DONNY DUST | Wild Wisdom (Ep. 663)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Donny Dust to the show. He has a reputation for being a “professional caveman”. He is an expert survivalist, primitive skills expert, and retired United States Marine. He owns and operates Paleo Tracks Survival, Colorado’s premier survival and wilderness self-reliance school, and has nearly two decades worth of outdoor survival and primitive living experience. He has also written three books: Earthroamer, Scavenger, and Wild Wisdom. He was a contestant on Alone Season 6 - Arctic and was a co-host on the reality show Mud, Sweat, and Beards. In this interview, we discuss why he joined the United States Marine Corps, the difference between combat and non-combat veterans, his thoughts on the current state of the military, why he thinks he was just a tool of the “military industrial complex” while serving in Iraq, his thoughts on God and Jesus, why he still feels like he is on a faith journey, how a heart attack in his late 30s led to him completely reevaluating his life, why he decided to become a survivalist expert, a situation that almost took his life last summer in Utah, a story that he’s never shared publicly before, why creativity is our #1 survival skill, the most basic survival skills that we should all have, what all of us should keep in our vehicles and on our person at all times, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm your host Kyle Tom. This is on Daunted Life a Man's Podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:25.0	Let's get into it.
0:27.0	All right guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.
0:29.0	His name is Donnie Dust, and I just got to tell you guys right from the beginning.
0:32.0	This is certainly one of my
0:34.4	favorite interviews that I've done this year but this might be one of my
0:36.6	favorite interviews that I've ever done so we really hit it off outside the
0:40.3	podcast before we started recording. Excuse me, I was just one of those things where I just like, I had a feeling even as he was answering the first question.
0:47.0	I was like, I think we're going to dig into some great stuff here,
0:50.0	but it really didn't go the way that I thought it would,
0:52.8	and with most of my interviews,
0:54.6	I really like when that's actually what ends up happening.
0:57.1	But this guy has a reputation for being a professional caveman.
1:01.1	So I haven't had one of those on the show before but he is an expert survivalist
1:04.0	primitive skills expert and he's a retired United States Marine. So he owns and operates
1:08.8	paleotracts survival so that's Colorado's Premier Survival and kind of Wilderness Self-Reliance School.
1:14.7	So he's done that for a couple of decades and he's got a couple of decades worth of outdoor survival and
1:19.7	primitive living experience.
1:21.3	He's authored three books including his latest book, Wild Wisdom. And so here it is right here. It's an
1:26.1	absolutely gorgeous book and man it's just very, very impressive. So you may be familiar with him because he was a
1:31.7	contestant on Alone, season six and that was in the Arctic.
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