PBN Daily News: Front Yard Medicine, UK Rains, Mushashi

[00:00:02] We are your lizard overlords.

[00:00:14] Stop listening to these preppers.

[00:00:18] Eat your crickets.

[00:00:23] Fight in the streets.

[00:00:26] Own nothing and love it.

[00:00:37] PBM Daily News, welcome.

[00:00:39] Monday, beginning of a new week.

[00:00:42] Started rough.

[00:00:43] Contracted a bit of pink eye from my youngest and his friends over there at the elementary

[00:00:48] school.

[00:00:49] Head pounding, all that good stuff on a Monday morning.

[00:00:53] I thought the raspy commander voice was going to go away but apparently through this

[00:01:00] allergy season or whatever is going on it's here to stay.

[00:01:05] So if you like raspy commander get used to them.

[00:01:07] I don't know how long it's going to be for but it is what it is.

[00:01:12] Members posted today did a little front yard medicine.

[00:01:17] Front yard medicine, common plantain medicinal compress for the eye.

[00:01:25] So literally recorded the video on my front steps, walked out into the front yard, made

[00:01:30] medicine.

[00:01:31] That's in Bushcraft for Preppers.

[00:01:34] Our latest addition to our video series Bushcraft for Preppers.

[00:01:39] A lot of people talk about foraging and common plantain and all that kind of stuff.

[00:01:46] If you are not a member you can take our, what is it, how to be a forager or you

[00:01:50] are a forager, whatever it is down there at pbnfamily.com you can take that course

[00:01:55] and it focuses a lot on the concept of going full circle to be a forager.

[00:02:01] Not just being able to identify plants, not being able to tell the difference between

[00:02:06] dangerous lookalikes or all that kind of stuff.

[00:02:10] It's a full circle thing if you want to make it into a skill that you rely on.

[00:02:16] The importance of trying these things now guys, oh my god, you don't want to find

[00:02:22] out you are deathly allergic to common plantain the moment you stick a compress

[00:02:28] in your eye.

[00:02:30] That's already affected right in a in an shtf scenario.

[00:02:35] But that video is up there for the members.

[00:02:38] If you are interested in becoming a member, clear your schedule.

[00:02:43] There's so much freaking information at pbnfamily.com now it is it's

[00:02:48] outstanding.

[00:02:49] I mean it is a I didn't set out to create we didn't set out to create a

[00:02:54] prepping resource that pbnfamily.com has become.

[00:02:58] But since we took our videos and our efforts away from Patreon and stuff like

[00:03:04] that, we've had to organize videos and organize content a little better over

[00:03:09] there and we created an entire website just for the members.

[00:03:12] That's pbnfamily.com.

[00:03:14] To listen to the podcasts you go to prep or broadcasting.com.

[00:03:17] But PB the membership became so swollen with videos and stuff that we

[00:03:22] decided let's break it up into series.

[00:03:25] Right. So there's about five distinct series now.

[00:03:29] And then there's also a bunch of random membership content and podcast

[00:03:34] videos.

[00:03:35] Then we also have broken down into master classes and a very specific

[00:03:43] a very specific bug out series, six one hour episode, six hours in total

[00:03:49] bug out start to finish.

[00:03:51] If you're actually thinking about bugging out, you need to listen to that.

[00:03:55] It's not a it's not a verification.

[00:03:57] It's not a confirmation by a series for you to listen to and go, I knew

[00:04:01] I was right.

[00:04:02] You know what I mean?

[00:04:02] It's a it's a tough series and it'll make you think and it might

[00:04:05] make you wind up saying, you know what?

[00:04:07] I need it.

[00:04:08] I need a different plan.

[00:04:10] I need a better plan.

[00:04:11] Something along those lines.

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[00:04:17] If you struggle to stay on task as I do.

[00:04:23] Tons of stuff, man, discounts, all the goodies, all the goodies,

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[00:04:43] Tremendous amounts of content.

[00:04:44] That's not even that's not even taking into account community.

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[00:04:52] going on over there.

[00:04:55] So yeah, PBN family dot com.

[00:04:58] Check it out.

[00:04:59] Do not delay.

[00:05:01] The rains are coming.

[00:05:04] It is going to be raining today.

[00:05:07] So what else?

[00:05:10] Great shows over the weekend.

[00:05:12] Great shows in the.

[00:05:14] In the near future.

[00:05:16] We got some great guests coming up, by the way.

[00:05:18] We have DJ Cooper is going to be on the 13th.

[00:05:23] I have no idea what I'm doing for Preppers Live tonight.

[00:05:25] Not even the slightest.

[00:05:26] I may reach out to Dave Jones, see what he's got going on.

[00:05:29] He's been all over lately.

[00:05:31] DJ Cooper, prolific and successful Prepper author, fiction author.

[00:05:37] Good friend.

[00:05:38] She'll be on the 13th mission darkness CEO Ryan EMP guy, EMP

[00:05:45] material, EMP proofing guy on the 20th Preppers Live.

[00:05:50] We got something else.

[00:05:51] Do we got to get Dan on from our new sponsor?

[00:05:53] Ammo squared.

[00:05:54] Are you kidding me?

[00:05:56] You guys signed up, right?

[00:05:58] If you haven't heard about Ammo squared, it's it's it.

[00:06:02] It's it for a person like, I mean, if you're an ammo geek and you're

[00:06:04] geeked out on buying ammo every month, every week, and you may, you know,

[00:06:08] whatever, you never miss a beat.

[00:06:10] Maybe it's not for you.

[00:06:12] For every other person that's a normal human slash Prepper, this is a game

[00:06:17] changer, man.

[00:06:20] You're talking about a company that allows you to sign up.

[00:06:23] I signed up already.

[00:06:24] I've already got, I'm already in almost into the hundreds of rounds

[00:06:29] of ammunition and I just signed up.

[00:06:31] You guys will automatically be into a well, yeah, basically automatically

[00:06:36] be into a hundred rounds of ammo because if you go to ammo squared

[00:06:40] dot com slash PBN, then you get a 75 rounds.

[00:06:44] We'll sign up.

[00:06:45] You get 75 rounds of nine millimeter right off the bat.

[00:06:48] Boom.

[00:06:49] No cost to you.

[00:06:51] Great offer.

[00:06:52] Brilliant offer by Dan over there at Ammo square.

[00:06:54] Great guy.

[00:06:55] But anyway, fundamentally, uh, you sign up, you set whatever budget you

[00:07:00] want, whatever regularity you want, you know, so I want to spend $50 a month

[00:07:07] and I want to spend it on whatever calibers you want.

[00:07:12] I have it.

[00:07:12] I have my budget spread between five different calibers because those are

[00:07:17] the calibers that, that I want to have and that we shoot, you can do

[00:07:22] the same thing or you could just say, I want to set my nine millimeter up

[00:07:26] and I want to put my whole budget towards one caliber.

[00:07:30] You can set it up to do, you can set a budget for any, any timeframe too.

[00:07:37] You can do 25 bucks a week.

[00:07:39] You can do 25 bucks bi-weekly.

[00:07:41] You can do 25 bucks once per month.

[00:07:43] You, you know what I mean?

[00:07:46] Um, and you build, build, build.

[00:07:48] Once you get, they hold the ammo as long as you want them to hold it.

[00:07:53] Once you get a full case, they'll ship it.

[00:07:55] If you hold the ammo with them until you get to $250 worth of

[00:07:59] ammo, they'll ship it for free.

[00:08:02] The prices are really competitive.

[00:08:04] It's a great service.

[00:08:05] Like I said, if you're not the type of guy who's out buying ammo

[00:08:09] every week, every month, like clockwork and you're a prepper, I'd

[00:08:15] highly recommend you visit AmmoSquared.com slash PBN that's AmmoSquared.com

[00:08:21] slash PBN and, and it's another thing.

[00:08:24] You know, I always talk about those preps that remove anxiety, those

[00:08:28] preps that take things off your plate, those preps that make

[00:08:31] you sleep well at night.

[00:08:33] Food storage, a huge one for me.

[00:08:36] You know, um, this one I have noticed the effect.

[00:08:40] You know, I have definitely noticed the effect.

[00:08:44] Uh, solar generator, solar generator was a convenience thing.

[00:08:49] Even though the Titan is such an awesome unit, it's not

[00:08:53] one of those serious anxiety.

[00:08:55] Um, now I don't have it the hugest solar array, so that could be wide too,

[00:08:59] but it doesn't do the same thing that food storage does.

[00:09:03] Doesn't do the same thing that, uh, the guard, like the perennials returning

[00:09:07] does in terms of just a total hacking of anxiety levels over the state of the world.

[00:09:14] AmmoSquared is giving me that kind of feeling.

[00:09:17] It's given me that kind of feeling.

[00:09:19] It's like, I don't have to think about it.

[00:09:20] I don't have to be thinking, Oh, I got to get out and get more

[00:09:23] ammo or how much at which ammo, how much ammo, you know, all of it gone.

[00:09:29] Anyway, I didn't, I don't know what I was going to talk about when I

[00:09:33] clicked the record button.

[00:09:34] We just fell into two, essentially two advertisements, but they all

[00:09:39] have great benefits to you.

[00:09:41] You know, one thing about our, our advertisers, man, they have all

[00:09:46] increased my level of preparedness.

[00:09:48] And for those of you out there who've taken advantage of them, I'm

[00:09:50] sure they've done the same to you.

[00:09:52] All right.

[00:09:54] Let's talk food.

[00:09:55] One threat, one solution in the UK.

[00:09:58] This from the gray man brief farmers in the UK warn of pending food shortages

[00:10:16] and food price increases following it.

[00:10:18] Quote, extreme rainfalls reports say rainfall during the past 18 months.

[00:10:24] Uh, then it has over 18 month period since record keeping began in 1836.

[00:10:30] And because the rain harvest, the rain hasn't stopped.

[00:10:33] Many farmers have been unable to get crops such as potatoes,

[00:10:36] carrots, and wheat into the ground.

[00:10:39] Um, one threat, one solution, you know, potatoes thing, the planting season is

[00:10:46] essential.

[00:10:46] We were worried about the wheat crop in Ukraine.

[00:10:49] We were worried about the price of wheat and that kind of thing because

[00:10:51] of being a struggle to get in into the ground there.

[00:10:54] Now we're seeing similar concerns in the UK.

[00:10:58] Uh, this is all about adaptability folks.

[00:11:02] You know, this is about how you look at, at your food.

[00:11:06] Like, how do you look at food?

[00:11:09] Is food a thing that comes exclusively from the supermarket?

[00:11:13] It's a question.

[00:11:15] Is food a thing that comes exclusively from your backyard?

[00:11:18] Now, a couple of months ago we did a master class called build your

[00:11:21] food security network and I've got to get that up so you guys who aren't

[00:11:27] members can, uh, can take that course.

[00:11:30] If you are a member, you'll be able to just watch the whole master class

[00:11:35] for free how to build a food security network.

[00:11:39] Is I think it was something like 18 different ways to bring food into your

[00:11:44] home.

[00:11:46] That's, that's what you want.

[00:11:49] That's exactly what you want.

[00:11:50] You want to have as many means of food as possible.

[00:11:53] It's not just about a garden, a pantry and long-term food storage.

[00:11:59] You know, you can focus, you don't even have to focus much of your time

[00:12:06] energy.

[00:12:06] You can focus your time and energy and, and at least take food off the

[00:12:11] concern, at least be able to say, you know, in most cases, particularly

[00:12:14] like uncharacteristic rainfall we're going to eat.

[00:12:20] I feel like as a prep or one of your goals should be when, when the

[00:12:25] emergency or the crisis is something you can adapt your way out of you

[00:12:29] do that right?

[00:12:31] Like, as opposed to one thing has gone wrong.

[00:12:34] One hiccup in the supply chain has happened and now we're starving.

[00:12:38] Right?

[00:12:39] I feel like we should all be able to weather pending food shortages.

[00:12:45] Right?

[00:12:46] So that's my take on that.

[00:12:50] That's HTF chef for the day.

[00:12:52] I want to talk to you guys about, I guess we'll do another soundbite.

[00:12:57] I want to talk to you guys about knife skills.

[00:13:01] Now that is a delicious cut of long pork.

[00:13:14] It is good to be back behind the microphone folks.

[00:13:17] It feels good.

[00:13:18] I don't know if it's the rainy day or whatever, but, um, feels good.

[00:13:23] So something that we rigorously practice in the early days of culinary

[00:13:28] school are nice skills and nice skills are essential, you know, they're

[00:13:34] not really something you can get around.

[00:13:36] Most people don't take full advantage of them, but there are

[00:13:39] things that are vital, you know?

[00:13:43] I think being able to, uh, being able to understand the difference

[00:13:48] between things like dicing and mincing.

[00:13:52] You know, in the French word for a very, very small dice, which is

[00:13:55] really kind of a cool thing to be able to do is called brunoise.

[00:14:00] The way we started is we would use potatoes and you can practice

[00:14:04] this way at home too.

[00:14:07] And we would cut the potato, peel the potatoes, then cut the

[00:14:10] potatoes into rectangles, you know, shave off each side, boom, boom,

[00:14:15] boom, flat in the ends.

[00:14:17] And from that rectangle, we'd be able to cut batons and batons were just

[00:14:22] about, you know, a half inch, um, wide rectangle baton, you know,

[00:14:30] basically like a big fat French fry.

[00:14:33] And then we would cut French fries.

[00:14:34] We would, we would also cut potatoes up in a quarter inch and that would,

[00:14:39] that's what we're called French fries.

[00:14:40] And then we would also cut potatoes up into an eighth inch, which

[00:14:44] we refer to as the, uh, Julienne.

[00:14:49] And Julienne is essential.

[00:14:50] I mean, you have to be able to Julienne things like peppers and

[00:14:53] onions, you know, you, you think you hear the word Julienne and you

[00:14:57] think, uh, what kind of fancy dish do you make with the Julienne?

[00:14:59] No, like I need to be able to Julienne peppers and onions so that I can make

[00:15:04] a good chicken cheesesteak for my, my wife, you know what I mean?

[00:15:07] That's serious.

[00:15:11] They're good.

[00:15:11] And, oh, and, and you want to do like a, such an overlooked meal,

[00:15:17] particularly in rainy weather and in the cold, if you have a broiler

[00:15:22] is the French onion soup, you know, French onion soup is such a

[00:15:28] powerhouse meal, right?

[00:15:30] You're taking onions, which are so full of all kinds of nutrition and

[00:15:36] Julienne of onion.

[00:15:38] You know, we, we would do like a 50 pound bag of Julienne onion.

[00:15:42] You had no eyes left.

[00:15:44] Eyes looked like my right eye does right now.

[00:15:48] You cook those onions down until they're soft and starting to

[00:15:51] caramelize and, uh, then beef broth, beef broth.

[00:15:57] You can add some rosemary.

[00:15:58] You can add some time, whatever kind of seasonings, cracked pepper,

[00:16:01] bay leaf, that kind of stuff.

[00:16:04] And then the beauty of a French onion soup is, is how the French decided like

[00:16:08] let's take a crouton and then some Gruyere cheese, shred the Gruyere on

[00:16:13] top of the crouton and broil the whole thing.

[00:16:17] I mean, it's so, it's such a nice little treat.

[00:16:20] I'd love a good French onion soup, man.

[00:16:23] But anyway, that's the Julienne.

[00:16:25] The mints can often be like confused with the small dice, like a brunoise, right?

[00:16:31] Small, small dice, but still a square.

[00:16:33] You're still going for that sort of cube.

[00:16:35] When you mince, you want a coarse sand texture, you know, and things

[00:16:40] like that are important, you know, like a minced garlic, a minced ginger.

[00:16:44] You don't want to chew on it in a dish.

[00:16:46] You want it to just basically disappear into the sauce, that kind of thing.

[00:16:51] Um, a minced parsley can be really good also.

[00:16:56] Minced herb mixes, fresh herbs, that kind of stuff.

[00:17:00] Um, the mincing is an important thing.

[00:17:03] It's important to be able to, to mince, you know, and know the difference.

[00:17:07] They what else?

[00:17:11] Pairing and peeling with a pairing knife.

[00:17:14] Those are important skills too.

[00:17:16] Nothing can really cook properly if it's not all cut to around the same size.

[00:17:22] You know what I mean?

[00:17:22] We're talking about similar ingredients, like if you take a half of potato and cook

[00:17:28] it in boiling water with a quarter inch cube of potato, what do you think's going

[00:17:32] to be done first, right?

[00:17:34] So you got to get it in the ballpark and it affects things.

[00:17:38] Um, what else?

[00:17:41] The chiffonade.

[00:17:43] The chiffonade, the chiffonade is a really cool knife skill for this time of year.

[00:17:50] If you are a member, you'll see the chiffonade in the, in the plantain

[00:17:54] video I talked about at the beginning.

[00:17:56] But it's essentially when you take large flat leaves, mint, basil, those

[00:18:01] kinds of things and pile them on top of each other, herbs, and then

[00:18:05] you roll them into like a cigar.

[00:18:07] And then once they're tightly rolled, you come in and slice them very

[00:18:14] finely and you get like a filament thin sort of slice of herb.

[00:18:20] And it's a beautiful thing.

[00:18:21] It's, it's the way you dress a caprese salad.

[00:18:26] It's, it's all good.

[00:18:27] It's a great thing, but, um, nice skills, PBN family.

[00:18:31] They're important.

[00:18:33] They're important.

[00:18:34] They're as important as knowing how to control the heat.

[00:18:36] You know what I mean?

[00:18:38] Uh, to no collapse.

[00:18:43] So for words, I want to bring you something really weird.

[00:18:49] We've got a new book to read out of.

[00:18:52] This is from the book of five rings, Miyamoto Musashi.

[00:18:57] When he got old, he handed off Miyamoto Musashi, 60 men plus.

[00:19:04] He killed 60 plus men in, um, sword duals, beast, monster, Japanese,

[00:19:12] devastating two, two sword swordsmen.

[00:19:16] And he handed off these five scrolls when he got old and was started to die.

[00:19:20] He retired, you know, the ground book, the water book, the fire book,

[00:19:24] the wind book, and the book of the void.

[00:19:26] He handed those scrolls off to, uh, one of the younger folks that he was

[00:19:31] living with in this mountain retreat.

[00:19:34] Well, he was dying with, and in one section he writes about

[00:19:39] rat's head and ox's neck.

[00:19:42] Rats had ox's neck means that when we are fighting with the enemy

[00:19:46] and both he and we have become occupied with small points in an

[00:19:50] entangled spirit, we must always think of the way of strategy as

[00:19:56] being both a rat's head and an ox's neck whenever we have become

[00:20:00] preoccupied with the small details, we must suddenly change into a large

[00:20:04] spirit, interchanging large with small.

[00:20:08] This is one of the essences of strategy.

[00:20:10] It's necessary that the warrior thinks in his, in this

[00:20:12] spirit in everyday life.

[00:20:14] You must not depart from the spirit in large scale

[00:20:16] strategy, nor in single combat.

[00:20:19] I think it's solid advice.

[00:20:21] We're going to read from the book of five rings a little more on words

[00:20:25] here at the PBN daily news.

[00:20:28] Um, but that's about it for me folks.

[00:20:31] I appreciate you and, uh, I'll see you tonight for preppers live.

[00:20:35] I'm not sure what we're going to do yet, but we'll get into

[00:20:37] something 9 PM Eastern.

[00:20:38] All right.

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[00:20:48] All right.

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