Commander on the Road

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[00:00:28] How close were we to that reality? Oh my goodness. When I did, you know, that was like foreshadowing at the time when I made that audio byte. And now I look at it and I say like, I don't know, we might have, at least for now we ducked it. At least for now we ducked the old management of carbon credits and such.

[00:00:47] What is up PBN family? The commander is on the road today. It's Friday. The leery eyes of Johnny 5 are not on me. For those of you who've been paying attention. The leery eyes of Johnny 5, I am, per Firewolf Forge's recommendation, I am going to super glue some googly eyes on my camera. My AI camera.

[00:01:08] I have AI keeping tabs on me each week. It's so good to be off camera. You know what I mean? You have to understand, like, this video stuff is, uh, it's like, there's ups and there's downs, you know? But to a guy who's done this just with the microphone for so long, it's like, oh, I don't know. There's something. And I look great today, don't get me wrong. I don't know. Showered for a change. I look...

[00:01:38] But it's just so nice to not be seen. Can I say that much? Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. Look, today's podcast is brought to you by Lima Tango Survival. Okay, limatangosurvival.com. Home of some of the best kits on the planet for bug out, get home, EDC, fire starting. $25 fire starter kit. Really?

[00:02:02] I mean, you know, every bag. Every bag. Every bag. Or at least one bag. One thing to think about with the fire starter kit is the idea that you could turn it into somebody's job to be the fire guy. You know, that's kind of interesting. It's kind of fun, right? In other words, who gets the fire kit? Everybody should have, you know, some implements for making fire.

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[00:03:27] Another real cool kit is their gray man kit, right? Two really sort of unassuming backpacks packed with all the stuff you need. And in the event, you know, what really makes me think about the gray man kit is this homeland attack that we've been talking about. I'm writing a report on it for, I don't know if I'm at liberty to tell you for who because it's a ghostwriting project. But it's a person. It's a person who's pretty popular. And, you know, I'm doing a lot of research on it, man. A lot.

[00:03:56] A lot of unholy relationships have been forged between nations, states, terrorist organizations, drug cartels. You know, cartels are acting essentially as assassins. And I think that's a, you know, the weird thing about the cartels and any group that has no morality whatsoever is they're going to make the money however they got to make the money.

[00:04:24] So when the fentanyl dries up, they're going to move into other things, right? If the fentanyl dries up. If the human trafficking dries up, which now we have less people crossing the border. So that's drying up. But yeah, state-sponsored assassination sounds good. Let's get into that, right? Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot we're going to talk about in our newsletter. Newsletter releases Mondays now. Don't forget, okay? Homeland Newsletter. The newsletter always has good information.

[00:04:54] It comes with a survival three-pack. So I give three survival tips, urban, tactical, and wilderness survival tip every week. Yes, I linked a product or two in there for affiliate income. There's a membership link in there if you want to join as a member. I wrote a big sub stack this morning, yesterday and this morning. And it's not too prepper related, but there's definitely some prepper in it. It's more about what it is we're missing as people.

[00:05:24] Sub stacks where I get to flex my muscles a little bit. Talk a little bit about things that I don't often get to talk about on PBM. It's fun. It's fun. It'll be all over social media and stuff. I'll link to it in the newsletter Monday if you guys are interested. I single-handedly, if given the ability to, like, I could easily produce more content than you could absorb. I probably do already.

[00:05:54] Just me. I'm not talking about PBN. I'm talking about James Walton. Like, just the nature of being me. I can produce more content than you could absorb in a week. And I know that because I write articles for a variety of websites. You know what I mean? It's like, how many... How much can you listen to and read from one guy? Some of you out there do it. And, you know, that's flattering. I appreciate it. Very humbling. Very humbling.

[00:06:23] We lost to the Canadians last night. Ho-hum. You know, I watch the... Hockey's kind of a big deal in my family. They don't talk about it a lot. But it's kind of a big deal in my family. I can't play. I can't even ice skate, really. But my wife is, like, a female... Basically, an all-star. You know what I mean? In terms of her upbringing and her college career and that kind of stuff. And she's never really slowed down.

[00:06:52] She's coaching kids now. And she plays, like, several times a week still. Still, I'm going to veer away from whatever's popping up in my head right now and just keep on the straight and narrow. But it's a big part of our life. You know, the brother-in-laws play it. The nephews are starting to play it. My kids never really got into it. They kind of found their way to different sports, which is fine. Basketball and football, primarily.

[00:07:22] Which is not bad because I'm not a big fan of being cold. You know what I mean? So it's nice. I'd much rather watch a football game on a summer June evening than be trapped inside an ice rink during the summer or whatever. But it's a good sport, man. It's cool. And we watched the first go-round of the, you know, America-Canada where the Canadians booed the national anthem. And then the Americans beat their heads in for it.

[00:07:49] And the second one, the Canadians pulled out in an overtime victory, you know. And they got their war cry, their war speech from the brave and honorable Justin Trudeau. Apparently he tried to pull a Trump and get them all powered up. I'm sure it was his incredible words. Do it for the drag queens. Do it for the drag queen story hour. Do it for the funds we stole from the truckers.

[00:08:20] And I'm sure his words really resonated with hockey players in Canada, I bet. Do it for the vaccine, boys. But you know what? I'm going to tell you how I felt. I'm going to tell you how I felt, okay? Because let's be real, right? When you have America versus Canada, you've got this monolithic thing against these. You know, it's a David and Goliath kind of thing, right?

[00:08:50] And I started thinking, let them win. Give it to Canada. For real. At a moment like this, at a moment like this, does America need a hockey victory over Canada? Or does Canada need a hockey victory? Because let's be real, right? Hockey's their thing. It's their thing. It just like dripped down to us into the colder areas. And that kind of thing. And then, you know, what have you.

[00:09:19] So, give them the win. You know what I mean? Give them the win. And, yeah, let that be that. Because at the end of the day, it feels weird. America's going to have plenty of wins, right? We're winning. Like, the winning is going to be happening. We're making gigantic moves. We're renaming oceans. You know what I'm saying? Like, I thought about the bigger picture and I just thought to myself. This was, I fell asleep on the game in all honesty. I don't know why. I did nothing yesterday.

[00:09:49] You know what I mean? Outside of working. Like, did work. I didn't even make dinner. Went out and ate. Came home. Fattened up. Painted a little Warhammer. Not going to lie. You know what? I played a little Warhammer, actually, with my oldest son. And then, yeah. Got up in bed watching the game with my wife. And all of a sudden, I'm like, oh, it's coming for me. You know what I mean? And then I woke up.

[00:10:17] Woke up like 1 a.m. wide awake. Yeah, that was a whole thing. I've told you in the past, and I think this is important. Like, if you're having an insomnia, a bout of insomnia, like, just get up and take care of something. You'll make it up. You know what I mean? You will. You will definitely fall asleep here eventually.

[00:10:40] The moment you turn insomnia into this great puzzle you can't figure out, that's when you wind up in a situation where you're like, oh, I can't figure out what to do. I don't know how to do it. I can't do it. I need a pill. I need an injection. I need something. You know what I mean? So, it is what it is. But, uh, I'm rambling, folks. It's a rambly Friday. I don't know. I had to postpone. Oh, that's a big bit of news you guys got.

[00:11:10] I had to postpone our chicken ag guest, which I'm very excited about. We'll get back. We'll get with her next week. It's going to be a great show overall for you chicken lovers and for you interested in the avian flu and effects and feedstocks in Europe and those kinds of things. Very cool show. Very great person. Very smart, intelligent. Going to be a great show. Um, but as fate would have it, the roads are completely clear here in Richmond, Virginia.

[00:11:37] And we had a two-hour delay for no apparent reason whatsoever. So, because we had that two-hour delay, uh, it fell right on the time that we were supposed to be doing the show. So, we had to resketch. No big deal. No big deal, PBN. It is what it is. Rich Anderson on Monday. Don't miss it. Mars Survival. Monday night, 9 Eastern. 9 PM Eastern. I'm an Eastern time snob. Everything is Eastern to me. I'm trying to be better. Trying to do better.

[00:12:07] You know what I mean? Uh, what else? What do we got going into it? What's the prepping sort of thing? I've got a, I got some bagging up of some bread flour to do. Do you store bread flour? Storing flour is good. Storing bread flour is better. Don't, don't label them the same thing. Okay, here's a food storage tip for you. Here's a food storage tip for you. Bread flour is designed to rise. Right? Regular flour is not. Store them both.

[00:12:37] Because you gotta be making bread. I made an awesome deep dish, uh, rectangular pizza the other night. Phenomenal. Unbelievable. I never did that before. The only thing I would say is I, I need to do it thinner. Crust was a little thick, you know what I mean? So it was more like a focaccia. We call it, it was like a tomato bread. Something we call it up north in, you know, around the, the Dago neighborhoods. You call it tomato bread. Give me a slice of the tomato bread. It's good.

[00:13:07] It's a good little thing you could serve at room temperature and all. But that's what this was like because the crust was so thick. I made such an awesome dough. Such an awesome dough. The thing that has changed about my dough recently is double the yeast, milk, more salt. Really. Those are the things. You know what I mean? It's really changed. Really, really. Double the yeast has really changed the outcome of the dough. I think one yeast packet was not doing it. So yeah, that's the deal, folks.

[00:13:36] I, uh, look, one of the resounding points, and I guess we'll close with this. There was a moment in time when prepping was a fringe element. It was a television show. It was a laugh line. It was, uh, America's gonna be great forever. What are you worried about? What are you scared of? You know, what do you mean pandemic? This isn't, uh, 28 days later, you psychopath. All that kind of stuff. At least here at PBN, maybe not on, on YouTube, in the YouTube sphere and stuff like that,

[00:14:06] but here at PBN, our listeners, our friends and PBN family, our acquaintances, our network, our greater network at large, you know, the prepper camp world, that kind of stuff. This is a lifestyle. You know, prepping is moved from being a fringe element of people who do crazy things with canned food and gas masks into a full-scale lifestyle, and I said it in the past.

[00:14:35] It's because of the mixing into the homesteading element, right? Not only is prepping a lifestyle, but it's the lifestyle. It's the medicine. It's the thing that everyone is looking for right now. That's what it, like, if you're feeling, if you're feeling empty, if you feel like you're missing something, you know what I mean? What you're missing is the prepping lifestyle.

[00:15:01] And, and what we've been able to capture at PBNfamily.com, you don't even have to sign up as a member, but I'd highly recommend you go scroll from the top of the page to the bottom of the page, the homepage. Because what we've managed to capture over there, I think, is the prepping lifestyle. Really. I mean, we've done it here for years with PBN, but we've managed to do it in video and that kind of thing over there.

[00:15:30] It's just, you start at the top of the page, you're doing checklists, you're doing food storage and that kind of thing. You scroll down and then you're in the world of, you know, you're in the world of physical fitness, you're in the world of bushcrafting, you're in the world of cooking, you're in the world of entrepreneurship, you're in the world of foraging, you're in the world of home security, you're in the world of bugging out. All series and very big chunks of content, blacksmithing, craftsmanship, all that stuff.

[00:16:00] right there on the homepage. Why I think it's important is because if you listen to these podcasts and you go like, I want to get into this thing, but I don't know if I understand it. Where do I start? What should I do? Or whatever. Start wherever you're excited about starting, first of all. But second of all, understand that what you're getting into is a change in your lifestyle. And you've got to commit to that. You've got to commit to that change in your lifestyle.

[00:16:29] You've got to. You know what I'm saying? You've got to do it. It will make all things better. If you were just to go to pbnfamily.com and do the things that we do in our six video series, video podcast series, right? If you were just to hone in on your bushcrafting, you know, the foraging, the wild edibles, the wild wilderness survival skills, that kind of stuff.

[00:16:59] If you were to hone in on your prep or fit and health, get in shape, right? With us. I was going to, we were going to start doing workouts this week, but it turned out because of the snow, the whole family was home all week. Not a good time to be trying to film kettlebell live streams. You know what I mean? My youngest was throwing up one morning. We don't even know why. Probably just ate too much junk at night. And then, you know, down the line, right? Hammer talk,

[00:17:29] craftsmanship, creating things with your hands that you're proud of. Talk to Jay Ferg from Phoenix Survival. It's very rewarding, right? You get into all these different show topics and these different shows, the SHTF chef cooking from, cooking from scratch, cooking at home. It's a lifestyle, baby. And it's, it's the lifestyle. Right? It's the lifestyle. It is. Homesteading and such. We need a, we need a,

[00:17:58] we need a solid homesteading show. We need like Casa Liberty Homestead or the Liberty Homestead or the, you know, that. We need, we need that. Maybe when the weather breaks, we'll get into that. It's just the way to do it. It's the way to live. For those of you out there living it, you're like shrugging your shoulders like no duh. Right? But it is. I mean, it really, it's what it is. So, yeah, you can check out pbnfamily.com if you'd like.

[00:18:26] We'd love to have you as a member. But I do want you to understand the value of what you've happened upon and to take it all the way. Take it all the way. You know, get into it. Get the gardens planned now. Figure out where the chicken coop's gonna go. Build something crazy like a solar shower. You know what I mean? Build yourself a sauna out back. Whatever. Get a running route planned. Get a running routine put in place. You know,

[00:18:56] start getting that heart pumping. Whole world can change, folks. Whole world can change. All right. I'm out of here. I'm out. I got a great day ahead of me. I hope you do too. Talk to you soon, PBN family.