The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 033: Babes in Toyland

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

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Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Indopac heating up PBN family welcome into surviving America today's episode babes in toyland thought I'd do a little babes in toyland for you today I don't know why it popped up into my head welcome in Instagram welcome in rumble welcome in I'd say YouTube but I know there's nobody over there listening What the hell YouTube seriously

Wake up. It's a massive resource sitting. I mean they look like you know is what it is, but welcome in everybody podcast audience my incredible podcast audience that started it all and Maintains it all and so forth We're here for a show today Surviving America episode 33 babes in Toyland. Oh and born to brat has joined us here in YouTube. Oh born to brat, dude That's hilarious That I literally just said nobody's over there listening to me And you do they don't like me and then there's born to brat pops it. Yo

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Rationer ruin day six of rational day five today is day five yesterday. I said it was day five in a few things podcast Instagram post whoops But rationer ruin is teaching me a lot about about pre-made food storage and I'll just leave it at that for now just leave it I'll just leave it right there for now we will do an ROR report a rational ruin report Friday so stay tuned for that where we kind of go over what's what? So I don't want to get too deep into that stuff. You know what I mean? I Don't know if you were surprised. I don't know if you paid attention. I don't want to touch on it too, you know Drastically, it's not a big part of today's show

but we do have to mention when air forces get to flying and launching missiles on neighbors and That's exactly what happened in India yesterday, India Pakistan, tensions rising. I wanted to break it down real easy because I want you to understand the core of what's happening because this is just something we're dealing with. You know this is the hidden war that we're all facing right now and it's the war of radical Islamic terror and it goes away and it comes back and it goes away and it comes back but it's you got to remember I mean in the headlines it goes away and it's come comes back it's always there because they're all you know you got to see this compound that they're building in Texas this this is not going to end well. It's one of those things.

It's not going to end well. It's going to be a Sharia law Muslim nightmare down there in Texas, intentional community, so on and so forth. I have a feeling it'll probably end something like Waco, if I had to guess, or worse. But the terrors that go along inside of it are had to guess or worse. But the terrors that go along inside of it are going to be much worse because of what you know what it's all about. I could be wrong. Don't think so. At the heart of the Indopac conflict at the moment you know we're not we haven't hit the point where it's military on military yet. The heart of this whole thing is India saying that Islamic terrorists are coming from your

state, your country, your nation state, and killing our people. And they've been accused of this in the past and so on and so forth. The standout thing about Islamic terror in Pakistan and why it does need to be Completely annihilated in all forms in Pakistan in particular is they are nukes They nuclear armed country. You know what I mean last night in our element chat. We were talking about can you imagine if we see? Nukes or tactical nukes being lobbed from nation to nation. How crazy that would be from one neighbor to the next, right? I'm not saying it's something that's going to happen. I'm just saying, you start seeing military on military action and all

of a sudden those things become much more of a possibility, right? I think what's really important, Garden Girl in chat says the Muslim compound is about 15 minutes from her and the local government is working hard to shut it down. Crazy they're choosing Texas of all places. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that Garden Girl. I really am because I don't think that that's gonna be really a great situation for people Any and all involved, right? so I wanted to talk babes in toyland today

But I wanted to give you the little indopac heads up because you're gonna see it and you know I think it's important to understand what what it all emanates where it all emanates from like what why is this happening? How did it get to this point? We know they don't get along but why is the Air Force flying in there blowing things up it's unfortunately it's a very similar situation to Israel you know what I mean Muslims radical Muslim terrorists came across the border in India killed people India said cool we're gonna find out where those guys are from then we're gonna bomb it and that's the situation this is not the first time in the in Pakistan have gone

head-to-head over just this issue okay wherever radical Islam shows up death and destruction follows so you need to know you want to simmer it down to its base elements wherever you see base elements. Wherever you see radical Islamic behavior, wherever you see Sharia law, wherever you see all of it, death and destruction follows. And that's the end of the story. That's nothing else really to say. You know what I mean? I've got an article here. This is where we want to start, right? I've got an article here that is the reason that I titled the show Babes in Toyland because I thought it kind of best exemplified. You must be joking, right?

I mean, look, I'll be honest with you. I don't know. Rennis Pep- Rennie- Rennie's Peppa in Insta- over there on Instagram. I don't know if you're being facetious or not. This is an issue. The question is, can you make a video about survival during your girl's menstrual cycle? Oh, doing your girl's menstrual cycle. Okay, so you are being facetious. What I was going to say for those of you out there who have like legit like ha ha funny, I get it, but Phoenix has done some great shows about this actual top because this is a thing. You know what I mean? This is a thing. You start, if resources start

disappearing in a serious collapse SHTF scenario like managing that becomes a thing. And I ain't the guy for the job but we have the gal for the job here at the network and she's done it several times on a family affair and on Phoenix Survival. She's done a great job at talking about different ways you can deal with that. Right's a good one so let's get into this Mattel thing because this Mattel article sums up a lot of things it's really weird I don't even know how it struck me sorry I'm looking around to find out what spreadsheet I have this thing sitting in. I think it just came through like a news feed or something like that, but what it is, is

a, it's the most sort of easiest to digest situation to explain what's happening with a, like basically all industry or the majority of industry that are affected by tariffs right now You know what I mean? Because there's a serious change happening. A lot of people are concerned worried about you know, what what's it gonna be like? What's it gonna look like in the long term short term? Whatever How are my favorite products going to be? So so Renan Reni's Peppa, since we have a worldwide audience on Instagram, were you making a joke? Because now you say thanks

to you very much, so now you're making me think you weren't joking and you really do want. If you really are being serious about, you know, menstrual cycle menstruation in particular and survival and preparedness for that, which is a legitimate concern, DM me, okay? Because I can literally go find the podcasts for you and you can listen to them and get the full story. Because the Phoenix has done a great job with that topic. Sarah Hathaway's has done a great job with that topic Sarah Hathaway's probably done a great job with that topic too, but I don't remember the episode like right off top of mind So anyway Mattel CEO says toy manufacturing won't come to America, but price hikes will right?

What what is not said in the CNBC title is that toy making is leaving China. Mattel CEO Enon Kreese maybe told CNBC he does not foresee toy manufacturing coming to America. Instead, the company expects to raise prices in the US to offset Trump's tariff. However, by the end of the year, less than 40% of Mattel's product will be sourced from China, with a goal of reducing that to below 25% in the next two years. Less than 40% from China and reducing it to 25% in the next two years. So remember, this is probably a move that was happening already, right? This is a move that a lot of businesses after COVID went, we might be a little too dependent on China. And also, Tim Cook the other day said that China is not the land of cheap labor anymore. So you gotta understand that too.

Let's see. What I want you guys to know is that the creation of the toys themselves, this is where the toy industry is one of the easiest ways to understand what's happening in an every industry. And how American manufacturing and American innovation combines with cheap labor to get people, to get the world really, the best stuff that can be made. I mean that's fundamentally what happens right in most cases. And there was a good breakdown on that in here. I can describe it myself but I kind of wanted to

read it. Here we go. We need to remember quote we need to remember this is from the CEO of Mattel. Quote we need to remember that a significant part of toy creation happens in America. Now, you can take toy out, you can put electronic. You can take toy out, you can put whatever thing, video games, systems, so on. Design, development, product engineering, brand management, all happens in America. Making product, producing product in other countries

allows us to create quality products at affordable price points. So, this is what I worry about with American manufacturing boom. Making product, producing product in other countries allows us to create quality products at affordable price points. How does that get done here? You know what I mean? That's the question that we all have. Anybody who's thinking about tariffs and American manufacturing returning, that's the question that we all have.

Because it's really easy for you to wrap your head around, right? It's like the freedom that exists in the country allows for massive levels of innovation and creativity. The high level of education post, you know, 12th, whatever, gives us the ability to really execute well on things like product engineering and development, of course, brand management, all that kind of stuff. But then after you created something awesome, you go to another country and you, of course, brand management, all that kind of stuff. But then after you created something awesome, you go to another country and you say, hey, look, here's our awesome thing.

Here's the specifications of our awesome thing. You create off of our guidelines many of the awesome things. Can Americans do that? And would it be affordable if Americans do that? And would it be affordable if Americans did that? There is a labor cost, you know? And of course, the other thing is, well, maybe Americans don't have to do it. Maybe Americans robots do it. You know what I mean?

I mean, that's probably like when you really think about an American manufacturing boom in the country What you're really probably thinking about is an automation and robotics boom in the country in other words, I don't see like it being a huge opportunity for people to I Don't know to like Get new manufacturing jobs that are very rewarding and create products that are competitive in price around the world or even here in the united states And have a long-term business model, you know The company is expecting to keep between 40 and 50 percent of its products under 20

This is something we're committed to do to continue to create quality product, find the right balance, free price value, blah, blah, blah. Mattel stock is down 19%. So, you know, that's the deal. That's the deal fundamentally. I like the angle of toys. I always wonder about toys, you know what I mean? I always wonder if there will be a resurgence in toys. I talk to my kids about it a lot. I'll talk to my kids and say like, you know, maybe you guys will be the ones that bring back the toy stores. I mean, fundamentally, they my children saw the death of the sort of like the toy store situation. They witnessed it. They were like, wow, this what happened to toys are us like how on earth does a six year old wrap his head around the idea that there's

this heaven on earth called toys are us, which is as big as a mom and daddy store, except it's filled with all the stuff that I like. Then that closes. And they're like, what the hell is that? What's that mean? You know what I mean? But, you know, it's largely our own fault, of course. Right. I mean, one of the big things is one of the biggest things was the development of

game currency, game currency and in-game purchases. You know the idea that well playing a game a video game buying a character in the video game or a perk or a skin or a gun or this or that became as viable if not more viable than buying a toy. And one of the big reasons for that was, you know, as soon as you could play those video games with your friends online, it's really hard to be like, I think I'll sit here and play with this action figure instead of going and playing online with my buddies and using all our cool new skins and new things and new this and new that, right?

And then, of course, Amazon started shipping your kids to toys the day after they wanted them. And I think that was basically it. You go to Walmart, you go to Target, you see like these... Well, it's like everything else in those stores, right? It's these sort of hyper sanitized gross collection of things that are most popular. I don't know. It's lifeless. It's brutal, really, at the a big box store. It's nightmarish. The other thing that's wild is that grown men are buying more toys than ever. I don't know any of them but grown men are buying more toys than ever.

Don't even get me started. You know what I mean? But um, there's a thing, you know, I mean along with that There's a collecting thing. There's a model thing. There's a you know, the whole thing and I watched the evolution of those toys I watched the evolution of action figures right before my very eyes and my son's very eyes go from being like This is a toy that has the ability to articulate it comes with this this and that it's clearly designed for a kid to play to this toy is two times as expensive as that old one used to be it comes with a collectible coin inside of it it comes with a collectible piece and a card and a and maybe if you

want you can add that you know what I mean and and there's a collection you collect them all they can you know do this or that and it became very clear that it was like there's a new game in town you know what I mean it's not it's not give me a good guy mom and give me a bad guy and send me upstairs and I'll be happy and content to fight those two for the next three hours till dinner. Like it's not the thing. But you know there's more to toys than just action figures. But I think it fits.

I think it really explains well kind of the situation that America's in in terms of bringing back manufacturing, tariffs, the whole process of creating and producing products and how that works. Because all of that is sort of under the microscope right now. All of that is what people are trying to figure out, right? So yeah, that's the deal. Hey, while we're on the subject of kids, while we're on the subject of toys and such, Mother's Day is Sunday.

I'm not saying this is the best Mother's Day present of all time, but what I am saying is that the world of Ready is out. On the 11th, Sunday, Mother's Day, the world of Ready 2 is out. You can join Kendall and Jordan on their great adventure. I know this is not the perfect cover because it's a not for resale authors copy But you can follow these girls on their trip they're taking an evening trip to the world of ready to meet craft and Craft is going to help them with their their concerns and worries about camping right and their concerns and

worries about camping, right? And any kid who reads this, any parent even who reads this, is going to learn a fundamental tactic about getting lost in the woods and how to keep yourself from really getting lost in the woods and maybe dying or or going through something nightmarish like being lost for a week in the woods. Or or going through something nightmarish like being lost for a week in the woods So the world of ready to like I said, you can go pre-order it right now You can go buy it on the 11th, but you can pre-order it right now. Get your hands on it. It will be It will probably be one of your kids favorite books because it's really purdy, you know

one of the things about our illustrator Alicia, she... I don't know how, but she captures the colors and the fantasy of the world of ready so well. And it's just, you know, here's what it is. So yeah, Jay Ferg, I'm sorry, that's what I meant. The Kindle option is available for preorder. I don't think the hard copy is available for preorder, but the Kindle option is available for preorder. I don't think I can get preorders on the hard paperback or whatever. I don't know how to do that. That might be my failing. But world already out, Mother's Day Day get your hands on it. Look fathers. Here's an idea Get the book read the book to your kid

Play around with the ideas maybe take them out to the woods something to a park along those lines talk about the book Meanwhile mom gets to sit at home or go to the spa or whatever it is and just be chill. You know what I mean, so Don't know get creative get creative what else do we got so we've got that going on I guess I could share the screen on the world already but we don't necessarily have to I don't know we don't necessarily have to what else what's going on in your guys world let's look into these chat rooms I haven't really been paying tons of attention in chat rooms, but thank you everybody for joining on on all platforms We do appreciate it

Great show last night man. Listen these this week thus far has been amazing Okay, it's been another amazing week today at noon You're gonna hear from the Queens College professor, Anna Maria Bounds. And just so you know, Anna Maria Bounds, Queens College professor, wrote two books about preppers and prepping. And well, once you get to know her, you'll understand, you know what I mean? She's definitely one of us and upon Ending the show wrapping it up all that kind of stuff She ordered some disaster coffee she joined the membership side of PB and like

Yeah, she'll be back. You know what I mean? She really digs what we're doing and we really appreciate what she's doing You're gonna love that interview today. You're gonna hear some things That are gonna test the narrative. And I don't mean, you know, testing the narrative is not even necessary anymore when it comes to the media mainstream narrative. It doesn't need to be tested. We all know the deal. What you're going to hear about things that happened in New York from her first-person view, you know what I mean? In Queens. They're gonna test your narrative. They're gonna test your... They tested my narrative about COVID-19 and the effects. And it really gives... That interview really gives you perspective, right? About the difference between how that disease was handled and the effect of that disease based on population, based on age, and that whole thing. You know what I mean?

Population density, and you know this, right, population density makes everything a little tougher, but what you're going to hear in that interview is you're gonna say oh Covid was a little bit different in New York than it was in say, you know Asheville North Carolina, right like we were we were kind of mocking it. It's nothing. It's no big deal You know what I mean in much less populated areas It's nothing. It's no big deal. You know what I mean in in much less populated areas um But it was a different ball game in new york city And and you're gonna hear about that and it's some of the things that are shocking really fundamentally that I didn't even know about

shocking um You know, and it's the nuance It's the nuance the nuance is everything in life. Enjoy the nuance, you know, don't pretend you have it all figured out You don't have shit figured out You know what I mean? It's like the Ecclesiastes. There's nothing new under the Sun But it's almost you know, it's better it's like the everything and nothing like you know everything and you know nothing simultaneously

It's really weird one of those weird things urban pops welcome in Polly preppers welcome in Frank Theo Robert Gertz welcome to the show thanks for joining us over on the Instagram side of things we do appreciate you guys fucked up veteran with us. We do appreciate you guys. Visit pbnfamily.com, check out our membership side of things. It's a big deal. It makes the world go round for us here at PBM. You guys want to read about the UK Preppers? We could do that. This story has literally been in the chamber for like a month and a half. This story right here that I'm about to show you has been in the chamber for a month and a half.

I've been looking at it every show and going, uh, should I run it today? Should I run it today? This is from the Daily Star a month ago. I'm a Brit Prepper. I commute 160 miles for work, which must be like across the whole damn country And won't leave without survival pack So what's this guy's name Mike UK urban prepper I Guess I'm not gonna be able to read it with the screen share going on because there's so many ads a Doomsday prepper who's planning to go off off grid says that when he makes his 160 mile round trip to work, he has a 48 hour panic bag. What's wrong camera? What's wrong camera? Johnny5, what's the problem?

He doesn't like this story. For those of you who are unawares, I have an AI capable OBSBOT tail-air camera that if I ask it to will follow me around and stuff like that. Sometimes it gets mad. I put some googly eyes on it, which makes it really fun. Sometimes it gets mad at me and will blink red. I have no idea why, but sometimes that happens. I haven't quite figured it out, but it's kind of fun. It's like that robot, I don't know if you saw it in China the other day that went totally insane.

Terrifying, actually. For Michael Goes By the Handle, UK urban prepper said the commute involves traveling across the Pennines and As a guy who regularly shares videos on his YouTube channel full of tips to help people become self-reliant in case merge He's taking no chances Although he says he leads a perfectly normal life in a normal house paying his bills and using fuel Living like everyone else the 40 year old admits to diverting 5% of his budget towards prepping. Let's see what Mike buys

Did they tell you? Here's a picture of him with his tank top on looking swole Speak the current job. I'm in is a hybrid, but my commute is 81 miles across The which I'm guessing are the mountains There you go the pen penines the penines so it all falls into prepping I Have to get I have a get-home bag which goes in my car all the time lots of preppers will put these bags together Thinking yeah, I'm just going to put this bag on and go survive in the wilderness, but they've never walked 20 feet 20 feet

They mean 20 miles Let's talk about bug out bags or i'm, sorry, let's talk about get home bags Do you want to talk about get home bags? This guy needs a get home bag 160 miles is no joke I worked about 10 miles from my house at one point, maybe like seven ish. Nah, yeah, it was probably like nine ish miles from my house. We'll say 10. Um, perimeter breach perimeter breach.

Stop stretching like a cat, man. You're making me nervous. So 10 miles from the house, what I came to realize, and I didn't realize this until I was training for a marathon in 2019, I ran a good way to work and back when I was training. And what I came to realize was Maybe I ran probably about a hat a little more than halfway there and back What I came to realize is Having a bag full of gear to travel 10 miles on foot one way to get home

Would be a detriment That's what I realized about the get home bag. For me, for that type of a deal. And the area I'm traveling, it's not highway miles, you know, it was through my city that I know very well and I just, I came to the conclusion, I said, if I throw food in the backpack, we're talking about two to three hours walk at the pace that I walk, right? Do I have to eat in that time? You put a water filter in a bag. What am I filtering?

I would say a water bottle Hydration is a thing, you know hydration is such a thing and I don't mean in survival We all know three days without water yada yada yada from training in Severely hot weather which is one of my sick Things that I love to do I don't know why but I really love to work out hard in really hot weather. And from doing that for years now, I understand the value of hydration. And I'm not talking about hydration from the standpoint of, like I said, no water for three days dead or dying. I'm talking about hydration from the perspective of body performance, from real irritability, from real problems with how you're fatigued,

which can happen in hours in the right conditions. So I'd rather have a water bottle with a liquid IV packet than a get-home bag for a 10-mile one-way, because it's going to have a bunch of gear in it that I probably don't need, probably not going gonna use. My EDC is really gonna handle fundamentally my self-defense capabilities. Maybe you could consider something like an IFAC. I carry a sling bag that I carry on me sometimes, but mostly with me. And that has all the capability that I need in terms of this kind of stuff, right?

So you have to be real about your get home operation. The best thing to do, particularly if you're in like this kind of range, five to 10 mile range from home, is to just walk home from work. Just do it once. Walk home from work. Just do it once. Walk home from work, see what it's all about and then go, that was bullshit. Like I'm, I need snacks. I need sun protection.

I, you know, I have to travel different ways, different places, all that kind of stuff and figure it out that way. You know what I mean? By actually doing it. But if you're saying to yourself, I have to spend money on a big bag of survival gear for my get home operation, you might not. And that was kind of the thing for me. I'm talking to you from a place of experience, from lamenting how my get-home bag should be set up and then once I really sort of got down into the nitty-gritty going I do not need a bag. Like having a bag full

of survival gear to travel under 10 miles is just going to slow me down. It's going to hurt my shoulders. It's going to wear me out quicker. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't a thing. shoulders, it's gonna wear me out quicker. You know what I mean? Like it wasn't a thing. Now for those of you who are a 161 mile round trip from home, like you need a back. You know what I mean? You need to go to limatangosurvival.com and check out what they have. The Alpha, which I'm showing in the video right now, the Alpha will do everything for you. The Alpha is a... If you're a prepper with any skills whatsoever, survivalist, whatever, that kind of stuff,

you have any kind of military background, the Alpha Kit is called the 24-hour one-man kit. You could survive 72 hours on it easy. Easy. So, but you need a kit like that. If you, if you are going to have a serious get home operation, you do need a kit like that. And I mean, I guess you could build it out. You know, you, this is what I would say. If you are 20 miles from home, if you are something big, 30 miles, you know, whatever it is.

Um, and it's highway see highways different my trek was through the city simple I could go numerous different with this roads blocked off I can go this way if this you know I mean and I know the area so no need to pack maps and that kind of stuff but if you're on the highway and you're traveling a lot of miles highway that's a different get-home operation That's a serious operation. You need serious gear. You need paper maps You need to know how to divert yourself cell signals down. You got to know

I got to get off this exit that I've never gotten off before and Or I've got to travel through this town I've never traveled before and I got to stay on track so I get home and fundamentally a now a 30 mile You know as Crows flying type of travel turns into something that might be more like 40 might be more like 45 50 who knows Because you got to go to different places, right? And then you don't know where you're going through in a collapse It's a different situation

so having more gear a focus on sort of low profile and maybe even a focus on I gotta find a really, you know covert place to spend the night because I started my get-home operation at four in the afternoon and The sun's going down Right, and I'm tired and I need to sleep for a few hours and get back to it in the afternoon and the sun's going down, right? And I'm tired and I need to sleep for a few hours and get back to it. That's a different thing, you know? But if you're close distance, wrap your head out.

If you're longer distance, you got things to plan for, unique gear. If you know who you are, if you're the type of guy who's going to put a bag together and get that done and put the right things in the bag and you know get it prioritized and taken care of keep it in the backpack in the car. Fine. If you know you're not that kind of guy stop wasting time go to LimaTangoSurvival.com buy yourself the Alpha. Buy yourself the Grey Man Kit. They're great bags. Everything you could need, right? And then just check it off the list. Be done with it. Get to know the bag. Take everything out.

Take a look at it. Use some of it. You know what I mean? And then you'll know. All right, I got my get-home bag. If I need to add things, I can add things. So on. Welcome in Alchemist Prepper. How are you? God is love. Amen, brother. Yeah, welcome in everybody over on the Instagram side. You guys are great popping in, popping in, chilling out. I appreciate it. What else do we want to do? I don't know, guys. That was not on my list of the oh, here you go.

Let's talk about this real quick and then we'll head out. I have to in in sort of passing tell you guys that we're releasing the world of ready on Mother's Day, turning right around on Father's Day and releasing WTF, but Poems for Men is gonna be an astounding project. I challenge anyone, particularly anyone who's out there rolling their eyes at Poems for Men to read the book. You know, this is not... there are some classic Victorian age poems in there, some of my favorites. I'm a poem guy, I'm a poetry guy, been so for a long time for those of you who don't know, that's just my deal. And you know, I've written many, many, many over the years. This book in

particular is not like a poetry book where we look at leaves and blades of grass and marvel at the sky. There's a whole chapter for that. But there's also a chapter about manhood and all poems about manhood. There's a chapter about fatherhood and poems about real, real hard poems about that. There's a chapter about women. There's a chapter about enjoying life, there's a chapter about good and evil, you know what I mean? And fundamentally this is a two-fold thing, right? It's a collection of these poems written by a man or Victorian men. Actually there is one poem in there that's so goddamn good and and unbelievable and unbelievably right for men that it's written by a woman and it just had to be in there it just it's it's affected me so

much over the years that it had to be in there you know what I mean so and I don't care you know it's not like I'm like it has to be all men. Fundamentally awesome, you know, and timely and just perfectly worded for men this day and age in particular. So those, you'll go through sections in that book that will cover, like I said, manhood, fatherhood, women, the beauty of life fundamentally, and evil and good. All of which affects you on a day-to-day basis, right? In most cases, in one way or another. And this is an outlet, you know, we're all trying to figure out like what's up with men. Like why are men struggling so much? Why are men having such a hard time? You know, I'll The most so if you have a son

This really hit me hard. This was a stat that really hit me hard And pushed me to put a book like this out fundamentally I don't know how many people it's going to touch how many people are really going to fall in love with it But there will be people who fall in love with it and it will likely You know affect them in a really big way because that's what poetry has the power to do. But I heard that I don't remember exactly who it came from. I want to say it was from a Modern Wisdom podcast. But this puts things in perspective about what's happening with men in terms of severity.

We know what's going on with men settling down and getting married and these kind of things. These things are becoming less and less desirable and dudes are very vocal about it. It's not going to lead them down a good path, which stinks because then you feel like you're in this rock or hard place situation. I can't meet a good girl. I can't meet the right girl What if we get together for a few years and I build a great big business?

She leaves and takes half what if I get together and we build a great family? She leaves and takes the kids I get to pay for the rest of my you know, the big chunk of the rest of my life All that kind of stuff right these things Since it's all out in the open now on YouTube and everywhere, you see it. People coming up, men coming up understand it. I think men on their second marriage understand it and all that kind of stuff. But a stat that stood out to really sort of drive home where men are at,

in America in particular, is that the most likely person, so think about your kid, right? The most likely person to kill your kid, the most likely person that could kill your child is your child, if it's a boy, if you have a son. The most likely person to kill your son is your son. That's what boy if you have a son the most likely person to kill your son is your son that's what the stats and suicide have done to men here in the United States you know what I mean that's a if they are to be murdered by a person the most likely you know I mean it's that's crazy when you think

about it it's absolutely insane so it's it's clear that the boys and the men need guidance. The boys and the men need things. It's shallow out there. It's hollow out there. Art, work, poetry are things that forever, since their inception, men and boys have fawned over. I mean Shakespeare, you think Shakespeare was written for women? You know what I mean? Like it, I don't even know back in those days how many women knew how to read. I don't even know how many

people know how to read, let alone women, right? Poetry and fine art and these things that men and boys fawned over them. They fell in love with the images and the words. And then at some point in the 20th century, it wasn't cool to do anymore. You know, it was not cool to do anymore. Like what kind of weirdo spends an afternoon reading poetry? You know what I mean? Fine with me. Like I got no problem with people liking it not liking it

um, but if you're jumping off buildings and blowing your brains out because life is a shallow and meaningless existence to me, it says Have a little this have a little uh Here Have a little kalil jabran while you're at it. Before you make any rash decisions, have a little Khalil Gibran. Have a little Dante Gabriel Rosetti. Give it a chance.

Lay in the hammock and enjoy it. Have a little Victorian poets. These books are antiquated medicines that people would never take anymore in this modern age. But, a lot like reading the Bible when you read poems, particularly like Victorian age poems, you go, you have the reminder, and this is what most guys need I think, is because they don't really, you know, like hang out with each other either. But you

get this reminder that you do have problems. You do have a lot of problems. Life is full of problems. But the problems that you're facing, as overwhelming as they seem, are problems that people have faced forever. And that's one of the most valuable things about reading old texts and old poetry. As you go like, oh, this guy's trying to get the girl too. This guy's trying to get the job too. This guy has everything and he's still miserable and he's trying to get the girl too. This guy's trying to get the job too. This guy has everything and he's still miserable

and he's trying to figure that out. Like, it's all written down by people who came before us. So that's my motivation with Poems for Men, which is again, World of Ready 2, coming out on Mother's Day, Poems for Men coming out on Father's Day. Enjoy them, you know, I don't know enjoy it's very big for me. It's very big. I went long long distances in life without writing things.

I don't know, you know. Jor-8 asks, did I read Byron? No, I did not. I did not at all. Garden Girl, 84. Both of my boys are into our and our 12 year old is a tinker. Oh, are into yeah Jory says I wonder if the you in the US you read English hardcore authors. Well See none of this stuff was mandated by school So that book I showed you the The Victorian Poets, was a book that I would sneak and read in school while we were reading whatever they wanted us to read in school. I didn't read shit in school. I did bad in school. What's up, Six Addits?

I ain't seen you around in a while, man. How are you? So, you know, all the reading, most of the reading that I did on particularly in poetry was long after school. You know, I mean it was driven by my own desire to read these things and to learn these things. But I think that and museums and artwork leave a gaping hole in the modern man. And Williams and artwork leave a gaping hole in the modern man. And the problem is, with all the great advice that's out there now for men, I still see a gap in this. I still see the gap existing out there and like, dude, go see some of America's finest. Go to the local art museum, which in every city there's an art museum.

Some of them are completely free. You can walk in at your leisure. Go see some of the greats, you know, go see some of the great Renaissance art, like depicting God and angels and some of the most amazing scenes of all time. Go see the way. One of my favorite things about Renaissance art and pre-Raphaelite art, particularly portraits of women, is you can compare it to the level of minimal devotion to women today. You think about a man, and you just look at Dante Gabriel Rosetti's depictions of the women

in his life, the depictions of Lilith. And you can see that these are, I mean, they're literal masterpieces. 2020 rap lyrics and their depiction of women in comparison to, you know, like I said, the what's it called? It's Dante Gabriel Rosetti's depiction of Lilith, which is a crazy and beautiful painting. But all his depictions of the women in his life are amazing. I mean, just stunning. Stunning. You look at him and you go like, I wouldn't even know

what, where to begin. And I think something that, that, that sort of, I don't want to go on and on and on, but I think, I think that is another reason why men are suffering so much you know I really do I think that um this nonchalant relationship towards and with women not just sexually but but like like I don't need a, you know what I mean that whole mentality like I don't need a woman That's that's it's sort of a shared mentality between men and women right now. I don't need a man. I don't need a woman It's actually in the book itself like that I weave wove myself back here, but not on purpose But this section itself is called Bear with me, women.

Women. Manhood is section one, fatherhood section two, hard times or good and evil section three, section four is women. And there is a biblical excerpt, not because it's a biblical excerpt and I wanted the Bible to be in there, but because it is an excerpt that makes sense. And it says, and you all know it, it's Genesis, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a helper. And you know this this worldly idea that I don't need a woman or women are not that important, right, is a way for us to deal with rejection and deal with the fact that it's hard to have a woman, get a woman, keep a good woman.

It's not easy, right? So we find ourselves in this pickle. More than ever before, I think we have the ability to believe our own lies and our own bullshit and I think that's the ability to believe our own lies and our own bullshit. And I think that's what's killing most people. Is there an inability to be honest with themselves? Because it's hard to be honest with yourself, because the moment you're honest with yourself, then you gotta work. You either gotta work or you gotta commit to misery.

You know what I mean? It's one or the other. You either gotta say, I'm wrong, I've been wrong, and here's where I've been wrong and now I got to fix it and this is what we got to do to Fix it or you say I'm wrong and I've been wrong and I'm gonna keep on doing wrong, baby. It's gonna be great. But then you gotta live with those consequences. You know what I mean? Membership side I got something fun for you guys coming up. I Got something real fun for you guys coming up. I got something real fun for you guys. Uh, we did a little bit of gameplay on the virtual reality headset in the jungle,

sort of IC surviving the jungle. That didn't go very well. That didn't last very long. Um, what I've got coming very soon is, uh, I see Takes on Lucifer himself in The Exorcist. So that, you're going to see an interesting side of me in that because it's a terrifying game. It's an absolutely terrifying game. It's been a blast to play. It's been really fun. Just another sort of layer on that membership side of fun stuff that we do.

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