Surviving America 076: Red Beacon and The Lightkeepers

Society in every state is a blessing. A government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already oh come into surviving America, folks. It's James Walton here. Pleasure to be with you on the Relentless Prepper Broadcasting Network, stepping off the Preparedness Island and onto something a little different today, a moment to explain some stuff that's going on at any given moment. I am operating the Prepper Broadcasting Network, and I don't know, you know, I've never been one for a single nine to five, I'll tell you that much. There are always other projects operating, you know what I mean, whether they're personal or public or private or whatever. There's always something else, you know. I'm writing a new book right now at commissioned book. I'm always writing about three other books that are you know, maybe will be self published, maybe not, in the writing of other self published possibilities. I've published a lot of books. I've written a lot of books. It's just me, you know what My interest is. What it is, I'm a wake up and get behind the limestone and push every day, push push, That's me. I don't know what I do. You know, it's actually a weakness. It's become a bit of a weakness. Now. I think I have to really work to not work. I have to really work to relax. But it's worth it. I'll tell you that. To all you people out there who are you know, really plugged into the grind, like, don't forget to rest. You force yourself to rest, distract yourself with something other than the phone, and really rest. You know, read reading is ambient. I never understand people. You can't sleep or they don't you know, they can't relax, They don't like to read because reading is boring. Perfect read something boring, you'll fall asleep and get some real rest. Not even at night, just middle of the day. I don't know. Today we have a lot to talk about. The big thing today is explaining to you all where we're at with red beacon media. Okay, what red beacon media is, what it's becoming, what it will be, explaining a little more in detail, your role potentially as a lightkeeper for the red beacon and all of those things. So suspend your prepper, your inner prepper for a moment, right because we're not going to talk a lot of prepping. It doesn't mean that beacon and PBM won't work together. They're not mutually exclusive, but in the early days it is gonna seem like they are a bit mutually exclusive, right because we're building a new thing, and I am a firm believer of build it now, and build it fast, and perfect it as time goes on, because why not, baby, nobody's promised tomorrow, right, No one has promised tomorrow. So you better do that thing that you've been wanting to do. You better do it today, you know what I mean. Sitting next to me, I'm gonna reveal this soon, but I'm not ready to reveal it yet. Sitting next to me is a UV marker, a sure Mark UV marker, and a black light, a micro black light, and it's been getting a lot of use. And I'll talk to you about it in the very near future. That's just a little tidbit, a little something, a little I'm trying to make you as crazy as I am, you know what I mean. So plug all these little riddles and stuff and sayings and poems into into the show so that you could be as nuts as me. So what you're looking at on the screen is red Redbeaconmedia Dot substack dot com for those of you who are listening to the podcast Redbeaconmedia dot substack dot com is this is it. This is the platform as it stands right now. This is what we've been talking about, been leading up to all of the above. It is very little, very minimum at the time. What's up, Mike Bayless over there in the Instagram crowd. How you doing. You're in for something a little different today, Mike, But thanks for joining us. So what you're seeing is the platform. Okay, where it stands right now? Now, what is the purpose. The first thing we have to do with with the Red Beacon is talk about the purpose. Right. We have this, we have this Gigante podcast network that is the Prepper broadcasting network, right. I mean, it touches so many places, it does so many things. Today alone, we're talking Women's Wednesday with Security and Defense. The conversation between Jay ferg The Phoenix and Sam by the Homestead are out of the Western North Carolina. Unbelievable conversation too, ladies, tremendous. We've got today's show that we're doing right now, Surviving America. We've got a big question from Church and State at three pm, right at three pm today you'll get Church and State and he and Caleb Collier is asking the question, is Russia really our enemy? You know, I don't think it's a yes or no kind of answer for the sake of the show, right, and then of course we have tonight for you insomniacs. I was a communist for the FBI. Boomboombo boom. And this is daily man, this is this is what we do every single day on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Just outlandish and outrageous amounts of content. And by the way, he like this is this is notwithstanding the changing Earth. Audio drama could show up. Judson Carroll might decide he wants to do erbo medicine for Preppers today, like we have other hosts and other great shows that pop up as the week goes on. Dave Jones, the NBC guy, might throw in a daily audio cash about something amazing you couldn't even believe, or give you a homesteading update that'll just blow your mind, really inspire you right to get things done. And that's you know, that's what's going on. So on top of all that, you know, we have this new idea, this idea of the red Beacon. What is it? What is red Beacon media? What are we trying to do here? Right? We're trying to bring attention, an effort, and passion to what it means to be human. Because when you squeeze the tube of preparedness all the way down, like you're running out of toothpaste, what comes out at the end is humanity. You go, oh, oh, all this prepping and all this homesteading and all this survival in the age of you know, perpetual convenience, it's just about getting back to humanity. Right. You follow this sort of artificial intelligence cyborg phone carrying Google glass, wearing neurolink having path. Right, you remember yesterday to where two roads diverged in a wood, and I chose the one less traveled by. You follow the one path of the sort of the neurallink path, and you realize that you're stepping further and further away from humanity, and in fact, just just your day to day operations are stepping you further and further away from humanity. You don't even realize because you look at the in the mirror and you see a human. Oh it's a human here. Still, I'm good? Are you good? Are any of us. Good stats tell a little bit of a different story about good Red Beagan media is uh is about addressing Well, let's talk about the core ethos of the platform, which is rebellion and renaissance. Right. I could. I tried to boil it all down. I've been thinking about this for years. Jordan the Phoenix has been pushing me for years to get this figured out. And it's not exactly what I think she wants it to be or dreamed of it to be yet, but uh, it'll get there, you know what I mean. I simmered it all down to what the human experience? Okay, what can we do? What can we add with our level of experience, what can we add what it is that we do here and our expertise and all that kind of stuff, and a to me, it sounded like rebellion and renaissance. Rebellion and renaissance, right because at the core, as I mentioned about humanity, the toothpaste tube, right, we are all operating in some level of rebellion at the moment, Right, We're all taking a stand against a thing, right, and it's almost perpetual. I think it's uniquely American, I really do. There's a lot of stuff online, so I had to take a big gulp of coffee. There's a lot of stuff online about like there's no white culture. There's a lot of stuff online about like there's no American culture. Right. I do think that rebellion is one of them. I mean, I don't. That's complete and utter bullshit. But I don't want to go into American culture because it'll take away from what I have to do today on this show, and I've got to stay focused. Rebellion is a part of American culture, you know what I mean. I didn't know that because I only grew up around Americans and American people. But watching these wars and watching these things, and watching Europe being taken over by Muslims, it's very easy to see the difference. Things get wonky, Americans turn and growl, you know what I mean. That's our thing. That's our thing. It's for all the way from the beginning. It's from all the way back from when Washington was like, you think we could get away with maybe tax in the whiskey, and everybody in the country was like, what the what are you talking about? Did you not just see what we went through over stamps? You think we're gonna thus the whisky rebellion right right off the clip, right after the Revolution. I don't even know how many years, like three years, ten years, something like that, when the whiskey rebellion happened. Let's just see, but that I mean that quickly the American people are settling into like, yes, this is great, this is what if we've done it, We've beat the Brits. It's incredible. Right, seventeen ninety one to seven nights, seventeen ninety one, right, really, not even talking twenty years, they start talking about the excise tax on whiskey. Right, see what the US government got? What kind of authority do we got over these people? And in western Pennsylvania, you know, almost Dave Jones country, he's more central, but the iron workers really fundamentally were like, dude, you're kidding, right. The tax disproportionately affected small frontier farmers who distilled surplus grain into whiskey as a more transportable and profitable commodity. We like rebellion. Man, you're putting your data center in our in our backyard. We're gonna rebel right. You've been shoving this property tax down our throat. We're looking at our wife across the room and going like me and her, I guess we just got to work forever, or we lose the house, doesn't matter. If we paid it off, doesn't matter. Nothing matters. See, we don't own it. We used to kiss each other on the couch or baby, we bought a house, We own it. I can't believe it. And then we grew up and got older and got informed and realized we don't know anything. I don't own that car. We're in this house. You talk to people who rent and they're like, well, at least you own your home. You know, I don't own anything I rent. You're like, oh, yeah, that stinks, same for you, buddy. So again, it's it's the basis of it all, growing your own food, pulling power from the sun, collecting rain water, learning how to treat and heal and thrive with natural foods and medicines. This is the supreme rebellion. But another thing that is a completely and totally essential in rebellion is your ability to do what I'm doing right now. It's your ability to speak, It's your ability to convey ideas and concepts, your ability to rouse a crowd right with something more than than kindergarten style songs like they do with the No Kings protests. You you have to be able to write if if and I don't think one writing is superior, right, I think if you've got technical writing capability, you have a tremendous asset. Just as much as say something like, uh, you know the early works of the revolution. All of this stuff kind of folds into the rebellion and the renaissance. That is the red beacon. Because this is what you really sit down and think about it. What does what does humanity need at the moment? Right? We need to sharpen up our rebellion and sharpen up our renaissance, sharpen up our writing, our art are Why why are those things so important? Well, because you're facing right now, what you're facing in artificial intelligence is something that's trying to crush your spirit before it even has a leg to stand on. Collectively, we're doing it ourselves largely. I don't know how much of it is fake, you know, no matter how much of it is is bullshit propaganda to make people use platforms with artificial intelligence, right, In other words, it can write a sonnet better than you, right, It can draw a picture faster than you and better than you. First of all, the first thing you have to remember about artificial intelligence is it is you. It is you and the one and we can we have This is the biggest message when it comes to artificial intelligence. There are trillions of dollars of investment I hear going into artificial intelligence. Right. Well, hold on a second, I thought that was me. How they build artificial intelligence what they do? But they suck everything from the internet up, filter it and spit it out to you through grock, spit it out to you through a video, spit it out to you through right. But the soul of artificial intelligence is you. It's every blog post you ever made, every comment you ever made, everything you ever uploaded to the internet. So I'm gonna ask the trillion dollar question, where's my royalty check? Right? Where's your royalty check? Where's your money? Where's the money at I'll dumb it down for you, not dumb it down, but I'll give you a good example or a good whatever the hell. Imagine if Henry Ford was like, I'm gonna build a model t Okay, it's gonna be a revolution. People are gonna be able to get around in auto mobiles. Right, So imagine Henry Ford, we're gonna do this Model T. We're gonna do it. You know, We're gonna use great materials, we're gonna set up the assembly line. We're gonna do this thing like no one's ever done it before. Okay. Now, imagine you wake up and there's a guy in your backyard and he's taken all the lumber from your shed, and he's like, don't worry about it. We're building the Model T. Baby, it's gonna be a revolution. And you see that every every household in your on your block, somebody from Henry Ford's company is taking scrap metal, rubber, old tires, whatever it is. They're taking materials from your home, things that you own, right and shuttling them off to the factory to build automobiles that they're then gonna sell you. You'd be like, this is amazing, this technology is amazing, but I'm gonna need some money for all that lumber you took to do it, okay, because you stole that shit. Man. This is exactly what's happening with AI. It's exactly what's happening. I don't care what you say. There's no way around it. It's a good thing. I'm not a lawyer, I could tell you that. But what's happened with AI is they've ripped the shingles off of your digital life and are using them to create artificial intelligence and profiting trillions. Right think about it. If you wrote a blog post, if you wrote a post, if you had a Facebook page, if you had this, if you had that, have you've done anything on the internet unique? They've gobbled that up. They've gobbled up the entirety of the Internet. There's all kinds of people like, you can't do that, that's copyright, you can't do that. That's my song, dude, You're not allowed to do that. It's happening all the time. They gobbled up all kinds of information and data and then they spit it out and go, look what we made. It's yours. You are AI. So in light of the economic challenges here and around the world, I think it's time that all these anthropics in these rocks start shedding some royalty checks to the American people and the Internet users around the world who have created helped create their product. Because there's no denying it. It's just a digital product. So it doesn't feel the same, you know what I mean. It just you know, if the guys from Starbucks showed up at your door and robbed you of your coffee beans every day, and you were like, well, that's a coffee company, they make coffee. They're doing great. I guess they needed some extra beans, you would be like, this is crazy. I'm getting stolen from here and they're doing well. So pony up, pony up, anthropic, come on, let's do it. Everybody else, go and post it, steal the idea, tell everyone about it. I'm happy. I don't care. I can care less about credit. I'd just rather you not have your integrity stolen, right, We don't want your integrity stolen. So there's a little bit of rebellion, there's a little bit of renaissance. And the importance of the renaissance aspect is the writing. It is the drawing, It is the creative process. And it's so important for you to engage in that, whether you read it or whether you write it yourself, whether you enjoy it, whether you watch it, because you have to understand that human made art, human written literature, poetry, and so forth will always have value. Words will always have power VI for Vendetta. Yeah, in lieu of the AI, I think he says, in lieu of the trunch and words will always have power or always maintain their power, something along those lines. So on Red Beacon, the Red Beacon A part of it. Most of it is about humanity. Most of it will be the things that we post, the things that we do will be about humanity. They will be about rebellion and renaissance. How to improve the human condition? Right, I would like to see a gigantic events section come to be at the top of this homepage. Here, how do we get back to home? I'd like to see a big event section up here with the notes and the chat and the lightkeepers and the archive. That's what I would like to see, because human to human contact is what we really need. It is. It's a beautiful thing. I'll never forget it. I realized that walking into one of those I walked into a tabletop gaming store because I'm a Warhammer nerd, right, But it's a recent it's not. It hasn't been that way my whole life. Only a couple years in and I walked into a local tabletop store and I couldn't believe my eyes and the revelation that I had because I saw human beings playing a tabletop game with other human beings and laughing and having a great time. And these guys are like you know, I mean, they are tabletop guys who played tabletop games in the middle of the week, right in the weird hierarchy of the world that we have created today. You kind of know where these guys set if you're looking at it through the the lizard's glasses, right. But I remember watching them having a great time, and I started thinking to myself, all these people that are keeping up with the Joneses, not the Dave Jones, all the people killing themselves to keep up with the Jones. Is they got the house, the wife, the car, or the business they detect whatever? Right, Miserable alone, miserable, isolated, fighting perpetually with each other, with the children, with themselves, with their parents, with different spending tons of time online second guessing everything that they do. Because there's a video that tells you this is wrong, this is right, this is wrong, this is right. There's a there's a blog post that says you're doing this, but you gotta say, don't eat that, eat this, don't wake up at this time, wake up at that time when you wake up, drink this instead of that. Don't drink coffee, don't drink water, don't drink salt, don't drink And they're in a frenzy. And I'm sitting there behind the counter and I'm watching these people have a blast, and I said, you know what the common denominator is here. These guys are out with people. These guys are out with people, and they're out with their people, and they're having their kind of fun. And I said, we need this, man, We need to get this back, you know. And then there's Prepper Camp, where you go to Prepper camp every year, such a blade. There's these opportunities I'd like to see bloom up. So within this whole world of the Red Beacon, within the world of rebellion and renaissance, I have been mentioning something a group that does not yet exist but will soon exist, known as the light Keepers. And now to be a Lightkeeper is completely your call. It's open to everyone until you decide it's no longer, or until I decide it's no longer open to you. I guess if you do something crazy, but you'd have to do something pretty crazy. But a lightkeeper is just fundamentally someone who wants to fuel the red Beacon. You know who wants to keep the light of the Red Beacon blazing through your own written words, spoken word, painted, chiseled, whatever you are. The the lightkeepers are the people who power the renaissance side of Red Beacon. And I beat my head about that. You know, what can we do? What can we say? What are the things that can be done to sort of spur this lightkeeper's movement? How do we get it going? And today it hit me? Today, it hit me today, I said, you know what we do? We start a Lightkeeper's prompt that we put out every few days. Every few days we'll put out a light Keeper's prompt because writing prompts are amazing. The right writing prompt can pull writing out of people who otherwise wouldn't want to write. Today we posted our first light Keepers prompt. Okay, I'm going to read it to you for those of you who are listening only. The prompt is as follows. The old world is burning, but something wild and alive is rising from the ashes. Paint the future. You refuse to let die describe it so vividly that your reader can taste it on their tongue. So for you out there who hear that writing prompt and want to bring forth the future, and remember, you can do this via written word. You can do this via illustration. You can do this with a poem. You can do this with a speech. Whatever paint the future you refuse to, let die describe it so vividly that your reader can taste it on their tongue. The challenge has arisen. Bring to me the light Keepers, TB and family. I want to see what you guys have. And these things can be posted. They don't have to be posted. They can be read on air, or you can just send them to me and say, James, read it. Don't let anybody see it. I just want you to read it. I just want one other person to read it. Or you could even you know, write it and keep it to yourself. But the light keeping aspect of the Red Beacon is essential to its survival. And these writing prompts I think will begin the process, you know, and it's gonna be a beautiful thing. We're gonna do some conversation, we're gonna do some preparedness. Clips from various Prepper Broadcasting Network shows we are going to do interviews at the Red Beacon. We are going to do and have already started doing poetry readings yours truly, books and books of poetry all around me. It is what it is. Maybe it's not your thing, or maybe it's not yet become your thing, but there's a lot to glean from it. There's a lot to enjoy in that world. That world is uniquely human. And while you can prompt an artificial intelligence platform like Rock to create me a poem like in the style of and it'll spit something out that reads really well, nothing, there's never gonna be anything like human made poetry. Right. It's just it's a legacy you don't even know exists. It's been handed down from generation to generation. It is literally some of the real nooks, some of the real soul of ancient poetry literally guides you every day of your life. It literally guides you every day of your life. So this, my friends, is the Red Beacon, completely open also to relevant news on things like art, artificial intelligence, the making and unmaking of humanity. Fundamentally right, the making and unmaking of humanity is what I'm interested in. Technology great, right, I do have a soft spot for like tremendous musicians, you know, if you know tremendous musicians and musical talent that is completely, like completely and totally buried by the algorithm. I'm actually going to do a post on this for red Beacon very soon, something simple that'll just guide you to them. But I listen to musicians all across the internet that most people have never even heard of, that are so much better than anything on the radio. Do you know what I mean by a long shot? I mean, I just found a guy just the other night, last night. He's an Indian fellow with an acoustic guitar. Not Indian, I mean, like you know Native American fella who are tremendous. I mean he's he's doing these incredibly soulful acoustic songs short that are clearly written with his culture and his background and and and his voice is like incredibly like Western Indian, like just they're so good. It's just so good, you know what I mean. There's another girl goes by the name of Ruby Lax, Ruby Lax May. If anybody has potential to break through, it's Ruby Lax. I don't know, though, maybe not. I'm probably tremendously biased. She looks like my niece, so I'm already like ten times biased. But she's just a tremendous drummer who has tapped into this sort of like real I guess it's like thirties, forties, forties fifties style jazz drumming and piano and singing, and she sings these old songs like Skylark and it's and she's doing it with like all these kids that are in their twenties maybe younger. I mean, they look tremendously young. It's a beautiful thing. The jazz is just insane and it's off the charts, and it's original. Her voice is very original, it's very old, it's very you know, amazing. There's so much underneath everything that you see. Every day you you open up the browser, you open up your phone, you have this niche algorithmic created propaganda's screen crust that pops before your very eyes and makes you feel like this is my curated personal feed. But of course, no computer, no algorithm, no AI will ever know what it is truly moves you. It will move things in your way that it thinks might move you, but it cannot find the things. And I think one of the reasons that scrolling is so compulsively addictive, right, is because it the algorithm is throwing a bunch of things at you, and maybe one in one hundred or one in two hundred or whatever it is is something you might actually like, and all of a sudden it's like, oh, okay, I found that. That's pretty good. That's something. But beneath this crust, if you can learn to drill through this crust, get through the mainstream, right first and foremost, you gotta get through the mainstream. That's easy, right, that's like silt nowadays, And then drill through the crust of everything else, the sales, the ads, the pitches, the fakes, the phonies, the guy's selling you a thing. Sometimes it's me, hey, buy an mre sometimes right. Once you get through all of that, then you we got bills to pay, man, What do you want me to say? Once you get through all that, you get down to the magma. You get down to like the magma of the Internet, and you're like, whoa, look at this person with twelve hundred views on their video and they are playing guitar like no one you've ever seen in your whole life. I got content creators who make content about ancient mythology. Content creators who do nothing but slow read poetry enough to put the average human being to sleep. Right, There's a world out there that I want to bring to life through the Red Beacon, and I also think that that world exists in you. It's getting beaten to death, it's getting tortured in the submission by technology, but it is uniquely human, and I think it might even be uniquely American. I'm not quite sure that could be American exceptionalism. Talking unapologetically, by the way, but I wanted to get on today and I wanted to explain to you that the Red Beacon is shining, and it is a dull light at the moment, but it will get stronger with time. I promise you that this is not an abandonment of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. This is not an abandonment of my responsibilities with the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I'll always be here doing what I do. But this is uh when you've prepped, when you've spent your time prepping for disasters, and you've spent almost two decades of your life, you know, really digging into what it means to be human and you've done things, and you've held axes and split wood, and you've you know, killed pigs and chickens and gathered eggs, and you know, hiked for miles and just done all these things that we've always done. The more of the things that you do that we've always done. Pulled wild food and ate it, ate food on the side of a mountain, caught trout on the side of a mountain, Like I don't know. There are these things that I have done that we have always done, and I can tell you right now like that connection, that wiring is in jeopardy. The next the next sort of natural step once you get prepared, once you get focused in on self reliance and independence both from the stuff and the homesteading side, to also the sort of self actualization, the reforming of who you are in this digital age, to who you want to be, where you want your attention to be, where you want your time to be spent. Right, most people growing up right now, particularly the youth, have no idea that they own their attention. Right, very valuable your attention and your time. So the red beacon is on. If you feel like you can contribute as a lightkeeper. I'm not asking for money. Not in the least I'm asking for your humanity. No, I'm asking you to just sit down and really think about if you have something to say, if you have something deep within you to create. Everyone does. Most people are afraid to even tap into it, right for fear they might expose themselves, their true self, the raw, true self that is hidden under layers of right, layers of training and flesh and bone and skin and guys and clothing and so on and so forth. Use the prompts, use the light Keepers prompts. Pay attention. Okay, the link for the Substack is in the podcast below. It is Redbeaconmedia dot substack dot com. We will continue to build on this. You will see much more from Red Beacon as it grows. And uh yeah, stay tuned, stay tuned. But I want to use today to explain what the Red Beacon was all about, what the Lightkeepers are, and uh most importantly, to let you know Prepper Broadcasting Network is here to stay. These are these are are two things that will work together. It's like Superman and Batman, you know what I mean? All Right, PBN family, thank you so much, do me a favor. Our incredible sponsor for today is portableprep dot com. 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