Basecamp for Men: Recent Episodes
Tony Rezac
The Basecamp for Men podcast is here to improve the lives of men. We provide new tools, fresh insights, and a more uplifting narrative around what it means to be a man today. Join the conversation!
E331: Basecamp Classic E331 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Before we get to our epiosode, I want to give you a short update on my health as I sort...
E330: This is Our 1776 Moment E330 Introduction As Americans, we have an important legacy to protect. After all, our founding fathers fought and died so that we could have a chance at holding...
E329: My Recent Health Crisis with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E329 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I have been sitting on an episode for the better part of a...
E328: Happy 250th America! E328 Introduction Well we are coming up on our great nation’s 250th birthday and we are hosting the World Cup (which has been a smashing success) and DC is...
E327: Counter Punching with Special Guest Floyd Brown E327 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We have written and talked about the narrative war for the past few seasons and...
E326: The Collective Narrative Fatigue w Special Guest Dr. Chase Spears E326 Introduction I heard a new term this week….enshitification. As in the entire population is witnessing the enshitification of everything. Politics, education, culture,...
E325: Tick Tock Tick Tock E325 Introduction I have been wanting to do a Firestarter and talk to you directly this week. As you know, the Firestarter format comes in at usually 10 minutes...
E324: Natural Law is Our Foundation w Special Guest Will Keller E324 Introduction One of the themes on Basecamp the past two or three seasons has been Natural Law, true freedom, and sovereignty. I...
E323: Basecamp Classic E323 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We had a bit of a tech snafu this week as an adaptor I needed for my new setup did...
E322: Circling Love with Special Guest Noel Rudhe E322 Introduction One of the things you may have noticed over the years is how much I love to interview friends of mine. As much as...
E321: Our Multi-Dimensional Selves w Special Guest Lorie Ladd E321 Introduction I have been really looking forward to speaking with my guest today. She is a teacher in the area of human consciousness (if...
E320: The Game of Trust with Special Guest Dr. Tess Lawrie E320 Introduction I love chatting with scientists who also are in touch with their inner mystic and can process information a number of...
E319: Claiming Our Sovereignty with Special Guest Terry Hodges E319 Introduction Today’s episode is one I have been wanting to do for a couple of years now. A follow-up to E186: Intro to Natural...
E318: Basecamp Classic E318 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is a replay of a Basecamp Classic. I am traveling to see my Mom on the big island...
E317: Masculinity and Healing Division w Special Guest Timothy Weineke E317 Introduction I have the treat today of interviewing a psychotherapist who’s focus is on men and first-responders. AND he’s got a podcast geared...
E316: Never Let Your Enemies Educate Your Children E316 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is a bit different. It is a Firestarter, not because it is short,...
E315: Courage and the Warrior’s Path with Special Guest Roman Simon E315 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well! Today’s episode is far-ranging one. My guest and I talk about men...
E314: Growing Resilience with Special Guest Jeremy Stalnecker E314: Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today we have a bit of an audio snafu on my part. I am not...
E312: Messages from the One Mind with Special Guest Richard Barrett E312 Introduction One of the dynamics I have commented on over the years and had many conversations about is the evolution of how...
E311: Basecamp Classic with Special Guest Benjamin Seaman E311 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Well, we are in between interviews and Firestarters this week. So I dusted off a...
E310: The Mish Mosh Episode E310 Introduction Today’s episode is another Firestarter (short format) episode aptly titled The Mish Mosh EP. I have a couple of memes, a few tidbits from the narrative battlefield...
E309: A New Chapter Part 2 E309 Introduction Today is a Firestarter, short-format episode as a follow up to the great interview that Mark Carter gave us last week. I wanted to address some...
E308: A New Chapter Emerges with Special Guest Mark Carter E308 Introduction As many of you know, I first launched this podcast to be a resource for men and their personal development using myth...
E307: Navigating Loneliness with Special Guest Cindi McMenamin E307 Introduction I have been wanting to do an episode on loneliness for about a year now. Thankfully, I found just the right guest to help...
E306: Letting Go of Armor with Special Guest Ryan Windsor E306 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Getting back into the swing of things at the start of Season #8....
E305: The Power and Promise of Decentralization E305 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well and I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season. I have...
E304: Season 7 Finale- The Fallen Goddess E304 Introduction Well, we have come to the end of Season #7. I hope you enjoyed these conversations as much as I did. I picked out a...
E303: Keeping Optimism Alive w Special Guest Lisa Rezac E303 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We are winding down Season #7 and I hope you have enjoyed the conversations...
E302: AI and the Achilles Heel E302 Introduction Hello Basecampers I hope you are all doing well. Today’s interview is with our old friend Reinette Senum. We cover a wide range of topics around...
E301: The Cosmic Clock Turns E301 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is a Firestarter Episode. Firestarters were created years ago and they are basically a shorter format episode...
E300: UnHypnotized with Special Guest Heather Keys E300 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Our 300th episode! Wow! Hard to believe we are starting to come into the home stretch...
E299: What Keeps Us From One Another? E299 Introduction I love speaking with people who are a stand for humanity and children. And who carry truth and optimism about our future. There is a...
E298: Basecamp Classic E298 Introduction Well, with all sorts of things going on including getting over to our new house in central Washington and my beloved Seattle Mariners making the playoffs and scoring tickets,...
E297: Bitcoin Simplifies Life with Special Guest Pete Noble E297 Introduction I LOVE talking to Bitcoiners! There is, not only an enthusiasm and excitement that is contagious but also a sense of possibility for...
E296: How to Age Gracefully with Special Guest Roy Holman E296 Introduction Aging gracefully and vibrant health is something that I have highly valued my whole life, really. I have watched as the so...
E295: America, We Can Clear the Skies with Special Guest Mark Herr E295 Introduction Well, we were all set for this interview and, as fate would have it, we had some tech difficulties (from...
E294: On Privacy…Get Off Zero E294 Introduction The topic of digital privacy is one that I have been personally circling around for quite a few years. Watching how Bitcoiners and cypherpunks ( young and...
E293: Basecamp Classic E293 Introduction Well, I had an interview that fell through this past week and I’m travelling a bit. So I thought it would be a perfect time for a Basecamp Classic....
E292: Creating a Personal Myth w Special Guest Patrick Christell E292 Introduction The topic of myth and narrative, story and mythic imagination is something that I have been fascinated by for decades. My life...
E291: The Importance of Male Friendships w Kim Eversen E291 Introduction There is something strange in our culture that tells its men (young and old) that you don‘t really need authentic, loving male friendships...
E290: Men and Authenticity E290 Introduction Man, I have been loving these conversations with men who are committed to the Hero’s Journey and the soulful conversations that are a natural extension of the initiatory...
E289: Informing Humanity w Special Guest Dr. Chris Shoemaker MD E289 Introduction I was texting back and forth with an old friend of mine. A woman who is a conservative and she recently married...
E288: The Emerging Republic w Special Guest Dr. Sandy Miarecki E288 Introduction I don’t get to speak with very many people who understand the dynamic between the US Corporation and the US Republic. I...
E287: Why Can’t We Talk About This? E287 Introduction I was having a conversation with a woman the other day, someone I didn‘t know all that well and the topic of Covid vaccines came...
E286: On Duty with Jerrod Sessler E286 Introduction I met my guest today at the recent King Co Lincoln Day Dinner and really wanted to bring him on Basecamp. He is one of the...
E285: Demystifying the Unknown w Special Guest Nancy du Tertre E285 Introduction One of the things that my closest friends and even some of my family know about me is my love of extraterrestrial...
E284: Recovery and the Hero’s Journey with Special Guest Kristy Stevens E284 Introduction One of my favorite sayings is that each chapter of your Hero‘s Journey will require a slightly different version of yourself....
E283: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful E283 Introduction Today is a bit of an odd little short-format Firestarter episode, under 10 minutes. With that Terrance McKenna audio clip and then a song...
E282: We the Parents with Special Guest David Spring E282 Introduction Today’s episode is an interview I did on my other show The American Pulse. Since each show has its distinct listenership, I thought...
E281: The People’s Revival w Special Guest James Dixon E281 Introduction We have entered a new chapter in our collective Hero’s Journey and everyone can feel it. Humanity, the underdog in this story, has...
E280: The Circle of Men with Special Guest Jimmie Allen E280 Introduction As many of you know, this show was originally conceived years ago as a show to assist men in their personal development...
E279: Basecamp Classic E279 Introduction Well with Memorial Day weekend upon us, I had to set aside my pen, paper (and microphone) for a few days and it created a bit of a space...
E278: Eavsdropping on Anons w Special Guest Jordan Clark E278 Introduction Of all the subjects I have covered over the seven seasons, none gave me more grief from others than the Q-drops and my...
E277: Empowering the People with Special Guest Cal Washington E277 Introduction There are few things that makes people feel more helpless and victimized than advanced technologies that seem to be having a negative effect...
E276: Diving Into A.I. with Special Guest Pamela Leslie E276 Introduction We seem to be at a critical juncture in both the narrative war and in the evolution of our existence here in this...
E275: Macroeconomics with Special Guest Peruvian Bull E275 Introduction Today’s episode is not really a Bitcoin episode per se. But rather a conversation with a very intelligent young man about what he sees in...
E274: Basecamp Classic w Paul Dunion E274 Introduction Today’s episode is a Basecamp Classic, meaning a replay of a top shelf episode from seasons past. I try to keep these to only 4 or...
E273: Men and the Soul’s Journey E273 Introduction Today’s episode is both a new wrinkle and a bit of a throwback. I am being interviewed by Beth Marten, which is something we don’t often...
E272: Getting Out of Our Bubbles w Special Guest Jennifer Galardi E272 Introduction It is one of the things that mark the times. This Great Awakening. Where something that you thought was solid turns...
E271: The Real Estate Implications of BTC with Special Guest Leon Wankum E271 Introduction There seems to be a parallel timeline running. One one track is the destruction of the old guard with all...
E270: Freedom, Sunshine, and Steak w Special Guest Ben Wehrman E270 Introduction One of the things that we have been tasked with, you and I, is to consider and, when appropriate, to adopt new...
E269: Climate Facts Over Climate Fear w Special Guest Dr. Michael Karbowski E269 Introduction One of the great things about being alive right now is watching all the false narratives start to hemorrhage and...
E268: Wisdom and Clear Seeing w Special Guest Joel Rafidi E268 Introduction One of the central themes of this show (especially since 2020 and Covid) has been the Great Awakening of consciousness in the...
E267: The Homeschooling Bitcoiner w Special Guest Scott Lindberg E267 Introduction Today‘s guest has created something unique in both the homeschooling and Bitcoin space. A portfolio of games meant to be fun and act...
E266: Humility and the Hero‘s Journey w Special Guest Beth Martens E266 Introduction Every once in in awhile, I come across a guest with similar interests as myself. I am not talking about sports...
E265: The Courage to Face Addiction with Special Guest Sathiya Sam E265 Introduction Addiction, the Hero’s Journey, Shadow Work, and Men’s Groups. These are all topics, frames, and narrative tools that I have worked...
E264: Saving the American Republic E264 Introduction Wow, well I had a great interview all teed up but President Trump and Elon Musk are moving so fast I had to speak with you solo...
E263: Honoring the Soul’s Journey with Special Guest Katie Webster E263 Introduction Well, we posted out the trailer for the new show I am writing, producing, and hosting called The American Pulse. We put...
E262: Bitcoin for Military Veterans with Special Guest Gabe Lord E262 Introduction It is hard to believe that we are only a week into Donald Trump’s Presidency and everything that has unfolded……IN ONE WEEK!!!...
E261: A New Day Dawns E261 Introduction Hello Basecampers I hope you are all doing well. What do you think of the new Intro? It is just SLIGHTLY different. I wanted something to reflect...
E260: Season Six Finale E260 Introduction Well, we have come to the end of our 6th season. I hope you enjoyed this year’s content as much as I enjoyed creating it with my guests....
E259: Bitcoin is The Way with Special Guest Caribou E259 Introduction What a time to be alive! There seems to be a sea change happening. A change in the tide, can you feel it?...
E258: Basecamp Classic w Special Guest Keri Smith E258 Introduction I had a good bodywork session last week, something I used to do for work. She’s a Kennedy liberal and we got to talking...
E257: A Light in the Shadows with Special Guest David Leon E257 Introduction Well, we are winding down Season six and what a season it has been. Here is what we have coming up....
E256:The Left Awakens with Special Guest Beth Bourne E256 Introduction Man, things are really moving fast right now, can you sense that? Trump’s victory has put the wind in the sail of a whole...
E255: A New Chapter Begins with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E255 Introduction Wow, what a week it has been. As you all know, Donald Trump reclaimed the Presidency in convincing fashion. Winning the popular...
E254: A Nation Braces E254 Introduction Well as I was looking over my interviews to select for Tuesdays show and a monumental national election upon us, I sort of realized that none of them...
E253: Battlefield Addiction with Special Guest Art Dahlen E253 Introduction Today is a bit of a hybrid episode. I have a great guest on, someone who has walked the talk in regard to addiction...
E252: The Way of the Soul with Special Guest Dr. James Hollis E252 Introduction Today‘s episode is a special one for me as I get to speak with someone so well versed in depth...
E251: The Courageous Few with Special Guest Seak Smith E251 Introduction As so many of you know, I am attracted to courage and to Hero’s, both men and women. My wife is courageous, all...
E250: The War on Innocence with Special Guest Simon Esler E250 Introduction Of all the issues that our world faces, there is perhaps no greater indicator of enemy and intent than the war on...
E249: The Inverted Hero’s Journey with Special GuestSimon EslerE249 Introduction
Well I did something that I rarely do on Basecamp. Turn an interview with an excellent guest into a two-parter. I have tried (in vain) to keep my episodes to 45 minutes or so. In the early seasons, 30 minutes was the norm. Now, as you know, it is often 45-60 minutes.
However, I don’t want to go over an hour. If I am honest, I would love to get back to 30 minute episodes but I am following God’s plan for my guests and how long the episodes will be.
In Part one with my guest, we get into the power of rituals and rites of passage (something near and dear to me); the power of homeschooling and unschooling (something more and more parents are looking into these days); and how humanity’s enemy is using inversion tactics including an inverted Hero‘s Journey to capture the minds and hearts of our young people.
I always love sitting around the fire with a bright mind and today’s guest is certainly one of them. Enjoy the episode
Simon Esler Bio
My guest today is Simon Esler. Simon is a committed defender of families & the lost art of free thought. Simon has been an actor, an ordained minister and mindfulness entrepreneur which led him to becoming a professional content creator & independent filmmaker. His website, www.simonesler.com, hosts an array of films, series and resources focused on leveraging the pressures of modern war to foster personal growth and collective resilience.
E249 Final Thoughts
I hope you all enjoyed Part 1 with Simon Esler. In part two next week, we get into 5th Generation Warfare, the anti-children/anti-innocence culture that we find ourselves in and is this by design. We also cover the taboo topic of pedophilia and what sort of future is this all leading too? Thank you Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week.
E248: “Health Care” is Making Us All Sick E248 Introduction “Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.” Aldous Huxley At some point, the obviousness just...
E247: We Welcome Kennedy Liberals with Special Guest Pamela Garfield Jaeger E247 Introduction When I had Dr. Mark McDonald on recently, he touched on something that really resonated with me. That traditional liberals (Kennedy...
E246: Exoconscious Humans with Special Guest Rebecca Hardcastle Wright Phd. E246 Introduction One of the sources of wisdom for humanity throughout the ages has come out of the mystic tradition or mysticism. I prefer...
E245: On Being a Man with Special GuestDr. Mark McDonaldE245 Introduction
As many of you know (and by the title of this show), this podcast started out as a show and a resource for men as they navigate their lives and their Hero’s Journey. As many of you know, one of my big transformations in life was from a nice guy, people-pleasing liberal into a rough-and-tumble, masculine Warrior Dog. I am only half-kidding. Today, I am man who is comfortable in his masculinity and in his own skin. This was done through my own initiation that I have talked about plenty, especially in those first episodes.
But over the years, something happened with the show. God was asking me to expand my repertoire of topics to include, well, all of the topics you have come to listen to over the years. Everything from the war with the Deep State to the truth about Covid and vaccines to ET’s to Bitcoin and everything in between. I have done my best to always try to show a through line and a Hero’s Journey or Awakening that was and is unfolding. God was picking the subjects and the guests, I was riding shotgun with microphone and ears and heart as open as I could manage.
With that being said, today’s is a bit of a throwback and I am grateful to do this one. I don’t talk about men and the state of masculinity as much as I did 10-15-20 years ago. I have taken my place in the narrative war as a voice of truth and a stand for courage, freedom, and strength in my tribe, humanity.
Today‘s episode is another with Dr. Mark McDonald and we break out Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men to talk about being a man today and what is at stake (for men, women, and children). What is the difference between being a good man/nice guy and being good at being a man? We’ll explore this in depth.
The world will always need strong, courageous men. And thankfully, we still have them. Men like my guest today. I have done many episodes to build bridges for the left……today may not one of them. Enjoy the interview!
Dr. Mark McDonald Bio
My guest today is Dr. Mark McDonald. Mark is trained in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA, he now works primarily with children in private practice in west Los Angeles. His opinions on topics such as the need to re-open America’s schools, and the pandemic of fear in the United States today, have been widely published in local and national news, including the Wall Street Journal and The Federalist.
He is the author of both United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis AND Freedom From Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Individual and National Recovery.
Dr. McDonald also publishes a podcast with Dr. Jeff Barke called Informed Dissent. Here is my interview with Dr. Mark McDonald.
E244: Basecamp Classics with Gracie WestE244 Introduction
Well, I got in a bit of a pinch and had to reach back into the catalogue to find you something good. We call these Basecamp Classics as they are a second run of an episode that I feel is top-notch and still relevant. You may or may not have heard this one the first time around.
This is one from way back in Season Four with Gracie West. Enjoy the Classic.
E243: The Army of Moms with Special GuestJessica ArburnE243 Introduction
I was speaking with a good friend of mine and she asked me about how season six is going and I found myself saying that I thought season six has been our best yet. I don’t know how you feel about it. I think it’s the great guests because I am not doing a ton of writing as in seasons past. Preferring to let the interview BE the important content.
Today’s guest is another good one. And she is another Walkaway from the Left. These have been some of my favorite episodes over the years. Former liberals who have had an awakening and then taken a Hero’s Journey and the road less travelled.
These people are my tribe and their ability to speak the truth leaves inspiration, courage, and optimism in their wake. One thing that you find as you step further into YOUR Hero’s Journey, is that it becomes these sorts of questions such as: What principles or qualities are you going to represent to the human tribe? Where is courage asking you to go next? What role does God want you to play in this narrative war? What side will you fight on……the Globalists with their strange Marxist ideas and dreams of more and more control of us (the useless eaters, to use their vernacular). Or will you fight on the side of the children and innocence ,God and humanity, being a pillar of Light in the fight for our future and our freedom?
Which side is more in alignment with your core, with who YOU are?
I had an extremely wise medicine woman in my past. Her name was Starlyn Nelson. After a particularly moving session (Star was a clairvoyant and knew things about you that only a deeply skilled mystic could know). She predicted that I would have a radio show of sorts, speaking to lots of people, which I thought was a weird prediction at the time as I don’t think podcasts had even been invented yet. And the last thing she said to me (she has since passed away), she said “Tony, there will come a time when you will have to choose between your friends and the Truth”. Then (with a twinkle in her eye) she said “I know you’ll choose wisely.”
And I did.
Which path will you choose Basecampers? The well worn-path of ignorance, denial, and deception that has been set out before us? This is the path that the herd is on, blindly trusting “authorities” that don‘t like humans.
Or the road less travelled, the path of humanity and the Divine Light. The one that protects innocence and our children and our future?…..I know you’ll choose wisely Basecamper. Enjoy the interview.
Jessica Arburn Bio
My guest today is Jessica Arburn. Jessica is mother, a patriot, and another walkaway from the left. She is also the Director of Mom-Army, a group of courageous women standing to protect our children . Here is my interview with Jessica Arburn.
E243 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our time with Jessica as much as I did. To find out more and joine Mom-Army, go to www.mom-army.com
E242: Around the Campfire with Special GuestJessica Rose PhdE242 Introduction
Today’s interview is a far reaching one with an excellent guest who has been with us before. We cover eugenics, gene therapy, kids and tech addiction, the Covid jab, and the importance of having a bit of rebelliousness in the human tribe.
I have said this before and I will say it again, our ability as humans to set aside what the herd is doing (for example during Covid) and stand in our own principles and values and show a bit of courage and moxy, if you will, will be one of the most important things we can cultivate in ourselves and in future generations.
I was mistaken during Covid. I thought people around the world (and certainly here in America) would stand defiant against Globalists and Big Pharma bullies and bureaucrats who were threatening to take our liberties away. Nope. I was wrong. There were precious few.
Now the Globalists prepare for what next? Bird flu perhaps? Will the herd go along with more jabs and more serious consequences for themselves? Maybe. I won‘t be. None of us who defied petty authorities the first round are going to be at all interested in any Round 2 draconian bullshit. Will you be? Or will you defy authority, as any human with courage is called to do during times like these?
Let’s go sit around the fire with our guest today. She is smart and feisty and asks all the right questions. Enjoy!
Jessica Rose Bio
Jessica Rose is a Canadian researcher with a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics, a Master’s degree in Immunology, and PhD’s and Advanced degrees in Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry. Her more recent research efforts are aimed at descriptive analyses of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data in efforts to make this data accessible to the public.
E242 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed that discussion as much as I did. I so respect her intelligence and viewpoints, different in subtle ways from my own but spot on, imho.
Go support our sponsor Stand Up Now Apparel. Pick yourself up a soft T or a great hat to proudly wear as this war for narrative control continues and amplifies. It is important that Team Human stick together, regardless of race, creed, nationality, or political orientation.
Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E241: Navigating Transgenderism with Special GuestPamela Garfield-JaegerE241 Dedication
This episode is dedicated to all the parents out there. All the ones who got swept up in this Transgender insanity and all who are about to go through it. My heart goes out to you and I hope this episode and the resources mentioned assist you in finding a healthy and sane path for your young person and your family. May God Bless you all.
E241 Introduction
Today’s topic is a good one……navigating the Transgender minefield as a parent who may not have an inkling about what the so called “authorities” have in mind for your kids.
I like what Dr. Miriam Grossman said when she wrote “I want the following truths- recognized by everyone on the planet aside from gender studies professors and grad students until about 2 weeks ago- do be acknowledged. That sex is not assigned at birth, it’s established at conception.” AHO.
There is a movement afoot that tells your kids (and expects everyone, adults and children alike, to meekly follow) that whenever a boy SAYS they are a girl then the ARE a girl. Whenever a girl SAYS she’s a boy, then she IS a boy.
Basecampers, they are coming for your kids. Are you awake yet? There is a cult-like crusade that targets them 24/7.
Let’s be clear. To indoctrinate children and young adults with falsehoods and drive a wedge between them and their loving parents is evil. To encourage them on a path of that leads to harm is evil. To describe it all as a journey to authenticity and to entice children with glitter and rainbows is evil.
To echo last weeks sentiments with Dr. Mark McDonald, child psychiatrist extraordinaire. Schools cannot be trusted. They are a major site of indoctrination for the Transgender ideology.
And before we get to today‘s excellent interview, I wanted to read you a quote by the great author JK Rowling, who has been a very vocal critic to all this insanity. She said “I don’t believe that even a 14 year-old can truly understand what the loss of fertility is. At 14 I would have said that I don’t want children but motherhood has been the most joyful, wonderful thing in my life.”
She goes on to say that the best cure for gender dysphoria is the let children go through puberty. I couldn’t agree more. And now, onto our sponsor and our guest.
Pamela Garfield- Jaeger Bio
My guest today is Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. Pamela has been a licensed clinical social worker for over 20 years. She has ben an op-ed contributer to the Epoch Times and is the author of an important new book titled “A Practical Response to Gender Distress: Tips and Tools for Families”, geared for families who are trying to make sense and skillfully navigate the gender issue.
E241 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed that conversation as much as I did. Pamela mentioned a great documentary that she participated in called Gender Transformation: The Untold Realm. You can find it at www.gendertransformation.com
Pamela mentioned all the ways you can find her but her website again is www.thetruthfultherapist.org. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E240: The Marxist Mis-Education of Our YouthE240 Introduction
Looking over the assessment for our students in public education, OSPI for this in the spring of 2023. 49% do not meet basic ELA standard. 61% do not meet basic Math standards. 57% do not meet basic Science standards. I’m talking the basics folks. One thing that has been successful? Well, the dumbing down of American children has been wildly successful from a Marxist point of view. Dumb them down so they can’t think critically, fill them with a bunch of lies and half-truths about the country they live in, make them ashamed of their bodies, their biological sex, the nation their forefathers fought for.
There are many appalling things about the war we are currently in. And when I say war, I am not talking about anything between liberals and conservatives or Democrats vs. Republicans. The conflict has so many layers that I won’t disrespect you by oversimplifying it.
However, for me and many others, the most appalling aspect of this conflict has been the impact that our enemy has had on the minds and souls of our children. The impact of Marxist ideology and the hatred, division, confusion, and unhappiness that this has sown in our young people is heartbreaking.
And most parents can’t see it. Not yet anyways. Although more and more are forced to contend with the truth: that the indoctrination in gov’t run schools is dumbing your kids down, turning them into misinformed woke activists being used by a larger agenda. And ill-equipped to be functioning men and women in society. Hell, they can’t even tell you what a man or woman is? This is how bad education has become.
Why don‘t we start teaching our youngsters the TRUTH about America and what we represent to the world? Why all the hatred, lies, ommisions of American exceptionalism and heroism? They can’t. You know why? Because it goes against their agenda.
You know, it is one thing to be aware of the Marxist takeover in our schools and universities. It is another to roll up your sleeves like my guest today does, to have a good long look at the textbooks. Not quite sure if your kids are being mis-educated in public schools? Let’s go talk to a woman who looks over what your kids read and find out. She has a VERY interesting take on it. Enjoy the interview!
Ann Streit Bio
My guest today is Ann Streit. As a concerned public educator, Ann Streit began investigating the reasons behind our failing schools. Appalled by what she learned, she has been sounding the alarm for the past ten years. She is currently the Chapter Chair of Moms for Liberty – King County. Here is my interview with Ann Streit.
E240 Final Thoughts
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
The good times created a tribe of weak men, unable to recognize and stand up to the Marxist and Globalist enemy who is inside the gate and here for our children and our nation.
If ever there was a time for strong men and women to find their voices and their purpose, now is that time, don’t you think?
I will be here every step of the way Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E239: Truth is Awakening Us with Special GuestDr. Mark McDonaldE239 Introduction
One thing I have noticed in this fog of war is that voices that carry truth act as a bell for awakening those that are destined to awaken. You can hear the clarity and strength in them and they give us hope and courage, and carry the future of humanity.
On the other side of truth and humanity is the Globalists using the ideas of Karl Marx, a man who HATED humanity and all that we stand for. Marxist ideas are everywhere (in our schools and universities, in Hollywood, in our government and corporations, and certainly in our media) and you will recognize them by the insanity, hatred, division, and confusion they always create in an unsuspecting population.
Today’s interview is a good one. We cover what exactly is happening in our government run schools? Should parents of young children pull them out for an alternate way of educating them? What is going on with all the transgenderism? What is behind it all? Could all of this be a Marxist-induced mass psychosis? How can we know? How do we navigate all this and keep our sanity?
We also cover why the left is so triggered by President Trump. Hint……he is an unapologetically STRONG male figure. And this triggers women and weak men alike. Strong individuals (both men and women) tend to recognize and appreciate President Trump’s strong leadership.
It’s not that he is without flaws. We have never implied that. Only that his clarity and strength, masculinity, and LOVE of this country are what is needed for this nation right now. In my opinion, there is no second best.
Come sit around the fire with a guest who really embodies truth and clarity right now. Enjoy the interview.
Mark McDonald Bio
My guest today is Dr. Mark McDonald. Mark is trained in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA, he now works primarily with children in private practice in west Los Angeles. His opinions on topics such as the need to re-open America’s schools, and the pandemic of fear in the United States today, have been widely published in local and national news, including the Wall Street Journal and The Federalist.
He is the author of both United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis AND Freedom From Fear: A 12 Step Guide to Individual and National Recovery.
Dr. McDonald also publishes a podcast with Dr. Jeff Barke called Informed Dissent. Here is my interview with Dr. Mark McDonald.
E239 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our conversation as much as I did. I hope to have him back on soon to take a look at some other important issues. I love how Mark pointed out that liberals and conservatives actually hold very similar views on many important issues and that it’s the radical left and their activists that are opposing all of us. Interesting dynamic, isn’t it?
You can find his excellent content on www.dissidentmd.com and his podcast with Dr. Jeff Barke is Informed Dissent.
E237: Hope for Humanity with Special Guest Carrie CeeE237 Introduction
Today‘s episode is one that I have had in the hopper for awhile. It is with Bitcoiner Carrie Cee and I absolutely LOVED our conversation. I have had in on the shelf for while to try and spread out the Bitcoin content a bit more.
Some people have reached out asking about Bitcoin price action. Why has BTC gone down after the halving? It’s a volatile asset but still the best place to store long-term value. My two cents worth: don’t get your face too close to the window when viewing BTC.
Pull back, relax, let the market come to you…..and stack more sats for God’s sake! Nobody can predict the price movement with much accuracy. This is true for the Equity markets as well. Once you have self-custodied whatever amount of Bitcoin feels right for you and your family, just sit tight. As a side note, I believe that whenever the stock market freaks out, Bitcoin will be seen as a safe haven for value. The two are not correlated, not much anyways.
Let’s get to today‘s interview after a few memes.
From Humble Bitcoiner comes this nugget “A nice car and a big house are the old status symbols. The ultimate flex is freedom. Time freedom, location freedom, and financial freedom.”
“I like the Libertarian vision: let live in peace. Ever since I was a kid I‘ve resented people who go around telling other people how they should live.”
Clint Eastwood
“I’ve never understood the political fear of Libertarians. Sure, they’re not in power now but someday they might take over and uh, leave you alone, I guess, since that’s their whole deal.” It’s like being afraid of cats.
Edward Snowden
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
Carrie Cee Bio
My guest today is Carrie Cee. Carrie is a Bitcoin enthusiast, Libertarian, and the creator and host of the excellent podcast Bitcoin People. Here is my interview with Carrie Cee.
E236: Spirits in the Material World with Special Guest Jordan YouklisE236 Introduction
“The real fight is not between the right and the left, but rather between humanists and extinctionists.”
Elon Musk
This is really not a fight between Republican and Democrats. I know each side can get reflexively defensive (and offensive) to one another. The battle for who will control things here in this nation and on this planet goes SO much deeper than that. It is almost laughable to think that the two parties have much to do with this other than keeping the U.S. Corporation (known affectionately as the Administrative Deep State) alive on life-support.
The coming months will see this Cabal in its own death throes, mark my words. As Q has said, we are witnessing the destruction of the old guard and good riddance, I say. They have done unspeakable things to innocent children (and humanity at large). I’m sorry to bring that up again but it’s a fact. Much of this dog and pony show between the Cabal and the White Hats is the Deep State squirming to try and keep the truth from hitting the shores of consensus consciousness. However, it is too late for them to save themselves or their narrative. WE THE PEOPLE know too much and there is too many of us and none of us are going to shut up about this stuff.
Personally, I want to do my part to drive a stake into the heart of vampiric entities that would mean harm to my tribe. And my tribe is humanity (as I’ve stated many, many times). I don‘t care what your skin color is, or your socioeconomic status, I don‘t care where you were born or what your sexual orientation is, I don‘t care if you are religious or not. If you care about humans and human children and the future of this beautiful planet and you know in your Soul that we can do better than psychopaths like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab at making decisions that effect the American Republic and WE THE PEOPLE, then you are one of us. The White Hats aka the Alliance.
Oh, you will get called all sorts of names by the propaganda coming out of the enemies loudspeakers and it will get picked up and parroted by those that are not awake yet, but such is the nature of war, is it not?
Everyone on the left is talking about Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance. The CIA owned MSM finally showed the left what Patriots have seen for years on their feeds. That Joe Biden is lost in a fog of dementia and is unfit for leadership. I’ll say that again, Patriots have know for YEARS! How? Because it was all over our feeds on Telegram and Rumble and other Anon outlets. Years ago dear listeners. Think about that for a second. The left is having an emotional reaction to something we knew years ago. This won‘t be the last time this happens.
“The magicians behind the curtains. They know that human consciousness co-creates reality based on what the mind believes to be true and real. This process is amplified when installed in the collective consciousness of the masses. THEY are projecting what THEY WANT into YOUR MINDS so that you build it for them.”
In other words, watch out for all the doomer black pill stuff such as “they are too powerful to defeat” narrative. That is what THEY want you to imagine. We win when we toss that aside and focus on our own sovereignty, dignity, and divinity. They can’t touch us if we stand in our God-given freedom. No more tacit agreements with psychopaths that hate us. We are in the process of re-writing all former agreements that are one-sided (benefitting only them) and deceitful (as in we were not given a truthful picture of the situation. See E186 Intro to Natural Law for a deep dive.
There is never been a more important time to recognize the power of human consciousness to mold thoughts and feelings into the frequency and vibration field that becomes our “reality” in this dimension. If we take control of this process for the betterment of the HUMAN tribe, there is not a whole lot that the anti-humanist tribe can do about it, is there?
Today I had the pleasure today of sitting around the fire with a young man who has experienced a powerful awakening himself. The discussion is far-ranging and thought provoking. Let’s go get his take on all the things that are unfolding and about to unfold. Enjoy the interview.
Jordan Youklis Bio
My guest today is Jordan Youklis. Jordan is the host of Entangled, the podcast exploring the science of consciousness, the true nature of reality, and what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience. He is also currently enrolled at Maharishi International University in a Masters program studying Consciousness & Human Potential. Here is my interview w Jordan Youklis.
E235: Turtles All the Way Down with Special Guest Zoey O’TooleE235 Introduction
As a podcaster, I do my best to shed light on what is in the shadows. I don’t think of myself as a citizen journalist per se. Not quite anyway.
However, I do believe one of my strengths is asking the difficult questions, offering up a different perspective, hopefully shedding the Light of Truth on the issues that have been presented to us deceitfully. I have done my best to pick the issues that are most concerning to me as a parent, an American, and just an ordinary human in the midst of a strange war on this beautiful planet. My goal is always to help humanity in any way I can.
Every once in a while a book arrives on the scene that shakes the ground we walk on. Turtles All the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth is exactly this kind of book. Written anonymously with unassailable science and data taken from the very sources that mainstream medicine uses: the CDC, FDA, WHO, and peer-reviewed medical journals, Turtles is a tour de force that will arm parents (and physicians, if they are courageous enough) with the truth about this vitally important issues that impact our children and future generations on this planet.
Hopefully, this episode and this book Turtles All the Way Down, will be listened to and read in the coming years and decades ahead and will help parents make more honest, courageous and healthy choices for their children. If a few Basecampers and maybe a few doctors buy the book and get the resources mentioned, I feel I have done my part.
We are fortunate to sit around the fire with one of the editors of this book. Enjoy the episode!
E234: The Rabbit that Hunts TigersE234 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is a short format episode, a Firestarter as I call them. Which simply means a solo episode that is relatively short compared to my normal 30-45 minute episodes.
Today’s title is The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers. What is the rabbit that hunts tigers? It‘s truth, of course and this little bugger is bagging all sorts of big game lately, hasn’t he? This is a good time to revisit what is happening with the military psy-op known as Q and the citizen journalist Anon movement that followed in its wake.
I will be using Erik Carlson’s article “Why Did Q Stop Posting?” along with my own thoughts, naturally. Enjoy the episode.
E233: The Independent-Minded AmericanE233 Introduction
A liberal friend of mine (yes I still have one, maybe two) texted me before the President Trump verdict. Now this friend fully has Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) . He has clearly lost all objectivity when it comes to this man. He gets his news from CNN and MSNBC and damn it, he’s right about President Trump.
He texted me that this is a historic day and if Trump isn‘t sentenced and imprisoned, it is the end of the world as we know it. Oye vay. I didn‘t have the heart to tell him that I hardly paid ANY attention to the trial and that it won’t make one iota of difference in the election or the direction of the nation. I paid about as much attention to the Trump shenanigans as I did Jan 6th. That is to say, next to zero. Both of these “historic events” to quote the MSM, were (as usual for them) simply noise meant to distract.
Donald Trump will be sentenced to a million years in prison and all of this so that they can refer to him as “Convicted Felon Donald Trump”. Ok. Do you really think that changes the destiny of America? Do you think the Globalists/Marxist win because of this illusory victory? Apparently some on the left think so. It’s pretty comical to me. But then again, I am not the one triggered.
Today I have the pleasure of sitting around the fire with a veteran and independent-minded American. We talk about what our experience was like during Covid, viewing things as an critical-thinker and independent, and our perspectives on President Trump (both as a man and as Commander in Chief). We proudly represent the other side of TDS. Enjoy the interview.
E232: Addiction and FaithE232 Introduction
The different stories around addiction has been one of the recurring themes throughout the seasons here on Basecamp. Why? Well, because yours truly has participated in this particular Hero’s Journey.
As the host of this show, I keep my eye out for courageous and inspiring people from all walks of life. Since the MSM will only tell its version of what are as humans. And their version seems to be that as a species we are weak, violent, dependent victims who need others to tell us what to do and how to go about it.
I feel it is my duty to consistently present MY version of humanity, which is filled with love, respect, courage, and fellowship. We will always be presented in a false light by those in mainstream media. Why? Because they don’t want us united and inspired and proud. They don’t want us to living with dignity and walking in the Light with one another. If they truly wanted these things for us, then you would find much different stories about us in the newspapers and on the television, would you not?
Since they won‘t tell a true version of our collective Hero’s Journey, then it is up to us humble writers and podcasters to share our story with each other and future generations. And if you ever hear people saying things like “humans are just shitty by nature” or “we are the reason everything is going to shit” and they refuse to acknowledge our enemy or the war we have been immersed in, I challenge you to correct them (as I do). For this attitude towards our fellow humans show the depth of indoctrination in a deeply anti-human narrative and one that is constantly and consistently pushed in our faces by the bullhorns of MSM.
Today we sit down with another courageous human and one from Kenya! I hope you can hear our common ground and that we are both warriors for Team Human. Enjoy the interview.
Ruth Njagi Bio-
My guest today is Ruth Njagi. Ruth is based in Nairobi Kenya and is the founder of A Second Chance Consults, an organization doing excellent work in the area of sexual addiction and recovery. She is an author and speaker and is passionate about helping facilitate healing for people lost in addiction. Here is my interview with Ruth Njagi.
E231: The Secrets of Space E231 Introduction- Well as promised (from a few months back, today is a solo episode on a topic that I have been exploring for the better part of two...
E230: Basecamp Classic with Special Guest Lisa RezacE230 Introduction
Today we have a Basecamp Classic. One from all the way back to Season Two with none other than my beautiful wife Lisa. The title of the original is Marriage as a Hero’s Journey and it is as relevant today as it ever was.
Marriage and long-term relationships still provide us with so much learning. If done properly, each participant will lose a fair amount of ego and selfishness that is natural for most of us. And you will gain heart and love and a better ability to live from your core values.
Good married couples and long-term partners have been battle-tested and I don’t mean that in a negative way. I think I can speak for Lisa when I say that both of us are more loving and courageous and just downright feisty and bold for having spent three decades at one another’s side.
We live in times of great uncertainty. For those of you with a loyal life-partner at your side. Take a minute today to hug and thank them for all they have brought to your life. For they have been here all along. Teaching us how to be better humans and better men and women. Enjoy the episode.
E229: The Future is Bright (Orange) with Special GuestDalia PlattE229 Introduction
“Bitcoin is the first technology that allows the entire world to join the ruling class in opting out of the plans the ruling class has for the entire world.” Laser
Now, why am I including so many recent episodes in the past two seasons about Bitcoin? I believe it is a technological innovation that will lead to a radically different (and far more positive future) than anyone can envision with the current corrupt fiat system, which is being debased as we speak (as in the purchasing power of your money is worth less and less each week, each month, each year)
I heard a Lawrence Lepard, a well-known thought-leader and advocate of sound money talking on a podcast recently and he likened Bitcoin to the early days of the computing, before the advent of the Internet. He said he was talking to Steve Ballmer back in the 1980’s and he was saying how huge Microsoft and personal computing was going to be. Lawrence said he sounded crazy because he was so early.
Lawrence said he sees the exact same dynamic right now with the early adopters of Bitcoin. Why am I sharing these conversations and my thoughts on this innovation? Because I want you Basecampers to benefit. If even 10 or 20 or 50 of you learn to buy, hold, and self-custody your Bitcoin, then these episodes were worth the time and effort. Knowing you and your family will greatly benefit. I will include the great episode I listened to where Lawrence was talking about all this stuff if you have an hour and your are interested in this.
I will continue to have some Bitcoin episodes here and there but we will spread them out as best we can. I know there are other juicy topics to get to and we are in a crazy election year with lots of moving parts and uncertainty is in the air. For me, Bitcoin acts as an important life-raft to sail what will certainly be stormy seas that is our foreseeable future.
Dalia Platt Bio-
My guest today is Dalia Platt. Dalia is a Bitcoin International Curriculum Developer, a Financial Literacy Educator, and a Bitcoin Custody Advisor with The Bitcoin Advisors. Here is my interview with Dalia Platt.
E228: The Sign of the Times with Special Guest PhoenixE228 Introduction
The sign of the times. What are the sign of the times? Well, I would say a few things jump out at me.
First off, we live in a time of great corruption and deception. That much should be obvious to all, no matter your political orientation. We are all witness to the collapse of a corrupt global empire (the Deep State) that is being punched out by a pro-humanity alliance. Can you see the dynamic in this conflict? Are you aware of the propaganda war that you are swimming in? It’s all around you Basecamper. In fact, this podcast is a very small player in this war, doing what we can to assist humanity (no matter your political leanings).
The Globalists and their 3-letter agencies have done their best to pit us against each other. They have tried to demonize and pit you and I against one another, haven’t they? According to the MSM, if I disagree with you on anything, I must be your enemy or a terrorist or a lunatic. All for having my own opinions about things. And they tell me the same thing about you liberals (of which I was one for thirty fucking years!) But that‘s not good enough. You must be my enemy since you hate Trump or you LOVE experimental pharmaceutical shots, or you really believe in compliance and obedience. Those beliefs do not make you my enemy. Probably not my friend either but I don’t need to loathe or hate you for differing on any of it, do I?
It doesn’t make you stupid either. Sure, you LOOK stupid wearing that mask all over the place but that is a matter of taste. You just have SOME different values perhaps. Or the inputs you’ve received are different so we are arriving at different conclusions. My honest question to those on the left…..do you even know that you are in a war? Or has that escaped you?
Another sign of the time is that there are new weapons being deployed by both sides. For instance, there is a new weapon for WE THE PEOPLE. A hard monetary asset that has arrived in the nick of time to assist humanity in this transitional period. For one of the most powerful weapons the Globalists use is a fiat money ponzi scheme that they can debase through endless printing or QE (to use a Keynsian phrase) and then unlawfully steal from humans using lawfare and deception to make it look like its normal and good for people to “pay their taxes”. Remember, the IRS is not the gov’t. They are a private, foreign-owned corporation that steals your money and uses lawfare and jurisdiction to fool you. We see what your doing. Your not fooling WE THE PEOPLE. Until Bitcoin, there was no way out for the average person to opt out of this rigged game, no matter their nation.
What will happen in 2024? Nobody knows for sure. Everyone I know is doing a sort of light-prepping. Keeping two or three months worth of dry goods, getting their bug-out list and plan ready, having some cash on hand. Making sure there’s ammo for your firearms, if that is your thing. My point? No matter your politics, people are feeling the need to look at worse-case scenarios and plan accordingly. A lot of this stuff is common sense and I know you all are aware of this and I trust you to be making preparations that work for you and your family.
You guys know that I really like interviewing authors, podcasters, thought-leaders. But I also like interviewing everyday heroes like my guest today. It helps me to find out what everyday people are dealing with. The challenges and victories that they are having.
Don’t ever forget that we are all on a Heroic Journey together. Each playing his or her part. Let‘s go find out my guest is doing to play her part and keep awake and alive in these strange, deceptive times we live in. Enjoy the interview.
Phoenix Bio
My guest today goes by the name Phoenix, which is not her real name but a handle that she uses on the social protocol called NOSTR. Phoenix is a mother, a Bitcoiner, and freedomtech lover and Pleb. Her interest include technology, science, economics, futurism, and anything else she can research and verify. Phoenix is particularly concerned with the state of affairs in our nation, education, and the overall well being of the human species. Here is my interview with Phoenix.
E227: We Welcome All Americans with Special GuestJolie LandsdowneE227 Introduction
America has always and will always be built on and fortified by civic involvement. This has been true throughout our history. However, WE THE PEOPLE have gotten a bit flabby here, haven’t we? We have forgotten that sleeves rolled up is the American way, regardless of political orientation or philosophical leanings.
Some of it really isn’t our fault, not really anyways. We have not been educated as to the importance of this local involvement. A sort of resignation and cynicism has slowly taken over the American mindset. That my involvement really doesn’t make a difference since there is so much power and corruption near the top.
The establishment is hoping that his continues to be your perspective. As this will keep any restorative movement for the American Republic at bay. For what is good for WE THE PEOPLE and our Constitutional Republic is almost never in the interests of the ruling Elite. Have you noticed that?
I love what my guest talks about today when she mentioned her Grandfather, who fought at Normandy. She reflects on how can she honor her Grandfather’s sacrifice and honor her nation by continuing to serve? It‘s a great question right now. How can I help this nation that has done so much for me and my family? Lady Liberty has been under seize from those that wish do her and her people harm. What can I do to come to her aid? In 2024 and beyond, this might be the most important civic question we can ask of ourselves.
Let‘s go sit around the fire with my guest today. A friend, a mom, and proud (and involved) American. Enjoy the interview.
Jolie Landsdowne Bio-
My guest today is Jolie Landsdowne. Jolie is a wife and mother (who homeschooled kids for 20 years, a local business owner, and a civil servant who serves as the Legislative District Chair of the 34th district right here in King County. She is a woman who believes that engangement in local government is one of the most effective ways we can impact positive change for our next generation. Here is my interview with Jolie Landsdowne.
E227 Final Thoughts-
I hope you enjoyed our conversation with Jolie as much as I did. We talked about all the PCO vacancies across the nation.. This is a great opportunity to help in a small, effective way. If you find yourself feeling helpless and upset about what is happening in your city or your neighborhood or your nation, join us as PCO in whatever state you reside in. Let’s put good Americans in those vacancies. It’s a great way to help restore America and stand in the principles that are near and dear to YOU. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E226: The Wisdom of the Star People with Special GuestDr. Richard BoylanE226 Introduction
As many of you know, I have had a deep interest and reverence for not only Native American heritage and spirituality but also what they refer to as the “Star People”. These are the extraterrestrial visitors that populate the myths of indigenous tribes the world over.
Most people that know me do not know that I am one-eighth Chippewa Indian. My fathers mother was half Chippewa. I have also long been interested in the ET phenomenon, having a particular affinity for the Pleiadian myths. The Pleiadians (according to this lore) are a race of ET’s (among many) that have been assisting humanity since the beginning of our story. In my grandmothers peoples lore, the Chippewa were seeded by the Pleiadians and were instructed as such by the Pleiadians themselves.
The Native Americans and other indigenous tribes are brilliant at embedding truth in myth. This technique preserves information that would otherwise be lost or removed by authorities that do not want to see this knowledge shape our minds and our future. These powerful myths are what sustain humanity, whether that is biblical myths, Hero’s Journey mythology, or the myth of the Star People. It is our heartbeat and our light in the dark forest.
My guest today is an elder in this community. A man who was trusted by the Native tribes to help spread the word about the Star People. Let’s go sit around the fire and listen to some words of wisdom. Enjoy!
Dr. Richard Boylan Bio
Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist; cultural anthropologist; retired university professor; and a world-renown researcher and expert on UFOs and extraterrestrial Visitors.. His career over five decades has centered in public service: first as a clergyman, then as a social worker and educator, and then with three graduate degrees, doing decades of service as a clinical psychologist and an anthropologist studying visiting space civilizations. Here is my interview with Dr. Richard Boylan.
E226 Final Thoughts-
I hope you enjoyed our time with Dr. Boylan as much as I did. I love sitting around the fire with a wise elder, asking questions. It‘s how we preserve our human wisdom and dignity amongst all the transhumanist AI technology that they are pushing at us.
In my eyes, it will always be storytelling, myth, and shared meaning that lift the human race to our next epoch. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E225: B is for Bitcoin with Special Guest Daz BeaE225 Introduction
Before we get to our interview, I thought I would share a few memes with you as they have been piling up and I like to share these with you. Today’s theme is Bitcoin and freedom (two topics I am obviously crazy for).
The first one is from author and thought leader Jeff Booth, who says:
“All of the noise is just a natural part of a slow and messy transition from a world of deception, fear and scarcity- to a world of truth, hope, and abundance, with every person understanding the transition at their own pace. #bitcoin The chaos only tells you how early you are!”
And a great one with a Terminator theme. It had young John Conner asking Arnold Swarzennegar “Did you come back to save the human race from machines? In which the Terminator responds “No, I’m here to buy Bitcoin on the cheap”. Love it!
And former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard who simply states:
“Bitcoin opens the door to freedom, opportunity, and individual empowerment.”
And one from one of my all-time heroes. The great George Carlin who says
“Sooner of later the people in this country are going to realize that the government doesn’t give a shit about them. Government doesn’t care about you or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a shit about you. Its only interested in its own power, keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”
Aho, and lastly from Humble Bitcoiner who says
“If you know someone that didn’t take the jab and now they’re telling you about Bitcoin, you should probably listen.”
My guest today is Aussie who got up at the crack of dawn to meet with us. Let’s go sit around the fire with him and speak the truth. Enjoy.
Daz Bea Bio
My guest today Daz Bea. Daz is an author, a musician, an electrician with qualifications in electrical engineering, a husband and father of two, and (of course) a Bitcoiner. Here is my interview with Daz Bea.
E225 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our time with Daz Bea as much as I did. To up your understanding of Bitcoin and start to turn a corner on it, get Daz‘s great book B is for Bitcoin, available on Amazon. Like I said, it fills a sweet spot for new Bitcoiners taking you from noob into a more intermediate understanding of many of the important aspects of the protocol and why each is important. And a great resource for you to better understand Bitcoin is www.lookingglasseducation.com. They have courses and deep dives to help the new and experienced Bitcoiner better understand this game-changing technology.
E223: We’re All on the Same SideE223 Introduction
Let’s talk a minute about Signal vs Noise. To start with, it is safe to say that damn near EVERYTHING the Globalist put out via MSM is propaganda and noise. They are not incentivized to give you signal, to keep you informed or awaken or empower you. That is not in their self-interest, is it? Why would it be? If you want to control the population from the top-down, then treat people like mushrooms: keep them in the dark and feed them shit. Which is exactly what they do.
All signal at this point comes from citizen journalist, independent and critical thinking Anons, and podcasts like yours truly. Oh, I am not implying that I have nothing but signal. But at least I am trying to awaken you. I respect you and your awakening. And I am trying to assist humanity in any way I can. This has always been the mission here at Basecamp.There are so many others that are doing their small part, like my guest today.
One of the points of 2024 and beyond is to wake up people to the fact that we are in a non-kinetic war. A new type of warfare that features propaganda and disinformation (from both sides), the use of cyberwarfare and AI, the emergence of decentralized platforms that are censor-resistance and pro-freedom, and a fierce fight for the narrative high ground. We are seeing this in spades, are we not.
This has been a heavyweight fight and it is not a Republican/Democrat divide or even a Liberal/Christian or a pro-governament/Libertarian divide. It is the Globalists and their Totalitarian top down control of our human population that they seek to reduce so as to control in an easier way. And WE THE PEOPLE with our own tools to subvert and create systems that work well for US.
I recently listened to a podcast with General Kwast as a guest. I like to listen to the highest military officers speak with insight and intelligence about the war we are in. I feel this approach puts you in alignment with much more SIGNAL than just taking whatever information they throw at you. Kwast even talks about how effective the Q drops have been to activate a citizen journalism movement and show people just how corrupt and evil the Cabal is. Q sketched it out, Anons filled in the painting in vivid colors- trafficking children for unspeakable uses, sexual blackmail scandals (you had another hit the airwaves this week with P Diddy, treason in the highest of places, the enemy inside the fortress. We are seeing all of this in real time. My 2 cents? Find yourself someone who takes time to research and befriend them. Start asking questions and stop poo-pooing all the people who are working to bring you this information for YOUR BENEFIT. Continue to wake yourself up, even if its uncomfortable truths. This is what is required of a true Hero’s Journey, is it not?
My guest today is a woman who felt called to assist in this Great Awakening we have talked about over the years. Let’s go sit around the fire and listen for the signal that will assist our forward movement. Enjoy!
Anna Kane Bio
My guest today is Anna Kane. Anna is a patriot, Christian, and mother of 6 who co-founded the independent newspaper The Flame. Here is my interview with Anna Kane.
E222: Passing the Torch with Special Guest Connor MacfarlandE222 Introduction
Many of you know that had a great time attending Charlie Kirk‘s America Fest in Phoenix this past December. It was so inspiring that I plan on going again this year.
One of the things that jumped out at me was how many young Conservatives and Libertarians were in the audience. Charlie puts them right up front as these young men and women are our future. To me, it’s really amazing to see them and talk to them as their values and principles run counter to what I see our public schools teaching here in Seattle (or any blue state for that matter). Seattle area schools are a mess with their obsession with all things woke-transgender ideology as young as you can slip it into the classrooms, endless pronouns meant to confuse further divide. No real American civics- no mention of the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
How many young people coming out of public school can even describe the Revolutionary War, the creation of our nation with the Declaration of Independence. Or why the Civil War was fought. I am not convinced high school seniors down the street can accurately describe any of this. And it’s really not their fault. They weren‘t taught it, were they?
How can a generation feel dignity and pride in their great nation when everything taught in government schools slanders and demeans its young citizens about who we are as nation and as a people?
We have come a long ways in just few short decades. When I went to high school 40 years ago, the whole nation was patriotic. Do you remember that? Yep, Democrat and Republicans alike. Hard to image that today. Ronald Reagan was President and carried every state but two. American was experiencing a renewal back in the 80’s and damn near everyone you spoke with was proud to be an American and all knew what an exceptional nation we lived in. When you spoke with new immigrants to our nation, they were excited and grateful to be given a chance to live in the “land of opportunity”. So many of them embodied the American Dream. Future generations did better than their predecessors.
What will happen if we don‘t turn around education? At this point, it may be best just to dismantle public education and their Unions and start from the ground up. They have been captured by Marxists/Communists pushing a radical Woke curriculum on the unsuspecting students. When you understand it, it’s pretty gross. Education in my view is too far gone to save. At this point, the students are better off not attending these government indoctrination camps. They will be smarter than all the woke kids who insist that there is no such thing as a man, no such thing as a woman. Most parents instinctively know this. Public schools no longer teach anything useful to the students. It’s basically a shitty babysitter where you get to see your friends a bit. If parents really knew, most would get them out of there asap. Seriously. It’s that bad Basecampers.
I may have shared this with you already. I don’t remember. To illustrate this, I had coffee with a friend not too long ago and he described what his son was doing in public high school. He had one book report his junior year and get this, it could be on a graphic novel! Are you kidding me? One book report for the whole year and it can be on a comic book! Oye vay.
You know what is a good way to dumb down kids? Don’t have them read or write and don’t teach them anything useful. Add to that no actual American civics and you have a whole generation who can’t navigate, critically think, or add anything of value to society.
Thankfully, parents are waking up and pushing back. There is a sense of urgency with this as we have future generations who are counting on us to turn the ship around.
I don’t get a chance to speak with many college students, so this was a special treat for me. Let’s go connect with our guest today, a young man stepping into his leadership at Liberty University. Enjoy the interview.
Connor Macfarland Bio
Connor Macfarland is the National Development Director for College Republicans of America and is studing Business Administration with a focus on Entrepreneurship at Liberty University. He’s focused on expanding the organization and connecting with conservatives across the country.
E222 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our time with Connor as much as I did. Go get yourself some patriotic gear at our sponsor Stand Up Now Apparel at www.standupnowapparel.com Thank you Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week.
E221: The Wisdom of Optimism with Special GuestNoel RudheE221 Introduction
What a year 2024 is shaping up to be! We seem to be in some sort of epic transition who’s outcome is uncertain and it feels like we are getting close to a tipping point, doesn’t it? We seem to be in a sort of high risk/high reward proposition right now that will impact us for decades to come. Are we up for it? I hope so.
To each listener, I will challenge you with this: make this the year that we each wake up to the best of our ability. For those that already know what is going on, how do we include those just arriving at truths that we knew months or years ago? How do we welcome newcomers into the pro-humanity movement without making them feel inferior? For those on the left who are sensing that shit just doesn’t make sense, can you come over to Telegram and find some new inputs that seem to fill in parts of the map that you have been missing? Or podcasts that fill in some of the blanks. No judgment here as to where you are at on your Hero’s Journey.
For all of the kind-hearted humans out there, and we make up the vast majority of humans here (no matter what they say about us). Can we see the tension and division that the Globalists are trying to create? Talking endlessly about this group and that group, hoping to distract and separate us. A classic Marxist ploy that they are betting you don’t figure out until its too late and America is lost.
My guest today is a friend and fellow humanist and optimist. I will tell you, when shit really hits the fan, it’s the intelligent, free thinking optimists that have a huge advantage. Why? Because seeing a bright future and humanity thriving in our next chapters creates possibilities that don‘t exist in the doom and gloom view of our future. Sure, WE THE PEOPLE have enemies and they don’t seem to value us very much. So what. We have too much going for us to throw away the transformative tools that will naturally help to bring us through.
My guest today is a wise friend who I have been wanting to have on for quite some time. Let‘s go sit around the fire with her. Enjoy!
Noel Rudhe Bio
My guest today is Noel Rudhe. Noel is a painter and storyteller who experiments with mediums to share her observations of the human experience. Fueled by curiosity and inspired by nature, much of her work explores the many layers of awareness and presence. Here is my interview with Noel Rudhe.
E221 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our time with Noel as much as I did. To find Noel and all of her art and creative work, go to her website at www.noelrudhe.com. Rudy is spelled R-U-D-H-E.
Go get yourself a soft cotton tee from our sponsor Stand Up Now Apparel at www.standupnowapparel.com Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E220: Growing Our Courage with Special GuestCliff BuenavistaE220 Introduction
Today was a fun interview for me. Why? Because it is with an very old friend of mine. Someone who I used to sit at the pub with and talk philosophy, existentialism, God and Spirit, along with more mundane topics like who was better the Seahawks or the 49ers.
You know how fond I am of the Hero’s Journey (both individually and collectively). Not all my old drinking buddies have taken a particularly courageous path. No judgment. Just like we mention in this interview, many will be called, most will stay back in the Shire, to use a Lord of the Rings reference. Without a clear picture of the battle or even what is at stake. But the more heroic will answer the call and do whatever they can to assist humanity. These are the times we live in.
One of the questions to ask is this: Who do we need to be as men in these times? What is our most courageous path? What do I need to do in my next chapter? What does humanity and God need from me next?
My guest today is an old friend who has answered the call. What a blessing it is to know these Warriors and I am fortunate to talk to more and more of them on this show. I like to give the vibe in these discussions as two friends sitting around the fire talking about what is REALLY going on. And it is easy when you have known each other as long as I have know my guest today. Enjoy!
Cliff Buenavista Bio
My guest today is my good friend Cliff Buenavista. Cliff is a Christian, a husband and father of 2 children and is a project manager at Nvidia. Cliff has maintained his sobriety for nearly 4 years, a true Hero’s Journey. Here is my interview with Cliff Buenavista.
E220 Final Thoughts
Well I hope you enjoyed our time with Cliff as much as I did. Like I said, him and I go WAAAAAY back and have both taken the road less travelled. I hope you heard something today that inspired you and gives you courage on YOUR Hero’s Journey. And go get some swag at Stand Up Now Apparel, they are offering all you Basecampers a great deal with 10 % off and free shipping by simply using the code “basecamp”.
Thank you Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week.
E219: The Signal Amongst the Noise with Special GuestReinette SenumE219 Introduction
I absolutely LOVE speaking with fellow warriors in the truth movement. We have a fast track way of referring to things as we have all developed chops through years, hell decades of citizen journalism and research. We’ve also been the heart of the resistance. Let‘s be honest. Most of the people I know in this community were MILES AHEAD of what the MSM and their followers were talking about and realizing.
In short, truthers have been on signal for a long time while most struggled with the noise that was constantly bombarding them. Including all the noise about US!
Today’s interview is a good one and I want to get right to it. However, first a few memes in the spirit of today’s episode and a word from our sponsor.
Memes! We love em. This one is from We The Media and it is response to Justin Trudeau going on MSM and complaining that nobody believes them anymore. It goes:
“Conspiracy theorists are officially living rent free in every single one of these people’s heads. A trillion dollar propaganda machine is losing to a bunch of anonymous independent researchers and there‘s nothing they can do about it. They can no longer control our mind, how we think, how we see through their BS instantaneously, so they are in a state of despair. That‘s what I call winning.”
Yes, it is a glorious thing to behold.
This one from Wyatt who says:
“You watched “The Hunger Games” and sided with the resistance.
You watched “Star Wars” and sided with the resistance.
You watched “The Matrix” and sided with the resistance.
You watched “Divergent” and sided with the resistance.
You watched “V for Vendetta” and sided with the resistance.
When it‘s fiction, you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it‘s the reality you’re living in. Wild.”
In which Jordan Sather commented: “Funny how everyone sides with the Rebel Scum in the movies. But when it comes to real life, they lick the boots of the Empire and call the Rebels “far-right conspiracy theorist misinformation peddling tin-foil domestic extremists.”
Oh how true you guys are. You should have seen it here in Seattle and Portland. Oye vay. From one Rebel Scum to another, thank you Wyatt and Jordan Sather!
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Reinette Senum Bio
Former 2x mayor, CA gubernatorial candidate, and dedicated solutionarian, Reinette Senum, shares stories, hypotheses & possibilities beyond the fog. Enjoy the interview!
E218: Gen X Saves the World! with Special Guest E MandisaE218 Introduction
Lately I have been seeing all sorts of funny and truthful posts on social media about my generation, Gen X, and what badasses we are. And it‘s true. We were all raised to be tough, self-reliant, patriotic, with a high level of street smarts. We had to be. We were out in the world on our bikes as little kids, roaming all over our neighborhoods and the surrounding areas with our friends and our dogs. No kidding. That is the way we rolled and it made an indelible mark on our lives and our character.
We didn’t wear helmets on bikes (or motorcycles for that matter). We didn‘t wear seat belts in cars (hell we just jumped into the back of a pickup with four other kids and two dogs and held on for dear life). We weren‘t allergic to any foods. You would have been called a sissy if you had any. We had no trigger warnings. We had just boys and girls. That was enough. It was, by every definition, an All-American upbringing. Full of fun, adventure, optimism, freedom, and love. We didn’t need anything else.
Not that there weren’t hard knocks. Oh, Gen Xers were expected to be resourceful and to handle yourself in all sorts of situations.
And we knew the world was not always safe or going to roll out the red carpet for us. So we learned work ethic. Hell, we learned it from our parents and the adults we grew up with. Everyone worked hard and had their hustle on. I saw my own parents work their tails off to put food on the table and provide the things that my brother and I needed. Looking back, it’s inspiring and helped mold my generation.
This episode is dedicated to my incredible fellow Gen Xers and those that raised us. A generation built on personal freedom, patriotism, hard work, and not putting up with all the bullshit they throw at you. This episode is for you.
E Mandisa Bio
My guest today is fellow Gen Xer E Mandisa (Simply known as E.). She is an educator, Hip Hop activist, actor, writer, producer and all-around Creative. She also has a new radio talk show that she is hosting, which we’ll talk about today. Here is my interview with E Mandisa.
E217: The 911 Red Pill w Special Guest Richard GageE217 Introduction
For many in the truther movement, 911 was the first of many red-pills. For some of us, the events of 911 looked “off” as in we could detect a grand deception of some sorts. But much of is was gut instinct and intuition. That is until the archetects and structural engineers started to analyze the date. Then their findings confirmed what the citizen journalist truthers had known all along: the official 911 narrative was a sham. A story that the Deep State desperately needed you to believe as they invaded Iraq for non-existent “weapons of mass destruction” remember that? And then went on to pass unconstitutional legislature such as the Patriot Act to spy on, surveil, search without cause, and strip Americans of their God-given rights in the name of “safety”. My question after all these years is who is keeping WE THE PEOPLE safe from these psychopaths? Hmm.
I rarely talk about 911. Not because it‘s controversial, I hardly think of it that way anymore. Because for me it is so obvious! But also we have all sorts of other deception going on right now that 911 seems a long time ago, doesn’t it? However, it still carries an AK-47 capacity to red pill whoever dares to look at the evidence with curiosity, discernment, common sense, and an ability to let go of any strong conditioning about our so-called leaders.
If you go into your investigations with anything close to a Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, I guarantee you will arrive at the exact same conclusions that we came to. Its about as obvious as 3rd grade math.
I have always wanted to do a proper episode on 911 as it was one of my important but many red-pill moments and events that make me who I am today. I hope you enjoy the episode!
Richard Gage Bio-
My guest today is San Francisco Bay area architect Richard Gage, AIA, member of the American Institute of Architects and founder & former CEO of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. He, along with his courageous wife Gail, continues to lead the charge toward a real investigation into the destruction of all 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 at RichardGage911.org .
E216: WE THE COURAGEOUS w Special Guest Jodi O’MalleyE216 Introduction
You saw some feisty Americans during the Covid episode. What looked like a giant social engineering experiment to see how many weak-minded people would comply and turn on their neighbors had the Libertarians in the crowd forming a resistance. What did we resist? Tyranny for one. The top-down centrally-controlled Great Reset, aka the Globalist agenda.
The widespread compliance was shocking to me and I took great comfort in realizing that Seattle is more obedient to so-called authority than almost every other place in the US. That is right. The city that gave you the rebel yell of Kurt Cobain and countless other post-punk rockers has become….well, a meek, obedient, vanilla tech city, quick to comply and slow to ask any real questions. It turns out, Seattle lacks balls. Imagine my surprise.
I keep coming back to courage as a cornerstone and I believe this will define us (one way or the other) in 2024. Courage is contagious. That is one thing I have found both in myself and in the others I have worked with and witnessed over time. My guest today exemplifies and embodies this quality. And for Americans, it‘s important to remember that courage is in our DNA. Every time you think and act courageously, you harken back the spirit of our ancestors. The ones who risked their lives and livelihood to resisted tyranny and set an example for freedom-loving humans all over the world.
The Globalists have their utterly predictable playbook going. Yawn. They will use Marxist techniques masquerading as “woke” to try and divide us-transgender, race, rich/poor,victim/perpetrator. And distract, distract, disctract to keep WE THE PEOPLE from figuring out that we are reaching a tipping point in this war. It cannot be described any other way, no matter your spiritual or political or sexual orientation.
No matter what you take into this year, let us agree that each and every one of us being the most courageous and authentic version of ourselves will serve God and our precious American Republic more than anything else I can think of. Enjoy the interview but first a word from our sponsor.
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Jodi O‘Malley Bio
Jodi O’Malley is an author, columnist, radio host, faith-based critical care nurse, and well known Project Veritas whistleblower. Here is my interview with Jodi O’Malley.
E214: Embracing the Mystery with Special Guest Vincenzo FaloneE214 Introduction
One of my goals when I started Basecamp was to invite the men who listen into a more mythic way of viewing themselves and their lives. Having been an initiate of the Mankind Projects’ New Warrior Training, I saw firsthand for myself and the men who I have been close with just how powerful and long-lasting the impact of this initiation was.
One of the core benefits (I believe) is that the weekend awakens something in the Soul of men. Something that stirs in our depths but is dormant until the right initiatory pulse awakens it. It’s the combination of a deep sense that you belong in the tribe of men along with a clear sense of purpose that is often missing in so many men I see.
Before being properly initiated, men can chase money and status and women as a way of measuring and validating themselves. I think deep down, most men know that this road is futile. But there are no other clear paths that are marked. There is just a faint trail and maybe the only man or men who you‘ve seen take it are different from you in some regards…. a bit more courageous perhaps? Maybe, but I think its more ready, more tired of the posturing, more tired of living without a clear purpose. More tired of their own bullshit and living from their shadow.
My guest today is also a product of the faint trail. You can hear it in his speech, in his vibration.
There is always an invitation to join us on a Warrior weekend. It doesn’t matter your age, race, socio-economic background, your sexual preference, the weekend was built for you. Yes you.
There is a long cherished saying in the men‘s community when it comes to this initiation: Men Are Waiting.Waiting for you to take the faint trial, waiting for you embrace the mysterious and the mythic, and waiting for you to trust the tribe of men to have your back. Enjoy the interview!
Vincenzo Falone Bio
My guest today is Vincenzo Falone. Vincenzo is a father, a longtime bodyworker and cranial sacral therapist in addition to being a Certified Co-Leader with the Mankind Project. Vincenzo is also the co-founder of The Center for Relaxation and Healing in Chatham NJ. Here is my interview with Vincenzo Falone.
E213: Second Chance w Special Guest Dr. Ken HarrisE213 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, we‘re getting season six rolling now. Looking forward we have a number of interesting interviews coming up. I will be talking with patriot entrepreneur Gerard White and the courageous, truth telling nurse Jodi O’Malley. I have one coming up with men‘s leader Vicenzo Falone. I also have a 911 truther episode coming up with architect and structural engineer Richard Gage. And we are still plugging away at the SSP episode, which will be the first solo episode of the season, set to air sometime in Feb or March, depending on the flow.
2024 will be an epic year for America. I think everyone can sense it. Hopefully here at Basecamp, we can do our part to provide you with resources for this year and beyond. I continue to be drawn to people (like my guest today) who can help us navigate with our humanity intact. For our unifying sense of humanity as ONE TRIBE is the thing that lifts us beyond the division and the thing the Globalists fear the most.
Enjoy the interview.
Ken Harris Bio
My guest today is Dr. Ken Harris. Doctor Harris is retired Doctor of Chriropractic Medicine, an expert in the area of health and wellness, and an author who has new Amazon best-selling book. Here is my interview with Dr. Ken Harris.
E212: Radical Unschooling with Special Guest Dayna MartinE212 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We are back up and running the start of Season Six and man, what a year 2024 is going to be. Can you sense the excitement, tension, anxiety, anticipation in the air? It is like EVERYONE knows that shit is going to hit the fan this year. It’s like watching a giant, global chess match between fairly evenly matched opposing forces.
I took my family down to Phoenix before Christmas to attend Turning Point USA‘s America Fest. It was incredibly inspiring. The lineup had a “who’s who” of great Conservative and Libertarian speakers. Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump Jr., Candace Owens, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kari Lake, James O’Keefe, as well as people that I had just become aware of like NBA star Jonathan Isaac and North Korean escapee Yeonmi Park. The narrative was uplifting. The vibe was one of inspired courage and commitment at this crossroad in our nation’s destiny.
I highly recommend attending this for anyone looking to get plugged in. One of the most inspiring things was seeing all the young people (college and even high school kids) in the audience. Our future. These young adults are strong in their values and know that we live in the greatest country in the world. They aren’t buying all this Marxist woke nonsense. And they can articulate all the reasons why. It gave me a sense of hope to see a generation behind me with such strong values and faith. These young people are unshakeable.
Another thing that stuck with me about America Fest was how Charlie Kirk said that 2024 would be the year he planned on working the hardest he has ever worked to help save the country he loves. Think about that. This is one of the hardest working Conservatives I know of. Bannon said more or less the same thing.
The message was loud and clear. We have incredible people on our side but the restoration of America is up to each and every one of us. We all have a role to play. 2024 will not be a year of complacency. It is a year of summoning your courage, finding your voice, and getting out of your comfort zone. We need good people to counter the onslaught of AI-driven fear and division.
Today’s guest is someone I was so pleased to meet and get to know. She is the author of a couple of books we’ll talk about. And she exemplifies the American spirit: smart, a good critical thinker, with a healthy dose of American rebel. Remember Basecampers, if the rebellious streak that runs through our DNA, that great American anti-authoritarian rebel spirit leaves the gene pool, how on earth will we summon courage for what we will face? For the rebel spirit and courage go hand in hand.
Let’s have a 2024 worthy of our American lineage and one that where we can all stand tall (no matter our political leanings), knowing we were in the fight to save our great country.
Let’s get to our first interview of Season Six. It’s a good one. Enjoy!
Dayna Martin Bio
Dayna Martin is an advocate, speaker, educator, and author of three books about parenting and homeschooling. Dayna been featured on The Dr. Phil Show, CNN, Nightline, 60 Minutes among others.
I caught up with her to chat about her book Radical Unschooling. We talked about changing the context that we educate our children with, and why freedom is so vital for our kids.
Here is my interview with Dayna Martin.
E215: Standing Up with Special Guest Gerard WhiteE215: Introduction
They say God works in mysterious ways and there is no question that this has been true for both myself and my family as well as my guest today. I am a big believer that God has a plan for each and every one of us and that if we can get quiet and listen and surrender, we will hear our unique calling. This has always been true.
We live in a time when our adversaries (those that seek to destroy America and her principles of freedom, free speech, liberty, pursuit of happiness) have made their way into some of our most vulnerable areas- education, media, politics. It has become increasingly obvious that the Globalists are in control of all three of these. You can see it in their messaging, their actions, their legislation, and their allegiances.
Furthermore, WE THE PEOPLE have been coughing and choking on all the lies, deception, and propaganda.
I attended America Fest, as I told you before, in December. As a Libertarian, it was a breath of fresh air. A great conference where I met my guest today who has started an apparel company called Stand Up Now. And the big takeaway from America Fest? It is time to stand up now Patriots. We are at a pivotal point in our war with the Marxists/Globalists/Communists who seek to destroy our country and strip her of her natural Divinity.
So, if you love this nation, no matter your political orientation- left, right, or center. Now is the time to ask God and yourself “What is being asked of me here? How can I help come to the aid of this great nation that has so blessed me and my family for generations now? God, tell me what you need from me? How can I serve?”
I know that many of you will answer the call in whatever way you are able. 2024 will be a year we are all out of our comfort zone but it will also be remembered as a year that things shifted once again, in favor of humanity. Enjoy the interview.
Gerard White Bio
My guest today is Gerard White. Gerard is a Patriot, Christian, father, and entrepreneur and creator of Stand Up Now Apparel. Here is my interview with Gerard White.
E211: Season Five FinaleE211 Introduction
Well Basecampers, we have come to the end of Season Five. I hope you enjoyed the content the past 11 months. It was a good season, from where I’ve been sitting. I hope we provided some tools for your Hero’s Journey as well as fresh perspectives on everything that is going on.
I will be taking a few weeks off to enjoy the Christmas season with family and friends. Recharge for the new year and Season Six. We will be back with fresh episodes and a new season on either Jan 9th or Jan 16th, depending on the flow.
2024 is set to be an epic year for humanity. I think no matter what your views are on what is happening, most everyone can agree that there seems to be some very big things brewing.
Will there even be a 2024 Presidential election? I personally don’t think there will but you never know. Trump is poised for a return. What will that look like? Will the broader public start to get a handle on Devolution or Bitcoin? We will soon find out.
I was thinking about the next season and what I want to assist humanity with. One of the insights in the past few years that I would like to expand on is this idea of how we grow our capacity for Truth. We have been so conditioned to avoid it, haven‘t we. Stay comfortable, don‘t look or express uncomfortable truths, don’t rock the boat. What that leaves us with is a deep denial of what is happening and a particular form of naïveté. Many of the so called “normies” and I’m not calling you that, still seem to think that the gov‘t, or Big Pharma, or the WEF, or Bill Gates, etc etc would NEVER lie to you. It’s like holding onto your belief in Santa Claus, except your 50 fuckin’ years old now and call anyone that calls out the Santa scam a big ole Conspiracy Theorist.
Hopefully whatever is to come in 2024, Basecamp will help you skillfully navigate it. Our perspective will likely be the polar opposite of what you are hearing in MSM on damn near everything and that’s ok. My goal is to have you fine-tune your radar so you know what is going on. That you aren‘t part of the crowd that is so easily fooled by shiny TV lights and so called “experts” telling you what you need to know and what you need to do. We don’t need them anymore. It’s doubtful we ever did.
Today we have a Basecamp Classic for you. A good way to finish our season. It is all the way back at the beginning of Season Three with an episode titled The Quest for the Soul that I did with the great author Anne Baring. I remember being particularly proud of the episode as it seemed to set the tone for season three and Anne and I got along fabulously.
I would like to thank you for listening to the show and supporting us in whatever way you are able to: monthly and one-time donations, positive reviews on Apple Podcasts, and just sharing the show with the people that are in your lives. I appreciate the vote of confidence. And lastly, from my family to yours, I would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and may God keep you safe and the Light of the son Jesus Christ light the way on your Hero’s Journey. Enjoy.
E210: The Two Jordan FirestarterE210 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, we are coming down the finish line towards the end of Season five. I hope you have enjoyed the episodes this year. I will be doing today’s solo episode and we will finish with a few words and a Basecamp Classic on Dec. 5th.
I am sorry to report that the Secret Space Program episode is being bumped until early Season 6. It will likely be one of the first 3 or 4 episodes of next season, which has an arrival date of sometime in Feb. I know I promised the Space episode this season but I got railroaded with Shingles that really brought a halt to my ability to do research and write. Also, this is a serious topic and it will be new to many of you. I want to find the right sorts of inputs so that it will make a positive impact for you. Right now, that material is not ready to go.
Today, we have some memes, and then some short pieces by both Jordan Sather and Jordan Peterson. I guess I could have called this one the Two Jordan Firestarter. Hmm. Enjoy the episode.
E209: Learning Our Way to Better Health with Special GuestLisa RezacE209 Introduction
Today’s episode is a health and lifestyle episode with my wife and life partner Lisa. She is an extremely intuitive person, both in terms of her own situation but those around her. I am the beneficiary of her intuition as she will often pinpoint something that is not quite in my awareness. Or she will affirm an insight I am already having about my health as she did in this episode we will share with you today.
If you have a TV and watch it semi-regularly, you can’t miss it. The non-stop advertisements (in prime time) for all sorts of Pharma products with every name imaginable. Humira, Keytruda, Gardisil, Skyrizi, Ozempic, the list goes on and on. All the names sound sort of the same, don‘t they?
As many of you know, I have been recovering from Shingles the past 6 weeks or so. It’s been tough but here I am, grateful for my health after a harrowing brush with the drugs that were prescribed for me.
People were quick to tell me “I bet you wish you had the vaccine now” or “I bet you won’t miss the next Shingles vaccine!” People that tell me that miss the larger point. My stand is to have the optimal health for my body, mind, and spirit and FOR ME the best way to do that is to avoid all pharmaceutical products as much as I can. As in damn near always. I compare it to someone who loves hiking and being out in nature. If that person rolls their ankle and needs to be in an ankle wrap for a month, do you really think that person will never go out and enjoy nature again? Life happens. When it does, I for one don’t feel like I need to cave on all my principles. And I learned a lot from having shingles.. Optimal health, I have found out over 30 years, is ALL ABOUT LEARNING.
My heart goes out to all of those who struggle to feel good and have found themselves on a bunch of these products. Man, I was on just ONE for a month and it scared the shit out of me. I just wasn’t myself as you will hear me talk about with Lisa.
I am not giving medical advise. But human to human, I can share with you that being on lots of these products scares the shit out of me. I know from experience that you can build a health team that has a traditional MD as PART of the team. But you might also have a naturopathic doctor, a chiropractor, a nutritionist, a good bodyworker, maybe a colonic hydrotherapist and a acupuncturist, maybe a yoga teacher of a somatic movement teacher. There are tons of resources to help you reframe and optimize your health. It takes a bit of time and money and a certain trial and error to find the right combination that is uniquely suited to you. But it is kind of fun to try all those things and DAMN, the health and vitality that are yours are absolutely PRICELESS. Enjoy the episode.
E208: Our Cities- A Naomi Wolf ReadingE208 Introduction
I have been a city dweller my whole life. A sophisticated urbanite, as they say. Living in both Seattle, then NYC for 10 years, and now back to Seattle to raise our family. I have LOVED the cities that I have been a part of. The culture, the humanity, the diversity, the human connection, the art and the food, the street scene, and yes, even the edge. The occasional violence and crime that come across your radar.
All of these have been part of my whole adult life. And there seems to be a common sentiment among many city dwellers these days. They can‘t wait to get out. Things are fraying in our great cities and it is in plain daylight for all of us to see. The violence, the mental health crisis, the crime, the homelessness, the hopelessness. Our cities seem lost don‘t they? Can we recover them?
The following is a reading of an article by the great writer Naomi Wolf. I will give you resources on where to find her at the end. Naomi is a former liberal writer, best-selling author, and thought leader and celebrity. She has famously been a walkaway from the left as the woke Marxist agenda started to alert her that something else was going on and perhaps she was being played. I know exactly how she feels.
Here I am acting as a simply voice-over, speaking Naomi‘s elegant words. I hope she doesn‘t mind that I pay tribute to her and her ideas this way. Enjoy!
E207: A BTC FirestarterE207 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I have been recovering from Shingles. Still not completely up and running yet but making small improvements. Working on getting you a few more good episodes before going on a short hiatus for the Holidays. Already thinking a bit about 2024 and Season six. 2024 is going to be crazy man. I think anyone with even a sliver of intuition knows this. Good time to take things slow and steady my friend.
What a time to be alive, isn‘t it? You are seeing truth coming in like a wrecking ball, laying waste to everything build on lies and deception. It’s glorious. I am here for the changing of the guard. For the emergence of humanity out from under a dehumanizing, centrally controlled Globalist system with an obvious master/slave fetish.
I have some memes and then a short-format Firestarter about Bitcoin. Enjoy.
E206: The Sun is Our Ally with Special GuestDr. Jeannette DanealsE206 Introduction
One of the hallmarks of the times we live in is the widespread use of propaganda and lies to deceive and confuse the unsuspecting public. It‘s everywhere, isn’t it? How many times a day or week do you glance at something that you know is not what it seems?
The deception runs deep and is meant to confuse humans on a very deep level. And for the most part, it is working. Look how many people are still wearing a face diaper and pretending it‘s a solid health choice! Since when does RESTRICTING YOUR BREATHING and your oxygen intake EVER been a good idea. Sign of the times.
Or the number of people on more and more pharma products. Whether that is shots or pills. This industry is good at create sick people with their products and their solution? More of their products with more and more side effects. A never ending loop of symptoms, disease, and profits for them. Sign of the times.
I find it useful to use a few different tools that I will share with you. One, don‘t get emotional, if possible. If what you are seeing or hearing elicits an emotional response, chances are this is by design. Simply notice and return to your heart energy and fellowship for your fellow man. This is best practice always.
Another useful tool is to remember that we are in a global war already. It has been raging for years but has really been amped up since the bio weapon was dropped on WE THE PEOPLE. If you don‘t always feel like yourself or you feel a certain battle fatigue, just take comfort that we all do, no matter your political affiliation or lack thereof. Being in the middle of a new form of warfare if exhausting at times as our adversary is working overtime to confuse, divert, and divide us. We win when we don‘t give in to this.
And lastly, remember that the truth is simple to understand. It’s the global lies and deception that is hard to fathom. Stick with the simple truths. The ones you just know in your heart. For yours and mine are likely identical or nearly so.
Today’s episode is about something simple: the sun. And the lies and deception that has been spun by you-know-who to get us to fear and avoid this great ally of ours. Basecampers, it is time to let the sun in…..sign of the times. Enjoy!
Dr. D Bio
My guest today is naturopathic doctor Dr. Jeannette Daneals. Jeannette is a healer, teacher, and one of those people that positively impacts all of the people that come to her for insights and resources. She is also a podcaster now, something we will talk about today. Here is my interview with Dr. Jeannette Daneals.
E206 Final Thoughts-
Well, I hope you enjoyed our time with the always insightful and interesting Dr. Jeanette Daneals. If you are in Seattle, Dr. D is an amazing naturopathic doctor to have in your corner. What a blessing she is to her patients. You can find her at The Tummy Temple in Seattle.
And her new podcast is a wealth of interesting insights in how to optimize your health and your intuition around your health. The podcast is mindfulmedicina and you can find that on Spotify and Apple podcasts.
That’s all for this week. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E205: Bitcoin vs. CBDCE205 Introduction
Hello Basecampers. Today is Season Five’s last episode about Bitcoin. That might be a relief to some of you. Next season it will be on the docket again though. Why do I include these as part of the center of the Basecamp curriculum? Well, because it gives us maximum optionality, to use a concept that my guest is fond of.
Why do I love Bitcoin? It represents everything the state and the Globalists hate: freedom, sovereignty, optionality, self-responsibility, WE THE PEOPLE. They want us to continue to adopt systems with a centralized control structure. WE THE PEOPLE counter with decentralized money and systems that will drastically alter our future and the possibilities that await us.
Oh, it will take awhile to cleanse our souls of the taint of fiat money-its corruption, debasement, its massive wealth inequality, to mention just a few. But the more you study Bitcoin, the more it reveals itself as a great ally to humanity. A quiet warrior who snuck behind enemy lines to detonate a fucking bomb into systems that sought to centralize everything into a system meant to suffocate and suppress all human expression of individuality, joy, and personal freedom.
Did you know that the US Dollar has lost 97 percent of its purchasing power since 1913? Did you know that the dollar has lost 17 percent of its purchasing power in just the last 3 years alone? Something has to give.
Do you still think Bitcoin is a passing fad with no intrinsic value? Well, it has become the fastest asset to reach 1 trillion dollars To put it in perspective, it took Microsoft 44 years to reach 1 trillion in market cap. Apple took 42 years, Amazon 24 years, and Google 21 years. Bitcoin achieved this in just 12 years! And we haven’t even got to the institutional adoption yet that will just get accelerated with the spot ETF approval that looks to be heading our way in early 2024. Bitcoin looks like a loaded spring from where I sit. Do yourself and your family a favor and get off zero bro? Yes I’m talking to you. Don‘t stand around flat-footed wondering what is what. At this point, I think you have all the information you need.
Here are a few memes that relate to today’s show. One from Bitcoiner and visionary author Jeff Booth who says “Imagine watching what happens to other nations and their people as their currencies lost value yet failing to connect the dots to the consequences of it in your own country. Imagine.”
And one from author Tom Clancy, who says “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people. It‘s not good at much else.”
And a longer one but illuminating. I don‘t know who posted this, undoubtedly some Libertarian but it says
“125 years ago, you didn‘t have to ask permission form the government to: collect rain water, go fishing, own a property, start a business, build a home, get married, hunt, own a weapon, cut hair, sell a product, protest, sell food.
You can do virtually nothing without being extorted by the government and obtaining their permission first. If you still think you’re free, you‘re deluding yourself. You are just a free-range human living on a tax farm.”
And Jack Dorsey who simply says “Bitcoin changes absolutely everything.”
With these teeing up the episode, let’t get to our interview with Mark. Enjoy.
Mark Jeftovic Bio– My guest today is Mark Jeftovic. Mark is an author and thought leader, a contrarian investor, and the CEO of Easy DNS. Here is my interview with Mark Jeftovic.
E205 Final Thoughts
I hope you all enjoyed that interview with Mark Jeftovic. Mark has a couple of promos for you. The first is from his company Easy DNS. For better domain registration and DNS hosting, go to Easy DNS
E199: The Lone Wolf Syndrome w Special Guest Tony Endelman E199 Introduction
Hello Basecampers I hope you are all doing well. Today‘s episode is a bit of a throwback episode for us. In a good way. As many of you know, Basecamp for Men was conceived and started as a resource show for men’s personal development. The power of men‘s groups and a positive, authentic masculinity was the medicine I was called to bring forth from all of my years leading and participating in men‘s groups. It has defined my life and I am full of gratitude for the men I have followed and led in this work.
My friend Dave recently sent me a new book about Dr. Robert Glover. Dr. Glover is the author of the classic men’s book No More Mr. Nice Guy. I dug in and recognized that the authors and I had similar stories and wounds but with different paths up the mountain so to speak.
Men have always been more powerfully who they are when they can speak authentically with other men. This is a rare thing, as you will hear in this episode.
I think all men carry this sort of lone wolf syndrome. We think we can do the work, grow ourselves up into the men we want to be, heal our childhood traumas (that we all have), and become strong, confident partners and fathers. And do all of this with absolutely no support! It is delusional.
As the Mankind Project has said over and over again, it takes a tribe of men to grow men. For only other men know intimately the shame, hurt, violence, and shadow that are hidden deep inside of a man‘s heart and soul. The astoundingly wonderful secret for men: the more you can speak from your depths without flinching, the more light that can come into your heart and your life.
And men are great at hiding. We hide our hurt and our addictions and our hopes and fears. We hide our shame and our heartbrokenness and feelings of inadequacy. Fuck we try and hide it all because we think that if you knew who I really am and how I really felt (especially when I feel small) you will desert me. So we just go it alone. Are you following me?
Today’s conversation is hopefully like sitting in a good men’s group. As my guest, himself a veteran of these emotionally honest expressions, brings the truth about what it means to be a man. I hope you see yourself in our sharing. Enjoy the interview.
Tony Endelman Bio
Tony Endelman is an author, popular self-help blogger, and certified transformational life coach. Additionally, he is one of Dr. Robert Glover's elite certified No More Mr. Nice Guy coaches. Tony's recently released book, THE BIG STICK: Collected & Applied Wisdom from the Teachings of Dr. Robert Glover encapsulates 40 years of wisdom put forth by Dr. Glover. Here is my interview with Tony Endelman.
E199 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our conversation as much as I did. Love Tony and his message for men. And go get a copy of the excellent new men’s book The Big Stick where Tony distills Dr. Glover‘s wisdom down into what you need to know as a man. Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E198: The Spirit of Defiance with Special Guest Marja West E198 IntroductionHello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today we have a few tidbits and a fiery interview that I really enjoyed being a part of .You can see the new variant marching onto the scene, can’t you? It’s so boring and predictable , isn‘t it. How fucking dumb do they think we are? Getting it all ready for 2024, yawn.Here’s a meme from David Wolfe shares a BREAKING story. A new and more lethal OMICRON variant has been detected. It’s called BS 24-7. It attacks the truth and insults your intelligence. Aho.I have a few questions for you. How will you navigate Round 2? Did you learn anything from the last round? Did you like complying and obeying orders from tyrants who hate humanity and freedom? How did that feel? I am asking because I don‘t know as I, my family, and a few close friends were on the other side. I have learned a ton the past two or three years but I plan on making many of the same choices in Round 2 of another plandemic. I won’t be doing masks or jabs or boosters or whatever else the Globalists have in mind for us. I’m not interested in any of that and I don‘t really care what you think of me. I stay out of your business, trusting you will make the best choices for you and your family.And a great way to tee this interview up is with a Walt Whitman quote and a reaction by Bitcoiner Jeff Swann.Walt Whitman says “There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country. If the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.” In which Jeff responds with a simple “Walt Whitman knew the fucking snowflakes would ruin the country.” Aho. This gets us in the mood, so to speak.Buckle your seatbelts as I sit around the fire riffing with my new friend. The fiery, truthful, enchanting Marja West. Enjoy the ride.Marja West BioMarja West is an author, mentor of The Hermetic~Natural Law Principles, and a leading expert in Trauma-Based Mind Control. Her focus is on assisting survivors of this trauma to evolve from Victim to Victorious. Well-known for her zero-filtered-laugh-out-loud humor and disarming, electrifying presentations, Marja is the author of the book F'd Wide Open: The Rude Awakening of the Heart-Based New Humanity. Here is my interview with Marja West.E198 Final Thoughts-I hope you enjoyed that conversation as much as I enjoyed being in it! Marja is a true spiritual warrior and she wears it all on her sleeve. I love it. I get to be a guest on her show Conversations with Men coming up soon. I’ll share the details with you here or maybe even shape it into something for Basecamp. Thank you so much Basecampers and we’ll see ya around the fire next week.
E197: Basecamp Classic with Special Guest Dr. Wendy Maltz E197 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today we have a check in and then a Basecamp Classic from all the way back in in Season One. One of my best episodes from that season, I think.It seems more and more people are taking their awareness to the next level. Hopefully, you are having this experience as well.
There seems to be a particular skill set that is needed for us right now. Each one of us, to the best of his or her ability, needs to both hold onto their core principles WHILE AT THE SAME TIME let go of inputs that are more noise than signal. You following me? Principles that align with humanity, God, and the human heart, are signal.
Look for the narratives that uplift our tribe, whether that is a voice that awakens others or a myth that carries transformative information or just a person that is speaking out after realizing they are being lied on a non-stop basis and starts to put together the narrative landscape with some healthier material. We are exposed to much more noise than signal and the ability to discern the difference can the x factor that keeps you and your loved ones safe and sane.
There is plenty of shadow work to be done for all of us. For sure, the left will need to let go of their reflexive hatred of Donald Trump. Aren’t you all TIRED of talking about him nonstop? Do you not see how absurd this is? Every time you indict him, his poll numbers jump again. A classic “what you resist, persists” dynamic.
The right will need to need to let go of their summary dismissal of half the population. You know, “the normies, the commies, these idiots, the libtards, etc etc”. It‘s true, as a Libertarian, I see many hysterical memes at the expense of the left. Like, on a daily basis. But there is a shadow there for me. Perhaps a wound that my longtime friends and colleagues so quickly and easily abandoned me when I found myself resonating with freedom and liberty and a strong nation.
And we are starting to see the roll out of another wave of the pandemic, aren’t we?Colleges and universities have started to implement another mask mandate. The bluest states will try again to lead the charge. What will you do this time Basecamper? Comply, “trust the science” and do what you are told? We they fool you again on that one?
If you stand in your power and your sovereignty, for some of you this will be round 1 as maybe you went along with everything last time. This will be round 2 for my family and many of my friends. I am not looking forward to it but I was not about to hand over my liberties to the Globalist looking to ratchet up their control.
There will certainly be pressure to conform to their narrative. There always is. If you went along last time and felt a little duped (how could you NOT). I can assure you, there are many of us standing in principles and we will welcome you with open arms. It’s just better over here.
Today’s Basecamp Classic is from all the way back to season one EP 14 with Dr. Wendy Maltz. It is a topic that is still so relevant for men. Enjoy the episode.
Tony
E196: Arrows of Truth w Special Guest Jessica Rose Phd
E196 Introduction
Hello Basecampers I hope you are all doing well. I really enjoyed speaking and learning from my guest today and our conversation is far ranging. We cover some of the data science around VAERS. The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. We get into that along with the role of PsyOps in this unconventional war and the role of technology and is it going to be the friend or foe for humanity.
The interview is a bit longer so let’s get right to it. Enjoy the discussion.
Jessica Rose Bio-
Jessica Rose is a Canadian researcher with a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Mathematics, a Master's degree in Immunology, and PhD’s and Advanced degrees in Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry. Her more recent research efforts are aimed at descriptive analyses of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data in efforts to make this data accessible to the public."
E195: Meme Warfare and Our State of Mind
E195 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. How are you all holding up in these strange times we live in?More and more are aware that we seem to be in some sort mass spiritual awakening being spurred on by an unconventional war.
We the people and decentralization against top-down centralized control and even tyranny from our adversary, the Globalist, the WEF, call em what you will. Sociopaths is a super accurate way to describe them. Anti-humanists. I kid the Globalists, those friendly psychopaths.
Today is one of my short-format Firestarter episodes. I have a boatful of memes to share with you. We have an interview coming up with Jessica Rose, I am excited about that one. The Secret Space Program episode if fucking daunting! Seriously. I think it will take me awhile to do that subject matter justice. I am hoping for continued Divine intervention to bring it to you in a manner that will make sense and have you lean into the truth of the matter.
Enjoy this short episode Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week with our usual format.
E194: Bitcoin and Proof of Work with Special Guest John Haar E194 Introduction
Hello Basecampers I hope you are all doing well. Today is a bit longer of an interview so I want to get right to it. What sorts of possibilities does Bitcoin and sound money present to humanity? I think that many people probably lump in Bitcoin with the rest of the Crypto space, not understanding the differences and thinking it was a flash in the pan and they didn’t need to take time to truly learn and start to understand it.
Bitcoin represents something that we have not seen. A sound form of money that is incorruptible, transparent, and whose value is derived from its fixed supply-21 million. As in there will only EVER be 21 million BTC.
Juxtaposed next to the systemic corruption of the fiat system, where central banks constantly debase our money by printing more and more of it. The more they print, the less your dollar is worth, which naturally leads to inflation and ultimately hyper-inflation.
And Bitcoin is getting closer to its big moment as presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy Jr. comes out in favor of it and even buys 2 BTC for each of his seven children. How cool is that. I don’t know if Kennedy will win the democratic nomination (there are powerful, corrupt forces that do not want him to win) but I love where he is going with this.
Today my guest and I talk far and wide about Bitcoin and also introduced the concept of Proof of Work and what that means for you and I. Enjoy the interview.
John Haar Bio
My guest today is John Haar. He is a passionate Bitcoiner, student of Austrian Economics, and advocate for sound money. John is a Managing Director on Swan's Private Client Service team, Swan's concierge service for high net worth individuals. Before Swan, John spent nearly 13 years at Goldman Sachs in the Asset Management Division in New York City. Here is my interview with John Haar.
E194 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our conversation with John Haar over at Swan. I know I learned a lot talking with him. Go start learning about Bitcoin! And if you’re ready to start stacking sats, go set up an account at Swan Bitcoin. They have everything you need!
E193: Fisherman’s Blues E193 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is a different sort of episode for me, I spoke of it a couple of weeks ago. It’s a short format Firestarter but it is around a musical and mythical theme. As you know myth and activating the mythic imagination is something I highly value as I believe that there are important messages encoded in myth and poetry and certain music.
Activating your mythic imagination has a multi-tiered impact on humans and human consciousness. First off, it connects us to the Divine, however each one of us conceives the Divine. It is from this place that one can properly receive inspiration and instructions. The attuned human becomes a divining rod, a fleet-footed messenger (as they say) of flying metaphors and fleeting imagery that instructs the next generation of adepts as to where the faint trail of the masters is hidden.
Myth and imagination are full of magic, synchronicity, divine inspiration, and a sense of destiny. Humans, if we are to emerge into a new golden age (a renaissance, something I believe is currently unfolding) will need to listen to the whispers of the wind (so to speak) as the noise and distraction and technological wizardry are pushed at us in hopes we can‘t find the signal. But humans are tuned into the signal, aren’t we Basecampers. Yes we are. Yes we are.
So it is with this as a backdrop that I came up with this little creative spark.
This whole idea of setting a short episode to music came from listening to the Waterboys Fisherman’s Blues. The song came on my playlist, a playlist titled All-Time Favorites and I listened as if hearing it for the first time, enchanted.
I started to wonder how this magical little song helped me along the way. Stirring my imagination, giving me medicine for the Hero’s Journey. It kept finding me here and there over the years, affirming my awakening. God smiling at my progress.
One of the things about the song Fisherman’s Blues is it harkens us back to the Grail. Back to the Fisher King, who is waiting for salvation and healing from his wound.
Basecampers, open up your ears and your mythic imagination. I bring you The Waterboys Fisherman‘s Blues.
E192: The Bitcoin Signal with Special Guest Connor Dent E192 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is Bitcoin episode. Why Bitcoin? Because it represents truth and freedom and is an absolute game-changer for humanity. Particularly when you juxtapose it next to CBDC, which represent the Globalists attempt at more top down control of humanity.
I want to start by reading an excerpt from an article in Bitcoin Magazine. It’s the intro to an article on Amanda Cavaleri, a wonderful human, visionary, and Bitcoiner.
It says “Bitcoin possesses a unique identity and qualities that are cemented on the foundation of decentralization. Almost everyone who is doing the work to understand Bitcoin will eventually run into the cold, hard fact that, at its core, Bitcoin is about freedom. To those who have enjoyed individual liberties for their entire lives, the concept of freedom may be watered down or underappreciated. For those who live without it, freedom and individual liberty become pursuits of great importance.”
Aho.
Lots of news around Bitcoin with Blackrock‘s application for a BTC ETF and now we have Robert Kennedy Jr. coming out as very pro-Bitcoin candidate and very anti-CBDC. This is the pro-humanity, anti-globalist stance we are looking for in our Presidential candidates and our governors.
Today’s episode is with our Bitcoin friend Connor Dent. Nothing in this episode is meant to be taken as financial advise. Neither Connor nor I are certified as financial advisors. Think of this episode as two friends sitting around the fire, beer in hand, talking about the bright orange possibilities for humanity. Enjoy the episode.
E191 Saving Our Skies with Special Guest Reinette Senum E191 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. The topic of geoengineering or weather modification has been circling around us for quite...
E190: Finding Path and Purpose with Special Guest Sophie McLean E190 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I thought I would give you a bit of a preview of some of the upcoming episodes before diving into today’s interview. We have upcoming episodes with Reinette Senum, she is the former mayor of Nevada City who started Save Our Skies. I have another Bitcoin episode coming your way with our friend Conner Dent. And, drum roll please, I am going to be putting together an episode on the Secret Space Program. Yep, it’s time Basecampers.
I also putting together a couple of shorter episodes set to a particular band or song and how some of these can activate our mythic imagination. This is a new sort of episode for me and I am curious to see what you all think.I will share more of this as we roll that first one out. And I am on the hunt for good guests around the Natural Law episode I put out a couple of weeks ago. I feel that is a very important topic and I am looking forward to learning along with all of you and sharing what we find.
Today we have an interview with wisdom teacher Sophie McLean. We talk about all sorts of issues around the human condition and Sophie is an excellent guide to living with passion, purpose, and inspiration. Enjoy the interview.
E190 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed our time with Sophie McLean. To find her work, her book, and her programs, go to www.sophiemclean.com . Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E189: Happy Birthday Lady Liberty!
E189 Introduction
Today is Independence Day. Our nation’s birthday. Why am I doing this episode? Because I love America, I really always have. Even while I was being educated at university to be ashamed of her by thinkers like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, who were extremely fond of pointing out America’s mistakes (and in retrospect, many of the things they were pointing out were operations of the Globalist CIA and were not connected to the American Republic or WE THE PEOPLE.
Today I am using The President’s Advisory 1776 Report and putting together this Independence Day Firestarter. I hope you enjoy it.
E188: Are We All Watching a Movie? With Special Guest Ole Dammegard
E188 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. You could accurately describe the time we live in as the Age of Deception. The CIA and the other alphabet agencies around the globe serving the Globalists have all but guaranteed this. How many so called “traumatic events” are engineered to be just that? How many of the big events are actually false flags? Probably a lot more than you would think.
My guest today knows more about false flags than anyone I know and I am grateful to have him on the show. Come listen in as we kick the tires on a number of things we see happening. The interview is a hefty one so let’s get to it. Enjoy.
Ole Dammegard Bio
My guest today is truth seeker, code breaker, and peace maker Ole Dammegard. Ole is an author, international speaker, former journalist, musician, composer, artist, and investigator who has spent the last 35 years researching many of the global conspiracies. Millions of viewers and listeners around the globe have taken part of his interviews and presentations.
Here is my interview with Ole Dammegard.
E187: Gatekeepers and Bitcoin with Special Guest Nozomi Hayase E187 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Let’s see, I thought I would start off with a little overview of some of the next few episodes we have coming up. I have a good interview with Ole Dammegard, one of the most famous of all truthers out there. We will be unpacking what is going on in this spiritual war that we all find ourselves in. I have an upcoming episode with Sophie Maclean, who has a new book coming out. Sophie knows more about the human mind and human heart than just about anyone I know. Both Ole and Sophie are return guests.
And I am working on a July 4th episode, a special solo episode around my love of our great nation. July 4th happens to fall on a Tuesday this year so there is some synchronicity to that one.
Today is a bit of a hybrid episode. The topic is Bitcoin and my guest is Bitcoiner and writer Nozomi Hayase. But I wanted to read you a short piece by thought leader Jimmy Song first. This article first appeared in Bitcoin Magazine and the topic of this article and the latest issue of Bitcoin Magazine is gatekeepers. Enjoy Basecampers.
Nozomi Hayase Bio
Nozomi Hayase, Ph.D., is a prolific writer in the Bitcoin space with a background in psychology and human development. She is a contributing writer for Bitcoin Magazine. She focuses on Bitcoin’s incentives and its psychological and philosophical implications. In her independent publishing platform, “The Way of the Heart“, she explores the Bitcoin rabbit hole experience as a cultural phenomenon that fosters profound individual transformations. Here is my interview with Nozomi Hayase.
E187 Final Thoughts-
I hope you enjoyed my interview with Nozomi Hayase. To follow her work on Twitter, follow her at @nozomimagine. Thank you Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week.
E186: Intro to Natural Law E186 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is the day we do the Introduction to Natural Law primer that I spoke of the past few weeks. My sleeves have been rolled up as I waded into territory that was very unfamiliar to me……the law. My friends know I have been sniffing around this topic for the past two years, looking to get a handle on it. The Act of 1871, the two Constitutions, and a bunch of other things.
Who, other than lawyers and a few obsessive humans ever wade into this stuff? Not many by the looks of things. For me, it started with some curious things about our nation. I always wondered, for instance, why Washington DC is not part of our Republic. Why not? What does this indicate?
As I initially dug into this and found similar structures in the City of London (where the British royals reside along with their banking interests). The “City of London” is also not part of London proper nor England. Did you know that? And Vatican City is the third territory that shares this distinction. The Vatican is not part of Rome, nor part of Italy, other than geographically. Isn‘t that interesting? Why is that? What is this telling us? What I would come to find out left me thunderstruck. It still does.
It is one thing to see how deep the corruption runs in this reality we all share. It‘s another to see how deliberate and clever this deception of humanity actually runs. Get a cup of coffee Basecampers as we sit around the fire to share the truth about our CORPORATE legal system, the corporation called the United States of America, our identities as Americans, and a grand deception of epic proportions. My first reaction when I first saw the picture……HOLY SHIT, you have got to be kidding me?
Nothing in this episode is meant to be legal advice, not a stitch. NOR tax advice. You are on your own Basecampers.
This is an episode where I need to start off with this (once again).Nothing I am about to tell you is true……everything I am about to tell you is true. Happy Hunting Basecampers.
E185: Giving Voice to the Injured with Special Guest Danielle Baker E185 IntroductionHello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. When we started Season Five, I knew I wanted to feature some stories about those having adverse reactions to the MRNa shots. These courageous humans have an important voice in our collective Hero’s Journey. If you are going to be part of our collective awakening and part of our collecitve Hero’s Journey, each of us will need to grow our capacity to hear the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is. People’s lives have been lost and damaged from this monstrosity that is Big Pharma MRNa clinical trial. What we can do is listen and do our best to understand how all this happened.I have known quite a few people injured by these. And in a way, we have all been injured by them. The roll-out and shaming and coercion that followed tore families and friend groups apart. Then a wave of young athletes collapsing while playing their respective sports. Sudden death syndrome and myocarditis and all the blood clot information coming at us. Now a wave of injuries all of course being suppressed and hidden by a corrupt, compromised media.My guest today worked inside the system as a nurse. She is a courageous woman who has come to share her story. She was not only injured by the jab but you can hear it in her speech, which was completely normal before she took the shots. Join me in listening to her story. Thank you Basecampers.Danielle Baker Bio-Danielle Baker worked as a certified hospice and palliative care nurse for 17 years. After pressure, coercion, and fear, she took the MRNa shot as she needed to keep her income with two special needs children at home. In her own words “I lost everything I had worked so diligently for, all in 10 minutes.” Here is my interview with the courageous Danielle Baker.E185 Final ThoughtsI hope you found that interview valuable. For those that are wondering how a particular MRNa batch faired compared to the rest of them, go to the website that Danielle mentioned at www.howbadismybatch.comIf you wish to support Danielle in her recovery, please join me in doing so at Give Go Send. The link I will include in the show notes but it is www.givegosend.com/G9KZJThank you Basecampers and we‘ll see around the fire next week.
E184: Climate Clarity with Special Guest Dr. Judith Curry E184 IntroductionToday’s conversation is one that I have been wanting to have for quite some time. Climate change. It is a topic that is much more controversial and up-for-debate than all the MSM pundits would have you believe.As a life-long nature lover, living in harmony with our beloved planet is important to me and my family. Yet, how do we separate the signal from all the noise? Especially when any dissenting opinions from highly qualified climate scientists like my guest today are being suppressed, ridiculed, and cancelled.Haven’t we seen this before? Didn’t those that did not want to participate in a MRNa clinical trials, the unvaccinated, get ridiculed, ostracized, and cancelled amidst all the Covid noise? Can you see a similar dynamic here? I can.My intention with this episode was and is to find clarity for myself on a issue that is important to me. I want to be informed on this topic, not be spoon fed one side of the debate. I want to know what is what and I hope you do to.Before we get started, here a 3 quotes to help tee up the interview. The first one is from the author herself who says “Such apocalyptic statements rightfully draw criticism for leading people to believe that these scenarios are inevitable, rather than implausible. Dystopian climate fiction is the place to explore such scenarios.”Another from Brian O’Neil one of the lead architects of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways who says “There isn’t, you know, like a Mad Max scenarios amongst the SSP’s. We are generally in the climate change field NOT talking about futures that are worse than today.”And finally from anthropologist Peter Wood who says “Climate change is just a mental tattoo. A phrase we invoke with an air of scientific sophistication to give some sense of knowledge ability about the unknowable.”Let’s go sit around the fire with a climate scientist who will help us separate solid scientific consensus signal from all the noise that poses as such. Enjoy the interview.Dr. Judith Curry BioDr. Judith Curry is the President and co-founder of Climate Forecast Applications Network. She is a Professor Emerita at Georgia Institute of Technology where she served as the Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for 13 years. Her expertise is in climate dynamics, extreme weather, and prediction/predictability. Dr. Curry is a Fellow at the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. She is also the author of the upcoming book, which we will talk about today: Climate Uncertainty and Risk. Here is my interview with Dr. Judith Curry.E184 Final ThoughtsI hope you enjoyed that interview as much as I did. If I could boil down one of the big takeaways, its that there is a distinct difference between a scientific consensus and simply a consensus of scientist. MSM presents the climate issue as a scientific consensus when it is not.I also found it useful to deconstruct the whole narrative around Climate change, using Dr. Judith as a scientific reference, to see what we know for sure and what is still very much up for debate. I hope we broke this down in a way that was easy to follow.For those of you looking to get a bit more informed, I highly recommend Dr. Judith’s upcoming book Climate Uncertainty and Risk. You can find it at www.anthempress.com/climate-uncertainty-and-risk-hbThank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E183: Recovering From Covid with Special Guest Dr. Kevin Stillwagon E183 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode is, in my estimation, an extremely valuable one. My guest has...
E182: Word Magic with Special Guest Pao Chang E182 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is the first of what I hope will be some valuable content for you...
E181: The Courage to Speak Your Truth with Special Guest April Moss E181 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I know I promised you a deep dive into Natural Law...
E180: Truth and Coercion with Special Guest Josephine Fillier E180 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you all doing well. When the Covid shots were introduced and pushed on the public, there were a few...
E179: Firestarters and Memes E179 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today we have a short format Firestarter for your enjoyment. We have a number of interesting interviews coming up...
E178: Ageless and Timeless with Special GuestDr. Ken Harris E178 IntroductionHello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Welcome to episode #178. Let’s see, what is going on. I have been doing a deep dive into Natural Law and OMG, the things I am learning and discovering. I can’t wait to share all this with you all. I think there will be a short series of episodes around this in May and June. We’ll do a few interviews as I find the right guests and a solo episode where I can collate and deliver the main takeaways from this most interesting and valuable topic.Today’s episode is a bookend of the Elderhood episode I did a few episodes back with Mark Jackson. And it is with one of my all-time favorite guests, Dr. Ken Harris. A true wisdom keeper who shows us how to age with grace, fluidity, and a lightness of touch. Let‘s go sit around the fire with him.
E177 Basecamp Classics: The Grail E177 IntroductionHello Basecampers, I hope you all had a Happy and restorative Easter. We are taking a breather here in the Rezac household with my son on Easter break.So instead of trying to quickly patch something together, I thought I would offer a Basecamp Classic this week and then pick up next week with a great interview with Dr. Ken Harris.Today‘s episode is probably my favorite episode of all time. As in if push came to shove and I had to pick just one Basecamp episode to leave for humanity, this would be the one.It is an episode full of myth and imagination and, I truly believe, yields new insights with each listen. Enjoy Basecampers and we‘ll see you around the fire next week!
E176: Unified in Our Humanity with Special Guest Nadine Ness E176 IntroductionYou all are aware by now how much the myth of the Hero‘s Journey has impacted my life and my worldview. I have taken this meta-narrative into my heart and have lived FROM this story as much as I am able to. I didn’t set out to be particularly heroic. I was not trying to prove myself, per se.No. It was a selection process. As in the myth selected me after I had prepared myself to be more principled and courageous. Maybe you can see the same preparation for yourself. The Hero’s Journey loves characters that have grit and stand in principles. It makes the story more interesting, doesn‘t it? As humans, we want to see other principled humans battling ancient demons on behalf of the tribe.There is part of us that enjoys witnessing these battles. Even if we don’t agree with the hero or character in the myth. And I suspect that for the ones who stand witness to things like courage or principles like freedom or truth, these are the ones that will soon stand alongside the ones that are already in this battle.This is how myth works, in my humble opinion. We are all just now arriving at the destination, are you following me? Victory is on our side. And by “our side” I mean humanity as a whole.My guest today walks this talk. Both as a Hero in the myth and an everyday mother who speaks from principles and from truth. Let’s go sit around the fire with her.Nadine Ness Bio-My guest today is the Nadine Ness. Nadine is the founder and President of the non-profit organization Unified Grassroots. She is also a wife, mother of four and a former Canadian police officer with an interesting background. Here is my interview with Nadine Ness.E176 Final ThoughtsI hope you enjoyed our time with Nadine Ness. She opened my eyes to how I might be closing myself off and how sometimes I have pre-conceived notions that keep the division alive and well. Learning about your blind spots is part of what keeps The Hero’s Journey moving into new chapters! Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week..
E175 Taxes... with Special Guest Dr. Sherry Peel Jackson E175 IntroductionHello Basecampers, I hope you are all going well. Let’s see, what has been going down? The banks! That’s who. Will our money be safe in our banks? Most people still think so but you hear a lot more rumblings these days, don’t you?Last weekend over 1 million people set up new Bitcoin wallet addresses. Think about that! That trend is unlikely to change anytime soon. People are looking for a safe haven for their assets and Bitcoin is emerging as the new gold standard with its absolute scarcity and true decentralization.Something has been circling around my awareness like a hawk overhead. That there is something in the way that the Globalists have enslaved us that is hidden in plain sight. It’s in the legal system.Have you ever wondered WHY Washington DC is not part of America? Why does it have separate laws and separate jurisdiction? Why do the court systems operate under Maritime law? What are the implications of that? Why does the Federal Reserve Bank, a private corporation hold so much power and sway over our public officials and public life? Why is the IRS allowed to collect money UNLAWFULLY on behalf of a private corporation? Do you see the absurdity of this?Today is the first part of a deeper dive over the course of Season Five into how to live as a free, sovereign human being despite being born into a legal structure that is meant to enslave and to keep you in the dark as to Natural Law or God’s Law.Remember that episode I did with Paul Remington Jones or as he is know as Paul Unslaved? That was way back in E87 titled Standing in Strength. Well, it seems that we are circling back around this issue: what sorts of structures our enemy has created and hoped that we wouldn’t discover? Yet we are figuring it out and talking amongst ourselves.Let’s go sit around the fire with Dr. Sherry Peel Jackson, a former IRS agent.Sherry Peel Jackson Bio-My guest today Dr. Sherry Peel Jackson. Dr. Jackson is a Christian author and speaker. She currently teaches entrepreneurship, debt-free living, audit and asset protection, and survival in the new economy. She is a long-time accountant and former IRS agent who has an interesting story to share with us. Here is my interview with Sherry Peel Jackson.E175 Final Thoughts-While I was listening to this episode, I realized a few things. One, this is likely to be one episode in a series I will do on individual Sovereignty. I have done a number on Sovereignty but I feel like we are getting down to the essence of it. What it is that holds the whole corrupt system in place.And I also realized from this new book that I am reading about the United States incorporated that there is a big difference between what is LEGAL and what is LAWFUL.Legal refers to maritime law and corporations large and small and that even includes you and I with our so-called “birth certificates”. Lawful is God’s law or Natural Law. Big difference. We will be unpacking this as I find the right guests. Something big is brewing in this area for Americans. We’re going to figure out what all of this is trying to teach us.Thank you for your patience Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E174: Truth and the Spine of a Warrior with Special Guest Joel Rafidi E174 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I’d like to start this episode with a couple of...
E173: Conversations with Walkaways with Special Guest Keri Smith E173 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. As promised, we continue with our series of episodes about the Walkaways or...
E172: Sobriety as a Hero’s Journey with Special Guest Dr. Bob Beare E172 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. I speak a lot about our Hero’s Journey, both our individual and...
E171: Mom’s For Liberty with Special Guest Tiffany Justice E171 Introduction Throughout the shit-show that was Covid 19, one thing that was absolutely appalling to me was how quickly Americans rolled over to the...
E170: Passage to Elderhood with Special Guest Mark Jackson E170 Introduction It is something that I say often. That each chapter of your Hero‘s Journey will require a slightly different version of yourself. When...
E169: A Basecamp Classic E169 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today’s episode has a few memes and then a Basecamp Classic. I have a few good interviews coming up...
E168: Freedom and the Good Fight with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E168 Introduction I am trying to find a balance in subject matter inside of a whole slew of things that are vying for...
E167: Bitcoin and Our Future with Special Guest Connor Dent E167 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. When I sketched out season five, I basically made a 4 quadrant grid...
E166: The War We Are All In E166 Introduction “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I‘m a human being, first and...
E165: Season Five Kickoff E165 Introduction My name is Tony Rezac. I was a liberal for 30 years , who now identifies as a Pro-America Libertarian. I believe in personal freedom at each and...
E164: Season 4 Finale
E164 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We have come to the end of season four. Today will be the last episode of 2022. We will start back up in early January of 2023. For today, I have a Basecamp Classic.
But before we get to that, I wanted to announce that we now have categories for all of the episodes. This has been a project I was meaning to get to for quite some time and I really wanted to have all episodes categorized before we went on break, so you could browse and click on some episodes that are in a category that you are particularly interested in.
The categories are as follows: Men and Shadow Work, Our Hero’s Journey, Mythic Viewpoints, The Walkaways, Firestarters Tony Rezac Solo EPs, Red Pills and the Great Awakening, The Freedom Chronicles, Bitcoin and Our Future, A Walk on the Wild Side, Tony’s Favorites and Misc.
Hopefully this will help you and future listeners find the episodes that most assist you on your Hero’s Journey.
Today’s epiosode is a Basecamp Classic. EP 60 Living a Mythic Life with my friend and mentor Jon Wilson.
And Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have a joyous Holiday season and find just the right balance of friends, family, cheer, and rest and renewal. Thank you Basecampers and I will see you all around the fire after the first of the year.
E163: Truth with Compassion with Special Guest Roy Holman E163 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. We are winding down season number four but today will be the second to...
E162: Basecamp Classics E162 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is a Basecamp Classics day. We are nearing the end of season number four with next weeks interview, a...
E161: Pandemic Amnesty?
E161 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. Today is a short-format Firestarter for your enjoyment.
I know liberals are upset at Elon Musk for taking over Twitter. But he will restore free speech to a very important platform. I was kicked off Twitter for questioning the safety of the experimental MRNa shots. I had on a doctor that did not like what she was seeing and I asked her some questions. That alone got me booted and all my followers erased. The message from Twitter was loud and clear: conform to our mono-narrative or be erased.
Today my unwavering stance on informed consent and medical freedom of choice has aged quite well, hasn’t it?. I know a lot of people. Most took the vaccine or some of them anyways. I also know a lot of people who did not take the MRNa shot. Here is what I have to say about that.
Of all the people that refused all of the Covid shots and risked job, gave up access to travel and restaurants and medical care, of all of those people who were ostrasized by friends, family, and society (and I am one of them) not one single one, NOT ONE, has a regret for not taking them. Think about that for a second. Not one has even a sliver of regret for standing in their truth, speaking out, and being blacklisted damn near everyone. These people are warriors that stood for freedom and their truth. I salute all of you and I am proud to stand alongside you.
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.
E158: A Doctor’s Journey
E158 Introduction
Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all doing well. 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!
E159: The Walkaways
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.
E157: The Cult of Western Medicine
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.
E156: The Open Way with Special Guest Enna Reittort
E156 Introduction
We have done quite a few episodes about or alluding to a changing of the guard on this planet. A reorganization of structures and ideas. Not the Great Reset as Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, and the WEF would have in store for you. To be succinct, they have all sorts of new ways of reducing our population and enslaving humanity in sometimes clever but mostly really obvious ways.
No, the reorganization we are talking about is along a much more humane path. The Open Path as my guest calls it. It is a path of cooperation, gratitude, and inspiration amongst all of us good humans, no matter your age, sex, status, skin color, or political affiliation. We have bonds that are much deeper than that. Are you following me?
People seem a bit uneasy right now and for good reason. Most are reaching for resources that help discern the truth from the noise and man is there a lot of noise right now. Hang in there Basecampers. It feels like we are on the precipice of about 3-5 major world events that will be coming at us. Ones that we will talk about for years and decades to come. We will be here doing our part to help discern and make sense of what is happening. And offering an alternate perspective, if that is helpful for you. A perspective that is perhaps a bit more uplifting and pro-humanity.
There seems to be a new future that is calling for us. One that is not dependent on our past or any preconceived notions. It‘s not confined by any religion or even any myth. There is something emerging in humanity. A recognition, perhaps. An inner knowing and strength in our respective missions.
Before we get to our interview, I would like express my deepest gratitude and appreciation for youFor all the ways you serve our tribe. In the 1001 ways you show up as a human, warts and all. And for all the ways you let go of things that no longer serve you and, therefor, humanity. I see you and I know how far you’ve come on YOUR Hero‘s Journey.
Thank you Basecampers and enjoy the interview.
E155: Shadow, Sense, and Trump with Special Guest James Rapson
E155 Introduction
As someone who has done his fair share of shadow work, it is easy to see the emotional charge and projection of shadow traits onto Donald Trump. Want to trigger and unhinge the left? Simply mention Donald Trump and watch the emotional upheaval that ensues. This has become well-known as Trump Derangement Syndrome. It‘s all very interesting. And why is that? Let’s take a look.
In men‘s work, which has some of its roots in Jungian psychology, whenever a man (or woman) has an emotional charge, it can be a signal that there is a projection afoot.
What exactly is a projection? It is everything you can’t stand about yourself. To be precise, it’s everything you hide, deny, or repress about yourself. All the traits and behaviors and things that you can’t own about yourself, you will find a person to carry those for you. It sounds harsh at first but if you work with it a bit, it frees you and freedom from projections helps everyone, especially yourself.
And how do you know that you are projecting? Easy. You will feel a clear emotional charge (either positive or negative), an aversion or attraction towards the individual or group of people.
So why is the left so unhinged and triggered by Donald J Trump? Through this lens, its crystal clear. The left is projecting a lot of unwanted traits and behaviors onto this one man. Donald Trump is the mirror that the left can‘t look at. I say this with compassion and a desire to assist you on your Hero‘s Journey. Trump is here to teach you something.
Part Two Would you like to be free of this emotional trigger? If so, here’s how I did it.
Set aside 15 minutes. Take out a sheet of paper and a pen and list all of the traits you absolutely disdain in Trump. Make sure you get them all. Aggressive, narcissistic, inappropriate, rude, selfish, keep going, arrogant, thinks the rules don’t apply to him. Did I miss any? I am sure I did. Keep going until you get them all. Next, you are going to claim all of these projected shadow traits or behaviors. How do you do that? By claiming each one as your own.
I will show you how to do that right now.
Even though I do not have a projection (or much of one) any longer. Now Trump feels like an ally to me. Partly because of this work.
You see, Trump used to trigger me just like you back when I was a lefty. Here is my old list back in 2016. I will list the projected trait and how I can be that way. In effect, removing the projected shadow. You will do this with your list. Here we go.
Trump is aggressive. I can be aggressive in all sorts of ways. I used to be a successful athlete and you don‘t get to be that way without a healthy dose of aggression. I can be aggressive about asserting my opinions, as I do on this show from time-to-time.
Trump is narcissistic. I can be narcissistic and self-serving at times. There have been a thousand times when I have been vain and concerned with my image. Even at my age, a middle-aged white dude, I still want people to think I am healthy and handsome and attractive and smart……you get it.
Trump is inappropriate and rude. I can be this way at times. How? Oh, when I think the other person is being an idiot! I seem to enjoy wrecking peoples pre-conceived notions of things. I can be a provocotuer and be a bit of a bull in a china shop. I have a direct communication style that everyone has experienced, right? And that can come across as rude and inappropriate. I have used a cutting, snarky, sarcastic tone on Twitter to skewer groups that I thought had it coming. You following me?
Trump thinks he’s above the rules. I want to be above the rules? Don’t we all?!?! There is an inner teenager, an inner rebel that thinks that rules suck. Rules are for other people. Now, I follow laws and rules all the time. But there is a shadow part of me that wants to say “Fuck the rules!”.
And lastly (for my list anyways, you will have your own), Trump is arrogant. Ahhh, now we are, perhaps, at the core of the projection. Trump is arrogant. I can also be arrogant. This was the hardest shadow for me to own. For arrogant people trigger me. What does that tell me? That I carry this trait as a shadow. As something I hide, repress, and deny in myself. How do I know this? Because arrogant people always trigger me! So if Trump triggers you, an arrogance unclaimed may be right to the heart of the matter. How can I be arrogant?
Well for starters, I am a former athlete and athletes sometimes carry an “I am better than you” attitude. It comes from years of competing at the highest levels you can. Arrogance can be a coping mechanism. And its not just in sports.
I can think I am smarter than you. Or more evolved, or wiser. Do you see what I am talking about? Maybe I’m more successful, etc etc.I had a woman I was talking with recently who said “I am always the smartest person in the room”. When I pointed out that that statement is arrogant and driven by ego, she seemed taken back and appalled. How dare I call her, the smartest person in the room out. But having grown up in the crucible of men‘s groups, when the shadow shows itself, we call it out. Not in a “gotcha” sort of way. But in a “here is the edge for you, here is where your work is” way.
Make your list, own your projections onto Donald Trump and see what emerges. If you are like me and you do this exercise in an honest and authentic way, you may surprise yourself. And find that there is one less thing causing you distress.
Perhaps most importantly, you have removed a trigger and source of hatred and suffering in the world. And replaced it with compassion, humanity, and understanding. And that, my friend, is what we call alchemy. Nice work Warrior.
E155 Final Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed that conversation with our friend James Rapson. To accelerate your personal development this week, do the Donald Trump projection exercise. If there is anther person or group that you seem to always get triggered by, then own a projection around that person or group. I will do another episode soon where a Libertarian owns his projections onto liberals. I really love this stuff.
Thank you Basecampers and we’ll see you around the fire next week.
E154: Basecamp Classics
E154 Introduction
Hello Basecampers. Well, I was going to skip this week as I had two partial episodes that didn’t feel very compatible as one episode. In other words, they are two separate episodes with more work to do.
I shared this with my wife Lisa who reminded me that when Adam Carolla does not have fresh content on a given week, he re-releases one of his classic episodes. I think this is great idea! So with that being said, here is a classic Basecamp episode all the way to season two . The episode is E78 The Path with Heart. The guest is Scott Wyman. Enjoy.
E153: Building Bridges for the Left
E153 Introduction
As a podcaster, writer, and former liberal, I seek to build bridges for the left. Not as a way to convert them. I am not interested in being right or converting anyone to any certain views or ways of thinking. But to show them where I, and others like my guest today, found OUR PATH out of the shrinking silo of conformity that we had found ourselves in on the left.
We talk a lot about the Hero’s Journey on this show. It helps frame much of what we are about. The Hero, whether that be a man, woman, or child, will always have to be willing to let go of his or her positions when they no longer serve the Journey. Who out there can skillfully leg go of a position or viewpoint without losing their essence of who they are? That my friends is the real path!.
To keep letting go of your identity around politics and whatever side you found yourself in on the COVID issues and see if you can bring yourself back to the collective human tribe. To WE THE PEOPLE. Once more and more people find breathing room to express whatever truth (and not be censored or shamed for it), the more clear seeing there will be for all people.
Much of what has been going on has been hidden from sight and, for those of you that know me best, you know that I believe that this has been intentional. Evil? Sure. But there is something powerfully uniting and affirming of our mutual humanity stirring just under the surface of this realization. Let’s go talk to another member of Team Human and see what she has been noticing.
Kelly Lamb Bio- Kelly Lamb is a musician and Canadian prairie girl. She is an ex-SJW and leftist and created her You Tube channel to help foster productive meaningful conversations on divisive issues, while balancing the head, the heart, and the gut. Here is my interview with Kelly Lamb.
E153 Final Thoughts- I hope you enjoyed that conversation as much as I did. Kelly forwarded some of her favorite Jordan Peterson videos, which I will be diving into next. Dr. Peterson has enraged and awaken a whole lot of people I am looking forward to listening to what the good doctor has to say on some of these issues we face.
Everything seems to be the left vs right, Trump haters vs. Trump supporters, vax vs no vax, etc. It can be so tiresome and draining , right? I love what she said about how people in her community were fine with political and philosophical differences and that humor was often used as a common ground and way to carry your views a bit lighter. God, can you imagine engaging with the other side willingly and with humor? I like to imagine it and I hope you will too.
You can find Kelly Lamb on You Tube, go subscribe to her excellent channel.
And if you like the show and want to donate to the cause, please go to www.basecampformen.com and click on the Podcast tab and then Donate. I really appreciate your support.
Thank Basecampers, I will see you around the fire next week.
E151: Around the Campfire Part 2 w Matthew Marnitz E151 Introduction Hello Basecampers, I hope you are all well. Here is part 2 of my interview with futurist and mystic Matthew Marnitz.The Great Awakening...
E150: Gathering Around the Campfire with Special Guest Matthew Marnitz E150 Introduction Welcome Basecampers. I would like to start off by welcoming you all regardless of political orientation. Welcome liberals, conservatives, libertarians, Christians, atheists....
E149: A New Vantage Point E149 Introduction Hello listeners. I hope everyone is well. I had my interview postponed this week due to illness so its just me. I‘ve got some things to chat...
E147: The Elephant in the Room with Special Guest Cat Parker E147 Introduction I saw a meme going around that perfectly captures the current rash of health issues going around from being jabbed. It...
E146: The Bitcoin Conversation with Special Guest Gary Leland E146 Introduction I have been a bit smitten with Bitcoin the past couple of years, as you can probably tell. I want to continue to...
E145: About Men E145 Introduction Wow, there is so much going on in the world right now. How are you all holding up? God you hear some absurd stuff about men and masculinity these...
E144: Forgiveness with Special Guest Nancy Polsky E144 Introduction “Forgiveness is perhaps the most challenging of all resources available to us- and the most transformational.” -Shauna Shapiro, author- One of the themes of Basecamp...
E143: Bloody Markets and Bitcoin with Special Guest Mark Jeftovic E143 Introduction Hello listeners, a quick housekeeping thing. I am off next week so no episode. We will return full steam ahead on Tues...
E142: Firestarter for Men E142 Introduction God I had a hard time finding this episode. Generally, I have an interview that frames everything. We didn’t have that. I can get Lisa to do one...
E141: Truth and Synchronicity with Special Guest Dr. Kenneth Harris E141 Introduction As you all know, I HIGHLY value authentic conversations and authentic people. Give me someone who wears their heart on their sleeve...
E140: Krivda Part 2 with Special Guest author Enna Reittort E140 Introduction Today is part two of our conversation with author Enna Reittort. We cover a wide range of topics including ET’s, the Deep...
E139 Krivda: Crooked Truth with Special Guest Enna Reittort E139 Introduction If you are going to follow your Hero’s Journey and be committed to principles like Truth and Freedom and our mutual humanity, you...
E138: Language as a Creative Act with Special Guest Robert Stevens E138 Introduction If you are going to study human potential, sooner or later you are likely to come to the realization that...
E137: Learning to Listen with Special Guest Glenn Gordon E137 Introduction My involvement with the Mankind Project and my work in the field of men‘s personal development has given me so many gifts in...
E136: Rezac v Marx E136 Introduction “Never let your enemies educate your children.” Malcolm X As promised, today is the follow up to last weeks episode with the always insightful Mark Jackson. I...
E135: Punching Karl Marx with Special Guest Mark Jackson E135 Introduction Well, I am back and refreshed after a week down on the Gulf side of Florida. Sun, sand, water, and lots of good...
E134: We Need BOTH the Masculine and Feminine Perspectives with Lisa and Tony Rezac E134 Introduction There are so many things unfolding right now. It can make your head spin. The Truth movement is...
E133: Our Joy is Our Strength with Special Guest Walkyria Whitlock E133 Introduction I have grown to love how organically my episode’s arrive. Guests can seem to come out of thin air, popping up...
E132: Healing and the Big C with Special Guest Federico Vallin E132 Introduction This episode is dedicated to my dear departed friend Sjon Delmore. You are missed and thought about more than you know....
E131: My Favorite F-Word E131 Introduction This episode is dedicated to all who love freedom in all of its glorious colors. And a special thank you to Jason Hoyt who writes beautifully about civics....
E130: Tony Rezac and the Hero’s Journey E130 Introduction- I was recently on Eric Zimmer’s excellent pod called The One You Feed. I highly recommend subscribing, if you have the bandwidth for another show....
E129: Restoring Our Health and Sanity with Special Guest Dr. Jeannette Daneals E129 Introduction I have been extremely fortunate. My whole life really. To continually have people around me who inspire me and live...
E128: Growing Our Sovereignty with Special Guest Christian Elliot E128 Introduction The topic of sovereignty has been moved into the center for me and many others. It seems the little things that we do...
E127: Up the Mountain with Special Guest Chris Pallis E127 Introduction One of our topics on Basecamp is Consciousness, spiritual awakening and inner knowing. These are really the same topic and it is near...
E126: Throwing Bombs with Special Guest Mark Jeftovic E126 Introduction We are in an unprecedented time in our lifetime. On a global scale you are seeing a Great Awakening. Ordinary citizens (of all...
E125: The Authenticity of Men with Special Guest Dr. Eric Hansen E125 Introduction One of the shadows of growing up as an American man is the manbox we have all been cultured in. Part...
E124: Finding Our Way with Special Guest Roy Holman E124 Introduction I would like to start with a quote by St. Augustine who said: “The Truth is like a lion. You don’t have to...
E123: The Kybalion with Special Guest Ronni Thomas E123 Introduction If one is to be a seeker of Truth, you will inevitably find yourself in a forested maze, so to speak. Truth is looking...
E122 Archetypes for Men with Special Guest James Rapson E122 Introduction Throughout my journey as a man and leader in the field of men’s personal development, one particular approach has stayed with me over...
E121: Leaning Into 2022 with Special Guest Claire Morency Hello listeners, I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season and are off to a good start to the new year. I got a...
E120: Season Three Wrap-Up E120 Introduction Well Basecampers, we have come to the end of season three. I hope you have been finding value in the episodes. Today we have a Firestarter short format...
E119: The Road Forward with Special Guest Christian Elliot E119 Introduction Hello listeners. We are finishing up season three and my sound editor Chris and I will be taking a short holiday break. We...
E118: Entangled in Myth with Special Guest Dr. Anne Baring E118 Introduction One of the things I see that can really assist us on this Great Awakening is to keep having conversations with the...
E117: Cryptocurrency with Special Guest Erin Cobb E117 Introduction Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. This is THE watercooler talk all over the world right now. Can you sense that? Why has this topic become...
E116: A Walk on the Wild Side with Special Guest Champ Parinya E116 Introduction Today’s episode is dedicated to all of the brave souls who communicate truth, no matter how uncomfortable or unpopular. The...
E115: Elderhood and the Legacy of Men with Special Guest Paul Dunion E115 Introduction I was thinking yesterday about the Journey of the Soul. The DESCENDED path, as it is often referred to. My...
E114: Leaning Into the Mystery with Special Guest Sophie McLean E114 Introduction As you can probably tell by now, I am attracted to people who are leaning into the mystery. I think that the...
E113: Awakening the Mythic King E113 Introduction Come sit in on Tony Rezac’s short discourse on awakening the mythic King. Instead of a controlling “ruling over others” dynamic, Rezac presents the King as a...
E112: Seeing Through the Fog with Special Guest David Whitehead E112 Introduction Truth, freedom, and justice….that is all we want! Seriously. For too long now the public has been swimming in the lies and...
E111: You Have to Show the People with Special Guest Richard Citizen Journalist We are in a most interesting, surreal moment in history, aren’t we? Never before have so many of us seen the obvious...
E110: The Heartbeat of Our Counter Narrative E110 Introduction Hello listeners, I hope you are well. I recently did an interview with Roy Holman’s Soulful Warrior podcast. I took a listen to the interview...
E109: Breaking Habits with Eric Zimmer E109 Introduction Hello listeners, I hope you are all doing well. If you find our content and resources valuable, please consider donating to our show. You can make...
E108: The Mystery of St. Germain with Special Guest Chris Pallis E108 Introduction Over the years, I have become accustomed to looking out at the edges. We have found that if we are going...
E107 Dealing with Ourselves E107 Introduction One thing that we have come to understand through all this is that we are in a messy process. We are, as a tribe, learning how to deal...
E106 Shaping Our Narrative with Special Guest Roy Holman E106 Introduction I love to interview people who can see patterns and speak with depth. It has always been my aim that Basecamp for Men...
E105: The Sovereign Project with Special Guest Peter Stone E105 Introduction As we have watched the events of the past couple of years unfold, there was something that was coming into clearer and clearer...
E104: Finding the Flow in Chaotic Times with Special Guest author Kari Hohne E104 Introduction I first came across today’s guest in a beautiful 7-minute video she made titled The Art of Going with...
E103:Freeing Yourself from “Niceness” with Special Guest James Rapson E103 Introduction One of the common things I see men struggle with is how do you break out of this people pleasing fixation. It is...
E102: The Alchemy of Vibration E102 Introduction I have long been a fan of esoteric studies. This has been true for around 20 years or so. It could be just about anything off the...
E101: What is Skillful Living with Special Guest Chris Beatie E101 Introduction I received a text message from a friend that had a little list of Right Livelihood principles and I immediately wanted to...
E100: The Learning Inside of Your Marriage with Special Guest Kimberly Holmes E100 Introduction Wow, I can’t believe we have made it to episode 100! I feel a sense of accomplishment with this and...
E99: Leaving the Left with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E99 Introduction I wanted to speak with you a bit today about a particular part of my Hero’s Journey and bring my life-partner and wife...
E98: Our Mythic Imagination E98 Introduction Without a guest lined up and leaving for vacation for a week, I found myself bringing one of my short format episodes to you. I am calling this...
E97: The Bottom Side of the Rock with Special Guest author Marie Jones E97 Introduction Two quotes to start off. One from George Carlin who said “I have certain rules. My first rule, I...
E96 Everyday Heroes with Special Guest Victoria Palmer E96 Introduction- As a former athlete, I highly value courage. I always have. As a kid, I saw athletes as warriors who lived at the edge...
E95: Holding onto Your Truth with Special Guests Isabelle and Howard Ferguson E95 Introduction There are so many things I love about doing this podcast. To be able to explore the nature of all...
E94: The Path of Initiation with Special Guest Joe Grube E94 Introduction This week I wanted to do a continuation of the theme we set in E86 The Path of Initiation but with a...
E93: Walking with Mystics with Special Guest Tricia McCannon E93 Introduction I want to start off by letting you know that the issues we were having with Season One episodes are fixed. Apparently people...
E92: Bridging the Left and the Right with Special Guest Chris Beatie E92 Introduction One of the most crippling things about 2020 and 2021 has been the stark division amongst WE THE PEOPLE. The...
E91: Restoring Our Republic with Special Guest Lenka Koloma E91 Introduction As someone who was educated on liberal principles at an American university, I was taught to (perhaps not HATE my country) but to...
E90: Body and Soul with Special Guest Beth Pettengill Riley E90 Introduction As a former athlete, I have always been appreciative of my body. I have long intuited that the body could be a...
E89: The Myth of the Fallen Goddess E89 Introduction It seems that season three is the season to deepen our mythic imagination. And since the tagline of BFM is “Men, Myth, and the Hero‘s...
E88: Conversations About Men with Special Guest Brandon Clift E88 Introduction It has been interesting to me to watch the evolution of the show as we make our way along season three. When we...
E87: Standing in Strength with Special Guest Paul Remington Jones E87 Introduction- With all of the complying by the masses. With all of the mandates and near totalitarian narrative around what is best for...
E86: The Path of Initiation with Special Guest Hunter Toran E86 Introduciton In episode 83 the Myth of the Grail, I brought forth some of the initiatory themes that lie at the heart of...
E85: Cultivating Curiosity with Special Guest Jim Willis E85 Introduction We seem to be collectively suffering from cultural amnesia. We tend to get boxed in by one perspective on so many important topics: our...
E84: Health as Your Foundation with Special Guest Janell Hartman E84 Introduction I hope you are all well. I wanted to start off by saying that I loved what Howard Ferguson said at the...
E83: Fireside Chat with Howard Ferguson E83 Introduction- As a show that is assisting in the awakening of humanity and attempting to do our part using myth, Gnosis or spiritual knowing, and an unflinching...
E82: The Myth of the Grail with Tony Rezac E82 Introduction- Why does the myth of the Grail still enchant us? What is it about it? Its instruction, its hidden meanings, its mystery? As...
E81: The Quest for the Soul with Special Guest Dr. Anne Baring E81 Introduction- So many of our wisdom traditions and myths speak of the recovery of the Soul. In the central myth of the...
E80: Spiritual Guidance for Men E80 Introduction- Hello dear listeners. Here we arrive at the conclusion of our second season and what a season it has been. However, Chris and I will NOT be...
E79: Meditation as a Portal with Special Guest Richard Haight E79 Introduction- Meditation is a topic that we have covered here on Basecamp for Men a number...
E78: The Path with Heart with Special Guest Scott Wyman E78 Introduction- I would like to start by thanking a dear friend of mine, Roger Songster. Roger, your text message really helped strengthen me...
E77: Why the World Will ALWAYS Need Men with Special Guest Nicky Billou E77 Introduction- I believe that we still need masculine men. Men who know who they are, who are comfortable in their...
E76 Firestarters for Men: Building Bridges E76 Introduction- Well today we come in with one of our short format Firestarters for Men. I am calling it Building Bridges. For what it’s worth, I am feeling...
E75: The Masculine/Feminine Dynamic with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E75 Introduction- Well my dear listeners, this show has continued to evolve as you and I evolve. What started out as a show about men’s...
E74: The Beginning or the End? with Special Guest Champ Parinya E74 Introduction- Have you noticed something a bit odd about the Biden inauguration and his quote/unquote Presidency? Did you notice anything odd about...
E73: Jan 19th, 2021…..On the Brink with Special Guest Spencer Thurston E73 Introduction- Well, my last episdode E72: The Storm is Upon Us got taken down by Apple. So I have been banned from...
E72: The Storm is Upon Us EP Dedication- Special thanks to the writer Martin Geddes who provided much of the content of the episode. I added and re-arranged and this episode took me the...
E71: Bringing Truth into the Light with Special Guest Howard Ferguson E71 Introduction- We sit at the precipice. The completion of 2020 and the start of what will be an epic 2021 for humanity....
E70: Evolving Ourselves with Special Guest Dulce Ruby E70 Introduction- Hello listeners! I would like to start off by thanking you all and wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. As we...
E69: The Great Awakening with Special Guest Champ Parinya E69 Introduction- “A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “Some kind of dialog...
E68: Firestarters for Men-Our Hero’s Journey E68 Introduction- We are moving towards the end of 2020 and what a year it has been! The Hero’s Journey that we collectively share has entered a new...
E67: The Intelligence of the Heart with Special Guest Howard Martin E67 Introduction- Since it inception, Basecamp for Men has zeroed in on a number of themes. Men’s work and myth to keep us...
E66: The Truth is also Seeking the Seeker with Special Guest Marie Jones E66 Introduction- “The Truth is also seeking the Seeker.” Here we are, in our collective Hero’s Journey. Each contributing what he...
E65: The Conspiracy To Awaken Us with Special Guest Ole Dammegard “The Truth is also seeking the Seeker.” -Sufi Saying- E65...
E64: Va¢¢ine Q & A with Special Guest Dr. Jennifer Margulis E64 Dedication- Today’s episode is dedicated to all the parents of young children out there. As well as soon-to-be parents. May your family...
E63: The Power of Slow with Special Guest Carl Honore E63 Introduction- How many people out there have felt their inner power grow as they age? I know I have. I feel like a...
E62: Marriage as a Hero’s Journey with Special Guest Lisa Rezac E62 Introduction- As part of our Hero’s Journey, men will often struggle with our interractions with the Feminine. Both the women in our...
E61 Firestarters for Men: The Male Archetypes I have talked about and teach within a framework of a collective masculinity expressed through five primary archetypes. These are Lover, Warrior, Magician, and King. The four...
E60: Living a Mythic Life with Special Guest Jon Wilson AS A COLLECTIVE, I SEE MUCH IN THE MALE TRIBE TO BE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT. Men from all walks of life seem to be ready...
E59: Mental Health for Men with Special Guest Frank King E59 Introduction- The topic of mental health and better self-care for men is one that is near and dear to me. For 7 out...
E58: “Why Do Men Do This?” Part 2 of the Jeff Perera interview E58 Introduction Well we are cooking along with season two here. Some of our upcoming episodes will have us talking with...
E57: Do We Need the State? with Special Guest Gregory Sams E57 Introduction Today’s guest reminds me of a Paul Arden quote. Paul said, “Making the safe decision is dull, predictable and leads nowhere new....
E56: Radio Q & A with author Tony Rezac E56 Introduction Welcome to Basecamp for Men and episode 56. I can’t believe my excellent sound editor Chris Rodd and I have already done 56...
E55: The Measure of Men with Jeff Perera E55 Introduction What is the current measure of a man? We have all grown up with all sorts of cultural imprints around this. The macho tough...
E54: Educating Our Boys with Special Guest Jennifer Fink E54 Introduction Currently there is a sea change happening in how we educate our boys. Brought on by this pandemic, parents are looking at alternatives...
E53: Envisioning Our Future with Special Guest Ian Mackenzie E53 Introduction In the coming episodes, I hope to speak with more futurists and visionaries. I like to have conversations about what is possible as...
E52: Psychedelics and the New Vision E52: Introduction Growing up on the west coast, the lore of the 1960’s free-thinking hippie/peace movement was something that was part of our heritage. Within this culture, psychedelics...
E51: The Happiness Index with Special Guest Nic Marks E51 Introduction Happiness is something that I have had a keen interest in for a long time. I have enjoyed looking at this topic and...
E50: Navigating Change with Special Guest Sharon Weil E50 Introduction We are in the midst of great change. It would be hard to argue against this observation. There are enormous changes afoot in society....
E49: Men’s Health and Virility with Special Guest Dr. Myles Spar E49 Introduction With a pandemic afoot and all the stress generated by the media, it seems a good time to look at some...
E48: The One You Feed with Special Guest Eric Zimmer E48 Introduction I love speaking with people who have risen out of personal challenges. We all do this at different chapters in our Hero’s...
E47 Firestarters for Men: The Five-Minute Mystic E47 Introduction Collectively, we are at the point in the Hero’s Journey where the audience is on the edge of their seats and going “Oh shit, this...
E46: Wisdom for Uncertain Times with Special Guest Paul Dunion E46 Introduction Whenever we find ourselves in uncertain times, it’s important to listen for voices of wisdom. This has always been true. Hearing truths...
E45: Free Yourself from Suffering with Special Guest Sophie McLean E45 Introduction There seems to be spiritual truths that are trying to find us, you and I. One prominent one is that the ego,...
E44: Change Your Life by Changing Your Story featuring Lori Gottlieb E44 Introduction “The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.” There is so much wisdom in...
E43: Creating Your Future Self with Special Guest Dr. Benjamin Hardy E43 Introduction The topic of how we actualize our potential has long been a fascinating one to me. What habits do we need...
E42: Honoring the Divine Feminine w Sally Kempton E42: Introduction In season one, I did a bunch of episodes on the sacred masculine. I like to use masculine archetypes to help orient the listener...
E41: Conversations with Men featuring Chris Beatie E41 Introduction One of the many things that we talk about in men’s circles is to how to have a more open mind. Being curious about things...
E40: Optimizing Your Health with Mary Purdy E40 Introduction One of our sub-topics here on Basecamp is health and wellness for men. Many men I know are rethinking health, self-care, and diet. It used...
E39: The Law of One with Ziad Masri E39 Introduction Some of the episodes I do will feel like I’m taking you out of your philosophical comfort zone and I‘m ok with that. It...
E38: Mentoring Our Boys with author Earl Hipp E38 Introduction The topic of guiding adolescent boys into manhood seems to me an extremely relevant one right now. As a society, we have not created...
E37: Season One Finale-Best of 2019 E37 Introduction Well my dear listeners, we’ve come to the end of season one. I hope you enjoyed the show and picked up some new resources and perspectives...
One of the sub-topics on Basecamp is the raising of boys, who will one day be our men. Our public school system is problematic in the development of our boys. This is not a knock on all the good people who teach and administer in the public schools. It’s just that having boys sit at a desk and do assigned, menial work without much collaboration or creative problem solving is essentially preparing them to sit and obey an authority figure. It’s social engineering. It‘s good preparation for the military or a life of following orders but is it maximizing their potential?
We all want to feel good and sometimes just a little more awareness of a situation goes a long way. Has it started to dawn on you that our system is not made for optimal health? If it was, we would have radically different outcomes than the ones we have now. It seems the chemical industry has partnered with the food industry and the municipal water companies to give us chemical compounds that may be making us sick. There’s plenty of science to back this up if you care to look. Here is my Interview with Michael Anderson!
Hello listeners, I hope you are all having a great festive Holiday season. Before we get to our interview, I wanted to give you some updates on Basecamp. We are finishing up Season 1 in the coming weeks. I anticipate doing the final season One episode in January. After that, we will take a short hiatus (likely two months) to recharge and re-set things before season two.
In Menswork, there is always talk about working with the shadow. The shadow is defined as everything that we hide, repress, and deny about OURSELVES. It can be a tricky business, becoming aware of your shadowy tendencies. It takes patience, and perseverance, and compassion. However, the upside is…..it humanizes everyone. You stop putting all the things you find unsavory OUT THERE and then demonizing the other person.
Addiction is a life experience that touches us all. More than 21 million Americans have at least one addiction. Of those 21 million, only 10% receive any sort of treatment. Addiction is something that nearly every family knows. In a typical family, you don’t have to look very far to find someone who has an addiction or an addictive/compulsive personality. Enjoy the episode with my very special guest Dr. Bob Beare as we "look under the hood" of addiction.
My guest today is author Hylke Faber and he is an expert on mindset. There has been a surge of interest in recent years on mindset and psychology, and with good reason. Understanding the software that our brain is running and being able to upgrade it to something more powerful and uplifting, makes good sense for us human beings.
I remember reading Stephen Nachmanovitch‘s book 'Free Play' when I was a young man. I was getting curious about new ideas and new ways of approaching my life. The idea that improvisation could be an important life skill seemed both radical and relevant to me. I love writers that take a road-less traveled and then share the fruits of their path with the rest of the tribe. I am excited to introduce you to my guest today, author Stephen Nachmanovitch. I hope you enjoy this episode on improvisation and expression.
I have long been attracted to teachers who aren’t afraid to explore psychological truths. Whether the teacher is considered a spiritual master, a mystic, a therapist, or someone who can speak from the Soul, my heart has gravitated towards learning that feels deep and timeless. My guest today is a gifted writer and teacher and someone I am excited to introduce to you. Paul Dunion is the co-founder of Connecticut's Men's' Gathering, a biannual Retreat for men that began in 1992. He is the founder of Boys To Men, a mentoring community for teenage boys. He's been in private practice as a Psychotherapist for 37 years and is presently a faculty member for Mobius Executive Training.
Spiritual wisdom is something that I have been fascinated with since I was a young man. Tales of spiritual enlightenment and the quest for deeper truths have long held my heartstrings. My guest today is a mystically inclined, wonderful woman named Janell Hartman.
Today‘s episode is on healing trauma. As humans working on ourselves and the world, healing and learning go hand-in-hand. There is a strong tendency to think that we have not been traumatized. My guest today is an expert at working with trauma. Sam Ibarguen is an energy healer certified in Brennan Healing Science. Since 2009, she has been working with men and women globally, helping them heal the deep and often invisible trauma that holds them back from living the life they really want.
My guest today is Jason Maniccia an actor and artist that I have known for almost 30 years. And we sat down to talk about creativity, baseball, and the road less traveled. Any artist will tell you that one of the things you develop over time is an ability to listen to and express the Muse. This elusive collective creative force that beckons artists across time and space to express the power and beauty of the creatively-led life.
How do we help our youth thrive in today’s world? I won’t pretend that I know or have the answers. But I‘m more than willing to sit with the question. And I love to get the perspectives of others as we seek resources and new approaches to growing our young people up. It does truly take a village and, thankfully, our village has collective wisdom.
Lately, I have been sitting with the question: what can MEN do to help the world today? What do we need to do to insure that future generations thrive? How do we leave the world better than we found it? As a teacher who works with male archetypes, I have been dimly aware that there is one of the archetypes that today seems strangely dormant in the collective male psyche.......THE KING.
The Big D. Men and depression. I spent my early years as a man with an assumption that any man who had depression was too weak to handle life‘s natural ups and downs. After all, I was an athlete and athletes are taught to keep their energy up and throw any obstacles (emotional or otherwise) to the side so that you can “be all you can be”.
I remember the first time I read The Yugas, the book written by my guest today. It had the impact of giving me a much different perspective, a long vision of history and our place in it that filled me with wonder and hope. Even though I am an American and live far from India, I have marveled at the quality of teachers and wisdom that have poured forth from this amazing country. So with that being said, here is my interview with The Yugas author Joseph Selbie.
Join us for Episode #21 as Debby and I talk about the Heroine’s Journey, the creative process of writing, and how to get unstuck if you are working on a book. Debby is an exceptional coach and always provides interesting insights into life and the creative process.
I recently came across a hospice article on the top five regrets that those who are dying have. It got me thinking about death and what it can teach us about life. Here are the top five regrets that those at the end are susceptible to have....
This week's episode is a flip of our usual format. Instead of Tony hosting, he is a guest on the radio show Story U in Seattle with host Debbie Handrich. Tony and Debby cover how Tony got started on all this "men’s stuff" as well as living with a Divine purpose. They cover the power of authenticity and being comfortable in your own skin.
Today’s guest is a perfect example of this. I originally connected with Tania Poletti on Facebook. She was posting all about Basecamp for Men and how much she loves the show and our message. So I reached out to her to see if she would be willing to have a chat with us. And she said yes! She lives in Australia and is an expert on health and fitness, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to connect with Tanya, find out what is happening with men in Australia, and ask her some important questions about men’s health.
Across time and culture, when things get soooo serious, there will arise the expressions of an archetype that will have none of this nonsense. As a collective expression, The Trickster can show us new possibilities when things get too regimented, too bound up by rules, and too mature or predictable. The Trickster wants to reshuffle the deck, to pull your pants down as you're addressing the crowd, to keep us all on our toes so that play can have its say.
E16:Understanding Men, Understanding Women Part 2 with Special Guest Allison Armstrong E16 Introduction I hope you all enjoyed Part 1 of our discussion with Alison Armstrong. If you are just jumping into the show...
E15: Understanding Men, Understanding Women Part 1 with Special Guest Alison Armstrong E15 Introduction The topic of gender dynamics is one that has fascinated me for a long time. As a leader inside of the...
A whopping 25% of all daily Internet search requests and 35% of all downloads are for pornography. There are more than 400 million pages of pornography on the Internet. As one man said, "You no longer have to go looking for porn, porn is looking for you!"
E13: The Hero Within with Special Guest Carol Pearson E13 Introduction One of my favorite books about archetypes and the Hero’s Journey is Carol Pearson’s The Hero Within. Carol writes, “When the heroic journey...
Pema Chodron, the great Western Buddhist teacher, writes “Our personal attempts to live humanely in this world are never wasted. Choosing to cultivate love rather than anger just might be what it takes to save the planet from extinction. In today’s episode, we introduce Firestarters for Men, our new short format segment. This will be used from time-to-time as a break from our standard interview format and to offer something to listeners that is short and sweet.
The topic of boys and how to best set them up for optimal emotional well-being is a topic that is near and dear to me. With a twelve year-old son of my own and what I see as a woefully inept narrative when it comes to the inner lives of our boys, I have more than a passing concern with how we get our sons to healthy adulthood. What can a parent do to make sure our boys have what they REALLY need?
E10: Inside the Men’s Circle E10 Introduction One of my intentions in creating BASECAMP FOR MEN is to give the listeners a sense of what the conversations are like inside of men’s wisdom circles....
The heartbeat of this episode is AUTHENTICITY and my guest Kyle Bradford certainly embodies this quality. He shoots straight, tells it like it is, and owns his own mistakes and shadow. In short, he exemplifies living “wide open” and Kyle parents in this same style, as you’ll find out in this episode. We talk about gender, traditional values, and difficult discussions with our children.
All around the world, every single day, men are gathering in circles. Known as men’s groups, men’s work, or men’s wisdom circles, these groups provide an essential resource to the men who are open enough to seek them out. One of the great gifts of men’s groups is creating environments where men can set their feet on their best path. Men’s groups act as a "basecamp" for the uncertain Hero’s Journey.
Join Basecamp for Men and host Tony Rezac for this lively discussion about raising our boys. Our guest is Dr. Michael Reichert, author of the best-selling book “How to Raise a Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men“.
As men, we are measured by society’s old narrative by how much we DO. And we have become really good at DOING THINGS but we have not been taught the value of slowing down. The old narrative says if we slow down, we might fall behind. Is this really true? As men with inner power, do we really not have time for ourselves? It‘s an interesting assumption, isn’t it?
Mark Greene and I talk about the perils of the #Manbox culture and how men can free themselves from these limiting beliefs.
What’s the point of growing our emotional intelligence? Well, for starters, it makes us smarter. It’s true. That’s why they call it emotional intelligence.
Bob and I discuss men, recovery, and trauma as well as the Hero’s Journey and how do we do our part to help heal the planet?
Today we talk about the Hero's Journey and what that means to all of us! My guest today is my longtime friend and fellow New Warrior weekend veteran, Mark Jackson. Today Mark shares his own journey with us.
What is Male Initiation? Ancient civilizations know the importance of this rite of passage. What does a society look like that no longer initiates its young men? The difference between a proper initiation and a fraternity or military initiation. Today we answer those questions.