THROWBACK THURSDAY: I AM Liberty: The Questions

The Pepper Broadcasting Network. We happen to hit the reset money to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear? Or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, because for me, give me liberty, Ah, give me death. Whether tis nobler in the mind that suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against the sea of troubles, and by opposing end them to die? To sleep no more? And by a sleep to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that the flesh is heir to. 'tis a consummation to valley to be wished, to die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream. Ah, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come? When we have shuffled off this mortal coil? Must give us pause. There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life, For who would bear the whips and scorns of time? The oppressor is wrong the proud man's contumely, the pangs of despise, love, the laws delay, the insolence of office, and the spurns of the patient merit of unworthiest takes when he himself might his quietest make with a bark bodkin who had fardles, bear to grun and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who's born no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of. I mean, welcome to the eye am, Liberty, Show, PV and Family. I ya. When when you have such access to greatness, Right, it's easy to get bored of greatness. My body is dimpled right now, and I've read this passage so many times. To be or not to be? That is the question for those of you who don't recognize it. Right, it is the great William Shakespeare. And it's unbelievable. We're talking fifteen hundreds right now, right, Just think about it. The more things change, the more they stay the same, everything and nothing right. The calamity of so long life. The you know, one of the most important things about Shakespeare to me. We're not doing a show about Shakespeare, but one of the most one of the most important things about Shakespeare to me is he is a reminder of what we are. He is a reminder of how things have not changed in so very long. Right, the oppressors wrong, the proud bands contumely, the pangs of despised love, the laws delay, the insolence of office. It's wild to grunt and sweat under a rearly, weary life. This is so timeless man, to grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from who's born no travel returns, puzzles the will. In other words, life can be such a grind and such a monster, But for the vast majority of us, with our heads on straight, we'd rather endure it for the fear of what may come after. You know, in that idea I think is not because of hell. Right, I don't think that idea is because of hell. In other words, I don't think suicide is born out of a fear of hell, you know, or lack of right the decision not to commit suicide. Right, life can be hell lacious, and I don't think it comes out of that. So yeah, I'm late. Yeah, I'm four and a half hours late tonight. Sorry, it was a busy week. What do you want me to do? I'd work to catch up on got all caught up, fell asleep, hung out with my wife a little bit, and uh, and I said, you know, let's get up and do a show, shall we, Because I've had a I've had a show in the in the chamber for two weeks now. I just didn't get to it. But I wanted to open the show up with in Great Why because there's so much trouble in the world. There's so much trouble in the world, and everybody knows it's coming to an end. Now it's all over, we're all gonna die. I thought i'd read some Shakespeare to you so you can remember what the human is capable of. Just remember what the human is capable, that's all you know. Because for some reason, and I think it's our it's probably our propensity to forever and forever and forever improve. We have this weird thing built into us as humans where we just forget about the greatness of humanity. We just forget, you know, we forget about stuff we forget. I remember when I got into prepping, everybody was worried about peak oil, peak oil, peak oil, peak pee pee pee pe pe peak peak peak, peak oil, peak oil. Peak Oil's coming. It's coming for everyone, and before you know it, the oil will be out and the goods won't be able to get across the ocean. Didn't take peak oil. But anyway, and you know what, some maniac did, some genius. He said, you know what, let's let's stick a big ass drill in the ground and squirt some sand in between this shale, and then it'll release natural gas. It'll release natural gas, and we'll collect that natural gas. Man. Listen, Nobody, not George or Well, nobody saw fracking coming. Nobody saw a natural gas coming. Nobody saw it, you know, and you gotta remember that about the human The human animal is something man. I'm telling you right now, if there is no other creature in this universe that'll throw you a curveball like that where you think the end is nigh, because that's the story of all humanity, right, The story of all humanity is like my day to day struggle is a nightmare, and I'm not happy with this and that, and I'm working myself to the bone and life is a grind and it's tough, and uh, you know, the kids don't listen. I beat them and they don't listen. And you know, all of the above, and still over top of my head is this existential threat of apocalypse. I mean, do you know how old the existential threat of apocalypse is? The oldest stories in the world are about apocalypse. The oldest stories in the world are about monsters that are going to end the world, Rains that are going to end the world, going the end of the world. It's been a long week, guys. Apparently on the Daily Audio Cash today, I said, my chickens are stacked. Now I don't know if I said it. My wood is fed and my chickens are stacked, but my chickens are kind of stacked, to be honest, they're huge. They might be jacked more than stacked. Well, no, they are actually kind of stacked. If we want to really talk about the word the way, it's kind of met, you know, in the common parlance, they are hens. Right, So what do we want to do tonight? On the IEM Liberty Show, there's a couple of things Okay, there's a couple of high lights. What I want to do. I kind of just want to talk, but we're gonna do other The Preppers Guide, Oh that's it. I've got a Liberty Review for you. I've got a Preppers in the News for you. I'm not gonna be on here for two hours tonight. It's just not gonna be one of those things. I got member videos to May. It's been like four days I think Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Today will be the fifth day that I haven't posted anything from our wonderful members. So that's got to change. So I'll probably batch some content for members after this. Right, If you're considering membership, I would highly recommend it. We don't take five days off, four day whatever it is that doesn't normally happen usually the weekends. We don't do any membership content. But you know, Bushcrafting for Preppers, Hammer Talk, Prepper Fit in Health, YadA YadA YadA, videos about prepping and preparedness, discounts, the Cubical escape Plan podcast, other one off prepper podcasts. Actually, I'm due to throw up. That's what I'm gonna throw up to night. PBN Family. You wonderful members. I'm gonna put up as soon as I get done here, the next installment in our bug Out series. That's what we'll do. We're bringing the bug Out series back from Patreon, putting that up for the members, just so you know what the Bugout series is. For those of you who are sitting around thinking maybe we should bug out? What do you think, honey? Should we bug out? We should we bug out? To the woods? It took me seven episodes of at least an hour each to scratch well, not to scratch the surface, because we did more than that, but seven episodes to really talk through the bug out start to finish, you know, episode number one being can you bug out? Like, let's start right from the top. Can you even do it? Is it something that you because not everybody can do it. I don't mean that from a physical standpoint. I mean and I well I do and I don't. Right, that's one thing to consider. So it's a big deal to bug out. You know. I hear people say it, willy nilly, right, bug out? We got a bug out? Have you really thought this thing through? And I'm not saying this, but from the standpoint of like you're gonna go to the woods and you're gonna freeze to death in the winter. I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about really following this whole process through and we've been working on that on the membership side. So look, come join us, man. It's highly affordable. We got fourteen hosts. I know I say it all the time, but you gotta say some things all the time or nobody, nobody listens. We got fourteen hosts. We'll take care of you. We had a member that joined us last week or a week before. I don't even know how this happened. I wish I could say I did this, But we got a member who joined like a week ago, two weeks at the most. She comes to me, and I'm assuming it's a she. I don't know. Actually the member comes to me and says, I've got a question about a certain thing. Right, And in a matter of literal literally days, one of the hosts stepped up and did a whole show on stuff. You know what I mean, That's what it is here. You're not dependent on me. God help you if you were dependent on me. Only you're not dependent on me when you bring a problem to us, when you bring an issue to us. When you become a member, right a supporter of the Prepper Broadcasting Network, I will unleash everything on you. Just understand that I will unleash upon you. While I have your attention, tool Man Tim is coming on Monday. I know you probably don't know who tool Man Tim is. Well maybe you do actually, because sorry, let me take my ferg Off, Jay ferg If you're out there listening, I had the ferg on today was a little chilly, one of my favorite articles. So uh, Pappy Pappy Canola of PBN Fame back in the Day Live Chat back in the Day Fame sent me a link to this guy, tool Man Tim, and he was talking about different tools to have for the apocalypse. I don't remember exactly what the video was, but he's a tool guy. He's a fixed guy, he's a home repair guy. And I said to him, Hey, man, you should come on Preppers Live and talk to us about building toolkits. Okay, building toolkits to help us in a collapse, you know, like what would I need to put together to be able to patch the roof up? These kinds of things. So tool Man Tim will be on Monday night. Join US Preppers Live. I know it's Wednesday evening and it seems like it's forever away, but put it on your calendar because this is gonna be a good one. This is gonna be an angle that nobody's taken, I think on our network yet because home repair listen again with the bug out people get wrapped up in this idea. I need a cat, I need a tiny house, I need another shelter, I need a shelter out in the woods somewhere. But the reality is you're living in one of the most advanced survival shelters in the world, and you've invested more money in this survival shelter than you have invested in probably anything else in your life, so invests in keeping it up. We're gonna talk questions today, really tough pain in the ask questions. Okay. Last week I did a show a really tough not really tough, but just straight to the point preps. Okay, I wanted that to be shared around. This is not gonna be such a politically correct and nice and James and nice. Welcome to the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Him his her. But by the way, speaking of pronouns, the guy who played po in Star Wars was in a show that came out on HBO with Jessica Chastain and it was called Portraits Pictures from Within a Marriage, Portraits within a Marriage, something along those lines. And listen, I love these shows. Intimate, intimate conversations, problems, issues, happiness within a marriage. I love these. That movie with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver was so good. It was so good. It was about they're getting divorced and all the shit that goes along with that, and it was such a good movie, man, And I thought this was gonna be that that number two and I was so excited, and I was like, all right, sit down and watch this. Turn it on. Intro was cool, right, it was like behind the scenes Jessica Chess day and getting ready to go on and boom the camera pans out. She's talking to some lady. I'm assuming it is like a marriage counselor so, okay, it's gonna start out rockiness in the relationship. Nope, duh. Right they open up and the lady on the couch you know about my work, right, yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, and your name is and he gives them her name and your pronouns him, he or some shit. I don't know how to do it right. And then the woman looks at her and she doesn't know what to say, she doesn't know the pronouns. She gives her name, she doesn't and he does the pronouns for her her and she, I don't know whatever she does that thing. I turned the show off immediately. I turned the show off instantly. I couldn't. I couldn't go any further. I felt, I don't know. It made me feel strange to do it because I listen. I am an intake for a lot of different types of content. Okay, I listened to a lot of people, a wide range of people. You know. I don't just go put the AM radio on at eight and leave it on until you know what I mean. I take in a lot of different stuff. So I just got one of the greatest Uh, I just got one of the greatest knocks of my whole entire career living on the fault in the live chat. Thank you for joining us tonight. He just told me I sound like Mark Levin. I don't know if that means I'm stuffy? Is my nose like pinched? What do you mean? I sound I sound like Mark Levin. Mark Levin might have the worst voice in radio. I think, well, no, Ben Shapiro has the worst voice in talk radio, but Mark, I don't know. That's a pretty good toss up. I don't know who's worse for talk radio. Not. Look, they're both brilliant, they're both geniuses, I get it. But they're in a business that is literally all about their voice, and they both sound like this. They both talk just like this. I'll tell you what. We're gonna save this republic. This is what we have to do. I'm sorry. I don't mean to make fun of them. They're probably great guys. I mean, they are great guys from what I know about them. I guess I don't know. I don't know him very well. I don't know them at all. The hell am I talking about? Don't know him very well? So it is what it is. I hope you meant the context of what I was saying living on the fault, and not exactly the sound of my voice, because if I sound like Mark Levin, then I'm not doing you guys any good. But anyhow, moving on, So really excited about that show, but I couldn't get past the pronouns set up. You know, maybe it's great. I don't know, but I can't fall into it. I can't get invested when there's those types of pitfalls around. Do you understand, I'm busy man to invest in two hours and I think this was a show. So now we're talking about investing, like, I don't know, five to ten hours maybe of my life into that. If I'm gonna sit down and invest like that, I've got I've gotta be all in. And in the first few minutes of that show, I was already like, I don't know if I what else are they gonna throw at me? I'm gonna get invested in these characters, and then they're gonna throw another curveball at me. That's gonna break me. So I said, forget it. We'll move on. We'll move on. Is what it is. Nothing can be perfect. So so listen, listen, listen, you wake up. This is this is one question. These questions are straight to the point and are designed to affect you emotionally and most importantly, to make you think and take action. You wake up and silhouetted in your doorway stands a man. Okay, big guy, what's the next step, groggy eyed, pitch dark in the room, spouse in bed next to you. You wake up, there's the silhouette of a big man standing in the doorway of your bedroom. What is the next step? What are you going to do? Next? Is your next step? Get by him, Get down the hallway, get to the gun safe, open the gun safe, get the gun out. You see where we have problems already. Right, Maybe this never happens, This likely never happens. A lot of these are this likely never happens. But these are the types of questions I want to throw into your head tonight so that you can say to yourself. You can well, you don't even have to say to yourself. You can wrap yourself into that scenario and say, am I prepared for that? Because unless there's a firearm in your room, or unless you're capable of doing battle with a big man silhouetted in your doorway in the middle of the night, when you have no idea what he's carrying or bringing to the table, this is a question that you need to answer yourself and likely something you need to clear up. You wake up middle of the night. The first thing you see is the sparse light filtering in from the hallway and there's a silhouette of a man standing in your doorway. You didn't hear a window break, You didn't hear any of that. You slept through it all, and then you woke up to find the man converging on your bedroom. What's the next step? I'm not giving you the answers. That's not what this show is about. This is about put yourself in that posit. Go lay down in your bed. Go lay in your bed, look at the hallway, think about the space between you and the door, and say to yourself, am I fantasizing about being ready for something like that? Or can I handle something like that? Okay, this is what I want to do tonight. This is this is another step on the prepping ladder. All right, this is not prepping one oh one like we did last week. If you're new and you listen to the IEM Liberty Show last week for the first time, there's a good chance you'll be offended or upset about things that I've already said or may say later on. Sorry, it is what it is. You don't have to stick around for me, but I highly would recommend, I would highly recommend you stick around for the other hosts. There's fourteen of us. I'm sure there's at least one you'll be able to deal with. Welcome in. You open your last bucket of food storage? Question two, last one. I don't care how many you have. I don't care if you have a billion. I don't care if well, I do care if you have a billion, because you're probably not gonna run out before you die. Also, how you storm them? Pm me let me know how you storing them in the EOC. But no families gathered around in the kitchen. Mm. Things have been rough? I mean things have been rough, right, everybody's looking rough. Life is a nightmare at this point in pretty much every way it can be. And you are looking at your children, or your wife, or your grandchildren or whomever is surrounded by you, and you pop that last thing. Okay, you pop that last lid on your food storage. What happens? What's the game plan next? Is there anything working? You have anything in the works? Is there anything going on? Do you have any plan for that moment? On? Because this is a big deal now, right, this is a big deal. Now. Now you find yourself in a situation where something has to be done, it's a big one. I knew this was going to be an issue. Oh no, Hatter is kidding. I gotta read this on the air. I don't know if this is from you, Hatter, but this is great. This is great. This actually speaks to in our EOC in the open, just for the fun of it, tab chat, room, room, side, room, side, hustle. Know what the hell these things are? We created Element, We did not create Element. I'm sorry. We utilize the Element software at Element dot io to house our community, and we house our community here because you can't just come sign up. Okay, it's exclusive. No, it's not exclusive. It's a pain in the ass, to be quite honest. And I had a lot of reservations about it. Chin showed it to me. Chin's up on Sunday Nights. Showed it to me, and I said, yeah, you know, I like it, but I don't know how much I love it. It's really a lot of hoops to jump through for the average person. And now I love it. Now I love it. I love everyone on here aside from are you feeling lucky? I'm just kidding, dude. You know he love you. He likes to stir the pot here in the EOC No, but honestly, those hoops make this an incredible group of people over at the EOC, and I'd highly reckon and you go to element Io, you get yourself a screen name, and you join us here. So Hatter posts first complain about PBN, and this mainly goes to the Intrepid Commander. I love all the shows, so could you not add any more hosts? It's getting very hard to listen to everyone's show anymore hosts, and I'll have to pick the shows I could listen to because I'll be out of time. All kidding aside, lol, thank you to every host here. I really appreciate all that you guys do. Sometimes a show is so good I'll listen to it again and write things down for future reference. Geez, it's great to hear people talk about what they love, and especially when they do it to help others. Keep up the great work everyone and prep on. In the words of Dave Jones, he edited that last sentence, so I don't know what he really was gonna say, but he edited something bad out. I'm just kidding. Hey, man, listen. I mean, that's a great post and that's hilarious, but that was literally before we added matter of facts, before we added Sarah Hathaway. That was literally my biggest concern about PBA in the morning, sipping his as the coffee's, sitting at the table, thinking to myself, where's this thing going? What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? You know, literally asking myself this one question. Do we have too much content? Do we have too much damn content? Who's got time to listen to all this? Because I would struggle to listen to everybody's show and uh so the way I the way I remedied that as I sorry, let's add two more shows and a series. Oh yeah, you guys are getting a series too now to listen to. You don't forget for those of you who don't know or haven't been paying attention, or maybe I only told the members, I don't know, it's hard to keep up with it all. Now that Sarah Hathaway is part of the gang, that means we're gonna get access to the Changing Earth series, which is the first fiction addition to the Prepper Broadcasting Network. It's a big deal. Okay, it's a very big deal. Number one, It's an incredible story. It's an incredible story with depth that is kind of unparalleled. No, it is unparalleled. I think in the prepping world, the depth of the Changing Earth series is unparalleled. Probably to be honest, I mean, I listened to some audio dramas, but I don't listen to a lot of audio dramas. I really stay focused on superheroes. I'm a dork, That's all I can tell you. But anyway, since I stay focused on that stuff, I don't know a whole lot about a whole lot, you know what. 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But the beautiful thing about the Changing Earth Series for you, the listeners, it could really I don't know outside of people who really love the books, if there's a better audience for the Changing Earth Series then PBN. And the reason is all the hosts are in it, all the even the matter of facts guys are in Actually I don't think no, I think Bobo is in it too. Yeah, so all the hosts are in it. Actually, Phil is my kind of head honcho. He's like my head honcho. His character Vergis is kind of my boss ish. And it's weird, right, It's great though, it's absolutely astounding. It's coming to the Prepper Broadcasting Network. You're gonna love it. We just keep going and going and going. I told you two years ago that's what it's gonna be. We're just gonna keep going, keep on going. And I hope the stats keep going because last week, last week, we had we had a week that we'd never had since we changed over to Spreaker. Okay, we never had a week of ten thousand plus downloads, and uh, that's a big deal. Maybe and found that's a big deal for us. We're the perennial underdogs here in this world. And that's just it's amazing. So thank you for everything. Oh, don't forget to get your hands on William Forgy. We did his Preppers Medical Handbook ad but don't forget about the Preppers Guide to Pandemics, Bio Terrorism and Infectious Disease. Listen, it's an amazing book. You've got to get your hands on it. If you have the Prepper's Medical Handbook, this is like, this is the must have part two, particularly for where we're at right now. Okay, your home and all your preps are destroyed in a disaster. Now what that could never happen? You could never be fleeing your property at a moment's notice. And simply, no matter how good your preparedness and your planning is, not have the time to grab all your preps. Flood whatever it is, tornado right washed away, destroyed. Your home is totally destroyed. And then you find yourself in a situation where now you're starting over. What's the game plan? What's the game plan? PBN family, These are the questions that I want you to knock around your head. Don't drive yourself crazy, don't don't try to fix big problems like the well, some of them are big, some of them aren't. Don't try to fix like you wake up in a s silhouetted man in the doorway. That's not a huge problem to fix, right of course you're a completely unarmed person. But then you've got bigger problems than the hypothetical man in the doorway. Your home and all your preps are destroyed, so you can't even recover the food. The food is washed downstreams gone, the buckets floated off. You're standing here in disaster recovery mode. What's the game plan? You know? J ferg was a big proponent of multiple storage locations for food storage. I always thought that was a great idea. I always looked at that as something that I would do that I wanted to do, right. I always said, having all this food in one spot's a bad move. And it is your home and all your preps are destroyed in a disaster. Now what Okay, I think it's time for a liberty review tonight. We give you something entirely new and different. So PBM family in fifth grade, imagine me in fifth grade, Tamagatchi on the hip Philadelphia flyers, folder, biting my fingernails incessantly and the skin around them incessantly. Because my household was insane. Okay, it was insane. My sister wouldn't get up and go to school, and my mother would fuck. They would battle all the time in the morning, you know, before I was even up, be screaming, fighting, and I don't know what else was going on, you know what I mean. I don't want to give you my whole backstory, but I was stressed out. I was new in the middle school, all that kind of stuff. I can't even imagine what I looked like. I was trying to grow my hair out and be cool like my cousin Danny skateboarding, trying to like. I didn't want to fit in. I wanted to be you know, like I had a corn shirt. I was really happy about that I got in fourth grade. I was like, this is my path. This sums up kind of how I must have appeared. This sums up how I must have appeared. Alana, this wonderful creature named Ilana that I went to school. She was a nightmare of a girl, just vicious. You know. The girls from where I was from were way more terrifying than the boys, just terrifying. I remember as a young man saying to myself, who will I ever marry in this area? This area is filled with vipers for women, and this was one such viper. And she we were doing like a group thing because I was keep to myself in fifth grade. I have a few friends who liked hockey. We talk about hockey in my class, but other than that, I just wanted to be pretty much left alone to get through school and get home. But we were, you know, subjected to one of these group learning things, group team up and do a project together. And Alana was in a group adjacent to me, and I don't know, I must looked disheveled as usual, and she asked me a question that was so far ahead of its time. When I think about it now, it's kind of funny, but at the time it was. Yeah, it was just absolutely demoralizing. She looked over at me, she said, do you get beat? You know, not like in a like concerned face, but like in a disgusted face, like how can how can you look this way? So this is me, right, this is me in fifth grade, huddled up, my my? What gave me solace? In fifth grade, was flipping through the pages of Dean Koon's books, flipping through the Funhouse, flipping through Whispers, crazy books. I probably shouldn't have been reading at that age, all the way up through the end of high school, even so much so that I wrote a book called Danvers Lights. It's not even published anymore. I don't even know if I could find it to publish it. So much so that I wrote a whole novel called Danvers Lights that was just his style of writing. I was just so wrapped up in that guy and his storytelling and the whole nine yards. And then he did an Odd Thomas series that most people know him for. I mean, he wrote tremendous books before that, just way better than Odd Thomas. Odd Thomas wasn't bad, but just astounding books. The Taking the Face the Corner of the Eye was, it's another great one. There's a ton night chills, unbelievable night chills. Yeah, I could listen him. That's not important, that's not part of the review. But Dean Koontz has always been a hero of mine, forever been a hero. In fact, the book I'm writing right now that I can't seem to finish is modeled off of one of his books. That's it. I even mentioned in the introduction Darker Trails is really sort of my ode to his book of short stories, which he called Strange Highways. And it was an unbelievable book full of short stories. But anyway, it's been a long time since I read a good Dean Koon's book. He started another series called Jane Hawk. I don't want to read him. I don't know what to say about it other than that, you know, I don't want to read a long drawn out series about a heroin. I just don't. I don't know call it what it is. I don't mind reading. I don't mind reading a one time book, which many of his are about a heroin main character. But I'm a man. I like to read about men heroes, right, I don't. You're not allowed to say stuff like that anymore. That's troublesome. People hear that and they go, mmm, sounds like he's got to touch a sexist in them. No, it's just not my taste. Okay, Yes it is discriminatory. It is I discriminate. I don't want to read a five book series about a female lead. Sorry, I just don't so I didn't, so I stepped away from him for a long time. I read a book called The City by His that I thought was a great story, but it was it missed some of the core elements of what I love about Dean Koontz, namely romance. Well, there was a little bit of romance in that book, but not as good. And then I happened upon the Other Emily. And the Other Emily is such a good book. It is so Dean koons man, it is vintage Coons and uh, I gotta be careful. I don't know how many of you might read it, but I don't want to spoil it for you, but I want you to understand the premise. I can tell you the premise for sure. I can tell you the premise because the premise in the beginning dust cover anyway, a man makes a terrible mistake one fateful night his wife. Well, no, not even as whether they're married. Yeah they think they're married. Yeah, I swear I love it. I don't even know if their main couple's married. But anyway, Emily is stranded on the side of a highway. Okay, she's stranded on the side of a highway in the rain, and the car breaks down, and she's never seen or heard from again. And these people are deeply in love, you know what I mean, never seen or heard from again. I'm not ready yet. So what what am I doing? I'm doing a live show. I'll be done soon. Go downstairs, soon, go downstairs, buddy, PBN family, You're about to witness the grounding of a child who doesn't want to listen. So anyway, hmm, she goes missing, ten years gone dead. He assumes the worst, right, and then David Thorne, the main character, ten years later, is in a restaurant drinking at the bar, you know, not like disheveled drinking. He's a writer. I think he's having like a root glass of red wine or something like that. And this woman comes in the bar and sits near him. Her name is Madison, and in every single way that he can remember, she's exactly like Emily, every single way, from the talk, the walk, the hair, the eyes, the look. Every single thing about this girl is Emily, so much so that he questions her about it, you know what I mean, Like, are you your real name? Emily? You're playing with me? I mean, he thinks one hundred percent that he's being gamed up, like she went away and this is her way of coming back, or he totally totally confused. So the love of his life disappears ten years ago, and then a woman named Madison reappears or uppears rather, and she's Emily in every way. She is the other Emily. And this man's adventure to figure out what the hell is going on is just picture perfect. Dean Koons And I read this book man. In years I haven't felt this way, but in years I read this book and I was like, whoa, this is my man at his finest. So that's the Liberty review The Other Emily by Dean Coons. Check it out. I'm telling you PBN Fabritikia if you're into sci fi and horror and that kind of stuff, because he does it so good. Well not like see. The beautiful thing about Dean Kuons is he doesn't write sci fi, you know what I mean, But his premises have a lot of that tied into it. The stories are very much character driven. It's a lovely book. Just check it out. Question the water is cut off for a week because of contamination. Where you getting your water from? Simple? You wake up tomorrow, you go downstairs, turn the tap on to make coffee. No water, You go, what the hell's going on? You check Twitter, you check the news, whatever you do. You find out that your city water has been contaminated, heinously contaminated, and it's going to be at least a week until the water's back on and you can drink it. No boil water. Notice none of that. Maybe it's radiological or something. You can't drink out the tap, You can't bathe out the tap, nothing can't cook out of the tap for a week. Where you're getting your water from. Because if your game plan is jump in the car and go buy water, that's fine with me. Like I said, I don't really care what your answers are. I want you to figure it out. But if that's your game plan, then you better get right. You better not have to say to yourself, I don't have time to go get water. I gotta be to work, I gotta drop the kids off, and then I gotta get to work. I don't have time to stop and get water. Because if that's the situation, by time you get out of work, or even by lunchtime, all the water's gonna be bought. And then you got problems. Right, so the water's cut off for a week because of some contamination where you're getting your water from m think about it, Think about it. Two cheers for Preppers the Spectator World. Let's see, let's see, let's see. Oh almost forgot to do the intro music preppers in the news and I didn't even do the music. So you don't often see articles like this science and tech section of Spectator World. I'm pretty sure it's like wine Spectator, same deal. I don't know. As the Facebook outrage port tends, sometimes it's good to be prepared. October seventh, twenty twenty one. Two Cheers for Preppers by Ben Sixsmith. What a great last name. By the way, Ben six Smith spelled just like it sounds. No, you did not, Are you kidding me? Let's see if I can remember this. Six Smith is from Poland. But it looks as though since I read what the internet is so crazy, the media is so dead, the model for reading things online is so I read this article today when I was choosing my article. Right, you have hit your limit of free articles, but you could subscribe to the Spectator for free for unlimited access. Try a month of the Spectator absolutely free go to Hell. How's that sound? But anyway? Ben Sixsmith is a contributing writer based in Poland, and he wrote this article two Cheers for Preppers as the Facebook outrage for ten sometimes it's good to be prepared, And you know, that's a lot about what it was. It was a lot about the emergence of a new attitude towards prepping that is taking control of the psyche right because people are seeing not only seeing potential threats now, but feeling the effects of these things. And the reason I wanted to talk about that article on preppers in the news is because these things are changing. If you go back and listen to preppers in the news from like a year ago, they were all like wild stories, right. They were like inside the five hundred thousand dollars bunker in Arizona that is built to survive the apocalypse, and you'd read it right, and they would throw backhanded remarks at preppers. By the way, the Insider contacted me today, can we interview you about shortages? How's we want to interview people from the prepping community and find out how you're faring through the shortages? No thank you, no thank you? Hosts. If you're out there listening. If you're out there listening hosts and you would like to be interviewed, and I will message you guys, you know the way I do it normally. But if you're out there and you want to be interviewed by the Insider, let me know. I'll send her your way. I've made a decision. I really like the stance that Rick and Jane Austin took for Prepper Camp. They said no press, no press. Why they say no press because they know what the press is going to do. And I really like that. And plus I really like fodder for the press. The press does us no favors. They do us no favors. The press plays you. These guys that interview you, they play you. That's what they do. They play us. They play us every time. Hey, how are you tell us about that? Oh? Yeah, that's probably pretty good idea. And then they write some shit that you won't even believe. You'll read it and you'll be like, what, how'd you get that from that? And then you'll talk to him about it and they'll say, well, my editor told me I had to fix this this, and they okay, So then go to hell, you and your editor. How about that? How's that sound? No thanks? I get a call up. I gott to waste an hour on the phone shit chatting with somebody from Insider about being a prepper. And one of the questions are gonna ask me is how much food do you actually have? Like I would ever tell you that first and foremost. No thanks, have fun, have a nice life. I'm done with it. I don't want to do it. If you're a prepper, if you're you know, if you're somebody who means well and you want to interview us, fine, fine with me. Right. But if one of these New York Times listen, I've done them all, guys, you might be out there screaming at the microphone or screaming at the speakers like James. Do it for the do it for the exposure. I've done it for the exposure. I've been an Insider before, I've been in the New York Times before, I've been in Bloomberg before. It don't do shit. Nobody reads it, and if they read it, they certainly don't act on it. They read a quarter of the article and then they scroll down to look at the boobs coming out of the girls that are lined up down at the bottom. That's how their media works. That's their business model. Right, read the first two paragraphs, scroll down and look at the boobs and click one of the ads to make the company money. And that's it. I'm just giving you the way it is. But anyway, yeah, so that's that. I would read you the whole article. But you know, they haven't figured out a business model that actually works. So the way they do it is they say, come read an article, and then once you're done reading an article, you got to pay for the rest. I'm sorry. A power outage shuts your heat off for two weeks in January? How are you keeping warm? We talked about this last week, but this is worth talking about again. A power outage shuts your heat off for two weeks in January? How are you keeping warm? What's the game plan? Just like our first question, what's the next step? Right, because there has to be a next step. So rattle these around your head, Okay, rattle these things around in your head. These questions. They may sound funny, they may sound silly, they may sound dramatic. I don't know what they sound like to you. You know, to different people. These questions are gonna sound different to some preppers out there, many of you that I know you're gonna shrug your shoulders right you say you open up your last bucket of food storage're gonna shrug your shoulders and go no big deal. Because I've been growing food, I've been raising food, I've been preserving food for years now. So food storage is what it is. It's just another layer in my arsenal and I hope that's your situation. But you have to ask yourself these tough questions. You can you can't just ask yourself the questions that you already have the answer for. Right, PBN family, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what this thing has become. You know there's no midlife crisis coming for James Walton. Do you get that that's not gonna happen because of what I have achieved here at PBN because of and when I say achieved, many of you say, like, what is he richer now? Or what is the how many? He just said they only get ten thousand downloads a week, Which if you think only ten thousand downloads a week, you're crazy. You don't know much about podcasting because, to be honest with you, I don't know a lot of podcasters who do better than that. Most podcasts do pretty bad anyway. Of course, there's the guys who do millions and millions, right, but for the most part, podcasting is bleak. It's I remember I remember doing my own show, doing the IEM liber Show, getting forty five downloads per episode and being like, what am I doing here? You know, ten thousand in a week. It's a big deal to me. Okay, I don't really care if it's a big deal to you. And I also know that this group of preppers here, this group of people here, they're special, man, They're authentic, They speak the truth, and they bring the information with reckless abandon and people will keep clinging to that ads. The media just just disintegrates more and more and can hold on to nothing but radical news, half naked pictures and videos and lies. Yeah, places like the Prepper Broadcasting Network are gonna hold great appeal. They're gonna hold great appeal. So you won't find me reaching and digging into my pockets to buy a sports car or you know, telling my wife that I'm not happy and we need to make a big chance. I'm good, I'm not I'm not the perennial tactician, or I'm not like the super gardener. I'm not like the expert shooter. I'm not the guy you would go to to take the land navigation course. I can't even sit through the Ham radio study. I got a lot of qualities that I need to work on. FOB and family. You know, me alone, I'm not that impressive. There's only really one thing that I do that I think I do better than probably most people, besides cooking and maybe fishing. But there's really only one trait that I really think I do better than most people, and it's just to get up every day and grind. That's it. I've always been that way. I've always been that way. I get up every day and I do the work. I get up every day and do the work. And for a job like this, right, for an operation like the Prepper Broadcasting Network, it's perfect. It's bliss because every day there's something to be done. Wake up, do the daily audio, wake up, make sure the show's ready for tonight. Boom boom, Right, wake up, go out, seek out a new guest, seek out a new show to go on, and I'll do this until I die. Guys, you know what I mean. That's that's me. I will get up every day and do the same thing and grind. That's why I'm such a good writer, you know what I mean. Because and I don't mean such a good writer like so profound in my words, I mean successful. I mean pay the bills as a writer, which is in case you don't know, it's not an easy thing to do. But my clients, above all, they know when I go to James and I say, hey, I need this, He's gonna do it. He's gonna be there to pull it off, you know. So that's what I bring to you. We got fourteen hosts. Why because I've been grinding and making sure that things get better and better, right, And that's what we're going to continue to do. And I'll do it until I can't do it anymore. That's my gift to you, all right, PBN family. So I'm out of here. This has been a good one. Miss you guys. Definitely missed you guys. Five four days off, whatever it was, it's too many for me. I gotta get back into saddles. Hey, it's been a great week of shows already. I mean, The Preppers Live is a rerun. It was a great rerun. Listened to it right, You listen to the journey of a man who was outside of the prepping world and who has decided he's making his way into the prepping world in a big way. The Tuesday show is always great. Daine Dee up tomorrow. You know. Carlb's gonna bring the heat on Friday. Saturday. We'll have Aiden Tate this week. He's got a great show for us. And then we round out the week with Reliance on Sunday and the dynamic duo Sarah Hathaway and Chin Chin's up y'all on Sunday night for the Changing Earth podcast. All right, just another week at PBN man, you know, doing what no one else can do. Talk soon PBN Family. Oh and I like Dave Jones's latest Prepare, I Screwed it Up. Don't Despair Prepare. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show and visit us at Prepperbroadcasting Dot comm