Surviving America 028

[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.

[00:00:22] Welcome in, folks. Our bodies are gardens to which our will are gardeners. Who knows it? Anybody? It's a weird quote from a pretty important character of Shakespearean play that I read back in high school, but not because they wanted me to. Because I had to, basically, for survival.

[00:00:47] Look into it. It's from... All those things are interesting because they're from the 1500s. And when you read quotes like that, it's always like, still the same damn thing. It's Iago. I'll give you that much. And he goes on to talk about the things that you plant in your garden. And one of them is stinging nettle. And when I read over that stanza, I don't know if it's good or bad in the way he talks about nettle.

[00:01:17] You know, I don't know. I'm imagining that they probably didn't know or did they know about the healing, about the nutrient-dense stinging nettle. Did they eat it in the 1500s? I don't know, to be honest with you. Welcome into Surviving America, folks. I've been sort of hit with a bunch of things from a bunch of different people in a bunch of different places.

[00:01:45] And we're going to try to spin them all into one show today. Episode 28. Episode 28, Surviving America, one per week. Yeah. How do we start? Where do we want to start? How is the chat room looking? It looks like we blew up over on X. I wonder if I can remove that and add one. Something's wrong over there. They're not allowing us to go live.

[00:02:14] We're going to jump to Instagram. I was going to open the show up with a quote, like an audio quote from Tombstone. Because it's pretty rare that I care about celebrity deaths, you know. But I do feel like that character that he played in Tombstone was, you know, top-notch. Val Kilmer passed away.

[00:02:45] What's his name? Doc Holliday. Sorry, I'm doing 40 things at one time here. Trying to literally take the show and put it on a different platform while doing the intro to the show. Which, not that big a deal. I got news from the NBC guy yesterday. He comes to me at like, I don't know, 7 o'clock or something in the evening and tells me that.

[00:03:12] The Ukrainians are conscripting Romanians for the war. And then just kind of like disappears after that. Leaves me with that on my mind and heart. And, you know, I get that kind of stuff all the time, you know, from people. Maybe it's one article. Maybe it's several. Maybe it's, you know, one instance or whatever the situation is.

[00:03:37] But when I get it from Dave Jones and it has to do with Romania, I know that it's more than that. I know that it's information that's coming probably from Romania, right? Because it filters through the friends and the relatives and then into the family. Like into Maria's family, Dave's wife from Romania. So that's when I got to start digging, you know. That's when I got to start digging.

[00:04:03] And I happened upon the fact that as hard as it is to believe, it is real. Now they're conscripting their own citizens. Supposedly. But undoubtedly, they're pulling people. Hey, born to BRAB. Good morning, man. Thanks for joining us today. Okay. Without a doubt, they're pulling people out of, you know, it'd be like you work with a guy from Ukraine.

[00:04:33] And all of a sudden, like military garbed up dudes show up and pull them off of the manufacturing line or off of the construction site or whatever. And gone. And they say, sorry, buddy. You got to come home. You got to come home and fight. Just what it is. This, I don't, I'm not know too much about the, uh, the loop at ecpr.eu. It's EU, right?

[00:05:04] It says, uh, as Ukraine faces an urgent need to mobilize, focus has shifted to enticing the Ukrainian diaspora to enlist using population data from various sources. Even Raymond explores the multifaceted legality of Ukraine's repatriation initiative.

[00:05:53] Yeah. I will remind you from a personal perspective, one of the adages or some of the ethos of PBN here. Real war, um, equals off grid. War equals off grid. And that's what you have to put, put your, in your head and prepare yourself for. You know what I mean? Should you find, whether you're listening to us in Europe or whatever it is.

[00:06:22] Brave hearts in Instagram says they should get their little sawed off leader to go fight. You mean, uh, Voldemort Zelensky? Uh, we'll see. Who knows? Who knows what the future may hold? But I can tell you that, um, from reading this article and validating the fact that Ukraine is heading into nearby nations to pull out Romanian citizens who fled the war.

[00:06:51] There's a bunch of takeaways, you know what I mean? And when you're doing things like that, what is preventing you from pulling people? What is preventing you from pulling people who, uh, I got a question mark message from future Dan. I just want to see what's coming next.

[00:07:21] Oh, I think this might have to do with, oh God, do we have stuff for you guys to do? Oh my goodness. You know, I, I need to take full advantage of this network. I mean, it kind of is a handful. I'm going to be honest with you. It's kind of a handful. So let's see. So, like I said, it's an interesting wrinkle in the whole war phase and situation.

[00:07:52] What's stopping Ukrainian, Ukrainian forces from showing up and saying, hey, I thought, I thought you were the guy we needed, but turns out you're not. But since you're here, you might as well fight anyway. Right. The Germans are moving eastward, putting soldiers in the east. You know, you could argue that the United States is good at conducting wars in faraway places. And when I say good at it, I don't necessarily mean victory.

[00:08:17] I mean, you know, we, we got a lot of experience happens pretty often. Nobody starts world wars like Europe, man. That's what makes me the most nervous. But at the same time, I do like the military deterrent being built up in the EU. I like it. Another story that caught my eye that is one of the most sort of silly things that I think I've seen in a long time.

[00:08:47] First of all, Cory Booker is silly to begin with, in my opinion. Just a silly guy to begin with. Like I, it's sad. It's actually sad, really, for the left wing and the liberals of the country that this guy is. I can't look at the article at Forbes. I guess it's going to have a seizure.

[00:09:03] But the best response that the Democrats could come up with to deal with Donald Trump doing things, you know, with, with, with potentiality for the benefit of America and the American people was to have a, have Cory Booker get up there and record it.

[00:09:24] It's basically a 25 hour long speech blasting Donald Trump and breaking the record for the longest speech as if breaking a record means anything in the face of, you know, what it is we're dealing with in the world today. You know, it, it's one of those. Here's what it is. Well, there's two things about this story that really bug me. Okay.

[00:09:54] The first is what could Cory Booker and his buddies have achieved if they spent 25 hours trying to actually make a difference, particularly in Democrat run cities across the country.

[00:10:08] So if instead of griping and crybabying on the Senate or the congressional floor, if he took 25 hours to sit down and really brainstorm how to fix things in the United States, what kind of effect did you have?

[00:10:24] Rather than reading letters from constituents and taking questions that you already know the answer to, you know, to sit there in the mass of people who are listening to a 25 hour speech from a guy like Cory Booker. You have to recognize you're in this massive chamber of echoes, right? Like nobody's going to say anything profound. Nobody's going to say anything interesting where you go like, oh, wow. I never would have imagined that.

[00:10:54] That's, that's really thought provoking. Cory Booker, Donald Trump evil. Right. Elon Musk dumb. That's my new favorite. Elon Musk is stupid. He's an idiot. I just love that. I hope people say that forever. I can't wait to just sit around and listen to people, you know, struggling with getting out of bed in the morning. Tell the world that Elon Musk is an idiot.

[00:11:23] I just, it's, it's indicative of what we're dealing with. But anyway, this guy, this guy, Corey, who, uh, he's been a laughing stock for a long time. I mean, he said the craziest things back before he was of note, you know, um, you know, he's a representative out of Jersey. So you kind of figure it where's his, where's his line here.

[00:11:49] I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I don't know what that means. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis. Which brings us to problem two, Corey.

[00:12:13] Problem two is we had a husk of a human being at the helm for four years. A man with dementia, a man who was incapable of being prosecuted because his mental acuity wasn't there. Yet, Corey Booker never rose, right?

[00:12:42] He did not rise and say, I am rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis. We had no president. We had no president. We have a president now you don't like. So, you know, there's a lot of rising going on. But, Corey, we had no president for four years.

[00:13:10] We were damn near a nuclear war and we had no president to go meet with Putin. There was nobody to go. There was nothing. You see, these are the things. The truth has a certain ring to it. Integrity has a certain smell to it. That's what happened in Wisconsin, by the way.

[00:13:36] Elon Musk did make a dumb move in Wisconsin and gave money away during an election. He made himself too much of a priority in Wisconsin, and that's why they lost. Because truth has a certain ring to it and integrity has a certain smell to it. And that's just the way that it is. And I think enough people got put off by what was happening there. Like, what's happening here? Who is this guy?

[00:14:05] Why is he handing out checks? You know? The moment I read that Musk was handing out checks in Wisconsin to people who showed up, it was only two people. But it doesn't matter. Don't you understand? What matters is the reverberation in the mind of the average American. Right? What they hear. What goes in the head and what bounces around in the head. Why is this guy paying people off to vote? Why is this rich guy paying people off to vote?

[00:14:34] And I think in that moment it was done. I think in that moment it was done. And, uh... Yeah. It just is what it is. It just is what it is. So... Let's talk about you for a little bit. Let's talk about you for a little bit. It is April. I will be, uh... We will be running for our lives in April. Okay? We will be conducting a... Sort of a fitness schedule, if you will.

[00:15:03] A routine. One of our monthly routines that will be based around running. That's the title. Run for your life. I'm going to offer you up a variety of ways to keep yourself engaged. Because I know for some people running can be hell. I will tell you that it's... Merely a matter of repetition. Like anything else. Right? So the more you do it. The more you start to enjoy it. And once you really start to enjoy it, it becomes almost essential.

[00:15:34] But when that routine goes out, which will probably be in this week's, uh... Email list. And I'll put it in Element and, you know, on Instagram. And I'll try to get it as many places as I can. Probably the best place to get it will be pbnfamily.com. But, you know, that's what we're going to focus on. The weather's going to be nice. Maybe a little chilly in the mornings. Chilly in the evenings. Great. Great running weather. There'll be some other things on the routine. Of course, as always.

[00:16:02] I'm going to ask a lot of you over these next few months. You know, in May, we're going to be... We're building right now sort of a... Um... A framework for this ration or ruin challenge. Okay? And the ration or ruin challenge is going to test the might of your willpower. It's going to test your ability to go without food, possibly.

[00:16:26] It's going to test your body's ability to deal with real survival food. Right? Like, we have this idea that we're going to eat survival food. We store survival food. Everything's going to be fine. We'll eat that survival food for weeks on end. And that'll be that. What's really going to happen? What's really going to happen to you after a week of eating that stuff?

[00:16:56] What's going to happen to your body? What's going to happen to your digestive tract? Your GI tract, right? So fundamentally, there are things we know about ration or ruin that we've established and the things we don't know. Okay? We're kind of building it out. But what we do know is we're going to have successive... Successive sort of situation scenario where... Uh... There'll be days where you eat only the survival food that you have.

[00:17:25] And then there'll be days where you eat only that which grows in the wild or can be harvested in the wild. I'm going to try to push the guys to... And it'll give me an edge. So it's kind of cheating a little bit. But I think it's important. And it's an important aspect of survival. I'm going to push the guys to allow for... Um... Other long-term food storage items that are DIY packaged.

[00:17:54] You know, like the staples that we store. And also to allow for eating... On the days when we're not eating survival food and we're supposed to be foraging. For those days... We could also eat from our gardens from our homesteading outputs. I kind of like that. I'm not saying it'll get the vote. You know what I mean? I'm not a tyrant. And this was not even my idea. This is the Future Danger guys.

[00:18:22] They always do an amazing challenge every year. And I just, you know... Put my two cents in and try to survive it. But, uh... It's going to be a good time. And for the first time... The framework and everything is going to be available to you... To do exactly the same thing. You know, Gotham Get Out was fun. But it wasn't something you could pull off without help and scheduling and that kind of stuff. But this right here...

[00:18:51] This is going to be very personal. It'll be tough. It'll be tough. If you are concerned about your beach body... Conduct a ration or ruin run. And I can guarantee you... You might not be as muscled up as you'd like to be... But you'll struggle. Phoenix in the chat says... I'm going completely refined sugar-free again. Oh, that's tough. Natural sugars for the win.

[00:19:19] And, yeah, that keto business is tough. I remember... Not that you're doing keto. But I remember the... Doing it. You know what I mean? I remember the feeling of eliminating sugar and carbs for a while. And, like, the keto flu and all that kind of stuff. It's real. It's real. So... The ration or ruin challenge in May. Prepare yourself. If you want to test yourself. If you want to test... You know, if you really want to see kind of where you're at. I think... I think...

[00:19:50] At the very least... I would conduct ration or ruin for a week. Like, we're going to go for the month. In a week's time, you'll know. Everything you need to know. About your survival. Your family's survival. Do you have enough food? Do you have enough skills? Do you have the right equipment? You know what I mean? It really only will take about a week. Once you see the framework. You don't have to go the whole month. You don't have to test your might.

[00:20:19] But you can if you want. I'll tell you what. Maybe we'll put together... And I'd have to take you on your word. So it's not going to be something astounding. But I have seen some relatively affordable challenge coins. Made of, like, wood. You know what I mean? Through Etsy that are pretty affordable to buy. And if...

[00:20:46] If you go the length of ration or ruin, I'll commit to sending you out a challenge coin with ration to ruin on it. And, yeah. That'll be the thing. That'll be the deal. All right. So we'll set it up. We'll get it all worked out. I may make a critical error right here and now. I'm going to go let my dogs in. Because the little puppy sounds like he's getting his entrails pulled out from his belly button right now. He wants to come in so bad. So...

[00:21:16] Give me a minute. I'm going to run this Lima Tango ad and let the dogs in, okay?

[00:21:46] Ah, Lima Tango, man. Oof. They got it. I'm telling you right now, they got it. Visit them. Visit the website. Pick you guys one of these up. Throw it in all your bags, okay? The Lima Tango Fire Kit. It's got all the goods, man. I'll tell you this much. If you buy a Lima Tango Kit, this is probably one of my favorites, right? The wax-soaked cotton swab. We've got the fire tab.

[00:22:14] If you pick up a Lima Tango Fire Kit and you can't make a fire with what's inside, fatwood, you got a lot of work to do. It's a really good measure of where you're at with your firecraft, you know? And these are cheap. They're $25. They also come with a lighter. They come with a pencil sharpener for shavings. All kinds of great stuff, man. My favorite is the Lima Tango lighter because I like lighters.

[00:22:44] There's also a fire striker in there, too. A little orange one. Cool. LimaTango.com, folks. You know, get... Hey, look at me. What am I going to be? Am I going to be... I really don't want to tell this thing to... You know, we could do a zoom-in number. I bet that'll help. See, Johnny Five will zoom in. He'll get me. And if I give him the L, he'll zoom back out. Boom.

[00:23:14] Okay. Modify Keto. Jay Ferg in there talking. Giving me the perfect segue you are, by the way. Because something... Another thing we're going to be working on. Because we don't have enough going on. There's not enough going on in life. We need more things to do. More challenges. More crazy stuff. If you haven't noticed, right? I take my personal interests and lay them on you.

[00:23:43] And, you know, it's like I toss them up in the air. You pull down what you like and keep it. Anything you don't like, let it filter on through. But this is how I've always done it here at PBN, right? I'll tell you the things that I'm doing. Maybe test you to do the things that I'm doing. And from doing all that, you'll come away with things that really work. You know what I mean? Like, really work. It might even change your life.

[00:24:12] It's not like a game plan that I came up with. It's what I do with other things that I listen to, you know? So, let's talk for a minute about another aspect of things that we'll be testing. Now, this... I guess the timing on this will have to play out through April. Which is fine. I'm calling it Commander Creatine. Commander Creatine.

[00:24:40] Creatine is one of these things that I have always thought was, like, bad for you. I don't know. It always had, like, a negative connotation. You know what I mean? It was always one of those things that's attributed to bodybuilders and a variety of problems there. And it felt steroid-y, even though you know it wasn't. And it's been on my mind a lot lately.

[00:25:03] Because in certain podcasts I listen to, I've heard sparingly people talk about the cognitive benefits of taking creatine. More study, you know, more research has shown that this stuff goes... It doesn't just go to muscles and fill them with water and help in the recovery of muscles. It goes to the bones. It goes to the brain. It helps with things like sleep deprivation. And it helps older people who have cognitive decline.

[00:25:32] What it's been shown in studies out of Germany is that it gives the brain more energy to do the things that it's supposed to do as the brain begins to age. Now, whatever. You know, all of that is cool. All of that is, you know, fundamentally hearsay to you right now until you do your own research, right?

[00:25:57] I'm coming to you with it having, I don't know, probably three months, six months, something like that. Hearing it as part of different podcasts and, you know, it turning my head and that kind of thing. And then I kind of doubled down maybe over the last month, something like that on figuring out, is this legit? Is this another fad? Is this a keto? You know what I mean? Not that there's anything wrong with keto, but you know how things go. Yeah, right.

[00:26:23] Like when it comes to fitness and health, they're just, number one, you got to find out what works for you, right? But you got to try stuff. You know what I mean? Like you got to try stuff to see what works. So this is the thing that we're going to try and see what it does, see what it's all about.

[00:26:46] The real kicker for me, and you guys have heard the name a million times, but, you know, the real kicker for me was, it was almost like destiny. It's really weird. But it was almost like destiny. I am sitting there having just bought two bottles of creatine gummies. See, they have gummies out. I don't know if they're going to work. We're going to see. It'll be pretty easy to measure for a guy like me, you know.

[00:27:12] So it'll be pretty easy to measure within two to three weeks' time whether or not they're making a difference or not. But all that said, creatine gummies in route to the house, and I'm still kind of on the fence, but I'm like, you know what, let's give it a whirl. You know, it's one of those things, like I said, that'll be pretty easy to measure pretty quickly. Work out a lot, run a lot, do a lot of physically demanding stuff.

[00:27:39] It'll be pretty easy to say, oh, I feel a lot better. I feel like I have a lot more energy in these workouts than normal. If it doesn't work, you stop. You know, whatever. But the real kicker for me was literally yesterday. Like the gummies will either arrive today or tomorrow. And I'll show you the brand and all that.

[00:28:01] I'm going to do a deeper dive in Prepper Fit and Health on this because it's something that I want you guys to get into too if you feel so inclined. And not necessarily like hurry up and buy some creatine and start taking it. I want you to look into it, and I'll talk to you about the people that I've watched in detail over at Prepper Fit and Health so you can do the same kind of research.

[00:28:24] But fundamentally, when it comes to nutrition, largely, there is one voice above all for me, and it's Dr. Rhonda Patrick from foundmyfitness.com. Because Rhonda started as a scientist who never worked out, and then she started working out. And then she kind of got obsessed with like the science of fitness and the science of nutrition combined.

[00:28:48] And it's, you know, look, in the world, there are people you go to. There are people that you seek out when you really want to find who's like buried in this thing. Like I watched this guy. His name is Jay, and he has a YouTube channel called Eons of Battle. And he talks like he's got a really sort of feminine kind of talk.

[00:29:19] Not atypical to what I want to hear. But he's got long hair. He wears a brown apron. And he, you know, he's like balding at the top of his head. He's got long black hair. He looks almost like somebody out of a fantasy game. And but he's the guy. He's the guy you go to when you want to talk, when you want to hear about something as dorky as Warhammer.

[00:29:49] When you want to see a person who's totally wrapped up in the world of painting miniature figurines of warfighters, space marines and such. There's a guy, right? Like there's a guy out there in the Internet waiting for you. And he's the guy. And I found him years ago. I realized this because my son wanted to learn how to play Pokemon like all kinds of kids. They trade Pokemon cards, but really very few kids play Pokemon anymore. I don't even know if they do it anymore.

[00:30:17] But when he was coming up, it was big to trade him. It was big to buy him. Oh, I got this most powerful one. And I remember telling him, let's learn to play it and play it. And I'm so happy we did because we had so much fun playing Pokemon. Until he until he really upgraded his deck. And I kind of just had a run of the mill deck because I wasn't like into it like that. I was just playing with him to play to learn how to play. But we found a guy in a cape with long hair.

[00:30:45] And he was the guy. Like he was the Pokemon guy. You seen him and you're like, I'd never watch this guy in a million years. But I need to learn how to play Pokemon. And he was the dude for that. You know? And that's what, you know, when it comes to nutrition, that's what Rhonda is. So it comes down to finding those people sometimes for me. You know, the legitimacy of it. Good call, Hunter.

[00:31:12] Hunter, the man behind Hammer Talk says I wear a brown apron too. What's that have to do with anything? No, it's the whole look and the fit and the background. And you just got to see it. If you're curious, just go watch a video by Eons of Battle. And you'll be like, you might get through 10. You might get through 30 seconds of it. Okay. But again, it's just finding the person who is the perfect combination of passion and expert. You know what I mean? Passion and expertise.

[00:31:42] And that's that dude for that particular thing. So yesterday, like I said, it's middle of the day. And Rhonda literally releases like an hour and a half podcast with an expert on creatine. And it was just one of those things like, it's time. It's time to see what's what. So what will be what I'll be doing. I'll talk more about what I'll be doing over at Prepper Fit and Health. But it's it'll be, you know, it'll be an exploration of that.

[00:32:13] Okay. It may be your thing, maybe not. I don't know. Not too worried about it in terms of how many people, you know, go to bat that way. What else, folks? What else? I, uh, I've got some article stuff up. I got I got to do. Let's look at comms depot real quick. Let's look at what we'll wrap the show up with a little look at comms depot because it's such a great resource.

[00:32:43] It's such a great resource and there's a lot of good stuff coming. It's a question that a lot of people have. Right. It's something that a lot of people want to get into. And it can be a bit intimidating. Uh, fundamentally, the comms depot website is, is important to us because it's got, you know, American made communications, emergency communications products listed. Our buddies, I'm wearing a Mad Gear shirt right now.

[00:33:12] Our buddies from Mad Gear company. They, you know, they put out good stuff. They're making crazy innovative products, 3D printed, stuffed inside of those weird nicotine boxes. And, you know, he's one of those guys that it feels like this is really just the beginning. You know what I mean? That's what it feels like. It feels like like our man over there at Mad Gear.

[00:33:36] Because when I first met the guy, he was making like eight bit T-shirts with nuclear bombs on him, like nuclear explosions. And now he's pumping out really cool contingency planners and, um, awesome. Like legitimate, uh, mesh-tastic nodes and radios and doing great content on Instagram too. But I want you guys to go to commsdepot.com. Check it out. See what's what, man.

[00:34:03] I mean, the education section is one of those things if you can nerd out on that kind of stuff, you know, and get into it. Um, 3D printing ham radio. There's a whole prefab and 3D printing section, I think, right? Yeah, weather meters, 3D printed parts, field computers, antennas, mesh-tastic, radios, solar. And again, this is a veteran-owned business, a guy who's deployed right now. Good guy. He's going to put some really cool stuff together for our audience.

[00:34:31] And, uh, he knows his stuff. He's the guy. You know, again, we're back to that thing. We're back to, who do you go to for your emergency comm stuff? Why do you think I don't talk about it in detail? Because I go to people for it. I'm just trying to be the conduit for all these weird subsects of the prepping world and bringing you the experts and the, uh, you know, the people who inspire me and, and in, in their way or improve my life.

[00:35:01] And, you know, through their expertise and their passion. Because it works. If it didn't work, I wouldn't talk to you about it. You know what I mean? So check them out. ComsDepot.com. Folks, I'm going to call it today. There's a little bit too much activity in the house. It's kind of obnoxious to try to do a podcast. You know what I mean? With it. The dogs are going crazy. There's a kid upstairs. The wife's wandering around. All that kind of stuff. So it's just, it's one of those days. I'm a little distracted. I do apologize for that. Maybe you noticed.

[00:35:30] Maybe you didn't. Either way, I think we touched on some great stuff today. Stay tuned. What? I don't know if anything's coming on later tonight, actually. I forgot the Patriot Power Hour guys were Tuesday night. They were last night. They had an amazing show hitting on all the big stuff. Listen to yesterday's show on the Trump tariffs if you haven't heard it yet. Because today's the day. It's Liberation Day, as they say. We'll see about that. As you can tell, I'm not too sold on the tariffs. But we'll see.

[00:36:00] We'll see. All right, folks. Visit pbnfamily.com. And listen, we talked about the routines. We talked about ration of ruin. We talked about Commander Creatine. Do something new, man. Try something out. You know? Do something new. Explore something. It might turn out that it all sucks. No harm, no foul. But at least you broke up the monotony of life. Right? All right. Talk to you guys.