The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Surviving America 067: You are the New Renaissance

Episode Date: February 25, 2026

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A blessing, the government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived. Welcome into Surviving America, folks, take two. Well, the future has already arrived, and the necessary evil had its show last night, State of the Union, almost two hour-long speech by Donald Trump. Don't know if you watched it or not, I watched the entire thing. and the follow-up speech by the mother of mayhem. And it was a creepy little speech that Mother of Mayhem pulled.

There's no doubt about it. That was a, well, we'll highlight probably the creepiest part of the speech a little later in the show where it fits. In fact, she's given us an entire, an entire sort of soundbite that I manipulated into something pretty fun. I'll let that cool off. we'll talk about that I'll show that off in a little bit there's no way I could get on here and not talk about it right

the state of the union there's no way I could get on here not talk about Ilhan Omar losing her mind next to Talib screaming at Donald Trump over his audacity to well cry out that they were shameful

for what they done they were absolutely shameful for not standing up when he was he basically shameful for not standing up when he was he based made the proclamation that the federal government is here to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants. And when the Democrats didn't stand up, he said the follow. It's a little low. Probably need to turn. Let's do it one more time, a little louder.

And in that is shame. You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. And in that moment, Ilhan Omar is screaming back at him about you killed Americans and all that kind of stuff. And it was I don't know. You know what I mean? I want to go sort of in detail and talk about what I thought

about the Democrat performance and then I don't because who cares? You know what I mean? And it was a performance, right? But I'm not here to talk

about that today, guys. We'll get into it where it fits, maybe if it comes up in chat, something like that. But the real me to the show

has to do with you as the American Renaissance. And I want to talk about the American Renaissance because it's been in my head a while. I've been called to things like poetry and art for a long time. A lot of times, this time of year, actually, when February is waning with my patience, right?

And I'm ready for spring. I usually find myself at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts because there's something renewing about it. You know what I mean? There's something that calls out to the human soul. And in the age of artificial intelligence, I think it's really important for us to recognize that we can go one of two ways, right? We can go towards the idea that AI can do it better, you know, just sort of collapse, creativity collapse. Or we can use it as a springboard.

We can use it as the greatest. motivation of the modern age to write and to paint and to create, right? And really truly bring about a new renaissance. And what more could people want? What could be better for the people? I've been watching a guy named Adam Walker. And actually, I found his video because of this sentiment. Right. I found a video of his. And I watch a lot of his videos because he just talks about poetry a lot and it's it is a really big interest of mine it doesn't make sense in this modern age of course when you can watch a tick-tock video that's probably way more entertaining than reading you know four lines over and over again to really get it but it's always been a thing

you know since middle school it's been a thing in my life uh since i stole the book victorian poets from the chichester middle school library i'll pay you back if you really want me to um but It really changed me for good, man. It changed me for good. I want to show you something. First, I want to mention today's sponsor, okay? Inert Mugs, Tactical Drinkware, Explosive Style, visit InertMugs.com and use the code PBN for 10% off. All right.

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political conservative. Get all politics out of your head for me. Okay, get all, get Donald Trump out of there, get Spanberger, get everything political, everything conservative, everything liberal out of your head. I've told you before, I watch a lot of different content creators that have nothing to do with what I do, right? And be purely on my interests. And they don't have to look a certain way. They don't have to have a car heart jacket on. They don't have to wear a certain brand. Right? Like, I don't care. There's no checklist of things that I have to see on a person or hear from a person in order for me to watch their content and give it a shot. I'm not a lunatic, liberal left-wing person who, if you don't say what I tell you to say, if you don't say what we say,

If you don't wear what we wear, if you don't dye your hair, the color we dye our hair, then you're not part of the club, okay? There is no club. You know, the big club is America. That's what it is. Welcome to the club if you've been gone. So I'm going to show you a guy who looks like an academic because he is an academic. He's a person who has studied this topic, his whole life, right? And, you know, he's a kid who he said he used to read poetry for two hours at a time when he was about 14.

just one of these people. It's the guy you want to listen to on the topic. What I want you to pay attention to, and the most important message for the show today is that many times a renaissance is brought on not by people who are professional poets and painters and trained and, you know, a lot of times, particularly on the poetry side,

renaissance is brought on by the common man and woman. So I'm going to introduce you to ask, Adam. Like I said, I've had, I don't know that you would have the kind of fun that I've had watching this guy, but I really do enjoy him. He knows his stuff. He knows his stuff. And if you're into poetry and you're into literature and that kind of stuff, you know, he is the guy. But I'm actually going to bow out of this scene because there's no point in me being here. And we're just going to listen to Adam for a minute. Explain kind of what I'm talking to you about. long-distance commuters, frontline workers, retailers, small business owners, can all of us really bring about a new Renaissance?

And the answer is actually emphatically, yes. It bears repeating that history reminds us that revivals of learning are rarely begun within institutions. So if you think of Fechino's Platonic Academy in Florence, which is one of the great sparks of the Renaissance in Italy. It was born among patrons, among readers, and artists. The Romantic revival came largely from poets who were not credentialed experts at all. William Blake was an engraver, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the restless and jobless visionary, studied at college but was not degreed at the University of Cambridge, Jesus College. And Shelley was a political exile and an academic exile. John Clare and Keats were working class men who changed.

changed the course of literature with their poetry. In America, it's the same story. Emerson was an ex-pastor with no institutional home when he wrote Nature, the essay which set the American Renaissance ablaze. And Whitman and Dickinson, the two greatest poets of the American Renaissance were amateur readers who wrote their poems between jobs and daily chores. It's hard to believe, right? Modernism, it was the same. It was carried by people living ordinary. It's hard to believe, it's something that I'll be honest, I didn't even know. I had no clue. I mean, I knew that a lot of poets, you know, even the most famous wind up basically dying broke and unknown.

And not until like after their deaths are they kind of like lauded for their skills or whatever. It's not that rare in the creative world, right, in the artistic world. But it's, oh my God, it just scared me to death. I just got jump scared by my dog. Why are you doing that? Let him up there. Why, my little dogs tried to jump. Well, he's not little, but my youngest dog tried to jump up on the couch and the big guy.

He kind of gave him a little snap. You're good, Goomba, jump up there. Anyhow, really kind of unbeknownst to me that so many of the poets responsible for ages of Renaissance and really like the beginnings and sort of the high points of Renaissance, throughout time because there have been many were just regular people regular people who were writing and that's why I titled the show you are the American Renaissance right I know it feels probably fruitless to sit down and write something even a journal but to journal at times like these is it's invaluable you know what I mean we're living through unprecedented times to journal through

times like these to begin to write. Really, to begin to write. And at first, it doesn't have to be poetry. It never has to be poetry. It can be essays, whatever. It can be just ramblings. Because what Adam talks about, and here's the hope with AI, what Adam talks about in that video, which is linked down below, okay, it'll be linked down in the podcast, it'll be linked down in both videos on YouTube and on Rumble. And what Adam talks about in that video, one of the things, I mean, there's many great things. He does seven signs that there is a new Renaissance coming. And the whole video is worth watching.

Just for the sheer fact that it is so counter to, there's a dog under the table. So my camera is probably going to either get hit or knocked over somehow. Wow. Not at all. anyhow so there's i think it's six or five signs or something along those lines that that there could be a new renaissance coming and one of them is is he talks about the language of artificial intelligence he talks about how over time like at first we were kind of blown away that this thing could do the thing that it did with writing right we were like wow look at this man

let's see you tell it give it a prompt you give it a style you know the whole thing you know just spit something out. And he said over time, what we've come to realize is that there is, that AI itself has a style. And it's, it's kind of easy to find. It's kind of easy to read something and go, I know this kind of style that is artificial intelligent writing. That's the point. The point is that everything outside of that is fair game for you, right? You, the creative. Everything outside of that exists for you. So you talked about William Blake. I do think that one of the things, one of the reasons I like poetry so much is because there is

that common man touch to everything. The problems are usually of the common man and the struggling middle class man. I mean, it's just what who's more fun? Seriously. I mean, you break it down to its core. Like, who's more fun than the working class, uh, struggling man? There's no, but there's nobody more fun to hang with, to, I grew up in, in this environment. And it was awesome. You know what I mean? It was really a lot of fun. Because those types of men are the funnest. And it makes sense when you start to read the poetry and you start to see like, oh, that these things were built by men and women like this.

So here's William Blake. He talked about William Blake, having been a part of the romantic renaissance. And in this poem, London, William Blake talks about the mind-forged manacles. And the mind-forged manacles are just perfect for today. We're going to read the Burt Norton again to the section from Burt Norton that is all about just, I mean, proclivities of mankind and how we wind up in the same situation we're in now and how we have wound up in this same situation forever. But let's look at Blake real quick because it's really interesting, man. some of these great works and the works from previous Renaissance, remember,

like when you enter into a renaissance, you're coming out of a nightmare usually. You're coming out of a bad time. You're coming out of a hopeless time. You're coming out of a time where everybody's like, it's been a good ride, folks. It was good while it lasted. Now it's a rap.

You know what I mean? Even in the American Renaissance, we were coming out of a lot of things. And we were trying to figure out, you know, our identity beyond England, right? And the poets and the painters of that time were using English techniques and they were saying to themselves, how do we become? Will we forever be a colony of, you know, like Brits with ideals? Or are we going to really hit stride here and become something different in our art? And that's how these things come to be, you know? So I wander

through each chartered street near where the chartered tames does flow and mark in every face i meet marks of weakness marks of woe in every cry of every man in every infant's cry of fear and every voice in every band the mind forged manacles i hear i mean the mind forged manacles think about that what is that that it works across time but it definitely works right now. When you see the Democrat Party last night at the state of the union, I mean, have you ever seen more mine-forged manacles than that? The beautiful things that were announced, the terrifying things that were announced, I mean, particularly the 14-year-old cheerleader who was stabbed 25 times to death in her bathtub by an illegal murderer who made his way into the nation and they got

him out of here, right? And the fact that the Democrat Party's mind-forged manacles are so strong that they couldn't stand up and applaud a moment like that. Right. And that was one of many. These are mind-forged manacles. This is what it is. How the chimney sweepers cry, every blackening Church of Paul's and the hapless soldiers sigh, runs in blood down palace walls. But most through night streets I hear how the youthful harlot's curse blast the newborn infant's tear and blights with plagues the marriage hearse. And that is London by William Blake. In poetry, you know, I wrote poems for men and I wrote poems for men because,

Number one, I had a bunch of poems for men that I wrote. And number two, I saw that men were in something of their own, you know, and still are a lot of them, sort of in this woeful state where what I could, what I saw out of the modern men a lot was sort of a mind forged manical that kept them believing that their problem was incredibly unique. And they were suffering. the suffering ills that no one had ever faced. You cannot believe the sorrow. You cannot believe the struggle. We've been betrayed by this, betrayed by that. We can't do this. We can't do that. We can't say this.

We can't say that. Life as a man in the 21st century is impossible. So the motivation behind poems for men was to take poetry as far back as, I mean, the 11th, 6th century, I think. I think the Chinese poet I have in there is from like the sixth century. And he's talking about having a son and how happy he'd be to have a son and some of the things that go along with that. And there's some comedy in there. And it's just a reminder, man. It's a great reminder that like, and this is what poetry does on a whole.

It reminds us all. The human experience hasn't changed very much. You know? The accoutrement has changed to some degree, right? The technology has changed to some degree. but the battles that we face, the struggles that we all have, hasn't changed. I don't think it will unless we're all gone.

In other words, the core of what we do, right? We mope around, we complain, we struggle, we suffer. We have, what did it's sad gurus to call it? We suffer our success. You would say it's one thing to suffer your failures. It's another thing entirely to suffer your successes. That's just crazy, right? And we do that.

We do that to this day. So what I think is important is for you to understand, like, I was an eighth grader, ninth grader, just aping, mocking. Oh, did you see Al Green's amazing sign from the state of the union? He really brought some intellectual power, Al Green, out of Texas. Al Green decided to bring in a sign because the Democrats are obsessed with race. It's all they think about. They think about it so much that sometimes they mess up and show their racist true colors. But this guy was so driven by making a point that he decided to create a sign that reminded America and the administration, I guess, that black people are not apes.

That's what the sign said. Black people are not apes. Thanks, Al. Thank you. We were, Al, we were struggling until you came along, dude. Thank you. I'm telling, that's all these people do. You know what I mean?

I think Trump has something to say to Al. You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You're probably going to hear that one a lot. Because it is what it is. You know what I mean? It's surreal is what it is. It's surreal. Now, we have to be careful.

You know what I mean? We have to be careful about a lot of things. When you get into writing and when you get into painting and art in the creative world, you're going to run up against those people. You're going to run up against, you're going to run up against, you know, all kinds of people, but look, the world of the, what is it, the humanities, right, in college, it's been taken over completely by radicals, right? The creative world, the art world, the poetry world, the written world at large has been

largely taken over by radicals. So what? There's no better time to start, like, seriously, like, shuner. showing off conservative painters, conservative poets, and so on. There's no better time. When the seesaw is so bent to one side, right? This is the time. I was thinking about the same concept when I was live streaming the State of the Union yesterday.

I had this idea that I would live stream the State of the Union and chat it up with the audience and, you know, have fun with it and that kind of thing. And it was very quiet stream. And what I realized was, well, I could put the State of the Union on three different platforms right now. And whoever happens upon it happens upon it. And it's one less person watching nonsense and one more person watching this situation. Now, I'm not one to be completely eaten up by the politics of the day. But I do think the state of the unions are worth watching. I do.

I think you get a good idea of what. what's going on politically in the nation. You get a good feel for what's the future look like. Now, of course, you know, you use reason and logic, and that doesn't help with the American voter whatsoever. Reason and logic and the American voter, they don't tend to go together very well. Here's what it is. What can you do? You know what I mean?

Do we want to – I want to show you something. I would like to show you something because I think you're really going to dig it. And it's a good stop. It's a good break until we roll back in and do Burton Norton and then get into some other news of the day. We have some big stuff coming. We have giveaways. We have discounts. We have birthday wishes for the Intrepid Commander tomorrow.

My birthday is tomorrow. Okay. This is atypical, right? It's just one of those things that like, I don't know. I'm just not that. I'm not that guy who celebrates his birthday in a big way. I'm usually like pressed into it by my family. Like, what do you want to do?

What, you know, it's your birthday. Do something. And in 2026, as I've mentioned before, and I'd highly recommend you try this philosophy on in 2026. Have a no-duh kind of year. Have a no-duh kind of year. Have a year where you do some things that maybe you haven't been doing in life. And you start to wonder like, why aren't I doing those things? Why haven't I been doing those things?

Right. I don't know. To me, easier said than done, but we'll talk about those things. Okay. We'll talk about those things. Apparently at the moment, uh, apparently at the moment I'm being called in for audiovisual

indoctrination yes you heard me right I'm being requested by the mother of mayhem herself for some audiovisual indoctrination so I'll ask again is the president working to make life more affordable

for you and your family we all know the answer is no So when I heard the speech, I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you enjoyed that. When I heard the speech last night, you went over that twice. And all I could picture was an interrogation room. All I could picture was a brainwashing session.

Right. We all know the answer is no. We all know the answer is no. Say it with me. Say it again. It's like that scene in Blade Runner. where he's, you know, being re-indocrinated. It's very scary.

That speech of hers was as loud a shout across the bow to the rest of the Democrat presidential candidates. Because to be honest with you, like, she's smooth, man. She is a smooth politician, and she's going to slide right in there. We better brace ourselves, you know what I mean? We better brace ourselves. Donald Trump has to be very careful. This is not Hillary Clinton. You know what I mean? This is not Hillary corrupt Clinton with all the baggage that she had. And now Abigail, she's building herself some baggage as is. And I think in three years when she was running for president, it'll be a, it's probably going to be not so good for her. I really only think the only thing that will sink her is her. Really? The only thing that will sink her is her. I mean, right before she came.

on, they were talking about how much of a moderate she was and running for governor and she's in there now and she's a moderate. And one of the first things she had the audacity to talk about was tariffs and how it raised the price of the cost of living and raised taxes and all that kind of stuff. Meanwhile, having proposed, you saw, if you didn't see the episode of Mother of Mayhem about taxes, well, you can listen to that. You can watch that and you can see how many tax bills have been added to the docket for Virginians. moderate tax bills now, moderate. I'm going to watch my mouth. I don't want to be drugged back in for another round of audiovisual indoctrination with the mother of mayhem. But, you know, it is what it is.

What I do want to do is read you the four quartets stanza here. Four quartets by T.S. Eliot, this first one is called Burt Norton. And it's in Section 3 here. Yeah, where do we start? We can start. I mean, it is one of those shows. Maybe we should just go from the beginning. Yeah, let's go.

We're going to read a little bit. Okay. What is this site, by the way? David Gorman, thank you. I mean, David Gorman has a beautiful website here, right? Here is a place of disaffection, time before and time after in a dim light, neither daylight. Investing form with lucid stillness, turning shadow into transient beauty. with slow rotation suggesting permanence nor darkness to purify the soul emptying the sensual with deprivation

emptying the sensual with deprivation cleansing affection from the temporal neither plentitude nor vacancy only a flicker over the strain time-ridden faces now pay attention class distracted from distraction by distraction he holds up his cell phone at the camera distracted from distraction by distraction filled with fancies and empty of meaning

he holds up his cell phone tumidapathy with no concentration I mean this guy T.S. Eliot 1920 whatever it was when this came out like This is what I mean. Men and bits of paper Whirled by the cold wind that blows before and after time,

wind in and out of unwholesome lungs, time before and time after. It's an amazing, it's an amazing gathering of ideas that fit as well into the 19, as it does into the 2020s. I mean, kind of astounding when you think about it. Like really kind of astounding to think that a poet could put something together like that in 1920.

Distraction from distraction by distraction. And nothing of meaning. What I'm sharing with you guys is it's nothing that you're not capable of. And one of the holdups for Red Beacon media. and the breakout of that website, which will come, is because that website has to bend over backwards to support this renaissance. Because what I want to populate that website, not exclusively, not to be the majority of the content, but I want it to be notable.

I want people, ordinary everyday Americans, to write things and to photograph things and to take videos of things and to paint things and draw things that go on to red beaconmedia.com. And we may call it the new renaissance. We may call that section of the website, the new renaissance. We may. For those of you who don't really find power in the written word, I understand. You know what I mean? I get it.

You look at the world and you look at the state of the world and you say, okay, great. Everybody's going to start writing poems and it's going to be, And that's going to stop the rapist, bollian pedophilic lizard people from ruling the planet. It's not going to do everything. I think the most important thing that it could do, though, is to reestablish unity and a connection between people. Right. really we don't even know America's full potential because we remain divided it is it's part of the gig you know what I mean it's part of the deal it's really hard to believe I don't know that that

this type of thing could gather everyone together on the same page but I think that there are opportunities that are showing up and will continue to show up to get people unified in this country and and beyond when you if if you find that you can write in a way that resonates with a group of people beyond the political and beyond the social culture trends of the day that's where the real power is that's where you all of a sudden can can gather people together that's where you can adam calls adam walker the guy who we did the video from earlier calls these things closed circles I mean, it's not groundbreaking, you know what I mean? But it's a good way to look at it.

It's a good way to look at it. America is a collection of these closed circles. And the value of our country is to have less and less of those, right? What makes people great and what's always made people great is their ability to enter in. My whole life has been a story of entering into the unknown, meeting people, learning things, both learning things about what the profession was I was getting into, but also about the type of people I was working with. That was the beauty of my life forever, you know?

Didn't take things so personally. Everything wasn't a personal attack. Another man's decision was not a personal attack on me. And that was in a world of open circles. And since then, a lot of closed circles, you know. Only we can fix that. There's no one that can fix that. And I do believe in the power of writing and art to fix that.

So do with that what you will. Let me grab something real quick. Let's talk birthday. Let's talk intrepid commander birthday. Okay. There were a few things we talked about yesterday. Like I said, I'm going to do my best to take the day off. I'm going to try to do as little work as possible tomorrow.

I think I'll start the day out early workout. I've got a lot of little, little army men to paint that I'm looking forward to painting on my day off, my birthday. But there's a bunch of things, too, that I put in place because, you know, why not spread to love? Many of you out there will ask me and you ask me year over year. And a lot of times I'm such an idiot that I don't say anything. I don't worry about it. You know what I mean? It's a new year.

It's a new dawn. It's a new day. There's a reason PBN is having the success it's having now. One of the reasons things are going in the right direction is because, well, it's because of a simple phrase from a Jewish sage named Hillel. Hillel had a saying, it was, if I'm not for myself, who will be? And if I'm only for myself, then who am I? it's important to me to be humble it's important to my wife that i'm humble i mean in my kids right and this is i don't think people appreciate like what a humble man can can create in his wake

but that being said it's very easy the line between humble and forget forget no forgettable Let's go with that. The line between humble and forgettable is nearly transparent and so thin. In other words, you can humble yourself right out of people's minds. You can humble you. And, you know, if you're humble and efficient and proficient, it's just really easy for somebody like you to be forgotten unless you make your demands known. Make your expectations known. And the trouble is when you're a humble person and, you know, when you're a humble person,

a lot of times you're a quiet person and you suffer from self-worth issues. You know what I mean? Where you think that everyone is just, everyone is one screw up away from leaving you. That's what it feels like. You know what I mean? It's like, I'm going to go in there and I'm going to do my best. And I'm going to do my best every day. and that's what I'm going to do.

I know what I'm good at. I know what I'm not good at. I'm going to avoid the things I'm not good at because should I screw up, everything could fall apart. Everyone could leave, right? No one's actually invested. They're just here until I mess up. Now, I had a guy on a live stream the other day, quote, my, because our will, I'm sorry, because our spirituality does not test our will, we're losing both from darker trail.

He didn't guess it. He quoted it word for word. And I wasn't talking about the book. You know what I mean? I was not talking about the book whatsoever. I just got on the subject of day. It was like day five or six without coffee. I don't know what it is now.

Please tell me it's like day 15. Are we 15 days in the Lent? And I just got on the subject of that. And he spat that out. And when you, if you don't value yourself, right, then you also screw people over in your life, right? You screw people who are committed to you and have committed to you and do appreciate you and have invested in you. A lot of you out there have invested in me. You've invested in my writing of books and making of shows and courses and all these kinds of things.

So my message here to those of you who are listening to me and going, I think that might be me a little bit, is to think about Hillel's message, right? To think about the Jewish sage's message, which is if I'm not for myself, who will be? You're just hoping, right? If you don't push forward the things that you're into, the things that you need the world to know about, right? your skills your your all of those things who will maybe someone mill but maybe not right if i'm not for myself who will be and if i'm only for myself then who am i right so to celebrate the birthday number one if you really are sitting there going i want i'd like the intrepid commander to have a great birthday i mean year over year people ask me that what do you want for your birthday what would you

like for that kind of stuff. I push you off. I shove you off. I say, don't, you know, don't worry about it. Buy something from Red Beacon Ready.com. Go buy something from Red Beaconready.com. Go to the emergency lighting section. You can find some very affordable preps over there. But just go check out the wares at Red Beaconready.com. And buy something. And to be honest, that will be as great a gift as anyone could give me. I decided to discount. Lifetime membership. Lifetime membership to PBN gets you full access to PBNFamily.com, our members' website, prepping videos, courses, behind all kinds of stuff.

Members only podcast, the whole nine yards. Lifetime members also get their own podcast. You get your own life or podcast you get access to when you become a lifetime member. No ads, nothing, full access, all members only content, the whole thing. Typically, lifetime membership's $250. I decided to take $50 off when you use the promo code B-Day at PBNFamily.com. So you go to PBNFamily.com, use the promo code B-D-A-Y, and you'll get 50 bucks off your lifetime membership, and you'll be a lifer here. And that'll be another thing that I'd love to see on my birthday.

I also decided in the 11th hour to give away this book tomorrow. We're going to give away poems for men. We're going to give it away an e-book form for the next three days. So for the next three days, this book, Poems for Men, will be available for free on Kindle, starting tomorrow, the 26th, on my birthday, the 27th, and the 28th. You want to read it. You want to get into some Matthew Arnold. You want to get into some Anne Bronte. You want to listen to or read rather those great poets talking about timeless men's issues.

You want to read Shakespeare in his incredible sonnet about, it's so good. Let's read it real quick. It's so good because it's so old. Some of them are so old and they're so good because they're so old and everything still fits. Shakespeare's like that. I mean, everything Shakespeare does is like that. I'll just read the bold part because what I did in this book is I included great poems for men, but I also made the parts that really count bold, right, or the parts that I tend to read over and over again.

He says, and look upon myself and curse my fate. Think about the men of today. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope. Oh, I wish I had more hope, right? featured like him, like him with friends possessed, right? Oh, I wish I looked like him. He's so much more handsome than me. And I wish I had buddies like him, like a group of friends.

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope with what I most enjoy contented least. With what I most enjoy contented least. How many people this day and age have so many good things going for them? but they're so wrapped up in what everybody else has on TikTok and Instagram and whatever it is that they take for granted they're the woman they do have the family they do have the job they do have the car they do have the life they do have where they live the parents the siblings the cousins whatever it is the friends contented the least with what I have some issues are timeless folks so check it out poems for men You'll get a collection of great classic poets, and you'll get a collection of my work, too, tailored towards modern man. Women, fatherhood, manhood, and so forth. And it's completely free on Amazon.

All right. So go to Amazon, search up. You have to search up Poems for Men, James Walton, to find the book. I know it's insane. I know it's crazy. You search poems for men, and you'll get poetry for men by somebody. and then a bunch of other books that have almost nothing to do with poems from that. So make sure you add my name.

The algorithm is lovely. Isn't it's a wonderful thing? Key words and she words and he words. Don't seem to move us four words whatsoever. All right. So that is the birthday wish, folks. Feel free to help me out in that way. That'd be great.

Down in the podcast below, we also have a donation spot. You want to leave a donation for my birthday? Fine. fine with me. I can tell you this much, you know, that it's been a beautiful year. It's been a beautiful year at a time where usually I'm about ready to tap out. And I see nothing but good things coming for PBN. And a lot of that has to do with you. You know what I mean? A lot of that has to do with you.

So enjoy your day. I will most certainly enjoy mine. Don't forget. In order for there to be an American Renaissance. or what Trump called them a golden age in America. Different, but similar. It's going to require you. It is going to require you

and your unique perspective. So read a little, write a little, dabble a little, maybe a little brush stroke here and there. All right, folks. I'll talk to you soon. Don't miss the shows today. Oh, my God.

I almost forgot to tell you, women's Wednesday. We have the Sarah Hathaway women's self-defense show. It's up right now. It's a must. She's the best of the best when it comes to women's self-defense. Because she's 5'0-0-0-0. And that's her saying, not mine, but she gets it.

Women's self-defense, don't miss it. Great show, church and state today. And, of course, where are we at? I was a commune. No, the shadow tonight. The shadow's on tonight late night. All right. Talk to you soon, folks. Have a good.