The Strange Truth: Prepping is Peace of Mind

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[00:01:18] Welcome to episode 8 of The Strange Truth.

[00:02:06] I'm your host Carl B.

[00:02:11] I just want to say, you know, welcome to PBN.

[00:02:17] And I hope that after listening to this podcast, you know, if you're new, you will check out the network, you know, Prepper Broadcasting.com,

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[00:03:19] So you'll be able to check that out. On Wednesday nights, we've got our Intrepid Commander James Walton,

[00:03:27] and he, you know, he discusses anything from really important social issues to anything prepping.

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[00:04:02] And, you know, Dave is, as I like to call him, he's a fountain of information.

[00:04:09] And he always has some really interesting projects that he's doing, prepping projects.

[00:04:17] So it's always pretty cool listening to what's going on with Dave.

[00:04:24] And on Friday we've got Jordan J. Fergie with a family affair, more prepping tips, you know, just a lot of, just a lot of information

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[00:05:14] On Tuesdays we've got Future Dad and Ben Cochran on. The Patriot Power Hour, you know, they discuss anything, you know, like what's going on socially as well as economics, right?

[00:05:30] I always listen to them because there's always some really good economic analysis of what's going on with our economy.

[00:05:42] And if that's your area of interest, I would encourage you to tune in on Tuesdays and get your information.

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[00:06:54] So there's a lot going on in PBN and I encourage you to take a look at the website and please pass these podcasts around.

[00:07:08] You know, if there's someone that you know that would love to get into prepping and they might be on the fence about it, you know, go through the podcasts.

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[00:07:32] Today's topic is, you know, why prepping is peace of mind.

[00:07:39] It's an important one and we're going to do a deep dive into this topic tonight.

[00:07:50] I want to talk about this because I think that a lot of times people come get into prepping because there are usually, there's some anxiety about something, right?

[00:08:05] Something has got the spider senses tingling right my inner nerve there, you know, Spider-Man, right?

[00:08:17] But something has gotten, you know, someone's attention and they decide to start to or they decide that they might need to do something to either protect themselves, their loved ones, to harden their lives a little bit, to have some kind of plan if there's an emergency.

[00:08:42] And a lot of times people do, it's usually an anxiety driven thing to actually get into prepping.

[00:08:50] But the healthy thing is that once I guess you get to a specific point in your preps then you should be able to begin to relax and, you know,

[00:09:07] with that understanding that you've done what you need to do to plug that hole in your life, right?

[00:09:17] That preparedness hole in your life, that aspect of your life now is as solid as you can get it.

[00:09:28] So if there's anyone out there right now, if you're new to prepping and you're still a little anxious, I just want to encourage you to look at what you've probably already done.

[00:09:42] Okay?

[00:09:44] Look around.

[00:09:45] Look at the food that you've put away.

[00:09:47] Look at if you've gotten animals and you've started raising animals.

[00:09:53] If you began sometime last year and you were able to, you know, plant a garden and get started on that producing your own food, right?

[00:10:04] You know, it's all about, you know, I think the bottom line in prepping, the real bottom line is some sort of self-sufficiency.

[00:10:17] Your ability to react when there is an emergency, right?

[00:10:24] That you're not just frozen or you just don't know where to begin.

[00:10:29] If you are a prepper, older new, I think that you've already crossed that rubicon.

[00:10:37] You know, okay, if something goes down, if something starts, right, is occurring.

[00:10:43] I think that you already have the mental and in some cases, the physical things in place so that you can take care of yourself and your family.

[00:10:57] So if you're new, I just want to welcome you to prepping.

[00:11:06] If you are an old hand at it, then I say, okay, keep on going.

[00:11:13] All right.

[00:11:14] And as I said, you know, pass this website around, PBN, right?

[00:11:21] Pass it around.

[00:11:22] And if you know someone who's on the fence and try and encourage them to begin, you know, the first step sometimes is usually the hardest one.

[00:11:32] And a lot of people are a little jaded by the word prepper, right?

[00:11:38] Because you know, all the strange press that preppers have gotten in the past.

[00:11:45] I think that 2020 made everyone a prepper.

[00:11:48] Right?

[00:11:49] Most, a lot of people.

[00:11:51] Okay?

[00:11:52] I think it certainly woke up a lot of my friends.

[00:11:57] You know, you start getting phone calls from people who you would never dream would even be calling, right?

[00:12:05] But all of a sudden they wanted to know how to store water or they wanted to know, you know, how to store certain foods.

[00:12:17] And you know, they how to start a garden and everything else, right?

[00:12:23] Because it got a little scary last year, especially when all of this started.

[00:12:31] I think it made a lot of people.

[00:12:34] I think it woke up a lot of people to the possibility that maybe life isn't as solid as it appears to be, right?

[00:12:47] You know, we do have pretty for the most part pretty solid lives.

[00:12:52] We get up every day.

[00:12:53] We go to work.

[00:12:54] We know pretty much where every day is pretty much going to a certain extent, but there is that uncertainty factor too.

[00:13:07] Yeah.

[00:13:08] And I think that a lot of people got woken up to that uncertainty factor, you know, last year, you know, because of COVID and everything that was going on.

[00:13:18] All of a sudden things that seemed very concrete and certain were not certain anymore, right?

[00:13:25] You know, your job wasn't the same anymore.

[00:13:28] You know, you would go into a brick and mortar building every day to do your job.

[00:13:34] And all of a sudden you're now working from home and you're doing all your business over a computer.

[00:13:39] Life's changed.

[00:13:42] You know, gone are the days when you could go to the cinema or without any issues or just regular, you know, go to church or attend a ball game.

[00:14:00] Regular things got shelved, put on the site at least for a while.

[00:14:09] And if you are, if you were one of those people that woke up last year, then I say congratulations to you.

[00:14:16] You know, there's still a lot of people out there that, you know, I mean, COVID came and it was like a slap, right?

[00:14:25] It was like a slap.

[00:14:27] And a lot of people went, whoa, right?

[00:14:31] They went, oh my goodness, I can't believe this is happening.

[00:14:36] And they started looking about them and they started looking at ways that they could protect their family and themselves.

[00:14:44] And there's still a lot of people out there that still didn't take the warning.

[00:14:50] And if you know someone like that, then maybe you can convince them or if you were someone like that,

[00:14:59] and now you've decided to take that step, I say congratulations to you.

[00:15:06] You know, it should be about peace of mind.

[00:15:09] It shouldn't be about creating more anxiety in your life.

[00:15:13] Okay?

[00:15:14] If you find that instead of becoming more, you know, more calm, you're becoming more agitated than I say that you're probably going about it all wrong.

[00:15:33] Okay?

[00:15:35] You know, sure there is a definitely, especially when you get started most likely, right?

[00:15:41] Because, you know, if all of a sudden, okay, I've got to start storing some food.

[00:15:47] I've got to figure out my water issues.

[00:15:50] I've got to, you know, start prepping my finances and, you know, you start really start insulating yourself.

[00:15:59] You start taking care of these areas in your life that needed a little bit more attention.

[00:16:05] Then I would say yes, at first there might be that anxiety, but if it's gotten to a point where, you know, you're getting burned out or, you know, you can't sleep at night.

[00:16:18] You wake up with cold sweats or something like that, or you just always focused on the negative things, the negative things all the time.

[00:16:27] You know, you're listening to all these podcasts and you're reading all these websites and you're getting a little bit more agitated every day.

[00:16:35] Then maybe you need to take a step back.

[00:16:38] Okay?

[00:16:39] Take a step back.

[00:16:42] It's not supposed to be creating more anxiety in your life.

[00:16:49] It's supposed to be easing anxiety in your life.

[00:16:52] And I think that that's the yardstick to use.

[00:16:57] You know, if you're going out and you're stocking your pantry and you're feeling good about it, you know, you look at the stuff that you've put away and you realize that, okay, I've got enough here for three months

[00:17:13] if there's an emergency and my family and we need to bunker in or something to that effect and you're beginning to feel good about it, then you're doing it right.

[00:17:24] Okay?

[00:17:25] Okay.

[00:17:27] If you're still looking about you and you're still kind of spinning your wheels and you're becoming more and more agitated, then maybe you need to take a step back.

[00:17:40] And that's probably where sometimes it's good to have someone to reach out to.

[00:17:47] You know, if there's someone in the prepping community that you can reach out to, that would be the time or if you have a significant other, you know, another person in your life, then maybe you need to reach out to that person as well.

[00:18:07] Right?

[00:18:08] It's supposed to be easing anxiety, not creating anxiety.

[00:18:14] Okay?

[00:18:15] Now, you know, the preparedness lifestyle is a lifestyle.

[00:18:21] Okay?

[00:18:22] I just want to say that it is a lifestyle once you really get into it.

[00:18:27] It's not necessarily something that you do and just kind of walk away from.

[00:18:34] Okay?

[00:18:35] Okay, I've got my food and now I'm done.

[00:18:37] Right?

[00:18:39] Because usually it's something where it just becomes a way of life.

[00:18:46] Okay?

[00:18:47] And I think that as long as it doesn't get out of control, then you are on the right path.

[00:18:57] Okay?

[00:18:59] When you're prepared, right, you handle emergencies a lot better.

[00:19:06] Preparing is, you've got to think of it as a kind of insurance, right, that you're paying into.

[00:19:17] When you put that extra food aside, it's insurance.

[00:19:21] When you prep your cars properly and make sure that the maintenance is done on them, it's insurance.

[00:19:27] Right?

[00:19:28] Okay?

[00:19:30] When you put that extra water aside or you make plans, you buy a great filtration system and you make plans,

[00:19:42] it's insurance against hard times, right, bad times if they come.

[00:19:50] There's nothing wrong with that.

[00:19:52] And that's the thing I really want to say especially to new people and even to the old hands, right?

[00:19:59] There's nothing wrong in anything that we're doing.

[00:20:01] We're just making sure that if something occurs then we can handle it properly.

[00:20:08] We can handle it correctly.

[00:20:12] Okay?

[00:20:14] I think that the person who lives their life without any kind of insurance, right, they're the ones who are living,

[00:20:26] they're living dangerously, right, because things happen in life.

[00:20:32] Right?

[00:20:34] I'll use the analogy of car insurance, right?

[00:20:38] You pay into car insurance and you put that money into that car insurance, right?

[00:20:47] And if you're a really good driver, you go for years and nothing occurs.

[00:20:52] Life, you get through every day driving around and nothing occurs.

[00:20:57] And then one day, right, something just comes out of the blue.

[00:21:03] Somebody just rear-ends you or runs a stoplight and your car now is totaled.

[00:21:15] Okay?

[00:21:16] If you've got insurance, you know, as long as you survive, right, if you've got insurance,

[00:21:21] then your car will be paid for at least.

[00:21:26] Okay?

[00:21:28] Your car will be paid for.

[00:21:29] If you have no insurance, you're out of a car and in a lot of trouble, right?

[00:21:38] And that's what prepping is.

[00:21:40] Prepping is insurance.

[00:21:45] Now let's take a look at some of the areas that we prep.

[00:21:48] And for the new people, anyone listening to that, right, to this right now?

[00:21:53] Well, you know, there's some areas that we prep that we tend to concentrate on.

[00:22:00] Food, water, energy, power, right?

[00:22:05] Energy means that, you know, can you run your freezer if the park goes out?

[00:22:13] Or can you charge your tools or your computers if the car, if the power goes out?

[00:22:21] Right?

[00:22:22] That's important.

[00:22:24] Finances, the medical aspect of your life.

[00:22:31] Egress, I say egress, egress means like, you know, your car or another location, a safety location.

[00:22:42] You're right, your home, you prep your home.

[00:22:46] Communications, right?

[00:22:50] I know that on PBN we're doing the ham radio training and, you know, getting ready to take the test practice, right?

[00:23:03] And I believe that's happening on Element.

[00:23:06] It's something that I think I will get into myself too.

[00:23:11] My wife bought me a ham radio years ago for Christmas.

[00:23:17] It must have been, what, maybe about six years ago?

[00:23:21] And I have always kind of said to myself, I really need to get this, you know, get my call sign, get licensed.

[00:23:33] But it's never happened.

[00:23:35] And I think one of these days, I'm going to pop into Element and hopefully, you know, being part of that community, I can, you know, I can actually just get it done.

[00:23:50] Communications is important.

[00:23:53] Physical fitness, I know that this is a big deal with James.

[00:23:58] James, you know, he's always talking about and giving advice about physical fitness and why it's important.

[00:24:10] And he's definitely got a point, right?

[00:24:15] Some form of physical fitness is important if you are a prepper.

[00:24:23] For the true preparedness practitioner, you know, prepping is a whole life experience, right?

[00:24:31] A whole life practice.

[00:24:34] It is something that once begun, it becomes a way of life.

[00:24:39] Prepping isn't seen just as something else is done, you know, like just kind of a hobby, right?

[00:24:47] It becomes a way of life.

[00:24:49] It just happens unconsciously after a while.

[00:24:52] You know, you go into the store and you pick up that extra bag of rice.

[00:24:57] Spring comes around, right?

[00:24:59] And spring is coming around now.

[00:25:01] And, you know, all preppers attention, a lot of preppers now are turning to their gardens.

[00:25:07] You know, they go into the stores, right?

[00:25:10] And they're all looking at the seeds.

[00:25:12] They're going online and they're looking at the seeds, right?

[00:25:16] And they're supplies or gardening supplies, right?

[00:25:22] When you live this way, then yes, it's a way of life, right?

[00:25:27] And eventually you'll start seeing all the benefits of the lifestyle.

[00:25:32] And that's what I want to say to...

[00:25:38] If you're not a prepper yourself and you're just listening to this, you know,

[00:25:42] you do start to see the benefits of the preparedness lifestyle.

[00:25:47] And there are some benefits, right?

[00:25:50] You know, there are some really big constants, right?

[00:25:53] In everybody's life.

[00:25:55] Your job, your family bills, your health, right?

[00:26:00] And of course there are problems that come up along the way, right?

[00:26:05] You can't be a human being without issues coming up, right?

[00:26:10] It's as sure as death and taxes, right?

[00:26:15] There's going to be that rainfall in your life.

[00:26:20] Prepping prepares you to deal with all of those, right?

[00:26:26] It prepares you just to deal with it, to write out the bad times, right?

[00:26:35] A well-organized private life also helps even with the more public life as well, right?

[00:26:41] Good organizational practices, right?

[00:26:44] Like attention to detail, right?

[00:26:46] It's transferred to a job, for instance.

[00:26:49] Being able to think critically to solve problems in an innovative way

[00:26:54] is also an ability that is valued in a lot of jobs, right?

[00:27:01] You know, one thing with preppers, homesteaders, right?

[00:27:04] Is this phenomenal ability to solve problems?

[00:27:11] You know, because if you're homesteading and if you're living off-grid, right?

[00:27:18] Home repair, all the repairs you're responsible for.

[00:27:22] You're responsible for your own food production, right?

[00:27:28] There's a lot of things that will come up that you're going to have to solve it on your own,

[00:27:36] especially if there's no help around, right?

[00:27:42] So you develop this ability to think critically, to solve problems

[00:27:53] and you develop, you start developing all these different skill sets that

[00:27:59] the ordinary person just won't have

[00:28:09] because they've not lived and prepared the way that you have, right?

[00:28:14] So you have this ability to fix a problem, okay?

[00:28:26] To actually try to fix a problem.

[00:28:29] You become that go-to person.

[00:28:32] You'll find that a lot of people will begin coming to you and there is an issue

[00:28:37] they want help with because you're going to be the person

[00:28:43] that will be able to help them solve that problem.

[00:28:48] And this is not just about homesteading and everything else.

[00:28:51] It's about being at work.

[00:28:53] You're the person that a lot of times because you're really used to thinking critically, right?

[00:29:01] When there's a problem, you'll find that you might be that go-to person

[00:29:07] to help with an issue, a difficult issue at work, right?

[00:29:17] Preppers have to put aside enough food.

[00:29:27] They've got to put aside enough money.

[00:29:29] They've got to be really careful with your money

[00:29:31] and that's one of the things that you're going to quickly realize

[00:29:37] if you're new, okay?

[00:29:40] If you're just listening to this podcast and you're new,

[00:29:44] you realize that, hey, prepping, regardless if you're doing it,

[00:29:50] even on a cheap side, it does require some amount of funds, right?

[00:29:57] Now, a lot of preppers scavenge around and find things that they can use.

[00:30:03] They can substitute certain things for other things

[00:30:06] and as I say, they're very innovative.

[00:30:09] We're very innovative people, right?

[00:30:11] We can figure out a use for almost anything pretty much, right?

[00:30:18] But your finances, you're going to find that you're going to have to make sure that they're in order.

[00:30:26] If you're going to seriously get into this lifestyle, right?

[00:30:34] You will find that all of this preparation will tide you over, right?

[00:30:40] Especially if you end up losing a job, right?

[00:30:45] If your finances are...

[00:30:48] If you had put your finances in order

[00:30:51] and you've done a few things like socked away a year's worth of food

[00:30:58] or something to that effect,

[00:31:00] then that's one less thing that you have to worry about, right?

[00:31:03] Until you get another job.

[00:31:06] You've created that space in your life that you can...

[00:31:10] It gives you options, you can function

[00:31:14] because things aren't completely, completely desperate, okay?

[00:31:19] If you've put aside some savings,

[00:31:24] if you've paid down your bills properly,

[00:31:28] if you've put aside enough food to last a couple of months to a year

[00:31:33] or in some cases some preppers, you know, they have food for years, right?

[00:31:39] If you are producing your own food, for instance, too,

[00:31:44] then yeah, you know, if you lose your job

[00:31:49] then you probably have a little bit of a cushion

[00:31:54] that the person who has never really put any money aside

[00:31:59] or has really saved anything or put any food aside

[00:32:02] or done anything to that effect

[00:32:04] because they've been pretty much living from paycheck to paycheck,

[00:32:08] sometimes even living beyond their means.

[00:32:11] Oh, preppers don't live beyond their means, please.

[00:32:15] Okay?

[00:32:19] I would say if there's something that you need

[00:32:23] for one of your preps, okay?

[00:32:27] The only reason you should be putting that on a credit card

[00:32:30] is if you know that you can pay that down, okay?

[00:32:35] You know, and if you really want to be the grey man now

[00:32:39] and since they're tracking everything, then I would say

[00:32:42] if you can do all your business and most of your business in cash,

[00:32:46] do your business in cash, okay?

[00:32:51] The less of a trail you leave behind, the less of a footprint,

[00:32:56] the digital footprint, the less of that footprint you leave behind

[00:33:00] then the better off you're going to find yourself to be.

[00:33:04] Okay?

[00:33:05] So, you know, it's all about, you know, thinking smart.

[00:33:10] Now, preppers, right?

[00:33:16] If you have a family, right,

[00:33:19] you find that preppers tend to be very involved

[00:33:22] in the day-to-day activities and lives of their children

[00:33:26] and their spouses, right?

[00:33:28] They monitor their children, right?

[00:33:32] They monitor what's going on in their children's lives, right?

[00:33:35] And they tend to pass on lessons and skills, right?

[00:33:45] They're very concerned with the moral well-being of their children,

[00:33:50] of themselves, of the person that they're with, okay?

[00:33:58] You know, words that are not in the regular...

[00:34:10] in the regular world, okay?

[00:34:12] They're not there anymore, you know, words like loyalty and,

[00:34:17] you know, compassion and fairness and honor.

[00:34:29] There's a lot of people that think that all, you know, those words,

[00:34:33] you know, they're pretty antiquated, right?

[00:34:36] You know, the way of looking at things is pretty antiquated.

[00:34:39] You find that a lot of people in the preparedness community,

[00:34:44] those words are what they're...they try to live by those words.

[00:34:50] You know, where, you know, they try to be honorable people.

[00:34:55] They try to be kind.

[00:35:00] You know, they try to teach a lot of these moral lessons to their children.

[00:35:13] And I think that a lot of this is probably lost on people who are outside of the community.

[00:35:29] You know, but yeah, preppers tend to be very...

[00:35:33] If they have families, the families are usually involved in what's going on.

[00:35:40] And they tend to be, you know, a lot, you know, very tight-knit,

[00:35:45] parents who are preppers, right?

[00:35:48] We just can't help it.

[00:35:50] We're very involved with our children's lives, right?

[00:35:55] You know, with their schooling, what's going on in school,

[00:35:58] you know, we do care about what they're learning and how they're learning it

[00:36:03] and the quality of their education, right?

[00:36:07] And that's all important because we want to create good people,

[00:36:13] good, compassionate, kind people who are not only just looking out for themselves,

[00:36:20] but they're looking out for others.

[00:36:25] You know, they don't want to be a burden to anyone, right?

[00:36:32] They want to go out and carve their own future out, right?

[00:36:41] Preppers, I think the mindset of most preppers, you know, that's what it is, right?

[00:36:48] You'll find that these are people who are entrepreneurs or, you know,

[00:36:56] they'll be homesteaders or, you know, even if they have a regular nine to five,

[00:37:03] you'll find that they're pretty much independent-minded people

[00:37:06] who just kind of want to try and have a good life

[00:37:14] but they want it in the right way.

[00:37:16] They want it in the correct way.

[00:37:19] They'll work for it.

[00:37:23] They'll obey the laws.

[00:37:26] You know, they're moral people.

[00:37:29] They go to church, right?

[00:37:32] And that's what gets us right back to our topic

[00:37:38] where if you're finding that you're being stressed out

[00:37:45] or you're having anxiety about because, you know,

[00:37:49] maybe you don't think that you're doing something right

[00:37:52] or maybe you just need to just stop and look at your life in general.

[00:37:58] What's driving that anxiety?

[00:38:01] Okay?

[00:38:04] What's driving it?

[00:38:06] Because maybe there is a scenario that you're preparing for

[00:38:11] and maybe you're a little anxious about what you're thinking might happen.

[00:38:22] You know, if that's the case then there are lots of people that you can talk to.

[00:38:29] There's lots of people here in PBN that you can talk to.

[00:38:32] You'll find that actually talking something, talking all of this through,

[00:38:37] talking this through with other people, especially experienced peppers, right?

[00:38:44] A lot of times that alleviates a lot of stress

[00:38:48] because you have to kind of think of all of this as a journey.

[00:38:55] And, you know, where are you on that journey right now?

[00:39:02] Dave Jones has these levels, right?

[00:39:06] And you should check it out on PBN, right?

[00:39:10] These levels of preparedness.

[00:39:12] Where are you on that chart?

[00:39:18] One, two, three, four, I believe it goes all the way up to five, right?

[00:39:24] Where are you on that chart?

[00:39:27] If you're just starting out then I say, you know, take your time.

[00:39:33] All right?

[00:39:34] You know, it's not a sprint, right?

[00:39:38] It's supposed to be a gradual thing, okay?

[00:39:47] Think of it kind of like a really long walk to a specific destination, right?

[00:39:55] So if you've prepped your home and you're getting your supplies

[00:40:01] and you're getting your family on board

[00:40:04] and you're beginning this adventure, this journey

[00:40:10] and if you're finding that you're having a lot of anxiety or being stressed out

[00:40:15] then you need to just step back from it a little bit.

[00:40:22] Listen to PBN during the evenings when all the shows are on.

[00:40:29] You'll find that everybody is, you know, everyone's going on their own journey in their own way.

[00:40:37] There are certain things that people get stressed about from time to time

[00:40:42] whether it, you know, sometimes it's something that is going on politically

[00:40:47] or it might be something going on in their personal life

[00:40:51] and that's stressful for them.

[00:40:55] But that's why we have this community, right?

[00:40:58] That's why you can be part of this community

[00:41:01] or if you decide to create a community at home

[00:41:06] or if you have a family member, someone that you can just talk to

[00:41:11] and brainstorm and use as a sounding board

[00:41:15] then those are all great ways to alleviate that anxiety that sometimes comes up.

[00:41:25] It's supposed to be peace of mind when you're putting that food away

[00:41:29] or that water away or you're prepping your vehicle

[00:41:32] or you're acquiring those skills, you know, the skill sets that you never had before.

[00:41:41] Right? I mean, that's what it's supposed to be like.

[00:41:46] So I get it. If you're new and you're a little anxious about the whole thing

[00:41:51] that's probably most likely normal. That's normal.

[00:41:54] Okay? But, you know, take a breath. Take a step back.

[00:41:58] Okay? You know, look at what you've already done.

[00:42:02] Okay? And yes, there might be more to do

[00:42:06] but you take your time and you get yourself through it.

[00:42:13] Okay? I don't want anyone stressing themselves out.

[00:42:18] Right? It's not supposed to be, you know,

[00:42:23] anxiety driven. It's supposed to be well thought out.

[00:42:29] Okay? If you need to write your thoughts out, you know,

[00:42:33] create some kind of journal, okay? Then you do what you need to do.

[00:42:39] Okay? Now, you know, it's interesting to me

[00:42:47] because prepping and conservatism now, right,

[00:42:52] is counter-cultural, right?

[00:42:59] Prepping at its core is empowerment.

[00:43:04] You know, there's a lot of people who want to make it look like,

[00:43:07] okay, these people are some, like,

[00:43:09] paranoid scared people just running around

[00:43:11] but prepping is empowerment, is insurance.

[00:43:16] When your finances are, you know,

[00:43:20] when your finances are taken care of properly,

[00:43:24] it's one less thing.

[00:43:26] If your car is well maintained, it's one less thing.

[00:43:34] You know, when did we become pretty much a country

[00:43:43] where actually taking care of things properly became,

[00:43:50] you know, became the strange thing to do?

[00:43:54] It seems like we're there now, right?

[00:43:59] Where, you know, we've become,

[00:44:03] our culture is one where we kind of discard everything, right?

[00:44:08] So you buy a television, it doesn't work anymore.

[00:44:10] We discard it.

[00:44:11] It's easier to replace something than actually trying to

[00:44:16] either work on it or try to fix it or figure things out.

[00:44:21] And I don't think that that's been healthy for us

[00:44:26] because then it develops a mindset, right?

[00:44:30] People, there's a lot of people who don't really cook

[00:44:33] for themselves anymore.

[00:44:34] It's probably easier to order food than to cook for themselves.

[00:44:40] Right?

[00:44:41] So they don't really have any real contact with their food.

[00:44:45] Okay?

[00:44:48] Now if you're a prepper, right?

[00:44:51] Yeah, you're storing your food.

[00:44:53] You're knowing where your food is coming from.

[00:44:55] You begin to track down, you know, food sources

[00:45:01] and you get to know your local food sources.

[00:45:04] Right?

[00:45:08] That alleviates anxiety.

[00:45:11] You know, if you're the guy in town that has a garden,

[00:45:15] grows, you know how to grow your own food.

[00:45:20] You know who your local farmers are

[00:45:23] and you have a relationship with those farmers.

[00:45:28] That's one less thing that you have to think about

[00:45:33] when there's an emergency

[00:45:35] because you have your contacts already in play.

[00:45:39] So it's definitely a counter-cultural thing

[00:45:48] that we're doing here.

[00:45:50] And we're getting more and more people on board.

[00:45:57] You know, there's always the naysayers, right?

[00:45:59] There's always the naysayers that say,

[00:46:01] oh, you know, well these people are paranoid or whatever it is.

[00:46:05] But, you know, those are the people who were rushing into the stores

[00:46:09] and grabbing toilet paper here, you know, a year ago, right?

[00:46:13] When all the panic started over COVID.

[00:46:16] If you were listening to PBN when all of this broke last year

[00:46:22] as I was, right?

[00:46:24] These people were, they were concerned

[00:46:28] but they weren't panicking.

[00:46:31] It was like, okay, this is what we're going to do.

[00:46:35] It was very measured, right?

[00:46:38] And they were actually able to help other people.

[00:46:43] And that's the beauty of being prepared

[00:46:48] because you're able to act

[00:46:51] and because you have prepared for emergency situations, right?

[00:46:59] Then when something actually occurs

[00:47:02] then you are able to act and you're not panicked, right?

[00:47:08] You can act in a rational way.

[00:47:11] You're not out there putting yourself at risk.

[00:47:15] You know, this is the second time I'm referring to this, right?

[00:47:22] But I saw that movie and it was the day after.

[00:47:26] And in that movie, right, you know, it was all about a, you know,

[00:47:29] a nuclear exchange, right?

[00:47:31] And it was pretty bad.

[00:47:34] And one of the things, you know, when I saw

[00:47:37] there was this one scene where people were waiting

[00:47:40] what we would call kind of like a FEMA camp now, right?

[00:47:43] All these people were waiting

[00:47:45] and they were all waiting online to get food

[00:47:47] and they were all, you know,

[00:47:50] they looked half-starved and desperate

[00:47:53] and dirty and everything else.

[00:47:55] And I, you know, I looked at my wife and I say,

[00:47:58] that's the reason why we prepare

[00:48:04] so that we're not there.

[00:48:07] We're not on that line, right?

[00:48:12] A desperate, desperate family with nothing

[00:48:17] when everything is falling apart.

[00:48:19] We don't want to be there.

[00:48:26] So, yeah, it's definitely, you know,

[00:48:33] it's definitely a way to provide peace of mind

[00:48:37] for yourself, for your family.

[00:48:40] If anyone's listening to this right now, right?

[00:48:44] And if you're on the fence about it, right?

[00:48:49] If you're thinking, you know,

[00:48:53] am I being a little paranoid here

[00:48:57] to begin this prepping thing?

[00:49:01] Well, I would have to say to you,

[00:49:05] and I'm saying to you right now,

[00:49:07] the answer to that is no, it's sensible.

[00:49:09] It's smart.

[00:49:11] It's the intelligent thing to do.

[00:49:17] You buy the insurance for your home.

[00:49:20] You buy the insurance for your car, right?

[00:49:25] Prepping is insurance for your life, right?

[00:49:33] Now, Dave, if you're listening to this, right?

[00:49:36] I have a few show requests

[00:49:42] that I would really love for you to chat about

[00:49:50] if you could do a show on them.

[00:49:52] And one is greenhouse, right?

[00:49:56] Setting up your greenhouse,

[00:50:00] just the whole process of selecting,

[00:50:05] you know, setting it up

[00:50:08] and when to start growing food in the greenhouse

[00:50:14] and everything concerned.

[00:50:17] I know that you have,

[00:50:20] you were talking about setting up your greenhouse.

[00:50:23] I would so much love to hear

[00:50:26] if you could do a show on that.

[00:50:28] It'd be great.

[00:50:30] You know, I need help, right?

[00:50:34] I am thinking about it

[00:50:37] and it would be so cool to get Dave's take on that.

[00:50:44] So, Dave, yes, my show request, greenhouse,

[00:50:48] if it would be fantastic if you could help us in that.

[00:50:54] And I know that,

[00:50:56] and Dave was also thinking about a show

[00:50:59] and how he became, you know,

[00:51:06] what he did to become really financially sound.

[00:51:16] And I am also really interested in hearing,

[00:51:21] you know, how he did it.

[00:51:24] So yes, those are my requests

[00:51:27] to Dave Jones if he's listening

[00:51:30] and it would be wonderful to, you know,

[00:51:32] if he could do some show,

[00:51:34] give us some pointers on all of that, right?

[00:51:36] So Dave, hopefully I'm not giving you

[00:51:38] a lot of work to do.

[00:51:39] I know that you're busy,

[00:51:41] but it would be kind of cool

[00:51:43] to hear your take on that as well, right?

[00:51:46] So other areas that Preppers

[00:51:49] have to be serious about is their health, right?

[00:51:54] You know, your health is an important part

[00:51:59] of, you know, the preparedness lifestyle.

[00:52:05] And, you know, if a person is not in good health,

[00:52:09] you know, if you're prepping

[00:52:12] and you know that you have a chronic condition,

[00:52:14] then you know, preparing for that eases anxiety.

[00:52:18] Okay? You know, when the grid goes down

[00:52:21] and if you're diabetic or if you need a catheter

[00:52:24] or you have some specific health concern,

[00:52:29] okay, and if you've put things aside

[00:52:32] just in case there is an issue, right?

[00:52:38] Then, you know, I can't, you know,

[00:52:40] that's not adding to your anxiety, right?

[00:52:42] That's actually easing anxiety.

[00:52:46] If they're in decent health,

[00:52:50] then you can always get yourself in better shape.

[00:52:54] Okay? You can always get yourself in better physical health.

[00:52:59] Right? I know that James is really into that,

[00:53:06] as I said before, and I know that Dave,

[00:53:09] he chats about his winter routine of chopping wood, right?

[00:53:14] Which is interesting, right?

[00:53:17] I have my own personal routine of walking

[00:53:20] and running depending on the day, okay?

[00:53:24] You know, there's a little bit of weight training thrown in

[00:53:27] as well there, right?

[00:53:29] Because you try to keep yourself, you know,

[00:53:34] in as good a condition as you possibly can

[00:53:38] without, you know, making yourself sick, right?

[00:53:42] You know, you try not to overdo anything.

[00:53:45] Okay? And that in itself too helps to ease anxiety.

[00:53:49] It helps to ease stress, you know.

[00:53:51] We are living in stressful times.

[00:53:55] Okay? You know, I'm hoping that,

[00:53:59] listening to this, you know, like,

[00:54:01] well, you know, I'm not acknowledging that,

[00:54:03] but yeah, I am saying I'm acknowledging that,

[00:54:06] you know, these are stressful times.

[00:54:09] Okay? I mean, regardless of what's going on

[00:54:15] in Washington, right?

[00:54:17] Because the politicians are always crazy, right?

[00:54:21] And they're a bunch of snakes and, you know,

[00:54:24] they're doing crazy things in the world of politics right now.

[00:54:29] And the media is the same, right?

[00:54:31] They're all doing crazy things and saying crazy things

[00:54:35] and they're driving the anxiety levels up

[00:54:39] amongst people right now.

[00:54:42] Okay? You know, a lot of these

[00:54:46] sectors, right, are not helping to ease

[00:54:53] people's burdens a lot of times.

[00:54:55] They're actually adding to, you know,

[00:54:58] the stress in people's lives.

[00:55:03] But there are other avenues, you know.

[00:55:06] Prepping is one way that you can,

[00:55:08] okay, you can start to have a little bit

[00:55:11] of that control, right?

[00:55:14] There are certain things beyond your control.

[00:55:18] Okay? You know, if we get into it with one of these

[00:55:22] big countries like China or Russia or North Korea

[00:55:26] or one of these really, you know, big countries

[00:55:30] that can hurt us economically or hurt us militarily,

[00:55:36] there's nothing that I can do about that, right?

[00:55:39] Or most regular people.

[00:55:42] But if something bad comes down the pipe,

[00:55:45] then, you know, maybe we have a little bit of insurance

[00:55:49] that can get us through those hard times, those bad times.

[00:55:53] If the economy tanks, okay?

[00:55:56] And if you've taken care of your bills

[00:55:58] and you've put aside, you know, savings

[00:56:03] and if you've converted some of your dollars

[00:56:07] into real physical things like land

[00:56:11] or silver, gold or, you know, something tangible, right?

[00:56:16] That you can trade or barter.

[00:56:19] If the currency is no good, okay?

[00:56:23] Then that's something, right?

[00:56:26] As I said, there, you know, when the pandemic came,

[00:56:29] that was not in our control.

[00:56:31] There's nothing we, you know,

[00:56:33] there's nothing we could have done about it.

[00:56:35] But at least we were in a position

[00:56:41] to write it out because we had plans in place.

[00:56:48] We had specific, you know, we had some plans in place.

[00:56:55] We had, you know, we had some, we had our food put by,

[00:56:59] you know, most of us had our PPE ready to go

[00:57:05] for just such a thing, right?

[00:57:09] So you have to think of, you know, this whole lifestyle.

[00:57:20] Okay? This whole lifestyle is about easing stress,

[00:57:25] not creating it.

[00:57:26] So for all the listeners out there right now,

[00:57:30] that, you know, I really want to drive this point home

[00:57:33] that if you are working yourself

[00:57:36] or getting yourself into a position of,

[00:57:40] you know, if you're finding yourself stressed out,

[00:57:43] then you have to try and identify

[00:57:45] why you're, you know, what's the cause of the anxiety

[00:57:50] and try to mitigate that cause somehow.

[00:57:56] Okay?

[00:57:58] I did an earlier show about, you know,

[00:58:01] disconnecting and reconnecting and renewing myself.

[00:58:05] And just as a little update, right,

[00:58:08] where that is concerned, okay?

[00:58:10] I have really restarted my physical fitness program.

[00:58:16] I have really, I'm going to take this Easter,

[00:58:23] you know, Lent seriously.

[00:58:25] You know, I'm thinking of, you know,

[00:58:30] doing some fasting and reconnecting and praying

[00:58:35] and reconnecting to God that way, right?

[00:58:37] So spiritually I'm trying to, you know,

[00:58:42] renew that part of my life as well.

[00:58:47] That was my little update there, right?

[00:58:50] So if you find yourself, you know,

[00:58:54] in a state of serious anxiety, okay?

[00:59:00] Then reach out.

[00:59:03] Reach out to someone, okay?

[00:59:06] You know, this lifestyle that we're talking about tonight

[00:59:11] is supposed to be a lifestyle of alleviating anxiety.

[00:59:16] And once, if you find that that anxiety level is increasing,

[00:59:21] then maybe something's off, okay?

[00:59:27] Because you have to be available

[00:59:33] to the important people in your life.

[00:59:36] And if you're too stressed out to react,

[00:59:38] if you're too stressed out to help them,

[00:59:41] then you're no good to anyone, okay?

[00:59:47] So try to find a way to make sure,

[00:59:54] you know, you have to make sure that you're destressing.

[00:59:57] You have to make sure that that anxiety level is coming down.

[01:00:01] And if that means less media, right?

[01:00:05] Less television.

[01:00:07] You know, if it means eating better.

[01:00:12] If it means, you know,

[01:00:16] if it means spending more time with family and loved ones, okay?

[01:00:22] If it means leaving work at work

[01:00:25] because some people that's very difficult to do,

[01:00:28] they bring all that stuff home.

[01:00:30] If it means really learning how to leave work at work

[01:00:34] and when you're home, you're home, then figure it out.

[01:00:39] If you know that you need to start prepping

[01:00:49] and you haven't, then begin.

[01:00:52] Make that step, all right?

[01:01:00] This is supposed to be about easing your anxiety.

[01:01:08] It's supposed to be about creating peace of mind, okay?

[01:01:17] So you need to begin that journey.

[01:01:20] I am not where I completely want to be on the journey, okay?

[01:01:29] I find that I don't have that anxiety, right?

[01:01:35] Because I know that eventually I will get where I kind of want to go.

[01:01:40] You know, in terms of my prepping and being more self-sufficient

[01:01:45] and everything else.

[01:01:48] And I approach it as it's more of an interesting quest for me.

[01:02:04] So it doesn't create anxiety in my life.

[01:02:07] It actually brings me pleasure.

[01:02:11] You know, in the spring here, right?

[01:02:15] I'm going to be starting up my gardens.

[01:02:17] I did gardening last year.

[01:02:19] Now I have a different plan in terms of the way I'm going to be gardening.

[01:02:25] I have a few friends who are going to be gardening, right?

[01:02:31] I'm sure that there's going to be a lot of gardening stuff going on at PVN

[01:02:36] and I will be completely into that as well.

[01:02:43] So, you know, I think if you do have that anxiety

[01:02:49] then maybe a change of perspective

[01:03:01] will help you to see that it's more of a journey

[01:03:07] and it's supposed to be one of a fun...

[01:03:12] It's supposed to be a journey that you can share with other people

[01:03:16] and the added benefit of the lifestyle is the insurance it gives you.

[01:03:28] Okay?

[01:03:30] So, if you're new, I say welcome.

[01:03:35] Welcome to prepping.

[01:03:37] If you're an old hand at it, then hopefully you found some encouragement

[01:03:44] just from listening to this podcast, right?

[01:03:49] If you were kind of thinking of chucking this whole prepping thing

[01:03:56] then hopefully maybe just listening to this has convinced you to keep going.

[01:04:06] As I said, sometimes you have to take a step back to take a step forward.

[01:04:11] Right?

[01:04:15] And it's a quest.

[01:04:16] It's a journey for all of us.

[01:04:18] And I think that anyone who's been doing this a long time,

[01:04:26] I think that, you know, for the most part it's being very...

[01:04:30] It's a satisfying way of life.

[01:04:32] It's a satisfying lifestyle choice.

[01:04:37] It's nice knowing that you can go out to your chicken coops and get your eggs.

[01:04:43] It's very satisfying.

[01:04:47] You know, I have quails and I go out to their coop and I have eggs.

[01:04:55] I looked at my garden last year and it was nice seeing my family eat the broccoli

[01:05:03] and the tomatoes and all that really healthy food that came from my garden,

[01:05:10] from our garden last year.

[01:05:13] So, yes, I think that we all from time to time do have...

[01:05:29] You know, we have our moments of anxiety and there's a lot going on right now in our country

[01:05:34] that creates a lot of anxiety out there.

[01:05:38] But it really is.

[01:05:41] It really is supposed to give you peace of mind, not to take it away.

[01:05:48] Okay?

[01:05:50] Concentrate on the things, the parts of this lifestyle that provide that to you.

[01:05:56] Versus concentrating on the other aspects that don't.

[01:06:10] So, that was a lot of things to think about, right?

[01:06:14] You know, we try to provide a lot of support here at PBN

[01:06:23] and I'm hoping that if you're listening to this, you found it useful.

[01:06:32] And feel free to please pass on these podcasts.

[01:06:40] You know, you can go to our archive and if there's something there that you know

[01:06:47] that will help someone else, please pass it on.

[01:06:52] Okay?

[01:06:53] And send them over to our website.

[01:06:57] Send them over to PBN, right?

[01:07:00] www.preparebrocasting.com

[01:07:02] Okay?

[01:07:04] You know, there's a lot of good people here willing to help.

[01:07:08] Okay?

[01:07:09] Willing to help.

[01:07:10] So, that's it for episode 8 of The Strange Truth.

[01:07:17] I'm Karby.

[01:07:18] It was a pleasure to speak with you

[01:07:24] and prepping is supposed to be peace of mind

[01:07:29] and I'm hoping that if you are in the lifestyle and if you're doing it,

[01:07:34] then you are on your journey to that goal, right?

[01:07:42] Where you can finally say, as you get to a point where you can say,

[01:07:47] you know what, I'm feeling pretty good about the whole thing right now.

[01:07:50] And that's where we want, you know, I'm hoping everyone will get to

[01:07:53] in their own way, in their own time.

[01:07:56] Okay?

[01:07:57] So, once again, thanks for listening.

[01:08:01] Thanks for supporting PBN.

[01:08:05] And till next time.