Braedon Sorbo: Time to Man Up

Author and social media influencer joins us to talk about his new book on Masculinity and Society’s attempt to neuter men emotionally via music, movies and culture.

Episode Transcript

(00:09):
This segment of the program, America Today with Jim Watkins
is brought to you by Southwest Florida dreamhome.com, where you
can begin your next adventure. If you're looking for maybe a
new chapter in your life or maybe an investment property,
there is no better time to look into real estate in Southwest
Florida and it is a spectacular place to live.

(00:30):
So Southwest Florida dream home is where to begin.
Southwest Florida dreamhome.com We're joined on the phone by
Braden Sorbo. Now the name Sorbo should ring a
bell if you're not familiar withthe Sorbo family.
Kevin Sorbo, of course, famous for his, his, he was Tarzan,
right, Wasn't he? Wasn't he in an?

(00:51):
I think it was. Beast hunter I think.
Yeah, OK. And I know that he's had a film
career that stretches back even to my youth and and of course
your mom a a world famous feminist activist, but
conservative feminist, which is very rare to find.
And she spearheaded a lot of efforts towards normalizing home

(01:14):
education going back 1015 years,if not further.
And she has. And now it's become sort of the
thing to do because of our failing education system.
But today we're going to talk with Braden Sorbo about
something that's always irked me.
And I started noticing it back after my first kid was born,

(01:34):
which is around the the turn of the century.
And I started noticing that men were being portrayed as weak and
stupid and ignorant. And I think what's happened over
the past 20 years, and I think Brayden speaks to this, he's got
a new book out, and it's called Lifting Men Up in a World that

(01:57):
Pushes them Down. So talk about your book.
Welcome to the program, Brayden.And it's good to have you.
It's an honor to speak to you. Thank you for having me.
Yeah. So the book is called Embrace
Masculinity, Lifting Men up in aWorld that Pushes them Down.
And for your audience, they may not know exactly who I am.

(02:18):
I'm 23 years old. This is my second book that I
have released and I do social media.
I have 2,000,000 followers. And so I I toured the country
speaking on masculinity, femininity, traditional values,
and kind of this return to what has been norm for every country
every century up until the past 50 years or so.

(02:41):
And so growing up in that period, putting your age, you're
a little younger than my oldest son, but talk to me about what
it was like for you growing up. Now you grew up in, I'm assuming
Southern California, which is one of the more progressive
states. And that's sort of the birth
place of what I think is anti masculinity country.
That's where we first started prescribing Ritalin to young

(03:03):
boys who were fidgety in school.And and now today, the with the
booming of trans women taking, you know, taking positions in
boys sports, what was it like for you as a kid growing up?
Are you a pretty athletic guy? Did you kind of kind of get a
feeling to tamper down your toxicity?
I mean, yeah, to a certain degree.

(03:24):
I played sports basically of every caliber when I was a kid.
I basketball, football, baseball, tennis, you know,
lacrosse even for fun. And so I, I definitely got to
experience my fair share of, youknow, just well-rounded
education. Like you also touched on, I was
homeschooled. And so I, I, you know, as many
people wouldn't believe, I was actually quite social.

(03:47):
But I, I remember growing up in California noticing what you
alluded to earlier with this, this downward trend of making
guys look like they're weak, pathetic losers.
And obviously the kind of reverse of that is these guys
are pushing down what would be anatural inclination, which would
just be to, you know, essentially be present,

(04:10):
essentially be be someone who iswilling to protect, someone
who's willing to provide and someone is willing to take care
of others. But if we're told that that's
unnatural and we suppress it, itends up coming out in negative
ways, manipulative, controlling.You see, these guys are taking
their natural testosterone and they're essentially pushing it
so far down that it's turning into estrogen.

(04:32):
And as we know, guys on estrogendoesn't necessarily work.
That's how you end up with mental disorders.
I mean, one in 27 people in my generation identify as
transgender right now. And so there's clearly a mental
illness plaguing the country. It's not even just California,
you know, I'm in. I'm in South Florida.
And we have plenty of those problems here as well.

(04:53):
And so I wrote the book because I realized that something had to
be done and my generation couldn't hear it from an older
generation. Because it is very hard to hear
advice from someone who's already successful in every
right that you want to be and doesn't know the same struggles
that you have to go through to get there.
And so I wanted something that my generation could look to

(05:14):
relate with and ultimately gain from.
Well, I have a son who's a little, not about a little about
two years older than you. And the thing that he really
that bothers him is the, you know, the only fan site, he
says. All the girls I know pride

(05:35):
themselves in being lascivious. What happened there?
What happened to women being sort of not like that?
And now they're just out with itand men are it.
It's almost like look, but don'ttouch, you know, there's, it's,
it's this constant. I can do this now, but you can't
say, hey, you're good looking 'cause that would be of course

(05:57):
toxic. That would be, you know.
So how is a man in the mid 20s in today supposed to navigate
through these waters and make sure not to say the wrong thing,
not to be coming off as a it's. Yeah, misogynistic.
Misogynistic. That's right, everybody.
If you say the wrong thing, you're a misogynist, right?
It is an effort in futility. There are studies out now that

(06:21):
are showing at least one in 10 women are on Only Fans.
And that I feel is a generous number depending on where you
go. And so for your viewers who
don't know, Only Fans is a website, which is a subscription
based service where people can do whatever, but young women
have taken over the website and it has been used for porn
essentially, and nothing else. And so these young men are

(06:42):
seeing all these young women on Only Fans creating pornographic
content going, OK, well, I don'twant to talk to or marry them.
And then they're shamed by society because those young
women are strong and independentand making their own money and
being good girl bosses and feminist power and all of this
stuff. And so they're immediately
outcast by the society and by the media world at large, where
it's gotten to the point that 18to 25 year olds were polled and

(07:05):
45% of them have never approached a woman in real life.
We have almost half of the male population just refusing to
engage. And I don't know how much of A
numbers guy you have to be to realize that that is not a very
good strategy when it comes to reproduction and having healthy
relationships and eventually marriages.
And So what we're doing right now is we are essentially

(07:27):
destroying ourselves. I mean, women got the right to
vote, what, 100 years ago? And they were told they could go
be anything and do anything and at least 10% of them decided to
be online prostitutes. What part of that is empowering?
Where are we going with that message when we tell young girls
you can be anything? But if you want, you can make
absurd amounts of money selling photos of your vagina on the

(07:49):
Internet? And you don't compromise your
morals at all. Well, yes, you do.
You compromise your inherent value and dignity as a human
because what you're doing is youwere putting a price tag on
yourself as an object of sexual pleasure.
You were saying, well, for $5 a month you can see me naked.
And that then becomes your set value.

(08:09):
And the problem that we have in society now is these women who
have set their value at 5 to $10a month are going out and
saying, well, no, my value is exceedingly higher because I
have this much in the bank account and I drive this car and
I have a $5000 a month apartment, you know, and they're
putting material things as theirvalue and it only just degrades

(08:29):
them further. And So what we've seen is this
almost a quick degradation because those what sexual
revolution was in the 70s. And so it's been only 50 years
and we're already at this point in society where it can only get
worse unless something happens. Who's behind this?
Is it education? Is it mothers in school?
Who is it? It's everyone.

(08:50):
Literally everyone is unfortunately behind this.
You have the media, Hollywood onmass promoting content that
degrades men, makes them seem like useless idiots.
You have the music industry degrading human dignity as a
whole, with the most popular artists in the world writing
about sex, drugs, rock'n'roll ina manner that is significantly

(09:11):
worse than the rock'n'roll era of America in the Seventies, 80s
and 90s. And then you have the school
system which tells young boys tosit still for six hours a day
under fluorescent lighting, and if they can't do that, there's
clearly something wrong with them, so we need to pump them
full of drugs. You have teachers who 80% of in
the public school system are female.

(09:32):
You have absent fathers in the homes, whether that be
physically just not present or present, but not spiritually
leading. And so boys are learning from
women. The majority influence of young
men today is from women. Sounds like fathers have have
some work to do too. So Braden Sorbo, the name of the
book, again embrace masculinity,lifting men up in a world that

(09:55):
pushes them down.