ROR Report and Prepper Myths?

[00:00:08] We are your lizard overlords. Stop listening to these preppers. Eat your crickets. Fight in the streets. Nothing. And love it.

[00:00:36] You know, that's a fun soundbite, but what really makes it awesome, you don't realize these things when you're capturing them at the time, but what really makes it timeless and awesome for me is that that weird high-pitched lizard thing at the end was my son playing in the room next to me. And I was hurrying up to try to record that soundbite. He had woken up early on a Saturday, and he was over there playing, and I just went for it.

[00:01:04] And he timed, just the life timing. The timing of life was such that he popped out with that at the very end when I was finished. I mean, if he'd done it in the middle of it, it would have been crap, but he did it at the very end, unbeknownst to him, and just created an awesome soundbite. Something that whenever I hear it, I can picture him at that age. Very cool.

[00:01:29] So, it's Ration of Ruin Day 6, folks. It's a no-eaty day. It's a nuts and berries kind of day. One of the things that has become very evident to me, tomorrow we're going to do a full breakdown Ration of Ruin report. Don't miss it. Myself and the Power Hour guys. So don't miss that. But one of the things that's clearly evident about this challenge is time.

[00:01:56] Is I've got plenty of work to do, kid stuff to do. Like, I have so much stuff outside of forage and fish that it might be a flaw, actually, in the challenge itself. Now, here's something that I never considered until talking to you is, I could have woke my ass up at 5 in the morning.

[00:02:22] Fished for 45 minutes, drove home so my wife could head off to work before I wake the kids up and all that and start the day. That's a viable option. You know, to what lengths are you willing to go? No, but I think it's something to consider. Like, the evening would be a perfect time to fish, but you know what? I have to go get shoes and get my son a haircut. Get my son a pair of new shoes and a haircut.

[00:02:47] So I'm sitting here thinking about, like, this is a little bit of a flaw in sort of the Ration of Ruin concept, right? Because if we're at the point where we're eating survival food and foraging and hunting to survive, then the burden of the 9 to 5 will be gone, right? It's not like you're going to be foraging to eat and survive. There'd be no point in working. Why would you go to work? If you can't afford food at all, you know what I mean? Then what's the point?

[00:03:18] So that's a weird one. You know, if I had... I think these days would be much better if I had 4 hours, 5 hours to just go play fisherman, you know? But my son and I, we did go out Sunday. We went to a couple new places that we'd never really fished before because he's really, really getting into fishing now. It's a lot of fun. So we're trying out some new lakes and ponds, and we really did bad. You know, we did really bad.

[00:03:46] And, you know, it had rained the whole day before, so the creek that we went to fish was, like, brown, muck, high, running fast. The pond was not very responsive either. So we find ourselves in this situation. Now, if I'd listened to my wife, I'd be eating because she told me to start putting traps out back during the weekend. And I actually have accidentally created an amazing spot for a trap that I'm going to set.

[00:04:14] A 110 conibear for a squirrel or maybe chipmunk. I'm not sure. I don't think it would really be worth it to kill a cute little chipmunk. But I'll kill a squirrel. So I have the perfect bait. And if it works, I'll show you the whole setup that happened kind of by accident. You know what I mean? But that's enough about that. Like I said, we'll go deep into detail, lessons learned.

[00:04:38] Don't miss the ROR report because this challenge, like all challenges that we do here at PBN, has really, really changed some things and changed the way I look at some things. And I don't even know what the guys are going to report, so it's going to be even better than just that. So join us tomorrow night for that. I'm not going to stick around too long. We have our members-only podcast that is going out today.

[00:05:05] It's called Golden Podcast, Trump and Expectations. That's what the podcast is covering. Thursday, every day, for those of you who don't know, is members-only podcast day. I don't do any video. I don't do any kind of well-formulated podcast. The members get a podcast on their own.

[00:05:26] But today, I just got the phone here, and one of the things that Ration of Ruin reminded me of is the fact that I can pick this phone up and do a podcast to the podcast audience whenever I want. And I'm going to do more of that. They don't have to be big. They don't have to be crazy. They can be prepper tips of the day, that kind of little stuff. But just to give the podcast—you know, this is what's happened, okay? I have no doubts about it. This is what's happened. The stats even say it.

[00:05:55] In our quest to start video and to get video all handled and working well, I have seen a reduction in the podcast audience, and I think that's just because of that. It's just because of the fact that the video content maybe doesn't play as well to the podcast audience, or it's different, or whatever the situation is. But in the hustle—look, I'm one man. You know what I mean? I'm one guy. I don't have a creative team. I don't have a marketing team.

[00:06:24] I wouldn't even want it, to be honest with you. You know, a lot of people can't wrap their head around that. A lot of people can't wrap their head around this idea of, like, the hosts will ask because they're wonderful. They'll be like, what can we help you with? What can we help you with? And a lot of times I'm just like, man, this thing I want to be manageable. And that's what I want. You know, I want it to remain manageable in this form. Like, I really want to go for the unthinkable, the impossible.

[00:06:54] That's what I would like to do. I would like to get to a point where we can build on this network. We can get money into the hands of the hosts on a regular basis and live comfortably and all that kind of stuff. And do so in a way that doesn't require me to have a Monday morning meeting with 10 people. And then to get an, oh, my God, I need to call.

[00:07:20] Oh, well, who's the guy in charge of publishing the podcast? Oh, who created the ad? Who did this? Who's got to return this email? I don't want any of that. I love waking up as the intrepid commander, having my list of to-dos, knocking out those lists of to-dos, shutting the book, going into dad and husband mode. This is it. You know what I mean? To take on 16, 17 other things that are going to ruin my life. You know what I mean?

[00:07:50] As things get bigger and bigger and bigger. That's why I brought on help at Disaster Coffee. It, yeah, it became too much for one guy. So if it becomes too much for one guy, then I guess you divvy it out a little bit. But I'm not interested in a big monster to manage here at PBN. Maybe I'm wrong for it. I don't know. You know, I'm only one guy figuring this thing out.

[00:08:15] But I really am trying to shoot for the impossible by having a really awesome operation that can stand on its own two feet and gives me the ability to talk to people and email, directly email you. You know what I mean? Like when you email PBN and you got a problem, like you're emailing me directly. And there's something about that, man. I don't know. I just, I don't want to lose that. You know what I mean? I have a problem with Shopify. I have to talk to an AI robot to figure it out.

[00:08:45] So, you know, this is what it is. I was foraging Mayapple earlier. I can't tell you that, like, foraging Mayapple is something that you should really get into. It's better than the, uh, it's better than the, uh, Yellow Dock. Was it Yellow Dock? What was it? Yeah, it was the better, it's better than the Yellow Dock root that I was chewing on the other day. Um, but it ain't great. You know what I mean? But it is a wild edible.

[00:09:15] It's nothing compared to the mulberries my son and I have been eating almost daily. I can tell you that's been fun. You know what I mean? That's been a good time. Um, so yeah. You know, it is what it is. Prepping in the 21st century. Do it. Do it hard. Do not discount DIY food storage. God in heaven, do not discount that. And, uh, yeah. I may be releasing a new series. I don't know.

[00:09:44] It might be for members. It might be for all. But I don't know. You know, over the last few years, I've come to realize that there are a lot of prepper standbys that don't hold up. There are a lot of things in the prepping world that after being tested or after really thinking about them or after going through the process of using them. They just don't hold up. You know what I mean?

[00:10:13] Um, we saw that, like, in the last, I think it was either, I think it was Azure Highland 2 or whatever that was. The second one was that the life straw kind of is, you know, like, like, it's not a water, it's not a real water solution. You know what I mean? And it was touted by everybody in every way as being sort of like, you know, you gotta have a life straw.

[00:10:39] And I'm just thinking, after hearing Ben's challenges with it and messing with it myself, it's kind of one of these things where it's like, yeah, there's a lot of things that could do that way better now, you know? And it's just something, you know, there's a lot of these things. There's some big, big things that every prepper has talked about, done, said, that through these challenges, hey, get away from there.

[00:11:10] Sorry, my dog looks like it's sniffing a snake. I don't think it is, but I don't want to risk it. But anyway, a lot of these really big, big, big things in the prepping world that are fundamentally like ploys to get you to spend money, I feel like. And I wouldn't mind debunking some of them. It could cost me some money, but, you know what I mean? It could cost me some opportunity for sure.

[00:11:39] But I think there's something to it. And, you know, if our goal is to get people prepared the right way, then why not? Why not debunk them, you know? So, it's a big wide world out there, you know? You need to expand out into that big wide world. You need to set some time aside for yourself to do the things that you love each and every day, even if it's only 10, 15, 20 minutes.

[00:12:06] You need to understand that taking care of yourself is taking care of everyone around you. And not taking care of yourself is setting everyone up around you for a disaster eventually, right? This is a lesson that a lot of people who take care of other people have to fundamentally understand and commit to. Okay? And if you don't think this is preparedness, trust me, this is preparedness.

[00:12:29] Because every guy who's ever gone through a disaster in the near future here on the Prepper Broadcasting Network has reached a point where they're ready to kill somebody. Because something didn't work right, something didn't go right, something didn't this right, something didn't that right. And, you know, the only way out of that is to really commit to taking care of yourself so you have the tools necessary to deal with the calamity.

[00:12:55] It won't do you any good if you're throwing things around your house because you're frustrated and, you know, you've given all you can give or whatever. Right. I'm telling you right now, it may seem silly, it may seem like selfish or whatever, but, yeah. Make sure you're living this life. Carpe diem, PBN family.

[00:13:24] You know, it's a beautiful world. You're a beautiful thing. You're a beautiful part of this world. You arrived here for a reason. If you have any kind of faith whatsoever, you know you're not just a clump of cells that grew into a thing that consumes, right? There's more to you than that. If you listen to PBN, chances are you're doing things of value, right? That's the beautiful thing about talking to you guys is I'm not talking to the average person.

[00:13:51] I'm talking to somebody who adds great value to their situation. In most cases, I talk to you guys. I know you on the membership side in particular, you know, and the world is better because you're here. So what that means is you owe it to the world to take care of yourself, okay, in as many ways as you can think to. So don't push yourself to the bottom of the barrel.

[00:14:19] Don't push yourself to the back of the bus. Just make sure you set aside some time to care for you so that you can care for everything else. Enjoy your day, PBN family.