Surviving America 096: Early Coffee, News, is America Ready?

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Good morning, folks. Let's, uh, Let's consult Vlad the Impaler. We are here a little early today. But not really that early for me. Vlad? The Christian Crusader? You don't look at him that way, do you? Prince Vlad. Romanian. We're going to do the news, catch up, look at the dashboard. We're going to do the morning things. You're going to be on my morning grind with me for about a half hour. It's nothing crazy. I do have Dr. Brophy on later, man. Dr. Prepper is coming on later today, 10 o'clock. What we're going to do is really look at his curriculum in depth. That's what we're going to do. If you're unfamiliar with the Dr. Prepper set, of books and incredible stack system, then go to Dr. Prepper Medical. Check it out. It's the thing, man. It is the thing. And if you use the code PBN, you get 10% off the thing also. Anything over there. If you like the books, if you like all that whole thing. I've got to maneuver a little here. I'm going to call on Johnny5 to fix this problem that I've created. This is the big ugly thing about AI that we don't like to admit. It's like we can get ourselves into a bit of a pickle and get ourselves out of that pickle pretty easily thanks to technology. The pickle I was in is my newspaper was in front of the light. You see? So that's not going to work. So, you know, I'm just... I'm just here this morning surviving America a... a morning show. You guys are rolling in this early. That's hard for me to believe. The bots must wake up early. I don't know what it is. East coasters. What is it? I wouldn't mind doing a six o'clock show to be honest with you. You know, this is my time. This is when I'm up. This is when this, where everything goes down and it's, uh, it's pretty nice, but I got the epic times here. Of course, we need to poo at a hundred years old. Um, I was reading the Epoch Times online. We could do that a little bit too, but beautiful imagery, right? The story that really catches my eye right now is the routine of Marcus Aurelius. Unfortunately, I don't know if I have life and tradition over here. I don't think I do. I've been in this newspaper already over the weekend I was in it, and I was reading some of it. There is a section here about Where is it? What America could learn from France and their situation? Is it good to know for the seniors, 2027 Social Security payment boost is coming and you get a whopping 3.6 percent. Right. I mean, in the world of raises, I guess, you know, the government is corrupt and has stolen all your money and convinced you into handing it over to them. Just like it's happening right now in some dream world that you're going to be taken care of by the government. Right. I mean, really, I guess the best method of attack, if you wanted to sort of really pummel the Democrat socialists of America, is to just get the statistics on poor seniors in the United States, right? How many poor seniors are in the United States? And the reason they have to be poor is because they have to depend on this money. If they are depending on Social Security, if they were not lucky enough to accrue savings or if they weren't smart enough or if they didn't have the will to do it, then what's life like under the wonderful hands of the U.S. government? How's medical care? How's prescription? How's overall health? What kind of money do they have after they're paying bills and all that kind of stuff? I think it'd be a very interesting look. Something I could do, you know? I have been thinking they have these Grokbots out now. They have these Grokbots out now. I don't know if you're aware of them. They're all AI agents that are going to wind up ruining everything anyway. But you can send them all over the place to do all kinds of cool stuff. I'm almost thinking like... Journalists. Right? The problem is... If I were ever to really do journalists, if we were ever to do like a real red beacon media sort of news, like real people news, the only way to do it is to go talk to people, right? The fact that the media is bought and paid for by the drug companies and the U.S. government is bad enough, right? That's one of the reasons news is bad. I think the other reason that news is bad is because people don't go out on the street and there's no investigative journalism. And journalism... Just think about it. Pre-internet, all journalism had to be investigative journalism, right? Germinalism. That's the way it was supposed to be. That's the way it is supposed to be. It's the old Lois Lane, like, book me a flight in business class to Qatar because I need to go find out what's going on. There's a story there. It's breaking. I'm sure of it. But I got to go talk to the right people. It was never like, assign me a story and I'll go to Wikipedia and knock it out. I'll be sure that it's not too rough around the edges, culturally sensitive, and diverse, and we'll publish it. You think about a reason an invention like this could fall off the edge, fall off the cliff. How could an invention as beautiful as a newspaper fall off? How could it fall off? Scrolling around in your little box, how could that be better than this, right? It's impossible. The only way it could be better is convenience. That's it. The scourge and the poison of convenience is what's gotten everybody where they are. Almost everything you bemoan in life is built out of convenience. Here's an interesting story, though. U.S. orders DeepSeek removed from federal government systems. This is a good sign, man. You know what I mean? This is a good sign. For those of you who don't remember, the DeepSeek was a Chinese company. The U.S. government has ordered federal agencies to remove... Chinese artificial intelligence company deep-seeks applications from their computer system, citing national security concerns over sensitive information potentially reaching Beijing. All right. We have enough Democrat senators being driven around by spies. We don't need their AI in the machines, too. Apple plans to invest $ 100 million in U.S. titanium producer Perryman over three years for products including its foldable iPhone Duo. I mean, does it feel like phones are over to you? It just feels like phones are over to me. Phones look a lot like newspapers lately. You know what I mean? The phone looks a lot like the newspaper lately. I look at them. I hold mine. I watch my kids, my oldest son with his, my wife with hers. I watch people talk about them. My youngest watches Tech Review Guy. He talks about a lot of different stuff. I look at the phone and I go, this is at the end. We're at the end of the line with the phone. How many more phones can you do? How many more different ways can you do a phone? How is the demand for the phone going to continue? In all honesty, and I should bring this up to Mike Harrison, If you threw texting on a POC radio, you know what I mean? We think that a phone, like most phones, man, especially in the hands of young kids, the generation coming up, there's not a lot of phone calling going on. It's a very interesting thing. You know what I mean? It's mostly group calls, video calls, texting. So, I don't know. It looks old. The cell phone looks old and antiquated to me. When I see it. When I think about like, oh, we're folding them now. Okay. We're going to take the phone and open it up into like a mini tablet. What are we doing? You know what I mean? What are we doing with phones? You know, what's the next logical thing? To me, the next logical thing is it's... be really interesting because it's clearly a move away from this stuff. It's what it is. We went in deep enough. And at this point, the society is probably going to fracture to some degree, or at least there's a fork in the road. Or those who are really dedicated and really enjoy tech are going to keep going down that path. And then there's going to be a bunch of people who are like, nah, I think we're good. I think we've got all the digital time we need. You know what I mean? The average person, in other words, think about it this way. For shareholders at Meta, Apple, to do well, And to do better, right? Because it's not about doing well anymore. Your business has to do better. And this is a core issue. This is literally the knife in capitalism. If we didn't have the corporation and its incessant insistence on doing better to please the shareholders and stock prices going up year over year and profits going up year over year, then there'd be almost no argument against it, right? There'd be almost no argument against it. Because we wouldn't be on this tear to destroy everything, dig everything, process everything. More, more, more, more, more profits, more profits, more profits, right? And it would just be, you know. But think about it from the perspective of meta, right? Everybody knows we're all in front of the screens way too much, way too many hours for everybody. I mean, it's very few people that I know that don't look at their phone and go, I'm going to spend too much time on this shit, right? Very few people that are not up late at night scrolling on the phone or up too early or up too long on their break going, why am I looking at this stuff? It just sucks. It's not even that good. The goal for a company like Beta is we've got to keep them on the screen longer because then we can serve them more ads and we can make more money. The only way to do that, we've got to expand the customer base out around the world, drive everyone crazy, and then also... keep them on there longer. How long can we keep them on there? 10 hours? What's the average? It's got to be six to eight hours now. Six to eight hours, I'm sure the average, especially if you work in an office with this, right? Got to be six to eight hours. The average kid, I'm sure plenty. Got to be six hours for the average kid. Because the average kid is going to a public school and is hopping on a Chromebook and doing work on a Chromebook probably for several hours a day. They get free time. They go on the Chromebook. They come home, they watch some YouTube, play some video games. I mean, this is what it is. We need more, more time, more screen time. So to me, it's just one of these things. It looks antiquated. It's generational. I really hope it is generational because it'll be fun. It would make this whole thing with the digital world fun. If we could... Oops, I never went live over at Instagram. It would make it really fun because... Then they could just kind of, you know, look back and say, this was our, this was our sort of thing. We had to fight Skynet. You know what I mean? This was our great battle. We had to war with Skynet. You're getting my opinion, so we might as well go into the opinion section. Victor, you won't believe it, but Victor Davis Hanson. I'd look. Victor Davis Hanson is, I guess he's a good guy. I don't listen to him all the time. My dad really likes him, which is You know, that's about all the vouching I need. But every time I see this guy in the Epoch Times, I'm just calling it like I see it. I'm not picking the guy apart. He's not a bad guy. All I'm saying is every time I see the guy, he's writing something about the brilliance of Donald Trump. The genius behind Trump's art of the deal. I should read it, though. What lessons can we learn from Wendell Berry? And then they have this amazing picture of the town hall ablaze. I mean, look at this town hall, guys. Look at this building. No one in their right mind tortures a building like this, okay? Look at the statues up on the... Do you know what I'm saying? Like, what gets in the head of someone that wants to destroy something like that? I'm drinking Lidl coffee right now. Which is a guilty pleasure of a guy who owns a coffee company. You know what I mean? It really is. It is. Oh, I like this Jeffrey Tucker fella. This Jeffrey. Anyway, hold on real quick. I don't just drink disaster coffee, okay? Sometimes I drink. Well, a lot of times I wake up in the morning, particularly when the wife and I are off or working from home jointly. And we go drink. well, I drink black Starbucks coffee. It's not the whole of my coffee, right? But I drink it. I'll drink it, bring it home, drink a grande. And, uh, you know, it's not enough for me. So I'll drink more of a different, what did I just get done drinking? Oh, you know what I was just drinking was Dunkin' Donuts coffee. I don't know why. Yeah. I think it was on sale or something. Sometimes I'll just grab it if it's cheap too. And then, you know, I, Blanchards is really good local coffee I drink. Bugle Call is really good coffee I drink locally. Obviously, Disaster Coffee. Disaster Coffee still reigns supreme. Look, it sounds stupid because I'm one of the guys behind the company, but it still reigns supreme. It really does. The Tsunami still is unbelievable. I drink it. It's just one of those coffees. You drink it and you go like, there used to be a coffee like that called Counterculture. at the World Pastry Alliance here in Richmond. And you would drink counterculture and it would just be like, whoa. It was a unique whoa. It wasn't like, wow, that is coffee, but at a different level. It was more like, that is a different kind of coffee. You know what I mean? But when you drink the Great Reset, when you drink Tsunami from Disaster Coffee, you drink a coffee and you go, I didn't know It's not different. You know what I mean? The coffee doesn't stand out because it's different. It stands out because it's more coffee than coffee is. And Tsunami is the best example of that. It's just one of those coffees where you drink it and you go. And maybe if you're a nice, thorough addict like I am to caffeine and coffee at large, it's just one of those experiences where it's like, well, okay, this is another level. This is the next level. Jeffrey A. Tucker writes, the chaos in the streets of France has a familiar ring to Americans who watched several cities burn in the summer of 2020. What started as mostly peaceful protests, quote unquote, were quickly hijacked by chaos actors who whipped up excitable populations into a looting and pillaging frenzy, resulting in police crackdowns in the best case, but utter destruction in the worst case. Look, opening paragraph by Jeffrey A. Tucker, like, Well done. I mean, when I know I'm reading something that really resonates with me is when I'll start reading it and then start playing the second half of the paragraph in my own head while I'm reading it. So in other words, I started reading France, several cities burn in summer, and you know what popped into my head? Mostly peaceful protests. And then he came out and said, mostly peaceful protests. I like this guy. I like his look, too. He looks like the real thing. I don't know what that means either, by the way, but he looks like the real thing. Anybody who can, like, I'm kind of jealous of anybody who can pull off the circle glasses where you really look like you're really intelligent and a writer at the same time. I don't know what it is. I put those things on, man. It's like akin to your dad putting on your little brother's clown mask and walking around the house at Halloween. Not that I don't do that, too. But it just doesn't work. The metaphor of the powder keg is one that is often invoked here in the U.S. case. We'd suffered months of COVID lockdowns that created pent-up energy on the part of an entire generation that had been shut out of schools, spilling into the streets in the name of protesting racism. Something similar seems to have happened in France. Rising unemployment, high cost of living, underfunded and failing schools, loss of opportunity, rising crime, frustrations over waves of new immigration populations have reached a fever pitch. Peaceful protests turn violent with mass and destructive provocateurs, lighting fires and pillaging whole commercial sectors in many cities. That's a phenomenal, another phenomenal paragraph, by the way. I mean, that paragraph right there, better than that paragraph right there is all you need. That succinct honest, perfect diagnosis of what's happening in France. Did he say anything about the communists? He didn't mention the communists. Outside of that, that's damn good. You know what I mean? Like, somebody calls you up and they're like, what's going on in France, dude? Like, what is it? Well, we got rising unemployment, high cost of living, underfunded, failing schools, loss of opportunity, rising crime, frustration over waves of new immigration, right? Communist takeover and years of not making a budget. Socialist programs that have failed everyone, particularly the natural-born French citizens. The natives. My favorite part of this whole European takeover is that they're native. I love it. It's sad and it's terrible and I don't want to see it happen. And it really hurts my heart. But it's also one of those things where it's like, the native? The native, really. We are gathered here today to discuss another group of colonizing peoples who have washed ashore And the natives of those countries are losing their minds, losing their homes, losing their rights, losing everything. And the same people who cried native, native, native in the U.S., the same liberal lunatics who have no moorings whatsoever, they have no foundation whatsoever. This is what it is. You know what I mean? There's no foundation there. It's the biggest issue with the party. They're like, the real radical left in this country are like four-year-olds playing soccer. You know what I mean? The ball is the grievance. It's this week's grievance. And wherever the ball goes, they all go. One over to the ball, and oh my God, somebody kicks it, and it heads over to another grievance. They all chase the grievance down and pile on. No foundation, no nothing. We face a choice. We can choose chaos or choose to return to the ideals of a constitutional republic that our founders envisioned. Well, well, see, unfortunately, I don't think it's that simple an issue. I really don't. I don't think it's that simple an issue to solve. You know, on one hand, here's what I see, okay? with the situation in a place like France and most importantly in America. Okay. I had someone really close to me just purchased a house and the things that they told me were unbelievable. And, uh, it's, it's not right where we're at right now. Americans forget about the French. Like it's not right where we're at right now, where we're at right now as a country, if you're trying to make it. And when I say make it, I mean, you know, Just make it. Just have the things that everybody wants to have in life. And I don't mean, well, I think there's a lack of explanation happening. There's an expectation that has been set that people have grown up with because of prosperity in the United States. And they're seeing that expectation like, this doesn't seem right. This doesn't seem like the same life that I watched mom and dad live. Why am I stuck with this life that doesn't add up? It doesn't make sense. And we have to address that. You know what I mean? Yes, we have to. How does he put it? We have to choose the ideals of a constitutional republic that our founders envisioned. We have to choose to do the right thing. We have to choose God above all. But at the same time, I can't sit in my... home studio and say, yeah, you got to choose the Republic, dude. You know what I mean? You got to choose to do the right thing. You got to choose America over chaos and socialism. I can't yell that out my window to the 20 something who just got out of college and has 200 grand in debt to their name. And they're like, well, I need a car. And it looks like the junkest car that I could get is going to cost me about $ 350 a month, maybe $ 400, right? Not to ride what I want to ride, but just to have a ride that I can count on. It's going to cost me that kind of money because I don't have any money to put down. I just got out of college. I'm in the red $ 200. I'm in the red for more. You get out of college now and you're in the red for more than my wife and I were when we signed our 30-year mortgage. Or at least the same, if not more, right? Terrible. If you could think of a worse way to start a life out for a human being, right? Well, I know, as soon as you hit the ground running, as soon as education's over, let's just saddle you with an unbelievable amount of debt. Let's give you a monthly payment that hits your bottom line immediately out the gate. You know what I mean? Yeah, let's do that. It has no effect on you whatsoever, right? It has no effect on you whatsoever. You just carry your degree around in your back pocket and pay a monthly payment for it. But on top of that, the cost of cars is insane. It's absolutely brutal. Monthly car payments are akin to a split payment that my wife and I would pay to live at a place when we were growing up. And when I say when we were growing up, I'm only talking 20 years ago. I'm not talking, I'm not 50, you know what I mean? I'm not 80 years old or something. So now you got that, right? Now you got the vehicle situation because, you know, and there's always that sort of nasty voice in the back of my head that's like, well, of course, we don't want them driving new cars, pollute the skies and the oceans and everything. And then you get to housing, man. And when you get to housing and talk about housing, crazy, crazy cost in housing. And I think, you know, people need to at least college, if you're going to go to college, at least have the college explain to people like at the very minimum. The house that you grew up in. Right. Compared to the house that your parents grew up in, compared to the house that you want to buy. And the differences. It's important to know that. And even small houses cost too much. Houses cost too much money. That's all there is to it. They're not worth that. I don't care what you say. It's just intrinsic. It's just in my soul. I just feel it. I see a house. I look at the value of it. And I go, there's no way a house is worth that. How's that house worth that much money? You know what I mean? I've seen my own home that I grew up in. which is a tiny row home in Marcuseau, Pennsylvania. You get to live... It's like living inside of one of those things that Han Solo cut open. You know what I mean? Remember? No, I'm sorry. Luke Skywalker cut open in Empire Strikes Back. What are they called? Banthas? You're living inside of a dying creature. That is getting worse and rotting more by the day to live in a place like Marcus of Pennsylvania. The beauty and the character of that place is all but dead now that Amazon moved in and all that. Maybe there's good jobs. I hope there's good jobs. But the point is, like, how can a home there cost anything similar to what, you know, my home cost when I bought it in Richmond, Virginia? where I live, it's crazy. And it's driving the kids crazy because they're looking at an insurmountable mountain in front of them. You know what I mean? That's what they're looking at. They're looking at something insurmountable. They're saying, well, I guess I have to work in tech or finance or I have to live in a rented box truck from Lowe's. You know what I'm saying? That just popped into my head too, by the way. It's probably not a bad call. What are they, 20 bucks a day or something? When you turning that truck in? No, no, it's still going. I still need to rent it. Sorry. I'm just, you know, well, I don't want to scare anybody, but I'm just glad I have boys who can live in a dilapidated bus when they're young just for the fun of it. You know what I mean? Yeah. buy it for cash and drive it around the country and not have to worry about being alone as much as a woman. Because that is a scary thing. But I think, look, the situation in France and the situation in the political system in the United States of America, they have to address that. You have to address opportunity. He said opportunity in here. You have to address that with the kids. You have to let them know. Things are not right right now. And I don't know if we can get them back. I don't know how to get them back. But we got to make sure that you avoid pitfalls. And I think the biggest pitfall you can avoid as a kid nowadays coming up is college. Unless you know you want to go to learn something. But if you're a kid and you're like, I don't know exactly what I want to do. If you don't know what you want to do, then I know what you don't want to do. And what you don't want to do is start life, you know, 100,000 in debt. You don't want to do that. In other words, that's more of a detriment than anything. If anything, college should be put off. You know what I mean? The old sort of mentality, unless you're already on the path. Me, by the time I was 15, 16 years old, I knew I was going to be a chef. I knew I was going to culinary school. I got accepted to the CIA, not that one. And I was, you know, I was going. I just knew it. You know what I mean? I had figured out what I wanted to do. It was exceptional. That is an exception. You know what I mean? Most kids don't have any idea what they want to do. I think that high schools should put kids in not stagia positions. What's it called? Where they get to go work at places. Have kids go work at places. Have kids go work with a person at a place in an industry and see what that's all about. You know what I mean? That way, and then you get out of school and you work some jobs, no debt. Get out of school, work some jobs, no debt, maybe living at home, right? And after some years of that, that's when you should sit down and go, okay, this is how life is going. Do I want to pursue further education? Right? That's the path that makes sense to me. Go through high school. High school gives you some vocational stuff. Gives you the chance to go work out in the real world with some people. We did this in high school. I remember we used to, we had an internship. My buddy, shoot, what was his name? He was fun, man, that guy. He wore glasses. He's from Downingtown. Used to dance all the time. Used to fight with his girlfriend. Real fights. It was like one of the first relationships I ever saw where people were like fighting, screaming at court. Calm down. Courtney. What was, uh, what was his name, man? Uh, I don't know. I can't remember it. He was fun though. But we had an internship. Um, I think it was at like a Denny's or, uh, it was one of those kinds of restaurants in the morning. And we'd go there as prep cooks in the morning and just knock out all kinds of prep work and leave. And it wasn't, it was, it was, you know, we were not at school. So that was kind of fun. He drove around most of the time, Yeah, most of the time he drove me from school, even though I had a car. And yeah, we'd go to this place and we got a real taste of what like morning prep cook could be. And I just think kids need that. They need that. And they need that long before they sign on the dotted line to take on 80 grand in college debt at 18 years old. You know, the world changes, man. I don't get why people don't understand this. The world changes like The way the world works changes with time. There may have been a time when an 18-year-old kid was like, I know exactly what I want to do and I'm going to commit to it and this is what I'm going to do. Just the sheer fact of artificial intelligence hitting the scene should give people pause to be like, yeah, maybe I'll wait. Maybe I'll wait and see if this is the industry I want to be in. I think also the sheer amount of information. You know what I mean? In other words, it's a paralysis by analysis situation. It definitely is that. When I was young, it was pretty clear to me. I hated school. I wasn't good in school because I pretty much chose not to do the work. But there was a list of jobs. You know what I mean? There was a list of things that you were going to be able to do. Like I was sitting there and I had to be honest with myself and say like, you're not going to Harvard, dude. You're not going to be a rocket scientist or a surgeon or a doctor. You know what I mean? You hate school. I had to be honest with myself about that kind of stuff. And I had to pick, then pick from a shortening list of professions at the time. At the time, this, what I do now, being a writer with no college degree was like, Oh, that's hilarious, dude. That's funny. That's really funny. But now, if you had a bit of writing acumen or desire to be a writer, the key to success is audience, right? That's the key to success. If you can write a thing that a person likes and they tell another person and they tell another person and another person, if you develop an audience for your writing, Because they like the topic or they like the style or they like whatever it is you bring to the table as a writer. You could just sell your own books. And if you're prolific enough, you can make a living off that. Right? The C word never comes up. College never comes up. The word never comes up. You know what I mean? It doesn't have to come up anymore. Your corporate culture is broken. If you want answers, look in the mirror. Mark a wall trip. Sabotaging Education. They do a brilliant series, man. The Epoch Times does this amazing series on communism. It's the best. It's an amazing series. How the Specter of Communism is Ruling Our World. That's what it is. This is chapter 12. You can buy the whole book at epicshop.com, but they take excerpts from it and put it in here. Protesters against the United States' participation in the Vietnam War blocked the entrance to the U.S. military draft headquarters in Washington May 3, 1971. They got a Dow Jones sign with money. That's an interesting time, man. There were some ideas coming to be. Okay, there were some ideas coming into fruition during the 70s. That got lumped into communism to protect the rich and powerful. That probably had some legs. I'm just saying. In the eyes of the world, the United States is still a leader in education. For over a century, the United States has been a political, economic, and military superpower. Its education spending far exceeds that of most countries. After World War II, American democracy and affluence attracted talented people from around the world. Its science, technology, engineering, and math graduate programs and professional schools are second to none. However, a crisis is unfolding within. The proportion of foreign students in graduate STEM programs far exceeds that of American students, and the gap is increasing each year. This reflects the erosion of elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education across the United States. Students are purposefully being dumbed down and ruined. Again, that's the power of a properly written sentence. That is a sentence that exists everywhere. above and beyond what the culture allows today. To write a sentence like that is to wield, it's the same thing as wielding a weapon, right? Students are purposefully being dumbed down and ruined. Dude, the pen is mightier than the sword. It just is what it is. That's what that means. You hear that phrase. That is exactly what that means. The pen is mightier than the sword. I have to go. The only problem with an early show is duty calls. You know what I mean? I have to go. I wanted to talk about Is America Ready? We're going to have to touch on that at a later date. You know? I mean, it's a rhetorical question in some way. What I will tell you is, last night at about 6 o'clock in the evening, I told the PBN group chat that if the U.S. military is going to build a fortress, then it's probably important the American people start to build their own fortress as well. And Jay Ferg and I ran with that on a phone call for about a half hour, 45 minutes. That's incoming, okay? And we had to come up with something good, you know what I mean? Something better, something actionable, that kind of thing, and we did. And we did. So I want to thank you, Phoenix, for that. That was fun. And you guys will reap the benefits. Because I'm looking at the stats on the shows. I know what's happening right now. What's happening is fear in the heart and souls of America. I've watched this EKG over 20 years almost now. I know exactly what the stat lines mean. I know when a story moves people or when stories move people. And I know exactly what scares the American people because they come here. This is where they come. You know what I mean? It just is what it is. Things go smoothly. People forget about prepping. They forget about threats. They forget about all that kind of stuff. They're living their life where they're overwhelmed, usually like schools and holidays. School kicks off, holidays, vacation time. We see a big dip in stats. We can see plateaus in stats when things are going, you know, somewhat normal. And when the Pentagon makes an announcement like that and when AI agents go rogue in bank accounts and all this kind of stuff starts to happen all at once and, you know... the whole thing. All of a sudden, we see some peaks, right? And that's what I'm seeing right now. So people are concerned, and we're going to try to address those concerns and help the American people get a little more ready. Use the links down below, folks. Chirp.me slash PBN. Everything there. Chirp.me slash PBN. you want to know the preps that I use. You want to know how to consult your preparedness, homesteading, you know, even business goals with me, go to, go to chirp.me slash PBN, listen to the podcast. We've got a full playlist over there. We've got, uh, your emergency plan. You can build out your, your emergency plan in an afternoon with be prepared solutions.co that's available over there. Don't forget to use the code PBN 20, but that links over there. Um, The Off Grid Projects book is over there. The Bunker Beans are over. There's a lot. There's a lot. Use the link, chirp.me slash PBN. And yeah, man, get prepared. The world is not changing anymore. The world has changed. I want that to be your mindset. A couple years ago, I used to say, SHTF is now. You know what I mean? This is the new way I convey it. The world is not changing. It has already changed. And will continue to change. But we're not staring down the football field at a change that's coming. You know what I mean? Oh, look, here comes a change. No, you're in it, baby. You're in it, mate. Talk to you soon, folks. Listen to PBN. Get the information. We have it for you. We've had it for you for years. Talk to you soon.