Surviving America 093: Tradition is What Survives...

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Visit safehousegroupllc.com for your complimentary initial consultation. Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Folks, the intro. Phenomenal. Welcome into a spooky surviving America. Episode 93 was seven episodes out from 100. Okay. What do you want to do? What do you want to do for 100? You want to do something cool, fun? You want me to do backflips? What do you want? I'm going to do today's podcast with one eye taped shut and one arm behind my back and one. Who should we get on? Or should we get a big bunch of people on? That might be kind of fun. My camera may die, so for the podcast audience, who cares? But for the viewers, you may just be watching the Surviving America back round, because it's pretty low. The camera is pretty low. I guess I left it on all day yesterday after our Dirt cheap and free preps series. Have you checked it out? Have you heard it? Yesterday blew up like crazy on PBN because we had two insane interviews that I did just the worst job of all time promoting. I mean, really, just terrible. We had Robert Malone on Church and State. That's enough to get you thrown off YouTube. We had Dr. Robert Malone on Church and State at three. And then Sarah posted her show, which she did here live with William Stewart, who was the executive producer of Third Rock, who does a audio drama similar to The Changing Earth called American Afterlife. I've never heard it, but I'm sure it's good. So, Dr. Robert Malone yesterday, Dirt Cheap and Free Preps. We gave away 50 must-read books to survive doomsday on that episode. You can go back, listen to it on the podcast. You're insane if you're not regularly listening to the podcast. That's my diagnosis, all right? That's it. You've seen France, war, oil. Apparently refining is a thing. It's so funny that we would be in this crisis of oil refining because my town was an oil refinery town. That's what it was. Marcus Oak, Pennsylvania, there was a literal oil refinery at the end of my street. And there were these big towers of flame that were always going. And my parents would always be like, hey, as long as the fire's going, we're good. Yeah, asthma. So I'm looking at the This morning before I get on, I'm looking at the Prepper's Emergency Toolkit, which is my new book that is real close, super close, beautiful. I can't really show it to you. I'm not really allowed. I want to. I want to break the rules. But the publisher's been so good to me that I better wait. But I'm just looking over this thing, man, and the design of it is beautiful. There's a lot of pictures, a lot of images, tons of information. I mean, in some of these sections, you get a crystal clear view of how I do prepping, really. Like how I personally do preparedness, right? The blackout kit is pretty dang... I mean, it is basically my blackout kit. And yeah, pretty much. Some of the images are... We're dealing with a British publisher, no problem. No problem with that. But you can tell in some of the imagery. Some of the flashlights and stuff they have are a little different. So that'll be a sequel. That's the sequel to the Ultimate Survival Toolkit. The Ultimate Survival Toolkit. Basically, the Wilderness Survival Guide. And then the Prepper's Emergency Toolkit. is the Home Preparedness Guide, right? So you got James Walton on both levels, out there in the woods with you, and then at home, which is, you know, talk to the French. Talk to the French, folks. The French are, they're learning all about debugging right now, I'm sure. I'm sure they're getting into all that sort of should we bug out, should we bug in conversations and learning that the bug in is way better than the bug out. But then again, there are a lot of fires. And fires are the defining factor or one of the defining factors in bug in, bug out. Visit DisasterCoffee.com. I just realized what an opportunity I had. I totally messed up. My wife and I were painting these little mugs. And Disaster Coffee has this amazing black pumpkin. It's called the black pumpkin. Pumpkin spice. Very minimal on the spice. Really maximal on the coffee. Like, phenomenal. And I realized just now, I could have painted this black instead of painting it orange. I'm holding up a mug that is basically a jack-o'-lantern. Might have missed out on that opportunity. Not well. Can always do another, I guess. But I was talking to Jordan, the Phoenix, here at PBN last month during our National Preparedness Month series. You guys don't. Jordan is a lifetime of information. A lifetime of information and experience. The real stuff. You know what I mean? You really, when she's on, you should listen. I mean, for yourself. It's not just the prepping. You know what I mean? I think what sets a lot of hosts apart here at PBN is prepping is cool and prepping is essential. In fact, the publisher allowed me, I can't believe it, but the publisher actually allowed me to open the book up with, the whole book opens up with why readiness is no longer optional and really gets into it, right? The changing world, changing us, the whole thing, like people, culture, the whole thing. I submitted it and I was like, that'll probably get heavily edited. I don't think they'll... Because this is a book for mass distribution, just so you understand. This book right here, The Ultimate Survival Toolkit, Dave Jones sent me a picture of it in the Sam's Club the other day. It's a book for mass consumption, which is the equivalent of dropping a prep or nuclear weapon. That's how I feel about it. When I see my book in Sam's Club, I'm like, this is it. You know, we did it. We at least detonated one nuke. We at least detonated one nuke of preparedness information in the world. You know what I mean? It's not some obscure publisher. It's not some self-published thing. It's a big title in a big locale. And, you know, the Prepper's Emergency Toolkit, I think, is going to do even better than the Ultimate Survival Toolkit because it's It's the stuff. You know what I mean? It's the actual survival stuff. Like, nothing wrong with wilderness survival. Wilderness survival tends to be that thing that when you don't know what you're supposed to be doing yet, you think, I got to become a bushcraft master so that when the students begin to riot here in the U.S. over the conditions of schooling... I love saying that that loud. I just love that. I love saying that out loud. I love saying that what we're led to believe is happening in France is that the students are so upset with their schooling that they're rioting for more teachers and better school. I mean, just think back to your teenage years. Think back to being in high school. Did it ever... cross your mind? Did it ever once cross your mind like, we should riot over the school? We hated our school. Me and my buddies hated our school. I mean, we hated the teachers. We mocked them. I mean, it was relentless. Never once were we like, let's riot over the quality of teachers and resources fed into the school. Never. What's your motivation in high school? How do I get out of here? What's the quickest way out? What do you want me to write a paper on? You know what I mean? I don't care how to get coffee stains out of a white t-shirt. I don't care. You tell me what to write. I'll write it. I just want to be gone. I want to get on to life. I've been in school for 10 years. I'm ready to be done. You're never like what we need. is go get me some Antifa flags, black hoodies and black pants and black beanies and Palestinian flags so that we're very clear on the fact that this is a riot about schooling. Anyhow, when you start to see the children rioting over the pencils, that's when you just, if you don't know what you're doing with preparedness, you start thinking, I need to run off into the woods and know how to start a fire with a knife and an eyeglass and a lens and a flint and steel and a ferrocerium rod. I need to know how to build a shelter because in my fantasy, me and the family are going to live under this tarp for months, and we're going to subsist on acorns, and I'm going to hunt deer with a spear or a bow and arrow or something like that. We're going to live off of that. And we're going to spend all our time getting eaten by bugs and, and processing water and processing meat. And, and that's how we will survive the end. And when you have no other options and you don't understand preparedness, I mean, that's fine. That that's fine. You, you will think that's the best way. I thought that was the best way. Most preppers thought at some point in their life that that was the best way you run off into the woods. Um, The way I always tell it is if you're in the woods or if I'm in the woods with my family and a tarp and a fire and this is our situation for survival and we're not camping, everything that I've put in, layers of failure have occurred that are so substantial it's unreal. I'm talking layers of failure, like multitudes of failure. So nothing wrong with learning that, learning that. how to be master bushcrafter, right? Just make sure there's a lot of layers between that and your primary method of emergency living, right? Your bug in plan. Make sure your bug in plan and your under a tarp in the woods plan are real separated by many layers of options, right? A bug out, a family member's house, a hotel, an RV, right? You know what I mean? Just give yourself some layers before you wind up in the worst of worst case scenarios, like something out of a movie where you're in sleeping bags every night on the ground. All seasons. Because I've slept out in 19 degree weather in a sleeping bag. You're not going to live long. If anything goes wrong, an infection, anything, There's no rest. You know what I mean? It's brutal. And now dead of winter, you know, foraging for food in the dead of winter and hoping to eat and hoping to feed three other, four other, five other people. Yeah. You don't want that. Okay. But all that said, I think like, I really do think like learning wilderness survival, mastering fire, mastering shelter, those kinds of things. learning how to use and just learning how to use a knife a fixed blade knife without like looking like you're holding a a bomb you know what i mean like the confidence with a fixed blade knife that's big and sharp and scary looking these things are well i think what they are is tradition right i think what they are is tradition back to my original point i'm talking to jordan here you can go watch the interview it's on everywhere We are, right? It was the last National Preparedness Month interview with the Phoenix. And I'm talking to her about prepping in general and, you know, sort of the different skills and that kind of thing. And she says, you know, what it really is is traditional living. And, you know, there have been many times when Jordan has just hit the nail on the head. Just better than anyone. Better than anyone's going to do it. You know what I mean? And that's exactly what it is. Because from a prepping standpoint, from a self-reliance standpoint, that really is the best North Star there is. Self-sufficiency, self-reliance, okay, sure. But Sam Biggers told me years ago, she said, you know, no one's ever going to be 100% self-sufficient. And that's important. That's a very important thing to add to the hat. Do you know what I mean? You got to have that in the mix because sitting in your, in your cubicle, doing your day job, dreaming about water storage and solar power and these kinds of things. Um, it's easy to leave a lot out, man. Right. It's easy to leave a lot out. And before you know it, you're like, I don't know, you're living some sort of fantasy where you think you're going to be able to go live on the side of a mountain and never have to come down. And maybe if you're by yourself, you can pull something off like that for an extended period of time, but you always got to come down for something. Traditional living is not only possible by almost everybody, right? It's, it's almost, everybody has a story about a grandma and great grandma nowadays and how they lived and the things that they did, or she could cook everything. I was just talking to the publisher, um, about preparedness, you know, someone who works for the publishing company. And we got on a conversation about how grandmom could can everything and grandmom could cook anything. This is her, you know, a country, an ocean away, same sort of thing, right? Like these traditional skills and this traditional style of living is what survives. It's what survives. And what we're finding out now is it's what survives a culture. Traditions are what survive not just a family, not just a person, but a culture, a society, right? How do we know that? Well, we've abandoned so much traditional living and what's happening. We've abandoned so many traditions and what's happening, right? I mean, we're contentious on almost every damn thing there is to be contentious on. I don't remember who it was, but I was talking to a guy on Instagram, and he goes, it's his choice. I don't care. Right? It'll never affect my decision. But he's not the first guy I've talked to. I don't do Christmas. Okay. I'm a Christmas maniac, so you have to understand. I'm a lunatic with Christmas. Me and the wife. nuts right um but again like at your own peril you know at your own peril understand what it means when you start not doing gigantic traditional things that people have always done that that weave us together right you could argue that the conquest of Islam that is running roughshod over Texas and other places in the United Jersey and, you know, Michigan, these enclaves are, their main success is tradition, right? You could call it religion, but it's basically tradition. Traditions, right? You look at the success of the Jewish people, what's kept them achieving. I know it's like, You can't even say that out loud anymore. You can't even say Jewish people. Jewish people are good. Huh? It's so crazy how fast things flip, right? You can't be anti-Semitic. It's bad to be anti-Semitic. Five years later, the Jews run everything in their night. Dude, this is why tradition, this is why God is so important. Because you're fickle, dude. You are fickle. Seriously, you are not a base to stand on. You just aren't. And if you think you are, and you think you can build some kind of thing underneath your family that is all you and you alone, and you're strong enough just to hold it down, and not just hold it down for one generation of family, but multitudes... Dude, you're fickle, man. I've seen the, and I'm talking to myself too. I've seen the world in action. I've lived a life of 40 years. I've watched others live lives of 80 and 100 years, right? It's like, you know how much people change. You know how fickle people can be. People can go from loving something to hating something back to loving something again. Literally your creator. This is the path that so many take with the creator, with God himself. You grow up. You're in the pews. When you're little, however you did it growing up, by the time you hit your teenage years, you're like, this is wearing on me. By the time you're 20 years old, you're an atheist. How could I fall for it? So silly. By the time you're mid-30s, the world has had its way with you. You're back in the Bible. If it can be done with the creator, then it can be done with anything, right? Which is why, I mean, tradition is everything. And we really have to re-evaluate what this stuff is all about and stop trying to be so counterculture. You know what I mean? Stop trying to be so unique. You know what I mean? It's like, let's just get back to tradition. And I'm not just talking about traditional living. I'm not just talking about canning food's And having some chickens out back, you know what I mean? And learning a good apple pie recipe, making good sourdough bread, which so many of you have gotten good at, which I love, by the way. I do think you could say, I would say that the making of bread, your ability to make bread from scratch is as valuable as your ability to make fire from scratch. These are on the same plane in terms of preparedness in my opinion, right? Cool, you can make fire. Can you make bread? Cool, you can make bread. Can you make fire? Because in my opinion, they're the same. You could argue that bread's more important because you can have all the fires in the world, but you haven't got nothing to eat. Then you can have all the fires and all the flour or all the wheat berries that you want, right? All the hard red wheat you could muster and all the ferrocerium in the world. But if nobody knows how to, you know, manage the yeast and rise and smash down and rise again. Anyhow. But beyond the traditional living is also the traditions themselves, right? There are things in my life and things in your life. Like I said, they weave us together, right? You're going to. Why do you think people get so pissed when I'm not going to celebrate the 4th of July because America's racist or whatever? These things are so important, man. And I just want more and more traditions to return because I just think it's so– and what almost is counter to that is these weird days off in school for holidays like 0.1% of the student body celebrates. Do you know what I mean? I don't understand that. Those are not traditions. Those are something different. They're divisions is what they actually are. You know what I mean? Like to get off for like Diwali or something like that, when you have like my son, I don't think there's a single Indian kid in my son's school, but they'll be off for Diwali. And I'm like, why? Because it's not a tradition. It's different, right? It's a division. I mean, the kids love it. Of course, teachers probably love it too. So no, it's not like it's hurting anybody, but it is weird. It's a weird thing to have in your head. Like, why are we off today? We're off because it's Columbus Day. Oh, okay, cool. That makes sense. Why are we off today? We're off because it's Yom Kippur. Okay, well, most of the school's not Jewish, so why are we off? Right? You're a kid, don't matter. Good day to play video games, hang out at home, right? The traditional way of living is really the only counterbalance to the radical, I mean, the insane situation that's happening with technology. Think about it, right? It's the morning of Thanksgiving. I hope you've had the ability to experience this, but the morning of Thanksgiving is As a child. If you're having Thanksgiving at home. Is like nothing else. Right. You wake up. If you sleep in. As most kids do. At a certain age. You wake up to the smell. Of a turkey in the oven. Oh God. It's turkey in the oven. I smell it. It's going to be great. You know what I mean. And. It's a day where like. Nowadays. Nowadays. Parents will be like. Go. Put all the. Shit up. Put all the electronics up and come down here and be with the crew, you know? These things stand as monuments to the human experience. And, you know, you look at the iPhone like, what are you doing here, bitch? You know what I mean? That's how you look at it. I'm always trying to dumb things down, simplify as best I can, man. You know what? I'm not into complicating. I am into complicating ideas. But when it comes to tradition, I think our best bet is to simplify it, keep it easy. Something easy to understand. You know what I mean? We celebrate the same holidays. We celebrate the same history, right? We applaud the same events. We weep over the same events, right? 9-11. We don't in one generation go, I don't know, right? What's that about? I don't know about you. The generation after mine is basically like ho-hum on 9-11, which is really weird. It's a weird thing. Not that you want to hold on to hatred, but you do have to like, I want to see a rise out of somebody. You know what I mean? When I say 3,000 Americans dead, I want people to go, Jesus, that's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. What I'm trying to do with today's show is give you a handhold. You know what I mean? Give you a rung to grasp. Not that most of you don't already understand it, but that it can give you another way in maybe to a neighbor, to a friend, to a family member, to a co-worker. Right? Because we're all trying to... It seems like people are all trying to... What are they trying to do? They're trying to squeeze into... This world of traditional living, self-reliance, independence, prepping, survival. But they want to be in different parts of the party, right? It's like this whole idea of self-reliance and independence is like a one big party. Do you know what I mean? That's what it's become over the years. It's one big party and like the survivalists are over there and the preppers are over there and they're hoarding the punch bowl. They won't let anybody take it. They're rationing the punch and the– The homesteaders are over on the other side. We have to keep telling them to put the chickens and the goats outside. Get the damn goats out of the party. Rick Austin, come on. And then you've got all kinds of intermingled groups therein. You've got comms guys hanging out. You've got the tactical dudes over there looking all badass. They won't talk to nobody. You've got the– you know what I mean? It's like one big party, and the public from the outside looking in they're like trying to squeeze into the group and they get in there and they're looking around and going like, which one of the, it's like prison, you know what I mean? It's like, which one of these, which one of these is my group? Your group is your, your group is back in generation. Do you know what I mean? Your group is the tradition. Your group is what, what your people have always done. And more importantly, what the people of your region have always done. right? You are of a place. You know what I mean? You are of a place, a climate, a growing zone, right? You're a part of a place. And if you've moved, guess what? You're part of that place now. You know what I mean? So you might as well figure out what works best traditionally in that area. What animals do people raise? What foods do people grow, right? like you moved from Texas to nobody would ever do this, but let's just say you moved from Texas to Connecticut. Like the growing is different or vice versa, right? The fishing is different. The hunting is different. You know, things change. Seek traditional means. I mean, what is, what is reading? What is the act of reading old books, particularly nonfiction, but not necessarily just nonfiction. Um, But to get a better understanding of those traditions, to get a better understanding of how does this area work, how does this time in history work, how does it all work, this is how it works. I'll tell you, tradition is also the glue that holds a family together. It might also be, and it is an art case for sure, one of the greatest glues to hold a marriage together. Because you get deep into the weeds on, you know, married life. You get 20, 30, 40 years in there. It's real easy to start growing apart, man. Especially if you're people that are like you're into stuff my wife and I are into stuff you know what I mean we could and we've always been this way we were with a type of couple like we used to go a week without seeing each other and then hang out on the weekends and it's if you're ambitious as we are her and I it's real easy to just grow away from one another and start looking at each other like hey I haven't seen you in a while you know what I mean it's easy I used to work nights. She worked days. You know, we had things that we did outside, you know, fishing for me and sports for her, like real easy. Tradition, traditional, you know, like basically from now until the new year, we've got weekends and weekend events of the things that we do at home, things that we do away from home, you know, pumpkin patches and apple picking and all kinds of Christmas events and just, you know, Thanksgiving's always at our house. It was just a whole bunch of shit, man, that the decorating and the undecorating and the redecorating and the, the cutting down of the tree and the, just all kinds of stuff that become true birthdays and all that within there, you know, that become this sort of like, this is just this massive set of traditions that we do every day. I mean, every, every year, And that's not counting all the other months out of the year. And all of a sudden, you have all this glue. You've got all this glue that's holding your family together, right? Like every month, there's some glue. Every month, you're like, oh, man, every January, we'd go and do this, right? Every March, we would go pick strawberries, right? You know, all these things. The fishing, I mean, just the fishing alone, right? There's just a lot. It's a good life. It's a life that stays sticky, keeps you together, keeps people coming back. You know what I mean? There's a real good chance that if you have a lot of traditions that your kids, when they grow up, they're going to go like, well, the way you do Christmas is you go to this farm that I grew up going to and you cut down a Christmas tree there. And then you take it home and you decorate it. So that's what we're going to do. And we'll all do it together. If you do nothing, if you put your kids in 17 soccer programs and 6 football programs and 10 baseball programs and that's their tradition, it's hard to hold things together. So what I wanted to talk about today, and I'm done. We're done. It was just that, man. It was just that. It was the concept of a focus on tradition. And traditional living. The way of living that has kept us alive for nobody knows how many tens of thousands of years. You don't know. Basically, Neolithic tradition. From the moment we stopped wandering and started putting fences up and going, instead of just eating this wild pig, let's put him and his buddies in a pen. From that moment forward, there have been things that people have done that have kept us alive forever. And in just 100 years or so, we're going, nah, technology is the answer for everything. Right? Just-in-time delivery? Nothing could ever mess that up. Look at France. Look at Ukraine. Okay? There are very clear examples of how quickly things can get upended. I hope you enjoyed today's show. I wanted to talk about Trump. He's talking about considering now suspending the federal gas tax, which we've been crying about for months. It'd be a great move. It'd be a great move and all states should follow suit. We'll have to see. I will be back on in a couple hours with Dirt Cheap Preps. Dirt Cheap and Free Preps for today, our series that we're doing all month long in October. You want to come get something for free. You want to come find out just a high-quality cheap prep. Yesterday, we had 30 toothbrushes for $ 7. 90, $ 7. 59. These are the bamboo toothbrushes that I store for that reason. They come in a two-pack, dirt cheap, a legitimate stockpile prep that can put you at ease when it comes to oral hygiene. And if you can learn how easy it is to make, uh, like a baking soda, coconut, um, oil, coconut oil, sea salt, you know, mint, uh, mint essential oil toothpaste. What do you, what, you know, you got something. So it's a big wide world out there, folks. Listen to the prepper broadcasting network. We, uh, we're hyper blessed, man. Do you know what I mean? That's all there is to it. I got to let you go. We got to get to the morning. The sun has decided to make an appearance. I'm turning into a ghost. You guys have a great day. I'll talk to you soon.