The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 032: Splitting Headache Edition

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

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Society in every state is a blessing the government even in its best state is but a necessary evil Surviving America PBM family welcome in how's everybody doing? This is this may be episode 32 it may be episode 33. I'm not quite sure whatever it is we're gonna call it the splitting headache edition because that's Exactly where I'm at right about now I'm gonna be a little more settled in to this seat than normal and you know would be really nice is if I could get a sort of co-host

situation From the chat room. I see that the firewall forge has opened up, you know, I should have done this in Instagram We'd have got a lot more We'd have got a lot more. We'd have got a lot more feedback from the audience. They're just I don't know something about the Instagrammers. They like the yap. Woke up this morning. I don't know. I was one of those you have those mornings where you wake up and you feel like you didn't even sleep. You know what I mean? Like I woke up at five and I was like oh there's no way went down let the dogs out came back up went back to bed woke up at 630 which is like whoa and I don't know say it's the machinery is not kicking in I will tell you I did a... this is not out of the ordinary

so I don't think it had anything to do with it but I did it like a serious workout yesterday. My wife she finds these amazing workouts online that from the outside looking in you'd be like you know what I mean I know better now we used to we started with body fit by Amy and I remember seeing body fit by Amy for the first time and being like you know I'll work out with my wife we've been working out together for a long time and even if this isn't that tough this isn't that tough it's still a workout you know and she just she will destroy you you know of course if you use 10 pound dumbbells like you know she is and it won't be that hard if you're a guy well you know what that's not even true because it's high rep range stuff you know what I mean but anyway to like

to add insult to injury We we were gonna go to the gym last night. Look, I'm gonna talk today. This is all I can do I can't get into the Politic tree the current event if you guys want to talk about a thing Put it in chat. Okay Other than that, it's gonna be a sort of a stream of consciousness kind of day it's gonna be coffee to keep me going stream of consciousness kind of day and And that's that and this is where my head is right now today's show is brought to you by Lee Matango survival But we'll run that sweet commercial later and I'll talk a little bit about those guys

So many so much crazy interaction going on I think I don't know if on. I think my brain is overwhelmed or something. I don't know what it is. There's so many little tentacles coming off of my head with various different projects and various different opportunities and various different responsibilities and it's just We're getting it like it's all Like tuning right now and it's getting good. I mean it's getting real good all facets of business things like that in terms of like things in order thing, you know, I

Don't know what it is though. You, one thing that I've been doing a lot in the last month two months is Sleeping and I'm not really that happy about it to be honest with you. You know, like I've really been Struggling to wake up early. Well as early as I normally wake up, you know, like my average wake up time has been like 536 and normally it's like 435. Between 530 and 6 between 430 and 5. And I feel it. I mean, I feel it. Now there is a thing, right? There is a thing on what taking creatine can do to your sleep. But I think this started to happen before I mean I feel it now there is a thing right there is a thing on

What taking creatine can do to your sleep, but I think this started happened before I started doing the creatine If you want to know more about that that's on the prep or fit and health side, this is a new thing for me I Do remember being sort of like feeling feeling the effects of lack of sleep before I started taking it and thinking about what it might do. I don't know. Bottom line, the overall situation for me has been tired. In the morning, in the evening, not so much. Sometimes I go through these like oh

I'm a morning person now. Oh, I mean, I'm always a morning for I say the silliest stuff You know what I mean? Like there's no way I can be up Later than 630 just wouldn't work with my life When I say morning person I mean like the way I Typically run my day which is earlier than 6.30, you know, 4.30, 5.30 at the latest. Just you know what I'm used to.

But anyway, I wake up today, my wife called down not long ago and said that there's extreme pollen count. I'm going to say let's blame it on the pollen instead of just taking poor care of myself by not sleeping all week. For good reason. I mean, it's not like I was up painting Warhammer miniatures all night or anything like that.

It's just been busy. It's been busy on the writing side of things. I had a couple big projects there, things that when they come out, I'll tell you guys about them this is not stuff that's coming out on the PBN side you know what I mean this will be stuff that comes out under a different name but the products themselves are really cool what's crazy to think about is I have no idea how many books I've written in my life I know how many books I've written you know like published

with my name on them but I have no idea how many books I've written, you know, like published with my name on them, but I have no idea how many books I've written in my life anymore. That's really weird, you know? The Fire Wolf is driving in and commenting. Be careful, man. I imagine that you're probably driving to a place that Not as many people on the road, but I could be wrong So back to the workout because this is funny I'm trying to remember I want to say that the woman's name was Sydney Cummings, I think I'm pretty sure But suffice it to say that I wander upstairs at around 430 in the afternoon I'd already committed told my wife we were gonna work out together.

We're well outfitted in our house to knock out a serious workout. We don't have like a traditional gym or anything like that. But we've got a collection of dumbbells and kettlebells and skills with those to have a really debilitating workout, like laying on the ground, sleeping, you know, like in and out of like wanting to fall asleep type of thing after a workout. That's like, I can get there pretty easily doing these kinds of workouts. I run upstairs and I see a woman who is about Seven eight months pregnant

Right getting ready to dish out this workout and I'm not stupid enough to make believe that it's gonna be easy I could see from the counter on the video that it's a 36 minute workout Which you know, that's no that's no picnic to begin with And I'm gonna use heavier weights, you know I'm gonna use 25 count pound kettlebells on each arm and a 60 pound kettlebell for like Dynamic movements and that kind of stuff. So I know it's gonna be no picnic And it was it was really rough, you know, like I would say that probably without weight The average person would struggle with that.

You know what I mean? Security system right on time. Right on time. So you know what? Let's do the Lima Tango so I can let this little guy out and then we'll come back. And I really don't know what the hell we'll talk about. Maybe we'll talk about voice to text because that's something that is being chatted about. Come on. How about the big PBN symbol, how about that what happened to my camera? Oh

My it's gonna be one of these This is one of those days where in my head I was saying, you know what dude just run a rerun Just run a rerun you got plenty of shows just run a rerun. You got plenty of shows. Just run a rerun. But it's hard. It's hard to run a rerun. I know there's a bunch of people out there, you know, listening to talk radio and having fun with sort of the podcasting people that we have fun with. because sometimes these shows that are published on PBN become such a big part of a person's day. And you feel, you know, I remember being in the working world or even sometimes when there's things that have to get done that I don't feel like doing,

what a gift it is, right, to have that podcast that you hear from that person that you hear from and be like oh okay i can put this on in the background and i can get through this war laid before me but um it was definitely one of those days and uh so here we are you got what you wanted we're together now for another 15 2020 minutes, something along those lines. What are we going to talk about? You know, I do think that on another note completely, I do think that the Canadians are creating an issue at their own southern border by putting carney in feels like Feels like their southern border is gonna wind up looking like our southern border except. It's gonna be Americans jumping ship To get into zero emissions, Canada, you know what I mean? I Don't understand how you can go true doe and then and

Then get a guy like carney in there. I If I could talk to him, I would say like, you're gonna have a civil war in the country if you're not careful. You know what I mean? Like you're gonna have yourself a civil war. Not everybody's into the idea of being piss poor in order to save the world. In a country like Canada, save the world, right, from carbon dioxide. In a country like Canada, where like, I can't even imagine where they rank. If you're gonna make a list of people and nations, right, that are like really rough on emissions. Let's see. Let's just see out of curiosity

worst nations for Co2 emissions I Think they're not even probably not even in the top 10. They're not big. You know what I mean? Give me a list here. Oh My god, they're so far down. I don't even see them As we all know china number one on emissions by a long shot nobody's doing anything over there they don't care You know the united states is actually down 21 emissions from the year 2000 India is up 197 percent at number 3

The EU is down 30% but they can't keep the lights on Russia 5 Japan 6 Iran 7 International shipping is actually number 8. Oh, we got to get rid of that. That's it that he didn't know that that explains a lot No wonder they're supporting the Houthis and all that. Yes. Stop that damn international shipping Indonesia Saudi Arabia, Germany Canada number 12, right Canada number 12 the percentage of global total emissions Canada is responsible for 1.5%.

So we're taking a 1.5% emissions, you know, portion of the global emissions in totality, and we're going to ring the people out. We're're gonna ring them out of all potential and so forth Every penny that we can and you know, they'll suffer the same fate as like Spain and Portugal too. I'm sure Canada California the only difference is it's freezing in in Canada So it'll be worse if the lights just decide to go out because of an atmospheric anomaly, right? in December If the lights just decide to go out because of an atmospheric anomaly, right? In December It's no joke, man It's no joke

So if I could talk to Carney, I'd say, you know get your priorities in order Your Canada, you know what I mean like do what Canada does really well. Do those things. What the traditions and the like, what are they trying to be up there? That's what I don't understand. I mean, why are so many countries lost to the void of some other goal besides the prosperity of their nation and their people. Like why are they like crawling over the people who have like their hands, like give us something, you know, just stop killing us with taxes. They're like getting hands and feet to the face as their leaders like crawl over top of them to get to this zero emissions be nicer to everyone, especially the people who spit on you Sort of goal set

It's become kind of cool to see like world leaders talk to on Podcasts and things like that. It's pretty cool. It's a good move I think in the long run if I had some world leaders in front of me, I wouldn't mind talking to him I wouldn't mind talking to Carney I wouldn't mind telling him that you know, you could have yourselves a civil war on your hands You if the economy gets you know, the economy's in bad shape in Canada It's not gonna get any better right for if you start cutting manufacturing and emissions and all that better, right? If you start cutting manufacturing and emissions and all that, you start building the make-believe economy, the pleasure island economy. Not getting better, you know? I think

if I had Shinebomb in front of me, I'd tell her it's like, it's full speed ahead. It's full speed ahead on the denarcatization of Mexico. I would tell her that Mexico, I think, could be one of the most amazing places in the whole world by a long shot. I think the quality of life for the people there could be unbelievable. I think that the like the Tourist destination potential could be unbelievable. I really it it could be an amazing place. I Would never take my family to Mexico right now. You know what I mean? There's no way there's no way It's just you just don't know you know. It's just you just don't know. You know what I mean? You just don't know.

So if I had Shine Bomb here, I'd tell her, you know, if I were in your shoes, Shine Bomb, I would form an alliance with Donald Trump as tight as possible. I mean, meeting regularly and talking about operations in detail or assign someone who's better prepared for that maybe from your military to Just really go on an all-out war to eliminate this stuff. I Know lofty goals But if you haven't been paying attention to history only those nations with lofty goals

are the ones that tend to flourish without tyranny in the future. That's what's coming next. What comes next for a place like Mexico is what's one of two things. You're going to wind up with a cartel run nation, which may be already happening. Or you're going to wind up with a movement that is so jackbooted

and so militant that everyone's going to suffer both sides. It's going to be like a civil war where you got curfews and you got, you know, iron fist from government and military everywhere, breaking heads, even if they're the wrong heads. And then you've got the cartels with their grips and you know, it's now's the time. Unfortunately, unfortunately for the world at large, now's the time, you know, which is why it's your time too. It's most certainly your time too. If you're going to get powerful, if you're going to get self-sufficient to any degree,

if you're going to learn skills, if you're going to really become sort of your best self in a lot of different facets of life, this is that time. Now is that time now is that time? Because it's we have the potential to all sort of wind up on an upswing Because every all the forces for good seem to be at least at the table at least thinking about things Rationally for the moment, you know, you forget already where we were a year ago today You know where we were May 30th a year ago, right?

It's like we were in this situation where we weren't even sure that the president in the United States was the president of the United States I think I Posted a show around this time and the title on it was I want a president And the title on it was I want a president That's what it was. I want a president because I really felt for a long time. We didn't have one We just had we there's just this you know what it was. I don't have to come up with some metaphor to explain it so If you're gonna if you Personally, you know are gonna go for something for the rest of this year

Maybe the rest of this administration or at least until they kill Donald Trump Or whatever You know the hatred and the Just see what's coming in May look up May Day and see what's coming Around this country. I saw a flyer for my own neck of the woods the other day. It's clear. And we have representatives ratcheting up the whole idea of how dangerous and deadly and devastating and again.

Even when Biden was at his worst, I think the big difference was. The right was not number one it was not interested in violence Number two the right had enough hope and and I Don't maybe a belief in hard work and those kinds of things right integrity to say like we can come back from this We can come back from this you We can come back from this. You know what I mean? And it wasn't, it never reached the point of desperation where it was like, we're all done, we're finished if we don't get Joe Biden out of office now, the whole

country is going to fall apart and we have to do it by any means necessary. And let's get all kinds of people in the streets of the country to. Scare the hell out of everyone fundamentally. So that's what's happening on the underside. That's what's happening on the left side of things right now. That by any means necessary methodology that I've been talking about is not gone away. It's only worse. They took a brief vacation.

They went and saw Europe and Canada, and now they're back, and they're like, we don't want to live there either. And now it's going to be a very interesting summer, particularly if the CEO of Walmart is correct in saying that there's going to be, you know, serious problems by summer if we don't make a change in terms of tariffs and getting cheap Chinese goods into the country. Morning, Jay Ferg. Thanks for joining me. I'm hanging on by a thread.

No, that's not true. I'm doing my best. How about that? Let's go with that. Doing my best. How about that? Let's go with that. I'm doing my best. It's a day where I probably should have called out, but there's nobody to call. You remember when you could call out of work? Some of you, I mean, many of you can call out of work, but I've been doing this entrepreneur

thing for so long right now that there's no call out number. You know what I mean? If I call the call, if I call to call out, I just wind up getting a busy signal because I dial my right or it goes straight to voicemail. It's a. In like few hours, I'll be good. I know it. I'm probably like one

Hot weather run away from being fine and I'm also being a wimp. I think on top of it. I think I've got like a little Tired ish allergy ish headache and I'm whining It was a crazy morning too, but I don't want to get into this You know, it's just one of those days One of those mornings not even like one of those days So we're talking about what we could what what I would like to say to different world leaders. That's kind of fun We can go with that You know what? I mean? We can we can go with that and Well, that would be kind of fun Jay Ferg actually have you do a stand-in on surviving America for me that would be kind of fun, Jay Ferg, actually. Have you do a stand-in on Surviving America for me.

That would be pretty cool. Um, no particular topics in mind. Like I said, open to questions from you guys and that kind of thing. But, um, what's kind of got my attention right now by accident is, is the idea of if you had a world leader in front of you, what kind of things would you tell them ask them that kind of question? You know, like what would you say to Zelensky right now? Being a prepper and you know watching the war and understanding what could come next and all that kind of stuff What would you say to a guy like that, you know for me

The first question I'd have for him is like, how long is this going to go in your head? Like, what's the timeframe on this Voldemort? What are you thinking? Are you thinking that with the help of the coalition of the European Union, that you're going to get all your land back? Like you lost this war it's what it is right the Washington Examiner today puts out that the economy shrank in the first quarter singling major warning sign look I do think that I do think that fire will

forge puts it puts a good little asterisk in it'd be fun to talk to world leaders only if they Couldn't lie We'll go with that fat enough What was I gonna say talking about the economy for a split second Economy shrank in the first quarter state. Oh, oh, I do think that those of you who have put extra food, water, goods up are going to benefit from that in the very near future. I do think now is a time to wrap your head the taking about, I don't know, $300 to $500

off and doing a good Costco Sam's Club run, you know, shaving about $300 to $500 off the old savings, the old emergency fund, whatever it is, and doing a good run and really kind of nothing crazy and for those of you don't shop those kinds of places on it might sound crazy to you for some of you who do shop those place you're probably thinking 500 why not a thousand but I put some of those you know China made daily items up you know I do think a lot of that stuff is going to become a little bit scarce. I think the American people are going to be faced with a variety of things that are going

to taint their judgment in the summer. I think there's going to be desperation on the left-wing political side, almost guerrilla-esque. You know what I mean? And everything that Donald Trump does that isn't impossible to cover up, you know, that would like so immensely beneficial to the country that it's impossible to cover up, is gonna be rung out in the news like you wouldn't believe, you know? So that combined with protests, combined with the very real fact that we could see empty shelves on major retailers and maybe supermarkets who knows you know that's one of those situations it's gonna get people crazy people are gonna start I don't know what to do what should I do

you know and the the prepping crowd is not the hoarding crowd the hoarding crowd is the is the crowd that didn't prepare Right. They're the ones that go. Oh god. I don't know what to do. I'll buy all the toilet paper Oh god, I don't know what to do. I'll buy all the plastic cups. You know what i'm saying? Things you know things to consider. Because I do think the summer is going to be an interesting ride. Maybe well into the fall. Maybe even well into the fall, to be honest. It's just everything shaping up to look that way.

We don't even know really truly what's coming in terms of the war situation in Europe. I do think that the Brits are gonna... I do think they're in for it a little bit. I don't want them to be. Don't get me wrong. I do not want to go to this website right now. What am I doing? Of course, the bought and sold Drudge report says G did the top headline of all headlines GDP shrinks But they do have it up here they do have China exports to US plunge and pending shortages You know, this is like kind of cause and effect, you know, it's it I'm saying things that I

Hope people just kind of get you know what I mean like I hope the simple math of We're charging the shit out of China Equals they're not gonna You know the tariffs are gonna affect how much Chinese goods we get right? Kind of makes sense yet, right? Kind of makes sense. So Whitmer hugs Donald Trump and that's supposedly a story. Couldn't care less.

There was a story over here about Russia talking about, it's the only reason I'm here right now. Let's see. Let's see. Yeah, here we go. Putin mouthpieces. These mouthpieces of Putin, man, they gotta be careful. This guy, what's his name? I've read him several times. As soon as I see his name, I'll know it. Oh, this is a different propagandist Vladimir solo voino solo solo voiov Solo viov maybe And so called military expert Andre Klinkshevik told Russia one that Britain's security service handed explosive to the perpetrators by the ton

that Britain's security service handed explosive to the perpetrators by the ton. When we say that British security services behind every terrorist attack it means that the blood of the British who authorized the killings on Russian soil must be spilled. They must realize that they will pay personally an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Personally, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I remember they're sending people. It was months ago when we broke the story. We didn't break it either, but we just talked about it here. We just broke the story, or talked about the story rather, that the UK was committing special

forces to go to Russia Like what do you think's gonna happen? You know I'd love to talk to that guy the head of the English the English leadership over there. That would be a fun conversation to have right like your country's been invaded by radical Muslims that are have clearly set up their own worlds and their own lands and their own laws and their own everything.

And again clamoring over the people clamoring over the people that you're supposed to represent and protect to hyper focus on Ukraine and the imaginary war that could come with Russia which I really have a hard time believing that's a thing I mean it could be a thing now that you've spent three years you know helping bomb on the oblivion. Firewall Forge in chat says saw a post saying they wanted to see the price breakdown because of the tariff increase. And I like that. Open books, baby. How much on that $1.97 knife at Walmart is profit? And then when tariffs go down, I expect the price to go down. Yeah, that's that's a big one right now in my head too, Firewolf. My son, he is on this kick

of getting his hands on one of these electric dirt bikes, right? And that's one of the things that I'm gambling on right now. It is a very much a gamble at the moment. It's gone up, I think the bike itself has gone up about $300 in the last couple weeks. He's been saving his money for it and I told him I'd give him some money to help him out with it. The price went up naturally you know it's a electric dirt bike where you think that's made and now I'm waiting to see what do these companies do right like do these companies decide hey the tariffs are down but we're still selling these bikes at this price.

So who cares? Let's keep it rocking. Right now, my gamble is that, and maybe I'm just such a freaking fluttery goofball that I think they'll do something nice for their consumer. But I am seeing I am thinking that this brand in particular says and takes advantage of the fact that oh look price reduction tariffs are down the price has gone down. You say things out loud and sometimes you realize what an idiot you are. You ever do that.

It really helps when you're worrying about something like if you're really worrying about something that you know is probably bullshit And you say it out loud You'll be like oh god. I can't believe that's been in my head so long Unfortunately, I feel that way about this idea that this company for some reason ever would drop its prices. You know what I mean? But yeah, I'm wondering the same thing Tariffs go away to prices go down, the prices go down. Do prices ever go down? Does it ever get easier in terms of the battle of attrition that we face week in and week out? Do you ever feel like that? See, when I have a bad headache and I'm feeling

really cynical and there's been a lot of impediments today, my cynicism goes way up, and when I'm hyper cynical, some days I wake up and all I see is the the war of attrition that we all are fighting. Everything looks like attrition to me, you know what I mean? I look in the refrigerator and it's like, oh you know, the inventory is slowly depleting, it's the battle for attrition, you look at the bank accounts. You got to fill it up You got it. You know, you wear it down. You got to fill it up more It's the battle of attrition the very body itself, right? Like my legs are killing me right now because of working out with the woman who was eight months pregnant

Absolutely obliterated me Same thing the muscles wear down They need to build back until they can't anymore because you get so old and then you lose, right? Because the funny thing about this war of attrition that we're all in is that it's a lot like Ukraine. It's very similar. We're all in the Ukrainian position in our lives, right?

Eventually it's all just going to the world, the financial burdens, the burdens of the body, the burdens of the public, the burdens of the world, the burdens of the culture. Eventually, it'll all just wear us all down and we'll die and then we'll wind up being shoveled off into the ground or become a funeral pyre of our own and scattered somewhere into the dirt. That is the most cynical and brutal outlook you can have on life. I just want you to know that. A couple years ago, I don't want to call it a critical error. But against all my natural inclinations, I told myself you need to treat this a little more like a business and you need to focus a little bit more on the money side of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Now, there was some truth to it and

it was important to get the business to a point where it could sustain or else what's the point, right? And we've gotten there, you know what I mean? So that's great. But there are certain switches, PBN family, that when you turn them on, they can have serious effects on you. I largely am a creative, I don't know, expressionist or whatever who Masquerades every day as a businessman as an entrepreneur. That's what I do. Right? I'm an artistic and expressive type of person

Who just Masquerades as a businessman to keep the lights on you know what I mean? That's really me and what I did maybe a year and a half, two years ago was take that part of me that like, you know, where this all has come from. The logos, the shows, the, you know, different events and the things and all the fun, the intros, the music, the music the outros the sound bites the whole thing the ad reads the sponsors All this stuff is born out of that sort of creative side and I sort of like punched it in the solar plexus and Told it to go sit down for a minute while I focus on money

I'll tell you, it really is one of the worst things you can do to yourself, is to tell yourself, you need to focus on the money. You think that by saying that, you're going to focus on the money. Let's become a little more profitable. But that engages all this different shit in your head that turns you into a monster. It engages a whole line of things and a line of thinking that all this, because when you start to focus on money,

then you're focusing on everybody else's money, or perception of money, or other businesses and how they're doing. And for a very short period of time, I started to understand what's happening in the culture. You know what I mean? And why people are damn near suicidal every day because all you see is what money can do. All you see is money, money, money.

Money's easy to convey, especially on social media and stuff like that. And I could do do it's a damaging thing like I don't know if many of you out there like this is how I live dude but I'm telling you right now you if you're not the type of person that has been focused on money your whole life and then all of a sudden you try to engage that sort of thinking cool you turn on a lot of things it's not one switch it's not like I'm gonna turn the money switch on it's been off I've been just having a good time and loving life so now I'm gonna ruin all that start really

thinking about my you turn on all kind of switches you know you turn on okay you start like what about that why does that cost that much you know what am I getting out of this and what you know I mean I'm gonna do a yeah I haven't done one in a while but I'm gonna do a cubicle escape plan podcast for the members on four things that you can focus on besides focusing on the money as a business owner that make just Much more of a difference in your in your life I mean much more of it did like aside from just looking at year-over-date How much money do you make last year? How much money did I make this year and Then like governing your actions off of that like dude you will brutalize your brain like it will it will mess your brain up

your brain. Like it will mess your brain up because you have to turn on and engage certain things in order to, you know, once you start like metric sing and you start like, you know, all that kind of stuff. I don't know. It just for a guy like me, at least. It's not yielded the best mentality. It's not yielded the best sort of like I think it's actually kind of taken away from what it is I really like to do and even like the person that I am in the world. Not good. You know one of the things that I realized and you could see it from my output of my own books, was that like the first thing that suffers, the first thing that goes away is the best parts of you. Oh god, now I'm really gonna go on and on and on. Why is Johnny Five following me? Johnny, we're good man. I set this thing up just the way I wanted it. Calm yourself.

When you go on the total pursuit of dollars and cents, you have to find more time to focus on that stuff. And what it looks like to me in my experience has been that the thing that you suffer the most, the things that lose in that battle first, are all the things you love the most. It's real. It's real. Here's one perfect example. You wake up. It's a beautiful Egyptian blue morning, Saturday morning, no work.

It's a time where the family is asleep and you have the ability to do whatever you want in the still of the morning, of the infantile morning. You know it's going to involve coffee, So you brew some coffee you let dogs out Feed them whatever and They all curl up on the couch there with you, right and in days past. This is when you say to yourself I got some choices here. I can sit back and watch a movie for an hour and a half Disappear into cinema, which I love to do. I for an hour and a half, disappear into cinema, which I love to do. I can bring the laptop over here.

I can drink coffee and do one of my favorite things, which is write what I wanna write, drinking coffee. In the huge morning hours, the blue huge morning hours, while everyone's asleep in my house. That is where books come from, ladies and gentlemen. That is how books are made, boys and girls, in my world. Books are made in the wee morning hours or late at night. And I think what's real telling about that, right, is I kind of recognized that I was going overboard on all this money stuff. And I found myself waking up on those beautiful mornings and saying, well,

you've got to send emails out to X, Y, and Z. You've got to figure this out. You've got to talk to that person. You've got to look at this opportunity a little closer. You've got to do this, this, this, this, this, and this. And not only did it affect, not only did it affect like those beautiful mornings, but then your brain starts to pattern what your free time, what type of things your free time should, you know, what it should be prepared for.

And then writing gets harder. And then letting go of everything and sitting there and going into this fantasy world gets way harder and I could tell you man like I feel that returning and I think it's pretty evident like I there's a good chance I published three books this year. And I think the last time I published a written book, not like the World of Ready, nothing wrong with the World of Ready, but it's just, you know, you're not breaking the brain to figure out the small amounts of dialogue in that book. But I think 2020 or something, 2019, I don't remember when Darker Trails came out.

Do I have it next to me? It's been quite a while, you know what I mean? And it's a lot of it has to do with like that shifting mentality You get in front of a written You get in front of an idea That has is purely about something you want to write about in Get done you get in front of a creative pursuit and your brain shuts down because it's going like dude This is a project that is six months out like There are things you need to do today to make money.

It's not good. It's not, you know what I mean? Like it's one thing if you have to because you got bills to pay and no money to pay them with. But it's another thing entirely if you're just on this weird quest. And then to see it like affect your what it is that got you there in the first place. You know what I mean? You see it like truly affect what it is that got you there in the first place. So I've definitely been coming out of this sort of battle of attrition on the money side and getting back to like, let's be James Walton again for a little while.

Like the real one, you know what I mean? Not the one who's got all of this other stuff sort of in his ears. Because the people that care about you like the ones in the chat room and the ones in the household and all that kind of stuff like they they want you you know what i mean and listen to my words i'm not just talking about me i'm talking to you like you can bury yourself in work you can bury yourself in these these sort of hollow kind of yourself in work, you can bury yourself in these these sort of hollow kind of goals and you are burying yourself and the things that people love about you and the things that even if you don't admit it that you love about yourself

are the first to go and you become this kind of like different thing you know so be careful out there PBN family be careful I measure thy cynicism because that sometimes is a marker you know if life is starting to feel like oh here we go yeah you know oh gotta be careful you know gotta be careful out there it's a rambling and it and it's a splitting headache and it's the end of the show so I appreciate you guys. If this resonates with you and you're on the membership side look for the sort of the full-scale breakdown of that concept in particular because it's... there are great lessons I pulled from it

you know what I mean? Other than that, enjoy the day. The Rising Republic will be on later today. The Rising Republic is in the top 100 podcasts. What's the company? They just put us in there. They ranked us as top three. What's the name of the company Best 100 emergency preparedness podcast by whom oh, no, I can't do that. I'm about to leave stream yard shut the show off Hold on. Give me a second. These guys deserve it. They did a great job. They do a great job They their show is called the rising Republic, but it could be called the voices

Because Ryan Buford and L Douglas Hogan are they're awesome million podcasts So million podcasts ranked us number three in emergency preparedness and then they ranked the rising Republic 90 in Top podcasts period number 90. I don't know if we're in the top 100 or not, but that's pretty sweet, man Hey look, you know I'll leave you with this PBN is the best kept secret out there. I don't know how long it'll be that way, but You know if you're here Good on you. I'll talk to you guys soon. Okay?

Enjoy your day.