A Crisis of the Unprepared

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, welcome to the podcast.

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[00:00:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And family, your garden is the resistance.

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the fasted commander is a dangerous thing, I'll tell you what.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I apologize for getting to you guys so late today.

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, the key to successfully fasting is to stay busy.

[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I think Ben, the breaker of the banksters probably has it the worst of us all.

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_01]: If I'm assessing his living situation right now, appropriately.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_01]: But to be idle in any way is kind of rough when you're fasting, to be at home.

[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And this morning I had added to our flock.

[00:01:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Our chickens had gone missing months ago.

[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_01]: For all this time I'd had none.

[00:01:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And this morning it had to break.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_01]: This morning we had to go add to the flock.

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_01]: So that we could have egg production dialed in before the fall.

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? Before the fall.

[00:01:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And the next step is the quail.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_01]: In this little quadrant of our small suburban yard.

[00:01:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And then probably after that the arrival of the fish.

[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And we'll see how it all goes from there.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_01]: It will be a very interesting little situation back here on this liberty.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean this homestead we call Casa Liberty.

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: The message I have for you today is one that I'm likely going to play on for a while.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, you know the problem with me fasting is that it unlocks weird stuff.

[00:02:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'll talk about it on tonight's show.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't miss Preppers Live. Dave Jones, myself, Ben the breaker of banksters.

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_01]: We will all be fasting. We will all be yacking.

[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I may be eating actually, I don't know.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I may be eating while we do the show.

[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I have these, here's the problem.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Dave, Ben, anyone else who's conducting the 24 hour fast today?

[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I apologize in advance.

[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's August. You know what I mean?

[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_01]: My neighbor sends me over a bag of cherry tomatoes, a Ziploc bag of these beautiful cherry tomatoes.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got all this beautiful basil growing.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And all I can think about.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, one thing I really want is fried chicken.

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Whenever I get sick or don't eat for a while my body is always like fried chicken, fried chicken.

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: But what I can't stop thinking about is slicing those cherry tomatoes in half, slicing up some thin garlic.

[00:03:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Lots, like five cloves of garlic, sliced thin.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Starting olive oil in the pan, red chili flake, garlic, tossing, you know, good olive oil, low heat.

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Tossing in the cherry tomatoes, not to cook them to death, just to really almost like heat them, make them a little soft.

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And then tossing in some spaghetti.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Parmesan cheese on top and just go into town, man.

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_01]: You know?

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if that'll happen tonight or not. It may not after the show.

[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the best time to eat something like that.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: But that's what's been on my mind as far as food.

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_01]: That's been my great temptation as of late.

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: What I wanted to talk to you about today, and I'll try to keep it brief.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Tomorrow we'll be back to the traditional PBN Daily News, but it's just the nature of the day.

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm in the backyard sweating.

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_01]: It's hot today. Got real hot real fast. I didn't know it was going to be hot like this.

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: We're living through a crisis of the unprepared.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_01]: We are living through a public health, a mental health crisis of the unprepared.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember Joe Biden called it a, what did he call it when he was blaming all of us?

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: A pandemic of the unvaccinated. That's what he was calling it.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: COVID-19, remember?

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: It was a really nice thing to say. It was to the American people who decided not to get vaccinated.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He called it a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And what I see happening in our country now is very much a mental health crisis, a public health crisis of the unprepared.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: The unprepared are living in the world that we're living in.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I said this in 2018 and it's only got more and more true. It's only got truer.

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Living in this world where we've given up everything to convenience, and we know almost nothing.

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: We know how to repair almost nothing. We know how to do almost nothing, right?

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Large swash of the population.

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Don't know how to navigate. They don't know how to fix things. They don't know how to heal things.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? Everything is owed to convenience and a call and a stop and go see someone who knows and you don't know.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: The disconnect from their food is so amazing. It's so far reaching.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_01]: It's the only way you can convince people to become vegan.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? People to be...

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Both sides of the spectrum.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_01]: There has to be a fundamental disconnect between you and your food. A strong one.

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: So all that's the case.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Now we've lived in this sort of fantasy world where all that's fine.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01]: We can get away with all that. We're all letting no big deal.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean? We'll be there for you. We will...

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, the pumpkins have sprouted. One of the pumpkins has sprouted.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, we've lived in this world where all that's fine.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you got 16 allergies and you refuse to eat dairy and you don't want to eat this and you won't eat meat and you...

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a supermarket full of everything you could ever want and need.

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's a beautiful thing.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: If Kamala Harris gets elected and has her way, it won't be that way.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_01]: There's no way you can attack supermarkets price gouging and not affect the outcome, right?

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Not affect what our amazing supermarkets look like.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So I feel like the flesh and bone world, the plant and animal world, the relationship that we share because we are of this world, right?

[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Like we are part and parcel. We've been here a long time. We know how to exist here instinctually.

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not... We don't have the skills anymore, but we know how to exist here instinctually.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Our ability to survive in this environment is dissolving or has dissolved for many people.

[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you throw somebody out in the woods with a bow and arrow like...

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. It's going to go well.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_01]: So our ability to survive in the flesh and blood world, the natural world, the actual planet we live on.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Our ability to just fundamentally survive on the planet we live on without inputs has diminished tremendously.

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Now here's the real problem. This other world that we've created, the world of convenience and comfort, is also at risk now.

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_01]: So in other words, we have like poo pooed the natural world for a long time, right?

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We hop in the house, turn the air conditioner on, throw food in a microwave, eat, put TV on.

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need to go out there. I don't need to be a part of that.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But now that world's dissolving too.

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And on top of that, the digital world that can be the escape from the world of comfort and convenience to some degree, right?

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Because at least in the digital world, in the video games, the AI, the AR, the VR, you can find purpose.

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if it's not purpose in your own life, you can still find purpose. You can do missions, you can do quests in video games, right?

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: You can go on great adventures that are digital.

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Of course the problem is there's even trouble in that paradise.

[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you feel it, but when I get on the internet...

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_01]: When I read something on the internet, when I look at a picture on the internet, I don't know if a human made it anymore.

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the problem, right?

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: The problem is I can't tell what's a human-made product and what's not on the internet.

[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So you wind up only hyper-focusing on people that you know that are writing.

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_01]: People that you know that are creating things.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Or people you know that will tell you.

[00:10:03] [SPEAKER_01]: My show pictures, I'm not up late creating the art for my shows.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Those really cool cyberpunk style artworks that I put up as our show images for PBS Daily News there.

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_01]: AI generated by a prompt.

[00:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Now I do create the prompts, but I'm not up like sketching that stuff out.

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_01]: So you need to...in other words, in other worlds and in other words...

[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_01]: All aspects of this life seem to be unraveling.

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Not to mention the digital world is also...now the public understands that what something we've understood stood forever.

[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_01]: The digital world can unravel completely with one burp from the sun.

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: In other words, you may not know this, but people invest real time and real money into video game worlds.

[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Into computer game worlds.

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Into these digital realms like real money.

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean there's even real estate for sale in the VR world now. Hard to believe, but...

[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh look at the Muscadine grapes. Did the birds eat them all?

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_01]: No, they're still there. I can't even eat one if I want one right now.

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_01]: They look good.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just walking in my wonderful neighborhood talking to you.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So now we even know that that digital world can come undone.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And fundamentally people are understanding the lesson that our ancestors knew and prepared for forever.

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is...put stuff away in good times.

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Put money away in good times, put food away in good times.

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Like we're in good times.

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But we all fundamentally always know that and have always known whether it was the middle ages or the modern ages...

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Bad times come.

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And in those bad times we were well equipped to go back to the natural world.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And live off the land and so...because we're probably already doing it.

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_01]: But now everyone's fraught with anxiety.

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_01]: They're riddled with depression.

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They have all kinds of health issues and inflammation issues and this issue and that issue.

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they're living in a time of crisis.

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not...it's brought on by...of course the symptoms are brought on by all kinds of forces we can't control.

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: But that's nothing new in history.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: That's nothing new in history.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: It's nothing new to have a Joe Biden.

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be nothing new to have a Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, right?

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Some leaders are good, some are bad.

[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_01]: Some are tyrants, some are kings, you know? You've got to deal with it.

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: This is the life that the human being has lived for a very long time.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: It's nothing new.

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: War is nothing new, right?

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_01]: The value of money, the value of skins, the value of food...nothing new.

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: The factor that has changed is you.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_01]: The factor that has changed is the population at large.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not you, you might be a bad example for this.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: The factor that's changed so dramatically is the unprepared class.

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: The unprepared class.

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: The class that has no clue how to survive off of their cloud of comfort and convenience.

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's hard for us to understand the fear and anxiety that goes along with that

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: and how you have to cover that up on a day-to-day basis just in order to survive.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you must have to, right?

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine you wake up in an apartment in Manhattan, okay?

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: You are fresh out of college, or maybe you're five years out of college.

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And you're trying to make your way, you're working at some job, you know what I mean?

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Making a meager living in a bad part of town, trying to figure out how you're going to make some real money.

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And on top of all the stresses of your life, you're watching the news.

[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're telling you that climate change is going to end the world.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_01]: They're telling you the sun can fart.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And then all your phone doesn't work no more, all your video games and all that kind of stuff that you love goes away.

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: They're telling you that there could be nuclear war any day.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They're telling you, you know that there's crime out there on the streets, you see it.

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_01]: You can't buy a gun because you're in New York.

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So there's a level of powerlessness that is, I mean, it's just enormous, right?

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_01]: And you find yourself in this situation where you're like, oh, I am 100% living a crisis of the unprepared.

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And you could call it a mental health crisis of the unprepared, but I think it's even bigger than that, you know?

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_01]: This crisis of the unprepared is as real as it gets.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And for the better part of a decade we've been doing our best to reach out to people.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: We've had our hands slapped on larger platforms because they thought that, you know, you should watch horror movie clips instead.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a better thing to watch than the prepper broadcasting network, you know?

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: The things you can find on YouTube are unbelievable.

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: The idea that they would remove us is just hilarious.

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_01]: But that's what it is, guys. You know? That's the state of affairs to live with.

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So when you look upon your fellow man, just understand that.

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_01]: This is our duty. This is our mission.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we've been gifted this opportunity to live in this moment as the prepared.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: As the people who have taken steps to survive America like this, right? This is surviving America.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_01]: The good and the bad.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's our duty to rescue our brothers and sisters.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is. It is our duty.

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we have to reach out anyway that we can.

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_01]: And understand that some people will be there with open arms and some people will poo-poo the ideas that you have.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what? Whatever.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not our job to chase people around in infinitum to try to convince them to save their lives and better their lives, more than save their lives, but better their lives.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not our job, you know?

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_01]: But we can put a message out, a sound message. You can put a sound message out.

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_01]: You can start a podcast. You can do a number of things to make a difference.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And it will make a difference. There's no doubt about it. It will make a difference.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Even if you get one person, it will make a difference.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: But this is our mission.

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_01]: We have to do our part in this crisis of the unprepared PPN family.

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Alright. I will talk to you soon.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Nine o'clock will be here before you know it. Prepper's live. The fast cast, the fasted cast.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: With Dave Jones and Ben the breaker of the banksters will be like excitable little girls talking about how our fasting has gone.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be funny.

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Always a pleasure. I'll talk to you guys soon.