Tom McElroy, Part 2 – “How Far is Too Far?” – TWP054

The Well

Anson Mount & Branan Edgens

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tom McElroy has found the road less traveled to be full of unexpected turns, from the absurdities of reality TV to the perils of traveling in remote wildernesses. Along this sometimes tangled path one thing remains clear, we were not meant to go it alone.

And if you haven't checked it out yet, our Island Survival Exit Interview is now on YouTube where Anson Mount interviews Branan Edgens about his time in St. Croix learning primitive survival skills from Tom McElory of wildsurvivalskills.com.

https://youtu.be/mtC1HfCxTtA

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0:00.0	The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
0:11.6	From the desperate city, you go into the desperate country and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.
0:20.7	A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed,
0:24.2	even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
0:28.2	There is no play in them, for this comes after work.
0:32.9	But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
0:39.2	I think it was Thoreau that said that, and I used to think about that all the time.
0:43.0	And it just always stuck with me.
1:03.6	Yeah. Welcome to the well.
1:05.0	I am Brandon Edgians. And I am.
1:06.5	Well.
1:07.7	Wow.
1:27.6	Rough day, man. Yeah. rough day man rough start everyone usually it's only downhill from here and iron man this is part two of our story about Tom McElroy.
1:30.6	If you haven't heard part one, please go back and do so now.
1:31.2	We'll wait.
1:40.0	In this episode, we're going to get into Tom's career as a consultant for wilderness survival shows and living with indigenous peoples.
1:47.0	But to start out, I wanted to recap a little bit about what motivated Tom to seek out a life of adventure in the first place. And it began with seeing how the American Dream, as advertised, wasn't working for him.
1:55.1	Did you have a feeling like that?
1:56.6	Isn't that kind of like a teenage thing for everyone?
1:59.2	Or do you think some people just don't care and just accept the status quo?
2:02.2	The American Dream idea?
2:03.7	Yeah.
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