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“The Most Important Book of 2026… Is The Preparation” — Craig Ballantyne @craigballantyne Be-Do-Have, personal codes, skill-stacking, and an alternative to college that actually builds capable men.

You don't have to agree with your adversary's POV, but if you don't attempt to understand it, you're a fool. Even if you wanted to utterly destroy Iran and see every Iranian dead, you would be more effective at attaining this goal if you understood your enemy's core narrative and world view.

The highest form of existence is to have no desire to be understood, admired, pitied, or known.

@71greys That's great news! Thank you!

Matt, side note my 19 year old son just finished The Preparation. It's excellent! Even though he's a college freshman it has really opened his eyes to acquiring different skills and new paths available to him. I am now recommending it to all my friends with sons. Thanks to you, Doug and Max!

Duh

@CoffeeandaMike US is shorting the oil futures market.

Can someone explain this to me like a 5 year old what this means?

@realjdbreen @MattWalshBlog @FiatLuxGenesis Great to finally see someone with a large audience putting these ideas out there.

Same here. Americans have been conditioned over the last century that kids should scatter after high school, rejecting the extended family that sustained society till that time. This bred dependency on child care and old age care that families once provided. It’s also why parents and kids see so little of each other as adults, as discussed here: @mattpheus pretiuminsights.com/p/sand-thru-th…

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that. The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them. Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

.@CoffeeandaMike speaking with Matt @mattpheus Smith about politics and war. Thoughtful, no- hip-shooting analysis of where we are heading... youtube.com/watch?v=szYSkN…

Stop Trusting a Secret ‘Plan' (CLIP) Matt Smith My conversation with @mattpheus is now up on substack. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to watch the full conversation now. LINK IN THE COMMENTS:

Looking at the war in Iran in isolation is a mistake. From Oct. 7th on, there’s been a campaign to restructure the entire Middle East. Step by step.

Do you remember Feb. 2020? It was the calm before the storm. What came next was brazen and unprecedented. Here we are again. What comes next could change everything. Are you ready?

@MonicaPerezShow @SlowMoMadmax Like a lot of things... dangerous, but not bad.

@SlowMoMadmax @mattpheus Great point – could be part of the whole flying is bad thing

One of your boys @mattpheus?

@MonicaPerezShow haha, no. But, good work on them pulling off a difficult emergency landing!

$MOON.V $BMM.Z Very cool deal...buying majority of potential domestic supply in the US for tungsten (from Springer), gallium and germanium in last month. Can't wait to build mines 3 and 4 in the portfolio. Blue Moon is completely unique in the market. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

The exchanges you see on X... This one made me LOL, too.

@AaronRDay Aaron, you're welcome to join us on Doug Casey' Take. Good, smart audience, finance oriented, and could benefit from what you talk about.

I have some exciting interviews lined up this week. If you have a favorite podcast that you think would be interested in understanding the Hijacking of Bitcoin, Tether as The Creature from Jekyll Island, and GENIUS/CLARITY as the vector for technocratic tyranny, please consider recommending me. I have already finished 6+ interviews with many more scheduled. The world needs to understand the importance of this now!

@Protege612 open.substack.com/pub/statespecu…

@mattpheus I couldn’t find state speculator on substack.. that you mentioned

@hydrocoal To answer your question: We do not plan to host another Plan B Conference this spring.

@mattpheus I started down a similar path in the 1960's. For any stage of life, its high time. The old ways neither teach how to learn nor develop agency, purpose, virtue, or useful skills. Question: Are you planning another Plan B program this spring? We werent able to make Oct session

The College Trap: Credentialed… and Still Stuck at $20 an Hour, by @mattpheus open.substack.com/pub/smith/p/th…

The Trump reset doing its thing