“What do your kids think of you?” It’s a big question for a parent to be asked and answer.
We are products of our parents’ love and devotion, their vows to each other and to us. There is a world of difference between making a baby and being a parent.
Our reason is what puts us at the top of the food chain. We are born into this world weak, naked and vulnerable, but reason gives us a tool to exert our mastery over nature.
"Family law" is just another empty phrase. Biased against men, unconcerned about children, in "family law," fathers are always guilty and families always pay the price.
The arc of history makes widows. The lives of the mass of men since the beginning have been nasty, brutish and short. Here's why that's good news for all of us.
GM&G — gray matter and grit — are the ingredients that combine to make all the successful fish big and all the ponds small.
Small mishaps can shed light on massive problems, as our man discovered when he forgot and left his laptop at home, then stumbled across an epiphany.
My buddy is making his Planned Man debut with his first comment on the sixth Commandment—"Honor thy Father...". He shows what that Commandment means to all with eyes to see and without a whiff or sound of woe-is-me grief.
See what you think of what I think...
From the horse's mouth: The Planned Man's backstory and the reason we are here.
How to qualify a prospective son-in-law and see if he has the right stuff for your daughter? Ask him, “Are you a Communist?” and see how he reacts.
Both will be better served if you see the other as a “cell mate.” When you say, “I do” say it to your soulmate.
PM breaks it down for you: One of the best investments you can make for yourself as a man is to put some of your sperm in the deep freeze, and then get a vasectomy.
I don’t count many bad days with friends. Of course, there are life’s shitstorms—and friends are there in “good times and in bad.” (Kinda like wives). But friends—ones worth keeping and doing life’s time with—do their best not to cause shitstorms for each other.
The pill is great, but a vasectomy is better. And cheaper. And more reliable.
Get your kids to understand the importance of fighting smart while they’re young. Let them learn karate, kung fu or tae kwon do...
Guy took our cause and went through the simple process that made it a plan — and did so on tape. Verdict: Easy-peasy, no reason to get queasy.
Most obituaries and eulogies paint the dearly departed without color. This obituary is written in Technocolor. It's hard to read this account, without wanting to meet this “Jewish-Mexican-Redneck” matriarch.
Want to come out of a conflict smelling like a rosé? Douché!
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, the Adam and Eve of the '60s, are protesting again. Against what? Twitter censorship? China’s genocide against the Muslim Uighurs? No, something more ominous. Nice Guy, Joe Rogan.
Substack is quickly becoming a more diverse, trusted website than those operated by most news organizations.
To the women in our lives and the world: we mean you no harm whatsoever. There is no conspiracy here—nothing hidden. Quite the contrary—there is much good.
We believe in equality for all. But that doesn't mean we are all the same. For example, here's a woman who's just better than the rest.
Since the miracle of Cana, the three rings of dating and mating—engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering—held steady. That is until the 1960s and the advent of the Pill. That's when everything changed.
The Four Fs—Fuck Up, Fess Up, Figure Out and Forgive—is an ethical approach that can help you navigate and succeed in all aspects of life.
Check out what Gutfeld had to say about our second sexual revolution in this video clip from Fox News!
Speaking of race – is a form of social suicide. Yet it must be addressed. But before you open your mouth, open your mind with these books.
Harvard's 'Veritas' has given way to a fake 'Diversitas'—the myth that all must think alike—or else. The truth? Harvard's 'diversity' is a fat mendacium.
When Bill Burr speaks, even wives listen. That's to our benefit, even if it makes us just a little anxious.
Sad fact: wherever you find concentrations of young men, expect a small percentage of adult men of authority looking to peel off the weak and confused and gratify their demonic id.
You can always rely on those who know you best.
Watch Guy Shepherd join Gutfeld!
For the past 50 years—there was little reason to talk about this. It was settled. Now it’s not. What will this decision mean in practice? This is my nonpartisan, factual primer attempt.
Covid is karma: It not only goes around, eventually, it comes around, too. Before that happens to you, see how our Guy plans his defense.
A man with an erection is open to female direction. Women need to focus their attention at the beginning of mating and dating to make a difference at scale. Men can be led to do the right thing. “Flip the script with a little snip-snip?”
I’m sorry/not sorry: The idea that a modern woman, old enough to vote, some 60 years after the Pill still does not know how her vagina works, perplexes the man in me and should offend the “hear me roar” women in you.
The rising tide of woke just broke on the smart, rock-hard stand-up of Dave Chappelle. If cultural appropriation is wrong, what MGM is planning to do to the 007 franchise is a war crime.
Follow the misadventures of our man Guy. If anyone can find joy in a lost weekend, it's him.
Doug Stein And Jonathan Stack Join Under the influence with Guy Shepherd check out the highlights here
'John Adams' may be the story of every great marriage in which a smart man is made smarter by hiding behind the skirts of an ultra-smart woman.
"If you can think it," goes the mantra, "it must be good." But caution: That's a product of modern thinking that comes without any guarantees.
Pull up a chair — but not too close! We're going to talk about sex.
It’s time to rediscover Tucker Max—no, seriously.
What makes work fun is putting your shoulder behind things that are worthy.
What do you do when a super-credentialed research scientist writes a positive book on the pursuit of pleasure? You buy it, hold its words deep in your brain—then exhale. And if you like it, you tell your friends. Dr. Hart is an guide to pursuit of functional pleasure.
Episode 1208 of the Joe Rogan Experience is a firehose of brilliance. Give Joe and Jordan three hours or so and they'll give you an incredible ROI.
I’m a fan of neither Blue nor Red Caesars. I’m committed to saving what we have and making it better, consistent with our principles and institutions. If the Red side has the Deplorables, the Blue has the Unbearables — and they’re in power now.
A good friend sent me a YouTube link of Kid Rock’s recently released single —“Don’t Tell me How to Live”—advising me turn up the volume to the max and be prepared to have my world Kid Rocked! My ears and soul are still ringing.
The King’s Man shows shows that in the breast of every self-righteous-do-gooder is a tyrant clawing itself out and making messes. The rest is as they say is history. A history in need of the King's Man.
History is not a series of do-overs. If we learned anything from "The End of History", it's that it's not over. At all.
Bill Burr is the most “undeniable,” on-the-mark comedian of our cultural revolution. His diagnosis, prognosis and prescription are spot-on for what ails the feverishly woke American mind.
If pain is unexpected fatherhood, then a vasectomy is pure and permanent relief.
Politics is not a game of Texas Hold'em. Russia lacks our bankroll but they do have balls in spades. A pair of balls willing do what we are unwilling to do in this case. Here are two aces—presently unused—that could avoid war.
Stay thirsty, armed and smokin’, my friends.
Who is Guy Shepherd? I’m in my 50s, have a head of hair and a beautiful, indulgent, good-hearted wife. My son and daughter are Aces. Life is Good.
John Rawls had a simple and consequential method to think and act justly—the “Veil of Ignorance.” It's a look.
Let’s be impartial: nobody should actually profit from a divorce.
Good men are born then made better by great fathers and mothers.
When folks say "Karen" today, I think they are developing a profile of women that is very close to the C-word
The Pill affects a woman's natural factory mate-selection settings. It pharmacologically induces women to favor the Mangina as a date and as a mate. Call it "Pill-Vision."
Once, 'Playboy' was considered the most sophisticated men's magazine in America. Then came 'Treats!'
What would the world be like if feminism advised women to use their sexual power in the service of building and maintaining an egalitarian romance that was built on accepting the natural differences of both sexes?
Christopher Hitchens was a wonderful polemicist—first rate—and as good as Nietzsche but without the madness born of syphilis.
The Planned Man is looking for more than a few good men to enlist in building a human-equality movement and an online-entertainment destination.
Some states do better than others, but Texas and Florida do much better than most. Here's why:
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, classrooms are finally headed back to normalcy. While it’s a relief for parents, it’s going to take decades to absorb the brutal consequences of COVID on our nation’s kids.
The well-connected Kingsmen of the world are all our kind of Guys.
