PBN in 2026. What's Coming. What's Changing.

In twenty twenty six PBN Family, we focus on podcasting. We are back to podcasting in twenty twenty six. I told you this was coming. There are some things we're going to divulge in today's show. Oh no, coffee don't fit in there. That have come rather abruptly, some that have been in them what makes for a long time. But to me, today's show and today's the start of Prepper Broadcasting Network twenty twenty six. Donald Trump kind of mosied into my plans a little bit and it was impossible in the way that he is impossible to ignore. So but today it's Monday, it's the fifth day of twenty twenty six. My year has begun, and we'll go into detail on the camping trip in the cold weather and the you know, sort of meeting a goal of mine immediately out the gate on a different show, probably Wednesday show. Okay, I want to keep this show dialed in. I want to talk about exactly what it is we're here to talk about, which is PBN in twenty twenty six. And I want everyone to understand that some big changes are coming, and a lot of them for the better, if not all of them for the better. Depending on your opinion. Okay, within this focus on podcasting, we are we're gonna be bringing archived shows back. We're gonna be bringing archived shows back from the dead. This morning, I downloaded a massive collection of The Strange Truth, a show that I miss dearly. I downloaded a massive collection of The Next Generation, a show that I've missed dearly and have threatened to do with my own kids and just simply haven't been able to do it over the years. So we're gonna at the very beginning of the year, we're gonna at least bring these shows back in their pure form, in the way that they were as you've heard them in the past. Right, the shows that you may have listened to in the past, you will hear once again. And this is there's two reasons, right. Number One, they're great shows. They're great shows that don't deserve to be buried in the archives truly. I mean, some of these Next Generation shows are so good, the titles, the topics, everything, and The Strange Truth is just it was an epic show. Here at PBN, I will not have this sort of new world of new content every single day of your life, new new, new, new, new dissolve the Prepper Broadcasting Network legacy. I understand the value in it. I understand that news moves quickly. I understand new things come out. I understand we have new experiences, we have new advice and all this kind of stuff, and there's a place for new on PBN. But as you know, middle finger to the algorithm is kind of my modus operandi, and it's why we are who we are and what we are in the size we are in those things. And it comes with the benefit of, I don't know what is it, integrity and the downside of being kind of covered up by those who are willing to bow to the to the mark of the beast. Right twenty twenty five, I took a shot PBN Family, I took a shot at video. I took a shot at YouTube again and Rumble and those kinds of things. And I did my work, I did my studying. I got a really good understanding of what it would require to be successful on those platforms. And it's just is what it is. It just is what it is. It's not for me, it's not for us, it's just not maybe at another time, I don't know, But at the same time, I really hate so much about what these platforms want you to do and what they represent. And one of the things that I hate most is the constant that, like the they, these platforms necessitate you make something new, which I think is the crushing and destruction of greatness. I really do. I believe because we've done shows in the past on PBN that have been so good that I've logged them away for later live streams and so on, and and there's just millions of content creators out there who are doing the same thing. So in order to step out of that sort of herd and to put you know, drop anchor on PVN itself and let the rest of the sort of mindless content creators go and do. New new new new new new news new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new episode, every day, new episode, every day, new episode, right, and bury everything they've ever done. Now we'll be bringing whole series back from the dead and playing them throughout the week. They will likely go on their respective day, So the good chance you'll hear the Strange Truth back on Fridays again like it was a good chance you'll hear the Next Generation on tuesdays. Right, These prerecorded shows will likely drop around noon each each day that they're going to be going up. And it's the beginning, you know, it's the beginning of bringing back the archive where it's pertinent, where it makes sense, and delivering to you guys some of the six thousand plus almost seven thousand podcasts we've created over the years that are phenomenal, and it makes no sense to bury them, you know what I mean, It makes no sense to bury them with another show about water storage unless there's something pertinent within it. Right. So that's one massive direction that we're gonna go in PBN. We're gonna focus on podcasting. We're gonna bring podcast archives back. I also would like to bring back bring to life compilations on PBN. I'd like to bring to life podcast compilations that are longer in form, right, in other words, something or you know, around the three to five hour length that might include just a collection of Dave Jones, the NBC guy, over and over, right, So in other words, you know, five six episodes in a row of Dave Jones, the NBC guy, hopping on and doing his thing on a variety of topics, something long form that you can really sit down and listen to. That is one of your favorite hosts, you know, over and over and over. If you could see the depth of content that we have, you would feel the way I feel about it, just you know, falling away into obscurity. I'm not going to allow it to happen, and we don't need to, you know, Spreaker and the audio podcast game is not built as heavily as YouTube and video platforms are on new content, new content, new content, new content, new content. Right, So, yeah, that's one massive change here or two, I don't know, several. There is something happening right now for those of you who are listening consistently and regularly that that might surprise you, and that is their ads on the shows. There's a little button in Spreaker that allows you to monetize your show, and we do enough downloads that we're allowed to monetize, and it makes a difference. And what I want you to understand is this is a thing now. If you didn't watch the New Year's Eve show, then you didn't hear the talk. But the downloads have increased, and they have increased in a way that we're not really quite sure of. And as crazy as it sounds, we think it's the TSA. I'm not sorry, not the TSA, the NSA, because they're all coming out of one place. And Dave Jones jokingly said, we ought to monetize their traffic, and that's exactly what we're doing. And in doing the and in monetizing this big burst of traffic and putting ads on the podcast that you want to listen to. First and foremost, to all you members out there, you guys are gonna be ad free in the very near future. Don't worry about that. We're creating a supporter club for members on spreaker that is going to be the PBN membership. And I'm only going to talk about this sparsely because the members are going to get a full breakdown on this. But we're creating a PBN support membership over on spreak for a number of reasons. I'll talk about it with members. If you're a member and you've had trouble logging in in the past, If you're a member and you've had trouble changing your password in the past, had trouble getting to the back dashboard of your We've had issues with our membership software and I'm kind of done with them. I'm kind of done with them, and I'm kind of done with the headaches of managing things that don't work. So for the sake of this podcast and what's going on in the future, we're going to create a supporter tier over at spreaker using their membership option, which is free and it's part of our what we already pay to be on Spreaker. There will be one five dollar tier, and if you sign up for that five dollars support tier, to be listed down in the show description, then you will no longer have ads. You will no longer have ads. You will have currently immediately, you will have a access to all the membership podcasts that are available over there at Speaker, and it's very easy to filter through those through what's membership and what's not which I really like. And then in about a week's time you'll have access to the PBN membership videos and documentation and podcasts. You just got to give me a minute to get that up. For those of you who are already five dollars a month members, for those of you who are lifetime members, for those of you who are members in any regard, largely your membership won't change, Okay, largely, your membership will not change. And yeah, you'll you'll have access to all the things you've had access to before. Your passwords, your emails, your contacts, your payments, all that kind of stuff. Your access to the background to do whatever you want to do with your account will be a thousand times better because it'll be handled by spreaker. Okay, it'll be a thousand times easier, a thousand times better. There will be very simple log in, you know, no login issues. Every issue that we have had through the years with member press our software is gonna go away, and it's gonna be handled, and it's not gonna be handled by me. And I'm really happy about this change. Right. It won't take away at all from what you get from Pbnfamily dot Com. Really, it'll probably just make everything easier and more streamlined, which is what I want for members. Right. I feel like members, I feel like being a member at PBN can be a bit arduous with Pbnfamily dot Com. And that's due in large part because I'm not a webmaster, you know what I mean, And I don't pay a webmaster. We couldn't afford to keep a webmaster on staff, it wouldn't work. So we've got to get lean, We've got to figure out what makes sense, and we gotta make sure that what we're providing the members is easy to use and give them what they want. That's really all I care about. You want to support the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I want you to get your podcasts AD free, which is what will happen immediately. As a supporter. I want you to be able to get access to the membership podcasts, you know, the membership content only easy and if you have any kind of account issues, I want you to be able to deal with them easy. And some of that stuff's not working, So we're going to change that to going into twenty twenty six, all the things that we have done year over year you can expect here at PBN. You can expect all the same things that we have done over the years. We're already developing the next sort of Azure Force operation for you know, summertime allah ration to ruin a Llah Gotham, get out those kinds of things. We're already planning that. It's already in the works, and it will also be phenomenal, you know what I mean. It'll be great. It'll be awesome. I can't wait. But you know, roundtables guests, more guests this year probably than ever before. You'll see at PBN the one off sort of guest podcasts have been a whole lot of fun. Another major focus here at PBN is definitely a focus on the quality of life aspect of prepping, survival in homesteading. While it's been a great tool through many podcasters and many video creators and so on, many people in the prepping world, to address the audience with a problem, address the audience with a calamity, a catastrophe of potentiality for a nightmare in the far flung future or maybe right around the corner, or maybe today what I want to do with our lifestyles because I've seen it enough now it's proven. I know what it is. You know what it is if you're listening and have been for a while and living the life the unsung hero, the real motivational force, the real the real benefit outside of peace of mind is the quality of life aspect of living off grid, living on a homestead, living on an urban homestead, living prepared, living frugally, and in the times that we live in now, pbon family. It's never been greater and more easily, you know, easy to isolate. Okay it You talk to people about the way you live your life, and it's changed. It's changed for the average American five years ago. You talk to people about I keep chickens, and I do this, and I do that, and they looked at you like God, that sounds like a lot of work right now. I guarantee you say the same things that you do on a day to day based on a regular basis, to support your lifestyle of self reliance and independence, and the vast majority of people will look at you and think and say the same thing. And that is God. I want that they see the world for what it is. Now the doom news has been taken over by the actual news the media. The media has the prepper news now that we've come accustomed to this spilling and reading over all the years. It's not to say that we're not gonna do it, but it's to say that I personally, as a host, would be remiss to not tell you about how I take from my pantry a bag of green bunker beans, and I take those bunker beans and I lay them out in a sheet pan. Actually, know what, I don't even use a sheet pan anymore. I have an even better device. It's like an airy large air frying basket for an air fryer in your oven. Okay, it looks like a cookie sheet or a roasting pan, but it's a great it's a fine grade. It's a design for air frying. I take that basket and I put a nice thin layer of green bunker beans in it, and I set the oven to four hundred and fifty degrees and I roast those beans until they're nearly black for this, for this sort of medium dark roast breakfast blend coffee that essentially is me creating supply drop disaster coffee supply drop at home. And I roast these coffee beans in the oven and it takes I don't know, like an hour or something like that. Pull them out, look at them, move them around a little, watch them get darker and darker and darker until they get right where I want them. And then I pull them out and I let them cool. And the next morning they go into a plastic container with a lid, and some of them go into my little hand grinder and I hand ground and today I hand ground some of those beans, right, they smelled so good too. I hadn't messed with them in a month almost because I was drinking this good German coffee for the holidays. And I open up that container and there are those roasted beans. Still smell greats, still look great, and I ground them up in my hand grinder. I browed some disaster coffee this morning. And when you drink a cup of coffee that you've taken from green coffee beans and turned into coffee, into a cup of steaming coffee on a Monday morning in January, when it's thirty degrees out, you grab hold of what it is that I'm talking about with self reliance and quality of life. It's similar to cracking the eggs from the chicken coop and making breakfast for your family. Right, These are those experiences pulling it, having that first salad in late spring, early summer that's come out of your own garden. You guys know the feeling. You live the feeling, and I'm pretty good at conveying those feelings. I think it's my culinary background that helps that. But this is something that we miss. I think on PBN, and I really want to focus on it. This year, I want to spend a little less of my own time talking about the bad people, the psychopaths in Congress and the monsters who run nations, and a little more time talking about you know, that smoky, deep, incredible aroma that comes from a fresh brewed cup of coffee that you roasted yourself in a satisfaction and fulfillment that so many people are looking for in this day and age of comfort and convenience. It's a feeling and it's something that we enjoy more than the average person, whether we appreciate it and are grateful for it enough or not. You pull something glowing off of the forge and you see that you've shaped something amazing or something useful, and you quench that hot metal and you realize that you've made something with your bare hands in a way that so many people wish they could do. And then you hang it, or you give it, or you gift it, or you use it, and you realize that you're tapping into something that everybody wants and everybody needs, and we are a vehicle to meet that need at PBN. So in twenty twenty six, we will be the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Right, we will be the same old Prepper broadcasting network. We will, but but there will be changes and changes for the better. Okay. My one and only concern in a podcast like this is the fact that we now have advertisements running on our shows. And you might look at that and say this is bullshit. And if you if and like I said, members, just bear with me. Okay. As soon as I get information back from speaker, will get that stuff taken or give you the ability to get into the back end since you're already paying, get your payment swapped over and all that, it'll be a nun issue. Just bear with me. And if you if it's really eating you alive, just email me, message me. If it's really eating you alive, to listen to the two or three ads in the show and I'll just send you the file. You can get the I'll give the members access to all the shows ad free right now. But if it's really eating up guys, you know you have to understand this is freek content. It is what it is. We don't want to lose any listeners, of course, but at the same time, for five bucks you get rid of all the ads. You follow me for five bucks a month to get rid of all the ads. No more ads, ads go away. You have to understand that the ads, they generate revenue, and it's it's a thing. It's a necessity in the podcasting world. It just is what it is. So out of all these changes, I don't think any of them are for the worst. I do think that they're going to make the podcast network on a whole much better and give us the ability to do much cooler things. And I'm super excited about bringing back shows like The Strange Truth in the Next Generation and having the mayor consistently on the network. I'm kind of disappointed in myself that i haven't done it until now, but it just occurred to me the other day that you know, you wake up, you are the intrepid commander. You could do what you want in terms of bringing archival shows back for the dead, and if you've never heard them, you're really in for it. You're really gonna love them, and we're gonna keep doing it. We're gonna keep bringing shows back, and like I said, I'd also like to do compilations of show topics. I'd also like to do you know, Medical Day and do just a big, big regurgitation of the Herbal Medic and the Herbal Prepper and Doom and Bloom New and uh what was the Doctor Bones and Nurse Amy podcast. We've got tons of those in the archives. We've got great content on all kinds of topics. Folks, expect more of that in twenty twenty six. And like I said, thank you for all your support and these changes change. I know people hate it. I know people hate but it is what it is. And h onward and upward for the Prepper Broadcasting Network and we hope to bring you, you know, the best of the best, the best of the best in terms of prepping, survival, homesteading, off grid living and self reliance and independence. I'll talk to you soon. PBN Family,