The United States of Methuselah

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[00:00:33] Better late than never, PBN family, what's going on? Monday, no, what the hell day is that? Tuesday Tuesday We've got a very, there was a bunch of prep that I had to do before this show, just out of sheer fun Well, one was out of sheer fun, one was out of sheer obligation, okay? Fire, we'll forge in the chat, what is up?

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[00:01:24] Well, it's a back to basics kind of product for our Inside the Cash today So take that into consideration Also, another great company that supports us And let's get to it Let's get to it The United States, this was all brought to me, this whole beginning portion of the show was brought to me by Chin The... Good morning, Jay Ferg The comms, absolute comms wizard of our group here at PBN

[00:01:54] Chin, if you go back and you look at our prepper tips We've been a little slack on our prepper tips I haven't put any in, I gotta get on the hosts Some of the hosts haven't given me a prepper tip yet, you guys owe me Give me some prepper tips Because the prepper tip of the day is fun, I like that He gave us a prepper tip on comms not long ago, a great one He's doing all kinds of cool stuff I'm gonna get him on the show Oh, don't worry about it, Firewolf Forge

[00:02:22] I haven't even posted half of your videos yet You're good to go, man You've certainly earned your keep Jay Ferg, like I said, you've been on the grind You gave me one also Whatever, side note Chin did a great one on comms Chin is the guy who got us all on the T-Echos All into the Mesh-tastic He brought that to the forefront here at PBN He's done all kinds of fun stuff I'm gonna have him on for a full-scale interview Just about his whole comms journey

[00:02:51] Because he was really big into radios And GMRS, ham, that kind of stuff And then he hit the T-Echos He hit the Lily-gos, the Mesh-tastic And the nodes And really started building on that And to me, that is the emergency comms solution that works For me You don't gotta learn frequencies You gotta know how to text You gotta put some stuff on your phone

[00:03:20] That is pretty easy The first time I tried it, I got it right And, you know, then Then you gotta start to figure out your node network And how you're gonna make it work for you It's the way Unless you're a person that's like I really like ham radio frequencies How radios work I wanna meet with a bunch of people Who are in love with ham radio And if you're into it like that Then that's your thing Do it Oh, I got my I got my

[00:03:51] Gotham Get Out hat on My Gotham Get Out hat I bought this at the thrift shop This was the hat that followed me through the night When we did our bug out exercise last year Which was like Might have been today Today might actually be The anniversary of Gotham Get Out I should run it today If I find some free time I really need to just clamp it all together I think there's something like 20 short episodes And run the whole thing Because it was such a cool exercise But anyway

[00:04:21] Aside from being sort of the comms wizard for PBN Chin's Up is also He was the co-host of the Changing Earth podcast When that was on But he's also kind of a guy Who brings us great news stuff in the back channel Great information Great radio stuff as you can imagine And he hit me with something that sort of Guided the show this morning Because it was so insane So ridiculous So funny So And as fate would have it

[00:04:50] I was working on Graphics and media And sort of newsy kind of stuff To put into the show for fun And what we're going to do right now Is we're going to talk about The United States of Methuselah And the unbelievable findings of Doge In Social Security I just left my parents' house So it's also, you know Really timely to talk about this crazy story The story is so insane

[00:05:19] Some of you may have heard of it Some of you maybe not But Chin literally sent me This post All of us this post In the back channel So I decided That we would call it Chin's Up News Chin's Up News on PBN today Doge finds people Older than America In the Social Security database So there are people In this database That are literally Older than the United States You can see them Down at the bottom there Over 2,000 people Marked alive

[00:05:47] In the Social Security database Are over 200 years old They're in the data There's some people down there Look at the bottom 360, 369 There's a person In that database That is marked alive 369 years old What do you call I mean I guess If it's one You can call it a fat finger Right So I didn't count That one too much What I did really count Was The one that was

[00:06:17] Or the collection Of thousands of people That were Over 200 years old Like how You never review The information Whatever What I don't want to do With this segment Is go down The government sucks Because we all know that But that information Thank you Chin And that information Was so wild That I just had to bring it To the forefront Of the show Because there's so much Of this stuff That is being unveiled You know And to me You always hear me Talk about seniors In Social Security

[00:06:46] Because I think It is one of the Craziest things And the more That we uncover From what Doge Is doing The more The crazier It gets That there are Impoverished Senior Americans That have worked Their whole life You know what I mean They've worked Their whole life And It's just wild To me It's real It's crazy And you know There's people out there Struggling They're struggling To survive

[00:07:15] They've paid Into the system Their whole life They said Everything's gonna be fine That's why we're Taking your money Every week We take your money Every week Your whole life 40 years 50 years 60 years Working Whatever you've done We're gonna take A little bit About that money But don't worry We're gonna give you Back money And you're gonna Be doing You're gonna Have free medicines You're gonna be Able to go to The doctor For free None of that Shit is happening You know None of it's Happening The reality of it Is And I hear it From my parents The reality of it Is

[00:07:45] There's this What there is That really makes Me wanna just Like burn Large swathes Of Washington D.C. Down Is Not actually But What's really Going on Is this Constant micromanagement Of money For the seniors My parents Are always Talking about It goes up It goes down It goes up They take money Out for this And then they Pay it back And then they To go And there's Like We're sending Literal Billions

[00:08:14] Across the Ocean To whoever Whoever Whatever Just grab it Do whatever You want With it We'll pretend Like it's Aid Or whatever That somebody's Gonna live better How much money Have we sent To Africa Right What has the Money done Who's micromanaging The money Over there In Africa So we send These big Chunks of money And then I hear from My parents All the time Oh we're getting A cut Oh we're getting An increase Oh we're getting This we're getting That oh Jim They're giving us This they're Taking that They're doing

[00:08:44] That so there's Some little Idiot Right That's like Well today We have to You know what I'm saying We manage Nothing In the government Effectively having To do with Finance Except the Little The little Penance That we're Giving to our Seniors And it is Absolutely Maddening It's absolutely Maddening So I hope That someone Listening Or I hope That someone Who's paying Attention In the Government Can see

[00:09:14] How much Money we're Giving away And then What our Seniors are Having to go Through to get Prescriptions To get You know what I mean All this stuff That never Forget The US Government Told them Hey I know it Sucks We're taking Social security Every week Out of your Check I know you Could use That money But once You get Older The government Is here to Help Right Terrible Absolutely I mean it's It's one of The If you don't Deal with it On a day to Day basis The whole Social security

[00:09:44] Nightmare That people Have to depend On to live You know Like It's crazy And that With the sheer Amount of money Going out the door You know the other Thing about social Security That always Makes me Insane Is the Proof of Identity I love that That's one of Those things That makes me Want to just Explode Like internal Sporadic What's it called Internal Sporadic Combustion What's it called Spontaneous Combustion I want to Spontaneously

[00:10:14] Combust When I hear My mother Tell me Like Well we've Got We're gonna Apply for This program And it's Gonna cut The cost Of medicine And then But what I Have to do Is I have To bring a Vial of my Blood I have to Bring your Dad I have to Bring a lock Of your Grandmother's Hair I have to Bring your Grandfather's War medals I have to Six forms Of identification Right And then Like At the church Down the road There's a line Of people

[00:10:43] From Guatemala Who are just Rolling in Getting checks Getting hotel Rooms Getting phones And I gotta Sit there And look At the Look at The event Horizon Of this Black hole That is The United States And try To figure Out Reality I'm done Rant Over Thank you For dealing With me On that One I appreciate It Did you Guys See We had A very Out of the Ordinary Show

[00:11:12] Last night That turned Out Well It turned Out as Good as I thought It would Turn out Which is Good Because it Was It was An uncommon Guest It was An uncommon Topic If you Found that Stuff Interesting What we Were talking About That Particular Journey Of Slowing Down Seeing The World For What it Is Really Enjoying The Ride Take All that Into Consideration There's a lot Of people Who talk About that Stuff But I Will say That Giovanna Was

[00:11:42] Right on The Money When you Saw me Smiling And laughing When she Was talking About specific Things That It was Almost like A one For one That's Exactly How it Goes It Sounds Crazy On the Face Of it But I'm Telling you It's Exactly How it Goes It is Like Coming Out Of a Chrysalis Firewell Forge Says Don't Burn The Capital Down Burn It Down In Minecraft You know I Think My son Would Have A great Time Doing That With Me That Sounds Like Something We Could

[00:12:12] Do Today He's Off Today He's Off Today The Teachers Need Another Day Off I'm Not Quite Sure What They Do On These Days Off But They Take To Get To To Long Right Let's Get Into It A Long Forgotten

[00:12:42] Self Defense This Is The Fox Labs The Fox You Guys Know What This Is Right Everybody Knows What This Is Fox Labs Five Point Keychain Pepper Spray Police Grade I Five Point Three Million Scovels Or Something Like That What I mean Let Me Get The Detail Actually I'll Bring The Whole Let's Bring The Whole Thing Up For You Guys But This Comes From This

[00:13:11] Home Security Super Store Which Is They've Been Real Good To Us Man The Home Security Super Store Has Taken Good Care Of The Prepper Broadcasting Network And What I'd Really Like To Do Is To Have You Head Over There And Check Out The Wears Man Because They Have A lot Of Very Affordable Stuff This Is 5.3 Million Scoville Heat Units Police Strength World's Hottest Pepper Spray I Don't Know If I'm Going To Test It But You're More Than Welcome To Test It If You Do Test It Please Make A

[00:13:41] Video Because I'd Love To Watch It Like I said It's Got The Quick Release Key Ring It's Got The Clip On The To It To Your To It It's What It Is What It Is You Know What I Mean It's Just One Of These Simple Easy To Use Self Defense Tools Highly Underrated Right They Got The Burn A Launch Out There They Got All That Kind Of Stuff Out There Nowadays And This

[00:14:21] For Everybody And The Other Thing About Pepper Spray Dudes Pepper Spray Right Pepper Spray For Dudes Uh Firewall Forge Says Watch Your Expiration Dates That's A Good One These Guys Are Good Till 2028 I Just Got Them Like A Couple Months Ago I Don't Know If The Camera Is Going To Get That Or Not I'm Not Sure Oh My God It's Scared It Doesn't Want

[00:14:51] Camera Is Got AI In It Like It Does Whatever It Wants We Should Name The Camera What Do You Guys Want To Name The Camera Think About That Yeah That Would Be Fun Our Camera Is An AI Bot I Will Show It To You One Day I'll Take A Picture Of It It Looks A Little Bit Like That Guy Short From Short Circuit It Looks Like It Could Be A Relative Of Short Circuit Yeah It's It's As Cool As It Is Creepy Like Most Things With AI Right It's As Cool As It Is Creepy

[00:15:24] But Guys Men Gentlemen I Know You Think You're An Absolute Warrior Who's Going To Battle Johnny Five That's It Fire Will Forge Thank You I Love That When I Was A Little Kid I Love That What Is This Following Is This Following Me Or Is It The Thing Anyway I Know You Guys Think That You're Like The Ultimate Warrior Dudes And You're Going To Like No Matter What Happens You're Going To Handle It Right Two Guys One Big

[00:15:54] Guy Whatever I'm Going To Handle It I'm Going To Go Blind Rage And Nobody's Going To Be Able To Stop Me Right Or I'm Going To Pull My Gun And Shoot Somebody In Self Defense All Of That Stuff You Know All Of That Stuff Is A Problem I Mean If You Have To Spraying Their Eyes With

[00:16:24] 5.3 Million Scoville Units Right Of Heated Pepper Spray Why Not Why Not Carry One You Know What I Mean Why Not This One Is This Simple I Mean A Lot Of Them Set Up Like This Simple Like You click over, and it's live. Click it back over, and the safety is essentially on. I thought about spraying myself in the face by accident live.

[00:16:51] Remember, everything that happens on these shows when you watch the video is live. So if I spray myself, it would have been so good. Anyway, Home Security Superstore, the link is down below. The unit itself is $20. $20. They have other ones too, man. Let's look at the pepper spray in general. My point being, though, fundamentally, my point being,

[00:17:18] pepper sprays are these things that I think some people are like, the girls carry the pepper spray to protect themselves from rapists or muggers or stuff like that. Get out of that headspace and start thinking about carrying pepper spray. Why not? I'll tell you a great place to put the pepper spray if you don't want to carry it on your person is in your vehicle. And if you're ever in a situation where someone is road raging or whatever,

[00:17:45] they come up to your car, the pepper spray is the best solution. I used to carry a bear spray in my car, and then I gave it to my wife to carry in her car back when we were arguing over whose lives matter more. I gave her the bear spray. I saw people jumping and climbing on cars, and I'm like, well, she's armed. And if it got to that, she could handle that.

[00:18:09] But at the same time, do I want my wife in court, going to jail, dealing with the repercussions? And in those days, it was like, you know, you shoot somebody. You might be condemned and judged by social media before you even make it to jury. So I said, put the bear spray in here, honey. Here's how you use it. Somebody comes clinging onto the car or doing something crazy. You light them up. And that's it.

[00:18:39] Back to life, baby. Back to real life. Put googly eyes on the camera. That's a great idea. I like that Firewall Forge. Johnny Five gets some googly eyes. We'll call him Johnny Five for now, because that's pretty damn good. I will get some googly eyes. Actually, I got some giant googly eyes right up there. Man, it's good to have kids. I mean, if you're a child at heart but responsible enough to be an adult, you need to have some kids.

[00:19:06] So like I said, a lot of options over here, the Home Security Superstore. If you use my link down below, look, shop the Home Security Superstore however you want to do it. But if you use my link down below, I get conversions that way. And they get to say like, oh, James doing a real good job. PBN doing a real good job for us. And that's important. So they got Mace brand. They got these really cool pepper spray guns. They're sweet. I don't know how well they work, but they're pretty sweet. Dog repellent animal spray. Yeah, cool stuff.

[00:19:37] Just one of many. I mean, look at the drop downs, tasers, batons. I've got this thing. This thing is so fun. This is just one of those things that's just super fun. I think it's called the Barbarian. I got it hanging right next to the... I'll show it to you one day in detail. Why are you breaking on me? Streetwise Mini. Actually, I have two of these. I have the... These things are kind of cool. Here's the Barbarian 19-inch stun gun baton.

[00:20:06] But I also have this in my car. I think it's this guy. Yeah, it's this guy. The Tiger USA Extreme. No, I have something like this. Mine isn't stun compatible. But I have something like this in the car. Extendable. Yeah, it's a good... It's a good... It's a good little item to have. You know what I mean? What else, folks? What else? Let me look at the old docket here and make sure I'm not forgetting anything.

[00:20:40] Next Monday. Stay tuned. Next Monday. We're going to have an awesome show. It'll be another one-off. I don't know if I'm going to call these shows Preppers Live. When the people are not Preppers, I'll probably just title it as the people's name. But we're going to have Richard Anderson on next week, next Monday night. And we're going to talk about Surviving on Mars. It's going to be awesome. Okay? This guy is a...

[00:21:05] He's an author of a non-fiction book and a fiction book all sort of geared towards sort of the Muskian mentality of, you know, humans being a space-faring species. And I really want to talk to him, you know, where those ideas intersect for me is I really want to talk to him about, like, oh, the people live. I like that. Jay Ferg, I like that. The people live. That's pretty good. We may go with that. Yeah, that's a good one.

[00:21:36] But we're going to talk to him about how he thinks because he's, you know, well-educated on the subject but also really big into it. And I'd like to talk to him about Mars survival skills, like survival on Mars, what he thinks it'll look like and chat it up about that stuff. And about space-faring species, the whole concept because, you know, it's cool. It's cool. It's the future. While it seems like one of those things that'll never happen, it's going to happen. You know what I mean? We're going to go to Mars. It's going to happen.

[00:22:05] People are going to live there. It's probably going to be horrific. But eventually it'll get better. And it just is what it is. I mean, so long as we don't kill ourselves, you know, with nuclear weapons and stuff, we're going to be on other planets. Mars is not the one to really live on, I don't think. But it'll be the one we play on for sure. So maybe we'll talk Mars survival, moon survival. We've got a great sponsor. We've got a – well, you'll see. We've got a cool sponsor for that particular episode.

[00:22:36] I think that's it, guys. I'm not going to beat the drum too much. We did our – oh, here's another cool thing that I haven't showed you guys off yet. But I have been playing with it. I got it all figured out. This guy right here detects Wi-Fi. It detects wireless cameras. Very cool from the home security superstore. And it works. It works. I'm going to run a test with this camera, actually, because Johnny 5 operates on Wi-Fi. He's wireless, completely wireless.

[00:23:06] He operates on Wi-Fi. So I can show you guys how you can detect a hidden camera using that detector. So if you're – whatever. Airbnb, the whole thing. Vacation, that kind of stuff. You can run through that room. If you travel, you can run through that room and see if your room is bugged, if you've got a camera in there, particularly the ladies in the bathroom, you know the psychopaths out there nowadays. But, hey, this PBN thing is a whole hell of a lot of fun. I appreciate you.

[00:23:36] I really do appreciate you guys. Also, don't forget to check out Pack Fresh USA. We're still running our Pack Fresh USA giveaway. There's a link to the giveaway down below. Take advantage of this time. You know, take advantage of this time where it doesn't feel like it's too, too crazy in the world. Though it is kind of crazy in the world. But a lot of cool stuff going on. America really flexing its muscles, man. Now is the time to build up and backfill that food storage. Pack Fresh USA. They got freezer bags.

[00:24:05] You can get your freeze-dried food in their Mylar bags, your long-term food storage in their Mylar bags, your frozen meats in their freezer bag. If you want to do – we did a – I have to put that. That might be an SHTF chef. If that's not an SHTF chef, I've got to move it. But I did a member video about two months ago breaking down a whole big old sirloin, right? A whole big old sirloin broken down into steaks and how you do it, how you butcher it up.

[00:24:35] You've got the freeze-dried bags, man. You're in business. Firewolf Forge says Pack Fresh USA for snacks for the Mars trip. Dude. You might be on to something. All right. I'll talk to you soon, PBN family. Thanks, everybody, in the live chat. You guys are awesome. Garden Girl, thanks for showing up as well. Jay Ferg, the whole nine yards. Man, yeah. It's going to be a beautiful day. Big snow tomorrow. Sledding, the whole thing. It's a good life, folks. You know, don't forget to enjoy the ride.

[00:25:05] For real. I'll talk to you soon.