Surviving America 032: Splitting Headache Edition

[00:00:00] Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived.

[00:00:44] I'm going to be a little more settled in to this seat than normal. And you know what would be really nice is if I could get a sort of co-host situation from the chat room. I see that the Firewall Forge has opened up. You know, I should have done this on Instagram. We'd have got a lot more feedback from the audience. They're just I don't know something about the Instagrammers. They like the yap.

[00:01:16] Woke up this morning. I don't know. I was one of those. We have those mornings where you wake up and you feel like you didn't even sleep. You know what I mean? Like I woke up at five and I was like, oh, there's no way. Went down, let the dogs out. Came back up, went back to bed, woke up at 630, which is like, whoa. And I don't know. Say the machinery is not kicking in. I will tell you this. I did a.

[00:01:45] This is not out of the ordinary, so I don't think it had anything to do with it, but I did it like a serious workout yesterday. My wife, she finds these amazing workouts online. That from the outside looking in, you'd be like, you know what I mean? I know better now. We used to we we started with body fit by Amy.

[00:02:09] And I remember seeing body fit by Amy for the first time and being like, you know, I'll work out with my wife. We've been working out together for a long time. I mean, even if this isn't that tough, it's still a workout, you know. And she just she will destroy you, you know, of course, if you use 10 pound dumbbells like, you know, she is and it won't be that hard if you're a guy. Well, you know what?

[00:02:37] That's not even true because it's high rep range stuff. You know what I mean? But anyway, like to add insult to injury, we we were going to go to the gym last night. Look, I'm going to talk today. This is all I can do. I can't get into the politic tree, the current event. If you guys want to talk about a thing, put it in chat. OK. Other than that, it's going to be a sort of a stream of consciousness kind of day.

[00:03:06] It's going to be coffee to keep me going stream of consciousness kind of day. And that's that. And this is where my head is right now. Today's show is brought to you by Lima Tango survival. We'll run that sweet commercial later. And I'll talk a little bit about those guys. So many so much crazy interaction going on, I think. I don't know if like my. I think my brain is over whelmed or something. I don't know what it is. There's like. There's like.

[00:03:36] So many little tentacly coming off of my head with various different projects and various different opportunities and various different responsibilities, and it's just. We're getting it like it's all. Like tuning right now and it's getting good. I mean, it's getting real good. All facets of business, things like that in terms of like things in order thing, you know. I don't know what it is, though.

[00:04:05] You know, one thing that I've been doing a lot in the last month, two months is sleeping. And I'm not really that happy about it, to be honest with you. You know, like I've really been struggling to wake up early.

[00:04:21] Well, as early as I normally wake up, you know, like my average wake up time has been like 536 and nor normally it's like 435 between 530 and six between 430 and five. And I feel it. I mean, I feel it now. There is a thing right there is a thing on. What taking creatine can do to your sleep, but I think this started happening before I started doing the creatine.

[00:04:52] If you want to know more about that, that's on the prepper fit and health side. This is a new thing for me. I do remember being sort of like feeling feeling the effects of lack of sleep before I started taking it and then thinking about what it might do. I don't know. Bottom line.

[00:05:13] The overall sort of situation for me has been like tired in the morning, in the night, in the evening. Not so much. I mean, sometimes I go through these like, oh, I'm a morning person now. Oh, I mean, I'm always a morning. I say the silliest stuff. You know what I mean? Like there's no way I can be up later than six thirty. Just wouldn't work with my life. When I say morning person, I mean like.

[00:05:41] The way I typically run my day, which is earlier than six thirty, you know, four thirty five. Five thirty at the latest. Just, you know what I'm used to. But. Anyway. I wake up today. My wife called down not long ago and said that there's extreme pollen count. I'm going to say, let's blame it on the pollen instead of just taking poor care of myself by not sleeping all week. For good reason.

[00:06:10] I mean, it's not like I was up like painting Warhammer miniatures all night or anything like that. It's just been busy, you know, been busy on the writing side of things. I had a couple of big projects there. Things that when they come out, I'll tell you guys about them. This is not stuff that's coming out on the PBN side, you know what I mean? This will be stuff that comes out under a different name. But the products themselves are really cool. What's crazy to think about is I have no idea how many books I've written in my life.

[00:06:39] I know how many books I've written, you know, like published with my name on them. But I have no idea how many books I've written in my life anymore. That's really weird, you know. The Fire Wolf is driving in and commenting. Be careful, man. I imagine that you're probably driving to a place that not as many people on the road, but I could be wrong.

[00:07:09] So back to the workout because this is funny. I'm trying to remember. I want to say that the woman's name was Sydney Cummings. I think I'm pretty sure. But suffice it to say that I wander upstairs at around 430 in the afternoon. I'd already committed, told my wife we were going to work out together. We're well outfitted in our house to knock out a serious, you know, workout. We don't have like a traditional gym or anything like that.

[00:07:35] But we've got a collection of dumbbells and kettlebells and skills with those to have a really, you know, like really debilitating workout, like laying on the ground, sleeping. You know, like in and out of like wanting to fall asleep type of thing after a workout. That's like I can get there pretty easily doing these kinds of workouts.

[00:07:59] I run upstairs and I see a woman who is about seven, eight months pregnant. Right. Getting ready to dish out this workout. And I'm not stupid enough to make believe that it's going to be easy. I could see from the counter on the video that it's a 36 minute workout, which, you know, that's no that's no picnic to begin with. And I'm going to use heavier weights.

[00:08:26] You know, I'm going to use 25 pound kettlebells on each arm and a 60 pound kettlebell for like dynamic movements and that kind of stuff. So I know it's going to be no picnic. And it was it was really rough. You know, like I would say that. Probably without weight, the average person would struggle with that. You know what I mean? Security system right on. Right. Right. Right on time.

[00:08:57] So, you know what, let's do the Lima tango so I can let this little guy out and then we'll come back. And I really don't know what the hell we'll talk about. Maybe we'll talk about voice to text because that's something that is being chatted about.

[00:09:44] How about the big PBN symbol? How about that? What happened to my camera? Oh, my. It's going to be one of these. This is one of those days where in my head I was saying, you know what, dude, just run a rerun. Just run a rerun. You got plenty of shows. Just run a rerun. But it's hard. It's hard to run a rerun.

[00:10:08] I know there's a bunch of people out there, you know, listening to talk radio and having fun with the sort of the podcasting people that we have fun with. It's tough because sometimes like these shows that are published on PBN become such a big part of a person's day. And you feel, you know. I remember being in the working world or even sometimes when there's things that have to get done that I don't feel like doing.

[00:10:39] What a gift it is, right, to have that podcast that let hear from that person that you hear from and be like, oh, OK, I can put this on in the background and I can get through this war laid before me. But it was definitely one of those days. And so here we are. You got what you wanted.

[00:11:05] We're together now for another 15, 20 minutes, something along those lines. What are we going to talk about? You know, the. I do think that on another note completely, I do think that the Canadians. Are creating an issue at their own southern border by putting Carney in feels like feels like their southern border is going to wind up looking like our southern border, except it's going to be Americans jumping ship to get into zero emissions Canada. You know what I mean?

[00:11:35] I mean, I don't understand how you can go Trudeau and then. And then get a guy like Carney in there, I if I could talk to him, I would say, like. You're going to have a civil war in the country if you're not careful, you know what I mean? Like you're going to you're going to have yourself a civil war.

[00:11:59] You're not everybody's into the idea of being piss poor in order to save the world in a country like Canada. Save the world right from carbon dioxide. It in a country like Canada, where like I can't even imagine where they rank. If you're going to make a list of people in nations. Right. That are like really rough on emissions. Let's see. Let's just see out of curiosity.

[00:12:28] Worst nations for CO2 emissions. I think they're not even probably not even. In the top 10, they're not big. You know what I mean? Give me a list here. Oh, my God, they're so far down. I don't even see them. As we all know, China number one on emissions by a long shot. Nobody's doing anything over there. They don't care.

[00:12:59] You know, the United States is actually down 21 percent emissions from the year 2000. India is up one hundred and ninety seven percent at number three. The EU is down 30 percent, but they can't keep the lights on. Russia five, Japan six, Iran seven. International shipping is actually number eight. Oh, we got to get rid of that. That's it. That he didn't know that. That explains a lot. No wonder they're supporting the Houthis and all that. Yeah.

[00:13:29] Stop that damn international shipping. Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Canada number 12. Right. Canada number 12. The percentage of global total emissions. Canada is responsible for one point five percent.

[00:13:50] So we're taking a one point five percent emissions, you know, portion of the global emissions in totality. And we're going to ring the people out. We're going to ring them out of all potential and so forth. Every penny that we can. And, you know, they'll suffer the same fate as like Spain and Portugal, too, I'm sure. Canada, California. The only difference is it's freezing in in Canada.

[00:14:18] So it'll be worse if the lights just decide to go out because of an atmospheric anomaly. Right. In December. It's no joke, man. It's no joke. So if I could talk to Carney, I'd say, you know, get your priorities in order. You're Canada. You know what I mean? Like do what Canada does really well. Do those things. What the traditions and the like.

[00:14:46] Like, what are they trying to be up there? That's what I don't understand. And why are so many countries lost to the void of some other goal besides the prosperity of their nation and their people? Like, why are they like crawling over?

[00:15:10] The people who have have like their hand, like give us something, you know, just stop killing us with taxes. They're like getting hands and feet to the faces as their leaders, like crawl over top of them to get to this zero emissions. Be nicer to everyone, especially the people who spit on you. Sort of goal set.

[00:15:35] It's become kind of cool to see like world leaders talk to on podcasts and things like that. It's pretty cool. It's a good move, I think, in the long run. If I had some world leaders in front of me, I wouldn't mind talking to them. I wouldn't mind talking to Carney. I wouldn't mind telling them that, you know, you could have yourselves a civil war on your hands. If the economy gets, you know, the economy's in bad shape in Canada, it's not going to get any better. Right.

[00:16:01] If you start cutting manufacturing and emissions and all that, you start building the make believe economy, the pleasure island economy. Not getting better. You know. I think if I had shine bomb in front of me, I tell her it's like it's full speed ahead. Right. It's full speed ahead on the de narcotization of Mexico.

[00:16:31] I would tell her that Mexico, I think, could be one of the most amazing places in the whole world by spite by a long shot. I think the quality of life for the people there could be unbelievable. I think that the like the tourist destination potential could be unbelievable. I really it it could be an amazing place. I would never take my family to Mexico right now. You know what I mean? There's no way.

[00:17:01] There's no way. It's just you just don't know. You know what I mean? You just don't know. So if I had shine bomb here, I tell her, you know, if I were in your shoes, shine bomb, I would form an alliance with Donald Trump as tight as possible. I mean, meeting regularly and talking about operations in detail or assign someone who's better prepared for that, maybe from your military to.

[00:17:28] You just really go on an all out war to eliminate this stuff. I know lofty goals. But if you haven't been paying attention to history, only those nations with lofty goals are the ones that tend to flourish without tyranny in the future. You know, that's what's coming next. Next, what comes next for a place like Mexico is what's one of two things, right?

[00:17:57] You're going to wind up with a cartel run nation, which may be already happening, or you're going to wind up with a movement that is so jackbooted and so militant that everyone's got that the people themselves are going to suffer that they're going to suffer both sides.

[00:18:14] You know, it's going to be like a civil war where you got curfews and you've got, you know, iron fist from government and military everywhere, breaking heads, even if they're the wrong heads. And then you've got the cartels with their grips and, you know, it's now's the time.

[00:18:37] Unfortunately and fortunately for the world at large, now is the time, you know, which is why it's your time, too. You know, it's most certainly your time, too. Like if you're going to get powerful, if you're going to get self-sufficient to any degree, if you're going to learn skills, if you're going to really become sort of your best self in a lot of different facets of life. Like this is that time. Now is that time?

[00:19:06] Because it's we have the potential to all sort of wind up on an upswing. Because every all the forces for good seem to be at least at the table, at least thinking about things rationally for the moment. You know, you forget already where we were a year ago today, you know, where we were May 30th a year ago. Right. It's like we were in this situation where we weren't even sure that the president of the United States was the president of the United States.

[00:19:36] I think I posted a show around this time. And the title on it was I want a president. That's what it was. I want a president. Because I really felt for a long time we didn't have one. We just had there's just this, you know what it was. I don't have to come up with some metaphor to explain it.

[00:19:58] So if you're going to if you personally, you know, are going to go for something for the rest of this year, maybe the rest of this administration or at least until they kill Donald Trump. Or whatever, you know, the hatred and just see what's coming in May. Look up May Day and see what's coming around this country. I saw a flyer for my own neck of the woods the other day. It's clear.

[00:20:28] And we have representatives ratcheting up the whole idea of how dangerous and deadly and devastating. And again. Even when Biden was at his worst, I think the big difference was the right was not number one, it was not interested in violence. Number two, the right had enough hope and.

[00:20:55] And maybe a belief in hard work and those kinds of things, right, integrity to say, like, we can come back from this. We can come back from this. You know what I mean? And it wasn't it never reached the point of desperation where it was like, we're all done. We're finished. If we don't get Joe Biden out of office now, the whole country is going to fall apart and we have to do it by any means necessary.

[00:21:16] And let's get all kinds of people in the streets of the country to scare the hell out of everyone fundamentally. So. That's what's happening on the underside. That's what's happening on the left side of things right now that by any means necessary methodology that I've been talking about is not going away. It's only worse.

[00:21:45] It took a they took a brief vacation. They went and saw, you know, Europe and Canada. And now they're back and they're like, we don't want to live there either. And now it's, you know. It's going to be a very interesting summer, particularly if the CEO of Walmart is correct in saying that there's going to be, you know, serious problems by summer. If we don't make a change in terms of tariffs and getting cheap Chinese goods into the country. Morning, Jay Firk.

[00:22:15] Thanks for joining me. I'm hanging on by a thread. No, that's not true. I'm. I'm doing my best. How about that? Let's go with that. Doing my best. It's a day where I probably should have called out, but there's nobody to call. So when you remember when you could call out of work, some of you, I mean, many of you can call out of work.

[00:22:42] But I've been doing this, this entrepreneur thing for so long right now that there's no call out number. You know what I mean? If I call the call, if I call to call out, I just wind up getting a busy signal because I dialed. All right. Or it goes straight to voicemail. It's. In like a few hours, I'll be good. I know it. I'm probably like one hot weather run away from being fine. And I'm also being a wimp, I think, on top of it.

[00:23:09] I think I've got like a little tired-ish, allergy-ish headache and I'm whining. It was a crazy morning too, but I don't want to get into it. You know, it's just one of those days. One of those mornings, not even like one of those days. So we're talking about what we could, what I would like to say to different world leaders. That's kind of fun. We can go with that. You know what I mean? We can go with that.

[00:23:40] And, uh, well, that would be kind of fun, J Ferg, actually. Have you do a stand-in on surviving America for me? That would be pretty cool. Um, no particular topics in mind. Like I said, open to questions from you guys and that kind of thing. But, um, what's kind of got my attention right now by accident is, is the idea of if you had a world leader in front of you, what kind of things would you tell them, ask them? That kind of question.

[00:24:10] You know, like what would you say to Zelensky right now? Being a prepper and, you know, watching the war and understanding what could come next and all that kind of stuff. What would you say to a guy like that? You know, for me, um, the first question I'd have for him is like, how long is this going to go? Well, in your head, like what's the time frame on this Voldemort? What are you thinking?

[00:24:37] Are you thinking that with the help of the coalition of the European Union that you're going to get all your land back? Like you lost this war. It's what it is, right? The Washington Examiner today puts out that the economy shrank in the first quarter. Singling major warning sign. Look, I do think that, uh, I do think that Firewall Forge puts a good little asterisk in it.

[00:25:07] It'd be fun to talk to world leaders only if they couldn't lie. We'll go with that. Fat enough. Wolf, um, what was I going to say? Talking about the economy for a split second. Economy shrank in the first quarter. Oh, oh. I do think that those of you who have put extra food, water, goods up are going to benefit from that in the very near future.

[00:25:38] I do think now is a time to wrap your head around, uh, taking about, I don't know, three to five hundred dollars off and doing a good Costco Sam's Club run. You know, shaving about two to three hundred or three to five hundred bucks off the old savings, the old emergency fund, whatever it is, and doing a doing a good run and really kind of nothing crazy.

[00:26:06] For those of you who don't shop those kinds of places, I don't know, it might sound crazy to you. For some of you who do shop those places, you're probably thinking five hundred, why not a thousand? Um, but I put some of those, you know, China made daily items up. You know, I do think a lot of that stuff is going to become a little bit scarce. I think the American people are going to be faced with a variety of things that are going to taint their judgment in the summer.

[00:26:36] I think there's going to be desperation on the left wing political side, almost guerrilla esque. You know what I mean? Um, and everything that Donald Trump does that isn't impossible to cover up, you know, that like so immensely beneficial to the country that it's impossible to cover up. Um, is going to be wrung out in the news like you wouldn't believe, you know, so that combined with protests,

[00:27:03] combined with the very real fact that we could see empty shelves on major retailers and maybe supermarkets, who knows? Um, you know, that's one of those situations. It's going to get people crazy. People are going to start. I don't know what to do. What should I do? You know, and the, the prepping crowd is not the hoarding crowd. The hoarding crowd is the, is the crowd that didn't prepare, right?

[00:27:31] They're the ones that go, Oh God, I don't know what to do. I'll buy all the toilet paper. Oh God, I don't know what to do. I'll buy all the plastic cups. You know what I'm saying? Things, you know, things to consider. Um, because I do think the summer is going to be an interesting ride, maybe well into the fall, maybe, maybe even well into the fall. To be honest, it's just everything shaping up to look that way.

[00:28:00] You know, we don't even know really truly what's coming in terms of the war situation in Europe. I do think that the Brits are going to, I do think they're in for it a little bit. I don't want them to be, don't get me wrong. I do not want to go to this website right now. What am I doing? Of course, this, the bought and sold, uh, drudge report says G did that the top headline of all headlines.

[00:28:27] It's GDP shrinks, but they do have it up here. They do have China exports to us plunge impending shortages. You know, this is like kind of cause and effect. You know, it's, I'm saying things that I hope people just kind of get, you know what I mean?

[00:28:46] Like, I hope the simple math of we're charging the shit out of China equals they're not going to, uh, you know, the tariffs are going to affect how much Chinese goods we get. Right. Kind of makes sense. So Whitmer hugs Donald Trump and that's supposedly a story. Couldn't care less.

[00:29:12] There was a story over here about Russia talking about, that's the only reason I'm here right now. Let's see. Yeah, here we go. Putin mouthpieces. These mouthpieces of Putin, man, they got to be careful. This guy, what's his name? I've read him several times. As soon as I see his name, I'll know it.

[00:29:41] Oh, this is a different propagandist. Vladimir Solovoyanov. Solovoyanov. Solovoyov? Maybe. So-called military expert Andrei Klintshevik told Russia, one, that Britain's security service handed explosive to the perpetrators by the ton.

[00:30:07] When we say that British security service is behind every terrorist attack, it means the blood, that the blood of the British who authorized the killings on Russian soil must be spilled. They must realize that they will pay personally an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Remember, they're sending people. It was months ago when we broke the story. We didn't break it either, but we just talked about it here.

[00:30:37] We just broke the story. We talked about the story, rather, that the UK was committing special forces to go to Russia. Like, what do you think is going to happen? You know? I'd love to talk to that guy, the head of the English leadership over there. That would be a fun conversation to have. Right?

[00:30:59] Like, your country's been invaded by radical Muslims that have clearly set up their own worlds and their own lands and their own laws and their own everything.

[00:31:11] And again, clamoring over the people that you're supposed to represent and protect to hyper-focus on Ukraine and the imaginary war that could come with Russia, which I really have a hard time believing that's a thing. I mean, it could be a thing now that you've spent three years, you know, helping bomb on the oblivion.

[00:31:37] Firewolf Forge in chat says, saw a post saying they wanted to see the price break down because of the tariff increase. And I like that. Open books, baby. How much on that $1.97 knife at Walmart is profit? And then when tariffs go down, I expect the price to go down. Yeah, that's a big one right now in my head too, Firewolf. My son, he is on this kick of getting his hands on one of these electric dirt bikes. Right.

[00:32:06] And that's one of the things that I'm gambling on right now. It isn't very much a gamble at the moment. It's gone up. I think the bike itself has gone up about $300 in the last couple of weeks. He's been saving his money for it. And I told him I'd give him some money to help him out with it. The price went up naturally. You know, it's an electric dirt bike. Where do you think that's made?

[00:32:31] And now I'm waiting to see what do these companies do, right? Like, do these companies decide, hey, the tariffs are down, but we're still selling these bikes at this price. So who cares? Let's keep it rocking.

[00:32:48] Right now, my gamble is that maybe I'm just such a freaking fluttery goofball that I think they'll do something nice for their consumer. But I am seeing, I am thinking that this brand in particular says and takes advantage of the fact that, oh, look, price reduction. Tariffs are down. The price has gone down.

[00:33:15] You say things out loud and sometimes you realize what an idiot you are. You ever do that? It really helps when you're worrying about something. Like if you're really worrying about something that you know is probably bullshit and you say it out loud, you'll be like, oh, God. I can't believe that's been in my head so long. Unfortunately, I feel that way about this idea that this company for some reason ever would drop its prices. You know what I mean? But yeah, I'm wondering the same thing. Tariffs go away.

[00:33:45] Do prices go down? Do prices ever go down? You know, does it ever get easier in terms of the battle of attrition that we face week in and week out? Do you ever feel like that? See, when I have a bad headache and I'm feeling really cynical and there's been a lot of impediments today, my cynicism goes way up. And when I'm hyper cynical, some days I wake up and all I see is the war of attrition that we all are fighting.

[00:34:13] Everything looks like attrition to me. You know what I mean? I look in the refrigerator and it's like, oh, you know, the inventory is slowly depleting. It's the battle for attrition. You look at the bank accounts. You got to fill it up. You got to, you know, you wear it down. You got to fill it up more. It's the battle of attrition. The very body itself, right? Like my legs are killing me right now because of working out with the woman who was eight months pregnant. Absolutely obliterated me. Same thing. The muscles wear down.

[00:34:43] They need to build back until they can't anymore because you get so old and then you lose, right? Because the funny thing about this war of attrition that we're all in is that it's a lot like Ukraine. It's very similar. We're all in the Ukrainian position in our lives, right? Eventually, it's all just going to the world, the financial burdens, the burdens of the body, the burdens of the public, the burdens of the world, the burdens of the culture.

[00:35:11] Eventually, it'll all just wear us all down and we'll die. And then we'll wind up being shoveled off into the ground or, you know, become a funeral pyre of our own and scattered somewhere into the dirt. That is the most cynical and brutal outlook you can have on life. I just want you to know that, you know. A couple of years ago. I don't want to call it a critical error.

[00:35:42] But against all my natural inclinations, I told myself, you need to treat this a little more like a business and you need to focus a little bit more on the money side of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Now, there was some truth to it and it was important to get the business to a point where it could sustain or else what's the point, right? And we've gotten there, you know what I mean? So that's great.

[00:36:11] But there are certain switches, PBN family, that when you turn them on, they can have serious effects on you, you know. I largely am a creative, I don't know, expressionist or whatever, who masquerades every day as a businessman, as an entrepreneur. That's what I do, right?

[00:36:31] I'm an artistic and expressive type of person who just masquerades as a businessman to keep the lights on. You know what I mean? That's really me. And what I did maybe a year and a half, two years ago was take that part of me that like, you know, where this all has come from.

[00:36:55] The logos, the shows, the, you know, different events and the things and all the fun, the intros, the music, the outros, the sound bites, the whole thing, the ad reads, the sponsors. All this stuff is born out of that sort of creative side. And I sort of like punched it in the solar plexus and told it to go sit down for a minute while I focus on money.

[00:37:24] I'll tell you, it's the, I mean, it's, it really is one of the worst things you can do to yourself is to tell yourself you need to focus on the money. You start, you think that by saying that you're going to focus on the money, like, like let's become a little more profitable. But that engages all this different shit in your head that turns you into a monster.

[00:37:46] It engages a whole line of things and a line of thinking that, that all this, because when you start to focus on money, then you're focusing on everybody else's money or perception of money or other businesses and how they're doing. And I, for a very short period of time, I started to understand what's happening in the culture. You know what I mean?

[00:38:09] And why people are damn near suicidal every day, because all you see is what money can do, right? All you see is money, money, money. Money's easy to convey, especially on social media and stuff like that. And I could, dude, it's a damaging thing. Like, I don't know if many of you out there, like, this is how I live, dude.

[00:38:31] But I'm telling you right now, if you're not the type of person that has been focused on money your whole life, and then all of a sudden you try to engage that sort of thinking, you turn on a lot of things. It's not one switch. It's not like I'm going to turn the money switch on. It's been off. I've been just having a good time and loving life. So now I'm going to ruin all that. Start really thinking about money. You turn on all kind of switches.

[00:38:59] You know, you turn on all kind of, you start like, oh, what about that? Why does that cost that much? You know, what am I getting out of this? You know what I mean? I'm going to do a, I haven't done one in a while, but I'm going to do a cubicle escape plan podcast for the members on four things that you can focus on besides focusing on the money. Um, as a business owner that make, oh, which is much more of a difference in your, in your life.

[00:39:27] I mean, much more of a, like aside from just looking at year over date, how much money do you make last year? How much money did I make this year? And then like governing your actions off of that, like, dude, you will brutalize your brain. Like it will, it will mess your brain up because you, you have to turn on and engage certain things in order to, you know, once you start like messing with your brain. Metric zing and you start like, you know, all that kind of stuff. I don't know.

[00:39:54] It just, for a guy like me, at least it's not yielded the best mentality. It's not yielded the best sort of like, I think it's actually kind of taken away from what it is I really like to do. And even like the person that I am in the world, not good.

[00:40:16] You know, one of the things that I realized, and you could see it from my output of my own books, was that like the first thing that suffers, the first thing that goes away is the best parts of you. Oh, God. Now I'm really going to go on and on and on. Why is Johnny Five following me? Johnny, we're good, man. I set this thing up just the way I wanted it. Calm yourself.

[00:40:48] When you go on the total pursuit of dollars and cents, you have to find more time to focus on that stuff. And what it looks like to me in my experience has been that the thing that you suffer the most, the things that lose in that battle first, are all the things you love the most. It's real.

[00:41:40] It's real. And you know it's going to involve coffee. So you brew some coffee. You let dogs out. Feed them, whatever. And they all curl up on the couch there with you. Right? And in days past, this is when you say to yourself, I got some choices here. I can sit back and watch a movie for an hour and a half, disappear into cinema, which I love to do. I can bring the laptop over here.

[00:42:07] I can drink coffee and do one of my favorite things, which is write what I want to write. I can drink coffee in the huge morning hours, the blue huge morning hours while everyone's asleep in my house. That is where books come from, ladies and gentlemen. That is how books are made, boys and girls, in my world. Books are made in the wee morning hours or late at night.

[00:42:34] And I think what's real telling about that, right, is I kind of recognized that I was going overboard on all this money stuff. And I found myself waking up on those beautiful mornings and saying, well, you've got to send emails out to X, Y and Z. You've got to figure this out. You've got to talk to that person. You've got to look at this opportunity a little closer. You've got to do this, this, this, this, this, and this.

[00:43:03] And not only did it affect, not only did it affect like those beautiful mornings, but then your brain starts to pattern what your free time, what type of things your free time should, you know, what it should be prepared for. And then writing gets harder. And then letting go of everything and sitting there and going into this fantasy world gets way harder.

[00:43:28] And I can tell you, man, like, I feel that returning. And I think it's pretty evident. Like, I, there's a good chance I published three books this year.

[00:43:46] And I think the last time I published a, like a written book, not like the world of ready, nothing wrong with the world of ready, but it's just, you know, not, it's, you're not breaking the, uh, you're not breaking the brain to figure out the, the small amounts of dialogue in that book. Um, but I think 2020 or something, 2019, I don't remember when darker trails came out. Do I have it next to me?

[00:44:16] It's been quite a while. You know what I mean? And it's, a lot of it has to do with like that shifting mentality. You get in front of a written, you get in front of an idea that has, is purely about something you want to write about and get done. You get in front of a creative pursuit and your brain shuts down because it's going like, dude, this is a project that is six months out.

[00:44:43] Like there are things you need to do today to make money. It's not good. It's not, you know what I mean? Like it's one thing if you have to, because you got, um, bills to pay and no money to pay them with. But it's another thing entirely.

[00:45:04] If you're just on this weird quest and then to see it like affect your, what it is that got you there in the first place. You know what I mean? You see it like truly affect what it is that got you there in the first place.

[00:45:19] So, uh, I've definitely been coming out of this sort of battle of attrition on the, uh, on the money side and getting back to like, let's, let's, let's be James Walton again for a little while. Like the real one, you know what I mean? Not the one who's got all of this other stuff sort of in his ears because the people that care about you, like the ones in the chat room and the ones in the household and all that kind of stuff.

[00:45:48] Like they, they want you, you know what I mean? And listen to my words. I'm not just talking about me. I'm talking to you. Like you can bury yourself in work. You can bury yourself in these, these sort of hollow kind of, uh, goals and you are burying yourself. And the things that people love about you and the things that even if you don't admit it, that you love about yourself are the first to go.

[00:46:17] And you become this kind of like different thing, you know? So be careful out there, PBN family. Be careful. Measure thy cynicism because, uh, that sometimes is a marker. You know, if life is starting to feel like, oh, here we go again. You know? Oh, gotta be careful. You know, gotta be careful out there. It's a rambling and it's, it's a splitting headache and it's the, uh, it's the end of the show.

[00:46:47] So I appreciate you guys. Yeah. If this resonates with you and you're on the membership side, look for the sort of the full scale breakdown of that concept in particular, because it's, uh, there are great lessons. I pulled from it. You know what I mean? Other than that, enjoy the day. The rising Republic will be on later today. The rising Republic is in the top 100 podcasts. What's the company? They just put us in there.

[00:47:17] They, they ranked us as top three. Um, what's the name of the company? Best 100 emergency preparedness podcasts by whom? Oh no, I can't do that. I'm about to leave stream yard, shut the show off. Hold on. Give me a second. These guys deserve it. They did a great job. They do a great job. They, their show is called the rising Republic, but it could be called the voices because Ryan Buford and L Douglas Hogan are, they're awesome.

[00:47:47] Million podcasts. So million podcasts ranked us number three in, uh, emergency preparedness. And then they ranked, uh, the rising Republic 90 in top podcasts period. Number 90. I don't know if we're in the top 100 or not, but that's pretty sweet, man. Hey, look, you know, I'll leave you with this. PBN is the best kept secret out there.

[00:48:13] I don't know how long it'll be that way, but you know, if you're here, good on you. I'll talk to you guys soon. Okay. Enjoy your day. Bye.