, how much food do you actually have? Like I would ever tell you that, first and foremost, no thanks. Have fun.

Have a nice life. I'm done with it. I don't want to do it. If you're a prepper, if you're, you know, if you're somebody who means well and you want to interview us, fine. Fine with me, right? But if one of these New York Times, listen, I've done them all, guys. You might be out there screaming at the microphone or screaming at the speakers like, James, do it for the exposure. I've done it for the exposure.

I've been an insider before. I've been in the New York Times before. I've been in Bloomberg before. It don't do shit. Nobody reads it. If they read it, they certainly don't act on it. They read a quarter of the article, and then they scroll down to look at the boobs coming out of the girls that are lined up. down at the bottom. That's how their media works. That's their business model, right? Read the first

two paragraphs, scroll down and look at the boobs, and click one of the ads to make the company money, and that's it. I'm just giving you the way it is. But anyway, yeah, so that's that. I would read you the whole article, but, you know, they haven't figured out a business model that actually works, So the way they do it is they say, come read an article. And then once you're done reading an article, you've got to pay for the rest. I'm sorry. A power outage shuts your heat off for two weeks in January. How are you keeping warm?

We've talked about this last week, but this is worth talking about again. A power outage shuts your heat off for two weeks in January. How are you keeping warm? What's the game plan? Just like our first question, what's the next step, right? because there has to be a next step. So rattle these around your head, okay? Rattle these things around in your head, these questions.

They may sound funny, they may sound silly, they may sound dramatic. I don't know what they sound like to you. You know, to different people, these questions are going to sound different. To some preppers out there, many of you that I know, you're going to shrug your shoulders, right? You say, you open up your last bucket of food storage, you're going to shrug your shoulders and go, no big deal because I've been growing food, I've been raising food, I've been preserving food for years now. So food storage is what it is. It's just another layer in my arsenal. And I hope that's your situation. But you have to ask yourself these tough questions.

You can't just ask yourself the questions that you already have the answer for, right? PBN family, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what this thing has become. You know, there's no midlife crisis coming for James Walton. Do you get that? That's not going to happen. Because of what I have achieved here at PBN, because of... And when I say achieved, many of you say, like, what is he rich now? Or what is he...

How many... He just said they only get 10,000 downloads a week, which if you think only 10,000 downloads a week, you're crazy. You don't know much about podcasting. Because, to be honest with you, I don't know. a lot of podcasters who do better than that. Most podcasts do pretty bad. Anyway, of course, there's the guys who do millions and millions, right? But for the most part, podcasting is bleak. It's, it's, I remember. I remember doing my own show, doing the I Am Liberty show, getting 45 downloads per episode and being like, what am I doing here? You know, 10,000 in a week, it's a big deal to me,

okay? I don't really care if it's a big deal to you. And I also know that, you know that, you're this group of preppers here this group of people here they're special man they're authentic they speak the truth and they bring the information with reckless abandoned and people will keep clinging to that as the media just just disintegrates more and more and can hold on to nothing but radical news, half-naked pictures and videos and lies. Yeah, places like the Prepar Broadcasting Network are going to hold great appeal. They're going to hold great appeal. So you won't find me reaching and digging into my pockets to buy a sports car or, you know,

telling my wife that I'm not happy and we need to make a big chance. I'm good. I'm not the perennial. tactician or I'm not like the super gardener I'm not like the expert shooter I'm not the

guy you would go to to take the land navigation course I can't even sit through the ham radio study I got a lot of qualities that I need to work on PBN family you know me alone I'm not that impressive

there's only really one thing that I do that I think I do better than probably most people besides cooking and maybe fishing. But there's really only one trait that I really think I do better than most people. And it's just to get up every day and grind. That's it.

I've always been that way. I've always been that way. I get up every day and I do the work. I get up every day and do the work. And for a job like this, right? For an operation like the Prepper Broadcasting Network, it's perfect. It's bliss. Because every day there's something to be done.

Wake up, do the daily audio. Wake up, make sure the show's ready for tonight. Boom, bum, boom, boom. Right, wake up, go out. Seek out a new guest. Seek out a new show to go on. And I'll do this until I die, guys. You know what I mean?

That's me. I will get up every day and do the same thing and grind. That's why I'm such a good writer. You know what I mean? And I don't mean such a good writer, like, so profound in my words. I mean, successful. I mean, pay the bills as a writer, which is, in case you don't know, it's not an easy thing to do. But my clients, above all, they know when I go to James and I say, hey, I need this.

He's going to do it. He's going to be there to pull it off. You know? So that's what I bring to you. We got 14 hosts. Why? because I've been grinding and making sure that things get better and better, right? And that's what we're going to continue to do.

And I'll do it until I can't do it anymore. That's my gift to you. All right, PBN family. So I'm out of here. This has been a good one. Miss you guys. Definitely missed you guys. Five, four days off, whatever it was.

It's too many for me. I got to get back in the saddles. Hey, it's been a great week of shows already. I mean, the Preppers Live is a rerun. It was a great rerun. Listen to it, right? You listened to the journey of a man who was outside of the prepping world and who has decided he's making his way into the prepping world in a big way.

The Tuesday show is always great. Dane D.E. will be up tomorrow. You know Carl B's going to bring the heat on Friday. Saturday will have Aiden Tate this week. He's got a great show for us. And then we round out the week with Reliance on Sunday. And the dynamic duo Sarah Hathaway and Chin chins up y'all on Sunday night for the Changing Earth podcast. All right.

Just another week at PBN, man, you know, doing what no one else can do. Talk soon, PBN family. Oh, and I like Dave Jones's latest. Prepare. I screwed it up. Don't despair. Prepare. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self-reliance and independence.

Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at Prepperbroadcasting.com.