A S#!& Morning, but Everything Happens for a Reason!

You're listening here to pay the end. You will pay us back, just ability. Everything happens for a reason. PBM, family, what is up? Oh yeah, the hairdo? The hair do? I called upon the summer powers. You know, I made a sacrifice and said, oh, sacrifice the locks if you promise me seventies and eighty degrees and it'll grow back. Yeah, you know, let's see. There's a bigger story to it, but it is what it is. Really none of your business. However, I'm going to talk about everything happens for a reason today. This was not the show I was gonna do. Trust me. I was about to click go on nine o'clock show right at nine p fifty nine, and we had a whole h VAC company inspection nightmare that happened, which turned out to be fine. I mean, but it was a morning that was going awry. You know you have those mornings. The morning that was going awry for a number of reasons. I needed about a you know, like a five mile run type thing to get my head back in the game. Gorgeous, I shouldn't be bitch beautiful. I haven't eaten yet today either, moan like a on like a half day fast now, not even intentional. I'm on a half day fast and I'm about to just go the whole day and say screw it. That's how you fight demon. I don't know if you know that the fasting fast thing is the great battle. I was watching Padre Pio. Do you ever watch Padre po I'm not a big fan of the guy, but I've been wanting to watch it, and it was really crazy and watching a girl in confession, and it was amazing to watch how in confession he prescribed three days no word or no food fast and it says it in the Bible. You know, value battled with demons. I don't know how you guys feel about that. It doesn't really matter to me. But because I know where I'm seated in my faith, and you know what that means. I don't think it's a good look that our man what's his name, uh jd Vance comes out and starts talking like Tucker Carlson on TV to everybody in the United States. I think the UFOs might be it could be demons. I don't know. There's a time and place for these things. You know, everything is in ex everything is in truth, social you know what I mean? You don't want to come out and just philosophize as the vice president on what you believe, ufosed, particularly since you're the guy in controlled, like you know what's really up there in the sky, him Holy married Mother of God. So to be honest, I was kind of resigning the day away to be a nightmare. You know. I woke up. I gotta heads up on thirty five thousand reservists. Get the heads up on a you know, prepare yourselves, get your desert camo ready, tell your family, get your affairs in order. And this is exactly the letter that Dave Jones got, you know, not as a reservist, but when he was called back into action, it resonated with me. I'm reading over the letter, going, oh, I remember Dave telling me about this. So I wasn't thrilled about that, right, I'm not thrilled about a single boot on the ground in Iran, No, not at all, right, I think I think at the point in that with Iran, it's like you've done everything you can do with planes, trains and automobiles, right, and that's as far as the American people want you to go. We don't want you to go any further. We want, you know what I mean, we don't want it. We don't want we don't want American people. Let's get ship out, man, thought the treat is falling down. We don't want American people getting blown up in Iran. You gotta get in and you gotta get out. Right, there's this there's this craziness. You're stay in too long, and all of a sudden you're in regime change and rebuilding talk and all this kind of shit, and we just don't want it. Nobody wants Nobody wants it, you know what I mean. And to be honest with you, like I feel like Trump's probably thinking, I don't want to look like Biden and just on the way I'll Afghanistan. But we've got a lot of assets in one place right now. There's a lot of shit in one place, you know what I mean. You've got a lot of boats, You've got a lot of aircraft, carrier, you got all kinds of stuff. Now you got men. I don't like that. I'm not a big fan of that, you know. You know, in a situation where we're like fence sitting on whether or not we're warring, you know what I mean, it's like we came in hot and heavy, eleven thousand targets. Good. Great, you know you're blowing up a regime that is a nightmare. Anyway, Now what now we're gonna go root them out for ten years? I'm starting to wonder about Israel if they've locked themselves into a war of attrition that they can't win. Right, then you got Russia. Russia's pulling up to Havana with the with the wheel, which is basically a middle finger to the United States. Right, Okay, We're not gonna let our great ally Cuba sitting in the dark. We're gonna show up with some oils. What are we capable of pulling off? Here? What have we done in Iran? Have we done enough? That's my question for you. Have we done enough in Iran? Have we done enough? Is it is it time to abandon ship? Is it time to pull out? Right? Are we prepared to go into a larger ground war? Who wants that? Nobody wants that. We pulled the American people right now, you're gonna get five might get less. Right, that's not what we were sold. We're gonna go over there and decimate the regime and kill people with targeted strikes and then get out of it two three weeks, three four weeks, or five weeks exactly right. That was the whole thing. And then you know you can't do this to the American people because we every time we go over there. No, So yeah, I don't know. All this stuff is kind of brewing in my head, you know what I mean. I knew it was a beautiful day, but the morning was kind of run awry. And then out of nowhere, a FedEx truck pulls up. A FedEx truck pulls up, and I don't have anything coming, said. My wife said you got something getting delivered? I said, no, must be for you. And this big box comes in. Every time I get a big bond and expected box, I assume it's a bomb. I don't know why, you like, you assume someone's gonna bomb. Looking at the bomb, there's a there's a tech in the house, you know what I mean? So you really don't want it to go off and kill him too. Yeah, in my heart of hearts, I knew it was the bomb. And I opened it up, open up the package, and there's a smaller box in it. Right, heavy the hell is this thing? I'm thinking about? The sponsors. I'm thinking about to you know, all the great sponsors. Who's sending me something. I got my gray Man, I mean my dirty Man safe I you know. I open it up and I see the books. I see three books, nice hard done books. And then it hits me PB and family. It hits me that my book has finally arrived. And today was the day that I needed that book to arrive more than any day. It really was the morning. There were a few things that could have happened this morning that would have shook me out of that. Like I said, I was ready to I was ready to go in on, you know, an hour of running just to kind of get feeling better. You know, it's a secret. I don't know if you know, but if you feel like shit will really work out, will make you feel better. Running is tremendous long distance run. They'll spend forty thirty minutes to an hour running. You feel it works things out in you. You know what I mean. I may still do it, I don't know, but I want to show you something. I want to present something that is not out yet. There's another reason that this is a tremendous situation. But I want you to look at the open Survival Kit by yours. Truly, I don't even know if I'm allowed to show this off or not. Have no clue. This is the culmination BBM fact. This is the reason you have never seen me write a survival book. This is the reason that, ah, for a long time, I held back on writing something big in the survival world, you know, with my name, you know, because I didn't want to write a book book to be my first survival guy. I didn't want it to be just work writing, you know what I mean. I wanted it to be one of these full color picture books that explains things that's helpful. Now, this is the whole survival tool kits, right. There are these incredible cards in here, and we should the cars. It's really a cool product. It comes with this little It's not the worst thing to happen in the world. It's not the opening piece of DC kit, right. But I carried one of these and I carry one in my wallet. It's good to have. It's extra, it's it's pace, right, it's Murphy's Law. But it also comes with these really great farms. But I want to show you the book itself, all right, the ultimate survival tool kit. I want to show you, let me show you something. In terms of illustrations, the publisher really was very receptive. They did a great job of illustration, did a great all kind of call from what you want, and now my dogs are going to knock the whole camera down. You see. Took probably like six months to a year to put together. All right, that's enough good. Probably took about six months to a year to create me like eight months right to get everything straightened up. I know, if you're listening, you're not gonna get to see it, but we'll be doing plenty. I'll be talking about it. But it's a beautiful thing. Where's the water map, food color pictures? We got foraging pictures, full color, mushroom foraging, plants, plants foraging, Oh so good, meal plans. The water chapter is doing the solar still illustration. Awesome pot solar still illustration, really well done. The pictures, the color pictures are great. The firecraft section is one of my favorites. Really, the the chapter on fire is it's probably the it's definitely the best chapter I've ever done on fire. Gotta remember, I've written a lot of these books, but I never put my name on one, you know what I mean, navigation and comms. Here's something you won't find in a lot of survival books. How to use a gill net. How to use a gill in that that's pretty interesting. All kinds of different fire layers, firecrabts, beautiful tools, survival tools and that kind of stuff. Tons of great stuff. Okay, good section on clothing, right, big section on clothing layering. I even created a cool spreadsheet for different temperatures and what types of clothing and geared to wear it in preparation. I don't know, man, it's very cool. It's twelve years in the making, you know what I mean, Like the big deal, pretty good a it? So it's this guy, let me show you the car, and the cars are sweet. The whole things kind of come wrapped up in one package. What I like about it, it's really a good It's a little great thing to get for somebody who's kind of looking for a real good reference, you know what I mean. For those of you who are super seasoned, probably like a lot of that. I mean, there's some things in there you'll read that you didn't know about because it's my book, you know what I mean. So there's stuff in there that you can do. Can't do all that, but these cards, man, these are really cool. These are a difference maker. These are kind of what making the tool kit because it's well, when we first discussed kind of the design for the survival Toolkit, I was telling them, if we do cards, then what we could do with the cards, sorry, I get this paper. What we could do with the cards is create like something that can go into a bug out back, into an emergency kit. Right. So here's a good example of a card that you would put in a bug out back or a collection of cards. Right, the navigation cards. So you have you're navigating with the north Star. Right, it's a breakdown of how to do that, and then on the back of the card is the visual representation of how to do that. Right. Yeah, out of the way. What's up? Born to brat, I have no idea when it's out. That's that's the punchline. The punchline is I haven't talked to the publisher yet. To be honest with you, I worked with a separate publisher to produce it. Then we created a book. It looked great, we sold it to another publisher and now I'm assuming they're going to get in contact with me about you know, how to promote it with the you know that kind of stuff. Great collection of first aid right, all kinds of great stuff. Sort of a cool little checklist for items to carry, beautiful multi tool checklist. So there's as you can see, there's a number on the top of each. Are fifty of these, Okay, there are fifty of these cards. Survival rule of three, documentation of emergency. Looking for a cool one to show you. Oh we got routines, Yeah, I forgot about that. I did a little bit of routine stuff. Oh. I even took a little liberty at the SHTF side of things. Essential spices for camping and cooking and all that. And I got a nice list of some of my favorites on the back. Look, it's very cool. I'm very proud of what we've accomplished here. And I say we because I mean it's wee you know what I mean. The year If it weren't for you guys, this book wouldn't exist. I would have never said to myself, I think I might be able to write survival books, you know what I mean. But over the years trying to become you know, in the early days, trying to become the guy that you guys wanted me to be, because I wasn't that, you know what I mean, you know, practicing with these techniques and these tools and these skills and all that kind of stuff, like trying to be that guy that you guys wanted me to be, getting better all the time, you know, playing with different things, making huge mistakes, obviously with the help of the PB and host, teaching me all kinds of things, seeing how they do stuff, all the way up until we're doing you know, wholesale multi day overnight survival challenges with gear and you know, really just taking it to the next level, to the point now where it's you know, it's just the transformation that happened years ago, you know what I mean, The big change happened years ago, and here we are, and it is weird to be in the body of a man that changed so radically. It's crazy. I mean, it is a crazy thing to look back and be like, this is who you were in twenty twelve, right, and this is who you are in twenty twenty six. And you didn't go to a school, you know what I mean. I didn't go to a school. I didn't go into the military. I didn't go get a job for some company that trained me up on how to do all this stuff. Like it was will power and your fear, will power family and the PBN family largely. That's got me to this point. And this is a mile marker. Man. You got to understand, you know, for a guy like me like this is this is a mile marker. This is a big deal. This is a big deal for me. I'd love for it to do extremely well. I'd love to write the Fishermen's tool get next. But this is a big deal. It's verification, you know what I mean. One thing about the writing in the podcast world, people read your articles, they leave comments, they say great, yeah, I'm gonna do X, Y and Z. They listen to your podcast, and some of you reach out by email, and I do appreciate it. But and you know, the publishing of the book is always very special. It's a hard thing to do to write a book. You know. It's a hard thing to do to write a book. Maybe not anymore, I don't know. Maybe with AI you can plug in a good enough prompt to make a book tonight. But when you write a book like the one that I showed you the survival the ultimate survival tool. Kid. It's like I said, it's just it's all pooled out of out of my brain with just the sheer experience of doing things, trying things, learning things, failing at things. And it does feel like that. And lay it out on the table and you look at all the cards and you look at all the here's how to do this and how to do that, and how to avoid this, and what to do and not do. Like you see how much I've changed over the years. Why wild? But it's really cool to set that north star and to get there, you know what I mean. Right behind you is the dining room of my home and there's two windows that look out onto these trees right there. And those trees were bending like this. They were bending like that for days. It was about two days they bent like that under the winds of Hurricane Irene. Power went out, and I remember sitting there holding my son, giving my wife a break. He was he was probably two months old, right. And it was a last straw moment, That's what it was. It was. It was a literal last straw moment. It was a moment when I said to myself like being a chef and a musician's not gonna cut it, buddy, Yeah, you know what I mean. It's just not gonna cut it. You know, being a fisherman, chef, musician is cool and all, but this level of ignorance that you have about your own planet, like the planet you live on, the skills needed to survive, your level of physical fitness and self defense acumen. Right at the time, I was kind of nursing myself. I'd already been hitting the heavy bag and stuff like that, so that was I wasn't going from zero there. I was already kind of physically fit too, But it was just in that moment, like understanding, Okay, we have a goal and it's not about pleasing things. Well, you know what I mean. The goal is about becoming something that can weather the storm. And this is eight years before the storm, right, eight years you could argue before twenty twenty. God only knows what's to come in this world. I guess the way to end the show like this to tell you that I'm a poor kid from Marcosilk, Pennsylvania, and like I said, nothing big happened in my life to push me to reach these heights and to learn these skills and to do these things. Like there was no silent There was no silent investor that showed up and said, look, you don't have to work for a living. You can just focus on making fire for the next eight years or your life. No, it was all after work, before work. Then I got ballsy enough to turn it into work and largely got paid to learn a lot of it, do a lot of it, play with a lot of stuff, a lot of gear. And it's just a reminder, man, you know, whatever it is, it's on that you want your north star to be. Man, you can do it. You know you can do it. Trust me, you can do it. It's not easy. It won't be easy. It'll be hell. Sometimes sometimes you'll have days like this morning where you wake up and go like, I don't even want to I'm gonna just gonna take off work all again. If you get interrupted, and you'll get hang ups and you'll get problems, and you'll say to yourself, like I did this morning, I think I'm gonna take the day off. And they'll run and gotting go eat a big juicy cheeseburger somewhere. You know what I mean. There's not enough coffee in the world to cheer me up. But you know, God had a plan, man, he had a plan, and that plan was in wrap. Think about that. I'm having these feeling doing like push ups thirty at a time because I'm riled up. I'm hissed about this morning. So I'm doing I'm doing sets of thirty push ups because I know there's a guy coming over. I gotta be human, you know what I mean. I don't want to. I gotta burn out some of this anger and all the while that's going on. And the reason I'm so mad is because I'm sitting behind the computer getting ready to hit record. My appointment for the inspection wasn't until later in the day. They tell me, oh, the guy missed his appointment. He's going to show up in six minutes. If that turns into forty five minutes, now my whole morning. Look, I'm an early guy. I get up. I knocked so much work out in the morning. You don't You can't wrap your head around the things that I do in the morning. Right, I could be done work at noon. Literally, I could be done work at noon in many case, on most dates. But I've never done work. So I'm a business owner, so there's always promotion and emailing and all that kind of stuff. With the hard stuff, I get done early, and the show's one of the things I like to get done early, pushing it back and out and out now and all the while, and I'm losing my mind and doing push ups, freaking out. This guy's riding on the back of the FedEx truck, right. I had no idea was coming. And then God dropped this thing in my freaking lab and I got to look at it, and I go, oh, you know what I mean, It's something. And she's a reminder. You know, it's all. Every so often shit gets weird, we just need to remind it. Like, dude, it's so good. You can't believe my father and I've been talking about this a lot. People on the streets protesting, cry baby and about everything. People on the left crying, people on the right cry, and everybody's crying. And it's so good out there. You can't even believe it. You know, you have everything you want, You have everything you want could ever want. My wife just left. I don't know if you want to get lunch for us or for her. I don't know what you're doing but you know the idea that you you just hop in a car, go drive, get whatever you want. You know what I mean, for the most part, put them on your job. Don't go do what you want. It's a Monday afternoon, right, some Monday afternoon, take a lunch break, go get food. You go to a restaurant, get something that's prepared for you, just the way you want. It's amazing to me. It's amazing to me. We're sitting in the streets with abortion signs. I want to kill my kid. I would killed by a kid. Why won't you let me? Mostly and the funny thing is in most places again still there's a beautiful cardinal up here. So here's the big news. And I'll reiterate it. I'm not I don't even know if I'm allowed to do this or not, but I'm gonna do it anyway. What the hell unless somebody reaches out to me. In the meantime, when we did the giveaway, now today is the last day to enter the giveaway. I'm gonna do a separate audio podcast just for this, just to focus on the giveaways. I just need to do it. The Prepper Library giveaway. See this is another crazy thing. It's absolutely crazy ends two days. It's over two days, like we're on hours. I don't know what hour it do, so you better go do it, right, I'll put it in the show notes. I did not put it in the show notes. Shit, look, message me DM me whatever it is, okay if you want to get in there, or you could go back, go back a few shows. Right, you could go to our instagram to emails that you've received from us. You are on our mailing list, right, you see, like hit you guys with a wave of stuff. So I feel bad because I didn't put the link in there today's show. But I've been talking about it for how long? How long have I been talking? Right, you should enter if you enter all of a sudden, this is that thing I was telling you. I was waiting. I was waiting. I was like, oh, maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. I don't want to mention it because I'm not sure. Well, it's slid in the home base in the home plate, like in the final hour. So what that means is the winner is gonna get one of these signed. You're gonna get one of these signed by me. You're gonna get one of the things that I one of my greatest creations in life so far, right, signed by me before it's even out for sale. Huh, what a day? PBu fan, What ain't day? I'm gonna get out of here. Yes, it's crazy. Yes, thirty five thousand reservests been told already. Up. Are we gonna have a ground war in Iran? Who knows? Is it all a bluff from Donald Trump? The Great Deal? Nigger? I don't know. Russia's in Havana with oil? What's that mean? Who knows what the hell it means to me? I think we've done quite enough. I think we've done quite enough. I think it's time to come home. I think it's time to take care of problems at home. Right, there's no appeasing the people who rallied in the streets. Yesterday they made it very clear, or Saturday they made it very clear. When they know the later it got in the day, the red or the flag's got all of a sudden, the Islamo Fascio Marxist flag started flying late in the day, early in the day. It was all old people America class right sixty seventy crop. Then all of a sudden you saw the youth came into it. They woke up, they rolled out of bed, complaining on social media. I ordered a coffee and it came in and had the wrong kind of milk. Gan days ruined. I was acting like one of them, really so. And then before long the violence in la You start to see the communist flags flying the Palestine and all that, and you knew, you know, there's no there's no changing these people there. It's insane, which is why we do what we do, because even if you are one of those people, you better have a foundation underfoot. Man, You know this world is not looking at you as smiles. We know the record, we all know the track record of communism. Right. It's about I don't know what, how many? How What is the distance you could travel if you were walking on the dead bodies laid foot to head, from one end to the other. Of all the people who died in the twentieth century from communists? How far could we want? Somebody do the calculation. One thing's for sure. I know I'd make it out of Virginia pretty easy. Never forget it, right, tens of millions of people dead, starved, killed, murdered, right, dass you name it whatever, national Socialism. Never forget who your Nazi friends are. You call me a Nazi, right, never forget? It was the National Socialist Party in Germany. So it's a good time to be alive. Don't let the news destroy you. But at the same time, build yourself a base level of preparedness, right, keep prepping, prep on, as Dave Jones says, try new things, train new things, do new things. You don't want too many firsts. If an emergency or something terrible happens in this country, you have to deal with it, right. I guess we'll let that grand finale if the dogs bark and the show all right, PB and Family. Don't be at the enter that book giveaway. Make sure if you don't, if you don't have a link, you reach out to me somehow. Okay, you can get me on X you can get me on email all that stuff. Go to Pbnfamily dot com for the newsletter. Go to crab It Broadcasting that wherever you for your wherever you get us reach out. I'll make sure you get entered for a chance at my new book, The Ultimate Survival tool Kit. Talk to you soon, folks. Thanks for the support see ya