Surviving America 026

[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.

[00:00:21] Welcome in everyone. Surviving America, episode 26. Sorry, gotta listen to that intro music. That, uh, I don't know. That's it. The whole thing is nice. The whole thing is nice. It's, uh, it's gonna be one of those episodes today. I'm gonna try to pay close attention to chat.

[00:00:44] I'm closing all my other windows out. Welcome in Instagram. Welcome in, uh, Rumble. Welcome in X. Yeah, X today. Today's gonna be one of those shows, uh, I kinda just wanted to drink coffee and hang out. You see, I do like five shows a week now. It's kinda a lot.

[00:01:08] And some days I wake up and I'm not compelled to do research and topic and story and, uh, sometimes I'm just, you ever just have a day, and this is rare in nowadays, but you ever just have a day where it's like, I don't wanna get aggravated over stuff. I don't wanna get excited over the political or world's things that are happening, and I don't really wanna delve deeply into any one preparedness topic.

[00:01:39] And, to be quite honest with you, that's, that's me today. Me today is, mm, Let's just hang. Let's just hang. I haven't looked much at the news. Um, it's not been one of those days. And I'm happy for it. It's going to 76 degrees today. Okay? It's going to 76 degrees. I'm gonna rip this hoodie off. I'm gonna go run probably five miles once it gets nice and warm.

[00:02:06] And, uh, work out after that and just enjoy the spring for what it is. Because it is, it's a wonderful thing. You know what I mean? Jay Ferg is in chat, and she is, she needs some tea. She needs some of that good old gray man, Earl Gray Tea from DisasterCoffee.com. What's happening to my stitch? Come on, Disney. Was this from Disney?

[00:02:34] Oh, you know, you know where this was from? Actually, this was from, uh, the Spirit of Halloween store. Look, this side is chipped off. I'm going to cut my face off. This one's been through it. I still have a Matter of Facts podcast. There's been a Matter of Facts podcast mug out there by a rock near my creek for at least a year. At least. I've walked by it countless times. Never. I got to grab that. I love that mug.

[00:03:03] It was a really cool little gift item that was given to me. A couple prepper cams ago. Very nice. Uh, so, hey, Firewolf, what's up, man? Um, he says he's sweating already. Yeah, so, so chat room and Instagram, whatever you want to talk about, you guys bring it up. I may or may not see it. If there's something on your hearts and minds, like I said today, fundamentally, we did a big show last week.

[00:03:31] The Rising Republic yesterday was phenomenal. I hope you heard that. Uh, we have a Reliance coming Sunday. Monday we have Whitney Johnson on. I, I, uh, pulled the trigger a little early on that interview this week. Um, so tons, tons of stuff. You know what I mean? Happening here at PBN as always. And I don't know. Like I said, today just feels like one of them days. It feels like one of those days. We take it as we get it.

[00:03:59] You know, maybe we'll look at some news. Maybe we won't. I don't even know if I want to go down that path. There's a lot going on. It was really cool to see the astronauts come home yesterday. You know, I, I was kind of blown away of like how the overwhelming response that really caught my eye from the general public with the astronauts was that's fake, bro. No lie.

[00:04:26] Like I w I watched several videos on it. I, um, I really dug the whole rescue operation, rescue mission. I posted something that was a little aggro on Instagram about, you know, this amazing thing is happening and nobody's really talking about it. And like the, the, the, the fundamental, like the fundamental comment

[00:04:53] outside of the nice comments was it's all fake. They're not really coming back from space. This whole thing's fake. And I don't know. It caught me off. It caught me off guard a little bit, to be honest with you. It did. I was kind of surprised that that many people would comment, not just on my own post, but on, you know, whatever I was looking at and say like, it's fake. This thing is fake. Space is fake. The rescue mission is fake.

[00:05:21] The astronaut, like there's a whole elementary school of people. There's an elementary school named after SUNY. And she just, what do you think? She just disappeared for eight months and took pictures inside of a minimal gravity machine. What's what? Like the people, the people in her town were excited. She's back. She went to Cabo for eight months and took pictures in an anti-gravity and hung out with

[00:05:51] some co-worker astronaut for no reason whatsoever. Whatever. It's a jaded society out there. I think, you know, I, I, what I really, what I really pray. And I think you should consider it in your prayers too, is that these people who are just devastated by Donald Trump being their president.

[00:06:16] Um, you should really pray them past this, you know, like, like even when Biden was president and it was clear he wasn't president. Like when the auto pen news come out, nobody texted me. Nobody was like, can you believe? You know what I mean? I mean, it is a wild story. Don't get me wrong. But when the auto pen story came out now, I am, I am interested to see what happens with auto pen and the, uh, massive amount of people he, he pardoned, you know, I think

[00:06:45] all those pardons should be obliterated if he auto penned them. And if I'm supposed to believe that a guy who could barely tie his shoes, if he had to sat down with 6,000 names or whatever it was and signed everyone, right? I don't know. I don't know. Probably, probably need to, probably need to get rid of those pardons. Just is what it is, you know? But even when Joe Biden was president, man, like life was happening all around me. Beauty was happening all around me.

[00:07:15] Right. And I wasn't, I didn't have like a Joe Biden sitting right here on my face. What I feel like is the rest of the world who is like so vehemently anti-Trump as, as Donald Trump sitting right here, like he's always in their view. Like there's no getting him out of their view. And we need to pray for those people. Truly. They need to get through it. They need to get over it. They need to get through this thing.

[00:07:42] They need to understand like good times and bad times and, you know, whatever perception. But listen to me, if you're watching and you're crazy and you're liberal, please like get past this thing. There's a lot of life out there. You know? Joe Ray, greetings from Portugal and Instagram. Yeah, that was the auto pen, Fire Wolf, the digital signatures.

[00:08:12] That is the auto pen, the digital signature process. I was thinking about that. You know, my, my son, he's 13 and it's a cool time to be alive. It's so it feels suck. I feel like you'd like those teen formative teenage years are they can be tough. You know, there's so much like swirling in your head.

[00:08:40] But I was watching him yesterday and it came into my head was that the world is so big and there's so much to do. And what your main duty in life is for yourself, if you're, you know, to make yourself capable of living a good life. Like what your main duty is, is to find the things that you like in all of the noise and do them to the utmost degree. Right.

[00:09:11] The world is huge. Opportunity is vast. Hobbies, professions. Spare time, you know, all of it. There's so much. And really the big challenge in the modern age, I think, is for people to find out what it is they love. Is to have enough time to sort of parse through the things that they really enjoy and figure out this is what I want to do. This, I think, is what I am. This is what I want to do.

[00:09:41] I attribute a lot of my own happiness to that. Just figuring out what it is I like. Oh, and there's another big, another big piece of advice for those of you out there on that same path. How to say it politely. You can't worry about what other people think. You know what I mean? Like you cannot worry about what other people think. This is. You hear it a lot and it seems kind of blase, but it's critical.

[00:10:11] It's absolutely, absolutely critical. You find the things that you like. You find the stuff that you like to do. You do it. It doesn't matter what anyone says. It doesn't matter how anyone feels. Because you're more than those things. Right? In a world with so much opportunity and so much, so much. I mean, you could wake up and do almost anything any day. Literally. Like, fundamentally.

[00:10:40] I know after work, before work, whatever. But, like, you have the ability to research and go do and go see and meet people and do things that are magic. By the standards of every human being up until, like, 50 years ago. 30 years ago. 40 years ago, maybe. And, oof. Got to take advantage of that, man. You know, you've got to take advantage of that. This is our great gift. And it amazes me that people are still terrified to do what they want to do.

[00:11:10] Because of what mom might say. Or what dad might say. Or what the spouse might think. Or what the kids might this. Or what this one. Or my old buddy. Or how my boss will look at it. You know what I mean? It's just... I don't know. The moment you understand that your life is really just completely up to you in terms of how you feel. And how you live each day. It's just way better. You know? It doesn't mean you're not going to get mad.

[00:11:40] It doesn't mean you're not going to get tired. Stressed out. You're not going to run into idiots and have to deal with them. But a lot of this life is yours, man. A lot of it is yours. You know? What else going on out there in the world? Instagram chat. What do you guys got going on? Not a damn thing. Popping in and popping out. Don't feel like listening to James Rap Philosophical this morning. No problem. The Punisher returned last night.

[00:12:11] The Punisher returned last night. John Bernthal reprised the role of the Punisher last night. And it was very cool because it was one of those things that I thought would never happen again. I wasn't even sure we'd ever see the Punisher again. And I was never really a big fan of the Punisher. In fact, the Punisher was kind of the most useless and stupid Marvel character in my mind of all. You know, guy with guns.

[00:12:39] And the Netflix series came out. And John Bernthal did such a great job with Frank Castle. Actually, yeah, I don't think I watched him in Daredevil until after I watched the Netflix series. Because he did show up in Daredevil early on. But he did such a great job at bringing to life the human side of the Punisher. And maybe it's because I'm older now and I have kids and a wife.

[00:13:09] And, you know, that kind of a loss is something that is hard to wrap your head around. So to watch another guy go through it on the big screen, if you will. And then watch him sort of try to create his own version of justice for that unjust thing that's happened to him. It was just astounding. It was fun to watch. You know what I mean? It wasn't a show hardly even about guns, which is funny.

[00:13:40] It's good. It's just good. You know, he does the Punisher great. I think he would have done Wolverine even better, actually. My only lament. My only lament with John Bernthal doing the Punisher is I think John Bernthal would have probably been the best Wolverine. He's smaller than Hugh Jackman. He's meaner than Hugh Jackman. You know what I mean? I really do think he would have been the ultimate Wolverine. But he can't really. You can know.

[00:14:06] How many times is Marvel going to do like, now Iron Man is Doctor Doom and now the Punisher is the Wolverine. And now, you know, it's not an easy role to play, the Wolverine. But yeah, the Punisher returned. It was great. Looked really good. Angsty. You know, that sort of angsty. What is it? It's like a beaten wisdom, I want to say. You know, what that guy.

[00:14:36] What they've done with the Punisher in the Marvel series, interacting with Daredevil and interacting with other characters in a way that he doesn't in his comics very much. You know, he's kind of like a Grim Reaper in the comics. There's a little bit of self-reflection in some of them. But for the most part, he's like the Grim Reaper. He shows up. Blood. Guts. Bombs. You know what I mean? That kind of stuff. But he had this sort of...

[00:15:04] The Bernthal iteration has this kind of tactical, beaten wisdom. This worn wisdom. You know what I mean? It's like he's got the wisdom because he's gone through it in the ugliest ways. He's dished it out in the ugliest ways. And in doing that, kind of reduced humanity down to like the core. You know what I mean? Like these core things in humanity.

[00:15:30] And he helps Matt Murdock out with that in the latest Daredevil. It's cool. The show's slow. I mean, it's slow. It's kind of a lot of buildup into something big that's going to happen. But we're halfway through the season almost and not much has happened. You know? If the Punisher weren't in the series, I wouldn't be watching it. But I never thought we'd see him again.

[00:15:59] Because he is the most hated of all superheroes in this superhero age. What the mainstream media and what the sort of anti-gun crowd intermingled with the comic books crowd has done to the Punisher is, it's hilarious. It really is.

[00:16:22] It's like watching them bend over backwards to accommodate the wokeness. It has been really... It's been comical. Like everything else that the lunatics in our society have done. It's been comical. We should talk about it. Because there's... I go into these worlds, guys. Right now, I'm like really getting into the Warhammer world.

[00:16:51] And I'm telling you, the virus of the wokeness is everywhere. I mean, it's dying off, it seems like. But it has... It spreads into everything. And then they get in there and they start, you know, finger wagging, telling you what needs to be done. And it's in a lot of places. I'm not sure, you know, if it has to do with youth. I'm not sure if it has to do with fringe. You know? Like this is a fringe community or whatever. I don't know.

[00:17:19] But the Punisher gave up his firearms in the comics because in the early 2000s... Well, yeah, I think it was in the early 2000s. There was this come to Jesus moment between the cops and the Punisher. Where the Punisher told the police in the comics, hey, you're not me. Stop wearing my symbol. Right? Because they were like putting it on their AR-15 and all that kind of stuff. And he was saying... In the comics.

[00:17:48] Because some cops, you know, dig the Punisher in real life. Whatever. What? Can you imagine... I mean, can you imagine taking a guy who works, you know, 40, 50 hours a week as a police officer and what is the most high-stress job, high-stakes job there is? And he makes... I don't know what they make, but it's not like tremendous. And telling him like, you're not allowed to like this comic book character because he shoots people in the comics.

[00:18:15] And we think if you watch a show where a guy shoots people in the show or read a comic book where he kills people in the show, you might be more likely to kill innocent people. Possibly. This is in the age of nudity and violence and everything. What we... See, this is the hilarious part about the Punisher situation. The hilarious part about the Punisher situation is that only one character is not allowed to be included or not allowed to be violent.

[00:18:45] And it's because his superpower is tactics and firearms. The game Fortnite... You guys know Fortnite, right? It's kind of like dying off, I think, now or dead. I don't know. It's certainly dead in my household. Nobody played it. We used to play it like crazy. Nobody played it.

[00:19:04] But the game of Fortnite put every character, every person, deplorable or otherwise, that they could in the game. It's every collab that ever could happen. They charge kids $20 so that they can have a skin that looks like it. And, you know, there was a time when they were doing really good. They put the Terminator in. They put the Predator in. They put some really cool X-Men characters in. Fun. You know what I mean? It was fun.

[00:19:34] And I remember sitting there. And around about this time was when the police and the Punisher thing kind of came to an end. And the new thing was Punisher's going to become a samurai. He's going to give up his guns. He's going to get a new... They had to get rid of the symbol. See, the symbol itself is deadly. You see that symbol, man. You just get... It's like the potion from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You see the symbol. You start to transform and just go shoot people. So they had to get rid of the symbol out of the comic book.

[00:20:04] So they put some stupid samurai symbol with tusks. Dumb. And he became a samurai guy. But the Punisher's just a normal dude. So now he's a samurai guy. I didn't read this, so I don't know. I have no desire to read this stretch of comics. They turn him into this samurai guy. He gets some kind of power from an assassin group. I think it was the hand. And that's the new Punisher. And you're just watching it from a distance.

[00:20:33] Like this slow motion train wreck of an attempt to socially engineer a character who was born out of a Vietnam era comic. A Vietnam War veteran who returns home. His family gets killed. He exacts justice through hot lead and explosives. And they're trying to turn this guy into a more acceptable, more blue hair readers. You know what I mean?

[00:21:01] And it just was so fun to watch but simultaneously embarrassing. And I remember sitting there with my kids and being like, you know, one of those moments where I'm waiting for the Punisher to come to Fortnite. Because everybody's, every Marvel, Spider-Man, everybody who, and just so you know, everyone in Fortnite, if you're completely unaware, carries guns.

[00:21:31] So you can put like Unikitty from the Lego movie in there and she's walking around with an AR-15. Right? You can put Nicki Minaj in there and she's walking around with an AR-15. Right? So to me, it was like, I'm using my common sense brain. Any day now, the guy who literally lives with AR-15s, grenade launchers, shotguns, you know, MP5s, you name it. He's going to show up in this game.

[00:22:00] Because the game is built around shooting the enemy. Right? That's what it is. Call of Duty? Any day now. Any day the Punisher is going to show up in Call of Duty. Right? It's never happened. They turned the guy into a ninja. It sucked. I'm sure nobody bought it. They never let him into these video games. Because he literally uses guns in comic books. He's not even a real person.

[00:22:28] He's a comic book character. Who police officers and military guys can relate to. He's a veteran, by the way. In the story. He's not real. But in the story, he's a veteran. May have something to do with it. But he's a veteran family man-ish who loses his family. Probably the top fear of a lot of guys who are LEO and Army vets or in the military. Right? You wake up. I got to imagine.

[00:22:58] I was never in either of those positions. But I got to imagine you wake up. And a good portion of your inspiration for the day is your family. Right? I'm doing this to keep them safe. This sucks so much. But I'm doing it to keep them safe. So you can see the connections. Right? Easy. I guess it wouldn't be as silly or as bad if you couldn't... If you could kill people...

[00:23:27] If killing people in general was different on TV and movies. You know? If we all looked at violence and was like, ooh, maybe we need a little less violence. But if you use telekinesis, you can rip arms off people, legs, rip their heads off. If you watch horror movies... Like, what's the... Terrifier. Right? The Terrifier is the most gory and ridiculous shit there is. Super popular. No problem.

[00:23:54] You could kill people with swords, chop their limbs off, whatever it is. It's great. It's great television. There's... What's it called? What's the Dragon show called? I keep thinking Lord of the Rings. You know, the Dragon show on HBO. Everybody loved it. I never watched a single episode. But the... Oh, bravo! It's great television. We love it. A guy from the Bronx with his hair slicked back with a skull logo on his shirt and an AR-15

[00:24:22] is persona non grata. You can't have him. He can't exist. Do you know what I mean? Because he's tethered to the military to some degree, to the LEO to some degree. They put him back out again. This story goes on and on. It's... I ruminate on it all the time because I think it's just... To watch these people contort themselves in a way. Can we get the Punisher into...

[00:24:51] When no one who reads the Punisher cares, you know? But, uh... They brought him back as like this futuristic blonde-haired guy... Who has a... A girl boss, of course. And he has a laser gun now. He's exacting justice with a laser gun. But it's not an AR-15. Okay? So, it's all good.

[00:25:15] It was so nice and so timely in Donald Trump's America to see this on Disney+. Okay? It was so nice to see this show up on Disney+. To see Frank Castle. And now, here's the plot twist. Okay? Here's the plot twist. And this is what I'm a little nervous about. The one thing that I didn't notice in yesterday's show... Was this tethered to the Punisher himself?

[00:25:45] They found a shell casing with a Punisher logo on it in the show. Uh... And it was tethered to the police. And the guy who... I don't want to spoil things for you, even though most of you are probably like... Dude, I would never watch the Daredevil show on Disney+. If you paid me. If you gave me a free bag of disaster coffee, I still wouldn't watch it. I'm not... You know, it is what it is. I wouldn't be mad at you for it. What... They're copycats.

[00:26:14] Copycat Punishers in this storyline. I think there's a lot of them. I think the Punisher... Hopefully this doesn't happen. But what I think may happen is that the Punisher is gonna... Give up on this logo. Because it is a Disney+. So we have to be real about what we're dealing with here. He's gonna give up on this logo. And he's gonna go kill all the Punisher wannabes. And... That's gonna be that. And that's gonna be very lackluster for me.

[00:26:41] You know, I'd much rather see him pull on the flak jacket with the... Not the flak jacket. The chest rig with the skull and go kill Wilson Fisk with a point blank shot to the face. You know, it's... It happens in every movie anymore. Every movie is like over-the-top violence and gore and all that kind of stuff. And I just think it's so funny that we've only chosen one guy to look at with a sour face. Hmm.

[00:27:11] I don't like that Punisher. We need to change him. Star Trek of Punisher. Star Trek of Punisher. I like that, Jay Bird. Yeah, okay. Rant over. Rant over. That was 10-15 minutes on the Punisher. Like I said... Wherever my heart lies today is what you're gonna get. If you don't like what I'm talking about, put something else in the chat room. But I'm just kind of... You know... Whatever.

[00:27:39] It's not really that excited about what's going on in the world. We had the ceasefire deal that lasted all of five minutes. Right? Trump and Putin met. I still want to know what happened there. You know... In my... In my heart of hearts, it seems like it's Kiev in action. I'll be very interested to see how that plays out. And if you're unaware... Trump met with Putin yesterday. Two-hour meeting. Face-to-face. The meeting that Joe Biden could have had for four years and never once did.

[00:28:09] Why? Because we had to launder money through Ukraine. To make sure it got to all the oligarchs who got his son a job. To make sure it got back into his pocket. And his... You know... Who knows who else? What other characters. So they ran the money laundering job under Biden for a long time. Putin probably sat there and laughed. He knew what was going on, I bet. But they meet yesterday. And Putin and him talk about a ceasefire through the air. And a ceasefire on infrastructure.

[00:28:40] And energy infrastructure. And... Hours later, there are drones in the sky attacking infrastructure in Ukraine. In my head, it seems like the Ukrainians are unwilling to... Despite what Voldemort is saying, I think the Ukrainians are kind of unwilling to call it. I listened to some soldiers yesterday talk about it. I think that in their minds, they believe that Russia is never going to stop.

[00:29:09] And I think that's kind of the message over there. That's what I get. What I get is we're going to fight and we're going to fight to the last man. Russia is never going to stop coming. I think they might even believe that they truly are a buffer between... You know, that it's a valiant effort because they're a buffer between them and Poland. Between Russia and Poland. You know, there are people who believe that Russia is going to go into Poland. Russia is not going to go into Poland. This is never going to happen.

[00:29:38] Not in this context, in this war. Maybe someday, maybe. But it's not happening. It can't happen. They've been thwarted. Lost a lot of men and a lot of machinery by Ukrainians who are largely untrained. They're better now. And a bunch of weapons. And drones. Sorry, I'm about to sneeze.

[00:30:05] So if you think they're going to roll into Europe and start a war with Poland, who's, you know, there's no pushover. Get NATO on your ass. Like, why would he do it? Why? He wanted the buffer zone. He got the buffer zone. That's what he wanted. That's what he got. That's what he's going to wind up with. Voldemort! He's going to wind up with it. Forget about Donetsk. It's a wrap. There's no... It's not going to go any other way.

[00:30:38] Firewolf. It's not going to go another way. You know what I mean? It just... It can't go another way. Without a greater war. Without American aircraft carriers in the Black Sea. Do you want that? I don't want that. I tell my kids all the time. We watch news in the morning sometimes. And I tell them all the time. If... If we didn't watch news. If we didn't listen to the radio. We'd have no idea this war is going on.

[00:31:08] Think about it. You would never be like, Oh shit. I think that was a bomb going off in... In Ukraine. I had the biologist on. I don't know if you heard the agricultural biologist episode. It was really good. And what... My biggest takeaway from that thing was... That interview was... There is a felt price increase and scarcity of feed for animals.

[00:31:37] This is what she does for a living. And a price hike and so forth. Because of the war in Ukraine. That it's felt all throughout Europe. It has zero effect on the United States. And feed prices. I know because I buy feed every other... Every couple weeks, months. Something like that. You know what I mean? My feed is not going up hardly. I think feed went up in 2020 more than any other time. I'm starting to think that... 2020 was a price hike.

[00:32:07] Because they could. You know what I mean? That's what it starts to feel like to me. Because I'm watching all these other things. Wars, economic, inflation. And there are things that aren't going up in price. That went up in price immediately. As the pandemic came into full phase. I don't know. But I can tell you... The ceasefire did not work. What that means... But what really bothers me the most... In the whole thing is...

[00:32:37] I'm sitting here watching the United States President... Try to broker peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. And the whole world is just okay with that. The whole world is just like... This is the way things are supposed to go. But if you step back... And look at... Like if you were an alien watching... It's always good to be an alien. Like if there's an issue going on... In the world or in your life or something like that... And it's really complex... The best thing you can do is hop into your UFO...

[00:33:06] Fly up out of the atmosphere... Look down on the Earth and say... If I didn't know anything... If I had no preconceived notions... About how shit is supposed to go on Earth... If I just pulled up... And I'm looking down at the world... And I'm going... The leader of this country... This big country here... Is trying to negotiate peace... Between these two countries... But their leaders are not meeting. Who is this guy? Why is this guy...

[00:33:36] Coming all the way across the world... To talk to these two guys... One at a time... To try to get their problems fixed? And I don't know... Watching it lately... Has had me thinking that way... It's had me thinking like... Why is Donald Trump doing this? Why are we doing this? Whatsoever. Garden girl in the Lord Fairfax... Join one after the other... What's going on? We are... We are just kind of rapping today... Yapping...

[00:34:05] We're talking Ukraine and... And Russia... And their professional mediator... Donald J. Trump... Trying to figure out... In this crazy world... That we live in... Why? And how weird it is... How weird it is... Right? That the United States President... Just shows up and stands... At the table... Between two warring nations... And says... I'll take it from here... Right? I'll take it from here...

[00:34:35] I guess you could argue... Otherwise it gets worse... Otherwise... You know... More people die... And of course... Trump ran on this idea... That I'm going to stop the war... So now he's kind of asked to... But from the outside... Looking in... It really is kind of one of those things... You look at it... And you're like... What are we doing? Why is America... There? Why isn't like... Starmer over there? Why isn't like... The president of Poland... Over there... Meeting with Putin... And meeting with... You know... A guy who has like... Real skin in the game... Like...

[00:35:04] We might be next... Go over... Talk to Putin... Hey... We're not happy with what's happening... Can we... How do we stop this? You know what I mean? From the outside... Looking in... Like I said... If you can clean the slate... And really look at it objectively... It's really wacky... That there's this guy... From another nation... Completely... Um... You know... It's just... It's weird... He shows up... Those two nations... Look at each other... Then they go and meet in the desert... By the way... So they don't even like...

[00:35:35] Right? They meet in Saudi Arabia to talk... Watching this all from... The point of... Ignorance would be like... What am I watching right now? What is this... What is this ceremony that they have... Where... Where this... God-like leader comes over... And talks to all the other leaders of the world... Or they go to him and talk... Sometimes they go out in the middle of the desert to talk... With these other crazy guys... Who wear these silly... Pillow cases on their heads... Not that way... But... You know...

[00:36:04] The Saudi Arabian guys... Um... What's going on? It's weird... It's a weird thing... It's a weird time... PPN family... That's what it is... You know... Um... We're gonna get a little more into... On yesterday's show about food storage... We talked a lot about... Mealtime and meat time... In... Community... SHTF... Fun... Good... A lot of great discussion there... I'm gonna expand on that a little more today...

[00:36:33] On a members video... Uh... Because Dave Jones... The NBC guy... Messaged me last night... And he had some... Uh... He had some... Other thoughts... That I think are worth bringing up... Worth talking about... They were... They were very interested... You know... I sat and thought about... Excuse me... What he had to say... And I was like... You know... These are worth bringing up... We'll bring it up... We'll talk about it... We'll discuss it... Go watch the food storage video... Podcast... Whatever... From yesterday... Yesterday's broadcast...

[00:37:03] To see what I'm talking about... If you weren't here... But it was a good conversation about... You know... Emergency preparedness... At the community level... Meet up time... Why meet up... How to meet up... What to provide... Things like that... Um... Lord Fairfax Prep in chat... Says that... Trump is doing it... Trump is doing the meeting... With Putin... Because he isn't afraid of Putin... Like the rest of the world... I'll buy that... I'll buy that... I'll buy that 100%...

[00:37:33] Because... It's a good point... Trump... Is the first to meet with him... Macron didn't go talk to him... Nobody else went and talked to him either... While Joe Biden was... Incapable of carrying on a conversation with him... And I guess the people running the show... With the auto pen... Were probably like... Look Joe... One false move... We might start a world war... So why don't you stay here? Oh... Maybe I can send Kamala... And then they start like belly laughing... He said he was gonna send Kamala...

[00:38:03] You know... I like that... I think that makes sense... The people probably are a little nervous... Not like physically scared of being in the presence of Putin... Maybe that too... Maybe worried about... Hey what's in... What's... Why is my coffee radiating green? What's going on here? What's the plutonium content in my borscht? But... But you know... Fear of screwing up... Fear of screwing up... And then going... And having to return back to their country...

[00:38:33] And say well... I may have pissed the Russians off... And the tread of their tanks... Is probably headed our way... You know what I mean? Because it can go that way too... Very good... Fairfax... I appreciate that... Definitely... It may be time for another community centric circles talk... Oh... Concentric circles... We could do that... We could definitely get into that again... I can bring up another... We can run that... Scenario... I think the way to do concentric circles... Garden girl...

[00:39:02] Is to take your... Your Google map... And... And... You know... Do it... Just physically put... Concentric circles like in... Word... I mean in paint... Around your community... That is a good one though... The concentric circles of security is legitimate... I mean if you... If you really do have a vested interest in your family being safe... In an SHTF situation... Like establishing those perimeters... Those concentric circles... And... And sticking to them... Yeah...

[00:39:32] Fire will forge... What if the US just takes the disputed territory... And builds it up like you said for Gaza? I mean yeah... That's possible I guess... I kind of like the idea... I kind of like the idea of the mineral deal... And having Americans at work... And having us making money... Off of those minerals... And... I don't know... Look...

[00:40:01] Here's the long game... The long game is... You have to get Russia back in the game... Russia is Germany... You have to get Russia back in the game... Do you know what I mean? Well thank you Garden Girl... I'm glad you enjoyed our security master class... Available at pbnfamily.com... You could... So... You gotta get Russia back in the game... It has to happen... They've gotta be in the economic game...

[00:40:29] They've gotta be part of the international community... It's dumb... That we're dealing with this big giant superpower... That is... The neighbor of... The other pain in the ass... Superpower by the way... Like... Does it make more sense to have Russia be friends with you... Or friends with China? You can put... You could create... Something that works between... Europe... America... And Russia... Right? They already have...

[00:40:58] They already have been exchanging... Uh... Natural gas and... You know... Fuel... For how long? It only makes sense to build a partnership there... To build a really strong bond there... Economy... Economy... Commerce... Whatever... Lift the sanctions... Figure out how to... You know... Deal with this country... In the long term... And then you put... An ally on the border of China...

[00:41:29] Right? Now you have one of your close allies... On the border with China... And... Like I said... You're... I've said it in the past... They're gonna have their own... Uh... Battles with China... It's gonna have... Territorially speaking... Right? Uh... Fairfax says... The mineral deal is how Ukraine pays us back... For the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars we sent... Yeah... I think it's brilliant... I like it... I think it's great... I also think from a security standpoint...

[00:41:57] It pays to have Americans... Working in your country... Right? This is a deal that every country... Who has military issues with their neighbors... Should be going... What can we give America? Duh... Right? If you've got a valuable resource... And you can have Americans come... And work with your country... And split the profits... Now you have American people working in your nation... You have American...

[00:42:29] Inspections... And so on and so forth... It's not like another country is just gonna go... Let's just send a fleet of drones over there to blow them up... I mean they might do that in the Middle East... But... Again... There'll be repercussions... So... You know... It is what it is... It is what it is... Something... In the age that we live in guys... Particularly those of you who listen to the Prepper Broadcasting Network... Um... Things that just make sense... Sometimes... Like... The people...

[00:42:58] Even the people in power don't get it... Even... Even the people in power go like... Hmm... I don't know if I like that idea... It makes too much damn sense... So... We gotta live with that... Some people need to experience... You know... It's just like that cousin or sibling that you have... That you have to watch... Fall down the hill... 50 times... Before they go like... You know what? I'll just put the hiking boots on... And... Whatever... You know...

[00:43:28] I'll do it the right way... We all have those people in our family... In our life... And you know them... And you know... You can sit them down and say... Look... This is the way you do it... You go... A... B... And C... Okay... And then you won't have to deal with the shit... And they'll look at you... And go... Okay... And then you'll look over... And they'll be... Wow... Wow... Some people have to get their heads beat in... Many times before they get it... You know...

[00:43:56] And it just looks that way to me... It looks like... The international world... Is going through that moment in time... Where they have to get their head beat in... To figure out... Oh... This is the right move... I don't know... It is what it is... Thank you guys... For humoring me today... It's been fun... You know... It has... Because I came on here and... Fundamentally just... Just wanted to do what it is we're doing... Just wanted to talk about whatever comes up...

[00:44:25] Sort of rap about whatever it is... That's on my heart and mind... And on yours... You know... It's... You can do preparedness every day... But some days I don't feel like doing it... You know what I mean? And that's the reality of the situation... On that note... The quails are getting sun... The... Some of the garden has been seeded...

[00:44:55] I'm going to do English peas today... English peas going in... I figured out... You know... Managing the sun... And where the sun... Comes... And where vining plants go... This is... A thing that is... If you get it right... Then it's way... Way better for you... In other words... Like the sun hits... Over here... For me... And the garden is over here... You know? No, no...

[00:45:25] I did not ask for you to follow me... Calm down... So... You know... It's... It's been a bit of a change... The way I've set vining plants up... And grow... You know... Plants that I want to make vine... Or grow upward... Was backwards... For a long time... So I'd have them going up a trellis... This way... The sun's over here... Their natural tendrils... Are then shooting out this way... Right? So the tend... For those of you just listening to the podcast...

[00:45:54] I was growing... Vining plants up... Away from the sun... And they wanted to grow out towards the sun... Right? So that... Stupid... Just a stupid mistake... Not thinking... So we're going to change that in the garden this year... So that the vining plants are growing towards the sun... And it's something to consider... In your own situation... You know... Things don't usually grow straight up... Right? They tend to grow towards the direction of the sun...

[00:46:22] Whichever way that's going in your garden... So... Yeah, there's that... You know... The perennials are popping... They're all popping now... The raspberries are coming... The gooseberries... The trees are starting to show some leaves... It's all happening... I've got a peach tree that's got to go... That baby's history... I don't know... You know... The routine is upon us... Every day the routine is upon us... I hope you're doing your routine... For the members... We're going to do...

[00:46:51] April spring routine is going to be for everyone... For all... We're going to cut down... What I'm going to do for routines this year... Is cut down on the options in the routines... And just really try to give you... What it is... I do and I'm doing... As opposed to like... I give you the things that I do... But I also give you some things that I don't do a lot... As choices... Because I'm trying to appease people...

[00:47:20] But I think what it is... What would be better for the routine side of PBN... Is to give you a daily routine that is... Maybe a bit monotonous... But effective... You know what I mean? Maybe a bit monotonous... But effective... I found that out through the yoga this month... Doing the yoga for 30 days... Is... It can be a bit monotonous... I hope you guys are doing it... It is a big deal... It has helped me tremendously...

[00:47:48] The shoulders were getting weird... I was getting weird pains in the shoulders... Right? Oh man... Firewolf Forge... The ground... I got to do a plant walk for you guys... Because the... Firewolf Forge has still only had one singular dandelion this year... The ground is so full of food right now... It's unbelievable... Out that window... It's so full of food... It's unbelievable... I have a whole bed of dead nettle... I don't even know if you guys... Dead nettle tastes like shit... But it's a wild edible... You can eat it...

[00:48:18] It's good for you... I literally have a whole raised bed of dead nettle... It just took to the raised bed once... I didn't cover the beds... And it just took to it over the winter... And it's beautiful... You know... It's a sort of a dull green... With very pretty purple flowers... But it's... It's everywhere... You know... It's everywhere... There's so much coming out of the ground... The violets... The dandelions... The plantains... The curly docks are coming...

[00:48:46] The dead nettle is up... The... What's it called? Can't think of what the other... Scalloped leaf is called... But it's out there... You know... It's all good, man... Oh... J Ferg says... Dead nettle is great in tincture form... I've never really messed with it like that... I've been giving it to the quails... Right? I will turn it into the soil... For sure... Good call...

[00:49:15] Good call... That bed that I'm talking about... No, no... Forget it... That bed actually... I think I'm gonna take down... So yeah, man... Like... I don't know... You know... Enjoy this thing... If you're not into this thing... Get into this thing... I saw another meme... This morning... Um... It was a woman laying in... In a hospital bed... And she had an IV... And a blood bag... And her in the blood bag said... You know... 100 acre homestead... 100 acre off-grid homestead...

[00:49:45] Like... This stuff's really annoying me... You have to... This is like... Really annoying to me... Most people have no idea how to manage... I don't... How to manage a 100 acre off-grid homestead... The learning curve there... Is... The circle that I'm in right now... You know what I'm saying? Like... This is... This is a big deal... It's hard for me to understand... People that are like...

[00:50:14] I want a more simple life... So give me 15 goats... 50 chickens... No electricity... No hot water... And everything's gonna be great... I'm... If you know what you're doing... Fine... What I think this mentality is doing... Is stunting us... I think it's stunting people... Who are more than capable... And listen... Everybody within the sound of my voice... Is more than capable of being a little more self-sufficient... Everyone...

[00:50:44] I have to give kudos to Jay Ferg... In chat... For proving that to me... Literally proving that to me... In the craziest of odds... Producing eggs... I mean... Jay... Fergie... You couldn't be more perfect for the time... I mean... It's a story you should open up every podcast with... Because... Everybody's feeling the eggs... Everybody's feeling the eggs... I was talking to my sister... She was...

[00:51:13] I was dying laughing... Because she was talking about how... Who the hell's eating all these eggs now... All of a sudden... All of a sudden... Everyone eats eggs every day... They need a dozen eggs a week... Who eats all these eggs? I just thought it was hilarious... You know... Because until that moment... I'd have been kind of on the same page... Right? Who the hell's eating all these eggs? But literally... At peak... Egg crisis... Jay Ferg is... I don't know... I don't want to give away...

[00:51:43] Your living situation... But suffice it to say... Jay Ferg is living with... About as small a yard... As a person can get... If you could even say there's a yard... And she has chickens... So... I have very little sympathy... For people who are living... In a suburban backyard... You know... A medium-sized suburban backyard... And are like... I need a 50-acre homestead... To be self-sufficient... No you don't... You need to get off your ass... And get to it... That's all you need to do...

[00:52:12] It has nothing to do with 10 acres... My other favorite example... Is Dave Jones... Dave Jones... Is in... He's got quails... He's got rabbits... He's got chickens... He's got... He might have... Ducks... Geese... Turkey... At any given moment... He's got gardens... He's got greenhouses... And everything... Is like... 30 steps or less... From his house...

[00:52:41] And if it weren't... 30 steps or less... From his house... It'd be a pain in the ass... Right? Right? What are you gonna... What are you gonna put your chickens... A mile and a half from your house? You know what I'm saying? Between Jay Fergie... And Dave Jones... My eyes have been so fully open... To the fact that... Everybody... Is so capable... And it has nothing to do with your land...

[00:53:11] It has nothing to do with... Almost anything... It really has everything to do with you... And your desire to get off your ass... And go do what... What you need to do... Fill pots with potting soil... Spend some money on good quality... Potting soil compost... Fill pots up... Put seeds in pots... Put them in the sun... Right? Build some rays... Whatever it is that you can do... But I promise you... You can do more... And what I really caution... Everybody out there...

[00:53:40] Is... To stop falling for... Hanging on the dream... That you'll one day have a 10 acre homestead... And you're gonna become... You know... Whatever... Home on the prairie... Do it now... Do it now... I mean if it gets you through the day... To fantasize about it... Fine... But... At the end of the day... Make the most of what you got now... Because... I'm gonna tell you from experience... You can have it all...

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[00:55:38] And then it snowballs... And then all of a sudden... You know... Five years goes by... And you're like... I'm doing a lot of shit... This is pretty cool... You know... Alright... I'm out of here... I appreciate you guys... Uh... What was today's sponsor? I don't know... Packfreshusa.com... They need some love... Help them out... Packfreshusa.com... Mylar bags... Oxygen absorbers... Freezer bags... Vacuum bags... So on and so forth... Gusset bags... When you start growing food... Lots of food... You're gonna wanna start preserving some of it...

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