Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again

[00:00:00] Before you enjoy the show today, PBN family, I have to make one embarrassing announcement. Whitney Johnson will not be on the show tonight. She will be on the 24th of the month, so don't miss it. I was 100% in belief that she was coming on the 17th. Maybe I got a little excited. I don't know. I picked the book up. It's an amazing book.

[00:00:23] I was looking over my copy and thinking, what a great St. Patrick's Day it would be to have Whitney Johnson on tonight. And, well, just not the case. So enjoy the show. Get the book. Link's in the description. And, yeah. Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks. You're listening to PBN. You will pay us back the stability.

[00:01:15] Being certain that they and I but lived where Motley is worn. All changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born. Welcome in, folks. It's going to be a lot of that business. It's going to be a lot of that business today. Happy St. Patrick's Day. We're back on YouTube today.

[00:01:40] For whatever that's worth. For as long and short as that. Fundamentally, like, we're on YouTube for my dad. I think that's about it. I mean, you know, anybody else that comes along and clicks subscribe and all that kind of stuff, cool. But I think if he weren't watching, I don't even know that I'd broadcast over there.

[00:02:08] Or maybe, I don't know, there's also like a sort of rebellious thing in me that makes me want to just perpetually, you know, one new channel after another. After every slap on the wrist and just keep going and going and going. You know, how many different iterations can we come up with for PBN, Prepper Broadcasting Network, Prepper Talk, Prepper Radio, Preppers Online, Preppers Live?

[00:02:32] You know, whatever, whatever. With the help of the audience, we can do, you know, infinitum. And there's really no way they can stop us from constantly broadcasting up there. And we don't even do anything. That's the crazy part. You know what I mean? We don't even, we're not even radicalized in any way, really. It's crazy. But we'll be back on Instagram tomorrow. We're going to shake it up as the weeks go. You know what I mean?

[00:03:01] So we'll be on Instagram some days, YouTube a couple days a week at the most. We'll always be on X. We'll always be on Rumble. Really, to get the full sort of scale show, I'd recommend Rumble. Because it'll be there. It'll be there every day. You know, show description, discounts, sponsors, memberships, whatever. Whatever. Today's show, by the way, this is a good one, man.

[00:03:30] This is a good one because it's our guest for tonight. It is Whitney Johnson Go Forth and Forage. Go Forth and Forage is hands down the best mushroom foraging book I have ever seen. There's a link in the description or you can just go look it up on Amazon. It's available. It's out today or maybe it was out yesterday. I don't remember. But this is it. You know, if this is in your thing, like if you're into foraging at all,

[00:04:00] if you she's also a lot of fun. Appalachian, Tennessee, Arkansas, something like that. Like the real deal. The real deal from the holler. If you know what that means, then you know what that means, right? But that's going to be a fun show tonight. But look, Go Forth and Forage. Whitney Johnson out now is all that matters. And, you know, let me show you.

[00:04:30] I just want to show you one thing in the book that makes the book. Well, there's a bunch of things that make it make it an exceptional book. But when you're really learning to forge something, be it plant or mushroom, there is something that you need pictures of and information on. And that's this section on mushroom anatomy. My lighting is so bad for showing off this book right now. I apologize. I should have put the big light on. This right here. You got to know this.

[00:04:59] It's like old science biology from middle school, high school. But if you're going to forge anything, you got to know that. You got to know what's that. What's the part at the bottom? What's the stem? What's the mycelial thread? Well, really what you got to know probably most is things like striations, things like gills, things like teeth, right? Ring skirt. Because a lot of times it's down to the gills.

[00:05:28] A lot of times it's down to the teeth. Whether or not a mushroom has teeth or not teeth, gills or not gills tells you a lot about it. But I don't know if that's your thing or not. It doesn't really matter. It's our thing. And wouldn't you be on tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern? It would be an awesome show. I'm sure we'll get deep into the book and the foraging aspect of things. We'll probably get into some. I don't know for sure. We didn't pre-discuss anything. But I have to imagine we'll get into some recipe.

[00:05:57] We'll get into some mushroom cookery, I'm sure, before long. Yeah. So a bunch on today. We might as well get right into the sort of the Houthi situation. Yeah, let's get into that. Because we're seeing sort of the... What looks to me to be the early stages of Iranian war. Now, we always say that. I feel like we're always saying that, right?

[00:06:26] War with Iran is on the horizon, like, the last 20 years. But this is an interesting little fold. Blowing up the Houthis. And next, that's the question, right? The airstrikes and demolishing things. Trump said the Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important waterways of the world, grinding vast swaths of global commerce to a halt.

[00:06:56] And his answer fundamentally was to bomb the shit out of him from the USS Truman aircraft carrier. And that's a beautiful thing. That is a beautiful thing. They responded. They responded. With the help of God Almighty, by the way. With the help of Allah. They responded.

[00:07:21] And they shot some ballistic missiles that didn't even make it remotely in range to the aircraft carrier. You know, they have ballistic missiles. And they're not very good with them. So I'm trying to wonder, like, what's the point? The Houthis claimed on Sunday have fired 18 ballistic missiles. That's a lot. And a drone. And a drone? One drone? That has to be wrong. That's ABC News.

[00:07:52] 18 ballistic missiles and a drone. Sounds like it should be flip-flopped, right? 18 drones and a ballistic missile? In two separate attacks over the previous 24 hours, the strike, the group said, succeeded in thwarting a hostile attack the enemy was preparing to launch against our country. Highly doubtable. Highly doubted. Officials say all drones were downed by fighters. 10 shot down by Air Force planes and one by Navy planes while the ballistic missile was not intercepted.

[00:08:22] Because it fell far short of the vessel. So that's what it is. They got it mixed up. It was 18 drones and one ballistic missile. And the ballistic missile, like I said, felt far short of the absolute destruction ship that is the USS Truman. I love, I hope, you know, I hear a lot of people talking about, like, the end of the naval power, the end of the aircraft carrier and stuff like that. I don't know.

[00:08:52] Doesn't look like it to me. You know what I mean? Wait, Fire Wolf, what's up? Good morning, man. Doesn't look like the end to me. You know, I don't see any signs. Everybody's talking about swarms of drones and that kind of thing. You know, the end of the aircraft carrier. I think it's still pretty, pretty badass. If you ask me. Throw it rolling in there and just smashing.

[00:09:17] Air Force, naval, naval air presence. And that's not even like the firepower that is inside of the ship itself. They're awesome. They're awesome. The U.S. military is awesome. It's sweet. It's just, you know. So the title of the show. The title of the show is from a Nobel Prize winning Irish playwright and author named Samuel Buckman. I can't say I'm like well read.

[00:09:48] But I do like it. I do like it a lot. Ever tried. Ever failed. What is it? I can't see behind myself. Let me. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail better. Is the one that's missing. Fail better. No matter. Try again and fail better. Dude. It's life. If that ain't life, I don't know. For the average person.

[00:10:20] J Fergie in chat. Just because tech advances doesn't mean it's the best call. Sometimes an oldie is a goodie. I mean, it's just, you know, it's just horsepower on those things. Firepower, horsepower. And now they got the drone lasers. Yeah. Be very happy. Be very happy about U.S. military might.

[00:10:44] The Iran-backed terrorist group said at least 31 people were killed and 101 wounded, mostly women and children, of course. How predictable is that? Though there's only women and children out in the streets in. 31 people were killed, 101 wounded, mostly women and children. Though the claims could not be independently verified. Yeah.

[00:11:09] The wave of strikes follows Donald Trump's decision to launch a large-scale military campaign against the Houthis. We're supposed to feel bad for the Houthis. They won't let the ships come through. They are attacking American vessels. What do you think is going to happen? Do you know what I mean? What do you think is going to happen? I mean, even Joe Biden blew him up a little bit. You know, he didn't do a great job, but even he did it, right? What we witnessed on Sunday was quite dramatic, and Mike Waltz is claiming that the airstrikes took out multiple Houthi leaders.

[00:11:39] Yeah, they did. They definitely did. Yemen's Houthi terrorists claim to have attacked the USS Harry Truman, as well as several American warships in the Red Sea. The terror group said without offering evidence that they attacked the Truman and its warships with ballistic missiles and drones. This is the same ABC News, and it was regurgitated wrong. Yeah, they're in trouble.

[00:12:08] The question, though, is, is it going to lead to the Iranian conflict? You know, and what's the deal? What my question is, not so much when or will it be a war, whatever it is, but what's way more interesting to me is, what's the deal? What's the plan? In other words, what's the game plan? What's the end of a war with Iran supposed to look like? What are we after?

[00:12:38] What are we trying to do? Because it's been far too long for me to believe that we're really concerned about their nuclear program and we want to stop it. You know, I just feel like we could have stopped it. We should have stopped it. We would have stopped it. You know? It doesn't seem like viable to me. I don't see it. It's just, you know, we've conquered much bigger things, done much bigger, you know, greater problems and so on.

[00:13:05] I've got Easter 1916 up here by William Butler Yeats. You guys know Yeats, right? You have to know Yeats on a day like today. There is a quote that's actually in my desktop wallpaper that is particularly important, I think, to men, but probably to both. I think men are going through a time this day and age where this quote rings true.

[00:13:34] And it is from Anne Bronte. Anne Bronte. I don't know how to pronounce her last name. Irish lass. It's part of a really good poem. Maybe we should read that poem. That's a really good one. The quote itself is, but he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.

[00:13:59] This is so important for what it says to me right off the bat is like the approach of a woman. You know what I mean? The most petrifying and terrifying aspect of normal life for a man, which is approaching a woman. And that just says it all. You know, that says it all to me. And that shows up in different things, in different places in life. You know, you could see it professionally. Emotionally, you can see it in everything.

[00:14:28] Trying something new. Doing something scary. Right? But to me, and it's weird that it's written by a woman. Or maybe it's not weird that it's written by a woman. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. Right? Like if you're afraid to get poked, then you might as well not even crave the rose. I don't know. I always dug that. But it started to ring true to certain things in my own life.

[00:14:57] So I smacked it on there with a bloody rose. It was like a rose and a pool of blood. What does the background even look like? This is what I see every day when I log in. And it's, yeah, it's a wooden table. A couple beautiful roses. Some blood all over the table. Like an up close of two roses. And that quote. You know? Because it's easy. You know, it's easy to fall into the comfort. That's all about it. All that is is about comfort. Right?

[00:15:26] That's what that whole thing is about. It's all about comfort. You can get real comfortable never feeling pain, never doing anything. The narrow way. Such an awesome name for a poem, too. The narrow way. It reminds me of Miyamoto Musashi. Right? The narrow way. My son always gets on me because in my phone he is Carter Musashi. That's who I call him. Carter Musashi. Because of the quote.

[00:15:55] Once you understand the way broadly, you see it in all things. And Carter, he understands the way broadly. You know, he just really does. He's one of those people. He understands the way broadly and he sees it in all things. And it showed up to me pretty early on with him because I would watch him play different video games. Some on the phone. Some on TV. You know, whatever.

[00:16:24] And I'd watch him. And then I'd watch him play with kids. And, you know, his thing is like how to win. You know what I mean? It's like the parameters. He quickly will understand the parameters and quickly understand that idea. And so, you know, once you understand the way broadly, you see it in all things. Miyamoto Musashi, they say that his book, The Book of Five Rings, is like essential to strategy.

[00:16:55] I haven't read it all, but I've read a lot of it. I don't know. I think it's good. There's a lot you can glean from it. I wouldn't recommend reading it if you don't want to read about sword fighting, though. And like how to hit people with swords and which swords to use. There's a lot of that in there. Naturally. The greatest swordsman in history. But that reminds me of the narrow way. Believe not those who say the upward path is smooth.

[00:17:23] Lest thou should stumble in the way and faint before the truth. Yeah, that's me. That's my lie to you guys all the time. You know what I mean? That is my lie to you guys. Believe not those who say the upward path is smooth. It is not smooth. You smooth it out over time, right? But it's definitely not smooth. But it's the upward path is a pain in the ass.

[00:17:51] Even to somebody who's been at it a long time. Right? Firewolf force is proper tool, proper job. I guess you're talking samurai swords still. Which for a blacksmith, that makes perfect sense. I'm sorry. I'm nursing this coffee over here. Lady Liberty came down and made a fresh pot of coffee. Just before I was ready to go on air. And I said, you know what? I think it's a fair trade. Go on late for a fresh cup of coffee. I'll take it.

[00:18:22] But The Narrow Way is a great poem. And Anne LeBron was... Was she not even Irish? I could have swore she was Irish. Born in Thornton, England in 1820. Both a poet and novelist. Best known for her novels, Agnes Grey. The Tenant of Wild. She is. She's Irish. Born in England. That's all. It's only the road... Sorry. It is the only road... Unto the realms of joy.

[00:18:52] But he who seeks the blessed abode must all his powers employ. This is... Like, I don't know how old she was when she wrote this. But the first two stanzas of this thing are... You could do everything off the first two stanzas. Literally. Your whole life can be built off the first two stanzas. Oh, Garden Girl in chat. Drinking coffee. Living the life.

[00:19:20] So, believe not those who say the upward path is smooth. Lest thou should stumble in the way and faint before the truth. Right? And that's true. That's like... The other thing that is, is like going to the gym. You know, you... Everybody's either been there or knows somebody who's been there. They start a new fitness routine. And... They're doing real good. And then they kind of get burnt out. And they faint before the truth. Like, and the truth is, this is hard. And you gotta just get used to it.

[00:19:50] Right? It's the... So, saying all that, the upward path is not smooth. The problem with life and the problem that most people have with life is it's... It is the only road unto the realms of joy. I don't know. Nothing truer exists in my life than that. You know what I mean? The struggle. The struggle. Because I like downtime. I like the relaxing time. I really do like the comfortable time.

[00:20:20] But it doesn't... It doesn't pay the same. And I don't mean monetarily. You know what I mean? I don't mean monetarily whatsoever. It doesn't pay the same. It doesn't pay the same dividends. Right? I wasn't planning on reading this whole thing. But I'm so... It's so good. Bright hopes and pure delights upon his course may beam. And there amid the sternest heights, the sweetest flower its gleam. Same concept, right?

[00:20:51] And here's sort of the culmination of it. The whole... The whole of the poem is built around the line that I have on my wallpaper. On all her breezes born, earth yields no scent like those. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. That's awesome. That's an awesome line. That's an awesome stanza altogether.

[00:21:20] On all her breezes born, earth yields no scent like those. She's talking about the smell of a rose. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. And that's it, man. That's it. I mean, I see that in people all the time. Everywhere. You've got one of those people in your life who complains. If you've got a complainer, you know what I mean? You know. They're not... It's almost universal.

[00:21:49] If you've got a person in life, nothing's going right for them. It's always a struggle. You know what I mean? It almost always comes down to that. They want the good life, but they don't want to take the damage. And unfortunately, there's... Sometimes there's damage, you know? Sometimes there's emotional and mental and even physical damage. To get and maintain the life that you want. Shit, you've got to work through. You've got to grind through.

[00:22:19] You know, tough... Tough... Chapters of life. Where things aren't going well between people that you care about. Or you and someone you care... You know, it's... Yeah, it is what it is. You know? It's just a tough one. I mean, look at... Look at Donald Trump, for example. You know what I mean? What's up, L2 Survive? In the chat.

[00:22:46] All you folks over there at YouTube, I can send you back to L2 Survive's YouTube channel now. We've been allowed to come back, nub. We're allowed back on. The powers that be over there at YouTube. Who in all their vigilance silenced the dangerous and radical Judson Carroll. The threat to national security that is Judson Carroll. Judson Carroll has done more...

[00:23:16] He's probably... He's done more for the overall health of the listenership here in this audience than probably anybody else. Every week he shows up with a different plant or plants, tree or trees. Breaks it all down. How to use it. What to use it for. I mean, it's an absolute weekly masterclass on herbal medicine for preppers. If you watch us exclusively on video, then you have to watch herbal medicine for preppers.

[00:23:45] It's phenomenal. Or listen to it, rather. But, yeah. That's what he got silenced for. Talking about pine and probably said something about COVID he wasn't supposed to say. I don't care. I can't tell you how little I care.

[00:24:05] Because when I get a host and they say they want to do a show on PBN, I tell them, number one, you could find yourself in more trouble than it's worth. That's number one. And if they're okay with that hurdle, then the other thing I tell them is, but I want you to say whatever you want to say. The way you want to say it. And it's amazing to me that that can rub people the wrong way this day and age.

[00:24:35] Yeah, Firewolf, it was pine needle tea. It was probably some comments about... Whoa. Got a little bigger. It was probably some comments on, you know, boosting your immunity instead of taking the vaccine and that kind of thing. Look, I'm going to wind up getting this kicked off again just today just by recapping. You said the V word. I don't care. I really don't. Couldn't care less. I know the audience is tremendous.

[00:25:04] You guys, the ever faithful PBN family. And, you know, we do our podcast and everything else that we do, you guys will find us again. I really have been thinking about, like, YouTube in perpetuity, like, succession channels over and over again and just saying, you know, whatever. I'm not going to go there five days a week. We're not... I'm not investing any effort in trying to figure out algorithms and all that kind of stuff. We just too free for them over there.

[00:25:33] That's all. We're just a bit too free for them over there. You guys want to see the googly eyes? Well, it's the least I can do for the nub. Let's see. This should work. I use my phone camera. You want to say hi to Johnny Five, is it? All right, everyone. Here he is. Without further ado. The man... Oh, I got to keep my head here because he's turning away. He's shy. He's a little shy.

[00:26:02] The man, the myth, the legend. The one and only. Wow, this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Can you see him? The man, the myth, though. So right now for the podcast audience, I'm trying to show Johnny's googly eyes. Not too easy, though. Let me see him. There you go. He's being crazy.

[00:26:34] What a cool camera. Hmm? What a cool camera. What a cool little device. I was going to get like a traditional... This job. You know what I mean? And I probably... I don't know. Maybe I should have. I don't know. Who knows? But thanks to you guys, you've turned the thing that films me every day into an entity all its own. And that is way more fun than just having a good camera. You know what I mean? Or having like the best camera or whatever.

[00:27:04] Yeah. Let's move on, shall we? What else are we talking about today? I don't even know. You want to talk about food a little bit? And... And... And... I would like to talk about Easter 1916. Easter 1916 by Yeats was an uprising. It was a poem about an uprising. This is why people should read it this day and age. It's a poem about an uprising in Ireland. Against you-know-who. Our buddies, the English.

[00:27:33] And... You know, it's his take on it. Which is what we pay these guys for. You know what I mean? It's like what we... What you want out of a poet and a writer is their take. You know what I mean? If it's non-fiction, you want their take. If it's fiction, you want them to take you somewhere that you've never thought to go before. That's pretty good.

[00:27:56] But what he talks about in this poem, which is a little lengthy, is... Is feelings good and bad on the uprising. And if you remember like January 6th, if you remember... You know, the statues coming down across the country here in the United States in 2020... You remember sort of that swell of emotion. And it's not...

[00:28:25] That was a good thing. That was a bad thing. You know what I mean? There's more... There's more to it all than that. And it's just cool to sort of see his take on... There's a line at the end of three of the four stanzas that he repeats. Where's the good one? The last two lines in every stanza but one is...

[00:28:52] Transformed utterly, a terrible beauty is born. So in other words, like... You know... Though the poem itself is good... Those last two lines are probably what was in his head the most. He probably built that whole poem off of those two lines. Right? He's looking over his country. Looking over the situation. The uprising. The violence. The revolution.

[00:29:19] Imagining Ireland being free and saying... In this moment, things have transformed utterly. And a terrible beauty is born. Right? A terrible beauty. Because to get to freedom... It took a while. You know... Some terrible things had to happen. If you are too young to remember the IRA... Just check that out.

[00:29:47] Now and in time to be wherever green is worn... Are changed, changed utterly. A terrible beauty is born. Did you guys know that St. Patrick was a slave? Hey, Linky. What's going on? You should have some green on, man. My little puppy. Well, not my little puppy. But my... One of my pit bulls. Link has come to play. Maybe I'll put this tie on him.

[00:30:16] I was going to wear this tie today. I decided against it. I wore the marathon shirt instead. The Shamrock. What was it called? Shamrock. That was it? The Shamrock Marathon? I thought I had a better name than that. So, yeah, man. I'm going to put the L2 Survive comment up... Because I want you guys to go to his YouTube channel. You see it? L2 Survive right there. He does awesome preparedness reviews.

[00:30:45] He does garden tours over there. Back to Eden Garden Tour is really good stuff. He's got a lot of gems hidden in there. Scroll through there. He's a certifiable PBN listener and supporter. Really just someone you should watch. You know, if you listen to us and you like where your mind is when you're done listening to us, like he's in the pocket too.

[00:31:12] But yeah, St. Patrick, he was stolen away from England. Stolen away from England by Irish pirates. About 16 years old. He was enslaved. I think he... I don't remember exactly how long he worked. But he eventually returned home to England. I think we need to stop the follow job. He was eventually returned home to England.

[00:31:41] And what was, you know, the craziest part of his story, of course, is that he decides, like, these people who captured me and enslaved me, I'm going to return and bring the word of God. And he wasn't, like, Anglican or Catholic in those days. I mean, he really was kind of, like... It surprises me that this holiday isn't more celebrated by Christians, you know?

[00:32:11] L2 Survives says he heard that St. Patrick resurrected over 600 people. I never heard that until this moment. Never. But it could be. You never know. You never... It's actually... He's behind me. This is one of his... But... No, I never heard that one. But it is wild because, you know, it was probably not a good time.

[00:32:40] You would think most people in those days would say, I made it back to Mother England. I'm going to stay here. This is going to be, you know, I never want to go to Ireland again. That was hell. 16-year-old, forced labor. He returned with the word of God. And... In something that it is, like... It's a highly Christian thing to do, right? These people, they... Stole me away from my family.

[00:33:09] They put me into forced captivity. And I'm going to return with the message of Jesus and... Chase away the snakes, as they say. Right? Become the patron saint of Ireland. And... It's weird that... More people don't celebrate that aspect of it. You know what I mean? Christians, I mean. It's one of those holidays, I know, that... Can sort of, like, get... Taken away. Sort of get, like...

[00:33:39] All built into green beer and green lakes. And drunk people. So... But understanding what you went through and, you know... Applying it to today. You know, it'd be sort of like... You know... And it probably happens. But it'd be like rabbis from Israel... Preaching to the Palestinians. You know what I mean? A guy who was taken down into the tunnels... Survived. Gets out. Comes back to Israel and decides...

[00:34:08] I'm gonna go back to the Palestinian people... And try to chase away their snakes. Try to help them battle the... Forces of Hamas. Of course, the difference is... You know, you step foot over there. You run the risk of catching the 7-6-2 in the teeth. And then no patron saint, right? Alright, folks. I think we've done it. I think we've done it today. Don't forget...

[00:34:38] Link in the description down below. Go forth and forge. Great show tonight. We're gonna have a blast with Whitney tonight. Okay? Go forth and forge. Trying to get you a better view. Maybe we'll put it up close. Really, in all honesty... I mean, I've read some field guides... Some Peterson field guides. Stuff like that. This is it. You know, this is the top of the heap... In terms of mushroom foraging. If you're gonna get into it...

[00:35:07] It's risky business to some degree. But if you're going to get into it... You need the most information possible. And that book does it better than anybody else. So, check it out. The link in the description down below. Go buy the book. She's good people, man. You'll see tonight. And these are the people you want to support. Right? I think it's 22 bucks. Something like that. 22 bucks. Hardback. You know, paperback. Whatever. Full color. Beautiful. Full. And... Yeah. Enjoy it.

[00:35:37] I'll see you guys at 9pm Eastern Standard Time. It's gonna be a good one. Enjoy your day, man. Come on, man. Go for this moment. Bye. Bye.