Basecamp for Men E162: Basecamp Classics

E162: Basecamp Classics

 

E162 Introduction

Hello Basecampers. Today is a Basecamp Classics day. We are nearing the end of season number four with next weeks interview, a good one to finish with, coming next Tuesday.

We will be taking a short hiatus for the Holidays as we did last year. Chris and I will catch our breath and spend time with family and friends. I will make some final announcements next week as we get set to rest before 2023 and season five.

Today’s episode is one of my favorites from way back in season number one. The title is Into the Mystic. The guest is author Paul Dunion. Enjoy!

Basecamp for Men E160: The Path of Humility

E160: The Path of Humility w Special Guest

Michael Knight

 

E160 Introduction

Humility. Being humble. This is not a characteristic that comes natural for us in the West, is it? We are encouraged at a young age to not only have a healthy ego but to strive to be special, to be “the Man” in whatever endeavors you seek to make your mark. Be the smartest, the best, be special, be famous, blah blah blah.

We can see this lack of humility all over the place. Especially wherever there is “status”. In corporate business, with lawyers and doctors, with celebrities, with our athletes, and within ourselves. It is not something that many of us were taught, or so it seems. Humbleness isn’t flashy is it? So why cultivate it?

Yet something new is emerging as my guest today so eloquently expresses. That the humble path is the earthy and soulful path. That it has an elegance and a sort of magic to it.

I remember reading about the world famous New Zealand rugby team the All-Blacks. They are the greatest rugby team in world. Legendary. What do they teach and lead with? You guessed it, humility. The author of a book about the All-Blacks went to their training facility to interview their most well-known and most beloved players and found them happily sweeping out the locker room. Can you imagine seeing Michael Jordan or Kobe or Aaron Rogers or Aaron Judge sweeping up the garbage? Neither can I.

Yet, this humbleness permeates much of the male culture in Polynesia. The All-Blacks have many of the indigenous Maori and this emphasis on service comes from them. I have noticed this same, wonderful characteristic in many of the Polynesian men I have met. A gentle nature. A humility. A willingness to serve the tribe in whatever way is needed in the moment.

There is an invitation here for growth. For you and I to surrender to the process of letting go: of old identities and ways of being, of our arrogance, of old behaviors and ways of thinking and feeling that no longer serve us. The invitation is to travel lighter my friend. And right-sizing the ego and embracing the humble path may just be the key. My guest today is a friend and a man who exemplifies what I am talking about. Let’s go sit around the fire with him.

Michael Knight Bio-

My guest today is Michael Knight. Michael is a friend, former professional basketball player, a mentor/trainer and entrepreneur. Here is my interview with Michael Knight.

E160 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed our time with Michael Knight. He is part of a new generation of athletes that carry a strong spiritual vibe about them. These athletes express some deep wisdom about who we are and that, sometimes when we focus on ALL of us getting better, each individual finds his or her unique Hero’s Journey in life. All of that resonates here.

Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.

 

 

 

 

Basecamp for Men E159: The Walkaways

E159: The Walkaways with Special Guest

Gracie West

 

E159 Introduction

The walkaway movement has certainly gathered much momentum in recent months. When I say walkaway I am, of course, talking about the walkaways from the Democratic party and their radical Marxist agenda. People are figuring it out, like my guest today. Once you see the tools and techniques of this deep conditioning, you can’t unsee it. That is how this awakening works. It has a momentum all its own. You may well be next my friend.

And the walkaway reasons are varied although you will hear variations of the same themes. Maybe you are a parent and you are starting to notice all the strange things happening in public school. The indoctrination against America, tradition, and family. Or the insane sexual content that public schools are exposing our young children to. What 6 or 7 year old needs to hear all about drag queens and gender reassignment? Good god, let them be kids for a few years. Enough with all the grooming.

Or maybe you are noticing (like Lisa and I did) that your child’s intellectual development was or is stagnating. One reason for this might be that they are not reading books anymore in public schools. Did you know that? That’s right. No more reading or writing book reports. Why is that? Indoctrination and ideology have taken the place of reading, writing and arithmetic.

Or perhaps curiosity got the best of you and you started to listen to a Jordan Peterson video to see what all the hubbub was about. Maybe Dr. Peterson opened your eyes to something, as he has done for countless other liberals and former liberals.

Or you may have wandered over to Telegram to see what all those crazy Maga people are talking about and found yourself agreeing with or at the least understanding a few too many of them. It’s been known to happen.

I believe that when it starts to dawn on WE THE PEOPLE that we have a common enemy and we have identified that enemy, the infighting will more or less stop. We have been choking on the lies and deception, haven’t we? But I can see coming out of the fog of war into the light. What a long, strange trip it has been. 

Gracie West Bio-

My guest today is Gracie West. Gracie is an author, a parent, a former feminist and another member of the growing walk-away tribe. Here is my interview with Gracie West. 

E159 Final Thoughts-

I hope you enjoyed interview w Gracie West. To find her excellent book Breathing in Water, simply go to Amazon. And if you are interested in John Taylor Gatto’s books(he was the legendary NYC teacher of the year and thought leader), I found a couple on Amazon. You can find Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling and Weapons of Mass Instruction both on Amazon.

Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basecamp for Men E158: A Doctor’s Journey

E158: A Doctor’s Journey

 

E158 Introduction

Hello Basecampers. Today’s episode is a reading of an excellent substack article I saw from Dr. Michael Turner MD. I thought it would just interesting to just act as a voiceover for the excellent article. It pairs well with last weeks episode on western medicine.

The article appeared on substack and is titled Losing My (Vaccine) Religion: A Doctor’s Journey from Hope to Despair by Dr. Michael Turner MD. Enjoy!

 

Basecamp for Men E157: The Cult of Western Medicine

E157: The Cult of Western Medicine with Special Guest Rochelle Summers

 

E157 Introduction

With all the misinformation and disinformation coming out of the MSM about Covid and the vaccination program engineered by Big Pharma, something has gradually come into focus. That our blind trust in the “medical authorities” when they are intimately tied to something as corrupt as the pharmaceutical industry, no longer serves us. It is never easy to challenge something as monolithic as the western medical industry and the pharma-hydra that birthed it.

The fact is that more and more people are waking up. To the lies and deception. About the origins of Covid, about the so-called vaccines. And about the gaslighting and censorship that was administered by MSM and Big Tech.

Covid and its aftermath has turned out to be a massive red-pill for an unsuspecting public. Creating at first a sort of cognitive dissonance as most people put masks on and did what they were told. But people are going to be PISSED OFF when they get the full story of the Covid origins. Just wait. You can see it cresting just over the hill there and barreling towards us like a freight train.

It never ceased to amaze me how much blowback ordinary citizens and parents received by simply asking questions and challenging the mono-narrative. God forbid ask questions or have a different perspective or make different choices. Oye vay.

It has been an exhausting journey yet here WE THE PEOPLE stand. Wiser to the corruption, seeing the pattern, calling out each over-reach by the Globalists with more and more confidence and larger and larger numbers.

If you are just now starting to figure this out, we welcome you. For every one of you who have held two or more perspectives and haven‘t thrown the rest of us under the bus, I salute you. This information war has not been easy on any of us.

I will finish with a quote from the actor Woody Harrelson ,who said “The last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and Big Government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities.” Aho.

Enjoy the interview.