The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 037: Father's Day Gifts

Episode Date: June 4, 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. I know we're a few days out. Actually we're a couple weeks out. But why not get prepared early? Why not take care of dad early with a bunch of cool stuff? I got all kinds of fun stuff to talk about today. Oh, by the way, I have yet to really figure out after probably something along the lines of I don't know six months, what would how long have I been doing this a year almost now with the video.

I have yet to settle on a video setup that I really like. So two things are going to happen. One I'm going to eventually find the one that fits or two We're gonna be a just a voice only Show and I'll just plop up whatever it is. I'm talking about on the TV or on the whatever. You know what I mean? It's just I Don't know it's hard It's hard. It's hard.

The last version was a bit cluttered. You know what I mean? For those of you listening to the podcast, bear with me. It is what it is. But you know, outside of sort of this overview of different cool things that I think you should consider getting for dad or getting for hubby or whatever the situation is, I don't have a whole lot outside of that. There's not a whole lot I want to get into worldwide and that kind of stuff. Man I wish I could add another streaming option mid-show. Oh can I? What the hell else would I add? Again we have the same issue with Instagram. It's not turning on. I don't know. Doesn't give me the option to go live. Jordan is in the chat room. Got my

old man two gifts. He'll get early because he could use them. The third will wait till Father's Day. Yeah I love it. I don't know. Father's Day is a weird one. What's up, born to brat? How are you? Father's Day is a weird one. What's up, born to brat? How are you? Father's Day is a weird one because we're always on vacation, which I always feel like is gift enough, you know what I mean? Because we go on a great vacation in June, every June, and it's like, I don't know, it's a great time. It's something that I never saw coming and it's just, oh, it's good. You know, there's something about two poor kids getting married that is, getting married and having some degree of success that is, if I had to like, I don't know, there's just things you experience that you can't experience any other way. You know what I mean?

Just like being two kids who come from poor backgrounds and then making it a little bit. Not even, I'm not even talking about like being rich. I'm just talking about like, and that's kind of what it is, right? That's what makes it so great is even the little things are so great. You know what I mean? Hmm. I don't know. It's going be one of those shows. We're gonna talk about a lot of weird things. Jordan says, I love that the generic Father's Day gift make it seem like Dad's drink, fart, fish, grill, and nothing else. Yeah, we're gonna get into some weird stuff. I know you know that already. I know that the Phoenix knows me pretty well and she knows that we're bound to get into some wacky stuff, some weird and wild stuff.

So I have to tell you a quick Warhammer story because we are gonna talk about a Warhammer starter set. Just because I'm smitten. I don't know what else to tell you. Saturday night I was playing with my neighbor. I do this walk of shame up the street where I carry my Warhammer stuff up the street to my friend's house and hope no one sees. You know what I mean? But anyway, I get a message from my buddy. John, if you're watching, we're gonna do it together, man. It's gonna happen. But anyway, I get a message from my buddy and he says he saw a post that I put up.

I don't know which one, but he saw a post that I put up about Warhammer and he had just got, literally this happened this morning out of nowhere. He last night night two nights ago I was like I'm gonna do a Father's Day show surviving America to be fun Talk about Father's Day gifts what to get that weird stuff different stuff that people haven't heard of stuff out of this insane whirlwind right and I Thought yeah, let's talk about the Warhammer starter set because it's small

It's it's a little bit expensive, but it's got everything that you need to, if you really want to lose control of your husband or father altogether, this is an option. We'll talk about it later. But this guy who has been my friend since I'm probably 11, you know what I mean? Long time friends. Some of the best times imaginable we had, right? Just long summers. You know you had those friends that like they dominated your summers you have friends like did you ever have friends like that it was like just every every day you were hanging with this person in the summer um this was John and for a long time many summers you know and uh he messages me through Facebook of all places which I never really go on I don't even check the messages

But for the fact that it was him, you know, I mean and he was one of my closest friends. I mean The oh into the fact that I moved away. He probably still would have been And our story is not yet told but anyway he gets back to me and he And our story is not yet told. But anyway, he gets back to me and he shows me pictures. He bought the exact same starter set I was going to talk about today and he's painted up his Marines and his Tyranids and stuff. Firewolf, welcome in. And you know, sometimes those weird coincidences happen and it's just one of those things.

So we're going to talk about all kinds of stuff. stuff I don't know where do we want to start? I don't want to do the ugly thing and start with my book But maybe we should just to get it off my head. Do you guys mind do you mind if we start with the book? Because you know, it is what it is it to be honest releasing the book around Father's Day probably Has a lot to do with what it is I'm going to like why this show even came to be. It is it's a it's probably a Hail Mary. The good thing is it's cheap. So it doesn't have to be the only thing you get that. I have to show you the Kindle page right now. I'm not a huge Kindle fan. If you like to read things digital, I'm gonna hit you to something real quick. If you like to read things digitally, like if you enjoy digital stuff, just get Hoopla.

Hoopla on your phone is free as long as you have a library card. If you don't have a library card, get a library card, also free. And you basically get access to you have a library card? If you don't have a library card, get a library card, also free. And you basically get access to everything at your library on your phone. You don't get access to everything, right? But you get access to a lot of stuff. Comic books, movies, shows, music, movies, shows, music, a lot, for 100% free. It's all through your library system. I think, yeah, Chin, of course. Chin hit me to hoopla like years ago. And I mean, I can't even begin to tell you the difference between the amount of like comic books and audio books. My man, come here, bring me that spoon. Oh, little Goomba.

You can't eat spoons, okay? Number one, they're metal. Number two, they're way too loud. All right, come here. Let's see if we can show everybody how big you're getting now. Oh look again Goomba. Oh he's getting so big. Say hi. Say hi to the people. This is the newest Pitbull of the pack. I know you're bored. Everybody's sleeping. Wake up

Pitbulls and play with him. He's bored. Anyway, Hoopla, check it out. Awesome, awesome app. Poems for Men. Out June 6th, out in two days, paperback me out two days. Like I said, it's a little bit of a long shot, but not, you know, it's a great change of pace to be injected into the world of men. That's all I have to say about it. You know what I mean? It's the thing that we need that we don't know that we need just yet, basically. That really is what it is.

My sort of persuasive piece on this, like for those who look at it and go like, I don't know, my persuasive copy or something along those lines is essentially who read and wrote all the poetry and who painted all the pictures for so long, you know what I mean? Until women were relinquished and given the ability to do those things, it was all men who read it, it was all men who wrote it. And now we live in this weird world where they're like, I don't do that stuff. What that, what that thousands of years of fine

art and poetry stuff? No, I don't do that. No, I watch football. You know what I mean? You could do both, by the way, I do both. You can watch MMA and read poetry. You're allowed. I give you permission. All right. So, Poems for Men out June 6th. You can pre-order the Kindle now if you want. But if you're going to give something today, give them the hard copy comes out on the 6th. You know what I mean? It's 75 pages, I think, something like that. I counted the poems up today. Oh, it says 69 pages. That makes me... Oh, this is Kindle version. Maybe it's different. Oh, it is definitely different because the spacing in the Kindle is all weird. I counted up today though it's like

something around about 40 poems in there. You've got masters like Shakespeare, Matthew Arnold, Dante Gabor Rosetti, a solo female made it into the book because her poem is so great, Anne Brant. Yeats, A.E. Housman, there's a thousand year old poem in there about being a dad. It's very short and it's one of those weird things that you read and you're like, oh, nothing ever changes. You know what I mean? And that's largely what that book is about too. It's largely a reminder to men that like, I know you probably are suffering through something because once you get to a certain age, like it seems like you're always suffering through something. You're always trying to figure out the kids, the wife, the parents, the siblings, whatever it is. It's always something to

figure out. The job. I always forget about the job because my job is so fun, right? My work. Sweet. So, you know, you get used to suffering all those things and sometimes Combinations of those things can feel overwhelming and you feel like dude. Why did I have to get dealt this situation? What poems for men is really is a reminder of like This is this is the course of life of mortal men on this world You know what I mean just is what it is. Okay, bud. Oh, you're a ham now. Now you wanna be in all the video.

Well, you can't be in all the video. Okay? Let's do this real quick, guys. I'm gonna do him a favor. And we're gonna run a Lima Tango ad and we'll come back and talk about Lima Tango because they got some cool Father's Day stuff too. And I'll show you a bag, maybe. Maybe I'll show you a little something, all right? back and talk about Leematango because they got some Cool Father's Day stuff too.

And I'll show you a bag maybe. Maybe I'll show you a little something. All right. But let me run him out real quick. And because he wants to go chase squirrels probably. I apologize to the podcast audience. That's going to be a short break in the audio. Just is what it is. I do have an audio version I need to run. Gave it off to all the audio. Just is what it is. I do have an audio version though I need to run. Gave it

off to all the hosts. Lima Tango man. I'm gonna do a comparison video coming in the very near future for those guys. Just so you can see kind of what like what the difference I tell you all the time man these guys solve problems right now if you are on our YouTube channel you can see the full breakdown of this the solo the Lima tango solo this is one of many too you know what I mean this I'm not gonna go through the whole thing, but this bad boy right here is so packed for like 150 bucks. Look at it. It's got comms. It's got, well, let's look, well, we can look at the website.

I don't wanna see, if I take things out, I'm gonna have radios on my head and things on my shoulders and all that. It's not gonna work out. Let's go look at what's in the solo. Because to me, like I always say, they solve problems. If dad's looking at this situation in the world or your husband or something like that and thinking, I need a bag or another thing, you might not understand it and he might not even 175 I'm sorry the bag is 175 you might not understand it and maybe he might not even understand it but you give him a solo bag like this it's called a 24-hour

kit I'm telling you right now man if you know anything about anything in terms of prepping and survival skills like you make it way longer than 24 hours on the solo. So yeah, the solo is jammed. The solo is jammed with stuff. It's utterly packed with gear, water, food, survival rations, right? One of the most amazing things in these kits, they all come with these awesome gloves. If you appreciate the gloves, you appreciate the gloves, right, they all come with these amazing gloves.

Here's sort of a breakdown of some of the gear that's packed inside this thing. The tiny survival guide's actually really sweet. I don't know if you've ever seen one of those before, but they're amazing. they're amazing zip ties and can openers and so forth the this area right here this sort of h2o nutrition shelter again this is all in the same kit $175 right and they'd like I told build the owner of Lee Matango survival I said like I told Bill the owner of LeMontango Survival, I said like, I know you call this the one man 24 hour kit.

And I appreciate that because that is a sort of an under promise over performance kind of thing. Because that's all this kid is about man is like, what's going on on the top left with food there? The top left with food. That's like one of my days on ration or ruin. You know what I mean? Not even, that's probably two days on ration or ruin. So great steel, single walled steel water bottle. Like, come on. It's big too. But one of the best things

is the gloves, the goggles. He he does the gloves the goggles in other bags He does the gloves the goggles socks Socks is one of those things man The handkerchief is a survival guide in and of itself, you know the the mylar blankets the radios This is not the bag. This is just the h2o nutrition and shelter aspects of the bag again 175 guys like This is just the H2O nutrition and shelter aspects of the bag. Again, 175, guys. Like, I can't even take my family to a steakhouse for 175 anymore. Like I said, it's packed.

It's jammed. And look at the little stove it comes with. Comes with the little stove. Does it come with the propane? I don't remember if it comes with the propane. I don't think it does. I think you wouldn't even be able to ship it with the propane probably. Either way those things are great. Actually not only are those things great, now I remember going through the bag. It's the orange plastic case. Let me see if I can find it real quick. I told myself at the beginning of the show, dude, don't go in the bag. Dude, don't go in the bag.

I found it. Oh my God. I found it. I wasn't even looking. I mean, I wasn't even using my eyeballs to look. You ever seen one of these? When I started prepping this is one of the first things I bought. It used to be in my old bug-out bag. This is a better one than the one I have actually. Used to be in my old bug-out bag. Dirt cheap man. These things are like ten bucks or something and they last forever. It still worked. I still cook food on it today, like a decade later. See this thing? It screws right into your your jet boil, right into your propane, right? And these guys open up. See? Maybe I'll put a link in the show description to just one of these if you want to get just one of these.

Although I would probably not only get that this and it's got a little striker here. Right. That's how you get it going. I don't know if you'll be able to see it or not. Yeah, see sort of like a lighter. These things are awesome. These things are everything you need. You know what I mean to To cook yourself a meal.

Out camping. Really, my go-to when camping is this guy in the mountain house. This guy in the mountain house. And you can eat about as good as anybody. How does this thing fold up correctly? You know, somebody in the survival world should just do a fold-up class. I'll tell you what that wouldn't be a bad prepper camp class to pack up. You know what I mean? How to pack up effectively. How to roll a sleeping bag. How to pack a tent up. Particularly one of the toughest, I'll tell you one of

the toughest that I struggle with is how to pack up the air, the inflatable sleeping pad, you know what I mean? You get, you don't get all the air out of it, you're trying to roll it up real tight and there's like a bubble out the side, you got to start it. Anyhow, okay. Thank you for that, because, I don't know,

Thank you for that because I don't know. I felt owed to our great sponsor, LeMetango, to talk about their products. I may talk about another one. I may talk about another one because it's so fun to talk about later in the show. It's massive. You got to have some pockets for dad or maybe get dad involved if you buy him this one, but it's awesome it's an awesome kit so we can get into some other stuff now I felt oh did like to talk about the book you got a market you book Jim you gotta do that stuff

even though you don't like doing it and yeah so now we're good now we're good. Now we're good. Now we can have ourselves a show that is a little more relaxed because I got those big things out of the way. I'm going to talk about another book for dad that I think is important and I think is fun, right? Like we've entered this age where dads do some cooking, dads like to do some queuing, dads like to do some barbecuing, some smoking, right? And I've talked about this book before. Let me grab it off. Yon Shelf. That bookshelf, man. Look at it. That's a bookshelf that actually gets used. You could tell because the books are like, you know what I mean? They're all, they're all over the place. This guy right here, man, Charcuterie by Michael Roman and Michael Roman, Ford by Thomas Keller.

This book Charcuterie, man, this thing is essential. This guy, you know, if you're into the, it's not just for dads, you know what I mean? It really is the breakdown of curing and hanging and salting and drying. And the, well, it's called the craft of salting, smoking and curing. You know what I mean? And if dad wants to get into something, some, for some reason, in my experience, the salting, the smoking, the curing of things, men just enjoy it. You know what I mean? They enjoy it. They really enjoy the smoking of a salmon, the curing of bacon. There's great pickle recipes in here. There is one, two, three, four, five pages.

Five pages dedicated to bacon, curing it properly. Jay Ferg says I must be a man. Jay Ferg, you're not a man. You just, you know, you're one of those kind of girls one of those cool girls That's all there is to it You know Fresh bacon It gives you that it gives you the exact cure that I use I don't know man

There's some pretty cool pictures in it. This one's like all about making sausage pictures in it. This one's like all about making sausage. Anyway, phenomenal book. I'm looking at things that you buy dad that he goes like, maybe it's not something I wanted, but it might be something that makes life a lot better. Right? This is kind of my thing when it comes to dealing with men and boys and all that kind of stuff, right? Because always in my head is the echo of Thoreau, right? The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. So I'm always thinking about that. I'm always thinking like, because I see guys, man.

I saw a guy the other day walking. It was after my son's football game. He was a little overweight. He had a backpack and it was kind of hot out and he was walking up this road and he just looked like, abandon all hope ye who enter here. You know what I mean? Like that's exactly what the look on that guy. The guy looked like life had beaten him into submission about as thoroughly as I've ever seen.

I see dads a lot of times taking kids to school. I take my kids to school in the morning and I see dads walking up and you can see there's a kid in their hand, right? But then there's also the world in the guy's brow. You know what I mean? Like the world is in his brow. Like he's here, but you know he's here. Like he's probably like breaking the little girl's hand and he's walking with her.

He's thinking like, and I remember dropping my kids off and having to go to work. So it's, you know, it's not uncommon. I remember that feeling of like, here I am, as soon as I let go of this little hand, I can get to work and get the things done and get the things off my mind that I need to do. Man, you're losing a lot. But see, then the other alarms start to go off in me and they are like, man, you're missing out on the good stuff. You know what I mean? Like this is the good stuff.

Walking the kid to school, if you're lucky enough to do that every day, that's the good stuff. Talking to them, what's going on, you know, I mean, listen to their crazy ass ideas. That's the toughest part for me, man, is to see people on autopilot, particularly with kids. It's hard to watch people on autopilot with kids because you're losing something you can never get back. You know what I mean? There's no way to get it back.

Every day you lose something you can never get back with kids. It's every day, literally. You know what I mean? Just the other day we were eating at... Where were we eating? I don't know. We were eating somewhere. And I was looking at my kids and I said, when's the next time that we will eat at this place? Maybe we weren't even eating. I don't know. Anyway, we became, it came down to this sort of, as I was talking to the boys, I was saying like, when's the next time we'll be here and Carter will be 13 and you will be nine and life will be this way, right? That's the way I look

at it all. That's the way I look. Sorry, the dog was barking. We have some visitors coming here supposedly. We'll see. But that's the way I look at it. And it's a good way to look at it. And like I said, I'm always kind of, I'm drawn to the men leading lives in quiet desperation, and I'm always kind of looking for things to like, oh, I didn't know that existed. Maybe I'll check that. Maybe I'll get excited over that going forward. You know what I mean? Firewolf Forge, when we were talking about charcuterie, said, when did peasant food become fancy?

Yeah. Well, I bet you it had a lot to do, Firewolf, with the price of goods, the cost of goods. It was, you're right, though. And it is an amazing thing that chefs pulled off about 10, 20 years ago now. They pulled off this thing where they figured out how to sell a cassoulet of beans for $15 a pop, right? Which

nothing wrong with the cassoulet, it's a delicious meal, but it's largely like a slow cooked pork and white bean stew in a cup. You know what I mean? What's the key ingredient? Cardamom, right? Is that right? That's a C one. It's not cumin. I think it's cardamom. There's a standout spice that goes into a cassoulet that gives it that taste and you're like, oh yeah, this is good. This is somebody knew what they were doing when they made this. Oh, it's going to mess with me because I don't think... caraway? No it's not caraway. I think it's cardamom to be honest. Cardamom. Cardamom? Cardamom. All right what else? What are you guys getting dad? I'm not good at receiving gifts. I can tell you that for sure. It's one of those things. Like I'm not really a great gift receiver, you

know what I mean? Much better at giving gifts, much more enjoy giving gifts. I don't know if that's a problem or not. What do you think? Probably, probably an issue. Um, should we get into the big elephant in the room? What else are we going to talk about? Oh, Disaster Coffee. I mean, that's a winner. Disaster Coffee is a winner for all time. You know what I mean? It really is. It's a fundamental winner for everybody. No matter what the season anymore, no matter what the holiday, whatever it is. If your dad loves coffee, if your dad loves coffee and he tells you he loves coffee, please don't disregard that. If you have a man in your life who really loves coffee, do not disregard the value of coffee. Do not disregard the level of addiction

and do not disregard the love for the coffee. You know what I mean? This is a good lineup right here. These are some of our medium roasts, right? Uncle Randy's front porch We got the black pumpkin, which is out of season right now, but if you're into that kind of thing The black pumpkin is for those of you who might like the creamer in the coffee I drank the Black Pumpkin through October, I will tell you. It's just better with milk. I don't have to go into some great discovery. It's just what it is, better with milk. Everything else though that we offer is tremendous. The Great Reset's good. Common ground is basically the best coffee on the planet.

Fundamentally, I mean, that's what it is. It's basically the best company. I mean, the best coffee on the planet. Uprising is an amazing coffee also. We're talking about a 30 dayday bourbon barrel-aged coffee. Unbelievable. My personal favorite is the most unassuming. You would think the guy who started the business would make some kind of cool logo for his

favorite coffee. But really, tsunami is it. This Nicaraguan coffee, like, just, I don't know. We did the research, my son and I, so it's always got that sort of special thing. What's Nicaragua deal with? Like, I told him I got this Nicaraguan coffee, what's it deal with? What they deal with in terms of serious disasters. He went for that. And I got that medium roast tsunami that Nicaragua and it's just, it's the best. It's my favorite by far. Like by a long shot. And our coffees are awesome. All of them. But there's just something about

that tsunami. Let's look at the dark roasts though. These are our medium roast options. We got dark roasts too that are phenomenal. Dark humor, one of the best. I mean, look, if you're into dark coffee, like if you're into real dark roast coffee, the matter of facts guys have one of the best. You know what I mean? I mean, really. Pandemic's the biggest seller of them all. Category six. Yeah, it's good stuff, man. Disastercoffee.com, folks. Disastercoffee.com. Enjoy it. Really. Phenomenal coffee. Dark humor is outrageous, Jay Ferg. Firewolf Ford says he can grow saffron in his yard, I guess. I don't know. Apparently, so the crocus flower, right, or the crocus plant, growing the plant is not the problem. What the problem is the harvesting of the stamen that is the saffron, right? I love it. I mean, I love it. It's phenomenal. It's one of my favorite things to do with

rice. You know, the flavor that it imparts on rice, the flavor that it imparts on something like a paella, right? It's just too good. It's too good. It's expensive and that's why, because it's labor intensive. How have we arrived, and I've been harping on this lately, so if you're tired of it, I'm sorry. How have we arrived at a moment in time where everything's automated and more expensive? You know what I mean? If there were legion of human beings out there picking all the vegetables, doing all that stuff and we had to pay them all

Then I'd be like, okay prices increase people need to make money. They need to make a living people who are But like Firewolf I'm sending you some coffee. That's all there is to it. I Got to sendwolf some coffee. Or maybe it maybe not. Oh do you hear the dog out there? Is the dog going absolutely insane and you can hear it? It's the little one. She's crazy. She'll lock in on something and then it's over. Like there's nothing you

can do to stop her. She's just locked in. I don't know you're gonna have to bear with me What I would tell you to do as something fun It's now 940. We're 33 minutes into the broadcast Check her endurance because it's wild. It's it's wild. But anyway fire wolf listen I'm telling you right now When you get disaster coffee in the mailbox It will change things now

I don't want to ruin your coffee experience for you going forward Because you may look down on on coffee for the rest of your life because you're gonna get a package that comes in the mailbox that is like I Mean like it will, it will, it will assault you. Like you will be assaulted from the mailbox. That's how disaster coffee arrives. It's crazy. It's just a different thing. All right. So what else do we want to talk about? about. Video games, swords, weapons, axes. Swords, axes, daggers, full tang knives. You almost can't go wrong. You know what I mean? And if you go to like Etsy, Etsy is amazing. Etsy is an absolute pit for money. You gotta be real careful because they make such cool stuff.

Actually, I have a Father's Day gift sitting right here from Etsy. It's a really cool little compass that my family got me. It works too, but it's inscribed with an inscription that you don't need to see, but it's inscribed. They do cool stuff like that, but what they do that's really cool too is they just pump out like there's artisans over there to pump out like real deal battle axes, metal, double-sided axes, big ass swords. And I mean, some of them are outrageous, like some of them are like 325 bucks, but you can get like really cool swords for 120 something like that. And you probably have some walls that you need a few more swords hung on.

Like you probably need a few tomahawks, you probably need like a broad sword hung somewhere maybe in a man cave or the bedroom. I think the bedroom's a good place to hang weapons. I do. I think. The nub is in the house. What is up, man? Did you guys go check out that video? Did you check out the Starlink to go video over at L2 Survive on YouTube?

I linked it. Check it out. Go have a look at the car kit for the Starlink. Could be an awesome Father's Day gift as well, by the way. Thanks for bringing it up, Nub. But yeah, it's one of those things. I learned that touching guns and touching swords and axes and weapons can actually increase a man's testosterone. testosterone. It you know that might scare some women but tell them it's linked to longevity. Honey I'll be around at your beck and call longer if I have a nice like witcher replica sword on the wall that I can pick up and swing around when no one's home. That would be really I don't know. Firewolf says don't waste the time or money on sending them disaster coffee.

Well, hey look man, I'll be honest with you Firewolf, it's not the worst thing in the world that could happen to you, right? Because that means you can drink $4 coffee, you know, like $4 tin coffee and be just as happy. And there's a beautiful thing in that too, I'll be honest with you. So yeah, swords, axes, you know, the other cool thing about like hatchets that you should think about, Firewolf's hoping for like a scythe from the Grim Reaper, I guess. You actually want to cut the grass? See, the Fire Wolf is one of those guys who I could see threshing and cutting the grass with the scythe. All those things, man, they're easy. You don't even have to have an explanation. If you get

that like a sweet assass Nordic axe, with like some runes etched into the handle or into the metal or something for a hundred bucks, there's no explanation needed. Like, most men are gonna go, Oh, this is sweet. This is sweet. Thanks. You know what I mean? L2Survive says he's been seeing cloaks in his ads lately. Cloaks? Hmm. Special kind of dad to wear a cloak. He's got to like, he's got to like run a podcast network and play Warhammer and have a have a secret society for disaster preparedness to really appreciate a cloak.

society for disaster preparedness to really appreciate a cloak. You know, you know anybody like that? Now I don't even know if I could rock a cloak to be honest. I think that'd be kind of weird, says the guy who paints little toy soldiers. Surrogacy. Oh wow. Hmm. I love that L2 Survive is locked in. Nub is always locked in on ads. I think that's interesting. That's a low-level intelligence that you can run on yourself and the internet and others. That'd be kind of cool. That'd be kind of cool. Maybe I'll get one with a face cover that has the continuity logo on it. It'd be like the lead singer of Sleep Token Maybe I'll get one with like a face cover that has the continuity logo on it It'd be like the lead singer sleep token. I'll cut the mouth out and just come to the meetings that way All right, let's do it. Let's talk about oh, I don't like the feelings of that

Give me a minute. Give me one minuto. I haven't quite convinced the family to get on board, but I can tell you right now, if you want to give that something, a world to escape into, a hobby to give that something a world to escape into a hobby to enjoy something out of left field Trying to make this relatively presentable. It's been through a lot. I got you know what? I got this a year ago almost to date Almost to date. I got this introductory warhammer set a year ago. Okay, and It comes with all kinds of little ridiculously dorky things. You get a few paints, you get a paintbrush, you get these guys to assemble, your Tyranids and your Space Marines, you get dice. You can actually play stuff out of this box.

But this box is probably the big gateway drug. This was probably the... yeah, the space Marines are right here. This was probably the gateway drug that got me completely tethered. You know what I mean? It was between this and like the Warhammer lore. And you may not know you need this. Your dad may not know he needs this. Your hubs may not know he needs this. But once he gets into the far-flung future where all is war, the 41st millennium where

there is no time for peace, there is only time for war, things get different. Things get different. What I would say is, if you have a dad or a guy in your life who is like locked in on business, locked in on things, and he doesn't have a real good way to detach, like this may change his entire world fundamentally for me That's it serves me in that way a lot like really well Warhammer as a whole story game miniatures painting building all that kind of stuff it really serves me in that way it serves because I'm the type of guy like I live here you know this is where I live I live here my computer's here that I do business on my studio is here this is where I live so it's really easy for me to consistently be like I can do a little work you know it's almost impossible to detach do you know what

I'm saying from work completely because it's here. And what War Amour has done is given me the opportunity to kind of disconnect from all of that. I mean, I don't need help with disconnection, but it's one of those things that I'm really into right now. The other big thing about it, man, is it's a really awesome community. And I think what a lot of dads suffer these days is radical isolation, right? I think they suffer in isolation that is brutality, like really brutality. There's not a lot of groups and things and all that kind of like fun stuff to go do. And if you don't have buddies or you know, a lot of times you're hanging on to certain buddies that you don't

even really want to hang on to because of the way they live their life. Maybe you're trying to be a better man and you got these old friends and these are your friends. You know what I mean? Like these are your friends. The Warhammer community is, they are exactly who you think they are. You go into a store to buy some Warhammer stuff and you're gonna see a store full of people and none of them are gonna surprise you. You're not gonna walk in there and be like, oh I never expected this group of people to be here. But what I will tell you is like, they're really easy to be around, in my opinion. They're really easy to strike up conversation with.

They're all pretty awkward. Not all, but a lot of them are pretty awkward. A lot of them really value talking to you. Like if you walk in with a little bit of confidence and look like you're not a crumpled person, they really value giving you their opinion and talking about their goals. Multiple times I've walked into my local store and ran into some kid who's probably early 20s. A lot of times they're like six foot eight.

You're like, oh, hey, man, who you play. They're huge kids. And when you talk to these guys, and they like can tell you're like really listening to them, like, you can tell no one's really listening to them, which is sad as shit, but it is what it is. But again, the massive men lead lives of quiet desperation, right? So it's a cool environment, all told. It's a really cool environment. And in my experience, anyway, you know, I grew up with people on the fringe, you know what I mean? A lot too. So it's, I don't feel as uncomfortable, you know, going into a place like that. Firewolf says he's getting Heroes Quest delivered today, hoping to get the kids hooked. Yeah, my kids hate Warhammer. They absolutely hate it.

They are not into it at all. I think it'll change with time. But no, not not even a bit. I can't. Yeah, a lot of times they're like, oh, oh, you know, and that's fine. It is what it is. It may be better Actually, it's in some ways like I was talking about with the disconnect It's kind of better because it's a place you can go and be alone It's weird it's weird to talk about men are too isolated but men need to be left alone

But then you know what I mean all this kind of contradictory stuff Listen to yourself and listen to your body and listen to your mind. Pay attention to what you need. You know what I mean? A lot of people just disregard themselves completely. So get into it, man. Get into it. It's a fun little hobby. It really, and it's multi-tiered, it's multifaceted. There's also like a whole world of video games all built into the Warhammer universe. It's massive, I mean it's huge. Like if you're a Star Wars-ish person, all that kind of stuff, I'm telling you, this is what it is. L2 Survives says, I have family work prepping and about a thousand hours of videos to edit thousand hours He ain't playing no stinking video games and he ain't painting no stinking little miniature Space Marines, okay

Roger I get it. Hey, like I said, just be careful. The clock is ticking though. Be careful So anyhow, what else do we got on the docket? This show's gone on long enough, damn it. I don't know. I think that's good. I think I was gonna talk about the long dark, but I don't know. It is what it is. Get crafty. You know what I mean? Get crafty. Also, don't be afraid to hit dad with something weird. Really. Don't be afraid to hit him with something weird. Some weird book, some weird music he's never heard. Because the one thing about dads is even if he looks at it, he's like, oh thanks. You know what I mean? Like he's liable to check it out. He's liable to check it out and you never know what kind of door you might open. And of course, you know, now that we

got all the gift giving out of the way, if you can, just go see him. That's the thing. I mean, that's the real thing. You know what I mean? The real thing is go see him because not everybody's a big crybaby dad like me where they'll convey how much I love you around my kids and I don't ever want to leave. You know what I mean? So, but in at the end of the day in his heart that's exactly how he feels. I just say it out loud. But at the end of the day, Dad wants to see you. You know, he wants to see you. He wants to show up. He wants you to show up and be there and tell him about your life. You know what I mean? How things are going. What things you've done. What things you...you know, he wants to

help too. That's the other thing. Bring him a problem. Not like my marriage is falling apart, dad, I'm gonna get a divorce. Don't bring him that problem. But bring him, bring him a problem. Something weird, something little, you know, something that that dad can fix. Because that's what dads do, you know what I mean? That's what we're here for. We're here to keep the ship as sail and to fix the problems and to make sure that everybody has what they need. And then as you get older and as the children get older and the wife gets everything, you feel like you become the guy that everybody's just kind of like forgets about.

You know what I mean? you serve this well soldier into the coffin you go so keep that stuff in mind man you know that's it for me today folks we've got cool stuff in the works I did just record the creatine commander part four on the way to this podcast today. I Don't know if that resonates with a lot of you guys, but Supplementing is a big thing man the older you get even more important. I'm telling you right now like seriously It was an eye-opener in rationing ruin and it's an even greater eye-opener now, you know. So anyhow, Firewolf Forge ends it perfectly and we say women are confusing. Yeah, men are the simplest, most confusing creatures, the most simple, most confusing

creatures on the planet. Is that because we wind up with women or is that because that's just the way we are? Right? But there are guys out there who are creatures of habit who are absolutely simple. You're just arrived at a show with a lunatic masquerading as a normal person. You know what I mean? So that's, I am your burden. I'm sorry. It just is what it is. I'll talk to you guys soon, all right? Yeah. See ya. you