Surviving America 30: Extra! Extra!

[00:00:00] Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Welcome into Surviving America, folks. Thank you for joining me today.

[00:00:32] We're moving at warp speed, okay? That's what's happening. We're moving at warp speed. Is it coffee warp? And because of that, I thought we'd use episode 30 as an opportunity to kind of announce the many, many, many, many, many things that are going on. There's just too much shit going on. Long and short of it, there's too much going on here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:01:02] I'm about to announce more stuff right now. And I don't know. It's just one of those times in life where there's just too much going on. And sometimes you got to plant the, the, sometimes you got to put the, the spikes in the ground and drop anchor, take stock of what's happening and tell your audience what, what to prepare themselves for.

[00:01:28] Because I mean, in all honesty, it's, it's wild right now. It's all good. You know, every so often, um, I'm just brought into this room reminder of what the Prepper Broadcasting Network is. You know what I mean? Like there's nothing like PBN. There's there still, I look at the daily wire. I look at the blaze. I, I watch these guys. I see what they're doing.

[00:01:54] And there's a French bulldog and a pit bull that are having a ball right now. So you may hear them growling in the background, but I watch it. Look at all these guys and the type of content they put out. And yeah, they have bigger audiences. They, you know, whatever the situation is more famous, make more money, all that kind of stuff, those metrics.

[00:02:14] Um, but you can't find anything like PBN. Any, I mean, if you can, please, please show me, show me what you listen to that in a week's time is like PBN. Cause it's just, there's nothing like it. So, uh, Pat's on the back, all that kind of stuff. Nothing like the boss showing up and telling his listening audience that his network's the best and everyone else sucks.

[00:02:39] Just is what it is. Okay. Today's show brought to you by, let's see if I can pull this off without breaking the entire show. For those of you listening only, I'm going, uh, to yank something down off the shelf in a very cluttered area. Today's show brought to you by Lima Tango survival folks. This is my bouquet. You want to get mom something beautiful for mother's day?

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[00:04:21] Oh, Mike C over at X. What is up, man? I didn't even know we could get comments from X. Jay Ferg, have we ever got a comment from X before? I thought that we didn't get to see those for some reason. I thought maybe that's a stream yard update. Very cool. Yeah, I'll take it. Mike C though. Great podcast. Check him out. He's doing a lot of cool stuff.

[00:04:46] Um, a lot of like, like if you're looking to pique your interest on something, uh, relatively random, right? Firewolf Forge in chat. What's up, man? We got to get some Firewolf Forge up for our members today. So I'm going to hit you now. We got sponsor out of the way. You see what else is up there? You see that little thing? Who knows what that is in the background? Anybody?

[00:05:13] The, the, oh, the places you'll go. Isn't that Dr. Seuss book? Um, we could use a bee guy. We could use, I have no idea about bees. I love honey and I love beeswax candles. Love them. I love the smell of them. You see, interesting story before we get into the avalanche of announcements.

[00:05:33] I, I, when I smelled beeswax, it, it conjures very, um, fond memories because when I was, I think in seventh, seventh or maybe even sixth grade. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. When I was in eighth grade going into ninth grade, um, I got dreadlocks as hard as that is to believe.

[00:06:00] So I had these dreadlocks and I kept them slick back. It was like the front portion of my hair was all the hair I had. And I dreaded all that and kept them slick back. And, um, every morning to take care of my dreads, I had to put, you know, beeswax in them to get them going. And, uh, and, and to keep them, you know, looking nice and all that. So I can, when I smell beeswax candles burning and that kind of stuff, I just, uh, I'm transported back to that time, you know, and that was a cool time.

[00:06:29] And my girlfriend at the time got dreads too. And she, um, she changed her mind. And like, and it's not a thing you can, I didn't think it was a thing you could really change your mind out of, but we wound up salvaging her hair pretty well. Actually, we salvaged her hair pretty well. Cause like when you get dreads, if you're white, I don't know how it works if you're black, cause you have the naturally nappy hair already.

[00:06:53] But if you're white, like you tease the hair back to your head and your hair is screwed after that. Like my sister was in, um, beauty school, so it was cake. She did it for me and she did a great job. Um, but I'm at like, like I got this little bit of hair. It was probably like down to here or something and dreaded it up. But my girlfriend at the time had like hair, you know what I mean? Like a girl's hair. And she teased all of that stuff up and somehow like it was a few days into the process of something.

[00:07:23] She was like having big regrets and we sat there and just tried to get it all out as best we could. Um, so yeah, fond memories from the beeswax and the scent of beeswax and beeswax candles for sure. Um, so let's get into it folks. Let's get into it. Okay. I think where we should start, uh, is the world of ready to okay. Oh, perfect. I have a copy of the world of ready one here.

[00:07:51] So as all great did business decisions are made. So this is a children's book I wrote, uh, last year published last year, uh, all about really just a fun story that culminates in, in teaching your kid how to build a bug out bag and what you can go in their bug out bag, you know, basically. And, um, you know, the story kind of ends with this list and activity for your kid to do. Uh, but it was really fun.

[00:08:19] I really got super lucky and found an illustrator out of Bangladesh, if you can believe it. Um, who somehow she just really captured this sort of whimsical wild world of ready that I wanted to reproduce. And it, um, it's awesome. It's an awesome little read, you know, probably like two year olds to eight year olds, something like that, you know?

[00:08:43] And for the last year we've been creating the second one and, uh, that's all done. It's all wrapped. It's ready to go. It's a new one. It's, uh, all about really getting lost in the woods and dealing with that for kids and what they should do if they find themselves lost in the woods, which I think is a critical skill. Um, not, yeah. So I'm talking, no, I wasn't talking to Chin, actually. This came out of nowhere, right?

[00:09:10] The way that all, all well thought out and well-planned business decisions are made. A random audio message at 930 in the morning from one of your buddies who says, maybe you should release the new world of ready on Mother's Day. See ya. Have a good day. Good enough. Good enough for me.

[00:09:44] Good enough for me. Good enough for me. Good enough for me. Good enough for you. You know, he was a big, a big part of why I did it that way. And, um, Mother's Day, Mother's Day 2020. What are you doing, buddy?

[00:10:16] My biggest and baddest dog of them all. Just walked over here and is sitting here with me like, like something scared him. What? What's your problem? See, the dogs are hams, man. Like, you think they're hams. because they like to be on on like uh when you bring the camera out some dogs are like real

[00:10:39] photogenic you know this dude's a ham did they kill the puppy what's going on he looks very concerned um so world of ready two folks it's a great book uh really fun read like i said there's very few ways that you can like grab a kid's especially in that sort of like two to eight

[00:11:09] year old range grab the kid's attention talk to them about preparedness camping a little easier because you can take them camping but this gives you the ability to uh you know do that kind of thing and that was the whole goal with the world of ready was to create a fun whimsical kind of book series that would capture kids attention but also put preparedness in their mind at a very young age

[00:11:33] uh because well we used to have a we used to have an intro to the prepper broadcasting network that talked about creating a true culture of preparedness starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up and you know it's just it's a good call you know all right folks i've got to go check on the dogs i'm not sure what they're doing uh for the podcast audience this may go a little quiet for a

[00:12:01] minute i don't know if i have uh yeah i don't think there's any audio here on this ad but check it out

[00:12:11] okay we're gonna run the uh the lima tango oh i guess they wanted to get outside and go fox hunting

[00:12:38] lima tango survival folks life's tough get a helmet awesome sponsor really awesome sponsor world already to mother's day okay mother's day mother's day put it on your calendar if you got kids no kids have kids teach kids you know plan on having kids whatever the situation is and we will j fergie says i pre-order flowers for mom and then i'm good for the month also prep ahead

[00:13:07] we'll get a pre-order we'll get a pre-order we will most likely do a free ebook giveaway to push that book up to number one uh because you know it just that's how you get seen out there in the world it's also a really nice feeling to know that your hard work has it's even um taking you to that position so that's good world of ready to incoming uh should we talk well since we're on

[00:13:35] the subject right because this this whole 18 second literally was an 18 second audio message over signal this whole 18 second audio message from the one and only chin gibson um also spurred the second book release so in kind of like in passing i've been talking about poems for men and this book that kind of came together fast er than i thought you know for those of you don't know there's books

[00:14:05] there's a lot of books in the background like i've written a lot of books you look up james walton author page on amazon you'll see all the books that i've written but the uh there's always books being written you know so so you got the pbn you got the writing you got the everything that i do in life and then like there's also this hot plate and on that hot plate there's a bunch of books that i'm writing

[00:14:30] um just because because i'm actually a writer i guess you know because actually what i am is a writer who just shoulders some other things at the end of the day i really think that's what it is i really think that i was born to be a writer and um because it's the thing that calls me back all the time you know what i mean it always calls me back it's been in my head for a long long time

[00:14:55] i've been doing it for years and years and i don't know there's something about it you know there's something about sitting down and writing and editing it and going through and putting together story putting together facts you know when lines come together just so it's it's magic you know um but there's always books you know that this year will be probably the biggest publishing

[00:15:22] year of my life i have to imagine barring any cataclysmic events that i'll publish three books this year the world of ready is complete okay mother's day release uh and another great and well thought out business decision was well if we're going to release a book on mother's day then we might as well release a book on father's day so we'll do uh poems from ben will be out on father's day and this is going to be real easy it's going to be real easy to market because i'll be starving

[00:15:52] through the entire month of may we'll get to that in a minute um so i'll be releasing books editing finishing marketing books podcasting and so forth um while all simultaneously starving to death in our survival challenge so that you'll probably see some very interesting sides of the commander throughout

[00:16:13] the month you know of may into june yeah stay tuned stay tuned for that it might not always uh it might not always look pretty that's what we'll go with um so this has been a collection of mostly never never released poems i did throw a book out there two years ago

[00:16:40] um yeah well that's a good point firewolf forge but we'll talk about that in a minute um i did put a book out uh the darker trails in 2022 23 something like that darker trails and that book had had some poems in it right poetry's a big thing poetry's a big thing in life it's a big thing in my life i know

[00:17:05] it's not the cool thing it's not really a super cool thing um but it's one of these things that stays ever close by and the reason for writing the book poems for men um is because you deserve it dude you know what i mean it's the same thing with art you know with art and and poetry it's a thing that people read and enjoyed all the time all throughout time and you know when

[00:17:35] they could once books became available or access to books became available like it was one of the things you said you read poetry you read the greats you know what i mean and uh it's been lost it's been lost to rap fundamentally i mean really a fundamental like rhyming verse has like largely been lost to

[00:17:58] rap on the youth and on like the majority um so and and even if it you know whatever the situation whatever the modern iteration is doesn't matter as much as the fact that there are oceans of great verse out there that will blow your mind you know literally will blow your mind will literally shine a spotlight on you like you can't even believe like you'll read poetry like rugby chapel

[00:18:26] and and you'll be like i thought i was suffering this alone you know what i mean and you'll find out that people have been and there's something about that right there's something about when you have a problem or a event in your life and you feel like it's just you going through this even if it's love you know it all started for me with with love with poetry anyway but you you feel like all

[00:18:51] of a sudden oh like not only am i not the only one going through this like people have gone through this forever so much so that you know guys like dante gabriel rosetti have crawled out of the ashes of william shakespeare's work and created amazing stuff about love and death and loss and all that you know and the other thing that i love about poetry is it's not um it's not a story that people write most of it it's not a story that people write

[00:19:20] um based on characters that they create you know a lot of time it is like literally like a little thread that comes out of their heart and soul you know and then they write with it the situations that they're living through going through experiencing and maybe they'll use metaphor and things like that um but it's just more personal and it feels more personal you know and you've been robbed of it by the way by the way man woman child doesn't matter you've been robbed of poetry in your life

[00:19:49] literally you've been robbed of it you've been robbed of it by like crappy books that they make you read in school you've been robbed of it by crappy and pointless exercises that they make you do in school through literature and through uh english class you know what i mean been robbed art class same thing robbed robbed of the greats robbed of the opportunity uh to go out and see

[00:20:14] because almost every major city and even not even major city has an art museum and people you know because and it's you know the other thing with art is modern art is so shit that it makes people think that all art is that you know like let me throw together a piece of modern art for you real quick let's see what we can come up with

[00:20:38] um so modern art tends to be something along these lines let's see what we can come up with here so they'll take like something like this and then you know like a random phone holder and a piece of plastic and then they'll set it on fire and then put the lighter like burn melt the lighter into the

[00:21:06] plastic and put that and this is what you'll show up to to an art gallery and see and they'll be like yeah that's that's modern art right there is that beautiful you can really feel what the artist was feeling in that you know what i mean it's terrible it's the worst part of any museum you go through the most recent stuff and you're like what what is this it always felt to me like they couldn't they didn't learn how to paint you know the way that the greats learned how to paint so they were like

[00:21:35] let's just melt some stuff together let's take some trash and hammer it together horrible so poems for men out father's day the world of ready to out mother's day um you deserve it so i'm gonna tell you you deserve it your man deserves it your son deserves it whatever it is maybe they'll hate it i don't know but they're all about i think the categories that the book are broken up to are fatherhood

[00:22:04] manhood good and evil uh and experiencing life something along those lines and we're also going to include some of the greats a lot of the victorian poets can be published uh at your own discretion so we're going to put some of my favorites in there from some of the greats and and i'm telling you right now it's it's going to be a good one it's do you guys want to see it or do you want to see

[00:22:30] the rough draft of the too bad you can't see it oh because it's a pdf that's why i'll show you the rough draft of the book cover for poems for men i think it's pretty good same thing pre-order all that kind of stuff you know let's see if we can bring this up for you oh my god it's enormous hold on can i shrink that i don't think you guys will be able to see it there

[00:22:59] we go this is very very very very very very uh rough by the way there's no title on it or anything this was literally last weekend me kind of putting together what i thought would be a a worthwhile um cover for the book let's see what i can find for you there we go feast your eyes folks

[00:23:29] this is what i'm thinking this is what i'm thinking maybe a little quote from above maybe a little james walton at the bottom but um poems for men out on father's day will be i don't know how many books have been published like specifically with poems for men but that's exactly what this will be i gotta go through them all again there are it's it's not well let me put it this way it's not poems

[00:23:57] for boys okay i'm not sure that it shouldn't be read by young kids but it's definitely not poems for boys a lot of moving stuff in there okay so while we're releasing all this stuff um as i mentioned there's a good chance i'll be starving and uh that's due to the fact that we're going to be also conducting our ration or ruin survival challenge starting may everybody can do it

[00:24:27] everybody can join us i can tell you right now just having ration or ruin on the horizon has radically changed my vision i mean radically let me close myself off so you can see the actually no we can put our i can put myself down in the corner can i can you hear me oh i guess you

[00:24:52] can hear me so ration or ruin folks is uh thank you um future dan i guess we have to say right thank you future dan he has largely put us in this position where we're going to suffer yet again uh and this is a long-term one this is a long-term one

[00:25:18] so ration or ruin is a 30-day challenge that will test our ability to eat and provide ourselves with food and nourishment fundamentally for 30 days the way it's going to work is three days out of every week in may we get to eat a 22 2 000 calorie diet of survival food exclusively okay 2 000 calories

[00:25:44] survival food um we have a few different brands and such so um it's it's going to be an interesting ride because the other four days we're on our own fundamentally we're on our own so in other words whatever you can hunt fish pluck forage whatever um is what what you're gonna deal with now we've decided

[00:26:14] to break this up into two divisions for really for you guys and also for you know the the fact that i think it makes sense for some people right oh firewall forge i like that he says my wife asked for money for groceries it's not shopping day she said or we can practice for next month i guess

[00:26:39] not bad we've decided to break the challenge down into two divisions okay you join one of two divisions there will be the cash bound division which is like kind of expert i guess you could look at it that way if we'd break if we if i had to take the two well i guess it's it's one of the it's i don't know if it's a difficulty thing or if it's or if it's an it's going to serve as an eye-opening moment for

[00:27:10] those in the cash bound division if i had to guess guess cash bound division is going to have to hunt forage trap fish their way to sustenance through the duration of may on the four days that they're not eating their 2 000 calorie diet should they fail then they're going to have 6 000 calories for the week which i don't even know if you can survive off that i mean you can but it ain't gonna be fun

[00:27:38] cash bound division i'd if i were in cash bound division which i'm not i would make sure all my fishing gear was tuned up just just really well tuned up and identify at least one to two locally stocked ponds that you know you're allowed to take catfish and bass out of and pan fish and so on because you're gonna be eating some fish you know unless you're a hunter if you're a

[00:28:04] seasoned hunter and there's a season that's going on or you got a lot of land and you can hunt for sure but chances are foraging will be a very meager amount of calories fishing and fish are going to become the bulk of what it is you eat on those days okay um they're in for it anybody in cash bound has to be tough okay the patriot power hour guys are tough you know i've seen them go through hell

[00:28:29] and i think they're going to go through serious hell being in the cash bound division through the month of may um and that you know that's just what it is so now cash bound division the sense behind this whole challenge was the idea that it's going to be an urban survival sort of challenge right

[00:28:54] um but the reality is the urban survival and urban homesteading world is drastically changing thank god thank god right so um what's been really awesome to see is how many people have gardens front yard gardens backyard chickens and so forth in urban settings like i'm talking around here around me i see it so because dave jones is so homesteaded like he he's like you know top tier homesteader and

[00:29:23] because i have my own chickens my own gardens my own food resources i said to the guys let's do uh two two divisions right and well um future dan really came up with a division idea and we broke it down into two divisions cash bound division and it's cultivator division right and

[00:29:46] cultivator division is um same setup three days out of the week 2 000 calorie survival food four days out of the week hunt fish forage trap you know whatever um but also any food that you are producing throughout the month of may right anything you're producing throughout the month of may so we're trying to stay away from preserved foods that are on the shelf already because that's kind of

[00:30:12] you know that don't really work um so anything you produce through the month of may so when the eggs pop out when you butcher the chickens when you butcher the quails when you uh you know pluck out the radishes when you go pick the english peas and i really like the dichotomy here you know the dichotomy here is

[00:30:36] really sweet because it's an eye-opening thing because i can tell you even being a member of the cultivator division very concerned very concerned and i'm going to talk about those concerns uh on the member side because it has changed my literal vision the way i look at the natural world has radically changed over the last 14 days because all of a sudden i'm not looking at the world outside as um

[00:31:07] should things go wrong i could do x y and z you know i'll get into it but i don't i don't want to get into it in this show um so that's ration of ruin as i mentioned i would like all of you guys to participate and if you think it's too much and for many people it probably is too much you know i've been we've i'm surrounded by preppers we have done a lot of weird preppery things over the years and i

[00:31:34] understand if it sounds crazy it is crazy but we're preparing for crazy times right crazy situations uh try it for a week if you think that doing it for a month is absolutely insane fine try it for one week for one week of your life go 2 000 calories a day for three days of survival food you should have survival food right you've got some kind of brand of survival food even if you don't have survival

[00:32:04] food you could use your own diy packaged foods um and then for the next four days just see what you got whether you're cash bound division or cultivator bound division or cultivator division rather um you'll learn so much in a week because here's the thing if you go through a week of ration of ruin and you're really bad off then you know things have to change right you know that things have to change

[00:32:33] you know that you've got to get better at a handful of you'll learn so much it's so well worth it and even if you tap out before the week's over you'll still learn so much so give it a whirl you know there's no prizes or anything like that it's really no winning or losing but it's just a really great opportunity okay a really great opportunity for everybody monday wednesday thursday rice and

[00:32:57] beans says fire will forge yeah that's it that's it go with that three times a day you'll be sick of them but you could do it so all that said um one more thing before we head out one more announcement before we head out today i know this is not the uh sort of news heavy whatever sort of show so i don't know you know how you guys feel about it but it's what you know what i wanted to get into today

[00:33:25] the final announcement is a uh we're gonna do a tariff trial membership so since the beginning of our membership we've had the ability to run trials i was never too interested in running trials um i'm not a big fan of like running trials you know what i mean like just do our seven day trial or whatever um but there's a very real situation that's unfolding in the united states and i think

[00:33:54] it's a matter of uh people who are being cautious i think the dogs want in but people who are being cautious and and conservative with their money and then you know the very real effects of joe biden on the united states are you're taking their toll and people are struggling and i think a lot of that

[00:34:20] is real and i've talked to people who have assured me that it is real let me go let the dog in the dogs really know how to screw a live show up i'll tell you that much they really they're well trained i don't know who's doing the training but they're well trained

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[00:35:00] network incredible uh just an incredible dude great story unbelievable book so tariff trial i don't know how many people out there listening to the podcast have listened for a long time have wanted to try out the uh membership and see what's what well i'll be announcing it in the next few days i've got to parse out some things because there are layers of the membership that you won't get access to

[00:35:26] sort of like our membership discounts you can't get all the cool discount codes and then quit after your member your trial memberships up right um but we're gonna give a trial out you know because it is what it is you know don't forget you can join for five bucks a month so that's kind of a trial in and of itself um but i'm not really convinced that everything is coming up roses i do think that

[00:35:53] in the long term if we stay focused things can come up roses for the united states of america um but i think there are a lot of hard times ahead folks i do i do believe it i do believe that we're on a much better trajectory um but yeah and you know the other fundamental belief of mine is that

[00:36:13] what we what we do here at pbn is serious enhancement of quality of life i'm just speaking from experience you know what i mean what we do here with the preparedness elements the outdoors elements the fitness and health elements all that kind of stuff like entrepreneurship elements a lot of the things that are really built in to um the membership side and really emergency preparedness in general

[00:36:44] i just think it's a life enhancement i think it's the way we are meant to live right these things are supposed to be high priority and when we bury them with other things uh i think we wind up in despair because we know in our heart of hearts that we need to be prepared we need to be in shape we need to be taking care of these that we need to be striving to be our very best we should be bringing some food in from the outdoors we should have some backup funds some backup

[00:37:12] food some backup things because the world is a crazy place and uh yeah that's what we focus on over there and here so i hope you enjoyed today's show folks a lot of uh like i said it's extra extra read all about a day here on surviving america it is our 30th episode very cool a lot to plan for mother's day the world of ready to releases right father's day poems for men gonna be gonna be an

[00:37:41] epic collection of of poetry for men that like as i mentioned you deserve to read great poems that's it it's the only way you need to look at it right and of course in may brace yourself for ration of ruin if you really want to take prepping seriously you really want to put yourself

[00:38:04] up against something challenging before the real challenging thing occurs give ration of ruin a try all right folks i'm out of here it's james walton it's surviving america thank you so much share the podcast tell your friends get the whole neighborhood suffering for a week of ration of ruin and you'll change the way people look at the world i can promise you that it's not a bad idea i'll have to

[00:38:30] think that over myself all right talk to you guys soon see ya