Tom McElroy, Part 1 – “Chasing the Dream” – TWP053

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Who amongst us has not dreamed of a simpler life more connected to nature, of escaping the rat race and living a singular existence full of adventure? It’s easier dreamed than done but primitive survival expert Tom McElroy of wildsurvivalskills.com sat down with us to tell us how he did it and share the unexpected twists and turns of his adventure thus far.

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0:00.0	I was probably seven years old.
0:01.6	I saw some movie about a girl hopping box car trains,
0:03.9	and I was just like,
0:04.6	that is what I want to do.
0:06.7	I just want to live a life of adventure.
0:27.4	Yeah. Welcome to the Well, I am Brandon Edgians.
0:28.6	And I am Anson Mount.
0:34.5	Remember back when we first started this podcast, we wanted to explore human creativity, right?
0:34.9	Right.
0:35.4	Right.
0:36.7	That was the original intent.
0:37.8	Yes.
0:38.8	We've mostly been on Target.
0:40.0	I hope so.
0:40.7	Okay, good thing.
0:42.8	Because otherwise I'd have to scrap this episode.
0:55.2	Well, I thought, what better way to kick off the season than to reconnect with the origins of this podcast than to create to the roots of human creativity.
0:58.4	The roots of human creativity aside.
1:00.0	That's a very tall order, Brandon.
1:00.8	It is a tall order.
1:06.3	But you go back to the beginning, and that is what differentiates our species.
1:07.2	It's our creativity.
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