Published July 18, 2025, 9:02 a.m.
9am Off the Grid - Dr. David Kent, Shawn Starry, Ralph the IT Guy, and Karen the Riveter! What to do become independent, or when the power grid goes down. Also news and views on what's going on in the world Shawn Starry - Panhandle Documentary and Author of several books. We will be discussing survival techniques if domestic terrorism occurs or in a wartime scenario. Other subjects Texas wildfire DEW Directed Energy Weapons -Freedom Garden Club Podcast X/Twitter: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mnxegREMvqGX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/636616148890812/videos/2548765408796853 Rumble: https://rumble.com/v6wc9t6-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-7182025-off-the-grid-dr-david-shawn-ralph-and-.html https://rumble.com/v6wc9py-bnn-brandenburg-news-network-7182025-off-the-grid-dr-david-shawn-ralph-and-.html Odysee: https://odysee.com/@BrandenburgNewsNetwork:d/bnn-2025-07-18-off-the-grid-dr-david-shawn-ralph-and-karen:5 BNN Live: https://Live.BrandenburgNewsNetwork.com Guests: Donna Brandenburg, Dr David Kent, Ralph the IT Guy, Karen the Riveter, Shawn Starry
Good morning and welcome to Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg and it's the eighteenth day of July twenty twenty five. And welcome to our show today. You know, we're going back to a friend episode here, which is really my favorite to talk to my buddies here and people that are on with me over and over again. And we've had to take a little bit of a break because I've been a little bit busy yesterday. I spent the whole day with my my legal friends and we are working on the cases that I have. filed in the Michigan Court of Claims, which is a lot of fun right now. And guess what? We're winning. And so it's a happy day today, and I just want to invite everybody in, and we're going to be talking about off-the-grid stuff, preparedness, and whatever else comes up on this Friday. So this is just going to be a fun time packed with information, news, and views. Morning, guys. How y'all doing? Hey. Good morning. Good morning. This is off the rails. This is off the rails. That's what it is. I should change the name. So at any rate, am I like the only one without an avatar or with an avatar today? There you go. There you go. I have friends, actual real friends. So, anyhow, it's good to see you guys. You know, I really missed you. I kind of needed a little bit of a break on Fridays because I was starting to experience a little bit of burnout from all the traveling I've been doing from working on the Constitution Party and the Chairman of the Constitution Party. I really have been working pretty hard on that because honestly, I think we need to see every single seat in the in the Michigan that's coming up for elections. OK, because the Republican Party is just crap, total and absolute crap right now. And I've been kind of like ranting about that the last few days. So I'll give it a rest here for a little bit. But we really need to seat every position in the state of Michigan because we don't have representation at all. And I'm not seeing anybody who isn't treating this as allegiance to the parties, criminal organizations, instead of having allegiance to we the people. So anybody who wants to stand on truth, representing We the people without self-gain or self-enrichment, I think we need to talk because it's getting worse by the day, actually, and I'm actually being able to see that. But we have a lot of stuff happening. Yesterday, actually, there were some notifications going out to some of my Special Forces friends. that talked about clear and eminent threats that are out there. If anybody's been paying attention to this and some of the stuff that's coming out of the Middle East, basically swearing that every single American better run for the hills because hell is going to descend on us kind of post. I think this is the time and a beautiful time to talk about preparedness, not just in the physical sense, but in our spiritual sense, because That's probably the biggest problem right now. People professing to have faith in God, but yet putting their faith in everything material instead of trusting him to provide and, but doing our part, right? So anyhow, jump in as you feel led here, guys. This is just going to be whatever we want to talk about, you know? Yeah. We got five people to jump in. Take turns. Go ahead, Sean. So, yeah, one of the big things I'm seeing on X right now, I'm starting to see a big shift in people coming to Christ. This is something that, you know, I'm really happy to see. But, you know, we're kind of... It kind of goes like this, you know. Our government has been so corrupt for so long that... It makes sense. When you think about it like this way, you know, in my book, I talked about the eight stages to the rise and fall of every civilization. And one of the big things is at the apex of the government, when it gets so big, it starts infringing upon people's rights. Well, what's going to happen is the government is going to no longer fear the people anymore. And when they no longer fear the people, they start bringing in this invasion that we saw the last four years in the Biden administration. And one of the big things is none of them are ready. Okay. And We know that a lot of them are coming from Islamic communities with the purpose and their only sole purpose is to conquer the known world. This is a religious ideology that's been around since five hundred and eighty six A.D., where their whole agenda is to conquer. basically take over the world and run it um and we're in this position right now where we've got so many islamic people here in the united states this is something that americans need to understand the level of threat I was talking to with sarah adams who worked for the CIA. And one of the big things that she mentioned was, is that Donald Trump's, I guess his relationship or I don't want to say relationship but his his connections with the the um the new syrian leader um who this and this is a guy that was up behind a lot of them like the benghazi organization to to attack on our our soldiers and our people, like Ambassador Stevens at Benghazi. This is the mastermind behind it. And now he's like the president of Syria. And it's just, and she was warning him, like, hey, you know, don't do this. Don't go down this road. This is not somebody you want to ally with. And the thing is that politicians don't seem to understand that when you are Letting all these people in, especially from Islamic communities around the world, they're not here to assimilate. Now, if you had like five or ten people coming over here to the port of entry through legal means and they worked for the citizenship and they're assimilating. But when you invite thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand of them at a time, well, guess what's going to happen? They're not here to assimilate. They're here to take over. Karen? He sounds like he's dooming. But see, what I wanted to say was I've been looking at this thing as if it's a show. I think a lot of it is. A lot of it is there are things going on behind the scenes that we will never know or we can't know now. In order to keep us safe. I do believe there's a plan now. I don't think the plan is written in stone. I think it's adaptable. Um, and we don't know what the plan is. So we're just kind of along for the ride. We don't know what our role is, but I think we do have a role as a people. So those roles as individuals vary. But as a people, we need to be educating ourselves and getting involved. That's the basic plan for us. But when we can see what's happening in the show, you see it as a narrative war, a psychological war more than anything. It's not just for us. It's for the good guys and the bad guys. Everybody's got a narrative war going on. but if you see it as that and constantly imagine that or look at the world as if anything that's happening is In the reality sphere What you're being told is told to you in order to sway you in a specific direction So whatever you're being told assume it's wrong Just assume that every single topic on the news is a lie Whether it's the, there was a couple of kids here in Muskegon that drowned recently. Well, are they going to tell you everything about the stories? No, I know I've been around first responders for a while and they're not going to tell you everything. So there's, there's false stories, even in simple things like that, but When you hear Trump is a really good example. Trump is a master manipulator in his posts, in the quotes that he makes live. He makes a flippant comment. He baits people. He's baiting. He is triggering. He is very good at getting people to respond in the way he wants them to respond. He knows that he's got MAGA. And that's not really changing. People can get mad at him, like about the Epstein thing. People are mad because he's talking about it being boring. But are you triggered to think about why he's saying that? Instead of being all emotional and going, Trump has flipped on us. Trump doesn't care about the children. He has done more for trafficking, human trafficking, to prevent all that than any other president probably since the beginning of the United States. And we were definitely human trafficking when the state started. So he's done a lot. And if you think about it from that perspective, you think Epstein was one of the big chains in that? You know, he's piddly. Maybe Trump is saying this is boring because he wants you to realize that human trafficking is a bigger thing. Maybe he's just trying to trigger the left. I mean, there's lots of narratives there, but don't get emotional about it is what I'm trying to say. You know what I see? I see vetting and seeing how people are. You know, if you're going to look at what you really have to work at, work with, as a leader, you're not going to ask people straight up questions because they're going to craft the narrative that they want you to know. So to see what people's real personalities are and to see how they think, whether they're in it for the long game, whether they're in it for themselves, for self enrichment, which is, is very rampant, whether they're in it for say, like if they're weak, So when yesterday I was talking to somebody else who is pretty high ranking, and we had a wonderful discussion about how many people in our government are actually blackmail. And there was absolutely concrete stories that I was listening to. on how they blackmailed the people that step up. So you have a controlled situation. Even if a good person steps up with good intentions, they're going to try one of two ways to compromise them. The first thing is going to be the easy way, take the money. Take the money and they'll get you in that. And now they've got something hanging over your head until the end of time here, because they can say, okay, this person committed a crime. of patronage or whatever. And then all of a sudden that person, if they step, they're going to do what they're told, or if they step out of line, they're going to jail. Okay. The other part is, is holding the things or the people they love hostage and saying, you do this, or I'm going to kill somebody in your family, or you do this and we're going, you know, we're going to, um, do xyz so they'll force them into a crime or what happened on epstein island now I'm not saying that everyone is is innocent of this some people walk right in a lot of them knowing that they're going to walk away with a whole lot of money but there's also good people that are caught up in this And while I'm talking about that, talking about, you know, the Islamics and other subcategories, I think we've got to be real careful in not having the distinction between people who are a military operation parading as Muslims as um an identity taking on another identity because they're chameleons so you know I've had people come on here and go you know it's the jews and it's like you know david's jewish we're friends and it's not a whole group of people it is the global crime syndicate that uses everything we believe in to take us down Um, I I'm friends with, with quite a few Arabs for Trump, people that were in Arabs for Trump, wonderful people. And they're not, they're not jihadis. They're not out there, you know? Trying to take over, but we've got to be able to discern what we're seeing. And I think a couple of days ago, which is really shocking, there were actually some gang members in Michigan that were arrested up in Traverse City. And that was a scary thing and not a peep out of fake stream media. And that's media, including Fox News. including all of these people who are influencers or tier two mainstream media that are considered alt media. There's no clear cut thing and it's on an interaction by interaction basis is how we have to think about this because if you see somebody's behavior change that you've known for a long time, Guaranteed, somebody's working on them. That can be your kids. That can be your friends. That can be pretty much anybody. Look for the consistent patterns. And when they break that, all of a sudden, you see somebody that's starting to waver, their behavior gets weird, or they start lying, or they spend a lot of time alone, or switch their allegiance to other groups. And all of a sudden, they've got a whole new set of friends. Start asking questions. Have you ever watched the show Billions? I don't watch TV, so I'm like the worst. It's amazing what you can find watching Netflix and Apple and things like that, some of these shows, because they really spill it out, especially watching them today with what we know. But it's amazing how they set people up and how these things unfold and Unless you're a devious, really professionally devious person, you'd really never even think this way of how they do things. But the way I look at it is I agree with Karen. It's a show and a serious one where people are probably getting killed and dying that we don't know about. But Trump, if there was a group of people that knew But we know today that all of our institutions were captured and people are blackmailed and there's extortion going on and child trafficking and all this stuff. And there was a small group of people that really knew it. How would they get the rest of the population to figure it out, the world population? And I think that's what they're doing. And, you know, it's just, like they say, if they just came out and started arresting people and stuff, that we'd have like civil war chaos. They would think that Trump and a group of people just got together and took over the government. But if they wanted to change the world and get rid of all this stuff and start over again, they'd have to do it the way that's going on, slowly, without people mowing. they probably do control the news and they purposely don't report a lot of stuff. It probably started with nine-eleven. There was a group of military that probably knew and some people that probably knew what really happened. And you just look at this Epstein thing, it's like a playbook right out of that show Billions. Trump says, nah, there's nothing to look at, nothing to look at there, knowing that the enemy is going to think that they put something in there that's going to implicate Trump. And they're clamoring for it. We want to see it. We want to see it. Even some Republicans that are not on our side, but all the Democrats, all the bad guys want it out. What did Trump do, I think, last night? He put out a truce saying, okay, we're going to give it all to them. So they asked for it. And that's better than if Trump just spilled it out and said, hey, look, and pointed fingers at people. So they the Democrats asked for it. Now they're going to it's going to go public and it's going to implicate certain people. And I think that we're on the edge of we're on the edge now of these trials. You know, they're already saying that they're investigating Comey and these people and. It's like a thread and they're pulling it slowly and it just appears like it's just a random thing. They're dismantling, you know, the agencies. When you mentioned, you know, being extorted, Donna, you know, some of these people being extorted or blackmailed and stuff. Can you imagine if that happened to you and then you went to the FBI and they don't do anything because they're part of it? Now I think it's changed. I think that, you know, he's slowly dismantling. I think today is like a massive firing, right? Of not just the Department of Education, but the State Department and probably every agency. They're getting rid of the first layer of people. Tens of thousands of people are getting laid off today. And we're watching a plan roll out. We're just not part of it and we can't figure it out. I think so, and I'd like Ralph to talk about this, too, because we were talking about it on Liberty Central's on Wednesday, how the conflict in the Civil War wasn't what they've been selling us. It's like everything else. They have to have an emotional hook to get people to jump into things. Because law is kind of boring unless you're actually doing lawfare like I am right now. But why don't you talk to that a minute, Ralph? I tend to think that's pretty significant in law. examining how much of our history is completely made up. Because, you know, we were always taught, oh, the Civil War was just about slavery. That's the one issue that they always talk about. And you start looking into it and realize, well, the South, when they signed the Confederate Constitution, actually took steps toward eliminating slavery under the emancipationist plan, not the abolitionist plan, but the emancipationist plan. They started taking steps to eliminate slavery before the North did. And I don't think that Lincoln would have signed the Emancipation Proclamation had he not been quite heavily pressured by Cassius Clay. And that's really when it kind of became something that they could propagandize into the conflict being about slavery only and not about being effectively the Federalists versus the Anti-Federalists. extended into the eighteen hundreds and there was a lot more to that conflict but you know I that's why one of my biggest things for that is I think everyone should read through the Confederate Constitution and compare and contrast it with the current US Constitution because there's an awful lot of similarities but the differences are really pretty striking And then you start looking at how the dates line up on things. And it's like, wait a minute, this is completely different than what they've always told us. And the documents are there. And this is one of the reasons why I'm such an advocate for people personally preserving historical artifacts, not just having them locked up in museums, but preserving old books, old papers, documenting things like that, because... Well, even at the time that was propagandized, the closer you get to an event, the harder it is for them to have erased all traces of that event's actual history. And it's a lot harder to go through and pick up all of the eighteen eighteen eighty five dictionaries from everybody's houses and change the meaning of a word than it is to just go online and change it in you know a wiki online you know so there's got to be some preservation of our history because without that it's too easy to rewrite but kind of to uh to Karen and Dr. David's points too. I had a conversation earlier this week that was somebody saying that, you know, Boy, I don't see anybody now saying that they were the ones that put Trump in office. And, you know, now I hear people complaining that they're being impacted by the tariffs and such. And they didn't think that they were going to be. And, you know, now they're whining about it. And what I told – my thought on that – when we were talking about it is, well, yeah, everything's fake right now. Our money's fake. Our, the news is fake. Our food is fake. The water's contaminated. The air's contaminated. Everybody's living in a fantasy world right now. We all need to share in some pain and, You know, that pain needs to be shared by everybody, not just by a few people, but by all of us equally so that we can fix the darn thing, you know, and get out of this fantasy world and get back to reality so we can start fixing these problems. Well said. Well said. I think that if we go back to original documents and books and actually put the time into it, to educate ourselves, that's probably one of the most important steps at this point of the game. Like you said, everything in our history is questionable. This has been a struggle for me and I'm sure it is for other people too. So I'm going to bring that up. This is part of the frustration and the emotional upheaval that our country is experiencing because when suddenly Um, Donna was one that she, for example, knew that nine one one was, was false. That whole story about nine. That was false. He knew the day of I did not. It was years later that I started hearing more about why it was easy for people like Donna to see that it was not true. We were being sold a lot of lies and it was actually our, our own country. people from our own country, or who claim they're from our own country, who were our own government, our de facto corporate government that was responsible for killing so many people and destroying all this property and creating a war. That is a really good example of how challenging and emotional it issue can be you've got a lot of people who joined the military because of what happened on that day and the lies that they were sold and then they went over and they were killing other people because of that and how are those people going to handle it and their families who sacrificed with them well even now you know for example I joined the assembly I learned a lot in the assembly I later realized that some of the things that I learned there were not correct and um even recently um at donna's I found out that one of the things I based a lot of arguments over was supposedly incorrect I gotta I gotta research that now that was not fun for me to hear I accepted it because I've been through this a few times now, you know, like, so we we've joked about questioning whether the earth is flat and, and birds are real and our nuclear weapons real at all. I mean, you start to question everything that you've been taught all your life from the indoctrination camps that we call public schools. Those were set up by people who wanted us to learn lies and who did not want us to learn critical thinking skills and so on. So we have to question everything, everything that we thought we knew about our country's history, like the civil war. It changes things. It changes how you feel about things. And that is a problem for us because we have to one at a time, think about all of these stories and go, Oh, my feelings are changing. I have to accept it. I have to recognize what it is because it's causing stress and let it go. And so when I'm watching the news, like the other day, I told Donna about something I was watching on the news, a story about the twenty million dollar grant suddenly showed up on the evening news. Why is the question? Well, you've got a governor candidate involved in it. And he's just inserting himself into the story. Well, later on, he's going to look like the good guy because he's fighting these Democrats and he's a Democrat. Well, I'm trying to do the right thing is the story that I pull out of it. It might not be the only story. Why is it on the news today when it wasn't for the past weeks? I want to talk to a really good point. And I want to talk to, to the fact that most of our, you know, we're on the subject of Epstein everywhere. Right. So when you look at the connected people, um, Robert Maxwell was the one who was behind McGraw-Hill, Pergamon Press. All of our textbook manufacturers or publishers were tied to Robert Maxwell. Therefore, all of the propaganda, everything they're teaching in the schools had its roots in the globalist Marxist agenda. So they could slowly change that over time. And I remember when I first got into really researching heavily on these subjects, one of the people that floated to the top said, if you really want to see real history, go back and pick up a textbook from, say, twenty five years ago. Well, the reality is, is you got to go back farther than that. But that's a good start. I'm going to shut my camera off a minute, talk amongst yourselves, because I want to show you a really cool book I just bought. Well, there's another distortion of history, too, that I've actually had several discussions over the last couple of weeks with people on, because people don't realize this. But did you know that we had zero... We had carbon-neutral transportation... back in the eighteen hundreds really even back in the late seventeen hundreds mechanical not just horses I mean horses we've had for a long time but we've had mechanical carbon neutral vehicles and transportation since then in the form of wood fired steam trains and then in the form of the early steam powered cars which could run on, well, darn near anything that burns. So if you've got a vegetable oil or whatever. And then you've got the early internal combustion cars, like the Model T, can run on alcohol. All of those things can be made from carbon capturing sources or have to be made from carbon capturing sources, like trees in the case of wood-fired steam. And you're sucking up carbon from the air, you're putting it into wood, you're burning the carbon. It's a closed cycle, and so it's completely carbon neutral by their own definitions. So the steam trains belching black smoke, burning up forests in the eighteen hundreds were the goal of what they're now trying to do by their own definitions. but it wasn't pretty and they can't make money off of it. We had electric cars back in the, back in the early nineteen hundreds, there were huge fleets of electric cars and some of them have still been preserved. Jay Leno's got an excellent example in his collection. And I mean, there were, I think New York had several thousand of them and people don't realize that, Oh no, electric cars aren't even a new thing. And there's all this technology that, well, people don't even know that it existed. So now it has to be reinvented and they can get a whole bunch of money off of people by trying to portray it as something new. And on the subject of steam cars, by the way, the Gilmore Car Museum this weekend has a big steam car meet going on. So if you want to see them, that's going to be cool. Big fun. I want to show you something. I'll see if this works here. Oh, new tools here. So here it is. The history of the United States. This thing is from, and if I can open up, I'm not sure you can see it, but it's signed here. it's from and it was from Indiana, Bainbridge, Indiana. And the person's name was Bracker and it gives the, the, the birth date and such. And there's some sort of weird Morse code inside in sort of the, the beginning of it that I haven't gotten into yet, but it is. I think that like when you read stuff like this, there's timelines and such, that you have to remember that they spoke a different language too than what we speak today. So when you look at historical books, don't toss the baby out with bath water. You have to be able to use a little discernment like we do with everything and realize that they literally spoke a different language. They had different ways of looking at the world. And I think it's very important, even though there may be some things in there that we don't quite understand, to ponder it and let it matriculate a little bit so that it has time to be pondered and thoughtfully considered. I thought that was kind of a cool find. Have you read it yet? I started looking through it and enough to know enough to know and see some significant changes. You know, it starts out with the Spanish discoveries in America and it goes into, you know, the native American culture. Then the attempts of the Spaniards to colonize Florida and such that sort of thing. So, yeah, I've kind of whipped through it a little bit. There's actually like, Like, check this out. I don't know if you can see this. I'm going to switch back over. But this is kind of fun to look at here. Oh, a new tool. I haven't used this one before. If you can see it, there's writing. Let's see. There's writing in the margins, like here. So this was literally somebody's textbook in elementary school. It looks like it was considered an elementary school textbook. So I want to get in and kind of go through it a little bit more to really see what age this was considered for, you know, because right now most of our textbooks that are out there are geared that even are in high school. I think they're considered below... Somebody's got some feedback. I think if they're considered below, say, like seventh grade. So, you know, they've definitely tried through the textbooks and through what they're teaching to dumb everybody down. and teach to the lowest denominator rather than the gifted and talented type stuff should be in there too, as well as the trade schools. I'm completely convinced that everyone should come out of school with an education to have a skill that they can provide for themselves. If they want to go on and do... do uh other types of training like being a doctor and such I get it but if you have a trade behind you that you can do as a fallback just so you have multiple ways to make a living for yourself and to care your family or things you're just interested in you know what would what would be different if we all could do our own mechanicing on our cars since it's it's hard to find a good mechanic No, I agree with that. And also military. I mean, you should be required after high school either to go into the military, learn a skill, or go to someplace else where you get some kind of skill. Because just a high school graduate degree these days, I mean, if you see some of these interviews on YouTube where they just ask random, twenty-year-old basic questions they don't know the answers to, I mean, it's scary. Yeah. How do they get a job? What do they do? And the ones that do get a job as entry-level jobs, they're just so bad at it, and they just get away with anything. It's criminal. Yeah, there was another news story on yesterday. I always go, news stories. And I do watch. Usually I'm watching for the weather, but these girls are going to a regional... sports conference. And they're so excited about it. And so they interview these girls. And they can't even speak a couple of complete sentences in proper English. And I'm like, they're so excited about all the time and effort they've put into softball when really where they should be putting their time and effort in is the scholastics and learning how to speak properly. But they just don't. That's the culture that they've brought into our society. I was a Toastmaster too, so I hear things from a Toastmaster's perspective. Like I posted about the other day, I had three people in one week wish me, which is fine. I mean, it's nice, but they all said, Have a great rest of your day. And it really peaked my ear because I'm like, that's not a noun. That's a phrase. It's a prepositional phrase. It's an adjective on an adjective on a noun. I'm like, I'm not sure if I've got this right. I posted and nobody answered me because I said, I'm not sure about the proper English structure here that I'm proposing that this doesn't sound right to my ear. It's not proper English. But people are more consistently saying it lately because I mentioned it to my husband and he said, yeah, I hear that all the time. Have a great rest of your day. Rest of your day is not a proper way to put it. But, you know, it happens. Let's go back to off the grid. So, you know, if we ever get in a situation where we have to, where things are melting down, you better have some skills or know a farmer to be able to provide for yourself, such as, you know, people like everybody on here right now. I mean, we all grow or raise cows. raise animals and that sort of thing. Because as we found out in the great toilet paper scare that went on, it was really ridiculous. Things can be interrupted. And what happens if we have an interruption? And how do we deal with things off the grid. I'm going to let you chime into this one, David, because I think that it would be wonderful to have your perspective as a doctor again. I mean, we've all gone over this, and I'm going to start a project here that actually outlines some rudimentary skills of survival as well as simple things that are skills-based. Oh, I want to show you this. Okay. Thank you, Ralph. Here, we're going to throw this up, but go ahead and chime in anytime you want, guys. Internet Archive, the Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster. I'll post this in my Telegram channel so you can see this. And download it. And yeah, a lot of people think that Webster's It was not. The one actually has a lot of similarities to the one. The included more etymologies for words, although a lot of them ended up being kind of not, not a hundred percent accurate. So this one is more just, it's a dictionary, but it's a very early one. And this was one of the first dictionaries of American English as opposed to British English. Cool. And yeah, downloadable because it is public domain. Internet Archive is amazing. And yeah, a lot of that too. A lot of old books. You can download scans from the Internet Archive. You can download e-books, e-book versions of them from Project Gutenberg. And in a lot of cases, you can download audio books for free, which are also public domain at LibriVox. So there's all kinds of ways of archiving old books. But yeah, there's electric cars from eighteen ninety nine to nineteen fourteen. And they use lead zinc batteries, correct, or nickel iron batteries. So I think I think it was a combination. Some of them, I think, were nickel iron. Some of them, I think, were. Yeah, there you go. Lead zinc batteries and Edison designed the nickel iron batteries, which they have. They have interesting characteristics. There's a reason to use them. Yep. Nickel iron is great. as a battery chemistry. And a lot of the batteries for those still function because like nickel iron batteries are, you know, pretty well indestructible made from fairly common materials. Well, most of our society is based on disposable things. We just use them, throw them away. Instead of building them for the long haul, they build in, planned obsolescence to almost everything. And tie it into the computer, which brings me back to usually what Vicki Davis and I talk about, the corporatocracy that's ruling the world. The only way they survive is if they keep the money flow from us going to them. That's my biggest objection with modern electric cars is not the electric part of it, it's the batteries. Because they're not sustainable. It ties you into a supply chain to be able to keep that car running because those batteries have basically an end date at which you will not be able to use your car. And if like these ones, the Baker Electrics, you can still run those things on the original batteries in a lot of cases. And they're over a hundred years old. No, there's green energy for you. I mean, if you continue to go after this lithium, which is strip mining and just tremendous waste, there is tremendous waste in mining lithium. That's a great way to go with those because, you know, electric isn't bad. You can generate electric from all kinds of different sources. You got a creek on your property. You've got enough hydro to be able to do small things. You can get, uh, you can build your own wind turbine out of, uh, out of a car alternator. If you wanted to, you know, there's all different ways of generating electricity, your own yourself to be able to recharge stuff like that. If you don't have a car, that's basically actively disintegrating on you, even when it sits there. I'm going to go back to the, uh, I want to go back to the concept of the youth and the survivor. There was a show recently. It's called Duck Dynasty. It's got a family called the Robertsons. They are from the South. Their father was a forest guy, so he was into hunting ducks and everything else under the sun. He knew how to survive because they were poor, and he raised his children to know how to do those things. Well, now you're on another generation. These kids are what they call yuppies because they have a dynasty of businesses. Now it's not just that they make duck calls. They make a lot of other things. And so, um, The second generation man who is, I think he's the CEO of the business, decided he's going to put some of these young people through the ringer and test them like the show alone, except he doesn't do it quite like the show alone. In the show alone, you have competitors who are dropped into the wilderness and they are strictly alone unless they have medical testing from time to time. And they are left with like ten different survival items and they have to figure out how to survive. And it usually is in a cold environment like Alaska, you know, someplace really cold where it starts out OK and they have to build a shelter and all of that, figure out how to make food. And the one who lasts the longest wins the show. So they put four young women and their husbands had to watch the children. That was their task. And they didn't do too well either because they couldn't call on their grandmothers for assistance. So they put these women out with backpacks full of really good tools that they didn't know how to use. And they had four things they had to do. They had to make a shelter, find food. And I don't remember a couple other things. And Willie couldn't help it. He had to come along and check on them and show them how to do things. And in one day, they couldn't even get through one day. Well, the pregnant one smelled the burgers he was cooking nearby and she took off. And then two others joined up and they smelled the burgers and they started heading that way. And the one who didn't have a shelter couldn't make it eat her food because she did catch a fish, did make a fire successfully. That was one thing. She finally realized that they had all given up. So they didn't make it through a single night. And he said he was so proud of them for what they did accomplish. And I'm going, are you kidding me? Like I could at least make it through one night because I've had training for this. I've had extensive training for this. You have to practice and the training makes a difference. So I'm going to give a nod to Sean here. This is one of Sean's books. This is another one of Sean's books that he's written. Our special ops guy here. Let's see. Ultimate home security. and the Survivor's Bible. You want to talk about this a little bit, Sean, the Survivor's Bible? Yeah. So the Survivor's Bible is a multiple factor thing. So we get into wanting to make good decisions. I'll give you a good example. So like we see out in the state of Washington, there's a mountain out there, Mount St. Helens, I think it is. or no, I'm sorry, Mount Rainier. So Mount Rainier is right now is very active and they've got these little sirens that are posted all over the mountain, around the mountain. And so one of the things is, is that if you don't have a plan to block out from an area like this for example you know that that mountain blows then there's there's going to be like within the vicinity there's going to be a fallout right and people you know because we we're so hooked on convenience for a lot of stuff people don't take the time to go and you know it's just doing their basic research like okay when is a good time to bug out you know uh and and you know research your area for now number one if you're if you live in an area where you got a mountain that's kind of active half the time then you should know, okay, well, I need a bug out bag and I need a secondary location. It could be family, it could be friends, it could be property that you bought. And you have to look at things realistically, like how long does it take for me to get from point A to point B? And if this is the only major highway to get there, Well, you don't want to be that guy or that gal that's trying to grab whatever you think you might need. You're going to waste a half an hour of your time. And then by the time you get in your car, you're going to be stuck in this traffic jam for hours just trying to get out of there. and you could potentially end up becoming a victim in this situation. In the book, it really gets into the details about understanding bugging in and bugging out. They literally go hand in hand. The point of bugging in is, So bugging in would be a situation where let's say there's an economic collapse. Right. So you're going to be bugging and you're not going to be bugging out because of that. But, you know, you're going to be learning how to put up a greenhouse, how to grow your own food. get rid of the idea of convenience, switch to glass bottles, learn how to, you know, maybe have equipment on hand. Like, you know, you can get a well point. It's like they call it a sand well point. What it is, it's just a metal device that's kind of sloped and you attach it to a pipe, a galvanized pipe, and then you drive it into the ground. And you go down to a certain length. That's where your water drain is going to be. And you can tap into that. You can pump that water out by hand. Or if you're lucky enough, you have a generator, you can actually hook up one or two horsepower water pump to it. And you can actually pump that water right into your house. But... And the thing is, is that, you know, a lot of people just take a lot of things for granted. And so the book is really about not only the awareness, but the education behind it. Part of my experience being in the military has taught me is this, always have not just a backup plan, but have plan A, plan B, plan C, and plan D. Because plan A oftentimes is going to fail. Plan B, if that fails, you need to have a plan C and a plan D, because if you don't have a plan for these contingency plans, then you're going to end up in a very bad position and you can very well end up getting taken advantage of. Right. So like one of the things we learn about bugging out is really simple. So if you are going to be planning on booking out somewhere, like say a family or a friend, you can take... I know my wife would be like this, but... First thing she would grab is all the photo albums. We make duplicates of everything. We make digital duplicates. We make other duplicates of what we can, and we take it to the secondary locations. One of the things I started investing in over twenty years ago was buying little pieces of property, less than an acre. That's all we need is in places that are very remote, but it's within a day's driving distance. So if we need to bug out, we can. And we'll already have everything there. I've got tools there. I've got stockpiles of gasoline, food. I've got, you know, some personal facts and things like this. So I have duplicates. But what I do is I store them in a plastic drum and I buried it into the ground on the property. So if we get there. I mean, I've got extra ammunition, I've got extra gasoline, I've got food, water, there's water source nearby. So if we need something, we have something. But Then when you're going to get into is, you know, and the issue is this. A lot of people think, well, there's been a big craze about, you know, a lot of these so-called writers publishing books on bugging out. And I bought about one hundred twenty seven of them. I've gone through them each and every one of them. I said they're all wrong. They're all dangerous because they're trying. And their whole gimmick is it's getting you to focus on. buying all these things that you don't need, right? So when you're actually bugging out, you're gonna go with very minimal or almost nothing because you wanna get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. You can pick up resources along the way if you need to, But the main I say the main the three tiers that I for me that I would do if I needed to bug out is I'm going to have a bug out bag just it's just big enough that I could just, you know, strap it on. It's not going to weigh more than five pounds. I'm going to have my gun. I'm going to have my ammunition with me. And we're going to it's just stuff is already, you know, by the front doors in the closet. All I got to do is grab it. Go. I get into the car. I get to my location within an hour or two hours of driving. I don't have to worry about anything once I get there now once I get there then I'm going to focus on is setting up my security because I don't if I don't have four walls for example um then I've got to I got to put up a defensive perimeter right so eighty percent of the time this is the is is a military statistic they have done. Eighty percent of the time of whatever type of natural or manmade disasters, and oftentimes they go hand in hand, you're going to be staying home. You're going to be bugging in. And the reason being is because you and your neighbors are going to be contingent upon each other for that layer of security. So your first, and this is reality, your first layer of security is always going to be your neighbors. So if you, you know, and I know in this society today, a lot of people just don't really talk to each other anymore, you know, especially when That's why it's a really great idea to get to know who your neighbors are so you know ahead of time who I can trust and who I can't trust. But at the same time, you know your area better than anybody else because you live there, right? So you can form a defensive perimeter, not just around your house, but around your entire neighborhood with the help of your neighbors. And this is how societies survive. We've had a lot of misinformation been going on for the last twenty years about, you know, oh, if something happens, just bug out. No, if you just bug out, the chances are you're going to be number one. You don't have the safety of the four walls. Number two, you don't have tactical advantage. You know, you can take the most hardened, badass Special Forces guys and put them on the road, and they'll tell you it's a no-brainer situation. You don't have the tactical advantage. You don't have the high ground. You're mixed in a crowd of thousands of people. What happens if... and you're stuck in the middle of it and there's a car accident because somebody panics which often happens when you take a look at the disasters natural disasters where people are trying to get out and the person's in the front tends to panic and they crash into somebody else so now they got that road completely tied up now here's the reality of things First responders, they're going to grab their families and they're going to leave if they feel that this has become a very dangerous situation or they're going to bug in. They're not going to be out there doing the nine one one stop if they feel like their families are going to be impacted. So like we saw in New Orleans, here's a good example. So in New Orleans, when they had the flood down there, all of the first responders, they left. They just left the city. There was nobody there to help them, right? So a lot of the folks that were stranded there, they decided to bug in. and what they did when they bucked in is they trusted nobody outside of their four doors and why because there were bad elements like gang members that were going to a first responder station grabbing the uniforms grabbing the cars grabbing the guns or whatever and trying to pose as first responders and what they would do is they would rob these houses On top of this, we have the issue with the government. So we know from New Orleans that after the hurricane ended and the city got flooded, the government blocked the roads. They would not allow other good folks from other states to come in and try to rescue them. So a lot of people went to the stadiums because their houses were under water. So the people that lived towards the edge of the city, well, when they opened up the roads, the first thing that happened was the chief of police and the Louisiana National Guard started confiscating guns from law-abiding citizens. And they took their guns at gunpoint. You know, the government is never the solution. The solutions is always going to be the people that surround you. When people work together, their survival chances go up. When people start to just kind of depend on the government for FEMA to come in and do the rescue, chances are it's going to be weeks, if not months, out. So the book is really designed to help people make really good choices. But it also talks about prepping. you know, like the different types of gardening. It talks about foraging for, you know, food that's out in the wild. So it literally is packed with everything that I think that anybody would really need for for survival. But it's just kind of like, you know, overall references to, you know, here's some pictures, here's some images, some things you can do. But my wife and I, we went through a horrible tragedy where we've had a major flood and we literally had nineteen feet of standing water and our first floor was was under water. so when the flood was gone here's what happened so the city would not allow us to get a permit for more than a hundred dollars which means we couldn't hire an electrician to come in and put a new burger box or anything in um the power company came and actually cut the wires to her house um we had no assistance from from anybody nobody came to help us nobody I mean I realized this after about the first two weeks right no one was coming. So I took it upon myself to start, you know, taking the money we had in our savings and try to figure out how can we get, you know, get some heating back in our house, cooling in our house in the summertime. How can we cook food? Gas was shut off. There was no electricity. And so I started doing some hard research online and I found a whole bunch of different things. And I was looking for stuff that actually does work. And I spent about nineteen thousand dollars, but I started buying all this stuff. I never knew how to do any of this stuff before until I started doing it myself. And then here's what I found. all of the stuff that I put into the book about how you can get um how you can cool your house down right um where you lay copper a copper line um outside of your house so it goes right into the back of your house and then it comes back in so you have an entry point on both sides and then you can feed forced air through that copper line and so understand The air temperature and the ground temperature, you know, anything below about ten feet is going to be a very stark contrast difference. So if it's, say, you know, negative fifteen degrees outside, it's freezing cold. Well, below ten feet of the ground, you're going to have about sixty degree temperatures, about sixty to seventy degrees. So we would blow air to that. And then on the other side, we just took that right up to our vent system, and we were able to get some warm air back into our house. But, you know, again, this was from my personal experience, from being in the military, my personal experience, having gone through a survivor flood, and then the aftermath of that flood when you know the government's not going to come in and not help us, you know. um we we had to literally turn our house into an off-grid situation and when we were successful in doing this I was able to turn around and help my neighbors and then I told I gave them materialists this is what you need to get people were running out and getting these things and then I would go to their house and show them how to do it um and then they became successful and then they would tell their neighbors to share that information with their neighbors and so on so when when we work together on something like this, then everybody becomes successful and everybody, we created a more, a much more cohesive neighborhood. But understand before all this, you know, I worked as an armed security officer for state and federal government. And so, yes, I wore, you know, the vest. I wore the badge. I carried the gun. I did all that. And all of my neighbors were predominantly African-Americans. Right. And they just hated me with a vitriol because they see me as a cop. So when the flood situation happened, it presented a situation. And this is how I was able to make a lot of great friends, but show them how to do things that I learned from doing it myself. And so I have to be the kind of person who is a man of action rather than of words. And so I put everything together in the book. Same thing with the other book is it tells you the truth about how to do home security. It's not just your cameras. It's setting up behavioral modification plan, what it is, is prevention, deterring, and defense. These are the same three basic methods that police officers, security officers, even the military uses when protecting their base or protecting their home or protecting a government building. And the goal overall is preventing your home from becoming a target because there's a lot of bad guys out there that have certain things that they look for. And so the book is really designed to turn that. the reader into a security expert themselves so they can look at their house from first perspective of a criminal and go, okay, oh, okay, I need to change a few things or maybe I need to get my doors fixed or my windows fixed or, you know, to make it more secure. Maybe I need to put cameras up because I have a tactical vantage point if I can be able to see from the inside of my house who is on the outside of my house, right? And I have a few recommendations in there for what, what equipments to get that does work because these are the same stuff that I use. But, and even the government offices use as well. So that's kind of what the book is about. I kind of hope that explains everything. Yeah, that's, I think that's a good start. And I mean, certainly we should be, You know, finding good sources like your book. I mean, clearly I bought them. And keep those so that even if the Internet goes down, that you're in a better shape. You take your advantage or you make your advantage now in the preparation. I want to show you a video that Dr. David put up here. Let's see what this is. Now, this is YouTube, so I can't keep it running, running, running, running. But let's just watch this. This should be interesting. I really actually like this guy a lot. It's over two thousand dollars. If I were to ask you to take one of these, a free Hershey bar or a silver bar, which one would you rather have? Hershey bar. Oh, Hershey bar. Go ahead. It's free. Trick or treat. Happy Halloween. What? I feel like this is... What are you doing? Well, I'm just offering people a free Hershey bar or a silver bar. I don't know. I was always told not to take candy from strangers. Oh, I'm Mark. I'm not really a stranger. Oh, okay. You can take the silver bar. It looks really heavy. It is. It's seven pounds. A hundred troy ounces of silver. You don't want either one? No. Okay. Well, happy Halloween to me. Trick or treat. Want a free Hershey bar or would you rather have a free silver bar? Hershey. Hershey. Okay. Straight on. Happy Halloween. Here for that pizza. The silver bar for one slice of pizza. For the whole pizza? It's one slice. Oh, it's only one slice? Yeah, I only got one. Oh, okay. Sorry. Never mind. One slice. One slice and a garlic knot. Oh, no. It looked pretty good, though. Okay, got a break here for a minute because otherwise I'll get a YouTube strike or something like that. But can you even imagine what these people have no idea what he was offering them? And that's really sad when you don't know the real value of things. Let's continue on. They didn't even ask him, though, either. Yeah, this is pathetic, really, but funny and pathetic. Oh, that's a big slice. It is a big slice, but it is only one. Would you like to trade to the silver bar for the slice of pizza? I think I'm okay. You don't, no? I'm pretty hungry. Oh, you are? You don't want it? No, thanks. What are you going to do with the silver bar? What are you going to do with the silver bar? There's a coin shop over here. I'll take it down and make some jewelry. Well, you could sell it to this coin shop over here if you wanted to. Or you could eat the candy bar, I suppose. No, I don't think so. You don't need that? Watching your diet? Yeah. So you don't want the silver bar? No, thanks. What do I have to do? You just take whatever one you want. Trick or treat. You want a free Hershey bar? No, thank you. Free silver bar instead? It's a hundred ounce silver bar. Just take it. So you don't want either one? No, I appreciate it. You don't maybe have somebody that you would want to give it to instead? I don't know anybody that likes our chocolate. Oh, you don't? Yeah. I'm not fans of dark chocolate. You know anybody who's a fan of silver bars? I've never even seen someone with a silver bar. You don't want it either. Well, you'll think about it deeply and you'll figure it out. Oh, that's kind of funny. Think deeply. Thinking deeply will solve this problem. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. So if Mark Dice comes up to you on the street, realize it's probably you're going to get your behind handed. It's a trap. It's a trap. Here's another one. This is another link that Ralph put up. Talk about this, Ralph, because this is really interesting as we talk about off the grid and how to save resources offline. Yeah, so we've talked about Kiwix before for being able to download an entire copy of Wikipedia, as well as every public domain book that's been digitized and all kinds of other resources to be able to save them offline. If you have not set that up on your computer and tried it out yet, you should do that. However, there are also... There's this organization that does internet in a box. And the idea behind this is for places that don't necessarily have internet, To be able to download stuff ahead of time, like people listening today I'm sure do, the idea here is while you just load it up onto basically a little brick, bring it out to someplace that doesn't have internet and will not have internet for a long time, their particular use case here is largely sub-Saharan Africa, And then it acts as a Wi-Fi access point that you can connect to from other devices and be able to access all of that information that you've downloaded. So it's really kind of a very similar use case to a grid out situation by basically just going to where there's no grid. And you can buy these internet in a box boxes. There's another link that I posted there, uh, or the Wikimedia Foundation store, where they sell these Internet-in-a-Box devices preloaded with Kiwix and copies of Wikipedia, some other resources like, I think, MDWiki for medical information, maps of the entire Earth. Not the flat Earth. Both the flat and the round Earth. Does that need a computer to hook to a computer? Computer or phone or pretty much anything with Wi-Fi. It's basically just a powered brick that acts as a server. But those things are like the Internet in the boxes are like I think they're they sell for like fifty eight dollars. So if you don't want to take the time to do this on your own computer now, if you don't want to prepare and instead you just want to spend money to have a backup plan, this is a pretty easy option. Where do you find that link to buy the internet in the box? It's in the chat there, store.wikimedia.org. Let me look a minute. Aha, there it is. Everybody's tired today. I can tell it by how you guys are talking. I'm not juggling a bunch of things. Yeah. So they are, they listed as sold out, but if you scroll down to just underneath that, you can buy it not straight from the Wikimedia Foundation, but that highlighted yellow there. You can buy it from their partner organization, Wikimed. And yeah. There you go. Five dollars in shipping. Sixty three bucks and you can have a an offline copy of Wikipedia. Or you can do it like the Keywix option better because you can get other other channels and other sites. And see, that's what this is, is it's Keywix running on a Raspberry Pi. Can you load up your stuff on it? Yes, you can. Oh, so you can go ahead and customize this once you get it by attaching to, by downloading things from QX. Yep. So this is just if you don't want to if you don't want to fiddle with it your own self, you can you could buy this and you could you could load stuff up to on it and customize it now. Or you could do it for free if you want to take a little bit of time and and do it yourself. Keywix is pretty darn easy to set up. And there are so many resources that you can download with that to be able to preserve them. Well, my parents bought a set of encyclopedias in about nineteen eighty three. I think we're set. Yeah. I don't know who's got that set of encyclopedias now. I haven't seen them in a long time. So, Sean, you posted WikiHow in the in the chat there. WikiHow is they've got an entire copy of WikiHow that you can download for Kiwix and have that entire site offline. Yeah, so you, yeah, exactly. And this was one of the, actually one of the resources that I was able to find on basically trying to convert my house into an off-grid house after the flood. I was able to find some resources on there. Now, what I like about Wikihow is so they have scientists and experts who have gone out and actually fielded uh all these different methods and different things and so these are things that you know the experts that in their field and they know how to do these things and so they they incorporated these different things in there so you're getting uh real real-time information as you know as far as You know, if you wanted to know how to build a teepee or if you wanted to figure out how to source water or if you needed to, you know, you don't want to find vegetation for, say, for pain management or something. So Wikihow is almost like I would say a universal library, but it has pictures on there. And those pictures will give you a clear, very good graphic description of how to do something. You know, it's not in a video format, but it comes pretty close in my book to being a reliable source of information. Curtis just said, I didn't know there was a Friday show. I didn't either. Last night I decided I wanted to know the day was gonna go because it was such a busy day yesterday. I was writing or we were writing a response to a motion to one of my lawsuits, the one against Jocelyn Benson that we have going on right now. And we had to respond to a motion, which was very interesting and spent the entire day besides taking care of an injured horse, absolutely at burnout, hit burnout level late last night and then he had to go to the barn. So I finally later on said, you know what, let's do this. I'm missing my, you know, I'm missing my buddies here. And so just decided to get on that way. I have a quick comment on what Sean was saying. about the neighborhood and stuff um you know there's a psychology term or not even I don't even know what the term is but you know having a common enemy brings people together um in the enemy it could be you know the government or even the weather or a power outage or anything like that where people need to come together and cooperate um so it's called a common enemy and I was really thinking for a long time that we were going to have some sort of disaster and the power go out. And it would pull everyone together, not just your neighborhood, but just pull all the people together against the enemy of the government, I guess. Well, that's what nine eleven did. Yeah, exactly. So be careful, though, because that's what I'm saying. Like in that particular case, the enemy became whoever the government wanted us to believe the enemy was. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. But you are correct. In fact, you know, I was telling you I watch TV. Well, I watched recently a show about this tornado that went through Joplin, Missouri, years ago. And there there was a number of people that ended up in a gas station for shelter. And the one man who was working at the gas station got everybody, it was like fourteen people or something, into a freezer. And when it started hitting the gas station and it was very loud, tearing everything up, everybody in there in some of the recording started to say, I love you, I love you. And they were saying I love you to the perfect strangers in the unit there. And they meant it. Because they had become a group of people together bonded by this trauma. Yeah. So you're right. It's consumer psychology. Yeah. And you're right. And I didn't think about that, but Karen, you're right. You got to be careful because all these little psychological tricks and things that they do can be used for good or bad. Yes. So you want to comment to this, Ralph? Yeah, so I was just looking it up to try and find the link to where to download WikiHow for Kiwix. And apparently WikiHow requested of Kiwix that they remove WikiHow from Kiwix. And what's that? So how do you find it or do you get is there a way to do that? Well, the wonderful thing is that the Internet Archive exists. And so if you take a look at the chat there, I've posted a link to where the Internet Archive has a copy of the file for Qwix. Because Qwix, the way that things are organized in Qwix is that each library is a a single file called a Zim file, Z-I-M. Somebody archived that. Let's see, what am I doing here? That sounds like one of those fake genders. I identify as a Zim. I really screw everybody up. You know, identify as something crazy. Like, you know, I identify as a rock. I mean, we can play that stupid game just as much as they do. It's kind of like my song I got out there. It's called Only Two Gender Fan. Put it in the chat and I'll play it. Yeah, so Kiwix, as they discontinued their hosting of WikiHow, they continue to supply the tools for you to be able to build your own copy of WikiHow that you can then add to Kiwix. It's just they're not distributing their content anymore. So it's the Kiwix that's not distributing it? Correct. Yeah. WikiHow asked them to stop distributing it, so that's what they did. But they still give you the tools, and it's still available on the Internet Archive. So either way, everyone should have Kiwix, and everyone should be downloading a whole bunch of these libraries like Wikipedia and the MDWiki stuff and WikiHow. Everyone should be archiving all of this stuff. Yeah, then I think it's a good thing to have a plan to prepare. One of them is going to be compiling resources so that if things go down or if there's an interruption in anything, that you can survive it and actually thrive in it. I've always thought that there are way more opportunities when things go wrong than when things happen. go right you just have to look for them and say wow this just created an amazing opportunity and this is what I'm going to do just shift a little bit all right let me throw your song in here sean all right are we listening where should I listen to it spotify doesn't matter it doesn't matter okay here we go here's sean's sean's music Oh, it's making me download this. Is there a way to do it that I don't have to download an app or something? I've had this happen before. I'm like, yeah, I don't have the app. It was so quiet there. I know. Everybody's like, let's try that again. The anticipation. The anticipation of Sean's music. Real news for real people by real people at the kitchen table, guys. That's the way it works. Okay, let's see. I've got, okay. What's happening here? I bet. Well, you know, when you, when you, when you look at the link that I sent you, there's a little play button right on it. So. Okay. Hang on. Let's go and see. Oh, there you go. Okay. Here we go. Two genders and that's a fact Got a woman, got a man Thank God I am an only two gender friend Two genders and that's a fact Two genders and that's a fact Got a woman, got a man Thank God I am an only two gender friend Two genders and that's a fact Two genders and that's a fact That's awesome. So I had a comment on, uh, being on live that, uh, Transport is a great example of public denial. Few acknowledge how we need to simplify autos and stuff. Scrap most of the laws with them. Do we really need air conditioning? Motorcycle is best fallback for a while. And I don't know. I think that's one of the big problems that we've got with cars nowadays, exactly that, is they're overregulated. They can't innovate. They can't do stuff that's simple enough that you can actually repair it. So I would have to absolutely agree with that comment. Really sold out when they started putting computers in everything. Most people that even have mechanic their whole lives, they can't even fix it because they don't have the high-end equipment to diagnose what's wrong with it. I wish I could still get a car with a carburetor. I can rebuild a carburetor. I can't completely rebuild from scratch an electronic fuel injection system. girl. And that's another thing in my book, too, you know, the Survivor's Bible, it actually shows different types of methods of transportation that you can utilize to get around. If, you know, say an EMP goes up and fries all electronics, well, there's bicycles, you know, there's skateboards, there's, you know, there's so many different ways to be able to get around. Horses. Horses are my number one go-to. The original off-road vehicle. Yep. And I posted a couple of videos, too, of people that have built wood gasifiers. And that's another technology that is an older technology that people don't even realize exists to be able to run an internal combustion engine off of wood. You should build one of those. I would love to find one, an original one from about the twenties or thirties because they used to make them for model T's and model A's. Yeah. I'd love to find one. I don't think there's a whole lot of them that have survived, but you can make them yourself and run a generator or run a, the one video is a guy that made a lawnmower that runs on wood. And he just took an off-the-shelf lawnmower and built a wood gasifier on it and runs it on basically sticks. nice and that technology is is old it's well established there was even I think in the seventies uh there was a branch of the u.s government that did a whole bunch of experiments on it and published a report on that I don't remember the name of the report but it's easy enough to find and they published pretty much plans on how to do an off-grid wood gasifier setup and that was an official government document so that people could build these things themselves So it's not a difficult technology. It's not an inaccessible technology. It's just one that you can't make a ton of money off of selling it because it's an old technology, so nobody promotes it anymore. But basically what you're doing is boiling the methanol out of wood and then running a gas engine off of it. And there's a lot of gas engines that can run off of that, just about anything that's not fuel-injected. If it's carbureted, you can pretty much run it off of a wood gasifier for the most part. So if you've got an old carbureted car, if you've got a carbureted lawnmower, if you've got a riding lawnmower that is carbureted, well, right there, you attach a wood gasifier to it. It may be slow, but you've got transportation. Yep. Yeah, there's all sorts of things that we can work on. And I think that this is a great, great topic to go down. David, do you have any comments about getting ready for, say, anything medical? Sure. I got stung by a bee last week. Oh, no. Yeah, and my wrist. And no big deal. But I got red and kept growing and growing and swelling. And I got a cellulitis from it. Yeah, and that could literally kill somebody. You can die from a little thing like that. A little cut can kill people. There are people that raise those things. You know what's interesting? I actually saw a report last night. It was on X, but scientists have come out and said that the bee's venom can cure cancer, any kind of cancer that's out there. And they published a whole report on it. And it's really interesting. It talks about how the bees venom uh, like pokes, like pokes the, the, the pores or pokes holes into the cancer itself. And basically what it does is it, it prevents the cancer from being able to, uh, actually, um, eat the, eat the sugar in the body to grow. And it, it, it does something to the, the cancer itself, but it was really kind of interesting. I would have never imagined, uh, a B a B minimum, I think it stimulates a strong immune reaction. But cancer lives on sugar. You're right. And if you go on a keto diet or a carnivore diet, they've cured all sorts of cancers, amongst a lot of other things. I think everybody should at least do some research on a carnivore diet and what it does to your body. But back to my infection. I couldn't, I don't think there's anything you could have in a survival situation. More important, um, maybe other than a gun is, uh, some antibiotics because little things are bound to happen to you, especially in that type of situation where you're trying to survive. And, um, that's what used to kill people infections, uh, as simple antibiotic can take care of that. So everyone should have some antibiotics, a good broad spectrum antibiotic, like Augmentin or Cipro, um, It's great to have a bottle around or two. Awesome. Well, I just got a call here, and I've got something I have to take care of. It looks like there's a situation here. So why don't we end it right now, and I'm going to move on to my day, and everybody can move on to theirs. So I think what we'll do is I'll do a prayer, and then after that, let's go to last words, and everybody do about thirty seconds, and then we'll go on to our days, okay? Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much. for all the wonderful people that we have met along this journey. What a gift for Sean, for Karen, for Ralph, for David and everyone listening. I've seen many friends in the chat and I'm always thankful for each and every one of them because you've given us each other as a gift. Help us keep our eyes on you. We know that there's a lot of people out there who are really depressed, demoralized. They have seen this, this, uh, degradation of all the things that we love. And it's just really been a long time. Well, you know what? We know that if we ask you, you're good and faithful to always give us what we need for the time and you always equip us for whatever we're going through. So today I ask that you would give everyone the strength to walk the path that's ahead of us, whatever it may be. Thank you so much for helping us, for showing us the truth of what was going on around us. We don't want to be living in the dark here. We want to know what's going on so we can make good decisions, that we can grow in our abilities to mature, handle situations that are even harder than the ones that we can do, that we can handle right now, and look at what you're building in ourselves, in our knowledge base, in our ability to have an emotional stability that is not rocked, no matter what comes our way. You are our rock, our salvation, our provider, and truly to know you To know Jesus Christ is to know the heart of God and all the suffering, all the sacrifices, everything that you did for all of us to not only show the way, but be the way. Thank you so much for everything. We love you so very much. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. There you go, boys and girls. So go ahead. We're going to go around. John, Karen, Ralph, and Dr. David. So, yeah, I think this has been a great discussion. Again, you know, when it comes to, you know, survival, it really comes down to is having enough resources at your fingertips and, you know, just get self-motivated and learn as much as you can, different skill sets, because in the end, that's what's really going to, that's what's going to count. You know, if your carpentry skills or medical skills, I mean, this is where you have value um, in your society in general, you know, so, you know, take the time to try to learn as much, you collect as many books as you can, or like Ralph was saying, you know, there's unlimited resources out there on the internet, um, you know, put them on flash drives or whatever, and just, just hold onto them because, um, and just take the time, you know, just in, if you invest an hour each day, just learn something new, you'd be surprised what you can accomplish. All right, I guess it's my turn. I say guard your emotions. I keep talking about this because I think it's kind of important. People get really emotional about things really quickly and they're not thinking through. Keep in mind, do we believe that what we are seeing in the de facto government is actually happening? Is it actually a long-term crew or is it fake? If these people are not truly elected, why are you so worried about what they're doing there or what they're not doing there? I think we need to see that there are battles going on, such as the ones that Donna is doing in the court system. As the court system is changing, Trump is working on allowing justice to happen by freeing it up. And as we start to see more and more of that, we will start to see more and more changes. I see a lot of changes happening. It takes time. I think we're starting to get impatient because we're seeing what, we're seeing some of the changes happening and we want more. We're really, really fast, but we have to be patient about it and realize the change happens when we get more involved. And that's really our role to play is find some way to become involved, even if it's just sharing things like this video. Share what you learn with other people and don't just keep it to yourself because that's how we start to educate and inform and make changes. And don't get so involved in what other people are trying to manipulate you into as an emotional response. Look at it objectively. Imagine that everything is fake and then work from there. Can you verify that this video is true? Or can you verify that whoever told you or showed you the video is not someone that you can believe or trust? If you can't trust them, then why get emotional about what they're trying to show you? And that way you can guard your emotions and your stress level from that emotional roller coaster that they're trying to put us through. and rely on your faith instead. Ralph? I think it's important to keep in mind that now is the time to not only prepare, but also practice. I've talked about people that will get a ham radio and just put it on a shelf as a, oh, if there's an emergency situation, I'll figure it out then. And how badly that can be for, you know, you won't be able to practice with it. You get a, go get a ham license now and practice with it. Go try it out, figure out how to use your radio, how to communicate, how to, how to do all of that kind of stuff. Um, if you've got a freeze dryer, go freeze dry food. And then cook with it. Don't just set it on a shelf. Learn how to cook with it. And a lot of cases, I actually like cooking with freeze-dried food better than the food that it was freeze-dried from. You'll discover how to do that sort of thing. And now is the time to prepare and practice while you have the resources to be able to figure out how to do that. Download Kiwix, download some content, and then start looking stuff up using that Kiwix install when you're curious about something so that you're not just continually relying on Google. Download an AI model if you can and run that offline and start figuring out how to use that. Turn off your electricity periodically. Years ago, I used to coordinate with my family and one night a year we would turn off the power for a while. And it was actually a very relaxing experience to just kind of disconnect from everything. So the practice is a huge thing as well. Wow. All great advice. Definitely. Good stuff. I think everybody should be prepared. And this is the show to live in previous shows to learn all you can about being prepared. But the bottom line is have faith in God. because God is probably speaking through Donald Trump and whoever the team is that's put in there and is running whatever's going on. So listen to your president and enjoy the summer. I think that's really good advice. Stay stable in all situations and be at peace, because we do know that we're walking through this this life not alone, but with friends and more importantly with God. And I'm pretty sure that the good guys have got a pretty good handle on things and are working through the issues right now in ways that we can't see, which is a good thing. So just have a little faith. We know that we're together, quite honestly. I know a lot of really good people, so my hope is not all gone. When we put ourselves together as friends, family, and patriots, it's going to be okay. So with that said, guys, let's see. I got to get the right hand here. I always start with the wrong one. Okay, there you go. Go to, this is my twenty twenty-two protest. Go to brandenburgforgovernment.com because I'm the best non-conceder who has ever not conceded in the history of the United States of America. And I'm going to want to have a discussion with The Rightful President of the United States, President Donald J. Trump, and Cowboy Books. We'll see who wears it better. It'll be me because I wear them every day. And then we'll talk about real stuff. So anyhow, have a great day. And I've been focusing a lot on spiritual encouragement in all of my posts on, say, Telegram. X, etc. So if there's anything you want me to write about, or you want subjects that are brought forward, just let us know. And we're going to try to, I'll try to find somebody or address those situations and really try to incorporate all of our audience into this too. I think it could be great fun. But at the end of the day, we have to learn to work together, get over our differences, be able to identify the real threats, not the fake ones, and just kind of cruise through life unmovable, knowing we'll handle whatever comes our way. It's going to be okay. So with that said. God bless you all. God bless all those whom you love. God bless America. Make it a great day. Go out with a smile on your face. Don't take life too seriously. But, yeah, take your responsibility seriously. So it's a balance. Thanks for being here, everybody. And this was fun talking to everybody. I got to go out and take your responsibility for some stuff and handle things. It'll be a good day. And have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday morning. Bye. Bye.