Surviving America 98: Legacy & Lore

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Welcome in, everyone. Legacy and lore today. We're approaching the 100th episode of Surviving America, which is pretty cool. I can think of only one way to celebrate episode 100, and that is probably with a collection of the PBN hosts. I do have a question for you this morning, and that is, why are the children at school? Why are my kids not here? Why are they at school today on Veterans Day? What's up with that? And I'm going to second that with... Why were my kids off Monday for Diwali... But not off Wednesday for Veterans Day? Does that make you feel weird? Is that an unfair thing to say? I'm trying to figure out when we weigh these things... In our society, how we come to these conclusions. You know what I mean? For those of you watching... First of all, happy Veterans Day to everyone. I am part of the 95%, as Dave Jones, the NBC guy, mentioned. So, of course, I'm ever grateful for the 5% of you who, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I have an idea of what it could be like. And I'm not even talking about war. I'm just talking about the whole being in the military situation. But God bless you all and thank you for your service. This nation is, you know, this nation is exceptional in many ways. Never forget that the volunteer armed forces are, it's just another one of those American miracles, right? That's what it is. It's just another one of those American miracles. Dave Jones really, he really did his thing. So make sure you listen to his episode on Veterans Day. I feel like if anybody can do it well, it's Dave, right? Like he's the guy with the programming, the background, the experience and all that. Sorry, it's fall. Bless me. It's fall. So happy Veterans Day to you out there in America. Serving, served, so on, so forth. It's part of the legacy and lore of these United States veterans. And you inspire us. Let's be real, like, you inspire us, man. The reason that we have a fighting force, foreign and domestic, right? We have a fighting force to some degree, civilian and military, or at least the armaments to do so. The armaments and maybe even the mentality to some degree to do so is because of that volunteer fighting force, right? It gives some people the ability to move at their own pace and find their way into shooting rifles and body armor and maybe even helmets and those kinds of things, NVGs, all that kind of stuff. There are so many guys that I watch, well, that I see. I can't say that I watch them in long form. But there's so many guys out there that I see that are, you know, maybe they were never in the armed forces, but they sure as hell look it. And they sure as hell love it. And that's because of you. You know what I mean? I'm not saying anything negative about them. But I'm just saying that only happens if you're inspired. You know what I mean? That can only happen if you're inspired by what it is the veterans have done. So God bless them, man. If you're one of them, God bless you. I wish you were off today. I wish you were off of work. I wish your kids' schools were closed and you had some money to go and do something really fun with them. That's what I wish. I wish our country would get its affairs in order and celebrate Washington's birthday, right? Rather than lumping him in with a bunch of other people and giving your president's day off. I wish that the veterans would get a day off and a parade and, you know, like it used to be. But that just is what it is, folks. You know what I mean? That's why we call this show Surviving America. And today we're talking legacy and lore. And this is a holiday, whether you like it or not. I'd like to see another holiday. I'd like to see Justice Day. Government buildings closed and the criminals in shooken out and taken into custody. Be nice. We're doing this show outside today, and there's a little small head, a little small image of me in the show, and look, my camera's likely to die during the show, so don't get too invested in me being a part of it if you're watching in video. I had, uh, just in all transparency, the artificial intelligence of StreamYard create this beautiful Veterans Day background, and it did an amazing job. Well done. All I asked of it was to make me a patriotic Veterans Day background that would, uh, Fill up the top half of the... Of the page. And it did just that. So... You know. For all the bluster. Sometimes it gets stuff done for you in a hurry. So... We got a lot to talk about today. In a lot of different realms. I want to talk about Massey. I want to talk about the Codex. The Family Codex. I want to talk about Black Friday. I want to talk about Let Your Heart Be Light. I want to talk about some of the content up on PBN today. Because... And yesterday, right? You've got a couple interviews that are really worth listening to, right? Meet a guy named Michael Lauer from Secure Home Advisors. This is a guy who is at the peak of his preparedness passion and wants to spread the word and help with planning and consultation and all kinds of stuff. You know, some people are, well, they're built for certain things at certain times in their life. And he's that guy right now. So make sure you listen to that interview. That came out yesterday. Both here and on the PBN Prepare side. This morning I released a show. Guy reached out to us, actually. Let me look at the whole layout. Reached out to us. And was talking about coming on the show. And his name was James Williams. I did this interview probably... month ago now so James I apologize been busy and it's all about the court of heaven and a lot of religion and his take on it all and he's a really sort of straightforward thoughtful guy we had a lot of fun man we had a lot of fun with this conversation and he kind of opened my eyes to a lot of things the courts of heaven is It's a wild concept. I mean, you have to hear it. Maybe you already know it. I mean, I'm not as versed in things like this. I'm not as well read biblically as some people. So these are concepts to me that are very interesting. But check that show out, man. It's up now. It's up at PrepperBroadcasting.com. It's on Spotify. If you're watching us on Spotify, don't forget to watch the videos. We're starting to put video up. This episode will be up in audio and video format. And I'll get the James Williams video up also. It's just two dudes yakking. But it's fun. It's good. So what else have we done these last few days? Definitely get the Dave Jones Veterans Day. Church and state reclaiming the culture through film. Oh, the Combat and Home Defense Shotgun Loads show by Dane D for Tactical Tuesday was great. Absolutely great. We did our first episode of Your Home Fortress, all right, and focused on backup power. Great episode. It was just a lot, man. New shooters on the line, Matter of Facts podcast. How do you deal with all of this? It was a great Sunday sort of religious-esque show I did for everybody. It's a lot, man. It's a lot going out there in the PBN world. And don't forget about your Pockling radios. Skycom PTT, promo code PBN. Join the Sunday comms meetup. Okay? It's real simple. You get the radio from skycomptt.com. Turn it on to the Preppers National Radio Net Sunday night at 9 p.m. And you can either tune in or you can check in. But we'll be there every Sunday night one way or another. Awesome opportunity. Awesome opportunity to build out an alternative means of communication. So for those of you who haven't been paying attention politically, you're lucky, right? You're lucky. What's his name? James Massey? Jesse Massey? I don't even know what the guy's name is, to be honest with you. But Massey, from the Republican side of things, is spectacular. and I think he's trying to sort of survive the tidal wave of blue that's coming to Congress. But he's spearheading an impeachment process against Pete Hegseth for, I don't know, war crimes, I guess he's trying to do. Like war, I don't know. I don't actually understand it. In fact, it seems like it's probably some sort of beginning to a Trump impeachment. You know what I mean? I mean, what better way to curry favor with the radicals than to begin the proceedings of something much bigger that winds up in another attempt to impeach the president? And I don't even really want to talk about the political side of things today. I just want to talk about what Pete Hegseth and the military has done. Because it is Veterans Day. You know what I mean? And I want to talk about what he's done. I want to talk about, like, the difference in, maybe it's morality. But if it's not morality, then it's most certainly just a, like a, a basic level of protection of these United States, right? There's a blend of mentalities out there right now. And one of those mentalities you have to be honest about is it's death to America from within. Don't stop the drug boats. Don't stop Iran. Don't stop China. Don't stop Russia, right? I don't know what the end game is for these people, but maybe they're working for them. Maybe they're playing that game. But there's something to it, undoubtedly, right? If Pete Agsteth is brought to bear, if he's brought to the impeachment trial, he will be brought there because he killed drug dealers. This is Massey's own words, right? He enabled the military to blow up guys who were driving drugs to the United States that were going to kill people, that were going to kill kids. This is what drugs do. Killed people. Killed off a large portion of my family. You got to understand. You know what I mean? Probably the same sort of routes that were traveled by these boats were traveled by the same drugs that eventually, you know, exploded the hearts of all kinds of people in my family. Like, I don't know how to explain it any better. These are not victimless crimes. The ushering of fentanyl and cocaine and all kinds of different drugs into the United States, these are not victimless crimes. My mother, she had a big family. Lots of brothers and sisters. Nearly every one of her brothers and sisters had lost a child or children to overdoses. Mostly heroin. But just wrap your head around that. You know what I mean? What that means is like Thanksgiving is coming and one of the most epic things we did growing up was my uncles would bring picnic tables into the living room of my grandmother's house and we would cover them with tablecloths and we'd all eat in the living room. There was no room. It was a little house in Traynor, Pennsylvania. And there was no room, you know what I mean? I remember crawling under these picnic tables with my cousins. And we'd hang together, you know, all of us. That's because we were big. We had lots of cousins, man. You know, there were two and two and four. And it was a lot of people, a lot of cousins. Some cousins who didn't make it, they weren't at that Thanksgiving. But we had cousins who lived in town who had hung with a lot, too. And they didn't make it. You know, they didn't make it. You know what I mean? The drugs got a hold of them and never let go. In fact, I have a cousin now who I don't even know if she's alive. But things were looking like she had hit the pattern that was going to follow the rest of them. You know what I mean? So I look back on those memories and I see they get deceased, deceased, deceased. A lot of them gone, man. A lot of them gone. Brutal. So when you have a guy like Pete Hegsteth who says, you know what, what we're going to do to stop the flow of drugs in this country is we're going to use big guns to shoot these guys. If they decide to load a speedboat up with drugs and deliver them to the United States, we're going to use big gigantic guns and we're going to blow the boats out of the water. And if these guys happen to die doing that, then you picked the wrong job, man. You know what I mean? You picked the wrong profession. Some professions have inherent risks. and delivering drugs to the United States suddenly gets a lot riskier, which means your kids and grandkids and so on are inherently safer. And if you think there's a demographic of people who fall to drug addiction and die from drug overdose, I could tell you my family, just in my family alone, these are not people that I know outside of my family, but in my family alone, you could follow sort of the money, right? From the lowest, from the brokest, to people who are doing well. Everybody lost somebody. So when Massey talks about the blowing of drug boats up as something we want to punish somebody for, that's insanity. When he talks about what happened to Venezuela, you're going to see prosperity in Venezuela like you haven't seen maybe in 20 years. because we're harnessing the power of the oil production i mean this is look at saudi arabia you know what i mean look at dubai look at these places they're clear examples of you know there's there's things about their culture that are no good too but so is everybody else but when you take a people who've been run by socialist communist dictators and tell them that that they're going to have a society that is now what is he saying there will be blood In the movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis, a character, what's his name? What is his name? I love that movie. I'm on the spot, though. I can't think of it. It's a great movie, though, if you've never seen it. I don't think it's a historical account, but it's an account, nonetheless, of sort of the oil boom. What's up, Cosmo? Cosmo says he was affected here, too, from the... From the drug running of South America and beyond. And also the fentanyl creation with base materials out of China. But we'll get there. But he basically says something to the effect of, I need to bring these oil rigs in so that we can blow gold all over the place. That's the direct quote. Blow gold all over the place. Because everybody wants some money. from him but he's got to get these oil these oil rigs to start producing and everybody's getting in his way you know with one thing or another and of course you know it's a beautiful movie it really is a great which explains it on all sides he's no saint you know what I mean this guy's no saint and that's so much of life you know what I mean that's so much of life but anyhow the Venezuelans are going to have prosperity the Americans are going to have prosperity which listen this is the thing you should be concerned with. Whether you're right-leaning conservative or, you know, left-leaning, left of center, whatever, left wing, whatever it is. Like, the ground on which you stand, you should be concerned with her prosperity. Right? This should be a concern of yours. You should say, I have all these great and wonderful dreams and hopes and things I'd like to accomplish. I'd really love to save this group and these people and help with equality and all of that. Well, you have to have prosperity in your own backyard. The whole reason anything, anything that equates to equality, anything that equates to tolerance and these types of things, the only reason those ideas exist and then get funded and then become popular and then have a true effect and make a society better to some degree is because of the The prosperity that you stand on because you stand on the shoulders of giants, right? Generations before you who set up the water system, set up the electric grid, set up the oil refineries. The ability for you to not think about any of this stuff. The ability for you to eat cheaply, largely, without it even being a thought. I mean, for a lot of people in the country, eating is not a thought and it doesn't even take a job. Think about that. With the WIC programs, with the SNAP programs, and of course the thing you never hear about, which is the charity of Christians largely, you can show up at food banks all over the place and get lots of food, free. And in solving for food alone, now all of a sudden we have the ability to think about things like those technologies, of issues. Well, the Venezuelans will be in a similar situation. They'll be able to concern themselves with things outside of day-to-day hunger and crime and, you know, all that. And that's a beautiful thing. So Hegseth is in trouble because of an hour-long strike that took a corrupt president out of a car. I'm not saying, look, when I first heard about it, I was like, man, that's kind of crazy. I don't want to get into the black and white or the in and out or the details of what happened on the lead up to that with their conversations. Was it the right thing to do? Was it the wrong thing to do? I think what you have to understand and what everyone in the United States should understand is that Donald Trump's whole His whole grand scheme with everything happening in our hemisphere is to secure the Western Hemisphere for American prosperity and safety and security. Right. That's what's happening. That's what's happened in Panama with China. Right. He said, Panama, you got to tell the Chinese to get the hell out of there or else. Why is that? What do you want to be able to maneuver your your Navy around and your troops around? The Atlantic to the Pacific through the Panama Canal that was created by the United States? Do you want to do that or no? So we have a man who's being drug into the courts because of that. You know what I mean? And that's what it is. There are big players in the drug trade in the Vancouver area, Port City, Surrey, British Columbia, etc. People don't seem to care about the prosperity or what causes prosperity. You're right, Cosmo. That's the truth. They've had it good for so long, they're not even concerned with how to, what else? You know what I mean? Who cares? Who cares? Just give me a platform on which I can stand and belt out my grievance of the day. And that's it. So I think that's worth talking about. You know what I mean? I think I do. And then you have Iran. You know what I mean? You have, again, you're going to excoriate a man for And let's talk about the whole story with Iran, right? Let's talk about the whole situation. You've got a military that's dealing with the world's sponsor of terror. That's what they are. They're the world's greatest sponsor of terror all over the world. Only one nation is going to step up and take care of it. You could argue Israel, but what is Israel without American weaponry and American money? We'll find out soon, at least from the money standpoint. Because even though Donald Trump said they're not going to give Israel any more money, which should have been headline news everywhere for days and months, you know, everyone's oh so concerned with Israel and the Jews. It's a pretty big damn announcement. And you heard a blip of it, right? You heard just a little, a little yip, and that was it. Which is, you know, why people don't watch the news anymore. But the United States has decided to stop that from happening. They decided to stop the whole idea that Iran could get anywhere near becoming nuclear. Nothing good would come of that. You know what I mean? Nothing good would come of that. I never even thought if Iran had a weapon that they'd use a nuclear weapon. But I definitely felt like Hamas would detonate one that they got from Iran. Right? I definitely felt like the Houthis might put one on a missile or something along those lines. Because that's how Iran operates. They're not going to say today, Iran, we launched a nuclear weapon at Israel, Europe, the United States, the great Satans. And we're fighting this battle largely because Obama sent them pallets of cash and Biden sent them pallets of cash. So this has been funded, funded, funded, man. Right. Now, of course, those pallets of cash were sent over there because other people got some of that cash. Because when you send a pallet of cash, you think the pallet of cash arrives exactly as it left? Right? But you send a pallet of cash. Let's say you got a pallet of cash. You know, what was it? Three billion or whatever it was. Dollars going to Iran. You think people don't come around that pallet of cash and say, three billion, huh? Well, I'll take this corner and you take that corner and those assholes can have the rest. They're not going to complain. Right. But your pockets are going to get a lot fatter. So understand when the United States sends a pallet of cash, there's a reason. Right. There's a reason for it. That's because other people are picking. Right. There's a little picking going on there. Well, we got three billion on here. I'll take a couple hundred grand. You know, you want a couple hundred grand. OK. We don't like them guys in Iran anyway, but this is just for us to pick off of and then we'll send it over to them. And they'll use it to create more war and more chaos, which, you know, will make the stock market surge. My 401k goes up, my stocks in, you know, whatever, whatever military company you want to put in there. And the beat goes on. The beat goes on. And then you want to you want to rake one guy over the coals for it all. Right. Which will never work because it's an executive order. Right. It came from the the orders came from the executive branch. So it's it ain't going to work in the same way it didn't work with Hillary. Right. And I think they'll all just just fold it into Donald Trump. You know, well, Hegseth swore crime. You're right. You're right. Hegseth wasn't the guy. He wasn't the guy who he was following orders. But you know who who created those orders? To protect the United States and dominate the Western Hemisphere, that would be Donald Trump. So let's throw him in jail for that. Let's throw him in jail for protecting us from the drug dealers. Let's throw him in jail for protecting us from the world, for really protecting the world from Iran is what you're doing. And let's definitely throw him in jail for making the lives of all Venezuelans much better. Let's do that. You know what I mean? Forget about prosperity. Forget about it. Everyone should be happy with their socialist communist dictatorships. Why? In South America. 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The Be Aware dashboard is the best of the best, in my opinion. If you want to know what's going on in your area, right? If you want to know what's going on in your area, that's be aware. Here we have it. And here we have it. In fact, let's give it all the room. Boom. And I haven't looked at mine today, so I'm just going to look at it. Sunny 59, it is kind of cool out today. Sunny 59, limited power outages in the area. All right. Cloudflare are data centers that handle all kinds of different things. So this Cloudflare inclusion here, you see at the bottom of the screen, huge, huge. It doesn't feel as huge right now, but huge. We can look at our water levels. Everything's kind of droughty right now, so I'm sure all of these are pretty low. 148 feet below dam crest. You get into the wet season, these are going to mean a lot. But the other thing that these do for you is they tell you where water is. You know what I mean? They give you an idea of water sources in the area. No active alerts for us today. Wonderful. You know, this is really important. These emergency alerts are really important when it comes to weather. You get serious sort of weather alerts that come through, like, we're going to have bad thunderstorms at 8 p.m. tonight. Sometimes you get caught off guard with those things, man. Life is busy. We can look at this. This part of the dashboard right here is a big deal. This is technology. This is technology. Right now, it's not a thing that you think about on a day-to-day basis, but I really do think that the hacking of your cell phones, the hacking of... management of data centers at large, I really think is a battle that is very close to becoming a reality that we all have to deal with. I really do. I have a feeling that these PocLink radios we're using are going to become your primary source of communication. Honestly. Because I talked to Mike Harris over at Skycom PTT. He says he talks to his wife on his radio anyway all the time. And what that made me start thinking about is How often are cell services going to be hacked or interrupted? You know what I mean? And how often are we going to say to ourselves, if I press this button on the POC radio, I'm going to get my wife or my husband. If I make a call, I may not. I don't know what the situation is each day. But this kind of digital updates, man, these are going to be big. We got air quality, moderate air quality. Yeah, there's a lot of allergens in the air. Then, of course, we've got our local news. And I can't tell you. The importance of local news, you know. The importance of local news is so valuable, man. We've got these things broken down into serious and disruptive and advisory news, right? So you know kind of what you're looking at. Two dogs, two rabbits rescued, one backyard shed destroyed in Chesterfield. What is that, the fireworks incident? It's very cool, man. Like I said, if you want to get all ginned up on what's going on in the world, if you want to get all high on the doom of the day, then this is probably not for you. But if you legitimately want to know what's going on in your world, this is it, man. This is it. What's going on on the highways? What's going on in the waterways? What's going on with the crime? What's going on with the technology in my area? Don't tell me about the big hack that's as exciting as it is. I just read a story about, not just that, sorry, there's like a little gnat that's flying around. Remember in France, they were hacking the refrigeration units in the supermarkets. Well, for some reason, they just hacked the refrigeration unit in a blood bank. That's not, I didn't see that online. I read that in the Epic Times last night in the living room with the family. really weird why just because they can this is what i mean man there's a level of anarchy in our our world right now we don't understand we may never understand it you know so let's carry on let's carry on because we still have a lot i want to talk about talked about black friday let your heart be light oh god sorry where do we go next Do we talk about the Norbertine? I don't know. I feel like it's a bigger show. But it is lore. It is legacy. If we're going to talk lore and legacy, we have to talk about the Codex. If it all happens, if it really all goes to hell, if war comes to America, if AI goes absolutely insane and just all of this online stuff disappears... If the economy collapses and you have to sell your home and move out and, you know, whatever situation. If it all comes to fruition, if things all go to hell. What gets lost in the process? You know what I mean? Seriously, what gets lost in the process? I have been on fire with this Your Family Codex project. It's over. It's done. I turned it around so fast. It's unbelievable. And really, it was because the framework was so clear, right? The framework was so clear that it was easy. It was a big project, but it was easy. And it's all built around this idea. If it all goes away tomorrow, what will your family know about you? What will they know about your parents? What will they know about your grandparents? About the legacy and the lore of your family? What's known? What will the kids know? What will they convey? Humans are a storytelling and a legacy and lore sharing species. We wrote stories on animal skins and hid them in clay pots. And this became the Dead Sea Scrolls that literally are the Bible's best translation of today. Think about that for a minute. You got a blog and a Facebook page. Do you know what I mean? I don't know what you have, but what I created in your family codex is a tremendous outline, template, questionnaire, examples, fillable forms that allow you to very easily take down your family history, the lineage and genealogy, the Stories and recipes and traditions that have come before you are with you. The principles and the core sort of beliefs of your family. Put them all in one place. Print them as a hardback or softback book or whatever you want to do with it. And then you have something. And even if everything turns out okay, which, you know, we're all praying for. Even if everything turns out okay. AI doesn't ruin everything. This Iran war doesn't turn into a world war or whatever. We don't have some sort of major hiccup at home with left-wing anarchists. Even if everything just turns out okay, people die, man. This is a hard lesson that I learned. People die. They die, and with them goes stories. With them goes recipes. With them goes all kinds of stuff. The things that my mother took to her grave, You can't get them back. You know what I mean? You can't get... I've heard the stories a million times. You can't get them back. You can't get the little details. You can't get the secret ingredients. You can't get the method. You can't... You know what I mean? If you capture it now, then you have it. You know what I mean? I want to show you. I want to show you the Your Family Codex template because I think it's one of the best ways to explain what you get when you buy one of these DIY... Family Codex kits. OK, they're 40 bucks. Everything that you need to build this thing out, including a how to hardback publishing guide. Right. So so you filled the template out, you modified it, you added the things you wanted to add, all that kind of stuff. You're ready to turn this thing into what will be the coolest and the most important Christmas gift you ever give anyone or you give to yourself even. You follow this guide and you can go print a hardback copy. One. One at a time. You don't need to print like a thousand. One at a time from lulu.com. And set it up the way you want to set it up. Print it the way you want to print it. It won't even cost you a whole lot of money. And boom. You know what I mean? This thing, I don't know. I know that I had help from God on this. I know that. That I know for sure. Because I was on fire with it. The moment I saw my new book. I was on fire with this thing. And then I knew right off the bat that this is one of the most important things Americans have to do. Particularly people who understand the idea of preparedness. This is legacy and lore. This is the whole thing. So what you're looking at is the breakdown of how to use this template. This template is not all that comes with it, but it's a huge piece of the puzzle. The kit is DIY, so you don't have to even use this template if you don't want. You can do whatever you want, but I recommend using it because it's built off of the questionnaire. It's built off of everything that I put into this project. You know what I mean? But just to give you a feel for it, right? You just go in here, and if it's gold, you fill it in. And again, you can modify it any way you want. You can delete anything you want. If you don't want it to be called the Blank Family Codex, just delete this and Call it whatever you want. It's going to come to you as a Word document. So you can do whatever you want to it. Dedication and statement of purpose. This is huge. I just want you to think about your kids reading this thing. You know what I mean? In a few years. A whole breakdown of how to use this template, right? How to use this book. And then a little bit of the Codex roadmap that kind of keeps you on track, right? Because if you're going to pull this off for Christmas, it's going to take work. It is. It's going to take work, but it's going to be amazing. It's going to be absolutely amazing. Along with this, as I mentioned, you're going to get all kinds of stuff. You're going to get a folder full of fillable documents. Documents that are set up as Word documents. You can copy and paste them into this template right here. And it's the whole breakdown. You know what I mean? How do you want to lay out a family story? What do you want that to look like? Right. And there's a template for that. You just go in and click whose story. Type the name, you know, write the whole story. You know what I mean? The whole recipe. There's a recipe fillable form. There's a whole folder of inspiration, too. There's a whole folder of these sort of forms and sections that are filled out to give you an idea of like, what could this look like? You know, I know not everyone is like super creative. But it doesn't matter if you're creative or not. You need a family codex. You know what I mean? You need at least some kind of a document that tells everybody the stories of your family, the background, what you've done, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles. Who are you? Who are these people? This will be available in the Black Friday catalog. This will also go out to our mailing list as soon as everyone, as soon as it's polished and perfect and up for sale. Okay. You'll get it as a download and you'll be able to do with it what you please. You fill out the questionnaire first. Okay. The questionnaire is key. The questionnaire helps you gather all the information on, you know, how you're going to make this thing become a reality. And, uh, and from there, man, you, you build this thing. And I'm telling you right now, it's, it's one of those things. It feels like, I don't know. You know what I mean? It, Oh, and if you don't want to get into the DIY aspect of it, we can work together. We can work together and build out your family code. That was my initial idea. My initial idea was I'm just going to write like four or five of these a month for people who want to pay me to do it. And then I started thinking, man, times are tough. People don't want to take on a project like that. And how many of those can you really do in a year's time? You're not going to be able to help people. As best you can. There's not going to be enough people who wind up with these things in your lifetime. So let me create a template. Let me create a layout. Let me create a questionnaire. Let me create a real easy system so that anybody can go in and answer some questions, fill out some stuff and have their own family codex, their own family history. Past, present, even future. If you are worried about the water turning off, the power turning off, the Wi-Fi turning off, artificial intelligence destroying. And listen, even the existence of AI in a prosperous world can destroy history. It likely will destroy history. Do you trust it? Are you going to trust it more in the future or less in the future? In its inception, at least it was regurgitating things and wasn't quite manipulated yet. Still not great, but what happens when humans get all in it and humans start, well, let's talk about the real history. Let's upload some real historical, some 1619 project stuff into the AI, right? Information online is going to get more and more suspect as time goes on, which means you, your kids, your grandkids, when they go to search things about you, your family, and so on, if they don't have those stories somewhere, If it's not valid, they're not going to care. You know what I mean? And that's the underpinning of all of America. The underpinning of all of America is this great experiment in freedom that led to generations of families and generations of prosperity. Built on the backs of these principles, built on the back of Christianity. That's the whole thing. And when you have this document, this family codex, every generation and every person in your family, it's going to be reaffirmed. They're going to go, oh, yeah, I remember we started that family business and we had it for about 10 years and made some money and then it died off and stopped working and we closed it up. All these little bits and pieces of your life that happened over the span of 80 years or whatever and things that happen in other members of your family's lives, you're just lost. They just get lost. And it's more perilous than ever because nobody keeps a journal. Your journal is your social media posts about Donald Trump and Thomas Massey, right? So nobody keeps a physical journal, really. Barely anybody keeps photo albums. You keep hard photo albums? Like lots. I mean, like you could go to my parents' house and they've got just unbelievable... Well, actually, I have them all now. But we have unbelievable amounts of photos, right? Reminders of what has happened in your life. If something happens with the... digital world, and then companies go out of business, Google can say, you know what? The Google Drive thing is not really working for us. And the Google Photos thing is not making us any money. So effective tomorrow, they're gone, along with all your pictures. What? And you sit there the next morning and go like, oh, well. I guess that's what happens when you put your family history in the hands of Google. All right. I'm on fire with this right now. I don't know. It seems like one of the most important things you can do. I'm killing myself right now because I haven't even had time to really sit down and create ours. And I know it's going to take months. It's going to take you months. I mean, maybe not. Maybe not. If you can really lock in, maybe not. But And it should. It should take you a while. You should take your time with this thing and you should really create something beautiful. You know what I mean? Your family codex. It'll be out soon. It'll be in the Black Friday. The Preppers Black Friday catalog. Look for it. Don't forget that amazing 90 day free deal from Be Prepared Solutions. Keep an eye out for that, too. That's huge. 90 days to look over your dashboard and get your local Intel day in and day out. You feel like Batman. At least that's what I feel like in the morning when I bring it up. Oracle. Get me information on Poway Parkway. I think that's all. I think that's all. I've got things in this box here. It's just too important to talk about to throw into the end of the show. But I've got some beautiful things here. Some things that are really magic, man. From the Norbertine sisters. I mean, look at this beautiful bar of soap. This is a whole nother show. This is a whole nother concept. It's a whole nother... There's something even more important in here. You guys know I've talked about the Norbertine canonesses that I support. And... I don't know. My heart's there too right now. I don't question it, man. You know what I mean? I just go with God. I feel the push. I go there. I don't care. You know what I mean? It is what it is. He hasn't failed me yet. And he pushed me here to this family index thing too. I know it. I've been through it enough that I know it. And since I'm so out of focus, we might as well wrap this thing up. Let's all thank the veterans today for an amazing country. Right? That's really what it is. An amazing country where we get to do shows in our backyard with the wind blowing and the leaves falling and have no concern of drones humming overhead. Right? We know we're only steps away from loaded firearms. And those rights are protected by, you know, by the veterans and those who who died serving as well. But yeah, let's get Veterans Day off, right? Let's close the schools down for Veterans Day. If we can close them down for Diwali, we can close them down for Veterans Day, right? And probably need to figure out how we can make sure that veterans get to have a great day with their kids or a great day with their families on Veterans Day. Get out and get the discounts. Take advantage of that. Get the freebies. Get the discounts. As Dave Jones said, and don't miss Dave Jones on Veterans Day. He did a great show. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to Surviving America. Spread the word. Surviving America is now its own standalone podcast over at Spotify and iTunes. You can listen to just Surviving America going forward. We'll repopulate it too, but it is a standalone podcast as well. Or you can listen to everything at Prepper Broadcasting Network. So on, so forth. Enjoy the day, man. It's gorgeous here in Richmond. It's going to be a great day. I plan on sucking the marrow out of this day. Talk to you soon. But what also you put in here is your home internet, your home off-grid internet, right? What's your home off-grid internet? Your home off-grid internet is your prep or disc, right? When the Wi-Fi goes out, when the power goes out, your family connects to the prep or disc. What makes the prep or disc so unique is that you can hop on it. Your wife can hop on it. Your son can hop on it. Your daughter can hop on it all through their phone or device online. 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 prepper 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.