Self Reliance is NOT an Option

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[00:00:54] People are absolutely crippled by anxiety anymore, and it's pretty clear to me, there is one true anti-anxiety medication in this world, and it is self-reliance.

[00:01:16] I mean, listen, for 10 years, me and my friends have been talking at cameras and microphones about ways to make life better for you. We didn't know at the time that we were talking about anti-anxiety, we were looking at very specific threats, trying to mitigate them, and a way of life that would be better for the common person to live.

[00:01:43] Right? Like, we'd never have shows about building your own million-dollar bunker, because none of us can do that, you know? And even if we could, we probably wouldn't. We might just for fun, like put a CQB course in it or something like that. Like a spot to vacate, you know what I mean, from time to time, with a studio in it for Sarah Hathaway. But in all honesty, man, like over this last decade, it's been more than fire wolf.

[00:02:12] It's been quite literally us talking into microphones and cameras about solutions, and I've never seen it this way before. And what I mean by it is I've never seen so many medicated people. I've never seen so many people looking for answers. I've never seen so many people coming to terms with the fact that they are overburdened by anxiety.

[00:02:39] And once again, it's just is what it is. You cannot live. Look at me, okay? You cannot live in a world where you depend on someone for everything. You're not a baby. It doesn't matter if you're male, female, whatever it is. You cannot exist in a world, no matter how stable the world is, where you depend on someone for everything.

[00:03:09] And it's taken us a good hundred years to build out maximum dependency. Every single thing that you need, that you have, every service, anything. You can buy it. You can buy it on this now. You can buy it, you know what I mean? On a watch.

[00:03:33] What you're seeing, every time shit kicks up, every time a little dust kicks up on a societal level, like what's happening in LA right now, every time something kicks up, all of the sudden, your anxiety meters go off the charts because you realize that the system that you depend on ain't working. And what if it gets worse? And what if... Right?

[00:04:02] And on top of all of that, you realize, I went to school for economics. And I don't really know how to do anything else but scroll my phone and work nine to five. This is the core of every... Any kind of level of anxiety in this country. I really do believe that this is at the core of it.

[00:04:28] But never in the history of mankind has self-sufficiency been an option. Self-reliance. That doesn't mean every human heretofore has been growing all their own food, eating all their own harvested animals, hunting for all their food, sourcing all their water, making all their power, right? Of course not. But it was very rare, I'm sure, and maybe didn't exist whatsoever.

[00:04:57] That there was a person out there who just didn't do anything for himself. You might call him a king, maybe, but I don't even know. There was hardly anybody who existed or lived for any duration and had any type of life that was worth a damn who just had everything brought to them, had everything delivered them. Ooh, bring me the food now. Bring me the water. Bring me the cold air. Bring me the comfort. Bring me the blankets. Bring me the new clothing. Bring me the new clothing. Right?

[00:05:28] We are all kings sitting on a throne of antidepressants, okay? That's the pinnacle of what we've achieved in the modern world of one-hour delivery. Nothing wrong with it. Nothing wrong with all these wonderful things and fixtures of modern society, but you just have to understand. If you're sitting there and your pulse is pounding over the wars and the drones

[00:05:56] and the flying IEDs and the battle at the border and the deaths from fentanyl and the LA riots and Donald Trump at the helm, whatever it is, right, that has you mortified, the anxiety builds and builds and builds because you know fundamentally if you don't have skills, if you don't have any sense of self-sufficiency whatsoever, if you depend 100% on the system,

[00:06:26] then you are helpless. So that's why fundamentally self-reliance is not an option and is the core of the video today, the core of the podcast, the core of the video, the core of the whatever the hell it is I do here every day. Hey, I got this mug. Oh, God, look at it. It's been heavily used this weekend apparently, but I got this mug at a thrift shop. I don't even know how cheap it was.

[00:06:56] I have no clue. It's so thick. It's so heavy. You can't buy a mug like this anymore. A mug that weighs this amount, you can't buy it anymore. It doesn't exist. Do you know that? There's no way. No, I didn't make it. I see that. I can imagine the naysayers already. Did you make your self-reliant mug out of pottery and modeling clay? No. You're missing the point. So, I mean, look, you could go out there and get it at the thrift stores

[00:07:26] so you can save some insane money. You can really level off that anxiety about a lot of things. I walked out of that store. I think I spent like just over 20 bucks. I had half a wardrobe. New coffee cup. Guys, listen. You got to do it. Okay? There's no sponsor. There's no like cool thing I can get. There's no affiliate income tacked on when people go thrift shopping. So, you don't hear people talk about it a lot.

[00:07:56] There's no money to be made. There's only money for you to be saved. Okay? So, get outside of your ego and get outside of your sort of built-in whatever kind of blockade you have in your head over thrift shopping and get thrift shopping because it will only take a few trips for you to realize I'm saving so much money. It's, it's, I can't go back. I mean, every time I check out, I talk to these ladies at the thrift shop and I say, I'm completely addicted.

[00:08:22] There's no, I'm not going to go buy clothes somewhere else. I'm not going to go buy coffee mug that's going to shatter the first time I wash it anywhere. I'm just not doing it. What's up, J. Ferg? Candlesticks. Huge. Oh my God, the candles. Yeah, it's a great one, Firewolf. You could, you could light your whole house in an emergency for like five, ten bucks at a thrift shop if you buy them.

[00:08:53] So, Firewolf says he loves candlesticks at the thrift store. I want you guys also to know out there that I come at this topic with like next to no background aside from cooking, fishing, right? Cooking is a big one though. So I, when I say I didn't have any skills coming into this, it is a little bit of a misnomer because cooking is a big one. Light the apocalypse fancily. Not bad. I like that.

[00:09:25] No big, no big background, no military, no emergency management, no growing up like on a farm or on a hundred acres of woods running around catching weasels. You know what I mean? Like none of that. None of that cool stuff. Just some kid from a, from a oil refinery town, southeast of Philly.

[00:09:53] So the reason I bring all that up in the show, like this is to remind you, like if you think that I'm here because a lot of times people just from listening to my podcast, they'll be like, they'll say things to me like, look, I don't have the kind of land and space that you have to do all this stuff. I don't have the kind of whatever. And they make these crazy assumptions that I'm some guy who lives in the middle of nowhere because I talk about having chickens and I talk about having gardens and that kind of stuff.

[00:10:23] I'm in suburbs, you know, it's just a will. It's just studying and will and being relentless in your pursuit. All things that you can do. Couple good books. You know what I mean? Lot of good friends. Case in point in the chat room. And it's like with time, these things will come. What are you going to put your time into is my question. You know what I mean? What are you going to put your time into?

[00:10:54] We're going to put it into something. What I can tell you right now, whether you realize it or not, you're living in a time where you're carrying on carrying massive levels of anxiety and it's human. It's human nature. But I think the big difference now is people look at the future and they look at their capabilities and they just say, how am I going to affect this? I don't have any idea how to do anything. Right.

[00:11:22] Firewolf says in his world, out of 240,000 people, 6,000 voted for mayor. Wow. That's that's pretty amazing. That's pretty amazing. I'm over at the let's take a look at the future danger website so we get a. And look, this is the other part of anxiety, too. The part that really affects people.

[00:11:50] See, we used to have a choice as a society to go to websites like this. These are this is the website of the Patriot Power Hour, the incredible Patriot Power Hour, the dynamic duo over there. But preppers for a long time had the option to visit a website like this. We had the option to visit a website like this and to read about headlines like war with Russia starts.

[00:12:19] Riots erupt. National Guard activated. Trade severely declines. Like you've got to be in the right headspace to roll into a website like this. You know what I mean? There's no scantily clad women to the right on the right bar. Notice how beautiful future danger is. No, hardly no ads whatsoever. Right. If you're a drudge report person, get the hell off of the drudge report. It is compromised. You wouldn't even believe it. Visit future danger if you're into that sort of thing.

[00:12:53] But a lot of days you wake up and you find that all of these news headlines wind up on regular news feeds and regular news now, which is a whole nother layer where the news used to be dominated by like other useless information like celebrity relationships and movie releases, that kind of stuff. Right. It's different now. You're affronted.

[00:13:23] You're affronted by all kinds of crazy news. You know, whether you whether you wish it or not. I want to see what future Dan has put up on the riots. He's got federal immigration raids face rioting. National Guard and federalization resisted California government to sue the president over deployment of National Guard to quell Los Angeles riots. This guy's going to run for president one day. You just got to remember all this.

[00:13:51] You have to remember this man who burnt his his one of his most beautiful cities to the ground almost. Right. Without by not giving the people of L.A. water. Now he's going to sue the president for wanting the riots to stop, the looting to stop, you know, the shopping spree downtown L.A. to stop. Have you seen it? Just take a look. It's beautiful. It's, you know, fires in the distance. It's at night.

[00:14:18] It's a perpetual like sunset or sunrise just on the horizon. But it's just the glow of flames. Crazy, man. Los Angeles war zone insurrectionists mobs attack cops set fires block the 101 freeway. Here's the thing, right? This is the world where you wind up going insane. If you have no capability to feed yourself, your family, if you have no capability of taking

[00:14:48] care of yourself, handling yourself, this is this is what happens. You know what I mean? So. I don't know. You you don't really have much of a choice. The thumbnail to this video is. It looks. Well, I don't know who knows. I don't know how you feel about these kinds of things, but the thumbnail to this video is me breaking down a hog that I got with my buddy Dave Jones. And.

[00:15:17] This is not like. This is not hardcore prep or skill. This is not hardcore survivalist skill. Like knowing how to break an animal down is the way that you get me. Do you know what I mean? We just are used to plastic plastic rack packaging with meat already cut up in it. Do you know what I'm saying?

[00:15:44] Firewolf says, I think I read a book about this. Didn't think it was an instruction manual. Don't like the military coming in because of how it was done. Well, I mean, you know, to your point. That is that is something to talk about. Right. We do have to be careful about what we unleash on the American people. The trouble is when immigration is such a nightmare, we don't know what the American people is.

[00:16:13] I mean that exactly the way I said it. In other words, you see a crowd of people in L.A. And they all have masks on and some of them have Palestinian flags, Mexican flags. Right. The trouble right now that we're suffering in this country, thanks to Biden and subsequent, you know, administrations, like people run roughshod over the country is you don't know what American people is. Who are you? Who are you front facing? Do you know what I mean?

[00:16:44] But to your point, it is a very dangerous line, a very slippery slope of the potential for, you know, Fourth Amendment infringement and so on and so forth. The moment you start putting. The moment you start facing military off against civilians. Right. Which. Joe, it is what it is. Born to Brab says walk towards the American flag holders. Welcome in, man. Thanks for joining us today. I do appreciate it.

[00:17:15] So. Action items. What can you do? Where can you start? I mean, you listen to us, so you're already in a good in a good place. Right. You're going to see a lot of of great people doing self-reliant related things. OK. If you want to if you want to go on. A spirit walk. Then buy yourself some tickets to Prepper Camp 2025. Prepper camp dot com. And.

[00:17:45] Really just dip yourself in the world of this because there's no other place like it. It's it's quick approaching. It's June. It'll be here in September, the end of September. Prepper camp dot com. All the information there. Right. I mean, this is this is sort of like if you want to plan. Like a real visceral. I want to use a word that's kind of inappropriate.

[00:18:11] But if you if you want to really plow into this thing as hard as possible, if you really want to be shaken awake into self-sufficiency and self-reliance, if you really want to also figure out how easy it is and what you can do right here and now in your world, not like imagining some fantasy that will come about at some point in your life. But really what you can do in the here and now, I'd highly recommend it because it is it

[00:18:37] is like a that's a spiritual undertaking in the self-reliant sense. Because you go for three, you get isolated into our little cult. You sit here stuck with us for three days. You get inundated by 60 classes per day. You get to choose. But you know what I mean? It's impossible to not walk away. It's impossible to walk away unchanged if you partake. You know what I mean? It's impossible to walk away unchanged.

[00:19:07] I walk away changed every year. I walk away with like, oh, God, I got to reprioritize. I got to do. I got to do. I got to see. I got to say. Right. All those things. So if you're watching this and you're thinking like, how do I if you're one of those types of people that needs like a kickstart, then that could be the answer. You know, that could be the answer. Aside from just our podcasts, you can. You can definitely go to pbnfamily.com and join our membership side.

[00:19:36] We post new content there all the time, multiple pieces per week, a lot focusing on the sort of gear, skills, mentality that it takes. To push towards self-sufficiency. Right. Right. That's that's what it is. I mean, you know, you can scroll YouTube videos and. Do random projects, I guess, if you'd like. I don't know.

[00:20:07] I do think that the company you keep is important. Right. I do think that the that the the media that you put in the company that you keep the Internet sort of communities that you hang in seem to have a pretty big effect on you. They've definitely had a big effect on me over the years. I can tell you that much. Right. Speaking of which.

[00:20:33] Oh, speaking of scrolling YouTube video how to's L to survive over at YouTube just popped into chat. Highly recommend. What do you got going on? Let's take a quick break and see what what the nub has been up to over at his channel. So he's always doing some fun stuff. Good guy to subscribe to if you're. If you're thinking about making this move into self-sufficiency or bettering, bettering up your current situation. Let's have a look, shall we?

[00:21:03] I'm not going to be greedy. We can we can look together. I don't mean to put you on the spot, nub, but we're putting you on the spot. OK. Let's see what's new situation. Awareness arc. Thrival is fair. We got a whole class up. Oh, sweet, man. Oh, yeah.

[00:21:33] Cooper's color. What is it? Cooper's color code. It's a game changer in situational awareness, actually. The the Cooper's color code. At least it was for me. This Starlink vehicle mount, man, this is a great video. I loved his the O-clip. The O-clip is another great one. Don't don't go to space weather news unless you really want to have some high anxiety.

[00:22:05] Just kidding. This is awesome, man. The DIY charging supply for emergencies. Let's see how it works. Hey, Garrett, this is Steve. This is my problem with YouTube, guys. I think YouTube is in big trouble with the ads. The ad situation here. This is really cool video. Hey, guys. Break down sort of the whole the whole situation. Last week, I was watching some videos about the power outage. The ad situation. The ad situation. You should have a place like that, right?

[00:22:34] You should have a also in that area should be your your blackout kit with whatever else. All your flashlights. All your extra batteries. Weird batteries. That kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Headlamps. I mean, Nub's got it going on here with a variety of different charging options. Again, this is one of those situations.

[00:23:02] You've got your rechargeable batteries. It's nice. It's nice. Good work, man. So go follow him. All right. Go follow him. L2 survive.com. You're probably following a bunch of crap that's doing you no good, right? Which is fine. We do it. We all do it. But follow some people who make a difference, too. Just that simple blackout kit.

[00:23:27] Mine's like a small box with really good flashlights, headlamps, batteries, lighters, matches, those kinds of things, right? It's a little bigger than that. But this immediately gives you an answer, right? If your answer to a blackout is, let's sit here. Let's sit here. And we'll wait until the power comes back on in the middle of the night, in the middle of winter, in the middle of summer, whatever it is, right?

[00:24:00] Born to Rap recommends YouTube Premium. No ads. 100% plus. You can stream content with the screen off in your pocket. Text Dad 86. I ain't seen you in a while, man. And that's my fault because we ain't been going live on Rumble in a while. I wonder how many people in L.A. are thinking about prepping now. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I mean, it's all inevitable, right?

[00:24:30] It's all part of this inevitable, like, eventually something's going to happen in your neighborhood. And it might be Mother Nature and it might be, you know, whatever the hell's going on there, right? Soros-funded brick throwers. You never know what it'll be. And that's the point.

[00:24:49] So you have to exist in a self-reliant framework where you know if things get crazy, we have plans, we have things, we have skills, we have answers. We don't just go, oh, God, the whole thing's falling apart. Let me grab the vape. Let me grab the, I don't know. It is what it is. We're talking about PBN membership, another big deal.

[00:25:19] I was talking to my wife about that today, Firewolf. But anyway, another big benefit is the continuity. And we'll be meeting on the 23rd. This is to my podcast listeners, primarily my members out there, our PBN membership. The 23rd of the month, we go to Chicago, not physically.

[00:25:43] We go to Chicago and continue this whole terrifying terror attack series. I mean, this thing is, yeah. Yeah. L2 Survive is a lifetimer. Firewolf Forge is a lifetimer in chat. Born to Brapp is a member. Look, man. We don't, uh...

[00:26:08] We started this thing, this membership to basically get off of Patreon in case they just started nuking people because we were worried about that. We had gotten exploded off Discord. We'd gotten in trouble over at YouTube. And I said, let's not wait till Patreon kills Prepper Broadcasting Network altogether. And over five years now, we've just built all kinds of stuff on that website, on that member... Well, it used to not even be its own standalone website.

[00:26:37] Then we got so much content. I said, let's just turn... Let's just create a membership website altogether for the members, you know, because it's... We just need space. We need the room. We got too much stuff. So, continuity. Monday night, 23rd, 9 p.m. Eastern. Okay? 9 p.m. Eastern. Don't miss it. It's gonna be another great one. We did New York City last month. Drone attacks. Gunmen.

[00:27:07] IEDs. Bomb vests. I'm talking the real... The real homeland attack in multiple cities. Right? That's the whole thing. Ugly. Really ugly. We're gonna do it in Chicago. It's happening in three cities. We're gonna kick off Chicago. What else do we got? Sorry, looking at show notes. Looking at show notes. Looking at the show notes.

[00:27:38] You have the rest of this year to get your shit in gear. Okay? That's what you got. You look at it that way. You know what I mean? Go on Craigslist. You've got nothing going on. You have zero potential for self-reliance whatsoever. Go on Craigslist. Go find somebody who's throwing all their pots away. You know, they're like planter pots. They're probably sitting in an alleyway somewhere. You could go pick up like 40 planters. The little plastic crappy pots.

[00:28:07] Fill them with dirt plant seeds. Fill them with dirt plant seeds. It's a great time to grow. Maybe. I don't know. It might drop down to the 30s again. I'm not yet convinced that they haven't destroyed the planet with their geoengineering to save us all from climate change, right? Jay Ferg says, I see all food is toxic with the amount of recalls. It is crazy.

[00:28:34] But remember, I mean, the recalls are wild and you should be careful. But a lot of it is CYA from big companies. Truly. I mean, I was in the recall food safety industry for a long time. But it shouldn't slow you down from growing and sourcing the best food you can. Why not? You know, we know everything's changed. I had a great interview with a guy, Louis de Jager. You guys are going to love him. He was so much fun. He was the most fun I've ever had with a European in my whole life, I think.

[00:29:05] He's a Belgian guy. He's so fun. But anyway, big conversation about that. Pesticides and so on and so forth. And we talked about, you know, I didn't know him, no. So I pressed him a little bit on climate change. I asked him this very question. What do you think about the geoengineering and the cooling of the planet? Screwing it up to the point, because this is something I really worry about. Cooling the planet to the point where we can't grow enough food anymore for real.

[00:29:33] And then having a real problem rather than like, oh, it's hot. Oh, there's erosion at the beach. You know what I mean? Oh, the power grid, which is made up of windmills and solar panels now, can't meet demand for the people of Texas when it gets super hot. And there's a billion more people moving there and they're not making any more power. I'm talking about like, oh, it's July and the corn crop has failed everywhere in the country.

[00:30:04] Real problems. You know what I mean? And he was right on board with it. He was right on board with it. And he has an answer to climate change that nobody will ever agree with him on because there ain't no money to be made in it. Actually, there's money to be lost in it. But he talks about repairing the planet in a way that I think you guys will really dig. I don't know when that show will be out. I have no clue. Sometime this week. Keep your eyes peeled.

[00:30:32] So that's my time in the pulpit today, folks. You have to start looking at life this way. Self-reliance is not an option. It's not an option to say I'm going to live like the king of convenience on my throne of

[00:30:51] antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, medicines, vapes, alcohol, whatever else it is that you use to smooth over the fact that you're kind of a useless being in a world that seems to be falling apart. That is why we are your path back to stability. We push you in that direction. We want you to be better prepared. We want you to look at the situations that are now blinking red lights in all the major news networks telling you what's wrong with the world and be able to say,

[00:31:23] okay, but we'll be all right because I can do X, Y, and Z, and I have done X, Y, and Z. And, you know, that is what it is. And above all, if you're brand new and you're starting right here and now and you're just taking this in, no matter what you do today, you should do something. But no matter what you do today, understand you're about three years out. And, you know, a lot of people will tell you you can make a huge difference in a short period of time, and you can.

[00:31:53] But to really feel good about what's going on, I'm just giving you the honest truth. You're going to need a couple years to get everything established, get good at things, have your failures, and then to really feel good, you're probably going to need about five to ten years. And the reason I tell you that is to light a fire under your ass because it's 2025.

[00:32:14] 2025, if it takes you five years to really build out the projects, the off-grid projects, the chickens, the gardens, the firearms, the training, the weapons, all of it, well, now you're at 2030. Right? If you put it off another year, now what? So take my word for it, folks.

[00:32:38] And if you have any free time, any free time, and ten bucks to throw it at dad, okay? My new book, Poems for Men. It's a beauty. It's lovely. It's a collection of Victorian poets and my own work. All about manhood, fatherhood, women, good and evil, society at large, the experience it is to be a man.

[00:33:05] I want to show you what I sourced for the section on women because I thought it was so perfect. Every guy needs at least a mentor when it comes to that aspect of his life. You know what I mean? It's not easy out there. I think it's harder now than ever. Can you see it? Can you read it? It comes from a pretty popular book, but I think it's a really important lesson, right?

[00:33:37] Okay. Get yourself a copy. You got to search Poems for Men James Walton on Amazon. If you don't, then it won't come up. I don't know. I'm not favored by the algorithm. L2 Survive says, don't read on the show. Don't read on show. The company arc from my last video. Someone should have them on their podcast, Tactical Trainers for Civilians. Oh, let's put that up there.

[00:34:04] You guys might want to look at that, except for the don't read on show part. Oh, you meant don't read that on the show, and I just posted it for everybody. Come on. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. I thought you were accosting me for don't read your stupid book on the air. That's a good one, though. That's a good one. We'll get them on. There's a lot of them.

[00:34:32] There's a lot of great tactical trainers out there for civilians, to be honest with you. I don't know. It's all about priority. And at the end of the day, some of that stuff, particularly training, is about income, too. There's a lot of people out there scraping by, like the idea of paying people for tactical trainers. That's a rough one. Jay Furry is dying. I just put that whole message on blast, like, directed at me. Dude, don't put this on your shelf.

[00:35:03] That's hilarious, man. What timing. I say we end on a happy note. Self-reliance is not an option, folks. I will see you guys later. Let's put Louis D. Jaeger on tonight. Why don't we do that? Yeah, let's do that. Tonight, 9 p.m. I'll make that happen. Let's put it in the magic book, or else it won't happen. I haven't done a Monday show in a while. I had so many guests all the time.

[00:35:32] Guests, guests, guests, guests, guests. And then we kind of slowed it down. All right, folks. I appreciate you. Remember, preppercamp.com, or become a member. You're at PBN. PBNfamily.com. All right? I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Yeah.