Surviving America 066: Cynicism, News, Poetry

Society in every state is a blessing. A government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already. It ain't coffee, I'll tell you that much. It ain't coffee, but it ain't bad. Today starts the forty day Fast of Coffee for yours truly, the intrepid Commander. And it is a heart pounding to be honest to be. But the good news is I have allies. Right. So, Disaster Coffee has two incredible teas. As you can see. This is what I've been into for a while. If we had smell of vision, we'd be really within. But we have two incredible teas, the first of which we put out as our Earl Gray, because Earl Gray really is like it really is my favorite team. It speaks to the Anglo in within. And we also have Empt, so the gray Man Tea, which is our yeah, our Earl Gray. And then we have also our Empt, which is a Jasmine tea. I don't know if I'll have that tonight or not. I don't know. Jasmine tea little honey, I'm getting back into the tea thing now. I'll show you my tea pot and all that kind. There was a time long before coffee. I'm also you gonna be seeing this beauty throughout the month. My wife made me that I don't know. It is literally one of my most prized possessions. To be honest, Rarely people rarely see it because I don't drink tea really, and I won't put coffee in it because I don't want to be a coffee cup because then it'll wind up broke, you know what I mean, It'll get too much, too much into the rotation. But suffice it to say, folks, thanks for joining me today. This is Surviving America. And We're gonna talk about a variety today because I'm not too intent on doing a bunch of things like well, I don't know, I'm just not intent on doing a bunch of things. I didn't have one in one, one particular topic in mind. I thought about doing a State of the Union, but I didn't do you know, requisite research and things like that. So I thought today we would we would do a show, you know what I mean. We would do a show. We would talk the news cynically observed the news a bit. We could talk about what I'm really into lately, which is this book right here, a gift from my buddy Chin Chin handed me this in uh at Prepper Camp twenty five as though it were just some some thing he found. And this thing's amazing. This, this is amazing. This is this is now the greatest volume of poetry that I own in one sitting. It used to be Victorian Poets, which is incredible in and of itself. But this Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams, pardon me, Oscar Williams is this should be Every school child should have one. You should get this in middle school like this, Really, you should get this in middle school because this book is just a simmering. It's a reduction of all the greats in one spot. It doesn't hit every note, it's not every great totality, but you can get a sip. You can get a taste of every great poet in history out of that book. Why is that important? So what poems? Who cares? We'll get to that. We'll get to the importance of poems and poetry in dark times like this probably later in the show. But I thought, you know, we'll go to the sort of the one side to the other and talk about, you know, the vapidity of our time. We'll go to the the propagandist website, the Drudge Report, which is amazing. This used to be a tremendous website, really an awesome website, which is now just I don't know what it is. It really is just sort of a propaganda arm for the dark forces. Top story Colbert toward CBS. Now, that's a little interesting. Actually, that's remotely interesting. I'd like to read it. He's been battling CBS. Is he battling CBS while on CBS literally trash? Is the networks craft statement claiming they didn't kill Tallarico? Interview Tallarico, James Talafario tallar Rico? Is this the guy from who state representative? Okay, Colbert clashed with number this is I'm already bored. I'm already bored. Don't care, I'm already bored of the story that fast. We got a picture of uh RFK Junior jumping into an ice bath and Jeans not sure what's going on with that maneuver. Does seem to be some blockbuster snowfall that could be brewing for the weekend in the Northeast. We're gonna miss it. We're gonna get rain. Thank God, because we are just reaching the point now I think where all the snow is finally gone. The snow goes, and then the trees around into it in my neighborhood becomes like it becomes like an Easter scene. It's breath taking, you understand, just breathtaking. And I'm ready. I'm so ready. I'm so ready. February eighteenth, let me thank everybody, all the new listeners, all of you who have stuck with us through the changes, all of you who are listening to the canned advertisements on the podcast side of things, like I do appreciate you. It is making the world a difference. If you want to get out of the advertising thing, you don't want to listen to the ads, all you got to do is become a supporter. There's always a link down in the podcast description on how to become a supporter, okay, Or you can go to spreaker. You can look up the Prepper Broadcasting Network on spreaker and you can become a supporter on that side. Or if you can't do any of that, just go sign up a pbon family. I'll switch you over myself and we'll do it that way. Whatever takes right, But if you are a supporter, if you are a lifetime member, if you are a member in any sense, sign up for the supporter side. I'm still getting member payments through pbonfamily dot com, which means you guys are suffering through the ad of written podcast. I don't. I don't if you, I mean, I get it. Everybody's busy, right, everybody's got things to do outside of worry about what James is doing with his crazy podcast network these days. But I want to thank you all. Uh huh, what what is happening? And we should talk about this on a show like today because this could be your life. What's happening right now is the start of a new career, per se. Right, it's this or it's this, it's the It's like I like change jobs to some degree. I know it doesn't look like it on the face of it, but suffice it to say, the adaptability that you have and how you make money going forward is essential. It's essential if you are a lucky person, right, who has been or maybe unlucky, depending on how how much you enjoy it or hate it, who has been with the same company a long time, and you've been with that company and you know you like them and you're happy with your job and that kind of thing, and you're going to think you're going to be there for the long haul. Now might be very you know, careful with that, but wonderful being a writer, being in the world of content creation, you get to see, particularly writing, you get to see we saw earliest the unleashing of artificial intelligence and what it does to a profession right there are remember writing the type of writing that I did as a profession in you know, the twenty twenties. Up was about you know, driving traffic, teaching and through information, selling products, selling affiliate products for somebody, some guy, some some website owner. Oh, here's my article about X survival skill. Here's my thought about X survival situation. You pay me for the article, they use that article to drive traffic or the SEO. You know, in that short period of time, I've seen these blog owners go through all kinds of iterations of money making to where it used to be just fine to have a blog, putt a Google Ads since you know, run Google ads on the blog and make great money. Those things have changed. Man. There are tons of people who are completely and I don't think this is gonna work from in the long run. But I don't know if the money is good enough anyway. But there are what's up, Boomba, There are plenty of people content. Don't go that way. There are plenty of people content with having AI write their articles. You know, honest or dishonest, doesn't matter to fill the sort of daily content need that has to be filled, which is the worst thing in the world. By the way, Like, you pick a name out of this book, right, pick a name out of this book. Let's see what you want to do. John Milton, Robert Frost, Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Alfred Tennyson, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman. You take any one of those guys, right, certifiable tremendous poems, top poem poets of all time, Hall of Fame poets. Right, you take those guys and you say, hey, what I need? Like, like, you want to be a poet, that's great, you know, wonderful. If you want to make money being a poet and you want to do it on a platform like YouTube or maybe in a blog, then we're gonna need you to put a poem out every day every other day. Best of luck. Right, So this this terrible, awful decision by whoever builds algorithms and you know, makes things what they are to make people put content out every single day. Well, look at the content. I mean, it makes perfect sense. I joke with my youngest about it all the time because you will watch your video and he's having fun watching it. But I watch the kid making the video, and I feel so sad for him, and I hope, you man, I hope they're making money, and I hope, you know, maybe it is better than working of nine to five. Maybe not, I don't know, but I watch them and they make such an insane videos that are just like massive redundancies. Like, for example, you know, my son has always loved a game called Super Mario Odyssey, right, so he watches Super Mario Odyssey gameplay videos. What's up guarding girl, how do you do it? Today? He'll watch these videos and but you know, you can only make so much content around the playthrough of a video game. So then they get into these extremes of gameplay where it's like today I'm gonna beat the game and I'm never gonna jump. Today, I'm gonna beat the game with one hand to get I'm gonna beat the game with a blindfold doing backflips. It just gets to a level of maximum absurdity because we're like forcing people to make stuff, like make something, make something great. You know, I don't know's it doesn't lend itself to good anything good really, right, the idea that something has to come out daily. What I'm getting at is you're watching something of a career change here at PBN because of the fact that I had to adapt to the changes of the Internet, to the changes of publishers' needs and those kinds of things. And I'm just telling you be prepared for that, be prepared for that kind of adaptation, because I really do believe it's going to affect probably everybody. It's probably got every nearly everyone who has a job, particularly white collar. Right, maybe not necessarily so much blue collar, But if you do a thing on a computer, like if you do a thing on a computer, if you do a thing with data, if you do a thing with cold calling, if you do a thing, but you know, how long is cold calling going to be a thing? You're gonna have human beings calling other human beings to sell things. Yeah, I don't know. See the chat bots themselves are sort of you know, they're mastering salesmen. They're mastering sales as we speak, right, they really, I mean they're truly mastering sales. They're talking to people via text these text bots and chat bots, and they're just going, oh, okay, I know how to move this person. I know how to make them feel good. I know how to make them feel bad. I know how to make it take action, and know how to get them excited, and you know, all that kind of stuff, and it just' you know, just the reality focus. This is what it is. So my message to you is, well, it's the message that sort of clicked on from the beginning the beginning of the Cubical escape Plan podcast, which is our one of our members' shows. The Cubical escape Plan podcast was built on a concept that, you know, entrepreneurship is a survival imperative. Entrepreneurship is an imperative of survival. In other words, build some of it into your life. Back in the day, it wasn't so much focused around AI as much as it was focused around getting canceled, getting fired because you voted for a certain person, you supported a certain thing. That's what I was most worried about in those days. But now it's you know, the job scape is shrinking, and it's a big deal. It's a big These big companies, man, they're going to look out for their own and you know, their own bottom line, and that's what they're gonna do. What is up, Phoenix? Welcome in, Welcome in. So we're talking cultural social issues, We're talking poets, we're talking daily news. Hillary Ready for Battle, Trump covering up Epstein. I'm cynically reading what once was a great website called the Drudge Report and has now become little more than Like, I'm not one hundred percent sure what it is. What's more interesting? Hillary ready for Battle or Trump covering up Epstein? Or this or the story dog suddenly crashes Olympic cross country race with sprint to the finish. I don't anybody care about Shia above White House Secretary pick to review ballroom wonderful. Potomac sewage spill becomes ecological disaster and political fight. Now this is a legitimate PBM problem because we may or may not be planning some waterborne operations for the summer. No, it's the New York Times, so I can't actually read it. ADC until you've been working for weeks to repair a collapse sewer line. When the President blamed Maryland's governor for the contamination on Monday, that's amazing. That's everything is political. It doesn't matter what happens. You can't take a breath without political. The sheriff is under fire for his handling of the Guthrie case. You're finished, Bud, That sheriff is getting the boot. There's too much money. I do, I do. I am ready to see the pressing of the Clintons. You know, Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Steam files cover up in BBC interview. That's that's great. That that takes balls, Kill Hill, That takes some serious balls. What balls it takes for Hillary Clinton, whose husband is pictured all through the Epstein files, that come out and say, hey, they're covering things up. They're covering things up in the Trump administration. Hillary could have came out on social media any day and said I talked to Bill about Epstein Island and he told me everything, and here's what happened, and here's what he did. You're sitting there across the table, drinking coffee from a guy who spent plenty of time on the planes and you know, on the island and in the island and all of the above. Yeah, it's a good I mean, it's a good tactic on her. She knows her husband's going in front of the deposition number and all that calls for her congressional testimony to be held publicly. Yes, yes, everyone involved needs a flogging publicly everyone. I'm this close, guys, I'm like this close to just spearheading a march on Washington in the name of the children, in the name of the lizard people and the children. I don't know how many people I could muster, but I feel good about the fact that we could probably muster quite a few. Yeah, it'd be nice. It would be nice. It'd be nice to see about ten million Americans surround the capital. Who FBI's coming, surround the Capitol with big giant signs and torches and picket pick pickets, pick picks what you know what I mean, And let everybody know. We need people in handcuffs. We need people from these lists questioned in front of everyone, hooked up to lie detectors. We need people in prison. Nobody's going to be punished. No, what I will warn you about though, is there are a bunch of AI videos being put out which had me going down this entire not an internet rabbit hole, but remember you could go down rabbit holes in your own brain. I've been watching like a stream of videos on social media where people are saying, like, you know, they're posting things that you can't tell if they're real or not. There's no way to tell. And I thought to myself, you know, the timing of these things in life sometimes is so strange. It's so strange that the timing of a situation like this would happen right around the time when AI is good enough to where you watch it and go like that could be real, more might be real. So I mean, to be honest, it does seem like a case of this size was situation as big as the whole Epstein situation, with the with with the accusations being made, with the coded language, with the the how do you say it? Balian, the Ballian b A A L L I A N Ballian Reptilian sort of situations and scenarios, the sacrificial situations and scenarios, mentions of torture and obvious rape. The what I'm telling you is the average man can't go on without justice in this case. And we don't want the janitor, do you know what I mean? Like, don't bring the janitor up and be like, well you he funny enough, he was behind the whole thing, Like there needs to be justice and all this. The other beautiful thing about Epstein though, too, that you have to remember, is this is the thing. This is the common ground right now may never again be a common ground barring a real hot war where rockets are slamming into Ohio right like, there may not be borring maybe an alien invasion. This moment in time with Epstein, this is a healing moment for the United States, if it's handled properly, If we can disconnect from our political alliances and say they're all shit anyway, and we could take this moment and say we all can gather together behind the idea that people need to be flogged publicly for this whole situation, big big names, big money, right, we can all it doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum, doesn't matter what you thought was going down in Minnesota. We can all agree that what is happening right now, with all these files pouring out, all the information, all the whatever it is. If we can't get behind kill the pedophiles, stop the pedophiles, imprison and humiliate and mutilate the pedophiles, what are we doing? Maybe we should pack it all up. Maybe it's time I pack it all up. If we can't gather in the tens of millions of Washington, DC to show the world in America can unite, if for nothing else to the safety of children and women right and throw people who decided it was good to either capture kids, rape kids, hurt kids, eat kids with whatever derivation of things we find out have actually happened there. If we can't gather together in a massive group and bring that all to light and show our government that we mean business like something has to happen, then it's probably time for me to pack it up, truly, like no joke. Like it may be time to pack it all up. Break down the lights, throw the microphone away, break the camera, just put the house up for sale, and disappear into the woods, never to be heard from again. An a running sort of carousel of shows from the good old days when James used to have hope. Right, it is a moment, It is a moment, right, there's a No King's protest that's happening March twenty eighth, big one, bigger than ever, all over the country, massive protests. Could we hijack it? Could we? Instead of saying, hey, look guys, instead of bitching about Donald Trump again, why don't we gather around the nation for a protest that's ten times the size of this thing, and we spend our time in our effort focusing on justice? Should we move on? I just isn't I mean? You know it is? What it is? The price of admission to Jeffrey's world is silence. From the New York Times, there were plenty of signs that something wasn't right with Jeffrey Epstein. Why didn't anyone say something? Now, that's funny when Jeffrey Epstein said massage in the years after he got out of jail in nine, what did his friends and associates think he meant? Epstein had been convicted in Florida court of sex crimes with minors in eight. It's man, come on, man. His method, reported New York Times at the time, had been to recruit girls as young as fourteen to his home and persuade them to undress massage and then he would force them to have sex and paid them cash since two thousand talking. Come on, this is an open and shut case, right, This is an open and shut case, folks. You don't think anybody knew about it. Nobody knew about that. In Hollywood, nobody knew about that. In politics, nobody knew. The Obamas didn't know, The Clintons didn't know, nobody knew nothing. You have no idea anything's going on. All we know is Trump did it. We have no clue who Jeffrey Epstein was with the island. I don't know about the plane. I don't know about the girls. I don't know nothing. All I know is Trump did it and he's hiding it. And everybody else is safe and free and wonderful and caring and tolerant. And that's all that matters is we love and love conquers all. Okay, Sorry, little girls, and I'll see now nauseous from the news bedroom temp could be putting your heart in serious danger. Oh my god, see that. You have to have to read that. You have to read that. There's no way you got what you get. You can't bring that New York Post story up and not read that says the says the creatures who slept in caves through the ice age. Your bedroom temperature could put be putting your heart in serious day. Let's see. Let's see if my heart's in danger because my temperature is always the same. This website is uh, I feel like molested just well going on this website. There's so many ads and bars and sign up and this the temperature of the bedroom. But he places extra demands on the cardiovascular system. See to me, that means good. When the human body is exposed to heat, its reaction to work harder, to try to circulate blood to the skin service for cooling. However, when the heart works harder and for longer, it creates stress and limits our capacity to recover from the previous day's heat exposure. This is the wrong article for a guy like me. Team followed forty seven adults in the southeast of Queensland, averaging seventy two years of age. I'm going to talk about stress living in Queensland this day and age. While many sleep observations are conducted in special clinics, this was a free living still ht They find out fourteen thousand night times hours of sleep in total between seventy five and seven ninegree fahrenheit. The odds of a clinically relevant drop in heart rate recovery rose by forty percent. Between seventy nine and eighty two degrees, the odds doubled, So don't sleep hot for individuals age sixty five years in maintaining overnight bedroom temperatures add seventy five degrees reduced to likelihood of experience heightened stress during sleep heightened stress. See, I'm a believer in stress, PBN family. I'm a big believer in stress. I am. I think this stress mentally physically is the best thing in the world for you. I really do. And I ask you to see the find the opposite. Right now, there is a certain amount of mental stress due to man made bullshit like money and bills and debt and for those kinds of problems divorced, you know what I mean. But for the most part, like in my experience, stress is about as good as it gets. What I mean, what comes from life when someone is stressed is almost always phenomenal, right, It's always a good thing. Your body. The moment you stop stressing the human body, the moment you stop putting pressure on the body, and letting the body know, Hey, we're here to work. We're here to do things every single day. We're gonna do crazy stuff every single day. We're gonna make the heart beat every day. We're gonna put pressure on the cardiovascular system to get oxygen around the body every day. We're gonna put stress on these bones so that these bones instead of turning into poorous, little oh bird bones that crack under pressure, They're gonna know, Oh, we've got to We've got to reroute nutrients. We gotta make sure we have enough calcium because this crazy guy is lifting heavy stuff. Again. This how you age in a way where you're not feeble and fumbling all over. You know what I mean. It is what it is. There's no argument, you know what I mean, there is no I was just having a conversation with my kid on the wady in the gym. If you want to do one thing, if you want to do one thing in your life to improve your whole life and the length of your life, put stress on your body, physical demand on your body. Period, telling you just is what it is. It's more and more every single day. All you got to do is watch doctor Ronda Patrick Shall tell you all about it, the importance of working out, the importance of drinking coffee. H I'm sipping Earl Gray tea. Hey, it's doing the job. It's doing the job for now. We'll see how long it can hold off. So you know, it's one of those shows, folks, It's one of those shows. How many of you have this book? How many of you have this book? Poems for Men? If you got a man in your life, a husband, and teen something along those lines, a young man, if you are a young man. It's not a big book. It's not intimidating. I think it's like seventy pages something like that. It was published last year. It was cobbled together some of my most pertinent poetry for men basically, and then some of the great poems that I've read year over year that fit the same mold, you know what I mean, some of those incredible poems. And at the last hour, which I do all the time, I don't know how. I guess it's God probably, But at the last hour, at the final hour of putting this together, I decided to go through my collection of poems from the great poets in the book and bold all the lines that I really have read like over and over again over the years. Urania the Narrow Way by Anne bront is a standout poem in this book because she's the only female that made it, that made the cut in terms of poems for men, and it's it's largely due. I mean, this whole poem is great. This whole poem really is great. I read this thing. This sounds so sexist, but I read this thing sometimes and I wonder if somebody wrote it for her or with her, you know what I mean. But then I also remember that the men of her time or the women of her time, were like the men of our time, so it'd probably make But it's all about this, It's all about that. It's all about the struggle, you know what I mean. It's always believe not those who say the upward path is smooth, lest thou should stumble in the way and faint before the truth. It is only it is the only road under the realms of joy. But he who seeks that blessed abode must all his powers, employ bright hopes and pure delights upon his course. May be yeah, but I'm telling that this one right here, like truly, this line. Every man needs to hear this line. Every young man needs to hear this line. Every man who lives in that sort of headspace where he's like the world doesn't like me. I can't get ahead, nothing's working, nothing's ever going to work out for me. The women don't like me, the men don't like me. Nobody likes me. Right, life is a like life is just a perpetual video game session. And that's all I got at the core of what's happening to men in society today. This is the core of what's happening to men. On all her breeze is born, no earth, yields, no scent like those. But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the roads. Every problem a man has is into that, into those four lines. That is the trouble of man today. On all her breeze is born, Earth yields no scent like those, But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. I've looked back on problems in my life. I've that's it. What it means to be a man is to reach out and grasp the thorn, right, I mean, that's really what it is. It's I'm going to go for this thing, and it might hurt, and it might be perilous, and it might be terrible, and it might be awful. We have a society of men that crave the rose, but are afraid to grasp the thorn. And the rose is everything the roses women, of course, right. The rose is entrepreneurship, The rose is real success. The rose is doing what you want to do with your damned life. That's the row. But we don't want to grasp the thorn. We're afraid of getting pricked in a little blood. He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the roads. If you're living life right now as a man and you're saying to yourself, nothing works out, nothing's working out for me. No, I'm never gonna get married, I'm never gonna find the right girl. I'm never gonna like look at your hands? Are they bloody? You know? Have you bled lately for something? Have you really gone after something with all your might? Because I see a lot of quitters, I see a lot of you know, I get it. Rejection is real in terms of you know, women and men interactions. And I could go on that for another hour if you want. We could talk about men and women, we could talk about relationships in men and women, we could talk about One of the things that is lacking across society at large is the desire to just go completely all the way in, to fully commit, to go completely in on something in life, not to just not to just you know, be so shallowly involved in every one of your endeavors, but to go completely in, right, to go all in, and to understand that. And this is the core of it, right, because this is what it means to go all in. This is what everyone's afraid of, is that if I give everything to this business, is if I give everything to this woman, if I give everything to this situation, if I give it everything and it falls apart, then then I lose, I lose everything. I have to admit to failure, I have to admit to not being able to meet the mark. Right. So what we've decided to do as a society is to be shallowly involved in everything, right, just dapple the surface of everything that we do. And what we found out, well, what we found out is there's no reward, there's no great reward, there's no rose. Right if we dare not grasp the thorn, then we never get to really experience the rose. All of man's struggle can be wrapped up in that. Truly doesn't matter where you're from, how much money you have, your skin color, whatever the situation is. Right, love is always out there floating, and if you can commit to love, if you can find someone to fall in love with and have a life and do a life with them. Since we've been carving the backs of mammon, we've had some semblance of monogamy, right, and family and reproduction and the joys therein. And if it wasn't a joyous affair, and if we didn't love what we were doing, then we wouldn't go to war to protect it all for century century century centuries. We wouldn't build so much of our life around creating better weapons, right, we wouldn't have focused so much on coppers and bronzes and just to figure out how to stab the other guy a little deeper in, a little sharper and a little faster, and to get to those arteries quicker so that we can get them off our property and get back to what is what it is, He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose. Right, that's the in cells. The in cells have decided we won't crave the roads. Then we are unwilling to grab the thorn, so we won't crave the rose then. And you know, maybe that's cool when you have a nice little Reddit community or something like that, or a community online that you hang with. But what happens with men, guys, you've seen it, probably, But what happens with men is, even if they're minimally involved with women, you're gonna bump into a woman. Somebody in your group's gonna bump into a woman. And nope, where's they've been. They've don't come to the meetings like you used to. No more. Right, and before long day's married and got kids. You never hear from you and everybody else, One after another, Slowly, but surely, the same thing starts to happen. Right, Guys start to meet women, fall in love, get married, half kids, disappear from the group except for a few. Right, there's always a few left over in every group, and it's misery for them. I don't know what do you want me to say? They're happy they figured everything out. They're smarter than you and me. They figured it all out. The real trick is to stay Look, the real trick to a happy life is to stay home, play video games, and get a cat. If you really want to feel good and really want to enjoy life as man on Earth, You guys want me to read your life the what is it called? I should put the link up in chat because you don't even know this exists. But I have an entire sub stack that is also titled Surviving America. I never talk about it. There's a reason I don't talk about it too, to be honest, because it's it gives me the opportunity to just write again. You talk about it, you start doing things, and before long you wind up in a situation where everybody's expecting to put something out. Oh when's your next thing coming out? You know what I mean? It's just one. I don't know. Where's the damn dashboard? Where's where? What is it? Title? Drafts? There we go posts drafts. So I'm working on something new called how to Enjoy life as a man on Earth? How to Enjoy life? Let's read a little bit. You guys don't need to watch me anymore. I'm going to put the revolving banner on the old Surviving America banner? Where is it? And I'll read to you a little bit. If you don't like it, leave, go enjoy your day, Go go all in on your day. But it's one of these kind of shows, you know what I mean, just one of these kind of tales, and I want to talk to you about, well what it is I like to write about those types of things. So where are my drafts at this? I started a couple of days ago. It's been in my head. It really kind of was born off of seeing a puddle, one of those dirty snow puddles on a warm day, and all I could think about was the rain, you know, like a vicious and violent, short summer rain, and how the clouds part almost instantly once it's over and the streets are steaming. You know, have you ever really sat somewhere and watched the streets steam and you look, Wow, the world is so hot right now that the asphalt is steaming. It's a sure sign that summer is really hitting man, and I just I miss it. So I'm gonna read you a little bit from this How to Enjoy Life as a Man on Earth, Part one, The Seasons. So we're gonna do several parts, right, And what this is all about is just what I'm saying. We wandered here from Anne Bron and now we're here at men's happiness. Okay, what does it look like? What is it? Because men are built into They're built into chain mentality and their motives and their motivations so easily it's CD. I don't know if all people are that way, but I've watched men over forty years on the planet take on so many different personalities and ways of being and ways of living, you know what I mean, like the stoicism, and just always a movement. There's always a movement for a man to follow. And I don't know. To me, I like to carve through all that stuff and say, what is it? What do we here for? What is it? What is this life? You know what I mean? And the older I get, the easier it is for me to become more of a sculptor or something like that. I can carve away at the clay easier and get down to it. So this How to Enjoy Life as a Man series, How to Enjoy Life as a Man on Earth series is all about the things that are sturdy, stable, the thing that a man can depend on in life that make him happy, right because we've entered into an age of radical instability. There's no denying we are in an age of radical instability, and that means that the you know, there aren't a lot of things to depend on. Sometimes it feels as though there are a lot of things to depend on or to lean on, when you've reached a moment where you are truly you know, exhausted and tired and all that kind of stuff. So if nothing else, a man can depend on the seasons. They're quarterly invite, never misses urine box. The virgin snow blankets the land on good years and bad, whether you are prepared to welcome her bitter winds or find yourself chopping frozen stumps. Winter comes wake with the bitter cold that drives all life indoors and underground. Step outside and enjoy the magic silence before dawn. This same cold and silence shocks you and scares off any remnants of sleep. So I'm giving you a tip on how to wake up in the winter. If you want to wake up in the winter, you take your shirt off, you go outside first thing in the morning. Ladies, you may not want to take my advice. But if your man, that's what you do, That's what you do when you wake right up. You know, if you're one of those people that struggles to get up, I don't know. I you know, I have a fondness for the seasons. You know what I mean. Whether you put the toilet seat down or not, the dog wood will bloom, Those white pleated flowers call my memory back to the Brandywine River Valley. The days grow longer, and once again blue beats green. This is a recurring theme in these whatever they are essays, right that are It's built around like I want the men reading them to know that the things we write about in talk about will calm no matter their performance. Not that I'm wishing poor performance from men, right, Not that I want poor performance from men, But I do want men to slow down and stop and think for a moment and say to themselves, what is this really all about? What am I really doing here? You know what I mean? And I want them to remember that you have to position yourself in a world where you can screw up. You have to make mistakes. You will make mistakes, You will make the people around you angry, disappointed, and then your life will go on, and if you're with the right people, they won't run away. When warm puddles gather after a short tempered summer storm watches the street steam. I like to wake so early that the morning is barely blue. By midday, the backyard is speckled with pit bulls. Their long pin tongues hang a bit as they pan in the sun. And it goes on. Each season gets a good a good chunk, you know what I mean. This is a good one. It's about the flipping of the tire and then nearly dying. You know. Of course I cannot stop. I cannot stop until my consciousness begins to float off like some handsome my large balloon on a long streak. And then we get to autumn. And autumn for me lately has really had me fired up. I don't know what it is. Kids. The kids are into it. It is sort of the somber season for a man with a pen and pad. That's the way I put it, you know what I mean. That's the way I put it. And I want to read it to you because it's even though we're as far removed from as possible, It's one of these things. It's just it's on my heart lately. But I took four lines from a poem by John Keats because I just there's nothing like it to me. I marked this poem. This poem is so good that I marked it with the picture of my youngest son, which is another tip. You can mark books with school pictures, those little tiny school pictures of your kids, and you'll find those books. Once you retire those books, you'll find those books and you'll find those pictures of your kids again, and it'll be beautiful moment. It's a little gift that you wrap up for yourself and put on the bookshelf. Right. I learned it from my dad. My dad did it with all his fishing books. One day, when he's passed on, I'll be lining the bookshelves with his old fishing books, which are great, and pictures of me and my sister will come falling out of them. You'll only add to the sadness season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Close bosom, friend of the maturing sun, conspiring with him how to load and bless with fruit. The vines that round the thatchieves run. That is just autumn. That is you know what I mean? That is it if he can help it. A man or to never miss an autumn. Large tufts of white cloud travel lazily across the sky. They hang low to get a better look at the fiery leaves ready to dance their way down to earth. The season of the harvest and the somber man. This is the season of the pen and pad. Why men, why do we not set our backs against the birch and right amongst the dazzling yellow leaves? Tis the season to slow down. We cannot think, we cannot see, we cannot write or form a thought until we slow to a certain pace. Autumn come. Whether you pay your half of the bills or not, it is at once upon you, like no other season. My back against the hickory. I cannot help but wonder how one season can be so many things. So that's just a glimpse. There's a lot. I mean, it would take me thirty minutes to read you all of it. But each season gets a little love. And yeah, it begins, it begins, this new series of writing on how to enjoy life as a man on Earth. I don't know the thing about writing is you are compelled right, hopefully. 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