Surviving America 017

[00:00:00] Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived.

[00:00:25] What do you think of that intro? Holy moly. Now that's something right there, folks. That is so welcome into Surviving America. Let me ditch the headphones. I got nothing to hear today. God, the future has already arrived. PB and family. The future of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I don't even know what it could be, to be honest with you.

[00:00:54] I have no clue just how good it could get here. This is one example. You know what I mean? Just one example. So, all the gloating aside, why did I call this show up? Why did I name the show Surviving America? Do you see the headline over here? Bomb Squad Responds After Contractors Spot Real Looking Gun and Explosives.

[00:01:20] This is the worst headline you could write for a situation like this. City worker who once threatened to shoot up CFD. Chicago Fire Department Arrested Again. So, here we are, right? Here we are in this situation. How do these active shooter things happen in America so much? You got a guy who says, I'm going to shoot up the fire department. Oh, he's good.

[00:01:50] Send him back to his apartment. Let him make bombs. I just thought about the bombing in New Orleans and the thing that happened in Vegas, said Melissa Carraway, who was in the building working on radiators inside the apartment. Now, look at this stuff, man. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks like an IR laser on that AR-15 right there. We got some dynamite timers.

[00:02:20] I don't know what these TGRI canisters are from the Ninja Turtles. What looks to be C4. Now, I don't even know where you get stuff like this, but that looks pretty legit. That doesn't look too cosplay to me. There's a trigger to that explosive. I heard about this, by the way, on Instagram from our incredible lifetime member, Jay Panetto.

[00:02:48] And like, nothing else. For the rest of the day, I heard nothing else about it. None. None-ya. I heard nothing. And we're looking at this situation. Hey, Jay, good morning. The coffee's phenomenal. But I heard nothing about it. And this is such a crazy situation. I don't think this is the situation either. I don't think this guy's sitting here putting this stuff together on his own.

[00:03:16] I don't think this is a lone wolf situation. There was a quote in this article I wanted to read you guys. The man is in custody but has not been charged. They say he's suicidal. This is the part that's weird. A relative called police back then to say they came home, made threats of shooting, a shooting spree at the fire academy, gathered several guns and left. Quote, they say he's suicidal and depressed.

[00:03:44] The police dispatcher announced on the over the radio in 2022 he was terminated from his employment today. This was bad. This was the initial threat to kill people. Records show a man by the same name was hired by a different city agency after 2022 threat against the fire academy. How do you hire him again in the same... I mean, you look at these photos, man. I'm no bomb expert. I don't even know how to rig something like this. But that looks pretty legit to me.

[00:04:14] I look at that AR-15. It's got a lot of things on it that are unnerving. And then I look and see a bunch of Pokemon stickers next to it. What the hell is that? We got dynamite rigged. We got C4. We got AR-15s. And Pikachu. Not sure. There's a suitcase with explosives that said C4. And I googled the pictures. Looks like military stuff.

[00:04:44] I saw a big rifle by a window. I said, I'm going to call the police. So this is the lady working on the radiators. This is like the crack team of government agencies. The crack team of government agencies had no idea this guy existed, even though he existed. And the police arrested him. He got fired. The police arrested him. He said he was going to shoot a bunch of people up and kill him.

[00:05:13] The city hires him again. Or the state of Chicago hires him again. And they don't know nothing about the guy. They have no eyes on the guy whatsoever, even though he already claimed he was going to shoot up the fire department, the academy. Luckily, the HVAC lady shows up. He's working on the radiator. Takes. Does a quick look around.

[00:05:37] And, oh, I'm surrounded by explosives in a maniac's apartment. How about that? What an amazing situation we find ourselves in. Now, this was presented to me as a terrorist cell. What I've read thus far, I've seen two sides of the story, so I don't know which one is which. But I think it's a stark reminder of what could be.

[00:06:07] Even if it doesn't turn out, you know, they won't tell you the guy's name, so that's automatically suspect. Right? If his name was James Walton, they would tell you his name in the article. You know, 38-year-old James Walton. They found a variety of weapons, and he's a supporter of J6. Whatever. You know what I mean? So whenever there's this anonymity, and I know I could go find his name pretty quickly just by looking up the old situation.

[00:06:37] But I always get, you know, what the hell's going on? What's going on here? This is it, folks. This is what you heard on Sean Ryan with the Homeland 2025 attack. Right? And if you haven't heard that podcast, you've got to check it out. I forget the girl's name. Sanders? Sanderson? I don't know. Look it up. Look for a lady talking about terrorism. It's a great show. There's a reason I named this show.

[00:07:07] I used to do a show called The I Am Liberty Show. Most of the listeners out there remember The I Am Liberty Show. It ran for a long time. The Hunter is with us. It ran for a long time. Over on X, too. What's up, man? Be careful over there on X. X is dangerous. My X is just people. I go to X to see how, like, our posts are doing, post stuff. I'm posting a lot more over there now. We've got a great following over there, like 14. We're going on 15,000 people over there.

[00:07:36] And we got this great following over there on X. I roll over there. I post some stuff. I scroll. I don't know why my feed is this way. It must be the things that I watch. But it's just people getting knocked out and killed. That's it. It's people in fights. People getting knocked out. People getting pushed in front of trains. People getting stabbed to death. Wow. It's always a nice reminder, you know, that you're surrounded by demons.

[00:08:06] Not everybody. A lot of great people out there. The world wouldn't work if it wasn't tons of great people, you know. But I think we got a little too wrapped up in that idea that everybody's a nice guy and we just need to calm down the testosterone in the room. Hunter said he thought I was going to say we got 15 followers over there, not 15K. Yeah, we started out. I mean, I don't know.

[00:08:34] So, G-Man really built the following up, the creator of the Prepper Broadcasting Network over at Twitter. And then I just kind of auto-posted over there for a long time. But in the last year, I've been nurturing and it's been growing. And I don't know. For us, folks, it's an all-hands-on-deck kind of scenario. You know what I mean? For a while, we played isolationist to the detriment of our growth. We played isolationist.

[00:09:04] We did. And it got us far. What's up? Yup, that's me. Good morning over at X as well. Well, we played isolationist here at PBN for a long time because I was trying to build this, a business, create a business model that would pay the bills and not be cancelable. Okay? And we did that through our membership, right? So, if you want to support us, go to PBNfamily.com and become a member because that's the main source of income, right? Our membership.

[00:09:32] And we built all the infrastructure for that. And then the world became seemingly less of a landmine, of a minefield, rather. Less of a minefield. And it's just better now. It's a situation where we can peek our heads out and say whatever the hell we want to say. I have very few wishes of my hosts.

[00:10:02] You know what I mean? Post regularly and then say exactly what you think because that's where the value is. If you're not saying exactly what you think, what's the value of listening to you? Why would I listen to you? You know what I mean? It's like there's like the – you have like the infomercial where everything is scripted and welcome in and we're going to tell you about the Prepper Broadcasting Network today.

[00:10:30] And then, well, Phil, tell us about your experience. And Phil gets up and he's like, well, I really do enjoy the Prepper Broadcasting. You know what I mean? You have that and then you have like real talk, like real people talking about real things. The reception is bad here. Maybe better on the roof. Oh, is the live messing up for you? Well, try Rumble. Try YouTube. We're on all of them. We are behind enemy lines on YouTube. And they haven't said it.

[00:10:59] They haven't said anything to me. I don't know why. They've said nothing. It's been beautiful. They've said nothing. I got some really cool stuff coming, guys. Really cool stuff coming. I'm going to show you. From the Home Security Superstore. Okay. Another company that we're working with. Really cool. Really cool stuff. I've never messed around with their stuff hands on. So I'm very interested to see.

[00:11:28] I have a couple things. But, you know, like knives and mace and that kind of stuff. See. I have really taken to enjoying weapons of the edged sort. All, you know, all kinds of weapons, really. If you're an American, you live in this country, you should really enjoy weapons. Weaponry. It's good for you. There's a study out there, you know, for the men.

[00:11:57] And handling knives and swords and edged weapons and guns raises your testosterone. Hey, look. I didn't do this study. I didn't. I'll look it up for you if you want me to. If you want me to look it up for you to prove it, I'll look it up for you. But I think it's important. In the age of, you know, the plastic man. Oh, earlier this morning, I was looking at the Robotex. What is it? Robo. What is it? I went on the. I got a story.

[00:12:28] Real Botics. I was on the Real Botics website. If you want to really freak yourself out, if you really want to scare yourself, go to the Real Botics website and see the future wives of your grandkids. And you're going to be like, what? You think we got population decline problems now, Elon Musk? Wait until the Real Botics AI driven robot girls hit the streets. Well, shit. What does that make me?

[00:12:58] What do you mean, Jay Ferg? I don't know. I don't know what you meant by that. Elaborate. But anyway, I was going to find the testosterone article for you. Handling weapons increases testosterone. I don't remember where I heard this. Guns, testosterone and aggression.

[00:13:28] Huffington Post. Oh, see, this seems like a this seems like a trap here. This one seems like a trap. Guns, testosterone and aggression. They're trying to sell the way that it's set up. I mean, this is the study, I guess. Let's see what the radical health post has to say, if I can even read it.

[00:13:58] I'm going to let you guys see what happens when you go to. Oh, Jay Ferg is saying, what is it? What is it? I get you now. Sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. That's good for the ladies to have a little tea. It's a good thing. There's nothing wrong with that. You should know. I love that. You should know how the male brain reacts to handling a gun. This is like that old video they made for marijuana.

[00:14:29] When they were saying like the, what was it called? What was the old marijuana video they made? The devil's weed or whatever it is. I do hate the pot smoking in Richmond. I will tell you that. The pot smoking in Richmond is so out of control. Everywhere I go, I smell it. Everywhere I go, it's pot. And you know where you smell it most? While you're driving with other people. So you can make things legal.

[00:14:57] But that doesn't mean that people are going to use their best judgment. Don't you get that? You should know how the male brain reacts to handling a gun. They're going to turn this into like men and guns evil. I mean, the, the, the, hey, Frankie T McAndrew, professor of psychology at Knox College. Way to go. Right out of the gates. Here's Frankie T. Frankie T. I know.

[00:15:26] I know Frankie T. I know him. He's a, he's a white knight. Right? That's what he is. He's a, uh, I have no doubt. He's a professor of psychology. Men commit over 85% of all homicides. 91% of all same-sex homicides. And 97% of all same-sex homicides in which the victim and killer aren't related to each other. Well, Frankie, we might as well do away with us men then, huh? Just get rid of us all. Get with nothing but a problem. Fundamentally. Right?

[00:15:56] Fire will forge in the house. What is up on Instagram? The man behind. Hammer talk. Which I gotta put up today. You gotta get the safety, uh, hammer talk today. These startling statistics are driven home with each new mass shooting. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. This is not what I'm trying to tell you. Precarious manhood. Oh, I like this Frankie T guy. He's a stand-up comedian. Here's another psychologist.

[00:16:24] Joseph Vandello and Jennifer Bosom have coined the term precarious manhood to describe a dilemma that only men seem to face. In a nutshell, they argue that manhood... Okay, can we see the study? I get it. Men bad. Men bad lock them all up. This has nothing to do with this study I wanted to show you. Competitive drives. Oh, no. Oh, no. Not competitive men.

[00:16:52] Competitive successes or failures in early adult determined a man standing in so good. It was possible to simply hit the reset button. I can't believe this. Now we're into chimpanzee studies. Frankie T likes to hear himself right. This is not... I'm sorry, guys. I fell into a...

[00:17:22] I fell into an absolute liberal trap there. That's what that was. That was... I'm gonna write... I'm gonna write about two and a half thousand words on the evils of men. Even though I'm a man. Two and a half thousand words on the evils of men. And why you... Why we need to make sure that they're only allowed to play with dolls and never play with knives and guns. Look, you can look it up.

[00:17:52] I can't look it up mid-show and do the research. But I'm telling you, studies have been shown handling swords and knives and guns. Yeah. He said it makes men more aggressive. But from a health and physical wellness standpoint, it raises testosterone. And like I said, in a... In the world that we live in, man, which is the world of plastic. And plastic is having an effect on testosterone.

[00:18:20] I think probably lack of sunlight, lack of physical fitness, sitting all day and night, right? All this stuff has an effect. And look, if you could pull out the old MXP and stare down the barrel. Or like I was doing yesterday with our routine, our dry fire routine. Handle your weapons and get a little testosterone boost out of that. It's gotta be better than getting a needle, right? It's gotta be better than getting a needle.

[00:18:51] Jay Fergan chat says, I don't want a girly man. Yeah, the age of the girly man, I think, has come to an end. I think the threat level has... Look, when you got guys in Chicago sitting around listening to the wonderful sounds of a Chicago evening. You know, pow. Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow. And he's up there building C4 explosives with triggers.

[00:19:20] Times have changed, folks. You know? I talked about this on Instagram yesterday. I spent a large chunk of my time on Instagram yesterday talking about just this topic, which is, you know, security has changed. The perception of a secure world has changed here in America. And that's largely why I changed the name of the show from I Am Liberty, which was more of a focus on like... Dude, can I look at my profile, X?

[00:19:50] I'm trying to get a link to my new article for you. Oh, look, I'm live! Let me drop a heart for myself. Yeah, but it's largely changed from the attacks on our rights to the very physical attacks on ourselves and the threats that we face as a nation. Just is what it is, you know? Just is what it is, PBN family. Let's take a look at this new article I published yesterday.

[00:20:19] I largely commission write for prepping blogs. You know what I mean? That's a part of my income. And what it does is it gives me very little time to write, like, full-length articles just the way I want to write them for you. I decided to sit down and do that yesterday. Sit down and write something.

[00:20:45] And in all transparency, you know, what I write is my... What I'm passionate about, but it's also drives traffic, drives income, those kinds of things with a variety of links in the article. That, you know... I'm not at the point financially, and I probably never will be, where I get to sit down in front of a computer and do a broadcast and write an article and write a book and just say,

[00:21:12] Oh, I'll just do whatever I want today because I don't have any concerns for money whatsoever. I don't think I'll ever be there. So things have to make sense and they have to make money to some degree for them to continue, right? For them to be sustainable. So I wrote this article yesterday because this has been on my heart of hearts. I like to... I like to sort of stay in tune with the average American.

[00:21:39] And what kind of sits in my head lately is I have to imagine, especially with the insurance situation in California, like, you could say what you want about the insurance situation, how they were dropping people about wildfires two weeks before the wildfire. You could say what you want about that. Insurance is evil. Gavin Newsom's an idiot. He got everything ruined for people. He, you know, whatever. Climate change, whatever you want to talk about.

[00:22:07] When you get down to the elbow thrashing level of humanity, the people on the street, and look at it through their eyes, they see no FEMA, no insurance, no state intervention, right? Like, this was so ill-prepared for this thing that they couldn't have been less prepared. The only way they could have been less prepared is if they, like, exiled the fire departments altogether.

[00:22:34] Like, all right, fire departments, we're going to pay for you guys to go on vacation on the East Coast, have fun for a couple weeks, come back. It's on the taxpayer. You know what I mean? Enjoy yourself. It's the only way they could have done worse. So in the minds of the average American, I see people who are sitting around going like, I can't depend on this. I can't depend on this. The state's going to fail me. FEMA's going to fail. They're going to send me 700 bucks and say sayonara. The insurance companies might drop me.

[00:23:02] I'm paying all this money into insurance because I've got to have it, and then they might drop me and help me anyway. And it just reiterates the point that I've been making since 2018, which is, you know, preppers are America's answer to disaster. Americans want answers. In just a few years, our entire way of life has changed. It's pretty succinct.

[00:23:29] It's pretty succinct to what we're all dealing with here in this modern age, folks. You know what I mean? Firewall forces whom? I wonder what hormone boosts you get from hitting hot metal with a hammer. Oh, I guarantee you. I guarantee you we do a study on blacksmithing hot. I mean, I feel like just hammers and glowing metal has to boost testosterone, right? It's just got to. You can tell.

[00:23:58] You know, I bet chopping wood, too. I bet chopping wood does. And it could be the culmination of things, right? The physical fitness, the outside, all that kind of stuff. But you can feel these things. You know what I mean? When I first started splitting wood, which was very late. I had never split wood until I was probably – I was a dad already, so I was 25. Never even swung an axe. I didn't know what I was doing.

[00:24:27] I got this composite axe from my brother-in-law for Christmas one year. And, dude, I broke that thing. Not because I'm so, you know, powerful. Because I had no idea what I was doing with it. None. No idea. I completely destroyed that axe in, like, two months. And it would take me, like, hours to split.

[00:24:54] To split, like, one, you know, one log. It was crazy. But, yeah. That was the situation, man. That was – but I could feel something. And I felt it more when I got a wood axe. You know what I mean? When I got a wood axe, I felt it much more. I felt the sense of, like, I'm touching something that is white hot. And it's old. You know what I mean? It's old.

[00:25:24] But not old and frail and, like, crumbly. It's old and hot. And it's, like, connecting me with ancestry. You know what I mean? I'm doing something that people in my bloodline have had to do and have done forever. And, wow, yeah. And you know what I felt that, too? I felt that, again, when I got my recurve bow. I bought a recurve bow for, like, 200 bucks off Craigslist.

[00:25:52] And started shooting that thing around about the same time. When I really was getting infected with prepping and survivalism. I started shooting that bow, man. And I remember standing out. I'd stand out. I got room out back where I would shoot it. You know, about 20 yards or something like that. And I would stand out there and I would shoot that thing. And I'd feel that same electricity. That same connection.

[00:26:17] That, like, you know, I'm touching that third rail here of ancestry. Like, pulling back the string. Taking aim. Firing the arrow. And doing something that people in my lineage have done forever. You know what I mean? Forever. Who knows how long? Like, who knows how far back shooting bows and arrows goes.

[00:26:43] And how inextricably linked to your lineage it is. You have to remember, like, in order for you to be here. Somebody in your family had to be pretty good at shooting a bow. So we talk about home security, survival kits, methodically making your way off grid in the article. That's a good take, man. That's a really good take.

[00:27:08] Because what you need to understand, knowing you are dangerous, says Firewolf Forge. I think that's a good call. That's a good take. That's carrying a weapon. That's training and carrying with a firearm. Right? Training with and carrying a firearm. That's when you know you're safe. That's when you feel different.

[00:27:36] You feel different around groups. You feel different in society. You feel different. I felt different the moment I started carrying. And it had nothing to do with, like, squaring off. But it had everything to do with this, what Firewolf is talking about in chat. It had everything to do with this, like, void of what happens in a violent altercation.

[00:28:01] For a guy like me, who avoided violence at all costs growing up, you know, I was on track. I might as well play track and field because that was my number one self-defense strategy. You know what I mean? That was it. So you get to adulthood and you're like, I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen. You know what I mean? If things get crazy. Because I've just taken off.

[00:28:29] And then you learn how to fight and you learn how to carry a firearm. And all of a sudden, that big void out there in front of you turns into, like, this is what's going to happen. Like, now you know what's going to happen. You know what options you have. You know what you're good at, what you're not good at. You know that there are, you know, if there's a problem standing in front of you, You've got several steps that you're going to take to deal with that problem. You know, two-legged problems.

[00:29:01] And that's been one of the greatest investments I ever made. One of the great investments of all time in my life was going from completely, like, The best way I can put it. This is where I was. Okay? This is where I was. 2009. All right? So I'm 23. 23 years old.

[00:29:29] I buy this canvas, also off Craigslist, canvas punching bag, right? And I hang it in my little shed. And this is at a different house. And I hang it in my little shed and I'm looking at it and I go, I don't know how to punch. I don't know how to punch. Like, I knew how to, like, thrust my fist out. You know what I mean?

[00:29:57] But I could tell in doing that that that wasn't working. You know what I mean? That was not working at all. So it was this really wild situation where I was like, whoa. I don't know how to throw a punch. Like, this is crazy. And if I don't know how to throw a punch, what? I got learning to do. You know? And from 2009 till now, it's been an awesome journey, man.

[00:30:26] It's been an awesome journey with self-defense. It's mixed martial arts, jujitsu, Muay Thai, boxing, all that kind of stuff. Just, it all eliminates that weirdness of going out in public as a man and being around other men that maybe you don't know or maybe you don't trust. You know, all of a sudden it's like, okay.

[00:30:50] If things get kinetic, I know how to evade and I know how to use my body to hurt people. It's not that you want to hurt people. Trust me. I go the rest of my life without ever being in a fight. I'm good with that. I'm good with that. I have no desire to get into that kind of an interaction. That's the majority of people. But growing up, we were kind of taught like, that's enough.

[00:31:20] You know what I mean? In other words, like, just avoid, be nice, and, you know, don't get into a situation. Like, even the school rules were built backwards. Like, the school rules were like, if you get in a fight, you're both suspended. And I always thought that was the craziest thing. Like, what do you mean? If someone comes up and punches me in the head, and I punch them in the head, we're both suspended.

[00:31:53] What kind of society are we building here? You know what I mean? I don't know. What else, folks? We rocked 32 minutes. I don't even know what happened. I was flying. I was on cloud nine from that intro to the show because for the podcast audience, man, you have to go to Rumble. Rumble or 2X or something like that to watch the intro to Surviving America because it's sweet. I might be able to set it up as the outro, too. Let's see.

[00:32:22] And that'll give everybody who's here now watching a chance to see it. Oh, I think I can. Can I duplicate? Yes, I can. Okay, perfect. So we'll run the outro the same as the intro. Now, I got to get all this stuff off before my other hosts hop on, or they're going to wind up with my intro on their show. And as cool as it is, it's not what they want, you know? What else? Chat, what's going on?

[00:32:51] What else we talking? No, I did not, Jay Ferg. Let me put that in the magic book, actually. I'm going to put Ferg Vids because I got to get your show up on Rumble also from Saturday. We got stuff to do. And yeah, we will update our intro. We got... It's cool, man. I've been trying to find time to film commercials. You guys probably don't want to hear that. But I don't know.

[00:33:20] It is what it is. We have reached a situation where ads really are kind of like the bane of our existence. The free world of everything free has dissipated. And we're left with the reality again. Right? Remember like the age of free? Everything became free. You could listen to music free. Everything was free.

[00:33:47] And then all of a sudden we got to a point where little by little things stopped being free. Remember? Crazy. Like you'd watch... You'd stream music on YouTube. You'd watch stuff online. Netflix. Remember Netflix used to be like a dollar, whatever it was, like six bucks or something. I don't know what it was. Now every streaming service puts ads in your shows. Even though you pay for it. Like pay more.

[00:34:16] Pay more and there'll be no ads. It's absolutely insane. But you know, that's the nature... Unfortunately, that's the nature of like the weird corporation thing that we do. Right? Like if you build a business on better, better, better, better all the time, then costs go up. I think they should... I think instead of having like shareholders, when you put a business plan together,

[00:34:46] you should just figure out like what's the ceiling? Like what's the goal? Create a goal. Instead of a limitless amount of profit. I mean, if you want. You can do whatever the hell you want. You're in America. If I were to sit down, like if we really started making money here at PBN, got a bunch of followers and, you know, big sponsors making all kinds of money.

[00:35:09] What I would do is I would sit down and say, if I had the ability to pay all the hosts a really good salary so they could say to hell with work and pay myself enough that I would be happy and content, which really wouldn't be that much. And maintenance and improvements and graphics and audio and all that kind of stuff, equipment.

[00:35:34] I'd cost it all out and say, look, like let's get to this amount of money. And the only adjustment we make from there is like cost of living. You know what I mean? As opposed to why can't we make double the profit? Why can't you know what I mean? Because that's how you wind up in a situation where you have a great streaming service like Amazon Prime or Netflix and you just.

[00:36:02] Well, now we're just going to put three minutes of ads several times in your movie. I don't know. It is what it is. I've been playing around with this solo one man kit. It's kind of funny, the one man kit thing, because for those of you who are, I'll give you a good gauge of where you're at in preparedness and survival by looking at this kit. I'll give you a good metric.

[00:36:27] OK, you look at this thing, this kit right here, you look at the water, you look at the food, you look at the shelter, you look at the bag itself, the tools and so on. Some people look at this thing and say, wow, that's just enough to get me through. You know what I mean? And other people look at this thing.

[00:36:51] And other people look at this thing and go. Last in this thing.

[00:37:20] Because it's got a ferro rod in it. It's got a big ferro rod in it. It's got a lighter in it. Right. It's got a decent shelter in it for the price. And it's got food that could be rationed. Right. That'd probably be your biggest struggle. Right. Food and water. Just with this. But I think this kit even comes with aqua tabs in the IFAC there. I think the IFAC. Oh, and you've got the you've got the water bottle. Yeah.

[00:37:47] I mean, I guess your biggest struggle, particularly in the winter, would be food. This kit's going to cover you with the majority of issues. Two things. Two things you'll struggle with. Turn a 24 hour man one man kit into like a week kit. Firewood. Depending on how sturdy that shovel is. But but even so, it's still firewood's going to be tough. Gathering it, you know, splitting and all that kind of stuff.

[00:38:16] You don't have a you don't have a legitimate axe. Or folding saw. But again, it's a 24 hour kit. I'm just saying if I were to say, let me take this thing to a week where my struggles would be. In the winter in particular, be food and be fire. Long term fire. You know what I mean? But then again, you do spend that when you're when you're setting up camp in winter.

[00:38:42] There's a lot of wood management and that wood management keeps you warm. You know, it really helps keep you warm. So what else we got, folks? Oh, if you like this thing, I've got a link to it down below. Lima Tango Survival in the show description. These guys are great, man. You know, it's just a great a great little business doing good things. Getting people prepared.

[00:39:11] Firewolf Forge says, dream job gear tester. Give it to me. I'll break it. I like the sounds of it, man. We're doing more with gear this year. We're doing way more with gear this year. There's no doubt about it. Let's see about this massive sunspot. Because I heard from Sarah to Hathaway.

[00:39:41] Is this it? Seven months ago. Nineteen hours ago. No, this is a video. I heard from Sarah that there's a massive... Let's look it up here in the chat. Shall we? We have this back of the... The back channel chat here, man. It's outrageous, the stuff we have. Let's see here. Oh my god, it's going crazy.

[00:40:12] Sarah the Hathaway. I watch a bunch of shows. I watch a bunch of ads for shows. Is this it? Yeah, I hear it. Oh, it's from Carl Brown, actually. The Strange Truth. The man behind the Strange Truth. This thing right here is... Where are we at? Yeah, there we is. This sunspot is epic.

[00:40:44] All over social media, people are talking about an absolutely enormous coronal hole that spans a quarter of the circumference of the sun. A huge coronal hole spanning a quarter of the circumference of the sun is opening, allowing unusually fast solar winds to head towards Earth. NASA reported that a massive coronal hole recently opened. I want to see if we can get a video. I mean, I appreciate you, Carl B. Hey, Carl B's got some... He's got some awesome stuff going on.

[00:41:14] He's got some prepper tips of the day. Coronal hole. Let's go with that. How are you guys with keywords? The key to... Mass air. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Oh, we got India news. Oh my god, it is enormous. Wow. Let me share this with you guys. Let me share this with you guys. Firewolf Forge calls it a sun fart. Not bad. Not bad.

[00:41:47] Yeah, there's a lot of things they leave out of the old climate change conversation, Firewolf Forge. You see that thing? You can't comprehend that freaking coronal hole. You can't comprehend it. I think there's something like... What's it say? Carl B put it in there about... There's 1.3 million Earths inside the sun. You could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the sun.

[00:42:16] Now look at that thing. Look at that thing. See, they got eggs on the other side now making me hungry. Sorry. That's bananas. Okay? That's absolutely bananas. I'm telling you right now. We don't know shit about the sun. We know nothing. Like, we're playing this weird game where we think we know everything. That's the game that humans play. They play the game where like, oh, we know everything. You know? You rub...

[00:42:46] You rub... What? Some kind of leaf combination into the wound. And that's the best way to heal a wound. Until we figure out a better way. Eggs, bananas. Yeah, man. All of that. Fire Wolf Forge. I know. I'm not eating till noon today. I'm not eating till noon today. I've committed to a... I've committed to something else. I think it might be a two-meal situation.

[00:43:17] In 2025. Most days. I don't know. I don't feel like I need to eat like that. You know what I mean? So, I talked to this gentleman. From Factor X. Now, I'm just telling you right off the clip. There's nothing to buy here. Okay? So, I'm not really selling anything. He's not really selling anything yet. But I want to tell you about this backpack by Factor X. Because it's really pretty cool. And as you can see...

[00:43:47] They've set something cool up for you guys. It's factorxequipment.com slash PBN. Factor X. The letter X. Equipment.com slash PBN. I'll put the link around. Don't worry. Matter of fact, I could probably pop it in the chat. That would help. You're going to hear about this backpack from us for a little while.

[00:44:14] What it's capable of is protecting your goods from that exact situation that we're talking about. Giant coronal hole. Sun space farts. And so forth. You want to take a peek? So, this is our landing page. This guy created... I talked to him. Really cool guy. Built out this thing. Almost ready for production. You know, not quite there yet.

[00:44:43] What he wants to do right now. What he wants. Why am I showing you this? What is he after? I'm showing it to you because it's got two things that I think are very unique. Number one is the EMP proof technology. Number two is the concealed carry capability. Okay? Right off the top. The bag suite. I'll show it to you. If you want protection from this kind of stuff. Massive coronal holes opening up in the sun. Right? If you want to protect your comms gear.

[00:45:10] 99% of what I use my Faraday stuff for is comms protection. Right? The other cool thing about a Factor X backpack is your ability to disappear. And that's the only other thing that I use my EMP stuff for. So, factorxequipment.com slash PBN. All you're doing is signing up to know when the backpack is available. If it's something you want to know about. Let's look at it.

[00:45:41] The key difference is from the traditional Faraday bags. So, he's got his setup sort of as close to a real backpack as possible. Right? No limited space or bag per device. No exposed internal Faraday fabric which increases wear and tear. He's taken... What this guy's done at Factor X is... He's done what all innovators do. You know what I mean?

[00:46:11] He's done what basically all innovators do. He's looked at slnt.com. He's looked at Mission Darkness. He's looked at what they do well and what they don't do so well. Right? And basically said, I'm going to make the best one. I'm going to make the best one. Triple layer shielding materials. Linen protection for increased durability. It's a big boy. 23 liter capacity. Water resistant. It's a great bag, man. It's a great bag.

[00:46:40] He doesn't put it... He doesn't put the concealed carry aspect on the website. Because he's trying to market to a larger audience. But he told me... When we were talking on X... He said... There's going to be a place for concealed carry. And I don't know about you... But this is a must for me. You know what I mean? It's a must. Got to have it. I got to have it. All right?

[00:47:08] So, factorxequipment.com slash PBN. Nothing to buy. You don't have to spend any money. Sign up for updates. The mailing list. You'll get a notification when the bag goes live. You know? If that's something you're into. All right? This is part of what we're going to be doing here at PBN, guys. There's just too many. I'm out of coffee. No. I'm down to like the granule...

[00:47:37] Like the surprise coffee, I call it. The surprise coffee where you get the... Might get a little mouthful of bits if you're not careful. This is what we're doing here at PBN, guys. This is something that I never really did in the past. And, you know, one thing that I really like about showcasing this gear, Lima Tango Survival, Factor X Equipment, our amazing sponsor, Pack Fresh USA.

[00:48:05] There's a link to their giveaway down below, too. You've got 15 days left on the giveaway. Okay? You've got to use the link in the show description. Make a purchase at Pack Fresh USA. Doesn't matter if it's $5 or $500. You will be entered into the giveaway. And I got books and I got coffee mugs. I'm going to send one of these disaster coffee mugs out to the winner. You're going to get a combination pack of Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers,

[00:48:34] instruction, heat sealer, all the cool stuff for making your own food storage at home, which is just a huge, huge difference maker. But the reason for all the yakety yak on gear, it's twofold. No, it's threefold, actually, now. I've come to realize it's threefold. The first is there's a lot of people making cool stuff. You're never going to hear about them. You know what I mean? That's what I came to realize last year.

[00:49:02] Last year, scouring for different sponsors, I came to realize that there is a ton of awesome stuff in the world that no one's ever going to talk about. And fundamentally, one of the big reasons you're not going to hear about it is because a guy like Factor X who's just getting his legs under him, he doesn't have a ton of money to spend on marketing, right? So we've been working with these guys on basically a very low budget to help them get their products in front of you.

[00:49:32] And, you know, I can't say it's the most lucrative thing in the world, but it works. There's no doubt it works. So that's, you know, that's number two, getting some bills paid. And number three, what throwing gear in front of my face, when I throw gear in front of my own face on a show like I do now, it spawns those kinds of prepping and survivalist ideas.

[00:50:03] Because one of the things people love about my shows, one of the things people hate about my shows, is that I can get way the hell off topic of anything prepping and survival related, you know? And I do enjoy that, don't get me wrong. Like, I like that aspect of podcasting too. But I also got a lot of information on lockdown that I hold onto because it just, you know, doesn't come up. Once you start talking about the conditions of the nation and this and that and the other thing,

[00:50:34] you put yourself in a situation where, you know, you get lost. You get lost in the conversation. The chat starts talking you up and then all of a sudden it's like, what are we doing today? What are we talking about? So it is what it is. I hope you're enjoying it. I hope you're enjoying it. Another big thing that we're doing is adding prepper tips of the day. They might not be daily, but, you know, throughout the week, you're going to get PBN prepper tips of the day from our hosts and myself. These are really cool.

[00:51:03] Short, short, short form, three minutes to five minutes. I don't know if these things are going to make it to Rumble and YouTube and all that. They may like sparingly. But if you go to prepperbroadcasting.com, you can listen to them. I think that's it, man. You know, I don't need to do another 10 minutes on PBN updates. Suffice it to say. Suffice it to say. This is the place to be in this time.

[00:51:32] You know, I'm not saying don't listen to other things. Don't enjoy other podcasts and other endeavors that you enjoy. I'm just saying make a little time in your day, in your week to listen to Prepper Broadcasting Network. You know what I mean? Because these types of things, giant holes in the sun, earthquake, an earthquake here last night. Not a big one, but an earthquake and an aftershock too.

[00:52:00] These kinds of things, wildfires, bombs, guys showing up with C4 in the apartment. Like, these things are going to continue to happen. And I really believe the only way to deal with it mentally is to prepare yourself physically and mentally. And that's what we do. You know what I mean? All right. I'm going to play this great outro. You're going to love it. Holy mackerel.

[00:52:30] It's the same thing as the intro. But I think it's well worth showing off again. I had a great time. I literally created it right before I got here. And it just happened to have worked out. So I thank you guys. It has been Surviving America with James Walton. I will see you guys later. Much more to come this week from the Prepper Broadcasting Network. All right. So, yeah. Stick with us. Share it. Share it with the family.

[00:53:00] The people you care about. The people you want prepared as well. They need it, man. It's not going to be an easy year on the mental. Talk to you soon. Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived.