A Survival Gear Horror Story

[00:00:02] Looks like there's some turbulence up ahead. You found us. PBN family, good morning. Patriot Power Hour tonight. Don't miss it. We did our own big, beautiful show last night. About three hours.

[00:00:31] Three hours between largely myself and Jordan from Phoenix Survival. And Rick Austin popped in, in and out. You know, the goats were trampling the internet wire, so it was tough to keep him on. But we were talking Prepper Camp for the evening. I don't want to talk about that this morning. We did that for three hours. I got my fill of that yesterday.

[00:00:57] This morning over on X, I went and posted, I'll post it in the link down below too. I posted a link to the Lost Superfoods book. A book that I helped write. It's back to prepping. You know, it's prep on. It's, you know, it just is what it is. It's one day on top of the next. As Dave Jones says, it's establish a position and improve upon it daily. That this is what we do here. This is how we make the butter. You know what I mean?

[00:01:25] So I posted something along those lines. Over on X, you know, if you're hearing this for the first time, do yourself a favor. Follow us everywhere you can follow us. We're over on YouTube. We're on X. The way the world looks, the way the world works today, it's like you get hit with a tidal wave of information every single day.

[00:01:50] And you have to grab onto the valuables, like the seashells that come flying by. You only have one chance in a lot of cases. I saw this guy. I heard this guy. He's talking about prepping. I don't know who he was. Just, yeah, digging to PBN. I'm thrilled to be just sitting here behind the mic. No lights, no cameras, very little action but for the coffee. But we did it. We did a big, beautiful show last night, and it was good.

[00:02:22] And now it's back. You know, it's back to it. It's been doing a lot of stuff lately with survival gear. But I'm really, I'm really interested. And I think one of the things that I'd like to hear from you guys, via email, via social media, whatever. Back when Michael Savage was in his heyday, he really inspired me a lot.

[00:02:52] Those of you who listened to him, you could probably hear it in my own inflections. But he used to do horror stories. He used to do, you know, like Medicare horror stories, family holiday horror stories, things like that. You know, it was always fun.

[00:03:13] You know, it's always one of the great things that I miss so much in life is hearing from regular people on AM radio. You know, because AM radio sucks so bad most of the time if you don't want to listen to politics. If you don't want to listen to politics and sports and you go on AM radio, the best you've got is like the carnival Mexican tunes. You know what I mean? With the accordion.

[00:03:42] But if you don't want to get into any of that, it's really rare that you can have any situation. Everybody's been relegated to a line of text. And I love chat. I love talking to the chat room and the people who are there and who show up faithfully. It's great. But I miss people. You know, I really do miss people. And at PrepperBroadcasting.com, you can record yourself. You can record a message to us.

[00:04:10] And if you want, just tell me you would put it on air. I'll put it on air. I know for many of you it's an OPSEC issue and that's fine. But if you want to have, you know, you want to have it on air, have it on air. For real. So that would be fun. I think that would be fun. But I'd love to hear your survival gear horror stories.

[00:04:33] You know, I had a blind spot last week that it really took my breath away, to be honest. I've been doing some videography for our incredible sponsor, Lima Tango Survival, recording video for some ads and some other ways to really showcase what they do. Because I think what they do is very important. And now I think it's more important than ever.

[00:05:01] And one of the things we were doing was we were comparing a bag, a Lima Tango backpack to a competitor's backpack. I had in my hands the box. And I opened the box before I left for vacation. And I looked at the bag and I said, you know, this looks like a pretty nice bag. I'm interested to see what's in it. If you follow me on Instagram or X, then you know the punchline already.

[00:05:26] But I got home, settled in, you know, from vacation and all that. And it's been a bumpy ride. June was a choppy seize for the commander, can I tell you. If it weren't for my wife planning that vacation, it would have been a very bad month. Just straight up and down. So I get home and I go to pull the bag out.

[00:05:57] I'm like, all right, let's look at this bag. You know, I don't know this brand and I want to see how it stands up to Lima. And I pull the bag out and there's no gear in the bag. The bag is in its own plastic and all the gear is in the box. And it's not good. It's not much. And then what really pissed me off more than anything, what really made this such a horror story, is there wooden matches all over the box.

[00:06:25] And I don't know if they fell out or whatever. I don't know what the situation is. All I know is I got a box with a survival kit in it. And the backpack wasn't filled up with anything. The gear was sparse and low quality. And the wooden matches were like sprinkled throughout everything. As though they opened during shipping or whatever the situation is.

[00:06:55] I felt so bad for you guys in that moment. Now many of you guys take care of business, so I shouldn't. But I felt so bad for people. Because here I am day in and day out telling you that prepping is the true anti-anxiety. I really believe that. I really believe that prepping is health and wellness. I just believe it. I think there's... Well, I think prepping is everything. Right? I do. I think there's a little bit of prepping in almost everything you do.

[00:07:26] You can look at any hobby, anything, right? Because basic preparedness is spread on everything. It's like, you know, you're going golfing tomorrow. What are you going to do before you head out? Right? There's got to be some preparedness steps you take. Right? And there are people who live that way and there are people who don't. And sometimes, look, sometimes I don't. That's why I have backup in my wife.

[00:07:52] She's preparedness on things that I don't think about when it comes to preparedness. You know what I mean? So, I was really set back. And I've really... I mean, I wish I had a budget to just burn through crap gear. Sure. That's what I'd really like to do. I'd really like to do that. I may try to figure out a way to finagle it and make it happen.

[00:08:21] I'm not interested in destroying people's livelihoods and brands. But I am very interested in seeing how deep the rabbit hole goes, PBN family. I'm very interested in seeing how crappy the survival gear out there is. In passing, I knew you could see things on YouTube. You know, you see things. You know, this is filled with a bunch of trash probably. Or this thing will fall apart.

[00:08:51] Whatever the situation is. But something about receiving a 72-hour bag. Wrapping my head around. Having it in my hands, right? And wrapping my head around like, this is supposed to do the job. Looking at the gear and knowing, this isn't going to do the job. You know? And then having that realization that like, I've had good gear for a long time. Because most of my stuff I've put together myself.

[00:09:19] And then because I know how to bob and weave through the channels of shitty gear. I haven't really wasted much money on stuff that didn't serve me. Right? I haven't even been given a lot of stuff that didn't serve me. Like if I'm talking to somebody about an affiliate program. Or about showcasing gear to you guys. Like, it's got to be good stuff. You know what I mean? Before I bring it to you.

[00:09:46] So, it's one of those situations where I just was kind of protected from it for a long time. And we all have those blind spots in life, you know? I don't feel bad about it or anything. It just really surprised me. Because I'm looking at this box with this minimal amount of gear. And no care whatsoever put into it. Because the matches are flung all over the box.

[00:10:13] And I'm thinking like, you know, if this wound up in the hands of a 20-something kid. Or a single mom. You know what I mean? And they're watching the news. And they're watching AI. And they're watching, you know, Iran. And war on the horizon for America. Or whatever they think could happen. Am I going to get taken to this war? You know, if you're in your 20s right now. There's got to be at least a little piece of you that's going like,

[00:10:42] Alright, how do I dodge this draft? I really don't feel like fighting robots or cavemen. You know what I mean? That's like it. That's what it is. He's writing robots or cavemen anymore. So, you're looking at this bag for an answer. You know, you made this purchase. These things aren't cheap. Especially not today. You know? So, you make this purchase. You get this box. You get this bag. And you're like, you know what?

[00:11:12] I turn on the news. It's nothing but anxiety. Look. You have to understand. Man, I see this because I've seen this for so long. I see what the news is now. And I see what the news is because I know what prepper news was. Alright? Now, I'm going to give two headlines right now. Unless the Drudge Report changed them already.

[00:11:40] They changed stuff so fast. This is a massive propaganda engine now. The Drudge Report. It's so crazy. But why it's important and why I go is because you still get a snapshot of what the average American is reading. I think. So, ice raids. Okay. Free America. Protests taking place nationwide on 4th of July. That's not what I want. There were two headlines.

[00:12:09] Both were in red just a moment ago on Drudge. I'm starting to think Drudge might be AI powered. But anyway, one of them was about 4th of July events canceled in LA and California because of fear of ice raids. And then there's another doomsday one as well. I mean, I could find. I could scroll through here and find you some.

[00:12:37] But these are the things that show up not just on websites like this, but everywhere anymore. They got the Coeur d'Alene massacre. American pride slips to a new low. Trillions and trillions in debt. These headlines. Dollar suffers worse start to the year since 73. That's a direct economic collapse blog.

[00:13:06] This is literally an economic collapse blog article. And back in the day, you only used to be able to really get this stuff if you were searching for it or if you went to a website like the economiccollapseblog.com. It's the only way you got this stuff. It didn't show up. You didn't get educated on the condition of the U.S. dollar just by opening up your cell phone. In the dire situations that we all face or could face or whatever. Oh, harvests. That's what it was.

[00:13:36] There was another one on there about harvests very low this year. This is prepper SHTF site. What was it? SHTF plan.com website fodder. Like, this is prepper news. And I can't impress upon you how important it is for the average American. You need to tell people this, okay? You need to let people know because they don't understand the way that you understand. Some of you are probably listening going like, yeah, I know. I know what they're doing.

[00:14:04] Yeah, prepper news was popular and it got a lot of clicks and the media found that out and they're doing it too. But this doom news, what they're missing is... When I read SHTF plan every day of my life, I was just getting into prepping. I was... But I was taking action. You know, and I read it for a while. I read it for a while until I got smart enough and realized, okay, I don't need to read about the end of the world every single day. Think I got it.

[00:14:33] Think I got the cliff notes. Think I got the cliff notes.

[00:15:07] About harvests being low. About water being low. About lake mead. About aquifers being low. And all this kind of stuff. And I'm telling you right now, like... It is great motivation. If you want to grow your own food, raise your own food, put food up, that kind of stuff. Right? It will motivate you to do that. What I worry about most is... The people that don't even know what they're reading... And how to mitigate it.

[00:15:37] You know what I mean? Like, they're like, God, these headlines are tough. And then they go about their business. But in the back of their mind, they're like, the world's falling apart. There's no food. There's no water. The aliens are coming. The illegal aliens are coming. We don't know what... We don't know what to do. Because they never ask for that. You know what I mean? The average person didn't ask for the shtfplan.com algorithm in their phone.

[00:16:04] The economic collapse blog list of articles in their phone. And now they're getting it. And they think it's just news. They think it's just news. So back to the gear. So let's say... Let's say... The first thing that you do... Because you're not listening to no crazy preppers. You don't know what they're all about. You know, they're probably Bible-thumping lunatics over there at Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:16:33] So the first thing people do is... You know, maybe they buy this bag. Maybe they drop a hundred bucks and buy this backpack. And they're thinking, you know what? I feel better today. I placed an order. Right? And I got this backpack. I know, like, I can bug out if I need to. That kind of thing. And then you get this gear. And look, most people might look at it and go, like, I don't even know if this is good or bad.

[00:17:00] But the whole experience with this backpack was just terrible. You know what I mean? And it really makes me want to review more gear. And not just the gear. See, the gear review stuff that I do is stuff that I know works. And I feel like, oh, I'm bringing this to light. You know, Ryan Buford used to have... What was it called?

[00:17:28] He used to have a little show that he was working on. We may have to ask him if we can hijack it for this purpose. What was it called? I came from... Tactical Torture. Yeah, Tactical Torture was what it was called. And I always thought about Tactical Torture. And I always wanted to get my kids, once they got to a certain age, to take on that. Because I love the name. And I think the concept's great, too. And when I looked at that bag, it popped into my head. I said, what would this stuff survive? How many people even know?

[00:17:57] You know, one of the things like there are SOS food rations in there. I'm like, who's going to eat these? I don't know if people even know how to... You know, nothing wrong with them. You got a bunch of firsts in that backpack. And a bunch of crap. So, yeah. It makes me really want to put hands on a variety of things that are out there. You know, I want to get like 10 different lighters that cost 5 bucks a piece.

[00:18:25] That claim to do this and that. And see what they do. You know? I've never been one for gear reviewing. And I think it was because I'm not really good... I don't think I'm really good at showing you why a piece of gear is good. I know why. You know what I mean? But like, it's a... You know, it's a he-dos-protest-a-too-much type of thing.

[00:18:53] But what I think would be really fun is to go into gear review with things I don't... Like, truly don't know but multitudes of them. You know what I mean? Or bigger things that I don't know and see what they... How they really play out. The problem with that, of course, is... It's hard to do that when a brand approaches you or you approach a brand and say, Hey, let me review your thing.

[00:19:21] And then you give an honest review and go, Well, this thing sucks. Do you know what I mean? But I do feel compelled. I'll tell you that much. I do feel compelled to do that. If you guys... You know... I don't know. Look for that in the future, though. Because it really has left a sour taste in my stomach. This idea that Americans are out there buying this gear. And they're getting a box like I got.

[00:19:51] And I just can't... In a time like this when money is so tight and the world is so unhinged. And you put your hopes and your dreams in this box. And what you wind up with is crap. And you're like, Oh, back to square one. And now I'm 100 short. It kills me, man. It kills me. You know? There's something about the American people in despair that... It really hurts me when I think about it.

[00:20:18] So, you know, I can do the ugly promo thing and tell you... For half the price of a pre-made crappy backpack... You can get a membership at the Prepper Broadcasting Network... Which is... Really is your path back to stability. You know, in informational form. And instruction form. And course form. And book form. And, you know, even contact. You can even reach out to me. You ask any member. Any member who joins.

[00:20:48] You get an introductory member email. And one of the things I say is keep in touch. To all the members. Some do. Some don't. But I always put it in that introductory email. Keep in touch. Reach out if you have questions. To me. You know what I mean? I think that's about it for today. PBN Family on the audio podcast side. I may hop on later today and do a video. A nice long form... What's inside the cash. A nice...

[00:21:16] A nice dig into the SHTF Chef. One of those fun video jobs. But in all honesty... I've got to get cleaned up for that. I'm still wearing the same shirt I wore on last night's show. So I can't... A long day's journey into night. Thank you for everything folks. And support Lima Tango Survival. While we're on the subject of backpacks. Because... Like I said... There's a lot of unknown out there. There's a lot of stuff out there.

[00:21:45] Particularly on Amazon. You get Lima Tango on Amazon now too. I'll link to them down below as well. There's a lot of stuff out there. You know? All I can tell you about Lima Tango is it'll work. It'll solve the problem for you. And the gear in there will get it done. I've touched it. I've put hands on it. I understand what it is. That's the best I can do for you. You know? And if you don't value a pre-made kit... I'd highly recommend you order... Order just one pre-made kit.

[00:22:14] And feel that feeling. You know? Feel the feeling of... This hole that I've had in my preparedness... I can fill now. And I have filled it. And I've filled it with gear that's going to make the difference. You know? All right, folks. I do appreciate you all. Thanks for the patronage... Here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network members. Thanks for keeping the lights on. And yeah. Spread the word, folks. It's the only way we grow. It's the only way we stick around. Talk to you soon. It's the only way you're going... What else?