Surviving America 094: Mid Atlantic Power Grid Emergency Order

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Maybe hang with the Prepper Broadcasting Network. It's not me. It's usually a collection of people Really? At the end of the day, it's our hosts. It's our affiliates. This came from the guys from BePreparedSolutions.co, a company you have to get to know for your specialized, certified, I mean, personalized emergency plan. You got an emergency plan, right? I don't know. I think it might be a good time to develop yourself an emergency plan. Energy Secretary secures mid-Atlantic grid ahead of anticipated stressed system conditions. Secretary Wright issues an emergency order to stabilize the mid-Atlantic grid and mitigate the risks of blackouts. Okay. Energy.gov. This is actually, the grid is a sour point in all of prepping. There's no denying that. But this is kind of a good sign. He says this order will ensure millions of American families and businesses across the mid-Atlantic have access to affordable, reliable, debatable Reliable and secure electricity by making additional power generation, including backup power, available to use as needed. And then he goes on to attack the Biden administration about, you know, the risks of blackouts when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow. This administration remains committed to using every available tool to prevent blackouts. Tomorrow, I'm going to be on germ warfare. And that's a show out of South Africa. And one of the first guys I ever talked to, a buddy who was just living the life of rolling blackouts and has built backup power options to mitigate those rolling blackouts. And I think it's important that we look at life this way going forward, guys. You know what I mean? If you're into the lights being on and stuff, I'd highly recommend Early in the year, I was talking about individual power grids and how cool it's going to be when whole blocks are powered by a station at the end of their block rather than on some larger grid, right? I do think utilities will become everybody's personal responsibility, right? I generate my own power, right? I am responsible for my own water collection and purification. This is ideal in the long term, if you ask me. In the short term, you need solutions. You know what I mean? In the short term, you need solutions. And the thing about backup power is every little bit makes a huge difference. Anything is better than nothing. So there are massive 3,000-watt, 4,000-watt solar power generators. battery banks, basically, that have a huge effect and can power all kinds of stuff, really. Refrigerators, televisions, Wi-Fi, right? Any kind of lights you can imagine, that kind of stuff. And they're expensive, a lot of them. And then there are smaller ones, thousand watt, you know what I mean? Smaller generators that will be like a gift from God if you're living in an America where rolling blackouts become a thing, right? My question to you guys, I guess, is what do you really think? We get a message like this from the energy secretary taking steps to mitigate blackouts during stress system conditions, which is a good sign. I mean, somebody's paying attention at least. You get a story like this. In the back of your mind, what do you think? What do you think? of the power grid long-term. When I say long-term, I mean five years, right? Five years, four years. Let's go four years. Let's go to 2030. Four years, the explosion of AI, the powering of data centers, the explosion of populations in the Southeast from the Northeast, like the mid-Atlantic power grid, maybe the Texas power grid, who knows? But power grids at large, like are they a long-term solution? What do you think about that? Do you think that power grids are a long-term solution? Because I think the long-term solution is your ability to sustain yourself. I think that's the long-term solution. That's how I'm teaching my kids. And that's exactly what I think the kids need to do who are coming up today is look at at least 50%, right? At least. coming from your own inputs. I think that's huge. I think that's a smart way to go. You know, we have a large solar generator. We have a very big gas generator. And, you know, I feel pretty good about that being, that's probably way more than 50% of our needs in a short term power outage, right? Long term is a different story. Gasoline becomes an issue. All of a sudden you're sitting there going like, how much more we got? How much more gas you got? I mean, I've powered, I don't know how many people have done this, but I see a lot of people throw a lot of stuff out there. You know what I mean? About like running a generator for a long time. Obviously what you run on a gas generator is going to determine how much fuel you're using. But I've run a gas generator for like six hours straight pushing it. You know what I mean? A lot of load, you know, over 50% max load, not over, not over the max load but 50 of it at least and uh the gas goes man it goes fast you'd be surprised you go and check that tank after five six hours of work you'd be like oh better hurry up and fill it and mine i don't know about yours but my generator it's a little old now mine will go mine will shut down the gas gets too low it doesn't even go to e you know what i mean which is probably a good thing um so power grid is real power grid is real i can't help but uh I don't know, man. I can't help but see this sort of creeping artificial intelligence tentacly, right? It just seems like... It just seems like this is like the prepping final boss, right? Or a prepping boss. It's starting to affect all kinds of things. And naturally, it would when you think about it, right? If you think you have this sort of benign... entity that's just here to help like that's kind of that's probably our biggest flaw right now is we believe that this thing is just here to help and we're in I mean it's in everything I was just talking to Jay Ferg it's in all kinds of stuff with medical it's in farming it's in everything and it's going to be in the power grid it probably is in the power grid I hope you have a solution You know that? I hope you have a solution in terms of what it looks like when the power goes out and goes out for a long time. I used to only fear the power grid complete failure due to an EMP or something like that. Larger scale power grid attacks used to concern me when it seemed like for some reason people were shooting at power substations. Remember these sort of attacks on power substations? Right. This was a thing for a little while. It started happening in multiple places in the country. Then it went away. I don't know what it was all about. You know, it felt to me, it felt like a entity feeling out one piece of a larger attack. All right. Let's see how close we can get to these things. Let's see what kind of damage we can do to these things so that when the day comes and we decide to do the real full scale attack, we can shut down power. We can shut down this. We can contaminate water. We can attack. Right. That's what it always felt like to me. The suspects, some of the suspects in certain situations didn't really match my plans, but I don't know. Now I look at the power substations and wonder how long till the average American is out there with an axe because of artificial intelligence destroying everything. You know what I mean? I don't know. I can tell you this much. I'd at least have a small collection of power banks if I were you. At least be able to power this, if nothing else. If you have no money because gas is $ 1, 000 a gallon, and if food costs keep rising despite what... Look, you can live in both parties. You can live in both fields. You can live in both modes of thinking. You can simultaneously say, I know the things that Trump is doing on the world stage. to some degree, are securing the future. There's no denying that. You can't look at the Western Hemisphere right now and not say Trump hasn't done some amazing things to secure the future of the Western Hemisphere and American dominance, particularly in energy. You can't deny that. The Panama Canal, Venezuela, you can't deny these things. You know what I mean? But at the same time, you can also say, hey man, let's get Can we get back to normal with price of everything, particularly energy, particularly food, particularly everything? Do you know what I mean? And you can live in both these worlds. And I think it's healthy to live in both of these worlds, right? It's healthy to live in the world of objective thinking where you're able to go, Trump did a good thing and Trump did a bad thing. You look at the craziest people, right, across the... the media and everywhere, right? And what do you see? You see people who are incapable of living in both worlds. The craziest people on the left are the people who say Trump is the devil. He was born out of a portal from Epstein Island and he's here to destroy everything. And he wakes up every day with just wanting to, you know, strip apart brown skin families. That's his whole goal in life. As crazy as those people are, the people on the extreme right or the extreme MAGA right are the same. Everything the man does is great and wonderful and tremendous. I enjoy paying $ 4. 29 a gallon. That's what I enjoy. I wear my MAGA hat. I go out there. I smile. Me and my wife hold hands while I pump the $ 4. 29 gas into the tank. And I really like it. I love it. It's a beautiful time. It's a beautiful way to spend the afternoon. I wake my wife up on a Saturday and say, honey, let's go get some coffee and some breakfast, and then let's go fill the tanks up on $ 4. 29 gas. It'll be great. You're allowed to be cynical, all right, and pick on people. It's fine. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Enjoy it. Medic036 in the chat says, backup generators and solar. There's a list buying mentality in the world of prepping, survival, homesteading, off-grid living. Cheat yourself over to that off-grid living side. Really, cheat yourself over there, man. Just say it. Just say it out loud. Just say, I want to live off-grid. I want to be more off-grid. I want to get a little more off-grid all the time. That doesn't mean you want to take a black rain barrel and rope it to the roof, fill it up with rainwater, and that's how you take a hot shower. That's not what I mean. You don't have to go off-grid completely, right? No electricity from the grid, no water, no power, nothing. But I think it's in everybody's interest between now and 2030 To get as self-sufficient as possible and to creep off-grid. Or to be as comfortable jumping off-grid as you are on-grid, right? So in other words, I'm living, I got lights on, I got five, six different lighting, camera, screens on right now. The funny thing about this operation though, running this whole podcast, Wi-Fi included, is actually a very small energy draw. I could run my and have run my podcast completely off of a solar generator and solar panels. I should get back to doing that since the power grid is so high and mighty right now on everybody's mind. I should do that. I'm going to do that. We're going to run the old solar generator back in here. I mean, we're going to run the solar panels in here direct to this solar generator, and we're going to power the show off it. Just so I can show you guys what's possible, right? I got a USB light. I got a... whatever these are called, the big old, you know, what are they? I don't know. They're the giant square lights. They're big. You can see them on movie sets and commercials. I've got a powerful camera, an LED light bulb behind me, Wi-Fi router, laptop. All this stuff can be run off of the sun with minimal solar panels. I don't employ a lot of them. But it just gives you an idea of what's possible, right? Slowly but surely work your way off so you can be off grid in that way. There are perpetual means of powering things like backup power banks, battery banks, those kinds of things. If you have solar power and a larger generator, then you can use that generator and the power of the sun to power up your battery banks, your smaller power banks. And now you have this sort of cycle, right? And then sun goes in for a few days, you get a rain spell, you crank on the electric generator, the gas generator rather, and fill up everything. That's when you plug your larger solar generator in there and power that up. The system can operate with solar generators on each level of the house. that you can use with the power of the sun for as long as you can. Burn them babies down to 10, 5%, right? On both levels of the home. Gas is the thing that's going to go away, right? You're going to run out of the gas first. So only use your gas generator to power your electric generator or your solar generators. What if the solar power isn't doing it, right? And this cycle is the best way to maintain your gas flow or your gas stockpile, right? So you're only cranking that thing on. Maybe you crank it on to do some laundry or maybe you crank it on to some kind of temperature control, something along those lines. Maybe you have to crank it on every so often to power a chest freezer, right? But you don't have to run the entire house off of gasoline for a long-term situation. You find yourself in a long-term situation, man. You can really, you can be very smart about how you use your gas generator to power your solar generators if the sun's not meeting expectations and to keep this system going on, right? In other words, your gas generator becomes a power plant. Your solar generators become a power for the home. Ration, baby. Ration or ruin. But of course, what do you get? You know what I mean? You have to get your hands on these solar generators. I know people who own Jackery's. Never had issues with Jackery's. I know people who own Anker products. I own some Anker products. I like Anker, A-N-K-E-R. I think they do great work. I haven't had any issues with their products. The generator that I really use the most, the solar generator in my house, it's an old model you can't even buy. And it'll probably outlast every solar generator there is because it was built in America and it was tested here in America and assembled by American hands. Right. It wasn't completely the parts aren't completely produced in America, but the generator itself was assembled here in the United States. It's made of metal. It's not a plastic box with the battery in it. You know, it's a beautiful model. I just point zero energy created what I think is the best solar generator there ever was. And they went out of business because they were American company trying to battle. a chinese company and a try in a chinese dominated uh space which is solar power solar generation solar backup energy banks okay guys water ready to drink check them out okay unbelievable unbelievable aluminum cans you're not drinking out of plastic if you're worried about that kind of thing you know what i mean um I really want coffee. I'm actually kind of starving a little bit. I've got a headache right here. I don't know if that needs more caffeine headache or if that needs some sausage and eggs headache. I'm not quite sure. So we're talking power grids. We're talking the United States Department of Energy coming out and saying they're taking steps to mitigate blackouts, which in turn is a good thing. You know what I mean? But, you know. It all boils down to your plan. Don't wing it. You've got time. There's no point in winging it. If you know you're not going to create an emergency plan that would contain something like this, your emergency plan would contain your backup power process. And your backup power process could look something like mine, where you utilize gas generation sparingly. gas generators, you use them sparingly, and then you use solar power and solar battery banks as the main power source. If the sun doesn't meet expectations, then you plug your solar battery bank into the gas generator, power it back up, power the one, you know, keep one upstairs, keep one downstairs, and boom. Now you have two levels of power. You can run cords, you can do whatever you need to do. People can charge things, you know, and In this modern age, guys, these solar generators, 2,000 watts and up, are going to give you just so much. They're going to give you so much because you're going to be able to do most of the things that people do on a day-to-day basis. If you have a plan, then you have a plan. If you don't have a plan, then you're just going to assume that you're going to figure a plan out. And that's a bad assumption. I want to look at the Be Aware dashboard and we'll talk more about plans. I'm going to give you a heads up. The Be Aware monitor alert. Actually, you know what? Let's just look at it on whole. I don't need to be in the background. You know what I look like? But the Be Aware dashboard on a whole, right now, what you're looking at is a product from BePreparedSolutions.co, right? You can go to BePreparedSolutions.co and use the code PBN20, and you'll get 20% off a dashboard of your own. Listen to me, okay? The beta is bananas, okay? The beta is bananas. In a way, I want to show it to you. But I also don't want to show it to you because I don't want to screw it up. Right. I'll give you a sneak peek of the Be Aware dashboard, the beta version. This that I use each and every day as a way to sort of get a look at my news feed. Look, armed suspect arrested near VCU campus. Right. This is when did this come out? Three hours ago. Right. It's a big deal. It's a big deal to me. I don't have kids in VCU, but I have kids near VCU. Man injured in fail-feared court shooting in Richmond. DOE issues mid-Atlantic. Oh, there's our mid-Atlantic power grid emergency order that we talked about. Police search for suspect after fatal shooting. Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot. I'm not a big fan of it. Not a big fan of the crime that's happening in the Richmond area. But listen, how are you going to know what's what, right, in your area? How many pieces of information do you ingest on a day-to-day basis that... What? What do they do for you? We just ingest all kinds of content. It does nothing for us whatsoever. So this is the BeAware dashboard currently. Virginia Electric and power outages tells me all about local power outages in my area. Who's out of power? How many are affected? We got some big ones here. We got two big ones. One southwest of me and the northeast of me. Got water information. We've got environmental stuff, right? Technology, what's happening with technology, right? Cloudflare protects and accelerates approximately 20% of all websites and outage means many websites and apps may show error pages. Just lets you know what's going on, right? In terms of what's out and what's working. Zoom service seems to be struggling a bit. Pretty slick. Should we go into the... Should we peek into the beautiful and wonderful beta version? We're going to do an entire show on it. Let's just peek into it real quick. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like. New way to see what's happening around your home. I mean, just so you know, this is going to... So look, some layers may load slowly, show gaps, or change from week to week while we learn what works. This is a beta version, right? This changes the whole of the Be Aware dashboard. This is the future, guys. This is the future. You have to understand how preparedness is done. If you really care about threat assessment, if you really care about assessing the threats around you locally, this is how it's going to work going forward. I mean, it is unbelievable. Right. So this is the new look. This is the new look. We got all kinds of layers. We've got nine layers working. We've got a route section. Right. This route section. Let's see. We can turn on the official evacuation routes so that you know where to go in a disaster. That may take a minute to pop up. We've got our news feed here. It's it's a bigger version. We've got, uh, we've got a really cool, it's called God's eye view. It's pretty amazing. One of the coolest things, man, right now is, Oh, it also breaks down. It breaks down sort of things based on proximity, power outages, satellite heat, 11 detections, not confirmed, not a confirmed fire five seen by more than one satellite. So this is satellites that are viewing, um, satellites are viewing heat right here. Okay? And they're saying this, what they're saying is it's not a confirmed fire, but they see something that's not right in the area. Look at that! I mean, if you're in an area with wildfires, like, look where this shows up. This shows right up. It's number two on the map. You know what I mean? You get tropical storm stuff, so that's, you know, not necessarily as nearby as you think. Look at this radio section. This radio section is unbelievable. Just want you to see it. You get the NOAA, of course, right? National Radio. Police fire. It's not working. It was working on the beta that we used this morning in our meeting. Unbelievable. Like, tuning into EMS channels right here from your BeAware dashboard. In other words, how would that work? Let me talk about how that works, okay? Because this is important. This is seriously important. How that works is you get yourself in a situation, right, where, what happened? Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Don't be shy. You get yourself in a situation where you're worried about riots. You're worried about chaos. You see a bunch of shooters, armed individuals on the news. You're worried about what's happening. Fires, terrorist attacks. If you have the ability to access the radios, and when this thing's fully integrated, you're going to see it, right? You're going to see it. Because we did it this morning on our meeting with Be Prepared Solutions, me and the guys. We were playing around in here. What you're going to see is you'll be able to go, oh, okay, dispatch, click, and listen to the dispatch. I did this all through 2020. We had riots here in Richmond. Right. I live on the south side. I was pretty far from the riots, but I listened to the EMS to figure out where they were staging trucks, where the riots were, what the police were, where they were setting up and following the riots. So I knew we weren't in any danger. Right. This is all right here. This is all right here. I think these, what are these? I don't know what these are. Let's zoom in. Like I said, I don't want to go too in depth because I just got to look at it this morning. I literally just look at it this morning and I, uh, want to blow it up and say some things that I don't know. I'll show you the God's eye view real quick because that's pretty cool. One of the things that you can also do is you can watch flights. I know it's crazy. I don't remember. Is it flights? Yeah. You can watch flights. It's crazy. Real time. Like real time. See? You see this guy right here? Let me make it big again. This is crazy, man. So cool. Like, if you want to know what's going on in your world around you, like, this is the thing. This is not available yet. Like I said, this is beta version. But check this out, man. Here are the flights, right? Let's see this one. Click it. Oh, yeah. Well, that's flight N18RL cruising at an altitude of blah, blah, blah, blah, right? 24 miles east. Let's see the one closest to me right now. RPA, right? Shows you it's American Eagle. I mean, I can watch if my wife leaves her business, I can watch her fly out of town now. So crazy. All right, I'll show you one more awesome thing. Okay, one more awesome thing. You want to ride along? You want to ride along the flight, right? We hit the ride along button. Check this out. Give it a minute to load. I'm asking a lot right now. Can you see what's happening? So now we're flying with the jet's view, right? We're flying with the jet's view. It's absolutely insane, man. It's absolutely insane. Brian Burke is with us from Be Prepared Solutions in the Instagram chat. How you doing, my man? I couldn't help myself. I had to show it off today. It's just so cool. absolutely unreal so like i said we're going to bring the guys on if you want your own be aware dashboard go to be prepared solutions.co slash go slash pbn okay slash go slash pbn or you can just use the code pbn20 and that'll give you access to the discount 20 off your own dashboard um And this all started because we're talking about plan. We're talking about power grid, off-grid power plan, emergency plan. What are you waiting for? The guys over at Be Prepared, they'll ask you just a short amount of questions. And before you know it, boom, you can plug that information into their program. And they'll spit out a major plan for you. They'll offer you a variety of kits. You've got concerns about backup power. Kits will be built out for you based on your plan, right? And you'll be able to buy anything you want in that kit. 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But if you really want to be aware of what's going on, if you really want to understand the threats in your area, the Be Aware dashboard, the beta version, once it gets all polished, is going to be the best there is. It's not going to be anything better for you to look at on a day-to-day basis, figure out what's going on in my world today. What do I need to know about? What do I need to plan for in my world today? That's it. It takes the cake. I know. I've been in other people's dashboards, areas, study maps, and all these different kinds of things. Trust me. I know the best. These guys are the best. And the intangible, I mean, I don't want to go on and on, but the intangible of Be Prepared Solutions is right now we're living in an age where entrepreneurs are being told to create a thing and sell it to X amount of people. Get rich, right? Create this thing, use Claude to do it, sell it to 1,000 people a year, and you can buy a Lamborghini. Whatever, dude. If you create something cool, I know a lot of guys who created cool stuff. I don't know if they did it that way or not. Not for me to worry about. What I know about Brian and Teron at Be Prepared Solutions is this never stops, right? How do we make it better? How do we innovate? How do we make it smoother? How do we give more information? How do we give more value? I've been working with these guys now for probably what? Four months. And look, I mean, maybe five months. Everything has improved every single time we meet. You know what I mean? Things improve constantly over there. They're always unveiling, redoing, reanalyzing, improving. This is the type of company you want to, if you're going to tether your emergency plan to something, this is the kind of company you want to tether it to. You understand? BePreparedSolutions.co. Use the promo code PBN20. Please do yourself that favor, okay? Do yourself that favor, folks. What the hell else is going on in the world? Right now, you're just going to ride over to the epic times with me real quick because I don't know. I just want to see what's happening. If you like newspaper, if you like these guys, I'm telling you right now, it's like 50 bucks for three months or something. It's the best deal there is. Get yourself the Epic Times newspaper. Drink a coffee. Read the newspaper. Let your kids see you reading the newspaper. So they go, oh, yeah, there's that, too. You know what I mean? It's a beautiful thing. But legitimately, I just kind of want to see what's up. They've got a great documentary over here on AI I've got to watch. Back to the basics. A.G. Blanche outlines top DOJ priorities. Oh, I'd want to read that. That I really want to read. We're going to be putting bad guys in jail. Justice Day, PBN family. That's all I want. That's all I want. I want a list, right? Every year, I want a list. Put the Omars on there. Put the Pelosi's on there. Put the people on there that we know are up to no good and have been for a long time. They've been taking advantage of you and your money. Put the Fauci's on there. Put the criminals on the list. And let them know they're on the list. They can get their due process in the whole nine yards. But one day, you accumulate all those arrests, and we just call that Justice Day. Maybe we do that on Washington's birthday, since we're not allowed to have Washington's birthday anymore. We have to culminate him with everyone else and call it President's Day, which is a laughingstock. But maybe we do it on his birthday, the father of the nation, doing justice. you know, in sort of the fatherly sort of dad comes home and cleans things up, that becomes Justice Day. And in Justice Day, we just get drunk, right? I don't even drink, but if we have a Justice Day, I'll get drunk and watch the television and the paddy wagons pull up outside of houses and people get drug in in handcuffs and put in jail for screwing you over completely, right? Don't get me started on the vaccine. I mean, listen. This is a real thing. Like, these are real implications that people have to deal with for the rest of their life because they were sold a false bill of goods. Someone should pay for that, right? If you did it, your ass would be in jail, right? If you handed out medicine, hey, take this. This will make the flu go away or whatever. And all of a sudden, everybody in your neighborhood gets cancer, right? I think you might have to answer for that, right? I don't think you'd be able to skate on that. I don't think Joe Biden would auto-pen you a lifetime of freedom from imprisonment. Venezuelan economy vice president discusses economic recovery. Good, man. It's about time. The poor people of Venezuela got some good news on the economy. You know what I mean? CVS to pay $ 315 million. over claims it filled unlawful opioid prescriptions. Oh, imagine that. Yeah, that was my childhood. You wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't believe it if I told you. You could ride my bicycle up the street. Go get my prescription. I had no idea what the doctor was doing. Crazy, man. Crazy. Again, Justice Day, right? Round them up. Round them up. Court overturns Aboriginal heritage order that stalled $ 1 billion gold project. What? So the Aboriginals are getting kicked out so we can get more gold? Or I guess so the Australians. This is a weird one, man. The 600,000 Ukrainians without power after missile drone attacks, Zelensky says. That's a lot. That's a lot rolling into a miserable Ukrainian winter, man. Russian diesel exports may exceed volumes announced by Trump, Moscow says. How do you guys feel about the diesel thing? That's another interesting situation, man. That's a really interesting one. Diesel is kicking our ass and we decide to do a deal with the devil, maybe, depending on how you look at it. Yeah, it's an interesting one, right? What do you think about it? What do you think about, let's go back to it. I'm confusing you now. The video has political stuff up about the midterms and I'm talking about diesel. What do you guys think about the diesel situation? Donald Trump buying diesel from Russia after a long time of us trying to sort of crush them economically so we can stop this war in Ukraine. I think it speaks volumes, right? Does this mean that Donald Trump has washed his hands of this thing? Has he said, like I said from the beginning, this is a European issue more than it's an American issue. I feel like he's met with these guys. He sent people to meet with these guys. We've done our best to stop it. It's not like we don't want it to stop, right? But how many times can you meet with a guy? How many times can you have an ambassador sit down with Putin, call Putin, meet Putin, talk to Zelensky? Both of them say, oh yeah, we're going to have a ceasefire and we're going to get this thing figured out. Then you go home, wake up the next day and they're blowing each other up. How many times can you do that before you go like, I got a, I got a nation to run. Right. And look, if Donald Trump wasn't in Iran right now and he washed his hands of this war, it'd really be something. It would really look good. You know what I mean? It would really feel like a America first. Although, I mean, you could kind of look at what's happening. It depends on how you look at what's happening with Iran. Right. You can look at what's happening with Iran and definitely say, yeah, that's America first American oil first. Um, It's weird. That whole situation over there is getting weird. The whole oil thing makes everything weird, right? You can't help it. You can't help it because it gets weird fast. You see Saudi Arabia taking hits and you're wondering like, is this part of the plan? Seriously, right? Is this part of the plan? Like, If you're Donald Trump and you're thinking, well, America is going to be the main entity for oil in the world, period, right? The dollar, it's suffering. The debt is outstanding. But if we get a hold of the oil and we tether it to the dollar in the way that we have around the world, before BRICS nations started saying, screw that, if we can tether the dollar and oil supremacy together, then we can keep that dollar afloat forever. More decades. There's a few problems, right? You got Iran out there doing their thing. Then you kind of have a problem with Saudi Arabia. Oil kingdom, right? And you start thinking, well, if the Yemenis, the wonderful men carrying around AK-47s, if the Houthis blow Saudi Arabian oil fields up, hmm. So it gets dark, man. It gets dark. Senator Susan Collins' incumbent, Troy Jackson, who's winning? Who's winning in Maine? Look, guys, this is my weekly show called Surviving America. And one thing you have to understand about my weekly show, Surviving America, is we stay on task to some degree, but we're also going to do whatever the hell we want to do. Just have a good time. If you want to have a good time, then stay with us. Here's the big one, right? Will Al-Said, after he's put his foot in his mouth over and over again, what will the Muslim majority do over there in certain places, right? Or do we even have to consider what they'll do? We kind of know what they'll do. What will the people of Michigan do? Al-Said has been like, we're going to get rid of the Second Amendment. And the first and the second, if I'm not mistaken. And interviewers have been like, do you want to get rid of the Second Amendment? And he's been like, lots of people die with guns in America. Do you want to get rid of the Second Amendment? Beat around the bush, beat around the bush, beat around the bush. It's a tough state to win. You start talking about taking guns away. Just is what it is. John Husted. Michael Watley. What do we got down here? I think there's a contested one in Georgia. Osof. Mike Collins. Yeah, that's a... I mean... Grandpa and grandson going at it. Of course, Tallarico I think is sunk. I think he's about finished already. I don't think he's got a chance in hell. Alaska, huh? That should be interesting. Some reason I could see Alaska going either way. Nebraska, yeah. This is an interesting one here. North Carolina, man. This is the one that kills me the most, I think, because I looked at North Carolina so long. It's just like such a beautiful place. And now I see the cities and it feels like it's dying on the vine. You know what I mean? It really does. It feels like it's done. We're just slipping slowly into something that sees North Carolina, at least in the cities and surrounding the cities, become just a nightmare. I don't want to see it. You know what I mean? It's always been a beautiful thing. What is up, Common Sense Practical Prepper? Hey, I retweeted the Common Sense Practical Prepper. He's got a new site. He's working with the Be Prepared Solutions guys, and you need to check him out. He's got a book coming out, Common Sense Practical Prepper, wherever you listen to the Prepper Broadcasting Network and other podcasts, okay? So we've covered a lot of ground. What's up, Daily Prepping Task? How you doing in the chat room, 2.7? Freddie Rogers, welcome, everybody. I think we're going to call it. We've been going pretty hard. Oh. Let me give you a recommendation real quick before I go. A little shameless self-promotion. So back in 2008, it's this time of year, okay? It's the 14th of the October. You can read The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe if you want to. But in 2018, I created this book called Darker Trails. Let's get this thing on large, right? So I wrote this book, Darker Trails, in 2018. And this really is the time of the year for it. This is the time of the year for it, really. It's full of somewhat eerie stories, post-apocalyptic tales, post-apocalyptic and eerie tech-driven poems and things along those lines. It's a good time. It's a good time. Everybody right now should read Neuralink. There's a story in here called Neuralink. That's an amazing tale of, well, really what that is is a conversation between, going to Hollywood is really great too. Where is it? I want to read it to you a little bit. Oh, there's a story in here called The Confiscation. That's all about gun control, literal. There's an amazing story called Mycelium. Mycelium is a great tale about exactly what you think it might be. One of my favorite, probably one of my best poems, if not the best poem I ever wrote, is called I Am the Road. And I Am the Road is in here. I Am the Road is all about the mountains of skulls. It's about mountains of skulls and tyranny and oppression and fascism. Real fascism, not the type that wears red hats, but more like the type that wears red scarves. If you get my drift. Going to Hollywood is a great story. It's a supernatural terror fest about Hollywood Cemetery. In fact, the common sense practical prepper, you would enjoy going to Hollywood because you live here in the area. But the Hollywood Cemetery is an interesting place in Richmond, Virginia. A lot of history in there. I don't know where the story is. I don't know. I can't find it. I can't call it. The J. The jank is another really interesting kind of. I don't know if it's interesting. It's kind of horrific, actually. Oh, there's even a dream in here that I had a really weird, really strange dream I captured and threw into this book. But. Suffice it to say, man, lots of great tales. Canis lupus familiaris. The alpha particle plume. That's a really good one, too. I forgot about that one. Alpha particle plume is a really crazy story, man, that opens with a family driving hurriedly. Let's go with that. Neuralink, page 80. Yeah. So Neuralink is just basically a conversation between a dad and a son. He wants to get it. He wants to get it. And everybody's getting it. Everybody's linking into the Internet. Dad, what do you want me to do? This is how we date. This is how we meet people. This is how we get jobs. Everybody's getting the neural link and the dad and the son are having it out. You know what I mean? They're having it out over this thing. So I don't know what it is. It's probably I have no idea what the book costs, to be honest. Twelve bucks, something like that. It's well worth getting a hard copy because I did all the artwork in the book. So I did all the cover, the whole thing. All of it is charcoal on paper, right? I did it all. There's a lot of good ones in there too. My sister, the angel that she is, right? I'll tell you one final story before I go relating to Darker Trails. The angel that she is doesn't tell me this, right? Rather surprises me with it. She's into tattoos. And I think the first time I saw it, I think we were riding roller coasters or something. But we're getting on the roller coaster and she has like a short, one of these short sleeve t-shirts, like the sleeves are here. And I look over on her right shoulder, arm, tricep area. And she's got a bunch of the artwork from Darker Trails tattooed on her arm, man. Never said anything about it. Never was like, I'm going to get that tattooed on my arm. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. Never. just showed up with it and it was just like, I don't know. There's moments in life that are great. You know, getting, getting that, the ultimate survival guide published was really great moment in life. There's a lot, there's a lot of great moments in life where like your creative endeavors do a thing, right? They do a thing. They have an effect in the world that, that you're proud of. I've had a lot of those moments to be quite honest with you. I'm lucky in that regard. Um, But when you see that stuff, because I'm no artist, man. I just said, I guess I'll do charcoal with the book and it'll look cool. You know what I mean? And I'll do my best and it'll either work out or it won't work out. If it's crap, then I won't publish it. But to see that stuff come to life, to have a family member of all people. A lot of times, people don't tell you this, but a lot of times when you do what I do for a living, if you're a writer, if you're a podcaster, you make videos, whatever it is, a lot of times You find that the people who are most enthralled by you and most proud of you and most in love with your work are strangers. You know what I mean? It's very rare that it's your own family. A lot of times it's sort of a weird thing. But to see my sister, she's a person you can't understand. You know what I mean? We have a relationship that most siblings can't understand. And to see that artwork on her, man, that was like it, mission accomplished. Who cares? I don't even care if I sell another book. You know what I mean? It doesn't matter. But you got to do what you love and you got to do what you want with your free time, man, and get out the cell phone because, well, speak of the devil, get out of the cell phone. That's my dad calling. I got to let you go because he said he was going fishing. He probably caught some fish. I'm out of here, folks. You guys have a great day. And yeah, man, don't forget to check out BePreparedSolutions.co. And if you want an off-grid internet, you want to build your own off-grid internet, check out the Prepper Disc right here. But what also you put in here is your home internet, your home off-grid internet. What's your home off-grid internet? Your home off-grid internet is your Prepper Disc. When the Wi-Fi goes out, when the power goes out, your family connects to the Prepper Disc. What makes the Prepper Disc so unique is that You can hop on it. Your wife can hop on it. Your sons can hop on it. Your daughter can hop on it all through their phone or device just by connecting to the Wi-Fi, right? It comes packed with all kinds of goodies. It's got 60,000 classic books. It's got FEMA. It's got maps. It's got medical. It's got prepping resources like you wouldn't even believe. It's got entertainment. If I had a prep or disc back in 2020... I would put my kid's entire curriculum on the Prepper disc here, and he would have used this as an online resource to do his work. So you and your wife can watch a movie in a grid-down type situation or an emergency on your iPad pulled from your Prepper disc while your kid does his homework on his iPad from the Prepper disc while your daughter is reading the Gutenberg Library of 65,000 classic books, whatever one she wants. You know what I mean? That's the whole idea.