Patriot Power Hour #303 - Trump 100 Days; Ration or Ruin Prep

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[00:01:19] We are live, what's happening everybody? What do you want? Banksters here, guess what it is? It's episode of the Patriot Power Hour We had a snafu with the audio there, I swear I had it good but it reset itself Anyway, it is episode 303 of Patriot Power Hour, Ben the Breaker, Banksters here April 29th, 2025 We are going to go through the news blitz as always

[00:01:47] But if you have been paying attention on Prepper Broadcasting Network You might see or heard, I guess more appropriately But we are visual now as well And by the way, I am going to have a video presentation today So go back to Rumble If you are listening to this on the podcast Go back to Rumble and pretty much participate in and watch the video presentation I am going to have here in a few minutes

[00:02:13] But anyway, Rational Ruin has been talked about a bit here on Prepper Broadcasting Network Intrepid Commander and others participating And well today, I am going to go ahead and give you my plan And also show you an Excel spreadsheet Pretty simple but pretty thorough To track my progress And Rational Ruin As a participant, a pretty extreme participant Here is a hint

[00:02:41] I expect to lose between 10 to 11 pounds In a month Now, if my fishing and trapping and gathering go very well Maybe I will only lose 7 or 8 pounds But I am going to lose a lot of weight I am not looking forward to that necessarily But I got a plan I got a tracking system as well So we are going to go through that And of course, the news blitz You know what? I am going to go ahead and just start with the news We will run through the news blitz And in the second half of the show

[00:03:11] After reviewing some articles and what not We will go through the Rational Ruin Spreadsheet Kind of my strategy as well I have a little bit of a strategy And yeah But without further ado Let's go ahead and just hit the news Because there is a lot going on Future Dan Not here today Will be back next week And is fully participating In Rational Ruin by the way So Don't worry Future Dan

[00:03:39] Will have his kind of plan And his thoughts on Rational Ruin Which starts up quite soon But he is not going to be here today He has been updating FutureDanger.com quite a lot though So we have a lot of news to cover Let me go ahead and share screen If y'all For those of y'all that are watching On Rumble YouTube And X And again We put the podcast only on Spreaker But you can go back and check out the archive

[00:04:07] If you want to see some of this Hint, hint The J6 footage Got some good views on that I got a feeling more We want to see that So here's the news blitz Looks like we got some comments as well Let's take a look Good evening Firewolf Forge I know Firewolf Forge is participating in Rational Ruin I've been hearing some of that commentary Wife is worried about it Hey, I am actually relatively concerned about it I think I have a good plan But Number one I don't want to get sick Like run down my immune system That's huge

[00:04:38] Number two I don't want to lose a lot of muscle So those are the two things The actual pain and suffering of it I think I can survive That's half of it But the other half is How can I Use my preps to Mitigate the damage to my body That's how I'm looking at it Part of it's suffering How much can I suffer And Building up to that But Just as much or more is How can I mitigate The suffering with my preps And I think I got a good plan We're going to take a look at that

[00:05:07] Eating bugs I don't know if I'll be doing that In a real situation It might be different But maybe not on day one Let's hit this news though Let's go ahead and start with the economics Not much in terms of news articles Only a couple existing home sales Weakest march since great financial crisis I mean that is important And I've been seeing signs of that around here too Where I live 12 signs that consumers are experiencing far more financial stress

[00:05:37] Than most people realize Looking at the markets It's been relatively flat Over the last week So I don't even have to jump too much into it Oh, I got the paid ad thing here But Bitcoin's at a decent spot 94k Gold back from 3500 This time last week That down quote unquote to 3300 That's not much of a decrease in my book

[00:06:07] But a little bit The stock market's up a bit Has had a few consecutive days up And you know It certainly hasn't been the catastrophe That a lot of folks have been hoping They could pin on Trump And the tariffs And then again the tariffs Will take a while to work their way through the system Won't be easy But point is Yeah Well today by the way First 100 days in office We'll talk and evaluate some of Trump First 100 days

[00:06:36] We've been doing that Every single week though Here on Patriot Power Hour But again the gold 3300 Oil super low All considered Only 60 bucks That's because demand Worried about demand I.e. recession or depression Globally Not just here China in particular It's hurting us It's hurting them Just as bad or worse But yeah Dow Jones Back above 40k I said don't even panic

[00:07:05] Unless it's 35k or below Didn't even get there Back up to 40k So That's really economic news Not much crazy By the way the fourth column Nothing in there Nothing in the health or nature So no major storms No major flooding No major pandemics No major Bird flus No major Solar flares I guess if you live in Spain Or Portugal And your power went out Because you're all based on wind power

[00:07:35] And there was no wind That could be natural news But we live in America So we don't necessarily cover that It is interesting Interesting What happened there though Yeah Be prepared for power outages For a long time Let's just say that No matter where you live Especially Europe Holy cow Let's move on to Geopolitics and security There's actually a fair amount I'll zoom in a little bit

[00:08:06] Democratic representative calls on people To threaten Congress Take to the streets We'll explore that In a couple of these other articles In more detail Five Chinese students Caught spying on National Guard Base In Michigan Foreign black ops confirmed Not just suspected And we have four headlines Under Indo-Pac war starts India and Pakistan We

[00:08:36] You know We're going to deep dive This entire indicator Actually So we'll finish this news blitz But Going back There's some articles You know Back in 2019 In the archive You can see This was flaring up a bit In February 2019 It was pretty bad It looked like But Since COVID There's only been A couple articles And One last October Yeah Only one last October And then

[00:09:05] Here in April 2025 And trust me Future Dan Future Dan Is consistent With his news Sourcing So It's back We'll review that A little bit more Because again Four articles In one week After being dormant Essentially For five Six years That's Something we got To look at So to read Those headlines Pakistan warns Of Active war After India Cancels water Treaty India

[00:09:35] And Pakistan Trade gunfire And build up Militaries After Kashmir Terror attack Second straight Day of that And Really Hopefully This is Bluster But Indian PM As well as Others Been saying Pretty much Bring it on They gave The military The green light To respond So Tit for tat Escalations It's one of the

[00:10:04] Top regions That have been War gamed Into Potential nuclear war Everyone thinks about Like yeah Ukraine Korea Taiwan Those are the three Iran and Israel Okay That's four This is like The fifth of the top five I'm not even gonna say It's the fifth most likely But If you did Like the five flash points Of Thermonuclear Armageddon For the entire Universe Or at least Earth India Pakistan Is in that top five So worth watching I mean Absolutely worth watching

[00:10:34] And worth prepping Best you can And we'll Knock into the Excuse me We'll knock We'll get right into The Liberty And Pretty much Liberty and justice For all Liberty indicators Related to Well I like to think of it As like the The bill of rights Column In a way Whether it's You know Freedom of speech

[00:11:03] Second amendment Whether it's the Fifth amendment Heck Not having Government agents Quartered in your home I think we've even Seen that a couple Times I forgot which Amendment that is But Anyway Here we go This Not literally The bill of rights Column I'm sure future Dan's Cringing But that's how I Kind of think of it In a way So Federal authorities Charge two judges For harboring And aiding the evasion Of illegal aliens Oh yeah

[00:11:33] I'm sure you guys Have seen that Last few days Probably also saw this Epstein victim Dies by suicide Weeks after saying She had just Days to live And by the way Several times Over the last Since Pretty much since This info came out You know she Came out public That she was a Victim She said she's Not suicidal Multiple times Publicly Since she's Come out

[00:12:03] And Yeah Meanwhile Maxwell Epstein's Accomplice Appeals case To the U.S. Supreme Court Like the gall To appeal When you're Scum like Her You're appealing I guess Lawyers do What lawyers Do Someone's Representing her Probably getting Paid a lot I'd be actually Scared to Represent her By the way Probably gonna Be dead too Anyway Democrat Foreign

[00:12:33] Fundraising Targeted for Enforcement By POTUS 47 Those are the Articles We'll dive a Little deeper Firewood Forge On YouTube It looks like He's on YouTube Again you guys Can watch it On YouTube Rumble Or X Or all of them Why not Throw a like If you do Watch on One of Those Helps The algorithm Bring new People to It And you Can chat On any Of those Platforms If you Chat It all Comes To the Host So Not just Myself

[00:13:03] But several Other hosts Here on Prepper Broadcasting Network Live stream Now here On Stream Yards Not just A podcast But a Video With Chat Integrated Chat So Firewood Forge Says We need A lottery For everybody Two Countries Have beef Take Random Citizens With a Random Event This is The twist I really Like here Boxing Chess Rock Paper Scissors Like the Event Is random So it Could be Of intellect

[00:13:32] Of a Game of Intellect Could be Physical Prowess Could be Random Chance That part Is kind Of random And I Like the Random Citizens Too Maybe we'll Do like A best Out of Three You know Three Different Citizens I don't Know if I trust Three Random Americans The way Things are Going In this Country To beat Three Random Chinese

[00:14:02] That's Sad though Right I Gosh I don't Know That's Like That's A great Barometer Now that I think Of it Firewood Forge Like If You're Not Comfortable That Three Random People From Your Country Picked Did Not Have A Good Chance To Beat Another Country Especially If It's Like China Probably Not Very Confident In Your Country And There's Probably

[00:14:33] A And We'll Take A Look At Rational Ruin Preps But First Let's Hit Some Of These Articles I Think Economics We've Already Knocked Out We've Looked At The Prices Is What It Is Home Home Sales Going Down Is Well From The Data I've Seen It's True Number One Number Two I've Been Watching Real Estate For The Last Five Years

[00:15:02] In Certain Areas I've Seen A Lot More Go Up For Sale I've A Lot More Taking Longer To Sell I've Seen A Lot More Price Cuts Now Nothing Crazy I'm Not Seeing 30% Price Cuts Or Decent Properties Staying On

[00:15:34] Other Areas Especially In Areas That Led The 2008 Financial Crisis Like Arizona Florida Texas Certain Areas In Those States In Particular But Other Places Too But Kind Of Those Bubbles Nevada Las Vegas Where They Went Up In Value So Much And They Totally Collapsed With Subprime Bubble Way More Than Other Places Well They Recovered Past That And Are Skyrocketing Have Been But Now We're We are Seeing

[00:16:03] 20 30 Price Cuts But Those 20 30 Price Cuts Are Still More Than COVID Prices So Keep It In Check There's Been So Much In In Not Only Stock Market But Real Estate That 10 23 Cut Is Not As Much As Sounds Like So Anyway I Do Want to See In Particular This Is The Most Actualized Highest Grade Article Of The

[00:16:34] Shuffle University Of Michigan Which By The Way Is One Of The Top Public Universities And They're One Of The Rivals Of My University Purdue University We Have A Lot Of National Or Chinese Nationals That Come To Purdue Definitely A Ton In Michigan Well Five Chinese Graduates Of The University Of Michigan This Ain't Like Community College This Is A Really Really Really Good School Only

[00:17:04] Short Distance From Controversial Chinese Battery Plant Well They Caught Spying On A National Guard Base Yep Conspiracy Making False Statements Destroying Records During The Federal Investigation Destroying Records They Weren't Going Sightseeing And Got Lost And Took Some Selfies On Accident Let's Just Say That By The This Is America's Largest U.S. Guard

[00:17:34] Training Facility It's Not Just An Armory Like The County Armory In A County 5,000 People It's Not That America's Largest U.S. National Guard Training Facility In Grayling Michigan The Students Claim They Are There To Observe A Meteor Shower Their Presence Coincided With Military Exercises In Taiwanese So What What Can I Say They Are In Charged With This May Justice Be Done If They Truly

[00:18:04] Are Innocent I Do Feel Bad For Them I

[00:20:09] Hear

[00:20:40] All All Right

[00:21:10] But What Can You Affect Your Prepared As Plans And Having A Good Relationship With Your Family Friends And God Would Be Also Imperative And Kiss Your Ass Goodbye I Guess Otherwise If There's A Full On Thermonuclear War But We Do Track Indian Pakistani War Because The Knock On Effects To America Because Both Of These Are Heavily Nuclearized Countries That's The Difference This Was

[00:21:40] Columbia Versus What Borders Columbia Like Bolivia If Bolivia And Columbia Were Going At War We Would Not Be Talking About It Right Now This Again A Top Five Flash Point For Global Thermonuclear War India And Pakistan They're Shooting At Each Other Across The Border Hopefully Cooler Heads Will Prevail Keep On Prepping And

[00:22:09] Stuff I'll Say This If We're Going To Time Out Trump 100 Days We Need To See More Now Legally And Lawfully Brought Up On Charges And Hopefully They're Working On Those Cases And It Takes Months Maybe Even Years But They Need To Expedite It But We Need To See Heads Of Rollin Legally And Lawfully For Epstein And For A Lot Of These Child Trafficking And Corruption Is Bad

[00:22:39] Enough If You're Like A Bernie Madoff Type Or You're Scamming Money From An NGO USAID Or Climate Change Scam Climate Green Fund Crap Like That Scamming Billions Of Dollars Like That's Hurting People Like You're Actually Killing People In The Aggregate By Corrupting Society Like That You Are You're Murder In My Book But That's Financial You're Like A Killer By Bookkeeping But In

[00:23:09] Real World It Kills People But You know When You're Actually Harming People In Real Life Especially Children And You're Smuggling Them Or Even Worse With Epstein Like You Tell Me No No One One One One Celebrity Got Caught Up Enough I Mean P Diddy Is About As Closed As Gotten But That's Still Far Away From Epstein Even Though It's Probably In A Same Web I'm Sure Anyway I

[00:23:39] Wasn't Expecting Bill Gates Or Bill Clinton To Get You Know Taken Out By The Epstein Release Or Something By The Trump Administration But At At Least A Level Or Two Below We Get Like A B List Actor Like That Was Good Friends Of Tom Hanks But Not Tom Hanks And At Least Get That So That Part Of The Trump Score Card Still TBD Because

[00:24:12] People Need To Go In Jail For Real So Anyway I Think Oh Federal Authorities Charging The Two Judges We Did Talk About That Or No We Did Not Talk About That Yet It Did Happen A Few Days Ago I Guess Friday Time Flies Today Is Tuesday April 29th But Those Two Judges Arrested Look At That Yikes I Don't Even Look At Them

[00:24:41] Necessarily Because It Makes Me Bias Against Them Because I Can Just See That They're Bad People Usually Intuition But I Don't I Rather Just Like Judge XYZ Did ABC And I Can Be Like Okay Do I Agree With ABC Or Not I Don't Want To Be Biased By Looking At Their Ugly Mug But There's The Other Judge Joel

[00:25:11] Can And His Wife Nancy Harboring Members Of A Venezuelan Gang Nice People Nice People Real Nice People Firewolf Forces Not Anyone Disappointed I Know Come Come On You Think By Day 200 At Least A B List Actor Or Actress Will Be At Least Charged With Some

[00:25:41] Sort Child Trafficking Thing Like We Haven't Even Seen Remember Harvey Weinstein Remember Harvey That Was Way Bigger Bust Than More People Busted Than This What The Hell You Know Anyway That Is A Disappointment And Back To Oh Yeah There's The Other Judge Yep Yep Good Guy Good Guy So Let's Go Ahead If I

[00:26:11] Can Actually Transition Well I Think I Hit All The Main Articles Let's See Yep This Is About An Average News Blitz I Think A Articles Couple Topical Couple In Between Nothing In The Health Or Natural Indicators Is Kind Of An Odd It You See That Remember When COVID Hit Had to Be Four Straight

[00:26:41] Years Where There Was Just At Least Five Articles Every Single Week But Not Right Now Not Even A Reddit Mod Has Been Caught Up Fire Wolf That Sometimes The Absence Of Evidence Is Evidence Itself I Don't Think That Holds Up In The Court A While But Like I Don't Know Sometimes I Think Of It

[00:27:17] That Something Is Over There Next To It Instead It's Like The Lack Of Something The Lack Of Signal Proves Something Just Because If Nothing's Happening There's A Reason Nothing's Happening Is How To Break It Down I Guess My Astronomy Analogy Was Horrible Sounded So Good In

[00:27:46] Breaker Style Again Rational Runes Going To Be A Four Week 28 Day Exercise Where We Will Have Minimal Rations And We Will Have The Ability To Forage And Hunt Legally And Lawfully Can't Just Go Shoot A Deer Out Of Deer Season For Example I'm Not Going To In A Real Situation I

[00:28:16] Here Before I Ramble Too Much Hopefully You Guys Can See This I Tested It Before So I Think You Can That's What You Know There's A lot Of Reason Like Having Future Dan On The Show But If Only That I Know That I'm Coming Through To Everybody So Shout Out To Firewood Forge For Interaction With Me Today That Way I Know My Audio Is

[00:28:49] So Okay Hopefully You Can See This I'm Not Going To Go Deep Into This It Looks Complicated But I Promise You It Is Not By The Way I Can Make This Spreadsheet The Template Of It Available To Anybody Whether That's You Firewood Forge Or Anybody Listening To This Look In The Description Of This Podcast Or Wherever You're Listening Or Watching This You'll See My Twitter As Well As My Email You Reach Out To Me And Say Hey Send Me That Excel File I Could Do It Otherwise You Could Easily

[00:29:19] Make Your Own Equivalent Either Simpler Than This Or So Again I'll Try To Be Nerdy I'll Try To Go Fast This Table Right Here Is Simply Every Meal That You

[00:29:49] Eat So Normally You Would Have Two Three Maybe Four Rows A Day For Example And These Are Made Up But Let's Say For Breakfast I Had Scrambled Eggs Eight Eggs Fried In Butter I Know I Loved It And Then Later In The Day I Had A Chicken Salad With Some Olive Oil And Then I Had Some Banana Chips That Were Long Term Storable Anything That's Storable I Consider At Least One Year Expiration Date So You Can Buy Storable Food At The Store

[00:30:19] At The Grocery Store Or Of Course You Buy Long Term Again This Is Made Up This Is Stuff I Did Eat And These Are Pretty Close To The Actual Numbers So All Of These Were For April 28 Yesterday So These Are All Individual Meals All With Individual Calories Fat Grams Carb Grams Protein I Didn't Get Into Vitamins Or Any

[00:30:49] Micronutrients Like This Is Enough You Can Add Comments If You Want I Will At Some Point Again This Is Fake So I Can Illustrate It But I'm Going To Keep This Log Very Detailed For The Entire Ration Or Ruin And We're Going To Review It Week By Week And See How My Stats Are Looking All Right So On This Imaginary April 28th I Ate All These Calories And Fats Now The Best Way To Sum It Up Is Right On

[00:31:19] Over Here I Created A Real Simple Pivot Table You Know About Excel At All Use A Pivot Table To Roll Things Up So Here's The Roll Up You Can See On My Screen April 28th That Day I Had 2,154 Calories 130 Grams Were From Fat 28 From Carbs Because I Been Mostly Keto Or Almost Keto Most Days And 218 Grams Of Protein Because One Of Those Meals Was

[00:31:48] Like A Pound Of Steak And It A Of Fat And That's How This Thing Works I Just Want To Show You How This Works Now For Today I Haven't Eaten Yet This Is True I Fasting Today So Today April 29th I Have Zero Calories Zero Fat Zero Zero Zero No Protein Shake Either So

[00:32:18] All Zero That Rolls It Up To Here April 29th No Calories Nothing Now Hypothetically I Put Some Hypothetical Ones Here All Right I'm Saying Tomorrow Hypothetically I Eat A Fair Amount Of Food Actually A Lot Tomorrow And That Translate To 2700 Calories In Theory With Tons Of Protein And Then Theoretically I Fast The First Few Days Of Uh Ration

[00:32:48] Or Ruin I'm Going To Have Now I Will Be On Some Of These Days Having One Protein Shake That's About 225 Calories And About 40 Grams Of Protein But Not Every Day That I Fast But Some Of Them But Some Days That I Fast I Will Do A True Fast Like I Doing Today No Food No Shake And

[00:33:18] Summarizes How Many Total Calories How Many Total Grams Of Fat I Had For All Those Days Right Now Don't Want Don't Get Lost If This Is Too Complicated It Looks Scary But All That Data We Just Talked About I Bring It In It Automatically Does It In The Spreadsheet I Bring It In To This Other Table That Summarizes Not Only My Calories That I Ate But The Calories That I'm Burning

[00:33:48] I Want To Know How Many Calories Are In How Many Are Out So For This Table You I've Calculated That I'm A Relatively Big Guy A Little Bit Of Fat But I'm Let's Say I'm Big Boned I Played Offensive Line And Defensive Line In Football In High School And Even If I was At My

[00:34:18] Absolute Best Shape I'd Be Good Shape Might Only Need 1700 Calories So There Is Some Variance Mine Is A Little Higher 2350 Is What I've Calculated So That's That Now Additional Calorie Burn Yesterday I Did Go Run The Hill And That's About 300 Calories About Three Miles 500 Foot Change In Elevation

[00:34:48] And I Put Like A 30 Lound Pack On Run With The Dogs At At Least 300 Calories Probably More So Yesterday I Had I Burned 2350 Calories Baseline I Burned An Additional 300 Calories With Exercise Now Most Days I'm Going To Have Zero Calories Burned On Exercise But So Maybe I'll Go For

[00:35:23] Remember All Those Calories I Calculated A Minute Or Two Ago That Rolled Up Into This Table I Know A Lot Of You Are Listening You Can't See This Table But All Those Calories I Rolled Up Earlier At The Start Of This Presentation Are

[00:35:53] Maybe 100 200 300 Extra Calories Burned You Know If I Decided To Hike To NBC Guys Place 12 Mile Hike A Lot Of Elevation That Be Like A Thousand Plus Calories So If I Was In A Real SHTF Situation I Need To Hike To Jones Dave Jones Homestead And Back I Had To Budget 2 3 Thousand Calories That's A Lot Okay So Anyway These Last Couple Things There's

[00:36:23] These Are The Last Measurements I Promise Energy Levels I Want To Give A Subjective How Do I Feel In The Morning And How Do I Feel In The Afternoon Or Evening So If I You Know Between One To Five So Yesterday I Felt Like A Five In The Morning I I Feel Out Of Today I Feel Great Honestly When I Fast I Usually Feel Really

[00:36:53] Good The First Day Or Two Five Out Of Five Then Hypothetically My Energy Levels Were Dropping This Is What I'm Kind Of Expecting Hypothetically So I Measure Those I Got To Make Sure Every Day I'm In The Morning And The Evening How Do I Feel One To Five That's It You Could Do A Whole Like 20 Page Survey On How You Feel Every Day If You Wanted To We Don't Want To Get That Crazy Weight What's My Morning

[00:37:28] Then In The Evening So If You Do One Of Each Day And You Start Rolling It Up In A Spreadsheet Whether It's A Spreadsheet Or Your Own Homemade Spreadsheet There You Go Finally Again Here's All Those Calories Fat Carbs And Proteins That We Talked About Earlier So You

[00:37:58] Another Nifty Way To Summarize All That Data But What I Really Want To Show You Now It's Called Info And Assumptions Baseline Calories I put My Age 40 Years Old My Weight At

[00:38:28] Baseline Metabolism 2350 Calories Per Day I Just This Is Kind Of

[00:39:01] A Baseline Or Again This Is A Guestimate My Point Is I'm Going To Have About 2000 Calories Worth Of Rations And Then The Other 400 Calories That I'm Going To Have Only On My Ration Days Are Going To Taking

[00:39:31] Cod Liver Oil As Healthy Fat Because Let's Just Say Storable Food Has No Healthy Fats In It Which Is A Huge Problem But I Have A Lot Of Canned Tuna But Even Better For Fat Purposes Canned You Guys Should Do This By The Way Prepper Tip Get A Lot Of Canned Cod Liver Oil Or You Can Tastes

[00:40:01] Really Good I'm Not A Huge Liver Guy But Anyway My Point Is That Has So Much Great Fat For You And It's About Three Four Hundred Calories So I'll Have About Two Thousand Calories Of Freeze Dried You Rice And Soup And Crap That's All Sodium And Carbs But On Those Days I Will Also Have One Can Of That Canned Fish And Oil And All That Three Or Four Hundred Calories All Is Good And By The The Cod

[00:40:31] Liver Has No Protein Or Carbs So It's Actually All Fat Whereas Canned Salmon And Other Fish Has A Lot Of Protein So I'm Not Really Getting More Protein From This It's All About The Healthy Fat So That's One Thing I'm Doing On The Fasting Days Which Are The Four Other Days Of The Week I Will Be This Is Actually These Numbers Were Wrong I Got To Recalculate It I Made The Wrong Numbers

[00:41:02] I Will Be Having One Protein Shake That's About 227 Calories 225 I Believe It Says On The Bottle A Day So That Will Give Me 42 Grams Of Protein And This Is Pretty Much Just So I Get A Little Bit Of

[00:41:35] This Is That It's This One That's Wrong Right 30 20 There We Go Ah My Numbers Were Off There We Go Okay Okay I'm Expecting To Lose Like Nine Or Ten Pounds Not 11 Pounds So That Makes A Difference It's Still A Lot Of Weight I Have A Little Bit Of Fat We Talked About This On Patriot Power Hour Last Year And I've Talked About It As I've Practiced Fasting The Longest I've Gone Is About 110 Hours I Couldn't Make It To 120 But

[00:42:05] I've Done I've Only Done That Once But I've Done Several 72 Hour Fast And Like 30 Or 40 48 Hour Fast So Anyway I think I'll Be Okay With That Part Of It We'll Find Out But Anyway On My Eating Days Not My E-teens Day On My Eating Days I'm Going To Have About Over This 28 Day Period Okay Over This Entire Challenge I'm Going To Ingest On Those Eating Days

[00:42:34] 29 400 Calories From The Fish Oil As Well As From Mostly The Storable Food On The Fasting Days This Is Just From The Protein Shake By The

[00:43:26] and I don't really catch any fish, I could lose nine plus pounds. In this game, you don't want to lose weight because we're preppers, right? You don't want to lose weight if stuff hits the fan. You want to keep your weight mostly. Obviously, you don't want to be flabby. But, yeah, you don't want to be burning all your calories. This is only one month. Imagine the power's out for six months and you're on your rations for six months. Before you know it, you're losing 50 pounds. People do that. I mean, it's not great for you.

[00:43:55] But the gulag and, you know, concentration camps, people lose 50, 60, 80 pounds and they die eventually. They can keep you alive with much less calories than we're doing now. It's kind of what I'm going to tell myself when I'm in a dark place. This isn't even that bad. If I was in a FEMA prison camp right now, I'd be a lot worse than this. On the other hand, I don't want to, like, totally nuke myself. So, again, I'm going to have a little bit of calories, mostly protein, on those off days.

[00:44:25] A couple other things I'm going to do here. Let me check out chat here real quick. Sloan 6. What's happening, Sloan? Do you get hangry? You know what? That's a great question. I've found that if I start, if I eat that day, like, let's say, how do I explain this? If I go all day without eating, I might get a little bit grumpy, but not too bad.

[00:44:54] If I eat in the morning and don't eat it all the rest of the day, then I get grumpy at night because I already ate. I kind of broke the seal. Remember in college, I was like, don't break the seal. For me personally, I don't know if this is true for everybody or, you know, every individual is different, but when I break the seal eating, then I want to eat more, and if I don't, I get a little annoyed.

[00:45:21] Now, that's on, like, a one-day, two-day, three-day period. Now, when I'm on, like, day 20, I'll probably be not very happy, but that goes halfway in with my strategy. On those days that I eat, I'm only going to be eating, like, about this time of the day, maybe a little earlier. So it's 748 Eastern right now where I'm at, and I'll probably eat between, like, 6 to 9, or maybe 6.30 to 10.

[00:45:52] So I'm going to eat all my meals and be happy and then go to sleep because, by the way, when you're hungry, if you can sleep, sleeping is the best thing. Like, when I'm fasting, sleeping is your best friend, but again, sometimes you wake up and you're like, oh, your body's like, oh, I didn't have to digest 3,000 calories yesterday. I feel great. Wake up, and you're like, well, I want to sleep because it makes time go faster because I don't have any food. So good luck.

[00:46:20] That mind game, I'm telling you, the mind games is half the battle. So what else will I do that you consider it cheating, but I do not consider this cheating. Actually, let me get back to the chat. I love you guys are participating in chat. Can't ignore you. I'm not trying to, I promise. Back to Firewall Forge. She says, vitamin pills. Yes, I will be doing multivitamins. So you already beat me to the punch there. You have a little bit more fat percentage than me and a little bit older, but you can just plug and play with your stats. I know I need it.

[00:46:49] I'll pretty much get it to you, or you can just use it right off here. But I think that's pretty similar. And again, imagine you're actually, and this actually gives some, I know I'm bouncing all over the place, guys. But there's some leeway with this column, additional calories burned. That's why I put it there. If you are chopping wood all day long, because the power's out and it's freezing, for example, you might put 600 calories there.

[00:47:18] If you go on a hike or you're bugging out, imagine you're bugging out or I don't know. Point is, you can put a lot of extra calories in there and it'll really affect. I know if stuff was really hitting the fan, I probably wouldn't be sitting around the whole day watching Netflix, right? I don't know what I'd be doing, but it'd be taking calories or I'd have to make sure it didn't. You know, it's like we purposefully use these calories, but I would be doing stuff.

[00:47:48] The lights were out for multiple days, even though, hey, maybe I should be conserving my calories. I also need to be doing things to further my survival. So anyway, there will be a couple of challenges we do that burn 500 to 1,000 calories. Then we're really going to be feeling like crap. Let me tell you. So, uh, fire forces, fish oils, belch. I will say this. I only eat fish oil when I eat other food with it.

[00:48:15] And also there's certain types that have less fishy taste to it. Some of them are really nasty burps. The ones I got and actually the cod liver I have, I don't really get too much, but yeah. Don't kiss your wife or girlfriend or husband or boyfriend or whatever. Or don't even, your dog will love the smell. So actually sometimes I'll pour a little bit of the oil into their kibble or other food. And, uh, the dogs love, love that by the way. So butter. Yes. Fire before. I eat a lot of butter as well.

[00:48:45] Um, but I'm not going to use butter. Okay. Here's a distinction. And this is, let's get back again. I know I'm bouncing all over the place. I am taking supplements, but I'm only supplementing with things that are shelf stable, long-term shelf stable one plus year. I'm going to hold myself to that if at all possible. And these are things that I have purchased and put in my storage before this year.

[00:49:09] Like everything I'm going to supplement with the multivitamins, vitamin D, electrolyte, the protein shakes, the cod liver and oil. I bought all that stuff in 2024 or even earlier. I think all, most of it in 2024, but maybe some in 2023. Cause like the multivitamins that I'm still working through and I rotate my prepper pantry, the stuff will last like two years, three years. And in a pinch, it would last a lot longer. Shelf stable powder for multivitamin.

[00:49:39] The vitamin D, um, maybe not as long, but it was still last probably about a year. The electrolyte will last three plus years. These protein shakes last six months to a year. They're shelf stable, pre-packaged, but you can also get obviously protein powder, make your own shakes. I'm not doing that in this case. These proteins expire in like six months, not one year. So that's a weakness there, but I'm just still going to use them probably, but you can get shelf stable protein powder last a year or two.

[00:50:08] And yeah, the canned fish and cod liver and stuff that lasts like three, four years. What doesn't butter, butter won't keep, but what would, and you can substitute with potentially coconut oil. I have a lot of coconut oil in my prepper pantry, olive oil. So anyway, these are some supplements, but they're all going to be supplemental things that are already part of my prepper plans pretty much.

[00:50:30] Um, now what sucks for me is I don't have a garden and I'm renting a place right now and I'm really close to buying a homestead, but I'm waiting. I'm building up my down payment. Plus also hoping prices go down a little can't wait forever. Anyway, well, I like where I live a lot, but there's just such a huge forest canopy.

[00:50:58] I don't get direct sunlight during the summer. And I'm also on the kind of on the Southern or not Southern, more like Western side of the mountain. So I don't get great direct sun can't grow tomatoes. Can't I can grow a little bit of stuff and I do, but not much point is I love gardening and I've done it a lot at other places I've lived. I don't have a salad to supplement with. I don't have a bunch of tomatoes. Not necessarily.

[00:51:27] Those would be ready right now in the middle of May, but I know NBC guy for sure, but definitely intrepid commander as well. Both of them got great gardens almost year round. So they're going to supplement some with those fresh greens. That's something I really wish I could supplement with. I'm not going to cheat and like eat a salad every week or something. I, you know, that's one of the hardest things for me is I've turned my diet around the last

[00:51:55] five to 10 years, definitely the last 10, but even the last five, I've improved my diet so much from when I was, when I was like, you know, 15, 20, 25, I never eat processed food anymore. I never eat all this crap and for a whole month, I'm not going to have any salads. Like I feel like I'm going to die, but I'll be all right. Anyway, that's that. Oh, that goes, you know, finally though, potential supplements, kefir, sauerkraut probiotics. I think I will eat some of those.

[00:52:23] I do have some of those and those keep for a while. Um, not the kefir, not kefir. We'll keep like three or four months though. The sauerkraut. It's, you know, when you, once you open it, you got to eat it pretty quick. I don't have any probiotics. I'm worried about my guts getting all jacked up from eating all these carbs. Cause tons of, I don't have it here. I don't have like an inventory of the food, but trust me, it's like all starches, all high sodium, probably tons of GMO and stuff.

[00:52:53] It's going to mess me up. So I'm going to probably have to eat some sauerkraut. I don't know. We'll see. Sloan says, I'm always hangry. It's all about your blood sugar levels. If you can keep a low, you know, it's all about insulin resistance and blood sugar. It won't go down a diatribe, but if your blood sugar is going up and down and up and down, you get more hangry. So that's the key.

[00:53:25] How long term are the shakes? Firewolf asked that actually. So you're already, you're ahead of the game. You asked these questions. I missed it on chat and I already covered it, but you asked before I covered it. So you're on top of it, my man. The shakes, the ones I got were like four, they expire in October. That's early October. And it's pretty much like I got them in the middle of the shakes. I got this year.

[00:53:51] I got them like six weeks ago, but not for ration of ruin. I just got them. And they last, I think they last like five months, six months, maybe I would not want to eat, you know, press the expiration date on, on those shakes. Let's see what else we got. Yeah. Like getting woken up from a nap. You're not done with. That's what it's like. It's like, I don't know. And I've done this before.

[00:54:19] Not a long term strategy though is if I can only sleep like two or three hours, I just don't sleep. Just power through the whole day, stay up like 34 hours and then just sleep 12 hours. And then hopefully you'll be back on schedule. Especially if you got bad jet lag, you got, if you got to travel like four or five, six plus time zones. When you're flying back to America or whatever, just stay up for like 30, 35, 40 hours.

[00:54:49] You're going to be a zombie, but just do it. And then just sleep 12 hours, two days in a row. You'll be cured. At least I am. Because if I just try to sleep a few hours or I'm like all jacked up from jet lag, I'm going to be way worse than if I just didn't sleep. That only works for like a couple of days. Same thing. That's why I'm going to test out these strategies. I've done some fasting, but I've never done like. A month long one where.

[00:55:13] Yeah, there's a few times a week where you can eat, but it's really just like a long fast with a couple small breaks in it. If you look at the big time calories. Last thing. I made some cool graphs. They're not as cool as they will be when it's all like said and done. But I swear guys, this will look really cool with the real data. After I got 28 days plus of data. This graph right here. It's the calorie deficit.

[00:55:42] So obviously red means deficit. Green means surplus. Remember on this day, April 30th, which is tomorrow. So hypothetically, I was going to have more calories than I burned. So I was going to have a 423 calorie surplus. But all these other days is a negative deficit, of course. So when I have a lot of data points on this, it'll be pretty cool to see how that turns out. Here's some weights.

[00:56:10] Now, these are similar, but again, hypothetical weight. I pretended that I waited in the morning and the evening each of these days. Again, this will go all the way through the end of Ration and Ruin at the end of May. Here's the graph. It already looks pretty cool, right? So the orange is my evening weight over time. And the blue is my morning weight. Again, I don't know about you.

[00:56:36] I usually weigh a couple pounds less in the morning before I eat and before I drink a lot of water and coffee and stuff. But even if I drink a bunch of water and coffee, if I didn't eat, I'm usually at least less than the night before. So anyway, that'll be interesting to see how that works. It'll be very up and down and up and down and up and down. But with the calorie deficit I'm going through, I'm expecting to lose minimum five pounds consistently.

[00:57:07] I might even run some regressions for you guys. Maybe I'll crack open my old basic statistics and find out some standard deviations and all types of fun regressions and R squared and all this other crap. Probably not necessary. But was this spreadsheet necessary? Probably not either. But it's pretty cool looking. It's going to be really useful. And I'm probably going to parlay this into like an actual tracker for my life go forward.

[00:57:37] And I'm not trying to kill myself with starvation and malnutrition. Last one, I think, of the graphs. No, two more graphs real quick. And it's based off this table to the left. My energy ratings. So in theory, from one to five is the orange is the afternoon or the evening. Blue is the morning. I'm not a morning person.

[00:58:02] I'm almost always feeling worse in the morning than the evening. Just, I guess I'm lazy. But that'll be, you know, again, these are hypothetical numbers. But I'm going to be as fair and accurate as I can when I record these. So we'll see if my energy levels kind of average. You know, the first week, maybe my energy levels will average a 4.2. Then it drops to a 3.8. Then it drops to a 2.2. And I'm really hurting. Then maybe in that fourth week, it goes up to a 3. Because I'm kind of used to it.

[00:58:33] Or maybe it goes up to a 3. Because I'm eating Dave Jones's freeze-dried food. And it's way better quality than the other stuff. That might be part of it. We're leaving his for last. Because we think it's going to be the best. Last one. Protein, protein, protein. This is in particular for Future Dan. But really anybody doesn't want to lose a lot of muscle no matter what. Especially if stuff's hitting the fan.

[00:59:05] So for me, I made a goal of 150 grams of protein per day. Now, a lot of days, especially when I run the hill or lift weights, I want more like 200 or 250 grams of protein, right? But guess what? But today, I'm not eating at all. And this is a real number for today. I'm having zero grams of protein today.

[00:59:32] That puts me in a 150-gram protein deficit for today. Now, tomorrow, I'll eat a lot. But it won't make up for all of it. But look at May. Even with the protein shake of like 42 grams of protein, I'm going to be having a 100-gram protein deficit. Then another day of 100 grams. And then another day. And most days, even with the protein shake, and the days that I'm eating the supplemental food or storable food, it doesn't have that much protein.

[01:00:03] I might get like 50 grams of protein from the storable food and 40 from the shake. So I might be at 90. But again, my goal is 150. So my best day, I might be at 90 grams of protein. And my worst day is I could be at zero or maybe 40. I'm going to be burning muscle. It's going to be bad. Now, I better be good at fishing. And at least one day a week, I'm hoping I hit 150 grams of protein

[01:00:28] because I have a pound of fish flesh, cooked flesh, 16 ounces of cooked fish. If I can get that once a week, which would be two or three fish, decent-sized fish. Not a huge fish. If I get a huge fish, that'd be awesome. I'm going to be eating some catfish, some big old catfish. I'll be fine with that. I need to get my 150 grams of protein.

[01:00:54] So anyway, the 150 grams is kind of baseline of what I want for my real life minimum. Like Red Alert is 100 grams or less protein. Like I know I'm burning muscle even if I'm sitting on my ass all day. So again, that's why I'm having a protein shake most days because I at least need to get like 40 grams because if I go a whole month with zero, if 16 out of the 28 days I have zero protein, I'm not going to die.

[01:01:23] But not a good idea. Just not a great idea. So anyway, that's it. There you go. I hope you guys enjoyed the nerd in me. I am the banks of breaker. I do love spreadsheets. I hope you all enjoyed. James Walden's in the house. The graphs make it fire with Forge. This is my question. Should I start with the graphs and make everyone like, oh, the graphs are so cool. Or end with a bang at the end. You know? It'd be like, this all leads up to the graphs, really.

[01:01:53] Maybe I should have shown everyone the graphs and been like, look how cool they are. And then let me show you the guts. But I wanted to show, I like to show the guts first. But, you know, the reason I wanted to show the guts is because you guys can follow along and do it yourself. Or, you know, I'll do this. I am going to send this to Intrepid Commander. I'm going to send it to NBC guys. They just want to take a look at it. I'm going to send it, of course, to Future Dan. And any of you out there that want to hit me up on Twitter

[01:02:21] or X, Bankster Breaker on X. And or my email. I believe both my X handle as well as email are in the description of this podcast. Reach out to me. I'll send you this file. I have a few more tweaks I want to do. But I can pretty much delete just a little bit of this data. But keep some of the formulas. And you can literally just add. Pretty much you need to. This is what you need to do if you wanted to make this work for you. And again, you don't have to do this.

[01:02:50] You could just use pencil and paper and keep it even simpler than this. I often do that. But this is a good reason to do this. What you need to do. What you need to be responsible for as a grown adult. You need to accurately charge everything or track everything you eat. That's a pain in the ass. That's like the most annoying thing about dieting and tracking things. I don't even track much in my normal life, honestly.

[01:03:19] I feel it out at this point. I'm so in tune with my body. But guess what? The one good thing about fasting is you only have to put one thing in. Fast. I fasted today. Or I had fasted and I had a shake today. And that's it. But if you do eat a bunch of stuff, you know, you got to keep track of it. Keep track of the portions and the calories. Pain in the ass. So, if you fill out this orange little table here. Pink or whatever color it is. All you got to do is fill out that info.

[01:03:48] Everything else auto-populates. This part auto-populates. This part auto-populates. All the calories, fat, carbs, protein auto-populates from what you just entered. So, you don't have to do it twice. You do, as a responsible adult, need to track your energy in the morning and your track energy in the afternoon as well as your weight in the afternoon and the evening. The rest of this will calculate itself. It'll, well,

[01:04:16] once you set your baseline calories, it'll pull that into there for each day. Your additional calorie burned, I'll have it as zero as default, but if you just put in a number, it'll automatically track. And this calorie surplus and deficit automatically calculates. It takes your baseline calories and that, bam. It automatically calculates. So, why do a pencil and paper and do math by hand when you can have a spreadsheet do it? And when you had me create the spreadsheet for you,

[01:04:47] you can get your own cool graphs. Anyway, that's about all I got for the day, folks. I'll definitely be looking on my email and looking at Twitter. X, for anybody who requests this spreadsheet, I'll send it out to the guys. And let's see. Let me double check. The other chat. I didn't miss it on that. I like the sound of it. Woof! I will do it for sure.

[01:05:18] Two and a half miles of up and down the ladder. Legs feel good. I went to work for my workout. Exactly. Well, that's a great point. I'm going to be working my normal job this whole time and everybody else will too. Now, I'm a desk worker, so my biggest calories is picking up the phone and yelling at someone. I'm a very nice and professional worker. But yeah, I don't burn any calories working. But a lot of people burn several hundred calories a day just working.

[01:05:47] So you need to add that in. You need to take account for that for sure. So what's a light? Oh, where's my lightning address? Holy cow! Fire will forge. Let me... I'll get you that. Send me the request through the, you know, X or email or whatever. I'll respond with a lightning address. You don't have to send me any sats. But I do appreciate that. That's awesome. I didn't know you were that into Bitcoin. Holy cow.

[01:06:17] Holy cow. I don't have my lightning address on hand, like, to just throw it at you. I don't even want you to send me any sats unless you just really want to strengthen the Bitcoin network. Then I'll take a few. But no, that's awesome. I do like that. And Firewolf, this seems like something I will add to the Prepper Fit and Health side. Exactly. Perfect, James. I was actually thinking, like, I'm going to use this for my own purposes after Rational Ruin. And all of you

[01:06:46] are free to use this. This literally took me, I'd say, half an hour yesterday and about an hour today. So 90 minutes of my time. A little bit of time. Free use. Use it for PBN. Use it for Prepper Fit. Definitely. Use it for yourself. Totally can be used for stuff that's not Rational Ruin. And you could add stuff to it, too. If you know a little bit about Excel, you could totally add additional shit. But that's about as complicated as I want to get. I'm like, all right.

[01:07:16] That's already good enough. All right, folks. PBN Family's no joke. I agree. Love being here. Guys, I got to get out of here. It's been a great show. The news was interesting. The Rational Ruin, I'm pumped up for it. And that's about all I got to say for the night. Oh, my gosh. I'm a little nervous, a little excited. Looking forward to I'm looking forward to losing a little weight. It's a challenge all around.

[01:07:47] It's a challenge all around. I'm trying to mitigate the damage, though. So I need to hunt and trap and fish legally and lawfully. Like, there's no motivation like that to go fishing. Let me tell you. All right, guys. I'll catch you later. I'm out of here. Future Dan and I will be back next week and we'll be talking about Rational Ruin. And then, yeah, James, by the way, if you're still there, I've heard you talk about how we'll do maybe a weekly summation

[01:08:16] or a weekly report. Whether that's on Friday or Saturday, we do a quick thing. I should be available for most of those if we're doing them as a group. I'll also do my own daily audio cash here and there. And then definitely future Dan and I will talk about this on the show every week. So catch you guys later. Ben the Breaker Banksters signing off. Thank you.