Surviving America 067: You are the New Renaissance

Blessing the government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arived. Welcome into surviving America, folks, take two. Well, the future has already arrived, and the necessary evil had its show last night, Stated the Union, almost two hour long speech by Donald Trump. Don't know if you watched it or not. I watched the entire thing and the follow up speech by the Mother of Mayhem, and it was a creepy little speech that Mother of Mayhem pulled. There's no doubt about it. That was a well, we'll highlight probably the creepiest part of the speech a little later in the show where it fits. In fact, she's given us an entire, an entire sort of SoundBite that I manipulated into something pretty fun. I'll let that cool off, we'll talk about that. I'll show that off in a little bit. There's no way I could get on here and not talk about it, right, Uh, the State of the Union. There's no way I could get on here not talk about iohan Omar losing her mind next to Tahlib screaming at Donald Trump over his audacity to well cry out that that they were shameful for what they've done, they were absolutely shameful for not standing up when he was. He basically made the proclamation that the federal government is here to protect American citizens, not illegal immigrants. And when the Democrats didn't stand up, he said the follow standing up, it's a little low. Probably need to turn. Let's do it one more time, a little louder shamed. You should be ashamed of yourself not standing out. And in that moment, ilhan Omar is screaming back at him about you you killed Americans and all that kind of stuff, and it was I don't know, you know what I mean. I want to go sort of in detail and talk about like what I thought about the Democrat performance, and then I don't because who cares? You know what I mean? And it was a performance, right, But I'm not here to talk about that today. Guys. We'll get into it where it fits, maybe if it comes up in chat something like that. But the real meat of the show has to do with you as the American Renaissance. And I want to talk about the American Renaissance because it's been in my head a while. I've been called to things like poetry and art for a long time. A lot of times this time of year. Actually, when February is way with my patients, right and I'm ready for spring, I usually find myself at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts because there's something renewing about it, you know what I mean, There's something that calls out to the human soul. And in the age of artificial intelligence, I think it's really important for us to recognize that we can go one of two ways. Right, we can go we can go towards the idea that AI can do it better, you know, just sort of collapse creativity collapse. Or we can use it as a springboard. We can use it as the greatest motivation of the modern age to write and to paint and to create right and really truly bring about a new renaissance. And what more could people want? What could be better for the people? I've been watching a guy named Adam Walker, and actually I found his video because of this sentiment, Right, I found a video of his and I watch a lot of his videos because he just talks about poetry a lot, and it's it is a really big interest of mine. It doesn't make sense in this modern age, of course, when you can watch a TikTok video that's probably way more entertaining than reading, you know, four lines over and over again to really get it. But it's always been a thing, you know, since middle school. It's been a thing in my life since I stole the book Victorian Poets from the Chichester Middle School library. I'll pay you back if you really want me to. But it really changed me for good, man, it changed me for good. I want to show you something first. 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For those of you out there who are you know, well whatever, I don't want to box you in. We live with enough titles and boxes and close circles as is. I'm gonna show you a guy, okay, and he's a Harvard professor who left Harvard not for some great political conservative. Get get all politics out of your head for me, okay, get all get Donald Trump out of there, get spam Burger, get everything political, everything conservative, everything liberal out of your head. I've told you before. I watch a lot of different content creators that have nothing to do with what I do right, purely on my interest, and they don't have to look a certain way. They don't have to have a car heart jacket on, they don't have to wear a certain brand right like, I don't care there there's no checklist of things that I have to see on a person or hear from a person in order for me to watch their content. Give it a shot. You know, I'm not a lunatic liberal, left wing person who If you don't say what I tell you to say, if you don't say what we say, if you don't wear what we wear, if you don't dye your hair the color we dye our hair, then you're not part of the club. Okay, there is no club. You know. The big club is America. That's what it is. Welcome to the club if you've been gone. So I'm going to show you a guy who looks like an academic because he is an academic. He's a person who has studied this topic his whole life, right, and you know he's a kid who he said he used to read poetry for two hours at a time when he was about fourteen. Just one of these people. It's the guy you want to listen to on the topic. What I want you to pay attention to. And the most important message for the show today is that the many times a renaissance is brought on not by people who are professional poets and painters and trained and you know a lot of times, particularly on the poetry side, renaissance is brought on by the common man and woman. So I'm gonna introduce you to Adam. Like I said, I've had I don't know that you would have the kind of fun that I've had watching this guy. But I really do enjoy him. He knows his stuff. He knows his stuff, and if you're into poetry and you're into literature and that kind of stuff, you know he is the guy. But I'm actually gonna bow out of this scene because there's no point in me being here, and we're just gonna listen to Adam for a minute. Explain kind of what I'm talking to you about. Long distance commuters, frontline workers, retailers, small business owners. Can all of us really bring about a new renaissance? And the answer is actually emphatically yes. It bears repeating that history reminds us that revivals of learning are rarely begun within institutions. So if you think of Gino's Platonic Academy in Florence, it was one of the great sparks of the Renaissance in Italy. It was born among patrons, among readers and artists. The Romantic Revival came largely from poets who were not credentialed experts at all. William Blake was an engraver. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the restless and jobless visionary studied at college but was not degreed at the University of Cambridge Jesus College, and Shelley was a political exile and an academic exile. John Claire and Keats were working classmen who changed the course of literature with their poetry. In America, it's the same story. Emerson was an ex pastor with no institutional home when he wrote Nature, the essay which set the American Renaissance ablaze. And Whitman and Dickinson, the two greatest poets of the American Renaissance, were amateur readers who wrote their poems between jobs and daily chores. Try to believe modernism it was the same, It was carried by people. It's hard to believe it. It's something that I'll be honest, I didn't even know. I had no clue. I mean, I knew that a lot of poets, basically, you know, even the most famous, wind up basically dying broke and unknown, and not until like after their their deaths are they kind of like lauded for their skills or whatever. It's it's not that rare in the creative world, right in the artistic world, but it's oh my god, it just scared me. To death. I just got jump scared by my dog. Why are you doing that? Let him up there? One of my little dogs tried to jump was not little, but my youngest dog tried to jump up on the couch. And the big guy this kind of gave him a little snap. You're good, goomb but jump up there anyhow. Really, kind of unbeknownst to me that so many of the poets responsible for age of Renaissance and really like the beginnings and sort of the high points of Renaissance throughout time, because there have been many We're just regular people, regular people who were writing. And that's why I titled the show You Are the American Renaissance. Right. I know it feels probably fruitless to sit down and write something, even a journal, but to journal at times like these is it's invaluable, you know what I mean. We're living through unprecedented times. To journal through times like these, to begin to write, really to begin to write. And at first it doesn't have to be poetry. It never has to be. Poetry can be essays, whatever, it can be just ramblings. Because what Adam talks about, and here's the here's the hope with AI. What Adam talks about in that video, which which is linked down below. Okay, it'll be linked down in the podcast. It'll be linked down in both videos on YouTube and on Rumble. And what Adam talks about in that video one of the things, I mean, there's many great things he does. Seven signs that there is a new renaissance coming, and it's the whole video is worth watching just for the sheer fact that it is so counter to there's a dog under the table, so my camera's probably gonna either get hit or knocked over somehow. Wow, not at all anyhow. So there's I think it's six or five signs or something along those lines that there could be a new renaissance coming. And one of them is he talks about the language of artificial intelligence. He talks about how overtime Like, at first, we were kind of blown away that this thing could do the thing that it did with writing, right, We were like, wow, look at this man, this you tell it, give it a you give it a style, you know, the whole thing, you know, just spits something out. And he said, over time, what we've come to realize is that there is that AI itself has a style and it's it's kind of easy to find. It's kind of easy to read something and go, I know this kind of style that is artificial, intelligent writing. That's the point. The point is that everything outside of that is fair game for you, right you, the creative Everything outside of that exists for you. So you talked about William Blake. I do think that one of the things, one of the reasons I like poetry so much, is because there is that common man touch to everything. The problems are usually of the common man and the struggling middle clas man. I mean, it's just what, who's more fun? Seriously? I mean, do you break it down to its core, like, who's more fun than the working class, a struggling man. There's no but there's nobody more fun to hang with. I grew up in this environment and it was awesome, you know what I mean? It was It was really a lot of fun because those types of men are the funnest. And it makes sense when you start to read the poetry and you start to see like, oh, these things were were built by men and women like this, So here's William Blake. He talked about William Blake having been a part of the romantic Renaissance, and in this poem London, William Blake talks about the the mind forged manacles and the mind for ed manacles are just perfect for today. We're gonna read the Burnt Norton again. To the section from Burnt Norton that is all about just I mean, proclivities of mankind and and how we wind up in the same situation we're in now, and how we have wound up in this same situation forever. But let's look at Blake real quick, because it's it's really interesting, man, some of these great works and the works from previous renaissance. Remember, like when you enter into a renaissance, you're coming out of a nightmare. Usually you're coming out of a bad time. You're coming out of a hopeless time. You're coming out of a time where everybody's like, it's been a good ride, folks, was good while it lasted. Now it's a rap, you know what I mean. Even in the American Renaissance, we were coming out of a lot of things, and we were trying to figure out, you know, our identity beyond England, right, And the poets and the painters at that time were using using English techniques and they were saying to themselves, how do we become Will we forever be a colony of you know, like Brits with ideals or are we going to really hit stride here and become something different in our art? And that's how these things come to be, you know. So I wander through each chartered street near where the chartered tames does flow and mark in every face, I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe, and every cry of every man, in every infants, cry of fear, and every voice in every band. The mind forged manacles I hear. I mean the mind forged manacles. Think about that? What is that that? It works across time? But it definitely works right now. When you see the Democrat part last night at the State of the Union, I mean, have you ever seen more mind forged manacles than that? The beautiful things that were announced, the terrifying things that were announced, I mean, particularly the fourteen year old cheerleader who has stabbed twenty five times to death in or bathtub by an illegal murderer who made his way into the nation and they got him out of here right And the fact that the Democrat Party's mind forged manacles are so strong that they couldn't stand up and applaud a moment like that, Right, and that was one of many. These are mind forged manacles. These are this is what it is. How the chimney sweepers cry every blackening church of palls, and the hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls, but most through night streets. I hear how the youthful Harlot's curse blast the newborn infants tier and blights with plagues the marriage hears. And that is London by William Blake. You in poetry, you know, I wrote poems for men, and I wrote poems for men because number one I had a bunch of poems for men that I wrote. And number two, I saw that men were in something of their own, you know, and still are a lot of them, sort of in this woeful state where what I could, what I saw out of the modern men a lot was sort of a mind forged manacle that kept them believing that their problem was incredibly unique, and they were suffering the suffering ills that no one had ever faced. Right, you cannot believe the sorrow, You cannot believe the struggle we've been betrayed by this, betrayed by that. We can't do this, we can't do that, we can't say this, we can't say that. Life as a man in the twenty first century is impossible. So the motivation behind Poems for Men was to take poetry as far back as I mean, the eleventh, sixth, sixth century. I think. I think the Chinese poet I have in there is from like the sixth century, and he's talking about having a son and how happy he'd be to have a son, and some of the things that go along with that, and there's some comedy in there, and it's just a reminder, man, it's a great reminder that, like and this is what poetry does on a whole. It reminds us all the human experience hasn't changed very much. You know. The accoutrement has changed to some degree, right, the technology has changed to some degree, But the battles that we face, the struggles that we all have, hasn't changed. I don't think it will unless we're all gone. In other words, the core of what we do, right, We mope around, we complain, we struggle, we suffer. We have what did sad gurus to call it we suffer our success Yeah, you would say, it's one thing to suffer your failures. It's another thing entirely to suffer your successes. That's just crazy, right, And we do that. We do that this to this day. So what I think is important is for you to understand, like I was an eighth grader, ninth grader, just aping mocking. Oh did you see Al Green's amazing sign from the State of the Union. He really brought some intellectual power. Al Green out of Texas. Al Green decided to bring in a sign because the Democrats are obsessed with race. It's all they think about. They think about it so much that they sometimes they mess up and show their racist true colors. But this guy was so so driven by making a point that he decided to create a sign that reminded America and the administration. I guess that black people are not apes. It's what the sign said. Black black people are not apes. Thanks Hal, Thank you. We were al We were struggling until you came along. Dude, thank you. I'm telling these that's all these people do, you know what I mean? I think Trump has something to say to Alan. You should be ashamed of yourself not standing out he should be ashamed of yourself. You're probably gonna hear that one a lot, because it is what it is, you know what I mean. It's it's it's surreal, is what it is. It's surreal. Now we have to be careful, you know what I mean. We have to be careful about a lot of things. When you get into writing and you get into painting and art. In the creative world, you're you're going to run up against those people. You're gonna run up against you know, all kinds of people. But look, the world of the what is it, the humanities right in college, it's been taken over completely by radicals. Right, the creative world, the art world, the poetry world, the written world at large has been largely taken over by radicals. So what, there's no better time to start, like seriously, like showing off conservative painters, conservative poets, and so on. There's no better time when the seesaw is so bent to one side. Right, this is the time. I was thinking about the same concept when I was live streaming the State of the Union yesterday. I had this idea that I would live stream the State of the Union and chat it up with the audience and you know, have fun with it and that kind of thing. And it was very quiet stream. And what I realized was, well, I could put the state of the Union on three different platforms right now, and whoever happens upon it, happens upon it, and it's one less person watching nonsense and one more person watching this situation right now. I'm not one to be completely eaten up by the politics of the day, but I do think the state of the Unions are worth watching. I do. I think you get a good idea of what's going on politically in the nation. You get a good feel for what's what's the future look like now. Of course, you know, you use reason and logic, and that doesn't help with the American voter. Whatsoever. Reason and logic and the American voter they don't tend to go together very well. He is what it is? What can you do? You know what I mean? Do we want to I want to show you something. I would like to show you something because I think you're really gonna dig it. And it's a good stop, it's a good break until we roll back in and do Burnt Norton and then get into some other news of the day. We have some big stuff coming. We have giveaways, we have discounts, we have birthday wishes for the Intrepid command or tomorrow my birthday is tomorrow. Okay, this is atypical, right, It's just one of those things that like, I don't know, I'm just not that. I'm not that guy who celebrates his birthday in a big way. I'm usually like pre in to it by my family, like what do you want to do? What? You know, it's your birthday? Do something. And in twenty twenty six, as I've mentioned before, and I'd highly recommend you try this philosophy on in twenty twenty six, have a no duh kind of year, Have a no duh kind of year. Have a year where you do some things that maybe you haven't been doing in life, and you start to wonder, like, why aren't I doing those things? Why haven't I been doing those things? Right? I don't know. To me, easier said than done. But we'll talk about those things. Okay, we'll talk about those things. Apparently at the moment, apparently at the moment, I'm being called in for audio visual indoctrination, Yes you heard me right, and being requested by the mother of mayhem herself or some audio visual indoctrination. So I'll ask again, is the president working to make life more affordable for you. In your family? We all know the answer is no. So when I heard the speech, I hope you enjoyed that. I hope you enjoyed that. When I heard the speech last night, she went over that twice and all I could picture was an interrogation room. All I could picture was a brainwashing session. Right. We all know the answer is no. We all know the answer is no. Say it with me, say it again. It's like that scene in Blade Runner where he's, you know, being reindoctrinated. It's very scary. That speech of hers was as loud a shout across the bow to the rest of the Democrat presidential candidates, because, to be honest with you, like, she's smooth man. She is this smooth politician and she's gonna slide right in there, and we better brace ourselves, you know what I mean? We better brace ourselves. Donald Trump has to be very careful. This is not Hillary Clinton, you know what I mean. This is not Hillary corrupt Clinton with all the baggage that she had, and now Abigail she's building herself some baggage as is. But and I think in three years when she was running for president, it'll be a it's probably gonna be not so good for I really only think the only the only thing that will sink her is her. Really, the only thing that will sink her as her. I mean, right before she came on, they were talking about how much of a moderate she was and running for governor. And she's in there now and she's a moderate. And one of the first things she had the audacity to talk about was tariffs and how it raised the price of the cost of living and raise taxes and all that kind of stuff. Meanwhile, having you know, proposed you saw it. If you didn't see the episode of Mother of Mayhem about taxes, well you can listen to that. You can watch that, and you can see how many tax bills have been added to the docket for Virginians. Moderate tax bills now moderate. I'm watch my mouth. I don't want to be drugged back in for another round of audio visual indoctrination with the Mother of Mayhem, but you know it is what it is. What I do want to do is read you the four quartets stands here four quartets by T. S. Eliott. This first one is called Burnt Norton and it's in section three here. Yeah, well where do we start? We can start, I mean, it is one of those shows. Maybe we should just go from the beginning. Yeah, let's go. We're gonna read a little bit. Okay, what is this site? By the way, David Gorman, thank you, I mean, David Gorman has a beautiful website. Here right here is a place of disaffection. Time before and time after in a dim light, neither daylight investing form with lucid stillness turning shadow into transient beauty, with slow rotation suggesting permanence, nor darkness to purify the soul, emptying the sensual with deprivation, emptying the sensual with deprivation cleansing affection from the temporal. Neither plentitude nor vacancy, only a flicker over the strained time ridden faces. Now pay attention. Class Distracted from distraction by distraction, he holds up his cell phone at the camera. Distracted from distraction by distraction, Filled with fancies and empty of meaning, he holds up his cell phone turmid apathy, with no concentration. I mean, this guy t s Eliot, nineteen twenty. Whatever it was when this came out, like this is what I mean. Men and bits of paper whirled by the cold wind that blows before and after time, wind in and out of unwholesome lungs, time before and time after. It's an amazing it's an amazing gathering of ideas that fit as well into the nineteen twenties as it does into the twenty twenties. I mean kind of astounding when you think about it, like really kind of astounding to think that a poet could put something together like that in nineteen twenty distraction from distraction by distraction and nothing of meaning. What I'm sharing with you guys is it's nothing that you're not capable of. And one of the holdups for Redbeaconmedia dot com and the breakout of that website which will come is because that website has to bend over backwards to support this renaissance. Because what I want to populate that website, not exclusively, not to be the majority of the content, but I want it to be notable. I want people, ordinary everyday Americans to write things, to photograph things, and to take videos of things, and to paint things. And draw things that go onto Redbeaconmedia dot com, and we may call it the New Renaissance. We may call that section of the website the New Renaissance. We may For those of you who don't really find power in the written word, I understand you know what I mean. I get it. You look at the world and you look at the state of the world, and you say, Okay, great, everybody's gonna start writing poems and it's gonna be uh and that's gonna stop the rapist, Balian, pedophilic lizard people from ruling the planet. It's not gonna do everything. I think the most important thing that it could do, though, is to re establish unity and a connection between people. Right really, we don't even know Erica's full potential because we remain divided. Is it's part of the gig, you know what I mean, It's part of the deal. It's really hard to believe. I don't know that this type of thing could gather everyone together on the same page. But I think that there are opportunities that are showing up and will continue to show up to get people unified in this country and beyond. When if you find that you can write in a way that resonates with a group of people beyond the political and beyond the social culture trends of the day. That's where the real power is. That's where you, all of the sudden, can gather people together. That's where you can Adam calls Adam Walker, the guy who we did the video from earlier, calls these things closed circles. I mean, it's not it's not groundbreaking, you know what I mean. But it's a good way to look at it. It's a good way to look at it. America is a collection of these closed circles, and the value of our country is to have less and less of those. Right. What makes people great, and what's always made people great is their ability to enter in. My whole life has been a story of entering into the unknown, meeting people, learning things, both learning things about what the profession was I was getting into, but also about the type of people I was working with. That was the beauty of my life forever. You know, didn't take things so personally. Everything wasn't a personal attack. Another man's decision was not a personal attack on me. And that was in a world of open circles, and since then, a lot of closed circles. You know, only we can fix that. There's no one that can fix that. And I do believe in the power of writing and art to fix that. So do with that what you will. Let me grab something real quick. Let's talk birthday. Let's talk Intrepid Commander birthday. Okay, there were a few things we talked about yesterday. Like I said, I'm going to do my best to take the day off. I'm going to try to do as little work as possible Tomorrow. I think I'll start the day out early workout. I got a lot of little, little little army men to paint that I'm looking forward to painting on my day off, my birthday. But there's a bunch of things too that I put in place because you know, why not spread the love. Many of you out there will ask me, and you asked me year over year, and a lot of times I'm such an idiot that I don't say anything. I don't worry about it. You know what I mean. It's a new year, it's a new dawn, it's a new day. There's a reason PBN is having a success. It's having now. One of the reasons things are going in the right direction is because well, it's because of a simple phrase from a Jewish sage named Hillel. Hillel had a saying it was, if I'm not for myself, who will be? And if I'm only for myself, then who am I? It's important to me to be humble. It's important to my wife that I'm humble. I mean in my kids, right, this is I don't think people appreciate like what a humble man can can create in his wake. But that being said, it's very easy. The line between humble and forget, forget, you know, forgettable, let's go with that line between humble and forgettable is nearly transparent. It's so thin, right, In other words, you can humble yourself right out of people's minds. You can humble your and you know, if you're humble and efficient and proficient, it's just really easy for somebody like you to be forgotten unless you make your demands known, make your expectations known. And the trouble is when you're a humble person, and you know, when you're a humble person, a lot of times you're a quiet person and you suffer from self worth issues, you know what I mean, where you think that everyone is just everyone is one screw up away from leaving you. That's what it feels like, you know what I mean. It's like, I'm gonna go in there and I'm going to do my best, and I'm gonna do my best every day, and that's what I'm gonna do. I know what I'm good at, I know what I'm not good at. I'm avoid the things I'm not good at, because should I screw up, everything could fall apart. Everyone could leave. Right, No one's actually invested. They're just here until I mess up. Now. I had a guy in the live stream the other day quote my because our will, I'm sorry, because our spirituality does not test our will. We're losing both from darker trails. He didn't guess it. He quoted it word for word. And I wasn't talking about the book, you know what I mean. I was not talking about the book whatsoever. I just got on the subject of day it was like days five or six without coffee. I don't know what it is now, Please tell me it's like day fifteen? Are we fifteen days in the lent? And I just got on the subject of that, and he spat that out. And when you if you don't value yourself, right, then you also screw people in your life, right, You screw people who are committed to you and have committed to you, and do appreciate you and have invested in you. A lot of you out there have invested in me. You've invested in my writing of books and making of shows and courses and all these kinds of things. So my message here to those of you who are listening to me and going I think that might be me a little bit, is to think about Hillel's message, right, to think about the Jewish Stage's message, which is, if I'm not for myself, who will be? You're just hoping? Right? If you don't push forward the things that you're into, the things that you need the world to know about, right, your skills, all those things, who will? Maybe someone will? But maybe not right. If I'm not for myself, who will be? And if I'm only for myself? Then who am I? Right? So to celebrate the birthday number one, if you really are sitting there going, I want I'd like to intrepid commander to have a great birthday. I mean, year over year people ask me that what do you want for your birthday? What would you like for your that kind of stuff. I push you off. I shove you off. I say, you know, don't worry about buy something from Red Beacon Ready dot Shop. Go buy something from Red Beacon Ready dot Shop. Go to the emergency lighting section. You can find some very affordable preps over there. But just go check out the wares at Redbeacon Ready Dot Shop and buy something. And to be honest, that will be as great a gift as anyone could give me. I've decided to discount lifetime membership. Lifetime membership to PBN gets you full access to pbnfamily dot Com, our member's website, prepping videos, courses behind, all kinds of stuff. Okay, members only podcast, the whole nine yards. Lifetime members also get their own podcast. You get your own life for podcasts you get access to when you become a lifetime member. No ads, nothing, full access, all members only content, the whole thing. Typically lifetime memberships two hundred and fifty dollars. I decided to take fifty bucks off when you use the promo code B day at pbnfamily dot Com. So you go to pbnfamily dot com, use the promo code b d A Y and you'll get fifty bucks off your lifetime membership and you'll be a lifer here. And that'll be another thing that I'd love to see on my birthday. I also decided in the eleventh hour to give away this book. Tomorrow. We're gonna give away Poems for Men. We're gonna give it away in ebook form for the next three days. So for the next three days, this book Poems for Men will be available for free on kindles starting tomorrow, the twenty sixth, on my birthday, the twenty seventh, and the t twenty eighth. You want to read it. You want to get into some Matthew Arnold. You want to get into some Anne Bronti. You want to listen to or read rather those great poets talking about timeless men's issues. You want to read Shakespeare and his incredible son at about about. It's so good. Let's read it real quick. It's so good because it's so old. Some of them are so old, and they're so good because they're so old, and everything still fits. Shakespeare is like that. I mean, shake everything Shakespeare does is like that. I'll just read the bold part because what I did in this book is I included great poems for men. But I also made the parts that really count bold, right, or the parts that I tend to read over and over again, he says, And look upon myself and curse my fate. Think about the men of today, wishing me like to one more hope. Oh I wish I had more hope. Right, featured like him, like him, with friends possessed. Right, Oh I wish I looked like him. He's so much more handsome than to me. And I wish I had buddies like him, like a group of friends desiring this man's art and that man's scope with what I most enjoy contented least with what I most enjoy contented least. How many people this day and age have so many good things going for them, but they're so wrapped up in what everybody else has on TikTok and Instagram and whatever it is that they take for granted. The woman they do have, the family they do have, the job they do have, the car they do have, the life they do have where they live, the parents, the siblings, the cousins, whatever it is. The friends contented the least with what I have. Some issues are timeless, folks, So check it out. Poems for men. You'll get a collection of great classic poets, and you'll get a collection of my work too, tailored towards modern man women, fatherhood, manhood and so forth. And it's completely free on Amazon. All right, So go to Amazon search up. You have to search up poems for Men James Walton to find the book. I know it's insane. I know it's crazy. You search poems for men and you'll get Poetry for Men by somebody, and then a bunch of other books that have almost nothing to do with poems for men. So make sure you add my name. The algorithm is lovely, isn't it wonderful thing? Keywords and she words and hey, words don't seem to move us forwards whatsoever. All right, So that is the birthday wish. Folks feel free to help me out in that way. That'd be great. In the podcast below, we also have a donation spot. You want to leave a donation for my birthday, fine, fine with me. I can tell you this much. You know that it's been a beautiful year. It's been a beautiful year at a time where usually I'm about ready to tap out, and I see nothing but good things coming from PBN and a lot of that has to do with you, you know what I mean, A lot of that has to do with you. So enjoy your day. I will most certainly enjoy mine, don't forget. In order for there to be an American Renaissance or what Trump called them, a Golden Age in America, different but similar, it's going to require you. You know, it is going to require you and your unique perspective. So read a little, write, a little dabble a little maybe maybe a little brushstroke here and there. All right, folks, I'll talk to you too. Don't miss the shows today. Oh my god, I almost forgot to tell you. Women's Wednesday. We have the Sarah Hathaway Women's Self Defense show. It's up right now you It's a must. She's the best of the best when it comes to women's self defense because she's five foot nothing and one hundred and nothing and that's her saying, not mine, but she gets it. Okay, women's self defense. Don't miss it. Great show. Church and State today, And of course, uh where are we at? I was a community community? No, the Shadow tonight. The Shadow's on tonight late night. All right, talk to you soon, folks. Have a good