Surviving America 016:The Richmond Water Crisis

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[00:00:32] When will the water return? Richmond, Richmond, Richmond. What? So, snow, you know, I want to see a great big man completely made of snow.

[00:00:49] We had some snow and it was good. Nothing wrong. Iced the whole nine yards, a little bit of power outage, something along those lines.

[00:00:57] And then the people of Richmond, Virginia, wake to find out that the water system has failed.

[00:01:04] And we had all kinds of problems, all kinds of problems. We have a new mayor who is like seven days in or something, 10 days in.

[00:01:12] I don't know. What a rough situation he's in right now. People are slowly getting water back on it.

[00:01:22] It's affected like thousands and thousands of people.

[00:01:26] It's even it's even taken counties around Richmond that typically depend on our water and they've diverted use to other locations. Right.

[00:01:38] Luckily, we never lost water. We lost some water pressure. It's very weird.

[00:01:42] It's a very strange setup because some people lost water that are close to us in our own neighborhood.

[00:01:48] Some people people didn't, you know, very weird. I would say, what's up, Jay Ferg?

[00:01:54] Yep. Still no water for some people in Richmond. What happened? We were supposed to get water back yesterday.

[00:02:02] An electrical panel failed. At least that's the that's the word electrical panel that everyone's using.

[00:02:07] So an electrical panel failed and it affected the filling station and all that kind of stuff.

[00:02:13] So now we're filling back up. I talked to my own family that lives close by on the south side of Richmond and they have water today.

[00:02:27] Didn't have water yesterday. So something's happening. What I'd never thought about until doing this right now is elevation.

[00:02:34] I never thought about that. That's exactly why we had water all this time.

[00:02:40] That's why we had water, because we are at a low elevation. We are downhill.

[00:02:47] And I have to imagine that that makes sense. That's water sense. Right.

[00:02:55] Truth be told, though, I mean, we were lucky in that we did have water.

[00:03:00] Truth be told, if we didn't have water. Really wouldn't have been an issue.

[00:03:06] Really wouldn't have been an issue for us, to be honest.

[00:03:09] It would have been pretty much a non issue if we were in a situation where the water wasn't running.

[00:03:15] And this what I want you guys to understand is this is not like.

[00:03:21] Because we're we have spent tens of thousands of dollars on water preparedness.

[00:03:27] We have spent very little money on water preparedness.

[00:03:30] Well. Part of my water preparedness is also there's a creek back there that's flowing water.

[00:03:36] So, you know, that can be utilized.

[00:03:39] There are some things in the arsenal that are really effective.

[00:03:45] But really, in a situation like this, we're talking very short term, we're talking, you know, five days at most, something like this is going to take to clear up at most.

[00:03:55] Like there's a good chance everybody could be back to normal by the end of the day.

[00:04:00] And then boil water notices over by, I don't know what, two days, 48 hours, something like that.

[00:04:07] Short term, right? Short term situation.

[00:04:10] This is a short term calamity.

[00:04:12] People and it's like I always write about I write to.

[00:04:15] I don't just podcast for those of you who are who are new.

[00:04:19] I always write about this when I'm writing blogs about preparedness.

[00:04:23] It's it is always a situation of.

[00:04:28] People having.

[00:04:31] People only having the realization they're screwed the moment they're screwed, you know what I mean?

[00:04:37] Like the moment that they're screwed, they go, oh, I'm screwed and I haven't done nothing to prepare for it.

[00:04:44] So the backbone right now, the backbone of our water preparedness that is getting us through this situation, right?

[00:04:54] I mean, we could boil water.

[00:04:55] We have running tap water just for clarity and we'd have all the drinking water we need.

[00:04:59] What's making it a little more convenient is the water storage, the simple, affordable water storage that takes up less than two square foot of our house.

[00:05:12] Okay.

[00:05:15] Sam's Club sells something like 40 bottles of water for four bucks.

[00:05:20] I know.

[00:05:20] Don't drink out of plastic.

[00:05:21] Your balls will fall off.

[00:05:23] Your hair will fall out right.

[00:05:26] We drink out of plastic.

[00:05:28] Okay.

[00:05:29] I know it's insane.

[00:05:32] It's funny the things that we prioritize as a threat.

[00:05:35] In other words, like spend $80 on a Stanley metal water thing that you'll use for one year and you'll stick in a cabinet and never use it again.

[00:05:48] Do you know how much water you could buy?

[00:05:50] Do you know how many water?

[00:05:52] You could put up enough water bricks.

[00:05:54] What are they like 30 bucks a pop to have 15, 20 gallons worth of water at your disposal at any time ready to drink, right?

[00:06:04] Whatever.

[00:06:05] Don't get me started.

[00:06:06] That's everybody's water preparedness plan.

[00:06:09] A Stanley stainless steel mug for mom.

[00:06:13] Everybody else is screwed, right?

[00:06:15] A hundred dollars on it on something to drink out of.

[00:06:17] But anyway, the things that we what I'm getting as will invest that kind of money in something silly like that.

[00:06:24] And then the tap water goes off and we go, I don't have anything to put in my Stanley.

[00:06:30] I don't know.

[00:06:31] I don't get it.

[00:06:33] The bulk of our response to this situation, though, has been, you know, like, I don't know, 20, 25 gallons of bottled water.

[00:06:45] You know what I mean?

[00:06:46] Don't get me wrong.

[00:06:47] We've got bathtubs.

[00:06:48] We've got rain barrels.

[00:06:49] We've got other.

[00:06:50] I filled the hydroponic system up with water, even though it's offline, just to have extra water.

[00:06:57] Water filtration and so on, you know, all that kind of stuff we have.

[00:07:00] But it's just one of those situations where.

[00:07:06] Every Richmond there, every person living in Richmond, Virginia right now, if they went to Sam's Club, not now because everybody's going and freaking out.

[00:07:16] But if they regularly went to Sam's Club and bought five to six cases of bottled water.

[00:07:23] And kept that par at home, just kept it at home.

[00:07:27] You know what I mean?

[00:07:28] Drink out of it here and there, whatever you want to do.

[00:07:30] Keep it at home.

[00:07:31] Largely, I drink out of our Brita water filter, to be honest.

[00:07:35] But they're there.

[00:07:36] They get used.

[00:07:37] We use them.

[00:07:38] If every Richmond there had that.

[00:07:41] This would be half the crisis that it is.

[00:07:44] You know what I mean?

[00:07:46] So what we're talking and for a fine from the financial side, they're four dollars.

[00:07:51] They're less than four dollars.

[00:07:52] They're four dollars with tax for a case of these water bottles.

[00:07:55] OK, I take them to Prepper Camp.

[00:07:58] I sell them for a dollar each.

[00:08:00] You know what I mean?

[00:08:01] I give them away.

[00:08:02] People like, oh, I don't have any cash.

[00:08:03] Take the word, Bob.

[00:08:04] It's three dollars for the whole case.

[00:08:06] Right.

[00:08:10] That would largely solve everyone's problem.

[00:08:13] But there is such minimal focus.

[00:08:16] There is such a minimal investment.

[00:08:17] So what we're talking about is four dollars times six.

[00:08:20] We're talking about less than twenty five dollars you can put up.

[00:08:23] I think they're like four or something gallons per case.

[00:08:29] Right. So six.

[00:08:30] You got twenty four gallons of water family of four.

[00:08:33] That's six days worth of water.

[00:08:35] Come on, man.

[00:08:36] For twenty five bucks.

[00:08:38] It's a twenty five buck investment.

[00:08:41] Like you can't go nowhere and eat with a family for twenty five bucks.

[00:08:45] There's almost nothing.

[00:08:45] You can't fill a gas tank with twenty five bucks.

[00:08:49] So this thing is what I'm getting at is.

[00:08:53] There's a lot of people to blame.

[00:08:55] There's there's an investigation.

[00:08:56] There's fail safes that shouldn't have failed.

[00:08:58] There's all this talk about what happened, what went wrong.

[00:09:01] And look, Richmond's crazy.

[00:09:03] It's a crazy place to live.

[00:09:04] It's a very liberal place.

[00:09:07] You know what I mean?

[00:09:08] Like we probably spent more money taking down statues of Robert E.

[00:09:15] Lee in twenty twenty than we did on maintenance of the water system.

[00:09:21] I bet you if they could make the trade now, the citizens of Richmond, the people who live on Monument Avenue and so forth would probably rather the statue stay up and the water system be ready to go.

[00:09:33] You know what I mean?

[00:09:34] Priorities.

[00:09:36] So we find ourself in this situation.

[00:09:39] What I want to do now.

[00:09:41] Is I want to.

[00:09:43] I want to show you something.

[00:09:45] Right.

[00:09:45] I want to take you inside the cash and show you my number one water prep.

[00:09:51] Number one.

[00:09:51] Numero uno.

[00:09:52] There's nothing else in my arsenal that is better than than this one prep for for water situations.

[00:10:00] You know, like these, but also.

[00:10:04] Much worse.

[00:10:05] OK, so let's do it.

[00:10:07] Let's step inside the cash.

[00:10:13] This guy's big.

[00:10:15] This guy is big.

[00:10:17] So I got to I got a heft a little bit and pull this thing back.

[00:10:22] Oh, there we go.

[00:10:24] You see this thing looks like a suitcase.

[00:10:27] This is an amazing pressurized jerry can by a company called Hydro Blue.

[00:10:34] I bought this thing years ago, man.

[00:10:37] It's an amazing.

[00:10:38] So it's about four gallons of water.

[00:10:41] It's about four gallons of water.

[00:10:43] It's pressurized.

[00:10:45] The water inside gets pressurized by depressing this over and over.

[00:10:49] And the water comes out of here.

[00:10:51] OK.

[00:10:53] See that the water comes out of this guy.

[00:10:55] This is there's also a tube and a spray valve that comes with it for using the pressure.

[00:11:03] Obviously easy to carry.

[00:11:05] That's what I like about it most.

[00:11:06] I could take it right back to that creek, fill it up water filtration.

[00:11:11] I've tested it on that creek water, too.

[00:11:15] Here's here's the here's the real the real winner.

[00:11:20] You get a virus filter right here.

[00:11:23] Right.

[00:11:24] This unscrews and can easily be replaced.

[00:11:26] Then you get sort of the the three stage filament, you know, sort of run of the mill top quality water filtration right here.

[00:11:35] All right.

[00:11:35] And then this is your outflow.

[00:11:37] So your water goes in under pressure.

[00:11:40] Through the filter through the virus filter through the standard three three stage filter and out to you.

[00:11:49] OK, I'll either link to this thing in the show.

[00:11:56] And I'll probably also be making a clip about this.

[00:12:00] All right.

[00:12:01] So this is number one, man, because you can move water.

[00:12:05] You can filter water.

[00:12:06] It is what it is.

[00:12:07] It is the hydro blue.

[00:12:09] It's got a little paint on it.

[00:12:11] It is the hydro blue.

[00:12:14] Pressurized Jerry can.

[00:12:17] Nothing like it.

[00:12:19] There's nothing like it on the market.

[00:12:21] You know, the thing about water is you've got to be able to refill and you've got to be able to.

[00:12:26] You've got to.

[00:12:27] You've got to be able to move it.

[00:12:29] Right.

[00:12:29] You've got to be able to move water from point A to point B.

[00:12:33] That's the problem everybody has now.

[00:12:35] Even if there is a source of water, they've got to be able to move.

[00:12:37] It's got to be safe.

[00:12:38] OK.

[00:12:40] All right.

[00:12:41] Let's get the Richmond situation out of here.

[00:12:45] Because that is what it is, right?

[00:12:47] That sort of is what it is.

[00:12:48] People are going to do what they do.

[00:12:50] And they're in that sort of situation now.

[00:12:53] In all honesty, I hope it clears up.

[00:12:55] You know, fundamentally, I just hope it clears up.

[00:13:00] Another thing we're talking about since we're talking a little bit of.

[00:13:03] Prepping basics.

[00:13:05] And something that I always lean on in crisis.

[00:13:11] Food storage.

[00:13:13] Do you know that you have every capability to take rice, beans, so on.

[00:13:23] Put them into mylar bags, oxygen absorbers.

[00:13:27] One gallon mylar bag, 1000 cc oxygen absorber.

[00:13:31] Into the bag, heat seal the top with a hair straightener or heat sealer.

[00:13:36] And you have long term food storage.

[00:13:39] Now, you do it one better.

[00:13:41] You put it in protective, you know, a nice thick five gallon bucket to protect it from pests and breakage and things like that in storage.

[00:13:50] But everybody within the sound of my voice is capable of putting water up and putting food up.

[00:13:56] You know what I mean?

[00:13:58] Everybody is 100% capable of this.

[00:14:01] Like this.

[00:14:02] And again, these are not huge investments.

[00:14:07] And what you want to do is get your hands on the mylar bags and the oxygen absorbers.

[00:14:11] Right.

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[00:14:32] OK, buy anything.

[00:14:33] I don't care what it is and you're entered.

[00:14:35] Right. You can buy the smallest item there and you'll be entered to win.

[00:14:40] But you've got to go through that link.

[00:14:41] OK, so if you're watching on X, you may have to follow up on Rumble or something along those lines.

[00:14:49] I guess I could pop the comment into X.

[00:14:53] I'll do a post about it for you guys.

[00:14:57] Jay Ferg says, where can I get a.

[00:15:01] Pressurized Jerry can they sell them everywhere and get it on Amazon.

[00:15:04] They sell it on Amazon.

[00:15:05] It's an awesome tool, man.

[00:15:07] It's awesome.

[00:15:09] I think it's like 100 bucks, 120 bucks, maybe something like that.

[00:15:12] It's a little bit of an investment.

[00:15:15] But again, these things put you at ease.

[00:15:17] I can't tell you the value of the at ease over the last few days with the snow coming in and everyone's freaking out because it's Richmond, Virginia.

[00:15:27] Then you got power outages and everyone's freaking out because it's cold.

[00:15:31] And then you got water outages and everyone's freaking out because they're thirsty.

[00:15:34] You know what I mean?

[00:15:35] And all that kind of stuff.

[00:15:36] It just.

[00:15:39] We've been doing this thing at the Prepper Broadcasting Network for a very long time.

[00:15:44] And a lot of times we're trying to get people to prepare for big things.

[00:15:50] You know, think like like moments in history where water goes off and doesn't come back on.

[00:15:57] And sometimes I forget about the value of teaching people how simply they can weather these types of storms because these types of storms are the ones that kick your ass.

[00:16:07] Right. It's you don't spend all your time day in and day out worrying about the apocalypse.

[00:16:13] If you're that kind of person, you'll wind up doing a podcast on the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:16:19] But most people just get beat to death by situations like this.

[00:16:24] They get beat to death by the fact that, oh, we have a water outage.

[00:16:28] We have a power outage.

[00:16:30] We and here I am.

[00:16:31] I don't have any power.

[00:16:31] I don't have any water.

[00:16:32] I don't have a generator.

[00:16:33] I don't have this.

[00:16:34] And these are minimal investments, man.

[00:16:37] Minimal.

[00:16:38] You know, minimal investments.

[00:16:42] Now, with all that's going on here in Richmond.

[00:16:47] I haven't been paying as much attention to what's happening on the West Coast, maybe as I should be.

[00:16:54] Or maybe not.

[00:16:55] I mean, those fires won't touch me.

[00:16:56] I can promise you that.

[00:16:58] But California is on fire.

[00:17:00] It's pretty impressive.

[00:17:03] What's not impressive at all.

[00:17:06] Let me see.

[00:17:07] I could bring our Twitter up.

[00:17:10] Because I know if I do, I'll be able to show you guys some video.

[00:17:13] I can bring our Twitter up.

[00:17:16] What I can't understand, guys.

[00:17:18] And again, this goes back to like talking about things like bugging out.

[00:17:26] Right?

[00:17:27] So we talk about bugging out.

[00:17:30] Bugging out from the alien invasion.

[00:17:32] You know what I mean?

[00:17:33] But sometimes a bug out where you really gain, where you really make a difference in your life.

[00:17:39] Oh, God. That's funny.

[00:17:41] Right off the top.

[00:17:42] X is fun lately, man.

[00:17:44] But I'm looking for fires.

[00:17:46] What?

[00:17:47] What?

[00:17:48] Oh, no.

[00:17:49] See, this is what makes me angry.

[00:17:51] Are these dog owners, man.

[00:17:55] These dog owners drive me crazy.

[00:17:59] They put their...

[00:18:00] It's one thing to be an idiot and put yourself in harm's way.

[00:18:03] But it's another thing completely to put your animal in harm's way.

[00:18:08] So these guys, like I said, are...

[00:18:12] Where they're really blowing me away.

[00:18:14] So I have a lot of violence on my ex.

[00:18:17] I watch basically disaster stuff.

[00:18:18] And then people getting in fights.

[00:18:21] This guy here.

[00:18:22] Perfect example.

[00:18:25] His whole war...

[00:18:26] He's in an inferno.

[00:18:27] And he's got an N95 mask on and is deciding to leave now.

[00:18:32] Now, if this happened while they were sleeping, that's one thing.

[00:18:36] Maybe it did.

[00:18:36] It is nighttime.

[00:18:38] But what blows my mind is how many videos there are of people who are capital F fucked.

[00:18:46] You know what I mean?

[00:18:47] And because they were, for some reason, they were waiting around.

[00:18:51] You know, I see...

[00:18:52] I got videos of people in broad daylight.

[00:18:54] Look at this.

[00:18:58] What is this?

[00:19:02] Everybody's putting out these crazy videos of flashing lights.

[00:19:05] Every video now has a flashing light in it.

[00:19:09] Look at this guy.

[00:19:10] Oh, same guy.

[00:19:13] But you see this kind of situation that they're fleeing here?

[00:19:16] And I know these things move fast.

[00:19:17] The winds were moving at like...

[00:19:19] I think the winds were moving at 99 miles per hour.

[00:19:26] Jay Ferg said she saw the one of the two guys in the dog trapped in the house surrounded by fire.

[00:19:31] I wanted to kill those guys.

[00:19:32] I'm just kidding.

[00:19:34] No, it made me so mad.

[00:19:36] It made me so mad because the dog's looking up at him.

[00:19:38] And he's...

[00:19:39] The dog's like, dude, what do we do?

[00:19:42] And these two guys are surrounded by a fire.

[00:19:44] Like I said, if they woke up and that was what they woke up to, that's a different thing.

[00:19:49] But even then, look, if I go to bed and there is active wildfire stuff going on, I'm out of there.

[00:19:56] And look, I see the houses these people are living in.

[00:19:59] It ain't like they're broke.

[00:20:00] It ain't like they're like, well, I can't scrape up enough money to get to a motel for the night.

[00:20:06] I can't drive due east for a few hours.

[00:20:10] You know?

[00:20:13] It's rough.

[00:20:16] It is a nightmare though.

[00:20:17] You look at it.

[00:20:18] It is a nightmare.

[00:20:21] It doesn't happen in a vacuum, by the way.

[00:20:28] End Wokeness is a great, uh, a great X channel to watch.

[00:20:32] Here where they got the UFOs flying through the air.

[00:20:36] You can't trust that kind of stuff.

[00:20:38] Who the hell knows?

[00:20:40] But yeah, man.

[00:20:42] Terrible.

[00:20:44] But it's just a reminder.

[00:20:46] You know what I mean?

[00:20:47] Crystals are demonic.

[00:20:48] Then every once in a while you get one of these.

[00:20:51] What the hell are you talking about?

[00:20:53] Crystals are demonic.

[00:20:55] Every once in a while you get, uh, you get the sort of.

[00:21:02] The real dig into the real like, like, how, why are we here?

[00:21:07] You know what I mean?

[00:21:08] Why are we here?

[00:21:09] Why is this happening all the time?

[00:21:12] Prevailing thought is.

[00:21:15] Global warming, right?

[00:21:17] That's prevailing thought.

[00:21:19] Um, I remember wildfires years ago and we're, we're all.

[00:21:24] Uh, you can look it up.

[00:21:27] I don't remember what year it was.

[00:21:29] It was quite a long time ago, so it's only gotten worse, but it was linked to homeless

[00:21:33] people out there living in encampments in the woods.

[00:21:37] Fire got out of control.

[00:21:38] Wind.

[00:21:39] You know, if you think, if you think that homeless populations and illegal immigrants

[00:21:43] who are seeking to survive in the woods, uh, if you think that they're sitting there

[00:21:50] going like, is it a month we're allowed to burn?

[00:21:53] Are we allowed to burn this month or no?

[00:21:55] Like they don't care.

[00:21:56] They got to boil water or they got to cook food.

[00:21:58] They don't know their survival out there.

[00:22:01] And you wind up with these kinds of situation.

[00:22:03] Right.

[00:22:03] And you know, the other thing is they don't, they won't in California, they won't let them,

[00:22:06] the people in the forestry service manage the forest property.

[00:22:10] You can't touch the forest.

[00:22:12] This is my favorite thing.

[00:22:15] It's not my favorite thing because it's terrible what people are living through, but it's one

[00:22:18] of those things.

[00:22:19] It's just so silly that it makes me like apoplectic to be honest.

[00:22:27] You can't take out the dead wood because if you take out the dead wood, you're affecting

[00:22:33] the environment.

[00:22:34] You can't get out all the fallen wood and all this tinder that is surrounding these areas,

[00:22:41] right?

[00:22:41] And these breaks in the woods, you can't do that.

[00:22:44] You're not allowed to do that.

[00:22:45] It's bad for the environment, right?

[00:22:48] Then the whole environment catches on fire and everything in there dies.

[00:22:53] It's, it's not like, all right, we're going to, we're going to clear some areas here, some

[00:22:58] distance, some space.

[00:23:00] We're going to clear out the dead wood.

[00:23:01] We're going to clear out the tinder.

[00:23:04] So we can mitigate the fires to some degree, right?

[00:23:09] Can't do that.

[00:23:11] Then the whole world catches on fire.

[00:23:13] Every squirrel, chipmunk, toad, precious turtle species is incinerated.

[00:23:22] And we sit here and go like, oh, global warming.

[00:23:24] Yeah, that's it.

[00:23:26] That's what it was.

[00:23:27] I feel like the state of California will release such a massive sigh of relief when Gavin Newsom

[00:23:37] leaves.

[00:23:38] If there's a state of California left, we'll say the northern part, I guess, right?

[00:23:44] I don't know.

[00:23:46] It's, it's perilous, man.

[00:23:48] It's, it's, it's terrible.

[00:23:50] I cannot tell you like how important it is to really get into prepping in 2025.

[00:23:57] Like if this is new to you, I know a lot of the listening audience, the podcast audience,

[00:24:01] you guys have been with us a long time.

[00:24:03] You guys are as prepared, if not more prepared than even the hosts.

[00:24:09] These types of things, evacuation, water crisis, these roll down the backs of a lot of people

[00:24:15] who've been with us for a long time.

[00:24:17] And, and, you know, it's a beautiful thing.

[00:24:19] It really is a beautiful thing.

[00:24:23] But if, if you really want to kick it into high gear and you're saying to yourself, you

[00:24:28] know, there's something to what these crazy ass preppers are talking about.

[00:24:34] You got to join PBN family.com.

[00:24:37] Siri, what we, even if you don't want to spend the money, listen to the prepper broadcasting

[00:24:40] network.

[00:24:41] You know, this is our bread and butter, man.

[00:24:43] This is what we talk about in all of our shows to one degree or another.

[00:24:47] You know, we might be talking about, uh, herbal medicine on our great show, herbal medicine

[00:24:53] for preppers.

[00:24:54] We might be talking about, you know, spinning fibers with Jay Ferg on Phoenix survival.

[00:24:59] We might be talking about firearms, dedicated topics on the gunmetal armory.

[00:25:04] It's it all varies, man.

[00:25:06] News.

[00:25:06] You get the news blitz with the Patriot power hour.

[00:25:09] We have tremendous shows.

[00:25:10] The matter of facts guys always do a great job.

[00:25:13] Carl B always does a tremendous job on the strange truth.

[00:25:17] It's it's an out.

[00:25:18] And Dave Jones is is the diamond in the rough.

[00:25:20] He's always popping his head in talking about great stuff.

[00:25:25] It really is kind of ground zero for for preparedness.

[00:25:29] And you get multiple.

[00:25:31] What's great about PBN is you get multiple, uh, opinions.

[00:25:36] In other words, it's not the James Walton show.

[00:25:39] Do what I say, because what I do is right.

[00:25:42] You know what I mean?

[00:25:42] There are people on the network do things completely different to me.

[00:25:45] Which is great.

[00:25:47] That's exactly what I want.

[00:25:49] I don't I don't want I don't know everything, man.

[00:25:51] I want to know more stuff, new stuff.

[00:25:54] So I'm always learning from the host.

[00:25:56] I'm always learning from the audience.

[00:25:58] You know what you're seeing in the background here is our membership website.

[00:26:04] Okay.

[00:26:05] We have probably one of the most affordable memberships for now on the market.

[00:26:10] I can't promise you it's going to stay this price forever.

[00:26:15] Because $60 for the year is a great deal.

[00:26:19] You know what I mean?

[00:26:20] Really, you could probably charge $60 for the the items right here at the top of the page.

[00:26:26] You know what I mean?

[00:26:27] We've got the annual preparedness master schedule.

[00:26:30] This thing.

[00:26:31] If prepping is a is a struggle for you because you forget because you're busy.

[00:26:36] This thing allows you to look at where you should be in the year.

[00:26:40] Water storage food storage, you know, fire drills, all that kind of stuff.

[00:26:45] What have you done?

[00:26:46] What do you need to do?

[00:26:48] Uh, outfitting a homestead with chickens, goats, gardens, whatever food storage, dry food storage right here.

[00:26:57] Uh, breaking down your five gallon bucket food storage by calorie huge.

[00:27:03] You can go to PBN family.com right now and get this incredible book for free nuclear war prepared, not scared.

[00:27:10] If you look at Ukraine and Russia and you get nervous, you think start thinking like what happens when nukes start going?

[00:27:17] That's what you need.

[00:27:19] Now the bulk of what we do at PBN family.com is on the, uh, members content side podcasts videos, you know what I mean?

[00:27:28] And this is the kind of stuff we talk about hammer talk is our blacksmithing show.

[00:27:34] Great.

[00:27:35] We've got a great new guy.

[00:27:36] Fire will forge doing awesome content for us.

[00:27:39] Uh, urban and suburban recon.

[00:27:41] How well do you know your area?

[00:27:43] Iranian drone mothership war tests, uh, war tests.

[00:27:48] All, uh, this is a really good podcast.

[00:27:51] It's a funny picture, but intrepid commanders, bizarre top five preps, you know that they will blow your mind.

[00:27:59] They will blow your mind.

[00:28:00] The cubicle escape plan podcast is all about entrepreneurship.

[00:28:04] It's a great one, man.

[00:28:06] We got tons of stuff.

[00:28:07] Okay. I don't want to turn it into a commercial and infomercial, but it just is what it is.

[00:28:11] You know, when the problem is when we find ourself in a situation where.

[00:28:18] Thousands of probably millions now of Americans are suffering.

[00:28:24] I don't know what else to say.

[00:28:25] You know what I mean?

[00:28:26] I'm trying to bring out my, my heaviest hitters, my best weapons.

[00:28:30] I'm trying to bring out my best weapons for you and say, look, this is how you deal with this stuff.

[00:28:35] You know what I mean? This is how you deal with it.

[00:28:39] That's the best I could do.

[00:28:40] I can't show up at your house and wake you up in the middle of the night and say, hey, fill some things up with water, you know, or wake you up and say, hey, what, what are you going to do when the, when you get an alert that a fires nearby?

[00:28:51] What's your game plan? What do you have packed up and ready to go? Where are your important documents? What? Right.

[00:28:59] So. It's tough, man. It's hard not to be a little salesy. Right. First of all, it pays the bills for us so we can keep doing shows like this.

[00:29:09] Every membership is a fundamentally pays for the proper broadcasting network.

[00:29:16] Cubicle escape plan podcast. If you really want to break down on bugging out, like if you, if you have a game plan for bugging out or you want, you want to build a game plan for bugging out like this series is a six hour long, six part series where I explore the bug out.

[00:29:35] I think better than anyone else, really, because it's an hour on each proportion.

[00:29:40] What could go right? What could go wrong? What you should do, what you shouldn't do and all that kind of stuff. And it's not.

[00:29:48] I just think that not a lot of people take a six hour look at the bug out.

[00:29:52] And I think. The bug out requires everybody's individual bug out requires like at least a six hour look, you know what I mean?

[00:30:04] So we got courses, we got discounts for our members. We got some really great courses.

[00:30:09] 21st century home security, a must this day and age, man, a must this day.

[00:30:15] We've let the entire the entirety of the world permeate our southern border now.

[00:30:20] And we've got a whole new, you know.

[00:30:22] A whole new set of threats to concern ourselves with.

[00:30:27] So.

[00:30:28] Go to PBN family dot com, sign up, become a member today, make a sixty dollar investment.

[00:30:33] And if you want to get started, just go here, start your membership.

[00:30:37] Boom, you're in.

[00:30:38] But like I said.

[00:30:40] Jay Ferg is making a binder.

[00:30:43] Binders are awesome.

[00:30:44] Binders are a reference.

[00:30:46] One thing that preppers, even preppers do that gets them in trouble is they become.

[00:30:54] The holders of all information.

[00:30:57] Yeah, if I'm out there and I'm on my own, I know all the things.

[00:31:00] I got all the skills.

[00:31:02] If I drop dead five minutes into the collapse, what is my family?

[00:31:06] No.

[00:31:06] What can they what can they refer?

[00:31:08] What is their reference?

[00:31:10] You know what I mean?

[00:31:12] A lot of people not prepare for that.

[00:31:14] A lot of people really unprepared for that situation.

[00:31:17] So all those things, you know, they all make a difference.

[00:31:20] Jay Ferg, I can't wait to see the binder.

[00:31:22] The binder is going to be top tier, I'm sure.

[00:31:27] So, yeah, it is what it is, folks.

[00:31:33] Anxiety is real.

[00:31:34] You know what I mean?

[00:31:35] It's a real thing.

[00:31:37] It's a real thing.

[00:31:40] We're living through times that that really test people.

[00:31:45] They really test people in a number of ways because we are more aware of events like these, even when they don't affect us.

[00:31:52] We get it.

[00:31:53] We get a boots on the every American gets a boots on the ground.

[00:31:57] Look at what people are dealing with in the Palisades right now and on the West Coast of California.

[00:32:03] That's emotionally hard to deal with.

[00:32:05] You know, this raises anxiety.

[00:32:07] And then you have your own issues.

[00:32:08] You know, we're in the dead of winter.

[00:32:10] God only knows what could happen.

[00:32:11] We've got to put an end to wars.

[00:32:13] We've got, like, 2025 is going to be a doozy, man.

[00:32:17] The quickest way to relieving anxiety is prepping.

[00:32:24] It's just where we are right now.

[00:32:26] I don't think it's always been that way.

[00:32:28] But I can tell you right now, like, if you're overburdened by anxiety, you should work out.

[00:32:35] You should definitely work out.

[00:32:36] You should throw some kettlebells around.

[00:32:38] We have a whole fitness section on our membership side, too, called Prepper Fit and Health.

[00:32:43] Get involved.

[00:32:45] You should work out.

[00:32:47] And you should also start prepping hard.

[00:32:51] Build and fortify your home so that you know, in the worst-case scenario, you can stay put.

[00:32:59] People are getting crazy in your neighborhood.

[00:33:02] People are getting crazy in your neck of the woods.

[00:33:04] Whatever the situation is, you can stay put, stay safe, be prepared.

[00:33:08] Your home is secure.

[00:33:09] You can eat.

[00:33:09] You can drink.

[00:33:11] Right?

[00:33:12] Extended duration.

[00:33:16] I'm just telling you from firsthand experience, there are things that I've done as a prepper that have lifted immense anxiety off my plate.

[00:33:26] Food storage being one of them.

[00:33:28] Carrying a concealed weapon being another one of them.

[00:33:31] Like, there are things that make a huge difference.

[00:33:33] When you're living in a world like the one we're living in.

[00:33:37] Get to it, folks.

[00:33:38] Get to it.

[00:33:39] You come over to PBN.

[00:33:41] The other thing you'll be greeted by, you know, I want to show you that right now.

[00:33:46] The other thing you'll be greeted by are our daily routines.

[00:33:50] So we're in our January daily routine right now.

[00:33:54] And these are designed just to keep you honest.

[00:33:57] That's what they're for.

[00:33:59] I don't know if this will show up or not.

[00:34:00] I don't know if I can show you a file on StreamYard or not.

[00:34:05] But we'll try it.

[00:34:11] These daily routines, man, they're critical.

[00:34:14] Like, if you're the type of person who's saying, I want to get better at certain things.

[00:34:18] I want to get in shape.

[00:34:20] Right?

[00:34:21] Slides and PDFs.

[00:34:24] Video file.

[00:34:26] Let's see.

[00:34:26] Maybe I can.

[00:34:30] A window.

[00:34:31] Ah, there she is.

[00:34:35] So at the moment, we are going through our calm within chaos routine that separates days between day A and day B.

[00:34:42] And as you can see, there's a variety of things going on there.

[00:34:45] Right?

[00:34:46] You've got fitness stuff.

[00:34:49] You've got faith and religion stuff.

[00:34:52] You've got prepping stuff.

[00:34:54] And these are all daily practice.

[00:34:56] Dry fire.

[00:34:56] These are all daily practice things that you can do.

[00:34:59] You know what I mean?

[00:35:01] Because you have to do things daily.

[00:35:04] In order to keep up with them.

[00:35:06] In order to get better at them.

[00:35:07] Like, you can't say, I want to be better at shooting my weapon.

[00:35:14] So what I'm going to do is go to the range four times this year.

[00:35:18] It's not going to work.

[00:35:20] Right?

[00:35:22] I think I have to sign off.

[00:35:24] My security system is going off.

[00:35:28] And based on the howling, I don't know that they're going to calm down.

[00:35:34] Do you have an active furry security system like I do?

[00:35:39] Four-legged?

[00:35:41] I think I've spoke my piece anyway, folks.

[00:35:45] Listen.

[00:35:46] You can watch YouTube videos.

[00:35:48] You can listen to other people talk prepping and stuff like that if you want.

[00:35:52] What we do here at PBN is get better.

[00:35:55] We get better.

[00:35:57] You know what I mean?

[00:35:57] Year over year.

[00:35:59] Dave Jones, sort of our wise man, I guess he is now.

[00:36:06] He has a saying, and we all live by it.

[00:36:09] And that's establish a position and improve upon it daily.

[00:36:13] That's what these routines are all about.

[00:36:15] I mean, these routines are all about.

[00:36:17] You know what I mean?

[00:36:19] What do you want to do?

[00:36:21] Do you want to limit the anxiety in your life in 2025?

[00:36:24] Or do you want to wake up every day and look at the news and pant?

[00:36:29] You know what I mean?

[00:36:30] What am I going to do?

[00:36:32] I know.

[00:36:33] I got to.

[00:36:34] You don't have to live like that.

[00:36:35] Trust me.

[00:36:37] Trust me.

[00:36:38] It's not just me.

[00:36:39] It's me and many, many, many other people.

[00:36:42] Oh, by the way, J. Ferg, if you're still with us, you got to look this up.

[00:36:48] This is a purely personal message right now.

[00:36:52] But if I have her ear, I'm going to take advantage of it.

[00:36:56] Apparently, Zuckerberg was putting AI profiles into Facebook, which kind of sounds like misleading the shareholders.

[00:37:06] Right?

[00:37:06] Something along those lines.

[00:37:07] I think you get in trouble for that.

[00:37:08] Maybe.

[00:37:09] I don't know.

[00:37:09] He's probably got a great legal team.

[00:37:10] But apparently, he's putting AI profiles into Facebook because Facebook's dead.

[00:37:15] You know what I mean?

[00:37:17] And one of the AI profiles, J. Ferg, is a woman named Jane Austen.

[00:37:23] And I just thought that was so funny when I saw it that I had to let you know before I sign off.

[00:37:29] All right, folks.

[00:37:30] I'm going to get out of here.

[00:37:31] A quick word from our sponsors on the outro.

[00:37:35] I do appreciate you guys.

[00:37:37] It's been a great show.

[00:37:38] Thank you all for watching.

[00:37:40] Like, subscribe, do all that stuff, you know.

[00:37:42] And to the podcast audience, man, you guys are number one.

[00:37:47] Long have you been listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, and you've made us what we are.

[00:37:52] And I just really appreciate you.

[00:37:54] Okay?

[00:37:54] Appreciate you all.

[00:37:55] But get to pbnfamily.com.

[00:37:58] Okay?

[00:37:58] For those of you who are new, I see we got a lot of new people in.

[00:38:01] Please join.

[00:38:04] Stick with us.

[00:38:05] Push through.

[00:38:06] Work hard.

[00:38:07] Do the routines.

[00:38:09] And in no time at all, you'll be saying to yourself, oh, I understand what he meant by calm within chaos.

[00:38:16] All right, folks.

[00:38:17] I will talk to you soon, man.

[00:38:19] It's been a pleasure.

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