Surviving America 033: Babes in Toyland

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[00:00:22] Indo-Pak 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 to us.

[00:00:47] What the hell, YouTube? Seriously. Wake up. It's a massive resource sitting. I mean, they look like, you know, it is what it is. But welcoming 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 Brap has joined us here on YouTube.

[00:01:15] Oh, Born to Brap, dude. That's hilarious. That I literally just said, nobody's over there listening to me. And YouTube, they don't like me. And then there's Born to Brap pops in. Appreciate it. Anybody tuning in on one of those social networks, just do the followy, likey, subscribey, pick me kind of things if you don't mind. Thanks.

[00:01:41] Um, because really, you know, fundamentally, all this stuff that we do, uh, we got to grow the audience, you know, the bigger and the better the PBN audience gets, the more prepared the country will get. That's my promise. That is literally my promise to you. Like you want to prepare a nation and an effective nation. Let my people free. Like seriously, let PBN loose on this country.

[00:02:08] There's really nothing like it. There's really nothing like it. There's really nothing like my hosts out there. It's just it is what it is. You know, if you don't believe me, listen to the podcast and so forth. And you know what? There's really nothing like our audience either. The audience is just as incredible. So good to be with you, everybody. Today's podcast brought to you by DIY food storage, MagDate.

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[00:03:26] I don't know. It doesn't get much simpler than that. And ration a ruin, uh, day six of rational day five today is day five yesterday. I said it was day five and a few things podcast Instagram post whoops. Um, but ration a ruin is teaching me a lot about, uh, about pre-made food storage. And I'll just leave it at that for now.

[00:03:54] I'll just leave it. I'll just leave it right there for now. Um, we will do an ROR report, a ration a 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? Um, 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 the flying and launching missiles on neighbors.

[00:04:22] 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. Um, because this is just something we're dealing with. You know, this is, 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's comes back, but it's you gotta remember it.

[00:04:50] 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 gotta see this compound that they're building in Texas. This is not going to end well. Okay. Like 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. Uh, intentional community, so on and so forth.

[00:05:18] I have a feeling it'll probably end something like, like Waco if I had to guess or worse. Um, and, 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. I don't think so at the heart of the, uh, the India, the Indo pack conflict at the moment, you know, we're not, we, we haven't hit the point where it's military on military yet.

[00:05:46] The heart of this whole thing is India is saying that Islamic terrorists are coming from your state, your country, your nation state and, um, killing our people. And they've been accused of this in the past and so on and so forth. And the, you know, 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?

[00:06:15] 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 know, you, you start seeing military on military action and all of a sudden those things become much more of a possibility, right?

[00:06:38] I think what's really important, um, garden girl in chat says the, the Muslim compound is about 15 minutes from her and the local government is working hard to shut it down. Um, crazy. They're choosing Texas of all places. Yeah, that's, I'm sorry to hear that garden girl. I really am. Cause I don't think, I don't think that's going to be really a great situation for people, any and all involved. Right?

[00:07:10] So I wanted to talk babes in toy land today, but I wanted to give you the little Indo pack heads up because you're going to see it. And you know, I think it's important to understand what, what it all emanates, where it all emanates from. Like what, what, why is this happening? How did it get to this point? I mean, 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.

[00:07:39] India said, cool, we're going to find out where those guys are from. Then we're going to bomb it. And that's the situation. Um, this is not the first time India and 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.

[00:08:05] 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. There's nothing else really to say. You know what I mean? Um, I've got an article here. This is where we want to start, right? I've got an article here.

[00:08:30] That is the reason that I titled the show babes in Toyland because I thought it kind of best exemplified. Uh, you must be joking, right? I mean, look, I'll be honest with you. I don't know. Ren is pep. Renny. Renny's peppa in over there on Instagram. I don't know if you're being facetious or not. This is an issue. Um, the question is, can you make a video about survival during your girl's menstrual cycle?

[00:08:58] Oh, doing your girl's menstrual cycle. Okay. So you are being facetious. Um, what I was going to say for those of you out there who have like legit, like haha funny, I get it. But, um, 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, if resources start disappearing in a serious collapse, SHTF scenario, like managing that becomes a thing.

[00:09:27] And, uh, 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, uh, talking about different ways you can deal with that. Right? It's a good one. Um, so let's get into this Mattel thing because this Mattel article sums up a lot of things. It's really weird. It's really weird.

[00:09:56] 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 newsfeed or something like that. But what it, what it is, is a, it's the most sort of easiest to digest situation to explain what's happening with like basically all industry or the majority of industry that are affected by tariffs right now.

[00:10:26] 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 going to be like? What's it going to look like in the longterm short term, whatever? Um, how are my favorite products going to be? Um, so, so Renny, Renny'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 were, you weren't joking.

[00:10:57] And you really do want, um, 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. Um, DM me. Okay. Okay. Because I can literally go find the podcasts for you and you can listen to them and get the, get the full story. Cause the Phoenix has done a great job, um, with that topic.

[00:11:25] Sarah Hathaway has 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. Um, what, what is not said in the CNBC, uh, sort of title is that toy making is leaving China. Right.

[00:11:54] 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 U S to offset Trump's tariff. Um, 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.

[00:12:27] So remember this is probably a move that was happening already, right? 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, you know, you gotta understand that too.

[00:12:46] Um, let's see what I want you guys to know is that, uh, 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.

[00:13:08] 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, um, in here. I can describe it myself, but I kind of wanted to read it. Here we go. We need to remember quote.

[00:13:36] 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. Okay. Now you can take toy out. You can put electronic, you can take toy out. You can put whatever thing, video game system, so on. Um, 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.

[00:14:23] 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? Right. It's like the, the, the freedom that exists in the country allows for massive levels of innovation and creativity.

[00:14:49] The high level of education posts, you know, 12th, whatever, um, gives us the ability to, to really execute well on things like product engineering and development, of course, brand management, all that kind of stuff. But, 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, you know, many of the awesome things.

[00:15:23] Can 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.

[00:15:53] In other words, I don't see like it being a huge opportunity for people to, uh, 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% of its products under $20.

[00:16:22] This is something we're committed to do to continue to create quality product, find the right balance for your price value. But Mattel stock is down 19%. So, you know, that's the deal. That's the deal fundamentally. Um, I like, 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 talked to my kids about it a lot.

[00:16:49] 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? The 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?

[00:17:16] 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? Um, but you know, it's largely our own fault, of course. Right. I mean, one of the big things is.

[00:17:40] One of the biggest things was the development of a game currency, game currency and in game purchases. You know, the idea that we're 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.

[00:18:10] 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 the toys the day after they wanted them. And I think that was I think that was basically it. You go to.

[00:18:39] You go to Walmart, you go to Target, you go to you see like these. Well, it's like everything else in those stores. Right. It's these sort of hyper sanitized, gross, like collection of things that are most popular. I don't know, it's lifeless. It's brutal, really, at the end of the day. It's kind of a nightmare to go to a modern day toy. I'll in a in a big box store.

[00:19:08] It's nightmarish. The other thing that's wild is that like grown men are buying more toys than ever. I don't know any of them, but grown grown men are buying more toys than ever. I've got don't even get me started. You know what I mean? But there's a thing, you know what 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.

[00:19:35] 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.

[00:20:01] It comes with a collectible piece and a card and a and maybe if you want, you can add the 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.

[00:20:31] But, you know, there's more more to toys than just action figures, but I think it fits. I think it really explains well kind of the situation that America is in in terms of bringing back manufacturing tariffs, the whole process of creating and producing products and how that works, because all of that 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.

[00:20:59] 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. The Sunday Mother's Day, the world of ready to is out. You can join Kendall and Jordan on their great adventure.

[00:21:23] 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.

[00:21:43] 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. So the world of ready to like I said, you can go preorder it right now. You can go buy it on the 11th, but you can preorder it right now.

[00:22:14] Get your hands on it. It will be. It will probably be one of your kids favorite books because it's really pretty. 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, is what it is.

[00:22:40] 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 well, the ready out Mother's Day. Get your hands on it. Look, fathers, here's an idea. Get the book. Read the book to your kid.

[00:23:10] 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, whatever it is, and just be chill. You know what I mean? So, I 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. We don't necessarily have to.

[00:23:39] 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 the chat rooms, but thank you, everybody, for joining on all platforms. We do appreciate it. Great show last night, man. Listen, this week thus far has been amazing. Okay? It's been another amazing week. Today at noon, you're going to hear from the Queens College professor, Anna Maria Bounds.

[00:24:07] 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 PBN. And like, yeah, she'll be back. You know what I mean?

[00:24:37] She really digs what we're doing. And we really appreciate what she's doing. You're going to love that interview today. You're going to hear some things that are going to 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. 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?

[00:25:03] In Queens is they're going to test your narrative. They're going to test you. 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.

[00:25:32] Based on population based on age and that whole thing, you know what I mean? It's. Population density and you know this right population density makes everything a little tougher. But what you're going to hear in that. In that interview is you're going to 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?

[00:26:02] In much less populated areas. But it was a different ballgame in New York City. And you're going to 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?

[00:26:32] It's like the Ecclesiastes. There's nothing new under the sun. Um. But it's almost. You know what'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. Um. Urban Pops. Welcome in. Poly Preppers. Welcome in. Frank Theo. Robert Gertsch. Welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us. Over on the Instagram side of things. We do appreciate you guys. Bucked up veteran with us.

[00:27:02] Uh. We do appreciate you guys. Okay. Um. Visit PBNFamily.com. Check out our membership side of things. It's a big deal. 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 look. I've been looking at it every show and going.

[00:27:32] Oh. Should I run it today? Should I run it today? This is from the Daily Star a month ago. Um. I'm a Brit prepper. I commute 160 miles for work. Which must be like across the whole damn country. Uh. And won't leave without survival pack. So what's this guy's name? Mike. UK urban prepper. I guess I'm not going to be able to read it with the screen share going on because there's so many ads.

[00:28:03] A doomsday prepper who's planning to go 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? Johnny five. What's the problem? He doesn't like this story. For those of you who are unawares, I have an A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. Psst. dedété.

[00:28:33] trotzdem. Web. T top it up. Good v brick. Not all they are. God has a screen. Out a little mackerel game can't read my head I got you Hazel the first word at before. day that went totally insane terrifying actually for michael goes by the handle uk urban prepper

[00:29:03] said the commute involves traveling across the uh penines and as a guy who regularly shares videos on his youtube channel full of tips to help people become self-reliant in case 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 five percent of

[00:29:27] 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 pennines so it all falls into

[00:29:52] 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

[00:30:15] let's talk about get home bags you want to talk about get home bags this guy needs a get home bag 160 miles is no joke um 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 uh perimeter breach perimeter breach stop stretching like a cat man you're making me nervous

[00:30:46] uh 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 half a little more than halfway there and back what i came to

[00:31:13] realize is having a bag full of gear to travel 10 miles on foot one way to get home uh 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 um that i know very well and i just

[00:31:40] i came to the conclusion i said well 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're like you put a water filter in a bag uh where what am i filtering right you put like i would i would say a water bottle hydration is a

[00:32:05] 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 and really hot weather and from doing that for years now um i understand the value of hydration and it's not i'm not talking about hydration from the

[00:32:31] standpoint of like i said no water for three days dead or dying i'm talking about hydration from the perspective of body performance you know from real irritability from real problems with how you're you're fatigued which can happen in hours in the right conditions right um so i'd rather have like a water bottle with a liquid iv packet than a get home bag for a 10 mile one way because it's gonna

[00:33:01] have a bunch of gear in it that i probably don't need probably not going to use my edc is really going to 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 um and that has all the capability

[00:33:23] 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 ten mile range from home is to just walk home from work just do it once walk home from work see what it's all about

[00:33:47] and 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 place 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

[00:34:11] for my get home operation um you might not and that was kind of the thing for me i mean i'm i'm talking to you from a place of experience from like 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 gonna slow me down it's gonna hurt my shoulders it's gonna

[00:34:40] wear me out quicker you know what i mean like it wasn't a thing now for those of you who are 161 mile round trip from home like you need a bag you know what i mean you need a you need to go to lima tango survival.com and check out what they have the alpha which i'm showing in the video right now the the alpha

[00:35:04] 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 a 24 hour one man kit you you could survive 72 hours on it easy easy so but you need a kit like that if you if you are gonna have a serious get home operation you do need a kit like that and

[00:35:32] 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 you know whatever it is um and it's highway see highway is different my trek was through the city simple i could go numerous different with this road's blocked off i can go this way if this you know what i mean um and i know the area so no need to pack maps and that kind

[00:35:59] 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 sell signals down you got to know uh i gotta get off this exit that i've never gotten off before and uh or i've got to travel through this town i've never traveled before and i got

[00:36:20] to stay on track so i get home and fundamentally a now a 30 mile uh 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 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 uh low profile and and

[00:36:47] 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 um that's a different thing you know but

[00:37:13] but if you're close distance wrap your head out if you're longer distance you've got 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 limatango survival.com buy yourself the alpha buy yourself the gray man kit they're great

[00:37:42] 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 um yeah welcome in everybody over on the instagram

[00:38:08] side you guys are great popping in popping in chilling out i appreciate it um what else do we want to do i don't know guys that was not on my list of things oh here you go let's talk about this real quick and then we'll head out um 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 a new book

[00:38:38] called poems for men okay now you might be like wtf but poems for men uh is gonna be an astounding project i challenge anyone particularly anyone who's out there rolling their eyes at poems for men to read read 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 don't

[00:39:07] know that's just my deal um and you know i've written many many many over the years uh 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

[00:39:29] manhood you know there's a chapter about fatherhood you know and poems about real real hard poems about that there's chapter about women there's chapter about enjoying life uh there's a chapter about good and evil you know what i mean and 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

[00:39:58] that's so god dang good and and unbelievable um and unbelievably right for men that uh 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 um that it had to be in there you know what i mean so and i don't care you know it's not

[00:40:19] like i'm like it has to be all men fundamentally awesome you know and 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 uh

[00:40:46] evil and good all of which affects you on a day-to-day basis right in most cases in one way or another and uh 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

[00:41:13] 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 um but i heard that i don't remember exactly who it came from i want to say it was from my modern

[00:41:38] wisdom podcast but this puts things in perspective about what's happening with men in terms of severity right we know kind of like what's going on with men settling down and getting married and these kind of things like these things are becoming less and less desirable and dudes are very vocal about it it's not and it's not going to lead them down a good path you know what i mean which stinks because then you feel like you're in this rock or hard play situation i can't meet a good

[00:42:04] girl i can't meet the right girl uh 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 um all that kind of stuff right these things since it's all out in the open now on youtube and everywhere like you see it and people coming up men coming up understand it i think men on their second marriage

[00:42:33] understand it and all that kind of stuff um 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

[00:43:01] 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 the stats and suicide have done to men uh 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 what i mean it's that's crazy when you think about it it's absolutely insane so it's clear that you know the boys and the men need

[00:43:27] guidance the boys and the men need things you know it's shallow out there it's hollow out there artwork 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

[00:43:57] read let alone women right poetry and and fine art and these things that men and boys fawned over them they fell in love with the images and 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

[00:44:25] 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 khalil jabran while you're at it you know before you make any rash decisions have a little khalil jabran have a little uh dante gabriel rosetti you know what i mean give it a

[00:44:52] chance lay in the hammock and enjoy it have a little victorian poets you know what i mean these books are like 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

[00:45:15] 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

[00:45:44] 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 um with poems for men which is again world of ready to 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

[00:46:13] um i don't know you know uh jorade asks did i read byron no i did not uh i did not at all garden girl 84 both of my boys are into are and our 12 year old is a tinker oh are into yeah um joy it says i wonder if the u in the u.s you read english hardcore authors well

[00:46:38] see none of this stuff was mandated by school so that book i showed you 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 um what's up six adits i ain't seen you around in a while man how are you so you know all those all the reading most of the reading that i did on

[00:47:05] particularly in poetry was long after school it wasn't you know i mean it was driven by my own desire to read these things and to learn these things um but i think it that and museums and artwork leave a gaping hole in the modern man um and the problem is like with all the great advice

[00:47:29] 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 like 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 and some of the

[00:47:55] most amazing scenes of all time go see the way one of my favorite things about about renaissance art and pre-raphaelite art particularly portraits of women is you can't compare it to the the the level of minimal devotion to women today and you think about a man and you just look

[00:48:25] 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 the uh

[00:48:51] what's it called it's dante gabriel rosetti's depiction of lilith which is a crazy um and beautiful painting but all his depictions of the women in his life are are amazing i mean just stunning stunt you look at him and you go like i wouldn't even know what where to begin and i think something

[00:49:16] that that sort of uh i don't want to go on and on and on but i 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 at like like i don't need a woman

[00:49:42] 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 um 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 um women

[00:50:09] 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 it and you all know it it's genesis it is not good that man should be alone

[00:50:32] i will make him a helper and you know this this worldly idea that uh 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

[00:50:56] 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 what's killing most people is their 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 got to work you either got to work or you got to commit to misery you know what i mean it's one or the other you either got to say i i've i'm wrong i've been wrong and here's

[00:51:25] 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 uh 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 um membership side i got something fun for you guys coming up i got something real fun for you guys uh we did a little bit of gameplay

[00:51:49] on the virtual reality headset in the jungle sort of icy 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 icy takes on lucifer himself in the exorcist so that you're gonna 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

[00:52:18] um just another sort of layer on that membership side of fun stuff that we do continuity coming right isn't it next week next monday so buckle up for that one that's gonna be a big one that's gonna be a big continuity meeting don't miss out if you remember aside from that folks i'm gonna hit the road today it's been surviving america i hope you enjoyed the show as much as i enjoyed the show

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[00:53:30] right all right i've gone on and on enough talk to you guys soon wish me luck on uh this continuation of ration of ruin and don't miss the report on that that'll be really good friday see you guys thanks