The Value of Everything is Changing

You're listening to you were pay us back just to be PBN family. What is up? The Relentless Prepper Broadcasting Network is live. I'm James Walton, the Intrepid Commander. Blessed to be with you today, to be caffeinated on this day, this most beautiful Tuesday. Man, it is going to be eighty some degrees here in Richmond, Virginia. And despite the fact that the mother of Mayhem, Abigail Spenberg, decided to disarm us all, it's gonna be a wonderful day. I'm gonna enjoy it. I'm gonna enjoy it. We got a big show for you today. That main topic is the value of everything is changing. This is a This is inherently a preparedness topic and self sufficiency topic, and that's what we do here at PBN. But it's touching everything, man, It's touching everything in our life and it's really wild to watch in real time. I owe you a show on breaking free of the algorithm so you can see the world better, so you can use the Internet as a mode to see the world better. It's really something that has changed my perspective a lot in the last year. Gave me a better idea of kind of like this thing that's happening before our very eyes, right, the value of everything is changing, and it's get into it, okay. But before we get into it, we cover a tremendous amount of topics. Here at PBN. We do some hands on stuff on a regular basis. Every month we drop a routine, a fitness, health, preparedness, Bible based routine for you members out there. Go check Element, Go check the Prepper Broadcasting Network website, pbnfamily dot com, because our most recent post is early access to that routine for April, and it's awesome. It's awesome. It's gonna be an amazing month. Give me thirty days, you know what I mean. That's all I ask with these routines. Just give me thirty days. Do the workouts, do the Bible readings, do the preparedness tasks. And I can't give you anything more in the world today. I cannot give you something more valuable than that routine that is actionable for thirty days straight, you know, I mean the things that it'll do for you, your family and so on. I don't know the way I look at the world, guys, that the value that I see in prepping, the value that I see in craftsmanship, in forgotten skills, in understanding the edible and medicinal world beyond the window panes. That you couldn't sell this stuff ten, twelve, fifteen years ago. You could barely sell this stuff. I don't mean sell it for money, I mean sell the idea to the average American. Right, so much has changed that it's almost insane to not be prepping. It's almost insane not to be striving for some level of self reliance and independence in the age that we're living in. Right, Funny thing happened. We got unfettered as access to the government, the politicians, the celebrities through social media, and we found out that the vast majority of them are full of shit. Funny story. Who who would have thought? And you know why I think that is I don't want to take the blame off of anybody, right, because you don't have to be a liar, you don't have to be fake. But life is tough, you know what I mean? Life is tough, and you got a bullshit sometimes to make money. I think, and I think when you get the more money you want to make, the more bullshit you gotta do. Right, You think about it. Who are the realist people? You know what I mean? Who are the realist people? I grew up in a poor neighborhood, and one of the best things about the poor neighborhood was how real the people were. There was a time when you when when you would value the fake sort of lingo and behavior sort of the upper middle class or even the upper class like this sort of fake elegance. We're better, right, there's a time when you would value that. Now this day and age where almost everybody knows that someone they once trusted has pulled the wool of I'm not even talking about like in personal relationship, but at large. Right, you look at back at all the president, Which president wasn't a liar? Which president wasn't a cheat? Which president wasn't you know? You know, you look at your representatives locally, you look at you know what I mean, people maybe that you looked up to all that kind of stuff, and you just inheritently, inherently see that the value is changing. Just let me talk to the guy at the bar. At least he knows what's going on, you know what I mean. I'll just I'd rather talk to the guy at the bar because he's he's being real with me. Right. So as we get into the show, we're going to talk more about the value of everything that's changing, and I want you to think about it in your own life, because it's you could be putting your money towards things that make no sense. You could be putting your time, your effort towards these things that make no sense inherently have no value, but for a long time, right, look at religion. Right anyway, before we get any further, go to pbnfamily dot com. That is our membership website. We have a ton of prepping documents, videos, members only podcasts, all available at pbnfamily dot com. If you value preparedness, homesteading, physical fitness and health, right, if you value those things, then you should be a part of our membership. Right, you should be a part of our membership. Look over everything that we have and consider joining. There's a lot of value there. There's a lot of fact. The value of everything is changing PBON Family. But think about religion ten years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, right, five years ago, depending on the circles you're in, maybe still it was a It was a big Hollywood move to make movies that had long exaggerated speeches about the uselessness of a God. Right, George carl Carlton, what's his name, Carlson Carson, George Carson. Who's the guy? I always forget his name? It's funny liberal comedians, slick back, gray hair. He was always on God, always attacking God. There was always great speeches about you know, God has forgot you, God has left you. You know, all these kinds of things like the nietzschee of it all came to fruition in Hollywood. Right, God is dead. It was this big thing, and you saw it. You saw it in the pews, You saw it in the church participation, in religion at large, and sort of the death of religion. You saw that the value was not there, whether you believed it or not. Right and now and now, I think it's because of the lack of truth. There are so many people turning back to God. And you find yourself watching that change in value. Right, you see people recognizing, Oh, the book that I mocked my whole life has a lot of great information in it. That Bible that I mocked all my whole life has some really great words of wisdom in it. And you know what, you know what else it might be hiding in there as I get to the latter years of my life, perhaps my salvation, perhaps my salvation at large. So I don't know. It's a crazy time. It's a time where sheer, adaptability and willpower is vital to stay like on this rocking ship that we're on. You know, we handle the preparedness side of it. Our great Prepper Library giveaway has ended, and it ended in such incredible fashion. It really it ended with a miracle. It really did. It ended with an absolute miracle. There's no other way I can look at it. The final day of the giveaway, now, I we were giving away ten books, okay, Prepper Library, ten books, ten incredible books. The whole goal was to spread the word about a few great titles. I'll show them to you real quick, just so you know. We had the Flood Prevention Handbook by Ryan Lee Price, all right, great book to have on your prepper shelves. And then really one of my favorite books of all time, Prepper Zonmee Defense. Like you gotta have Prepper Zone Defense. Okay, it's an amazing book. This is a new edition. As you can see, it's got drone considerations, offensive defense of that kind of stuff. Great books, you know what I mean, the books that I used to talk to niche audience about and say, like, just in case the whole world comes to an end, you might want to have some defense. Now it's like you see these mobs of teens running through high schools, running through malls, running through you know, downtown areas. How long does that go? How long does that last? Until there are mobs of teams realize like, I wonder what we could take and hold. I wonder we could command and conquer with this many people. I wonder what kind of profit we could make with this size of a group. I wonder what it would look like for the police if we all showed up, but instead of showing up with backpacks, we showed up with glocks. That's what I see every time I see a flash mob, you know what I mean, every time I see a flash mob of black teenagers. I know you're not allowed to say that, right, that's like suicide to mention the skin color. You see these these flash mobs. The only thing I could think to myself is like one day they're going to realize they have numbers and they're gonna bring firearms, and you know, you do that in a small enough town. What's the police force gonna do? Not to mention they're teenagers, kids, you know what I mean? They should be treated like adults. They should be tried like adults in a situation like that. If you're breaking and entering and you know, stealing and beating people unconscious, probably uh, probably need to nip that in the butt. And I you know, around the country, there are a few sheriffs, notably, uh, the one in Miami. My dad told me about one in Miami. My dad is like my undercover reporter. He's I don't know where he finds this stuff, but he told me about one in Miami. That's kind of laying the groundwork for a you know, law and order once again. Maybe we could try that, could try law and order. But Jim Man, the value of that, what's the value of true speak? What's the value of true speak that comes from someone who's unafraid of the ransom that everyone holds above your head? Right? You saw that ransom that everybody holds above your head finally come to light in twenty twenty. Right, forever there's been a ransom you're at work, there's a ransom. You sit in a desk, you have meetings with people who don't know you, you don't know them. There's a bit of a ransom, right, And that ransom is there are things you can say here, and there's things you can't say here. Okay, there's opinions you can have here, and there's opinions you can have, and that's fine for work environment. But it was kind of at twenty twenty we came to realize like, oh, there's a lot of value here these people. And then, as let's say you were working in like nine out of ten establishments that were corporate, you were dealing with a liberal bias. Now you had that hanging over your head as well. Right, it's not like you walk into your job and say, you know something that was even remotely political or right leaning without it being an issue, without one of your coworkers being upset going to AR whatever or HR. That's a pretty good Freudian slip right there. Your coworker gets mad instead of going to HR, he goes to AR. That's the way. That's not bad. That's pretty funny without intending to be funny. All of a sudden people started to see the value, you know, like ten years ago, was it ten twenty twenty? No, not ten? Six years ago when we started our membership. And this is at Pbnfamily dot com. You can listen to all these podcasts. They're for members only, but you can become a member. It's very affordable and highly valuable. It's called the Cubical escape Plan Podcast, and the tagline for the Cubical escape Plan Podcast back then, you gotta understand this is like I don't know, I think it was pre COVID. I think it was twenty nineteen or maybe even yeah, it was probably twenty nineteen. Entrepreneurship is a survival imperative. That's that was my tagline for that series, which is all about getting out of the cubicle, starting your own business, so on and so forth. Right, and yeah, entrepreneurship is a survival imperative. And that wasn't because COVID lockdowns. That wasn't because what else happened in this country. But it was literally just the political influence flooding in to jobs. And for people who are right wing, religious conservative, they had the blade of damocles hanging over their head. I know it. I lived it. I lived it. I lived it, worked at a great place, non nonprofit, and it was great, it was wonderful. But it was changing. It had changed in five years, and it was only going in one direction, and it was getting more and more liberal and more and more center right aphobic, you know what I mean. And I don't know. I don't know if i'd have made it there. I didn't know this was coming, but I don't know if i'd have made it there for the long term. And I would have been a much a bitter person, much more bitter person if I lost that job over my political beliefs or my overall sort of attitude and you know, cultural moras right like, it would have been a real tough time for me during like the George Floyd situation. That would have been a real rough time at that job because it were just complete and total budding of ideologies. And undoubtedly I didn't leave the job because I saw the writing on the wall, though it was maybe a little part of it. Maybe I was radicalizing for sure, radicalizing in the sense that I wanted to be free, radicalizing in the sense that I saw the value of everything changing in twenty sixteen, I saw it you know what I mean. I think twenty sixteen about Yeah, that's when I left. And in twenty sixteen I saw the writing on the wall, I saw the value changing, and I went for that man, and I went for the for a number of reasons, you know what I mean, for not the least of which, in one of the biggest reasons was my kids. It was, let's pretty simple, let's hang with these kids while we got them, you know what I mean. I see a lot of these posts nowadays too. They make me sad and they make me happy at the same time. I see a lot of people posting things like, you know, you get X amount of summers with them, you get X amount of days with them, you get excel. I said, actually one year, yesterday got me. One I saw yesterday really got me, and it said, could you imagine spending a full day with your child as a toddler? You know what I mean, like one full day? What would you do for one full day with your child as a toddler? Now there's something weird that happens though if you get too focused on that, right is you getting to this point where you're like, or at least I do, right where my kids are still here and I'm over here daydreaming about like hanging out with them when they were five, which is kind of weird. It's probably not super healthy, but you know, I think man should know every day things are dying, right, every day, moments and opportunities and things are dying. It's not to get depressed. It's a MOMENTUMMORI like for the day to day, and it helps you to enjoy the day despite the nonsense of the day. Listen to my from yesterday. Man, yesterday I was in a place that I'm almost never in, right, this sort of opposite of this situation. But you build back, you know, you get yourself back on your feet, back into your well. Actually, what saved me was the book right. What really brought me back was the Ultimate Survival Toolkit by James Walton, which showed up in my mailbox yesterday and it was so sweet to see. Now, for the podcast listening audience, I'm not going to go over this thing over and over and over again, but suffice it to say we worked really hard myself in a publishing company to create the Ultimate Survival Toolkit, which is, I don't know, it's a great little resource you know what I mean. I wanted to make sure that when we put something out, we put something out that had a lot of value. I think that that, for the price, has tremendous value. Now that book is not for sale yet, I don't even know if people are supposed to see it yet or not. I have no clue, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to show it to you because it's awesome. And whoever won the giveaway, I haven't checked yet. Whoever won the giveaway, You're getting a copy. You're gonna get a copy before it's probably even on sale, and it's going to be signed by me. And have fun with it, man, have fun with it. It's yeah, it's I haven't even really given it it's due yet. You know that's another thing that's changing in value in my life and should be changing in value in yours too. We value, or we at least act as though we value our failures more than our successes, right because we mole over our failures constantly for days, months, years, decades. We sit there and we moll over our our failures. You know what I mean? And there's some you know that hyper critical aspect of people exists in successful people always, you know what I mean, It's very rare you run into a hyper successful person and they're like, everything I do is great, you know what I mean. Most of the time you're a horrendous task master on yourself. But there is a lot of value and you definitely should take the time to really go over your successes. Celebrate a little bit, you know what I mean, Celebrate a little bit, be happy, be joyful. I found in the latter parts of life, like people, they don't care as much. You know, I'm lucky because I've got you guys, you know what I mean, I've got an audience here that is tremendous, and you guys email me and congratulate me. And then I got the host and the host of this friend group that is tremendous, and it's like it's a different kind of cheerleader squad than the average guy has, or average maybe even the average girl, you know, the average person. So make sure, you know what I mean, make sure, especially if you're into certain things, right, like if you're into writing books like me, you write books, you publish books, you show your family like, hey, do look at my new book? Right your fourteen year old sons, like, what's I don't The last thing I want to see is a book, Dad, It's the last thing I want to see. Okay, I barely made it out of English alife, and I remember you know what I mean, I absolutely remember so. But just another you know, poetry, Bible poetry, maybe even some literature in your life. I don't know for me, these things people haven't completely caught on. But I'm telling you right now, guys, there is going to be a renaissance, particularly in America, particularly around poetry and around literature. It's coming. It's coming. It is, it's coming. You know why, because we have to combat the apathy in our world. Right, we have to combat the apathy in our world. What do I mean For those of you who are saying, what are you talking about? Like, you can't get hit with the amount of stuff that you get hit with without becoming apathetic, whether you realize it or not. You can't. You can't wake up and go. They're eating kids, they're raping lands, they're blowing up other countries. They're taxing me more, they're taking my guns. They're they're telling me I'm shit. They're you could get hit with that in about as quickly as I told you all of it. You can get hit with that in the morning, and the human mind can't handle it, right, You can't handle all that. There's no way you can handle all that. What we you used to do as a human being is you would get like two of those things dropped into your head and you would be like, Okay, well, let's get the spears. Let's get to gather the guys up, sharpen up the spears. We got to go take care of this, because this shit can't happen this way, and you'd either die in battle or you would, you know, survive and the kingdom would go on. But like, you can't handle it. So what happens is you become apathetic. It's happening to every you may not know it, but it's almost everybody. It's happened because you it's a survival mechanism. At this point, we're gonna wake up every day and then parse out every little bit of news and terrible shit that's going on in the world. Okay, well I get this handled and move this. Switch my meeting around so I can think about what's happening in Iran and send an email to this representative and tell them I'm not very happy with what you're doing with the gun rights, you know what I mean. So you developed it and I think everybody is right. And that's not even that's not even talking about like the sheer volume of violence on TV, not violent movies, but literal violence like this is this is graphic. Be careful, you know what I mean. Like that'll be on the regular news you see people getting punched in the head until they're unconscious, and getting punched in the head while they are unconscious and their heads stomped and kicked. Right, And if you think you're gonna like subject yourself to that, that's gonna move through you. That's gonna filter through you, right, and you're just gonna be like, I'm good, honey, pack the kids up or going to Denny's, let's go. You know what I mean. What's happening is switches are going off, lights are going off inside you. We're gonna turn that off. Oh I'm scared, turn that off. Oh I'm really angry now i'd like I want to get violent to stop the violence. Oh, turn that off. You're allowed to have that, right, And all those lights are going off in us, all the time, every day, and we're developing in it like a serious apathy towards almost everything. You have to there's no way you could not, right, there's no way you could not. The guys who don't develop the apathy, they wind up doing the stuff that makes the news. You watch them, this guy doing he found a guy outside the White House. He had sixteen ar fifteen's and acts in a grenade. Right, these are the guys who can't switch it off. But it's also not good to switch it off. Right. Maybe there was a value in apathy for the average you know, sort of caveman esque guy coming up in the twentieth century because he was thinking, like I would really like to smash this guy's head with a rock, but he's my wife's boss, and you know we're in modern times, so I better not do that. There was a need for that, right, You had to tone it down a little bit. Now you're getting hit with so much stuff that you have this for stapathy placed on you. It's like you have to do it, got to turn it off. Right. You get a kid comes home and she's like, you know, dad, Today we learned about the colonizing evil white man and you know, I wish I was a black girl instead of a white girl. You know what I mean. They're telling me that even though I'm a girl, I probably should be a boy. That's what my art teacher says. You gotta, you know, in order to survive. So every action equal opposite reaction. I think. I think we have to fight the apathy, not in a way that we become violent, insane, but in a way that we breathe life back into our life, in a way that we breathe the emotional reactions and you know, real life, feeling life again. The reason I think that the value of things like literature and poetry will go up and will change and will become much more valuable in the very near future, it's because when when I wrote Poems for Men, I told you that what men needed I thought, because the reason I wrote that book is because I thought that men needed a reminder that everything they're suffering has been happening forever. Do you know what I mean? Like the struggles with manhood, with fatherhood, with women, with life in general. You can look back damn near a thousand years and read writings, read poems written by people that will remind you and I think we all need this reminder that, like many of the struggles that you're facing right now, the ones that matter, not like how do I manage my X feed? You manage it by leaving it alone for a week? Right, how do I like the struggles with women, the struggle you know, this whole thing. It's just these are these are challenges that we've faced and been facing for a long time and not to That's not the only reason I think the value of something like poetry is going to change in the very near future. It's also because it is stands completely in uh. It stands against the apathy of the day, right, It stands completely against the apathy of the day. And it reminds you of the things that you should be paying attention to. Right. It reminds you that the world outside your windows is beautiful and has been beautiful and will be beautiful. And it is one of the things that you can really depend on in the face of everything going to shit. You know, Like I thought when I was out fishing with my dad as a young man, Like I thought, I like fishing because I like catching fish, you know what I mean. But the truth is, you like fishing because you like adventure and discovery and exploration, and that's what these things are all about. Right, you go down to the fishing hole, Ooh, what could be under the rock? What could be hiding under the tree? And then you say, oh, look look at the eagle, Look at the osprey, Look at what's happening here. Oh, there's a muskrat over on the shore. Right, and you're just all of the beauty that exists in the world, han existed there forever and we've always enjoyed and indulged in. It comes back to the forefront and you realize, like, ooh, maybe concretized life and life through the idiot box is not all that's out there, and those technologies weren't even remotely as addictive as the you know, the current iteration, So tangent over on that one. Sorry, guys, there's just a lot going on in my head right now. You gotta understand. We can get to some we can get to some prepper related stuff. You want to see something really awesome, You want to see something really awesome, let me let me zoom. I don't want to zoom my camera out because I really love our new relentless logo, but I do want to show you this. I will link to this in the audio podcast show notes. Okay, for you video viewers, I'm sorry. I didn't do it. I'm not gonna do it. We don't get enough views on these video things we do. Actually that's not fair. But I want to show you this. Okay, this is called the I don't know what it's called, right, This was a product that I bought because it's exactly what I wanted, you understand. In other words, there was no influencer that told me, hey, you should look up this company. It's D two steal. This just fit the bill exa for what I wanted. I don't know how to describe that, And I think there's value in that. Also, I think there's a changing value set in that there are so many producers of products in the world now that the idea that like, I'm a maxpedition guy, you know what I mean, but American made baby I Maxpedition stuff. I mean, I don't care if you like that. I care less if you have brand loyalty and that kind of stuff. I hope you have some brand loyalty to Prepper Broadcasting Network. But the truth is, like, as you discover what you really like about a thing and figure out what it is you want, right, Like, it's pretty damn easy to find exactly what you want. Now, I didn't have a fixed blade knife that was small enough to carry and deploy the way that this thing deployed deployees. Right. This is not a kershaw, This is not a spider co. This is it's a nothing. It's a nothing from Amazon. But what I'm getting at is the value of what I wanted superseded the value of me going to a brand and saying, well, what do you have that I might like? Kind of right there. Some of them are called like claw knives. These things you can look at claw knife and find some designs. Like I said, if you like the blade for me, is exactly what I wanted, right, The ring grip is exactly the size, the small size, right, it was just perfect. You know what else is perfect about it? It costs twenty dollars. The value of everything is changing. Right, this costs twenty dollars. Do you understand what that means? There's knife guys in the audience going, I understand what that means. You're gonna cut a box open with it, and it's gonna be shit after that. You may be right, Uh, but look, all those things add up in my mind is like this is something I want, This is something I'm gonna get. I'm just saying everything I talk about largely is about broadening your horizon. Really, it really is. It's about broadening your horizon. It's about understanding that like you see my little screen for those of you who aren't watching, Like I'm on a screen and there's a background, and then I'm within a rectangle. In the background, right, there are incredible forces that want to take your rectangle and turn it into this circle. Right. They want to just crunch you down, man, and crunch you down, and crunch you down. That's all the ads, that's all the everything that you see every day, you know what I mean. They want to crunch your vision down so that you can focus on their products, their ideology there whatever. You know what I mean? And uh yeah, I just can't tell you the value of really seeking out like what you want, what you want out of your life, what you want out of your knife, what you want out of your wife, what you want out of your strife, what you want you know what I mean? What you want? Like, what do I want you. We live in a time where you can give anything you want. There was never a time where you could be like, I want a knife like this, but I don't want it in that color, and I want it in this shape, and I want you would go to like Benchmade and be like, what do they got? Okay, let's see what buck has? You know what I mean. Now there's a million people making not you know what I mean, or everywhere, you can get whatever you want. Even like, even if I didn't want like the Tonto on this thing, I could probably reach out to this producer Andy, and this is like not even really a Tonto. It's kind of more, even more extreme, which is what I really like. You could reach out and be like, hey, can you make this for me? How much you're gonna charge you? The product cost twenty bucks, will cost twenty four and then they gave me a discount. I don't even know why. So you can get what you want. If you struggle with searching finding you know I don't, I can help. I can help you with that. If you really struggle at finding what you want in life, I can help you with that. Because there are there are things that get in the way there's the ignorance to the product you're looking for and the dimensions and the type and that kind of stuff. There are sponsored products that get in the way. There's an algorithm that gets in the way. So there are a lot of things that get in your way of getting what you want, which brings me to another, you know, another piece of the puzzle, which is the value of the internet. The value of the Internet is changing if you don't know how to operate it, if you don't know how to get around the sort of rigors, it's changing. Man. I tell my kids that I don't like to tell them because they're invested, but I tell them, like, the Internet, man, I don't think it's that long in the tooth, you know. I'm very nervous about the prospect of a completely bot filled Internet landscape. And then on top of that, like, not only is the interaction no longer human, but the content itself is likely to no longer be human or overwhelmingly artificially intelligent. One thing that people aren't considering about artificial intelligence is like, if it gets smarter than you are, you gonna want to interact with it. Like the large language model that is a little dumber than you, but better than you at researching is perfect, right, it's fun. It's like, you know, appease me, do what I ask, you know, understand me pretty well. How many super smart people do you hang out with on a regular basis? Like do you know anybody who's like exponentially smarter than you? And you're like, I can't wait to talk to them. I can't wait to read what they've written. I can't wait to watch their content. Imagine Elon Musk puts out a YouTube channel and puts videos out every day, Like would that be something you'd be interested in? Not update videos? Like not? Like this is what we're doing on SpaceX. So there's no guarantee that. The one thing guaranteed is that artificial intelligence is going to take over the Internet. It's over. It's it's just a numbers game. Now, it's just math. It's like, how many pieces of content are they producing every single day that are artificially intelligent lee produced? Right? And then what happens when you automate? Many people have automated, and then what happens when AI decides, well maybe I'll automate, maybe we should automate in this area. These things are gonna happen, right, so the value of the Internet starts to fall off, right, you could combat that that the value that changes on the Internet scale is what private internet, private servers, private everything. You're carving out your version of the Internet, or you're building your own version of the Internet for your community. This is like almost inevitable for you, for you watching me, and you who have been with me for a long time in the hosts, you PBN loyal right, the PBN family, Like, it's almost inevitable that in the next five years there'll be a PBN Internet that you'll get access to as a member. Right now, you'll probably have to be a member to get access to it, if I'm honest, Because if you're going to go through the trouble of building your own Internet, which I will if I can afford it and sustain it and maintain it. But I think it'd be well worth it, right, build your own server, build your own Internet, YadA, YadA, YadA. And you want cool people there, right, Like the reason PBN is as great as it is because it's fundamentally all cool people, you know what I mean. I don't know, I don't know how that worked out, but it's great. I love it. But all of this, all of this to say PBN family, like, the value of things is changing and you need to be very aware of it. You need to be very aware of it. You know, you look at food. I mean, food is one that is wild. It's really wild watching the value of food change. You know, Like when I was growing up, it was it was I don't know, niche, if you will to have a garden, you know what I mean, It's like, oh, you got a garden. Oh that's cool, man, if you have any extra tomatoes, you know what I mean. It was like one of these weird things. Was like if you had a garden in your backyard, you were like, oh, you're like a you got like a green thumb. So you got like a green thumb. You know. It wasn't something everybody did because of the age of information that we live in, right, because the wool has been, you know, removed from everyone's eyes all of a sudden, everybody knows like, oh, produce got pesticides all over it. Shit, Right, the soil is depleted of nutrients. Ah, so the vegetables aren't as healthy, Right, I might as well grow my own. And what's the value of that, and then you watch the prices rise. See that's the other thing. The price is going up creates an environment where all this stuff that maybe five years ago or something you were like, I don't know if there's real value in this, a tremendous value in it. Right. You always always would joke like you keep chicken like meat, raise meat birds, or raise even you raise eggs like in all honesty, back in the day, you raising chicken eggs like we do, you would be you know, you would get a bag of feed bedding, maybe a bag of cracked corn like feel corn cracked you were in for like twenty five bucks maybe thirty bucks right monthly. And then you're sitting there thinking to yourself, you know, and that's if everything goes right with the chickens, you don't, you know, And you're sitting there thinking to yourself, like, I've got a chicken egg bill that's thirty bucks a month right now. I eat probably four dozen eggs a month at the most. Right back then, I wasn't even eating that many. But they're two bucks a dozen, you know what I mean? There are two bag of that you get a dozen eggs like two bucks or a dollar something cheap, cheap, and you were ignorant, so you didn't know any better. You're like, well, white egg's pretty, they're white, they look clean. Well, I don't know, you're ignorant to it. So it was really a weird thing. It was a week. The value was all messed up. If you did it, buy the numbers. If you're like, I can get a dozen eggs for a dollar fifty, that puts me if I buy a dozen eggs every week at the market, that puts me at six dollars cost of eggs on the month. Or I can get six chickens for thirty dollars right a month and get a lot more eggs. But how many eggs do you needed? How many eggs are you gonna eat? And I'm in five times more money cost overhead than I was. Then you start to learn about chickens, You start to learn about eggs, start to learn about you know, all vegetarian fed birds, and you're like, that sounds great. Vegetarianism is on the rise, wonderful, And you realize then you learn like, oh, chickens eat everything. They rip the heads off of living creatures and eat them alive. You know what I mean, they just brutal little creatures. They omnivorous. And then you have one of those eggs that you raise, you look at it and you're like, oh, okay, this is a different thing. The value changes. The value changes why because all of a sudden, it's not about how much money can I save at the supermarket. It's what can I do for my body for the duration of my life to power this thing? Right? What can I do to power this thing effectively and take care of it. Turns out I feel my money, my bank account full of money from eating cheap eggs or eating cheap everything. Then I die and none of that money matters. I mean, you might get all warm and fuzzy thinking about leaving money to your family and stuff like that, but the truth of the matter is you won't know. You wouldn't know if the day after you died the bank caught on fire and all your money burnt away, which is impossible nowadays. But you know, you have no clue. You're dead, You're not there. Keep your eyes on the value of things, PBN family. Keep your eyes on the value of things. Give yourself a value audit. Give the things that you spend your money on a value audit, even if it's here, even if it's PBN, Even if you're looking at PBN and going like, I got the five dollars a month membership, and has value changed? Has what James and his crew are doing become more valuable or less value? Right? And the same? You know, in all fairness to us, the same is to be said about the value of the membership and the content available over there and the meetups and the routines and all the great things that we do over there. Like, has the value changed to the point where you say, I mean, I've had people send me literally send me emails about this. I've listened for free for years, and now I'm going to become a member. I feel like I should become a member. I don't know, it's your call, you know what I mean, it's your call one, But yeah, give yourself a value audit, you know what I mean? Where is the real value today? Because it's not the same as it was in the nineties, It's not even really the same as it was in the two thousands. What's valuable today is changed radically in family, in food, in business, in work life. I mean, just a lot has changed in value, and you want to make sure you're optimizing your time and your money going after the things that you want to be going after, because before long, all this stuff will be gray, right, this will all be gray hair beard everything, and it'll be off into the sunset. Folks, you know, time gets us all, make no mistake about it. I'm out of here. PBM family, Thank you so much for everything, truly, for everything. I mean, you've made all this possible. You made all this possible for me, You've made all this possible for the audience, the hosts, those of you who watch, those that you support us, share the podcast, all that kind of stuff. You just you make it all possible. And visit our great sponsor for today, inert mugs dot com. 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